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Kerry calls Kenya mall attack ‘heartbreaking’

“Attacks like this can’t change who we are, a people committed to peace and justice for all,” said US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Islamic extremist group claims responsibility in mall assault

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.

Clay Buchholz allowed three runs in the fourth inning.

Blue Jays 4, Red Sox 2

Overall, Red Sox are a bit off

The Red Sox lost ground in the current race for the best record in the American League after Saturday’s loss to the Blue Jays.

Harvard’s new starting quarterback, Conner Hempel, threw four touchdown passes against the University of San Diego.

Harvard 42, San Diego 20

Harvard rolls in its opener

Behind quarterback Conner Hempel’s four touchdown passes, all in the second half, Harvard roared past San Diego.

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.

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Edaville Railroad’s Christmas Festival of Lights has been a draw for decades.

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Globe South

Edaville on track for expansion

Some of Edaville Railroad’s neighbors, however, have raised concerns over how its proposed expansion would affect traffic and drainage.

Tennessee Williams, seen in his New York apartment in 1965, began to fall out of favor in the ’60s.

theater | critic’s notebook

Tennessee Williams’s time is now

Thanks in part to the annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, posterity is smiling on the playwright 30 years after his death.

Ideas

How Boston is wooing Chinese tourists

Check out our blue skies! Boston’s pitch to a new stream of visitors spotlights some unexpected city virtues.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/09/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/mayor-fund90x90.jpg Where the money flows: Mayoral campaign donations

See the donations to each candidate by Boston ZIP code and neighborhood.

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

Sunday preview | Game on

Thinking anew about playing with violence
Pamela Bradford.

Sunday preview | Magazine

The true story of a thrift shop coat

Sunday preview | buzzsaw

Remembering the good old days of ‘Dexter’

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

Exclusive Sunday preview | Movies

Joseph Gordon-Levitt pushes boundaries

An aerial view of Doris Duke’s Newport estate, Rough Point. The grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Sunday preview | Travel

In Newport, R.I., echoes of an eccentric heiress
Bryan Cranston stars as President Johnson in American Repertory Theater’s production of “All the Way.”

Stage Review

Bryan Cranston delivers in ‘All the Way’
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
The storm caused the wreck of these yachts in Onset Bay, Wareham.

Recalling The Great Hurricane
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

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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Vanderbilt 24, UMass 7

UMass quarterback A.J. Doyle (center) scrambled to avoid Vanderbilt’s Stephen Weatherly.

UMass falls short in sloppy, injury-riddled game

Vanderbilt proved to be too overpowering for the Minutemen, who now have an 0-4 record after today’s loss.

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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People inspected the site of a suicide bombing at a funeral in a Shiite part of Baghdad.

Funeral bombing, other attacks in Iraq kill dozens

A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a tent packed with mourners, the deadliest assault in a day of attacks that claimed at least 41 lives.

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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Beauty of the bottle
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Jefferson slept here
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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