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Wallet in Sept. attack had Alemany’s ID

A woman was able to grab a wallet with Edwin Alemany’s identification before slipping into unconsciousness, police said.

Government rests case against Bulger

The prosecution’s final witness was an FBI agent who described capturing “Whitey” Bulger in a Santa Monica apartment complex in 2011 after 16 years on the lam.

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A prosecutor today described Ernest Wallace, who is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder, as the “right-hand man” of Aaron Hernandez.

Alfred Barr

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The Wellesley professor who invented contemporary art

How one seminar in the Boston suburbs helped transform American culture.

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The world’s most influential nutritionist is waging a war against unhealthy eating, obesity, and, every once in a while, his fellow researchers.

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The US House Ethics Committee received an ethics report on Representative John Tierney -- along with reports on three other House members.

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Tebow caught some passes, was unimpressive throwing the ball, and deflected questions about Aaron Hernandez in the team’s first practice.

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LAWRENCE HARMON

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

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Lord and her vehicle were captured on surveillance video Tuesday.

Emotional trauma may have kept Amy Lord from fleeing
Joseph Dana paddles a traditional handmade birch canoe on the Penobscot River and watched as the Veazie Dam was breached in Eddington, Maine.

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Globe photos of the week, July 26, 2013
Instructor Valentina M. Perez demonstrated a judo move with Thomas White at Ultimate Self Defense & Performance, which is one of the gyms in South Boston that will offer free self-defense and martial arts classes to train women.

Fear surges after attacks in South Boston
Heather Little-Andrade, photographed at her home in Dighton, said she is glad her daughter wants to move from her South Boston apartment.

Parents torn over children’s safety, dreams
Janet Yellen spoke at the the International Monetary Conference in Shanghai, China,in early June.

Shirley Leung

The case for Janet Yellen to run the Fed
The kitchen and living area of a 530-square-foot apartment at Factory 63 in the Innovation District (top). An ADD Inc. designed 300-square-foot microapartment. Critics have pressed city officlals to allow the small units to help cut housing costs.

Boston backs development of smaller living units
Aaron Hernandez appears to be holding a pistol in this surveillance image.

Hernandez appears to be holding gun in surveillance images
Mayoral candidate Bill Walczak dressed up for Boston’s gay pride parade.

Candidates try to stand out
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.”

movies

Maggie Carey finishes her ‘To Do List’
Alison Krauss has won 27 Grammy Awards.

Summer Arts Weekend

No second fiddle

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Analysis | Patriots camp report

Tom Brady and the Patriots held their first workout of the season on Friday.

Patriots open camp in wet, sloppy workout

The team’s practice on Friday morning, the first of training camp, was predictably sloppy, with the inexperienced receivers and backup QBs starting slow.

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Plainridge track partner says former president Piontkowski ‘pulled a fast one’

Plainridge Racecourse’s main investor said Gary Piontkowski, accused of taking cash from the track’s money room for years, was “deceptive.”

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

Tom Brady needed to say more

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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Under the deal, Ariel Castro would be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years for holding three women captive in his home for about a decade.

Ariel Castro agrees to plea deal in Ohio kidnap case

Prosecutors recommended he be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years for holding three women captive in his home for about a decade.

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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Are big blue bins bad for recycling?
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Rethinking the golden years
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“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