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Muslim cities are calm after protests

Most cities around the Muslim world reported calm a day after at least six people were killed in a wave of protests over an anti-Islam film.

A policeman checked vehicles damaged inside the US Embassy in Tunisia.

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A policeman checked vehicles damaged Friday inside the US Embassy in Tunisia.

Children looked at a burned out bus near the US embassy in Tunis a day after protesters stormed the compound.

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Children looked at a burned-out bus near the US embassy in Tunis a day after protesters stormed the compound.

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.

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.

Stoughton toddler killed may have run into truck’s side

The 3-year-old girl who was killed Friday while crossing a road with her mother may have run into the side of a truck as it passed in front of her, an official said.

Rockland woman charged with insurance fraud

Olga O’Connor Rich, owner of Brockton-based South Coastal Physical Therapy, was charged Thursday with 46 counts of motor vehicle insurance fraud.

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Retired Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield on ‘Knuckleball’

Tim Wakefield, baseball star? Sure. Tim Wakefield, movie star? That, too.

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Behind the knuckleball

Tim Wakefield is featured in a new documentary that is all about baseball's oddest pitch.

Cody Ross hit a solo homer in the second inning.

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Red Sox take 2d straight from Blue Jays

Cody Ross belted a solo shot and Pedro Ciriaco hit a game-winning double to help put the Red Sox over the Blue Jays for the second straight game.

NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr, left, was joined by Zdeno Chara, center, and Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby in a Thursday press conference.

NHL says no bargaining with union Saturday

The two sides spoke only by phone ahead of a lockout deadline tonight, putting the league on course for its fourth work stoppage since 1992.

Ryan Wendell (left) began to stand out among his linemates when he got more opportunities.

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Ryan Wendell a valued member of Patriots’ line

Wendell has worked his way up through the ranks from undrafted free agent to versatile supersub to a band-aid starter. Now he’s taken the next step: becoming a starting center.

Chris Yang at the Tannery’s Boylston Street shop.

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Remaking an institution

How Christopher Yang helped remake The Tannery, a Boston and Harvard Square institution.

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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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Madison Park Technical High has mayoral support.

Boston innovation high school off to rough start
Sports apparel maker New Balance plans to build a 14-acre complex in Brighton.

Skyline blooms as Boston OK’s over $1.5b in projects

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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

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Leading Cambridge’s Dance Complex into the future

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The Most Stylish Bostonians
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
Quin Donovan says his mom, Elaine, nagging him about his homework “makes me less likely to do it.”

To nag or not to nag? It’s homework’s eternal question
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)
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A career for the ages

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Harvard 28, San Diego 13

The Harvard Crimson (1-0) kick off their Ivy League slate at Brown next Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

Harvard battles back against San Diego

Harvard scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to win the opener of its 139th season.

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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

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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.

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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.

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A glimpse at the Patrick we’re missing

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A customer pumped gas in Newark. Gas prices have risen more than 50 cents per gallon in the past two months.

Rising gas prices crimp US spending

Gas prices are crimping consumer spending and slowing the already-weak US economy. And they could get worse in the coming months.

Politics

Both the Obama campaign — and the Chinese government — called Mitt Romney’s attacks misleading. Above, a shot from ads the Romney campaign began airing this week.

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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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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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 

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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?
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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