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Romney to take aim at Obama’s foreign policy

In a major speech at The Citadel tomorrow, Mitt Romney will accuse President Obama of weakening the military and damaging US standing around the world.

Mass. court to record some trials for Web, TV

The US District Court in Massachusetts is one of 14 federal courts around the country that will participate in a pilot program to record civil cases.

Boston customers mourn passing of Steve Jobs

After learning of the death of Steve Jobs many Apple customers and admirers of his ground-breaking innovations expressed sorrow for his loss.

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People paid tribute to Steve Jobs at a plaque in Cambridge's Kendall Square.

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A woman took a photo of a makeshift memorial at the Boston Apple Store.

A photograph of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sits near a candle, an apple and flowers to form a portion of a tribute in front of an Apple store in Boston, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Jobs died Wednesday at 56. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Candles, flowers, and apples were placed outside the Boston Apple Store.

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People on Boylston Street stopped to check out the memorial to Jobs.

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Daniel Berube, with his iPad and iPhone in tow, came by the Boston store today.

An apple with tributes written on it is part of a memorial for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on the sidewalk in front of an Apple store, in Boston, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Jobs died Wednesday at 56. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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People wrote messages on apples and left them outside the Apple Store.

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Flyers 2, Bruins 1

Bruins go down in opener

They raised their 2011 Stanley Cup banner at the TD Garden before tonight’s game, but the Bruins could not get the victory and fell to the Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1.

Exclusive Friday Preview | Movie Review

‘Real Steel’ is rock ’em sock ’em fun

It’s the most richly embarrassing movie of the year. You’re ashamed to say you laughed, that your eyes might have welled up, that if Mattel made a Dakota Goyo doll, you’d buy one and never let it leave your side.

Movie Review

‘Margaret,’ a perfectionist’s portrait of imperfection

What emerges from the tinkering and legal skirmishes is an occasional marvel, a kind of everyday highbrow social X-ray, Paul Mazursky by way of Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Joan Vennochi

Menino plays favorites, Boston loses

Like so many Menino decisions, embracing Suffolk Downs while rebuffing Wal-Mart is all about the personal.

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Peabody sprays for West Nile in flood aftermath

Following flooding that closed 12 city streets, officials announced that it planned to begin targeted spraying of mosquitoes to prevent the West Nile virus from spreading.

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Tech Lab

Mango update for Windows phone is hard to resist

Microsoft has found its way. The company has tweaked the powerful, elegant system it delivered last year in ways that are pretty near irresistible.

World

Swedish poet and Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer

Swedish poet Transtromer wins Nobel in literature

The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works explore the mysteries of the human mind.

Sports

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Flyers 2, Bruins 1

Boston100611 Bruins vs Flyers- Bruins Chris Kelly is knocked to the ice in a 2nd period collision with Flyers Andreas Lilja. Boston Globe staff photo by John Tlumacki (sports)

Bruins go down in opener

They raised their 2011 Stanley Cup banner at the TD Garden before tonight’s game, but the Bruins could not get the victory and fell to the Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1.

Style

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A week of fashionable firsts

For a such a big undertaking, the introduction of last week’s Tent at Boston Fashion Week flowed as smoothly as a bolt of silk charmeuse, with the occasional minor snag.

Ideas

“To become a citizen of a nation is a choice that involves more sacrifice and pain than tearing down the sculpture of a dictator.”

Gal Beckerman,   on the challenges facing some Middle Eastern countries