Obama ramps up attacks on Romney ahead of DNC

Campaigning his way toward the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama slapped a ‘‘Romney doesn’t care’’ label on his rival’s health-care views Sunday.

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Boston Brahmin scion killed by rogue wave off Newfoundland

Dr. Edmund B. ‘Ned’ Cabot, 69, a retired surgeon and scion of a Boston Brahmin family, was swept from his yacht, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Sunday.

Boston’s Scott Podsednik was tagged out at home plate by Oakland catcher Derek Norris in the sixth inning Sunday.

Athletics 6, Red Sox 2

Matsuzaka shelled; Red Sox drop 6th straight

Daisuke Matsuzaka gave up six runs in 3 2/3 innings as the Red Sox fell again to the streaking Athletics, who have now won nine in a row.

Magic Johnson, an NBA analyst for ESPN, keeps close tabs on the league and was thrilled that his former club acquired Dwight Howard.

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Sunday Basketball Notes

New Dodgers owner Magic Johnson still happy to talk Bird

As schooled and passionate as the Dodgers co-owner sounded about baseball, his voice flowed with Larry Bird stories when he addressed kids at a recent charity appearance.

Yvonne Abraham

What Elizabeth Warren is missing

If even her fans on the campaign trail feel that the Senate candidate’s personality isn’t coming through in ads and media coverage, Warren has a problem.

Hillary Nangle of Paris, left, master chef Philippe Gobet, director of Ecole Lenôtre, and Hilary Nangle of Maine, right, on the Champs-Élysées. The Nangles met through Facebook.

Travel

Facebook spurs voyage to Paris to meet someone with the same name

It began when Canada’s Hillary Nangle stumbled upon Maine’s Hilary Nangle on Facebook, and ended with a tour of Paris, where the Canadian now lives.

Opinion | Tom Keane

At Harvard, a concerted effort to foster student innovation

A competition called the Innovation Challenge pairs up students who mentor each other, while the Harvard Innovation Labs incubates around 160 student startups.

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The mad theater of campaigns, protests, rallies, and conventions that is our modern political process is not a recent phenomenon.

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The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ that threatened to upend physics

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Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo and family members of Lou Montgomery watched as they unveiled his retired jersey in the corner of the stadium during halftime.

BC’s first black football player honored
A fishmonger at the Rialto Market in Venice knew some great out-of-the-way restaurants.

Travel | In the know

How to find a great meal anywhere in the world
Cory Schneider, who signed a threeyear, $12 million extension July 1, has seemingly replaced Roberto Luongo as Vancouver’s starting goalie.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Canucks’ Cory Schneider hopes for labor settlement
Magic Johnson, an NBA analyst for ESPN, keeps close tabs on the league and was thrilled that his former club acquired Dwight Howard.

Sunday Basketball Notes

New Dodgers owner Magic Johnson still happy to talk Bird
“The general expectation among my friends was that I’d spend six months messing around with an acoustic guitar and join a hardcore band again and/or go get a job,” says Frank Turner about his turn to folk music.

Frank Turner’s punk roots take a troubadour turn
EVERY NATION A CASTLE: A fence marking the Turkey-Iran border.

The Internationalist

A world of messy borders? Get used to it
William H. Chafe notes that the Clintons’s marriage blends the personal and the political.

Book review

‘Bill and Hillary’ by William H. Chafe

DEUTSCHE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP

Hole by hole at TPC Boston
Channing Tatum as a male stripper in “Magic Mike.’’

9 top summer movie moments of 2012

Ideas

How kids make friends — and why it matters

Sports

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Deutsche Bank Classic

Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa on the 12th hole during the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston in Norton on Sunday.

Oosthuizen birdies 7 straight, seizes lead at TPC Boston

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods played well, but were outshone by Louis Oosthuizen’s 8-under 63. McIlroy will be paired with the South African in tomorrow’s final.

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Federal investigators look into cause of Falmouth plane crash

The crash killed one person and severely injured two others as the craft attempted to land Saturday morning on an airstrip at Falmouth Airpark.

Columnists

joanna weiss

Honor American Dream-builders today — with healthcare, hours

Yvonne Abraham

What Elizabeth Warren is missing
Jim Rooney, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority stood atop the roof of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Lawrence Harmon

Convention center needs a boost of solar power
Balloons swirl in the air following Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech in Tampa Friday.

Jeff Jacoby

Time to shelve the political conventions
GrabCAD, where Roger Maranan, Grant Thomas-Lepore, and Gabe Blanchet work, picked Cambridge over California.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

7 factors that attract entrepreneurs to Boston

Renée Loth

The value of public-sector jobs

Tiger Woods’s first-round 64 included six consecutive birdies.

Christopher L. Gasper

Is Tiger Woods back?
Bobby Valentine and the Red Sox were swept by the Angels in Anaheim this week.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, a year of living dreadfully

Boston Capital

Steward finds road to R.I. is rocky

Scot Lehigh

Policy trumps personality in this election

Brian McGrory

Cape Cod rooster draws complaints
Ann Romney arrives on stage to deliver a speech Tuesday night.

joanna weiss

Ann Romney overstepped by playing poor

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On the Hot Seat

Audra Parker, chief executive of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.

Cape Wind fight isn’t over for staunch opponent

The offshore project keeps clearing regulatory hurdles, but that hasn’t shaken the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound CEO’s commitment to fighting Cape Wind’s construction.

Politics

Obama’s speech at the convention in 2004 electrified the audience and set the stage for his presidential run.

First-term battles transformed Obama

The president’s promise to raise American politics to a higher plane is but a faint echo, as Washington and its nasty partisanship remains — defiantly — untransformed.

Nation & World

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Cattle are stranded on a slim piece of dry land as floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac recede in Plaquemines Parish, La., Sunday.

Amid flooding and outages, La. awaits Obama visit

Five days after Hurricane Isaac hit, much of Plaquemines Parish was still covered with floodwater and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any power.

Arts

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Channing Tatum as a male stripper in “Magic Mike.’’

9 top summer movie moments of 2012

The summer’s movie releases were a mixed bag, as always. But there were moments that we’ll carry with us long after the air turns cold with the rush of Oscar contenders.

Travel

Apex Orchards in Shelburne Falls, on the edge of the Pioneer Valley, was founded in 1828.

7 favorite Massachusetts apple farms

Every apple has a story, and the third- and fourth-generation family growers in the heart of the state’s apple country can tell you lots of them.

Books

Book review

‘Telegraph Avenue’ by Michael Chabon

Chabon’s saga of two couples running besieged vinyl and midwife businesses rocks a big multicultural mix of love, loss, change, and how we live now.

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The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“Today, when each party’s nominee is chosen long before the delegates arrive, conventions are nothing but spectacle — hype and hoopla, a partisan pep rally on an outlandish scale.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“In order to be a good friend, even a very young child must be not only fun to spend time with, but capable of being emotionally mature in ways that can be difficult even for grown-ups.”

—Leon Neyfakh on childhood friendship