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Syria the most intense campaign of Obama’s presidency

After a frenetic week of briefings, phone calls, and hearings, more lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are lining up to vote against President Obama.

Mike Napoli tossed his bat after hitting a two-run homer in the second inning.

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red sox 13, yankees 9

Red Sox trump Yankees again

Mike Napoli’s hot streak continued with a two-run homer in the second inning to get the Red Sox going at Yankee Stadium.

Wide receiver Aaron Dobson.

Aaron Dobson out for Patriots’ season opener

Those waiting to see what the rookie wide receiver will do for the Patriots this season will have to wait a little bit longer.

An EMT rode a bicycle around attendees at the Boston Calling music festival on City Hall Plaza.

Security tightened at Boston Calling over ‘Molly’ concerns

After three recent fatal overdoses at concerts in Boston and New York, organizers said security would look out for signs that attendees may be using the club drug.

Exclusive Sunday Preview

A sampling of stories from this Sunday's Globe.

 

Jeni Mather, founder and director of Blue Dog Shelter, stands in one of the many outdoor play areas at her facility.

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No dog left behind

At a small building in Brockton swarming with dogs inside and out, the once-controversial “no-kill’’ shelter movement has taken root.

The Notch Train.

Magazine | Fall Travel

10 vintage railroad rides in New England

Rumble along networks of historic track, most originally laid to transport passengers and goods, to see autumn’s patchwork quilt of colors.

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Use the sortable table to review Globe critics’ highlights of the upcoming season.

The Patriots will need Danny Amendola healthy to replace Wes Welker as a weapon in Tom Brady’s offense.

‘Fragile’ label doesn’t really fit Danny Amendola

Amendola, signed to replace Wes Welker, missed 20 games the past two seasons. But friends say it’s toughness that defines him, not injury history.

Opinion

opinion | andrew j. bacevich

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/07/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/syriaoped1-0907-2175--90x90.jpg Forays into the Islamic world have had bad consequences

Examples such as Saddam Hussein and the 1999 air campaign against Serbia show an intervention in Syria won’t be quick and simple.

Globe exclusives

fall movies preview

Big trouble ahead onscreen
Boston Red Sox's Jacoby Ellsbury.

Jacoby Ellsbury out indefinitely with foot injury
Robin Tarani collected eggs from the chicken coop on her property in Rutland. Tarani has trained daily for the Jimmy Fund Walk, sometimes walking several miles.

Sending a message about life, one step at a time
A station on measuring calories by food type.

sunday preview | family

Hall of human life indulges curiosity about ourselves
“I’m being penalized because the system doesn’t work,” said Brittney Reitano of North Easton, whose unemployment benefits without explanation were reduced by $380 per week.

Deadline nears for fixing unemployment system problems
Changling Zhang, 18, of Malden, played the role of a developer during a rally for affordable housing in Chinatown.

Chinatown residents fear being pushed out
Lou Lim’s design for a “Play Me, I’m Yours” piano.

sunday preview | classical music

Tuning up Boston streets
Camellia sinensis was discovered growing wild in the Azores’ rich soil and Atlantic breezes, and in the 1870s commercial production began. Gorreana Tea Plantation offers tours.

sunday preview | travel

Azores cuisine is surprisingly complex

Photography Review

Paul Caponigro’s intensity of serenity
Who will hold the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season?

PREDICTIONS

Globe picks for 2013 NFL season
Tom Brady welcomed four new receivers - Danny Amendola, Josh Boyce, Aaron Dobson, and Kenbrell Thompkins - to the Patriots roster this season.

SPECIAL SECTION | NFL KICKOFF 2013

Earning Tom Brady’s trust is no easy feat

Plenty of firefighters, but where are the fires?

Boston mayoral race

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campaign notebook

The music video “Starts with a Spark” by Maestro Z.O.O.M. calls Rob Consalvo “a man about the action.”

Community group endorses John Barros

The electoral arm of the nonprofit Right to the City spent months determining which of the 12 candidates’ visions best aligned with the issues it considers important.

Sports

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Maine 24, UMass 14

Maine receiver Damarr Aultman cut up the field in between D'Metrius Williams (left) and Trey Dudley-Giles in the fourth quarter.

UMass outclassed in home game

The Minutemen extended their losing streak at Gillette Stadium to seven games after going winless at home last season.

Metro

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A crash Friday afternoon on the Arborway sent six people to the hospital, two with critical injuries.

Horrific Arborway wreck ‘hit home’ for Latin Academy coach

Bob McCormick was stuck in traffic behind a car crash Friday in Jamaica Plain — a crash that involved four of his team’s players.

Columnists

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox in a much better place
A sign depicting Wucko, the mascot of the 1984 Winter Olympics, hangs in disrepair on a Sarajevo building. The destroyed sign is one of the few remaining symbols of the Winter Games held there.

RENÉE LOTH

Boston’s Olympic-sized headache
A Syrian girl received treatment at a makeshift hospital in Damascus on Aug. 21. Hundreds of people flooded into hospitals that day; reports said more than 1,400 people, including hundreds of children, were killed in the alleged chemical attack.

NICHOLAS BURNS

Response is fundamental to a world of civility

Derrick Z. Jackson

Don’t force out black candidates

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The hospital lap

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.

farah stockman

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

Nation & World

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Tokyo residents celebrated the news that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games would be coming to their city.

Tokyo to host 2020 Summer Olympic games

Tokyo beat out Madrid and Istanbul in the final round of secret voting Saturday by the International Olympic Committee.

Business

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American Tower Corp. chief executive officer James D. Taiclet called the deal a first step in a next phase of acquisitions.

American Tower expands US footprint in $4.8 billion deal

The Boston-based company has agreed to acquire some 5,400 domestic towers in anticipation that all major wireless carriers will continue to boost their infrastructure.

Arts

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Book Review

Author Tina Sutton tells the story of Alicia Markova, a Jewish girl born with “flat feet and weak legs” who went on to become a prima ballerina.

‘The Making of Markova’ by Tina Sutton

Tina Sutton’s new book illuminates the extraordinary life of the great Alicia Markova as well as the times in which she lived.

Lifestyle

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99 Bottles

Samuel Adams’ Tetravis.

A secret Sam Adams room; review of Mango Magnifico

Samuel Adams doesn’t brew much of its beer in Boston anymore, but a national craft brewery with Boston roots keeps a funky secret inside its walls.

Globe Insiders

Insider Event | Sept. 25

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Attend a book signing and presentation by Qais Akbar Omar, author of the internationally acclaimed memoir.

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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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The lake house

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