Boston mayoral hopefuls lean hard on neighborhoods

The city’s local power bases and history of tribal politics will be tested this September in the mayoral free-for-all.

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In particular, the bombings brought forward a problem that has vexed trauma hospitals for years: the identification of victims.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/07/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/board90.jpg Failure to get quorum didn’t stop Mass. panels

All too frequently, licensing boards overseen by the Dept. of Public Health have held meetings without the quorum needed to legally conduct business.

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Egyptian official warns Morsi supporters

Egypt’s interior minister on Sunday pledged to deal decisively with any attempts to destabilize the country.

Brandon Harrington, a recent Dartmouth graduate who played hockey and belonged to a fraternity, spoke to members of the college’s squash team about high-risk drinking.

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Dartmouth College tackles binge drinking culture

The school has in the past two years become a national leader in trying to reduce binge drinking, making many changes on campus, large and small.

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The filmmaker already has a grand legacy, but at the moment he is busier than he has ever been — active not just in film but on all fronts.

Sunday Baseball Notes

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Here’s a look at some of the contenders and what they’re looking for to help their teams.

Alicia Markova, shown in 1942, was the first openly Jewish and first British classical prima ballerina.

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Saved by the ballerina

Jacob’s Pillow in the Berkshires may have ended up as a condo development had it not been for the now-little-known efforts of Alicia Markova, one of the ballet world’s most colorful figures.

Opinion

JEFF JACOBY

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The belief that whenever there is a problem more government must be the cure flies in the face of experience.

Globe exclusives

Left: Inside and outside the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Right: Inside and outside the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Analysis

In sports Halls of Fame, who gets in and how?
Boston’s own Session Americana performed at the Summer Arts Weekend in Copley Square.

Music review

Copley Square becomes world dance party
Ken Vancott works at Eastern Acoustic Works, a Whitinsville company that provides speakers for big venues.

Acoustics firms builds on past
John Rossi and intern Rousseau Nutter tested panels for walls and floor at Visible Good in Newburyport.

On the Job

A fast solution to emergency shelter
Taylor Swift gave the first of two Gillette Stadium shows on Friday.

music review

Swift delivers confident pop spectacle
Dorrance Dance performing at Jacob’s Pillow.

Dance Review

Dorrance gives ‘Blues’ a lift at Jacob’s Pillow

Getting hitched
“The Promenade” shows artist Maurice Prendergast’s Armory Show-era style.

Art Review

Tender shore scenes to ‘sea-change’
Beacon Hill Chocolates are from around the region and the world.

A chocolate lover’s tour of Boston
Chandigarh was designed from the ground up to embody hopes and aspirations of the nation's progressive, modern outlook.

Chandigarh, India, a city designed by Le Corbusier
Walter Willett.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” revisits the last day of Oscar Grant, who was shot by a San Francisco transit officer on New Year’s morning 2009.

Movie Review

‘Fruitvale Station’ takes the measure of a life

Sports

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Jarrod Saltalamacchia, center, and Mike Carp gave Stephen Drew a hand after his three-run home run in the fourth inning.

Stephen Drew’s two home runs spark Red Sox

In the Red Sox’ 7-3 win over the Orioles, it seemed like there were as many runs as there were arguments.

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Kristyn Dusel (back to camera), a cousin of Amy Lord, received a hug outside a church where a Mass was said for Lord on Saturday.

Amy Lord is remembered in churches and at vigils

“As her family grieves, we all grieve,” said one parishioner at a South Boston church.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Pier 4 a savior for Albanians
Celtics executive vice president Dave Gavitt consoles Dee Brown (left) and Rick Fox (right) during a news conference following the death of team captain Reggie Lewis in 1993.

Dan Shaughnessy

It still hurts, 20 years later
Fareed Mosavat, Chas Wagner, and Jason Jacobs looked at support tickets at RunKeeper, which is jockeying for position in the digital fitness universe.

Innovation Economy

Can more Boston tech firms open up?
Huma Abedin listened as her husband spoke at a press conference Tuesday.

JOANNA WEISS

Kate and Huma, the image-makers

JOAN VENNOCHI

Can state GOP find a winner?

RENÉE LOTH

The sun state
Stevan Ridley left the field after the first day of training camp at Gillette Stadium.

christopher l. gasper

Patriots’ Ridley visibly needed

Kevin Cullen

Dispelling the myths of Whitey
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most famous women in America in the 1920s and ’30s.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The poet as a rock star

kevin cullen

Traces of the old Southie

Shirley Leung

Summers is too much for Fed to handle
Tom Brady deflected questions about his emotions regarding the Aaron Hernandez murder investigation.

christopher l. gasper

Tom Brady needed to say more

Nation & World

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Syrian regime troops captured the Khalid Ibn al-Walid Mosque in Homs on Saturday, expelling rebels who had held the 13th-century landmark for more than a year.

Syrian rebels get Western recruits

A rising number of radicalized young Muslims with Western passports are traveling to fight with the rebels against the government of Bashar Assad.

Politics

Republican Senators Marco Rubio (left), Ted Cruz, and Rob Portman are leading the charge to have a debate in the Senate that mirrors those going on in state legislatures.

In fiery abortion debate, GOP sees an opening

Republican leaders are talking about how to advance a bill in the Senate to ban abortion at 20 weeks after fertilization.

Business

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Opinion | Laurence Kotlikoff

As Ben Bernanke comes to the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, his second in command at the central bank, Janet Yellen (above), is considered by many to be a likely successor.

Janet Yellen has what it takes to lead the Fed

The current vice chairman of the Fed is a person of deep integrity who knows exactly whom she’s working for — the American people.

Arts

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The creative team behind the musical adaptation of “The Bridges of Madison County” is (from left) playwright Marsha Norman, composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown, and director Bartlett Sher.

‘Bridges of Madison County’ crosses over to musical stage

Marsha Norman, Jason Robert Brown, and Bartlett Sher bring the transformed novel to Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Travel

Picnic tables adjacent to the boat ramp at Tully Lake provide the shade of the forest with vistas of the lake.

The overlooked landscapes of North Quabbin Reservoir

Nine towns have banded together in the North Quabbin Woods initiative to let the world in on their secrets.

Books

Book review

‘A Marker To Measure Drift’ by Alexander Maksik

Adrift amid tourists on idyllic Greek isle, a Liberian refugee, once middle class but now destitute fights for life, sanity.

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I was the sun, the kids were my planets, and other reflections from the Globe columnist.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
The cover for the July 21 2013 issue

What happened at Deerfield
The cover for the July 14 2013 issue

Kitchen overhaul
The cover for the June 30 2013 issue

Rethinking the golden years

Ideas

“Alfred Barr’s Wellesley class, small as it was, launched a generation of students into prominent roles in the art world, helping to spread the gospel of contemporary art as curators, journalists, and critics.”

Christopher Shea,  on how a young professor helped invent contemporary art in America