Goldman Sachs agrees to $16m fines

The financial giant was fined about $16 million for a pay-to-play scheme involving a former employee who was also a close associate to former state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu says Iran close to bomb

Speaking before the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the world to draw a “clear red line’’ to prevent Iran from making a nuclear bomb.

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Silber, who spent a tempestuous quarter-century as president of Boston University, and in 1990 came within 77,000 votes of becoming governor of Massachusetts, died Thursday. He was 86.

The statue, unveiled Sunday, is over 22 feet tall.

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Statue symbolizes Brockton’s grit, determination

The new statue erected in honor of Rocky Marciano points to the many challenges that face the city, as well as its triumphs.

Patriots players were back at work Thursday, and when they play Buffalo, the NFL officials will be back at their jobs, too.

On football

NFL officials are as much to blame as owners

The real NFL officials had just as much to do with the game being held hostage for the first three weeks as team owners and commissioner Roger Goodell, writes Greg A. Bedard.

Winslow Homer’s “Weatherbeaten,” the 1894 painting that gives the Portland exhibit its name, shows how the artist captured the power of the ocean.

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‘Weatherbeaten’ brings viewers up close to force of inspiration

“Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine” is a show of Homer’s late, great spray-smashed work, all of it painted (or etched) at Prouts Neck.

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Since the first Chinese immigrants began arriving in the 1880’s, the neighborhood has been one of the city’s most vibrant.

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Globe writer Joseph Kahn tries out a Jaguar.

style

Piloting a Jaguar unleashes inner James Bond
Fred Lynn (left) and Dustin Pedroia made quite a pair as the celebration amid a lost season continued with the naming of the All-Fenway Park Team.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox’ contrived party is over
Are Princess Kate and Prince William expecting? That is the question.

Is Kate Middleton pregnant — and why do we care?
Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, in her office with a papyrus fragment.

Debate, doubts about a married Jesus
One of the key areas of disagreement between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren was over handling Syria’s civil war.

Brown, Warren share centrist foreign policy views
President Obama’s policy on natural gas has drawn protests in Colorado.

Obama’s stance on natural gas carries risks

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Affiliation of registered Mass. voters

Chemist admitted wrongdoing in lab scandal

Yvonne Abraham

Defamation suit is outrageous

Tech Lab

iPhone 5 operating system has hangups

Gwendolyn Brown is all about Maria
John Tierney, seeking a ninth term, has said the money his wife received from her brother Robert Eremian was a gift.

Tax questions loom for Tierney, Tisei

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Red Sox Notebook

Ben Cherington

Red Sox GM clarifies comment on ‘manager search’

Ben Cherington said he did not mean to suggest in a radio interview that Bobby Valentine’s firing was imminent.

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Departing Deputy Superintendent Michael Goar was one of Superintendent Carol R. Johnson’s most trusted allies.

Deputy superintendent joins exodus of top Boston school administrators

The surprising resignation of Michael Goar, Carol R. Johnson’s second in command, is the latest in a series of high-level departures that have left notable gaps in the district’s leadership.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

Defense industry has its own October surprise

Joan Vennochi

Why is Joe Kennedy III limiting debates?

Yvonne Abraham

Defamation suit is outrageous
Fred Lynn (left) and Dustin Pedroia made quite a pair as the celebration amid a lost season continued with the naming of the All-Fenway Park Team.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox’ contrived party is over

Tech Lab

iPhone 5 operating system has hangups

jeff jacoby

Obama is the great divider

Scot Lehigh

Scott Brown’s Senate control problem

Brian McGrory

Senator Scott Brown’s illusion fades
The Patriots’ Bill Belichick (above) and the Ravens’ John Harbaugh spent a lot of time Sunday appealing to the refs.

Christopher L. Gasper

NFL’s replacement refs a complete joke

farah stockman

A plea for a new party: Keeping It Real
Kate Middleton, Prince William, and Prince Harry attended the men's team sprint track cycling event at the London 2012 Olympic games.

Joanna Weiss

Royalty and the paradox of publicity
Bill Belichick screams at official Rodney Russell after a first-quarter call went against the Patriots.

Dan Shaughnessy

Replacement refs a nightmare in Patriots loss

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The state’s technology sector, which has long been a strength, could be hurt by softening demand for silicon computer chips and other tech products around the globe, the MassBenchmarks report found.

Mass. loses its edge over US in economic growth

Massachusetts economic growth has declined because of difficulties abroad and uncertainty in Washington, economists said.

Politics

Early voters lined up in Waterloo, Iowa.

Early voting begins in swing state Iowa

Specialists predict that more early voting will take place this year than in 2008 – with as much as 35 percent of the total vote cast well before election day on Nov. 6.

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Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was escorted by authorities from his home in Cerritos, Calif., on Sept. 15.

Man behind anti-Islam film ordered held

A federal judge ruled Thursday that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula should be detained after officials said he violated his probation term for a 2010 check fraud conviction.

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Scott Speedman (left) and Andre Braugher in a scene from the new series “Last Resort.”

‘Last Resort’: Paranoia below the sea

ABC’s fascinating new series starring Andre Braugher is about a US nuclear-missile submarine that goes rogue after getting orders to bomb Pakistan.

Style

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A dress from Boston designer Candice Wu.

Boston Fashion Week returns

Your guide to the designers, locations, and what to expect this week in chic.

“Now there’s a whole new appreciation for the refs.”

Kevin O’Brien,  on the NFL and referees deal to end the lockout

Magazine

The cover for the September 23 2012 issue

9 hot trends in kitchen design
The cover for the September 16 2012 issue

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
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?

Opinion

“This debate about debates isn’t about a candidacy that’s a joke. It’s about respect for voters, process, and democracy.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Changing a culture requires finesse, subtlety, and patience. It also requires a certain suspension of optimism about human nature.”

Leon Neyfakh on the art of crowdshifting