Death toll in Egypt clashes surpasses 600
At Al-Imene mosque in Cairo, mourners carried the coffin of a protester slain in Egypt’s military crackdown.

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Violent new protests erupted across the country Thursday following the military’s bloodiest crackdown on supporters of its deposed Islamist president.

Obama cancels joint exercises with Egyptian military

The US stopped short of cutting off $1.5 billion in vital aid to the nation.

Northern Avenue is seen during rush hour traffic on Thursday.

Shirley Leung

A snarl in Seaport District’s success story

The South Boston Waterfront is growing so fast that officials are now realizing it is a transportation crisis waiting to happen.

Mayoral candidates say they would overhaul BRA

The city agency has shaped decades of development and become a prime lever of power for outgoing Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

Developer Roy MacDowell’s 28-room mansion in Wayland is scheduled to be auctioned on Friday.

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Developer’s Wayland mansion to be auctioned

Roy MacDowell Jr.’s 28-room home includes six bathrooms, four half-baths, a home theater, and an oak-paneled library.

Alice Erickson, 88, enjoyed some line dancing at Sandy Island Family Camp on Lake Winnipesaukee earlier this month.

Alice Erickson goes to overnight camp — for 75 years

As kingdoms go, this isn’t exactly majestic: just 66 wooded acres and 250 people, give or take.

KEVIN CULLEN

One of the good guys

Eddie Burke, knocked down many times, could have been consumed with grief. Instead he was consumed with helping others.

Jane Richard, who lost her older brother Martin and her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, is recovering and using a prosthetic.

Martin Richard’s family continues its recovery

Four months after the Boston Marathon bombing killed their youngest son and severed their daughter’s left leg, the family is doing its best to cope.

Opinion

opinion | robert pape and david schneyer

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This “franchise affiliate” is deadly within its own borders, but it has not been able to successfully carry out an attack on US soil.

Globe exclusives

Rebirth Brass Band played during a procession up Boylston Street to Forum.

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Forum celebrates reopening
A number of globes are lined up along the Tremont Street side of the Boston Common as part of the “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” exhibit.

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What on Earth?

A performer from San Francisco’s Robert Moses’ Kin, one of the 35 companies in the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival.

Urbanity Dance and its contemporaries stage a festival
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie displayed some of his famous in-your-face pugnacity.

Chris Christie addresses RNC in Boston
Robin Williams plays President Eisenhower and Forest Whitaker is White House butler Cecil Gaines in Lee Daniels’s new movie.

Movie Review

What ‘The Butler’ saw
Sergeant Sean Murphy left State Police Headquarters after facing a disciplinary hearing for his role in releasing capture photos of accused Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the media in July.

Night duty for trooper who released capture photos
Edwin Alemany was arraigned in the murder of Amy Lord at West Roxbury District Court on Thursday. His lawyer said he tried to commit suicide scratching open the arteries on his neck and arms.

Video reveals bits of attack on Amy Lord
Aaron Hernandez was arrested in June and has remained in jail without bail since.

Inside the double life of Aaron Hernandez
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs is one of the few redeeming features of Joshua Michael Stern’s biopic “Jobs,” out on Friday.

Movie Review

‘Jobs’ gets pulped in laborious film
A Chinese worker sat in front of a huge billboard advertising the opening of a fast food restaurant in Shanghai.

Is obesity a form of addiction?
Small cosmetic changes were made to the Forum restaurant’s second floor.

Forum on Boylston Street reopens
Gabe Mott said competing for the Hult Prize has opened opportunities for his McGill University MBA program team.

Hult Prize accelerator preps competitors for $1m

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With his knee back in a brace, Tom Brady throws a pass during practice Thursday. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

Tom Brady back at Patriots practice, with knee in brace

In a non-contact practice, Brady took his usual number of reps a day after sustaining a light sprain.

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People sunbathed Thursday on Marshfield’s Brant Point beach, which has lost a lot of sand.

Winter storms take toll on Marshfield beaches

The ocean has been eating way at beaches up and down the state for years, but last winter’s storms reminded towns and residents how tenuous their relationship with the tiny grains can be.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Mayoral lab debate takeaways
Jeffrey Dubuisson specializes in literature, history, and derivatives.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Translate ‘national champions’ into Latin

Yvonne Abraham

Raynham track owner riding on luck
Forum, photographed shortly after Boylston Street was re-opened to the public just over a week after the Marathon bombings. The restaurant is set to re-open Thursday.

Adrian Walker

Getting back to business

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s Obamacare whale hunt
Dan Wolf waits for passengers and baggage to be loaded on his plane before taking off from Provincetown Memorial Airport for Boston in 2007.

JOAN VENNOCHI

There’s not a Dan Wolf ethics exemption

Derrick Z. Jackson

Easing the drug laws

Adrian Walker

Mayor’s race hits its stride
A member of a team from the military’s Human Terrain System conducts an interview in Afghanistan in late 2009.

Farah Stockman

Is social science our silver bullet around the world?
At left, the South Boston waterfront; On the right, James “Whitey” Bulger, center, walking on Castle Island with associates Stephen “Rifleman” Flemmi, left, and Kevin Weeks, right, in an undated photo.

Kevin Cullen

Everything has passed Whitey by
The FBI is accused of enabling Whitey Bulger, seen in this mug shot taken in 1955 in Miami Beach.

JEFF JACOBY

Federal overreach — then and now
Johnny Manziel can’t profit from own name.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA needs reform

Nation & World

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Lebanese residents ran past burned cars and shops at the site of a car bomb explosion in southern Beirut.

Powerful blast kills 3 in south Beirut suburb

A car bomb ripped through a crowded southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah.

Politics

Gov. Deval Patrick introduced President Barack Obama during a fundraiser stop in Boston in 2011.

Patrick had dinner with vacationing president

President and Michelle Obama took time from their Vineyard vacation Wednesday to share a meal with Governor Deval Patrick.

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Boston Children’s Hospital chief executive James Mandell was paid a total of $1.5 million in 2011, down from $2 million the previous year.

Boston hospital executives earned up to $2.1m in 2011

The pay packages at Boston’s big academic medical centers were generally in line with those at similar institutions across the country, according to federal filings made Thursday.

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Book Review

‘The Realm of Last Chances’ by Steve Yarbrough

In “The Realm of Last Chances,” Yarbrough takes a calm, somewhat relaxed attitude toward his characters’ decay.

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Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller play high school classmates who fall in love in “The Spectacular Now.”

Young love, told in ‘Spectacular’ fashion

“The Spectacular Now” is a clear-eyed, disarmingly tender teenage romance that bears comparison with the best of its genre.

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Ideas

“The enduring appeal of the books tells us something about how deep the romance with self-reliance runs through American history, and the gaps between the Little House narrative and Wilder’s real life say a lot about the government help and interdependence that we sometimes find more convenient to leave out of that tale.”

Christine Woodside,  on the Little House books as Libertarian fables