Globe photos of the month, December 2014

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Medical students wearing white coats held a die-in at Harvard Medical Schools Medical Education Center in Boston on International Human Rights Day. Demonstrations were also held at medical schools in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere to protest the lack of indictments for police killings and to spotlight racial bias as a public health issue . (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

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As thousands marched through the streets of Boston to protest recent police killings of black men, a Boston police officer grabbed a protester who had knocked him off his bike on Tremont Street. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)

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Despite the cold temperatures, Alexander Pires, 5, walked with his dad, Eder Pires, and grandfather, Ahmad Darvesh, on the beach at Red Rock Park on the Lynn Shore Reservation in Lynn. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff)

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A man dressed as Darth Vader drew looks from a group of children at Park Street Station on Boston Common.. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

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2008 Custom built Liberty home in Springfield Farms, Springfield, Mo – Video

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John Malone transfers control of TripAdvisor to Liberty CEO

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On Dec. 22, a week before Greg Maffei re-upped as CEO of Liberty Media, chairman John Malone gave the executive control of TripAdvisor, regulatory filings show.

Perhaps Malone thought of the move as a signing bonus or a holiday gesture.

But for control-freak Malone, swapping his super-voting shares in Liberty TripAdvisor for Maffeis common shares was unprecedented, sources said.

Maffei thought so, too.

[Malone] became an A holder and I became the B holder, Maffei said at a conference on Wednesday, of the exchange that loaded him up with 10-votes-per-share Class B Liberty TripAdvisor stock.

Maffei then explained that, given Malones wealth and portfolio, it wasnt a huge amount and front-and-center in his mind. So he was probably kind enough to say, Greg, you take this one.

It was so kind that Maffeis interviewer noted, Its the first time Ive ever seen you turn red. However, on delving into the details, the exchange wasnt as simple as it seems.

Maffei gave Malone 3.0 million common A shares valued at $26.97per share, or $82.2 million on the day of the exchange.

Malone, in turn, gave Maffei 2.8 million super-voting B shares valued at $26.66 a share, or $73.9 million.

This means the package Malone received from the exchange netted him $8.3 million.

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WNBA's Liberty rehire Bill Laimbeer as coach

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Bill Laimbeer, who is happy to be back as NY's coach, won't have GM duties. (Getty)

The New York Liberty of the WNBA has rehired Bill Laimbeer as coach Thursday, nearly three months after they chose not to exercise the option year on his contract, according to the Associated Press.

"At the end of the season we wanted to take a look and do a full review where we were as a franchise as a basketball team," said Kristin Bernert, who is the senior vice president of business operations for the Liberty. "We started down a path of evaluation and hit a point where we needed to make a decision on Bill's contract option. We weren't ready to make a decision at that point. We continued on the path of diving deep into who we are, where we are and who we want to be. We were on the right path and wanted to bring Bill back as head coach."

The Liberty missed the playoffs the past two seasons and were 26-42 under Laimbeer, who is happy to be back coaching the team.

"They called and said we want to chat about you coming back and being coach, I said I'm all for that," Laimbeer said in a phone interview Thursday. "I knew we were going in the right direction, I thought that it takes time and nothing happens overnight."

Laimbeer led the Detroit Shock to three WNBA titles as the team's general manager and coach from 2002-09. He will no longer hold the role of general manager with the Liberty, with Bernert taking over the role of GM.

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Liberty rehire Bill Laimbeer as coach 3 months after dumping him

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Bill Laimbeer wasn't surprised when the New York Liberty offered him his old job back as coach.

He never wanted to leave in the first place.

"They called and said, 'We want to chat about you coming back and being coach.' I said I'm all for that," Laimbeer said in a phone interview Thursday.

In an unusual move, the Liberty rehired Laimbeer as coach Thursday nearly three months after they chose to not exercise the option year on his contract.

"At the end of the season we wanted to take a look and do a full review where we were as a franchise as a basketball team," said Kristin Bernert, who is the senior vice president of business operations for the Liberty.

"We started down a path of evaluation and hit a point where we needed to make a decision on Bill's contract option. We weren't ready to make a decision at that point. We continued on the path of diving deep into who we are, where we are and who we want to be. We were on the right path, and wanted to bring Bill back as head coach."

The Liberty had missed the playoffs the past two seasons and were 26-42 under Laimbeer when they parted ways in October.

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Littwin: Someone else, please, in 2016

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There are many things in life I dont pretend to understand. Accretion discs. Dynamic scoring. Adam Sandler.

But Ive always had a pretty good handle on politics. For one thing, its not that complicated. And for another, when I get confused, theres always Nate Silver to straighten me out.

So, in that spirit, we will begin our 2015 column season by explaining why none of the many Republican presidential candidates could possibly be nominated in 2016. One of them will be, of course, which youd think would ruin the concept of the column. But, fortunately, it doesnt.

I mean, I said repeatedly that Mitt Romney couldnt possibly be nominated in 2012 because the guy who invented Romneycare would obviously not be chosen to run against the guy who invented Obamacare. And yet I knew he would be nominated because, who else Bachmann, Newt, Santorum, Cain, Oops? And so Romney got the job and, as everyone except Romney knew would happen, he lost.

And looking back, it was clear he should never have been nominated ...

... so clear that respected people are actually talking about him running for a third time. Why couldnt Romney run this time? Are you kidding? Its not just because Chris Mathews predicts in mid-tingle that Romney would win the nomination. Its 47 percent of everything else.

Lets go to the real candidates. One of them will win, I guess, even though none of them would seem to have a chance.

1. Jeb Bush. Of all the candidates, this is the most confusing one to me. Would Republicans really nominate pro-Common Core, pro-immigration Jeb Bush? Who is his constituency the younger and smarter brothers of America? The idea of another Bush-Clinton race is so outlandish, so interstellarish, that when Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination (see: Romney, 2012), Americans will look back at yet another Bush candidacy as the time when someone actually Googled William Henry Harrison.

2. Marco Rubio. Hes a young, smart, attractive, inexperienced first-term senator. And hes written a book. (Sound like anyone you know? I cant wait to hear about the time he spent in Indonesia.) Hes also from Florida, where Jeb Bush will have tapped every donor this side of South Beach. Rubio will run eventually. He might even win. Eventually.

3. Mike Huckabee. In 2008, he shockingly won in Iowa, winning the evangelical vote that Rick Santorum won in 2012, proving that winning in Iowa doesnt mean all that much anymore. Huckabee couldnt raise money in 2008. I dont see where he could raise any in 2016, even if he wins Iowa again. Hes a great retail campaigner in an era when retail campaigns have gone wholesale. I spent a day with him in New Hampshire in 2008 and one of his supporters gave me his card which had imbedded in it a piece of a pink Elvis convertible. Or so he told me. Whats not to like?

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Millennials' surprise: There isn't an app to solve all problems

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Poverty? Isn't there an app for that?

None of my college journalism students has asked me that one yet. But I wouldn't be all that surprised if one of them did.

Millennials, it seems, have very different ideas about how to solve urban problems. And unlike the notions of this retirement-age New Dealer, their solutions typically don't include raising taxes or expanding the reach of some government agency.

This is, I think, a fast-evolving yet underappreciated phenomenon in American life and politics. The millennials, roughly defined as those born between 1985 and 2000, are so smitten with mobile technology and its social and economic applications that they see tech as the solution to just about everything.

Need a cheap ride? Punch-up Uber on the iPhone.

Hungry? Go to grubhub.com.

Their universe of digital conveniences is extensive and extending. When she needs a movie listing or a sports score, my 20-something daughter would no more pick up an ink-flecked sheet of dried tree mulch (aka a newspaper) than she would scan the horizon for smoke signals.

But is this new way of thinking birthing a new kind of politics? I think it is. And the new digital mindset is, at its core, libertarian. Which is to say: very liberal on social issues such as gay marriage and legalized pot, yet very skeptical of government efforts to regulate the economy or levy taxes.

So they're trending toward the Republican side of the ballot.

This was driven home in November's election when the two Chicago wards most associated with upwardly mobile millennials downtown's 42nd Ward and Lincoln Park's 43rd Ward carried, in the aggregate, for Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner.

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TENERIFE attraction number 1 TEIDE – GOPRO HERO 4 Black & Silence by zero-project (full HD) – Video

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Bay of Islands Police arrest car thieves

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Police have arrested a number of people in relation to vehicle crime around the Bay of Islands.

Over the last week there have been several theft ex-cars and stolen motor vehicles in the area and Police started an operation to target the offenders.

The operation began following a car that was stolen at Waitangi on Tuesday night.

The car was spotted by Police near Towai and the driver sped off.

Police spiked the car north of Hikurangi, but it continued driving.

Police eventually stopped the car at Whananaki South.

As a result of this incident one 17-year-old man is facing eight charges of unlawfully taking a motor vehicle, one charge attempted unlawful taking and a drug charge.

A second 17-year-old man is facing charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop, unlawfully getting into a vehicle and unlawfully taking a motor vehicle.

About 12.30am on Wednesday some offenders were seen trying to get into a vehicle near the Opua Marina.

They were disturbed and took off in another stolen vehicle.

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