Romney foes lean hard on Bain cuts
Mitt Romney’s rivals redoubled their efforts yesterday to cast him as a heartless executive, setting off alarms in conservative circles.
Warren quickens pace in cash race
Elizabeth Warren raised $5.7 million in the last three months of 2011, an extraordinary amount for a first-time candidate and an unmistakable reflection of her appeal to party leaders.
MGM latest big casino operator to look at Bay State
MGM Resorts International will enter the casino sweepstakes in Western Massachusetts as the development partner in a casino proposal in Brimfield.
Juliette Kayyem
Haiti’s lifeline runway
Mother Earth’s cruelty arrived in Haiti two years ago today. But she did not arrive by plane; the runway was spared. A single transportation lane was somehow left alone.
David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Gardner shows off its graceful update
When leaders of the 109-year-old Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum unveiled its $114 million addition yesterday, they did so with an eye toward the past.
Phone tax surprises many at register
In Massachusetts, a phone that is deeply discounted when it’s tied to a cellular service contract is supposed to be taxed at the product’s actual value.
Tech Lab
When you speak, your TV listens
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, software makers and electronics companies are showing off products that will bring speech and motion control to TV viewers.
“I am proud of all of our Republican candidates. But we have a real problem when we have Republicans talking like Democrats against the free market.”
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Ornate Back Bay pews are reborn in Haiti
Contractors building a new hospital in Haiti installed an uncommon gift that promises a touch of grace to a people still coping with the overwhelming tragedy.
Business
Germany, too, may be nearing recession
Germany’s economy slipped into reverse in the last quarter of 2011 despite strong growth of 3 percent for the full year, the country’s Federal Statistics Office said yesterday.
Politics
Political Notebook
Santorum moves up to fourth, Gingrich drops to fifth in N.H.
The final tally in the New Hampshire primary showed Rick Santorum clinched fourth place and Newt Gingrich took fifth, according to the New Hampshire secretary of state.
Nation & World
Syrian leader makes rare appearance
President Bashar Assad appeared in public yesterday for the first time since the uprising began 10 months ago, addressing a rally in Umayyad Square in Damascus.
Sports
Thomas put tough times behind him
After nearly two years of physical torments, Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas enjoyed 11 seconds of blissful release when he scored the winning touchdown Sunday.
Style
Style
Boston fashion icon Maggie Trichon steps down
After 30 years at the heart of the city’s modeling scene, the agency maven is bowing out.
Arts
MOVIE REVIEW
‘Contraband’ cashes in with plenty of Mark Wahlberg
The ads for “Contraband’’ have Wahlberg lifting his shirt just enough for us to see stacks of cash strapped to his torso. Fortunately, the image doesn’t repeat itself in the finished movie.
Opinion
“Supporting Obama’s recess appointment of Ohio attorney general Robert Cordray makes Brown the master of political theater. What does he really believe? Who knows?”
Joan Vennochi
Ideas
To critics, the very notion of a ‘culture-bound illness’ is an outdated relic from the days of European empires.
Latif Nasser on psychiatry’s struggle with “culture-bound syndromes”