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US considering plan for training Syrian rebels, officials say

The proposal to use the US military to train the rebels would greatly expand the current CIA training being done in Jordan, according to the Associated Press.

Military veteran fatally shot by Lynn police after struggle

The 30-year-old man, who neighbors said served in the Army and the National Guard, was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Five Cape Cod Hospital patients possibly exposed to fatal brain disease

The patients may have been exposed as a result of surgery performed with a contaminated instrument that also exposed patients at a hospital in N.H.

Joy Division (from left): Stephen Morris, Peter Hook, Ian Curtis, and Bernard Sumner.

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An encore for Peter Hook

The former bassist of Joy Division and New Order hits the road again with his band the Light, which plays at the Paradise on Sept. 10.

State Senator Linda Dorcena-Forry appears to be in line to take over hosting duties at the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in South Boston.

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Southie St. Patrick’s Day breakfast slugfest begins early

The idea that state Senator Linda Dorcena-Forry, a Haitian-American woman from Dorchester, is poised to take over the event is culturally and politically loaded in South Boston.

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“Patti Issues,” which comes to Boston’s Club Café, is a 60-minute monologue chronicling the transformative power of star Ben Rimalower’s relationship with Patti LuPone.

The Architectural Digest cover.

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Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen show off Brentwood home

The 22,000 square-foot California home of Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen is the cover story of October’s issue of Architectural Digest.

Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

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Martin Walsh is getting strong union support in his bid for mayor, raising the question: What would he owe organized labor if he wins?

Globe exclusives

Dave Chappelle performs at the Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival in Mansfield.

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Bring the noise? Chappelle would rather you didn’t
Charlie Baker and his wife, Lauren, sat for an interview at their Swampscott home on Wednesday.

Baker rebuts Democratic charges on Big Dig

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Patriots schedule analysis
State Senator Daniel Wolf.

Wolf lines up prominent legal figures in ethics fight
A screen print from Andy Warhol’s “Flash — November 22, 1963” (1968).

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Artists on the Kennedy assassination
Mimmo Cuticchio (left) and Giuseppe Fiorello play an old-style fisherman and a new-style entrepreneur in “Terraferma.”

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Natural beauty grounds ‘Terraferma’
Quarterback Troy Flutie, right, is the latest member of his family to come through Natick bound for Boston College.

Troy Flutie the last in the Natick-to-BC pipeline for now
The Brown children — Adison, Cole, and Spencer — use so many devices their mother often forgoes policing.

In digital world, kids gain the upper hand

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New era for EMass school football

Sept. 5, 1979: A show of hands to volunteer to be the line leaders on the first day of school for second graders at the Elliot School in the North End.

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Back to school in Boston

N.H. patients possibly exposed to brain disease

Special section

Welcome back! A Boston primer from Ideas

Boston mayoral race

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The mayoral race: The candidates

John F. Barros joked with Ramikah Colimon at the Codman Square Farmers Market in Dorchester last week.

Barros believes in pathways to empowerment

How the Roxbury native arrived at this moment, as one of 12 candidates for mayor, is, in many respects, the story of America.

Sports

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Clay Buchholz has been on the disabled list since June 9.

Clay Buchholz looks solid in latest rehab outing

Buchholz went 3⅔ innings, threw 71 pitches, and allowed two runs in the PawSox’ Game 2 playoff triumph.

Metro

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Disgraced Chelsea housing chief Michael E. McLaughlin (left) is slated to plead guilty to state campaign finance charges today, court records indicate.

Michael McLaughlin arraigned; no deal expected today

Pleas negotiations continue after the ex-Chelsea housing chief was indicted last week by a state grand jury for several campaign violations.

Columnists

Tech Lab

Selling your phone has gotten a lot easier
Mike Napoli and the Red Sox left Fenway Park on Wednesday with a six-game lead in the AL East.

Christopher L. Gasper

This Red Sox team won’t collapse

EDWARD L. GLAESER

To fight crime in Boston, be prepared to spend more
UN chemical weapons experts visited a hospital where wounded people affected by an apparent gas attack were being treated near Damascus on Aug. 26.

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Crossing the line
This week, EMC’s Paul Dacier becomes the first general counsel to head up the Boston Bar Association in its 252-year history.

Shirley Leung

Legal talent growing, in-house

JEFF JACOBY

Where does compassion come from?
Henrik Stenson and his son, Karl, know who’s No. 1 following his triumph at TPC Boston.

Dan Shaughnessy

Henrik Stenson a worthy champion

Adrian Walker

The voter wild card

SCOT LEHIGH

Mayoral hopefuls on fire department reform

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Music dinosaurs pick a bad fight
Sergio Garcia hits out of a trap on the 14th hole during the third round.

Christopher L. Gasper

Garcia letting his play do the talking

Adrian Walker

Squeezing the laborers

Nation & World

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Security officials inspected the scene of a bomb blast targeting Egyptian interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim near his home in Cairo, Egypt.

Egypt’s interior minister survives bomb attack

It was the first attack on a senior government official since the country’s Islamist president was toppled in a coup two months ago.

Business

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Food was served at a restaurant in St. Paul, Minn.

US service sector expands at fastest pace in 8 years

Sales and orders grew and employers ramped up hiring in July, according to a report.

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

Steven DeMarco as Brick and Madeleine Lambert as Maggie in Wellfleet Harbor Actor Theater’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

A declawed ‘Cat’ in Wellfleet

In her production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’’ Elizabeth Falk — who is credited with “script redaction’’ — diminishes some of the play’s unsettling force.

Style

Bargain Bin

Sara Campbell marks down spring and summer goods

Ami Albernaz’s weekly roundup of bargains includes Campbell’s end-of-summer warehouse sale.

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As summer comes to an end, we take a look at a summer retreat visited by both the philosophers and the frolicker.

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Little folk
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Sharks Inc.
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Daniel Nava, the long shot
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Ideas

“Cities have become the main source of fresh thinking about how to solve the world’s problems — and mayors, more than their higher-ranking counterparts in public life, are the ones setting the course.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the rise of mayors as a powerful political force