Wide worry after Amy Lord slaying

“A person of interest” in the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old Lord of South Boston was deemed unfit to be arraigned.

Emotional trauma may have kept Amy Lord from fleeing

Many are asking, “Why didn’t Lord run when she appeared to have the chance?”

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Since Amy Lord’s horrific death, young women are now looking over their shoulders to stay safe.

Iran wants talks with US on nuclear program

According to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Iran is interested in direct talks with the US, and suggested he was relaying a message from Iranian officials.

Tom Brady deflected questions about his emotions regarding the Aaron Hernandez murder investigation.

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Brady should have said more on Hernandez

This was not the Tom Brady we’ve become accustomed to — cool, comfortable, and in complete command of his surroundings.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s administration has begun authorizing construction of smaller rental and ownership units across the city.

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Mayor Menino’s administration has authorized smaller housing units, some as small as 450 square feet.

Critics have pressed officlals to allow the small units to help cut housing costs.

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Critics have pressed officlals to allow the small units to help cut housing costs.

Boston is one of many high-cost cities immersed in a nationwide debate over minimum housing sizes. San Francisco is now allowing units as small as 220 square feet.

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Boston is one of many high-cost cities debating minimum housing sizes. San Francisco allows 220 square foot units.

Boston backs development of smaller living units

Units as small as 450 square feet can now be built within a mile of public transportation.

Shirley Leung

Summers is too much for Fed to handle

Larry Summers as the next Fed chairman? Worst idea ever. He is arrogant and a lightning rod and would carry so much baggage he couldn’t fit it on the shuttle to Washington.

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Traces of the old Southie

Stevie Flemmi finally left the stand after implicating his former partner in crime, Whitey Bulger, in every crime under the sun.

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When you’re one of a dozen running for mayor, extreme measures must be taken to get attention.

Opinion

LAWRENCE HARMON

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Metaphorically speaking, Sergeant Sean Murphy beat up a suspect by releasing unauthorized images of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Globe exclusives

Leslie Berlowitz, President of The American Academy of Arts.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences head to resign

“All of this feels like it was meant to be,” said Roslindale native Joseph Abboud.

Designer Joseph Abboud, label a perfect fit again
Maggie Carey, writer and director of “The To Do List.”

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Maggie Carey finishes her ‘To Do List’

Mind-control study gives mouse false memory
Jake Shimabukuro.

Summer Arts Weekend

Uke-reka!

Alison Krauss has won 27 Grammy Awards.

Summer Arts Weekend

No second fiddle

Rep. Joseph Kennedy III.

Kennedy alone in delegation with vote backing NSA
Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” revisits the last day of Oscar Grant, who was shot by a San Francisco transit officer on New Year’s morning 2009.

Movie Review

‘Fruitvale Station’ takes the measure of a life

Tech Lab

Nokia smartphone has a smarter camera
Tom Brady spoke to a throng of reporters on Thursday.

Tom Brady wants Patriots to move on from Hernandez case
July 14, 1974: Giving donations from their window to the statue of Madonna del Carmine were Josephina Marino and Peter Gerbino. The Feast of Madonna del Carmine was first celebrated in the North End in 1966. While older feasts were initiated by immigrants from Italy, this newest one was started by a small group of young men who were all born in this country and who, said feast chairman, Joseph Santangelo, 22, simply wanted their own celebration.

From the Archives

North End feasts
Aubrey Plaza stars as a high school senior who makes a list of sexual experiences she needs to have before going to college.

Movie Review

Can a girl revolutionize the teen sex comedy?

Sports

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Tim Tebow met a crush of reporters when he first appeared with the Patriots at minicamp in June.

Everything you need to know about Tim Tebow

He’s an NFL phenomenon, but yet he’s a backup QB who might not make the roster? Here’s what makes Tebow so popular.

Metro

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A funeral was held for Stephen Rakes Thursday at Gate of Heaven Church in South Boston. Rakes had hoped to testify against James “Whitey” Bulger at his racketeering trial.

Funeral held for Stephen Rakes

About 100 people attended a brief service in a church only 2 miles from the courthouse where his run-in with James “Whitey” Bulger was a topic of testimony Thursday.

Columnists

Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most famous women in America in the 1920s and ’30s.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The poet as a rock star

kevin cullen

Traces of the old Southie
Tom Brady deflected questions about his emotions regarding the Aaron Hernandez murder investigation.

christopher l. gasper

More needed to be said by Brady

Shirley Leung

Summers is too much for Fed to handle

Yvonne Abraham

Is Charles Yancey’s run for real?

JOAN VENNOCHI

Warren’s on right side of loan bill

Alex Beam

Really real summer reading list
Mayor Thomas Menino toured the student-heavy apartment blocks along Commonwealth Avenue on Aug. 31, 2007, with the Inspectional Services Department.

JEFF JACOBY

Don’t trash my city
Patriots coach Bill Belichick departed after his news conference at Gillette Stadium.

Dan Shaughnessy

Belichick dignified, human in comments on Hernandez case

Kevin Cullen

Trying to sort out the lowlifes

EDWARD L. GLAESER

In Detroit, bad policies bear bitter fruit
Ryan Braun did not contest the evidence in this case and the Players’ Association was not summoned for a customary appeal.

Dan Shaughnessy

Ryan Braun deserved harsher penalty

Nation & World

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Weiner’s once-resurgent political standing in New York City seemed to erode by the moment, as more graphic pictures of his penis appeared online and his conduct and lack of candor were denounced from the campaign trail to the halls of Congress.

Anthony Weiner admits to more lewd exchanges

He said he could not say for certain how many women or lewd images might yet surface.

Politics

Attorney General Eric Holder said the Department of Justice would ask a court to require Texas to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes in that state.

Holder presses Texas to clear voting law changes

The Attorney General revealed that the Justice Department would ask a court to require the state to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes.

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High school students attended the Samsung Mobile App Academy — a two-day crash course in app-making — this week at MIT.

MIT, Samsung hold app camp

In a campaign to teach kids about technology, Samsung taught 30 local high school students the art of app making at MIT.

Arts

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The best of the Summer Arts Weekend

Alison Krauss is just one of several reasons to get to Copley Square for the free Summer Arts Weekend. Here are some highlights.

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Movie Review

Logan, played by Hugh Jackman, revisits Japan and fights his greatest battle in “The Wolverine,” directed by James Mangold.

‘The Wolverine’ is sliced just right

Hugh Jackman and company smartly take a step in a different direction from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” released four years ago.

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What happened at Deerfield
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Are big blue bins bad for recycling?
The cover for the June 30 2013 issue

Rethinking the golden years
The cover for the June 23 2013 issue

The bee keepers

Ideas

“Using techniques from the past, ideas from hot-weather countries, and new findings from building design experts, we can see a surprising portrait emerge of what life might look like if we decided we could no longer afford our addiction to air conditioning.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on life without A/C