As Florida votes, Romney defends attacks on Gingrich

Mitt Romney defended his use of negative ads, saying “if you attack me, I’m not going to just sit back, I’m going to fight back.”

Former House speaker Thomas Finneran, left, chatted with former Boston mayor Ray Flynn outside the Parkman House.

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Hundreds line up for Kevin White’s wake

Many notable local politicians were in attendance this afternoon to pay respects to the former mayor.

FDA approves Vertex drug for rare form of cystic fibrosis

In a big win for the Cambridge-based biotech, the FDA approved the drug Kalydeco, which will help around 1,200 patients with a form of the deadly illness.

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Media day madness

Super Bowl media day has long been a frenzied event with all types of characters, but now fans can buy tickets to experience the madness for themselves.

Tom Brady holds court at center of Media Day

Brady, who’s used to answering only a precious few questions each week, was relaxed and seemed to enjoy his hour-long session.

BOSTON CAPITAL

Facebook’s IPO issues

A lot of people are hyperventilating over Facebook Inc.’s coming initial public stock offering, but I wouldn’t say the same about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Arthur Winn at his company’s office in Boston in 2009.

Developer avoids jail for campaign contributions

Columbus Center developer Arthur Winn was fined $100,000, but avoided prison time for illegally funneling thousands of dollars to politicians.

“The winner of Florida is in all likelihood going to be the nominee of our party.”

Republican Senator Marco Rubio 

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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

Photographer Nicholas Nixon’s next big challenge: nudes

Farah Stockman

Mitt Romney’s a self-made man?

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Take a tour of Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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

Road to Super Bowl

Patriots fans looking for best Super Bowl party

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
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

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Medical spas are booming
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

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

On PBS, downward mobility in period garb

Alex Beam

A museum for Man’s Greatest Hospital
Before then-Browns head coach Bill Belichick beat Patriots coach Bill Parcells in a playoff game after the 1994 season, he and Tom Coughlin were assistants to Parcells with the Giants.

Dan Shaughnessy

Parcells in unique position with Super Bowl coaches

Kevin Cullen

Super Bowl an ad for UMass

BOSTON CAPITAL

Facebook’s IPO issues

Bob Ryan

Giants were an oversight in playoff field

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

Yvonne Abraham

The making of a Patriots fan

Jeff Jacoby

Eliminate the Registry

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Kelly A. Timilty, Governor’s Council member, died today

Timilty, who served under five governors since winning election to the Council in 1994, died at the age of 49.

Nation & World

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A Syrian rebel took his position as battled Syrian government forces today.

Syria troops push back rebels as UN fight looms

Syrian troops crushed pockets of rebel soldiers today and the UN Security Council took up a draft resolution demanding that President Bashar Assad yield power.

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.

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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.

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Super Bowl Media Day Notes

Rob Gronkowski drew a large crowd at Super Bowl Media Day today.

Gronkowski out of walking boot

Gronkowski said he was “day by day” as he recovers from an ankle injury, but said shedding the walking boot was a sign of improvement.

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

‘Wizard’ done just right, even to a charming Toto

The Wheelock Family Theatre’s current production of “The Wizard of Oz’’ improves on the basics by assembling an impressive cast.

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

The spirit of giving?

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