Elizabeth Warren may retool TV ads

The Senate candidate is facing pressure to make a major shift in her advertising with commercials that soften her image and focus more on her GOP rival, Senator Scott Brown.

Paul Ryan is engaged in a national campaign as Mitt Romney’s running mate, but he is also spending $2m in ads to keep his Wisconsin congressional seat.

Paul Ryan campaigns for old job as he seeks bigger one

The Republican is engaged in a national campaign as Mitt Romney’s running mate, but he is also spending $2 million in ads to keep his Wisconsin congressional seat.

Amy Bishop was led into the courthouse in Hunstville, Ala.

Amy Bishop pleads guilty to Alabama killings

Bishop pleaded guilty to fatally shooting three fellow professors and injuring three others in 2010, but the effect of the plea in the Mass. case against her for her brother’s death is uncertain.

Kyle Casey, Harvard’s leading scorer, is choosing to withdraw voluntarily, in an attempt to preserve his eligibility in the future.

Cheating case entangles athletes at Harvard

Basketball star Kyle Casey will withdraw from the school and fellow cocaptain Brandyn Curry is expected to follow after being implicated in a cheating scandal involving about 125 students.

Whitney Sisto enjoyed a break in South Boston as HipHost’s Evmorphia Stratis (right) led Micky Robinson of London on a harbor tour.

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HipHost tours connect visitors with locals

The Salem company sets up visitors with local guides in more than 100 cities around the world for quirky tours, from pub crawls to museum jaunts.

Jeff Jacoby

The higher-ed bubble will inevitably burst

Skyrocketing college costs and student debt are prompting Americans to no longer believe that a college degree is everything it has been cracked up to be.

2 grateful graduates give $60m to Northeastern

Two Northeastern dropouts who went on to earn their degrees after encouragement from a mentoring professor are teaming up to donate $60 million to the university.

Katie Pakenham (left) and Teresa Mathai, relatives of victims, comforted each other Tuesday in the Garden of Remembrance at the Boston Public Garden on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

9/11 families welcome more intimate rites

For families and friends of the 206 Massachusetts victims of 9/11, Tuesday’s memorial services were smaller and quieter than ever before.

William Lantigua

2 with ties to Mayor William Lantigua indicted

Essex grand jurors charged the former chief of staff to the Lawrence mayor and the city’s deputy police chief with conspiracy, extortion, and other counts of corruption.

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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.

Globe exclusives

Nona Hershey’s “All of the Above,’’ from her show of the same name at Soprafina Gallery.

Galleries

What’s up in Boston-area art galleries
Super Burrito.

Cheap Eats

Authentic burritos at new Belmont spot
“I’ve never made a brisket in my life.” - Fran Putnoi, a former president of Temple Israel of Boston, who gathered a group to talk about recipes

Nine Jewish cooks, many opinions
Carla Zanoletti’s pesto, made the way she learned as a girl growing up in Camogli, on the Italian Riviera.

How to make pesto the Ligurian way
Bill Lichtenstein, whose account of his daughter’s 2006 treatment was published Sunday, said a confidentiality agreement barred him from speaking sooner.

Account of putting pupil in isolation disputed
“A lot of our assumptions today have their roots in that period,” says Drew Gilpin Faust (right) with Ric Burns.

Work of Harvard’s Faust gets the PBS treatment

Farah Stockman

Why do we go to our high school reunions?
The decision by the state party could put US Senator Scott Brown, facing a tough challenge, in a difficult position.

State GOP to take up national platform

In faiths, a split on assisted suicide

G force

Molly Ringwald writes, sings, acts, and wants to direct
Pipe fitter Jerry Williams worked on new gas boilers being installed by Ameresco Inc. for the Boston Housing Authority.

Energy services firm profits with boring efficiency

CD Review | ROCK

Storming ahead with Bob Dylan in ‘Tempest’

Sports

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Red Sox 4, Yankees 3

Jacoby Ellsbury celebrates his winning single in the ninth, which put some revelry in the rivalry as the Sox played spoiler against the Yankees.

Jacoby Ellsbury lifts Red Sox in 9th

Ellsbury’s fourth hit of the night scored Pedro Ciriaco from second base for a 4-3 victory and dropped the Yankees into a tie for first place in the AL East with the Orioles.

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Albert “Dapper” O’Neil introduced Bruce Bolling before he was sworn in as city councilor in 1992 in Boston.

Bruce Bolling, City Council’s first black president, dies at 67

The first African-American to be elected to the post, Mr. Bolling was a champion of fairness for minorities, women, and the gay community.

Columnists

Deval Patrick has been an occasionally prickly governor, a consistently good governor, and often a very good governor. But he has rarely been the great and fearless leader that the nation saw last week.

Brian McGrory

A glimpse at the Patrick we’re missing

Christopher L. Gasper

Hockey culture causes BU image to take hit

scot lehigh

Romney’s bet-and-bluff campaign

derrick z. jackson

Complaints are few as fuel efficiency rises

Jeff Jacoby

The higher-ed bubble will inevitably burst

Joanna Weiss

A teacher’s guide to predators
Eric Crouch (pedaling) and John Pelkey rode the pedicab they designed.

Innovation economy

Wentworth graduates build a better pedicab
Clouds are reflected in the glass windows of Four World Trade Center last month in New York.

Opinion | Juliette kayyem

On anniversary of 9/11, fear is present but not all-consuming

Adrian Walker

For kids’ sake, teacher deal is needed

Farah Stockman

Why do we go to our high school reunions?

Joanna Weiss

Clinton’s speech a new blueprint
Stevan Ridley breaks a tackle on a 17-yard first-quarter run during a Patriots TD drive. The back ended up with 125 yards on 21 carries.

Dan Shaughnessy

New England sports fans can rejoice

Business

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Lithium ion batteries (above) are among the groundbreaking technologies developed by US-funded research laboratories.

Boston firm looks to capitalize on military research

Allied Minds Inc. hopes to commercialize military technology developed at Department of Defense laboratories and research centers.

Politics

Political Notebook

President Obama traveled to Walter Reed Medical Center on Tuesday to visit with veterans and their families.

The South’s political power is waning

This is the second consecutive presidential election without a candidate from the Deep South on either major party ticket.

Nation & World

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Protesters in Cairo scaled the embassy walls, but in Libya, a US diplomat was fatally shot.

American killed in Libya protest over film

Protesters killed an American diplomat and burned down a US consulate in Libya in response to a Californian’s film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed.

Arts

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Book Review

Firefighters in search of victims at the entrance to the Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., in early Feb. 21, 2003.

‘Killer Show ’ by John Barylick

The book recounts the tragic Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that claimed 100 lives, and examines its causes and aftermath.

Food & dining

DINING OUT

A pasta specialbeing prepared at Carlo’s Cucina Italiana in Allston.

10 underrated Boston restaurants

There are many local restaurants that should be on the radar and, for whatever reason, aren’t. The list could encompass hundreds, but for starters, here are 10.

“It mystifies me why they haven’t changed their strategy. They need to shake up the race.”

Jeffrey M. Berry,  a political science professor at Tufts, on the Elizabeth Warren campaign

Magazine

The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

My friends don’t know I’m a conservative
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

“It may not happen tomorrow, but the higher-education bubble is getting ready to burst.”

Jeff Jacoby 

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