State hopes to create Southern gateway to Boston
Mass. officials want to develop a large swath of state-owned property between Chinatown and South Boston that could eventually host homes, offices, stores, and public parks.
Negative ads aimed away from Romney
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is practically getting a pass in the nasty media war leading up to Iowa’s GOP caucus votes tomorrow.
Iowa evangelical bloc fractured over GOP candidates
Despite a recent surge in the polls for Rick Santorum, voters in Iowa who identify with the religious right said they see Mitt Romney as the nearly inevitable nominee.
Pushed out of Harvard, professor returns fire
Professor Subramanian Swamy’s dismissal by his peers at Harvard, after he had penned a newspaper column that many saw as hateful towards Muslims, has stirred a debate over free speech.
Flemmi son says gangster’s kin also victims
Breaking his silence, Billy St. Croix says his family was shattered by his father, Stephen ‘‘The Rifleman’’ Flemmi, and James ‘‘Whitey’’ Bulger.
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Billy St. Croix, a son of Stephen ‘‘The Rifleman’’ Flemmi, knew that “Whitey” Bulger’s return to Boston would take his family back to a place of enormous loss — and shame.
Handout from Billy St. Croix
Above, Flemmi (standing) and Bulger (seated, right) at a long-ago wedding.
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Billy St. Croix testified against his father, Stephen ‘‘The Rifleman’’ Flemmi, but refused to enter witness protection. He now lives in another state and is working on a book about his life.
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Marion Hussey, Flemmi’s longtime companion, left him when her daughter Deborah said he had molested her.
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Deborah Hussey and William Hussey, later St. Croix, in 1962. She was a toddler when her mother began dating Flemmi.
Handout from Billy St. Croix
Stephen Flemmi with Debra Davis, a girlfriend of his who was also allegedly strangled to death by James ‘‘Whitey’’ Bulger.
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This image is from the summer of 1970 in Montauk, N.Y. That weekend Deborah Hussey rescued her brother, Billy, from drowning. She is standing behind Flemmi; Billy is at right.
G cover
Are you ready for wellness coaching?
Increasing numbers of health care officials are recognizing the benefits of prescribing individual counseling to treat some conditions, including obesity and diabetes.
Dan Shaughnessy
The way I see it, Patriots are a mirage
These guys aren’t going anywhere near Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. Something bad is going to happen at Gillette Stadium before this month is over.
“The people who cut me out are leftists who have nothing to do with economics . . . It’s almost like the Spanish Inquisition — they didn’t give me a chance.”
Subramanian Swamy, on his dismissal from Harvard by fellow professors
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Metro
Menino called key to East Boston hopes
If anyone can spur real growth along a section studded with crumbling piers and faded promises, many believe, it is Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
Business
Drawing blood with a tap, not a sting
A device by Cambridge firm Seventh Sense Biosystems uses tiny needles to draw blood for painless diagnostic tests.
Politics
Political Notebook
Romney takes jab at Santorum’s credentials
Calling himself a “conservative businessman,” Mitt Romney contrasted his background to that of former senator Rick Santorum.
Nation & World
Iran says it has made first nuclear fuel rod
Iranian scientists have produced the nation’s first nuclear fuel rod, another step in Tehran’s efforts to achieve proficiency in the entire nuclear fuel cycle.
Sports
Patriots 49, Bills 21
Patriots earn top seed in AFC
New England locked up home field advantage in the AFC playoffs by virtue of its 49-21 win against Buffalo, though once again it took a come-from-behind effort.
Health and wellness
G Force
Mindful of ways to get healthy
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and founding director of its Stress Reduction Clinic.
Arts
MUSIC REVIEW
Styles P turns on the chaos
Styles P's show at Showcase Live was perpetually chaotic, perplexingly unpredictable, briefly violent, altogether unhinged, and still somehow genuinely fun.
Opinion
“History not only demonstrates that candidates are strengthened by primaries, it also reveals that there is no such thing as an ‘unelectable’ nominee.
John E. Sununu
Ideas
“Recent years have seen an explosion of interest and creativity in the realm of data-driven soothsaying, and some in the field predict—well, they think—that they are on the cusp of something big.”
Leon Neyfakh, on the future of prediction