Soft-spoken, with an appetite for risk
Red Sox owner John Henry.

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John Henry is a college dropout who used his knowledge of the soybean business to trade commodities before becoming the principal owner of the Red Sox.

Red Sox owner John Henry in deal to buy Globe

The impending $70 million cash purchase will put the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites, and affiliated companies in John Henry’s hands.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, President-elect Hasan Rouhani, right, and outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sit, in an official endorsement ceremony for Rouhani, in Tehran.

New US penalties will greet Iran’s new leader

In a letter to President Obama, 76 senators demanded tougher punishment on Iran’s economy until the country scales back its nuclear program.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe’s president declared winner in disputed vote

Robert Mugabe won reelection by a landslide, the country’s electoral panel said, but the result could exacerbate tensions.

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patriots training camp report

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The Patriots were split into blue and white teams, rather than the usual offense and defense, for a relaxed scrimmage.

Matt Damon.

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Movies

Matt Damon, directed by a belief in great filmmakers

Director Neill Blomkamp is Damon’s latest instructor in the captivating new science-fiction film “Elysium.”

Smackdown!

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Lake Compounce in Bristol, Conn., traces its roots to 1846. Canobie Lake Park in Salem, N.H., was founded in 1902. Here’s how the parks stack up on some essentials.

Opinion

LAWRENCE HARMON

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Voters would do well to elect another mayor who knows the value of taking “no’’ for an answer.

Globe exclusives

Boston Police on Thursday searched through Stony Brook Reservation, where Amy Lord’s body was discovered.

Police report details how Amy Lord died
Steve Costner of the State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, which is the largest single source of money for mine removal operations around the world.

Homefront impasse has distant victims
The Os Gemeos mural at Dewey Square.

Matthew Ritchie named to do newest Dewey Square mural

Customers and employees stood near a promotional display at Jordan’s Furniture in Reading. Jordan’s is one local business offering sales tax holiday discounts before the tax-free weekend.

Promotions underway for sales tax holiday
“The better we do [in practice], the more efficient we’re going to be,” Tom Brady said.

Patriots working on offense, Tom Brady says

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Counting the Red Sox’ walkoff wins
Hugo Vigliotti brings humor to the program with his high-flying moves.

Dance Review

Parisians at Jacob’s Pillow
Elizabeth Aspenlieder (left) and Tina Packer in Shakespeare & Company’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane.”

Stages

In Lenox, taking a real-life relationship to ‘Leenane’

Case likely won’t hinge on Bulger decision
See the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Hatch Shell on Aug. 28.

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31 things for 31 days
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley (center) and Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis (left) spoke at a news conference.

Police commissioner ‘certain’ suspect involved in brutal death

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Sports

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Jon Lester toweled off after coming out of the game.

Red Sox lack the walkoff magic

A one-run deficit against the Diamondbacks hardly seemed like an obstacle after the last two games, but the Red Sox were unable to take another walkoff win.

Metro

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Branden Varilus, 3, of Somerville, was among 243 children who received a free meal outside of the Franklin Park.

Boston schools launch meals on wheels to reach students

The school food truck, which does not charge for meals, is the latest addition to a summer program that feeds more than 11,000 young people each day.

Columnists

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

Dan Shaughnessy

Picking up the pieces
Mayoral candidate Bill Walczak would be open to retaining Meredith Weenick.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Next mayor needs no-nonsense CFO

Shirley Leung

It’s time to say yes to Walmart
Bill Parcells helped change the trajectory of the Patriots franchise during his four-year stint as head coach in the 1990s.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bill Parcells reflects on his Patriots years

Kevin Cullen

Time for an explanation
Argentina’s Mauricio Munoz took a blow during a featherweight title match in Macau last week.

CARLO ROTELLA

All’s unfair in boxing and politics

alex beam

Curse of the Maestro
US Representative Joseph Kennedy III is seen in a Feb. 11, 2013 interview.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Kennedy’s break: Principle or politics?

Jim Koch, founderof the Boston Beer Co.

Shirley Leung

Brewer gives women cold shoulder
Joe Louis Arena and an abandoned house in Detroit.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Motor City hustle

Adrian Walker

Let whole city vote on casino

Nation & World

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An Afghan policeman carried a child at the site of a suicide attack at the Indian consulate.

9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate

Militants wearing explosives-rigged vests killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city.

Politics

Political Notebook

Elizabeth Warren is responding to rules that gay men cannot donate blood.

Warren wants quick blood ban review

Senator Elizabeth Warren asked the federal government to speed its review of the ban on gay men donating blood.

Business

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James Bullard said Fed forecasts have been too optimistic.

Fed bank president cites missteps by policy makers

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said his economic forecasts, as well as those of others at the Fed, have been too optimistic in the wake of the recession.

Arts

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Author Leo Hollis cites the High Line, an aerial greenway that repurposed a stretch of abandoned rail line in Manhattan, as an example of cities’ possible allures and energies.

‘Cities Are Good For You’ by Leo Hollis

British writer Leo Hollis’s tour of the 21st-century metropolis explores the various social and creative possibilities that cities offer.

Lifestyle

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Love Letters

Dealing with his drug addiction

Her fiance’s bachelor party is a concern, but their marriage should be her bigger worry.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul
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Rethinking the golden years

Ideas

“Alfred Barr’s Wellesley class, small as it was, launched a generation of students into prominent roles in the art world, helping to spread the gospel of contemporary art as curators, journalists, and critics.”

Christopher Shea,  on how a young professor helped invent contemporary art in America