Much unsaid as Mitt Romney cites his tie to Mexico

Romney has put a new emphasis on his father’s Mexican birth as he courts Hispanics in the Florida primary, but he usually ends the story there.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

As Fla. heads to polls, GOP candidates keep sparring

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich kept up the aggressive criticisms of each other yesterday ahead of today’s pivotal primary in Florida.

Romney attacks of Gingrich similar to Bush-McCain 2000

George W. Bush viewed South Carolina as his political firewall, much as Mitt Romney has viewed Florida in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination.

Aram Boghosian for the Boston Globe

Road to Super Bowl

Patriots fans looking for best Super Bowl party

Technically the Giants and Patriots are the ones under pressure to win on Sunday, but some fans also feel the pressure of trying to find the perfect party for the big game.

Kevin Cullen

Super Bowl an ad for UMass

As UMass moves up to the highest level of college football, it has two of its products — Patriot James Ihedigbo and Giant Victor Cruz — suiting up Sunday.

Green electricity finds few customers in Mass.

Five years after NStar became the first state utility to allow customers to buy wind farm electricity, less than 1 percent of the company’s nearly 900,000 customers have enrolled.

Boston left with one all-girls Catholic high school

Mount Saint Joseph and Trinity Catholic, two Catholic high schools that date to the 19th century, will merge next fall, leaving just one Catholic girls’ high school in Boston.

“These are moments in your life you remember. I don’t want to screw it up.”

Mike Toomey, 37,  on finding the perfect Super Bowl party

Globe Insiders

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Greg Bedard, the Boston Globe’s Patriots reporter, gives us a glimpse inside the minds of our favorite players.

Inside The Boston Globe

Needham, MA 1/24/12 Story is on WcVB's Chronicle news magazine show, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. The show is the oldes locally produced news magazine program in the country and one of the few left. Host Anthony Everett in the studio before the start of the show on Tuesday evening.

‘Chronicle’ marks 30 years on the air

FRAME BY FRAME

Sweet on Sweerts’s ‘Boy With a Hat’

TELEVISION REVIEW

Sketch masters go all out for laughs in ‘Key & Peele’

Kennedys’ Cape home donated to institute
The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his late mother, Rose, walking by the house in 1979.

Kennedy family transfers Hyannis Port home

Bain Capital, led by Mitt Romney, bought Domino’s for $1.1 billion, investing $385 million in cash and borrowing the rest. Thomas Monaghan (on left) founded the company in 1960.

Domino’s delivered for Bain Capital
Victor Cruz caught 82 passes fof 1,536 yards and nine touchdowns this season for the Giants.

Giants’ Victor Cruz has overcome many struggles

G Cover

Medical spas are booming

What to do and see in Indianapolis
Lenny Kravitz (pictured in Rio de Janeiro last year) performed songs from his new CD and his old hits at the Citi Wang Theatre on Friday.

MUSIC REVIEW

Kravitz at home in his comfort zone

Super Bowl loyalties divided in Conn.
Carbonite’s David Friend, shown logging on to his firm’s site, sees his company struggling in New York.

Boston trailing NYC on Internet

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

On PBS, downward mobility in period garb

Alex Beam

A museum for Man’s Greatest Hospital

Dan Shaughnessy

Parcells offers take on Super Bowl coaches

Kevin Cullen

Super Bowl an ad for UMass

Bob Ryan

Giants were an oversight in the playoffs

Juliette Kayyem

US has tied own hands as Cuba drills
Emily Nagle Green calls the Smart Lunches concept ‘‘compelling.’’

INNOVATION ECONOMY

School lunch delivery firm has hunger for national market

Adrian Walker

Where Kevin White fell short

Joan Vennochi

A birthday wish for James

Bob Ryan

Once beloved, Patriots are now loathed

Yvonne Abraham

The making of a Patriots fan

Jeff Jacoby

Eliminate the Registry

Metro

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Barney Frank (left), chief of staff for Mayor Kevin White, in 1968.

The far-reaching influence of Kevin White

A major part of White’s legacy was that the former Boston mayor attracted a group of bright, young thinkers to City Hall who believed in the power of public service.

Nation & World

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Violence in Oakland divides Occupy movement

A flag-burning incident has raised questions about whether the act will tarnish a movement of largely peaceful protests and alienate people who agree with its message.

Politics

Anti-Scott Brown group that agreed to ad ban expands website

The expansion is the first effort by an outside group to take advantage of gaps in an agreement that both candidates signed.

Business

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Incomes rose but spending stayed level in December

Americans’ income rose in December by the most in nine months, a hopeful sign for the economy after a year of weak wage gains.

Sports

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Aaron Hernandez has always been comfortable playing multiple roles for his team, from his days as a basketball star at Bristol Central to his time with the Patriots.

Aaron Hernandez is Patriots’ universal adapter

Hernandez is more than a tight end; he’s lined up in the slot, out wide, even in the backfield in the Patriots’ offensive scheme.

Arts

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Photographer Nicholas Nixon’s next big challenge: nudes

Nixon's photographs shed light on the human experience — including the complicated relationships we have with our own bodies.

Lifestyle

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Allure of scaling Half Dome forces Yosemite to limit access

There was a time not long ago when a climb to the top of Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome was a solitary trek attempted by only the most daring adventurers.

Magazine

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
The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution
The cover for the January 8 2012 issue

Chick flick vs. shoot’em-up

Opinion

No government program can fully erase the advantages successful parents give their kids. To pretend that such benefits don’t exist adds insult to injury.

Farah Stockman  

Ideas

“A surprising number have pushed past the humiliation of defeat and laid claim to a level of prominence they might never have attained if they hadn’t run.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on presidential election losers