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Summers withdraws name from Fed consideration

President Barack Obama says he has accepted Lawrence Summers’ decision to withdraw from consideration for the role of Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Coakley’s entry will add to crowded gubernatorial field

Attorney General Martha Coakley will announce her bid for governor in her hometown of Medford on Monday, an aide said.

Obama says deal ends threat of Syrian weapons

President Obama said a US-Russian agreement is a chance to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, but Russia continues to protect the Assad regime.

No clear leader among mayoral hopefuls, Globe poll shows

With just over a week until the preliminary election, the field is so tightly bunched and volatile that as many as nine candidates have a plausible shot at the final.

Some of the multi-generational family shows on TV this fall (clockwise from bottom): “The Millers,” “The Crazy Ones,” “Dads” (two images), “Sean Saves the World,” “Mom,” “Trophy Wife,” “Back in the Game” (three images). Anna Faris (left) and Allison Janney in the CBS comedy “Mom.”

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fall tv preview

With the success of ‘Modern Family,’ new shows bring generations together

The network lineups are working the same theme at the same time to form a full-on trend: adults and their parents.

Amendola has torn adductor muscles, may have sports hernia, report says

Patriots receiver Danny Amendola may miss three to four weeks if he is diagnosed with a hernia, according to a report.

Mark Melancon’s Pirates are in a fight for the National League Central title with St. Louis.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Players aren’t wild about one-game playoff

Players and management alike are beginning to hate this concept of fighting like crazy to get there, only to have the season end in a heartbeat.

From left to right: Mary Lynne Hedley, Deborah Dunsire, and Susan Windham-Bannister.

Innovation economy

The 10 most influential women in biotech

In terms of female leadership, biotech sets the pace for other industries in Boston.

Opinion

JEFF JACOBY

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/15/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Jeff_Jacoby_150px-2324.jpg The world has lost respect for the US

America’s standing is so low that Syrian President Bashar Assad can thumb his nose at an explicit presidential “red line.”

Globe exclusives

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Boston Ballet at 50

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Style magazine: Fall fashion
When the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicle’s current software system was designed, President Reagan occupied the Oval Office. Efforts are now underway to modernize the system.

RMV awaits computer overhaul
Tom Brady

Sunday Football Notes

Patriots offense struggling
The Triumphal Arch of Sergius.

travel

Istria and its secrets of the soil

Your Home

Waste not
Piero della Francesca’s 15th-century painting “Senigallia Madonna’’ comes with a backstory worthy of a detective novel.

arts

A museum, a heist, a rescued ‘Madonna’

Harold Blank owns the Warwick Cinema in Marblehead.  

10 great reasons to head to the North Shore

The $9 silicon bands are embossed with the split times runners need to hit in order to cross the finish line when they want.

Running band maker seeks Kickstarter cash
Traps have failed to eliminate the mice, who have become a part of life at the State House.

State House mouse infestation causing damage

Ideas

The psychology of heroes and villains
On Sept. 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, providing the push that sent the economy spiraling into the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Lessons from Lehman’s fall

Lessons learned from Lehman, but risks remain

Boston mayoral race

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Volunteers for John Connolly worked their cellphones beforeameeting in the Roslindale field office.

Candidates’ ground game seen as key to mayor’s race

The Sept. 24 preliminary election for mayor in Boston is expected to play out as a fierce ground war.

Sports

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By almost every statistical measure, Koji Uehara has been the best relief pitcher in the American League.

Koji Uehara finds a home with Red Sox

At the age of 38, the Red Sox closer is having one of the best seasons for a reliever in baseball history.

Metro

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Leo Villani told people he had inherited money.

Unsuspected, UMass Medical worker stole millions

Leo Villani siphoned off nearly $3.4 million from payments intended for the state Medicaid insurance program over the past five years.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

From pals to pariahs
From top: John Barros in “The Difference,” Bill Walczak’s “Only one says no,” Mike Ross literally runs for mayor, Dan Conley in “Innovation,” and Rob Consalvo in “All in for Boston.”

JOANNA WEISS

Boston’s mayoral race doesn’t need TV ads

JOAN VENNOCHI

Patrick’s tech tax wakes up a sleeping giant
From left to right: Mary Lynne Hedley, Deborah Dunsire, and Susan Windham-Bannister.

Innovation economy

Influential women in biotech

Derrick Z. Jackson

A gridlocked city

SCOT LEHIGH

Rob Consalvo earns A+ in pandering to teachers union

John Connolly sees schools as the link to a better future

Tech Lab

Internet video with a brain

JOAN VENNOCHI

Menino, stop the heavy action agenda

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The Rapture People are back
Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano makes an over-the-shoulder catch to rob Will Middlebrooks in the sixth.

Dan Shaughnessy

Yankees have surprising staying power
Tom Brady yelled in frustration after one of his passes fell incomplete.

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It’s Tom Brady ... and not much more

Nation & World

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Allen Tawa and his daughter Kayla walked out of their mud-clogged home after days of flooding, on the edge of Boulder, Colo., on Saturday. Not all were willing to leave the area.

Rescuers warn holdouts in Colorado

As rescuers broke through to flood-ravaged Colorado towns, they issued a stern warning to anyone thinking of staying behind.

Business

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Lessons from Lehman’s fall

Marcus Stanley

Much to do to prevent another Lehman Brothers

Consumer advocate Marcus Stanley thinks that Wall Street still has far too much ability to delay, dilute, or prevent reform.

Arts

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Darlene Love entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011 and is featured in the recent film “20 Feet From Stardom.”

Backup vocalist Darlene Love steps to the front

Love, who is credited as a pioneer of backup singers, is downright tickled to note that she’s now on the road again under her own name.

Travel

Harold Blank owns the Warwick Cinema in Marblehead.  

10 great reasons to head to the North Shore

The only thing that gets us through September is the fact that some things are even better in autumn.

Books

Book Review

Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans.

‘Five Days at Memorial’ by Sheri Fink

The book is Fink’s heroic expansion of the Pulitzer Prize winning article “The Deadly Choices at Memorial.”

Globe Insiders

Insider Event | Sept. 25

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/03/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/Kabul_4May07_0271.jpg Qais Akbar Omar, author of ‘A Fort of Nine Towers’

Attend a book signing and presentation by Qais Akbar Omar, author of the internationally acclaimed memoir.

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Magazine

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Beauty of the bottle
The cover for the September 8 2013 issue

Jefferson slept here
The cover for the August 25 2013 issue

Little folk
The cover for the August 18 2013 issue

Sharks Inc.

Ideas

“If we call something war, the instinct is that the military should really be in charge……But if you say it’s not actually military conflict, it’s not war in any sensible way, then you raise questions about whether the Department of Defense should really be responsible for this.”

Thomas Rid,  on cyberwar