Romney, Obama cross paths in N.H.
President Obama campaigned in Portsmouth, N.H., on Friday, and Mitt Romney held a rally in Nashua.

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Dueling campaign events in New Hampshire and Iowa revealed how the small states have emerged as critical for both candidates.

Gloomy jobs report brings flood of new partisan sniping

US employers added just 96,000 jobs in August, significantly less than the 140,000 gained in July, the Labor Department reported.

With profits down, future of Mass. hospitals questioned

As they brace for an era of shrinking government funds and more pressure to lower prices on medical services, more than a third of Bay State hospitals lost money last year.

BU reels after allegations of hockey team misconduct

Until Friday’s report, the misbehavior on the hockey team was unknown to nearly everyone at the school, including most of its board of trustees.

Cardinal Spellman High students work with their iPads

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iPads in classroom change education

This school year, several Mass. high schools moved away from heavy, expensive and dated textbooks and into the multimedia world of interactive videos and graphics.

Suzanne Schalow (left) and Kate Baker, owners of Craft Beer Cellar, are among a number of women entrepreneurs in Belmont.

Upscale Belmont has become a hub for women business owners

Along one block of Leonard Street alone there are 14 businesses run by women. Several have opened within the last year and a half.

Lisa Daley of Weymouth and son Luke enjoyed an outing at Pleasure Bay in South Boston.

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Best and worst places in Boston for families with strollers

We quizzed a number of moms and nannies about the most and least stroller-friendly destinations in and around the city. Here’s what they had to say.

Jamie Sawler of the Muddas made an interception against the Cumberland Muckaneers during a game of mud football in North Conway, N.H. Ten teams participated in a tournament.

Fathers, sons, and friends play dirty in N.H. ‘Mud Bowl’

Ten teams from New England are in North Conway for the annual Mud Bowl, the championship of mud football, a three-day, double-elimination tournament.

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For a long time, Boston remained a baseball town even as much of the country loved the NFL. But with the Red Sox’ recent capitulation, the Patriots are now the kings of Boston.

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The controversial trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Massachusetts in the 1920’s caused much tension in the US and around the world.

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The Mount, author Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, looks spectacular as the trees change color. Ghost tours are held Friday nights.

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Things to do in the Berkshires

Laura Benanti: From bunny to funny

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How to make time expand

Comics

The funny pages
Paul Klee’s “Agricultural Experimental Layout for Late Fall.’’

ART REVIEW

Paul Klee aimed to make invisible truths visible
Sunrise lit the sky as seen from Carson Beach in South Boston.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Sept. 7, 2012
Sox owner John Henry (right) has pledged not to dismiss Bobby Valentine before season’s end, but there is little to be gained by keeping him.

Christopher L. Gasper

Actually, it is time for Valentine to check out
Bill Clinton speech

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Where did Clinton improvise most?
President Obama was joined by his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia at the end of his address at the Democratic convention on Thursday.

Obama vows bold steps, reward in shared sacrifice
Robert Kosilek, foreground, in 1993; and in 1990, background.

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Judge goes too far in sex change ruling

Pawnbroker Michael Goldstein talks about his business
From left: Lily Ahern, Jess Newham, Daniel Rothschild, and Sara Pendleton during last year’s Fashion’s Night Out in Boston.

Highlights for this year’s Fashion’s Night Out Boston

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Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 5

Though his bullpen kept the Sox in the game, it was nonetheless another familiar result for Bobby Valentine.

Red Sox can’t avoid another loss

The Red Sox continued their slide toward the league’s basement Friday night, as the team’s managerial situation threatened to overshadow its on-the-field woes.

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For R.I. politicians, 38 Studios’ legacy is still a threat

Lawmakers say they never knew the state would give a $75 million guarantee to Curt Schilling’s video game company, but that may not stop voters from blaming them anyway.

Columnists

Adrian Walker

Patrick says Roxbury college should be an engine of job growth

JOAN VENNOCHI

Political wives and the politics of pretty

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Do campaign strategists take their cues from ‘The Music Man’?

Brian McGrory

Concord bottled water ban is all wet

SCOT LEHIGH

Clinton’s speech could be turning point

JOSHUA GREEN

Partisanship will have its limits
Robert Kosilek, foreground, in 1993; and in 1990, background.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Judge goes too far in sex change ruling

Tech Lab

Now is a terrible time to shop for gadgets
Sox owner John Henry (right) has pledged not to dismiss Bobby Valentine before season’s end, but there is little to be gained by keeping him.

Christopher L. Gasper

Actually, it is time for Valentine to check out
Horatio Alger, shown in 1852, rose to fame for his rags-to-riches stories.

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The Horatio Alger immigrant experience

Edward L. Glaeser

Urban planning in Greater Boston needs to aim higher
Bill Belichick is entering his 13th season as head coach of the Patriots.

Christopher L. Gasper

It’s OK to question Bill Belichick

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Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos displayed the two new Kindle Fire readers Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif.

Boston literary start-up lands Amazon deal

Three of the eight fiction titles that make up Amazon’s new line of “Kindle Serials” were from a Boston-based “stealth literary studio” named after Plympton street in Cambridge.

Politics

Political Notebook

Shepard Fairey left the courthouse with his lawyer after being sentenced for doctoring and destroying evidence.

Success of truncated conventions unleash calls for shorter events

Now that the actual business of the convention can be completed in hours, will 2012 mark the end of the old-fashioned blowouts the two political parties host every four years?

Nation & World

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Thousands of people demonstrated outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters Friday to protest a new curriculum.

Hong Kong residents increase pressure against ‘brainwashing’ curriculum

Protesters are afraid of what they see as underhanded attempts to indoctrinate the city’s next generation with Beijing-style nationalist education classes.

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Book Review

In a collection of essays, Katie Roiphe shares her thoughts on unconventional women, divorce, single motherhood, and more.

‘In Praise of Messy Lives’ by Katie Roiphe

Katie Roiphe traces becoming an independent, educated woman of a certain age in her worthwhile collection of essays.

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Fall Travel: Weekend Getaways

The Mount, author Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox, looks spectacular as the trees change color. Ghost tours are held Friday nights.

Things to do in the Berkshires

Looking for a culture-packed autumn trip? Consider these sure-to-please historic homes, museums, and art collections.

“We’re pioneers. We have to be. We can’t prepare our students for the 20th century. We have to prepare them for the 21st century.”

Carmen Mariano, principal of Archbishop Williams, on using iPads in the classroom

Magazine

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Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
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Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
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The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“The candidates’ wives don’t see it this way, but it’s a little demeaning to female voters to think they will be swayed by the wife of a man who would be president.”

Joan Vennochi 

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