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Green, or greenwashed?

The DNC billed the convention as the greenest ever. But that's not far enough for some.

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Day Four at the DNC

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• Excerpts: 'We are a better country than this'  |  Comments
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• Sharp, aggressive jabs supplant soaring rhetoric
• Campaign a realization of King's dream
• Joy, tears, a sense of history in the making
• Video Cheers for Obama, memories of King
• Obama speaks of faith in America

• Dan Wasserman Throat lump and fist bump
• Globe Editorial Campaigning after Katrina

Gore: 'It is time for a change'

"I believe in recycling, but that's ridiculous," Al Gore said in trying to link John McCain's policies to those of President Bush. (AP)

• Obama uses speech for high-tech outreach

Day Three at the DNC

Biden comes out punching

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Senator Joseph Biden Jr. accepted the VP nomination by attacking GOP candidate John McCain, linking McCain to what he called the "catastrophic" policies of President Bush. (Boston Globe)

• Joan Vennochi Scratches in Obama's glitter
• Dan Payne The GOP smear machine revs up
• Editorial Obama's history, and America's
• The nomination process  |  Speakers
• Senator Joseph Biden's prepared remarks
• Video Two no-name Democrats are real stars
• Video Obama nominated  |  Video Reaction

• Room for Kerry at State Department
• Fiery speech erases doubts about Clinton
• Obama needs to win working-class women
• In era of stagecraft, substance still matters

Clinton frees delegates
to back Obama at DNC

Hillary Clinton appeared on the DNC floor to ask those assembled to abandon a state-by-state vote and declare Obama the winner by acclamation. (Boston Globe)

• VENNOCHI Mass. stands out — and not in a good way
• Bill Clinton backs Obama  |  Text
• Kerry: McCain is more Bush  | 

Day Two at the DNC

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An impassioned call for unity

Senator Hillary Clinton called on Democrats to join together and elect her onetime foe, Barack Obama, as the next president. (Boston Globe)

• Video Clinton's speech  |  Part 2  |  Part 3  |  Text  |  Photos
• Video Women at the convention speak out  |  Part 2
• Clinton's journey awakens new women's movement
• Scot Lehigh Angry Clinton women, continued
• MASS.VOICES Blog The speech of her life

Patrick takes center stage

Three years ago Deval Patrick was a political unknown, but in Denver the Massachusetts governor stepped onto a national stage to endorse his candidate and friend, Barack Obama. (Boston Globe)

• Read Governor Patrick's prepared remarks

• Warner: Seize the opportunity  | 
• Kennedy almost didn't make speech due to illness
• Romney crashes the DNC show

Day One at the DNC

'The torch will be passed again'

Senator Edward M. Kennedy made an emotion-charged appearance to conclude the first day of the convention, braving his malignant brain tumor to deliver an impassioned speech for Barack Obama. (Boston Globe)

• VIDEO Watch Kennedy's speech
• Photos Kennedy takes the stage in Denver
• Remarks by Senator Kennedy
• Video Watch the tribute to Senator Kennedy
• Bay State leaders showcase influence in Denver

Reaching back to her roots,
Obama tells an American story

Michelle Obama opened the DNC with a speech designed to place her family squarely within the experience of Americans everywhere. (Boston Globe)

• Video Watch Obama's speech  |  Prepared remarks
• Clinton urges her loyalists to back Obama
• Canellos: Obama's speech did the trick

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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• In Ghana, Obama marks Africa's promise, problems

  In his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office, President Barack Obama is seeking to lift up the continent of his ancestors -- while keeping its emotions in check. (Associated Press Writer, 3 a.m.)

• Obama has full day in Ghana

  President Barack Obama begins a packed day in Ghana with a morning meeting in Accra with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills. (AP, 3 a.m.)

• Report: Bush surveillance program was massive

  The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal. (Associated Press Writer, 1:20 a.m.)

• China raises Xinjiang death toll to 184

  China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in its far west to 184 and detailed for the first time the ethnicity of those killed, while tension lingered over the city at the center of the strife. (Reuters, 12:59 a.m.)

• Obama lands in Ghana on historic Africa trip

  President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office. (Associated Press Writer, 12:29 a.m.)

• Obama admin: No grounds to probe Afghan war crimes

  Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces. (Associated Press Writer, 12:20 a.m.)