House passes compromise three-strikes bill

The measure would eliminate parole for habitual criminal offenders while reducing some mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.

Richard Salus sat on one of the tree stumps left behind at his Sudbury home.

As NStar clear-cuts trees near transmission lines, communities resist

Company officials say clear-cutting is the only way to guarantee reliable power, but residents are so outraged that a police unit had to be dispatched in Sudbury to keep the peace.

Brenda Delgado (center) participated in a class at Urban College, which may have to cancel its fall courses.

College for working women faces closure over deficit of $250,000

The Urban College of Boston, a two-year school that educates 600 women from low-income and immigrant backgrounds, is on the ropes thanks to deep financial troubles.

Limited prostate treatment backed

The study found that men in their 60s with early-stage prostate cancer who had surgery didn’t live significantly longer than those whose cancers were monitored.

Keith Mills, an owner of Esprit du Vin, hired his daughter Chloe (background). “It’s a win-win situation,” he said.

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Parents helping to fill summer-job void

Summer jobs for teenagers have become a precious commodity, and some parents — desperate for their kids to have work — are stepping in.

Yvonne Abraham

Boston superintendent controversy not a race matter

Carol Johnson made a grievous error in failing to discipline a headmaster charged with domestic assault. Casting her woes in racial terms is too easy. It’s also insulting.

Caroline Pugliesi, sales executive for a software firm, commutes from her North End home to South Boston.

Young workers pushing companies to locate in cities

To draw young talent, firms are moving from the suburbs into urban neighborhoods with convenient public transit and a lively food and bar scene.

Bob Ryan

Penn State should talk of ending football

Penn State needs to shut the football program down for two years, and the school needs to rethink why it exists.

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Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk pointed to marine railways at a stop along the city’s new harborwalk.

Gloucester hopes to lure tourists with high-tech harborwalk
Weymouth in a yellow hi-lo top from Forever21 ($12.50) and red jeans from MadeWell ($88).

Kara Weymouth pursues fashion as blogger TheBostonista

Postal stamp revives the Williams-DiMaggio rivalry
SHIFTBoston ran a competition for ideas to illuminate Copley Square. Here, “Crystal Sun,” a sketch of one the three finalists.

style

SHIFTBoston attempts to light up Copley Square
Only about one-third of the candlepins lanes that were available in the late 1980s are still available today.

Candlepin bowling lovers aim for a comeback
A flying leap from the dock at Castle Island was one way to contend with the humidity and 97-degree heat on Tuesday. Many others found respite in air-conditioning on what turned out to be the 110th anniversary of the cooling technology.

Amid blistering heat, quest for air conditioning
W. D. Foster, a disabled Iraq War veteran, called voters from the Obama Alabama headquarters in Birmingham.

Obama camp rallies base in red states
Ryan Overberg plays the Presley-esque singer who thrills the girls in Reagle Music Theatre’s “Bye Bye Birdie.”

STAGE REVIEW

‘Bye Bye Birdie’ sizzles in its 50s
Megan Porter, a college fellow, picks beans with intern Sophie Burnieka.

Cambridge students grow it and cook it
MITT ROMNEY

Romney’s potential running mates
“Double Time” author Jane Roper and her husband, Alastair Moock, with their now 5-year-old twins, Clio (in yellow) and Elsa, at their Medford home.

G cover

Mother of twins chronicles terror, joy of first three years

The parking garage in front of the New England Aquarium as seen from the Greenway in this June 2, 2010 file photo.

Paul McMorrow

How to make parking garages in Boston obsolete

Sports

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Red Sox 10, White Sox 1

Red Sox’ Cody Ross (right) gets up in arms as he celebrates with Jacoby Ellsbury and Adrian Gonzalez (28) after hitting the second of his two home runs.

Cody Ross, Adrian Gonzalez provide punch for Red Sox

Ross and Gonzalez made up for David Ortiz’s absence, going a combined 6 for 9 with 4 runs, 10 RBIs, and three home runs.

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Storms break heat wave, usher in cooler weather

Lightning and heavy rain swept across the state Wednesday afternoon, flooding roadways, downing trees and leaving more than 20,000 people without power.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

Michelle Bachmann’s anti-Muslim paranoia

Tech Lab

Photo sites worth seeing
The Rev. Michel Louis, (seated left), Lissa Alphonse, and Egyptian tour guide Hithem Mohamed rested at a police station after they were released by their kidnappers in Egypt.

joan vennochi

Kerry, Brown compete for credit after hostage release

Yvonne Abraham

Boston superintendent controversy not a race matter

Bob Ryan

Penn State should talk of ending football

Jeff Jacoby

A book lover’s lament

scot lehigh

Echoes of the Ryan budget
Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester’s season-long struggles — he’s 5-7 — continued with a loss to the White Sox.

Dan Shaughnessy

No excuse for Jon Lester’s frustrating season

Brian McGrory

There’s no way to avoid political ads on TV

farah stockman

Uncertainty on taxes has a high cost for US economy
Kevin Youkilis, left, caught up with ex-teammate David Ortiz before Monday’s game.

Bob Ryan

Kevin Youkilis deserves his comfortable spot

Boston Capital

A struggle for straight answers from Romney

Business

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Workers will get $31k in back pay

The state attorney general found a Woburn firm’s subcontractor paid illegally low wages to men from a Philadelphia church who renovated Boston’s Copley Place Marriott hotel.

Politics

Mitt Romney has pledged to release a complete 2011 tax return but said he will end his disclosures after that.

Republicans push Romney to get it over with, release tax returns

Allies say Mitt Romney could score points for transparency and weather a few stormy news cycles about his wealth, but the candidate appears certain the tempest wouldn’t subside.

Nation & World

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A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting in Damascus, striking a serious blow to Bashar Assad’s brain trust.

Deadly blast strikes at heart of Bashar Assad’s inner circle

The Damascus bombing killed at least three of the Syrian leader’s most senior aides in the most audacious challenge to Assad’s power since the uprising began 17 months ago.

Arts

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MOVIE REVIEW

Christian Bale as Batman.

What a superhero movie is supposed to look like

Christopher Nolans’s Batman trilogy ends with an epic — even majestic — crash in “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Style

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Sara Faith Alterman (the author of this piece) and her husband, Sam Hawes, on their windy wedding day.

Wedding season shows promise

Attending nuptials as a newlywed provides great perspective about the recent past — and the future.

“I won’t know who, you won’t know who, but there are a lot of innocent people out there who won’t be harmed because of this.”

Les ­Gosule,  on the tough-on-crime “three strikes” bill passed by the Massachusetts House

Magazine

The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World
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N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?

Opinion

“According to the new wave of anti-Muslim accusations, America’s enemy takes the form of a woman in national security who marries a man outside her faith as a decoy to her real intentions.”

Juliette Kayyem 

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