UMass to rate its performance in simpler way

President Robert Caret has developed a list of goals that will be used to essentially grade the whole UMass system.

Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry after a 2004 speech he delivered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Teresa Heinz Kerry is reported critically ill

The wife of Secretary of State John Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering an undisclosed ailment on Nantucket.

Electronic cigarettes sprout on Boston shelves

Shopkeepers are rushing to sell the cigarettes, apparently driven by sales pitches from the nation’s third-largest tobacco company.

Ex-Bruin Tyler Seguin scored just one goal in 22 postseason games.

Christopher L. Gasper

Bruins gave up on Tyler Seguin too soon

Patience has to be shown with a potential franchise player whose talent level far exceeds his maturity level.

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Soldiers and police opened fire on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi outside a military building in Cairo.

Casie Gillette locked her vehicle to a crowded rack as she arrived for work in Boston last week.

JESSICA RINALDI FOR THE GLOBE

Like motorists, bike riders scramble for spaces

Local riders are starting to suffer from a condition made famous by their vehicular counterparts: parking monomania.

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A crew member called for an increase in speed seven seconds before the plane clipped an embankment at the edge of the runway in San Francisco.

Mel King in February at a Black History Month forum.

After decades of activism, Mel King looks only ahead

At 84, the former Boston mayoral contender is an activist who has stood the test of time in a city where that doesn’t always happen.

“Treasure of Bell Island,” from Blue Marble Gaming Co., is a video game designed to help people who have had a traumatic brain injury.

Developers creating apps to treat mental health issues

Game developers hope that one day they might supplement therapy by putting mental health care into patients’ homes or pockets.

Opinion

JOHN E. SUNUNU

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Retooling the country’s two mortgage giants has been on Congress’ to-do list ever since it omitted the task from the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul.

Globe exclusives

Album Review | Jazz

Valdés stretches musical borders
Public outrage probably will not halt the mining of mobile phone information.

Cellphone data mined to create profiles
At the London Coliseum, Boston Ballet dancers in William Forsythe’s “The Second Detail.”

DANCE REVIEW

Contemporary turn for Boston Ballet
Violinist Joshua Bell performs with the BSO under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos on Friday at Tanglewood.

Music Review

Tchaikovsky in veteran hands
Dressed in a leather bodice over a double-layer floor-length skirt complete with a tankard and pistol, Kat Kingsley, 28, a tour guide at King’s Chapel, prepared for her performance as Loyalist sympathizer Baroness Agnes Franklin.

Relief due today as hea twave wanes
“I fear the government more than my fellow citizen, so I come down on the side of protecting free speech,” said commission vice chairman Donald F. McGahn II.

Broken City

Deadlock by design hobbles election agency
Joshua Benoliel and his wife, Gwenaelle Benoliel, waited to dine at Earth restaurant, among the new spots to eat in the Kennebunks.

Kennebunkport makeover created for ‘oomph’
The St. Louis Cardinals are one of those tried-and-true teams.

Sunday baseball notes

Quality teams have many of same qualities
Director Pedro Almodóvar (far right) and cast create a high-flying party atmosphere on the set of his new comedy, “I’m So Excited!”

MOVIES

‘I’m So Excited!’ brings director back to madcap
Winslow Homer’s “Summer Squall” (1904).

Art review

Lucidity and solidity from Homer
Dan Blakeslee and the Calabash Club played the Dream Away Lodge in Becket last month.

Offbeat destinations for live music in New England
Aaron Hernandez

Sunday Football Notes

NFL teams can only do so much

Sports

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Red Sox pitcher John Lackey

Jered Weaver, Angels silence the Red Sox

The Red Sox were 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base in Sunday’s 3-0 loss.

Metro

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Dressed in a leather bodice over a double-layer floor-length skirt complete with a tankard and pistol, Kat Kingsley, 28, a tour guide at King’s Chapel, prepared for her performance as Loyalist sympathizer Baroness Agnes Franklin.

Relief due as heat wave wanes, but humidity to linger

Monday promised to be the first day of relief from a five-day heat heat wave of muggy over-90 degree weather.

Columnists

JOHN E. SUNUNU

The Fannie and Freddie gravy train
Ex-Bruin Tyler Seguin scored just one goal in 22 postseason games.

Christopher L. Gasper

Bruins gave up on Seguin too soon

JEFF JACOBY

What is Islam?
District Attorney Daniel Conley, left, and Police Commissioner Edward Davis addressed the media in October.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Hop off the top-cop bandwagon

Innovation Economy

A Freedom Trail for innovators
Fans lined up to exchange their jerseys of Aaron Hernandez at the Patriots ProShop at Gillette Stadium.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots guilty only of being duped
City Councilor John Connolly kicked off his campaign for mayor in March.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Connolly stumbles in vote pursuit
Patrice Bergeron is due for a long-term contract extension from the Bruins.

Kevin Cullen

Bergeron belongs in Boston

TECH LAB

Ouya ready for a video game revolution?
Steve Rose and David Patterson of Ice Effects created this sculpture in 2004.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The last First Night?

Yvonne Abraham

Bill Walczak flying below the radar

alex beam

Talk about death, hold the sugar

Nation & World

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Brake failure was cited by a Montreal, Maine, & Atlantic Railway official as a possible cause of the derailment Saturday.

Derailment devastates Quebec town near Maine

As firefighters doused still-burning railway cars filled with oil, more bodies were recovered in the devastated town of Lac-Megantic.

Politics

House majority leader Harry Reid, frustrated with GOP delaying tactics on judges and nominations, may try to change the Senate rules.

Immigration, nominations top agenda for Congress

Republicans and Democrats will put good will to the test when Congress returns this week.

Business

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“Wi-Vi” works much like radar, sending signals that bounce off various objects, including people, to show their locations.

Researchers see new uses for Wi-Fi technology

The same technology that allows us to connect to the Internet without wires may soon let us see through walls.

Arts

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Album Review | INDIE ROCK

Daughn Gibson, ‘Me Moan’

On his debut for Sub Pop Records, Gibson comes off as a sound collage artist feverishly darting from one idea to the next.

Health and wellness

In Practice

Is there a doctor or nurse on board?

Medical emergencies are much more common than most of the things we’re already worrying about on airplanes.

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Rethinking the golden years
The cover for the June 23 2013 issue

The bee keepers
The cover for the June 16 2013 issue

Last of their kind
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Seaside haven

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Full Globe coverage of the gangster’s ongoing trial, life on the run, and notorious legacy in Boston.

Ideas

“Advocates of a regional visa program say millions of people around the world want to move to the United States, and many parts of the country would love to welcome motivated new residents.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on regional immigration