Your Home: The Guide

A field guide to local architecture

Polly Becker

How to identify the old houses in our midst. Plus, where to find the supplies to fix them up.

Left fielder Jonny Gomes had to face facts: his throw home on a sacrifice fly contributed to a Cardinal rally.

On baseball

Red Sox doomed by uncharacteristic mistakes

It was shocking to see the Sox come apart with a faulty bullpen performance in Game 2. How could they let this happen?

Dan Shaughnessy

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After a Game 1 embarrassment, the Cardinals played Big Boy Baseball and delivered a wake-up call for Red Sox Nation.

Kevin Cullen

The Red Sox as America’s Team?

Fans across the country don’t like us. They envy our recent sporting success. But this surprise ballclub may lure them over to our side, at least for one season.

Classes resume at Danvers High School

The high school was rocked by the slaying of an enthusiastic teacher, allegedly at the hands of a 14-year-old student in her class.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

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What if mayoral candidate Martin Walsh sat down with police and fire unions and brokered an affordable agreement on how parity will be calculated?

Globe exclusives

Dan Barrett adjusted a skeleton on a wall while setting up a room in the haunted house.

Northeastern researchers experiment with fear

Boston Bruin David Krejci celebrated his game-winning goal with teammate Milan Lucic.

Bruins 2, Sharks 1

With 0.8 seconds left, Bruins beat Sharks
Tanya Singleton (right), cousin of former New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez, spoke with defense attorney Peter Parker during a bail hearing Thursday in Fall River.

Hernandez cousin ordered held on $15,000 bail
“12 Years a Slave” is the story of Solomon Northup, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (center and far left, with Michael Fassbender), a free black man kidnapped and sold. The movie is based on his 1853 memoir.

Movie review

‘12 Years a Slave’ shows a free man taken into bondage
The Boston Globe’s headquarters on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester.

John Henry’s purchase of Boston Globe completed
Quintin Berry is the only African-American in the Series, a base-stealing specialist who spends some of his time chilling.

Gary Washburn

World Series shows MLB’s dearth of black players

Boston’s hottest new stores and services
Edward Tutunjian of Boston Cab.

Report faults Boston cabs, oversight
Donald Berwick helped build the base to the US health care law.

Don Berwick reflects on health law woes
“Massachusetts”is a pretty inane and unfunny follow-up to “The Fox,” the intentionally absurd song from a Norwegian comedy act named Ylvis.

‘Massachusetts,’ new song by Ylvis, takes off, falls flat

TECH LAB

Google laptop rates a victory lap

Yvonne Abraham

Dobelle and Regan: Two of a kind

World Series

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Errors in the seventh inning cost the Red Sox the lead.

Cardinals rally past Red Sox to tie Series

A series of mistakes by the Red Sox led to the Cardinals scoring three runs in the seventh inning to head back to St. Louis tied 1-1.

Sports

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Tom Brady returns to Patriots practice

Brady was with his teammates Friday morning, one day after appearing on the injury report. Aqib Talib and Danny Amendola also were present.

Boston mayoral race

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Mayoral candidates John Connolly and Martin J. Walsh debated at the Boston Mayoral Forum hosted by the Urban League of Massachusetts at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury.

Connolly leads Walsh, but race is fluid, Globe poll finds

Mayoral hopeful John R. Connolly holds an 8 percentage point lead over Martin J. Walsh, though the race remains in flux.

Metro

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Boston Public Library had one complaint about a book in the past three years.

Few complain about censorship at Mass. libraries

Fewer than 20 libraries have faced a challenge to their collections since 2010, and only twice did librarians agree to put a book out of children’s reach.

Columnists

The video shows Glenn Taylor pushing over an ancient rock formation in Utah.

CARLO ROTELLA

How to topple a reputation with one click

SCOT LEHIGH

Walsh’s chance to deliver on labor

Yvonne Abraham

Dobelle and Regan: Two of a kind
Outfielders Matt Holliday, Jon Jay, and Carlos Beltran celebrated the Cardinals’ 4-2 victory over the Red Sox in Game 2 of the World Series.

Christopher L. Gasper

Cardinals show they won’t simply roll over

JOAN VENNOCHI

Class and Boston’s new mayor

NICHOLAS BURNS

A balancing act for Iran end game

Adrian Walker

A full deck? Hardly
John Connolly and Martin Walsh appeared in their second debate of the general election.

JOANNA WEISS

Connolly’s night during debate
Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina, pose on a bridge walk in Minsk during their stay in the Soviet Union.

Alex Beam

Lee Harvey Oswald, reconsidered
After building a Vegas empire, Sheldon Adelson bet big on gambling in Asia, propelling him to number 11 on the Forbes list of the richest Americans.

Shirley Leung

Sheldon, we really need you now
Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina let a second-inning popup fall in.

Christopher L. Gasper

Cardinals ‘embarrassed’ by sloppy play

TECH LAB

Google laptop rates a victory lap

Nation & World

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A 35-year-old Roma woman is the mother of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, DNA tests confirmed.

Test proves Bulgarian woman mother of mystery girl

A 35-year-old Roma woman is the mother of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, DNA tests confirmed.

Business

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Icahn said he supports Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook (above), and the company’s current management team.

Stock buyback is too small, Icahn tells Apple

Carl Icahn, the activist investor, has told Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, that the company should launch a $150 billion stock buyback.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

“The Counselor” stars Michael Fassbender and Penelope Cruz (pictured) and Javier Bardem and Cameron Diaz (below).

Dirty doings down in Ridley Scott’s ‘Counselor’

The drug-trade drama has much in common with Scott’s “Thelma & Louise” in the way it escalates into a spin through wilder country, and a meditation on bigger themes.

Arts

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Stage Review

David Wilson Barnes stars in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of “The Power of Duff.”

‘The Power of Duff’ tackles the nature of belief

Stephen Belber’s seriocomic play, now at Huntington Theatre Company, adds up to a smart take on a thorny subject.

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Magazine

The cover for the October 20 2013 issue

David Keith hopes we don’t have to use his ideas to reverse global warming
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Why is it so hard to find a doctor?
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Into the woods
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Becoming Bostonian

Ideas

“In a country where heroic leadership has become almost synonymous with ambition, researchers are offering up a surprising truth: The bold, charismatic leaders we idolize may be the last people we really want in charge.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the myth of the heroic leader