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Mass. IT project is latest black eye for consulting firm

From Florida and Pennsylvania to California, big projects managed by Deloitte Consulting have come in behind schedule, over budget, and riddled with woes.

Prosecutors seek warrant for Tsarnaev in officer’s murder

Middlesex County prosecutors want to arraign Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on charges that he murdered MIT officer Sean Collier in Cambridge.

Connolly has 7-point edge over Walsh in new mayoral poll

The poll found John Connolly leading Martin Walsh, 41 percent to 34 percent, with 23 percent still undecided.

Government shutdown enters 2nd week

Amid bleak prospects for an immediate end to the shutdown and looming debt ceiling, stocks were down Monday.

Supreme Court term begins amid government shutdown

The Court began its new term by turning away hundreds of appeals, including Virginia’s bid to revive its anti-sodomy law.

Braylon O’Neill, 4, tried dribbling a soccer ball with a new pair of prosthetic legs in Boston Sunday.

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Nonprofit teaches amputees the mechanics of running

The Challenged Athletes Foundation worked with 41 amputees, including some wounded in the Marathon bombings, at the Harvard University clinic.

Rising pit bull adoptions reflect breed’s changing image

Can pit bulls really be good family dogs in the hands of the right owners? The MSPCA’s efforts to convince others appear to be paying off.

Adrian Walker

No fix for the fix-it man

Independent contractors who help take care of the JFK Library in Dorchester aren’t getting paid because of the shutdown — and won’t get retroactive pay, either.

Students joust for MIT hacking title

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first HackMIT, a 36-hour event, yielded some ingenious — and wacky — creations.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady rues defeat, not end of his streak

Death, taxes, and TB12 touchdown passes were all certainties, until the Patriots faced the Bengals’ defense.

Opinion

Jennifer Graham

‘Free’ comes with a price

For better or worse, we’re already down the slope to where everything’s free, and the land of the free is necessarily the home of the brave.

Globe exclusives

Tom Brady is wrapped up by the Bengals’ Chris Crocker in the fourth quarter, one of four Cincinnati sacks on the day.

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Bengals’ defense dominates Brady and Patriots

J. Christopher Love, professor at MIT’s Koch Institute, with a tabletop device for creating biologic drugs.

Could drug labs be brought to front lines?

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Why you can’t stop checking your phone

Bill O'Reilly is a popular, and partisan, host on television and radio.

Broken City

The role of partisan media

Clay Buchholz will start against the Rays in Game 3 of the ALDS.

ALDS: Red Sox at Rays | 6:07 p.m., TBS

Buchholz ready to make his mark

“Darkwater,” by Tim Rollins and K.O.S., in collaboration with students from the Springfield Renaissance School.

Art Review

Paying tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois

Pediatric brain cancer survivors (from left) Katie Nickerson, Bernard Manning, and Jack Coates.

Pediatric brain tumor survivors share bond

Yvonne Abraham

Some joy and trepidation

Critic’s Notebook

How good is Boston’s public art?

Photo gallery

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk

John P. Flaherty, running for mayor in Woburn, was accused of threatening a business partner.

Woburn’s mayoral choice: bad or worse?

A container of clams was unloaded from the Sea Watcher 1 in New Bedford.

Georges Bank slowly opens to clamming

Sports

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bengals 13, patriots 6

Brandon Bolden was stopped short of a first down in the third quarter.

Patriots tamed by Bengals in season’s first loss

The Patriots were just 1 for 12 on third down, their worst such performance since November 2008 in Pittsburgh.

Boston mayoral race

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“I was extra pumped up to be in Roslindale, where I grew up,’’ said Councilor John Connolly. “I need Roslindale to get me over the finish line.’’

A sprinting, soggy mayoral spiel

John Connolly and Martin Walsh gripped and grinned their way along the route of the 38th annual Roslindale Day Parade despite the downpour.

Metro

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“Our active-duty military, Reserve, and National Guard members who put their lives on the line to protect us deserve far better from their country than to be prevented from accessing the higher education benefits they were promised,” Northeastern University president Joseph E. Aoun (above) wrote in a letter to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

NU president urges military to resume tuition aid

The Pentagon’s decision to cut off tuition assistance because of the government shutdown is jeopardizing the academic plans of active-duty troops, Joseph Aoun said.