Patrick sends crime bill back

Governor Deval Patrick wants the controversial “three strikes” provision eased to give sentencing judges more flexibility.

Man accused of killing child before shooting self

An Oxford man killed his young daughter Saturday night and seriously injured his son before turning the gun on himself, an official said.

Romney to ban press from Israel fund-raiser

Mitt Romney will address a small group Monday at the high-dollar fund-raiser, which casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is expected to attend.

red sox 8, yankees 6

Red Sox rally against Bronx rivals

The Red Sox rallied in the ninth inning Saturday night after Mark Teixeira had tied the score with a two-run homer off Vicente Padilla.

olympics | women’s basketball | US 81, Croatia 56

US women overcome early struggles

The US had to overcome a sloppy performance Saturday before finally putting away Croatia in their opening game.

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Alison Pargeter, at Roman ruins near Tripoli, says Khadafy’s “cult of personality...swallowed everything.”

Alison Pargeter

Ideas | Q&A

The Libya that Khadafy left behind

According to scholar Alison Pargeter, Libya’s major task ahead is to grapple with Khadafy’s legacy — one so eccentric that it left little in the country untouched.

book review

‘Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies’ by Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre spins a WWII spy story that details the lies and exploits of a band of British double agents that had the Germans looking the other way on D-Day.

Mul’s Diner provides a front-row seat to a changing South Boston. One arrival is the 139-unit apartment complex 50 West Broadway, opened in 2010.

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With reality TV, is Southie about to be New Jerseyed?

Hollywood captured and ruined South Boston at the same time. Now a slew of TV shows are going to turn “a Southie” into a symbol.

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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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“Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil” employs an arsenal of mimes, acrobats, and dancers — as well as a live band — to showcase Jackson’s songs.

living arts

Michael Jackson lives on in ‘Immortal’

Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo take a break from painting a mural on the Greenway.

Os Gemeos making first mural in Boston
This stretch of the popular Regent’s Canal towpath is between the Whitmore and Kingsland Road bridges.

travel

London’s edgy East End is game for Olympic influx

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Keep up on the latest from the London Olympics
Patrons ate clams and fries at a picnic table next to the water outside J.T. Farnham’s in Essex.

The Roads to Summer

Along 9-mile ribbon, a clam lover’s paradise

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Two couples join together to make ‘Ruby Sparks’
Nicholson Baker.

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‘The Way the World Works’ by Nicholson Baker

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The power of the 21st-century mom network
A cat named Snow Shoe peeked out of the port window of her cage at the remodeled shelter in Dedham.

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Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Gronkowski focusing on football, not fame
The Soul Rebels Brass Band will perform at this weekend’s inaugural Summer Arts Weekend.

Inaugural Summer Arts Weekend loaded with jazz

How did ‘Monday’ become a racist slur?

Sports

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Ryan Lochte brings home gold, beating rival Michael Phelps

Lochte won the first gold medal for the US, outpacing fourth-place Phelps.

Metro

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The Roads to Summer

Patrons ate clams and fries at a picnic table next to the water outside J.T. Farnham’s in Essex.

Along 9-mile ribbon, a clam lover’s paradise

From the Clam Box in Ipswich to J.T. Farnham’s in Essex, this 9-mile ribbon of Route 133 is a clam lover’s paradise, boasting an unrivaled array of the delicious morsels.

Columnists

Dan Shaughnessy

The Red Sox are done

lawrence harmon

Privatization of Brighton field would set bad precedent

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Gronkowski focusing on football, not fame

Adrian Walker

Boston City Council districts should be scrapped

Bob Ryan

In Kenya, successful runners mean more than medals

Boston Capital

Online retailers pressed to collect sales taxes

Brian McGrory

Mitt Romney, lost in translation

Yvonne Abraham

Future Boston breaks the Menino rule
A look at three of the medalists in 1948, when London last hosted the Summer Olympics.

Bob Ryan

In ‘48, London Olympics had different challenges

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

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Nancy Baym (left) and Mary L. Gray are social media researchers at Microsoft Cambridge, becoming anthropologists of the digital age.

Cambridge becoming social media research hub

Some of the Boston area’s brightest minds are studying, in real time, changing attitudes and behaviors for Harvard, MIT, IBM, Google and Microsoft.

Politics

Political Notebook

The Sun ran a headline calling Mitt Romney “Mitt the Twit” following his comments on the London Olympics.

Olympics remarks bog down Romney trip

Mitt Romney struggled Friday to stem political fallout at home after his comments on Britain’s handling of the London Games.

Nation & World

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Syrian rebels withstand assault, activists say

Activists said Saturday rebel forces remained in control of their neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo after the army’s offensive.

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Many of the athletes from around the world will be posting both text and images on Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, documenting their time in competition and in around the Olympic Village in London.

Welcome to the Socialympics

Thanks to the soaring popularity of social media, fans of the Olympics will have the opportunity to follow the London Games more comprehensively, and obsessively, than ever before.

“Boston has a critical mass of tech companies, universities, computing power, and big brains to pull this off.”

Lee Rainie,   of the Pew Research Center, on social media research

Magazine

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25 best burgers around Boston
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12 Bostonians Changing the World
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N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
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A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset

Opinion

“Public agencies, not private colleges, should be accountable for public land.”

Lawrence Harmon 

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