Egypt clears protesters from US embassy area

The protesters had been clashing with security forces near the US Embassy as cities in the Muslim world reported calm a day after at least six people were killed over an anti-Islam film.

Police rested while clearing Tahir Square of protesters in Cairo.

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Police rested while clearing Tahir Square of protesters in Cairo.

Egyptian protesters hurled stones at riot police in Cairo.

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Egyptian protesters hurled stones at riot police in Cairo.

Tunisian soldiers guarded the US embassy in Tunis.

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Tunisian soldiers guarded the US embassy in Tunis.

Pakistanis demonstrated in Peshawar.

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Pakistanis demonstrated in Peshawar.

A burned-out bus is seen on the grounds of the American school in Tunis.

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A burned-out bus is seen on the grounds of the American school in Tunis.

Mourners shouted slogans as they carried the coffin of a protester shot dead by police in Sanaa, Yemen.

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Mourners shouted slogans as they carried the coffin of a protester shot dead by police in Sanaa, Yemen.

A protester helped an injured man near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.

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A protester helped an injured man near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.

Protesters shouted anti-US slogans Friday in Istanbul,Turkey.

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Protesters shouted anti-US slogans Friday in Istanbul,Turkey.

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A US flag was burned in Istanbul.

Demonstrators climbed atop the roof of the US Embasy in Tunisia.

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Demonstrators climbed atop the roof of the US Embasy in Tunisia.

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Protesters rallied outside the US Embassy in Tunisia.

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Somali youths held a copy of the Koran during a demonstration in Mogadishu.

The remains of the four Americans killed this week in Libya were removed from a plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

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The remains of the four Americans killed this week in Libya arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bowed their heads in prayer during the ceremony.

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President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bowed their heads in prayer during the ceremony.

A KFC restaurant was set on fire in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, on Friday.

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A KFC restaurant was set on fire in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, on Friday.

Demonstrators shouted next to the German embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.

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Demonstrators shouted next to the German Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.

Riot police clashed with protesters near the US Embassy in Cairo.

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Riot police clashed with protesters near the US Embassy in Cairo.

Bangladeshi Muslims shouted slogans during a protest in front of the National Mosque in Dhaka.

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Bangladeshi Muslims shouted slogans during a protest in Dhaka.

If Bobby Valentine is looking at the end of the line with the Sox, he’s going out with a bang.

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Valentine slams Red Sox for ‘weakest roster’

Bobby Valentine said the Sox have “the weakest roster we’ve ever had in September in the history of baseball.”

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The Most Stylish Bostonians

Our list of Boston’s 25 most stylish celebrates what is classic cool, and above all, creative. Getting any ideas?

“Orta-Water-Fluvial Intervention Unit,’’ part of the Ortas’ “Food-Water-Life’’ exhibit.

art Review

Duo of Argentine guerrilla artists agitate, engage

“Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food--Water--Life" at the Tufts University Art Gallery addresses urgent societal issues with earnest ambition and a touch of playful whimsy.

Boston College overcame obstacles en route to 150th anniversary

The college kicks off a wide-ranging celebration with a 4 p.m. Mass at Fenway Park that is expected to draw some 20,000 people.

E-mails portray state drug lab in chaos

Internal e-mails ­describe a staff drowning in work, misplaced evidence in crime cases, and mounting frustrations over the Patrick administration’s seeming indifference.

Madison Park Technical High has mayoral support.

Boston innovation high school off to rough start

When Madison Park re-opened as an innovation school Sept. 6, the first hard-fought step of its turnaround effort, confusion, frustration, and disappointment filled the halls.

Romney rips Obama on China despite investments

Mitt Romney sharpened his criticism of President Obama’s handling of China’s trade practices, although he has invested in Chinese firms that use some of those methods.

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Milan Lucic was congratulated by teammate David Krejci after Lucic scored the game-winning goal in the third period against the Canadiens on Jan. 12, 2012, at TDGarden.

Lucic signs three-year extension with Bruins

Left winger Milan Lucic, who has one year left on his current contract, agreed to a three-year extension worth $18 million.

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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.

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In his Otafuku Cafe in Kyoto, Noda-san makes pour-over coffee into a one-cup pot. Coffee came to Japan with European traders in the 16th and 17th centuries, and cafes have elegant brewing performances for devotees.

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Kyoto, Japan, a cup at a time (and it’s not green tea)
“Orta-Water-Fluvial Intervention Unit,’’ part of the Ortas’ “Food-Water-Life’’ exhibit.

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Duo of Argentine guerrilla artists agitate, engage

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Leading Cambridge’s Dance Complex into the future
The Harborplace Amphitheater is where performers might sing, dance, do magic . . . and bands perform free concerts Fridays through Sundays.

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Searching for the funky, free, and family-friendly in Baltimore
Tallie Wollen, 4, ran around a hay maze at Adams Farm near her home in Cumberland, R.I.

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Globe photos of the week, Sept. 14, 2012

Sunday Preview | Ideas

What to test instead
Time was, performers did their thing and let others worry about business. Now a new wave of artist-entrepreneurs — comic Louis C.K. and rocker Amanda Palmer among them — are taking full control. But by connecting directly with their fans, they’re also inheriting a whole bunch of headaches.

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The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
Quin Donovan says his mom, Elaine, nagging him about his homework “makes me less likely to do it.”

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To nag or not to nag? It’s homework’s eternal question
Author Lee Child has written his 17th Jack Reacher novel.

Book Review

‘A Wanted Man’ by Lee Child
Bill Cosby meets with John Henry (middle), Tom Werner, and Larry Lucchino after throwing out the first pitch Thursday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox owners selling the team? Doubtful
Gloria Negri

Brian McGrory

A career for the ages

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Bruins players prepare for lockout

With an NHL lockout looming, players will continue to skate in hopes of a prompt end to the labor disagreement, but they will consider their options if the dispute lasts for some time.

Metro

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Kyle Thomas Hemingway (left) and Greg Dickinson at Seoul Kitchen.

For late-night diners in Boston, Asian cuisine is what’s hot

Asian food is increasingly influential as customers gravitate to its bright, bold, and spicy flavors, and chefs see such late-night menus as a way to bring in crowds.

Columnists

Adrian Walker

Remembering Bruce Bolling, a Boston visionary

Joshua Green

When up means down
Some see bike paths as part of a conspiracy to produce a one-world government.

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Recycling, tree pruning, and other assaults on liberty

Scot Lehigh

The way to better schools is around unions

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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

Warren must sell substance over 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

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Brian Moynihan is chief executive at Bank of America.

Bank of America chief praises Fed’s decision

Chief executive Brian Moynihan Friday praised the Federal Reserve’s decision to launch a new effort to pump money into the nation’s ailing economy.

Politics

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Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, during a lighthearted exchange with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan on Friday.

Romneys game for a revealing interview

Mitt Romney and his wife sat down Friday for an interview on ABC’s ‘‘Live! With Kelly and Michael’’ that delved into topics rarely found on the Sunday talk shows.

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Olympic sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross, a gold medalist, took pictures with President Obama as the 2012 US Olympic and Paralympic teams visited the White House.

Obama using GOP’s ‘we built it’ attacks to his advantage

Some Democrats now say that the statements on the role of government might have focused the campaign in a direction that could be favorable for the president.

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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.

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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.

“It’s falling apart. Morale is nonexistent here.”

A teacher at Madison Park Technical High in Boston 

Magazine

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Things to do in the Berkshires
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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 is a measure of our polarized politics that the Republican Party has been invaded by, or at least influenced by, a group that demonizes bike paths and recycling.”

Renée Loth 

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