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Playing to the online crowd is now the name of the game

By Janelle Nanos GLOBE STAFF

f a board game is played at a kitchen table and no one is there to film it, did it really happen? For generations, toy companies did not bother with such existential questions, content in the knowledge that Parcheesi and Sorry battles rarely left the confines of family game night. But faced with the reality that it’s increasingly hard to draw digitally native children — and adults — to nondigital play, toy makers have begun developing a new category of board games that embrace, not avoid, our smartphone habits.

Gone are the days of hunched shoulders and rolled dice. Today the focus is on creating moments of zany physical comedy that can translate into viral moments ripe for sharing online — a phenomenon that is contributing to a surge in game sales. It’s called the “YouTube effect.” Games have seen a 20 percent spike in sales this year, and are the fastest growing category of toys, and that’s before sales during the busy holiday season are tallied, said Juli Lennett, a toy industry analyst with the

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Trump calls for greater nuclear capability Intent of tweet unclear; arsenals have been pared By Michael D. Shear and James Glanz NEW YORK TIMES

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States should greatly “expand its nuclear capability,” appearing to suggest an end to decades of efforts by presidents of both parties to reduce the role of nuclear ºTrump weapons in US defenses and presses strategy. Obama on Trump’s statement, in a mid- Israel. A4 afternoon Twitter post, may have been a response to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who in a speech to his military’s leadership in Moscow earlier Thursday vowed to strengthen Russia’s nuclear missiles. Putin said nuclear forces needed to be bolstered so they could “reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defense systems,” apparently a reference to the Pentagon’s efforts to develop systems capable of shooting down nuclear-armed rockets. Shortly after Putin’s comments were reported by the news media, Trump said on Twitter that the United States must “strengthen and expand” its nuclear forces “until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” He did not

With an average of 5,000 weekday visitors and 15,000 on the weekend, Boston’s winter village is turning City Hall Plaza into

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Sampson breaks silence on ’01 killings Statement meant to show remorse before sentencing By Milton J. Valencia GLOBE STAFF

Hall, only in Europe.” The urban plaza, conceived as a gathering spot for festive occasions, has been the bane of previous mayors who struggled to invigorate it. Former mayor Thomas M. Menino, weary of looking out at “the city’s living room,” once launched a contest for ideas on how to enliven it, but the reinvention never

After 15 years of trials and court proceedings, admitted serial killer Gary Lee Sampson made his first public statement in court Thursday as a jury considers whether to sentence him to death. He put on his reading glasses, lifted himself from the chair at the defense table in Courtroom 13 of the federal courthouse in South Boston, and addressed the jury in a 45-second statement meant to show remorse for the three murders he committed in one week in 2001. In 123 words, he noted each life that he took. Jonathan Rizzo, a 19-year-old college student, offered to give him a ride one night that summer. “It hurt me to know I took his life, a life of a young man,” Sampson said softly. Philip McCloskey, a 69-year-old plumber from Taunton, had picked up a hitchhiking Sampson on his way to Weymouth. “I took his life and destroyed his family. I hurt his family and so many more,” Sampson said, stumbling over his words. Later, he killed 58-year-old Robert “Eli” Whit-

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The 11,000-square-foot skating loop has been a popular feature of the winter village, and has helped to enliven the plaza.

By Meghan E. Irons GLOBE STAFF

Patrons bundled in scarves and sweaters swamped the lines inside the holiday village, while children swished around a giant ice skating loop. Could this be the once-barren City Hall Plaza that has confounded mayors for decades? Displayed across that broad expanse

of red bricks, the “Boston Winter” village has emerged as a hit this holiday season, organizers say, attracting thousands of visitors, including some who can’t help but compare it to similar attractions in New York and Europe. “It’s about time we have something like this,’’ said Kara Levy, a 26-year-old visitor to the village. “I’ve definitely never seen anything like this at City

An analyst who plays a starring role As chief of staff, Koh never far from spotlight

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The third of three profiles of the advisers closest to Mayor Martin J. Walsh as he embarks on his bid for reelection.

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Dan Koh wants to run. Maybe for Congress. Maybe for another office. “I’d be disingenuous,” said the mayor’s 31-year-old chief of staff, “if I said I’d never thought about it.” Has the campaign already begun? Is that why Koh so often finds himself in the spotlight? Or does that reflect the mindmeld that has grown between Koh and Mayor Martin J. Walsh — a boss happy to relinquish the starring role? Think about it: Why was the chief of staff on stage, talking about his big idea for a base-

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‘He’s picked up a lot of my passion for politics.’ MAYOR MARTIN J. WALSH, referring to aide Dan Koh (above)

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The Nation Trump’s son suspends his charitable foundation Fund-raisers had sparked fears of access-peddling By David A. Fahrenthold WASHINGTON POST

WA S H I N G T O N — E r i c Trump is suspending the operations of his charitable foundation — ceasing all fund-raising — after facing questions about whether its donors might get special access to members of the first family. ‘‘No new money will come into the ETF bank account,’’ Trump wrote in an e-mail message on Thursday. That decision appeared to go beyond a pledge he had made a day earlier to The New York Times. In that interview, Trump said he would cease personally raising money for the foundation but left the broader fate of the foundation uncertain. The Eric Trump Foundation, founded in 2007, raises more than $1.5 million a year through a golf tournament, online auctions, and other events. One recent auction, for instance, offered a 10-week paid internship at the Trump Orga-

nization, which came with the chance to sit down for 15 minutes each with Eric Trump and his siblings Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. In another auction, the foundation offered a chance to pitch a business idea to Eric Trump over lunch. The Eric Trump Foundation has one paid employee. Trump did not respond to a question about her job status while the foundation is suspended. The foundation does no direct charitable work but rather passes the bulk of the money it raises to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a cancer center in Memphis. St. Jude named a surgery and intensive care unit after the Eric Trump Foundation in 2015; the foundation had pledged to donate $20 million over 10 years. In all, the Eric Trump Foundation has donated about $7.9 million to the hospital. Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that the foundation was auctioning off a coffee with Ivanka Trump — an influential adviser to Donald Trump. The Times reported that bids had risen to more than $72,000 and that the top bidders were people seeking to

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The Eric Trump Foundation passed the bulk of the money it raised to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is now serving as an informal adviser to his father, Donald Trump. influence Trump’s policy making. That auction was canceled after the Times story ran. That controversy was followed by another one, involving another charity — and another apparent offer to sell access to Trump family members. In that case, first reported by TMZ.com, Eric Trump and his brother Donald Trump Jr. were listed as ‘‘honorary co-chairmen’’ of a post-inauguration fund-raiser. According to a draft invitation, donors could pay $500,000 to go on a multiday hunting trip with one or

both of the Trump sons or pay $1,000,000 for a private reception with the president. The host of that ‘‘Camouflage & Cufflinks’’ gala was listed as the Opening Day Foundation, a charity registered just days earlier in Texas. As first reported by the Center for Public Integrity, the Texas charity listed both Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. as directors. The Trump transition team later said none of the Trumps had been involved in the planning of the event. Later, the two Trump sons’ names were re-

moved from the charity’s registration. Both episodes appeared to show that Trump family members — who have spent years monetizing personal appearances, for profit and for charity — have not prepared themselves for a world in which their father is president, and such cash-for-access arrangements look like influence-peddling. So far, Donald Trump has not set any explicit limits on his involvement with his global business empire. His two eldest sons — who are supposed to run the business empire while Trump is president — have also been deeply involved in the presidential transition process, even helping to select some Cabinet secretaries. In an interview over e-mail on Thursday, Eric Trump still seemed to be searching for the right way to wall off his personal life from his new, informal role as presidential adviser. When asked why he was suspending the operation instead of taking a leave of absence and letting it to keep functioning, Trump said, ‘‘Maybe that’s an option, but not one I have thought much about.’’

Eric Trump said that the remaining money owed to St. Jude under the $20 million pledge could be covered by Trump Organization properties, including the hotels — which regularly ask guests to donate to St. Jude. One of the longtime members of the Eric Trump Foundation’s board, Andrew Joblon, said Thursday he was saddened to learn that the foundation would be suspended. “We have poured our heart and soul into this cause to help children with severe illness at one of the world’s best institutions,’’ Joblon wrote in an email. ‘‘The only ones losing here are the kids and that to me doesn’t sit very well.’’ President-elec t Donald Trump, by contrast, has said nothing about the fate of his own charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, as he prepares to take office. The Donald J. Trump Foundation was prohibited from fund-raising by the New York attorney general, who acted after the Washington Post reported that it had been soliciting funds without obtaining the proper state registration.

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Population growth hits 78-year low Last year the United States had the lowest rate of population growth of any year since the Great Depression, according to census figures released Tuesday. The milestone is due largely to the aging of the population, with more deaths last year than at any time since 2000, according to William Frey, a demographer and Brookings Institution senior fellow. The nation grew by 0.695 percent between 2015 and 2016 to 323.1 million, down from 0.732 percent the previous year — the lowest increase since the 1937-1938 period, when it was 0.60 percent.

Immigration also declined, though for the past three years immigration levels have been higher than they were since before the recession of 20072009. But the fall in the natural increase, from 4.07 to 3.84 per 1,000, reflecting fewer births and more deaths, is the lead cause, Frey said. The increase will continue to decline, with serious policy implications, he said. ‘‘We need to pay attention to the dependent older population who’s going to have to be taken care of, through Social Security and Medicare and general support for them.’’ WASHINGTON POST

For the record R Correction: A Page One story in Thursday’s Globe incorrectly characterized the renovations Harvard University is making to its Smith Campus Center. A planned glass atrium would cover only a portion of Forbes Plaza. The Globe regrets the error. R Correction: Because of a reporting error, in the Friday Weekend section, which was printed in advance, a review of a video in the “First Light” exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art misstates the exhibit’s closing date. It closes Jan. 16. The Globe regrets the error.

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For oldest gorilla, a sweet 60 celebration Colo’s longevity highlights trend of zoo geriatrics By Andrew Welsh-Huggins ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio — She is a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-grandmother of 12, and great-great-grandmother of three. She recently had surgery to remove a malignant tumor, but doctors say she’s doing well. She’s Colo, the nation’s olde s t l i v i n g go r i l l a , a n d s h e turned 60 on Thursday at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Colo was the first gorilla in the world born in a zoo and has surpassed the usual life expectancy of captive gorillas by two decades. Her longevity is putting a spotlight on the medical care, nutrition, and up-to-date therapeutic techniques that are helping lengthen zoo animals’ lives. ‘‘Colo just epitomizes the advances that zoos have made, going all the way back to her birth at Columbus,’’ said Dr. Tom Meehan, vice president for veterinary services at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo and veterinary adviser to a national gorilla species survival plan. T h e c h a n ge s a l s o m e a n more animals living with the normal aches and pains of growing older. Today, zoo veter-

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Colo has surpassed the usual life expectancy of captive gorillas by two decades. inarians regularly treat animals for heart and kidney disease, arthritis, dental problems, and cancer. Colo is one of several elderly gorillas around the country. The oldest known living male gorilla, Ozzie, is 55 and lives at the Atlanta Zoo, which has a geriatric gorilla specialty. At Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, staff members use acupuncture, massage, laser therapy, and heat and joint supplements to help Emma, a 13year-old rabbit. At the National Zoo in

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HOBOKEN, N.J. — When a New Jersey Transit commuter train plowed off the end of a track in September, killing a woman standing in the Hoboken station and injuring more than 100 others, the last thing in its way was a concrete-andsteel bumper that was in place when the station opened in 1907. Experts say more modern bumpers equipped with hydraulic shock absorbers and sled-like friction shoes — like those installed more than 25 years ago at NJ Transit’s Atlantic City terminal — would not have been able to stop the train, which was traveling at 21 miles per hour, but might have slowed it enough to lessen the damage. Federal investigators are examining the role the aging bumper played in the Hoboken crash and whether other barriers could have made a difference. For now, however, all but one of the tracks in the almost 110-year-old station that serves about 15,000 passen-

gers a day still have the oldstyle, stationary bumpers at the end of the tracks, just a few feet from the busy terminal. NJ Transit is in the process of hiring a consultant to review the bumping posts at Hoboken as part of an overall safety review of the terminal, Steven Santoro, NJ Transit’s recently named executive director, said. The bumpers in Hoboken don’t feature hydraulics and aren’t equipped with friction shoes. A bumping post with friction shoes would have to be placed farther away from the track’s end and would effectively reduce the platform length, Santoro said. That, he said, would force NJ Transit to run trains ‘‘at least’’ one car shorter, which would potentially cause overcrowding. NJ Transit has embarked on a project to construct three longer platforms at Hoboken as part of post-Hurricane Sandy flood mitigation, but that isn’t expected to be finished until 2020, Santoro said. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington, Shanthi, a 42year-old Asian elephant with arthritis, receives osteoarthritis therapy and was recently fitted with specially crafted front foot boots to help her feet heal as medications are applied. In Oakland, Calif., Tiki, a 27year-old giraffe and one of the oldest in the nation, gets foot care, massage therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic care, along with traditional veterinary medicine. ‘‘Geriatrics is probably one of our most common medical challenges that we face in a zoo

situation,’’ said Dr. Keith Hinshaw, director of animal health at the Philadelphia Zoo. ‘‘So pretty much anything that you could imagine would happen with an older person is going to happen eventually with any animal.’’ Colo, a western lowland gorilla, holds several records. On her 56th birthday in 2012, she exceeded the record for the oldest known gorilla. On Thursday, she surpassed the median life expectancy for female gorillas in human care (37.5 years) by more than two decades.

Woman allegedly stole toys from tots The Florida sheriff stood at the front of the room, holding up a photo of the green, sinister Christmas character. ‘‘This is really not the Grinch,’’ Grady Judd, Polk County sheriff, said, before holding up a woman’s mug shot. ‘‘This is the Grinch.’’ The woman, Tammy Strickland, 38, is accused of taking part in a scam to steal toys from ‘‘Toys for Tots,’’ a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve to distribute toys to children whose

parents cannot afford them for Christmas. She was arrested on Monday and charged with 166 felony counts. After receiving a tip, detectives learned that Strickland — a former volunteer with the charitable organization — had submitted counterfeit applications for children’s toys. Through a search warrant in Strickland’s home, detectives found 118 unwrapped toys, which a witness said were from ‘‘Toys for Tots,’’ Judd said. WASHINGTON POST

Underground nuclear site to reopen ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico regulators have approved restarting normal operations at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository, a major step for US officials aiming to reopen the facility nearly three years after a radiation leak shut it down indefinitely. The repository has been closed since a radiation release in February 2014 contaminat-

ed much of the underground disposal area and brought to light gaps in management and oversight. The leak stemmed from a chemical reaction inside a container of waste that was inappropriately packed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Investigators found it could have been avoided had existing policies not been ignored. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NPD Group. Much of that uptick, she said, can be tied to videos featuring a subset of demonstrative board games. There’s Pie Face, where players contend to see who will get smacked with whipped cream, Speak Out, which involves a garish jawwidening plastic mouthpiece, and Wet Head, a Russian roulette water helmet game. It’s a simple formula, really. Design a game that makes Player A look foolish, knowing that Player B will have a smartphone at the ready, capturing the moment of idiocy for all the Internet to see. Videos of the resulting family mayhem — sometimes a moment of serendipity, sometimes a construct of the game-makers’ marketing department — have found vast audiences on YouTube and Facebook. Either way, game night, one of the last bastions of old-fashioned, cross-generational fun, might have finally succumbed to the pull of the screen. “We’re kind of a social media generation and people want to share their life experiences,” Lennett said. It also affects the way games are made and marketed. Josh Loerzel, vice president of sales and marketing at the Portland, Ore.-based toymaker Zing, said the shift has changed the way the company develops its toys. “When we look at a product now, the first thing I look at is, literally, is this demonstrable for YouTube or not?” he said. Zing has seen sales of Wet Head spike after orchestrating a viral YouTube campaign. Eager to replicate those successes, toy companies are keeping tabs on trending videos, and finding ways to translate them into games. And they’re using YouTube and other social networks as the primary method of promoting their products, believing these camera-ready games will encourage “viral play patterns.”

For Rhode Island-based Hasbro, the leading game maker in the toy industry, the shift began with Budgie. In April 2015, Martin “Budgie” O’Brien and his grandson Jayden filmed themselves collapsing into giggles as they played Pie Face, which was distributed by the British toymaker Rocket Games. The video eventually drew over 240 million views on Facebook and YouTube, and caused the phones in Hasbro’s Pawtucket offices to ring off the hook as customers sought a way to purchase it stateside. Hasbro quickly acquired the rights to distribute the game globally. The bet paid off. Hasbro rushed Pie Face to toy stores last October, and retailers sold out of the game last holiday season. As of October, Pie Face was the best-selling game of 2016, according to NPD group’s Retail Tracking Service. This year Hasbro released a new version, Pie Face Showdown, just in time for peak holiday sales. The “YouTube effect,” said Jonathan Berkowitz, senior vice president of marketing for Hasbro Gaming, has been a “great positive force for the industry.” On the hunt for its next big hit, Hasbro noticed “mouthpiece challenge” videos cropping up online this spring. The gag involves players trying to sound out a variety of challenging phrases while wearing dental cheek retractors that peel back a wearer’s mouth and lips. Berkowitz’s team saw a party game in the making. “We were running around dentists’ offices all over Rhode Island trying to find these mouthpieces,” he said. He wasn’t the only one with that idea. Joe Santagato, a 24year-old comedian from Queens with 1.7 million followers on his YouTube channel, also noticed the trend, and filmed a video of himself and his siblings wearing the mouthpieces. It was as contagious as Santagato had hoped: The vid-

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Hasbro has released a new version of the hit game Pie Face, called Pie Face Showdown (left), for the holiday season. A video of a man playing the original game with his grandson blew up online, drawing more than 240 million views. Wet Head (bottom left), a game that failed when it was launched 15 years ago, has found new life in the YouTube era.

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eo garnered 3 million views on Facebook overnight. In a matter of months, at least a half-dozen mouthpiece games were on the market, including Speak Out, which Hasbro launched in partnership with Santagato in just 10 weeks. “Honestly it’s ridiculous,” Santagato said. “Imagine you did that with your family and that happened. And now it’s a game. It hasn’t hit me yet.” Hasbro plans to continue to “harness the power” of YouTube with two new games next year: They’ve partnered with YouTube stunt group Dude Perfect to promote Fantastic Gymnastics, which plays off the popularity of water-bottle flipping videos, and will also re-

lease Toilet Trouble. Essentially it’s a variation of Pie Face that soaks players with “toilet water.” For decades, word-of-mouth was the only rule that mattered to the game industry, said Chris Byrne, an executive at TTPM, a site that posts review videos of toys, and baby and pet products. Today, videos shared on social media play a similar role in building that community, he said. “The same way that from the ’60s on people looked for the ‘TV moment’ for selling games” in advertising spots, “people will now be looking for the sharable moment in creating a game,” Byrne said. The videos resonate, in part, be-

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cause “today’s 10-year-olds have never known a world without a smartphone. Physical things are actually novel to them.” Toy industry executives stress that for a game to find viral success, the fun has to be genuine. But they aren’t above tapping the increasingly powerful influencers on YouTube to help hasten the process. Such was the case with Wet Head, a game that failed when it launched 15 years ago, but found new life in a YouTube era, said Loerzel, the marketing director of Zing toys. Buyers at retailers like Target and Walmart were incredulous when Loerzel told them he was forgoing television ads and using YouTube influencers to pro-

mote the game instead. But the plan worked. The original YouTube video posted to the Family Fun Pack channel now has over 38 million views and spawned hundreds of copycats. A creator with millions of followers “has a major, major weight and influence. When you see a creator endorse something, it’s a much more personal level than if you just see a commercial,” he said. But such strategies have been condemned by advocates, who note that children are particularly vulnerable to persuasive messages in advertising. To kids, a 10-minute video of a family playing Wet Head is just funny. They have no idea that the family was paid for their endorsement and that’s it’s essentially just another form of advertising. Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said the line between advertising and content is far more fluid on YouTube, making it nearly impossible for children — and their parents — to distinguish between the two. Earlier this year, the Boston-based nonprofit filed a complaint asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and take enforcement action against companies that create and distribute childdirected “influencer” marketing. Golin also worries that something much larger is at stake. This type of marketing, he warns, has the potential to shift the very nature of how — and why — we play games. “It changes the whole dynamic. You’re performing for an unseen audience, you’re not there in the moment with your friends,” Golin said. “It’s a shame that we send a message to kids that the act of playing with each other isn’t enough anymore.” Janelle Nanos can be reached at janelle.nanos@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @janellenanos.

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The World Trump jumps into UN Israeli settlement debate Tells Obama to veto resolution Measure pulled amid uncertainty By Peter Baker and Somini Sengupta NEW YORK TIMES

JERUSALEM — Presidentelect Donald Trump thrust himself into one of the world’s most polarizing debates Thursday by pressuring President Obama to veto a United Nations resolution critical of Israel, the newly elected leader’s most direct intervention in foreign policy during his transition to power. Trump spoke out after Israeli officials contacted his team for help in blocking the draft resolution condemning settlement construction even as they lobbied its sponsor, Egypt. Within a couple of hours, Egypt withdrew the resolution, at least temporarily, and its president, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, called Trump to discuss how “to establish true peace in the

Middle East,” according to an aide to the president-elect. Trump’s forceful intervention into the matter amounted to a rare effort by a new president to shape international events even before taking office. While new presidents typically refrain from weighing in on current issues during the interregnum between their election and inauguration, Trump’s statement underscored that he does not plan to wait for the swearing in. He has already upended decades of US policy by speaking directly with Taiwan’s leader, and he has spoken out regularly on events like this week’s terrorist attack in Germany. But his push to stop a UN resolution criticizing Israel was more directly aimed at decisions still being made by his predecessor in his final days in office. The move also highlighted the stark shift on Middle East policy ahead when the new administration takes over in a month. Combined with his pledge to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem and his selection of a pro-settlement ambassador to Israel, Trump’s involvement Thursday signaled

an intent to play an active role in Middle East peace issues as a strong ally of Israel. The Egyptian-sponsored resolution would have condemned Israeli housing construction in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank as a “flagrant violation under international law” that was “dangerously imperiling the viability” of a future peace settlement establishing a Palestinian state. The United States has routinely used its veto at the Security Council to block similar measures, including under Obama in 2011. But Obama would not commit to doing so again this time. Trump said flatly that he should. “As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations betw e e n t h e p a r t i e s a n d n o t through the imposition of terms by the United Nations,” the president-elect said. “This puts Israel in a very poor negotiating position and is extremely unfair to all Israelis.” Trump amplified his position by posting the statement on Facebook and Twitter as

well, but a transition official insisted on anonymity to confirm the president-elect’s conversation with Sissi because of the s e n s i t i v i t y o f t h e m a tt e r. Trump’s words echoed the positions expressed by Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister

‘This puts Israel in a very poor negotiating position and is extremely unfair to all Israelis.’ DONALD TRUMP

Benjamin Netanyahu, who has welcomed Trump’s election as a breath of fresh air after years of clashes with Obama. Frustrated by two failed efforts to broker peace between Israelis and Palestinians during his tenure, Obama has been considering an effort to lay out a US framework during his final days in office. Palestinian leaders and their allies had hoped he would allow the anti-

settlement resolution at the UN to pass as an expression of frustration at Israeli policies. A Palestinian delegation traveled to Washington this month to urge Obama’s team to support the anti-settlement resolution or at least abstain. Obama’s advisers did not disclose a position and were holding out until the vote to watch how the matter developed. The Palestinians were unable to mee t with Trump’s aides and expressed disappointment Thursday with his position. “A veto means support of settlement activities,” Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian negotiator, said after the resolution was pulled. “A ve to means abandoning the twostate solution and peace efforts.” The return of the Palestinian cause to the world stage could serve the interests of some Arab leaders eager to turn public attention away from troubles at home. The government of Sissi, which sponsored the resolution as the Arab representative on the Security Council, faces domestic challenges stemming from a deteriorating economy, a per-

sistent Islamic terrorist insurgency, and this month’s bombing of a Coptic Christian cathedral. At the same time, it could distract from Netanyahu’s efforts to forge stronger relations with Sunni Arab states on the basis of shared antipathy toward Iran, dominated by a Shi’ ite theocrac y that has threatened Israel’s existence and challenged Arab interests in the region. Arab leaders, who have largely overlooked the Palestinian issue in recent years, may feel pressured to distance themselves from Israel again if their own publics are angered at the treatment of Palestinians. Arab officials met in Cairo on Thursday night to consider their next move. If the White House had let the resolution pass, it would have been a symbolic blow to the diplomatic shield that the United States has always offered Israel. It would also have sent a strong signal of international disapproval over the construction of settlements, regarded by many as illegal under international law.

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the area crowded with old wooden houses, according to Kyodo News. Itoigawa is on the Japan Sea coast in Niigata prefecture, about 160 miles northwest of Tokyo. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

MOSCOW — A US-based Muslim cleric Thursday condemned the killing of Russia’s envoy to Turkey and rejected accusations that his movement was behind the attack. Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot dead by an off-duty policeman in front of stunned onlookers at a photo exhibition Monday in the Turkish capital, Ankara. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has implicated Fethullah Gulen in the killing, accusing his movement of links to the gunman. In a video address, Gulen accused Erdogan of defaming his movement and suggested that the Turkish government would facilitate other assassinations and blame them on Gulen’s own followers. Gulen said, ‘‘It is not possible for them to convince the world of such accusations.’’ Russia flew a team of 18 investigators and foreign ministry officials to Turkey to help investigate Karlov’s killing. In Moscow, Foreign Ministry officials and lawmakers gathered at the Russian foreign ministry’s headquarters for a farewell ceremony to Karlov. Diplomats and officials laid flowers at the open casket alongside an honorary guard. ‘‘Those who raised a hand against Ambassador Karlov, who took his life, will definitely fail in their attempts to stop Russia from cooperating with other countries including Turkey,’’ said Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament.

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The fire started in the morning at a ramen shop in Itoigawa city, Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

Japan fire that spread to 140 buildings under control after 10 hours; two people injured TOKYO — A huge fire that spread to about 140 buildings in a small city on Japan’s western coast was brought under control Thursday night after authorities called in extra firefighters to fight the blaze. The fire started in the

morning at a ramen shop in Itoigawa city, Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. Fanned by winds gusting to 35 miles per hour, the fire had reached about 140 houses and other buildings by midafternoon. Fire and res-

other who fell, the fire and disaster agency said. Authorities issued an evacuation advisory for more than 740 people at 360 homes designated as high risk. The ramen shop was in a shopping arcade northwest of the city’s main train station,

cue units from nearby prefectures were brought in to help, and the blaze was finally brought under control late Thursday, more than 10 hours after it was detected. There were two reports of minor injuries, one woman who inhaled smoke and an-

S. Korea starts hearings on president SEOUL — South Korea’s Constitutional Court, which will decide whether President Park Geun-hye is permanently removed from office, Thursday ordered Park to respond to one of the most contentious accusations against her: that she neglected her duties on the day in 2014 when hundreds died in the sinking of a ferry. Park’s presidential powers have been suspended since Dec. 9, when the National Assembly voted to impeach her. The court has until June to decide whether her impeachment is justified, either reinstating her or formally ending her presidency. Thursday’s hearing, which Park did not attend, was the start of that process. The legislature accused

Park of a wide range of violations of law and the constitution, including taking bribes from businesses. But for South Koreans, perhaps the most emotional accusation is that Park failed to protect citizens’ lives April 16, 2014, the day the Sewol ferry sank off the country’s southwestern coast. More than 300 people drowned, most of them teenagers on a school trip, and the country was scarred by the catastrophe, perhaps the worst in its peacetime history. Park has been dogged by questions about what she was doing during the first seven hours of the Sewol disaster. She did not emerge from her official residence during that time, and her office has not explained what she was doing. NEW YORK TIMES

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Cambodia seizes smuggled animal parts PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia has made one of its biggest seizures ever of smuggled animal parts, including more than a ton of ivory, a wildlife protection group said Thursday. The Wildlife Alliance said 1.3 metric tons of ivory, 10 cheetah skulls and 180 pounds of cheetah bones, and 301 pounds of pangolin scales were found Dec. 16 concealed

in three containers shipped from Mozambique. The group said in a statement that another shipment of illicit ivory by the same company was intercepted in Vietnam in October. Wildlife Alliance said Cambodia has made 19 seizures of ivory and rhino horn from six African countries since 2014. ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia announced its 2017 budget Thursday, projecting an increase in spending and a lower budget deficit as the Saudi king acknowledged ‘‘very turbulent economic conditions.’’ The oil-rich kingdom said its spending is expected to reach $237 billion with revenues of $184 billion. The budget deficit will reach 8 percent of gross domestic product $52.7 billion, a decline compared to the 2016 deficit, which reached $79 billion. ‘‘Our economy is strong; we have enough strength to confront the economic challenges,’’ King Salman said in front of his Cabinet on Thursday. The announcement, he said, comes amid ‘‘very turbulent economic conditions which

many countries suffered from.’’ Last year, the kingdom cut back on spending because of sliding oil prices, the main economic engine for the kingdom. Prices now sit at around $55 per barrel after crashing to a 13-year low in February. Khaled al-Faleh, the Saudi oil minister, said there will be a gradual lifting of fuel subsidies, which will be replaced by cash handouts to citizens. The kingdom is pushing for a diversification of its income sources and a decreased dependency on oil. The government appeared to be cutting slightly on defense spending, where it allocated $50.8 billion for 2017 — down about $3.8 billion from last year. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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German officials say fingerprints tie Tunisian to attack Suspect has evaded capture By Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Syrians in Aleppo celebrated Thursday after the army said it had retaken full control of the city.

Assad forces take full control of Aleppo

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BEIRUT — The evacuation of civilians and fighters from the last rebel-held part of Aleppo concluded on Thursday after long delays because of frigid weather, putting all of Syria’s industrial capital back in the hands of President Bashar Assad’s forces for the first time since 2012. The last buses carrying residents from eastern Aleppo left the city late Thursday night, according to the Syrian state news agency. Tens of thousands of people have been removed from eastern Aleppo since Dec. 15. Before the last buses left on Thursday, the Red Cross said that 34,000 people had left the city, including 4,000 fighters who had left in their own vehicles the previous night.

A separate convoy was waiting to carry residents out of two progovernment villages in neighboring Idlib province that have been surrounded by rebels for years. It was unclear late Thursday whether the convoy had completed its trip. The seizure of all of Aleppo by Assad and his allies signals a turning point in the nearly 6year conflict. Assad’s army relied heavily on foreign military support from Russia, Iran, and Shi’ite militias like Lebanon’s Hezbollah to surround the rebel-held area. Months of shelling and airstrikes that killed hundreds of people and reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble finally routed the rebels and pushed the area’s inhabitants to leave under an agreement brokered by Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Throughout the conflict, As-

sad has characterized the rebels seeking his ouster as foreignbacked terrorists, and he hailed the retaking of Aleppo on Thursday as a blow to those forces. He also thanked the international backers who helped. “Liberating Aleppo from terrorism is a victory not only for Syria, but also for those who really contributed to the fight against terrorism, especially Iran and Russia,” Assad said at a meeting with a visiting Iranian delegation, according to the Syrian state news service, SANA. Many in the governmentheld western part of Aleppo also celebrated the rout of the city’s rebels, who often fired improvised rockets at their neighborhoods, flooding hospitals with the dead and wounded. And as hundreds gathered

Tuesday to see the lighting of a Christmas tree, a bomb exploded in western Aleppo, wounding no one but sending residents fleeing. The evacuation was bitter for residents of the other half of the city, both rebel fighters seeking to topple Assad and the civilians who left their homes, unsure of when — if ever — they would return. Residents reached by phone and messaging apps after arriving in rebel-held areas described cold, disorderly conditions where many were struggling to find shelter. “People went from one hell to another,” said Abdul-Nasser Nadaf, a rebel fighter who had left eastern Aleppo for Idlib province. “We are all tired and the displacement was really tough. The snow and cold made things worse.”

BERLIN — German officials presented mounting evidence Thursday that Anis Amri was behind the wheel of a truck that smashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, as authorities across Europe pressed ahead with their feverish manhunt for the 24-yearold Tunisian, who has evaded capture since the attack. Police raided properties in Berlin and the western state of N o r t h R h i n e - We s t p h a l i a where Amri is believed to have spent time. They also swooped in on a bus in the southwestern city of Heilbronn after receiving a tip that turned up nothing. No arrests were made, said Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors. Even so, investigators were increasingly confident that Amri carried out the rampage after finding his fingerprints in the cab of the truck that had been hijacked shortly before Monday’s attack. ‘‘We can tell you today that there are additional indications that this suspect is with high probability really the perpetrator,’’ Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said after visiting the Federal Criminal Police Office along with Chancellor Angela Merkel. ‘‘Fingerprints were found in the cab, and there are other additional indications that suggest this,’’ he told reporters. ‘‘It is all the more important that the search is successful as soon as possible.’’ German authorities have been on the defensive after it emerged that Amri had been

considered a potential threat for months, subjected to surveillance, and put in pre-deportation detention in August only to be released again because of paperwork problems. The fact that the attack is alleged to have been carried out by a man who came to Germany seeking asylum last year also prompted fresh criticism of Merkel’s decision to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country without thorough security checks. While police have noted that most migrants are lawabiding, a number of high-profile crimes, including the New Year’s Eve assaults in Cologne and several violent attacks over the summer have stoked antimigrant feeling in Germany. Two attacks in July, along with the truck attack in Berlin, were claimed by the Islamic State group. ‘‘We have made great efforts in recent years to better prepare for terrorist threats,’’ Merkel told reporters. ‘‘This makes me confident that we will withstand the test that we now face.’’ While members of Merkel’s party have called for tighter asylum laws and a crackdown on potential extremists in the wake of the attack, the chancellor appealed once more for calm. ‘‘I want to say how ver y proud I’ve been in recent days that the great majority of people have reacted soberly,’’ she said. At the site of the bloodbath, Berliners made a show of defiance. Vendors reopened their stalls at the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church even as police placed concrete blocks by the roadside to provide extra security.

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Temperatures soar to 32 degrees around North Pole Storm propels heat into Arctic, melting sea ice By Jason Samenow WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — An unusual spike in temperatures, propelled by a massive storm packing warm air, brought the North Pole to the melting point of 32 degrees Thursday. Data from a weather buoy show that air temperatures have risen more than 40 de-

grees in the last two days after they had hovered near minus11 degrees, which is still above average. The entire Arctic north has witnessed a sharp temperature spike of nearly 30 degrees. Zachary Labe, a doctoral student researching Arctic climate at the University of California Irvine, said the huge flux of warmth into the region may have contributed to the loss of sea ice at a time when the region is usually gaining ice. Near the Franz Joseph Islands east of Svalbard and

north of Norway, satellite imagery shows a large mass of ice vanishing over the last day.

‘This is pretty dramatic.’ ZACHARY LABE, an Arctic climate researcher, commenting on the rapid loss of sea ice north of Norway

‘‘This is pretty dramatic,’’ he tweeted. Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center indicate the Arctic lost about 57,000 square miles of ice in the past day, which is roughly the size of Michigan. Labe cautioned, however, the ice loss data are preliminary and require quality control. In Longyearbyen, Norway, which is on the island of Svalbard in the Nordic Seas, the high reached 36 degrees Thursday, according to Weather Underground, beating the old daily record of 33 degrees. While it is common for storms to transport large quantities of heat into the high Arctic, the intensity of warmth — more than 40 degrees above normal — has caught the attention of scientists. This is the second time in

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A polar bear, shown in a file photo provided by the European Geosciences Union, tested the strength of sea ice in the Arctic. the last six weeks such a steep rise in temperatures has occurred. In mid-November, temperatures over the high Arctic averaged about 30 to 35 degrees above normal. An analysis from Climate Central, a nonprofit science organization, found that a warm event of comparable intensity to what occurred in November

‘‘would have been extremely unlikely in a climate of a century ago’’ before heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere had grown to current levels. ‘‘If nothing is done to slow climate change, by the time global warming reaches 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), events like this winter would become common at the North

Pole, happening ever y few years,’’ Climate Central concluded. While the Arctic witnesses freak temperature rises, the cold air normally positioned there has sloshed southward into Siberia. Temperatures there have crashed to about 60 degrees below normal, flirting with minus-60.

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In a scientific triumph that could change the way the world fights a terrifying killer, an experimental Ebola vaccine tested on humans in the waning days of the West African epidemic has been shown to provide protection against the lethal disease. The vaccine has not yet been approved by any regulatory authority, but it is considered so effective that an emergency stockpile of 300,000 doses has been created for use should an outbreak flare up again. The new vaccine has some flaws, experts said. It appears to work against only one of the

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The new vaccine is ‘a step in the right direction but not the ultimate solution.’ DR. GARY J. NABEL A chief scientific officer at Sanofi pharmaceutical firm

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mon of which are Ebola-Zaire, the one that caused the West African outbreak, and EbolaSudan. Ebola is also related to Marburg virus, which is similarly lethal. An ideal vaccine would protect against all Ebola strains and Marburg. However, Kieny said, it may not be possible to make a shot effective against several strains if it is based on the VSV spine because VSV triggers a lot of side effects. Risks that are acceptable in the midst of a deadly epidemic are not acceptable in a preventive vaccine given to healthy children and adults, several experts noted. The new vaccine is “a step in the right direction but not the ultimate solution,” said Dr. Gary J. Nabel, chief scientific officer for global health research at the Sanofi pharmaceutical company, who designed a different Ebola vaccine in the 1990 s when he worked at the National Institutes of Health. A randomized clinical trial involving tens of thousands of subjects is the preferred way to test any vaccine, he noted. But by the time testing could start in mid-2015 in West Africa, isolation and treatment of the sick in tent hospitals had made Ebola cases so rare that researchers had to switch to ring vaccination around the few they could find. A likely candidate for a routine Ebola vaccine is one being developed by GSK, Nabel said. It uses two shots: the first has the Ebola surface protein attached to a chimpanzee adenovirus that can infect humans without harming them; the second uses a weakened pox virus similar to that used in smallpox vaccine. Dr. Seth F. Berkley, chief executive of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said his organization’s board voted in late 2014 to spend up to $390 million for 12 million doses of an Ebola vaccine. At the time, several companies had candidates but none had been fully tested in humans. “That was at a time when the epidemic was raging and we did not know if it could be controlled without a vaccine,” he said. By early last year, when preliminary results suggested the Merck vaccine worked well, Gavi gave the company $5 million to make 300,000 doses as an emergency supply to be used if Ebola-Zaire exploded again. It is not yet clear how big a stockpile will eventually be created. Merck is required to seek approval of its vaccine from the World Health Organization, which requires licensing by a major regulatory agency like the US Food and Drug Administration or the European Medicines Agency.

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in the shadows. It’s elected officials in the limelight. But in Ko h , B o s t o n C i ty Ha l l h a s something it has not seen since 1968. Remember that 27-yearold Harvard wunderkind who took the reins as chief of staff in the administration of Kevin H. White? Maybe in Koh, the mayor has unleashed a Barney Frank for a new generation. “ The mayor is not in the least threatened by Dan. I don’t think he’s jealous of the press,” said Frank, the former con-

gressman who has spent time in his old City Hall office with Koh. “I’ve been very impressed with their relationship, the honesty of it, the mutual confidence.” Frank recalled that White “said to me, ‘Hey look, if they write good things about you, people know I appointed you. That reflects well on me. Nobody thinks you came down here from Mars.’ ” That’s why Walsh dismissed a reporter’s question about whether Koh was using his post as a political springboard. The mayor may be 18 years older

Dan Koh, chief of staff for Mayor Martin J. Walsh, has advocated for analytics and video “data dashboards” for Boston officials, pushing the narrative that hip, young technophiles have taken over Government Center.

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than Koh, but Walsh said the two men have forged an unexpected friendship. They can read each other’s expressions — each other’s eyes — communicating without words, like spouses or siblings do. It’s a marriage, they say, of Koh’s Harvard Business School smarts and Walsh’s Dorchester street sense. “ We’ve really learned off each other,” Walsh said. “I’m certainly more analytical now. . . . He’s picked up a lot of my passion for politics.” And Koh’s ubiquity in the press? From TV to print to Twitter? “That stuff doesn’t bother me,” Walsh said. “Never did, never will. I actually think it’s great.” Other staffers also get press, Walsh and Koh said. Look at economic development chief John Barros. Or housing chief Sheila Dillon. Koh has a powerful pedigree from a political family. He is equal parts Harvard (undergrad and B-school) and Huffington Post (managed an online television network.) At City Hall, Koh has advocated for analytics and video “data dashboards” for Boston officials,

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a check-off-the-box-and-get-itdone guy. Koh believes government is a force for good. He recalled taking calls from struggling Gloucester lobstermen as an intern for former senator Edward M. Kennedy. Koh said his most gratifying moment is having a ramp fixed for a Roxbury senior. The real victories, Koh said, are helping constituents. He credited the mayor for everything. It was Walsh who empowered him, Walsh who wanted initiatives such as highspeed Verizon FIOS Internet and television. It was Walsh’s vision. Koh said it’s his job to execute. Walsh ticked off accomplishments involving Koh: streamlining permits, overhauling the Cabinet structure, a new 311 helpline, a management culture built to resemble the baseball strategy detailed in the “Moneyball” book and movie. Exhibit A: the administration’s most consequential accomplishment, General Electric’s decision to relocate to Boston. Koh closed the deal. “He was the guy who was on the calls for the city who really helped us get over the finish line,” said Ann Klee, General Electric’s vice president for Boston development and operations. “He’s not the big personality in the room, but the thoughtful guy who listens first and then talks at the right time.” But Koh’s watch includes missteps: the implosion of the Olympics bid; the ill-fated IndyCar race; the federal indictment of two City Hall department heads. (Koh won’t say whether he has hired a lawyer or appeared before a grand jury.) “You get the sense that if the ship had been tighter run, if [Walsh] had a stronger chief of staff, maybe a lot of these public relations errors and bone-headed political moves could have

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been avoided,” said Thomas Whalen, an author and political historian at Boston University. Perhaps the nadir of Walsh’s term came the last Wednesday in June. Federal authorities arrested a second City Hall department head. A neighborhood coffee hour took a turn as the mayor faced a swarm of media and picket signs from three groups of protesters. Koh left that day for his wedding in Milwaukee, posting a playful, mock campaign slogan on Facebook that riffed off his fiancee’s last name, Sennett, which sounds like Senate. “Here. We. Go,” Koh writes. “#kohforsennett2016” Every wedding has a hashtag, he said, and that was his. “People who want to criticize, they have every right to,” Koh said. “At the end of the day, it was my wedding. I owed it to my family and my wife to be excited about it.” There will always be critics. But Koh has also gained admirers. “He is a tremendous ambassador for the mayor and the administration,” said Mo Cowan, who served as former governor Deval Patrick’s chief of staff and served five months as an interim US senator. “When he engages, you feel confident that you are engaging with someone who has the confidence of the mayor and is acting on behalf of the mayor.” Koh also has a following inside City Hall. The administration has hired Koh’s high school and college classmates and friends of his friends. The mayor asked him to dig deep into his network for talent, Koh said, and he’s proud of the hires. One of Koh’s fans inside the administration is Jascha Franklin-Hodge, who had not met Koh until being interviewed and hired as the city’s chief information officer. FranklinHodge described Koh as a conductor leading the orchestra of city government. “He’s the guy that I go to if I’m stuck with something,” Franklin-Hodge said. “He’s a very quick thinker, and so he’s able to be thoughtful and get to the core of a question and help you move forward.” But Koh has also been polarizing. Early in the administration, a City Hall power struggle emerged. “Team Dan or Team Joe?” read one Globe story. It was Koh against Joe Rull, a high-ranking Walsh campaign aide who became the city’s director of operations. Koh ultimately triumphed, and Rull left the administration. Rull did not respond for comment. Walsh disputes the veracity of the story. Koh acknowledged that he and Rull fought, but like brothers. Koh has converted adversaries into allies. As the dream for a Boston Olympics faltered, Koh reached out to one of the loudest voices of opposition on Twitter. It was Robin Jacks, an organizer of the group No Boston 2024. Koh treated her to Pinkberry frozen yogurt on Newbur y Street. The conversation led to a meeting with the mayor. They discussed the homeless, the rising cost of housing, neighborhood issues. Her impression was that Koh “wants to be genuinely liked and respected,” Jacks said. “If someone is mad at him, I think it is a really terrifying place for him.” She dismissed a question suggesting that Koh’s motivation may be a strategic

effort to neutralize a foe. “Down the road politically, I don’t think I’m a benefit to him,” Jacks said. “If he’s running for office at some point, whether I like him or don’t like him is irrelevant.” “I genuinely like Dan.” Maybe Koh’s super-sized presence says more about the mayor than it does the chief of staff. Or maybe Koh’s Twitterand-Facebook approach is the new way for a chief of staff in an open-source world. Gone are the shadows and back rooms. “The job is different for every chief of staff and every mayor because a lot of it depends on the relationship between the two people,” said David Passafaro, who described being chained to his desk when he served as former mayor Thomas M. Menino’s chief of staff. “Mayor Menino had five or six chiefs of staff, and the job was different every time.” The Walsh-Koh relationship has extended outside City Hall. Walsh traveled to Milwaukee as a groomsman in Koh’s wedding. The mayor showed up at the funeral for Koh’s grandfather in Andover. “He is beyond a friend and beyond a boss to me,” Koh said. “I honestly love the guy. I’m not afraid to say that. I love him.” And Walsh? “I can see it being a lifelong friendship,” the mayor said. Doesn’t anything bug you about the guy? “He eats salad every single day,” Walsh said. “He never eats a chicken parm.” It’s true. Koh power-lunches on the chopped salad at the Oceanaire Seafood Room. Koh has raised eyebrows. He held his engagement party at the Parkman House, an ornate city-owned mansion. (Records show Koh paid the $500 standard fee to use the space). He has gone to Dubai, Abu D h a b i , P a r i s , J a p a n . I t ’s $50,000 in travel. Almost all the bills were paid by foundations, not taxpayers. Like the trip that put him in the snowy mountains of Davos, Switzerland. Koh was interviewed as “chief of staff to the City of Boston.” Koh is more than a boldfaced name. He publicly lambasted Boston Public Library trustees for failing to serve as “an independent check” on former library president Amy E. Ryan and her staff after two valuable prints went missing after being misfiled. The New York Times reported that Walsh and Koh “pursued the case with a prosecutor’s zeal.” A Globe columnist nicknamed the chief of staff the “Koh-mayor.” The artwork was located, but not before the resignation of Ryan. Before this job, Koh didn’t know Walsh. When Walsh announced Koh’s appointment, a B o s t o n He r a l d c o l u m n i s t wrote, “Daniel . . . Who?” Now, Koh’s big-time profile in City Hall has sparked chatter about his ambition. Gossip intensified when the Eagle-Tribune newspaper ran two Koh features in August. Could the Andover native be eying a run for Congress when Niki Tsongas retires? “Congresswoman Tsongas is doing an amazing job there, and I have no desire in doing anything to disrupt that,” Koh said, fiddling with his gold wedding band. “I haven’t thought about a single seat and said, ‘This is where I’m going to go.’ ” “I’m really happy,” Koh added, “with the job that I have.” Andrew Ryan can be reached at andrew.ryan@globe.com.

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Opponents of House Bill 2 protested outside the North Carolina General Assembly on Wednesday, when legislators failed to follow through on a deal to repeal the bill that targets LGBT people.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Repealing North Carolina’s law limiting LGBT protections at the close of a bitter election year was supposed to heal blows to the economy and perhaps open a truce in the culture wars in at least one corner of the divided United States. The failure of state lawmakers to follow through instead shows how much faith each side has lost in the other, as Americans segregate themselves into communities of us and them, defined by legislative districts that make compromise unlikely.

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The deal was supposedly reached with input from top politicians and industry leaders: Charlotte agreed to eliminate its anti-discrimination ordinance on the condition that state lawmakers then repeal the legislation known as House Bill 2, which had been a response to Charlotte’s action. But bipartisan efforts to return both the city and state to a more harmonious past fell apart amid mutual distrust, and neither side seemed to worry about retribution in the next election. With GOP map-drawers drawing most legislative districts to be uncompetitively red or blue, politicians see little downside to avoiding a negotiated middle-ground. And since the day Republicans passed and signed it into law last March, HB2 has reflected these broad divisions in society. The failed repeal shows the same polarization, said David Lublin, a Southern politics expert in American University’s School of Public Affairs.

North Carolina had been ‘‘seen as the forefront of the new South,’’ focusing on education and economic development, and wasn’t ‘‘viewed as crazy-right wing or crazy-left wing,’’ Lublin said. Keeping the law in effect, he said, ‘‘reverses that impression.’’ It was always more than just a ‘‘bathroom bill.’’ Republican lawmakers commanding veto-proof majorities framed HB2 as a rebuke to the values of Charlotte and other urban, white-collar communities where Democrats are clustered and where gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people generally find support. HB2 — which omits these people from state anti-discrimination protections, bars local governments from protecting them with their own ordinances, and orders transgender people to use facilities that match their sex listed on their birth certificates — created a backlash that has cost the state’s economy millions. Corporations, entertainers,

and high-profile spor ting events backed out to avoid being seen as endorsing discrimination. Two-thirds of North Carolina voters surveyed in November’s Associated Press exit poll said they oppose the law, and even Trump’s supporters narrowly trended against it. Across the divide, supporters of HB2 express anger against what they feel are challenges to their religious freedoms, and fear that women could be endangered by transgender people in public bathrooms and showers. ‘‘As much as North Carolina’s ‘reputation’ may have been harmed in the eyes of some, just as many — if not more — respected us for the stance we took in support of privacy and security protections of our public restrooms and dressing facilities,’’ said GOP state Representative Chris Millis, whose district covers all or parts of two largely rural, coastal counties where President-elect Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by a margin of more than 2-to-1.

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White power groups get tax break Four register as charities with IRS By Michael Kunzelman ASSOCIATED PRESS

BATON ROUGE, La. — The federal government has allowed four groups at the forefront of the white nationalist movement to register as charities and raise more than $7.8 million in tax-deductible donations over the past decade, according to an Associated Press review. Already emboldened by Donald Trump’s popularity, group leaders say they hope the president-elect’s victory helps them raise more money and gives them a larger platform for spreading their ideology. With benevolent-sounding names such as the National Policy Institute and New Century Foundation, the tax-exempt groups present themselves as educational organizations and use donors’ money to pay for websites, books, and conferences to further their ideology. The money also has personally compensated leaders of the four groups. New Century Foundation head Jared Taylor said his group raises money for the benefit of the ‘‘white race,’’ a mission taxpayers are indirectly supporting with the group’s sta-

tus as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. T he IRS recognized it , the Charles Martel Society, the National Policy Institute, and VDare Foundation as charities more than a decade ago. The IRS has tried to weed out nonprofit applicants that merely spread propaganda. In 1978, the agency refused to grant tax-exempt status to the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group that published an antiSemitic newsletter. And in 1994, a court upheld the denial of tax-exempt status for the Nationalist Movement, a Mississippi-based white nationalist group. IRS spokesman Michael Dobzinski said he can’t comment on individual nonprofits. New Century Foundation, a Virginia-based nonprofit, has raised more than $2 million since 2007 and operates the American Renaissance online magazine, which touts a philosophy that it’s ‘‘entirely normal’’ for whites to want to be a majority race. Taylor, a Yale-educated, selfdescribed ‘‘race realist,’’ said his group, founded in 1994, abides by all laws governing nonprofits. The Montana-based National Policy Institute is run by Richard Spencer, who popularized the term ‘‘alternative right’’ about a decade ago. The so-

called alt-right is a fringe movement that has been described as a mix of racism, white nationalism, and populism. S p e n c e r ’s g r o u p r a i s e d $442,482 in tax-deductible contributions from 2007 through 2012. More recent fund-raising figures for the group aren’t available in online tax returns, but Spencer said Trump’s candidacy already has boosted his group’s fund-raising. The Georgia-based Charles Martel Society was founded by wealthy publisher William H. Regnery II, who also founded the National Policy Institute. The group raised $568,526 between 2007 and 2014 and publishes The Occidental Quarterly. In an article last December, the journal’s editor applauded Trump’s campaign as a ‘‘game changer’’ for white people who oppose immigration and multiculturalism but said they ‘‘have a long way to go to really change the public discussion of race, Western culture, and Jewish influence.’’ T he Connec tic ut-based VDare Foundation is led by Peter Brimelow, founder and editor of an anti-immigration website. Brimelow, who spoke at the National Policy Institute’s conference last month, founded his nonprofit in 1999 and raised nearly $4.8 million between 2007 and 2015.

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WA S H I N G T O N — T h e Obama administration said Thursday it is officially scrapping a post-9/11 requirement for immigrant men from predominantly Muslim countries to register with the federal government. The United States hasn’t used the program since 2011,

but a top immigration adviser to President-elect Donald Trump has spoken of renewing it. The decision to end the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or NSEERs, comes amid growing international terror fears and Trump’s suggestions that he could ban Muslim immigrants from the United States. After a truck attack killed 12 in a Christmas market in Berlin this week, Trump told reporters, ‘‘ You know my plans.’’ The program’s elimination could make it more complicat-

ed for Trump’s administration to launch its own registration system for Muslims. Trump never publicly spoke about introducing such a program. But a close adviser, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, said last month he was in favor of launching an updated system for all foreigners from ‘‘high-risk’’ areas. Meeting Trump in New York, Kobach carried a document labeled ‘‘Department of Homeland Security Kobach Strategic Plan for First 365 Days.’’ It listed an NSEERS reboot as the top

priority. Kobach helped draft the program while working at the Justice Department under President George W. Bush. The registration system started about a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, requiring men and boys from a variety of mostly Middle Eastern countries to register with the federal government upon their arrival in the United States. Such people already in the country had to register with immigration authorities inside the United States. Registration, which also ap-

plied to immigrants from North Korea, included fingerprints and photographs. People also were required to notify the government if they changed addresses. The administration will publish its decision in the Federal Register on Friday. It had been widely derided by civil libertarians as an effort to profile people based on race and religion. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has opposed the program since its inception, described it as a ‘‘failed counterterrorism tool and massive profiling program that didn’t yield

a single terrorism conviction in nearly a decade.’’ ‘‘With this action, the US is on the right path to protect Muslim and Arab immigrants from discrimination,’’ said Joanne Lin, the organization’s senior legislative counsel. When the Obama administration abandoned the system in April 2011, it said a newer data collection program would be sufficient to collect biometric information for all foreigners coming into the country. At the time, more than 80,000 foreigners were registered.

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elaborate. The vagueness of Trump’s posting made it difficult to assess its possible impact on foreign policy and further illustrated the potential dangers in setting policy, especially on such grave matters, in Twitter bursts and offhand remarks. Nuclear weapons are so fearsome that only a president can order their use, and deterrence is normally a complicated sub-

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Snowden close to Russia, report finds NSA leaker said to remain in contact with intelligence services By Eileen Sullivan and Richard Lardner ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden remains in contact with Russian intelligence services, according to a bipartisan congressional report released at a time when Russia is considered a top national security concern. The two-year inquiry focused on Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified US material about America’s surveillance programs. It concluded that Snowden compromised national security by these disclosures and is avoiding prosecution while living in a country that is considered one of the top US adversaries. In recent months, US intelligence agencies have been outspoken about their beliefs that Russia actively interfered in the US political process by hacking into private e-mail accounts. The report sends a strong message to President Obama during his final days in office: Do not pardon Snowden. Obama has not offered any indication that he is considering pardoning Snowden for the leaks that embarrassed the United States and angered allies. Lisa Monaco, Obama’s ad-

viser on homeland security and counterterrorism, said last year that Snowden ‘‘should come home to the United States and be judged by a jury of his peers — not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.’’ However, there has been a push by privacy advocacy groups to pardon the former NSA contractor who they herald as a whistleblower for leaking documents that disclosed the extent of the data the United States collects on Americans in its efforts to fight terrorism. After the disclosures, Obama reined in some of the surveillance authorities and put in place additional measures to provide more transparency to the classified programs. The House intelligence committee released the report to provide what the panel’s chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican, called ‘‘a fuller account of Edward Snowden’s crimes and the reckless disregard he has shown for US national security.’’ The 33-page unclassified report pointed to statements in June 2016 by the deputy chairman of the defense and security committee in the Russian parliament’s upper house, who asserted that ‘‘Snowden did share

intelligence’’ with the Russian government. T he repor t said, ‘‘Since Snowden’s arrival in Moscow, he has had, and continues to have, contact with Russian intelligence services.’’ The following sentence was redacted, and there is nothing in the unclassified report that explains why the committee believes Snowden is still sharing intelligence with the Russians. The committee’s top Democrat, Representative Adam Schiff of California, said Snowden isn’t a whistleblower as he and his defenders claim. ‘‘Most of the material he stole had nothing to do with Americans’ privacy, and its compromise has been of great value to America’s adversaries and those who mean to do America harm,’’ Schiff said. Ben Wizner, Snowden’s lawyer, dismissed the report and insisted that Snowden acted to inform the public. ‘ ‘ T h e Ho u s e c o m m i tt e e spent three years and millions of dollars in a failed attempt to discredit Edward Snowden, whose actions led to the most significant intelligence reforms in a generation,’’ Wizner said. ‘‘The report wholly ignores Snowden’s repeated and courageous criticism of Russian sur-

veillance and censorship laws. It combines demonstrable falsehoods with deceptive inferences to paint an entirely fictional portrait of an American whistleblower.’’ One of the programs that came under great scrutiny is set to expire in a year, and it will be a top priority for the House committee, among others in Congress, to get it renewed. Under that program, the NSA sweeps up communications of non-Americans outside the United States, and it can also capture the domestic communications of any American in contact with the terror suspect, even if those contacts have nothing to do with terrorism. The resulting sweeps are likely to have included e-mails and other data from tens of thousands of Americans over the past decade, experts have said. Three years ago, Snowden revealed US government efforts to hack into the data pipelines used by US companies to serve customers overseas. The programs collected the telephone metadata records of millions of Americans and examined emails from overseas. Snowden fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia to avoid prosecution.

Trump fills key communications positions WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Sean Spicer, a veteran Washington political operative, will be the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as press secretary, serving in POLITICAL the new govNOTEBOOK ernment alongside other longtime communications and political strategists who pledged their loyalty to the real estate magnate during his campaign, the transition team announced Thursday. Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, and several other newly named White House advisers will serve as Trump’s behind-the-scenes connections to the establishment in Washington, waging daily battles with reporters and legislators while seeking to preserve the president’s political power base among voters outside of the capital city. Earlier Thursday, the transition team announced that Conway, who served as Trump’s final campaign manager, will serve in the White House as

counselor, just steps from the Oval Office. Spicer is a fierce advocate for Trump and can be combative Sean Spicer will with rebe the White porters. House press But he is also a fasecretary. miliar face in Washington, having served for years as the chief spokesman for the Republican National Committee. The announcements Thursday make it clear that the president-elect has turned his attention to the business of setting up a political and communications apparatus after weeks of focus on his Cabinet and national security team. Jason Miller, a Republican operative who became an early spokesman for Trump during the campaign, will become communications director at the

White House. Hope Hicks, who served as the campaign spokeswoman, will become director of strategic communications, and Dan Scavino will be director of social media.

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WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than Presidentelect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate. Certified results in all 50 states and the District of Columbia show Clinton winning nearly 65,844,610 million votes — 48 percent — to Trump’s 62,979,636 million votes — 46 percent — according to an analysis by the Associated Press. Clinton is the fifth presidential candidate in American history to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College. Democrat Al Gore, the only other presidential candidate this century to come up short

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump had a private exchange Wednesday night with billionaire industrialist David Koch, with whom he clashed during the 2016 presidential race and whose conservative policy objectives have often diverged from Trump’s agenda. The huddle at Trump’s Mara-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., was witnessed by several people. The impromptu meeting is the latest example of a longtime Trump adversary conferring with him at his winter retreat. Over the weekend, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim met with Trump for dinner at Mar-a-Lago after over a year of acrimony. WASHINGTON POST

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stop. That effort by Moscow and Washington, while allowed by current arms control treaties, has nonetheless caused fears of renewing a kind of Cold War-era arms race as the two nations seek technological dominance. The United States is also moving ahead with a modest system of missile defenses in Europe, a program that has angered the Kremlin, which rejects arguments that it is aimed solely at the threat from Iran.

‘The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.’ DONALD J. TRUMP, in tweet

ject debated in academic treatises and negotiated over years by diplomats. Aides to Trump, asked to clarify what the president-elect meant by the need to expand US nuclear ability, responded with a statement that did not address the point. Jason Miller, the incoming White House communications director, said in the statement that Trump was referring to “the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it — particularly to and among terrorist organizations and unstable and rogue regimes.” Miller added that the president-elect had in the past “emphasized the need to improve and modernize our deterrent capability as a vital way to pursue peace through strength.” It was the second time in two days that aides had tried to recast a statement from Trump. On Wednesday, he appeared to say that recent terror attacks in Europe had vindicated his campaign pledge to bar Muslims f r o m e n t e r i n g t h e Un i t e d States. Aides later said he was merely restating his promise to implement strict vetting and suspend the admission of people from countries associated with terrorism. With his Twitter post on nuclear arms, it remained unclear from his use of the word “expand” whether Trump would try to reverse agreements such as the New START treaty, which Russia and the United States signed in 2010 and which commits both nations to modest reductions in strategic nuclear forces. But the implications of Trump’s post — if it signals the beginning of a new era of US nuclear weapons expansion — could be profound. Derek Johnson, executive director of Global Zero, a group that seeks to eliminate nuclear weapons, accused Trump of calling for a “new nuclear arms race,” even as Putin appears eager for a major expansion of Russian nuclear abilities. “The use of even a single nuclear weapon, anywhere in the world, would be a global humanitarian, environmental, and economic disaster,” Johnson said in a statement. “A nuclear buildup in the US and Russia only makes that nightmare scenario more likely.” The United States and Russia are already racing to modernize their existing nuclear arsenals, replacing aging missile systems with smaller, more precise weapons that are harder to

But if Trump also intends to increase the number of US nuclear weapons, it could represent a significant break in strategic policy that dates to talks between the two nations that began under President Nixon. It could also drastically reverse President Obama’s approach. In one of his first major speeches in 2009, Obama told a cheering crowd in Prague that the United States would lead an effort to pursue rules and treaties that would result in a world without any nuclear weapons. Obama has had some limited success in pursuing that vision during his eight years in office. He convened a regular nuclear nonproliferation summit meeting aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear material with special concerns about terror groups gaining access to these materials. Contrary to Obama’s own conciliatory nuclear posture, and concrete steps in that direction, his administration has embarked on a sweeping modernization of the nuclear arsenal that may cost up to $1 trillion over three decades. It features new factories, refurbished nuclear arms, and a new generation of weapon carriers, including bombers, missiles, and submarines. T he bombers would carry a super-stealthy cruise missile meant to slip through enemy air defenses. During the presidential campaign, Trump said that he would not rule out the use of nuclear weapons even though he called their potential use “a horror.” In an interview with The New York Times in March, the president-elect suggested that Japan and South Korea might have to obtain their own nuclear weapons, which would be a reversal of a US policy that for decades extended promises of protection and foreclosed the need for them to go nuclear. John R. Harvey, who from 1995 to 2013 held senior positions overseeing nuclear weapons programs in the Energy and Defense departments, said Trump’s Twitter post on Thursday had several possible meanings, ranging from the routine to actions that could exceed current treaty limits. For example, Harvey said, Trump could have simply been voicing support for continuing the “nuclear modernization” program. But he might also have been suggesting that he wants to substantially increase the number of bombers, missiles, and submarines.

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COTT BACKER, an assistant dean at Vermont Academy, allegedly sent lewd text messages to a 16-year-old female student at the private collegeprep school in Saxtons River, Vt., in 2007. What came next? A lawsuit and settlement out of court between Backer and the student. But that didn’t keep Backer from securing a job at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut, armed with three letters of recommendation from Vermont Academy. And here’s the real kicker: In his new position at Wesleyan, Backer was in charge of adjudicating sexual misconduct hearings on campus. That is, until he was fired earlier this year -- hours after a Globe reporter inquired about Backer’s past. Incidents like these — in which private-school teachers who have been accused of sexually exploiting, assaulting, or harassing students easily move on to work at other schools — were reported in a Globe Spotlight investigation detailing how educator sexual misconduct is allowed to go unchecked. More than 100 private schools in New England faced accusations of teacher sexual misconduct in recent decades, with 300 students affected. The Spotlight team identified 31 educators who, since the 1970s, were hired by other schools, or were at other

jobs interacting with minors, after being accused of sexual misconduct in some of the most prestigious private schools in the region. In seven cases, educators went on to face new sexual misconduct accusations in their new jobs. It’s a common enough problem that it even has a name: “passing the trash.” And it has alarming echoes of the Catholic sex-abuse scandal, where priests facing accusations were moved from parish to parish.

It’s a common enough problem that it even has a name: ‘passing the trash.’ Private-school students especially are at risk because of a glaring gap in the Commonwealth’s sexual-abuse laws. Right now it is legal in Massachusetts for a teacher to have sex with a student, as long as the relationship is consensual and the teen is at least 16. Can a student really give consent to someone in authority like an educator or a counselor? Most would agree the answer is no.

There’s also a regulatory gap. Educators in private schools in Massachusetts are not required to be licensed by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. (An exception is made for teachers in state-approved private schools who serve special-education students.) It will take action by state lawmakers and schools alike to eradicate this problem. For starters, Massachusetts might look to Pennsylvania, one of few states that requires and issues private academic certificates. Lawmakers on Beacon Hill could require a registry for private-school teachers, and mandate that schools report allegations of sexual misconduct and adjudication of cases to the registry. Of course, that’s not the same as a state license, which gives someone permission to teach — and is required in public schools. But a registry would create a public record that could be checked. Changing the age of consent is simply not pragmatic, and it doesn’t solve the underlying dynamic of sexual misconduct by authority figures in a school setting. But a few sensible steps by the Legislature would ensure that private schools are protecting their students from harm.

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Inbox Time for Congress to rise to occasion AS THE Globe’s coverage and editorial page of late have aptly reflected, the focal point of modern American politics is the president, and in the current moment, this is only more so. The Founders were, of course, deeply skeptical of executive power, which conjured for many of them the dangerous fiat of kings. What better time than this one for Congress to reemerge as the driver of sensible leadership in America? Far-fetched? Maybe, but an institution that has earned a dramatically bad reputation has a chance for redemption. Can its members in both houses offer a combination of vigorous debate, responsible oversight, and timely compromise? Can new coalitions form, at least to preserve fundamental liberties and restrain a volatile chief executive? For Congress to rise to the occasion, it will require a pragmatic public. Neither extreme is going to prevail in legislation. Are the citizen armies of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and the fractured Republican Party going to be in the mood to fight or to help their champions make deals? Together, an effective legislative process with strong citizen engagement can provide a second chance to American democratic life. Perhaps the response of Congress and the public to the wake-up call of Donald Trump’s victory will be simply that we woke up. ANDREW TARSY Cambridge

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Let’s not forget that other government welfare program: the corporation WHEN HE writes of a “share-the wealth levy” on those who have prospered through “advances created with the help of government,” Robert Kuttner omits perhaps the most fundamental government gift of other people’s money: the corporation itself (“Are we stuck with inequality?” Opinion, Dec. 16). Corporations exist only because private citizens ask the government to relieve them of personal responsibility for financial obligations they would otherwise have to bear for some of the consequences of their business conduct. By creating an imaginary being — the corporation — that becomes the business owner, real owners are freed from their personal liability for business losses. Those costs don’t just go away; losses beyond the money put into the corporation are borne by the rest of us. This amounts to a government-mandated wealth transfer from some citizens to others or, in a word, welfare. To be fair, the corporation is a welfare program that has worked and continues to work for all of us. But asking those who have benefited the most to pay back some of that benefit is hardly the disincentive to wealth creation that the keep-government-off-our-backs crowd would have us believe. In addition, recognizing that we are all beneficiaries of the government’s activities will help move the political dialogue off moralistic, absolutist grounds and into the arena of our long-term well-being. ANDREJ THOMAS STARKIS Milford

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Trump’s coming collision with reality

E ARE about to see a collision between simplicity and complexity — and it will be a public-policy pile-up for the ages. Every incoming president has the problem of squaring optimistic campaign promises with fiscal and economic realities, of course, but Donald Trump faces an epic reckoning. Start with the Affordable Care Act, which Trump promised to replace with something “much better” and “much less expensive.” Here’s where basic health care reality intercedes: You can have one of the two, but you can’t have both. Beyond the vaguest of outlines, Trump himself can’t be said to have a health care scheme. But his Republican congressional allies do: Stealth Care. They plan to vote to repeal the ACA now, with an effective date several years down the road, and then use the interim to cobble together something they can call a replacement plan. Remember the GOP’s “repeal and replace” mantra? This is repeal and pretend. Problem #1: If Congress ends the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, that will wrench health care away from millions of low-income Americans. Problem #2: If lawmakers nix the subsidies, that will hurt millions of middle-class folks who buy coverage on the exchanges. If they eliminate the individual mandate but keep a guarantee of coverage for those with preexisting conditions, premiums will soar. Since it’s nearly Christmas, let’s next talk coal. In May, Trump visited West Virginia and promised a packed arena that he’d put the coal miners back to work. “Get ready, because you are going to be working your asses off,” he said, to a roar of approval. To that supposed end, he has pledged to scrap President Obama’s (court-frozen) Clean Power Plan, whose carbon pollution reduction mandates would discourage the use of coal to generate electricity. But though many in Appalachia blame their hard times on Obama, the real cause is cheaper natural gas from fracking. Just as King Canute couldn’t command the tides, Trump can’t control those market forces. Which means disappointment will soon loom in coal country. Now to climate change. By scrapping the Clean Power Plan, Team Trump will be wishing away the well-established effects of carbon dioxide emissions in warming the planet. At this point, however, the

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JEFF JACOBY writes that alarm bells started clanging when Donald Trump named David Friedman as his choice for ambassador to Israel (“Trump’s envoy to Israel will slay sacred cows,” Opinion, Dec. 21). When a future ambassador insults and denigrates liberal American Jews, there’s ample cause for alarm. If we envision stability in the Middle East, Friedman is a dangerous and divisive choice. PAULA JACOBS Framingham

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science is accepted by more than 190 countries. (It should tell Americans something instructive that the GOP is virtually the only major conservative party in the world to reject that science.) Indeed, even Vladimir Putin, Trump’s kindred spirit, has moved from climate skeptic to supporter of the Paris climate agreement. So if Trump really does pull the United States out of the Paris pact, as he has vowed to do, he will render the United States a climate pariah. Then there’s Trump’s illusory economic and fiscal policies. He maintains that by cracking down on unfair trade and renegotiating trade deals, he’ll bring back manufacturing jobs. He’s also pledged a huge tax cut, while saying he’ll insist on a balanced budget “relatively soon” and asserting that he’ll pay off $19 trillion in national debt over eight years. Those are claims straight from Cloud Cuckooland. Trump’s jobs promise ignores the fact that automation, not trade, is the big culprit in the loss of manufacturing jobs. His fiscal plans are based on hugely unrealistic assumptions about sparking growth and eliminating the trade deficit. To be sure, his economic policies, plus his infrastructure plan, probably will provide some backhanded Keynesian economic stimulation of the sort conservatives decry when liberals govern, and relabel supply-side policy when they themselves are in power. But those policies won’t eliminate the trade deficit. Or bring back manufacturing. Or balance the budget. Instead, an exploding budget deficit will create pressure for big new spending cuts. Lamentably, Trump got away with outlandish claims and far-fetched promises during the campaign. As president, he must be measured against the commitments he made — and held accountable for the truth and consequences of his policies.

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materialized. Now, the early praise of “Boston Winter” since its opening Dec. 7 offers bragging rights to Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s administration. “I know that thousands and thousands of people have gone by there. They love it,’’ Walsh said Tuesday during the Globe’s Political Happy Hour interview.

“They love the idea of bringing life to the plaza. I’ve heard nothing but compliments.” The white-draped holiday village opened five days after unseasonably warm weather delayed its planned debut. Two weeks since its grand opening, the village has attracted 5,000 weekday and 15,000 weekend visitors on average, said Tricia McCorkle, spokeswoman for Boston Garden Development

Corp. — a subsidiary of Delaware North Cos. — which won the three-year contract with the city for the plaza’s revival. To track the number of visitors, McCorkle said, a general manager conducts a manual count of people walking through the main entrance for 30 minutes every other hour. The visitors’ tally is conservative, she added, because on some weekends more than

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20,000 people come through the village. A Globe count showed nearly 900 people heading into the main entrance over 30 minutes on Wednesday evening. Given the busy holiday schedule, school vacation week, and holiday market trends next week, McCorkle said officials are projecting they will reach a target of 250,000 visitors by Ja n . 1 . “ We h a v e a s t e a d y stream of revelers,” she said. “We expect really high numbers down there.” Lena Romanova, founder of Millennial Exhibitions, which operates the holiday shopping market, added that her company is estimating 350,000 visitors by the end of December. “Obviously for the first year it is quite exceptional,’’ Romanova said. Thomas Hillgrove, president of Rink Management Services, which operates the nearly 11,000-square-foot loop, said he did not have a tally of the number of skaters and rentals. But he said he has been getting unofficial reports on skaters, and so far the Boston path’s performance is in the top “two to three” of the company’s system of nearly two dozen outdoor rinks. “I’m delighted at how well things are going,’’ said Hillgrove, whose company bills itself as the largest operator of skating facilities in the United States. The news is also good at The Grommet, the biggest chalet store in the holiday market. The Somerville-based company sells products and gifts from around the world, and an official there said sales are swell at the plaza site. Charles McEnerney, director of communications, said the company has sold over 3,000 units of about 30 different products. The top seller: PUDUS slipper socks. “It’s been successful for us so far,’’ McEnerney said. “This is something different, using City Hall [Plaza] in a pretty creative way. It’s laid out well.” Vendors, like Baxter Shea of Brothers Artisan Oil, said sales are robust. Shea, a co-owner, said sales for the Charlestownbased business have been soaring on the weekends. By the shop’s second week, Shea said, it broke even with the $4,000 monthly chalet rental. “As soon as we open the doors, it’s a sale every 10 minutes,” Shea, 26, of Brookline said. It’s unclear whether the number of visitors is materializing into high ticket sales. Neither Boston Garden Development Corp. nor Millennial Exhibitions produced sales figures. McCorkle said Boston Garden Development Corp. is under contract to provide an audit on sales to the city, but the company would not disclose any financial figures, including ticket sales, at this time. Boston officials said the village won’t cost the city any money. Delaware North will pay the city a cut of the sales, expected to be at least $50,000, in exchange for use of the plaza. Boston Winter is sponsored by Berkshire Bank. The city also receives a percentage of revenue from sponsorships. “Boston Winter Presented by Berkshire Bank” opens for 10 to 11 hours on various days, and it is free to enter — alt h o u g h t h e r e a r e t i c ke t e d events, including the skating loop and wine- and chocolatetasting chalets. The holiday shopping market is expected to stay open through the end of the month. The skating path and a few other food and beverage vendors will stay until the end of February. For now, patrons like Antonio Conde are coming to savor the moment. “We don’t have anything like this in our country,’’ said Conde, who was visiting Boston from Bogota. “The people, the lights, all the things are beautiful.” Lisa Wang, a 23-year-old city resident, waited in line for her skates, happy for the reprieve. “I think it’s great,’’ she said. “I’m from the area, and it’s been a while since we’ve had something this festive.” Globe correspondents Samantha Gross and Olivia Quintana contributed to this report. Meghan E. Irons can be reached at meghan.irons@ globe.com.

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It only took five days of his collegeaged daughter being home for the holidays before Dan Howard cracked. First, it was the heavy suitcase with the broken wheel that he had to lug through the airport when he picked up Shannon. It weighed “150 pounds,” Howard said, but he managed. Then, it was the friends his daughter had over to the house, who stayed up past 3 a.m. baking cookies and

cupcakes, and chit-chatting in the kitchen. He didn’t mind. No, really. Not at all. He enjoys the smell of baked goods in the middle of the night, and sleep is overrated. But what pushed Howard over the edge, and inspired him to create a humorous, now-viral two-minute Facebook video rant about his daughter’s escapades, was tripping over the 20year-old’s oversized luggage — two different times. “I said, ‘This is it,’ ” said Howard, who lives in Cape Elizabeth with his

family. “I grabbed my computer and ran upstairs.” When he got there, Howard stood against a wall and fired up the camera. What followed was a long-winded, tongue-in-cheek rehash of Shannon’s visit so far, titled, “day 5 of having my college kid home — Merry Christmas.” In the witty video, Howard bemoans, among other things, his daughter’s friends singing catchy tunes late into the evening, keeping FACEBOOK

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It’s not what they CAN’T do, but what they CAN Boston Higashi School festival gives autistic students a stage

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RANDOLPH — Four years ago on Christmas Eve, 18-year-old Jacob Glatter slipped and fell on black ice in his driveway and broke the femoral neck in his hip. The injury left Glatter, who has autism, in a wheelchair for years — not because he needed it but because he was terrified to be without it. On Thursday, however, Glatter’s wheelchair was nowhere to be found. A few months after enrolling at Boston Higashi School in Randolph, Glatter stood center stage for a solo vocal performance of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” as his classmates backed him up on drums. “You did awesome,” Glatter’s mother, Pamela, told him afterward. “I’m very proud of you.” The moment was as hard won as it was gratifying. Like many families with children enrolled at the school for autistic children and young adults, the Glatters have heard plenty about what Jacob couldn’t do. “I’m still in shock. I think until I watch it again I won’t believe it,” said Pamela Glatter, who lives in Syracuse, N.Y. “At his high school, they wouldn’t put him in a performance. They’d say he couldn’t do it.” Glatter’s performance was part of the school’s Winter Music Festival, an annual tradition in which 150 students from preschool to age 22 sing,

“The certainty is better than the uncertainty,’’ Philip Frattaroli said. Frattaroli was speaking on behalf of his Boston family after officials confirmed Thursday that a first c o u s i n , 3 1 - y e a r - o l d Fa b r i z i a DiLorenzo, was among the 12 people killed in the terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. Frattaroli said the loss of his cousin has devastated the family in the North End, where the Frattaroli family runs several restaurants, and in Italy, where DiLorenzo grew up and where her parents and siblings still live. “They are devastated,’’ he said of his Italian relatives, with whom the Boston branch remains close despite the physical distance from Italy. German authorities are looking for a Tunisian man identified as Anis Amri, who had sought refugee status but was denied it, according to the Associated Press. German authorities were seeking to deport him for six months before the attack, the AP reported. Frattaroli said the alleged involvement of someone once involved in the refugee process was deeply upsetting to the DiLorenzo’s VICTIM, Page B8

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FALMOUTH — A 17-year-old Falmouth High School hockey player was killed, and his teammate suffered life-threatening injuries, when the car he was driving Thursday night crashed into the woods off a road, officials said. Neither teen was identified by Falmouth police. The driver was from East Falmouth, police said in a statement. The second player was extricated from the car by rescue personnel and flown to a Rhode Island trauma hospital, the statement said.

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In the season of peace and good will, divergent holiday displays competed for attention Thursday. A Nativity scene was set up in the State House for several hours. Not to be outdone, members of the Boston-area secular community unfurled a banner on Boston Common that conveys “warm wishes from your friendly neighborhood atheists.’’ The push for the creche was led by state Representative James Lyons, an Andover Republican. “This is a symbol of Christmas, as most Christians are aware,” Lyons said. “The Nativity scene is something that signifies the wealth and joy and symbolizes the message of Jesus Christ, which is love and joy. That’s something we hope people get out of today.” Lyons said he first requested a Nativity scene at the end of November, but State House officials told him religious displays were not allowed. “So we reached out to the Thomas More Society to make sure we have a legal right to do this, and they said we did,” Lyons said. Lyons said attorneys from the society, a national public interest law firm dedicated to “restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty,’’ wrote a letter to state officials, who approved the display the next day. Sarah Wunsch, deputy legal director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said that the Nativity scene — and a menorah that is the lighted annually at the State House — could be ruled unconstitutional unless they are mixed in with non-religious symbols. “The ACLU supports freedom of religion, and that freedom is very closely tied to the other part of the First Amendment, which is keeping separate government and religion,” Wunsch said. “The government is not supposed to favor religion, it’s not supposed to endorse certain religious views, it’s not supposed to support religion over non-religion.” Wunsch said that even if the display is privately funded, like the Nativity scene, it is still a problem if it is located in a place that is not a traditional public forum for expression. On the Common, the Boston Atheists group displayed a holiday banner that reads, “Joy to the World! This holiday season, take care of yourself, of each other, and of the world.’’ The group said that while it does not approve of the Nativity scene, members do not believe Lyons should be “pilloried for a bad call.”

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Friday is the deadline to sign up and pay for 2017 health insurance purchased through the Massachusetts Health Connector. The Connector, a state agency serving people who don’t get health insurance through an employer, is ready to help with last-minute insurance shoppers until 6 p.m. Friday. The Connector must have the first month’s premium in hand by Friday to provide insurance for January. Electronic payments will be accepted until midnight, but setting up an account can take as long as four hours, so Connector officials encourage customers not to delay. Those who want to pay by check no longer have time to mail it; they are advised to handdeliver payment to one of the Connector’s six walk-in centers. Addresses can be found at www.mahealthconnector.org/about/contact. So far, it has been a busy season because 55,000 people, about one-fourth of the Connector’s 2016 membership, face premium increases greater than 15 percent. Most are following the Connector’s advice to shop around for better deals. “Lots and lots of people are calling and logging in, which is a good thing,” said Vicki Coates, chief operating officer. “We’ve been encouraging people to evaluate their options.” Coates said that, on average in December, customers waited 45 seconds for their call to be picked up at the Connector’s call center. Waits are a little longer this week because of the high volume of last-minute shoppers. Connector members who don’t take action will automatically be reenrolled in their current plan. But they, too, must pay the first month’s premium by Friday to be covered in January. People who miss the deadline can still buy Connector coverage if they pay in January, but coverage won’t be effective until Feb. 1. The call center (877-623-6765) is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. Walk-in centers in Boston and Worcester are open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. In Fall River, Springfield, Brockton, and Lowell, the walk-in centers are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Additional assistance can be found at www.mahealthconnector.org. As of Wednesday, among people who are current Connector members, 40,052 had picked a new plan and paid for it. An additional 10,605 picked a new plan but had not yet paid. Among new customers — people who were not enrolled in the Connector in 2016 — 27,018 enrolled and paid, and 12,941 selected a plan but have not yet paid. The Connector has been sending automated telephone reminders to everyone who selected a plan and failed to pay, Coates said.

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Mike Scully (top photo) of Grafton and his daughter Aria observe the Nativity scene at the State House; above, Zachary Bos, 35, of Malden, displays the banner on Boston Common.

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Federal officials say just over 35,000 people in New Hampshire signed up for coverage under President Obama’s health care law by Monday’s deadline. Nationally, the administration says 6.4 million people have enrolled for subsidized private coverage through HealthCare.gov. That’s about 400,000 more than had signed up during a comparable period last year. (AP)

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‘I feel we were able to do work in so many broad arenas, more than I ever imagined, in law enforcement as well as on outreach efforts, so I leave here feeling a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment and really grateful I had a chance to oversee some of the most important and high-profile cases.’ CARMEN ORTIZ Reflecting on her tenure as US attorney. She will step down next month after seven years as the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts.

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It’ll take $17 million and five years to bring Maine’s courts into the 21st century. Maine has selected Tyler Technologies to transform the state’s 200-year-old system of paper court filings and documents tucked in courthouse cabinets. Federal courts began offering electronic public access to documents in 2001. Since then, states have followed suit to cut costs, increase convenience, and improve access. (AP)

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New law eases travel between US and Canada Officials say a new law that will make it easier for people to travel between Canada and the United States will be good for Vermont and other states. Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, was at the Burlington International Airport Thursday, where he marked the arrival of the first direct Porter Airlines flight of the season from Toronto’s Billy Bishop City Airport, located near the downtown. The new Promoting Travel, Commerce, and National Security Act will make

The takeover of the headquarters of a Rhode Island tribe turned into a tense standoff Thursday as the tribe’s impeached leader pledged to regain the building by force if its occupiers didn’t leave peacefully. Narragansett Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas, who was impeached in October by tribal members who say he spends too much time in Florida, said the elected tribal council that took over the building Tuesday was not legitimate and will have to vacate it. ‘‘The law’s going to be followed and there are no exceptions,’’ Thomas said just before sundown Thursday. ‘‘If people occupied the State House up in Providence or the Capitol Building in D.C., how long do you think it would be tolerated?’’ Two competing factions, each calling themselves the Narragansett Tribal Council, claim to be the leaders of Rhode Island’s only federally recognized tribe. One faction took over the administration building in Charlestown Tuesday morning and changed its locks. (AP)

POLICE BLOTTER BRICK ATTACK A 24-year-old man in the Back Bay allegedly hurled bricks at a passing police cruiser Thursday morning in an apparently unprovoked attack, according to Boston police. The police officer whose cruiser was hit on Monsignor Reynolds Way was en route to a call. She said she heard a thump against her window, said police spokeswoman Officer Rachel McGuire. The officer initially thought her cruiser had been shot at. The officer turned around and the man, later identified as Jonathan Andujar, allegedly threw another brick, McGuire said. Another officer jumped out of his cruiser, grabbed Andujar and arrested him. The second officer received a minor injury during the arrest, McGuire said. Andujar was arraigned in Boston Municipal

Court on numerous charges, including assault and battery on a public employee. Bail was set at $2,000 and he was ordered to undergo an evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital. OFFICER ARRAIGNED A Cambridge police officer was arraigned Thursday in Somerville District Court in connection with a hit-and-run collision with a bicyclist in Cambridge earlier this year, according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office. Ryan Callinan, 29, of Wilmington, was charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of a personal injury. He was off-duty on Feb. 21 when he allegedly struck the cyclist before fleeing the scene. The cyclist survived. Callinan is on paid administrative

leave, a Cambridge spokesman said. BUS CRASH A 20-year-old Gloucester man was issued a bail warning Wednesday after he was accused of rear-ending a school bus on Essex Avenue, and police said they will file additional charges because they believe he was high on marijuana at the time of the crash. Caleb Andersen pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of driving with a suspended license and negligent operation, according to Gloucester police. A bail warning means he was released but can be held without bail if he breaks the law while his case is pending. He is expected to return to court Jan. 9, according to the district attorney’s office. No one was injured in Wednesday’s bus accident.

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Harvard student workers’ union vote ruled too close to call Labor board will examine ballots for resolution By Samantha J. Gross GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

Last month’s vote to unionize Harvard’s student workers was deemed too close to call when the ballots were counted Thursday, sending the election to National Labor Relations Board for resolution, according to a statement from the Har-

vard Graduate Student Union group. More than 3,000 research assistants and graduate students voted in the two-day November election, but after the Thursday count 314 ballots were challenged over voter eligibility, the Harvard Graduate Student Union said in the statement. The votes cast Nov. 16 and 17 totalled 1,272 in favor of unionization and 1,456 against, the Harvard Graduate Student Union said. But be-

cause the resulting margin of 184 was less than the 314 challenged votes, the National Labor Relations Board will continue to resolve them. “We anticipate that all legitimate votes will be counted and Harvard student workers will win the historic right to bargain with the university for benefits, workplace conditions, and pay,” local UAW director Julie Kushner said in the release. According to National Labor Relations Board procedures, a

hearing will begin in 21 days. Abhinav Reddy, a student organizer and master’s student a t t h e Ha r v a r d T. H . C h a n School of Public Health, said the group is proud of its effort and looks forward to seeing the final result. “While the initial count is disappointing, we are committed to establishing our collective voice here at Harvard,” Reddy said in the release. “We have come so far and will continue building the power of our union.”

Those in favor of unionization, who worked to rally support for more than year, are advocating for compensation, health care, and workload protections, the Harvard Graduate Student Union said. “They are advocating for improved benefits that will have a real effect on the lives of their peers,” the Harvard Graduate Student Union said. “Unionization would ensure an active voice in negotiating these conditions with Harvard’s administration.”

The Harvard election comes less than a month after a similar election at Columbia University where graduate students voted by a significant margin to unionize with the UAW, signifying what the Harvard Graduate Student Union says is “an ongoing national movement.” Samantha J. Gross can be reached at samantha.gross@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @samanthajgross.

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A Leominster man was ordered held on $1 million bail Thursday for allegedly stabbing a longtime acquaintance during a fight at the victim’s apar tment in a Nor th End complex for the elderly and disabled. Anthony Spinelli, 44, pleaded not guilty in Boston Municipal Court to charges of armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. According to court documents, Spinelli and a 50-yearold man were having a quiet conversation around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the man’s Fulton Street residence when they started to wrestle with each other. “Somehow they ended up rolling around the bedroom with Mr. Spinelli armed with a knife in hand,’’ according to a police report. The knife might have come from the man’s kitchen, police wrote. Assistant District Attorney Catherine Ham said the 50year-old was “considerably smaller” than Spinelli, who is 6 feet, 2 inches and weighs

The president of Tufts University said Thursday that he has appointed a special committee to assess the culture of undergraduate life, with a focus on the Greek system, amid discord over the school’s fraternities and sororities. The panel will also look at residential life, student organizations, and athletics, President Anthony Monaco said in a letter to the Tufts community. Earlier this month, the elite liberal-arts school suspended all social activity at its fraternities for the rest of the semester after receiving allegations of hazing and sexual misconduct. And former members of a sorority have called for the eradication of all Greek life at the college. “In light of the scope and seriousness of what has been reported, I believe we must comprehensively assess undergraduate student life at Tufts, with a particular focus on the Greek system,” Monaco wrote. “We need to retain the best parts of what our student organizations add to campus life while eliminating those practices and behaviors that are inconsistent with our values.” Kristin Reeves, former president of the Tufts chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi, said she’s “glad the administration is beginning to take steps to address some of the concerns that have been brought up the past few months about Greek life.” Her sorority’s membership splintered recently over a membership bid by a transgender student. The Student Life Review Committee will begin its review in January, and has been asked to “take a broadly consultative approach and to seek insights on the best practices of peer institutions.” Monaco tapped Dr. Susan H. Murphy, a 20-year veteran of student affairs leadership at Cornell University, to head the committee. Other members will include two Tufts trustees, faculty members, students, alumni, and representatives from the Medford and Somerville communities. “These are very important issues that universities throughout the country are facing,” Murphy said in an email to the Globe. “I’m looking forward to working with the committee to . . . develop a deep understanding of student life.” Monaco wrote that the goal of the committee is not only to find positive attributes of the community to build upon, but also to “significantly strengthen” the way students engage in extracurricular activities. “I will ask the committee to report to me on its findings and recommendations for how we can strengthen student life and enhance its contribution to our students’ well being, personal growth, and sense of connection to a vibrant Tufts community,” he wrote.

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Anthony Spinelli pleaded not guilty in Boston Municipal Court to charges including armed assault with intent to murder. 240 pounds. Someone else in the building heard the struggle and knocked on the man’s door. “Call the police,” he shouted, authorities said. Spinelli ran away, but authorities arrested him the next day in Revere as he hid in a backyard shed, officials said. The man told police he did not know how he was hurt but identified Spinelli as his assailant, authorities said. He sustained serious injuries to his neck, chest, and torso in the attack and underwent lengthy surgery, but is expected to survive.

Spinelli was also stabbed, authorities said. Spinelli’s lawyer, Justin Drechsler, criticized the vagueness of the man’s account and said it was not clear how the fight began or who instigated it. “He uses words like ‘somehow,’ and ‘I don’t remember how we wound up in the bedroom,’ and ‘I don’t remember how I ended up on the ground. I don’ t remember how the k n i f e c a m e i n t o p l a y,’ ” Drechsler said. Spinelli and the man have known each other for 15 years through the man’s cousin,

whom Spinelli once dated, officials said. She has since died. Spinelli has a significant criminal history, and the former high school football standout has said he traces his troubles to an 1988 incident in which he was molested by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky’s attorney has denied the allegation. In 2002, Spinelli was convicted of manslaughter in the killing of a Fitchburg man in what prosecutors described as a botched prostitution deal. Spinelli was sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison.

On Thursday, Judge Thomas C. Horgan stopped Drechsler short as he criticized the man’s account, saying “I’ve heard enough,” then granted prosecutors’ request for high bail. He also revoked his bail on a pending charge of driving under the influence of drugs. Spinelli is due to return to court Jan. 17. Material from the Associated Press was used in this article. Andy Rosen can be reached at andrew.rosen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @andyrosen.

Cambridge sticking to its message of bicycle safety By Steve Annear GLOBE STAFF

Drivers in Cambridge renewing their resident parking permits will now receive something extra for their cars: rectangular stickers to place on the driver’s side mirror that remind them to keep an eye out for oncoming cyclists. Joseph Barr, the city’s director of traffic, parking, and transportation, said in an email that Cambridge officials are supplying the red stickers, which read “watch for bikes,” to people when they update a permit for 2017. Residents have been receiving the safety reminders since early November on a rolling basis, he said. Barr said the city has handed out similar stickers in the past. But this is the first time

that officials have fully integrated them into the brochures annually mailed to constituents when they reapply, a process that can be done online, by mail, or in person at City Hall. “We hadn’t been actively distributing them like this for a while,” Barr said. The distribution effort was spurred by the June death of cyclist Amanda Phillips, who was killed after she made contact with an open Jeep door and was pushed into Inman Square traffic. “We were working on the resident permit brochure around the time that the Amanda Phillips fatality occ u r r e d ,” B a r r s a i d . “ S o i t seemed like a good opportunity to remind Cambridge drivers.” The stickers also come as

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Cambridge tests new protected bike lanes in two areas of the city. Earlier this month, lanes were constructed on the northbound side of Mass. Ave., between Sidney and Douglass streets; and between Waterhouse and Everett streets, near Harvard Law School.

A picture of one of the stickers was shared to the Cambridge Bikes Facebook page Thursday. Barr said the city has not decided whether it will hand out the stickers every year because people rarely change cars. But they have discussed identifying

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The Boston School Department has sent letters to the parents of several schools after recent upticks in illnesses, reassuring the communities that officials are working to contain the spread of “common winter illnesses,” including influenza and stomach viruses, officials said Thursday. “With winter upon us, we would like to ensure that we are all doing our part to ensure safe, healthy, and welcoming school environments for all,” Linda Grant, the medical director for Boston schools, wrote in a letter sent to parents of the affected schools. Schools spokesman Daniel O’Brien said that in December, the following schools have seen an increase in students or staff

experiencing symptoms of stomach illnesses: the Mendell, Haley, Harvard-Kent, Bates, Chittick, Guild, Hernandez, Roosevelt, TechBoston Acade-

The school department urged parents to keep sick children home from school. my, and Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter. All have been extensively cleaned, O’Brien said. Officials aren’t sure what illnesses were affecting the students — and in some cases, staff. O’Brien said he had no in-

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formation to suggest the illnesses were food-borne. Marjorie Nesin, spokeswoman for the Boston Public Health Commission, referred questions to the Boston Public Schools. The letter sent to parents lists several symptoms that should keep students and staff home, including fever, diarrhea, vomiting, or persistent coughing. “If an individual is experiencing any of the . . . symptoms, we ask parents to keep your child home, and for employees to stay home, for 24 hours after symptoms resolve,” the school department letter instructs. Dylan McGuinness can be reached at dylan.mcguinness @globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @DylMcGuinness.

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Capital Trump and the madman theory of negotiation warfare. But Trump doesn’t seem invested in this European dream. Indeed, his closest European relationships tend to involve euro-skeptic right-populists like Nigel Farage in Britain, Viktor Orban in Hungary, and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands. If more and more countries threaten to leave, Trump could well take sides with the departing, turning his back on Brussels as Europe unravels.

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Maybe President-elect Donald Trump is a madman. No, that’s not a crack about his mental stability. It’s a reference to a famous theory of presidential negotiation. Act mad and other countries won’t dare trifle with you. Richard Nixon’s aides tried this QUICK strategy when they sent nuclear STUDY bombers to the Soviet border and spread rumors that the president was volatile. But Trump may be an even better candidate for the madman approach, having made unpredictability a cornerstone of his candidacy. “We must as a nation be more unpredictable,” he said during an April address. “And we have to be unpredictable starting now.” Already, Trump’s penchant for unpredictability has begun shaking up the diplomatic world. He has angered China by reopening questions about the status of Taiwan, and he has offered high praise to several governments with lessthan-stellar records on democracy and human rights, including Pakistan, the Philippines, and Russia. And remember, Trump hasn’t taken office yet. Trying to foresee Trump’s foreign policy may be a kind of fool’s errand (if you could predict it, it wouldn’t be unpredictable). But here are some of the ways a madman strategy might disrupt the existing diplomatic balance.

Straight-talk with China Shaking up the US-China relationship was easy. Trump accomplished that by taking a call from the leader of Taiwan’s government and tipping the sacred cow that Taiwan is part of China. In response, a state-run Chinese newspaper called Trump “as ignorant as a child.” Here’s the wager Trump seems to be making: It’s better to start from scratch with China, calling every diplomatic norm into question. Existing agreements are just too constraining. If he’s wrong, though, the results could be calamitous. China and the United States have deep economic ties but also real geopolitical frictions. China has been aggressively expanding its influence over East Asia, even claiming new territory by building artificial islands in the South China Sea. And no country has more influence over nuclear-armed North Korea. Should China decide to match Trump’s tough line with its own, it could cause a lot of trouble, including through economic sanctions, provocative military escalation, its widening web of regional influence, or its hold on over $1 trillion of US national debt.

Friendly relations with Russia “If we can get along with Russia, that’s very good,” Trump said last March. And in the months

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President-elect Donald Trump has said the nation must be “more unpredictable.”

since, he has regularly praised Vladimir Putin and cast continuous doubt on the CIA conclusion that Russia tried to boost Trump’s presidential chances. What’s still unclear is whether there’s a broad geopolitical goal behind Trump’s turn toward Russia — much less a full reckoning with the risks. One area where the United States and Russia might conceivably cooperate is in Syria, where Russia has been helping President Bashar Assad regain territory. Now that Assad has taken Aleppo, he may turn his attention to ISIS in the east. And that could give Russia and the United States new reason to line up behind him. Elsewhere, though, Russian and US interests don’t align in the same way. Take the Baltic states in Eastern Europe, which are increasingly concerned about the possibility of Russian interference, even a possible incursion (as happened with Ukraine in 2014 and Georgia in 2008). Because these countries belong to NATO, an attack on any one of them would normally be considered an attack on all NATO members — to be met with a coordinated response. But when Trump was asked about this scenario last July, he played coy: “I don’t want to tell you what I’d do because I don’t want Putin to know what I’d do.” This may be part of his madman strategy — keeping all options on the table, from the most conventional to the unthinkably risky. But Russia poses a unique challenge, because Putin has pursued his own madman approach, using provocation to project strength and maintain his strongman image. In the worst case, this could turn the

US-Russia relationship into a game of chicken.

Re-escalation with Iran The United States and Iran don’t have good relations, but they do have a fresh nuclear agreement, under which Iran is dismantling its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump has promised to rip up this agreement. But is that a policy commitment or just the opening gambit in a new round of dealmaking with Iran? Assuming Trump is serious about abrogating the deal, he’ll face tremendous backlash. At least one key Senate Republican now favors it. European nations would be under no obligation to reinstall sanctions, and Iran itself might be emboldened to restart its nuclear activities. But if it is just a negotiating gambit, threatening to walk can indeed be a powerful ploy. Witness the recent deal between Colombia and the country’s FARC rebels. When voters rejected the first version of that agreement, it didn’t spark new conflict. It led to a tougher new deal.

Against the EU The European Union is foundering. British voters want out, anti-EU parties are everywhere on the rise, and the inflexibility of the euro currency is doing serious economic damage to countries from Portugal to Greece. Still, despite these problems, there persists the dream of a United States of Europe, the whole continent knit together as a single polyglot power, unified in defense of human rights, Western values, and the end of centuries of European

For a dealmaker like Trump, there may be no trophy greater than finding an Israeli-Palestinian peace. “A lot of people think that’s the hardest of all deals to negotiate,” he told The New York Times. “But I would say that I would have a better chance than anybody of making a deal.” During the campaign, Trump took a pretty stiff pro-Israel line, promising to move the US embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem and abrogating the longstanding US position that Israeli settlements are an impediment to peace. Perhaps he’s betting that this tough stance is the best way to inspire Palestinian partnership. But the clock is ticking. For several years, US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that the facts on the ground are making it impossible to create side-by-side states; Israeli settlers are just too widely dispersed through the West Bank. If Trump fails to achieve this deal-to-end-alldeals, he may preside over the death of the twostate solution.

The ultimate risk Playing a madman really can provide a negotiating advantage, keeping adversaries on their fearful toes. But it’s a risky strategy. When you act unpredictably, people around you never know what’s acceptable and what’s not. And that jeopardizes one of the most fundamental purposes of diplomacy: clear guidance. All the endless deliberation that comes with diplomatic communiques — including the careful calibration of every word — is designed to ensure that all parties understand the rules. With Trump, clarity is a secondary concern. He goes out of his way to avoid saying what he’ll do. That creates ample opportunity for accidents — in which other nations act in ways they believe Trump will support, only to discover that he won’t. In international relations, countries need to know how their acts will be interpreted by other world powers. Otherwise, they may stumble across some war-provoking red line without even knowing it. Evan Horowitz can be reached at evan.horowitz@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeHorowitz.

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Shout-out for the guy who saw it coming Ed Jesser, the crusty Boston political operative who, now at 74, is pretty much resting on his well-deserved laurels, just got a big shout-out on national television. His old friend Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball” program, singled out Jesser for correctly predicting — since the start of the year — that Donald Trump was going to win the presidency. Matthews and Jesser worked together in Jimmy Carter’s White House. In Matthews’s 3½-minute “Let Me Finish” segment last week, he quoted from a series of e-mails Jesser sent him throughout the election, outlining the reasons Trump would win — and why Hillary Clinton couldn’t close the deal. “He was writing me when the punditocracy was predicting a double-digit landslide [for Clinton],’’ said Matthews, who was among those pundits convinced Clinton would win. Matthews’s recognition of his old pal — who voted for Clinton — was touching. Jesser was a kid from the South Boston projects who made his way to Boston Latin and never lost his feel for his neighborhood roots. At the age of 8, he rode the city streets in a sound truck for Jack Kennedy’s last congressional reelection campaign. His long and close relationship with Mayor Tom Menino capped a career that spanned the presidential candidacies of George McGovern, Sargent Shriver, Jimmy Carter, and Paul Tsongas. His relationship with some of the state’s legendary political figures could be testy. When US Senator Ted Kennedy was feeling the heat from Mitt Romney in 1994, he turned to Menino for help. The mayor told him one of those he was putting to work for him was Jesser, whose role as press secretary in Carter’s hard primary battle with the Massachusetts senator had

rankled Kennedy. When Kennedy gulped at hearing the mayor sending Jesser to his new campaign team, Menino reminded him, “He beat you, didn’t he?” The next day Jesser was in the Kennedy headquarters. FRANK PHILLIPS

No tax return, no place on the ballot President-elect Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns has prompted a move on Beacon Hill to bar presidential candidates from having their names appear on the Massachusetts primary and general election ballots if they do not make their income tax documents public. Senator Mike Barrett, a Lexington Democrat, proposed the legislation in a recent letter to his Senate colleagues and House members. He noted there has been a longstanding but nonbinding tradition of candidates making their tax information public but that Trump’s candidacy ended that. “The 2016 election shattered this confidence,’’ he said. “I hope we can come together to rebuild it.” He even wants to close potential loopholes. Besides barring such candidates’ names from the ballot, his bill would also bar state electors from casting votes in the Electoral College for candidates who do not comply. He argued that if Massachusetts adopted his proposal, it would not likely be alone, noting such a move is already afoot in New York state. “Apologists for nontransparency will worry out loud that candidates may avoid competing in the state’s party primaries in order to duck disclosure and keep their financial entanglements hidden,’’ he said. “But I doubt Massachusetts will be the only state to come forward in defense of the tradition of transparency.” FRANK PHILLIPS

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Big day for (some) women It was clear this week that New Hampshire’s presidential electors were imagining quite a different outcome to the November election. When they met at the State House in Concord to formally cast the state’s four electoral votes, the event included several nods to pioneering women — glass-ceiling breakers who were eager for the presidency of failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. For starters, the state’s four electors were all women — a first. And each of them had been the first woman to do . . . something. Terie Norelli was the

first Democratic woman to be speaker of the New Hampshire House. Bev Hollingworth was the first Democratic woman to lead the state Senate. Carol Shea-Porter was the first woman sent to the US House from New Hampshire. Dudley Dudley was the first woman to serve on the state’s Executive Council. Before they voted — four ballots for Clinton — the electors decried the sexism they said permeated the presidential race. “We know all too well that sexism is alive and well; if we listened, we heard it during the campaign every day,” Norelli said, her voice a combina-

tion of sad and bitter. “[Clinton’s] voice was too loud, she was too ambitious, she was too emotional, she was not emotional enough.” The day also included a celebration of Dudley, whose new State House portrait was unveiled to applause. She’ll be one of the rare women with a portrait in the building, but not the only Dudley. Her ancestor, Joseph Dudley, was a royal governor in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His own portrait — including a long and extravagant wig — hangs in the Executive Council chamber. FELICE BELMAN

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play instruments, and dance in front of family, friends, and teachers. “I always have to go to the rehearsals because I am totally overwhelmed when I watch these kids,” said principal Deborah Donovan, whose son, Stephen, graduated from the school in 2012. “Pointing out the little successes along the way, that’s the joy of the job because for so long parents are told what your child can’t do, what your child will never do,” Donovan said. “That’s not here at Boston Higashi School.” The school was established in 1987 by the late Kiyo Kitahara, a Japanese educator who pioneered a method for teaching autistic children known as Daily Life Therapy, Donovan said. She describes the methodology as “teaching children what to do instead of what not to do.” The approach emphasizes exercise, promoting emotional stability, and stimulating students’ intellectual side. The technique is also used at Musashino Higashi Gakuen School in Tokyo, which Kitahara founded in 1964, according to the school’s website. The festival included performances from the school’s jazz band, a medley of songs from the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and a vocal rendition of “Simple Gifts” accompanied by a solo flute player. The show was presented on a stage in the school’s gymnasium, which was decorated with paper snowflakes, tinsel, and posters created by students. “The expectations we have for them are so high,” said John Kolwaite, who oversees the middle and high school divi-

sions. “My own children in the public school aren’t expected to play a musical instrument at the level these children are.” Some students were assisted on stage and in the audience by their teachers. Glatter, for example, sang his solo as master teacher Jen Tomase stood behind him, clutching his hands and singing along. “It blows my mind to see a teacher standing behind him that was just as nervous as he was,” Pamela Glatter said. Kaname Ueno, who directs the jazz band, guided Thomas Yamazaki, 22, through a trombone solo of “The Raiders March” from the movie, “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Ueno said the trombone has transformed Yamazaki, who h a s b e e n at t h e s c h o o l f o r about a decade. “ When he started trombone, his bad behavior dramatically decreased because his focus is just playing the trombone, music,” he said. “He just wants to play trombone.” His father, Masashi, who lives in Stamford, Conn., said he’s amazed by Yamazaki’s musical abilities given that he can’t read words. “That’s so special considering his intelligence level,” he said. “It’s really a wonder he can read [sheet music].” Another student, Helen Coppenrath, 13, of Quincy, made her debut with the jazz band and performed a flute solo. Her mother, Julie, said the t e e n a g e r h a s a l w ay s b e e n drawn to music. “I was thrilled. It’s happiness that brings tears to your eyes,” Julie Coppenrath said. “She never stops amazing me.”

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Elementary students held their tambourines high during their performance at the Boston Higashi School’s Winter Music Festival, where student Hope Knowlton (left) smiled as student Helen Coppenrath played during a jazz band performance. The school specializes in teaching children and youths with autism and prominently incorporates arts and music into its programs.

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Make a secure credit card donation online: www.globesanta.org. Send check or money order made payable to Globe Santa to The Boston Globe Foundation c/o Globe Santa Fund PO Box 491 Medford, MA 02155-0005 By phone 617-929-2007 This season, help Globe Santa bring books and toys to children in need. Because joy is a gift that every child deserves.

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families like mine are able to provide gifts of joy during the holiday season,” he said. These homes will be among those 20,000 where the sleigh will set down Saturday night, thanks to the generosity of the

tens of thousands of supporters of Globe Santa, a program of The Boston Globe Foundation. Christopher Tangney can be reached at ctangney22@hotmail.com.

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Richard Bryant Bedell, 89, of Bremen, passed away on December 8th at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. Born in Wilmington, MA on August 30, 1927, he was the son of the late LeRoy and Vilma Bedell. After receiving his high school diploma in Wilmington, Richard served in the U.S. Army during WWII. Coming home, he embarked on a career spanning forty years as an engineer with B&M Railroad and later with Amtrak. He raised six children in this time. In 1988 he retired to Bremen, Maine with his wife, Janice. Serving on the Bremen Cemetery Committee, he was also Vice President of the Bremen Historical Society. An avid reader and scholar of history, he loved boating along the Maine coast. He was predeceased by a son, Mark Bedell; sister, Vilma Merrill; brother, LeRoy Bennett Bedell; son-in-law, Dan Maloney; and brothers-in-law, Bertram O’Donnell and Arthur Spear. He is survived by his wife, Janice Bedell of Bremen; ﬁve children: Sharon Richardson, Scott Bedell, Jeffrey Bedell and his wife Franny, Stephanie Maloney, and Jonathan Bedell and his wife Joyce; daughter-in-law, Rose Bedell; siblings, Mathias Bedell, Shirley O’Donnell, Margery Spear and Iva Riley; brother-in-law, William Merrill; 10 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren. A graveside service will be held at the Wildwood Cemetery in Wilmington, MA in the spring. In lieu of ﬂowers, donations may be made to the Bremen Historical Society, Bremen, ME 04551 or to the Congregational Church of Wilmington, 220 Middlesex Avenue, Wilmington, MA 01887. Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME 04543. Condolences and messages for the family may be expressed by visiting: www.StrongHancock.com.

BECKER, Ruth Kennedy

Kennebunk, ME. 92 years, a resident of Huntington Common, Kennebunk, died Sunday, December 18, 2016 in Kennebunk, Maine, formerly of Medﬁeld, MA. Retired Minister from North Congregational Church, Middleboro, MA. Widow of Richard Henry Becker who died in 2011. Beloved mother of Stephen Charles Becker and his wife Jane of Wrentham, MA, and Douglas Howard Becker and his wife Anne of Lee’s Summit, MO; Beloved grandfather of Scott Becker of Portland, OR, Zachary Becker of Houston, TX, Noah Becker of Sanford, NC, Alicia B. Parker of Stoneham, MA, Richard Becker of Waltham, MA, Grace B. Lochhead of Norfolk, MA, Rosalind Becker of Brooklyn, NY, Matthew Becker of Dedham, MA, Stuart Becker of Dallas, TX, Sophie B. Williams of Kansas City, MO. Beloved great grandmother of William and Connor Lochhead and Amelia and Olivia Becker. Memorial Service:11AM Friday, December 30th, 2016 at the South Congregational Church, 1 North Street, Kennebunkport, ME. Burial at Vine Lake Cemetery, Medﬁeld, Mass in the spring. Should friends desire, memorial donations can be made to The Good Shepherd Food Bank, PO Box 1807, Auburn, ME 04211-1807. Arrangements are in care of Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk, ME. 04043 www.bibberfuneral.com

ADAMS, Miriam R. Age 70, of Newton, on Tuesday, December 20, 2016. Devoted and loving mother of Prudence and her husband Thomas Brady of Franklin. Cherished grandmother of Colin and Annabel Brady. Beloved daughter of Annabel and Herman Hurwitz. Services will be private. In lieu of ﬂowers, remembrances may be made to CJP, www.cjp.org or a charity of your choice.

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Age 89, of Cohasset, passed away peacefully on December 20, 2016 at home surrounded by loved ones. Mr. Bryant was the loving husband of Vernita W. (Williams) Bryant, the devoted father of Saadia R. Bryant of Brighton and Jeffrey C. Bryant of Weymouth and adoring grandfather of AJ Bryant also of Weymouth. Devoted son of the late Johnnie Bryant and Joseph Bryant of Dowagiac, MI and loving brother of the late Joseph Bryant Jr. He is also survived by his nieces and nephews; Jerome Bryant and his wife Canary of Vicksburg, MI, Yvonne Mourning of South Bend, IN., Yvette Bryant of Lansing, MI., Yonee Kuiphoff and her husband Doug of Grand Rapids, MI, Yolanda Searles of Kalamazoo, MI and their respective families. Mr. Bryant was a veteran of World War II, serving in the US Army Air Forces as a Tuskegee Airman. He earned his BS in Engineering in 1951 from University of Michigan, an MS in Engineering Management in 1976 from Northeastern University. He was awarded an Honorary PhD in Engineering from Northeastern University in 2013. Jack was the founder and President of Bryant Associates, Inc., a multidisciplinary professional services ﬁrm providing engineering, surveying and construction management services. Jack was a member of the New England Chapter of the Tuskegee Airman, the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Assoc. and the Academy of Fellows of Society of American Military Engineers. He was the former President of Downtown North Assoc. and The Boston Post of Society of Military Engineers. He was a former Board member of American Road & Transportation Builders Assoc., and of Middlesex Bank and Trust. In 2000, Mr. Bryant was awarded the Freeman Award from the Providence Engineering Society, in 2007 the Congressional Medal of Honor as a member of the Tuskegee Airman and in 2012, the President’s Award from the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council. In his spare time, he enjoyed listening to music, gardening, building model trains at the South Shore Model Railway Club and telling stories. Friends and Family will gather to honor Jack at visiting hours on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 from 4-8 pm in McNamara-Sparrell Funeral Home, 160 So. Main Street (across from St. Anthony Church), COHASSET. A Memorial Service will be celebrated on Thurday, Dec. 29, 2016 at 11 a.m. in the First Parish Church, 23 No. Main St., Cohasset Commons, MA. 02025. For an online guestbook, please visit www.mcnamara-sparrell.com. In lieu of ﬂowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in Jack’s memory to the Massachusetts Salvation Army, Attn: Development Dept., 25 Shawmut Road, Canton, MA 02021 or https://give.salvationarmyusa.org

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Longtime Norwood resident, passed away peacefully on December 22, 2016. Sandra’s passion was her family. Spending time with her grandchildren brought her tremendous joy. She also enjoyed time in Cape Cod and the coast of Maine. Sandra’s favorite place to be was on her front porch beside her husband. Beloved wife of Richard P. Callahan; loving mother of Christopher Callahan and his wife Elyse of N. Attleboro, Lynne Abbott and her husband David of Walpole, Patricia Upton and her husband Christopher of Norwood and the late Brian Paul Callahan; cherished grandmother of Landon, Benjamin, Jack, Evelyn, Renee, Ryan and Emma; devoted sister of Robert Nelson of Mansﬁeld, Richard Nelson of Hampden and David Nelson of New Hampshire; daughter of the late Robert and Betsy (Ayers) Nelson. Also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Visitation: will be held on Friday, December 23rd (today) from 4:008:00pm at the Gillooly Funeral Home, 126 Walpole Street (Rte. 1A), Norwood. Funeral service and Interment will be private.

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CHERNICK, Shirley (Markowitz) Of Canton, MA, formerly of Providence, RI, and Hull, MA, passed away after a period of declining health on December 22, 2016. Beloved wife of the late Melvin Chernick. Dear daughter of the late Daniel and Esther (Soskin) Markowitz. Loving mother of Michael Chernick, and Seth Chernick and his wife Randee Cassel. Dear grandmother of Matthew and Rebecca. Cherished sister of Ellen Rosalind Moss and her late husband Harold, and sister-in-law of Dr. Warren and Marsha Chernick. Shirley is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Services will be private. In lieu of ﬂowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Chernick Family Fund at Brown University, c/o Gift Cashier, P.O. Box 1877, Providence, RI 02912.

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CONTARDO, Richard M. Of Lynnﬁeld, Dec. 21, husband of the late Gloria (Barone), father of Lisa Rizzo, Richard Contardo, and David Contardo, grandfather of 5. Owner and operator of the Vogue Lounge in Saugus and Elm Garden Cafe in Everett. Funeral Mass on Weds., Dec. 28, 2016 at 9AM in Saint Richard Church, 90 Forest St., Danvers. Burial in Puritan Lawn, Peabody. Visiting hours are Tuesday from 4-8PM in C.R. Lyons & Sons Funeral Directors, 28 Elm St., DANVERS SQUARE. In lieu of ﬂowers donations in Mr. Contardo’s name may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 2451 Crystal Dr., Suite 900, Arlington, VA 22202. Visit www.LyonsFuneral.com for full obit.

HELSMOORTEL, Frances Grace (Doyle)

Of Watertown, December 20, 2016. Age 79. Devoted mother of Cathleen Marie Hickey & her husband David of RI, Ruth A. Wisialko & her husband Albert F. of Westwood, Martin L. & his wife Virginia of Watertown, Robert E. & his wife Taryn S. of Watertown, Michael J.K. & his wife Marta of Allston, and the late Catherine Mary Helsmoortel. Dear sister of James R. Doyle of GA, Kenneth E. Doyle of ME, and the late Jeanne A. Mercer & Janet L. Rountree. Loving grandmother of David & Ethan Hickey, Albert, Joseph, & Nicholas Wisialko, Kristen DiVecchia-Helsmoortel, & Michelle Joy Helsmoortel. Funeral from the MacDonald, Rockwell & MacDonald Funeral Home at 270 Main St., WATERTOWN, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 at 9 AM, followed by Funeral Service in the Mount Hope Christian Center, 51 Lexington St., Belmont, at 10 AM. Relatives and friends kindly invited. Visiting hours Tuesday from 4 -7 PM. Interment Ridgelawn Cemetery. For complete obituary & guestbook please visit www.macdonaldrockwell.com.

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HUTCHINSON, Mary A. (Cronin)

DAY, Joseph Joseph Paul Day III August 6, 1925- December 9, 2016 Joseph P. Day went to join his Lord on Friday, December 9, 2016. “Joe”, as he was known, was 91. He is survived by Three Sons, Joseph P. Day IV and his wife Ethel, Theodore P. Day and his wife Georgeen, and Andrew P. Day; One Daughter Victoria Mann & her husband Darrell Street; Four Grandchildren: Beth Diamond, Robert Day, Benjamin, and Carey Chapin. Five Great-Grandchildren Connor, Isabelle, Parker Day, and William & Kate Diamond. He was a veteran of the US Army. Services will be private. Arrangements were by the Stockbridge Funeral Home, Exeter.

DOHERTY, John J.

Of Arlington, formerly of Somerville and Templemoyle, Culdaff, County Donegal, Ireland, passed away on December 21st. Beloved husband of sixty years of Ann (Harkin) Doherty. Loving father of Patricia Doherty of Medford, Nancy Vogler and her husband Michael of Andover, John Doherty and his wife Susan of Melrose, and Mark Doherty and his wife Elizabeth of Braintree. Cherished grandfather of Patrick, Laura, Rebecca, Owen, Sydney, Sean, Aidan, Jack, Colin, and Connor. Treasured great-grandfather of Elliot. Eldest and dearly missed brother of Edward, Rose, Michael, Frances, Sheila, Eugene, and the late Kathleen of Ireland; Eileen, Patrick, and Mary of England; and William of Connecticut. John was a retired Somerville and MDC police ofﬁcer, as well as a US Army veteran. The Funeral Procession will be held from the George L. Doherty Funeral Home, 855 Broadway (Powder House Sq.) in SOMERVILLE on December 24th at 9:00am, followed by a Funeral Mass celebrated at St. Agnes Church in Arlington at 10:00am. Calling Hours will be held on December 23rd from 4:00pm-7:00 pm. Interment will be at Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford. In gratitude for the care given by the staff of the Veterans Administration Residential Living Center in Bedford, John’s family requests that memorial donations in honor of John and all our nation’s veterans be directed to: VA Medical Center Voluntary Service 200 Springs Road Bedford, MA 01730. On the check, please note “Care and Comfort 4C, in memory of John Doherty.” For more information please visit www.dohertyfuneralservice.com

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89, of Mashpee, died peacefully on December 18, 2016 at Cape Cod Hospital. Beloved wife of Charles B. Hutchinson Survived by her children, Mark C. Hutchinson and his wife Marie of Mashpee, Janet M. Mullally and her husband Michael O. Mullally of Carver, Susan M. Hutchinson of Mashpee and her grandson Michael C. Mullally and his wife Chrissy of Avon. Also survived by her sister Ann Dybko of Dorchester and sisters-in–law Pat Cronin and Dorothy Cronin, fourteen nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her nephew Neil. Visiting Hours: will be from 3 to 6 pm on Tuesday, December 27th at the John-Lawrence Funeral Home, 3778 Falmouth Rd., Marstons Mills. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 am on Thursday, at Christ the King Church, 3 Job’s Fishing Road, Mashpee. Burial will follow in the VA Cemetery in Bourne. Donations in Mary’s memory may be made to the American Heart Association. PO Box 3049, Syracuse, NY 13220-3049. For online guestbook and directions, please visit www.johnlawrencefuneralhome.com

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LUNDBLAD, Clifford H. Of Framingham, died Tues., Dec. 20, 2016 at MetroWest Medical Center, Framingham. He was 88 and the husband of the late Molly (Skoland). Survived by his daughters: Kristine Lundblad and her partner Art Illman of Framingham and Heidi Lundblad and her husband Bill Kearney of Lancaster; his grandchildren, Kelsey Corcoran and her husband Jared and Colin Diederich. Also survived by his sister, Ellen Crocker and her husband Stuart of Bethel, Maine. Arrangements are incomplete at this time. A complete announcement for a memorial visitation and celebration of his life will be published at a later date. For additional information, tributes and guest book please visit www.duckett-waterman.com.

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McCARTHY, Barbara A. (Lynch) Age 75. Of Mansfield, formerly of Walpole, Roslindale and Charlestown, on Tuesday, December 20, 2016. Wife of the late Joseph W. McCarthy, Jr. Mother of Christine E. McCarthy of Mansfield and Patricia J. Prior and her husband William of Mansfield. Sister of James J. Lynch, Jr. and his wife Kristen of Braintree and Ann M. French and her husband Joe of Norwood. Grandmother of Kevin Prior and Jennifer Prior. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Her funeral will begin on Tuesday, December 27th at 9:00 A.M. from the Sherman & Jackson Funeral Home, 55 North Main St., MANSFIELD, followed by a funeral Mass at 10:00 A.M. in St. Mary’s Church, 330 Pratt St. (Route 106), Mansfield. Burial will follow at St. Francis Cemetery in Walpole. Visiting hours will be held on Monday, December 26th from 5:008:00 P.M. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Compassionate Care ALS, 752 West Falmouth Highway, Falmouth, MA 02540. For complete obituary, please visit www.shermanjackson.com

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McLAUGHLIN, Edith T. (Hubbard)

Of Saugus, December 21st, age 87, died peacefully surrounded by her loving family at the Wingate Nursing Home in Reading. Wife of the late Francis J. McLaughlin, Sr. Loving mother of Kevin McLaughlin & his wife Susan Ryan, Susan Gleason & her husband Paul, Maureen Martin, Karen Riley & her husband Stephen, Kathleen Mancinelli & her husband Joseph. Beloved mother of the late Francis J. McLaughlin, Jr. Dear sister of Leslie Hubbard & his wife Joann, the late Pauline Johnson & the late Joan Gamber. Cherished grandmother of 7 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren & she was also the loving grandmother of the late Erin Soper. Retired branch manager of the former Saugus Bank & Trust in Saugus Center. Donations in her memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org. Relatives & friends are invited to attend visiting hours in the Bisbee-Porcella Funeral Home, 549 Lincoln Ave., SAUGUS on Monday from 2 – 6 p.m. Funeral from the funeral home on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m., followed by a funeral mass in Blessed Sacrament Church,14 Summer St., Saugus at 10:30 a.m. Interment Riverside Cemetery, Saugus. For directions & condolences, www.BisbeePorcella.com.

McMULLAN, Elizabeth C. “Betty” (Crocker)

NASH, John F.

STEFANELLI, Mary (Uttaro)

Of Winchester, December 18, 95 years of age. Beloved husband of the late Helen (Peary) Nash. Devoted father of Helen L. Corbett of Middleton, Carol Trottier of E. Kingston, NH, John F., Jr of Winchester, Joseph I. of Louisville, KY, Darryl Nash of Los Angeles, and Lisa Ford of Woburn. Loving brother of William Nash of Woburn and the late Joseph Nash, Mary Kenny and Alice Cummings. Brother-in-law of Robert Peary of Woburn. Will be remembered and missed by 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren and by many nieces and nephews. He is also survived by his 2nd wife, Ruth Gonzales Wright of Mashpee. Proud WWII Marine Veteran, 4th Division, 24th Regiment. Iwo Jima Purple Heart recipient. Retired Fireﬁghter after 32 years of service to the Winchester Fire Department. A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Mary’s Church, 158 Washington St., Winchester, on Tuesday, December 27 at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend calling hours at the Lane Funeral Home, 760 Main St., WINCHESTER, Monday, December 26 from 4-7 p.m. Interment in Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester. In lieu of ﬂowers, remembrances may be made in John’s memory to Winchester Fire Fighters Relief Fund, 32 Mt. Vernon St., Winchester, MA 01890

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PACELLA, Florence Ann (Marotto) 86, of Dedham and Pembroke Pines, FL, peacefully passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 surrounded by her family. She was the beloved wife of the late Ronald W. Pacella Sr. Visitation at the George F. Doherty & Sons WilsonCannon Funeral Home, 456 High St., DEDHAM, Tuesday, Dec. 27, from 9-10:45am followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Mary’s Church, Dedham at 11am. Complete notice to follow. gfdoherty.com.

Of Woburn, December 21st, at eightynine years of age. Beloved wife of Anthony Stefanelli of Woburn. Devoted mother of Karen Brown, her husband James of Woburn. Loving sister of the late Regina Pasciuto, her late husband Tony, Salvatore Uttaro, his late wife Anna, the late Cosmo Uttaro and the late Carl Uttaro. Dear sister-in-law of Mary Uttaro. Special “Gram” of Lauren Brown, her significant other Ryan Finn, Anthony Brown and Matthew Brown, all of Woburn. Also survived by many, many loving nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends will gather for a Funeral Mass which will be celebrated in St. Eulalia’s Church, 50 Ridge Street, Winchester, on Wednesday, December 28th at 11:30 a.m. Please, at the families request, in lieu of flowers remembrances may be made to the VNA of Middlesex East & Visiting Nurse Hospice, 607 North Avenue, Suite 17, Wakefield, MA 01880 or Boston Children’s Hospital Trust, 401 Park Drive, Suite 602, Boston, MA 02215. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home, 263 Main Street, WOBURN, MA 01801.

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PERITO, Shirley M. (Tibbetts)

Elizabeth “Betty” C. (Crocker) McMullan, Grand Dame of the “Norwell Pool”, passed away December 18, 2016 at her home in Norwell, MA. She is survived by her loving husband, Richard K. McMullan, to whom she was married for 60 years, her brothers, George (Glover) Crocker and wife Joan, and Davenport Crocker. Her daughters Julia M. Rush and partner John Lane, Helen M. Learn and husband Eugene, Katherine M. Turner and husband Peter. Her son Richard (Tigre) K. McMullan, Jr. and wife Olga Jakim. Her grandchildren Rebecca Minelga, husband Eric and son Oliver, Ian D. Rush, Jason A. and Gareth K. Henderson, Elizabeth K. and Adam W. Turner, Natalie Staron, husband Rick and son Roger, Nathan Learn, wife Angie and sons Jacob and Aiden, Devin Learn, wife Stephanie and daughter Olivia, and her loyal pup, Chris. She was famous for teaching swimming at the Swogjan Swim Club on the South Shore for the past 50 years. She taught everyone from babies to adults to the differently-abled, from racing to synchronized swimming. It was her life-long passion. Along with swimming she enjoyed the Girl Scouts of Norwell, canoeing and camping with the Wampanoag Paddlers. She loved her family, friends, traveling the world and collecting dragons. She was also a member of the Mayﬂower Society and the Vincent Club. As per her wish, there will be no services. Her remains will be cremated to become part of a coral reef. The family will be planning a memorial pool party in the future. In lieu of ﬂowers please make a gift in her name to the Friends of Virgin Islands National Park. For an online guestbook, please visit www.mcnamara-sparrell.com.

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Of Needham, died on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at Marlborough Hills Healthcare Center in Marlborough MA. She was 87. Born in Lowell, Shirley was the daughter of the late Phillip and Antoinette (Arpin) Tibbetts. The beloved wife of the late Guy F. Perito she was the loving mother of Guy and his late wife Lynne Rousseau of Marlborough, Karen and her husband Michael Bailey of Northborough and Richard and his wife Diane Perito of Malden. Sister of the late Dottie and Dick. Dear grandmother of Joseph, Michael and Daniel Perito. A Private Mass of Christian Burial and Interment will be held for her family. In lieu of ﬂowers donations in Shirley’s name may be made to Alzheimer’s Association, 480 Pleasant Street, Watertown, MA 02472. To share a memory of Shirley, please visit www.eatonfuneralhomes.com

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RIZZO, Filippa C. “Phyllis” (Adragna) Of East Boston, formerly of Medford, passed away peacefully on December 21st. Funeral Tuesday 12/27. Visitation Monday. Complete notice in Sunday’s edition. For more info www.ruggieromh.com

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SIRAGUSA, Gloria L. (Assanti) Of Brighton December 20, 2016. Beloved wife of the late Peter Siragusa. Visiting Hours Tuesday Dec. 27th from 4-8 pm at funeral home. Funeral Mass in St. Ignatius Church Wednesday Dec 28th at 10 am. Complete notice to follow. For more information please visit www.lehmanreen.com

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Of Norton died Dec. 19, 2016 in his home at the age of 70. Greg was born in Cambridge, son of the late Arthur and Janet (Wood) Sullivan. He graduated from Norwood High School, Class of 1964. Greg was selected by Boston Edison to attend Northeastern University on a co-op program and also participated in the Northeastern University ROTC program. Greg graduated with a Master’s in Electrical Power Engineering Systems. He served his country in the US Army Signal Core as a 1st Lieutenant. He traveled around the world ensuring various U.S. embassies and government buildings had primary and back up emergency electrical power service. These places included the American Embassy in Iran and the DMZ in South Korea. His medals and accommodations included National Defense Service Medal and Army Commendation Medal. Greg worked for Eversource (formely Nstar and Boston Edison) for over 43 years retiring in 2011. He and his wife Tricia traveled the world extensively. He was an avid photographer, astronomer, topographer and devoted grandfather. Beloved husband of Patricia A. (Goldie) Sullivan. Father of Sean C. Nielsen and his wife Charlene of Medford, NY. Brother of Michael Sullivan of Fairfax, VT. Loving Grandfather of Tracy and Kyle Nielsen. Visiting hours will be held in the Prophett-Chapman Cole & Gleason Funeral Home 98 Bedford Street BRIDGEWATER Monday December 26th from 4-7pm. A Funeral Home Service will be held Tuesday December 27th at 11:00am. Burial will follow in the Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne Tuesday at 12:30pm. For online guest book www.ccgfuneralhome.com

SUSMANN-GROGAN, Marsha Marie

A long-time resident of Wellesley, passed away on December 21, 2016 after a long and brave battle against cancer. She was the daughter of Winthrop and Phyllis Thompson, of Worcester. She was predeceased by her sister, Sue-Ellen Thompson-Pattiselano, mother to two of Marsha’s nieces. She leaves her husband, Robert Grogan, of Wellesley. She leaves her son, Austin Susmann, of Wellesley and his partner Kasia Ciesla, and daughter, Natalie Susmann and her husband Alexander Stanmyer, of Newton Centre. She leaves her mother-in-law, Virginia Grogan, brother and sister-in law, William and Michelle Grogan, and their children. She also leaves sister and brotherin-law Richard and Diane Porinno, and their children. She leaves many loved friends and colleagues. Marsha was raised in Worcester, and was a graduate of Doherty Memorial High School. She later moved to Wellesley, where she lived for over thirty years. She worked for Tenacre Country Day School and Camp, and later was the assistant manager for Wellesley Bank on Washington Street for many years. She also worked as a real estate agent at CRG Realty in Newton Centre. She received a Bachelors in Environmental Science and Horticulture from Nasson College (Maine). She was an extremely skilled gardener and farmer. She cared for two community garden plots, a ﬂock of chickens, beehives, and kept hundreds of house plants. She loved boxers, and owned four. Her last boxer, Haus, was her joy, and was a great comfort during her treatments. Visiting hours will be held at the George F. Doherty & Sons Funeral Home, 477 Washington St. (Rt.16) WELLESLEY on Friday December 23 from 2-5pm followed by a funeral service in the funeral home at 5pm. Relatives and friends kindly invited. Interment private. Marsha’s brave spirit was recognized by all who met her. In lieu of ﬂowers, the family has requested that donations be made in her name to the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research program, payable to Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Attention Hillary D. Repucci, 10 Brookline Place West, 6th Floor, Brookline MA 02455. For directions and guestbook, gfdoherty.com.

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THREADGOLD, Giles Ernest

VIEIRA, Lillian I. (Belliveau)

92, born in Auburndale, MA but for the last half century a resident of Falmouth, died in Georgia on Sunday, December 18, 2016. Giles wore a number of hats during his life but is probably best remembered locally for his tenure as a Howie Carr sidekick. Together with his big smile and colorful attire, he was a fixture at the Falmouth Road Race, where he held court, exhorting the faithful from his corner at Scranton Ave and Robbins Road for the past 20 years. During the years he established many wonderful friendships working in Falmouth at The Casino by the Sea. He was a veteran of WW2, fought at the Battle of The Bulge and came home with a couple of Purple Hearts. After playing on the BC 1949 National Championship hockey team, he graduated from Boston College and picked up an MA in social work from BU while working as a counselor at the Dennison House. He would later distinguish himself as a collegiate hockey, football and baseball official, working the plate at the College Baseball World Series in Omaha, the line of scrimmage at the Army-Navy football classic. He truly enjoyed the many people he met through the years while on occasion suffering the slings and arrows of fan abuse at more local, regional and national high school and college hockey games than even he could recount. He was obsessed with golf. After his five children and two grandchildren, he was probably proudest of his tenure as hockey coach at Charlestown High School in the 1960s, where his teams were a perennial City League presence in the state HS hockey tournament. Giles never stopped asking about his group of friends that he met every afternoon at Dunkin’ Donuts in Falmouth. He leaves his wife of 30 years, Sheila Threadgold, her three daughters, family and grandchildren. His previous marriage to Mary Dougherty produced five children of his own – Mary Anne Threadgold of Falmouth, Kevin up in Maine, Kathy and Rick Hulme Framingham, Kim Threadgold in Weston and Billy Threadgold, Casa Mesa, Ca. His grandchildren, Sawyer and Madison Hulme. All are invited to attend a burial service at 11:30 a.m., on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at the Massachusetts National Cemetery, Connery Ave, Bourne MA. For online guestbook, obituary and directions, visit www.ccgfuneralhome. com.

In Woburn, December 21st at eighty one years of age. Beloved wife of Armand D. Vieira of Woburn. Loving mother of Karen M. Meyer, her husband Ryall of Woburn and James A. Vieira, his wife Nancy of Andover. Dear sister of Henry Belliveau of Nevada, Jeanne Moreau of Tennessee, Theresa Fortine of New Bedford and the late Angeline Turner, Roger, Paul, Edward Jr., Alfred, George, and Reginald Belliveau, Bernadette Fortin, Alice Jalbert and Bertha Savoie. Special “grammie” to Christopher, Travis, Lauren (Vieira) Foss, Steven Vieira, and the late Jason Meyer. Cherished great-grandmother to Noelle Meyer. A Funeral will be held from the Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home, 263 Main Street, WOBURN, Tuesday, December 27th, at 9:00 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Barbara’s Church, 138 Cambridge Road, Woburn at 10. Interment in Mt. Auburn Cemetery Cambridge. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to calling hours Monday evening from 3-7 p.m. Remembrances may be made in Lillian’s memory to the American Diabetes Association, P.O Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312.

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VADALA, Analia M. “Ann” (Thome)

96, of Gloucester, MA, on December 19, 2016. Wife of the late Pasquale “Pat” Vadala. She is survived by her daughter, Karen Vadala-DeCharles and her husband Philip of Ashburnham, MA; her son, Peter Vadala and his wife Denise of Gloucester; her daughter-in-law, Judith and her husband Bob Rixom of Vero Beach, FL; eight grandchildren, ﬁfteen great-grandchildren and many beloved nieces, nephews, and godchildren; her close friend and sister-in-law, Ethel Vadala of Gloucester. Her funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, December 31st in Our Lady of Good Voyage Church, Gloucester, at 9:30 a.m. Visiting hours will be held on Friday evening, December 30th in the Greely Funeral Home, 212 Washington Street, GLOUCESTER, from 4 to 7 p.m. Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend. Interment will be held in the Calvary Cemetery, Gloucester. Donations in her memory may be made to Seacoast Nursing Home, 292 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 or to Our Lady of Good Voyage Church, 142 Prospect Street, Gloucester, MA 01930. Online condolences may be given at www.greelyfuneralhome.com

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WILLARD, Ellen A.

Of Humarock, passed away surrounded by family on December 17, 2016 at the age of 69. Ellen is the beloved mother of Jessica Lynch of Centerville and Luke McKinnon of Cambridge, she leaves her grandchildren Ella, Luke, Boston, Declan, and Shyah. Ellen is predeceased by her partner of 23 years, Lila Palatini and two brothers William and Donald Willard. Growing up in Cambridge, Ellen attended St. Mary’s and went on to study education at Boston College. She was employed by the Cambridge and the Norwell Public School Departments where she was a tireless advocate for the inclusion of children of special needs and a pioneer of what was called “mainstreaming” in the 1970s. Already an accomplished professional with a Master’s degree from Lesley University, she decided at the age of 50 to enter Harvard’s Graduate School of Education for a C.A.G.S. While there, she studied and implemented ways to develop school policies that included all students. Her favorite job as “Nana” began after she retired. While enjoying yoga, dear friends, traveling, mentoring school administration students, and serving as a CASA, her ﬁrst priority was always her family. Family encompassed everyone she loved and included her cousins, in-laws, nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews and the many young people who called her Nana. Donations in Ellen’s memory can be made to the American Civil Liberties Union by visiting their website ACLU. org or by mail to 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY, 10004-2400. A Memorial Service will be held on a date to be determined in the spring of 2017. For online guestbook and updates on the service, please visit our website macdonaldfuneralhome.com

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Esther Wilkins, 100; professor at Tufts By Catherine Saint Louis NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK — Dr. Esther M. Wilkins, who wrote an influential textbook for dental hygienists that is used worldwide, died Dec. 12 at her home in Hudson, N.H. She was 100. A niece, Betsy Tyrol, said the cause was a stroke that Dr. Wilkins had on the morning of her 100th birthday, three days earlier. Until Dr. Wilkins laid out a modern curriculum for dental hygienists in 1959, in the first edition of “Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist,” there was no uniformity in what was taught. “She set the standard for how everybody began to teach dental hygiene, and that was the tipping point,” said Ann Battrell, chief executive of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association. In the 1950s, most hygienists worked in schools, teaching children how to prevent tooth decay. By the end of the decade, some dentists had started hiring them to remove patients’ plaque and tartar. After graduating from Simmons College in Boston in 1938 with a degree in science, Dr. Wilkins earned a certificate at the nearby Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists the following year. Soon after that, she went to work for Dr. Frank Willis, a dentist in Manchester-by-theSea, Mass. At a time when few women were dentists, she was accepted into the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, class of 1948. But a dean suggested that she defer a year, so she would not be the only female student. She agreed to wait. Soon after she graduated, the University of Washington recruited her to start their dental hygiene program, a major undertaking that entailed writing a curriculum and teaching most of the classes while scrambling to hire faculty. Her lesson plans formed the basis of her seminal textbook, in which her ambition for hygienists was laid out: She urged them to think of themselves as prevention specialists who educated patients on how to avoid cavities and inflamed gums. “I don’t think people appreciated dental hygienists until she came along and made sure they did,” said Dr. Tim Hempton, a periodontist at Tufts who s h a r e d a n o f f i c e w i t h D r. Wilkins for a decade. In 1964, she returned to Tufts to study periodontology and reconnected with another former student, James B. Gallagher Jr., who was recently widowed. They married in

1966. She taught at Tufts for 45 years until becoming an emeritus professor in 2011. She also traveled the world, giving more than 600 lectures in dozens of countries. At the podium, she was formidable, scolding, and sometimes funny. Ja ne Weiner, one of the many hygienists she mentored, said Dr. Wilkins liked to joke that bacteria were like children. “They start out in the pocket with Mommy and Daddy. They go off to college or other parts of the mouth, and then they come home to roost.” At annual conferences for hygienists, Dr. Wilkins would be mobbed by fans who wanted a snapshot with her. “You’d see a line of people waiting to shake her hand and saying, ‘Please sign my book, E s t h e r ! ’ ” s a i d D r. Hu w F. Thomas, dean of the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. “If only they treated deans of dental schools like that.” In 2013, when Dr. Wilkins was 96 and in a wheelchair, four bodyguards were hired as her entourage. “ You should have seen that woman,” said Battrell, of the hygienists association. “She was frail, but she was beaming because she had four big, buff Boston cops surrounding her.” Esther Mae Wilkins, the younger of two sisters, was born on Dec. 9, 1916, in Chelmsford, Mass., and grew up in nearby Tyngsborough. H e r f a t h e r, E r n e s t , w a s a handyman; her mother, the former Edith Packard, was a secretary. The family sold vegetables to supplement their income, and at one time ran the local telephone switchboard in their house, with a teenage Esther routing calls. Her husband died more than 20 years ago. She leaves no immediate family members. Every four years or so, Dr. Wilkins delivered an updated edition of her hefty book. The 12th edition was published this year by Wolters Kluwer. For the last decade of her life, Dr. Wilkins was hard of hearing, so Jonathan Joyce, the latest editor of her textbook, would fly to Boston when he needed to speak to her. Meticulous to a fault, she was late handing in final revisions on her last edition. She had to correct even misplaced bullet points or commas. “We pay people to copy edit,” Joyce said he told her. “Your time is more valuable. Please, let it go.” Dr. Wilkins hugged him as he was leaving, Joyce said, and replied, “I know you’re frustrated with me, but this is all I have.”

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family because she was a compassionate person who envisioned a more peaceful world. Among her final posts on social media, he noted, was her endorsement of a German professor ’s argument that the most effective way to defeat Islamic terrorism is by accepting refugees from the Mideast who can then learn about Western society in a positive manner. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Monday night attack that also left dozens hurt. “It’s just terrible that evil and hatred has to be the reason she was killed,’’ Frattaroli said. “She had dedicated her life in so many ways to international issues and cooperation’’ among nations. He added, “what happened to her was the opposite of everything she believed in.’’ Frattaroli said DiLorenzo was confirmed as one of the 12 victims through a DNA profile that German authorities developed with the help of her relatives. He said the family is still reeling from her death and has not had a chance to map out funeral services yet. DiLorenzo, who had been living in Germany, was buying gifts as she prepared to return for Christmas to the city of Sul-

Fabrizia DiLorenzo was remembered as a person who envisioned a more peaceful world. mona, her home east of Rome. Her phone and other belongings were discovered at the scene in Berlin. Frattaroli — whose extended family owns eight area restaurants, including Artu and Lucia Ristorante — said he

knew DiLorenzo well from visits every other year to the anc e s t ra l h o m e i n S u l m o n a . DiLorenzo is the daughter of his father’s first cousin, Frattaroli said. “It’s just terrible,’’ he said. “She had a bright future taken

from her – and the rest of the world.’’ John R. Ellement can be reached at ellement@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @JREbosglobe.com

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The Purple Heart’s return and the thief’s apparent change of heart are a mystery. It was stolen in April, when Paul Curtis returned home to find his house had been ransacked. Computers and musical instruments were also taken. But it was the medal’s theft that upset him most. “I probably shouldn’t even tell you what my thoughts were,” he said by telephone Thursday night. His anger turned to shock when he left his house one morning several weeks ago and saw the Purple Heart lying on the ground. It was in good condition, except for a few minor scratches. “I said ‘Wow,’ and took it in the house,” Curtis recalled, sounding bemused. “I was like, ‘Holy mackerel! How did this get back here?’” He took the medal to the police station to have it dusted for finger prints. Officers were unable to find any. None of the other stolen items has surfaced. And the thief has not yet been caught. “I do not believe we have any suspects at all,” Police Chief Michael E. Botieri said in an e-

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Robert Curtis earned a Purple Heart at Battle of the Bulge. mail. “We were very happy that the Purple Heart was returned.” The Purple Heart is a point of deep pride for the Curtis family. His mother, Edna, served in the Navy stateside during the war. An older broth-

er served in Vietnam, Paul Curtis said. His father rarely discussed his wartime experiences, or his injuries. About 19,000 US soldiers died in the Battle of the Bulge, a hard-fought Allied vic-

tory that halted Germany’s last major counteroffensive. Curtis said his father was wounded by an explosive device. “I’m not sure if it was an artillery shell or what,” his son recalled. After returning home, Robert Curtis started a mason supply business. He and his wife raised nine children in Plymouth. On the rare occasion when he spoke of his service, he never glamorized his experience. “You’d be watching the war movies, and he said ‘War is miserable. War’s just a crummy thing, and lousy,’ ” Curtis said. “He remembers seeing bodies pile up in the middle of winter. They just piled the bodies up.” In this season of good will, Paul Curtis has his own message for the thief. “I would just say, you know, ‘Thank you for returning that, and God bless you,’” he said. “Have a Merry Christmas. And if you need help, I hope you get whatever help you need.” Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.

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Franca Sozzani, longtime editor of Vogue Italia By Colleen Barry ASSOCIATED PRESS

MILAN — Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani, who championed Italian fashion in the magazine she ran for 28 years, has died at the age of 66. Conde Naste International chairman Jonathan Newhouse said she died Thursday after a yearlong illness with her son Francesco by her side. The online version of Vogue Italia remembered Ms. Sozzani with a simple red heart next to her name. ‘‘Franca was one of the greatest editors who ever made a magazine,’’ Newhouse said in a note to the Conde Naste team.

‘‘She made Italian Vogue a powerful and influential voice in the worlds of fashion and photography by publishing groundbreaking photography and journalism.’’ After turns at Vogue Bambini, the Italian version of Glamour and a corresponding men’s magazine, Ms. Sozzani became editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia in 1988. She also was active in humanitarian causes, and in recent years served as the ambassador to fashion for the United Nations, traveling to support people working in the fashion world in Africa and Asia while helping to raise money and awareness to fight hunger.

him from getting any shuteye before work; milk going sour after being left out all night; and, of course, the luggage and clothes piled up around the house, strategically left exactly where people walk. Jumping over the piles, Howard says in the video, a grimace on his face, is “very good for the quads. Very good for the quads and the calves.” “We love to have her,” Howard says in the video, staring toward the ceiling with a look on his face that screams, “I’m lying.” “It’s really great to have her home from college,” he says. After Shannon, who is a junior at High Point University in North Carolina, and a few of

Howard’s Facebook friends shared the video with others, it seemed to immediately resonate with parents all over. As of Thursday night, just a few days

he thought would be a simple joke shared with friends and family. “I’ ve been getting these massive requests and shares.

‘We all love them to death. But five days in, we are like, ‘Jeepers creepers!’ But they’re all good kids.’ DAN HOWARD, Maine father whose video rant about his daughter being home from college has gone viral

after it first went live, the video had more than 1.4 million views and counting. Howard, who is originally from Medford, told the Globe in a telephone interview that he never expected he’d get so much attention for something

It’s crazy,” he said. “I think my biggest Facebook post ever was 19 likes.” This one has hit 13,000 and has shown no signs of slowing down. The father of three — he has another daughter, and a son in

high school — said although he cracks jokes at his daughter’s expense in the video, it’s all in good fun. “We all love them to death,” he said of being a parent. “But five days in, we are like, ‘Jeepers creepers!’ But they’re all good kids.” Shannon is home until Jan. 15, then she’s off to do a semester abroad. He loves her — no question about it. But already, Howard is checking off the days on his calendar until winter break is done. “We have the countdown going — and it’s not for Santa,” he said. Steve Annear can be reached at steve.annear@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @steveannear.

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coach Derek Almeida said in a brief telephone interview. School Superintendent Nancy Taylor said officials are working on a plan to assist the Falmouth High community. “It was horrific and we’ve done a lot to support our students and our families,” Taylor said.

The crash occurred at about 6:42 p.m. on Thomas Landers Road, between Geggatt Road and Turner Road. State and local emergency vehicles responded to a report of a one-car crash on the roadway, police said. “Once on scene, emergency personnel found a car in the woods with two occupants trapped inside,” police said in

a statement. Aside from the presence of the emergency vehicles, all that was visible was a driveway of a private home on Thomas Landers Road, set off from the street. The whir of passing cars on nearby Turner Road occasionally interrupted the quiet in the remote area as investigators continued working the

scene. The cause of the crash remains under investigation by Falmouth and State Police. Police reopened Thomas Landers Road at around 11:10 p.m. Andersen can be reached at Travis.Andersen@globe.com. Gross can be reached atsamantha.gross@ globe.com.

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HOROSCOPE BY JACQUELINE BIGAR One-on-one relating elicits strong results. Your words will awaken a key person in your life. You probably will see a strong reaction and might have to do a lot of explaining. Hopefully others will listen. Refuse to sit on any anger. Tonight: Be with a favorite person. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Defer to a loved one. Be as clear as possible when dealing with a demanding friend. You might discover that you know a lot of people at a last-minute party. Your upbeat attitude marks the beginning of your celebration. Tonight: Listen to others share their holiday shopping stories. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Mellow out, and know that you can do only so much. Be con-

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, Dec. 23, 2016: This year you interact well with friends, in groups, at work or in the community. You seem to bask in the attention of many people. You no longer hesitate to initiate brainstorming sessions and just be yourself. If you are single, you might note that you start attracting a different type of person. Be open, but make no commitments for a while. If you are attached, the two of you often go out together with friends and have a great time. Make sure you sprinkle in some romantic dinners and weekends away. SCORPIO offers an intense friendship.

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Mount Washington (7 p.m. yesterday) Weather Dense fog Visibility 0 miles Wind northwest at 39 m.p.h. High/low temperature 16/10 Snow depth at 7 p.m. 15.0”

ANSWER: Much depends on partner’s style. If he avoids opening lightish hands and always has four-card support to raise your major-suit response, you can bid four spades. Otherwise, you may do well to settle for an invitational sequence. Bid 2NT. Partner will have options, and you may reach your best contract.

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I think most would agree (except maybe the retailers) that Christmas is too commercial. Cy the Cynic says it’s become like a baby shower gone totally overboard. Today’s North-South displayed some of the same selfindulgence by overbidding their cards. South opened 2NT, supposedly showing 20 or 21 points. North drove to slam when he might have invited. South won the first heart in his hand, led a club to dummy’s queen and returned a club: four, 10, ace. He won the next heart and cashed four spades and his ace of diamonds. At Trick 10, he took the king of clubs, pitching dummy’s last heart. East, with room for three cards, was squeezed. Whether he threw his last heart or a diamond, South would get a 12th trick. It’s too bad that South’s overbidding wasn’t punished. If West ducks the second round of clubs, he stops South from “rectifying the count” for the “simple” squeeze, but South can still succeed by squeezing East “without the count.”

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cerned about how a loved one feels. An older friend or relative is likely to let you know how much you are appreciated. Listen to others, and give up your Chatty Cathy act for now. Tonight: Make a last-minute push. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your creativity and dynamic energy merge, allowing you to come up with a solution even in the worst of circumstances. Remain sensitive, first to your immediate priorities and then to your inner circle. You'll touch base with quite a few people. Tonight: Find the mistletoe. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Stay anchored. You seem to be able to tap into others' energy quickly and effectively. A loved one could be difficult at first, but eventually he or she will relax. Somehow you will experience fewer problems today than you thought possible. Tonight:

Stay close to home. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You seem unusually demonstrative right now. Others are clearly thrilled to see you. Catch up on several different people's news. You could be surprised by what you hear. A child or loved one happily catches your attention. Tonight: Be open to a new or different tradition. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Follow through on a last-minute decision, and you will be delighted with the outcome. You have too much energy for your own good. Make a point of getting to the gym today, or take a long walk at some point. Tonight: Play the role of Santa, and deliver a package or two. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Your energy draws many people toward you. You are unusually magnetic, as you clearly can see. Your sense of humor touches

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others in many different ways. Allow your ingenuity to come up with a solution should a problem appear. Your idea will work. Tonight: Be yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Take your time getting going. Many of you can step back and have some personal time. A roommate or loved one could be moving quickly in an attempt to complete what he or she must. Let this person to do what he or she feels is necessary. Meanwhile, kick back. Tonight: At home. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You could have some last-minute errands to run. A group of pals might opt to get together at the end of the day. Go with the flow. Don't be concerned about not having enough gifts. Everything will balance out. Tonight: Some of you will combine TGIF with a holiday bash.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Pressure builds, especially if you work. As you look around, you will notice that quite a few people took today off. The issue is that you likely will have to pick up the slack. Accept an invitation that comes forward at the end of the day. Tonight: Eggnog, friends and mistletoe. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Your mind could be drifting to some people you have not visited in a while. Get going with your holiday calls. The sooner you place them, the more likely it is that you will be able to avoid a voicemail buildup. Tonight: Join friends at a holiday concert, or go caroling. Jacqueline Bigar is on the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com. (c) 2016 by King Features Syndicate Inc.=

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is Friday, Dec. 23, the 358th day of 2016. Eight days are left in the year. Birthdays: Emperor Akihito of Japan is 83. Football Hall of Famer Paul Hornung is 81. Actor Frederic Forrest is 80. Comedian Harry Shearer is 73. Retired General Wesley K. Clark is 72. Actress Susan Lucci is 70. Guitarist Adrian Belew is 67. Rock singer Eddie Vedder is 52. The former first lady of France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is 49.

ºIn 1823, the poem ‘‘Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas’’ was published in the Troy (New York) Sentinel; it became known as ‘‘’Twas the Night Before Christmas.’’ ºIn 1913, the Federal Reserve System was created as President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act. ºIn 1928, National Broadcasting Company set up a nationwide network. ºIn 1948, former Japanese premier www.ebook3000.com

Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. ºIn 1954, the first successful human kidney transplant took place at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team led by Joseph Murray removed a kidney from Ronald Herrick and implanted it in his twin, Richard. ºIn 1968, 82 crew members of the US intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they

had been captured. ºIn 2006, the UN Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. ºLast year, it was revealed that an investigation by St. George’s School, a private school in Rhode Island, had found 23 students were sexually abused by three school employees in the 1970s and ’80s.

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Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein with Emily Sweeney We saw ‘Patriots Day.’ We have questions.

Writers protest

Because they lived through the events of April 15, 2013, and the days that followed, Bostonians are bound to scrutinize “Patriots Day” more closely than moviegoers elsewhere. And thanks to social media — Twitter and Facebook, in particular — everyone’s got a platform to post an opinion, no matter how uninformed it might be. What does director Peter Berg get right in telling the story of the Boston Marathon bombings and what doesn’t he? We’ll let viewers decide, but here are a few questions we had after watching the film:

Some constituencies, like coal miners and millionaires, are excited by the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. Others, including writers, not so much. And because they’re so concerned, legions of literary of types are getting together Jan. 15 — five days before Trump takes the oath of office — to read historic and contemporary writings on the ideals of democracy and free speech. Dubbed “Writers Resist,” the gatherings in Boston, New York, and across the nation will feature former US Poets Laureate Robert Pinsky and Rita Dove, Cheryl Strayed, parttime Provincetown resident Michael Cunningham, Jacqueline Woodson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jason Reynolds, Alexander Chee, Colum McCann, Francine Prose, and Mary Karr, among others. Pinsky, a professor at BU, will be at the event in Manhattan — rain, shine or, more likely, freezing cold, it’s taking place on the steps of the New York Public Library — where he plans to read a new poem of his own and a sonnet, “First fight. Then fiddle,” written by Gwendolyn Brooks. “There’s going to be a lot of getting to work after Trump takes office,” Pinsky told us. “There’s a lot of cultural power in music, film, and theater in the states that voted overwhelmingly against him. So here we go.” In Boston, the literary protest will take place in Rabb Hall at the Boston Public Library and will include writers, artists, activists, and civic leaders. “New England was home to Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Howard Zinn,” said Karen Wulf, director of PEN New England, one of the event’s sponsors. “We have a legacy of American ideas and values to respect and preserve, and that’s worth fighting for.” Poet Erin Belieu, who used to teach at BU, founded the Writers Resist movement. She said she was disturbed by the “disdain for truthfulness” displayed during the presidential election and wanted to do something. “Writers are acutely aware when the uses of language are empty,” she said. “Whether you live in a red or blue state, or another country that cares deeply about the American experiment, there’s no more important battle than our right to truth.”

HIM AGAIN? There are several real-life people whose stories are part of “Patriots Day,” but the star, played by Mark Wahlberg, is an invented character, a composite of police officers who were at the finish line when the two bombs went off and later aided in the manhunt. Why was it necessary to create a fictional character in a movie that professes to be a truthful account of the bombings? Wahlberg’s Sergeant Tommy Saunders — a cop name if there ever was one — is the Zelig of “Patriots Day.” The guy shows up everywhere and at the pivotal moment: He’s at the finish line; he’s at the gas station on Memorial Drive with Dun Meng; he’s at the shootout in Watertown; he’s got his gun aimed at the boat in David Henneberry’s backyard; he shakes hands with Red Sox slugger David Ortiz at Fenway Park. We’re not sure how many cops Wahlberg’s character is supposed to be, but it’s a lot. TOO EXPLOSIVE? The firefight between police and the Tsarnaevs that took place in Watertown four days after the bombings was fierce — a chaotic, night-time gun battle during which MBTA officer Richard Donohue was wounded. But in “Patriots Day,” the scene also includes a series of thunderous explosions — with Hollywood-style pyrotechnics — that send police cruisers flying into the air, shatter windows in nearby homes, and light up the sky. I don’t recall reading about a half-dozen pipe bombs being thrown. At the recent red-carpet premiere of “Patriots Day,” we asked Watertown police Ser-

geant Jeff Pugliese if that’s the way it went down that night. “I think it’s pretty accurate,” he said. “From the first officers on scene pulling up and getting shot at and then my arrival, Pete [Berg] made sure he got this right.” DID SHE KNOW? “Patriots Day” leaves the clear impression that Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife, North Kingston, R.I., native Katherine Russell (left), knew about the bombings in advance, or should have, and then protected her husband when she was questioned afterward by a female FBI agent wearing a hijab. In the interrogation scene, which is worthy of an episode of “CSI,” Russell is asked if there are any more bombs. She refuses to answer. Pressed, Russell says, “I want a lawyer. . . . I have rights.” The FBI agent shakes her head and mutters: “You ain’t got [expletive], sweetheart.” We’re not sure if any of that was said in real life, but at a screening we attended in Los Angeles, the audience roared their approval, cheering loudly when Russell was dissed. It’s fair to wonder, if the depiction of Russell is accurate, why she was never charged. Local folks may find plenty to quibble with in “Patriots Day” and that’s OK. Like every Hollywood film set in Boston, this one features a few characters with questionable accents. Actor John Goodman (left), for example, who plays former police commissioner Ed Davis, speaks in a drawl you might hear in New Orleans, but probably not on Newbury Street. And there’s an unintentionally funny scene in which Wahlberg’s character seems to be the only person who knows what businesses are near the finish line. He becomes the Boylston Street Whisperer, closing his eyes and conjuring the locations of Abe & Louie’s, Crate and Barrel, and the Back Bay Social Club. But none of that is the point of “Patriots Day.” Berg has made a well-intentioned, if not 100 percent factual film that honors the victims, celebrates survivors, and reminds all of us what an incredibly sad and scary time that was.

Film has strong start in limited release The early returns are in and “Patriots Day” did respectably at the box office on its first day in theaters. Deadline.com reports that director Peter Berg’s movie about the Boston Marathon bombings did boffo business in Boston and decently in New York and LA, earning a per-theater average of $9,235, which was the best of the day. In total, “Patriots Day” earned $64,000 in six theaters in the three cities. Reviews of the film starring Mark Wahlberg have been mostly good, but moviegoers have a lot to choose from, including “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and the just-released “Sing,” “Assassin’s Creed,” and “Passengers.” “Patriots Day,” which cost $45 million to make, opens everywhere Jan. 13.

Donnie Wahlberg with Christina Nalband (center) and Maureen Fitzgerald of Cupcake Mojo at Wahlburgers.

Frosting and icing sweeten season Maureen Fitzgerald and Christina Nalband, the mother-daughter duo who run Cupcake Mojo, have been busy lately. Their Weymouth bakery makes desserts for Wahlburgers restaurants, and this is the second-busiest time of year for them (the only time that’s busier is Valentine’s Day). They’ve been hard at work baking seasonal cupcakes that are decorated with holiday ornaments and snowflakes. . . . On Thursday morning Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang, FOX25 News anchor

Kerry Kavanaugh, and Salesforce CEO Keith Block visited the Rafael Hernandez School in Roxbury and read aloud to students. . . . Rob Gronkowski was spotted at Tuscan Kitchen in Salem, N.H., on Wednesday night. The New England Patriots tight end, who is recovering from back surgery, reportedly dined in a private room with older brother Gordie, WWE wrestler Mojo Rawley, and some other friends. The everfriendly Gronk also graciously signed autographs and posed for photos with Tuscan Kitchen owner Joe Faro.

New Edition film preview set An exclusive sneak preview of “The New Edition story” will screen in Boston Jan. 7, and Bobby Brown and Bell Biv DeVoe will be there. Lucky fans who win tickets to the event will have an opportunity to see the biopic that was co-produced by all six of the members of New Edition — Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, and Brown — and the group’s longtime manager and original choreographer, Brooke Payne. It will air on BET as a six-hour, threenight miniseries Jan. 24-26. In addition to the Boston screening, BET Networks announced that previews will be held in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York The Boston screening will take place at the AMC Boston Common 19, and will be followed by a Q&A session with members of the group and the cast of “The New Edition Story.” Bell, Bivins, Devoe, and

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From left: Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, and Ricky Bell in New York in September.

Brown are all expected to attend, along with cast members Algee Smith (who portrays Tresvant) and Luke James (who plays Gill). Fans can win tickets to the exclusive screening by listening to DJ Ramiro on HOT 96.9 (WBQT-FM) on Dec. 26, 27, 28, and 29. The 10th caller during the winning hours (7:50 a.m., 11 a.m., and 4 p.m.) will snag a pair of tickets. For more information, visit www.hot969boston.com/contests.

Ellen Pompeo blasts A&E on Twitter for ‘Generation KKK’

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Ellen Pompeo and her husband, Chris Ivery.

An irate Ellen Pompeo took to Twitter Wednesday to blast A&E for its new show, “Generation KKK.” The “Grey’s Anatomy” star suggested to her 1.23 million followers that they boycott the cable channel for “giving ignorance a platform.” The controversial eight-part documentary series, a look inside the Ku Klux Klan, begins airing Jan. 10. “Shame on you @AETV,” Pompeo tweeted. The series must walk a fine line, Rob Sharenow, general manager of A&E, told The New York Times Dec. 18. Producers needed access to mem-

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bers of the hate group but did not want to normalize their divisive and dangerous beliefs, he noted. The KKK is a white supremacist organization that openly embraces racism, antiSemitism, and other extremist views. “We certainly didn’t want the show to be seen as a platform for the views of the KKK,” Sharenow said. A&E quickly tweeted back to Pompeo that the show is about “extracting families from the KKK and exposing hate.” The tweet also pointed out that the Anti-Defamation League, a civil-rights organization focused on combating anti-Semitism, worked

with A&E on the series. Pompeo, an Everett native, responded with a plea that the series be introduced that way: “OK if that is what it is PLEASE promote it as such . . . PLEASE.” The timing of the series mirrors the increasing numbers of KKK chapters around the country. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were 190 active KKK groups in the US in 2015, up from 72 in 2014. Meanwhile, the number of hate groups overall has nearly doubled since 1999, from 457 to 892 in 2015.

A Trump flight flap A New York man says he and his husband were removed from a JetBlue flight after his husband ‘‘expressed displeasure’’ about flying with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Matthew Lasner said on Twitter that JetBlue staff kicked him and his husband off the flight from New York’s Kennedy airport to Florida on Thursday after overhearing his husband’s remarks. Lasner tweeted earlier that his husband was chasing the couple down in the terminal ‘‘to harass them.’’ Lasner has since deleted his Twitter account. JetBlue cited the possibility of ‘‘the risk of escalation during flight’’ in explaining the decision to remove the men. The airline says the couple was rebooked for the next available flight. A spokeswoman for the Trump family declined comment. (AP)

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‘Drink more water, exercise, eat healthier . . . but I just break all of ’em, so I don’t pressure myself.’ REESE WITHERSPOON, actress and producer, talking about her New Year’s resolutions

Chance the Rapper spreads holiday cheer with surprise mixtape By Isaac Feldberg GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

As if Chance the Rapper needed to reaffirm that his omniscience throughout 2016 was second to none, the famously joyous musician has rewarded fans with a surprise stocking stuffer in the form of mixtape “Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama.” A collaboration with Jeremih, the nine-track release — dedicated to the pair’s shared hometown of Chicago — made its way online early this morning via Chance’s official Soundcloud. It’s likely the last accomplishment in Chance’s jam-packed year. In February, he broke out in a big way as the soulful core of “Ultralight Beam” on Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo.” Then in May, he unveiled third mixtape “Coloring Book” to widespread acclaim and his first Grammy nomination, sub-

sequently undertaking an extensive international tour in support of the release. Along the way, Chano found time to shoot a feature film, “Slice,” in Chicago (we don’t know how either). Now, with “Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama,” he’s sending off 2016 in characteristically buoyant fashion. Comedian Hannibal Buress helps to kick things off on the toe-tapping opener “All the Way,” with up-and-coming Windy City MC Lud Foe assisting on “I Shoulda Left You” and vocal powerhouse Noname (who performed “Finish Line” with Chance the Rapper on “Saturday Night Live” just last week) lending her pipes to “The Tragedy.” But despite celebrity guests, “Merry Christmas” is largely Chance and Jeremih’s show; highlights from the duo’s collection of yuletide tunes include a “Carol the Bells” riff called “Chi Town

Christmas” and sonic standout “I’m Your Santa,” where Jeremih fully unleashes a heavenly falsetto as Chance holds down an infectious “kick, kick, foot down” chorus. Elsewhere, the artists tip their lids to the Jackson 5 (“Stranger at the Table”), lean into an emotive piano beat (“Joy”), and synergize for an electrifying dancefloor tape-topper (“Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama”). But even as their tempos and trills leap loosely from glory-be-the-God reverence to deck-the-dancehalls merrymaking, the one constant throughout the tape is the same sense of holy, holistic jubilation that we’ve come to associate with Chance, and that made 2016 his year.

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Chance the Rapper performing earlier this month.

Isaac Feldberg can be reached at isaac.feldberg@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @i_feldberg.

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Facing slumping donations, United Way offers ‘poverty simulations’ to attract donors and show its relevance

B Y SAC H A P F E I F F E R | G L O B E S TA F F In real life, they are Bank of America employees with comfortable whitecollar careers — a private client adviser, an estate settlement assistant, and a self-described data geek. But they recently got a taste of an uncomfortable alternative reality. Dale Edmunds of Wellesley pretended to be unemployed, evicted, and living in a motel with his family after being laid off from his $50,000-a-year manufacturing job. Kristine Millet of Concord, his fake stay-at-home wife, struggled to find work to replace Edmunds’ lost income and pay cellphone bills, car insurance, and overdue credit card debt. Gene Poillucci of Boston played the part of their teenage son, upset that his parents may not be able to afford a restaurant meal for his birthday. Together, this make-believe family navigated the world of food stamps, pawn shops, charities, and checkcashing agencies. At the end of the lunchtime skit, held in a conference room in a downtown Boston high-rise, they returned to their normal lives, but the experience had an emotional impact. “I felt very stressed,” said Miller, a senior information officer. “I thought, wow, this has got to be so stressful for folks trying to stay on top of bills rolling in when you barely have enough to cover them.” This so-called poverty simulation is

one of several educational programs offered by the United Way as the nearly 130-year-old organization — long the dominant player in workplace charitable giving through automatic payroll deduction, but facing declining donations — strives to remain relevant in a changing philanthropic landscape. For the hour or so they spent in this “Walk a Mile Experience,” Edmunds, Millet, and Poillucci got a glimpse of the everyday challenges faced by the working poor. Developed by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, it’s a fast-moving, intentionally frenzied activity designed to convey the sense of chaos, confusion, and helplessness often en-

Berkshire Bank was the alleged target of an increasingly common type of cyberheist this fall that bilked a longtime customer out of more than $1 million, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Jim Jacobs, a Florida-based modern art dealer, filed suit in US District Court in Springfield alleging that the bank’s inadequate fraud detection systems allowed criminals to steal $1.4 million from his account and move the money to Hong Kong through two wire transfers in October. Jacobs, who has ties to the Western Massachusetts art community, opened his personal account with Great Barrington Savings Bank in 1980, before it merged with what eventually became Berkshire Bank, now an $8 billion institution. According to the lawsuit, over the years Jacobs’s account grew significantly, and he was assigned a personal banker at Berkshire Bank who handled his transactions — a common practice among financial institutions looking to cater to high-net-worth clients. Over the course of a week in October, the personal banker fell for three fake, or spoofed, e-mails from somebody pretending to be Jacobs. The imposter directed the banker to transfer $580,000 and $826,000 into two separate banks in Hong Kong, suggesting the payments were related to the work of abstract painter Agnes Martin, according to the lawsuit. Berkshire Bank failed to verify that Jacobs was actually making the requests, according to the lawsuit. The transactions should have raised red flags at Berkshire Bank because Jacobs BERKSHIRE, Page C4

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Cabbies’ suit over Uber is dismissed

In latest harbor project twist, Chiofaro keeping open mind

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A federal judge has ruled that Boston is not required to hold digital-age transportation services such as Uber and Lyft to the same rules as taxi companies, using a new state law to dismiss a case against the city from a group of cab owners. The cab companies had argued in their lawsuit that Boston was violating their equal protection rights by holding them to strict standards while not regulating the Uber drivers they compete with. Taxi companies follow a number of municipal rules that include a permitting process, vehicle standards, and fare rates set by the city. US District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton had previously shown some sympathy to the equal protection argument. In March, he declined to dismiss the claim and said ride-hailing services and taxi companies share many similarities. In a decision issued Wednesday, however, Gorton dismissed the claim, saying it was made irrelevant when the Massachusetts Legislature brought drivers for Uber and similar compaTAXIS, Page C5

e end 2016 the way we started: fussing over the details of Don Chiofaro’s harbor garage project. The latest twist is that the city might require more open space on the site than it previously proposed, reducing the footprint of what Chiofaro could build. The potential adjustment comes after the Boston Planning & Development Agency sifted through hundreds of community comment letters and found that neighbors and activists clamored for more open space on the downtown waterfront, where the $1 billion project would go, next to the New England Aquarium. The state sets a minimum requirement of 50 percent open space on the Boston waterfront to ensure public access, but that number can modified on a case-by-case basis. The city has proposed allowing Chiofaro to provide just 30 percent of open space but is now considering 40 percent. That would squeeze the development footprint of the building. “We are re-examining the lot cover-

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age on the garage site with the overall goal of maximizing open space along side the goal of feasibility,” said Sara Myerson, director of planning for the agency. So can Chiofaro live with that number? The last time the city set parameters on his site — capping the amount of development at 900,000 square feet — Chiofaro squawked about how the project might not be financially feasible. He had wanted 1.3 million square feet on the parcel, where he has pro-

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posed building office space, housing, a hotel, and shops. This time Chiofaro, who is aware of the potential lot size change, is being zen about it. “We have an open mind, and we are confident — as long as everything else works — we can make something good happen,” Chiofaro said Wednesday as we talked in a conference room on the 46th floor of his International Place complex. The new attitude is perhaps a sign that Chiofaro senses he’s close to getting through a major part of the city planning process and he doesn’t want to screw things up. Chiofaro bought the garage in 2009 with the hope of redeveloping the hulking eyesore that sits between the aquarium and the Harbor Towers. But then he picked a fight with then Mayor Tom Menino, the one person in town who could have moved the garage project along. Menino never liked Chiofaro’s plans because the mayor didn’t want skyscrapers to wall off the waterfront or cast shadows LEUNG, Page C4

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St. Elizabeth’s looking anew for hospital chief By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey GLOBE STAFF

Steward Health Care System has a new president again at its flagship hospital, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton. Steward said Beth Hughes left this week after about a year as president. Longtime Steward executive Joseph Ciccolo will serve as interim president, the company said Thursday. He will be at least the sixth leader of the hospital in as many years. The company did not say why Hughes left St. Elizabeth’s, which has 267 beds and more than 2,500

Beth Hughes left this week after about a year as president of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.

employees. She had come to Steward from Chicago following a national search. Hughes could not be reached Thursday. Steward is the largest forprofit hospital company in Massachuse tts. It runs nine hospitals, including the former Caritas Christi system previously operated by the Archdiocese of Boston. Ciccolo, 58, has worked at Steward, and before that, Caritas, for 24 years. He currently serves as chief administration officer, overseeing the finances of the Steward hospitals.

“Joe Ciccolo is a proven leader who will work tirelessly to serve the St. Elizabeth’s community,” John Polanowicz, executive vice president of Steward’s hospital services group, said in a statement. Polanowicz is also a former president of St. Elizabeth’s. He left to serve in Governor Deval Patrick’s administration before returning to work at Steward. Ciccolo previously was president of Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River and Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. The Service Employees International

Union, Local 1199, which has m e m b e r s a t S t . E l i z a b e t h’s , welcomed his appointment. “The good working relationship we have developed with Joe Ciccolo throughout his tenure at Caritas and Steward will be instrumental in our joint efforts to provide quality care and foster a highly skilled, professional healthcare workforce at St. Elizabeth’s,” MaryEllen Leveille, the union’s vice president of health systems, said in a statement. St. Elizabeth’s is challenged by its proximity to bigger hospitals with strong brand names just a

few miles away. But it has been making money, according to numbers Steward submitted to the state. It reported operating profits of $13.6 million last year, and $16.7 million in 2014. Company officials said they would search “internally and regionally” for another permanent leader for St. Elizabeth’s. Priyanka Dayal McCluskey can be reached at priyanka.mccluskey@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @priyanka_dayal.

Families to be paid $50m by Ikea

New leader for Federal Reserve Bank board

Three children killed by retailer’s falling furniture

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By Jonah Engel Bromwich NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK — Ikea has reached a tentative settlement to pay $50 million to three US families whose young children were killed after the Swedish furniture company’s furniture fell on them, lawyers for the families said Wednesday. The families of Curren Collas, Camden Ellis, and Ted McGee, all around age 2, sued after the children were crushed to death by chests or dressers in Ikea’s Malm line. They contended that the unsafe design of the furniture rendered them “inherently unstable and easily tipped over” and that Ikea had consistently refused to meet voluntary national safety standards for the stability of chests and dressers. “These were three very preventable deaths that never needed to occur if Ikea had simply made dressers that met the voluntary national standard,” Alan M. Feldman, a partner with Feldman Shepherd, the law firm in Philadelphia that represents the families, said in a phone interview Thursday. He was referring to the safety protocols set out by the US Consumer Product

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WANTED TO LEASE FOUR 5-BEDROOM GROUP HOMES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES On behalf of the Department of Developmental Services, the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance is requesting proposals to lease four 5-Bedroom Group Homes each of approximately 2,600 to 2,950 usable square feet in Amesbury, Andover, Billerica, Bradford, Burlington, Chelmsford, Dracut, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Lowell, Lynnfield, Melrose, Methuen, Middleton, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, North Reading, Reading, Saugus, Tewksbury, Wakefield, West Newbury, or Wilmington. The term of each lease-purchase agreement is 30 years. Proposals must be submitted to: Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance Office of Leasing and State Office Planning One Ashburton Place 14 th Floor – Room 1411 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Proposals must be submitted by the deadline of January 26, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Proposals will be opened at that time. To obtain a Request for Proposals (RFP), please call 857-2041355, at any time or send a request to the Office of Leasing and State Office Planning at the above address. Please include your name, address, telephone and fax number or a business card, and cite the name of the agency seeking space and the RFP Project Number 201602100.1. This RFP can also be obtained through the Internet at http://www. commbuys.com. For further information, please call 617-727- 8000, during business hours.

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Docket No. R2016-03 Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts Filing for Revisions to the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation and Employer’s Liability Manual NOTICE OF HEARING In accordance with the authority granted to the Commissioner of Insurance (“Commissioner”) under M. G. L. c. 152, §53A, a hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m. on January 18, 2017, at the Division of Insurance (“Division”), 1000 Washington Street, Boston, MA, to consider the request of the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (“WCRIB”), an unincorporated association licensed as a rating organization pursuant to M.G.L. c. 152 §52C, to establish an Audit Noncompliance Charge (“ANC”) rule and a Records Noncompliance Premium Surcharge (“RNPS”) rule and to establish endorsements for those rules. The ANC, if approved, would apply to policies written in the voluntary market, at the discretion of the carrier, when the policyholder does not allow its workers’ compensation carrier to examine and audit its records. The RNPS, if approved, would apply to policyholders who do not maintain records that are required and necessary to compute policy premium. The RNPS endorsement would be mandatory for assigned risk policies and available for use in the voluntary market at the carrier’s discretion. The WCRIB filing proposes to adjust the premium algorithms used in both the voluntary and residual market to show the placement of these charges. The proposed effective date for the ANC rule is January 1, 2017 and the proposed effective date for the RNPS is June 1, 2017. The purpose of the hearing is to afford all interested persons an opportunity to provide evidence and testimony relating to the establishment of the proposed rules. The filing memorandum and supporting documentation that the WCRIB filed on November 22, 2016 may be inspected in the Division’s offices during normal business hours.

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Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance Office of Leasing and State Office Planning One Ashburton Place 14th Floor - Room 1411 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Proposals must be submitted by the deadline of January 12, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Proposals will be opened at that time. To obtain a Request for Proposals (RFP), please call 857204-1355, at any time or send a request to the Office of Leasing and State Office Planning at the above address. Please include your name, address, telephone and fax number or a business card, and cite the name of the agency seeking space and the RFP Project Number 201600800.1. This RFP can also be obtained through the Internet at http://www.commbuys.com. For further information, please call 617-727-8000, during business hours. NOTICE OF INITIAL SITE INVESTIGATION AND TIER II CLASSIFICATION BOSTON LANDING STATION AT ALLSTON/BRIGHTON BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS RTN 3-33316 Releases of oil and/or hazardous materials have occurred at this location, which are disposal sites as defined by M.G.L. c. 21E, § 2 and the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, 310 CMR 40.0000. To evaluate the releases, a Phase I Initial Site Investigation was performed pursuant to 310 CMR 40.0480. As a result of this investigation, the sites have been classified as Tier II pursuant to 310 CMR 40.0500. On December 16, 2016, Transit, LLC filed Tier II Classification Submittals with the Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). To obtain more information on these disposal sites, please contact Matthew P. Heil, P.E., LSP, Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc., 1 Technology Park Drive, Westford, MA 01886, (978) 392-0900.

safety commission. In a 2014 report, the commission said children were the victims in 84 percent of the 430 deaths reported between 2000 and 2013 from tipped-over televisions, furniture, and appliances; about 65 percent of those children — or 234 — were between 1 and 3½ years old. The settlement represented progress for consumer advocates who had been working since 1989 to hold the company accountable for the deaths of young children.

The Tier II Classification Submittals and the disposal site files can be reviewed at the MassDEP Northeast Region Office, 205B Lowell Street, Wilmington, MA 01887, (978) 694-3200. Additional public involvement opportunities are available under 310 CMR 40.1403(9) and 310 CMR 40.1404.

Gary D. Anderson First Deputy Commissioner of Insurance NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD BY MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AGENCY CONCERNING THE CAMBRIDGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL, INC. PROJECT AT 129 SHERMAN STREET AND 41 AND 54 BELLIS CIRCLE, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. Notice is hereby given that Massachusetts Development Finance Agency will hold a public hearing on January 10, 2017 at 9:00 A.M. at 99 High Street, 11th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts, to consider the issuance of revenue bonds by Massachusetts Development Finance Agency in an amount not exceeding $7,000,000 for the benefit of Cambridge Montessori School, Inc. (the “Borrower” which term includes in this notice any parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate thereof). The proceeds of the bonds will be used to finance and refinance: (i) the acquisition of land and an existing building thereon located at 54 Bellis Circle, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the renovation of said building, all to be owned by the Borrower and to be converted for academic use by the Borrower in accordance with its mission of educating children between the ages of twenty-one months and fourteen years; (ii) the acquisition of land currently used as a parking lot located at 41 Bellis Circle, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to be owned by the Borrower and to be used by the Borrower as a parking lot and/or for the future expansion of the Borrower’s programs; (iii) capital improvements to the Borrower’s properties; (iv) the Borrower’s existing conventional debt, the proceeds of which were originally used for the acquisition of land and an existing building thereon located at 129 Sherman Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, all owned by the Borrower and currently used for the Borrower’s elementary program; and (v) the payment of capitalized interest and costs of issuance (collectively, the “Project”). The total currently estimated cost of the Project is $9,125,000. The bonds will not constitute a debt or pledge of the faith and credit of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts or Massachusetts Development Finance Agency. Interested persons wishing to express their views on such Project and the proposed issuance of revenue bonds to finance and refinance the Project will be given the opportunity to do so at the public hearing or may, prior to the time of the public hearing, submit their views in writing to Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, 99 High Street, 11th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110.

In a statement Thursday, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who had pushed for a recall of the Ikea furniture, applauded the settlement but emphasized that the danger of furniture tipovers went beyond the company’s faulty dressers. “Until we have effective standards in place, kids will continue to be at risk of injuries and death,” the statement said. Klobuchar has introduced legislation to push the commission to adopt stronger consumer safety standards for storage units.

In June, Consumer Product Safety Commission officials demonstrated how chests and dressers in Ikea’s Malm line could fall on small children.

Dr. Gary Gottlieb, the chief executive of Partners in Health, a nonprofit that provides medical services to impoverished nations, will serve as chairman in 2017 for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s board of directors. Phillip L. Clay, a former chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be vice chairman to the Boston Fed’s board. The Boston Fed announced the annual leadership change on Thursday, and it Dr. Gary Gottwill take effect on lieb will be the new chairman. Jan. 1. Gottlieb replaces current chairman John Fish, the head of Suffolk Construction Co., who will also be leaving the Fed board. The Boston Fed also announced that Niraj Shah, cofounder of online retailer Wayfair, will be joining its board, along with Kathleen Walsh, the chief executive of Boston Medical Center. The Federal Reserve board of governors and member banks select the nine directors to the Boston Fed board to represent the public and various sectors of the state’s economy. Deirdre Fernandes can be reached at deirdre.fernandes@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @fernandesglobe.

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NEW YORK — Barclays Plc was sued by the US Justice Department for allegedly deceiving investors who bought mortgage-backed securities, according to court papers filed in federal court in Brooklyn. The lawsuit announced on Thursday is rare for the big banks, which typically negotiate a settlement rather than risk a trial. The breakdown in talks suggests that the bank is willing to take its chances with the incoming enforcement officials in the Trump administration. The bank has lined up a lawyer known for his aggressive defense of clients including Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. Barclays is one of a handful of European banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Credit Suisse, UBS Group AG, and Royal Bank of Scotland, that have yet to settle the long-running US probe as the Obama administration seeks to resolve the last major investigations from the financial crisis. The United States has extracted more than $46 billion from six US institutions over their dealings in mortgage-backed securities. Barclays executives tried to draw the line at $2 billion in penalties to settle with the government, which made an opening offer the bank deemed too high, a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg in October. The Justice Department’s starting point for negotiations wasn’t disclosed. “Barclays jeopardized billions of dollars of wealth through practices that were plainly irresponsible and dishonest,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a written

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Barclays is accused of repeatedly deceiving investors about the quality of more than $31 billion in loans backing securities. statement. “With this filing, we are sending a clear message that the Department of Justice will not tolerate the defrauding of investors and the American people.” Barclays rejected the government’s claims in a written statement. “Barclays considers that the claims made in the complaint are disconnected from the facts,” it said. “We have an obligation to our shareholders, customers, clients, and employees to defend ourselves against unreasonable allegations and demands.” The other banks under investigation declined to comment on the Barclays suit, even as they negotiate over how much they will pay to resolve their own mortgage-securities probes. The British bank repeatedly deceived investors about the quality of more than $31 billion in loans backing the securities that were sold between 2005 and 2007, the Justice Department said in a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn. More than half of the underlying loans defaulted, the government said, after consul-

tants reviewed the loans and called them “craptacular” and bearing the “distinct aroma of default.” Even before the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, the bank had hired an outside law firm as a signal that it wouldn’t budge on the penalty figure. That law firm is Williams & Connolly, a person familiar with the matter said. The firm’s top lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, is known in Washington as an aggressive litigator who relishes courtroom combat. Sullivan’s spirited defense of Oliver North in the 1980s during the Iran-Contra hearings and subsequent criminal trial established him as a fighter. More recently, Sullivan was vindicated when a federal judge determined that prosecutors had unfairly withheld evidence that would have helped the case of his client, former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. Charges against Stevens, who died in a plane crash in 2010, were dismissed by the judge. Barclays has set aside $3.1 billion for investigations and litigation since the start of 2014.

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Hallmark Health System will become part of a larger hospital network on Jan. 1. Hallmark’s board voted to authorize the deal Thursday, six months after the health system announced its plans to merge with Wellforce, the parent company of Tufts Medical Center and Lowell General Hospital. Hallmark is a 368-bed system of two hospitals in Medford and Melrose. It has struggled in recent years to retain local patients who often choose to seek care at Boston hospitals a few miles away. Hallmark and Wellforce executives said they hope to reverse that trend by boosting specialty services to attract more patients to the Hallmark hospitals. They said there were no immediate plans to cut jobs or hospital beds. Hallmark has long been affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and previously planned to be acquired by Mass. General’s parent company, Partners HealthCare. After those plans fell apart, Hallmark linked up with Wellforce. The deal is expected to result in Hallmark doctors referring more patients to Tufts Medical Center instead of Mass. General for complex care. — PRIYANKA DAYAL MCCLUSKEY

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Harvard Management Co., which oversees a $35.7 billion endowment that’s been plagued by underperformance, is postponing next month’s Winter Gala as its new chief executive officer leads a review of the fund’s strategy and structure. “This planning work is our highest priority for the coming weeks and months, and will be our primary focus,” Nirmal “Narv” Narvekar, who this month joined Harvard’s endowment as its fourth chief executive officer since 2005, and chief operating officer Bob Ettl wrote in an e-mail to staff. Narvekar and Ettl said they expect to provide “an update on our plans” in the first quarter of 2017. The party, scheduled for Jan. 6, will be held later in the year, according to the memo sent to employees on Dec. 20. The gathering is an annual event, and last year’s was a black-tie affair with an orchestra in a hall on Harvard’s campus. — BLOOMBERG NEWS

Weight Watchers International Inc.’s stock got another boost from the falling weight of Oprah Winfrey, the company’s backer and most famous customer. The shares climbed as much as 14 percent, before closing up 5 percent, after Winfrey announced that she’d lost 40 pounds using the program. The diet company, whose shares had fallen 54 percent this year before Thursday’s surge, is unveiling new TV ads featuring Winfrey that tout her weight loss. The media magnate and talk-show veteran became a centerpiece of Weight Watcher’s comeback plan last year when she bought a stake in the company and joined the board. — BLOOMBERG NEWS

Long-term US mortgage rates climbed again this week, hitting the highest levels since early 2014. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac on Thursday reported the rate on 30-year fixed-rate loans jumped to an average 4.30 percent from 4.16 percent last week and the highest since April 2014. The average for a 15-year mortgage rose to 3.52 percent from 3.37 percent last week and highest since January 2014. Rates have surged since the Nov. 8 election of Donald Trump. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

Consumers slowed the growth in their spending in November and income growth was flat, two worrisome signs at the start of the holiday shopping season. Consumer spending rose 0.2 percent in November, the weakest showing since a 0.1 percent rise in August, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Spending had posted healthy gains of 0.7 percent in September and 0.4 percent in October. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

The US economy grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, the fastest pace in two years and more than the government had previously estimated. But the growth spurt isn’t expected to last. The gain in the gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of goods and services, came from added strength in consumer spending, business investment, and the government sector, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The government had previously estimated last quarter’s annual growth rate at 3.2 percent. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

Airbus and Iran Air finalized Thursday a deal for 100 planes worth more than $18 billion dollars at list prices — a contract that’s potentially a big boost for Iran’s post-sanctions economy. Under the terms of the deal, which was initially announced in January, Airbus said deliveries are expected to begin early next year. The contract includes single-aisle A320 and A330 jets and wide-body A350 XWB planes. Iran finalized a deal for 80 jetliners from Boeing Co. — Airbus’ key rival — earlier this month. In addition to providing the planes, Airbus is to help Iran Air with pilot training, assist with airport operations, and air traffic management. The Boeing agreement was the biggest Iran has struck with an American company since the 1979 revolution and US Embassy takeover. The Boeing planes are scheduled to start arriving in 2018. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

More Americans sought unemployment aid last week, but the number of applications remains at a low level that suggests companies are still hiring. Weekly applications for unemployment aid rose 21,000 to a seasonally adjusted 275,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That is the highest figure since June. The number of people receiving benefits ticked up 15,000, to just over 2 million. That’s down 7 percent from a year earlier. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

Call it the war on milk, or perhaps the war on what’s not milk. In the latest salvo in a nearly two-decades-old fight over what should and shouldn’t be called milk, a group of more than 20 US legislators sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration demanding it require the makers of soy milk, almond milk, and rice milk to drop ‘‘milk’’ from the label of anything that doesn’t come directly from an animal. This comes as Americans consume less milk from dairy cows while sales of plantbased milks continue to grow. Representative Peter Welch of Vermont, the home of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and more than a quarter-million cows, said the bipartisan letter is about protecting dairy farmers — and telling the truth. Nancy Chapman, executive director of the Soyfoods Association of North America, said her organization has conducted studies of shoppers and found that the ‘‘overwhelming majority’’ — 98 percent — don’t confuse it with cow’s milk. — WASHINGTON POST

‘Tis the season to be jolly, bright, and chained to your cubicle. A quarter of full-time workers ages 18 to 25 who get paid time off say that by year’s end they won’t have taken any of their paid vacation days, according to a new survey. The study, which Princeton Survey Research Associates conducted on behalf of personal finance website Bankrate Inc., surveyed more than 1,000 full-time American workers, with a focus on those who got paid vacation time from their employers. Older baby boomers between the ages of 62 and 70 are most likely to use up all their vacation days, followed by Generation Xers, or workers between 36 and 51. Young millennials, 18 to 25, are least likely to take all their days. Only 35 percent of them said they would max out their vacation time. On average, millennials overall — workers ages 18 to 34 — are leaving 21 days unused this year, and boomers — ages 52 to 70 — are leaving behind 25. Gen Xers are leaving just 13 days unused. — BLOOMBERG NEWS

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Markets Stocks fall further on retail losses Retailers took losses Thursday and pulled US stocks lower in another day of mild trading before the holidays. Bed Bath & Beyond was pummeled after the home goods retailer reported weak results, and investors also dumped companies like Target, Staples, and Dollar Tree. Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba fell after it was sanctioned by the US government, while companies linked to investor Carl Icahn climbed after the billionaire was named as a future adviser to President-elect Donald Trump. Quincy Krosby, a markets strategist for Prudential Financial, said investors were concerned about the weak earnings for Bed Bath & Beyond and about the jump in interest rates since the election. With the year-end holidays approaching, trading remained light. A second day of losses pulled the Dow further from the 20,000 mark. It first reached 19,000 a month ago.

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Investments Mass.pensionfundbuysSiliconValleyland Deal could save $11m in fees over 20 years, fund director says By Beth Healy GLOBE STAFF

The Massachusetts state pension fund has bought 21 acres in Silicon Valley for $112.3 million, its first-ever direct investment in real estate. The property, located on Great American Parkway in Santa Clara, Calif., is home to three leased office buildings. Under the deal, the $62 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management fund will receive $4.6 million annual lease payments on the land. The pension fund bought the property from the Santa Clara Redevelopment Authority. By purchasing and owning the land directly, rather than through an investment manager, PRIM stands to save approximately $11 million in fees over the next 20 years, according to Michael G. Trotsky, the fund’s executive director and investment

chief. “This is precisely the sort of innovation and efficiency we have been aggressively seeking” and will continue to pursue, Trotsky said in a statement. The pension fund last year walked away from a $56 million bidding war on a parking garage in Boston’s Seaport area. PRIM has $6.5 billion of its assets in real estate overall. The Santa Clara property has three five-story office buildings that were built in 2013, with a total of 449,000 square feet of space, the pension fund said. They are leased to high-tech companies — including Dell Inc., by the Irvine Co., which owns the buildings. As of Dec. 21, PRIM is Irvine’s landlord.

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Beth Healy can be reached at beth.healy@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @HealyBeth.

OvaScience shares plummet on cuts Two top executives leave Waltham biotech abruptly GLOBE STAFF

OvaScience Inc.’s stock price plummeted by more than half Thursday after the Waltham biotech company, which develops fertility treatments, said it would cut its nearly 100-person workforce by about 30 percent following the abrupt departure of two top executives. The restructuring is aimed at allowing five-year-old OvaScience to stretch its cash into next year as the company scales back the rollout of its Augment treatment, limiting OvaScience’s revenue ramp-up. Augment is available at some clinics in Canada, Japan, and four other countries, but it has yet to be approved in the United States and most European countries. The treatment works to improve the health of weaker eggs fertilized with sperm. Harald Stock, an OvaScience board member who was tapped during the summer to succeed cofounder Michelle Dipp as chief executive, will be stepping down, along with chief operating officer Paul Chap-

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man, the company said in a statement. Both executives, who were hired to lead the global expansion of Augment, will “seek new opportunities,” the statement said. Shares of OvaScience plunged 55.2 percent to $1.33, losing $1.64 on the Nasdaq exchange. Company officials did not respond to a request for comment. Dipp, the company’s executive chairwoman, said in a statement that OvaScience remains confident in the potential for Augment. But she said, “The near-term financial return has not been sufficient for us to continue to invest at the levels we believe are necessary for a large commercial expansion.” OvaScience last month widened its quarterly loss to $19.3 million for the three months ending Sept. 30, from $17.9 million in the corresponding period last year even as its sales increased to $197,000 from $75,000 in the same period.

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had never done business with the companies receiving the money, nor their Hong Kong banks, in the past, according to the lawsuit. Scams that use fake e-mail to target businesses are on the rise nationally, according to cybersecurity experts and law enforcement officials. Since June 2015, approximately 370 victims from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island have reported losses of about $33 million due to such schemes, according to the FBI’s Boston office. In most cases, cybercriminals were able to glean enough information about employees in a company to create a fake email from an executive that’s sent to accountants or financial officers instructing them to make wire transfers into accounts held by the thieves. These schemes have hit technology companies, small businesses, and real estate firms, said Michael Kelly, a supervisory special agent for the economic crime squad in the Boston FBI office. “If you make wire transfers on a regular basis, you’re going to be targeted,” Kelly said. “We are in a fast-paced business environment. We’re not used to doing things face-to-face anymore and this scheme takes advantage of it.” Banks, which were targeted in the first wave of these scams, have deployed increasingly sophisticated algorithms to weed out potentially fraudulent wire transfer requests from their customers, Kelly said. Jacobs learned of the unauthorized transfers when he returned from a European vacation in late October and spoke with the personal banker, who mentioned the transactions. “Berkshire Bank, by failing

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Customers at a Berkshire Bank branch. Like many banks, Berkshire assigns personal bankers to some customers. to exercise the care of a reasonably prudent person in connection with sending and resending of wires to Hong Kong without authenticating the transfer orders, breached its fiduciary duty,” the lawsuit states. Jacobs was not available for comment. His attorney, Lucy Prashker, declined to comment on the details of the case. However, she said the FBI is aware of the case. T he FBI declined to say whether it is investigating. Berkshire Bank officials declined to comment on pending litigation. However, according to the lawsuit, the bank has argued that the banker was acting as Jacobs’s agent at the time and not as a Berkshire Bank employee. Most banks have technology in place that flags unusual wire transfers, especially if they are for significant amounts or are being sent to bank accounts that a customer has never done business with before, said Seth Ruden, a senior fraud consultant with ACI Worldwide, a Florida-based payment systems company. Some institutions can even detect whether customers are using their usual computer to send requests and whether it can be trusted, Ruden said. “Banks do and should have

anomaly [detecting] systems in place,” Ruden said. “If they don’t, they’re missing a key component.” It’s unclear what procedures Berkshire Bank had in place for customers such as Jacobs. According to the lawsuit, Berkshire Bank never provided Jacobs with security measures to protect his account from fraudulent wire transfers. After the theft, recovering the money can be a challenge, officials said. The FBI’s Boston office has recovered about 40 percent of the $33 million stolen in the region. In Berkshire Bank’s case, its wire transfer supervisor first requested that Jacobs waive his rights to sue the bank over its efforts to retrieve the money, even in the case of gross negligence and willful misconduct, according to the lawsuit. “Shocked by Berkshire Bank’s improper attempt to condition any effort to recover the funds on securing a waiver f r o m Mr. Ja c o b s o f r i g h t s against Berkshire Bank, Mr. Jacobs declined,” the lawsuit states. Deirdre Fernandes can be reached at deirdre.fernandes @globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @fernandesglobe.

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Innovation Massachusetts atop innovation rankings State’s educational cluster, number of tech companies cited By Michelle Jamrisko and Wei Lu BLOOMBERG NEWS

WASHINGTON — Massachusetts is once again at the top of Bloomberg’s ranking of the most innovative states, a testament to how much the economy ’s wheels are greased by investment in higher education and research. California again scored just behind Massachusetts, which gained ground by churning out more science and engineering graduates and producing jobs in those industries even though it had less technology company density than in 2015, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg. The Bloomberg US Innovation Index scored each of the 50 states on a 0-100 scale across six equally weighted metrics: R&D intensity; productivity; high-tech density; concentration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) employment; science and engineering degree holders; and patent activity. Ranking leader Massachusetts has enjoyed a faster recovery from the last recession than most states and now boasts a 2.9 percent unemployment rate, leaving it tied for second-best in the country. That compares with a 4.6 percent national average. The secret sauce for the state’s innovation is a potent mix of tax incentives to draw in companies, research partnerships between its big-name universities and local businesses, and the transfer of much of that research into patentable products, said Greg Sullivan, research director at Boston-based Pioneer Institute, a public policy research shop. “Massachusetts got on very early to the idea of trying to promote itself as an R&D center,” he said. In addition, the reading “just shows the importance of the university cluster in

Massachusetts, especially Harvard and MIT.” Washington and New Jersey were Nos. 3 and 4 in the 2016 ranking, while Maryland jumped two spots this year to edge into the top five most innovative states. Arkansas, West Virginia, and Mississippi are the least innovative in the United States, the data show. While Silicon Valley lays claim to innovative powerhouses such as Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. — still the world’s most valuable company — high-tech density in the Bloomberg index is measured by number of companies rather than market capital, rewarding Massachusetts for its breadth over California’s tech giants. General Electric Co.’s announcement earlier this year that it would move its headquarters to Boston amid rancor over tax increases in Connecticut helps to illustrate how Massachusetts widened its lead. Connecticut fell two spots in the ranking to No. 7. “The government’s trying to really be actively engaged in recruiting companies directly, actively, and smartly,” said Sullivan. GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt hailed the Boston area’s investment in research and development in a January statement on the move, complimenting the city’s “diverse, technologically-fluent workforce.” Utah also was a standout in this years’ rankings, climbing six spots to No. 14, the biggest gain of any state. Its jump was owed to a surge in R&D spending. The state’s emphasis on linking education, government, and the private sector is starting to pay more dividends for “Silicon Slopes — Silicon Valley with better skiing,” said Val Hale, executive director in the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

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over the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. Chiofaro found himself boxed out until he found a receptive ear in Menino’s successor, Marty Walsh. Hizzoner gave his blessing for Chiofaro to build up to 600 feet tall on the waterfront, far above what is currently allowed. The reexamination of open space on Chiofaro’s site comes as the city wraps up a threeyear process to create new zoning rules for the waterfront, from Long Wharf to the Evelyn Moakley bridge. Comments on the draft harbor plan were due earlier this month, and the city planning agency is expected to make a final call early next year. State regulators will then need to approve the plan. But even with the city’s push for more open space, some waterfront advocates don’t think the city is going far enough. The Wharf District Council, which represents condo owners and businesses along the waterfront, is calling for the city to hew closer to the state’s 50 percent requirement, as are Boston state Representative Aaron Michlewitz, Boston Harbor Now, and the Conservation Law Foundation. The district council even

had an architect draw up a design to show how Chiofaro could build a project with only 50 percent lot coverage. “There is no reason a building needs to cover that much of the ground plane,” said Marc Margulies, chair of the Wharf District Council. “When it does, it gobbles up all the public realm.” Now 50 percent is a number that does give Chiofaro and his team pause. “It is absolutely physically possible, but it is not the optimal outcome for that site,” said Rob Caridad, the Chiofaro Co. executive who is project manager for the garage development. Chiofaro’s son, Donald Jr., who is vice president at his father’s company, explained that 50 percent lot coverage would mean the ground floor would consist primarily of a lobby and service entrances, leaving little room for public amenities like restaurants. He offered up how Atlantic Wharf is able to load up on restaurants on the ground floor, including Trade and Smith & Wollensky, in part because the city allowed lot coverage to exceed 70 percent. “It’s a balancing act, and it’s a planning decision,” Chiofaro Jr. said, “and it’s a mistake to go to 50 percent.”

One Chiofaro adversary — the aquarium — isn’t jumping on the 50 percent bandwagon. But the popular destination continues to maintain that the project is too big and that the developer should reveal a design. (Chiofaro wants to hold off until the city and state have a firmer harbor plan.) I know that Don Chiofaro wasn’t too happy with my column about the aquarium’s latest comments on the draft harbor plan. I guess I could have pointed out the beloved institution is playing hardball as it pushes its own master plan for open space and prepares to negotiate with the developer. But given the opportunity to say what’s really on his mind about his relationship with the aquarium, Chiofaro demurs. Instead, he leaves others to fill in the blanks. “Our instinct is to fight back,” said Caridad, “but we want to get past the fighting and move on to the friendship.” No one wants hasty development, but the Boston Harbor Garage saga has dragged on too long. The city, Chiofaro, and his neighbors need to work this out. Let’s make 2017 the year. Shirley Leung is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at shirley.leung@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @leung.

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For years, Donald Trump has used a powerful tool when d e a l i n g w i t h b a n ke r s : h i s personal guarantee. Now that guarantee — employed to extract better terms on hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to the Trump Organization — is at the center of a delicate loan-restructuring discussion at Deutsche Bank, which is under investigation on several fronts by the US Department of Justice. The bank is trying to restructure some of Trump’s roughly $300 million debt as part of an attempt to reduce any conflict of interest between the loan and his presidency, according to a person familiar with the matter. Normally, the removal of a personal pledge might lead to more-stringent terms. But there is little normal about this interaction. Trump’s attorney general will inherit an investigation of Deutsche Bank related to stock trades for rich clients in Russia — where Trump says he plans to improve relations — and may have to deal with a possible multibillion-dollar penalty to the bank related to mortgagebond investigations. Whatever terms a restructured loan might include, they will reflect the complex new relationship spawned between Germany’s largest bank and its highest-profile client. Ethicists say this concerns them. ‘‘When you have political appointees making decisions about banks that the president owes a lot of money to, it looks terrible,’’ said Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota who was the chief ethics lawyer for President G e o r g e W. B u s h . ‘ ‘ T h e U S government is dealing with regulatory and criminal issues with the big banks all the time, and if he owes them a lot of money, there might be an incentive to favor less regulation and less enforcement for the banks.’’ Deutsche Bank declined to comment. Alan Garten, general counsel of the Trump Organization, said the loans are modest in the context of Trump’s multibillion-dollar empire.

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Cabbies’ suit over Uber is dismissed nies under state oversight and largely prohibited local governments from creating their own rules for those services. Gorton said that means Boston now cannot be expected to govern Uber and Lyft. “It is thus state policy, not municipal policy that now prevents [Boston] from regulating” Uber and Lyft, Gorton wrote. Lieutenant Michael McCarthy, a spokesman for the Boston Police Department, which oversees the taxi industry, said the decision “confirms that the city and the police commissioner acted appropriately in regulating taxicabs.” Uber called the ruling “a victory for competition and innovation in the transportation marketplace across the Commonwealth.” Lyft declined to comment; the two companies were not named as defendants in the suit. Gorton’s order is the latest setback for cab companies in their effort to stem the fast-rising tide of their smartphonecentric competitors. The city caps the number of permitted cabs on the road at 1,825, and the value of local taxi licenses has plummeted with the rise of Uber. A similar suit in Chicago was dismissed in October, after a federal appeals court said Uber was different enough from taxi services to warrant different sets of rules. Additionally, the

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Uber called the ruling “a victory for competition and innovation in the transportation marketplace.” new Massachusetts law did not include rules that the taxi industry had pushed, such as requiring Uber drivers to submit to fingerprint background checks and have around-theclock commercial vehicle insurance. The suit’s dismissal doesn’t mark the end of the cabbies’ fight in Boston, said Jenifer Pinkham, the group’s attorney. She said the taxi owners would now shift their focus to a separate lawsuit that challenges the state law, while considering whether to appeal Gorton’s ruling in the case against the city. “You have this dichotomy where at the local level, taxis are being regulated, but only at the state level are [transportation network companies] being regulated,” she said. “I think that’s a breeding ground for taxis being treated unfairly.” The taxi group’s other lawsuit, against the Massachusetts law, is also in federal court and being overseen by Gorton. It claims the new law is unconstitutional and accuses Governor Charlie Baker of creating a system that regulates Uber and cabs differently. That case is scheduled for a hearing in Jan-

uary. And last Friday, more than 30 livery companies from Somerville, Medford, Everett, Malden, and Boston filed yet another suit with a similar argument against Baker, but also naming Uber and accusing the company of monopolizing hired-ride services in the region. Baker spokesman William Pitman said the governor “was pleased” to have signed the new law earlier this year but declined to discuss the litigation. The law’s requirements include vehicle inspection and a new state background check of drivers that does not include a fingerprint check. The legislative grappling also seems likely to continue. Scott Solombrino, a livery industry executive who has campaigned on behalf of taxi companies for more stringent rules on Uber, has said he expects lawmakers next year to consider adding a fingerprint background check for drivers. Adam Vaccaro can be reached at adam.vaccaro@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamtvaccaro.

dured by people living at or near the poverty line. “I was hoping it would give me a better appreciation for the daily struggles of those living in poverty, and I think it did,” added Edmunds, a managing director in the bank’s private wealth management division. “I feel like we live in a bubble, and I want to be a little more sensitive to these issues.” In Boston, the United Way offers about five poverty simulations a year at different locations. During them, participants learn about the organization’s “financial stability centers,” where struggling families can get support ranging from job placement to credit counseling. “We want to get across the day-to-day challenges and feelings for people living in poverty,” said Karley Ausiello, a senior vice president at the United Way in Boston, “and at the same time show donors what the United Way can do to help families ease some of that stress.” The organization hopes these initiatives will help attract new donors, retain existing ones, and shore up its financial support. Over the past decade, individual donations to the United Way in Boston have dwindled almost 20 percent, from about $47 million in 2006 to $38 million in the most recent fiscal year. The nonprofit’s national office has seen a similar decline. The United Way has been able to keep its overall revenue relatively stable by more aggressively pursuing government, corporate, and founda-

tion grants, but it attributes the slumping donations from individuals to several factors. Downsizing at companies means fewer employees to participate in charitable giving campaigns, and some employers have created in-house charitable initiatives rather than rely on third parties like the United Way to administer them. Technology also poses a challenge; with charitable giving now as simple as clicking a d o n a t i o n b u tt o n o n y o u r smartphone, the United Way faces lots of competition for donor dollars.

Downsizing means fewer employees participate in charitable giving campaigns. There’s also been a generational effect: younger people, especially millennials, tend to shun traditional workplace giving — in which the United Way collects funds and often determines how to distribute them — in favor of volunteering or donating to niche causes. “Lots of Baby Boomers will talk about being asked to give to the United Way from their first day on the job,” said Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. “Our parents and grandparents may have given to a general fund that let the United Way decide which causes to give to in the community, but millennials aren’t so crazy about that kind of thing.”

That shift has compelled the United Way to offer “donor choice,” which lets contributors specify which charities they want to support. To appeal to millennials, it has created programs like Youth Venture, which pairs high schoolers with mentors who help them pitch business ideas. It has also developed “affinity groups” exclusively comprising, for example, women or people who work in commercial real estate. One of those groups is the United Way’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Associate Council, cochaired by 28-year-old Robert “Bo” Mlnarik, a senior associate at the Boston investment firm Summit Partners. Like many of his peers, Mlnarik donates to charities through crowdfunding sites such as GoFundMe, which he says lets people “give to causes that are more near and dear to their interests.” But he is also a United Way donor because “I believe in the power of institutions and the power of a nationwide brand,” he said, “so it’s a hybrid model for me.” Mlnarik also recognizes that his professional skills can be as valuable as his money. For example, he and other council members used their spreadsheet expertise to help the United Way crunch numbers from the city’s annual homeless census. “I’m not just showing up at a soup kitchen,” said Mlnarik, “but analyzing data to show how helpful that soup kitchen is or isn’t.” Sacha Pfeiffer can be reached at pfeiffer@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter at @SachaPfeiffer.

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Celtics 109 INDIANAPOLIS — When the Celtics came here in November, Jae Crowder was out Pacers 102 with a sprained ankle and Al Horford was sidelined by a concussion. Even though the Celtics beat the Pacers that night anyway, there was still a void. The mystery for much of this season has been figuring out what they could be when healthy and whole for a sustained period, and the past week has offered a promising glimpse. Since Isaiah Thomas returned from a groin strain and the Celtics have had their full complement, they have not lost. Their 109-102 win over the Pacers on Thursday capped a perfect three-game road trip and stretched their winning streak to four games, a season high. “It just shows the team we are,” guard Marcus Smart said. “We had some ups and downs here and there, and guys out. Now we’ve got everybody here, and everybody’s on the same page and playing together and playing well.” The Celtics defeated a solid Pacers team despite a flawed shooting night in which they made just 10 of 39 3CELTICS, Page D2

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Sports should take a holiday When it comes to scheduling sporting events on Christmas Day I’ve become a grinch. The only games on Christmas should be reindeer games involving Rudolph and his cervine compatriots, not NBA and NFL players. Give me a red-nosed reindeer over red-faced coaches stalking the sidelines on Christmas. Christmas should be a silent day and night on the sports scene. All scoreboards should be calm and none of them should be bright. Athletes should be able to rest up

and enjoy time with their loved ones in heavenly peace. Sports are a gift that keeps on giving, but Christmas should not be a day when someone is ignoring a family member to check their fantasy team. The Christmas sports schedule is packed this year. There are the customary five NBA games, including the Celtics playing the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. With Christmas falling on a Sunday, the NFL is staging Christmas games for the first time since 2011. The majority of the regular NFL Sunday slate was moved to Saturday. But on Christmas Day the Pittsburgh Steelers are hosting

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the Baltimore Ravens and the Denver Broncos are traveling to Kansas City to face the Chiefs in a pair of games with major playoff implications. Adorned in red, Chiefs coach Andy Reid is the closest thing the NFL has to a Santa Claus body double. There are certain jobs too important to go unstaffed on Christmas — police officer, firefighter, emergency room physician, etc. Professional athlete is not one of them. Athletes and coaches are people too, with lives and loved ones outside of their jobs. It’s easy to forget this as we compartmentalize their existence in our own lives.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas has great appreciation for NBA greats. He has had notable, priCELTICS vate conversations NOTEBOOK with his two idols — Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson — as well as his namesake, Pistons Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas. But there is one legend he has yet to come in contact with, and he would like to change that. On Thursday night, Thomas stood at his locker and commented on the famous former Celtic who was in the arena as Boston took a 109-102 win over the Pacers. “Larry Bird was here, too,” Thomas said. “I want to meet him, really. I’ve never even shook his hand.” When it was pointed out that the ever-competitive Bird, the Pacers’ president, might not want to shake Thomas’s hand after he smoked Indiana for 28 points, 9 assists, and 1 win, Thomas nodded. “He probably doesn’t,” he said. “But one day I want to do that.” Thomas, who grew up in Tacoma, Wash., was a Lakers fan as a child, mostly because it was his father’s favorite team and because of Bryant. He was just 3 years old when Bird retired in 1992, but he studies many of the game’s greats, even long after their playing days have passed. He said he truly appreciated Bird’s swagger. “He was calling out stuff before he did it,” he said. “That’s special. Maybe one day I’ll get to that level, but if you call out the move before you do it, and complete it, you’re a bad man.”

Celtics play host Josh Speidel was one of the top high school basketball players in Indiana when a devastating car crash on Feb. 1, 2015, left him with a traumatic brain injury. Speidel had to relearn simple tasks such as how to walk and talk. Although the incident derailed his dreams of becoming a college basketball player, the University of Vermont still honored the scholarship it had offered him, and he enrolled there as a freshman this fall. Celtics coach Brad Stevens, an Indiana native who has retained close ties to this region, was familiar with Speidel’s story. On Wednesday night, the Celtics had an off day in Indianapolis, and Speidel was here with the Catamounts, who were playing against Butler University, Stevens’s former team. So Stevens reached out to Vermont’s director of basketball operations and requested a meeting with Speidel. The two spoke at Wednesday’s game, and on Thursday morning, Speidel was Stevens’s guest at the Celtics’ shootaround. “He’s an inspiring kid,” Stevens said. “We’ve all been inspired by his journey. It was a pleasure for me to meet him.” Celtics rookie Jaylen Brown played against Speidel on the summer AAU basketball circuit when both were in high school, and the two visited after Thursday’s shootaround. “It was fun watching Jaylen Brown say, ‘Oh, that’s Josh? He kicked my butt in AAU ball,’ ” Stevens said. “So it was fun to see Jaylen and him have that moment and spend time together. Hopefully it was fun for Josh to be around.” Stevens and Celtics assistant coach Micah Shrewsberry — also a former Butler assistant — attended the Bulldogs’ game together. Stevens said he has made it to one Butler game in each of the last three seasons.

“When our schedule comes out, we cross-schedule it with theirs right away,” he said. “It’s the first thing we do.”

Young staying ready Celtics forward James Young entered Thursday night with just 14 points this season, and 12 of them came during the Celtics’ last visit to Indianapolis. On Nov. 12, with Jae Crowder and Al Horford both sidelined, Young came off the bench and poured in 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting in just 16 minutes. Boston probably would not have grabbed the 105-99 win over the Pacers without him. Since then, however, playing time has been at a premium for Young. Stevens said it is not an indictment on Young’s progression; it is more that Boston is finally healthy. “There’s only five you can play at a time, right?” Stevens said. “He’s doing a great job. I sat down with him the other day and talked to him about how pleased we are with his progress and everything else. But there’s only so many people that can play in a game. There’s just not a lot of time, but inevitably you’re going to have guys out, so that’s when you just prepare for your time and take advantage of it.” Young said he was encouraged by the conversation with Stevens. “It just keeps me at a high level,” he said. “It keeps my confidence up that he sees it.”

Rozier still a fan Stevens wasn’t the only member of the Celtics to check in with his former team on Wednesday. Terry Rozier traveled to Louisville, which is about 100 miles south of Indianapolis, to see his Cardinals face Kentucky in one of the top games of the college basketball season. Rozier said he was told by several people that Louisville coach Rick

Thunder thumbnails R When, where: Friday, 7:30 p.m., at TD Garden. R TV, radio: CSN, WZLX (100.7 FM). R Scoring: Russell Westbrook 31.3, Victor Oladipo 16.1, Enes Kanter 12.6. R Rebounding: Westbrook 10.5, Steven Adams 7.4, Kanter 6.1. R Assists: Westbrook 10.8, Oladipo 2.8, Semaj Christon 2.5. R Head to head: This is the second of two meetings this season. The Thunder won, 99-96, on Dec. 11 in Oklahoma City. R Miscellany: The Thunder (1712) have lost three of five since defeating the Celtics. In that contest, Westbrook had his triple-double streak broken at seven games. He finished with 37 points, 12 boards, and 6 assists . . . Also in that game, Oladipo suffered a sprained right wrist. He will miss his sixth straight game . . . The Thunder play 15 of their next 20 games on the road. Their next homestand of more than one game doesn’t start until Feb. 1.

CELTICS pointers. And while no one likes flawed shooting nights, it can be encouraging to gobble up road wins in spite of them. Boston’s formula to finish off this game was familiar, as Thomas scored 12 of his 28 points in the final 4 minutes, 35 seconds. But the defining moments came much earlier, and they did not involve Thomas or even Horford, the only other Celtic to ever appear in an All-Star game. At the start of the second quarter, with the Celtics trailing, 31-22, coach Brad Stevens installed an unusual, tall, and versatile lineup that consisted of Smart, Jaylen Brown, Crowder, Jonas Jerebko, and Kelly Olynyk. That group went on a 17-0 run, mostly against the Pacers reser ves, and the game’s entire rhythm shifted. The Pacers were held scoreless for the first 5:28 of the second period. During that stretch they missed all eight of their shots and committed four turnovers, and sleepy Bankers Life Fieldhouse had all the buzz of a bus stop. “That second unit was a little bit bigger, matched their size a little bit,” Stevens said. “I just felt like if we could play through Smart in the post some that would be beneficial, and then we started really guard-

ing, and we got on the floor a couple of times and then it kind of turned in our favor.” Paul George was on the bench for most of that defining run, but when he was on the court, very little came easily for him. The Celtics sent waves of smaller, aggressive defenders at the 6-foot-9-inch AllStar, including the relentless 6-2 guard Avery Bradley, who smothered George for several long stretches. Although George finished with 19 points, he made just 5 of 16 shots and turned the ball over five times. “I just tried to make everything hard on him,” Bradley said. “The refs were just letting us play. I feel like I always have a chance to play good defense when I’m able to be aggressive and the referees just let me guard.” The Celtics forced 19 turnovers, tied for their third-highest total this season. This three-game trip also included their second-highest forced turnover total of the year — 23 vs. Miami — so there is a growing sense that this team is gradually reclaiming the identity that made it such a menace a year ago. The Pacers trailed by as many as 17 points in the third quarter before they slowly crawled back. With 5:26 left in the game, C.J. Miles hit a 3-pointer to make it 87-83.

Then Thomas, coming off a career-high 44 points against Memphis on Tuesday, gave the Celtics a boost. In just over two minutes, he made two layups, two free throws, and one deep 3-pointer, keeping the Pacers from turning their minor comeback into something more serious. “The fourth quarter ain’t for everybody,” Thomas said, making it clear that it is, indeed, for him. With 16 seconds left and Indiana trailing, 105-100, Miles was fouled while taking a 3-pointer. But he made just two of the three foul shots, and the Pacers could get no closer. “This is a big one,” Thomas said. “The last game of the trip is always the biggest one.” But if you ask Stevens, he will say that the next game is always the biggest one. And the next one will probably not be easy for the Celtics. The Thunder, who arrived in Boston on Thursday and practiced at Northeastern while the Celtics were busy on the road, will be rested and ready for Friday’s meeting at TD Garden. They defeated the Celtics in Oklahoma City on Dec. 11, and the sour taste from that loss has lingered. “I want payback,” Bradley said. “We’re going to go and play as hard as we can tomorrow, no excuses. I’m ready.”

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Celtics 109, Pacers 102 At Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis BOSTON FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Johnson ......24 5-7 0-2 1-6 1 3 11 Crowder .....35 2-2 5-9 1-5 2 2 15 Horford.......33 3-12 2-2 3-11 1 2 8 Bradley .......31 6-13 3-3 1-6 0 4 15 Thomas.......32 9-21 8-9 0-1 9 4 28 Olynyk ........20 4-8 1-1 0-5 2 3 11 Smart..........25 2-8 7-8 0-4 3 5 12 Rozier............7 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Jerebko.......15 2-4 0-0 1-4 1 0 5 Brown .........18 2-7 0-0 2-2 0 4 4 Totals.......... 38-92 23-27 9-44 19 27 109

PPG 6.3 13.4 15.3 17.9 26.7 8.2 9.4 6.0 4.7 5.2

FG%: .413, FT%: .852. 3-pt. goals: 10-39, .256 (Johnson 1-2, Crowder 3-5, Horford 0-3, Bradley 0-3, Thomas 2-11, Olynyk 2-5, Smart 1-4, Rozier 0-3, Jerebko 1-3). Team rebounds: 7. Team turnovers: 10 (8 pts.). Blocks: 2 (Horford, Smart). Turnovers: 10 (Johnson, Crowder 3, Horford, Bradley 2, Olynyk 2, Rozier). Steals: 10 (Johnson, Crowder, Bradley 3, Olynyk, Smart 2, Rozier, Brown). Technicals: Bradley, 2:13/1st. INDIANA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt PPG T.Young ......37 6-11 0-2 1-12 4 2 15 11.9 George........41 5-16 9-10 1-8 5 4 19 21.7 Turner.........30 5-11 0-0 1-8 0 3 10 15.3 GRbnsn.......35 1-9 0-0 2-6 1 1 2 5.9 Teague........35 9-15 11-11 1-5 8 4 31 15.9 Miles ...........27 7-13 3-4 0-2 0 3 19 11.6 Brooks ........13 0-3 2-2 0-2 2 2 2 5.2 Allen..............6 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 1.6 Jefferson ....15 2-4 0-0 2-7 0 2 4 8.0 Srphn ............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 3.7 Totals.......... 35-82 25-29 9-52 20 21 102 FG%: .427, FT%: .862. 3-pt. goals: 7-23, .304 (T.Young 3-6, George 0-3, Turner 0-1, Robinson III 0-2, Teague 2-4, Miles 2-6, Brooks 0-1). Team rebounds: 6. Team turnovers: 19 (13 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Turner, Teague, Miles). Turnovers: 19 (T.Young, George 5, Turner 2, Robinson III 3, Teague 4, Miles, Brooks 2, Allen). Steals: 5 (T.Young, George 2, Robinson III, Brooks). Technicals: def. 3-second, 4:06/2nd, George, 8:37/4th. Boston ................................. 22 29 26 32 — 109 Indiana ................................ 31 9 27 35 — 102 A — 17,577 (18,165). T — 2:21. Officials — Tom Washington, Bennie Adams, Nick Buchert.

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Draymond Green, who returned to the Bay Area early Thursday after the birth of his son, Draymond Jamal Green Jr. Brook Lopez scored 28 points, but just five in the second half as the Nets dropped their fourth straight. They complete a back-toback against the last two NBA champions when they visit Cleveland on Friday. Golden State earned its sixth consecutive win and improved the NBA’s best record to 26-4. Golden State returned with 12 straight to cut it to 65-61 on Curry’s jumper, outscored the Nets 39-19 and took an 88-84 edge to the fourth. It was soon 103-91 after consecutive baskets by Shaun Livingston, and the Warriors kept pouring it on until they got their starters to the bench for good with a few minutes

left. Heat 115, Lakers 107 — Justise Winslow and Hassan Whiteside each finished with 23 points and 13 rebounds, and host Miami rallied from 19 points down to beat Los Angeles. Winslow set a career high for points and tied a career best in rebounds for the Heat, who raised Shaquille O'Neal’s No. 32 jersey to the rafters in a halftime ceremony. Goran Dragic scored 21 and James Johnson 19 for Miami, which snapped a three-game slide and went 3-3 on its six-game homestand. Lou Williams scored 27 points for the Lakers, who fell to 5-14 on the road. Nick Young scored 20 and D'Angelo Russell had 17. The largest deficit Miami had overcome this season was 14, against Milwaukee on Nov. 17 — a

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Pct. GB Streak Home .714 — W2 11-5 .586 3½ W4 6-5 .552 4½ W2 11-4 .250 13 L1 5-14 .250 13 L4 6-8

Conf. 13-4 13-5 8-7 5-12 2-13

CENTRAL Cleveland Chicago Indiana Milwaukee Detroit

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Pct. GB Streak Home .778 — W3 14-2 L1 8-6 .500 7½ .484 8 L2 11-5 .481 8 L2 9-7 .452 9 L4 8-6

Conf. 16-4 10-8 8-10 9-10 8-11

SOUTHEAST Charlotte Atlanta Washington Orlando Miami

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Pct. GB Streak Home .552 — W2 9-6 .483 2 L1 7-7 .464 2½ W1 10-6 .419 4 L1 5-10 .333 6½ W1 5-11

Conf. 10-9 11-7 9-10 8-12 5-13

WESTERN CONFERENCE PACIFIC Golden State *LA Clippers Sacramento LA Lakers Phoenix

W L 26 4 21 8 12 17 11 21 8 21

Pct. GB Streak Home .867 — W6 12-2 .724 4½ W1 10-4 .414 13½ W2 6-6 .344 16 L3 6-7 .276 17½ L4 4-9

Conf. 18-4 14-3 9-9 6-13 3-17

SOUTHWEST *San Antonio Houston Memphis New Orleans Dallas

W L 23 5 22 8 19 12 10 21 8 21

Pct. GB Streak Home .821 — W5 8-4 W1 10-3 .733 2 .613 5½ W1 11-7 .323 14½ L1 6-10 .276 15½ W1 6-8

Conf. 13-3 16-5 11-5 4-18 5-13

NORTHWEST Utah Oklahoma City Portland Denver Minnesota

W 18 17 13 12 9

Pct. GB Streak Home .600 — L2 10-6 .586 ½ W1 11-6 .419 5½ L4 8-5 .414 5½ L1 6-7 .321 8 W2 4-10

Conf. 13-9 9-7 9-13 7-10 4-12

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THURSDAY’S RESULTS BOSTON 109 Golden St. 117

at Indiana 102 at Brooklyn 101

At New York 106

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game that turned wildly and became a Heat rout. This one wasn’t decided until the final moments. Knicks 106, Magic 95 — Derrick R o s e s c o r e d 1 9 p o i n t s , Ky l e O'Quinn had 14 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, and New York beat visiting Orlando. Carmelo Anthony and Willy Hernangomez each had 15 points for New York, which has won two in a row since a three-game losing streak. Kristaps Porzingis scored 12 points and reserve Brandon Jennings had 12 assists in 22 minutes. Orlando led only once, 12-11, on D.J. Augustin’s short jumper with 6:13 left in the first quarter. The Knicks responded with a 16-5 run for a 27-17 lead. Serge Ibaka led the Magic with 23 points and collected 10 rebounds. Evan Fournier scored 21 points.

At Miami 115

LA Lakers 107

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Orlando 95

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Washington at Milwaukee

LA Lakers at Orlando

Miami at New Orleans

Chicago at Charlotte

Atlanta at Denver

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Brooklyn at Cleveland

7:30

Philadelphia at Phoenix

Golden St. at Detroit

7:30

Toronto at Utah

Houston at Memphis

San Antonio at Portland

Dallas at LA Clippers

Sacramento at Minnesota

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WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS At Cleveland 113 Milwaukee 102

Washington 107

Minnesota 92

at Atlanta 84

Houston 125

Memphis 98

at Detroit 86

Sacramento 94

Okla. City 121at New Orleans 110

WARRIORS 117, NETS 101 GOLDEN STATE FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Looney.. 18 2-5 0-0 2-6 Durant... 34 10-23 5-6 0-9 Pchli ...... 26 6-9 3-4 7-14 Curry..... 33 6-19 0-0 0-2 KThpsn . 35 9-24 0-0 0-5 McGee .... 4 0-0 1-2 0-0 Igdala.... 25 3-6 0-0 1-6 West...... 16 4-5 2-2 1-6 Clark ..... 15 4-6 0-0 0-0 McCaw ... 8 1-2 0-0 0-0 Varejao... 5 0-0 0-0 0-1 Lvngstn. 18 2-4 0-0 0-2 McAdoo .. 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 47Totals .... 11-14 11-51 104

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FG%: .452, FT%: .786. 3-pt. goals: 1237, .324 (Durant 1-7, Curry 3-13, Thompson 5-10, Iguodala 2-5, Clark 0-1, McCaw 1-1). Team rebounds: 7. Team turnovers: 13 (15 pts.). Blocks: 7 (Looney, Durant, Pachulia, McGee, Iguodala, West 2). Turnovers: 12 (Pachulia, Curry 2, Thompson 2, Iguodala, West 3, McCaw, Livingston 2). Steals: 19 (Looney, Durant 3, Curry 5, Thompson 4, Iguodala 2, West 2, Clark, Livingston). Technicals: Durant, 7:42/2nd. BROOKLYN FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Booker .. 24 2-5 0-0 3-7 Bgdnvc.. 26 5-10 0-0 1-3 Lopez .... 31 9-16 6-6 0-8 Lin.......... 32 4-12 0-0 0-8 Kilptrk... 32 4-11 5-7 0-4 Hmilton. 18 1-3 0-0 0-4 Dnwdi.... 11 1-3 0-0 0-0 Hls-Jfsn. 24 6-15 0-1 3-6 Harris.... 19 3-4 0-0 0-3 LeVert... 13 2-6 1-2 0-1 Bennett... 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 Foye ........ 3 0-0 0-0 0-1 Scola ....... 3 1-1 0-0 0-1 Totals .... 38-86 12-16 7-46

A 1 0 2 11 2 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 22

F Pt 1 4 3 12 3 28 1 10 1 14 2 2 0 2 2 13 2 9 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 15 101

FG%: .442, FT%: .750. 3-pt. goals: 1335, .371 (Bogdanovic 2-5, Lopez 4-9, Lin 2-7, Kilpatrick 1-5, Hamilton 0-2, HollisJefferson 1-3, Harris 3-3, LeVert 0-1). Team rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 26 (32 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Bogdanovic, Lopez 2, Lin 2, Hollis-Jefferson). Turnovers: 26 (Booker 2, Bogdanovic 3, Lopez 6, Lin 5, Kilpatrick 4, Hamilton, Hollis-Jefferson, Harris 2, Foye, Scola). Steals: 6 (Booker 2, Lin 2, Hollis-Jefferson 2). Golden State ........33 16 39 29 — 117 Brooklyn................34 31 19 17 — 101 A — 17,732 (17,732). T — 2:07. Officials — Monty McCutchen, Steve Anderson, Scott Wall.

Warriors cruise to win over Nets Kevin Durant had 26 points, nine rebounds and seven assists, and the Golden State Warriors turned an ugly NBA start into an easy ROUNDUP finish in a 117-101 victor y over the Nets on Thursday night in Brooklyn. Klay Thompson added 23 p o i n t s f o r t h e Wa r r i o r s , w h o opened a three-game road trip that leads into their NBA Finals rematch in Cleveland on Christmas. They didn’t look ready while falling behind by 16 at halftime, but were back to their sometimes unstoppable selves while outscoring the Nets by 32 points over the final 24 minutes. Stephen Curry and Zaza Pachulia each finished with 15 points for the Warriors, who played without

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Pitino even showed some old clips of Rozier to his team before the Cardinals’ 73-70 win. Louisville went 0-3 against Kentucky during Rozier’s two years there, so he was pleased to see a reversal of fortune. “I felt like I was still part of the game, and to play against our rivals like that, it was a great first game to be back to watch the boys play,” he said. “It was great just to see them get that big win, how happy the guys were, especially Ricky P. That was big-time.”

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ATLANTIC Toronto BOSTON New York Philadelphia Brooklyn

KNICKS 106, MAGIC 95 ORLANDO FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Gordon.. 19 3-8 0-0 0-2 Ibaka..... 32 10-18 0-0 3-10 Bymbo .. 27 3-6 3-4 1-6 Agustin . 20 1-4 0-0 0-3 Fournier 36 9-17 2-2 1-5 Payton .. 31 4-11 1-2 2-8 Vucevic. 27 4-11 2-4 3-5 Green .... 29 3-8 4-4 0-1 Watson . 17 2-5 0-0 0-1 Hezonja .. 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 Rudez...... 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 Zrmn Jr... 1 0-2 0-0 0-0 Totals .... 39-90 12-16 10-41

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A 1 3 1 3 3 0 0 12 3 0 0 0 26

at Utah 93 at Portland 95

HEAT 115, LAKERS 107 LA LAKERS FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ingram.. 35 2-7 0-2 3-7 Deng...... 34 5-10 0-0 0-7 Mozgov. 30 6-11 2-2 1-6 Russell .. 32 7-16 0-0 0-4 Young ... 36 7-14 1-1 0-0 Clrksn ... 25 2-10 0-0 0-2 Wilms.... 28 8-17 8-8 0-2 TRbnsn . 18 3-4 2-2 5-12 WldPce ... 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 Totals .... 40-90 13-15 9-40

A 2 2 0 7 1 3 1 2 0 18

F Pt 3 4 1 13 1 14 4 17 2 20 0 4 1 27 2 8 0 0 14 107

FG%: .444, FT%: .867. 3-pt. goals: 1438, .368 (Ingram 0-2, Deng 3-6, Russell 3-8, Young 5-11, Clarkson 0-3, Williams 3-7, World Peace 0-1). Team rebounds: 7. Team turnovers: 14 (20 pts.). Blocks: 2 (Mozgov, Robinson). Turnovers: 13 (Ingram, Deng 2, Mozgov, Russell 6, Clarkson, Williams, Robinson). Steals: 7 (Deng 2, Russell, Young 2, Clarkson 2). Technicals: Robinson, 10:54/4th. MIAMI FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T McRbrts 16 2-2 0-0 1-2 Wnslw... 42 10-16 3-6 3-13 Whtsde. 37 9-12 5-6 3-13 Rchdsn.. 37 4-11 0-0 1-5 Dragic ... 36 6-15 6-7 0-2 T.Jhnsn . 34 5-14 0-0 0-1 J.Jhnsn .. 26 8-11 0-2 0-8 Reed........ 6 1-2 0-0 2-2 Babbitt.... 6 0-1 0-0 0-1 Totals .... 45-84 14-21 10-47

A 0 3 0 3 7 6 6 0 0 25

F Pt 2 4 1 23 3 23 2 9 2 21 1 14 2 19 1 2 1 0 15 115

FG%: .536, FT%: .667. 3-pt. goals: 1122, .500 (Winslow 0-1, Richardson 1-3, Dragic 3-6, T.Johnson 4-6, J.Johnson 3-5, Babbitt 0-1). Team rebounds: 4. Team turnovers: 13 (22 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Whiteside, Richardson, T.Johnson, J.Johnson, Reed 2). Turnovers: 12 (Winslow 3, Whiteside, Richardson 2, Dragic 3, J.Johnson 3). Steals: 7 (Winslow 4, Whiteside, T.Johnson, Reed). Technicals: Whiteside, 10:54/4th. LA Lakers..............25 35 20 27 — 107 Miami ....................17 36 29 33 — 115 A — 19,712 (19,600). T — 2:30. Officials — Ed Malloy, Mark Lindsay, Aaron Smith.

KINGS 94, JAZZ 93 Wednesday night game

Pt 6 23 9 2 21 10 10 10 4 0 0 0 95

FG%: .433, FT%: .750. 3-pt. goals: 527, .185 (Gordon 0-3, Ibaka 3-7, Augustin 0-2, Fournier 1-5, Payton 1-4, Vucevic 0-1, Green 0-2, Watson 0-3). Team rebounds: 11. Team turnovers: 16 (12 pts.). Blocks: 7 (Ibaka, Biyombo 5, Fournier). Turnovers: 16 (Gordon, Ibaka 3, Augustin, Fournier 2, Payton 6, Vucevic, Green 2). Steals: 7 (Biyombo, Payton 2, Vucevic, Green 3). NEW YORK FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Przngs... 27 5-11 0-0 2-4 Anthny.. 29 5-17 5-5 1-8 Noah ..... 22 2-5 2-2 4-7 Lee......... 29 4-7 0-0 1-3 Rose ...... 26 7-16 4-4 1-5 OQuinn . 24 6-12 2-2 5-16 Hrngmz. 21 7-11 0-0 3-5 Jenngs... 22 1-5 1-2 1-1 Kzmnks. 18 2-3 1-2 0-2 Holiday . 20 2-8 0-0 0-0 Baker ...... 1 0-1 0-0 0-1 Vujacic.... 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 Totals .... 41-96 15-17 18-52

Dallas 96

at Chicago 97 at Phoenix 111

F Pt 1 12 2 15 2 6 1 10 2 19 2 14 3 15 2 4 3 6 0 5 0 0 0 0 18 106

FG%: .427, FT%: .882. 3-pt. goals: 920, .450 (Porzingis 2-2, Anthony 0-3, Lee 2-3, Rose 1-2, O'Quinn 0-1, Hernangomez 1-3, Jennings 1-2, Kuzminskas 1-2, Holiday 1-2). Team rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 15 (19 pts.). Blocks: 9 (Porzingis 2, Lee, O'Quinn 5, Kuzminskas). Turnovers: 15 (Porzingis 3, Anthony, Noah 3, Lee 2, O'Quinn, Hernangomez, Jennings 3, Baker). Steals: 9 (Porzingis, Anthony, Noah 2, Lee 2, Jennings, Kuzminskas, Holiday). Orlando .................19 28 25 23 — 95 New York..............27 30 24 25 — 106 A — 19,812 (19,763). T — 2:11. Officials — Sean Wright, Eric Dalen, Ben Taylor.

SACRAMENTO FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Barnes .. 27 3-7 0-1 2-3 Cousins. 31 5-18 10-13 1-8 Koufos .. 12 1-1 0-0 1-4 McLmr .. 17 3-6 0-0 1-2 Cllsn ...... 22 4-9 0-0 0-1 Cly-Stn.. 19 2-4 1-2 0-5 Tolliver . 30 2-3 0-0 2-7 Temple . 28 4-7 0-0 0-2 Lawson . 26 7-11 5-8 0-5 Afflalo ... 27 3-8 0-0 1-4 Totals .... 34-74 16-24 8-41

A 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 3 13

F 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 5 2 4 19

Pt 8 21 2 6 8 5 6 11 19 8 94

FG%: .459, FT%: .667. 3-pt. goals: 1021, .476 (Barnes 2-3, D.Cousins 1-3, McLemore 0-1, Collison 0-1, Tolliver 2-3, Temple 3-5, Lawson 0-1, Afflalo 2-4). Team rebounds: 5. Team turnovers: 11 (16 pts.). Blocks: 3 (D.Cousins, CauleyStein 2). Turnovers: 10 (D.Cousins 3, McLemore 2, Collison, Temple, Lawson, Afflalo 2). Steals: 5 (Barnes, McLemore 2, Tolliver, Lawson). UTAH FG FT Min M-A M-A Diaw...... 24 2-3 0-0 Hywrd... 40 9-18 8-9 Gobert... 35 6-9 5-7 Ingles .... 39 3-9 2-2 Mack ..... 34 4-10 3-4 Favors... 16 2-6 0-0 Johnson 22 2-7 0-0 Lyles...... 16 3-8 0-0 Neto ...... 14 2-4 0-0 Totals .... 33-74 18-22

Reb O-T 1-3 1-10 2-14 1-4 0-3 1-4 0-1 1-3 0-1 7-43

A 8 3 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 19

F 1 3 4 4 3 1 1 2 3 22

Pt 4 28 17 10 13 4 6 7 4 93

FG%: .446, FT%: .818. 3-pt. goals: 927, .333 (Hayward 2-5, Ingles 2-7, Mack 2-5, J.Johnson 2-5, Lyles 1-4, Neto 0-1). Team rebounds: 4. Team turnovers: 11 (11 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Diaw, Gobert 3, Favors, Lyles). Turnovers: 11 (Diaw 2, Hayward 3, Ingles 2, Mack, J.Johnson, Lyles 2). Steals: 7 (Diaw, Gobert, Ingles 2, Favors, Lyles, Neto). Sacramento..........17 21 24 32 — Utah .......................24 24 25 20 —

94 93

A — 19,195 (19,911). T — 2:13. Officials — Derrick Stafford, Mitchell Ervin, Josh Tiven.

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Goals still not easy to come by Bergeron nets rare power-play strike By Kevin Paul Dupont GLOBE STAFF

SUNRISE, Fla. — Back at work after what Claude Julien labeled an “embarrassing” effort two nights earlier in a BRUINS 4-2 loss to the IsNOTEBOOK landers, the calmer coach preached the obvious Thursday morning. The whole world looks better when you are scoring goals, said Julien. “When you don’t score goals,” he said, following a morning workout at the BB&T Center, “it really does tarnish all the good things you do and would probably talk about.” But until further notice, it takes goals to win, and Julien’s charges have been challenged around the net of late, particularly on the power play. Headed into their 3-1 win over the Panthers, they had scored on only three of their last 40 times on the man-advantage, dropping them to 29th in the league with an anemic 12.7 success rate for the season. However, they were 1 for 3 on the power play against Florida, the goal coming from Patrice Bergeron in the second period. “You say things after the heat of the moment,” said Julien, adding detail to his postgame comments on Tuesday when he openly questioned whether his team was ready to play. “I’m embarrassed because I don’t like our home record.” The Bruins slipped to 8-9-0 at home with the loss to the Islanders and they have been particularly bad on home ice of late, losing four of their last five. Home losses particularly resonate with Buffalobased ownership, because as the losses mount, the appetite for consumer spending among Black and

Hurricanes thumbnails R When, where: Friday, 7:30 p.m., at PNC Arena, Raleigh, N.C. R TV, radio: NESN, WBZ-FM (98.5). R Goals: Jeff Skinner 13, Victor Rask 10, Teuvo Teravainen 8. R Assists: Rask 16, Skinner 14, Sebastian Aho 11, Jaccob Slavin 11. R Goaltending: Cam Ward (11-8-6, 2.25 GAA), Eddie Lack (1-2-1, 3.80). R Head to head: This is the second of three meetings this season. The Bruins won, 2-1 in a shootout, Dec. 1 at TD Garden. R Miscellany: The Hurricanes (14-11-7) have gone past regulation in five of their last 10 games, with four shootouts . . . Carolina’s most recent home game, Monday against Detroit, was postponed because of poor ice conditions caused by the arena’s cooling system. That game has yet to be rescheduled, but Friday’s game isn’t expected to be affected by the malfunction.

Gold fans goes down. Owner Jeremy Jacobs said in September that he expected the Bruins to make a deep playoff run. At the moment, they look like they will be challenged to avoid missing the postseason for a third straight season, something that hasn’t happened in the post-Bobby Orr era. Giving up the game’s first goal, and too often working with a deficit, noted Julien, wears on a club’s psyche. The Bruins really haven’t had an easy night at work since a 4-1 win over Tampa Bay on Nov. 27. They have played 13 games since then, and the difference in nine of those games was a single goal.

Still going strong He will be 45 in February, with ample gray in his beard, but any talk about retiring is a conversation for someone else. Jaromir Jagr stays on the job, and keeps piling up the points. “Before it was different, there was lot of pressure on me to score every single game,” said Jagr, who had a brief tour with the Bruins, including a 22-game playoff run in 2013 when he didn’t score a goal. “I’m not saying there isn’t [pressure] now, but I am not the best player in the world so I don’t produce every night. I am trying to,

but if I don’t no big deal.” With an assist on Florida’s lone goal in a 3-1 loss to the Bruins Thursday night, Jagr moved past Mark Messier for second place on the NHL’s all-time points list with 1,888. He takes sole ownership of what is sure to be the league’s alltime runner-up position, not even Jagr able to eclipse Wayne Gretzky’s 2,857. Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask on Jagr’s historic point: “Good for him. I am happy for him. I’m honored to be in the books with him.” “I love the game and I don’t mind to work hard on it,” Jagr said earlier in the day. “I try to get better every day. I always believed, no matter how old you are, you can always get better. You can be better than you were yesterday. That’s my opinion. Probably a lot of people think different ways, but not me. If I work hard, if I give time to that, why not work at something that makes you happy?” Asked before the game if he would like to have Messier in attendance if he were to break the mark, a smiling Jagr said, “In my opinion, better for him to stay with his family for the Christmas.”

Pastrnak, Vatrano back With David Pastrnak and Frank Vatrano back in the lineup, it meant a night in the press box for

Tim Schaller and Noel Acciari. Schaller was 4-6—10 in his 31 games, at times filling in as a top six winger because of injuries and underperforming top talent. Acciari, sidelined by injury for a month, was 0-2—2 in 18 games . . . Look for backup goalie Anton Khudobin to get the start in Raleigh on Friday, the club’s final game before the brief holiday break. Khudobin, who relieved Rask in the middle of the Islander loss, was with the Hurricanes for almost two seasons before they dealt him to the Ducks . . . Left winger Seth Griffith, waived by the Bruins on the eve of the season opener, began the night on the Panthers’ No. 1 line with Aleksander Barkov and Jagr . . . ExBruin Shawn Thornton, who has decided to make this his last season, entered the evening with a lone assist in 11 games. One wag suggested that he still has time to get hot and perhaps chase Jagr for No. 2 on the all-time scoring list. “Yeah, I’m only 1,800 points away, I think,” said the ever-good natured Thornton. The game vs. the Bruins was the 667th of Thornton’s career, and he came in with a line of 40-59—99. “I’ve been closing in on 100 for a long time,’’ he said . . . Former Bruin Reilly Smith landed a couple of shots on net but didn’t pick up a point. After collecting 50 points last season and landing a rich contract extension, Smith is a modest 6-8—14 this season . . . Torey Krug picked up two assists, his first two-point game since collecting two helpers in back-to-back games on Nov. 27 and 29 . . . David Backes, who had the empty-netter to wrap it up, missed a wide-open shot from the right side earlier in the night when Austin Czarnik fed him a perfect feed to the back door left post. Backes’s shot went under goalie James Riemer and through the crease, keeping the game scoreless.

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goal, scored by Aleksander Barkov with 6:40 remaining in the third period. The point, the 1,888th of his career, moved the great Czech forward into second place on the league’s all-time points list, behind Wayne Gretzky’s 2,857. Jagr had been tied for second with ex-Oilers legend Mark Messier. As planned before the game, play was halted for some 4-5 minutes to honor Jagr. He received a gold-plated stick and made a brief speech at center ice, thanking the Bruins, the Panthers, and the fans. “It went off my ass,” said Jagr, describing the memorable point, the crowd breaking into laughter. Indeed it did, with former Boston College defenseman Mike Matheson firing the puck that went off the 44-year-old Jagr’s backside. Barkov jumped on the loose puck and history was made. “I didn’t even know it hit him,” said Rask, adding with a laugh, “That’s great, maybe they’ll give me a gold stick.” David Backes scored into an empty net with 1:23 left in regulation for Boston’s final goal. Vatrano, sidelined the first 34 games this season after undergoing ankle surgery for torn ligaments in late-September, connected only 2:09 into the second period, snapping a 20-footer through goalie James Reimer’s pads. Torey Krug set it up with a pass off the rush that Vatrano collected on his backhand, then converted to his forehand before rocketing it home. “Obviously, really rewarding,”

At BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla. FIRST PERIOD No scoring Penalty — Boston, Pastrnak (hooking) 11:22 Penalty — Florida, Trocheck (high-sticking) 14:21 SECOND PERIOD Boston 1, Florida 0 — Vatrano 1 (Krug) 2:09 Penalty — Florida, Griffith (hooking) 3:36 Boston 2, Florida 0 — Bergeron 5 (Krug, Spooner) 5:13 (pp) Penalty — Boston, Hayes (holding) 5:29 Penalty — Florida, Demers (holding) 8:43 THIRD PERIOD Penalty — Boston, Chara (hooking) 5:37 Boston 2, Florida 1 — Barkov 9 (Jagr, Matheson) 13:20 Boston 3, Florida 1 — Backes 8 (Marchand) 18:37 (en) SCORE BY PERIOD Boston............................................0 2 1 — 3 Florida............................................0 0 1 — 1 SHOTS BY PERIOD Boston............................................8 16 Florida..........................................12 5

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Power plays — Boston 1 of 3; Florida 0 of 3. Goalies — Boston, Rask 17-6-3 (30 shots-29 saves). Florida, Reimer 4-5-2 (32 shots-30 saves). Referees — Tim Peel, Frederick L’Ecuyer. Linesmen — Darren Gibbs, Tim Nowak. Attendance — 14,462 (19,250). Time — 2:37.

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Making his season debut following ankle surgery, Frank Vatrano (72) scored his first goal of the season in the second period. said Vatrano, who fired six times on the night, two of those shots landing on net. “Torey made a great play and we had a lot of good chances tonight. That’s something I always work on, getting pucks off quick, and I was fortunate enough to beat the goalie.” Only 3:04 later, the snakebitten Bergeron scored for the first time since Dec. 3, again with help from

Krug on the power play. With exBruin Seth Griffith in the box for tripping, Ryan Spooner fed a pass across to Krug high in the zone and Kr u g d i s h e d f o r a w i d e - o p e n Bergeron to rip home a 20-footer for only his fifth goal this season. “We’ve talked about being better on the power play,” said Bergeron. “We need to improve in that area and tonight I thought we had some

good looks for both units. It is one thing to get those looks, but you definitely need results. Nice to get that goal.” It was a rare two-goal lead for the Bruins, who never held the advantage Tuesday when they fell, 4-2, to the Islanders at the Garden. On Sunday, they eked out a 1-0 win over the Kings. The Bruins make their second stop on a four-game road swing Friday night in Raleigh, N.C., vs. the Hurricanes. Following a brief holiday break, they have games next week in Columbus and Buffalo before returning to the Garden for a New Year’s Eve matinee vs. the Sabres. The Bruins improved to 10-5-3 on the road. Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at kevin.dupont@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKPD.

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Jeff Skinner and Justin Faulk scored for the Carolina Hurricanes in a 3-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday NHL night. ROUNDUP Cam Ward made 22 saves and Sebastian Aho scored an empty-net goal in the final minute as the Hurricanes beat the Sabres for the second time in six days. Carolina has earned a point in four straight games and plays the Bruins Friday. Carolina had an extended layoff following Saturday’s 2-1 shootout win over Buffalo. Monday’s scheduled game against the Detroit Red Wings was postponed due to unplayable ice at PNC Arena.

The extra rest helped the Hurricanes start fast and take a 2-0 lead in the first period. Skinner scored his team-leading 13th goal on a wrist shot from the right circle 1:14 into the game. Faulk made it 2-0 with 2:09 left in the first period. Lee Stepniak forced a turnover that led to a 3on-2 rush and Faulk snapped a wrist shot over Lehner’s glove for his sixth goal of the season. Blue Jackets 7, Penguins 1 — Scott Hartnell had his ninth career hat trick and Columbus scored four times in a head-spinning third-period flurry to blow out Pittsburgh. Cam Atkinson, William Karlsson, Brandon Saad and Boone Jenner also scored to help the Blue Jackets

win their 11th straight game and take over first place in the Metropolitan Division. Wild 4, Canadiens 2 — Eric Staal's shorthanded goal in the third period broke a tie and helped lead visiting Minnesota to its ninth straight win, tying a team record. Jordan Schroeder and Jared Spurgeon also scored for the Wild (20-8-4), who last won nine in a row in 2007. Devils 4, Flyers 0 — Cory Schneider made 16 saves in his first shutout of the season and host New Jersey s topped a se ven-game losing streak. P.A. Parenteau, Miles Wood, Adam Henrique and Kyle Palmieri scored for New Jersey, which won for the first time since defeating Vancouver, 3-2, on Dec. 6.

Lightning 5, Blues 2 — Alex Killorn scored a go-ahead goal early in the third period, Jonathan Drouin added two late goals and host Tampa Bay rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat St. Louis. Kings 4, Predators 0 — Peter Budaj made 28 saves to lead visiting Los Angeles past Nashville. Nick Shore, Nic Dowd, Jeff Carter and Devin Setoguchi scored for Los Angeles. Senators 2, Ducks 1 — Mike Hoffman scored a power-play goal at 4:03 of overtime to give Ottawa the win over visiting Anaheim. Maple Leafs 6, Avalanche 0 — Nazem Kadri scored twice, Frederik Andersen stopped 38 shots for his first shutout of the season and Toronto routed host Colorado.

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GP 33 34 35 34 34 32 32 33

W 21 20 18 17 15 13 12 14

L OL 8 4 11 3 14 3 14 3 14 5 12 7 12 8 15 4

Pts. ROW 46 20 43 17 39 16 37 15 35 12 33 13 32 11 32 10

GF 103 88 83 100 82 93 70 79

GA 74 89 84 94 93 94 86 93

METROPOLITAN Columbus Pittsburgh NY Rangers Philadelphia Washington Carolina New Jersey NY Islanders

GP 31 34 35 36 31 32 33 32

W 22 21 23 20 19 14 13 12

L OL 5 4 8 5 11 1 12 4 8 4 11 7 13 7 14 6

Pts. ROW 48 20 47 19 47 21 44 16 42 18 35 12 33 11 30 11

GF 108 117 115 110 83 85 79 85

GA 64 99 82 108 69 88 98 101

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL Chicago Minnesota St. Louis Nashville Dallas *Winnipeg Colorado

GP 35 32 35 33 34 35 32

W 22 20 18 15 13 15 11

L OL 9 4 8 4 12 5 13 5 14 7 17 3 20 1

Pts. ROW 48 20 44 19 41 17 35 14 33 13 33 13 23 11

GF 101 95 98 94 86 91 65

GA 84 62 103 94 104 104 105

PACIFIC San Jose Edmonton Anaheim Los Angeles Calgary *Vancouver Arizona

GP 33 35 35 33 35 33 33

W 20 18 17 17 17 14 11

L OL 12 1 12 5 12 6 13 3 16 2 16 3 17 5

Pts. ROW 41 18 41 16 40 16 37 16 36 15 31 11 27 8

GF 84 103 96 85 90 84 74

GA 73 94 99 81 102 101 104

* — Not including late game; ROW — Regulation plus overtime wins

THURSDAY’S RESULTS Boston 3

at Florida 1

At Ottawa 2

Carolina 3

at Buffalo 1

Minnesota 4

at Montreal 2

Los Angeles 4

at Nashville 0

Pittsburgh 1

Toronto 6

at Colorado 0

St. Louis 2

Winnipeg

at Vancouver

At New Jersey 4 At Columbus 7

Philadelphia 0

At Tampa Bay 5

Anaheim 1 (OT)

FRIDAY’S GAMES Boston at Carolina

Detroit at Florida

7:30

Buffalo at NY Islanders

7:30 7

Colorado at Chicago

8:30

Montreal at Columbus

Los Angeles at Dallas

8:30

Tampa Bay at Washington

Vancouver at Calgary

New Jersey at Pittsburgh

Toronto at Arizona

Minnesota at NY Rangers

Edmonton at San Jose

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WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS At Phila. 3

Washington 2 (SO)

WILD 4, CANADIENS 2 Minnesota....................0 Montreal ......................0

2 2

2 — 0 —

DEVILS 4, FLYERS 0 0 1

0 — 1 —

0 4

First period — 1. New Jersey, Parenteau 8 (Cammalleri, Severson), 7:40 (pp). 2. New Jersey, Wood 4 (Henrique), 13:26. Penalties — Cousins, Phi (high-sticking), 6:18. Raffl, Phi (hooking), 8:00. , NJ, served by Wood (too many men), 9:01. Manning, Phi (roughing), 13:48. Cousins, Phi (roughing), 13:48. Gazdic, NJ (roughing), 13:48. Fiddler, NJ (roughing), 13:48. Weise, Phi, major (fighting), 16:30. Fiddler, NJ (roughing), 16:30. Helgeson, NJ, major (fighting), 16:30. Gudas, Phi, served by Konecny, double minor (roughing), 16:30. Giroux, Phi (unsportsmanlike conduct), 18:39. Severson, NJ (unsportsmanlike conduct), 18:39. Simmonds, Phi (roughing), 20:00. Cousins, Phi, major (fighting), 20:00. Cammalleri, NJ, major (fighting), 20:00. Second period — 3. New Jersey, Henrique 8 (Hall, Parenteau), 13:49. Penalties — Simmonds, Phi (boarding), 8:31. Merrill, NJ (interference), 19:14. Third period — 4. New Jersey, Palmieri 5 (Greene, Moore), 18:38 (pp). Penalties — Simmonds, Phi (misconduct), 17:41. Henrique, NJ (misconduct), 17:41. Gudas, Phi (misconduct), 17:41. Simmonds, Phi, served by Konecny (unsportsmanlike conduct), 17:41. Shots on goal — Philadelphia 6-7-3 — 16. New Jersey 8-9-5 — 22. Power plays — Philadelphia 0-2; New Jersey 2-6. Goalies — Philadelphia, Mason 1410-4 (8 shots-6 saves). Philadelphia, Stolarz 2-0-0 (14 shots-12 saves). New Jersey, Schneider 10-10-5 (16 shots-16 saves). Referees — Brian Pochmara, Wes McCauley. Linesmen — Shandor Alphonso, David Brisebois. A — 16,514 (17,625). T — 2:42.

0 2

0 — 4 —

1 7

First period — 1. Pittsburgh, Crosby 23 (Cole, Sheary), 2:39. 2. Columbus, Atkinson 15 (Foligno, Wennberg), 13:01 (pp). Penalties — Cole, Pit, double minor (high-sticking), 10:19. Second period — 3. Columbus, Karlsson 5 (Gagner, Anderson), 10:15. 4. Columbus, Hartnell 6, 12:20. Penalties — Hartnell, Cls (elbowing), 2:44. Oleksy, Pit, major (fighting), 5:45. Jenner, Cls, major (fighting), 5:45. Oleksy, Pit (highsticking), 13:04. Hartnell, Cls (unsportsmanlike conduct), 13:04. Third period — 5. Columbus, Hartnell 7 (Gagner, Johnson), 2:44. 6. Columbus, Saad 12 (Wennberg), 3:01. 7. Columbus, Jenner 6 (Dubinsky, Jones), 3:35. 8. Columbus, Hartnell 8 (Dubinsky, Saad), 6:24. Penalties — Oleksy, Pit (hooking), 4:21. Sheary, Pit (hooking), 7:13. Sedlak, Cls (slashing), 8:23. Sedlak, Cls (roughing), 11:51. Hagelin, Pit (roughing), 18:57. Calvert, Cls (roughing), 18:57. Shots on goal — Pittsburgh 10-6-10 — 26. Columbus 6-12-10 — 28. Power plays — Pittsburgh 0-3; Columbus 1-4. Goalies — Pittsburgh, Fleury 8-5-4 (5 shots-4 saves). Pittsburgh, Murray 133-1 (23 shots-17 saves). Columbus, Bobrovsky 20-5-2 (26 shots-25 saves). Referees — Dan O'Halloran, Kendrick Nicholson. Linesmen — Ryan Gibbons, Scott Cherrey. A — 19,115 (18,144). T — 2:36.

HURRICANES 3, SABRES 1 Carolina........................2 Buffalo..........................0

0 0

1 — 1 —

Toronto ........................3 Colorado ......................0

3 1

First period — 1. Carolina, Skinner 13 (Slavin, Hanifin), 1:44. 2. Carolina, Faulk 6 (Stempniak), 17:51. Penalties — Hanifin, Car (hooking), 2:54. Second period — None. Penalties — Larsson, Buf (holding), 0:48. Okposo, Buf (elbowing), 4:40. Grant, Buf (hooking), 14:13. Staal, Car, major (fighting), 17:19. Bogosian, Buf, major (fighting), 17:19. McCabe, Buf (slashing), 17:19. Third period — 3. Buffalo, Larsson 6 (Reinhart, Foligno), 5:32. 4. Carolina, Aho 6 (Rask, Pesce), 19:00 (en). Penalties — Faulk, Car (hooking), 13:04. Shots on goal — Carolina 6-13-15 — 34. Buffalo 7-5-11 — 23. Power plays — Carolina 0-4; Buffalo 0-2. Goalies — Carolina, Ward 11-8-6 (23 shots-22 saves). Buffalo, Lehner 7-10-5 (33 shots-31 saves). Referees — Kevin Pollock, Dean Morton. Linesmen — Brad Kovachik, Scott Driscoll. A — 18,863 (19,070). T — 2:19.

2 0

1 — 0 —

6 0

First period — 1. Toronto, Matthews 16 (Zaitsev), 7:13. 2. Toronto, Brown 5 (Nylander, Gardiner), 11:49 (pp). 3. Toronto, Kadri 12 (Polak, van Riemsdyk), 18:20. Penalties — Kadri, Tor (holding), 7:48. Polak, Tor (interference), 8:58. RBourque, Col (hooking), 11:05. McLeod, Col (roughing), 13:12. Second period — 4. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 13, 6:05. 5. Toronto, Gauthier 1 (Marner, Gardiner), 8:42. Penalties — Martin, Tor, major (fighting), 2:46. McLeod, Col, major (fighting), 2:46. van Riemsdyk, Tor (tripping), 3:55. Rielly, Tor (hooking), 12:41. , Tor, served by Marner (abuse of officials), 13:13. , Col, served by McLeod (too many men), 17:45. Third period — 6. Toronto, Kadri 13 (Marner, Zaitsev), 13:00 (pp). Penalties — Zadorov, Col (boarding), 2:32. Froese, Tor, major (fighting), 12:01. Martin, Tor (roughing), 12:01. Goloubef, Col, major (fighting), 12:01. Zadorov, Col, served by McLeod, double minor (roughing), 12:01. Gardiner, Tor (tripping), 17:40. Shots on goal — Toronto 13-10-8 — 31. Colorado 13-15-10 — 38. Power plays — Toronto 2-5; Colorado 0-6. Goalies — Toronto, Andersen 13-8-6 (38 shots-38 saves). Colorado, Pickard 5-6-1 (13 shots-12 saves). Colorado, Varlamov 6-14-0 (18 shots-13 saves). Referees — Brad Watson, Chris Schlenker. Linesmen — Trent Knorr, Vaughan Rody. A — 15,502 (18,007). T — 2:33.

KINGS 4, PREDATORS 0 Los Angeles.................1 Nashville ......................0

0 0

3 — 0 —

4 0

First period — 1. Los Angeles, Shore 2, 6:33. Penalties — Irwin, Nsh (interference), 6:51. Pearson, LA (stick holding), 11:09. Second period — None. Penalties — Andreoff, LA, major (fighting), 2:48. Watson, Nsh, major (fighting), 2:48. Josi, Nsh (stick holding), 8:09. Nolan, LA (roughing), 15:17. Third period — 2. Los Angeles, Dowd 4 (Lewis, Pearson), 4:25. 3. Los Angeles, Carter 17, 4:34. 4. Los Angeles, Setoguchi 4 (Kopitar, Brown), 11:39. Penalties — Shore, LA (hooking), 4:52. Shots on goal — Los Angeles 5-14-6 — 25. Nashville 12-9-7 — 28. Power plays — Los Angeles 0-2; Nashville 0-3. Goalies — Los Angeles, Budaj 15-8-3 (28 shots-28 saves). Nashville, Rinne 13-9-4 (25 shots-21 saves). Referees — Tom Chmielewski, Jean Hebert. Linesmen — Brian Mach, Bryan Pancich. A — 17,156 (17,113). T — 2:20.

SENATORS 2, DUCKS 1 Anaheim...................0 Ottawa .....................0

JACKETS 7, PENGUINS 1 Pittsburgh....................1 Columbus.....................1

at Arizona 2

LEAFS 6, AVALANCHE 0 4 2

First period — None. Penalties — Flynn, Mon (holding), 4:14. Folin, Min (tripping), 13:10. Second period — 1. Montreal, Pacioretty 14 (Danault, Weber), 2:01. 2. Minnesota, JSchroeder 1, 7:09. 3. Montreal, Lehkonen 7 (Flynn, Plekanec), 10:35. 4. Minnesota, Spurgeon 2 (Zucker, Granlund), 15:43. Penalties — Gallagher, Mon (slashing), 1:26. Pacioretty, Mon (hooking), 11:35. Third period — 5. Minnesota, Staal 11 (Granlund, Suter), 3:08. 6. Minnesota, Zucker 7, 19:37 (en). Penalties — Coyle, Min (high-sticking), 1:29. Spurgeon, Min (high-sticking), 4:04. Gallagher, Mon (high-sticking), 12:48. , Min, served by Stewart (too many men), 15:27. Shots on goal — Minnesota 13-8-6 — 27. Montreal 11-15-8 — 34. Power plays — Minnesota 0-4; Montreal 0-4. Goalies — Minnesota, Dubnyk 17-6-3 (34 shots-32 saves). Montreal, Price 18-5-2 (26 shots-23 saves). Referees — Eric Furlatt, Dan O'Rourke. Linesmen — Michel Cormier, Mark Shewchyk. A — 21,288 (21,288). T — 2:34.

Philadelphia ................0 New Jersey..................2

Edmonton 3

1 1

0 0

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First period — None. Penalties — Boll, Anh (unsportsmanlike conduct), 4:50. Borowiecki, Ott (unsportsmanlike conduct), 4:50. Boll, Anh, major (fighting), 9:03. Borowiecki, Ott, major (fighting), 9:03. Phaneuf, Ott (slashing), 9:52. Second period — 1. Ottawa, Dzingel 8 (Turris), 1:02. 2. Anaheim, Silfverberg 9 (Perry, Vermette), 19:50 (pp). Penalties — Bieksa, Anh (tripping), 2:47. Stone, Ott (hooking), 19:07. Third period — None. Penalties — Ryan, Ott, double minor (high-sticking), 5:09. Overtime — 3. Ottawa, Hoffman 10 (Phaneuf), 4:03 (pp). Penalties — Cogliano, Anh (high-sticking), 3:23. Shots on goal — Anaheim 6-9-9-1 — 25. Ottawa 5-7-5-1 — 18. Power plays — Anaheim 1-4; Ottawa 1-2. Goalies — Anaheim, Gibson 11-9-5 (18 shots-16 saves). Ottawa, Condon 83-2 (25 shots-24 saves). Referees — Ghislain Hebert, Marc Joannette. Linesmen — Steve Barton, Steve Miller. A — 17,125 (19,153). T — 2:36.

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NEW YORK JETS (4-10) at NEW ENGLAND (12-2) When: Saturday, 1 p.m. Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough. TV radio: CBS, WBZ-FM (98.5). Line: Patriots by 16½.

Patriots ROSTER No. Pos. 3. Stephen Gostkowski................... K 6. Ryan Allen..................................... P 7. Jacoby Brissett ..........................QB 10. Jimmy Garoppolo ......................QB 11. Julian Edelman..........................WR 12. Tom Brady ..................................QB 14. Michael Floyd............................WR 15. Chris Hogan...............................WR 18. Matthew Slater.........................WR 19. Malcolm Mitchell......................WR 21. Malcolm Butler ..........................CB 22. Justin Coleman ..........................CB 23. Patrick Chung ...............................S 24. Cyrus Jones ................................CB 25. Eric Rowe....................................CB 26. Logan Ryan.................................CB 27. D.J. Foster ................................... RB 28. James White............................... RB 29. LeGarrette Blount...................... RB 30. Duron Harmon ..............................S 31. Jonathan Jones ..........................CB 32. Devin McCourty............................S 33. Dion Lewis .................................. RB 36. Brandon King ................................S 37. Jordan Richards............................S 38. Brandon Bolden......................... RB 43. Nate Ebner.....................................S 46. James Develin ............................ RB 49. Joe Cardona ............................... LB 50. Rob Ninkovich............................ LB 51. Barkevious Mingo ..................... LB 52. Elandon Roberts ........................ LB 53. Kyle Van Noy ............................. LB 54. Dont'a Hightower...................... LB 58. Shea McClellin ........................... LB 60. David Andrews ............................ C 61. Marcus Cannon ............................T 62. Joe Thuney ................................... G 68. LaAdrian Waddle..........................T 69. Shaq Mason.................................. C 71. Cameron Fleming.........................T 75. Ted Karras.................................... G 77. Nate Solder....................................T 80. Danny Amendola......................WR 82. Matt Lengel ................................ TE 88. Martellus Bennett ..................... TE 90. Malcom Brown .......................... DT 92. Geneo Grissom .......................... DE 93. Jabaal Sheard ............................ DE 95. Chris Long................................... DE 97. Alan Branch................................ DT 98. Trey Flowers .............................. DE 99. Vincent Valentine...................... DT

Ht. 6-1 6-2 6-4 6-2 5-10 6-4 6-2 6-1 6-0 6-1 5-11 5-11 5-11 5-10 6-1 5-11 6-0 5-10 6-0 6-1 5-10 5-10 5-8 6-2 5-11 5-11 6-0 6-3 6-3 6-2 6-4 6-0 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-5 6-5 6-6 6-1 6-6 6-4 6-8 5-11 6-7 6-6 6-2 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-6 6-2 6-3

Wt. 215 220 235 225 200 225 220 210 205 200 190 190 215 200 205 195 195 205 250 205 190 195 195 220 210 220 220 255 245 260 240 235 243 265 250 295 335 305 315 310 320 305 325 190 266 275 320 265 265 270 350 265 320

STATISTICS PASSING Att. Com. Brady....................372 249 Garoppolo..............60 42 Brissett...................55 34 TEAM ....................487 325 OPPONENTS........538 336

Pct. 66.9 70.0 61.8 66.7 62.5

Yds. 3064 496 400 3960 3692

TD Int. 22 2 4 0 0 0 26 2 19 9

RUSHING Att. Yds. Blount..................... 265 1060 Lewis ........................ 37 183 White........................ 36 143 Brissett..................... 16 83 Brady........................ 27 58 Edelman................... 11 51 Foster ......................... 7 24 Bennett ...................... 2 10 Hogan......................... 3 9 Garoppolo.................. 7 8 Slater.......................... 1 5 Bolden ........................ 1 4 TEAM...................... 413 1638 OPPONENTS.......... 316 1231

Avg. 4.0 5.0 4.0 5.2 2.2 4.6 3.4 5.0 3.0 1.1 5.0 4.0 4.0 3.9

Lg 44 15 16 27t 15 9 7 6 6 10 5 4 44 45

TD 15 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 6

RECEIVING No. Yds. Edelman................... 85 866 Bennett .................... 50 649 Hogan....................... 33 631 Gronkowski ............. 25 540 White........................ 53 498 Mitchell.................... 29 372 Amendola ................ 23 243 Lewis ........................ 14 85 Blount......................... 7 38 Develin ....................... 2 18 Bolden ........................ 2 15 Garoppolo.................. 1 3 Foster ......................... 1 2 TEAM...................... 325 3960 OPPONENTS.......... 336 3692

Avg. 10.2 13.0 19.1 21.6 9.4 12.8 10.6 6.1 5.4 9.0 7.5 3.0 2.0 12.2 11.0

Lg 33 58 79t 53t 61 56t 32 16 16 13 13 3 2 79 66

TD 2 5 4 3 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 19

Floyd acknowledges mistakes Receiver moving on with Patriots By Nora Princiotti GLOBE STAFF

FOXBOROUGH — Receiver Michael Floyd spoke Thursday for the first time since joining the Patriots following his arrest and subsequent release from the Arizona Cardinals last week. “I think in life, everyone makes mistakes. I couldn’t be in a better position right now with this team,” he said. Floyd said he has found the Patriots to be a “family-oriented” organization and that he has been focused on getting ready to play the Jets on Saturday, not on his arrest. “I’m tr ying not to think about it,” Floyd said. “ You know, kind of the coaches and the players that are on the team are trying to keep me focused, and I’m keeping myself focused on the task at hand, which is playing on Saturday and getting ready for that, and that’s what I’ve been doing so far.” Earlier Thursday, speaking to reporters for the first time since Floyd’s blood-alcohol content test results were released, Patriots coach Bill Belichick said he hadn’t seen them before the Patriots claimed the wide receiver off waivers Dec. 15. “No, not if it was just released,” Belichick said.

According to police in Scottsdale, Ariz., Floyd registered a .217 BAC, close to three times the legal limit and considered a “Super Extreme DUI” under Arizona law, at the time of his arrest early Dec. 12. B e l i c h i c k w o u l d n’ t s a y whether the test results changed his opinion of Floyd. It was already known Floyd had been arrested for DUI when he was cut by the Cardinals. “I can’t comment on his legal situation,” Belichick said. An arrest video of Floyd, groggy and initially unresponsive to police after he fell asleep behind the wheel of his SUV at a traffic light, was reported by TMZ on Tuesday and the police report including Floyd’s BAC was released Wednesday, after Belichick’s morning news conference. Floyd was asked if he had seen the video. “I haven’t been on social media,” he said. He also was asked why he’d drive in such a condition. “It’s a choice,” Floyd answered. “And that’s all I can do is learn from that and move forward.” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said via e-mail that the NFL is “reviewing everything related to the incident,” which would include whether Floyd had been drinking on the Cardinals’ team plane on its way back from Miami several hours be-

fore his arrest. Floyd was also arrested for DUI in 2011 while at Notre Dame. He said he knows he’s running out of chances. “Oh yes, and I think being in the NFL and being in the spotlight, obviously people see you differently than any other people, people out there and you have certain things that you only have a certain amount of chances,” Floyd said. “I think that with this, them bringing me in here is a calling that mistakes can’t happen when you’re in the spotlight and I’m just glad and I’m excited that I’m a Patriot and I’m here.” Quarterback Tom Brady said he has had limited practice time with Floyd, who was on the field with the team for Thursday’s session. Floyd was inactive Sunday in Denver, though he did travel with the team. “He’s only been here for a short period of time so there’s a lot to catch up on, especially as a receiver in our offense, but he’s working hard at it,” Brady said. It wasn’t lost on Floyd that his circumstances landed him with a Super Bowl contender. “This is what it’s like to be a Patriot?” he said, as reporters gathered around his locker. “Woo.” Later, Floyd said that he’s happy to be in the hunt with a winning team.

“I’m excited. I couldn’t be in a better place. You always, just being on a different team you see how they do things, how they go about and how they win all the time and I’m grateful to be here,” Floyd said. Floyd said he didn’t have much to say about Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell saying he was disappointed that Floyd hadn’t expressed much remorse and was “unapologetic” after his arrest. “I love that organization. They treated me very well. I really don’t have too big of a comment [on Bidwell] saying that. I’m glad that I’m here, I’m in a good place right now mentally. These guys brought me in as family.” The NFL can suspend players who admit to breaking the law before they have been tried or convicted by a court, and ESPN reported that Floyd is expected to face a multigame suspension in 2017. A first-time DUI suspension typically garners a two-game suspension, per NFL rules, but suspensions can be longer when there are aggravating circumstances, including extreme intoxication, which is defined by the NFL as a BAC of .15 or higher. Nora Princiotti can be reached at nora.princiotti@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter at @NoraPrinciotti.

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DEFENSE Tackles Tot. Solo Ast. Sacks Ryan......................81 67 14 1.0 Chung...................80 46 34 1.0 McCourty.............65 55 10 0.0 Hightower............64 30 34 2.5 Butler....................57 45 12 1.0 Brown...................46 21 25 3.0 Branch..................44 23 21 1.0 Flowers.................35 19 16 7.0 McClellin..............34 15 19 1.0 Long......................32 20 12 3.0 Sheard..................30 20 10 4.5 Ninkovich.............26 14 12 4.0 Roberts.................26 14 12 0.0 Harmon ................24 19 5 0.0 Rowe.....................21 18 3 0.0 Van Noy ...............19 7 12 1.0 Valentine .............15 10 5 1.0 Freeny ..................10 6 4 0.0 Coleman................. 8 8 0 0.0 J. Jones................... 6 5 1 0.0 C. Jones.................. 6 3 3 0.0 Mingo ..................... 4 4 0 0.0 Hamilton ................ 3 1 2 0.0 Grissom.................. 1 0 1 0.0 King......................... 1 1 0 0.0 TEAM ..................789 507 282 32.0 OPPONENTS......888 521 367 23.0

FF 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

PD 9 3 7 2 15 0 2 1 0 2 4 1 0 2 5 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

INTERCEPTIONS No. Yds. Avg. Butler.......................... 2 7 3.5 Van Noy ..................... 1 0 0.0 Chung......................... 1 4 4.0 Harmon...................... 1 0 0.0 McCourty................... 1 0 0.0 Ryan............................ 1 46 46.0 TEAM.......................... 9 88 9.8 OPPONENTS.............. 2 16 8.0

Lg 7 0 4 0 0 46 46 14

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

PUNTING No. Allen ..........................65 TEAM.........................65 OPPONENTS.............71

Yds. 2884 2884 3253

Inside Avg. 20 44.4 22 44.4 22 45.8 22

Lg 57 57 76

PUNT RETURNS No. FC. Yds. Avg. Amendola ............ 18 7 121 6.7 Edelman............... 12 5 123 10.3 C. Jones................ 10 3 42 4.2 Chung..................... 1 1 7 7.0 TEAM.................... 41 16 293 7.1 OPPONENTS........ 23 18 113 4.9

Lg 30 23 13 7 30 18

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0

KICKOFF RETURNS No. Yds. Avg. C. Jones .......................8 180 22.5 Amendola....................5 129 25.8 Edelman ......................3 44 14.7 Slater ...........................3 52 17.3 Develin.........................2 20 10.0 McCourty ....................2 9 4.5 White ...........................2 28 14.0 Lewis............................1 23 23.0 Foster...........................1 30 30.0 TEAM .........................27 515 19.1 OPPONENTS .............34 674 19.8

Lg 43 73 19 19 14 9 18 23 30 73 35

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FUMBLES Tot. Lost C. Jones ....................................... 5 1 Brady............................................ 4 0 Amendola.................................... 3 1 Brissett ........................................ 3 1 Edelman....................................... 3 2 Garoppolo ................................... 2 1 Slater............................................ 2 1 Blount........................................... 2 1 Hogan .......................................... 1 1 Lewis............................................ 1 0 TEAM.......................................... 26 9 OPPONENTS.............................. 22 8 SCORE BY QUARTERS 1 2 3 4 OT TEAM................106 89 92 78 0 OPPONENTS......32 70 54 77 0

Own rec. 2 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 14 Tot. 365 233

ROSTER No. Pos. 2. Nick Folk ....................................... K 4. Lachlan Edwards......................... P 5. Christian Hackenberg...............QB 9. Bryce Petty.................................QB 11. Robby Anderson.......................WR 14. Ryan Fitzpatrick.........................QB 15. Brandon Marshall.....................WR 17. Charone Peake .........................WR 19. Devin Smith...............................WR 20. Marcus Williams........................CB 22. Matt Forte................................... RB 23. Dexter McDougle.......................CB 24. Darrelle Revis.............................CB 25. Calvin Pryor...................................S 27. Darryl Roberts............................CB 29. Bilal Powell................................. RB 30. Nick Marshall .............................CB 32. Juston Burris ..............................CB 33. Khiry Robinson .......................... RB 34. Brandon Wilds ........................... RB 36. Doug Middleton............................S 41. Buster Skrine..............................CB 42. Ronald Martin ...............................S 45. Rontez Miles..................................S 46. Tanner Purdum............................ C 48. Jordan Jenkins ........................... LB 49. Randell Johnson......................... LB 50. Darron Lee.................................. LB 52. David Harris ............................... LB 54. Bruce Carter............................... LB 55. Lorenzo Mauldin........................ LB 56. Freddie Bishop III ...................... LB 64. Craig Watts .................................. G 69. Donald Hawkins........................... G 70. Dakota Dozier .............................. G 71. Ben Ijalana.....................................T 72. Brandon Shell................................T 75. Anthony Johnson....................... DT 76. Wesley Johnson........................... G 77. James Carpenter ......................... G 79. Brent Qvale................................... G 81. Quincy Enunwa.........................WR 82. Brandon Bostick ........................ TE 83. Eric Tomlinson ........................... TE 88. Austin Seferian-Jenkins............ TE 89. Jalin Marshall............................WR 91. Sheldon Richardson.................. DE 92. Leonard Williams ...................... DE 93. Deon Simon ................................NT 94. Brandin Bryant........................... DT 95. Josh Martin................................. LB 96. Muhammad Wilkerson............. DE 99. Steve McLendon........................ DT

Ht. 6-1 6-4 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-1 5-11 6-2 5-10 5-11 5-11 6-0 5-10 6-1 6-0 6-0 6-0 6-0 5-9 6-2 6-0 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-1 6-2 6-2 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-5 6-2 6-5 6-5 6-7 6-2 6-3 6-6 6-5 5-10 6-3 6-5 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-3

STATISTICS PASSING Att. Com. Fitzpatrick............352 200 Petty .....................130 75 Smith ......................14 8 TEAM ....................496 283 OPPONENTS........485 314

Pct. 56.8 57.7 57.1 57.1 64.7

Yds. 2364 809 126 3299 3675

TD Int. 10 15 3 6 1 1 14 22 27 7

RUSHING Att. Yds. Forte ....................... 218 813 Powell ...................... 94 540 Fitzpatrick ............... 30 127 Anderson ................... 3 42 Petty........................... 5 19 Spiller ......................... 3 9 Smith.......................... 2 9 Wilds .......................... 2 4 Edwards..................... 1 0 TEAM...................... 359 1564 OPPONENTS.......... 360 1399

Avg. 3.7 5.7 4.2 14.0 3.8 3.0 4.5 2.0 0.0 4.4 3.9

Lg 32 35t 14 30 9 4 7 2 0 35 58

TD 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 8

RECEIVING No. Yds. B. Marshall .............. 57 760 Enunwa .................... 52 746 Anderson ................. 38 544 Powell ...................... 53 359 Forte ......................... 30 263 Decker........................ 9 194 Marshall................... 11 140 Peake........................ 16 137 Sef.-Jenkins ............... 9 93 Bostick ....................... 7 56 Spiller ......................... 1 7 TEAM...................... 283 3299 OPPONENTS.......... 314 3675

Avg. 13.3 14.4 14.3 6.8 8.8 21.6 12.7 8.6 10.3 8.0 7.0 11.7 11.7

Lg 41 69t 52 22 40 35 27 16 19 14 7 69 84

TD 3 4 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 14 27

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Tom Brady and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels huddle at practice in preparation for Saturday’s game against the Jets.

Brissett receives a vote of confidence By Everett Cook GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

FOXBOROUGH — Before reporters began interviewing the rookie quarterback, running back PATRIOTS LeGarrette NOTEBOOK Blount tried to help Jacoby Brissett get dressed. He presented a Minutemen-style cap with a feather in the back, then a snapback with a platinum brim. Finally, Brissett shook away Blount, pulled on a sweatshirt of his choosing, and faced the crowd. Forgive him for wanting to make a decision on his own, because much of Brissett’s first season in New England has been out of his control. He was thrust into game action to replace an injured Jimmy Garoppolo, starting the Patriots’ third and fourth games, then hurt his thumb and landed on injured reserve after Tom Brady returned from a four-game suspension. Brissett began practicing with the team Dec. 1, and the Patriots could’ve decided to let him finish the season on injured reserve. Instead, he was activated Wednesday, meaning New England has three quarterbacks on

its roster for the first time since 2011. “Definitely,” Brissett said when asked if he takes his reactivation as a vote of confidence. “It’s an honor to be a part of this organization and team and to be back out there practicing and competing to get better.” Added coach Bill Belichick: “He gives us depth at a position that’s an important position. Nobody needs insurance until you need insurance. I don’t know if we’re going to need it. I don’t know if we’re not going to need it. At least he knows our system. He’s played here. It’s an important position.” Brissett didn’t offer much about his thumb, saying only that he was glad he got the surgery. Belichick seemed to treat the rookie differently than most injured players. Brissett traveled with the team for road games, which he said kept him locked into game plans, and attended team and positional meetings. “Jacoby got better every day for several months and then he didn’t miss anything in terms of meetings or preparation, traveled with us on the road and so forth,” Belichick said. “He just wasn’t able to do much. Now that’s he’s come

back, he is working his way back into it.”

Brady limited again Brady wasn’t on the injury report the past two weeks, but on Wednesday and Thursday, he was limited at practice with a thigh injury. When asked if the injury was affecting his preparation for Saturday’s game against the Jets, Brady said, “We’ll see.” He was more effusive when talking about his team and its goals. “I just remember being on the airplane [back from Denver] and people saying we didn’t finish the way we wanted to last year and this was a great win, but we’ve got to play football,” Brady said. “We’ve got to play and go out and play great down the stretch. Some of the best teams we’ve ever had have played great down the stretch.” He later added: “It’s good to be able to have the mental toughness to approach the weeks, put everything into it, get the win, and then, bam, move on to the next week. I think that shows a lot of mental toughness by the team.”

Hightower sits out A day after being limited,

linebacker Dont’a Hightower didn’t practice because of a knee injury and wasn’t available to the media. Danny Amendola was the only other Patriot to miss practice. Martellus Bennett (ankle, shoulder), Jordan Richards (knee), and Matthew Slater (foot) were all limited . . . Two key offensive players for the Jets are dealing with injuries. Running back Matt Forte (knee, shoulder) didn’t practice Thursday, and wide receiver Brandon Marshall (shoulder, back) was limited . . . Wide receiver Julian Edelman has a history of being on the receiving end of some big takedowns, which Brady doesn’t love. “I hate seeing him take hits,” Brady said. “I think seeing anybody take those big hits is tough, especially when you’re 195 pounds. He’s a pretty tough guy, but the more you can take off him, the better.” . . . Brady wore a hooded sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off during his press conference, but said fashion similarities with Belichick are coincidental. “No, he and I don’t consult that way,” he said. Everett Cook can be reached at evcook4@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @everettcook.

FIELD GOALS 1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 Folk.....................0/0 10/11 8/8 3/3 TEAM..................0/0 10/11 8/8 3/3 OPP.....................0/0 7/7 7/8 7/9

SEPT. 18 MIA W, 31-24

SEPT. 22 HOU W, 27-0

OCT. 2 BUF L, 16-0

OCT. 9 @CLE W, 33-13

OCT. 16 CIN W, 35-17

OCT. 23 @PIT W, 27-16

OCT. 30 @BUF W, 41-25

NOV. 13 SEA L, 31-24

NOV. 20 @SF W, 30-17

NOV. 27 @NYJ W, 22-17

DEC. 4 LA W, 26-10

DEC. 12 BAL W, 30-23

DEC. 18 @DEN W, 16-3

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DEFENSE Tackles Tot. Solo Ast. Sacks Harris....................79 54 25 0.5 L. Williams...........59 35 24 7.0 Lee ........................58 37 21 1.0 Gilchrist................53 38 15 0.0 Pryor.....................52 40 12 0.0 Revis.....................49 40 9 0.0 Wilkerson.............48 30 18 2.5 Richardson ..........48 34 14 1.5 Skrine ...................37 30 7 1.0 Miles.....................35 24 11 0.0 Jenkins .................32 19 13 1.5 M. Williams .........31 28 3 1.0 McLendon............28 20 8 3.5 Stanford...............19 14 5 0.0 Henderson...........19 12 7 0.0 Roberts.................19 17 2 0.0 Simon ...................18 8 10 0.5 Mauldin................16 7 9 2.5 Burris...................... 9 8 1 0.0 Carter ..................... 8 5 3 0.0 Catapano ............... 4 3 1 0.0 Bishop III................4 2 2 0.0 Thomas .................. 2 1 1 0.0 Jones.......................1 1 0 0.0 Allen........................ 1 0 1 0.0 Johnson.................. 1 1 0 0.0 Martin..................... 1 0 1 0.5 Ochi ........................1 0 1 0.0 Middleton .............. 1 1 0 0.0 Spiller .....................1 1 0 0.0 TEAM ..................743 517 226 23.0 OPPONENTS......797 529 268 32.0

FF 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

PD 2 0 3 3 5 4 3 1 4 0 2 6 0 0 0 5 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

INTERCEPTIONS No. Yds. Avg. Gilchrist...................... 2 25 12.5 M. Williams ............... 2 14 7.0 Mauldin...................... 1 0 0.0 Skrine ......................... 1 51 51.0 Burris.......................... 1 0 0.0 TEAM.......................... 7 90 12.9 OPPONENTS............ 22 177 8.0

Lg 25 14 0 51 0 51 56

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

PUNTING No. Edwards....................66 TEAM.........................66 OPPONENTS.............62

Yds. 2825 2825 2744

Inside Avg. 20 42.8 21 42.2 21 44.3 30

Lg 59 59 78

PUNT RETURNS No. FC. Yds. Avg. J. Marshall........... 13 12 76 5.8 N. Marshall............ 4 5 32 8.0 Roberts .................. 1 0 0 0.0 Skrine ..................... 1 0 0 0.0 TEAM.................... 20 26 118 5.9 OPPONENTS........ 30 20 279 9.3

Lg 16 27 0 0 27 33

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0

KICKOFF RETURNS No. Yds. Avg. J. Marshall.................12 292 24.3 N. Marshall .................8 171 21.4 Spiller...........................5 96 19.2 Enunwa........................1 54 54.0 TEAM .........................38 852 22.4 OPPONENTS .............26 584 22.5

Lg 65 28 23 54 65 96t

TD 0 0 0 0 0 1

FUMBLES Tot. Lost Fitzpatrick ................................... 8 1 J. Marshall................................... 4 2 Anderson..................................... 1 1 Edwards....................................... 1 1 Smith............................................ 1 0 Skrine........................................... 1 0 Powell .......................................... 1 1 Petty............................................. 1 1 Mangold ...................................... 1 0 Johnson ....................................... 1 0 Forte............................................. 1 1 Roberts ........................................ 1 0 TEAM.......................................... 22 8 OPPONENTS.............................. 19 4 SCORE BY QUARTERS 1 2 3 4 OT TEAM..................46 85 34 71 6 OPPONENTS......89 110 77 82 0

Patriots in 2016 (12-2) SEPT. 11 @ARI W, 23-21

Wt. 222 209 228 230 190 223 230 209 199 196 218 195 198 207 182 204 206 212 220 220 210 185 220 203 270 259 245 232 250 240 259 255 335 310 313 322 324 295 297 321 315 225 250 263 262 200 294 302 332 289 245 315 310

SCORING TD TD TD TD Tot. Ru. Rc. Rt. XP FG Pts. Folk ........................ 0 0 0 0 21 23 90 Forte ...................... 8 7 1 0 0 0 48 Enunwa ................. 4 0 4 0 0 0 24 Powell.................... 4 3 1 0 0 0 24 B. Marshall ........... 3 0 3 0 0 0 18 Anderson .............. 2 0 2 0 0 0 12 Decker................... 2 0 2 0 0 0 12 J. Marshall ............ 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 Peake..................... 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 Petty ...................... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 TEAM ................... 25 10 14 1 21 23 242 OPPONENTS....... 41 8 27 6 38 24 358

SCORING TD TD TD TD Tot. Ru. Rc. Rt. XP FG Pts. Gostkowski........... 0 0 0 0 38 23 107 Blount.................. 15 15 0 0 0 0 90 Bennett ................. 5 0 5 0 0 0 30 Amendola ............. 4 0 4 0 0 0 24 Hogan.................... 4 0 4 0 0 0 24 Mitchell ................. 4 0 4 0 0 0 24 White..................... 4 0 4 0 0 0 24 Gronkowski .......... 3 0 3 0 0 0 18 Edelman................ 2 0 2 0 0 0 12 Brissett.................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 Brown.................... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Hightower............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 TEAM ................... 42 16 26 0 38 23 365 OPPONENTS....... 25 6 19 0 21 20 233 FIELD GOALS 1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 Gostkowski .......0/0 6/6 7/9 8/9 TEAM..................0/0 6/6 7/9 8/9 OPP.....................0/0 5/5 7/8 6/10

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Pct. .857 .643 .500 .286

PF/G 26.1 22.5 25.6 17.3

Pittsburgh......................9 5 Baltimore.......................8 6 Cincinnati ......................5 8 Cleveland.......................0 14

0 0 1 0

.643 .571 .393 .000

24.4 21.9 20.6 15.7

Houston .........................8 6 Tennessee......................8 6 Indianapolis...................7 7 Jacksonville...................2 12

0 0 0 0

.571 .571 .500 .143

17.9 24.3 25.9 18.6

p-Oakland....................11 Kansas City .................10 Denver............................8 San Diego ......................5

0 0 0 0

.786 .714 .571 .357

26.9 22.8 21.4 26.1

3 4 6 9

EAST PA/G Home 16.6 5-2-0 22.4 6-1-0 22.4 4-3-0 25.6 1-6-0 NORTH 19.7 4-2-0 18.8 6-2-0 20.9 3-3-1 29.1 0-7-0 SOUTH 21.0 6-1-0 23.1 4-3-0 24.2 3-4-0 25.6 1-6-0 WEST 24.0 5-2-0 19.6 5-2-0 18.4 4-3-0 26.1 3-4-0

Conf. 9-1-0 6-4-0 4-6-0 3-7-0

Div. Spread Streak This week 3-1-0 11-3-0 W 5 NY Jets 3-1-0 8-5-1 W 2 At Buffalo 1-3-0 6-8-0 W 1 Miami 1-3-0 5-9-0 L 1 At New England

7-3-0 7-3-0 4-6-0 0-10-0

3-1-0 4-0-0 2-3-0 0-5-0

9-5-0 7-7-0 5-9-0 2-12-0

W5 W1 L1 L 14

Baltimore At Pittsburgh At Houston San Diego

6-4-0 5-5-0 4-6-0 1-9-0

5-0-0 1-3-0 2-3-0 1-3-0

6-7-1 6-8-0 7-6-1 5-9-0

W2 W3 W1 L9

Cincinnati At Jacksonville At Oakland Tennessee

8-2-0 7-3-0 5-5-0 4-6-0

3-2-0 4-0-0 1-3-0 1-4-0

8-5-1 7-6-1 8-6-0 7-6-1

W1 L1 L2 L3

Indianapolis Denver At Kansas City At Cleveland

Conf. 8-2-0 7-4-0 5-5-0 4-7-0

Div. Spread Streak This week 3-2-0 9-5-0 W 1 Detroit 3-2-0 8-6-1 L 1 At Philadelphia 3-2-0 9-5-0 L 1 At Chicago 1-4-0 7-8-0 W 1 NY Giants

7-3-0 6-4-0 4-6-0 3-7-0

3-2-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 2-3-0

8-6-0 7-6-1 8-6-0 7-7-0

L1 W4 L1 L2

At Dallas Minnesota At Green Bay Washington

7-3-0 6-4-0 5-5-0 5-5-0

3-1-0 3-1-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

9-5-0 9-5-0 8-5-1 5-8-1

W2 L1 W1 W2

At Carolina At New Orleans Tampa Bay Atlanta

5-4-1 4-5-1 3-7-0 1-9-0

2-1-1 2-1-1 2-2-0 1-3-0

8-6-0 4-10-0 4-9-1 2-11-1

W1 L2 L5 L 13

Arizona At Seattle San Francisco At Los Angeles

NFC W c-Dallas ........................12 NY Giants.....................10 Washington ...................7 Philadelphia ..................6

L 2 5 6 9

T 0 0 1 0

Pct. .857 .667 .536 .400

PF/G 26.1 19.4 24.6 22.7

Detroit ............................9 5 Green Bay......................8 6 Minnesota .....................7 7 Chicago..........................3 11

0 0 0 0

.643 .571 .500 .214

21.5 25.9 18.9 17.7

Atlanta ...........................9 Tampa Bay.....................8 New Orleans .................6 Carolina..........................6

5 6 8 8

0 0 0 0

.643 .571 .429 .429

33.5 22.4 29.0 24.1

d-Seattle ........................9 4 Arizona...........................5 8 Los Angeles...................4 10 San Francisco ...............1 13

1 1 0 0

.679 .393 .286 .071

21.3 24.3 14.1 18.9

EAST PA/G Home 18.4 6-1-0 18.3 7-1-0 24.5 4-3-0 21.2 5-2-0 NORTH 20.4 6-1-0 24.2 5-2-0 18.5 4-3-0 22.9 3-4-0 SOUTH 25.6 4-3-0 23.0 3-4-0 28.0 3-4-0 25.1 4-3-0 WEST 16.8 7-0-0 23.2 4-3-1 23.4 1-5-0 31.0 1-6-0

p — Clinched playoff berth d — Clinched division c — Clinched home field

NFL schedule, results AFC

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BUFFALO (7-7) 7.................at Baltimore.................13 31.....................NY Jets.....................37 33.....................Arizona.....................18 16..............at New England.............. 0 30...............at Los Angeles...............19 45............... San Francisco............... 16 25....................at Miami....................28 25................New England................41 25...................at Seattle...................31 Bye week 16.................at Cincinnati.................12 28.................Jacksonville.................21 24..................at Oakland..................38 20...................Pittsburgh...................27 33...................Cleveland...................13 D. 24 Miami.........................................1 J. 1 at NY Jets...................................1 MIAMI (9-5) 10...................at Seattle...................12 24..............at New England..............31 30...................Cleveland...................24 7.................at Cincinnati.................22 17.................. Tennessee.................. 30 30...................Pittsburgh...................15 28......................Buffalo......................25 Bye week 27.....................NY Jets..................... 23 31................ at San Diego................ 24 14...............at Los Angeles...............10 31............... San Francisco............... 24 6.................at Baltimore.................38 26.....................Arizona.....................23 34...................at NY Jets...................13 D. 24 at Buffalo...................................1 J. 1 New England..............................1 NEW ENGLAND (12-2) 23...................at Arizona...................21 31...................... Miami...................... 24 27.....................Houston..................... 0 0......................Buffalo......................16 33.................at Cleveland.................13 35...................Cincinnati...................17 27................at Pittsburgh................16 41...................at Buffalo...................25 Bye week 24......................Seattle......................31 30.............at San Francisco.............17 22...................at NY Jets...................17 26.................Los Angeles.................10 30...................Baltimore...................23 16...................at Denver................... 3 D. 24 NY Jets.......................................1 J. 1 at Miami..................................... 1 NEW YORK JETS (4-10) 22...................Cincinnati...................23 37...................at Buffalo...................31 3...............at Kansas City...............24 17......................Seattle......................27 13................at Pittsburgh................31 3...................at Arizona...................28 24...................Baltimore...................16 31.................at Cleveland.................28 23....................at Miami....................27 6.................Los Angeles................. 9 Bye week 17................New England................22 10.................Indianapolis.................41 23.............at San Francisco.............17 13...................... Miami...................... 34 D. 24 at New England........................1 J. 1 Buffalo.........................................1

HOUSTON (8-6) 23.....................Chicago.....................14 19................. Kansas City................. 12 0..............at New England..............27 27.................. Tennessee.................. 20 13................at Minnesota................31 26.................Indianapolis.................23 9...................at Denver...................27 20......................Detroit......................13 Bye week 24...............at Jacksonville...............21 20..................at Oakland..................27 13...................San Diego...................21 13................at Green Bay................21 22...............at Indianapolis...............17 21.................Jacksonville.................20 D. 24 Cincinnati.............................8:25 J. 1 at Tennessee............................. 1 INDIANAPOLIS (7-7) 35......................Detroit......................39 20...................at Denver...................34 26...................San Diego...................22 27...............at Jacksonville...............30 29.....................Chicago.....................23 23..................at Houston..................26 34................at Tennessee................26 14.................Kansas City................. 30 31................at Green Bay................26 Bye week 24.................. Tennessee.................. 17 7...................Pittsburgh...................28 41...................at NY Jets...................10 17.....................Houston.....................22 34................at Minnesota................ 6 D. 24 at Oakland............................4:05 J. 1 Jacksonville................................1 JACKSONVILLE (2-12) 23...................Green Bay...................27 14................ at San Diego................ 38 17...................Baltimore...................19 30.................Indianapolis.................27 Bye week 17..................at Chicago..................16 16.....................Oakland.....................33 22................at Tennessee................36 14...............at Kansas City...............19 21.....................Houston.....................24 19................... at Detroit................... 26 21...................at Buffalo...................28 10......................Denver......................20 16...................Minnesota...................25 20..................at Houston..................21 D. 24 Tennessee.................................1 J. 1 at Indianapolis...........................1 TENNESSEE (8-6) 16...................Minnesota...................25 16................... at Detroit................... 15 10.....................Oakland.....................17 20..................at Houston..................27 30....................at Miami....................17 28...................Cleveland...................26 26.................Indianapolis.................34 36.................Jacksonville.................22 35................ at San Diego................ 43 47...................Green Bay...................25 17...............at Indianapolis...............24 27..................at Chicago..................21 Bye week 13......................Denver......................10 19...............at Kansas City...............17 D. 24 at Jacksonville..........................1 J. 1 Houston.......................................1

DALLAS (12-2) 19...................NY Giants...................20 27...............at Washington...............23 31.....................Chicago.....................17 24.............at San Francisco.............17 28...................Cincinnati...................14 30................at Green Bay................16 Bye week 29.................Philadelphia.................23 35.................at Cleveland.................10 35................at Pittsburgh................30 27...................Baltimore...................17 31.................Washington.................26 17................at Minnesota................15 7.................at NY Giants.................10 26..................Tampa Bay..................20 D. 26 Detroit...................................8:30 J. 1 at Philadelphia.......................... 1 NEW YORK GIANTS (10-5) 20....................at Dallas....................19 16................ New Orleans................ 13 27.................Washington.................29 10................at Minnesota................24 16................at Green Bay................23 27...................Baltimore...................23 17...............at Los Angeles...............10 Bye week 28.................Philadelphia.................23 21...................Cincinnati...................20 22.....................Chicago.....................16 27.................at Cleveland.................13 14................at Pittsburgh................24 10.......................Dallas....................... 7 17......................Detroit...................... 6 19.............. at Philadelphia.............. 24 J. 1 at Washington...........................1 PHILADELPHIA (6-9) 29...................Cleveland...................10 29..................at Chicago..................14 34...................Pittsburgh................... 3 Bye week 23................... at Detroit................... 24 20...............at Washington...............27 21...................Minnesota...................10 23....................at Dallas....................29 23.................at NY Giants.................28 24..................... Atlanta..................... 15 15...................at Seattle...................26 13...................Green Bay...................27 14.................at Cincinnati.................32 22.................Washington.................27 26.................at Baltimore.................27 24...................NY Giants...................19 J. 1 Dallas...........................................1 WASHINGTON (7-6-1) 16...................Pittsburgh...................38 23.......................Dallas.......................27 29.................at NY Giants.................27 31...................Cleveland...................20 16.................at Baltimore.................10 27.................Philadelphia.................20 17................... at Detroit................... 20 27.................at Cincinnati.................27 Bye week 26...................Minnesota...................20 42...................Green Bay...................24 26....................at Dallas....................31 23...................at Arizona...................31 27.............. at Philadelphia.............. 22 15.....................Carolina.....................26 D. 24 at Chicago.................................1 J. 1 NY Giants....................................1

ATLANTA (9-5) 24..................Tampa Bay..................31 35..................at Oakland..................28 45..............at New Orleans..............32 48.....................Carolina.....................33 23...................at Denver...................16 24...................at Seattle...................26 30...................San Diego...................33 33...................Green Bay...................32 43............... at Tampa Bay............... 28 15.............. at Philadelphia.............. 24 Bye week 38.....................Arizona.....................19 28................. Kansas City................. 29 42...............at Los Angeles...............14 41............... San Francisco............... 13 D. 24 at Carolina.................................1 J. 1 New Orleans.............................. 1 CAROLINA (6-8) 20...................at Denver...................21 46............... San Francisco............... 27 10...................Minnesota...................22 33...................at Atlanta...................48 14..................Tampa Bay..................17 38..............at New Orleans..............41 Bye week 30.....................Arizona.....................20 13...............at Los Angeles...............10 17.................Kansas City................. 20 23................ New Orleans................ 20 32..................at Oakland..................35 7...................at Seattle...................40 28...................San Diego...................16 26...............at Washington...............15 D. 24 Atlanta....................................... 1 J. 1 at Tampa Bay............................1 NEW ORLEANS (6-8) 34.....................Oakland.....................35 13.................at NY Giants.................16 32..................... Atlanta..................... 45 35................ at San Diego................ 34 Bye week 41.....................Carolina.....................38 21...............at Kansas City...............27 25......................Seattle......................20 41.............at San Francisco.............23 23......................Denver......................25 20..................at Carolina..................23 49.................Los Angeles.................21 13......................Detroit......................28 11............... at Tampa Bay............... 16 48...................at Arizona...................41 D. 24 Tampa Bay...........................4:25 J. 1 at Atlanta....................................1 TAMPA BAY (8-6) 31...................at Atlanta...................24 7...................at Arizona...................40 32.................Los Angeles.................37 7......................Denver......................27 17..................at Carolina..................14 Bye week 34.............at San Francisco.............17 24.....................Oakland.....................30 28..................... Atlanta..................... 43 36.....................Chicago.....................10 19...............at Kansas City...............17 14......................Seattle...................... 5 28................ at San Diego................ 21 16................ New Orleans................ 11 20....................at Dallas....................26 D. 24 at New Orleans...................4:25 J. 1 Carolina.......................................1

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BALTIMORE (8-6) 13......................Buffalo...................... 7 25.................at Cleveland.................20 19...............at Jacksonville...............17 27.....................Oakland.....................28 10.................Washington.................16 23.................at NY Giants.................27 16...................at NY Jets...................24 Bye week 21...................Pittsburgh...................14 28...................Cleveland................... 7 17....................at Dallas....................27 19...................Cincinnati...................14 38...................... Miami...................... 6 23..............at New England..............30 27.................Philadelphia.................26 D. 25 at Pittsburgh........................4:30 J. 1 at Cincinnati...............................1 CINCINNATI (5-8-1) 23...................at NY Jets...................22 16................at Pittsburgh................24 17......................Denver......................29 22...................... Miami...................... 7 14....................at Dallas....................28 17..............at New England..............35 31...................Cleveland...................17 27.................Washington.................27 Bye week 20.................at NY Giants.................21 12......................Buffalo......................16 14.................at Baltimore.................19 32.................Philadelphia.................14 23.................at Cleveland.................10 20...................Pittsburgh...................24 D. 24 at Houston...........................8:25 J. 1 Baltimore....................................1 CLEVELAND (0-14) 10.............. at Philadelphia.............. 29 20...................Baltimore...................25 24....................at Miami....................30 20...............at Washington...............31 13................New England................33 26................at Tennessee................28 17.................at Cincinnati.................31 28.....................NY Jets.....................31 10.......................Dallas.......................35 7.................at Baltimore.................28 9...................Pittsburgh...................24 13...................NY Giants...................27 Bye week 10...................Cincinnati...................23 13...................at Buffalo...................33 D. 24 San Diego..................................1 J. 1 at Pittsburgh..............................1 PITTSBURGH (9-5) 38...............at Washington...............16 24...................Cincinnati...................16 3.............. at Philadelphia.............. 34 43................. Kansas City................. 14 31.....................NY Jets.....................13 15....................at Miami....................30 16................New England................27 Bye week 14.................at Baltimore.................21 30.......................Dallas.......................35 24.................at Cleveland................. 9 28...............at Indianapolis............... 7 24...................NY Giants...................14 27...................at Buffalo...................20 24.................at Cincinnati.................20 D. 25 Baltimore..............................4:30 J. 1 Cleveland....................................1

DENVER (8-6) 21.....................Carolina.....................20 34.................Indianapolis.................20 29.................at Cincinnati.................17 27............... at Tampa Bay............... 7 16..................... Atlanta..................... 23 13................ at San Diego................ 21 27.....................Houston..................... 9 27...................San Diego...................19 20..................at Oakland..................30 25..............at New Orleans..............23 Bye week 27................. Kansas City................. 30 20...............at Jacksonville...............10 10................at Tennessee................13 3................New England................16 D. 25 at Kansas City.....................8:30 J. 1 Oakland..................................4:25 KANSAS CITY (10-4) 33...................San Diego...................27 12..................at Houston..................19 24.....................NY Jets..................... 3 14................at Pittsburgh................43 Bye week 26..................at Oakland..................10 27................ New Orleans................ 21 30...............at Indianapolis...............14 19.................Jacksonville.................14 20..................at Carolina..................17 17..................Tampa Bay..................19 30...................at Denver...................27 29...................at Atlanta...................28 21.....................Oakland.....................13 17.................. Tennessee.................. 19 D. 25 Denver...................................8:30 J. 1 at San Diego.........................4:25 OAKLAND (11-3) 35..............at New Orleans..............34 28..................... Atlanta..................... 35 17................at Tennessee................10 28.................at Baltimore.................27 34...................San Diego...................31 10.................Kansas City................. 26 33...............at Jacksonville...............16 30............... at Tampa Bay............... 24 30......................Denver......................20 Bye week 27.....................Houston.....................20 35.....................Carolina.....................32 38......................Buffalo......................24 13...............at Kansas City...............21 19................ at San Diego................ 16 D. 24 Indianapolis......................... 4:05 J. 1 at Denver...............................4:25 SAN DIEGO (5-9) 27...............at Kansas City...............33 38.................Jacksonville.................14 22...............at Indianapolis...............26 34................ New Orleans................ 35 31..................at Oakland..................34 21......................Denver......................13 33...................at Atlanta...................30 19...................at Denver...................27 43.................. Tennessee.................. 35 24...................... Miami...................... 31 Bye week 21..................at Houston..................13 21..................Tampa Bay..................28 16..................at Carolina..................28 16.....................Oakland.....................19 D. 24 at Cleveland..............................1 J. 1 Kansas City...........................4:25

CHICAGO (3-11) 14..................at Houston..................23 14.................Philadelphia.................29 17....................at Dallas....................31 17......................Detroit......................14 23...............at Indianapolis...............29 16.................Jacksonville.................17 10................at Green Bay................26 20...................Minnesota...................10 Bye week 10............... at Tampa Bay............... 36 16.................at NY Giants.................22 21.................. Tennessee.................. 27 26............... San Francisco............... 6 17................... at Detroit................... 20 27...................Green Bay...................30 D. 24 Washington...............................1 J. 1 at Minnesota..............................1 DETROIT (9-5) 39...............at Indianapolis...............35 15.................. Tennessee.................. 16 27................at Green Bay................34 14..................at Chicago..................17 24.................Philadelphia.................23 31.................Los Angeles.................28 20.................Washington.................17 13..................at Houston..................20 22................at Minnesota................16 Bye week 26.................Jacksonville.................19 16...................Minnesota...................13 28..............at New Orleans..............13 20.....................Chicago.....................17 6.................at NY Giants.................17 D. 26 at Dallas................................8:30 J. 1 Green Bay...................................1 GREEN BAY (8-6) 27...............at Jacksonville...............23 14................at Minnesota................17 34......................Detroit......................27 Bye week 23...................NY Giants...................16 16.......................Dallas.......................30 26.....................Chicago.....................10 32...................at Atlanta...................33 26.................Indianapolis.................31 25................at Tennessee................47 24...............at Washington...............42 27.............. at Philadelphia.............. 13 21.....................Houston.....................13 38......................Seattle......................10 30..................at Chicago..................27 D. 24 Minnesota..................................1 J. 1 at Detroit....................................1 MINNESOTA (7-7) 25................at Tennessee................16 17...................Green Bay...................14 22..................at Carolina..................10 24...................NY Giants...................10 31.....................Houston.....................13 Bye week 10.............. at Philadelphia.............. 21 10..................at Chicago..................20 16......................Detroit......................22 20...............at Washington...............26 30.....................Arizona.....................24 13................... at Detroit................... 16 15.......................Dallas.......................17 25...............at Jacksonville...............16 6.................Indianapolis.................34 D. 24 at Green Bay.............................1 J. 1 Chicago.......................................1

ARIZONA (5-8-1) 21................New England................23 40..................Tampa Bay.................. 7 18...................at Buffalo...................33 13.................Los Angeles.................17 33.............at San Francisco.............21 28..................... NY Jets..................... 3 6......................Seattle...................... 6 20..................at Carolina..................30 Bye week 23............... San Francisco............... 20 24................at Minnesota................30 19...................at Atlanta...................38 31.................Washington.................23 23....................at Miami....................26 41................ New Orleans................ 48 D. 24 at Seattle..............................4:25 J. 1 at Los Angeles......................4:25 LOS ANGELES (4-10) 0.............at San Francisco.............28 9......................Seattle...................... 3 37............... at Tampa Bay............... 32 17...................at Arizona...................13 19......................Buffalo......................30 28................... at Detroit................... 31 10...................NY Giants...................17 Bye week 10.....................Carolina.....................13 9...................at NY Jets................... 6 10...................... Miami...................... 14 21..............at New Orleans..............49 10..............at New England..............26 14..................... Atlanta..................... 42 3...................at Seattle...................24 D. 24 San Francisco......................4:25 J. 1 Arizona...................................4:25 SAN FRANCISCO (1-13) 28.................Los Angeles................. 0 27..................at Carolina..................46 18...................at Seattle...................37 17.......................Dallas.......................24 21.....................Arizona.....................33 16...................at Buffalo...................45 17..................Tampa Bay..................34 Bye week 23................ New Orleans................ 41 20...................at Arizona...................23 17................New England................30 24....................at Miami....................31 6..................at Chicago..................26 17.....................NY Jets.....................23 13...................at Atlanta...................41 D. 24 at Los Angeles.....................4:25 J. 1 Seattle....................................4:25 SEATTLE (9-4-1) 12...................... Miami...................... 10 3...............at Los Angeles............... 9 37............... San Francisco............... 18 27...................at NY Jets...................17 Bye week 26..................... Atlanta..................... 24 6...................at Arizona................... 6 20..............at New Orleans..............25 31......................Buffalo......................25 31..............at New England..............24 26.................Philadelphia.................15 5............... at Tampa Bay...............14 40.....................Carolina..................... 7 10................at Green Bay................38 24.................Los Angeles................. 3 D. 24 Arizona..................................4:25 J. 1 at San Francisco..................4:25

By Ed Ryan GLOBE STAFF

Four months ago, I successfully targeted two players in the middle rounds of my draft: Browns wide FANTASY receiver Josh FOOTBALL Gordon and Titans running back Derrick Henry. Zero for two. Gordon withdrew from the season and entered a rehabilitation facility shortly after returning from a four-game suspension. The Cleveland wideout was a risky pick, but I figured his talent was worth a shot in the middle rounds. It didn’t work out. It was expected that Henry would back up DeMarco Murray to begin the season, but I gambled that Murray would eventually get hurt, allowing Henry to take over. It hasn’t happened. Henry remains the backup because Murray has rushed for 1,224 yards and nine touchdowns. Henry looks outstanding when he spells Murray, but he’s had only three games with double-digit fantasy points. With this being the final fantasy football article of 2016, here’s my advice for 2017: target Henry in your draft. In limited snaps as a rookie, he’s rushed for more than 400 yards, averaged 4.5 yards per carry, and scored four touchdowns. He’s too good to remain a backup. Three up: Dion Lewis, RB, New England: An inexpensive option in daily fantasy, Lewis is rounding into form. New England gave him 18 carries in Denver

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Carolina gave Jonathan Stewart 49 carries the last two games. On Saturday, he gets Atlanta’s 25th-ranked defense. and he responded with 95 yards. Remember how good Lewis was before he suffered an injury in 2015? Use him this weekend. Jonathan Stewart, RB, Carolina: Another back who is picking up steam, Stewart has 49 carries for 198 yards in the Panthers’ last two contests. Carolina won both of those games and will keep looking to pound the ball — this time against a suspect Atlanta defense. Todd Gurley, RB, Los Angeles: It’s finally safe to play Gurley. The 49ers have allowed the most points to running backs in 2016. Three down: Matthew Stafford, QB, Detroit: Despite not having a running game, Stafford has

brought the Lions into contention by playing efficiently and spreading the ball around. Those strengths will be put to the test against a hungry Dallas pass rush. DeAndre Hopkins, WR, Houston: Hopkins’s new quarterback, Tom Savage, has an arm like a cannon, but barely any NFL experience. Look elsewhere for wide receiver production. Marcus Mariota, QB, Tennessee: This may come as a surprise: The Jaguars have allowed the fifth-fewest points fantasy points to quarterbacks. Ed Ryan can be reached at edward.ryaniii@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @EdzoRyan.

THE BETTOR’S EDGE

Pederson provided an early present By Ed Ryan GLOBE STAFF

I don’t send out holiday cards, but if I did, Doug Pederson would be first on my list. I couldn’t be more sincere — I wish nothing but prosperity and good fortune for the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. I barely know anything about the man, but I became a fan during Week 15. The Eagles trailed in Baltimore, 27-17, with just over 11 minutes remaining, and I was getting 5½ points with Philly. An Eagles field goal with 2:22 to play cut into the Ravens’ lead, 27-20, but the gamewithin-the-game (if you were getting points) called for Philly to quickly get the ball back and score. It happened. The Eagles forced Baltimore into a threeand-out and capped a frantic drive with a 4-yard touchdown run by quarterback Carson Wentz. Just four seconds remained, and my mind immediately shifted to overtime sce-

narios, one of which was devastating: Baltimore gets the opening kickoff, scores a touchdown, and I lose by a half-point. Thanks to Pederson, I didn’t have to worry about overtime, because he eschewed the extra point and went for the 2-point conversion. Philadelphia would either win or lose by 1, but I couldn’t lose. In case you’re wondering, the conversion attempt failed. The outcome was obviously disappointing for Pederson, so please join me in sending him well wishes. If anyone is interested in building a statue of the guy, I’ll be happy to contribute. This week’s picks (home team in caps): Miami (+3½) over BUFFALO: Miami’s Matt Moore is one of the NFL’s better backup quarterbacks, so I’m looking at this line thinking the wrong team is favored. Let’s not question our good fortune and just

accept the headstart. Risking $110 to win $100. PITTSBURGH (-5) over Baltimore: Both teams need the win, but the Steelers — especially at home, where they are 4-2 against the spread — are better equipped to realize their goals. Risking $110 to win $100. NEW ENGLAND (-16½) over New York Jets: The Jets have been outscored, 92-46, in their last three games, and their quarterback is Bryce Petty. Unlike last season, the Patriots aren’t going to screw around down the stretch. Risking $110 to win $100. DALLAS (-7) over Detroit: At this point in the season, a team without a running game cannot hang with Dallas. Risking $110 to win $100. Last week: 3-1-1, plus $135. Season: 38-29-2, plus $585. Ed Ryan can be reached at edward.ryaniii@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @EdzoRyan.

Globe staff’s pro picks WEEK 16 Las Vegas line

Christopher L. Jim Gasper McBride

Nora Princiotti

Scott Thurston

Ben Volin

Last week

7-8-1

3-12-1

6-9-1

8-7-1

Season

117-101-6

102-116-6

103-115-6

117-101-6

101-117-6

Best bets

9-6

5-9-1

5-10

10-5

6-9

NY Jets at New England

New England by 16½

New England

NY Jets

New England

NY Jets

Atlanta at Carolina

Atlanta by 3

Carolina

Atlanta

Carolina

Miami at Buffalo

Buffalo by 4½

Buffalo

Miami

Buffalo

Miami

Minnesota at Green Bay

Green Bay by 7

Green Bay

San Diego at Cleveland

San Diego by 5½

Cleveland

San Diego

Cleveland

Tennessee at Jacksonville

Tennessee by 5

Tennessee

Jacksonville

Tennessee

Washington at Chicago

Washington by 3

Washington

Chicago

Washington

Chicago

Indianapolis at Oakland

Oakland by 3½

Oakland

Indianapolis

Arizona at Seattle

Seattle by 7½

Seattle

Arizona

Seattle

San Francisco at Los Angeles

Los Angeles by 4

San Francisco San Francisco Los Angeles

San Francisco San Francisco

Tampa Bay at New Orleans

New Orleans by 3

New Orleans

Tampa Bay

New Orleans

Tampa Bay

Cincinnati at Houston

Houston by 1

Cincinnati

Houston

Cincinnati

Baltimore at Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh by 5½

Baltimore

Pittsburgh

Baltimore

Denver at Kansas City

Kansas City by 3½

Denver

Kansas City

Denver

Kansas City

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Contrary to a SiriusXM NFL Radio report on Thursday that the NFL is launching a spring league in 2017, FOOTBALL the NFL says it NOTEBOOK has no affiliation with the new league. The four-team spring league will reportedly consist only of players not currently on NFL rosters. Players will practice and play six games between April 5-26. Notably, the NFL Draft starts on April 27. It’s not clear yet where the four teams will compete. CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora reported that

though the league is not affiliated with the NFL in any way, the NFL did send a memo to teams alerting them of the league. According to a Sporting News report, the new league will be run by the same people who ran the failed FXFL, which folded with two games remaining in its second season. La Canfora reported in November that the NFL was prepared to present formal proposals for a developmental league in 2017. Unlike the free agent league, the NFL’s proposed league would be for the purpose of developing younger players, coaches, and referees. NFL executive Troy Vincent

told CBS Sports the league will discuss proposals for a developmental league at the upcoming Senior Bowl, Pro Bowl, and NFL Combine.

Newton states case Cam Newton said it makes no sense for the Panthers to play three-time All-Pro middle linebacker Luke Kuechly the remainder of the season following his second concussion in two years. Newton said with Carolina’s chances of making the playoffs being ‘‘minimal,’’ Kuechly should rest and prepare for future seasons. ‘‘Luke is a person that could potentially be the greatest line-

backer that has ever played — straight up,’’ Newton said. ‘‘. . . I don’t think, for me, I would want to jeopardize that for a long, long-term issue just to bring him back.’’ Kuechly, 25, the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2013 and a four-time Pro Bowl selection from Boston College, has missed Carolina’s last four games due to the concussion he suffered on Nov. 17. He has had two concussions in the last two seasons, causing him to miss seven games in all. It appears coach Ron Rivera is leaning toward holding Kuechly out the final two games. Kuechly participated in all of

Manning, Giants come up short By Barry Wilner ASSOCIATED PRESS

Eagles 24 PHILADELPHIA — The New York Giants 19 Giants will have to wait a while to make the playoffs. Malcolm Jenkins had the second two-interception game of his eight-year career, returning one for a touchdown, and the Philadelphia Eagles snapped a five-game slide by beating the Giants, 24-19, on Thursday night. The loss handed Dallas the NFC East title — and home-field advantage throughout the conference playoffs. It also put the Giants (10-5) in a more difficult spot for ending their four-season playoff drought. They still own the top

wild-card position heading into their finale at Washington. New York can still get in this weekend if Detroit, Green Bay, Tampa Bay or Atlanta loses. C a r s o n We n t z t h r e w a touchdown pass to Nelson Agholor, then returned from being examined for a concussion in the fourth quarter to guide a drive to Caleb Sturgis’s 41-yard field goal. After New York’s Robbie Gould made his fourth field goal, Philadelphia (5-9) held on downs with just under two minutes remaining. The Giants got the ball back with 1:31 left and Terrence Brooks intercepted to clinch it with five seconds to go. Eli Manning was inconsistent with his throws all night. On Jenkins’s second intercep-

tion, the throw was very short. Indeed, the Giants came up short because they fell behind early and didn’t catch up. Right tackle Lane Johnson’s return from a 10-game suspension paid dividends immediately. Twice Johnson wiped out the left side of New York’s defensive line, with his block helping spring Darren Sproles for a 25yard TD run for a 7-0 lead. It was 14-0 1:28 later when Manning’s short pass to Will Tye was way too soft. Jenkins cut in front of the tight end, then romped down the right side for a 34-yard score. The current Giants’ offense isn’t built for big comebacks, and now New York needed one. Manning hit Odell Beckham Jr. on a 30-yard play that high-

lighted an 80-yard drive to Gould’s 35-yard field goal. But Manning also made two inaccurate throws in that series. It was that way all night. Gould’s 35-yard field goal brought the Giants closer. Then Wentz found the seldom-used Agholor wide open for a 40-yard touchdown and a 21-6 edge. Manning finally found his touch on the last drive of the half, with a gorgeous 29-yard connection to Victor Cruz keying an 84-yard mark. Shepard slipped past Jenkins’s bump at the line to score from 13 yards for a 21-13 deficit. It was all field goals in the second half — and some more imprecise throws by Manning.

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sport and you got to act like a professional.” In that first arrest, Floyd was pulled over for running a stop sign at 3:18 a.m., and subsequently blew a 0.19 blood-alcohol level on a breathalyzer test. Floyd told a judge, and then NFL teams, that he had changed his habits — he no longer stays out late or hangs with the wrong people. He was sentenced to probation and ordered to attend a victim impact panel about fatal drunk driving accidents. His mother, Theresa Romero, gave him tough love. “I asked him, ‘What were you thinking?’ ” Romero told the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 2012. “Are you on drugs? Why are you wasting your opportunity? I asked him everything. He cried. It was good to see because I believed he could make the right changes.” Four years later, Floyd fell back into bad habits. Or he never changed at all. He was arrested by Scottsdale (Ariz.) police at 2:48 a.m. Dec. 12 on five charges stemming from drunk driving. Floyd had been drinking since the Cardinals’ team flight home from their game in Miami. His Cadillac Escalade sat through two green light cycles, and he was passed out in the driver’s seat when police approached his car. When he finally awoke, he was confused and inebriated, unsure of what was going on. Police later took a blood sample and determined that his blood-alcohol content this time was 0.217. It will likely bring a charge of “super extreme DUI” in Arizona for having a BAC over .20. If convicted, Floyd will face a mandatory 45-day jail sentence, plus $2,750 in fees and assessments, plus even stiffer penalties if he gets arrested for another DUI in the next seven years. His car will have a breathalyzer machine on it for at least 12 months. How many drinks does it take for a 220-pound man to get his BAC up to 0.217? Most alcohol conversion charts on the Internet don’t go that high, stopping at 10 drinks and 0.17. The Patriots were the only team to claim Floyd after the Cardinals released him last

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Michael Floyd (left) has ongoing legal problems, but he was happy to be on the practice field with the Patriots Thursday. week. It makes sense that most teams didn’t want Floyd — he’s set to be a free agent after this season, and any team that claimed him had to pay the remaining $1.3 million on his salary for just three games. But the Patriots are one of the rare teams that could use his skills for the playoff run, and don’t mind the price tag. “We’re aware of whatever the past is,” Bill Belichick said last week. “We’re moving forward with the player and [we’ll] see how it goes.” The NFL says it is investigating Floyd’s incident, and he likely will earn a two-game suspension for his DUI, but he is free to play until his legal situation is resolved. Records show that Floyd isn’t due back in court until Feb. 24, so he should be able to contribute to the Patriots’ playoff run. Floyd said he’s working hard to be able to play Saturday against the Jets. Belichick said Thursday that the Patriots didn’t know Floyd’s BAC when they claimed him, and the team is sticking behind him. The Patriots aren’t sugarcoating the reason for claiming Floyd — he’s a talented receiver, he’s 6 feet 2 inches and 220 pounds, and he can help them win a Super Bowl. “This was a unique one, because you don’t usually see somebody get cut this late in the season who has the type of ability that he does,” Patriots president Jonathan Kraft said on the team’s pregame radio show before last Sunday’s win over Denver. “Any time that Bill thinks about bringing some-

body into the organization, he really does measure whether there’s going to be an advantage to our football team or not. And in this case I think Bill thinks it was worth bringing him in, and so he’s here.” Floyd could be a potential game-changer for the Patriots. A first-round pick in 2012, Floyd has caught 23 touchdown passes in five seasons with the Cardinals, including a 1,000yard season in 2013. He’s a great deep-ball receiver — making a nice 39-yard catch over Malcolm Butler in the season opener — he’s a polished route runner, and he’s fearless going over the middle. Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald, Floyd’s longtime mentor as a teammate and fellow native of the Twin Cities, was livid about Floyd’s release, and openly stated this week that he’s unsure about returning to the Cardinals next year. Charlie Weis, Floyd’s first coach at Notre Dame, called Floyd “ s m a r t .” Je t s c o a c h To d d Bowles, previously a defensive coordinator for the Cardinals, called Floyd “very smart.” “A new home probably revitalizes him,” said one NFL scout whose team played Floyd this year. “He’s a smart player that could be good in that system.” But when the Cardinals released Floyd, it wasn’t just because of the DUI. For the first time in his career, he has caught fewer than 50 percent of the passes thrown his way — just 33 catches on 70 targets, for 446 yards and four touchdowns. He has dropped

five passes this year, which doesn’t sound so bad. But the website Pro Football Focus says Floyd has dropped 13.16 percent of catchable passes thrown his way (one in every 7.6), the 11th-highest rate out of 120 tight ends and receivers. This was expected to be Floyd’s big, breakout year. Instead, PFF has him ranked as the 97th-best wide receiver in the NFL, out of 118. “He struggled against us,” the scout said. “I just expected a bigger, more physical receiver, and he was struggling vs. press coverage.” Cardinals president Michael Bidwill was irate over how Floyd handled the DUI. Floyd never called the team — the Cardinals found out about it via media reports — and Floyd showed “no remorse” when he finally spoke with his former bosses. “I hope he gets healthy. I like him personally. He’s a great kid,” Bidwill said on the Cardinals’ pregame radio show on Sunday. “I was really disappointed with how he handled this and you know, how he was handling his approach to the game, his approach to conditioning and approach to things.” Floyd now has twice shown a startling lack of judgment. Not only has he been arrested for two DUIs, but the first came before his all-important senior season in college. The second comes as Floyd approaches free agency. A league source located in Phoenix said Floyd is seen “all the time” at bars in Old Town Scottsdale, especially on Sundays after games. Now with the Patriots, Floyd gets a chance to rehabilitate his image and chase a Super Bowl ring. “I couldn’t be in a better place,” he said. “I’m grateful to be here on a winning team.” But Floyd should be grateful that he’s alive and didn’t cause any serious harm last Monday night in Arizona. And he needs to get real help this time. Because he’s not learning his lessons. Ben Volin can be reached at ben.volin@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @BenVolin

practice again Thursday.

Beckham fined Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has been fined $18,000 by the NFL for wearing unapproved cleats against Detroit, two people familiar with the fine tell the Associated Press. Beckham wore cleats honoring the late broadcaster Craig Sager, who lost his lengthy battle with cancer last week. He planned to auction off the cleats for charity . . . Falcons coach Dan Quinn says receiver Julio Jones, who leads the NFL with 1,253 yards receiving, will play Saturday at Carolina after missing two games with a toe

sprain . . . Asked about his excitement in possibly playing in this year’s Pro Bowl as an alternate, two-time Pro Bowl Browns cornerback Joe Haden revealed that he has been battling two groin injuries for several weeks and that he will undergo surgeries shortly after the season finale against Pittsburgh. Despite the injuries, Haden has stayed on the field as the Browns (0-14) struggle through the worst season in franchise history . . . Packers linebacker Clay Matthews says that his left shoulder injury is improving, and that he hopes to get more snaps in Saturday’s game against the Vikings.

NFL playoff picture Six teams in each conference — the four division winners plus two wild-card teams — make the playoffs. The two division winners in each conference with the best records get first-round byes. AFC

All

Div.

Conf. Remaining games

d-New England

12-2

3-1

9-1

NY Jets, at Miami

p-Oakland

11-3

3-2

8-2

Indianapolis, at Denver

Pittsburgh

9-5

3-1

7-3

Baltimore, Cleveland

Houston

8-6

5-0

6-4

Cincinnati, at Tennessee

Kansas City

10-4

4-0

7-3

Denver, at San Diego

Miami

9-5

3-1

6-4

at Buffalo, New England

Baltimore

8-6

4-0

7-3

at Pittsburgh, at Cincinnati

Tennessee

8-6

1-3

5-5

at Jacksonville, Houston

Denver

8-6

1-3

5-5

at Kansas City, Oakland

Indianapolis

7-7

2-3

4-6

at Oakland, Jacksonville

Buffalo

7-7

1-3

4-6

Miami, at NY Jets

NFC

All

Div.

Conf. Remaining games

d-Dallas

12-2

3-2

8-2

d-Seattle

9-4-1 2-1-1 5-4-1 Arizona, at San Francisco

Atlanta

9-5

3-1

7-3

at Carolina, New Orleans

Detroit

9-5

3-2

7-3

at Dallas, Green Bay

Detroit, at Philadelphia

NY Giants

10-5

3-2

7-4

at Washington

Green Bay

8-6

3-1

6-4

Minnesota, at Detroit

Tampa Bay

8-6

3-1

6-4

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Washington

7-6-1 3-2

5-5

at Chicago, NY Giants

Minnesota

7-7

1-3

4-6

at Green Bay, Chicago

New Orleans

6-8

1-3

5-5

Tampa Bay, at Atlanta

Carolina

6-8

1-3

5-5

Atlanta, at Tampa Bay

* — Not including late game p — Clinched playoff berth d — Clinched division R WHAT WAS CLINCHED THURSDAY: The Eagles’ victory over the Giants clinched the No. 1seed in the NFC for the Cowboys. R TIEBREAKERS: The first three tiebreakers within a division are head-to-head, division record, and record vs. common opponents; the first three for a wild-card spot involving teams not in the same division are head-to-head, conference record, and record vs. common opponents.

SportsLog Indians agree to contract with slugger Encarnacion Free agent slugger Edwin Encarnacion has agreed to a deal with the Cleveland Indians, according to multiple reports Thursday night. The deal is for three years and $60 million and includes a club option for a fourth season worth another $20 million with a $5 million buyout. Encarnacion had 42 home runs and an AL-high 127 RBIs last season for the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost to Cleveland in the AL Championship Series. Over the past five seasons, he’s averaged 39 homers and 110 RBIs in 145 games . . . Righthander Ivan Nova agreed to a $26 million, threeyear contract with the Pirates, a person with knowledge of the deal said . . . Phil Gagliano, a utility infielder who played for four teams, including the Red Sox, in a 12-year major league baseball career, died in Memphis. He was 74.

Sox minor league catcher suspended Two minor league players connected to the Red Sox were suspended for 50 games after testing positive for amphetamine use. Catcher Jake Romanski, who turned 26 on Thursday hit .308 with a .748 OPS for Double A Portland last season. Outside of the players on the 40-man roster, Romanski is the highest-ranked catcher in the organization by SoxProspects.com. Righthander Mario Alcantara, a minor league free agent after spending seven seasons in the Sox organization, also was suspended. PETER ABRAHAM

COLLEGES

Duke suspends guard Allen indefinitely Duke suspended guard Grayson Allen indefinitely from the team Thursday, one day after he was caught tripping an opponent for the third time in a year. In a statement announcing the suspension, coach Mike Krzyzewski said the program ‘‘needed to take further steps regarding his actions that do not meet the standards of Duke basketball.’’ Allen picked up a technical foul for tripping Elon’s Steven Santa Ana on a drive during Duke’s 72-61 win Wednesday night . . . Donte Clark and Rashaan Holloway combined to score 43 points and Massachusetts (9-3) used a late surge to get a 78-67 win over Rider (8-4) in its final game of the Gotham Classic in Amherst . . . Princeton canceled the rest of the men’s swimming and diving season after team members had posted ‘‘misogynistic and racist’’ material on their electronic mailing list . . . Georgia fined assistant coach Shane Beamer $25,000 for accepting leaked game plan information two years ago while at Virginia Tech from a former Wake Forest assistant coach who has been fired from his job as a radio analyst.

MISCELLANY

Revolution re-sign forward Kobayashi The New England Revolution re-signed midfielder Daigo Kobayashi through the 2017 MLS season after he opted out of the Re-Entry Process, the club announced . . . Forward Jozy Altidore won the US Soccer Player of the Year Award for the second time . . . David Legwand announced his retirement, ending a 16-year NHL career that began as the Nashville Predators’ first draft pick.

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Neumeier, McAdam out at end of the year By Chad Finn GLOBE STAFF

As if we needed one more grim reminder during the holiday season of how suddenly circumstances change nowadays in the media industry, even at SPORTS a regional sports cable netMEDIA work in a thriving and sportsobsessed market, here’s the latest lousy news: Tuesday night, Bob Neumeier and Sean McAdam — two long-established and respected veterans of the Boston sports scene — could be seen discussing the Red Sox’ trade of Clay Buchholz to the Phillies on Comcast SportsNet New England’s “SportsNet Central” highlights and news program. Thursday, the CSN staff were informed that Neumeier and McAdam will be let go at the end of the year. Neumeier and McAdam had been forewarned in November that changes were coming. McAdam said it’s been difficult news to accept, but he recognizes that it reflects the blunt realities of the tumultuous media business right now. “What happened today was disappointing certainly from a personal level,’’ said McAdam, who has more than a year left on his contract. “I tremendously enjoyed my seven years at CSN, working with a lot of terrific people. It was a great experience. But these are changing times in media.” CSN provided a statement through a spokesperson: “We would like to thank both Bob and Sean for their years of service at CSN and we wish them all the best in their future endeavors.” With the dismissals — which, according to industry sources with knowledge of the situation, may not be the last ones Comcast makes — CSN loses two respected voices and an extraordinary amount of institutional knowledge on the Boston sports scene. Neumeier is known as Neumy to anyone who is familiar with him — and pretty much anyone who has followed Boston sports (or horse racing, for that matter) over the last 40 years is familiar with him. The affable Neumeier has had an accomplished career though various high-profile

This weekend on TV, radio SATURDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL 12:30 a.m. — Diamond Head Classic, ESPNU COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. — Hawaii Bowl: Middle Tennessee vs. Hawaii, ESPN PRO FOOTBALL 1 p.m. — Atlanta at Carolina, Fox; Minnesota at Green Bay, Fox; NY Jets at New England, CBS; Washington at Chicago, Fox 4:05 p.m. — Indianapolis at Oakland, CBS 4:25 p.m. — Arizona at Seattle, Fox; San Francisco at Los Angeles, Fox; Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Fox 8:25 p.m. — Cincinnati at Houston, NFL RUGBY 9 a.m. — English Premiership: Wasps vs. Bath Rugby, NBCSN

SUNDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6:30 p.m. — Diamond Head Classic, ESPN2 8:30 p.m. — Diamond Head Classic, ESPN2 PRO BASKETBALL 12 p.m. — Boston at New York, CSN, ESPN 2:30 p.m. — Golden State at Cleveland, ABC 5 p.m. — Chicago at San Antonio, ABC 8 p.m. — Minnesota at Oklahoma City, ESPN 10:30 p.m. — LA Clippers at LA Lakers, ESPN PRO FOOTBALL 4:30 p.m. — Baltimore at Pittsburgh, NFL 8:30 p.m. — Denver at Kansas City, NBC

gigs, including as a sports anchor at Channel 4, a horse racing expert on NBC, and for a couple of years a midday host at WEEI. He had been at CSN since 2010. In May 2015, he returned to the network after making an extraordinary recovery from a stroke suffered the previous October, which required 5½ hours of surgery. McAdam, who built his name as a Red Sox beat writer at the Providence Journal before moving to the Herald briefly and then CSN upon its launch in 2009, has been an informed voice-of-reason across various media, an approach that is not exactly in abundance nowadays. At CSN, he was one of the panelists on “The Baseball Show,” which was hosted by Neumeier. The reason for the moves? As always, follow the money. Cord-cutting by cable subscribers is having a trickle-down effect on many regional cable networks. CSN, the home of the Celtics, also has decided to cut back on coverage of Boston teams with which they don’t own the broadcast rights. The Patriots, a huge traffic draw inseason, are the exception. CSN had already reduced coverage of the Red Sox last season. McAdam estimated he covered half the road games in 2016. That number likely would have been halved this year. CSN, which has been under the stewardship of new general manager Princell Hair since he replaced Bill Bridgen in October, has a specific, local reason to reevaluate its resources as parent company

Comcast attempts to create a different television hold in the market. Comcast owns NBC, and the impending launch of NBC Boston appears to have had some impact on the decision-making at CSN. Three CSN producers, the staff was told Thursday, will be moved to NBC Boston, which debuts on Jan. 1 when WHDH (Ch. 7) will lose its network affiliation and go independent. There is a strong belief with the CSN staff that this will have a major effect on its own programming. “SportsNet Central” — that show Neumeier and McAdam were just on — is not expected to survive much longer in its current form as the network shifts away from featuring a news/highlights program. The staff was told Thursday that much of the programming in March will be infomercials and reruns of staff-produced documentaries (such as the recent one on the 1986 Celtics) as new shows get a “test drive.” Those shows will be opinion-driven, not information- and highlight-driven. The recent change in leadership from Bridgen — who oversaw the rebranding and relaunching of CSN as “New England’s largest sports news desk” in December 2009 — to Hair might seem to have foreshadowed the changes. Perhaps, but the big picture is more nuanced than that. Bridgen was more of a business-focused vice president and general manager at CSN, while Hair has a background in personnel — he was the vice president of talent for NBC Sports Group before coming to CSN. And from his national perch, Hair was central in hiring out-of-market talent — including Carolyn Manno, Jackie Pepper, Kevin Walsh, Jess Moran, and Kyle Draper — for CSN New England in 2009 upon its launch. That was also the same time McAdam, as well as team “insiders” Tom E. Curran, A. Sherrod Blakely, and Joe Haggerty, joined the network. That mass hiring was just seven years ago. Thursday, it seemed much longer ago. “It’s scary to think what I’ve been doing for 27 years — covering the Red Sox — has probably come to an end,’’ said McAdam. “But that’s the reality of the industry right now.” Chad Finn can be reached at finn@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeChadFinn.

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Then there are the support staff members such as trainers and media relations employees who aren’t being paid millions of dollars to be away from their loved ones. Let them all spend the holiday with their families or their friends like most people, instead of sacrificing to provide entertainment for most people. Obviously, not everyone celebrates Christmas. It’s worth noting that this year Ha n u k k a h o v e r l a p s w i t h Christmas. Dec. 25 is the second day of the eight-day Festival of Lights. So, the games are intruding on more than one great gathering holiday. Regardless of religion, it’s possible to park yourself on the couch and ignore your relatives for hours with the NBA’s slate of five games. The Celtics game tips off at noon. The last game on the Christmas slate, Clippers vs. Lakers, tips off at 10:30 p.m. That’s more than 12 hours of basketball. It’s also greed and gluttony on the part of the NBA and its television partners looking to capitalize on a captive audience. It’s symbolic of the evercreeping complete commercialization of Christmas, a phenomenon in which the Christmas season and all its trappings — store displays, decorations, music — keep being foisted and forced upon us earlier and with greater emphasis for money-making purposes. There are other familygathering holidays that are sufficiently imbued with the spirit of sports. Baseball on the Four th of July is pure Americana. The holy trinity of Thanksgiving is family, food, and football. Christmas can still be merry without games. What would we do without games to watch on Christmas? How about interact and engage with our fellow man. It’s notable that the professional sports league that most resembles a winter wonderland doesn’t play any games

In 1984, the Knicks’ Bernard King torched the Nets for 60 points on Christmas Day en route to the scoring title. 1984 FILE/LARRY C. MORRIS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

on Christmas. The NHL freezes its rosters and its schedule for Christmas. The league hasn’t played Christmas Day games since 1971. Hockey displays humanity during the holiday. It treats players like people, not robots programmed to focus only on what occurs on the ice. This season, teams can’t trade players or waive them from Dec. 19 through Dec. 27. The roster freeze is designed to ensure that NHL players and their families don’t have their holiday disrupted by the cold, hard business of professional sports. Not only are NHL teams not playing on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, teams can’t schedule practices from Dec. 24-26. The college sports industrial complex majors in exploiting its employees, uh, studentathletes. But there are no bowl games on Christmas this year. The chief purveyor of Christmas action is the NBA. Teams in the league have been playing C hristmas games since 1947, when its forerun-

ner, the Basketball Association of America, staged a game between the New York Knicks and the Providence Steam Rollers. The NBA skipped Christmas games in 1998 because of a lockout. But the NBA opened the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season on Christmas Day. Some players enjoy the spotlight of playing on Christmas. The Celtics returning to play on Christmas Day for the first time since 2012 was seen as a sign of their renewed relevance. There have been some memorable NBA games played on Christmas. In 1984, Bernard King of the Knicks dropped 60 points on the then-New Jersey Nets on his way to winning the scoring title. In 1985, the Celtics, who would go on to win the title, blew a 25-point second-half lead and lost to the Knicks, 113-104, in double overtime. In 2008, the defending champion Celtics, armed with the New Big Three of Paul

Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen, brought a 19-game winning streak into a showdown with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe and Co. avenged their loss to the Celtics in the 2008 Finals with a win. The NBA is hoping Sunday ’s marquee C hristmas matchup, a Finals rematch between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors, adds to the list. But we don’t need to deck the halls with wall-to-wall basketball. We’ll survive without the Minnesota Timberwolves playing the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sports bring us joy and good tidings 360-plus days a year. How about one day where all of us — athletes and coaches included — take a timeout to celebrate something other than the final score? Christopher L. Gasper is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at cgasper@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @cgasper.

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New Mission’s senior guards and twins Charles (left) and Charlie Mitchell have earned respect on and off the court.

BOYS’ SCHOOL BASKETBALL PREVIEW

Hard not to like the twins New Mission brothers earn respect By Owen Pence GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

“How are the twins?” It’s a question New Mission boys’ basketball coach Cory McCarthy is asked often of his senior backcourt, the Titans’ lifeblood, Charlie and Charles Mitchell. “[They] could go anywhere in Boston and somebody says hi,” said McCarthy, who is in his final season as head coach of the program. “[The people] don’t say hi to me. They don’t even ask me how I’m doing. They just say, ‘Hey, what’s up with the twins?’ I’m like, ‘OK! They’re fine!’ ” There’s a boundless sense of pride, interspersed with bits of laughter that pervades through McCarthy’s words when reflecting on his time coaching the Mitchells. It’s a bond four years in the making, one that has redefined the New Mission program and changed the way Titans basketball is viewed by outsiders. “It’s been a great, great four years having them,” McCarthy said. “When we were at a point where our program was the most hated program around here, they helped people learn to like us. They’ve really saved our program from being one of those programs that has a bad reputation for being a little too aggressive.” “A lot of that has to do with people not liking me, but hey, it is what it is,” he coyly added. It’s the joy Charlie and Charles bring to those close to them, and the wonder they leave in the eyes of those watching from afar that McCarthy continues to extol. “They bring a crowd,” he said. “Whatever college or university gets those guys, especially if they stay local? Look out, man. You just got some people in your seats.” Each 5 feet 8 inches and 155 pounds — although Charlie gives his brother a slight edge in the height department — the two are inseparable, yet distinctive. Charlie is the ballhandler; Charles shoots. Charlie is the vocal leader; Charles the silent aggressor. Both play fearless defense, but Charles racks up the steals, with Charlie always there to help or leak out for a transition layup. Charles has shorter hair, for now. “It’s amazing having someone on the court with me that knows my skills and what I’m capable of doing,” said Charles, who dons the No. 2 yellow and blue jersey. Charlie wears No. 1. “Off the court, we’re always together. It’s like having a brother that looks like you, someone just like you; a clone. We do the same thing on and off the court and I just love it.” Growing up on Dudley Street in Roxbury in a singleparent household, the twins first picked up a basketball sometime upon entering the sixth grade. They took to the game immediately, and soon after were told they had the talent to go far. “It started basically [at] Tobin Middle School,” said Charlie. “Our middle school teacher said that we were really talented, so that’s when we started working out a lot.”

Charles remembers their inauguration into the world of hoops with even greater clarity. “It was in a hospital,” he recalled. “We just walked in and my friend was like, ‘You want to play on our team?’ We were little at the time. His mom talked to my mom and we just went to that one practice and we fell in love with it. We went every Saturday to that same place and practiced and [have] loved it ever since.

‘They are two of the most popular kids in the city of Boston.’ New Mission boys’ basketball coach Cory McCarthy

“We’ve been playing basketball on the court on Dudley Street all our lives it seems.” And yet, for a duo that has continually raised the bar, bringing home two state championships in three years — including a 52-48 win over Concord-Carlisle in last year’s Division 2 final — the Mitchells still find new ways to make others beam with pride. “They are two of the most popular kids in the city of Boston,” said McCarthy. “They just epitomize overachievement. 4.0 GPAs. Basketball players in a tall man’s sport. Living in a tough neighborhood, functioning, and being well, well liked under heavy adversity and dire circumstances. And everybody loves them.” It’s a testament to how they were raised, and the resilience they’ve exhibited throughout their time growing up in Roxbury. “There have been plenty of times, at least more than five times, when I’ve gone to drop these guys home and there’s some yellow tape across the street from them, next door to them, around the area,” said McCarthy. “I don’t want to continue to paint the picture of that [being] how the city is, but those are the circumstances of their neighborhood. “They want to make their mother happy. She works really hard — 80 hours a week. Whatever she provides for them, she trusts us to push them the extra mile and I respect her for that. She’s a tremendous woman. She raised two great young men and that’s what sets them apart. They’re just so likable and respectful and that goes a long way.” As is their nature, the twins remain hungry. Acquiring a third state title trophy remains priority No. 1. Then it’ll be off to college, together as always. “We’re going to college, both of us,” said Charlie. “We have college coaches on the table right now [but we] haven’t made a decision yet. We’re just looking out there, whoever’s willing to take us.” After a pause, he broke into a sly grin. “Whoever’s willing to take both of us. We’re a package deal.” Owen Pence can be reached at owen.pence@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @OwenPence.

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Before heading off to Cornell, Braintree senior captain Keelah Dixon is determined to lead the Wamps to their third title in four years. Isabella Scarpa and Maddy Fay, as well as junior forwards Rachel Tutkus and Mackenzie Moore. But the X-factor will undoubtedly be Dixon, who averaged 15.2 points, 4 assists and 3 steals in her junior season. Dixon is committed to play at Cornell next year. “She’s a really strong natural leader,” said McDonnell. “This year every facet of her game will come together. Some years we’ve relied on her as a scorer, and other years as a playmaker, but this year we need her to do it all.” And while the Wamps will be playing a different brand of basketball, the threats in their division remain prevalent — including the defending champion Shamrocks. Bishop Feehan is led by senior Katie Nelson, who is committed to Boston University. The standout guard scored 20 points in her team’s win over the Wamps last March. “They’re stacked,” said McDonnell of Feehan. “Starting five is very, very good. Incredibly accurate shooters. Kids that can hit from the outside. They can penetrate from the lane, work from the post, you name it. “We knew that to win the [Feehan game] we needed to have a really good day,” she said. “We got out to a tough start, and it ended up being the differ-

ence.” Braintree will also have to contend with Newton North and Newton South, both of whom return standout players in Florida State-bound Sayawni Lassiter and the highly touted Veronica Burton, respectively. Wellesley, which lost to Braintree in the sectional semifinals, also looks to be competitive this season. On the other side of the bracket, Woburn, Revere, and Andover are expected to contend for the Division 1 North title, along with Lowell and Billerica. Natick, which won the Division 1 Central Mass sectional, aims to return to its second straight state championship game. Still, Braintree wants to learn from years past and return to its championship form. “We want to look back at last year as the best thing that could have happened to us,” said McDonnell. “We want to come back really hungry, and we need to have really good games this year. “Until you finally have to deal with losing, it doesn’t resonate as much with you.” Richard Morin can be reached at ricky.morin@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @BigRickMorin

Evee points BC High to easy win Watching BC High’s Travis Evee run the Eagles on their home court Thursday night, it appeared the junior had been playing point SCHOOL guard all his life. ROUNDUP BC’s graceful leader — a shooting guard for most of 2015-16 — showed no signs of attrition at his new position, leading the Eagles (3-0) past Cathedral, 91-71. “I think he’s been terrific,” said coach Bill Loughnane. “It’s a big adjustment. We had him playing the 2-guard and the occasional point last year. Now he’s a full-time point and he’s stepped up and played terrific.” While it was Evee’s 25 points, 6 assists, 3 blocks, and 2 steals that led the charge for BC, the 5-foot-11-inch guard was far from the only key contributor. Senior forward Carl Pierre (19 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 blocks) and junior forward Jordan Minor (13 points and 11 rebounds) gave the Panthers headaches, asserting their will in

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New-look Braintree determined to make a run at Division 1 title Kristen McDonnell hopes her team’s loss in the sectional championship game last March will be the best thing that could have happened to motivate her team. After winning back-to-back state titles in 2014 and 2015, and winning its first 22 games last season, the Braintree girls’ basketball team fell to Bishop Feehan, 59-44, in the Division 1 South final. Entering her ninth year coaching the Wamps, McDonnell is poised to change things up and make adjustments. “The big thing this year is we’re undersized, and that comes with a change in style,” said McDonnell, whose team has compiled an aggregate 117-8 record over the past five seasons. “We’ve always wanted to be up-tempo, and now it’s essential for us to be that way. We’re formatting a new style that hopefully will lead us to some wins.” In past championship seasons, Braintree relied on its size and power to win games, often charging the rim and using its height advantage en route to easy baskets. The focal points of those teams were sisters Bridget and Brianna Herlihy, two standout forwards who have both since graduated and gone to play at Villanova. McDonnell is now leading a newlook Braintree squad, led by senior captain Keelah Dixon, in pursuit of a third title in four years. “We’re very lucky to have 11 returners who have experienced loss and are hungry to get [a championship] back,” said McDonnell. “Everyone has bought into this new style. We’re incredibly quick, and very athletic out in transition.” Despite some key departures, the Wamps still expect to field an extremely deep team, one that McDonnell anticipates to run 12 deep at any time. Some key components to the up-tempo scheme will be senior guard and captain Bella Tonetti, junior Jenna Roche and sophomore Adriana Timberlake, helping to pace a quick Braintree contingent. “We used to embrace running half court sets because we had the height,” said McDonnell. “Now we’ll be working more on the perimeter, flashing, and shooting better from the outside. Defensively we have to keep teams away from the basket and press as much as we can. We’re a little bit smaller.” The Wamps also expect to receive contributions from seniors Ally Dillon,

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the paint with regularity. BC outrebounded Cathedral, 53-27. “[Jordan was] big time,” Evee said. “Everyone plays a role on this team. Jordan is using his size, getting to the glass, getting offensive rebounds and giving me extra possessions and Carl extra possessions.” “I like our length,” added Loughnane. “I think our big guys have a nice IQ. They know when to go after it, they know when not to. They battled the whole game so we’re really happy with what we’ve gotten from the play underneath.” The Eagles set the pace early, hitting five 3-pointers in the first quarter for a 29-12 lead. Cathedral fought back, thanks to the dynamic play of senior guard Calvin Cheek (29 points), eventually cutting BC’s lead to 52-40 on a Cheek floater midway through the third. The Eagles answered with a 14-4 run to seal the deal. “We went to go see them play; they like to play fast and off turnovers,” said

The roster Quarterbacks Nick Couhig, Falmouth (6-0, 175 pounds, Sr.); Bobby Maimaron, Duxbury (6-1, 185, Sr.); E.J. Perry, Andover (6-2, 195, Sr.). Running backs Grant Chryssicas, Wellesley (6-1, 215, Sr.); Cole McCubrey, West Boylston (6-1, 230, Sr.); Mike Pedrini, Melrose (5-10, 190, Sr.). Wide receivers Brian Espanet, Millis-Hopedale (6-4, 190, Sr.); Noah Gray, Leominster (6-5, 230, Sr.). Offensive line Hunter Brown, St. John’s Prep (6-1, 275, Sr.); Riley Burns, Milford (6-4, 295, Sr.); Carlos Cabrera, Central Catholic (6-0, 265, Sr.); Alec Lindstrom, Shepherd Hill (6-4, 240, Sr.); Cory Ryder, Nantucket (6-4, 290, Sr.) Defensive line Callum Flanders, Xaverian (6-3, 250, Sr.); Liam Reddy, St. Mary’s (6-2, 270, Sr.); Greg Wood, Braintree (6-2, 265, Sr.). Linebackers John DeLuca, King Philip (5-10, 200, Sr.); Patrick Freiermuth, Brooks School (6-6, 245, Jr.); Blake Gallagher, St. Sebastian’s (6-1, 225, Sr.); Jack McGowan, Catholic Memorial (6-1, 220, Sr.); Bobby Mylod, North Attleboro (6-2, 210, Sr.); Benton Whitley, Minnechaug (6-3, 220, Sr.). Defensive backs Matt Andreas, Danvers (5-11, 190, Sr.); Brendan Costa, Case (5-9, 175, Sr.); Ifeatu Melifonwu, Grafton (6-4, 190, Sr.); Trevor van Leer, LincolnSudbury (5-11, 185, Sr.).

Evee. “We have to get out early so when they make that run in the second or third quarter, we’ll still have a cushion to control ourselves.” South Boston 60, Madison Park 56 — Senior point guard Joseph Abioye led the Knights (2-3) with 27 points. Holliston 75, Westwood 71 — Juniors Andrew Lynch (21 points) and Dylan Kasarjian (15) led the way for the host Panthers. Pope John 69, Marian 45 — Junior forward Marques Bouyer dropped 28 points for the Tigers (2-1). Pembroke 47, Archbishop Williams 40 — Charlie Considine had 15 points and Tyler Spencer added 14 as the Titans won their first game of the season. North Reading 63, Triton 62 — Senior forward Anthony Maldonado led the visiting Hornets (3-0) with 14 points.

Girls’ basketball Braintree 66, Newton North 56 — Senior captain Keelah Dixon scored 22 points to lead the host Wamps. Bishop Feehan 63, Mansfield 49 — Katie Nelson and Emily Miccile scored 18 points each and Miccile also pulled down eight rebounds to lead the host Shamrocks. Mystic Valley 62, Greater Lowell 39 — Junior guard Menel L amadzema scored her 1,000th point for the Eagles (3-0) on a 3-pointer in the first quarter. She finished with 31 points. Belmont 66, Wilmington 58 — Junior Carly Christofori (23 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists) led the Marauders (3-0) to the overtime win. Junior Caroline Anderson led the Wildcats with 16 points.

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MEN HOW AP TOP 25 FARED 3. Kansas beat UNLV, 71-53 16. Indiana beat Austin Peay, 97-62 19. Saint Mary’s beat South Carolina St., 74-47 23. USC played at Missouri St. 24. Cincinnati beat Marshall, 93-91 (OT) NEW ENGLAND Brown 82....................................Maine 77 Dartmouth 75...........................Bryant 69 NJIT 92..........................................Dean 50 Temple 83......................................Yale 77 UMass 78.....................................Rider 67 URI 73........................William & Mary 62 OTHER EAST Duquesne 70...........................Colgate 57 Georgetown 78..........................UNCG 56 Lehigh 93..................................Cabrini 72 Princeton 72..........................Bucknell 70 Wagner 94.....................Staten Island 42 SOUTH Alcorn St. 83.................................Rust 68 Campbell 81............................Stetson 72 Charleston 77..................W. Carolina 59 East Carolina 76............Presbyterian 56 Geo. Mason 75.....Prairie View A&M 59 Georgia So. 106.............................Fisk 58 Georgia Tech 76....................Wofford 72 La Salle 98....................Mercer 96 (3OT) Louisiana Tech 95...LSU-Shreveport 53 Miami 72............George Washington 64 Mississippi 92...........South Alabama 58 Mississippi St. 85.........Morehead St. 76 N.C. State 89..................McNeese St. 57 Old Dominion 65....................Howard 46 Samford 83.....................Florida A&M 63 South Florida 81..................Delaware 53 Wake Forest 110...........................LSU 76 Wright St. 77.....................Murray St. 62 MIDWEST Ball St. 73........................Alabama St. 48 Bowling Green 74......Alabama A&M 61 Cincinnati 93................Marshall 91 (OT) Drake 101.................. Miss. Valley St. 69 E. Michigan 101................Marygrove 48 Indiana 97........................Austin Peay 62 Iowa 89...........................Delaware St. 57 Miami (Ohio) 66......Tennessee Tech 58 Michigan 68............................Furman 62 Northwestern 72.....Houston Baptist 63 Ohio St. 79...................UNC Asheville 77 Santa Clara 87.......Valparaiso 80 (2OT) So. Illinois 78......................UT Martin 70 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 90............Sam Houston St. 56 Oklahoma St. 92......Texas A&M-CCi 70 San Diego 69.................. North Texas 68 FAR WEST Air Force 77..........................UC Davis 67 Arizona St. 98............Cent. Arkansas 62 BYU 81...............................Bakersfield 69 Colorado 76................E. Washington 68 Kansas 71....................................UNLV 53 Montana 70......................Pepperdine 67 Nevada 67.............UC Santa Barbara 66 Portland St. 118..............Walla Walla 59 TOURNAMENTS Diamond Head Classic San Diego St. 66........ Southern Miss 51 Tulsa 74.................Stephen F. Austin 51 Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational UC Irvine 62.................................UTEP 57 Akron 76....Maryland Eastern Shore 60 Las Vegas Classic Chicago State 74......SE Missouri St. 65 Troy 92......................................Cornell 84 Wyoming 72.............................DePaul 58 WOMEN HOW AP TOP 25 FARED 9. Washington beat BYU, 82-70 24. Kansas State lost to UNI, 67-59 NEW ENGLAND Brown 80........................Saint Peter’s 71 OTHER EAST Cornell 60...............................Canisius 43 Fordham 92.............................Niagara 69 Temple 73...............................Fairfield 59 SOUTH Samford 65.............................Georgia 59 MIDWEST Michigan 82.........................American 33 Northwestern 82................UT Martin 59 SOUTHWEST Lamar 94.....................Louisiana Coll. 55 Texas Tech 79...............UT Arlington 60 FAR WEST California 80...................Arkansas St. 55 Washington 82..............................BYU 70 TOURNAMENTS Tulane Doubletree Classic Drake 93............Eastern Washington 78 Tulane 61.................................Auburn 59

BOYS BOSTON CITY S. Boston 60.................Madison Park 56 CAPE ANN Amesbury 76.......................... Ipswich 59 N. Reading 63............................Triton 62 CATHOLIC CENTRAL Pope John 69........................... Marian 45 COMMONWEALTH Gr. Lowell 69......................Lynn Tech 61 Mystic Valley 66..............Essex Tech 59 Shawsheen 71....................Northeast 43 MAYFLOWER South Shore 42........................... Avon 27 MIDDLESEX Arlington 65........................Wakefield 60 Belmont 83.......................Wilmington 67 Melrose 71.......................... Lexington 68 Stoneham 57..........................Woburn 46 Watertown 60........................Reading 50 Winchester 59...................Burlington 53 NORTHEASTERN Beverly 69..............................Peabody 66 Gloucester 89.................Swampscott 70 Lynn Classical 57..................Danvers 51 Marblehead 57........................Saugus 42 Revere 60.......................Lynn English 57 Salem 73...............................Winthrop 64 PATRIOT Hanover 52...................Whit.-Hanson 49 SOUTH SHORE Rockland 86..............................Carver 52 TRI-VALLEY Bellingham 63........................Ashland 54 Holliston 75........................Westwood 71 Medfield 63..............Dover-Sherborn 44 NONLEAGUE BC High 91...........................Cathedral 71 Bridge.-Raynham 59............Xaverian 52 Brockton 57.......................Marshfield 47 Card. Spellman 59.................Holyoke 49 Dartmouth 67......................Sandwich 51 Monomoy 64......Rising Tide Charter 25 Pembroke 47...............Abp. Williams 40 Saint Joseph Prep 68..................PMA 44 Scituate 73....................Southeastern 44 Taunton 65....................New Bedford 46 GIRLS BAY STATE Braintree 66.................Newton North 56 BOSTON CITY Tech Boston 31..........................CASH 12 CAPE ANN Triton 48...................N. Reading 41 (OT) CATHOLIC CENTRAL Card. Spellman 89............ Pope John 53 COMMONWEALTH Chelsea 47....................................PMA 39 Essex Tech 43..................Minuteman 15 Shawsheen 42....................Northeast 16 GREATER BOSTON

FOOTBALL WEST Idaho 61..........................Colorado St. 50 Friday, Dec. 23 Bahamas Bowl— at Nassau Eastern Michigan (7-5) vs. Old Dominion (9-3), 1 (ESPN) Armed Forces Bowl—at Fort Worth, Texas Navy (9-4) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-5), 4:30 (ESPN) Dollar General Bowl— at Mobile, Ala. Ohio (8-5) vs. Troy (9-3), 8 (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl— at Honolulu Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7), 8 (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 26 St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Mississippi State (5-7) vs. Miami (Ohio) (6-6), 11a (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl—at Detroit BC (6-6) vs. Maryland (6-6), 2:30 (ESPN2) Independence Bowl—at Shreveport, La. NC State (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6), 5 (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 27 Heart of Dallas Bowl Army (7-5) vs. North Texas (5-7), 12 (ESPN) Military Bowl— at Annapolis, Md. Wake Forest (6-6) vs. Temple (10-3), 3:30 (ESPN) Holiday Bowl—at San Diego Minnesota (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 7 (ESPN) Cactus Bowl—at Phoenix Boise State (10-2) vs. Baylor (6-6), 10:15 (ESPN)

Medford 46........................Somerville 28 MAYFLOWER Old Colony 31...............Southeastern 26 South Shore 36........................... Avon 25 Westport 68...................Bristol Aggie 23 MIDDLESEX Belmont 66.......................Wilmington 58 Burlington 49...................Winchester 39 Melrose 59.......................... Lexington 40 Wakefield 48........................Arlington 26 Watertown 41........................Reading 30 Woburn 58..........................Stoneham 17 NORTHEASTERN Danvers 59.........Lynn Classical 55 (OT) Peabody 57..............................Beverly 41 Revere 63.......................Lynn English 49 Saugus 40........................Marblehead 34 Swampscott 53.................Gloucester 42 Winthrop 34...............................Salem 32 SOUTH SHORE Rockland 73..............................Carver 46 TRI-VALLEY Bellingham 51........................Ashland 38 Hopkinton 64............................Norton 37 Westwood 54........................Holliston 32 NONLEAGUE Bp. Feehan 63.....................Mansfield 49 Everett 49..............................Methuen 36 Falmouth 54.............Plymouth South 38 Marshfield 58.......................Brockton 40 Martha’s Vnyd. 52.......Whit.-Hanson 39 N. Andover 45....................Pentucket 42 Sandwich 47......................Dartmouth 37

HOCKEY BOYS NONLEAGUE Malden Cath. 4........Austin Prep 3 (SO) Shawsheen 6.........................Attleboro 1 Upper Cape 10........................O'Bryant 5 GIRLS MERRIMACK VALLEY/DUAL COUNTY Westford 3................................Billerica 0 GIRLS NONLEAGUE Arlington Cath. 2................Fontbonne 1 Matignon 4.............................Oakmont 0 Medway/Ashland 2..............Needham 2 Notre Dame (H) 4...............Marshfield 3

INDOOR TRACK BOYS BAY STATE Brookline 75...................Framingham 24 Milton 52....................................Natick 47 Newton North 80................Needham 19 Norwood 78...........................Dedham 18 Wellesley 74...........................Walpole 26 Weymouth 67......................Braintree 32 GIRLS BAY STATE Brookline 73...................Framingham 27 Milton 61....................................Natick 39 Newton North 53................Needham 47 Norwood 64...........................Dedham 35 Wellesley 64...........................Walpole 31 Weymouth 65......................Braintree 35

SWIMMING BOYS DUAL COUNTY Acton-Boxboro 99...............Westford 87 NONLEAGUE Lexington 92.....................N. Andover 76 Seekonk 75................Martha’s Vnyd. 56 Wellesley 91...........................Reading 74 NONLEAGUE Seekonk 82................Martha’s Vnyd. 70 COED CATHOLIC CENTRAL Bp. Fenwick 91....................Matignon 68 TRI-VALLEY Hopkinton 95........................Medfield 76

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Transactions BASEBALL Commissioner’s Office: Suspended P Mario Alcantara (free agent), Cleveland P Dakody Clemmer (AZL Indians), Kansas City P Arnaldo Hernandez (Lexington-SAL), Houston P Brendan McCurry (Corpus Christi-TL) and Boston C Jake Romanski (Pawtucket-IL) 50 games for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Chicago (AL): Assigned P Matt Purke outright to Charlotte (IL). Colorado (NL): Named Tony Diaz first base coach, Duane Espy hitting coach, Ron Gideon coach and Jeff Salazar assistant hitting coach. Minnesota (AL): Signed 1B Reynaldo Rodriguez and Matt Hague on minor league contracts. NFL Washington (NFC): Waived WR Rashad Ross. Signed CB Dashaun Phillips from practice squad and LB Lynden Trail to practice squad. HOCKEY NHL: F David Legwand announced his retirement. Carolina (NHL): Assigned G Daniel Altshuller from Charlotte (AHL) to Florida (ECHL). Chicago (NHL): Placed F Artem Anisimov on injured reserve, retroactive to Sunday. Recalled F Tanner Kero from Rockford (AHL). Dallas (NHL): Assigned G Philippe Desrosiers from Texas (AHL) to Idaho (ECHL). Montreal (NHL): Recalled G Zachary Fucale from Brampton (ECHL) to St. John’s (AHL). New Jersey (NHL): Placed F Jacob Josefson on injured reserve, retroactive to Saturday. Recalled D Seth Helgeson from Albany (AHL). St. Louis (NHL): Placed F Paul Stastny on injured reserve. Recalled F Wade Megan from Chicago (AHL). COLLEGE Duke: Suspended men’s basketball G Grayson Allen indefinitely. Georgia: Fined assistant football coach Shane Beamer $25,000 for accepting leaked game plan information two years ago while at Virginia Tech. Named Tom Black volleyball coach. Michigan: Suspended WR Grant Perry from the football team. Seton Hall: Dismissed sophomore F Myles Carter from the men’s basketball team.

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It was Thomas Wolfe who said “You can’t go home again.” Let it be noted for the record that he didn’t have Google MOVIES Earth. “Lion” is the story of a wanderer who did. Saroo Brierley lost his way in India as a little boy in the 1980s, came of age in middle-class Tasmania in the 1990s, and relocated his family village by obsessively studying satellite imagery during the 2000s. The story was a media sensation in Brierley’s two countries and the subject of his 2012 book, “A Long Way Home”; now it comes to the big screen on a wave of film festival warmth and awards. It’s an audience pleaser, too: broad, colorful, sentimental, and almost impossible to resist. Did Garth Davis, in his big-screen directing debut,

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Powerful ‘Fences’ stays close to the home August Wilson created for the stage

Denzel Washington directs and stars opposite Viola Davis in “Fences,” a film adaptation of the awardwinning play by August Wilson.

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ou don’t get groundbreaking cinema from “Fences,” but what you do get — two titanic performances and an immeasurable American drama — makes up for that. The film is perilously close to filmed theater, but out of respect rather than lack of imagination. Directing his third feature film (after “Antwone Fisher” in 2002 and “The Great Debaters” in 2007), Denzel Washington adapts August Wilson’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award-winning play and stars alongside Viola Davis, both of them re-creating their own Tony-winning performances from the 2010 Broadway revival. As was said about another flawed theatrical hero, attention must be paid. Troy Maxson (Washington) is a larger-than-life character in 1957 Pittsburgh, a legend to his friends (and to himself ) and a tinpot tyrant to his wife, Rose (Davis), and two sons, grown Lyons (Russell

Hornsby) and high school football star Cory (Jovan Adepo). Troy was a star baseball player in the Negro Leagues but aged out before Jackie Robinson (of whom he does not speak well) broke the Major League color barrier. He now works as a garbage collector with Jim Bono, an adoring crony played by the peerless Stephen McKinley Henderson (“Manchester by the Sea”). Troy’s still enough of a fighter to win a promotion to driver early in the film, but the bitterness that has festered in him for years blooms over the several months during which most of “Fences” takes place. As director and visual dramaturge, Washington could have opened the play up far more than he does. Arguably, that would have ruined it. “Fences” stays literally close to home, in the drawing room and kitchen of the Maxson home and especially in its back yard, with a tethered baseball to taunt the hero about his lost chanc‘‘FENCES,’’ Page G5

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Rooney Mara and Dev Patel in “Lion,” which is based on a real-life story. sense that making a tighter, more focused film might have blunted its emotional impact? Probably not, but the effect of “Lion” on your tear ducts has little to do with cinematic skill. The story’s that foolproof. “Lion” is divided into two parts, childhood and maturity. In the first half, Saroo is played by wideeyed newcomer Sunny Pawar as a 5-year-old Bengali street urchin who loves his mother (Priyanka Bose) and who, with his older brother Guddu (Abiushek Bharate), steals coal from freight trains to resell for food money. By staying close to the boy and his point of view, “Lion” conveys the terror and wonder when Saroo mistakenly boards an empty train and finds himself thousands of miles away in Calcutta, unable to speak Hindi and unable to tell anyone where he’s from. All he knows is that there was a train station and a water tower. ‘‘LION,’’ Page G4

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An old black man, bent double, sits down at a piano in an open field. He jokes and grumbles a bit (the piano needs tuning), smokes some, wheezes, plays, sings, chuckles, grumbles ART some more. The sun lowers. Birds chirp. The man is done playing. Forty-nine minutes after sitting down, he gets up and gingerly walks off camera. We are left staring at an empty piano in an open field in the gloaming. “The Man” is a 2011 video by Ragnar Kjartans-

son, and you can see it in the second iteration of which point he drags on the cigarette that rests on “First Light: A Decade of Collecting” at the Insti- the left side of the keyboard, or lights a new one. tute of Contemporary Art. He also complains about the piano’s tuning. The man at the piano is the faRepeatedly. He appears to have mous bluesman Pinetop Perkins. Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The forgotten that he’s already He will die, at age 97, within a Man,” with Pinetop Perkins, made the complaint (he’s 96, year of this unusual outdoor per- is screening in the ICA’s after all), so he just keeps on formance. making it. And in a way, the “First Light” series. He plays beautifully, although repetition (“It’s out of tune on his old hands can’t manage the “bass rolling like the B”) becomes its own form of blues. thunder,” as he puts it, like they used to. He ends Kjartansson is an effervescent Icelander interevery tune with either a couple of bars of “Jingle ested in music, melancholy, and duration. Also, ICA, Page G3 Bells” or another ubiquitous ditty I can’t name. At

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Some early photographers, aiming to legitimize their field as an art, strove to make pictures resemble paintings with soft focus, dramatic lighting, and darkroom manipulation. The tables turned in the 1960s: Photorealist painters made canvases as crisply detailed as photographs. Cree Bruins, in her show “Drawn to Light” at Kingston Gallery, straddles the two mediums differently, shrewdly employing the detritus of film photography to approach color and form as a painter would. Bruins salvaged end leaders — the fragments of film exposed to light when you load canisters into the camera — for the series “Follow the Leader.” The throwaway, when printed, becomes a landscape soaked in warm light, with black at the bottom burning upward into umbers, reds, and yellows. In sequence, the 24 images create a sunset: The near-white sky grows gold, then orange. The artist makes a tonal narrative from photos of nothing but accidental light. For “In Light Of . . .” slashes of color gel filters crisscross on 16 Plexiglas shelves, casting shadows below and reflections above — warm, darting beams of color, interlaced with slivers of white. The tones, from palest yellow at the top to burgundy and brown at the bottom, resonate ever deeper, the way musical notes reverberate in the body. With its radiant, ethereal light, the piece could be a site of worship. Drawn to Light #4, In her series 35mm processed film “Drawn to Light,” Bruon paper, 12-by-12 inches ins makes jazzy collages from bits of cut-up slide film, which she has exposed and chemically processed to derive a soft, smoky palette. “Drawn to Light #9” is a grid of tiny, irregular squares of film, some with sprocket holes, glowing in black, rust, olive, and mustard, each outlined in ink. The piece jiggles and bops like syncopated music. A century ago, photographers sought to re-create paint’s materiality, making brush strokes in the darkroom. In Bruins’s work film comes full circle, just as it fades in the face of digital photography. It becomes the material. CREE BRUINS: Drawn to Light At Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., through Jan. 1. 617-423-4113, www.kingstongallery.com

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The only way out? Time travel. By Terry Byrne GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

Something strange is going on in “Brilliant Adventures,” the sci-fi drama opening Dec. 28 at Apollinaire Theatre Company in STAGES Chelsea. A grown man wanders around on a leash like a dog, shady business deals are discussed in a dingy apartment, and a large cardboard box is actually a working time machine. Playwright Alistair McDowall, at 29, has already been provoking British audiences with his mysterious, dystopian dramas. But even though “Brilliant Adventures” dabbles in science fic tion, Danielle Fauteux Jacques, Apollinaire’s artistic director, says the play is fundamentally about close family relationships. “We read a lot of scripts out loud when we’re deciding what to produce each season,” she says. “This one just jumped off the page. Each character in this story is trying to outrun disaster.” At first glance, the plot line of “Brilliant Adventures” seems fairly straightforward: In a rundown city in northern England, two brothers and their best friend fight against a system, and sometimes each other, in an effort to get ahead in a world that offers few options. One brother, Rob, is a low-level drug dealer who keeps the man on the leash, while his younger brother Luke is a brilliant inventor who struggles to communicate because of a paralyzing stutter. When Rob teams up with a high-rolling bully from London for a “business deal,” loyalties are frayed and the dramatic outcome becomes harder to predict. Then there’s that time machine. “I love the way the time machine sits in the middle of the action, and everyone just accepts that they can’t use it because Luke doesn’t want them to,” says Michael Underhill, who plays Rob. “It would be easy to go down the whole wormhole of time travel, but instead they all just accept that it’s there and don’t dwell on it.” Even an amazing invention like a time machine can’t seem to release this group from their dead-end lives. Luke is reluctant to use it, and when the outsider from London offers to buy it, suddenly the stakes become so much higher. “ What struck me right away about this play is the juxtaposition of this grand title, ‘Brilliant Adventures,’ against this very small world in which these characters operate,” says Sam Terry, who plays Luke. “But what really draws you in is that these characters are in an impossible situa-

tion that they’re each trying to get out of in their own way.” Underhill says the play is filled with “subtleties, things that aren’t said, and an awful lot of action, considering everything takes place in this one room.” The dialogue, in fact, models Harold Pinter’s spare, unpredictable approach to character development, full of pauses and heavy with subtext. “On the page it looks very technical,” says Terry, “and when you add Luke’s stutter, it’s seems impossible, but I can really feel this character’s frustration. Unlike his brother, he’s thinking ahead. He knows what he wants to say, but he just can’t get it

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From left: Dev Luthra, Michael Underhill, and Sam Terry in rehearsal for Apollinaire Theatre Company’s “Brilliant Adventures.” out. So much of what is communicated between these brothers, and their lifelong friend, is unspoken.” Although the brothers are rough on each other, Terry says their affection is reflected in their actions, if not in their words. “Everything they do is about surviving another day,” says Fauteux Jacques. “Once the time machine is activated, it adds another layer of mystery to the existing story, rather than taking us in a different direction. Neither the audience, nor the characters, seem to know what’s going to happen next.” “Brilliant Adventures” is engaging, she says, “because all of the characters are juggling conflicting needs. All of them feel trapped, but each one has a different idea about what he is willing to sacrifice for a better future.”

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Assassination 101, KGB style neatly folded newspaper and stalking his targets throughout Munich until he In the summer of 1950, Soviet po- knew their routines perfectly. Both viclice arrested a young Ukrainian man tims were prominent leaders in the for riding a train without paying the Ukrainian émigré community and ran fare. Just over a decade later, the same resistance networks that actively fought man was found guilty of committing Nikita Khrushchev’s stifling rule. Top two political assassinations for the KGB officials, and possibly Khrushchev KGB. His trial in a Western court after himself, seemed to hope that the elimihis defection became an ideological nation of these Ukrainian nationalist battleground as journalists, govern- leaders would spark a power struggle ments, and intelligence agencies craft- within the movement and weaken it. Things did not quite work out that ed competing narratives from the contested facts of the two killings. One de- way. Just hours before the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961, Stashtail about the crimes was BOOK insky and his East German undisputed: Both murders REVIEW wife fled to West Germany, were committed with a gun hoping for CIA protection that sprayed cyanide into from the brutal vengeance the face of the victim, causthat the KGB reserved for ing cardiac arrest. defectors. Plokhy considers These killings and the various reasons why Stashpolitical machinations that insky defected — self-presinspired them are the subervation, an ideological ject of Serhii Plokhy’s fasciconversion prompted by nating new book, “The Man his wife, the desire to stop With the Poison Gun: A committing assassinations. C o l d Wa r S p y S t o r y.’ ’ Whatever his motives, he Plokhy, a Harvard specialist was initially unable to perin Russian and Ukrainian suade the CIA that he had history, pieced his story toin fact committed the two ge ther from trial tranTHE MAN WITH killings at the behest of the scripts, recently declassiTHE POISON KGB. fied CIA files, KGB and Polish archives, and memoirs He was turned over to GUN: A Cold War the West German police. and interviews of former After thorough interrogaSpy Story KGB officers. The resulting tions that established sevBy Serhii Plokhy yarn has all the drama of a eral corroborating details, political thriller — tense esBasic, 384 pp., they believed his story and capes across international $28.99 tried him for the killings. borders, targeted murders, plots, and counterplots implicating of- The CIA realized its mistake and beficials at the highest levels of various came quite interested in the information that Stashinsky could offer about governments. The 19-year-old student arrested for the inner workings of the Soviet intellinot buying a train ticket was named gence apparatus. His trial became an inBogdan Stashinsky. He was traveling ternational flashpoint in the early years home to visit family in the countryside of the Cold War — the CIA seized the opin western Ukraine — an area where portunity to publicly question how the underground resistance movement many other supposed suicides and was quite active. The Soviet police of- deaths of Soviet enemies abroad were in fered Stashinsky a stark choice: Either fact murders. The Soviets, meanwhile, infiltrate the resistance and act as an in- did everything they could to distance formant or his parents and sister would themselves from the assassinations, claiming they were simply the results of be imprisoned. He chose to cooperate. It soon became apparent that his political infighting among different facemployers were in fact the KGB. They tions of the Ukrainian resistance. Stashinsky ultimately served six set to work indoctrinating and training Stashinsky, persuading him to believe years in a West German prison. The that any action undertaken to defend CIA may have pressured the West Gerthe motherland was justified. The se- mans to release him early, and the CIA verity and success of this brainwashing almost certainly helped him disappear would later become an important com- into hiding. Plokhy makes a strong case ponent of his legal defense. His attor- that Stashinsky eventually settled in neys, likely with some prodding by the South Africa after receiving plastic surCIA, presented him as a mere tool of gery and changing his name. He may Soviet policy. still be there to this day — a retired asStashinsky was entrusted with two sassin hidden by one superpower and targeted assassinations, one in 1957 hunted by another. and the other in 1959. He completed both assignments successfully, conceal- Nick Romeo is a journalist and ing his poison-spraying gun under a cultural critic.

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“Father of the Bride” zaniness gets repackaged with dope tattoos and digital-native aesthetics in “Why Him?,” a James Franco-Bryan Cranston teaming that’s not as wild as intended, but reasonably diverting just the same. If you’ve been a repeat customer for director John Hamburg’s work as cowriter of the “Meet the Parents” series, then you should get some laughs out of his latest variation on that formula. Even the toilet humor, dare we admit it, is good for more yuks than yucks. Cranston’s upright Ned Fleming has always been close as can be with his Stanford coed daughter, Stephanie (Zoe y Deutch, “Everbody Wants Some!!”). But he learns the hard way that she has a serious boyfriend — specifically, when Stephanie makes a surprise appearance via Skype for Ned’s big birthday bash, and the guy inadvertently, lasciviously crashes the chat. To smooth things over, Stephanie invites the fam out to Palo Alto to meet Laird (Franco). But Ned and his wife (Megan Mullally) soon learn that “serious” boyfriend isn’t really the right tag — Laird is an impulsively wacky, street-stylin’ free spirit given to all the eccentric excess that comes with being a multimillionaire video game developer. Cranston and Franco have a good time with their odd couple dynamic, gamely playing Ned’s peevishness and Laird’s misdirected largesse, and nailing awkwardness like Laird’s touchyfeely bedtime visit to the Flemings’ guest room. A higher-aiming comedy might do something to explicitly lampoon Franco’s real-life status as contempo Renaissance man. Still, the movie is idiosyncratic enough to make

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room for a Clouseau-and-Cato riff by Franco and Keegan-Michael Key, who’s a scene stealer as Laird’s Eurotrashy right hand. (The script’s overexplanation of the homage is forgivable, given the target demographic.) Mullally is another participant who dives into her supporting role, supply-

ing the amusingly party-stoned yin to Cranston’s stuffy yang, and reminding us just how much loopy fun she is. (If Mullally’s recent “Will & Grace” election-season video leads, as rumored, to a full-fledged revival, we’re all for it.) The movie can get lazy with its generation-gap premise, broadly treating

Cranston’s character as if he’s 55 going on 85. Ned’s ownership of an antiquated printing business is one thing, but it’s a bit much to pair this with his general Luddism, that “Pink Panther” name-check, and his schlock-rock appreciation for KISS. It’s not a ruinously distracting issue, but Franco isn’t supposed to be the one asking “why him?” Tom Russo can be reached at trusso2222@gmail.com.

An Apple a day keeps the Assassins away By Mark Feeney

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In its various iterations, the video game “Assassin’s Creed” has sold 100,000,000 copies. Ready-made audience, here we come. Except that ready-made is as ready-made does. Is a bigger screen reason enough to go to a theater and sit passively in the dark when you can stay home and actually play the game? Regency and 20 th Century Fox, along with the game’s m a k e r, U b i s o f t , a r e b e t t i n g $130,000,000 that the answer is yes. The basic premise features enough convolutedness and pseudo-history to make Dan Brown’s word processor jealous. For centuries, super-secret society number one, the Assassins, has battled super-secret society number two, the Knights Templar. At stake is nothing less than humanity’s capacity for free will. Determining said capacity is a grail-like item called the Apple of Eden, not to be confused with the Apple of Cupertino. Gamers prefer PCs to Macs. Don’t get the wrong idea from that name Assassins. They’re the good guys. “We work in the dark to serve the light,” they like to say. Assassins have nifty knives that shoot out from

YY ASSASSIN’S CREED Directed by Justin Kurzel. Written by Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage; based on the video game. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Michael K. Williams. At Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs. 110 minutes. PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, thematic elements, and brief strong language). In English and Spanish, with subtitles.

under their wrists. They work like Wolverine’s claws. The resemblance ends there, since Assassins wear hoods and don’t have fur. Michael Fassbender plays both Aguilar, the 007 of 15th-century Assassins, and his present-day descendant, Cal. Thanks to a gizmo called the Animus, Cal can go back in time to reenact Aguilar’s experiences. The process feels a bit like “Inception” (2010). That movie’s female lead,

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MOVIE REVIEW YY½ WHY HIM? Directed by John Hamburg. Written by Hamburg, Ian Helfer, Jonah Hill. Starring James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullally. At Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs. 111 minutes. R (strong language and sexual material throughout).

Marion Cotillard, oversees the Animus. Fassbender, one of the producers, and Cotillard head a lavishly wasted cast. He looks great with his shirt off. She looks great in high-waisted trousers. Charlotte Rampling, as a mysterious authority figure (is that cryptic enough?), looks great looking severe. Jeremy Irons, as Cotillard’s father, looks great in a turtleneck. Brendan Gleeson, as another character’s dad, doesn’t look great — hey, he’s Brendan Gleeson — but, oh, that voice. It’s even better than Irons’s. All score bonus points for keeping a straight face throughout. Also on hand is Michael K. Williams, as modern-day Assassin Moussa. Williams was Omar, on “ T he Wire.” If only Omar and his murderous charisma were on hand to shoot some sense into these people. “Assassin’s Creed” ping-pongs around from Spain in 1492 to Baja California 30 years ago to 2016 and Texas’s death row (!), Madrid, Seville, and London. And the many fighting scenes are edited to smithereens. Yet the effect is less video-game-turned-movie than zombie movie minus zombies: stilted, static, s-l-o-o-o-w. The ending couldn’t set up a sequel more clearly if “To be continued” appeared on a title card. Don’t count on it. Game on? Game over. Mark Feeney can be reached at mfeeney@globe.com.

MOVIE REVIEW YY½ LION Directed by Garth Davis. Written by Luke Davies, based on a book by Saroo Brierley. Starring Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham. At Coolidge Corner, Kendall Square, West Newton, Somerville. 120 minutes. PG-13 (thematic material, some sensuality).

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The Calcutta scenes are tense and heartbreaking, and they dramatize an epidemic of child homelessness without overtly acknowledging it as a social issue. “Lion” is first and foremost empathetic to Saroo’s fellow lost boys and girls, and the movie has its antennae out for the many ways they can be abused by a heartless adult world. Story lines develop and peter out, eventually depositing the hero with a sigh of First World relief at the doorstep of the Brierleys, Sue (Nicole Kidman) and John (David Wenham), Australians living in Hobart, Tasmania, who adopt Saroo and, some years later, another Indian foundling, Mantosh (Keshav Jadhav). Saroo grows up and takes on the lean, intense likability of Dev Patel (“Slumdog Millionaire,” TV’s “The Newsroom”); he’s a model son and student, in contrast to Mantosh (Divian Ladwa), whose developmental issues

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Dev Patel stars as Saroo Brierley, who relocated his family village by studying satellite imagery.

home barely remembered, hovering just beyond reach. Enter the Internet. In its quest for dramatic suspense, “Lion” pumps up the obsessiveness of Saroo’s years-long search; he gets a “crazy wall” of maps and railroad time-

tables and he drives off various loved ones for various lengths of time. All of this feels like padding to forestall the reconnection that he and we crave, that gives the movie its meaning, and that you would have to be a stone to resist (even with some less than convincing old-age makeup on some of the principals). “Lion” is shameless and heartfelt and you’ll probably have a good, happy cry at the end. When a story pushes buttons so deeply wired into our consciousness — the prodigal returned, the childhood regained, the love restored — craft seems almost beside the point. Almost. Ty Burr can be reached at ty.burr@comcast.net. Follow him on Twitter @tyburr.

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Previously released YY½ Allied Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard have star power to burn — chemistry, too — in this often-stylish exercise in genre nostalgia. They’re spies in Casablanca (!) in World War II battling the Nazis. Things become less stylish once they escape to London, though the more ridiculous things get, the deeper Cotillard digs. She really is a marvel. Robert Zemeckis directed. (124 min., R) (Mark Feeney) Y½ The Brand New Testament A sophomoric satire in which God is a sadistic slob who lives in Brussels, where he drinks beer and torments his wife, daughter, and the human race. The daughter escapes to Earth and sets out to find six sad-sack new apostles. In French, with subtitles. (116 min., unrated) (Peter Keough) YY Collateral Beauty Grieving parent Will Smith finds an outlet in bitter, soul-bearing letters he writes to Death, Love, and Time. After a complex chain of events leads to him getting in-person replies from these big three abstractions, an impressive cast (Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, Keira Knightley) is squandered on far-fetched story developments and telegraphed pathos. (97 min., PG-13) (Tom Russo) YYY Doctor Strange Marvel’s Benedict Cumberbatch showcase tackles the issue of superhero fatigue by touring audiences around patches of genre

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es and a half-built fence that takes on gradual mythic weight as the drama unfolds. This play is sixth in the chronology of Wilson’s 10-part “Pittsburgh Cycle,” one play for each decade and many of them masterpieces (“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “The Piano Lesson”). Each play dramatizes and mulls over different aspects of the black American experience; many deal with the fraught relationships between fathers and sons; all are rich with living language and personalities. Wilson, who died in 2005, took territory that Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller had explored and made it his own, and in a climactic scene in which Troy rails against the figure of Death he senses coming in on the storm, “Fences” approaches the majesty and tragedy of “King Lear.” It’s a meaty, showy part for Washington and he knows it. While his Troy lacks the brute heft conveyed by James Earl Jones, who originated the role (and also won a Tony) in 1987 —

The other actors go up against this performance as best they can. Adepo grows sympathetically from boy to man as he tilts against the father who’s shutting down his future. As Troy’s brother Gabriel, a damaged WWII veteran who serves as the play’s holy fool, Mykelti Williamson shoulders the hard task of making a problematically stage-bound character work in a more realistic medium. It’s Davis, of course, who goes blazingly toe to toe with her costar, just as Rose’s bone-deep weariness acquires anger, articulation, and strength over the story’s emotional long haul. There has been some confusion among those who obsess over movie awards as to whether Davis gives a lead or supporting performance here. That reflects a sly truth about “Fences,” one that Wilson almost certainly wrote into the play: What begins as a story about a man who fills up every room he’s in becomes a testament to the woman who endures and outlasts him.

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the “largeness [that] informs his sensibilities and the choices he has made in life,” according to Wilson’s opening description of the character — Washington’s interpretation is leaner, meaner, smarter. His Troy is more actively an architect of his own downfall.

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KENNETH LONERGAN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE, MALE

LUCAS HEDGES

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BEST ACTOR CASEY AFFLECK BEST SCREENPLAY

KENNETH LONERGAN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

MICHELLE WILLIAMS

MASTERPIECE.”

“ ENGRAVE THE NAME CASEYAFFLECK ON THE OSCAR® FOR BEST ACTOR, SO EXTRAORDINARY AND ENGULFING IS HIS PERFORMANCE.”

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BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE

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er than the expected historical epic. It takes a bit of getting used to but stick with it: Natalie Portman plays Jackie Kennedy as a breathy, traumatized living doll fighting hard to become her own woman. (99 min., R) (Ty Burr) YYY Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” spinoff is a crowd-pleaser that tries to do everything and comes reasonably close. Eddie Redmayne stars as an adorable boffin of a creature collector, but the film’s stolen by costars Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, and Alison Sudol. (132 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)

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YYY½ La La Land From writer-director Damien Chazelle (“Whiplash”) comes an aching, ecstatic love letter to the classic Hollywood movie musical, transposed to the present day and starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as lovers in Los Angeles. It’s not perfect, but it’s close. With John Legend. (128 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr) YYYY Manchester by the Sea Casey Affleck at last comes into his own as the heartbreaking damaged soul at the center of Kenneth Lonergan’s quiet masterpiece. The movie’s a slice of North Shore life that’s lowdown, real, and often rudely funny; it’s also a hu-

man tragedy that makes you ache for the unlucky among us. With Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, and Michelle Williams. (137 min., R) (Ty Burr) YYY Moana The Disney princess archetype sails to the South Pacific in a dependably entertaining, visually dazzling riff on Polynesian folklore. The musical narrative about the adventurous daughter of an ancient tribal leader feels slightly more routine than comparable recent entries “Frozen” and “Tangled,” but you sure can’t beat the spectacular 3-D scenery. (113 min., PG) (Tom Russo) YYYY Moonlight A poetic drama

about growing up poor, black, and gay in an America that insists on looking anywhere but there, Barry Jenkins’s film is a cultural watershed — a work that dismantles all the ways our media view young black men and puts in their place a series of intimate truths. You walk out feeling dazed, more whole, a little cleaner. (111 min., R) (Ty Burr) YY½ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The new stand-alone film in the classic franchise at first unfolds as a straightforward action movie, often exciting, just as often over-busy and underwritten. It gathers darkness, weight, and connections to the larger story line,

GREAT WHITE SHARK (NR) 11:00, 1:00, 3:00 GALAPAGOS 3D: NATURE'S WONDERLAND (NR) 12:00, 2:00, 5:00

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ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) G 11:30, 1:15, 2:15, 4:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 10:30, 6:45, 9:30 PASSENGERS (PG-13) G 11:30, 1:20, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 10:30, 4:10, 7:00 SING (PG) G 10:30, 12:30, 1:20, 3:20, 4:00, 4:45, 6:40, 9:15, 10:15 SING 3D (PG) G RealD 3D 11:15, 2:00, 7:30 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 11:45, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) G 10:30, 12:45, 1:45, 5:00, 7:00, 8:15, 10:30 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY -- AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG-13) G 10:00, 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 11:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:10 WHY HIM? (R) G 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) G 11:00, 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) AMC Independent 11:20, 2:50, 6:20, 9:20 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 10:45, 1:30, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 HACKSAW RIDGE (R) 11:30, 2:45, 6:00, 9:15 ARRIVAL (PG-13) 11:15, 2:45, 6:15, 9:00 JACKIE (R) AMC Independent 10:40, 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:50

ARRIVAL (PG-13) 10:05, 12:45 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 10:20, 12:50, 3:35, 6:45, 9:20, 11:55 MOANA (PG) 11:15, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 10:15, 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:40, 12:25 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) 10:30, 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 WHY HIM? (R) 11:25, 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50, 12:30 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 11:35, 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:30, 11:55 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 10:05, 12:45, 3:30 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) 6:40, 9:25, 12:05 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 12:15, 3:25, 6:55, 10:20 SING (PG) 10:00, 12:40, 3:20, 6:05, 8:45, 11:30 SING 3D (PG) 10:40, 1:10, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15, 11:55

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though, and parents of the youngest audiences should take heed. Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, and Riz Ahmed. (133 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr) YYYY Things to Come Isabelle Huppert brilliantly portrays a philosophy teacher who is quietly divested of many of the things she cherishes and which define her. The director Mia Hanson-Love quietly dramatizes difficult fundamental questions and has no pat answers. In French, with subtitles. (103 min., PG-13) (Peter Keough) For movie coverage, go to www.bostonglobe.com/movies.

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ARLINGTON

CAPITOL THEATRE

204 Massachussetts Ave. 781-648-4340 6 www.capitoltheatreusa.com

ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 9:55 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 SING (PG) 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40

BELLINGHAM

REGAL BELLINGHAM STADIUM 14 259 Hartford Ave. 844-462-7342-443 5 6 8 DIG www.REGmovies.com

WHY HIM? (R) Advance Tickets Available (9:55, 12:50, 3:40) 7:00, 10:00 DANGAL (NR) Advance Tickets Available (11:00, 2:45) 6:50, 10:30 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) (1:10) 7:40 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) G (10:00, 4:25) 10:35 PASSENGERS (PG-13) G (1:20) 7:20 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) G (10:15, 4:20) 10:20 SING (PG) G (11:20, 2:10, 5:05) 7:55, 10:40 SING 3D (PG) G (12:30, 3:25) 6:15, 9:40 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) (11:45, 2:30, 5:30) 8:15, 10:45 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) G (10:45, 2:00, 5:15) 8:30 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) G (9:45, 12:00, 1:00, 3:15, 4:15) 6:30, 7:30, 9:45, 10:45 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) (11:15, 2:15, 5:00) 8:00, 10:35 MOANA (PG) (10:30, 1:15, 4:30) 7:45, 10:40 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) (9:30, 12:45, 4:00) 7:15, 10:30 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) (11:30, 3:30) 6:45, 10:20

BELMONT

STUDIO CINEMA BELMONT 376 Trapelo Rd. 617-484-1706 www.studiocinema.com

SING (PG) 1:30, 3:30, 6:00, 8:15

BERLIN

REGAL SOLOMON POND STADIUM 15

591 Donald Lynch Blvd. 844-462-7342-448 5 6 8 DIG www.REGmovies.com

WHY HIM? (R) Advance Tickets Available (1:20) 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) (1:25) 7:35 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) G 4:30, 10:25 PASSENGERS (PG-13) G (2:15) 8:15 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) G (11:20, 12:35, 3:35) 5:15, 6:45, 9:45 SING (PG) G (11:10, 1:40) 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 SING 3D (PG) G (12:20, 3:25) 6:15, 9:20 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) (11:00, 1:05, 3:50) 6:30, 9:10 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) G (12:30, 3:45) 7:00, 10:15 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) G (11:30, 1:30, 2:45) 4:45, 6:00, 8:00, 9:15 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) (1:15) 4:00, 6:50, 10:20 MOANA (PG) (1:10) 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) (1:00) 4:20, 7:45 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) (12:10, 3:40) 7:05, 9:35 ARRIVAL (PG-13) (2:20) 5:30, 8:30

BOSTON

ARTSEMERSON: PARAMOUNT CENTER 559 Washington St. 617-824-8000 5 8 DOL www.artsemerson.org

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ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 11:40, 5:20, 10:55 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) RealD 3D 2:30, 8:10 MOANA (PG) 10:05, 12:50, 4:30 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 9:45, 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 11:00, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 SING (PG) 9:30, 10:30, 12:30, 3:15, 6:10, 9:00 SING 3D (PG) RealD 3D 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 6:25 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 11:00, 11:30, 2:00, 3:00, 6:30, 9:00, 10:00 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY -- AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG-13) 9:00, 12:30, 4:00, 7:30, 10:45 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RealD 3D 10:00, 1:30, 5:00, 5:30, 8:30 LA LA LAND (PG-13) AMC Independent 10:30, 12:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:40 WHY HIM? (R) 11:15, 2:15, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 11:25, 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 PATRIOTS DAY (R) G 9:15, 10:15, 11:15, 12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) AMC Independent 10:10, 1:15, 7:35, 10:40 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 12:00, 5:30, 11:00 ARRIVAL (PG-13) 2:45, 8:15 THE WASTED TIMES (NR) AMC Independent 3:30, 9:25

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WHY HIM? (R) Advance Tickets Available (9:55, 12:50) 4:00, 7:05, 10:25 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 4:20, 10:40 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) G (10:10, 1:20) 7:30 PASSENGERS (PG-13) G (10:35, 1:45) 7:45 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) G 4:45, 10:45 PATRIOTS DAY (R) (9:15, 11:15, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45) 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:20 SING (PG) G (10:15, 1:15) 7:15 SING 3D (PG) G 4:15, 10:15 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) (11:40, 2:20) 5:15, 8:15 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) G (10:20, 1:40) 8:30 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) G 5:00 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) RPX G (9:00, 12:10, 3:30) 7:00, 10:30 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) (11:20) 5:30 MOANA (PG) (11:10, 2:05) 5:05, 8:00 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) (11:30, 3:00) 6:15, 9:45 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) (11:05, 2:25) 6:00, 9:30 ARRIVAL (PG-13) (2:10) 10:35

BRAINTREE

AMC BRAINTREE 10 121 Grandview Rd. 5 6 DIG www.amctheatres.com

ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) G 11:30, 5:00, 10:45 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 2:15, 7:45 MOANA (PG) 10:30, 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 PASSENGERS (PG-13) G 1:00, 7:15 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 10:45, 5:30, 10:50 SING (PG) G 10:00, 4:00, 10:30 SING 3D (PG) G RealD 3D 10:30, 1:45, 8:15 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:45 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) G 9:30, 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 11:30, 2:30, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 WHY HIM? (R) G 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:00 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) G 9:50, 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 8:05, 10:30 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 12:15, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00

BROOKLINE

COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE 290 Harvard St. 617-734-2500 5 6 www.coolidge.org

LA LA LAND (PG-13) 12:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 JACKIE (R) 11:15, 1:30, 4:30, 6:45, 9:15 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 11:00, 1:45, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 MOONLIGHT (R) 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 10:00 JACK FROST (R) 12:00

BURLINGTON

AMC BURLINGTON CINEMA 10 20 South Ave. 5 6 DIG www.amctheatres.com

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) G 10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) G RealD 3D 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00

CAMBRIDGE

APPLE CINEMAS CAMBRIDGE 168 Alewife Brook Parkway. 5 6 DOL DIG DSS www.applecinemas.com

ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 10:15, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 DANGAL (NR) 10:00, 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 SING (PG) 10:00, 12:30, 3:00, 5:00, 6:05, 7:30, 8:30, 10:00 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) 12:40, 11:00 WHY HIM? (R) 10:30 WHY HIM? (R) 1:00 WHY HIM? (R) 3:30 WHY HIM? (R) 6:00 WHY HIM? (R) 8:30 WHY HIM? (R) 11:00 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 11:30, 6:00, 10:45 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 10:00, 3:20, 6:00, 8:30 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 11:00, 1:20, 3:40, 8:45, 11:00 MOANA (PG) 10:10, 12:45, 3:20, 6:00, 8:20 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 2:30, 11:00

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ARRIVAL (PG-13) 5 (11:00) 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 5 (11:05) 1:05, 2:00, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30 LA LA LAND (PG-13) 5 (12:30) 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 LA LA LAND (PG-13) 5 (11:00) 1:00, 1:30, 3:50, 4:20, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40 JACKIE (R) 5 (11:30) 2:00, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 9:30 MOONLIGHT (R) 5 (1:45) 7:05 THINGS TO COME (PG-13) 5 (4:30) 9:45 ELLE (R) 5 (1:15) THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (NR) 5 (4:25) 7:00, 9:40

CHESTNUT HILL

SHOWCASE SUPERLUX 55 Boylston St.

http://www.showcasecinemas.com/

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 11:00, 11:20, 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 11:00, 11:20, 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:30 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:30 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) 10:20 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) 10:20 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 11:40, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 11:40, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 SING (PG) 10:40, 1:30, 4:30, 8:00, 10:40 SING (PG) 10:40, 1:30, 4:30, 8:00, 10:40

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SHOWCASE CINEMA DE LUX LEGACY PLACE 670 Legacy Place 800-315-4000 5 6 8 I K DIG DSS www.nationalamusements.com

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 9:35 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 11:55, 12:55, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:40, 9:40, 10:35 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) 12:25, 3:35, 7:15, 10:15 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 11:15, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 MOANA (PG) 10:35, 1:15, 4:00, 7:00 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 11:00, 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) 6:30, 9:15 WHY HIM? (R) 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 LA LA LAND (PG-13) 10:25, 1:20, 4:15, 7:35, 10:40 LA LA LAND (PG-13) 12:20, 3:40, 7:05, 10:10 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 10:45, 1:25, 4:05 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) 6:55, 9:50 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 11:20, 2:40, 6:05, 9:10 SING (PG) 10:30, 11:35, 1:10, 2:15, 3:55, 4:50, 6:45, 7:25, 9:30 SING 3D (PG) 10:00

FOXBORO

SHOWCASE CINEMA DE LUX PATRIOT PLACE

MILLBURY

BLACKSTONE VALLEY 14: CINEMA DE LUX

70 Worcester Providence Turnpike 800-315-4000 5 6 8 DSS www.showcasecinemas.com

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (PG-13) 10:00 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (PG-13) 10:00, 12:00, 1:00, 3:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:40, 12:00 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) 6:30, 9:40 ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY 3D (PG-13) 9:30, 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (R) 11:15, 1:55, 4:55, 7:50, 10:25 MOANA (PG) 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 7:00 PASSENGERS (PG-13) 9:45, 12:40, 3:40, 6:55, 9:35, 12:15 PASSENGERS 3D (PG-13) 10:15, 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 10:05 WHY HIM? (R) 10:40, 1:20, 4:05, 6:40, 9:30, 12:05 COLLATERAL BEAUTY (PG-13) 9:40, 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15, 12:30 ASSASSIN'S CREED (PG-13) 10:05, 1:05, 3:50 ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D (PG-13) 7:05, 9:50, 12:25 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R) 9:35, 12:35, 3:40, 7:10, 10:20 SING (PG) 9:50, 11:00, 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:55, 9:55, 12:30 SING 3D (PG) 10:20, 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25, 12:00

NATICK

SUNBRELLA IMAX 3D THEATRE AT JORDAN'S FURNITURE - NATICK 1 Underprice Way 508-665-5525 5 8 www.jordansimax.com

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NEW YORK — When he entered the recording studio this spring, Grammy- and Oscar-winning rapper Common had plenty to vent about — and it all came out. Police shootings. Institutionalized racism. Mass incarceration. Fouled water supplies. White privilege. Wage gaps. Black Lives Matter. Inner-city violence. ‘‘Things just felt more urgent for me,’’ Common said of ‘‘Black America Again,’’ his 11th studio CD and easily his angriest. His album dropped, not coincidentally, on Election Day. It became just the latest politically charged record by black artists this year — others include Alicia Keys’s ‘‘Here,’’ Solange’s ‘‘A Seat at the Table,’’ and, of course, ‘‘Lemonade’’ by Beyoncé, who made headlines with the black-empowerment themes in her video for ‘‘Formation’’ and during her Super Bowl halftime show — reflecting the power, and sometimes disillusionment, that black people are feeling through music. ‘‘I definitely believe that artists are just becoming more aware,’’ said Common, who is not new to socially conscious rap. ‘‘It feels like it’s a critical time where you have to be aware even if you’re not necessarily so into politics.’’ Frustration has pervaded almost every corner of music, from the British artist Michael Kiwanuka’s soulful ‘‘Black Man in a White World’’ to Childish Gambino’s psychedelicfunky ‘‘Boogieman,’’ and the soft uplift of India.Arie’s ‘‘Breathe.’’ ‘‘These artists are dealing with a lot of things that they see in their lives and in the world around them,’’ said University of Arizona religious studies professor Alex Nava, who explores spirituality in hip-hop. ‘‘Maybe it will galvanize and revitalize the more radical spirit of music.’’ Tip ‘‘T.I.’’ Harris has always had songs with a political edge but this year he took it further. Motivated by the police shootings of two young black men over the summer in Minnesota and Louisiana, T.I. in Septem-

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John Legend (left, performing in Germany on Dec. 18) pushed past his comfort zone on “Darkness and Light.” Common (right, in Hollywood on Nov. 30) released his angriest CD to date, ‘‘Black America Again.’’ ber released the six-song EP ‘‘Us or Else,’’ which focuses on social justice and police brutality. The video for one song, ‘‘Warzone,’’ reenacts the way several black men died at the hands of police, but uses white actors as victims to question the role race played. He expanded his EP into a full, 15song CD this month, ‘‘Us or Else: Letter to the System.’’ ‘‘I didn’t plan on making it a project. I just started recording records based on how I felt. I just felt I should be doing something,’’ the rapper said. ‘‘At the time, I didn’t feel like anyone was speaking to it and I felt compelled to do something.’’ The social activism has spread beyond music. Chance the Rapper backed anti-violence measures in Chicago, used his concerts to register fans to vote, and joined Solange and Alicia Keys in celebrating the victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose protests helped halt construc-

tion on the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Solange’s new CD is also a meditation on being a black woman in America, highlighted by the pledge of personal identity in ‘‘Don’t Touch My Hair,’’ the empowerment anthem ‘‘F.U.B.U.’’ and the personal alienation of ‘‘Cranes in the Sky. Hip-hop elders A Tribe Called Quest reemerged at the end of 2016 with a decidedly political edge after more than a decade away, attacking gentrification in ‘‘We the People. . .” and drawing a dystopian future in which the rich flee Earth in ‘‘The Space Program.’’ Even artists like John Legend, an outspoken activist outside the recording studio whose lyrics are more defined by love and relationships, pushed past his comfort zone on his new CD, ‘‘Darkness and Light.’’ In ‘‘Penthouse Floor,’’ Legend calls out the rich and the media for turning a blind eye to suffering on the streets:

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‘‘They see us reaching for the sky/ Just ignore that you survive.’’ In an interview, Legend acknowledged an uptick in political music. ‘‘We are on Twitter, we are going to the cities and we’re seeing what’s happening out there in the streets, on the news and however we are seeing it. And I think artists are reacting to that,’’ he said. ‘‘I think we feel that sense of urgency because the community feels that sense of urgency.’’ While not all black musicians have embraced social activism — notables include Lil Wayne and A$AP Rocky — some have actually joined protesters in the streets. Snoop Dogg and The Game participated in a Los Angeles march and T.I. joined a protest in Atlanta. ‘‘People kind of looked at me, like, ‘What’s next?’ ’’ T.I. recalled. ‘‘That kind of said to me, ‘Man, people are looking for answers and I know I don’t have the answers.’ It’s difficult

to remain neutral. It’s difficult to not have an opinion.’’ Socially conscious elements of American blues, jazz, rock, soul, R&B and hip-hop have cycled in and out, with such messages by black artists drowned out by party anthems, sexually explicit tracks and gangsta rap in the early 2000s. The increased attention on policerelated killings of blacks and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement mirrors the rise in social activist songs in mainstream black music — D’Angelo’s 2014 ‘‘Black Messiah’’ was an early example. It’s also reflected in J. Cole’s searing ‘‘Be Free,’’ Keys’s ‘‘We Gotta Pray,’’ and Jay Z’s ‘‘Spiritual’’ (“I am not poison/ Just a boy from the hood that got my hands in the air”). Even Kanye West jumped in with ‘‘Feedback,’’ rapping ‘‘Hands up, hands up, then the cops shot us.’’ Nava, who has been teaching his course ‘‘Rap, Culture and God’’ for 10 years, said artists take cues from their community, and he’s noticed a shift in his students’ tastes over the past few years. ‘‘I find more and more young people that are disenchanted with kind of played-out themes of girls and cars and jewelry and tired refrains of making money and boasting about guns,’’ he said. ‘‘My students are really craving a more thoughtful content, more poetic content, a stronger social vision.’’ Activism and music were firmly linked at the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March last year when marchers sang the chorus of ‘‘Alright’’ from Kendrick Lamar’s ‘‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’’ an album many say helped reconnect hip-hop to its political roots. Questlove of the Roots in late 2014 challenged musicians on Instagram to step up and be ‘‘a voice of the times that we live in.’’ He asked for real stories and real narratives. ‘‘Protest songs don’t have to be boring,’’ he wrote. ‘‘ T he y just have to speak truth.’’ He may have gotten his wish. Associated Press entertainment writer Nicole Evatt contributed to this report from Los Angeles.

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This subversive thriller takes audiences through the twists & turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far. A spectacular, tragic & darkly comedic production. Feb 8-19. artsemerson.org

An acclaimed new translation of Ibsen’s powerful classic about marriage, money, and equality. “An undoubted masterpiece” - London Telegraph A Huntington Theatre Company production Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre 617 266 0800 huntingtontheatre.org

Shen Yun invites you to experience the divine culture of the Middle Kingdom. Shen Yun brings the profound spirit of this lost civilization to life on stage with unrivaled artistic mastery. Boston: March 4-5 (Wang Theatre) Providence: Feb 4 (PPAC) Worcester: March 11-12 (Hanover Theatre) Tickets: ShenYun.com (888) 974-3698

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Walk the Freedom Trail® and discover the origins of Boston’s holiday traditions. Led by 19th-century Dickensian costumed guides, this festive tour includes an exclusive visit to the Omni Parker House for signature refreshments and world-famous Boston Cream Pie, and discounts at Freedom Trail museum shops. Thursday-Sunday, 3:30 p.m. $29 adults; $19 children For tickets, please call 617.357.8300 www.TheFreedomTrail.org

WILL OUR DEEPEST SECRETS BE TURNED AGAINST US? This epic, Hungarian tale combines folk music, dance, brilliant ensemble work & hysterical fact to tell a story of life under mass surveillance & its devastating consequences. Jan 19-22. artsemerson.org

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A VICTORIAN THRILLER NOW PLAYING AT A.R.T. Directed by Bill Rauch, Sarah Waters’ FINGERSMITH explores sexuality and betrayal. With Tracee Chimo, Christina Bennett Lind, and Kristine Nielsen. Playing now until January 8. americanrepertorytheater.org TICKETS FROM $25

This genre-defying work of concert performance brings together 30 powerful songs drawn from 200 years of African-American song traditions to give life to Butler’s acclaimed science fiction novel of the same name. MAR 23-26. www.artsemerson.org

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CHERISH THE MOMENT Whether you’re seeing it again or for the first time, The Nutcracker will capture your imagination and transport you to a world of brave toy soldiers and dancing snowflakes. From the captivating dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy to the iconic snow scene, this enchanting holiday classic—set to the beloved music of Tchaikovsky—continues to enthrall audiences of all ages. Create an annual tradition with family and friends and make memories to cherish for years to come. Now-Dec 31 at the Boston Opera House. Tickets at bostonballet.org or call 617.695.6955.

IN CONCERT JANUARY 13–15 Winner of the prestigious 2015 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Michelle Dorrance “has become the most exciting and original choreographer in tap today” (The New York Times). She honors tap dance’s unique American tradition while pushing the form rhythmically, aesthetically, and conceptually. January 13–15, Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre 219 Tremont St., Boston For tickets and information: 617-876-4275 • www.worldmusic.org Presented by World Music/CRASHarts

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Should she ask out her workplace crush? Q. I have a common but confusing problem. I have a crush on my new co-worker. “James” joined my office in July, and I was immediately physically attracted to him. He was very busy and out of the office for most of the summer, so our interactions were limited to a friendly “hello” here and there. Now he’s in the office regularly, and we recently sat next to each other at an all-day meeting. We had a chance to talk for the first time, and I really enjoyed getting to know him over the course of the day. There was definitely a comfortable connection and maybe even a mutual spark of interest. Since then, we exchange huge smiles whenever we see each other at the office. I am well aware of the potential issues here. My office is small and close-knit with about a dozen full-time staff members. However, James and I are on the same level professionally, with different supervisors, and our job responsibilities and day-to-day work do not overlap in any way. We are both in our mid-30s and single, while nearly everyone we work with is older/ married. At this point, I just want to get to know him better. I’ve thought about inviting him to meet up for a drink after work, but I’m hesitant for obvious reasons. I’m so lucky to have a great work environment, so I feel like I’d be crazy to risk that by pursuing a co-worker. Then again, it’s hard to ignore my feelings. Is working together always a deal-breaker in these situations? Does it mean that a nice, smart, attractive guy is automatically off-limits? The rational part of my brain is saying “Don’t go there!” while the emotional part is saying “But what if?” Which part should I listen to? CONFUSED CO-WORKER

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Jeffrey Donovan (left) and Angus Sampson in season two of “Fargo.”

Here’s what the new season of ‘Fargo’ looks like Last year, my No. 1 show was the second season of “Fargo,” a funny, creepy, intriguing story with a great cast including Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Kirsten Dunst, Jean Smart, Jesse Plemons, and Jeffrey Donovan. So I’ve been keeping an eye on the developments regarding season three of the FX series, which goes into production next month in Canada and will air at some point in 2017. Here’s what we know:

comedy-drama “BrainDead,” will play a recent parolee who is Ray’s girlfriend. Oh, Nikki’s also a competitive bridge player.

1. The season is set in 2010. Season one took place in 2006, and season two in 1979.

8. Michael Stuhlbarg will play Emmit’s righthand man. In 2009, Stuhlbarg starred in “A Serious Man,” a movie by Ethan and Joel Coen, who made the original “Fargo.”

2. The story revolves around brothers Ray and Emmit Stussy. Emmit is a wealthy family man known as the “Parking Lot King of Minnesota.” Ray, younger, is an unlucky guy, a parole officer in bad physical shape, and he has a chip on his shoulder about Emmit. The tense relationship between the brothers leads to theft, mobsters, and, doncha know, murder. 3. Ewan McGregor stars as both brothers. 4. Carrie Coon from “The Leftovers” stars as chief of the Eden Valley police. She is newly divorced. 5. Funny guy Jim Gaffigan will play her deputy, who has the distinctive name of Donny Mashman. 6. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, from CBS’s canceled

7. David Thewlis, who first came to my attention with his powerful turn in Mike Leigh’s “Naked” in 1993, is on hand as a mysterious loner. He’s best known as Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter movies.

9. Each season of “Fargo” is self-standing. But season two featured younger versions of some characters from season one, and season three — according to FX CEO John Landgraf — will probably include “at least one” older version of a character from a previous season. 10. Here’s what show creator Noah Hawley had to say about season three back in December 2015, right after the season two finale: “We’re now living in a very selfie-oriented culture. . . . It feels like a social dynamic that is very antithetical to the Lutheran pragmatism of the region. . . . I like the idea of setting up these pragmatic and humble people against the culture of narcissism and [seeing] what that generates for us, storywise.”

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A. Whenever we have a letter about a possible office romance, commenters seem to agree that it’s not worth the risk. There have been some exceptions — if the letter writer works for a massive company, readers seem more open — but for the most part, this crowd says to leave work crushes alone, especially if the letter writer loves the job. But here’s the thing: I almost always disagree. I know so many great couples who met at work. Even in my own building, there are a pack of happy twosomes who make it all seem worthwhile. There are also people who’ve had to deal with office breakups (myself included). Even though the aftermath of those relation-

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READERS RESPOND: What have you got to lose? Your job. Your professional standing. Respect from your colleagues. HARRISBLACKWOODSTONE I disagree. What’s the big deal? Are colleagues really going to “lose respect” for the letter writer over pursuing a personal life? I can think of a half-dozen married couples that met at work and a few others where it didn’t work out but didn’t lead to any consequences beyond occasional awkwardness. NUM19 I don’t think she’d lose respect from her colleagues. They’re mature adults. They’re allowed to date. BKLYNMOM This [office] sounds almost as small and cozy as a family! Which would make dating him incestuous, and that’s never a good idea. NOMORESCREENNAMES I actually knew a couple who started dating at work and they agreed they didn’t want coworkers to know about it so they purposely never talked to each other too much at work and only saw each other outside of work. And guess what happened? Nobody noticed they were dating. BOSTONSTUD I met my first wife at work. Yes, I said first; we’re no longer married. But we lasted nearly 18 years, and both of us were long gone from the place where we worked together by then. And we are still on civil terms. SLIM--PICKENS I’d invite him to lunch first. SCINNYDIPPE Column and comments are edited and reprinted from boston.com/loveletters. Send letters to meredith.goldstein@globe.com.

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ships is never easy, everyone keeps working. In your case, it’s too early to think about a breakup. You don’t even know if you really like this guy; all that’s there is attraction with potential. A drink invitation sounds like a good way to see if a) he wants to get to know you better, too, and b) there’s any real compatibility outside of the office. Silence the questions in your head by making the simple request. MEREDITH

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