Clinton appeals for 2d Obama term

Former President Bill Clinton defended President Obama and urged bipartisan cooperation in an address aimed at millions of hard-pressed Americans yet to decide how to vote.

President Barack Obama joined former President Bill Clinton on stage after Clinton finished his DNC speech.

Jason Reed/Reuters

President Barack Obama joined former President Bill Clinton on stage after Clinton finished his DNC speech.

The enthusiastic crowd cheered loudly through all of Bill Clinton's remarks.

Win McNamee/Getty Images

The enthusiastic crowd cheered loudly through all of Bill Clinton's remarks.

Former President Bill Clinton addressed the DNC audience.

Stan HONDA/Getty Images

Former President Clinton said President Obama has "laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy."

US Vice President Joe Biden and wife Dr. Jill Biden in the convention's VIP area.

Robyn BECK/Getty Images

US Vice President Joe Biden and wife Dr. Jill Biden in the convention's VIP area.

In her DNC speech, Elizabeth Warren laced together phrases and talking points she has used as a consumer advocate, Obama administration official, and Senate candidate.

Lynne Sladky/AP

In her DNC speech, Elizabeth Warren laced together phrases and talking points she has used as a consumer advocate, Obama administration official, and Senate candidate.

Attorney and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke said she didn't want to see Republicans

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Attorney and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke said she didn't want to see Republicans "force a generation to re-fight battles they already won."

DNC attendees held signs that said

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

DNC attendees held signs that said "1.1 Million Auto Jobs Saved."

Sister Simone Campbell, a leader of the

Stan HONDA/GettyImages

Sister Simone Campbell, a leader of the "Nuns on the Bus" group, criticized Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan.

US Army General Eric Shinseki took the stage during day two of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

Alex Wong/Getty Images

US Army General Eric Shinseki took the stage during day two of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

People waved pro-choice signs as Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards walked from the podium.

Streeter Lecka/Getty Images

People waved pro-choice signs as Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards walked from the podium.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper spoke about recent tragedies his state has faced, including wildfires and the mass movie theater shooting.

Streeter Lecka/Getty Images

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper spoke about recent tragedies his state has faced, including wildfires and the mass movie theater shooting.

People held signs in support of Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

People held signs in support of Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.

Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland waved as she took the stage with other US women senators.

Alex Wong/Getty Images

Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland waved as she took the stage with other US women senators.

Conn. Governor Dannel Malloy said Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's fiscal approach would

Alex Wong/Getty Images

Conn. Governor Dannel Malloy said Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's fiscal approach would "shred the safety net that protects the middle class."

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addressed the DNC crowd.

Alex Wong/Getty Images

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addressed the DNC crowd.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke to the audience.

Stan HONDASTAN/GettyImages

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke to the audience.

The view from the podium of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.

Win McNamee/Getty Images

The view from the podium of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.

US Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York spoke during the DNC's second day.

Alex Wong/Getty Images

US Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York spoke during the DNC's second day.

Kaying Thao of Minnesota wore a puppet of President Barack Obama.

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Kaying Thao of Minnesota wore a puppet of President Barack Obama.

Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, US Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, spoke to the crowd.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, US Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, spoke to the crowd.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino addressed the convention on Wednesday.

Jason Reed/REUTERS

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino addressed the convention on Wednesday.

DNC chair and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa addressed delegates.

Alex Wong/Getty Images

DNC chair and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa addressed delegates.

Sen. John Kerry gestured during a sound check Wednesday.

Jae C. Hong/Associated Press

Senator John Kerry gestured during a sound check Wednesday.

President Barack Obama arrived at the Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. He will officially accept his party’s nomination Thursday.

Chuck Burton/Associated Press

President Obama arrived at the Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Wednesday. He will officially accept his party’s nomination Thursday.

Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Gabby Douglas stood on stage during a walkthrough.

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Gabby Douglas stood on stage during a walkthrough.

Democrats roll out big stars

Striving to build momentum for Obama’s acceptance speech, Democrats rolled out superstar Bill Clinton and rising star Elizabeth Warren as they redoubled their assault on Mitt Romney.

In controversial vote, Democrats amend platform

Democrats included faith in God and recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to their platform, despite delegates being split on the changes.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/09/05/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/151292089--90x90.jpg Menino criticizes Romney, makes no Senate endorsement

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino criticized Mitt Romney’s record as governor, but offered no endorsement of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, who was scheduled to speak on the same stage only hours later.

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren spoke during day two of the Democratic National Convention.

Warren pushes consumer agenda

The Senate candidate delivered a populist attack against Wall Street as she took the primetime stage for her first Democratic convention.

Massachusetts primary to be held Thursday

Voters will head to the polls to cast ballots for a host of statewide races including primaries in some of the nine congressional districts, as well as in the 200 legislative districts.

Bobby Valentine had a testy ex-change with a radio host who asked if he had “checked out.”

Radio outburst shows Bobby Valentine’s near breaking point

In his weekly appearance on WEEI, the Red Sox manager yelled at host Glenn Ordway, jokingly threatened to punch him, and called the team’s season miserable.

BU task force faults hockey team’s star culture

After a university task force found a “culture of sexual entitlement,” hockey coach Jack Parker has lost his spot as BU executive athletic director, although he will still coach the team.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/09/04/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/263.jpg Joan Sonnabend and the art of jewelry

Some people would pay a fortune to hang a piece by Pablo Picasso on their wall. Joan Sonnabend wanted to hang one around her neck.

Exclusive Thursday Preview | Style

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/08/31/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/PortraitMay2012%20300.jpg Don Carney and John Ross target new designs

The local jewelry makers, artists, and home goods designers who work under the moniker “Patch NYC” have created new product line for Target.

Boston Globe ePaper

ePaper

Download the ePaper edition

The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Globe Insiders

Boston Globe e-book

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/08/25/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/bobryan--371x247[1]-673--90x90.jpg Globe e-book: The Best of Bob Ryan

Download 44 of the Globe sportswriter’s best columns and stories to your tablet, smartphone, or desktop.

Globe exclusives

Brian McGrory

A fatal dose of irony in Belmont

Opinion | Colin S. Diver

Students will show academic integrity — if colleges support it

Concert Review

Madonna does it her way
Kosilek in 1993, left, and in 1990, right.

Judge orders Mass. to pay for inmate’s sex-change surgery
At Clear Flour Bakery in Brookline, the bread options vary greatly, from “Miller’s Bread” to German Rye to loaves of whole wheat and multigrain varieties.

G Cover

Where has the white bread gone?
Salt and pepper calamari at Empire Asian.

Dining Out

A new Empire rises on the Waterfront
The centerpiece of Shanghai-based artist Jin Shan’s installation “My Dad Is Li Gang!’’ at Brown University.

Galleries

Chinese power as spectacle in installation by Jin Shan
Jenny Giang and Ian So, serve meals from the new Chicken & Rice Guys food truck.

Chicken and rice truck gets rolling
Nike’s “Find Your Greatness” ad features an obese boy jogging down a country road.

Opinion | Jennifer Graham

Obesity: America’s deepest shame

special section

Fall TV Preview
Author Giles Slade makes the point that the better technology gets, the more isolated we, as a society, get.

Book Review

‘The Big Disconnect’ by Giles Slade
The TV spot, titled “Invisible Game,” projects an image of Brady spinning football magic.

UGG hoping Brady draws men to market

2012 NFL Preview

Roster breakdown

Tom Brady is back to lead the Patriots in his 13th season, even as many of the faces around him change.

Meet the 2012 Patriots

Bill Belichick has assembled one of the youngest rosters of his 13-year Patriots career as he seeks to return to the Super Bowl. Meet the players who make up his 2012 roster.

Sports

Tags in this section:

Dallas 24, New York Giants 17

Dalls wide receiver Miles Austin of the Dallas Cowboys reacted after scoring in the fourth quarter in East Rutherford, N.J., Wednesday.

Cowboys open NFL season with triumph over Giants

Tony Romo tossed three touchdowns as his Dallas Cowboys outplayed the defending Superbowl champions on their own turf.

Metro

Tags in this section:

A late morning downburst of nearly two inches of rain in an hour flooded several main intersections of Fall River.

Heavy rains bring flooding to Fall River

As storms stomped across the Bay State today, Fall River was hit with almost 2 inches of rain in less than an hour.

Columnists

Bill Belichick is entering his 13th season as head coach of the Patriots.

Christopher L. Gasper

It’s OK to question Bill Belichick

Brian McGrory

A fatal dose of irony in Belmont

jeff jacoby

Mainstream media needs to accept its liberal bias
A case containing the remains of Pfc. Shane W. Cantu, of Corunna, Mich., sits on a loader during prayer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday.

juliette kayyem

Afghan war still rages, yet soldiers get no play in Tampa
Neil Armstrong on the moon

James Carroll

After Armstrong’s small step forward, two steps back for America?

Christopher L. Gasper

Disappointing finish for Louis Oosthuizen

Dan Shaughnessy

Despite lack of big names, Deutsche Bank still interesting

joanna weiss

Honor American Dream-builders today — with healthcare, hours

Yvonne Abraham

What Elizabeth Warren is missing
Jim Rooney, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority stood atop the roof of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Lawrence Harmon

Convention center needs a boost of solar power
Balloons swirl in the air following Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech in Tampa Friday.

Jeff Jacoby

Time to shelve the political conventions
GrabCAD, where Roger Maranan, Grant Thomas-Lepore, and Gabe Blanchet work, picked Cambridge over California.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

7 factors that attract entrepreneurs to Boston

Business

Tags in this section:

Liberty Mutual will spend $8 million over the next three years to sponsor the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular and $1 million this year on gifts to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

Liberty Mutual will up charitable giving

The company is increasing local contributions by 20 percent this year, while other financial services firms plan to keep their giving largely unchanged.

Politics

Romney’s record as governor

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney unveiled his 2004 spending plan.

Romney, Obama faced similar economies, got similar results

Mitt Romney inherited a Massachusetts economy in 2003 similar to the one President Obama found entering the White House in 2009. For both, progress was slow, and for many, disappointing.

Nation & World

Tags in this section:

Melanie Martinez and Eric DeSalvo salvaged items from their home in Braithwaite, La., which was heavily flooded.

Researchers to look at levees’ role in La. flooding

The Army Corps of Engineers agreed to investigate whether flood fortifications in New Orleans pushed waters into outlying areas.

Arts

Tags in this section:

Movie Review

Marina Abramovic during a performance for her Museum of Modern Art exhibition.

‘Marina Abramovic’: sitting in on an artist’s life

The entertaining film explains Abramovic — in all her complexity — brilliantly.

Food & dining

Barry Edelman.

After a fire, community rebuilt Marblehead restaurant

They say everything happens for a reason. It might not have seemed that way the day Barry Edelman watched his restaurant, 5 Corners Kitchen, go up in smoke.

“He reminds me that we are playing a long game here, and that change is hard, and change is slow, and it never happens all at once. But eventually we get there; we always do.”

Michelle Obama,  on President Obama

Magazine

The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“The ideal of objective, unbiased journalism may be admirable. But I wonder if it doesn’t cause more distortion than it prevents.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“In order to be a good friend, even a very young child must be not only fun to spend time with, but capable of being emotionally mature in ways that can be difficult even for grown-ups.”

—Leon Neyfakh on childhood friendship