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Robin Lane helps survivors take flight

matthew cavanaugh for the boston globe

With Songbird Sings, the Boston rock icon helps trauma survivors find their voices -- and record them.

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Wakefield, the third-winningest and longest-tenured pitcher in Red Sox history, announced his retirement at a brief but emotional press conference.

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Tim Wakefield is one of the more notable Red Sox players we’ve ever known, and his first two months in a Boston uniform were beyond spectacular.

On Baseball

Well done, Tim Wakefield

Wakefield’s place in Red Sox history is secure. He may have wanted to continue playing, but he also wanted to retire as a member of the Sox.

Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and often lauded for his bravery and eloquence, Mr. Shadid died Thursday in Syria while reporting for the Times.

Anthony Shadid, 43; gave world a glimpse of war up close

Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, Mr. Shadid died in Syria while reporting for the New York Times after apparently suffering a fatal asthma attack.

Celebrity chef Ming Tsai of Blue Ginger attended a lunch hosted by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.

Chef Ming Tsai serves mislabeled fish to China’s vice president

Tsai, the well-known owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, served “Soy marinated Alaskan Butterfish” at a State Department lunch, but it was actually sablefish.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Senator Brown called on President Obama to fire Jane Lubchenco, the chief administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction of the country’s fishing fleets.

Senator Brown assails fisheries agency for ‘party boat’

Senator Brown distributed an inspector general’s inquiry into what he labeled a $300,000 “party boat” used by the federal agency that control’s the nation’s coastal fisheries.

Congress passes payroll tax cut extension

The House and Senate passed legislation renewing the tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more through the end of 2012.

Former Bruin and current Jet Blake Wheeler looked to deflect the puck by Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask.

Jets 4, Bruins 2

Bruins can’t slow down the Jets

Bryan Little scored twice in the third period, and former Bruin Blake Wheeler had a goal and two assists, as Winnipeg beat Boston in a commanding victory.

“We’re dumb, but we’re not stupid.”

Senator John McCain,  on Congress passing payroll tax cut

Globe Insiders

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Globe editorial page editor Peter S. Canellos moderates a discussion with Globe writers Scott Helman, Scot Lehigh, and Frank Phillips on the Republican presidential candidate.

Inside The Boston Globe

Much data, few answers in dolphin strandings
Belina Lee, a dancer with the Boston Chinese Dance Troupe, performed a tambourine dance at the Quincy Lunar New Year Festival at North Quincy High School.

Photos

Globe staff photos of week

In Anthony Shadid, a meeting of reporter and assignment
Jeremy Lin has become an NBA sensation while helping lead the Knicks to seven straight wins.

Jeremy Lin: From Harvard to NBA stardom

Warm winter earns rink a cold reception
A container of grape-flavored Infants' Tylenol liquid medicine with the enclosed syringe and flow restrictor.

More Infant Tylenol recalled

School lunch as smart business
Jenny Dell is NESN’s new Red Sox game reporter.

Sports Media

Advice for new NESN reporter Jenny Dell

Art Review

‘Figuring Color’ exhibit shows pigments of their imaginations
Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, has a 9-point lead over Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, in a new poll of 600 people.

In new poll, Brown leads Warren

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Coriolanus’ resonates in 21st century
JetBlue Park, the Red Sox’ new spring training home, is ready for its debut.

Spring training preview

Red Sox set to open spring training

Metro

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Irish prime minister makes the rounds in Boston

Enda Kenny, nearly a year into office as Ireland’s prime minister, arrived in “the next parish over’’ for a two-day visit yesterday.

Business

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Brightcove shares rise in first day of trading

Shares in the Cambridge online video company, which opened at $11 a share, rose to $14.48 at mid day, up nearly 32 percent.

Columnists

ALEX BEAM

Netflix’s northern exposure

Boston Capital

A strange concession

Opinion | Brian McGrory

Politics as usual

Tech Lab

Vita: too big, too pricey, no phone

Yvonne abraham

The senator and the slippery slope

Juliette Kayyem

Bridge to the future

Opinion | Joan Vennochi

Telling the real story of Camelot
Jeremy Lin, right, hit a game-winning shot for the Knicks last night and has become a sensation in the NBA.

Bob Ryan

Lin just latest Ivy Leaguer to shine in NBA

Brian McGrory

A model city councilor
David Ortiz

Christopher L. Gasper

A happy David Ortiz is great for Red Sox

Jeff Jacoby

On birth control, Obama imperiously overreaches
Claude Julien’s Bruins are headed out on a six-game road trip.

Tony Massarotti

Bruins not as good as they think they are

Nation & World

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A Capitol Police officer and K-9 patrol outside the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FBI arrest terror suspect near Capitol

A Moroccan man was arrested today as he was planning to detonate an inert suicide vest given to him by FBI undercover operatives, officials said.

Politics

Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, has a 9-point lead over Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, in a new poll of 600 people.

In new poll, Brown leads Warren

Scott Brown holds a nine-point lead over Elizabeth Warren, his likely Democratic opponent in November.

Sports

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There will be an adjustment period for Red Sox players and their new manager, Bobby Valentine.

Ten questions for the 2012 Red Sox

How will Bobby Valentine be welcomed? Is the rotation deep enough? Is there a shortstop? We take a look at the new season.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘This Means War’ a losing battle for Reese Witherspoon

This romantic comedy mixes other movies, television action shows, sitcoms, and comic strips, and features another terrible role for the Oscar-winning actress.

Arts

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CLASSICAL NOTES

Eric Owens’s tour brings him to Boston for Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.’’ Below: the singer at Carnegie Hall in 2009.

Met star Eric Owens will solo with the BSO

The New Yorker’s Alex Ross called baritone Eric Owens’s performance in the Metropolitan Opera’s “Rheingold’’ the “chief glory’’ of the production.

Magazine

The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide
The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse
The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

The man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline

Opinion

“Bostonians should be looking forward to the War of 1812 commemoration with the same anticipation that sailors scanned the horizon during the Age of Sail.”

Lawrence Harmon 

Ideas

“In the 50 years since the competition, architects have declared Kallmann and McKinnell’s City Hall one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century. Yet its relationship with the people of Boston has remained uneasy, even hostile.”

Leon Neyfakh on Boston’s City Hall