Bain Capital under investigation for tax strategy

The private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney is among more than a dozen firms being investigated for improperly avoiding federal income taxes, according to the New York Times.

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President Obama needs to take advantage of the DNC and frame a crystal clear choice for voters, a group of top Democrats surveyed by the Globe said.

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Two killed in early-morning Littleton crash

A man and a woman were killed when a pickup truck struck a utility pole on Great Road in Littleton early this morning, police said.

Unification Church leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon spoke during his

Unification Church founder Rev. Moon dies at 92

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed messiah who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement, has died.

The Red Sox are keeping an eye on James Loney to see whether he could be their fulltime guy or even platoon with a righthanded hitter.

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Sunday Baseball Notes

Phillies, Red Sox interesting study in rebuilding

In two Northeast cities where rebuilding is never an option unless it’s done very quickly, the Red Sox and Phillies have to piece it together again.

GrabCAD, where Roger Maranan, Grant Thomas-Lepore, and Gabe Blanchet work, picked Cambridge over California.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

7 factors that attract entrepreneurs to Boston

A survey of about 20 company founders — and the worker bees who help companies grow — helps explain why some entrepreneurs are choosing to stay in Boston.

EVERY NATION A CASTLE: A fence marking the Turkey-Iran border.

The Internationalist

A world of messy borders? Get used to it

According to one scholar, state sovereignty has never been as important as we think.

“HOLY FLYING CIRCUS”

Soaring back in time with the ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’

The bright side of Monty Python controversy.

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The mad theater of campaigns, protests, rallies, and conventions that is our modern political process is not a recent phenomenon.

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The ‘Pioneer anomaly’ that threatened to upend physics

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Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo and family members of Lou Montgomery watched as they unveiled his retired jersey in the corner of the stadium during halftime.

BC’s first black football player honored
“The general expectation among my friends was that I’d spend six months messing around with an acoustic guitar and join a hardcore band again and/or go get a job,” says Frank Turner about his turn to folk music.

Frank Turner’s punk roots take a troubadour turn
Cory Schneider, who signed a threeyear, $12 million extension July 1, has seemingly replaced Roberto Luongo as Vancouver’s starting goalie.

Sunday Hockey Notes

Canucks’ Cory Schneider hopes for labor settlement
Magic Johnson, an NBA analyst for ESPN, keeps close tabs on the league and was thrilled that his former club acquired Dwight Howard.

Sunday Basketball Notes

Magic Johnson still happy to talk about Larry Bird
Apex Orchards in Shelburne Falls, on the edge of the Pioneer Valley, was founded in 1828.

Travel

7 favorite Massachusetts apple farms
The Mirbeau Inn & Spa in New York’s Finger Lakes region is a lure for wine lovers.

4 budget-friendly spas
William H. Chafe notes that the Clintons’s marriage blends the personal and the political.

Book review

‘Bill and Hillary’ by William H. Chafe

DEUTSCHE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP

Hole by hole at TPC Boston
Channing Tatum as a male stripper in “Magic Mike.’’

9 top summer movie moments of 2012

Ideas

How kids make friends — and why it matters

Sports

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Louis Oosthuizen, of South Africa, tees off on the third hole during the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship PGA golf tournament at TPC Boston in Norton today.

Oosthuizen surges to early 3d round DBC lead

Louis Oosthuizen surged to an early third-round lead today in the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston.

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Federal investigators look into cause of Falmouth plane crash

The crash killed one person and severely injured two others as the craft attempted to land Saturday morning on an airstrip at Falmouth Airpark.

Columnists

joanna weiss

Honor American Dream-builders today — with healthcare, hours

Yvonne Abraham

What Elizabeth Warren is missing
Jim Rooney, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority stood atop the roof of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Lawrence Harmon

Convention center needs a boost of solar power
Balloons swirl in the air following Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech in Tampa Friday.

Jeff Jacoby

Time to shelve the political conventions
GrabCAD, where Roger Maranan, Grant Thomas-Lepore, and Gabe Blanchet work, picked Cambridge over California.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

7 factors that attract entrepreneurs to Boston

Renée Loth

The value of public-sector jobs

Tiger Woods’s first-round 64 included six consecutive birdies.

Christopher L. Gasper

Is Tiger Woods back?
Bobby Valentine and the Red Sox were swept by the Angels in Anaheim this week.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, a year of living dreadfully

Boston Capital

Steward finds road to R.I. is rocky

Scot Lehigh

Policy trumps personality in this election

Brian McGrory

Cape Cod rooster draws complaints
Ann Romney arrives on stage to deliver a speech Tuesday night.

joanna weiss

Ann Romney overstepped by playing poor

Business

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One economist says the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney is “too close to call.”

Formula has knack for picking presidents

Using two economic indicators and three political factors, a Lexington firm’s equation has predicted presidential winners with uncanny accuracy.

Politics

Obama’s speech at the convention in 2004 electrified the audience and set the stage for his presidential run.

First-term battles transformed Obama

The president’s promise to raise American politics to a higher plane is but a faint echo, as Washington and its nasty partisanship remains — defiantly — untransformed.

Nation & World

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Activists say 5,000 killed in Syria in August

Last month’s death tolls in Syria’s escalating civil war were the highest figures reported since the uprising began more than 17 months ago.

Arts

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Channing Tatum as a male stripper in “Magic Mike.’’

9 top summer movie moments of 2012

The summer’s movie releases were a mixed bag, as always. But there were moments that we’ll carry with us long after the air turns cold with the rush of Oscar contenders.

Travel

Apex Orchards in Shelburne Falls, on the edge of the Pioneer Valley, was founded in 1828.

7 favorite Massachusetts apple farms

Every apple has a story, and the third- and fourth-generation family growers in the heart of the state’s apple country can tell you lots of them.

Books

Book review

‘Telegraph Avenue’ by Michael Chabon

Chabon’s saga of two couples running besieged vinyl and midwife businesses rocks a big multicultural mix of love, loss, change, and how we live now.

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Magazine

The cover for the August 26 2012 issue

Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
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Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“Today, when each party’s nominee is chosen long before the delegates arrive, conventions are nothing but spectacle — hype and hoopla, a partisan pep rally on an outlandish scale.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“In order to be a good friend, even a very young child must be not only fun to spend time with, but capable of being emotionally mature in ways that can be difficult even for grown-ups.”

—Leon Neyfakh on childhood friendship