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Embassies targeted as protests spread

A large cloud of black smoke was seen rising from the US Embassy in the capital of Tunisia, and protesters smashed into the German Embassy in Sudan’s capital and set part of it on fire.

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The unfolding situation in Libya and elsewhere in the region almost ensures foreign affairs will be more than a footnote in the final weeks of the election.

N. Gregory Mankiw (right) and Lawrence Summers teach at Harvard.

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Obama and Romney economic advisers spar on taxes, US aid

Lawrence Summers, the architect of President Obama’s stimulus plan, and N. Gregory Mankiw, a key adviser to Mitt Romney, laid out visions on how to repair the economy.

Millennium Partners aims to start construction, which includes a tower, by the middle of next year.

Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff (left); Handel Architects (right)

Long-delayed work on Filene’s site approved

Regulators approved construction of a 625-foot tower and renovation work at the long-dormant site at Downtown Crossing.

Dr. Richard Keller

Children’s Hospital doctor accused of buying child porn

More then 500 photographs and at least 60 DVDs were found during a search of Dr. Richard Keller’s Andover home.

lawrence harmon

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Disturbing details are starting to emerge about the alleged mishandling of drug samples at the state testing laboratory in Jamaica Plain.

Dan Shaughnessy

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Be careful what you wish for. As bad as the Sox are right now, we are likely better off with John Henry, Tom Werner, and Larry Lucchino owning the team.

Brian McGrory

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Today, Gloria Negri ends a nearly 53-year run at the Globe that is unlike any journalism career Boston has ever seen or will see again.

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America’s first lighthouse guided vessels entering Boston Harbor from Sept. 14, 1716, and the lighthouse on Little Brewster Island was the last to be automated, in 1998.

Globe exclusives

Heidi Watney left NESN last November, and has been on stand-by ever since.

Sports Media

Heidi Watney bounced from Lakers job
Legal C Bar is slated to be among the first restaurants in Somerville’s $1.5 billion Assembly Row. (Gretchen Ertl for The Boston Globe)

Eateries to be among 1st in Assembly Row
Molly Ringwald presents stories tied to infidelity.

Book Review

‘When It Happens to You’ by Molly Ringwald
Grace Potter and her band are hosting the Grand Point North festival in Vermont.

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals unleash ‘The Beast’

Exclusive Sunday Preview

The Most Stylish Bostonians

Yvonne Abraham

BU hockey team report details retrograde mentality
The hero a night earlier, Jacoby Ellsbury (1 for 5) grounded to the pitcher with the tying run on first base to end the game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox were spoiled long before this

Thomas P. Glynn is choice to lead Massport

G Force

Positive thinking, raw food, veganism, and sexual vitality
Jasmany Fuentes said the person who shot his brother Jorge on Monday night “didn’t have a reason.”

Dorchester family searches for answers after fatal shooting

Boston, teachers agree on contract
STRIPES (left to right): Marc by Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, and Yohji Yamamoto.

10 spring trends at New York Fashion Week

Sports

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Patriot Stevan Ridley set career highs in the Week 1 victory over the Titans with 21 rushes for 125 yards.

Patriots’ Stevan Ridley takes starting job and runs with it

Anyone who watched the Week 1 win saw an eye-opening game from Ridley, who a set career high with 125 yards rushing.

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Warren ad is first to go on attack in campaign

The 30-second ad features the trainer for Lowell boxer Mickey Ward, who accuses Brown of working against the interest of working people.

Columnists

Scot Lehigh

The way to better schools is around unions

carlo rotella | opinion

Uncovering a hidden America

lawrence harmon

Black mark on the state drug lab
Gloria Negri

Brian McGrory

A career for the ages
US envoy Chris Stevens, center, is seen conferring with Dr. Suleiman Fortia, a Libyan opposition leader, in Benghazi, Libya, on April 11, 2011.

Juliette Kayyem

Syrians will pay for murders of Americans in Libya

joan vennochi

Elizabeth Warren must sell substance over Scott Brown’s flash
The hero a night earlier, Jacoby Ellsbury (1 for 5) grounded to the pitcher with the tying run on first base to end the game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox were spoiled long before this

Yvonne Abraham

BU hockey team report details retrograde mentality
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

derrick z. jackson

Complaints are few as fuel efficiency rises

Christopher L. Gasper

Hockey-is-king culture was big problem at BU

scot lehigh

Romney’s bet-and-bluff campaign

Business

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Chairman Ben Bernanke called the move apolitical.

Federal Reserve unveils $40 billion stimulus plan

The Fed said it would launch a new round of help for the economy aimed at lowering the jobless rate and stimulating the housing market. Stocks surged on the news.

Politics

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Mitt Romney campaigned in the Virginia suburbs Thursday.

Romney back to ripping Obama on the economy

Mitt Romney seized on new Federal Reserve attempts to boost the economy as proof the Obama administration’s policies are not working.

Nation & World

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Relatives of fire victims held a candle vigil Thursday outside the garment factory in Karachi. Many victims were trapped.

Pakistan looks for blame after record fire toll

Pakistani police registered a murder case against the owners of a garment factory in Karachi after a fire swept through the building and killed 258 people.

Arts

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Director Kate Whoriskey (left) and actress Johanna Day on the set of “Good People.’’ Right: Scenes from South Boston, where the play is set, including a shot of cast members taken at Castle Island (clockwise, from left): Michael Laurence, Karen MacDonald, Nick Westrate, Day, and Nancy E. Carroll.

David Lindsay-Abaire’s ‘Good People’ comes home

“Good People” is the first play Pulitzer Prize-winning South Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire has set in his old haunt.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon costar as a wealthy husband and his wife in “Arbitrage.”

‘Arbitrage’: When bad things happen to very rich people

Nicholas Jarecki’s debut feature casts Richard Gere as a sleek Wall Street tycoon having a very bad week.

“[Glen Doherty] inspired me to want to serve my country as deeply as he did.”

Glen Otero,  who worked with Doherty at SEALFIT Training Center

Magazine

The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires
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 27-month labor saga is over ... But the outcome is only a small step forward.”

Globe editorial, on the tentative deal with the Boston Teachers Union

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