POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Rick Santorum clarifies ‘phony theology’ remarks

By Shira Schoenberg

The former Pennsylvania senator yesterday sought to clarify comments he made Saturday that appeared to question President Obama’s Christian values.

The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated Press has learned.

Youth sex changes on rise, study finds

A small but growing number who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports.

By Declan Walsh

A campaign of high-profile kidnappings has provided the Pakistani Taliban and its allies with new resources.

US, Britain urge Israel not to attack Iran

By Josef Federman

The warnings by the US and Britain reflected growing international jitters that the Israelis are poised to strike.

Suicide bomber kills 20 at Iraqi police academy

By Sameer N. Yacoub

A suicide bomber detonated his car yesterday as police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20.

James Carroll

By James Caroll

In the recent controversy about birth control, Catholic bishops are seeking a public voice about an issue they lost more than four decades ago.

Editorial cartoon: The world according to Super PACs

Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist for the Portland Oregonian, takes a look at a world seen through the lens of Super Political Action Committees.

Letters | SABER-RATTLING - OR NOT - TOWARD IRAN

"James Carroll puts the onus on America, Israel, and the West for Iran’s behavior." -- L. Glovin

By Matt Rocheleau and Evan Allen

A young man was shot and killed in Blackstone Square Park on Shawmut Avenue in the South End yesterday, shortly after a woman was shot in a car outside a Mattapan home in a separate attack.

By Evan Allen

A stroll across a cranberry bog turned perilous yesterday for a Wareham chicken, which fell through thin ice and was rescued by firefighters in survival gear.

DARTMOUTH

A Fall River man is accused of robbing the Best Western Dartmouth Inn Saturday night, Dartmouth police said yesterday.

By Stephanie Clifford

To the delight of retailers, men are not just stocking up on suits and shirts, but doing something women have been doing for years: bingeing on accessories.

China factory reforms may signal a big shift

By David Barboza and Charles Duhigg

The announcement Saturday that Foxconn Technology - one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers - will sharply raise salaries and reduce overtime at its Chinese factories signals that pressure from workers, international markets and concerns among Western consumers about working conditions is driving a fundamental shift that could accelerate an already rapidly changing Chinese economy. But the true meaning of Foxconn’s reforms, analysts say, will depend in part on how effectively the company can remake an economic system that has relied for much of the last decade on luring cheap migrants to work long hours in mammoth factories building smartphones, computers and other electronics.

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Harry McPherson Jr., at 82; lawyer was LBJ’s speechwriter

By Adam Bernstein

Harry C. McPherson Jr. was a principal adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson who influenced a range of policies.

Adam Adamowicz, video game concept artist

By Daniel E. Slotnik

As an artist, Adam Adamowicz turned his daydreams into fantasy worlds that ensnared millions of video game enthusiasts. He died at age 43.

Roger J. Miner; jurist was Supreme Court finalist

Roger J. Miner was a federal appeals court judge in Manhattan who was among final candidates President Reagan considered for the Supreme Court.

On baseball

It’s a start, at least, by Josh Beckett

By Nick Cafardo

The Red Sox righthander admitted to lapses in judgment last year but said his biggest mistake was not pitching well down the stretch.

By Bob Hohler and Nancy Marrapese-Burrell

The Terriers’ star defenseman is the second BU hockey player in the last 10 weeks to face sexual assault allegations involving a female student.

Sports Log

Mike Cameron told the Nationals yesterday he is retiring after a 17-season career in which the outfielder won three Gold Gloves. Cameron, 39, signed a minor league contract with Washington in December and was expected to make the roster with the Nationals unsettled at center field. Last year Cameron hit .203 in 78 games for the Red Sox and ...

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MUSIC REVIEW

Spivakov, Kern play full spectrum

By Matthew Guerrieri

Violinist Vladimir Spivakov applied a full bow nearly everywhere, saturating the score with Romantic sound, while pianist Olga Kern chose a restrained athleticism.