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Harvard launches record $6.5b capital campaign

The university plans to use the money to expand the campus in Allston, enhance engineering programs, and renovate aging undergraduate houses.

Women carrying children ran for safety as armed police hunted gunmen who attacked Westgate shopping center in Nairobi.

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Islamic extremist group claims responsibility in Kenya mall attack

The country’s president said at least 39 people were killed, including members of his family, and hostages remained inside the mall as night fell.

For his directorial feature debut, “Don Jon,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt opted to address pornography addiction.

Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

Exclusive Sunday preview | Movies

‘Don Jon’ satisfies Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s urge to take risks

The movie addressing pornography addiction, the latest from Gordon-Levitt, is yet another example of the star pushing boundaries.

Exclusive Sunday preview | Travel

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/20/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/AerialViewhighres[1].jpg In Newport, R.I., echoes of an eccentric heiress

Twenty years after Doris Duke’s death, it is not the material marvels that make visiting Rough Point so memorable, it’s the colorful stories that haunt every room.

Exclusive preview | Sunday baseball notes

A shift to neutral for first games of the World Series

Agent Scott Boras has called for having the first and/or second game of the World Series take place in a neutral setting.

Stage Review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/ATW2BryanCranston.jpg Bryan Cranston delivers LBJ’s outsize presence in ‘All the Way’

Cranston will understand it’s a compliment to say the charisma on display is Lyndon Baines Johnson’s, not his.

Opinion

Derrick Z. Jackson

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/21/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/Derrick_Z_Jackson_150px-2438.jpg Boston’s voters must look for vision

For the leap into greatness, the city now needs an urban weaver to knit and braid it into complete cloth.

Globe exclusives

opinion | Joan Fitzgerald

Recycling garbage
The storm caused the wreck of these yachts in Onset Bay, Wareham.

Recalling The Great Hurricane
House majority leader Eric Cantor said, “We’ve said from the beginning that this law will harm our economy.”

House votes 230-189 to defund Obama’s health law

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Mayoral campaign donations, block-by-block
For Chris Loiselle, an Air Force special operations veteran from Chelmsford, the ride helped with his post-traumatic stress.

Healing on two wheels
Westfield State University President Evan Dobelle.

Trustees grilled on Westfield State spending
David Zuber of Switzerland was first in line at the Apple Store on Boylston Street for the debut of the new iPhones Friday.

As new iPhone surges, Apple slips
A launch from Plum Island Bridge in Newburyport leads kayakers into a saltwater marsh.

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Best places to kayak in the fall

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Sept. 20, 2013
Matthew Ritchie (left) and Tricia O’Neill finished “Remanence: Salt and Light (Part II)” Friday.

Dewey Square mural draws praise, curiosity

exclusive Sunday Magazine preview

Do we still trust Bill Belichick?

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

How Boston is wooing Chinese tourists

Boston mayoral race

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Signs including Christen Dellorco’s compete for attention.

Mayoral rivals hotly contest their common ground

Campaigns are doing their best to pick off every vote, splitting neighborhoods, streets, and even families in the process.

Sports

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Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 3

The Red Sox rushed out of the dugout to celebrate at the mound with closer Koji Uehara after they clinched the AL East title.

Red Sox clinch division title

The joy was unrestrained at Fenway Park as the Red Sox beat the Blue Jays and won the division title.

Metro

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For Chris Loiselle, an Air Force special operations veteran from Chelmsford, the ride helped with his post-traumatic stress.

Wounded veterans find an outlet, and healing, in cycling

Today’s Soldier Ride around historic Concord is a display of how camaraderie, competition, and compassion can salve both body and soul.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Push harder for gun-law changes

Kevin Cullen

New book honors Jewish baseball players
Tommy Kelly has been a positive addition for the Patriots’ defense.

Christopher L. Gasper

No denying Pats’ D has improved

Tech Lab

It’s easier to share files between phones

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The literature of bullying
artha Coakley and Charlie Baker.

Yvonne Abraham

A second act for Charlie Coakley

JOAN VENNOCHI

Boston soars, but only for some developers

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Boston needs a chief entrepreneurship officer

JEFF JACOBY

Wellesley faculty back Chinese dissident
At 45 Province in downtown Boston, residents enjoy the use of a rooftop pool; the units offer 85 different layouts.

Shirley Leung

A house hunting trip like no other
Josh Redmond will be sworn in after he graduates from the police academy in November.

Kevin Cullen

A badge of honor
A model wore a wedding dress that featured an antler-like headband holding up the veil, in Paris in July.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

We’re nuts over nuptials

Nation & World

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s office dismissed the reports as “media spin.”

Benjamin Netanyahu rejects idea of Iran talks

Israel’s prime minister moved quickly to block even tentative steps by Iran and the United States to ease tensions and head toward negotiations to end the nuclear crisis.

Business

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The scene on Yawkey Way during a Red Sox game.

Red Sox, BRA agree to $7.3m deal for Yawkey, Lansdowne

The team will make annual payments over the next decade to buy the rights for the use of Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street.

Arts

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Stage Review

Erica Spyres and James (Joey) Caverly in SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Tribes.”

Absorbing ‘Tribes’ speaks volumes about failures to communicate

Actor James Caverly is first-rate in Nina Raine’s play, now receiving its New England premiere.

Movies

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Movie Review

A scene from Benson Lee’s “Battle of the Year.”

A hiphop ‘Battle’ with a ragtag team

It’s one thing for the French to beat us at speed-typing in “Populaire” – but hip-hop?

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