Seaport District to get new office tower

The developer of the massive Channel Center complex in Boston’s Seaport District is proposing construction of an 11-story office building, public parks, and a parking garage.

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Elizabeth Warren has been roundly criticized over her claims to Native American ancestry, which appeared in a major legal directory.

Menino plays hard to get in Senate race

Mayor Thomas Menino has said he will not break from his party and back Senator Scott Brown, but has been noncommittal on endorsing Elizabeth Warren.

House targets health spending

Massachusetts House leaders called for new limits on the fees charged by hospitals and doctors and for creation of an agency to monitor medical spending.

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Many Chinese-Americans in the Boston area felt a personal stake in the tense diplomatic standoff over Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng.

Stephen Perez, Jr. was shot in the Theatre District.

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Opinion | lawrence harmon

Boston’s deadliest hour

Extending club licenses until 3 or 4 a.m. won’t eliminate violence. But it would thin out the crowds and give police a better opportunity to arrest more troublemakers.

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Every Sunday, Harvard pre-med student Ryan Christ goes to a Roslindale nursing home to visit the woman he calls his mentor, an 85-year-old physician named Sofia Itkis.

Elizabeth Warren stands with one of her three brothers and her parents in 1955.

Opinion | DANTE RAMOS

Are you ‘diverse’?

For mixed-race Americans who mean neither to exploit their ancestry nor minimize it, brushing aside the issue is harder than it seems.

Dan Shaughnessy

Hawks should be easier prey for Celtics

Before the Celtics make a run at the conference finals, they must beat these Atlanta Hawks. And that’s proving to be a little harder than it should be.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2011/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/05books1.jpg A conversation with Ben Mezrich

The New York Times best-selling author discusses his novels “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

BostonGlobe.com exclusives

A soldier stood guard in front of the Unha-3 rocket at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site in North Korea in April. The launch failed.

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The Asian space race arrives
Kendric Price worked with (from left) Knyzhaun Peete, Christian Clark, Lewis Bryant, and Divine Braxton-Price.

Price honors friend with youth program
A view of Toronto’s waterfront, including the St. Lawrence Market building (foreground).

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Toronto’s history captivates visitors

Bring the Family

Checking out the Boston Athenaeum
Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell received an honorary degree and gave the commencement address.

Powell tells NU graduates world needs them
Wiley Cash weaves together his novel from the narra-tives of three characters.

Book Review

‘A Land More Kind Than Home’ by Wiley Cash

‘Bees and Honey’ concert helps create buzz for photography exhibit
Betty Lee, a resident at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley, talked to her baby doll during activity time. The nursing home has dramatically cut its use of antipsychotic medications by using other ways to calm and comfort patients.

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UMass Medical School quietly gaining star quality

JOSHUA GREEN

Zombie Congress

In an appearance at a state gaming commission forum, lobbyist Frank Fahrenkopf dismissed most concerns of casino foes, except for one. ‘‘The sky is not going to fall. Except one thing which I can’t exclude—traffic. You’re going to have traffic,’’ he said.

Casino lobbyist addresses Mass. regulators

Brian McGrory

Zakim Bridge leaves us blue

Sports

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Game 3: Celtics 90, Hawks 84

Kevin Garnett’s heads-up dunk off a missed layup by Rajon Rondo gave the Celtics an 88-84 lead with 28.1 seconds left in overtime of Game 3, forcing the Hawks to call an immediate timeout.

Celtics down Hawks in OT

Despite all the tricks up Rajon Rondo’s sleeve and the return of shooting ace Ray Allen, Friday’s contest went to overtime before the Celtics took a 90-84 victory.

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Housing advocates showed up to protest against Bank of America by projecting the words of five families who had their homes foreclosed.

Protesters send digitized memo to bank

City Life/Vita Urbana projected the words of homeowners who have either been foreclosed on or facing the threat of losing their homes onto Bank of America buildings.

Columnists

Stephen Perez, Jr. was shot in the Theatre District.

Opinion | lawrence harmon

Boston’s deadliest hour

Dan Shaughnessy

Hawks should be easier prey for Celtics

Adrian Walker

Getting away for his future

Love Letters

Fool her three times, shame on her?
Bill and Giuliana Rancic star in a reality show that took a very serious turn.

Joan Wickersham

When reality TV collides with reality

SCOT LEHIGH

Brown needs to tackle the big issues

Brian McGrory

Zakim Bridge leaves us blue

Tech Lab

Latest Nook e-reader is apt to make customers glow

Edward L. Glaeser

The keys to keeping Boston free of riots

JOSHUA GREEN

Zombie Congress

A vessel monitored an oil burn in the area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Opinion | Joan Vennochi

The BP aftermath? Nothing

Juliette Kayyem

Al Qaeda loses its way

Arts

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Tony-nominated Clive Goodwin on ‘Once’

The resident sound designer at the American Repertory Theater, Goodwin got his first Tony nomination this week — one of 11 nods to the Broadway‘s “Once.”

Politics

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Numbers of black, Hispanic voters fall

The large decrease is attributed to the ailing economy, which forced many Americans to move in search of work or because of other financial upheaval.

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Social media blitz lands a job for Dave

Dave Cutler’s frenzy of social media self-promotion finally paid off in April when he landed a job as a social media specialist at a Somerville software firm.

Nation & World

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A guard tower in the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, co-defendants appear before Guantanamo judge

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four accused co-conspirators appeared in public for the first time in more than three years on Saturday.

‘‘I’m not saying I can change the world, but I’m planning to make a difference one child at a time.”

Kendric Price,  who started a youth program

Magazine

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144 free things to do around Boston
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In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?

Opinion

“Our Dilbert-like workplace bureaucracies — the hiring committees, the stilted phone interviews, the people scurrying around to deliver what they think the boss wants — often can’t detect the kinds of diversity that matter most.”

Dante Ramos 

Ideas

“Fiction’s happy endings make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society.”

Jonathan Gottschall, on why stories are good for us