Romney’s record as governor

Romney, Obama faced similar economies, got similar results
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney unveiled his 2004 spending plan.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff/File 2003

Mitt Romney inherited a Massachusetts economy in 2003 similar to the one President Obama found entering the White House in 2009. For both, progress was slow, and for many, disappointing.

“In Massachusetts, we know Mitt Romney,” Governor Deval Patrick said Tuesday night at the convention.

Patrick blasts Romney’s record

Governor Patrick faulted his predecessor and exhorted Democrats to “grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.”

Michael Dukakis calls Romney a ‘fraud’

Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor, labeled Mitt Romney a “fraud” as governor, and also expressed disappointment with Elizabeth Warren’s campaign ads.

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Marc Hauser

Former Harvard professor fabricated data, US says

Marc Hauser, a prolific scientist and popular psychology professor who last summer resigned from Harvard, fabricated data and manipulated results, a federal agency said.

Brian McGrory

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Tagg Romney’s opposition to a controversial plan for a Belmont Hill hospice is ironic considering his father, Mitt, once backed construction of a Mormon temple in the area.

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Can the Patriots star tight end build on last season’s record-smashing performance?

Concert Review

Madonna does it her way at high-energy Garden show

As we have all surely learned by now, Madonna does not do half-measures.

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

Globe exclusives

Kosilek in 1993, left, and in 1990, right.

Judge orders Mass. to pay for inmate’s sex-change surgery
Maria-Jose Vasquez, 19, chose a grilled chicken sandwich, asparagus salad, and fruit at Boston University.

Colleges doing more to help students eat healthy
At Clear Flour Bakery in Brookline, the bread options vary greatly, from “Miller’s Bread” to German Rye to loaves of whole wheat and multigrain varieties.

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Where has the white bread gone?
Salt and pepper calamari at Empire Asian.

Dining Out

A new Empire rises on the Waterfront
The centerpiece of Shanghai-based artist Jin Shan’s installation “My Dad Is Li Gang!’’ at Brown University.

Galleries

Chinese power as spectacle in installation by Jin Shan
Jenny Giang and Ian So, serve meals from the new Chicken & Rice Guys food truck.

Chicken and rice truck gets rolling
Nike’s “Find Your Greatness” ad features an obese boy jogging down a country road.

Opinion | Jennifer Graham

Obesity: America’s deepest shame

special section

Fall TV Preview
Author Giles Slade makes the point that the better technology gets, the more isolated we, as a society, get.

Book Review

‘The Big Disconnect’ by Giles Slade
The TV spot, titled “Invisible Game,” projects an image of Brady spinning football magic.

UGG hoping Brady draws men to market
Octavie Nguimbi, Carine Ivinga, and Bimala Gurung attended a Lowell sewing class.

Sewing nonprofit teaches refugees self-sufficiency
David Shortt, owner of Wee Packet in Dennis Port, said he expects the busy summer at his restaurant to continue a few weeks more.

Sunny summer on the Cape for businesses

2012 NFL Preview

Roster breakdown

Tom Brady is back to lead the Patriots in his 13th season, even as many of the faces around him change.

Meet the 2012 Patriots

Bill Belichick has assembled one of the youngest rosters of his 13-year Patriots career as he seeks to return to the Super Bowl. Meet the players who make up his 2012 roster.

Sports

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Red Sox 4, Mariners 3

Jon Lester (9-11) was the winner with help from four relievers.

Red Sox end skid, beat Mariners

Home runs by Cody Ross and Ryan Lavarnway helped lead the Red Sox past the Mariners to snap a seven-game losing streak.

Metro

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Fire was pouring out of the windows of 26 Cooper St. when Boston firefighters arrived late Tuesday evening.

Woman seriously burned, 13 homeless after North End fire

A four-alarm fire in Boston’s North End Tuesday night caused $1 million in damage to a brick apartment building, fire officials said.

Columnists

Bill Belichick is entering his 13th season as head coach of the Patriots.

Christopher L. Gasper

It’s OK to question Bill Belichick

Brian McGrory

A fatal dose of irony in Belmont

jeff jacoby

Mainstream media needs to accept, own its liberal bias
A case containing the remains of Pfc. Shane W. Cantu, of Corunna, Mich., sits on a loader during prayer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday.

juliette kayyem

Afghan war still rages, yet soldiers get no play in Tampa
Neil Armstrong on the moon

James Carroll

After Armstrong’s small step forward, two steps back for America?

Christopher L. Gasper

Disappointing finish for Louis Oosthuizen

Dan Shaughnessy

Despite lack of big names, Deutsche Bank still interesting

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.

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7 factors that attract entrepreneurs to Boston

Business

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Liberty Mutual will spend $8 million over the next three years to sponsor the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular and $1 million this year on gifts to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

Liberty Mutual will up charitable giving

The company is increasing local contributions by 20 percent this year, while other financial services firms plan to keep their giving largely unchanged.

Politics

Political Notebook

Federal records show that Mitt Romney and the GOP have pulled in more cash than President Obama’s effort in May, June, and July, including money collected by the Democratic Party.

Mitt Romney’s August haul to top $100m

Romney’s presidential campaign has reportedly raised at least $100 million in August, hitting that mark for a third consecutive month.

Nation & World

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Melanie Martinez and Eric DeSalvo salvaged items from their home in Braithwaite, La., which was heavily flooded.

Researchers to look at levees’ role in La. flooding

The Army Corps of Engineers agreed to investigate whether flood fortifications in New Orleans pushed waters into outlying areas.

Arts

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Movie Review

Marina Abramovic during a performance for her Museum of Modern Art exhibition.

‘Marina Abramovic’: sitting in on an artist’s life

The entertaining film explains Abramovic — in all her complexity — brilliantly.

Food & dining

Barry Edelman.

After a fire, community rebuilt Marblehead restaurant

They say everything happens for a reason. It might not have seemed that way the day Barry Edelman watched his restaurant, 5 Corners Kitchen, go up in smoke.

“He reminds me that we are playing a long game here, and that change is hard, and change is slow, and it never happens all at once. But eventually we get there; we always do.”

Michelle Obama,  on President Obama

Magazine

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

“The ideal of objective, unbiased journalism may be admirable. But I wonder if it doesn’t cause more distortion than it prevents.”

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