Romney, Ryan hit the campaign trail

Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan cemented their new partnership in front of a raucous crowd at a high-energy campaign stop in North Carolina Sunday.

Egypt president orders retirement of top officers

Egypt’s president ordered the defense minister and chief of staff to retire and canceled the military-declared constitutional amendments that gave top generals wide powers.

Bob Ryan | his farewell column

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Ryan started as a summer intern in 1968, fulfilled a fantasy of working for the Boston Globe, and now bids farewell to readers.

In six innings, Jon Lester gave up one run and three hits, and struck out 12 batters.

Red Sox 14, Indians 1

Red Sox cruise as Lester, hitters dominate

The Red Sox had little trouble in the final game of their four-game series in Cleveland, with the team’s hitters erupting and starter Jon Lester stifling the Indians.

London brings down the curtain

London is closing the Olympics with a pop star-fueled ceremony filled with British-based acts such as The Who and the Spice Girls.

Athletes from France are seen during the closing ceremony at Olympic Stadium.

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Athletes from France are seen during the closing ceremony at Olympic Stadium.

An athlete held a German flag.

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An athlete held a German flag.

Ethiopian athletes formed a conga line.

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Ethiopian athletes formed a conga line.

Spanish athletes were at the ceremony.

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Spanish athletes were at the ceremony.

Athletes gathered near the Olympic flame at the closing.

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Athletes gathered near the Olympic flame at the closing.

Flagbearers paraded at the stadium.

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Flagbearers paraded at the stadium.

An actor recited a speech by Winston Churchill from a replica of Big Ben during the closing.

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An actor recited a speech by Winston Churchill from a replica of Big Ben during the closing.

The crowd at Olympic Stadium for the closing ceremony.

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The crowd at Olympic Stadium for the closing ceremony.

The band Madness performed.

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The band Madness performed.

Performers on bicycles with orange hoods were part of the closing.

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Performers on bicycles with orange hoods were part of the closing.

Performers waved British flags.

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Performers waved British flags.

US 107, SPAIN 100

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The US team was down by a point at the half and up by only one point after three quarters, but pulled away in the fourth.

Swirl team members (from left) Gretchen Fleming, Jackie Schwoeri, Jody Rose, Hilmi Ozguc, and Chris Necklas.

Innovation economy

Boston developers’ newest apps target the brick and mortar set

Americans still spend 95 percent of their retail dollars offline, and a pair of local companies are trying to influence the way they do so.

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The Cape Cod Canal was opened with much fanfare on July 29, 1914. It bore only a slight resemblance to the canal we know today.

Globe exclusives

Young illegal immigrants may seek reprieves amid questions
Kevin Craddock, a recovering addict, says “I’ve been around the legal system a lot, but never like this.”

Boston’s Homeless Court helps defendants get a fresh start
Rashida Jones and her “Celeste and Jesse Forever” co-writer and costar, Will McCormack, had a short-term relationship but have since become long-term writing partners.

movies

Rashida Jones comes into her own
Dan Duquette was fired by Red Sox ownership 10 years ago, but he has returned in Baltimore and may be overseeing the first winning season there since 1997.

Sunday Baseball Notes

For Dan Duquette, a comeback victory
Kaitlin Kilpatrick works at FreePriceAlerts.com.

New Hampshire is building a tech cluster in Boston’s shadow
Will Randy Moss be the receiver who dazzled with the Patriots from 2007-09? Or will he be the enigma that teams couldn’t wait to get rid of?

Sunday Football Notes

Randy Moss back on field with 49ers
Skaters join Dorothy Hamill, center, and the coaches at the end of Hamill’s Nantucket Skating Fantasy Camp last summer.

travel

Seven offbeat things to do on Nantucket
Bain Capital, with $65 billion in assets, has been squarely in the political limelight ever since Mitt Romney’s Republican primary rivals began knocking his private-sector background as “vulture capitalism.”

Globe Magazine

How Bain Capital is trying — reluctantly — to clean up its name
Lillian McLean, 85, said she is upset that she will have to relocate after living at Goddard House for three years.

Goddard House nursing home a casualty of funding, times
Vincent Carvelli checked out a recliner Friday at Bernie & Phyl’s in Braintree. The store has prepared for a busy weekend.

Mass. sales tax holiday cheers retail sector

Ideas

How America learned to love summer reading
Artistic director Diana Coluntino in the doorway of the Revolving Museum, the art space in Lowell that closed last month.

Sunday Preview | Arts

The Revolving Museum comes to a stop

Sports

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Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, waved to the gallery on the seventh green during the final round of the PGA Championship Sunday.

Rory McIlroy with the lead at PGA

McIlroy was 11-under par with six holes remaining to play at the PGA Championship.

Metro

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Fans of ‘Jaws’ traveled from all over to Martha’s Vineyard, where the film was shot. Kaitlyn Crichton of Canada posed at an exhibit.

‘Jaws’ draws fans of the 1975 classic to Martha’s Vineyard for festival

“Jaws” fanatics have descended on the island, where the classic was filmed, gathering in packs of diehards to hunt down actors from the movie and prowl locations where scenes were shot.

Columnists

Dan Shaughnessy

A few thoughts come bobbing up

Bob Ryan | his farewell column

Bob Ryan says goodbye after 44 years

JOAN VENNOCHI | welfare and the election

An old wedge issue returns in the campaign

jeff jacoby | welfare and the election

Why should we beg anyone to vote?
Xian Wen Li said he was among those cheated by May Woo of Sky Energy Travel in Chinatown.

Yvonne Abraham

Chinatown travel agency gives immigrants a tough lesson

LAWRENCE HARMON

Does anthrax risk end at city limits?

Adrian Walker

Scott Brown vs. ‘the welfare vote’
Sunday’s final will be a rematch of the 2008 title game after Team USA and Spain won their respective semifinals.

Bob Ryan

Spain regroups for golden rematch with US

Opinion | scot lehigh

Who’s a better leader: Brown or Warren?

Opinion | JOSHUA GREEN

On Romney’s vice presidential pick, think dull

Brian McGrory

Mother, missing daughter reunited by troopers
Quarterback Tom Brady only saw action on the game’s first two series but he had plenty to say to his receiving corps.

Christopher L. Gasper

Change of seasons is welcome

Business

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Sovereign has one branch in Delaware, which it calls its “main office” in filings.

Sovereign Bank opens Delaware branch to skirt banking restrictions

Sovereign recently started calling its modest, five-employee operation in Wilmington, Del. its “main office” to avoid interest rate caps in Mass. and elsewhere.

Politics

News analysis

Paul Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee and has proposed changes in Medicare and Medicaid.

Selection of Paul Ryan may add substance to campaign

By picking Ryan, Mitt Romney is embracing a strategy focused on some very detailed, and in some quarters, highly controversial solutions to the nation’s fiscal problems.

Nation & World

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TSA officers allege racial profiling at Logan

More than 30 federal officers at Logan Airport said a program intended to spot telltale mannerisms of potential terrorists has become a magnet for racial profiling.

Arts

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Artistic director Diana Coluntino in the doorway of the Revolving Museum, the art space in Lowell that closed last month.

Revolving Museum comes to a stop

The museum, which moved to Lowell 10 years ago with great fanfare, is closing its doors on a colorful past.

Travel

Contemporary art at Santralistanbul, the former power plant turned industrial archeology and art museum.

Journey to Istanbul’s Santralistanbul

Turkey’s first industrial archeology museum, Santralistanbul, aims to promote contemporary Turkish art while teaching visitors something about the production of electrical power.

Books

book review

‘Dearie,’ the Julia Child biography by Bob Spitz

A new biography helps make clear just how much of an impact Julia Child had.

“[Paul Ryan] looks amiable, and is amiable, but he’s an economic extremist.”

Representative Barney Frank 

Magazine

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How Bain Capital is trying — reluctantly — to clean up its name
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Can GPS find you a mate?
The cover for the July 29 2012 issue

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
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25 best burgers around Boston

Opinion

“Ten or 20 years from now, will today’s Wheaties-box stars have trod that same road, from being the people we hope our kids emulate to the kind we warn them against?”

Tom Keane 

Ideas

“The changing ways we’ve seen summer reading — first as an indulgence, then as a vice, and now, somewhat surprisingly, as a source of pride — says a lot about our changing attitudes toward just what leisure should be.”

Craig Fehrman