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Police call attack calculated and deliberate

James Holmes, the suspect in Friday’s shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater, had been preparing for the attack for months, police said today.

Man detained in Logan left fake explosives in car

State Police detained a salesman for iRobot Corp. Saturday afternoon after he left replica C-4 plastic explosives in a rental car.

Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 3

Red Sox drop 2d straight to Toronto

The Red Sox blew a 3-0 lead to lose for the second consecutive night to the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway.

VP speculation marks latest stage of Kelly Ayotte’s ascent

The New Hampshire senator is being considered as a serious contender to join Mitt Romney’s Republican ticket.

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opinion | JOANNA WEISS

In the company of women

Here’s to new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, for her induction into a club that we probably shouldn’t have at all.

Michael Angelakos and Passion Pit returned to Boston in June for a performance at the Bank of America Pavilion.

Boston’s Passion Pit grapples with rising pressures

Michael Angelakos, the mastermind behind Passion Pit, discusses their new album, “Gossamer.”

From left: Al Pacino, Marlon Brandon, James Caan, and John Cazale in Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster epic “The Godfather.’’

movies

Looking back on 1972’s sizzling summer of film

Obviously, any year that saw the release of “The Godfather” deserves an honored place in movie history.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Enterprise/Advance/Images/aquarium005--90x90.jpg The New England Aquarium

The aquarium opened in the summer of 1969 and was part of the waterfront urban renewal plan that transformed Central Wharf.

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Ebizo Ichikawa in “Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai.” Takashi Miike’s 3-D remake of Masaki Kobayashi’s “Harakiri” opens at the Brattle on Friday.

Movies

6 ways to watch the samurai

travel

Cycling on a ‘Cape Cod Pilgrimage’

Live pigeon shooting.

ideas

Lost events of the Olympics
One of Lassen park’s many volcanic domes.

Travel | The list

Five uncrowded national parks
Lila Hempel-Edgers rode her bicycle on the Bruce Freeman Bike Trail.

Bring the Family

Blazing another bike trail
The line at Dresser Hill’s ordering windows did not deter customers from buying ice cream at the popular destination.

The Roads to Summer

Dresser Hill ice cream offers a summer boost
Eileen Deignan checks on her patient while medical assistants Stina McKenna, left, and Jen Pratt take notes on iPads.

Living with screens

Clicking with your doctor
Jim Graczyk battles a fish with guide D.J. Shinduke ready with a net. Graczyk’s late son, Jeremy, had loved fishing.

Sunday Preview | Travel

Fishing, remembering on an island off British Columbia
Members of the sketch-comedy team the Dowry are (bottom row, from left) Natalie Baseman, Laura Clark, and Jackie Arko and (top row, from left) Paul Barner, Brian Goddard, and Hannah Foell.

G Force

Comedy troupe the Dowry prepares for its final bow
Jerenso Figueroa, 5, cooled off in the water fountains in Cordero Park in Chelsea.

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Globe photos of the week
Strip T’s Burger.

Globe Magazine

25 best burgers around Boston
Cody Ross won Thursday night’s game with a walkoff, three-run homer against the White Sox.

Dan Shaughnessy

Cody Ross loves the pressure

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British Open

Tiger Woods played a shot off the first tee during the third round of the British Open on Saturday.

Could be a tough road ahead for Tiger Woods

Woods remained five strokes behind leader Adam Scott, but he has never won a major when trailing going into the last round.

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Johnson said that the review of her staff would probably lead to a major shakeup and possibly some departures.

Boston school superintendent announces full review of top staff

Superintendent Carol R. Johnson said a full review of her leadership team would likely lead to a major shakeup.

Columnists

Opinion | DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Time to wake up on gun control

opinion | LAWRENCE HARMON

Schools need justice, not kindness

Adrian Walker

Lowell teens fight for right to vote

Christopher L. Gasper

NBA’s Olympic age-limit proposal isn’t golden

scot lehigh

Romney and Kerry’s seesawing political fortunes

CARLO ROTELLA

Creative impulses help shape our neighborhoods

Steven Syre

A word of caution on Mass. health cost reform

Dan Shaughnessy

Pedroia says he and Valentine get along fine

Juliette Kayyem

Bachmann’s anti-Muslim paranoia

Yvonne Abraham

Boston superintendent controversy not a race matter

Tech Lab

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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.

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Kerry, Brown compete for credit after hostage release

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Murdoch resigns from some News Corp. boards

The move suggests Rupert Murdoch may be distancing himself from his British newspaper interests, which have been shaken by a phone hacking scandal.

Politics

Campaigns take somber tone after shootings

In separate appearances Friday, President Obama and Mitt Romney muted expected attacks on each other to instead deliver somber tributes to the victims.

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At least 10 killed in Taliban attack in Pakistan

A suicide car bomber attacked a rival militant commander’s compound in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 people.

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Stage Review

Lauren Weintraub (left, with Elena Carmichael) in the lead role of North Shore Music Theatre’s production of “Annie.”

On the North Shore, an ‘Annie’ for hard times

Despite the down economy, there’s nothing like hearing “Tomorrow” to make you think that financial security is just around the corner.

‘‘There were bullet [casings] just falling on my head. They were burning my forehead.’’

Jennifer Seeger,  a survivor of the Aurora, Colo., shooting

Magazine

The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World
The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

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

“It is time, not just for the two men who would be president, but for all of us to act before the next American gun apocalypse.”

Derrick Z. Jackson 

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