US sees extended Mideast turmoil

Although the tumult subsided Saturday, Obama administration officials said they had concluded that the protests in Muslim countries may presage a sustained crisis.

In the Middle East, where governments routinely disseminate anti-Semitic hatred, many who viewed the “Innocence of Muslims” assumed the low-budget clip had to be sanctioned by the US government.

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Bigotry, both fringe and state-sanctioned

Anyone can post a clip on YouTube, without government involvement or approval. But free speech may be harder to understand on the Middle Eastern street, writes Joanna Weiss.

Stoughton toddler killed may have run into truck’s side

The 3-year-old girl who was killed Friday while crossing a road with her mother may have run into the side of a truck as it passed in front of her, an official said.

NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr, left, was joined by Zdeno Chara, center, and Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby in a Thursday press conference.

NHL lockout all but set

The lockout would be the third to hit a major sports league in 18 months, following ones in the NFL and the NBA.

Tom Brady and the Patriots will host the Cardinals in their home opener in Week 2.

Cardinals at Patriots, 1 p.m. Sunday (Fox)

Patriots’ keys to Week 2 win vs. Cardinals

The Boston Globe breaks down the X’s and O’s for the Patriots home opener and offers a prediction for who will win.

BC celebrates 150th anniversary with Fenway Mass

Thousands of Boston College students, alumni, faculty, staff, and parents gathered at Fenway Park for a special Mass marking the school’s 150th anniversary.

A Mass was held at Fenway Park Saturday to launch Boston College's three-semester celebration of its 150th anniversary.

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A Mass was held at Fenway Park Saturday to launch Boston College's three-semester celebration of its 150th anniversary.

Boston College President William P. Leahy celebrated the service.

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Boston College President William P. Leahy celebrated the special Saturday Mass.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, left, spoke at the Mass.

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Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, left, spoke at the Mass.

About 20,000 BC and BC High School students and alumni attended the Mass.

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About 20,000 Boston College and Boston College High School students and alumni attended the Mass.

Boston College has survived two wartime enrollment crises and a near-bankruptcy in its 150 years.

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Boston College has survived two wartime enrollment crises and a near-bankruptcy in its 150 years.

More than 34,000 students applied to be undergraduates in 2011.

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More than 34,000 students applied to be undergraduates in 2011.

Northwestern running back Mike Trumpy, center, broke through Boston College defenders in the fourth quarter.

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BC falls to Northwestern, 22-13

Boston College held the lead late in the opening half and never trailed by more than 6 points until Northwestern scored on its final possession.

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Julianne Swartz’s “How Deep Is Your” (2012) at the deCordova.

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Works as fragile as how we see ourselves

Julianne Swartz pulls you close, and then turns the tables.

Style on the Street > For the Guys

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Men’s pants get a major makeover--in statement-making color.

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America’s first lighthouse guided vessels entering Boston Harbor from Sept. 14, 1716, and the lighthouse on Little Brewster Island was the last to be automated, in 1998.

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Chris Yang at the Tannery’s Boylston Street shop.

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‘A Wilderness of Error’ by Errol Morris

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Madison Park Technical High has mayoral support.

Boston innovation high school off to rough start

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The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star

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The Most Stylish Bostonians

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What to test instead
Tallie Wollen, 4, ran around a hay maze at Adams Farm near her home in Cumberland, R.I.

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Globe photos of the week, Sept. 14, 2012
Sports apparel maker New Balance plans to build a 14-acre complex in Brighton.

Skyline blooms as Boston OK’s over $1.5b in projects

G Force

Leading Cambridge’s Dance Complex into the future
The Harborplace Amphitheater is where performers might sing, dance, do magic . . . and bands perform free concerts Fridays through Sundays.

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Searching for the funky, free, and family-friendly in Baltimore
Quin Donovan says his mom, Elaine, nagging him about his homework “makes me less likely to do it.”

To nag or not to nag? It’s homework’s eternal question

Sports

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UMass overwhelmed by No. 17 Michigan

The University of Massachusetts dropped its third game in a row to start the 2012 season, losing, 63-13, to the Wolverines in a game that was never close.

Metro

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Kyle Thomas Hemingway (left) and Greg Dickinson at Seoul Kitchen.

For late-night diners in Boston, Asian cuisine is what’s hot

Asian food is increasingly influential as customers gravitate to its bright, bold, and spicy flavors, and chefs see such late-night menus as a way to bring in crowds.

Columnists

Adrian Walker

Remembering Bruce Bolling, a Boston visionary

Joshua Green

When up means down
Some see bike paths as part of a conspiracy to produce a one-world government.

opinion | Renée Loth

Recycling, tree pruning, and other assaults on liberty

Scot Lehigh

The way to better schools is around unions

carlo rotella | opinion

Uncovering a hidden America

lawrence harmon

Black mark on the state drug lab
Gloria Negri

Brian McGrory

A career for the ages
US envoy Chris Stevens, center, is seen conferring with Dr. Suleiman Fortia, a Libyan opposition leader, in Benghazi, Libya, on April 11, 2011.

Juliette Kayyem

Syrians will pay for murders of Americans in Libya

joan vennochi

Warren must sell substance over Brown’s flash
The hero a night earlier, Jacoby Ellsbury (1 for 5) grounded to the pitcher with the tying run on first base to end the game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox were spoiled long before this

Yvonne Abraham

BU hockey team report details retrograde mentality
Deval Patrick has been an occasionally prickly governor, a consistently good governor, and often a very good governor. But he has rarely been the great and fearless leader that the nation saw last week.

Brian McGrory

A glimpse at the Patrick we’re missing

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A customer pumped gas in Newark. Gas prices have risen more than 50 cents per gallon in the past two months.

Rising gas prices crimp US spending

Gas prices are crimping consumer spending and slowing the already-weak US economy. And they could get worse in the coming months.

Politics

Both the Obama campaign — and the Chinese government — called Mitt Romney’s attacks misleading. Above, a shot from ads the Romney campaign began airing this week.

Romney rips Obama on China despite investments

Mitt Romney sharpened his criticism of President Obama’s handling of China’s trade practices, although he has invested in Chinese firms that use some of those methods.

Nation & World

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Olympic sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross, a gold medalist, took pictures with President Obama as the 2012 US Olympic and Paralympic teams visited the White House.

Obama using GOP’s ‘we built it’ attacks to his advantage

Some Democrats now say that the statements on the role of government might have focused the campaign in a direction that could be favorable for the president.

Arts

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Director Kate Whoriskey (left) and actress Johanna Day on the set of “Good People.’’ Right: Scenes from South Boston, where the play is set, including a shot of cast members taken at Castle Island (clockwise, from left): Michael Laurence, Karen MacDonald, Nick Westrate, Day, and Nancy E. Carroll.

David Lindsay-Abaire’s ‘Good People’ comes home

“Good People” is the first play Pulitzer Prize-winning South Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire has set in his old haunt.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon costar as a wealthy husband and his wife in “Arbitrage.”

‘Arbitrage’: When bad things happen to very rich people

Nicholas Jarecki’s debut feature casts Richard Gere as a sleek Wall Street tycoon having a very bad week.

“It’s falling apart. Morale is nonexistent here.”

A teacher at Madison Park Technical High in Boston 

Magazine

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Things to do in the Berkshires
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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

Opinion

“It is a measure of our polarized politics that the Republican Party has been invaded by, or at least influenced by, a group that demonizes bike paths and recycling.”

Renée Loth 

Ideas

“With awe, the researchers concluded, people become more “present,” living in the moment, not rehashing the past or fretting about the future.”

Keith O’Brien  on the quest to expand time