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Mass. jobless rate rises for third straight month

The state’s unemployment rate rose from 6.3 percent in August to 6.5 percent in September. The state added 5,100 jobs for the month.

New England Compounding Center

Merging of families fueled businesses linked to meningitis outbreak

The Framingham pharmacy linked to the deadly national outbreak might not have existed but for a relationship that started three decades ago.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox taking too long hiring a manager

Why is it taking so long for the Sox to hire a manager? If John Farrell is their guy, then make a deal with Toronto. If not, move on.

Andrew Campbell got his family involved in his sport.

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For these rowers, Head of Charles is family time

Four members of the Campbell family of New Canaan, Conn., will be on the river this weekend at the 48th annual Head of the Charles Regatta.

Mitt Romney, left, stopped in Chesapeake, Va., and President Obama was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Obama, Romney focus on women’s issues

President Obama highlighted Mitt Romney’s plans to cut funds for Planned Parenthood Wednesday. Romney said women are focused on the economy and jobs.

joan vennochi

Obama needs to win the not-so-optimistic

Barack Obama won the hope vote in 2008. Now, to keep the White House, President Obama needs to win back the disappointed.

President Obama and Mitt Romney at Tuesday’s debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

Juliette Kayyem

Foreign policy and the parental perspective

When it comes to foreign policy, Mitt Romney takes a “tiger mom” approach, while President Obama is “French mom.”

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

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The science complex under construction at UMass Boston is expected to be completed by 2014. The university also plans to add academic buildings and dorm rooms.

Construction may bring a new vitality to Columbia Point

Senator Scott Brown’s proposals focus on lowering the overall tax rate and closing loopholes, while his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, has proposed raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000 a year.

Brown, Warren show sharpest differences on taxes

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Ethel Kennedy (right, with her daughter, Rory), the focus of a new HBO film, hasn’t slowed down much at age 84.

Ethel Kennedy, in twilight and limelight
David Johnson and Kate Morkeski load a device that feeds fertilizer into the salt marsh on Plum Island.

Study: Fertilizer harms Plum Island
“Charing Cross Bridge, London” by Claude Monet.

Sebastian Smee

Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Freud works stolen
“Zandra Rhodes: A Lifelong Love Affair With Textiles” features the designer’s favorite looks as well as sketches, inspirational photos, and fabrics.

style

Zandra Rhodes on enduring punk
A 20th anniversary design.

Celebrating 20 years of heels in Boston

Christopher Bonanos’s book “Instant: The Story of Polaroid” was a labor of love for the editor and photography lover.

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Christopher Bonanos on new book, ‘Instant: The Story of Polaroid’
Matthew Spencer still suffers from occasional headaches.

Fungal infection poses challenges to patients, officials
A Cuban anti-aircraft battery in October, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis.

Sunday Preview | Ideas

In 1962, did a mistake save the world?

Opinion

The Podium: Voices of New England

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Tom Brady (right) and the Patriots face a team they know well on Sunday, the Jets.

As Patriots struggle, AFC East is wide open

All four AFC East teams have 3-3 records, giving other teams a chance at ending the Patriots’ hold on the division.

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Police officers closed off part of Southampton Street in the South End after a man was shot and killed on Wednesday.

Boy, 15, among three charged in South End killing

Three people were arrested on murder charges last night for their alleged roles in a fatal shooting of a man in his 20s.

Columnists

President Obama and Mitt Romney at Tuesday’s debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

Juliette Kayyem

Foreign policy and the parental perspective

Edward L. Glaeser

Nobel Prize shows school assignment woes

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox taking too long hiring a manager

Yvonne Abraham

Cambridge cheers up about Obama

joan vennochi

Obama needs to win the not-so-optimistic

Brian McGrory

No shame for Rep. John Tierney

Jeff Jacoby

What would Hippocrates say about Question 2?

opinion | scot lehigh

President Obama upped his game

Opinion | farah stockman

United States, incorporated

joanna weiss

In step with the Arnold apology tour

Boston Capital

Who wins among upbeat consumers?
Tom Brady’s play is not a problem, but the solution to almost all of the Patriots’ ones.

Christopher l. Gasper

Brady not to blame for Patriots’ struggles

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Ruben Lozano-Aguilera (left) and Antonio Gomez-Lopez, both students at the MIT Sloan School of Management, are helping organize the Reaching Out conference, which starts Thursday.

LGBT workplace policies a draw for MBA students

An annual conference aims to connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students with the nation’s leading companies.

Politics

In debate, Obama, Romney leave out Libya details

During Tuesday’s debate, neither President Obama or Mitt Romney answered the question about the terrorist ­attack in Benghazi.

Nation & World

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Opposition fighters guarded an area in Aleppo, Syria, that marks the front in the clash with progovernment forces

UN Syria envoy calls on government to start truce

The international envoy to conflict called on President Bashar Assad’s regime to lead in implementing a cease-fire.

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Stage Review

From left: Ken Cheeseman, Miranda Craigwell, Cliff Odle, and Patrick Shea comprise the four-person cast of “Race.”

‘Race’ looks back in anger at New Rep

This law-office drama puts more than racial prejudice on trial. It goes after sexism and legal ethics as well.

Style

Jennifer Aniston has teamed up with the Living Proof hair company.

Jennifer Aniston’s new hair product: Who am I to be disappointed?

Trying to follow in Jen’s tress success.

“We want this to be a destination for people when they come to Boston, and we believe this peninsula can become that.”

J. Keith Motley,  University of Massachusetts Boston chancellor on Columbia Point

Magazine

The cover for the October 14 2012 issue

How grocery shopping got personal
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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

Opinion

“[President Obama] has not yet won the most important arguments about why he deserves four more years. What’s his economic vision?”

 

Ideas

“The strategy that underlies American policy, the Carter Doctrine, is now more than 30 years old, and in dire need of an overhaul. …Today, it drives American engagement in a Middle East that looks far different from the region for which it was invented.

Thanassis Cambanis , on the need for a new Middle East policy