Romney edges Santorum in CPAC straw poll

Mitt Romney won the straw poll today at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an apparent endorsement of his stated conservative credentials.

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The state’s Republican caucuses shaped up as a chance for Mitt Romney to stabilize his campaign after last Tuesday’s losses in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri.

An undated handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian Brigadier General Issa al-Khawli who SANA said was shot dead outside his home in Damascus on February 11, 2012. Syrian armour moved on protest centres and a general was gunned down in Damascus as the bloodshed showed no signs of abating, even spilling over into Lebanon. AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Syrian army general assassinated in Damascus

This was the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising began in March, the state run news agency said.

The Bruins had lost seven of their last 12 games before today.

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Bruins force OT, win in shootout

Tyler Seguin and Patrice Bergeron scored shootout goals to lift the Bruins over the Nashville Predators today.

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Ideas

In the future, everything will be a coffee shop

The coffee shop is an irreplaceable gathering place, a fact that is not lost on businesses and institutions that are struggling.

TELEVISION SHOWS 2012: DOWNTON ABBEY -- In an undated handout picture released by TMC – NBC Universal on December 8, 2011 British actress Maggie Smith plays her role as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham in a scene of the hit British television series Downton Abbey. The popular period-drama series Downton Abbey, that centers on the Crawley family and their servants in the years leading up to the start of World War I, will hit screens in France on December 10, underlining the popularity of this

The Word

Linguistic gotcha at ‘Downton Abbey’

Many of the occasional slip-ups in the British television sensation “Downton Abbey” are American expressions, both out of place and out of time.

**FILE**Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and the character Yoda appear in this scene from the film

Movies

15 films that benefited from a big, big buildup

This Friday’s opening of the 3-D version of “Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace’’ is a reminder that there’s movie anticipation, and there’s movie anticipation.

“If these elders don’t get the proper nutrition, their health is going to suffer, and their medical care is going to cost much more than these meals.”

Deborah Banda,  AARP Massachusetts state director, on cuts to the Elderly Nutrition Program

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Join the Boston Globe’s movie critics, Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, for a conversation about this year’s Academy Awards.

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Romantic inns in New England
Boston, MA 021112 Red Sox truck left Fenway Park enroute to FLA., Saturday, February 11 2012. (Globe Staff Photo/Wendy Maeda) section: Sports slug: Red Sox reporter:

Truck Day at Fenway Park

99 Bottles

In the beer world, spring has sprung early

Top 10 love letters of the year

Loving to hate Valentine’s Day

An architectural rendering of Boston City Hall, which was the subject of an unusual design competition in the early 1960s.

Sunday preview | Ideas

How Boston City hall was born

Patrick’s budget would cut senior meals
During a year of record snow fall, the roofs of buildings had to be cleared of snow. Snow removal crews got rid of the snow from roof of the Shaw’s supermarket in Dorchester one bucket at a time.

Photos

Boston Press Photographers Pictures of the Year 2011

Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

In defense of getting married

Small cities, big dreams
Arlington, MA., 01/30/12, Seventy-three-year-old Anne DeFeo is blind. Her guide dog, Viv, is a 5-year-old yellow labrador. Anne and Viv will be attending the Feb. 14 ceremony at the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library in Watertown celebrating the release of the US Postal Service's

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Photos of the week
Adele at the House of Blues last May.

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Why does Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ make people cry?

Columnists

Adrian Walker

Rethinking the Esplanade

Opinion | LAWRENCE HARMON

A visit to the ‘friends and favors’ office

SCOT LEHIGH

Money, machine, but no message

Bob Ryan

Lakers’ win nothing to get nostalgic about
Josh Bekcett and the Red Sox will begin spring training next week.

Tony Massarotti

Josh Beckett must take responsibility

Edward L. Glaeser

Gaffe gives Romney chance to redesign safety net

Opinion | Brian McGrory

I’ll take Tom, and hold the Mayo

Joan Wickersham

A valentine to Ella

ALEX BEAM

Poe — we hardly knew ye

Boston Capital

Shrinking the foreclosed real estate glut
Mattapan, MA 020412 Jennifer Smith (cq), of Mattapan picks up her son Sammy Aaron, (cq), 6, his Mather School in Dorchester elementary school every day. She doen't let him ride the school bus since he was dropped off at the wrong stop on January 4, 2012.(Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)/MET

Yvonne Abraham

Wrong bus stop, wrong response

Brian McGrory

Joey’s long legacy

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A man fished in Houghton's Pond in Milton today, as a winter storm left much less precipitation than was forecast.

Boston sees little snow as storm leaves area

The storm missed the mainland, resulting in lowered snow totals. Southeast Massachusetts got the most precipitation in the state, with 1 to 2 inches.

Business

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Greece in state of political chaos

Amid protests, the country’s embattled Cabinet approved unpopular austerity measures which could be passed by Parliament as early as tomorrow.

Nation & World

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: President Barack Obama makes a statement in the briefing room at the White House on February 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Obama announced a reversal of his administration's health care rule requiring religious employers to provide women free access to contraception. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Obama bends on birth control mandate

President Obama said religious-affiliated institutions would not be forced to provide birth control coverage, but that insurers must offer free contraceptive coverage to the employees of such institutions.

Politics

Mitt Romney addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference today.

Mitt Romney says he’s a true man of the right

While Romney repeated his opposition to abortion and gay marriage, Rick Santorum took veiled digs at Romney’s conservative credentials.

Sports

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Faulk contemplates if it’s time to retire

Despite a difficult season mentally and physically, running back Kevin Faulk isn’t quite ready to call it quits.

Arts

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Boston Ballet’s ‘Simply Sublime’ inspires awe

The dances may leapfrog decades, moving from 1909 to 1972 to 2001, but they are contemporaries under the skin.

Magazine

The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse
The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Mother worries about her Occupy Wall Street protester son
The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution

Opinion

“When you hire someone, you make nine enemies and one ingrate.’’

John Moffitt, chief secretary for former Mass. governor William Weld

Ideas

“For American enthusiasts of the Kagame regime, the Ingabire case points to a dilemma: Rwanda’s remarkable reconciliation and success have gone hand in hand with severely curtailed freedom of speech.”

Peter Canellos,  on free expression in Rwanda