McCain endorses Romney in N.H.
Senator John McCain, who won the New Hampshire primary in 2000 and 2008, endorsed his former rival today.
In N.H., Santorum says he is candidate who can ‘change the country’
Jim Davis/Globe staff
Rick Santorum’s first New Hampshire event since the Iowa caucuses drew a large crowd, who heard him offer implied criticism of front-runner Mitt Romney.
Innovation economy
Former Lotus, Microsoft exec. hiring for new Boston start-up
Ray Ozzie created Lotus Notes and was chief software architect at Microsoft. He’s now getting a software company called Cocomo off the ground in Boston.
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More students spending winter break in ‘winternships’
What winter break? In a tough job market, more college students are eager to bolster their resumes and get any edge they can.
OBITUARY
David Wheeler, legendary Boston theater director, dies at 86
Wheeler was artistic director of the Theatre Company of Boston from 1963 to 1975, and worked with such young actors as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert DeNiro, early in their careers.
Celtics 89, Nets 70
Pierce scores 24 in Celtics’ fourth straight win
Paul Pierce scored 9 of his 24 points during a game-breaking third-quarter run as the Celtics beat the injury-depleted New Jersey Nets 89-70 tonight.
Bruins 6, Devils 1
Bergeron scores 2 goals in rout of Devils
Patrice Bergeron scored two goals, and Tim Thomas made 30 saves in the Bruins’ 6-1 rout of the New Jersey Devils tonight.
“There remains a clear battle over who is going to dominate in the Republican Party.”
David Redlawsk, a political science professor and director of polling at Rutgers
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Marshall returns to private law practice in Boston
Former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court Margaret H. Marshall, who wrote the 2003 decision legalizing gay marriage in the state, joins Choate, Hall & Stewart this week.
Business
Greece threatens to toss euro if deal fails
Greece’s government warned that the debt-crippled country will have to ditch the euro if it fails to finalize the details of its second $169 billion international bailout.
Politics
Political notebook
Gingrich calls Romney liar over role in ads
Newt Gingrich called Mitt Romney a liar for saying he has no role in or responsibility for a barrage of negative TV ads credited with damaging Gingrich's campaign in Iowa.
Nation & World
Citing ‘massacres,’ Sarkozy steps up push against Assad
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France issued a new call for President Bashar Assad of Syria to step down, insisting yesterday that Assad “must leave power.’’
Sports
On baseball
Red Sox need to toughen up under Bobby Valentine
The Red Sox manager has a history of fining players for dogging it. He’ll make those rules very clear to his players in spring training.
Food and dining
Healthy Eating
Jazz musician Dan Greenspan crafts artisan bread loaves
Greenspan followed a circuitous path that involved reading about an ancient loaf, striving to perfect it, and apprenticing himself briefly to a professional baker.
Arts
Galleries
Still lifes served with lush gruesomeness
Rendered with lush hyper-realism, these still lifes pull you in with their loveliness before they pierce you with their message.
Opinion
“[Romney] leaves Iowa as the front-runner, however grudgingly, in a party that lacks a compelling alternative.”
Scot Lehigh
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