North Station area projects move ahead

A Newton developer is moving forward with construction of a 14-story hotel and apartment complex across from the TD Garden.

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The noted chef and owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley served “Soy Marinated Alaskan Butterfish” at a State Department lunch, but it was actually sablefish.

Two women pause near a memorial display before funeral services for singer Whitney Houston at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Family, friends mourn Whitney Houston

Family members and invited guests are remembering pop icon Whitney Houston at a private funeral at New Hope Baptist Church in New Jersey today.

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As Mass. governor, Romney fiercely protected a controversial perk for police officers after seeking and receiving the endorsement of the politically influential police unions.

Opinion | Lawrence Harmon

Boston’s missing the boat

Let’s hope Mayor Menino gets fully onboard for the upcoming bicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812.

Photos by Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

Central Boston a gas station desert

When a wrecking ball levels Grampy’s gas station — and that could happen as soon as next year — it will leave a large swath of the city without a gas station.

Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler share laughs with ‘Arrietty’

Burnett and Poehler sat down recently to tout the film, but comic chemistry soon prevailed over promotion.

Malcolm X house may get makeover

The now run-down Roxbury home where Malcolm X lived in the 1940s could be turned into housing for graduate students in African-American studies or related fields.

Boston, MA 8/7/11 Boston Red Sox Jason Varitek reacting after fouling out to New York Yankees catcher Russell Martin with the bases loaded and a 3-0 count during 6th inning action at Fenway Park on Sunday August 7, 2011. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) slug: yanksox Section: sports Reporter:

Red Sox notebook

Varitek gets invitation to spring training

With pitchers and catchers reporting tomorrow, there is no indication that Jason Varitek will accept the minor-league contract he was offered.

“After a major tornado, an earthquake, a hurricane, and an October storm, I’m grateful for any surplus we might have.”

LeeAnn Pasquini,  budget director of Springfield

Globe Insiders

Globe Insider Event | March 5, 5:30 p.m.

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Globe editorial page editor Peter S. Canellos moderates a discussion with Globe writers Scott Helman, Scot Lehigh, and Frank Phillips on the Republican presidential candidate.

Inside The Boston Globe

Algeria Marsh, stepmother of deceased Simba Martin, testified during the trial of Dwayne Moore and Edward Washington at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston.

Officer tells of toddler’s final moments
Former Bruin and current Jet Blake Wheeler looked to deflect the puck past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask.

Jets 4, Bruins 2

Ex-Bruin Wheeler turns on the Jets

Mild winter a welcome savings
People gathered outside the home of Kyle Louzada yesterday as they coped with the teen’s shooting death.

Answers sought in Randolph shooting
Belina Lee, a dancer with the Boston Chinese Dance Troupe, performed a tambourine dance at the Quincy Lunar New Year Festival at North Quincy High School.

Photos

Globe staff photos of week

Much data, few answers in dolphin strandings

In Anthony Shadid, a meeting of reporter and assignment
Jeremy Lin has become an NBA sensation while helping lead the Knicks to seven straight wins.

Jeremy Lin: From Harvard to NBA stardom

Warm winter earns rink a cold reception
A container of grape-flavored Infants' Tylenol liquid medicine with the enclosed syringe and flow restrictor.

More Infant Tylenol recalled

School lunch as smart business

Art Review

‘Figuring Color’ exhibit shows pigments of their imaginations

Metro

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Inspectors sweep area near Allston fire

Boston city inspectors found a series of safety violations in the neighborhood where a three-alarm fire last month left a college student in serious condition.

Business

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Bank said to cut CEO’s pay in 2011

Bank of America Corp. cut Brian T. Moynihan’s compensation for 2011, granting him no cash bonus and freezing his salary, a person briefed on the matter said.

Columnists

LOVE LETTERS

Her jealousy exhausts him

Christopher L. Gasper

Wakefield a loss to Red Sox

Adrian Walker

Putting Johns in the dock

Renée Loth

Don’t block the vote for students

Opinion | Lawrence Harmon

Menino should embrace War of 1812 celebration

ALEX BEAM

Netflix’s northern exposure

Boston Capital

A strange concession

Opinion | Brian McGrory

Politics as usual

Tech Lab

Vita: too big, too pricey, no phone

Yvonne abraham

The senator and the slippery slope

Juliette Kayyem

Bridge to the future

Opinion | Joan Vennochi

Telling the real story of Camelot

Nation & World

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Syrian refugees and residents living in Jordan shouted slogans during a demonstration against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.

Wounded Syrian refugees flee dramatic escalation

Syrian refugees fleeing to Jordan for their lives described a dramatic escalation in violence and a mounting toll of dead and wounded in the country’s battered central region.

Politics

Political Notebook

WIn a speech on the Senate floor, Senator Brown called on President Obama to fire Jane Lubchenco, the chief administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction of the country’s fishing fleets.

Brown rips fishing agency over purchase of ‘party boat’

Senator Brown denounced the federal agency regulating fishermen, saying that one of its divisions used what he termed a $300,000 “fishermen-funded party boat for bureaucrats.”

Sports

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NBA roundup

Roundup: Knicks' Lin streak over

Jeremy Lin committed nine turnovers and New York’s seven-game winning streak was stopped 89-85 by New Orleans.

Arts

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G Cover

Robin Lane helps survivors take flight

With Songbird Sings, the Boston rock icon helps trauma survivors find their voices -- and record them.

Magazine

The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide
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

The man who crushed the Keystone XL pipeline

Opinion

“Bostonians should be looking forward to the War of 1812 commemoration with the same anticipation that sailors scanned the horizon during the Age of Sail.”

Lawrence Harmon 

Ideas

“In the 50 years since the competition, architects have declared Kallmann and McKinnell’s City Hall one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century. Yet its relationship with the people of Boston has remained uneasy, even hostile.”

Leon Neyfakh on Boston’s City Hall