Obama yields on below-par insurance

Bowing to pressure from allies, President Obama issued a one-year reprieve for coverage that falls short of the new standards.

Obama nominates Boston doctor as surgeon general

Dr. Vivek Murthy is cofounder and president of a group that advocates for access to affordable health care.

“You cannot go anywhere in the education of children and not find the fingerprints of Carolyn and Peter,” said Jack Connors, a close friend.

Shirley Leung

Lasting value

Peter and Carolyn Lynch’s foundation applies lessons learned from Fidelity to helping reshape education in Boston, with amazing returns.

on baseball

Like it or not, replay will be part of baseball

Change is always tough in a game based so much on tradition. Those of us who have resisted change will just have to adapt.

In this courtroom sketch, James

Saga ends with Bulger escorted from sight

After being sentenced to life, Bulger gave his lawyer an awkward embrace and shuffled silently out of the public eye, possibly for good.

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“The scope, the callousness, the depravity of your crimes are almost unfathomable,” Judge Denise Casper told Whitey Bulger at his sentencing.

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Surveillance footage from Hyde Park shows a person throwing something on the ground and setting it on fire. Burned human remains were also found in Bridgewater.

Opinion

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Though polls show that the health care debacle has given the Republican Party a boost, its members are busy demonstrating that they have no idea how to govern.

Globe exclusives

Digitized footage includes a 1991 Barack Obama speech.

WGBH helps digitize history
“It’s been an arduous journey for me back to competition,” said Lysacek.

For Lysacek, Sochi countdown clock is ticking
Mayor James Diossa (left) and planning director Steve Larrick are trying to return a sense of pride to Central Falls, R.I.

R.I. town looks to crowdfunding

Joon Lim, 2, relaxes with a book at a day-care center run by Bright Horizons, which has been a number one employer three times.

Sunday Preview | Top Places to Work

No. 1 largest employer: Bright Horizons
In this courtroom sketch, James

Saga ends with Bulger escorted from sight
“Real Time” host Bill Maher’s comments drew plenty of scorn.

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Maher to Boston: ‘Your city was not leveled by Godzilla’
The 47-foot-tall white spruce was trucked through Halifax earlier this week. The tree, a gift from Nova Scotia, is set to arrive at the Boston Common at 11 a.m. Friday, a spokeswoman said.

Boston’s Christmas tree to arrive Friday
An official walked through the Hyde Park scene.

Fears rise in Hyde Park after discovery of human remains
Ben Cherington and John Farrell gazed at the hardware, then went right back to work.

on baseball

Ben Cherington in position of strength
“It’s a misconception that he tells a player what to do,” says Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley of Boras, who represents him.

How Scott Boras influences all of baseball
The writer models one of the outfits Emmi Sorokin picked out for him at Uniform.

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One man, in search of lost mojo
The fare for the MBTA’s service for the disabled and elderly doubled in July 2012, to $4.

T may revisit fares for The Ride

Sports

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Bruins 3, Blue Jackets 2 | OT

Milan Lucic scored the game-winning goal in overtime.

Lucic’s breakaway goal brings Bruins victory

The Bruins won their fourth straight game after Milan Lucic slipped the puck past the Blue Jackets’ Sergei Bobrovsky in overtime.

Metro

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US Fish and Wildlife Service officers carried ivory tusks to a crusher to be pulverized at a facility in Colorado Thursday.

Ivory crushed to highlight slaughter of elephants

A 6-ton ivory stockpile was destroyed Thursday as part of a massive US government effort to highlight the increased killing of the animals for their tusks.

Columnists

President Obama.

SCOT LEHIGH

Is Obama up to saving his health law?

“You cannot go anywhere in the education of children and not find the fingerprints of Carolyn and Peter,” said Jack Connors, a close friend.

Shirley Leung

Lasting value

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Restraint gives way to humanity
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Zoom has software controls that are almost as advanced as those on a pro camera. You can fiddle with aperture, white balance, color temperature, and shutter speed.

Tech Lab

Sharper options for phone photos
Moving the whole Suffolk Downs casino project to its Revere property to get around East Boston’s opposition, shown by residents above, is legal. But that doesn’t make it right, writes Yvonne Abraham.

Yvonne Abraham

Hedging their bet at Suffolk Downs
James

Kevin Cullen

A man not worthy of our hate
Construction at the Filene's block downtown.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Fix the BRA; don’t break it
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in

alex beam

Crowdsourcing ‘Casablanca’
Children wearing signs that say “survivor” waited for a C-130 military plane at Tacloban airport in the Philippines Tuesday.

JEFF JACOBY

Making sense of the cruelty in the world

SCOT LEHIGH

Romney’s prescription for GOP
Terry Francona won the AL Manager of the Year award after his first season in Cleveland.

Dan Shaughnessy

Terry Francona a very deserving winner
Martin Walsh took a break from campaigning inside a North End cafe Sept. 18.

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Change in the win

Politics

Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Martha Coakley to push mental health care

The attorney general, who is running for governor, is set to discuss Friday her brother’s suicide in 1996 as she addresses the issue of mental health care.

Nation & World

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With his wife, Renata, Mayor Rob Ford spoke at a news conference at Toronto City Hall.

Toronto mayor denies harassing aide

In an obscenity-laced statement on live television, Mayor Rob Ford said he did not harass a female employee.

Business

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The Government Accountability Office has urged Congress to consider a lack of scientific evidence that behavioral profiling is effective when it makes funding decisions.

Racial profiling controversy still roiling Logan

Some continue to dispute recent findings that there was no evidence of airport screeners using racial profiling.

Arts

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Richard Poe and Maureen Anderman are father and mother in A. R. Gurney’s play about his parents, “The Cocktail Hour,” at the BU Theatre.

The icy relationship that inspired ‘The Cocktail Hour’

Huntington Theatre Company presents A. R. Gurney’s unabashedly autobiographical 1988 play about his parents at the Boston University Theatre through Dec. 15.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Director Sophie Fiennes provides Slavoj Zizek (above), a Slovenian philosopher, a stage for his playfully subversive readings in “Pervert’s Guide to Ideology.”

A ‘Pervert’s Guide’ sequel to make you think

“The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” — a follow-up to 2006’s “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema” — once again allows Slovenian cultural critic Slavoj Zizek to playfully deconstruct movies.

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The Burroughs Newsboys Foundation was founded by Harry E. Burroughs to give Boston’s newsboys life experiences that would give them a better future.

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Just the right kind of cold
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Top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts
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A First Period home gets a second life
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David Keith hopes we don’t have to use his ideas to reverse global warming

Ideas

“Even when it comes to promoting a self-evidently worthy cause, the facts don’t always stay on message.”

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