As death toll rises, outbreak’s first case detailed

The death toll in the meningitis outbreak linked to a Framingham pharmacy reached 21, as a report was published detailing a Tennessee man’s struggle with the disease.

The Back Story | Video

Covering the meningitis outbreak

The Globe’s Dina Rudick talks to Gideon Gil, editor for health and science, about the challenges of covering the meningitis outbreak.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

How to improve presidential debates

It’s time to get more imaginative about America’s most important political face-off.

Dining

South Boston hungry for Lincoln Tavern

The new bar and restaurant is just what this part of South Boston needed: A stylish, convivial venue focused on socializing.

Art Review

Confronting awkward realities in Israel

Israeli artist, teacher, and curator Dor Guez probes sensitive spots in Israel’s history in “100 Steps to the Mediterranean,” a show at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.

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3 arraigned in prostitution ring

Two women and a man face charges of using massage parlors as fronts for prostitution in four Eastern Mass. communities.

Poor earnings pound Dow

The Dow dropped 205 points -- its worst day in four months -- on disappointing results from Microsoft, General Electric and McDonald’s.

Harvard offers more details on massive Allston expansion

The plan proposes to mix retail, residential, and hotel buildings into a 180-acre section of North Allston.

Bank of America plans to open a new supersized branch in the Boston building that once FAO Schwarz and Shreve, Crump & Low next summer. It will close two smaller area branches.

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Back Bay slated for a new Bank of America ‘flagship’ branch

The 12,000-square-foot Boston office will offer more specialized bankers and financial advisers, and the latest gadgets.

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From the archives | Photo Gallery

The 1969 peace rally

The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam on Oct. 15, 1969 was a huge gathering of antiwar protesters across the United States, with an estimated 100,000 people assembled at the Boston Common.

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How to winterize your home

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Oct. 19, 2012

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Question 2 is deeply flawed

Steward, Partners reach trauma deal

Opinion

The Podium: Voices of New England

Groups such as America 360 and the League of Conservation Voters have flooded mailboxes, trying to sway voters.

Outside cash fuels blizzard of attack mailings

Boston Capital

Government a lousy venture capitalist

Kate Moss in London in 2010, photographed by Mario Testino, from “In Your Face.”

PHOTOGRAPHY Review

At MFA, glamour on overdrive in Mario Testino photos

Ethan Ruby smoked from a vaporizer packed with a small quantity of marijuana at his Denver home.

Law, policy thwart research on marijuana

Sports Media

Comcast’s Patriots show is go-to at postgame

The Crimson have won 14 straight under Tim Murphy, who is aiming for his third undefeated season.

Christopher L. Gasper

Harvard football is schooling competition

Actor and director Tom McCarthy (right), who played the role of a journalist in the final seaqson of HBO’s “The Wire,” has been hired for a movie based on the Boston Globe’s reporting of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.

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‘Wire’ actor to direct movie on Globe’s church exposé

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If not John Farrell, then who?

We think Farrell is the favorite to be the next manager. But if that falls through, Nick Cafardo ranks the candidates according the their likelihood of getting the job.