Gov. Romney's Future May Hinge on Big Dig

BOSTON - As a venture capitalist, Mitt Romney turned around companies and made himself a multimillionaire. At Salt Lake City, he turned around the scandal-plagued 2002 Winter Olympics, then went on to get elected governor of Massachusetts.

The question these days is whether Romney can take a page from his autobiography, "Turnaround," get the nation's most expensive highway project back on track - and perhaps make himself the next president of the United States.

In the days since 12 tons of concrete ceiling panels fell in one of the Big Dig tunnels, killing a woman in her car, Romney has put himself at the forefront of the crisis.

The Republican governor has …