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Leaders indicate Mideast cease-fire may be near

Egypt’s president predicted that Israel’s offensive would soon end, and Israel’s prime minister said his country would be a ‘‘willing partner’’ to a cease-fire with Hamas.

Voice actor Kevin Clash and puppet Elmo at the 2010 Peabody Awards in New York.

Elmo puppeteer resigns amid sex allegations

Sesame Workshop said Kevin Clash has resigned, calling allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old a ‘‘distraction.”

Former US Senator Warren Rudman of New Hamshire.

Former US Senator Warren Rudman dies at 82

The feisty New Hampshire Republican, who co-authored a ground-breaking budget balancing law, has died.

HP blames $8.8b charge on accounting at acquired firm

Hewlett-Packard Co. said that a British company it bought for $9.7 billion last year lied about its finances, resulting in a massive write-down.

3,300 gas leaks are found in Boston

A new study underscores the explosion risk and environmental damage from aging infrastructure under city sidewalks and streets.

Chicken is on St. Anthony Shrine’s holiday menu.

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Thanksgiving chicken? Turkey prices hit food pantries

Higher prices and growing demand have forced more charity groups to hand out chickens instead of turkeys.

In this Oct. 13 photo, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, right, strategized with local union leaders.

Menino runs city from hospital room

For the past 25 days, the mayor has been working from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is being treated for a ­variety of ailments.

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The state has to be brought into compliance with new federal law outlawing mandatory juvenile life without parole for murder.

Kevin Cullen

The truth never dies

Louie Greco died in prison, an innocent man, because the FBI had no qualms about letting four innocent men take the rap for an informant’s crime.

Rob Gronkowski will likely be out for several weeks with a broken forearm.

Dan Shaughnessy

Why are Patriots mum on Gronkowski?

Bill Belichick refuses to publicly acknowledge that Gronk is hurt — he stonewalls because he can. And fans love him for it.

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Globe exclusives

Heidi Cron downloaded “Downton Abbey” before it aired in the United States.

TV spoilers are becoming unavoidable
New York (above) has elbowed out Boston as the premier East Coast locale for young digital entrepreneurs.

NYC jumps ahead of Boston in tech start-ups
President Obama exchanged formalities with Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife, Bun Rany, Monday in Phnom Penh, where he pressed the longtime ruler to release political prisoners, stop land seizures, and hold free and fair elections. Aides said Obama would have stayed away from Cambodia if it were not hosting regional summits.

President Obama hits Cambodia on rights
Phoebe Baker Hyde’s book “The Beauty Experiment” will be published Dec. 25.

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Taking a break from beauty
David Geffen, circa 1972, is the subject of an “American Masters” documentary. He founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1970 and in 1972 sold it to Warner Communications.

Television review

‘American Masters’ profiles mogul David Geffen
Bob Dylan, here in Los Angeles in January, performed at TD Garden on Sunday night.

Music Review

Bob Dylan roams from jagged to majestic

Album Review | POP

Rihanna takes aim at critics on ‘Unapologetic’
Jackie Cunningham outside her mother’s room at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers.

Hospices trying to sell the public on their care
Reports released last week by the US Food and Drug Administration bring to 13 the number of deaths possibly connected to two popular brands of the drink, Monster Energy and 5-Hour Energy, since 2009.

Health

Questions mount on energy drinks
Sandy’s cost will spark federal action to deal with global warming, US Representative Ed Markey said.

Bipartisan steps urged on climate policy
Melissa White read a message while Ilmar Gavilán (left) and Juan Miguel Hernandez prepared to play.

Second of two parts

Harlem Quartet’s long search gathers an intensity

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Holiday arts preview

Sports

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The broken left forearm of Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski isn’t expected to keep him out for the season.

What happens now with Rob Gronkowski out?

Aaron Hernandez and Visanthe Shiancoe may attempt to fill in, but the truth is likely that no one can replace Gronkowski’s production.

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Irene M. Davey learned of the horrors of war first-hand by driving wounded soldiers from Boston to the hospital at Fort Devens.

State’s oldest female veteran dies at 104

Irene M. Davey, an Attleboro woman who died Sunday, enlisted in the military in 1943 and served as a truck driver and recruiter.

Columnists

Farah Stockman

Baby, please don’t go

Joanna Weiss

Organizing a real Dumbledore’s Army

Boston Capital

Comptroller Tom Curry takes tough line with banks
Rob Gronkowski will likely be out for several weeks with a broken forearm.

Dan Shaughnessy

Why are Patriots mum on Gronkowski injury?
Wily veteran Tom Brady got the better of rookie Andrew Luck in their first career meeting.

Christopher L. Gasper

Luck won’t always be this easy to beat

Juliette Kayyem

BP lets employees take the fall

INNOVATION ECONOMY

App lures football fans with rewards
MA350 earphones, by Reid and Heath Acoustics Ltd.

Tech Lab Plus

Cheap earbuds, rich sound from Reid and Heath

Adrian Walker

A gateway to science
John Kerry has been a senator for nearly 28 years; Ted Kennedy held his office for 46 years.

Jeff Jacoby

Unhealthy devotion to incumbents
David Petraeus, left, attends the 70th anniversary of the 101st Airborne Division in August in Fort Campbell, Ky.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The press had a crush on David Petraeus, too

Christopher L. Gasper

The Game certainly lived up to its name

Nation & World

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Palestinians gathered around a destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip Monday.

Hamas chief scoffs at Israel’s ground invasion threat

Hamas dared Israel to invade as the Israeli military countered Gazan rockets with a new wave of deadly airstrikes.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

A recount was held this past weekend in St. Lucie County, after Rep. Allen West challenged the results of the Nov. 6 election.

GOP’s Allen West fails to keep Florida seat

The Republican representative lost a recount of the results of the Nov. 6 election for his House seat.

Business

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Hostess employs nearly 300 workers at various stores and facilities across Massachusetts.

Hostess set to mediate with union

Hostess Brands Inc. and its second-largest union agreed to mediation, a step that keeps the maker of Twinkies in business for now.

Arts

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Book Review

“Elsewhere” by Richard Russo

‘Elsewhere’ by Richard Russo

In Russo’s memoir, he chronicles decades spent as the chauffeur and principal caregiver of his troubled mother.

Lifestyle

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Health

Reports released last week by the US Food and Drug Administration bring to 13 the number of deaths possibly connected to two popular brands of the drink, Monster Energy and 5-Hour Energy, since 2009.

Questions mount on energy drinks

Popular caffeinated drinks are raising health concerns, particularly for the young and those with heart problems.

Living Longer, Living Better

Travel

Jan Theberge of Westport (left) learned about Newport’s history in the rum business during a stop at the Newport Wine Cellar, part of the Newport Gourmet Tour in Newport, R.I. Tour participants also sampled Chef Kevin Thiele’s braised beef shanks on crostini with horseradish cream, aged gouda cheese and truffled micro-greens (top right) at the Hotel Viking. In photo at right, participants Debbie Dollivar of Martha’s Vineyard (left) and Cori Pasqaule of Old Saybrook, Conn., listen to chef Kevin Fitzgerald inside the kitchen of Sardella’s.

Food tours are enriching travel

For many baby boomers, food has become as central to their travel planning as scenery and culture.

“My friends act like I have a communicable disease. It’s so goofy. It’s only TV.”

Heidi Cron,  on watching “Downton Abbey” before it aired in the United States.

Magazine

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7 holiday styles that shine
The cover for the November 11 2012 issue

Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians
The cover for the November 4 2012 issue

How to be a New England vegetarian in winter
The cover for the October 28 2012 issue

The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?

Opinion

“What should we make of the fact that petitioners from all 50 states have requested permission to secede?”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“Funded in large part by the United States and its allies, Cambodia’s war-crimes court seeks to plant the seeds of Western-style justice in Eastern soil, transforming an entire legal system rather than merely putting aging war criminals behind bars.”

Peter Canellos on the power of imported justice