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Obama to confront Syria skeptics
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) welcomed President Obama at the start of the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg. Russia.

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Arriving at the G-20 summit in Russia, President Obama shared a handshake with Vladimir Putin, despite tensions over Syria and Edward Snowden.

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Disgraced Chelsea housing chief Michael E. McLaughlin was indicted last week by a state grand jury for several campaign violations.

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Charles Baker became the latest candidate to launch his campaign by releasing a carefully crafted Web video, with no public events or interviews with the media.

Mike Napoli and the Red Sox left Fenway Park on Wednesday with a six-game lead in the AL East.

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Christopher L. Gasper

This Red Sox team won’t collapse

These Red Sox, mindful of the carnage that happened to their 2011 forebears, will not falter and miss out on a playoff spot this year.

John F. Barros joked with Ramikah Colimon at the Codman Square Farmers Market in Dorchester last week.

The mayoral race: The candidates

Barros believes in pathways to empowerment

How the Roxbury native became one of 12 candidates for mayor, is, in many respects, the story of America.

Quarterback Troy Flutie, right, is the latest member of his family to come through Natick bound for Boston College.

Troy Flutie the last in the Natick-to-BC pipeline for now

The youngest nephew of BC legend Doug Flutie is set to begin his last year as QB for Natick before heading to the school that has become linked to his family.

The Brown children — Adison, Cole, and Spencer — use so many devices their mother often forgoes policing.

In digital world, kids gain the upper hand

In an age of screens everywhere, some exhausted parents have stopped policing. “It’s a constant struggle and I don’t always have the energy,” said mother Whitney Brown.

Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

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Unions are strongly supporting Martin Walsh in his bid for mayor, raising the question: What would he owe organized labor if he wins?

Globe exclusives

N.H. patients possibly exposed to brain disease

school football preview

New era for EMass school football

At her Wareham home, Rose Cherubini displays a photo of one of the dresses she designed.

style

Standing the test of time
“I went to my first fashionable New York nightclub when I was 15,” says Thom Solo (seated).

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The man behind the heels

Boston building inspectors worked Labor Day weekend as college students moved to apartments for the school year.

City cracks down during move-in weekend
Graves lighthouse.

Sold! Graves Island lighthouse breaks record
Left: “Omakase” means “I leave it up to you’’ and the Cafe Sushi chef served this tasting menu of flying fish, miso-marinated local sea bass, local fluke, smoked salmon, and salmon roe with pickled local corn. Right: seared avocado with truffle oil, salt, and lemon juice.

dining out

Cafe Sushi masters the art of raw fish

“The Safety Bounce” video was taped inside MBTA stations.

T debuting safety rap and dance

Special section

Welcome back! A Boston primer from Ideas
Many customers, like this one at the South Deerfield store, can’t resist the scent of Yankee Candles.

It’s in the olfactory of the beholder
Athenahealth envisions new office space, walking and bike paths to the Charles River, and an Arsenal museum.

Athenahealth to unveil project plans
Turkey chimichangas.

Food they’ll love to eat

Boston mayoral race

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Some leaders and activists in Boston’s African-American community met in Roxbury to discuss the mayor’s race.

Black leaders may ask some mayoral hopefuls to bow out

Leaders from Boston’s African-American communities may ask some candidates of color to back the campaigns of others.

Sports

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After hit 2,000, David Ortiz was hugged by Will Middlebrooks.

David Ortiz notches 2,000th hit on 2-HR night

“The best thing that ever happened to me was to come play in Boston,” Ortiz said after reaching the milestone in the rout of the Tigers.

Metro

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Charles D. Baker began his GOP gubernatorial bid Wednesday. Attorney General Martha Coakley and Representative Michael Capuano may join the Democratic field.

Baker enters governor’s race, Coakley weighs bid

Charles Baker is in, Attorney General Martha Coakley is edging closer, and US Rep. Michael Capuano could jump in.

Columnists

Tech Lab

Selling your phone has gotten a lot easier
Secretary of State John Kerry testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday.

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John Kerry’s bad idea

EDWARD L. GLAESER

To fight crime in Boston, be prepared to spend more
UN chemical weapons experts visited a hospital where wounded people affected by an apparent gas attack were being treated near Damascus on Aug. 26.

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Crossing the line
This week, EMC’s Paul Dacier becomes the first general counsel to head up the Boston Bar Association in its 252-year history.

Shirley Leung

Legal talent growing, in-house

JEFF JACOBY

Where does compassion come from?
Henrik Stenson and his son, Karl, know who’s No. 1 following his triumph at TPC Boston.

Dan Shaughnessy

Henrik Stenson a worthy champion

Adrian Walker

The voter wild card

SCOT LEHIGH

Mayoral hopefuls on fire department reform

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Music dinosaurs pick a bad fight
Sergio Garcia hits out of a trap on the 14th hole during the third round.

Christopher L. Gasper

Garcia letting his play do the talking

Adrian Walker

Squeezing the laborers

Nation & World

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Security officials inspected the scene of a bomb blast targeting Egyptian interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim near his home in Cairo, Egypt.

Egypt’s interior minister survives bomb attack

It was the first attack on a senior government official since the country’s Islamist president was toppled in a coup two months ago.

Business

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Food was served at a restaurant in St. Paul, Minn.

US service sector expands at fastest pace in 8 years

Sales and orders grew and employers ramped up hiring in July, according to a report.

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

Steven DeMarco as Brick and Madeleine Lambert as Maggie in Wellfleet Harbor Actor Theater’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

A declawed ‘Cat’ in Wellfleet

In her production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’’ Elizabeth Falk — who is credited with “script redaction’’ — diminishes some of the play’s unsettling force.

Style

Bargain Bin

Sara Campbell marks down spring and summer goods

Ami Albernaz’s weekly roundup of bargains includes Campbell’s end-of-summer warehouse sale.

Globe Insiders

From the Archives | Photo gallery

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As summer comes to an end, we take a look at a summer retreat visited by both the philosophers and the frolicker.

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Little folk
The cover for the August 18 2013 issue

Sharks Inc.
The cover for the August 11 2013 issue

Daniel Nava, the long shot
The cover for the August 4 2013 issue

The lake house

Ideas

“Cities have become the main source of fresh thinking about how to solve the world’s problems — and mayors, more than their higher-ranking counterparts in public life, are the ones setting the course.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the rise of mayors as a powerful political force