Laying out 2 visions for US role in final debate

President Obama and Mitt Romney nodded to areas of agreement, but still found plenty of ways to disagree over US foreign policy and approaches in the Middle East.

Analysis of the final presidential debate

The Globe's Glen Johnson gives his analysis of the last debate.

News Analysis

On big issues, goals are similar, but styles differ

On the most substantive questions, Mitt Romney had trouble explaining what he would do differently from President Obama when it comes to foreign policy.

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Mitt Romney: Yeah, what he said

It was striking how many times Romney agreed with President Obama’s policies on Afghanistan, sanctions on Iran, and the decision not to use the US military in Syria.

Elizabeth Warren was in Springfield Monday, while Scott Brown appeared in North Andover.

Senate foes hone tactics as race enters stretch run

Senator Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren are looking to rally supporters and lure independents in the final two weeks of the campaign.

Governor Patrick said he was troubled by the way the state monitored the New England Compounding Center.

State to review pharmacy monitoring

In 2006, the Framingham facility at the center of the nationwide meningitis outbreak was inspected by an Illinois firm whose CEO was, at the time, facing fraud charges.

From left: Justin King, 18; Emmanuel Bile, 18; Caleb Womack, 17; and Adam Liccardi, 18; all of Pittsfield, were arraigned Monday in Eastern Hampshire District Court.

4 Pittsfield men charged with rape of UMass student

UMass Amherst officials were reaching out to students and assuring them of their safety after an 18-year-old woman reported being gang-raped in her dormitory room.

On a recent Sunday, Sean Kennedy watched NFL on TV, while Kimberly and Theo studied fantasy stats.

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Fantasy football gaining in popularity with kids

Today almost 3.5 million kids play and their numbers are growing as the sport charms a football-obsessed nation.

75 on Liberty Wharf held a family and friends evening before opening to the public. The restaurant is in a 1,500-square-foot glass kiosk on Boston Harbor.

Seaport District gets another restaurant invasion

The latest influx involves some of the biggest names in Boston’s food scene, with options that range from neighborhood tavern, to French bistro, to gourmet grocer.

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Andrew Jackson (played by Gus Curry, left) takes on the Washington establishment (from left: Joshua Pemberton, Ben Rosenblatt, Tom Hamlett, and Ryan Halsaver) in SpeakEasy Stage’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.’’

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A raucous ride with ‘Andrew Jackson’
(Left to right) Lizz Winstead, Richard Ford, and Joan Wickersham will all be featured at this year’s Boston Book Festival.

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The Boston Book Festival personality quiz
From left: Ray Ramirez, Rick Park, and Michael Knowlton in Company One’s “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.”

Stage Review

Facing mortality and its aftermath in ‘Bengal Tiger’
Conductor Courtney Lewis led the Discovery Ensemble in its season-opening concert Sunday.

Music Review

The ‘Four Seasons’ of tango, with a dash of Vivaldi
Tom Brady and the Patriots eked out a win vs. the Jets, but blew another fourth-quarter lead in the process.

Christopher L. Gasper

Big questions remain after Patriots’ win
Two Boston police officers patrolled at 2:30 a.m. in the still-lively North End this month.

North End beset by culture clash
John Farrell will be back wearing a Red Sox uniform, this time as the team’s manager.

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With Farrell, Red Sox take good first step
Gary Kaput thinks the wind-energy industry is too tenuous to make him confident about the economy in Newton, Iowa.

Deficit, green jobs divide town
Dr. John Richmond, chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at New England Baptist Hospital, says there is no current treatment to slow osteoarthritis. Some patients choose pain management — medication or a brace — which are short-term solutions to delay knee replacement surgery.

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Do you really need a knee replacement?

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George McGovern had affection for Massachusetts, the only state he carried in the 1972 presidential election.

George McGovern, liberal stalwart, dies

Exploring the Massachusetts Wine and Cheese Trails

Sports

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Mike Aviles spent a year and a half with the Red Sox.

Mike Aviles opens up on departure from Red Sox

Traded to the Blue Jays, Aviles said the infamous spring incident with Bobby Valentine affected his teammates more than it did him.

Metro

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The John F. Kennedy room is where the former president dined with friends at the Boston landmark. Locke-Ober, which opened in 1875, closed Saturday.

Diners mourn closing of venerable Locke-Ober

The restaurant has been sold by owner David Ray, who says it just wasn’t getting the business it needed.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

The humor vote

juliette kayyem

A night to woo women voters

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Mitt Romney: Yeah, what he said
Locke-Ober

Brian McGrory

In closing Locke-Ober, owner sought to preserve history

Adrian Walker

Whose life is it, anyway?
Tom Brady and the Patriots eked out a win vs. the Jets, but blew another fourth-quarter lead in the process.

Christopher L. Gasper

Big questions remain after Patriots’ win
A period etching of King Henry VIII.

JAMES CARROLL

History’s monsters — and ours
John Farrell will be back wearing a Red Sox uniform, this time as the team’s manager.

Dan Shaughnessy

With Farrell, Red Sox take good first step

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Is foreign policy debate irrelevant?

Kevin Cullen

Homecoming is more than an annual event
Rotary Robotics wants to start delivering the FocalPlane in 2013.

Innovation Economy

Drones may soon buzz through local skies

JEFF JACOBY

President Obama, the liberals’ bust

Business

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Peter Rippon, editor of the BBC ‘‘Newsnight’’ program, has stepped aside while a review takes place.

BBC airs footage from halted report

BBC reporters put their own bosses in the hot seat over their role in an expanding pedophilia scandal.

Politics

Political Notebook

Half the voters surveyed considered Obama the better candidate for foreign policy, while 43 percent said Romney would do a better job in that area.

Presidential race tightening in Ohio, poll says

President Obama has a 5-point advantage over his opponent among likely voters with 50 percent, to 45 percent for Mitt Romney.

Nation & World

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Wounded Syrians were moved to a truck headed for the hospital after Syrian regime forces attacked in Aleppo Monday.

Jordan, Lebanon resist war tide in Syria

Jordan and Lebanon moved aggressively Monday to squelch the spread of violence from Syria’s deadlocked civil war.

Arts

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Stage Review

Zachary Eisenstat (left) and Luke Murtha as Jewish teenagers in the 1940s in Lyric Stage Company’s “The Chosen.’’

Listening and learning at Lyric’s ‘The Chosen’

The play follows two Jewish teenagers growing up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in the years 1944-48.

Lifestyle

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In Practice

The difference between doctors and nurses

What’s the difference between a nurse and a doctor? Fifty years ago this question would have been easy to answer.

“It’s such a part of me. My dad plays in a couple of leagues, and I’ve always wanted to be just like him.”

Jeremy Rosenstock Doughty,  a Brookline seventh-grader

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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?

Opinion

“If voter turnout holds the key to winning this election, then can social-networking humor campaigns rally the base?”

Joanna Weiss 

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.