Many schools in state lagging on MCAS

Nearly two-thirds of Massachusetts public schools are falling short of performance targets under the state’s new evaluation system.

Romney’s words hinder his campaign

Mitt Romney’s campaign problems cannot be fixed with staff changes, since it is the candidate’s own words that are being used against him.

Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren stand to gain much in the debate.

Brown, Warren face unique challenges in first debate

Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren face delicate challenges: She must engage him on issues without seeming aggressive; he must fend her off without hurting his likable image.

Partisan movies like “2016: Obama’s America’’ that attract highly motivated audiences are important to movie houses that want to fill seats.

Critic’s Notebook

Partisan messages now easier than ever to spread with film, video

It is easier than ever to get a message, innocuous or incendiary, in front of the world’s eyeballs, whether through movie theaters or by taking one’s case to YouTube.

Some 600 mourners gathered in Winchester on Wednesday for the funeral of Glen Doherty, the former Navy SEAL killed in last week’s assault on a US consulate. His mother, Barbara Doherty, is at center with daughter Kate Quigley and grandson Cam.

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Winchester bids farewell to Libya attack victim

Some 600 mourners gathered in Winchester on Wednesday for the funeral of Glen Doherty, the former Navy SEAL killed in last week’s assault on a US consulate.

Want to be generous? Act quickly, study suggests

Most people’s gut reaction is to give, according to a study published by Harvard scientists. Only upon reflection do they become greedy.

Christopher L. Gasper

Wes Welker’s playing time becoming a distraction for Patriots

Why is Welker being used in moderation? Contract issues, the Super Bowl drop, a repositioning of the offense, or a decline in play?

Tech Lab

In the app era, radio has gone Wi-Fi and 3G

Apps can pull in ­music, news, and sports from around the world, but there are also plenty that tune into traditional radio­ broadcasts, offering features you won’t find on that bedside clock radio.

Many in Mass. unprepared for college, report finds

A wide-ranging report shows a system in which droves of students enroll in college, but many ultimately find themselves underprepared for college-level work and drop out.

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Globe exclusives

The video game Assasin’s Creed 3 is no Disney production: It features bloody hand-to-hand combat on early Boston’s wharves.

Game maker digs into Boston history for revolutionary adventure
From left: Ann Romney; Michelle Obama; Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge; Rachel Zoe (top); and Rihanna.

Fashionistas can’t get enough of bright colors
Glen Hansard, pictured performing in New York earlier this year.

Music Review

Hansard fuses force and feeling at Berklee

Pete Stidman brings cyclists together
“In this field, we keep having these things appear,” Harvard professor Karen L. King said of the fragment.

Finding hints that Jesus was married
A replacement referee questioned a call during the season opening game between the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders on Sept. 10.

Dan Shaughnessy

Stop the madness with replacement refs
John F. Kennedy, shown in Toledo, Ohio, worked hard to hide his physical problems from reporters.

’60 tape reveals an uncertain JFK
Apples at Shelburne Farm in Stow.

Where to pick your own apples in Massachusetts
Sauteed dandelion greens with caramelized onions.

Cheap Eats

Traditional Lebanese food in Norwood
“Under glass,” an appetizer (circa 1903) of mushrooms and cheese, oxtail and brioche toast.

Food & dining

Kitchen celebrates recipes of the past
Danny Bryck interviewed nearly 200 people during the occupation at Dewey Square last year, and boiled it down to more than two dozen characters.

Stage Review

Voices of Occupy Boston protest in ‘No Room for Wishing’
Ally Scholtz, 14, an intern at Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, harvests kale.

G Cover

Aspiring farmers plow ahead

Sports

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Rays 13, Red Sox 3

Daisuke Matsuzaka was wretched again for the Red Sox on Wednesday night.

Red Sox clinch a losing season

Daisuke Matsuzaka allowed five runs and couldn’t get out of the fourth inning as the Red Sox lost to the Rays, 13-3, and fell to 68-82.

Metro

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A mourner left the memorial service with a program.

Bruce Bolling remembered as tireless public servant

Local leaders joined hundreds of mourners today at a Mattapan memorial service for Bruce Bolling, the first African-American president of the Boston City Council.

Columnists

A so-called post-Panamax container ship at the Balboa Port in Panama on Friday.

juliette kayyem

Panama Canal’s future depends on accommodating wider loads

Joan Vennochi

Why do Mass. politicians wither on national stage?

joshua green

An insult to Reagan’s tax credits

Christopher L. Gasper

Wes Welker’s playing time becoming a distraction

Tech Lab

In the app era, radio has gone Wi-Fi and 3G

derrick z. jackson

The battle over food labeling

Scot Lehigh

Romney’s down, but a bold move could bring him back
Senator Scott Brown at a Mattapan auto service center earlier this month after his wife got his truck detail-cleaned for his birthday.

Brian McGrory

Scott Brown beyond the camera, lights
A replacement referee questioned a call during the season opening game between the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders on Sept. 10.

Dan Shaughnessy

Stop the madness with replacement refs

farah stockman

The blame generation

joanna weiss

‘Honey Boo Boo’ and the real America

Boston Capital

Wellington’s Ed Owens going out on top

Business

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Bayer chairman Marijn Dekkers (right) was speaker at a luncheon where he discussed the economic downturn and research. Before his speech, he chatted with John Fernandez.

Executives say global push to contain health costs threatens innovation

The push to contain spiraling health costs around the world could hamper drug makers’ ability to bring new medicines to market, two biopharmaceutical executives warned Wednesday.

Politics

Political Notebook

Aung San Suu Kyi received the Congressional Gold Medal from House Speaker John Boehner, with Laura Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Mitch McConnell.

Lawmakers unite in effusive praise of Aung San Suu Kyi

Suu Kyi was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal she had been awarded in 2008 while under house arrest for her struggle against military rule in Myanmar.

Nation & World

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A Pakistani lawyer was helped under a barrier Wednesday as police stopped him on way to the US Embassy in Islamabad.

New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions

France stepped up security at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly published crude, lewd caricatures of Islam’s prophet Mohammed.

Arts

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Where to get your geek on this fall — and beyond

You’re a new nerd in town. Let it be known that Our Fair City is a kingdom replete with every variety of nerdery known to man, woman, halfling, and beast.

Style

Sonjia Williams, a Lasell College graduate, working on one of her designs.

Sonjia Williams proves her success on ‘Project Runway’

A young Boston designer is making the most of her chance on the show.

“In designing public policy, we have to find ways to make use of the incentives and constraints that do not demobilize or diminish the quite substantial moral commitments of populations to do the right thing.”

Samuel Bowles,  on a Harvard study of generosity and cooperation

Magazine

The cover for the September 16 2012 issue

The self-promoting, fan-financed, go-it-alone star
The cover for the September 9 2012 issue

Things to do in the Berkshires
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?

Opinion

“Mitt Romney is the latest example of a Bay State-launched presidential contender with a serious people problem.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Those who design tests understand them as a guess about the future. We’re probing for certain qualities that tell us a student is ready to move ahead, or an employee will be an asset to the firm.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what we should really test