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The Olympic pitch came under near-relentless attacks from the co-chair of No Boston Olympics and a Smith College economist.
Shirley Leung
Baker?s Olympic guessing gameLet?s face it: Our Olympic bid is on life support. Charlie Baker should pull the plug or breathe new life into it.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Olympic debate lacked what we wanted to hearThis was a debate dominated by skull-imploding talk about the all-important financial issues.
Fueled in part by his doubters, Martinez developed a formidable arsenal of pitches that delivered him to the Hall of Fame.
ben volin | on football
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell?s silence may be because the decision is out of his hands ? and in those of the negotiating lawyers.
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The county ? a collection of rural and suburban communities, three small cities, and the city of Worcester ? is now a Republican enclave.
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With Gawker?s recent implosion comes a feeling that perhaps we?ve finally reached the summit of this low.
opinion | Harry Bartnick
Give Boston?s City Hall a much-needed makeover Who says we need to tear it down? Let?s make city government literally more transparent.
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A shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette left three people dead, including the gunman, and several others wounded.
Criminal inquiry sought in Hillary Clinton?s use of emailTwo inspectors general asked for a criminal investigation into whether Clinton mishandled sensitive information on a private account.
A social worker visited the 7-year-old?s home just two weeks before he fell into a coma from apparent starvation and dehydration.
No injuries consistent with a violent homicide were found during an autopsy of Sandra Bland, who was found dead in a Texas jail.
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Ty Burr | Critic?s notebook
This is a tale of two stories, the official one and the one we can see.
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At Senate hearing, Kerry challenges critics of Iran dealThe secretary of state called it ??fantasy, plain and simple?? to think the US failed to hold out for a better nuclear deal.
Robert Gentile says authorities improperly brought a case against him to force him to cooperate in the investigation into the historic heist.
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Hispanics love me, Donald Trump declares at Mexican borderTrump claimed a ??great relationship?? with Hispanics, even as Latino leaders have come at him with blistering criticism.
John Kasich joins popular path to GOP nod through N.H.Kasich mapped his path to the nomination through the first-in-the-nation primary, but so have six other GOP hopefuls.
Michael A. Cohen
Sandra Bland didn?t do anything wrongThe only thing she was guilty of was ?contempt of cop.?
Globe photographer Suzanne Kreiter traveled to Cuba this summer, 21 years after her first journey there.
Getaway lets you try a tiny house on for sizeA new startup out of Harvard is taking the off-the-grid retreat and miniaturizing it with 160-square-foot cabins.
Crux
Pope Francis? US approval rates slump sharplyGrowing conservative disaffection appears to be taking a toll on the pope?s Teflon-grade popularity.
Jose Altuve homered with one out in the ninth inning Thursday night as the Astros defeated the Red Sox.
A former New Hampshire reporter got the first substantial interview with Vice President Al Gore about Monica Lewinsky.
The gathering is planned for 7:30 p.m. Saturday near the spot where the child?s body was found in June.
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Mayor Marty Walsh announced this week that the ParkBoston app could be used in five more Boston neighborhoods.
The five family members were found stabbed to death, allegedly by two teenage male relatives of the victims.
The Chucks feature Nike?s Lunarlon technology in the insole, as well as memory foam on the tongue and interior lining of the shoe.
A music venue with a fervent following has taken root in the unlikeliest of places: Fall River.
Several teams from Goose Island Beer Co. are going around to key cities to offer their craft brews. They?re owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, so they have deep pockets to do it.
Design New England
A home with open spaceA new floor plan for a renovated 1960s ranch-style house makes entertaining easy.
Brainiac
Capturing the short, furious lives of dragonfliesDragonflies get their close-up in a new book by a Yale astronomer.
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