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House passes bill to give shutdown workers back pay

Even as many government offices remain closed, the House passed a bill that reimburses workers for lost pay once the government reopens.

Iran leader hints at disapproval over Obama call

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that some aspects of Hassan Rouhani’s trip to New York last month were ‘‘not appropriate.’’

BRA speeds up proposal reviews

As Mayor Tom Menino’s term nears an end, the agency’s board has started meeting twice a month.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/05/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Advance/Images/200_dobelle.jpg State freezes university’s funding

The plans come after Westfield State University President Evan Dobelle failed to meet the deadline for submitting a detailed defense of his spending habits.

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Derrick Z. Jackson

The vanishing monarch butterfly

From Mattapan to Minnesota and up through Maine and Canada, scientists and volunteers are recording low numbers.

After Twitter released its securities filing, 14.4 million Tweeter shares traded hands.

You say Twitter, I say Tweeter: Investor mix-up?

Investors confusing Twitter with the former Canton-based electronics retailer caused Tweeter shares to soar.

C.J. Olivolo, 9, of Hilton Head, S.C., chose a favorite player’s face to hold for a photographic “portrait.”

Sox fans skip work, flock to Fenway Park

Sporadic rain and middle-of-the-day timing did not deter thousands of fans from descending on Fenway Park for the heavily anticipated playoff opener.

Christopher L. Gasper

Jonny Gomes really got them going

Gomes, taking advantage of a miscue in the outfield, picked the perfect time to deliver his first career postseason hit.

Opinion

opinion | Marcela García

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/05/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1voting1005-2742--90x90.jpg Low turnout a lost opportunity for Latinos

The Latino community’s clout may be growing in Boston, but the preliminary’s results clearly indicate it will take a more concerted effort to vault one of its own into a mayoral final.

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Sales associate Andre Wynter and Angelica Ochoa perused a schedule of classes in Braintree.

Reebok embraces personal fitness trend
An employee walked past a Twitter logo at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco Friday. When Twitter goes public, Spark Capital’s holdings could be worth $640 million.

Social media ignites Spark Capital
Stephen Drew (center) was pumped as the Red Sox welcomed him to the dugout after scoring in the fourth inning.

RED SOX 12, RAYS 2

Red Sox win ALDS opener
Caroline Kennedy spoke during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on her nomination.

Japan abuzz at prospect of Ambassador Kennedy

Alexander Bradley appeared in Hartford Superior Court with his lawyer on Friday.

Hernandez associate arrested in Conn.

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How ‘impermanence’ can help us all get along
Boston Red Sox celebrated the last out clinching the Division title.

MLB Playoffs | Special section

Red Sox in the postseason
The royalties from Edith Wharton’s novels paid for her Lenox home, The Mount, and its furnishings.

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Learning from the homes of famous writers
Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1999.

A story in tweets

Remembering the Yeltsin-Russian parliament standoff
New math standards being adopted across the state push reasoning and abstract thinking, says eighth-grade teacher Michelle Calioro. “I think that was really missing from the old standards.”

Exclusive Sunday Magazine preview | The Education Issue

Aiming higher
A bee in South Boston by Carson Beach.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Oct. 4, 2014
Patrica Donahue, with sons Tom (left) and Michael (right), left a court session during the James “Whitey” Bulger trial.

Widow of Bulger victim says money should go to families

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Jon Lester was brilliant, fanning seven as the Red Sox took Game 1 of the ALDS.

Jon Lester was on target from the first pitch

Lester, who last started Sept. 28, was brilliant in his return to the mound, giving up just three hits over 7⅔ innings.

Boston mayoral race

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Mayoral candidate Martin Walsh talked with X-ray technician Schlander Campbell Thursday at Boston Medical Center.

Walsh’s push for binding arbitration draws criticism

Government watchdogs argue that Marty Walsh’s proposal would eliminate financial safeguards for cities and towns.

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Glen James earned praise when he turned in a back pack containing $2,000 in cash, $39,000 in American Express Travelers Checks and a passport last month.

Homeless man who returned $42,000 now has a home

A trust fund is being set up to accept more than $150,000 that has been collected for Glen James, who is preparing to move into transitional housing within days.

Columnists

opinion | Joyce London Ford and Kevin C. Peterson

Boston’s minorities must learn from vote results

opinion | Marcela García

Low turnout a lost opportunity

Shirley Leung

The Seaport’s Silver Line solution

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Boston’s inanity trail
BECCA ROSENTHAL

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Still inspiring others
Every loss and head-shaking sideshow that last season’s last-place, 69-win calamity served up was worth it, because it led the Sox to this.

Christopher L. Gasper

Last year’s crash was necessary
John Lackey, Jon Lester and Josh Beckett arrived at the first official workout of spring training in February 2011.

Dan Shaughnessy

Do not take success for granted

Yvonne Abraham

Laboring over a political position
Today's iMacs range in price from $1,299 to $1,999, and come in 21.5 inches across or 27 inches. Its maximum resolution is actually higher than that of a standard 1080p high-definition television.

Tech Lab

iMac — too good for its own good?

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Thinking outside the city limits
EMT Marcus Jerome and his wife Rachel at his Boston EMS graduation in 2012 in Faneuil Hall.

Kevin Cullen

Death of a lifesaver

JEFF JACOBY

Arbitration has no place at the table

Nation & World

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Investigators are still unclear what prompted Miriam Carey to drive to Washington on Thursday.

Officials look for clues to Conn. woman’s fatal D.C. trip

Investigators have found antipsychotic medications in the home of a woman who led police on a high-speed chase through the nation’s capital, authorities said.

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Jeffrey Fuhrer (left), Mike Nikitas, and Ashlee Feldman cohosted the quiz show for high school students Friday at the State House.

High school students quizzed on their financial literacy

The state bankers association sponsored the event as a resource for the financial literacy pilot program approved by the state Legislature in 2012.

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Mia Dyson was asked to rebrand as an edgy, androgynous character named BOY.

Mia Dyson enjoys a fresh start, as herself

Once asked to rebrand as an edgy, androgynous character named BOY, Dyson, as herself, plays the Lizard Lounge Thursday.

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99 Bottles

German beer comes to train station at TD Garden

Modeled after a German beer garden, the bar, located directly below TD Garden on the platform where commuter rail trains leave North Station, has a metropolitan feel.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/02/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/zoo012-1502[1].jpg The Franklin Park Zoo

The Franklin Park zoo opened on Oct 3, 1912, to the delight of thousands, and has undergone several changes in the years since.

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

Jefferson slept here

Ideas

“The Arab Council for the Social Sciences aims to give thinkers institutional punch — not just funding for projects that aren’t popular with local regimes or Western universities, but muscle to fight authorities.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on a new Middle East brain trust