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Mass. to freeze funding to Westfield State

The state’s plans come after the school’s president, Evan Dobelle, failed to meet the deadline for submitting a detailed defense of his controversial spending habits.

Stephen Drew (center) was pumped as the Red Sox welcomed him to the dugout after scoring in the fourth inning.

RED SOX 12, RAYS 2

Red Sox get the drop on Rays

The Red Sox had their first playoff victory since Oct. 18, 2008, with a 12-2 win Friday over the Rays in Game 1 of the American League Division Series.

The royalties from Edith Wharton’s novels paid for her Lenox home, The Mount, and its furnishings.

Janet Knott/Globe Staff/File 2008

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Learning from the homes of famous writers

New England is home to a number of houses where famous writers once lived and worked, and fall is a popular time to visit.

Caroline Kennedy spoke during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on her nomination.

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Japan abuzz at prospect of Ambassador Caroline Kennedy

Japan’s embrace of President John F. Kennedy’s only surviving child being nominated to the Tokyo post has bordered on glee.

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“We are locked in an epic battle,” Speaker John Boehner said at a closed-door meeting of the impasse in Washington, according to those who attended the meeting.

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Questions were also being raised about whether the Conn. woman who led officers on a chase posed enough of a threat that the police needed to fatally shoot her.

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LAWRENCE HARMON

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Mayor Menino’s transition blog will leave his successor with what should be the best practical guide to municipal government.

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Boston Red Sox celebrated the last out clinching the Division title.

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Red Sox in the postseason
Alexander Bradley appeared in Hartford Superior Court with his lawyer on Friday.

Hernandez associate arrested in Conn.

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How ‘impermanence’ can help us all get along
Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1999.

A story in tweets

Remembering the Yeltsin-Russian parliament standoff
New math standards being adopted across the state push reasoning and abstract thinking, says eighth-grade teacher Michelle Calioro. “I think that was really missing from the old standards.”

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Aiming higher
A bee in South Boston by Carson Beach.

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Globe photos of the week, Oct. 4, 2014

Widow of Bulger victim says money should go to families

Shirley Leung

The Seaport’s Silver Line solution
Red Sox skill and spirit were on display when Mike Napoli’s 11th-inning walkoff homer sank the Yankees in July.

Boston’s redeemed team
MIT graduate students Chris and Elizabeth Follett with 10-month-old Marie at the new day-care center. Chris Follett called day care a “great experience.”

David Koch funds day care at MIT
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Still inspiring others
Tax breaks won by the Washington lobbying industry, centered on the K Street corridor, show how cheap it is, relatively speaking, to buy political influence.

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Broken City

Sports

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New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez in 2010.

Rodriguez suit violates league drug rules, MLB says

The league called Alex Rodriguez’s lawsuit against the sport a ‘‘clear violation’’ of the confidentiality provisions of the league’s drug program.

Boston mayoral race

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Mayoral candidates Marty Walsh (left) and John Connolly shook hands Wednesday as they crossed paths at a school presentation in Roxbury. Later in the day, Connolly abnd Walsh took turns being questioned by members of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers.

Candidates address minority officers at forum

John Connolly and Martin Walsh spoke about public safety, police diversity, and poor city services in minority neighborhoods.

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Widow of Bulger victim says money should go to families

The petition filed on behalf of Patrica Donahue claims that the government has refused to pay for the FBI’s role in some of the slayings.

Columnists

Shirley Leung

The Seaport’s Silver Line solution

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Boston’s inanity trail
BECCA ROSENTHAL

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Still inspiring others
Every loss and head-shaking sideshow that last season’s last-place, 69-win calamity served up was worth it, because it led the Sox to this.

Christopher L. Gasper

Last year’s crash was necessary
John Lackey, Jon Lester and Josh Beckett arrived at the first official workout of spring training in February 2011.

Dan Shaughnessy

Do not take success for granted

Yvonne Abraham

Laboring over a political position
Today's iMacs range in price from $1,299 to $1,999, and come in 21.5 inches across or 27 inches. Its maximum resolution is actually higher than that of a standard 1080p high-definition television.

Tech Lab

iMac — too good for its own good?

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Thinking outside the city limits
EMT Marcus Jerome and his wife Rachel at his Boston EMS graduation in 2012 in Faneuil Hall.

Kevin Cullen

Death of a lifesaver

JEFF JACOBY

Arbitration has no place at the table
Alan Dershowitz is a noted defense attorney and Harvard law professor.

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Alan Dershowitz takes the stand

Adrian Walker

Government for the people?

Nation & World

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Vo Nguyen Giap drove the French out of Vietnam and later forced the US to abandon its grueling effort to free the country from communism.

Vietnamese general who ousted France, US dies at 102

Vo Nguyen Giap drove the French out of Vietnam and later forced the US to abandon its effort to free the country from communism.

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Customers could shop for cannabis, oxycodene, stimulants, testosterone, and psychedelics on the Silk Road website.

Arrest gives insight into online drug trade

A Calif. man was accused of making millions operating the secret Silk Road website and of a failed murder-for-hire scheme.

Arts

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Photography review

From the “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” exhibit at Panopticon Gallery, Stefanie Klavens’s “Malta Drive-In, Malta, N.Y.” (2013).

Panopticon shows focus on the fundamentals

The appeal of “On First Contact,” a show at Panopticon Gallery consisting of more than 60 contact prints and five contact sheets, is the diversity.

Movies

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Movie Review

Sandra Bullock as Ryan Stone in “Gravity.”

Strap in for the astonishing ride that is ‘Gravity’

Director Alfonso Cuarón’s movie is a visually painstaking state-of-the-art production that advances what the cinema can show us.

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The Franklin Park zoo opened on Oct 3, 1912, to the delight of thousands, and has undergone several changes in the years since.

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Becoming Bostonian
The cover for the September 22 2013 issue

Do we still trust Bill Belichick?
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Beauty of the bottle
The cover for the September 8 2013 issue

Jefferson slept here

Ideas

“The Arab Council for the Social Sciences aims to give thinkers institutional punch — not just funding for projects that aren’t popular with local regimes or Western universities, but muscle to fight authorities.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on a new Middle East brain trust