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Patriots with the lead at the half
Tom Brady aimed for a receiver in the first half.

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The Patriots used 16 plays to go 93 yards in another long drive that this time stalled just short of the goal line, putting Stephen Gostkowski in position for a 23-yard field goal.

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5 big ideas that just might transform the classroom

From longer days to history courses that span 13.7 billion years, these notions just might transform the classroom.

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How to fix America from below

A bold new vision for improving democracy has propelled Yale professor Heather Gerken into the legal firmament. She calls it “federalism all the way down.”

Elizabeth Warren’s heritage has been much-discussed.

opinion | Jeff Jacoby

The race issue Brown and Warren should debate

Racial preferences should by now be artifacts of history, not tools for hiring law professors.

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Framingham pharmacy linked to outbreak issues wide recall

The Framingham pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products.

Warren edging Brown in new poll

The poll shows Elizabeth Warren with a five-point lead over Scott Brown, but the survey also found that more voters view both candidates unfavorably.

Mitt Romney shifts tone to try to win over women

The GOP candidate has delivered a retooled and more moderate appeal that is designed to win over key slices of the women’s vote.

“We need to be listened to, we need to be heard,” says Wendy Ernst (right) with sons Robert (left) and Paul in their home.

Lexington reeling over parent’s timeout op-ed

Residents’ confidence in the town’s schools is still shaken after a parent’s allegations about the treatment of his daughter in a special-ed class.

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On Oct. 1, 1979, thousands lined the streets of Boston to welcome Pope John Paul II to the city.

Globe exclusives

How to safely share the Boston roads with bicyclists

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Dismantling the euro: a practical guide
“Cleveland ’95” was very well done, especially the behind-the-scenes stuff with Bill Belichick and his neophyte coaching staff.

Sunday Football Notes

Bill Belichick piece well done, but more to story

Sunday baseball notes

Baseball GMs have a few regrets

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Too many AP classes?

book review

‘Live by Night’ by Dennis Lehane
The owners and the execs who mind the stores of their 30 teams are saying next to nothing for the record. That’s the way commissioner Gary Bettman conducts business.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Looks like NHL lockout will be lasting awhile
Michael Benz (left, with Carlyss Peer) portrays the Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s production of “Hamlet,” which ArtsEmerson brings to the Paramount Center this week.

From Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, shorter evening with ‘Hamlet’
Joey Collins (left) plays Milo, the character based on Neal Cassady, and Tony Crane plays Buck, based on Jack Kerouac, in the world-premiere staged reading of “Beat Generation” at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.

Jack Kerouac’s ‘Beat Generation’ comes to the stage

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With equine puppets, telling the ‘War Horse’ story of WWI
Hayden Panettiere (left) and Connie Britton star in the ABC drama.

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‘Nashville’ keeps it real

Morgan Peissel, Nicolas Peissel, and Edvin Buregren stand on the ice in the McClure Strait in front of their sailboat, the Belzebub II.

Climate change helps local man set Arctic sailing record

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Kevin Garnett reacted during an exhibition basketball game against EA7 Emporio Armani in Milan, Italy.

Celtics defeat Italian team in Milan

The Celtics finished their European exhibition tour by winning in Milan behind stout defense and brilliant execution.

Metro

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Yolanda Beavers, a heart recipient from Texas, met Carolyn Corbett (right), the mother of donor Kristen Corbett, who died in a car crash.

Heart transplant recipient meets relatives, friends of crash victim

The parents of a student killed in a crash met the woman saved by her heart at a memorial charity race in Billerica.

Columnists

Ginna is living at a shelter on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston after being turned away more than once.

Yvonne Abraham

A safety net that is leaving more people out

opinion | JOANNA WEISS

Hitting the saturation point for bad-mom celebrations
Elizabeth Warren’s heritage has been much-discussed.

opinion | Jeff Jacoby

The race issue Brown and Warren should debate

JOAN VENNOCHI

John Kerry’s career dreams keep slipping away
Don’t lie about your reason for leaving a job — you could get caught, advises Joanne Chang, who founded the local Flour Bakery + Cafe chain.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

How to quit without burning bridges
Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, the two preeminent passers of their generation, will face off again Sunday.

Christopher L. Gasper

Lucky to see Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning again

Kevin Cullen

The lion who loves the GOP

Renée Loth

New app makes Boston a ‘museum without walls’

LAWRENCE HARMON

Inspections law good for tenants and city

Adrian Walker

Former law student became a chronic litigant
Bobby Valentine went for a bike ride in the hours after being fired by the Red Sox on Thursday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox did well in acting quickly
Mitt Romney finally shook the Etch-A-Sketch.

Opinion | JOSHUA GREEN

The Old Romney vs. the New Romney

Business

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Donald and Stacey Dobbins sought financial help so they could keep their home in Brockton.

Write-downs give some homeowners a break

Pushed by government incentives and political pressure, mortgage lenders are forgiving millions in loans.

Politics

Karen Williams, a worker with Leon County, fed ballots into a machine at the elections office in Tallahassee, Fla. Mailed ballots are more likely to be contested.

As voting by mail rises, so do problems with ballots

Votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised, and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show.

Nation & World

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New York police Officer Ralph Stallone and Detective Dennis Canale trained on the Brooklyn Bridge.

In this job, officers seek openings to help despondent

The New York Police Department’s Emergency Service Unit has roughly 300 officers that are trained in suicide rescue.

Arts

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Writer and director Martin McDonagh (left) and actor Colin Farrell, who last worked together on the film “In Bruges,” team up again for “Seven Psychopaths.”

Colin Farrell, Martin McDonagh are crazy with ‘Seven Psychopaths’

Four years after “In Bruges,” Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell try to rekindle their wild side.

Books

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Alexander Dumas photographed by Gaspard Felix Tournachon in 1857.

‘The Black Count’ by Tom Reiss

The French novelist Alexandre Dumas had some African blood, for which he was sometimes vilified; despite his immense popularity in the mid-nineteenth century.

Travel

At Hualalai Spa, volcanic mud at the apothecary (pictured) and the outdoor pool.

In the Big Island’s spas, luxury for the less active

On the sun-drenched Kohala Coast, there’s a surprising concentration of spas offering Hawaiian treatments with indigenous ingredients, lomi lomi massage, and open-air huts.

“You are made whole again, I was focused on trying to keep our home. It worked out for us.”

Donald Dobbins,  on having $190,000 of his mortgage erased

Magazine

The cover for the October 7 2012 issue

AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
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

Opinion

“What’s a better escape from the stress of parenting, after all: Watching people joke about motherhood for two solid hours, or watching Andre Braugher chew the scenery inside a nuclear submarine?”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Gerken has advanced a vision of governance unusual for someone whose political convictions are firmly liberal: She wants local decision-making bodies to be given more opportunity to rebel against federal policy.”

—Leon Neyfakh on Heather Gerken’s argument for “federalism all the way down”