Santorum, Romney split wins as Southern primaries loom

Rick Santorum overwhelmingly won the Kansas Republican caucuses, while rival Mitt Romney won seven of the 12 delegates at stake in Wyoming.

Bobby Valentine shared time with fans before a spring training game on Wednesday.

Bobby Valentine: ‘I hope that I’m unpredictable’

The Red Sox manager remarked on his coaching style and spoke about his respect for the Tampa Bay Rays’ Joe Maddon.

Red Line weekend service resumes between Harvard and Alewife

The northernmost three Red Line stations had been closed every weekend since Nov. 5 due to an $80 million repair project.

Assaults continue in Syria as regime rejects talks

Troops launched an attack against the opposition in the north of the country today, as President Assad rejected the possibility of immediate negotiations.

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César Alvarez at a rehearsal of ‘‘Futurity: A Musical by the Lisps,’’ which premieres Friday at Oberon.

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Civil War meets sci-fi in rock musical ‘Futurity’

It’s a love story of sorts: Julian Munro, a Union soldier, meets Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s mathematician daughter, and they find they have a lot in common.

Many hands lifted ‘Undefeated’ to Oscar victory

Skeptics might look at the premise of the film as the product of a particularly unimaginative screenwriter. Yet the emotions conjured by the movie are brutally true to life.

ART REVIEW

Impressions of Debussy

A show at Smith College marks the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth with an atmospheric sampling of marvelous art, writes Globe critic Sebastian Smee.

“I’m not saying he’s not going to be in Heaven. I desire candidates who respect the teachings of the church.”

Roy McMillan,  a Mississippi voter, on Mitt Romney

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Washington’s Brooks Laich celebrated after scoring a power play goal to increase the Capitals’ lead in the second period.

Capitals 4, Bruins 3

Down early, Bruins lose at home

ideas | Q&A

Why Republicans and Democrats will never agree

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Family-friendly pubs in Greater Boston

There’s a new baker in town

Democratic darling has also been critic

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Would you wait in line 8 hours for a beer?

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

Inside the board game renaissance

MOVIE REVIEW

‘A Thousand Words’ has little to say
Michelle Obama played with children at the Penacook Community Center in Penacook, N.H.

Michelle Obama stops in Boston

Hole burned in soul of beachfront
Matthew Emmi, 12, jumped into the arms of his father, Michael Emmi, after his bar mitzvah. Since Matthew, who is autistic, couldn’t recite all the prayers and blessings, he used an iPad during the ceremony at Temple Emanuel in Andover.

Globe photos of the week, March 9, 2012
Louise White went to the store in search of rainbow sherbet and wound up buying a lottery ticket worth $336.4 million -- and put her winnings into an account labeled The Rainbow Sherbert Trust.

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The scoop on labels

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Kayak offers gateway to vanishing culture

Alutiiq warriors’ kayaks were normally buried with their owners, but this one is now the focus of a preservation project at Harvard University.

Business

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Tower set to rise in Chinatown

The project will result in 240 apartments and a new restaurant on the site of the vacant Dainty Dot building.

Columnists

LOVE LETTERS

Her boyfriend’s ex keeps calling and calling and calling...

Christopher L. Gasper

Seguin is causing idol talk

Adrian Walker

Church, lender need to talk

SCOT LEHIGH

Maybe it’s not Mitt’s fault
John Barros is both a School Committee member and head of a nonprofit which supplies school services.

LAWRENCE HARMON

A little too close for comfort

Boston Capital

Markets rebound. Now what?

Brian McGrory

The politics of panic

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Ghosts of artists past

Joan Vennochi

Taking measure of health and wealth

Juliette Kayyem

Ocean planning and Massachusetts

Tech Lab

New Windows has a different touch
The Penn bench - including Dau Jok (standing) - watches a chance at an Ivy League title (and NCAA berth) slip away in a loss to Princeton.

Bob Ryan

Penn falls to Princeton, leaving Harvard on top

Nation & World

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Protesters held a placard depicting Czar Ivan The Terrible Saturday in Moscow.

Thousands protest Putin, but crowd is smaller

More than 20,000 protesters, far fewer than those in past months, gathered in Moscow today to demand Vladimir Putin’s resignation and protest electoral fraud.

Politics

Political Notebook

Romney, aides used private e-mail while he was governor

The communications were legal, even though Mitt Romney’s administration warned state agencies against the practice due to cyber security concerns.

Sports

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Florida State 62, Duke 59

The second-seeded Florida State Seminoles ended a run of three straight ACC tournament championships for Duke on Saturday.

Seminoles stun Duke

Florida State lost a 10-point lead in the second half but recovered to defeat Duke and advance to its second ACC tournament final in school history.

Arts

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Royal Southern Brotherhood satisfies a hunger

The band is neither a brilliant turn nor a crazy risk for the five musicians involved — it’s both.

Magazine

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Putting college degrees to work
The cover for the February 26 2012 issue

24 hours in Kendall Square
The cover for the February 19 2012 issue

Renovated Newport firehouse is calm, cool, and collected
The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide

Opinion

“Patient, committed diplomacy is the only way to realize the long term and durable objectives of an Iran without nuclear weapons and a region without war.”

William H. Luers and Thomas R. Pickering 

Ideas

“The story of St. John’s University reflects the power — and the threat — that such an education still represents to a proud nation that nevertheless hungers for new ideas.”

Patricia Wen  on the lost liberal arts university of China