Romney appears confident as Fla. primary nears

With polls showing Mitt Romney with a double-digit lead in Florida ahead of tomorrow’s primary, the former Massachusetts governor continued to mock Newt Gingrich today.

Florida seniors hear little from candidates on entitlements

Older voters in Florida said they don’t know what distinguishes the Republican contenders from each other on Medicare and Social Security.

Tom Brady is heading into his fifth Super Bowl in 11 seasons.

Tony Massarotti

Confident Patriots have restored that special feeling

They’re not the most talented team in the NFL, but they’ve won their way to the Super Bowl. And the Patriots are evoking memories of their three championship-winning clubs.

ANDREW SAEGER FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Opinion | Jennifer Graham

The omnichild’s dilemma

America’s only children may slowly go mad from the stress of dealing with our long-lived but health-challenged parents.

The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his late mother, Rose, walking by the house in 1979.

Kennedy family transfers Hyannis Port home to institute

The $5.5 million property in the middle of the Kennedy compound will be used by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate as a study center.

Carbonite’s David Friend, shown logging on to his firm’s site, sees his company struggling in New York.

Boston trailing NYC in number of online-based firms

A new survey says New York, with twice the number of digital firms and a larger base of venture funding, could pull even further ahead of the Hub in the years to come.

“The idea of the moon as the 51st state is not what would come to my mind as a campaign basis here in Florida.”

Mitt Romney,  joking about recent Newt Gingrich comments

Globe Insiders

Globe Insiders Video

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Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman talk about their new biography of GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Inside The Boston Globe

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

G Cover

Medical spas are booming

What to do and see in Indianapolis
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

Super Bowl loyalties divided in Conn.
Carbonite’s David Friend, shown logging on to his firm’s site, sees his company struggling in New York.

Boston trailing NYC on Internet
The Patriots coach Bill Belichick said there was no place he’d rather be right now than in Indianapolis, a city in which his team has waged some of its fiercest battles and has left in heartbreak more than once.

Relaxed Bill Belichick ready for Super week
Tens of thousands of fans turned out for a Patriots rally at Gillette Stadium yesterday as the team departed for Indianapolis for Sunday’s Super Bowl duel with the Giants.

2008 loss weighs on Patriots fans at send-off

Perspective

Oh, captain

For 2 Mass. firms, opportunity is in the air in China

john E. Sununu

Apple, not manufacturing, is America’s future

Columnists

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

Bob Ryan

Once beloved, Patriots are now loathed

Yvonne Abraham

The making of a Patriots fan

Jeff Jacoby

Eliminate the Registry

Gareth Cook

In godless we don’t trust

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Making microbes that can do the dirty work

Joanna Weiss

The debate peanut gallery is part of the show

Brian McGrory

Kevin White: The loner and the city he changed

LOVE LETTERS

Love after two months?

Metro

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Mayor Menino is offering dinner at Top of the Hub as part of a “Super Tour” to be given to a family of Ginats fans if the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

Menino, Bloomberg make their Super Bowl bet

The mayors of Boston and New York announced the Super Bowl stakes: A lucky family from the winning city will be treated to a free trip to the losing city.

Nation & World

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Florida highway pileup kills at least 10 people

Authorities were still trying to determine what caused a deadly pileup early yesterday near Gainesville on Interstate 75.

Politics

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Congress to vote on stock tips bill

A bill cosponsored by Senator Scott Brown would prohibit members of Congress from using nonpublic information for their personal benefit.

Business

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A Citibank customer made a transaction at an ATM in New York.

Citibank says frequent flier miles are taxable

Some customers of the bank are receiving 1099 tax forms to report their frequent flier miles as taxable income.

Sports

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The Patriots coach Bill Belichick said there was no place he’d rather be right now than in Indianapolis, a city in which his team has waged some of its fiercest battles and has left in heartbreak more than once.

Relaxed Bill Belichick ready for Super week

The Patriots head coach was in high spirits yesterday, and as he embarks on his fifth Super Bowl even some of his players noticed his jovial mood.

Health and wellness

G Force

“Every time someone comes to the hospital with a stab wound, a gunshot wound, an assault, it’s an excellent opportunity to educate them,” said Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.

Violence as health problem

Acts of violence should be treated as a chronic health problem, according to Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Arts

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OPERA REVIEW

Sophie Michaux in Helios Early Opera’s staging of “David et Jonathas’’ on Friday at First Church Congregational.

Helios debut full of promise

A month after Opera Boston’s self-extinguishment, Helios Early Opera debuted its first full operatic staging, of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1688 “David et Jonathas.’’

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

Chick flick vs. shoot’em-up

Opinion

“Sure, it sounds great at the time. Have one child! ... But it’s like the ‘Bill Me Later’ option on PayPal. It’ll get you eventually — and hurt much more then.”

Jennifer Graham 

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