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• Obama aide steps down amid mortgage queries
• Campaign Notebook Candidates wage word battle on pulling troops from Iraq

• David Gergen and Andy Zelleke A question of presidential leadership
• Todd Domke The future of the campaign

• Ocean fishing for sport faces fee (By Beth Daley, Globe Staff)
• Fenway food stands failed inspections (By John C. Drake, Globe Staff)
• Black station tuning out static (By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff)
• Hospital projects may need green seal (By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff)
• Dramatic rescue from Roxbury fire (By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff)
• Act of friendship ends in killing (By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff)
• Peeping Tom video lands two students in district court (By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff)
• Kevin Cullen Beating on L.A. (By Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist)
• Toddler drowns in pool at home (By Jillian Jorgensen, Globe Correspondent)
• Sergeant describes grisly find inside Entwistles' bedroom (By Franci R. Ellement, Globe Correspondent)
• Conn. says killer hired in developer's slaying (By John Christoffersen, Associated Press)
• Jeweler won't disclose items in robbery (By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff)
• New England in brief Woman reports assault in the North End (Boston Globe)
• Ortiz, pride of Sox Nation, joins US as a citizen (By Christopher Baxter, Globe Correspondent)
• Legal Sea Foods chief offers MBTA operators a sort of fishy apology (By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)
• Widow, former wife suing in death of two firefighters (By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff)
• Patrons mourn loss of Allston restaurant (By Maddie Hanna, Globe Correspondent)
• Officials rule out arson in blaze at Hook Lobster (By Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff)
• MIT professor wins world's largest award for tech innovation (By Jonnelle Marte, Globe Correspondent)
• Old Cape lighthouse shines on in Calif. (By Jonnelle Marte, Globe Correspondent)
• State senator set to challenge N.H. governor in race (By Norma Love, Associated Press)

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• Stylish teens move beyond traditional roles (By Taryn Plumb, Globe Correspondent)
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• Devens Water war in offing? Towns eye Devens water (By John Dyer, Globe Correspondent)

• Newton temple experiments with program to reinvigorate Hebrew school (By Hinda Mandell, Globe Correspondent)

• WEYMOUTH State panel rejects ex-Weymouth mayor's higher pension (By Matt Carroll, Globe Staff)

• James D. Colt, 75, lawyer and former state representative (By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff)
• Vo Van Kiet, 85, a former prime minister of Vietnam (Boston Globe)
• Neal T. Baker, 84, pioneer in the fast-food industry (By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times)
• John Rauch, 80; coached Raiders to Super Bowl berth (By Charles Odum, Associated Press)
• Randolph Chase Jr., infectious disease specialist (By Jeremy Pearce, New York Times News Service)
• Obituaries In brief (Boston Globe)

• Va. governor could help fill gap for Obama (By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff)
• Tornado kills 4 at Iowa Boy Scout camp (By Timberly Ross, Associated Press)
• Chinese hacked Capitol Hill computers, lawmakers say (By Pete Yost and Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press)
• Daily Briefing Pace, Shalala to get Medal of Freedom (Boston Globe)
• Census to fingerprint 500,000 contractors for 2010 count (By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press)
• Nationally certified teachers raise scores (By Nancy Zuckerbrod, Associated Press)
• Democrats scuttle proposal to impeach Bush (By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff)
• US judge had kept explicit website (By Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times)
• US life expectancy hit record high in '06, study says (By David Brown, Washington Post)
• Obama aide steps down amid mortgage queries (Boston Globe)
• Campaign Notebook Candidates wage word battle on pulling troops from Iraq (Boston Globe)
• Flood threat spurs evacuation in Iowa (By Amy Lorentzen, Associated Press)

• Bombing strains US-Islamabad ties (By Candace Rondeaux and Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post)
• Daily Briefing Flu threat prompts chicken slaughter (Boston Globe)
• Israeli Cabinet votes to seek truce with militants in Gaza (By Isabel Kershner, New York Times News Service)
• Quake refugees forced to move again (By Audra Ang, Associated Press)
• Bush, Merkel jointly call for new sanctions on Iran (By Steven Lee Myers and Nicholas Kulish, New York Times News Service)
• Zimbabwean officials seize US food aid (By Celia W. Dugger, New York Times News Service)
• British lawmakers pass measure expanding counterterrorism laws (By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times)
• Agent leaves Qaeda files on a train (By Paisley Dodds, Associated Press)
• Human Rights Watch accuses Ethiopia of war crimes (By Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Associated Press)
• Canada apologizes for forcing its native children to assimilate (By Rob Gillies, Associated Press)
• Grisly messages decorate a drug war (By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times)
• Civilians paid, armed by US military begin patrols of Sadr City (By Amit R. Paley, Washington Post)
• Survivor recounts chaos, screams, panic in Sudan jet crash (By Mohamed Osman and Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press)

• Globe Editorial Ready for better schools
• Globe Editorial Drugs and disclosure
• Globe Editorial Linking trails and people
• David Gergen and Andy Zelleke A question of presidential leadership
• Joan Vennochi Kerry's O'Reilly factor
• Todd Domke The future of the campaign

• Staples' lengthy courtship pays off (By Angel Jennings, Globe Correspondent)
• Definitely not uniform (By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff)
• Northeastern to rent space from church (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff)
• A timeout for bank in renaming Garden (By Ross Kerber, Globe Staff)
• Walgreens plans clinics to rival CVS's (By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff)
• Tech Lab Upstaging plasma TVs? (By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff)
• Economy called 'generally weak' (Boston Globe)
• Trying to balance inflation, concerns over downturn (By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff)
• Dollar woes, supply drop spur new rise in oil prices (Boston Globe)
• Kraft, Sara Lee casing No. 1 (Boston Globe)
• Business in brief 3d advisory firm opposes Icahn plan for Biogen Idec (Boston Globe)
• US steps in to ensure students find loans (Boston Globe)
• Martha Stewart Living CEO quits (Boston Globe)
• Jobless benefits bill up for 2d try (Boston Globe)
• InBev offers $46.3b for Anheuser (Boston Globe)
• THE SAVINGS GAME | HUMBERTO CRUZ You might have to delay retirement, but don't assume you must delay the fun, too (Boston Globe)

• Rondo expects to play (By Christopher L. Gasper, Globe Staff)
• Dan Shaughnessy Getting more from Garnett would be ticket (By Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist)
• Bob Ryan This calls for a Stern response (By Bob Ryan, Globe Columnist)
• Red Sox 6, Orioles 3 Bargain Colon again on money as Sox cash in (By Amalie Benjamin, Globe Staff)
• Red Sox Notebook Crisp will get to state case (By Amalie Benjamin, Globe Staff)
• NFL Notebook Ravens' Ogden will call it a career (Boston Globe)
• Sports Log Pujols out 3 weeks with calf strain (Boston Globe)
• Offense's start was first-rate (By Gordon Edes, Globe Staff)
• MLB Roundup Cubs suffer knockout blow (Boston Globe)
• Revolution able to do without (By Barbara Matson, Globe Staff)
• Celtics Notebook Doc's prescription for his players? Rest (By Christopher L. Gasper, Globe Staff)
• Odom is taking the foul trouble personally (By Shira Springer, Globe Staff)
• Lakers Notebook Bryant comes out swinging (By Shira Springer, Globe Staff)
• Painting ugly picture (By Frank Dell'Apa, Globe Staff)
• Westwood 13, Framingham 11 Westwood back in final (By Amanda Bruno, Globe Correspondent)
• Division 1, 2 girls' tennis championships A-B storms by Algonquin (By Jennifer Toland and Craig Holt, Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
• Scituate 17, Cohasset 5 Scituate is finally entitled (By Monique Walker, Globe Staff)
• Duxbury 14, Billerica 13 (OT) Close call: Duxbury prevails in OT (By Maggie Cassidy, Globe Correspondent)
• Medfield 10, Walpole 5 Medfield's defense holds off Walpole (By Brendan Hall, Globe Correspondent)
• Ashland 5, Central Catholic 0 Ashland gives Pease a chance, and she delivers (By Chris Estrada, Globe Correspondent)
• Harvard-Yale Regatta Harvard looking for rock-solid effort against Yale (By Baxter Holmes, Globe Correspondent)
• US Open It's a real cliffhanger (By Jim McCabe, Globe Staff)
• US Open Notebook A hungry Mickelson is fed up with seconds (By Jim McCabe, Globe Staff)
• Keeping score around New England Costaregni triumphs (Boston Globe)
• Golf notes Real story of Swede success (By Jim McCabe, Globe Staff)

• A splash of chic (By Christopher Muther, Globe Staff)
• Study finds Mass. draws artists (By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff)
• One-track mind (By Christopher Muther, Globe Staff)
• A toast to 5 hot summer parties (By Christopher Muther, Globe Staff)
• Gown, baby, gown (By Erica Corsano, Globe Correspondent)
• Style Spy Exhibiting a fashion sense (Boston Globe)
• The fist bump: Obamas hit on a new meaning (By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff)
• MUSIC REVIEW A decade later, Swervedriver still has it (By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent)
• MUSIC REVIEW A Spanish sojourn travels across time (By Matthew Guerrieri, Globe Correspondent)
• Movie Review Reliving NY socialism in working-class 'Utopia' (By Ty Burr, Globe Staff)
• HANDYMAN ON CALL How to repair a patio (By Peter Hotton, Globe Correspondent)
• Names Sizzling eco talk (By Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff)
• MORE CELEBRITY NEWS Newman battles cancer (Boston Globe)
• Music Reviews Keys shines in soulful tunes, but overproduction dims luster (By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff)
• Playboy's jazz fest celebrates 30 years (By Charles J. Gans, Associated Press)

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