Top US general caught up in Petraeus scandal

General John Allen allegedly had ‘‘inappropriate communications’’ with a woman who is said to have received threatening e-mails from the mistress of General David Petraeus.

Retired General David H. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell often conferred with faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Kennedy School key in David Petraeus saga

The former CIA chief long found intellectual sustenance at the Harvard institution where he met Paula Broadwell.

John Kerry is highly qualified for the job, administration officials believe.

Kerry may be choice for secretary of defense

President Obama is considering asking Senator Kerry to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team.

Eric Fehrnstrom (middle) worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential run.

Critical eyes on team behind Mitt Romney, Scott Brown

Republican insiders have raised questions about whether The Shawmut Group spread itself too thin with two of the biggest races in the country.

Owner of Framingham drug firm faulted

Pharmacist Barry Cadden, co-owner of the pharmacy blamed for the deadly national meningitis outbreak, has a long history of not cooperating with federal regulators.

John Bosley will continue wearing a Livestrong bracelet, despite the Lance Armstrong scandal. Not everyone will.

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For some, doping case hurts Livestrong image

After the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, the wearers of the 80 million Livestrong bracelets sold face a dilemma: Wear them, or ditch them?

The Globe’s Brian McGrory takes the pet memoir to a hilarious new place.

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It’s man vs. rooster in Brian McGrory’s ‘Buddy’

The Globe columnist takes the pet memoir to a hilarious new place as a crazed rooster competes with him over who will rule his new family’s suburban roost.

Group’s faith rule stirs clash at Tufts University

Tufts is considering whether an evangelical Christian student group should be stripped of its official status for requiring that its leaders adhere to the faith.

Thomas Glynn had also worked in the Labor Department.

Major tasks face new Massport chief

Thomas Glynn says the agency’s biggest challenges are adding international routes out of Logan, modernizing port facilities, and developing the East Boston waterfront.

Shaw’s, the state’s second-largest supermarket operator with 84 stores, recently laid off workers.

Mass. grocers scramble to keep up with consumers

The Massachusetts supermarket industry is undergoing a serious makeover as it faces stagnant sales and new types of competition.

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Ari Graynor, a veteran of 22 films at age 29, had her first starring movie role this summer in “For a Good Time, Call. . .” She is also in a new Broadway play titled “The Performers.”

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A former Boston Common bathroom retains its original look, but now displays the Earl of Sandwich chain name.

On Boston Common, sandwiches fit for an earl

Frame by Frame

A summer sojourn in the south of France
Aimee Rose Ranger (as Procne) and Jen O’Connor (as Philomela) “Ted Hughes’ Tales From Ovid.”

Stage Review

Whistler’s ‘Tales From Ovid’ reaches for the sky
Stephan Ross (in striped uniform) and family members of late soldier Steve Sattler (seen in framed picture) met Sunday.

Holocaust survivor unites with family of benefactor

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Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians
Elliott Carter’s work honoring the Bicentennial, “A Symphony for Three Orchestras,” divided that ensemble into three often disputatious groups.

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The American music of Elliott Carter

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“I’ll take any win. I’ll take any win,” said coach Bill Belichick, whose Patriots have arrived at 6-3 unevenly.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots are simply untrustworthy
Commuter rail customers on all North Station lines will be able to purchase and display tickets on their smartphones starting Monday, with South Station lines and ferries expected to follow after Thanksgiving.

Ticketing app for MBTA rail rides expands
Steve Hershman (seated), a systems biology doctoral student from Wynnewood, Pa., worked at the Harvard Innovation Lab.

Harvard i-lab marks its first year

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Kevin Garnett scored 15 points — none easier than this late dunk — as Boston earned its third road win in four games.

Celtics hang on to beat the Bulls

Kevin Garnett scored 15 points — including a critical dunk late in the fourth quarter — as Boston earned its third road win in four games.

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A police investigator photographed evidence following a fatal accident at Harvard and Brighton avenues Monday.

Bicyclist struck, killed by MBTA bus

A 21-year-old man was fatally struck by a MBTA bus Monday as he rode a bicycle through a busy Allston intersection, officials said.

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Mexico President Felipe Calderon called marijuana legalization by US states ‘‘a paradigm change on the part of those entities in respect to the current international system.’’

US marijuana votes irk Latin leaders

The group declared that votes by two US states to legalize marijuana have important implications for efforts to quash drug smuggling.

Columnists

Farah Stockman

Fact-free fracking

Boston Capital

Big Bay State players may face showdown
David Petraeus walked the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 18 to ring the opening bell.

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The blindness of hero worship
“I’ll take any win. I’ll take any win,” said coach Bill Belichick, whose Patriots have arrived at 6-3 unevenly.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots are simply untrustworthy

Adrian Walker

Jamaica Plain fight has Home in bind
Hitcase Pro ruggedized iPhone case.

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This iPhone case can take a hit

James Carroll

Despite heroism, US should rethink wars
Steve Brand hopes his app can capitalize on the snarkiness and wit of TV viewers.

Innovation Economy

New app aims to link Tweets, TV shows

Joanna Weiss

The new face of the GOP
BC freshman running back David Dudeck gets stacked up by a pair of Irish defenders.

Christopher L. Gasper

Notre Dame’s revival is gold for college football

Juliette Kayyem

Bring veteran services into the future

Joan Vennochi

Governor Patrick needs to focus on Mass.

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The Long Island Power Authority said floodwaters that reached breaker boxes complicated its repair work.

Long Islanders fume over power outages

Two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, almost 60,000 customers of the Long Island Power Authority are still without power.

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The exterior of Ford’s Transit Connect Wagon has the tapered nose and trapezoid grill of Ford’s cars.

Ford calls new Transit Connect a ‘people mover’

To the average buyer — or, in fact, to everyone outside of Ford Motor Co. — it will appear that Ford is getting back into the minivan business.

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Christina Aguilera refocuses on her own voice in ‘Lotus’

“Lotus” is a good start in the effort to refocus attention on Aguilera’s skills and scrub our memories of 2010’s disastrous “Bionic.”

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“I wanted to create a book that was almost like a scrapbook,” Michael Feinstein said on “The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs.”

Michael Feinstein rhapsodizes anew about the Gershwins

Feinstein, a musician and educator, has a new book titled “The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs.”

“I wore it religiously, but I don’t wear it anymore. It’s too closely ­associated with Lance [Armstrong], and I’m off the bandwagon until he comes clean.”

Mike Coggins, 39,  on his Livestrong bracelet

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A new home with a traditional feel

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“There are ways to make fracking safer, like ensuring that it happens far from private wells, that water is disposed of properly, and that methane isn’t allowed to leak out.”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“At its core, the presidency is about managing information—facing the endless data stream that is the United States government and transforming it into one high-stakes decision after another.”

Leon Neyfakh on the advice-wrangler in chief