Romney goes on offensive in debate

With a fast-moving series of punches and counterpunches, Mitt Romney emerged as an aggressor, and showed confidence in assailing President Obama on an anemic economy.

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Obama, Romney clash on economy in first debate

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sparred over domestic policy in a debate at the University of Denver.

Wednesday debate provided Americans with their first chance to see the candidates face-off on the same stage.

News Analysis

Romney a confident challenger; Obama a cautious incumbent

Mitt Romney finally got his chance to face down the president in person, and he appeared to make the most of it with a critique of Obama’s first term that was cogent and sharp.

Kevin Staley (right), a professor, watched the debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., but left still undecided.

Undecided New Hampshire voters still on fence after debate

For all the fireworks at Wednesday night’s first presidential debate, neither candidate changed many minds at one gathering of swing-state voters.

Jeff Jacoby

A clear knockout for Mitt Romney

Romney was focused, clear, interesting, and engaged, while President Obama repeatedly came across as distracted, irritated, and vague in their first debate.

joan vennochi

An ineffective Obama falls flat

One presidential candidate showed up to debate Wednesday night. His name is Mitt Romney.

Bobby Valentine’s final hours as Red Sox manager Wednesday were a little sad as the worst season of a generation officially ended.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Bobby Valentine and Red Sox, 2012 is a wrap

Bobby Valentine’s final hours as Red Sox manager Wednesday were a little sad as the worst season of a generation officially ended.

Curt Schilling’s bloody sock from the 2004 World Series could fetch around $25,000.

Schilling may have to sell ‘bloody sock’ to settle debt over 38 Studios

The sock, worn in the 2004 World Series, was among the collateral Schilling recently pledged to lenders to secure millions in loans for his failed video game company.

Center Jordan Carter (41) helped lead his teammates through some agility drills at practice on Wednesday.

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Boston English football team learns thrill of victory at last

For a team whose tattered home field was deemed too dangerous to play on, and which had not won a game in two years, a two-game winning streak is a breakthrough.

Framingham pharmacy is suspected in meningitis deaths

Officials have identified the source of injectable steroids that may have infected more than 25 people, four fatally, with a rare form of fungal meningitis.

The latest Kindle e-readers offer improved performance, but the rival Nooks still provide good value.

Tech Lab

New Kindle offers light reading

Barnes & Noble had been making progress, but e-reader heavyweight Amazon.com has reasserted its dominance with the new Kindle Paperwhite.

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Mindy Kaling says she likes dressing up because it makes her happy.

Mindy Kaling on men, sequins, and chunky jewelry
Crocus, tulip, galanthus, allium, daffodils.

It’s prime time to plant for spring
Dunkin’ Donuts has sought other trademark rights, but most are for specific products like “Coffee Coolatta.”

Dunkin’ Donuts lays claim to ‘best coffee in America’ trademark
The women in the Swedish IKEA catalogue for 2012, left, were edited out of the Saudi Arabian version, right.

Juliette Kayyem

IKEA’s Saudi problem

Archive Photos

A look back at Carl Yastrzemski’s Triple Crown
“The Price of Politics” explores last summer’s faceoff between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (right).

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‘The Price of Politics’ by Bob Woodward
Bobby Valentine takes the ball from Andrew Bailey, who allowed a tying two-run homer.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox officially now a last-place team
After notoriety onscreen and off, Ben Affleck began rehabilitating his image with a shift to directing in 2007. His new film, “Argo,” opens next week.

As director, Affleck puts the froth far behind
A flatbread of mushrooms and fontina; firecracker yellowtail.

At Sip Wine Bar + Kitchen, wine takes back seat to convenience
A meeting was held at the Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Boston on the five proposals to reorganize the city’s school assignment system.

Many may be forced to switch schools in Boston

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Editorial cartoons by Dan Wasserman

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Dustin Pedroia, manager Bobby Valentine, James Loney and Jarrod Saltalamacchia waited on the mound during a pitching change in the eighth inning against the Yankees.

Bobby Valentine says Red Sox coaches were disloyal

A radio interview took a sharp turn when Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine was asked whether his assistant coaches have been loyal during his turbulent season. “No,” he told WEEI.

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Mylazia Johnson had her jail term halted because of how a chemist handled evidence.

Roxbury mother freed amid state drug lab scandal

As of Friday, Mylazia Johnson is one of more than 20 people freed following allegations that a state chemist mishandled drug samples.

Columnists

Bobby Valentine’s final hours as Red Sox manager Wednesday were a little sad as the worst season of a generation officially ended.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Bobby Valentine and Red Sox, 2012 is a wrap

Jeff Jacoby

A clear knockout for Mitt Romney

joan vennochi

An ineffective Obama falls flat

edward l. glaeser

Tolls — the solution to Mass. commuting woes
The women in the Swedish IKEA catalogue for 2012, left, were edited out of the Saudi Arabian version, right.

Juliette Kayyem

IKEA’s Saudi problem
The latest Kindle e-readers offer improved performance, but the rival Nooks still provide good value.

Tech Lab

New Kindle offers light reading

scot lehigh

Armed with a pre-debate fact check

derrick z. jackson

50 years later, chemical barrage goes on

Brian McGrory

Mitt Romney hasn’t changed a bit

joanna weiss

More refinement from Brown, Warren
The proposed site of Konza Technology City currently has no infrastucture.

farah stockman

In Kenya, turning savannah into gold

Boston Capital

As Sox sank, so did ticket resales

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An artist’s rendering of the $60 million apartment complex on Morrissey Boulevard.

Developer plans $60m housing complex near JFK T stop

The proposed 278-unit complex on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester would be the first step in a larger project.

Politics

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Republican Rep. Todd Akin spoke to reporters in the Missouri Capitol building on Thursday.

Todd Akin’s 2008 abortion remarks stir things back up

The Republican Senate candidate once equated abortion providers to terrorists and suggested that it was ‘‘common practice’’ for them to be ‘‘giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant.’’

Nation & World

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A Syrian man held the body of his son in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, after a suicide bombing killed at least 34 people.

Turkey fires at Syrian targets after Syrian mortar fire kills five Turks

It was the first instance of significant fighting on the Turkish-Syrian border since the unrest began in Syria last year, and raised the prospect of NATO involvement in the conflict.

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Book Review

‘Son’ by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is too fine a writer to write a bad book. But no writer is too great for stumbling, as she demonstrates in her long-awaited, young adult novel.

Style

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Actress Halle Berry.

10 Bond girls who had the look

In celebration of 50 years of James Bond, we’re counting down the most stylish Bond girls.

“What we did in Massachusetts is a model for the nation, state by state. The federal government taking over health care for the entire nation and whisking aside the 10th Amendment.”

Mitt Romney,  on health care

Magazine

The cover for the September 30 2012 issue

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

The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

9 hot trends in kitchen design
The cover for the September 16 2012 issue

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires

Opinion

“The former Massachusetts governor was plainly enjoying himself. The president seemed to want nothing more than to run out the clock and bring a painful evening to an end.”

Jeff Jacoby 

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