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Mass. residents on Boy Scout ‘perversion files’

Forty-five people from Massachusetts are listed in the secret “perversion files” released by the Boy Scouts of America by order of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Groups such as America 360 and the League of Conservation Voters have flooded mailboxes, trying to sway voters.

Outside cash fuels blizzard of attack mailings

Mass. mailboxes are being besieged by doctored photos of Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren as the Senate race enters the homestretch.

Brian McGrory

Ads up; it’s just way too much

Boston has been invaded by the Outdoor Advertising Association and the entire city has basically gone to hell.

Ethan Ruby smoked from a vaporizer packed with a small quantity of marijuana at his Denver home.

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Law, policy thwart research on marijuana

Foes say medical marijuana is unproven, but advocates see legal barriers to studies.

Steward, Partners hospitals reach deal on trauma care

Steward Health Care will send its most severely injured patients from emergency rooms to Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s.

Fungus in outbreak matched to pharmacy

A fungus in vials from the Framingham pharmacy at the heart of the national meningitis outbreak matches the type of fungus making most people sick.

Boston Capital

Government a lousy venture capitalist

This week’s bankruptcy filing by Waltham battery company A123 Systems is just the latest example.

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Glamour on overdrive in Mario Testino photos at the MFA

With great fanfare, the first US museum shows open for the fashion and celebrity photographer.

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The 1969 peace rally

The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam on Oct. 15, 1969 was a huge gathering of antiwar protesters across the United States, with an estimated 100,000 people assembled at the Boston Common.

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CSNNE postgame show has Patriots covered

Bank of America plans to open a new supersized branch in the Boston building that once FAO Schwarz and Shreve, Crump & Low next summer. It will close two smaller area branches.

Back Bay slated for a new Bank of America ‘flagship’ branch

Lar Lubovitch (here rehearsing in 2010) was among the first choreographers to use the music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich.

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Lar Lubovitch on choreography and crisis-making

The Crimson have won 14 straight under Tim Murphy, who is aiming for his third undefeated season.

Christopher L. Gasper

Harvard football is schooling competition

At night, the lit-up sanctuary is a welcoming presence.

opinion | JOAN WICKERSHAM

Building a sanctuary

Congolese troupe Staff Benda Bilili performing at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Wednesday.

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Staff Benda Bilili raw and vivacious at ICA

Actor and director Tom McCarthy (right), who played the role of a journalist in the final seaqson of HBO’s “The Wire,” has been hired for a movie based on the Boston Globe’s reporting of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.

Movie to be based on Globe reporting of Catholic sex abuse scandal

Ethel and Bobby Kennedy play with two of their 11 children in a scene from the HBO film “Ethel.”

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Ethel Kennedy and family remember

Andrew Campbell got his family involved in his sport.

For these rowers, Head of Charles is family time

David Johnson and Kate Morkeski load a device that feeds fertilizer into the salt marsh on Plum Island.

Study: Fertilizer harms Plum Island

President Obama and Mitt Romney at Tuesday’s debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

Juliette Kayyem

Foreign policy and the parental perspective

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox taking too long to hire manager

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Multiple major league sources said there are discussions going on between the Blue Jays and Red Sox concerning a deal for Toronto manager John Farrell.

Red Sox and Blue Jays are discussing John Farrell

There are discussions going on between the Jays and Sox concerning a deal for the Toronto manager.

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The movements of the coyote, seen here around Flint Street, in Mattapan caused a stir and prompted officials to briefly secure the Mildred Avenue K-8 School as a precaution.

Coyote captured in Mattapan

A coyote in Mattapan was captured after an hourlong hunt, the latest example of wildlife encroachment in Boston.

Columnists

opinion | JOAN WICKERSHAM

Building a sanctuary

Brian McGrory

Ads up; it’s just way too much