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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire

The world’s biggest software company did not name a successor for Ballmer, who has been CEO since 2000.

One dead in shooting near Copley Square

The shooting occurred just before 11:10 p.m. on Boylston Street in the shadow of the historic Trinity Church.

Connolly, Walsh lead pack in mayoral poll

The race is still wide open, with no more than 12 percent of voters coalesced around any one candidate.

Racial divide in mayoral 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 Boston’s race for mayor.

Gambling panel stepping into Menino-Wynn spat

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

New CEO of Friendly’s Ice Cream, John Maguire.

Joel Benjamin

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John Maguire has a plan to save Friendly’s

The ice cream chain’s new CEO is focused on fix-it — tastier Fribbles, faster service, cleaner restaurants — as he works to resuscitate a Massachusetts institution.

Hipsters are amassing in Somerville, which claims to be the only city in the country that conducts a happiness survey.

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.

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

There is no justice in baseball as long as the self-serving Yankees third baseman is allowed to keep playing games and affecting pennant races.

Shirley Leung

Can Boston’s most controversial road fix Seaport traffic?

As the waterfront 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

Elise Verdoncq and her horse Omerio performing in Cavalia’s “Odysseo.”

Cavalia performer enjoys ride of her life
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.

Officer Sean Collier, Somerville badge 310
Aaron Hernandez appeared in Attleboro District court for a pre-trial hearing.

Hernandez indicted in Lloyd slaying
The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, (from left) Mel Lyman, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Kweskin, and Bill Keith, at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.

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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

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

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.

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

Idene Wilkerson, 76; matriarch of her Dorchester neighborhood

“Ma Siss” helped a church emerge amid the secular seediness of a former auto chop shop.

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

Nation & World

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Burned and destroyed cars are seen at the entrance of a mosque, left, which was attacked by a car bomb, in the northern city of Tripoli.

Twin explosions kill 27 in north Lebanese city

The blasts hit amid soaring tensions in Lebanon as a result of Syria’s civil war, which has sharply polarized the country along sectarian lines.

Politics

President Obama met Thursday with students, parents, and educators to discuss education in Rochester, N.Y.

Obama targets high cost of college

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

Business

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Druker Co. has proposed an 11-story office and retail building at 80 Berkeley St. in the South End.

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.”

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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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Sharks Inc.
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Daniel Nava, the long shot
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The lake house
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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