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Patrick announces funds for college building projects

The funding includes $607 million for the UMass system and $20.7 million for Roxbury Community College.

Mitt Romney posed with workers at a Chipotle restaurant in Denver on Tuesday.

Romney says he’d honor visas from Obama’s immigration order

Mitt Romney said he would not revoke temporary visas issued to young illegal immigrants, but would not grant new ones.

Scott Brown spoke during the debate at UMass Lowell’s Tsongas Center Monday.

Democrats pile on Scott Brown for Scalia remark

During Monday’s debate, Brown mentioned conservative Antonin Scalia first on his list of model Supreme Court justices.

A construction site of the former Filene's in Downtown Crossing.

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Paul McMorrow

The buzz is back at Downtown Crossing

Confidence is returning about Boston’s former commercial center, increasing the chance that the neighborhood’s redevelopment will be a self-fulfilling event.

Curt Schilling’s 26-acre estate in Medfield has 20 rooms, including seven bedrooms and six full baths, as well as a home theater and a wet bar.

Schilling’s Medfield home on the market for $3.45m

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling bought the 26-acre estate from former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe in 2004 for $4.5 million.

Josh McDaniels will be facing his former team, the Broncos, on Sunday.

Josh McDaniels unfazed by facing Broncos

The Patriots offensive coordinator says playing the team that fired him less than two years ago does not raise the stakes for him.

Animal control officers removed a female poodle mix from under a car's front grill. The dog survived an 11-mile ride from Taunton to East Providence.

Dog survives being hit, driven 11 miles wedged in car

A man slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting a dog on Route 44 in Taunton, and thought he had, until another driver flagged him down.

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Moustafa Ismail, 24, of Franklin displayed his world-record 31-inch biceps in a recent workout.

Guinness hails Franklin man’s 31-inch biceps
Mitt Romney sharpened his attacks on Shannon O’Brien.

In ’02, Mitt Romney capitalized on debates
Michael E. McLaughlin may have diverted millions.

Ex-Chelsea housing chief may have diverted funds
Jaime Carrillo and Evelyn Howe in the SpeakEasy Stage’s “The [Expletive] With the Hat.’’

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Issues of class take center stage on local stages

Frame by Frame

Nautical figure lovable, lost
“The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well,” said children’s writer Lois Lowry.

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Lois Lowry, architect of young adult dystopia
The Claremont Trio is (from left) Emily Bruskin, Andrea Lam, and Julia Bruskin.

Music Review

Trio toasts Gardner hall with the sounds of Peru
For James Santagati of Dorchester, the price he pays to get through the fare gates remains a comparative bargain. “I’ve been taking the T since I was 7,’’ the 57-year-old said.

Despite fare increase, MBTA’s popularity rising
Andrew W. Lo (left) proposes raising $30 billion for more speculative, early-stage research into cancer treatments.

MIT economist pitches cancer megafund
Men said they support Richard Tisei 45 percent to 26 percent while women support Rep. John Tierney by a narrower margin, 36 percent to 29 percent.

Tisei leads Tierney in poll
A sign at the former Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere.

Revere seeks Wonderland in casino deal
Rajon Rondo played after dislocating his left elbow during the 2011 playoffs.

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Athletes play through pain at their own peril

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Zdeno Chara to join team in Prague

The Bruins captain will suit up for a KHL team in his native country during the NHL lockout. He can return to the Bruins when the lockout ends.

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Former Massachusetts State Treasurer Tim Cahill.

Judge won’t dismiss charges against Timothy Cahill

A Superior Court judge Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss corruption charges against the former state treasurer, paving the way for a trial.

Columnists

The proposed site of Konza Technology City currently has no infrastucture.

farah stockman

In Kenya, turning savannah into gold

Scot Lehigh

Brown too focused on ancestry

joanna weiss

More refinement from Brown, Warren

Boston Capital

As Sox sank, so did ticket resales

Kevin Cullen

A firm grasp of the Senate race
Shell Oil’s floating oil-drilling platform, Kulluk, passes downtown Seattle in 2011. The rig was scheduled to depart for Alaska the following year.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Energy policy shows fallacy of a ‘domestic’ debate

Adrian Walker

Opportunity awaits RCC
Nataly Kogan is a cofounder of Happier.

Innovation Economy

A start-up called Happier hopes for a rosier life

Tech Lab Plus

Device lets you take control of driving games
Wes Welker howls after a 17-yard catch for a first down that set up a TD three plays later in the fourth quarter as dazed Bills Mark Anderson (93) and Mario Williams (94) look on.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots have made a habit out of winning

Joanna Weiss

New Orleans fights for its news

Kevin Cullen

Brown supporters’ fun not funny to Native American

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SEIU Local 615 attorney Ingrid Nava (left) and union president Rocio Saenz discussed details of the janitors contract Monday.

New England janitors, contractors reach deal

A strike was averted as the union representing 14,000 janitors reached a tentative deal with a consortium of cleaning companies.

Politics

At times, policy took a back seat to sniping over some political flash points in the second debate of Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren.

Brown, Warren fire away over voting, work records

In their second debate, Senator Brown vigorously attacked Elizabeth Warren’s legal work on behalf of corporations, while she blasted votes he took in lockstep with GOP leadership.

Nation & World

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Iran’s weak economy has brought criticism of President Ahmadinejad’s leadership.

Iranians sign petition protesting hardships

The petition decrying the state of the nation’s economy bore the signatures of 10,000 Iranians.

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Book Review

From left: Danny Wood, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight,Joey McIntyre, and Jonathan Knight at Tampa Stadium to perform at Super Bowl XXV in 1991.

‘Five Brothers and a Million Sisters’ by Nikki Van Noy

The authorized biography of New Kids on the Block aims to capture what it was like to be in the band.

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Sally Jewell, CEO of REI, took a break during a recent visit to check on stores in Greater Boston to kayak around Hingham Harbor.

CEO of outdoors giant REI visits Boston, talks sport

Sally Jewell, 56, has been described by friends as a no-nonsense boss — except for when she’s climbing a mountain or in a boat.

“Excuse me, I’m not a student in your classroom.”

Scott Brown  to Elizabeth Warren

Magazine

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How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

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9 hot trends in kitchen design
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The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires

Opinion

“I found myself wishing that our junior senator considered issues about the nation’s fiscal future maybe a tenth as important as he does the matter of Warren’s undocumented ancestry.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“We know a lot about the things that are closer to our size, our altitude, our spot in the universe — and less about things that are hard to reach, hard to dig up, and hard to quantify.”

Samuel Arbesman  on what big data is missing