Gingrich offensive redraws race

By Brian C. Mooney

Newt Gingrich’s wild ride through South Carolina has provided at least a short-term cure for a campaign that barely had a pulse coming out of New Hampshire and Iowa.

By Matt Viser

Mitt Romney has yet to confirm he will participate in Monday night’s faceoff in Florida.

■ Correction: Because of an editing error, an item on yesterday’s Money & Markets page had the wrong location for the headquarters of Acme Packet, which is based in Bedford.

Thousands protest in town held by opposition in Syria

By Sarah El Deeb and Zeina Karam

Buoyed by the opposition’s control of a town near the Syrian capital, thousands of people held anti-government protests yesterday, chanting for the downfall of the regime.

Egyptians rally in Tahrir Square

By Aya Batrawy

Several thousand Egyptians marched to Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday ahead of the one-year anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital yesterday with African Union peacekeepers encountering resistance as they pushed to Mogadishu’s outskirts for the first time.

letters | THE ART OF SPELLING

"I suggest schools forget endorsing the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a contest that requires memorization of words known and used by only a few." - Henry Lukas

letters | THE ART OF SPELLING

"Spell-check software is one of the greatest inventions ever, a savior for me and millions of others." - Donald A. Macaulay

letters | VIDEO FROM A WAR ZONE

"Get over it. This is war." - Michael Schermerhorn

Dance Review

Barnes’s debut is challenging and playful

By Karen Campbell

Monica Bill Barnes revels in the inherent theatricality of everyday life. But the dramas in her quirky, enigmatic choreography tend to be contextually vague.

Music review

By Jeremy Eichler

“The Four Seasons’’ are not performed live quite as often as you might think, perhaps because ensembles are chastened by the music’s ubiquity in advertisements, shopping malls, and hotel lobbies across the land.

By Maria Cramer

Large blood stains were found in the San Marino guesthouse where the man formerly known as Clark Rockefeller once lived, near the yard where the remains of the computer programmer he allegedly bludgeoned to death were uncovered.

Washington-based Internet service provider Cogent Communications Group Inc. slumped after file-sharing site Megaupload.com was shut down by US authorities as part of a copyright-infringement investigation. The company provided Megaupload with leased computers, Internet bandwidth, hosting, and support services, according to an indictment of the Hong Kong-based file-sharing site.

MASS. MOVERS

Zoll tops estimates in first quarter

The Chelmsford maker of resuscitation devices jumped on first-quarter revenues that rose to $133.7 million.

Markets mostly gained as earnings from giants IBM and Microsoft drove tech shares higher. The Nasdaq, however, dipped after Google earnings missed the mark in the fourth quarter. And sales of previously owned homes rose for a third month in December to the highest level since January 2011, a sign the housing market ended last year with momentum.

Jiri Raska, at 70; Czech Olympic ski jump champion

Jiri Raska, the 1968 Olympic ski jumping champion who was named the best Czech skier of the 20th century, died Friday.

Etta James; versatile pioneering vocalist transcended genres

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Robert Jablon

The 73-year-old died at Riverside Community Hospital ofcomplications of leukemia, with her husband and sons at her side, said her manager, Lupe De Leon.

Jack Frost, 86; wrote of joys of photography for the Globe

By Michele Richinick

An avid photographer, Jack Frost wrote hundreds of camera columns for the Sunday Globe for 26 years, beginning in 1973, and he coauthored a photography book.

School roundup

By Hannah Becker

Third-ranked Reading defeated No. 18 Woburn, 55-45, in a Middlesex League girls’ basketball clash last night at Reading.

CM's Williams picks Ohio St.

By Bob Holmes

After months of speculation, Catholic Memorial football star Camren Williams announced on Twitter yesterday he will head to Ohio State to play for new coach Urban Meyer.

Yale has tightened its policy after a Salem woman was killed and two others injured when a U-Haul truck drove through a tailgating area at the Harvard-Yale football game.

Music Review

After Chailly cancellation, BSO players step up to lead themselves

By Jeremy Eichler

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday’s Globe.

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Fans spike for Gronk

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Rob Gronkowski fans spiked a football in the “Give Us Your Best Gronk” content.

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For the sake of the children

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

“A Chance in the World’’ author Steve Pemberton attended a fund-raiser for The Home for Little Wanderers.