Crime bill draws caution

The chief justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court wrote to Gov. Patrick that the crime bill before him would not allow for discretion in sentencing habitual offenders.

Brown opposes, Warren supports renewing assault weapons ban

The deadly shooting in ­Colorado has thrust the debate about gun control into the state Senate race ­between Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren.

Karen Stein of GOODGOOD, a design studio, created a mock-up of an micro-apartment unit for a 20-story tower that broke ground in the Seaport District Thursday.

Photos by David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Will tiny apartments be next big thing for Boston’s Seaport?

With units as small as 450 square feet, the apartments fit the call for more affordable housing for young professionals who want to live near work and attractions.

Boston Capital

Online retailers pressed to collect sales taxes

A sale is a sale, wherever it takes place. Taxes aren’t popular, but they should be fair.

In his final Olympics, Michael Phelps, right, may be passing the baton of US swimming to Missy Franklin.

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Goodbye Michael Phelps, hello Missy Franklin

Phelps, 27, aims to become the greatest Olympian ever in his final Games, and could yield the baton of US Swimming to the up-and-coming Franklin, 17.

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Britain’s prime minister and the country’s press hit Mitt Romney after the Republican candidate questioned London’s preparation for the Games.

Brian McGrory

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Romney didn’t really mean to say that the London Olympics would almost certainly be a total disaster. That’s just what he does, and it takes getting used to.

WGBH moving to a national radio role

The Boston station, long a national powerhouse in public television, took a step to becoming a national force in public ­radio by acquiring Public Radio International.

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As the first Summer Arts Weekend kicks off, it is one of the most hotly anticipated music festivals the area’s seen in years.

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The completion of the Charles River Dam Bridge on June 30, 1910, created the Charles River Basin and gave Boston the waterway that is now integral to our urban experience.

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Keep up on the latest from the London Olympics
A look at three of the medalists in 1948, when London last hosted the Summer Olympics.

Bob Ryan

In 1948, London Olympics provided different challenges
Scott Wahle of Hingham rehearses for The Company Theatre’s “Paragon Park the Musical.”

Reconstructing Paragon Park for a musical

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

How did ‘Monday’ become a racist slur?

Roland Merullo

An unaffordable future
The offices of Back Bay Life Sciences Associates designed by Choi + Shine Architects.

style

Architects find inspiration everywhere

opinion | thomas gagen

A dissident’s peaceful way forward for Cuba
Amanda Palmer welcomes fans to her performance at Momenta Art in Brooklyn, NY.

Fans kickstart Palmer’s album, tour
Torch-bearer Daniel Mccubbin helped move the Olympic flame in London on Thursday.

London embracing the Olympiad

Globe Insiders

To Grammar’s House
Children ages 10 to 12 participated in a mandatory swimming lesson at the Boys & Girls Club in Roxbury.

Mandatory swimming lessons a lifeline in Boston
A view of the screened porch from inside the Martha’s Vineyard home.

style

The beauty of screened, covered porches

Sports

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Patriot Wes Welker doesn’t regret the “leap of faith” he took when he signed his franchise tender.

Patriots’ Wes Welker focused on job, not contract

The record-setting receiver doesn’t regret the “leap of faith” he took when he signed his franchise tender.

Metro

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Since Mayor Menino’s letter to Chick-fil-A was posted on Facebook Wednesday, about 140,000 people have “liked” it.

Boston’s Mayor Menino clarifies Chick-fil-A stance

Mayor Thomas M. Menino acknowledged that he cannot keep the restaurant chain out of Boston but stood by his criticism of the firm’s opposition to same-sex marriage.

Columnists

Brian McGrory

Mitt Romney, lost in translation

Boston Capital

Online retailers pressed to collect sales taxes
A look at three of the medalists in 1948, when London last hosted the Summer Olympics.

Bob Ryan

In 1948, London Olympics provided different challenges

Yvonne Abraham

Future Boston breaks the Menino rule

opinion | joan vennochi

Real Lives bill would empower people with disabilities
Tom Brady and the Patriots are back to begin another training camp.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots camp brings thoughts of another Super Bowl

Tech Lab

The smartphone as a spending tool

edward l. glaeser

Bad laws are no cure for outsourcing
Mourners embraced at the memorial built across the street from the theater where the Colorado shootings took place.

opinion | derrick z. jackson

Start the conversation on guns

Jeff Jacoby

The rush to politicize a tragedy

Brian McGrory

Silence no way to fight guns
An employee helps a customer at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Acceptable risk

Business

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Facebook’s first earnings as a public company beat Wall Street expectations, although shares are down from its IPO.

Facebook’s first public quarter proves solid

Facebook is reporting stronger-than-expected revenue in the social media company’s first earnings report since its rocky initial public offering two months ago.

Politics

political notebook

Potential running mates campaign for Romney

Vice presidential tryouts continued as several potential running mates campaigned for Mitt Romney in battleground states.

Nation & World

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Timothy Brown, known as the Berlin patient, is the only known person cured of HIV.

Researchers report hopeful HIV treatment

Two HIV-positive patients in Boston who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer were later found to have undetectable blood levels of the virus.

Arts

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Stage Review

Kylend Hetherington (Billy) and the cast of “Billy Elliot the Musical.”

Pirouettes and punch in ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’

The young protagonist makes the life-changing discovery that he has a gift for dance.

Movies

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From left, Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Richard Ayoade and Vince Vaughn star in

‘The Watch’ is a bad movie with bad timing

Originally called “Neighborhood Watch,” 20th Century Fox pulled back on their marketing for the film, but better they should have canned the whole thing.

“My mom said on ‘60 Minutes’, he’s going to Rio. I said, yeah, we’ll go and watch.”

Michael Phelps,  on the 2016 Olympics

Magazine

The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
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12 Bostonians Changing the World
The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset

Opinion

“No political system is irrevocable, especially one that throttles the expression of the people’s wishes.”

Thomas Gagen 

Ideas

“On the fringes of American politics, on conservative radio, and even on the campaign trail, a whole parallel Obama has emerged over the course of the 2012 race—a shadowy figure who has craftily concealed his ideological extremism and is merely awaiting his second term to unleash it.”

Leon Neyfakh