PAtriots 34, Titans 13

Patriots open season with win over Titans

The Patriots prevailed in their ninth straight season opener as several of the team’s newest players contributed to the win.

Brandon Lloyd jumped over a defender during the Patriots' victory at Tennessee.

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Brandon Lloyd jumped over a defender during the Patriots' victory over the Tennessee Titans.

Tom Brady surveyed the Titans’ defense in the first half.

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Tom Brady surveyed the Titans’ defense in the first half.

Aaron Hernandez ran into th e end zone for the first Patriots touchdown in the first quarter.

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Aaron Hernandez ran into the end zone for the first Patriots touchdown in the first quarter.

Hernandez took a bow after his score.

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Hernandez took a bow after his score.

Patriots running back Stevan Ridley gained more than 100 yards.

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Patriots running back Stevan Ridley gained more than 100 yards on the ground.

Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones forced a fumble by Titans quarterback Jake Locker, recovered by the Patriots for a touchdown.

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Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones forced a fumble by Titans quarterback Jake Locker, recovered by the Patriots for a touchdown.

Rob Gronkowski ran downfield after a catch.

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Rob Gronkowski ran downfield after a catch.

Tom Brady led the Patriots onto the field before the game.

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Tom Brady led the Patriots onto the field before the game.

The nocebo effect: How health warnings cause health troubles

Doctors sometimes grapple with the moments when ‘do no harm’ and informed consent collide.

Bronze statue of mother and dancing children in front of the Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.

travel

A litany of virtues in Salt Lake City

Art, architecture, dining, hiking, music, the lake... there’s much more to this city of 170,000 than religion.

Dustin Pedroia and the Red Sox lost again as their tailspin continued.

Toronto 4, Red Sox 3

Red Sox’ tailspin continues

The Red Sox lost again as they let the Blue Jays score the winning run in the ninth inning.

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Romney says he would keep parts of Obama health care law

Venturing into politically treacherous waters, Mitt Romney acknowledged that his vision of health care reform overlaps — in part, at least — with President Obama’s.

Roslindale man dies after crash near O’Neill Tunnel

A Roslindale man who died in a car crash near the entrance of the O’Neill Tunnel in Boston Sunday morning was apparently driving in the wrong direction, officials said.

Monsignor Robert P. Deeley is one of two Americans whom the Vatican summoned to Rome in 2004 to help reduce a logjam of sexual abuse cases pending against priests. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

Priests, accusers press for resolution

Fifteen Boston priests facing abuse allegations have awaited a verdict for years, leaving both sides mired in a frustrating legal limbo.

The Rev. James Foley, shown here in a picture from his seminary class of 1978. Foley, now 60, has survived in a kind of purgatorial state for years.

Twice implicated, priest fights for a decision

For 13 years, the Rev. James J. Foley has survived in a kind of purgatorial state, waiting for the church to decide whether or not to dismiss him.

Slow economic recovery fits post-crisis pattern

The nation has regained only about half of the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the recession, a slow recovery that analysts say is to be expected given the nature of the downturn.

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The controversial trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Massachusetts in the 1920’s caused much tension in the US and around the world.

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Fall Arts Preview 2012
Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington will spend a lot of time this offseason trying to fix his team’s pitching, top to bottom.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Red Sox will look to fix their pitching in offseason
South Shore Natural Science Center in Norwell has a variety of activities and venues for children to act ­. . . naturally.

Kid Friendly

6 places near Boston to explore this fall
The line at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, a classic in a city full of them, can stretch from 11 to 11 — a.m. to p.m., that is.

food finds

Cheap eats in New York
Provided Gary Bettman, the league’s commissioner since Feb. 1, 1993, remains true to his word, the absence of a new deal on that day will trigger the third lockout of his tenure.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Enough cash to buy an NHL compromise

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

Things to do in the Berkshires

Ideas

How Sam, Mike, and Will became football positions

Soundtrack

A Bruce Springsteen concert — for free

book reviews

‘Marilyn’ by Lois Banner and ‘Misfit’ by Adam Braver

Cardinal Spellman High students work with their iPads

iPads in classroom change education
Bill Belichick’s decade-plus run of success with the Patriots has elevated the team to the top of the local sports crop.

Bob Ryan

Boston now officially belongs to the Patriots
Jamie Sawler of the Muddas made an interception against the Cumberland Muckaneers during a game of mud football in North Conway, N.H. Ten teams participated in a tournament.

Playing dirty in the ‘Mud Bowl’

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Grant Hill, nearly 40, has perhaps his best chance to win a championship, serving as a mentor and productive bench player with the Clippers.

Grant Hill hasn’t given up dream of championship

Hill, nearly 40, has perhaps his best chance to win a championship, serving as a mentor and productive bench player with the Clippers.

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The Boylston Berserkers, made up of Emerson students, played quidditch on the Boston Common.

Quidditch club swept off Boston Common

Emerson College’s quidditch club has been banned from Boston Common for lack of a city permit, leaving players scrambling for a home to finish the season.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

Clinton’s speech a new blueprint
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. links arms with, to his left; Ralph Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations; Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth as they march for voter registration rights for African-Americans in 1965.

Jeff Jacoby

Faith enriches politics, on both sides

Dan Shaughnessy

On Opening Day, AFL pioneers battle again

Yvonne Abraham

Mormon missionaries bask in Romney’s run
Bill Belichick’s decade-plus run of success with the Patriots has elevated the team to the top of the local sports crop.

Bob Ryan

Boston now officially belongs to the Patriots

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Secrets of the hiring process

Adrian Walker

Patrick has high hopes for RCC
Michelle Obama and Ann Romney

JOAN VENNOCHI

Political wives and the politics of pretty

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Do campaign strategists take their cues from ‘The Music Man’?

Brian McGrory

Concord bottled water ban is all wet

SCOT LEHIGH

Clinton’s speech could be turning point
Robert Kosilek, foreground, in 1993; and in 1990, background.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Judge goes too far in sex change ruling

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Daniel Day Lewis stars as President Abraham Lincoln in this scene from director Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln

Fall Movie Preview 2012

It’s as if the entire film industry had decided to lead with its chin and dare audiences to accept the unexpected. If ever a slate of movies had “PROVE IT” stamped on its forehead, this is it.

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For Rebecca Schlowsky, updated LinkedIn profile led to a job

Social media was key for Rebecca Schlowsky in landing a job as an executive assistant at her alma mater.

Politics

Political notebook

President Barack Obama high-fives Saint Christopher Sykes, 6, at a rally at St. Petersburg College's Seminole Campus on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in St Petersburg, Fla.

In Florida, Obama puts Medicare at top of voters’ concerns

President Obama began hammering away at the Republican ticket’s plans for Medicare on a campaign swing through Florida.

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A rebel in the Free Syrian Army fired against regime positions in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo on Friday.

Fighting intensifies over largest city in Syria

The Syrian regime pounded Aleppo with warplanes and artillery shelling as ground forces seeking to regain momentum in the city advanced on three neighborhoods, activists said.

Travel

Descendants of the Koontz family, which bought the Greek Revival house Green Leaves in Natchez in 1849 and whose descendants still live there, welcome Fall Pilgrimage visitors.

Fall Pilgrimage unfolds a layer of history in Natchez, Miss.

Northerners who visit this small city perched on a bluff over the Mississippi River will find a history as rich as the Delta soil.

Books

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‘Marilyn’ by Lois Banner and ‘Misfit’ by Adam Braver

Is there anything we still don’t know about Marilyn Monroe? (Besides what really happened the night she died.)

“We’re pioneers. We have to be. We can’t prepare our students for the 20th century. We have to prepare them for the 21st century.”

Carmen Mariano, principal of Archbishop Williams,  on using iPads in the classroom

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The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

5 things to do this week, in and around Boston
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

Opinion

The brilliance of Bill Clinton’s argument was that it cast Obama as a problem-solver, too — just one whose core values and specific ideas will pose a longer-term solution to our immediate crisis.

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“With awe, the researchers concluded, people become more “present,” living in the moment, not rehashing the past or fretting about the future.”

Keith O’Brien  on the quest to expand time