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A snarl in Seaport District’s success story

The South Boston Waterfront is growing so fast that officials are now realizing it is a transportation crisis waiting to happen.

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Festivities for the reopening of Forum Bar & Restaurant included a procession up Boylston Street from the Marathon finish line.

Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell (left) took the ball from starting pitcher Jake Peavy in the seventh inning.

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Red Sox silenced by Blue Jays

An inefficient offense led to tonight’s loss for the Red Sox in the last game of their frustrating road trip.

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie urged the crowd to display their confidence in the party’s principles.

A number of globes are lined up along the Tremont Street side of the Boston Common as part of the “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” exhibit.

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‘Cool Globes’ presents real world ideas

The public art project, for which artists designed globes with green strategies to contend with environmental issues, has landed in Boston.

A performer from San Francisco’s Robert Moses’ Kin, one of the 35 companies in the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival.

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Urbanity Dance and its contemporaries stage a festival

Artistic director Betsi Graves calls this weekend’s Boston Contemporary Dance Festival “a crazy dream” and “a huge leap of faith.”

Jane Richard, who lost her older brother Martin and her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, is recovering and using a prosthetic.

Richard family continues recovery

Four months after the Boston Marathon bombing killed their youngest son and severed their daughter’s left leg, the family is doing its best to cope.

Opinion

NICHOLAS BURNS

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The president now has the opportunity to open talks with Iran for the first time in 34 years.

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Robin Williams plays President Eisenhower and Forest Whitaker is White House butler Cecil Gaines in Lee Daniels’s new movie.

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What ‘The Butler’ saw
Sergeant Sean Murphy left State Police Headquarters after facing a disciplinary hearing for his role in releasing capture photos of accused Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the media in July.

Night duty for trooper who released capture photos
Edwin Alemany was arraigned in the murder of Amy Lord at West Roxbury District Court today. His lawyer said he tried to commit suicide scratching open the arteries on his neck and arms.

Alemany attempted suicide, lawyer says
Aaron Hernandez was arrested in June and has remained in jail without bail since.

Inside the double life of Aaron Hernandez
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs is one of the few redeeming features of Joshua Michael Stern’s biopic “Jobs,” out on Friday.

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‘Jobs’ gets pulped in laborious film
A Chinese worker sat in front of a huge billboard advertising the opening of a fast food restaurant in Shanghai.

Is obesity a form of addiction?
Small cosmetic changes were made to the Forum restaurant’s second floor.

Forum on Boylston Street reopens
Gabe Mott said competing for the Hult Prize has opened opportunities for his McGill University MBA program team.

Hult Prize accelerator preps competitors for $1m
“We didn’t want to go completely traditional,” said Lindsay Pumpa, the project’s lead interior designer. “But we did want to speak to Boston color-wise.”

HGTV gives away a luxury condo in Boston

Lisa Saunders parked her car for hours at a time in a valet-only zone.

A valet space of her own
Cambridge restaurateur Jason Bond and sous chef Rachel Miller at the future site of a second Bondir, in Concord.

The year of the second restaurant
“At the end of the day it was good to get this guy in jail,” said former State Police colonel Thomas Folery. “But you’d like to see processes put in place so it doesn’t happen again.”

DA may try Bulger, allies

Sports

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MLB commissioner Bud Selig

MLB set to expand instant replay in 2014

Under the plan — which needs to be voted on by owners — managers will be given three replay challenges per game.

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Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter spoke to the judge during his murder sentencing in Superior Court in Los Angeles.

‘Clark Rockefeller’ gets 27 years for murder

Christian Gerhartsreiter was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for a California murder.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Raynham track owner riding on luck
Forum, photographed shortly after Boylston Street was re-opened to the public just over a week after the Marathon bombings. The restaurant is set to re-open Thursday.

Adrian Walker

Getting back to business

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s Obamacare whale hunt
Dan Wolf waits for passengers and baggage to be loaded on his plane before taking off from Provincetown Memorial Airport for Boston in 2007.

JOAN VENNOCHI

There’s not a Dan Wolf ethics exemption

Derrick Z. Jackson

Easing the drug laws

Adrian Walker

Mayor’s race hits its stride
A member of a team from the military’s Human Terrain System conducts an interview in Afghanistan in late 2009.

Farah Stockman

Is social science our silver bullet around the world?
At left, the South Boston waterfront; On the right, James “Whitey” Bulger, center, walking on Castle Island with associates Stephen “Rifleman” Flemmi, left, and Kevin Weeks, right, in an undated photo.

Kevin Cullen

Everything has passed Whitey by
The FBI is accused of enabling Whitey Bulger, seen in this mug shot taken in 1955 in Miami Beach.

JEFF JACOBY

Federal overreach — then and now
Johnny Manziel can’t profit from own name.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA needs reform

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mass. officials must investigate Todashev death
A freeway sign warned drivers of people crossing in Chula Vista, Calif.

JAMES CARROLL

Sealing the border is part of problem

Nation & World

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Lebanese residents ran past burned cars and shops at the site of a car bomb explosion in southern Beirut.

Powerful blast kills 3 in south Beirut suburb

A car bomb ripped through a crowded southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah.

Politics

Gov. Deval Patrick introduced President Barack Obama during a fundraiser stop in Boston in 2011.

Patrick had dinner with vacationing president

President and Michelle Obama took time from their Vineyard vacation Wednesday to share a meal with Governor Deval Patrick.

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Applicants waited in line for appointments with a representative from the Department of Unemployment Assistance in Woburn.

State unemployment rate rises to 7.2%

The Massachusetts unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent in July, the highest level since September 2011.

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Book Review

‘The Realm of Last Chances’ by Steve Yarbrough

In “The Realm of Last Chances,” Yarbrough takes a calm, somewhat relaxed attitude toward his characters’ decay.

Style

Boston tastemakers on their 5 must-haves for fall

Ten tastemakers on their must-have list this season, and the answers — overalls! camo! oversize coats! 3D-printed jewelry! — inspired us.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield

Ideas

“The enduring appeal of the books tells us something about how deep the romance with self-reliance runs through American history, and the gaps between the Little House narrative and Wilder’s real life say a lot about the government help and interdependence that we sometimes find more convenient to leave out of that tale.”

Christine Woodside,  on the Little House books as Libertarian fables