Mayoral rivals clash on labor in second debate

John Connolly sought to use attacks against him from organized labor to frame the fundamental difference between him and Martin Walsh.

Martin Walsh’s union ties are not in and of themselves a detriment.

News Analysis

Walsh still looking for answer on his labor ties

Tuesday’s debate underscored the central challenge to Martin Walsh’s mayoral run: staving off the perception that he is too shackled to organized labor.

In one of Sophie Calle’s images for “Last Seen,” a man looks at the space where a Rembrandt once hung at the Gardner.

Gardner exhibit adds perspective to 1990 thefts

“Sophie Calle: Last Seen” revisits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, which claimed 13 works worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Efforts grow to unionize part-time faculty at colleges

Part-time faculty at several Boston-area colleges, frustrated by low pay and emboldened by their growing ranks, are taking steps to unionize.

Heather Abbot was one of many amputees who threw out a ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park.

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Red Sox and bombing-scarred Boston rise together

This year’s Red Sox have embodied the way sport can bring together a community sundered by disaster.

Singing

Opinion | Geoff Edgers

Please, banish ‘Sweet Caroline’ from Fenway Park

Singing the Neil Diamond song has been a tradition at Fenway for more than a decade. But the time has come to end it.

Clockwise from top left, Tom Vasic of Adelaide, Australia; Peter Rice of Falls Church, Va.; Tom Good, a Maine native; and Brian Eschler of Colorado show off their Sox pride.

Diehard Red Sox supporters bond over their beards

Many fans have made the commitment to put away their razors until this most-improbable season is over.

World Series Preview

David Ortiz relishes being center of the Red Sox

The longest-tenured member of the Red Sox is the team’s heart and soul, and a player teammates still love to be around.

Opinion

SCOT LEHIGH

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Republican leaders are now having to deal with the Tea Party’s absolutism after being timid for too long.

Globe exclusives

At the Hotel Commonwealth, workers painted a wall at the front desk green to resemble Fenway Park’s Green Monster and baseballs took the place of flowers in the vases.

Hotel prices at premium for World Series
Chef-owner Tim Maslow.

Dining out

His own place on his own terms

Working with a tight five-piece band, John Legend has the gift of being smooth without ever seeming overly slick.

Music Review

Legend wraps his audience in warm embrace
Taquitos Cancun at Cancun Taqueria on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge.

Cheap Eats

Basement taqueria rises to the occasion
Aaron Williams’s “Construction,” currently on display at LaMontagne Gallery.

GALLERIES

A 21st-century ode to abstract expressionism
Roger Ahlfeld began his new position as vice president of human resources at Tedeschi Food Stores late last month.

Long job search finally ends
Worcester broke ground on the 20-acre, $565 milion CitySquare project in 2010.

Opinion | PAUL MCMORROW

Worcester’s downtown vision
The Red Sox dwelled in the bottom of the AL East in Bobby Valentine’s 2012 tenure.

on baseball

Bobby Valentine has praise for John Farrell’s Red Sox

Kevin Cullen

Speaking for a dead sister
Lila McCain, mother of Karen Douglas, spoke to the Newton school community about her daughter at a forum on suicide. At left, Larry Berkowitz and Joanna Bridger of the Riverside Trauma Center.

Newton parents discuss teen suicide
Mike Napoli set a team record for strikeouts but he was a major part of the offense.

Red Sox love working the count
MBCR officials blame the fall in ridership on factors such as a delay in delivery of a new fleet of train cars.

Better service but fewer riders

World Series

Scouting Report

Fenway Park will host the first two games of the World Series between the Red Sox and Cardinals.

How the Red Sox, Cardinals match up

Nick Cafardo breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of the Red Sox and Cardinals in the World Series.

Sports

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The Patriots struggled on first down on Sunday, Damon Harrison and Jets bringing down Tom Brady three times in the third quarter alone.

In losses, blueprint to beating Patriots was given

The Bengals and the Jets ran the ball consistently, were patient in the passing game, and pressured Tom Brady without having to blitz a whole lot.

Boston mayoral race

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CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK

John R. Connolly attended an environmental forum. His opponent, Martin J. Walsh, canceled. Walsh’s campaign said he was not feeling well and had to prepare for the debate.

Another outside mailer takes shot at John Connolly

The mailer comes just days after mayoral candidate Martin Walsh swore off negative mailers sent on his behalf by outside groups.

Metro

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Police gathered outside Fenway Park as the Red Sox took on the Detroit Tigers last weekend. Officers are planning to use social media to warn fans to stay away from the Kenmore Square area should celebrations become too raucous.

Police to focus on security during World Series

Hundreds of officers will patrol the Fenway Park area, and technicians will search for explosives.

Columnists

After building a Vegas empire, Sheldon Adelson bet big on gambling in Asia, propelling him to number 11 on the Forbes list of the richest Americans.

Shirley Leung

Sheldon, we really need you now
Xander Bogaerts is expected to start at third base for the Red Sox in the World Series.

Christopher L. Gasper

Xander Bogaerts settling in for a long stay
Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, left, shared a laugh with Red Sox assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez on Tuesday.

Dan Shaughnessy

This World Series needs some villains

Adrian Walker

A full deck? Hardly
John Connolly and Martin Walsh appeared in their second debate of the general election.

JOANNA WEISS

Connolly’s night during debate
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III prepared for a game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 9.

JEFF JACOBY

Manufactured indignation

Boston Capital

A door worth walking through

JAMES CARROLL

The deeper meaning of recycling

Adrian Walker

Endorse an end to endorsing
Even while in hospice care, former governor Paul Cellucci worked to help others.

Yvonne Abraham

Until the end, Cellucci wanted to serve
Shane Victorino (and most of Fenway Park) celebrated his 7th-inning grand slam, which gave the Red Sox a 5-2 lead over the Tigers.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox soar into World Series

Farah Stockman

A better way to tackle health law

Nation & World

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John Kerry said he thinks “the opposition will decide that it is in their best interest” to meet.

Syrian opposition undecided on talks, John Kerry says

The United States and 10 other nations support convening a peace conference on the war in Syria next month.

Business

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Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, spoke at Tuesday’s new product introduction in San Francisco.

Apple looks for a second wind with the iPad Air

With its domination of the tablet computer market at stake, Apple unveiled an upgraded line of iPad tablets Tuesday.

Arts

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Book Review

Margaret Drabble.

‘The Pure Gold Baby’ by Margaret Drabble

The book succeeds as both a social critique and a sensitive view of the agonies and joys of raising disabled children.

Special section

Museums Special

A look at what New England museums have to offer, including high-tech changes at Harvard’s Semitic Museum, directors’ favorites, and odd attractions.

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David Keith hopes we don’t have to use his ideas to reverse global warming
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Why is it so hard to find a doctor?
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Into the woods
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Becoming Bostonian

Ideas

“In a country where heroic leadership has become almost synonymous with ambition, researchers are offering up a surprising truth: The bold, charismatic leaders we idolize may be the last people we really want in charge.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the myth of the heroic leader