Clinton wins Mass. in Super Tuesday contests; Obama shows strength across nation
Ken Maguire
Hillary Rodham Clinton turned back Barack Obama and his high-profile endorsements to win the presidential primary in Massachusetts, while former Gov. Mitt Romney had little trouble defending his home turf against Republican rival John McCain.
The New York senator relied on rank-and-file lawmakers, who cranked up their get-out-the-vote efforts on Super Tuesday to offset Obama’s headline-grabbing endorsements from U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Gov. Deval Patrick.
Clinton won at home in New York as well as in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas, where she was first lady for more than a decade. Obama won in Georgia, his home state of Illinois, Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota and Utah. Full story
 Primary eve rally draws Obama fans to waterfront
Alex Bloom and Victor Kakulu
By 8 p.m. Monday night, the line to enter the Super Tuesday Eve rally for Barack Obama snaked a half-mile down Seaport Boulevard, across the Fort Port Channel bridge and all the way to Atlantic Avenue.
“I’ve never been so excited about something like this,” said Doug Slaughter, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior from Augusta, Ga., as he shivered on the windswept waterfront. “This is truly something special.”
More than cold was in the air as thousands of people of various ages and professions stood in line for three hours to squeeze into the low-ceilinged World Trade Center to hear the would-be Democratic nominee make his case to Bay State voters the night before the 22-state primary. Full story
 Sea captain Paul Cuffe made waves in business
Ted Langston Chase
It was not an easy start for Paul Cuffe.
He was born in 1759 on Cuttyhunk Island, the son of Coffe Slocum, an African slave, and Ruth Moses, a Wampanoag Native American woman.
The family lived as conspicuous property-owning minorities on land that was difficult to farm. Their lives had all of the predictable obstacles and setbacks of a racial group thought not to be a part of the new nation that would emerge from the American Revolution. Full story
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