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Crucial debate in presidential race tonight

While President Obama needs to display the urgency he lacked in the first debate, Mitt Romney is hoping to build on his momentum of the past 10 days.

Jim Lehrer, Candy Crowley, and Bob Schieffer have drawn the moderator duties for this year’s presidential debates.

Debate moderators also placed under microscope

What was once perceived as an honorific job, or an invisible one like a baseball umpire, is now itself under debate in this election season.

Record hauls by Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown

Warren received $12.12 million and Senator Brown collected $7.45 million over the last three months, ensuring the race will remain among the nation’s most expensive.

FDA widens meningitis infection warning

Federal drug regulators warned that more medications made at a troubled Framingham compounding pharmacy may be linked to fungal infections.

Workers at the David Clark Co. in Worcester helped Felix Baumgartner test his pressurized suit in January 2009.

Red Bull

Daredevil’s jumpsuit marks a leap for local firm

Worcester’s David Clark Co. worked for four years to customize the high-tech suit for Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking, 24-mile plummet to earth.

Boy, 14, charged in Dorchester killing

Ernest Watkins IV was charged with the stabbing death of a 39-year-old man who resisted when a group of teens tried to rob him at the Fields Corner MBTA station.

Dwayne Moore had emotional session with police

The Mattapan murder suspect changed his story under grilling by police in 2010, according to court filings to his retrial.

Christopher l. Gasper

Tom Brady not to blame for Patriots’ struggles

The Patriots have 99 problems and Tom Brady ain’t one. Brady, even at age 35, is not one of the major Super Bowl-title barriers for New England.

Frame by Frame

Taking a look at Courbet, in a Whistler canvas

In the beautiful “Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville,” James McNeill Whistler, a former protégé of Gustave Courbet, paints the paunchy figure of his master on the beach.

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Revealing ‘The Real Romney’

Join Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, authors of “The Real Romney,” to discuss the Republican presidential candidate’s life and history.

Globe exclusives

Inside Chatham Lighthouse, an active Coast Guard station.

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Chatham Lighthouse hitting the big screen

Sarah, Beth, and Scott Hostetler of Buena Park, Calif., were the first to try the program.

To avert foreclosure, firm turns homes into ad space

Taylor Mac as the title character in the ART production of his “The Lily’s Revenge” at Oberon.

Stage Review

ART’s ‘Lily’s Revenge’ is colorful, larky fun

Album Review | COUNTRY

A moving tribute to Hank Cochran

Joanne Lee at work at Johnson Compounding.

A close look at compounding pharmacies

Comics

The funny pages

Mario Testino’s photos will be exhibited.

MFA showcases a sure grasp of glamour

Ronald Reagan once said that after he made four movies in a year, he would “go to the country,’’ because tax rates for additional income were confiscatory and discouraged more effort.

GOP faith unshaken in supply-side tax policies

“I feel a little more reflective and searching,” Tig Notaro said. “My comedy is beyond me right now.”

Tig Notaro stands up to a scary diagnosis

The Dalai Lama adjusted his visor to shade the strong light on stage before his talk, “Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, and Wellbeing” at the Marriott Copley in Boston.

Dalai Lama’s visit exudes happiness

The nanoelectronic scaffold folded in three dimensions, with the circuits visible as loops.

Wired tissue brings promise of smart cells

Pete Townshend performing a short acoustic set following a talk at Berklee Performance Center on Friday.

Music Review

Townshend talks, plays to delight of Berklee crowd

Sports

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It’s believed even though the Red Sox are interviewing, they still hope to name John Farrell their manager.

Red Sox hedging their bets on manager

Major league sources believe that even though the Red Sox are interviewing, they still hope to name John Farrell their manager.

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Mayor Thomas Menino spoke last week about the possible release of convicted drug dealers in the state drug lab scandal.

Menino seeks $15m to handle release of prisoners

Mayor Menino asked Governor Patrick for the funds to help handle the possible influx of convicted drug dealers released in the state drug lab scandal.