John Farrell to be Sox manager

The former Boston pitching coach and Toronto manager will return to lead the Red Sox. A team source said Mike Aviles will be part of the compensation deal.

The stage is set for a fierce collision when President Obama and Mitt Romney meet Monday night in Florida for a foreign policy debate.

One last presidential clash, with world their stage

President Obama and Mitt Romney share some views on foreign policy, but Monday’s debate is likely to highlight harsh divides.

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Gay marriage supporters seek historic win in Maine

Legalization was shot down by voters three years ago, but shifting attitudes have backers feeling hopeful this time.

As Boston considers returning to a system of neighborhood schools, Seattle has already made the switch. Here, a Seattle teacher led a book discussion.

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Seattle schools may hold lessons for Boston

Seattle shows the possibilities and the pitfalls of untangling from complicated citywide assignment systems and returning to neighborhoods schools.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rex Ryan, Jets have gone quiet on Patriots

What happened to the snack-eating, smack-talking bunch that loved to tug on Superman’s cape and antagonize Tom Brady and Bill Belichick?

Military personnel entered Northcom’s underground command center outside of Colorado Springs.

Military role on US soil a complex challenge

The United States Northern Command is being asked to do more than anticipated, raising anew questions about the proper role of the active-duty military in domestic affairs.

Legal problems could multiply in meningitis outbreak

A nationwide meningitis outbreak linked to a Framingham drug compounding pharmacy is likely to cause a flood of lawsuits, according to legal specialists.

Raquel Colon, a daughter of Pedro Rodriguez, who was found dead in the Charles River, in front of a shrine in his honor at her home in Cambridge.

A father’s death leaves family hurt, perplexed

When the body of an older man was pulled from the Charles River earlier this month, who he was and how he came to die got lost in all the focus on a missing graduate student.

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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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The book on Tom Brady — hit him and he gets jittery — continues to add chapters.

Sunday Football Notes

What statement will Patriots make vs. Jets?
Models on the runway at the ICA First Fridays fashion show.

Institute of Contemporary Art finds winning nightlife formula
Bucks center Samuel Dalembert, left, with general manager John Hammond.

Sunday Basketball Notes

John Hammond works hard to increase Bucks’ value
Queen Latifah in Lifetime’s adaptation of “Steel Magnolias.”

movies

Race a subject, not an issue

Exploring the Massachusetts Wine and Cheese Trails
“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

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Logan Mankins didn’t tear his ACL in the Super Bowl; it happened earlier last season—but it didn’t stop him from playing.

Logan Mankins knows how to play through pain

The Patriot guard’s toughness has never been questioned, but fighting through a torn ACL last year earned him even more respect.

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BU medical school student Deborah Lee participated in volunteer cleanup of Ramsay Park in Roxbury on Saturday.

Residents, Boston officials help reclaim Ramsay Park

The city hopes to stop a liquor store from selling the single beers and nips believed to be the main source of the Roxbury park’s litter.

Columnists

Kevin Cullen

Homecoming is more than an annual event

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mitt Romney isn’t a champion of women

JEFF JACOBY

President Obama, the liberals’ bust

JOANNA WEISS

The accidental women’s voice
Rotary Robotics wants to start delivering the FocalPlane in 2013.

Innovation Economy

Drones may soon buzz through local skies

Christopher L. Gasper

Rex Ryan, Jets have gone quiet on Patriots
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.

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

Juliette Kayyem

Foreign policy and the parental perspective

Business

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Product Review

Streaming gaining popularity, but satisfaction lags

Satisfaction scores for streaming-video services were lower than for most other services Consumer Reports has rated during the past few years.

Politics

Political Notebook

President Barack Obama shook hands with supporters during a campaign rally at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Voters in battleground states on campaign overload

All the attention the presidential campaigns are funneling into a small number of hard-fought states comes at a personal price for voters.

Nation & World

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The Finnish ship Estelle was the latest to test Israel’s blockade of Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla movement.

Israeli naval vessels take control of boat headed for Gaza

The Finnish ship Estelle was the latest to test Israel’s blockade of Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla movement.

Arts

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

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.

Travel

Tequila, a quintessential Mexico town

The deliciously sleepy town of Tequila — population 30,000 — is quintessential Mexico.

Books

‘The Garden of Evening Mists’ by Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng’s sumptuous second novel imagines the story of survivors of an attack on British Malaya and a Japanese POW camp.

“There is general agreement that having predictability in our student assignment system has given parents more confidence about staying in Seattle.”

Michael DeBell,  the School Board chairman

Magazine

The cover for the October 21 2012 issue

Best New Home/Traditional
The cover for the October 14 2012 issue

How grocery shopping got personal
The cover for the October 7 2012 issue

AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?
The cover for the September 30 2012 issue

How will independents factor into the Brown-Warren Senate race?

Opinion

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

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Today we still fall back on the same old format: two people in a room, taking turns answering questions and hardly ever addressing each other directly. It’s hard to imagine this is the best we can come up with.”

Leon Neyfakh  on how to improve the presidential debates.