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Top US general caught up in Petraeus scandal

General John Allen allegedly had ‘‘inappropriate communications’’ with a woman who received threatening e-mails from the mistress of General David Petraeus.

Kerry may be choice for secretary of defense

President Obama is considering asking Senator Kerry to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team.

Globe editor Martin Baron going to Washington Post

Baron, who oversaw The Boston Globe when it won six Pulitzer Prizes over the past decade, will become the executive editor of The Washington Post.

Group’s faith rule stirs clash at Tufts University

Tufts is considering whether an evangelical Christian student group should be stripped of its official status for requiring that its leaders adhere to the faith.

Eric Fehrnstrom (middle) worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential run.

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Critical eyes on team behind Mitt Romney, Scott Brown

Republican insiders have raised questions about whether The Shawmut Group spread itself too thin with two of the biggest races in the country.

Owner of Framingham drug firm faulted

Pharmacist Barry Cadden, co-owner of the pharmacy blamed for the deadly national meningitis outbreak, has a long history of not cooperating with federal regulators.

Major tasks face new Massport chief

Thomas Glynn says the agency’s biggest challenges are adding international routes out of Logan, modernizing port facilities, and developing the East Boston waterfront.

For some, doping case hurts Livestrong image

After the fallout from the Lance Armstrong scandal, the wearers of the 80 million Livestrong bracelets sold face a dilemma: Wear them, or ditch them?

Book Review

Man vs. rooster in Brian McGrory’s ‘Buddy’

The Globe columnist takes the pet memoir to a hilarious new place as a crazed rooster competes with him over who will rule his new family’s suburban roost.

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Handel and Haydn Society Dress Rehearsal

How does a performance get from rehearsal to the concert hall? Join us for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the music happens.

Globe exclusives

Shaw’s, the state’s second-largest supermarket operator with 84 stores, recently laid off workers.

Mass. grocers scramble to keep up

Ari Graynor, a veteran of 22 films at age 29, had her first starring movie role this summer in “For a Good Time, Call. . .” She is also in a new Broadway play titled “The Performers.”

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Advice for raising a child star

A former Boston Common bathroom retains its original look, but now displays the Earl of Sandwich chain name.

On Boston Common, sandwiches fit for an earl

Frame by Frame

A summer sojourn in the south of France

Aimee Rose Ranger (as Procne) and Jen O’Connor (as Philomela) “Ted Hughes’ Tales From Ovid.”

Stage Review

Whistler’s ‘Tales From Ovid’ reaches for the sky

Stephan Ross (in striped uniform) and family members of late soldier Steve Sattler (seen in framed picture) met Sunday.

Holocaust survivor unites with family of benefactor

Globe magazine

Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians

Elliott Carter’s work honoring the Bicentennial, “A Symphony for Three Orchestras,” divided that ensemble into three often disputatious groups.

Ideas

The American music of Elliott Carter

Comics

The funny pages

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Blind often afflicted with sleep disorder

“I’ll take any win. I’ll take any win,” said coach Bill Belichick, whose Patriots have arrived at 6-3 unevenly.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots are simply untrustworthy

Commuter rail customers on all North Station lines will be able to purchase and display tickets on their smartphones starting Monday, with South Station lines and ferries expected to follow after Thanksgiving.

Ticketing app for MBTA rail rides expands

Sports

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Kevin Garnett scored 15 points — none easier than this late dunk — as Boston earned its third road win in four games.

Celtics hang on to beat the Bulls

Kevin Garnett scored 15 points — including a critical dunk late in the fourth quarter — as Boston earned its third road win in four games.

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A police investigator photographed evidence following a fatal accident at Harvard and Brighton avenues Monday.

Bicyclist struck, killed by MBTA bus

A 21-year-old man was fatally struck by a MBTA bus Monday as he rode a bicycle through a busy Allston intersection, officials said.

Politics

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Mexico President Felipe Calderon called marijuana legalization by US states ‘‘a paradigm change on the part of those entities in respect to the current international system.’’

US marijuana votes irk Latin leaders

The group declared that votes by two US states to legalize marijuana have important implications for efforts to quash drug smuggling.

Columnists

Farah Stockman

Fact-free fracking

Boston Capital

Big Bay State players may face showdown

David Petraeus walked the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 18 to ring the opening bell.

joanna weiss

The blindness of hero worship

“I’ll take any win. I’ll take any win,” said coach Bill Belichick, whose Patriots have arrived at 6-3 unevenly.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots are simply untrustworthy

Adrian Walker

Jamaica Plain fight has Home in bind

Hitcase Pro ruggedized iPhone case.

Tech Lab Plus

This iPhone case can take a hit

James Carroll

Despite heroism, US should rethink wars

Innovation Economy

New app aims to link Tweets, TV shows

Joanna Weiss

The new face of the GOP

BC freshman running back David Dudeck gets stacked up by a pair of Irish defenders.

Christopher L. Gasper

Notre Dame’s revival is gold for college football

Juliette Kayyem

Bring veteran services into the future

Joan Vennochi

Governor Patrick needs to focus on Mass.

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The Long Island Power Authority said floodwaters that reached breaker boxes complicated its repair work.

Long Islanders fume over power outages

Two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, almost 60,000 customers of the Long Island Power Authority are still without power.

Business

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The exterior of Ford’s Transit Connect Wagon has the tapered nose and trapezoid grill of Ford’s cars.

Ford calls new Transit Connect a ‘people mover’

To the average buyer — or, in fact, to everyone outside of Ford Motor Co. — it will appear that Ford is getting back into the minivan business.

Arts

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Album Review | POP

Christina Aguilera refocuses on her own voice in ‘Lotus’

“Lotus” is a good start in the effort to refocus attention on Aguilera’s skills and scrub our memories of 2010’s disastrous “Bionic.”

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Q&A

“I wanted to create a book that was almost like a scrapbook,” Michael Feinstein said on “The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs.”

Michael Feinstein rhapsodizes anew about the Gershwins

Feinstein, a musician and educator, has a new book titled “The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs.”

Magazine

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Nov 11, 2012

Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians

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Nov 4, 2012

How to be a New England vegetarian in winter

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Oct 28, 2012

The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?

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Oct 21, 2012

A new home with a traditional feel

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