Lawmakers targeted in probation inquiry

Federal prosecutors investigating the Probation Department are focusing on Democratic legislators who may have benefited from the agency’s allegedly rigged hiring system.

The house at the left was built in 1867 and is listed at $2.35 million. It includes a three-family house on a separate parcel.

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South Boston’s elegant, storied mansions up for sale

Longtime residents worry the only people who can afford the two estates in Southie are developers who will tear them down and build condominiums.

Health cost bill may not attack key problem

As Mass. legislative leaders close in on a major health cost-control bill, key efforts to attack the market power of caregivers that demand high prices appear to be in jeopardy.

Yvonne Abraham

East Boston shipyard has an ugly beauty

With spectacular views of the harbor and the city skyline, and even an outdoor sculpture gallery, the Boston Harbor Shipyard is a phenomenally cool spot.

“The addictive lure is believing that if you just play long enough you will win,” said Deborah Greenslit.

Joel Page for The Boston Globe

Jackpot fueled therapist’s gambling addiction

Deborah Greenslit had modest dreams after winning big at Mohegan Sun. Two years later, she has gambled them away.

Jeff Jacoby

Life sentence not ‘unusual’ for minors

After a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court, the families of murder victims nationwide have lost the reassurance that their loved ones’ killers would never be turned loose.

“To make more progress in the education of leaders, we have to get better at translating knowing into doing,’’ says Nitin Nohria, the 10th dean of Harvard Business School.

Modernizing the Harvard MBA program

Nitin Nohria has instituted unprecedented change and transformed an institutional culture in his first two years at the helm of the Harvard Business School.

Two from Massachusetts held in Egypt

A Bedouin tribesman said he kidnapped two American tourists — the Rev. Michel Louis of Dorchester and Lisa Alphonse of Everett.

Clues sought for cause of 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire

A local group of librarians and historians hopes to find clues that will shed new insights on the long-held mysteries of the Cocoanut Grove fire.

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Dubbed the “Coney Island of New England,” Revere Beach was established as the country’s first public beach in 1896, attracting people from all over the region.

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The Clemens trial, though he was acquitted, was a reminder of the Mitchell Report’s impact since Roger Clemens was mentioned prominently in the report that became the official document of steroids in baseball.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Mitchell Report laid groundwork for major strides

movies

‘Knight’ time is the right time
It was barely two years ago that Kyle Arrington was overjoyed at making a roster out of Patriots training camp.

Sunday Football Notes

Kyle Arrington won’t pick this time to slack off

Opinion | Linda J. Bilmes

Afghanistan is missing from the campaign

Just what’s wrong with doping?

Movie reviews

Hit the theaters

opinion | Kenny Wiley

Stop pretending racism is over
The members of Aerosmith (including, from left, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, Steven Tyler, and Joe Perry) say their fans are a big part of the band’s new energy.

music

Aerosmith puts the ‘function’ in ‘dysfunction’
Monitors let every “student’’ see chefs’ techniques up close.

Travel

At Maine cooking school, classes are as varied
Ernest Borgnine in a scene from “Marty”; his performance in the 1955 film earned him an Academy Award for best actor.

Appreciation

Ernest Borgnine: the heavy as hero (however briefly)

Globe Magazine | Soundtrack

A Red Sox street party on Yawkey Way

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Rays 5, Red Sox 3

Clay Buchholz came off the disabled list after nearly a month away.

With no relief, Red Sox fall to Rays

Clay Buchholz came off the disabled list and pitched well, striking out eight, but the Red Sox gave up three runs late.

Metro

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Justin Gordon of Groveland carved out one of the faces on his sand sculpture at the competition on Revere Beach Friday.

Sand sculptors compete for title on Revere Beach

Ten sculptors competed for the top prize of $5,000 in the National Sand Sculpting Festival.

Columnists

(From left) John Stockton, Chris Mullin, and Charles Barkley had a golden experience in Barcelona in 1992.

Bob Ryan

‘Dream Team’ book a must read for fans
MIT’s Rehmi Post, Thad Starner, and Steve Mann with professor Alex Pentland, part of the Perceptual Computing Group.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

MIT ‘borgs’ still back wearable technology

Jeff Jacoby

Life sentence not ‘unusual’ for minors

Yvonne Abraham

East Boston shipyard has an ugly beauty
Boston school superintendent Carol Johnson mishandled the discipline of a former headmaster.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Carol Johnson’s mind-boggling blunders
Joe Paterno was pictured in this Sept. 30, 2008 file photo.

Christopher L. Gasper

Joe Paterno chose his legacy over integrity

Adrian Walker

Mothers united by enduring pain of senseless death
The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brian McGrory

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

Boston Capital

Why the Libor scandal matters to everyone

joshua green

George W. Bush is the winner in tax cut duel

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Your identity, adrift

SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?

Business

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Iris Matos carves fruit into bouquets and other creations as the production manager at at Edible Arrangements.

‘Fruit artist’ puts her skills on display

Iris Matos prides herself on beautifully arranged bouquets and arrangements of sculpted fresh fruit that she creates for Edible Arrangements in Methuen.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Republicans are nervous about what some see as the Romney campaign’s relative passivity in the face of the onslaught by the Obama team.

Wisconsin governor offers Mitt Romney advice

Governor Scott Walker, who survived a tough recall election last month, has some advice for Romney: Get on offense and stay on offense.

Nation & World

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Adnan Hawash (right), a former Syrian army officer staying in Antakya, Turkey, learned that his son had been killed in fighting Thursday.

Reports of Syrian massacre challenged

New details emerging about what activists called a massacre of civilians near Hama indicated that it was more likely an uneven clash between the military and local fighters.

Arts

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Olympia Dukakis posed with some props used in the Shakespeare and Company production of “The Tempest.’’

Olympia Dukakis channels the storm within

At 81, Olympia Dukakis seems to be having the time of her life as she explores the violent undercurrents of Shakespeare’s last play as Prospera in “The Tempest.”

Travel

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Seguin Island’s lighthouse is the second oldest in Maine and its highest above sea level.

Travel to remote Seguin Island and its historic light station

The 64-acre Maine island can be reached seasonally by boat or, for the experienced and adventurous, sea kayak.

Books

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‘When we were the Kennedys’ by Monica Wood

Shattering loss darkens a sun-drenched life in Monica Wood’s memoir of the early ’60s.

“Every kid in Southie loved those houses. I would hate for them to tear it down.”

Joanne Sweeney,  a Lifelong South Boston resident

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12 Bostonians Changing the World
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N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
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A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?

Opinion

“The American-led intervention in Libya may have given Al Qaeda one of its greatest triumphs since 9/11.”

Stephen Kinzer 

Ideas

“Iran’s so-called halal Internet will be a kind of anti-Internet—a self-contained loop within Iran’s borders featuring only regime-approved sites, and cut off from the World Wide Web.”

Abraham Riesman,  on bottled, national Internets