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Patriots lose heartbreaker

The loss in a home opener was the first for the Patriots since 2001 and happened after Stephen Gostkowski missed a field goal with six seconds left.

Warren edges Brown in 2 new polls

The polls suggest a possible bump for Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren in her race with Senator Scott Brown following the national conventions.

In Chicago on Saturday, teachers from Wisconsin and Minnesota joined the city’s striking teachers.

Chicago teachers union to continue strike

Schools will remain closed Monday after union delegates declined to vote on a proposed contract deal. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he would seek a court order to end the strike.

Supporters of Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), a religious and political party, shouted slogans Sunday during a protest in Islamabad.

Hezbollah calls for protests as clashes over film reignite

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said the US must be held accountable for an anti-Islam film that has sparked protests in several countries.

Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke (shown in France in July) led the indie-rock band’s show Friday at the House of Blues.

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Music Review

Bloc Party’s return was taut, explosive, and full of yelps

The London group was back in Boston for the first time since its 2009 hiatus, but it was as if their angular guitar rock had been preserved in amber — still urgent, still in your face.

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How Louis C.K., Matt Nathanson, Amanda Palmer, and other artists are seizing control and rocking the entertainment world.

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A gentle visitor enters a hipper neighborhood

As we give our children the hipper upbringings we wish we’d had, we’re eroding some of the very basic qualities of childhood, writes Kirsten Greenidge.

Paul Tough

Book Review

‘How Children Succeed’ by Paul Tough

According to the author, instead of IQ, the thing that most affects a child’s future success is character.

Martha Tuff, who is enrolled in a two-year master’s degree program to become a physician assistant, conferred with a patient at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Cambridge.

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New law expands role of physician assistants

A little-known provision of the state’s new health care cost-control law expands the role of physician assistants by casting them in the role of primary care providers.

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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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Robert Pozen, a longtime fund industry executive, says it’s “not about the amount of hours you work, it’s about getting results.”

Tips on getting things done from a productive man
Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, a pediatrician who lives in Newburyport, has written a memoir about the accident that injured her son Neil Bornstein, now 27, and killed his girlfriend.

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A mother recounts the car crash that shook her family
Casey Chamberlain contracted anthrax in 2001 after opening a letter to Tom Brokaw while she was working at NBC.

Struggles remain for victim of anthrax attack

Special section

The Most Stylish Bostonians
Mariagrazia LaFauci guided a tour of Boston film locations with freshmen from Fisher College.

On the Job

Tours feed actor’s love of movies
On board his Alicia Ann, Greg Walinski (left) said, “we don’t want sharks being killed only for their fins, but we aren’t doing that.”

Shark fin bans ensnare New England fishermen
NHL fans through the decades have become such enablers that they have, through their loyalty and/or addiction, shaped the thinking of Jeremy Jacobs and the other owners.

Sunday Hockey Notes

NHL sides must realize they’re in it together
Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III completed 19 of 26 passes (73.1 percent) for 320 yards and two touchdowns, for a quarterback rating of 139.9.

Sunday Football Notes

Teams making QBs more successful by tailoring
As a point guard, Rajon Rondo is used to toting the basketball, but he wasn’t averse to heavier lifting during his one-week unpaid internship.

GQ internship suited Rajon Rondo
Henry Cipolla (right), Lee Isensee (left), and Mohit Dilawari work at DogPatch Labs incubator in Cambridge on a start-up called Localytics.

Tech incubators taking root around Boston area

Style on the Street > For the Guys

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arts

Jukebox repair shop brings back memories of happy days

Sports

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Jacoby Ellsbury batted against the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.

Red Sox are blanked in Toronto

Jon Lester went seven innings, but was tagged for three runs in the seventh as the Red Sox failed to sweep the Blue Jays.

Metro

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Wes Johnson was looking to hitch a ride in Monson to the trailhead.

A town that steps up on the Appalachian Trail

The residents of Monson, Maine, are famous up and down the trail for opening their homes, their cars, and their wallets to hikers in need.

Columnists

In the Middle East, where governments routinely disseminate anti-Semitic hatred, many who viewed the “Innocence of Muslims” assumed the low-budget clip had to be sanctioned by the US government.

Joanna Weiss

Bigotry, both fringe and state-sanctioned
Chicago teachers went on strike last week.

JEFF JACOBY

Just as intended, teacher strikes hurt families

Yvonne Abraham

Death masks put a face on history

Christopher L. Gasper

Boston fans still have it good with owners

JOAN VENNOCHI

Getting kids to day care safely

FARAH STOCKMAN

Syria: the Assad family business

Innovation Economy

Start-up bets robot will transform US factories

Beverly Beckham

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

Business

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Jeffrey Boyd says he initially had privacy concerns when Progressive offered him the chance to try its Snapshot program. Now he is happy about the savings he could realize.

Privacy is the price for lowering car insurance

Auto insurance companies are increasingly offering drivers sharply lower rates in exchange for permission to install a device that tracks when, where, or how you drive.

Politics

Elizabeth Warren greeted Keith Lombard and his daughter, Saoirse, at the South Boston Street Festival.

Warren’s extended family split about heritage

Elizabeth Warren has never fully explained her assertion of Native American ancestry, and the Senate candidate’s extended family has mixed opinions on the question.

Nation & World

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Steve Klein, a California salesman who has protested at mosques, was listed as promoter of the controversial film.

Few details on funds for anti-Islam movie

An ex-convict, an insurance salesman, and a Christian charity were behind the production of a crudely crafted film that ridicules Muslims and the prophet Mohammed.

Arts

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Harry Partch playing instruments of his own invention.

Celebrating ‘Harry Partch Legacy’

Harry Partch, the startlingly original 20th-century American composer, is the focus of a rare three-day festival this week.

Books

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David Byrne (center) and the Talking Heads perform in New York in 1977.

‘How Music Works’ by David Byrne

Talking Head tells what he knows.

Travel

David Silverman, founder of the National Pinball Museum, has collected over 900 machines.

National Pinball Museum becoming a Baltimore draw

Sure, the game may have had its heyday in the 1960s and ’70s, but it lives on in the basements of enthusiasts, and in one Baltimore museum.

“White folks did not want to be identified as Indian whether they were one-eighth or one-half. In a short time, the reverse happened.”

Jerry Bread,  of the University of Oklahoma

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Things to do in the Berkshires
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Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
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Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?

Opinion

“The flip side of American strength is the notion that our government is in total control — that it can make anything happen, even a movie that’s embarrassingly bad.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Those who design tests understand them as a guess about the future. We’re probing for certain qualities that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what we should really test