Obama targets high cost of college

Area college presidents are skeptical about tying federal funding to a new performance rating system.

Man found shot in the chest near Copley Square

A shooting on one of Boston’s iconic and most frequently visited stretches left an unidentified man in serious condition.

Boston mayor’s race has racial divide in fund-raising

By mid-August, no candidate of color had raised more than $220,000, yet four white candidates had amassed two to four times as much in the same stretch.

Ma Siss, whose given name was Idene Wilkerson, died Wednesday.

‘Ma Siss’ was Dorchester neighborhood’s matriarch

Idene Wilkerson, who died Wednesday at age 76, helped a church emerge amid the secular seediness of a former auto chop shop.

Gambling panel stepping into Menino-Wynn spat

The dispute “makes everything look disorganized or suspect or political,” chairman Stephen Crosby said.

Josh Beckett (left), Carl Crawford (center), and Adrian Gonzalez went from Boston to Los Angeles in last year’s blockbuster nine-player transaction.

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A year later, effects of Red Sox-Dodgers trade still felt

Neither team regrets the nine-player deal that massively reshaped both rosters and freed the Red Sox from $264 million in payroll obligations.

Diners on Wednesday enjoyed the outdoor patio of Bronwyn, which opened this past year in Union Square in Somerville.

Somerville worries it’s growing too hip

As the city seeks to reinvent itself, it has made such progress that a previously unimaginable situation is emerging.

State Senator Dan Wolf spoke at the state Democratic Convention in Lowell last month.

Dan Wolf criticizes Ethics Commission ruling

The state senator said the panel misjudged “both the spirit and the letter of the law” when it ruled his business dealings with Massport should prevent him from holding state office.

Shirley Leung

A quick way to bypass Southie’s traffic problem

As the Seaport seizes up with congestion, officials will explore opening the South Boston Bypass Road to more traffic.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

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Martin Walsh’s big haul of union money raises the question of how independent he could be if elected mayor of Boston.

Globe exclusives

Kelley and Joseph Rogers, parents of Sean Collier, were presented with a uniform and badge by Somerville Police Chief Thomas Pasquarello (left) and Mayor Joseph Curtatone.

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Aaron Hernandez appeared in Attleboro District court for a pre-trial hearing.

Hernandez indicted in Lloyd slaying
Elise Verdoncq and her horse Omerio performing in Cavalia’s “Odysseo.”

The ride of her life
The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, (from left) Mel Lyman, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Kweskin, and Bill Keith, at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.

music

Feels like old times
From left: New Michael Ingemi, Noah Britton, Ethan Finlan, and Jack Hanke of Asperger’s Are Us. The local comedy group has gained a following and played in larger venues over the last two years.

A comedy troupe with a tie that binds
A scene from “Chennai Express,” one of the Bollywood movies that has been featured at Apple Cinemas at the Fresh Pond Mall.

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A ticket to India

The Red Sox will get a look at impressive Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig this week. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Picked-up pieces from San Francisco
A battle between Vice President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton could rival the 2008 presidential race.

Clinton and Biden jockey for 2016 presidential race
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in a scene from David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.

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Gunning for Altman and Malick Territory

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Favorite drink recipes from Sam Treadway of Backbar
Dec. 26,1954: This day-after-Christmas photo showed a quiet Quincy Market. Business would begin shortly for New Year’s Eve sales.

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Quincy Market

Jimmy Hardy and horse Native Speed rode at Plainridge Racecourse, which has won attention from a gaming firm.

Penn National turns to racetrack

Sports

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Lions 40, Patriots 9

Ryan Mallett (left) dropped back against the Lions in the third quarter.

Tom Brady, Patriots drop the ball

The Patriots struggled against the Lions’ top defense, and their second- and third-string defenses let the game get away in the second half.

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The state may license up to 35 marijuana dispensaries this year.

More than 100 seek to open medical marijuana shops

Under the state law approved by voters last November, Massachusetts may license up to 35 dispensaries this year.

Columnists

EDWARD L. GLAESER

A middle way on mortgage subsidies
Since Alex Rodriguez returned to the lineup Aug. 5 — while appealing his 211-game suspension — the Yankees are 11-6.

Christopher L. Gasper

Alex Rodriguez’s appeal is a sham
Jeremy Geidt performed with Cherry Jones in Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at the ART in 1982. Geidt died earlier this month in Cambridge at age 83.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Jeremy Geidt, the actor who mastered paradox
Jennifer Martel and Jared Remy.

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In Remy case, everybody figured wrong

Beverly Beckham

I was the sun, the kids my planets

JEFF JACOBY

How to fix presidential debates
President Calvin Coolidge fished at the home of a friend in Simsburyg, Conn.

SCOT LEHIGH

New England, presidential vacationland

Adrian Walker

Remy case needs independent review
Harold Brown is 88, and he is still doing real estate deals. He is one of the region's biggest landlords with $1.4 billion in his portfolio.

Shirley Leung

Buy or sell? The guru is stumped
Ryan Dempster drew a 5-game suspension from MLB for hitting Alex Rodriguez with a pitch on Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ryan Dempster deserved to be suspended

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A foolish attempt to purge Howard Zinn
Ho Van Lang, 41, in plaid shorts, and his 81-year-old father Ho Van Thanh, in hammock, are helped out of a forest in Vietnam where they’ve hidden since 1973.

JAMES CARROLL

A nation’s PTSD

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Bob Filner is facing accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior toward 18 women.

San Diego mayor expected to resign

Bob Filner’s anticipated resignation is part of an agreement with other city officials, according to local officials close to the mediation effort.

Politics

In a telephone interview Thursday, state Treasurer Steven Grossman repeatedly said he neither owes current state or federal taxes, nor back taxes, related to his life insurance policy.

State Treasurer could face massive tax bill

A life-insurance policy consolidation could result in Steven Grossman having a “tax obligation” in excess of $500,000, according to a letter he sent to the State Ethics Commission.

Business

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The Boston Herald took up nearly a block before it moved to South Boston. Its buildings have been demolished, and construction has begun on the mixed-use Ink Block project.

Developer Ron Druker proposes 11-story South End building

Scrubby lots will be replaced by several large-scale buildings with more than 1,400 new homes, restaurants, shops, and a Whole Foods grocery store.

Arts

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Huey Lewis (left) and the News are performing the band’s biggest album, “Sports,” in its entirety.

Huey Lewis and the News take its classic for another spin

Lewis is taking his band on the road to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their best-selling album “Sports.”

Movies

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A scene from “Chennai Express,” one of the Bollywood movies that has been featured at Apple Cinemas at the Fresh Pond Mall.

Fresh Pond Mall theater goes Bollywood

The newly named Apple Cinemas is offering not only a full range of Indian movies but additional foreign-language films for underserved international audiences.

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Walter Willett’s food fight

Ideas

“Becoming overly reliant on GPS and letting our natural skills at mental mapping atrophy, new neuroscience research suggests, might actually be bad for our cognitive health.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what GPS does to your brain