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Dan Shaughnessy

Is Tom Brady the best QB ever?

Tom Brady is closing in on the Muhammad Ali/Michael Jordan pantheon.

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Brady has vaulted past career-long rival Peyton Manning, and can solidify the title of greatest QB in history with two more victories.

Book review

Looking for answers about why art moves us so

Two books try to answer questions about why pictures, music, stories, and the like matter so much to us, and why we seek out art as a form of emotional engagement.

Book Review

‘The Inventor and the Tycoon’ by Edward Ball

Ball brilliantly fused the stories of photographer Edward Muybridge and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, who partnered in a revolution that neither had foreseen.

The full Monty: Get ready for Python week at the Brattle

Four films, accompanied by two local premieres, will screen at the Brattle Theater during Monty Python Week.

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Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals great, dies at 92

Musial, nicknamed “Stan the Man,” was a business-like Hall of Fame player who dominated the National League in the 1940s and 1950s.

Milan Lucic celebrated the first goal of the season.

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Bruins 3, Rangers 1

Rask’s 20 saves Bruins’ season-opening win over the Rangers

The Bruins got the start they wanted. Tuukka Rask made 20 saves in a 3-1 win over the Rangers.

23 hostages are dead as Algerian standoff ends

Seven hostages died Saturday, bringing the total to at least 23, and all 32 militants were killed in the four-day standoff that ended with a raid by Algerian special forces.

Thousands rally against stricter gun control in US

At Boston’s State House and across the country on Saturday people gathered to protest stricter limits on firearms.

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Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Boston in 1965 and spoke to politicians and residents about many of the city’s racial issues, including segregation.

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Biden seemed quite at ease during a September campaign stop at Cruisers Diner in Seaman, Ohio.

Gaffes aside, Joe Biden a power in White House

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, the FBI, and members of other law enforcement agencies announced the arrests Thursday.

Boston gangs part of drug pipeline, officials say

Sunday preview | Magazine

My friend Tito: Shaughnessy on writing a book with Francona

Each gun represents 100 deaths by firearm in 2010.

Sunday Preview | Ideas

The gun toll we’re ignoring: suicide

Walter Cowham of Quincy has installed two solar panel systems at his home since 2010.

Solar power installations hit record in Mass.

99 Bottles

Fruit beer, pumpkin beer, shellfish beer?

Saxophonist Schiller Joseph, trumpeter E. Daile Beauplant, and organist Jean Louis Daniel played during a service at the New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan marking the third anniversary of the deadly 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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Globe photos of the week, Jan. 18, 2013

Rob Ninkovich, shown at his locker, has an uncanny knack for the big play, just like another No. 50 from the Patriots’ glory days, Mike Vrabel.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Ninkovich is the new Mike Vrabel

Tom Brady and the Patriots will meet Terrell Suggs and the Ravens for the seventh time in six seasons on Sunday.

Patriots vs. Ravens | Sunday, 6:30 p.m.

Patriots-Ravens has risen into prime NFL rivalry

Kevin Cullen

Ortiz should offer answers

Among the 161 works Daphne Farago has given the Museum of Fine Arts is John Cederquist’s “Couchabunga” (1992).

Gift boosts MFA’s contemporary stock

At 5-9, Wes Welker, center, is dwarfed by some of his larger Patriots teammates.

Smaller players fill vital roles for Patriots

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Fourth line is critical to Bruins

Daniel Paille, Gregory Campbell, and Shawn Thornton are grinders who represent the values of the team: courage, tenacity, and dedication.

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Zuri Kilson-Kuchtic, 10, sorted toys at Cradles to Crayons in Brighton as part of the National Day of Service.

Boston Joins Obama’s Day of Service

As part of President Obama’s call for a National Day of Service, hundreds of volunteers came out in the Boston area for projects ranging from soup kitchens to neighborhood cleanups.