John Farrell to be new Red Sox manager

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Farrell will return to Boston to take over as the new Red Sox manager, after serving as a pitching coach here from 2007 to 2010.

US, Iran agree to nuclear talks in principle

The United States and Iran have agreed in principle to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, but the White House denied that a final agreement had been reached.

Death toll rises to 23 in meningitis outbreak

Two more people have died and an additional 13 people have been diagnosed with fungal meningitis in a nationwide outbreak linked to a Framingham firm.

“It’s a well-oiled machine,” said Mary Whipple (front).

48th head of the charles

For US women’s eight, golden road begins in college

The US Olympic women’s crew, which will compete in Sunday’s Head of the Charles Regatta, has ruled the world for seven years, a legacy of the pipeline created by Title IX in 1972.

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Paul Revere’s house in Boston’s North End.

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2012 museums special

Eleven house museums around New England

Throughout New England, dozens of house museums allow visitors to step back into another era in American history.

Chimborazo, Ecuador, from “Views of Nature,” c. 1850.

Q&A | ideas

Were Aristotle and Thoreau ecologists?

Frank Egerton traces the early rumblings of a powerful human idea.

Queen Latifah in Lifetime’s adaptation of “Steel Magnolias.”

movies

Race still a subject, but less of an issue

On Lifetime’s “Steel Magnolias,” blackness — the politics of it, anyway — was in no way the subject of the programming. It was played as universal.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/10/16/BostonGlobe.com/Enterprise/Advance/Images/peace006-767.jpg 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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“I can’t spare this man; he fights,” said Lincoln of Ulysses Grant.

books

‘The Man Who Saved the Union’ by H.W. Brands

sunday baseball notes

Yankees won’t sink to Red Sox lows in 2013
Robyn Yee, above left, and Courtney Oesterling at the Four Seasons; Mitsuko Yoshizumi, left, and daughter Ryoko Allen at the Courtyard Restaurant; blooming tea at L’Espalier.

travel

Boston’s most civilized hour: afternoon tea in some of the city’s most elegant dining rooms
This is Ryan Mallett’s second season with the Patriots, and he’s still waiting for his first action in the regular season.

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Patriots backup Mallett would be ready in a snap
Little Joe Cook sang “Peanuts,” his 1957 hit single, in the basement studio of his Framingham home.

Little Joe Cook recalls high notes of doo-wop fame
In a city with nearly 200 fountains, the J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain’s cast bronze figures were created in 1910 for a Long Island, N.Y., mansion garden. Discovered in a salvage yard around 1951, the fountain was restored and dedicated in Kansas City in 1960.

travel

Kansas City, Mo., gives heritage a hip twist
A rendering of the $75 million complex planned for the Home for Little Wanderers campus in Jamaica Plain.

Little Wanderers campus plan advances despite protest
A reflection in The Harold Parker State Forest

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10 great places for outdoor family adventures

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How to winterize your home
A rendering of Residential Commons at Barry’s Corner looking from Western Avenue.

Harvard offers details on Allston expansion
Lincoln Tavern and Restaurant has seen a steady stream of customers since opening in South Boston this month.

Dining

South Boston hungry for Lincoln Tavern

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Globe photos of the week, Oct. 19, 2012

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A pass intended for Georgia Tech wide receiver Jeff Greene, right, was broken up by Boston College defensive back Sean Sylvia.

BC suffers another blowout loss

Boston College, 0-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and 1-6 overall, hasn’t had a start this bad since 1989, when it lost seven of its first eight en route to a 2-9 season.

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Prosecutors describe sex ring

Suspected leaders of an alleged prostitution ring that stretched to four Boston suburbs coordinated a well-organized operation, prosecutors said.

Columnists

The Green Bay Packers’ Dorsey Levens jumps during the 1998 NFC divisional playoff game.

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Ringing the bell about NFL concussions

LAWRENCE HARMON

Managing the fallout from freed felons

Brian McGrory

Ads up; it’s just way too much
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
President Obama and Mitt Romney at Tuesday’s debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

Juliette Kayyem

Foreign policy and the parental perspective

Edward L. Glaeser

Nobel Prize shows school assignment woes

Dan Shaughnessy

Sox taking too long to hire manager

Yvonne Abraham

Cambridge cheers up about Obama

Brian McGrory

No shame for Rep. John Tierney

Jeff Jacoby

What would Hippocrates say about Question 2?

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President Obama upped his game

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France’s Francois Holland:“The worst is over.”

EU says Spain aid measure will be OK’d by year’s end

European Union leaders said legislation enabling rescue aid to be channeled directly to Spanish banks should be agreed to by the end of the year.

Politics

Mitt Romney campaigned in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Friday.

Romney to spend election night in Boston

As election results stream in on the night of Nov. 6, Mitt Romney will be ensconced at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, according to a campaign official.

Nation & World

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Lebanese and Syrian protesters wave Syrian opposition and Islamist flags near burning tires in the north Lebanese town of Wadi Khaled.

Lebanese prime minister links car bomb to Syria

Lebanon’s prime minister linked the massive car bomb that tore through Beirut to the civil war in Syria, the latest signal that the crisis is inflaming an already tense region.

Arts

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Quinn Marcus conducted one of the impromptu street interviews that just might make her a widely known comedic celebrity.

Emerson student’s street interviews turn into a gig with MTV

“Quinnterviews” is what Quinn Marcus has coined her series of comedic shorts, which air on mtvU, a 24-hour branch of MTV.

“Where do I think the race is? I’m a little confused actually.”

Stu Rothenberg,  editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report

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How grocery shopping got personal
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AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
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How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

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9 hot trends in kitchen design

Opinion

“Mitt Romney, champion of women, is myth in Massachusetts.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“The strategy that underlies American policy, the Carter Doctrine, is now more than 30 years old, and in dire need of an overhaul. …Today, it drives American engagement in a Middle East that looks far different from the region for which it was invented.

Thanassis Cambanis , on the need for a new Middle East policy