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SUNDAY, APRIL 24 , 2022

BLINKEN, AUSTIN,
ZELENSKY TO MEET
Russia pushes forward
with attack on Odessa
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A BIGAIL H AUSLOHNER,
T IMOTHY B ELLA
AND E LLEN F RANCIS

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Classes were finally over at the
Edmund Burke School in Northwest Washington, so Phoenix
Gault-Brown, 15, a sophomore,
gathered up his belongings on
the upper school’s second floor
and prepared to head downstairs
for the carpool lane. He had a
fairly routine evening planned —
he was going to hit the gym and
lift some weights.
He walked toward the nearby
elevated glass pedestrian bridge
when suddenly its windows shattered, spraying the space with
glass and bullets. At first, Phoenix thought, it was a bomb. But
nothing exploded. Then, he
knew. Everyone, he said, knew.
“Everyone started running
toward the closest stairwell. It
was just terrifying. Everyone’s
faces, they just dropped,” Phoenix said.
The outburst of gunfire that
tore through the otherwise tranquil part of upper northwest
Washington — about one mile
north of the National Zoo — left
three adults and a juvenile
wounded. One of the victims was
a man who provides security for
Burke and Georgetown Day
School, according to an email
Georgetown Day’s head of school
sent to its community Saturday.
Police identified Raymond
Spencer, of Fairfax, as a person of
interest in the shooting before
declaring that a suspect was
discovered dead that night in an
apartment filled with firearms,
ammunition and a tripod.
But the shooting also cratered
the sense of security and insularity in one of Washington’s more
elite private schools, which runs
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Valentyna Sherba, 68, walks past a Russian tank in the backyard of her father's home on the outskirts of Chernihiv, Ukraine, on
Saturday. In the country’s east, heavy bombardment continued despite international appeals for a cease-fire for Orthodox Easter.

Defense chief quietly presses
allies, administration on Ukraine
BY D AN L AMOTHE
AND K AROUN D EMIRJIAN

Six days before the invasion of
Ukraine, Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin took a final crack at
getting his Russian counterpart
to admit that the Kremlin was
about to launch a massive assault
after assembling more than
100,000 troops at the border
with its neighbor.
“I know what you’re doing,”
Austin told Sergei Shoigu in an
icy, deep baritone.
It was Feb. 18, and Shoigu, the
Russian defense minister, had
been trying to convince Austin,
who was visiting Poland at the
time, that the buildup of Russian
forces to the north and east of
Ukraine was only for routine military exercises. Austin didn’t buy

ORRIN G. HATCH 1934-2022

Senator made history
with influence, service
Despite strong views,
he was willing to bridge
divides for legislation
BY

M ICHAEL H . B ROWN

Orrin G. Hatch, a conservative
Utah Republican who came out of
political nowhere to win a U.S.
Senate seat in 1976 and ended his
career 42 years later as the longest-serving Republican in the
chamber’s history and one of his
party’s most influential lawmakers of recent decades, died April
23 in Salt Lake City. He was 88.
The death was announced by
the Hatch Foundation. The cause
was not immediately disclosed.
Tall and slim in build and
impeccable in dress, Mr. Hatch
had a gentlemanly demeanor but
behind it wielded strong views,
high energy and a love for legislative give-and-take that made him

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Defense
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Lloyd
Austin is
often stoic
in public
but candid
in private.

it. He had seen the intelligence,
and while he had yet to convince
every NATO member of the inevitability of a full-scale Russian
invasion, the Pentagon chief was
certain of Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s intentions.
The tense, last phone call between the two top defense officials — described by people familiar with how it unfolded —
was among numerous actions
that Austin took in the run-up to
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The Belarusian railway saboteurs
who helped thwart attack on Kyiv
BY

L IZ S LY

When Russian troops first
streamed across the Belarusian
border into Ukraine for what
they had assumed would be a
lightning assault on Kyiv, they
were intending to rely on the
region’s extensive rail network
for supplies and reinforcements.
The Russians hadn’t taken
into account the railway saboteurs of Belarus.
Starting in the earliest days
of the invasion in February, a
clandestine network of railway
workers, hackers and dissident
security forces went into action
to disable or disrupt the railway
links connecting Russia to
Ukraine through Belarus,
wreaking havoc on Russian

supply lines.
The attacks have drawn little
attention outside Belarus amid
the drama of the Russian onslaught and the bloody aftermath of Russia’s humiliating
retreat. Fierce Ukrainian resistance and tactical errors by an
ill-prepared Russian force were
probably enough to thwart Russia’s plans, analysts say.
But the Belarus railway saboteurs can at least claim a role in
fueling the logistical chaos that
quickly engulfed the Russians,
leaving troops stranded on the
front lines without food, fuel
and ammunition within days of
the invasion.
Alexander Kamyshin, head of
Ukrainian railways, expressed
Ukraine’s gratitude to the
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BY

Sen. Orrin
G. Hatch (RUtah) in 2017.
In 2019, he
retired from
the Senate
after 42 years.

a force on Capitol Hill.
When he retired in 2019, at the
end of his seventh term, he
chaired the powerful tax-writing
Finance Committee and by virtue
of his seniority was Senate president pro tempore. By the end of
his tenure, Mr. Hatch had sponsored or co-sponsored 790 pieces
of legislation that became law,
more than any other senator in
office at the time, according to
Library of Congress data. He
achieved that record in part
through his willingness to work
with liberal Democrats.
“He was a tough partisan, a
solid conservative, but he could
make strategic alliances to get
legislation passed,” former Senate

fense Secretary Lloyd Austin and
Secretary of State Antony Blinken
will visit Ukraine on Sunday,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky said, in what would be the
first high-level visit by Biden administration officials since the
start of the Russian invasion.
Such a trip would underscore
the administration’s emboldened
approach to Ukraine in recent
weeks, as President Biden has
committed additional billions of
dollars in weapons and equipment to Ukraine’s military. The
Pentagon has also announced
training exercises for select
groups of Ukrainian officers on
U.S.-made weapons systems.
It also highlights the continued
disconnect, with Ukraine continuing to step up demands for more
military and financial aid and the
West’s pledges. “They should not
come here with empty hands,” Zelensky warned, speaking from an
underground subway station in
Kyiv. “We are expecting specific
things and specific weapons.”
“Come to us, we’ll be happy to
see you. But please bring us the
assistance, which we have discussed,” the Ukrainian president
added. “That’s why the visit from
the U.S. is very important.”
Heavy bombardment continued in several Ukrainian cities in
the east of the country over the
weekend as fighting appears
poised to rage straight through
the country’s observance of Orthodox Easter on Sunday despite international appeals for a cease-fire
over the holiday.
On Saturday, Russian missile
struck Odessa, a strategic southwestern port city that has seen
fewer attacks during the war. At
least eight people were killed, including a 3-month-old infant,

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James French is the chair of the Montpelier Descendants Committee created three years ago in
an effort to spotlight the stories of Black Americans who were enslaved at Virginia plantations.

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Albert French stood on his family’s ancestral land, on a mountain ridge in Orange County in
Virginia. Six miles away was
Montpelier, the plantation that
belonged to the country’s fourth
president,
James
Madison,
known as the father of the Constitution.
French’s
great-great-greatgrandparents were enslaved on a
nearby plantation before buying
their freedom and building a
house that remains today, tucked
away amid enormous boxwood
trees. French pointed beyond the
tree line. “The Declaration of Independence by Jefferson was
written at Monticello, 17 miles in
that direction,” French said. “The
Constitution was conceived just a
few miles from here.”
The history of this area is rich,
he said, but what is often left out
are the substantial contributions
made by enslaved Black people
who fueled the country’s intellectual and economic development.

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Power is
intoxicating, its
pursuit revealing
of character but
sometimes
debilitating;
Dan Balz
House Minority
Leader Kevin
THE SUNDAY
TAKE
McCarthy (RCalif.) is Exhibit
A. In his ceaseless
drive to become the next
speaker of the House, he has
demonstrated weakness,
hypocrisy and a willingness to
lie to save his skin.
Thanks to the reporting of
Jonathan Martin and Alexander
Burns of the New York Times,
and the incontrovertible power
of audio recordings to bite the
mighty at the most inopportune
times, it all came together badly
Thursday for the politician who
had seemed poised to lead the
House next January.
Martin and Burns published a
story based on their
forthcoming book, “This Will
Not Pass: Trump and Biden and
the Battle for America’s Future,”
quoting McCarthy as having
said, in the days immediately
after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on
the U.S. Capitol, “I’ve had it with
this guy.” He called President
Donald Trump’s actions on the
day of the attack “atrocious and
totally wrong,” according to the
journalists.
Martin and Burns reported
that McCarthy also said at the
time that he believed Democrats
had enough votes to impeach
Trump and that it was his plan
to call Trump to urge
resignation, although he
expressed doubt that the
president would do so.
McCarthy told other House
leaders on Jan. 10 that he
intended to say to Trump the
following: “I think this
[impeachment] will pass, and it
would be my recommendation
you should resign.”
After the Times’ story was
published Thursday morning,
McCarthy issued a statement
denying the report. It is worth
quoting at some length. “The
New York Times’ reporting on
me is totally false and wrong. It
comes as no surprise that the
corporate media is obsessed
with doing everything it can to
further a liberal agenda,” the
Republican leader wrote.
He added, “The past year and

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Capitol Hill in February. McCarthy has bowed to
former President Donald Trump’s wishes, fearing that crossing him could compromise his party’s
hopes of capturing Congress in November and his own desire to lead a GOP-controlled House.

a half have proven that our
country was better off when
President Trump was in the
White House and rather than
address the real issues facing
Americans, the corporate media
is more concerned with
profiting from manufactured
political intrigue from politically
motivated sources.”
Unfortunately for McCarthy,
Martin and Burns had the
receipts. That evening, a
minute-and-a-half audio of
McCarthy’s comments was
played on MSNBC’s “Rachel
Maddow Show,” leaving the GOP
leader defenseless in trying to
refute that he said what he could
be heard saying. The audio was
also appended to the Times
story.
The Washington Post
reported Friday that McCarthy
spoke to Trump as the story was
unfolding Thursday night and
that, according to sources, the
former president was not upset
with what McCarthy had said
but nonetheless was glad that
the call recommending
resignation was not made in
January 2021.
McCarthy’s decision to run to
Trump in a moment of crisis fit a
pattern he has followed since
violent pro-Trump rioters
stormed the Capitol to disrupt
and delay the ratification of Joe
Biden’s 2020 victory.
After offering critical remarks
about Trump on the House floor
in the days after the Capitol
attack, McCarthy lost his nerve.
He made a pilgrimage to meet
with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in
Florida, the supplicant asking
the monarch for forgiveness.
They were photographed
together, the public record of the
visit Trump’s apparent
punishment for the earlier
criticism.
McCarthy has since been
craven in bowing to Trump’s
wishes, fearing that crossing the
former president could
compromise both his party’s
hopes of capturing the majority
in November’s midterm
elections and his own desire to
lead a Republican-controlled
House next year as speaker. He
also has been weak in the face of
calls to discipline the most
extreme members of the House
GOP conference — those who
have been the most loyal to
Trump and his conspiracy
theories, including the false
claim that he won the 2020
election.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.),
who was then chair of the House
Republican Conference and
among those on the call when
McCarthy said he planned to tell
Trump he should resign, has
maintained her will and
backbone. She said of Trump
that he “summoned the mob,

assembled the mob and lit the
flame.” She voted to impeach
Trump and now serves as vice
chair of the House select
committee investigating the Jan.
6 attack.
For her willingness to put
country above party, Cheney has
become a pariah in the GOP,
expelled from her leadership
position (with McCarthy
supporting her dismissal) and
facing defeat in her reelection
campaign.
This is what the Republican
Party in the House of
Representatives now stands for
— the abandonment of a
principled conservative leader
and the possible elevation of a
politician whose abiding
principle is the pursuit of power,
one who has bent and bowed
before a former president whose
actions he denounced and knew
were wrong.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) has played a
different game but one that also
reveals his shared fear of going
into open warfare with Trump
so long as the former president
maintains his hold on the
loyalties of a significant portion
of the GOP base.
The Times story on Thursday
quoted McConnell as having
told two Kentucky advisers
shortly after the Capitol was
attacked, “The Democrats are
going to take care of the [S.O.B.]
for us.”
McConnell has rarely
disguised his loathing for the
former president. Nor has
Trump hidden his dislike and
disdain for the creature of
establishment Washington. But
McConnell, determined to keep
hold of his power and more
shrewd than McCarthy, has
generally managed to avoid
stepping too far in either
direction.
Impeachment offers the
clearest example. During the
impeachment process, there
were moments when he
indicated an openness to voting
to convict Trump. When the
Senate trial took place, he voted
to acquit on what might be seen
as a technicality, acting on the
basis of what he said was his
analysis of a legal debate. He
argued that because Trump was
out of office, the Senate did not
have the authority to convict.
Trump, he said, was
“constitutionally not eligible for
conviction.”
Before he explained this
rationale, he had blistered
Trump up and down, blaming
the former president for the
attack. “There is no question
that President Trump is
practically and morally
responsible for provoking the
events of that day,” he said on
the Senate floor. “The people

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who stormed this building
believed they were acting on the
wishes and instructions of their
president. … They did this
because they had been fed wild
falsehoods by the most powerful
man on Earth.”
He also said the Senate trial
was not the end of the story.
“President Trump is still liable
for everything he did while he
was in office, as an ordinary
citizen — unless the statute of
limitations has run, still liable
for everything he did while in
office,” he said. “We have a
criminal justice system in this
country. We have civil litigation.
And former presidents are not
immune from being held
accountable by either one.”
That was a convenient escape
hatch for McConnell at the time,
a passing of the buck. But it’s
possible the House Jan. 6
committee will make a referral
to the Justice Department
urging federal prosecutors to
consider charging Trump with a
crime. Already, the committee
has said in a different filing that
it has found possible evidence
suggesting that Trump engaged
in a conspiracy to defraud the
government and obstructed an
official proceeding, the
certification by Congress of
electoral college votes.
Would McConnell give his
backing to the committee if it
were to issue a criminal referral?
Or would he find another escape
hatch to avoid taking a firm
stand? We already know that if
Trump is the 2024 Republican
presidential nominee,
McConnell would support him.
We know because McConnell
has said so.
McConnell is a lesser player in
the drama that has unfolded
over the past few days, having
chosen silence over explanation
or defense.
McCarthy, lacking the sharp
instincts and tactical
sophistication of the Senate GOP
leader, was brazen in a denial
that collapsed with the sound of
his own voice hours later.
If this doesn’t prompt
Republicans to think hard about
whether to elevate McCarthy to
the speakership, should they
win control of the House in
November, it will add another
ignoble chapter to the modern
history of a Republican Party
that has soiled itself in bending
under Trump’s grip.

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They say growing slate of
parents rights bills may
frame party as anti-gay
BY A NNIE L INSKEY
AND C ASEY P ARKS

Republican lawmakers around
the country are pushing an array
of bills that limit the discussion of
gay rights in schools under the
auspices of parental rights, leading some party strategists to worry that the initiatives may backfire with moderate voters by making the party seem anti-gay.
Legislation includes a recent
law passed in Florida that limits
what kindergarten to third grade
teachers can talk about in the
classroom regarding sexual orientation and gender identity — a
measure dubbed the “don’t say
gay” law by critics. Several other
state legislatures, including Alabama, Louisiana and Ohio, are
considering or have passed similar bills.
The measures have been accompanied by a push among
some Republicans to falsely describe backers of gay rights as
“groomers” who are recruiting
children to question their own
sexuality or gender identity at a
young age, torquing up rhetoric
that LGBTQ activists say is dangerous. One top Senate Republican also recently criticized the
legal underpinnings of a 2015 Supreme Court decision affirming
the right to same-sex marriage —
a ruling that has broad public
support.
Tim Miller, a former spokesman for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid who has since left the GOP,
said of the recent measures, “I
think in the short term, it’s a
political winner, and that’s why
you see so many other states doing copycat bills on Florida.”
But “I think that there are some
big risks for Republicans, though
in the medium term,” he added.
“There’s a reason that the politics
on gay marriage shifted so quickly. … The broad middle of this
country does not want to see gay
people or trans people be targeted.”
Many Republicans argue that
their recent legislative efforts are
geared toward giving parents
more control over their children’s
education and are not aimed at
marginalizing gay or transgender
communities. Rather, they say,
the push for legislation is the
latest iteration of post-pandemic
conservative organizing around
public schools and is similar to
the move against teaching what
conservatives have characterized
as “critical race theory.”
Fifty percent of Americans, including 65 percent of Republicans, said parents have “too little”
influence on classroom curriculum, according to an AP-NORC
poll released in March. But 21
percent of Americans supported
prohibiting teachers from teaching about sex and sexuality in

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State Rep. Neil Rafferty, the only openly gay member of the Alabama legislature, speaks during an April 7 debate on transgender-youth bills during the state’s legislative
session in Montgomery. A number of states have passed or are considering legislation to limit discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

schools, including 33 percent of
Republicans, the poll showed.
Democrats have been quick to
criticize the GOP moves as antigay and anti-transgender, and
highlight the likely impact of the
legislation on children.
“This is a political wedge issue
and an attempt to win a culture
war,” White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said when asked during
a recent podcast interview about
recent GOP legislation. “And
they’re doing that in a way that is
harsh and cruel to a community of
kids.”
“I’m going to get emotional
about this issue, because it’s horrible,” Psaki continued. “But it’s
like kids who are bullied, and all
these leaders are taking steps to
hurt them and hurt their lives and
hurt their families.”
Charles Moran, president of
the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP
group that pushes for equality
between straight and gay Americans, said he is not opposed to
Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, which he views as
being limited in scope.
But his group is scrambling to
develop a state legislative strategy
to track other parental rights bills
that are moving around the country, saying that some of them do
pose problems for gay Americans.
“Every one of these bills are different in each state, and some of
them are truly dangerous,” Moran
said. “Some of them are actually
bad. Some of them we are going to
come out and oppose.”
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came as a surprise to Moran. “I
was not prepared to do this this
year,” he said. “I’m having to rapidly build a legislative analysis
team to really go through and
identify the states that have these
bills.”
In Florida, Moran said that he
was able to help kill an amendment to Florida’s law that would
have required teachers to report
when children questioned their
gender identity or sexual orientation while in the classroom. “That
was a huge problem,” he said.
Still, he said that he does not
view the Florida law as an attack
on gay rights. “There are some
people who are turning this into
an attempt to claw back progress
on LGBT issues,” Moran said. “But
that is not how I read this. I’m
consistently reminding everyone:
This is not a gay rights thing. This
is a parental rights thing.”
The recent cluster of parental
rights legislation stems from the
2021 Virginia gubernatorial race,
some Republicans said.
Republican Glenn Youngkin
bested Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe by roughly two percentage points just a year after Joe
Biden, a Democrat, won the state
by 10 percentage points in his
presidential campaign.
Youngkin focused heavily on
the public school curriculum and
pushed for parents to have more
say in their children’s education.
The issue let him capitalize on
deep-seated frustration among
many parents after nearly two
years of pandemic-related school

disruptions.
“Youngkin invented this, and
DeSantis has perfected it,” said
Dan Eberhart, a GOP donor who
is close with Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis (R). Eberhart said laws
like the one in Florida signal to
the base of the party a willingness
to take on fights.
But Eberhart said that he
thinks DeSantis “may have gone
too far” in pushing subsequent
legislation that stripped special
tax breaks from the Walt Disney
Co. after it opposed the parental
rights bill. Now, he said, Democrats can paint DeSantis as hurting the economy in central Florida, where Disney employs thousands of workers.
The resurgence of anti-gay
rhetoric is reminiscent of a past
era, some observers said. In 2004,
for example, Republicans pushed
state referendums banning samesex marriage. But by the time of
the Trump administration, GOP
antipathy toward gay and lesbian
rights had in many respects faded.
“On the substance, it’s a departure from Trump-era conservatism,” said Sasha Issenberg, the
author of “The Engagement:
America’s
Quarter-Century
Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage.”
But Issenberg said the style of
discourse around the bills bears
the imprint of Donald Trump’s
party. “Over-the-top, borderlinelibelous online rhetoric clearly
feels like the way Trump’s right
wing communicates,” Issenberg

said.
Trump openly campaigned for
LGBT support. At the same time,
while president, Trump tried to
ban transgender soldiers from the
military and moved to restrict
access to homeless shelters for
transgender people. His administration also erased protections for
transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals
and health insurance companies.
Some Republican strategists
are concerned enough about the
new laws and rhetoric that they
are working to launch campaigns
against the measures. One group,
Conservatives Against Discrimination, released a video on
Wednesday that focuses on the
struggles of a transgender man
and held a roundtable to discuss
how gay and transgender issues
are being talked about.
“The LGBT advancements was
one of those issues that, over time,
there was consensus in this country,” Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist, said during the
virtual forum. “If you allow for
this new spate of ‘we’re going to
frame things differently now;
we’re going to frame it as protection of children,’ we’re going to
create more distrust.”
During the forum, former Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard, a
Republican, said he had seen firsthand the effects discriminatory
bills can have. He was mayor in
2015 when Mike Pence, then Indiana’s governor, and Republican
state lawmakers pushed for the
Religious Freedom Restoration

Act, which allowed business owners to turn away gay and lesbian
customers for religious reasons.
“We became the focus of the
nation,” Ballard said. “That was
very disturbing to me.”
The CEOs of Apple, Angie’s List,
PayPal and other companies
called on the state to repeal the
law. Leaders at Visit Indy, the
city’s convention and visitors’ bureau, eventually found that the
law cost the state more than $60
million in convention business.
“I believe in freedom. I believe
in people’s rights to live their own
lives without the pressure of government on them,” Ballard said. “I
try to send the message to other
Republicans. … I would suggest to
you that that was what the conservative movement was supposed to be about.”
Ralph Reed, the founder of the
Faith and Freedom Coalition and
a leading conservative strategist,
said that social conservatives recognize that marriage equality is
the law of the land, though he
predicted there will still be fights
over gay rights.
He wants Republicans to use
the energy around parental rights
to push for school choice, a longtime conservative priority.
“The wisest strategy is to use
the momentum from this to drive
parental rights and school
choice,” Reed said. “That’s where
this is going, and it has the potential to be a game changer.”
Emily Guskin contributed to this
report.

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Rick Scott equals ‘Congressional Republicans’ in strained White House critique
“After their
massive tax
giveaway to the
super-wealthy
and giant
corporations in
The Fact
2017,
Checker
Congressional
Republicans now
GLENN
want to raise
KESSLER
taxes on middle
class families. I
won’t let that happen.”
— President Biden, in a
tweet, April 18

“Under the Congressional
Republican Tax Plan:
-$100 billion will be taken out
of the hands of middle class
families each year
-24 million families of seniors
making less than $100,000 per
year would face tax increases”

— The White House, in a
tweet, April 18

Federal income taxes were due
on Monday, and the White House
marked the occasion by
criticizing “Congressional
Republicans” for proposing a
massive tax increase on the
middle class. The plan has
provided a rare opportunity for
Democrats, who are frequently
tagged as tax increasers by
Republicans.
But, wait, who are these
congressional Republicans? In
her daily briefing on Monday,
White House press secretary Jen
Psaki carefully offered a detail
that somehow did not make it
into the social media accounts:
“The congressional Republican
plan, however, as Senator Rick
Scott outlined . . . now, led by
Senator Scott, Republicans want
to raise taxes on the middle
class.”
Scott, the junior senator from
Florida, is chair of the National
Republican Senatorial
Committee (NRSC) and thus part
of the Senate leadership. But is it
fair to say he represents the
views of congressional
Republicans?
The Facts
In February, Scott released a
60-page “11 point plan to rescue
America.” In his introductory
letter, he noted that “this plan is
not for the faint of heart.” That’s
for sure — buried on page 34, at
the end of a long list of ways
purported to combat socialism,
was this idea: “All Americans
should pay some income tax to
have skin in the game, even if a
small amount. Currently over
half of Americans pay no income
tax.”
For Democrats, this line was
political gold. It harks back to a
comment made by GOP
presidential nominee Mitt
Romney, now a senator from
Utah, at a private fundraising
event in 2012: “There are 47
percent of the people who will
vote for the president [Barack
Obama] no matter what . . . who
are dependent upon
government, who believe that
they are victims . . . these are
people who pay no income tax.”
In reality, fewer than 17
percent of households pay no
federal tax; even those who earn
too little to owe income tax still
pay payroll taxes (for Social
Security and Medicare) and
excise taxes. But tax provisions
such as the child tax credit —
expanded often with the support
of congressional Republicans —
over time have eliminated
federal income tax liability for
many families. Romney was
suggesting he could not get votes
from people who did not pay

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taxes — “[my] job is not to worry
about those people” — but,
unlike Scott, he did not propose
to raise their taxes.
Scott provided no details on
his plan and offered no proposed
legislative language. But his idea
filled a policy vacuum. Mitch
McConnell (Ky.), the Senate
Republican leader, already had
dismissed the idea of issuing a
policy platform before the
midterm elections. House
Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin
McCarthy (Calif.), are said to be
working on a policy agenda
titled “Commitment to America,”
but it won’t be released until the
summer.
The nonpartisan Tax Policy
Center (TPC) quickly ran the
numbers on what would happen
if every unmarried filer had to
pay at least $100 in income taxes
and every couple had to pay
$200. Just that concept would
increase taxes by $100 billion in
2022, with more than 80 percent
of the increase paid by
households making $54,000 or
less, the TPC found. Psaki cited
the study in her briefing, as did
the White House tweets, but the
TPC report plainly stated that
this was only “a simple version
consistent with [Scott’s] idea.”
Separately, the Institute on
Taxation and Economic Policy
estimated what the impact
would be if every taxpayer were
required to pay just one dollar.
That still would increase taxes by
more than $1,000 on average for
the poorest 40 percent of
Americans. How is that possible?
Even a dollar requirement would
wipe out refundable tax credits
that result in some households
getting a check from the
government.
But these analyses would
carry more weight if Republicans
had rushed to embrace Scott’s
idea. Instead, he has been left on
a policy island.
Some Republicans, such as
Republican National Committee
Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel,
have broadly praised Scott for
delivering a policy document.
But, as far as we can tell, not a
single other Republican in

Congress has embraced Scott’s
specific tax proposal. Politico
contacted 27 Republican Senate
campaigns asking whether their
candidates agreed with Scott’s
income tax proposal — and none
endorsed it. The other four
members of the Senate
leadership, including McConnell,
either directly or implicitly
criticized Scott for the plan.
President Biden walks from the
Oval Office toward Marine One
on Thursday. The president and
his administration have
characterized a tax proposal by
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) as a
proposal by congressional
Republicans, even though it’s
unclear whether any other
Republicans in Congress have
embraced it.

“We will not have as part of
our agenda a bill that raises taxes
on half of the American people
and sunsets Social Security and
Medicare within five years,”
McConnell told reporters March
1. “That will not be part of a
Republican Senate majority
agenda.” (Scott also proposed
having every law lapse after five
years, requiring Congress to
renew even popular programs
such as Social Security.)
The day after McConnell’s
rebuke, Scott told the Hill
newspaper that he was open to
changes and insisted that the tax
plan could be attributed only to
him: “This is what Rick Scott
believes in, it’s not the
Republican plan. I was very clear
that it’s Rick Scott’s policy ideas.
It’s nobody else’s policy ideas.”
Indeed, the plan was issued by
Scott’s own campaign
committee, not any GOP or
Senate committee. The
document says: “Paid for by Rick
Scott for Florida.” His campaign
committee also paid for the
video ad that accompanied the
release of the document, as well
as a website to promote it.
Occasionally, NRSC’s
communications director, Chris
Hartline, has tweeted about the
tax plan, but he said his “tweets
are not meant to be an
endorsement from the NRSC. I
also act as a spokesman for Sen.
Scott in his personal political
capacity.”
More recently, Scott has
suggested the line in his
document was misinterpreted.
“Retirees have already paid
plenty into the system. And
working-class Americans are
already paying into the system,
whether through income tax,
payroll tax, state and local taxes,”
he wrote on April 11 in the Daily
Caller. “My proposal wouldn’t
change anything for them, but
we should find ways to reduce
their tax burden.”
Instead, he said, there are
“two categories of folks” who
needed to pay their fair share:
“able-bodied, working-age
Americans” who refuse to work
and “some very wealthy people

who can hire an army of
lobbyists, lawyers and
accountants to avoid paying
their fair share.”
Frankly, Scott is changing the
meaning of his words without
officially abandoning the plank
in his published plan. He wrote
that “all Americans should pay
some income tax” but now says
payroll and sales taxes should
count as well.
Howard Gleckman, the author
of the TPC report, told The Fact
Checker that even this
significantly downscaled
revision does not make much
sense, as it is unclear how Scott
would identify able-bodied
people who do not work. (A Scott
spokesperson did not respond to
a query about his proposed
enforcement mechanism.)
“Most government ‘handouts’
to the poor are available only to
those who do work — the Earned
Income Tax Credit, the
nonrefundable portion of the
child tax credit, most
Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program benefits all
have work/income requirements
(although SNAP limits are
waived during the public health
emergency),” Gleckman said in
an email. “Even Medicaid now
has a work requirement in some
states.”
Gleckman added that few
wealthy people would be
affected. “As to the very
high-income, almost none of
them pay zero tax,” he said.
“They can use tax avoidance
techniques to substantially
reduce their tax liability, but they
rarely get down to zero.”
Grover Norquist, the president
of Americans for Tax Reform,
spearheaded an effort to have
most Republican lawmakers sign
a pledge that they would never
vote to raise taxes. Because of the
tax pledge, Norquist’s views
carry significant weight among
congressional Republicans. He
has been highly critical of Scott’s
idea, noting that it cuts across
the grain of efforts in
Republican-led states to remove
more lower-income citizens from
income tax rolls.

“The White House is not
telling the truth when they call
Rick Scott’s written tax plank
‘the Republican plan,’ ” Norquist
said. “That is factually
inaccurate. This written tax
plank is Rick Scott by himself.
There is zero support for his
personal written tax plank
among congressional
Republicans. Democrats are at a
tremendous disadvantage on the
tax issue, so they desperately
cling to Rick Scott’s clumsily
written two-sentence tax plank
that is his and his alone, and
going nowhere.”
White House spokesman
Michael J. Gwin defended using
the phrase “congressional
Republicans.”
“Senator Scott is a member of
Republican Congressional
leadership and released a plan
which he made clear was an
agenda for the Republican
Senate going forward, to raise
taxes on half of all Americans,”
Gwin said in a statement. “That
plan has been endorsed by the
RNC Chair, defended by the
Senate Republican campaign
arm funded by all Republican
senators, and echoes what
President Trump has argued and
what Republicans have been
saying for years. If Congressional
Republicans have an alternate
plan they should release it, but
this is now the only plan on the
table from Republican
Congressional Leadership.
President Biden couldn’t
disagree more with this
approach — instead of hiking
taxes on the middle class, he
wants to cut taxes for tens of
millions of working Americans
and lower the deficit by asking
billionaires and big corporations
to pay their fair share.”
The Pinocchio Test
Scott’s tax plan is certainly ripe
for political fodder, but the
White House is pushing its luck
here. Scott is a Republican, and
he is in Congress and part of the
GOP leadership. But his snippet
of an idea, such as it is, cannot be
labeled a “congressional
Republican” plan. No legislation
has been crafted, and no other
Republican lawmakers have
announced their support.
One cannot instantly assume
every person in a political party
supports a proposal by a
prominent member. We’re
reminded a bit of how hard the
Trump presidential campaign
tried to falsely tag Biden with
ownership of the “radical” Green
New Deal, a congressional
resolution written in part by
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-N.Y.), even though Biden had
his own more moderate plan to
address climate change.
Scott has already publicly
amended the idea in ways that
make the instant analysis cited
by the White House less relevant.
But he has not officially
abandoned the original
language, and the idea still does
technically exist on paper — at a
time when there are few
competing policy platforms
issued by congressional
Republicans.
That last point was the only
thing that kept us, just barely,
from giving this claim a
Four-Pinocchio rating. The
White House earns Three
Pinocchios.

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NEW MEXICO

Wildfires merge,
threatening villages
More than a dozen wildfires,
fueled by tinder-dry conditions
and ferocious winds, are burning
in Arizona and New Mexico,
destroying dozens of homes and,
as of Saturday, burning more
than 174 square miles.
Winds that howled Friday
remained a concern Saturday in
northern New Mexico, where two
fires merged and quadrupled in
size to a combined 66 square
miles in mountains and grassland
northwest of Las Vegas, N.M. The
merged fires burned some
structures but no figures were
available, said fire information
officer Mike Johnson.
An estimated 500 homes in
rural areas of Mora and San
Miguel counties were covered by
evacuation orders or warning
notices, said Jesus Romero,
assistant county manager for San
Miguel County.
In northern New Mexico,
winds Friday gusted up to 75
mph, shrouding the Rio Grande
Valley with dust and pushing
flames through the Sangre de
Cristo Mountains in the north.
— Associated Press

OHIO

Split verdict in trial
of Air Force general
An Air Force major general in
Ohio has been convicted by a
military judge of one of three
specifications of abusive sexual
contact in the first-ever military
trial of an Air Force general.
The charge faced by Maj. Gen.
William Cooley during the weeklong court-martial at WrightPatterson Air Force Base had
three specifications, one alleging
a forcible kiss and two alleging
forcible touching in 2018. Cooley
was convicted Saturday of the
forcible kissing specification but
acquitted of the other two.
Officials said the verdict marks
the first court-martial and
conviction of a general officer in
the Air Force’s 75-year history.
A former commander of Air
Force Research Laboratory,
Cooley was charged with abusive
sexual contact in an encounter
with a woman who gave him a
ride after a backyard barbecue in
New Mexico nearly four years
ago. Officials said the woman is a
civilian who is not a Department
of Defense employee.
Cooley was to be sentenced
Monday morning and could face

as much as seven years in jail as
well as loss of rank, pay and
benefits.

— Associated Press

Overdoses, not covid-19, drove
L.A. homeless deaths: Nearly

2,000 homeless people died in
Los Angeles County during the
first year of the pandemic, an
increase of 56 percent from the
previous year, driven mainly by
drug overdoses, authorities said.
The findings released Friday in a
report from the county’s
Department of Public Health
showed that despite initial fears,
the virus itself was not the main
culprit in deaths among
California’s largest-in-the-nation
unhoused population. But it did
cut people off from mental health
and substance abuse treatment
after services were drastically
reduced to prevent the spread of
the virus. A study of San
Francisco homeless deaths
released last month showed
similar findings: Between March
2020 and March 2021, there were
331 homeless deaths recorded in
San Francisco, more than twice
the number of any previous year,
with the leading cause of death
being drug overdose, according to
a study conducted by the
University of California at San

Francisco and the city’s
Department of Public Health.
13-year-old Minn. youth set to
graduate from college: A

13-year-old boy from Minnesota
will soon earn his bachelor’s
degree from college — with a
major in physics and a minor in
math. Elliott Tanner is
maintaining a 3.78 grade-point
average at the University of
Minnesota and is participating in
undergraduate research while
also tutoring classmates. He
wants to be a high-energy
theoretical physicist and
ultimately a professor of physics
at the university. Elliott’s mom,
Michelle Tanner, said he started
reading and doing math by age 3.
After home schooling for a few
years and high school courses
that took him two years to
complete, he began taking college
classes when he was 9.

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California’s Gilroy Garlic
Festival canceled indefinitely:

The Gilroy Garlic Festival
Association announced that it
will no longer be hosting its
annual food festival that
celebrates the locally grown crop,
putting an end to the 42-year-old
summer tradition. The
organization cited “lingering

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Jan. 2021

uncertainties from the
pandemic” as well as costly
insurance premiums as reasons
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Greenwashing 101: How to decipher corporate climate claims
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D OUGLAS M AC M ILLAN

As big businesses face more
pressure to act on climate
change, corporations have unleashed a tsunami of environmental pledges, net-zero commitments and sustainability certifications, all designed to show they
are part of the solution.
Often, critics say, these claims
are just “greenwashing” — environmental marketing with little
or no substance behind it. One
recent review of 500 commercial
websites by Britain’s Competition
and Markets Authority found 40
percent of environmental claims
to be misleading in some way,
such as using terms like “sustainable” without defining them or
omitting pertinent information
about environmental harms.
For the average consumer, it
can be difficult to assess which
companies are taking meaningful
steps to combat climate change,
said Frederic Hans, a climate
policy analyst at the NewClimate
Institute, an independent, Germany-based organization that
promotes measures to slow
Earth’s warming. The group this
year analyzed the climate plans of
25 big companies and found
many of them overestimated the
extent to which their actions
would reduce carbon emissions.
“In many cases, the consumer
might really be in a difficult
situation to identify and differentiate which companies are the
front-runners on climate action
and which are not,” Hans said.
The Washington Post spoke
with a range of environmental
experts and collected their best
tips on how to approach corporate climate claims with a critical
eye.
Tip #1: Net-zero pledges don’t
tell the full story.
Many companies now make
“net-zero” pledges, commitments
to reduce some of their carbon
emissions and balance the remaining emissions by purchasing
“offsets” that remove carbon from
the atmosphere. But critics say
these pledges can be incomplete,
because they often don’t account
for the full scope of emissions
generated in the creation and
consumption of their products.
Last year, Travelers made an
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“For certain brands,
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appetite for carbon
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Benjamin Ware, Nestlé’s head of
climate delivery and sustainable
sourcing

bon neutral by 2030, a target the
insurance company said was
aligned with the Paris climate
agreement goal of limiting global
temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial
levels. Travelers said the goal
included emissions generated directly by its operations and indirectly by energy it purchases. The
pledge excluded all emissions
generated by companies in which
Travelers invests or provides insurance policies.
This broader category of customer and supplier emissions,
known as Scope 3, makes up the
largest portion of emissions for
most companies but is also the
carbon footprint that is most
difficult for firms to measure and
directly influence. For those reasons, governments and standards-setting groups have disagreed over whether companies
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Two shareholder groups,
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customers and investments.
Without understanding this
broader carbon footprint, the
groups say, Travelers cannot
know how it is exposed to the
likely financial risks of increasing
climate catastrophes.
Insure Our Future, a coalition
of climate groups, has also urged
Travelers to stop underwriting
environmentally destructive fossil fuel projects, saying the company is enabling an industry that
contributes to climate change.
Travelers this year said it would
stop investing in or providing
insurance for new coal power
plant and tar sands projects. But
it continues to invest in and
underwrite oil and gas projects.
A Travelers spokesman declined to comment.
Tip #2: Carbon is not simple
to offset.
A claim of “carbon neutral”
usually means a business has
offset its emissions by investing
in projects that reduce environmental harm in other ways. But
the true benefit of carbon-offset
projects can be difficult to measure.
On Earth Day last year, Google
began saying it has been “carbon
neutral since 2007.” The Alphabet-owned company said it accomplished this goal in part by
buying credits from “highly-quality” carbon offset providers. A
recent analysis of these projects
by the NewClimate Institute
found many of Google’s offset
credits to have “highly questionable environmental integrity,” because some might have happened
without Google’s involvement.
In one project, Google pays a
municipal authority in Upstate
New York to convert methane gas
from a landfill into usable electricity. Because the methane given off by decomposing waste is
more potent than carbon dioxide,
it is a significant driver of climate

change and therefore a major
target of global efforts to curb
emissions.
Google has said its project with
the Oneida-Herkimer Solid
Waste Authority eliminated half a
million metric tons of carbon
dioxide equivalent in its first
seven years. That’s roughly the
same carbon footprint as Google’s
entire business over a two-week
period, based on company data.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai explains the company’s climate
goals in a video from 2020.
But as with many offset projects, it’s hard to tell whether the
volume of emissions being reduced would really equal the
emissions they are intended to
replace. It’s possible that an outside investment in the OneidaHerkimer project was the only
way emissions from the landfill
would have been avoided.
But it’s also possible those
emissions could have been reduced without that support, according to the NewClimate Institute.
Landfill operators have growing incentives to capture methane and convert it to electricity
themselves. In some places, these
efforts have resulted in a profitable business. Increasingly, state
and federal laws also require
landfills to install this technology.
Methane conversion projects
represent the majority of over 40
carbon-offset projects from
which Google has bought credits
to meet its standard of “carbon
neutral,” the NewClimate Institute found.
Google has acknowledged the
difficulty of knowing conclusively
that offset projects lead to carbon
reductions that wouldn’t have
otherwise happened. The company has said it closely scrutinizes
offset projects to ensure they
reduce emissions that would not
be reduced another way.
The Oneida landfill project
“would not have happened had it
not been for the offsets,” a Google
spokeswoman said in a statement.
A representative from the
Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste
Authority did not respond to a
request for comment.
Tip #3: Read the fine print.
Companies tend to be careful
in how they phrase their commitments, and sometimes the fine
print details can dilute the substance of an environmental goal
that sounds ambitious.
In 2014, McDonald’s pledged to
“eliminate deforestation in supply chains” for its beef, chicken,
palm oil, coffee and fiber-based
packaging products by 2020. After that deadline passed, the fast
food chain changed the goal.
Rather than eliminating deforestation for these products, McDonald’s now says it is more
careful about sourcing commodities from parts of the world with a
higher risk of deforestation. In
footnotes, the company lists several exemptions to this goal, including certain beef flavoring
and soy products.
In an emailed statement, a
McDonald’s spokeswoman said
the company “is committed to a
long-standing journey to eliminate deforestation from its global
supply chain”
Cargill, one of McDonald’s suppliers, is a leading driver of deforestation, according to Glenn Hurowitz, whose nonprofit, Mighty
Earth, has led calls for a moratorium on these suppliers. The agriculture giant buys goods from
farmers who destroy native vegetation in Brazil and elsewhere,
Hurowitz said.
McDonald’s claims “are pretty
much complete baloney,” he said.
“If McDonald’s actually wants to

stop deforestation, they simply
need to stop sourcing from the
companies that are driving it.”
McDonald’s has not publicly
responded to calls to end its
business with Cargill, and a
spokeswoman declined to comment on the issue.
A Cargill spokesman said the
company supports efforts to end
deforestation and has focused
these efforts on South America,
which it calls the highest-priority
region for soy sustainability.
Tip #4: Focus on parent
companies, not individual
products and brands.
Some corporate marketers attempt to position many of their
products and brands as green.
But in some cases, those claims
are outliers when considered
more broadly with the actions of
their parent company.
On Earth Day last year, KitKat
pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025, through a combination of emission reductions and
investing in “high quality offsetting.” At the same time, KitKat’s
parent company, Nestlé, has a
more conservative timeline: cutting emissions in half by 2030
and eliminating them by 2050.
KitKat, a unit of Nestlé, announced its carbon-neutral goal
in a video last year.
Because individual products
usually share much of the same
personnel and operations as their
parent companies, it’s unlikely
that one product would be much
more ambitious on climate goals
than its parent, said Hans of the
NewClimate Institute.
In an interview, Benjamin
Ware, Nestlé’s head of climate
delivery and sustainable sourcing, said the KitKat goal was the
result of a market demand for
chocolate bars that have been
created sustainably. “For certain
brands, there is a consumer appetite for carbon neutral claims,” he
said.
The “carbon neutral” goal for
KitKat relies on carbon offsets,
unlike the broader Nestlé goal,
which does not, Ware said.
Tip #5: Certifications may
have little meaning.
Consumers should approach
green product labels with skepticism. Some labels that suggest a
product meets strict environmental criteria may be purely an
invention of the company’s own
marketing department, said A.
Wren Montgomery, an assistant
professor of sustainability at the
University of Western Ontario.
“A lot of consumers are looking
for labels, thinking they want it
certified,” Montgomery said. “So
companies are saying, ‘Well, I’ll
just make up a certification.’ ”
A few years ago, paint maker
Benjamin Moore marketed some
products with a Green Promise
label, along with claims that the
paint has zero chemical emissions and is “green without compromise.” The Federal Trade
Commission sued Benjamin
Moore in 2017, arguing it was
making untrue claims about its
Natura line of paint and deceiving customers into believing the
products had been certified by an
independent group.
After the FTC ordered Benjamin Moore to be more transparent with customers, the company
added a warning to clarify that its
paints “emit chemicals during the
painting process and while drying,” according to the FTC order.
It altered the label to include the
words “Benjamin Moore’s Green
Promise.” It stopped selling Natura paint last year.
A spokeswoman for Benjamin
Moore said some of this information is inaccurate, without providing details. She didn’t respond
to requests for clarification.

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new york — They appear together regularly at parades, dinners
and news conferences. They have
called each other “friend” and
“partner.” When there are major
announcements or policy decisions, they coordinate ahead of
time.
To an outside observer, the apparent cordiality between New
York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New
York Mayor Eric Adams, both
Democrats, might not seem remarkable.
But in New York, it is nothing
short of revolutionary: For the
first time in years, the mayor of the
city and the governor of the state
are trying to get along.
The feud between Andrew M.
Cuomo, the former governor, and
Bill de Blasio, the former mayor, is
the stuff of political legend, full of
scorn and insults, featuring a long
line of clashes over everything
from issues such as prekindergarten funding to the fate of a deer
found wandering in Harlem.
Now Hochul and Adams are
attempting to show that the relationship between the governor
and the mayor, while sometimes
fraught, does not have to resemble
open warfare.
“In the past, there has been this
tension, which is a polite way of
saying fighting, between the governor of New York and the mayor
of the city of New York,” said
Hochul at a Democratic Party
event in Brooklyn last year. “The
era of fighting between those two
bodies, those two people, is over.”
Whether Hochul and Adams
succeed in working together could
have far-reaching consequences
for their political futures as well as
for the recovery of the nation’s
most-populous city from the coronavirus pandemic.
Hochul, 63, is the first woman
to serve as governor of New York, a
job she assumed after Cuomo resigned last year following a sexual
harassment scandal. She remains
relatively unknown beyond her
political base in Buffalo, where she
served as a local official and a
member of Congress.
To win election in November,
Hochul needs considerable support from voters in New York City,
and Adams could bolster her campaign. Now she must also contend
with the fallout of a corruption

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, right, with New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams in 2021 in New York.
The pair have eliminated much of the tension that, for years, was common between their offices.

probe into Brian Benjamin, her
lieutenant governor. Benjamin resigned earlier this month after
being arrested on charges that he
engaged in an illegal scheme to
solicit campaign donations starting in 2019.
Adams, 61, is a former police
captain who became mayor in January and swept into office vowing
to tackle a slew of challenges faced
by the city, including rising crime
and the enduring economic impacts of the pandemic. Addressing
those issues will require help and
funding from the state.
While the mayor of New York is
often a nationally known figure,
the state’s governor tends to have a
lower profile. When it comes to
wielding power over the city, however, the governor holds enormous sway.
Hochul and Adams are tactical
allies acting out of “enlightened
self-interest,” said Bruce Gyory, a
Democratic political consultant in
Albany. “They need each other.”
De Blasio, New York’s previous
mayor, credits Hochul for the
change in tone in Albany. Hochul
became governor in August and
overlapped with de Blasio’s final
months in office. Within a day or
two of her swearing-in, they met in
a hotel conference room in Manhattan, where Hochul made clear

she intended to break with the
past, de Blasio said.
“She started with a magnanimous view that local officials
knew what they were doing and
knew their communities best,” the
former mayor said. “It didn’t make
her any less the governor.”
In Hochul’s subsequent dealings with Adams, “there’s obviously been a willingness to work on
respectful terms,” de Blasio added.
Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman
for Cuomo, responded: “It was
tough to partner with an incompetent mayor who cared more about
politics and ideology than actually
doing his job.”
Cuomo and de Blasio “just
couldn’t contain the hostility they
had for each other,” said former
New York governor David Paterson (D). Hochul and Adams, by
contrast, have worked to avoid
conflicts and handle frictions in
private, Paterson said.
Hochul and Adams have known
each other since at least 2014,
when she was running for lieutenant governor and he was the
Brooklyn borough president. Both
have a taste for retail politics and
occupy similar ideological ground
as moderate Democrats.
Adams “always puts the practical choice before the political
noise, and the governor has said

that’s the kind of leader she wants
to be as well,” said Evan Thies, an
adviser to the mayor and cofounder of Pythia Public Affairs.
“So it’s not surprising that they
have had a productive working
relationship.”
Last year, the two politicians
appeared together onstage at the
election night victory party for
Adams at a Marriott hotel in
Brooklyn, clasping their hands together above their heads. Hochul
called Adams a “tremendous partner.” Adams thanked Hochul for
coming and told the cheering
crowd that the city was “going to
need her.”
In New York, the mayor and
governor often jostle for media
attention, particularly when major events unfold in the city. When
a mass shooting unfolded at a
subway station this month,
Hochul rushed to address a briefing at the site, although she was
careful to note that she had just
spoken with Adams, who was isolating after testing positive for the
coronavirus.
One early test of their collaboration just unfolded in Albany. Amid
worries over rising crime, Hochul
— with Adams’s backing — pushed
the legislature to revise a landmark package of bail revisions
passed in 2019. The law had elimi-

nated the use of bail for defendants accused of nearly all nonviolent crimes.
Most Democratic state lawmakers had little desire to revisit the
legislation, saying there was no
data showing that it had driven
the recent increase in violence.
Ultimately, as part of the annual
budget negotiations, the governor
and lawmakers forged a compromise that will give judges greater
discretion in setting bail and expand the types of offenses where
bail can be required.
Adams indicated in a recent
television interview that he does
not think the measures go far
enough but also commended the
governor and lawmakers on the
“steps they took towards dealing
with public safety — something
that people said was impossible
for us to get done.”
Tackling changes to the bail law
was important for both leaders.
After a series of high-profile violent crimes and a rising number of
shootings in the city, Adams wants
“to get crime off the front page,”
said Basil Smikle, director of the
public policy program at Hunter
College and former executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee.
Hochul, meanwhile, is fending
off criticism from suburban Democrats and Republicans that she
has done too little to bring down
crime. Among those who added
their voices to the debate: Cuomo,
who has hinted that he could
mount a new run for governor.
Adams has reportedly met Cuomo twice for dinner in Manhattan
in recent months, a move that has
raised eyebrows in New York and
Albany.
Both Hochul and Adams have
reasons to continue their alliance.
Another priority for Adams is extending mayoral control of the
city’s schools before it expires in
June, a power that is renewed
periodically by the state legislature. Under Hochul’s predecessor,
the process was fraught with tension, but she has indicated she will
take a different approach. When
Adams asked her to extend the
city’s supervision of schools for
another three years, she responded, “I’ll give you four,” she recalled
in an interview in January.
The fact that the mayor and the
governor are no longer openly
hostile is a dramatic change for

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city and state officials, said Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, an influential association of business
leaders.
Wylde said that officials who
focus on economic development
at both levels of government have
told her how “great it is to be able
to compare notes and work together.” One example: It took only
a couple days for Hochul and Adams to issue a recent joint letter
seeking a $250 million grant to
further life science research in the
city, Wylde said.
“It just wouldn’t have happened” under Cuomo and de Blasio, she said. The rancor between
the two men was such that Wylde
wouldn’t invite them to the same
event, knowing they would not
want to appear together. Wylde
recalled attending numerous political fundraisers where organizers made sure Cuomo and de Blasio were scheduled to speak at
separate times.
Another frequent area of strife
was the city’s public transportation system, the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority. New
York’s subways and buses are overseen by the state, giving the governor a crucial role in the lifeblood of
the city.
The Cuomo-de Blasio relationship was “so toxic that it kind of
spilled into everything the MTA
did,” including the functioning of
the board of directors, said John
Samuelsen, international president of the Transport Workers
Union and a member of the MTA
board. “Everyone just kind of
jumped in bunkers, the de Blasio
bunker or the Cuomo bunker.”
The absence of a public feud
between the governor and the
mayor is “helpful to the system,”
Samuelsen said. He praised
Hochul and Adams for collaborating on a proposal to construct a
new train linking Queens and
Brooklyn called the Interborough
Express.
The ultimate success of the
Hochul-Adams relationship is
“not going to be a matter of personalities or politics” but to what
extent they can cooperate to solve
the problems faced by the city,
Wylde said. If the public safety
situation deteriorates, she said,
both politicians could be in trouble, and “when people get in trouble, they tend to point fingers.”

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For sale in Maine for $339,000:
Private island and inward journey
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DEAN TYLER PHOTOGRAPHY

The 1½-acre Duck Ledges Island off the coast of Maine has a cottage, outhouse and outdoor shower,
in addition to crashing waves and lots of barking seals.

J ONATHAN E DWARDS

Billy Milliken warned his
daughter’s boyfriend that, if he
wanted Milliken’s blessing before
proposing marriage, the couple
would have to spend two days
alone on his private island.
But Milliken’s is not that kind
of private island. Nestled off the
Maine coast between Acadia National Park and the Canadian
border, it has no white sand
beaches, no palm trees and no
cabana boy to fetch cocktails
adorned with tiny umbrellas.
Instead, there’s an outdoor
shower, a shanty of an outhouse
and electricity produced by a
“suitcase generator.” And seals —
lots and lots of barking seals.
Then there was Milliken’s personal prohibition: no cellphones.
“They were going to spend
some time out there on the island
alone,” he said. “It was either
going to make them or break
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Billy Milliken and his
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the 540-square-foot cottage he
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His daughter and her boyfriend survived and, with Milliken’s blessing, got married last
year. He’s expecting a grandchild
in July.
Now, all 1½ acres of the mettletesting island can be yours. Milliken is selling Duck Ledges Island “in its entirety” for
$339,000. It’s a spit of land in
Wohoa Bay topped with the 540square-foot cottage that Milliken
built and not much else. For 15
years, the island has served as
refuge, sanctuary, vacation home,
gathering place and recreation
spot whenever he wanted to hop
in his boat and escape his office or
home in nearby Jonesport. He
loves the island for the awe it
inspired when he was alone and
the community it helped create
when he brought others with
him.
Over the past couple of years,
however, Milliken hasn’t gone
there as much as he felt he should
— “an injustice to the island” —
and now wants to pass along its
charms.
But not to just anyone, which is
kind of how he came to own Duck
Ledges Island in the first place.
Milliken bought it in 2007 almost by accident. As a real estate
agent, he was actually trying to
sell the island for the previous
owner. While heading there with
a prospective buyer on Milliken’s
boat — the only way to access the
island — the guy started transferring a cache of weapons from one
of two duffel bags he’d brought
with him to an array of pockets on
his person.
Milliken peeked in the guy’s
second duffel bag while on the
island — a sniper rifle. On the way
back, the guy unloaded the weapons from his pockets to stash
them back in the duffel, but not
all of them. As they entered the
marina, he bragged to Milliken
that he could use one of his
throwing stars to decapitate a
duck that had come into view.
“He was just trying to be cool
and liked,” Milliken said.
The owner, afraid that throwing-star guy was buying the island to kill a bunch of wildlife,
balked at selling to him, even
though he offered to pay the list
price.
Then he tossed out a suggestion to Milliken: Why don’t you
buy it?
He did — at a steal, Milliken
noted, fully intending to flip the
property for at least double what
he paid. But then something happened that he did not expect.
From 2007 to 2009, as he transformed a structure that had been
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fell in love with the island — with
the solitude, the crashing waves,
the barking seals, the water that
stretched far away. And then
there was the love it fostered
when he brought people out for
lobster bakes or campfire nights.
Money problems forced Milliken to sell the island after a couple
of years. Like his predecessor, he
rejected buyers whose intentions
or attitudes he felt were unworthy of the island, like the man
who made a respectable offer but
complained about all the things it
didn’t have. The man who passed
Milliken’s test had spent time on
a similar island as a kid and
wanted to give that experience to
others.
“He shared the same passion
for the island we did, and that
was important to us,” Milliken
said.
The man rejected the traditional concept of a real estate
purchase, opting instead to become “partners in ownership”
with Milliken, who has continued
maintaining the property for
more than a decade.
“Through the years, we’ve
shared the island with his
friends, our friends, random people,” Milliken said. “We’ve never
taken a dime for it. It’s really
brought a lot of good for our
hearts doing that.”
In 2019, he bought the island
back but continued the shared
stewardship.
Milliken has since devoted his
efforts to another island he owns,
an 11-acre property in Maine
where he hopes to build a home
in which he can live year-round —
a project inspired by Duck Ledges. Since he no longer takes advantage of all the island has to
offer, he wants to sell it to someone who can.
“I hope the future owner gets a
fraction of the joy that I’ve had,”
he said.
But it’s not for everybody,
which is why, aside from paying
him a few hundred thousand
dollars, Milliken has another requirement for any would-be buyer: They have to stay at least one
night on the island to see if they
can hack it. That has held up any
possible sale since no one can go
to the island from the last week in
October through late May, not
unless you want to die by freezing
or getting hurt where no one can
hear you scream for help, Milliken said. “It’s not going to be a
good death.”
So he’s waiting until he can
show people what they’d be getting into.
“Sometimes you think you’re
Davy Crockett, but you’re really
Betty Crocker,” he said.
The rewards are worth it, Milliken said. There are few distractions for those who follow the
Milliken rule and leave their cellphones on the mainland,
1¼ miles away. In today’s world,
there are so many “red herrings”
that distract us, that keep us
running from ourselves, he said.
“You will find yourself out
there,” he said, adding, “There’s
nowhere to hide.”
Milliken tried to describe the
experience for those who have
never been: He has been out there
in the dark, the waves crashing,
seals barking and night sky
stretching until it drooped and
surrounded him. He was just a
tiny man on a tiny island in the
middle of an ocean.
“It makes you feel small,” he
said, “in the best kind of way.”

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Birth of red wolves
sets off howls of joy
at rescue program
It represents a dramatic
turnaround for a canine
close to disappearing
BY

D ARRYL F EARS

Six critically endangered red
wolves were introduced into the
Alligator River National Wildlife
Refuge in coastal North Carolina.
But unlike other wolves, no
one brought these new canines to
the Outer Banks area as part of a
federal program to recover a
dying species. For the first time
in four years, these red wolves
were born there.
The discovery of the litter
tightly huddled in an earthen
den marks a significant turnaround for a red wolf rescue
program that the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service all but abandoned a few years ago.
During a Thursday teleconference, the Red Wolf Recovery
Program at the refuge informed
conservation groups and others
who work on behalf of the wolves
that the tiny pups were in fact a
red wolf litter and not coyotes,
which are prevalent in and
around the refuge.
The program later publicized
the births in a Facebook post,
saying, “This new litter is the first

“When I saw the photo
of those pups . . . my
heart just about
exploded with
happiness. And now,
suddenly, I think they
have a future again.
Ron Sutherland, chief scientist at
the Wildlands Network

wild-born litter of red wolves
since 2018,” resulting from a red
wolf pair doing what comes natural: “establishing their territory
and mating. Every generation
yields a new born hope for the
red wolf . . . a cause for joy and
celebration!”
But the post did not tell the
backstory of why the litter of four
females and two males is so
improbable. Red wolf births under the recovery program became rare after Fish and Wildlife
bowed to pressure from state
game officials who, with little
evidence, blamed the wolves for
reduced deer populations and
attacks on livestock.
The service executed an
about-face from its 40-year mission to breed the nearly extinct
animals in zoos and restore both
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Montpelier now finds itself at odds with descendants group
MONTPELIER FROM A1

“No one would have heard of
Madison had he not benefited
from the 300 people who were
enslaved there,” French said.
French is the chair of the Montpelier Descendants Committee
(MDC), a nonprofit that seeks to
move the stories of Black Americans who were enslaved at Virginia plantations from the edge of
historical discourse to the center.
More than 172 years after his
ancestors gained their freedom,
French is leading a fight against
the Montpelier Foundation,
which manages the historical
plantation, demanding that it uphold its agreement to grant equal
representation on its board to
descendants of people once enslaved there and at surrounding
plantations.
That fight appeared to have
been won last June, when the
foundation announced that it had
voted to give the Montpelier Descendants Committee the right to
nominate at least half of the members of the board that governs the
plantation.
“This historic decision means
that for the first time, the descendants of enslaved persons at a
major national historic site will
be coequals in sharing governing
power and responsibility for the
very site that enslaved their
ancestors,” board chair Eugene
Hickok said in a statement at the
time.
The unprecedented vote,
which also granted the MDC
co-stewardship of the plantation
museum, drew international
praise. Montpelier was called a
trailblazer in a movement among
cultural and heritage institutions
to share power equally with the
descendants of enslaved Black
people, whose historic contributions had long been marginalized.
But within a year of that historic vote, the idea of parity at Montpelier seemed to fall apart. Last
month, the board voted to rescind
its power-sharing agreement
with the Montpelier Descendants
Committee. Most recently, the
foundation fired senior staffers
who had spoken out in defense of
the descendants group.
The collapse of the foundation’s work with the group came
as a shocking reversal for a historical site that had become a national model for addressing racial
inequities. But beneath the surface, the descendants say, tensions have long simmered. The
quest for equal representation,
they allege, has been waged
against an entrenched system intent on maintaining power.
The roots of hostility
The push for equal representation at Montpelier began in the
early 1990s, when Bettye Kearse,
who traces her ancestry to an
enslaved woman named Coreen
and her enslaver, James Madison,
traveled to Orange County.
Kearse, the author of “The Other Madisons: The Lost History of
a President’s Black Family,” met
with Carolyn Howard French, a
retired teacher and James
French’s mother who was researching history and documenting oral stories from descendants
in the area.

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Silhouettes are projected onto cellar walls during an exhibit at Montpelier. The estate was hailed as a model for granting representation to descendants of enslaved people.

“Over 200 years
after the
ratification of the
Constitution,
African Americans
are still fighting for
the protection and
liberties that it
claims to
guarantee.”
Iris Ford, Montpelier
Descendants Committee
board member

Later, the two of them met with
archaeologist Lynne Lewis, who
had recently discovered the site of
the Montpelier kitchen where
Coreen cooked. These conversations are considered the beginning official meetings of what
would become the Montpelier Descendants Committee.
In 2004, the Montpelier Foundation began integrating Black

history into the signage at the
estate. Later, workers built ghost
structures of cabins where enslaved people lived, “so visitors
could understand that enslaved
domestic workers, cooks, maids
and footmen, lived immediately
adjacent to the house and labored
in the house to create the standard of living and hospitality the
Madisons were known for,” said
Elizabeth Chew, a historian who
was recently fired from her position as executive vice president
and chief curator at Montpelier.
In 2019, James French was invited to join the board. That same
year, on the Friday before Juneteenth, the Montpelier Descendants Committee was officially
created. “There was a gathering
where we invited 300 members of
the descendant community,”
French said. “At that meeting, the
group decided to organize into an
independent elected body to
serve as an equal co-steward of
Montpelier. The new organization was inspired by Madisonian
principles of democracy.”
French was elected chair of the
committee, which embarked on a
quest for parity on the foundation
board. But over the ensuing
months, the relationship between
the majority on the board and the
committee grew strained and
then openly “hostile,” French
said, after the board refused to
sign a joint statement with MDC
in support of anti-racism protests
in May 2020, following the death
of George Floyd. “People hurled
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insults at me,” French said.
At the same time, Chew said,
“staff were threatened and informed not to talk to the MDC and
not to work on projects with the
MDC.” Roy Young, president and
chief executive of the Montpelier
Foundation, said he did not
threaten staff but asked them to
notify him of communication
with the MDC because he had
started the job the previous year
and wanted to know what was
happening at Montpelier.
The MDC continued to press
for a vote. In June, the foundation
voted for parity, announcing
Montpelier was closing “the gap
in authority between museums
and the descendants of enslaved
people.”
The descendants called the vote
a milestone. “This is a culmination
of two decades of contributions by
descendants” and “a year and a
half of intense negotiation in a
polarized environment following
the murder of George Floyd,” the
MDC said in a statement.
Stuck in a stalemate
But soon after that vote, some
Montpelier staff members said
they sensed the foundation was
not truly committed to parity.
“The board’s resistance to full
parity with the MDC rests in the
threat they see in expanding the
national narrative beyond the
myth of the Founding Fathers to
include all people in this history,”
said Matt Reeves, who was the
director of archaeology at Montpe-

lier until he was fired this month.
That resistance, staff said, first
materialized when one day before, the vote on parity the foundation demanded that MDC sign
a legal agreement in the form of a
memorandum of understanding
(MOU). The memorandum would
have barred the group from
speaking publicly about Montpelier without prior approval by the
foundation and required the committee to disclose its finances to
the foundation.
“The descendants committee is
separate from the foundation,”
Hickok, the board chair, told The
Washington Post. “Anytime that
happens, you want to develop an
MOU. It protects the independence of the organization. It provides an outline of how they will
work together.”
The MDC opposed sections of
the memorandum. French said it
“clawed back the possibility of an
equal partnership” and was “written in the spirit of suspicion and
coercion.” Young, the foundation
executive, said the memo of understanding did not contain “a
gag order” but was designed “to
make sure we coordinated media
moments for both organizations.”
For months, the descendants
and the board wrestled behind
the scenes over the memorandum. The MDC struck clauses it
felt “subordinated the descendants committee,” French said.
The foundation kept pressing the
committee to sign it unaltered.
The two groups were stuck in a

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stalemate. In November, tensions
erupted again when the board
refused to vote on two of the four
candidates nominated by the
MDC. Young said the board did
not want to proceed without a
memorandum. Instead, the board
presented its own descendant
candidates, including a descendant who called for the group to
be disbanded.
The MDC refused to endorse
those candidates. “The bylaws say
we select our own candidates,”
French said. “They selected them
for us, and they selected someone
who thinks we should not exist.
That is absurd.”
The next day, the foundation
announced the new board members in a news release whose
wording, the MDC said, implied
that the descendants committee
had chosen those candidates. Two
board members previously nominated by MDC and voted on by the
foundation threatened to resign,
writing to Hickok that “this
breach of trust hampers our ability to serve as equally empowered
board members.”
The mediators who had been
overseeing the negotiations also
quit in protest, stating, “These
actions are entirely inconsistent
with how parity was negotiated
and previously articulated, and
we cannot continue under these
circumstances.”
Then, last month, the board
voted to rescind the powersharing
agreement with the descendants
group. Hickok, a former deputy

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education secretary under President George W. Bush, said the vote
to end the agreement came after
months of tensions between the
board and descendants committee over the process for choosing
board members.
He called it “an effort to reset
the process,” adding, “we are very
committed to parity. The challenge has been organizationally
getting there.”
Young, the foundation executive, told The Post this month that
the vote was not a move against
parity. “Parity is something we
value greatly,” he said. “I believe
our board and the descendant
community are light-years ahead
of others doing this work.”
He added, “This is not a step
backward” but rather “the messy
process of being the first trying to
figure out how structural parity
works with an organization and
people.”
A legacy at risk
The vote to end shared governance with the MDC drew swift
criticism from museum groups
and heritage sites across the
country.
More than 10,000 people, including Montpelier donors,
signed a petition opposing the
board actions. The National Trust
for Historic Preservation, which
owns the 2,650-acre plantation
and leases it to the foundation,
warned the foundation before the
vote that rescinding the agreement with the descendant group
would do “irreparable harm” to
the legacy of Montpelier and “undermine decades of important
work.”
In advance of the vote, the
majority of roughly 40 full-time
staff members at Montpelier
drafted a resolution urging the
foundation to “respect its wellpublicized commitment to immediately implement its bylaws
and provide ‘at least equal representation’ on the board to the
MDC.” The staff also called on the
foundation to “end the intimidation of staff with restrictions on
contacting members of the
MDC.”
The American Alliance of Museums, which represents 35,000
museums worldwide, said in a
statement following the board
vote, “The public commitments
museums make to their communities are not to be taken lightly.
Swaying from those commitments only undermines trust between our country’s museums
and the public, causing irrepara-

JULIA RENDLEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST

JULIA RENDLEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST

TOP: Montpelier, the plantation of President James Madison, vowed to extend parity on its board to descendants of enslaved people
there. ABOVE: James French, chair of the Montpelier descendants group, walks at his family cemetery near the estate in Virginia.

ble harm to the descendant and
underserved communities they
aim to serve.”
The American Anthropological Association called the vote
“more than disrespectful” and
said it “dismisses the right of the
descendants to define themselves
and how their enslaved ancestors’ experiences are represented.”
On Wednesday, following the
outcry over the staff firings, the
foundation issued a new proposal
for an expanded board that would
include 12 members endorsed by
the MDC, 12 appointed by the
foundation and one representative of the National Trust.
Greg Werkheiser, a lawyer for
the MDC, criticized the plan,
which would not seat all the new
board members until October. “It
allows them to keep a two-thirds
voting majority, with which they
can prevent the rehiring of staff
they fired, fire more staff, and kick
James French and other current
MDC board members off before
October,” he said.
The stalemate continues. Iris
Ford, a MDC board member,
called the fight for parity at Montpelier a pivotal moment in national history. “Over 200 years
after the ratification of the Constitution, African Americans are still
fighting for the protection and
liberties that it claims to guarantee,” Ford said. “What we are doing at Montpelier is fighting for
the very soul of our nation.”
Hickok said the parity vote last
year remained an important step
for Montpelier. “We’ve been
working with the descendants of
the slave community for 25
years,” he said. “A vote for parity
tells the world the descendants of
former slaves are important. Indeed, to understand Montpelier,
you need to understand the
whole history of Montpelier.” He
said the board hopes to continue
working with the descendants
committee.
But French, while committed
to continuing to fight for parity, is
not convinced the foundation
board is willing to provide it. “If
the current leadership of Montpelier is incapable, as it seems it very
well may be, of keeping its word,
then Montpelier deserves new
leadership,” he said on a recent
evening as he drove on a country
road past the land where his
great-great-great-grandparents
were enslaved.
“They’d
rather
destroy
Montpelier,” he said, “than share
power.”

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The Holocaust survivor who fell in love with her American liberator
BY

G ILLIAN B ROCKELL

It was May 7, 1945, the day
before the young Jewish woman’s 21st birthday and only hours
after Germany had officially surrendered to the Allied forces. Her
hair was matted and had turned
white, and she weighed 68
pounds. She wore a ragged dress
and ski boots, and she was
leaning against the wall of an
abandoned factory just inside
the Czech border.
That is how two American
soldiers found her when they
drove up in their jeep, having
heard about a group of Holocaust survivors in a former factory. One of the men asked her in
German and English if she spoke
either language. She was from
Poland, but she knew German
and responded to him.
“We are Jewish, you know,” she
told him. After six years under
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warn him of their maligned status. The soldier was silent for a
long time, she remembered later.
He wore dark sunglasses, so she
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his voice caught, betraying his
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“So am I,” he said. He asked
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survivors were. Then he held the
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moment of restoration of humanity, of humaneness, of dignity, of freedom,” she said later.
This is the liberation story of
Gerda Weissmann, who died this
month at age 97 at her home in
Phoenix. Many Holocaust survivors have shared their accounts
of first contact with Allied soldiers at the end of World War II,
but Weissmann’s is unique, because it was also the unlikely
beginning of a love story between her and that American
soldier, Kurt Klein, who held the
door for her.
She led him to a room where
150 young women lay on the
floor, too emaciated and sick to
stand. When the Nazis had
forced them to walk a death
march three months earlier,
there had been 2,000 of them.
She made a “sweeping gesture of
this scene of devastation,” Klein

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Gerda Weissmann Klein holds a picture of her late husband, Kurt Klein, the American soldier who rescued her from the Holocaust, at
home in Arizona in 2005. She wrote about her ordeal and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died this month.

recalled decades later, “and she
said the following words: ‘Noble
be man, merciful and good.’ And
I could hardly believe that she
was able to summon a poem by
the German poet Goethe” at
“such a moment.”
Soon, she and the other young
women were moved to a field
hospital, where Weissmann relished her first bath in three
years. Her feet were so frostbitten, doctors thought they might
have to amputate. Weissmann
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Sometimes he would just listen as she mourned her friends
who had died in the Nazi camps.
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but immigrated to the United
States in 1937 with an older
sister. He didn’t know it yet, but
his parents had been murdered
at Auschwitz.
In late June, Klein was transferred to another post, so they
began writing letters. Despite
their deepening attachment,
Weissmann feared that his kindness was motivated by pity more
than romantic feeling, and that
she would be a burden to him.
Klein mistook her reluctance to
accept gifts and help from him as
romantic rejection.
Still, when the U.S. Army was
about to turn over control of the
area to the Russians, Klein arranged for Weissmann and a
friend to be moved to an area in
Germany still under American
control, where he could visit
once a week. He helped her get a
job, since she craved independence while she figured out what
to do in the long run.
She didn’t want to return to
Poland without her parents or
brother, and she didn’t know yet
that they had all been murdered
in the Holocaust. She had an
uncle in Turkey, but she worried
he might be domineering. And
like a lot of Jews after the war,
she wondered if she should go to
Palestine.
By September, Japan had sur-

rendered, and Klein broke the
news to Weissmann that he was
about to be sent home. Still not
understanding his feelings for

“I see those years and
days, and those who
never lived to see the
magic of a boring
evening at home.”
Gerda Weissmann Klein,
on her time in the Holocaust
after a documentary about her life
won an Oscar in 1996

her, she wished him well. He was
stunned, and then, she remembered later, he laid it all out:
“Don’t you understand? I love
you. I want to marry you.”
Their relief at professing their
love for one another was joyous
and brief. Klein could have
stayed in Germany and married
her immediately if he signed up
for another two years with the
Army, but then she would have
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Holocaust. Or he could return to
the United States and work every
diplomatic channel as consulates
reopened to allow her to join
him. No one knew how long that
would take. Klein left the decision up to Weissmann, and she
chose the latter option.
Their letters to one another
resumed, but at least now they
were very obviously love letters.
Decades later the pair would
compile them into a book, “The
Hours After: Letters of Love and
Longing in War’s Aftermath.”
“Let me bridge time and space
to be with you,” he wrote. “I let
my thoughts of the joy that lies
ahead envelop me,” she responded. “What lies ahead in our lives
to come? What mystery, what
secrets does fate have in store for
us?”
By April 1946, Weissmann was
able to leave Germany for Paris,
where they could meet again and
marry, once the interminable
gears of bureaucracy got all their
documents in order. Their daily
letters were full of youthful pining and mundane logistics: No,
his passport hadn’t arrived yet.
Yes, she finally received a copy of
her birth certificate.
They were reunited in June,
and on their way to city hall to
get married, they stopped at a
synagogue, still full of rubble
from the war, and lit a candle for
their parents.
The Kleins settled in Buffalo
before retiring in Arizona. They
were married for more than 50
years until his death in 2002.
They had three children and, by
the time of her death on April 3,
eight grandchildren and 18
great-grandchildren.
Through Weissmann Klein’s
volunteer work for Jewish relief
groups, she began to speak about
her experience, revealing her
remarkable memory for every
detail of her life before and
during the Holocaust. In 1957,
she published an acclaimed
book, “All But My Life: A Memoir.”
In 1996, a documentary about
Weissmann Klein won an Oscar.
Taking the stage with the director, she addressed a global audience. “In my mind’s eye, I see
those years and days, and those
who never lived to see the magic
of a boring evening at home,” she
said.
In 2011, President Barack
Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
highest civilian honor in the
nation. She spoke of the pride
she felt in having become an
American and, though her husband had been gone for over nine
years, of the moment they met.
“When I was liberated from
the death march and concentration camps, my beloved husband
was the first American I encountered, who liberated me,” she
said. “That night, I prayed for
him, though I didn’t know his
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paris — French voters go to the

polls on Sunday for France’s presidential election runoff between
incumbent President Emmanuel
Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
Macron remains the front-runner, with some seeming momentum behind him, but Le Pen —
who is running for the third time
— appears closer to the presidency than ever before.
Polls close on Sunday at 8 p.m.
local time, 2 p.m. Eastern, with a
projection by France’s public
broadcaster expected soon after.
What are the chances Macron
loses to Le Pen?
The latest public opinion polls
suggest that Macron is likely to
win but that his margin won’t be
nearly as comfortable as in 2017.
And an upset is still possible.
Macron is ahead of Le Pen by 10
percentage points in The Washington Post’s polling average. That
is a sizable lead, though not an
insurmountable one for Le Pen.
The gap is far narrower than
when Macron beat Le Pen by more
than 30 percentage points five
years ago. The far-right leader has
benefited from efforts to moderate her image (if not her actual
platform), economic frustrations
and malaise that is commonly directed toward incumbent leaders
in France.
One key question to watch will
be how — and whether — supporters of far-left candidate Jean-Luc
Mélenchon vote on Sunday. According to The Post’s analysis of
the results in 2017, about half of
Mélenchon’s first-round voters
went for Macron in the runoff.
Only about 5 percent voted for Le
Pen. But about 45 percent stayed
home or voted blank. Polls suggest
frustration with Macron could
both drive up those abstentions
and persuade more Mélenchon
voters to cast their ballots for Le
Pen this time.
The runoff in 2017 also saw a
large polling error, with the margin between Macron and Le Pen
underestimated by nearly nine
percentage points. While it’s difficult to predict the magnitude and
direction of such errors, it’s possible Le Pen could benefit from
something similar this year. If she
did, it might be enough for her to
win the presidency.
Why does the election matter
to the world?
A Macron victory would mark
the first time in two decades
French voters granted a president
a second term. A Le Pen victory
would mark the first far-right
presidency in French history —
and would upend politics both in
France and in Europe, potentially
bolstering Moscow, diminishing
NATO and fragmenting the European Union.
While Macron has been open to
continued dialogue with Russian
President Vladimir Putin, Le Pen
has long portrayed herself as a
Putin ally. Although she has condemned Putin’s invasion, she suggested she would halt French
weapons transfers to Ukraine,
stand in the way of embargoes on
Russian oil and gas, and advocate
a “strategic rapprochement” between NATO and Russia. She has
additionally talked about withdrawing France from NATO’s integrated command structure.
A Le Pen win would also replace
one of the most fervent boosters of
the European Union with someone who spent over a decade, from
2004 until 2017, agitating against
the E.U. as a Euroskeptic member
of the European Parliament. (Le
Pen and her party are the subject
of several ongoing inquiries into
alleged misuse of E.U. funds —
allegations she denies.)
In this campaign, she has
dropped her long-standing calls
to withdraw from the E.U. and the
euro. But her proposals — to implement new border controls, to
give preference to French citizens
for certain benefits — would challenge E.U. rules and values. Observers expect she would align
with the leaders of Hungary and
Poland in their battles with Brussels. But whereas Hungary and
Poland’s influence within the E.U.
is limited, France has the bloc’s
second-largest economy and,
along with Germany, tends to determine the bloc’s direction.
What’s important to know
about Macron?
Macron, 44, is a former investment banker and economy minister who had never run for office
before he launched his own political movement in 2016. He was
France’s youngest president when
he was elected, and he promised
to bring a new style of politics to
the Élysée Palace, without any obligations to established parties or
orthodoxies.
He has been a vocal defender of
the European Union. He took

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Macron and his opponent, Marine Le Pen, on Wednesday.

tough positions in Brexit negotiations. And he is credited with articulating a vision of Europe that
aims to address the sorts of frustrations that propel nationalist
movements. But many of his signature projects haven’t taken off.
The notion of a European army
independent from the United
States is still under debate. His
push for digital taxes on U.S. tech
giants never got full E.U. support,
and has been subsumed by the
U.S.-led plan for a global corporate minimum tax rate.
Macron has talked about putting France “at the heart of the
diplomatic game,” and he has
helped elevate the country’s global profile. Still, none of his major
diplomatic efforts have succeeded, whether trying to hold together the Iran nuclear deal, to keep
President Donald Trump in the
Paris climate accords or to avert
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Macron’s government has been prone to tiffs with
allies, threatening to cut off power
to Jersey, a British crown dependency, over post-Brexit fishing
rights and briefly withdrawing
the French ambassador from
Rome for the first time since 1940.
He also clashed with President
Biden over a derailed submarine
deal, though many European diplomats blame that episode on the
White House.
Domestically, Macron went
into office aiming to lower unemployment and stimulate economic growth. France is in relatively good shape on both counts.
His government helped protect
jobs with a furlough program during the pandemic, and the unemployment rate is now at its lowest
level since the 2008 financial crisis. Economic growth over the last
months of 2021 was stronger in
France than in many other E.U.
countries, including Germany —
with the help of 100 billion euros
in pandemic stimulus.
Still, Macron has been criticized within France as a “president for the rich,” who cut taxes on
the wealthy and hasn’t paid sufficient attention to economic and
social inequality. These resentments boiled over during months
of “yellow vest” protests — which
Macron ultimately helped quell
with concessions and a listening
tour. They have emerged again as
Russia’s war in Ukraine has compounded concerns over rising inflation, surging energy prices and
insufficient pensions.
After campaigning as a centrist, Macron has disgruntled
some of his supporters by shifting
to the right on immigration and
national security. His initiative to
influence how Islam is practiced
in France has been especially controversial. And his only intermittent focus on climate has further
disappointed some on the left. In
his final days on the campaign
trail, he has made a number of
gestures to appeal to those leftleaning voters, including talking
about more ambitious environmental targets.
What’s important to know
about Le Pen?
Le Pen, 53, took over France’s
main far-right party from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose
history of xenophobia and Holocaust denial had limited the organization’s appeal. Marine Le
Pen has gradually sought to moderate the party’s image — and her
own.
After her loss to Macron in 2017,
she changed the name from National Front to National Rally. And
in this campaign, she has adopted
milder rhetoric, emphasized economic issues over concerns about
radical Islam, and suggested she
wants to change the French political system from the inside rather
than to blow it up.
But she continues to advocate
far-right policies that would radically alter France. She has said her
government would fine women
for wearing headscarves in public,
she wants a French-first approach
to public services, and she promises that among her first acts as
president would be a “referendum
to stop immigration.”
Although some of her positions

harbor echoes of Trump, a President Le Pen could be expected to
have a thorny relationship with
the United States. Objecting to
NATO, she has invoked a longstanding Gaullist philosophy that
France should control its own defense and avoid “subjection to an
American protectorate.” And before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
she argued for a Franco-Russian
alliance, even if it provoked U.S.
sanctions.
What’s driving French voters?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
initially loomed large over the
campaign, boosting Macron’s
standing in the polls, as voters
appeared to rally behind him as a
wartime leader. But domestic issues have since surged back to the
forefront of the public debate.
The state of the economy has
become a dominant theme in the
election. Even though France has
emerged more robustly from the
pandemic than have some of its
neighbors, Le Pen’s campaign has
gained momentum by echoing a
sentiment that economic growth
hasn’t benefited most citizens.
Macron has proposed extending some of his policies, including
a cap on electricity and natural
gas prices that was introduced last
year. He has also promised additional tax cuts and more spending
on green energy if he is reelected
for a second five-year term. Macron has framed his proposals as
more realistic than Le Pen’s. The
far-right leader wants to scrap
income taxes for anyone younger
than 30, cut taxes on energy and
many basic goods, and go on a
government spending spree.
Proposed changes to France’s
retirement age have also played a
role in the campaign. Whereas
Macron has proposed raising it
from 62 to 64 or 65, Le Pen wants
to keep the current age and lower
it for some workers.
On the right side of the political
spectrum, immigration concerns
could also drive voters to the polls.
Even though Le Pen has focused
less on immigration than her farright challenger Éric Zemmour in
this campaign, she continues to
push a referendum on immigration and preferential treatment of
French nationals — policies condemned as racist by Macron.
What’s going on with French
politics?
For decades, French national
politics evolved around a mainstream center-right party and a
center-left party. But Macron,
winning in 2017 without the backing of an established mainstream
party, shattered the traditional
system.
The results of the first-round
election on April 10 confirmed, at
least at the national level, the collapse of what remains of the established centrist organizations. Together, the center-right Les Républicains, represented by Valérie
Pécresse, and center-left Socialists, represented by Paris Mayor
Anne Hidalgo, got less than 10
percent of the vote.
Instead, what emerged was a
three-way contest, with Macron
claiming much of the center, while
the far right and far left surged.
Le Pen got a greater portion of
the vote than in the first round in
2017, even though she faced a serious far-right challenger this time.
The far-left Mélenchon, who
failed to make it into the runoff,
still mobilized 22 percent of voters
— his best performance to date. At
the end of the night, Mélenchon
urged his supporters, “You must
not give a single vote to Madame
Le Pen.” But he didn’t explicitly
endorse Macron, either.
Though analysts expect French
politics to remain polarized, it’s
unclear if a three-way split will be
the new norm or whether there
will be yet another shake-up in
future national elections.
“Macron is in the process of
crushing the center of politics —
but the more he crushes it, the
more he gives room to the radical
wings,” said Pierre Mathiot, the
director of Sciences Po Lille. “I’m a
bit worried for French politics.”
Bronner reported from New York.

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Ukrainian officials said.
The attacks hit two residential
buildings and a military facility,
Ukraine’s air force said, rocking a
city where life had largely returned to normal after Russia narrowed its military campaign in
recent weeks to focus on the eastern regions, where Russia-backed
separatists have been fighting
Ukraine for several years.
Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff
for Zelensky, wrote in a post on the
Telegram messaging app that the
number of casualties from Saturday’s barrage on Odessa is likely to
rise. Zelensky later told reporters
that Russian forces were “dirty
scumbags” for carrying it out.
“The child was one month old
when the war started,” he said.
“What is even happening here?”
Two people were rescued from
the rubble, and 86 were evacuated
from a 16-story apartment building that was hit, Ukraine’s national emergency services office said.
A video of the aftermath shared on
social media and verified by The
Washington Post showed large
black plumes of smoke billowing
from a tall building near a grassy
area.
The Russian defense ministry
asserted that its missile strikes had
destroyed a logistics terminal in the
city where foreign weapons were
being stored. The Post could not
independently verify that claim.
The strikes were an ominous
reminder of a recent warning
from a top Russian commander
that forces intend to take “full
control” of all of the southern port
cities of Ukraine so that Russia
could have a path to Ukraine’s
western landlocked neighbor of
Moldova, which has its own breakaway region, Transnistria, aligned
with Russia. His comments were
condemned by Moldova, where
residents have worried since the
beginning of the war they could be
next in the Kremlin’s crosshairs.
The United States has allocated
roughly $3.4 billion in military
assistance to Ukraine since the
war began in February and has
intensified its shipments of weapons and equipment into the country over the past two weeks.
The donations include thousands of missiles that can be used
against Russian military aircraft
and artillery, long-range artillery
cannons, helicopters, armored vehicles, radar defense systems,
drones and anti-personnel mines,
among other equipment.
The latest $800 million assistance package, announced Thursday, includes two drone systems.
But the Pentagon has remained
tight-lipped about the timing and
locations of its deliveries and has
said that the Ukrainians control
the destination of the weapons
once they cross into the country.
More than two dozen nations
have joined the effort to funnel
military support to Ukraine since
Russia’s invasion in February.
Numerous foreign dignitaries,
including British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson, have visited Kyiv in
recent months to show their support for Zelensky’s government.
He announced Saturday that Britain would reopen its embassy in
Kyiv, which diplomats had evacuated at the start of the invasion.
Biden last month traveled to
Poland and visited with Ukrainian
refugees and U.S. service members stationed there.
Austin will also be hosting a
summit in Germany in the coming
days to build support for Ukraine’s
defense and security needs, the
Pentagon’s top spokesman, John
Kirby, said Thursday.
The “Ukraine Defense Consultative Group,” which will meet at
Ramstein Air Base in Germany on
Tuesday, will focus not just on
Ukraine’s short-term military assistance needs and the latest battlefield assessments, but also take
“a longer, larger view of Ukraine’s
defense needs, going forward beyond the war that they’re facing
right now,” Kirby said.
More than 20 countries have
agreed to participate that meeting, Kirby said Friday.
But as nations including the
United States dispatch heavy
weaponry, some cracks are emerging in the coalition of allies. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz cautioned that it was a “top priority”
for NATO to “avoid a direct military confrontation between NATO
and a highly armed superpower
like Russia, a nuclear power.”
In an interview with Der Spiegel published Friday, Scholz said it
was not “justifiable for Germany
and NATO to become parties to
the war in Ukraine.”
Scholz made the comments in
response to several questions
about the prospect of his country’s
delivering heavy weapons to help

Ukraine fight Russian attacks. He
noted that Germany had already
provided 2 billion euros ($2.16
billion) and delivered “defensive
weapons,” antitank mines and antiaircraft equipment to Kyiv.
Horrors continue to emerge
each day, especially from the
bombed-out port city of Mariupol.
Civilians evacuated from the city
in recent days spoke of bodies in
the streets and shelling so relentless that venturing above ground
to find water was easily a death
sentence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week declared Russia’s victory in the battle for Mariupol, even
as Ukraine said a contingent of
about 1,000 Ukrainian fighters and
civilians remain holed up in the
steel plant. Putin said in a rare
televised address that he had ordered his troops not to storm the
steel plant but to blockade it “so that
even a fly could not get through.”
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko on Saturday said that Russian forces had again “thwarted” a
coordinated attempt to evacuate
civilians from the city.
Boychenko’s office wrote on
Telegram that more than 200 people had planned to board buses
outside a city shopping center, to
evacuate to the southeastern city
of Zaporizhzhia.
That plan collapsed, Boychenko
alleged, after Russian forces told
some of those assembled that
“there will be shelling,” and that
the buses would only travel as far
as Dokuchaevsk, a city currently
under Russian control.
The Post was unable to independently verify this claim, or another from Ukraine’s human
rights ombudsman who said last
week that Russia had taken more
than 300 Mariupol civilians, including 90 children, to Russia.
Evacuation plans and other efforts to establish humanitarian
corridors in and out of Mariupol
have routinely failed, amid relentless shelling and the Russian encirclement of the city, that has left
residents largely cut off as food,
water and medical supplies have
dwindled.
A video released Saturday by
Ukrainian forces at their last
stronghold at the Azovstal Iron
and Steel Works plant in Mariupol
appears to show a large number of
civilians living in cramped conditions in an underground bunker,
including women and children.
The video, if confirmed, would
be the most extensive footage to
date of life in the plant, where an
unspecified number of Ukrainian
civilians and fighters are said to be
holding out against a much larger
and better-equipped Russian forces. The video could not be independently verified.
“We want to go home. We want
to see the sun,” said one child in
the video, standing in a cramped
underground shelter with other
women and children, where belongings were suspended on lines
above makeshift beds.
A woman in the video said her
family had been hiding there since
March 2. “My husband works here.
So we came here with the whole
family,” she said. “Grandmother
and grandfather stayed at home.”
Other cities in Ukraine also
came under heavy fire. Three people were killed and more than 20
people were wounded in the city of
Kharkiv and the region as a result
of more than 50 strikes from Russian forces on Saturday, a Ukrainian military governor said Saturday. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the
Kharkiv regional military administration, claimed that Russian
forces “continue to fire on the civilian infrastructure of Kharkiv
and the region.”
The United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights
Michelle Bachelet last week described Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine as a “horror story
of violations perpetrated against
civilians,” as the international human rights monitor has documented growing evidence of war
crimes, including the indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas and
summary executions.
As Russia has withdrawn from
northern cities near Kyiv, where
earlier bombardments were heavy,
the U.N. said satellite imagery has
confirmed the massive destruction
of civilian infrastructure there.
Nearly 80 percent of the village of
Horenka appeared to have been
destroyed, Bachelet said.
U.N. Secretary General António
Guterres is slated to meet separately with both Putin and Zelensky this week in the latest diplomatic effort to mediate an end to
the fighting.
Amid the continuing siege, Zelensky said Ukraine had appealed
to Pope Francis to try to help civilians stranded in Mariupol.
During the Saturday news con-

ference, Zelensky proposed that
the pope help with negotiations to
try “to unblock the humanitarian
corridors” into and out of the city,
echoing a proposal for the pope to
visit the war-torn country.
“It is too early to tell, but we are
waiting for him,” Zelensky told
reporters. “We are waiting because he has a mission — a mission
from God. He is trusted by a large
number of people; I think this is
important.”
Hauslohner and Bella reported from
Washington and Francis from London.
Vladyslav Maslov in Odessa; Amy
Cheng in Seoul; Adela Suliman in
London; and Karoun Demirjian,
Marisa Iati and Meryl Kornfeld in
Washington contributed to this report.

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Mass shootings in U.S. mark a ‘heartbreaking’ increase
Instances involving 4 or
more injuries, deaths up
sharply in recent years
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The shootings rippled across
the country this month, a steady
drumbeat of tragedy stretching
from coast to coast.
Six people killed in downtown
Sacramento.
More than a dozen shot at a
Dallas concert.
Two killed, and more wounded,
in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, nightclub.
Ten shot aboard a Brooklyn
subway train at the height of the
morning commute.
Then, last weekend, nine people were shot at a shopping mall
in Columbia, S.C. And hours later,
two teenagers were killed, and
more injured, during a shooting
at a house party in Pittsburgh.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Scott E.
Schubert, the Pittsburgh police
chief, said of the deadly shooting
there early Easter Sunday.
The stream of shootings comes
amid a grim backdrop of increased gun violence nationwide,
and at a time when mayors, police
chiefs and mediators working on
the streets to curb the bloodshed
were already reporting a disturbing shift. Grievances or minor
slights that might have once led to
fistfights, they said, were instead
suddenly escalating to gunfire.
In some of the recent shootings
that left numerous people dead or
injured, officials said the gunfire
appeared to be tied to disputes
among people or groups gathered
in public or crowded areas. But
this violence underscored that
shootings leaving several people
injured or killed are up significantly compared with before the
pandemic, and the ongoing toll
has public officials and others
fearful heading into the summer
months.
Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said the recent
string of shootings from Sacramento to Pittsburgh left him feeling horrified, angry and frustrated that “we’re continuing to see
these things happening over and
over and over again.”
So far this year, the number of
shootings that killed or injured at
least four people is much higher
than it was at this point just a few
years ago, according to the Gun
Violence Archive, a research
group. (The group categorizes
“mass shootings” as cases in
which at least four people are
killed or wounded, not including
the shooter.)
That grim tally rose Friday
when police say a gunman in
Northwest Washington fired indiscriminately from an apartment building, injuring three
adults and a child.
The past two years have been
bleak for cities across the country
grappling with more gun violence
and homicides. In many cities, the
levels of bloodshed remain far
below what was seen a generation
ago, but the recent surge in violence has left behind shattered
families, shaken communities
and anxious residents.
In New York, there were 488
killings in 2021, compared with
319 two years earlier, before the
pandemic. That remains well below the agonizing toll seen a few
decades ago — in 1990 alone, the
city had more than 2,200 murders
— but the increase has left some
New Yorkers fearful about safety
in their city.
New York Mayor Eric Adams
(D), who campaigned on public
safety issues, said during a television appearance after the subway
attack that he had been “in the
city when it spiraled out of control” decades earlier.
“That is not what we’re facing
at this time,” Adams said on
MSNBC last weekend. He also
described the rise in gun violence
as a nationwide issue, not limited
to certain cities.
The mayor of Savannah, Ga.,
Van Johnson, said the rise in gun
violence in his city and across the
country is “unlike anything we’ve
ever seen.”
He attributes the phenomenon
to the availability of illegal guns, a
lack of maturity in settling disputes and a critical shortage of
resources to address mental
health and substance use disorders.
Johnson also said he makes a
point of visiting each place where
a shooting occurs.
“I want to show that this is not
ordinary,” he said. “There should
be no such thing as a routine gun
violence incident.”
Public mass shootings like the
Brooklyn subway attack tend to
get the most attention, though
such rampages are actually outli-

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The crime scene at 10th Street and J Street in downtown Sacramento, where six people were fatally shot and 12 were injured this month. Officials across the nation say that
grievances or minor slights that might have once led to fistfights are instead suddenly escalating to gunfire.

Shootings where four or more people were injured or
killed have increased
Number of cases in the United States prior to April 23 in each year
Shootings

Injuries
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ers relative to how gun violence
typically unfolds in America, said
April M. Zeoli, an associate professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University.
“Mass shootings are absolutely
the minority of gun deaths in the
United States,” Zeoli said. “Singlevictim shootings are far more
common. Many, many more people die per day, per month, per
year, in homicides that do not
meet the level of mass shootings,
than people who are shot in mass
shootings.”
And not all mass killings get
equal attention, Zeoli said. The
most common mass shootings,
she said, are domestic cases, but
media and public scrutiny tend to
focus more on those in public
spaces — like movie theaters or
houses of worship — “because
they are scarier to a lot of people,”
she said. “Anybody can put themselves in this situation.”
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perts said, appears to have dwindled over the years for many
shootings. Zeoli said that a few
years ago, she had students do a
project analyzing television news
coverage of shootings.
The main factor in determining the breadth of coverage, she
said, “was the number of deaths.”
Despite the intense focus on
those shootings that hit strangers
in public places, “almost no
shootings are random,” noted
Daniel Webster, co-director of the
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun
Violence Solutions. “Yes, a few,
but they’re incredibly rare. Those
are the ones that get the most
attention because they seem like
there’s no rhyme or reason, like
what happened in the subway in
Brooklyn recently.
“More commonly, shootings,
whether they are mass shootings
or just one individual shot, you
can often boil it down to something pretty basic,” Webster said.

“Grievances and guns.”
And the number of guns across
America has only increased since
the pandemic began.
In 2020 and 2021, gun sales
surged to unprecedented numbers, according to a Washington
Post analysis of federal data on
gun background checks. That
spike has eased so far this year,
with an estimated 17,200 firearms
purchased in the first three
months of 2022, down from the
previous two years.
But that followed “historic purchases,” Webster said, which
came at “a very uncertain time, a
volatile cultural, political context,
where people lack faith in the
state’s ability to protect them.”
Webster said that in a place
with regular gun violence and
where people do not believe the
police will keep them safe, they
might want guns for safety, presuming other people already have
them.
“You think, well, a pretty substantial share of people in this
environment are armed,” he said.
“You’re on edge. And you don’t
want to be the second one to reach
for your gun.”
And that, according to both
officials and mediators fighting
violence, has been happening
with grim frequency.
In Indianapolis, Police Chief
Randal Taylor watched as the increasingly senseless explanations
for homicides came pouring in:
people who had been shot dead
during a spat over a parking space
or in retaliation for an offensive
post on social media. He said it
was unlike anything he had seen
in his 34-year career in law enforcement.
“When you have people who

don’t have a criminal history that
are killing for these other reasons,
that’s more concerning,” said Taylor, whose city broke its homicide
record in 2020 and again last year.
Leonard Jahad, executive director of the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program, said
tension “just seems to be heightened” in recent years, which he
attributed to isolation due to the
pandemic and the echo chamber
of social media.
Young people he works with
seek one another out online to
deliver threats and “go at each
other in the most disrespectful
ways,” Jahad said. “It’s a whole
different culture that we’re trying
to break.”
Baltimore Mayor Brandon
Scott, an anti-violence activist before he got into politics, also said
an increasing share of the violence in his city appeared to stem
from interpersonal disputes,
making it hard for law enforcement to effectively intervene. Mediators who work the city’s streets
trying to keep issues from escalating said the efforts have grown
more dangerous as guns have
proliferated.
Alex Long, who works as a
violence interrupter for the cityfunded Safe Streets program in
Baltimore, said that in the past
seven years, he has seen a marked
rise in the number of people
armed and willing to use their
weapons.
“The gun is the end all, be all,”
Long said. “It’s ‘you step on my
shoe, I go get my gun. You look at
me wrong, I go get my gun.’ ”
Gun violence is fundamentally
local, said Caterina Roman, a
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New York police officers stand near the entrance to a subway station following an April 12 attack in Brooklyn. A man riding the subway
filled a morning rush-hour train with smoke before opening fire, shooting 10 people.

“We can look at the national
statistics and say, ‘This might be a
trend,’ [but] I’m of the belief that
to really understand violence and
gun violence, we have to be looking deeper into individual cities,”
Roman said. “It’s a neighborhood
issue.”
To some city leaders, the pandemic offers at least some explanation for the increase in violence. As people lost jobs and
social connections during the
pandemic, support systems withered, and fuses got shorter.
“There’s more frustration,
more stress, more anger in people, more uncertainty,” said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, a former
police chief. “It does play a role.”
Still, while some cities endured
record numbers of killings last
year, others have seen glimmers
of hope. In Boston, Dallas and
Omaha, for example, homicides
fell last year, according to police
data.
Homicides in Columbus, however, reached a record in 2021,
prompting Ginther, the mayor, to
call gun violence a “public health
crisis” this year.
Nine out of 10 homicides in the
city last year involved a firearm,
he said in an interview, and 80
percent of the victims and perpetrators were African American
men under the age of 40.
But Ginther said the early
months of this year have provided
cause for optimism, with homicides down significantly in comparison to 2021, a change he credits to a new intervention program
focused on reaching a small
group of people who commit a
disproportionate share of violent
crimes, as well as fresh investments in law enforcement.
“We think things are headed in
the right direction after some of
the worst years ever,” Ginther
said. But he also noted such
trends can shift quickly.
The availability of weapons
and the approach of summertime
— when people move outdoors
and hold more large gatherings —
are recipes for increased violence,
experts fear.
In Pittsburgh, Schubert, the
police chief, said officials believe
an “altercation” at the house party there led to early-morning gunfire between at least two people
last Sunday.
More than 100 rounds were
fired, police said, some inside the
house and some outside.
Lee Davis, who has worked in
violence prevention programs in
Pittsburgh for almost two decades, knew both of the teenagers
who were killed, meeting one
through a mentoring program
and another at his company. “I’ve
been crying for the past two days,”
Davis said.
Davis also said that people
fighting the violence “can do a
whole lot more if we have more
resources” to pay for more violence interrupters, therapists and
case managers.
“If we keep throwing pennies
at the situation, and just hoping
and praying that it goes away, we
will keep seeing this over and
over,” he said.
Nick Keppler in Pittsburgh
contributed to this report.

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Loved ones reunite with each other at the Cleveland Park library. Four people were injured in the
shootings that took place Friday, including a man who provides security for the Edmund Burke School.

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The scene of the shooting on Friday. A gunman fired in the direction of the Edmund Burke School, a private school of about 300, shattering some of its windows and causing it to go on lockdown.
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from the sixth grade to 12th
grade and counts about 300
students, according to its website. On Saturday, Burke’s head of
school, Damian Jones, emailed
the school community with the
subject line, “Holding You In
Care.”
“Dearest community, We
don’t yet have words for what we
all experienced yesterday. Today,
I first to want to express my
deepest care and love, and assurance that we will be there for
you at every turn,” he wrote. “I
also want to emphasize that
everyone did everything right,
and everything they could: our
faculty, staff, and administrators
who sheltered, cared for, and
stayed with our students; our
young people who showed profound courage and compassion
for one another, and even
brought levity to yesterday’s
long hours …”
Jones, who also acknowledged
the aid of the school’s neighbors
and local and federal law enforcement officials for arriving
within minutes, announced that
there would be no classes Monday. He said the school’s administration will meet over the next
two days to discuss how they can
“best attend to our community’s
needs, mental and physical, in
the days and weeks to come.”
Jones did not return messages
seeking comment.
Burke, which was founded in
1968, bills itself as a “progressive,
college prep school” that features
an “inclusive environment.” At
each grade level, Burke students
undergo a year-long “integrated
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Students, parents recount fear,
hope after Northwest D.C. shooting
riculum, grounded in social justice pedagogy.” Its complex,
which sits along one of the city’s
most vital corridors, Connecticut
Avenue, looks less like a traditional school and more like the
modern headquarters of a corporation. A four-story building
fronting Connecticut Avenue —
Burke’s middle school — is
wrapped with large windows and
connects to the high school
through the elevated glass-enclosed bridge.
Those same design features,
though, made Friday’s shooting
all the more frightening, Phoenix
said. Once he saw the walkway’s
windows shatter, he said he and
several other students rushed
toward the stairwells so they
could go down and exit the
school. But as they raced down
the steps, someone at the bottom
yelled that the gunman might
possibly be roaming nearby. So,
everyone ran back up.
Then, Phoenix said, he was on
the upper school’s third floor in
the office for foreign languages
with about a dozen other students. A Spanish teacher, he said,
slammed the door and everyone
crawled under three or four
desks or sat on the ground up
against the walls. People were
crying and huddling.
“One of my classmates was
calling the police, but since so
many people were calling the

police, she got put on hold and
she started hyperventilating,” he
said. “I was trembling. I was
holding hands with my friend. It
was nice to have someone with
me. We didn’t feel as alone. I was
freaking out. But she was just
like, ‘Calm down, calm down,
you’re going to be okay.’”
Meanwhile, Phoenix’s parents,
Barbara Gault and her wife,
Susan Gault-Brown, had left the
family’s Maryland home and
were racing to Burke.
They’d been alerted to the
shooting by their neighbor, Patricia Termini, 63, who was fourth
in the pickup line waiting in her
SUV to bring Phoenix and his
best friend home. Bullets hit her
car and one of them grazed her
shoulder, giving her a bruise, she
said.
On the way to the school,
Gault-Brown checked her phone
and saw a barrage of texts from
her son. The first read: “I love
you so much mom.” The second:
“There’s shooting at.” The third:
“School.” The fourth: “I can’t call
you.” The fifth: “We have to be
silent.” The sixth: “The gun fire
hasn’t stopped.”
Gault-Brown wrote back: “Are
you okay we love you.”
“I’m hiding. I’m [in] an office,”
he wrote.
“We’re coming,” Gault-Brown
said.
“There are sirens everywhere.”

“We love you. It is going to be
ok.”
“I love you too. There are cops
I think.”
“We are going to be there in 15
min.”
“There’s shooting. And shouting. It’s close.”
“Stay down.”
“I’m still ok.”
“We love you so much and
we’re going to be there soon.”
When they finally arrived at
nearby Tilden Street, Gault said
she and her wife didn’t know
what else they could write their
son to help him.
“I just said, ‘You’re doing
great, keep doing what you’re
doing,' and, ‘I love you,’” Gault
recalled. “But I was thinking,
‘Should I be telling him to fight
or barricade himself ’? I figured
the teachers knew what they
were doing. I just felt so helpless,
standing there not knowing
what was going on.”
By about 4:15 p.m., the school
sent out an email with the subject line, “Emergency Notice.” In
all-red font, the message said, “As
you may have heard, there was a
shooting outside the school after
classes ended. Police and SWAT
are on site, so you cannot enter
the buildings at the time. Please
know we are not able to answer
calls and emails at this time. We
will follow up when we know
more.”

While Phoenix was stuck inside the foreign language office,
he and others in the room began
barricading the door with filing
cabinets and boxes of books. At
one point, he surveyed the room,
eyeing potential weapons for
self-defense.
“I didn’t have one in mind,”
Phoenix said. “If worse came to
worst, I would just pick up my
backpack and swing it around.”
He and others in the office
were checking their phones,
scouring the Internet for news
alerts or official updates. Shouts
from police officers outside filtered into their room. They felt
safe, he said, but not entirely.
Soon, police entered the
school and ushered everyone
downstairs to the upper school’s
basement gym. As the students
milled about, everyone chatted
and compared notes. Where
were you when the shooting
started? Who were you hiding
with?
“One person told me, ‘I guess
this is what you can expect when
you go to school in America,’”
Phoenix recalled. “One of my
friends said, ‘It sucks that we
knew what we had to do in a
situation like this.’ It definitely
helped to be able to talk it
through. It grounded the situation more to hear it from multiple perspectives.”
As the hours ticked by, Burke

blasted out more emails with
all-red font messages. At 5:10
p.m., “At this time, the buildings
are secure, and all the students
and adults who were in the
buildings are safe and in secure
areas with law enforcement. We
will likely be here for some time,
and we will share more when we
can.”
About an hour later, the school
told parents that police officers
were interviewing students and
when those sessions were over,
they would be transported to the
Cleveland Park library, about a
half-mile south on Connecticut
Avenue, the designated “reunification point.”
By about 8 p.m., Gault and her
wife made their way to the
library.
On the first floor, the parents
congregated inside a meeting
room where, one by one, their
children’s names were announced as ready to be picked up
in the foyer. Every time a name
was called, many of the parents
clapped and cheered. Once they
heard Phoenix’s name, Gault and
her wife bolted out of their chairs
and ran-walked out of the meeting room and into the foyer,
where the three of them embraced and celebrated.
“It felt reassuring to see his
smile. I felt like he’s probably
going to be okay,” Gault said.
“It was just incredibly relieving,” Phoenix said. “The stress of
the day had left. I hugged both of
them and said, ‘I just want to go
home.’ My moms were touching
my hair. They were making sure I
was actually there.”
Peter Hermann and Marc Fisher
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‘I’m asking for my right to choose when I want to die’
Psychologist with muscular
disease pushes for exception
to Peru’s euthanasia ban
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT

lima, peru — Ana Estrada had rested

her lungs for days in anticipation of this
moment. Now she lay in bed with her
laptop open, facing the people who
would decide whether she would legally
be allowed to bring her life to an end.
Simply breathing on her own, disconnected from her ventilator, she felt as
though she were running a marathon.
Today she would have to speak, answering questions from a panel of judges for
two hours with the tube in her windpipe
shut.
Estrada, a 45-year-old writer, poet and
psychologist with a progressive muscular
disease, is fighting for the right to die by
euthanasia.
For three decades, she had struggled
with polymyositis, a condition that slowly robbed her of the ability to walk, to
move her arms, to breathe on her own for
more than a few hours a day. Last year, a
constitutional court in Lima ruled in her
favor, making her the first and only
person to be granted an exception to a
national ban on euthanasia, a stunning
development in a majority-Catholic
country where a doctor can be sentenced
to three years in prison for administering
euthanasia, and where elective abortion
and same-sex marriage remain illegal.
The decision was now before Peru’s
Supreme Court of Justice for a final
review, and this hearing in mid-January
would be Estrada’s last opportunity to
speak for herself before the judges would
decide.
They would ask questions she’d heard
many times over the four years since she
began her crusade: Aren’t there other
medical treatments she could turn to? If
she had made it this far, through 45 years
and a successful career, why give up?
“Why would you surrender now,” a
judge asked, “and not continue with this
fight?”
With her head resting on her pillow,
Estrada smiled slightly as she explained,
again, what so many people still don’t
understand: She doesn’t actually want to
die.
Estrada had always dreamed of living
alone.
As a girl, she wasn’t interested in
getting married or having children.
Growing up in a conservative Catholic
family and attending a high school run by
nuns, she was tired of having values or
expectations imposed on her. She wanted
to be independent, to travel, to live in her
own apartment.
Then she started falling. She began
feeling a weakness all over her body, and
at 14, she was diagnosed with polymyositis. In late high school, her treatments
caused her to become bloated, and she
fell into a depression. She retreated from
friends and dreaded being seen by her
boyfriend, her first love. At 20, she
started using a wheelchair — her classmates would help push her across her
university campus. By the time she graduated, she needed a live-in assistant.
The last time Estrada took a shower by
herself was more than two decades ago.
She could use only her right hand to wash
her hair, so she would rub the other side
of her head against the wall, tears falling
down her face. After falling and spraining an ankle, she never again showered
without help, she would write in a blog
post, “and never again could I feel the
texture of my own skin.”
But as her body failed, her psychology
studies made her realize how much she
was still capable of. She began working at
a psychoanalysis clinic and rented an
apartment around the corner, living with
her full-time nurse and her cat. She
eventually saved enough money to buy
an apartment blocks from the ocean in
Lima’s upscale Miraflores neighborhood.
Then, in 2015, complications from
pneumonia sent her to the ICU. She was
intubated for six months. What little
independence she had left was taken
from her. She started relying on a ventilator, a feeding tube and 24-hour assistance
from a team of nurses. She quit her job
and gave up her cat for adoption. Her
parents moved in with her.
She returned to the ICU for a month
the following year.
That was when she started considering euthanasia. Her time in the ICU

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showed her what it was like to want to die
— to beg to die — and she vowed never to
reach that point again. If the suffering
became too much to bear, she wanted to
know she had an escape. If she had that
right, she thought, perhaps she might
never need to even use it.
“What I’m asking is to have the power
and the control, and that my life belongs
to me — it doesn’t belong to the state,” she
said. “That’s what it means to be free. It’s
living without fear.”
She began considering her options. If
she reached the point at which she
wanted euthanasia, she realized, she
would have to get a clandestine procedure or travel to one of the seven
countries worldwide where the practice
is legal. Travel would require the support
of a family member, and she was terrified
that her loved ones could face prison
time if they were caught.
In 2019, she launched her blog about
her search for “death with dignity,” and
found herself an advocate for the cause.
She started working with a lawyer to take
her case to court. With Peru’s ombudsman’s office, she filed a lawsuit seeking to
stop the government from enforcing Peru’s
euthanasia ban in her case. In a historic
decision, a court in Lima ruled in her favor.
But perhaps more remarkable was what
happened next: The three government
agencies in the case decided not to appeal.
Many Latin American countries are
transforming their laws on social issues
amid growing ambivalence over the influence of the Catholic Church in the
region. In Colombia, an unlikely pioneer
in euthanasia rights, the procedure has
been recognized since 1997, and a court
last year ruled it could be extended to
patients with non-terminal prognoses.
Lawmakers in Uruguay, Chile and Argentina have proposed legislation granting
access to euthanasia.
But Estrada would wait a year for the
Supreme Court to take up her case.
If the panel of judges upholds the
lower court’s ruling, the decision could
be limited, only applying to her and
creating no binding legal precedent for
others seeking euthanasia in the country.
And as she awaited a final green light,
messages poured in on social media
telling her she should “just die already.”
Critics attacked her for getting vaccinated against the coronavirus and voting
in Peru’s presidential election, if she was
just going to die soon anyway. One presidential candidate, referring to her case,
asked why the state should get involved.
“If you want to kill yourself,” he said,
“just climb a building and throw yourself
off.”

In her apartment’s sunroom, Estrada
sat up straight in her wheelchair, a green
abortion rights handkerchief tied to the
armrest. This was her favorite room,
where she could be surrounded by plants
and paintings of birds and hear the
sounds of people outside. On her laptop
stand was a sticker of a nude woman and
the words: “Fan of my body.”
She joined a Zoom meeting and saw
the faces of friends in New York, Argentina, Venezuela — classmates in a virtual
writing workshop she started taking during the pandemic. The workshop had
given Estrada a new identity, no longer
that of a working psychologist or of just a
euthanasia activist. She was a writer.
The teacher asked the students to take
10 minutes to write a few lines about a
summer memory. Estrada listened to a
song by Cuban artist Silvio Rodríguez
and tried to concentrate.
She rested her index finger on the
mouse and used the cursor to choose
each letter from a keyboard on the screen.
Toes gripping onto rocks
Knee with the blood of a snail
She thought about those last summers
when she could still walk into the ocean.
She had felt herself getting weaker, the
waves crashing against her, her toes
curling around the stones in the sand as
she tried to keep from falling.
Her classmates took turns reading off
their lines and then critiquing them
together. As they shared their passages,
Estrada continued to fixate on her own,
deleting words, adding new ones.
The class dragged on longer than
usual, and Estrada became tired. Her
nurse moved her to her bed and connected her to the ventilator. When it was her
turn, Estrada asked a classmate to read
her lines for her.
Her body had deteriorated since she
started the class. It had become harder to
speak and to breathe on her own. She
could use her voice only briefly every few
days; now she communicated mostly by
mouthing words. But she could still write.
As long as she still had strength in her
right index finger, she could still write.
The lines she sent her classmate were
entirely different from the ones she had
started with, a memory of the fog of her
childhood in Lima that she both loved
and resented.
Estrada told herself to be patient as
she listened to the judge’s question. He
had congratulated her on her accomplishments, while also questioning why
she was giving up. To Estrada, nothing
about this four-year campaign felt like
giving up.
“It’s not about surrendering,” she re-

sponded to the judge, her breathing
audible between sentences. “It’s not that
I’ve stopped valuing life. On the contrary.”
Estrada was asking for this right because she knew what it was like to really
live, to help a therapy patient resolve a
challenge, to stay out late drinking with
friends, to spend her birthdays vacationing at the beach. And she knew what it
was like to lose all that.
“I’m not asking you to let me die,” she
told the judges. “I’m asking for my right
to choose when I want to die.”
The judge asked her what would happen
if she continued on palliative care, easing
the pain as her condition progressed. At
some point, Estrada replied, that would
mean she would simply be sedated.
“And I ask myself, ‘Is that a dignified
death for me? I’d be asleep for how many
years … producing ulcers on my body,
with my family having to see me suffering
like that?’ ”
“So what you’re asking for, in some
way, is about emotional suffering rather
than physical suffering?” the judge
asked.
“It’s about dignity,” Estrada said.
Estrada thought back to something
she would tell new patients in therapy.
Many would see her in a wheelchair and
hesitate to open up about their struggles
— feeling that they were nothing compared with Estrada’s. She would say
suffering cannot be measured: “Limitations are not only physical.”
It might be weeks, or even months,
before the judges decided her case. Estrada was in no rush.
When she filed her lawsuit in 2019, she
predicted she would want to live only two
more years. Now, she had stopped putting a date on it. She didn’t know how
many more years she would choose to
keep living. She could still write, could
still create and learn and speak for
herself. But she knew each of those things
would only become more difficult.
“There will come a time when I will no
longer be able to resist it,” she told the
judge.
Lying in bed, with her nurse spoonfeeding her coffee, Estrada mouthed a
question: Could they go outside for some
fresh air?
The nurse, Gris Sandoval Damian,
helped her into her wheelchair and put on
her white sneakers. Outside, they ran into
Estrada’s brother and nephew. The boy
showed her a paper toy he had just made.
Sandoval directed the driver of a car to
stop as Estrada crossed the street in her
electric wheelchair en route to the Miraflores Malecón, an esplanade overlooking the ocean. The summer heat had

Flock of black birds,
sustained flight
over the whiteness.
I am inhabited by a country
of impenetrable tongue
exiled from my body,
a landslide of silences howls
the return.
And I turn into night wrapped
in violet blue
you are my element
my stillness
a veil of eyelashes
that climb in my dreams.
I light up.
— Ana Estrada

cooled into the evening. Couples packed
the esplanade holding hands. Children
climbed playground equipment. Teenagers whizzed by on skateboards.
As Estrada and Sandoval reached the
Malecón, a young woman approached
and asked for a photo.
“I always read you, and I study law,”
she said. “I really admire you, Ana.”
Estrada, unable to say much, simply
smiled and posed for the photograph. The
young woman said she was from Cuzco. It
wasn’t lost on Estrada that her case was
being followed by a law student from
across the country. Euthanasia had hardly
been discussed in Peru just a few years ago.
Sandoval took a photo of Estrada’s
shoulder so that she could see the tattoo
where her eyes couldn’t reach. The nurse
knew how much it meant to Estrada to
remember what she looked like in places
she could no longer see. To find beauty in
what she still could.
“Look, Anita, your bird,” the nurse
said.
Estrada and her nurse stayed out
talking for more than an hour, well after
dark, Sandoval easily reading Estrada’s
lips after years of practice.
It strained Estrada’s muscles the longer she stayed out, breathing without the
ventilator. But it was worth holding on.

LEFT: With the aid of a nurse, Ana Estrada, 45, fixes her hair in Lima, Peru. For years, Estrada has struggled with polymyositis, a disease that progressively attacks her muscles. A difficult
hospitalization led her to consider euthanasia, and she is at the center of a lawsuit challenging Peru’s ban on it. RIGHT: Estrada explores Lima.

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91-year-old survivor of
Nazi-occupied Mariupol
dies in Russian siege
Vanda Obiedkova evaded
Hitler’s troops by hiding
in a basement
BY

R ACHEL P ANNETT

Russian-held areas
and troop movement

BELARUS

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Chernihiv

POLAND

Russian forces conducted
small-scale ground offensives
along the front from Izyum to the
south.

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Vanda Obiedkova was 10 years
old when German troops occupied
Mariupol, a strategic port city in
the south of Ukraine, in 1941.
Nazi soldiers began rounding
up the city’s Jewish population,
but the little girl escaped arrest by
hiding in a basement, according to
Chabad.org, the official website of
the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Thousands were removed from
Mariupol and executed, including
Obiedkova’s mother. She survived
the war.
More than eight decades later,
once again trapped in a basement
as Russian forces bombarded the
city for weeks, Obiedkova lost her
latest battle. She was 91. Before
she died on April 4, she had asked
her family: “Why is this happening?” according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Before the Russian invasion on
Feb. 24, Mariupol — located between Russian-annexed Crimea
and areas of eastern Ukraine held
by Russian-backed separatists —
had a population of about 430,000.
Officials in Ukraine say that up to
20,000 civilians in Mariupol have
been killed since the start of the
Russianinvasion.(TheWashington
Post was not able to independently
verify the death toll.)
For days now, Ukraine has rejected multiple Russian deadlines
to surrender the city. Victory here
would provide the Kremlin with a
land corridor connecting the territories under its control, and free
up troops as it launches a new
attack in the east.
The situation on the ground in
Mariupol is increasingly dire.
Plans for humanitarian evacuations from the city fell apart on
Wednesday, according to Russian

and Ukrainian officials, who
blamed each other. Videos verified
by The Post showed the bodies of
more than a dozen civilians lying
on streets.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday
that he is ready to exchange Russian prisoners for civilians
trapped in the city, though
Moscow has “so far” rejected any
deal. He said troops are defending
wounded soldiers and about 1,000
civilians sheltered inside an industrial plant that has become a
final redoubt for Ukrainian resistance in the city.
The commander of the remaining Ukrainian forces, Maj. Serhiy
Volyna, said in voice messages to
The Post that his troops were
outnumbered and running out of
supplies. Amid fierce Russian
bombing, they are “dying underground,” he said.
Obiedkova isn’t the only Holocaust survivor to die during the
Russian invasion. Boris Romantschenko eluded death at Hitler’s hand, surviving forced labor
and detention in four Nazi concentration camps before being
killed last month when a Russian
missile struck his apartment
building in Kharkiv. He was 96.
Ukraine is home to about
10,000 Holocaust survivors, according to the Blue Card, an American nonprofit organization that
provides financial assistance to
survivors in the United States.
Obiedkova’s daughter, Larissa,
told Chabad.org that she had
watched her frail mother’s life ebb
away as they were holed up in the
basement of a local store, “like
animals” — with no running water, power or heating.
Larissa said she and her husband risked incessant Russian
shelling to bury Obiedkova in a
park near the Sea of Azov.
“Mama loved Mariupol; she
never wanted to leave,” she said.

As of April 23, 5 p.m. Eastern time

Mykolaiv
Odessa

At least eight people were
killed and 18 wounded in
multiple missile strikes in
the city of Odessa.

Mariupol
Kherson
Sea of
Azov
Crimea
Annexed by Russia
in 2014

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Russian forces thwarted a
planned civilian evacuation
effort from Mariupol on
Saturday, according to the
mayor of the battered port city.

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Tulips grow in front of a residential
building heavily damaged in the UkraineRussia conflict in the southern port city of
Mariupol, Ukraine, on Thursday.

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Stanley-Becker and David L. Stern
contributed to this report.

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shift from civilian life to
war zone battlefields
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mukachevo, ukraine — At the
end of January, The Washington
Post interviewed four members of
Ukraine’s 130th territorial defense battalion in Kyiv: regular
citizens who spent their weekends
preparing for a full-scale war with
Russia — a prospect many people
at the time found doubtful.
Fast forward three months:
Moscow has launched the largest
conflict in Europe since World
War II, large swaths of the country
lie in ruins and thousands have
been killed in the fighting.
And the battalion’s members
are now battle-tested veterans.
All four have returned to the
front, as Russia launches a major
offensive in eastern Ukraine. Earlier this month, The Post caught
up with three of them during a lull
in the fighting, and spoke to them
about their baptism by fire.
Oleksiy Bida, 48
Bida, a graphic designer originally from Luhansk, woke up at
five in the morning of Feb. 24 to
the sound of Russian rockets
striking Kyiv. His family knew
what to do.
While he stretched tape over
the windows to protect them from
blasts, his wife, Yulia, and Yulia’s
mother, Tanya, quickly gathered
their things to leave Kyiv with the
couple’s infant, Simon.
A friend arrived shortly to take
them by car to western Ukraine.
Bida wished them goodbye and
then headed to his battalion’s
prearranged gathering point in
Kyiv.
“Everything according to plan,”
he said.
That Russian forces launched a
multipronged attack surprised
him. He had believed Moscow
would first invade the eastern
part of the country. “I thought that
they would turn to Kyiv a little
later,” he said.
For two weeks, Bida’s part of
the battalion fought in the Kyiv

suburbs of Irpin and Bucha,
which saw some of the heaviest
action, and where evidence was
later discovered of horrific atrocities by Russian forces. The Russians’ shelling was constant and
indiscriminate, Bida said, and became around-the-clock in the
days before the Russian retreat
from the Kyiv region.
“To say that their shelling was
directed at our positions — no,”
Bida said. “They shot at the whole
city — randomly shot residential
houses and industrial zones. Cars
and buildings were on fire all
around us.”
The many weekends of training
helped prepare him “and then
some,” he said. And he learned
new skills — like moving positions
under fire. “You understand the
range of the shelling, and if it’s not
in our direction, you can move
from wall to wall,” he said.
Bida thinks that the Russians’
supplies “aren’t limitless,” which
will decide the war in the Ukrainians’ favor, and “gradually” they’ll
regain control over Crimea, which
Moscow annexed in 2014.
“I plan to go there for my next
birthday, as I’ve always done,” he
said.
Yaroslav Mudryk, 43
Mudryk, a Kyiv-based account
manager for the New York-based
company International Flavors
and Fragrances, was “morally prepared” for the war. “I expected it,”
he said.
As he heard the first explosions,
he remembers asking himself,
“Are you ready?” and answering:
“Yes, I’m ready.”
“Then go and do what you’re
supposed to do,” he said to himself.
When he arrived at the battalion gathering point, he was overwhelmed by the “lines of people
waiting to sign up” to fight.
Mudryk said that the battalion
normally consisted of around 540
fighters. But the new volunteers
increased their numbers “by

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Reservist Oleksiy Bida discusses plans with his colleagues in Kyiv on Jan. 22. For two weeks, Bida’s part of the battalion fought in the Kyiv
suburbs of Irpin and Bucha, which saw some of the heaviest action, and where evidence was discovered of atrocities by Russian forces.

many times,” he said, without giving any definite figures. Some of
the recruits didn’t know how to
use a gun.
“They weren’t prepared to
fight,” Mudryk said. “They hadn’t
been taught anything, and we had
to teach a lot of them from the very
beginning, because their skills are
their survival.”
Mudryk said that among his
group of fighters there have been
losses, but he can’t speak for the
entire battalion. In one battle with
a Russian tank, the commander of
Mudryk’s platoon was killed, and
four fighters wounded.
“Out of seven of us, two were in
one piece in the end,” he said.
Later, he suffered shrapnel
wounds from mortar fire. “I felt a
blow to my face — I was bleeding
heavily, we stopped it and I continued to work further,” he said. “I
found out about the fragments

later when they did a CT scan on
my face in Kyiv.”
Mudryk hopes to visit the United States when the war ends. “I
have friends there and I’d like to
go to Miami, San Francisco or Los
Angeles.” But first, he said,
Ukraine must defeat Russia completely.
“If we let the Russians go now,
sooner or later they’ll want to
return — they always do that,” he
said. “They must simply be destroyed to the last fighter — until
our complete victory. There’s no
other way.”
Maryana Zhaglo, 52
Zhaglo, a market researcher,
said her training prepared her
well for the battles she faced, but
in the beginning, the frequent
explosions threw her off. “That
was unexpected,” she said. “Of
course, it plays very hard on your

psyche. But with time it becomes a
usual thing.”
Before the war, she said, Western journalists visiting the battalion would ask her what she would
do under Russian occupation. But
for her, this scenario was out “of
the question” and it was “no surprise” that Ukrainian forces drove
the Russians back.
What surprised her instead was
the response of Ukrainian society,
which she had believed would be
“apathetic” and would prefer “to
stay on the sidelines” if an invasion happened. “I had a very skeptical attitude toward my compatriots,” she said.
Today, she admits her mistake.
She says that she encounters the
same attitude among all Ukrainians on a daily basis: “This is our
homeland, this is our land, our
family, our children, our parents.”
“I’m not fighting for money or

that someday there will be some
kind of reward,” she said. “And
this is exactly what any person
who has a family, who has a house,
who has something to lose will
do.”
Her three children were in a
“safe spot” away from Kyiv, while
she and her husband, who is also
fighting, remained. “Both of us
have our assignments,” she said.
“There were hot moments in
the beginning of the invasion —
Russian [forces] managed to enter Kyiv,” she said. “Now, thank
God, the situation is quiet. But we
are reacting to everything.”
She thinks that there will be
many more battles to come. “This
is the quiet before the storm,” she
says. “There will be withdrawals,
and more hot days, and there
won’t be a quick end of the war.”
“But in the end, we’ll win anyway,” she said.

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Chinese poetry contest becomes outlet for dissent
Some university students submit entries expressing ire over coronavirus restrictions, social issues and the war in Ukraine

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L ILY K UO

n ode to a youth lost to
coronavirus restrictions;
an elegy for a whistleblower doctor; an indictment of society for the fate of a
trafficked woman — these are
just some of the themes of poems
written by Chinese university
students that have been deemed
too subversive for public consumption.
A student poetry competition
in China has become an unexpected outlet for public frustration over social issues that have
roiled the country in the past few
months.
Poems submitted to the International Competition in Short
Chinese Poems for University
Students, held for the fifth year
by Shanghai’s Jiaotong University, explore topics including the
severe lockdown measures being
imposed across the country, gender, environmental issues, poverty, freedom of speech and the war
in Ukraine.
Over the past week, the more
socially conscious entries — a
small minority of the overwhelmingly nonpolitical offerings — have caught the attention
of Internet users. At a time when
the space for debate in China has
shrunk as authorities ramp up
efforts to curtail criticism of
government policies, the student
writers have been hailed for their
boldness.
“It’s indeed surprising,” said
Chris Song, an assistant professor focusing on English and
Chinese translation at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
“I’m surprised they came out in
such a tightening environment
where many poems depicting the
dark sides of society, or defying
the authorities’ general ideology,
have been censored.”
One poem titled “Her Teeth”
refers to a mother of eight children found chained to an outdoor shed in Xuzhou in rural
Jiangsu province, a case that
caused a rare wave of public
outrage and online activism. The
poet writes that the women’s
teeth, which were reportedly
missing, are “the most fragile in
the world,” yet they “remain on
the iron chain/biting this nation’s heart.”
Another, titled “Unnecessary
Leave from School,” received
more than 1.6 million views on
the microblog Weibo even as
versions of it were being wiped
from the platform. In the poem,
the author, a student at the
Central Academy for Fine Arts,
questions the lockdown measures restricting students to
their dorms except for “necessary” activities such as “internships … or prep classes for
IELTS,” the English-language
proficiency exam.
“What about carrying a bag of
chestnuts home/ Being showered by falling leaves/ Sitting
sleepily in a school shuttle for
two hours to hold hands with
your partner?” the author wrote.
“The pandemic has made everything into necessities. … Alas, the
world of humans is full of unnecessary things.”
A poem titled “A Record of
History” opens with the death of

Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan
who was punished for trying to
alert others about the dangers of
the coronavirus. His death became a rallying point for freedom of speech and transparency.
The poem then depicts the death
of a nurse, probably a reference
to a nurse in Shanghai who died
of an asthma attack after her
hospital refused to treat her
because of lockdown measures.

ABOVE: Two poems from a
competition in which a small
minority of the student entrants
wrote about their discontent.
BELOW: A woman wearing a
face mask walks past a mural in
Beijing on Friday. China’s
handling of the coronavirus
pandemic was criticized in
some of the poems entered in
the competition.

The poems, published amid a
coronavirus outbreak, have
struck a chord among residents
stuck at home under strict lockdowns in more than 30 provinces
and regions of the country. Under confusing and often contradictory covid controls, many
residents have been left without
enough food or unable to seek
medical help.
“This corny old uncle sobbed

reading these poems. The children are too good. No puns, no
abbreviations, no fear,” wrote
one writer with more than 1.7
million followers on the platform, who publishes under the
pen name Zhuang Wuxie.
“These past few years we have
said and heard this term ‘unnecessary’ too many times,” one fan
wrote, referring to official instructions not to travel or leave

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home unnecessarily. “We never
thought about how we are missing more than just another
spring.”
The student verses are one
example of dissent that has become increasingly visible as public patience with the government’s strict zero-covid policy
wanes. On Friday, Internet users
overwhelmed official efforts to
censor a six-minute video titled
“Voices from April” that featured
audio recordings of residents in
Shanghai begging for food or
help for their sick relatives.
This past week, Shanghai police shut down 30 online groups
and investigated or punished
more than a 20 individuals for
spreading “covid related rumors.” Photos posted online
showed an LED sign in Beijing
warning residents not to “express opinions online” about the
government’s covid policy.
As of Friday, Jiaotong University had taken down the poems
and turned off comments for
most users. The university said
the competition was in the next
stage of judging, with the winners to be announced in June.
Earlier in the week, “Her Teeth,”
“Unnecessary
Leave
from
School” and “History of Record”
appeared to have been censored
on Weibo. Internet users posted
screenshots of the censored poems, including photos of handwritten versions of them.
In comments under Jiaotong
University’s original post, Internet users asked why some of the
poems had disappeared. “Thank
you everyone for your support
and attention,” the university
wrote in a post Thursday. “Poetry
soothes people’s hearts and gives
them peace. We believe that in
the company of poetry, we will all
go further.”
Other poems that explored
sensitive themes appeared to
have evaded censors. An entry
titled “Buried with the Dead”
explored the exploitation of
women to produce children —
another reference to the Xuzhou
mother’s case as well as to broader government efforts to promote having more children.
The poem “Linguists” describes a world of doublespeak
where residents’ vocabularies
are limited and when they speak
it is as though they are fish
silently “blowing bubbles.” A
poem titled “Kyiv” appears to
speak from the stance of Ukrainians and criticizes spectators of
the war.
As subversive as the poems
seem, the idea of confronting the
government probably was far
from the minds of the writers,
Song says. One student writer
whose poems had been shortlisted spoke with The Washington
Post and then retracted his comments after speaking to other
members of his poetry club,
concerned about appearing in
the foreign media. The author of
the poem “Unnecessary Leave
from School” also declined to be
interviewed.
“They found in poetry a powerful channel of emotional outlet
in very difficult days,” Song said.
Pei-Lin Wu and Vic Chiang in Taipei
contributed to this report.

DI GEST
ISRAEL

PAKISTAN

Border crossings
to Gaza are closed

Afghan militants shell,
kill Pakistani soldiers

Israel is closing its border
crossing to thousands of Gaza
workers after a series of rockets
were fired from the territory
ruled by the militant Hamas
group in recent days. The
Palestinians denounced the
move, announced Saturday, as
“collective punishment” of the
impoverished territory’s 2
million residents.
Israel said Palestinian
militants fired two rockets late
Friday, with one landing in an
open area inside Israel and the
other falling inside Gaza.
Another was fired from Gaza
early Saturday, but the military
did not say where it landed.
The rocket fire came amid
near-daily clashes between
police and protesters over the
past week at al-Aqsa Mosque, a
flash-point Jerusalem holy site.
The violence and a string of
deadly attacks inside Israel and
raids across the occupied West
Bank have raised fears of
another war between Israel and
Hamas.

Militants in Afghanistan fired
heavy weapons overnight across
the border into a Pakistani
military outpost in the North
Waziristan region, killing three
personnel, the army said
Saturday. A firefight ensued and
several militants were killed, the
statement said.
The exchange comes as
Afghanistan is reeling from
explosions in recent days,
including the bombing of a
mosque in northern Kunduz
province on Friday that killed 33
people, including several
students of an adjacent religious
school, or madrassa. An attack
Thursday on the Abdul Rahim
Shaheed school in Kabul killed
seven children.

— Associated Press

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A torchlight demonstration marks the 107th anniversary of the
beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Armenians during
World War I, in Yerevan, Armenia, on Saturday. Historians estimate
that 1.5 million Armenians died in the mass killings, which President
Biden recognized as a genocide last year. Turkey maintains that it was
not a genocide and that the death toll was far lower.

— Associated Press

More than 50 killed in refinery
fire in Nigeria: More than 50

people were killed and many
wounded in southeast Nigeria in
an explosion that rocked an
illegal oil refinery, officials said
Saturday. The fire spread to
nearby properties, and the death

toll may grow. The fire broke out
Friday night and quickly spread
to two fuel storage areas at the
illegal crude oil refinery, causing
the complex to be “engulfed by
fire which spread rapidly” within
the area, said Declan Emelumba,
Imo state commissioner for

information. The immediate
cause of the explosion is being
investigated.
At least 6 killed in bombing at
Mogadishu restaurant: A bomb

blast by Somalia’s Islamic
extremist rebels hit a popular

seaside restaurant in Mogadishu,
killing at least six people,
ambulance service officials said.
The explosion was detonated by
a suicide bomber who had been
denied access to the restaurant,
where the Somali police
commissioner and several
lawmakers were dining, said
Maj. Abdifatah Aden Hassan, a
Somali police spokesman. The
explosion occurred Friday
evening when many patrons
gathered for an iftar meal to
break the Ramadan fast. The
restaurant is frequented by
government officials. Somalia’s
al-Shabab Islamic extremist
group has claimed responsibility
for the explosion.
4 of 26 people recovered from
missing tour boat in Japan: A

tour boat with 26 people aboard
was missing in the frigid waters
of northern Japan after sending
a distress call that it was sinking,
the coast guard said. Four of the
26 people were found by rescue
helicopters Sunday, officials said.
The coast guard said it could not
confirm whether they were
rescued alive, but NHK public
television said they were
unconscious. The coast guard
said it will continue the search.

The 19-ton Kazu 1 made an
emergency call early Saturday
afternoon, saying the ship’s bow
had flooded and it was beginning
to sink off the western coast of
Shiretoko Peninsula on the
northern island of Hokkaido, the
coast guard said.
8 die in tribal violence in
Sudan’s Darfur region: Tribal

violence between Arabs and nonArabs in Sudan’s war-ravaged
Darfur region killed at least eight
people, including a woman and a
child, an aid worker and activists
said Saturday. The clashes
erupted Thursday with the
killing of two people by an
unknown assailant around the
Kreinik area of West Darfur
province, said Adam Regal, the
spokesman for the General
Coordination for Refugees and
Displaced in Darfur charity. The
following day, militias known as
janjaweed attacked a camp for
displaced people just to the
south of Kreinik, burning down
dozens of houses and forcing
large numbers of people to flee.
The violence, which lasted until
late Friday, also wounded 16
others, including three in critical
condition, he said.

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Belarusian saboteurs.
“They are brave and honest
people who have helped us,” he
said.
The attacks were simple but
effective, targeting the signal
control cabinets essential to the
functioning of the railways,
members of the activist network
said. For days on end, the movement of trains was paralyzed,
forcing the Russians to attempt
to resupply their troops by road
and contributing to the snarl-up
that stalled the infamous 40mile military convoy north of
Kyiv.
How much of the chaos can be
attributed to the sabotage and
how much to poor logistical
planning by the Russians is hard
to tell, especially as there is no
independent media reporting
from Belarus, said Emily Ferris, a
research fellow at the Londonbased Royal United Services Institute. But without automated
signaling, trains were forced to
slow to a crawl and the number
of them traveling on the tracks at
any one time would have been
severely restricted, she said.
“Given the Russian reliance on
trains, I’m sure it contributed to
some of the problems they had in
the north. It would have slowed
down their ability to move,” she
said. “They couldn’t push further
into Ukrainian territory and
snarled their supply lines because they had to rely on trucks.”
The attacks also bought time
for Ukrainian troops to formulate an effective response to the
Russian invasion, said Yury
Ravavoi, a Belarusian activist
and trade unionist who escaped
to Poland under threat of arrest
during the anti-government protests that rocked Belarus in 2020.
“I can’t say we were the most
important factor, but we were an
important brick in the wall,” he
said.
The saboteurs drew inspiration from an earlier episode in
Belarusian history, during World
War II, when Belarusians opposed to the Nazi occupation
blew up railway lines and train
stations to disrupt German supply lines. The Rail War, as it is
known, is venerated as a moment
of triumph for Belarus, taught in
schools as the most successful of
the tactics deployed by resistance fighters that eased the way
for Soviet troops to drive the
Germans out.
Eight decades later, it is Russia’s presence in Belarus that has
stirred dissent. The deployment
of tens of thousands of Russian
troops in Belarus in preparation
for the invasion of Ukraine trig-

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wreaks havoc on Russian supply lines

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TOP: A photo taken from video shows Russian military vehicles on a railway platform in Russia on their way to attend joint military drills
in Belarus on Jan. 24. Russian troops were intending to rely on the region’s extensive rail network for supplies and reinforcements for
their assault on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. ABOVE: In Senkivka in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, a barbed wire fence sits along a crossing
where Ukraine borders Russia and Belarus. The border crossing is slightly more than 100 miles from Kyiv.

gered widespread domestic opposition and rekindled opposition networks formed during the
2020 protests against Belarusian
President Alexander Lukashenko, said Hanna Liubakova, a
Belarusian journalist living in
exile in Lithuania.
This second rail war has taken
a more benign form than its
predecessor. The partisans were
keen not to inflict casualties,
Ravavoi said. So they focused
their attacks on damaging equipment to stop the railways from
functioning.
“We didn’t want to kill any
Russian army or Belarusian train
drivers. We used a peaceful way
to stop them,” he said.
He and other Belarusians involved in organizing the attacks

decline to reveal precise details
of how the attacks were carried
out and by whom, citing the need
for secrecy and concerns for the
safety of the railway partisans, as
the saboteurs are loosely known.
Three main groups have been
involved, representing railway
workers, security force defectors
and cyber specialists, said Lt. Col
Alexander Azarov, a former security official living in Warsaw who
heads the security force group
called Bypol.
Railway employees sympathetic to the partisans have
leaked details of Russian movements and the locations of key
railway infrastructure to a group
called the Community of Railway
Workers, which shares them on
Telegram channels.

Supporters on the ground link
up to carry out the attacks, but
there is no formal chain of
command, Azarov said.
“Our movement is not centralized,” he said. “It’s not like there’s
a leader of the resistance. It’s
horizontal, with dozens of
groups working on the ground.”
The third group, the Cyber
Partisans, is formed of exiled
Belarusian IT professionals who
have carried out several cyberattacks on the Belarusian government since joining in 2020.
The Cyber Partisans launched
the first attack, hacking into the
railway’s computer network in
the days leading up to the invasion and snarling rail traffic
before Russian troops had even
crossed the border. Yuliana Sh-

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the group, which is based in New
York, said infiltrating the railway
network’s computers was relatively easy because the railway
company is still using Windows
XP, an outdated version of the
software that contains many vulnerabilities.
Starting on Feb. 26, two days
after the invasion began, a succession of five sabotage attacks
against
signaling
cabinets
brought train traffic to an almost
complete halt, said Sergey Voitekhovich, a former railway employee now based in Poland who
is a leader in the Community of
Railway Workers.
By Feb. 28, satellite photographs began to appear of the
40-mile convoy of Russian trucks

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and tanks ostensibly headed
from Belarus toward Kyiv. Within a week, the convoy had completely stalled as vehicles ran out
of fuel or broke down.
The Belarusian authorities
have since launched an intense
effort to prevent attacks and
hunt down the saboteurs. The
Interior Ministry has decreed
that damaging railway infrastructure is an act of terrorism, a
crime that carries a 20-year prison term.
Dozens of railway workers
have been randomly detained
and their phones searched for
evidence that they were in touch
with the partisans, the activists
say. At least 11 Belarusians are in
custody, accused of participating
in the attacks, according to human rights groups.
In early April, security police
captured three alleged saboteurs
near the town of Bobruisk and
shot them in the knees. State
television broadcast footage of
the bleeding men, their knees
bandaged, and claimed they had
been shot while resisting arrest.
The shootings have had a
chilling effect on the saboteur
network, Azarov said. Belarusian
troops are patrolling, and drones
have been deployed to monitor
the railway lines.
“It has become too dangerous
to do attacks,” he said.
But by the time of the police
shooting, Russia’s withdrawal
from the area around Kyiv was in
full swing and the Kremlin had
announced it would refocus its
military effort on capturing the
east of Ukraine. The majority of
the Russian troops that entered
Ukraine from Belarus are now in
the process of being redeployed
to the east, the Pentagon says.
“We believe the fact that the
Russians gave up on taking Kyiv
is a result of our work because
the Russians didn’t feel as safe in
Belarus as they had expected,”
said Franak Viacorka, spokesman for Belarusian opposition
leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
“Thousands of Russian troops
didn’t receive food, they didn’t
receive fuel, and they didn’t
receive equipment on time.”
Now, a new phase in the rail
war may be underway. In recent
days the railway activists have
posted on Telegram photographs
of damage to signaling cabinets
along Russian railway lines being used to transport troops into
eastern Ukraine. The attacks
can’t be independently confirmed,
but
Voitekhovich
claimed members of his railway
network are involved.
“There are open borders between Belarus and Russia,” he
said.

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historian Donald Ritchie said in
an interview. “No one questioned
his ideology, so he could deal.
People on his side of the aisle
trusted him, and people on the
other side respected him.”
His most productive collaboration was with Massachusetts
Democrat Edward M. Kennedy,
his political polar opposite. “One
of the reasons I ran for the Senate
was to fight Ted Kennedy, who
embodied everything I felt was
wrong with Washington,” Mr.
Hatch wrote in a Newsweek commentary shortly after Kennedy’s
death in 2009.
Kennedy was an established
Senate force when the Utah firebrand crashed onto the national
scene, itching to balance the
budget, overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, bury the
Equal Rights Amendment and
otherwise steer the ship of state
rightward. He was “an aggressive,
ambitious man who, as much as
anything, resembles a minister
making his rounds,” a reporter for
the New York Times wrote of Mr.
Hatch in his first term.
In only his second year in the
Senate, Mr. Hatch joined another
GOP freshman, Richard Lugar of
Indiana, in filibustering a major
Democratic-backed labor bill that
would have eased barriers to
union organizing and, according
to Mr. Hatch, led the country
“straight to socialism.” After six
unsuccessful cloture votes to
break the filibuster, Majority
Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.)
surrendered.
Mr. Hatch, a strait-laced former Mormon bishop who grew
up in a working-class Pittsburgh
family, could scarcely have been
more different from Kennedy, a
fun-loving scion of East Coast
political royalty. To the surprise of
both, they found common ground
in their efforts to improve health
care and social services.
Their best-known collaboration was the 1997 legislation creating the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provided
states with matching grants to
cover uninsured children in
working-poor families. The program, the largest expansion of
taxpayer-funded health insurance for children since the creation of Medicaid in 1965, was
instrumental in cutting the percentage of uninsured children by
more than half.
The two senators also collaborated on the 1990 Ryan White act,
which funded care for uninsured
and underinsured patients with
HIV/AIDS. And Mr. Hatch
worked closely with Kennedy and
Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, the
chief sponsor, to pass the landmark 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act prohibiting discrimination against — and requiring
accommodations for — people
with disabilities.
One factor in Mr. Hatch’s transition from ideologue to pragmatist was the 1980 election, which
shifted Senate control to the GOP
and gave him the chairmanship
of the Labor and Human Resources Committee — and with it
responsibility for health-related
legislation. He partnered with
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.),
chairman of the House health
subcommittee, to accelerate the
approval process for lower-cost
generic drugs. The 1984 law,
known as the Hatch-Waxman Act,
is credited with significantly increasing consumers’ access to generics.
But while Mr. Hatch worked
with Democrats on some issues,
he battled them fiercely on many
others. The Almanac of American
Politics called him “consistent in
his inconsistency.”
He strongly supported the Reagan administration’s muscular
military and foreign policies. He
opposed efforts to expand civil
rights laws, supported restricting
abortion rights, and worked —
with some exceptions — to rein in
the cost and reach of government.
During the Obama White
House years, he was an untiring
foe of the Affordable Care Act,
and he capped his career shepherding
President
Donald
Trump’s 2017 tax cut through the
Senate, despite arguments that it
would balloon the national debt.
On 28 occasions by his count,
Mr. Hatch introduced a constitutional amendment requiring a
balanced budget. The high-water
mark was in 1995, when the
House passed the measure and
pro-amendment senators led by
Mr. Hatch came within one vote
of prevailing.
As a member of the Judiciary
Committee, which he led for eight
years as chairman, he played a
central role in confirmation battles over Supreme Court nominees from Robert Bork to Brett M.
Kavanaugh. In 1991, he was a
high-profile defender of Clarence
Thomas against sexual harassment charges by law professor

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TOP: Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) walks through a crowd of journalists in 2017. LEFT: Mr. Hatch speaks at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in 1995. The year
represented a high-water mark among the more than two dozen times he introduced a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget, with the House passing the
measure and pro-amendment senators led by Mr. Hatch coming within one vote of prevailing. RIGHT: Mr. Hatch, left, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), listen in 2017 as
Neil M. Gorsuch, then a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee, testifies during the second day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr.
Hatch led the committee for eight years as chairman and played a central role in confirmation battles over high court nominees from Robert Bork to Brett M. Kavanaugh.

Anita Hill. Attacking Hill’s credibility, Mr. Hatch held up a copy of
the horror novel “The Exorcist”
and suggested she cribbed one of
her most dramatic claims from
the book.
Mr. Hatch’s reputation for bipartisan dealmaking suffered in
the last years of his tenure as he
tacked right in the face of growing anti-Washington sentiment
among Utah Republicans.
In 2010, right-wing activists
dominated the state GOP convention and denied Mr. Hatch’s Republican colleague, Sen. Robert
Bennett, nomination for a fourth
term. Mr. Hatch, up for reelection
two years later, appeared vulnerable to the same forces. Like
Bennett, he had voted for a financial bailout package to stem the
2008 housing-market meltdown
— a mortal sin, as tea party
Republicans saw it.
Mr. Hatch went all-out to reestablish his conservative credentials. He was one of nine senators
to oppose a 2011 budget deal
struck to avoid a government
shutdown, claiming the measure
did not cut spending enough.
“I’m prepared to be the most
hated man in this Godforsaken
city in order to save this country,”
he told the Conservative Political
Action Conference in Washington.
Although the 2012 state convention forced him into a primary with a tea-party-allied candidate, he won by a landslide.
During that campaign, Mr.
Hatch told voters he would not
run again. But as 2018 approached, he toyed seriously with
seeking an eighth term. Trump,
who had no love for Mr. Hatch’s
ultimate replacement, former
GOP presidential nominee Mitt
Romney, pushed him to run.
But a 2016 poll of likely Utah
voters found that 71 percent
thought he should step aside. In a
blistering editorial, the Salt Lake
Tribune said that if Mr. Hatch
didn’t end his career, “the voters
should end it for him.” In January
2018, Mr. Hatch announced he

would not seek reelection, saying,
“Every good fighter knows when
to hang up the gloves,” a reference
to his youthful experience as an
amateur boxer.
In the 2016 GOP presidential
primary race, Trump was Mr.
Hatch’s third choice after former
Florida governor Jeb Bush and
Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.). But once
at Trump’s side, Mr. Hatch stayed
firmly affixed, despite his freetrade views that contrasted with
the president’s protectionist policies.
When court filings in late 2018
implicated Trump in an effort
during his campaign to buy the
silence of two women who
claimed they had sexual encounters with him years earlier, Mr.
Hatch dismissed the revelation as
unimportant. “Since he’s become
president, this economy has
charged ahead. We’re all better
off,” Mr. Hatch told CNN in remarks that Mr. Hatch later said
he regretted. “And I think we
ought to judge him on that basis
rather than trying to drum up
things from the past that may or
may not be true.”
Shortly before Mr. Hatch left
office, Trump awarded him the
Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the nation’s highest civilian commendation. The president had
earlier shrunk the size of Utah’s
Bears Ears and Grand StaircaseEscalante national monuments, a
move sought by Mr. Hatch and
other Utah officials and opposed
by environmental and American
Indian groups. “I’m approving
the Bears Ears recommendation
for you, Orrin,” Trump told him in
a 2017 phone call, Mr. Hatch
reported.
‘I’ve had to fight’
Orrin Grant Hatch was born
March 22, 1934, in Pittsburgh. His
parents had nine children, two of
whom died in infancy. Mr. Hatch’s
brother Jesse was killed in World
War II when his B-24 bomber
went down in enemy action over
Europe, a loss that the future

senator, 10 years old at the time,
said had a lifelong impact on him.
His father was a metal lather
and union member. The family, as
the future senator often recounted, had little money and lived in a
“ramshackle house” built by his
parents out of recycled lumber,
one side adorned by a large sign
for Meadow Gold Ice Cream.
As a boy, he was scrawny and
was pushed around by a schoolyard bully. As Mr. Hatch told the
story, he filled a duffel bag with
sand, hung it from a tree and
spent after-school hours learning
how to throw punches, later moving on to amateur bouts. “My life
has always been uphill,” he later
told the Chicago Tribune. “I’ve
had to fight for everything I have.”
Despite the family’s limited
resources, his mother insisted
that Mr. Hatch take piano lessons,
and she gave him season tickets
to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In his Senate years, he
was a prolific songwriter and
lyricist, frequently collaborating
with Janice Kapp Perry, a Utah
composer of inspirational music.
Many of his pieces had a religious
or patriotic message, but he also
wrote love songs.
Mr. Hatch’s output also included two books on his religious
beliefs and a 2002 autobiography,
“Square Peg: Confessions of a
Citizen Senator.”
After fulfilling a Mormon mission in the Midwest, Mr. Hatch
graduated in 1959 from Utah’s
Brigham Young University, the
first in his family to complete
college. Three years later, he received a law degree from the
University of Pittsburgh.
At BYU, he met Elaine Hansen,
a fellow student; they married in
1957 and had six children. Survivors include his wife, children,
and dozens of grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
Mr. Hatch was a lawyer in
Pittsburgh until 1969, when he
moved his family to Salt Lake
City. There, he continued to practice law.
Mr. Hatch, who started out as a

Democrat, became a Republican
in law school and grew convinced
in Utah that the nation was headed toward economic and moral
ruin. When he decided to challenge the state’s three-term Democratic U.S. senator, Frank Moss,
almost no one but Mr. Hatch
thought he had a chance.
He had lived in Utah only
seven years, had never sought
elective office and faced four better-known Republicans for the
party’s nomination. Aided by
Ronald Reagan’s endorsement,
he won and advanced to the
general election.
Moss was active on consumer
and health issues and was well
regarded in Washington. But Mr.
Hatch hammered him as out of
touch with the increasingly Republican state. “What do you call
a senator who’s served in office
for 18 years? You call him home,”
he said, a line that resurfaced in
public memory as his own tenure
stretched far beyond Moss’s. Mr.
Hatch won with 54 percent of the
vote and, except for his 2012
scare, cruised to reelection afterward.
His one electoral defeat came
in 2000, when he ran for the
Republican presidential nomination. “I believe in miracles, and it
will take one to elect me,” Mr.
Hatch quipped of his poorly funded campaign. In Iowa, he drew 1
percent of the vote in the state’s
GOP caucuses. He immediately
withdrew and supported frontrunner and future president
George W. Bush.
Undiminished passion
Republican Strom Thurmond
of South Carolina was a senator
for more than 47 years when he
retired at age 100 in 2003. But he
served the first nine as a Democrat, allowing Mr. Hatch’s 42
years to rank as the longest Republican tenure. (Byrd holds the
all-time Senate longevity record:
51 years, 5 months.)
Mr. Hatch confessed to making
mistakes over his long career,
among them his vote against

creating a national holiday to
honor the slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Another mistake, an innocent one in
his telling, was a 1990 floor
speech that he made defending
the Justice Department’s controversial settlement with the Bank
of Credit and Commerce International on money laundering
charges.
The speech was largely written
by Robert Altman, a BCCI lawyer
and official who was later indicted but ultimately acquitted of
fraud charges stemming from the
scandal. The speech and subsequent disclosure of Mr. Hatch’s
ties to BCCI personnel generated
unfavorable media attention —
much of it unfair, Mr. Hatch
contended — and sent him into
what he called “ethical purgatory.” In 1993, the Senate Ethics
Committee cleared him of misconduct.
By the end of his Senate tenure,
Mr. Hatch’s once-brown hair was
gleaming white, but his fondness
for dark suits, starched-collar
shirts and colorful ties remained
intact. And while generally softspoken, he also remained fully
capable of holding his own.
During Finance Committee deliberations on the Trump tax bill,
Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown
insisted the legislation was designed to help the rich. Slamming
down the gavel, his voice rising,
Mr. Hatch angrily dismissed the
charge, adding, “I come from the
lower middle class originally. We
didn’t have anything. So don’t
spew that stuff on me. I get a little
tired of that crap.”
Thirteen months later, when
he delivered his farewell speech
on the Senate floor, it was Mr.
Hatch’s softer side that spoke.
Invoking his relationship with
Kennedy, he called for a return to
collegiality, good will and acceptance. “Pluralism,” he said, “is the
adhesive that holds together the
great American mosaic. It is the
idea that we can actually be
united by our differences, not in
spite of them.”

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AUSTIN FROM A1

the Ukraine war, both to warn
Russia and to prepare NATO for
what was to come, officials said.
Austin’s blunt, forceful manner
with Shoigu, and his near daily
engagement with allied defense
officials, stands in sharp contrast
to his public image in Washington
as a taciturn, sometimes silent
partner on President Biden’s national security team who serves in
the shadow of Secretary of State
Antony Blinken, national security
adviser Jake Sullivan and CIA Director William J. Burns.
Austin appears content with a
backstage role.
“He wants to succeed in this
job,” said retired Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff who stays in touch
with the Pentagon chief. “But he’s
not really concerned about focusing on his legacy. It will be whatever his legacy will be, so he’s not
going to burnish that up front, or
try to.”
This portrait of the defense secretary is based on interviews with
15 current and former government officials, some of whom have
known Austin for years. Some
spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss sensitive
issues. Austin, through a spokesman, declined to be interviewed.
Austin has faced criticism that
he didn’t argue forcefully enough
to get large quantities of arms to
Kyiv until Russia was already
crossing the border — and that his
guarded approach to public advocacy could have been a factor in
Washington’s reluctance to flood
Ukraine with arms before the invasion.
The response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has been
“necessary but not sufficient,” said
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), an
Army veteran on the House
Armed Services Committee, in an
interview. “What we’re doing is
certainly better than nothing —
but it’s often been too little, too
late.”
The Ukrainians, Waltz said,
would have been better off if the
United States had sent more
weaponry before Russia’s invasion, rather than rapidly expanding deliveries afterward.
“Where Austin stood in that,”
Waltz added, “I don’t know.”
The surprising choice
Austin seemed an unlikely pick
for the top civilian position at the
Pentagon — and not only because
he was a retired four-star general
assuming a role that many in Congress didn’t want to go to someone
who had just been in uniform.
Retired generals were supposed to spend seven years as a
civilian before they could be considered for defense secretary. Lawmakers had legislated an exception for retired Marine Gen. Jim
Mattis, President Donald Trump’s
choice, and prominent Democrats
didn’t want to repeat the exercise.
Austin, the former head of U.S.
Central Command who oversaw
military operations in the Middle
East, had another apparent deficit: a discomfort with the publicfacing parts of the job, including
appearing before Congress and
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President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, during a White House meeting Wednesday.
Austin, like Biden, is Catholic, and he attended Mass with Biden’s son Beau when the two were
stationed in Iraq. Biden found in Austin someone who could be trusted to provide counsel without
upstaging his boss, officials said.

Austin, however, had personal
and professional connections
with Biden. The general — a devout Catholic — had attended
Mass with Biden’s son Beau when
the two were stationed in Iraq.
Biden, a former chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wanted to pivot the country to
a diplomacy-first model and did
not want a swashbuckling secretary at the Pentagon. Austin, 68,
could be trusted to provide counsel without upstaging his boss,
officials said.
In the E-Ring of the Pentagon,
Austin’s office projects a sense of
humility and history. Few personal photographs or effects are present, despite a 40-year military
career that includes a Silver Star
for valor earned during the 2003
U.S. assault on Baghdad. There
are, however, framed homages to
military pioneers, including Henry Flipper, a personal hero of Austin’s. Another Black son of southern Georgia, Flipper became the
first formerly enslaved person to
graduate from the defense secretary’s alma mater, the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, N.Y., just a
dozen years after the Civil War’s
conclusion.
“I’m honored to be the first African American secretary of defense, the 28th secretary of defense but I really don’t want to be
the last African American secretary of defense,” Austin said at a
Black History Month event in February.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed
(D-R.I.) said that while Austin
“wasn’t someone who just walked
in off the street,” he faced the same
“dramatic” learning curve that all
new Pentagon chiefs do.
“It’s one thing to have been in
the military for more than 30
years; it’s something else to be the
secretary of defense,” Reed said.
“You have to answer more directly
to the president, you have to answer to the Congress, you are constitutionally the civilian in
charge.”

The biggest misconception
about Austin is that because he is
not “flashy or bombastic in public,” he is not a dynamic player in
the administration, said Sullivan,
the national security adviser. Austin offers Biden his unvarnished
advice, Sullivan said, and does not
muzzle his disagreements during
weekly meetings with Sullivan
and Blinken, a longtime Biden
confidant, to hash out issues.
“It’s not just like everyone is
agreeing with one another,” Sullivan said — though he declined to
cite any specific examples of Austin swaying administration policy.
“It’s an active process of going
back and forth and coming up
with a solution that we can all buy
into.”

pull all U.S. troops within a matter
of months, promising an “orderly
withdrawal” even as an ascendant
Taliban battered Afghan forces.
The subsequent crisis consumed virtually every waking
hour for Austin and his team.
Armed Taliban fighters seized Kabul on Aug. 15, prompting the
United States and allies to launch
a chaotic and deadly evacuation
from a single runway, as thousands of desperate Afghan civilians attempted to make their way
past Taliban checkpoints into the
airport.
Some veterans of the war called
for Austin and Army Gen. Mark A.
Milley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, to resign. U.S. commanders later vented to military

“This was a moment worth pushing back as hard
as possible, to the point of doing what Secretary
[Jim] Mattis did during the Syria context and
offering to resign if the plan was executed. If
[Austin] was pushing back, clearly he was not
successful in convincing the president.”
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), describing the U.S. military’s withdrawal from
Afghanistan

Two crises
Within weeks of taking office,
Biden set out to follow through on
a campaign promise: ending the
U.S. war in Afghanistan after 20
years. The administration deliberated on the issue for months, with
senior Pentagon officials — including Austin — advising Biden
that it would be wise to leave
behind a force of a few thousand
troops.
With Biden adamant on the issue, Austin held his tongue in public, frustrating U.S. military officials who wanted him to speak up
more on behalf of the position of
military leaders. Biden announced last April that he would

investigators that it appeared to
them that Washington did not
have a grasp of what was happening in Kabul.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a
Marine Corps veteran who sits on
the House Armed Services Committee, said that it was apparent to
him that both Austin and Milley
were “trying to do the right thing”
during the Afghan withdrawal,
like starting the evacuation of Afghans who supported the war effort earlier in the face of broader
administration resistance.
“But at the end of the day, he is
the secretary of defense — and it’s
his responsibility to ensure an operation’s success,” Moulton said.

Republicans are harsher in
their critiques.
“This was a moment worth
pushing back as hard as possible,
to the point of doing what Secretary Mattis did during the Syria
context and offering to resign if
the plan was executed,” said Rep.
Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), a Marine
Corps veteran who sits on the
same panel. “If he was pushing
back, clearly he was not successful
in convincing the president.”
Officials said that the crisis in
Afghanistan prompted Austin
and his team to adopt a crisismanagement mind-set during the
summer of 2021, typically meeting
both morning and evening on the
third floor of the Pentagon to manage the exit. Weeks later, Austin
brought the meetings back as the
possibility of a Russian invasion of
Ukraine emerged.
It immediately helped improve
coordination, said Colin Kahl, the
undersecretary of defense for policy.
“Those 17 or 18 days in August
were among the most intense that
I think any U.S. policymakers focused on national security have
engaged in in a long time,” Kahl
said. “But it generated various
habits, procedures, rhythms, that
have actually carried over into the
Ukraine crisis in a way that, had
we had to invent those processes
out of whole cloth at the beginning
of Ukraine, I think would have
been slower.”
In addition to his regular meetings, Austin began spending early
weekend mornings in the basement of the Pentagon, typically
joined by his senior military assistant, Army Lt. Gen. Randy George,
as he quizzed intelligence analysts
about the situation in Ukraine. In
October, Austin punctuated that
work by making the first trip by a
Biden administration Cabinet official to Ukraine, where he met
with President Volodymyr Zelensky and declared that U.S. support for Ukrainian sovereignty
was “unwavering.”
On Sunday, Austin will again
visit Ukraine, this time along with
Blinken, Zelensky announced, the
highest-ranking U.S. delegation to
enter the country since the war
began.
The trip last fall also included
stops in Georgia and Romania,
and a visit to NATO headquarters
in Brussels. Putin took notice, responding with a warning that
Ukraine’s military development —
a key component of its bid to join
NATO — “really poses a threat to
Russia.”
He set to work, “providing the
facts, the numbers, the intelligence indicating so plainly that
Russia was preparing a full-scale
invasion of an independent sovereign nation in Europe,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
said in an interview.
Stoltenberg said that Austin’s
“wealth of experience” and his
knowledge of what was needed
“makes others listen to him when
he speaks.” Another NATO official
said that he speaks with gravitas
punctuated with a “James Earl
Jones” voice.
“He doesn’t lecture the allies,”
the NATO official said, “but he
knows how to put his thumb on
the scale to get results.”

A deal emerges
A month ago, Austin found
himself in Slovakia trying to broker a deal to get the Ukrainians a
familiar Soviet arms system — the
S-300 surface-to-air missile. The
Slovaks wanted a similar system
in return, or assurances that the
protection of one would be provided.
The Pentagon had anticipated
that Slovakia would want to keep
their pending agreement quiet,
said Celeste Wallander, the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. But Jaroslav Nad, the Slovak defense minister, surprised them by disclosing
the possible deal at a news conference on March 17 while standing
alongside Austin. Slovakia, Nad
said, was ready to turn over its
S-300 “immediately” as long as its
terms could be met.
Austin pressed U.S. military officials in Europe for days afterward to explain why site surveys
required to send the U.S. Patriot
missile system to Slovakia had not
been completed, defense officials
said.
“Why don’t we have an answer?” he asked during a video
conference April 1. When military
officials said that it would take
another two or three days to complete, Austin was not satisfied.
“We need to have it tomorrow,”
he said flatly.
The following Monday, the
United States informed Slovakia
that it would be getting a fully
manned Patriot battery deployed
as soon as it wanted it. The Slovaks
announced the S-300 was on its
way into Ukraine, and Austin
monitored its delivery, defense officials said.
“He’s not a leader who leads by
fear; he’s a leader who leads by
inspiration and motivation and
just the quiet confidence he has in
his team,” Wallander said. “He really brings the team along, and I’ve
seen him be effective in that instance of Slovakia and other places.”
Sullivan said the Pentagon chief
has pushed other ministers of defense “outside their comfort
zones” to seal weapons transfers
that have had “enormous” impact
in Ukraine. Austin keeps a colorcode chart tracking weapons shipments into the war zone, and
keeps the president up to date
with it, Sullivan added.
Gallagher, the House Republican, is unimpressed. While it’s a
“welcome development” that
NATO allies now appear eager to
spend more on their own defense
and provide weapons to Ukraine,
it took “a country being invaded
and pillaged in order to galvanize
the West into action” under Austin’s defense strategy, Gallagher
said.
Kahl, a senior adviser to Austin,
rejects the criticism. For months,
he said, it has been “all hands on
deck, 24/7,” at the Pentagon on
Ukraine.
“It’s easy for folks who are not in
the system to say ‘Why aren’t you
doing more? Why aren’t you going
faster?’” Kahl said. “But I don’t
know anybody who resides in the
system who is making that argument. … We are literally defying
the law of bureaucratic physics by
how fast we are going.”

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for fellow defectors
with ‘time machine’
Network seeks to
cushion shock of
adjusting to new life
BY

M ICHELLE Y E H EE L EE

seoul — There’s a saying in

South Korea that “you only see
what you know,” which has particular resonance for defectors from
North Korea who have moved
from one of the most isolated
countries on Earth to one of the
most connected and feel like they
“know” very little.
In a country where everything
is online and usually accessed via
a smartphone — both of which are
inaccessible in much of the North
— these newcomers can feel like
they have traveled forward in
time. Although they speak the
same language and look the same
as those living in the South, life
here can feel so utterly foreign.
“My defector friends describe it
as feeling like they took a time
machine, from the 1900s to the
21st century,” said Daehyeon
Park, who himself defected to the
South, but only after spending
several years in Britain, giving
him the computer skills — and the
English — needed to navigate the
globalized city of Seoul.
Recognizing the difficulty and
alienation his fellow defectors
face, Park sat down with several at
a coffee shop and compared notes
on what they knew when they
first arrived. They found that although there were about 40 organizations helping defectors,
each had its own website, and
there was no central place to go to
learn about them.
That coffee meeting grew into
Woorion, a deeply connected and
influential network of defectors
that Park now leads, serving a
third of South Korea’s defector
community. Woorion is a
one-stop information hub, connecting North Koreans with the
resources and community they
need to successfully integrate

their new lives in the South.
Woorion is a household name
among defector circles, but for
years, it kept a low profile so that
it could focus on its community.
Now, Park has big dreams for the
future of his organization and
wants to showcase to the international community what his generation of defectors is capable of.
“I want to explore my community’s voice. I want to do something good for our community
and the future with more people,”
said Park, 31. “It’s now time to
build a community overseas.”
The first few years after a
defector’s arrival is when they are
most vulnerable and can fall
through the cracks — an issue
underscored
by
a
rare
re-defection of a North Korean
who struggled to adjust in Seoul
and decided to return to the
North.
The only official support for
defectors is a three-month orientation course run by the South
Korean government, which provides just a glimpse into what it
takes to survive and thrive in the
cutthroat capitalistic society of
South Korea, which has high
youth unemployment and soaring housing prices.
As of last fall, there were at
least 33,815 North Korean defectors living in the South, according
to the Unification Ministry’s official figures. The majority are
women, and more than half of
those who defect are in their 20s
and 30s — in need of education
and careers, and in search of
stability like marriage and a family. They usually escape alone.
Adulting is hard as it is, and it’s
even more so as a refugee fleeing a
poor and socialist country under
a totalitarian regime to South
Korea, the 10th biggest economy
in the world. Many are already
distrustful of people and institutions, and often struggle with
trauma, which can create additional barriers to assimilation.
They are vulnerable to financial fraud schemes, often from
multilevel marketing and “get
rich quick” investment deals tar-

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Woorion’s Seoul-based team of seven is made up of North Korean defectors and South Koreans. The team of millennials and Gen Zers
especially want to help the younger generation, who make up the largest share of defectors.

geting the newly arrived defectors. They also face fake brokers
who promise to help them send
money back to their families in
the North but instead just bilk
them.
Park’s organization, which
works out of an unassuming office space in Seoul, is run by a
team of seven millennials and
Gen Zers who especially want to
help the younger generation, who
make up the largest share of defectors.
“The problem they face is getting information. They never had
experience with IT, technology,
emails, Internet,” Park said. “The
majority of my community is facing this problem, so I decided to
solve this problem.”
In the early years of Woorion,
Park started a messaging group
on KakaoTalk, the main South
Korean messaging app, blasting
out information that would help
other refugees. More than 5,000
signed up within the first year.
People started donating clothes
and household items to each oth-

er. Older North Korean refugees
made meals for younger ones who
yearned
for
their
mom’s
homemade food back home.
“I knew that if we continued
this, it would be life-changing for
my community,” he said.
In recent years, a younger generation of North Koreans in South
Korea has emerged as ambitious
and creative entrepreneurs, with
many determined to show North
Korean defectors as resilient contributors to South Korean society
rather than victims.
Park is “a good example of this
new generation of North Korean
entrepreneurs and how they’re
not just receiving but creating
solutions for themselves and
their communities and their
broader society,” said Sokeel Park,
South Korea country director of
Liberty in North Korea, which
helps North Koreans resettle in
the South.
Woorion now maintains a robust database, which allows the
group to poll members and use
data to evolve and curate the

information their community
needs the most. The organization
is now looking for international
research partners to help bring
more attention to the experience
of these North Koreans.
The group also has a YouTube
channel with life and job tips,
including pros and cons of talking
about your defector background
during job interviews, benefits of
going to therapy and avoiding
fraud.
“Everybody needs those kinds
of networks and connections, and
the simple truth is that the vast
majority of North Korean refugees leave their whole community, their network, in North Korea,
and there’s no way to lean back on
that,” said Sokeel Park. “They’re
completely dislocated from it,
having to start from scratch.”
Inspired by the Forbes “30
Under 30” list, Woorion launched
an online magazine for millennial
and Gen Z defectors, which
shares the experiences of those
who have become entrepreneurs
and corporate executives.

Woorion’s Park now aspires to
more directly address some of the
most common obstacles faced by
defectors, like creating a credit
union so that North Koreans can
access loans at affordable rates —
with no credit history, defectors
struggle to obtain loans to start
businesses and often are charged
high interest rates.
With post-traumatic stress
disorder, common among North
Korean defectors, Woorion also
plans to increase mental health
resources.
Park said he wants to see the
community step up for each other
and fill the gaps that no amount
of support from the South Korean
government can fill.
“Society is moving fast . . . and
even though they’re learning
from [the government upon arrival], it’s impossible to understand fully about this society,” he
said. “It’s now up to North Korean
communities. We need to have
the ownership of our community
and understand the importance
of our roles for our community.”

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As the pandemic exploded, a researcher
saw the danger. China’s leaders kept silent.

HE MORNING of Dec. 26, 2019, began as
usual at Vision Medicals in Guangzhou in
southern China. This commercial laboratory, a private start-up barely a year and a
half old, was also known by its Chinese
name, Weiyuan Gene Technology. It specialized in
next-generation sequencing, called mNGS, and
offered applications that can identify most infectious agents — viruses, bacteria and others — in a
single test.
A researcher browsed through the latest test
results, as she did every day, before turning to her
other work. She was proud of the laboratory’s
metagenomic sequencing capabilities. Only a
month before, her company played a key role in
quickly detecting a plague outbreak in Beijing.
The previous day, her laboratory had received a
bronchoalveolar lavage fluid sample from Wuhan, a
city of 11 million people and a major transportation
hub, where a 65-year-old man was hospitalized
with a pneumonia-like respiratory ailment. When
she checked the test results that morning, they
indicated the man was infected by a virus similar to
the one that causes SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which was first identified in China in
2002 and ultimately killed 774 people worldwide.
The researcher was alarmed. She wrote to a
co-worker on WeChat, a messaging service, at 9:28
a.m., saying the sample was brimming with
something that looked like SARS.
The co-worker wrote back, recalling the Beijing
plague outbreak they had worked on together,

This exchange took place 28 days before Wuhan
was locked down because of human-to-human
transmission of the novel coronavirus. In late
December and early January, a number of researchers and the Chinese government were aware the
virus could spread rapidly, but the truth was kept
from the public. In those weeks, the virus exploded,
leading to a pandemic that has killed more than
6 million people, by official tally. The actual toll is
probably twice as many, or more.
The researcher went by the online moniker Little
Mountain Dog, with an avatar of a furry pup sitting
alone in a field of lush grass. Her reflections and
observations were posted in a blog on Jan. 28, 2020,
which she took down two days later, saying it was
written “for myself to read in the future, but it
spread online and I didn’t want to get involved in
anything, so I deleted it.” She asked that no one
reprint it, and said the company’s leaders were
“understanding and forgiving” after she posted it.
“I don’t want to cause trouble to anyone, and I don’t
want to stir up public opinion,” she added. At the
time, her posts were quoted in news accounts
online, including by the magazine Caixin, which
published a detailed article, then took down parts
of it. “I have to admire the reporters from
Caixin.com, who dug up so much accurate information from the messy information in the early days,”
she later wrote.
Recently, the research group DRASTIC, which
has been probing the pandemic’s origins, retrieved
and translated her blog posts, including attached
screenshots of WeChat messages. The research
group has withheld her real name, and we agreed to
do so as well to protect her privacy. It provided her
email, and we sent a request for comment but got
no response. The company also did not respond.
Her story points to a coverup with tragic
consequences of historic proportion. A severe
danger was concealed until it was too late. It came
about because of a culture that prioritizes political
stability at any cost, extraordinary state secrecy,
and missteps by public health officials who did not
speak out.
The episode serves to underscore once again why
a serious investigation is needed to get to the
bottom of how the pandemic began. The virus’s
origins might have been caused by a zoonotic
spillover, a bat coronavirus jumping to humans,
possibly with an intermediate host. Or it might
have been an inadvertent leak from a laboratory in
Wuhan studying bat coronaviruses. Only by learning what really transpired can we reach any
conclusions about how to prevent it from happening again. China could go a long way toward finding
the answers, but instead, it has slammed the door
on further inquiry.
‘Strangled in the cradle!’
After the initial surprise on Dec. 26, Little
Mountain Dog attempted to analyze the virus more
closely. At 10:24 a.m., she wrote to a colleague,

Although she was not certain about the infectivity or pathogenicity of the novel virus, she wrote that
the situation was “urgent” and alarming.
At noon, an “emergency meeting” was held at the
laboratory. Staffers decided to press ahead with a
more in-depth analysis before reporting back to the
hospital.
By afternoon, she had figured out that the novel
virus was closely related to a pair of bat coronavi-

On Jan. 3, the National Health Commission
telephoned a gag order to laboratories and others
not to release any information about the illness to
any media, nor post it on social media.
On Jan. 5, the Wuhan health commission
reported that preliminary studies had not shown
any sign of human-to-human transmission. The
World Health Organization, based on that, reported “no evidence of significant human-to-human
transmission.” The WHO made repeated private
requests to China for more information but got
little.
The virus genome was sequenced by a number of
leading Chinese institutes, including the Wuhan
Institute of Virology and China’s CDC, with which
Vision Medicals was in contact during the crucial
December days.
On Jan. 5, after a 40-hour shift in the lab,
professor Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University in
Shanghai sequenced the genome based on a sample
from Wuhan. The professor also concluded it was a
coronavirus that “looked suspiciously” like the
SARS virus, according to Jeremy Farrar, head of the
Wellcome Trust in Britain, writing in his book,
“Spike.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the virus
Jan. 7 at a closed Politburo Standing Committee
meeting, but no public warning was issued. In
Wuhan, annual provincial and city political meetings were held from Jan. 6 to 17. In that period, the
city health commission issued public statements
that no new cases were detected. On Jan. 11, the
commission actually reduced the number of confirmed cases from 59 to 41. In fact, the virus was
spreading, including among some who had visited
or worked at the Huanan Seafood Market in
Wuhan. The market was closed Jan. 1, but humanto-human transmission was exploding in the city.
An estimated 7 million people left Wuhan in
January before travel was restricted, potentially
taking it far and wide.
On Jan. 14, a WHO scientist told a news briefing:
“From the information that we have, it is possible
that there is limited human-to-human transmission.”
Little Mountain Dog wrote in a WeChat message
that day,

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

Medical staff members carry a patient into Wuhan’s Jinyintan hospital on Jan. 18, 2020.

ruses, similar to the SARS virus. By evening, she
had created a phylogenetic tree, a diagram of viral
evolution, showing how the virus closely resembled
two other known bat coronaviruses.
She was still working at 11:30 p.m.
The next day, Little Mountain Dog had assembled a nearly complete genome of the novel virus
and performed other analysis.
A co-worker wrote to her,

How serious was it? The commercial laboratory
wasn’t taking any chances. Vision Medicals immediately scrubbed its facility, destroyed the
samples and monitored its employees. The laboratory’s leaders telephoned the Wuhan hospital and
the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention with the results, then traveled to Wuhan to
report on Dec. 29 and 30. The results were also
shared with the Institute of Pathogen Biology of
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences to complete
the genomics.
At this point, Little Mountain Dog thought “this
matter would pass soon” because she knew of only
one infected patient.
But on Dec. 30, she learned that “quite a few
patients” had similar symptoms. This was a strong
signal the virus was probably spreading. “Suddenly
tense,” she wrote. A laboratory in Beijing found an
identical virus in a separate sample, and a contact
there shared it. “The first thought in the subconscious is ‘this virus is contagious’! It may really be a
new type of SARS!” she wrote.
She added, “The mood at this time was both
nervous and excited. The nervousness was due to
the fact that this unknown virus may be as terrifying
as SARS; the excitement was that we detected and
confirmed this pathogen early through mNGS
technology, and quarantined the patient, so it may
be possible to prevent and control the virus before it
spreads widely. Strangled in the cradle!”
Genomic sequencing of the single virus sample
was not enough by itself to show the virus was
highly contagious. But by placing it in the category
of SARS, with the sequencing data and other
information, Little Mountain Dog had enough clues
to set off alarms.
Several separate accounts have indicated the
virus might have been spreading through Wuhan in
November, and perhaps as early as September and
October. Russell J. Westergard, the deputy consular
chief in the U.S. Consulate in Wuhan, wrote that by
mid-October, the consulate team “knew that the

city had been struck by what was thought to be an
unusually vicious flu season. The disease worsened
in November.” W. Ian Lipkin, a prominent Columbia University virologist, has said publicly that he
first was told about a cluster of unexplained
respiratory illness spreading in Wuhan on Dec. 15
by a colleague, Jiahai Lu, a professor at Sun Yat-sen
University in Guangzhou.
‘Those people who know the truth are silent’
Little Mountain Dog wondered how the Wuhan
patient got infected. Her first thought, she wrote,
was “the history of contact with wild animals,”
maybe with bats. But “it was also suspected that
some staff working somewhere with man-made
viruses may have been infected by accident because
of careless handling” — a possibility a colleague had
mentioned to her on Dec. 27, recalling a very recent
Brucellosis outbreak after an accident at a vaccine
plant in China. That colleague also noted at the
time that the Wuhan Institute of Virology “is
located nearby.”
However, Little Mountain Dog did not elaborate
about the virus origins; her goal was to identify the
pathogen, not the source. She thought her laboratory had performed well and demonstrated the
value of its technology.
But she watched with deepening anxiety as the
government failed to warn people.
On Dec. 30, at 3:10 p.m., the Wuhan Municipal
Health Commission issued an “urgent notice” to
health institutions about cases of “pneumonia of
unknown origin.” In the early evening, ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, a physician at Wuhan Central
Hospital, wrote in a private Weibo chat group that
seven people had contracted a virus similar to the
one that causes SARS and were quarantined at his
hospital. On Jan. 1, he and other doctors were
summoned by police and reprimanded for spreading rumors about Wuhan hospitals receiving SARSlike cases. Li later died of covid-19.
“Feeling that something is wrong,” Little Mountain Dog wrote on Dec. 31. The “overly optimistic”
Chinese propaganda machine had swung into
action. China’s news media referred obliquely to
“rumors” and failed to inform the public of a
spreading SARS-like infection.

On New Year’s Day, knowing of the risks of
revealing too much information, she nonetheless
tried to warn a friend, saying it must be kept
“strictly confidential” that a “Novel SARS virus” had
been discovered, and then:

Through most of January, the rapid human
transmissibility of the virus was hidden from the
Chinese public — and from the rest of the world.
“Those people who know the truth are silent,”
Little Mountain Dog wrote in her blog post.

On the same day, the head of the National Health
Commission told provincial officials in a closed
teleconference that the situation is “severe and
complex, the most severe challenge since SARS in
2003,” according to a memo obtained by the
Associated Press.
Once again, this urgency was not conveyed to the
public.
The secrecy is a trademark of how China’s
party-state has dealt with many disasters, from
train wrecks to baby food contamination. The SARS
outbreak that began in 2002 was characterized by a
coverup and government bungling. Supposedly,
China had fixed the problems with a real-time
direct infectious-disease reporting system. But in
Wuhan, it failed. In a study published in 2020, two
political scientists, Edward Gu and Lantian Li,
reported that Chinese virologists sent their findings to the nation’s health authorities early in the
outbreak, but “there is no evidence that Chinese
virologists ever issued risk alerts publicly at the
time.” The scientists, they concluded, “seem to have
been collectively silenced.”
Little Mountain Dog felt “disappointment, sadness, and anger.” Her work at Vision Medicals had
left her convinced of the virus’s potential dangers.
“Why is it still not under control now?”
She acknowledged the authorities had to avoid
“excessive panic” but worried that without a
warning, there would be “rapid spread of the virus
and more serious consequences.” She saw “no sign
of issuing an early warning.” She wrote that “it is
unforgivable . . . not to issue early warnings.”
On Jan. 20, three weeks after the market had
been closed, and facing an ever-growing number of
cases, the government could no longer maintain
the fiction of limited human-to-human transmission. Chinese experts appearing on television
publicly acknowledged the seriousness of the
contagion. On Jan. 23, the first Wuhan lockdown
was announced.
Five days later, Little Mountain Dog posted her
account online, then quickly took it down. “Looking
back at what I said at the time, it was a prophecy,”
she wrote. “I’m sorry for the people of the whole
country. Blame me for jinxing it.”
In April, she had not forgotten that she had been
so close to the truth, and yet so far from saving
countless lives. She wrote a poem, filled with worry
and introspection, and posted it. Global cases had
just topped 1 million. She wrote:

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At DeSanty
World, only
bad dreams
come true

M

ickey Mouse needs a sanctuary
city.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Hades)
got his state legislature last week
to abolish the favorable tax arrangement
that brought Disney World to Orlando and
kept it there for 55 years. It’s the latest salvo
against corporate America from the Trump
right, which has already threatened
Twitter, Facebook, Citigroup and Delta Air
Lines. But now they’re canceling Mickey
and Minnie? That’s just Goofy.
Taking aim at Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas and Moana? It’s not only cruel — it’s
Cruella.
Suddenly, sad times are upon the Happiest Place on Earth. Jared Polis, the Democratic governor of Colorado, has promised
to “grant Mickey and Minnie full asylum in
Colorado” and offered Disney a “Mountain
Disneyland” retreat from “Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector.” Many Disney fans online are urging
Disney World to leave Florida.
Of course, you can’t just put a resort with
six theme parks and two dozen or so hotels
on a magic carpet ride to, say, New Jersey.
(As it is, central Floridians could be stuck
with more than $1 billion in debt and a
massive property-tax increase because of
DeSantis’s anti-Disney vendetta.) But Disney is the place where dreams come true,
and mine is that the whole of Disney World,
which employs roughly 80,000 Floridians
and attracts tens of millions of tourists
every year, will take the second star to the
right and straight on till morning — and
abandon Florida entirely.
DeSantis would be left with a 25,000acre house of horrors in Orlando: an abandoned resort in a state nobody wants to
visit, thanks to Ron’s Runaway Railway.
His “don’t say gay” legislation makes
Florida unwelcoming to LGBTQ people.
His voter-suppression laws and racebaiting attacks on teaching history and race
make Florida hostile to Black, Latino and
Asian Americans. Rising antisemitism
(Florida’s most famous resident just had a
film screening at Mar-a-Lago characterized
by antisemitic swipes at Mark Zuckerberg)
gives Jews pause about the state. DeSantis’s
MAGA-signaling anti-immigrant and
antiabortion laws repel more large swaths
of the population. His banning of math
textbooks should send educated Floridians
packing. His opposition to Medicaid expansion and Florida’s excessive covid-19 death
rate over the past year have sent many
Floridians to the morgue.
Soon, there won’t be much of a constituency left. As J.D. Vance, a Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, put it in a justreleased private message from 2016, “We
are, whether we like it or not, the party of
lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time
that we need to offer those people SOMETHING.” So offer them a theme park! Rename Disney World’s ruins DeSanty World.
DeSanty World would make the Carousel
of Progress turn in reverse, reimagining the
Disney classics to suit its growing audience
of Snow White nationalists. Pinocchio
would dream of becoming not a “real boy”
but a Proud Boy. Lady Tremaine, the wicked
stepmother, would become the heroine of
Cinderella, championing parental rights.
Bambi would be seen from the hunters’
point of view. Aladdin’s new soundtrack
would warn of “A Whole New World Order,”
and Mulan would be reviled for spreading
the coronavirus. Brave Frollo would fight
valiantly to free France of minority groups
and the disabled. And all would cheer for
QAnon’s own Captain Hook as he battles to
prevent villainous Peter Pan from grooming the Lost Boys.
Some attractions would require only
minor changes. The Barnstormer roller
coaster (“a staggering series of stupendous
stunts”) would be dedicated to DeSantis
instead of Goofy. The Mad Tea Party and
Festival of Fantasy Parade could pretty
much stay as they are, and the Hall of
Presidents would just be dispossessed of its
46th inductee. DeSanty World would build
a wall around the Alien Swirling Saucers.
And, because of the park’s new open-carry
gun policy, the whole thing would become a
Frontierland Shootin’ Arcade.
DeSanty World would surely sack the
China Pavilion at Epcot and its planned
film “Wondrous China.” This would be
replaced by a Covid Theater (no masks
allowed!). A new 101 Dalmatians Dog Whistle attraction would feature DeSantis, who
said, when he had a Black opponent in
2018, “The last thing we need to do is to
monkey this up.” The existing Under the
Sea Journey of the Little Mermaid would be
repurposed to promote offshore oil. The
Frozen Ever After boat ride would refute
the climate change hoax. Splash Mountain,
already getting re-themed around “The
Princess and the Frog,” would now swap the
evil voodoo practitioner Dr. Facilier with
the more evil Dr. Fauci.
A thoroughly remodeled Tower of Terror
would have the MAGA faithful screaming
as Ursula lures them into gender reassignment surgery, Maleficent tries to enchant
them with universal health care, and the
demons Pain and Panic attempt to vaccinate them.
Then, after all but the QAnon faithful
had self-deported from DeSanty World, the
few remaining stragglers would sing as
one: It’s a small world after all.

LIA LIAO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

That ‘homeless person’ could be
someone’s son. Mine, for instance.

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BY

S HANNON J ONES

hen you’re going to Little League games
or helping with homework, you never
think that one day the son you’re raising
will be homeless, that you’ll spend a
whole morning searching for him in homeless
encampments and on bus benches.
And yet on a recent Sunday, that’s exactly what
my husband and I found ourselves doing.
Just a few days before that, I was in a group of
people who were discussing “the homeless” here in
Los Angeles, as if they were one big, indistinguishable group — “the homeless” causing problems in
this area or that area.
I thought about saying something, pointing out
that you shouldn’t use such a broad brush to
describe homeless people, that these are individuals, each with their own story. But by the time I
thought of what I might say, the conversation had
moved on. I’m embarrassed to admit I said nothing.
I’m not usually at a loss for words. But homelessness makes people uncomfortable, particularly in
my world. I’m a real estate agent, and homes are my
livelihood. And yet my son is homeless.
I wonder when people see him on the street, when
they see him sleeping on a sidewalk or a bus bench,
do they know he has a story? Do they care? Or do
they just walk by, not really seeing him, perhaps
looking the other way? I hope they offer him a smile
or a kind word. I try to do that when I encounter
other homeless people, because I know that they are
someone’s son or daughter, maybe someone’s father
or mother, cousin or friend. And they all have
stories.
To understand my son’s story, you have to go back
in time a bit, because he has been homeless before:
as a young child.
Twenty-one years ago, when he was 8, we met our
son and adopted him. He was a chubby-cheeked
little boy with an impish sense of humor. He could be
stubborn and difficult, but he was also kindhearted.
He once found a baby hummingbird and patiently
nursed it back to health, feeding it with an eye
dropper of sugar water until it could fly away.
After adopting him, we learned that our son had
serious learning disabilities and mental illness. We
fought for educational and mental health services

for him. He had karate lessons and beach vacations
and tutoring — everything you might expect for a
middle-class kid. He also had therapy and medication. Despite his challenges, we hoped that he might
have a bright future.
But what we didn’t know was how deep the scars
ran. When we met him, he was in an orphanage in
Kazakhstan, but before that, he had been living on
the streets, begging for food. We’ll never really
understand his early history, but it wasn’t filled with
“Sesame Street,” Gymboree and birthday parties.
The process of his becoming homeless as an adult
didn’t happen overnight. It occurred gradually, then
suddenly. He’d always told us that as soon as he
turned 18, he was leaving, and by the time he was an
adolescent, we were okay with that. When the time
came, he moved about 50 miles north of Los Angeles
to the Antelope Valley.
There was a group home, a shared apartment,
another group home, a sober-living facility, a brief
incarceration, a few rehab facilities, a residential
treatment facility, some more group homes and
then briefly, during the pandemic, a stint back at
home.
That didn’t work for any of us. Then came more
group homes and a whole series of flophouse motels
with vouchers through his mental health service
provider. Then he ran out of options. Or at least
options that he would agree to.
He started sleeping on benches. We thought that
after a few nights on the street, he would agree to
rehab, would agree to take his psychiatric medications, but that didn’t happen. And then he called us
from the hospital. He’d been beaten up and had a
broken nose, a broken eye socket and a brain bleed.
We thought maybe that was the bottom — now he
would agree to get help. But instead, he checked
himself out and went back on the street.
For years, most of his communications with us
have been requests for money. I prefer to send food,
to provide clothing and supplies he really needs. But
at least when he was asking for money, I knew where
he was. Recently, when weeks went by and we hadn’t
heard from him, I became increasingly worried.
That’s when we found ourselves on a Sunday
morning driving to the Antelope Valley. We searched
the streets and used Google Maps to triangulate the
places where we knew he’d spent money.

A security guard recognized his photo but said he
hadn’t seen him for a few days. A bundle of clothing
and blankets in front of a store looked promising but
turned out to be someone else’s son. At homeless
encampments near the train tracks, they said they
didn’t know him. In a park, my husband approached
a man who didn’t recognize the photo but pointed at
another bench. The sleeping figure there turned out
to be a woman.
My husband approached another huddled pile of
clothes nearby, softly calling our son’s name. The
figure stirred and looked up.
We’d found him. It felt like a miracle. I thought
that perhaps now he would be ready for a fresh start.
He was bedraggled, and he had nothing with him
but the clothes on his back.
Understandably, he was hungry. We went to Pizza
Hut, and as he ate, I saw how thin he was under the
ragged layers of clothing, and how the sun had
bleached his mustache. If I’d passed him from
across the street, I wouldn’t have recognized him.
We went shopping for him — new clothing, shoes,
socks, underwear, a red ball cap, toiletries and a
toiletry bag, and a backpack and a duffel bag to carry
it all. We went to Verizon to get a new phone and
have it activated so we could communicate with him
again. I bought headphones for him so he could
listen to music, which he said helps calm the
“demons” he battles.
We checked him into a motel so he could shower
and change, and paid for several nights to give him
time to connect with his mental health caseworker,
who could then help him get into rehab or find
another place to live. We took him to the grocery
store and bought food to fill the little refrigerator in
the motel room. We told him to stay there, to rest,
and we contacted his caseworker about next steps.
For the first time in weeks, as we drove back
home, I felt a little hope.
A few days later, he was back on the streets. And
not answering the phone.
I’m worried again, I told my husband. I keep
calling, and he doesn’t pick up. We could go and try
to find him again, my husband said. Maybe we will.
But what then?
Shannon Jones, a former journalist, is a real estate agent
in Long Beach, Calif.

MICHAEL GERSON

Why Russian soldiers can’t look their victims in the face

I

t is an obscene irony of the war in
Ukraine that Russian leaders use
the charge that Ukrainians are “Nazis” to dehumanize them, just as the
Nazis used dehumanizing accusations
against their own enemies. While ostensibly attacking fascists, Russian propagandists use methods that pay tribute to
German fascism. In the process, Russian
officials have become the spitting image
of what they pretend to condemn.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is
among the most prolific practitioners of
this strategy. The Ukrainian government, he has said, is “pro-Nazi” and
controlled by “little Nazis.” The stated
goal of his “special operation” is to
“denazify” Ukraine. Inspired by Putin,
one state television host identifies
Ukrainians as “satanic Nazis” and denies that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is really a Jew.
This is not merely an exercise in
denigration. It has guided Russian conduct during its brutal but pathetically
dysfunctional invasion of Ukraine.
There are recent reports of mass civilian
graves — numbering in the hundreds —
in Manhush near Mariupol. Bucha’s
streets were left covered with executed
and mutilated bodies. More than
100 bodies have been found in Makariv.
“They laid them on the ground face
down,” one resident said, “and shot

them in the back of the head.”
This method for the mass killing of
civilians was one way the Nazis disabled
the normal revulsion that most people
would feel for civilian executions. “The
human face,” David Livingstone Smith
wrote in “Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization,” “is by far
the richest source of social information
and the most intimate channel of connection between people. . . . When we
gaze into a person’s eyes, we cannot help
responding to that person as a human
being. We cannot help but see them as
human — to automatically regard the
face’s bearer as one of our own kind.”
This is what led to the blindfolding of
victims of mass shootings by the
German Einsatzgruppen and police
battalions during the World War II
years. Otherwise, the killing experience
for many was psychologically devastating. The same, it seems, was true in
Manhush.
The purposeful murder of civilians
(as opposed to unintended casualties) is
also made easier for members of the
military by the use of long-range weapons — a Russian military specialty.
Putin’s army has attacked hospitals and
other buildings where civilians take
shelter. It has besieged and blasted a
whole city (Mariupol) to ruins. It has
prevented refugees from leaving war

zones and relief supplies from reaching
injured and starving people.
For some extreme Russian nationalists — now given wide access to state
media — the call to dehumanize Ukrainians is explicit. “We are fighting not
against people but against enemies,”
said the representative of one Russian
neofascist party, “not against people but
against Ukrainians.”
Such rhetoric takes on a genocidal
flavor when combined with the complete denial of Ukrainian identity, described by one right-wing radical as “an
artificial anti-Russian construct that
has no civilizational content of its own”
and the “subordinate element of a
foreign and alien civilization.” Defending and strengthening Russia, in this
ideological fantasy, requires the
complete destruction of Ukrainian
nationhood.
When reading Putin’s idealization of
cultural ties between Russia and
Ukraine, the question naturally arises:
How is it possible to assert Slavic
brotherhood while murdering tens of
thousands of your Slavic neighbors?
This is actually typical of dehumanization. White supremacists in the
American South often described Black
people as subhuman beasts. But at other
times they treated them as morally
responsible — attributing to them a

distinctly human form of agency. And
close contact with Black people provided White people constant evidence of
shared humanity.
“Dehumanizers implicitly or explicitly regard those whom they dehumanize
as human beings,” Smith argues, “because it is impossible for them to shake
that belief, which sits side by side with
their belief that these others are subhuman creatures.” Smith denies that the
logical inconsistency of such views is
relevant. Why should we expect bigots
to be consistent or coherent? But he
continues that only one of these views
“can be salient at any given time. And
when one is in the mental foreground,
the other retreats into the background.”
Putin, his military and his propaganda apparatus have put dehumanization in the foreground. They have woven
the idea that Ukrainians are Nazis who
are committing “genocide” against Russian speakers into their most basic case
for the war. (The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has dismissed Russia’s use
of “genocide” as a casus belli as “groundless and egregious.”)
Russian leaders are conducting a
historical spectacle of brutality and lies.
But their atrocities arose from refusing
to look Ukrainians fully in the face and
from denying the reflected image of
their own humanity.

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HE PUBLIC already knew that
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blamed President
Donald Trump for his role in the
Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol invasion. He said so at
the time on the House floor. It has also been
clear that, despite knowing better, he has
since supplicated himself to Mr. Trump,
calculating that he must deny what he
knows to be right in hope of winning the
speaker’s gavel after this year’s midterm
elections. Now, the New York Times’s
Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin
have revealed new details about Mr. McCarthy’s thinking following Jan. 6 — and,
by implication, the extent to which he is
willing to sacrifice core democratic principles to advance his political career.
The Times reported Thursday that
Mr. McCarthy not only blamed Mr. Trump
for the Jan. 6 violence but also discussed
with GOP lawmakers how to pressure the
then-president from office. “I’ve had it
with this guy,” he reportedly declared,
saying that Mr. Trump’s behavior was
“atrocious and totally wrong,” “inciting
people” to batter down the Capitol’s doors.
Discussing the possibility of impeachment, and what he would say to Mr.
Trump, Mr. McCarthy said, “It would be
my recommendation you should resign,”

according to an audio clip the Times
released after the minority leader brazenly tried to deny the newspaper’s reporting.
Mr. McCarthy also reportedly discussed
using the 25th Amendment, which allows
the sidelining of presidents for mental or
physical incapacity, to force out
Mr. Trump.
But, just weeks later, Mr. McCarthy
slinked down to Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
residence, posing for a photo of what
should have been a disgraced former president. “I didn’t know they were going to
take a picture,” Mr. McCarthy reportedly
said, as though that was the problem with
his humiliating pilgrimage to kiss
Mr. Trump’s ring.
So the picture is even clearer than
before: The potential future House speaker manifestly lacks the moral fiber to lead
— too afraid of the GOP base to stand up to
a man he knows means harm to the
nation’s democratic system. It was once
unthinkable that malevolent partisans,
wayward conspiracy theorists and spineless careerists such as Mr. McCarthy
might combine to overturn a legitimate
democratic election. Now, it seems alarmingly possible, perhaps as soon as 2024.
Democrats and Republicans of good
will must have no higher priority than

bolstering U.S. democracy against a second attack of lies accompanied by
cockamamie legal theories about how
state legislatures, Congress or the courts
could overturn election results based on
invalid accusations of fraud. Key to doing
so is rewriting the process for counting
presidential electoral votes prescribed
under the archaic Electoral Count Act.
Protections are needed so that a partisan
Congress cannot try to reject presidential
electors on a simple-majority basis. The
bar needs to be raised for lawmakers even
to object to electors, raising public doubts
about U.S. democracy’s legitimacy. And it
should be made absolutely clear that the
vice president cannot unilaterally reject
electors during the congressional count,
as Mr. Trump pressured Vice President
Mike Pence to do.
A bipartisan band of senators led by
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe
Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has held discussions on updating the act, but the group
appears to have made little progress in
months of talks. The group plans to meet
this week. They must hurry. If Mr. McCarthy is speaker next year, it will be only
harder to reinforce U.S. democracy
against Mr. Trump’s second attempt to
steal a presidential election.

The victims of book bans
Removing stories about Black and LGBTQ people isn’t protecting America’s youths.

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S IF there were not enough
challenges facing the United
States right now, Americans
have to be on alert for a resurgence of book-banning campaigns at
their local libraries. Across the nation,
groups of mostly White conservatives are
demanding that books be locked up or
taken off the shelves entirely. Their main
targets? Books about Black and LGBTQ
people.
The numbers are staggering. The
American Library Association recorded
729 challenges to library, school and
university materials in 2021 that targeted
more than 1,500 different book titles.
That’s a record for attempted book bans
since the ALA started tracking them in
2000. A similar analysis by PEN America
from July through March found 1,586 instances of books being banned.
Attempts to censor and ban books are
not a new phenomenon. In 1650, Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
tried to get what they thought were
blasphemous books removed from their
community. But what sets this latest
wave of book banning apart is how much
of it is being driven by politicians. PEN
America found that more than 40 percent of the bans were “tied to directives
from state officials or elected lawmakers
to investigate or remove books in
schools.” The Post’s Annie Gowen chronicled how a Texas county judge personally
walked into a local library and took
books off the shelves, ignoring the library’s procedures in which a person is
supposed to fill out a challenge form to be
reviewed by librarians.
The United States was founded on the
principle of freedom of expression. We
might not always like what our neighbors
and fellow citizens have to say, but

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A librarian holds books removed from shelves in Ephrata, Pa., on March 2.

watching the severe restriction of news
and information flow in Russia is the
latest reminder of how quickly censorship can turn into something truly sinister. Librarian and editor Mary Jo Godwin
once said that a truly great library contains something to offend everyone. But
the reverse is also true: Great libraries
have materials on their shelves (or in
their e-circulation platforms) to support
everyone trying to educate themselves,
from home-schooling Christians to
LGBTQ youths.
The ALA’s list of the most-challenged
books lately is telling: At the top is
“Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, a memoir about coming of age as nonbinary.
The second is “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan
Evison, about a young biracial man trying to understand race, class and sexualidentity issues in modern America. Both
books are highly rated on websites such
as Goodreads, where readers give feed-

back, yet the fact that a few people object
to “sexually explicit” content in the books
has been enough to get them taken off
public library shelves.
Purging libraries of books without a
proper process and input from librarians, teachers and a range of community
members is wrong. And it won’t be long
before this latest book-ban push will
likely prove to be counterproductive.
Consider how the Confederacy banned
books such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for portraying slavery in a negative way. Or recall that in the
late 1990s and early 2000s, there was
outcry that the Harry Potter books were
dangerous for children. The series went
on to sell half a billion books worldwide
and inspire a love of reading among
many young people.
These latest book bans are not about
protecting youths. Librarians and concerned citizens are right to fight them.

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A bad call on Mr. McDuffie
I am outraged by the ruling of the D.C.
Board of Elections making D.C. Council
member Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5)
ineligible to run for D.C. attorney general,
according to the April 19 Metro article
“Board says McDuffie ineligible for AG
run.” What better preparation for this
position is there than serving on the
D.C. Council, where the laws that govern
D.C. are made and, in Mr. McDuffie’s case,
chairing the judiciary committee, which
oversees the office of the attorney general?
How does that résumé not read “actively engaged” as a practicing attorney,
which is a requirement for eligibility? I
believe the deep knowledge of and experience with the people and systems in
D.C. garnered from serving on the council
far outweigh any other criteria for eligibility except one, perhaps: a basic sense of
fairness. I hope that sense of fairness is
extended to Mr. McDuffie in his appeal.
Regina Romero, Washington

Act to save teens’ lives

It’s time to dethrone Iowa
OR DECADES, Iowa has had an
outsize impact on the nation’s politics, as President Biden’s recent pilgrimage to the state, in which he
touted corn ethanol, shows. But earlier this
month, a Democratic National Committee
panel voted to remove Iowa’s caucuses
from the first spot in the party’s presidential nominating calendar, opening the early window to any state that wishes to apply.
The move is long overdue. Iowa’s dethroning is still not ensured, as an intense lobbying campaign will no doubt kick into gear.
The case against Iowa has been building for generations. Its residents enjoy
lavish federal subsidies because of the
undue political clout they hold. The state’s
caucus system, in which those who want
to participate must show up in person to a
specific location at a prescribed time of
night and sit through interminable proceedings, is deeply undemocratic. The
state’s electorate is predominantly White,
unreflective of either the nation or Democrats’ diverse coalition. To top it off, Iowa’s
2020 caucuses were a logistical disaster,
as a new electronic results reporting system failed as much of the country awaited

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Iowans’ all-important verdict on who
should be the next president. Not only
were results long delayed, but questions
swirled about whether the results could
be fully trusted.
Democrats’ new plan wipes away
Iowa’s guaranteed spot in the early presidential nominating calendar, as well as
the other early voting states’ status, and
requires them to reapply for their privileged positions. But Iowa is the only one in
serious danger. New Hampshire is small
enough to enable lots of one-on-one time
between candidates and voters, offering a
chance to presidential hopefuls without
large campaign war chests. South Carolina is filled with Black voters, a key
Democratic constituency, and it is untouchable because it is where Mr. Biden
jump-started his successful bid for the
2020 nomination. Nevada, with its high
proportion of Latino and union voters,
solidified its position by moving from a
caucus system to a primary. It is also a
presidential swing state. Iowa is the odd
state out.
Some argue Nevada should now come
first. Michigan leaders say their state

should take the lead spot. This would keep
an early nominating contest in the
Midwest but put it in a state that is
diverse, that is far more consequential in
general elections and that runs a primary,
not caucuses.
Even so, Iowa might still sneak its way
in. Democrats’ plan expands from four to
five the number of states in the early part
of the calendar. This would enable them to
add Michigan and keep Iowa in the early
window — perhaps even in first. That
would be a major mistake. Iowa has had
far more than its share of time in the sun,
and the nation’s politics have been distorted because of it. Other states should apply
to be the fifth early nominating contest, so
that Iowa will have to make a real case for
its position.
As Iowans would be first to tell you, the
party can’t just put any state at the top of
the calendar. The right states are generally compact and not exorbitantly expensive
in which to campaign. No Californias
need apply. But there are many states that
could theoretically play a leading role.
Now is their time to step up — and for
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In his April 19 op-ed, “Where is the
outrage over teen overdose deaths?,”
Robert Gebelhoff highlighted the tragedy
of teen overdose deaths, which have
skyrocketed by more than 200 percent
since 2019, with increases being
particularly severe among Native and
Hispanic teens. As he pointed out, staving off more teen deaths requires a
comprehensive approach that includes
scaling up access to overdose prevention
and harm-reduction services, including
medication-assisted treatment, fentanyl
test strips, access to naloxone, and access
to other medical and behavioral health
and social supports and referrals.
Congress must appropriate resources
now to scale up these proven interventions to directly engage people who use
drugs, including teens, to save lives.
Overdose prevention services, including
harm-reduction and syringe-services
providers, are trusted resources that successfully connect people to care and
interventions, including substance use
disorder treatment. We must increase
access to these lifesaving services to save
teen lives and the lives of the more than
100,000 people who are dying from drug
overdoses annually in the United States
because of the nation’s unsafe drug supply. There is no time to waste: Lives are
on the line. Congress must act now
to expand access to these effective
interventions before more lives are needlessly lost.
Maritza Perez, Washington
The writer is director of the
Office of National Affairs at the
Drug Policy Alliance.

Homer Simpson, role model
I’ll admit that as a child of the 1980s, I
was immediately drawn to the headline
of Luke Sharrett’s April 17 Outlook essay,
“What I learned about masculinity and
fatherhood from ‘The Simpsons.’ ” Perhaps no show left more of an impression
on me in my youth; and like Mr. Sharrett,
as a father of four young children myself,
I eagerly looked forward to the day I
could share the antics of Springfield’s
favorite family with my own.
But unlike Mr. Sharrett, I take a different view on the lessons of masculinity
and fatherhood from Homer J. Simpson.
It must be a matter of perspective, but
growing up in a family with divorced
parents, I always found it striking that
the nuclear family at the heart of the
show remained intact. It was something I
didn’t have and that I admired in the
Simpsons.
As a father, I find admirable qualities
in Homer, who, though inept and buffoonish, puts his family first, from stopping his son’s daredevil antics at Springfield Gorge to returning to the job he
hates when expecting a third child to

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taking an interest in hobbies he doesn’t
understand. I see a father who tries his
best to do right by his family, even when
he fails week after week. I think, as with
much in life, we can find good — even in
Springfield — if we look for it.
Though I ultimately agree with
Mr. Sharrett that as a father I will strive
to be a man of integrity, courage and
discipline, I also know that, like Homer, it
won’t be without a few “D’ohs!” and
“Ha-Ha’s” along the way.
Sterling Marchand, Alexandria

Red, white and fossil-fuel-free
Regarding Eugene Robinson’s April 19
op-ed, “Among clean energy’s trade-offs?
The potential loss of bald eagles.”:
Collisions between birds and windmills are not a foregone conclusion.
Norwegian scientists found that painting
just one blade of a windmill black at a
wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago
of Smøla reduced eagle deaths by 70 percent. I would love to see all the windmills
in the United States with one red blade,
one white blade and one blue blade in the
interest of bird safety and in honor of our
freedom from carbon-dioxide-generating
fossil fuels.
Albert Holm, Columbia

Finally, hope on long covid
The April 19 front-page article about
Lindsay Polega’s two-year battle with
long covid and how the medical systems
have failed her, and possibly many others, “For long-covid patient, many doctors and few answers,” finally gave me
hope. This could have been my story for
the past two years. I thought I was alone
in this “battle,” but now I have hope of
achieving some form of my former self
again.
I live in Baton Rouge, and there does
not appear to be a clinic closer than
Houston, but I will not give up.
Sarah Kershaw-Amos, Baton Rouge

Atrocities are part of the plan
The April 19 editorial “Bodies in the
streets” attributed the “staggering”
atrocities committed by Russian soldiers
to “their officer corps’ lack of tactical
finesse and the dehumanizing training
conditions they tolerate for rank-and-file
soldiers.” But this explanation erroneously assumes that atrocities are a bug
rather than a feature of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategy.
The day before the editorial was published, Mr. Putin announced that the
military unit credibly accused of having
committed a multitude of war crimes in
Bucha, Ukraine, deserves “high honor
and recognition [for] special merits,
mass heroism and courage” — without
acknowledging any flaw in the soldiers’
behavior. Nor does it seem likely that
“lack of tactical finesse and the dehumanizing training conditions” are sufficient to explain why, according to the
World Health Organization, in just one
month of fighting, the Russian military
has attacked at least 64 Ukrainian medical facilities — despite each such attack
being an inexcusable and obvious war
crime.
Richard Joffe, New York
The April 19 editorial “Bodies in the
streets” was right on target for the most
part. The only shortcoming was limiting
Russian forces’ “up-close-and-personal
cruelty” to the past quarter century.
History shows they committed atrocities
with impunity in the Baltics in World
War II.
Kazimieras Campe, Edgewater
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kraine is once again blighted
with mass graves and, where
war has prevented the digging of
pits, littered with individual
corpses of innocent civilians. But according to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the
great threat to peace in the world is not
the murderer Vladimir Putin. It is “the
Cold War mentality” of the West, which
has the nerve to use sanctions to try to
end the carnage.
Xi spoke April 21 by video to the
annual Boao Forum for Asia. Nearly two
months had passed since Russian troops
and tanks invaded Ukraine unprovoked,
in the worst strategic blunder of the
21st century. Putin, annoyed at seeing his
army’s incompetence exposed by brave
Ukrainian defenders, had purged his
inner circle; meanwhile, Russian troops
were committing war crimes. Yet none of
this merited Xi’s notice.
Instead, he fatuously congratulated
himself on China’s supposed leadership
in fighting the covid-19 pandemic
(made in China) and proposed a “Global
Security Initiative” to end “bloc confrontation.”
Let us be clear about the so-called
security Xi has in mind. He wants China
to have the security to conduct cultural
genocide of the Uyghur people, to steal
the intellectual property of its trading
partners, to impede scientific investigation of the pandemic diseases that erupt
within its borders, and to crush freedom
of expression in Hong Kong. Following
Russia’s lead, he shows his respect for the
sovereignty of nations by hacking Western countries’ social media to widen
divisions and inflame suspicions.
Any “bloc” that might object to these
ugly abuses of “sovereignty,” he says, is a
threat to world peace and progress, even
when the bloc comprises the vast majority of nations. (Being lectured on peace by
Xi Jinping is like being lectured on
decorum by Charlie Sheen.)
Meanwhile, he wants Russia to be
secure in its century-long effort to annihilate Ukrainian identity — no matter
how many millions of Ukrainians must
die.
Putin’s savagery in Ukraine is but the
latest chapter in Moscow’s efforts to
erase a nation and its people. Like much
of modern Europe, Ukraine took shape
as the old empires shattered after World
War I. The Red Army of the Bolsheviks,
victorious in the Russian Revolution,
countered by imposing Soviet rule.
When an independent Ukrainian culture
persisted, Russian strongman Joseph
Stalin moved to destroy the nation’s
identity.
He ordered the seizure of all Ukrainian farms, to be reconstituted as stateowned and -operated “collectives.”
Ukraine’s most skillful and successful
farmers were designated “kulaks,” classified as enemies and either executed or
shipped off to the growing network of
Soviet labor camps.
This ill-conceived action had the foreseeable effect of producing a famine. Yet
Stalin seemed to think that farming
should be as simple as issuing a directive
from the Kremlin for so many tons of
wheat and corn. When the mismanaged
and demoralized collectives failed to
deliver the assigned tonnage, the dictator perceived the shortfall to be proof of
Ukrainian disloyalty.
Stalin decided to starve the independence out of Ukraine — much as Putin’s
army appears to have decided to starve
the last defenders of Mariupol. Soviet
troops swept in, seizing the crops and
livestock of small subsistence farmers to
make up the supposed shortfalls from
the collectives. When the hungry farmers
tried to flee, the Russians imposed a
system of internal passports, essentially
sealing off Ukraine from the outside
world as its people wasted away.
Families slaughtered their house pets
for protein. Children near death dug for
food in empty gardens with their bare
hands. Some people sank to cannibalism
to survive. Meanwhile, Stalin refused to
allow relief organizations to ship food
into Ukraine.
The total dead in the Holodomor —
the name eventually given to the Ukrainian genocide of the early 1930s — will
never be known. One sophisticated
analysis of demographic data put the toll
at 3.9 million, roughly the equivalent of
the entire population of Los Angeles
today. Ethnic Russians were relocated by
the tens of thousands to take the place of
the dead and thus remake Ukraine in
Moscow’s image.
The trauma of this genocidal famine
was so great that many survivors actually
welcomed the armies of Adolf Hitler
when they invaded the Soviet Union via
Ukraine in 1941. Anyone was preferable
to Stalin. Yet today, Putin uses that
history to convince his duped nation that
the Ukrainians are nothing but Nazis.
Contrary to Xi’s implications, no interference by a bloc of Western nations
was needed to stir the desire of Ukrainians for freedom. NATO and the European Union recruit their members by
offering prosperity and human rights,
not mass graves and starvation. The
attraction for bullied and brutalized
people is obvious. If that constitutes a
“Cold War mentality,” so be it. Free
nations have no choice but to resist
Orwellian tyrannies that call murder
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) at the Capitol earlier this month.

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he question about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has always been:
Is he really that dense, or does
he just think everyone else is? Either
way, and considering the clear fact
that he lacks any conviction beyond
his overweening desire to be in the
speaker’s office, Republicans should
be leery of allowing him there as
anything but a visitor.
When the New York Times, previewing an upcoming book by its
journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, reported Thursday
that McCarthy had privately told colleagues he planned to advise President Donald Trump to resign after the
violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the
Capitol by his supporters, McCarthy
erupted in outrage. He claimed the
account was “totally false and wrong”
and that it was more proof that “the
corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a
liberal agenda.”
But Lordy, it turns out there’s tape.
In the recording of a call with other
Republican leaders four days after the
Capitol riot that the Times released
Thursday night, McCarthy said of
Trump to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.):
“The only discussion I would have
with him is that I think this [impeachment resolution] will pass and it
would be my recommendation that
you should resign. Um, I mean that
would be my take.” More audio surfaced Friday, including a clip in which
McCarthy declared that he had “had it
with this guy.”
The tapes are infuriating, as neverTrump Republican Sarah Longwell,
publisher of the Bulwark, noted on
Twitter: “Kevin McCarthy is casually
discussing 25th Amendment, telling

Trump to resign, and making sure
Pence won’t pardon him. . . . WITH
LIZ CHENEY. Only to, weeks later,
kick Cheney out of leadership for
saying the same things he did.”
Nor did the minority leader follow
through on his stated plan to nudge
Trump into early retirement. Instead,
soon after the transfer of power on
Inauguration Day, McCarthy made a
pilgrimage to Palm Beach to kiss
the, uh, ring of the potentate of
Mar-a-Lago. Trump, in an interview
Friday with the Wall Street Journal,
said he wasn’t bothered by McCarthy’s
recorded comments, given how quickly the minority leader was back in a
posture of public obeisance.
Meanwhile, the news surely won’t
sit well with the MAGAnauts in the
House, including the hard-right Freedom Caucus, which helped upend
McCarthy’s bid to become speaker in
2015 and has been the object of his
courtship ever since. McCarthy, however, may have bought — or at least
leased — their loyalty with such moves
as giving his onetime rival Rep. Jim
Jordan (R-Ohio) committee posts
where he can play lead attack dog
against the Biden administration
should Republicans regain a majority
in the House, which seems a likely bet.
Whether McCarthy will be leading
them as speaker, however, looks far
from a sure thing. This is not the first
instance when he has stumbled by
telling the truth and then trying to
lie his way out of facing the
consequences.
There was the time in 2015 when he
told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that
House Republicans’ supposed investigation of the 2012 attack on a U.S.
diplomatic compound in Benghazi,
Libya, was actually an effort to destroy

the political prospects of Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, who was considered the front-runner for the 2016
Democratic presidential nomination.
He boasted: “Everybody thought
Hillary Clinton was unbeatable,
right? But we put together a Benghazi
special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her
numbers are dropping. Why? Because
she’s untrustable. But no one would
have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.” In the
ensuing uproar, McCarthy’s spokesman issued a statement declaring that
the select committee that the Republicans set up had “nothing to do with
politics.”
Then there was the leaked recording of a conversation that took place a
month before Trump secured the Republican nomination in 2016, in
which McCarthy suggested to fellow
Republican leaders that Trump might
be getting paid by Russian President
Vladimir Putin. As others in the room
laughed, McCarthy added: “Swear to
God.” Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.)
cautioned everyone there: “No leaks.
. . . This is how we know we’re a real
family here.”
Then as now, McCarthy first tried to
claim he never made the comments.
When confronted by evidence, a
spokesman played down his boss’s
words as “clearly an attempt at
humor.”
All of this is a preview of the
embarrassments that lie ahead for
Republicans if they allow McCarthy to
ascend to the office he so assiduously
covets. Give the House minority leader this much: He has shown everyone,
more than once, precisely who he is —
a dissembler, yes, but one who isn’t
shrewd enough to cover his tracks.

War is a dirty business. Will the Marine Corps
be ready for the next one?
BY C HARLES K RULAK,
J ACK S HEEHAN AND A NTHONY Z INNI

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t is a proven lesson of history that
militaries must play a never-ending
chess game of modernization and
technological improvement. In that
effort, the U.S. Marine Corps is undertaking a top-to-bottom restructuring called
Force Design 2030. The move is wellintended, but we believe it is wrong. It
will make the Marines less capable of
countering threats from unsettled and
dangerous corners of the world.
The core of the plan, initiated in
March 2020, focuses on preparing the
Marines to fight China in a potential
Pacific-region conflict that would involve the extensive use of new and
emerging technology.
To do so, the Corps plans to divest itself
of a significant portion of its combat
forces — including infantry battalions,
tank units, fixed-wing and rotary-wing
aircraft squadrons, and logistics units. It
will replace them with small units designed to man a yet-to-be-determined
line of island outposts in the western
Pacific, with the mission to detect, engage and contain enemy naval forces as
they sail past the islands.
These units, in theory, would dominate
the first battle of the next war by using
sophisticated sensor-to-shooter capabilities, hypersonic weapons and other hightech "goodies" — warfare largely conducted by the push of a button.
The plan reflects some mistaken notions about the future of war. Simply put,
it is folly to bank on technology allowing
us to fight our battles from a distance. War
is inevitably a dirty business, and the war
in Ukraine is a sample of what we may

encounter in conflicts to come. Technology has not obviated the need for sustained artillery capabilities and armor.
War is also often unexpected: Force
Design 2030 is tailoring the Marines to a
narrow set of possible conflicts — but the
world could just as easily throw us a
curveball. Threats to global security are
both varied and broad, and they are not
confined to China and Russia. North
Korea, Iran and non-state actors around
the world have the potential to move
tension and disagreement to conflict
with little or no warning.
What’s more, it is not clear that the
Marine Corps of Force Design 2030
would achieve even its narrowly focused
goal against China.
First, all the islands the Marines would
seek to occupy belong to some nation.
Those nations will be unlikely to appreciate their territory being turned into a
bull’s eye.
Second, our Chinese adversaries are
likely to be able to quickly track and
target these Marines’ positions, which
would have to be in what the Marine
Corps calls the “weapons engagement
zone” — within the range of enemy
missiles.
Claims that these units could remain
hidden from the enemy — all while
moving, resupplying and communicating with headquarters — discount the
technology that we know China already
has. As soon as hostilities commence, it
stands to reason that the enemy will
retaliate against engaged units with overwhelming force. And its systems would
be more numerous and lethal, with a
longer range, than the weapons available
to the small Marine outposts.
Moreover, existing documents on

Force Design 2030 do not clearly lay out a
plan to evacuate casualties and resupply
the island units during combat.
Much of the equipment, organization
and training the Marines are building as
part of Force Design 2030 already resides
in (and is funded by Congress for) the
Army, Navy and Air Force. Some redundancy is good, but duplication of an
already existing and sophisticated skill
set is not.
Marines thrive on innovation. It is in
our DNA. From the development of landing craft before World War II, to the use of
aircraft for close air support, to establishing the concept of vertical envelopment,
to the use of the Harrier and development of the V-22, the Marine Corps has
always been at the forefront of fighting
wars in new ways.
Setting small groups of Marines on
islands to wait for enemy ships to sail
past is not innovation. Cutting significant combat capabilities that may be
needed in all theaters to afford questionable capabilities in one theater is not
innovation.
The stakes in this gamble require not
only serious study and war-gaming both
within and without the Marine Corps,
but they beg closer scrutiny by the combatant commanders, the Defense Department and Congress. The national security ramifications of reducing the capabilities of our nation’s most ready, agile
and flexible force are seismic.
Charles Krulak served as the 31st
commandant of the Marine Corps; Jack
Sheehan served as NATO’s Supreme Allied
Commander Atlantic; and Anthony Zinni is a
former combatant commander of U.S. Central
Command. All are retired Marine generals.

here is honor, of a sordid sort, in
the Biden administration’s showing more gratitude to a major
donor than concern for the needs
of millions of children, disproportionately
minorities. The administration prefers
the donor, a government-employees
union, over the children, even though this
tawdry fidelity to a funder will exacerbate
Democrats’ growing problems with Black
and Hispanic voters. This is the significance of the number 97.9.
From 1990 on, that is the lowest percentage of the American Federation of
Teachers’ campaign contributions that
went to Democrats. It explains the administration’s contemptible pettiness in persecuting charter schools with punitive
regulations intended to be crippling.
Charter schools are tuition-free public
schools authorized to exercise wider discretion in educational practices than
most public schools that are tightly enveloped in union rules. Although charters do
not divert public funds from public education, teachers unions generally oppose
them because charters expand parents’
choices, thereby infusing into public education something teachers unions dread:
competition.
Last month, President Biden’s Education Department released 13 pages of
pettifogging rules patently written to discourage and impede charter schools from
accessing a $440 million federal program
of support for charters. The rules include:
A charter must serve a “diverse”
population. This could disqualify a school
that serves, as many charters do, nondiverse — that is, non-White — inner-city
populations.
A charter must prepare a “community
impact analysis” demonstrating that there
is an “unmet demand” for it. Such a demonstration must be evidence of “over-enrollment of existing public schools,” not long
waiting lists for admission to charters by
parents dismayed by public schools whose
dismal performance has produced underenrollment because of parental flight.
Charters must supply plans for “racially and socio-economically diverse” staff,
effectively a mandate for a racial spoils
system. Charters must drown themselves
in paperwork not required of traditional
public schools — detailed reports on purchases of goods and services from forprofit companies.
Biden’s handmaidens of the AFT and
other teachers unions say a charter should
“collaborate with at least one traditional
public school” and provide a letter from
each such “partnering” school attesting to
each partner’s “commitment” to the “collaboration.” This salad of weasel words
requires charters to get permission from
schools with which the charters would
compete.
Biden’s tapestry of obstructions will not
halt the proliferation of charters. Despite
the Democratic Party’s increasingly frantic
opposition, more than 7,000 charters with
205,000 teachers now serve more than
3 million students. Furthermore, Frederick M. Hess and Hayley Sanon of the American Enterprise Institute say, “In some communities, tens of thousands of families
who came up empty in charter admissions
lotteries are on waitlists.” This large cohort
of parents is opposed by progressives who
are, to say no more, selectively “pro-choice.”
Minnesota opened the first charter
school in 1992. In 1994, President Bill
Clinton, celebrating Senate passage of the
first federal support for charter schools,
said the legislation “puts the Federal Government squarely on the side of public
school choice” and “innovative charter
schools.” In 1995, at a San Diego charter,
he said the school was “freed of a lot of the
rules and regulations that keep some of
our schools all across America from designing their own ways of educating children.” He criticized congressional Republicans for proposing a budget that “would
cut back on our ability to promote charter
schools.” By the end of Clinton’s presidency, there were 1,941 charters.
This expressed the Clinton centrism
that enabled him to become the first
Democratic president reelected since
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today, a Democratic president’s dismal poll numbers reflect,
among much else, somewhat declining
support among Black people, and hemorrhaging support among Hispanics. A
2019 poll of Democratic voters, before the
pandemic deepened dissatisfaction with
union tyranny over public education,
showed Blacks supporting charters
58-to-31, and Hispanic support at
52-to-30. Charters’ current enrollments
are 24.9 percent Black and 35.2 percent
Hispanic, far above each cohort’s portion
of the nation’s population.
President Barack Obama, who made
Biden’s presidency possible, said charters
“serve as incubators of innovation” and
“give educators the freedom to cultivate
new teaching models and develop creative
methods to meet students’ needs.” Biden,
whose invertebrate embrace of progressives’ obsessions has ruined his presidency,
is waging aggression against charters
because they are the most accountable
public schools: Parents choose them and, if
dissatisfied, can change their minds.
If the Republican Party adopted, for
obvious monetary reasons, a policy comparably hostile to minorities’ preferences and
interests, progressives’ cries of “Racism!”
would be deafening. Is there today another
such clear connection between a party’s
particular policy and the party’s cupidity?

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Russians are
told they must
win the war or
cease to exist
Presented with only stark
choices, they justify support
for Putin’s fratricide, says
journalist Leonid Ragozin

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n April 1, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, a
member of the lower house of the
Russian parliament, put a Kremlin
spin on the war in Ukraine for the
millions of viewers of an influential Russian talk show. Russia wasn’t really fighting Ukraine or Ukrainians; the real enemy was the American-led Western bloc.
“We need to introduce a new term,”
Zhuravlyov said. “Biden’s war.”
This was creative framing considering
that President Vladimir Putin himself
prefers to justify Russia’s aggression with
more insular rhetoric. He has said that
Russians and Ukrainians are one people,
while Kremlin propaganda, especially
the toxic television talk shows, promote
the idea that those who advocate for the
country’s genuine independence from
Russia are a bunch of Nazis.
But whether it is “Biden’s war” or
Putin’s, Russians have rallied around the
flag, and most likely that’s because the
Kremlin has led them to see the war as an
existential choice: Either you win it, or
your life is going to be destroyed.
The available evidence shows significant support for the war, as well as a
surge in patriotism. According to the
Levada Center, a respected independent
pollster, the number of Russians who
thought the country was going in the
right direction rose from 52 percent
before the invasion to 69 percent after,
and Putin’s personal approval rating
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The people
best at teaching
history aren’t
always historians
Book review by
Douglas Brinkley

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The American
retirement
system is built
for the rich
Lawmakers proclaim they want to help the middle class
save. But that’s not who benefits most from IRAs and
401(k) plans, says law professor Daniel Hemel.

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emocrats and Republicans in Congress don’t typically
agree on tax policy. But late last month, 216 House
Democrats joined with 198 of their GOP colleagues to
pass legislation advancing a cause that both parties
have championed in recent years: ensuring that highincome individuals can stuff even more money into their
tax-advantaged retirement accounts. Only five House members
— all Republicans — voted no.
Overwhelming Republican support for the bill — known as the
Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022, or Secure 2.0 — comes
as no shock: Tax-cutting has long been a central plank of the GOP
platform. What’s more surprising is that every Democrat in
attendance backed the measure, too. Even Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — a pillar of the party’s left wing who at a
gala last September sported a gown with the slogan “TAX THE
RICH” — voted to bestow billions of dollars in benefits on the
very taxpayers whom she says should pay more.
Bipartisan support for Secure 2.0 is part of a decades-long
pattern: While loudly and proudly proclaiming that their goal is
to nurture nest eggs for the working class, lawmakers have
constructed a complex of tax shelters for the well-to-do. The
lopsided result is that as of 2019, nearly 29,000 taxpayers had
amassed “mega-IRAs” — individual retirement accounts with
balances of $5 million or more — while half of American
households had no retirement accounts at all. Overall, according
to the Congressional Budget Office, the top 10th of households
reap a larger share of the income tax subsidy for retirement
savings than the bottom 80 percent.
It’s working out just fine for the financial institutions that
manage assets in IRAs and 401(k)s. The combined amount in
those vehicles reached $21.6 trillion at the end of 2021 — up
fivefold since 2000 — and the more money that pours in, the
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hen documentarian Ken Burns
debuted “The Civil War” on PBS
in 1990, columnist George F.
Will declared the nine-part series a
“masterpiece of national memory” in
which “our Iliad has found its Homer.”
That was high praise for a 37-year-old
New Hampshire filmmaker fresh out of
the used-record-store business, and it
was a bit demoralizing to me, a young
U.S. historian fresh out of my PhD
studies at Georgetown. With Burns’s
opus, my chosen profession had just
pole-vaulted into the Golden Era of
history film documentary, while I was
still using library card catalogues and
reading dead people’s mail. Book writing, I feared, would be condemned to
play second fiddle to “Ashokan Farewell,”
the haunting violin theme that packed
such an emotional wallop in “The Civil
War.”
Ironically, it’s a new book — “Making
History: The Storytellers Who Shaped
the Past” by the British historian Richard
Cohen — that has me thinking again
about the magnificence of “The Civil
War,” and more broadly about the whole
endeavor of my profession. Sprawling
and wildly ambitious, idiosyncratic and
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The U.S. has few remaining tools to deter Russia’s use of chemical weapons

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oncerns that Russia might use chemical
weapons in Ukraine gained renewed
urgency in recent days, after unverified
reports that Moscow dispersed an unknown
chemical agent in the besieged city of
Mariupol. The destruction of Moscow’s declared chemical arsenal under the supervision of the Organization for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was officially
concluded in 2017, but U.S. officials have long
suspected that Russia retained some chemical weapons capabilities. One fear is that,
with things going poorly on some fronts in
Ukraine, it will use such weapons to turn the
tide.
It is U.S. and NATO policy to deter a
chemical attack by threatening punishment,
military or economic. And for deterrence to
work, Moscow must believe that Washington
will act decisively. But the circumstances in
Ukraine raise challenges for deterrence because the United States is already approaching the ceiling of measures it can take against
Russia, short of a direct attack (which
President Biden has ruled out). It has imposed crushing sanctions and recently increased the scope of weapons being shipped
to Ukraine. It is unclear whether the threats
that remain to be made are significant
enough to cause Russia to rethink its tactics,
should it judge the use of chemical weapons
to be militarily expedient. And the same
issues cloud the question of how the United
States could punish Moscow for a chemical
attack after the fact.
There are still economic measures that
could be imposed, such as U.S. sanctions on
additional financial firms or a European
embargo of Russian oil and gas. And NATO
has probably not exhausted all options for
weapons support: Germany has been debating sending Leopard battle tanks, for instance. But the deterrent value of these
measures is dubious. The Russian leadership
has probably factored in harsher economic
punishment, having long told its population
that sanctions are inevitable. It also seems
improbable that the prospect of additional
NATO arms supplies to Kyiv — on top of the
Mi-17 helicopters and howitzer cannons added this month and the Stinger and Javelin
missiles sent before that — looms particularly
large in Moscow’s calculations because the
weapons arriving in Ukraine now are already
deadly.
Russia also almost certainly does not fear
diplomatic fallout over using chemical weapons. The OPCW has procedures for investigating and attributing chemical attacks, as it
did in Syria, where it found the Syrian
government responsible on multiple occasions. But any meaningful consequences for a
chemical attack in Ukraine would fall victim
to Russia’s veto at the U.N. Security Council.
Nor would international shaming be effective. Russia’s shielding of the Syrian government through diplomacy and disinformation,
and its attempted assassinations of people
deemed enemies of the state with Novichok
agents, suggest that it is immune to efforts to
damage its global image. What’s more, its
troops already stand accused of perpetrating
heinous atrocities in Ukraine using conventional weapons.
The Syrian civil war shows that deterrence
can be a challenge even in cases that do not
directly involve a nuclear power. President

NATO may
already be
pushing the
limits on what
arms it can
supply to
Ukraine,
says Hanna
Notte

ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO/REUTERS

Pro-Russian troops
walk through a
devastated area of
Mariupol, Ukraine,
on April 12. There
were unconfirmed
reports this month
that Russia had
used a chemical
agent in the battle
for the port city.

Barack Obama’s 2012 warning that the use of
chemical weapons would constitute a “red
line” failed to deter Syrian forces from killing
more than 1,400 people with sarin a year
later, in August 2013. The United States did
not strike in retaliation. Instead, it negotiated
a deal with Russia to remove and destroy any
remaining chemical weapons. But Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, having cheated in
disarming, continued his attacks, suggesting
that the lack of U.S. response in 2013 had
undermined American credibility. In April
2017 and April 2018, the Trump administration sought to restore deterrence, striking
Syria with missiles following chemical attacks. Yet Damascus and Moscow appear to
have dismissed the strikes as one-offs, rather
than viewing them as signals that the U.S.
calculus on the Syrian war had fundamentally changed.
The subsequent tapering off of chemical
attacks in Syria coincided with the overall
winding down of the war and was therefore
not necessarily a sign that deterrence
worked. The Syrian case suggests that it is
hard to prevent a highly motivated actor
from chemical weapons use, especially if the
deterring side fails to respond decisively to
the first crossing of the “red line.”
Regarding Ukraine, the Biden administration has warned Moscow of an unspecified
“in-kind” response for chemical use, which

could entail either military measures or some
form of asymmetric action — such as a
cyberattack on Russia’s allies in Minsk,
Belarus, as the New York Times columnist
Bret Stephens recently suggested. Yet Washington’s sensible aversion to direct conflict
with Russia would probably dictate restraint
in its response; even a targeted strike against
a Russian military unit deemed responsible
for a chemical attack might seem too risky. In
general, the challenge in responding to a
Russian chemical attack is that the tool kit of
punishments includes the very deterrents
that failed to change Moscow’s calculus in the
first place.
While Russia’s position on the U.N. Security Council makes sanctions stemming from
an investigation by the OPCW unlikely, such
an inquiry would not be entirely pointless.
Building on the Syria precedent, OPCW data
on chemical weapons use in Ukraine could
enable European court cases against complicit Russian officials, under the principle of
“universal jurisdiction.” And Russia — already under pressure at the OPCW for
obstructing the investigation into opposition
leader Alexei Navalny’s poisoning with a
Novichok agent — could end up being
suspended from the organization. While such
a step, just like Russia’s recent suspension
from the U.N. Human Rights Council, would
probably not affect Moscow’s calculus, it

How Russians justify
support of Putin’s war
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soared to a whopping 83 percent. But these
figures come with a major caveat. New legislation makes “discrediting the armed forces” a
crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison,
and that can encompass all sorts of things,
including calling the war a war — circumstances that cast doubt on whether the polls
are representative or the answers truthful. As
an experiment staged by researchers at the
London School of Economics showed, support
for the war goes down by 15 percentage points
when people are encouraged to speak their
mind.
Whatever the true level of support, it’s clear
that Russians aren’t necessarily buying Putin’s
rationale for the invasion. In a joint project
with the Ukrainian pollster KIIS, the Levada
Center for years has asked Russians what kind
of relations they envisioned between their
country and Ukraine. In a poll conducted in
December, only 18 percent of Russians said
they wanted the two countries to become one,
while 51 percent said they wanted Russia and
Ukraine to be independent countries with an
open border, and 24 percent said they wanted
independent countries with a hard border.
In a Levada Center poll published on the
day Putin launched the invasion, only 25
percent of Russians supported Russia’s expanding its borders to include the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics —
Donbas, where much of the heaviest fighting
is concentrated now — while 33 percent
wanted the region to become independent
and 26 percent wanted it to remain part of
Ukraine.
That doesn’t sound like a people who
believe, as Putin does, that Ukraine is part of
Russia and Ukrainians are Russian. It’s hard
to deny that the war is fratricidal, however,
and that would seem to make selling it to the
public more difficult. How can you flatten
Ukrainian cities where millions of Russians
have relatives and friends? Consider Russia’s
own leadership: No. 3 in the official hierarchy,
Valentyna Matviyenko, is from Shepetivka in
western Ukraine; Russia’s current chief
Ukraine negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, was
born in Smila, not far from Kyiv; his predecessor Dmitry Kozak grew up in a predominantly
Ukrainian-speaking rural area of central
Ukraine, rather than one of its Russian-speaking regions. Or look at people directly involved
in Russian aggression against Ukraine: Dmitry Sablin, like Zhuravlyov a member of the
Duma, is a native of Mariupol, a large city now

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A bus with the
hashtag #heroesZ —
a reference to
Russia’s fighters in
Ukraine — passes a
mural of President
Vladimir Putin in
Kashira, Russia,
last week. Putin’s
government has
framed the war as a
fight for Russia’s
very existence.

practically razed by the Russian army; Sablin
is responsible for the Russian parliament’s
liaison with Donetsk. And a general to whom
Putin awarded a medal “for the return of
Crimea” is also the father-in-law of Pavlo
Klymkin, who headed Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry for five years after Russia’s first attack, in
2014.
The pattern of deeply intertwined relationships extends into broader Russian society.
Having some kind of connection across the
border is the norm, not the exception.
So how do Russians justify support of what
so far has been a series of crimes against
humanity committed against a people who are
the transnational-relationship equivalent of
next of kin?
The Kremlin employs two related narratives here. The first paints the enemy as the
West, not Ukraine. This framing turns Russia
into the smaller, weaker side in the conflict —
a victim, not a perpetrator. The war, in this
scenario, emerges as the climax of an escalation driven by the West as NATO gradually
expanded toward Russian borders in the last
three decades.
Medinsky the negotiator, who is better
known in Russia as an architect of the historical narratives promoted by Putin’s regime,
expresses the second framing best: “Russia’s
very existence is at stake now,” he said last
month. Russia, in this telling, is going through
a period like the one that led to the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917, or the one when the Soviet

system was falling apart in the early 1990s.
Messages aimed at triggering the survival
instinct are extremely powerful in Russia,
where various invasions from the West, including Adolf Hitler’s attempt at exterminating eastern Slavs as a race, define the historical experience. There is a mode of Russian
collective behavior in the face of mortal
danger: People forget their old grievances and
rally behind the leader, even one hated by
many. This is what happened in 1941, when the
victims and perpetrators of communist genocide united under Joseph Stalin to repel the
existential threat posed by the Nazis.
Russians are not facing an existential threat
now, of course. Rather, it is their own country
that’s posing an existential threat to a neighbor. But the human tendency is to grasp for
comforting, rather than truthful, narratives. It
takes something along the lines of Germany’s
defeat in World War II to accept reality. It also
takes decades, rather than years or months.
Freed from its totalitarian prison in 1991,
Russian society emerged badly traumatized by
a century of outright genocide and bleak
Soviet existence. It was re-traumatized by the
turmoil of the 1990s. Even in the current
circumstances, people appear intent on resisting further re-traumatization. They remain
oblivious to the fact that the more they deny
reality, the worse will be the future trauma.
Unlike Ukrainians, Russians don’t even have
the illusion of the West embracing and integrating them after this conflict. Pro-Putin

would signal a refusal to engage in business
as usual with those who repeatedly violate
international law and human rights.
Washington’s options for deterring and
punishing chemical weapons use in Ukraine
may be limited, but that does not mean
Russia’s use of such weapons is a foregone
conclusion. The Kremlin will probably continue to weigh the military benefit of chemical weapons against a potential, probably
cautious, U.S. retaliation.
As long as Russia retains considerable
conventional capacity to wage war in
Ukraine, its cost-benefit analysis might favor
chemical restraint. Should the progress of its
military campaign continue to be slow and
frustrating, however, the Russian leadership
might become increasingly desperate for a
breakthrough, and chemical weapons might
beckon. Moreover, strategists who are desperate might make decisions in a heightened
emotional state of defiance and vengeance,
casting sober-minded calculations aside. The
options available to punish Russia, should it
cross the chemical red line, will hardly be
commensurate with the horrors endured by
its victims.
Twitter: @HannaNotte

Hanna Notte is a senior research associate at the
Vienna Center for Disarmament and NonProliferation.

Russians assume that all the West wants is to
punish them, so they’ll try their best to
postpone this punishment or prevent it altogether.
Meanwhile, opposition-minded Russians
are seeing the carnage Putin has brought to
Russian-speaking cities in Ukraine and realizing that he may exact the same in Russia if
people rise against him. They get the message.
When Putin says Russians and Ukrainians are
one people and then — in the next breath —
begins slaughtering these people en masse, he
is unleashing civil war, by his own logic. For
now, that is confined to a neighboring country.
But some pro-Kremlin commentators, including the editor of a key history journal and a
well-known writer, have recently taken to
branding members of the Russian opposition
“internal Ukrainians.” The implication is that
anti-Putin Russians should be treated with the
same cruelty as Ukrainians, because they want
to destroy Russia. Sergey Naryshkin, head of
Russia’s foreign intelligence service, spelled it
out. Russians who didn’t support the “special
operation” in Ukraine could expect the fate of
Ivan Mazepa, an 18th-century Ukrainian leader who sided with the Swedes against Peter the
Great, lost the war and died in exile.
Russians face few choices that don’t lead to
self-destruction. The West might be thinking
that by increasing economic and military
pressure, it will achieve a behavioral change,
and perhaps even a collapse of Putin’s regime,
but it may just as well cause the opposite,
uniting people in what they see as an apocalyptic battle for survival.
Putin wasn’t a rising totalitarian star when
he unleashed the war in Ukraine. He was a
declining authoritarian leader who prolonged
his political life by promoting conflict and
polarization. This war bought him a few more
years in power. He paralyzed the resistance to
his regime by turning his supporters into
accomplices in war crimes and those who
oppose him into enemies of the state. He
doesn’t really need to occupy Ukraine; he
needs the war per se.
The West will not win this conflict unless it
gets Russians on board. But without a clearly
spelled-out vision of a post-Putin Russia fully
integrated into the West — the kind of vision
that inspires Ukrainians to fight against Putin
— the vector of Russian society will remain
fratricidal and, increasingly, suicidal. This is
bad news for everyone on the planet, given
that Russia’s nuclear arsenal is capable of
destroying humanity. As Putin once put it:
“Why do we need the world if there is no
Russia in it?”
Twitter: @leonidragozin

Leonid Ragozin is a freelance journalist based in
Latvia. He has covered the Ukrainian conflict and
Russian politics, and previously reported for the
BBC and the Russian edition of Newsweek.

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When Latino immigration rises, Whites view Blacks more positively
A study by Vasiliki Fouka and
Marco Tabellini reveals a zerosum dynamic in how White
Americans see minority groups

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ocial scientists have observed that as immigrant groups grow in size, prejudice
toward them often increases. Studies have
established, for example, that in areas of the
United States where immigration from Mexico
has climbed, White Americans have tended to
view Latinos more negatively — buying into a
narrative about a “Latino invasion.” But how
does the rising prominence of one disfavored
group affect the standing of other minority
groups?
A recent study of ours, which looked at how
White Americans’ attitudes toward Hispanic
Americans and Black Americans shifted from
1970 to 2010, revealed a zero-sum dynamic.
Over that period, hostility toward Latinos rose
while hostility toward Black Americans decreased. The effect appears to be causal: In
parts of the country that had the most immigration, both the negative views of Latinos and
the positive views of Black Americans were
stronger.
This suggests that boundaries of social
groups in diverse societies are not fixed: What
divides “us” from “them” changes depending
on the context. And the interactions can be
complex: Notably, as the number of Hispanics
rose, other groups, such as Asian Americans
and Muslim Americans, did not benefit in the
same way as Black Americans, we found. Our
research suggests that is because White Americans viewed Asian Americans and Muslim
Americans as more “foreign” than Black Americans.
For our research project, we compared
changes in the share of the Mexican-born
population across U.S. states, counties and
census tracts from 1970 to 2010. We measured
prejudice toward various racial or ethnic
groups using data from several representative
surveys of American social attitudes, taking an
especially close look at a “feeling thermometer,” a question asked in repeated waves of the
American National Election Study (ANES). The
survey asked respondents how warmly they
felt toward each group, on a scale of 0 to 100,
with higher numbers reflecting more positive
feelings. For the states and counties with the
smallest change in Mexican immigration between 1970 and 2010, the thermometer ratings
of Black people by White people stayed the
same — or even decreased a little.
But in parts of the United States that experienced larger increases in the population share
of Mexican immigrants, we found that White
Americans over time rated Black Americans
more warmly on the feeling thermometer — as
negative attitudes toward Latinos grew. More
generally, we found that Mexican immigration
can explain up to 55 percent of the increase in
Whites’ thermometer ratings of Blacks since
1970. (Overall, Whites’ ratings of their Black
fellow citizens on the feeling thermometer rose
by three points, from 61 to 64, from 1970 to
2010.)
Over the period studied, White Americans
consistently viewed Hispanics more negatively
than African Americans: White respondents’

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Migrant families
from Central
America walk
alongside the
border wall after
crossing into the
United States near
Sasabe, Ariz., in
January. Research
shows that when it
comes to minority
groups, White
Americans’
attitudes can shift
depending on
context.

feeling-thermometer ratings for Hispanics
were lower than those for African Americans in
every year the ANES was conducted from 1976
to 2008. When areas experienced surges in
Mexican immigration the gap in White attitudes toward the two groups widened.
As in all observational studies, we faced a key
empirical challenge in establishing causality.
For example, Mexican immigrants might have
settled in areas where Whites’ attitudes toward
racial equality were becoming more liberal
over time. This would be problematic, because
we would be attributing to the inflow of Mexican immigrants what would actually be an
independent change in racial attitudes among
Whites. To overcome this and similar problems, we took advantage of the fact that most
new immigrants tend to move to places where
their ethnic community is larger; we predicted
the number of Mexican immigrants settling in
a given U.S. area relying on the historical
distribution of the Mexican population. As long
as the historical distribution of Mexican enclaves was not related to future changes in
Whites’ racial attitudes, this strategy allowed
us to isolate the causal effect of immigration on
Whites’ attitudes toward Black Americans.
To better understand the phenomenon we
identified, we conducted an online survey experiment in which we primed roughly 500

White non-Hispanic respondents to think
about the size of the Hispanic population in the
United States, asking them to estimate the
share of Hispanics in the country. (We did not
correct their guesses; the point was simply to
get them thinking about the subject.) In the
259-person control group, respondents were
instead asked to estimate the average age of U.S.
residents — a neutral subject. We then asked
respondents to tell us how well they thought
different attributes characterized ethnic and
racial groups in the United States, including the
degree to which they were “American.”
Overall, the White respondents in our survey
ranked Whites as most American, followed,
with some distance, by African Americans.
Hispanics and Asians were ranked next, with
Muslims at the bottom.
Respondents who were primed to think
about the size of the Hispanic population were
significantly more likely to perceive Black
Americans as “American.” No such change was
observed for any of the other groups. This
finding suggests that “immigrant” or “foreigner” is a distinct category in the minds of
Americans. When immigration becomes salient, immigrants are cast as the primary outgroup and prejudice is directed against them.
This diverts prejudice away from other discriminated groups.

This study is not the only evidence that
prejudice is a finite resource, distributed by
Whites across racial and ethnic groups in ways
that shift over time. In the early 20th century,
the migration of Black Southerners to cities of
the Northeast and Midwest served to divert
White Americans’ prejudice away from European immigrants, allowing Italians, Poles and
Russian Jews to assimilate into Whiteness “on
the backs of Blacks,” as Toni Morrison eloquently put it. More recent research demonstrates that a reduction in anti-Muslim hatred
after Donald Trump’s rhetoric subsided was
accompanied by rising antisemitism in online
media. Far-right groups that targeted Muslims
appear to have partly shifted their attention to
Jews.
Our results have implications for the future
of group relations in the United States. Diversity and rapid demographic change mean the
boundaries of “us” and “them” are constantly
shifting. Increases in the size or salience of one
group can change the position of all other
groups. The bleak takeaway is that while relative rankings change, group hierarchies endure.
Vasiliki Fouka is an assistant professor of political
science at Stanford University. Marco Tabellini is
an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

School lunch programs face labor and supply issues. Scratch cooking can help.

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he access to free meals that tens of millions of schoolchildren have through the
Agriculture Department’s child nutrition programs is under threat. When federal
pandemic waivers expire June 30, the majority
of the nation’s schools will no longer feed all
students free of charge, and school districts
will receive far less money from the federal
government — about $2.91 per meal instead of
$4.56 — for those they do feed.
These policy changes will send child nutrition programs — which have been indispensable during the pandemic — spinning into
turmoil if schools continue to be hammered by
labor shortages, supply chain challenges and
inflation. Some schools have already stopped
providing the breakfasts, after-school snacks
and suppers that children from low-income
households rely on. Others have turned to
more heat-and-serve meals and shelf-stable
items that require less on-site labor, since job
vacancies have reached crisis levels.
The twin problems of labor and supply
shortages aren’t easy to fix, but one solution —
cooking meals from scratch — can go a long
way toward addressing both. Scratch cooking
gives schools more flexibility to buy from local
farms instead of relying solely on distributors
that may not be able to fill their orders, and it
converts part-time jobs into full-time positions
that can be more satisfying and better paid.
What’s more, after initial investment in infrastructure, scratch cooking is cost-effective. A
2020 study of California public schools found
that nutrition departments with high levels of
scratch cooking spent the same total percentage of their budgets on food and labor — 87
percent — as those that did little to none.
Since 2013, Minneapolis Public Schools has
invested in scratch cooking infrastructure and
built a robust farm-to-school supply chain that
includes 15 partner farms, cooperatives and
food hubs for the 2021-2022 school year. The
district partners with farmers who grow specific items in the quantities the district requests
— a process called forward contracting —
which has kept the price of farm-to-school
products stable in comparison with the pandemic price volatility of food that the district
sources from large national producers.
Like other employers in the low-wage service and education sectors, school nutrition
programs have long struggled to recruit and
retain enough employees to fill hourly positions. The majority of the roughly 420,000
workers employed in K-12 nutrition programs
are in part-time jobs without full benefits or
union representation. An average hourly wage
of $11 to $15 simply isn’t enough for employees
to support themselves without working multiple jobs or receiving public assistance. As the

Schoolchildren,
cafeteria
workers and
local economies
all benefit from
investment in a
different model
for meals,
writes Jennifer
Gaddis

MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Minneapolis Public
Schools, which
invested in a robust
farm-to-school
program, serves
lunches like this
one cooked from
scratch. Elsewhere,
many schools
instead rely on
prepackaged or
processed foods,
especially amid
staff shortages.

labor union Unite Here, which represents K-12
cafeteria workers in multiple cities, puts it,
“One job should be enough.” And it can be.
Districts that use a scratch-cooking model,
dishing up menu items like turkey and wild
rice meatloaf, Vietnamese noodle bowls and
beef tacos, support more full-time employees
and higher-quality jobs. They are able to offer
working conditions notoriously difficult to
find in food service: predictable schedules, no
evenings, no weekends, benefits, a sense of
purpose — maybe even a union that allows
them to exercise their collective power, as SEIU
Local 284 workers in Minneapolis did this year
when they successfully negotiated a contract
that increases their wages and benefits.
According to a Biden administration task
force, requiring schools to employ cafeteria
workers full-time would minimize service interruptions caused by labor disputes, decrease
job vacancies and increase union participation. This, along with a federally financed
increase in wages and benefits, would ensure
that one job is enough for the workers who feed
the nation’s children.
When schools have adequate infrastructure
and staffing, scratch cooking may even save
money. Anneliese Tanner, former food-service
director of the Austin Independent School
District and current director of research and
evaluation at the Chef Ann Foundation, found
that scratch-prepared hummus cost 25 cents
less per serving than a prepackaged cup, and
scratch-made cheese enchiladas cost 14 cents

less per serving than a prepackaged equivalent.
And as advocacy coalitions like ScratchWorks and social enterprises like Brigaid and
Red Rabbit note, the benefits of scratch cooking go beyond price, giving schools the power
to modify recipes to maximize nutrients and
remove “ingredients of concern” like high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors and artificial
preservatives from the meals they serve.
Many schools, though, lack the necessary
facilities and equipment for scratch cooking,
because the federal government did not allocate any money for this purpose from 1981,
when President Ronald Reagan cut school
lunch funding, until the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Federal disinvestment in school food infrastructure hit low-income districts the hardest.
The California study found that wealthier and
majority-White districts do more scratch cooking than lower-income and non-White districts. Wealthier districts have higher tax bases
and more access to local funding, so are better
able to pay for scratch cooking themselves.
California is addressing these inequities.
The state has committed to providing free
school meals for all students and has allocated
$150 million for kitchen infrastructure and
staff training. The California Comeback Plan
further invests more than $127 million to “bolster more resilient and equitable food systems,”
including $60 million for the California Farm
to School Incubator Grant Program and $15
million to support food hubs and cooperatives.

At the federal level, members of Congress
have introduced multiple bills that support
scratch cooking and local food, including the
bipartisan Scratch Cooked Meals for Students
Act. And the Biden administration has taken
steps to help schools withstand the acute challenges of the pandemic, adjusting meal reimbursement rates in January to help offset inflation, updating nutrition standards and allocating $1.5 billion in supply chain assistance,
$200 million of which will support local sourcing and historically underserved producers
like veterans and Black farmers.
This is not enough. To truly “build back
better,” as the Biden administration would
have it, the federal government must make a
transformative investment in scratch-cooking
infrastructure and jobs while continuing to
feed all students for free.
Shifting the nearly 100,000 public and nonprofit private schools that participate in the
National School Lunch Program to a scratchcooking model could benefit the health and
well-being of whole communities, not just
children. During evenings, weekends and
school breaks, when kitchens are not being
used to prepare meals for students, this public
infrastructure could be used to make healthy,
low-cost meals for seniors and other community members who need food assistance. Such
innovations took root in the first year of the
pandemic, when many school districts reached
out to feed adults in their communities. In New
York City alone, about 400 schools were converted into food hubs that distributed millions
of free grab-and-go meals.
Some may say the price of continuing the
federal child nutrition waivers (estimated at
more than $11 billion for the 2022-2023 school
year), and of investment in labor and infrastructure, is too high. But the cost of inaction is
higher. According to an analysis from the
Rockefeller Foundation, the pre-pandemic
school breakfast and lunch programs generated $21 billion a year in net value to society
through health improvements and poverty reduction. This could be increased by an additional $10 billion annually, the foundation
found, if school meal programs maximize participation, improve nutritional quality, and
buy environmentally sustainable and locally
sourced ingredients. Public investment at the
federal and state levels is key to unlocking this
potential.
Twitter: @JenniferEGaddis

Jennifer Gaddis is an assistant professor of civil
society and community studies at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison and the author of “The Labor
of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in
American Public Schools.”

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America has a true retirement crisis. IRAs and 401(k)s mostly benefit the rich.
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more that managers collect in fees. A small
sliver makes it back to lawmakers in the form of
campaign contributions: The largest asset
managers — BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity
and State Street — gave almost $1.2 million
through their political action committees to
House and Senate candidates in the last election cycle. But that’s a pittance compared with
what these firms stand to gain from Secure 2.0.
University of Virginia law professor Michael
Doran — who held tax policy roles at the
Treasury Department under Presidents Bill
Clinton and George W. Bush — calls the current
state of affairs “the great American retirement
fraud.” It’s hard to argue with that description.
And Secure 2.0 would take the fraud to a new
level: Its congressional supporters have engaged in Enron-style accounting gimmicks to
mask the bill’s effects on deficits — tricks that,
if used by corporate executives, might well land
them in jail. (Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) has
introduced a broadly similar bill in the upper
chamber, though without some of the House’s
most egregious accounting shenanigans.)
One reason the deception has succeeded
thus far is that the details are complicated,
allowing Congress to funnel benefits to the
donor class without ordinary voters having any
idea of what’s going on. Even some lawmakers
might have been hoodwinked, though if so,
they bear blame for not making an effort to
understand the legislation they voted to pass.
The boondoggle began from humble origins.
In 1974, Congress passed a provision allowing
workers who weren’t covered by employer
pension plans to contribute up to $1,500 per
year to new “individual retirement accounts.”
Workers could claim tax deductions for their
contributions — and assets in IRAs would grow
tax-free — but distributions would be subject
to ordinary income tax (plus an additional 10
percent tax on withdrawals before age 591/2).
All that might seem innocuous, but from the
outset, IRAs were a generous gift to the upper
class. At the time, very few low- and middle-income individuals could afford to stash $1,500
in a retirement account each year — median
income for U.S. households was $11,100 in 1974
— so the people taking full advantage of the
new IRAs tended to be relatively rich. And
since the benefit was structured as a deduction, it was worth more to taxpayers in higher
income brackets.
In any event, the $1,500 IRA in 1974 was just
a start. In the nearly half-century since, Congress has continually expanded the amount
that individuals can pour into tax-deferred
savings accounts. The advent of employerbased 401(k) plans in 1978 accelerated the
process. At the time, the Joint Committee on
Taxation, which advises Congress on tax legislation, said that the new 401(k) provision
would have a “negligible effect upon budget
receipts.” Now, the JCT estimates that 401(k)s
and other similar defined-contribution plans
cost the federal government $200 billion per
year.
Today, individuals can contribute up to
$6,000 per year to an IRA ($7,000 if age 50 or
older), plus $20,500 to a 401(k) ($27,000 for
50-year-olds and up), with their employers
potentially chipping in to bring the 401(k) total
to $61,000 ($67,500 for the over-50 set). For
most Americans, those limits are meaningless.
In 2018, the most recent year for which data is
available, 58 percent of taxpayers with wage
income made no contribution to 401(k)-style
plans, and less than 4 percent bumped up

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The U.S. Treasury
Department
building in
Washington. The
Joint Committee on
Taxation estimates
that 401(k)s and
similar retirement
plans cost the
government
$200 billion each
year in lost tax
revenue.

against the contribution cap. The data on IRAs
tells a similar story: As of 2020, approximately
63 percent of U.S. households had no such
accounts.
For the select few who can afford to contribute up to the IRA and 401(k) caps, the potential
rewards are tremendous. Steve Rosenthal of
the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and I
calculated that an individual who made the
maximum 401(k) contributions since 1990,
investing exclusively in an S&P 500 index fund,
would have more than $7 million in her account today.
When JCT released data last summer showing that 28,615 taxpayers had accumulated
$5 million or more in IRAs, lawmakers cried
foul. Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), who as
chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is
the top tax writer in the House, lamented the
“exploitation” of IRAs. “IRAs are intended to
help Americans achieve long-term financial
security, not to enable those who already have
extraordinary wealth to avoid paying their fair
share in taxes,” Neal said. But mega-IRAs are an
entirely predictable consequence of Congress’s
policy choices.
(The very largest IRAs, like PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel’s reported $5 billion account,
result from a different loophole: the ability of
founders and early-stage investors to stuff
IRAs with start-up stock. But Forbes revealed
more than a decade ago that Thiel and another
PayPal co-founder were using their IRAs to
shelter entrepreneurial earnings; the Government Accountability Office flagged the IRAstuffing phenomenon in 2014; and rather than
clamping down, lawmakers from both parties
sat on their hands.)
Indeed, lawmakers — including liberal
Democrats — have learned virtually nothing
from the last half-century. The Secure 2.0 bill,
sponsored by Neal, doubles down on the inequities of the status quo. It will inevitably result
in even more of the mega-IRAs that Neal and
other Democrats decry.
The costliest provision in Secure 2.0 —
clocking in at $9.6 billion over the next decade
— is an increase in the threshold age for
required minimum distributions. Under current law, taxpayers must begin to take withdrawals from their 401(k)s and traditional
IRAs at age 72. (It had been 701/2 before Secure
1.0, signed into law by President Donald Trump

in 2019, raised the age by a year and a half.)
Secure 2.0 would bump that up to age 75. The
change would mean that taxpayers with supersize IRAs could enjoy three extra years of
tax-free growth before they needed to take
money out. Lower-income retirees wouldn’t
benefit because they don’t have the luxury of
holding off on withdrawals, which they need to
cover living expenses.
Another provision would lift the cap on
401(k) catch-up contributions at ages 62, 63
and 64 from $6,500 to $10,000. Factoring in
employer matching contributions, that would
raise the maximum 401(k) inflow to $71,000
per year. In theory, catch-up contributions are
supposed to help people who couldn’t save
much until later in life. But if lawmakers were
genuinely concerned about retirement security for people who need it, they wouldn’t start
by aiding taxpayers who can afford to save
more each year than most Americans earn. The
higher limit on catch-up contributions will
simply allow high-income taxpayers to race
further ahead.
There are, to be sure, scattered provisions of
Secure 2.0 that would modestly boost retirement savings among some low- and middle-income workers. For example, the bill instructs
the treasury secretary to “increase public
awareness” of the retirement savers’ credit,
which offers up to $1,000 to workers who
contribute to IRAs and 401(k)s. The bill also
tweaks the parameters of the credit so that
more middle-income households can claim it.
But Secure 2.0 doesn’t fix the most significant flaw in the savers’ credit: the fact that it’s
nonrefundable. Workers can’t claim the full
$1,000 unless they have at least $1,000 in tax
liability. A head of household with two kids
won’t hit that threshold until she has at least
$38,505 in income (at which point she would
be ineligible for the full credit anyway because
her income is too high). The credit is, in this
respect, another element of the swindle: On
paper it looks like it’s designed to help lowerincome individuals, but in practice it’s largely a
ruse.
Another provision of Secure 2.0 that ostensibly helps lower-income Americans would require new 401(k) plans to enroll employees
automatically. Unless an employee explicitly
opts out, employers would have to deduct a
steadily rising percentage of the employee’s

paycheck — topping out between 10 and 15
percent — for contributions to the employee’s
401(k) account. That’s a questionable financial
decision for many low-income taxpayers:
Should, for example, a single parent with two
young kids who is earning $15 per hour be
putting 10 to 15 percent of her earnings into an
account that she won’t be able to access until
age 591/2? But it’s catnip for asset management
firms, which now would hold even more savings on which they could draw fees.
The top-weighted benefits of Secure 2.0
might be tolerable if they were offset by other
tax increases on the rich — if this were all just
moving money from one deep pocket to another. But the items audaciously labeled as
“revenue provisions” in the bill generate revenue as real as Monopoly money.
One of these “revenue provisions” would
give employers the option to make Roth contributions to employee 401(k) plans. Roths —
named for the late senator William Roth (RDel.) — offer a variation on traditional IRAs
and 401(k)s. In the traditional arrangement,
contributions are deductible but distributions
are taxed at ordinary rates. In a Roth, there is
no deduction for contributions, but money in
the account (including gains) can be withdrawn tax-free after the taxpayer reaches age
591/2.
As long as tax rates remain constant, Roth
and traditional accounts produce the same
amount of revenue in present value terms, a
result known as the Cary Brown theorem in
honor of the MIT economist who demonstrated it. But there’s a twist: The Joint Committee
on Taxation, which produces official revenue
estimates for tax bills, publishes projections
for only a 10-year budget window. Through
that lens, Roth contributions look better because the upfront taxes appear within the
10-year window, while the revenue losses from
tax-free withdrawals do not. The Rothification
provisions in Secure 2.0 bring $35 billion of
revenue into the 10-year window — ostensibly
offsetting the cost of the bill’s giveaways — but
the $35 billion is pure make-believe: It comes
at the expense of an equivalent amount of
revenue down the road.
Nonetheless, Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.),
one of Secure 2.0’s promoters, praised the bill
as “completely budget neutral” — either because he thought he could play voters for fools
or, perhaps, because he was fooled himself. The
question now is whether Buchanan’s fellow
Republicans can fool fiscal conservatives into
thinking that they really care about the deficit
— and whether Democratic lawmakers can
fool their base into thinking that they genuinely care about wealth inequality. If lawmakers
from either party were truly concerned about
the plight of low-income retirees, they would
focus on strengthening Social Security, which
actually provides a safety net for older people,
rather than adding more deficit-financed bells
and whistles to retirement accounts for the
rich.
The era of tax-incentivized saving for retirement is nearly half a century old, and for all
that time, Congress has showered high-income
savers with generous benefits while paying lip
service to the working class. The old adage says
you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Bipartisan retirement reform puts that to the
test.
Twitter: @DanielJHemel

Daniel Hemel is a professor at the University of
Chicago Law School and a visiting professor at New
York University School of Law.

In praise of histories from
outside the ivory tower
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also consistently readable and engaging,
“Making History” dives deep into the way
history-driven scholars and artists — from
Burns to Shakespeare to Herodotus — have
shaped the collective memory of humankind.
Championing both famous and largely forgotten historians as well as storytellers, filmmakers and photographers, Cohen’s volume offers
memorable anecdotes and reasoned judgment as it explores themes including the
foundational mythos of the Old and New
Testaments, the Roman era, the contributions
of history-maker historians from Julius Caesar to Winston Churchill, Black American
history from George W. Williams to Ibram X.
Kendi, historical works from medieval texts to
the New York Times Magazine’s recent “1619
Project,” and the failure of Japan to prosecute
war criminals after World War II.
A former London publishing director and
the author of “How to Write Like Tolstoy,”
Cohen clearly prizes narrative flow over
ivory-tower historical analysis, stressing novelists’ and playwrights’ ability to conjure the
atmosphere of past times and places instead
of just recording facts. In that regard, he
places Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” as the
most vivid way to understand the Napoleonic
Wars — a view that might have been shared by
Tolstoy himself, who refused to call his
masterpiece fiction while also denying that it
was a historical chronicle.
Cohen’s valorization extends to more recent
historical novelists such as Shelby Foote,
Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison and Gore
Vidal. He even creates the genre “History as a
Nightmare” and anoints Soviet novelist and
political dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn its
master practitioner. To his credit, Cohen also
quotes novelist Vladimir Nabokov dismissing
the entire novelists-as-historians trope: “Can
anybody be so naïve as to think he or she can
learn anything about the past from those
buxom best-sellers that are hawked around by
book clubs under the heading of historical
novels?” Nabokov asked. “Certainly not. . . .
The truth is that great novels are great fairy
tales.”
To me, Cohen’s core philosophy seems to
echo novelist Hilary Mantel’s 2017 declaration, which he quotes, that “history is not the
past — it is the method we’ve evolved of
organizing our ignorance of the past. . . . It’s

MAKING HISTORY
The Storytellers
Who Shaped the
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By Richard Cohen
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President John F.
Kennedy’s
motorcade in Dallas
on Nov. 22, 1963,
seen just moments
after Kennedy was
fatally shot.
Historian Richard
Cohen notes the
importance of video
and photographs to
our collective
understanding of
history.

what’s left in the sieve when the centuries
have run through it.” Somewhat lazily, the
sieve that Cohen consults too often seems full
of little nuggets from the “History” section in
“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” — pithy epigrams from writers like John Lukacs, George
Orwell and Leopold von Ranke.
“Making History” doesn’t shy from the fact
that the sieve has massively favored male
voices over female, a situation summed up by
Jane Austen in her 1817 novel “Persuasion”:
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling
their own story. Education has been theirs in
so much a higher a degree; the pen has been in
their hands.” Discussing a Ranker.com list of
“Famous Female Historians,” Cohen writes
that “only recently could such a listing even
have been contemplated. For centuries, reading and writing were reserved for the power
holders in what worldwide were patriarchal
societies.” Somewhat ironically, Cohen then
holds up Chinese writer Ban Zhao (45-116)
and Byzantine scholar Anna Komnene
(1083-c.1153) as examples of underappreciated female historians — though both made
their names supporting and writing about
men: Komnene writing “The Alexiad,” a
history of the Byzantine Empire during the
reign of her father, Emperor Alexios I Komne-

nos; Zhao completing her late brother’s history of the Western Han Dynasty and penning
the popular “Lessons for Women,” which
affirmed traditional gender roles while also
advocating for women’s education.
Moving into the modern era, Cohen rightfully praises two-time Pulitzer-winning historian Barbara Tuchman for exhibiting no “fear
in writing about men” and for being “a natural
storyteller, providing lively narratives rather
than delighting in fresh archival material.”
Having descended from two of the most
prominent Jewish families in New York,
Tuchman knew the world of politics and
statecraft at an early age, but she wasn’t “a
historian’s historian,” Cohen says. Instead, she
was something far worthier: “a layperson’s
historian” who made the past interesting.
Anyone who has read Tuchman’s descriptions
of 14th-century life in “A Distant Mirror”
would be hard-pressed to disagree.
Among Cohen’s strengths is his sheer
enthusiasm for his favored writers, which has
persuaded me to finally read Sir Walter Scott’s
“Rob Roy,” to purchase Hilary Mantel’s 1998
novel, “The Giant, O’Brien,” and to make plans
to delve into the writings of the classicist Mary
Beard, whose BBC TV series “Meet the Romans” and “Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed”

Cohen adores. Likewise, Cohen has also
shamed me into realizing I’ve never read Leon
Trotsky’s “My Life,” which is now on my to-do
list.
Toward the end of “Making History,” Cohen
assesses the impact of contemporary photography and film. There is a fine riff on how both
the dastardly Joseph Stalin and the knighted
Dwight Eisenhower had people cropped out
of photographs — literally cutting them out of
history to serve their political purposes. At the
opposite pole, Cohen stresses how indelible
images and video of the JFK assassination, the
9/11 tragedy and the murder of George Floyd
have been vital to building collective memory.
That’s why Burns’s documentaries are very
much to Cohen’s liking — they’re a distillation
of academic history into emotion and poetry,
injected into the American bloodstream
through the shared medium of TV. Fittingly,
Cohen uses a line from the television series
“The West Wing” to drive his point home. In
the words of fictional president Josiah Bartlet: “Modern history’s another name for
television.”
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown
chair in humanities and a professor of history at
Rice University, and the author of “Cronkite.”

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Critic Margo Je≠erson looks back and sees a life refracted through art

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few years ago, a friend in her 60s started
resisting films any longer than about 90
minutes. Another, a septuagenarian and
lifelong reader, jokes these days that any
author who intends to write more than 300
pages should have to produce a note from their
mother.
Aging can make a person crave brevity. It
isn’t simply that time is running short. It’s that
we start to feel as if we’ve seen it all. Like
directors at a casting call, we are willing to be
surprised but also wanting to get on with
things already.
Margo Jefferson’s new memoir is a pleasing
reminder that we have not quite seen it all. And
Jefferson delivers her surprises in fewer than
200 potent pages.
With “Constructing a Nervous System,” the
distinguished thinker, who in 1995 won a
Pulitzer Prize for her book reviews and cultural criticism in the New York Times, shoves
aside old ideas about memoir as mere biography. Her approach is an almost poetic presentation of fragments of her experiences as they
ricocheted off artists whose work and lives she
has found meaningful. It’s an extraordinary
reading experience — the first book I recall
wanting to reread immediately after reaching
the end.
How, I kept wondering, does Jefferson make
this work? With only pieces of her biography in
place — she is the younger of two daughters
born to a pediatrician father and a perfectionist mother — she lures us into a dreamy and
peripatetic journey of the mind and heart. She
uses her elegant voice and some theater lingo
to persuade us to focus on her nuanced ideas
about race, class identity and, to some extent,
family.
Early on, we learn that Jefferson was an
extraordinary, precocious child. At 8 or 9, she
was learning Greek mythology, pulling her
parents’ jazz records out to listen to them by
herself and making imaginative connections
between them. Pianist Bud Powell captivated
her.
“I made [Powell] Theseus, of course, the
hero wresting beauty and harmony from a
monster’s grasp,” she writes. She did not yet see
what she would later come to recognize about
Powell, whose short life encompassed musical
transcendence and mental illness. Only later
would she recognize in him the Minotaur:
“Bud Powell was a genius-monster, made
genius through hour on hour of ravenous
music listening and practice; made a monster
by years of cop beatings, medications, liquor,
breakdowns, electroshock treatments, heroin
and forced confinements in mental institutions,” she writes. “Half man, half beast — the
designation assigned blacks and enforced by
law and practice.”
Pages later, she triangulates the connection,
this time adding her father, whose long, dedicated hours at work and struggles with depression made him less available to his daughter
than she wished. “Why couldn’t Bud Powell
find a way to be Theseus — slay the monster,
defy the men who’d made him one, and outwit
the monster inside himself?” she wonders.
“Why couldn’t my father find time to gather
me in his arms each day and take solace in my
company?”
Jefferson exudes charisma on the page with
a voice that commands attention almost regardless of content. As a Black woman in her
70s and a veteran critic able to draw on a rich

INVESTIGATION

CONSTRUCTING
A NERVOUS SYSTEM
A Memoir
By Margo Jefferson
Pantheon.
208 pp. $27.

ERIC GREGORY/AP

The National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Neb. Critic and professor Margo Jefferson writes of her complex
feelings for Cather and other White authors, loving their work but disappointed in their treatments of race.

trove of cultural experience, she draws us into
her thoughts about particular artists she admired in youth and then saw anew with the
perspective of age. The hindsight almost invariably includes new thinking about the role
that race played in those earlier experiences.
Novelist Willa Cather is a good example.
Jefferson invokes her several times, once as
she recollects a visit to the Art Institute of
Chicago with a friend during the 1970s, where
they gazed upon Jules Breton’s painting “The
Song of the Lark.” The purpose of the story is
both to share a revelation that emerged as
Jefferson and her friend talked about the art
and to note that the painting gave Cather the
title of her third novel. Jefferson reveres Cather’s wisdom and loves “The Song of the Lark,”
the tale of young Thea Kronborg, who sets out
in search of her independence and a life in
music. But later, Jefferson returns to Cather to
note the complex problem of loving her. “Song
of the Lark” is riddled with references to its
heroine’s “milky” white skin and blond hair,
betraying, as Jefferson sees it, Cather’s fetishization of the Nordic and disinterest in
making American Blacks a part of her work. As
a college professor, Jefferson taught “The Song
of the Lark” to classes of mostly White women.
She struggled with how to open their eyes to
the problem of this “white rapture” while not
alienating them from herself or the gifts the
novel had to offer.
“I wanted them to be disappointed — roundly disappointed in this major American writer
Wilella Sibert Cather,” Jefferson writes. “As I’d
had to be, time and time again, in a lifetime of
reading white writers.” The nuance of this
moment is the kind of thing Jefferson does
best. “Constructing a Nervous System” offers
the reader an opportunity to become comfortable with the discomfort of life’s contradictions. Jefferson dives deep into the life of
Josephine Baker, in whom, she says, “will and
desire were conjoined.” She finds connection
and contrast between James Baldwin and
Sammy Davis Jr. And toward the end, she
recounts the harrowing history of actress
Janice Kingslow, whose taste of success in the
1940s quickly evaporated after Kingslow
wrote about Hollywood’s request that she
change her name and agree to pass as White;
she refused.
Stylistically, “Constructing a Nervous System” is a diary that often stops to directly
address the reader. It’s a stage performance
and maybe a therapy session. Above all, it is
meaningful cultural criticism. Jefferson invites us to rethink our experiences with art
while finding resonance in intimacies that she
shares from her own life. I still can’t say I know
exactly how she manages to make this all
succeed. I only know that she does, and it is
splendid.
Karen Sandstrom is a freelance writer in
Cleveland.

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Tracking down the fraudsters and profiteers of the coronavirus pandemic

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ne notable silver lining of the scourge
that swept the world two years ago was
the way we cohered. We gathered to
bang pots for health-care workers. We sang
arias from our balconies and donned Fauci
T-shirts. We quarantined for ourselves, yes,
but also for the collective good. We were in this
together, right?
Nope.
J. David McSwane’s revelatory “Pandemic,
Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who
Got Rich While We Got Sick” will make
whatever guilt you may harbor for hoarding
toilet paper pale next to the deeds of a network
of dodgy scammers and profiteers who, as
McSwane puts it, “did insane things to get rich
while our nation suffered an incalculable loss
of life and global standing.”
During those initial terrifying weeks of the
pandemic, when no one knew just how dangerous the novel coronavirus was, the United
States found that the federal stockpiles to
combat the outbreak were a tiny fraction of
what was needed. Supplies of every kind were
scarce, especially personal protective equipment (don’t forget the health-care workers’
PPE of last resort — garbage bags).
In short order, the 3M N95 mask was so
sought after, McSwane points out, that “it
became perhaps the most enduring symbol of
this most painful year.”
And it was during those first weeks that
McSwane, a reporter for the investigative
news organization ProPublica, boarded a private jet at Dulles International Airport to tag
along with Robert Stewart Jr., the Bible-toting
chief executive of an outfit called Federal
Government Experts, LLC. Stewart was
awarded a $34.5 million no-bid contract to
supply 6 million N95 masks to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs the
largest hospital system in the United States.
Never mind that Stewart had zero experience procuring or selling medical gear. VA,
where N95s were in particularly short supply,
had agreed to pay nearly $6 per mask, about a
350 percent markup from the list price. The
private jet, which operated at a rate of $22,000
a day, took the men from D.C. to Chicago in
April 2020, with a stop in Georgia to pick up
Stewart’s parents. McSwane had been promised an N95 to wear during the flight, but the
only masks he knew to be on board — or

PANDEMIC,
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Chasing the
Capitalists and
Thieves Who
Got Rich While
We Got Sick
By J. David
McSwane
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Peter Navarro, the
White House trade
adviser under
President Donald
Trump, was put in
charge of
prioritizing
manufacturing for
the coronavirus
response in 2020,
steering hundreds
of millions of
dollars in contracts.

anywhere else within Stewart’s grasp, it would
turn out — were those overhead, for oxygen.
Thus ensued a 36-hour tour through a
netherworld of brokers, fixers and other middlemen, one of whom provided a “proof of life”
video showing scores of boxes with 3M labels
(“It sounded like something out of a hostage
negotiation, but it was the standard parlance,”
McSwane writes). Each of these middlemen
took a cut. The wild goose chase involved a
connection from inside the Trump White
House named Juanita Ramos, who might or
might not have existed.
And the 6 million masks Stewart claimed to
be picking up in Chicago? It didn’t happen.
A federal investigation began soon after
ProPublica ran McSwane’s story about this
misbegotten caper. Stewart, a poster child of
greed in the time of covid-19, eventually
pleaded guilty to three counts of making false
statements, wire fraud and theft of government funds. He was sentenced to a year and
nine months in prison. At his sentencing
hearing, Stewart, a new father, choked back
sobs.
Stewart, of course, was but one of the many

characters looking to make a buck off tragedy.
McSwane claims it was the boredom of quarantine that drove him to dig so deep; he had a
lot of time on his hands, but he happens also to
be a great reporter. True to ProPublica’s
mission of exposing betrayals of the public
trust, McSwane and his colleagues dove into
data and unearthed bandits of all stripes. At a
warehouse in Houston, McSwane discovered a
group making fake test kits from miniature
soda bottles. At another pop-up facility 200
miles away in San Antonio, a different band of
fraudsters was busy replacing the packaging
of inferior masks from China and relabeling
them as medical grade. And we meet not one
but two California juicer salesmen who were
all too eager to join the mask craze.
By late April, the U.S. government had
awarded more than $1 billion to hundreds of
first-time contractors, fueling a black market
while further frustrating the search for supplies by states, cities and hospitals. “The
United States was desperate, China was holding back [supplies], manufacturers and entrepreneurs were filling the space, and money
was being sent to whoever dared to play the

game,” McSwane writes. “Our national wellbeing now rested with mercenaries.”
Some, not all, of these criminals were
investigated. Some, not all, of those investigated were charged with federal crimes.
Also lurking in the pages of “Pandemic, Inc.”
is Peter Navarro. A quick refresher: Navarro is
an economist and Donald Trump loyalist who
was a former trade adviser to the president.
He’s been described as having a Rasputin-like
ability to whisper the most inchoate of ideas
into Trump’s ear and see them become policy.
Most recently, Navarro was found in contempt
of Congress, after failing to comply with
congressional subpoenas for records and testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riots.
When the pandemic hit, Navarro became
national Defense Production Act policy coordinator, in charge of prioritizing manufacturing for the coronavirus response. Which
means that the buck stopped — or often
started — with Navarro. In the early months of
the pandemic, writes McSwane, “Navarro
steered hundreds of millions of dollars to
companies, working around career contracting professionals with blatant disregard for
. . . formal channels.”
McSwane is funny. Laugh-out-loud funny. If
the whole story weren’t so tragically and
disgustingly real, “Pandemic Inc.” could be
mistaken as the script for a “Saturday Night
Live” skit. But embedded in the mirth is a
wholesale indictment of this toxic brew of
unfettered capitalism and greed that frustrated the pandemic response at every turn.
If you can read this book without growing
too nauseated, you must. Because this is our
country, folks, and the behavior McSwane
describes is the behavior our country has
spawned. Shame on us.
McSwane witnessed much of this circus
firsthand. Yet, oddly, he remains compassionate, at least on a case-by-case basis. He has
good wishes for Stewart and hopes that
Stewart will raise his young son well. “For if we
were destined to repeat the sins of our fathers,
this country would not be worth saving,”
McSwane writes. “I believe it is.”
Katie Hafner is executive producer and host of the
“Lost Women of Science” podcast and the author
of six books of nonfiction. Her first novel, “The
Boys,” will be published in July.

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6 CIRCE (Back Bay, $16.99). By Madeline Miller. This
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7 VERITY (Grand Central, $16.99). By Colleen Hoover. A
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8 GREAT CIRCLE (Vintage, $18). By Maggie Shipstead.
An aviator goes missing over Antarctica, and a century
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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, writes Moisés Naím, came to power in a democratic election but then governed undemocratically
— as did President Donald Trump, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, and Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini of Italy.

GOVERNMENT

REVIEW BY DIDI KUO

How the world has been
‘made safe for autocracy’

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n “The End of Power,” Moisés Naím argued array of economic, political, social, technologthat power was decaying. The modern era ical and attitudinal reasons that the world is
was characterized by fluidity, by centrifuprimed for 3P power; the world has been
gal forces that redistributed power away from “made safe for autocracy,” he writes. Polarizalong-standing centers of authority. Because of tion, populism and post-truth are the critical
three revolutions — the more revolution, the strategies aspiring autocrats use to divide
mobility revolution and the mentality revolutheir societies and mobilize their bases of
tion — power was becoming easier to get but support.
harder to maintain. The result was a tense
Populism is a political style in which
combination of progress and instability.
leaders claim to represent the “true voice of
Writing a decade later, Naím now turns to a the people” against a corrupt and self-internew ordering of power by leaders unhappy ested elite. While candidates throughout
with its diffusion. Naím — a journalist and
history have embraced some level of populist
scholar who was editor in chief of Foreign
messaging, conditions today magnify its apPolicy magazine for 14 years — depeal. These include having a celebriploys a new alliterative trio (the three
ty fan base and private control of the
P’s of populism, polarization and
media, which allow leaders easy
post-truth) to describe what he calls
access to their loyal followers. Dethe revenge of power. This book
clining economic security also leads
contributes to a now-well-established
to dashed expectations, which popugenre explaining the global crisis of
list messaging exploits.
democracy. These books draw simiSocieties that are divided by ecolarities between President Donald
nomic inequality, or racial and ethTrump and leaders like Viktor Orban
nic tensions, may also be more
of Hungary, Hugo Chávez of Vensusceptible to grievance-based politezuela, and Silvio Berlusconi and THE REVENGE
ical messages. 3P autocrats foster
Matteo Salvini of Italy, all of whom OF POWER
polarization, which then ups the
came to power democratically but How Autocrats stakes of politics. Post-truth, which
governed in contravention of the Are
Naím describes as the “rejection of
Reinventing
democratic process.
complexity, nuance, and reason …
Today’s autocrats are savvy, with Politics for the the unembarrassed embrace of manew stratagems fit for a world upend- 21st Century
nipulation as a governing teched by technological change. They Moisés Naím
nique,” makes it all but impossible to
exploit, and sow, distrust in experts, St. Martin’s.
rebut an autocrat’s outlandish
authorities, the media. They manu- 294 pp. $29.99. claims. Further, social media and
facture truth, invent enemies and use
online news create an information
legal pretexts to consolidate power. This is environment characterized by “fear, uncerwhat Naím terms stealthocracy: a way of
tainty, and doubt” rather than expertise and
maintaining the architecture of liberal defact.
mocracy while gutting accountability and
“The Revenge of Power” is filled with
fostering public discord. He writes that “3P” illustrative histories of various autocrats and
power is “malign … incompatible with the
the ways they honed their craft in their rise to
democratic values at the center of any free power. A young Vladimir Putin undergoes
society.” Its danger lies in the slow way leaders training at the KGB as the Soviets develop
transform societies that are already undergodisinformation campaigns against Sen. Hening rapid change. Institutions may look the ry “Scoop” Jackson, fearing a presidential
same, but the values, norms and freedoms run. A young Boris Johnson, appointed Brusthat undergird them have worn away.
sels bureau chief for the Telegraph newspa“The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are per, stokes anti-E.U. sentiment through sensaReinventing Politics for the 21st Century” is
tionalist reporting. Hugo Chávez airs a televiwide-ranging in scope, providing insights sion show that becomes “part revival meetinto our current crisis without trying to ferret ing, part history lesson, and part
out a single cause of democratic decline.
revolutionary harangue.” (As a former VenNaím is more interested in describing the
ezuelan trade minister, Naím describes the

eerie feeling of watching Trump deploy tactics similar to the ones Chavez used.)
Naím also acknowledges the ways democracies have failed to deliver. 3P autocrats find
it easy to sell anti-democratic messages
because democracies themselves suffer from
institutional sclerosis and regulatory capture; former leaders have been imprisoned
for corruption.
There is a sense of inevitability in Naím’s
narrative given the many factors driving
autocracy today. Globalization and financial
interconnectedness help autocrats (and their
oligarch pals) not only accumulate wealth but
also purchase influence abroad. 3P leaders
have what seems like a foolproof tool kit of
domestic political strategies alongside a new
world of pseudo-internationalism, where autocrats take care to protect one another’s
interests on the world stage. They back each
other’s security objectives, deploy bot armies
to destabilize neighboring democracies and
even sponsor fake nongovernmental organizations.
“The Revenge of Power” also discusses the
coronavirus crisis, particularly the way such
emergencies help autocrats. Around the
world, leaders canceled elections, controlled
information about the virus and increased
their surveillance of the public. Naím wonders if further autocratic control during a
pandemic is an effective strategy and hopes
that vaccines will help restore trust in democratic governments. Unfortunately, it seems
as if the pandemic has only deepened divisions in democracies. Vaccine uptake and
pandemic response have diverged along partisan lines in the United States, and vaccine
mandates have been highly contentious.
Naím wants to be hopeful about the
potential for little-D democrats — citizens
and governments alike — to combat autocracy. He lays out five battles we need to win
(against falsehoods, criminalized governments, foreign subversion, political cartels
and illiberalism) and hopes that the world’s
democracies can come together to articulate
the promises of democratic life. In his recent
writings on the horrific Russian invasion of
Ukraine, Naím has stressed this need for
democracies to work together on global
crises. The challenges facing democracies are
worsening, with inflation driving up the cost
of food and gas prices worldwide, climate
change intensifying, and autocracies becoming more violent. These could present an
opportunity for the world’s democracies to
come together, but unfortunately, they could
just as easily enable further autocratic consolidation.
Didi Kuo is a senior research scholar and
associate director at the Center on Democracy,
Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford
University.

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ordeal of the author’s father during the Holocaust.
2 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF
PLANTS (Milkweed Editions, $18). By Robin Wall
Kimmerer. Essays by an Indigenous scientist offer
lessons in reciprocal awareness between people and
plants.
3 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE (Penguin, $19). By
Bessel van der Kolk. A scientific look at how trauma
can reshape a person’s body and brain.
4 ALL ABOUT LOVE (Morrow, $15.99). By bell hooks.
The first volume in the feminist’s Love Song to the
Nation trilogy considers compassion as a form of love.
5 BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS (Random House, $18).
By Suleika Jaouad. A cancer diagnosis derails future
plans for a recent college graduate.
6 A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN (Random House,
$18.99). By George Saunders. The award-winning
author shares his approach to fiction by analyzing the
short stories of four Russian writers.
7 EDUCATED (Random House, $18.99). By Tara
Westover. A memoir by a woman from a survivalist
family who earned a PhD at Cambridge.
8 MAUS II: A SURVIVOR’S TALE: AND HERE MY
TROUBLES BEGAN (Pantheon, $16.95). By Art
Spiegelman. The second part of the award-winning
graphic novel explores the impact of the Holocaust on
survivors.
9 THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE (Crown, $20). By Erik
Larson. A look at how Winston Churchill led Britain
through World War II that explores his political
gamesmanship and his family dynamics.
10 ENTANGLED LIFE (Random House, $18). By Merlin
Sheldrake. A biologist explains the importance of fungi
to our bodies and the environment.
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1 DUNE (Ace, $10.99). By Frank Herbert. In the classic
science fiction novel, a young boy survives a family
betrayal on an inhospitable planet.
2 1984 (Signet, $9.99). By George Orwell. The classic
novel about the perils of a totalitarian police state.
3 BRIDGERTON: THE DUKE AND I (Avon, $9.99). By
Julia Quinn. In Regency London, a young lady and a
Duke agree to a false courtship, which develops into
something more.
4 BRIDGERTON: THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME
(Avon, $8.99). By Julia Quinn. Regency London’s most
eligible bachelor has chosen a wife yet finds himself
drawn to her sister.
5 THE WAY OF KINGS (Tor, $9.99). By Brandon
Sanderson. The first volume in the Stormlight Archive
series.
6 DUNE MESSIAH (Ace, $9.99). By Frank Herbert. The
second book in the Dune Chronicles picks up the story
of Paul Atreides 12 years after he becomes emperor of
the known universe.
7 BRIDGERTON: AN OFFER FROM A GENTLEMAN
(Avon, $9.99). By Julia Quinn. A housemaid in disguise
is swept off her feet by a Regency-era gentleman who
searches for his mystery lady.

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25 MONDAY | 7 P.M. Ben McGrath discusses
“Riverman” with Evan Osnos at East City Bookshop,
645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-290-1636. $30.74.
8 P.M. Natalie Eve Garrett discusses “The Lonely
Stories,” streamed through Politics and Prose Live at
politics-prose.com/events.
26 TUESDAY | 7 P.M. Ari Rabin-Havt discusses “The
Fighting Soul: On the Road” with Bernie Sanders at
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
7 P.M. Jennifer Close discusses “Marrying the
Ketchups” at Politics and Prose.
7 P.M. Alma Katsu discusses “The Fervor,” streamed
through One More Page Books at
onemorepagebooks.com and in person at 2200 N.

Westmoreland St., #101. Arlington. 703-300-9746.
7 P.M. Viola Davis discusses “Finding Me” with
Keisha Lance Bottoms, streamed through Solid
State Books at solidstatebooksdc.com. $41.93.
27 WEDNESDAY | 5 P.M. Christopher M. Finan
discusses “How Free Speech Saved Democracy” with
Ronald Collins, streamed through Lewes Library at
lewes.lib.de.us.
6 P.M. Theresa Brown discusses “Healing: When a
Nurse Becomes a Patient” at Solid State Books, 600
H St. NE. 202-897-4201.
7 P.M. Michael Benson discusses “Gangsters vs.
Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in
Wartime America,” streamed through An Unlikely
Story at anunlikelystory.com/event.

7 P.M. Lawrence Jackson discusses “Shelter: A
Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore” at Politics and
Prose at Union Market, 1270 Fifth St NE. 202-5444452.
7:30 P.M. Vievee Francis shares poetry regarding
“Picasso: Painting the Blue Period,” an exhibition at
the Phillips Collection, streamed through East City
Bookshop and Folger Shakespeare Library at
folger.edu. $5-$30.
28 THURSDAY | 7 P.M. Gary Janetti discusses “Start
Without Me: (I’ll Be There in a Minute)” at Politics and
Prose.
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8 THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (Bantam, $7.99). By
Anne Frank. The diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl as
she hides from the Nazis in an attic during World War
II.
9 MISTBORN: THE FINAL EMPIRE (Tor, $9.99). By
Brandon Sanderson. A fugitive and a thief join forces
to overthrow the oppressive Lord Ruler.
10 SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (Laurel Leaf, $7.99). By Kurt
Vonnegut. The classic antiwar novel that centers on
the firebombing of Dresden.
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In 1953, a restaurateur
trumpeted free borscht to
celebrate the death of a
Russian despot. C3

A visit by Mike Pence
spotlights the University of
Virginia as a free-speech
battleground. C4

Romanian pianist Radu
Lupu, 76, was renowned
for his understated yet
enrapturing play. C8

Police seek to unravel gunman’s motive
ONLINE FOOTPRINT
SCOURED FOR CLUES

As mask rules fall, their
worries about using
public transit rise

Authorities say more
than 100 rounds fired
P ETER H ERMANN,
J ASMINE H ILTON
AND F REDRICK K UNKLE
BY

BY
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J USTIN G EORGE
K ATIE S HEPHERD

Riding the bus is a risk for
Joanne Daniels-Finegold, but the
69-year-old wheelchair user with
asthma, kidney problems and a
blood-clotting disorder has no
other way to get to the grocery
store, her doctor’s office or a
weekend job greeting people at a
farmers market in suburban Boston.
“If I have to go somewhere, I
have no choice,” she said.
Like many medically vulnerable people, Daniels-Finegold
now must take that risk without
the protection of a mandatory
mask policy after a federal judge
in Florida voided a nationwide
requirement on planes, trains,
buses and other modes of public
transportation. Over the past
week, mask mandates have been
revoked on transit systems across
the United States, including in
places like Boston and D.C. that
recently have seen rising coronavirus case numbers and elevated
levels of community spread.
The relaxed rules have some
people rethinking the safety of
their daily commute — especially
those at heightened risk of severe
covid-19 symptoms because they
are over 65, have an underlying
health condition like asthma or
are immunocompromised. Those
same issues are top of mind for
many bus operators, who endured widespread outbreaks during the omicron surge and had
colleagues die of the disease.
At the start of the pandemic
more than two years ago, transit
systems put protections in place
to keep bus operators safe. By late
March 2020, Metro — the nation’s third-largest transit system
— began requiring bus riders to
board from rear doors while forgoing fares so the front door and
first few rows of seats could be
blocked off, creating a buffer
between drivers and passengers.
Transit agencies across the country adopted similar procedures.
Metro resumed front-door
boarding in January 2021. By
then, transit officials said, protective shields enclosing bus operators were installed on all Metro buses, buses were regularly
disinfected and riders were still
required to wear masks.
The highly contagious omicron variant decimated transit

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Edmund Burke School walkway windows are shattered after Friday’s attack. Shortly after the shooting, suspect Raymond Spencer
added a line to the school’s Wikipedia page saying, “A gunman shot at the school on April 22, 2022. The suspect is still at large.”

Crime looms over
D.C. mayor’s race
after dangerous,
di∞cult week
BY

J OE H EIM

On Friday, a sniper targeted
students and adults near a school
in Northwest Washington and left
four wounded before taking his
own life. Three other people were
hurt in a separate shooting in
Northwest Washington and the
gunman remained on the loose.
On Saturday morning, D.C. police
fatally shot a woman who would
not drop a firearm, authorities
said.
The city already was on edge
from a rash of carjackings as D.C.
police statistics show violent
crime has leaped 25 percent yearover-year and robberies have
spiked 57 percent. Voters are weary, and the politicians challenging
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
SEE CRIME ON C7

Police enter a cordoned-off portion of Upton Street the morning after the shooting. Police say
the shots were fired from a “sniper’s nest” in the indiscriminate attack that injured four people.

Authorities on Saturday continued to explore the mysterious
past and motivations of a gunman who they said fired randomly at people, striking four, in
Northwest Washington as new
and frightening details began to
emerge about the potential lethality of the attack.
Officials said police have not
developed a motive for Friday
afternoon’s shootings in the Van
Ness area, but it appeared the
suspected gunman, 23-year-old
Raymond Spencer of Fairfax
County, engaged with Wikipedia
pages related to the recent subway attack in New York City and
a 2018 school shooting in Florida.
Police on Saturday officially
identified Spencer as the man
they believe committed the attack, having previously said that
authorities were searching for
him as a person of interest before
declaring a suspect was found
dead. Authorities said he killed
himself inside the fifth-floor
apartment where he fired more
than 100 rounds near Van Ness
Street and Connecticut Avenue.
Multiple law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss a sensitive investigation, said Spencer’s
only known tie to the District
appears to be that sparsely furnished apartment at the AVA Van
Ness, in which they found assault
rifles, at least one handgun, a
tripod stand for a firearm and a
mattress on the floor.
The apartment that police are
describing as a “sniper’s nest”
overlooks Edmund Burke School
in the 2900 block of Van Ness
Street, which appears to have
drawn the shooter’s attention at
afternoon dismissal.
D.C. Police Chief Robert J.
Contee III said numerous buildings and vehicles may have been
struck by gunfire, and police
officials said they believe two
shops and a vehicle in Cleveland
Park, nearly a mile from the
apartment building, were hit.
“There are probably going to
be a lot of bullet holes we’re
going to find,” Contee said as the
search for evidence expanded
northward on Connecticut AvSEE SHOOTING ON C8

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Arlington backs plans How a local TikToker gets people to reveal their pay
for Amazon’s PenPlace
BY

T EO A RMUS

Amazon will begin transforming an undeveloped swath of Arlington County into the largest
piece of its second corporate
headquarters, capping off a year
of negotiations in this Northern
Virginia suburb among lawmakers, residents and developers over
how exactly the complex should
look, feel and operate — and how
the company should engage with
its new neighbors.
County lawmakers on Saturday unanimously endorsed the
expansion of Amazon’s footprint
at the 10.4-acre site in Pentagon
City, known as PenPlace. Plans
include three corporate office
buildings, retail pavilions, a futuristic glass Helix, a child-care
facility and about 2.75 acres of
open space. (Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos owns The Washington
Post.)
In an exhaustive, year-long series of reviews leading up to the
vote, some residents voiced concerns that the site may assume
the feel of a closed-off corporate

campus. Others said the tech giant must provide additional community resources for its neighbors, such as greater support to
preserve affordable housing, or
space for a library or community
center.
All five county board members
acknowledged these lingering
concerns, saying that they can
and should be addressed in future
meetings with Amazon executives. Ultimately, however, they
agreed that PenPlace was an architecturally striking project that
will raise the bar on sustainability
practices and stimulate economic
growth in the county.
The PenPlace “mega block” is
one of the largest undeveloped
parcels in the D.C. area’s inner
urban core, and economic development officials say its use by a
major company will fulfill key
goals for both Arlington and the
company. Where the county will
see greater tax revenue and more
jobs in a largely underused business district, the site’s transitrich, urban setting will allow the
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Hannah Williams
works as a data
analyst for a
government
contractor and
earns $115,000 a
year. She is fine
Theresa
with you knowing
Vargas
that. She is fine
with you knowing
many details about her career
path that don’t exist on her
carefully crafted résumé.
She will tell you, without
hesitation, that her first job out
of college as a telemarketer
earned her $40,000 a year and
soul-sapping rejections each
day.
She will tell you how she quit
to become a junior data analyst
for a small government
contracting firm, a job that
gained her $55,000 a year, a
security clearance and 40
unwanted pounds. She worked
in a secure building and
couldn’t leave during the day, so
she spent her breaks grabbing
coffee at the Dunkin’ in the
building.
She will tell you she left that
position, and another after that,
and feared she had “wrecked
her résumé” because all that job

COURTESY OF HANNAH WILLIAMS

Hannah Williams asks people how much they make in videos she
posts on TikTok and Instagram that have gotten millions of views.

hopping occurred in less than
three years.
“I thought no one was going
to hire me again,” she said. But
she did research on pay ranges
in her field and learned how to
highlight her strengths, and
when she met with a job
recruiter, she felt confident

talking numbers. “When she
asked me what my desired
salary range was, I flipped it on
her and I asked, what is the
budget for the role?”
While it is impressive that at
25, Williams has managed to
grow her salary from $40,000 to
almost three times that amount,

that is not why I’m telling you
about her. I’m telling you about
her because she is trying to help
other people find success in an
often opaque job market.
Williams is a graduate of
Northern Virginia Community
College and Georgetown
University. She has gained a
TikTok following by publicly
talking about her experiences
working in Washington. But
recently, she has taken that
conversation further. She has
been persuading other people in
the region to talk openly about
their jobs.
In the past week, Williams
has posted videos on TikTok and
Instagram under the name
Salary Transparent Street. They
show her standing in the
Georgetown area of the District
and across the river in Arlington
asking people what they do and
how much they make.
The videos feature a nurse, a
lifeguard, a rocket scientist, an
architect and government
workers, all revealing their pay.
The videos show an editor who
earns $60,000 a year, a Navy
contractor who makes $75,000 a
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Roosevelt Bridge lanes will probably reopen in June
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The three middle lanes of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge have been closed for repairs since Feb. 11, when weight limits were imposed that put the span off-limits to buses and
large trucks. The bridge, which carries Interstate 66 across the Potomac River between the District and Virginia, is one of the busiest commuter routes into the city.

not expanded to surrounding
streets or other bridges that cross
the Potomac.
Buses and heavy commercial
vehicles continue to use alternative crossings. DDOT said that
once the work is completed on
the bridge this summer, the
weight restriction could be lifted
or increased to 20 tons. That
decision, officials said, will de-

pend upon results from an evaluation of the deck condition at the
time.
Although the city plans to reopen the three lanes in June,
occasional closures of a single
lane are possible through September as work continues on the
ramps.
The Roosevelt Bridge is a commuter artery that supported

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in November.
The full rehabilitation is likely
to start in early 2024 and is
estimated to cost about $150 million, Lott said. DDOT is moving
forward with the project design
this year and expects to launch a
competitive bidding process next
year. The project would be similar to the recent two-year, $227
million rehabilitation of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which
involved months of closed and
shifted lanes and traffic disruptions.
District officials said the
Roosevelt Bridge is a priority and
that the city is coming up with a
funding plan, including the use
local and federal infrastructure
money.
The District is slated to receive
$3 billion in funding over five
years from the federal infrastructure law, of which about $1.3 billion will be used to restore roads

and bridges. Jenny Reed, director
of the D.C. Office of Budget and
Performance Management, said
last month that the city plans to
spend $225 million of the money
to bring structurally deficient
bridges into a state of good repair,
including the Roosevelt Bridge.
In the meantime, city officials
said they understand that more
people are being called back to
downtown offices this spring and
that delays could grow at the
bridge as work continues. Their
advice is to use alternative routes
or to not drive into the city.
“We really encourage more
people to get out of their singleoccupancy vehicles,” Lott said. “If
they can mode-share, if they can
ride our buses or use Metro, we’re
really encouraging folks to do
that just because we know that
it’s really better for the environment, and we want to get more
cars off the roadways.”

Masks still mandatory in D.C. taxis

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about 150,000 vehicles daily before the pandemic. It has not had
a major rehabilitation since it
opened in 1964 and was rated in
“poor” condition in 2018 — a
designation that doesn’t necessarily mean it is unsafe to use. It is
also past a bridge’s 50-year life
span.
The latest records on the Federal Highway Administration
bridge database, from a 2020
inspection, indicate several of the
bridge’s features, including its
railings, do not meet current
standards, while it notes the deck
condition is rated “poor.”
District officials say the emergency repairs, which are costing
the city about $6 million, will
enable the Roosevelt Bridge to
support normal operations until
a full rehabilitation is done in
about two years, partially using
funding from the infrastructure
package President Biden signed

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Taxi and ride-share drivers, as
well as their passengers, must
continue to wear masks in the
District, officials announced last
week, despite a federal judge’s
order that ended the mandate
nationwide.
District officials did not elaborate Friday on questions regarding the decision to keep the
mandate in place for taxis and
ride-sharing vehicles even as it
has been dropped for other
transportation modes and hubs.
The Metro system, the region’s
airports and Amtrak, where
masks are optional, are operated
by independent agencies.
The city’s Department of ForHire Vehicles noted in a statement that even with the end of
the federal mandate, local jurisdictions still can enforce masking rules.
Nationwide, a patchwork response initially followed federal
Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s
ruling striking down the requirement, as the mask mandate continued to be enforced on a few
transportation modes but not
most others. By week’s end, however, many of those earlier discrepancies were resolved with
masks no longer being required
in the vast majority of the country.
The Department of Justice
announced last week it would
appeal the judge’s decision. The
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention also continues to rec-

2020 PHOTO BY AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Taxis await fares outside Union Station. In addition to cabs, the
D.C. mask mandate remains in place for ride services such as Lyft.

ommend that people wear masks
in indoor public transportation
settings.
New York appeared to be the
only major city that has kept the
mandate in place for most travelers, including through John F.
Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports.
The Biden administration had
extended the federal mask mandate — which required people to
wear masks in transportation
settings, including at airports, on
airplanes and when riding buses
and subways — multiple times
since it first was put into place in
early 2021. Administration officials had hoped the most recent
extension through May 3 would
give CDC experts time to determine the implications of the

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fast-moving omicron BA.2 subvariant’s spread.
But those plans were upended
by Mizelle, who ruled Monday
that the CDC exceeded its legal
authority.
Uber and Lyft, which announced that masks would be
optional for drivers and passengers, said they would follow local
rules regarding masking.
“For the time being, our inride health safety guidelines —
including the mask requirement
— remain in effect in Washington, D.C.,” Lyft said in an emailed
statement.
In cities where masks are still
required, Uber customers will
received a prompt reminding
them ahead of their trip, the
company said.

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A section of the Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge that was closed
abruptly for emergency repairs
two months ago is likely to reopen to traffic in June, according
to officials with the District Department of Transportation.
Crews began work on the 58year-old bridge after an earlyFebruary inspection found steel
support beams had continued to
deteriorate, prompting the closure of three middle lanes and
restrictions on heavyweight vehicles along the busy commuter
route that carries Interstate 66
over the Potomac River.
DDOT Director Everett Lott
said work on the main span is
about halfway complete and the
closed lanes could open in midJune. Work will continue through
September on a section that includes ramps to Virginia.
“We don’t anticipate any delays
in the project at this point in
time,” said Lott, who in February
warned the schedule could be
affected by delays in the supply
chain. He said crews have been
working round-the-clock to complete repairs on the deck, which is
along bridge’s surface, as well as
on the superstructure, which
supports the deck. The work involves steel repair to the floor
beams.
On Feb. 11, DDOT limited traffic to two outer lanes in each
direction while the three middle
lanes were closed for repairs.
Vehicle weights were restricted to
10 tons, putting the bridge offlimits to buses and large trucks.
The shift in traffic patterns on
one of the busiest commuter
routes into the city occurred as
more residents returned to inperson work.
Traffic effects have been manageable, city transportation officials said. A DDOT traffic analysis
indicates delays are more pronounced on the eastbound lanes,
with traffic coming into the city
facing two to three minutes of
delays over the bridge during the
morning rush. Shorter delays are
experienced throughout the rest
of the day, according to the assessment, and the effects have

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When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, this D.C. restaurant served up a celebration
After the death of
Soviet premier
Joseph Stalin on
March 5, 1953, the
Eastern bloc
mourned, the
John
West rejoiced and
Kelly's
Bob Seidel saw a
Washington business
opportunity.
Seidel was a
Washington restaurateur, owner
of an establishment called the
1203 Restaurant. The name came
from the address: 1203
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. A
souvenir matchbook from the
restaurant described it as “A
good place to meet, eat and have
fun.”
The first thing Seidel did after
Stalin died was put a sign in the
window of his place that read,
“1203 Restaurant Invites You to
enjoy ‘FREE BORSHT’ in
Celebration Of STALIN’S
DEATH.” The second thing he
did was alert the media.
A wire service photographer
snapped a pair of photos of
waitress Eileen Keenan in front
of 1203. In one, she’s erecting the
sign. In the other, she’s handing a
bowl — presumably of beet soup
— to a Mr. E.C. Carpenter of
Cabin John, Md.
It would be an exaggeration to
say the photos went viral.
Answer Man could find only a
handful of papers that ran them.
But it was a striking image, one
that in recent years has spread
across the Internet. Some online
sources say the restaurant was in
New York City. Others say it was
run by Ukrainians. Answer Man
knows the former is incorrect,
and he suspects the latter is, too.
But as the eyes of the world
turn toward another Russian
despot whose death would not
be, let us say, unwelcome, let us
head back to March 1953.

Beverage Association of
Washington. He was also a yacht
broker and owned a boat named
after his wife, Lee. Answer Man
found no evidence that he was
Ukrainian. Nor could he find out
how many bowls of borscht the
restaurateur dispensed. But his
cheeky sign seemed to capture a
sentiment among many
Americans.
And it wasn’t the last time
Seidel tried to drum up business
on the coattails of the news. A
year after the death of Stalin, he
responded to an increase in the
price of coffee by putting a sign
in the window of 1203 reading
“To H--- with Coffee. Let’s drink
Tea. 5¢ a cup.” (He really did have
dashes where “ELL” would have
gone in that word.)
Unlike the milk, the tea caught
on. According to The
Washington Post: “He says
customer reaction has been
sensational, and backs it up by
stating he sold more than 100
cups of tea yesterday, against a
normal daily sale of about 10
cups.”
In 1964, a lawyer in the
District named Carl Shipley
proposed that the 1965 inaugural
parade be moved from
Pennsylvania Avenue to
Constitution Avenue. The
televised view of Pennsylvania,
he said, “shows off rather
unromantic architectures.”
Seidel was among
Pennsylvania Avenue
businesspeople opposed to the
proposal. “The inaugural, he
said, means money to the
merchants,” The Post wrote. “He
said he had made at least four
times the usual amount of
money during the last parade.”
“And more importantly, I
think,” he told The Post, “do you
remember what a horribly cold
day it was? All those people who

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On March 6, 1953, a photographer snapped Eileen Keenan, a waitress at the 1203 Restaurant, putting
up a sign after owner Bob Seidel seized on a promotion for his place on Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

Plenty of people were happy to
see Stalin go. As a writer for the
Evening Star put it: “Despite a
lot of wishful thinking in the
non-Communist world, the
reaper was a long time catching
up with Joseph Stalin.”
That paper’s editorial page
noted that “one should say
nothing of the dead unless it be
something good,” then
proceeded to make an exception
for Stalin: “For his name is
inscribed in history in letters too
large and too lurid to be ignored,
and the mere mention of it
requires also a mention of all the
wickedness associated with it.”
That wickedness included

mass starvations, slave-labor
camps, political oppression,
purges and executions, religious
persecution and the subjugation
of satellite nations that even now
struggle to pull themselves from
Russia’s malicious orbit.
Stalin’s death also cast
random ripples. Some bettors at
the racetrack in Charles Town,
W.Va., said they had Russia on
their minds when they backed a
horse named Petrograd — out of
the mare Pravda — and collected
a $48 win mutuel. One lucky
gambler said it was the first time
he’d bet on a “Communist horse.”
Bob Seidel was no stranger to
publicity stunts. In June of 1950,

workers at District dairies went
on strike. A city law prohibited
the sale of milk by any dairy not
licensed by the D.C. Health
Department. The 1203
Restaurant got around this by
buying milk from a dairy in
Annapolis and giving it away
free. Seidel put up a sign
trumpeting his largesse.
Though Seidel had purchased
enough milk to fill 2,000 glasses,
he gave away only 200 on the
first morning. “Milk doesn’t
seem so important after all,” he
told a reporter.
Seidel was active in the local
restaurant scene, serving on the
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D.C. police, responding to reports of a shooting Saturday in
the Petworth neighborhood,
found a wounded woman and
fatally shot another woman near
the scene who would not drop a
firearm, authorities said.
Officers were administering
first aid to a woman who had
been shot in the arm around
6 a.m. in the 800 block of
Crittenden Street NW when other officers simultaneously encountered a woman wearing a
special police officer’s uniform

and armed with a semiautomatic
weapon nearby acting erratically, D.C. Police Chief Robert J.
Contee III said at a news conference Saturday.
Contee said the woman was on
the front porch of another residence on the block, smashing
windows, and that over the
course of a minute or so, police
ordered her to put down the
firearm and lie on the ground.
When she did not follow orders,
the officers ultimately shot her,
said Contee, who did not know
how many times she was shot.
Brianna Burch, a police

spokeswoman, said later that
preliminary findings indicate
that the woman did not drop the
weapon after multiple commands. She said the officers
involved have been placed on
administrative leave, a routine
action.
Police announced later Saturday that the woman who was
fatally shot is not registered as a
special police officer in the District. She is believed to have shot
the other woman, they said.
She was wearing a uniform
bearing a name that was not
hers, Contee said. Police have

learned that she recently began
working for a security company.
“It appears that they are familiar with each other,” Contee said
of the two women, who were
neighbors on that block of Crittenden Street.

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Big office buildings would soon
replace small businesses like the
1203, which a sign above the
door described as “the friendliest
place in town … not fancy, but
nice.”
And for a few days in 1953, a
place to get free borscht and
toast the demise of a despot.

Police were canvassing the
neighborhood and working to
find out more about the situation.
Burch said midday Saturday
that the injured woman was
conscious and breathing.

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Colo. man dies after
setting himself on fire
A Colorado man died after
setting himself on fire outside
the Supreme Court on Friday
evening, according to police.
D.C. police said that Wynn
Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colo., died
Saturday as a result of his
injuries.
About 6:30 p.m. Friday, a
person went onto the plaza in
front of the Supreme Court and
set themself on fire, said Patricia
McCabe, a spokeswoman for the
court. A helicopter landed on the
plaza to take the victim to a
hospital. Supreme Court police,
Capitol Police and D.C. police all
responded to the incident, she
said.
McCabe said the incident was
not a public safety issue, but the
plaza was closed to permit
investigation.
The 252-foot oval plaza is up a
small flight of steps from the
sidewalk on First Street NE
outside the court building. The
court faces the Capitol across
First Street.

— Martin Weil, Susan Svrluga

Officials ID man killed
by diplomat’s home
The man shot and killed by
U.S. Secret Service officers
outside of the Peruvian
ambassador’s home earlier this
week was a 19-year-old
Maryland resident, authorities
said Saturday.
Gordon Casey, 19, of
Germantown, was confronted by
Secret Service officers who
rushed to the Peruvian
ambassador’s home in the Forest
Hills neighborhood Wednesday
morning after family members
reported a burglary in progress.
Shortly before 8 a.m. officers
found multiple broken windows
at the large house in the 3000
block of Garrison Street NW and

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A 50-year-old man from Boulder, Colo., died Saturday as a result of
injuries sustained after he set himself on fire outside the Supreme
Court on Friday evening, D.C. police said. A helicopter landed on the
court’s plaza to transfer him to the hospital. A spokeswoman for the
Supreme Court said the incident was not considered a public safety
issue, but that the plaza was closed as authorities investigated.

saw Casey in the backyard armed
with a metal pole, police said.
The officers commanded
Casey to drop the pole multiple
times, according to D.C. police,
which investigates all fatal
shootings by law enforcement in
the District.
One Secret Service officer
discharged an electronic control
device toward Casey, but it did
not take effect on him. Two other
officers opened fire with their
service pistols, striking him.
After lifesaving efforts were
attempted, Casey was
pronounced dead at the scene
and later transported to the
Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner, according to police.
Anthony Guglielmi, a
spokesman for the Secret
Service, deferred questions
about the officers involved,
including their names and
whether they had been placed on
leave, to D.C. police.
The officers involved have not

been identified. D.C. police are
continuing the investigation into
the use of force, and whether the
shooting was justified.

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Md., the city’s police said.
Authorities identified the
victim as Ahmadou Bamba
Gueye, of Takoma Park. He was
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budget betrays
survivors and
community safety
BY

T

B RIDGETTE S TUMPF

he significant increase in D.C. crime rates has
led local leaders to debate the allocation of
resources for crime prevention and response,
mainly focused on the D.C. police budget.
However, as we start National Crime Victims’ Rights
Week on Sunday, I am discouraged that in much debate
about the best way to fund community safety, few have
noticed the $11 million cut in funding for supports and
services for the D.C. residents who have already been
victimized.
As D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George
(D-Ward 4) put it, “This is a public safety failure.”
Since 2017, the D.C. Office of Victim Services and
Justice Grants (OVSJG) — the agency that administers
victim-services grants — has failed to provide nonprofits with adequate funding for services to support
survivors of crime, such as domestic violence, sexual
assault and homicide, despite huge increases in requests and need for such services. This, despite the fact
that since 2017, the OVSJG’s budget has grown 189 percent, from $38 million in fiscal 2017 to $105 million this
year. So, if the dollars are there, why aren’t the increases
in funding going to the organizations providing these
services?
This is what drove a panel of 16 grantees to testify on
April 6 before the D.C. Council on what has become a
real crisis for this city. Another year of being underresourced when faced with, among other things,
inflation, a pandemic and the rising cost and intangible
impact of keeping staff in this work is intolerable and
unsustainable. It leads to a dark place: a critical and
massive loss of lifesaving resources for our community.
The path forward is clear. We need leaders at the
mayor’s office, the OVSJG and the D.C. Council to have
the courage to take that path.
First, we need transparency. The OVSJG just had the
largest investment in its office to date, yet it claims it
“always planned” to cut crime prevention and response
services by about 10 percent in fiscal 2023. This “plan”
was a surprise to resource-starved service providers,
who rightfully question why these cuts are happening
notwithstanding the OVSJG receiving steady increases
in its budget year over year. The steward of our
survivor-support resources is either claiming not to
know where those resources are going and why, or has
always known and simply is not telling us. Neither is
acceptable.
Second, we need accountability. We cannot stress
enough that these concerns about funding are not new
or unique to the pandemic; organizations have been
testifying about this for five years. And yet these
questions remain unanswered, and no one has been
held to account. Worse, as many testified this year,
organizations have remained silent at times for fear of
retaliation, the opposite of accountability. Meanwhile,
front-line service organizations are cutting services and
shutting down and, consequently, leaving survivors to
fend for themselves.
This matters: Community safety does not rest on a
single pillar, including policing. It relies on investments
in prevention and response services through broadbased funding to organizations that address different
facets of the problem. Safety nets such as these get to
the root causes of violence by strengthening equitable
access to economic opportunities, education, employment, and safe and affordable housing. We know and
research supports that failing to address trauma only
perpetuates the root causes of violence. As a community, we should know how D.C. is investing in crime
prevention and response, and why those approaches
are being used despite increasing demands and ongoing calls for change.
As the D.C. Council considers its budget priorities, we
have the opportunity to stop this crisis now, rather than
dealing with its fallout in the future. Only through
transparency, accountability and trust can we accomplish this.
Nothing less than the future of our city depends on it.

The writer is executive director and co-founder of the Network
for Victim Recovery of D.C.

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Why U-Va. is a free-speech battleground

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BY

P ETER G ALUSZKA

n April 12, hundreds of wellscrubbed, mostly White
young people thunderously
applauded former vice president Mike Pence as he espoused “free
speech” at the University of Virginia.
“I am a Christian, a conservative
and a Republican, in that order,” Pence
said to an overflow crowd at the
851-seat auditorium at Old Cabell
Hall. He noted that he had accepted
Jesus Christ as his personal savior and
attacked the campus newspaper, the
Cavalier Daily, for editorializing that
Pence should be turned away because
of his strident anti-gay views.
The Young Americans for Freedom,
a conservative group that has 70 members at the Charlottesville school, had
organized the event. It is part of
Pence’s national speaking tour that
has involved such stops as Stanford
University. The goals are to push
Pence’s chances in a 2024 presidential
run and to help voters forget the chaos
and crudity of former president Donald Trump.
The Jefferson Council, a small
group of right-wing alumni, cosponsored the spectacle. Its members
are distressed at what they say they
believe is censorship by left-wingers
and unfair questionings of the traditional history of Thomas Jefferson,
the school’s founder.
“We want an open dialogue and
civil discourse. We want to protect the
Thomas Jefferson legacy,” says Bert
Ellis, who earned two degrees in the
1970s and went on to become a
wealthy television-station mogul
based in Atlanta. He heads the twoyear-old council.
His group is an example of how the
state’s most prestigious public university has become a political football in
recent years. Once a bastion of preppy
White men, it long ago admitted women and has expanded to more foreign
students and non-Whites. That apparently seems threatening to the Old
Guard, which is critical of the university’s attempts to extend its diversity
outreach.
Starting about a decade ago, climatologist Michael Mann was hounded
with thousands of Freedom of Infor-

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People protest a speech by former vice president Mike Pence at the University of Virginia on April 12.

mation Act requests because of his
warnings about climate change.
Teresa A. Sullivan, the school’s progressive and popular president, was
temporarily ousted for reasons that
remain unclear. Rolling Stone magazine printed a widely read and bogus
story about an alleged rape by members of a campus fraternity. In 2017, the
school and the city were the target of
the “Unite the Right” demonstrations
by hard-right fascists that drew global
attention and resulted in three deaths.
This most recent reactionary iteration seems to begin with Ellis. In 2020,
he was visiting his alma mater and
was walking along “the Lawn,” a wellgroomed area that represents Jefferson’s attempts at building “an academical village.” The area is lined with
quaint if drafty individual dorm
rooms with fireplaces. Only highachieving fourth-year students live
there. Ellis was one of them in the
mid-1970s.
During his visit, he was taken aback
when he saw a sign on a dorm door

with crass statements. He knocked on
the door and met Hira Azher, a fourthyear student who graduated in 2021.
Azher, a woman of Pakistani American descent, was regarded as an excellent scholar and athlete who spent her
free hours volunteering as a certified
emergency medical technician for the
Charlottesville-Albemarle
Rescue
Squad.
Ellis claimed the sign violated university rules. “After a two-minute discussion, she slammed the door in my
face,” he said. Ellis snapped a cellphone picture that he included with
his protest to university President Jim
Ryan, who said Azher had a right to
post the sign. The incident raged
across the conservative blogosphere.
This raises a question: If Ellis is
such a strong supporter of free speech
and worried about lefties dominating
discussion, why did he try to suppress
Azher’s freedom to express herself?
Ellis said that Ryan’s decision was
“horse hockey” and that Azher’s use of
profanity was “low rent.”

I also pressed him on which school
groups or individuals were suppressing free speech. It was the editorial
board of the Cavalier Daily and certain
members of the student council, he
said. One opinion writer stated that
she is a lesbian and opposed Pence’s
speech because he would make worse
an already difficult anti-gay atmosphere at the school.
In the early 1970s, I attended a
Boston-area college and was a newspaper editor. This was the time of the
Vietnam War and Watergate. It is unimaginable for me to have thought
then that a disgruntled, powerful
alumnus would single out a few student opinions and turn them into the
cause for a rousing, right-wing campaign event.
And, despite all the manufactured
buzz about the suppression of ideas by
progressives, there were few if any
protests at Pence’s April 12 event.
Peter Galuszka is a freelance writer in
Chesterfield, Va.

A Beltsville research center is not ripe for development
H ENRY S . C OLE,
M AUREEN F INE
AND V IJAY P ARAMESHWARAN
BY

T

he Treasury Department is
planning to relocate a Bureau
of Engraving and Printing
currency production facility
to the Agriculture Department’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
(BARC), USDA’s largest agricultural
research service facility. This decision
should be immediately reconsidered.
The transfer of the BARC property
from Agriculture to Treasury, authorized in the 2018 Farm Bill, was done
with little or no knowledge of or input
from area residents, a serious breach
of the public trust.
Environmental justice is at stake.
Serious detrimental impacts include an increase in traffic associated
with employees’ privately owned
vehicles (there is no access to public
transit at the proposed site) and a 24/7
influx of large diesel trucks during
construction and operation. Contrary
to Smart Growth principles, the currency production facility’s 46-acre
surface parking lot would have more
than 1,300 parking spaces to accommodate staff and visitors, a number
that the Treasury Department’s environmental impact statement admits

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Twenty-dollar bills are bound at
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing in D.C. in 2011.

“exceeds federal guidelines.”
As mentioned in the environmental
impact statement, the facility’s traffic,
added to existing traffic, would result
in unacceptable levels of traffic at nine
intersections within the currency production facility’s “region of influence.”
Crowded roadways and traffic jams
are not a mere inconvenience; they
would also impose serious health impacts on Vansville residents, including increased levels of noise and exposure to high levels of toxic motor vehicle emissions. Large numbers of diesel
trucks would cause further congestion and increase levels of harmful
pollution. Families would be exposed
to these cumulative impacts for decades if this ill-conceived plan goes
forward.

The Treasury Department’s environmental impact statement acknowledges that the proposed currency production facility location would
impose numerous adverse impacts on
the families residing in the vicinity of
the proposed site. Nearly two-thirds of
the Vansville community’s population
is Black and Latino. The nearby municipalities of Beltsville and Greenbelt
are also more than 50 percent nonWhite and will also be adversely affected by the construction and operation of the currency production
facility.
According to the environmental
impact statement, the facility would
have serious health impacts on sensitive people in the project’s immediate
surroundings, including children, the
elderly and people with disabilities.
These people live, go to school and
recreate near the site.
The construction and operation of
the currency-production facility at the
Vansville location would also have a
profound impact on the area’s wetlands and two important waterways
in the region: Indian Creek and
Beaverdam Creek, which flow to the
Anacostia River. During construction,
a wetland and a stream will be eliminated, and one stream will likely be
diverted, disrupting the area’s ecosys-

tem and jeopardizing efforts to restore
the Anacostia. There is no plan to
improve or adapt the current waterhandling system on the BARC site for
the currency-production facility, giving rise to concerns of chemical waste
entering these streams.
The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has an increasingly critical mission. As the climate crisis
worsens, obtaining foods from distant
sources will grow more difficult and
more costly. The answer is not to
industrialize BARC but to enhance the
facility’s research, educational resources and programs to spur urban
and regenerative agriculture — far
better for emerging economic opportunities than a currency production
facility.
We know the Biden administration
is working to reduce pollution, protect
public health and preserve the nation’s invaluable natural resources. So
why not require Treasury to select a
more appropriate site for its currency
production facility?
Henry S. Cole, Maureen Fine and Vijay
Parameshwaran are members of Save
BARC, a grass-roots group of local
residents organized around protecting and
preserving the Beltsville Agricultural
Research Center.

Transform Virginia’s education system to create opportunities for all
BY N ICK F REITAS
AND J ACOB F ISH

A

t first glance, Virginia
seems to offer a wide
array of choices for educating our students. We
have traditional public schools,
public charter schools, public
magnet schools, private schools,
online academies, home schooling and learning pods.
But for all the variety, these
options are not equally available
to every family.
They should be. Students
should not be deprived of the
education that is best for them
because of their Zip code or their
parents’ financial situation.
We need to update our education system so every student can
discover, develop and apply their
unique talents.
Virginia school districts can set
their own open-enrollment policies, giving some students more
options. And the state offers a
scholarship program for students

with family incomes below
300 percent of the federal poverty
level and students with special
needs.
But this program has its limits.
Barely more than one-third of
Virginia students are eligible for
these scholarships, and only
0.3 percent use one. That leaves
tens of thousands of others on the
outside looking in.
And each of those students is
unique, something for which
these existing approaches don’t
account. Students have different
interests, abilities and learning
styles. And their education
should be customizable to reflect
that reality.
Instead, we have a system that
stresses conformity — that attempts to teach every kid in the
same way, the same setting, the
same curriculum — and expects
these unique kids to succeed. It’s
a futile expectation.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all
system, parents and students
need options.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all system,
parents and students need options.
Parents are best positioned to
make education decisions for
their children, and funding
should follow students so that
parents are empowered to choose
the environment that meets those
unique learning needs.
As Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R)
said in his first address to the
General Assembly: “My message
to parents is this. You have a
fundamental right, enshrined in
law by this General Assembly, to
make decisions with regard to
your child’s upbringing, education and care. And we will protect
and reassert that right. Hear me
clearly. When parents are empowered and engaged, a child’s
life is enhanced.”
Education was a critical element in the governor’s election,

and it will be critical to the success of our state. Lawmakers
should heed the governor’s
words.
In the recently ended 2022
legislative session, three bills
were introduced that would have
expanded education savings accounts (ESAs).
Dels. Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper)
and David A. LaRock (R-Loudoun), who both sit on the Education Committee, and Phillip Scott
(R-Spotsylvania)
introduced
measures to create ESA programs
that would help pay for tuition,
fees, textbooks, tutoring and other qualified expenses at a school
of the parents’ choice, using a
percentage of per-pupil state
funds.
ESAs empower teachers and

families to work together to find a
learning environment that best
fits each child and enables all to
thrive.
These bills should be improved
next session, especially by expanding eligibility for an ESA to
all students, as opposed to limiting eligibility only to those whose
families meet income requirements. We need to fund students
rather than systems and fix
what’s not working in K-12
education.
But there are even more opportunities for helping our kids get
the kind of education that will set
them up for success in life and
inspire them to be lifelong
learners.
Though limited open enrollment is available to some, enacting mandatory intradistrict and
interdistrict open enrollment
would expand opportunities for
students by allowing them to
attend any public school within
and outside of their school district and empower families to

find the setting that is right for
their child no matter where they
live.
By expanding access to diverse
education opportunities outside
the classroom, including apprenticeships and skill-based learning, students can gain a leg up on
developing the talents necessary
for success in whatever careers
they eventually choose.
To many families’ disappointment, Virginia’s 2022 regular legislative session closed without
passing much-needed transformative education reform. It
should be a top priority in the
2023 legislative session to create
opportunities that will help every
Virginia kid discover multiple
paths to their individual version
of the American Dream. Let’s get
started.
Nick Freitas, a Republican,
represents Culpeper in the Virginia
House of Delegates. Jacob Fish is
deputy director of Americans for
Prosperity-Virginia.

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company to attract the young
tech workers it depends on.
“We have already invested in
systems and infrastructure [in
the Pentagon City neighborhood]
to ensure that level of activity was
accounted for,” said Christian
Dorsey (D), vice chair of the Arlington County Board. “This project is backfilling that hole, which
is tremendously important from
an existential standpoint.”
The company’s move to Arlington is playing out against a broader backdrop of concerns about
gentrification and displacement
in the D.C. region, as rents rise
and wages fail to keep up with the
increasingly high cost of living.
That has prompted some critics
to ask who will ultimately be
served by the dramatic changes
coming to the area.
But on Saturday, county board
Chair Katie Cristol (D) offered a
firm response: All Arlington residents, she said, will see benefits
from Amazon’s plans for PenPlace
— from small businesses that will

have more clientele to construction workers who will be paid
competitive wages to build the
complex.
“We are one community and
we will benefit from this all together,” she said. “The opportunity to not only provide something exciting for the nearby
neighborhoods, but to lift up the
entirety of Arlington County,
makes this project a joy to support.”
Saturday’s vote marks the conclusion of a 14-month review
process led by residents from
neighborhoods near PenPlace,
who pored over blueprints and
sat through hours-long Zoom
meetings to provide input on
everything from the presence of
bike lanes around the complex to
the use of bird-safe glass.
Those involved in the review
praised Amazon and its developer, JBG Smith, for engaging with
neighbors and incorporating
their feedback, particularly with
sustainability measures like solar
panels and a tree-lined “Green
Ribbon” pathway that cuts across

the complex. (JBG Smith is set to
close its sale of PenPlace to Amazon for $198 million this year, and
the company has said it will
achieve LEED Platinum status for
its buildings there.)
Still, some frustrations lingered: A few residents expressed
concerns about the lack of bike
lanes on 12th Street South, a
major thoroughfare that abuts
PenPlace. Some feared that the
company’s surveillance practices
might prevent the green space
from serving as a truly public
space. And others said Amazon
could do more to repay the county
for allowing buildings whose
height and density exceed zoning
rules.
Some proponents of the project have argued that Amazon’s
presence is bound to spur additional development, adding housing stock to a white-hot real estate market that lacks enough
homes at any price point. The
company agreed to contribute
$30 million to an Arlington fund
used to subsidize preserving and
building affordable housing as a

part of the negotiations, on top of
a previous $20 million commitment to the fund.
But Susan English, who lives in
the nearby Arlington Ridge
neighborhood, told lawmakers
Saturday that the number of lower-paid workers needed to run the
headquarters — from security
guards and child-care providers
to landscapers and maintenance
staff — “argues for a far larger
contribution.
“Amazon did not cause our
housing crisis,” she said, “but I
believe Amazon could do much
more to mitigate it.”
Virginia’s deal to attract the
company — as much as $750 million in direct cash subsidies to the
company — rests on the condition
that new hires in Arlington earn
an average of $150,000 a year.
That has spurred concerns that
these high-paid tech workers may
ramp up displacement. (Last
week, company executives said
they had hired 5,000 corporate
employees who are now assigned
to the Northern Virginia site.)
Ben D’Avanzo, who represent-

ed the Aurora Highlands Civic
Association on a PenPlace review
panel, also expressed concerns
before the board Saturday about
the green space that will be at the
heart of the complex. If it’s in the
heart of a corporate campus, he
said, who will end up actually
using this park?
“Residents may feel that it is
primarily for the use of inside
employees, particularly considering that it’s surrounded by the
office buildings,” he said.
Others said that the other community benefits do not include
enough resources to account for
the greater density that may result from the region’s economic
growth. Amazon has agreed to
provide a 28,600-square-foot
space at PenPlace to house Arlington Community High School,
whose student body largely consists of working adults, and offer
limited public use of its conference space.
Matt Mattauszek, a development planner for the county, said
in an interview this month that
negotiations with other develop-

ers in the area may end up generating additional benefits requested by neighbors, such as a larger
library, elementary school and
community center.
The vote involving MetPark in
December 2019 had faced more
organized opposition, largely
from construction unions that
had been calling on the company
to adopt a “project labor agreement,” which would allow the
unions to enforce wage protections and other labor standards.
Amazon eventually adopted a set
of labor standards that are enforced by a third-party group
instead.
Labor issues stayed largely absent from discussions around
PenPlace, although one speaker
on Saturday, Raul Castro, an organizer with the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters, also
called on the company to adopt
similar standards at its warehouses and data centers. Workers
at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island voted to unionize this
month, a major victory for the
U.S. labor movement.

MARYLAND

Mosby’s ethics report lists no gifts to legal defense fund
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Attorney Marilyn Mosby has filed
her latest state ethics disclosure,
reporting no gifts to a legal defense fund established for her
and her husband, Baltimore City
Council President Nick Mosby.
The fund, which opened for
donations in mid-2021, was created so the power couple could
defend themselves against a federal criminal tax investigation.
Prominent supporters and community leaders have encouraged
contributions, posting on Facebook and appearing at news conferences.
But whether anyone has donated remains a mystery.
Mosby’s state ethics disclosure
— specifically a section of it dealing with gifts — could have been
one of a few windows into such
fundraising. The submitted form
should denote any donations
from several key types of people
outlined by state regulations.
Specifically, elected officials
must disclose on their annual
ethics forms gifts from people or
entities who do business with the
state, those regulated by the state
and registered lobbyists. State
ethics law requires listing gifts
worth more than $20. Two or
more gifts with a cumulative value of $100 from one person or
entity must also be disclosed.
A. Scott Bolden, Mosby’s attorney, did not respond to a request
for comment. The chair of the
State Ethics Commission declined to comment and referred
questions to the commission’s
general counsel, who did not
respond to a request for comment.
After a hearing earlier this
month, Mosby said the legal fight,
still in the pretrial stage, has
already been costly.
“This is where we are: hundreds of thousands of dollars of
debt in attorneys’ fees, fighting a
battle,” she said, speaking to the
media outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore.
A 1993 opinion from the Maryland State Ethics Commission
outlined the rules as they relate to

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legal defense funds, as did as a
2017 ethics commission guideline
on gifts.
The commission issued the
1993 opinion at the request of the
St. Mary’s County sheriff at the
time. He wanted to solicit donations to support a $1.5 million
defamation lawsuit against a
weekly newspaper in Southern
Maryland. The ethics commission concluded his fund should
be subject to “significant constraints” because donations
would be considered gifts under
state law.
High-profile supporters of the
Mosbys have promoted the Mosbys’ legal defense fund. City defense attorney Warren Brown
posted on Facebook encouraging
donations. Willie Flowers, presi-

dent of the NAACP Maryland
State Conference, appeared at a
news conference in October and
encouraged donations. Flowers
said the civil rights organization
would give money to the fund.
“We plan to give as much as
possible,” he said at the time.
Marilyn Mosby’s ethics disclosure on Wednesday came the day
before the state’s attorney filed to
seek the Democratic nomination
to run for a third four-year term,
according to state records. Nick
Mosby’s ethics disclosure is not
due until Jan. 30.
While neither of the Mosbys
has been charged with tax crimes,
Marilyn Mosby was federally indicted in January on two counts
of perjury and two counts of
making false statements on loan

applications to buy two properties in Florida: an eight-bedroom
house near Disney World and a
condo on the state’s Gulf Coast.
Nick Mosby has not been charged
with anything.
Federal prosecutors say Mosby
perjured herself by falsely claiming financial hardship because of
the coronavirus to make early,
penalty-free withdrawals from
her city retirement savings under
the federal Cares Act. They also
accused her of failing to disclose a
federal tax lien on a mortgage
application for one property and
claiming the house near Orlando
as a second home to secure lower
interest rates when she had lined
up a company to operate it as a
rental.
Mosby maintains she’s inno-

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cent and says she intends to clear
her name at a trial scheduled for
Sept. 19.
The state’s attorney came under scrutiny at the beginning of
the year when her campaign finance report showed she directed
campaign funds to the law firm of
her criminal defense lawyer,
Bolden. However, the Maryland
State Board of Elections found
she provided ample documentation to support the expenses in
question and their connection to
her candidacy.
During its inquiry into the
couple’s campaign spending, the
State Board of Elections asked
about the legal defense fund.
Attorney James J. Temple, who
responded for the couple, said
that as of March 1, “there have

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been no payments to any law firm
hired by the candidate or the
committee by any legal defense
fund.” Temple did not say whether the fund had garnered any
donations.
The defense fund website
prompts visitors to consider donations of $10, $50, $100, $250,
$500 or $1.000.
Bruce L. Marcus, a Greenbelt
defense attorney who in 2012
chaired a panel established by the
legislature to recommend changes to Maryland’s campaign finance laws, said, “Generally
speaking, moneys given to an
elected official must be considered for disclosure under state
ethics laws.”
Based on the 1993 opinion of
the state ethics commission, donations to a legal defense fund
are strictly regulated. State law
bans almost all gifts from “controlled donors,” people or businesses who do work with an
official’s agency, are regulated by
that agency or have “private interests that can be impacted by an
official’s performance of his duties.”
In the case of the former sheriff, the commission said controlled donors would include people with matters pending before
the sheriff’s office, people who
provide services or materials to
the office, or attorneys, inmates
or others in the criminal justice
system. It is unclear whether
these restrictions would apply in
Mosby’s case to bar her from
accepting legal defense fund donations from other lawyers in
Baltimore, such as defense attorneys who represent people prosecuted by her office.
Mosby’s ethics form did describe one gift in 2021: $971.90 in
expenses related to a conference
in Maine. Mosby attended the
Black Women Lead retreat, paid
for by the Vera Institute of Justice, an organization that advocates for criminal justice reform.
Mosby’s disclosure said she participated in discussions about
“the difficulties and struggles
that are unique to Black women
leaders in our Country in the field
of criminal justice and as elected
Black women leaders.”
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Transit systems dropping mandates as virus cases go up
MASKS FROM C1

agencies late last year, pushing
more Metro employees out of
work than at any time during the
pandemic while exacerbating a
driver shortage plaguing the industry.
The coronavirus is spread by
breathing in tiny particles of
virus in the air, and studies have
shown it can be spread during
bus rides. In the early days of the
pandemic, a study of a large
outbreak on a bus in China
showed the virus spread easily
among the unmasked passengers. The 68 passengers were in
the same vehicle for a 100-minute, round-trip ride without
masks. Twenty-four tested positive after the journey.
But not all buses are created
equally. A 2020 study by researchers at California State University in Fresno found that virus
particles can spread through a
bus within seconds of being released into the air, but mitigation
efforts to improve air circulation
can significantly reduce the risk.
Heating, cooling, positive pressure and other efforts to filter
and replace the air on a bus
greatly reduce the risk of exposure, the study found.
In Wisconsin, for instance,
Green Bay Metro was among the
first bus systems to install air-purification systems on its entire
fleet about a year and a half ago,
paid for with the help of $6.4 million that the agency received from
federal coronavirus relief aid.
The system, which uses ultraviolet light technology, has proved
to be effective on most viruses,
including the coronavirus that
causes covid, transit officials said.
The goal, they said, was to protect
riders with limited options.
Even with the advanced system, Green Bay Metro officials
urged people to continue wearing masks, which enhance protection as the first line of defense
against transmission, the Cal
State researchers concluded.
Some high-risk passengers
face tough decisions when balancing the need to get around
against the potential danger of
exposure to the virus.
Dania Douglas, 45, has lived in
the District for 22 years and said
she has relied on public transit.
The public interest attorney uses
the Red Line to get to doctor’s
appointments in Bethesda and
often takes the L2 bus downtown.
With the mask mandate gone,
Douglas said she is rethinking
public transportation, especially
during times when her immune
system is suppressed by steroids

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Travelers wearing masks arrive at Logan International Airport in Boston on a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus Tuesday,
after a federal judge in Florida struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's public-transportation masking order.

she takes to treat an autoimmune
disorder.
“I feel there is very little I can
do,” she said. “I leave home now
occasionally for medical appointments or to go to CVS to get
prescriptions. How do I get there
safely?”
Bethany Lilly, 36, who lives in
Columbia Heights, has mostly
avoided public transit because
she worried her asthma would put
her at heightened risk for severe
illness if she caught the virus.
Despite her efforts, Lilly could
not escape the omicron variant
this winter. She tested positive
Dec. 31 and spent two weeks
fighting off symptoms and falling
asleep on the couch by 3 p.m.
most days. Although the coughing and sneezing waned, Lilly’s
extreme fatigue lingered for
months.
Lilly said her doctor told her to
cut back on bike rides to give her
body, especially her lungs, a
chance to heal. Since then, she
has been taking the bus and
subway to get around, though she
said she might stop since masks
are optional.
“Getting [covid] has made me
a much more cautious commuter,” Lilly said. “I am already

dealing with all of these complications and I don’t want to add
any more risk.”
While omicron has faded, coronavirus case counts are pointing
up. The rate of infections
prompted Los Angeles County on
Thursday to reinstitute a mask
order for transit. Transit systems
in New York also remain under a
state order requiring masks.
But most other agencies have
dropped their mandate, including
Metro and the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority. Those
agencies and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority
were the only major transit systems in the country that required
employees to be vaccinated.
New Orleans, where covid cases and hospitalizations are on the
rise, has lost at least four transit
employees to the virus, said Kory
Dupree, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local
1560, which represents workers
at the transit agency.
Some bus operators say they
wish the mask mandate had remained in place, especially with
tourist season approaching, Dupree said.
For the first time since the
pandemic, New Orleans will host

the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Festival, the 52-year-old music
fest that stretches over two weekends, drawing more than
400,000 — roughly equal to the
city’s population.
“We have all these different
festivals about to come into play,
and one is the JazzFest, which
brings you not just folks from all
over the country but all over the
world,” Dupree said. “I told my
members, just make sure you
play the safe card even though it’s
lifted for our riders, just take
precautions and still wear your
mask.”
Elsewhere, many union officials view the lifting of the mandate as a mixed blessing. John
Costa, international president of
the Amalgamated Transit Union,
North America’s largest transportation worker guild, noted in
a statement that “the CDC still
recommends wearing masks on
public transit.”
He said the mask requirements were a source of tension
between noncomplying riders,
other passengers and bus drivers
who felt obligated to enforce the
mandate. That often made them
targets for violent attacks, which
increased against transit workers

during the pandemic.
“We can also not ignore the
fact that the mask mandate required our members to deal with
unruly passengers who refused
to comply with the mandate as
we continue to urge transit agencies to protect our members on
the job,” Costa said.
The American Public Transportation Association said in a
statement that it did not support
the Biden administration’s appeal of the Florida ruling that
struck down the federal mask
order.
The nonprofit, which represents 1,500 public and private
transit agencies, said in a statement that “reimposing a federal
mask mandate would cause considerable confusion among riders and increase the growing
enforcement challenges faced by
public transit agencies today.”
In the Washington area, local
officials have lifted mask mandates as covid cases climb again,
albeit at far lower rates than
those seen during the peak of the
omicron wave.
The District’s per capita sevenday average of new cases was 153
on Friday but has largely remained above 200 new daily

cases since April 12, putting the
region at a “medium” coronavirus community level, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ten states
had higher per capita seven-day
averages than D.C. on Friday,
mostly concentrated in the
Northeast and driven by the BA.2
omicron subvariant and its new,
highly transmissible cousin,
BA.2.12.1.
Even though cases are moderately up in the District, the numbers are a far cry from the
omicron surge in January, when
the seven-day average of new
cases reached 2,251 at its crest.
Covid-related hospitalizations
have also remained relatively
low, with 78 people in the hospital on Thursday. D.C. has reported two deaths this month.
In D.C., Metro’s last virus-related death was that of a 34-year-old
bus operator who died in January. His was the transit agency’s
eighth pandemic-related death.
Since the pandemic began,
Metro has upgraded filtration on
all buses, with air exchanged
every two or three minutes, agency spokesman Ian Jannetta said
in a statement. Absenteeism
among bus operators is at normal
levels, he said, adding that “there
are currently no plans to reinstate rear-door boarding.”
“Metro’s cleaning and air-circulation protocols meet or exceed industry standards,” he said.
“We continue to provide free
masks in stations and on buses,
and have observed a relatively
high rate of mask usage even
since the mandate was lifted.”
But all it took was sitting
across from one maskless man in
March 2020 for Daniels-Finegold
to briefly stop taking the bus. The
man was coughing without covering his mouth — “like he was
coughing up a lung,” she said.
The bus is so essential to her
life
that
Daniels-Finegold
couldn’t stay off for long. By
summer 2020, she said the mask
mandate and other precautions
made her feel safe enough to
regularly use transit again. She
said she wears surgical masks but
knows she would be better protected if everyone else on the bus
wore a mask, too.
After decades of advocating for
better accessibility on Boston
public transit for disabled passengers, Daniels-Finegold said
she is disappointed the mandate
ended as the BA.2 subvariant
spreads rapidly in the Northeast.
“Do you think I’m having fun
wearing a mask? No, I’m not,”
Daniels-Finegold said. “But I
think I’m worth keeping safe.”

THE REGION

THERESA VARGAS

Twin days
exemplify
the march
of spring

With hopes for greater good, this TikToker is
getting people on the street to tell their salaries

Emergent foliage grows
greener in transition
from early to midseason
BY

M ARTIN W EIL

Saturday was a little longer
than Friday, the sun a little stronger, and the trees and their
spreading leaves seemed just a
little greener.
But in significant ways, Saturday seemed, to use a somewhat
dated phrase, almost a carbon
copy of Friday. Both days seemed
supremely springlike, and, by geometrical logic, seemed much like
each other.
If we judge by temperature, by
the highs and the lows, Saturday
appeared almost the identical
twin of Friday.
In Washington, Friday reached
a high of 77 degrees. According to
the 5 p.m. report from the National Weather Service, Saturday’s
high was the same 77 degrees.
Updated weather service figures indicated that Saturday’s
high reached 78 degrees, one degree higher than Friday. Saturday’s low of 53 degrees was also
one degree higher than Friday’s.
But essentially, if the differences between the days could be dis-

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Participants gather Saturday in Washington’s Lafayette Square for
weekend activities surrounding Earth Day the day before. Groups
including the League of Conservation Voters, the NAACP, the
Sierra Club and the Green New Deal Network participated in a
nationwide mobilization to press for action on climate change.

cerned at all, it could not be done
easily.
Not even from contemplating
the sky. Both days revealed lots of
haze aloft, and ample cloudiness
as well. But the clouds seemed
devoid of darkness or menace.
Perhaps an important distinction was psychological. Saturday
was a weekend day, and, all things
being equal, weekend days, with
presumably more leisure and less
routine, may seem inherently
more pleasant.
Yet it seemed scarcely arguable
that our fine Saturday followed in
the atmospheric footsteps of an
equally fine Friday.
And on both of them, the hours
of daylight seemed well in excess
of the hours of darkness, as we
move inexorably toward the longest day, still about two months
off.
But, in accord with the expansion of daylight, based on figures
provided by the National Weather
Service, Saturday offered Wash-

ington two minutes more between sunrise and sunset.
So, Friday and Saturday taken
together formed part of a seam
between early spring, which has
just ended, and middle spring,
which begins around now.
Both turned out to be warmer
than average, but not by too much.
Four or five degrees in each case.
The boundary between early
and middle spring seemed a time
of expanding greenery, with its
color appearing to deepen almost
daily.
Perhaps as little as two weeks
ago, many trees seemed almost
bare and leafless.
But with suddenness they
seemed to bedeck themselves in
green; at first with a particularly
pale and tentative look.
But on Saturday, as spring and
foliage assert themselves, the
leaves assumed an ever greener
look, seemingly darkening by the
day toward the deeper green of
summer.

year and a sales engineer who
brings in $145,000 a year. Two
teachers give their annual
salaries as $83,000 and
$100,000, amounts that led
many people who watched the
videos to express shock and
others to cite the high cost of
living in the region.
So far, Williams has posted
six videos, and they have drawn
millions of views. One of them
has more than 14 million views.
“If the ‘Great Resignation’ has
taught us anything, it is that
there is power in numbers,” she
said.
“When workers are
empowered, they can actually
influence change. I figured,
what better way to get open
salaries out there on the
Internet than by asking
strangers on the street? I
thought that it was going to be
successful, but I had no idea it
would go as viral as it did,” she
added
Williams had not expected
that the interviews would
prompt thousands of strangers
to click and comment and ask
for more content. “I love this
series,” one commenter wrote.
“As someone looking to make a
huge career change, please don’t
stop these videos!” wrote
another. “Phenomenal series.
Come over to Philly,” someone
else wrote.
Commenters have urged her
to visit Houston, Chicago and
New York. Williams said she
plans eventually to visit other

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cities and ask people in those
places about their salaries.
That national tour will no
doubt gain Williams more
views, but it also will give her
audience a fuller view of pay
across the country and in their
communities.
Talking about income
remains taboo, and some
companies try to prevent
employees from revealing their
salaries to colleagues. Efforts to
push against that silence raise
important questions. Who
benefits most from the lack of
transparency about pay? Who is
hurt most by it?
“Not having those salaries
and those open transparent
conversations is really a
disadvantage for women and
people of color because they are
the ones that are more likely to
be taken advantage of,” Williams
said. “So having these
conversations is really
important for closing the pay
gap and increasing diversity in
companies.”
A few years ago, I wrote a
column about the District
having the widest wage gap in
the country for Black women. In
it, I told you about a Black
woman in her 70s who worked
in the service industry and had
no savings or retirement plan.
“I’ll probably have to work until
I die, and that is just the truth,”
she said.
The first day Williams held a
microphone in front of
strangers and asked about their
wages, she was filled with
nerves. She had created a logo

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and printed shirts so that
people could see she had a
purpose for her questions. Even
so, she was unsure how people
might respond.
So far, she said, she has not
encountered anyone who has
become angry or threatening. If
people decline to reveal their
pay, she will not push them. But
if they are hesitant, she spends
time explaining to them why
these conversations matter.
Williams recalled an
interesting conversation she
had with a woman in Arlington
a few days ago. The woman
recognized Williams from
TikTok but said she could not
persuade herself to reveal her
salary. “I will work through this
in therapy,” the woman joked.
“We’re not trying to change
people’s minds overnight. But
even the ones who don’t want to
say it, they leave with something
to think about,” Williams said.
“So many of us equate our
salaries and pay with our worth.
We need to disconnect from that
notion. It’s literally just a
number, and it’s highly likely
that you’re underpaid.”
Some of the salaries that
people have shared in the videos
have left commenters lamenting
their own wages, discussing the
need for career changes and
asking Williams to visit other
parts of the District.
Williams said she wants to
“hit every area of the city” but
that will take time. She spends
her days, after all, working the
same way as the people she
interviews.

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A display at the house — the oldest structure on the National Mall
— reflects on the civil rights protests at the Mall 60 years ago.

“We see this as a nice orientation spot for visitors
to be able to go in, learn a little bit about the
history of the Mall as they’re going in to see the
monuments and memorials.”
Mike Litterst, spokesman for the National Park Service

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people who came before us,” she
said, “who lived in more meager
means, that allowed us to have
the life we do now.”
Beginning Saturday, visitors
are able to go inside the Mall’s
oldest building, which once
served as the home of a canal
lock tender, according to the
National Park Service. The house
will be open daily from 11 a.m. to
3 p.m.
The site underwent a restoration and relocation in 2018 in
partnership with the Trust for
the National Mall, but the pandemic shut its doors. Now the

historic building has reopened
with new interactive exhibits
and a multimedia program that
takes viewers through the history of the structure and the
evolution of the Mall.
“We see this as a nice orientation spot for visitors to be able to
go in, learn a little bit about the
history of the Mall as they’re
going in to see the monuments
and memorials,” Mike Litterst, a
spokesman for the National Park
Service, said of the house’s location at the southwest corner of
17th Street and Constitution Avenue, near Constitution Gar-

dens.
The 540-square-foot house sits
on a stone plaza shaded by a
willow oak, about 50 feet from its
original location along a canal
that once flowed through what is
now Constitution Avenue.
The renovation project, including the stone plaza and oak
tree, was funded by $6 million in
private support from the Trust
for the National Mall, trust
spokeswoman Julie Moore said.
The interactive exhibits and
multimedia programming came
from an investment of about
$1 million from the National

Park Service, Moore said.
Catherine Townsend, president and CEO of the Trust for the
National Mall, said the trust is
the philanthropic partner of the
National Park Service, bringing
expertise and private financial
support to help with solutions
and improvements to the Mall.
“The National Mall cannot be
only taken care of by government
funding alone,” Townsend said.
“It will take private philanthropy
to help sustain, restore and preserve those iconic treasures to
the country for years, generations to come.”
After visitors enter through a
wooden door, they encounter an
immersive six-minute video that
explains the area’s Native American history and the development
of a canal system. It also touches
on the history of slavery and the
Civil War, and describes the
building of monuments and museums along the Mall. The video
projects onto a screen, and images also project onto the interior
walls.
The building’s windows display a “snapshot in time” of what

Neighborhood
Commission
member James Butler used almost all of his opening salvo to
attack Bowser’s record on crime.
“One of my first priorities as
mayor of this great city will be to
restore hope and a sense of safety
and security in this city,” Butler
said. “I will make D.C. one of the
safest cities in the country. Folks,
I’ll say it again if you didn’t hear
me. I will make D.C. one of the
safest cities in the country.”
Bowser didn’t specifically mention crime in her opening statement, but she acknowledged that
residents want continued progress with public safety.
The day before, she wrote a
public letter following the shooting at the Edmund Burke School
in the Van Ness neighborhood
connecting D.C.'s challenges with
“the epidemic of gun violence in
our country.”
“Today has been a heartbreaking day for our community,”
Bowser wrote. “Unfortunately, tonight, I looked into the eyes of
parents who were terrified, and
they were terrified thinking of
what might happen to their children. This epidemic of gun violence in our country, the easy
access to firearms — it has got to
stop.”
In her letter, Bowser said there
were two other shootings in the
District on Friday.
“People should not be scared

taking their children to school.
People should not be scared sitting in their cars when they run
errands. People should not be
scared standing outside their
homes and talking to neighbors.”
Bowser holds a wide lead over
her Democratic challengers, but
her approval rating among D.C.
residents has dropped, according
to a Washington Post poll released
in February.
Asked to name the District’s
top problem, 36 percent of respondents cited crime, violence
or guns — twice as many as in a
2019 Post poll. Over the same
period, the share of residents saying the city is headed in the right
direction dropped from 59 percent to 49 percent.
In an interview after the debate, Bowser said the D.C. Council
needs to act and pass her administration’s budget to provide additional funding and resources to
police.
Her proposal would add 347
officers to the police force in fiscal
2023. And she wants to expand to
4,000 a department that has
shrunk to about 3,500 officers.
Police estimate that achieving
that goal could take until 2031.
Police told The Washington
Post earlier this month that responding to calls about violent
crime took 90 seconds longer
than in 2020. The police chief
described that as an “eternity” for

victims and a bonus for escaping
criminals.
“They have defunded our police force for the last two years and
we have to have the right amount
of police to respond to huge incidents like we saw last night as well
as neighborhood crimes,” Bowser
said after the debate. “Public safety is my top priority every day.”
But White pushed back at
Bowser’s attempt to blame the
council.
“Violent crime has gone up
drastically, and it didn’t just start
going up,” White said in an interview after the debate. “It has gone
up consistently throughout the
mayor’s term and particularly homicides over the past five years.”
White put the blame for the

leap in crime squarely on Bowser’s shoulders.
“The mayor is the one who
develops a public safety plan,” he
said. “But here we are years into a
homicide crisis and she still has
no plan.”
White has proposed a program
that would guarantee jobs for every District resident that he said
would increase the city’s workforce by a third and provide residents with respectable jobs.
“This monumental program
will drive down violence. . . . People want to be involved in improving their communities, and we
want to give them an opportunity
to do that,” White told The Post
earlier this week, comparing his
proposal to former mayor Marion

Mikayla Gloeckler, left, and her grandmother Clara Gloeckler of Fayetteville, N.C., view a map of the National Mall in the Lockkeeper’s
House, which features a new multimedia program and interactive exhibits. The historic building closed during the pandemic.

THE DISTRICT

Historic Lockkeeper’s House reopens
to visitors on Mall with new exhibits
BY

J ASMINE H ILTON

Katy Roat and her mother,
Kathy Roat, stopped outside the
185-year-old building on the
National Mall in the early morning sunshine Friday.
Katy Roat, 28, of D.C. passes by
the Lockkeeper’s House often on
her runs but wanted to take her
mom, who loves history, to see it
while she was in town for a visit.
Kathy Roat, 63, said the modest
stone structure has lessons to
teach us.
“It helps us appreciate what
we have and that there were

In mayor’s
race, safety
comes into
sharp focus
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are seeing the growing public
concern over crime as a way to
make inroads into her lead in the
polls.
Bowser, who took to social media Friday to decry gun violence,
on Saturday faced sharp criticism
from her opponents in a campaign season increasingly centered on public safety.
At the end of a dangerous and
difficult week in the District,
crime was very much on the agenda Saturday afternoon as Democratic mayoral candidates debated in the basement of a Northeast
Washington church.
“Violent crime is up across the
city and it’s terrifying,” D.C. Council member Robert C. White Jr.
(At-Large) said in his introductory statement at the forum hosted
by Ward 5 Democrats at Faith
United Church of Christ.
And former Ward 5 Advisory

people might have seen looking
out from the house through the
years, Litterst said, including
images of a scene of the developing city, a family floating by on a
canal barge, cattle grazing on the
grounds of an incomplete Washington Monument and a civil
rights march down Constitution
Avenue.
A desk features a visitors map
of the Mall along with a comparative map from 1837 so people
can see how the landscape has
changed, Litterst said.
Displays
include
touch
screens with additional information about the house and its
history.
The building can hold about
20 visitors at a time, Litterst said.
A group of about 10 people got
a preliminary look before the
official reopening Saturday.
Kelly Peavler, 55, of Oklahoma
said the video portrayed the
Lockkeeper’s House as having a
“voice.”
“If walls could talk, this house
would have a story,” she said.

Barry’s creation of the Summer
Youth Employment Program,
which gives paid work to District
teenagers.
Council member Trayon White
Sr. (D-Ward 8), who arrived 45
minutes after the debate began,
did not specifically address the
rising crime rate in his remarks.
During the lively and occasionally raucous debate Saturday in
front of about 125 voters, the candidates extolled their positions on
everything from schools and food
deserts to affordable housing,
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enue, one of the busiest corridors
in the District, with restaurants,
shops, apartments and foreign
embassies.
Bullets fired from weapons
used in the shooting, the chief
said, have “the capacity to travel
for an extended distance.”
Police said four people were
injured in the shooting, including a man in his 50s who is a
part-time security guard at Edmund Burke, a woman in her 30s
and another woman in her 60s
who was grazed by a bullet as she
waited in her vehicle to pick up a
child. A 12-year-old girl also was
shot.
Authorities expressed amazement that more people were not
struck or even killed, and said it
will take police many days to
collect evidence and fully document the damage over a vast
number of city blocks.
On Friday night, the Fairfax
County police SWAT team and
D.C. police searched Spencer’s
apartment at the Julian at Fair
Lakes and said they had only
one prior contact with the man.
A county police spokesman described the call as a noise complaint and said Spencer had
complied with officers.
Efforts to reach Spencer’s relatives over the past two days have
been unsuccessful, and residents
of the AVA Van Ness complex
described only fleeting encounters with him.
Shelby Magid, who lives on the
fifth floor, said Spencer would
have blended in at the building
that is home to many young
people. Magid, 28, recalled seeing him once or twice while on
the way to the elevator but said
she had never interacted with
him.
“It’s a quiet hall,” said Magid,
who wasn’t home when the
shootings occurred.
Another fifth-floor resident,
Diana Camosy, 34, took cover on
the bedroom floor next to her
husband most of Friday afternoon, refreshing Twitter for updates. Camosy, who had headphones on, and her husband,
who had been on a work Zoom
call, heard the gunshots but
dismissed them as noise from
construction.
In a text message, Camosy said
she looked out her window and
saw students with backpacks
running down an alley.
“Once we heard sirens we
knew something was terribly

wrong,” she said. As the afternoon went on, she heard police
in her hallway and checked the
front door peephole and saw
“cops with rifles.” Camosy said
she heard them talking about
getting to certain units on the
floor.
“We were flabbergasted when
we learned that Spencer lived,
fired from, and died on the same
floor as us and our friends,”
Camosy said.
Representatives for the apartment complex and the developer,
Avalon Communities, did not
respond to interview requests.
One message sent to residents
said the company understood
“how unsettling this has been for
all of us and are so thankful for
all that law enforcement has
done to resolve this very unfortunate situation.”
Spencer’s biographical history
remained murky, but public records indicate he spent some time
in Montgomery County. In 2016,
the Montgomery County Recreation Department posted a photo
detailing the lifesaving rescue of
one of its lifeguards at the
Wheaton-Glenmont pool.
“In a dramatic scene, lifeguard
Raymond Spencer had finished
his shift, decided to swim some
laps and became disoriented after getting out of the water,” a
Facebook post said. “He fell back
into the pool.”
The post said that he was
rescued by other lifeguards and a
firefighter who performed CPR
to help him regain consciousness. After being asked about the
Facebook post and whether
Spencer worked with the Montgomery recreation department, a
county spokesman confirmed
Spencer had worked with the
agency.
Spencer’s later years also have
not yet come into public focus.
Police said they are compiling his
Internet postings and interactions on several social media
platforms, including 4chan, and
Wikipedia, on which authorities
believe he made edits to several
pages in the days leading up to
the shooting.
Those edits were made on
pages that include David Hogg,
who survived a deadly mass
shooting at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High in Parkland, Fla.,
and has become an outspoken
advocate for gun control.
There are also searches on
Wikipedia pages for Wheaton
High School, in Montgomery
County; the recent attack on a

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Crime scene technicians search for evidence the morning after the shooting. D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said it is likely that
many more bullet holes will be found because rounds fired from the weapons used have “the capacity to travel for an extended distance.”

D.C. POLICE/REUTERS

Raymond Spencer

New York subway; Joint Base
Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia; and the “Glenmont station.” The significance of those
topics could not be determined
Saturday.
A Wikipedia page for Edmund
Burke School was searched several times and edited, including
a line added about an hour after
police said the shooting started
when Spencer wrote: “A gunman
shot at the school on April 22,
2022. The suspect is still at
large.”
On a separate online forum,
called 4chan, a user identifying
as Raymond Spencer posted 4
minutes after the reported
shooting started, “Dear God
please forgive me.”
The following post seemed to

taunt police: “They’re in the
wrong part of the building right
now searching XD.” Later, the
user wrote: “Waiting for police to
catch up with me.”
Police also said a graphic
video posted online Friday
showing what appears to be the
shooting is authentic, though it
is unclear when it was posted.
The video shows the Burke
school’s glass walkway covered
in posters from its recent financial aid auction, themed after
the game Clue. The sound of
gunfire erupts, and one of the
glass panels shatters.
On Wikipedia, Spencer last
updated his user page at 3:58
p.m. Friday, soon after the shooting. The page said he was an “a
AR-15 aficionado” in his biography. The page has since been
removed from the platform.
In a letter to the city, Mayor
Muriel E. Bowser (D) called the
shooting a “heartbreaking day
for our community” and decried
the continued gun violence in
the District.
“Unfortunately, tonight, I
looked into the eyes of parents
who were terrified, and they

Police are compiling Spencer’s Internet postings
and interactions on several social media platforms,
including 4chan, and on Wikipedia.
were terrified thinking of what
might happen to their children,”
the mayor said in her letter. “This
epidemic of gun violence in our
country, the easy access to firearms — it has got to stop.”
Jackie Rollins, who lives in the
AVA apartment building on the
floor below the shooter’s, said
she was watching a show on
Netflix when she heard the shots
but wasn’t sure what it was.
“I heard the shots, but I didn’t
realize they were shots, because I
never heard a gun other than on
the TV or a movie,” said Rollins,
57. “And it wasn’t until my grandson — I guess he saw something
on the news — and that’s how I
found out.”
She turned on the local news,
whose cameras kept showing her
building, and then she saw heavily armed police on the street

nearby. A little while later, police
told her she would have to evacuate the building soon. She said
she has lived in the building
about 18 months and had seen
the alleged shooter a few times
but didn’t know much about
him.
“I just can’t fathom how you
have so little regard for human
life,” she said.
About 10 p.m., Rollins was still
waiting for police to allow her
and several other residents to go
back inside the building.
“It’s a great place,” she said.
“This the first of anything like
this and, hopefully, the last.”
Jennifer Jenkins, Razzan Nakhlawi,
Alice Crites, Justin Jouvenal, Emily
Davies and Tom Jackman
contributed to this report.

obituaries
RADU LUPU, 76

Pianist of understated allure was renowned for his sensitive performances
BY

E MILY L ANGER

Radu Lupu, a Romanian pianist venerated for his understated
yet enrapturing interpretations
of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,
Schumann and Brahms, died
April 17 at his home in Lausanne,
Switzerland. He was 76.
His manager, Jenny Vogel, confirmed his death but did not cite a
cause.
Among classical music critics
and devotees, and among the
musicians with whom he performed over more than half a
century, Mr. Lupu was celebrated
as one of the finest concert pianists of his generation. Alex Ross,
the music critic for the New Yorker magazine, described Mr. Lupu
in a tribute after his death as the
“arch-magus of the piano,” “the
supreme living practitioner of his
instrument, a musician and artist
of the highest order.”
Yet Mr. Lupu, by his preference
and design, was not widely
known beyond the audiences who
convened in concert halls to take
in what by all accounts were his
sublimely sensitive performances. He made few recordings
and granted even fewer interviews. In his reserve, he left some
observers with the incorrect impression that he was a recluse. A
writer for the British magazine
the Spectator once dubbed him
the “J.D. Salinger of pianists.”
Before his retirement in 2019,
Mr. Lupu gave hundreds of concerts around the world. One of his
trademarks as a performer was
immediately obvious to any audience: Mr. Lupu did not sit on a
piano bench, preferring instead a
humble office chair.
“He trudges onstage, sits down
at the piano like a court stenographer at a tedious trial, and proceeds dispassionately to do his
job,” music critic John Rockwell
wrote in the New York Times in

subtle bow.
“I’m playing for the audience,
of course,” Mr. Lupu clarified in a
rare interview, with the Orange
County Register in 1994. “The
audience element is the most
important element in the concert.
But it is also true that if I can
make music for myself, even
while practicing, and be moved
by it, then that will project to the
audience.”
“It may seem I am playing for

“It’s a very
complex process,
but I try to find
my own voice
in the music.”
Radu Lupu, in an interview with
the Orange County Register in 1994

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Radu Lupu performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 2011.
He specialized in the German and Austrian composers of the late 18th and 19th centuries.

1991. While other pianists swayed
and tossed their heads, Mr. Lupu
sat in near stillness, except for the
measured movement of his fingers. Stripped of any unnecessary
flourish, his performances, both
as a soloist and with leading
international orchestras, were
marked by their musical purity.
Although he ventured into the
works of Debussy, Bartok and
Janacek, all of whom lived into
the 1900s, Mr. Lupu was best
known for his mastery of the

Austrian and German composers
of the late 18th and 19th centuries. But if his repertoire was
limited, it contained infinite expressive range.
“Radu Lupu is a strange, wizardly presence at the piano,” Ross
wrote in the Times in 1994, describing a recital by Mr. Lupu at
New York’s Carnegie Hall as having had “the atmosphere of a
seance.”
“He indulged, as always, in
eccentricities,” Ross continued,

“but his lustrous tone and easeful
grasp of the longer musical line
mesmerized [the] audience. The
final movement of Schumann’s
Fantasy in C turned into neverending waves of lyric warmth,
and the encore of Brahms’s Intermezzo in A (Op. 118, No. 2) was too
beautiful for words. Ghosts of the
Romantics hovered behind him.”
It was often observed that Mr.
Lupu seemed to pay little attention to the audience, which he
acknowledged with only the most

myself, but it’s not quite like that,”
he concluded. “Why should I
make a big show of the whole
thing?”
Mr. Lupu was born Nov. 30,
1945, in Galati, a Romanian port
city on the Danube River. His
father was a lawyer, his mother a
French teacher. Mr. Lupu was 6
when he began piano lessons and
12 when he gave his first recital, a
performance of his own compositions.
In the 1960s, he received a
scholarship to study in the Soviet
Union, at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. A string of
triumphs at major international
competitions helped bring him to
worldwide renown.
In 1966, Mr. Lupu was awarded
the gold medal in the Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition
in Texas, an event that honors the
American pianist who became a

Cold War celebrity when he won
the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
In 1967, Mr. Lupu won the
grand prize at the George Enescu
International Competition in Bucharest, Romania. Two years later, he won the Leeds International Piano Competition in Britain.
For all his victories, Mr. Lupu
did not enjoy music contests,
describing them as “nerve-racking.” He confessed to having a
similar dislike for microphones,
which contributed to the small
size of his recording catalogue.
Mr. Lupu recorded works by
Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann
and Brahms, among others, for
the Decca label. He received a
1995 Grammy Award for a recording of Schubert piano sonatas.
With the American pianist Murray Perahia, he received a 1986
Gramophone award for an album
of four-hand works by Mozart
and Schubert. Andrew Clements,
a music critic for the London
Guardian, described the rendition on that album of Schubert’s
Fantasia in F minor as “one of the
greatest piano-duet recordings of
all time.”
Mr. Lupu’s first marriage, to
Elizabeth Wilson, a British musician he met while studying in the
Soviet Union, ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 32
years, Delia Bugarin, who is a
violinist; a son from another relationship, Daniel; and two grandchildren.
Music, for Mr. Lupu, was an
intensely private experience,
sometimes taking him away from
his instrument itself.
“I work away from the piano a
lot, just myself and the score so
that nothing can interfere between the music and myself,” he
told the Orange County Register.
“It’s a very complex process, but I
try to find my own voice in the
music.”

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EARL DEVANEY, 74

Inspector general uncovered fraud within Interior Dept.
BY

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Earl Devaney, a onetime Secret
Service agent who became one of
the federal government’s most effective investigators of waste and
fraud, uncovering corruption at
the Interior Department and later
leading efforts to monitor billions
of dollars of spending in the wake
of the 2008 recession, died April
15 at a hospital in Boca Raton, Fla.
He was 74.
He had a heart ailment, said his
son Michael Devaney.
Mr. Devaney spent more than
20 years in the Secret Service,
working mostly in the agency’s
financial crimes unit, before ferreting out government fraud and
misbehavior at the Environmental Protection Agency and later at
the Interior Department, where
he spent 10 years as inspector
general.
He led efforts that helped uncover neglect and wrongdoing
throughout the department,
ranging from appalling conditions in tribal jails operated by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs — which
he called “a national disgrace” —
to drug use, sexual encounters
and the influence-peddling and
tax evasion schemes of lobbyist
Jack Abramoff, who went to prison for his misdeeds in 2008.
A burly former police officer
and college football player, the
plain-spoken Mr. Devaney did not
shy away from confronting top
Interior Department officials
when he had concluded they acted without accountability.
“Simply stated, short of a crime,
anything goes at the highest levels
of the Department of the Interior,”
he said at a 2006 congressional
hearing.
He said some of the agency’s
top leaders were too cozy with the
oil industry and had too often
overlooked ethical lapses, incompetence, cronyism and doubledealing.
“Everything everyone would
want is here,” Mr. Devaney said of
the Interior Department in a 2009
interview with the New York
Times. “Water, land, minerals, oil
and gas and the ever-popular Indian gaming.”
Abramoff’s far-reaching criminal enterprise began when he was
lobbying for Native American casinos and led to millions of dollars
in fraud and kickback schemes. As
part of his three-year investigation of Abramoff, Mr. Devaney
looked into the dealings of several

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Early Devaney spent 20 years in the Secret Service, mostly in the agency’s financial crimes unit, before moving to the Environmental
Protection Agency and Interior Department. At those agencies, he ferreted out government fraud and misbehavior.

high-ranking Interior Department officials, including J. Steven
Griles, second-in-command to
Secretary Gale A. Norton during
the George W. Bush administration.
According to a report issued by
Mr. Devaney’s office, Griles, a onetime coal industry lobbyist, was
involved in as many as 25 possible
ethical violations and was, in Mr.

“She said she’d talked to him
and he wouldn’t do it again,” Mr.
Devaney said. “Three years later,
he was in jail.” (Griles pleaded
guilty to obstructing a Senate investigation of Abramoff.)
Mr. Devaney sometimes used
spy-movie technology to catch
malefactors in the act. One
keepsake in his office was an alligator head that had been placed in

“The first time I took a pencil and figured that out,
I was horrified to see it was $55 billion.”
Earl Devaney, on his first calculation of federal waste as head of the Recovery
Accountability and Transparency Board

Devaney’s words, “ready and willing to serve as Jack Abramoff’s
man inside Interior.”
Despite the findings, Griles
faced virtually no discipline from
Norton before he resigned in
2004.

a Louisiana bayou with a small
camera mounted inside. The unmoving gator captured photographs of an Interior Department
official on a fishing trip illegally
financed by a company he was
supposed to be monitoring.

Perhaps Mr. Devaney’s most
noteworthy investigation was of a
little-known Interior Department
agency called the Minerals Management Service. A Denver-based
division of the agency, called the
Royalty-in-Kind Program, was in
charge of collecting royalties for
the federal government on oil and
gas drilling leases.
Mr. Devaney’s office discovered
that poorly written contracts had
deprived the federal government
of an estimated $10 billion in
royalties that should have been
paid by oil companies. Agency
officials knew about the problem
for at least two years, Mr. Devaney
charged, but did nothing to correct it.
Moreover, according to a report
Mr. Devaney issued in 2008, workers at the agency “frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relations
with oil and gas company representatives.”

Congressional hearings were
held, and the Minerals Management Service was later broken
into three separate agencies.
In 2009, Mr. Devaney was invited to a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss monitoring the financial recovery program that was at the heart of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Mr. Devaney was preparing to retire, but Biden escorted him into the Oval Office, where
President Barack Obama asked
him to lead the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board —
often called the RAT Board.
Suddenly in charge of curbing
waste in the roughly $800 billion
federal aid package, Mr. Devaney
did a quick calculation, using a
common estimate that 7 percent
of federal spending is lost to
waste.
“The first time I took a pencil
and figured that out,” he told The
Washington Post in 2009, “I was
horrified to see it was $55 billion.”

Helped by other inspectors
general and a staff of about 40, Mr.
Devaney adopted analytical tools
from law enforcement and intelligence agencies to develop a comprehensive, searchable federal database that accounted for every
dollar spent in the recovery act.
Recipients of funds from the program were listed by name and Zip
code.
“If you take on a tough assignment, like a total rehab of a program, or building a new one,” Mr.
Devaney told The Post in 2011,
“you’re either going to look smart
or you’re going to fail.”
His project was seen as one of
the federal government’s boldest
steps toward transparency and
citizen involvement. His work
with the RAT Board was praised
by Republicans and Democrats.
“He’s the best of the IGs, when
you look around,” Rep. Edolphus
Towns (D-N.Y.), then-chairman of
the House Oversight Committee,
said in 2011. “He’s the Super Bowl
guy, no question about it.”
Earl Edward Devaney was born
June 8, 1947, in Reading, Mass. His
father owned several businesses,
and his mother was an actress and
model.
Mr. Devaney, who worked briefly as a police officer and garbage
collector as a young man, was an
offensive lineman at Franklin &
Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.
After graduating in 1970 with a
bachelor’s degree in government,
he joined the Secret Service.
Early in his career, he served on
protective details before being assigned to the Secret Service’s other primary law enforcement role,
investigating counterfeiting and
other financial crimes. He was in
charge of the fraud unit when he
left the Secret Service in 1991.
Mr. Devaney spent eight years
as an investigator at the EPA before becoming the Interior Department’s inspector general in
1999. He retired from federal service in 2011 and moved to Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.
Survivors include his wife of 49
years, the former Judith Levay;
two sons, Matthew Devaney and
Michael Devaney; and five grandchildren.
“If you want to be popular, the
IG job is not the one to have,” Mr.
Devaney told National Journal in
2007. “Every day someone is going
to be mad at you. The trick is to
come to work in the morning and
not be a poodle or a Doberman
pinscher, but to strike a balance.”

JACK HIGGINS, 92

Prolific best-selling author of ‘The Eagle Has Landed,’ ‘The Wrath of God’
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Jack Higgins, a British thriller
writer whose 85 books sold more
than a quarter of a billion copies
and who had his greatest international success with “The Eagle
Has Landed,” a novel about a
fictional Nazi plot to kidnap or
assassinate British wartime leader Winston Churchill, died April
9 at his home in Jersey, one of the
British Channel Islands between
England and France. He was 92.
Charlie Redmayne, chief executive of his publisher HarperCollins UK, announced the death but
did not provide a cause. Mr.
Higgins — the best known of the
many noms de plume of Henry
Patterson — had a nervous system ailment that in recent years
interfered with his writing.
A former soldier turned teacher, Mr. Higgins began writing in
the evenings under his birth
name and over the years used
Hugh Marlowe, Martin Fallon
and James Graham because he
churned out so many novels so
fast that no one publisher could
print them all in any given year.
“The Eagle Has Landed,” published in 1975, made Jack Higgins
a global commodity (Higgins was
his mother’s maiden name). One
would be hard-pressed to find an
airport bookshop anywhere in
the world, even in non-Englishspeaking countries, that doesn’t
display a Higgins novel on its
shelves. In a statement, Redmayne said Mr. Higgins was
known around the publishing
house as “The Legend.”
For all its adventurism, “The
Eagle Has Landed” also demonstrated Mr. Higgins’s ability to
remind his readers of moral complexity and cast doubt on who are
heroes or villains in an individual
circumstance — in this case, war.
The book is set in September
1943 when Germany’s war effort,
including Hitler’s original intention of invading Britain, is faltering. A group of disguised German
paratroopers, aided by an antiBritish sympathizer from the

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Jack Higgins — who also used other noms de plume — saw “The
Eagle Has Landed” and others of his 85 books adapted for film.

Irish Republican Army (IRA), is
tasked with trying to kidnap or
kill Churchill during his visit to a
village in eastern England.
When Mr. Higgins wrote his
first draft, he said an executive at
Collins Publishers was first confused by the title (“he said it
sounded like a bird book”). The
executive then grew hesitant because the plot seemed too sympathetic toward the German protagonists, showing them as honorable men on a mission they

considered justified, and also glorifying the IRA’s anti-British
stand. The author, raised for part
of his youth amid the sectarian
conflicts of Northern Ireland,
was keen on exploring the moral
and psychological ambiguity of
his characters.
But his editor at the time said
he viewed it as an “instant classic” and was fully validated after
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
brought it out in the United
States to resounding commercial

success. “The Americans had to
reprint it once a month for a year
to meet demand,” he told Reuters.
“The Eagle Has Landed” went
on to sell 50 million books in
more than 50 languages and was
turned into a 1976 movie starring
Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall and Jenny
Agutter.
Mr. Higgins reportedly received seven-figure advances for
his later work, most of which
were impervious to middling reviews. “Too much depends upon
likely coincidence,” thriller and
mystery reviewer Newgate Callendar wrote in the New York
Times of Mr. Higgins’s “A Season
in Hell” (1989). “But Mr. Higgins
is a real pro, and he keeps things
moving so fast the reader is apt to
forget and forgive.”
Such was also the case with his
last novel, “The Midnight Bell”
(2016). Set in Northern Ireland,
its plot involves a former IRA hit
man, Sean Dillon, the subject of
many of his earlier books, as well
as an al-Qaeda terrorist leader,
the White House, the CIA, the
British government and several
subplots. Many readers found the
story hard to follow, but it — like
so many before it — wound up on
the bestseller lists.
Henry Patterson was born in
Newcastle upon Tyne, in northeastern England, on July 27, 1929.
His father was a shipyard worker
turned racetrack bookmaker
from Scotland, while his mother
was from Belfast in Northern
Ireland.
He was a toddler when his
father walked out on the family,
and he and his mother moved to
her family home in Belfast. Conflict was simmering between proBritish Protestants and Catholics
who wanted a united island of
Ireland; this was long before the
violent “Troubles” that erupted in
1969. Young Harry, a Protestant,
witnessed bombings as well as a
gun attack on the streetcar he
was riding to school (his mother
pulled him to the floor to protect
him).

He also recalled that his great
uncle, whose name was Jack Higgins, had a drawer full of handguns and would load one, put it in
his overcoat and casually tilt his
trilby hat in front of the hall
mirror before taking young Harry for a walk along Belfast’s
Shankhill Road.
When he was 13, his mother
remarried and took him to Leeds,
England, where he got into trouble by throwing snowballs at his
new school’s tower clock. The
headmaster told him he would
“amount to nothing” and flogged
him with a cane. “I was in agony,
of course,” he told the Yorkshire
Evening Post. “He didn’t just give
me six, he gave me nine strokes.
But I was buggered if I’d blubber
[cry] for him.”
Leaving school at 15 to help
support his mother, he took on
menial jobs helping erect tents
for traveling circuses and working as a fare collector on local
street tramcars. For his compulsory national military service in
1947, he found himself in the
British army’s Household Cavalry, a historic combination of regiments, although best known now
for its formal role as protectors of
the monarch. Mr. Higgins gained
awards as a sharpshooter.
Military tests showed him that
he, in fact, had an exceptional IQ,
and he was determined to return
to school. He received a degree in
sociology from the London
School of Economics (LSE) and
became a schoolteacher. Meanwhile, he was given a battered
copy of the F. Scott Fitzgerald
masterpiece “The Great Gatsby”
and was inspired to try writing.
His first book, “Sad Wind From
the Sea” (1959), an adventure
story set in China, was published
under his given name for a 75pound advance. His school pupils
were impressed, and, despite
modest sales, he was emboldened
to continue.
He said that his 1966 novel “A
Candle for the Dead,” written as
Hugh Marlowe and about an
escaped IRA explosives expert,

also had underwhelming sales
but that the 1967 film version,
“The Violent Enemy,” brought in
royalties three times his teaching
salary. He decided to give up
teaching and write full time.
His 1971 novel “The Wrath of
God,” about a band of revolutionaries in South America and written as James Graham, brought in
even more royalties with a 1972
film starring Robert Mitchum.
Later screen adaptations of his
work included “A Prayer for the
Dying,” which was turned into a
1987 film starring Mickey Rourke
as an Irish nationalist.
Mr. Higgins’s first marriage, to
Amy Hewitt, a fellow LSE student, ended in divorce. In 1985 he
married Denise Palmer, a former
literary agent. In addition to his
wife, survivors include four children from his first marriage. His
daughter Sarah Patterson is the
author of a young-romance novel
set against a World War II backdrop, “The Distant Summer”
(1976).
Like many Britons who had
just become wealthy, Mr. Higgins
fled England after the British
government raised the upper rate
of income tax to more than 80
percent in the late 1970s. He
settled on the island of Jersey,
which is part of Britain but has
lenient offshore tax status. He
lived there for the rest of his life,
in a mansion he described as “just
like Monte Carlo,” writing until
the wee hours of the morning
before a glass of champagne, a
bacon sandwich and bed.
In a 2010 interview with the
Guardian, he said: “Yes, it’s been
good. I’ve had the chance to do it
all. The car, the driver, Beverly
Hills, MGM, the movies, the Carson show, Larry King, hanging
out with Richard Burton, being
waited on by a dwarf in a green
jacket in the Polo Lounge … the
Hollywood dream and the Hollywood weirdness all happened.
My son thought it was all a load of
pretentious rubbish. He was
right, but I thought I’d just enjoy
it anyway.”

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received a law degree from
Creighton University in Omaha
in 1974. He worked as a lawyer for
the Federal Highway Administration in 1974 before opening a
private practice the next year. In
the 1990s, he became co-owner of
the Nebraska Clothing Co.
He began his political career in
the 1980s as a Democrat but
switched parties several times

over the years and pitched himself as an independent-minded
moderate. He served in Nebraska’s legislature from 1987 to 1995
and again from 2007 to 2015.
He lost a primary contest for
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in 1994, running as a Republican.
Survivors include his wife,
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Bishop Smith, a resident of
Alexandria, Va., was born in Baltimore. He increased the Zion
membership from 250 to 3,500
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daughter, Anne Stuntz.
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Rudy Baum, 68, the editor in

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Ore. The cause was cancer, said
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to 2017, died Feb. 18 at his home
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was complications from diabetes,
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Ann Catherine Barlow (Boudreau, Luksic) 58,
passed away in her home on April 17, 2020,
with family by her side.
Ann was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March
24, 1962, to William and Dorothy Luksic.
Proudly a “navy brat,” she explored life
across the United States and formed her
unique and thoughtful outlook in the communities of Adak, Alaska; Charleston, South
Carolina; Clarkson, Nebraska; and Rockville,
Maryland.
Ann graduated Magna Cum Laude (with
highest honors) from Shepherd University
with an Elementary Education degree in
1984. She went on to teach for Montgomery County Public Schools before continuing
her education with a Masters in Elementary
Ed. Math at Trinity University, Summa Cum
Laude, in 1995. Ann’s career as an elementary school teacher for MCPS spanned 18
years, during which she touched the lives
of countless children and their families.
She considered herself honored to have
“worked for the best school in the country! College Gardens Elementary,” where
she was nationally recognized for guiding
students through the innerworkings of the
United States Postal Service as they followed hand-written letters from their desks
to their grandparents’ kitchen tables.
In 2001, Ann left elementary education to
dip her toes into the adult education pond
with the Bureau of National Affairs, where
she worked for seven years before leaving
to fulfill her role as what she considered
the most important job in the world – stay

GEORGE H. DICKERSON

Died peacefully on April 15, 2022 after a valiant struggle with a sudden and aggressive
form of cancer.
Dr. Botts was born in Washington, DC. September 17, 1947. He was born into a military
family that moved a number of times before
settling in Northridge, California. He was
predeceased by both his parents but he is
survived by his sister, Carroll Lynn Botts of
Albuquerque, NM and his brother, Jim Botts
of Lubec, ME. He attended Granada Hills
High School graduating with a Major Se-

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eration of Musicians Local 161-710 (Washington, DC) and Local 369 (Las Vegas, NV).
William was predeceased by his parents,
George and Matilda Barrick and his brother,
Don.
His funeral arrangements are as follows:
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11 to 12 p.m. Visitation at Ss. Peter & Paul Antiochian Orthodox
Christian Church (10620 River Rd., Potomac,
MD 20854)
12 p.m. Funeral Service, The service will
be live-streamed on the church’s YouTube
channel (starting close to 12 P.M.). (https://
www.youtube.com/channel/UCMnw0XHuq6vZlc3y-Cj5kXQ/live).

WILLIAM EDWARD BARRICK “BILLY”

Passed away on Sunday, April 10, 2022.
He was surrounded by his family and with
music. William is survived by his wife, Carol,
his son, Christopher (Leah), and his granddaughter, Nadine. He is also survived by
his nephews, Don, Robert, and James and
great-nephews, Michael, Bob, Nick and Joey,
and several great-great nephews and nieces.
He had a 50-year career as a professional
drummer with touring groups, as well as in
Las Vegas, NV and the Washington, DC area.
He was a life member of the American Fed-

JOCK PEYTON RUSSELL CAMPBELL

didn’t know anyone he made sure to make
a friend so he’d have someone to meet up
with next time he was in the area. Born in
Dallas, Texas in 1932, Jock spent most of
his youth in Washington, DC, returning to
Texas for college and then back to Washington to take a job with the U.S. Government
Services. An avid golfer, he made sure to
find a good golf course wherever he was
stationed and especially enjoyed relaxing
at the 19th hole after a good round. Jock
is survived by his longtime friend and partner, Margaret Fenn, son Peyton Campbell,
of Chesapeake, Virginia, daughter Claire
Campbell of South Glastonbury, Connecticut, grandchildren Peyton Shipman, Kathryn Campbell, Mairead Campbell, and Ailsa
Campbell. Jock also leaves behind his sister,
Suzanne Ressler as well as many other family members and friends who remember him
fondly as a character’, valued his advice, and
appreciated his generosity in spirit and practice. Gifts of remembrance can be made to
The Boy Scouts of America, https://www.
scouting.org/ which played an important
part in Jock’s youth, supported him through
college work, and had a special place in the
heart of the man he was to become. No
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Sam was born at Sibley Memorial Hospital and spent his early years in D.C., later
moving to Silver Spring where he attended Springbrook H.S. He played bass guitar
in several local bands and later joined the
U.S. Navy, serving on the USS Intrepid. Sam
began remodeling homes after moving to
Virginia in the 1970’s, founding S&P Construction Services in 1980 after he and Peggy married. He retired two years ago. Sam
touched the lives of all who met him with
his warm spirit, sense of humor, and generosity. He deeply cared for his family, friends,
clients, and neighbors, and will be dearly
missed by all who knew him.

SAM CELIA (Age 72)

It is with deep sadness that we announce
the death of Sam Celia of Arlington, Virginia,
who passed away unexpectedly of a heart
attack on April 19, 2022. He is survived by
his beloved wife, Peggy O’Connell; loving
daughters, Kellie Celia (Eric Wisneski) and
Julie Celia (Steven Lopez); siblings, John Celia, Al Celia, Rose Uhrich (David), and Tina
Celia; sister-in-law Mary O’Connell; and

Visitation hours are 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to
8 p.m. on Thursday, April 28 at Demaine
Funeral Home, 520 S. Washington St., Alexandria, VA. Burial private. A memorial
celebration will be held on Friday, April 29,
please contact a family member for more
information.

KAREN W. GREBENSTEIN

Karen is survived by her husband, Scott
Grebenstein; her son, William Grebenstein;
her daughter, Katherine Grebenstein; and
her mother, Jo Ann Green. She also leaves
behind her beloved dog and companion,
Algebra.

Karen was born in Virginia and spent her life

A viewing is scheduled from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at Beall Funeral Home, 6512 Crain Highway, Bowie, MD.
Please view and sign Family Guest Book at
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A loving mother, wife, and friend, Karen
W. Grebenstein (Green) passed to a place
of greater peace at her home on Tuesday
morning, April 19, 2022 at the age of 57.

GRIFFIN
She was very social media-savvy and followed her extended family’s activities on
Instagram, then shared all the great photos
with other family members. She was wonderful at keeping her extended family connected and enjoyed every minute of seeing
their adventures. She was interested in the
lives of not only her children, grandchildren,
and great-grandchildren, but also her many
nieces and nephews and their children–all
of whom she was involved with throughout
their lives.

JEANNE FRANCES GAGNON GRIFFIN
(Age 80)

Jeanne’s greatest passion in life was her
marriage to her husband George, and
their family they shared together. Jeanne’s
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were the pride and joy of her life.
Jeanne was also a steadfast and true friend.
She maintained decades-long friendships
from her teenage years and early adult life
up until her death. We know she’s finally having a good laugh in heaven with her
lifelong friends Betty Smith and Betty Pontin and is survived by her very dear friend
May Catalano who she met when she and
George lived in Japan. Jeanne was also the
hub of communication among her siblings
and extended family.

research in the representation of architecture in art.
Raised in Washington D.C., he was the only
child of a senior civil servant Robert and his
wife Dorothy Kennedy. He was a choirboy
in Washington Cathedral and graduated
from St. Albans School in 1949. He went
on to earn his BA in Political Science from
Haverford College in 1953. After two years
of active duty as an officer in the US Navy
Reserve that took him to Japan, which was
to be a lifelong aesthetic influence, he began four years of architectural studies in the
Graduate School of Design of Harvard University, graduating with a Masters of Architecture and the A.I.A. Medal in 1959.
After a year in Rome Italy on a Fullbright
Grant, he returned to Washington, D.C. to do
his professional apprenticeship and acquire
registration as an architect.
He served on the Board of Trustees of the
Austin Museum of Art and Ballet Austin. He
was a member of the American Institute
of Architects, the Society of Architectural
Historians, the English Speaking Union, the
Littlefield Society, the Tate Gallery and Royal
Academy of Art.
No services planned at this time. Arrangements are with Weed Corley Fish, 5416
Parkcrest Drive, Austin Texas.

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In addition to her parents and husband,
Jeanne was predeceased by her sister Marilyn Davis and sisters-in-law Anne Gagnon
and Rosemary McGrady. She is survived by
her children Wendi Irwin (Daniel), Lisa Ross
(Michael) and Stan Griffin (Katie); brothers
Edward Gagnon, (the late Anne), Charles
Gagnon, Jr. (Charlotte), Leonard Gagnon
(Diane), sister Linda Williams (Guy), brothers/sisters-in-law Al Davis, Ann & Douglas
Stidham and Donald McGRady; grandchildren, Daniel Irwin, Jr. (Heather), Brittany
Petrosik (Robert), Trevor Irwin, Brandon
Hoole, Tyler Irwin, Shea Griffin, Skylar Griffin
and Bailey Griffin; great-grandchildren, Gabriel Cox, Daniel Irwin, III, Colton Irwin, Noah
Petrosik and Gavin Petrosik.
A Mass will be celebrated on Monday, May
2, 2022, at 10 a.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic
Church, 3320 St. Peter’s Drive, Waldorf, MD
20601. In lieu of flowers, contributions may
be made in Jeanne Griffin’s name to St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital or Hospice of
the Chesapeake. Interment will take place
at Arlington National Cemetery at a later
date.

HARKINS

MARTA EDEN HARKINS

Marta Harkins (née Edén) passed away on
Saturday, April 2, 2022 in McLean, Virginia
surrounded by her devout family, and amazing friends and caregivers from around the
community.
Marta was born in Åsele, a small city in
Northern Sweden. Marta’s late parents, her
father Elias and his wife Maria (née Westman) brought her into their bourgeoning
family of one brother and five sisters, all
respectively of late; Olle Edén, Karin Olson,
Inga Arnevall, Greta Åkermark, Annastina
Berglund and Birgitta Nordfeldt. The house
of Edén consisted of their ownership of the
General Store in Åsele and their residence
above it. The building has undergone restoration and is now an official Swedish Historic Site.
Marta immigrated to New York at the age of
22 after completing university in Stockholm,
adventurously chasing her older sister Karin.
She was employed in positions at a Swedish
gift shop; at a manufacturer of forward modern design coffee pots; and, at B. Altman.

At the age of 30 in Greenwich Village, Marta
met and shortly thereafter married James
(Jim) P. Harkins. Their marriage was founded
on amazing zeal and strength over 56 years.
With Jim at her side Marta brought two children into the world, first a daughter Marian
and secondly a son Paul, together raising
their family first in Croton and Peekskill,
New York and later in Arlington, Virginia.
Marta combined motherhood with being a
tax accountant for H&R Block, running for local office, and starting and succeeding with
her own tax accountancy. Marta enjoyed a
lengthy tenure of volunteer work and was
recognized by the County of Arlington, Virginia naming her Woman of the Year. Marta
volunteered at the former Arlington Hospital
now Virginia Hospital Center. She was an
avid participant of Soroptimist International of Arlington, Virginia; of the Presbyterian
Church; and headed the low vision support
group in her retirement community, Vinson
Hall.
Marta’s surviving family members include
her son Adrian and his wife Birgitta of
Stockholm, Sweden; her daughter Marian
of Reston, Virginia; her son-in-law Roger of
Reston, Virginia; her son Paul and his wife
Ania of Virginia Beach, Virginia; her daughter-in-law Susan of Hillsboro, Virginia; her
nine grandchildren – Anna, Malin, James
and his wife Haley, Jorden, Sarah, Joseph,
Grace, Genevieve and Josephine; her great
granddaughter Lycke; and great-grandsons
Trey and Mans Adrian.
A memorial service celebrating Marta’s life
will be held on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at
2 p.m. in the Chapel at Vinson Hall in McLean, Virginia. In lieu of flowers or other
offerings of remembrance, please consider
a donation to the Navy Marine Coast Guard
Residence Foundation (NMCRGRF) a 501(c)
(3) organization that supports the Vinson
Hall Retirement Community, which is a Life
Plan Community.

Service are private.

Paul spent the bulk of his distinguished
career as a Middle East Intelligence and
Policy Analyst and Strategist supporting
US Government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department
of State. He served as a subject matter expert on many issues including, terrorism/
counterterrorism, threat assessments, psychological operations, and combat in urban
terrain. Never one to remain idle for long, he
served as consultant to several private corporations during retirement and appeared
on TV and radio programs to discuss developments in the Middle East region.
Outside of work, there were two things that
Paul loved most: being with his family and
spending time on the grounds of the University of Virginia to cheer on his Cavaliers
– and if he could combine the two, he was
even happier. Paul was a devoted husband,
father, grandfather, and friend and will be
missed by all that loved him.
He is survived by his daughters, Victoria
Deehan (Kris) and Helen Heilmeier (Tim);
grandchildren, Zane, Paul, James, Olivia, and
Jackson; his sister-in-law Margaret (Margie)
Jureidini; and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends. He is predeceased by his
beloved wife of nearly 30 years, Helen; his
eldest daughter, Joan Jureidini Carter; his
parents; his brother John (Jack) Jureidini,
and his sister Dorine Daoud.
Services are private. Please contact the
family for more information. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations in
Paul’s name be made to the American Cancer Society.

endowed competitions focused on the importance and vitality of the US Constitution.
Bill’s contributions were wide-ranging: he
donated ambulances to Israel; Torah scrolls
to synagogues; and volunteered his time
teaching math to second graders in West
Palm Beach public schools.
Bill was a lifelong Zionist and supporter of
The State of Israel. His prolific published
writings can viewed at http://williamklangfan.com/articles/wkl-articles-booklet/.
Bill lived his life fully with family, travel,
the New York Yankees, tennis, and shared
wonderful jokes and stories that everyone
enjoyed.

WILLIAM K. LANGFAN

William K. Langfan, “Bill”, was born March
4, 1922, in New York City. Bill passed away
April 14, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida, from
natural causes, surrounded by loved ones.
Bill had recently celebrated his 100th Birthday. First-generation American, youngest of
five children, first to go to college, Bill graduated from The University of South Carolina
and attended the Sorbonne and Cornell Law
School. Bill was a veteran of WWII, fought in
the Battle of the Bulge, and was a liberator
of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Bill was a benefactor of many secular and
Jewish causes in the US, Israel, and throughout the world. In numerous US schools, Bill

Bill was predeceased by his first wife,
Alegria, and second wife, Marion, and is
survived by his three children, Robin (Jay
Hammer), Mark (Sherri Langfan), Dayna
(Lawrence Heller), grandchildren Benjamin,
Justin, David, Bennett, Penelope (Yhiam
Shushan) and Eve, nephews Dr Alexander
Dell, Dr Richard Steinfeld (Michelle), Bruce
Steinfeld, and Steven Steinfeld, as well as
extended family and loved ones throughout
the world.
Graveside funeral was held on April 15, 2022
at Riverside Cemetery in New Jersey.
Donations may be sent to:
Freeman Center for Strategic Studies, c/o
Mark Langfan
2100 South Ocean Blvd, 501N,
Palm Beach, FL 33480

LINDSEY

Not only loyal to friends and family, Jeanne
worked at Advanced Equipment in Capitol
Heights, MD, for 28 years as a bookkeeper. She loved her time with the Advanced
Equipment team and continued to maintain
friendships with her co-workers long after
her retirement.

Of Waldorf, MD, passed away April 13, 2022,
at home with her family by her side. She was
born November 2, 1941, in Washington, DC,
to the late Charles Wilfred Gagnon, Sr. and
Alice Birchall Sterndale Gagnon. She was
married to the love of her life, George A.
Griffin, who preceded her in death in 2015.

She is survived by her three children,
Nausheen Hashem, Seemeen Hashem (Edward Doran), and Tahseen Hashem; Two
younger sisters, Dilshad Raza (Mohammad
Karim), and Shamimah Harun (Md Harunur
Rashid); four grandchildren Noreen Cerrone,
Nathanael Bonzagni, Erin Doran, and Aisling
Doran; plus many nieces, and nephews.

LANGFAN

Karen enjoyed reading, online games, cooking, gardening, traveling, and spending time
with friends and family. She was a free spirit
and would try just about anything, including
acting as an extra in a Hollywood movie and
earning a pilot’s license in her younger days.

ROBERT JAMES COOTE (Age 90)
Robert James Coote, Professor Emeritus of
Architecture of the University of Texas in
Austin died April 16, 2022 in Austin of natural causes. He was 90 years of age.
Beginning in 1965, Mr. Coote made teaching
and his students the center of his life. He
taught studio courses of Architectural Design and seminars in the History of English
and Twentieth Century Architecture for thirty-three years in Austin and in the school’s
foreign study programs in Western Europe
and London. He held the Cass Gilbert Centennial Teaching Fellowship. He was widely
read and traveled, maintaining homes in
London and Austin, TX.
He had a small architectural practice that
produced houses, which along with his
paintings, drawings, and architectural writings were occasionally exhibited and included in national and international architectural and art books and magazines. He was a
contributing editor of “Texas Architect” and
the author of a book The Eclectic Odyssey
of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect. After retiring
in 2002, he continued to teach in the UT
Adult Education courses, Quest and Sage,
and to serve as a docent at the Humanities
Research Center and Laguna Gloria Austin
Museum of Art. He continued to make and
exhibit his paintings and drawings, and to do

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that
donations in his memory be made to Ss. Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Christian
Church either by mailing a check or through
the church’s secure online donation portal
(https://www.peterpaulpotomac.org/donate.html) (Choose “Health & Memorials”).

DR. PAUL ANIS JUREIDIN

Dr. Paul Anis Jureidini, previously of Arlington, McLean, Annandale, and Mechanicsville, VA, passed away April 13, 2022, in
Stephens City, VA surrounded by his loving
family. Born on October 29, 1933, in Beirut,
Lebanon, Paul was the youngest of Anis and
Victoria (Wakid) Jureidini’s three children.
Paul received his bachelor’s degree from
the American University of Beirut before
immigrating to the United States to pursue
graduate studies. He received his Master of
Arts in Foreign Affairs from his beloved alma
mater, the University of Virginia, and later
earned a Doctor of Philosophy in International Studies from the American University.

in the Washington, DC area. She graduated
from Largo High School in Bowie, MD in
1982 and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from McDaniel College (then Western Maryland College) in 1985. Karen spent
most of her professional life as an employee
benefits manager at Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.
in Washington, DC.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation
to the World Central Kitchen in Sam’s honor.
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COOTE

A Mercy Meal will be offered by the family
immediately after the burial at the Greek Village Restaurant (13476 New Hampshire Ave,
Silver Spring, MD 20904).

GREBENSTEIN

CELIA
large extended family. He was predeceased
by his parents, Joseph and Lucy Celia.

2 p.m. Burial Service at Gate of Heaven (13801 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
20906).

As a broadcaster she worked for Radio Pakistan, The BBC, and Voice of America (VOA)
for 35 years, At VOA she read the news and
did news commentary. She also enjoyed
presenting shows focusing on American
country and folk music weekly. She became
a role model to many women when she was
among the 1,100 women who won the largest settlement ever recorded in a federal
sex-discrimination case, it took 23 years of
litigation.

JUREIDIN

BARRICK

CAMPBELL

Of Estes Park, Colorado passed away Monday, March 28, 2022 after a short illness.
Jock was a citizen of the world who settled
in Estes Park after a life of working and
traveling all over the world for business and
pleasure. Gregarious to a fault, he seemed
to know someone wherever he went - the
family joke is that if he went somewhere he

Dilara Hashem a resident of Bethesda,
Maryland, was born on August 25, 1935, in
Jessore, Bangladesh to mother Shawkat Ara
Khanum and father Bazlur Rahman Khan.
She passed away on March 19, 2022.

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BOTTS

THOMAS EDWARD BOTTS PH.D
(Age 74)

ety) 1994; Cultural and Literary Inc. 1995;
Annannya Literature Award, 1998; ‘Chokh’
Literary Award, 2000; Bango Smmelan (Indian) Award, 2000; Sarojini Naidu - Gold Medal
for Literature 2003; Alakto - Gold Medal for
Literature 2004 and Muktadhhara-GFB Literary Award, 2019 to name a few. Her 1966
debut novel Ghor Mon Janala (Home, Heart,
Window) was a major success. The book
garnered critical and popular praise and became a feature film in Bangladesh (1983). It
was further published in Russian in Moscow
and Chinese in Beijing.

She had a dual career as an eminent author
and international broadcaster. As a writer,
she maintained a steady literary output for
four decades, with many volumes of novels, memoirs, short stories, and poetry. She
received the prestigious Bangla Academy
Literature Award, 1976; Sankhachil Literary
Award NY, (North American Literary Soci-

Ann’s family would like to express their
deep gratitude for the continued support
they have received following the passing of
their beloved wife, daughter, mother, cousin, and friend. If desired, friends can make
memorial contributions to Free Minds Book
Club & Writing Workshop at United Way of
the National Capital Area #9633, 1816 12th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20009. Attendants may also bring a book or two to donate to Montgomery County Correctional
Facilities in support of furthering adult education for our most vulnerable population.

quence in Mathematics - College Preparatory course, then received his B.S. in Engineering from the University of California at Los
Angeles. He was a member of the scholastic
society Tau Beta Pi, graduating Cum Laude.
He also received an M.S. at U.C.L.A. the next
year in Materials Science. He was awarded
his Ph.D at the University of Nottingham,
England 1974. The next two years he was
a Post - Doctoral fellow at U.C.L.A. in the
Department of Energy and Kinetics in the
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Afterwards, he accepted a position as an
Associate Nuclear Engineer with Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.
He moved to Washington, DC in 1983 joining the Government Contracting Firm, MRJ
where he met his wife, Sharon Harshbarger,
also a member of the firm. They were married in 1998. Tom was an active sportsman
who enjoyed being a runner, a swimmer,
and Master Scuba Diving Instructor, and a
Yachtsman. Together they traveled extensively both in the USA and abroad. In 2009,
Tom founded the government contracting
company, 5th Generation Analytics Inc. and
was the managing partner until his retirement. In 2015, the couple left the D.C. Metro
Area and made their final move into the lively Community at Westminster Canterbury in
Richmond, VA. No services are scheduled at
this time. An electronic version of this obituary can be found at VirginiaCremate.com,
where comments and condolences can be
offered.

HASHEM

DILARA HASHEM

George H Dickerson departed his earthly
life April 14, 2022. Homegoing service is
April 29, 2022. Wake at 11 a.m. Service
at 12 noon, at Emmanuel Baptist Church,
2409 Anger Place SE, Washington, DC.

Ann is survived by her loving husband, Andrew Barlow; children, Madeleine Boudreau
(Andrew), Andrew Boudreau (Sara), and
Elizabeth Barlow; mother, Dorothy Luksic;
siblings, Mary Bissell, William Luksic, and
Joseph Luksic; best friend and cousin, Chris
Myers; and co-parent and lifelong friend,
Greg Boudreau. Her father, William Luksic,
joined her 13 months after her passing, in
May 2021.
A memorial Mass will be held at 11 a.m.
on Saturday, April 30, at Our Lady of Grace
Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland
with Fr. James Boccabella. The family will
receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. prior to
Mass.

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Gertrude Carley Brown Ensign, age 101,
of Arlington, Virginia passed away on
February 28, 2022. Gertrude was born
October 4, 1920.
A Memorial Service celebrating a life well
lived will be held at 11AM on May 7th at
Clarendon United Methodist Church.
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a
donation to the Clarendon UMC Memorial
Garden in Trudy’s honor.
Fond memories and expressions of
sympathy for her numerous friends
and family may be shared at
www.murphy-funeralhomes.com
“He shall cover thee with his feathers,
and under his wings shalt thou trust:
his trust shall be thy shield...” Psalm 91:4

Throughout her adult life, Ann was an active
member of the Parent Teacher Association
at Gibbs Elementary School. She introduced
Alcoholics Anonymous to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Boyds,
Maryland, where she also volunteered as an
adult educator. Ann was a Eucharistic Minister at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Damascus, Maryland. She was an avid reader and
struggled to find a book she couldn’t lose
herself in. Ann had a passion for animals.
She was known for giving a home to any
stray in need.
Ann married Gregory Boudreau in 1988,
with whom she remained friends following
their divorce in 1999. In 2003, she was remarried to former high school classmate,
Andrew Barlow surrounded by friends and
family. Ultimately, her three children, Madeleine, Andrew, and Elizabeth were the absolute loves of her life and she took great
pride in their many personal, professional,
and educational accomplishments.

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GERTRUDE CARLEY BROWN ENSIGN
Trudy (Age 101)

at home mom. She would never fully leave
her career as an educator and continues to
guide her loved ones, even through life after
her death.

ANN CATHERINE BARLOW

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DORIS JEAN LINDSEY (Age 82)

Doris Jean Lindsey, loving wife, mother, and
grandmother passed away peacefully in her
Alexandria home on April 9, 2022, surrounded by family.
Born in Wise, VA on May 17, 1939. Doris
moved to Arlington, VA in 1958 and it was
there that she met the love of her life, Kirk
Lindsey. Kirk and Doris wed in 1966 and
moved to Kirk’s hometown of Alexandria to
raise their family.
During their beautiful life together, Kirk and
Doris shared a love for travel and the musical arts. Most of all they enjoyed their time
together on Smith Mountain Lake where

they built one of the first permanent homes
in 1968. They would pack up the family and
Kirk would fly them to the lake in their plane.
Not one to be outdone, Doris earned her
own private pilot’s license in 1973.
Doris took pride in and received great joy
from her three sons. Later, she showered
her eight grandsons and her lone granddaughter with love and affection. Nannie to
the grandchildren, Doris doted on each one.
She had a special way to make each grandchild feel like they were her favorite. Much
to their delight, Doris was zealous about
tracking down the latest hard to find toys at
every Christmas.
Doris was passionate about her community
and served as the President of the Virginia
State Division of the General Federation of
Women’s Clubs. She was also actively involved in the leadership of the Symphony
Orchestra League of Alexandria, the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria, and proudly supported Alexandria Hospital where ICU and
waiting rooms were named in her and Kirk’s
honor.
Doris was predeceased by her devoted
husband of 32 years, Kirk Lindsey. She is
survived by her sons, David Burton Gilliam
(Teresa) of Rock Hill, SC, Michael Gilliam
(Cecelia) of Arlington, VA, and Robert Kirk
Lindsey (Carrie) of Chantilly, VA, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. with
a short service at 5 p.m. at Demaine Funeral
Home in Alexandria on April 27.
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ra Belle McGee in Selma, Ala. He attended
Southside High School and Shiloh Baptist
Church in Selma before going on to pursue
a Bachelor of Music Education at Samford
University (‘79).
While pursuing his Master’s degree in
Church Music (Conducting/Ministry) from
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Ky., he met his beloved wife Suzanne (née South). Roger and Suzanne were
married for 36 years before she preceded
him into heaven in 2017.
Roger is survived by his sister, Rhonda Mobley (David); his two sons, Corey (Liz) and Casey (Aislyn) McGee; and his granddaughter,
Avery McGee.

REV. ROGER LEE MCGEE (Age 65)

Of Alexandria, VA,. passed away unexpectedly on April 19, 2022 at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital after injuries sustained in an
accident.
For the last 27 years, Roger has served as
Pastor for Music and Worship at First Baptist Church of Alexandria. Over the years, he
has led tens of thousands of people in worshiping Jesus every Sunday, and impacted
thousands more through his music ministry.
Roger was responsible for leading more
than 400 people from toddlers to seniors
in choirs, an orchestra, bands, and a technology team. He led mission trips to nearly
every continent, as well as hundreds of concerts and community events more locally.
He previously served at Ashley River Baptist
Church in Charleston, SC. for 10 years, and
at Forest Hills Baptist Church in Anderson,
SC for five years.
Roger lived an extraordinary life that was
shaped by his devotion to God. Born in Heidelberg, Germany on Oct. 25, 1956, he was
adopted and raised by Ollie James and Flo-

Roger’s fun-loving nature, selflessness,
kindness, patience, warmth and passion
for Christ can never be replaced. His family, friends, and church community will miss
him more than words can say.
A visitation will be held on Friday, April 29
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Sanctuary of
First Baptist Church of Alexandria, 2932 King
St in Alexandria, VA. A memorial service will
be held the following day, on Saturday, April
30 at the same location at 11 a.m., followed
by a reception in the church’s Faith Activities Center at 1 p.m. For those who cannot
attend Roger’s memorial service in person,
it will be live-streamed at https://www.facebook.com/firstbaptistalexandria/live
https://fbcalexandria.org/live-stream
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be
made to the First Baptist of Alexandria
Foundation: Suzanne McGee Fund, or to
First Baptist Church of Alexandria.

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LASZCZAK

MOORE

RICH

JEAN RAY EVANS

On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 of Springfield,
Virginia. She was preceded in death by
her beloved husband Samuel Morgan Evans, Jr.; loving mother of Linda Evans, Julia Davis, Beth Harder (Christopher), and
Jennifer Hobbs (Thomas); grandmother of
Colin Davis and Nora Bruffey (Sean), Sophia
and Samuel Hobbs, and Nicholas Harder.
Inurnment at Arlington National Cemetery
at a later date. Memorial contributions may
be made in her name to the Sierra Club at
www.sierraclub.org.

FAIRFAX
DOUGLAS DAVIS FAIRFAX JR.

Age 79, of San Diego, CA and formerly of
College Park and Forestville, MD died August 5, 2021. A graveside service will be
held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 29, 2022,
at Union Cemetery, Leesburg, VA.

FELDMAN

THADDEUS JOHN LASZCZAK

Died suddenly at his home in Germantown,
MD with his family around him on April 8,
2022.
After retiring from the United States Air
Force, he worked as a Systems Architect
for Lockheed Martin for approximately 10
years. Followed by employment as an Engineer at the Central Intelligence Agency and
National Security Agency at Ft. Meade, MD
until his final retirement.
Thaddeus is survived by his loving wife,
Patricia (Waddill); his daughter, Tatiana
Laszczak and his son Sven Laszczak.
A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 1 p.m. in PUMPHREY
FUNERAL HOME, 300 W. Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850. In lieu of flowers,
gifts to The American Diabetes Association
are appreciated. Full obituary and family
guestbook at:
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com

MADDEN
MARGARET K. MADDEN (Age 93)

Of Centreville, Virginia passed away on Saturday, April 16, 2022 of natural causes. She
was predeceased by her husband, Eugene
C. Madden, Sr., and daughter Christina
Snowden.
She is survived by her children, Eugene
C. Madden, Jr., Karen Reid, Sharon Dove
and Stephanie Vaughan. Margaret is also
survived by 15 grandchildren and 20 great
grandchildren. Family and friends may
call at Demaine Funeral Home in Fairfax
on Friday, April 29, 2022 from 6 to 8 p.m.
for viewing and Saturday, April 30, 2022 at
12 p.m. for viewing and memorial service.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to the VNA and Hospice Foundation of the
Treasure Coast, Vero Beach, Florida.

DR. BRUCE FELDMAN

On Thursday, April 21, 2022,
Dr. Bruce Feldman, of Potomac, MD passed away.
Beloved husband of Sharon
Feldman; devoted father of
Michael Feldman and Kathryn (David) Forman; loving brother of Dr.
Douglas (Eileen) Feldman and Jane (Lawrence) Abrams; cherished grandfather of
Max and Sadie; uncle to a host of nieces
and nephews. Funeral service will be held
on Sunday, April 24, 2022, 3 p.m. in the
Sadugor Gazebo at the Garden of Remembrance, 14321 Comus Road, Clarksburg,
MD 20871 with interment to follow. Family
will be observing Shiva via Zoom. In lieu of
flowers, information about memorial contributions to fund a scholorship in Dr. Feldman’s name will be posted online at www.
drbrucefeldman.org. Services entrusted to
Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.
www.sagelbloomfield.com

HASKELL
WILLIAM CHARLES HASKELL
CAPTAIN US NAVY (RET.)

Of Norwich, NY, Arlington, VA and Ponte Vedra Beach, FL died April 24, 2020 in
Burke, VA at age 93. He was predeceased
by his wife of nearly 60 years, Dolores Pinney Haskell of Pensacola, FL, his North Star.
Capt. Haskell is survived by his daughter
and son-in-law, Anne and Bob DeLong of
Clifton, VA, his son and daughter-in-law,
George and Emily Haskell of New York City
and three grandchildren, Charlie, Elizabeth
and Henry.
Capt. Haskell graduated from the United
States Naval Academy in 1949, attended
the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, CA, the Industrial College of the Armed
Forces and received an MBA from The
George Washington University. Highlights
of his 32-year Navy career included flying
in the Korean War when he was barely out
of flight training and becoming a Carrier Pilot engaged in Anti-Submarine warfare. As
a squadron commander he was based on
board many Aircraft Carriers, including the
USS Lake Champlain, Shangri-La, Wasp, Intrepid and Essex and was stationed in Key
West, FL during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Later Capt. Haskell served as Commander
of Air Group 54 which had the distinction
of retrieving the astronauts from the Apollo 7 space capsule upon splashdown in the
Atlantic Ocean.
He retired from the Navy in 1977 after serving four years as Deputy for Operations at
the Naval Academy, coming full circle since
his entrance in 1945. Contributions in his
memory may be made to: the U.S. Naval
Academy Foundation, the Tunnels to Towers Foundation or the National Shrine of St.
Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, MD.
A private funeral was held at St. Raymond
of Penafort Roman Catholic Church in
Springfield, VA followed by burial in his
hometown of Norwich, NY. Fair Winds and
Following Seas.

HEYLER
DORAYNE HEYLER

Dorayne Grace Heyler, 74, of Adelphi, Maryland passed away on Saturday, April 9,
2022 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring,
MD from complications following surgery.
Dorayne was born in Lewes, Delaware on
March 17,1948 to Dorothy and Romayn
Heyler. Upon graduating with honors from
Claymont High School in Claymont, DE in
1966, she majored in English at the University of Delaware and taught under-privileged teens in the Boston area for the U.S.
Job Corps. She raised two children with her
first spouse, Mark Osborne, in Maryland,
where she later earned a degree in nursing
from Montgomery College and served as
a dedicated school nurse until retirement.
She was also an accomplished flutist, nature enthusiast, and an active member of
the Holy Redeemer Metropolitan Community Church.
Dorayne is survived by her wife Sandra
Baldwin, son Joshua (Marianne) Osborne
and daughter Tara (Mike) Ward, grandsons
Will and Arthur Ward, as well as two siblings: sister Annette (Chris) Boprey and
brother Fred (Lynn) Heiler. She is also survived by three step-children: Emily, MaryBeth and John C. Burst. Dorayne was preceded in death by her first son, Aaron Seth,
who died in infancy.
A memorial service will be held on April
30 at 11 a.m. at the Joseph Gawler’s Sons
Funeral Home, 5130 Wisconsin Ave. NW,
Washington, DC. In lieu of flowers, friends
and relatives can donate blood to the
American Red Cross, while monetary donations may be made to the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Donation.

MARLEY
LOIS SMITH MARLEY

On Friday, April 22, 2022, Lois
Smith Marley formerly of Olney, MD, and Lewes, DE passed
away at age 93. A native Washingtonian; beloved wife of the
late Edward T. Marley; loving
mother of Patricia Cunningham (Bruce),
Gwenn Marley, Rosena Marley (Craig
Schneier), Edward G. Marley (Eric Snyder),
and Adele Marley (Scott Brown); daughter
of the late Kathleen and Milford Smith.
Mrs. Marley is also survived by six grandchildren, Marley Schneier, Annabelle Cunningham, Cogan Rooney (Michael), Cooper
D’Anton, Scarlett Cunningham, and Liberty
D’Anton. Friends may call at Shrine of the
Most Blessed Sacrament, 5949 Western
Avenue NW, Washington, DC on Thursday,
April 28 beginning at 10 a.m. where Mass
of Christian Burial will be offered at 11 a.m.
Interment Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC. Memorial contributions to Little
Sisters of the Poor, 4200 Harewood Road
NE, Washington, DC 20017, or flowers are
equally welcome.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com

MCADAM

PATRICIA A. MULLICAN JAMES
(Age 86)

Patricia A. Mullican James of Takoma Park,
Silver Spring, and Stevensville, MD passed
away April 18, 2022. Beloved mother of Jo
Ann Mullican. Visitation will be April 30.
2022 at Fellows, Helfenebein & Newnam
Funeral Home 106 Shamrock Road Chester, MD 21619 5PM -7PM. Funeral 2PM
w/ 1Hr. before on May 1, 2022 at Living
Water Lutheran Church 830 Romancoke
Road Stevensville, MD 21666. Interment
10:30AM May 2, 2022 Gate of Heaven
Cemetery 13801 Georgia Ave Silver Spring,
MD 20906.
www.fhnfuneralhome.com

PLOSS
ANN P. PLOSS “Nancy”

Ann Pauline (Nancy) Ploss passed away on
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 in McLean, Virginia. Born January 31, 1932 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Nancy was 90 years old.
She was predeceased by her mother, Anna
Young Moon, her father, Edward Ploss,
her sister, Marion Ploss McFadden, her
step-mother, Frances Ploss, her step-siblings, Florence, William and Jane, her longtime friend and companion, Oscar Marine
and her cherished dog, Esmerelda.

Constance R. (“Connie”) McAdam, retired
Arlington County Chief of Recreation, and a
community activist, died on April 16, 2022.
She lived in Arlington, Virginia. Connie’s
husband of 25 years, Col (ret.) Richard C.
McAdam, died in 1997. Survivors include
her brother John A. Rollison and wife Patricia of Richmond, VA, two nephews
Christopher D. Rollison and Brian A. Rollison and their families, four stepchildren
Sharon Waring, Pamela Kaster, Richard C.
McAdam, Jr, and Lucy McAdam, and two
step grandchildren Vanessa K. Kaster and
Vince McAdam Kaster and their families. A
funeral service honoring Connie’s life will
be held at St. George’s Episcopal Church
on Sunday, June 5, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery
will occur at a later date. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions can be made to
St. George’s Episcopal Church or The Arlington Community Foundation-McAdam
Charitable Fund.

MILLINER
JOSEPH B. MILLINER “Joe” (Age 75)

Passed peacefully after a lengthy illness,
with his wife by his side, on Wednesday,
April 13, 2022. Survived by his devoted
wife Sarita; children, Denise Rivers (Glenn),
Michael Milliner (Stephanie) and Shannon
Williams; nine grandchildren; sister, Maxine
Milliner Fields of Alabama; many nieces,
nephews and a host of other relatives and
friends. Service will be held on Tuesday,
April 26, 2022 at McGuire Funeral Home
7400 Georgia Ave NW Washington, DC. Visitation 11 a.m. funeral 12 noon. Interment
private. Service will be livestreamed at
www.mcguire-services.com

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday,
April 26, 2022 at 12 p.m. at Murphy Funeral Home, 1102 West Broad Street, Falls
Church, VA. Burial will be private.

On Friday, April 15, 2022. He
is survived by his loving and
devoted wife, Irma Jackson;
daughter, Ramona Peyton;
two sons, Jerome Jackson Jr.
and Brian Jackson; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, one great-greatgrandson; a host of other relatives and
friends. He was preceded in death by his
son, David Jackson. Visitation 10 a.m., until
time of service 11 a.m., Wednesday, April
27 at Pope Funeral Home, 5538 Marlboro
Pk., District Heights, MD. Interment Lincoln
Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements by
Pope Funeral Homes.

ROSENBAUM

POORE

JAMES CALLAN POORE

James Callan Poore, 91, of Charlotte, NC
died at home with family Saturday, April 16,
2022. He was born on January 24, 1931, in
Takoma Park, MD, to Elizabeth Callan Poore
and Clarence I. Poore, and an older sister.
Jim grew up in NW Washington, DC, where
a tight-knit and lifelong friend group called
themselves “The Seventh Street Kids”. He
attended Roosevelt High School, graduating
with the class of 1949. During high school,
he met the love of his life and wife of 71
years, Barbara Jean Heller. They married in
1951. Jim joined the Air Force in 1952 and
served in Korea and Japan, before returning
stateside to be stationed in California and
Wyoming. After leaving the service, the couple returned to the D.C. area where Jim attended the University of Maryland and with
a concentration in Journalism, he received
a B.S. in Public Relations in 1960. Following
graduation, he joined Ford Motor Company
as a Territory Manager for DC, MD, and VA.
During his time with Ford there were many
exciting events most notably, the launch of
the Mustang in 1964. Jim then went on to
work for the U.S. Government, for the General Services Administration in Fleet Management and Procurement. He retired in
1991. Jim and Barbara lived over 30 years in

Jim loved a road trip. He and Barbara happily drove to visit their grandchildren often
and took many vacations where they have
visited all 50 states. Jim, a self-proclaimed
car guy, loved anything on wheels, and was
known to ask frequently, “what kind of car
do you drive?”. He enjoyed following NASCAR, always cheering for the Ford teams,
keeping up with the latest Automotive News
and new car model launches, and collecting
classic car models. He loved all kinds of music from big bands, to jazz and rock-n-roll,
and staying current with new music. He and
Barbara were avid Washington sports fans
rooting for both the baseball and football
teams. They especially enjoyed tailgating at
football games and went to the Superbowl
in 1983 to see their team win. Jim enjoyed
a long and happy life and he loved spending
time with his family and friends. There was
no better time than an afternoon on the water, picking Chesapeake Bay crabs and having a nice cold beer.
Jim was predeceased two weeks ago by his
wife Barbara. He is survived by his daughter,
Carol Gray-Adler and her husband, Jim Adler
of Charlotte, NC and his son, Thomas Poore
and his wife, Brenda Poore of Laurel, MD.
Also surviving are his four grandchildren,
Andrew Gray of Laurel, MD, Courtney Gray
of Chicago, IL, Daniel Poore of Baltimore, MD
and Ryan Poore of Laurel, MD. The family is
planning a private memorial gathering at a
future date.
Arrangements are in the care of Kenneth
W. Poe Funeral & Cremation Service, 1321
Berkeley Ave., Charlotte, NC 28204; (704)
641-7606. Online condolences may be
shared at
www.kennethpoeservices.com

EDWIN JAY ROSENBAUM (Age 96)

Of Boca Raton FL, passed away peacefully
on April 16, 2022. Edwin was born in New
York New York to Josef Jay and Anne Silverman Rosenbaum. He and his loving wife,
Ruth Trencher Rosenbaum had been married 73 years. Edwin graduated from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1948 and earned a master’s
degree in business administration from the
University of Hartford. He operated a consulting accounting firm in Fairfax County,
Virginia that specialized in small businesses. He was a member of Beth El Hebrew
Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia and
supported other Jewish and philanthropic
enterprises. Edwin grew up in Brooklyn
New York, resided in West Hartford, Connecticut, Fairfax County, Virginia and Palm
Beach County, Florida, and had a summer
residence in Ocean City, Maryland. He is
preceded in death by his beloved sister,
Diane Weiss. He is survived by his loving
wife, Ruth, adored daughters Nancy Kessler (James), Marjorie Bassman (Mitchell),
cherished grandchildren Lauren, Susan, Jason, and Jennifer, and great-grandchildren
Eli and Aviya.
Services previously held. KRONISH FUNERAL SERVICES – Boca Raton, Florida – 561717-2874 / info@kronishfuneral.com

SCHAAF
WARREN SCHAAF

On April 13, 2022, died at Holy Cross Hospital in Germantown of heart failure. Warren
was raised in Westwood, NJ and made his
forever home in Gaithersburg, MD, living
there for 45 years. He began his lifetime
career with IBM/Lockheed Martin in the
early 1970’s as a programmer focused
on air traffic control software and retired
in 2011. Warren was predeceased by his
loving wife, Carolyn Schaaf (2011). He is
survived by sister Carol Heppner (Dick) of
Pittsburgh, PA; daughter Stephanie Reyes
(Rafael) and grandson Mateo of San Mateo, CA; daughter Rebecca Schaaf (Alan
Mattlage) of San Mateo, CA; and daughter
Amanda Schaaf (Trevor Davis) and granddaughter Lyla of Poolesville, MD. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 7 at
2 p.m. at Unity Christ Church, 111 Central
Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD. A reception to
follow immediately. In lieu of flowers, the
family asks that contributions be made to
the American Diabetes Association (www.
diabetes.org).

STAGG

JOHN A. STAGG (Age 89)

February 22, 1932 - January 24, 2022
John A Stagg of Claremont, VA, passed away
on January 24, 2022. John was born February 22, 1932, in Philadelphia PA., the first
born of the late Edward J. Stagg and Mary
Reilly Stagg. John met his wife Norma Price
Stagg, and mother of his three sons in Wildwood, NJ. He was drafted into the Army in
1952 and Norma and he were married days
before he was shipped off to the Korean
conflict. He was stationed in Nara, Japan
and proudly served as a Military Policeman
until he was honorably discharged in 1954.
Upon his return to Philadelphia, PA the couple started a family and had three sons. John
made a career for himself in the printing industry, starting out as a pressman and work-

ing his way up to Director of Education for
the Graphic Arts International Union.
The family moved to Northern Virginia in
1970. John and Norma divorced in 1985 but
remained close until Norma’s death in July
of 2018.
John retired from the printing industry in the
mid 1980’s and spent the following years
working for a credit card company, in the
restaurant business and at a swimming pool
store. He worked as a bartender at Placid
Harbor, the trade school for the International Association of Machinists. He lived at the
schools’ Marina on his beloved houseboat.
Finally, John settled in Claremont VA., in a
waterfront home on the James River where
he spent his days writing. He was drawn to
the water and loved the beach, swimming
and sailing. He also loved art, music and entertaining. He planned and hosted an annual
crab feast for family and friends. He ran and
was elected to the Claremont town council
at 85 years old. He was an active member
of the Wren Writers, a writing group at the
College of William and Mary.
Left to cherish his memory are his sons, Timothy (Daphne), Thomas (Leslie) and Shawn
(Betsy); his grandson, Jonathon Bradford
(April) and granddaughter, Reilly Stagg. He
will be missed by many nieces and nephews, longtime friends and his companion
of many years, Dawn Badrick. He was preceded in death by his sisters Alyse Elsasser, Maryanne Schmidt and brother Edward
Stagg.
A celebration of his life will be held in in
Northern Virginia on July 30, 2022, at a location to be determined.

WYNNYCZOK

Don Bohdan Wynnyczok was born in Terebowlia, Ukraine on January 2, 1941 and passed
away December 7, 2020 of natural causes. A Ukrainian Catholic Mass and panakhyda were
delivered December 18, 2020 to recognize his faith. Burial-inurnment will be at Arlington
National Cemetery on April 26, 2022 at 11 a.m.

RAKESTRAW

Don was a US Navy Officer; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Intelligence Officer—paramilitary
and operations; lobbyist for Ukraine; Security Director for the US Senate Intelligence
Committee (SSCI); businessman; Office Director in Kyiv, Ukraine for the International Executive
Service Corps (IESC); and US Department of State Security Officer. A gifted historian and
political scientist, his avocations and hobbies were current events, fine food and wine (a
Chaîne des Rôtisseurs member and sommelier), creative cooking, adventure, travel (over 90
countries), home design, hunting, ballroom dancing, philately, numismatics, and chess. He
was a most loving, beloved, and devoted husband to Martha-Jean (MJ) for over 44 years,
son, brother, nephew, cousin, and uncle, and the life of any gathering of friends and family.
An extrovert with a genuine sense for people, his friendship and smile were infectious.

WARREN VINCENT RAKESTRAW

Rakestraw passed away peacefully on
March 19, 2022 after suffering a stroke
in February. Born July 6, 1940, in Dayton,
Ohio, he was the oldest of their two children. Vince, as he liked to be called, graduated from Belmont High School in 1958,
and went on to receive and undergraduate
degree from Ohio University and his law
degree from Capital University. Vince was
an accomplished attorney for 53 years,
with a career that included working in
Washington, DC as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs, living in India as counsel for the ambassador,
as well as representing many respected
members of the Columbus community. A
passionate lawyer, Vince was always available to help someone who needed him.
He was an avid reader, and was always
curious about the world around him. Vince
loved to tell stories of his travels (despite
how incriminating they might be), and was
a good friend to many. He was also an amateur pilot, a hobby he enjoyed with the
braver members of his family and many
of his friends. His wife, Susan Rakestraw
(married, 1994), lost her battle to cancer in
2021. He is survived by his three children,
Vivian, Will, and David; and his younger sister, Kathy. A more thorough obituary can
be found at schoedinger.com. The family
will hold a memorial service later this year.
Arrangements entrusted to SCHOEDINGER NORTHWEST. For extended obituary,
please visit
www.schoedinger.com

DEATH NOTICE
RICHARD DAVIS MOORE “Dick”
(Age 92) LTC. US ARMY (RET.)

JEROME JACKSON (Age 84)

JOHN LUKE RICH

John Luke Rich (Barry Lewis Rich), 78,
passed away September 17, 2021 from
Melanoma at Inova Alexandria Hospital in
Virginia. John was born August 28, 1943
in The Bronx, NY to Harold and Rose Rich.
John is survived by his loving wife of 38
years, Nevaire Serrajian Rich; son Michael
Andrew Rich (Kortney); daughters Meghan
Ashlin Rich (Lee Ashlin) and Danielle Leigh
Rich; grandchildren Vivienne Ashlin, Carly
Rich, Lindsay Rich, and Noah Rich; brother
David Rich; sister-in-law Laurel Shamakian
(Robert); aunt Pauline Neimand; cousin
Diana Morgan; and many cousins, nieces,
and nephews. He was predeceased by sisters Jackie (Joseph) Canosa and Marlene
Ganss.
A memorial service will be held 1 p.m. on
May 21, 2022 at Memorial Baptist Church,
3455 N Glebe Rd., Arlington, VA 22207. Also
live streaming. The family suggests donations in John’s name to Memorial Baptist
Church, note Ukraine Fund.

DEATH NOTICE

SHARPE

DEATH NOTICE

A civilian in late 1968, CIA recruited him to redeploy to Vietnam for three eventful years. He
quickly developed a love for Vietnam, its food, and local people, boasting of being Godfather
to the Buddhist baby of his Vietnamese counterpart. At CIA Don met MJ on the “Ides of
March” 1975 and 15 months later married (1976) immediately upon her return from Europe.

Peacefully at Washington Hospital Center on Friday, April
15, 2022. He was a proud
Graduate of Armstrong High
School Class of 1951 and
served with the United States
Air Force during the Korean War. Then
worked for the US Postal Service for over
20 years before retiring. He is survived by
his daughter, Dr. Eva Duckett (Thomas), his
son, Marlon L. Sharpe (Charisse) and five
grandchildren. He was preceded in death
by his wife, Mattie M. Sharpe, his parents,
Evelyn E. Sharpe and Raymond T. Sharpe,
and his sister, Jean V. Weston. Service held
on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church, 701 Oglethorpe
St. NW, Washington, DC; Viewing 9 a.m.;
Funeral 11 a.m. Interment Fort Lincoln
Cemetery. Arrangements by McGuire.
www.mcguire-serives.com

MURPHREE
DOROTHY ‘DOTTIE’ (NIEDFELDT) MURPHREE (Age 96)
Beloved by family, peacefully on April 14,
2022, at age 96 years. Dottie, a longtime resident of Takoma Park, MD who spent her last
years at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, MD. Dottie was married to Baxter
H. Murphree of Senatobia, MS for 39 years
until his death in 1987. During their long
marriage, they raised three children at Minter Place in Takoma Park. Dottie is survived
by her daughter, Patricia Adelle Gleason her
husband Michael and their two children,
Mark Benjamin and Emily Kathleen and her
husband George Kangha; daughter Margaret (Peggy) Murphree Mark, her husband
Christopher and their two children Bailey
Maureen and Ross Baxter and his wife Lydia Mark; daughter Priscilla Murphree Oates
and her daughter Hannah Murphree. Dottie
is also survived by four great grandchildren,
William Henry Garcia Mark, Elizabeth Maureen Garcia Mark, Rosemary Margaret Garcia Mark and Michael Patrick Kangha. Born
August 17, 1925, in Frederick, MD, she grew
up in Washington, DC, attended Roosevelt
High School, She earned her Associates

Don escaped the Soviets with family at age two, traveling ever west from Ukraine to
Germany’s US sector, and arrived in the US at age nine in 1949. Spending the war years fleeing
Eastern Europe, Don remembered trekking west through Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria in a
European horse-drawn “wagon train.” They continued by foot when Nazis took their horses,
surviving only on cherries, then corn, then cheese, and living in a work camp in Rosenheim,
Germany, near Munich. After US Forces arrived, he remembered his chore churning cream
to butter, his first orange, his exciting box of Crayola crayons, and playing with his shiny
new cycle wheel. Distant relatives sponsored the family’s arrival to America and Cohoes,
NY. Saints Peter and Paul and La Salle Institute provided English language and academic
foundations. In Phoenix, Arizona, Don graduated St. Mary's High (1959) and Arizona State
University (1964) earning his degree in history and English literature and pledging Delta Sigma
Phi.
Summer 1964 he joined the US Navy; was commissioned an Ensign and rose to First
Lieutenant. A proud, grateful American, he volunteered for Vietnam at war height to defend
his US homeland. He eagerly attended flight school and was assigned to the USS Whitfield
County, LST 1169, supporting the 9th Infantry Division (little green boats) and SEALs in the
Mekong Delta and Marines at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). On ship-watch in Danang Harbor,
he experienced the Tet '68 offensive. He was awarded two Bronze Stars, the National Defense
Service Medal, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.

MARLBRO L. SHARPE “Sonny”
(Age 88)

Of Clifton, VA, went to be with his Lord and
Savior on November 23, 2021. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Shirley Conwell Moore, his son Richard Bryan Moore,
daughter Karen Moore Perry, a sister Jacqueline Moore Spiers, four granddaughters, one grandson, and four great-grandsons. He is preceded in death by his son
David William Moore, his parents, and four
brothers.
Dick graduated ninth in his class from the
U.S. Military Academy in 1952 with a B.S. in
Engineering. He went on to achieve a Master of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Dick served honorably in the U.S. Army for
22 years, during which he taught at West
Point in the Mechanical Engineering Department., served two tours in Viet Nam
where he commanded the 2nd Battalion,
27th Infantry Regiment as an armor officer,
served at the Pentagon, and earned many
awards and decorations including Bronze
Star with two oak leaf clusters, Legion of
Merit, Air Medal with V device and no. 3,
and Meritorious Service Medal.
After retirement, Dick had a successful career with Computer Sciences Corp, served
tirelessly in the Clifton Lions Club receiving
a lifetime membership in Lions Club International and the Melvin Jones Fellowship,
and served his Lord and church family
faithfully.
Dick will be laid to rest with full military
honors at Arlington National Cemetery on
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 12:30 p.m., with
a reception to follow at Patton Hall, Ft.
Myer. Please no flowers, but in lieu thereof,
kindly honor Dick with a donation to cancer research, the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund,
or Lions Club International Foundation.

DEATH NOTICE

DON BOHDAN WYNNYCZOK

MOORE
JACKSON

APRIL 24 , 2022

Laurel, MD, where they raised their two children. After retiring, they made their home
on Crane’s Creek on the Northern Neck of
Virginia, off the Chesapeake Bay. There
they enjoyed great friendships, watching
the tides, crabbing off their pier and taking
in the abundant wildlife around them. They
moved to Charlotte in 2017 to be closer to
their daughter.

MULLICAN JAMES

She is survived by her sister-in-law, Frances Stevenson and many adoring nieces
and nephews. A graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania, Nancy worked as a Reservation Agent for United Airlines; a career
which afforded her the opportunity to pursue her passion, traveling throughout the
world. She dedicated her free time to service; serving for many years on the Board
of the Westerlies Civic Association in McLean and in 1973, she spent 90 days volunteering to work for the Thomas A. Dooley
Foundation in a hospital day care center in
Kathmandu, Nepal. A wonderful conversationalist, avid reader, collector of Asian and
Middle Eastern rugs and artifacts; Nancy
will be sorely missed by her many friends
and relatives.

CONSTANCE ROLLISON MCADAM

DEATH NOTICE

RICHARD DAVIS MOORE “Dick”
LTC US ARMY (RET.)

Of Clifton, VA, peacefully entered eternal
rest November 23, 2021. He is survived by
his wife of 68 years, Shirley Conwell Moore,
son Richard Bryan Moore, daughter Karen
Moore Perry, sister Jacqueline M. Spiers,
five grandchildren, and four great-grandsons. He is preceded in death by son David
William Moore, and by his four brothers.
Dick graduated ninth in the U.S. Military
Academy class of 1952 with a B.S. in Engineering. He earned Master of Science
Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from
University of Michigan. Dick served honorably in U.S. Army for 22 years, during which
he taught at West Point in Mechanical Engineering Department, served two tours in
Viet Nam where he commanded the 2nd
Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment as an
armor officer, served at the Pentagon, and
earned many awards and decorations including Bronze Star with two oak leaf clusters, Legion of Merit, Air Medal, and Meritorious Service Medal. After retirement, Dick
had a successful career with Computer
Sciences Corp, served tirelessly in Clifton
Lions Club receiving Lions Club International lifetime membership and Melvin
Jones Fellowship, and served his Lord and
church family faithfully. Dick will be laid to
rest with full military honors at Arlington
National Cemetery on Tuesday, April 26,
2022, at 12:30 p.m. Reception to follow at
Patton Hall, Ft. Myer. Please no flowers. Instead, kindly honor Dick with a donation to
cancer research, Alzheimer’s research, or
Lions Club International Foundation.

. SUNDAY,

Degree as a Member of the class of 1947
at St. Mary’s Seminary Junior College in MD
and was active in the Alumni Asso. serving
6 years on the Council. Past Honored Queen
of Jobs’ Daughters Bethel #2 where she was
also crowned Queen of the Night of Thrills
by then Senator Harry S. Truman. She was
a life member of the Eastern Star in DC.
She held leadership roles in Girl Scouts of
America. Active in the MD Azalea Society, a
devoted volunteer at Sibley Memorial Hospital and an active member of Good Shepherd
United Methodist Church. Funeral Services
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at Collins Funeral
Home in Silver Spring, MD. Visitation will be
at 10 a.m., with funeral service following.
Please arrive by 10:30 a.m. Interment after the service at Parklawn Memorial Park.
Luncheon to follow – all are invited. In lieu
of flowers, donations may can be made to
the Asbury Foundation, Asbury Methodist
Village, https://www.asbury.org/foundation/
donate/asbury-methodist-village./
www.collinsfuneralhome.com

Other open doors (1979) led him to be Director/Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS),
Washington DC, lobbying for America's Ukrainian diaspora with the US Congress, the White
House, and US Department of State. He facilitated the meeting of Ukrainian dissident Valentyn
Moroz with President Carter’s National Intelligence Advisor Brzezinski at the White House.
With Senator Goldwater as Chairman/Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Don
landed the Security Director position. The Republican’s Senate loss and dissolution of the
Soviet empire presented unique opportunity to leverage his ethnic and cultural background,
native language skill, and lifelong regional history study. He consulted business entities on
potential commerce in Ukraine, finally independent of Soviet domination.
In 1991 his expert ground truth of Ukraine attracted IESC leadership to recruit him to open its
first office in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. He hired and inspired a local staff, identified industries
with potential for world markets, and teamed US business leaders to coach Ukrainian
industrialists. He was able to reconnect with his Ukrainian family and roots and became
Godfather once again, then for the baby of a prominent business executive. In 2016 he and MJ
returned to visit family and thank his 94-year-old Uncle Franjo Sawchuk for taking the family
by wagon to the Ukraine-Czechoslovak border to begin the trek west that, as Don said, gave
him the life he cherished in America.
A highlight of Don and MJ’s years together was the three they lived in Mexico City, Mexico, in
the late 1990’s. Together they explored that country’s regional culture, food, customs, history,
and social dynamics to a level that amazed their Mexican friends.
On return Don joined US Department of State/Diplomatic Security with responsibility for
physical security of US diplomatic facilities in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. He
retired from State Department spring 2009.
Survivors are Don’s wife MJ; and cousins Zenon and Andre Lebed in Toronto, Canada;
extended Wynnyczok and Sawchuk family in Ukraine; sister; sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and
three nephews; and families related to each. Aunt Philia Lebed is now deceased. Home was
Washington, DC and Northern Virginia, and since 2019 Williamsburg, Virginia.
In lieu of flowers, Don would be honored by donations to United Help Ukraine:
www.unitedhelpukraine.org or US/UKR FOUNDATION: https://usukraine.org

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APRIL 4, 1927 - MARCH 22, 2022

where he lived for 56 years. After retiring
from IBM in 1992, he became a financial investment advisor and worked for Lombard
Securities until his retirement in 2020.

ROBERT CRESSY

Robert “Bob” Nelson Cressy passed away on
December 26, 2021 in St. Augustine, Florida.
Bob was born in Utica, New York on April
16,1942. He graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelors of Science degree
and joined the U.S. Army in October 1965.
After basic training, he graduated as a
2nd Lieutenant from the Field Artillery &
Missile Officers Candidate School in Ft.Sill,
Oklahoma and served as an S3 with the 1st
Battalion/79th Field Artillery on the DMZ in
Korea. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant
and became Commanding Officer when the
CO became ill. In 2005 he was inducted
into the Honorable Order of St. Barbara in
recognition of his service to the Field Artillery and the U.S. Field Artillery Association.
After honorable discharge from the army, he
worked in management for IBM for twenty-five years. He was transferred from upstate New York to the Washington, DC area

Bob devoted his life to service. He joined
Kiwanis in 1969 and served in many offices including Governor of the Capital District
(MD,VA,DE,DC). He was on the District Kiwanis Foundation for eighteen years, was a
Legion of Honor, Hixon and Zeller Fellow
and received many distinguished awards.
For many years, he was the Master of
Ceremonies for the Veterans’ Day Service
in Bethesda and received Citations from
President George W. Bush, Senator Chris
Van Holland and Maryland Governor Robert
Erlich for his community service. Bob will
be remembered for his optimistic attitude,
his wonderful sense of humor and quick
witt , his kindness and willingness to help
anyone in need, his love of life, God, family
and country.
Bob is pre-deceased by his parents, Robert Q. and Dorothy Marron Cressy and his
brother Terence Cressy. He is survived
by Nancy, his loving wife of twenty-eight
years, brother-in-law Bob Puffer (Marion),
nephew Mark Puffer, niece Robin Rodgers
(Ben), great nephew Curtis, great-niece Ella
Rodgers and cousins Sandy Magyar (Mark),
Pat Duperre (Lloyd), Jim Cressy and Debbie
Anderson.

NANORA JONES THOMAS (Age 95)

On Sunday, April 10, 2022, at sunrise on
Palm Sunday, the family lost a true soul.
Services will be held on Wednesday, April
27, at Bible Way Church, 1100 New Jersey
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC with viewing
at 10 a.m.; service at 11 a.m. Entrusted to
Stewart Funeral Home.

Entered eternal rest peacefully on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. On Tuesday, April 26,
visitation from 9 a.m. until time of service
at 11 a.m. at the Way of the Cross Church,
1800 Hazelwood Drive, Capitol Heights, MD
20743. Interment i Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

WESTBURY

A memorial service will be held on Saturday
April 30, 2022 at 11 a.m. at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 10033 River Road, Potomac,
MD. He will be interred at Arlington National
Cemetery at a future date. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Kiwanis Foundation of
Bethesda Inc, Attn: Robert G. Brewer, 7600
Wisconsin Ave, Suite 700, Bethesda, MD
20814-3663 are greatly appreciated.

GAMBLE

MARSH
ment of Justice. She had three children,
a daughter and identical twin sons. Later,
Mary began a new career with the National
Symphony Orchestra, where she worked for
more than 30 years.
Mary loved classical music and spent many
happy years at the National Symphony, first
working for the NSO’s Women’s Committee
and then as an Executive Assistant to several NSO directors. Smart, beautiful, charismatic, and possessing a great sense of
humor, she was much loved by the Symphony’s staff, Board of Directors, and orchestra members. When Mary retired from the
NSO, then Washington, DC mayor Anthony
Williams honored her service by proclaiming September 28, 2000 as “Mary P. Marsh
Day” in the District of Columbia, and the
NSO Board made her an honorary lifetime
member.

MARY P. MARSH

Mary P. Marsh died peacefully at her home
in Fairfax, Virginia on April 19, 2022 after
several years of declining health due to Parkinson’s disease.
Mary was born in Grass Creek, Indiana to
Frank and Hazel Pownell. After graduating
from Fulton High School as class valedictorian, she was hired by the FBI in Washington,
DC, where she worked for the late assistant
FBI Director Louis B. Nichols, who was a top
aide to the late FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover.
Mary retired from the FBI soon after her
marriage to John E. Marsh Jr., who at that
time was an attorney at the U.S. Depart-

Mary’s husband, and son Darrell predeceased her, as did her twin sister Marge, her
sister Helen, and her brothers Howard and
Bob. She is survived by her daughter Sharon
(Kaid Benfield), son Terrell (Sara), Darrell’s
wife Holly, and four grandchildren, Natalie,
Rachel, Alexa, and Steven. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and
many friends.

top, followed by a love of music and dancing.
Frequently visiting the family beach
condo was her favorite weekend getaway.
Aliki expressed an amazing zest for life and
youthful spirit, along with a robust sense of
humor. Her love for people was an embracing gift. She took great joy in helping others,
enriching many lives through her selfless
acts of kindness and generosity. She was a
beloved and devoted daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, aunt,
cousin and friend. She is predeceased by
her parents, her sister, Electra C. Beahler,
and former husband, Reggie Nearing. She is
survived by her daughter, Colleen N. Snyder
(Tom), son, Steven Nearing (Melissa), brother-in-law, Dr. John Beahler, six grandchildren
and two great grandchildren, and extended
family.

ALIKI CATSONIS NEARING

It is with heartfelt sadness we announce the
passing of Aliki on January 10, 2022, following a December 24th cancer diagnosis. Aliki
was born on February 25, 1935. She was
the daughter of Greek immigrant parents,
Achilles Catsonis and Anastasia (Carzis) Catsonis. Raised in Washington, DC. Aliki was
a graduate of Calvin Coolidge High School
in 1953. On May 1, 1955, Aliki married Reginald Nearing. They moved to the Maryland
suburbs where they raised two children. As
a graduate of the Real Estate Institute and
earning an Associate Brokers License, her
real estate career spanned over 40 years,
achieving top producer honors.
Remaining very active into her eighties,
Aliki enjoyed numerous interests and hobbies. Her passion for golf ranked among the

United States Congress. In 1967, President
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed DeVier Special
Counsel to the President and Counselor of
the White House, where he participated in
the implementation of the Great Society, the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, and other matters
requiring Executive legal action.

W. DEVIER PIERSON JR (Age 90)

W. DeVier Pierson, Jr., a Washington, DC attorney known for his outstanding analytical,
oral argument, and legal writing skills, died
peacefully from natural causes at his home
in Chevy Chase, MD on April 21. He was 90.
DeVier was born to W. DeVier and Frances
(née Ratliff) Pierson on August 12, 1931, in
Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He moved at a very
young age to Oklahoma City and described
his boyhood as one “growing up in the Great
Depression, but never knowing it.” He remembered from his adolescence the attack
on Pearl Harbor, the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the dropping of the atomic bomb
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
DeVier was a product of the Oklahoma City
public school system. He attended Lincoln
Grade School, Webster Junior High, and Classen High School. At Webster, he won oratorical contests and became an Eagle Scout. At
Classen, he was a member of the Oklahoma
state championship debate team, won the
national extemporaneous speaking championship, and was elected President of the
student body.
DeVier graduated from the University of
Oklahoma and, following two years of military service in Korea, received an LLB from
the OU College of Law. While at OU, he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Order
of the Coif, and the National Championship
Moot Court Team.
DeVier was a lawyer by training and inclination. For over half a century, he served as
counsel to a highly diverse set of clients, including one President of the United States,
the US Congress, two sovereign nations, a
high government official facing charges of
criminal activity, several large public companies having problems with the federal government, and other private companies who
were feeling the impact of major economic
issues.
He began the practice of law in Oklahoma
City in 1957 and had an active litigation practice. In 1965, he and his family moved to
Washington, DC, while DeVier became Chief
Counsel to a special Senate-House committee, chaired by Oklahoma Senator Mike
Monroney, to improve the functioning of the

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ARRINGTON

After public service, DeVier spent over 40
years in Washington practicing law at Pierson Semmes & Bemis and its predecessor
law firms. DeVier never sought to be a lobbyist – with its requisite political fundraisers
every night – and wanted his law practice
based upon what he knew, rather than who
he knew. He was lead counsel in matters
before the US Supreme Court, five federal
Courts of Appeals, several federal and state
trial courts, and an international tribunal
at The Hague. Among his many law cases,
DeVier served as lead plaintiff counsel in the
successful Tulsa, Oklahoma jury trial of Occidental v. Chevron, which following lengthy
trial and appellate review, was settled for a
judgment of $775 million, the largest awarded in Oklahoma history.
DeVier never completely retired and maintained a love of the law and learning his
entire life. He deeply cared for his country,
serving on various Presidential commissions
on foreign policy and trade. He was Vice
Chairman of the Atlantic Council, a prominent foreign policy think tank, taking part
in task forces on China, Ukraine, the Middle
East, and Global Energy.
DeVier stayed faithful to his Oklahoma roots
and was especially active in the affairs of
the University of Oklahoma. He served as
Co-Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the
College of Law, Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Honors College, and member of
the Board of Visitors of the College of International Studies. He served for ten years as a
Trustee of the University of Oklahoma Foundation and received the Oklahoma Regents’
Award for establishing a Pierson Professorship there. In 2002, DeVier was inducted into
the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. In 2011, he was
elected as a charter member of the Order of
the Owl, the College of Law Hall of Fame.

BERTHA J. GAMBLE “BERTIE

Following a brief illness, Bertha (Bertie)
Gamble, 96, of Rockville, Maryland passed
away peacefully with family by her side on
Sunday, April 10, 2022.
She was the beloved wife of the late Edwin Grady Gamble, Jr.; devoted mother
of Barbara A. Vaughan, Denise M. Philippi
(husband, Michael), the late Robert Kenneth (Kenny) and E. Grady Gamble, III.
She was the cherished grandmother of
M. Kenneth Heacox, Kimberly L. Faunce
(husband, Jeff), Kyle B. Gamble (wife, Erica), and Christopher P. Gamble. She was a
loving great-grandmother of Kylia E., Emily
L., Nathan E., Daniel J., Brandon J. Heacox;
Madison and Olivia Faunce, and Samantha
Gamble. She was also a great-great-grandmother of four. She leaves behind many
nieces and nephews, other relatives, and
friends. Interment at Arlington National
Cemetery will be announced at a later
date.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be
made to the Kensington Volunteer Fire Station, Kensington, MD 20895
Please view and sign the family guest book
at:
www.PumphreyFuneralHome.com

ROBERT WAYNE WHITE SR.

VEDA MARIE MCMULLEN (Age 94)

Veda McMullen received her wings for
eternity on April 12, 2022. Her husband
and all in-laws and siblings preceded her
in death. She is survived by one son Clifton(Lelia) and two grandsons Sean and
Chase, with a multitude of nieces, nephews church family and friends to mourn
her passing. Services will be on April 26,
2022 at Israel Bapitst Church 1251 Saratoga Avenue NE, Washington DC 20018
Viewing 10 a.m. Services 11 a.m. because
of Covid-19 mask are required. There will
be no repass because of Covid-19.

GEIER

ROBERT EARL ARRINGTON SR.

He was a dedicated member of the community who served on boards for organizations
including Community Bridges, Washington
Episcopal School, Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, and Glen Echo Park. Known
for his infectious laugh that could be heard
from miles away, Ted brought light and joy
into any room he walked into. He loved golf,
hiking, travel, bridge, walking, and most of all
he loved his family. He will be truly missed.

HAMILTON

EDWARD S. GEIER (Age 65)

CLEMONS
KATHLEEN MERKER HAMILTON

Kathleen Merker Hamilton, 75, died April
15, 2022, in her home surrounded by her
family. Kathleen, “Kathy”, “Katie”, was born
in Washington, DC, July 21, 1946, to the late
Donald W. and Doris (Quade) Merker. Kathleen enjoyed her cats, traveling through
Europe, and spending time with her close
friends at the Cove Point, MD beach community.

Ted transitioned into eternal rest on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. He is survived by his
wife, Elisa, his daughters, Gabriele Wright
(Dave), Caroline Masur (Jack), and Julia Geier
(Brendan). He is the cherished grandfather
of Lydia Wright and Annie Masur. He is also
survived by his devoted siblings Philip Geier
III (Amy), Richard Geier (Sara), and Susanne
Peters (Pete). Ted was born on October 18,
1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Philip Geier, Jr.
and Susanne Geier. He attended Cincinnati

BYRON PETER CLEMONS (Age 58)

Kathleen is preceded in death by her Parents and Siblings, Carol Bernard, Donald
“Bubba” Merker, and William Merker. She
leaves to cherish her memory her devoted
son, Bernard J. Hamilton Jr.
A Life Celebration service will be held 12
p.m., Saturday, April 30, 2022 at Mountcastle Turch Funeral Home, 4143 Dale
Blvd. Dale City, VA 22193. In lieu of flowers,
please make donation to the Anicira Veterinary Hospital, 9975 Pennsylvania Ave,
Manassas, VA 20110.

PALMER

WILLIAM D. PALMER “BILL” (Age 85)

Of Woodbridge, VA, passed away on January
14, 2022.
Bill was born in Chicago, Il on July 17, 1936.
He attended high school and Washington
University before appointment to the U.S.
Naval Academy. Bill met his future bride, Suzanne Breedlove in 1957 on a blind date at
an Academy Hop. They married June 3, 1959
at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis
MD. He was commissioned in the U.S. Air
Force upon graduation and enjoyed a highly successful career spanning 28 years in a
variety of flying and staff assignments. He

flew 100 combat missions as an Electronic
Warfare Officer and Electronic Crew Lead
during the Vietnam War. A master navigator with 3,399 flying hours, Bill held ratings
in the C-131 Hercules, C-47, C-54, B-52, and
EB-66. He served as Commander of the
3503 Recruiting Group responsible for Air
Force recruiting in 16 southeastern states
and Puerto Rico and Base Commander at
Maxwell Air Force Base. Bill retired from
the Air Force as a Colonel with honors including Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying
Cross, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, and Air Force Commendation Medal. He
continued his career as a financial planner
and seminar speaker for USPA and IRA (now
First Command) helping thousands of military professionals and families on the road
to financial independence. He filled his retirement with travel, including favorite trips
to Scotland, and golf as an active member of
the Ft. Belvoir Golf Club.
Bill is survived by his wife of 63 years, Suzanne, his daughter and son-in-law Suzanne
and Rick Lamarre, his son and daughter-inlaw Bill and Lisa Palmer, his sister Karen
Clark, his grandchildren Joshua and Nathan
Palmer, Richard Lamarre, and great-grandson Jason Lamarre.
Funeral services will be at Arlington National Cemetery on May 11, 2022 at 3 p.m. EST.
The family wishes to extend our sincere
thanks to family, friends, and neighbors for
their warm wishes and support.

TUTTLE
Church. She adored her husband Jon; her
daughters Susan Schmidt (Loren) and Cinda
Munroe; her grandsons Alexander (Daphne)
and Maxwell; her great grandson Edison,
many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

DeVier considered the greatest honor of his
life to be his marriage of 65 years to Shirley Frost Pierson, who survives him, along
with his three children, Jeffrey Pierson, Elizabeth Frost Sainty, and Stephen Pierson;
six grandchildren, George Sainty, Alexander
Pierson, Julian Sainty, Clara Pierson, Lucy McGraw-Pierson, and Arabella Sainty; extended
family member Estela Urquizu, and many
other cherished friends. He was adored by
his family for his wisdom, kindness, and wry
sense of humor – and for never being too
busy to listen to anyone.

Peggy was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She
studied at Texas Christian University, the
University of Minnesota and National-Louis
University in Washington, DC. She earned
her Master of Divinity degree from Virginia
Theological Seminary and served as a priest
in many parishes in Maryland, Minnesota,
Colorado, Florida and Washington, DC, including The National Cathedral.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on
Friday, April 29, 2022, at National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20016.

THE REVEREND PEGGY ELAINE TUTTLE

Of Jupiter, FL, July 10, 1940 - April 3, 2022,
lived a full and active life filled with purpose, love for her family and friends, a lot
of laughter and devotion to the Episcopal

A Celebration of Life service will be held
for Peggy at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 8 at St.
Mark’s Episcopal Church, 3395 Burns Rd.,
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410. The family
requests donations to St. Mark’s Memorial
Fund at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. For
livestream links to the service please visit:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/jupiter-fl/peggy-tuttle-10694519

Friends and family are invited to gather to
remember and celebrate his life on Thursday,
April 28, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Trinity
Church (1315 36th Street, NW) followed immediately by a reception at Columbia Country Club. In lieu of flowers please consider a
donation in Ted’s name to Community Bridges in Silver Spring, MD (https://communitybridges-md.org/)

WARFIELD

Kathleen enjoyed her career in Sales at, G
E M Store, Eureka, Clairol, and at The Reines RV Center.

Of Washington, DC, transitioned to eternal life on Monday, April 11, 2022. He is
survived by a devoted mother Doris Smith
Clemons and two sisters Kimberly D. Clemons and Stephanie L. Clemons, other relatives and many friends. Memorial services
are scheduled for Saturday, April 30, 2022
at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda at 7400
Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Service begins at 11 a.m. Masks required.
www.mcguire-services.com

On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, Robert
Wayne White Sr., owner, EMCO Elevator
Company, passed away peacefully at the
age of 79.
Bob is survived by his wife Janice, his children Ann Anonsen (Craig), Robert Wayne
White Jr. (Khrista), stepchild Jennifer Stolzenberg (Herman), four grandchildren and
two step grandchildren.
A gathering will be held on Sunday May
1, 2022, at Robert E. Evans Funeral Home,
16000 Annapolis Rd., Bowie, MD 20715,
from 1 to 3:30 p.m., followed by a celebration of life at 4 p.m.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that
donations be made in the name of Robert
White Sr. to Hospice of the Chesapeake
90 Ritchie Hwy. Pasadena, MD (Giving |
Hospice of the Chesapeake (hospicechesapeake.org), or Anne Arundel Medical Center (Donate to Heartfelt Gifts of All Sizes
Make a Difference (luminishealth.org)
www.Robertevansfuneralhome.com

Country Day School, received his bachelor’s
degree from Lewis & Clark College, and an
MBA from George Washington University. He
worked for 30 years as a financial advisor at
Morgan Stanley (formerly Legg Mason).

Robert Earl Arrington Sr., 82, was born in
Nash County, NC; he lived in the Washington, DC area since 1965. A longtime Federal Government employee with the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving, he passed April
8, 2022, peacefully at his home. He leaves
to cherish his memory a loving wife, Shirley Arrington; son, Robert Arrington Jr.,
and siblings Elsie A. Williams and Kenneth
Arrington. He will be remembered and
missed by relatives and friends. Visitation
will be held at Fort Lincoln Memorial Chapel on Bladensburg Road, April 28, 9:30 to
10:30 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, please consider memorial contributions to A. Nearing at St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital, https://tinyurl.
com/anearingstjudedonations.

PIERSON

WHITE

MORRIS RON WESTBURY

Morris Ron Westbury beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother passed away
peacefully at home in Riverdale, MD, at the
age of 76 on April 6, 2022. He is survived by
his wife, Rosalind; two daughters, Trashaun
and Maurisa Westbury; two grandsons,
Jordan and Jalyn; three siblings, and other
relatives. Service will be held on April 26,
2022, at First Baptist Church of Highland
Park, viewing at 10 a.m., service at 11 a.m.

Although Aliki will be dearly missed, we find
comfort knowing that she ascended up the
fairway to heaven where she has an eternal
tee time with God, and is now dancing with
the stars. The memorial tribute and reception will be held on Saturday, May 21, 2022,
from 12 p.m. 4 p.m. at Hines-Rinaldi Funeral
Home, 11800 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20904. Kindly RSVP by May
7th at 240-755-8082 or email: alikinearing@
gmail.com

To view full obituary and leave condolences,
please visit
www.dignitymemorial.com

“Rudy”, age 94 died peacefully at Suburban Hospital. He is survived by his devoted
wife Virginia H. Savage; son Rudolph P. Savage, Jr.; daughter Jennifer G. Maddox, four
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren,
sister Corinne Yasinsac and brother Bobby Savage. A celebration of his life will be
scheduled later. Read more about Rudy at
www.goinghomecares.com

MCMULLEN

A celebration of Mary’s life will be held at a
later date. The family asks those who are
interested to consider a donation in Mary’s
memory to the National Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, or the Michael
J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

NEARING

Of College Park, Maryland, passed away
on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022 at her
home, surrounded by her loving family. A
visitation will be held on Thursday, May 12,
2022 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at
Raymond Funeral Service, P.A., 5635 Washington Avenue, La Plata, Maryland 20646.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered
on Friday, May 13, 2022 at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 201 St. Mary’s
Avenue, La Plata, Maryland. Interment to
follow at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery
in Cheltenham, Maryland. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place,
Memphis, Tennessee 38105, stjude.org.
Online condolences may made on Billie’s
Tribute Wall at
www.raymondfuneralservice.com

SETH LEONARD WARFIELD
DECEMBER 21, 1943 – APRIL 16, 2022

Seth Leonard Warfield, 78, passed away on
April 16, 2022, with his family at his side
following complications after several heart
surgeries.
Seth was born in Washington, DC in the
“old” Sibley Hospital, the youngest of three
children of Anna and John (Jack) Warfield.
He attended his neighborhood public
schools and was graduated from Western
high School (now Duke Ellington School for
the Performing Arts). As a boy he participated in Boy Scouts, rising to the rank of
Explorer.
Seth was a graduate of Lehigh University
(class of ‘65) where he majored in Industrial Engineering and stayed to complete a
master’s degree in Management Science
(aka operations research). While at Lehigh
he was a member of the Delta Phi Fraternity where he served in several leadership
roles, including House Manager. He also was
a member of the service organization APO.
Following his graduate degree at Lehigh,
Seth joined the Babcock & Wilcox Company
at its headquarters in Barberton, OH. While
in the Purchasing Department he rewrote
a long-outdated purchasing manual. Within
three years he rose to Manager of Industrial and Marine Purchasing where the was
responsible for buying large, engineered
power plant equipment and finely machined
parts for the U. S. Navy’s nuclear submarine
reactors.
In 1969 his father had a serious heart attack
and asked Seth to leave B&W to return to
Washington to take the helm of the family
business, Jack’s Roofing Company. Willing to
help and to take a detour in his career, Seth
moved his family back to Maryland.
He had worked in the family business summers growing up, but was returning to
manage, not to roof. His concern was that
the business might be too small to support
four families – his parents, his sister’s and
his brother’s as well as his own and all the
employees. His plan was to grow the family business by opening an adjunct roofing

supply company, The Roof Center. Ultimately
the supply business was incorporated as its
own entity separate from the roofing business. Seth was president of both for a number of years.
Over time, The Roof Center grew to 24 locations in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and
Texas. During those years Seth served on
several corporate advisory boards for large
manufacturing companies including CertainTeed, TAMKO and GAF. He was an early
member of American Wholesale Ltd, a national buying cooperative and was its president for several years. When The Roof Center was sold to the United Company in 1998,
Seth was retained to continue running the
business. The Roof Center was sold again in
2001 and Seth decided to retire.
A modest, gentle man, Seth enjoyed time
with his family, often by the water. He and
his family sailed on the Chesapeake Bay
for many years and also escaped to their
home in Southern Shores on the NC Outer
Banks. There he was a member of Duck
Woods Country Club for 30 years. Before
retirement, Seth served on the Vestry and
Finance Committee of Christ Church, Rockville. He also served as Chairman of the
Board of Christ Episcopal School and for
ten years on the Board of Governors of St.
Andrew’s Episcopal School in Bethesda, MD.
His love of sailing drew him and his wife to
move to Maryland’s Eastern Shore where
boating was their alternate waterfront
home. Seth became active in Habitat for
Humanity, helping to build houses with
the “Thursday Crew” and to start the local
Habitat Re-Store. He served on the Vestry,
Finance and Endowment committees of
Christ Church, Easton. Also, at Christ Church
Seth participated in Kerygma and other Bible studies. He co-founded a men’s non-fiction book group and was a member of the
Talbot Investment Group. Ever the mariner,
Seth belonged to the Chesapeake Bay Yacht
Club, the Tred Avon Yacht Club and the Poplar Islands Yacht Club and was an active volunteer at all three.
Seth is survived by his beloved wife of 55
years, Missy, his high school sweetheart. He
also is survived by their two grown children,
Heather Warfield Cooke (Ron) of Greenville,
NC, and Peter Ives Warfield, MD (Amy) of
Bethesda, MD. He also is survived by six
cherished grandchildren: Ashley Cooke, Sydney Cooke, Emily Cooke, Hannah Warfield,
Andrew Warfield, and Catherine Warfield.
He is also survived by his older sister, Anna
Eletheer Warfield Decker (Keith). He was
predeceased by both parents and an older
brother, John T. Warfield, Jr.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m.
on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Christ Church,
111 S. Harrison St. Easton, MD. A private interment will take place at a later date. In lieu
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The Weather
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Taste of summer as highs hit 80s
A summery Sunday is on the way.
Sun should reign, but a few clouds
may enter the picture in the
afternoon. High temperatures aim
for the 80-to-87-degree range as
late-afternoon easterly winds gust toward 15 mph
at the same time. A mid- to late-afternoon shower
or storm is also possible, especially west of town
in higher elevations.

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Today
An afternoon
shower

Monday
Partly cloudy

Tuesday
Rain and a
t‑storm

83° 58

78° 59

CHNCE PRECIP: 40%
WIND: ENE 4–8 mph
HUMIDITY: Moderate

P: 5%
W: E 7–14 mph
H: Moderate

°

°

FEELS*: 88°

FACEBOOK.COM/CAPITALWEATHER

Wednesday
Windy

Thursday
Mostly sunny;
breezy

Friday
Partly cloudy

73° 49

62° 39

61° 45

67° 53

P: 75%
W: NW 7–14 mph
H: Moderate

P: 5%
W: WNW 10–20 mph
H: Low

P: 5%
W: NW 10–20 mph
H: Low

P: 10%
W: NW 8–16 mph
H: Low

°

FEELS: 79°

.

°

FEELS: 72°

°

FEELS: 60°

FEELS: 59°

OFFICIAL REC ORD
Temperatures

AVERAGE

RECORD

ACTUAL

FORECAST

°

FEELS: 66°

Tu

W

Th

F

Sa

Su

M

Tu

W

Th

F

Sa

Su

M

Tu

Statistics through 5 p.m. Saturday

REGIO N

NATION
Harrisburg
79/53

Hagerstown
82/57
Davis
77/57

Annapolis
74/51

BWI

79° 3:59 p.m.
43° 5:25 a.m.
70°/46°
88° 2001
30° 1989

73° 3:34 p.m.
50° 6:00 a.m.
69°/46°
94° 1960
31° 1982

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –0.6° yr. to date: +0.5°

Precipitation

Cape May
62/51

PREVIOUS YEAR

NORMAL

LATEST

OCEAN: 54°

Richmond
89/61

Virginia Beach
81/63
OCEAN: 56°

Past 24 hours
Total this month
Normal
Total this year
Normal

Kitty Hawk
75/62
OCEAN: 58°

Pollen: High

Air Quality: Moderate

Grass
Trees
Weeds
Mold

UV: Very High

Reagan

Dulles

BWI

0.00"
3.72"
2.40"
12.50"
11.38"

0.00"
2.22"
2.58"
10.34"
11.63"

0.00"
3.83"
2.56"
13.54"
12.55"

Dominant cause: Ozone

Moderate
High
Low
Low

Moon Phases

8 out of 11+

Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny; a thunderstorm in
northern parts this afternoon. One of the warmest days
of the year so far. High 70 to 76. Winds southwest 6–12
mph. Tonight, patchy clouds. Low 54 to 58. Winds west–
southwest 6–12 mph.
Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly sunny. High 64 to 84.
Winds east 6–12 mph. Tonight, clear. Low 50 to 62. Winds
east 6–12 mph. Monday, sun, some clouds. High 59 to 80.
Winds east–southeast 7–14 mph.
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly sunny. Wind
northeast 4–8 knots. Waves 2 feet or less. Visibility clear to the
horizon. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny.
Wind northwest 4–8 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac
and the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will
be around 4.30 feet today, with no change of 4.30 Monday. Flood
stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.

Washington

Dulles

77° 3:59 p.m.
53° 6:00 a.m.
71°/51°
95° 1960
33° 1933

Ocean City
65/54

Norfolk
84/62

Today’s tides

Reagan

OCEAN: 54°

Charlottesville
88/60
Lexington
88/58

High
Low
Normal
Record high
Record low

Philadelphia
71/51
Baltimore
79/54
Dover
68/51

Washington
83/58

Weather map features for noon today.

(High tides in Bold)

3:15 a.m.

10:10 a.m.

3:31 p.m.

10:55 p.m.

Annapolis

12:19 a.m.

6:25 a.m.

1:08 p.m.

7:34 p.m.

Ocean City

2:45 a.m.

9:22 a.m.

3:18 p.m.

9:25 p.m.

Norfolk

4:47 a.m.

11:20 a.m.

5:21 p.m.

11:38 p.m.

Point Lookout

2:25 a.m.

8:56 a.m.

3:57 p.m.

9:23 p.m.

T-storms
<–10

Rain
–0s

Showers
0s

10s

Snow
20s

Flurries
30s

Ice

40s

50s

Cold Front

Warm Front

60s

80s

70s

90s

Stationary Front
100s

110+

Yesterday's National
High: Zapata, TX 95°
Low: Grand Canyon, AZ 17°
for the 48 contiguous states

NATIONAL
Albany, NY
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
Austin
Baltimore
Billings, MT
Birmingham
Bismarck, ND
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Burlington, VT
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Charlotte
Cheyenne, WY
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver

Today
61/45/pc
67/41/pc
47/35/c
81/62/pc
87/68/pc
79/54/pc
53/31/c
84/64/s
38/24/sn
64/42/s
50/44/c
76/61/pc
59/47/c
80/60/s
87/60/pc
84/58/s
46/22/c
71/49/t
81/63/c
82/62/pc
81/60/t
53/29/pc

Tomorrow
66/47/c
67/44/s
47/36/s
84/64/s
78/58/t
74/56/pc
62/37/c
82/61/s
38/22/pc
72/49/c
54/46/c
71/45/r
67/48/c
84/63/s
82/53/t
85/62/s
54/30/pc
56/36/c
68/43/t
67/43/t
66/53/r
60/35/s

Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks, AK
Fargo, ND
Hartford, CT
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jackson, MS
Jacksonville, FL
Kansas City, MO
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Norfolk

62/37/s
80/59/t
81/52/s
48/29/pc
39/23/sn
58/43/c
84/72/pc
86/72/pc
79/56/t
84/66/pc
80/61/pc
68/41/pc
77/57/s
82/64/c
86/61/s
84/66/c
82/67/c
85/74/pc
70/46/t
50/31/c
84/66/pc
84/71/sh
61/48/pc
84/62/s

52/29/pc
61/41/r
78/54/s
48/32/pc
32/19/c
64/45/c
84/71/pc
83/67/t
58/39/t
81/60/t
83/62/s
59/36/s
82/63/pc
67/50/t
88/62/s
70/47/t
71/52/t
84/72/pc
52/35/c
41/29/c
76/51/t
82/69/t
58/52/c
80/61/pc

Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Portland, OR
Providence, RI
Raleigh, NC
Reno, NV
Richmond
Sacramento
St. Louis
St. Thomas, VI
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
San Juan, PR
Seattle
Spokane, WA
Syracuse
Tampa
Wichita

62/47/t
62/37/pc
85/67/pc
71/51/pc
88/62/s
82/60/pc
54/38/pc
70/51/pc
54/43/c
86/60/s
68/41/s
89/61/s
80/50/s
76/53/t
83/74/pc
57/39/pc
77/56/s
67/50/s
84/73/pc
65/48/c
63/42/s
75/55/pc
89/70/pc
72/43/pc

67/41/pc
55/31/s
87/65/s
65/54/c
95/67/s
80/48/t
51/40/c
61/46/c
61/44/c
87/63/s
73/47/pc
88/62/pc
80/51/pc
63/41/pc
83/73/pc
68/48/pc
79/56/s
67/51/s
83/73/pc
56/41/sh
63/41/c
77/50/sh
89/70/s
64/39/pc

World
High: Matam, Senegal 114°
Low: Taloyoak, Canada –25°

Apr 30
New

May 8
First
Quarter

Solar system

May 16
Full

May 22
Last
Quarter

excludes Antarctica

WORLD
Today
Addis Ababa
77/58/sh
Amsterdam
61/44/pc
Athens
75/58/s
Auckland
70/57/sh
Baghdad
83/62/c
Bangkok
95/82/pc
Beijing
80/50/c
Berlin
62/41/c
Bogota
64/50/sh
Brussels
64/43/c
Buenos Aires
74/65/s
Cairo
88/62/s
Caracas
75/64/r
Copenhagen
55/40/pc
Dakar
80/69/s
Dublin
56/41/pc
Edinburgh
54/41/pc
Frankfurt
59/46/r
Geneva
54/49/r
Ham., Bermuda 69/64/c
Helsinki
52/36/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 96/81/t
Hong Kong
85/76/c

Tomorrow
68/56/sh
58/42/c
76/60/pc
68/54/pc
88/63/t
96/82/pc
84/62/pc
54/39/c
64/49/sh
55/43/c
73/64/r
90/64/s
75/65/t
54/41/pc
78/68/s
52/40/c
53/39/c
59/46/r
57/47/r
67/63/pc
49/33/r
96/82/t
85/77/sh

Islamabad
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Kabul
Kingston, Jam.
Kolkata
Kyiv
Lagos
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Mumbai
Nairobi
New Delhi
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Prague

93/70/c
73/53/s
78/58/c
70/53/pc
66/51/t
81/74/sh
103/82/s
62/47/pc
89/78/c
70/61/c
64/51/c
64/43/pc
62/40/c
95/81/s
80/56/t
52/44/pc
55/51/r
94/83/s
74/59/t
103/82/pc
55/34/pc
54/45/c
65/50/c
50/44/r

92/69/s
69/53/pc
78/58/s
69/49/pc
69/51/s
82/75/c
103/82/pc
67/52/r
90/78/t
69/61/c
65/54/c
59/42/pc
67/46/pc
94/81/t
80/54/t
65/52/sh
62/51/c
95/83/s
77/59/sh
106/81/pc
62/41/pc
69/47/r
63/44/pc
53/38/c

Sun
Moon
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn

Rise
6:19 a.m.
3:29 a.m.
4:37 a.m.
4:06 a.m.
4:51 a.m.
3:29 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro
Riyadh
Rome
San Salvador
Santiago
Sarajevo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tehran
Tokyo
Toronto
Vienna
Warsaw

83/75/s
98/79/pc
66/52/pc
84/67/t
70/47/pc
68/43/pc
73/56/c
79/65/c
89/78/t
49/31/c
71/59/sh
90/73/t
83/70/c
66/61/r
64/54/pc
67/49/t
61/46/c

Set
7:54 p.m.
1:28 p.m.
4:14 p.m.
3:05 p.m.
4:42 p.m.
1:59 p.m.
83/73/pc
88/71/t
65/51/pc
82/69/t
73/45/s
63/42/pc
79/61/c
83/70/c
88/79/t
57/38/pc
69/60/sh
89/75/t
81/65/c
74/63/pc
63/41/r
62/43/sh
56/43/sh

Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
sn-snow, i-ice
Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
quality data); National Weather Service
* AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
combines over a dozen factors for an accurate
measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

KLMNO

SPORTS
SUNDAY, APRIL 24 , 2022

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WASHINGTONPOST.COM/SPORTS

D

M2

United
follows
tumult
with win
D.C. UNITED 3,
REVOLUTION 2
Fountas stars as Ashton
makes all the right moves
BY

HBCUs on NFL’s radar
BY

A DAM K ILGORE

As he strode across a football
field on the campus of South
Alabama in Mobile in January,
Will Adams saw trappings foreign to his career at Virginia
State. Cameramen filmed his
movements.
Photographers
snapped pictures. Scouts wearing NFL logos packed the sidelines. His stomach churned —
he was both nervous and starstruck.
“I’m not used to having those
type of eyes around me,” Adams
said later. “Coming from an
HBCU Division II, we don’t
have a whole lot of that type of
exposure.”
Adams had arrived for the
HBCU combine, an inaugural
showcase for prospects from
historically Black colleges and
universities, a class of player the
NFL had neglected in recent
drafts. He and 38 other prospects would perform sprints,
jumps and lifts, trying to impress NFL teams that probably

Players from historically Black schools got more attention
from scouts this year. Draft will show whether it mattered.

PHOTOS BY JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST

Will Adams worked out in Richmond in hopes of being drafted by an NFL
team. After a standout career with Virginia State, the safety put up impressive
numbers at January’s inaugural HBCU scouting combine in Mobile, Ala.

had overlooked them in the fall.
For years, family members
had told Adams to be patient
and his time would come. He
sensed it had. At the end of one
shuttle run, Adams glanced at
the sidelines and saw scouts,
with bulged eyes, comparing
stopwatches. When he finished,
evaluators encircled him and
asked for his contact information. Adams realized his life
might have just changed.
“I was never one of those
guys who were in the spotlight,”
Adams said. “At that moment, I
kind of was. I was thinking,
‘These guys finally noticed me
after all this time.’ ”
In recent years, Adams may
not have been noticed at all.
Last year, the draft’s 259 picks
elapsed without a single player
from an HBCU being selected.
Only four signed contracts as
undrafted free agents. The
dearth of HBCU players granted professional opportunity
dismayed HBCU coaches who
SEE HBCU ON D9

S TEVEN G OFF

A week shaken by the abrupt
firing of D.C. United’s coach and
questions about the direction of
the MLS organization took a hopeful and arresting turn Saturday at
Audi Field.
Chad Ashton, a second-time interim boss, rallied his teetering
squad, and Greek attacker Taxi
Fountas, a first-time starter, made
a spectacular impression as United came back for a 3-2 victory over
the New England Revolution.
Three days after Hernán Losada was ousted — amid a four-game
losing streak and growing friction
with players and staff — United
(3-4-0) rebounded from an early
deficit to revive its outlook and
end a six-game skid against Bruce
Arena’s team.
Fountas, a designated player
who sits atop the team payroll,
made his MLS debut last week as a
sub. In the lineup Saturday, he
scored twice and assisted on another goal in a 17-minute stretch of
the first half.
“I was worried when we conceded the early goal because I
thought we looked a little
shellshocked,” said Ashton, a
member of the coaching staff since
2007 and the interim leader in late
2020 before Losada was hired. “I
was worried right then, what that
emotion and what that week took
out of us. The response by the guys
— unbelievable. It boosts our confidence. It gives us one to start
moving in the right direction.”
After Brandon Bye scored for
New England (2-5-1) in the sixth
minute, Fountas’s goals came in
the 26th and 43rd, and Michael
Estrada finished Fountas’s cross
in the 39th. The Revolution scored
in the 86th before United sweated
out eight minutes of stoppage
time in front of an announced
17,131.
When it ended, defender Donovan Pines gave goalkeeper Jon
Kempin, a late-save hero, a giant
hug.
“It was a hectic week,” said
Kempin, who started for the first
time this season with Bill Hamid
out with an injury. “The way we
can express ourselves is through
soccer, through the game. What
SEE UNITED ON D10

D.C. United at Crew
Saturday, 7:30 p.m., NBCSW

For MASN Nats shake things up, but o≠ense still not in gear
announcers,
GIANTS 5,
NATIONALS 2
every game
is at home
BY

BY

Washington Nationals Manager Dave Martinez wanted to shake
up his lineup against the San
Francisco Giants to jump-start an
offense that has struggled during
this homestand.
So as the bottom of the first
inning began, Lane Thomas was
in the on-deck circle, taking practice hacks and batting first Saturday afternoon, and César Hernández dropped to sixth in the batting
order. The results weren’t monumental in the Nationals’ 5-2 loss to
the Giants at Nationals Park, and
it’s unclear whether the change
was a one-off decision or a longterm move, but Martinez is still
looking for a formula that works
offensively.
“Lane hits left-handed pitchers
really well, so it was nice to get
him up there against lefties and

B EN S TRAUSS

The early MLB season has been
mostly a welcome return to normalcy: angst returning over the
baseball, Shohei Ohtani doing
Shohei Ohtani things and broadcasters again traveling with their
teams.
But not all broadcasters.
Several weeks into the season,
the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
remains an outlier, keeping its
announcers for the Nationals and
Orioles at home for road games.
Instead of traveling, the broadcasters are calling the games
from the broadcasts booths inside their local stadiums, a tricky
task for play-by-play announcers
Bob Carpenter with the Nationals
and Kevin Brown with the Orioles. The effect on the broadcast
has been noticed by fans, with
SEE BROADCAST ON D2

A NDREW G OLDEN

SEE NATIONALS ON D3
NICK WASS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Juan Soto struck out to end the third inning for Washington, which has nine runs in its past five games.

Giants at Nationals
Today, 1:30 p.m., MASN

Baseball’s
unwritten
rules need
a rewrite
Dave Martinez
seemed to be
lamenting the end
of something
sacred. There
were no clouds
Candace
inside the
Buckner
Washington
Nationals’ media
room Saturday afternoon, so
Martinez wasn’t yelling at them.
He didn’t take a sip of prune juice
before starting a back in my day
rant and never warned fellow
manager Gabe Kapler and the
San Francisco Giants to get off his
lawn.
But when he was asked for his
thoughts about competing in
baseball, Martinez ended with
something that sounded like
matter-of-fact resignation. The
big leagues no longer fully
resemble the game that he broke
SEE BUCKNER ON D3

BASEBALL

ON THE NBA

HOCKEY

Orioles ace John Means reveals he needs Tommy John
surgery and will miss the rest of the 2022 season. D2

With their season in jeopardy, the Nets come out with
low energy — and fizzle again against the Celtics. D5

The Capitals don’t know their postseason opponent,
but they do know it won’t be an easy matchup. D6

D2

EZ

DI G ES T
BOXING

Fury keeps WBC title,
stops Whyte in sixth
World heavyweight champion

Tyson Fury retained his World

Boxing Council title with a brutal
sixth-round stoppage of fellow
Briton Dillian Whyte in front of
more than 94,000 spectators at
London’s Wembley Stadium on
Saturday.
A right uppercut from Fury
sent Whyte to the canvas, and the
6-foot-9 champion raised his
right hand in celebration. Whyte,
who appeared to lose a tooth from
the punch, got to his feet but then
staggered, leading the referee to
end the fight.
The 33-year-old Fury (32-0-1
with 23 knockouts) toyed with
Whyte for much of the fight.
Whyte, 35, is 28-3-0 with 19 KOs.
The punch that ended the fight
with a few seconds to go in the
sixth came out of nowhere, with
Fury in control of the fight
without truly exerting himself.

COLLEGES
In Baltimore, Logan
Wisnauskas piled up five goals
and three assists to power the topranked Maryland men’s lacrosse
team to a 22-7 rout of Johns
Hopkins, the most goals the
Terrapins have ever scored in the
rivalry dating to 1923 and the
largest margin of victory in the
history of the series.
Keegan Khan and Owen
Murphy each notched four goals
and one assist and Anthony
DeMaio had two goals and two
assists for Maryland (12-0, 5-0 Big
Ten). The Blue Jays fell to 6-8
overall and 2-3 in the Big Ten. . . .
Dylan Watson scored four
goals and T.J. Haley and Connor
Morin added three apiece to lead
second-ranked Georgetown to a
23-6 men’s lacrosse rout of St.
John’s at Cooper Field. Graham
Bundy Jr. added two goals for the
Hoyas (12-1, 4-0 Big East), who
scored the most goals against a
Big East opponent in program
history. The Red Storm is 2-11
overall and 0-4 in the Big East. . . .
In Syracuse, N.Y., Jeff Conner
and Matt Moore tallied seven
points each to lead No. 6 Virginia
to a 21-15 men’s lacrosse win over
Syracuse that clinched a share of
the ACC title. Xander Dickson
added three goals for the
Cavaliers (10-3, 5-1). Jackson
Birtwistle netted five goals for
the Orange (4-9, 1-4). . . .

Libby May scored seven goals
to pace the No. 8 Maryland
women to a 15-9 lacrosse victory
over No. 2 Northwestern in
College Park that clinched a share
of the Big Ten championship.
Junior Emily Sterling set a
career high with 16 saves for the
Terrapins (14-1, 5-0 Big Ten). Jill
Girardi scored three goals for the
Wildcats (13-3, 5-1). . . .
Lou Lopez Sénéchal, the
women’s basketball player of the
year in the Metro Atlantic
Athletic Conference, is
transferring from Fairfield to
Connecticut.
The 6-1 forward will have one
year of eligibility left. The native
of Mexico averaged 16.1 points
and 4.7 rebounds over four
seasons at Fairfield. . . .
Freshman Trevor Keels is the
fourth Duke men’s basketball
player in the past week to
announce plans to enter the NBA
draft. The 6-5 guard out of Paul VI
averaged 11.5 points this season.

AUTO RACING
Christopher Bell won the pole
for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series
race at Talladega (Ala.)
Superspeedway by turning the
fastest lap as the final driver to
qualify.
Bell bumped Joe Gibbs Racing
teammate Martin Truex Jr. from
the top spot with a lap at 180.928
mph in his Toyota. Truex qualified
second at 180.652 mph to give
JGR the front row.
Daniel Hemric qualified third
for Kaulig Racing in a Chevrolet
and was followed by Daniel
Suárez of Trackhouse Racing,
also in a Chevrolet.
In Saturday’s Xfinity Series
race at Talladega, Noah Gragson
held off Jeffrey Earnhardt in
triple overtime for his second
victory of the season.
TENNIS
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek will
play Aryna Sabalenka in the final
of the clay-court Stuttgart
(Germany) Open after both came
through their semifinals.
Swiatek stretched her winning
run to 22 matches with a 6-7 (7-4),
6-4, 7-5 win over Liudmila
Samsonova. Sabalenka beat
Paula Badosa, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4. . . .
The semifinals of the ATP
Tour’s Barcelona Open were
suspended because of rain and
will be finished Sunday, the same
day as the final.
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. SUNDAY,

APRIL 24 , 2022

Orioles’ Means will undergo Tommy John surgery
BY

N ATHAN R UIZ

Baltimore Orioles left-hander
John Means will undergo seasonending Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery, he announced Saturday on Twitter.
Recovery time for Tommy
John surgery typically exceeds a
year, meaning Baltimore will be
without its ace for the rest of
2022 and probably a portion of
2023.
An all-star in 2019 who made
his second straight Opening Day
start just over two weeks ago,
Means unexpectedly exited his
April 13 outing against the Milwaukee Brewers after four innings with what was then called
left forearm tightness, an ailment
that is often a precursor to elbow
injuries.
Means was eventually put on
the 60-day injured list with a left
elbow sprain, suggesting a tear in
his elbow, though the Orioles
sought additional tests and medical opinions in hopes of avoiding
surgery.
“After multiple MRI’s it’s confirmed that I need Tommy John
surgery,” Means tweeted Saturday. “I’m obviously disappointed,
but more motivated than ever. In
the meantime, I’m looking forward to watching what this team
can do this year. I’ll be back, Go
O’s.”
The 29-year-old Means, who
won’t be a free agent until after
the 2024 season, has a career

FRANK FRANKLIN II/ASSOCIATED PRESS

John Means served as Baltimore’s top pitcher for most of the
previous three seasons, making two straight Opening Day starts.

3.81 ERA, serving as Baltimore’s
top pitcher for most of the previous three years. Last year, he
pitched the organization’s first
complete-game no-hitter in more
than 50 years, striking out 12 Seattle Mariners and coming a
dropped third strike shy of a
perfect game.
An 11th-round pick in 2014,
Means was one of the last players
to crack the Orioles’ season-opening roster in 2019, then thrived
out of their bullpen early before
doing the same in their rotation.
He represented Baltimore in the
All-Star Game that season and
finished second in American
League rookie of the year voting.

Set to serve as the Orioles’
Opening Day starter in 2020,
Means instead began the year on
the IL with arm fatigue. After
struggling upon his return, he
closed the season with a dominant four-start stretch, carrying
that success into the early portion of 2021, when he was one of
the game’s top pitchers two
months into the season. But then
he missed nearly that long with a
left shoulder strain, and although
he remained Baltimore’s top
starter once activated, he was not
nearly as consistent.
Means entered 2022 with
hopes of pitching 200 innings, a
total only four major leaguers

surpassed a year ago. He spent
his offseason training at Keith
Meister’s physical therapy facility
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area,
hoping to avoid the left shoulder
flare-ups that have led to IL stints
in two of his three full major
league seasons.
On Wednesday, Meister will
perform Means’s Tommy John
surgery, according to the Athletic. Means pitched only eight innings for the Orioles in 2022, and
it will be at least a year before he
throws another.
In Means’s absence, the starters left in Baltimore’s rotation
have largely stepped up. Chris
Ellis, who started in Means’s
place Tuesday in Oakland,
pitched 41/3 scoreless innings.
Bruce Zimmermann, a left-hander who has in many ways emulated Means, has a 1.20 ERA through
three starts. In the eight games
since Means’s early exit, the
team’s starters have a 1.46 ERA,
the best in the majors during that
span.
But not having Means contribute throughout the year will
sting, even as the Orioles’ top
three pitching prospects — Grayson Rodriguez, DL Hall and Kyle
Bradish — could all make their
debuts as the season continues.
Ideally, that trio will all be in
Baltimore’s rotation when Means
rejoins it sometime in 2023, but
his absence will be felt heavily
until then.
— Baltimore Sun

When MLB broadcasters work remotely, fans notice
BROADCAST FROM D1

delayed commentary a frequent
frustration, such as when a key
Oakland error was called several
seconds after Baltimore fans saw
it on MASN, as noted by the SB
Nation Orioles’ site, Camden
Chat.
There has been other confusion, too, including when the
Nationals’ MASN booth appeared
mixed up over Victor Robles entering a game this month. And
there have been technical difficulties, such as when Orioles
broadcaster Melanie Newman’s
voice didn’t match up with the
picture during a pregame show
and when the picture was lost
during a Nationals game in Pittsburgh.
Nationals spokeswoman Jen
Giglio declined to comment, referring questions to MASN. (The
Nationals’ radio team is traveling.) MASN spokesman Todd
Webster wrote in a statement:
“The global pandemic required
all of us to learn new lessons in
innovation, resourcefulness, and
resilience. MASN is carrying forward some of those lessons.”
MASN is not alone in keeping
broadcasters home. The San
Francisco Giants TV broadcasters
are not traveling to all road
games this season. Neither are
the Red Sox broadcasters on the
New England Sports Network.
And the Los Angeles Angels had
plans to be remote on Bally
Sports SoCal, but that may be in
jeopardy, according to the Athletic, after the telecast’s trouble last
weekend with the Angels playing
in Texas.
Play-by-play man Matt Vasgersian was calling the game from
Secaucus, N.J., with the rest of the
crew in California. A call of a
Mike Trout home run was visibly
behind the picture on TV, and

then Vasgersian initially called a
home run by Jared Walsh a foul
ball.
The troubles on MASN and the
Angels’ broadcast highlight two
phenomena: the complications of
calling a game off a screen vs. live
at the park and the way regional
sports networks are hoping to use
new technologies deployed during the pandemic to cut costs.
Brian Anderson, a Milwaukee
Brewers broadcaster who also
calls the baseball playoffs for
Turner, said in an interview that
to call a game off a monitor
requires an announcer to rethink
years of muscle memory.
“In the stadium, you see contact, and you can immediately
react. But on the monitor, you
would have to wait two beats,” he
said. “You fight every instinct to
say something because you have
to sit there in silence and wait for
the next frame because you can’t
be wrong. And two seconds can
feel like an eternity.”
At the park, Anderson would
normally look at outfielders to
help gauge a flyball, for example.
“My eyes can travel 300 feet in a
split second,” he said. “But on the
monitor, batted balls can look like
a foul ball. You can also use your
ears at the park, how the ball
sounds off the bat. That’s one
thing I really lost — how it sounded and how the player reacts
when he hits.”
Anderson, who also calls basketball games, said baseball is the
most difficult sport to do off a
monitor because of the flight of
the ball off the bat. “The ball
could go anywhere,” he said. “It’s
not just moving toward a basket.”
Steve Berthiaume, the Arizona
Diamondbacks’ TV play-by-play
man, said he uses the flags in the
stadium to talk about the wind
and is constantly watching players’ body language to offer clues

about how they are feeling. He
also emphasized that a threeplus-hour baseball telecast needs
to offer storytelling.
“There’s a lot of time to fill,” he
said. “So to feel that connectivity
with the team is so important.
You’re supposed to introduce
viewers and listeners to the team
on the field, to the people playing
for your team. And being on the
plane, in the hotels, in the locker
room really helps that.”
There is also an element of fun
in the job.
“Who wouldn’t want to spend a
beautiful day at the ballpark?”
Berthiaume asked.
For most teams, travel became
less of an issue last year. Vaccine
doses were widely available, and
going on the road was safer than
during the 2020 season, when
everything was remote. Most announcers remained grounded,
but Berthiaume described a sense
of desperation among some.
Some radio folks, he was told,
drove to away cities.
“There would be rumors coming through the press box,” he
said. “ ‘Did you hear so-and-so
went here or so-and-so was driving there?’ We were all feeling it.”
The pandemic also opened the
door for production crews to stay
home. For much of sports TV
history, there was one way to
produce a game: a production
truck parked on-site at an away
venue, staffed with a producer, a
director and perhaps other crew.
The picture and sound were sent
via cable wires back to a studio
and then disseminated to viewers.
During the pandemic, those
capabilities were forced to go
virtual, and most productions got
by. Now networks are continuing
to use some of those less costly
approaches, including cloud production, which sends the picture

via the Internet instead of cable.
That allows a network to keep the
entire production team at home
even if it still sends announcers.
The Diamondbacks, for instance,
sent announcers and a production team to Washington this past
week but will keep the production team home for their next
road trip.
That production technology,
while improving all the time, is
far from perfect. The Angels tried
to send a feed from Texas to
California to New Jersey back to
California before it went out to
viewers with announcer commentary.
One MASN production staffer,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because the person
was not authorized to speak publicly, said the issues MASN has
experienced show the limits of
the Internet feed.
“I liked the old way — everyone
was there,” the person said. “It’s a
concern for the on-air product
because the tech we’re trying to
use isn’t bulletproof. It’s still immature.”
How much it actually saves
networks is unclear. Some production workers said cloud production offered significant savings for networks. But Ed Desser,
a longtime sports media consultant who has worked closely with
regional sports networks and
teams, said a network still has to
pay most of the people on a
telecast to do their jobs. The
average cost of production for
one game in the pre-coronavirus
world was around $50,000, Desser said.
But the savings for just keeping
announcers at home were fairly
minimal, he believed, because
networks probably were saving
only on some travel and meals.
And many announcers already
travel on team charters.

GOLF ROUNDUP

Cantlay, Schau≠ele set Zurich records, grow lead
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Patrick Cantlay and Xander
Schauffele played the back nine in
8-under-par 28 and shot a 12-under 60 in best-ball play Saturday to
shatter the Zurich Classic threeround record at 29 under and
stretch their lead to five strokes in
Avondale, La.
Cantlay and Schauffele broke
the 54-hole mark of 23 under. Jonas Blixt-Cameron Smith and
Kevin Kisner-Scott Brown set the
72-hole mark of 27 under in 2017,
the first-year of the team format at
TPC Louisiana. The final round
will be alternate shot.
Cantlay and Schauffele opened
with a tournament-record 59 in
best-ball play Thursday and had a
68 in alternate shot to maintain a
one-stroke lead.
“We’re going to try and do exactly what we did on Friday, which is
sort of plot along, play our games,
leave each other in good spots and
try and hole some putts,”
Schauffele said. “It’s the third
quarter. We finished a really good
. . . three quarters here, and we
have one more to go.”
The South African tandem of
Garrick Higgo and Branden Grace

were second at 24 under after a 63.
They bogeyed the par-4 12th.
“Everything could change in
one hole tomorrow,” said Grace,
who said he considered not playing because it was his son’s birthday. “I thought with [Higgo] being
a lefty, some of these holes would
suit him really well, and some of
the other holes would suit me really well.”
Sam Burns, the local favorite
who played at LSU, and Billy
Horschel were 23 under after a 63.
They bogeyed the difficult par-3
ninth hole, then shot a 5-under 31
on the back nine.
Australians Jason Day and Jason Scrivener (63) and Aaron Rai
and David Lipsky (65) also were
23 under.
The father-son team of Jay and
Bill Haas was 12 under after a 68.
At 68 years 4 months 20 days, Jay
Haas, making his 799th official
start, is the oldest player to make a
PGA Tour cut.
Cantlay and Schauffele, who
trailed briefly during the round,
made just one birdie in the first
four holes. They eagled the par-5
seventh and began the back nine
with four consecutive birdies.
After making par at the par-4

14th, Cantlay and Schauffele birdied the final four holes.
l LPGA TOUR: Nasa Hataoka
took advantage of Jin Young Ko’s
late meltdown to take a fourstroke lead into the final round of
the LA Open.
Tied for the lead after a birdie
on the par-5 15th, the top-ranked
Ko bogeyed the par-4 16th and
made a quadruple-bogey 8 on the
17th after failing twice to get the
ball out of the deep barranca.
Hataoka birdied the 16th and
parred the final two holes for a
4-under 67 and 11-under 202 total
at breezy Wilshire Country Club in
Los Angeles.
“During yesterday’s round,
something clicked inside me, and I
was able to bring that to today’s
round, too,” Hataoka said. “I think
that really helped me today.”
Hannah Green of Australia was
second after a 69. Ko shot a 72 to
fall into a tie for third with fellow
South Korean players Inbee Park
(68) and Haeji Kang (69).
l PGA

TOUR CHAMPIONS:

Steven Alker moved into position
for his second straight tour win,
shooting a 5-under 66 in windy
conditions to take a two-stroke
lead in the ClubCorp Classic.

The winner three weeks ago in
the Rapiscan Systems Classic in
Mississippi, Alker played the four
par-5 holes in 4 under with an
eagle on No. 3 and birdies on
Nos. 10 and 18. The 50-year-old
New Zealander finished with an
8-under 134 total at Las Colinas
Country Club in Irving, Tex.
“It was a little bit topsy-turvy,
actually,” Aljer said. “I struggled in
the middle a little bit today, but my
short game held me in there. Made
some nice putts, good par saves.”
First-round leader Jerry Kelly
(70) and Lee Janzen (68) were tied
for second. Finishing on the back
nine, Janzen birdied Nos. 2 and 3
to get to 8 under, then bogeyed the
fourth and sixth.
l DP WORLD TOUR: Bad
weather forced organizers to suspend the third round of the ISPS
Handa Championship in La Pineda, Spain.
Organizers said the third round
would restart at 8 a.m. local time
Sunday. The final round would not
start until 11:30 a.m.
Scott Jamieson led the tournament, though he had completed
just five holes of the third round.
He held a one-shot lead over Aaron Cockerill.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24 , 2022

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THE WASHINGTON POST

EZ

D3

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baseball

Injuries continue to rise
in the Nationals’ bullpen
Abbreviated spring camp
could be factor in some
early-season ailments
BY

MITCHELL LAYTON/GETTY IMAGES

Washington second baseman César Hernández tags out San Francisco’s Joc Pederson, who was picked off base to end the first inning.

Nats are still trying to find their o≠ense
NATIONALS FROM D1

see if we can get two cracks at
them,” Martinez said. “He hit a
couple balls hard today, so we’ll
see what happens moving forward.”
Against left-hander Alex Wood,
Thomas struck out in his first two
at-bats, on a low 93.7-mph sinker
in the first inning and on an even
lower 85.8-mph slider in the third
that looked outside of the zone but
was ruled a strike. The fifth inning
proved to be a productive one for
Thomas and some of the Nationals’ other young bats against the
southpaw. With Washington trailing 5-0, backup catcher Riley Adams hit his first home run of the
season to spark a two-out rally.
“I was honestly looking for the
ball out, with two strikes, just
trying to put a good swing on the
ball,” Adams said. “It felt good to
finally barrel it.”
Victor Robles followed the
home run with a two-out double
— his fifth hit in the past seven
games — before Thomas got a
third shot at Wood and smoked a
104.7-mph single to drive Robles
in.
Thomas isn’t an unfamiliar
sight in the leadoff spot for the
Nationals — he batted first in 39 of
the 42 games in which he was in
the starting lineup for Washington a year ago, including the final
35. He was moved down in the
order this season, hitting anywhere between fifth and eighth.
Hernández had led off in every
game this season, but Martinez
felt he was putting too much pressure on himself to produce in
front of Soto — the Nationals
second baseman was hitting .217
with a .250 on-base percentage
entering Saturday; the major
league average OBP is .307.
Martinez said he liked what he
saw from both; Hernández sin-

gled twice, and Thomas finished
with the RBI single. But the Nationals had only seven hits, and
the top four batters in the lineup
— including Lucius Fox, who replaced an injured Josh Bell —
went a combined 1 for 15. The
Nationals have scored three runs
or fewer in all but one game of the
homestand.
“If we continue to do what
we’re doing in the bottom part of
our lineup, we’re getting on base, I
like that,” Martinez said. “Just a
matter of time before the whole
lineup starts clicking [and] we
start scoring runs again.”
Here’s what else to know from
the Nationals’ loss:
Bell exits another game
Bell left Saturday’s game at the
end of the second inning after
drawing a walk earlier in the
frame. Martinez said after the
game that Bell had right hamstring tightness and was waiting
for the results of an MRI exam.
This injury isn’t related to the
tightness in his left knee that
forced Bell to exit the game in the
fourth inning Wednesday.
Sanchez has uneven outing
Aaron Sanchez started as expected after long reliever Paolo
Espino pitched Friday night. Sanchez was called up after three
starts with Class AAA Rochester,
where he went 1-0 with a
3.60 ERA.
Sanchez looked shaky in the
first inning against the team he
played for last season, allowing
three hits and a run. He settled in
and sat down the next nine hitters
he faced, but he ran into trouble
again in the fifth when he allowed
back-to-back hits. An ensuing sacrifice fly by Luis González extended the Giants’ lead to two, and
when Curt Casali singled to drive
in another run, Sanchez’s day was

NATIO NA L S O N DEC K

Giants 5, Nationals 2
GIANTS
AB
Yastrzemski cf ...............2
Slater ph-cf-rf ................2
Belt 1b ............................4
Ruf dh.............................3
Pederson lf .....................4
Dubón cf .........................0
Crawford ss ....................4
Flores 3b.........................4
Estrada 2b ......................4
González rf-lf .................3
Casali c ...........................4
TOTALS
34

R H
0 1
1 1
0 0
1 0
0 2
0 0
0 1
1 2
1 1
0 1
1 1
5 10

BI BB SO AVG
0 0 0 .267
0 1 1 .192
0 0 2 .220
1 1 0 .167
1 0 0 .317
0 0 0 .158
1 0 0 .245
0 0 0 .250
0 0 0 .255
1 0 0 .250
1 0 2 .158
5 2 5
—

NATIONALS
AB
Thomas lf .......................4
Soto rf ............................4
Cruz dh ...........................4
Bell 1b ............................0
Fox 3b .............................3
Franco 3b-1b ..................4
C.Hernandez 2b ..............4
Escobar ss ......................4
Adams c..........................3
Ruiz ph ...........................1
Robles cf.........................2
TOTALS
33

R
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
2

BI BB SO AVG
1 0 2 .196
0 0 2 .259
0 0 2 .177
0 1 0 .345
0 0 1 .000
0 0 0 .279
0 0 0 .233
0 0 1 .143
1 0 1 .143
0 0 0 .240
0 0 0 .125
2 1 9
—

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SAN FRAN. .............
WASHINGTON........

040
020

done.
He allowed four runs in 41/3
innings, throwing only 64 pitches.
Reliever Patrick Murphy was
designated for assignment Saturday morning to create a spot for
Sanchez.
Murphy struggled in six appearances. He had an 6.35 ERA
and couldn’t consistently throw
strikes, walking eight batters
while striking out only four.

E: Flores (3). LOB: San Francisco 6, Washington 6. 2B:
Flores (4), Robles (2). HR: Adams (1), off Wood. RBI:
Crawford (8), González (1), Casali (1), Ruf (3), Pederson (5), Adams (2), Thomas (6). SB: Estrada (3). CS:
Pederson (1). SF: González. S: Robles.
GIANTS
IP
H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Wood ...........................5 4 2 2 1 5 77 2.51
Leone ...........................1 2 0 0 0 0 12 1.69
Brebbia ........................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 1.50
T.Rogers ......................1 0 0 0 0 2 15 2.35
Doval ...........................1 1 0 0 0 1 16 3.68

vs. San Francisco Giants
Today

1:35 MASN

vs. Miami Marlins
Tuesday

7:05 MASN2

Wednesday

7:05 MASN2

Thursday

1:05 MASN2

at San Francisco Giants
Friday

10:15 Apple TV Plus

Saturday

4:05 MASN2

May 1

4:05 MASN2

Harris in town to see doctors
Reliever Will Harris strolled
into the Nationals’ clubhouse for
the first time this season, chatting
with teammates and coaches Saturday morning.
Harris is working his way back
from surgery in May for thoracic
outlet syndrome; during spring
training, Harris admitted that he
still had to work through some
lingering issues before we would
be ready to pitch again.
Harris came to town for a visit
with team doctors, but Martinez
said before the game that Harris
will head back to Florida and is
expected to start throwing
around May 1.

100
000

NATIONALS
IP
Sanchez .................... 41/3
Clay ............................. 2/3
Cishek ..........................1
Perez............................1
Rainey..........................1
Finnegan ......................1

H
6
2
2
0
0
0

H
1
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
1
0
1
7

000 —
000 —

5 10
2 7

1
0

R ER BB SO NP ERA
4 4 1 1 64 8.31
1 1 0 0 13 3.38
0 0 1 2 27 4.50
0 0 0 0
8 3.38
0 0 0 0 12 0.00
0 0 0 2 16 4.05

WP: Wood (2-0); LP: Sanchez (0-1); S: Doval (3). Inherited runners-scored: Clay 1-1. HBP: Clay (Belt). T: 2:48.
A: 27,799 (41,339).

HOW THEY SCORED
GIANTS FIRST
Mike Yastrzemski singles. Brandon Belt grounds out.
Mike Yastrzemski out at second. Darin Ruf walks. Joc
Pederson singles. Darin Ruf to third. Brandon Crawford
singles, Joc Pederson to second, Darin Ruf scores.
Giants 1, Nationals 0
GIANTS FIFTH
Wilmer Flores doubles. Thairo Estrada singles. Wilmer
Flores to third. Luis Gonzalez out on a sacrifice fly,
Wilmer Flores scores. Curt Casali singles, Thairo Estrada scores. Austin Slater pinch-hitting for Mike Yastrzemski. Austin Slater singles. Curt Casali to second.
Brandon Belt hit by pitch. Austin Slater to second. Curt
Casali to third. Darin Ruf reaches on a fielder’s choice,
Brandon Belt out at second, Austin Slater to third, Curt
Casali scores. Joc Pederson singles, Darin Ruf to second, Austin Slater scores. Brandon Crawford grounds
out.
Giants 5, Nationals 0
NATIONALS FIFTH
Cesar Hernandez grounds out. Alcides Escobar flies out.
Riley Adams homers. Victor Robles doubles. Lane
Thomas singles, Victor Robles scores. Juan Soto called
out on strikes.
Giants 5, Nationals 2

J ESSE D OUGHERTY

Sean Doolittle does not think
he has a left elbow sprain because of a shortened spring training. Mason Thompson, similarly,
does not think the abbreviated
camp — shaved from six weeks to
three after the 99-day lockout
this winter — led to biceps tendinitis that put him on the injured
list with Doolittle. But Hunter
Harvey, a third Washington Nationals reliever on the shelf, does
think his hectic March played a
role in his early season soreness.
Every arm and pitcher is different. But it’s hard not to wonder how another schedule shift is
affecting the Nationals’ bangedup staff.
“When I went through this as a
player in ’95, a lot of these
pitchers, April was pretty strenuous,” Nationals Manager Dave
Martinez said Thursday, nodding
to a previous work stoppage. “I
don’t know if it’s anything related to the short spring training,
but you’ve got to look at the short
spring training, trying to ramp
these guys up. . . . This is the
reason we tried to have so many
different options in case something like this would happen.”
Doolittle, Thompson and Harvey are not the Nationals’ only
injured players. They are just the
pitchers who made it through
spring training healthy and then
landed on the 10-day injured list.
Otherwise, starter Aníbal Sánchez has been out since his neck
became sore on the flight north
from West Palm Beach, Fla.;
starter Stephen Strasburg is still
working his way back from the
thoracic outlet surgery he underwent last summer; starter Joe
Ross is recovering from having a
bone spur removed from his
elbow March 7; reliever Will
Harris is sidelined after undergoing right pectoral surgery in
March; Gerardo Carrillo, a minor
league reliever who’s on the 40man roster, is now on the IL with
shoulder discomfort; utility man
Ehire Adrianza has a right quadriceps strain; and third baseman
Carter Kieboom has a flexor mass
strain in his throwing elbow.
The absences have piled up
quickly. In Doolittle’s case, he
tried to push through some lingering soreness and paid for it.
Thompson, given downtime to
study his mechanics, feels he
could improve his durability by
raising his release point and
getting the ball a bit farther away
from his ear before firing. And
Harvey, a hard thrower like
Thompson, said his setback felt
more like a cramp than serious
pain, making him confident he
will throw again soon. Harvey is
on the IL with a right pronator
strain.
A little more than two weeks
into the season, the Nationals
have a 10-man bullpen of Tanner
Rainey, Kyle Finnegan, Steve
Cishek, Andrés Machado, Victor
Arano, Paolo Espino, Austin
Voth, Sam Clay, Francisco Pérez

and Erasmo Ramírez. On Saturday morning, right-hander Patrick Murphy was designated for
assignment to make room for
spot starter Aaron Sanchez. Yet
they still have so many relievers,
hurt or healthy, that Ramírez’s
locker is mixed in with those of
outfielders and other position
players. This was not the plan.
“The biggest thing it affected
was when I got DFA’d [by the San
Francisco Giants in March], I had
a week of figuring out where I
was going to throw the next day,”
Harvey, 27, said Friday afternoon.
“So I sat in Arizona for seven days
trying to find somewhere every
day to play catch. That’s obviously tough to do when you’re from
North Carolina and not having a
whole lot. . . .
“I just think that one week, I
wouldn’t really say it put me
behind, but it just kind of made it
tough where I felt like I wasn’t in
great shape going out there trying to find somebody. I played
catch with my wife one day,
which is not the same.”
Harvey was claimed off waivers by the Nationals on March 21.
He appeared in one official exhibition in West Palm Beach,
though he did log additional
innings against teammates. Over
and over, Martinez told reporters
he wanted to be careful because
of Harvey’s extensive injury history. The caution already has
been justified.
In 2013, the Baltimore Orioles
drafted Harvey with the
22nd pick. Since then, he has had
trouble staying on the mound,
stunting his ability to thrive with
a high-90s fastball and slider.
When Doolittle went to the IL,
Martinez promised to use Harvey
in more high-leverage situations.
Two days later, Harvey pitched a
scoreless inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks, throwing
12 pitches, then admitted that his
arm felt off.
A younger self would have
tried to push through it. And as a
whole, the Nationals’ bullpen is
full of relievers who are trying to
either make it or prove themselves again. Doolittle, 35, signed
back with Washington for one
year and $1.5 million. Thompson,
24, arrived in the Daniel Hudson
trade in July and wants to put
himself in the future blueprints.
Harvey is out to show he’s not
just a former first-rounder who
can’t stay healthy — though, of
course, that’s tough to do from
the injured list.
“You have to worry about your
arm first, even if you do want to
be on the mound and impressing,” Thompson said Thursday.
“As hard as that can be, the main
thing is that you can’t be stupid.”
“I’ve pitched with stuff like
this before, and I’ll start doing
something different trying to
protect it, and then I’ll end up
blowing something out,” Harvey
explained. “So I was just like, ‘If
there’s something we can do to go
ahead and knock it out and then
be a hundred percent again and
just get right back in there.’ . . .
And they were like: ‘Yeah, let’s do
that. Let’s just play it and be
smarter.’
“It’s only two weeks into the
season. So we’re just going to get
it knocked out and then go from
there.”

CANDACE BUCKNER

Writing is on the wall for the game’s unwritten rules
BUCKNER FROM D1

into decades ago, when Martinez
was praised by mentor Joe
Maddon for playing the right way.
“I’ve been doing this for a very
long time, but the game’s
changed. So obviously [the
Giants] do things differently,”
Martinez said.
He was referring to the way
San Francisco recently flaunted
baseball’s unspoken rules. Sigh,
those rules.
Next to grandpa’s hooch and a
Bing Crosby record rest the
leather-bound volumes of
baseball’s imaginary rules: hit a
home run, then run robotically
around the bases. If your team is
up big late in the game and you
get a pitch to hit on a 3-0 count,
you better keep that bat on your
shoulder. And as an additional
article to that last rule, once the
lead swells past the eighth inning,
just stop competing all together.
The strange thing about these
books that govern a game so
rigidly and can fill shelves upon
shelves? The pages are blank. No
one has taken the time to write
down these rules. If you know,
you know. And yet if teams or
players decide to play by their

own rules — as the Giants did in
the ninth inning Friday night
when infielder Thairo Estrada
aggressively tried to add another
run to their 7-1 lead — the
offended parties have the right to
fuss and howl and act as if they
just dissed their mama.
That particular rule is
somewhere in the empty book,
too.
Martinez knows the game is
changing. But because these rules
live on, it’s not changing quickly
enough. Even as baseball tries to
tap one foot in 2022 by marketing
shape-shifting stars such as
Shohei Ohtani or future MVPs
such as Juan Soto, the game has
firmly planted the other in the
’90s — the 1890s.
Ever watch ballplayers before a
game? Beyond the ropes and
seemingly a fantasy world away,
their leisure is enviable. They
never look to be in a rush. They
take it easy and perform the same
warmup routines they once did as
Kiwanis club little leaguers. They
make boredom look glorious.
Yet during the actual game,
under the warmth of a lazy and
bright sun, these boys of summer
can sometimes grow uptight,
chaining themselves to last

century’s rules and sapping the
thrill out of competition.
For all his years in the majors,
Alcides Escobar is considered a
veteran infielder. But in real life,
he is just 35 years old. He should
never be confused with a grumpy
old man, but there he was Friday
night yelling toward the Giants’
dugout after Estrada attempted
to play the game until the final
out. Estrada was thrown out,
which should have been justice
enough, but that didn’t appease
Escobar. He had to defend the
rules.
After the game, Martinez
shared only terse phrases about
Estrada’s frisky play. But by the
next morning, with tempers
cooled down, he explained his
philosophy on playing with a big
lead late in the game.
“We won’t try to run up the
score. I’ll just say that. I don’t
really believe in that. But you
know, it’s not a rule. We all
understand that. But the guys
that played the game long enough
— and I know their veteran
players [over] there very well; I
respect them a lot,” Martinez said
as a smile sneaked through. “You
might want to ask them about it.”
Five years ago, when Martinez

buttoned up a Nationals jersey
over a dress shirt and red necktie
as the new manager, he was
hailed for his old-school
mentality. He even namedropped the old-timers he
learned from, taking pride in
those lessons.
“I had some really good
teachers back then,” Martinez
said in 2017. “I learned how to
play the game the right way.”
Those teachers probably gave
him his tattered opus of the rules.
But nowhere in that book does it
tell a baseball team to stop hitting
at all costs, because the Nationals
sure didn’t do so during their July
2018 rout of the New York Mets.
They won a laugher, 25-4, and
didn’t pity the Mets when
infielder Jose Reyes took the
mound. Instead they showed
respect: When Reyes threw big,
fat juicy steaks over the plate, the
Nats ate. When a professional is
on the mound, you don’t treat
him like a junior varsity reject.
You keep hitting.
Also, the book of unwritten
rules says nothing of the sort that
comebacks should be off limits.
While a comeback like the
Nationals needed Friday rarely
happens, when it does, the

NICK WASS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nationals infielder Alcides Escobar castigated the Giants’ dugout
for an alleged violation of baseball’s unwritten rules Friday night.

achievement can be a historical
footnote inside a championship
season. No one who was around
Nationals Park on Sept. 3, 2019,
will ever forget that night, when
Washington scored seven runs in
the ninth to beat the New York
Mets, 11-10. Maybe the Mets
should have kept piling on in the
top of that frame to keep the
Nationals from making the
biggest comeback in the ninth
inning or later in franchise
history. Or maybe they were too
busy following the rules.
There was no magic like that
here for the Nationals on
Saturday when the Giants took

the second game of the series, 5-2.
The final score was sensible, so
thankfully, no rules were broken.
Instead, thousands of fans
showed up, allowed themselves to
be drenched by the sun, chilled
out and had a good time cheering
on their 6-11 baseball team.
Surely, for many of those fans
who fell in love with the game
when they were kids, the allure of
baseball can be a wink and nod
toward a simpler era. But for
those of us in the bleachers who
have evolved and keep waiting on
progress, baseball remains
stunted by the governance of
rules that make little sense.

D4

EZ

THE WASHINGTON POST

M2

. SUNDAY,

APRIL 24 , 2022

Baseball
National League

American League

EAST

W

L PCT GB L10 STR

CENTRAL

W

L PCT GB L10 STR

WEST

W

L PCT GB L10 STR

EAST

W

L PCT GB L10 STR

CENTRAL

W

L PCT GB L10 STR

WEST

W

L PCT GB L10 STR

x-New York

11

4 .733

St. Louis

9

4 .692

— 7-3 W-2

x-Los Angeles

10

3 .769

— 9-1 W-2

Toronto

10

5 .667

— 7-3 W-4

Cleveland

7

7 .500

— 5-5 L-2

x-Los Angeles

8

6 .571

— 7-3 L-1

1 7-3 W-2

New York

9

6 .600

1 6-4 W-2

Minnesota

7

8 .467

1/
2

5-5 W-3

x-Seattle

8

6 .571

— 6-4 W-1

— 8-2 W-2

Atlanta

7

9 .438 41/2 4-6 L-1

Milwaukee

9

6 .600

1 7-3 W-1

San Francisco 10

5 .667

Miami

6

8 .429 41/2 5-5 W-1

Chicago

7

8 .467

3 4-6 W-1

Colorado

9

5 .643 11/2 6-4 W-1

Tampa Bay

8

7 .533

2 4-6 W-1

Chicago

6

8 .429

1 3-7 L-6

Oakland

8

8 .500

1 5-5 L-2

Philadelphia

6

9 .400

5 3-7 L-1

Pittsburgh

7

8 .467

3 5-5 L-1

x-San Diego

9

6 .600

Boston

7

8 .467

3 5-5 L-1

Detroit

6

8 .429

1 4-6 L-1

Houston

6

8 .429

2 3-7 L-4

Washington

6 11 .353

6 3-7 L-4

Cincinnati

2 13 .133

8 0-10 L-11

x-Arizona

5

9 .357 51/2 4-6 L-1

x-Baltimore

5

9 .357 41/2 4-6 W-1

x-Kansas City

5

7 .417

1 3-7 L-2

Texas

5

9 .357

3 4-6 W-3

2 5-5 L-1
x-Late game

NO TE S
PERSONNEL DEPT.

White Sox: OF Eloy
Jiménez was carted off
after injuring his
hamstring in the second
inning of Chicago’s 9-2
loss at Minnesota.
BY THE NUMBERS

7

Players in major league
history with 500 home
runs and 3,000 hits after
Miguel Cabrera joined the
3,000-hit club Saturday.
He now has 502 home
runs and 3,002 hits.

17

Errors committed by the
White Sox this season to
lead the majors.

11

Consecutive losses for the
Reds, the franchise’s
longest skid since 2016.
QUOTABLE

“I think Myles
was sticking up
for his teammate
[Steven Kwan].
The kid’s out
there bleeding,
and we’re
checking him for
concussion, and I
think emotions
probably got a
little out of
control.”
— Cleveland Manager
Terry Francona on
Guardians center fielder
Myles Straw, who climbed
the fence in left field to
confront a fan in the ninth
inning of a 6-5 loss at
Yankee Stadium.
STAR OF THE DAY

Alfonso Rivas, Cubs
The first baseman went
3 for 6 with a home run
and five RBI in Chicago’s
demolition of Pittsburgh.
TODAY’S GAME
TO WATCH

Dodgers at Padres,
4 p.m., MLB Network
Three-time Cy Young
Award winner Clayton
Kershaw (2-0, 3.00 ERA)
takes the hill for Los
Angeles against fellow
lefty Sean Manaea (2-1,
1.42) at Petco Park.
AL leaders
Entering Saturday’s games.

BATTING
Lowe, Tex ........................................ .412
Kwan, Cle ......................................... .395
Franco, TB ........................................ .393
Ramírez, Cle .................................... .392
Bogaerts, Bos .................................. .385
Benintendi, KC ................................. .372
Crawford, Sea .................................. .333
Guerrero Jr., Tor .............................. .320
Lopez, KC ......................................... .316

HOME RUNS
Perez, KC .............................................. 5
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................... 5
Rizzo, NY .............................................. 4
Ramírez, Cle ......................................... 4
14 tied ................................................... 3

RBI
Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 20
Brown, Oak ......................................... 12
France, Sea ......................................... 12
Marsh, LA ........................................... 11
Mercado, Cle ....................................... 11
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 11
Murphy, Oak ....................................... 11

ERA
Gilbert, Sea ...................................... 0.54
Kopech, Chi ...................................... 0.64
Jefferies, Oak .................................. 1.17
Zimmermann, Bal ............................ 1.20
Plesac, Cle ........................................ 1.53
Ryan, Min ......................................... 1.69
Blackburn, Oak ................................ 1.80
Wacha, Bos ...................................... 1.88
Verlander, Hou ................................ 1.90
Bieber, Cle ....................................... 2.25
Greinke, KC ...................................... 2.25

SAVES
Romano, Tor ......................................... 8
Chapman, NY ........................................ 4
Hendriks, Chi ........................................ 4
López, Bal ............................................. 3
Pressly, Hou ......................................... 3
Soto, Det ............................................... 3

STRIKEOUTS
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 26
McClanahan, TB .................................. 24
Gausman, Tor ..................................... 22
Verlander, Hou ................................... 20
Cease, Chi ........................................... 19
Eovaldi, Bos ........................................ 19
King, NY .............................................. 18
Cortes Jr., NY ..................................... 17
Montas, Oak ....................................... 17

x-Late game

GAME 1

GAME 2

Tigers 13, Rockies 0

Rockies 3, Tigers 2

Miguel Cabrera needed
only one at-bat to deliver
his long-awaited 3,000th
career hit, quickly reaching
the mark as Detroit routed
Colorado in the opener of a
day-night doubleheader.
Cabrera became the
33rd player, and the first
born in Venezuela, to
achieve the feat when he
grounded a first-inning single into right field.
ROCKIES
AB
Joe dh .................4
Grichuk rf............3
Bryant lf .............3
Hilliard lf.............1
Cron 1b................4
Díaz c ..................4
McMahon 3b.......3
Rodgers 2b..........4
Iglesias ss...........2
Trejo ph-ss..........1
Daza cf................3
TOTALS
32

R
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 0 1 .340
2 0 1 1 .364
0 0 0 2 .326
1 0 0 0 .316
0 0 0 3 .308
0 0 0 2 .268
1 0 1 1 .233
0 0 0 0 .087
1 0 0 0 .300
0 0 0 0 .385
1 0 0 0 .467
7 0 2 10 —

TIGERS
AB
Grossman rf........4
Meadows lf.........4
Cabrera dh ..........4
Haase pr-dh ........1
Candelario 3b......4
Schoop 2b ...........5
Torkelson 1b.......5
H.Castro ss .........5
Barnhart c...........5
Baddoo cf............5
TOTALS
42

R
2
3
1
0
0
1
2
2
0
2
13

H BI BB SO AVG
3 1 1 1 .286
2 2 1 0 .325
2 2 0 0 .326
1 0 0 0 .192
1 2 1 1 .163
2 2 0 0 .140
2 3 0 2 .231
4 0 0 0 .333
2 0 0 2 .217
1 1 0 1 .129
20 13 3 7 —

Austin Gomber tossed
six scoreless innings as
Colorado spoiled the major
league pitching debut of
Beau Brieske with a victory
over Detroit in the nightcap
of their doubleheader.
Briese allowed three hits
in five innings, but two
were homers to Connor
Joe and Charlie Blackmon.

TIGERS
IP
Skubal.................. 6
Peralta................. 1
De Jesus .............. 2

H
5
1
1

R ER BB SO ERA
0 0 0 6 2.30
0 0 0 1 0.00
0 0 2 3 0.00

WP: Skubal (1-1); LP: Senzatela (1-1).
Inherited runners-scored: Gilbreath 2-0,
Chacín 3-0. T: 3:02. A: 37,566 (41,083).

Yankees 5,
Guardians 4

CARLOS OSORIO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Legends club initiate

Tigers DH Miguel Cabrera became the 33rd player in major league history and the first Venezuelan-born
player to reach 3,000 hits with a single in his first at-bat in Detroit’s 13-0 rout of Colorado on Saturday.

GUARDIANS AB
Straw cf ..............4
Kwan lf ...............4
Ramírez 3b .........4
Reyes dh .............4
Rosario ss...........2
Naylor 1b ............3
Clement 2b .........3
Mercado rf ..........3
Hedges c .............3
TOTALS
30

R
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
1
4

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 0 1 .296
0 0 0 2 .357
0 0 0 1 .364
0 0 0 1 .182
0 0 2 1 .250
2 2 0 0 .476
0 0 0 0 .241
0 0 0 1 .213
1 2 0 2 .125
4 4 2 9 —

YANKEES
AB
LeMahieu 2b .......4
Judge rf ..............4
Rizzo 1b ..............4
Stanton dh..........4
Donaldson 3b......2
Locastro pr .........0
Hicks cf ...............3
Gallo lf ................3
Kiner-Falefa ss ...4
Higashioka c .......2
Torres ph ............1
TOTALS
31

R
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
5

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 0 0 .298
0 0 0 0 .259
1 0 0 0 .235
0 0 0 1 .203
1 1 2 0 .196
0 0 0 0 .000
1 0 1 2 .275
1 0 1 1 .136
2 2 0 1 .298
1 1 0 1 .121
1 1 0 0 .195
9 5 4 6 —

CLEVELAND... 000 020 020 — 4 4 0
NEW YORK .... 000 020 102 — 5 9 0

Alfonso Rivas had three
hits and five RBI, and Chicago stopped a four-game
slide by pounding Pittsburgh.
Rivas, who was recalled
Friday from Class AAA
Iowa, capped the Cubs’
eight-run second with a
three-run homer. He
tacked on RBI singles in
the fourth and fifth.
PIRATES
AB
Vogelbach dh ......3
Marisnick cf........1
Reynolds cf .........3
Alford cf-rf .........1
Chavis 3b ............4
Tsutsugo 1b........3
Castillo rf-p ........3
Gamel lf ..............3
Newman ss.........3
Tucker 2b ............3
Knapp c ...............3
TOTALS
30

R
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 0 0 .311
0 0 0 1 .231
0 0 0 1 .200
1 0 0 0 .250
0 0 0 1 .353
0 0 0 0 .182
0 0 0 1 .250
0 0 0 0 .220
0 0 0 0 .190
1 0 0 1 .171
0 0 0 0 .071
3 0 0 5 —

CUBS
AB
Ortega dh .............6
Suzuki rf ...............4
Hermosillo ph-rf...2
Contreras c ...........5
Happ lf..................6
Wisdom 3b ...........4
Villar 2b ................5
Heyward cf ...........5
Rivas 1b................6
Hoerner ss............5
TOTALS
48

R H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 0 0 1 .176
3 3 1 0 0 .372
1 1 0 0 0 .125
3 3 3 1 1 .261
3 3 2 0 0 .333
2 1 1 2 1 .250
3 2 3 1 0 .350
3 2 1 0 0 .276
1 3 5 0 0 .455
1 4 3 0 0 .327
21 23 19 4 3 —

Two outs when winning run scored.
LOB: Cleveland 1, New York 5. 2B: Kiner-Falefa (4). HR: Naylor (1), off Cortes
Jr.; Hedges (1), off Green; Donaldson
(2), off Quantrill.
GUARDIANS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Quantrill ........... 61/3 6 3 3 3 2 3.94
De Los Santos .... 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Shaw .................. 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 2.70
Sandlin ............... 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 6.35
Clase................... 2/3 2 2 2 1 1 7.71

PITTSBURGH . 000 000 000 — 0 3 2
CHICAGO........ 180 250 14X — 21 23 0

YANKEES
IP
Cortes Jr........... 61/3
Holmes ............... 2/3
Green................... 1
Castro.................. 1

CUBS
IP
Hendricks ............ 7
Newcomb ............ 1
Effross................. 1

H
1
0
3
0

R ER BB SO ERA
2 2 2 8 1.15
0 0 0 0 1.17
2 2 0 0 4.91
0 0 0 1 2.57

WP: Castro (1-0); LP: Clase (0-2). Inherited runners-scored: De Los Santos 2-0,
Sandlin 1-0. T: 2:50. A: 39,180 (47,309).

Twins 9, White Sox 2

Byron Buxton and Luis
Arraez each had four hits
and Dylan Bundy lowered
his ERA to 0.59 as Minnesota hammered Chicago.
Buxton hit a solo home
run and Arraez drove in
three runs as the Twins won
their third in a row.
WHITE SOX
AB
Anderson ss ........3
Mendick ss ..........0
Vaughn rf-lf ........4
Abreu 1b..............4
Grandal dh...........3
Jiménez lf ...........1
Sheets rf .............3
Engel cf ...............4
García 2b .............4
McGuire c ............4
Burger 3b ............4
TOTALS
34

R
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 0 0 .302
0 0 1 0 .200
1 0 0 2 .306
1 2 0 1 .208
1 0 1 0 .128
0 0 0 0 .222
1 0 0 2 .265
0 0 0 3 .208
1 0 0 1 .108
1 0 0 1 .217
0 0 0 1 .200
7 2 2 11 —

TWINS
AB
Buxton cf.............4
Garlick lf..............0
Arraez 3b.............5
Correa ss .............2
Celestino ph-cf....1
Polanco 2b...........5
Kepler rf ..............4
Larnach dh...........5
Sanó 1b ...............5
Jeffers c ..............3
Gordon lf-ss ........4
TOTALS
38

R
3
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
3
1
9

H BI BB SO AVG
4 2 0 0 .344
0 0 0 0 .167
4 3 0 0 .364
0 0 2 1 .192
0 0 0 0 .111
1 1 0 1 .200
1 0 1 1 .191
1 2 0 3 .250
0 0 0 3 .068
2 1 1 1 .194
1 0 0 1 .261
14 9 4 11 —

E: Newman 2 (4). LOB: Pittsburgh 3,
Chicago 8. 2B: Vogelbach (2), Suzuki
(3), Contreras (4), Happ (3), Heyward
(1). HR: Rivas (1), off Z.Thompson.
PIRATES
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Z.Thompson ........ 2 9 9 4 2 1 10.8
Yajure ............... 21/3 7 7 7 1 0 14.0
Fletcher ............ 22/3 3 1 1 0 2 6.14
Castillo ................ 1 4 4 4 1 0 36.0
H
2
0
1

R ER BB SO ERA
0 0 0 2 3.98
0 0 0 1 6.00
0 0 0 2 3.60

WP: Hendricks (1-1); LP: Z.Thompson
(0-2). Inherited runners-scored: Fletcher 2-1. HBP: Yajure (Heyward). T: 2:47.
A: 39,917 (41,649).

Rays 3, Red Sox 2 (10)

Kevin Kiermaier capped
Tampa Bay’s three-run
10th inning with a gameending homer as the Rays
beat Boston.
Bobby Dalbec got the
first hit of the game for the
Red Sox when he opened
the 10th with a triple, driving in automatic runner
Jackie Bradley Jr.
RED SOX
AB
Story 2b ..............4
Devers 3b............5
Bogaerts ss ........4
Verdugo lf...........3
Hernández cf ......3
Bradley Jr. rf.......3
Dalbec 1b ............4
Vázquez c............3
Refsnyder dh ......1
Shaw ph-dh ........2
TOTALS
32

R
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
2

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 1 0 .233
0 0 0 2 .266
0 0 0 2 .357
0 0 1 0 .294
0 0 1 0 .172
0 0 1 1 .220
1 1 0 1 .167
0 1 0 0 .206
0 0 1 0 .000
0 0 0 0 .000
2 2 5 6 —

RAYS
AB
B.Lowe 2b ...........3
Franco ss ............4
Arozarena dh ......4
Choi 1b................4
J.Lowe lf .............4
Walls 3b..............4
Kiermaier cf........3
Phillips rf ............3
Zunino c ..............3
TOTALS
32

R
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
3

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 1 1 .196
0 0 0 1 .367
0 0 0 2 .207
0 0 0 3 .314
0 0 0 3 .170
0 0 0 2 .250
1 2 1 1 .152
1 0 0 1 .185
0 0 0 0 .065
3 2 2 14 —

CHICAGO ........ 000 001 010 — 2 7 1
MINNESOTA .. 120 410 10X — 9 14 0

BOSTON ...... 000 000 000
TAMPA BAY 000 000 000

E: McGuire (1). LOB: Chicago 7, Minnesota 10. 2B: Grandal (1), Vaughn (2), Jeffers (2), Buxton (4). HR: Abreu (2), off
Stashak; Jeffers (1), off Velasquez; Buxton (4), off Velasquez.
WHITE SOX
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Velasquez ..........31/3 8 5 5 1 6 6.75
Sousa ...................1/3 2 2 2 2 0 5.68
Crick ...................11/3 1 1 1 1 1 5.06
Severino............... 2 3 1 1 0 3 7.50
Hendriks .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.50

Two outs when winning run scored.
E: Story (2), B.Lowe (3). LOB: Boston 7,
Tampa Bay 3. 2B: B.Lowe (1). 3B: Dalbec
(1). HR: Kiermaier (1), off Robles.
RED SOX
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Whitlock.............. 4 1 0 0 0 7 0.66
Davis ................... 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.86
Crawford ............. 3 1 0 0 0 5 9.00
Danish ................. 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Robles................. 2/3 1 3 0 0 2 0.00

TWINS
IP
Bundy................... 5
Stashak................ 2
Coulombe............. 1
Thielbar................ 1

H
4
1
1
1

R ER BB SO ERA
0 0 0 4 0.59
1 1 0 3 5.79
1 1 2 1 2.08
0 0 0 3 13.5

WP: Bundy (3-0); LP: Velasquez (0-2). Inherited runners-scored: Crick 2-0. HBP:
Crick (Buxton). WP: Hendriks. T: 3:34. A:
16,686 (38,544).

H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 0 0 .333
1 2 0 1 .227
0 0 0 0 .467
0 0 1 0 .306
0 0 0 2 .286
0 0 0 3 .213
0 0 1 3 .273
0 0 1 0 .281
0 0 0 1 .222
1 0 0 1 .375
3 3 3 11 —

TIGERS
AB
Hill cf ..................4
Schoop 2b ...........4
Cabrera dh ..........4
Candelario 3b......4
Haase lf-c ...........3
Torkelson 1b.......3
W.Castro ss-lf ....3
Grossman ph ......0
Garneau c............2
Meadows ph-rf ...2
Cameron rf..........2
H.Castro ph-ss....2
TOTALS
33

R
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
2

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 0 1 .250
1 0 0 1 .148
1 0 0 2 .319
1 0 0 3 .170
0 0 1 0 .172
0 0 1 1 .214
0 0 0 0 .200
0 0 1 0 .286
1 0 0 0 .375
1 2 0 0 .333
0 0 0 1 .000
0 0 0 2 .308
6 2 3 11 —

LOB: Colorado 3, Detroit 7. 3B: Meadows (2). HR: Joe (3), off Brieske; Blackmon (2), off Brieske.
ROCKIES
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Gomber................ 6 4 0 0 0 8 4.20
Stephenson ......... 1 0 0 0 2 1 0.00
Kinley .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Colomé ................ 1 2 2 2 1 1 6.35
TIGERS
IP
Brieske ................ 5
Lange................... 1
Vest ..................... 1
Hutchison............ 2

H
3
0
0
0

R ER BB SO ERA
3 3 2 3 5.40
0 0 0 1 3.18
0 0 0 2 3.18
0 0 1 5 1.93

WP: Gomber (1-1); LP: Brieske (0-1); S:
Colomé (2). T: 2:47. A: 28,635 (41,083).

NL games
GIANTS AT NATIONALS, 1:35
W-L

ERA TEAM

Webb (R)

1-1

2.55

2-1

Gray (R)

2-1

3.14

2-1

MARLINS AT BRAVES, 1:35
Luzardo (L)

0-1

4.82

0-2

Elder (R)

1-1

4.50

1-1

CARDINALS AT REDS, 1:40
Wainwright (R)

2-1

2.81

2-1

Lodolo (L)

0-2

8.00

0-2

PIRATES AT CUBS, 2:20
Brubaker (R)

0-2

7.30

1-2

Steele (L)

1-1

4.50

2-1

DODGERS AT PADRES, 4:10
Kershaw (L)

2-0

3.00

2-0

Manaea (L)

2-1

1.42

2-1

METS AT DIAMONDBACKS, 4:10
Megill (R)

2-0

2.20

3-0

Bumgarner (L)

0-1

1.38

1-2

BREWERS AT PHILLIES, 7:08
Lauer (L)

1-0

3.48

2-0

Nola (R)

1-2

5.52

1-2

NL scores
FRIDAY’S RESULTS

San Francisco 7, at Washington 1
St. Louis 4, at Cincinnati 2
at Atlanta 3, Miami 0
at Philadelphia 4, Milwaukee 2
Pittsburgh 4, at Chicago Cubs 2
L.A. Dodgers 6, at San Diego 1
N.Y. Mets 6, at Arizona 5 (10)

SATURDAY’S RESULTS

San Francisco 5, at Washington 2
at Chicago Cubs 21, Pittsburgh 0
Milwaukee 5, at Philadelphia 3
St. Louis 5, at Cincinnati 0
Miami 9, at Atlanta 7
N.Y. Mets at Arizona, late
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, late

AL games
ORIOLES AT ANGELS, 4:07

Cubs 21, Pirates 0

Isiah Kiner-Falefa and
Gleyber Torres delivered
RBI hits with two outs in
the ninth inning to lift New
York over Cleveland.
Fans pelted Guardians
outfielders with bottles,
cans and debris moments
after Torres’s game-winning hit.

R
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3

COLORADO .... 102 000 000 — 3 3 0
DETROIT ........ 000 000 002 — 2 6 0

COLORADO .... 000 000 000 — 0 7 0
DETROIT ........ 400 104 40X — 13 20 0
LOB: Colorado 7, Detroit 8. 2B: H.Castro
(2). HR: Torkelson (3), off Senzatela.
ROCKIES
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Senzatela ............ 5 10 5 5 0 3 4.73
Blach................... 2/3 5 4 4 1 1 7.36
Gilbreath ............. 1 5 4 4 2 1 32.4
Chacín............... 11/3 0 0 0 0 2 6.75

ROCKIES
AB
Joe 1b .................4
Blackmon rf ........4
Daza cf................0
Bryant lf .............3
Cron dh ...............4
McMahon 3b.......4
Hilliard cf-rf........3
Iglesias ss...........2
Nuñez c ...............3
Trejo 2b...............3
TOTALS
30

TOD AY

RAYS
IP
Feyereisen........... 2
Guerra ................ 2/3
Springs ................ 2
Adam ................ 11/3
Thompson ........... 1
Kittredge ............. 2
Wisler.................. 1

H
0
0
0
0
0
0
2

2— 2 2 1
3— 3 3 1

R ER BB SO ERA
0 0 0 2 0.00
0 0 1 0 3.38
0 0 2 2 0.00
0 0 2 1 1.59
0 0 0 0 0.00
0 0 0 0 1.12
2 1 0 1 2.45

WP: Wisler (1-0); LP: Robles (1-1). Inherited runners-scored: Springs 2-0. T:
3:05. A: 19,137 (25,000).

Rangers 2, Athletics 0

Brad Miller hit a key single in the eighth inning
that drove in two runs after
a replay review initiated by
the umpires to propel Texas to victory in Oakland.
The replay helped the
Rangers clinch their first
series win of the season after dropping their first four.
Texas has won three
straight games after losing
five in a row.
RANGERS
AB
Miller lf...............4
Semien 2b...........4
Seager ss ............3
Garver c ..............4
Lowe 1b ..............4
K.Calhoun rf........3
García cf..............2
W.Calhoun dh .....3
White pr-dh ........0
Ibáñez 3b ............2
Heim ph ..............1
Culberson 3b.......0
TOTALS
30

R
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
2

H BI BB SO AVG
1 2 0 0 .222
0 0 0 2 .158
0 0 1 1 .259
1 0 0 1 .163
0 0 0 2 .382
1 0 0 1 .200
1 0 0 0 .196
1 0 0 0 .138
0 0 0 0 .333
0 0 0 2 .205
0 0 0 0 .364
0 0 0 0 .286
5 2 1 9 —

ATHLETICS
AB
Kemp lf ...............4
Neuse 3b.............4
Murphy c.............4
Bethancourt 1b...3
McKinney ph.......1
Piscotty rf...........4
Andrus dh ...........2
Lopes 2b .............2
Pache cf ..............3
N.Allen ss ...........3
TOTALS
30

R
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 0 1 .264
0 0 0 0 .311
0 0 0 2 .242
0 0 0 2 .179
0 0 0 0 .114
1 0 0 0 .278
0 0 1 2 .208
0 0 1 0 .000
1 0 0 0 .208
1 0 0 1 .167
3 0 2 8 —

TEXAS............ 000 000 020 — 2 5 0
OAKLAND ...... 000 000 000 — 0 3 1
E: N.Allen (2). LOB: Texas 3, Oakland 5.
2B: N.Allen (2), Piscotty (1).
RANGERS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Pérez ................... 6 2 0 0 1 5 3.86
Burke ................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 2.35
Martin ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.70
Bush .................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.00
ATHLETICS
IP
Montas ............. 71/3
Acevedo.............. 2/3
Snead .................. 1

H
3
1
1

R ER BB SO ERA
2 2 1 8 3.28
0 0 0 0 4.70
0 0 0 1 4.15

WP: Burke (2-0); LP: Montas (2-2); S:
Bush (1). Inherited runners-scored:
Acevedo 2-2. HBP: Montas (García). T:
2:41. A: 9,120 (46,847).

Marlins 9, Braves 7

Pinch hitter Garrett Cooper’s bases-loaded, goahead single in the seventh inning drove in two
runs to lift Miami. Atlanta’s
bullpen gave up six runs.
MARLINS
AB
Chisholm Jr. 2b...6
Aguilar 1b ...........5
Soler lf ................5
Sánchez cf ..........4
García dh.............5
B.Anderson rf .....3
Wendle ss...........5
Berti 3b...............2
Henry c................3
Cooper ph............1
Stallings c...........1
TOTALS
40

R
3
0
1
0
0
1
2
2
0
0
0
9

H BI BB SO AVG
4 3 0 1 .325
2 1 0 1 .213
1 1 1 1 .185
2 0 1 2 .340
2 2 0 0 .186
0 0 2 1 .250
2 0 0 2 .325
0 0 3 2 .273
0 0 0 1 .000
1 2 0 0 .225
0 0 0 0 .154
14 9 7 11 —

BRAVES
AB
Albies 2b.............3
Olson 1b..............5
Riley 3b...............5
Ozuna lf ..............3
Rosario rf............4
d'Arnaud c ..........4
Duvall cf..............4
Dickerson dh.......3
Swanson ss ........4
TOTALS
35

R
1
0
1
0
0
2
0
2
1
7

H BI BB SO AVG
1 2 0 1 .242
1 0 0 1 .373
1 1 0 2 .268
1 0 0 0 .274
0 0 0 2 .071
2 0 0 1 .311
0 0 0 1 .185
1 2 1 1 .080
2 2 0 1 .182
9 7 1 10 —

MIAMI............ 100 113 300 — 9 14 0
ATLANTA....... 101 212 000 — 7 9 1
E: Riley (1). LOB: Miami 12, Atlanta 5.
2B: Sánchez (2), Chisholm Jr. (3), Olson
(8), d’Arnaud (2). 3B: Swanson (1). HR:
Chisholm Jr. (4), off I.Anderson; Albies
(6), off Hernandez; Dickerson (1), off
Hernandez; Riley (3), off Hernandez.
MARLINS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Hernandez ........ 42/3 7 5 5 0 4 5.87
Armstrong.......... 2/3 2 2 2 1 1 7.11
Okert .................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 1.80
Bass..................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.84
Sulser .................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.42
Scott.................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.57
BRAVES
IP
I.Anderson........... 5
McHugh .............. 1/3
Minter ................ 2/3
Strider ................. 0
Smith................... 1
Chavez................. 2

H
6
3
1
2
0
2

R ER BB SO ERA
3 2 3 4 5.40
3 3 1 0 7.50
0 0 0 1 1.69
3 3 2 0 4.00
0 0 1 1 2.84
0 0 0 5 4.70

WP: Okert (2-0); LP: Strider (0-1); S:
Scott (1). Inherited runners-scored:
Armstrong 1-0, Okert 1-0, Minter 2-1,
Smith 2-1. IBB: off Smith (Soler). HBP:
Hernandez (Ozuna), Okert (Albies). WP:
Armstrong, Strider. T: 3:44. A: 41,931
(41,084).

Blue Jays 3, Astros 2

George Springer hit a
leadoff homer in the first
game against his former
team and Santiago Espinal
homered for the second
straight game as Toronto
beat skidding Houston.
The Blue Jays lead the
majors with 20 home runs
after hitting four in the first
two games of this series.
BLUE JAYS
AB
Springer dh .........4
Bichette ss..........3
Guerrero Jr. 1b ....4
Gurriel Jr. lf.........3
Chapman 3b ........4
Kirk c ...................3
Tapia cf-rf ...........4
Espinal 2b............4
Biggio rf ..............3
Zimmer cf............0
TOTALS
32

R
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
3

H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 0 0 .264
1 0 1 1 .219
2 0 0 0 .333
1 1 0 1 .273
1 0 0 1 .269
1 0 1 0 .250
0 0 0 0 .233
1 1 0 1 .217
0 0 0 0 .048
0 0 0 0 .063
8 3 2 4 —

ASTROS
AB
Peña ss................3
Brantley lf ...........4
Bregman 3b.........4
Alvarez dh ...........4
Gurriel 1b ............4
Tucker rf..............4
Goodrum 2b.........4
Siri cf...................3
Díaz ph ................1
Maldonado c........3
TOTALS
34

R
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2

H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 1 0 .267
3 0 0 0 .302
1 2 0 1 .271
0 0 0 1 .152
1 0 0 2 .190
3 0 0 0 .140
0 0 0 1 .105
0 0 0 2 .222
0 0 0 0 .161
0 0 0 3 .069
8 2 1 10 —

TORONTO....... 100 001 100 — 3 8 0
HOUSTON ...... 200 000 000 — 2 8 0
LOB: Toronto 5, Houston 6. HR: Springer
(3), off Urquidy; Espinal (2), off Taylor;
Bregman (3), off Manoah.
BLUE JAYS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Manoah................ 6 7 2 2 0 5 2.00
Phelps ..................2/3 0 0 0 1 2 1.59
Borucki.................1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
García................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Cimber ................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.25
ASTROS
IP
Urquidy ..............52/3
Maton ..................1/3
Taylor...................2/3
Stanek................11/3
Neris .................... 1

H
6
0
1
0
1

R ER BB SO ERA
2 2 1 3 5.52
0 0 0 0 1.29
1 1 0 0 1.93
0 0 1 1 2.08
0 0 0 0 1.23

WP: Manoah (3-0); LP: Taylor (0-1); S:
Cimber (1). Inherited runners-scored:
Borucki 1-0, Maton 1-0. T: 2:54. A: 36,075
(41,168).

Orioles 5, Angels 3
Late Friday

ORIOLES
AB
Mullins cf .............. 4
Mancini dh ............ 4
Mountcastle 1b .... 4
Santander lf.......... 3
McKenna lf............ 0
Hays rf .................. 4
Urías 2b................. 4
Chirinos c .............. 4
Gutierrez 3b.......... 4
Mateo ss ............... 4
TOTALS
35

R
0
1
1
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
5

H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 0 1 .182
1 0 0 1 .235
1 0 0 2 .236
1 1 1 0 .279
0 0 0 0 .200
1 0 0 1 .245
1 1 0 0 .191
2 3 0 1 .231
0 0 0 1 .100
1 0 0 0 .250
8 5 1 7 —

ANGELS
AB
Ohtani dh............4
Trout cf ...............3
Rendon 3b...........4
Ward rf ...............4
Duffy 1b-2b ........3
Marsh ph.............1
Mayfield 2b.........2
Walsh ph-1b .......1
Stassi c ...............3
Adell lf ................3
Velazquez ss.......2
TOTALS
30

R
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
3

H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 0 3 .220
1 0 1 1 .273
1 2 0 2 .205
2 0 0 0 .348
1 0 0 0 .360
0 0 0 1 .313
0 0 0 0 .333
0 0 0 0 .275
1 0 0 1 .226
1 0 0 1 .239
1 1 0 0 .167
8 3 1 9 —

BALTIMORE... 020 003 000 — 5 8 1
L.A.................. 000 001 200 — 3 8 1
E: Santander (1), Stassi (1). LOB: Baltimore 4, Los Angeles 2. 2B: Chirinos (1).
HR: Rendon (2), off Zimmermann. RBI:
Chirinos 3 (3), Santander (2), Urías (2),
Velazquez (2), Rendon 2 (6). SB: Mateo
(5). SF: Velazquez.
ORIOLES
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Zimmermann ...... 6 5 3 2 1 6 1.20
Bautista .............. 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.50
Pérez ................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
López ................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.25
ANGELS
IP
Detmers .............. 5
Bradley ............... 1/3
Herget .............. 12/3
Ortega ................. 1
Warren ................ 1

H
3
4
1
0
0

R ER BB SO ERA
2 2 1 4 6.57
3 3 0 0 11.1
0 0 0 1 6.43
0 0 0 1 2.00
0 0 0 1 3.18

WP: Zimmermann (1-0); LP: Detmers
(0-1); S: López (3). Inherited runnersscored: Herget 2-1. PB: Chirinos (2). T:
2:55. A: 31,679 (45,517).

ORIOLES LEADERS
Entering Sunday’s game.
Batters
Avg R H 2B HR RBI BB
Santander
.279 4 12 2 1 2 12
Mateo
.250 3 11 2 0 3 4
Hays
.245 3 12 4 0 3 6
Mountcastle .236 5 13 1 1 3 2
Mancini
.235 2 12 3 0 2 4
Chirinos
.231 2 6 1 0 3 5
McKenna
.200 3 2 1 0 1 1

Brewers 5, Phillies 3

Willy Adames stole
home, Hunter Renfroe
homered and Adrian
Houser tossed six solid innings to lead Milwaukee
to a win over Philadelphia.
Phillies ace Zack Wheeler had another subpar
outing as he works his way
back from right shoulder
soreness. The righty allowed four runs in the fifth
for his third straight loss.
BREWERS
AB
Wong 2b.............. 4
Adames ss .......... 4
Yelich lf............... 4
McCutchen dh ..... 4
Tellez 1b.............. 4
Renfroe rf ........... 4
Narváez c ............ 4
Cain cf ................. 3
Peterson 3b......... 3
Brosseau ph-3b... 1
TOTALS
35

R
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
1
1
0
5

H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 0 0 .173
2 1 0 1 .200
1 1 0 1 .204
1 0 0 2 .255
0 0 0 2 .227
3 1 0 0 .260
0 0 0 2 .233
1 0 1 1 .161
1 1 0 0 .129
0 0 0 0 .125
9 4 1 9 —

PHILLIES
AB
Segura 2b ...........4
Hoskins 1b .........3
Harper dh ...........4
Castellanos rf.....3
Realmuto c .........4
Schwarber lf.......4
Bohm 3b .............3
Camargo ss ........3
Herrera cf ...........3
TOTALS
31

R
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
3

H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 0 1 .262
1 0 1 0 .213
1 0 0 1 .241
1 2 0 0 .321
0 0 0 1 .296
1 0 0 1 .164
0 0 0 2 .393
0 0 0 0 .341
2 0 0 1 .400
7 3 1 7 —

MILWAUKEE . 000 041 000 — 5 9 0
PHILA. ........... 102 000 000 — 3 7 0
LOB: Milwaukee 4, Philadelphia 3. 2B:
Renfroe (4), Harper (6), Castellanos
(5). 3B: Herrera (1). HR: Renfroe (2),
off Sánchez.
BREWERS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Houser ................ 6 5 3 3 1 3 3.52
Gott..................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.00
Williams.............. 1 1 0 0 0 1 6.75
Hader .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
PHILLIES
IP
Wheeler .............. 5
Sánchez............ 21/3
Norwood ............ 2/3
Bellatti............... 2/3
Hand................... 1/3

H
7
1
0
1
0

R ER BB SO ERA
4 4 0 5 8.53
1 1 1 2 5.40
0 0 0 0 4.91
0 0 0 2 0.00
0 0 0 0 0.00

WP: Houser (1-2); LP: Wheeler (0-3);
S: Hader (7). Inherited runners-scored:
Hand 1-0. T: 2:57. A: 30,612 (42,792).

Mets 6,
Diamondbacks 5 (10)
Late Friday
Starling Marte legged
out an RBI single in the
10th inning that helped
New York move past a
blown four-run lead and
beat Arizona.

METS
AB
Nimmo cf ............5
S.Marte rf...........4
Lindor ss .............4
Alonso 1b............4
Do.Smith 1b........1
Escobar 3b ..........4
Canó dh ...............4
Canha lf ..............4
Jankowski lf .......0
McNeil 2b............4
McCann c ............4
TOTALS
38

R
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
6

H BI BB SO AVG
2 0 0 0 .325
2 1 1 1 .255
1 1 0 1 .304
1 2 0 1 .276
0 0 0 0 .167
0 0 0 1 .292
1 0 0 2 .194
0 0 0 0 .333
0 0 0 0 .316
1 0 0 0 .280
1 2 0 1 .138
9 6 1 7 —

D’BACKS
AB
Hummel lf...........5
K.Marte 2b..........5
Davidson 3b ........3
Walker 1b ...........5
Beer dh ...............4
Ahmed ss............4
P.Smith rf ...........3
Varsho cf-c .........3
Herrera c.............2
Peralta ph ...........1
C.Kelly c ..............0
McCarthy ph-cf...1
TOTALS
36

R
1
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
5

H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 0 1 .161
1 0 0 3 .185
0 0 2 1 .143
1 2 0 1 .152
1 0 0 1 .385
0 0 0 1 .000
2 0 1 1 .263
1 2 0 1 .190
1 0 0 0 .067
0 0 0 0 .227
0 0 0 0 .063
0 0 0 1 .136
8 5 3 11 —

NEW YORK .. 000 102 200
ARIZONA..... 001 000 121

1— 6 9 0
0— 5 8 0

LOB: New York 5, Arizona 6. 2B: Nimmo
(2), P.Smith (2), K.Marte (5), Hummel
(1). HR: McCann (1), off Wendelken;
Walker (3), off May; Varsho (4), off Díaz.
METS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Peterson........... 52/3 3 1 1 1 3 0.64
Dr.Smith............. 1/3 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
Shreve ................ 2/3 2 1 1 0 1 2.57
May................... 11/3 2 2 2 0 2 6.75
Díaz ..................... 1 1 1 1 0 2 2.57
Lugo..................... 1 0 0 0 1 2 5.68
D’BACKS
IP
Gallen .................. 5
Pérez .................. 1/3
Wendelken ....... 12/3
Uceta ................... 1
Ramirez ............... 1
Melancon............. 1

H
2
2
2
0
1
2

R ER BB SO ERA
1 1 1 7 1.00
2 2 0 0 17.1
2 2 0 0 4.26
0 0 0 0 0.00
0 0 0 0 2.84
1 0 0 0 1.50

WP: Díaz (1-0); LP: Melancon (0-2); S:
Lugo (1). Inherited runners-scored:
Dr.Smith 1-0, May 1-0, Wendelken 1-1.
T: 3:29. A: 20,939 (48,686).

Cardinals 5, Reds 0

Dakota Hudson pitched
62/3 innings of two-hit ball,
Paul Goldschmidt drove in
two runs with a sixth-inning
double, and St. Louis handed injury-plagued Cincinnati its 11th straight loss.
After splitting their opening four-game series with
the Braves, the Reds were
swept by the Guardians,
Dodgers and Padres.
CARDINALS AB
Edman 2b ........... 3
Goldschmidt 1b.. 5
Carlson rf ........... 5
Arenado 3b......... 5
Dickerson dh ...... 3
Pujols ph-dh....... 2
Nootbaar lf......... 5
Bader cf.............. 2
DeJong ss........... 3
Knizner c ............ 3
TOTALS
36

R
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
5

H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 1 0 .341
2 2 0 0 .216
2 0 0 0 .216
1 0 0 3 .392
1 1 0 0 .182
0 0 0 0 .304
1 0 0 2 .125
0 0 2 1 .195
0 0 1 3 .139
2 1 1 0 .318
10 5 5 9 —

REDS
AB
Naquin rf.............3
Drury dh..............3
Pham lf ...............4
Votto 1b..............4
K.Farmer ss ........1
Senzel cf .............3
Moran 3b ............3
Lopez 2b .............2
Garcia c ...............3
TOTALS
26

R
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 1 0 .250
0 0 1 0 .206
0 0 0 1 .133
0 0 0 1 .154
0 0 1 0 .255
1 0 0 2 .107
0 0 0 2 .208
1 0 1 0 .250
1 0 0 0 .294
3 0 4 6 —

ST. LOUIS....... 010 012 010 — 5 10 0
CINCINNATI ... 000 000 000 — 0 3 0
LOB: St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 4. 2B:
Knizner (2), Goldschmidt (3), Senzel
(2).
CARDINALS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Hudson ............. 62/3 2 0 0 4 4 3.95
Pallante ............ 11/3 1 0 0 0 1 1.42
Whitley ............... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
REDS
IP
Mahle ............... 41/3
Warren ............... 2/3
Sims .................... 1
Wilson ................. 1
Strickland............ 1
Moreta................. 1

H
5
1
2
1
1
0

R ER BB SO ERA
2 2 3 3 6.88
0 0 0 1 5.40
2 2 0 1 18.0
0 0 0 1 2.45
1 1 2 1 11.8
0 0 0 2 3.24

WP: Hudson (1-1); LP: Mahle (1-2). Inherited runners-scored: Pallante 1-0,
Warren 2-1. HBP: Hudson (K.Farmer),
Sims (Edman). T: 3:13. A: 28,598
(42,319).

Dodgers 6, Padres 1

Late Friday
Mookie Betts hit two
home runs and Muncy
homered and had three
RBI as Los Angeles beat
San Diego for the 10th
straight time.
They were the first two
homers of the season for
Betts, who came in hitting
just .178.
DODGERS
AB
Betts rf ...............3
Freeman 1b.........4
T.Turner ss .........5
Muncy 3b ............3
J.Turner dh .........3
Smith c ...............3
Bellinger cf .........4
Taylor lf ..............3
Lux 2b .................4
TOTALS
32

R
3
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
6

H BI BB SO AVG
2 2 2 0 .208
2 0 1 0 .346
1 0 0 2 .283
2 3 2 1 .167
0 1 0 0 .213
0 0 1 0 .212
0 0 0 1 .255
1 0 1 2 .316
0 0 0 0 .242
8 6 7 6 —

PADRES
AB
Nola c .................... 4
Machado 3b........... 4
Cronenworth 2b .... 4
Voit dh .................. 3
Alfaro ph-dh.......... 1
Profar lf................. 3
Hosmer 1b............. 4
Myers rf ................ 4
Kim ss ................... 2
Grisham cf............. 3
TOTALS
32

R
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1

H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 0 1 .262
1 0 0 2 .351
0 0 0 1 .160
0 0 0 1 .143
0 0 0 1 .227
0 0 1 1 .238
2 0 0 0 .388
0 1 0 0 .174
0 0 2 1 .200
0 0 0 2 .143
4 1 3 10 —

L.A.................. 000 020 301 — 6 8 1
SAN DIEGO .... 010 000 000 — 1 4 0
E: Muncy (1). LOB: Los Angeles 7, San
Diego 7. 2B: Hosmer (6). HR: Betts (1),
off Martinez; Muncy (2), off Martinez;
Betts (2), off Stammen.
DODGERS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Urías .................... 5 2 1 1 3 6 3.00
Hudson ................ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Phillips ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.84
Bickford .............. 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Vesia .................. 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Price .................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.93
PADRES
IP
Martinez........... 42/3
Crismatt ........... 11/3
Hill ....................... 0
Lamet .................. 1
Stammen............. 2

H
4
0
3
0
1

R ER BB SO ERA
2 2 5 4 4.30
1 1 2 0 2.08
2 2 0 0 6.75
0 0 0 0 1.69
1 1 0 2 4.50

WP: Urías (1-1); LP: Martinez (0-2). Hill
pitched to 3 batters in the 7th Inherited
runners-scored: Vesia 1-0, Hill 1-1,
Lamet 2-1. T: 3:25. A: 44,482 (40,209).

W-L

ERA TEAM

Ellis (R)

0-0

0.00

0-1

Suarez (L)

0-1

5.19

1-1

RED SOX AT RAYS, 1:10
Hill (L)

0-1

7.00

1-1

McClanahan (L)

0-1

2.40

1-2

GUARDIANS AT YANKEES, 1:35
Civale (R)

0-1

6.14

1-1

Cole (R)

0-0

6.35

2-1

WHITE SOX AT TWINS, 2:10
Giolito (R)

0-0

0.00

0-1

Archer (R)

0-0

2.16

0-2

BLUE JAYS AT ASTROS, 2:10
Kikuchi (L)

0-1

3.24

0-2

Garcia (R)

1-0

2.79

2-0

RANGERS AT ATHLETICS, 4:07
Howard (R)

0-0

18.00

1-0

Irvin (L)

1-1

4.32

2-1

ROYALS AT MARINERS, 4:10
Hernández (R)

0-0

7.27

1-1

Ray (L)

2-1

4.19

2-1

AL scores
FRIDAY’S RESULTS

Baltimore 5, at L.A. Angels 3
at N.Y. Yankees 4, Cleveland 1
Boston 4, at Tampa Bay 3
Toronto 4, at Houston 3
at Minnesota 2, Chicago White Sox 1
at Seattle 4, Kansas City 1
Texas 8, at Oakland 1

SATURDAY’S RESULTS

Baltimore at L.A. Angels, late
at N.Y. Yankees 5, Cleveland 4
Texas 2, at Oakland 0
Toronto 3, at Houston 2
at Minnesota 9, Chicago White Sox 2
at Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2 (10)
Kansas City at Seattle, late

Interleague game
ROCKIES AT TIGERS, 1:10
W-L

ERA TEAM

Kuhl (R)

1-0

0.87

2-0

Alexander (L)

0-1

4.26

0-2

Interleague scores
FRIDAY’S RESULTS

Colorado at Detroit, ppd.

SATURDAY’S RESULTS

Game 1: at Detroit 13, Colorado 0
Game 2: Colorado 3, at Detroit 2

NL leaders
Entering Saturday’s games.

BATTING
Arenado, StL .................................... .413
Olson, Atl ......................................... .389
Hosmer, SD ...................................... .388
Machado, SD .................................... .351
Bryant, Col ....................................... .349
Joe, Col ............................................ .349
Freeman, LA .................................... .346
Bell, Was ......................................... .345
Edman, StL ...................................... .341

HOME RUNS
Cron, Col ............................................... 6
Arenado, StL ......................................... 5
Albies, Atl ............................................. 5
7 tied ..................................................... 4

RBI
Cron, Col ............................................. 16
Alonso, NY .......................................... 16
Arenado, StL ....................................... 14
Chisholm Jr., Mia ................................ 12
Suzuki, Chi .......................................... 12
Bell, Was ............................................ 12
Marte, NY ........................................... 12

ERA
López, Mia ....................................... 0.52
Kelly, Ari .......................................... 0.59
Peterson, NY ................................... 0.64
Gonsolin, LA .................................... 0.69
Rodón, SF ......................................... 1.06
Wright, Atl ...................................... 1.06
Bumgarner, Ari ................................ 1.39

SAVES
Hader, Mil ............................................. 6
Bard, Col ............................................... 5
Rogers, SD ............................................ 5
Gallegos, StL ........................................ 4
Jansen, Atl ........................................... 4
Robertson, Chi ...................................... 4
Kimbrel, LA ........................................... 3
Knebel, Phi ............................................ 3
Rainey, Was ......................................... 3

STRIKEOUTS
Rodón, SF ............................................ 29
Wright, Atl ......................................... 26
Scherzer, NY ....................................... 23
Burnes, Mil ......................................... 22
Musgrove, SD ..................................... 21
Bassitt, NY ......................................... 20
Carrasco, NY ....................................... 20
Kershaw, LA ....................................... 20
Gibson, Phi .......................................... 19
Manaea, SD ........................................ 19
Wainwright, StL ................................. 19

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Boston shuts down Brooklyn, leaving a disjointed superteam close to elimination
On the
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new york — As

a general rule,
playing with too
much energy
BEN
early in a mustGOLLIVER
win game is
better than
playing with not enough.
Too much energy suggests a
frantic desire to win; not enough
hints at indifference. Too much
energy can dissipate as the
contest unfolds; not enough can
seep into a team’s crevices like red
wine on carpet.
If ever there was a night for the
Brooklyn Nets to come out with
urgency, it was Saturday. Trailing
the Boston Celtics 2-0 in their
first-round series, Kevin Durant
and Co. should have been
desperate. Instead, they were a
flat mess for much of the first
quarter, unable to conjure the
offensive rhythm and flow that
made them preseason title
favorites. It never got better in a
109-103 loss.
The Nets committed 21
turnovers by night’s end, and
these were lackadaisical mistakes
from a team with players who
don’t know each other well
enough to pull together when
facing a crisis. Brooklyn’s firsthalf miscues included a pair of 24second shot clock violations, a
careless inbounds pass by Kyrie
Irving and an ill-conceived lob
pass from Goran Dragic to Andre
Drummond, which ended with
the center batting the ball
backward over his head for
another turnover. On the other
end, Brooklyn let Boston guard
Jaylen Brown come free for an
open dunk on a back cut and
repeatedly lost track of shooters.
The Celtics built a 12-point lead
early in the second quarter and
held on for the comfortable
victory at Barclays Center, seizing
a 3-0 series lead and setting up a
possible sweep in Game 4 on
Monday.
After a pair of hard-fought
losses by the Nets in Boston’s TD
Garden this week, Brooklyn
Coach Steve Nash had a clear
understanding of the biggest
difference between these two
teams: shared experience. The
Celtics rolled into the playoffs as
the East’s second seed, and their

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Robert Williams III dunks over Andre Drummond as Kyrie Irving, left, and Kevin Durant — who combined for just 32 points — watch.

core group has moved in sync
thanks to its past postseason
trips. By contrast, the reshaped
Nets were still figuring each other
out: Durant and Irving sought
their own offense in isolation
situations, while newcomers such
as Dragic, Drummond and Seth
Curry often have looked like seatfillers at an awards show.
“We started the season with
one group,” Nash said before
Game 3. “We had a major trade.
We’ve had a few guys released.
We’ve had Kyrie’s absence for
much of the season. We had Kevin
being out for five weeks. We’ve
had very few pockets with
everyone able to play. It’s
probably 10 to 12 games if you add
it all up. That’s part of our
challenge: trying to find some
continuity.”
The fact that continuity
continued to prove elusive was

unsurprising, but the assumption
all along was that Brooklyn’s stars
would rise to the moment.
Instead, the change of venue
didn’t change the Nets’ fortunes.
Irving’s solo act drew only
occasional oohs and aahs, and he
inexplicably found himself in foul
trouble. Meanwhile, a strangely
passive Durant struggled to free
himself from Boston’s defense for
the third straight game. Nash
suggested fatigue could be a
factor for both Irving, who is
fasting for Ramadan, and Durant,
who dealt with an especially
heavy workload down the stretch
of the regular season.
“You could put it on me,” said
Irving, who finished with 16
points on 6-for-17 shooting and
nine assists. “In terms of playing
better, controlling the game
better, controlling our
possessions, being more in a

[defensive] stance, not turning
the ball over as much.”
Durant went down fighting in
last year’s playoffs, heroically
carrying Brooklyn to a Game 7
against the Milwaukee Bucks in
the second round despite injuries
to Irving and James Harden. In
this series, he has been a
bystander rather than a driving
force.
After scoring 23 points on 24
shots in Game 1 and shooting 4
for 17 in Game 2, Durant finished
with 16 points on 6-for-11
shooting and didn’t attempt a free
throw until the 5:35 mark of the
fourth quarter. For the third
consecutive game, the 2014 MVP
was outplayed by Boston’s
Jayson Tatum, who scored a
game-high 39 points, received
scattered “M-V-P” chants from
traveling Celtics fans and capped
the win with a breakaway dunk in

the closing seconds.
“I’m just thinking too much, to
be honest,” said Durant, who
credited Boston’s size for making
life difficult on Brooklyn. “I try to
figure out how to be the best
version of myself and also not get
in my teammates’ way.
Sometimes I think too much
about it. Sometimes I need to go
out there with no thoughts in my
head and just play.”
The Celtics, who have been
arguably the most impressive
team in the playoffs, welcomed
back forward Robert Williams III
following surgery to repair a torn
meniscus in his left knee.
Williams logged 16 minutes off
the bench, moving well in his first
action since March 27.
Looking for a spark of his own,
Nash turned to Blake Griffin in
the third quarter for his first
action since April 2. Within

minutes, Griffin tossed a lazy pass
on the perimeter that Brown
returned the other way for an
uncontested dunk.
With Irving sitting for an
extended stretch of the fourth
quarter with five fouls, Griffin
drilled back-to-back threepointers to briefly lift Brooklyn’s
spirits. But Brown responded
with a flurry, scoring eight of his
23 points in a two-minute stretch
to stave off the rally attempt.
“Our attention to detail needs
to go up,” Griffin said. “That’s for
everybody. We all need to take a
look in the mirror. That first game
at home, your spirit has got to be
high. We didn’t have the right
spirit throughout the entire
game.”
The Barclays Center crowd
watched the Nets roll over in
stunned silence, perhaps
exhausted by a roller-coaster
season filled with Irving’s drama,
a midseason trade of Harden and
a seemingly endless wait for Ben
Simmons to make his debut after
dealing with a back injury.
Nash said Simmons went
through a three-on-three workout
Saturday without suffering a
setback, and the three-time allstar forward took the court for a
pregame workout that was heavy
on passing and light on shooting.
While Simmons is reportedly
eyeing a Game 4 return, Nash
remained noncommittal.
“It’s possible,” Nash said. “I’m
not sure. It’s not a normal return
to play. There’s a lot of bigger
picture and bigger context to how
he’s feeling, how able he would be
to adapt to the environment. It’s a
little different than playing a
game that’s stashed away during
the middle of the regular season.”
That line of thinking makes
some sense: Throwing Simmons,
who has a spotty postseason track
record, into a high-pressure
playoff environment for his first
action since June would be a risk.
Then again, the Nets approached
their first home game of the
playoffs as if it was a random
night of the regular season, so
maybe Simmons has nothing to
worry about after all.
“It’s about our character now,”
Nash said. “Digging deep and
having pride.”

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Caps surge toward playo≠s, where East’s top powers await
Washington’s potential first-round matchups
are with the Panthers, Hurricanes and Rangers
BY

S AMANTHA P ELL

Fresh off a successful five-game
road trip, the Washington Capitals head into the final week of the
regular season with plenty of momentum, though their first-round
postseason opponent is still unknown.
Washington, which has four
games left in the regular season,
could face either the Florida Panthers, the Carolina Hurricanes or
the New York Rangers. The Capitals will have to start the firstround series on the road no matter the matchup. Their next game
is Sunday at home against Toronto.
Washington (44-23-11, 99
points) sits in the second wildcard spot in the Eastern Conference. If it finishes the regular
season in the same position,
Washington will play Florida in
the first round of the Stanley Cup
playoffs. If the Capitals can move
up in the standings, either to the
first wild-card spot in the East or
to third in the Metropolitan Division, they would play either the
Rangers or Hurricanes.
Each potential opponent presents pros and cons for the Capitals. Florida is the best team in the
East, with a knack for scoring
goals and a veteran goaltender in
Sergei Bobrovsky. In years past,

Washington has fared well
against Bobrovsky, who can be
shaky in the postseason. The netminder is 10-13-5 in 30 career
games against the Capitals, with a
3.05 goals against average and a
.898 save percentage.
This season against Florida,
Washington went 1-1-1 and scored
an average of four goals a game
but gave up an average of 4.33. A
playoff series between the teams
probably would be high scoring.
Washington still has two inexperienced netminders in Vitek
Vanecek and Ilya Samsonov, neither of whom has won a playoff
series. Both goaltenders have
shown flashes of No. 1 starter
potential, but neither has
grabbed the reins. Vanecek recorded his fourth shutout of the
season Friday night in a 2-0 win
against the Arizona Coyotes.
Samsonov looked as if he was
gaining momentum, starting
three of the first four games on
Washington’s recent road trip,
but appeared to give up one too
many soft goals in an overtime
loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.
If Washington faces the Rangers, it will contend with an elite
goaltender in Igor Shesterkin.
The Russian, who has surged into
the Hart Trophy conversation,
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record and a 2.22 goals against
average.
The Rangers have looked dangerous in recent weeks and have
improved immensely since the
trade deadline, when they picked
up Andrew Copp, Frank Vatrano,
Tyler Motte and Justin Braun.

Washington has played the
Rangers only twice this season,
splitting those games. The Capitals and Rangers will play again
Friday at Madison Square Garden
in the regular season finale for
both teams. The Capitals will be
coming off a game Thursday

against the New York Islanders at
UBS Arena.
The other possible postseason
scenario for Washington is a firstround date with the Carolina
Hurricanes. The Capitals have
been solid against the Hurricanes
this year, going 3-1-0. Their only

blip was their most recent meeting in late March, a lackluster 6-1
loss.
Washington faced Carolina in
the 2019 postseason, when the
young, gritty Hurricanes pushed
the favored Capitals to a backand-forth Game 7, which Carolina
won in double overtime. A spirited rivalry has developed between
the teams, often highlighted by
physicality.
This season Carolina was
among the early favorites in the
East and looked like a team built
to make a run at the Stanley Cup.
However, a recent injury to goaltender Frederik Andersen has
caused concern. Andersen, a Vezina Trophy candidate as the
league’s best goaltender, suffered
a lower-body injury this month.
Antti Raanta probably will be
Carolina’s starter for the rest of
the regular season.

NBA postseason is back in full force, but the coronavirus remains a menace
League must brace for
possibility of key player
sidelined by positive test
BY

B EN G OLLIVER

new york — The NBA’s long
march back to normalcy took an
important step last weekend,
when the playoffs opened in front
of enthusiastic crowds and swelling television audiences. With
2020’s Disney World bubble and
2021’s attendance limits both in
the rearview mirror, the intensity
and intrigue that enhance postseason basketball returned in full
force.
Look no further than Boston,
where Jayson Tatum hit a buzzerbeater that brought the TD Garden crowd to its feet. The Celtics’
last-second victory over the
Brooklyn Nets in Game 1 peaked
with 9.8 million television viewers, making it the most-watched
first-round game in six years and
helping the NBA post its highest
average viewership for an opening playoff weekend since 2011.
Despite the evident rush of
excitement, the league was dealt
a harsh reminder it hasn’t been
freed from the coronavirus pandemic just yet. On the eve of the

playoffs, Paul George missed the
Los Angeles Clippers’ do-or-die
play-in tournament game after he
tested positive for the coronavirus. Without their all-star forward, the Clippers lost at home to
the New Orleans Pelicans and
suddenly found themselves on
summer vacation.
George’s untimely absence —
and its direct consequences for
the Clippers — represented uncharted waters. The 2020 playoffs
unfolded in the bubble without a
single player testing positive. The
next year, Chris Paul was the only
star to test positive during the
postseason, and the Phoenix Suns
won both of their games during
his absence. With coronavirus
case counts creeping up nationally, the NBA, which kept playing as
the omicron wave decimated rosters in December and January,
must now brace for the possibility that key players could be sidelined by the coronavirus at the
most important time of the year.
“We’re cautiously optimistic
that we’ll continue to see relatively low cases compared to what we
saw earlier this season,” John
DiFiori, the NBA’s director of
sports medicine, said by telephone Friday. “But case rates are
rising in some NBA cities, so we
know that an increase in infections within the league is certainly possible, if not likely. If a new

variant comes along, that could
change the outlook like omicron
did in December. We remain vigilant.”
In addition to George, a television sideline reporter, a newspaper beat writer, a prominent player agent and multiple National
Basketball Players Association
staffers tested positive for the
coronavirus in recent days as the
national seven-day rolling average topped 44,000 cases Friday,
up from roughly 29,000 in late
March.
That uptick has coincided with
a loosening of coronavirus restrictions in cities across the
country, including New York,
which last month lifted its vaccine mandate at public events
such as NBA games. Philadelphia’s decision to reinstate its
indoor mask mandate Monday
and then drop it again Thursday
reflected the fluid state of this
stage of the pandemic. So too did
a federal judge’s ruling last week
to strike down a national mask
mandate for transportation,
which the White House quickly
called a “disappointing decision.”
“I’m concerned for every
league and every sector of the
population right now that there
are going to be more positives,”
said Robby Sikka, the chair of the
Covid Sports and Society Workgroup. “This pandemic continues

to be an issue for everybody
across the world.”
Compared with the general
public, the NBA is well protected
from widespread disruption:
Ninety-seven percent of the
league’s players have been vaccinated, and more than 70 percent
have received a booster shot.
DiFiori said the NBA’s internal
data has confirmed that players
who received booster shots have
been less likely to contract the
omicron variant and less likely to
develop symptoms once infected.
Meanwhile, the league’s protocols no longer require players to
undergo testing unless they are
symptomatic, unvaccinated or
subject to Canadian health regulations when they reenter the
United States after playing in
Toronto. In other words, a vaccinated player could unknowingly
have an infection and continue to
play games if he remained asymptomatic.
After dropping its indoor mask
mandate for All-Star Weekend
attendees in February, the league
remains comfortable with its policy, though masking or regular
testing of vaccinated players
could return if case counts increase. The NBA continued playing throughout the omicron wave
— postponing games only when
absolutely necessary — in hopes
of returning to its standard Octo-

ber-to-June schedule after two
delayed seasons, so the postseason schedule almost certainly
will continue as planned barring
a major outbreak.
After requiring players who
test positive to isolate for at least
10 days throughout the 2020-21
season, the league trimmed that
timeline in December to six days
for players who were able to pass
new testing standards. In playoff
terms, that would mean missing
two to three games rather than
four or five.
“We are able to get about half
of the players safely back to their
teams after Day 5,” DiFiori said.
“Nearly all the remaining cases
are then able to return after Day
10.”
The goal of safely clearing players more quickly in the playoffs
could be aided by Paxlovid, Pfizer’s oral anti-covid-19 pill, which
received FDA authorization in
December. While the NBA
doesn’t have enough data to
measure the drug’s effects on its
players, Sikka said early studies
of a general population have
shown that Paxlovid can lessen
symptoms and reduce how long it
takes to return to work.
“It’s made people who are feeling significantly ill go to feeling
zero symptoms within about 24
to 36 hours,” Sikka said. “In different testing scenarios, people

have extremely low viral load
levels in Day 4 or Day 5. Nearly
everybody who’s taking this medication is clearing the virus much
faster than they were prior to
this. Our average for a return to
work is about 5.4 days with Paxlovid, which I think is a pretty
significant finding. The appropriate treatment with Paxlovid may
allow us to bring down not just
the average but to bring nearly
everybody into that five-to-sixday range.”
Some members of the NBA
community who have tested positive for the coronavirus have been
treated with Paxlovid, which has
a metallic taste and a range of
potential side effects, including
muscle aches and diarrhea. The
league requires that team doctors
consult with an infectious-disease specialist before prescribing
the drug to players and other
team employees.
As the first round unfolded,
the coronavirus took a back seat
to more traditional concerns:
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel
Embiid battled a thumb injury,
Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris
Middleton sprained his knee, and
Suns guard Devin Booker
strained his hamstring. Even so,
the prospect of a positive test
swinging a series or upending the
title race will loom over the NBA
for the next two months.

NBA PLAYOFFS ROUNDUP

Gobert’s late alley-oop evens series for Utah, spoils Doncic’s return for Dallas
JAZZ 100,
MAVERICKS 99
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Rudy Gobert gave Utah the
lead with an alley-oop dunk with
11 seconds left and the Jazz held
off the Dallas Mavericks in Salt
Lake City, 100-99, on Saturday in
Game 4 to tie the first-round
series.
Spencer Dinwiddie missed a
three-pointer at the buzzer for
Dallas.
Utah held the Mavericks to 18
points in the fourth quarter after
surrendering a double-digit lead
in the second half. Dallas made
just two baskets through the first
seven minutes of the fourth and
shot 33 percent overall in the
quarter.
“This is the team we want to
be,” Gobert said. “This is who we
are.”
Jordan Clarkson scored 25
points for Utah, and Donovan
Mitchell added 23 points and
seven assists. Gobert had 17
points and 15 rebounds — 10 off
the offensive glass. He was 3 of 8
from the free throw line in the
fourth quarter and 9 of 18 overall.
Dallas star Luka Doncic had 30
points, 10 rebounds and four
assists in his return from a threegame absence because of a
strained left calf.
“Getting my wind back,” Doncic said. “A little bit tired now, but
it felt great to be back.”
Jalen Brunson added 23
points, and Dorian FinneySmith, Dwight Powell and Reggie

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Rudy Gobert gave the Jazz the lead with 11 seconds left and finished with 17 points and 15 rebounds.

Bullock had 11 points apiece.
Game 5 is Monday night in
Dallas.
“We were down 12 at the half,
and we stayed the course, and it
comes down to the last possession,” Mavericks Coach Jason
Kidd said. “If you’re on the road
in the playoffs and it comes down
to the last play, you can’t ask for a
better situation.”
After going 31/2 minutes without a basket, the Jazz took a 95-94
lead on Mitchell’s layup with 1:27

remaining. Doncic answered
with back-to-back baskets to put
Dallas up 99-95.
Mitchell converted a threepoint play to bring Utah within
one. Powell missed a pair of free
throws with 19.8 seconds left,
opening the door for Gobert’s
winner.
The Jazz doubled Doncic on
the final possession, forcing him
to kick out to Dinwiddie on the
right wing for a three-point shot
that fell short.

“We didn’t really execute it
well,” Doncic said.
Utah led by 16 points before
halftime. The Jazz built a 51-35
lead after a big second quarter
from Clarkson. He scored baskets
on three consecutive possessions
to help Utah carve out a doubledigit lead.
Dallas erased its deficit in the
third quarter behind hot outside
shooting.
l RAPTORS

110, 76ERS 102:

It was a thumbs-down day for

Joel Embiid and Philadelphia,
which couldn’t complete a firstround sweep of host Toronto.
Pascal Siakam scored 15 of his
34 points in the fourth quarter,
Gary Trent Jr. added 24 points,
and the Raptors beat Embiid and
the 76ers. Game 5 is Monday
night in Philadelphia.
“We’ll be ready, I can guarantee you that,” 76ers Coach Doc
Rivers said.
Embiid started despite a right
thumb injury that required him
to wear a brace.
“It’s painful,” Embiid said. “In
basketball you need to use your
hand a lot.”
No team has ever come back
from a 3-0 deficit to win an NBA
playoff series. Fans briefly chanted “Raps in seven” after both
coaches emptied their benches in
the final minutes.
Embiid said he injured his
thumb in the first half of Wednesday’s Game 3 and had it taped at
halftime. He finished that game
with a decisive three-pointer in
overtime but wore a brace afterward and at Friday’s practice.
Although Rivers said the 76ers
don’t believe the injury can get
worse, Embiid was seen shaking
his hand in pain several times
Saturday, occasionally doubling
over as he squeezed the area.
“It’s going to be something he’s
going to have to deal with
throughout the playoffs from this
point on,” Rivers said. “It’s not
going to go away. He’ll get better
and better at figuring out how to
use it.”
Embiid shot 3 for 10 in the first
half. He finished 7 for 16 and
scored 21 points in 39 minutes.

Embiid said he expects to undergo an MRI exam in Philadelphia on Monday but is likely to
keep playing even if doctors recommend surgery.
“I want to play,” he said. “I
would imagine that I keep playing and probably do something
after the season.”
Thaddeus Young scored 13
points, OG Anunoby had 10, and
newly crowned NBA rookie of the
year Scottie Barnes had six points
and 11 rebounds off the bench as
Toronto overcame an injury to
all-star guard Fred VanVleet to
stave off elimination.
After being called for a foul
with 4:57 to go in the second
quarter, VanVleet ripped his jersey apart in frustration and
walked off the court to the locker
room because of a strained left
hip.
“He’s been banged around
pretty good this year, and he
continues to lace it up and go out
there and play big minutes every
night,” Coach Nick Nurse said.
Nurse said VanVleet was going
for an MRI after the game.
VanVleet shot 2 for 6 and scored
five points in 15 minutes.
Ahead of tip-off, the NBA announced that Barnes had won the
rookie of the year award, edging
out Cleveland’s Evan Mobley.
The difference of 15 points was
the smallest margin in the rookie
category under the current voting format that began with the
2002-03 season.
Barnes left Game 1 of the series
after spraining his left ankle and
hadn’t played since but came off
the bench midway through the
first quarter Saturday.

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Amanda Kessel, 30, represented the United States at the past three Winter Olympics, taking home a gold medal in 2018 and silver in 2014 and 2022.

Kessel gets a shot in the NHL
BY

S TEPHEN W HYNO

U.S. women’s hockey star Amanda Kessel is
joining the Pittsburgh Penguins for an executive
management program that could put her on track
to work full time in an NHL front office.
Kessel is the first participant in the new program the team unveiled Wednesday. She follows
the lead of retired U.S. star and Hockey Hall of
Famer Cammi Granato and other women in NHL
management roles.
Kessel said she was excited to learn on the job
with the Penguins, where she’ll work alongside
team executives in hockey operations, marketing
and broadcasting departments.
“The Penguins presented me with the opportunity to use my experience and love for hockey in a
whole new capacity, and I look forward to making
the most of this program,” Kessel said in a statement.
Granato and former agent Émilie Castonguay
are assistant general managers with the Vancouver
Canucks, Kessel teammate Kendall Coyne Schofield is a player development coach for the Chicago
Blackhawks, and retired Canadian stars Hayley
Wickenheiser and Danielle Goyette work in player

Penguins hire Olympian in program
for prospective female executives
development for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
“It has been a priority for us at the league level
and at the clubs to make sure we’re creating a more
welcoming, inclusive environment to bring people
of all backgrounds, beliefs and orientations in the
game in whatever capacity that suits their skills,
whether it’s playing or being an executive,” NHL
Commissioner Gary Bettman told the Associated
Press. “I think it’s wonderful.”
The Penguins program is the first of its kind in
the NHL. Other teams following suit could open
the door for more women and minorities to
advance to management roles, which are still held
almost exclusively across the league by White men.
“The Penguins have always taken the lead in
innovation, and this is an example of us looking
ahead as an organization to drive diversity and
inclusion in the National Hockey League,” Penguins team president and CEO David Morehouse
said. “Our new executive management program

gives unprecedented access to women and minorities to attain permanent, front office executive
positions in hockey and other professional sports.”
Kessel, 30, represented the United States at the
past three Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal
in 2018 and taking home silver in 2014 and 2022.
She joins the team with which brother Phil won
the Stanley Cup twice. While playing at a Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association event
in Pittsburgh recently, she said the city has special
meaning to her family.
Kessel also said then that Granato and others
inspired her and teammates to envision working
in the NHL.
“If there’s a way, any place you want to stay in the
game, and especially at the National Hockey
League level, that’s kind of everybody’s dream,”
Kessel said at the time. “We didn’t see those
opportunities or it was more of a dream, but now
it’s a reality for a bunch. And it kind of paves the
way for the rest of us, knowing that if you’re not
playing, there are other avenues to still stay in the
game. And that’s huge for us. It’s people like
Cammi that are paving the way and hopefully
following in her footsteps.”
— Associated Press

NHL ROUNDUP

Carolina rallies late, remains in the Metropolitan driver’s seat
l PENGUINS 7, RED WINGS
2: Evgeni Malkin scored two goals

HURRICANES 3,
DEVILS 2 (OT)
A SSOCIATED P RESS
For 55 minutes against the lowly New Jersey Devils, the Carolina
Hurricanes were in danger of seeing their chances at winning the
Metropolitan Division take a major hit.
A couple of lucky bounces, a
never-give-up attitude and good
games from a pair of rookies
changed that.
Rookie Seth Jarvis scored at
1:39 of overtime off a nice assist
from defenseman Tony DeAngelo,
and the Hurricanes rallied from a
late two-goal deficit to beat the
Devils, 3-2, in Newark on Saturday.
“We’re going to have to play a
great team in the playoffs, so I
think it’s just good for the group to
know when we’re down and we’re
not playing our best we can still
find a way,” Carolina Coach Rob
Brind’Amour said. “That’s what
we’ll take out of this game.”
Rookie
goaltender
Pyotr
Kochetkov made 17 saves for Carolina to win in his NHL debut.
Carolina tied the game at 2 on
third-period goals by Brady Skjei
and Nino Niederreiter in the final
five minutes.
Yegor Sharangovich and Nico
Hischier staked the Devils to a 2-0
lead. Jon Gillies, who was minutes
away from his first NHL shutout,
made 26 saves for New Jersey in
his first start in a month.
“As hard as we worked and as
much we put into it, it’s a painful,
painful lesson,” Devils Coach Lindy Ruff said.
l PANTHERS

3,

MAPLE

LEAFS 2 (OT): In Sunrise, Fla.,

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Hurricanes rookie Seth Jarvis scored at 1:39 of overtime off a nice assist from Tony DeAngelo, top left.

Brandon Montour scored 2:26
into overtime and NHL-leading
Florida extended its winning
streak to a franchise-record 13 by
beating Toronto.
The winning streak matches
the seventh-longest in NHL history and is the league’s longest
since the Columbus Blue Jackets
won 16 straight in 2016-17.
Claude Giroux notched a goal
and two assists for the Panthers,
while Aleksander Barkov added a
goal and an assist and Mason
Marchment had two assists. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 34 shots.
Justin Hall and Mitch Marner
had goals for the Maple Leafs. Jack
Campbell finished with 32 saves.

l LIGHTNING
6, PREDATORS 2: In Tampa, Victor Hed-

man and Nikita Kucherov scored
first-period power-play goals, and
Tampa Bay defeated Nashville.
Kucherov finished with a goal
and two assists, Steve Stamkos
had a goal and an assist, and Anthony Cirelli and Ross Colton also
scored for the Lightning. Brian
Elliott made 19 saves.
Nashville defensemen Roman
Josi and Alexander Carrier scored
power-play goals. Josi became the
first NHL defenseman to reach the
90-point mark since Boston’s Ray
Bourque (91 in 1993-94).
Juuse Saros allowed six goals on
30 shots before being replaced by

David Rittich after Colton and Pat
Maroon scored 31 seconds apart
early in the third period. Rittich
made eight saves.
l BRUINS 3, RANGERS 1: David Pastrnak scored his team-leading 39th goal after missing the
previous eight games with an undisclosed injury, helping Boston
beat New York at home.
Taylor Hall and Trent Frederic
also scored for the Bruins, who are
jockeying for playoff seeding in
the Eastern Conference. Linus Ullmark made 30 stops.
Mika Zibanejad recorded his
29th goal of the season for the
Rangers, and Igor Shesterkin finished with 32 saves.

to help lead Pittsburgh to a victory
in Detroit.
Kris Letang had a goal and two
assists for the playoff-bound Penguins, who won for the third time
in four games. Sidney Crosby,
Rickard Rakell and Chad Ruhwedel each finished with a goal
and an assist.
Jakub Vrana and Michael Rasmussen scored for the Red Wings,
who have lost three straight.
Thomas Greiss made 18 saves in
the first two periods, and Alex
Nedeljkovic had 13 after him.
l STARS 3, KRAKEN 2: Roope
Hintz scored two goals in a span of
about two minutes to tie the score
and Vladislav Namestnikov got
the game-winner soon after to give
Dallas a much-needed home win
over Seattle.
Jake Oettinger stopped 30 of 32
shots for the Stars, who rebounded from losing all three games on
their trip to Canada that was made
even more miserable because of
travel issues. Their plane was unable to take off, and they had to
wait six hours for another one.
Chris Driedger had 28 saves for
the Kraken, which took a 2-0 lead
on goals from Riley Sheahan and
Yanni Gourde.
l SABRES

5, ISLANDERS 3:

Tage Thompson scored his teambest 37th goal during a three-goal
second-period surge, and Buffalo
beat visiting New York.
l SENATORS 6, CANADIENS
4: Mark Kastelic scored his first

NHL goal, and his second ended
up being the game-winner for host
Ottawa over Montreal.

l SHARKS
4,
BLACKHAWKS 1: Kaapo Kahkonen

made 27 saves, and San Jose beat
Chicago at home for just its second
win in 13 games.

Entering Saturday’s games.
GOALS
GP
Auston Matthews, Toronto ................................. 70
Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton.................................... 77
Chris Kreider, N.Y. Rangers ................................. 78
Alex Ovechkin, Washington ................................ 76
Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota ................................... 77
Kyle Connor, Winnipeg ........................................ 75
Connor McDavid, Edmonton ................................ 77
Alex DeBrincat, Chicago ...................................... 78
Matt Duchene, Nashville ..................................... 73
Jake Guentzel, Pittsburgh ................................... 72
Matthew Tkachuk, Calgary.................................. 78
Filip Forsberg, Nashville...................................... 64
Elias Lindholm, Calgary ....................................... 78
Aleksander Barkov, Florida ................................. 64
Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary ................................... 78
David Pastrnak, Boston ....................................... 69
Jason Robertson, Dallas ...................................... 70
Sebastian Aho, Carolina ...................................... 75
Mikko Rantanen, Colorado .................................. 73
Tage Thompson, Buffalo ..................................... 75

G
58
54
51
50
45
44
43
40
40
40
40
39
39
38
38
38
38
36
36
36

ASSISTS
GP
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida .............................. 77
Artemi Panarin, N.Y. Rangers ............................. 73
Connor McDavid, Edmonton ................................ 77
Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary ................................... 78
Roman Josi, Nashville ......................................... 75
Patrick Kane, Chicago .......................................... 74
J.T. Miller, Vancouver.......................................... 76
Adam Fox, N.Y. Rangers ...................................... 75
Mitch Marner, Toronto ........................................ 69
Matthew Tkachuk, Calgary.................................. 78
Nazem Kadri, Colorado ........................................ 67
Cale Makar, Colorado ........................................... 74
Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay ................................. 77
Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota ................................... 77
Kris Letang, Pittsburgh ....................................... 74
Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay .............................. 76
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado .............................. 62
Mikko Rantanen, Colorado .................................. 73
Morgan Rielly, Toronto........................................ 78
Mats Zuccarello, Minnesota................................ 70

A
83
74
73
71
69
65
63
61
61
60
58
58
56
56
56
56
55
55
55
55

POWER-PLAY GOALS
GP
Chris Kreider, N.Y. Rangers ................................. 78
Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton.................................... 77
Josh Norris, Ottawa............................................. 62
Alex Ovechkin, Washington ................................ 76
Mikko Rantanen, Colorado .................................. 73
Matt Duchene, Nashville ..................................... 73
Auston Matthews, Toronto................................. 70
Alex DeBrincat, Chicago ...................................... 78
Pierre-Luc Dubois, Winnipeg............................... 77
David Pastrnak, Boston ....................................... 69
Sam Reinhart, Florida.......................................... 74
Mika Zibanejad, N.Y. Rangers ............................. 78
Sebastian Aho, Carolina ...................................... 75
Bo Horvat, Vancouver.......................................... 70
Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota ................................... 77
William Nylander, Toronto .................................. 77
Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay .............................. 76
Joe Pavelski, Dallas ............................................. 78
Jason Robertson, Dallas ...................................... 70
Matthew Tkachuk, Calgary.................................. 78

PP
26
23
16
16
16
15
15
14
14
14
14
14
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12

SHORTHANDED GOALS
GP SH
5
Trevor Moore, Los Angeles.................................. 79
Aleksander Barkov, Florida ................................. 64
4
Alex Formenton, Ottawa..................................... 75
4
Isac Lundestrom, Anaheim.................................. 76
4
Ilya Mikheyev, Toronto........................................ 49
4
4
Gustav Nyquist, Columbus .................................. 78
Cam Atkinson, Philadelphia ................................ 73
3
Kyle Connor, Winnipeg ........................................ 75
3
Roope Hintz, Dallas ............................................. 76
3
3
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida .............................. 77
Adrian Kempe, Los Angeles................................. 76
3
3
Chris Kreider, N.Y. Rangers ................................. 78
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Washington ......................... 75
3
Adam Lowry, Winnipeg ....................................... 75
3
3
Mitch Marner, Toronto ........................................ 69
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edmonton....................... 59
3
2
Mathieu Joseph, Tampa Bay ............................... 69
Artturi Lehkonen, Montreal ................................ 70
2
Brad Marchand, Boston ....................................... 66
2
2
Valeri Nichushkin, Colorado ................................ 59
POWER-PLAY ASSISTS
GP PPA
Adam Fox, N.Y. Rangers ...................................... 75 33
Connor McDavid, Edmonton ................................ 77 32
Artemi Panarin, N.Y. Rangers ............................. 73 32
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida .............................. 77 31
Quinn Hughes, Vancouver ................................... 72 31
J.T. Miller, Vancouver.......................................... 76 29
Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay ................................. 77 26
Roman Josi, Nashville ......................................... 75 26
Cale Makar, Colorado ........................................... 74 25
Patrick Kane, Chicago .......................................... 74 22
Teuvo Teravainen, Carolina ................................. 73 22
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh................................... 65 21
Mikael Granlund, Nashville ................................. 75 21
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edmonton....................... 59 21
Mats Zuccarello, Minnesota................................ 70 21
Nazem Kadri, Colorado ........................................ 67 20
Kris Letang, Pittsburgh ....................................... 74 20
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado .............................. 62 20
Morgan Rielly, Toronto........................................ 78 20
Jakub Voracek, Columbus.................................... 75 20
SHORTHANDED ASSISTS
GP SHA
Mika Zibanejad, N.Y. Rangers ............................. 78
4
3
Patrice Bergeron, Boston .................................... 69
Connor Brown, Ottawa ........................................ 64
3
John Carlson, Washington .................................. 74
3
3
Cody Ceci, Edmonton ........................................... 74
Phillip Danault, Los Angeles................................ 77
3
3
Aaron Ekblad, Florida........................................... 61
Yanni Gourde, Seattle.......................................... 69
3
Zach Hyman, Edmonton ...................................... 72
3
3
Alexander Kerfoot, Toronto ................................ 78
Anton Lundell, Florida ......................................... 62
3
3
Logan O'Connor, Colorado ................................... 78
Jean-Gabriel Pageau, N.Y. Islanders ................... 74
3
Alex Pietrangelo, Vegas ...................................... 76
3
3
Morgan Rielly, Toronto........................................ 78
Dominic Toninato, Winnipeg ............................... 73
3
2
Blake Lizotte, Los Angeles .................................. 67
Tomas Nosek, Boston.......................................... 70
2
Matt Roy, Los Angeles ........................................ 65
2
Moritz Seider, Detroit ......................................... 78
2
POWER-PLAY POINTS
GP PPP
Connor McDavid, Edmonton ................................ 77 41
Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton.................................... 77 39
J.T. Miller, Vancouver.......................................... 76 37
Artemi Panarin, N.Y. Rangers ............................. 73 37
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida .............................. 77 36
Roman Josi, Nashville ......................................... 75 35
Mikko Rantanen, Colorado .................................. 73 35
Chris Kreider, N.Y. Rangers ................................. 78 34
Adam Fox, N.Y. Rangers ...................................... 75 33
Cale Makar, Colorado ........................................... 74 33
Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay ................................. 77 31
Quinn Hughes, Vancouver ................................... 72 31
Patrick Kane, Chicago .......................................... 74 31
Teuvo Teravainen, Carolina ................................. 73 31
William Nylander, Toronto .................................. 77 30
Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay .............................. 76 30
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh................................... 65 29
Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota ................................... 77 29
Sam Reinhart, Florida.......................................... 74 29
Matthew Tkachuk, Calgary.................................. 78 29
SHORTHANDED POINTS
GP SHP
Trevor Moore, Los Angeles.................................. 79
6
Aleksander Barkov, Florida ................................. 64
5
Alex Formenton, Ottawa..................................... 75
5
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida .............................. 77
5
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Washington ......................... 75
5
Adam Lowry, Winnipeg ....................................... 75
5
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edmonton....................... 59
5
Mika Zibanejad, N.Y. Rangers ............................. 78
5
GAME-WINNING GOALS
GP GW
Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton.................................... 77 11
Chris Kreider, N.Y. Rangers ................................. 78 11
Jason Robertson, Dallas ...................................... 70 10
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh................................... 65
9
Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary ................................... 78
9
Auston Matthews, Toronto................................. 70
9
Connor McDavid, Edmonton ................................ 77
9
David Pastrnak, Boston ....................................... 69
9
Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay .............................. 76
9
Vladimir Tarasenko, St. Louis ............................. 71
9
Sebastian Aho, Carolina ...................................... 75
8
Kyle Connor, Winnipeg ........................................ 75
8
Filip Forsberg, Nashville...................................... 64
8
Elias Lindholm, Calgary ....................................... 78
8
Andrew Mangiapane, Calgary ............................. 78
8
Timo Meier, San Jose .......................................... 72
8
Josh Norris, Ottawa............................................. 62
8
SHOTS
GP
Auston Matthews, Toronto................................. 70
Alex Ovechkin, Washington ................................ 76
Connor McDavid, Edmonton ................................ 77
Timo Meier, San Jose .......................................... 72
David Pastrnak, Boston ....................................... 69
Kyle Connor, Winnipeg ........................................ 75
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado .............................. 62
Patrick Kane, Chicago .......................................... 74
Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota ................................... 77
Brady Tkachuk, Ottawa ....................................... 75
Patrice Bergeron, Boston .................................... 69
Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton.................................... 77
Roman Josi, Nashville ......................................... 75
Alex DeBrincat, Chicago ...................................... 78
Jake Guentzel, Pittsburgh ................................... 72
Kevin Fiala, Minnesota ........................................ 78

S
330
330
306
306
304
303
286
276
274
273
271
268
263
257
253
252

PLUS-MINUS RATING
GP +/Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary ................................... 78 60
Elias Lindholm, Calgary ....................................... 78 56
Matthew Tkachuk, Calgary.................................. 78 53
Devon Toews, Colorado ....................................... 64 52
Cale Makar, Colorado ........................................... 74 48
Alex Goligoski, Minnesota................................... 69 45
Gustav Forsling, Florida ...................................... 68 40
MacKenzie Weegar, Florida................................. 77 40
Justin Faulk, St. Louis ......................................... 72 39
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida .............................. 77 39
Aleksander Barkov, Florida ................................. 64 38
Aaron Ekblad, Florida........................................... 61 38
Mikko Rantanen, Colorado .................................. 73 38
Nick Jensen, Washington .................................... 72 34
Anton Lundell, Florida ......................................... 62 34
Christopher Tanev, Calgary ................................. 78 34
Oliver Kylington, Calgary..................................... 69 33
Pavel Buchnevich, St. Louis................................. 69 31
Radko Gudas, Florida ........................................... 74 31
Jaccob Slavin, Carolina ........................................ 76 31

D8

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THE WASHINGTON POST

M2

. SUNDAY,

APRIL 24 , 2022

scoreboard
P RO B A S KET B A L L

HO C KEY

NBA playoffs

Celtics 109, Nets 103

PLAY-IN TOURNAMENT — FIRST ROUND
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
EASTERN CONFERENCE

Boston ................................ 30
Brooklyn ............................. 25

at Brooklyn 115, Cleveland 108

WESTERN CONFERENCE

at Minnesota 109, L.A. Clippers 104

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
EASTERN CONFERENCE

at Atlanta 132, Charlotte 103

WESTERN CONFERENCE

at New Orleans 113, San Antonio 103

PLAY-IN TOURNAMENT — SECOND ROUND
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlanta 107, at Cleveland 101

WESTERN CONFERENCE

New Orleans 105, at L.A. Clippers 101

FIRST ROUND

Best of seven; x-If necessary

BOSTON
Horford
Tatum
Theis
J.Brown
Smart
Williams
Williams III
White
Pritchard
TOTALS

23
25

NHL
28
22

28 — 109
31 — 103

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
28:05
1-2 0-0 1-3 3 3
3
44:37 13-29 9-10 2-5 6 4 39
17:18
4-6 0-0 3-6 2 1
9
37:37 9-16 4-4 1-4 5 1 23
38:07 6-15 0-0 2-3 6 4 14
32:29
3-7 0-0 3-5 1 3
7
15:34
1-1 0-0 1-2 1 0
2
13:46
1-3 0-0 0-6 1 1
2
12:27
4-5 0-0 0-0 1 2 10
240 42-84 13-14 13-34 26 19 109

Percentages: FG .500, FT .929. 3-Point Goals: 12-39, .308
(Tatum 4-13, Pritchard 2-3, Smart 2-10, Horford 1-2,
Theis 1-2, Williams 1-3, J.Brown 1-4, White 0-2). Team
Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 3
(Horford 2, Williams III). Turnovers: 14 (Tatum 6,
J.Brown 3, Smart 2, Horford, White, Williams). Steals:
13 (Tatum 6, J.Brown 2, Smart 2, Pritchard, White,
Williams). Technical Fouls: None.

HEAT LEAD HAWKS, 2-1

BROOKLYN
B.Brown
Durant
Drummond
Curry
Irving
Mills
Claxton
Dragic
Griffin
TOTALS

CELTICS LEAD NETS, 3-0

Percentages: FG .506, FT .813. 3-Point Goals: 12-29, .414
(Mills 4-5, Durant 2-3, Griffin 2-3, Curry 2-4, B.Brown
2-7, Irving 0-7). Team Rebounds: 13. Team Turnovers: 3.
Blocked Shots: 5 (B.Brown, Claxton, Griffin, Irving,
Mills). Turnovers: 18 (B.Brown 5, Durant 5, Dragic 2,
Irving 2, Claxton, Curry, Drummond, Griffin). Steals: 7
(Irving 3, B.Brown 2, Curry, Durant). Technical Fouls:
None. A: 18,175 (17,732).

EASTERN CONFERENCE
76ERS LEAD RAPTORS, 3-1

Game 1: at Philadelphia 131, Toronto 111
Game 2: at Philadelphia 112, Toronto 97
Game 3: Philadelphia 104, at Toronto 101 (OT)
Game 4: at Toronto 110, Philadelphia 102
Monday's game: Toronto at Philadelphia, 8, NBA TV
x-Thursday's game: Philadelphia at Toronto, TBD, TBD
x-Saturday’s game: Toronto at Philadelphia, TBD, TBD
Game 1: at Miami 115, Atlanta 91
Game 2: at Miami 115, Atlanta 105
Game 3: at Atlanta 111, Miami 110
Sunday's game: Miami at Atlanta, 7, TNT
Tuesday's game: Atlanta at Miami, 7, NBA TV
x-Thursday's game: Miami at Atlanta, TBD, TBD
x-Saturday’s game: Atlanta at Miami, TBD, TBD
Game 1: at Boston 115, Brooklyn 114
Game 2: at Boston 114, Brooklyn 107
Game 3: Boston 109, at Brooklyn 103
Monday's game: Boston at Brooklyn, 7, TNT
x-Wednesday's game: Brooklyn at Boston, TBD, TBD
x-Friday's game: Boston at Brooklyn, TBD, TBD
x-Sunday, May 1: Brooklyn at Boston, TBD, TBD

BUCKS LEAD BULLS, 2-1

Game 1: at Milwaukee 93, Chicago 86
Game 2: Chicago 114, at Milwaukee 110
Game 3: Milwaukee 111, at Chicago 81
Sunday's game: Milwaukee at Chicago, 1, ABC
Wednesday's game: Chicago at Milwaukee, TBD, TBD
x-Friday's game: Milwaukee at Chicago, TBD, TBD
x-Sunday, May 1: Chicago at Milwaukee, TBD, TBD

WESTERN CONFERENCE
GRIZZLIES LEAD TIMBERWOLVES, 2-1

Game 1: Minnesota 130, at Memphis 117
Game 2: at Memphis 124, Minnesota 106
Game 3: Memphis 104, at Minnesota 95
Game 4: Memphis at Minnesota, late
Tuesday’s game: Minnesota at Memphis, 7:30, TNT
x-Friday's game: Memphis at Minnesota, TBD, TBD
x-Sunday, May 1: Minnesota at Memphis, TBD, TBD

WARRIORS LEAD NUGGETS, 3-0

Game 1: at Golden State 123, Denver 107
Game 2: at Golden State 126, Denver 106
Game 3: Golden State 118, at Denver 113
Sunday's game: Golden State at Denver, 3:30, ABC
x-Wednesday’s game: Denver at Golden State, TBD
x-Friday’s game: Golden State at Denver, TBD, TBD
x-Sunday, May 1: Denver at Golden State, TBD, TBD

MAVERICKS AND JAZZ TIED, 2-2

Game 1: Utah 99, at Dallas 93
Game 2: at Dallas 110, Utah 104
Game 3: Dallas 126, at Utah 118
Game 4: at Utah 100, Dallas 99
Monday's game: Utah at Dallas, 9:30, TNT
Thursday’s game: Dallas at Utah, TBD, TBD
x-Saturday’s game: Utah at Dallas, TBD, TBD

SUNS LEAD PELICANS, 1-1

Game 1: at Phoenix 110, New Orleans 99
Game 2: New Orleans 125, at Phoenix 114
Game 3: Phoenix 114, at New Orleans 111
Sunday's game: Phoenix at New Orleans, 9:30, TNT
Tuesday’s game: New Orleans at Phoenix, 10, TNT
x-Thursday’s game: Phoenix at New Orleans, TBD, TBD
x-Saturday’s game: New Orleans at Phoenix, TBD, TBD

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
40:24 10-19 4-6 3-8 3 5 26
45:54 6-11 2-2 1-8 8 3 16
15:30
1-3 0-0 1-3 1 3
2
34:10
4-8 0-0 1-1 2 4 10
43:13 6-17 4-4 1-3 9 5 16
23:12
4-5 0-0 0-1 0 0 12
20:51
6-9 1-2 3-7 1 0 13
8:53
0-1 0-0 1-1 1 1
0
7:52
2-4 2-2 1-1 0 1
8
240 39-77 13-16 12-33 25 22 103

Late Friday

Phoenix ............................... 28
New Orleans ....................... 29

PHOENIX
Bridges
Crowder
Ayton
Johnson
Paul
Shamet
Payne
McGee
Craig
Biyombo
TOTALS

31
19

22
31

33 — 114
32 — 111

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
40:20
4-9 9-9 0-2 2 3 17
34:07 4-10 2-2 2-4 3 5 10
34:48 13-20 1-1 2-17 1 2 28
26:33
3-7 0-2 0-1 0 3
8
39:55 10-18 7-8 2-4 14 2 28
29:30
2-7 1-1 2-3 3 2
5
12:49
1-5 1-2 0-1 2 3
3
12:03
7-8 1-2 1-3 0 0 15
9:35
0-3 0-0 0-0 1 1
0
0:20
0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0
0
240 44-87 22-27 9-35 26 21 114

Percentages: FG .506, FT .815. 3-Point Goals: 4-26, .154
(Johnson 2-5, Ayton 1-1, Paul 1-6, Bridges 0-1, Craig 0-1,
Payne 0-2, Crowder 0-5, Shamet 0-5). Team Rebounds: 8.
Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 3 (Ayton, Bridges,
Craig). Turnovers: 5 (Shamet 2, Ayton, Bridges, Johnson). Steals: 8 (Ayton 3, Bridges, Crowder, McGee, Paul,
Payne). Technical Fouls: Crowder, 5:13 second.
NEW ORLEANS
Hayes
Ingram
Valanciunas
Jones
McCollum
Nance Jr.
Murphy III
Alvarado
Graham
Marshall
TOTALS

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
9:58
1-1 2-2 0-6 0 2
4
36:42 11-19 9-10 0-7 2 2 34
26:02
1-5 4-4 5-11 1 3
6
39:35
5-7 2-3 2-3 1 3 12
40:41 11-23 4-8 0-4 7 2 30
23:20
1-8 0-0 3-4 1 6
2
22:41
0-3 0-0 0-3 0 1
0
16:44
4-6 0-0 0-1 1 4
9
12:57
3-6 3-4 1-5 1 1 12
11:20
1-1 0-0 0-1 3 4
2
240 38-79 24-31 11-45 17 28 111

Percentages: FG .481, FT .774. 3-Point Goals: 11-32, .344
(McCollum 4-11, Graham 3-6, Ingram 3-6, Alvarado 1-2,
Jones 0-1, Murphy III 0-2, Nance Jr. 0-4). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5 (Nance
Jr. 2, Ingram, McCollum, Valanciunas). Turnovers: 14
(Valanciunas 4, Alvarado 2, Ingram 2, McCollum 2,
Graham, Hayes, Jones, Nance Jr.). Steals: 4 (McCollum
2, Jones, Valanciunas). Technical Fouls: None.

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

T E NNI S

TBD

CONFERENCE FINALS
TBD

BARCELONA OPEN

TBD

At Real Club de Tenis Barcelona
Purse: $3,021,881
Surface: Red clay

FRIDAY’S RESULTS
SINGLES — ROUND OF 16

Raptors 110, 76ers 102
Philadelphia ........................ 24
Toronto ............................... 24
PHILADELPHIA
Green
Harris
Embiid
Harden
Maxey
Niang
Milton
Reed
Joe
Korkmaz
Springer
TOTALS

25
30

28
26

25 — 102
30 — 110

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
27:46 2-10 0-0 1-3 2 2
6
40:49 7-12 0-0 0-11 2 5 15
39:20 7-16 7-9 2-8 3 4 21
42:13 5-17 10-11 1-5 9 2 22
39:29 4-12 2-3 0-6 6 2 11
22:05
3-4 0-0 0-1 1 6
9
15:28
2-3 2-2 0-1 0 1
7
8:39
3-4 0-0 2-5 0 3
8
1:23
1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0
3
1:23
0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1
0
1:23
0-1 0-0 0-1 1 0
0
240 34-80 21-25 6-41 24 26 102

Percentages: FG .425, FT .840. 3-Point Goals: 13-31, .419
(Niang 3-4, Reed 2-2, Green 2-7, Harden 2-8, Joe 1-1,
Milton 1-1, Maxey 1-3, Harris 1-4, Embiid 0-1). Team
Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5
(Harden 3, Harris 2). Turnovers: 15 (Embiid 5, Harden 4,
Harris 3, Reed 2, Maxey). Steals: 4 (Harden, Harris,
Maxey, Reed). Technical Fouls: Embiid, 3:06 fourth.
TORONTO
Anunoby
Siakam
Birch
Trent Jr.
VanVleet
Young
Barnes
Achiuwa
Boucher
Flynn
Banton
Mykhailiuk
Watanabe
Brooks
TOTALS

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
31:29 3-13 4-5 2-5 2 4 11
43:39 10-19 13-15 0-8 5 3 34
5:49
0-1 0-0 2-3 0 0
0
39:02 8-20 5-5 1-3 1 1 24
14:33
2-6 0-0 2-2 3 2
5
29:49
6-9 0-2 4-5 5 4 13
25:34
1-6 4-5 0-11 2 3
6
24:25
2-6 1-2 2-4 1 1
5
19:02
4-5 0-0 0-5 0 1
9
1:23
0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0
0
1:19
1-1 1-1 0-0 0 0
3
1:19
0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1
0
1:19
0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0
0
1:18
0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0
0
240 37-88 28-35 13-46 19 20 110

Percentages: FG .420, FT .800. 3-Point Goals: 8-34, .235
(Trent Jr. 3-10, Boucher 1-1, VanVleet 1-3, Young 1-3,
Siakam 1-4, Anunoby 1-7, Achiuwa 0-2, Barnes 0-4).
Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked
Shots: 6 (Boucher 2, Siakam 2, Trent Jr., Young).
Turnovers: 11 (Achiuwa 3, Siakam 3, Anunoby 2, Birch,
Trent Jr., Watanabe). Steals: 9 (Young 3, Trent Jr. 2,
Anunoby, Banton, Boucher, Siakam). Technical Fouls:
Anunoby, 2:00 fourth. A: 19,800 (19,800).

Casper Ruud (2), Norway, def. Emil Ruusuvuori, Finland,
6-2, 6-2; Felix Auger-Aliassime (3), Canada, def. Frances
Tiafoe (13), United States, 7-5, 6-4; Diego Schwartzman
(6), Argentina, def. Lorenzo Musetti, Italy, 6-4, 7-5;
Pablo Carreno Busta (8), Spain, def. Lorenzo Sonego
(11), Italy, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2; Alex de Minaur (10), Australia,
def. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, 6-0, ret; Carlos Alcaraz
(5), Spain, def. Jaume Munar, Spain, 6-3, 6-3; Stefanos
Tsitsipas (1), Greece, def. Grigor Dimitrov (14), Bulgaria,
6-1, 6-4; Cameron Norrie (4), Britain, def. Marton
Fucsovics, Hungary, 7-5, 6-7 (9), 6-4.

SINGLES — QUARTERFINALS

Diego Schwartzman (6), Argentina, def. Felix AugerAliassime (3), Canada, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; Pablo Carreno Busta
(8), Spain, def. Casper Ruud (2), Norway, 4-6, 7-6 (10-8),
6-3; Alex de Minaur (10), Australia, def. Cameron Norrie
(4), Britain, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1; Carlos Alcaraz (5), Spain, def.
Stefanos Tsitsipas (1), Greece, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.

DOUBLES — QUARTERFINALS

Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, and Neal Skupski, Britain,
def. Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez, Spain, walkover;
Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies, Germany, def. Robert
Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal (4), Colombia, 6-4, 7-5;
Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Marcelo ArevaloGonzalez, El Salvador, def. Pedro Martinez, Spain, and
Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).

SERBIA OPEN

At Novak Tennis Center; In Belgrade
Purse: $644,685
Surface: Red clay

SINGLES — SEMIFINALS

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Karen Khachanov (3),
Russia, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; Andrey Rublev (2), Russia, def.
Fabio Fognini (6), Italy, 6-2, 6-2.

DOUBLES — CHAMPIONSHIP

Gonzalo Escobar, Ecuador, and Ariel Behar, Uruguay, def.
Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic (1), Croatia, 6-2, 3-6, 10-7.

Dallas .................................. 23
Utah .................................... 24

DALLAS
Bullock
Finney-Smith
Powell
Brunson
Doncic
Dinwiddie
Kleber
Green
Bertans
TOTALS

19
30

39
24

18 — 99
22 — 100

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
45:40
4-9 0-0 1-7 1 2 11
39:46
4-7 0-0 1-4 3 2 11
23:49
3-3 5-8 2-7 1 3 11
35:19 7-18 7-8 1-5 3 3 23
33:44 11-21 4-4 0-10 4 3 30
23:50
2-9 0-0 2-2 3 4
5
18:23
1-4 0-0 0-6 0 6
3
16:15
1-4 1-2 0-1 0 3
4
3:13
0-2 1-1 0-1 0 3
1
240 33-77 18-23 7-43 15 29 99

Percentages: FG .429, FT .783. 3-Point Goals: 15-44, .341
(Doncic 4-10, Finney-Smith 3-6, Bullock 3-8, Brunson
2-5, Green 1-4, Kleber 1-4, Dinwiddie 1-5, Bertans 0-2).
Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 2
(Bullock, Finney-Smith). Turnovers: 11 (Doncic 4, Dinwiddie 2, Powell 2, Bertans, Finney-Smith, Kleber).
Steals: 4 (Doncic 2, Dinwiddie, Finney-Smith). Technical
Fouls: None.
UTAH
Bogdanovic
O'Neale
Gobert
Conley
Mitchell
Clarkson
Whiteside
House Jr.
Hernangomez
Paschall
TOTALS

MIN
FG
FT O-T A PF PTS
38:47 4-10 3-4 0-4 2 5 12
33:17
3-8 0-0 0-6 3 1
7
32:24
4-8 9-18 10-15 1 4 17
23:58
2-8 1-2 0-2 4 1
6
37:48 7-21 7-9 1-6 7 3 23
36:09 9-16 4-5 1-4 0 3 25
13:30
1-1 0-2 1-5 0 2
2
12:46
0-4 2-2 0-2 0 2
2
9:12
2-3 0-0 0-1 0 0
6
2:06
0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0
0
240 32-79 26-42 13-46 17 21 100

Percentages: FG .405, FT .619. 3-Point Goals: 10-35, .286
(Clarkson 3-5, Hernangomez 2-3, Mitchell 2-10, Conley
1-4, Bogdanovic 1-5, O’Neale 1-6, House Jr. 0-2). Team
Rebounds: 17. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 3
(Whiteside 3). Turnovers: 8 (Clarkson 3, Gobert 2,
Bogdanovic, House Jr., Mitchell). Steals: 4 (Mitchell 2,
Clarkson, Whiteside). Technical Fouls: Gobert, 00:19
first. A: 18,306 (18,306).

H IGH SC H O O L S
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
BASEBALL
MARYLAND
James Hubert Blake 11, Northwood 3
SOFTBALL
MARYLAND
James Hubert Blake 20, Northwood 2
Watkins Mill 16, Rockville 0
BOYS' TENNIS
MARYLAND
Watkins Mill 4, James Hubert Blake 3

L OT Pts GF GA
15
6 120 328 224
21
7 109 303 248
22
8 104 267 219
25
5 101 239 210
38 11 73 229 283
39 10 70 222 306
41
7 69 218 256
48 11 51 204 309

TORONTO .......................... 2
FLORIDA ............................ 0

METROPOLITAN
GP
y-Carolina..................... 79
y-N.Y. Rangers............. 79
y-Pittsburgh................. 79
y-Washington .............. 78
N.Y. Islanders............... 78
Columbus ..................... 78
New Jersey .................. 78
Philadelphia ................. 78

W
51
51
45
44
35
35
27
24

L OT Pts GF GA
20
8 110 263 194
22
6 108 245 197
23 11 101 265 217
23 11 99 268 229
33 10 80 216 224
36
7 77 248 287
43
8 62 238 288
43 11 59 204 286

OVERTIME

EAST
W
Philadelphia........................5
Orlando City........................4
New York ............................3
Atlanta ...............................3
Toronto FC..........................3
CF Montréal........................3
Charlotte FC .......................3
Chicago ...............................2
D.C. United .........................3
Columbus............................2
New York City FC................2
New England ......................2
Cincinnati ...........................2
Inter Miami CF....................2

L
1
2
2
2
2
3
5
2
4
3
3
5
4
4

T Pts
2 17
2 14
2 11
2 11
2 11
2 11
1 10
4 10
0
9
3
9
1
7
1
7
1
7
1
7

GF
12
10
10
9
11
14
8
5
10
10
11
12
8
7

GA
5
7
6
9
12
17
11
5
10
9
6
16
14
15

CENTRAL
GP
zz-Colorado .................. 78
y-Minnesota................. 78
xy-St. Louis.................. 78
Nashville ...................... 78
Dallas ........................... 79
Winnipeg...................... 78
Chicago......................... 79
x-Arizona ..................... 78

W
55
50
47
44
44
35
26
22

L OT Pts GF GA
17
6 116 301 218
21
7 107 295 241
20 11 105 293 223
29
5 93 249 233
30
5 93 228 238
32 11 81 237 252
42 11 63 210 284
50
6 50 189 298

PACIFIC
GP
xz-Calgary .................... 78
y-Edmonton ................. 78
x-Los Angeles .............. 79
Vegas ........................... 78
x-Vancouver................. 78
San Jose....................... 78
x-Anaheim ................... 78
Seattle ......................... 78

W
48
46
42
42
38
31
30
26

L OT Pts GF GA
20 10 106 279 195
26
6 98 275 240
27 10 94 228 228
31
5 89 250 232
29 11 87 236 223
35 12 74 203 247
34 14 74 220 255
46
6 58 205 271

WEST
W
Austin FC............................5
Los Angeles FC ...................5
FC Dallas.............................4
Minnesota United ..............4
x-LA Galaxy ........................4
Houston ..............................3
x-Real Salt Lake .................3
x-Nashville .........................3
x-Portland...........................2
x-Seattle.............................3
Colorado..............................2
Sporting KC ........................2
Vancouver...........................1
x-San Jose ..........................0

L
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
6
6
4

T Pts
2 17
1 16
3 15
2 14
1 13
3 12
3 12
2 11
4 10
1 10
3
9
1
7
1
4
3
3

GF
20
17
12
11
9
11
9
8
10
9
9
6
6
11

GA
7
7
5
6
6
9
13
8
13
8
11
14
17
17

x-Late game; y-Clinched playoff spot
z-Clinched division; zz-Clinched conference

WTA
At Porsche Arena; In Stuttgart, Germany
Purse: $491,760
Surface: Red clay
Aryna Sabalenka (3), Belarus, def. Paula Badosa (2),
Spain, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4; Iga Swiatek (1), Poland, def.
Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, 6-7 (7-4), 6-4, 7-5.

DOUBLES — SEMIFINALS

Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, and Desirae Krawczyk (2),
United States, def. Cristina Bucsa, Spain, and Tamara
Zidansek, Slovenia, 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 10-7; Zhang Shuai,
China, and Coco Gauff (1), United States, def. Shuko
Aoyama, Japan, and Hao-Ching Chan (4), Taiwan, 6-2,
6-3.

At Garanti Koza Arena; In Istanbul
Purse: $235,238
Surface: Red clay

SINGLES — SEMIFINALS

Anastasia Potapova, Russia, def. Yulia Putintseva,
Kazakhstan, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; Veronika Kudermetova (3),
Russia, def. Sorana Cirstea (2), Romania, 6-3, 6-3.

DOUBLES — SEMIFINALS

Natela Dzalamidze and Kamilla Rakhimova, Russia, def.
Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls, Britain, 0-6, 6-4, 10-8;
Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, and Marie Bouzkova (3),
Czech Republic, def. Oksana Kalashnikova, Georgia, and
Miyu Kato, Japan, 6-4, 6-3.

T RA N S A C TI O NS
WNBA
Atlanta Dream: Waived G Que Morrison.
Indiana Fever: Announced G Ali Patberg cleared waivers.
Phoenix Mercury: Announced F/C Macee Williams
cleared waivers.

NHL
Buffalo Sabres: Recalled G Aaron Dell from Rochester
(AHL).
Calgary Flames: Promoted G Dustin Wolf from Stockton
(AHL).
Colorado Avalanche: Recalled G Justus Annunen from
Colorado (AHL) loan.
Detroit Red Wings: Recalled RW Riley Barber and LW
Taro Hirose from Grand Rapids (AHL).
Minnesota Wild: Recalled F Joseph Cramarossa from
Iowa (AHL).
Ottawa Senators: Recalled RW Scott Sabourin from
Belleville (AHL) loan.
Philadelphia Flyers: Recalled G Felix Sandstrom from
Lehigh Valley (AHL) loan.
Toronto Maple Leafs: Recalled D Carl Dahlstrom from
Toronto (AHL).
Winnipeg Jets: Reassigned G Mikhail Berdin to Manitoba (AHL).

MLS
Columbus Crew: Signed F Noah Fuson from Columbus
Crew 2 to a short-term loan agreement.

0 — 2
1 — 3

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Toronto, Marner 35 (Brodie, Rielly), 3:25. 2,
Toronto, Holl 3 (Kampf, Brodie), 17:20.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 3, Florida, Barkov 39 (Giroux, Marchment), 6:26.
4, Florida, Giroux 21 (Barkov, Huberdeau), 14:54 (pp).
Scoring: 5, Florida, Montour 10 (Marchment, Giroux),
2:26.

SHOTS ON GOAL
10
12
1 — 36
TORONTO ........................ 13
FLORIDA ............................ 8
16
9
2 — 35
Power-play opportunities: Toronto 0 of 2; Florida 1 of 2.
Goalies: Toronto, Campbell 30-9-6 (35 shots-32 saves).
Florida, Bobrovsky 39-6-3 (36-34). A: 17,132 (19,250). T:
2:29.

Senators 6, Canadiens 4
MONTREAL .............................. 1
OTTAWA .................................. 1

2
5

1 —
0 —

4
6

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Ottawa, Kastelic 1 (Sabourin, Tierney), 2:33.
2, Montreal, R.Pitlick 14 (Evans), 15:57.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 3, Ottawa, Watson 9 (Holden, Kelly), 0:44. 4,
Ottawa, Kelly 7 (Watson), 6:43. 5, Ottawa, Norris 34
(Batherson, Tkachuk), 7:15. 6, Ottawa, Kastelic 2
(Sabourin), 7:50. 7, Montreal, Caufield 20 (Hoffman,
Savard), 8:43. 8, Montreal, Edmundson 3 (Evans, Petry),
17:17. 9, Ottawa, Formenton 18, 18:05 (sh).

SHOTS ON GOAL
16
16 — 48
MONTREAL ............................ 16
18
2 — 26
OTTAWA .................................. 6
Power-play opportunities: Montreal 0 of 4; Ottawa 0 of
5. Goalies: Montreal, Price 0-4-0 (26 shots-20 saves).
Ottawa, Forsberg 20-17-4 (48-44). A: 19,410 (18,572). T:
2:37.

SATURDAY’S RESULTS
at Buffalo 5, N.Y. Islanders 3
Pittsburgh 7, at Detroit 2
Carolina 3, at New Jersey 2 (OT)
at Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 1
at Ottawa 6, Montreal 4
at Tampa Bay 6, Nashville 2
at Florida 3, Toronto 2 (OT)
at San Jose 4, Chicago 1
at Dallas 3, Seattle 2
St. Louis at Arizona, late
Vancouver at Calgary, late
Anaheim at Los Angeles, late

Sharks 4, Blackhawks 1
CHICAGO .................................. 0
SAN JOSE ................................ 1

1
2

0 —
1 —

1
4

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, San Jose, Weatherby 5 (Reedy, Chmelevski),
6:03.

SECOND PERIOD

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Scoring: 2, San Jose, Hertl 29 (Meier), 1:08. 3, San Jose,
Meier 34 (Barabanov), 10:34. 4, Chicago, T.Johnson 3
(S.Jones, Toews), 15:38.

Toronto at Washington, 7
Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 1
Detroit at New Jersey, 1
Edmonton at Columbus, 1
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 4
Boston at Montreal, 7
Colorado at Winnipeg, 7
Tampa Bay at Florida, 7
Minnesota at Nashville, 8
St. Louis at Anaheim, 8:30
San Jose at Vegas, 10

THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 5, San Jose, Bonino 13 (Burns, Couture), 6:19
(pp).

SHOTS ON GOAL
10
9 — 28
CHICAGO .................................. 9
SAN JOSE ................................ 4
7
8 — 19
Power-play opportunities: Chicago 0 of 2; San Jose 1 of 3.
Goalies: Chicago, Lankinen 6-15-6 (19 shots-15 saves).
San Jose, Kahkonen 14-12-4 (28-27). A: 17,562 (17,562).
T: 2:15.

MONDAY’S GAME
Philadelphia at Chicago, 8

Stars 3, Kraken 2

Sabres 5, Islanders 3
N.Y. ISLANDERS ...................... 1
BUFFALO ................................. 1

0
3

2 —
1 —

3
5

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Mittelstadt 5 (Fitzgerald, Okposo),
12:11. 2, N.Y. Islanders, Barzal 15 (Aho, Dobson), 17:09.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 3, Buffalo, Dahlin 13 (Skinner, Tuch), 1:17 (pp).
4, Buffalo, Thompson 37 (Bryson, Olofsson), 4:05. 5,
Buffalo, Hinostroza 13 (Girgensons, Bjork), 12:48.
Scoring: 6, N.Y. Islanders, Dobson 12 (Chara, Parise),
8:45. 7, N.Y. Islanders, Bellows 5 (Pulock, Koivula),
10:22. 8, Buffalo, Skinner 33 (Olofsson, Thompson),
12:40.

SHOTS ON GOAL
5
11 — 22
N.Y. ISLANDERS ...................... 6
10
13 — 35
BUFFALO ............................... 12
Power-play opportunities: N.Y. Islanders 0 of 2; Buffalo 1
of 6. Goalies: N.Y. Islanders, Sorokin 25-17-8 (35
shots-30 saves). Buffalo, Tokarski 9-11-5 (22-19). A:
12,955 (19,070). T: 2:25.

SEATTLE .................................. 2
DALLAS .................................... 0

0
3

0 —
0 —

2
3

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Seattle, Sheahan 3 (Larsson, Oleksiak), 6:50.
2, Seattle, Gourde 20 (Pouliot, Lind), 18:33.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 3, Dallas, Hintz 36 (Robertson, Pavelski), 6:53.
4, Dallas, Hintz 37 (Robertson, Oettinger), 8:58 (pp). 5,
Dallas, Namestnikov 15 (Gurianov), 11:34.

SHOTS ON GOAL
9
14 — 32
SEATTLE .................................. 9
DALLAS .................................. 12
14
5 — 31
Power-play opportunities: Seattle 0 of 1; Dallas 1 of 2.
Goalies: Seattle, Driedger 8-13-1 (31 shots-28 saves).
Dallas, Oettinger 28-15-1 (32-30). A: 18,532 (18,532). T:
2:31.

Capitals 2, Coyotes 0
Late Friday

WASHINGTON ......................... 1
ARIZONA ................................. 0

0
0

1 —
0 —

2
0

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Washington, Sheary 18 (Schultz, Backstrom), 11:33.

Penguins 7, Red Wings 2
PITTSBURGH ........................... 2
DETROIT .................................. 1

3
1

2 —
0 —

7
2

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Pittsburgh, Ruhwedel 4 (McGinn, Blueger),
13:44. 2, Pittsburgh, Crosby 30 (Letang, Rakell), 15:18. 3,
Detroit, Vrana 13 (Seider, Bertuzzi), 16:36 (pp).

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 4, Detroit, Rasmussen 13 (Greiss, DeKeyser),
0:17. 5, Pittsburgh, Rakell 20 (Matheson), 7:44. 6,
Pittsburgh, Letang 9 (Dumoulin), 11:37. 7, Pittsburgh,
Malkin 18 (Guentzel, Crosby), 16:23 (pp).

THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 8, Pittsburgh, Heinen 18 (Carter, Letang), 5:38.
9, Pittsburgh, Malkin 19 (Zucker, Ruhwedel), 19:34.

SHOTS ON GOAL
16
15 — 38
PITTSBURGH ........................... 7
DETROIT .................................. 9
12
4 — 25
Power-play opportunities: Pittsburgh 1 of 1; Detroit 1 of
2. Goalies: Pittsburgh, DeSmith 10-5-5 (25 shots-23
saves). Detroit, Nedeljkovic 19-23-9 (15-13), Detroit,
Greiss 10-15-1 (23-18). A: 19,515 (20,000). T: 2:26.

Hurricanes 3, Devils 2 (OT)
CAROLINA ......................... 0
NEW JERSEY ..................... 0

0
1

2
1

1 — 3
0 — 2

SECOND PERIOD

Scoring: 2, New Jersey, Hischier 21 (Okhotiuk, Sharangovich), 8:30. 3, Carolina, Skjei 9, 15:24. 4, Carolina,
Niederreiter 24 (DeAngelo, Fast), 18:04.

OVERTIME
Scoring: 5, Carolina, Jarvis 16 (DeAngelo), 1:39.

N.Y. RANGERS ......................... 0
BOSTON ................................... 1

0
1

1 —
1 —

1
3

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Boston, Pastrnak 39 (McAvoy, Marchand),
19:25.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 2, Boston, Hall 18 (Haula, Pastrnak), 1:07.

THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 3, N.Y. Rangers, Zibanejad 29 (Kreider, Lafreniere), 2:58 (pp). 4, Boston, Frederic 7 (Coyle, Smith),
9:37.

SHOTS ON GOAL
N.Y. RANGERS ....................... 12
10
9 — 31
BOSTON ................................. 10
18
7 — 35
Power-play opportunities: N.Y. Rangers 1 of 3; Boston 0
of 3. Goalies: N.Y. Rangers, Shesterkin 36-12-4 (35
shots-32 saves). Boston, Ullmark 24-10-2 (31-30). A:
17,850 (17,565). T: 2:29.

Lightning 6, Predators 2

NASHVILLE .............................. 1
TAMPA BAY ............................ 3

1
1

0 —
2 —

2
6

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Tampa Bay, Hedman 20 (Stamkos, Kucherov),
1:51 (pp). 2, Tampa Bay, Cirelli 17 (Sergachev), 10:59. 3,
Nashville, Josi 21 (Duchene, Forsberg), 17:18 (pp). 4,
Tampa Bay, Kucherov 21 (Point), 19:40 (pp).

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 5, Nashville, Carrier 3 (Ekholm, Tomasino),
10:42 (pp). 6, Tampa Bay, Stamkos 35 (Kucherov, Palat),
13:58.

THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 7, Tampa Bay, Colton 22 (Paul, Hedman), 1:37.
8, Tampa Bay, Maroon 11 (Stamkos), 2:08.

SHOTS ON GOAL
NASHVILLE .............................. 8
9
4 — 21
TAMPA BAY .......................... 13
11
15 — 39
Power-play opportunities: Nashville 2 of 4; Tampa Bay 2
of 2. Goalies: Nashville, Saros 38-25-3 (30 shots-24
saves), Nashville, Rittich 5-3-2 (9-9). Tampa Bay, Elliott
11-3-3 (21-19). A: 19,092 (19,092). T: 2:36.

Charlotte FC 0, Rapids 0

x-Late match

SATURDAY, APRIL 16
Austin FC 3, at D.C. United 2
at CF Montréal 2, Vancouver 1
Nashville 2, at San Jose 2
Cincinnati 0, at Atlanta 0
Portland 0, at Houston 0
FC Dallas 0, at New York 0
at New England 2, Charlotte FC 1
Orlando City 2, at Columbus 0
at Toronto FC 2, Philadelphia 1
at Minnesota 3, Colorado 1
LA Galaxy 0, at Chicago 0
Miami 1, at Seattle 0

SUNDAY, APRIL 17

SATURDAY’S RESULTS
at D.C. United 3, New England 2
at FC Dallas 2, Houston 1
CF Montréal 1, at Philadelphia 1
at Minnesota 3, Chicago 0
at Austin FC 3, Vancouver 0
Charlotte FC 0, at Colorado 0
Columbus 0, at Sporting KC 0
Real Salt Lake at Portland, late
Seattle at San Jose, late
Nashville at LA Galaxy, late

SUNDAY’S MATCHES
Atlanta at Miami, 1
New York at Orlando City, 3:30
Los Angeles FC at Cincinnati, 5
Toronto FC at New York City FC, 5

SATURDAY’S MATCHES
D.C. United at Columbus, 7:30
Austin FC at Houston, 1:30
Cincinnati at Toronto FC, 3
LA Galaxy at Real Salt Lake, 3:30
Atlanta at CF Montréal, 4
Miami at New England, 7:30
Charlotte FC at Orlando City, 7:30
New York at Chicago, 8
FC Dallas at Sporting KC, 8:30
Portland at Colorado, 9
Vancouver at Seattle, 10

D.C. United 3, Revolution 2
NEW ENGLAND
1
1
2
D.C. UNITED
3
0
3
First Half: 1, New England, Bye, 2 (Boateng), 6th minute;
2, D.C. United, Fountas, 1, 26th; 3, D.C. United, Estrada, 3
(Fountas), 39th; 4, D.C. United, Fountas, 2, 43rd.
Second Half: 5, New England, Buksa, 2, 86th.
Goalies: New England, Brad Knighton, Earl Edwards Jr.;
D.C. United, Jon Kempin, Luis Zamudio.
Yellow Cards: Gressel, D.C. United, 33rd; Jones, New
England, 65th; Buksa, New England, 87th; Kessler, New
England, 89th+3.
New England, Brad Knighton; Brandon Bye, Andrew
Farrell, Omar Gonzalez (Henry Kessler, 46th), DeJuan
Jones; Emmanuel Boateng (Damian Rivera, 58th), Carles
Gil, Sebastian Lletget (Tommy McNamara, 75th), Matt
Polster; Adam Buksa, Justin Rennicks (Jozy Altidore,
58th).
D.C. United, Jon Kempin; Steven Birnbaum, Julian
Gressel, Brendan Hines-Ike, Donovan Pines, Bradley
Shaun Smith (Theodore Ku-Dipietro, 83rd); Chris Durkin,
Edison Flores (Drew Skundrich, 79th), Russell Canouse;
Michael Estrada (Nigel Robertha, 60th, Tony Alfaro,
83rd), Taxiarchis Fountas (Jackson Hopkins, 60th).

CF Montréal 1, Union 1

Scoring: 2, Washington, Carlson 16 (Sheary, Dowd),
19:24 (en).

MONTRÉAL
0
1
1
PHILADELPHIA
1
0
1
First Half: 1, Philadelphia, Carranza, 3 (penalty kick),
21st minute.
Second Half: 2, Montréal, Kamara, 2 (Quioto), 59th.
Goalies: Montréal, Sebastian Breza, James Pantemis;
Philadelphia, Andre Blake, Matt Freese.
Yellow Cards: Bedoya, Philadelphia, 55th; Waterman,
Montréal, 61st; Martinez, Philadelphia, 82nd; Miller,
Montréal, 90th; Wagner, Philadelphia, 90th+1; Bassong,
Montréal, 90th+3.
A: 18,476.
Montréal, Sebastian Breza; Rudy Camacho, Alistair
Johnston, Kamal Miller, Joel Waterman; Ismael Kone
(Samuel Piette, 82nd), Lassi Lappalainen (Zorhan Bassong, 82nd), Djordje Mihailovic, Victor Wanyama; Sunusi Ibrahim (Kei Kamara, 46th), Romell Quioto.
Philadelphia, Andre Blake; Jack Elliott, Jakob Glesnes,
Kai Wagner; Alejandro Bedoya, Leon Maximilian Flach
(Jack McGlynn, 66th), Daniel Gazdag, Nathan Harriel,
Jose Martinez; Julian Carranza (Cory Burke, 67th),
Mikael Uhre (Paxten Aaronson, 89th).

SHOTS ON GOAL
8
9 — 29
WASHINGTON ....................... 12
5
8 — 19
ARIZONA ................................. 6
Power-play opportunities: Washington 0 of 4; Arizona 0
of 0. Goalies: Washington, Vanecek 20-11-5 (19 shots19 saves). Arizona, Vejmelka 12-32-3 (28-27). A: 14,053
(17,125). T: 2:23.

Oilers 6, Avalanche 3
Late Friday

COLORADO .............................. 1
EDMONTON ............................. 0

1
4

1 —
2 —

3
6

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Colorado, Nichushkin 23 (Makar, Byram),
8:29.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 2, Edmonton, Kane 18 (McDavid), 2:41. 3,
Edmonton, Bouchard 11 (Nugent-Hopkins, Russell),
4:03. 4, Colorado, Nichushkin 24 (Burakovsky, MacKinnon), 4:18. 5, Edmonton, Kane 19 (Keith, Yamamoto),
8:19. 6, Edmonton, Kane 20 (McDavid, Kulak), 14:20.

THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 7, Edmonton, Yamamoto 19 (McDavid, Kane),
10:45. 8, Colorado, MacKinnon 32 (Compher, Burakovsky), 18:20. 9, Edmonton, Russell 2 (Draisaitl), 18:47
(en).

SHOTS ON GOAL
12
16 — 37
COLORADO .............................. 9
EDMONTON ............................. 8
10
9 — 27
Power-play opportunities: Colorado 0 of 6; Edmonton 0
of 2. Goalies: Colorado, Kuemper 36-11-3 (26 shots-21
saves). Edmonton, Smith 15-9-2 (37-34). A: 18,347
(18,641). T: 2:31.

AUTO RACIN G
NASCAR Cup Series
GEICO 500 LINEUP

After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday
At Talladega Superspeedway; In Talladega, Ala.
Lap length: 2.66 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 180.928 mph.
2. (19) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 180.652.
3. (16) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 179.929.
4. (99) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 179.885.
5. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 179.817.
6. (45) Kurt Busch, Toyota, 179.814.
7. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 179.635.
8. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 179.608.
9. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 179.541.
10. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 179.329.
11. (31) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 178.944.
12. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 178.940.
13. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 178.750.
14. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 178.650.
15. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 178.570.
16. (43) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 178.563.
17. (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 178.540.
18. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 178.480.
19. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 178.467.
20. (42) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 178.361.
21. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 178.297.
22. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 178.181.
23. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 178.178.
24. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 178.155.
25. (21) Harrison Burton, Ford, 178.112.
26. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 177.986.
27. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 177.950.
28. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 177.531.
29. (41) Cole Custer, Ford, 177.521.
30. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford, 177.452.
31. (62) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 177.369.
32. (38) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 176.751.
33. (7) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 176.663.
34. (51) Cody Ware, Ford, 175.138.
35. (44) Greg Biffle, Chevrolet, 174.773.
36. (15) David Ragan, Ford, 173.736.
37. (78) BJ McLeod, Ford, 173.702.
38. (55) JJ Yeley, Ford, 172.038.
39. (77) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, .000.

NASCAR Cup Series
POINTS LEADERS

Through April 18
1. Chase Elliott, 324.
2. Ryan Blaney, 321.
3. Joey Logano, 303.
4. William Byron, 295.
5. Kyle Busch, 273.
6. Alex Bowman, 273.

CHARLOTTE FC
0
0
0
COLORADO
0
0
0
First Half: None.
Second Half: None.
Goalies: Charlotte FC, Kristijan Kahlina, George Marks;
Colorado, William Yarbrough, Clinton Irwin.
Yellow Cards: Alcivar, Charlotte FC, 44th; Corujo, Charlotte FC, 53rd; Ortiz, Charlotte FC, 63rd; Lewis, Colorado,
66th.
Charlotte FC, Kristijan Kahlina; Guzman Corujo, Christian Fuchs, Jaylin Lindsey, Joseph Mora; Jordy Alcivar
(Sergio Ruiz, 69th), Brandt Bronico, Alan Franco (Derrick
Jones, 90th); Cristian Ortiz (Benjamin Bender, 69th),
Daniel Rios (McKinze Gaines, 90th), Karol Swiderski.
Colorado, William Yarbrough; Lalas Abubakar, Steven
Beitashour, Keegan Rosenberry, Auston Trusty, Gustavo Vallecilla (Lucas Esteves, 60th); Michael Barrios
(Gyasi Zardes, 60th), Mark-Anthony Kaye (Max, 85th),
Jack Price (Collen Warner, 44th); Diego Rubio, Andre
Shinyashiki (Jonathan Lewis, 60th).

NWSL
CHALLENGE CUP
EAST
GP
North Carolina ................. 6
Washington ..................... 6
Gotham FC ....................... 6
Orlando ............................ 6

W
3
2
1
0

D
3
4
3
2

L GF GA Pts
0 12 7 12
0 12 7 10
2 5 8 6
4 4 11 2

CENTRAL
GP
Kansas City...................... 5
Chicago ............................ 5
Louisville ......................... 5
Houston ........................... 5

W
3
2
1
1

D
1
2
3
0

L GF GA Pts
1 8 6 10
1 7 4 8
1 7 5 6
4 5 12 3

WEST
GP
x-OL Reign ....................... 5
Portland ........................... 5
x-San Diego ..................... 5
Angel City FC ................... 5

FC Dallas 2, Dynamo 1
HOUSTON
1
0
1
DALLAS
0
2
2
First Half: 1, Houston, Ferreira, 3 (Lundqvist), 33rd
minute.
Second Half: 2, Dallas, Ntsabeleng, 1, 87th; 3, Dallas,
Quignon, 1, 90th+3.
Goalies: Houston, Steve Clark, Michael Nelson; Dallas,
Maarten Paes, James Maurer.
Yellow Cards: Farfan, Dallas, 2nd; Dorsey, Houston,
35th; Cerrillo, Dallas, 71st; Carrasquilla, Houston, 78th;
Bartlow, Houston, 90th+2; Quignon, Dallas, 90th+5.
A: 15,792.
Houston, Steve Clark; Ethan Bartlow, Adam Lundqvist,
Tim Parker, Tyler Pasher (Corey Baird, 76th); Adalberto
Carrasquilla (Sam Junqua, 90th+4), Griffin Dorsey, Fafa
Picault, Matias Vera (Darwin Ceren, 68th); Sebastian
Ferreira (Thorleifur Ulfarsson, 77th), Darwin Quintero
(Memo Rodriguez, 46th).
Dallas, Maarten Paes; Marco Farfan, Matt Hedges, Jose
Antonio Martinez; Paul Arriola, Edwin Cerrillo (Facundo
Quignon, 84th), Paxton Pomykal (Franco Jara, 67th),
Brandon Servania (Tsiki Ntsabeleng, 84th); Jesus Ferreira, Ema Twumasi (Joshue Quinonez, 84th), Alan
Velasco.

Minnesota United 3, Fire 0
CHICAGO
0
0
0
MINNESOTA
0
3
3
First Half: None.
Second Half: 1, Minnesota, Reynoso, 2 (Hlongwane),
72nd minute; 2, Minnesota, Arriaga, 1 (Reynoso), 84th;
3, Minnesota, Lod, 3 (Hlongwane), 88th.
Goalies: Chicago, Gabriel Slonina, Spencer Richey; Minnesota, Dayne St. Clair, Tyler Miller.
Yellow Cards: Navarro, Chicago, 35th; Trapp, Minnesota,
36th; Gimenez, Chicago, 41st; Navarro, Chicago, 52nd.
Chicago, Gabriel Slonina; Rafael Czichos, Miguel Navarro, Wyatt Omsberg, Boris Sekulic; Gaston Gimenez,
Brian Gutierrez (Jonathan Bornstein, 63rd), Federico
Navarro, Xherdan Shaqiri (Mauricio Pineda, 82nd);
Stanislav Ivanov (Jhon Espinoza, 78th), Kacper Przybylko (Jhon Jader Duran, 82nd).
Minnesota, Dayne St. Clair; Michael Boxall, Bakaye
Dibassy, Oniel Fisher, Kemar Lawrence; Kervin Arriaga,
Robin Lod (Adrien Hunou, 89th), Emanuel Reynoso
(Joseph Rosales, 85th), Wil Trapp; Luis Amarilla (Bongokuhle Hlongwane, 62nd), Franco Fragapane (Abu
Danladi, 62nd).

Austin FC 3, Whitecaps 0
VANCOUVER
0
0
0
AUSTIN FC
2
1
3
First Half: 1, Austin FC, Urruti, 3 (Driussi), 11th minute;
2, Austin FC, Urruti, 4 (Ring), 26th.
Second Half: 3, Austin FC, Driussi, 6 (Cascante), 68th.
Goalies: Vancouver, Thomas Hasal, Cody Cropper; Austin
FC, Bradley Stuver, Andrew Tarbell.
Yellow Cards: Blackmon, Vancouver, 25th; Ring, Austin
FC, 35th; Gabrielsen, Austin FC, 45th+1; Cavallini,
Vancouver, 75th; Pereira, Austin FC, 90th; White,
Vancouver, 90th+3.
Vancouver, Thomas Hasal; Tristan Blackmon, Marcus
Godinho, Jake Nerwinski, Ranko Veselinovic; Michael
Baldisimo, Ryan Raposo (Ali Ahmed, 57th), Russell
Teibert, Pedro Vite (Cristian Dajome, 46th); Lucas
Cavallini (Tosaint Ricketts, 79th), Brian White.
Austin FC, Bradley Stuver; Julio Cascante, Ruben Gabrielsen, Nicholas Lima (Hector Jimenez, 70th); Diego
Fagundez (Owen Wolff, 79th), Ethan Finlay, Daniel
Pereira, Alexander Ring; Sebastian Driussi (Felipe Martins, 83rd), Jon Gallagher, Maximiliano Urruti.

W
4
3
1
0

D
1
1
1
1

L
0
1
3
4

GF GA Pts
10 4 13
8 4 10
8 10 4
5 13 1

x-Late match

SATURDAY’S RESULTS

Washington 2, at North Carolina 2
Orlando 1, at Gotham FC 1
OL Reign at San Diego Wave FC, late

at New York City FC 6, Real Salt Lake 0
at Los Angeles FC 3, Sporting KC 1

THIRD PERIOD

SHOTS ON GOAL
9
9
2 — 29
CAROLINA ......................... 9
NEW JERSEY ..................... 6
5
8
0 — 19
Power-play opportunities: Carolina 0 of 2; New Jersey 1
of 3. Goalies: Carolina, Kochetkov 1-0-0 (19 shots-17
saves). New Jersey, Gillies 3-10-2 (29-26). A: 10,376
(16,514). T: 2:30.

Bruins 3, Rangers 1
ISTANBUL CUP

0
0

Scoring: 10, Montreal, R.Pitlick 15 (Dvorak, Gallagher),
8:19.

THIRD PERIOD

TENNIS GRAND PRIX

0
2

THIRD PERIOD

FRIDAY’S RESULTS

Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Sharangovich 23 (Severson,
Boqvist), 15:43 (pp).

SINGLES — SEMIFINALS

Jazz 100, Mavericks 99

MLS

W
57
51
48
48
31
30
31
20

THIRD PERIOD

ATP

NBA FINALS

Panthers 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)

ATLANTIC
GP
zz-Florida ..................... 78
y-Toronto ..................... 79
y-Tampa Bay ................ 78
y-Boston ...................... 78
Buffalo ......................... 80
Detroit.......................... 79
Ottawa ......................... 79
Montreal ...................... 79

Washington 2, at Arizona 0
Ottawa 2, at Columbus 1 (SO)
at Minnesota 6, Seattle 3
at Edmonton 6, Colorado 3

Suns 114, Pelicans 111

S OCCER

GOLF
PGA Tour
ZURICH CLASSIC

At TPC Louisiana; In Avondale, La.
Purse: $8.3 million; Yardage: 7,425; Par: 72

THIRD ROUND
P.Cantlay/X.Schauffele ................ 59 68 60
B.Grace/G.Higgo ........................... 64 65 63
A.Rai/D.Lipsky .............................. 61 67 65
B.Horschel/S.Burns ...................... 62 68 63
J.Day/J.Scrivener .......................... 65 65 63
C.Tringale/W.Clark ....................... 62 67 65
J.Lower/D.Wu ............................... 64 69 63
R.Brehm/M.Hubbard ..................... 65 69 62
B.Stuard/R.Knox ........................... 63 70 64
B.Watson/H.Varner III .................. 62 71 64
D.Redman/S.Ryder ....................... 61 67 69
I.Poulter/S.Lowry ......................... 64 69 64
M.NeSmith/T.Moore ..................... 60 73 64
H.Lebioda/C.Seiffert ..................... 63 70 65
K.Bradley/B.Steele ....................... 64 71 63
M.Homa/T.Gooch .......................... 66 68 64
P.Rodgers/B.Wu ........................... 65 68 65
S.Im/B.An ...................................... 65 69 64
C.Smith/M.Leishman .................... 65 68 66
C.Tarren/D.Skinns ......................... 64 72 63
J.Rose/H.Stenson ......................... 66 70 63
S.Horsfield/M.Wallace ................. 64 70 65
S.Piercy/S.O'Hair .......................... 66 70 63
S.Scheffler/R.Palmer .................... 64 72 63
T.Duncan/A.Schenk ...................... 64 72 63
T.Hatton/D.Willett ....................... 63 72 64
W.Zalatoris/D.Riley ...................... 64 71 64
B.Todd/C.Kirk ................................ 64 70 66
C.Morikawa/V.Hovland ................. 65 70 65
C.Schwartzel/C.Bezuidenhout ...... 67 68 65
C.Thompson/N.Hardy ................... 66 69 65
J.Hahn/K.Chappell ........................ 64 71 66
K.Kisner/S.Brown ......................... 66 70 65
M.Gligic/R.Armour ........................ 65 69 67
D.Ghim/M.Schwab ........................ 65 71 67
J.Dahmen/S.Jaeger ...................... 63 73 67
K.Stanley/C.Villegas ..................... 65 71 67
B.Haas/J.Haas .............................. 65 71 68
K.Kitayama/K.Aphibarnrat ........... 66 70 68

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-24
-23
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-22
-20
-20
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217
217
217
217
217
217
218
218
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218

-11
-7
-6
-6
-6
-4
-4
-4
-3
-3
-3
-3
-3
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-2
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
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LPGA Tour
LA OPEN
At Wilshire Country Club; In Los Angeles
Purse: $1.5 million
Yardage: 6,447; Par: 71

THIRD ROUND
Nasa Hataoka ................................ 67 68 67
Hannah Green ............................... 70 67 69
Haeji Kang ..................................... 69 69 69
Jin Young Ko ................................. 71 64 72
Inbee Park ..................................... 72 67 68
Chella Choi ..................................... 71 71 67
Minjee Lee ..................................... 70 68 71
Lilia Vu .......................................... 74 69 66
Celine Boutier ............................... 69 71 70
Amanda Doherty ........................... 70 70 70
Sei Young Kim ............................... 68 72 70
Yu Liu ............................................. 71 68 71
Yealimi Noh ................................... 73 71 66
Marina Alex ................................... 71 71 69
Jenny Coleman .............................. 73 67 71
Allisen Corpuz ............................... 72 71 68
Eun-Hee Ji ..................................... 73 70 68
Sanna Nuutinen ............................ 71 70 70
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard ............ 69 72 70
Madelene Sagstrom ...................... 69 72 70
Lizette Salas ................................. 69 70 72
Angel Yin ....................................... 74 68 69
Pajaree Anannarukarn .................. 70 71 71
Ana Belac ...................................... 73 71 68
Hye Jin Choi ................................... 71 74 67
Gemma Dryburgh .......................... 71 71 70
Jodi Ewart Shadoff ....................... 70 73 69
Janie Jackson ................................ 68 75 69
Stacy Lewis ................................... 71 72 69
Giulia Molinaro .............................. 72 73 67
Ryann O'Toole ............................... 70 70 72
Lauren Stephenson ....................... 69 73 70
Dewi Weber ................................... 68 73 71
Ruoning Yin ................................... 71 69 72
Matilda Castren ............................ 74 71 68
Carlota Ciganda ............................. 72 68 73
Nanna Koerstz Madsen ................. 72 71 70
Alison Lee ...................................... 66 74 73
Katherine Perry-Hamski ............... 70 74 69
Emma Talley .................................. 67 74 72
Georgia Hall ................................... 71 69 74
Danielle Kang ................................ 72 71 71
Maude-Aimee Leblanc .................. 74 71 69
Gaby Lopez .................................... 73 69 72
Sung Hyun Park ............................. 73 69 72
Paula Reto ..................................... 73 69 72
Rachel Rohanna Virgili .................. 69 73 72
Atthaya Thitikul ............................ 70 74 70
Brittany Altomare ......................... 71 71 73
Ayaka Furue .................................. 70 73 72
Isi Gabsa ........................................ 75 68 72
Min Lee .......................................... 75 70 70
Emily Pedersen ............................. 67 72 76
So Yeon Ryu .................................. 68 74 73
Yuka Saso ...................................... 75 66 74
Patty Tavatanakit ......................... 73 69 73
Ashleigh Buhai .............................. 72 72 72
Ariya Jutanugarn .......................... 75 70 71
Frida Kinhult ................................. 71 74 71
Sarah Schmelzel ........................... 72 72 72
Hinako Shibuno ............................. 71 74 71
Peiyun Chien .................................. 69 75 73
Cheyenne Knight ........................... 72 73 72
Jennifer Kupcho ............................ 75 69 73
Xiyu Lin .......................................... 74 71 72
Pernilla Lindberg ........................... 73 72 72
Jenny Shin ..................................... 73 71 73
Charlotte Thomas ......................... 73 72 72
Christina Kim ................................ 72 73 73
Bronte Law .................................... 70 73 75
Hee Young Park ............................. 71 71 76
Jennifer Song ................................ 68 77 73
Kelly Tan ........................................ 75 70 73

PRO F OOTBALL
USFL
All games played in Birmingham, Ala.
NORTH
W
New Jersey ........................1
Philadelphia.......................1
Pittsburgh .........................0
Michigan ............................0

L
1
1
2
2

T
0
0
0
0

PF
34
47
26
18

PA
34
46
47
27

SOUTH
W
Birmingham.......................2
Tampa Bay.........................1
New Orleans ......................1
Houston .............................1

L
0
0
0
1

T Pct PF
0 1.000 61
0 1.000 17
0 1.000 23
0 .500 45

PA
52
3
17
49

WEEK 2
FRIDAY’S RESULT

at New Jersey 10, Michigan 6

SATURDAY’S RESULTS

at Philadelphia 30, Pittsburgh 23
Birmingham 33, at Houston 28

SUNDAY’S GAME

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 3

WEEK 3
SATURDAY, APRIL 30

Tampa Bay at Houston, 4
Birmingham at New Orleans, 8

SUNDAY, MAY 1

Pittsburgh at Michigan, 2:30
New Jersey at Philadelphia, 8

WEEK 4

Philadelphia at Michigan, TBD
New Jersey at Pittsburgh, TBD
Houston at New Orleans, TBD

SATURDAY, MAY 7

Tampa Bay at Birmingham, 7

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THE WASHINGTON POST

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M2

SOCCER ROUNDUP

Jesus’s surprising four-goal eruption helps City expand Premier League lead
MANCHESTER CITY 5,
WATFORD 1
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Manchester City striker Gabriel
Jesus scored more goals in 53
minutes Saturday than he had in
the previous eight months in the
English Premier League.
Becoming the first player in the
league to score four goals in one
game this season, Jesus led City to
a 5-1 thrashing of Watford to open
a four-point lead over secondplace Liverpool in the title race.
Liverpool can reduce that back
to one point with five matches left

by beating Everton in the Merseyside derby Sunday. . . .
Erik ten Hag looks increasingly
likely to take over a Manchester
United team missing from the
Champions League.
Potentially a squad of superstars in disarray, too.
Despite Cristiano Ronaldo
making an emotional scoring return, United was upended, 3-1, at
Arsenal to drop six points off its
rival in the race for a top-four
finish. . . .
Aston Villa snapped a fourgame losing streak with a 0-0
draw at Leicester. . . .
Joelinton scored twice in his
100th Premier League appearance
for Newcastle as it climbed into

the top half of the standings with a
3-0 win over host Norwich. . . .
Tottenham failed to put a shot
on target in drawing with Brentford, 0-0, to dent its hopes of a
top-four finish.
l GERMANY: Bayern Munich
completed a decade of domestic
dominance by beating main rival
Borussia Dortmund, 3-1, to seal a
record-extending 10th consecutive Bundesliga title.
Bayern’s 10th straight German
championship is a record among
Europe’s top five leagues, eclipsing the nine Serie A titles in a row
by Juventus from 2012 to 2020. . . .
Greuther Fürth was relegated
after losing at home to Bayer
Leverkusen, 4-1. . . .

Union came from behind
thanks to substitute Sven Michel
to beat Leipzig on the road, 2-1, to
atone for its loss to Leipzig in their
German Cup semifinal. . . .
Freiburg sits in fifth place after
a 3-3 draw with Borussia
Mönchengladbach.
l ITALY: Defending champion
Inter Milan gave a signal of intent
as it crushed Roma, 3-1, to move
atop Serie A on a miserable return
to San Siro for former coach José
Mourinho.
Inter moved a point above AC
Milan, which faces a tricky trip to
Lazio on Sunday. . . .
Luis Muriel scored one goal and
set up two others as Atalanta
bounced back from three straight

defeats to win at relegationthreatened Venezia, 3-1.
l FRANCE:
Halftime boos
were replaced by raucous cheering when Paris Saint-Germain
clinched
a
record-tying
10th French league title by drawing with Lens, 1-1. . . .
Monaco is making a strong finish in the race for a Champions
League berth after extending its
winning streak to six games by
defeating Saint-Etienne, 4-1, to
move into third place.
l SPAIN: Real Betis beat Valencia, 5-4, on penalties to win the
Copa del Rey in Seville after teenager Yunus Musah missed the only
spot kick in the shootout that
finished early Sunday.

l MLS: In Frisco, Tex., Facundo Quignon scored in the third
minute of stoppage time to send
FC Dallas (4-1-3) to a 2-1 win over
the Houston Dynamo (3-2-3). . . .
Kei Kamara scored in the
59th minute to help CF Montreal
(3-3-2) earn a 1-1 draw with the
Philadelphia Union (5-1-2). . . .
Emanuel Reynoso broke a
scoreless tie in the 72nd minute to
power Minnesota United (4-2-2)
to a 3-0 victory over the Chicago
Fire (2-2-4) in St. Paul, Minn. . . .
Maximiliano Urruti scored two
first-half goals, Sebastian Driussi
added his league-leading sixth after halftime, and host Austin FC
(5-1-2) cruised to a 3-0 victory over
the Vancouver Whitecaps (1-6-1).

After no HBCU players were drafted last year, NFL adjusted
HBCU FROM D1

believed their programs had talent worthy of being drafted but
lacked the requisite attention
from NFL teams.
In the past year, partly in response and partly because the
ebbing of the pandemic allowed
for changes that would have come
sooner, the NFL and other advocates boosted evaluators’ awareness of players from HBCUs.
The NFL hosted the first HBCU
combine, with representatives
from all 32 teams studying players from 22 schools. The NFL
partnered with the Black College
Football Hall of Fame for the
Legacy Bowl, an all-star game
and week of practice in New
Orleans solely for prospects from
HBCUs. At the NFL’s urging, traditional college all-star games
such as the Senior Bowl and
East-West Shrine Bowl extended
more invitations to HBCU players.
The NFL wanted to create
more “touchpoints” between its
teams and HBCU players, said
Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive
vice president of football operations. The pandemic played a role
in no HBCU players being drafted
last year, canceling 2020 seasons
for smaller programs and pushing teams toward safe picks. Still,
many believed HBCUs, which
have produced Hall of Famers
such as Jerry Rice and Walter
Payton and contemporary stars
such as Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard, had been
unfairly overlooked.
“We were going to have success
in this area,” Vincent said. “Why?
Because we were intentional.
When is the last time you saw an
HBCU pro day covered on television? It happened. That’s the exposure and the awareness that
the student-athlete needs and the
institution needs to generate interest.”
Few players took advantage
more than Adams, a four-year
starter at free safety who immediately vaulted onto scouts’ radars
with his combine performance.
He could be taken in a late round,
and if not he would be coveted as
an undrafted free agent. He is not
alone. Southern offensive lineman Ja’Tyre Carter, Jackson State
edge rusher James Houston,
South Carolina State cornerback
Cobie Durant, Florida A&M safety Markquese Bell and Alabama
A&M quarterback Aqeel Glass
could hear their names called
next weekend.
Doug Williams, who attended
Grambling and became the first
Black quarterback to win the
Super Bowl, last year called the
absence of HBCU players in the
draft “a travesty.” As a trustee and
co-founder of the Black College
Football Hall of Fame, he helped
organize the Legacy Bowl and
attended practices all week. He
believes three to five HBCU players should be drafted, with at
least 10 signing with teams for
training camp as draftees or undrafted free agents.
“Anything short of that, to be
honest with you, would be a
disappointment,” Williams said.
The past year’s efforts ensured
that NFL teams would see more
HBCU players. Whether those
teams act on that knowledge will
be determined next weekend.
“We did better,” Vincent said.
“We made progress. Now the real
report card comes.”
Looking for attention
Before the 2018 season, Evan
Jones became the assistant defensive backs coach at Virginia State,
a Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association program in Petersburg, about 20 miles south of
Richmond. As he surveyed his
new players, he knew immediately that Adams was different.
“The first time I saw him play
and move around, I thought to
myself, ‘Wow, how did this kid end
up at Virginia State?’ ” Jones said.
“Everything about him said he
should have played D-I football.”

JONATHAN BACHMAN/GETTY IMAGES

Will Adams ran the
40-yard dash in
4.57 seconds at the
HBCU combine, above,
in Mobile, Ala. In
preparing for the draft,
Adams has been working
out five days a week with
a personal trainer in
Richmond, as seen
below.

“That they didn’t
have anybody
drafted from an
HBCU the previous
year to now,
they’re putting all
this focus on HBCU
players, it couldn’t
have been a better
time for me.”
Will Adams, Virginia State
safety, on the increased
exposure players such as him
have received after the NFL
made a concerted effort over
the past year to help
showcase a previously
overlooked segment of
prospects.

Adams had slipped through
the recruiting cracks. At Hermitage High, a teammate beat him
out for starting safety in his junior season. Adams didn’t attend
the camps that provide exposure
and boost recruiting rankings. “I
kind of was invisible,” he said.
Adams spoke to some Division
I coaches about walking on, but
he felt most comfortable at Virginia State, his father’s alma mater. “I just wanted to go where I
was wanted,” Adams said. “It was
just a different feeling, just being
in a different environment but
also familiar. That just made me
feel comfortable.”
After a redshirt season, Adams
became one of Virginia State’s
best players. He started as a
freshman and earned all-CIAA
honors. He modeled his game
after that of Jamal Adams, the Pro
Bowl selection, playing as the
Trojans’ last line of defense while
also darting forward with aggression. He would line up 12 yards off
the ball and still tackle running
backs for losses. In his last two
seasons, Adams was a team captain.
Adams studied electrical engineering — “I don’t want to settle
for something simple,” he said —
and graduated in four years. Last
year, he earned a master’s degree
in project management. Wanting
to protect himself from the coronavirus and save money on room
and board last season, Adams
lived at home in Henrico and
commuted 45 minutes each way.
He was never late and often was

one of the first Trojans on the
field for practice — even the
workouts that started at 6 a.m. He
would try to take every rep in
practice and beg to stay in games
during blowouts.
“Sometimes you had to slow
him down to make sure he didn’t
hurt himself,” said Jones, who
became Virginia State’s primary
defensive backs coach. “You talk
about a kid that loves the game.
I’ve been around very few players
that I can say they truly love the
game. He’s one of them.”
Still, Adams wondered whether the NFL would notice. He
watched NFL teams pass over
every HBCU prospect during last
year’s draft, which left Tennessee
State guard Lachavious Simmons, a 2020 seventh-round pick
by the Chicago Bears, as the lone
HBCU player drafted in the past
two years.
“I definitely felt a little bit
discouraged going into my senior
season,” Adams said.
He felt buoyed by the attention
others brought to HBCU football,
especially Jackson State Coach
Deion Sanders, a former NFL star
who constantly implored NFL
teams to recognize the high level
of talent in HBCU programs. Vincent said a recent spate of former
NFL players who have become
head coaches at HBCUs — including Eddie George at Tennessee
State and Reggie Barlow, who
recently left Virginia State for the
XFL’s San Antonio franchise —
carried significant influence
within the league.

JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST

“That former player, that legend, he understands what NFL
talent looks like,” Vincent said.
“The calls were coming like, ‘Hey,
man, I got a left tackle down here.’
[Sanders] would call all day: ‘T, I
got a wideout here. I got a guard
here. I got a DB.’ You were like, we
got to get some exposure to
them.”
As the league studied how NFL
teams scout HBCUs in the aftermath of last year’s draft, it found
“there wasn’t a lot of boots on the
ground attending some of their
games,” Vincent said. HBCU
schools were also not part of the
NFL’s video exchange system,
which provides all 32 teams with
a database of college game film.
The league added the four largest
HBCU conferences.
“That was a simple, simple
win,” Vincent said. “That’s where
the evaluation actually begins.
You’re measured on your game
and your game video. Not being
part of that video exchange system didn’t allow the teams to
have access.”
In Williams’s view, gathering
players at the HBCU combine
helped eliminate preconceived
notions that scouts might have
held. Attending pro days or practices at smaller schools with fewer resources, Williams said, can
create a negative impression,
consciously or otherwise.
“Rather than going to the
school and grading the school,”
Williams said, “you get a chance
to grade the kid.”
‘Give me a chance’
When he first walked into Jaguar Training Center in Mobile,
Adams felt butterflies. He had
prepared for the moment since
his season ended in November,
working out five days a week with
a personal trainer in Richmond.
“Seeing my dream manifest into a
reality, it was just very overwhelming for a moment,” Adams
said.
Through his jitters, Adams also
felt confident. He knew all he had
to do was replicate his numbers
from training. Once the initial
nerves dissipated, “I was already
flowing and in the zone,” he said.
After someone told him his 40.5inch vertical was the highest of
the day, Adams thought, “I’m
really doing it right now.”
By the end of the workout,
Adams had produced measurements that stood out in Mobile —
and would have stood out had he
been in Columbus, Ohio, or Tuscaloosa, Ala. Adams ran the 40yard dash in 4.57 seconds, a smidgen faster than the draft’s top
safety prospect, Kyle Hamilton of

Notre Dame. Adams’s broad jump
measured 10 feet 3 inches, which
would have been the eighth best
among safeties at the NFL combine in Indianapolis. He benchpressed 225 pounds 21 times,
which would have been the third
most. And his vertical leap was a
full inch higher than what any
safety in Indianapolis managed.
“That they didn’t have anybody
drafted from an HBCU the previous year to now, they’re putting
all this focus on HBCU players, it
couldn’t have been a better time
for me,” Adams said. “I felt very
fortunate to be given any opportunity. Just to give me a chance to
show what I can do, that’s all I
ever ask for.”
The workout prompted a
whirlwind. Representatives from
two NFL teams called Jones, seeking background information.
Others called Barlow and his
defensive coordinator. Adams
conducted an interview on NFL
Network and chatted with team
executives.
“It’s definitely been a transition — just transitioning from
being a nobody to folks knowing
my name and ESPN talking about
me, people writing articles,” Adams said. “I’m enjoying the process every step of the way, from the
ups and downs, the challenges.
Just to be experiencing this is a
dream come true.”
No matter what happens next
weekend, Adams will look back
and feel pride that he took part in
the first HBCU combine and the
first Legacy Bowl. He will be
spared the most painful part for
so many snubbed HBCU players.
It wasn’t going undrafted — it
was not knowing whether they
were not good enough or just not
seen enough.
“We all want that athletic closure,” Vincent said. “But the closure can’t be because no one
knew who I was. It can be that
they never came to my practice
and watched my practice. They
never saw my game footage. All of
these things happened for these
young men this year. That’s a
beautiful, beautiful thing.”
Some teams still require prodding. Last month, Sanders read
off a list of teams — the Broncos,
Dolphins, Texans, Bills, Buccaneers, Ravens, Panthers, Browns,
Vikings and Eagles — that didn’t
attend Jackson State’s pro day.
“Where art thou?” Sanders
asked, looking into a camera for
a video posted on social media.
“You could have showed up a
little bit.”
Sanders smiled into the camera and let those teams know they
would come soon enough. Led by
Sanders at Jackson State, HBCU
coaches have won recruiting battles for elite high school prospects
for the first time in a while.
Running back Travis Hunter, by
consensus the top recruit in the
country, flipped at the last minute
from Florida State to Jackson
State.
“What we’ve done and what
has happened this year, the most
important thing is to keep it
going that way and make it happen every year,” Williams said.
“There are going to be players
every year that deserve an opportunity. We can’t quit today because we feel pretty good about
what’s going to happen this year.
If we do or we don’t get players
drafted, we still got to keep pushing.”
Adams has not finalized his
draft plans. He figures he will
throw a small party for family. He
hopes to hear his phone ring
before the seventh round ends,
one NFL team hopefully making
his football dreams come true.
But if he is not picked and instead
signs as a free agent, that will not
deter him.
“That’s all I need — just one
chance, one opportunity to seize
everything I got,” Adams said. “If
and when somebody does give me
that opportunity, I’m going to
take full advantage of it. I promise
it’s going to be one of the best
decisions that they ever made.”

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Draw in Challenge Cup
feels like a loss to Spirit
SPIRIT 2,
COURAGE 2
BY

S TEVEN G OFF

The Washington Spirit has
grown so accustomed to success
the past eight months, the
thought of not advancing in even
a preseason tournament after going undefeated in group play
won’t sit well with the reigning
National Women’s Soccer League
champions.
Washington ran its unbeaten
streak in competitive matches to
18 over two campaigns Saturday,

but the 2-2 draw against the
North Carolina Courage in Cary,
N.C., probably will not be enough
to advance in the Challenge Cup.
The depleted Spirit (2-0-4, 10
points) finished behind the Courage (3-0-3, 12) in the East Division, leaving it in need of help
Sunday to claim the last playoff
berth. Three first-place teams
and the best second-place side
will advance to the May 4 semifinals.
Portland (3-1-1, 10 points) —
which trails OL Reign (4-0-1, 13)
in the West — needs only a draw
at Angel City (0-4-1) to move
ahead of Washington. Kansas City
(3-1-1, 10) and Chicago (2-1-2,

eight) will clash for the Central
title.
Regardless of whether it advances, the Spirit will look forward to the regular season opener
May 1 at Audi Field against OL
Reign. (The Challenge Cup playoffs and regular season overlap.)
“I had told everyone in the
offseason that I want the Challenge Cup to be a time for extended preseason and a time for
growth,” Spirit Coach Kris Ward
said. “When the prize money was
announced, it becomes a very
different thing for the players. In
the end, it actually became both”
a learning opportunity and a
chance to raise another trophy.
Aside from two forfeits late last
season, the Spirit has gone 11-0-7
since mid-August. On Saturday,
Washington started well before
conceding two goals, then drew
even in the 75th minute on Ashley
Hatch’s second goal at WakeMed

Soccer Park.
To win the division, though,
three points were needed. The
Spirit almost pulled it off despite
the absence of several regulars
and the inclusion of many secondary players.
Right back Kelley O’Hara departed in the first half with hamstring tightness, further depleting the defensive corps. Center
back Sam Staab (coronavirus protocols) missed the game, and captain Andi Sullivan, a midfielder
who shields the back line, sat out
for the second consecutive match
with a calf injury. Others missed
out because of yellow-card suspension or injuries.
“One of the things we had to
deal with is: What is June and
July going to look like?” Ward
said, looking ahead to absences
for international call-ups. “So we
can take a lot of heart from these
performances, knowing even

when some of these players aren’t
on the field, we still have a group
that can go and perform against
some of the best teams in the
league.”
Washington went ahead in the
15th minute, when its high press
resulted in a giveaway and allowed Hatch to lace an 18-yard
shot past goalkeeper Katelyn
Rowland.
Washington’s one-on-one defending thwarted North Carolina’s threats until late in stoppage time, when Emily Sonnett
took down Kerolin Ferraz in the
box. Brazilian counterpart Debinha converted the penalty kick.
After intermission, Washington was out of sorts. Malia Berkely took advantage of a poor pass
out of the back and scored with a
25-yard screamer in the 52nd
minute.
“Very sluggish. Just poor,” goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury said of

Fountas scores two goals
as United snaps MLS skid
UNITED FROM D1

you saw tonight was a group of
guys who gave everything.”
At the start, it wasn’t the usual
jovial scene at the stadium. Unhappy with the decision to fire
Losada after just 15 months, many
members of the supporters’
groups either did not attend or
watched in silence. The singing
and drumming, soundtracks to
United matches since the 1996
inaugural season, were largely
withheld.
In the early going, the loudest
noises came from visiting supporters after Bye’s goal and from
fans chanting to save a little bird
that declined to leave the field.
“I know it was a bit different
from the fans’ side,” wing back
Julian Gressel said. “Thankful for
the ones that came and supported
us still through this. I think they
saw we want to win at all costs and
we wanted this today, especially.”
It took time for Fountas and Co.
to find a rhythm. Edison Flores’s
wayward pass elicited boos, while
Fountas struggled to find the

game, and Estrada received scant
service.
Soon, though, Fountas delivered.
It began with Flores supplying
him for a dangerous cross that
went untouched. Gressel tracked
it down at the far sideline and
crossed into the box. A New England header fell to Fountas for a
16-yard volley that skipped into
the far corner.
In the 39th minute, Fountas
and Gressel combined on the right
side. Fountas then chipped a cross
into the six-yard box to the unmarked Estrada for an easy header and his first goal since he struck
twice in the Feb. 26 opener.
Four minutes later, Fountas
brought down a deflected ball,
shifted across the top of the box
and ripped a 12-yard shot that
handcuffed Brad Knighton.
Still building up his fitness after
playing just once for Rapid Vienna
in 2022, Fountas exited in the 60th
minute to a standing ovation.
“He just understands the game
very well,” Ashton said. “He’s a
difference-maker, obviously. He

the start to the second half.
“We’ve got to come out with a
little more energy. We knew today
was a must-win game.”
Four minutes later, the Spirit’s
Anna Heilferty thought she had
tied it by redirecting a cross past
Rowland, but Jaelene Daniels
cleared the ball off the line.
Kingsbury preserved the onegoal margin by stopping Debinha’s penalty kick — a pivotal save
because, two minutes later, Rowland crashed into Trinity Rodman
for a penalty. Hatch buried the
attempt for her fifth goal of the
tournament, but a draw wasn’t
enough for the visitors.
“We’ve learned a lot about ourselves,” Hatch said of the tournament. “It’s been huge to get players on the field who haven’t had a
lot of minutes. . . . We’ve had to
shift around a lot of players. It’s
helped a lot of individuals gain
that confidence.”

Austin: A 2-0 lead with about
10 minutes left turned into a 3-2
defeat, all but sealing Losada’s
fate.
“I said at the 80th-minute
mark, ‘We’ve been here before,
guys,’ ” Gressel said. “This week,
we only conceded one, thankfully.”
Kempin made another breathtaking save as 90 minutes passed,
but United needed to withstand
repeated threats during stoppage
time.
Here’s what else to know from
United’s victory:
Goalkeeping situation
Hamid is expected to miss
about a month, elevating Kempin
into the lineup for his first work of
the season. United acquired a
third goalkeeper, Venezuela’s Rafael Romo, but he is awaiting a
work visa, a process that will take
another few weeks.
Until Romo is cleared or Hamid
returns, Loudoun United’s Luis
Zamudio will serve as the backup.
TONY QUINN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Still building up his fitness, Taxi Fountas, center, was pulled in the 60th minute to a standing ovation.

hasn’t played in a while, so to see
him be that sharp and be emotionally bought in to the group that
much is really exciting.”
With a 3-1 lead, United empha-

sized shape and discipline, yielding possession but not serious
threats for a long stretch. New
England’s pressure paid off in the
86th minute. After Kempin made

a spectacular save, Adam Buksa
headed in a free kick from close
range.
The goal rekindled dark memories of last week’s collapse against

Rare road trip
United will visit the Columbus
Crew next Saturday, its first regular season away match since
March 19 in Toronto. Five of the
subsequent six games, though,
will take place at Audi Field. That
span includes a U.S. Open Cup
date with the New York Red Bulls.

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HBO’s ‘We Own
This City’ aims at
the system, not
its crooked cops
BY

T RAVIS M . A NDREWS

A few detectives in the drug unit are
sitting around chatting in the 2002 pilot of
“The Wire,” when one offers his thoughts
on the war on drugs: “You can’t even call
this s--- a war. ... Wars end.”
That “war” still rages 20 years later, and
its destruction is evident across the country — particularly in Baltimore, the setting of both “The Wire” and “We Own This
City,” a new miniseries from David Simon
and George Pelecanos that premieres
Monday on HBO.
The drug war has “completely destroyed vulnerable inner-city neighborhoods” by creating a culture of overpolicing things like drugs and underpolicing
“things that really do matter: when people
shoot somebody, when they rob somebody, when they rape somebody, when
they break into a church or the back of a
supermarket,” Simon says. It’s “destroyed
law enforcement.”
When he co-created “The Wire,” Simon
didn’t think things were headed in a good
direction. But “did I think we were going
to get to a point where cops would be
robbing drug dealers and then selling the
drugs to other drug dealers? No.”
Simon is referring to the now infamous
story of the Gun Trace Task Force, a small
plainclothes unit in the Baltimore Police
Department charged with getting guns off
the street that became a hotbed of corruption. Justin Fenton — who now works with
the Baltimore Banner, the city’s new digital newspaper — doggedly covered the
story in the pages of the Baltimore Sun for
years. Simon, impressed with Fenton’s
work, reached out to him, suggested he
write a book and connected him with his
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Cage has seen
your memes.
He wants you
to see his work.
BY

S TUART M ILLER

Burdened by mountains of debt, Nicolas Cage spent much of the past 15 years
saying yes to just about any offer. He
appeared in some 50 films, at least half of
which were low-budget, direct-to-video
schlock that typically vanished into the
single digits of Rotten Tomatoes reviews.
Yet Cage remained Cage, outrageous
and outsize, strutting or staggering,
howling or baying through some of cinema’s most memorable but occasionally
perplexing performances, often acting as
though he was seeing the movie through
a funhouse built in his brain.
But there was one role he was extremely reluctant to take on: Nicolas Cage.
In “The Unbearable Weight of Massive
Talent,” Tom Gormican’s rollicking comedy released Friday, he does just that.
Cage plays Nick Cage, a movie star with a
cratering career. Desperate for money
and affirmation, he makes a personal
appearance for a hefty payday, leading to
new friendship, wild adventures and all
kinds of trouble.
The director said he and Kevin Etten
wrote the script with Cage in mind, even
as people who knew the actor warned
them there was “not a chance in hell” he’d
sign on. But Gormican knew there was no
one else whom audiences would buy as
deeply down on his luck, who was also
admired as a serious, award-winning
thespian and beloved as a mainstream
action star.
Cage’s eclectic filmography and “nou-

Jon Stewart has more to say
ANDRÉ CHUNG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

On the eve of entering the comedy hall of fame, the ex-‘Daily Show’ host is already in his second act
BY

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J ADA Y UAN

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on Stewart could talk about poop all day. Actual animal feces. Manure load. The comedian
who was the country’s moral compass during the Bush and Obama years, the guy with the
fake news show on Comedy Central who in a 2009 Time poll was named America’s most
trusted newscaster — and who is now, as he loves to point out, very, very old (at 59) and
completely ravaged by age — spends a lot of his spare time thinking about pigs and cows and
horses and where they take a dump. ¶ “Generally, they are not particularly careful about where they
make their bowels,” he explains. ¶ Seven years after he retired from hosting “The Daily Show,” just as
Donald Trump was starting what seemed in 2015 to be a kind of a joke of a campaign, Stewart is
calling by video chat from Hockhockson, N.J., where he lives near a 45-acre animal sanctuary he
runs with his wife, Tracey, a veterinary technician. The town regulates how much animal waste is
allowed to accumulate on certain pastureland. ¶
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Jon Stewart is the 23rd recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center, joining
such comedy icons as Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Dave Chappelle and George Carlin.

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earlier this month of “The Unbearable
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Weekly chats helped shape Kyle Abraham’s new show
BY

S ARAH L . K AUFMAN

W

hen the pandemic
canceled shows and
shut down rehearsal
studios, many choreographers took to making dances over Zoom. Kyle Abraham
wasn’t one of them.
He had something else in
mind. Since founding his company, A.I.M., in 2006, Abraham has
made works for the New York City
Ballet, Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater and Paul Taylor
Dance Company; he’s crafted
pieces for ballerinas Wendy
Whelan and Misty Copeland. But
in 2020, the choreographer was
profoundly uninterested in Zoom
dances. He wanted to make “honest connections.” He wanted to
talk.
Abraham’s newest piece, “An
Untitled Love,” was not quite finished at that point. During those
months of isolation, he and his
dancers worked out the kinks in
an unusual way: in weekly twohour discussions, not about the
choreography on its own, but
about movies. And television.
They discovered that, at a time
when everyday people-watching
wasn’t possible, the screenings
helped the performers find their
characters and avoid stereotypes.
(Audiences can see the result
when the Brooklyn-based A.I.M.
performs the hour-long “Untitled
Love” at the Kennedy Center on
April 29-30 in its first full engagement there.)
“I don’t like Zoom rehearsals.
They’re really a challenge for me,”
said the 44-year-old Abraham,
“because I’m not an extroverted
person. So I took advantage of
what I enjoy most in rehearsals,
where we sit and talk and dive
into what we’re making and why
we’re making it.”
There was no dancing. No awkward rehearsals with performers
dodging their coffee tables and
cats while the choreographer
shouts counts at his screen. Instead, the choreographer and his
cast of 10 curled up with their
laptops for group conversations.
It was more like a book club
than rehearsal, with dancers taking turns assigning what to watch
before the next meeting. The
shows and movies centered on
Black characters and stories. The
group hashed out episode eight of
“Watchmen.” They delved into
anti-trans violence in “The Death
and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,”
and the Gullah community in
“Daughters of the Dust.” They
went all-in on Ava DuVernay and
the criminalization of Blacks in
“13th” and the Netflix series
“When They See Us.”
It wasn’t all heavy. Eddie Murphy’s lighthearted “Boomerang”
was on the list, and the dancers
indulged Abraham’s Sanaa Lathan crush in the observant romcom “Brown Sugar.”
You won’t see any obvious references to these in “Untitled
Love,” though the work is structured a bit like a sitcom house
party. Set in a comfortable living
room amid a gathering of friends,
“Untitled Love” is a tone poem on
the theme of affection and connection.
Recordings by R&B and neosoul artist D’Angelo accompany
the performers as they flirt, refresh their drinks, gossip on the
sofa. Twosomes form and dissolve. Romance flickers, finds fuel
— or doesn’t. Realistic social interactions unspool alongside
smooth, lush, stylized dancing
that arises naturally, out of nowhere.

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Abraham, speaking recently
from Boston, where A.I.M. was on
tour, said “An Untitled Love” was
shaped by happy memories of his
1980s youth in Pittsburgh and a
desire to spotlight the sweetness
of Black life, “the way that we
love, centered on our joy and
family and community.”
That’s the part of the Black
experience that doesn’t get much
attention. Abraham has spent
much of his career focused on the
part that does — poverty, crime,
violence. “Pavement,” for example, depicted the inner city as a
hidden war zone. The choreographer created it in 2012, the year
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Racism, shootings and the civil
rights movement surface in other
works. “Untitled America,” which
Abraham created for the Ailey
company in 2016, looked at incarceration and its impact on Black
families, and “how we’re shot before we even get to a trial,” he said.
But although the 2020 police
killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor plunged the country
into self-examination surrounding racism, they didn’t necessarily prompt Abraham’s company,
with its long history of unflinching work about race, to new levels
of soul-searching.
“For us as a company, those
weren’t new discussions,” the
choreographer said. “And I wanted to be in a place where I was
celebrating us, more than shining
a flashlight on injustice.”
Abraham said he called his
new work “Untitled Love” “because it’s not a love that, before
2020, people were acknowledging. We don’t get to see ourselves
in loving spaces.”
“I want to have us be seen and
heard,” he added, “and loved
upon, for over an hour.”
Abraham describes himself as
an outsider, though he’s an energetic talker, focused and unhurried. When he sees that our video
session is about to time out, he
offers to continue the interview
by phone, which we do. There’s a
clatter of metal in the background
— Abraham reveals that he’s gotten out the ironing board and is
pressing a shirt. Welcome to the
glamorous existence of a celebrated choreographer on tour. Such
attention to detail, and the realness of life, inform “An Untitled
Love.”
“Hanging out with my mother
at the beauty shop, or at the
barber shop with my dad, going to
the corner store — all that mixed
itself in the work,” he said. “My
parents’ friends coming over for
card games. Seeing how they
would kind of jab at one another
in fun.
“I was the kid who should not

CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN/A.I.M. BY KYLE ABRAHAM

TOP: A.I.M. by Kyle
Abraham dancers, from
left, Logan Hernandez,
Jae Neal, Donovan Reed
and Claude “CJ”
Johnson in “An Untitled
Love,” coming April 2930 to the Kennedy
Center. ABOVE LEFT:
Company founder and
artistic director Kyle
Abraham set up weekly
online discussions with
his dancers about movies
and TV shows while inperson rehearsals and
performances were shut
down during the
pandemic. ABOVE
RIGHT: Company
members Tamisha A.
Guy and Johnson.

“Everything was
deepened by those
conversations,
especially the
transitions.”
Kyle Abraham, on company
members’ discussions of
films and TV shows during
development of “An Untitled
Love”

have been at those parties,” he
continued, chuckling. “But I was. I
was sometimes too grown up as a
kid; I would fix the rum and Cokes,
play tonk or 500 or rummy.”
Even then, Abraham was an
astute observer — destined, it
seems, to be a choreographer.
“I was allowed to be in the
space,” he said, “because I wasn’t
trying to interfere.”
And the weekly movie group
with his dancers? That was key to
re-creating the specific feel of
those gatherings, how relationships formed amid group laughter, or with a single glance.
Watching and discussing films
helped Abraham spot where the
emotional beats and tensions lay.
“Everything was deepened by
those conversations, especially
the transitions,” he said. “Transitions are at the heart of dancemaking. That’s where a lot of
purpose comes in. It’s not putting
your hand on someone, but it’s
the space between you and that
person — that’s where the vulnerability is. Is it passion, is it aggressive, is it loving? What does it
mean to go from one section of
music to a different energy?”
At a time when covid banished
canoodling and normal socializing, watching movies allowed the
dancers to zero in on how people
behave in group settings, said
Catherine Kirk, a 13-year veteran
of A.I.M.
“It gave us time to really go
deep,” she said. “To look at who
we were, and say, ‘Hey, we’ve seen
enough of this representation.’ To
make sure we’re not being a trope.
Or, ‘Hey, I’ve been walking like
this, but maybe I can try this
instead.’ People took agency to
play with their own characters.
“I was battling with, from the
jump, making sure I don’t follow
this overrepresentation of a
strong Black woman who’s hard
and guarded,” added Kirk, who
plays a woman who’s good at
giving love but isn’t sure about
receiving it. She said she took
inspiration from the rom-coms,

“seeing images of Black joy, and
living and thriving in your community, and how that can soften
someone.”
But the stage isn’t the only
place for socializing. At certain
venues, including the Kennedy
Center, Abraham has designed
events he calls “activations” —
separate from the show — where
the public can play card games
with the choreographer. He
wants to get people of different
ages together to talk and enjoy
themselves, particularly older
generations.
“It serves the work, and it’s also
underrated,” Abraham said. “Going to our elders for storytelling,
reminding them they’re important to us.”
To that end, A.I.M. is hosting a
spades tournament April 27 at 8
p.m. in the Kennedy Center Opera
House Circles Lounge. It’s free,
and tickets or reservations are
not required. (Details are on the
Kennedy Center website.)
Such simple pleasures are on
Abraham’s mind these days as he
juggles outside requests and travel with his company. Increasingly,
ballet companies have joined
modern-dance groups in commissioning works from him. The
Royal Ballet unveiled a premiere
last month, and he’s creating another piece for the New York City
Ballet in the fall. A.I.M. has a
robust touring season ahead.
Abraham said that — for a change
— he’s thinking beyond dance.
“I’m trying, for the first time, to
think about me,” he said. “So
much of what I’ve done in making
dances is, I was so focused on
everyone else’s joy and needs, and
I wasn’t thinking about my own.
That has to be more at the center.”
What will that look like? Abraham laughed.
“I don’t know. Maybe just playing board games with friends,” he
said, “and card games.”
A.I.M.'s Untitled Love April 29-30
at the Kennedy Center. kennedycenter.org.

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Painting poignant scenes
of environmental peril
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single, intentionally
one-dimensional
figure stands at the
center of each
painting in MK
Bailey’s “Secret Garden.” Yet the
pigment itself is not always flat.
The predominantly pastel
pictures in the D.C. artist’s show
at IA&A at Hillyer combine three
styles of applying paint, and
draw from both venerable and
contemporary modes of imagemaking.
Bailey begins in two ways: She
borrows poses of women from
mythological and historical
canvases by Old Master painters,
and then draws the outlined
silhouettes in a computer
program. Next, the drawings are
painted in single colors on
canvas, surrounded by arboreal
backdrops rendered in a hazier,
more watery mode. On top are
landscape details added in
pigment thickened with gel, so
the chunkiness contrasts the
flush figures. Each element is
simple, but together the effect is
complex.
That the women are solitary
— save for one whose foot
stretches across a diptych to
protrude slightly into another’s
territory — reflects pandemicera isolation. “The secret garden
is an imagining of anxiety as a
self-contained, physical space,”
says the artist’s statement.
Bailey’s gardens may be
cloistered and gentle-hued, but
they’re not refuges.
Only one of Bailey’s paintings
hints at environmental issues; it
scatters shapes of consumer
trash, painted in thick pink,
across the ground. Michael
Thron’s “In the Ways,” at the
same venue, is less direct, yet
clearly inspired by ecological
peril. The local artist’s show
consists principally of two large,
pontoon-like forms, made of
cobbled-together lead, tin, steel
and aluminum, and mounted
off-kilter on metal stands. On
the nearby wall is a large, four-

part charcoal drawing of a
target-like form.
“Some of us may need to be
transported from our home,
state, or continent, while others
are left with nothing and
nowhere to go,” notes the local
artist’s statement. If Thorn’s
metal craft don’t look especially
seaworthy, that just adds to the
sense of alarm.
The title of Hillary L. Steel’s
show, also at IA&A, is more
hopeful. “Tikkun Olam — Repair
the World” (the same phrase in
Hebrew and English) is
Judaism’s injunction to make
things better. Exactly how is a
matter of debate, but Steel’s
method is make elaborate wall
pieces from hand-woven and dyed textiles. The Maryland
artist finds the process —
employing traditional
Indonesian and Japanese
techniques — meditative.
Traditional textures and colors
are arrayed in contemporary
layouts, often topped with
upward-projecting triangles.
Steel’s homespun fabrics are
earthy, but they point toward the
sky.
MK Bailey: Secret Garden;
Michael Thron: In the Ways and
Hillary L. Steel: Tikkun Olam —
Repair the World Through May 1 at
IA&A at Hillyer, 9 Hillyer Ct. NW

Michael Crossett

They don’t feature the usual
Washington postcard scenes, but
Michael Crossett’s silk-screened
photo collages are instantly
recognizable as D.C. The brightly
colored works in the local artist’s
Long View Gallery show match
and juxtapose buildings and
signs, monumental and
vernacular, new and old.
Crossett has altered the format
of the visual city symphonies he
has been composing for years,
but the material is familiar.
This selection does introduce
a few variations, including
montages in the artist’s usual
style that offer mini-tours of

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“The Unbearable Cost of Progress” (2008) by Noel Kassewitz is among the artist’s works that focus on the exploitation of nature.

London and New York City. More
of a stretch are the circular, vinyl
record-derived pieces that slyly
incorporate the show’s title,
“Flip Side.” Each one has at its
center a simulated label
emblazoned with that phrase,
but transliterated into Japanese.
(The son of an Air Force service
member, Crossett spent part of
his childhood in Okinawa.)
These homages to 12-inch
singles are two to four times the
size of the originals.
The artist sometimes finishes
his prints with resin or spray
paint, and the “Flip Side” pieces
are his loosest, most painterly
works. Beyond the labels,
complete with song titles such as
“Vogue,” the roundels turn into
target paintings or are divided
into contrasting quadrants that
balance abstract and photoderived imagery. Blazing with
Day-Glo reds and oranges, these
print-paintings render Crossett’s
real-world inspirations into a
language all his own.

Michael Crossett: Flip Side
Through May 22 at Long View
Gallery, 1234 Ninth St. NW

Noel Kassewitz

Environmental concerns link
the two series of works by Noel
Kassewitz at the Arts Club of
Washington. The older pieces
are realistically rendered
paintings that depict the
human-caused travails of
animals, such as the orangutan
in “When the Last Tree Fell,”
who sits surrounded by stumps.
More recent are 3D assemblages
that include flippers and
flotation devices, as well as
photos of waterborne
installations in Florida,
Kassewitz’s home state, and D.C.,
where she’s a sculpture
conservator at the National
Gallery of Art.
The paintings, made mostly
between 2008 and 2013, employ
neoclassical technique to
address contemporary ecological

issues. The scenarios can be
direct enough for political
cartoons: A two-tiered picture
depicts a gorilla in the sights of a
gun, and the ship that menaces a
whale has the name “Insanity”
lettered on its bow. Sometimes
adorned with talismanic forms
in gold leaf, the pictures
acknowledge how venerable
crafts and traditions are based
on the exploitation of nature.
Noel Kassewitz Through April 30 at
the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I
St. NW

Tinam Valk

The paintings in Tinam Valk’s
“Making Waves” are all of the
sea, but there’s something earthy
about them. The Netherlandsraised Maryland artist works
modeling paste, string and even
leaves into the mixed-media
pictures in her Portico Gallery
show. And while Valk renders
the ocean mostly in white, gray
and various blues, she begins by

coating her canvases with red.
This shows through here and
there, punctuating the
naturalistic hues with tiny but
eye-catching crimson contrasts.
One of these pictures,
“September Visit,” depicts
silhouetted figures in the
distance on a beach, but that’s
not typical. More characteristic
are views in which the ocean is
unframed by land, and
sometimes not even sky. Such
perspectives plunge the eye into
storm-driven surf, where the
viewer is dwarfed by
mountainous waves. Valk lists as
her inspirations mostly 19thcentury realist painters such as
Caspar David Friedrich and
Albert Pinkham Ryder, but
there’s a hint of abstraction to
her work. Those lumpy surfaces
and red glimmers suggest that
Valk’s subject is as much paint as
it is water.
Tinam Valk: Making Waves
Through May 7 at Portico Gallery,
3807 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood.

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With ‘Eden,’ singer aims to plant seeds of climate activism
BY

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oprano Joyce DiDonato has
a long history of busting
through the clay pot of the
concert hall and searching
out fresh conceptual turf. The celebrated singer, a Grammy winner
based outside Barcelona, has
helmed several ambitious projects
aimed at bringing music and music education to underserved communities, including refugee children in Greece and inmates at
Sing Sing.
Her latest endeavor, “Eden,”
finds DiDonato, 53, teaming up
again with her longtime collaborator, the mostly Baroque orchestra
Il Pomo d’Oro led by conductor
Maxim Emelyanychev, for a touring program that draws from four
centuries of music.
Opening with “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives,
in which DiDonato vocalizes lines
penned for trumpet, the program
spans eras, from the 18th century
with Czech composer Josef Myslivecek (an aria from his oratorio
“Adamo ed Eva”) to the chronically
overshadowed Italian Baroque
composer Giovanni Valentini (his
“Sonata Enharmonica”). There
are healthy helpings of Copland,
Gluck, Handel and Mahler for
good measure, as well as a fresh
commission from the British composer Rachel Portman.
Just as the musical scope of
“Eden” seems to zoom out from
time itself, so, too, does the activism at the core of the project. With
“Eden,” DiDonato aims to offer a
planetary perspective on the climate crisis, pairing performances
with educational initiatives that
encourage young people to engage
with environmental action in
their communities. Several stops
on her tour of “Eden” incorporate
local children’s choirs as well.
Over the next two years, DiDonato will bring “Eden” (as well as
thousands of seeds supplied by
Botanic Gardens Conservation International) to 45 venues across
five continents, including Strathmore Music Center on April 24,
presented by Washington Performing Arts. I caught up with her
by phone as she was preparing for

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Celebrated soprano Joyce
DiDonato will bring her
latest endeavor, “Eden,” to
45 venues across five
continents. She aims to offer
a planetary perspective on
the climate crisis.

tech rehearsals in Chicago. This
interview has been edited for
length and clarity.
Q: Not to be too punny about this,

but can you tell me about the
genesis of “Eden”?
A: It’s impossible not to make all
those metaphors. I talk about
seeds and roots and branches,
and it’s all very inherent to this
project. A few years ago with Il
Pomo d’Oro we did this project
“In War and Peace: Harmony
Through Music” and it was sort of
a career-defining project where I
took my love of concert, theater

and storytelling, and smashed it
together into something that felt
a bit new for the classical music
world, with the intent that it
would inspire people to think
about that bridge between exiting
the concert hall and going home.
After a handful of concerts over
what ended up being a three-year
expansion project, we said we
have to continue on this kind of
model, and the only thing
worthwhile singing about in
about five years’ time, which was
2022 as is it turns out, will be the
climate. I hit roadblock after
roadblock trying to formulate a

concert that I’d want to invite
people to. I sat with it for a long
time. There’s a level of disconnect
in people that allows us as a
society to not take care of our
surroundings, our environment.
And there’s a disconnect that
allows us to welcome a huge
division between people, and to
fuel it. Our best moments in
history are generally those where
we work together across all of the
barriers. And so it has turned into
something shining a spotlight on
the beauty of nature, paralleled so
beautifully in classical music: the
harmony and balance that are

inherent to nature. We have a
teacher here. We have a guide.
Q: What inspired you to open the
show with the Ives work?
A: We were speaking a lot about
the approach we wanted to take,
the atmosphere we wanted to
create, we were tossing out words
like “meditative” and “hypnotic.”
He was inspired by the Ives and I
didn’t know the piece at that time.
I listened and it was “Eden,” the
underlying strings for me really
represent infinity, the cosmos,
something really indefinable, but
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always present.
I knew immediately from the
first sound of the strings that’s the
place I wanted to start. Then you
have this plangent, perpetual,
constant simple question, which
of course is not simple, and then
the chaos grows and grows, and I
thought, this is the moment we
are living right now.
This sounds a little naive, but
during the pandemic, I was
watching flowers come out of the
ground, and they had no concept
of masks or vaccines or plagues or
pandemics or now wars. They’re
just doing what they do. That is
that underlying string section.
And yet, the humanity of that
searching voice, at times timid, at
times bold, certainly feels like
what I’m experiencing.
Q: Aaron Copland’s settings of

Emily Dickinson seem to serve as
a centerpiece. Can you tell me
about those poems and your
relationship to Copland?
A: I have always loved Copland. It
was always present in my
household. I know that music. I
see it. I feel it. I smell it. It’s home
base for me. The position of it was
really deliberate. Just from a
sonic world, these woodwinds
come back and it starts to put
order to the chaos of the Ives.
Even the open strings that
arrive in the Copland hark back to
the Ives. It feels like an anchor
point. But what was imperative
was that we present the character
of Mother Nature in her
nurturing quality, not the
destructive one, which is what we
see in the headlines.
It’s the only thing we talk
about. We talk about the floods
and the droughts and everything
that’s coming. We’re only focused
on the destruction that is
happening, or the rearranging,
however we want to categorize it.
And it was very important for me
not to forget how nurturing
Mother Nature is.
Every breath we take comes
from her. It’s a very tender
presentation of Emily’s poetry
through Copland’s depiction of it,
and it gives us a moment to
remember just what it is we’re not
taking very good care of.
Q: The piece on the program I

was more unfamiliar with was
Josef Myslivecek’s oratorio from
“Adamo ed Eva.”
A: I didn’t know his music at all!
It was one of the last additions to
the show. We were missing
classical music and were looking
so hard at Mozart, and we just
didn’t find the right thing.
Giulio D’Alessio knows much
more about that repertoire than
I do, and he found this oratorio
and it’s really extraordinary.
First of all, it gives a chance for
the orchestra to be completely in
their element. It’s a piece that
sounds familiar, because it’s in a
language that we already know
and love.
It brings a little bit of the
drama in opera to the stage, and
it really is describing what is
splashed across the headlines: I
will destroy your seashores, I
will burn your verdant hills, I
will spread a plague among you
because you’ve forgotten where
you come from. It’s a little over
the top, it’s a little campy, which
of course I love, but it’s also
extraordinary to have a text
written 250 years ago and be so
blazing relevant today.
Q: You get to revisit this
repertoire night after night,
which is a bit unusual for an
opera singer. Is any piece a
pleasure to come back to?
A: You know I only just realized
after the last concert how to
articulate this, and it may not
sound too humble, but I mean it
humbly: The way we’ve
compiled this concert, when I
leave the stage, it feels very
similar to my experience of
“Winterreise,” not necessarily
the bleakness, but in that sense
that each time it takes me to a
different place.
Each time I encounter the
songs differently. And if I
imagine unplugging one of
those pieces, it’s not the same.
When I sing “Winterreise,” I
hear the intro of the next song
and I’m like, “Oh! It’s this one.”
And I feel the same with “Eden.”
It’s constantly surprising me,
and that’s a good thing to be able
to say about a project that will
take so much time.
Eden: Joyce DiDonato & Il Pomo
D’oro April 24 at Strathmore Music
Center. strathmore.org.

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ABOVE: Joyce DiDonato
performs with a local children’s
choir on several stops of her
new tour “Eden.” LEFT:
DiDonato, winner of three
Grammys, plans to pair “Eden”
performances with educational
initiatives that encourage
young people to engage with
environmental action in their
communities.

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MEMOIRS OF A
FORGOTTEN MAN
by D.W. Gregory

Director: Kasi Campbell

National Capital
New Play Festival
ON YOUR FEET!
La historia de Emilio y
Gloria Estefan

Shear Madness

The Kennedy Center
Theater Lab

May 5th – May 29th
Thursdays at 7:30 PM
Fridays at 8:00 PM
Saturdays at 2:30 PM and
8:00 PM
Sundays at 2:30 PM

Gregory’s play portrays the determination of a totalitarian
regime to rewrite history, and the tragic effect that has
on a man who can forget nothing. Based on a true story,
a reporter with a photographic memory finds himself and
those around him in peril under Stalin’s campaign to erase
his political enemies.

Now playing through
May 8, 2022

This new annual event, celebrating new work by some
of the country’s leading playwrights and newer voices,
features two fully staged world premieres in rotating
repertory—Charly Evon Simpson’s it’s not a trip it’s a
journey and Tim J. Lord’s “We declare you a terrorist…”
—and more.

May 5 – June
¡EN ESPAÑOL!

The love story of a Cuban-American couple who conquered
the musical charts, Broadway and the American Dream with
their irresistible rhythm.

GALA Theatre
3333 14th Street, NW
202-234-7174
www.galatheatre.org

Everybody’s favorite comedy whodunit is back in town
and ready with fresh and funny new laughs and new clues.
We can’t wait to see you. "Shrieks of laughter night after
night at the Kennedy Center." (Washington Post)

The Kennedy Center
Theater Lab
Student Rush
Tickets Available
Tickets: 202-467-4600
Groups: 202-416-8400
www.shearmadness.com

Regular Schedule:
Tuesday–Friday at 8
Saturday at 6 & 9
Sunday at 3 & 7

The Undercroft Theatre
900 Massachusetts Ave, NW
202-900-8788
www.stageguild.org

Round House Theatre
4545 East-West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814
240.244.1100
RoundHouseTheatre.org

$50-$60
Discounts for
students,
seniors and
groups on the
web site.
Tickets
from $48
(Free for
students age
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$45-$65

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SAFETY
PROTOCOLS
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Proof of vaccination
required. Masks
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guests.
Two world
premieres,
developmental
readings, panel
discussions,
and more!
World Premiere
in Spanish with
English surtitles
Added Shows:
Mon at 8PM
Tue at 5PM
Wed at 5PM
Thu at 5PM

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MUSIC - CHAMBER
Eden

Joyce DiDonato,
mezzo soprano

Sun, Apr 24, 7pm

Il Pomo d’Oro, chamber
orchestra
LIVE Concerts

National
Symphony Strings

The Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Ln,
North Bethesda, MD 20852
Tickets & Info:
WashingtonPerformingArts.org

Tickets start
at $30

Tuesday, May 3,
5pm, 6:30pm |
Old Town Alexandria

NSO Strings in Haydn’s witty String Quartet in E-flat –
“The Joke”. Then hilarious duo “The String Thing” leads
a “Guess the Composer Challenge”

The Rectory on Princess
711 Princess St, Alexandria
www.ClassicalMovements.com/
secretgardenconcerts/

$45

Saturday, April 30, 7:30 pm

Ruckus is a baroque band with a fresh approach to
early music. Holy Manna is their exploration of early
American hymnody and the legacy of shape note singing.
Ruckus invites listeners into this intimate music-making
tradition, where the distinction between audience and artist
is erased, and the experience of creation reigns.

Dumbarton Concerts
Dumbarton United Methodist
Church
3133 Dumbarton St NW
Tickets at
Dumbartonconcerts.org.

$43 Live
$20
Livestream

Dumbarton Concerts

Ruckus Ensemble:
Holy Manna

Celebrated mezzo-soprano DiDonato joins renowned
Italian early-music ensemble il Pomo d’Oro in a program
exploring the essence of humanity and the power of Nature.

Live Concert

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Chamber Concert
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MUSIC - CHORAL
Mendelssohn:

ELIJAH

Sunday, May 1, 2022
at 4:00 PM

Led by artistic director Thomas Beveridge, New
Dominion Chorale and orchestra perform Mendelssohn’s
oratorio ELIJAH, with soloists Timothy LeFebvre,
baritone, as Elijah; Mandy Brown, soprano; Heather
Johnson, mezzo-soprano; and Benjamin Warschawski,
tenor. Also appearing is a solo ensemble from The Saint
Catherine of Siena Choir.

Schlesinger Concert Hall
4915 East Campus Dr.
Alexandria, VA 22311
www.newdominion.org
202-244-7191

Tickets $25
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Masks and
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MUSIC - CONCERTS
The Friday Morning Music
Club Presents:

THE BRAHMS
REQUIEM

Guest Artist Series

United States
Marine Band

Friday, April 29
at 7:30pm

Join FMMC’s Avanti Orchestra and Arioso Chorale as they
present the Brahms Requiem. This concert is dedicated
to those impacted by COVID-19 and is a celebration of
our return to in-person performances. FMMC is joined by
soloists Annie Schwartz (soprano) and Javier Arrey
(baritone), as well as the Montgomery College Chorus.

Thursday, April 28,
7:30 p.m.,
Schlesinger Concert Hall

Join The U.S. Air Force Band for a concert featuring
Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor, Eric
Whitacre! His lush harmonies and evocative musical
imagery have been enjoyed by millions of musicians and
audiences worldwide. Free concert, tickets required. Visit
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Sunday, April 24
at 2 p.m.

This concert focuses on masterworks of well-known
composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto
No. 3 in D minor; Antonio Vivaldi’s Transit aetas, volant
anni from Juditha triumphans & Ottorino Respighi’s
Feste Romane. Full program & details online.

Montgomery College Cultural Arts
Center
7995 Georgia Ave,
Silver Spring, MD 20910
FMMC.org/Requiem

Schlesinger Concert Hall
4915 E. Campus Drive
Alexandria, VA, 22311

Rachel M. Schlesinger
Concert Hall & Arts Center
4915 E Campus Dr
Alexandria, VA 22311
www.marineband.marines.mil
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Cage leans into
stylized acting that
made him an icon
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veau shamanic” performances —
as he has dubbed his stylized
approach — have made him a pop
culture icon whose acting choices
are fodder for Internet memes
and montages. (Google “Nicolas
Cage freaking out” and note the
wide selection of video options.)
And while that’s the Cage most
people expect to encounter, it’s
often not who they meet.
“I’m a huge fan of him as an
actor, but my impression was that
he’s an extraordinarily talented
madman,” said Sharon Horgan,
his “Massive Talent” co-star, who
instead found Cage to be rigorous
and professional. “His level of
commitment is just different. He
can transcend the character and
even the film he’s in.”
Though quite pleased with the
finished film, Cage, 58, is clear
that he “did not want to make the
movie” — at least not initially. He
worried it would merely be an
extended sketch that played for
cheap laughs at his expense. “I
knew I had to send myself up
quite a bit but didn’t want it to
lapse into just mockery,” he said
during an interview in a New
York hotel.
Although the Oscar winner
“was terrified the whole time”
they filmed, he was persuaded by
Gormican’s sincerity and willingness to create deeper human relationships for his character. Most
important was rewriting the role
so it was no longer that of a
stereotypical absentee dad, but
one who is perhaps too enthusiastic about sharing his passions,
especially movies. (Cage’s fictional daughter definitely does not
share his passion for the 1920
German film, “The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari.”)
Relieved of much of his debt,
Cage had already begun a return
to his “independent roots,” earning raves last year for Michael
Sarnoski’s “Pig,” about a former
superstar chef who has fled his
past life. “People associate him
with bombastic performances,
which is not totally untrue, but he
had the presence to carry this
quiet movie without many lines,
and with a lot of soul,” Sarnoski
said. “We all know Nic Cage has
amazing range, but it got lost in
forgettable movies.”
“Massive Talent” also posed the
opportunity to return to another
skill set. “I’d been scratching my
head — I did ‘Raising Arizona,’
‘Moonstruck’ and ‘Honeymoon in
Vegas,’ but somewhere along the
way Hollywood forgot I do comedy. So I was happy to be invited
back to the comedic table,” Cage
said.
And once he was in, he was —
as only Cage can be — all in. He

tackled the “high-wire act” by
both playing and parodying himself, and also embraced a second
role as Nicky, a younger, leatherjacketed, egomaniacal version
who haunts Cage. When the
script called for Nicky to kiss Nic
on the cheek, Cage told Gormican
he should French kiss himself. “I
thought it would be the perfect
opportunity to go totally cubist,”
Cage said. “Playing two versions
of myself is as narcissistic as it can
get, so having them make out is
really ridiculous and that makes
it funny.”
And while he is known for
leaning into the ridiculous, it’s his
most naturalistic performances
that stand out to both audiences
and actor. Though he has previously said that kind of work “can
be really boring,” he now admits
that his most real-to-life performances, such as “Leaving Las Vegas,” “Joe” and “Pig,” are his favorites.
In the past, he has criticized
mash-ups of his most over-thetop scenes. They are often “out of
context,” said Cage, who researches and meticulously develops his
roles, no matter the movie.
“You’re not seeing what led my
character up to that moment.”
But there’s an upside: “Hopefully
the videos get people interested
in seeing my movies.”
What bothered him more were
directors who came in specifically
seeking a showstopping Cage moment. “It has to come from a place
of genuine emotion, so it makes
me nervous when they expect me
to go wild or scream and it’s not
organic to the character,” he said.
Still, he doesn’t regret those
B-movies. “I like doing my job,” he
said, adding that even as he said
yes to those roles, he was rejecting lucrative Super Bowl ads because he doesn’t want to be a
pitchman. (He admitted he
wished he hadn’t done those commercials in Japan years ago.)
“Working helps me get closer to
my instrument and keeps me
practicing — even if a movie only
has one or two scenes that really
work. I did some stuff in ‘Grand
Isle,’ for example, that I thought
was terrific.” (The 2019 film has a
0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.)
Sarnoski and Gormican said
that with scripts and directors he
trusts, Cage is every bit the actor
they’d long admired. “ ‘Pig’ was
my first feature and he very easily
could have said, ‘This is the Nic
Cage show and I’m going to do it
my way,’ but he was extremely
respectful and collaborative,” Sarnoski said. “He’s a pro. And he’d
also sit and share his lunch with
the production assistants.”
Gormican said Cage was the
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seen; he and Horgan were both in
awe that the actor was completely
off-book at a table read before
shooting. During filming, the director said, he’d “wake up to new
ideas each morning” from Cage,
who would review the script daily
on an elliptical machine at 3 a.m.
Cage said he couldn’t sleep and,
as a producer, he was “making
sure the scenes were hitting the
right notes.” (Which, if you think
about it, is nothing for a man so
committed he not only learned
the titular instrument for “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” but had
teeth pulled for his role in
“Birdy.”)
And while Cage always gave
Gormican the naturalistic takes
he desired, he often asked to riff
with his more expressionistic approach. “I would say, ‘Nic, I need

the reality here,’ and he would say,
‘It’s all real, Tom.’ ” Cage’s way
usually worked better for the
character.
“Sometimes the reality is in the
stylization,” Cage said, emphasizing that naturalism and truthfulness are not always identical.
“There’s a guy who lives in Las
Vegas who wears leather jackets
and jewelry and he thinks the
character of Nic would say that
line this way,” he’d joke with
Gormican. “It was my comedic
way of saying, ‘I am this person so
trust me.’ ”
Cage is happy analyzing his
craft but gets more excited as a
cinephile, a trait he shares with
his “Massive Talent” character. In
conversation, his varied interests
span the gamut as he sings the
praises of James Cagney’s dyna-

FROM TOP: Nicolas
Cage as Nick Cage — yes,
you read that right — in
“The Unbearable Weight
of Massive Talent.” Cage
and Pedro Pascal
(playing his BFF Javi)
escape their enemies in
the film, which was
released Friday. Cage
and Holly Hunter in
1987’s “Raising
Arizona.”

mism, Tony Curtis’s range, “The
Sound of Metal’s” ambitious and
realistic storytelling, and Gene
Wilder’s comedic prowess.
His one acting affectation also
comes from being a film buff:
“The film stars I enjoyed the most
all had inimitable voices — Bogart, Brando, Cagney and Walken
— so I thought if I had a voice that
people would correlate with me
as an actor, that would be my
signature,” he said. “I did make a
choice to try and work with my
voice, enhancing what I would
call the California draaawl.”
In “Massive Talent,” Cage asks
his new BFF, Javi (Pedro Pascal),
what his three favorite films are.
Ask real-life Cage the same and,
well, that’s when his passion is
most clearly evident. “The list
goes on and on,” he said, rattling
off a mix of classics that included
the likes of “The 400 Blows,” “East
of Eden,” “Enter the Dragon” and,
of course, his uncle Francis Ford
Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”
“When I was in quarantine all I
was doing was watching movies
and I made some lists,” he said,
pulling a few of them out of his
suit pocket. He went through the
films of Akira Kurosowa, falling
for “Drunken Angel” and “The
Bad Sleep Well,” and then discovered Ingmar Bergman’s “Hour of
the Wolf” and “Summer with
Monika.”
But Cage is no highbrow snob.
There’s a running bit in “Massive
Talent” about the cinematic
achievement of “Paddington 2,”
the sequel to the live-action and
animated film adaptation of a
children’s story about a raincoatwearing bear. Cage, who naturally
watched the film in preparation,
said that’s no joke, his famous
draaawl growing excited one last
time: “It’s really a terrific movie.”

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CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Serious
work for
a serious
age

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: The
biennial includes Ellen Gallagher’s
“Ecstatic Draught of Fishes”; “Jail” and
“Displaced Burial/Burial at Gorée” by
Denyse Thomasos; Rebecca Belmore’s
“Ishkode (Fire)”; Sable Elyse Smith’s
video “Laugh Track”; and magnification
works by Alejandro “Luperca” Morales.

Whitney Biennial confronts
nation’s collective trauma
BY

P HILIP K ENNICOTT

W

IN NEW YORK

hen the elevator doors open
on the sixth floor of the Whitney Museum of American
Art, the first things visitors
encounter are two giant
black-and-white paintings by Denyse
Thomasos, an artist who died unexpectedly
at 47 in 2012. They are built up like
abstractions, dense layers of angled lines
and lattices, but they also seem to represent
coherent architectural spaces. One is titled
“Jail,” and the other, referring to an island
off Senegal that was a hub of the Atlantic
slave trade, is called “Displaced Burial/
Burial at Gorée.”
This is an ideal introduction to the
Whitney Biennial, which opened earlier
this month. Many of the artists included in
this 80th iteration of the marquee exhibition are grappling with dual meanings of
black and white, struggling to get past
simplistic dichotomies while maintaining
moral clarity about the world and its
distress. Thomasos’s paintings were made
in 1993, and like some of the best work in
the show, they are reflective. If art matters,
it matters over time, and so curators David
Breslin and Adrienne Edwards remind us
not only that the present moment is connected to the past, but also that wounds
that feel fresh today are deeply rooted in
world history.
The opposition of light and dark also
reflects the basic design of the biennial,
which sprawls over the fifth and sixth floors
of the museum, with yet more work on the
outdoor terraces and on other levels of the
building. The sixth floor is a warren of
small, dark spaces, many of them for video;
the fifth floor is open and bright and takes
advantage of the massive, column-free
space designed by architect Renzo Piano.
Together, the two floors enact a familiar
experience of art: the bewildering feeling of
being lost, interspersed with moments of
enlightenment and clarity. Biennials,
which often attempt an encyclopedic snapshot of the art world, follow the same
dynamic: They are necessary but futile
endeavors, too kaleidoscopic to make any
sense of the current moment, yet with
occasional discoveries and epiphanies.
The 2022 Whitney Biennial, subtitled
“Quiet as It’s Kept,” is the first since the
pandemic began. The subtitle is colloquial,
referencing the idea that some known
things shouldn’t be or aren’t spoken of, that
some secrets, especially collective trauma,
are held fast. Those words are as effective as
the paintings by Thomasos at summarizing
the context of this biennial: All the big
traumas of the past three years, including
the murder of George Floyd and the pandemic, have also been moments of exposure, highlighting the hypocrisy of a society
that treats inequity and bigotry as open
secrets, in plain sight but quietly kept.
The larger social context of the show is
best understood with a list. Among the
subjects broached by the artists are: racism, misogyny, homophobia, environmental degradation, gun violence, immigration,
Native American identity and displacement, water rights, colonial and post-colonial legacies, police violence, China’s great
urban migration, the decay of democracy,
health-care inequities, and the consistent
erasure of difference across America. And
that’s a partial list.
Some artists come at these directly,
others by more elliptical paths. Alfredo
Jaar, who was born in Chile and experienced right-wing fascism under the rule of
Augusto Pinochet, uses an immersive environment to address the fallout of Floyd’s
murder. In “06.01.2020 18.39,” grainy video
of military and police forcefully dispersing
a June 2020 protest in Washington’s Lafayette Square is screened while overhead
fans mimic the dangerous blast of air from
D.C. Army National Guard helicopters that
flew as low as 45 feet to create panic among
largely peaceful demonstrators. It sounds
gimmicky, but the effect is powerful, and it
gives force to Jaar’s summary of the event:
“Fascism had arrived in America.”
Alejandro “Luperca” Morales comes at
his subject, the violence that has ravaged
Mexico’s Cuidad Jaurez where he was born,
through a smart rebellion against scale and
immersive aesthetics. He has loaded 35mm
slides of the city, downloaded from Google
Maps, into small magnifying viewfinder

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keychains. You put your eye to a small
plastic toy and somehow are just as deeply
engaged with the images as you are in Jaar’s
more assertively scaled room. It’s a smart
way of playing with scale, slowing the
viewer down, under-promising and overdelivering, and perhaps there’s an echo here
of Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant Donnés,” also
accessed through an unprepossessing little
peephole.
Somewhere in between is one of the
works I found particularly powerful, Sable
Elyse Smith’s combination of video culled
from law enforcement reality programs
with a large, slowly moving black wheel
that functions like some mysterious chronometer. The video is the usual police-state
porn, both mesmerizing and morally unwatchable. Meanwhile, the large black
wheel slowly turns and clicks and grinds.
The video captures the slipstream of violence and ugliness in which we swim so
often we become unconscious of its filth.
The slowly turning clocklike wheel suggests the toll it takes, slowly grinding our
world into atoms. Yet the wheel is also an
antidote: When we see it, we can stand
apart, for a moment, from the toxicity of
violence as entertainment.
Some artists operate in jeremiad mode;
others are dispassionate and analytical.
Some struggle to show the full gravity of the
mess we’re in; others want to know, how did
we get in this mess? One of the more
enigmatic rooms is encountered near the
entrance to the sixth floor, a dark space
with a single museum-style vitrine holding
a small, stopped-up glass tube. The ambient sound is a work by the Diné artist Raven
Chacon, who recorded the humming background noise of a silent protest by women
against the Dakota Access pipeline. The
glass tube, we are told, supposedly contains
the last breath of Thomas Edison, captured
by Henry Ford. We fetishize the strangest
things. Money makes heroes of noxious
men. Science worships industry, which
worships science. Hundreds of women will
dress up against the cold on a gray November day to protest a pipeline that could
befoul their water and will almost certainly
lead to the final befouling of the planet.
The “everything is connected” feel comes
and goes sporadically throughout the show.
Coco Fusco’s slow, hypnotic video of Hart

Island, site of a potter’s field in New York
where prisoners dug graves for the bodies
of covid victims, is disconcertingly beautiful, somehow capturing the depths of
aloneness and isolation that many felt
during the past few years. Kandis Williams’s “Death of A” juxtaposes the mayhem, wars and violence of the past century
with a monologue by an African American
actor that includes references to Arthur
Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” The work’s
description in the catalogue says the piece
emphasizes “the Black body as a site of
experience at the same time that it is
co-opted as a politicized symbol by the
spectator.” It does that. It also connects
violence to the banality of American aspiration. When I saw it, I didn’t know it used
Miller’s play as inspiration for its text, but
somehow I was reminded of the first time I
saw “Death of a Salesman,” and how I left
the show feeling shattered by the tawdriness of Willy Loman’s life. I had goose
bumps hearing Williams’s fracturing and
recontextualization of it.
The Whitney Biennial is often defined by
controversy. In 2019, there were protests
about the museum board membership of
Warren Kanders (whose wealth was linked
to a company that manufactured tear gas);
in 2017, a White artist, Dana Schutz, was
unfairly pilloried for appropriation when
she contributed a painting of Emmett Till,
an African American boy lynched by White
men in 1955. Sometimes curators seem to
court controversy; other times they have
controversy thrust upon them.
This time, it seems like they have studiously avoided it, not out of cowardice or
misplaced discretion, but because they
consider it a distraction. Like most big,
comprehensive art shows, the works on
view at the 2022 Whitney Biennial have
about a 20 percent success rate. That’s to be
expected. But the show feels serious and
thoughtful throughout, as if dire times
require us to forgo old strategies of confrontation and performative anger and get
down to the hard work of understanding
the world. It’s encouraging to see the art
world refuse a strategy of mere spectacle.
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept is
on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art
through Oct. 23. whitney.org.

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After a mic drop of a career, he hasn’t rested on his legacy
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“So you find yourself in a
situation where you’re like, ‘Oh,
the animal got out on the thing,
but, you know, we’re pooped out.
We’re at our poop capacity,’ ” says
Stewart.
Stewart has called himself a
“turd miner” in his comedy work,
too. For 16 years as the host of
and creative force behind “The
Daily Show,” he was panning for
truth and laughs through the
sludge of politics and cable news
— while also co-creating “The
Colbert Report” and racking up
22 Emmys, five Peabody Awards,
two Grammys and two New York
Times best-selling books along
the way. When he started in 1999,
no one expected him to turn a
satirical riff on the news into
appointment national television,
and on Comedy Central, no less.
But he was funny and gave
catharsis to a country (well,
mostly liberals) grappling with
9/11, the Iraq War, the financial
crisis and the rise of 24-hour
punditry — in an age before
social media, or even YouTube.
As distrust in government and
media grew, Stewart was where
young people turned to make
sense of the world.
“He created a genre,” says
Trevor Noah, Stewart’s successor
at “The Daily Show.” “Everyone
thought for a very long time that
comedy was an escape from seriousness. ‘No, we just make the
jokes. Don’t say anything real. …
And I think what Jon Stewart
successfully did was he inverted
that idea and he said, ‘No, comedy, and especially satire, will be
the home of authenticity and
difficult subjects and ideas.’ ”
The show worked because “he
built it in his image … it was so
uniquely about him,” says Lorne
Michaels, creator and executive
producer of “Saturday Night
Live.” He picked the satirical
targets, he brought in correspondents who made him laugh, he
interviewed serious people without being a bully, Michaels explains. It’s what Michaels and
David Letterman did to build
successful shows: “You build it
around the things you’re really
interested in.”
On Sunday, Stewart will become the 23rd recipient of the
Mark Twain Prize for American
Humor from the Kennedy Center. It’s essentially an induction
into the comedy icons’ hall of
fame, alongside Michaels, Tina
Fey, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray.
Stewart gave speeches at the
Twain Prize ceremonies for both
his buddy Dave Chappelle and
his hero George Carlin, so he
knew what it meant when the
Kennedy Center called. But still,
it was weird. All this? For turd
mining?

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“I remember thinking like, Oh,
that can’t be. I’m a young comedian,” says Stewart. “And it took me
a little bit to go like, Oh right, I’m
old. I get it now. I’m that guy. I’m
the guy they want to be like,
‘We’re gonna throw you a party
because we don’t know how long
this is gonna go.’ ”
Thing is, Stewart is young, at
least relative to other big-time
comedians who’ve left their history-making shows. And he’s not
done. In fact, he just started
experimenting with a second act
in streaming TV that’s a lot like
the show that made him famous.
It’s an open invitation for comparisons and criticisms — a red
cape in the Internet bull ring —

FROM TOP: Jon
Stewart at a May 2021
news conference
announcing legislation
that would provide
additional funding for
veterans dying after
exposure to toxic burn
pits. Stewart and his
wife, Tracey, arrive at
the opening night of
“Springsteen on
Broadway” in 2017.
“Colbert Report” host
Stephen Colbert and
“Daily Show” host Jon
Stewart at their Rally to
Restore Sanity and/or
Fear on the National
Mall in 2010.

that seems to demonstrate a total
lack of concern for preserving his
legacy.
Which makes this an odd time
to receive a legacy award.

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tewart, a lot like your dad on
Zoom, has positioned his
camera so that I am either
closely examining his pores or
frequently talking to the top of
his head. He’s in his home office
and has on glasses and a gray
sweatshirt. But talk to anyone
who worked with him on “The
Daily Show,” and they’ll say he
wears the same outfit every single day: a T-shirt, khakis and a
Mets cap, like Steve Jobs and his
turtlenecks. “It’s possible that he

had 20 different versions of the
same T-shirt and pants combo,”
says Samantha Bee, who was
“The Daily Show’s” longest-running correspondent. As a joke,
the staff bought him that exact
outfit for his 50th birthday.
Tracey did the decorating, he
says, “because she knows that
left to my own devices, my office
would be milk crates.” Behind
him are photos of his kids, Nate
and Maggie, black-and-white
photographs of the Jersey Shore
taken by his good buddy, Bruce
Springsteen, and, most prominently displayed, a large blowup
of the 1972 New York Knicks
championship squad with Clyde
Frazier and Bill Bradley.
“That’s up there to remind me
that they did win once, like 50
years ago,” he says.
That Jon Stewart still lives in
New Jersey is very Jon Stewart.
At one point in his younger life,
he says, “the only band that I had
seen more than Bruce was a band
called Backstreets, which was a
Bruce tribute band.”
He comes from a long line of
Jewish immigrants. One grandmother lived through the pogroms in Russia. One grandfather, from a Jewish community
in Inner Mongolia, fled Japanese
invasion. Stewart and his older
brother Larry were raised in
Lawrenceville, N.J., near Princeton. Their father, Donald, a physicist, left their mother, Marian, a
teacher, when Stewart was 11.
Eventually, Stewart and his father became estranged.
It was on his second night
doing stand-up in his 20s that he
became Jon Stewart. He’d been
born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz,
as Trump once helpfully reminded the world on Twitter. But the
emcee had trouble pronouncing
it and, as Stewart said in his
Twitter war with Trump, “Can’t
an overrated Jew have a complicated relationship with his dad
without being accused of hiding
his heritage?” (They reconciled
by the end of his father’s life.)
Repeated failure is the backbone of any showbiz beginning,
and Stewart had a pretty spectacular run.
“I always felt estranged from
the world,” Stewart says. “I always felt like, this is a brain that
would like to be in the world but
not participate in it. It doesn’t
work right. There’s something
wrong that is not valuable to
what appears to be normal society.”
He’d dreamed of being a professional soccer player but knew
it was a long shot and, anyway,
blew his knee out in college at
William & Mary.
So he moved back to Jersey
and tried real jobs, only to get
fired again and again. Porter in a
bakery. Autoclave guy at a can-

cer-research lab. Sorting live
mosquitoes for the New Jersey
Department of Health. His own
brother fired him from his first
job as a stock boy at Woolworth’s.
Later, in New York, he drove a
catering van and managed to get
it towed with the food he was
supposed to drop off at a holiday
party still inside. “I had to chase
that f---ing van all the way from
Midtown to the impound lot,” he
says.
That comedy might be the
answer, he says, “I’d always had
that in my head.” But it wasn’t
until he started bartending at
City Gardens, a legendary punk
club where he’d watch Joan Jett,
GWAR and Butthole Surfers that
he could see a possibility of a
different life. Maybe on a stage.
Not behind a bar. Not in Trenton.
Drinking himself into oblivion at
the other bar where he worked,
which was located under a liquor
store, he had an epiphany. “I was
like, ‘Okay, this isn’t how I’m
going to die.’ ” He got a six-week
lease in New York, “and just said,
like, ‘I’m going to go where I
think my brain will feel at home.’
”
“Jon was a broken-down soccer player who thought he was
funny, and he was funny,” says
Denis Leary, who came up in the
clubs with Stewart, alongside
Colin Quinn, Chris Rock and
teenage Dave Chappelle working
for beer money at Catch a Rising
Star or a plate of hummus at the
Comedy Cellar. His gift, says
Leary, was being so charming
you didn’t realize he was also this
angry, ranting guy. “He can be
really goofy, and at the same
time, before you knew it, you’d be
like, ‘Oh wow, that’s a complete
obliteration of the Reagan AIDS
policy he just did.’ ”
It took six years, but in 1992,
Stewart did the first of many
stand-up sets on “Letterman” —
his ultimate goal — with jokes
about famine in Russia, immigrants, bigotry, nuclear war, Israel, and imagining Jesus, Moses
and Muhammad as rivals on the
same high school swim team.
Then he went home and the high
ended. “I was like, I still live in a
hovel,” Stewart says. “It was an
illegal sublet with a hole in the
floor where you could see rats
running around.”
Hosting gigs came and went,
until in 1993, MTV gave him “The
Jon Stewart Show,” its version of
a late-night talk show. Stewart
wore a leather jacket; interviewed MTV VJs; did goofy
sketches, like a version of Orpheus in which a puppet Tori
Spelling is rescued from Hades;
and showcased musical guests
like Faith No More, Ol’ Dirty
Bastard, and “Weird Al” Yankovic, who were too hip for the
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networks. If he was bored or had
greater ambitions, he didn’t
show it.
“The secret of Jon is to not be
living in the future, but to be
living in the present and enjoying the now and not going, ‘Why
do I have to interview this dumb
person?’ ” says Steve Higgins, a
writer on “The Jon Stewart
Show” and now a longtime writer-producer on “Saturday Night
Live.”
When Stewart took over “The
Daily Show” in 1999, from its
inaugural host, Craig Kilborn, he
was that guy from MTV who’d
had his eponymous talk show
canceled after Marilyn Manson
burned a Bible onstage.
It was going to get canceled
anyway, but that’s the better
story.
Expectations were low, and
freeing. “We were these hacking
pirates launching ourselves into
legitimate news circles and making fun of everything around us,”
says Colbert, describing the experience of running around the
2000 presidential conventions as
a correspondent, ambushing delegates and pushing out four or
five shows. Steve Carell, meanwhile, managed to talk his way
onto John McCain’s bus.
Stewart talks often about being raised on the tenets of “The
Emperor Has No Clothes.” And
that philosophy permeated the
show. He laid it out in his “Bull---t
is everywhere” rant on his final
show: “If you smell something,
say something.”
That’s why Stewart went on
CNN’s “Crossfire” in 2004 and
famously eviscerated co-host
Tucker Carlson, telling him that
the show was “not just bad, but
hurting America,” and that he
was doing theater, or performing
“partisan hackery” in a bow tie,
instead of actually fostering debate. And when the show got
canceled three months later,
CNN’s president said Stewart’s
appearance was a factor.
Cut to 18 years later and Carlson is the biggest star on Fox
News, with 3.4 million viewers a
night. His pro-Russian stances
are being distributed as Russian
propaganda. He’s called the
Ukraine crisis a mere “border
dispute” and asked what’s so bad
about Vladimir Putin (“Has Putin
ever called me a racist?”).
Does Stewart think that, by
knocking him down, he may have
inadvertently given Carlson the
incentive to rise and be more
Tucker Carlson-y?
“There’s mythologizing as far
as, like, a villain origin story,”
Stewart says. “Not even close.
Like that dude has been that
dude forever and just found his

place. It’s not that the crystal
found the right home and suddenly the Fortress of Solitude
was built. I don’t think he’s any
different than he’s ever been.”

O

ther late-night hosts have
been missed when they
left, but none with the
urgency of Stewart during the
Trump years. He was greeted
with raucous cheers and standing ovations whenever he came
on Colbert. There was lamentation, sometimes anger among
liberals who thought he’d abandoned them in their time of need.
In his stead, though, was a
political comedy landscape dominated by people whose careers
he’d either started or nurtured:
Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Michael Che on
“Weekend Update.”
For the most part, since he left
the show, Stewart has led a
groundhog-like existence, puttering away in happy seclusion
with Tracey and their now-teenage kids and popping his head
out every once in a while to do
stand-up gigs with Dave Chappelle or rant about Trump’s “gleeful cruelty” on “The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert.” His running gag was to physically pop
out from under Colbert’s desk —
his hair white, having grown that
classic beard of a former latenight host gone feral — claiming
he’s been living there this whole
time.
He has also frequently popped
up in Washington to shame Congress into “showing a baseline of
humanity,” as he put it in a recent
Reddit AMA. In 2019, he called
out Congress’s “rank hypocrisy”
and “shameful” lack of action in
impassioned testimony for the
reauthorization of the September
11th Victim Compensation Fund.
He’s spending the week before
his Twain Prize celebration going
to rallies in Wilmington, N.C.,
and Kansas City, Mo., supporting
legislation to provide additional
funding for veterans dying from
exposure to toxic burn pits.
Stewart says he left “The Daily
Show” so he wouldn’t miss his
kids growing up. And for years
he’s stuck to that. His first public
appearance after retirement was
going on WWE SummerSlam to
get body slammed by John Cena,
because his son is a wrestling
fanatic.
He’s gone vegetarian, is learning Brazilian jujitsu with his son
and has taken up drumming.
“The fact that he drums for an
hour or hours a day and didn’t
mention it to you is a little bit
odd,” says good friend Jimmy
Kimmel.
Stewart easily could have kept
up that pastoral pace. He could
be getting coffee with comedians

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in cars like Jerry Seinfeld or
starting a travel show like Conan
O’Brien.
Instead, he’s Shaun White doing the halfpipe at 35, or Michael
Jordan returning to the Bulls
after the baseball years.
In January 2021, he started his
first Twitter account with the
energy of, well, a comedian who
hadn’t spent four days a week for
the past half-decade thinking
about and reacting to Trump.
Tweet No. 3: “So…if I do really
well on here I get to be President,
yes?”
Then in September, he jumped
right back into the turd mines,
debuting his new Apple TV Plus
show and podcast, “The Problem

TOP: Stewart passed the
“Daily Show” torch to
Trevor Noah in 2015.
MIDDLE: From left,
Jason Jones, Stewart,
Samantha Bee and Aasif
Mandvi in 2015. Stewart
left “The Daily Show”
amid a political comedy
landscape dominated by
people whose careers
he’d either started or
nurtured, including Bee.
ABOVE: Stewart speaks
with Danielle Robinson,
widow of Sgt. 1st Class
Heath Robinson, at a
news conference on
veterans legislation at the
U.S. Capitol last month.

with Jon Stewart,” which might
as well be the fraternal twin of
“The Daily Show.” It’s a direct
outgrowth of a 2010 episode of
“The Daily Show,” when Stewart
convened a panel of 9/11 first
responders as a way of shaming
Congress for stalling on the victims compensation bill. It passed
before the end of the year, and
firefighters on that panel have
largely credited Stewart.
Sure, there are differences.
The streaming show isn’t on
every night. It’s just eight hourlong episodes, with accompanying podcasts, each devoted to a
single issue, like critical race
theory and gun control. Every
show has a panel discussion with

real people and an interview with
a power broker (former Disney
CEO Bob Iger, SEC Chair Gary
Gensler).
But he is back behind a desk,
delivering the kind of complex
monologues on serious issues
that he calls “geometric proofs
for fart jokes.”
He’s also resumed his role as a
political lightning rod, particularly when semi-conservative
provocateur Andrew Sullivan
wrote a lengthy Substack saying
Stewart “ambushed” him into
making him look racist. A quick
Google News search will bring up
recent articles from Fox News or
the National Review about his
“sad demise” or how his “superwoke” new show is a flop. On the
left, he’s been accused of sympathizing with oil companies and
defending Joe Rogan, after Stewart said he’d rather debate him
than cancel him.
Even the name of his show, he
says, is intentional bait for conservative pundits to see how
many write screeds about what
his real problem is. (Sullivan
took the bait.) “The fun is in
watching the laziness, the people
who are coming up with their hot
takes … and they’re just laying
down trope after trope,” Stewart
says.
Glory and humiliation are
both possible outcomes, a lot like
doing stand-up. What he did on
“The Daily Show” is complete
and untouchable — a 16-year mic
drop. How do you follow up
being the voice of a generation
when the next generation either
thinks you’re lame or has no idea
who you are? How do you jump
back into a game you defined
that has evolved without you?
And why try?
Perhaps it has to do with how
animated Stewart gets telling me
about the time he bombed —
hard — at Radio City Music Hall
in 1999. So hard “I didn’t even
know 6,000 people could be that
quiet,” he says. So hard that
Shirley Jones hugged him. “I
don’t even know the woman,” he
says.
You take risks. That’s comedy.
“Isn’t that what’s seductive about
it?”
The bombing?
“No! It’s the uncertainty of it,”
he says. The volatility. The thrill
of riding that line.
“You know, if somebody said to
me, ‘Are you nervous about going
out there again with something
new?’ It’s like, ‘I mean I guess, but
what’s my option? Yeah, I’m nervous about it. So I’m not gonna
say anything to anybody ever
again?’ ”
Stewart’s trying something
new. He’s still got stuff to say.
“This is the life we’ve chosen,”
he says. “This is what we do.”

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APRIL 24 , 2022

Television

HBO’s ‘We Own This City’ isn’t ‘The Wire’ warmed over
'WE OWN THIS CITY' FROM E1

agent. Fenton’s 2021 book, “We
Own This City: A True Story of
Crime, Cops, and Corruption,” became the basis for the six-episode
miniseries.
“There’s been a lot of attention on
police brutality in recent years,
rightfully so. I think this show is
about something a little bit different.
It’s about trust and manipulation,”
Fenton says. “If your police department has officers they send out in
the name of fighting crime and don’t
keep tabs on them, don’t hold them
accountable, then this could happen
in any city in America.”
Vital to the show is what it is
not. It is not the sixth season of
“The Wire.” It is not a show about
dirty cops. It is not an argument
for defunding the police. Perhaps
most importantly, it is not fiction.
A common criticism of “The
Wire’s” final season was that it
went too far in imagining corruption, that things would never get
that bad. “We Own the City” argues that it didn’t go far enough.
“Neither of us wanted to do a
show about dirty cops. It’s been
done before, and it’s been done
well,” Pelecanos says. “What we
really wanted to discuss with the
show is the why of it. How can
something like this happen?”
The central critique in “The
Wire” was that the drug war led to
“stat games and petty brutalities
and the imprecision of a police
force that could no longer police
those things that need to be policed,” Simon says. In the show,
cops like Herc and Carver might
stash a little money in their raid
vests, might fabricate an informant — but they had some limits.
But now “the Hercs and Carvers
of the world were no longer sergeants and street police. They were
now captains and majors and colonels, and they were teaching the
next generation of guys that nothing matters,” Simon says. That’s
what leads to some police going
beyond money and stealing drugs,
only to put them back on the street,
“a level of depravity that can only
happen from pursuing a policy like
mass arrest and drug prohibition
for as long as this country has.”
The primary challenge in
adapting “We Own This City” was
how to make Fenton’s book —
dense as it is with information,
characters and storylines of
breathtaking corruption arcing
over years — into a watchable,
six-hour package that HBO viewers can enjoy on a Monday night
without feeling like they’re listening to a classroom lecture.
The solution was to split the
series into three timelines — what
Pelecanos calls “three rivers slowly coming together.” The show primarily revolves around real-life
sergeant Wayne Jenkins (played
by Jon Bernthal), the most notorious member .of the GTTF and one
of Baltimore’s most productive
cops. But it isn’t interested in
drawing out his arc for narrative
tension; by the end of the premiere, his fate is pretty clear. Instead, he acts as the show’s center
of gravity, allowing the different
timelines to revolve around him,
to show how this happened to the
BPD, how broken systems continue to corrode over time.
At one point, we see Jenkins’s
first roll call, where a veteran officer tells him to forget everything
he learned at the academy about
“procedure and probable cause.”
In a later timeline, Jenkins gives a
rookie the same message.
Wunmi Mosaku, who plays Nicole Steele, an attorney assigned
to the Civil Rights Division of the
Justice Department to investigate
police practices in Baltimore,
serves as the audience surrogate.
Her investigation becomes ours.
“The questions she is asking are
the questions I was asking while
reading the script,” Mosaku says.
And what she finds, the actress
adds, is “a cancer wrapped around
the veins of the entire system.”
Reinaldo Marcus Green, fresh
off directing best-picture Oscar
nominee “King Richard,” says he
was thrilled to helm all the episodes. “It felt like a much deeper
dive and a continuation of the
conversation I was trying to have
with my first feature film, ‘Monsters and Men,’ ” he says, referring
to his 2018 movie inspired by the
slaying of Eric Garner by a New
York police officer. Much of “We
Own This City” takes place in the
aftermath of the death of Freddie
Gray, who died in 2015 from injuries sustained in the back of a
police wagon. (“If it wasn’t for the
fact that Freddie Gray’s name was
mentioned,” Mosaku says, “I
would have absolutely thought
[the show] was fiction.”)
When planning the shoots,
Green asked himself, “How do we
capture the essence of what ‘The
Wire’ did so well but also elevate
the film language?” Drawing inspiration from “Training Day,” “Sicario” and “Goodfellas,” and with

PHOTOS BY PAUL SCHIRALDI/HBO

FROM TOP: Bobby Brown, left, and Darrell Britt-Gibson
portray Baltimore police officers in the HBO miniseries
“We Own This City,” which debuts Monday. Wunmi
Mosaku plays federal prosecutor Nicole Steele, who
investigates police practices in Baltimore. Executive
producers David Simon, center, and George Pelecanos,
right, watch the filming of the show.

the intention of making it feel
cinematic, he employed less handheld camerawork in favor of
Steadicam and wide shots.
Most important to him, though,
was capturing the humanity of every character. Green grew up
around police officers, for whom he
has “a lot of admiration and respect.”
“I don’t think anyone signs up
to be a police officer to do the
things they did in the GTTF. I
think most people sign up with the
best intentions, then get sucked
into what is a giant institutional
problem,” he says. “My job was to
treat everyone as complex human
beings and not reduce them to just
bad guys.”
That desire — to portray everyone as a complex character, to give
a voice to everyone involved with
the story — has always been a
through line in Simon’s and Pelecanos’s work and was a philosophy
shared by everyone involved with
the project, though doing so
wasn’t always simple.
Take Daniel Hersl, a rough cop
with a cocky bravado played
against type by Baltimore native
Josh Charles. Hersl was so known
for brutalizing city residents in
random, usually racially targeted
search-and-frisks that “we’d be
shooting on a random block and in
Baltimore, and all the neighbors
would come out on the porch …
and they’d say, ‘Oh, I knew Danny
Hersl. He stopped my cousin. He
stopped my brother,’ ” Green says.
Most shows would focus on
what he did, rather than why.
Charles, who watched countless
hours of Hersl’s body-cam footage
to prepare for the role, knew of the
officer’s “brutal and criminal acts”
but wanted to explore, “Where is
the human being here? How did
this guy get to this point where he
made these choices?”

It’s one of the reasons Charles
wanted to work with Simon and
Pelecanos, whose shows aim “to
give everyone a voice,” he says.
“Everybody has a point of view,
and their point of view is heard.
You may not agree with it — as I
may not, playing the character —
but it’s there, and it’s heard.”
Hersl gets the chance to share his
philosophy as he’s among friends,
sucking down chicken wings in a
local dive, and is approached by
Steele, the DOJ attorney, who confronts him about the 46 complaints
against him. “You know what the
Baltimore cops who don’t have
complaints are doing every day?
They sure as hell ain’t policing.
‘Cause if you wanna do this job,
then you’re gonna get complaints
for doing this job,” he tells her.
There’s a particular power to
humanizing even the most seemingly vile characters — including
Jenkins. Not only is he arguably
the most brazen of the corrupt
officers and their de facto leader,
he’s played almost maniacally by
D.C. native Bernthal. “We can literally do whatever the f--- we want,”
Jenkins says at one point. “We own
this city.”
We see him beating residents for
having a beer on their front stoop,
stealing from strippers, employing
prostitutes, starting fatal highspeed car chases on nothing more
than a hunch, while also telling
younger police never to plant evidence or beat on anyone. We see
him rushing home to take care of
his wife, skipping a day of partying
to watch his son’s football practice.
“The job becomes deciphering
whose Wayne Jenkins do you want
to depict. People have such different opinions of this guy,” Bernthal
says. “And I think the only answer
is, it’s all real, it’s all true. He was
all of those things.”

Bernthal and Simon tried figuring out “how to make this guy more
than just a monster.” During his
research, Bernthal found the key:
“Every single person said Wayne
was an unbelievably committed father.” When Bernthal approached
Jenkins to prepare for the role, he
told him as much, helping the embattled former officer open up.
“It’s enormously nuanced. It’s
enormously complicated,” Bernthal says. “He really had this chameleon-like personality, and it’s
that kind of charisma and that
ability to shape-shift and speak in
completely different dialects that
draws people to him. I think he’s a
highly manipulative person.”
That’s one major reason, the actor added, so many people — particularly in the BPD, many of
whom considered Jenkins to be
one of the best cops on the force —
“ultimately feel so unbelievably betrayed by him and his corruption.”
While Bernthal and Charles are
new to the Simon/Pelecanos universe, others are more familiar,
thanks to Alexa Fogel, the casting
director for most of Simon’s shows,
who refers to her pool of actors as a
“20-year repertory company.” Jamie
Hector, who played the merciless
drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield in
“The Wire,” appears as homicide detective Sean Suiter. Domenick Lombardozzi, best known as Herc, makes
an appearance as the police union
president. (Of course that’s where
Herc ended up, you’ll probably
think.) Delaney Williams, known to
fans as Sgt. Jay Landsman, is here as
police commissioner Kevin Davis.
In a bit of particularly inspired
casting, Treat Williams — who
played a bad cop turned good and
helped expose police corruption
in the 1981 film “Prince of the City,”
also based on a true story — shows
up as a retired Baltimore detective
disgusted by how far gone things
have gotten. “We’ve achieved
nothing but full prisons and routine brutality and a complete collapse of trust between police departments and their cities,” he
says of the war on drugs.
It’s Hector’s Suiter, though, who
acts as the heart of the series. He’s
a tragic figure, a man who truly
wants to do good while caught in
Jenkins’s web of corruption like a
small bird sucked into a hurricane. Hector called Suiter the “Michael Jordan of homicide detectives,” noting his attention to small
details when investigating crime
and his commitment to helping
younger officers. But even he
made mistakes. “I would hope
through him people can see some
level of redemption,” Hector says.
“Maybe in the past something
happened, but he’s not going to
live on it and continue to bury
himself in a hole of darkness.”
Everyone involved with the
project hopes America feels the
same way. “If you look at this show
objectively and really think about
it, you come to the conclusion that
the country would be a lot better if
these systems were improved,”
Pelecanos says. “It’s less important
that these eight cops were corrupt.
It’s that the system corrupted them
and allowed them to be corrupt.”
For Simon, the solution — or at
least the first step toward one — is
clear: “The drug war has to end.”

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AFI Silver Theatre
Morbius (PG-13) CC: 11:00-1:30Cultural Center
5:45-8:30
8633 Colesville Road
The Batman (PG-13) CC:
The Northman (R) 11:45-2:30-5:30 4:15-8:15
Memoria (2021) (PG) 7:30
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 11:45Everything Everywhere All At
3:30-6:15-8:45
Once (R) 2:20-5:15-8:05; 11:30AM The Unbearable Weight of
Alien (1979) (R) 5:00
Massive Talent (R) CC: 10:45Perfect Blue (Pafekuto buru)
2:30-5:15-8:00
(1997) (R) 11:05-3:05
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC:
Beautiful City (Shah-re ziba)
10:45-11:45-1:45-2:45-4:45-7:45
(NR) 1:00
Ambulance (R) CC: 4:30-7:45
The Northman (R) OC: 8:15
The Northman (R) CC: 12:15AMC Academy 8
2:15-5:30-8:45
6198 Greenbelt Road
Father Stu (R) CC: 11:30-1:304:30-7:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) CC:
of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC:
11:15-2:00
1:10-4:20-7:40

MARYLAND

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(!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket
AMC Magic Johnson
Capital Center 12
800 Shoppers Way

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: 11:303:00-6:45
Morbius (PG-13) CC: 6:35
The Batman (PG-13) CC: 11:301:25-6:00
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 11:1512:45-1:45-4:15-7:00
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) CC: 10:355:10-7:50
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC:
10:00-11:00-1:00-2:00-4:007:15-8:15
Ambulance (R) CC: 11:40-6:15
The Northman (R) CC: 10:451:55-4:20-7:35
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D
Experience (PG-13) CC: 10:302:00-5:15-8:30
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) CC: 10:10-3:20-5:20-8:30
Father Stu (R) CC: 11:55-2:556:00
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) CC:
10:15-3:15
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) OC: 1:30
AMC Montgomery 16
7101 Democracy Boulevard

Uncharted (PG-13) CC: 5:00
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: 12:302:15-3:45-5:30-7:00-8:45-10:15
Morbius (PG-13) CC: 5:45-8:15
The Batman (PG-13) CC: 1:155:15-8:00-9:30
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 12:302:00-3:00-4:30-5:30-7:00-8:009:30-10:30
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) CC: 2:00-4:457:30-10:15
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
CC: 12:45-2:15-3:45-5:15-6:458:15-9:45
Ambulance (R) CC: 1:30
The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 1:454:30-7:15-10:00
The Northman (R) CC: 2:30-4:005:45-7:15-9:00-10:30
Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie (PG13) 12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) CC: 12:15-3:30-6:4510:00
Father Stu (R) CC: 12:15-3:306:30-9:45
The Northman (R) OC: 12:45
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
7000 Arundel Mills Circle

Morbius (PG-13) 11:55-2:357:55-10:40
The Batman (PG-13) 10:50-6:5010:45
The Bad Guys (PG) 10:00-11:0011:20-11:35-12:40-1:40-2:00-2:154:40-4:55-7:20-7:40-8:40-10:00
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 6:30-10:25
¿Y cómo es él? (PG-13) 11:402:20-4:55-7:35-10:10
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 11:30-5:007:45-10:30
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR)
9:40
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Tamil) (NR) 6:25
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR)
10:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 11:105:40-8:40
Private Watch Party11:00-2:45-6:30-10:15
Ambulance (R) 12:25-7:05-10:20
The Lost City (PG-13) 10:35-1:457:25-10:25
The Northman (R) 11:45-6:15-9:30
Father Stu (R) 10:15-1:15-7:1510:15
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 3:20
Unplugging (R) 5:00-7:30-10:00
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) XD:
3:50-10:35; 10:10-10:45-11:2512:05-1:30-2:05-2:50-3:25-4:306:45-7:50-8:20-10:05-10:10
Morbius (PG-13) OC: 5:15
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) XD:
12:30-7:10
The Batman (PG-13) OC: 2:55
The Bad Guys (PG) XD: 10:401:20-4:00
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) OC: 2:15
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
10:00-11:40-12:00-3:10-3:40-6:106:40-9:10
Ambulance (R) OC: 3:45
The Lost City (PG-13) OC: 4:35
The Northman (R) XD: 7:00-10:15
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 12:20-6:55-10:30
Father Stu (R) OC: 4:15
The Bad Guys (PG) OC: 6:00
The Northman (R) OC: 3:00
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 4:50
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) OC:
2:40
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) OC: 3:35

The Bad Guys (PG) 1:20-4:007:00-9:40
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 1:50-6:10Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of 10:00
Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: 12:45- K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR)
4:00-7:05-9:30
1:30-5:20-9:10
Morbius (PG-13) CC: 4:45-7:15- The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:40-4:4010:15
7:50-10:40
The Batman (PG-13) CC: 1:10K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR)
4:50-8:50
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 1:20-4:15- 5:40-9:35
Ambulance (R) 2:10-5:30-8:40
6:40-9:10
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:40The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) CC: 1:45-4:30- 7:20-10:30
Everything Everywhere All At
7:00-10:15
Once (R) 12:00-3:30-6:50-10:10
Dog (PG-13) CC: 4:10
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC: Father Stu (R) 1:10-4:30-7:3012:50-1:50-3:35-4:35-6:20-7:20- 10:30
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 11:30-2:00
9:05-10:10
Ambulance (R) CC: 12:55-3:55- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
11:00-12:40-2:50-4:10-6:00-7:109:55
The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 1:30- 9:00-10:20
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
4:20-6:50-9:20
Spider-Man: No Way Home (PG- Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 3:00
13) CC: 1:15-4:25-6:30-9:40
Regal Hyattsville Royale
The Northman (R) CC: 1:00-4:006505 America Blvd.
7:00-10:00
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
The Contractor (R) CC: 7:35-10:05 Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:00-12:40Everything Everywhere All At
3:15-4:10-6:30-7:30-9:55
Once (R) CC: 1:40-7:10-9:45
Morbius (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:20Father Stu (R) CC: 12:45-3:4510:00
6:35-9:25
The Batman (PG-13) 12:20Ambulance (R) OC: 6:55
4:20-8:20
The Bad Guys (PG) 12:00-2:10Landmark
4:55-7:00-7:40-10:25
Bethesda Row Cinema
The Unbearable Weight of
7235 Woodmont Avenue
Massive Talent (R) 1:45-4:40The Lost City (PG-13) CC: (!)
7:35-10:30
1:30-4:20-6:50
Ambulance (R) 12:10-3:40-7:00Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) CC: (!) 1:15-3:00-4:15- 10:15
The Northman (R) 12:00-3:257:15
6:50-10:05
Paris, 13th District (R) (!) 1:20
Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie (PGFantastic Beasts: The Secrets
13) 12:30-3:20-6:20-9:20
of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: (!)
Everything Everywhere All At
1:10-4:10-7:05
Once (R) 12:05-3:30-6:55-10:20
The Batman (PG-13) CC: (!)
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 1:103:50-7:45
3:50-9:25
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) CC: (!) 2:00- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
12:50-1:50-2:50-4:00-5:00-6:004:45-7:10
7:10-8:10-9:10-10:10
CODA (PG-13) OC: (!) 1:50-4:30Regal Laurel Towne Centre
7:30
14716 Baltimore Avenue
The Northman (R) CC: (!) 1:00Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
4:00-7:00
Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:30-12:10Old Greenbelt Theatre
2:40-3:20-6:00-7:00-9:10
129 Centerway
Morbius (PG-13) 11:30-5:25-8:20
Mothering Sunday (R) OC: 2:00 The Batman (PG-13) 12:25Drive My Car 2:30
4:25-8:20
Everything Everywhere All At
The Bad Guys (PG) 12:40-3:15Once (R) 5:00
6:00-8:30
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
Ambulance (R) 11:15-2:403899 Branch Avenue
5:50-9:10
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of The Unbearable Weight of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:05-3:15- Massive Talent (R) 12:30-3:306:30-9:30
6:30-9:30
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:40-7:10
Morbius (PG-13) 8:30
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:15-12:00- Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 11:10-2:30-5:50-9:05
2:30-3:00-5:30-6:00-9:00
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 11:00- Father Stu (R) 11:50-2:25-6:30-9:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
12:30-2:00-3:30-5:00-6:15-9:00
11:00-12:00-2:00-3:00-5:00-6:00Ambulance (R) 8:00
8:00-9:00
The Northman (R) 1:00-4:007:00-10:00
Regal Rockville Center
Hoyt's West Nursery
Cinema 14
1591 West Nursery Road

Regal Bowie
15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:3012:30-1:50-2:50-4:20-5:20-6:307:50-8:50
Morbius (PG-13) 11:55-2:30-7:30
The Batman (PG-13) 11:35-3:305:10-8:30
The Bad Guys (PG) 12:00-2:004:40-5:50-7:20
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:00-3:506:40-9:30
Ambulance (R) 12:50-4:00-7:10
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:40-7:00
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 11:40-3:20-6:50
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 3:10-8:30
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 12:101:30-3:00-4:50-6:10-7:40-9:10
Regal Cinemas Majestic
Stadium 20 & IMAX
900 Ellsworth Drive

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 1:00-4:305:25-7:55-8:55
Morbius (PG-13) 1:00-3:456:30-9:05
The Batman (PG-13) 1:20-5:209:20
The Bad Guys (PG) 12:15-3:004:00-6:00-7:00-8:45-9:45
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 12:20-4:007:40
¿Y cómo es él? (PG-13) 11:302:05-4:40-7:15-9:55
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 11:05-1:304:15-7:00-9:50
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR)
3:40
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR)
11:50-7:30
Ambulance (R) 3:50-6:55-10:00
The Lost City (PG-13) 12:30-3:156:10-9:00
The Northman (R) 11:00-12:202:25-3:45-5:50-7:10-9:15
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D ExCinépolis Luxury Cinemas
perience (PG-13) 12:00-3:25-6:55
Gaithersburg
Everything Everywhere All At
629 Center Point Way
Once (R) 11:40-3:05-6:15-9:25
Ambulance (R) (!) 2:00-5:20
Father Stu (R) 12:35-3:40-6:50Everything Everywhere All At
10:00
Once (R) (!) 12:15-2:45-7:20
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 1:15
Father Stu (R) (!) 2:15-5:40
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
The Northman (R) (!) 12:4511:10-12:10-1:10-2:20-3:20-4:204:15-7:40
5:30-6:30-7:30-8:40-9:40
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) (!) 11:45- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 2:00
12:30-2:30-3:30-6:00-7:00
Regal Germantown
The Unbearable Weight of Mas20000 Century Boulevard
sive Talent (R) 3:45-6:40
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 11:30- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:40-12:501:45-5:00
4:20-6:30-7:40-9:50
The Bad Guys (PG) (!) 12:004:00-6:20
Morbius (PG-13) 11:20AM

Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 12:00-3:30-6:40-10:10
Father Stu (R) 6:50-9:50
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 11:50AM
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
10:30-12:30-1:30-3:20-4:30-6:107:30-9:00-10:20; 2:00

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: 1:152:30-4:45-6:00-8:15-9:30
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) OC: 7:00
The Northman (R) CC: 2:30-5:459:00; 3:45

Regal Westview & IMAX
5243 Buckeystown Pike

AMC Potomac Mills 18
2700 Potomac Mills Circle

Morbius (PG-13) CC: 11:10-3:306:20-9:10
The Batman (PG-13) CC: 11:402:00-6:00-9:50
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 12:453:30-9:00
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 10:30-2:156:00-9:45
¿Y cómo es él? (PG-13) 11:151:45-4:15-6:45-9:15
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (R) CC: 10:45-1:304:15-7:00-9:45
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR)
10:40-6:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC:
10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:304:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30
Ambulance (R) CC: 7:40
The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 12:103:10-6:10-10:00
The Northman (R) CC: 11:002:30-6:00-9:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
Xscape Theatres
of Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D
Brandywine 14
Experience (PG-13) CC: 11:307710 Matapeake Business Drive
3:00-6:30-10:00
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
Everything Everywhere All At
of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: (!)
Once (R) CC: 12:00-3:15-6:30-9:45
5:50-9:00
Morbius (PG-13) CC: 11:05-1:55- Father Stu (R) CC: 12:50-3:506:50-9:50
4:55-7:35
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) CC: 11:30The Batman (PG-13) CC: 7:15
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: (!) 11:00- 2:15-5:00
11:40-12:20-1:40-2:20-3:30-4:10- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC:
4:50-6:50-9:20
1:00-4:45-8:15
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) CC: (!) 11:10- The Bad Guys (PG) OC: 6:15
The Northman (R) CC: 12:301:50-4:30-7:10-9:50
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC: 4:00-7:30-9:00
10:40-11:30-1:30-3:00-4:20-6:00AMC Shirlington 7
7:20-8:50
2772 South Randolph St.
Private Watch Party CC: (!)
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
4:30-8:00
of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC:
The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 1:15- 1:10-4:20-7:40
4:15-7:05-9:55
The Batman (PG-13) CC: 6:30
Ambulance (R) CC: 11:45-3:45- The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 2:306:45-9:45
5:00-7:30
Father Stu (R) CC: (!) 10:45-1:35- The Unbearable Weight of Mas4:25-7:25
sive Talent (R) CC: 1:50-4:30-7:10
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC:
of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: (!)
1:20-4:10-7:00
11:20-3:20-6:30-9:40
Everything Everywhere All At
The Northman (R) CC: (!) 11:50- Once (R) CC: 1:00-4:05-7:20
3:50-7:00-10:00
The Northman (R) CC: 1:404:50-8:00
iPic Pike & Rose
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) CC:
11830 Grand Park Avenue
1:30-4:00
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) (!) 11:00AMC Tysons Corner 16
2:30-6:15-10:00
7850e Tysons Corner Center
Morbius (PG-13) 10:45
Morbius (PG-13) CC: 11:40-3:25The Batman (PG-13) 12:006:25-10:10
2:00-6:00
The Batman (PG-13) CC: 11:30The Bad Guys (PG) (!) 12:00-3:00- 2:25-6:10-9:10
6:00-9:00
The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 11:20The Unbearable Weight of
2:10-5:05-7:55-10:45
Massive Talent (R) (!) 12:30-3:45- The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 11:00199 East Montgomery Avenue
7:15-10:15
12:15-2:50-4:10-6:45-8:00-9:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:50-12:40- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 10:45- The Unbearable Weight of Mas3:10-4:10-6:40-7:30-10:00-11:00 2:30-6:30-9:45
sive Talent (R) CC: 11:15-4:45Ambulance (R) 11:30-3:15-6:45- 7:30-9:05-10:20
Morbius (PG-13) 2:00-8:10
10:15
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
The Batman (PG-13) 12:10Everything Everywhere All At
CC: 11:35-1:00-2:40-4:00-6:054:20-8:20
Once (R) 11:45-3:30-7:00-10:30 7:10-9:25
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:20-1:10Father Stu (R) (!) 11:15-4:15Ambulance (R) CC: 11:25-2:454:00-7:00-9:40
7:30-10:45
6:00-10:35
The Unbearable Weight of
Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie
Massive Talent (R) 1:30-4:30(PG-13) 11:05-5:10
7:20-10:20
The Northman (R) CC: 1:15-4:30Ambulance (R) 4:50-10:50
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
7:45-11:00
The Lost City (PG-13) 3:302150 Clarendon Blvd.
Everything Everywhere All At
6:20-9:10
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
Once (R) CC: 11:55-3:10-6:30-9:50
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:40of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC:
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
7:10-10:30
1:00-4:15-7:00
of Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D
Everything Everywhere All At
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 12:30Experience (PG-13) CC: 12:00Once (R) 11:30-2:50-6:10-9:30
3:00-5:30-8:00
Father Stu (R) 12:00-3:50-6:50-9:50 The Unbearable Weight of Mas- 3:30-7:05-10:25
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
sive Talent (R) CC: 1:10-4:00-7:30 Father Stu (R) CC: 12:05-4:2011:40-1:20-2:40-4:40-6:00-7:40- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC: 7:20-10:30
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) CC: 5:25
9:00-10:40
1:20-4:10-7:50
Regal UA Snowden Square
The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 2:30- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: 11:109161 Commerce Center Drive
5:10-7:55
1:45-2:35-5:55-8:15-9:20
Everything Everywhere All At
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
The Bad Guys (PG) OC: 1:35
Once (R) CC: 12:40-3:50-7:10
of Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:40The Unbearable Weight of
12:30-3:10-4:10-4:40-6:40-7:40- Father Stu (R) CC: 2:00-5:00
Massive Talent (R) OC: 2:00
8:30-10:10
The Northman (R) CC: 1:20The Northman (R) CC: 3:05-6:204:30-7:40
Morbius (PG-13) 12:00-4:509:35-10:15
7:40-10:30
AMC Hoffman Center 22
AMC Worldgate 9
The Bad Guys (PG) 12:10-1:15206 Swamp Fox Rd.
13025 Worldgate Drive
3:00-4:00-7:00-9:45-11:00
Uncharted (PG-13) CC: 12:00-5:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
The Unbearable Weight of
Morbius
(PG-13)
CC: 12:05Dumbledore (PG-13) CC: 12:15Massive Talent (R) 1:40-4:306:30-9:10
3:30-7:00
7:20-10:20
The
Batman
(PG-13)
CC: 1:00The Batman (PG-13) CC: 12:00
Ambulance (R) 11:50-3:20-6:35- 5:00-9:00
10:05
The Bad Guys (PG) CC: 1:30The
Bad
Guys
(PG)
CC: 12:304:00-6:30
The Lost City (PG-13) 6:20-9:20 1:15-3:15-4:00-6:00-6:45-8:45The Unbearable Weight of MasThe Northman (R) 12:20-3:459:30
sive Talent (R) CC: 1:00-3:45-6:45
7:10-10:35
¿Y cómo es él? (PG-13) 1:30K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR)
Everything Everywhere All At
4:15-7:00-9:45
Once (R) 2:50-6:30-9:50
The Unbearable Weight of Mas- 2:50-6:25
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC:
Father Stu (R) 11:20-2:40-6:10-9:30 sive Talent (R) CC: 12:00-1:0012:00-4:45-7:00
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 11:00AM 2:45-3:45-5:30-6:30-8:15-9:15
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC: The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 12:30Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 1:10
12:00-1:00-3:00-4:00-6:00-7:00- 3:15-7:45
Everything Everywhere All At
The Batman (PG-13) 1:00
9:00-10:00
Once (R) CC: 1:00-3:45-6:00
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
Aline (PG-13) 12:15-6:15
The Northman (R) CC: 1:0011:10-12:00-2:10-3:40-5:20-6:50- Ambulance (R) CC: 2:45-6:004:10-7:15
8:40-10:00
9:15
Father Stu (R) CC: 1:15-4:30-7:30
Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX Naked Truth 12:00-2:15-4:451419 South Main Chapel Way
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 7:15-9:45
One Loudoun
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of The Lost City (PG-13) CC: 1:0020575 East Hampton Plaza
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:20-1:20- 3:45-6:45-9:45
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Northman (R) CC: 12:003:40-4:50-7:10-8:00
(PG-13) 6:00
3:15-6:30-9:45
Morbius (PG-13) 10:40-1:10Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie
4:00-6:30
Dumbledore (PG-13) 4:15-7:45
(PG-13) 2:50-8:20
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:00-1:40Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
4:20-7:00-9:40
takkyubin) (1989) (NR) 12:20
of Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D
Ambulance (R) 9:30
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 11:45Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:30The Unbearable Weight of
3:15-6:20
5:00-8:30
Massive Talent (R) 11:40-2:20The Lost City (PG-13) 1:20Everything Everywhere All At
5:00-7:40-10:20
4:30-7:30
The Northman (R) 1:00-4:10-5:40- Once (R) CC: 12:00-3:15-4:458:00-9:30
Everything Everywhere All At
7:20-9:20-10:30
Once (R) 3:45-7:15; 12:00
Father
Stu
(R)
CC:
12:30-9:45
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D Ex- The Devil You Know (R) 3:15-9:15 The Northman (R) 5:30-7:00
perience (PG-13) 11:30-2:40-6:00 The Bad Guys 3D (PG) CC: 2:00 The Bad Guys (PG) 11:25-2:20
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:50-1:404:10-7:30-8:30
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:00-1:304:20-7:00-9:30
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 11:15-2:004:50-7:40-10:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 12:203:30-6:40-9:40
The Lost City (PG-13) 11:10-1:504:30-7:10-10:00
The Northman (R) 11:50-3:106:20-9:45
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D
Experience (PG-13) 11:40-3:006:30-9:50
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 6:50-10:10
Father Stu (R) 12:30-3:40
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 5:00

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The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:05
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:35
The Northman (R) OC: 2:55;
11:10-1:35
The Bad Guys (PG) 4:00-6:40
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (R) 2:35-5:00-8:00
Angelika Film Center Mosaic
2911 District Ave

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 10:451:30-4:15-7:10
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit)11:00-1:45-4:30-7:20
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 11:55-3:30-7:05
Father Stu (R) OC: 1:35
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:30-12:302:45-3:45-7:00
Father Stu (R) 10:35-4:35-7:35
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 12:00-2:305:00-6:00-7:30-8:30
The Northman (R) 10:25-1:204:20-7:15
Bow Tie
Reston Town Center 11 & BTX
11940 Market Street

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 7:10
Morbius (PG-13) 4:10
The Batman (PG-13) 10:352:10-6:05
RRR (Rise Roar Revolt) (Telugu)
(NR) 10:40AM
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR)
6:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
1:10-4:20
Beast (Tamil) 2:30
The Lost City (PG-13) 1:20-6:50
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 1:00-4:00-7:05
Father Stu (R) 12:30-3:30-6:30
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 12:203:40-6:40
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:452:50-6:00
The Northman (R) 10:30-1:304:30-7:30
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:00-1:404:15-7:00
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 11:30-2:104:50-7:20
CMX Village 14
1600 Village Market Boulevard

Uncharted (PG-13) 3:10-6:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 6:00
Morbius (PG-13) 1:05-3:50-8:25
The Batman (PG-13) 12:504:40-7:50
The Bad Guys (PG) 3:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 1:303:30-4:45-6:40-7:40
The Lost City (PG-13) 1:104:30-8:20
The Northman (R) 1:00-4:15-7:45
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 1:20-4:55-8:10
Father Stu (R) 12:55-4:10-7:20
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 1:50-3:405:15-6:00-7:00-8:30
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 4:20
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (R) 2:05-5:05-8:00
The Bad Guys (PG) 1:40-3:20-7:10
Cinema Arts Theatre
9650 Main St

The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) CC; DVS: 9:4012:00-2:30-7:30
The Rose Maker CC; DVS: 10:002:20-7:20
CODA (PG-13) OC; DVS: 9:5012:05-2:35-5:05-7:40
The Outfit (R) CC; DVS: 7:50
Mothering Sunday (R) CC; DVS:
9:55-12:10
The Northman (R) CC; DVS: 10:101:10-7:10
The Automat (NR) CC; DVS:
4:15-6:00
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) CC; DVS: 10:05-1:00-7:00
¡Viva Maestro! CC; DVS: 12:152:15
The Outfit (R) OC; DVS: 4:30
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) OC; DVS: 4:00
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (R) OC; DVS: 5:00
The Northman (R) OC; DVS: 4:10
Cinemark Centreville 12
6201 Multiplex Drive

Morbius (PG-13) 11:30-4:557:45-10:25
The Batman (PG-13) 12:104:05-8:00
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:40-2:205:00-7:40-10:20
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 9:15
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 11:25-5:057:50-10:45
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR) 9:00
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 12:252:00-3:25-5:00-6:30-9:30
The Lost City (PG-13) 1:45-7:3010:30
The Northman (R) 12:30-7:0010:15
Father Stu (R) 1:30-7:35-10:35
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 6:20
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:00-12:402:25-5:45-7:20-9:05-10:40
Morbius (PG-13) OC: 2:10
The Bad Guys (PG) 1:00
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) OC: 2:15
The Lost City (PG-13) OC: 4:35
The Northman (R) OC: 3:45
Father Stu (R) OC: 4:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 4:00
The Bad Guys (PG) OC: 3:40

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11900 Palace Way

The Batman (PG-13) 11:453:50-7:55
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:00-1:404:20-7:00-9:40
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 8:30
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 1:004:00-7:00-10:00
The Lost City (PG-13) 12:50-3:406:30-9:20
Beast (Tamil)9:30
The Northman (R) 11:30-2:456:00-9:15
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 11:35-2:55-6:15-9:35
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 2:20
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 1:05-2:104:25-7:45
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:40-5:00
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:10-3:556:40-9:25
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 11:252:30-5:30
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR)
5:40
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) XD: 11:553:15-6:40-10:00
The Northman (R) XD: 4:25-7:40
Father Stu (R) 11:20-2:25-5:358:40
The Bad Guys (PG) XD: 12:20
Regal Ballston Quarter
671 North Glebe Road

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:30-12:303:00-4:10-6:30-7:30-10:00-10:50
Morbius (PG-13) 11:20-5:0510:55
The Batman (PG-13) 11:403:50-8:10
The Bad Guys (PG) 1:15-4:007:00-9:40
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:30-4:207:20-10:20
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
11:10-12:10-2:10-3:20-5:20-6:408:30-9:50
Naked Truth 12:10-2:40-5:107:40-10:10
The Lost City (PG-13) 5:00-8:0011:00
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:457:10-10:30
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 11:50-3:30-6:50-10:40
Father Stu (R) 2:05-7:50
Regal Dulles Town Center
21100 Dulles Town Circle

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:35-1:353:50-5:00-7:15-10:30
The Bad Guys (PG) 1:15-4:007:00-9:45
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:30-4:257:25-10:20
Ambulance (R) 7:05-10:25
The Lost City (PG-13) 12:20-3:156:40-9:50
The Northman (R) 12:30-3:457:10-10:30
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 12:15-3:25-6:50-10:10
Father Stu (R) 1:00-4:10
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 12:203:35-6:30-9:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 8:30

Regal Kingstowne & RPX
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:05-3:206:40-10:00
Morbius (PG-13) 6:45-10:05
The Batman (PG-13) 8:15
The Bad Guys (PG) 1:15-3:004:00-7:00-9:45
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 2:50-6:30-9:30
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:30-4:257:20-10:20
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR)
1:00-4:40-5:50-9:50
Ambulance (R) 12:25
Naked Truth 3:10-5:45-8:10-10:25
The Lost City (PG-13) 12:10
Father Stu (R) 12:30-3:25-6:2010:10
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:457:10-10:35
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 12:00-3:40-5:30-8:40
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 12:15
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) 1:054:15-10:40
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
12:50-1:50-3:35-4:35-6:25-7:259:15-10:15
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 2:05-7:309:00; 5:40
Regal Manassas & IMAX
11380 Bulloch Drive

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:20-1:402:50-5:00-6:10-8:20-9:30
Morbius (PG-13) 3:50-7:30-10:40
The Bad Guys (PG) 11:30-1:154:00-4:30-6:50-9:45
Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 11:50-3:407:50
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR)
2:40-10:00
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:30-4:207:20-10:20
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR) 6:20
Ambulance (R) 12:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D
Experience (PG-13) 12:00-3:307:00-10:30
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:457:10-10:35
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 11:40-3:00-6:30-9:50
Father Stu (R) 12:10-3:10-6:4010:10
The Bad Guys 3D (PG) 2:00-7:40
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 11:1012:40-2:10-4:10-5:10-8:10-8:40
Regal Springfield Town Center
6859 Springfield Mall

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:00-1:003:20-4:30-6:40-8:00-10:00
Morbius (PG-13) 1:10-7:20-10:20
The Batman (PG-13) 11:50-6:40
The Bad Guys (PG) 1:15-4:007:00-9:45
The Unbearable Weight of
Massive Talent (R) 1:30-4:257:20-10:15
Ambulance (R) 12:10-3:25-6:4510:05
The Lost City (PG-13) 12:50-3:506:50-9:50
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:457:10-10:30
Everything Everywhere All At
Once (R) 11:30-2:50-6:10-9:30
Regal Fairfax Towne Center
Father Stu (R) 3:40-10:30
4110 West Ox Road
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of 12:30-1:10-3:30-4:10-6:30-7:10Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:50-4:30- 9:30-10:10
5:50-7:50-9:10
Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
Morbius (PG-13) 1:00
8001 Gateway Promenade Place
The Batman (PG-13) 3:50-7:40
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
The Bad Guys (PG) 1:10-4:00Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:00-3:307:00-9:40
7:05-10:30
The Unbearable Weight of
Morbius (PG-13) 12:05-4:40-7:50
Massive Talent (R) 1:40-4:40The Batman (PG-13) 5:30-9:20
7:30-10:00
The Lost City (PG-13) 4:20-7:05 The Bad Guys (PG) 12:15-1:153:00-4:00-7:00-9:45
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:40The Unbearable Weight of
7:10-9:50
Massive Talent (R) 1:30-4:25Everything Everywhere All At
7:20-10:20
Once (R) 1:30-4:50-8:05
Ambulance (R) 12:30-3:40-6:50Father Stu (R) 12:40-3:45-6:40
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 12:30- 10:00
The Lost City (PG-13) 12:503:30-6:30-9:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of 4:15-7:40
The Northman (R) 12:20-3:45Dumbledore (PG-13) OC: 2:30
7:10-10:35
Regal Fox & IMAX
Everything Everywhere All At
22875 Brambleton Plaza
Once (R) 12:25-3:55-7:35
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Father Stu (R) 1:10-4:10-7:25Dumbledore (PG-13) 11:30-3:20- 10:25
7:00-10:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Morbius (PG-13) 1:30-4:15-6:50 Dumbledore (PG-13) 1:00-2:00Jersey (Hindi) (NR) 12:50-4:50- 4:30-5:40-8:00-9:30
8:40
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) 12:40The Unbearable Weight of
1:40-3:50-4:50-7:15-8:15-10:15
Massive Talent (R) 12:15-3:15Smithsonian 6:15-9:15
Airbus IMAX Theater
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Telugu) (NR)
14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
12:20-4:10-8:10-9:25
Journey to Space (2015) (NR)
K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Hindi) (NR)
10:20-1:15-3:30
3:15-10:20
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of To Fly! (1976) (NR) 10:50-1:55
Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D Ex- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
perience (PG-13) 12:40-4:35-8:00 of Dumbledore - The IMAX 2D
Experience (PG-13) 4:15-7:10
The Northman (R) 12:45-4:00Blue Planet (Il pianeta azzurro)
7:15-10:30
(NR) 11:25-2:35
Main Te Bapu 1:00-4:00-7:10The Dream is Alive (NR) 12:20
10:10
University Mall Theatre
Beast (Telugu) 11:50-6:50
10659 Braddock Road
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore (PG-13) 12:00-7:30 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
RRR (Rise Roar Revolt) (Telugu) of Dumbledore (PG-13) CC; DVS:
1:00-7:00
(NR) 11:30-2:30-6:35-9:15
Father Stu (R) 11:40-3:40-6:25- The Bad Guys (PG) CC; DVS:
12:20-2:30-7:15
10:35
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) CC;
The Bad Guys (PG) 12:30-3:30DVS: 12:05-2:35-5:05-7:30
6:30-9:30
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets
of Dumbledore (PG-13) OC;
of Dumbledore (PG-13) 2:40DVS: 4:00
6:00-9:40
The Bad Guys (PG) OC; DVS: 4:50
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG)
12:10-1:20-3:10-4:20-6:10-7:20- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (PG) OC;
9:10-10:15
DVS: 5:05

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If he didn’t want to hear complaints about work, why did he get married?
Dear Carolyn:

How much — if at
all — can we ask
our spouse to be
supportive and
empathic when it
Carolyn
comes to bad days
Hax
at work?
Two years ago, I
made a career
change to a new position that has
provided significant financial
support and stability to me and
my husband. The pay and
benefits are wonderful, and I
remain thankful I lucked into
this opportunity.
However, the workload can be
overwhelming. Some time into
my new position, my husband
asked that I end my habit of
sharing the workday’s problems
and frustrations with him, as
listening to my stream of
negativity was tiresome and offputting. I understood his
position and I stopped talking
about work except when sharing
something positive or optimistic.
To be fair, he doesn’t complain
about his job to me.
Recently I had an
exceptionally rough day and
ended up venting when I got
home. I didn’t mean to uncork
and dump on him; I was upset
and it just kinda happened. My
husband became aggravated and
again asked that I not complain
about work.
I was hurt because on a day I

needed empathy and support, I
was instead made to feel like a
villain.
I know there is a point to be
made about finding a different
job (I’m considering it). But is it
unreasonable to have an
expectation that a spouse be
ready and willing to provide
some form of comfort and
support on those extra hard
days?
— Bottled Up
Bottled Up: That’s a “before”

question — one to ask before you
over-dumped on your husband
and wore him down until he
insisted on a draconian
agreement that you would not
dump any more work stress on
him ever.
You need “after” questions.
Such as: “So, er, no exceptions?”
“How about a time limit — five
minutes, on only my worst days?”
“I really overdid it back then,
didn’t I?”
I'm partial to the last one.
Because maybe your husband
is particularly unsympathetic,
sure. And maybe that’s
particularly rich if he’s enjoying
the extra money but won’t share
the emotional work. But I
suspect he has a point, based on
your description and your “It all
just fell out of my mouth!”
defense. I suspect he absorbed
enough of your stress preagreement to go through all five

NICK GALIFIANAKIS/ILLUSTRATION FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

stages of secondhand negativity:
concern, sympathetic stress,
bored stupefaction, desperation,
bargaining for silence.
I know I’m not being nice. But
this career change doesn’t sound
like a mutual decision so much
as your idea of what you both
needed — and if so, then your
husband might be ready for a

family pay cut if it means getting
you back and living in peace.
So that's why I urge you to ask
for sympathy by first expressing
some to your husband. “I chose
this, you didn’t, and I dumped so
much of it on you — I’m sorry I
pushed you to the point of
reacting on reflex. I’m also sorry
I slipped.”

Then: “I do hope I get some
leeway, though. I am not perfect.”
Then: “But even more, I hope
you can help me figure out how
to decompress. If you agree we’re
both living better for the extra
money, then I’d say we both have
a role in absorbing the extra
stress.” Without reenacting the
day’s negativity or having to
pretend everything is greatygreat-great.
In other words, your old
method wore him out, and your
new one wears you out. And
while ultimately it’s your own
riddle to solve, it’s fair to put the
marriage to work on a problem
that touches you both. Maybe
something as simple as a fiveminute limit, or saying, “I need a
hug today,” without a detailed
accounting of your reasons,
would work for both of you.
What doesn’t fly, not for me at
least, is reworking a highly
specific mutual problem into a
generalized shouldn’t-myspouse-support-me? answer. The
only right answer is the one you
both think is right.
Dear Carolyn: I’m that friend
who isn’t comfortable sharing
information with others. It’s
nothing personal. The only
person I share my emotions with
is my husband.
I have a friend who wants me
to share my traumatic life
experiences and deepest

thoughts. She feels like she
shares hers with me and expects
the same back. But I don’t have
any traumatic life experiences. I
do share other things with her,
but not as deep as she wants
them to be.
How do I tell this to my friend,
who feels like I have a problem
with not sharing?
— That Friend
That Friend: You don’t share,

you can agree on that — but she
is the one who has a problem
with it, not you.
You can tell her this plainly.
But it’s hard to persuade
someone who’s projecting: She
has decided you are the obstacle
to the friendship she wants. If
she’s not ready to blame her own
unrealistic expectations — i.e.,
that you become someone you’re
not and share traumas you
haven’t had — then how you say
it is moot.
Still: You’ve told the entire
relevant truth in your letter
while giving absolutely nothing
of substance away. Maybe just
show it to her?
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How to respond to mom-in-law who undermines wife in front of pair’s toddler
Dear Amy: I am a
husband and
father of an 18AMY
month-old
DICKINSON
daughter.
I’m concerned
about how my mother-in-law
treats my wife and daughter.
She calls my wife multiple
times a day to FaceTime with
her granddaughter. My wife
answers as often as she can.
The problem I have is that my
mother-in-law keeps saying
things to our toddler like: “Don’t
worry. Whenever Grandma is
talking to you, you don’t have to
listen to your mom.”
Or when my wife tells my
daughter to stop doing
something, her mother will say,
“Grandma says it’s okay.”
The last time I heard this I
wanted to grab the phone and
say, “Mom makes the rules, and
if you can’t follow them, you
can’t see our daughter,” and
hang up on her.
My wife says it isn’t my place
(I agree), but she hasn’t set
boundaries. My MIL is coming
to visit, and I’ve been stressing
out about it constantly.
She is sleeping on our couch
for three days, and I don’t
think I want to hold my tongue
if she tries to say the same
things when she’s in our home.
I’m all for grandparents
spoiling their grandkids, but
when my daughter is throwing
food on our floor and Grandma
says, “It’s okay, make your
parents clean it up,” I want to
ground Grandma.
Your suggestions?
— Nervous

Ask Amy

calmer and more consistent you
are, the more effective your
response will be.
If your mother-in-law directly
countermands you, and if you
are certain she isn’t just being
playful, you can say: “Oops. I’m
going to have to stop you. We
are her parents, and we need to
make the rules for her, even if
you don’t agree with them. Can
you help us out here and not
contradict us?”
She may say, “Oh, I’m only
joking, don’t take this so
seriously.” And you can respond
with, “I get it, but we’re trying to
be consistent, and her sense of

humor isn’t quite developed
yet.”
Dear Amy: My sister has been

with her fiance for four years.
They live together and plan to
marry in July. This will be the
second marriage for both.
They’re in their 50s, and both
have grown children.
They live in a wonderful city
and enjoy a nice lifestyle,
playing tennis, traveling, etc.
He’s a doctor and she’s a
corporate recruiter.
My sister couldn’t be happier.
(Her previous marriage was full
of grief and frustration.)

All was going well until her
fiance’s daughter (in her 20s)
dropped out of college and
moved in.
Apparently, her dad covers
this daughter’s expenses and
does not require much (if
anything) in return. He lets her
basically do as she pleases, and
that means sleeping until noon,
not working and asking my
sister, “What’s for dinner?”
You can probably see where
this story is going. My sister’s
blissful pre-honeymoon phase is
being interrupted by this third
person’s constant presence. It
frustrates my sister (to no end)

that her fiance has not set down
any ground rules. My sister
works from home and feels she
has lost her peaceful “space”
because of his daughter’s lax
lifestyle.
She also fears the daughter
may end up living with them for
many years to come, something
she didn’t bargain for when she
moved into his house and
accepted his marriage proposal.
Your take?
— Concerned
Concerned: It’s “his house,” “his

marriage proposal” and “his
daughter,” but it’s her life.

MIKE DU JOUR BY MIKE LESTER

This is not the way to enter a
family system where two smart,
successful and advanced-age
adults should be holding hands
and in basic agreement about
their marital partnership.
This also sets your sister up
for failure, as the hard-working
future stepmother of a young
adult.
Every couple should receive
premarital counseling, but
especially couples blending
families, finances and property.
I would suggest your sister
put the wedding on hold until
she and her fiance get on the
same page regarding all of their
children.
Life will deliver many
unforeseeable events that will
require them to pivot, but this
situation is easily remedied.
Dear Amy: Not a question, but a

comment: Why are some of the
issues raised in your columns so
trivial? It seems as if people
really work hard to get worked
up about things.
— Tired
Tired: I find that, generally, if

someone isn’t interested in a
particular cultural issue, they
will find that topic trivial.
My take is that our world is
wide enough to accommodate
issues of all sizes.
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week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
Write to askamy@amydickinson.com
or Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194,
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follow her @askingamy.
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Book World

Neo-Romanticism
gets another look
Patrick Mauriès’s theory of modern art history
challenges orthodox emphasis on abstraction
by Italian Quattrocento painters
and, in Tchelitchew’s case, the art
or years, if you wanted to
of the Northern Renaissance. The
see “Christina’s World” by
ruins of a once-proud culture feaAndrew Wyeth at the Mutured significantly in their art.
seum of Modern Art, you
Three Russians are at the heart
had to track it down in a corridor
of Mauriès’s account: Tchelitchew
near the escalators. It was Wyeth’s
and the brothers Eugène and Lemost famous painting, but it onid Berman. All of them moved to
didn’t fit into the modernist paraParis after the 1917 Revolution and
digm of art history. You got the
became active in the circle of Cenfeeling that the curators would
tral European artists there, inhave buried it in the racks if it
cluding Jacques Lipchitz and
weren’t so popular. Sharing
Marc Chagall. They also met
“Christina’s” exile was a painting
Americans such as writer and colfrom a different tradition by the
lector Gertrude Stein and composRussian American artist Pavel er Virgil Thomson. Stein was
Tchelitchew (pronounced chasearching for the next big thing in
LEE-cheff ), “Hide and Seek,” anart and briefly championed the
other work of art on the wrong
three young artists, along with the
side of history that
other major member of
pleased people who
the group, the Frenchdidn’t know any better.
man Christian Bérard.
Tchelitchew and his
The word “theatres” in
art have escaped from
Mauriès’s title is apt for
their quarantine, and
two reasons: First, Neoboth figure prominently
Romantics’ paintings ofin Patrick Mauriès’s
ten resemble stage sets,
“Theatres of Melanwith moldering ruins set
choly,” an alternative hisin front of bleak vistas
tory of modern art that THEATRES OF
stretching away to infinimakes the case for the MELANCHOLY
ty. These settings are
importance of a loosely The Neosometimes populated by
aligned group of painters Romantics in
characters — clowns, jugtermed the Neo-Roman- Paris and
glers, harlequins and the
tics. In Mauriès’s view, Beyond
like — familiar to theater
some are as important as By Patrick
from Italian commedia
the abstract artists who Mauriès.
dell’arte. Second, the Neocame of age during the Thames and
Romantics were noted for
period between the Hudson.
working with the per256 pp. $65
world wars.
forming arts, designing
In the mid-1920s,
sets and costumes for themany artists were quesatrical events. This entioning the idea of “progress” in
gendered suspicion among some
art, reflecting larger cultural shifts
critics that they were not “pure”
after World War I destroyed the
artists, notwithstanding the fact
view that science, psychoanalysis
that Picasso had worked with
and rationalism would eventually
dance impresario Serge Diaghilev.
solve humankind’s problems. The
Bérard went the furthest in this
great modernist experiments of
regard, designing sets for the Jean
Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse
Cocteau film “La Belle et la Bête,”
were more than a decade in the
working with the interior decorapast. Abstract art was still being
tor Jean-Michel Frank and doing
made, but to the Neo-Romantics it
fashion illustrations for designers
was as hidebound by critical stricCoco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli
tures as the art of any traditional
and Nina Ricci. This led Gertrude
academy. They rejected abstracStein to warn that “he may, after
tion in favor of an art influenced
endlessly debating between beauBY

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Pavel Tchelitchew’s “Leaf-Children.” He is one of the Russian artists at the heart of Patrick
Mauriès’s defense of the Neo-Romantics in “Theatres of Melancholy.”

PRIVATE COLLECTION, NICE

A Town & Country magazine cover by Russian
artist Eugène Berman, from 1939.

PRIVATE COLLECTION, PARIS

French artist Christian Bérard’s “Mozart,”
circa 1945.

ty and fashion, opt for beauty, but
he is in danger of falling into fashion, and staying there.”
The gathering clouds of World
War II impelled Tchelitchew and
Eugène Berman to the United
States, where they eventually became citizens and found their art
championed by Lincoln Kirstein,
co-founder of the New York City
Ballet, and Arthur Everett “Chick”
Austin Jr., director of the famously
avant-garde Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. The artists
designed sets and costumes for
choreographer
George
Balanchine, the Metropolitan Opera
and other patrons. Their work
would also be collected by fashion
designers such as Yves Saint Laurent and Geoffrey Beene and by
writers such as Diana Vreeland.
Berman’s art would be featured on
the cover of Town & Country magazine. All of this, however, would
lead to a critical backlash.
The 1930s were the high point of
Neo-Romantic prestige. In the
1940s, Abstract Expressionism
swept away everything before it,
and artists such as Tchelitchew and
the Bermans were dismissed as dinosaurs who didn’t have the decency to die. Their popularity in gay
circles was also grounds for scorn,
not surprisingly in view of Abstract
Expressionism’s ferocious macho
posturing. The critic Clement
Greenberg, attacking a 1943 exhibition of Eugène Berman’s work,
wrote, “Given that he has discovered essentially nothing about his
art that Raphael didn’t know, he is
very dexterous.” He went on to call
the paintings, “too overpowering,
too decadent, too spurious, and,
really, too well done to be dealt with
in measured words.”
Decadent, spurious and yet well
executed — a concise summation
of the weaknesses and strengths of
Neo-Romanticism. And it is the
technical mastery of many of
those works that has helped them
survive to be reevaluated by a new
generation of art historians. The
current critical emphasis on gender and LGBTQ issues has led in
turn to a more sympathetic climate for Neo-Romanticism. I
would not go as far as Mauriès,
who attempts to present the group
as Postmodernists avant la lettre,
but Neo-Romanticism has been
getting a well-deserved second
look in the past few years. As the
saying goes, “The river of art has
many currents.”
Reagan Upshaw is an art dealer and
critic in Beacon, N.Y.

Molly Shannon throws herself into everything she does, including a memoir
BY

D ONALD L IEBENSON

M

journey from Cleveland, where
she lived with her permissive, but
nurturing, alcoholic father, to
Hollywood and New York, where
she became one of “SNL’s” most
beloved cast members. This interview has been edited for length
and clarity.

olly Shannon is an inveterate credit giver.
Ask her about the
title of her new memoir, “Hello, Molly!,” and she volunteers that Allison Saltzman, an art
director at HarperCollins, came
up with it. Praise her “Saturday
Q: You write about being in
Night Live” sketch “Dr. Beaman’s
something called the New Little
Office,” in which Tim Meadows
Rascals when you were young.
performs the robot
Did you watch the
dance as Dr. Poop, causoriginal “Our Gang”
ing Shannon to break out
comedies growing up?
laughing, and she’ll ofWho were the actors
fer, “Adam McKay wrote
who inspired you?
it.” Mention that you enA: I definitely watched
joyed the first two epi“Our Gang” after school
sodes of her Showtime
on TV. John Ritter on
series, “I Love That for
“Three’s Company” was a
You,” premiering April
great influence as a
29, and she’ll give props
physical comedy
to show creators Vanessa HELLO, MOLLY! performer. Years later, I
Bayer and Jeremy Beiler, A Memoir
met him at a Starbucks
showrunner Jessi Klein, By Molly
with his wife in West L.A.
director Michael Show- Shannon with
He saw me and I saw him
alter and co-star Jenifer Sean Wilsey
and we gave one another
Ecco. 304 pp.
Lewis.
a big hug. I also watched
But “Hello, Molly!” is $27.99
“Little House on the
all about Shannon, and it
Prairie.” Melissa Gilbert
thrums with her indefatwas about my age. She
igable and fearless spirit. These
was a little spitfire. And Gilda
qualities were instilled in her folRadner! I grew up watching
lowing the tragic death of her
“SNL” on babysitting jobs after I
mother, sister and cousin in a
put the kids to bed. I didn’t think I
1969 car crash that she and her
could ever be like her; she was a
father, who was at the wheel,
unique one-of-a-kind talent. My
survived. She was 4 years old. “I
dad loved her character Roseanne
was tough,” she writes. “When
Roseannadanna.
you lose a parent, you don’t want
anybody to treat you differently.
Q: You had a rich interior life
You want to blend in.”
growing up and the book is filled
But Shannon can’t help but
with outrageous stories. The one
stand out, much like her iconic
that comes to mind is your dad
“SNL” character, Mary Katherine
daring you and your friend to
Gallagher, the aspiring “superhop a plane to New York. You
star” who literally throws herself
were 13! Do you think this
into everything she does. In “Helfearlessness prepared you as a
lo, Molly!” Shannon shares her
comic actor?

do it.” I played George Clooney’s
assistant in a sketch. I do
remember I got a laugh. George
Clooney couldn’t have been
nicer. He was a great person to
perform with for the first time on
the show. I was like, “Okay, and
we’re off.”
Q: You write about the creation

of your iconic characters Mary
Katherine Gallagher and Sally
O’Malley. But you were also in
sketches that rank in the “SNL”
pantheon with “More Cowbell”
and “Delicious Dish.” When
you’re in a sketch like that, do
you have any inkling it’s going to
become part of the culture?
A: Ana Gasteyer brought that to
me. Dennis McNicholas, Michael
Schur, Robert Carlock and Ana
wrote that together. It was such a
pleasure to perform because we
would do it center stage and it
just killed. I think I did have a
sense right from the beginning,
“This is going to be good.”
Q: In the book, you have an

COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR

Molly Shannon during her time at NYU’s Tisch School of the
Arts. The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member has
acquired a reputation for being fearless as well as funny.

A: It gave me a zest for life and a

kind of exuberance. My dad liked
to be silly and have fun. Someone
asked me once if I was scared. I
wasn’t scared at all. We were
thrilled and overjoyed. It was like
a fun adventure.
Q: Your first “SNL” episode was

hosted by George Clooney. Do

you remember getting your first
laugh?
A: I was very nervous. When I
got the job, I went to my friend
Michael Palermo and said,
“Mike, what if I forget how to
walk and talk?” I went to his
office where he was temping and
practiced walking and reading
lines, and he said, “See, you can

interesting take on breaking
character; you defend it. I’ve
read Lorne Michaels isn’t a fan of
the actors laughing during a
scene, but audiences love it. Why
is that?
A: Because they feel like they’re
in on something as it’s
happening right before their
eyes. It’s like they’re laughing
with you, as though they are part
of it. It also means you’re a happy
performer; you’re obviously
relaxed and having so much fun.
It happened to me in a sketch
with Brendan Fraser. I was
playing Xena, the warrior
princess, and he was my rival. I
accidentally pulled his wig off. I
could not stop laughing. It was

so unprofessional. All of us
couldn’t stop laughing.
Q: Was it cathartic to write the

book?
A: People have asked that, and
I’ve said, “No, I’ve already
processed so much of this stuff.”
But the truth is, it is cathartic
because there are all these things
you think about and you dig deep
to make the book rich. For the
first time in my life, I Googled
the place of the accident and how
far we were from home. My
whole life I had never done that.
We were 18 minutes from home.
Q: What do you hope readers get
out of your story?
A: I hope it can inspire people [to
realize] that they can overcome
difficult things from their
childhood, and to see that it’s great
to stick to what you’re passionate
about. It’s not always easy, but it
does make for a good life.
Q: Your story is in part a

testament to the importance of
the arts in school. And yet the
arts are often the first thing that
gets cut.
A: It’s so important. My grade
school did not have a big budget,
but we could do cheap stuff. We
had a mom who came in after
school and taught us improv. It
changed my life. We could just
make up little skits. I lived for the
St. Patrick’s Day show, where
each grade would do a big song
and dance number. It was the
highlight of my year.
Donald Liebenson is an
entertainment writer. His work has
been published by the Chicago
Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
VanityFair.com and Vulture.

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Head fakes: Reinterpreting headlines
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P AT M YERS

Week 1481 was our perennial Mess With Our Heads
contest, in which readers chose

a headline from any publication
and reinterpreted it by adding a
bank head, or subtitle. Among
the 1,400 submissions, the Post
head “Trump Probably Broke
Law, Judge Finds” brought
many bank heads like “Pope
Probably Catholic,” “Sun
Probably Rose in East Today.”

4th place:
Post headline: At age 101, he

finally got his high school
diploma

Bank head: Plans gap year;
parents skeptical (Milo Sauer,
Fairfax)
3rd place:
‘My goal, ultimately, is to get
eyeballs’: Our exclusive

interview with Mr. Potato Head
(Barbara Turner, Takoma Park)
2nd place and the dancing
Hillary Clinton doll:
Catholic University names
president: ‘Biden, duh’ (Sam

Mertens, Silver Spring)

And the winner of the
Clowning Achievement:

BOB STAAKE/ILLUSTRATION FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

New for Week 1485: Switchcraft —
transpose two letters in a word
Switch the L and D in LEMONADE and you get DEMON
ALE: What made Billy and Susie’s curbside stand sell out in
20 minutes.

BETTY GARBLE: Famed pin-up model with great legs, not

so great a voice.

ACT OF DOG: Does your homeowner’s policy cover
shredded furniture?

This week’s contest was suggested by 21-time Loser Jeff
Rackow, who reminded the Empress of her goof in February
when she announced the Week 1474 contest as “Week 1744,”
and suggested that she at least get a contest out of it. This
week: Switch the positions of two letters within a word,
name, title or phrase, then describe the result, as in Jeff ’s

Surveillance Video Captures
Man Throwing Rock Through
Two Windows

“Lemonade/demon ale” example and the others above. (Oh, I
guess you could transpose numbers as well. What the heck.)
As with all our neologism contests, feel free to include a funny
sentence showing how your term could be used, since other
Losers might think of the same word, and because we want
readers to laugh, you know?

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Winner gets the
Clowning Achievement,
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trophy. Second place
receives a pair of

Slapped comedian just keeps
getting assaulted (Bill Dorner,
Indianapolis)

Date Lab: It wasn’t what she
expected: Lots more panting

and barking, for one thing
(Duncan Stevens, Vienna)

At age 101, he finally got his
high school diploma: Postal

Service apologizes for delay
(Ryan Martinez, Takoma Park)

How to get a husband to stop
and listen: Taser unveils new

marketing slogan (Allen
Haywood, Washington)

Looking at trees isn’t the only
way to mark the National
Cherry Blossom Festival: But

keep your zipper up anyway
(Kevin Dopart, Washington)

‘For God’s sake, this man
cannot remain in power’: ‘I’m

doing my best,’ sputters Kroger
bagger after Shopper Karen
outburst (Michael Cohen,
Greenbelt)
10 women who have made
history so far in 2022:

Squeezing them all into one
article gives us space for real
news (Hannah Seidel,
Alexandria)

97% had visibly reduced lines
in one week [face cream ad]: Ga.

reports great success in shrinking turnout at polls (Beverley
Sharp, Montgomery, Ala.)
Are we ready for another
wave? Queen says she will

venture out again next week.
(Mark Raffman, Reston)

Art Briles steps down as
Grambling’s offensive
coordinator days after being
hired: ‘I don’t get it — I thought

I was being really offensive’
(John Hutchins, Silver Spring)
Birth of a Final Four: ‘No
more kids!’ vows mother of
quadruplets (Terry Lewis,
Springfield, a First Offender)
Bowser eyes bike and bus
expansion: ‘With the size of

today’s butts, we’ve gotta have
bigger seats,’ D.C. mayor says
(Craig Dykstra, Centreville)

Bowser plans $10 million
effort to support Black homeownership in city: Hopes to

expand program to cover four
homes next year (Allen
Haywood)

adorable Racing Nuns:

Rev up the wheels on the
bottom, toy-car-style, and
send the mini-sisters
sweeping gracefully
Rev. ’em up: Two-inch-tall
down the hallway. They
Racing Nuns on wheels, this
even have cute freckles
week’s second prize.
beneath their wimples.
Donated by Loser Charlie
Hummel, whose family had “given up Nun Racing for Lent.”
Other runners-up win their choice of our “For Best Results,
Pour Into Top End” Loser Mug or our “Whole Fools” Grossery
Bag. Honorable mentions get one of our lusted-after Loser
magnets, “A Small Jester of Appreciation” or “Close, but Ceci
N’est Pas un Cigare.” First Offenders receive only a smelly treeshaped air “freshener” (FirStink for their first ink). See general
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body from Renaissance era to
today: They turned into bones!

(Coleman Glenn, Huntingdon
Valley, Pa.)
Giving a fresh listen to
Grammy contenders: Picky

parents hold second round of
interviews for surrogate nana
(Sarah Walsh, Rockville)
I-395 drivers do stupid
things, and he has the tape:

Man speeds after speeders while
holding his camera out the
window (Jon Gearhart, Des
Moines)

If Biden Is Frustrated With
Garland, It’s His Own Darn
Fault: He could have taken down

White House Christmas
decorations himself, critics say
(Jon Grantham, Fairfax)
Hunter admits to killing
nearby family’s beloved dog:

difficult workweek (Jeff Shirley,
Richmond)
Private jets multiply in the
skies: Mile High Club no longer

restricted to humans (Marli
Melton, Carmel Valley, Calif.)

Racks can make things
easier, until it’s time to clean:

‘When I’m scrubbin’ that floor,
woo-ee, I tip right over!’ Dolly
Parton says (Roxi Slemp,
Bariloche, Argentina)

Russia accused of breaking
promise: Duh. (Dave Prevar,

Annapolis)

Russians possibly sick: ‘Ya
think?’ says head of cancer ward
at Mariupol Children’s Hospital
(Don Norum, Charlottesville)

Schools nationwide are
quietly removing books from
their libraries: ‘Big deal that the

Bannon touts new Biden rumor
(Frank Osen, Pasadena, Calif.)

censors followed our noise
rules!’ says outraged librarian
(Ryan Martinez)

Clarence Thomas has some
good advice for his wife:

remain lawful, AG assures
supporters (Karen Lambert,
Chevy Chase)

on her desk, they pressed her to
see professional help (Bird
Waring, Larchmont, N.Y.)

Congressman Madison
Cawthorn under fire over
claims of DC drugs and orgies:

refuse because ‘Biden is not
really president’ (Steve Leifer,
Potomac)

Brain implant allows fully
paralyzed patient to
communicate: First

communication is with billing
department (Paul Frantz, San
Francisco, a First Offender)

Explains how self-destructing
message apps work (Karen
Golden, Prince Frederick, Md.)

‘Why weren’t we invited?’
demand GOP leaders (Steve
Benko, Southport, Conn.; Ken
Bredemeier, Fairfax Station, a
First Offender)
D.C. plans spike in traffic
cameras that issue fines:

Speeders’ tires will be punished
instantly by sharp-tipped
projectile (Jeff Contompasis,
Ashburn)
Examination shows how
deeply Cruz was involved:

Trump colonoscopy shows ‘clear
nose print,’ physician says (Mark
Raffman)
Getty exhibition features
amazing depictions of human

It’s Pride Week in Austin
schools. The Texas AG says
that’s illegal: Envy, lust, gluttony

Jim Jordan prods GOP
colleagues to consider
impeaching Biden: Other R’s

LA County sheriff shoots his
mouth off again: Will be

assigned desk duty after second
hospital stay (Jonathan Jensen,
Baltimore)
Michigan squeaks past
surprising South Dakota: Big

tectonic shift in Midwest reported (Roy Ashley, Washington)
More houses of worship are
reopening, but attendance is
flat: Deacons fill empty pews

with leftover cardboard cutouts
(Jon Gearhart)

PM Update: Cool but
generally pleasant this
weekend: Boris Johnson

subdued but amiable following

She was a candidate to lead
Levi’s. Then she started
tweeting: When she built a nest

Key Youngkin adviser is paid
by political firms, not state:

Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle

EDITED BY RICH NORRIS AND JOYCEEdited
NICHOLS
LEWIS
by Patti
Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis
“EXTRA SPECIAL”
By CHRISTINA
IVERSON
ACROSS
1 Paulson of
“American
Crime Story”
6 Remove one’s
name from, as
on Facebook
11 __ one’s time
15 Ooze
19 Steered
20 Ma Rainey
player Davis
21 Ones in wool
coats
22 Muscle car rod
23 Holiday-themed
minifigures in
LEGO Advent
calendars?
25 __ bean
26 Muscle car roof
27 Like Zippo
lighters and
Maglite
flashlights
28 Not for keeps
30 Major reversals
32 Whole Foods
section
34 Leaves off
36 Pulitzer-winning
Glass
37 Club kin
40 Formal complaints about a
sommelier’s recommendations?
47 “I’m all __!”
49 “Kiss Me
Deadly” singer
Ford
50 __ Vogue
51 TV pioneer
52 “You’re not
allowed to feel
that way!,” e.g.?
58 “__ Eleven”:
Emily St. John
Mandel novel
60 Furniture wood
61 Bite
63 Tierra en el mar
64 Post, as on a
bulletin board
67 Gold unit
69 Photo filter
70 Tale of the hora?
74 Wasn’t well
76 Ball of the Bulls
77 Post-workout
indulgence
78 Subj. for Elinor
Ostrom and
Emily Oster
79 Walks loudly
82 Five cents
86 Mosaic piece
90 Surfer’s dream?
93 Born
94 Hershey candy
in gold foil

96 Skiing aid
97 Arcade name
98 Way to manage
the study of
Ceres and
Vesta?
105 __ de crème
106 Cheer for un gol
107 Vowel-rich first
guess in Wordle
108 Growing concern
110 Plant pests
113 Did the tango
116 Wet floor?
120 Print maker
121 “Spring forward”
unit
123 Pretty but
ineffective
dressing?
126 Apple variety
127 “Blackfish” killer
whale
128 Soap that floats
129 Co-founder of
A.A., familiarly
130 Metal bands?
131 Sturdy trees
132 Like flourless
cake

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B Y G E O R G IA N IC O L S

Happy Birthday | April 24: You are a practical person who appears to have a casual, relaxed attitude toward
life. You are determined and focused. Family is very important to you. You know that with patience you can
accomplish what you want. This year is about reflection and looking inward — a time of learning and teaching.
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or
important decisions after 8 p.m.
The Moon is in Aquarius.

because things look worse than
they are. If you believe in fairies,
clap your hands.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)
You might be at odds with a group
or a friend about financial
matters. Or this dispute could
relate to your own possessions.
You might not settle this today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Take the high road in discussions
with partners and close friends,
because it will be easy to fall into
negativity and criticism.
Remember your long-term
objective. Cherish this
relationship.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Abraham Maslow said, “If the only
tool you have is a hammer, you
tend to see every problem as a
nail.” This is relevant because
there’s a lot of Eeyore thinking
going on. Hey, things are not as
bad as they seem.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Bad news in the media might get
to you. Sometimes it’s wise to take
a break from the news. It’s good to
be informed, but it’s also good to
stay in a positive frame of mind.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
This is a poor day for a serious
discussion about inheritances,
how to share something or how to
deal with jointly owned property,
because people will be
entrenched in their point of view.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Avoid controversial subjects today
because these discussions will go
south in a New York minute.
People expect the worst. They
refuse to see outside the box.
Heavy criticism can promote
depression.

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89 Shawkat of
“Arrested
Development”
91 Civil rights
initialism
92 Coral habitat
95 Idiosyncratic sort
99 Privileged few
100 Twinkly toppers
101 Kylo of the “Star
Wars” sequels
102 Geometry giant
103 Org. that sent
Juno to Jupiter
104 Fashionable
109 Sierra __
110 Natural hairstyle
111 Penniless
112 “Amscray!”
114 Roof trim
115 Mousetrap brand
117 Dad, in Chinese
118 Challenges on
the field
119 Burden for many
students
122 British singer
Rita
124 Trauma ctrs.
125 “Later, gator”

HOROS COPE

(Stephanie Smilay, Takoma
Park, a First Offender)

used more thumb, better followthrough (Duncan Stevens)
More honorable mentions at

55 Trying
56 Morales of
“Ozark”
57 Oscar winner
Laura
59 Closet
organizers
62 Gets behind
65 Short address
66 All in favor
68 PreCheck org.
69 Justice
Sotomayor
70 Very relatable
71 Not behind
72 Hilfiger rival
73 Ditty
74 Insurance giant
75 Fruity frozen
drinks
80 “__ Loves
Mambo”
81 Schedule
opening
83 Stay fresh
84 Therefore
85 Test with logic
games
87 Blundered
88 Kanga’s kid

Answers to last week’s puzzle below.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
People are inclined to see why
something can’t be done instead
of looking for ways that it can be
done. One is pessimistic, while the
other is hopeful and optimistic.
Pessimism is rampant today.

Smith’s slap shows he’s not
perfect: Analysts: he could have

DOWN
1 California
sch. near the
Mexican border
2 Vishnu’s quartet
3 Wander
4 Meeting place
for a H.S. film
club
5 Prevented from
being on time
6 Grape, in
Spanish
7 Diarist Anaïs
8 “Africa” band
9 “Doom Patrol”
actor Tudyk
10 Fixture in some
patio firepits
11 “Hey now, that’s
unreasonable!”
12 “Gimme!”
13 Actor Patel
14 Genesis twin
15 Planet with 53
named moons

16 Bacon
specification
17 North Carolina
college town
18 Spices (up)
24 Ward with
awards
29 “Egad,” like, way
updated
31 Disney princess
voiced by Anika
Noni Rose
33 Pottery oven
35 Understands
37 Suds
38 Gold fabric
39 Stepped
41 Clear (of)
42 Thing
43 Second start?
44 One seeing
Spots?
45 Gut bacteria
46 Yemen
metropolis
48 Dublin’s St. __
Green
53 Epic featuring
Paris
54 Old Dodge

4/24/22

Republicans praise governor’s
efforts to control state spending
(Jerry Birchmore, Springfield)
Sink or swim: Fla. Gov.
DeSantis signs witch trial bill
(Kevin Dopart)
Trump is losing his grip on
the GOP: Little fingers blamed

133 Naturally
powered
elevator?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Don’t be upset about finances,
inheritances, taxes or debt,

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Cooperate with work colleagues,
because it’s easy to be critical.
Dale Carnegie said, “Any fool can
criticize, condemn and complain,
but it takes character and selfcontrol to be understanding and
forgiving.” Avoid the naysayers.

romantic partners also must resist
being critical. Goethe said,
“Correction does much, but
encouragement does more.” Chill
out.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
To keep peace and harmony at
home, resist your urge to speak
negatively or to criticize someone.
Don’t find reasons things can’t be
done. Instead, explore reasons
things might be done.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today it’s easy to be down on
yourself. When you feel negative,
you feel victimized. “I’m never the
one chosen,” or “I’m always the
last to know.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Parents must resist the urge to
criticize their kids. Likewise,

Answers to last week’s puzzle.

4/17/22

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Eyes on the iris: Pursuing
Jordan’s national flower
BY

M ARTA V IDAL

Sitting beneath the branches
of an ancient oak on a windswept
hill in Jordan’s highlands during
the first week of spring, I’m
surrounded by a dazzling array
of wildflowers. Purple anemones, red poppies, pink cyclamen,
yellow and orange daisies. But
one elegant flower stands out in
the midst of all the bright
blooms — because it’s completely
black.
Mesmerized, I come closer to
the lustrous dark petals, dropping to my knees to admire them.
I had never seen a black flower in
bloom before. Shining in the sun,
three petals of the deepest black
curve downward, and some
patches look like velvet. They are
extraordinarily beautiful.
“The black iris is Jordan’s
national flower,” says Sawsan
Oran, a professor of botany at the
University of Jordan. “It’s an
endemic species, and it’s a very
special flower.” Her name,
Sawsan, means “iris” in Arabic,
and she was married for 40 years
to Jordan’s leading expert in
native flora, Dawud Al-Eisawi,
who died of covid-19 in 2020.
“He was really in love with
irises,” Oran says, her voice

tinged with sadness. The flowers,
she tells me, have adapted to a
harsh environment and can be
found on sun-parched hills,
windy mountains and rocky
cliffs, or at the edge of the desert.
Her husband identified several
species of irises with dark petals,
from the fertile hills in the north
to the dry lands and rugged
mountains in the south. Although most people refer to
them collectively as black irises,
only one species, Iris nigricans,
is the country’s national flower.
Since it was adopted as the
national flower in 1999, the
name and image of the black iris
have appeared in restaurants,
cafes and hotels all over the
kingdom. The flower is a great
symbol of Jordan — of elegance,
beauty and delicacy in a harsh,
challenging environment. It captures the essence of the country,
demonstrating that astonishing
things can flourish even in the
roughest of places.
But the flower blooms for only
a few weeks in spring, and the
short seasonal life means the real
thing is hard to find. Intensive
urbanization, plowing, overgrazing and climate change have
made the flower more vulnerable

A bridge to history
On a road trip along Algeria’s coast, moving forward and looking back

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e were on the road out of Timgad when the dust storm caught up with
us. Within an hour, the plume had swept in from the west and blotted
out the sun. Within two, it had washed out the horizon entirely,
engulfing everything — land and sky — in the same dirty ocher hue. ¶ To my mind,
already overawed by the conceptual space of the Saharan plains a few hundred
miles south, this surreal yellow twilight emphasized a couple of things about
Algeria. That the country is huge, certainly, the 10th-biggest in the world by area.
But also that it is obscure, hidden behind barriers both geographical and
artificial. ¶ Five days earlier, in the capital Algiers, my guide, Omar Zahafi, had
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Stocking up on international essentials
BY

H ELEN C AREFOOT

I’m reminded of Turkey early
every day — when I shower, spray
on perfume and brew my morning
coffee. That’s because some of the
staples of my daily life (olive oil
shampoo, cotton socks, exfoliating kese mitts, Eyup Sabri Tuncer
body sprays) traveled approximately 5,200 miles from Turkey to
Washington. But instead of a cargo plane, they came in my suitcase.
It’s easier than ever to order
digestive biscuits from Britain or
skin-care products from South Korea online, but shipping costs and
customs make it easier to tote
objects home while traveling than
to have them shipped across the
world. And with the pandemic
severely restricting travel the past
few years — I’m still using products from 2019 — some travelers
are nearing the end of their stashes and gearing up to get more.
For people who grew up elsewhere, using products from home
evokes feelings of comfort. Yuki
Sugiyama, 32, moved to D.C. from
Kyoto in 2019 to work at the Japanese Embassy as a public affairs
officer and hasn’t been able to go
home since. Each morning, he sips
dried green tea (ryokucha) out of
tea cups with a cherry blossom
pattern made in the Kyo-yaki pottery style, something Kyoto is famous for. He also uses a set of
wooden chopsticks finished with
lacquer (urushi).
“There’s a beautiful crafting
culture in my city, and it’s a common gift in Japan,” he said. “They
make me feel at home and make
the food taste better.” This summer, when he returns, he’ll buy
suits, stationery and skin-care
products. And he’ll bring his
friend a gift, a special-edition
cherry blossom jersey with the

name and number of Rui
Hachimura, the Washington Wizards player who was one of Japan’s
flag bearers at the Tokyo Olympics.
For others, using products from
abroad is a way to feel closer to
relatives far away. Nithya Pathalam, a 25-year-old law student in
Philadelphia, spent summers in
India as a child visiting her grandparents in Tirunelveli. Every time
she and her mother visit there
now, they stock up on 25 bottles of
richly pigmented Lakmé eyeliner.
Pathalam, who “never leaves the
house without eyeliner,” has recommended the brand to friends
and loves that it works well with
her skin tone. But it holds even
more significance, because “it’s
something from India that brings
back all these memories of seeing
people I care so deeply about.”
Quality is a separate consideration. Mimi Khawsam-ang, a 26year-old graduate student who
lives in New York, swears by skincare products such as eye creams,
serums and sunscreens from
Shiseido and SK-II. The last time
her mother visited from Bangkok,
she brought Thai iced-tea powder,
tom yum instant noodles, skincare products and cosmetics (in a
checked bag, because they’re
mostly liquids).
Although many of the products
are available at department stores
in the United States, her family
gets discounts in Thailand. Also,
she’s loath to order products online because of quality issues. “A
huge reason behind buying the
Asian sunscreen is it doesn’t leave
a white cast,” she said. “I trust
Asian skin care, and especially
with cosmetics, I feel in general,
brands with more of an Asia focus
are good about matching skin
tones, and you might not always

have that option with brands that
are geared toward more Western
markets.”
When May Huang’s mother
flies from Hong Kong to visit her
in Berkeley, Calif., she brings packages of thin panty liners. Uncomfortable with the thicker options
she has found in the United States,
Huang, who is 25 and works in
communications, has a drawer in
her room set aside for the pads and
says they’re the only product she
asks people to bring when they
visit. “I don’t know if it’s a nostalgia thing, but I grew up there, and
because I think menstrual products are a daily necessity for people around the world, that’s something I want to keep with me here,”
she said. “It makes me feel safe and
more secure.”
Discovering and bringing the
goods home can be an adventure,
too. When I spoke with Marlena
Spieler, a 73-year-old food writer
and consultant based in Hampshire, England, she showed me a
pantry chock-full of culinary delights collected and “schlepped”
from around Europe. An American who has lived in England since
the 1980s, Spieler has a pantry
that’s a wonderland of culinary
specialties. Some of her favorite
food finds are breads and pastries
from France and Greece (she
freezes them), porcini cubes from
Italy and Hungarian pickles.
When Spieler was on a trip to
Poland, some local women gifted
her raspberries preserved in syrups, jams and honey. To get them
home, Spieler didn’t let a full suitcase stand in her way. “When I find
something so great food-wise, I’ll
get rid of my clothes and shoes,”
she said. “I thought, ‘What do I
need: these old shoes or this old
coat?’ Right there at the check-in, I
just got rid of all my clothes and

put in the food.” She’s honed her
technique since an incident on a
hot day in Los Angeles when the
pungent odor of a suitcase filled
with cheeses filled the airport terminal.
Useful products don’t sit on a
shelf collecting dust like random
trinkets. When Mike Wilkins, a
46-year-old marketing executive
who lived in England for five
years, traveled back there from his
home in Ridgewood, N.J., in February, he went with a list: Cadbury
Dairy Milks and Aero bars, because “you want to bring back the
good chocolate”; Match Attax
trading cards for him and his son
to play with; and Berocca, “which
is like a mix between Alka-Seltzer
and Emergen-C, and the best
hangover cure ever invented.” He
also made room for a bag of spray
deodorant for his 14-year-old son.
“Getting a teenager to wear deodorant is a massive challenge as
it is, and spray deodorant is dominant in Europe and much easier to
get him to apply,” he said.
He recently started a new job
that involves travel to London,
and he’ll load up his suitcase next
time with tea biscuits, “the superior alternative to graham crackers,”
which didn’t make the cut last
time, because he was afraid they
would be crushed.
Then there are products that go
the other direction. Sigridur Dogg
Gudmundsdottir, head of Visit
Iceland, spends much of her time
on the road promoting tourism to
her country. She marks her frequent trips abroad with a new
tube of MAC faux satin lipstick in a
range of colors; her latest tube is a
soft pink she bought in Toronto.
She keeps the rest of her makeup
more subdued, so the lipstick is “a
luxury I like to indulge in when I’m
abroad.”

Play, a new Icelandic airline, takes o≠ in the U.S.
BY

A NDREA S ACHS

On Wednesday, an Icelandic
budget airline named Play debuted in the United States, less
than a year after launching in
Europe. Its inaugural flight traveled from Baltimore-Washington
International Marshall Airport to
Iceland’s Keflavik Airport, the
same route another low-fare carrier flew before its abrupt collapse in 2019.
In many ways, Play’s business
model is similar to Wow Air’s: It
flies from the United States to a
constellation of destinations in
Europe, connects through Iceland and charges for any and all
extras, such as carry-on bags, seat
assignments and bottled water.
However, the carrier hopes the
resemblance ends there.
“We came about after the collapse of Wow, from a group of
people who used to work for Wow
and saw the mistakes that were
made,” said Birgir Jonsson, chief
executive of Play and a former
deputy chief executive at Wow.
“We are a completely different
animal, although maybe the look
and feel of the brand and the
approach are similar.”
The airline, which took off last
June with a flight to London
Stansted, serves nearly two dozen

European destinations from its
Icelandic hub. It will expand its
U.S. presence in the coming
months — to Boston Logan on
May 11; Stewart International, in
New York’s Hudson Valley, on
June 9; and Florida’s Orlando
International on Oct. 1. The company owns six Airbus A320neo
and A321neo planes, which are
evenly divided between transatlantic and intra-European routes.
It will gradually increase its fleet
to 10 planes next year, a dozen in
2024 and 15 in 2025. Jonsson said
it will also add more dots to its
map along the East Coast of
North America, but not at the
speed or stretch of Wow.
“Wow was a strong company
until they grew too quickly and
overextended themselves and began to operate wide-bodied aircraft flying from Iceland to L.A.
to India,” Jonsson said. “We started slow and built our operation
during the difficult covid period,
but our aim has always been to
launch the U.S. operation. The
geographical location of Iceland
is really advantageous to connecting Europe and the U.S.”
Budget airlines have succeeded on short hauls (see Allegiant,
Ryanair) but stumbled on costlier
cross-oceanic routes (see Wow,
Norwegian Air). “The model has

never worked on transatlantic
flights,” said Edward Russell,
who covers the airline industry
for Skift. One of the airlines’
biggest challenges is attracting
passengers during slow travel
periods. Empty seats can deliver
an especially hard punch to carriers that charge below standard
fare. “The truth is anyone can fill
a plane in July and August,” he
said, “but how does it fill planes
in winter?”
Play could draw travelers out
of hibernation — or hiding —
with its low fares. Scott Keyes,
founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights,
searched for nonstop flights from
Washington to Iceland in early
June and discovered that Play
consistently beat out the other
carriers: $408 vs. $538 on Icelandair, for instance. “Play has the
cheapest flights,” he said. “Even
with fees, you will come out on
top.”
Keyes said the airline’s supplemental fees are “not outrageous,”
but they can add up. The a la
carte prices are based on several
factors, such as the number of
flight segments or legs, the destination’s season (high or low) and
when you purchase the extras
(while booking the flight, posttransaction or at the airport).
On a BWI-to-Iceland flight in

May, for example, carry-on with
priority boarding costs $33.15,
and a checked bag goes for $43.35
each way. Though all seating is
economy class, passengers can
choose the pitch, or amount of
space between seat backs. Prices
range from about $5 to $41, and
the aisle, middle and window
seats in each row cost the same.
Items on the food and beverage
cart range from $1 for Icelandic
water to about $4 for Icelandic
chocolate with toffee and sea salt
to nearly $10 for a vegan wrap
with falafel and date chutney.
In-flight entertainment and
WiFi won’t cost a krona — because Play does not offer either, at
least for now. Jonsson said he
does not want to charge passengers for a substandard product
and is waiting for less-glitchy
service.
Keyes is cautiously optimistic
about Play’s ability to avoid the
fate of Wow and applauds its
initiative, especially during such
volatile times. “I’m glad to see
them take this risk,” he said. “It’s
a benefit to cheap-flight lovers
everywhere.”
Russell, however, is more circumspect. “I would fly Play this
summer,” he said. “I don’t think it
is going to go away overnight —
yet.”

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Travel smells.
It isn’t just your
resort’s signature
fragrance wafting
through the lobby
or the
The
aromatherapy kit
Navigator in your bathroom.
CHRISTOPHER During the
seemingly endless
ELLIOTT
pandemic, it’s also
the solutions used
to clean the public areas in
airports, train stations and hotel
lobbies. They’re giving us a
headache.
Airlines, car rental companies,
cruise lines and hotels added
many of these smelly solutions
during the pandemic to make
customers feel safer, says
consumer psychologist Michal
Strahilevitz, who teaches
marketing at St. Mary’s College of
California. Reassuring passengers
with the scent of cleansers, she
says, makes perfect sense,
because many of us have been
taught since childhood that this is
what clean and safe smells like. In
reality, it has nothing to do with
either.
“And personally,” she adds,
“these artificial fragrances make
me gag.”
That makes two of us. During
the past two years, travel
companies have created and
promoted programs in
conjunction with cleaning
brands. Initially, experts thought
the smells would fade as the
pandemic did. But the pandemic
lingers — and so do all of the
annoying, headache-inducing
chemical odors.
There are ways to avoid the
smells, but for now, at least, it’s
hard to escape them entirely.
Patti Wood checked into a hotel
room in Birmingham, Ala.,
recently that reeked of
disinfectant. It triggered an
immediate asthma attack.
“The smell was overpowering,”
says Wood, a body language
consultant from Atlanta whose
clients include hotel companies.
“I went down to the front desk to
see if there were any rooms that
had been cleaned and deodorized
the day before, so the scent would
not be as strong.”
The travel industry knows the
power of smell.
Many hotels have begun to
create signature scents that they
hope will enhance the experience.
At the Boulders Resort & Spa
Scottsdale, for example, you can
catch a whiff of the “perfume of
the desert,” a signature scent of
mesquite and shaggy bark
juniper. CitizenM, a boutique
hotel chain, pipes an
“invigorating” (its words) scent of
“petitgrain, fresh fig, and orange
blossom contrasted with creamy
sandalwood and soft musk.” It
even has a scent sommelier on
staff.
But that approach can be taken
to the extreme. I recently stayed
at a resort in Portugal’s Alentejo
region that also had a signature
scent. It plopped a generous vial
of the essential oil next to the
desk where I was trying to write a
story. Within a few minutes, I had
a searing headache. Fortunately, I
could move the rose-scented
decanter to the bathroom, where
it probably belonged, anyway.
Businesses also know that
smells can be profitable. A 2012
study by Washington State
University researchers tied the
presence of a simple orange scent
in a home decor store to increased
guest spending, which rose, on
average, by about 20 percent.
Researchers have found that the

principle applies in the
hospitality industry, too. Alan
Hirsch, director of the Smell &
Taste Treatment and Research
Foundation in Chicago, published
a research paper in 1995 that
found that visitors at a Las Vegas
casino gambled an average of 45
percent more on a floor with a
pleasant scent.
These days, smells are being
used to make people feel safer.
And that seems to be working —
except when it doesn’t.
Anne Markowski, who works
for a museum in New Haven,
Conn., has multiple chemical
sensitivities, which causes her to
react to low levels of commonly
used chemicals. She has long
avoided boutique hotels because
of their signature scents, but
during the pandemic, she says,
“travel is very stressful.”
The worst are restrooms,
Markowski says, some of which
have motion-triggered
deodorizers. “What they are
actually doing is contributing to
indoor air pollution.”
She says she also avoids
airports with chemical sprayers,
such as Phoenix Sky Harbor.
That brings us to the first way
to avoid travel’s smells: You can
book around them. Airlines,
hotels and car rental companies
have highly publicized cleaning
programs with brands known for
their distinctive smells. For
example, Hilton’s CleanStay
program partners with Reckitt,
makers of Lysol and Dettol, so if
you’re extra sensitive to smells
and would rather avoid the odors
of cleaning products, you might
want to bypass a just-cleaned
room at a Hilton property.
Some hotels also have
commercial-grade ozone
machines, which can get rid of
unpleasant smells without the
use of artificial scents. Someone
at your hotel should be able to tell
you whether it has one.
Another strategy is wearing
your face covering, even if you
don’t have to. “If scents are
causing you discomfort, masks
can definitely help,” says Kalliope
Amorphous, owner of the
perfume house Black Baccara. A
mask will block some of the
odors. If you’d rather smell
something else, you can add a few
drops of your favorite scent to the
mask.
Nicole Villegas, an
occupational therapist who
specializes in treating anxiety and
sensory sensitivities, says
travelers bothered by strong
scents should be proactive.
“The best way to deal with a
situation where a smell may be
causing you discomfort is to
actively respond to the issue,”
Villegas says. “When it comes to
smell or uncomfortable scents,
many people take a passive
approach and simply wait for the
smell to pass. While a passive
approach can be necessary at
times, it means that you may be
around the scent longer and feel
the discomfort or pain for longer
as well.”
Villegas recommends moving,
opening a window or wearing a
scent-blocking mask.
But there’s a larger issue at play
here: The travel industry as a
whole needs to rethink its use of
scents. There are already so many
things that companies use to
manipulate travelers. Smells
shouldn’t be one of them.
Elliott is a consumer advocate,
journalist and co-founder of the
advocacy group Travelers United.
Email him at chris@elliott.org.

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Seeking
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and increasingly difficult to spot
in the wild. In 2014, it was listed
as endangered.
Fascinated by the black iris, I
joined photographer Mohammad Asfour on a quest to find it.
Mohammad has spent years exploring Jordan’s diverse wildlife
and natural beauty, including the
oak and pine forests in the north
and the arid landscapes of Wadi
Rum and Petra in the south. As
spring began, we hit the road in
search of black in bloom.
Jal’ad iris
We first headed north. Even
though about 75 percent of Jordan is desert, the fertile northern
hills are bursting with wildflowers in spring. Our first stop was
the Yarmouk Forest Reserve, in
northwest Jordan, close to the
border with Syria.

MOHAMMAD ASFOUR

The flower
blooms for only
a few weeks in
spring, and the
short seasonal life
means the real
thing is hard to find.
Staff at the Royal Society for
the Conservation of Nature,
which manages the country’s
nature reserves, told us where we
could find dark irises growing
next to deciduous oak trees in
Yarmouk. Picking the endangered flowers is, of course, strictly forbidden: The plant’s rhizomes are close to the surface, so
they can easily be uprooted when
picked.
In the reserve, we found striking dark irises on a hill with a
stunning view across Jordan’s
borders to the Sea of Galilee and
the Golan Heights. Many of the
flowers were not entirely black.
In the north, the most common
dark irises are Jal’ad irises (Iris
atrofusca) and dark purple irises
(I. atropurpurea), whose colors
range from black to dark purple.
The irises grow in areas whose
histories go back thousands of
years. Near the reserve, the ruins
of the Decapolis city of Gadara,
one of 10 ancient Greek cities in
the Levant, are juxtaposed with
an abandoned Ottoman-era village. Gadara is mentioned in the
New Testament as the place
where Jesus performed a miracle, casting demons out of men.
But the only miracle we were
looking for was the dark iris, and
we found some along the village
roads south of Umm Qais and in
the nearby forests of oak, pine,
carob and pistachio trees around
the nature reserves of Ajloun and
Dibeen.
In Ajloun, a medieval castle
built under the rule of Saladin
commands impressive views of
the Jordan Valley. We found dark
irises nearby, on the edge of a
cliff surrounded by hills of olive
and oak trees overlooking the
adjacent Kufranja Dam.
Iris nigricans
Iris nigricans, Jordan’s national flower, is the “real” black
iris and grows mostly south of
Amman, between the ancient
cities of Karak and Madaba.
Driving through the Karak region, where a castle built by
12th-century Crusaders stands
atop a ridge, we looked for the
black flowers in uncultivated
land and on mountainsides.
A shepherd told us he used to
see irises in the area but hasn’t
seen any this year. He blames the
drought that has plagued the
south of the country and dried
up the closest dam.
“The black iris is under serious
threat,” says Hatem Taifour, head
botanist of Jordan’s Royal Botanic Garden, a nonprofit conservation organization. In addition to
climate change, Taifour says, human encroachment is destroying
the flower’s habitat. “This flower
is absolutely unique. It can only
be found here, so it needs to be
protected.” While the Jal’ad iris
also grows in neighboring countries, black iris populations are
found only in Jordan.
Driving from Karak to Wadi
Mujib, we were spellbound by
the Dead Sea’s winding valleys,
high cliffs and canyons but found
only one black iris, just starting

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WHERE TO STAY
Ajloun forest cabins
Ajloun Nature Reserve, Ajloun
011-962-7-9906-2210
wildjordan.com
These cabins managed by the Royal
Society for the Conservation of
Nature (RSCN) in the Ajloun Forest
Reserve boast incredible views of
Jordan’s northern hills. Single
economy rooms from about $92 per
night, double rooms from about
$106 per night.
Al Ayoun Homestays
Ajloun
011-962-7-7973-4776
facebook.com/alayounsociety
Al Ayoun Society is a local
community-tourism initiative
arranging homestays in villages
near Ajloun. Local guides can show
hikers the best trails. Homestays
from about $63 per night, double
rooms from about $99; guided fullday tours about $71 per person.
Dana Guesthouse
Dana village, Dana Biosphere
Reserve
011-962-7-9911-1434
wildjordan.com
Perched on the edge of a cliff
overlooking the Dana Biosphere
Reserve, this 23-room guesthouse
is a convenient base to explore
Jordan’s largest nature reserve.
Single economy rooms from about
$99 per night, double economy
rooms from about $113 per night;
single deluxe rooms from about
$127 per night, deluxe doubles from
about $141 per night.
WHAT TO DO
Dana Biosphere Reserve
Dana
011-962-7-9911-1434
bit.ly/dana-biosphere-reserve
The reserve covers a rugged
landscape of mountain ridges,
plateaus and desert plains. Ask
local guides to show you where
Petra irises grow. Self-guided hikes
up to two hours about $14 per
person; RSCN-guided hikes from
about $17 per person for two- to
four-hour hikes and about $28 per
person for six- to nine-hour hikes.
Ajloun Forest Reserve
Ajloun
011-962-79-90-62-210
bit.ly/ajloun-forest-reserve
You can sometimes find dark irises
growing next to oak, carob,
pistachio and pine trees in this
reserve in Jordan’s fertile northern
hills. Hikes from about $15 per
person for a less than one-hour selfguided hike, from about $24 per
person for RSCN-guided hikes from
two to six hours and about $45 per
person for a full-day hike that
includes a visit to the Ajloun Castle
and a lunch bag.
Yarmouk Forest Reserve
Malka
011-962-77-21-77-203
bit.ly/yarmouk-forest
This reserve overlooking the Golan
Heights is full of oak and pine trees.
Dark irises grow amid bright blooms
on windswept hills. (Ask staff
members where to find them.)
RSCN-guided hikes from three to
four hours or five to seven hours;
self-guided hikes up to two hours.
Self-guided hikes about $15.50 per
person; guided hikes about $20 per
person for three to four hours, about
$24 for five to seven hours.
Mujib Biosphere Reserve
Wadi Mujib, Dead Sea Road,
Sweimeh
011-962-7-9720-3888
bit.ly/mujib-biosphere-reserve
Mujib is the lowest nature reserve in
the world, with rugged mountains
and canyons bordering the Dead
Sea. Black irises can sometimes be
found at the edges of the reserve or
on the road from Karak to Wadi
Mujib. RSCN Ibex mountain trail
hike with a guide from about $30
per person for a three- to four-hour
hike.
INFORMATION
visitjordan.com

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to open near a rocky cliff. Farther
north, on the road to Um er-Rasas, a World Heritage site of
Roman ruins and Byzantine mosaics, we suddenly saw glossy
black petals emerging from a
meadow of yellow wildflowers.
We stopped the car and rushed
outside.
Dozens of black irises quivered in the wind by the side of
the road. Unlike most of the
irises we found in the north, Iris
nigricans is completely black. In
contrast with the meadow of
yellow wildflowers, its darkness
is even more striking.

Petra iris
After finding the “real” black
iris, we headed south to look for
another type of dark iris identified as endemic to Jordan: the
Petra iris. With petals in shades
of dark brown, dark purple and
black, Iris petrana can be found
south of Karak, in the mountains
and arid lands around Petra,
Tafila, Shobak and Dana.
We drove to Dana, home to
Jordan’s largest nature reserve,
where the Petra iris can be found
blooming on mountainsides and
sandstone cliffs. But we arrived a
few days too early, and most of

FROM TOP: The black
iris (Iris nigricans) is
Jordan’s official
national flower; the sun
rises at Umm Qais; the
Petra iris grows in
Dana, home to Jordan’s
largest nature reserve.
Although most people
refer to several species
of irises with dark petals
collectively as black
irises, only Iris
nigricans is Jordan’s
national flower.

the irises were still closed.
With our eyes so focused on
the ground, we nearly missed an
alpine swift soaring above our
heads. Nearby, a cuckoo sang
perched on the branches of a
juniper tree, and two Tristram’s
grackles cried noisily, looking for
food. The Dana Biosphere Reserve is one of Jordan’s most
important refuges for wildlife.
After more than an hour looking for Petra blossoms on steep
mountainsides, I came across a
dark violet flower with black
spots blooming between volcanic
rocks. “I found it!” I shouted

excitedly, calling out to Mohammad, who was snapping photos
of Dana’s spectacular landscape,
and Emad Hasanat, who drove
us more than 500 miles in our
quest for black irises.
Emad, who is from Wadi
Musa, the town nearest the archaeological site of Petra, was
waiting for us on top of a rocky
hill. He carefully walked down to
look at the blossom I had found.
“The Petra iris!” he cried out as
he took his phone from his
pocket to snap a photo. He stared
at it silently for a moment, then
smiled proudly. “It’s the most
beautiful of flowers.”
Vidal is a writer based in Jordan and
Portugal. Her website is
martavidalmedia.com.

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In Copenhagen, relishing authentic Danish hot dogs
BY

W ILL H AWKES

It’s 11:30 on a Thursday morning, and a middle-aged woman,
her hair in a neat blond bob, is
devouring a hot dog in the baggage reclaim hall at Copenhagen
Airport. In some countries, that
might seem quirky, but it’s perfectly normal here: There’s a hot
dog stand next to the currency
exchange window, and plenty of
others are also eating, attracted
by the smoky, savory tang hanging in the air.
Danes love hot dogs. I learned
that from my Danish neighbor,
Michael, when he dragged his
grill into the road for our street
party in London one summer
before the pandemic. I ate four —
maybe five — because they were
delicious, even though he complained they weren’t quite right.
He hadn’t been able to source
rode polser, the authentic red
Danish dogs, he said.
In those pre-covid days, that
seemed a good enough reason to
head for Copenhagen to find the
genuine article. Not only that,
but in 2020, the city’s hot dog
wagons — polsevogn — also
celebrated the 100th anniversary
of an ordinance that established
the right to sell hot dogs in the
streets; the first wagons appeared in 1921. The perfect time,
I convinced myself, to go and
eat too many hot dogs in Denmark.
I arrived on a chilly March
morning, just before the worldwide wave of shutdowns. My
hotel, Rye115, was in Osterbro, a
largely residential neighborhood
separated from the city center by
Sortedams So, a long, slim artificial lake. The day was cold but
beautifully clear. Bright sunshine glinted off the lake’s timid
waves; seagulls hovered and
squawked overhead. A group of
children played soccer in a caged
playground, and the ball came
flying over and into the water.
There was silence, then loud
recriminations.
I took my time. It was half an
hour before I found my first hot
dog wagon, Petersens Polser, in
Hojbro Plads, a large pill-shaped
square in the heart of the city.
Like most of the wagons, it was a
rectangular trailer, towed into
place each morning by a tiny
motor at one end. There was a
grill inside, and customers could
shelter, if need be, under a tarpaulin cover.
The menu had 12 options: red
hot dogs (rode polser), baconwrapped hot dogs, a bofsandwich (Denmark’s version of the
hamburger), and other combinations of sausage, toppings and
bread. I selected a rode polse
with ketchup, mustard, rémoulade (a piquant mayonnaisebased sauce beloved by Danes),
fried onions, fresh onions and
pickled cucumbers. The woman
running the wagon hummed her
approval: “All the toppings?
That’s the real Danish hot dog.”
At 33 krone (about $5) it’s not
expensive, but it’s more a snack
than a meal.
There was a bench nearby,
in the shadow of a statue of
Bishop Absalon, regarded as the
founder of Copenhagen, and I
took a seat. It turned out to be a
messy business. As I bit into the
taut casing of the sausage,

PHOTOS BY WILL HAWKES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

TOP: Petersens Polser, a hot dog wagon in Hojbro Plads, a
square in the heart of Copenhagen. ABOVE: A hot dog with
mustard, ketchup, rémoulade, fried onions, fresh onions
and pickles from award-winning Den Okologiske
Polsemand. Wagons selling the sausages first appeared in
Copenhagen in 1921 and have since been a steady presence.

chunks of onion and gherkin fell
here and there. A group of pigeons, delighted at my clumsiness, hurried to squabble over
the spoils.
The hot dog was delicious, but Copenhagen is full
of flavor. A short walk north
took me to Torvehallerne, a food
market bursting with panglobal variety. There were tapas,
sushi, charcuterie, fish and
chips, pizza, superb coffee and

loads of raw produce, with
seafood so fresh I was convinced
one turbot was winking at me.
There were also delicate Danish
open sandwiches, but the only
sausages I saw were being sold
by Lund, a butcher, for cooking
at home.
It seemed as if Copenhagen
might be getting too sophisticated for hot dogs, so I spoke to
historian Allan Mylius Thomsen,
veteran writer and author of a

book about hot dog wagons,
“Café Fodkold,” or “Cold Feet
Cafe,” an old nickname. (“In
Copenhagen, there’s a nickname
for everything,” he says.) It details how the idea came from
Germany but evolved in the
1950s thanks to American influence, most obviously in the form
of ketchup.
Copenhagen had 500 hot dog
wagons then; there were about
50 pre-pandemic, when the number was slowly increasing.
“There have been a few more in
recent years, particularly the organic sausages,” he told me on
the phone. “In the 1950s, hot
dogs were the only fast food, but
there’s much more competition
now, from Chinese food to shawarma.” (Numbers have dropped
no further since the pandemic,
Thomsen told me recently by
email; in fact, he believes a few
more organic options have
opened.)
On Friday morning, I was
hoping to witness an amusing
ritual. Copenhagen’s hot dog
wagons, pulled by tiny sit-on
motors, chug to and from their
pitch very slowly each evening
and morning, and drivers are
very accepting: Only a creep, one
Dane told me, would honk at a
hot dog wagon.
Alas, I was too late. I’d lingered too long in Ostre Anlaeg, a
serene park close to the city
center. By the time I got to
Norreport at 10 a.m., Helle’s
Polser had parked, and its owner
was opening the hatch and clipping little Danish flags to the
wagon. Down in Kultorvet,
meanwhile, the owner of Peter’s
Polser was carefully placing a
tarpaulin over his wagon’s motor.
Never mind. At lunchtime, I
headed for DOP, or Den Okologiske Polsemand (the Organic
Hot Dog), near the Rundetaarn, a
17th-century tower in the city
center. It’s a multi-award-winner, and I was looking forward to
trying it. Two young women, Ida
Muusmaan Vinglov and Lea Maria Persson, were serving, and
they were happy to talk between
orders. Vinglov said Danish people, who are typically quite re-

served, tend to be more open at
the hatch of a polsevogn.
Vinglov, 23, had never eaten
hot dogs before beginning at the
stall, despite growing up in the
hot-dog-loving region of Jutland.
She seemed keen, though: “I
keep meaning to bring my own
lunch, but these are very delicious.” She was right. It was the
best traditional hot dog I had
during my trip: high-quality
meat in a delicious whole-grain
roll.
I spent the afternoon walking
it off before dropping in at a beer
festival — Social Revolution by
Beer — at Sparta Hallen, a sports
hall close to my hotel. Vegetarian
hot dogs were available, but they
didn’t appeal. You can’t escape
hot dogs that easily in Copenhagen, though: Mikkel Borg Bjergso, founder of globally famous
craft brewery Mikkeller, was at
the festival. Having been told he
was a hot dog aficionado, I sidled
up for a chat.
I was not misinformed. He’s
such a fan that he’s created one of
his own, he tells me: a black hot
dog topped with gold leaf that
was a monthly special at a wellknown stall, John’s Hotdog Deli.
It was inspired by a famous
sketch from a Danish “Candid
Camera”-style show, in which the
red sausages were dyed green,
and customers refused to eat
them. He said he eats hot dogs
about once a month when coming through Copenhagen Airport. “Everywhere has hot dogs,
but ours are the best in the
world,” he insisted.
Perhaps that’s true, but you
can have too much of a good
thing. On Saturday, I walked
down to Nyhavn, a 17th-century
canal flanked by colorful townhouses, in search of something
different for lunch. From there,
back streets took me to Cafe
Gammeltorv, which has been
serving another Danish classic,
open sandwiches, since 1902. I
enjoyed two: pickled herring and
roast beef. The beef was served
with rémoulade and roasted onions; it was presented more elegantly than at a hot dog stand,
it’s true, but the familial link was
clear.
Later, I used Copenhagen’s
superb driverless metro system
to reach Harry’s Place, among
the oldest polsevogn in Copenhagen, founded in 1965, where I
scarfed down a frikadellesandwich, a pork meatball in a bun
served with pickled red cabbage
and yet more rémoulade. It was
heavy, unctuous and very satisfying.
There was just one thing left
ahead of my Sunday flight home.
Before security at the airport,
there was a hot dog stand, run by
Steff Houlberg, the same brand
as that in the baggage hall. I
ordered what the woman with
the bob had: a French-style hot
dog with the sausage poking,
faintly comically, out of a baguette-style roll.
By the time my flight took off, I
was already looking forward to
the next time I would pick up a
bag at Copenhagen Airport. Two
years on, I still am.
Hawkes is a writer based in London.
His website is willhawkes.contently.
com. Find him on Twitter:
@will_hawkes.

If You Go

WHERE TO STAY
Rye115
Ryesgade 115
011-45-31-68-62-45
rye115.com
A delightful hotel with about 20
rooms. Breakfast, including
delicious sourdough rolls and
banana bread, is homemade.
Bathrooms are shared but clean.
Double rooms with breakfast from
about $182 per night.
Hotel d’Angleterre
Kongens Nytorv 34
011-45-33-12-00-95
dangleterre.com
Established in 1755 and located in
the heart of the city, this hotel
offers Michelin-star cooking, one of
Copenhagen’s best spas and a
remarkable history. Double rooms
from about $540 per night.
WHAT TO EAT
Den Okologiske Polsemand
Kobmagergade 52
011-45-30-20-40-25
bit.ly/den-okologiske-polsemand
Delicious organic hot dogs and
sourdough rolls make this a great
option for ethically minded
consumers. Open Monday through
Saturday 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.;
closed Sunday. Hot dogs about
$5.40.
Cafe Gammeltorv
Gammeltorv 20
011-45-33-12-87-86
cafegammeltorv.dk/home
Good open sandwiches, beer and
friendly staff make this an
excellent lunch choice. Try oldfashioned pickled herring and
roast beef. Open Wednesday
through Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.;
temporarily closed Monday and
Tuesday. Kitchen closes at 4 p.m.
Reservations recommended.
Entrees from about $14.
WHAT TO DO
Museum of Copenhagen
Stormgade 18
011-45-21-76-43-66
cphmuseum.kk.dk/en
The Museum of Copenhagen offers
interesting human touches. Tickets
give 48-hour access to two other
museums. Museum open daily 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. and until 9 p.m. on
Thursdays. Admission about $13
per person; children younger than
18 free. Free entry Wednesdays.
Torvehallerne
Frederiksborggade 21
011-45-70-10-60-70
torvehallernekbh.dk
With more than 60 stalls featuring
options such as Danish cheese,
Spanish charcuterie and sushi,
this food hall is a must-visit for
gluttons. Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. weekends. Some breakfast
places open earlier and some
restaurants later.
INFORMATION
visitcopenhagen.com

Unearth the seasonal flavors of your destination with a foraging excursion
BY

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and two varieties of Oregon white
truffles. “Oregon white truffles
have this beautiful earthy, garlicky, blue cheese thing going on,”
says Will Craigie, owner of Prestige Wine Tours, who leads the
forages with his dog, Maeva. She’s
a Lagotto Romagnolo, an Italian
breed renowned for its trufflehunting abilities; her training
began when she was a newborn.
“Oregon black truffles also
have a great earthiness to them as
well, but there’s also a sweet
component,” Craigie says. “They
can come across as fruity, sometimes reminiscent of pineapple.”
For an additional fee, foragers
can end their one- to two-hour
hunt with a meal and wine tasting at one of two local vineyards,
Silas Wines or Bryn Mawr Vineyards. Dishes might include truffled frittata topped with microgreens and freshly shaved truffles, shiitake mushrooms sautéed
in truffle with fresh rosemary and
shaved Grana Padano, and a grazing board showcasing truffle-infused charcuterie, cheeses and
nuts. Depending on seasonal
weather, the tours generally run
from mid-December until April
or May.
Starting at $650 for two people; 503-851-1491; bit.ly/oregontruffle.

If you want to get a real taste of
the place you’re visiting, don’t
make a reservation at the hippest-looking locavore restaurant
you find on Instagram. Book a
tour with a local forager instead.
Foraging is a practice essentially as old as humanity itself —
and has long been popular with
chefs, who are always looking for
new flavors to bring to guests. But
interest in it increased during the
pandemic as people turned to
outdoor activities, took up new
hobbies and tried to mix up their
kitchen routines to ensure their
home cooking stayed interesting.
These family-friendly expeditions through woods, valleys and
urban spaces reveal a wealth of
wild edibles. A tour will allow you
to learn about, gather and sometimes even eat these hyperlocal,
super-seasonal foods, which are a
revealing glimpse into an area’s
environment, history and traditions. No matter what you find, a
foraging excursion promises to
be a lot more exciting than sitting
down in a restaurant. Here are
some tours recommended by foraging enthusiasts and experts.
Willamette Valley, Ore.
Truffles don’t grow just in
France and Italy. Many species
can be found across the United
States, including in this verdant
stretch of the Pacific Northwest,
home to Oregon black truffles

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A selection of wild morel mushrooms. Although foraging is a practice essentially as old as humanity itself, its popularity increased
during the coronavirus pandemic as people were pushed to be outside more, take up new hobbies and be physically active.

New York City
Believe it or not, Central Park
is full of edible plants. “Wildman”
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L AURA D AILY

Looking for a getaway that’s
easy to book, takes the guesswork
out of day-to-day planning and
keeps your credit card tucked
safely in your wallet throughout?
Try an all-inclusive resort. Some
travelers may turn up their nose
and buy into the old stereotype:
meager accommodations; mediocre, all-you-can-eat buffets; and
24/7 parties with scantily clad
guests over-imbibing amid a
1980s summer camp vibe. Don’t
make that mistake. All-inclusive
resorts have evolved.
“If you are new to all-inclusives, now is a good time to visit
one,” says Christina Jelski, senior
editor for hotels at Travel Weekly,
a trade publication. With big,
traditional hotel chains such as
Marriott and Hyatt moving into
the sphere, resorts are raising the
bar. “We’re seeing a ton of premiumization brought into the allinclusive category as resorts focus on delivering a five-star experience.”
The shuttering of resorts
worldwide during the pandemic
gave them time to renovate and
re-create themselves. Many in
Mexico and the Caribbean now
include luxury suites, private
beaches, water parks and even
butler service. The greatest transformation, Jelski says, has been
the food, as resorts start to favor
quality over quantity. Although
the bountiful buffet remains an
all-inclusive staple, upscale restaurants that pay attention to
detail and ambiance are becoming the norm. “I’m blown away by
the options, emphasis on local
cuisine and diversified dining experience,” she says.
Travelzoo Senior Editor Gabe
Saglie is an all-inclusive fan. He
and his wife, Renee, who live in
Los Angeles, have vacationed at
more than a dozen resorts over
the past 20 years, leaving their
three children with their grandparents. “We usually head to
Cabo San Lucas when we’re in the
mood,” he says. The Mexican city
is “easy to book, easy to plan and
easy to unplug and lay on the
beach with no worries about
where to eat or what to do.”
An all-inclusive vacation is just
what it sounds like: You pay
upfront for a package that includes your room, meals, gratuities and perks such as health
clubs,
nonmotorized
water
sports, yoga sessions, kayaking
and salsa lessons. Once you arrive
at the resort, you never have to
leave the property. “Your biggest
decision is: ‘Do I want my cocktail
frozen or on the rocks?’ ” says
Lauren Doyle, president of Ensemble Travel Group’s the Travel
Mechanic in Raleigh, N.C.

other’s minimum-security prison. Ask how close the resort is to
town and whether there is easy
access or a resort shuttle.

Can you get two experiences
for one? Certain brands build

multiple resorts in the same destination, each aimed at different
audiences. Stay at one and gain
access to the restaurants and
amenities at others. For example,
you can leave the children at your
family-friendly property and go
next door for an adults-only gourmet dinner.

How will you get to and from
the airport? “It can be the Wild

West outside some international
airports, and drive times to resorts can be up to an hour,” Alonzi
says. “That can get pricey, with
some cabs or shuttles charging
$100 or more.” Inquire whether
airport transfers are included in
your package or whether you can
pay an additional fee to have the
resort transport you.

Is tipping really included?

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Doyle says you should expect to
pay about $200 per person per
night for a decent all-inclusive.
“You can find ones cheaper than
that, but I wouldn’t book myself
or clients in them.”
For many, an all-inclusive is the
ideal getaway. Here are questions
you need to consider before booking.
What kind of property appeals to you? An all-inclusive

resort is much like a cruise ship. If
it’s not a good fit, you’ll regret
your choice. Properties are designed to cater to certain travelers, such as singles, couples, families, members of the LGBTQ+
community, the adventurous, luxury-seekers and those who prefer
adults-only surroundings. Consult a travel adviser; one who has
personally visited multiple properties in various destinations can
help narrow your options.
What do you want to get out
of your vacation? “If your goal is

to get somewhere, unwind and be
able to ‘turn off ’ the world the
second you step off the plane, an
all-inclusive vacation could be a
good choice,” says Kristin Jaffe,
CEO of Winkaffe Global Travel in
Columbus, Ohio. However, if you
love to explore a destination —
rent a scooter, hike to a volcano,
eat lunch at a local spot, go river
rafting, then grab a drink before
heading back to the resort — an
all-inclusive might not be the best

TOP: The beach at the Dominican Republic’s Hyatt Ziva
Cap Cana resort. ABOVE: At the Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana in
the Dominican Republic, guests can enjoy the water park.

fit, because you will essentially be
paying twice for meals and activities, says Roland Alonzi, an Atlanta-based specialist in travel and
tourism public relations who represented Jamaica for seven years.
If you’re looking for a place for
a family or multigenerational vacation, all-inclusives fit the bill,
Alonzi says. “You can do things
together or each go your own way
and regroup later,” he says. “Family-oriented resorts have kids’
clubs, so adults can do what they
want and rest assured the kids
are in good hands. Plus, the kids

can grab a burger, hot dog or
quesadilla whenever they want,
and you don’t have to shell out
$22 to room service.”
Although many vacationers
are content lounging on the
beach with a margarita in hand,
travelers seeking a more curated
experience may prefer to opt for a
luxury all-inclusive emphasizing
wellness or adventure. But you
will pay more. High-end boutique
resorts with butler service, fivestar restaurants and even private
plunge pools are much more expensive — $750 to $1,000 per

person per night — but the amenities and service you get match
the price point. Jaffe recently
stayed at an all-inclusive, wellness-focused resort in the mountains of Costa Rica, where she got
to climb a huge tree to a canopy
overlooking the mountains, indulge in spa treatments and dine
on delicious, healthy food. “There
were maybe 30 people staying on
property, which gave it a really
exclusive feel,” she says.
Is it truly all-inclusive? The
term all-inclusive can be misleading. Sure, your package covers the
basics, but what else? An adultsonly resort may offer a romantic
sunset catamaran cruise and candlelight dinners, while you might
be able to go zip-lining, hike
jungle trails or explore an underground cave at a property for the
adventurous. With rare exceptions, however, you’ll pay extra
for spa treatments, golf, off-property excursions and some upscale
restaurants, all of which can add
up fast.
How isolated is it? As noted,
all-inclusive resorts are designed
so you never have to leave the
property, and many travelers revel in the idea of vacationing within a “bubble.” But the drawback to
staying in a secure compound is
you don’t always get to experience authentic local culture or
patronize area restaurants. One
person’s private paradise is an-

Even if a resort promotes a no-tipping policy, a savvy traveler will
still take a wad of dollar bills.
“Tipping is a way of recognizing
people good at what they do,”
Saglie says. “At the end of the day,
a few bucks, given on Day 1 or 2 to
staff you keep bumping into, goes
a long way in making the experience better.”
Does it make financial sense?

Although an all-inclusive may be
cost-effective, it doesn’t always
save you money. You may want to
compare an all-inclusive’s nightly
rate with that of a nearby traditional hotel with similar amenities.
Avid travel blogger Nicole
Hunter of Go Far Grow Close had
an “aha” moment after a lessthan-stellar all-inclusive Cancún
getaway prompted her to price
out a traditional hotel stay in the
same area in Mexico less than a
year later. Her conclusion: She
was overpaying for the all-inclusive. “There’s nothing wrong with
all-inclusives,” says Hunter, who’s
based in Vancouver, B.C. “However, you are paying for what you
want to do, but also what you
don’t want. If they offer free
tennis lessons and you don’t play,
your rate includes the costs of the
tennis pro and court upkeep.” The
same is true for unlimited alcohol. If you aren’t a big drinker,
you are paying for a perk you
won’t use.
Account for lodging, food, alcohol, activities and ground transportation to determine which
costs more. Then, decide which
makes more sense for you, your
budget and your vacation expectations.
Daily is a writer based in Denver. Her
website is dailywriter.net.

On family-friendly foraging tours, an abundance of outdoor dining awaits
FORAGING FROM F4

Steve Brill knows its potential
well; he began foraging in the
heart of Manhattan in the 1980s.
In 1986, he was famously arrested
for picking and eating dandelion
greens from one of its meadows.
The charges were dropped, and
since 1986, Brill has been allowed
to give foraging tours there,
which he sometimes leads with
his 17-year-old daughter, Violet.
The four-hour expeditions are
available from the start of March
until the beginning of December.
Depending on the season, guests
could go home with wild greens
(field garlic, chickweed); mushrooms (enoki, oyster); berries
(red mulberries, Juneberries); or
herbs (epazote, purslane). His
sprawling,
information-dense
lectures focus on plant identification but swerve into discussions
of mythology, poisonous plants,
recipe ideas and environmentalism, and they are peppered with a
healthy dose of dad jokes to keep
the atmosphere upbeat.
Suggested donation of $10 for
children under 12 and $20 for
adults; 914-835-2153; wildman
stevebrill.com.
Chicago
Dave Odd spent more than a
decade foraging for some of Chicago’s most renowned restaurants before he pivoted to leading
foraging tours full time. There
are many potential configurations to his forays, which are
available April through October.
The most straightforward last
roughly two hours and usually
only stray a quarter-mile from
their starting point, which might
be somewhere in the city or on its
outskirts. “My guarantee is that,
no matter where you put me, I
will find at least 50 different
edible or medicinal plants and
mushrooms,” Odd says. “The goal
is to demonstrate to people how
much is right in their own backyard.”
There’s a lot to find. Wild
asparagus, pheasant back mush-

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LEFT: Natalie Angstreich, left, and Jonah Tully search for edible
plants on a tour in New York’s Central Park in 2006. ABOVE:
Some foragers take ramp leaves but not bulbs, allowing regrowth.

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rooms and edible flowers in the
springtime. Summer brings a
bevy of berries — Juneberries,
raspberries, blackberries — along
with chanterelle and hen of the
woods mushrooms. Autumn ushers in more mushrooms — giant
puffballs, chicken of the woods
and honey mushrooms — along
with apples, pears, hazelnuts and
walnuts. After some tours, guests
have the option to enjoy a meal
featuring wild foods seen on the
foray, and at immersive events at
Odd’s property in Beaverville, Ill.,
about a two-hour drive from Chicago, guests get to gather, prep
and cook with a chef.
Starting at $35 per person;
847-409-8623;
eattheneighbor
hood.com.
San Francisco
Depending on the amount of
rain the region receives, Forage
SF runs mushroom tours November through May. The three- to
four-hour trips with one of its

highly qualified teachers take
place in nearby Santa Cruz, on
the Sonoma coast and in the
Sierras. Potential fungi finds include turkey tail, chicken of the
woods, porcini and morels; other
possible goodies include miner’s
lettuce, wild radish and pine pollen. At the end of the trip, guides
double-check everything to ensure it is safe to eat, then guests
can take home their bounties to
savor as they see fit.
Starting at $90 per person,
plus booking fee; hello@
foragesf.com; foragesf.com.
Asheville, N.C.
There are more than 300 edible plants in the fertile western
region of the Tar Heel State. In
spring, it’s common to uncover
ramps, black morels and onion
grass. Summer brings chanterelle
mushrooms, blackberries and
lambsquarters. Persimmon, hen
of the woods mushrooms and
black walnuts are frequent fall

finds. Even in winter, there’s food
to discover, including onion
grass, sassafras root and nettle.
These three-hour tours with
one of No Taste Like Home’s
highly skilled guides end with a
cooking demo and tasting session. Guests then have the option
to take their finds to one of nine
local restaurants, where they will
be transformed into a complimentary appetizer. (Purchase of
one meal per person required.)
Starting this fall, the company
will offer a wild-truffle-hunting
tour led by a guide with a trained
truffle dog.
Children 4 and younger free,
children 5-11 $35, teens 13-17 $60,
adults
$75;
828-209-8599;
notastelikehome.org.
Philadelphia
The City of Brotherly Love is
rich with history — and edible
wild plants. Lady Danni Morinich, who has been foraging for
five years, leads tours through

FDR Park in South Philadelphia
and the Lemon Hill area of East
Fairmount Park running along
the eastern edge of the Schuylkill
River. The self-taught forager and
herbalist shares preparation tips
and recipe ideas for what she
finds on her approximately twohour tours, which generally run
from spring until December. No
matter the season, there is a
wealth of material to be found.
Garlic mustard and chickweed at
the start of spring, elderflower
and nettle in the season; serviceberries, mulberries and mugwort
in summer; and pawpaws, persimmons and crab apples in fall.
Although Morinich gets her
biggest turnout when fruit is on
the proverbial menu, she is most
jazzed about introducing budding foragers to the edible possibilities of less-obvious options. “I
want to get people excited about
the plant they’ve stepped on a
thousand times and yanked out
of the garden saying, ‘Oh, it’s just
a weed,’ ” she says. “If I can show
you the benefit of that plant —
how instead of weeding it, you
can eat it or make medicine —
then it ceases to be a weed. That is
a major mind shift.”

Costs $10 per person; lady
danni@landedgentress.com;
landedgentress.com.
Ithaca, N.Y.
Longtime forager and nature
guide Sarah Kelsen leads 90-minute hikes into Buttermilk Falls
State Park, generally between
May and October. In spring, expect to come across dandelions,
watercress, day lily, gallium and
more. Once summer starts swinging, there are raspberries, Cornelian cherries and common milkweed. And as fall descends, wild
grapes, acorns, walnuts and
chestnuts are ready to harvest.
While she points out plants, Kelsen discusses the ethics of foraging, how to do it safely, the best
outdoor gear to use, ways to
incorporate what you find into
your diet and how to honor the
native people on whose land
you’re walking.
Costs
$60
per
person;
sarah@wildflx.com; wildflx.com.
Martell is a writer based in Silver
Spring. His website is
nevinmartell.com. Find him on
Twitter and Instagram:
@nevinmartell.

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A week-long adventure scratches the surface of Algeria
If You Go

ALGERIA FROM F1

WHERE TO STAY
ST Hotel
4 Rue Mikideche Mouloud, Algiers
011-213-21-63-80-65
A serviceable if slightly timeworn
hotel in the heart of central Algiers.
Double rooms from about $60 per
night.
Trajan Hotel
1 Rue des Ruines Romaines,
Timgad
011-213-33-21-14-14
trajan-hotel.com/home.php
A new hotel with spacious rooms
near the entrance to the Timgad
archaeological site. Double rooms
from about $56 per night.

started filling in the void. A 36year-old Algiers native, with a
prodigious beard and an anklelength orange chemise covering
his giant build, Omar was well
acquainted with the discrepancy
between his country’s size and its
reputation.
“When I’ve been abroad and
told people I am from Algeria,
they would say, ‘Nigeria!?’ ” he
said. “And I would be like, ‘You
know between Morocco and Tunisia there is that big space? That’s
my country!’ ”
Old Algiers, Omar explained
on a crisp morning last month,
was a city in two parts. The lower
section, from the embanked waterfront to the boulevards, is the
French quarter, once the hub of
colonial power. Today, the tall
white facades molder above
shops old and new, the flaking
stucco reliefs looking preposterous next to the brightly colored
laundry draped over the balustrades. Immediately north, forming a wedge, is the original town,
known as the Kasbah, a ramshackle labyrinth of alleyways, a
UNESCO World Heritage site
since 1992. Much of its layout
dates back to its time as an Ottoman protectorate and entrepot
for corsair plunder, in the centuries before a French expeditionary force landed at Sidi Ferruch in
1830.
In July, Algeria will mark 60
years since the country gained
independence from colonial rule.
But the wounds of that era, and
the brutal, seven-year war of independence that was its coda,
remain ever-present in the capital. If the city has a nucleus, it is
the elevated, scimitar-wielding
statue of Emir Abdelkader, who
led the resistance against the
original French invasion. In the
heart of the Kasbah, opposite the
shop of a honey merchant aswarm with bees, Omar showed
me a great hole in the otherwise
tightly packed buildings, tiled
rooms open to the sky, the unrepaired blast area of French
bombs.
Algeria had its modern preoccupations, of course. Murals of
Riyad Mahrez, the country’s preeminent footballer, now enjoy
similar prominence to the old
iconography of revolutionary
martyrs such as Ali La Pointe,
who was immortalized in the
1966 film “The Battle of Algiers.”
But it explained something of
Algeria’s sclerosis that the shadows of that conflict remained so
tangible. Tourism was a future
thing, and Algeria was still dealing with its ghosts.
For people like Zahafi, whose
tour company, Fancyellow, is one
of only a handful of agencies
catering to foreign visitors, the
coronavirus pandemic had been
another setback in a long campaign to awaken a sleeping giant,
arguably one of the most culturally distinct places you can reach
via a short flight or overnight
ferry from mainland Europe. He
told me that his recent overtures
to a noted travel publisher to
update its Algeria guidebook had
been rebuffed. “They said there is
no market for it,” he said.

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WHAT TO DO
Fancyellow Travel Services
11 Coop. El Ilme Djnan Achabou,
Dely Brahim, Algiers
011-213-29-09-59
fancyalgeria.com
This Algiers-based tour company
arranged every aspect of our trip,
including transfers,
accommodation and the invitation
letter necessary for obtaining a
tourist visa. A six-day, five-night
tour, incorporating Algiers,
Constantine and the Roman ruins
of Timgad and Djemila, about $700
per person.
INFORMATION
algeria.com

site was 130 dinars, less than $1.
You would struggle to find any
archaeological marvel where the
ratio of cost to reward is so extreme.

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ver the next few days, we
would be testing this pessimistic appraisal with a road trip
along the coastal belt, the strip of
fertile, mountainous land that
sustains Algeria’s agriculture,
and the vast majority of its population, before tapering into the
Saharan wastes that cover about
80 percent of its surface area.
It was dark when we arrived in
Constantine, Algeria’s other unmissable city. Accommodating
my impatience, Omar bypassed
the hotel where we would spend
the night and made straight for
the city center. He parked next to
a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a
Stygian chasm. The true extent of
that chasm only became clear the
following morning.
About 200 miles east of Algiers,
Constantine, known to its Numidian founders as Cirta, is today
a sprawling conurbation of more
than 400,000 people. But its center still occupies the site first
chosen for its impregnable location: a limestone promontory,
which rises precipitously 500 to
1,000 feet above the Rhumel River.
While Omar went in search of a
haircut, guiding duties were delegated to Billel Benguedouar, a
young and polymathic Constantine local. As we walked down the
Boulevard of the Abyss and onto
the road that clings to the rim of
the dizzying escarpment, he
stopped occasionally to rummage
in his backpack for archival photos depicting the same locations
as they were a century ago, the
road unsealed, old men in Berber
robes strolling the pavements.
“You see down there?” he said,
pointing across the ravine, where
some fragments of a timber walkway could be seen bolted onto the

WHERE TO EAT
Khayma el Houra
Off Emir Abdelkader Place, Algiers
011-213-540-38-93-09
This unassuming traditional
restaurant, hidden in an arcade
behind the famous Milk Bar, serves
the best chakhchoukha we enjoyed
in Algeria. Mains from about $10.
Restaurant Igherssan
58 Rue Larbi Ben M’hidi,
Constantine
011-213-560-90-65-80
instagram.com/restaurant_igherssan
A delightfully kitschy restaurant in
Constantine above the Passerelle
footbridge, with superlative views
over the ravine. Mains from about
$10.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: A dust storm from the Sahara Desert, which covers about 80 percent of Algeria, obscures the sky near
Timgad; a vendor prepares a shawarma wrap at a kebab restaurant in Algiers; students read at Constantine’s Emir Abdelkader
Mosque, named for the leader of the resistance against the French invasion in the 1830s; a stone inscription found near the market
square in the Roman ruins of Djemila, one of several World Heritage sites in Algeria.

opposite wall. “We call it the
‘Chemin des Touristes,’ ” or Tourist Trail. In the 1970s, when this
now-abandoned cliff-face promenade still permitted visitors to
explore the natural arches and
balconies down in the gorge, Constantine boasted 20 hotels in its
Kasbah alone.
All of that came to an end in the
1990s, when an armed Islamist
insurgency sparked a vicious civil
war, a period that Algerians refer
to as the “Black Decade.” For
years, the chemin had been left to
disintegrate, as forgotten, now, as
the crumbling Ottoman-era
bridge a little upriver.
Billel had starry-eyed aspirations to exploit Constantine’s vertiginous surroundings, transforming it into a locus for adventure sports. “We could do bungee
jumps from there,” he said, nodding toward the Sidi M’Cid suspension bridge, one of eight that
remain in use, and which, for 17
years after its opening in 1912,
was the highest in the world. The
most spectacular of Constantine’s
bridges, however, was the Passerelle, the pedestrian bridge we’d
encountered the previous evening. Above it, the buildings of
the old town rose flush with the
pitch of the cliffs, as if they had
been eroded from the very bedrock on which they stood.

In the city’s Kasbah, meanwhile, we encountered stomachchurning sights of another sort.
Entering from the south, an alleyway of stalls selling sultanas, ersatz fashion and caged songbirds
gave onto an arcade of butchers’
shops. Bouquets of offal dripped
from hooks. Sheets of mutton fat
were folded into pearlescent
piles.
A little uphill, a flour mill, its
whitewashed walls reverberating
with the clatter of mechanical
grinders, cleansed the air with
the smell of spices and durum. As
lunchtime approached, queues
began to form outside stalls selling tomato flatbreads, a popular
street food known as “khamej we
bnin,” “filthy and tasty” in the
local Arabic vernacular. In Constantine, where the breathtaking
setting was too often blemished
by the gorge’s secondary use as a
gigantic litter receptacle, it
seemed a fitting, if unfortunate,
epithet for the whole town.

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or all that appreciating the
splendor of Algeria’s cities required some narrowing of the
eyes, you didn’t have to go far to
find history assuming a purer
form.
After a couple of days in Constantine, Omar drove us about
two hours south to Timgad, a

small town surrounded by rolling
hills, where we dropped our bags
in the cavernous rooms of the
new Trajan Hotel. A mere 300foot walk from its breezy foyer, we
were treading on a flagstone road
laid almost two millennia earlier.
The ruins of Timgad dated
back to around the 1st century,
when Emperor Trajan established a town for retired veterans
of Rome’s imperial army. Our visit
began on a wide “cardo” — the
principal north-south thoroughfare in Roman settlements — that
led into a sprawling complex of
villas and plazas. Along its length
were remnants of a once-thriving
settlement: a market square, a
library, a theater with pitch-perfect acoustics. One princely latrine had stone dolphins hewed
into the armrests.
By the 8th century, after repeated incursions by Berber
tribes and Vandal invaders, the
town was abandoned. The ebb
and flow of empire, and the forbidding emptiness of the Algerian interior, meant that its treasures, in kind with archaeological
sites throughout Algeria, had lain
undisturbed for centuries. Timgad only became a subject of
scholarly attention after 1765,
when a Scottish consul, James
Bruce, stumbled upon the tall
columns of the capitol projecting

from a dome of sand.
The drive from Algiers and
Constantine had already included one outstanding Roman ruin.
Djemila, meaning “the beautiful
one” in Arabic, had been almost
deserted when Omar and I toured
its sloping site, permitting you to
feel as though you were discovering its treasures — an elaborate
bathhouse, a conical drinking
fountain, a titanic marble torso of
Jupiter hidden behind a roofless
temple — for the first time.
That Timgad seemed the more
magical place may have owed
something to the time of day.
With no officials patrolling the
cardo, and no other tourists
around, we lingered in the forum,
deploying half-remembered Latin to decipher its engraved dedications, right up to dusk, when
the sandstone of the columns and
wall footings flared umber in the
low sun.
No less extraordinary were the
artifacts in the adjacent museum.
One mosaic, depicting widehipped naked women cavorting
with chimerical monsters, was
composed of tessera a few millimeters wide, a level of intricacy
seldom seen outside of Rome.
Dozens of terra-cotta oil lamps,
each with its own individual motif, were arrayed in glass cabinets.
The cost of entry to the entire

s Omar drove us out of Timgad, the road was engulfed by
the same eerie weather phenomenon that would go on to dye the
skies of Western Europe an apocalyptic orange. By the time we
returned to Algiers, rain clouds
coming off the Mediterranean
had laundered the skies.
Dust-blown and tired, we repaired to the Hamma Test Garden, a botanical garden founded
in 1832 that is now a relaxing, if
timeworn, sanctuary from the
capital’s traffic and bustle. At a
cafe, over short coffees, I watched
an overbearing clown in starspangled dungarees making balloon animals for unnerved children.
I couldn’t pretend that Algeria
didn’t have shortcomings as a
travel destination. Hotels felt
tired — even, somehow, the ones
that were new. Crossing busy
roads required an act of will.
Agents of the state, customs and
police both, seemed suspicious of
tourists and cameras, as if confused as to why anyone would
want to come here without some
nefarious ulterior motive.
But this nettlesome attitude
found little echo in the population at large. There is zero hassle.
The homogenizing forces of Western culture remain in abeyance.
The food — kebabs, fragrant
bowls of couscous, and sizzling
platters of chakhchoukha, a vegetable stew mixed with shreds of
flatbread — was wonderful. In the
restaurants, as elsewhere, spontaneous exclamations of, “Welcome to Algeria,” were common.
In truth, a week along the
coastal belt does little more than
scratch the surface of that “big
space” between Morocco and Tunisia. Farther south, across a
seemingly endless expanse of
plain, plateau and dune, there are
oasis towns springing from sand
oceans and tracts of desert topography to make a Star Wars location scout weep for joy.
“I had no idea this was here,” I
said to Omar, happy in the shade
of the garden’s splaying fig trees.
It was a sentiment that the travel
industry would do well to heed.
Wismayer is a writer based in
London. His website is henrywismayer.com. Find him on Twitter:
@henrywismayer.

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long this stretch of the Gulf Coast where wetlands yield to fuel and petrochemical
plants, chatter has predictably turned to Europe’s energy dilemma, with giddy
projections that it will feed the rapid growth of hulking gas export terminals here. ¶
But Roishetta Ozane isn’t feeling the excitement. The climate and local environmental
risks such a boom would bring, she said, are not an abstraction to her. They are her lived
experience. ¶ The single mother of six saw her Section 8 rental home wrecked in 2020 by
Hurricane Laura. Months after the family tried to move back in, living under a tarp and using a
piece of plywood to cover the gaping hole where the back door had been, Hurricane Delta
swept through and the place filled with water. Ozane’s family is now living in a Federal
Emergency Management Agency trailer. ¶ “People are getting tired of this,” said Ozane, a local
community organizer. “They are going to the hearings for these facilities and using the words
‘climate change.’ They’re realizing we’ve had four federally declared natural disasters in the
last two years. That’s unheard of.” National environmental groups are joining the fight against
permits for liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals they had earlier considered futile to
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Major data
breaches across
the globe have
caused financial
havoc for identity
theft victims.
Michelle
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receive medical
services or collect
unemployment benefits. They
can even get a job pretending to
be you.
This is what happened when
someone stole my husband’s
Social Security number and
used his identity to get work at
Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Liveops,

which describes itself as “a
virtual contact center offering
an on-demand skilled workforce
of onshore virtual agents for
customer service and sales
needs.”
Generally, if you’re an
independent contractor, you’re
considered self-employed. So
instead of receiving a W-2, you
might get a Form 1099-NEC (for
non-employee compensation),
which reports the income you
earned during the year. The IRS
compares what it receives on
documents such as W-2s or
1099s with what people report
on their federal income tax
returns.
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return to offices has been a master class in awkwardness.
Recently, Katherine, a consultant at an investment bank in
New York, met a colleague for the
first time. He went for a fist-bump
four times in the same interaction.
“He was like, ‘Hell yeah! That’s
great, Katherine!’ Fist bump.
‘Yeah, I’ll see you later!” Fist
bump. ‘Okay, I’m going to head
out!’ Fist bump,” she said. “The
fourth time, I looked up at him
and was like, ‘Are you sure?’ and
he just held it there.”
She gave him the fourth bump.
As of April 11, an average of
43 percent of workers had returned to offices across 10 of the
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including New York, Chicago, Los
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If revenge travel is on your agenda, expect sticker shock
Americans are rethinking long-awaited vacations to Germany, Jordan and beyond as travel costs rise across the globe. Even road trips can feel out of reach.
BY

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Sara Jensen was hoping to get
to Germany to visit family this
August, her first trip there since
2019, but she nixed the international excursion as flight prices
climbed.
Also off the list this summer is a
trip from Sacramento to the Midwest to visit friends. As average
gas prices hover under $6 per gallon in California, a few other road
trips might be on the chopping
block, too.
“Two of the trips we planned we
won’t be doing,” Jensen said. “We
were talking about doing a road
trip with our kids, and I don’t even
know that it’s going to be cost-effective.”
After the delta variant cooled
off “hot vax summer” last year and
the omicron surge put holiday
travel on ice, many Americans
were clinging to the idea of returning to a normal vacation season —
or what’s known as “revenge travel.” Instead, pent-up demand for
travel, high gas prices and inflation have created the perfect
storm.
That has led many travelers to
reassess their itineraries, whether
it means canceling that overseas
trip (again) or trading it for more
modest domestic tours.
Michelle Shainess, who runs
the outdoor travel blog Almost
There Adventures, anticipated going abroad again this summer.
When she looked at flights to Europe from her home in Minneapolis, they ranged from $1,000 to
$1,500 each, an untenable price
for her family of five. Now the
Shainesses are trading their European vacation for domestic flights
and road trips to national parks.
To save on gas, they will rent hybrid cars using the peer-to-peer
rental car app Turo.
This summer, the family is mapping out visits to several parks in
Washington state, including
Olympic, Mount Rainier, North
Cascades and San Juan Island.
The parks lend themselves to trips
that can be done in a more economical way, Shainess said.
“It’s more coming back to values and really trying to value time
away with family,” she said. “We’re
just trying to look at the situation
and travel in any way possible. So
with covid, it was road trips only,
no flying. Now it’s more fly and
drive, but how can we do that in a
cost-effective way?”
Much of that calculus relies on
cutting back on accommodations.
For Shainess, that means mixing
Airbnb stays with a few nights of
glamping. Depending on the location and amenities, she has found
glamping stays ranging between
$150 to $200 per night. That can
be a significant savings compared
with Airbnb, where she must factor in fees as well.
Travel prices have increased
across the board. Flights were up
nearly 13 percent in February
compared with the same time the
previous year, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, and
costs are expected to keep rising.
Accommodation prices have risen

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“I don’t want to
use the word
profiteering, but
[for] two years,
certain suppliers
didn’t have any
income. Now that
there’s pent-up
demand, they’re
taking advantage
of the situation
and trying to get
top dollar.”
Peter Vlitas,
executive vice president
of partner relations at
Internova Travel Group

too, with hotel rates up almost
40 percent from last March and
home rentals up by 13 percent
from February 2021.
Labor shortages are also part of
the problem. Hotels have less staff
and less inventory, which translates to higher prices for consumers, according to Peter Vlitas, executive vice president of partner relations at Internova Travel Group.
Beachfront hotels in destinations
such as Miami and Fort Lauderdale have doubled in price, he said.
“I don’t want to use the word
profiteering, but [for] two years,
certain suppliers didn’t have any
income,” he said. “Now that there’s
pent-up demand, they’re taking
advantage of the situation and trying to get top dollar.”
Among the travelers hit the
hardest by inflation are the procrastinators, Vlitas said.
That includes Justin Sims, an
insurance adjuster in Birmingham, Ala., who is used to booking
international flights 48 hours before his trip because of his unpredictable schedule. A few months
ago, he saw a flight to Jordan at
$600; now they are $1,100, he said.
He’s assessing a trip there this
summer, or maybe to Rome, but if
prices don’t come down, he will
stick to the Caribbean. Meanwhile, his other dream destinations may linger in the distant
future.
“The Maldives and Dubai have
the highest prices. It’s kind of like,

‘Ooh, I’ll wait,’ ” Sims said with a
sigh and a laugh. “Definitely a
waiting-type situation.”
For Jensen, a single mother
whose daughter is on a competitive cheer team, the travel for
those extracurriculars this spring
ate into the summer budget. Soaring gas prices meant that the cost
of driving from Sacramento to Los
Angeles, which Jensen said normally costs around $200 round
trip, doubled. That makes their
summer road trip all the less likely,
especially as Jensen said the hotels
she looked at in Utah and Arizona
shot up by $100 or $150 per night.
“As a single parent, you’re going
from saving for something to saving for the next thing,” she said,
noting that she often doesn’t have
the luxury of finding travel deals
months ahead. “We’re paying for
things more last minute than families who have a lot of cushion, so
we’re paying higher prices anyway.”
Rising prices haven’t deterred
stand-up comedian and avid adventurer Amber Klear, who is hitting the road now more than ever.
“If anything, I’m traveling more
because I think our current circumstances in life are just making
people realize that life is short,”
said Klear, who says she has a
different perspective on life since
surviving a blood clot in her brain
a decade ago. “People that I’ve
talked to and even me, we’ve been
holding back the last few years.

And even comedy shows are growing exponentially and [I’m] finding that people are just going out
more. They’re going farther.
They’re not skipping their vacations.”
Klear, who is based in O’Fallon,
Ill., said she is traveling to more
remote places because she enjoys
the juxtaposition of performing at
crowded shows and being alone
outdoors. She used to set up hikes
around her comedy gigs, but now
she creates a spreadsheet with her
wish list of hikes first before setting up her tour. An August trip to
Mammoth Cave National Park will
include shows in Bowling Green,
Ky., while an exploration of Stephen’s Gap will stop by Huntsville,
Ala.
In the past, Klear often found
hotel deals the day before she arrived. With the price of accommodations increasing, she said she is
more likely to stay at a campsite or
sleep in her Jeep.
“I almost pulled the trigger on
buying a pull-behind camper,” she
said, “but with gas prices, I’m like,
I don’t really need a sink.”
In addition to traveling for
shows, Klear books comedians
from across the country for a resort in southern Illinois. Tickets
normally cost between $10 and
$20, but she has raised them to $15
to $45 to account for comedians’
travel costs. One up-and-coming
comedian from Los Angeles canceled because he no longer can

afford the flight, she said. And in a
Seinfeld-ian twist, some comedians are getting in cars together to
split the cost.
“They’re carpooling a lot more,
and it’s really funny,” Klear said. “I
think that their material is growing because of it.”
Although gas prices have
shocked many Americans, the
price at the pump gives no anxiety
to dual Tesla owners Bridgette and
David Kelch. The St. Louis couple
have saved nearly $200 on fuel
costs in the past month alone. This
summer they will embark on more
trips to national parks, as well as a
flight to Canada for a trip across
the Canadian Rockies.
“That’s the trip where we’ve
been most concerned about travel
prices looking at airfare,” David
Kelch said.
While the Kelches are monitoring prices, they are not letting
higher rates stop them from traveling. Along with stamping every
national park site in their park
passports, they’re looking forward
to a Minneapolis Twins baseball
game with David’s father and a
trip to Glacier National Park to see
the glaciers “before they melt,”
Bridgette said.
“I think the pandemic and
Ukraine have brought this to the
forefront: Don’t take it for granted,” Bridgette Kelch said. “Go out
and explore, see these cool things
and eat this amazing food and
appreciate what we have here.”

My co-worker bought me lunch with a company card, and I doubt it was legit
Reader: I have a

new co-worker
who works for a
part of our
organization that
has an
Work
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account for taking
prospective
KARLA L.
donors out to
MILLER
lunch. We have
been working
together on a project and seemed
to enjoy each other’s company, so
we decided to get lunch. When
the bill came, she said she forgot
to bring a form of payment, so I
paid for both of our lunches. She
did not pay me back.
When we went to lunch a
second time, she paid using the
company card. I’m guessing that
in her mind, she thinks that this is
a fair exchange, but I can't help
feeling 1) she should still
reimburse me and 2) it feels
unethical that she paid with
company funds that are intended
to be spent on clients outside the
organization.
I like her, but something about
this doesn’t feel right and it’s
affecting my opinion of her to the
point where I’m not sure I want to
be friends after all. Do I bring this
up? If so, how?
Karla: Regarding point 1, you
paid for a meal you did not eat,
and then you ate a meal you did
not have to pay for — so things
between you and your co-worker
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uncomfortable.
Regarding point 2, responsible
adults pay off their personal
obligations with their own
money; when they do so with
funds that their employer has
earmarked for other purposes, it’s
called embezzlement. And even
though she’s the one holding the
card, you could be on the hook too
as a witting beneficiary of her
actions.
Granted, she may not be fully
aware of what she’s done,
especially if she’s new in her
career or wasn’t properly
counseled on appropriate use of
her card. You can give her an
opportunity to clear things up by
asking, “Hey, about our lunch the
other day — are you sure it was
okay to put it on the company
card? I thought those funds were
just for entertaining outside
clients. They can be strict about
expenses here, so I want to make
sure you’re not going to get in
trouble.”
If she has more flexibility in
using the card than you’re aware
of, or if the lunch was
preapproved, she can explain
that. If she didn’t realize what she
did was wrong, she can explain to
your employer that she
mistakenly charged a personal
expense (it happens), and
reimburse them. Either way, she
should appreciate your looking
out for her.
If she dismisses your concern,
grows defensive or gives an

excuse that you don’t trust is
accurate, you may want to
investigate how to protect
yourself from potential
repercussions, starting with the
employee handbook. Some larger
companies have hotlines where
you can raise ethics concerns
anonymously and receive
guidance on how to proceed.

Dilbert

Or you can do nothing, and
pray nothing comes to light. But
whatever action you do or don’t
take, you should listen to that
warning bell in your head until
you have a better sense of her
character and whether you can
trust her.
If you enjoy her company
enough to continue socializing,

nail down payment details in
advance: “Lunch? Sounds good,
but do you mind if we get
separate checks this time to keep
things simple?” (I hope there’s no
need for you to even consider this,
but separate checks are also
easier to account for later if you
need receipts.)
One last thought: It’s possible

that shame over a lack of money
and the desire to cover for it are
behind her ethical lapse — not an
excuse, but an understandable
impulse. If you think that’s the
case, you can sustain a friendship
just as easily brown-bagging it at
a park as you can at a trendyspendy salad assembly line.

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Graphic designer Mary Hawkins once had an office so cold,
she was determined to prove it.
Her colleagues sat in blankets
and winter coats in the windowless office as the AC unit churned
at a frigid temperature set for a
nearby server room. So she took
matters into her own hands and
bought an outdoor thermometer.
The temperature one Monday
morning? 58 degrees.
“No one ever fixed the temperature properly, but at least they
didn’t tell us we were complaining for no reason,” she wrote in a
call-out to The Washington Post.
Studies have shown that women, whose metabolic rates tend to
be lower than men’s, prefer a
warmer environment, yet most
office temperatures are set to
assume the metabolic rate of
men. Others have shown that
cognitive performance decreases
for women in lower temperatures.
The great thermostat debate
has been used as a distillation of a
simple fact: Offices are not built
for all of us.
The pandemic threw these disparities into even starker terms,
as millions left (or were forced
out of ) the workforce. More people, especially essential workers
who never had the luxury of
working from home, reevaluated
their careers and relationship
with work. Others ditched the
traditional workplace altogether,
opting for the work-from-anywhere freedom of permanent remote work. Now, the idea of what
a workplace looks like is up for a
total reimagining.
As more offices make full or
partial returns, we wanted to
know: What would actually make
offices more pleasant, especially
for women and gender-nonconforming people? We’re not talking about extravagant start-up
perks such as espresso machines
and ping-pong tables (which can
be problematic in their own
right), but access to resources
such as on-demand child care
and plain-old comforts like sunlight and personal space.
Consider this a thought experiment — a group brainstorm that
invites us all to imagine a better
working world. Here’s what our
readers said.
Less noise (and fewer Zoom
calls)
I’d like more acoustically quiet
areas to take Zoom calls without
having to hear everyone else’s
calls around you. I’m still reconciling the need to be in person in
the office if the majority of the
day is Zoom calls with others
outside of the office/team. We’ve
been told in-person attendance is
“necessary to build community.”
But if the commuting time plus
the time spent on Zoom exceeds
the one hour of “community face
time,” we wonder what is driving
the return to office.
— Cici Chiang, architect, California

More (natural) light
I would put in skylights. After
spending the last year next to a
window in my home office, it will
be very difficult to go back to a
windowless cubicle full-time. I
spent 11 years before the pandemic working without a window.
This was the first year in forever
that my vitamin D levels were not
dangerously low. Natural light
makes me so happy.
— Katie Faulk, IT worker,
Berryville, Va.

Post readers — including some who work here — would love fresh air and on-site child care, for starters

on tap. Plus, you know how you
have house slippers? That but for
the office.
— Anne Branigin, reporter,
The Washington Post

More space
Time and space for midday
yoga.

— Christine Coleman, higher
education administrator,
Philadelphia

Having a separate room for it
in my home. I currently work
from home at my kitchen counter,
in my 516-square-foot, one-bedroom condo.
— Sandi Fox, digital strategy
consultant, Washington, D.C.

Natural light for everybody,
not just the people with offices.
And dreaming bigger: An office
with a window and a door for
everyone.
— Laurel Hamers, writer,
Eugene, Ore.

No more dress codes
I would change the dress code
to casual! We have Casual Friday
when we can wear jeans. For the
rest of the week, the dress code is
business casual, yet we have no
customers that come to the office.
After working from home for
more than two years, it will be a
huge adjustment to go back to
that. I’m hoping never to have to
and will definitely switch jobs if
we are called back.
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Give us dimmers, please.

— Rachel Orr, senior design editor,
The Washington Post

Fresh air
I would have loved to open a
window in the office when the
weather was nice. Years ago, I
worked in an office building that
had a balcony. It was a great place
to refresh oneself during the
workday. It’s too bad that more
office buildings don’t have balconies. I hate feeling cooped up
indoors. Couldn’t architects be
clever enough to design access to
fresh air that is safe?
— Michelle McGinnies,
content editor, Fairfax, Va.

More plants, windows and
fresh air. While I am grateful to
have a dedicated space for
speech therapy treatment sessions in a school setting (where
speech therapists often share or
are not given proper offices), I’d
love a window in a non-basement location — with plants,
which I’m planning to bring
anyway.

both worked full-time from our
small apartment. I was laid off
from my job a few months later.
At the end of that year, we made
the choice to move to be near my
husband’s family. They watch
our daughter for four hours every weekday.
— Misha Garrison, grant writer,
Pittsburgh

Pets in the office
Pets in the office.

— Aviva Loeb, subscriber
engagement editor,
The Washington Post

I would want my office to allow
well-behaved pets on Casual Friday. Everything has been so
stressful during the last two years
of the pandemic, especially for
those of us who can’t do our jobs
from home. During that time, I
visited another small law office
like mine and was greeted by two
small, sweet dogs (dressed in
matching outfits!). They often

come to work with their dad, the
owner of the law firm. What a
happy environment it seemed to
be. Animals lower our blood pressure and are very comforting
when we are unwell or stressed.
Those who don’t enjoy animals
can ignore the animal and just do
their work.
— Gayle Ayala, receptionist,
Las Vegas

I got a new job last year. While
the change has been much better
for my mental health, I can no
longer bring my dog, Goose, to
work with me. I miss him! I also
spend a lot of money sending him
to day care a few days a week. If I
could change one thing at my
present office space, it would be
the option to occasionally bring
him along. That said, he would
probably miss his day-care buddies — the other dogs and the
people!
— Maddie Hayes, communications,
Salt Lake City

— Andrea Levy, speech therapist,
Brewster, N.Y.

I wish there was a dog day-care
center at my workplace. My pup
and I could walk to work, I’d drop
him off to play with friends, and I
could visit him on breaks from
my computer. I think this would
help with overall office morale
and stress relief efforts too. You
had a rough meeting? Let’s go
play with the office dogs.
— Kaila Messerli, student affairs,
Chicago

No perfume (absolutely
none!)
I would make it FRAGRANCE
FREE. I am a high school Spanish
teacher and have loved being one
for 40 years. However, I am very
sensitive to fragrances, and the
world today is very unkind to
people like me. The smells and
chemical cloud coming off my
students and colleagues that are
caused by laundry products and
personal products are beyond belief. I suffer from headaches, nausea, brain fog and other allergic
reactions. When I retire, I will
trash anything that has been to
school and soaked up that chemical soup.
— Amie Kosberg, teacher,
Santa Monica, Calif.

Generally just less office-y
Bring the outside, inside. At
the very least, add windows that
open or, on a bigger scale, remove
them or allow them to slide completely aside. Also: fresh air and
lots of plants and trees.

Snacks and amenities
Whenever I’m doing a lot of
writing and sitting, like today, I
think about how nice it’d be to
have an on-site massage therapist! But more generally, I think
providing better access to supplies or resources that promote
physical health at work is crucial!
Things like standing desks,
screen protectors, ergonomic
chairs, etc.

— Michael Schmid,
higher education director,
Dallas-Fort Worth

Child care
High-quality child care that’s
also affordable enough for all
staff to use. Covid rewrote my
relationship to work and being
in an office. Before the pandemic, I worked full-time in D.C.
When the pandemic closed my
daughter’s day care in March of
2020, my husband and I struggled to entertain her while we

— Janay Kingsberry,
multiplatform editor,
The Washington Post

This taps a bit too much into
start-up culture, but you should
never have to pay for snacks and
meals, and cold brew should be

— Michelle Schaker, billing,
Atlanta

Location, location, location
I would want it to be closer to
my house and not in a disconnected commercial area, so everyone
can walk to work or walk home
for lunch. I would have my office
split us up into little pods instead
of having big impersonal spaces.
— Mary Hawkins,
graphic designer, New York

For some, the best office is
still no office ...
After sheltering at home for
almost two years, my office has
become many places. Rather
than thinking about WeWork, I
look for places where I can spend
the same amount of money on
food and beverages that I would
in a group-sharing space. There
are several Equinox gyms in
Manhattan that have large
lounge and cafe areas. I make a
day of it: I’ll show up and answer
emails, swim laps, work on a
project up on the roof where I’ll
take in some sun, and more.
Rather than pay for an office
space, I’m investing in my health,
and at the same time, I’m always
connected to my work when I
need to be. More gyms should
realize the opportunity they have
to keep their clients in their
facilities.
— Lavonne Roberts,
freelance writer,
Lenox, Mass., and New York City

... Or just being there less
often
You should only have to come
to the office a few hours a day.
Conduct all meetings there and
then just work from your house
the rest of the time.
— María Alconada Brooks,
art director, The Washington Post

Four-day workweek. We can
accomplish just as much in four
efficient days, and we’d be happier and more refreshed.
— Kim Anstine, estimator in civil
construction, Frederick, Md.

MICHELLE SINGLETARY

First, my husband’s identity was stolen. Then he got a bogus 1099 form.
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likely to receive a CP2000 letter
from the IRS. It can be a
frightening notice, because the
agency might question whether
you underreported your income
and assess additional taxes and
interest.
Liveops issued a 1099-NEC
indicating that my husband had
earned just over $10,000 in
2021. They had the correct
home address and his Social
Security number, but he had
never heard of this company.
More later on how the company
responded.
Knowing that the 1009 was
wrong, we didn’t include the
income on our 2021 tax return.
But we feared that next year or
some years down the road, the
IRS computer system would
think that we underreported the
earnings on our joint return,
and that could lead to a
nightmare of correspondence to
get the matter cleared up.
I was the designated sleuth.
What was Liveops?
An online search of just the
company’s name found a
colorful website that said: “The

modern contact center. Virtual.
Flexible. Efficient.”
Wondering whether anyone
else had experienced the same
issue of an incorrect 1099, I
searched for “Liveops scam and
1099.” That led me to a page on
the company’s website that said,
“Avoiding Recruiting Scams —
Work from Home — Join
Liveops.” On this page was this
notice: “If you have received a
faulty 1099 from Liveops, please
complete the form here and our
team will connect with you.”
My husband filled out the
form and shortly thereafter
received an automated email.
“Thank you for notifying
Liveops, as we take the issue of
possible Identity Theft very
serious,” the email said. “Part of
the process of entering into a
1099 contract to provide
services, is a background check,
thus we are disappointed to
learn that an individual is
potentially providing services
under false identification.
Unfortunately, the responsibility
of resolving this matter and
safeguarding personal
information falls on you as the
victim.”

Wait, what?
The lack of accountability
displayed in that email had us
hopping mad. There was no
information on whom to
contact to clear up the matter.
No recognition that the
company is obligated, by law,
not only to issue the
appropriate 1099s but to file
correct ones. Once advised that
a 1099 is wrong, the company
needs to correct it, according to
the IRS.
The instructions for
statements such as the 1099NEC clearly indicate not only
that there should be a contact
number but that it “must
provide direct access to an
individual who can answer
questions about the statement.”
My husband called the
number listed on the statement
he received. It was maddening
trying to navigate a maze of
automated prompts, none of
which led to a real person.
The company listed several
steps to report the identity
theft: Contact the IRS, call the
Social Security Administration,
file a report with the Federal
Trade Commission and check

your credit reports.
We couldn’t get through to
talk to anyone on the IRS
identity theft line, at 800-9084490, even after trying several
times. Each time we were told
that, because of an extremely
high call volume, no one was
available to help us.
The Social Security
Administration referred us back
to the IRS for issues relating to
taxes, including someone using
your Social Security number to
work.
My husband filed a report
with the FTC at
IdentityTheft.gov.
He pulled all his credit
reports, and none listed Liveops
under the employer section. A
check of his online IRS account
showed no fake return, thank
goodness.
Back to the Internet: Another
online search led to a Better
Business Bureau page warning
folks that the business name is
being used by scammers.
“Please be cautious in
responding to employment
offers from Liveops,” the BBB
warned.
If you’ve received a 1099 from

a company you don’t recognize,
or have had other marketplace
issues with a company, file a
complaint at bbb.org.
“When people are not able to
contact a company by
themselves, BBB can help, and
filing a complaint is a formal
way of letting us do so,” said
Sandra Guile, director of
communications for the
International Association of
Better Business Bureaus.
Maybe our situation could
help others, so, identifying
myself as a journalist, I
contacted Liveops for a
comment.
A public relations
representative for the company
emailed the following
statement: “It is important for
alleged victims of identity theft
to contact appropriate law
enforcement to file a report and
to contact the IRS to address
any potential financial
repercussions. When a victim of
identity theft reaches out to
Liveops about potential fraud,
Liveops representatives do their
best to assist and take all
necessary steps legally required
to correct any company

reporting or filing.”
Shortly after I made a press
inquiry, my husband received a
telephone call from a Liveops
representative. Like so many
people do these days who are
inundated with scam calls, he
didn’t answer the unknown
number. The call went to voice
mail.
An email from the company
to me said they were trying to
reach my husband. He checked
his mobile phone and found the
voice-mail message. A
sympathetic representative
assured him the matter would
be investigated.
Here’s my advice: As daunting
as it can be, don’t give up trying
to get a faulty 1099 fixed. Do
what you can to avoid getting a
tax bill from the IRS for
earnings you never received.
If you have a personal finance
question for Michelle, please call 1855-ASK-POST (1-855-275-7678). Her
award-winning column The Color of
Money is syndicated by The
Washington Post News Service and
Syndicate and carried in dozens of
newspapers.

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Storage tanks at the Golden Pass LNG Terminal in Sabine Pass, Tex., on April 14. Just a decade ago, exporting liquid natural gas was seen as too inefficient a use of the country’s gas supply.

Expanding U.S. gas exports poses risks well into future
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With European countries desperate to replace fuel supplied by
Russia, U.S. energy companies are
plotting an immense expansion of
their ability to produce and export
liquefied natural gas. But while a
building frenzy of gas exporting
infrastructure is contemplated in
this industrial region straddling
Louisiana and Texas, not everyone
is embracing the prospect. Even
the European countries so desperate for non-Russian energy seem
wary of committing to the United
States’ LNG experiment.
The scope of the energy companies’ plans was clear on a recent
media day at Cheniere Energy’s
Sabine Pass liquefaction facility,
where company officials showcased how natural gas piped in
from as far away as Canada is
frozen to minus-265 degrees,
pumped into towering tankers triple the size of a football field and
shipped thousands of miles away.
An “infinite” number of investors are lining up to fund more
exports from the Gulf Coast, Anatol
Feygin, a Cheniere executive vice
president, said at the event. “There
are some institutions that have exited the hydrocarbon business, but
for every one of those there are 50
that will ensure that high-quality
projects like ours are very attractive with finance,” he said.
It all comes with a heavy footprint. Not just on the local landscape — the expanse of concrete,
steel and valves is the size of a
small city — but also on the climate.
Soaring prices in Europe are
propelling the LNG expansion
frenzy. Three more terminal projects have begun construction and
are expected to be completed by
2026, with capacity to grow deliveries of gas overseas by more than
half, according to state and federal
data. Another 10 projects have
received a green light from the
federal government. The companies holding those permits are
now scrambling to find buyers
willing to lock into the long-term
contracts needed to make the
projects financially viable. Behind
those are nine more project proposals currently in the permitting
process.
“The outlooks for LNG demand
growth are really quite robust going deep into the 2040s, even to
the 2050s,” said Dustin Meyer, vice
president for national gas markets
a the American Petroleum Institute.
Behind the industry enthusiasm are tough questions about the
enduring impacts — at home and
abroad — of altering the course of
the global energy supply as North
American fossil fuel companies
scramble to capitalize on the isolation of Russia.
Regardless of how much new
gas ultimately comes online, very
little of it will help Europe now,
when countries on the continent
are desperate to unshackle themselves from Russian energy. Most
of the new supply the industry

envisions is still several years
away from shipping and is likely
ultimately to go to China. The
decades-long contracts gas companies need to fund their expansion plans extend far longer than
the European Union anticipates
needing the gas.
“Europe does not want this gas
for very long, and it is scared of
getting locked in,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at
Columbia University.
After Ukraine was invaded, the
European Union set a deadline of
shutting off the spigots from Russia altogether by 2027. The bloc’s
deadlines for drastically reducing
all natural gas consumption — a
pillar of climate action — arrive
soon after.
In the United States, it is in that
context that contentious debate
and, among Democrats, intraparty political feuds are erupting over
the question of how American gas
exports fit into the broader energy
economy.
Only a decade ago, U.S. exports
of LNG weren’t even a thing. The
process was too inefficient a use of
the country’s gas supply. The only
terminals built in the United
States were for importing the gas,
including Cheniere’s flagship Sabine Pass operation.
That changed dramatically
with the fracking boom. U.S. natural gas got so cheap that it was the
importing facilities that made no
economic sense. The turnabout
pushed Cheniere to near bankruptcy — a reminder of how the
kind of long-term bets the indus-

try is again making can go sour.
The Obama administration gave
the green light for energy companies to launch into the export
market, reasoning that LNG could
propel climate action, providing a
cheaper alternative to coal
abroad.
Many mainstream climate advocates were not onboard then,
and they are even more alarmed
now, with global warming already
changing weather patterns and
scientists warning that the window to decarbonize is fast closing.
A group of prominent U.S. climate
scientists this month led a petition
signed by nearly 300 colleagues
that implored President Biden to
rethink his support for more terminals, pipelines and liquefaction
plants.
The export operations themselves are substantial emitters of
greenhouse gases, before the gas is

even burned to heat homes and
power factories. Moving the fuel
to and from the terminals requires
multibillion-dollar infrastructure
investments that threaten to anchor regions to the fossil fuel for
decades.
Yet following the Ukraine invasion, the Biden administration
has doubled down on U.S. naturalgas exports as a linchpin for both
its geopolitical and climate agenda. The policy looks beyond Europe to China and India, where the
timeline for moving off fossil fuels
is much longer.
Even after Europe plans to have
ratcheted down its fossil fuel consumption considerably, said
Nikos Tsafos, an energy and geopolitics scholar at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, most scenarios project big
swaths of Asia will be far behind,
choking the atmosphere with coal.

“There is no real scenario in which
we will have pushed out coal by
then,” he said. “This would make
gas competitive against it.”
Energy executives are hoping to
structure contracts so that the gas
goes to Europe in the short term
and then eventually shifts to Asia,
including India.
The contracts, though, are only
part of the picture. Europe right
now is not even equipped to take
on more U.S. natural gas than has
already been sent its way since the
Ukraine war began. It would have
to build costly new infrastructure,
including pipelines and import
terminals. These are the kinds of
investments that don’t pay off unless they are used for decades,
which is not in Europe’s plan.
Making it all work, said Bordoff,
could force governments to heavily subsidize such infrastructure,
knowing it could be abandoned in
Europe’s rush toward renewables
and leaving stranded pipelines
and other construction.
Or, he said, governments could
invest bigger by opting for greener
pipelines. They are more costly
but could fit into Europe’s plans to
move off fossil fuels. When Europe
moves past natural gas, the pipelines would be converted for fuels
such as the “green” hydrogen envisioned as a backstop for energy-intensive sectors where electrification is still far off, such as airlines
and the cement industry.
“If we are going to build additional gas infrastructure, let’s
make sure it is built in a way we
can use it for zero-carbon applications as well,” Bordoff said.

TOP: John Allaire looks over a map this month showing the proximity of his land to a proposed gas-export project near Cameron, La.
ABOVE: Allaire, a longtime oil and gas worker, walks on his property. He is among those fighting such export terminal expansions.

It all feels like tortured reasoning to John Beard, who worked for
four decades in the petrochemical
plants of Port Arthur, Tex., a city
that now plays big in the gas industry’s expansion plans. Beard’s
climate worries and anger over
the extremely elevated rates of
cancer and other chronic disease
in his community led him into
activism.
He is working with the Environmental Integrity Project on a bid
to block a state air permit that gas
giant Sempra needs to move forward with plans to add a liquefaction plant and terminal in the city
that could rival in size the Cheniere operation, which is just
down the road.
“We are tired of being sacrificed,” said Beard. “I fear if these
industries are allowed to re-entrench themselves with these projects, we will be stuck with this
until at least the mid-21st century.
At that point, it is game over. No
more polar caps. No more snowcapped mountains. … Then what
do we do?”
The foot of the Calcasieu Ship
Channel in Holly Beach, La., is less
than an hour’s drive east, though it
feels like another planet, as alligators laze by ponds crowded with
shrimp and crabs, and an endangered bird called the black rail
makes regular appearances. But
resident John Allaire, an environmental engineer who also spent
most of his career in the oil and gas
industry, has found himself drawn
into the fight over gas exporting,
too.
His 311 acres of pristine habitat
borders an equally tranquil property where Commonwealth LNG
is planning to erect an export terminal. It would be built alongside
the gas-exporting terminal that
Venture Global is already operating farther down the beach and is
also expanding.
Allaire’s fight against the Commonwealth project has lately become less lonely, with activists
from as far as New Jersey helping
fill the room at a raucous hearing
last month. Allaire, a wildlife enthusiast who bought the Holly
Beach property a quarter-century
ago, launched the fight because he
wanted Commonwealth to move
to a patch of land less crucial to the
area’s ecology.
But the deeper he looked into
the inner workings of the gas-exporting business, he said, the
more skeptical he grew of all of
these expansions, which he fears
are a safety hazard as hurricanes
sweep through the area and put
the United States’ energy security
at risk by diverting a resource
needed at home to rivals such as
China.
“Now, I’m kind of against all of
this,” Allaire said, pointing to
where concrete would be poured
over wetlands for the new construction. “The plan is just get it
out of the ground, and sell it to the
highest bidder. When this all turns
around, you think they will even
bother to take all this stuff down?
It’s crazy.”

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Four hidden reasons food prices are crazy high now
Drought, war and
politics add to existing
supply chain issues
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L AURA R EILEY

The Bureau of Labor Statistics
revealed this month that prices
for nearly all food categories at
the grocery store have risen at
rates not seen since the early
1980s. But shoppers already
know that the cost of food has
surged alarmingly, from the produce aisle to the meat counter
and the freezer section.
Most consumers also know
this is being driven by worker
shortages, higher fuel costs and
lingering supply chain snarls
from the pandemic. But other
factors have emerged in recent
weeks to push up that grocery
bill. Here are four hidden reasons
food prices have skyrocketed.
The invasion of Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is having a
huge impact on the cost of food in
the United States — particularly
the price of corn. The Chicago
Board of Trade corn futures
topped $8 a bushel last week,
reaching its highest price in nearly a decade.
The reasons are complex. Earlier this month, in hopes of limiting the spike in gas prices since
Russia’s invasion, the Biden administration announced it would
allow high-ethanol gasoline to be
sold this summer. High-ethanol
gas is usually not allowed in
summer months because of air
pollution. But while the decision
may ease some of the pain at the
pump, it also contributes to rising
food prices.
That’s because corn is used to
manufacture the ethanol. That
corn would ordinarily be used for
consumer goods and, crucially,
animal feed. Because feed accounts for 60 percent of the costs
associated with raising livestock,
experts expect prices to rise for
beef, pork and poultry, and even
for some farmed fish.
Skyrocketing fertilizer prices
linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine
are likely to contribute to higher
meat prices in another way. Fertilizer is a significant, and sometimes the sole, source of the
carbon dioxide used in the preslaughter stunning of animals,
said Grady Ferguson, a research
analyst for Gro Intelligence. Take
that away and slaughter facilities
need to find a different mechanism to humanely prepare animals.
But all this pressure could
ultimately ease; many American
farmers, who had planned to
avoid corn this year to shield
themselves from high fertilizer
prices, may pivot back to reap
the benefits of those high corn
prices.
“Everything is in flux,” said Lon
Swanson, an agribusiness consultant for Wells Fargo.
The avian flu
The worst avian flu outbreak in
the United States since 2015 is
causing a major spike in the price
of chicken and turkey and an

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even more noticeable surge in egg
prices.
Two months into the outbreak,
growers have “depopulated,” or
killed, 29 million affected birds,
around three quarters of them
egg-laying hens, said Courtney
Schmidt, a sector analyst in Wells
Fargo’s food and agribusiness Industry advisory group who focuses on protein and dairy. The U.S.
Agriculture Department’s price
for eggs has tripled since Novem-

ber, and turkey breast prices are
at a record high, she said.
April and May are peak
months for avian flu because
migration patterns take wild
birds over parts of the country
dense with poultry farms, their
droppings infecting domesticated flocks. Iowa, which is on one of
these migratory “flyways,” has
been hit the hardest. And eggproducing farms tend to suffer
more than those that raise poul-

try for meat because they are
often much larger operations,
packing many more birds into
tighter quarters.
Schmidt said farmers learned
hard lessons in the last major
outbreak, instituting new biosecurity measures, but “this has
been a little worse than I expected, and I don’t see it recovering
quickly. We’re looking at elevated
prices through the end of the
year.”

California’s ongoing drought
The federal government operates a system of dams, reservoirs
and canals in California that the
state relies on for agriculture and
drinking water. Water agencies
contract with the federal government for certain amounts of water each year. The federal government fulfills the contracts based
on how much water is available.
This year, as the state’s megadrought drags into its third year,
the government said it had no
water to give farmers.
As a result, many farmers plan
to scale back plantings this year
— or expect to plant nothing.
Already, rice growers in the
northern part of the Central Valley, where a quarter of the United
States’ food is grown, have said
they plan to leave their fields
fallow, according to the California Rice Commission. California
is the nation’s second-largest riceproducing state, specializing in
medium- and short-grain “sticky
rice.”
With less water and higher
fertilizer, labor and seed prices,
many growers are making the
calculation that, even with consumers paying higher prices, they
can’t make a profit, said Curt
Covington, an executive at AgAmerica Lending.
The solution, he said, can’t just
be passing the costs on to consumers, who eventually balk at
high prices.
“It’s a balancing act,” he said.
“You can ask for a higher price,

but at some point, consumers
trade down or trade away. And
when they trade away, you have
fruit sitting in that cooler.”
Border truck jams
Produce coming from Mexico,
stalled at the border for days, has
gotten more expensive at a time
of year when the United States
still relies heavily on imports.
This month, Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott (R) increased inspections
of commercial vehicles crossing
into the state, largely to protest
the Biden administration’s immigration policies. He later withdrew the additional requirements — but the delays they
caused continue to reverberate
through the system.
The increased transit and inspection time at the U.S.-Mexico
border caused significant delays
to arrivals of produce such as
avocados, limes and tomatoes
(all, coincidentally, items in high
demand in the weeks running up
to Cinco de Mayo). Because of
these delays, prices for avocados
at major wholesale markets have
surged to $78 per case, which is
$30 per case more than this time
last year, said David Rossi, fresh
produce analyst at Gro Intelligence.
“While it’s too soon to understand the exact fallout of the
latest trade snarl between the
U.S. and Mexico, prices can be
expected to remain elevated for
the next two to four weeks,” Rossi
said.

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averaged just 17.5 percent.
The upward creep of office
occupancy is charting a major
milestone in the country’s emergence from the pandemic, a sign
we’re attempting to pick up
where we left off. But reunions
with colleagues and forgotten
Girl Scout cookies and old phone
chargers have been accompanied
by feelings of uncertainty. Some
workers are coming back to the
same desks but no longer know
their colleagues. Others are braving offices for the first time,
having joined the workforce in
the remote-everything era.
Katherine, who is identified
only by her first name to speak
freely about her employer, went
back to the office in February. She
still calls her co-workers her “Internet friends.” They know each
other from Zoom, but in person,
they feel like strangers.
After weeks of “coexisting” and
internally playing the “Do I know
you?” game, Katherine, 26, started going out of her way to introduce herself to colleagues.
“People are so excited sometimes when you do say hi and you
do meet them, they don’t really
know how to act,” she said. “Everyone approaches it awkwardly
but kindly.”
As singular and transformative
as the past two years have been,
workers have broadly been having parallel experiences until
now. Companies shuttered operations and adopted remote work
by necessity and in unison in the

early phases of the pandemic. But
as the virus recedes and firms are
forced to chart their own courses,
we’re in “this weird liminal state”
that presents an even greater
degree of uncertainty, said Andrew Knight, professor of organizational behavior at Washington
University in St. Louis.
“In my opinion, we’re actually
seeing far greater struggles on the
human side as people are trying
to figure out exactly what the new
routines are going to be and as
organizations are struggling to
adjust to people’s new beliefs
about work,” Knight said.
Being around other people
feels draining. Swapping flexibility for anything mandatory seems
like a downgrade. Old routines
have become foreign and taxing:
suiting up and commuting, making calls in front of co-workers,
navigating run-ins with bosses in
the restroom, picking a seat in the
company kitchen. And the new
stuff is weirder, like schlepping
into work just to sit on Zoom calls
in an empty office.
Social media has been studded
with posts about the less rosy
realities of encountering colleagues in their physical forms,
from unwanted physical contact
to farts.
“Moments ago, on my first day
back to the office in person since
3/11/2020, the woman next to me
in the courthouse passed gas
loudly - very loudly - three times,”
one person tweeted last month. “I
miss remote work already.”
When you’re in the same space
as your colleagues, “now all of a

sudden we actually have to coordinate our preferences,” Knight
said, from the office thermostat
to masking etiquette, which creates “minor points of friction”
that can compound.
Barbara Holland, HR adviser
at the Society for Human Resource Management, said one of
the most basic steps to creating a
comfortable environment in the
current landscape is “making
sure that people who are very
comfortable are aware that others may not have the same feelings.” Some of this can be encoded in policy — like mask, vaccination and social distancing requirements — but invariably,
there will be a learning curve,
Holland said.
She’s felt it herself as she adjusts to ways of greeting her
colleagues. She’s tried the air hug
and the waving and the elbowbumping, but sometimes, she still
can’t help but go for the handshake.
“Usually if the person hesitates
I pull my hand back really quick
and say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry —
habit,’ ” Holland said. But she

knows she’s not alone in falling
back on old routines.
“There are a lot of people who
still do shake hands,” Holland
said. “It’s going to be hard to
completely break that habit for
some.”
Nitya Chawla, an assistant professor of management at Texas
A&M University, studied worker
anxiety early in the pandemic. At
that time, workers were grappling with fears that were mostly
related to catching covid. But two
years later, as more companies
bring workers back to offices, the
anxieties have shifted to things
that used to be second nature,
Chawla said, like how to make
small talk about anything other
than covid or how to dress for the
office.
“We’ve been in such a different
head space,” Chawla said. “Now,
it’s more like, ‘Oh my gosh, have
we forgotten how to interact?’ ”
The carnival of interpersonal
interaction that is the typical
office now feels overwhelming for
many. Research shows that the
unconscious parade of calculations and adjustments we make

“At the end of the workday, where before
we’d be like, ‘Let’s go grab ramen or a drink
or whatever,’ now it’s like, ‘Ugh, let me go
home and mind my own business. I need
some alone time.’ ”
Katherine, a consultant at an investment bank in New York

when we’re around other people
— monitoring our thoughts, emotions and communication and
reacting accordingly — is “extremely exhausting,” Chawla said.
Katherine has noticed a gap
between her colleagues who
graduated and started working
remotely versus those “who knew
what the real world was like.”
She’s been trying to help out,
offering advice about things she
thought were common knowledge: Here’s what you should do
with your hands during a meeting. Direct your attention to the
person who’s presenting. Take
notes, make eye contact. Don’t
bring a snack. Don’t touch your
phone.
“They literally do not know
this, which is so mind-boggling to
me,” Katherine said. “I feel so bad
for them. But they’re learning.”
She’s seen some “insane” fashion choices from younger cohorts, too. Recently, a younger
colleague came into the bank
sporting a plaid suit like the one
Cher wears in “Clueless” with
white cowboy boots. Someone
else wore their Balenciaga joggers on casual Friday.
“What is this?” Katherine said.
“There is no world in which this
needs to be worn to the office.”
Her own style has shifted to
prioritize ease and efficiency; “everything needs to look good and
be super comfortable.” She’s whittled her makeup routine down so
it’s “snatched in five minutes.”
She’s noticed the trend toward
energy conservation more generally, not just in herself but in her

colleagues. She suspects it’s because people are feeling more
taxed by in-person interactions.
“At the end of the workday,
where before we’d be like, ‘Let’s
go grab ramen or a drink or
whatever,’ now it’s like, ‘Ugh, let
me go home and mind my own
business. I need some alone
time.’ ”
James Davitt can relate. By
nature, he’s “more of the headphones, head-down type of guy.”
But before the pandemic, he’d
been trying to make a change. He
took a job in financial services at
a small community bank in Connecticut and tried to be outgoing.
He started saying hi to more
people, dropping by his colleagues’ desks for some spontaneous chitchat.
Davitt, 27, was among the first
ones back in his office in midMarch, but he doesn’t feel the
same impulses to socialize now.
Even so, usually only a few other
people are in the office when he’s
there.
When he does have to interact
with his co-workers, it feels a
little awkward. He keeps running
into people who were hired during the pandemic, whose names
he doesn’t know. Then there are
“the distance and the handshakes, those little nuances of
interacting with people, the faceto-face contact,” he said.
“I don’t know how they feel
about the situation,” Davitt said.
“I don’t know what they’ve been
through. I don’t know if they’ve
ever gotten [covid]. There’s a lot
of unknowns.”

G6

EZ

THE WASHINGTON POST

EE

. SUNDAY,

APRIL 24 , 2022

markets
Stocks sink as hawkish Powell sends treasury rates soaring

STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE
S&P 500

Stoxx 600

MSCI World

MSCI Asia Pacific

BY

12%

0%

-6%

-12%

J

F

M

Crude Oil

inflation by “front-end loading” policy moves.
That more assertive tone prompted swaps traders to
price in four consecutive half-point rate increases through
September. Rates on 10-year Treasurys have jumped by 50
basis points this month to nearly 2.9 percent, a rate of
increase that Goldman Sachs strategists say usually causes
distress in stocks.
Elsewhere, as pandemic restrictions faded, stay-at-home
favorite Netflix ended the week down 37 percent after
reporting its first subscriber loss since 2011.
The Treasury will sell 13- and 26-week bills Monday. It will
auction four- and eight-week bills Thursday.

P EYTON F ORTE | B LOOMBERG N EWS

U.S. equity markets tumbled on fresh hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell and some
disappointing corporate earnings.
The S&P 500 index dropped 2.8 percent to 4,272 in the
five-day period. The Dow Jones industrial average fell
1.9 percent on the week; the Nasdaq tumbled 3.8 percent.
On Thursday at an International Monetary Fund panel
discussion, Powell said a 50 basis-point interest rate hike is
“on the table” for the central bank’s May meeting and
signaled support for further aggressive tightening to curb

6%

FUTURES
$130

$100
$90
$80
$70
$60

Americas

U.S. (Dow Jones)
U.S. (S&P 500)
U.S. (Nasdaq)
Brazil (Bovespa)
Canada (S&P/TSX)
Mexico (Bolsa)

Close

33,811.40
4,271.78
12,839.29
111,077.51
21,186.38
53,191.78

Week %
Chg

-1.9
-2.8
-3.8
-4.9
-3.1
-1.8

10-year note

5-year note

2-year note

Yield

Yield

Yield

2.90%

2.93%

2.68%

1.30%

U.S. DOLLAR INDEX

CROSS CURRENCY RATES
US $

Past Year's Performance

Eurozone (Stoxx 600
France (CAC 40)
Germany (DAX)
U.K. (FTSE 100)

453.31
6,581.42
14,142.09
7,521.68

-0.8
0.6
0.5
-0.8
A M

Asia

Austraslia (ASX 200)
China (CSI 300)
Hong Kong (Hang Se
Japan (Nikkei)

7,473.28
4,013.25
20,638.52
27,105.26

-0.1
-4.2
-3.4
0.0

EU €

1.0799

US $

0.9260

EU €

Europe

6-month bill

Yield

J

J

A

S

O

N

D

J

J

F

M

A

Percent Change
Week

Month

Year

0.8

2.7

10.7

Japan ¥

Britain £

0.0078
0.7204

J

A

S

O

N

D

J

Close

Copper
Crude Oil
Gold
Natural Gas
Orange Juice
Silver
Sugar
Soybeans
Wheat
Corn

TREASURY PERFORMANCE OVER PAST THREE MONTHS

Markets

A M

Futures

Editor’s note: Our weekly composite stock listing includes companies based in Washington or with a strong presence here.
The rest of the table shows firms as ranked by market capitalization. And we’ve added year-to-date data because readers told
us it would be useful.

A

'21

4.60
102.07
1934.30
6.53
1.76
24.32
19.21
16.88
10.75
7.89

F

M A

Weekly %
Chg

-2.9
-4.6
-2.1
-10.5
-0.1
-5.7
-4.1
1.4
-2.6
0.7

INTEREST RATES

Brazil R$

Canada $

Mexico $

1.2833

0.2081

0.7867

0.0494

1.1884

0.1927

0.7285

0.0457

164.9620

26.7615

101.1320

6.3453

0.1622

0.6131

0.0385

3.7793

0.2371

Japan ¥

128.5400

138.8200

Britain £

0.7793

0.8415

0.6062

Brazil R$

4.8048

5.1877

0.0374

6.1662

Canada $

1.2711

1.3727

0.0099

1.6312

0.2645

Mexico $

20.2592

21.8765

0.1580

25.9967

4.2160

0.0628
15.9383

Consumer Rates

Money market fund
6-Month CDs
1-Year CDs
5-Year CDs
New car loan
Home-equity loan
Bank Prime
Federal Funds
LIBOR 3-Month
30-Year fixed
15-Year fixed
1-Year ARM

Last

-45.8%

0.08
0.17
0.35
0.55
4.04
6.79
3.50
0.50
1.18
5.29
4.46
3.05

1 +45.8%
Year

-584.9% 1 +584.9
Year

WEEKL Y STO C KS C O MPOS ITE PRICES
52 Week
Hi Lo Stock

39.11 30.42
28.86 19.76
67.20 51.28
895.93558.77
33.88 18.85
142.60105.36
175.91105.56
417.37276.88
99.46 56.40
699.54407.94
164.46 72.50
d179.57123.06
316.39216.24
212.58129.71
88.78 65.60
224.95171.50
239.22 73.28
65.37 54.46
144.46106.11
3042.002230.05
3030.932193.62
57.05 42.53
3773.082671.45
3.95 2.50
22.60 13.75
22.39 13.70
104.81 80.22
199.55140.68
65.73 44.54
303.72220.00
189.65144.20
332.37236.35
167.19111.34
148.07121.80
261.00198.64
88.45 64.13
191.95143.81
79.67 52.65
533.68355.43
341.98223.19
182.94122.25
167.06112.34
98.88 56.91
54.59 36.47
148.57 75.65
4.27 3.13
71.70 50.66
483.13207.83
344.39186.29
248.96184.85
2267.401367.96
259.05186.78
59.34 46.22
82.07 51.88
34.16 22.64
222.68102.18
39.78 18.75
7.26 4.76
4.86 2.79
5.18 2.96
4.38 2.77
9.27 5.18
50.11 36.51
122.77 88.98
d64.63 44.99
74.86 59.05
12.20 7.46
26.07 17.27
d89.70 73.12
280.62235.13
544389.31401748.53
362.10266.80
464.00121.32
468.55192.67
973.16660.15
149.78 78.82
258.40167.58
2715.661796.45
91.46 69.68
47.50 37.96
78.17 53.22
47.24 33.62
677.76419.14
62.47 43.96
d1.99 .56
256.94185.79
54.54 37.59
52.44 29.49
111.25 74.97
313.52238.29
192.70118.11
132.48 97.57
137.19100.66
70.60 28.86
84.22 64.37
177.95122.43
d155.98 90.02
58.89 40.96
246.69179.67
18.44 7.16
89.92 59.33
88.88 20.09
d825.62517.81
149.42 71.90
174.76 92.86
10.79 6.99
55.77 40.60
1958.551277.41
157.46108.00
218.99155.78
45.87 39.12
78.28 49.51
272.81191.74
461.44338.00

Div P/E

ABB Ltd .76e
AES Corp .63f
AFLAC 1.60f
ASML Hld3.18e
AT&T Inc 2.08
AbbottLab 1.88f
AbbVie 5.64f
Accenture 3.88f
ActivsBliz .47f
AdobeInc
AMD
1.60f
Agilent
.78
AirProd 6.48f
Airbnb A
Alcon
AlexREE 4.60f
Alibaba
AlliantEg s 1.71
Allstate 3.40f
Alphabet C
Alphabet A
Altria
3.60f
Amazon
Ambev
.05e
AMovilL .40e
AmMovl A .20e
AEP
3.12f
AmExp
1.72
AmIntlGrp 1.28
AmTower 5.60f
AmWtrWks 2.41
Ameriprise4.52
AmeriBrgn 1.84f
Ametek .88f
Amgen 7.76f
Amphenl .80f
AnalogDev 3.04f
ABInBev 1.10e
Anthem 5.12
Aon plc 2.24f
Apple Inc s .88
ApldMatl 1.04f
ArchDan 1.60f
Argan
1.00
AristaNtw s
ArlingAst 1.02
AstraZen 1.37e
Atlassian
Autodesk
AutoData 4.16
AutoZone
AvalonBay 6.36
BCE g
3.68e
BHP BillLt 6.02e
BP PLC
1.29
Baidu
BakHugh .72
BcBilVArg .27e
BcoBrades .03
BcoBrad .04a
BcoSantSA.04e
BcoSBrasil .75e
BkofAm
.84
BkMont g 4.24e
BkNYMel 1.36
BkNova g 2.72
Barclay .15e
BarrickGld 2.82e
Baxter
1.12
BectDck 3.48f
BerkHa A
BerkH B
BioNTech
Biogen
BlackRock 19.52f
Blackstone 4.36e
Boeing
BookingHl
BoozAllnH 1.72f
BostonSci
BrMySq 2.16f
BritATob 2.69e
BroadcInc 14.40
BrkfdAs g .52
CASI Phr h
CME Grp 4.00f
CRH
.88e
CSX s
.40f
CVS Health 2.20f
CACI
Cadence
CIBC g 4.72e
CdnNR 1.81e
CdnNRs 1.50
CdnPRw gs .60
CapOne 2.40
CarMax
CarrGlb
.48
Caterpillar 4.44
CenovusE .11e
Centene
CentrusEn
ChartCm
CheniereEn .33p
Chevron 5.68f
ChinaLife .12e
ChinaPet 3.73e
Chipotle
ChoiceHtls .90
ChubbLtd 3.12e
ChungTel 1.29e
CienaCorp
Cigna
4.48f
Cintas
3.80

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52 Week
Hi Lo Stock

64.29 50.10
80.29 49.04
101.05 49.00
67.00 52.28
93.47 66.19
85.61 72.20
5.25 2.24
61.80 44.27
41.00 32.12
107.52 47.85
99.22 71.17
261.52207.35
62.04 40.60
612.27365.29
298.48150.02
209.87157.16
333.96238.32
199.68 69.73
446.76320.50
65.45 20.14
659.45318.45
223.14175.46
11.09 8.04
178.22130.10
135.69 94.91
d190.33121.28
262.20185.15
177.19 84.26
88.78 70.37
71.86 52.07
86.28 66.37
116.33 95.48
81.19 49.53
32.56 21.91
127.95 62.81
63.84 50.92
23.65 19.64
175.72137.56
238.93154.85
19.81 11.52
131.73 87.32
148.93117.58
314.00178.58
75.24 29.88
105.99 86.72
47.42 36.21
12.08 7.75
27.65 20.42
69.74 42.00
885.26662.26
39.15 18.45
94.32 71.37
374.20248.42
94.63 78.44
50.71 30.53
91.51 52.10
64.75 48.84
319.90199.03
140.51105.62
278.78178.87
155.96 85.00
127.34 89.91
89.59 69.53
25.87 11.14
371.77192.78
169.32124.95
51.99 30.02
2.20 1.10
187.02134.84
254.99182.66
116.17 85.29
73.80 56.67
67.21 37.60
4.61 3.23
74.12 57.19
12.78 9.92

Div P/E

Cisco
1.52f
Citigroup 2.04
CoStar s
CocaCola 1.76f
CognizTch1.08f
ColgPalm 1.88f
comScore
Comcast 1.08f
CmtyFinCp .70f
ConocoPhil 1.84f
ConEd
3.16f
ConstellA 3.20f
Corteva
.56
Costco 3.60f
CrowdStr
CrwnCstle 5.32
Danaher 1.00f
Datadog
Deere
4.20f
DevonE .64f
DexCom
Diageo 3.51e
DiamRk
DigitalRlt 4.64
Discover 2.00f
Disney
DollarGen 2.20f
DollarTree
DomEngy 2.67f
Dow Inc 2.80
DuPont 1.32f
DukeEngy 3.94f
eBay
.88f
ENI
1.29e
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EagleBncp1.40f
EastGvP 1.06
Eaton
2.92f
Ecolab 2.04f
Ecopetrol 1.38e
EdwLfSci
ElectArts
EliLilly
3.40
EmergBio
EmersonEl 2.06f
Enbridge 2.67
EgyTrnsfr .70f
EntProdPt 1.80
ePlus s
Equinix 12.40f
Equinor .80f
EqtyRsd 2.50f
EsteeLdr 2.40f
EversrceE 2.55f
Exelon 1.35f
ExxonMbl 3.52f
Fastenal 1.24f
FedExCp 3.00
FedRlty 4.28
Ferrari
FidNatInfo 1.88f
Fiserv
FEMSA 1.31e
FordM
.40
Fortinet
FrancoN g 1.20f
FrptMcM .30
GSE Sys
Gallaghr 2.04f
GenDynam 4.76
GenElec rs .32
GenMills 2.04
GenMotors
Genworth
GileadSci 2.92f
GladstnCap .84

Sales
YTD
100s High Low Last Chg. %Chg.

21 896088 53.83 50.80 51.36 -12.01
5 1096534 53.98 50.78 51.23 -9.16
83 95419 64.48 60.27 61.20 -17.83
32 734319 67.00 64.18 65.25 +6.04
21 121002 88.79 82.93 83.16 -5.56
32 300442 83.39 79.72 81.10 -4.24
... 16235 2.65 2.24 2.26 -1.08
22 1162930 48.22 45.33 45.38 -4.95
9
614 40.80 38.50 40.69 +1.38
16 294809104.11 95.77 96.01+23.83
29 82939 99.22 96.33 96.49+11.17
65 52740261.52250.64250.96 -.01
24 203426 62.04 57.19 57.68+10.40
54 116215609.18571.05571.70 +4.00
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63 75068153.50144.07149.76 -27.11
7 67970121.11112.03112.37 -3.19
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24 101152262.20246.28248.81+13.40
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29 117583116.33113.59114.28 +9.38
3 304672 55.86 53.08 53.17 -13.33
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10 9835 57.57 53.76 53.87 -4.47
67 24533 20.67 19.92 20.23 -2.69
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14 148964 38.86 35.87 35.91 +9.58
26 70154 94.32 89.08 91.15 +.65
30 69358285.79262.38264.04-106.16
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40 17783128.13121.58121.79 -14.53
41 14632225.96210.31210.46 -48.36
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49 132764104.03 97.22 97.36 -6.43
57 15612 79.85 76.38 76.55 -1.16
3 2535075 16.57 15.00 15.13 -5.64
92 48298357.58303.64304.29 -55.11
51 28786168.59158.27158.54+20.25
14 1026450 51.34 41.13 41.91 +.18
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21 62731249.69238.55238.79+30.32
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-4.1
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-14.3
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52 Week
Hi Lo Stock

26.13 19.74
17.15 12.50
46.97 37.31
220.81116.75
d2.83 .92
426.16308.20
685.00547.75
279.02192.20
79.39 52.90
41.47 26.11
38.61 24.31
42.60 17.82
231.60157.94
117.06 61.93
167.99114.70
420.61293.59
33.42 25.65
236.86174.42
55.11 40.48
21.21 14.67
475.44351.20
108.23 84.68
22.34 14.52
706.95460.36
15.97 8.97
285.61208.61
249.81195.25
526.00302.79
52.54 23.94
33.21 20.44
26.39 17.77
64.74 43.63
139.79109.04
152.84114.56
157.08113.40
716.86385.66
d1087.01254.20
48.95 31.73
5.89 3.60
92.69 41.56
172.96125.02
185.94155.72
81.77 59.82
83.90 50.55
457.12285.89
141.07 85.05
39.35 32.44
145.79117.32
20.19 15.01
44.95 32.79
62.78 35.60
279.71200.71
731.85451.00
111.12 81.07
14.60 4.15
352.18267.51
30.00 14.64
3.00 2.09
479.99324.23
263.31182.08
57.75 16.12
485.83278.00
118.02 84.17
35.49 25.85
679.85443.00
d36.48 7.76
37.95 15.55
92.00 66.91
22.22 17.66
93.16 50.19
195.90127.23
183.14126.53
93.85 45.66
401.50305.61
96.05 72.04
107.35 77.85

Div P/E

GladstnCm 1.50
GladstInv .90a
GlaxoSKln 2.06e
GlobPay 1.00f
GlycoMim
GoldmanS8.00f
GrahamH s 6.32f
HCA Hldg 2.24f
HDFC Bk
HP Inc
.78
HSBC
2.00e
Hallibrtn .48f
Hershey 3.60
Hess
1.00
Hilton
.60
HomeDp 7.60f
Honda
.84e
HonwllIntl 3.92f
Hormel 1.04f
HostHotls
Humana 3.15f
ICF Intl
.56
ICICI Bk .19e
IdexxLab
ING
.77e
IQVIA Hldg
ITW
4.88
Illumina
ImpOil g .87
IndoTel
.67
Infosys
.27
Intel
1.46f
IntcntlExc 1.52f
IBM
6.56
IntFlav 3.16f
Intuit
2.72f
IntSurg
IridiumCm
ItauUnH
JD.com
JPMorgCh4.00f
JohnJn 4.40f
JohnContl 1.40f
KKR
.58
KLA Cp 4.20
KaiserAlu 3.08f
KeurDrPep .75
KimbClk 4.64f
KindMorg 1.11f
KraftHnz 1.60
Kroger
.84
L3Harris 4.48f
LamResrch6.00
LeidosHld 1.44
Lightbrdg
Linde
4.24
Liquidity
LloydBkg .14e
LockhdM 11.20f
Lowes
3.20
LucidGrp n
lululemn g
LyonBas A 4.20
MPLX LP 2.82f
MSCI Inc 4.16f
MacroGen
Macys
.63f
ManTech 1.64f
Manulife g 1.12
MarathPt 2.32
MarIntA
MarshM 2.14
MarvellTch .24
MasterCrd 1.76
Maximus 1.12
McCorm 1.48f

Sales
YTD
100s High Low Last Chg. %Chg.

cc 9693 23.38 22.26 22.29 -3.48
... 5289 16.85 15.97 16.15 -.93
19 201693 46.48 44.83 44.87 +.77
42 74792146.71134.10134.44 -.74
... 12403 1.02 .82 .91 -.53
5 158122347.35319.47319.77 -62.78
7
691635.26599.84617.62 -12.21
10 150368279.02209.18210.64 -46.28
cc 197740 56.97 52.90 55.09 -9.98
13 531164 39.78 36.75 36.79 -.88
12 121963 35.24 33.42 33.44 +3.29
84 776818 42.60 37.54 37.69+14.82
32 46645231.60223.80224.14+30.67
59 209959117.06106.31106.45+32.42
... 100879167.99152.93153.35 -2.64
19 205333318.40298.72300.11-114.90
... 54845 27.05 25.73 25.93 -2.52
24 133787200.59190.35190.63 -17.88
32 90317 55.11 52.79 53.58 +4.77
... 461882 21.21 19.33 20.56 +3.17
20 42884469.34444.22444.48 -19.38
30 4204101.66 97.76 98.06 -4.49
... 505008 20.01 18.81 18.87 -.92
55 21243517.91472.67473.64-184.82
7 256118 10.81 10.09 10.26 -3.66
46 41986245.37227.93228.16 -53.98
cc 49109210.59195.25203.35 -43.45
75 36227352.96321.65322.67 -57.77
18 25440 52.54 47.95 48.18+12.08
... 11147 33.21 31.29 31.42 +2.43
31 724871 20.93 19.75 20.26 -5.05
9 1421676 48.90 45.52 46.54 -4.96
16 159389125.36117.09117.25 -19.52
26 478548141.88125.53138.25 +4.59
cc 71980127.75122.32124.61 -26.04
57 72057492.37442.78443.29-199.93
57 155907308.00251.52252.34-106.96
... 33206 42.49 37.33 37.39 -3.90
8 1852038 5.66 5.24 5.27 +1.52
10 518411 58.13 50.25 52.04 -18.03
8 729545133.51125.54126.81 -31.54
27 505413185.94176.74181.54+10.47
29 163198 66.61 61.45 62.93 -18.38
6 153838 59.33 51.68 51.77 -22.73
18 65413354.97319.40324.28-105.83
... 8234105.78 95.47 97.48 +3.54
32 350891 38.29 36.58 37.00 +.14
26 148485141.40123.85138.51 -4.41
25 810188 20.19 19.14 19.15 +3.29
25 343538 44.48 41.89 43.18 +7.28
38 273944 58.97 56.98 57.00+11.74
27 47006264.71245.13247.88+34.64
15 94758504.81451.00463.13-256.02
21 30286111.12108.14108.25+19.35
... 6832 8.43 6.95 7.09 +.47
46 90955332.31309.03309.72 -36.71
12 7816 18.76 16.24 16.50 -5.58
... 420049 2.43 2.30 2.32 -.23
20 91613475.50438.39445.79+90.38
16 194221210.85196.10197.06 -61.42
... 1001525 21.87 18.91 19.11 -18.94
58 87930410.70362.66363.66 -27.79
6 95997114.95106.52106.67+14.44
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55 20586499.99455.67456.04-156.65
... 24028 8.66 7.64 7.81 -8.24
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28 12409 86.42 82.19 84.56+11.63
8 147477 21.85 20.43 20.46 +1.39
6 241898 93.16 87.00 87.08+23.09
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28 160287183.14169.31170.83 -2.99
... 379210 65.17 58.32 58.44 -29.05
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-25.3
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-23.8
-49.8
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-51.3
-7.3
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+7.3
+36.1
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-1.7
-33.2
-2.3
-4.6
+5.9

last declaration. n: New issue within the past 52 weeks.
The high-low range begins with the start of trading and
does not cover entire 52 weeks. p: initial dividend, annual rate unknown; yield not shown. pf: Preferred stock.
Dividends paid to preferred shareholders take precedence over those on common stock. q: Closed-end fund,
or ETF, that doesn’t have a PE. r: Indicates a cash dividend declared or paid in preceding 12 months, plus a
stock dividend. s: Stock split or stock dividend amounting to 25 percent or more in past 52 weeks. The highlow range is adjusted from the old stock. Dividend calculation begins with the date of split or stock dividend.
t: Paid in stock in preceding 12 months, estimated cash
value on ex-dividend or ex-distribution date, except
Nasdaq listings, where payments are in stock. u: New
52-week high (includes intraday trading). un: Units. v:
Trading halted on primary market. vj: Company in bankruptcy proceedings or receivership, or securities assumed by such companies. wi: When and if issued.
Stock may be authorized but not yet issued; it may be a
new issue; or it may have been split. The right to buy a
set number of shares at a specific price and until a certain date. x: Ex-dividend, meaning the seller of the
stock, not the buyer, receives the latest declared dividend. xw: Without warrants. y: Stock is ex-dividend and
few shares traded, so sales total is given in full, not in
hundreds. z: Sales
in full, not in hundreds.
g total is given
,
52 Week
Hi Lo Stock

271.15217.68
335.60180.42
135.89 98.38
1970.13858.99
91.40 15.32
d384.33185.58
73.18 55.21
1714.751225.56
90.00 64.26
98.45 65.67
349.67238.07
891.38307.19
6.78 5.15
3.21 2.33
497.49122.01
69.47 57.63
99.89 71.78
407.94299.69
109.73 76.25
273.65184.55
5982.454250.01
239.91164.75
7.00 4.99
80.20 59.53
120.84 68.62
d700.99211.52
86.37 52.60
93.73 69.79
179.10116.75
299.20238.62
490.82336.03
95.17 79.09
d277.80 48.71
122.16 72.39
187.90 75.60
117.25 52.28
346.47134.59
748.68519.32
63.56 21.62
373.58245.09
39.31 26.43
75.07 48.51
106.34 70.23
13.09 9.85
92.84 69.83
13.19 8.24
228.14170.14
182.97111.32
97.56 77.96
640.90311.56
340.00266.94
141.92 95.91
d310.16 88.81
26.45 19.35
177.24141.73
57.87 34.53
14.84 7.19
16.09 7.14
61.71 37.96
112.48 85.64
94.34 63.19
144.35 23.21
260.00133.73
d8.72 1.46
224.56133.07
174.54110.69
165.35130.30
120.17 89.35
124.22 94.51
44.99 26.10
75.61 58.96
421.76265.59
193.58122.17
32.71 25.43
16.74 11.92

Div P/E

McDnlds 5.16
McKesson 1.88
Medtrnic 2.52
MercadoL
Merck
2.76f
Meta Plt
MetLife 1.92
MettlerT
Microch s .87e
MicronT
.40
Microsoft 2.48f
MicroStr
MitsuUFJ
MizuhoFn
Moderna
Mondelez 1.40f
MonstrBv
Moodys 2.80f
MorgStan 2.80f
MotrlaSolu2.84
NVR
NXP Semi 2.25
NatWestGp
NatGrid 3.09e
NetEase
Netflix
NewmntCp2.20
NextEraEn 1.70f
NikeB
1.10
NorflkSo 4.96f
NorthropG 6.28
Novartis 3.04e
Novavx
NovoNord1.78e
Nucor
2.00f
Nutrien 1.84
Nvidia s
OReillyAu
OcciPet .52f
OldDomFrt 1.20f
OmegaHlt 2.68
ONEOK 3.74
Oracle
1.28
Orange
.41e
OtisWrlW .96
PG&E Cp
PNC
6.00f
PPG
2.36f
Paccar 1.36a
PaloAltNet
ParkerHan 4.12
Paychex 2.64
PayPal
Pebblebrk .04
PepsiCo 4.30
PetChina 2.52e
PetrbrsA
Petrobras 2.87e
Pfizer
1.60f
PhilipMor 5.00f
Phillips66 3.68f
Pinduoduo
PioNtrl 3.12f
Precigen
PriceTR 4.80f
ProLogis 3.16f
ProctGam 3.65f
ProgsvCp .40e
Prudentl 4.80f
Prud UK .47e
PSEG
2.16f
PubStrg 8.00
Qualcom 3.00f
RELX plc .54e
RLJ LodgT .04

Sales
YTD
100s High Low Last Chg. %Chg.

25 117980259.61249.13250.17 -17.90
35 49936335.60317.67318.18+69.61
30 349588114.31107.54107.80 +4.35
cc 203221139.34967.33979.82-368.58
30 445915 87.45 84.50 84.59 +7.95
13 1688396218.43183.27184.11-152.24
10 140679 73.18 69.50 69.56 +7.07
40 48811378.921283.601284.63-412.58
39 231567 70.89 65.00 66.07 -20.99
14 929439 76.23 69.31 69.41 -23.74
31 1540214293.30273.38274.03 -62.29
... 15950477.28408.00409.08-135.41
6 111137 6.13 5.88 5.88 +.42
6 63995 2.54 2.44 2.45 -.10
... 233068165.89139.87140.34-113.64
25 383542 66.35 63.25 65.06 -1.25
32 149994 88.03 81.73 85.65 -10.39
29 40227339.27322.08322.42 -68.16
11 542988 92.93 84.32 84.74 -13.42
31 29690239.38224.56224.93 -46.77
13
9464570.004269.644282.88-1625.99
25 123425185.28169.15170.75 -57.03
... 65835 6.01 5.64 5.75 -.36
... 16194 77.69 75.34 75.46 +3.14
31 86221 94.03 85.36 85.86 -15.92
19 2502925351.68210.05215.52-386.92
21 467869 86.37 70.60 74.52+12.50
cc 562055 83.61 73.88 73.95 -19.41
34 335927139.14128.71129.07 -37.60
21 75880276.65258.46258.59 -39.12
10 35639473.85443.02447.40+60.33
8 109732 92.55 89.21 89.21 +1.74
... 252036 59.20 46.03 46.65 -96.42
35 64669118.58110.32110.70 -1.30
7 226722187.90159.93161.05+46.90
61 163700117.25103.74103.81+28.61
51 2783727226.70195.00195.15 -98.96
23 23716748.68706.13707.77 +1.54
... 1260622 63.56 56.32 56.62+27.63
30 54733284.58261.30269.03 -89.35
16 152252 27.85 26.43 27.31 -2.28
23 223051 75.07 69.20 69.28+10.52
17 371059 81.86 76.16 76.21 -11.00
... 23994 12.27 11.91 11.99 +1.44
25 93768 76.63 73.12 73.42 -13.65
... 908321 12.61 12.10 12.13 -.01
17 144440183.19173.07173.25 -27.27
22 96934138.10126.18132.85 -39.59
17 72923 89.09 83.14 85.69 -2.57
... 54766640.90569.09571.58+14.82
20 29066294.99269.53277.07 -41.05
39 110942141.27131.14131.35 -5.15
24 1041517104.86 85.98 86.03-102.55
... 92195 25.86 23.84 24.76 +2.39
29 240154177.24169.84172.15 -1.56
... 6396 52.49 48.63 48.83 +4.62
4 603267 13.73 12.58 12.62 +2.51
4 1195020 15.24 13.84 13.88 +2.90
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EXCHANGE TRADED PORTFOLIOS
52-week
High Low Stock
132.50 51.85 ArkInnova
42.23 30.52 DBXHvChiA
43.34 21.61 DxSCBer
29.03 15.87 DirSPBr
54.20 31.73 DxSOXBr rs
60.02
3.55 DirChInt
86.15 11.00 DxBiotBll
91.04 38.99 DxTcBul
74.21 25.16 DxSOXBl
20.49
2.80 DirxChiBull
114.31 49.22 DrxSCBull
147.98 89.76 DrxSPBull
27.44 16.88 EtfUSGblJ
29.66 24.00 FTNaFood ef
31.60 17.23 GbXUran
39.36 32.70 iShGold rs
27.43 22.19 iSAstla
42.05 26.47 iShBrazil
41.12 34.38 iShCanada
51.62 37.50 iShEMU
36.49 24.63 iShGerm
26.43 19.80 iShSilver
131.37 120.43 iShTIPS
47.70 26.13 iShChinaLC
482.07 406.34 iSCorSP500

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Last

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.29e

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4.65
10.51
43.97
24.45
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51.52
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25.29
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.38e
.41e
.14e
.32e
1.01e
.67e
.48e
.86e
.25e
1.69e
.87e
4.38e

52 Week
Hi Lo Stock

106.02 76.07
75.40 63.90
747.42478.40
145.98103.56
301.34187.09
95.97 59.58
d179.47 33.38
354.99250.65
505.00417.54
134.22 84.44
30.00 26.38
119.41 91.14
484.21363.54
151.48103.20
391.15281.45
52.15 34.16
763.22486.74
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58.10 46.93
56.22 39.76
46.27 24.52
96.24 63.46
96.50 78.10
372.70 85.01
173.28119.56
707.60448.27
58.68 35.17
354.15233.32
d1762.92472.57
171.12112.61
83.34 24.32
405.00164.29
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77.24 60.12
83.29 54.92
289.23 82.72
d126.32 78.73
89.75 48.01
41.20 25.65
281.16236.09
d7.74 6.06
58.49 48.85
35.08 17.10
34.50 23.15
377.60225.02
91.53 68.05
150.20101.51
59.06 44.77
166.44120.73
77.35 57.92
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17.56 13.17
268.98184.00
23.04 16.42
5.39 4.10
27.50 20.36
1243.49546.98
202.26161.04
672.34438.72
123.60 91.35
208.95139.74
86.02 62.81
60.03 40.33
213.74149.90
207.06142.53
688.03552.72
187.98144.44
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68.95 50.29
73.34 31.30
46.52 8.63
21.49 14.42
21.54 7.22
60.22 28.28
27.28 13.70
61.81 43.11
278.94195.68
60.59 30.54
233.72174.70
63.57 49.78
218.38158.38
553.29383.12
65.42 39.65
23.18 11.16
111.52 58.85
21.86 10.60
257.03198.53
231.57167.37
59.85 49.69
292.75176.36
252.67186.67
141.09107.57
20.36 14.53
106.82 86.84
160.77132.01
55.96 42.90
156.77 95.01
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27.05 22.23
145.62115.75
168.04133.80
60.30 41.47
99.43 70.74
20.82 13.92
43.04 32.65
36.37 23.21
9.96 6.74
d307.81205.90
76.05 61.16
139.85111.63
249.27165.22

Div P/E

RaythTch 2.04
RltyInco 2.83f
Regenrn
RepubSvc 1.84
ResMed 1.68
RioTinto 10.39e
RiviaAu A n
RockwlAut 4.48f
Roper
2.48f
RossStrs 1.24f
RBCda pfT 1.69
RoyalBk g3.92e
S&P Glbl 3.08
SAP SE 1.92e
SBA Com 2.32
STMicro .24f
SVB FnGp
Salesforce
SndySpr 1.36f
Sanofi 1.37e
SaulCntr 2.28f
Schlmbrg .50
Schwab .80f
SciApplic 1.48
Sea Ltd
SempraEn4.58f
ServcNow
Shell plc 1.92e
Shrwin 2.40f
Shopify
SimonProp 6.60f
SnapInc A
Snowflake
SonyGp
SouthnCo 2.72f
SthnCopper1.70e
Square
Starbucks 1.96
StratEdu 2.40
Stride
Stryker 2.52
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Supernus lf
Synopsys
Sysco
1.88
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TC Energy2.76e
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TJX
1.18f
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TakedaPh
Target
3.60
Tegna
.38
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Tesla Inc
TexInst 4.60f
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ThomsonR 1.62
3M Co
5.96f
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Toyota
TraneTch 2.36
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Trex
TruistFn 1.92
Twitter
2U
UBS Grp .69e
US Silica
Uber Tch
UndrArm
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UtdAirlHl
UPS B
4.08
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UtdTherap
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VandaPhm
Verisign
Verisk
1.16
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VertxPh
Visa
1.50f
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WalgBoots1.91
WalkerDun 2.40f
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.68
WasteCon .92e
WsteMInc 2.30
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Welltower 2.44e
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.12
Workday
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Zoetis
1.00

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SMALLER LOCAL STOCKS
52-week
High Low Stock
25.80
116.83
56.18
136.78
27.05
113.64
85.09
118.04
155.12
118.63
86.34
82.29
88.16
50.85
244.46
84.23
116.89
78.34
22.73
69.82
408.71
74.12
68.40
68.18
79.16

17.20
102.79
40.80
113.22
24.06
92.89
65.83
106.79
118.67
102.27
82.82
66.54
79.58
39.13
187.92
43.59
95.01
63.01
13.22
59.94
316.00
57.12
56.20
50.41
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Div

Last

Chg.

.33e
2.65e
.59e
3.87
.33
4.55
2.03e
2.59
3.05
1.54
.86
1.66e
5.09
.24e
1.77e
.61e
2.76e
1.56e

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102.94
42.38
113.42
24.13
92.09
69.22
106.78
119.99
102.74
82.88
70.47
79.26
44.20
192.68
48.49
109.56
66.54
18.38
67.64
325.40
56.91
56.94
52.44
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-.67
-.62
-13.03
-1.49
-1.79
-2.08
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1.16e
.37e
.95e
2.58e

52-week
High Low Stock
186.05
7.26 PrUlShN rs
40.88 14.12 PrVixST rs
26.44
4.68 PrUShCr rs
94.54 55.43 PrUlQQQ s
74.76 53.17 ProUltSP s
88.98 58.79 PrUPD30 s
91.68 39.56 PrUltPQ s
78.71 47.75 PrUlSP500 s
13.98 10.63 ProShtQQQ
16.38 13.47 ProShSP
51.20 34.55 PrUShSP rs
25.25 15.53 ProUShL20
65.85 28.15 PShtQQQ rs
36.81 24.73 PrUShD3 rs
369.50 322.69 SpdrDJIA
193.30 160.68 SpdrGold
38.38 31.28 SpdrWldxUS
479.98 404.00 S&P500ETF
141.50 80.34 SpdrBiot
37.00 33.09 SpdrITBd
27.58 25.63 SpdrShTHiY
78.81 59.30 SpdrS&P RB
104.31 69.98 SpdrRetl
66.63 38.65 SpdrMetM
40.92 33.50 SchwIntEq

Div

3.98e
.79e
4.13e
.44e
.92
1.58
.74e
.49e
.24e
.71e

Last

Chg.

10.95
18.36
5.31
57.72
58.15
67.03
41.51
52.99
12.81
14.91
41.86
24.64
45.14
30.14
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180.29
32.71
426.04
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33.14
25.70
64.89
73.04
58.42
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-6.02
-3.75
-.79
-11.75
-7.93
-.34
-.20
+.20
-3.44
-7.43
-.80

52-week
High Low Stock
64.15
92.31
143.42
81.34
215.06
81.51
41.70
107.88
177.04
52.17
77.23
28.15
87.84
41.61
318.82
55.79
87.08
441.26
116.71
55.16
70.70
55.68
82.92
96.39
53.49

58.86
78.37
120.61
68.32
161.49
45.14
34.42
93.40
130.96
41.02
62.99
9.85
41.60
28.83
222.82
36.55
76.17
372.13
94.64
41.97
55.11
50.24
76.74
81.81
43.93

SchUSTips
SP Matls
SP HlthC
SP CnSt
SP Consum
SP Engy
SPDR Fncl
SP Inds
SP Tech
SpdrRESel
SP Util
US NGas
US Oil
VanEGold
VnEkSemi
VanE JrGld
VangTotBd
VangSP500
VangREIT
VangEmg
VangEur
VangTEBd
VanSTCpB
VanIntCpB
VangFTSE

Div
.98e
1.01e
1.28e
1.12e
2.04e
.46e
1.12e
.78e
1.55e
.06e
.58e
2.06e
3.81e
3.08e
1.10e
1.71e
.28e
2.09a
2.73
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Last

Chg.

59.34
85.74
133.67
79.24
175.82
76.20
36.17
98.43
143.08
49.37
74.25
22.70
76.31
36.94
234.73
45.61
76.30
391.66
109.76
43.58
60.56
50.26
76.82
81.95
45.95

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-3.26
-3.92
-3.49
-5.42
-.76
-10.86
+1.02
-1.87
-.98
-.42
-.62
-1.23
-1.06

Stock
CoStar s
CogentC 3.32f
CmstkH
MarIntA
RGC Res .78f
Sinclair .80
TESSCO
UBSI 1.40
UtdTherap

P/E
83
...
20
...
20
...
...
16
19

Sales
Weeks
100s
High
Low
95419
64.48
60.27
10001
68.11
64.09
214
5.49
5.18
161282 u195.90 178.94
570
21.90
20.86
37914
24.52
22.65
1368
6.34
6.04
33355
35.78
33.16
18649 195.07 183.43

Last
61.20
64.34
5.20
179.49
21.15
23.33
6.34
33.95
187.63

Chg.
-.62
-2.03
-.25
-1.02
-.09
+.46
+.09
-.22
-4.28

SUNDAY, APRIL 24 , 2022

.

THE WASHINGTON POST

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WEEKL Y MU TU A L FU ND S PRICES
Notes: b - Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets.
d - Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee.
f - front load (sales charges).
m - Multiple fees are charged, usually a marketing fee and either a sales or redemption fee.
NA - not available.
p - previous day’s net asset value.
s - fund split shares during the week.
x - fund paid a distribution during the week.

Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.

A
AB:

AllMktRlRet1 b10.26 -.31
AllMktTRA m 14.72 -.34
CncntrGrAdv49.80-1.48
DiscvGrA m 9.80 -.51
DiscvGrAdv 11.04 -.57
DiscvValAdv 23.49 -.33
DiscvValZ 22.55 -.31
DiversMunicipal13.79 -.12
EmMkts
27.27-1.13
GlbBdA m
7.60 -.06
GlbBdAdv
7.59 -.07
GlbBdI
7.60 -.06
GrA m
90.52-3.68
HiIncA m
7.27 -.08
HiIncAdv
7.28 -.08
LgCpGrA m 70.54-2.76
LgCpGrAdv 79.11-3.10
LgCpGrC m 46.89-1.84
LgCpGrI
78.53-3.08
MuniBdInfStr1 b10.72 -.02
MuniBdInfStrAdv10.78 -.03
MuniIncCAA m10.55 -.12
MuniIncCAAdv10.55 -.12
MuniIncIIVIA m10.57 -.13
MuniIncIIVIC m10.54 -.13
MuniIncNtnA m 9.80 -.12
MuniIncNtnAdv 9.80 -.12
ReltvValA m 6.47 -.09
ReltvValAdv 6.54 -.09
SelUSLSAdv 13.72 -.26
SmCpGrA m 53.20-2.64
SmCpGrI
60.78-3.01
SstnlGlbThtcA m141.12-4.01
SstnlGlbThtcAdv153.01-4.33
SustIntlThtcAdv19.40 -.34
TxMgWtAprStrAdv18.58 -.55
WlthApprStrAdv18.36 -.55

AMG:

BostonCmGlbImpI36.06-1.13
GWKMnBdI 11.12 -.13
GWKSmCpCorI29.46 -.53
RRSmCpValI 14.77 -.11
TmsSqMidCpGrI15.63 -.55
TmsSqMidCpGrS14.64 -.52
YackFocI
20.13 -.30
YackFocN 20.19 -.30
YacktmanI 23.53 -.37

AQR:

+6.7
-11.3
-17.4
-25.8
-25.8
-9.5
-9.5
-6.3
-9.6
-7.8
-7.8
-7.6
-20.1
-6.7
-6.7
-20.1
-20.1
-20.3
-20.1
-3.0
-3.0
-7.8
-7.7
-8.1
-8.4
-8.3
-8.3
-2.0
-1.9
-5.5
-28.8
-28.7
-20.3
-20.2
-18.4
-11.4
-11.3
-19.9
-9.4
-13.4
-4.0
-15.0
-15.1
-4.7
-4.8
-4.0

DiversArbtrgI 11.99 -.04 -.7
LgCpMomStyleI21.94 -.94 -9.7
MgdFtsStratI 9.09 +.12 +25.2
RkBalCmdtsStrI10.53 -.16 +31.9

Acadian:

EmMktsInv d 21.76 -.80

-5.9

CptCmntyInvmIns8.09 -.09

-7.8

Access:
Akre:

FocInstl d 55.91-1.54 -15.5
FocRetail m 54.12-1.49 -15.6

Alger:

CptlApprecA m24.23-1.27
CptlApprecI273.30-3.88
CptlApprecInsI31.90-1.68
SpectraA m 18.44 -.95

-22.6
-22.3
-22.6
-24.8

AstAllcA f 13.92 -.06
CATFA f
10.85 -.16
CBMidCpValInst43.74 -.60
CommonStkA f19.29 -.41
CorBdInst 11.66 -.11
DiscpUSCorA f 21.00 -.52
DvrsCptlBldrA f12.02 -.26
GrAdm
36.37-1.95
GrInst
42.00-2.25
IdxAstAllcA f 39.60 -.82
OmegaGrA f 56.05-3.74
OppA f
47.87-1.37
PremLgCoGrA f11.85 -.60
ShrtDrGvtBdInst9.19 -.04
ShrtTrmBdPlInst8.55 -.04
SpMCpValIns 48.49 -.71
SpcSmCpValA f39.88 -.31
SpecizedTechA f12.87 -.68
StrMnBdA f 8.71 -.06
UlSTMnIncIns9.43 -.02
UlShTrIncIns 8.44 -.02

-9.1
-9.0
-7.6
-11.9
-9.6
-8.9
-9.5
-23.1
-23.0
-10.3
-24.5
-13.3
-21.6
-3.8
-3.3
-4.0
-6.3
-22.9
-5.6
-1.5
-1.2

Allspring:

Amana:

MutGrInv b 62.08-1.46 -15.6
MutIncInv b 60.14 -.85 -8.9

American Beacon:
IntlEqR5
LgCpValInv
LgCpValR5
SmCpValR5

16.54
24.17
27.15
27.30

-.26
-.55
-.61
-.42

-8.6
-3.9
-3.8
-4.8

BalInv
17.06 -.30
CAHYMuniI 10.06 -.17
CAHYMuniInv 10.07 -.17
CAInTFBdBdI 11.24 -.11
CAInTFBdBdInv11.24 -.11
CorPlusInv 10.09 -.08
DiversBdI
9.93 -.08
DiversBdInv 9.92 -.09
EmMktsI 11.14 -.74
EmMktsInv 10.87 -.70
EqGrI
27.92 -.78
EqGrInv
27.87 -.78
EqIncA m
9.74 -.12
EqIncI
9.76 -.12
EqIncInv
9.74 -.12
EqIncR6
9.77 -.12
GlbGoldInv 13.15-1.30
GlbGrInv
12.04 -.36
GrI
44.34-1.61
GrInv
43.08-1.56
GrR6
44.44-1.60
HYMuniI
9.25 -.14
HeritageInv 19.95-1.12
IncandGrI 34.33-1.02
IncandGrInv 34.24-1.02
InflAdjBdInv 12.29 +.04
IntTrmTxFrBdI10.91 -.10
IntTrmTxFrBdInv10.91 -.10
IntlGrInv
11.82 -.63
IntlOppsInv 9.54 -.34
InvFcddynGrInv44.73-2.56
InvGinnieMaeInv9.48 -.14
InvOC2025Inv 14.03 -.20
InvOC2030Inv 12.44 -.19
InvOC2035Inv 15.76 -.27
InvOC2045Inv 16.89 -.36
InvOC:AgrInv 15.79 -.35
InvOC:CnsrvInv13.55 -.18
InvOCInRetInv 12.54 -.16
InvOCModInv 15.24 -.29
InvOCVryCsrvInv12.06 -.11
LgCoValInv 10.29 -.10
MidCpValI 17.20 -.19
MidCpValInv 17.18 -.19
MidCpValR6 17.20 -.19
NTDiversBdG 10.11 -.09
NTEmMktsG10.31 -.93
NTEqGrG 10.35 -.29
NTIntlGrG 11.36 -.54
SelInv
99.07-3.78
ShtDrInfPrBdInv10.86 +.02
SmCpGrInv 17.74 -.84
SmCpValI 10.06 -.11
SmCpValInv 9.93 -.11
SustEqInv 42.14 -.98
UltraI
75.21-3.43
UltraInv
71.58-3.27
UtlsInv
17.82 -.52
ValI
9.04 -.15
ValInv
9.02 -.14

-11.3
-9.4
-9.4
-7.0
-7.1
-9.3
-9.0
-9.0
-20.7
-20.8
-10.7
-10.8
-.7
-.6
-.7
-.6
+12.7
-12.0
-18.4
-18.5
-18.4
-9.2
-21.6
-3.9
-4.0
-4.5
-7.3
-7.3
-17.9
-20.4
-20.2
-7.8
-8.2
-8.8
-9.4
-10.5
-10.7
-8.3
-7.7
-10.1
-6.3
+1.2
+1.8
+1.7
+1.8
-8.9
-20.1
-10.6
-17.7
-15.1
-.3
-18.1
-9.1
-9.2
-12.7
-18.2
-18.3
-1.7
+1.6
+1.5

American Century:

American Funds:

2010TgtDtRtrA m11.63 -.16
2015TgtDtRtrA m12.24 -.17
2020TgtDtRtrA m13.26 -.21
2025TgtDtRtrA m14.75 -.27
2030TgtDtRtrA m16.11 -.35
2035TgtDtRtrA m17.44 -.44
2040TgtDtRtrA m18.21 -.52
2045TgtDtRtrA m18.65 -.56
2050TgtDtRtrA m18.32 -.57
AMCpA m 36.44-1.75
AmrcnBalA m 30.89 -.61
AmrcnHiIncA m 9.78 -.11
AmrcnMutA m51.88 -.95
BdfAmrcA m12.14 -.11
CptWldGrIncA m55.53-1.83
CptlIncBldrA m67.21 -.97
CptlWldBdA m17.41 -.26
EuroPacGrA m 53.52-1.61
FdmtlInvsA m 67.58-2.32
GlbBalA m 34.84 -.77
GrfAmrcA m 60.87-2.65
HiIncMuniBdA m15.23 -.22
IncAmrcA m 24.97 -.36
IntlGrIncA m34.24 -.97
IntrmBdfAmrA m12.98 -.09
InvCAmrcA m 46.49-1.58
LtdTrmTEBdA m15.08 -.09
NewWldA m 71.74-2.79
NwPrspctvA m55.52-1.77
STBdAmrcA m 9.67 -.03
ShrtTrmTEBdA m9.85 -.03
SmCpWldA m 63.13-2.35
TheNewEcoA m48.42-2.39
TxExBdA m 12.37 -.15
TxExmptFdofCAA m16.58 -.27
USGovtSecA m13.12 -.09
WAMtInvsA m57.17-1.28

Angel Oak:

MltStratIncIns 9.80 -.04

Aquila:

HawaiianTxFrA m10.62 -.09

Arbitrage:
Instl

Ariel:

13.28 -.03

ApprecInv b 43.86 -.68
Inv b
75.80-1.05

Artisan:

GlbOppsInstl 29.64-1.45
GlbOppsInv 28.94-1.42
IntlInstl
25.62 -.50
IntlInv
25.46 -.50
IntlValueInstl 40.04 -.50
IntlValueInv 39.91 -.50
MidCpInstl 40.08-2.25
MidCpInv 33.59-1.89
MidCpValueInv20.61 -.28
SmCpInvs 30.77-1.43

Ashmore:

EmMktsTtlRetIns5.54 -.06

Ave Maria:

MariaBd
11.78 -.10
MariaGr
37.99 -.70
MariaRisingDiv20.67 -.53

B

BBH:

LtdDurN

10.10 -.02

AsstAllcM
BdM
DynValA f
DynValI
EmMktsM
HYI

13.32 -.32
11.55 -.12
41.05-1.21
41.32-1.21
11.73 -.47
5.61 -.05

BNY Mellon:

-5.8
-6.4
-7.0
-8.3
-9.4
-10.7
-11.6
-12.1
-12.7
-19.8
-7.4
-5.7
-2.0
-8.8
-12.5
-3.6
-12.2
-17.4
-10.8
-9.1
-18.1
-9.0
-2.8
-12.6
-5.1
-10.0
-5.5
-16.6
-16.4
-2.7
-3.7
-21.1
-21.7
-8.2
-8.8
-6.6
-5.2

Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.
IncStkM
9.26 -.26
IntermBdM 11.99 -.06
IntlM
13.51 -.25
MdCpMltStratM19.52 -.62
NtnIntrmMnBdM12.81 -.14
NtnSTMnBdM 12.39 -.04
SmCpMltStratM20.91 -.92
StandishGlbFII20.16 -.14
WldwideGrA f 64.79-1.94

Baird:

AggrgateBdInstl10.22
CorPlusBdInstl10.50
IntermBdInstl 10.48
QlInTrmMnBdIns11.05
ShrtTrmBdInstl 9.40

+2.0
-5.2
-10.7
-11.0
-8.1
-3.4
-10.0
-6.3
-12.2

-.10
-.10
-.08
-.08
-.04

-9.7
-9.5
-6.7
-6.4
-3.3

AsstInstl 97.46-3.66
AsstRetail b 92.46-3.48
DiscvInstl 26.91-1.20
EmMktsInstl 14.11 -.62
GlbAdvantageIns34.46-2.97
GlbAdvantageRtl b33.75-2.90
GrInstl
98.96-2.67
GrRetail b 94.41-2.55
OppInstl
32.12-1.93
OppRetail b 30.29-1.82
PtnrsInstl 177.85-3.29
PtnrsRetail b 171.71-3.19
RlEsttInstl 35.35 -.37
RlEsttRetail b 34.37 -.36
SmCpInstl 31.77-1.02
SmCpRetail b 29.72 -.95

-21.2
-21.3
-23.6
-19.7
-34.6
-34.7
-18.7
-18.7
-26.7
-26.8
-13.6
-13.7
-14.5
-14.6
-21.4
-21.5

Baron:

Berkshire:
Foc d

Bernstein:

Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.
MidCapIdxA b 15.69 -.27
MidCapIdxIns 15.59 -.28
STBdIns3
9.65 -.04
SelGlbEqA m 15.65 -.50
SelLgCpGrIns 9.19 -.67
SelM/CValA m13.29 -.18
SelM/CValInstl13.34 -.18
SelMidCapGrA m19.19-1.11
SelMidCapGrIns21.94-1.28
SlgCmsInfoA m104.85-2.32
SlgGlbTechA m58.69-1.25
SmCpGrIA m18.95-1.18
SmCpGrIIns 20.81-1.29
SmCpIdxA b 26.40 -.50
SmCpIdxIns 26.64 -.51
SmCpValIIns48.28-1.05
StratIncA m 22.69 -.21
StratIncIns 22.26 -.20
StratMuniIncA m15.02 -.24
ThermostatA m15.44 -.17
ThermostatIns15.16 -.17
TtlRetBdA m 33.03 -.41
TtlRetBdIns 33.05 -.40
TxExmptA m 12.18 -.17
TxExmptIns 12.18 -.17
USTrsIdxIns 10.53 -.06

Commerce:
Bd

18.49 -.16

-8.8

9.81 -.07

-6.7

Community Reinvest:
QlfdInvm b

Credit Suisse:

CmdtyRetStratI32.56 -.90 +32.3

Cullen:

22.48-2.44 -37.9 HiDivEqInstl d 16.34 -.19

D

IntermDur 11.98 -.10
IntermDurInstl13.70 -.11
NewYorkMuni 13.31 -.11

-9.7
-9.6 DELAWARE:
-6.2 GrandIncA m 14.18 -.27
IvyAsstStratA m22.03 -.47
BlackRock:
AdvtgIntlIns 16.47 -.37 -11.4 IvyAsstStratI 22.44 -.47
AdvtgLCCorIns19.02 -.47 -11.5 IvyBalA m 24.06 -.66
AdvtgLCCorInvA m18.04 -.44 -11.5 IvyCorEqA m16.89 -.60
AdvtgLgCpGrIns19.73 -.66 -18.0 IvyGlbGrA m51.37-1.31
AdvtgLgCpGrInvA m18.57 -.63 -18.2 IvyHiIncA m 6.53 -.09
6.53 -.09
AdvtgSmCpGrIns17.14 -.77 -19.5 IvyHiIncI
BalCptlInstl 24.17 -.44 -8.7 IvyIntlCorEqI 18.34 -.37
IvyLgCpGrA
m
28.22-1.02
BalCptlInvA m 24.03 -.44 -8.8
BasValInstl 19.54 -.43 +.5 IvyLgCpGrI 30.50-1.10
BasValInvA m 19.11 -.42 +.4 IvyMidCapGrA m29.37-1.14
CAMuniOppsInstl12.00 -.18 -7.9 IvyMidCapGrI 33.02-1.28
CAMuniOppsInvA m11.99 -.18 -8.0 IvyMuncplHiIncA m4.60 -.07
CorBdInstl 8.75 -.11 -10.0 IvySci&TecA m56.02-2.59
CorBdK
8.78 -.10 -9.9 IvySci&TecI 67.67-3.14
CptlApprecInstl33.79-1.76 -23.0 IvySysmcEMEqI21.81 -.96
33.62 -.55
CptlApprecInvA m29.99-1.57 -23.0 OppA m
CptlApprecK 34.14-1.78 -23.0 SelGrA m 11.67 -.33
CrdtStrIncIns 9.34 -.07 -5.9 TtlRetA x 14.98 -.28
EmMktsInstl 24.50 -.96 -18.3 lvySmCapGrA m13.19 -.63
EqDivInstl 21.77 -.41 +.8 lvySmCapGrInstl21.40-1.03
EqDivInvA m 21.67 -.42 +.7 DFA:
EqDivR b 21.95 -.42 +.6 CAInTmMnBdIns10.13 -.06
FltngRtIncInstl 9.81 -.02 -.2 CASTMnBdIns 10.07 -.02
FocGrInstl 5.93 -.31 -23.3 CntnntlSmCIns30.14 +.04
FocGrInvA m 5.34 -.28 -23.3 EMktCorEqI 22.97 -.84
GlbAllcIncInstl 18.84 -.43 -8.5 EMktSCInstl 23.06 -.64
GlbAllcIncInvA m18.68 -.42 -8.6 EmMktsII 19.10 -.75
GlbAllcIncInvC m16.38 -.37 -8.9 EmMktsInstl 28.83-1.13
GlbLSCrdtInstl 9.66 -.01 -2.6 EmMktsSocialCor14.41 -.53
HYBdInstl 7.23 -.07 -6.4 EmMktsValInstl30.09 -.95
HYBdInvA m 7.22 -.08 -6.6 FvYrGlbFIIns10.08 -.07
HYBdK
7.23 -.08 -6.4 GlbAllc2575Ins13.94 -.12
HYMuniInstl 9.37 -.19 -11.3 GlbAllc6040Ins20.35 -.35
HighEqIncIns 29.82 -.49 +2.6 GlbEqInstl 29.55 -.71
HthSciOpIns 73.66-2.89 -7.8 GlbRlEsttSec 12.83 +.01
HthSciOpInvA m69.33-2.72 -7.9 InflProtSecIns 12.51 +.04
HthSciOpInvC m58.54-2.31 -8.1 IntlCorEqIns 14.72 -.31
InflProtBdInstl11.08 +.01 -4.5 IntlLgCpGr 15.03 -.40
InflProtBdInvA m10.78 +.01 -4.5 IntlRlEsttScIns 4.42 -.08
IntlInstl
18.48 -.63 -16.5 IntlSclCrEqInst13.59 -.23
IntlInvA m 18.02 -.62 -16.6 IntlSmCoInstl 19.40 -.39
LowDurBdInstl 9.21 -.05 -3.8 IntlSmCpValIns20.36 -.33
LowDurBdInvA m9.21 -.05 -3.9 IntlSstnbtyCor111.61 -.23
LowDurBdK 9.20 -.05 -3.8 IntlValIII
16.38 -.30
MidCpGrEqInstl35.39-1.75 -26.2 IntlValInstl 19.00 -.35
MidCpGrEqInvA m30.14-1.50 -26.2 IntlVctrEqIns 12.82 -.23
NYMuniOppsInstl10.60 -.12 -7.6 ItmGovtFIIns 11.47 -.08
NYMuniOppsInvA m10.60 -.13 -7.7 ItmTExtnddQlIns9.80 -.12
NtnlMnInstl 10.31 -.15 -8.7 ItmTMnBdIns 9.87 -.06
NtnlMnInvA m10.31 -.16 -8.8 LgCpIntlInstl24.94 -.55
StrGlbBdIncIns 5.61 -.11 -8.2 OneYearFIInstl10.13 -.02
StrIncOpA m 9.76 -.03 -3.3 RlEsttSecInstl 49.83 +.55
StrIncOpIns 9.77 -.02 -3.1 STGovtInstl 9.96 -.04
StratMuOpIns 10.79 -.17 -9.4 STMuniBdInstl10.04 -.01
StratMuOpInvA m10.79 -.16 -9.4 ShTrmExQtyI 10.32 -.06
TactOppsInstl 14.00 -.10 -.6 SlvlyHdgGlFIIns9.09 -.07
TechOppsInstl 48.34-2.25 -26.7 TMdUSMktwdVlII34.96 -.72
TechOppsInvA m44.04-2.05 -26.7 TwYrGlbFIIns 9.64 -.03
TtlRetInstl 10.58 -.12 -9.9 USCorEq1Instl 33.08 -.84
TtlRetInvA m 10.58 -.13 -10.1 USCorEqIIInstl 30.01 -.73
USLgCo
30.41 -.85
Boston Partners:
SmCpValIIInstl28.90 -.28 -5.3 USLgCpGrInstl 28.75 -.62
USLgCpValIII 29.42 -.69
Boston Trust:
USLgCpValInstl44.45-1.04
AsstMgmt 60.88-1.25 -9.8 USMicroCpInstl25.02 -.60
USSmCpGrInstl23.02 -.45
Brandes:
IntlEqI
17.12 +.06 -4.9 USSmCpInstl 42.22 -.82
USSmCpValInstl42.02 -.75
Bridgeway:
USSocialCorEq221.73 -.48
SmCpVal 37.25 -.95 -1.9 USSstnbtyCor132.77 -.86
USTrgtedValIns29.11 -.54
Brookfield Investmen:
GlbLtdInfrasY 14.43 -.34 +3.4 USVectorEqInstl23.22 -.54
WlexUSGovFIIns8.99 -.09
Brown Advisory:
WlexUSTrgVlIns13.53 -.27
EmMktsSelAdv d10.53 -.26 -11.0
GrEqInstl d 26.97-1.30 -22.8 Davenport:
30.24 -.82
GrEqInv d 26.44-1.28 -22.8 Cor
22.39 -.65
SmCpFdmtlValIns d28.89 -.27 -7.7 EqOpps
19.73 -.39
SmCpGrInv d 23.25 -.50 -14.7 ValInc

Davis:

Brown Cap Mgmt:

-8.8
-8.8
-3.2
-20.4
-23.9
-5.0
-5.0
-24.0
-24.0
-19.0
-19.5
-27.5
-27.5
-9.9
-9.8
-5.5
-6.8
-6.8
-10.8
-9.2
-9.2
-10.7
-10.6
-9.5
-9.4
-8.4

+.1

+3.8
-7.9
-7.8
-9.4
-9.5
-11.5
-4.9
-4.9
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51.52-1.02 -4.9
SmCoInv b 88.85-4.41 -21.7 FinclA m
NYVentureA m25.57 -.84 -11.5
Bruce:
NYVentureY 26.50 -.88 -11.5
Bruce
632.00-17.94 -5.7 OppC m
27.22 -.69 -12.0

Buffalo:

Delaware Inv:

Discv
23.12-1.00 -20.0 CorpBdInstl 5.40 -.08
Buffalo Growth Fund27.74-1.14 -18.3 DiversIncA m 8.11 -.09
SmCp
14.46 -.66 -24.4 SmCpValA m 71.15 -.56
SmidCpGrA m 21.32-1.88
C
TFUSAA m 10.78 -.21
CG Capital Markets:
TFUSAIntermA m11.23 -.15
20.81 -.49
CorFI
7.33 -.09 -10.4 ValInstl
EmMktsEqInvms13.16 -.54 -16.1 Deutsche:
IntlEq
12.54 -.25 -11.3 CROCIEqDivA m55.60 -.19
LgCpEq
22.56 -.74 -11.9 CmnctnsA m25.39-2.09
SmMidCpEq 17.74 -.46 -10.8 CorEqS
30.63 -.93

CGM:
Foc
Mut
Rlty

CIBC:

44.87-4.06 +3.0
29.04-1.87 +1.9
28.50-1.54 -7.5

AtDipEqInstl27.31 -.94

Calamos:

CnvrtInstl 17.62 -.55
GlbGrIncI 10.83 -.39
GrA m
32.79-1.49
GrIncA m 41.73-1.13
GrIncInstl 39.74-1.08
MktNetrlIncA m14.32 -.10
MktNetrlIncIns14.15 -.10

Calvert:

BalA m
37.92-1.61
EqA m
71.19-1.39
USLCCrRspnbIdxAm36.15-1.05

Carillon:

EglMidCpGrA m74.39-3.63
ReamsCore+BdI31.35 -.40
ReamsUnconsBdI11.96 -.15
ScoutMdCpI 23.19 -.94

Causeway:

IntlValInstl 16.16 -.26

Chartwell:
Inc

13.34 -.18

ClearBridge:

AggresivGrA m128.45-6.06
AggresivGrI 156.38-7.36
AllCpValA m 14.09 -.27
ApprecA m 30.51 -.84
ApprecI
30.29 -.83
ApprecIS 30.40 -.84
DivStrat1 29.43 -.66
DivStratA m 29.40 -.67
DivStratI 30.40 -.69
IntlGrI
57.08-1.39
LgCpGrA m 51.21-2.82
LgCpGrC m 36.94-2.04
LgCpGrI
58.81-3.23
LgCpValA m 37.51 -.96
LgCpValI
37.42 -.96
MidCpA m 36.21 -.94
MidCpI
42.00-1.09
MidCpIS
42.56-1.10
SmCpFI b 62.32-1.62
SmCpGrA m 35.80-1.86
SmCpGrI
39.83-2.07
SmCpGrIS 40.66-2.11
SmCpI
66.61-1.73

Clipper:
Clipper

-9.1

-12.3
-13.1
-19.4
-10.6 Diamond Hill:
-10.5
LgCpA b
32.85-1.02
-2.6
LgCpI
33.06-1.03
-2.5
LgCpY
33.10-1.03
LngShrtI
27.79 -.66
-9.2 SmMidCpI 26.88 -.15
-14.2 Dodge & Cox:
-13.2
Bal
103.81-2.42
GlbStk
14.17 -.51
-17.5 Inc
12.84 -.14
-9.2 IntlStk
45.32-1.18
-5.7 Stk
236.06-7.51
-5.0 Dominion:

+1.3
-23.5
-8.6
-19.3
-19.2
-7.4
-8.8
-6.2
-20.6
-9.8
-9.8
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-23.1
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-7.5
-7.4
-7.3
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-5.3
-4.1
-1.9
-8.2
-4.2
-2.9

ImpactEqInv b 29.67-1.00 -15.1

-7.1 DoubleLine:
CorFII
10.03 -.07
-5.1 CorFIN b
10.02 -.07
EmMktsFII 9.31 -.14
-13.5 LowDurBdI 9.64 -.02
-13.4 LowDurBdN b 9.63 -.02
9.55 -.06
-.5 TtlRetBdI
-8.6 TtlRetBdN b 9.55 -.06
-8.5 Dreyfus:
-8.5 ActvMidCpA f 55.46-1.33
-4.4 Apprec,IncInv 41.33-1.31
-4.5 BstnCoSmMdCpGrI27.38-1.99
-4.4 CAAMTFMnBdZ13.62 -.17
-17.3 InCorpd
14.77 -.66
-21.2 InsSP500StkIdxI68.99-1.94
-21.4 IntlStkI
22.35 -.53
-21.1 IntrmMnBd 12.62 -.13
-5.2 MidCpIdxInvs 32.52 -.57
-5.2 MnBd
10.90 -.13
-13.8 NYTxExBd 13.66 -.17
-13.8 RsrchGr,IncZ17.43-1.16
-13.7 SP500Idx 53.82-1.52
-8.5 SmCpStkIdxInvs30.22 -.57
-22.3 Driehaus:
-22.2
EmMktsGrInv d35.39-1.30
-22.2
-8.4 Dupree:
MtKntckyTFInc 7.29 -.09

121.84-4.12 -10.7

Cohen & Steers:

CptlGrA m 101.11-4.55
CptlGrS
102.94-4.63
GNMAS x 12.54 -.15
GlbIncBldrA m 9.31 -.19
HiIncA x
4.45 -.06
IntlGrS
37.80-1.16
MgdMuniBdA m8.27 -.12
MgdMuniBdS 8.28 -.12
SP500IdxS 40.22-1.14
SciandTechA m28.10-1.39
StratHYTxFrS 11.01 -.21

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-4.4
-26.6
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E

Eaton Vance:

GlbInfras,IncI 24.09 -.40 +1.6 AtlntCptSMIDCA m32.93 -.35
GlbRltys,IncI63.34 -.22 -4.7 AtlntCptSMIDCI38.28 -.40
InstlRltys 56.72 +.62 -3.7 DivBldrA m 18.61 -.40
IntlRltyI
11.14 -.26 -7.2 FltngRtA m 8.98 -.01
PrfrdScInc,IncA m12.87 -.12 -7.6 FltngRtAdvtgA m10.40 -.01
PrfrdScInc,IncC m12.78 -.13 -7.8 FltngRtHiIncI 8.53 -.03
PrfrdScInc,IncI 12.91 -.12 -7.4 FltngRtInstl 8.68 -.02
-3.3 RlEsttSecIncA m19.71 +.19 -4.4 GlbMcrAbRtI 8.41 +.01
RlEsttSecIncIns21.03 +.20 -4.3 IncofBostonA m5.23 -.05
Rltys
80.03 +.89 -3.7 IncofBostonI 5.23 -.05
-6.5 Colorado BondShares:
LgCpValA m 24.12 -.52
24.24 -.52
ATxEx f
8.83 -.09 -5.4 LgCpValI
MrylndMuniIncA m8.33 -.11
-.1 Columbia:
NtnlMnIncA m 9.36 -.12
AMTFrIMBA m 9.66 -.09 -6.9 NtnlMnIncI 9.36 -.12
-8.1 AMTFrIMBIns9.67 -.08 -6.7 ShrtDrGovtIncA m7.91 -.01
-9.3 AcornA m
7.36 -.44 -26.5 ShrtDrStratIncA m6.98 -.01
AcornIns
10.47 -.63 -26.4 TxMgdEqAstAlcA m27.87 -.78
-21.6 AcornIntlIns 25.06 -.75 -24.7 TxMgdGlbDivIncA m14.89 -.43
46.54-1.08 -8.9 TxMgdGr10 1823.85-63.71
-21.7 BalA m
46.43-1.07 -8.8 TxMgdGr11A m81.95-2.87
-16.4 BalIns
ContrCoreA
m
30.03 -.94 -8.9 TxMgdGr12A m36.84-1.29
-16.5
ContrCoreIns
30.36 -.95 -8.8 TxMgdValA m 36.14 -.87
-5.5
ConvrtSecsIns
22.85 -.80 -10.1 VrgnMnIncA m 7.30 -.08
-5.6
CptAllcAgrA
m12.34
-.34 -11.0 WldwideHlthSciA m13.71 -.56
-24.5
-24.6 CptAllcMdAgA m11.37 -.27 -10.5 Edgewood:
CptAllcModA
m10.34
-.22 -10.2
-4.4
GrInstl
43.89-2.85
-26.6 DiscpCoreA m 13.11 -.30 -9.6
DivIncA m 29.95 -.44 -4.9 Elfun:
DivIncC m 28.93 -.43 -5.1 Trusts
70.31-2.61
-12.9 DivIncIns 29.98 -.44 -4.8 TxExInc
10.43 -.12
DivOppA m 38.04 -.58 +.3
F
EmMktsIns
12.87
-.59
-24.9
-3.3
-15.2 GlbEqValA m 12.76 -.21 -5.5 FAM:
-5.5 GlbOppsA m 13.41 -.34 -12.4 EqIncInv
46.08 -.49
GlbTechGrA m 54.19-2.10 -21.4 ValInv
88.22-1.40
GlbTechGrIns 56.78-2.20 -21.3
FMI:
HYBdA m 11.06 -.13 -7.1
17.71 -.30
HYMuniIns 9.68 -.16 -11.6 LgCpInv
-1.5 IncBuilderA m 12.08 -.14 -7.5
FPA:
LgCpGrA m 49.97-1.99 -18.3 Crescent
34.48 -.75
-9.6 LgCpGrIns 53.14-2.11 -18.2 NewInc
9.73 -.02
-9.7 LgCpGrOppA m15.39 -.55 -18.9
Fairholme Funds:
+.5 LgCpGrOppIns 17.89 -.64 -18.9
Fund
d
33.60-1.09
+.6 LgCpIdxA b 55.10-1.55 -10.1
-11.9 LgCpIdxIns 55.59-1.56 -10.0 Federated:
-6.9 LgCpValA m 16.55 -.33 -2.7 BdInstl
8.59 -.10

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To a pe en e u n
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F de y Spa Adv 500 ndex
Vangua d dx Fd To n n
Vangua d n Fd n P n
Ame an Fund A Gw hFdA p
F de y nve Con a n
Vangua d Adm a T BdAdm n
Vangua d Adm a We nAdm n
Ame an Fund A Ba A p
Dodge&Cox S o k
Vangua d Fd TgRe 2030
Vangua d Fd Tg Re 2025
Vangua d Fd Tg Re 2035
Ame an Fund A n oFdA p
Vangua d Adm a TAdm n

27
27
27
27
42
49
08
25
19
31
22
20
23
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54
47
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Sell Chg. %Ret.

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-8.9
+2.6
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-22.5
+29.3
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-18.0
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-8.6
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-12.3
-12.3
-18.6
-7.7
-7.7
-17.4
-17.4
-20.6
-11.0
-20.6
-18.4
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+1.3
+1.4
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-2.7
-14.7
-15.8
-17.4
-17.3
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-16.0
-11.2
-7.3
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-9.8
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-11.0
-11.2
-11.3
-11.3
-11.3
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-11.0
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+25.9
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-10.4
-8.7
-14.7
-22.0
-20.5
-20.1
-20.4
-2.7
-6.7
-6.6
-18.9
-17.0
-10.4
-17.8
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-10.4
-20.5
-22.7
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-9.3
-4.2
-3.1
-8.1
-14.7
-2.1
-3.7
-3.7
-5.1
-13.5
-8.5
-18.5
-18.4
-4.7
-8.2
-2.9
-2.9
-4.5
-8.8
-7.5
-8.9
-8.3
-9.3
-9.4
-9.8
-17.8
-.1
-11.0
-20.1
-20.1
-8.2
-17.8
-17.8
-21.1
-8.4
-10.5
-10.4
-4.0
-5.0
-4.5
-18.0
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Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.
ShTrmBd
8.32 -.04
SmCpDiscv 27.65 -.42
SmCpDiscv 12.82 -.20
SmCpEnhIdx 12.86 -.39
SmCpOpps 12.90 -.38
SmallCapStock16.97 -.60
StkSelorAllCp 61.55-2.04
StkSelorSmCp 29.65 -.88
StkSlrLgCpVal 25.24 -.54
StratDivInc 16.99 -.28
TaxFreeBond 10.95 -.13
TelecomandUtls29.18 -.91
TotalBond 10.02 -.09
Trend
134.20-5.87
TtlMktIdxInsPrm118.94-3.60
USBdIdxInsPrm10.78 -.11
ValDiscv
37.65 -.66
Value
14.35 -.34
ValueK
14.37 -.34
ValueStrategies51.11 -.91
Worldwide 30.07 -.99

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-12.5
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-2.2
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BalancedA m 25.59 -.70
BalancedC m25.31 -.69
BalancedI 26.22 -.71
BalancedM m 25.97 -.71
BiotechnologyA m23.38-1.53
BiotechnologyI25.48-1.67
CapitalDevA m18.13 -.48
CapitalDevO 19.00 -.50
DiverIntlA m24.41 -.61
DiverIntlI 24.94 -.63
DiversifiedStkO31.08-1.39
DividendGrowthA m18.67 -.48
EmergingMktsI27.95-1.05
EnergyI
40.31-1.96
EquityGrowthA m14.69 -.71
EquityGrowthI 16.90 -.82
EquityGrowthM m14.21 -.69
EquityIncomeA m31.95 -.36
EquityIncomeM m33.02 -.37
FltngRtHiIncA m9.42 -.02
FltngRtHiIncI 9.40 -.02
Freedom2020A m12.25 -.23
Freedom2020I 12.38 -.24
Freedom2025A m12.81 -.26
Freedom2025I 12.96 -.27
Freedom2030A m14.02 -.32
Freedom2030I 14.13 -.33
Freedom2030M m13.90 -.32
Freedom2035A m14.11 -.38
Freedom2035I 14.27 -.38
Freedom2040A m15.46 -.46
Freedom2040I 15.62 -.46
Freedom2045A m12.19 -.36
Freedom2045I 12.31 -.37
Freedom2050A m12.20 -.37
Freedom2050I 12.33 -.37
GrowthOppsA m109.54-7.46
GrowthOppsC m88.95-6.07
GrowthOppsI 121.00-8.23
GrowthOppsM m108.02-7.36
HealthCareA m57.11-3.37
HealthCareC m42.73-2.53
HealthCareI 63.26-3.73
HighIncAdvtgA m11.67 -.13
HighIncAdvtgI 10.91 -.12
IntermMuniIncI 9.99 -.09
IntlCapitalAppA m24.06 -.62
IntlDiscvI 43.78-1.13
IntlGrI
17.25 -.29
IntlSmallCapI 29.15 -.34
InvestmentGrBdI7.56 -.07
LargeCapA m 35.92 -.92
LeveragedCoStkA m48.71-1.51
LimitedTermBdI11.06 -.07
MidCapIIA m20.72 -.53
NewInsA m 32.34-1.61
NewInsC m 25.48-1.27
NewInsI
33.60-1.67
NewInsM m 30.45-1.52
NewInsZ
33.74-1.68
RlEstIncI 13.05 -.05
SCGrthI
26.08-1.30
SCValueI 20.39 -.32
SeriesGrOpps 10.77 -.74
SeriesSmallCap12.21 -.36
SmallCapA m 26.94 -.79
SmallCapI 30.82 -.91
SmallCapM m 23.96 -.70
StgInc
11.65 -.10
StgIncA m 11.48 -.10
StgIncI
11.65 -.10
StgIncM m 11.47 -.10
StockSlrMidCpA m39.73 -.86
StockSlrMidCpM m40.12 -.86
StratDiv&IncA m16.85 -.28
StratDiv&IncI 16.93 -.28
TechnologyA m78.30-3.02
TechnologyM m71.95-2.79
TotalBondA m 10.03 -.09
TotalBondI 10.01 -.09

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+40.1
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-14.7
-14.9
+1.3
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+.2
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-10.0
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-10.4
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-10.8
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-11.3
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-17.0
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-18.6
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-18.4
-18.3
-5.1
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-5.7
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-15.9
-15.9
-16.0
-7.4
-7.5
-7.4
-7.5
-6.5
-6.5
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-4.0
-22.2
-22.3
-8.8
-8.7

Banking
26.98 -.04
Biotechnology 15.05-1.16
Brkrg&InvmtMgmt111.00-5.58
Chemicals 16.69 -.46
Const&Hsg 85.22 -.71
ConsumerStaples97.86 +.62
Defense&Aero 15.20 -.49
Energy
49.47-2.40
Envir&AltEngy 30.33 -.76
FinancialSvcs 11.66 -.14
Gold
28.72-2.80
HealthCare 27.23-1.62
HealthCareSvcs132.10-6.73
ITServices 58.04-2.59
Leisure
15.54 -.32
Materials 104.30-6.20
MedTech&Devcs65.37-3.25
Multimedia 70.52-5.50
NaturalRes 36.64-2.33
Pharmaceuticals23.23-1.20
Retailing 18.94 -.64
Semicon
16.82 -.46
Swre&ITSvcs 23.64 -.98
TechHrdwre 82.12-2.21
Technology 21.84 -.86
Transportation99.51-1.61
Utilities 108.24-2.82

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C
C
M
W
M

m
M

Polaris:
GlbVal d

M
m

M

T

m
M O A
PAM CS
W NYT R N
PAM C S
W
T RN

V rg n a Tax Free Bond Funds
83
86
00
88
26
81

n

FdrTFIncA1 m 11.02 -.15
FdrTFIncAdv 11.03 -.15
FltngRtDlyAcsA m7.87
FltngRtDlyAcsAd7.87
FndngsAlA m 14.06 -.29
FrgnA m
6.85 -.18
FrgnAdv
6.72 -.18
GlbBdA m
8.64 -.17
GlbBdAdv
8.60 -.17
GlbBdR6
8.59 -.17
GlbSmlrCoA m 9.42 -.14
GldPrcMtlsA m23.17-2.00
Gr,IncA m 22.67 -.63
GrA m
123.30-5.01
GrAdv
124.15-5.03
GrAllcA m 17.76 -.45
GrC m
107.87-4.40
GrOppsA m 44.59-2.37
GrOppsAdv 49.69-2.63
GrOppsR6 50.63-2.69
GrR6
124.06-5.02
HYTxFrIncA1 m 9.27 -.14
HYTxFrIncAdv 9.31 -.15
HiIncA1 m 1.74 -.01
IncA1 m
2.47 -.04
IncAdv
2.45 -.03
IncC m
2.51 -.04
IncR6
2.46 -.04
InsFrgnSmlrCAdv18.22 -.21
IntlGrA m 16.86 -.45
LwDrTtlRetA m 9.10 -.04
MAGrA m 16.75 -.38
MAModGrA m 16.04 -.33
MgdIncA m 12.89 -.28
MichiganTFIncA1 m10.69 -.15
MnstTxFrIncA1 m11.38 -.16
ModAllcA m 14.38 -.30
MrylndTFIncA1 m10.07 -.12
MrylndTFIncC m10.27 -.13
MsrTxFrIncA1 m10.77 -.14
MtlUSMCpValA m34.93 -.59
MutA m
26.04 -.51
MutBeaconA m16.62 -.29
MutBeaconZ16.82 -.30
MutC m
25.99 -.51
MutEuropeanA m20.72 +.06
MutFinclSvcsA m24.52 -.09
MutGlbDiscvA m30.21 -.25
MutGlbDiscvZ 31.00 -.26
MutQuestA m 14.61 -.17
MutQuestZ 14.87 -.17
MutZ
26.40 -.51
NCTxFrIncA1 m10.59 -.14
NJTFIncA1 m 10.49 -.15
NYTxFrIncA1 m10.06 -.16
OhioTxFrIncA1 m11.71 -.16
OregonTxFrIncA1 m10.72 -.15
PETxFrIncA1 m 9.01 -.13
RisingDivsA m87.94-1.90
RisingDivsAdv 87.85-1.94
RisingDivsC m 86.05-1.71
RisingDivsR6 87.83-1.96
SmCpGrA m 18.43 -.89
SmCpGrAdv 20.94-1.00
SmCpGrR6 21.49-1.03
SmCpValA m 53.54 -.37
SmCpValAdv 57.20 -.40
SmMidCpGrA m34.20-1.70
SmMidCpGrAdv40.00-1.98
StratIncA m 8.63 -.06
TtlRetA m 8.89 -.08
TtlRetR6
8.95 -.08
USGovtSecA1 m5.37 -.07
USGovtSecAdv 5.39 -.07
UtlsA1 m 23.21 -.40
UtlsAdv
23.44 -.40
VirginiaTFIncA1 m10.06 -.15
VirginiaTFIncC m10.24 -.15
WldA m
13.16 -.46

-9.6
-9.5
+1.2
+1.3
-6.0
-4.9
-4.8
-.9
-.9
-.9
-14.7
+5.4
-7.2
-18.1
-18.0
-9.3
-18.2
-22.9
-22.9
-22.9
-18.0
-10.4
-10.5
-6.3
-.5
-.4
-1.0
-.4
-16.4
-21.0
-3.3
-6.2
-6.5
-4.2
-9.1
-9.7
-9.1
-8.6
-8.9
-8.9
-2.3
-2.7
-6.4
-6.3
-2.8
-2.4
-4.2
-1.9
-1.8
+2.7
+2.8
-2.5
-9.1
-8.7
-10.5
-9.5
-9.1
-9.5
-9.1
-9.0
-9.3
-9.0
-19.1
-19.1
-19.0
-6.5
-6.4
-23.0
-23.0
-7.2
-9.7
-9.6
-7.2
-7.1
+6.0
+6.0
-9.8
-9.9
-12.4

TtlRetBdInstl 9.87 -.05

-3.3

Frost Funds:

G

GMO:

EmCtyDbtIII m20.68
EmCtyDbtIV m20.64
EmMktsVI 25.92
IntlEqIV
22.12
QualIII
27.17
QualIV
27.24
QualVI
27.17

-.29
-.30
-.79
-.35
-.57
-.57
-.57

-12.1
-12.1
-23.2
-7.2
-10.7
-10.7
-10.7

ABCAAA d 10.30 -.05
AsstAAA m 54.45-1.48
GrAAA m 76.56-4.40
SmCpGrAAA m42.23 -.65
SmCpGrI d 44.12 -.68
UtlsA m
7.98 -.15

-1.3
-7.0
-23.3
-10.8
-10.7
+1.4

Gabelli:

Gateway:
Am

38.24 -.60

BalA m

21.20 -.47 -10.4

George Putnam:
Glenmede:

-5.9

SmCpEqAdv 35.04 -.68

-4.6

AsiaEqA m 22.90-2.09
DynMuniIncA m15.32 -.19
DynMuniIncInstl15.31 -.19
EMEqInstl 23.32 -.94
HYMuniA m 9.51 -.16
HYMuniInstl 9.51 -.17
IncBldrA m 24.61 -.24
IntlEqInsIns 13.08 -.27
LCpCrA m 27.88 -.86
MidCpValA m 38.39 -.62
ShrtDurTxFrIns10.29 -.05
SmCpValInstl 54.07 -.95

-27.7
-8.0
-7.9
-19.3
-10.1
-10.0
-5.7
-7.8
-10.5
-3.9
-4.2
-4.1

Goldman Sachs:

GuideMark:

LgCpCorSvc 27.24 -.73 -11.1

GuideStone Funds:

AggresivAllcInv12.09 -.39
BalAllcInv 11.69 -.22
EqIdxInstl 45.36-1.29
EqIdxInv
45.34-1.30
GrAllcInv 12.24 -.30
GrEqInstl 23.03-1.46
GrEqInv
22.64-1.44
IntlEqInstl 13.09 -.24
LowDurBdInstl x12.96 -.07
MediumDurBdIns x13.40 -.19
SmCpEqInstl17.30 -.39
ValEqInstl 20.71 -.38
ValEqInv
20.68 -.38

H

Harbor:

CptlApprecInstl77.98-3.92
CptlApprecInv b72.25-3.64
CrPlInstl
10.76 -.08
IntlGrInstl 15.49 -.55
IntlInstl
42.31 -.82
IntlInv b
41.91 -.82
LgCpValInstl20.91 -.25
SmCpGrInstl12.45 -.38
SmCpValInstl 39.95 -.42

Harding Loevner:

-10.8
-9.1
-7.7
-7.8
-9.8
-20.6
-20.7
-10.4
-3.1
-10.4
-9.2
-.4
-.5

-22.6
-22.7
-9.0
-26.3
-10.4
-10.5
-9.9
-18.4
-6.1

EmMktsAdv 45.31-1.90 -23.8
IntlEqInstl 25.19 -.77 -16.2
-7.6
-5.3
-5.5
-5.3
-7.3
-7.3
-6.6
-11.9
-12.1
-11.8
-8.3
-8.2
-11.9
-3.8
-3.8
-3.8
-3.7
-3.7
-.9
-.8
-.5
-.3
-7.6
-21.7
-21.6
-21.6
-12.1

Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.
IntlOppsA m 16.61 -.58
IntlOppsHLSIA18.18 -.65
IntlOppsI 16.49 -.58
IntlOppsY 17.58 -.61
IntlValY
15.81 -.21
MidCpA m 27.61 -.86
MidCpHLSIA 33.98-1.05
MidCpI
29.08 -.91
MidCpY
36.19-1.13
MultiAssetIncA m19.14 -.17
MuniOppsA m 8.28 -.10
MuniOppsI 8.29 -.09
SchrEMEqI 16.23 -.65
SchrInStkI 15.69 -.44
ShrtDurA m 9.55 -.05
ShrtDurI
9.51 -.05
SmCoHLSIA 19.62-1.12
SmCpGrHLSIA 29.06-1.27
StkHLSIA 109.67-2.12
StratIncI
8.15 -.08
TtlRetBdA m 9.54 -.12
TtlRetBdHLSIA10.11 -.13
UltrShrtBdHLSIA9.92 -.01
WldBdI
10.09 -.06

Heartland:
ValInv m

Hennessy:

43.35 -.65

-12.9
-13.0
-12.8
-12.8
-1.7
-15.8
-15.7
-15.7
-15.7
-7.5
-8.6
-8.4
-13.8
-12.7
-3.7
-3.5
-17.7
-20.6
-1.0
-8.5
-10.3
-10.3
-.8
-2.8

Se
AB Fund A MuVA A p
F an T mp F n A VA TFA p
MFS Fund A MuVAA
Nu n C A VAMBA p
P
Fund VA TF n
USAA G oup VA Bd

-4.3

FocInv b
60.33-1.04 -12.7
GasUtilityInv b28.70 -.44 +14.7
JapanInstl 34.44-1.50 -27.8

Homestead:

ShrtTrmBd 4.95 -.03
Val
50.65-1.26

Hotchkis & Wiley:

-4.4
-6.8

DiversValA m 25.69 -.80 -1.3
HYI
10.77 -.08 -5.2
SmCpValI 75.18-1.93 +4.2

I-J-K

INVESCO:

AMTFreeMnsA m7.09 -.11
AMTFreeNYMnsAm10.79 -.18
ActvAllcA m 13.37 -.32
AmericanValA m37.36 -.85
BalRkAllcA m 9.25 -.22
BalRkAllcY 9.48 -.22
CAMnA m
8.21 -.16
ChtrA m
16.95 -.64
ComStkA m 29.92 -.61
ComstockSelA m34.94 -.58
CoreBondA m 6.10 -.06
CoreBondY 6.06 -.06
CorpBdA m 6.63 -.09
CptlAprcA m56.93-2.52
DevMktsA m 37.09-2.04
DevMktsY 36.49-2.00
DiscvA m 79.73-4.18
DiscvMCGrA m23.08-1.00
DiscvY
98.16-5.14
DivIncA m 26.15 -.42
DiversDivA m 20.02 -.48
DiversDivInv b 20.02 -.47
EQVIntlEqA m 23.11 -.33
EqWtSP500A m73.88-1.55
EqWtSP500C m69.90-1.48
EqWtSP500Y 74.83-1.57
EqandIncA m 10.80 -.24
EqvEMAllCapA m31.13 -.83
FdmtlAltsA m 25.57 -.23
FltngRtA m 7.22 -.01
GlbA m
94.11-3.89
GlbAllcA m 18.73 -.38
GlbCorEqA m 13.99 -.35
GlbGrA m 23.59 -.98
GlbOppsA m 53.32-2.34
GlbOppsY 54.82-2.40
GlbStrIncA m 3.24 -.04
GlbY
94.93-3.91
GoldSpecMnralA m28.29-2.76
GrandIncA m 23.69 -.66
HCA m
34.96-1.95
HCInv b
34.97-1.95
HYA m
3.66 -.03
HYMuniA m 9.24 -.14
HYMuniC m 9.21 -.14
IntermTrmMnIncAm10.48 -.12
IntlBdA m 4.55 -.09
IntlBdY
4.54 -.09
IntlDiversA m 17.38 -.57
IntlGrA m 36.06 -.87
IntlGrY
35.80 -.86
IntlSmMidCoA m44.31-1.13
IntlSmMidCoY 43.95-1.13
LtdTrmMnIncA m11.02 -.05
LtdTrmNYMnA m2.84 -.03
MLPIncA m 4.62 -.06
MLPIncC m 3.96 -.05
MLPIncY
4.90 -.06
MLPSel40Y 6.80 -.12
MainStrtAllCpA m22.25 -.74
MnStrA m 50.06-1.88
MnStrMidCpA m25.76 -.72
MnStrY
49.60-1.86
MuncplOppsA m7.15 -.13
MuncplOppsC m7.12 -.13
MuniIncA m 12.39 -.17
ORNYMuncplA m15.48 -.30
ORNYMuncplY 15.49 -.30
PennsylvaniaMnA m10.68 -.13
QualIncA m 10.32 -.13
RisingDivsA m23.53 -.64
RlEsttA m 23.28 +.36
SP500IdxA m 45.11-1.27
SelRskGrInvA m14.62 -.33
SelRskHiGrInvA m13.91 -.35
SelRskModInvA m10.67 -.21
ShTBdA m 8.20 -.04
SmCpEqA m 12.67 -.36
SmCpGrA m 26.29-1.11
SmCpGrR5 33.55-1.41
SmCpValA m 18.91 -.52
SrFltngRtA m 7.06 -.01
SummitP b 22.03-1.07
TechA m
45.58-2.11
TechInv b 45.42-2.11

-9.6
-11.2
-13.3
-5.1
-4.5
-4.4
-10.2
-12.1
+1.3
+1.9
-9.7
-9.6
-12.1
-18.0
-22.4
-22.4
-23.4
-23.7
-23.4
+2.8
+.7
+.7
-14.7
-6.1
-6.4
-6.1
-4.5
-18.6
-4.4
...
-24.3
-10.4
-12.7
-24.2
-28.1
-28.1
-8.7
-24.2
+7.9
-2.7
-13.1
-13.1
-6.5
-9.9
-10.2
-8.3
-10.2
-10.3
-19.3
-21.2
-21.2
-22.4
-22.4
-3.7
-6.5
+18.1
+17.8
+18.0
+17.7
-10.7
-12.1
-9.0
-12.0
-11.2
-11.3
-9.6
-11.9
-11.8
-7.3
-8.5
-8.0
-3.1
-10.1
-13.2
-13.7
-12.2
-3.6
-15.5
-27.6
-27.6
+3.0
+1.0
-18.9
-24.3
-24.3

CPBondA m 7.65 -.06
CPBondI
7.65 -.06
CPBondR6 7.66 -.05
CoreBondA m 10.78 -.08
CoreBondI 10.78 -.07
CoreBondR6 10.79 -.08
EmMktsEqA m28.68-1.26
EmMktsEqI 29.40-1.30
EmMktsEqL 29.65-1.30
EqIncA m 22.88 -.43
EqIncI
23.33 -.43
EquityIndexA m64.06-1.81
EquityIndexI 64.15-1.81
GovernmentBondI9.98 -.06
GrowthAdvtgA m26.30-1.16
GrowthAdvtgI 27.75-1.23
HighYieldA m 6.69 -.06
HighYieldI 6.74 -.06
HighYieldR6 6.75 -.06
IntermTxFrBdI 10.14 -.10
IntlEqI
17.53 -.48
InvCnsrvGrA m12.65 -.16
InvCnsrvGrC m12.58 -.16
InvCnsrvGrI 12.74 -.16
InvGrIncA m 18.29 -.37
InvestorBalA m15.51 -.26
InvestorBalC m15.21 -.25
InvestorGrowthA m22.92 -.57
InvestorGrowthI23.57 -.59
LCapGrA m 49.89-1.92
LCapGrI
51.22-1.98
LargeCapValueI19.63 -.57
LtdDurBdR6 9.81 -.03
MCapValA m 39.38 -.34
MCapValI 40.02 -.35
MCapValL 40.70 -.35
MidCapEquityI 56.05-1.34
MidCapGrowthA m34.46-1.74
MidCapGrowthI42.64-2.16
MortgBackedScI10.55 -.09
MortgBackedScR610.54 -.10
ScapEqA m 48.39 -.76
ScapEqI
59.34 -.94
ScapEqR5 59.59 -.94
ShDurBdA m10.64 -.04
ShDurBdI 10.65 -.04
ShDurBdR6 10.65 -.05
SmallCapGrowthAm16.29 -.86
SmallCapGrowthI19.02-1.00
SmallCapGrowthL19.93-1.05
SmallCapValueR628.64 -.54

-8.5
-8.5
-8.4
-8.3
-8.2
-8.2
-21.5
-21.4
-21.4
+.6
+.7
-7.5
-7.5
-7.8
-14.7
-14.7
-5.6
-5.5
-5.5
-7.8
-14.9
-7.1
-7.2
-7.0
-7.4
-7.2
-7.3
-7.7
-7.7
-14.6
-14.5
+6.9
-2.4
+.4
+.5
+.6
-6.4
-16.3
-16.2
-6.5
-6.5
-9.4
-9.3
-9.2
-3.1
-3.0
-3.0
-19.3
-19.2
-19.2
-3.9

JPMorgan:

Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.
SmtRetr2020A m15.57 -.21
SmtRetr2020R515.68 -.21
SmtRetr2030A m18.11 -.35
SmtRetr2030R518.26 -.35
SmtRetr2040A m20.39 -.48
SmtRetr2040R520.57 -.49
TaxAwareEqI 39.47-1.45
USEquityA m 19.71 -.56
USEquityI 19.79 -.57
USEquityL 19.84 -.57
USEquityR5 19.85 -.57
USLCpCrPlsI 21.09 -.71
USRsrchEnhEqI32.96 -.94
USRsrchEnhEqR632.91 -.93
USValueA m 65.29-1.22
ValueAdvtgA m39.93 -.61
ValueAdvtgI 40.20 -.61
ValueAdvtgL40.24 -.61

-8.1
-8.1
-9.2
-9.2
-9.1
-9.0
-9.9
-7.6
-7.5
-7.4
-7.5
-10.0
-7.4
-7.4
-.3
+3.5
+3.6
+3.6

BalancedC m39.99 -.88
BalancedS b 40.51 -.89
BalancedT 40.61 -.88
ContrarianT 26.97-1.03
EnterpriseT138.08-3.90
FortyA m 42.63-2.37
FortyS b
40.20-2.24
GlbTechInnovtT40.28-1.78
GlobalEqIncA m 6.72 -.13
GlobalLifeSciT 63.26-3.05
GlobalResearchT88.64-3.17
GlobalSelectT 16.80 -.50
GrowthAndIncT70.43-1.50
MidCapValueT 16.29 -.24
OverseasT 40.95-1.17
ResearchT 54.85-2.29
SmallCapValueT23.25 -.33
VITBalInstl 44.55 -.96
VITEntrprsInstl88.91-2.51
VITFortyInstl 49.11-2.54
VITGlRsrchInstl61.78-2.21
VITRsrchInstl 45.43-1.90
VentureT 78.10-2.88

-11.6
-11.5
-11.4
-8.4
-11.7
-20.7
-20.8
-25.3
-1.8
-8.1
-13.5
-6.1
-10.3
-2.4
-7.1
-19.3
-9.0
-11.3
-11.5
-20.5
-13.3
-19.3
-18.5

Janus Henderson:

Jensen:

QualGrI
QualGrJ b

59.33-1.47 -11.9
59.38-1.48 -11.9 TFVirginiaY 10.81 -.12

L

LKCM:

-8.5
-8.4
-9.8
-9.7
-9.7
+.4
-23.0
-23.0
-2.8
-2.7
-3.2
-3.1
-3.1
-2.6
-10.7
-10.7
-.6
-6.6
-6.6
-16.9
-16.8
-9.7
-9.6
-10.7
-11.4
-11.7
-11.9
-8.3
-10.2
-11.2
-11.2
-11.3
-11.3
-7.0
-10.8
-10.9
-9.4
-9.4
-7.3
-7.4
-8.1
-8.2
-10.1
-10.3
-7.7
-6.5
-19.8
-19.7
-22.3

EqInstl d

34.78 -.75 -10.1

ValEq

28.20 -.42

LSV:

Lazard:

EMEqInstl 16.75
GlbLtdInfrsIns 16.84
IntlEqInstl 16.05
IntlStratEqIns 14.48
USEqConcntrIns17.91

...

-.45 -7.6
-.12 +3.2
-.29 -10.7
-.23 -11.5
-.30 -9.1

Longleaf Partners:

Intl
14.51 -.26 -15.2
LnglfPtnrs 23.74 -.71 -4.3
SmCap
24.79 -.93 -5.7

Loomis Sayles:

BdInstl
12.48 -.14 -7.6
BdRetail b 12.41 -.14 -7.7
CorPlusBdA m 12.18 -.11 -8.9
FI
11.83 -.13 -7.5
GrY
21.42-1.36 -18.3
InvmGradeBdA m10.27 -.09 -7.8
InvmGradeBdY10.28 -.09 -7.7
SmCpGrInstl25.81 -.88 -19.4
StratIncA m 12.97 -.16 -7.9

Lord Abbett:

AffiliatedA m 17.03 -.47
AlphaStratA m23.85 -.75
BdDebA m 7.62 -.07
BdDebC m 7.64 -.07
BdDebF b
7.61 -.07
BdDebI
7.58 -.07
CalibRtdDivGrA m18.43 -.45
CorFIA m 10.02 -.08
DevelopingGrA m19.13-1.25
DevelopingGrI 25.13-1.64
FdmtlEqA m 13.02 -.34
FltngRtA m 8.32 -.01
FltngRtC m 8.33 -.01
FltngRtF b 8.31 -.02
FltngRtI
8.33 -.01
HIMuniBdA m 11.33 -.20
HIMuniBdF b 11.34 -.20
HYA m
6.80 -.07
HYF b
6.79 -.07
HYI
6.83 -.07
IncA m
2.61 -.03
IntermTxFrA m10.24 -.12
IntermTxFrF b 10.24 -.12
MidCpStkA m 32.11 -.75
MltAsstBalOppA m10.87 -.23
MltAsstIncA m15.50 -.25
NtnlTxFrIncA m10.67 -.17
NtnlTxFrIncF b10.66 -.18
ShrtDurIncA m 3.99 -.02
ShrtDurIncC m 4.01 -.02
ShrtDurIncF b3.98 -.02
ShrtDurIncI 3.98 -.02
ShrtDurTxFrA m15.07 -.07
ShrtDurTxFrF b15.07 -.07
TtlRetA m 9.46 -.08
TtlRetF b
9.46 -.08
TtlRetI
9.48 -.08
ValOppsA m 18.60 -.24

Lyrical:

USValEqInstl 20.87 -.51

M

MFS:

AgrsGrAllcA m27.86 -.69
BlnRsrCorEqI 30.40 -.66
CnsrvAllcA m 16.69 -.23
CnsrvAllcI 16.87 -.23
CorEqA m 42.44-1.16
CorpBdA m 12.80 -.18
CorpBdI
12.78 -.19
GlbEqA m 52.07 -.98
GlbTtlRetA m 17.06 -.27
GovtSecA m 9.24 -.07
GrA m
143.10-5.82

-8.0
-14.1
-7.9
-8.1
-7.9
-7.8
-10.9
-8.8
-27.9
-27.8
-5.9
+.1
-.1
...
+.2
-11.9
-11.9
-7.8
-7.8
-7.7
-10.0
-9.2
-9.2
-6.5
-8.9
-7.8
-11.4
-11.4
-3.3
-3.5
-3.3
-3.3
-4.4
-4.5
-8.8
-8.8
-8.7
-13.5

-8.3
-8.5
-8.3
-20.8
-20.5
-7.2
-12.0
-13.3
-11.1
-14.6
-14.6
-17.2
-3.3
-12.7
-12.6
-10.5
-10.4
-21.3
-21.2
-4.8
-4.7
-8.1
-8.4
-8.1
-8.2
-9.8
-9.2
-5.6
-22.3
-11.6
-11.5
-12.9
-12.8
-21.9
-7.8
-9.3
-9.4
-7.7
+3.1
-6.3
-6.5
-6.2
-8.3

12
14
00
14
13
12

81
98
00
94
89
80

-8.9
-5.6
-7.2
-7.2
-8.8
-8.7
-14.6
-14.5
-10.9
-10.8
+4.9
-21.7
-15.3
-23.0
-22.9
-5.3
-8.3
-5.4
-10.1
-10.3
-10.0

PRIMECAP Odyssey:

AgrsGr
42.93-2.04
Gr
39.21-1.39
EqIncI
21.12 -.21 -4.9 Stk
36.90 -.79
III
30.97 -.83 -11.3 Pacific Funds:
LtdEditionInstl29.28 -.62 -13.4 OptmzGrA m 13.59 -.34
Nicholas
75.39-2.18 -12.8 OptmzModA m12.68 -.28

Northern:

ActvMIntlEq d 11.00 -.21
BdIdx
9.64 -.10
CAIntermTxEx 9.85 -.15
EmMktsEqIdx d11.44 -.49
FI
9.44 -.10
GlbRlEsttIdx d 11.48 -.08
HYFI d
6.22 -.05
HYMuni
7.94 -.16
IntermTxEx 9.87 -.11
IntlEqIdx d 12.95 -.28
-9.3 MidCpIdx 21.50 -.37
ShrtIntermTxEx9.81 -.05
SmCpIdx
13.50 -.45
SmCpVal 20.06 -.28
StkIdx
46.84-1.32
-8.7
9.84 -.15
-9.2 TxEx
-7.5 Nuveen:
-7.4 AlAmrMuniBdA m10.54 -.23
-10.8 CAMuniBdA m 10.38 -.16
-12.3 CAMuniBdI 10.39 -.16
-12.2 HYMuniBdA m16.21 -.35
-11.2 HYMuniBdI 16.22 -.34
-7.6 IntermDrMnBdA m8.83 -.10
-7.8 IntermDrMnBdI 8.86 -.10
-20.6 LtdTrmMnBdA m10.76 -.07

-11.2
-9.6
-9.2
-12.2
-10.0
-5.0
-6.6
-12.1
-8.2
-10.6
-8.8
-4.5
-11.0
-5.9
-10.0
-9.8

RtrBal
13.99 -.20
SciandTech 31.61-2.43
ShrtTrmBd 4.61 -.02
SmCpStk 58.43-1.53
SmCpVal 54.91 -.97
SpectrumGr 24.28 -.79
SpectrumInc 11.93 -.13
SpectrumIntl 13.88 -.39
SummitMnIncInv11.34 -.14
SummitMnIntrInv11.30 -.11
TFHY
11.40 -.16
TFInc
9.51 -.11
TFShrtInterm 5.41 -.03
TtlEqMktIdx
46.04-1.40
-7.6
USLgCpCor 32.01 -.88
USTrsInterm 5.43 -.04
-9.1 VITFBd
11.31 -.15
-12.2 Val
44.81-1.31
-3.9 TCW:
-5.1
CorFIIns
10.34
-.12
-5.9
6.74 -.11
-4.6 EMIncIns
RltvVlLgCpIns
13.72
-.37
-7.5
30.10-1.90
-7.5 SelEqsI
9.03 -.09
-7.5 TtlRetBdI
-8.0 TtlRetBdN b 9.32 -.09

-6.6
-27.2
-3.2
-16.2
-11.1
-11.5
-5.8
-13.9
-8.9
-7.7
-9.2
-8.6
-4.6
-11.1
-10.7
-8.6
-8.9
-6.3

BdIdxIns
10.03 -.10
BdIns
9.60 -.09
BdPlusIns
9.66 -.10
EqIdxIns
30.50 -.92
EqIdxRet 30.97 -.93
EqIdxRetail b 31.09 -.93
GrIncIns
15.05 -.49
GrIncRet
15.45 -.50
GrIncRetail b 22.70 -.73
HYIns
8.83 -.09
InflLinkedBdIns11.72 +.03
IntlEqIdxIns 20.47 -.45
IntlEqIdxRet 20.97 -.46
IntlEqIns 12.07 -.27
Lfcycl2020Rtr 12.88 -.20
Lfcycl2025Rtr 13.60 -.23
Lfcycl2030Rtr 14.17 -.27
Lfcycl2035Rtr 14.86 -.32
Lfcycl2040I 10.30 -.24
Lfcycl2040Rtr 15.44 -.37
Lfcycl2045Rtr 12.72 -.33
LfcyclId2010I 16.32 -.25
LfcyclId2020I 18.54 -.33
LfcyclId2025I 20.27 -.39
LfcyclId2035I 23.62 -.55
LfcyclId2040I 24.97 -.62
LfcyclId2045I 25.88 -.69
LgCpGrIdxIns 47.81-1.87
LgCpGrIdxRet 48.17-1.89
LgCpGrIns 19.35 -.82
LgCpGrRetail b19.25 -.82
LgCpValIdxIns 23.81 -.49
LgCpValIdxRet24.26 -.51
LgCpValIns 20.60 -.45
LgCpValRet 20.52 -.45
MdCpGrI
19.67-1.00
MdCpValI 18.34 -.14
MdCpValRtr 18.18 -.14
MgdAllcRtl b 11.96 -.26
QtSm-CpEqInstl16.98 -.52
RlEsttSecI 22.68 +.23
RlEsttSecRtl b 22.47 +.22
RlEsttSecRtr 23.76 +.24
SP500IdxI 46.89-1.32
SP500IdxRtr 46.54-1.31
SclChEqI
25.10 -.69
SclChEqRtl b21.83 -.60
SclChEqRtr 25.55 -.70
ShrtTrmBdI 10.06 -.03
SmCpBlndIdxI 22.24 -.74
SmCpBlndIdxRtr22.35 -.73

-9.5
-9.2
-9.0
-10.8
-10.9
-10.8
-12.5
-12.5
-12.5
-6.5
-2.5
-10.5
-10.6
-14.6
-9.0
-9.5
-10.0
-10.6
-11.0
-11.0
-11.4
-8.6
-9.3
-9.7
-10.4
-10.6
-10.8
-17.3
-17.4
-19.5
-19.5
-3.1
-3.2
-5.2
-5.2
-20.2
-5.2
-5.3
-11.1
-10.9
-4.6
-4.7
-4.7
-10.0
-10.1
-11.6
-11.7
-11.7
-2.5
-13.3
-13.3

-8.1
-9.2
-9.3
-9.7
-9.8
-9.9
-19.8
-.7
-14.2
-18.0
-.7
-6.7
-2.2
-8.4
-7.9
-9.1
-7.3
-9.8
-10.9

-9.3
-10.9
-.7
-9.6
-10.1
-10.0
-4.7
-17.5
-6.7
-8.4
-8.3
-12.2
-1.8
-1.7
-5.9
-9.3
-3.6
-3.5
-22.2
-15.2
-9.4
-9.8

-6.5

TIAA-CREF:

Parametric:

TxMgEMktIs44.27-1.35

Parnassus:

-2.9
-3.5
-2.7
-2.7
+34.4
+34.5
+31.3
+31.6
+31.6
-10.3
-4.5
-12.2
-12.2
-2.3
-7.1
-22.1
-8.3
-3.8
-7.6
-7.5
-7.5
-9.6
-9.5
-9.5
-5.5
-5.4
-5.4
-10.9
-6.0
-6.3
-5.9
-5.9
-6.1
+4.4
-11.7
-11.6
-11.6
-18.3
-17.1
-17.2
-3.8
-3.7
-3.7
-3.7
-4.7
-4.6
-4.6
-9.3
-9.2
-9.2
-6.3
-4.0
+7.4
-.2
-.1
-1.6
-4.4
-4.4
-4.3
-.8
-1.1
-1.0
-1.0
-9.2
-9.1
-9.1
-4.4
-4.3
-8.8
-24.5
-12.6
-9.8
-9.7
-9.6
-9.6
-9.7
-9.6
-9.7
-18.6
-11.1
-8.0
-10.3
-10.1
-6.1

CorEqInv
56.21-1.79 -11.3
Parnassus 48.98-1.93 -23.9

Pax:

SustAlloInv b 26.09 -.40 -10.0

Payden:
EqInc
HiIncInv
LowDr
LtdMat

Pear Tree:

17.87
6.34
9.75
9.42

-.38
-.07
-.03
-.01

-2.5
-6.5
-2.7
-.7

PlrsFgnVlInstl 21.89 -.24

-8.5

MnBdInstl b 23.06 -.34
-13.4 StrBd
20.66 -.14
-10.1 Permanent:
-10.1
I
48.63-1.38
-10.9
-10.8 Pioneer:
-7.7 A m
33.80 -.96
-7.6 AMTFreeMnA m13.45 -.35
-5.0 AMTFreeMnY 13.40 -.34

-10.4
-8.4

Performance:

-2.5
-10.6
-13.4
-13.4

W
G
G
G
G

-10.5
-11.6
-12.7
-5.4
-8.1
-10.1
-5.1
-17.7
-1.8
-10.0
-3.2
-10.8
-8.7
+1.7

DiversIncPlusA m7.09
LgCpStkA m 25.49
LgCpValS 27.84
MidCpStkA m 28.90
MidCpStkS 33.96
MnBdA m 10.43
OppIncPlusS 9.39
SmCpStkA m 23.22

Torray:
Torray

-.03

H
H
H
H
H

m
m

A m
A m
A m

m

m
G A m
G
A m

-9.9
-11.6
-5.3
-23.8
-10.1
-10.1

m

m

M
M
m

G
V

G A m
G
A m
A m

G
M

m

m
m

m

MA
M
M
M
M G
M
M
M
M
M A
M
m
m
m

m
m
m
m

m
m
m
m

m
m
m
m

m
m

m

m

-2.7

-.6

BalancedA m 23.40 -.67
FlexIncY
10.37 -.08
FocedY
57.79-2.07
GlblESGEqfdA m21.98 -.43
LargeCpFocA m52.81-1.96
MidCpGrY 34.05-1.61
SSGA:
SP500IdxN b 244.08-6.88 -10.0 MidCpValIns 23.61 -.36
MidCpY
44.58 -.20
Schwab:
SdCptlSelGrA m11.16-1.24
Bal
16.92 -.08 -10.7 SdCptlSelGrY 12.55-1.39
CorEq
21.39 -.50 -7.6 SmallComA m 5.16 -.11
DivEq
14.70 -.21 -1.7
FdmtlIntlLgCIdx9.70 -.19 -2.5 Transamerica:
FdmtlUSLgCIdx22.38 -.46 +.3 AsAlCnsrvA m 10.13 -.16
FdmtlUSSmCIdx16.20 -.35 -5.1 AsAlGrA m 13.54 -.41
HC
26.72-1.03 -3.3 AsAlModA m 10.98 -.21
IntlIdx
21.16 -.46 -9.1 AsAlModGrA m11.98 -.28
IntlOpp
20.32 -.54 -17.1 CptlGrA m 25.94-3.47
MktTrackAllEq21.84 -.01 -6.8 MltMgdBalA m31.24 -.65
MktTrackBal19.23 -.05 -7.4 Trust For Credit Uni:
MktTrackGr 25.11 -.03 -6.8 UnsShrtDrTCU 9.36 -.05
SP500Idx 65.66-1.85 -7.4 UnsUlShDrTCU 9.36
Schwab1000Idx92.28-2.78 -8.3
SmCpEq
19.45 -.47 -6.8 Tweedy, Browne:
27.59 -.37
SmCpIdx
31.15-1.03 -11.0 GlbVal
TFBd
11.00 -.12 -8.2 GlbVlIICyUnHdg15.89 -.23
Val
18.76 -.22
Trgt2020 13.86 -.05 -8.3
Trgt2030 16.22 -.08 -9.1
U
Trgt2040 17.56 -.08 -9.5
TrsInflPrtScIdx11.80 +.04 -4.4 U.S. Global Investor:
TtlStkMktIdx 73.25-2.22 -8.5 WldPrecMnral b2.45 -.16
USLgCpGr 23.73-1.24 -20.8 UBS PACE:

-9.8
-6.7
-10.2
-11.2
-10.1
-14.8
-2.4
-10.1
-34.5
-34.4
-11.0
-10.0
-12.2
-10.3
-11.1
-40.4
-9.7

m

V
M

m
m

-.09 -7.4
-.73 -11.1
-.59 -1.9
-.69 -10.8
-.81 -10.7
-.15 -9.2
-.08 -6.2
-.20 -5.0

51.81 -.84

m

G

-.73 -15.5
-.70 -15.6
-.56 -5.0
-.57 -5.3
-.08 -5.5
-.08 -5.4
-.10 -5.8
-.10 -5.6

Touchstone:

m

A m

G
H A m

-10.3
-13.9
-11.1 Third Avenue:
-7.2 RlEsttValIns 25.20 -.21 -8.2
-5.9 SmCpValIns 19.62 -.29 -3.7
ValIns
57.18-1.18 +12.9

S

-.66 -12.1
-.06 -6.1 SEI:
-.54 -12.2 CoreFxdIncF 10.16 -.12
-.65 -12.6 EmergMktsDbtF8.45 -.22
-.08 -6.5 EmergingMktsEqF11.14 -.43
HighYieldBdF 6.52 -.04
Optimum:
FxdIncInstl 8.70 -.09 -9.5 IntermTermMuniF11.09 -.12
10.71 -.23
IntlInstl
11.75 -.39 -14.5 IntlEqF
LgCpGrInstl 19.81-1.14 -22.3 IntlFxdIncF 9.58 -.06
LgCpValInstl20.11 -.45 -4.7 LargeCapGrowthF41.52-1.48
SmMidCpGrIns13.37 -.72 -18.9 LargeCapValueF27.28 -.43
SmMidCpValIns15.42 -.25 -5.8 S&P500IndexF 85.94-2.42
ShortDurGovtF10.02 -.05
Osterweis:
TaxMgdSm/MdCpF24.17 -.43
StrInc
11.00 -.08 -3.4 TxMgdLCpF 33.68 -.70
P
USMgdVolF 17.51 -.20
-7.6

Nicholas:

Putnam:

AllCpCor
22.37
FI
10.45
GlbSmMdCpStrat15.48
LgCpStrats 16.01
MnBd
11.39

PGIM Investments:

54.83-1.55 -11.0

-9.2
-9.0
-9.5
-14.7
-4.0
-9.3
-2.0
-21.9
-21.8
-6.8
-6.7
-10.5

UltNASDAQ100Inv65.24-5.53 -31.7

Old Westbury:

EpchGlbEqYldI 20.13 -.23 -2.3 BalancedA m 15.97 -.28
FltngRtA m 9.01 -.01 -.3 GlbRlEstZ 23.19 -.15
IncBldrA m 19.00 -.31 -8.5 HighYieldA m 5.01 -.05
MAPA m
28.93 -.55 -2.8 HighYieldZ 5.02 -.06
MKCnvrtA m 19.09 -.61 -6.7 JenHealSciA m33.90-1.91
MKSTMuniI 9.31 -.04 -3.7 JenHealSciZ 41.35-2.32
MKTxFrBdA m 9.56 -.15 -9.6 JenMidCapGrA m13.85 -.64
MSSP500IdxA m53.23-1.51 -10.1 JenMidCapGrZ 18.95 -.87
MacKHYCorpBdA m5.25 -.05 -5.4 JenSmlComA m19.46 -.46
WnslowLgCpGrA m9.22 -.38 -21.1 JenSmlComZ 22.90 -.55
Mairs & Power:
JenUtlA m 16.45 -.41
BalInv
104.73-1.71 -10.0 JenniFocGrA m17.04 -.87
GrInv
141.49-3.89 -13.0 JennisonBldA m20.74 -.68
JennisonGrA m45.83-2.39
Marsico:
JennisonGrZ 51.59-2.68
Foc b
21.87 -.83 -20.4
JennisonValA m21.09 -.43
MassMutual:
NationalMuniA m13.84 -.15
PrmCorBdI 9.83 -.10 -9.7 ShTerCorBdA m10.47 -.08
SP500IdxI 18.85 -.53 -7.4 TtlRetBdA m 12.93 -.12
SP500IdxR5 18.95 -.53 -7.5 TtlRetBdC m12.92 -.12
SelBlChpGrR5 22.73-1.44 -18.5 TtlRetBdZ 12.89 -.12
SelEqOpportsI 19.26 -.31 -2.5 PIMCO:
SelSmCpGrEqI 13.80 -.66 -18.3
AlAstA m 12.11 -.14
SelTtlRetBdI 9.02 -.12 -10.0
AlAstAllAthIns 7.72 -.10
SelectMdCpGrI21.76 -.82 -17.4
AlAstI2
12.14 -.14
SelectMdCpGrR521.38 -.81 -17.4
AlAstInstl 12.11 -.14
Matthews:
CmdPlsStrI2 9.47 -.26
AsiaDivInv 15.03 -.48 -19.8 CmdPlsStrIs 9.59 -.25
AsianGrIncInv 14.24 -.41 -10.9 CmdtyRlRtStrA m7.40 -.19
ChinaInv
14.41-1.45 -29.9 CmdtyRlRtStrI27.66 -.19
IndiaInv
26.39 -.52 -5.0 CmdtyRlRtStrIns7.70 -.20
PacTigerInv 22.92 -.91 -16.2 DiversIncInstl9.77 -.12
DynamicBdI 10.10 -.09
Merger:
EMBdI2
8.86 -.14
Am
17.36 -.03 +.1
EMBdInstl 8.86 -.14
Meridian:
EMCcy&S/TInmtI7.56 -.10
ContrarianLgcy d40.83-1.25 -11.0 EmergLclBdInstl5.56 -.14
GrLegacy d 40.70-1.27 -14.8 ExtendedDrInstl4.97 -.02
GNMA&GovtSecI10.11 -.15
Metropolitan West:
GlBdOppsUSDHI9.96 -.06
FltngRtIncIs 9.80 -.01 -.3
HYA m
8.24 -.09
HYBdInstl 9.75 -.11 -7.2
HYI2
8.24 -.09
IntermBdInstl9.86 -.08 -6.7
HYInstl
8.24 -.09
LowDurBdI 8.47 -.06 -3.7 HYMnBdA m 8.78 -.12
LowDurBdM b8.47 -.06 -3.8 HYMnBdI2 8.78 -.12
TtlRetBdI
9.76 -.12 -10.1 HYMnBdInstl 8.78 -.12
TtlRetBdM b 9.76 -.12 -10.1 IBdUSDHA m 10.11 -.06
TtlRetBdPlan 9.15 -.11 -10.0 IBdUSDHI 10.11 -.06
UnconsBdI 10.94 -.11 -5.6 IBdUSDHI-2 10.11 -.06
Miller:
IBdUnhI
8.50 -.17
11.03 -.11
OppI
35.89-1.80 -14.4 IncA m
IncC m
11.03 -.11
Morgan Stanley:
IncI2
11.03 -.11
GlbFIOppsI 5.41 -.02 -4.2 IncInstl
11.03 -.11
InsDiscyA m 11.38-1.43 -40.9 IncR b
11.03 -.11
InsDiscyI 16.70-2.11 -40.8 InflRspMlAstIns9.20 -.06
InsInGlbFrnchI 32.63 -.55 -11.8 InvtGrdCdtBdA m9.31 -.11
InsInGrA m 40.76-5.25 -40.0 InvtGrdCdtBdI 9.31 -.11
InsInGrI
44.64-5.76 -39.9 InvtGrdCdtBdI-29.31 -.11
InsInIntEqI d13.78 -.23 -9.5 L/TCreditBdI 9.96 -.17
InsIncIncptI d 12.04-1.27 -39.1 LngDrTtlRetIns 8.34 -.10
InsightA m 39.06-5.16 -40.7 LngTrmUSGvtIns4.41 -.03
InsightI
45.37-6.00 -40.7 LowDrA m 9.41 -.05
InstlCrPlsFIIns10.26 -.11 -9.4 LowDrAdmin b 9.41 -.05
LowDrI2
9.41 -.05
N
LowDrInstl 9.41 -.05
Nationwide:
LowDurIncA m 8.15 -.06
InDeAgrsSvc b 9.33 -.25 -9.5 LowDurIncI2 8.15 -.06
InDeMdlyAgrsSvc b9.47 -.23 -9.4 LowDurIncInstl 8.15 -.06
9.47 -.13
InDeModSvc b 9.33 -.19 -8.7 MnBdA m
9.47 -.13
InstlSvc
26.66 -.95 -7.7 MnBdI2
IntlIdxR6
8.12 -.17 -8.9 MnBdInstl 9.47 -.13
MidCpMktIdxIns17.18 -.30 -6.3 ModDrInstl 9.65 -.07
S&P500IdxInsSv20.50 -.58 -7.5 MortgOpps&BdI10.26 -.04
RAEFdmAdPLUSIns8.88 +.07
Natixis:
RAEPLUSA m 6.03 -.12
IUSEqOppsA m36.03-2.02 -13.1 RAEPLUSI 6.60 -.13
Neuberger Berman:
RlEstRlRtStrIns8.69 +.11
CorBdInstl 9.49 -.11 -9.5 RlRetA m 11.50 +.01
11.50 +.01
EmMktsEqInstl18.16 -.75 -18.2 RlRetI2
EqIncInstl 14.66 -.39 +1.3 RlRetInstl 11.50 +.01
FltngRtIncInstl 9.64 -.01 -.2 ShrtAsstInvmIns9.86 -.01
FocInv
23.29 -.85 -21.9 ShrtTrmA m 9.65 -.01
GenesisInstl 62.65 -.89 -16.2 ShrtTrmI2 9.65 -.01
GenesisInv 62.58 -.90 -16.2 ShrtTrmIns 9.65 -.01
GenesisR6 62.65 -.90 -16.2 StksPLUSAbRtA m10.14 -.31
GenesisTrust 62.45 -.89 -16.3 StksPLUSAbRtI210.24 -.31
GuardianInv 23.06 -.75 -14.5 StksPLUSAbRtIns10.46 -.33
HiIncBdInstl 7.97 -.09 -6.6 StksPLUSIUSDHI28.36 -.05
IntlEqInstl 12.65 -.15 -16.1 StksPLUSIUSDHIn8.47 -.05
IntrnsValInstl 20.82 -.62 -10.0 StksPLUSIns11.52 -.33
LgCpValInstl45.97-1.00 +3.9 StksPLUSLngDrIn5.78 -.24
LgCpValInv 46.02-1.00 +3.8 StksPLUSSmIns9.04 -.31
LgShInstl 16.95 -.24 -4.2 TotRetESGIns8.29 -.10
MdCpGrInv 15.48 -.64 -19.4 TtlRetA m 9.22 -.09
RlEsttInstl 18.32 +.20 -4.1 TtlRetAdm b 9.22 -.09
9.22 -.09
StratIncInstl10.23 -.11 -6.3 TtlRetI2
StratIncR6 10.22 -.11 -6.3 TtlRetIIIns 8.63 -.09
TtlRetIns
9.22 -.09
SustEqInst 41.98-1.29 -10.7
TtlRetR b
9.22 -.09
Gr

ProFunds:

Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.

RedOakTechSel35.02 -.96 -17.4 Russell:
InvEmergMktsS16.49 -.66 -11.6 Thompson:
Oakmark:
10.56
InvGbRlEstSecS35.53 -.11 -4.2 Bd
EqAndIncInv 31.54 -.84 -8.0
InvIntlDvdMktS38.95 -.59 -6.8 Thornburg:
GlbInv
30.96 -.95 -10.8
InvInvmGrdBdS19.46 -.16 -10.0 IntEqI
22.86
GlbSelInv 19.51-1.01 -14.2
InvStratBdS 9.80 -.09 -9.8 IntlEqA m 21.95
IntlInv
24.76 -.21 -11.9
InvTEBdS 21.99 -.24 -7.6 InvmIncBldrA m22.90
IntlSmCpInv 16.89 -.07 -14.7
InvTxMgdUSLgCpS62.66-1.99 -8.5
InvmIncBldrC m22.86
Inv
109.04-4.77 -8.5
InvTxMgdUSMSCpS36.32 -.96 -10.0
SelInv
56.20-2.60 -12.5
LtdTrmIncA m 12.91
InvUSSmCpEqS26.53 -.68 -9.2
LtdTrmIncI 12.91
Oberweis:
Rydex:
LtdTrmMnA m 13.57
ChinaOpps m 7.53 -.62 -34.6
NASDAQ1002xStrHb310.98-26.25 -35.2 LtdTrmMnI 13.58
IntlOppsInstl d10.01 -.23 -23.6
NASDAQ100Inv61.52-2.49 -18.3 Thrivent:

PGIM:

New Covenant:

CptlAprcA m56.83-2.05
DiversIntlIns12.39 -.29
EqIncA m 38.34 -.83
HYA m
6.83 -.05
HYIIns
8.66 -.07
InflProtIns 8.82 +.03
LCpSP500IdxA m21.82 -.61
LCpSP500IdxIs21.82 -.62
LCpSP500IdxJ m21.53 -.60
LfTm2020Ins 13.09 -.22
LfTm2020J m 12.99 -.23
LfTm2030Ins 14.41 -.30
LfTm2030J m 14.35 -.30
LfTm2040Ins 15.74 -.41
LfTm2040J m 15.56 -.40
LfTm2050Ins 16.38 -.47
LgCpGrIIns 17.20 -.91
LgCpValIIIIns 18.97 -.38
MdCpA m 33.74 -.93
MdCpGrIIIIns 11.31 -.50
MdCpValIIns17.01 -.13
PrefSecIns 9.52 -.08
RlEsttSecIns33.41 +.33
SAMgBA m 15.70 -.37
SAMgCnsBA m11.97 -.23
SAMgCnsGA m18.45 -.53
SAMgmtFlxIncA m11.85 -.18
SAMgmtStrGrA m20.28 -.64
SmCpIns
26.29 -.68

CATxExIncA m 7.34 -.11
CnvrtSecA m 23.59 -.74
DiversIncA m 6.02 -.05
DynAstAlcBalA m15.17 -.31
DynAstAlcGrA m17.22 -.42
FcsIntlEqA m 14.01 -.45
GlbHCA m 60.43-2.38
GrOppsA m 48.36-2.06
HighYieldA m 5.47 -.07
IncA m
6.10 -.08
IncY
6.23 -.07
IntlEqA m 22.23 -.47
LrgCpValA m 30.50 -.59
LrgCpValY 30.51 -.59
MortgageSecsA m10.60 -.17
NYTEIncA m 8.00 -.11
ShrtDurBdA m 9.73 -.05
ShrtDurBdY 9.74 -.05
SmCpGrA
m 52.67-1.94
Wkly. YTD
SustLeadersA m104.99-3.01
Sell Chg. %Ret. TEIncA f
7.82 -.11
LtdTrmMnBdI 10.72 -.07 -5.0 TxFrHYA m 11.65 -.19
MNMnBdI 11.01 -.14 -8.3
R
MrylndMnBdA m10.04 -.15 -8.9
NAMnBdI 10.20 -.17 -9.8 RiverNorth:
NYMnBdA m10.13 -.16 -9.9 dblelnStrIncI 9.61 -.04
NYMnBdI 10.14 -.16 -9.9
RlEsttSecI 22.20 +.24 -2.3 Royce:
ShrtTrmMnBdI 9.75 -.03 -3.6 OppInvm d 15.04 -.37
VirginiaMnBdA m10.43 -.15 -9.5 PEMutInvm d 8.31 -.13
PremInvm d 11.53 -.04
O
SpecEqInvm d 17.72
TtlRetInvm
d 8.24 -.06
Oak Associates:

-7.4 QSLrgCaCoEqA m17.30 -.42

MainStay:

BalA m
24.32 -.57
BalI
24.29 -.57
BdA m
14.43 -.15
BdI
14.43 -.15
BdR6
14.45 -.15
ClassicValI 40.26 -.65
CptlAprc1 b 13.19 -.68
CptlAprcNAV 13.29 -.69
DiscpValA m23.76 -.50
DiscpValI 22.81 -.48
DiscpValMCA m25.55 -.35
DiscpValMCI 26.81 -.36
DiscpValMCR6 26.81 -.36
DiscpValR6 22.87 -.48
FdmtlLgCpCorA m62.05-2.35
FdmtlLgCpCorI65.53-2.47
FltngRtIncI 8.07 -.02
IncA m
6.07 -.07
IncI
6.06 -.07
IntlGrA m 28.42 -.78
IntlGrI
28.52 -.78
InvmGradeBdA m9.67 -.09
MlMg2025Lftm1 b10.02 -.22
MlMg2030Lftm1 b10.55 -.27
MlMg2035Lftm1 b11.04 -.31
MlMg2040Lftm1 b11.38 -.34
MlMg2045Lftm1 b11.26 -.37
MltIdx2025Prs1 b11.11 -.14
MltIdx2030Prs1 b12.21 -.22
MltIdx2035Prs1 b13.10 -.29
MltIdx2040Prs1 b13.68 -.33
MltIdx2045Prs1 b14.06 -.36
MltIdx2050Prs1 b12.59 -.33
MltIdxIncPrs1 b10.53 -.10
MltMgLsAgr1 b15.05 -.50
MltMgLsAgrA m15.13 -.51
MltMgLsBl1 m14.07 -.30
MltMgLsBlA b 13.94 -.31
MltMgLsCns1 b12.22 -.14
MltMgLsCnsA m12.25 -.14
MltmgLsMd1 b12.76 -.21
MltmgLsMdA m12.85 -.21
MltmgrLsGr1 b14.68 -.41
MltmgrLsGrA m14.75 -.41
RegionalBankA m29.95 +.15
StratIncOppsI 10.31 -.11
USGlbLdrsGrA m55.15-2.71
USGlbLdrsGrI 61.71-3.02
sBlueChipGr1 b43.50-2.59

Wk y
YTD
hg % hg

10 57
10 06
10 46
10 43
11 31
10 65

Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.
GrAllcA m 23.42 -.50
GrAllcC m 22.92 -.50
GrAllcI
23.69 -.51
GrC m
107.86-4.41
GrI
154.60-6.29
HiIncA m
3.12 -.03
InstlIntlEq 29.44 -.63
IntlDvrsfctnA m21.49 -.52
IntlGrA m 38.12 -.91
IntlNwDscA m 31.27 -.55
IntlNwDscI 32.35 -.57
IntlValA m 43.67 -.77
LtdMatA m 5.80 -.02
MAInvsGrStkA m37.25 -.91
MAInvsGrStkI 38.74 -.94
MAInvsTrustA m37.29 -.82
MAInvsTrustI 35.90 -.79
MidCpGrA m24.33 -.85
MidCpGrI 26.15 -.90
MidCpValA m 29.99 -.47
MidCpValI 30.86 -.49
ModAllcA m 19.46 -.35
ModAllcC m 19.01 -.35
ModAllcI
19.79 -.35
MrylndMuniBdA m10.18 -.13
MuniHiIncA f 7.75 -.11
MuniIncA m 8.29 -.11
MuniLtdMatA m7.86 -.05
NewDiscvA m 22.84 -.94
RsrchA m 53.43-1.59
RsrchI
55.11-1.63
RsrchIntlA m 21.15 -.51
RsrchIntlI 21.95 -.53
TechA m
51.36-2.47
TtlRetA m 19.76 -.29
TtlRetBdA m 10.02 -.11
TtlRetBdI 10.02 -.11
TtlRetI
19.76 -.29
UtlsA m
25.13 -.57
ValA m
50.77 -.91
ValC m
50.16 -.91
ValI
51.09 -.91
VirginiaMuniBdA m10.46 -.15

Madison:

John Hancock:

29.82 -.42

Principal:

Wk y YTD
hg % hg
11
11
00
14
02
12

BdA m
8.78 -.08
BdY
8.69 -.08
CorEqA m 21.16 -.66
DiscpGrA m 14.75 -.50
EqIncA m 39.14 -.66
HiIncMnA m 6.76 -.10
MidCpValA m 25.81 -.39
SelMidCpGrA m41.22-2.14
SelMidCpGrY 46.69-2.41
StrIncA m
9.92 -.07
StrIncY
9.92 -.07
Y
34.47 -.98

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62.66-1.80 -2.9 Hartford:
25.31-1.72 +9.9 BalHLSIA 32.18 -.61
24.32 -.52 -3.9 BalIncA m 14.89 -.20
20.04 -.75 -1.6 BalIncC m 14.64 -.19
14.90 -.19
20.48 -.76 -1.5 BalIncI
CapAppHLSIA 48.91-1.70
Franklin Templeton:
CapAppHLSIB b47.83-1.66
AlbmTxFrIncA1 m9.97 -.12 -8.7 ChecksandBalsA m9.97 -.22
BiotechDiscvA m107.71-7.87 -12.4 CorEqA m 43.60-1.30
CAHYMuniA1 m10.18 -.15 -10.2 CorEqC m 39.31-1.19
CAHYMuniAdv10.20 -.16 -10.1 CorEqY
44.27-1.33
CAIntTrTFIncA1 m11.05 -.11 -7.6 CptlApprecA m37.90-1.21
CAIntTrTFIncAdv11.08 -.12 -7.5 CptlApprecI 38.18-1.22
CATxFrIncA1 m 6.94 -.07 -9.7 DiscpEqHLSIA 18.37 -.55
CATxFrIncAdv 6.92 -.08 -9.7 DivandGrA m 32.66 -.80
CATxFrIncC m6.92 -.08 -9.9 DivandGrHLSIA26.54 -.65
CnsrvAllcA m 13.38 -.23 -8.9 DivandGrHLSIB b26.33 -.65
CnvrtSecA m 21.98 -.65 -11.5 DivandGrI 32.47 -.78
CnvrtSecAdv21.99 -.65 -11.4 DivandGrY 33.69 -.82
CorfolioAllcA m21.25 -.74 -13.0 EqIncA m 22.55 -.36
DevMktsA m 18.07 -.88 -19.4 EqIncI
22.38 -.36
DynaTechA m113.48-5.72 -26.8 FltngRtA m 8.26 -.01
DynaTechAdv118.07-5.95 -26.8 FltngRtI
8.21 -.01
DynaTechC m 91.73-4.64 -27.0 GrAllcA m 13.33 -.37
DynaTechR6 119.59-6.02 -26.8 GrOppsA m 36.17-2.67
EqIncA m 30.22 -.56 -4.7 GrOppsI
39.99-2.96
FdrIntTrTFIncA1 m11.17 -.12 -8.0 GrOppsY
45.20-3.34
35.55-2.07
FdrIntTrTFIncAd11.20 -.11 -8.0 HCA m
GlbA m
GoldA m
OverseasA m
USValA m
USValI

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Wkly. YTD
Sell Chg. %Ret.

500IdxInsPrm148.36-4.18
AllSectorEq 10.10 -.34
AsstMgr20% 13.82 -.14
AsstMgr30% 11.84 -.17
AsstMgr40% 12.75 -.21
AsstMgr50% 20.16 -.39
AsstMgr60% 14.58 -.32
AsstMgr70% 25.95 -.64
AsstMgr85% 23.70 -.69
BCGrowth 142.77-7.59
BCGrowth 12.88 -.69
BCGrowthK143.31-7.61
Balanced 27.18 -.74
BalancedK 27.18 -.74
BlueChipVal 24.52 -.44
CALtdTrmTFBd10.16 -.06
CAMuniInc 12.06 -.15
Canada
66.25-2.47
Cap&Inc
10.29 -.12
ChinaRegion 33.64-2.17
CmdtyStrat 5.29 -.15
CnsrvIncMnBdIns9.95 -.01
Contrafund 15.18 -.78
ContrafundK 15.23 -.79
ConvertibleSecs33.27-1.31
CorpBd
10.82 -.15
CptlApprec 38.69-1.70
CptlApprecK 38.83-1.70
DisciplinedEq 53.18-2.22
DivGro
33.79 -.85
DivGroK
33.74 -.86
DiversIntl 40.07-1.01
DiversIntlK 39.99-1.01
EmMkts
34.66-1.56
EmMktsDbt 7.95 -.11
EmMktsK 34.67-1.55
EmergMketsOpps17.15 -.78
EmergingAsia 35.78-2.74
EqDividendInc 28.16 -.33
EqDividendIncK28.15 -.33
EqIncome 68.05-1.25
EqIncomeK 68.00-1.24
Europe
33.00 -.66
ExMktIdxInPr 73.06-3.03
Fidelity
65.41-2.61
FidelityK
65.41-2.61
FltngRtHiInc 9.41 -.02
FocusedStock 29.17-1.13
FourinOneIdx 52.60-1.36
Frdm 2005 11.69 -.13
Frdm 2010 14.45 -.20
Frdm 2015 11.88 -.20
Frdm 2020 15.02 -.29
Frdm 2025 13.82 -.29
Frdm 2030 17.31 -.39
Frdm 2035 15.08 -.40
Frdm 2040 10.81 -.32
Frdm 2045 12.38 -.36
Frdm 2050 12.50 -.37
Frdm 2055 14.43 -.42
Frdm Inc
11.02 -.11
FrdmIdx2055Inv18.01 -.49
GNMA
10.62 -.15
GlbCmdtyStk 20.44-1.62
GlbexUSIdxInsPr13.69 -.39
GlobalexUSIdx 13.49 -.38
GovernmentInc 9.67 -.08
GrDiscv
47.58-2.30
GrStrategies49.57-1.99
GroCo
29.01-1.49
GroCo
16.30 -.84
GroCoK
29.12-1.50
Growth&Inc 50.30 -.98
HighIncome 8.00 -.08
IntermediateBd10.25 -.07
IntlCptlApprec 23.04 -.60
IntlDiscv
43.95-1.12
IntlEnhIdx 9.98 -.24
IntlGr
15.72 -.27
IntlGr
17.29 -.30
IntlIdxInstlPrm44.08 -.96
IntlSmCp 28.95 -.34
IntlSmCp 17.00 -.26
IntlSmCpOpps 20.51 -.33
IntlVal
10.60 -.26
IntrmMuniInc 9.98 -.08
InvmGradeBd 10.50 -.09
InvmGradeBd 7.55 -.07
LargeCapStock40.34-1.04
LargeCapValIdx14.99 -.31
LgCpCorEnhIdx19.84 -.50
LgCpGrEnhIdx 26.76 -.97
LgCpValEnhIdx15.70 -.32
LowPrStk 51.79-1.16
LowPrStkK 51.74-1.15
LtdTrmMuniInc10.18 -.05
LvrgdCoStk 41.19-1.29
MAMunicipalInc11.37 -.14
Magellan 12.53 -.37
MagellanK 12.52 -.37
MegaCapStock18.46 -.53
MichiganMuniInc11.52 -.14
MidCapStock 40.95 -.94
MidCapStockK 40.99 -.93
MidCapValue 27.49 -.52
MidCpEnhIdx 16.99 -.44
MinnesotaMnInc11.04 -.11
MortgageSecs 10.32 -.15
MrylndMuniInc10.71 -.12
MuniInc
12.22 -.15
NJMunicipalInc11.30 -.16
NYMuniInc 12.21 -.16
NasdCmpIdx 161.88-6.44
NewMillennium41.81-1.20
NewMktsInc 12.52 -.20
OTCPortfolio15.66 -.70
OTCPortfolioK 15.99 -.71
OhioMunilInc 11.37 -.13
Overseas 55.66-1.04
OverseasK 55.54-1.04
PacificBasin 30.79-1.18
PennsylvnMnInc10.54 -.12
Puritan
24.29 -.82
PuritanK
24.27 -.81
RealEstInv 51.84 +.51
RlEsttInc 13.11 -.04
RlEsttInc 11.16 -.05
SCGrth
25.99-1.30
SCValue
20.39 -.32

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1 56

Fidelity:

2 06 4 27 9 03
4 07 5 96 15 81
1 80 2 84 2 99
8 26 5 07 +9 75
2 66 4 67 12 35
4 53 11 95 22 92
1 10 3 71 11 81
1 33 2 91 9 38
0 79 1 60 6 26
4 37 9 22 19 78
2 36 4 60 4 26
4 08 7 22 20 34
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3 88 6 68 18 36
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-18.4
-18.3
-21.1
-21.2
-21.0
-10.4
-7.2
-7.2
-1.2
-1.2
-4.3
-4.6
-4.4
-2.5
-2.4
+8.6
+8.4
+8.8
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Mary and Tax Free Bond Funds

G und

CptlIncA f
8.37 -.15
EqInc,IncA f 23.59 -.58
FltngRStrIncIns 9.31 -.03
GvtUltShrDrIns 9.89 -.01
InsHYBdIns 9.09 -.09
IntlEqIns 24.82 -.64
IntlLeadersIns 33.54 -.40
KaufLCA f 26.75-1.29
KaufLCIns 27.96-1.35
KaufmannA m 5.14 -.32
KaufmannR b 5.15 -.33
KaufmannSmCpA m45.22-2.49
MDTSmCpCorInstl22.89 -.79
MnStkAdvtgA f13.69 -.28
MnStkAdvtgAIns13.69 -.28
MnUltraShrtA 9.90 -.01
MnUltraShrtIns 9.90 -.01
ShIntTtRtBdIns10.06 -.05
ShrtIntrmDrMnA f9.82 -.05
ShrtIntrmDrMnIn9.83 -.04
ShrtTrmIncA f 8.37 -.03
ShrtTrmIncIns 8.36 -.04
StratValDivA f 6.31 -.09
StratValDivC m 6.32 -.09
StratValDivIns 6.35 -.09
StrtgcIncIS 8.51 -.12
TtlRetBdInstl 10.12 -.09
UltraShrtBdA 9.05 -.01
UltraShrtBdIns 9.04 -.02

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Equ y n ome
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Gen & n u ed Mun Deb
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Lg Cap G ow h
Lg Cap Va ue
M d Cap G ow h
M d Cap Va ue
Sma Cap G ow h
Sma Cap Va ue
G oba n ome

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Sell Chg. %Ret.

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Selected:

IntlEqInvmsP 16.08 -.29 -9.5
37.02-1.15 -12.8 LgCoGrEqInvmsP21.82-1.01 -17.2
36.89-1.16 -12.9 LgCoValEqInvmsP21.32 -.44 -3.0
SMCoValEqInvmsP22.53 -.49 -4.2
Sequoia:
Sequoia 148.08-10.67 -20.0 StrFIInvmsP 12.46 -.13 -9.5
AmrcnD
AmrcnS b

USAA:

Sit:

MinnesotaTFInc9.64 -.12

Smead Funds:
ValI1

67.18-2.43

ShoreInv

39.19 -.89

Bal
Gr
Interim
MnBd

84.31-2.08
102.76-2.70
9.63 -.06
8.17 -.11

Sound Shore:
State Farm:

Sterling Capital:

StrtonSmCpVlIns68.24 -.10
TtlRetBdIns 9.78 -.09

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T. Rowe Price:

AfrcMdlEst 11.55 -.28
All-Cap Opps 59.38-2.79
BCGr
136.99-8.28
BCGrAdv b 133.71-8.08
BCGrR b 126.82-7.68
Bal
25.18 -.62
Comm&TeInv 139.43-8.44
CptlAprc
34.31 -.64
CptlAprcAdv b 33.84 -.63
CptlOpp
40.40-1.29
DivGr
67.97-1.35
DivMdCpGr 38.24-1.76
EMBd
9.36 -.15
EMStk
37.32-1.58
EmergEurope 2.80
EqIdx500 112.44-3.17
EqInc
36.02 -.68
ErpnStk
22.99 -.24
ExtendedEqMktId30.51-1.28
FinclSvcs 33.26 -.64
GlbGrStk 34.20-1.71
GlbMltSectBdInv10.66 -.09
GlbStk
52.51-2.58
GlbTech
14.69-1.27
GrStk
79.56-4.87
GrStkAdv b 77.16-4.73
GrStkR b 73.67-4.52
HY
6.10 -.05
HlthSci
89.89-5.24
InflProtBd 12.44 +.04
InsEMBd
6.91 -.11
InsEMEq
35.59-1.51
InsFltngRt 9.64
InsFltngRtF 9.63 -.01
InsHY
8.10 -.07
InsLgCpCorGr 54.36-3.28
InsMdCpEqGr 60.97-2.21
InsSmCpStk 27.56 -.72
IntlDiscv
64.75-2.29
IntlEqIdx 14.61 -.33
IntlStk
17.59 -.44
Japan
12.69 -.71
LatinAmerica 19.81 -.82
LrgCpGrI
56.70-3.35
LrgCpVaI 27.39 -.46
MdCpGr
97.38-3.39
MdCpVal
34.40-1.05
MrylndTFBd 10.20 -.13
NewAsia 16.76 -.88
NewEra
42.02-1.79
NewHorizons 55.65-2.93
NewInc
8.66 -.08
OverseasStk11.91 -.26
PersonalStrBal23.94 -.57
PersonalStrGr 37.45-1.12
PersonalStrInc19.53 -.34
QMUSBdEnhIdx10.22 -.10
QMUSSmCpGrEq38.39-1.22
RlEstt
19.79 +.29
Rtr2005
12.60 -.20
Rtr2010
16.09 -.27
Rtr2015
13.46 -.24
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In the pre-Covid world, remote work was generally a
rare perk, most often found in the tech world. But two
years of public health necessity have made work-fromhome at least a few days a week the norm for many.
A February 2022 Pew Research study found that nearly
60 percent of workers who can do their jobs remotely
are doing so—which means if you’re starting a new job,
chances are good it involves at least some remote work.
To ensure a successful start in your new remote job, you
will want to incorporate these five strategies during your
first months on the job.
Ask the right questions as soon as you
accept the offer
As soon as you say “yes” to a remote position, start
asking questions about the onboarding process. If you
are working for a company headquartered in another
city, will your equipment be shipped to you? Do you
have any choice in what computer you receive? If
your job is only partially remote or the company is
headquartered nearby, do you need to visit the office inperson on your first day to pick up a laptop and fill out
HR paperwork? Will your HR orientation and job-specific
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In the harried early days of the pandemic, when we
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the curve,” it was acceptable to set up camp at the
kitchen table. But if you are taking a permanent remote
position, you need a permanent remote workspace
at your home. This will not only help you stay focused
as you’re working but also help you maintain critical
boundaries between work and personal life. Ideally,
you will have a desk with space for extra monitors, if
needed, and a door you can close during Zooms, unless
you live alone.
Make sure you understand your company’s
definition of “remote”
“Remote” means different things to different companies.
It could mean no one cares when or where you do
your work as long as it gets done—or that you are still
expected to maintain availability during core business
hours and packing up and working from a beach
house will be frowned on. Make sure you have clarity
on your new employer’s definition of remote from the
get-go, and as you begin working, pay attention to your
colleagues’ behavior to see how it plays out culturally.
Be proactive and ask for meetings
Your new manager may have already set up introductory
meetings between you and colleagues both in and out
of your department. If not, ask for them. Meeting for
30 minutes via video conference with key stakeholders
will help you understand your place in the company and
get to know them on a more personal level. It is easier
to strike up a Slack conversation with someone after an
initial face-to-face conversation, even if it’s over Zoom.

drop-bys, but this can help. Of course, everyone will
have various levels of comfort with this, but asking will
1) allow you to get a good feel for company culture and
2) let you quickly know who can be a go-to resource.

Then, as you move forward, do not be shy about asking
both your manager and your peers for quick 10- to
15-minutes chats a few times a week to check in and
make sure you are on the same page. It is hard to
replicate conversations at the coffee machine or office

The first few weeks on the job is your time to play
detective. Look for clues wherever you can about the
company’s culture and how things really work. Do your
colleagues share GIFs in chats, or is the communication
more traditional? How formally are meetings run?

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Acct Asst - Record financial
data for grocry store. Receive,
record, & bank csh, chks,
vouchers. Comply w/ fedrl,
state, company policies, procdrs, regulatns. 40 hr/wk.
Resumes to Streets Market
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Management Analysts: Collect & rev buz data in SE
Asia food mkt; Anal mgmt.
methods & econ models;
Solve mgmt problms; Strategize to improve mgmt efficiency. Evaluate & improve
org strcture, mgmt.& superv
methods, cost anal, inventry
ctrl, delivery, & warehouse
operations; train workers w/
new operation methds. MF; 40 hrs/wk. Mult openings.
BA in Mgmt or Econ. Sig wrkg
knwldg in applied econ &
stats. Apply: Eastland Food
Corp., 8305 Stayton Drive,
Jessup, MD 20794.

Admissions Coordinator
Must be knowledgeable of
student enrollment forms,
testing students, obtaining
student records. Experienced
inquiries only. Must be fully
vaccinated w/Covid-19 and
show vaccination card. $26K$27K
annually/full-time.
Email resumes to:
educationmanageteam
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Pentagon Federal Credit
Union seeks Sr Analyst, Credit
Policy & Analytics (McLean,
VA). Drive monitoring & analysis of credit risk for organic &
acquired portfolio, prep related mgmt reporting package
& provide insights on root
causes. Job reqs Master’s in
Finance, Accountng or Business & 2 yrs exp in financial
services industry, incl. data
analysis & reporting, credit
risk policy & analysis, credit
risk mgmt & credit risk modeling. Email cvr ltr & CV to
Recruit@penfed.org. Ref: “Sr
Analyst, Credit Policy & Analytics"

Junior Business Intelligence
Analyst (Data Management)
(Multi Positions w/National
Placement out of Fairfax
County, VA) Min of a Bach’s
degree in either Comp’s,
Eng’g, Info Tech (IT), Info Sys’s
or Business related field &
foregn educ equiv acceptable. Candidate will produce
financial & market intelligence by querying data
repositories & generating
periodic reports. Will devise
methods for identifying data
patterns & trends in available
info sources. Although no exp
req’d Candidate must have
coursework or internship in
the
following:
Analysis,
Modeling & Design; Data
Communications & Networking; Project & Change Management; Operating Sys &
Comp Sys’s Security. Able to
travel/relo to unanticipated
client sites anywhere in U.S.
whenever needed. 9-5, FT
$102,107/Yr. Ref# JDAT-0821
ND send resume to Numero
Data, LLC, 620 Herndon Parkway, Suite 200A, Herndon, VA
20170 or careers@numerodata.com. Numero Data is EOE
M/F/V/D.

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Senior Business Analyst positions available with McKinsey
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appropriate analytical skills &
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analys incl mathematical
modeling & synthesis of findings for specific bus problem.
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needs & collect appropriate
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interviews & the like. Min ed
req’s are a Bachelor’s in Bus
Admin, Fin, Econ, or non-business undergraduate degree.
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must have 2 yrs exp as a
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top-tier int’l management
consulting firm. Domestic &
international travel typically
required. Destination and frequency impossible to predict.
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your
resume to
CO@mckinsey.com and refer
to WP0411. Multiple positions. No phone calls please.
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Bechtel Global Corporation
hiring Sr. Accountant, Financial Reporting in Reston, VA.
Monitr fnancl prfrmnce drng
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Prsnt fnl anlys w/ cptl & divdnd distrbtn recs bsd on ovrall
fndings to the glbl co. CAO
& CFO. Telecommuting permitted. BS+ 5yrs exp. Email
resume & cover letter to
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poultry sexing exp or training.
40hr/wk. $35,693/yr. Rsm to
jobsite @ Shenpos Inc, Attn:
J. Gu, 2293 Pearl Ln, Harrisonburg, VA 22801

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Architectural Designer
sought by Mushinsky Voelzke
& Associates, CHTD in Washington, DC: Utilize bldg rendering, modeling, & imaging
tools, such as AutoCAD, Revit,
SketchUp, Lumion, Enscape,
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator,
& InDesign, to prep virtual
presentation docs. Research
& employ the utilization of 3D
& 4D prgms to enhance the
conveyance of dsgn intent.
Prep contracts thru all bldg
phases. Assist w/ mgmt of
the Bldg Info Model & creation
of model content. Assist w/
construction administration
srvcs incl field reports,
responses to Requests for
Info, & review of product submittals. Reqmt: Bachelor's
deg. in Architecture (5 yr) or
rltd field, a Master of Architecture or rltd is also accepted; 2 yrs of exp as Architectural Dsgnr or rltd; proficiency
in AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp,
Lumion, Enscape, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign.
To apply, mail CV w/ Job ID#
ARCH0316 to Amy, 1200 G
Street, NW, Ste 250, Washington, DC 20005

Assistant Bar Manager
Responsible for bar services.
Resumes to Celtic House,
2500 Columbia Pike, Arlington
VA 22204.

Patent Atty: Mainly patent
prosecut'n & legal opinions
for Japanese clients. Business
level or higher as well as technical Japanese writing skill. JD
or LLM in Law req. 3 yrs patent
app prep rel exp. Must have a
bar license from any state or
DC. Must be registered, or hve
received lmtd recognit’n from
USPTO at emplymt. Must
have strong comm/writ’g
skills in English & Japanese.
FT. WHDA LLP 8500 Leesburg
Pike #7500 Tysons VA 22182.
AUDIT/TAX
Senior Associate, External
Audit Generalist (Mult Pos),
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
Washington, DC.
Provide
clnts bus advice of tech acct
& fin reprtng stndrds, proactively idntfyng & articulating
emrgng tech issues. Req
Bach’s deg or foreign equiv
in Bus Admin, Acct, Tax or
rel + 3 yrs rel work exp; OR
Master’s deg or foreign equiv
in Bus Admin, Acct, Tax or rel
+ 1 yr rel work exp. Travel
req 40% of the time. Apply
by mail, referencing Job Code
DC3307, Attn: HR SSC/Talent
Management, 4040 W. Boy
Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.

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Baker - bake bread/cakes;
2 yr exp req'd; 40 hrs/wk;
Juman, Inc. Annandale, VA;
obreadva@gmail.com
Business Manager – Capital
One Services, LLC in Northern
VA; Mult pos avail: Manage
econ rsrch & planning to dvlp
bus strat. To apply, visit
https://capitalone.wd1.
myworkdayjobs.com/
Capital_One and search
"Business Manager" or
"R139275".
Business Management
Associate– Capital One
Services, LLC in Northern VA;
Mult pos avail: Support econ
rsrch & planning to dvlp bus
strat. To apply, visit
https://capitalone.wd1.
myworkdayjobs.com/
Capital_One and search
"Business Management
Associate" or "R140354".
Business Specialist
Maintain accounting & business records for business
operations. Reconcile bank
statements with PL statements and balance sheets.
Reqs: high school diploma or
US equivalent. Min 1 yr prof
exp working as business manager, operations manager,
project manager, accounting
specialist or closely related.
Min 1 yr exp working with
business accounting systems.
Job offer in Arlington, VA for
HAH Group, Inc. dba Metro
Motor. Send CV & salary reqs
to HAH Group, 2300 Columbia
Pike, Arlington, VA 22204

Bus. Mgt Analyst: reports,
insurance products, quant.
techn. (eMoney/miEdge). Job
Loc: Vienna, VA. Mail resume
+ min. salary rqmts to: Attn:
HR #: 14908, B&H Financial
Services, 8075 Leesburg Pike,
Ste 400, Vienna, VA 22182

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Catering Chef, Greek Village
Restaurant, Silver Spring, MD.
Fax resumes to: (301) 8792879.
Chef needed. 12 mo. exp.
req’d. Duties: Prep. Italianstyle dish., dinn., desserts &
other foods acc. to rec. Mar.
meats for dish., prep. sauces,
veg., salads, pizza dough,
pasta. Insp.+ clean food prep.
are., equip. & work surf. to
ens. safe + san. food-handl.
pract. Ensure food is stored
& cooked at corr. temp. by
reg. temp. of ovens, broil.,
grills, + roast. Job location:
Washington,
D.C.
Mail
resumes to owner at Georgetown LLC D/B/A Angolo DC,
2934 M St NW #3713, Washington, D.C. 20007.

Client Account Representative
Computer Packages Inc.,
founded in 1968 and specializing in Intellectual Property software, is seeking a full time
Client Account Representative
to interface with clients and
market our latest products.
Recent or upcoming graduates
with some work experience
preferred. Ability to travel a
plus (travel not required during
pandemic). Customer service
& experience w/ MS Office
applications a plus. Excellent
benefits incl health & dental
insurance, tuition reimbursement, pension/401k, gym
membership & strong opportunity for growth. Resume only to
cpijobs@
computerpackages.com
Construction Manager
Construction company in King
George, VA seeks a Construction Manager with a bachelor’s degree in Architecture
or foreign equivalent and 2
years’ experience as an architect. Send resume via postal
mail to CCE Specialties. Attn:
Vivan Christman, 11130 Dennis W Kerns Pkwy, King
George, VA 22485.
Convenience Store Manager
needed in Oxon Hill, MD to
directly supervise & coordinate day-to-day business
activities of a convenience
store (gas station + car wash
+ Subway food svc). Schedule, train & supervise employees. Perform other auxiliary
relevant duties as reqd. High
School diploma (domestic/foreign), or GED, or the
equivalent needed. Send
resume to Convenience Marketing & Solutions Inc. Attn:
HR @111 North Cove Terrace,
Oxon Hill, MD 20745 or
john@sirhandiinc.com. EOE
Full time Cook (Multiple
Openings) (Swahili Village,
DC). Minimum of two years
experience preparing and
serving Kenyan cuisine. High
school diploma. Excellent
communication skills. Job in
Washington,
DC.
Submit
resume by email to:
alanpounders@
swahilivillagedc. com
Cook, Chinese Specialty
Cook and prepare a variety of
Chinese-style dishes; 2 years
exp., F/T, Call Andy@571-3319666 for interview; Kumo
Asian Bistro (Alexandria, VA)

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Cost Estimator
Det. costs to bid before &
during projects. Manage &
review quantity take-off &
mat’l cost process. Prepare
est. quotes & maint comm w/
GC. Prepare & maint directory
of suppliers, contr, & subcont.
Coord kick-off of projects &
prepare scheds. Req eventual
travel to various unanticipated jobsites throughout DCVA-MD-WV & BS in Construction or Frgn Equiv. Req 48
months exp as Estimator.
Based in Woodbridge, VA.
Mail to:14861 Persistence Dr,
Woodbridge, VA 22191

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Drywall Installer Manager
F/T. Employer: Augusta Properties LLC. Duties: oversee
installation
of
plasterboard/other wallboard to several bldgs in VA. Apply/mount
acoustical tiles or blocks,
strips, or sheets of shockabsorbing materials. Inspect
eqpmt, structures, & materials to identify problems or
defects. 60 mos. exp as drywall installer req'd. Domestic
travel req'd: 10%. Salary
$91,166. Worksite: 528 N
Thomas St., Ste. 5, Arlington,
VA 22203. To apply mail
resume Attn: Coby Owens to
528 N Thomas St., Ste. 5,
Arlington, VA 22203.

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HOUSEHOLD MANAGER/
HOUSKEEPER/PRIVATE
COOK- HS Dip. or equiv.; 2 yrs
exp. as a Household Manager;
knowledge of handling schedules for a household; properly
clean household, includes
washing & ironing linens daily;
must know how to cook variety of foods for household
daily; must be able to lift 50
lbs. depending on needs of
homeowner; must have reliable transportation to manage all shopping for homeowner, or arrange for transport; must be available 24/7
for homeowner includes
nights, weekends & holidays
since employee will be living
on employer’s premises; split
shifts; hours vary; must pass
background check and drug
screening test. MAIL all CV’s
to Yen’s Housekeeping 5801
Twinbrook Dr., Fairfax, VA
22032
Nanny-Supervise children in
age appropriate developmental activities/chores, assist in
homework, cook, clean, drive
children to school and
appointments in Frederick.
CPR, first aid certified.
HS/GED, 24 months experience is req. FT, M-F. Comp.
Salary, send resume and 3
references to M. DaCruz,
9730 Fleetwood Way, Frederick MD 21701. No phone calls

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Gallaudet University; Special
Education Art Teacher (Washington, D.C.): Teach art to deaf
students; develop curriculum
using American Sign Language; Assess student’s performance: Reqd. Master’s in
Deaf or Elementary Ed.; Apply
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Electrical Drafter
Draft working drawings, wiring diagrams, wiring connection specifications, or crosssections of underground
cables, as required for
instructions to installation
crew. Assemble documentation packages and produce
drawing sets to be checked
by an engineer or an architect. Consult with engineers
to discuss or interpret design
concepts,
or
determine
requirements of detailed
working drawings. Review
completed
construction
drawings and cost estimates
for accuracy and conformity
to standards and regulations.
Examine electronic schematics and supporting documents to develop, compute,
and verify specifications for
drafting data, such as configuration of parts, dimensions, or
tolerances. 40 hrs/wk. BA in
electrical or close related & 1yr exp. required. Mail resume
to GBC Kitchen and Bath LLC,
5601-E General Washington
Dr, Alexandria., VA 22312
VeriSign Inc. has a job opening
in Reston and Dulles, VA:
Engineer – Computer Operations
Support
(Req
#V1114) Provide complex
technical support to internal
Verisign employees and contractors to resolve IT issues,
candidate will split his/her
time between the company's
offices located in Dulles and
Reston, VA. Mail resume to
Attn: Dave Carney, 12061
Bluemont Way, Reston, VA
20190. Must include Req # to
be considered.
Engineer: Fluence Energy, LLC
seeks a Sales Engineer in
Arlington, VA to Provide technical support on all Fluence
power system products &
develop sales tools & support
materials to streamline &
scale power system sales. Job
requires Master’s degree in
Electrical Engineering & 2
years of experience with
energy sales engineering.
20% Travel Required.
E-mail resume to Emily Roy,
Global Mobility Manager at
Emily.Roy@
fluenceenergy.com.
Please reference the job code
SER2022.
ENGINEERING–Juniper Networks in Herndon, VA seeks
Technical Support Engineer:
Own and work cases to completion, including performing
live network troubleshooting,
lab replication, technical
escalation, and problem resolution.
Telecommuting
allowed. Email res (must reference Job Code #101261) to
resumedropbox@juniper.net.
ENGINEERING
Micron Technology, Inc. has
openings for Process Engineer in Manassas, VA. As a
Process Engineer, focus on
thin film depositions on a
LPCVD tools and support
processes and equipment
used in the Fab 6 300mm
Diffusion Process area by
addressing process issues
and performing tool maintenance and repair. Mail resume
to Amberley Johnson, 8000 S.
Federal Way, Boise, ID 83716.
Please
reference
Job
#10878.1984.

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Lead Associate – Willis Towers Watson US LLC (Arlington,
VA): Provide support on
diverse projects related to
M&A, plan design & strategy,
asset liability studies, forecasting, non-discrimination
testing, early retirement windows, global consulting &
other spec projects. REQTS:
Bachelor’s (U.S. or foreign
equiv) in Actuarial Sci, Math
or related fld +3 yrs exp as
Actuarial Analyst or related
role. To apply, email resume
to ResumesWTW@gmail.com.
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Dental Lab Technician: Lintec
Dental Labs in Gaithersburg
seeks Dental Lab Technician
to construct & repair dentures & dental appliances.
Applicants must mail resume
to 843 Quince Orchard Blvd,
Ste C, Gaithersburg, MD
20878.
Hospitalists: provide internal
medicine (“IM”) care to
patients. Req.: MD degree or
foreign equiv. + 3 yrs. ABIMrecog. IM residency, valid DC
med. license, & American
Board cert. (or elig.) in IM.
Req. 7am-7pm shifts every
other wk. w/ occ. 7pm-7am
wks. of night shifts. Job in
Washington, DC; multiple
openings.
Apply to MedStar Medical
Group II LLC at
https://www.
medstarmedicalgroup
careers.com/jobs/
Hospitalist/Washington_
Washington_D_C_/
100/272938/
MEDICAL
Critical Care Physician: Prov.
qual conc. & consult. care to
pats. w/in any unit of MWHC,
incl. pats. ndg. urg. or exig.
care. Req: MD degree or foreign equiv. + 3 yrs. ABIM
recog. IM residency & 2 yrs
critical care fellowship, valid
DC med. License & American
Board Cert. & board cert in
Critical Care Medicine. Req.
14 shifts per month, incl. day,
even, wknd, & night. Shifts
rng. in length from 8-16 hrs.
Apply online at http://
careers.medstarhealth.org
click “Express Your Interest”
and reference Critical Care
Physician

MedStar Shah MSO, LLC is
seeking a Medical Operations
Manager to plan, direct, and
coordinate the operations of
our multi-specialty med practice. Must have Bachelor’s
Degree in Health or Business
Admin. and 3 years exp in
clinic operations management. Location: Hollywood,
MD. If interested, mail resume
to MedStar Shah MSO c/o
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Journalist (Gaithersburg, MD)
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intrp, wrte, rvew, prfrd, uptd
nws artcls, stories. trvl req.
Rqrmt: BS in Journalism
Comm, Eng or Rltd. Apply to
HR, Entrant Global Solutions
LLC, dba DCNepal, 7239
Antares Dr, Gaithersburg, MD
20879.
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Kitchen & Bath Design Specialist: design plans for
kitchen & bath. Use CAD etc.
to produce constr docs.
Advise on interior design factors, design space per req’ts.
AA/AS degree in Interior
Design, Arch, or rel. req. No
exp req. Proficiency in CAD &
knowledge of cabinet sys, etc.
req. FT. Same Day Cabinets
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Landscape Laborers
for ReRy LLC, dba Affordable
Lawn Sprinklers and Lighting,
located in Vienna, VA to perform sprinkler install and
landscaping duties. Multiple
Full-time Permanent Positions Avail. Hrs: 7:00 am4:00pm, M-F + some OT &
weekends. Duties: snow
removal, install and maintain
irrigation systems, and lay
mulch after system installation. No education or experience r'qd. Required: Lift and
carry 35 lbs., perform physical
activities, and work outdoors
all day in all weather conditions. Daily travel to/from
unanticipated client sites
located throughout the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria
MSA area, including Fairfax,
Loudoun, Arlington,
and
Prince William Counties in Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland. Transportation
and tools provided. Interested
parties should contact Kerry
by email or phone at
kerry@affordablelawn
sprinklers.com or
(703) 289-1155. Applicants
must reference PERM-2022
when applying.
Lead International Market
Research Analyst (Washington DC) Resp for prep'g &
reviewing reports of findings
on U.S. trade mrkt, leading
mrkt research projects, hiring
& training mrkt research analysts & evaluate their performance, Master's deg. in bus.,
public affairs, mgmt or a rltd,
proficiency in MS Word, Powerpoint, & Excel req'd. Mail
resume to HAHN KOOK CENTER USA INC. DBA. KITA Washington Center at 1660 L St.
NW, Ste #401, Washington DC
20036
Legal
Associate w/ Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
(Washington, DC). Work w/in
Internat’l Arbitration group:
Rep internat’l clients in complex internat’l investmnt &
commercial arbitrat matters
under applic arbitrat rules,
includ under ICSID & ICC rules,
& under Bilateral Investment
Treaties, focus on disputes
involv mining, oil & gas &
infrastructure sectors in Lat
Am. Reqs JD, LLM, or forgn
equiv. Reqs min 6 mos experience as Trainee Attorney,
Foreign Assoc, or Law Clerk
working in Internat’l Arbitration group of global law firm.
6 mos exp must include: perform legal research & apply
knowledge of Lat Am legal
systems to support attorneys
rep internat’l clients in complex internat’l investmnt &
commercial arbitrat matters,
focus on disputes involv mining, oil & gas & infrastruct
sectors in Lat Am; conduct
research on topics of internat’l law, investmnt arbitrat
& Lat Am laws & regs to
use in prep of legal opinions,
pleadings & briefs; & conduct
research on potential arbitrat
candidates for appt in arbitrat
proceeds under different
rules. Res to Amy.Saulnier@
freshfields.com; must ref
5960702 in subj.

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LEGAL
Assoc. Atty. (China PG): Job
based in Alexandria, VA. Prep.
& rev. patent apps. Draft, rev.
& analy. tech. desc. rel. to
intell. prop. Req. demons.
exper. or knwl. in life sci. &
eng.
fields,
engineering
design, mechanics & intell.
prop., incl. copyright, patent
pract. & proc., trademark &
tech. licensing. Must have
exper. w/Chinese patent sys.
& proc. & exper. in patent IP
law firm. Apply to Hauptman
Ham, LLP at:
https://
theapplicantmanager.com/
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MARKETING
Compass Management Holdings, LLC has a role in Washington, DC.
*Senior Product
Marketing Manager II
[COMP-DC21-YIWG] – Lead
inbound product marketing
efforts; product roadmap
development; product messaging & go-to-market strategy.
Resumes to
compassjobs@compass.com
& note Job ID# in subject line
Market Research Analyst, F/T
for USA Kitchen Expo LLC,
Chantilly, VA. Collect & analyze data on client demographics, preferences, needs,
& habits to identify potential
mrkts & factors affecting their
demand & to optimize our
mktg
campaigns.
Send
resume to Emin Halac, President of USA Kitchen Expo LLC
at 3857 Dulles South Ct, Ste B,
Chantilly, VA 20151.
Market Research Analyst
Conduct market research w/
Excel, Powerpoint, MS Office,
social media. Track & analyze
KPIs & market index. Analyze
market data & trend. Require:
Bachelor in Business Admin/
Economics/Hospitality/
Tourism & 6 months exp in
job offered or as Operations
Manager/Analyst. Resume to:
MS Home Pool Services Inc,
5600 General Washington Dr.
#B209, Alexandria, VA 22312.

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Network Engineers
Computer Packages Inc. (CPi),
a global software company
based in Rockville, MD is seeking experienced Network Engineers to join our dynamic team.
Prefer experience with: MS
Azure administration, Cisco
networking, Windows admin,
iSeries knowledge, Citrix server
admin., firewall and network
security management. Excellent salary and benefits.
Resume only to cpijobs@
computerpackages.com
Night Manager
Supervise and coordinate
activities of planning, marketing, coordinating & administrating hotel services such as
accommodation
facilities.
Ensure hotel environment
runs smoothly. Address customer complaints. Manage
night shift. Req HS, 12 mo exp,
40hr/wk. Resume to Springfield Comfort LLC, 6560 Loisdale Ct, Springfield, VA 22150
Nokia of America Corporation
has a role in Ashburn, VA:
Operations Manager [NOKVA21-NENA]- Manage & operate private LTE & satellite networks; LTE, CDMA wireless
technologies GSM, IP/MPLS;
operations & project management, customer governance,
financial
management,
project launch & delivery. May
work from a home office and
travel to client sites may be
required.
Resumes
to
us.jobs@nokia.com & note
Job ID# in the subject line.

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La Clinica Del Pueblo, Inc. has
openings in Washington, DC:
Sr Graphic Design
Specialist(s)
Regularly assess communication products, materials, educational materials & trainings.
[Job code T4089-00005]
Health Promotion Mgr(s)
Work with Community Health
Action Department Director
to develop & implement work
plan to provide local Latino
community with culturally
appropriate interventions to
reduce health inequalities.
May require to travel/
telecommute.
[Job code T4089-00004]
Email CV to
LSANCHEZ@LCDP.ORG
Must reference job code.
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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Multiple positions available in
Arlington, VA. Amazon.com
Services LLC seeks candidates for Senior Program
Manager. Lead various crossfunctional teams to design,
develop, execute and implement revenue-generating and
cost-saving projects and programs impacting business
and customer experience
involving Supply Chain, Retail,
Import, Fulfillment Center
Customer Service, and related operations by applying
Lean/Six Sigma manufacturing operations and best practices to increase efficiency
within processes.
Qualified applicants should
apply at https://www.
amazon.jobs/en/
referencing Job ID 2026671.
Project Engineer (McLean, VA)
to Dvlp, Prfrm, Prpre,dsgn,
anlyz, Crdnte, Rview, edit &
fnlze initial dsgn, Bluprnts,
Strctrl Drwngs & Plan sets,
pre prchse fasiblty study, intal
dsgn, site plans, engg drwngs,
estmte quntty takeoff, qulty
check, estmts & bids,
vndrs,sub-cntrctrs for project
utilizing AutoCAD Civil 3D,
Retain Pro, HEC-RAS, Storm
and Sanitary Analysis, HydroCAD. Cmply with cnstrctn,
buldng, sfty, envrnmntl stndrd
rgltns, codes & prmitting
prcss in Northern Virginia.
Rqrs BS in civil Engg & 3
yrs exp in palnning & land
development. Stated experience must include experience using AUTOCAD CIVIL
3D, HEC-RAS, STORM & SANITARY ANALYSIS, HYDROCAD,
BUILDPRO or Equv. To Apply:
mail resume to Kul Home &
Investments, LLC, 1445 Dolley
Madison Blvd, Ste F2,
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Regulatory Affairs Spc: BA
Law or Eq. Req. Internal regulatory process incl audit, etc.
Prepare submission to regulatory agencies. Analyze globl
market rules and regs.
Present to CEO. 40 hr/wk.
Resumes to Synutra Pure Ltd,
5515
Glenwood
Road,
Bethesda, MD 20817
Research Assoc III, Bioanalytical Lab in Gaithersburg, MD:
organize & procure reagents,
perf exp & anlyz data; comp
doc assoc w/ test proced inc
data capture, forms, logbooks
& inventory batch records;
make exp concl & interpret
results; verify accuracy &
validity of data & correct
errors; doc & report out-ofspecs results; present lab
manag't w/ summaries troubleshooting efforts & conclusions; participate gen lab
maint. Min req: MS Microbio,
Cellular Bio, Biochem, Biotech
or rel field plus 1 yr rel exp
req'd. Send res w/cover ltr:
HR, Meso Scale Diagnostics,
LLC, 1601 Research Blvd.,
Rockville, MD 20850. No tel.
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Senior Researcher (Education
Statistics) for American Institutes for Research (AIR) to
work at our Arlington VA loc.
May telecommute as necessary. Develop analysis plans
and build analysis models to
identify
practices
for
improved measurement of
NAEP & other NCES largescale assessments. Lead or
co-lead statistical and/or psychometric research studies
by using advanced methodologies.
Contribute
to
research proposals by leading
development of technical
plans, incl data preparation,
identification
of
analytic
approach,
&
conducting
analyses. Apply psychometric
models such as multidimensional or multi-level item
response theory (IRT) models
on response data in largescale assessments to infer &
predict. Advise on psychometric topics & issues such as
multi-stage testing, differential item functioning, test
speededness, or latent-variable models with assessment/survey data. Conduct
research studies using latentvariable/statistical models on
assessment process data to
infer on test-taking behaviors,
test reliability, & validity.
Advise on standard statistical
software packages to execute data analysis methodologies.
Lead
technical
reviews of NAEP publications
incl data products, tech documentation on web & Nation’s
Report Cards. Train & mentor
less experienced psychometricians, methodologists, &
substantive researchers. Participate in prof. development
& scientific stature activities
incl publications & in-depth
research. Contribute to production of statistical reports
using data collected by NCES
that offer information on education policy issues. Supervise small team of Research
Associates & Research Assistants. Little domestic travel
may be involved. May undergo background checks. Must
have PhD in Educational Statistics, Measurement, and
Evaluation or related field, 3
years of relevant experience
in educational measurement
and statistics, and required
skills; Masters in Educational
Statistics, Measurement, and
Evaluation or related field,
and 7 years of relevant experience in educational measurement and statistics, and
required skills; or any suitable
combination of education,
training, or experience is
acceptable. Requires skills (3
years experience) in: classical
and modern test theories;
advanced theoretical and
operational knowledge of IRT
modeling; plausible value
methodology incl generation
and use of plausible values;
structural equation modeling
incl mixture models, multiplegroup
analysis,
growth
modeling, and model-data fit;
handling
missing
data
through multiple imputations
or full-information-maximumlikelihood estimation; analysis of data collected through
complex sample designs;
sampling theory incl sampling, weighting, and estimation; R, flexMIRT and Mplus.
Required experience and
skills can be gained concurrent with education. Apply at
www.air.org; ref. Job # 12097.
EOE
Risk Advisor, Internal
Audit, Process and
Controls (Financial
Services Office) (Manager)
(Multiple Positions),
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP
McLean, VA
Provide comprehensive risk
services through a suite of
strategic, outsourcing, and
industry-focused operational
recommendations that help
companies around the world
evaluate and enhance their
internal audit and risk management functions. Travel
required to meet client needs
up to 80%. Employer will
accept any suitable combination of education, training,
or experience. For complete
job description, list of requirements, and to apply online,
go to: ey.com/en_us/careers,
and click on “Find jobs” (Job
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Senior Analyst, Consumer
Credit Policy & Analytics
(Pentagon Federal Credit
Union: McLean, VA). Support
the development of effective
credit policies by maintaining
a monthly portfolio credit risk
data preparation and reporting process. Job reqs Master’s
in Business Analytics, Statistics, Finance, Quantitative
Management or rltd field &
2 yrs of exp. in data analysis &
reporting, credit risk policy &
analysis, credit risk management, or modeling in financial services industry or Bachelor’s in Business Analytics,
Statistics, Finance, Quantitative Management or rltd field
& 5 yrs of exp. in data analysis
& reporting, credit risk policy
& analysis, credit risk management, or modeling in
financial services industry.
Email cvr ltr & CV to
Recruit@penfed.org.
Ref:
“Senior Analyst, Consumer
Credit Policy & Analytics”.

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patrons for food or bev. HS
or Frgn. Eq. req. Resumes
to Bodega Lounge, Attn: GM
3116 M St., Wash DC 20007
Structural Engineer
(Bethesda, MD) Provide analysis & detailing for preparation
of plans & specs. Provide
technical advice regarding
dsgn & construction & its
modifications. Analyze structural dsgn & data. Prepare
cost estimates. Ensure compliance. Bachelor’s Deg in
Civil Engg or Structural Engg
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Tax Senior Manager, Pass
through entities @ BDO USA,
LLP (McLean, VA) F/T. Prvde
tax & cnsltng srvcs to bsnss
clients w/ pass thrugh entitis
& to their bsinss ownrs. Reqs
Mster's dgree, or forgn eqvlnt, in Accntng, Taxtion or rel
+ 1 yr of exp in jb offrd or
as Tx Mngr, or rel. Mst hve
edu or exp in: Mngng tax
prfssnals; Tax exp; Public accntng, Privte indstry accntng
or cnsulting/prof srvices exp;
Wrkng on indiv, estate, trust,
partnership, S-corp, & private
foundation
tax/cnsltng
clients; MS Office Suite, incl
Windows, Excel, Word, &
Powerpoint. Mst hve CPA or
sufficint educ/exp reqmnts
(as dtermind by state Board of
Accntncy) to recv CPA or IRS
Enrolled Agent ("EA") lcnse or
sfficient educ/ exp reqmnts
(as determined by IRS) to recv
EA w/in 18 mnths of hire
or promo. Mail resume to: T.
Brown, HR, BDO USA, LLP; 615
South College St, Ste 1200,
Charlotte, NC 28202. Indicate
job title & code "YH-VA" in cv
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Amazon.com Services LLC,
an Amazon.com companyArlington, VA:
Quality Assurance
Engineer II: Lead the testing
of large-scale systems, create
test plans, test cases, & drive
continuous improvements to
the
quality
assurance
processes using Internet &
Web technologies including
Apache, HTTP, XML, HTML,
Load Balancing, & DNS.
(AMZ5764019).
Multiple job openings. Apply
online:www.amazon.jobs–
search by AMZ5764019. EOE.

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Computer Packages, Inc.
seeks Application Developers
in Rockville, MD to develop
and build proprietary digital
solutions and applications for
patent litigation and intellectual property software. Code,
test, debug, document, and
implements
applications.
Analyze technical requirements
and
implement
improvements for client application systems. Convert
application systems with different data sources while contemporaneously performing
data analysis, data mapping,
and
conversion
testing.
Requirements:
Bachelor's
degree in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, or a
related
technical
field.
Coursework must include
application
development,
including back-end application development techniques,
multiple web technologies,
database conversions, web
security, and application conversion. Coursework involving intellectual property management systems and the following: Asp.net, C#, Visual
Basic, SQL Server, HTML,
CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and
API's. To apply, please send
resume
to
cpijobs@
computerpackages.com
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Project Manager in Fairfax,
VA (& various unanticipated
locations throughout US)
responsible for day-to-day
tactical duties for technical
program & overseeing results
of multi-functional project
teams. Job req Bach deg or
equiv in Comp Sci, Engg, IT
or rel field & 5 yrs of Agile
Scrum Master exp. Must be
willing to relocate to various
unanticipated work locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon successful comp of background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 1074.
COMPUTER/IT: Amazon Web
Services, Inc., an Amazon.com Company, has multiple openings in Herndon, VA,
for Cloud Support Engineer
II (SCD, NET, SEC) to provide
advanced remote tech supp
to customers by responding
to difficult tech inquiries rel
to large, production critical
issues to propose solutions
to/resolve root causes of
cloud network/system issues.
To apply: visit amazon.jobs,
enter 59644-15 in search bar,
click link w/ matching Job
Title & Job ID and click Apply
now.
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout
US) to research, design,
devel, &/or mod enterprisewide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, Info Systs, IT or rel field
& 3 yrs of s/w app devel
exp w/ Java/J2EE. Must be
willing to relocate to various
unanticipated work locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon successful comp of background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 996.
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Business Systems Analyst in
Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout
US) to act as liaison between
business function & info
systs, provide technical/functional expertise ident, eval, &
devel basic systs. Job req
Bach deg in Comp Sci, Engg, IT
or rel field & 2 yrs of s/w devel
exp using Java & J2EE techs.
Must be willing to relocate
to various unanticipated work
locations throughout US. All
offers of emp are contingent
upon successful comp of
background check, which
may incl drug screen depending on work assignment.
Email resume to recruiting@
cgifederal.com & ref job code
999.

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COMPUTER/IT: Amazon Web
Services, Inc., an Amazon.com Company, has multiple openings in Herndon, VA,
for Cloud Support Engineer
II (Windows) to provide
advanced remote tech supp
to customers by responding
to difficult tech inquiries rel
to large, production critical
issues to propose solutions
to/resolve root causes of
cloud network/system issues.
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enter 59644-16 in search bar,
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COMPUTER/IT: Amazon Web
Services, Inc., an Amazon.com Company, has multiple openings in Herndon, VA,
for Cloud Support Engineer
II (DBA, ANA, BD) to provide
advanced remote tech supp
to customers by responding
to difficult tech inquiries rel
to large, production critical
issues to propose solutions
to/resolve root causes of
cloud network/system issues.
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COMPUTER/IT: Amazon Web
Services, Inc., an Amazon.com Company, has multiple openings in Herndon, VA,
for Cloud Support Engineer II
(Deployment, DMS) to provide
advanced remote tech supp
to customers by responding
to difficult tech inquiries rel
to large, production critical
issues to propose solutions
to/resolve root causes of
cloud network/system issues.
To apply: visit amazon.jobs,
enter 59644-13 in search bar,
click link w/ matching Job
Title & Job ID and click Apply
now.

Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout
US) to research, design,
devel, &/or mod enterprisewide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg or equiv in
Comp Sci, Comp Engg, IT or
rel field & 6 yrs of ETL s/w
devel exp. Must be willing
to relocate to various unanticipated
work
locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon successful comp of background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 930.

COMPUTER/IT: Amazon Web
Services, Inc., an Amazon.com Company, has multiple openings in Herndon, VA,
for Cloud Support Engineer II
(Linux) to provide advanced
remote tech supp to customers by responding to difficult tech inquiries rel to large,
production critical issues to
propose solutions to/resolve
root causes of cloud network/system issues. To apply:
visit
amazon.jobs,
enter
59644-14 in search bar, click
link w/ matching Job Title &
Job ID and click Apply now.
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout
US) to research, design,
devel, &/or mod enterprisewide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, Info Systs, IT or rel field
& 5 yrs of s/w devel exp using
Java & J2EE techs. Must be
willing to relocate to various
unanticipated work locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 986.
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout US)
to research, design, develop,
and/or modify enterprisewide systems and/or applications software. Job req Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in
Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, IT
or a related field & 6 years
of Java development experience. Must be willing to relocate to various unanticipated work locations throughout US. All offers of emp are
contingent upon successful
comp of a background check,
which may incl drug screen
depending on work assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 976.
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout
US) to research, design,
devel, &/or mod enterprisewide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, Info Systs, IT or rel field
& 6 yrs of insurance industry
Forms s/w devel exp. Must be
willing to relocate to various
unanticipated work locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon successful comp of background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 991.
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout
US) to research, design,
devel, &/or mod enterprisewide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, Info Systs, IT, or rel field
& 5 yrs of designing & devel
apps using Java/J2EE techs.
Must be willing to relocate
to various unanticipated work
locations throughout US. All
offers of emp are contingent
upon successful comp of
background check, which
may incl drug screen depending on work assignment.
Email resume to recruiting@
cgifederal.com & ref job code
948.
Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipated locations throughout
US) to research, design,
devel, &/or mod enterprisewide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, Info Systs, IT or rel field
& 5 yrs of J2EE s/w devel exp.
Must be willing to relocate
to various unanticipated work
locations throughout US. All
offers of emp are contingent
upon successful comp of
background check, which
may incl drug screen depending on work assignment.
Email resume to recruiting@
cgifederal.com & ref job code
995.
Computer Systems Analyst
Herndon, VA. Seeking MS in
Comp. Sci., IT, or closely rel.
Mail CV to Attn: HR/Job 0408,
AttainX, Inc., 13873 Park Center Rd, #212N, Herndon, VA
20171.

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Computer/IT: CGI Technologies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Engineer in Fairfax,
VA (& various unanticipated
locations throughout US) to
design, develop, document,
test & debug apps s/w & systems that contain logical &
math solutions. Job req Bach
deg in Comp Sci, Engg, IT or a
rel field & 8 yrs s/w apps dev
exp in the IT industry using
Java tech. Must be willing to
relocate to various unanticipated
work
locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 1073.
CONSULTANT
Deloitte Consulting LLP seeks
a Consulting, Senior Consultant in McLean, VA & various
unanticipated Deloitte office
locations & client sites nationally to drive the development
of Cloud-based technologies,
including
data cleansing
and conversions, interface
design/development,
and
systems development life
cycle. 50% travel required
nationally.
Telecommuting
permitted. To apply visit
apply.deloitte.com.
Enter
XBAL22FC0422MCL1129 in
“Search jobs” field. EOE,
including disability/veterans.
CoStar Realty Information,
Inc. seeks a Database Developer to work with application
developers
on
database
schema
and
procedure
through development, staging, and production environments. Conduct performance
analysis to ensure products
provide optimal performance.
Perform query optimization
and performance tuning.
Design and implement new
tables to store data and related performance time series.
Design indexes for new
tables, analyze existing indexes for improvement, and
deliver work products that
meet specifications as well as
ensure quality. Perform code
stored procedures of high
complexity to meet product
requirements. Write and
update advanced stored procedures for business reporting
purposes.
Position
requires a Master’s degree in
Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or
a related STEM field, and 2
years of experience with data
warehousing, and maintaining database designs and
models.
Experience must
include a minimum of: 1 year
of experience with evaluating
emerging technologies to
identify opportunities, trends,
and
best
practices
to
strengthen technology platform and development practices; 1 year of experience
with building design consensus on software development
in order to introduce new
database technologies to the
business; 1 year of experience with software development lifecycle, updating existing data models, and writing
unit tests; 1 year of experience with developing acceptance test specifications and
tracking defects; 1 year of
experience with database
query performance, profiling,
and tuning, as well as with
design and code reviews; and
1 year of experience with
business intelligence, design
patterns, manual and automated testing, reporting solutions, requirements gathering
and analysis, SDLC, SQL Server, and T-SQL programming.
Job location: Bethesda, MD.
To apply, please visit http://
costargroup.com/careers
and enter Job Code R28047
when prompted. Alternatively, please send your resume,
cover letter, and a copy of the
ad to E. Brown, Recruiter,
CoStar, 1331 L Street NW,
Washington,
DC
20005.
CoStar Group is an Equal
Employment
Opportunity
Employer; we maintain a
drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
CTIS, Inc. seeks an Oracle
Forms and Reports Developer
to design, develop, and test
web forms and backend database objects based on customer specifications. Perform
performance
tuning
on
queries and database objects
and optimize application perParticipate
in
formance.
design and code reviews, and
contribute to architectural
and systems-level design
activities. Document standard project artifacts expected by CMMi Level 3 processes, including standard operating procedures, technical
specifications, implementing
reusable components, and
resolve enterprise level security vulnerabilities. Maintain
large-scale enterprise applications, participate in integration efforts with internal/
external applications/products and perform impact
analysis. Document standard
project artifacts, including
standard operating procedures, design and technical
specifications, and unit test
cases.
Develop
product
design documents and support configuration management
artifacts.
Position
requires a Bachelor’s degree
in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering,
or a related STEM field, followed by 5 years of progressively responsible experience
with Oracle Forms and
Reports.
Experience must
include a minimum of: 1 year
of experience with Oracle
DBA
supporting
Oracle
11g/12c in a production environment; 1 year of experience
with Oracle WebLogic Application Server and MS SQL
Server; 1 year of experience
with Oracle Development
Tools, including Forms11g,
Reports11g, and Jdeveloper;
1 year of experience with Oracle database backup and
recovery solutions using
RMAN and Import/Export;
and 1 year of experience with
capacity planning and ETL
data using SQL Loader and
External Tables.
Job location: Rockville, MD. To
apply, please visit http://
www.ctisinc.com/careers/
and search Oracle Forms and
Reports Developer when
prompted. Or, please send
your resume, cover letter, and
copy of the ad to: CTIS, Inc.,
One Research Ct., Ste 200,
Rockville, MD 20850, Attn:
Miten Shah.
CTIS is an Equal Opportunity,
Affirmative Action Employer.

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CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER
Visa Technology & Operations
LLC, a Visa Inc. company, currently has openings in our
Ashburn, VA location for:
Cybersecurity
Engineers
(REF46827U): To secure technology testing to support
secure product version and
major change events. Develop automation scripts/programs to facilitate testing.
Maintain industry practices
for threat analytics and incident response. Up to 2% travel required within both the
United States and internationally. To apply, please reference Job#s above when mailing resume to: LJ, Visa Inc.,
MS: M1-12 SW, 900 Metro
Center Blvd., Foster City, CA
94404. EOE
DATA ENGINEER II
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions
available) in Herndon, VA:
Data Engineer II
(Job ID: 2024912). Work as
a technical leader alongside
customer business, development
and
infrastructure
teams.
Apply at: https://www.
amazon.jobs/en/ referencing
job ID: 2024912.
Data Scientist: Collect & analyze health care datasets to
improve proprietary products. Analyze & model structured & unstructured data &
implement algorithms for predictive data analysis using
stats, machine learning, data
mining, & ops research. Support data-driven decisions via
quality data flow to databases, develop dashboards &
reports & support bus. units
w/ relevant data. Min. req:
MS in Comp. Sci. Eng’g, Stats,
Physical Sci., Ops Res, similar
quantitative field + 1 yr of
exp. w/ advanced math, stats,
analysis packages & programming languages req’d (R,
Python, Oracle SQL Developer, MySQL). Will accept skills
exp gained from a combo of
grad research &/or employ
as data scientist. Job in
Rockville, MD. Telecommute
avail from w/in DC area. Mail
or email resume & cover ltr
to HR, DrFirst.com, Inc., 9420
Key West Ave., Ste. 230,
Rockville,
MD
20850
careers@drfirst.com.
No calls.
EOE
Eng 4, Prdct Dev & Eng
Comcast Cable Comm, LLC,
Reston, VA. Prov tech lead to
teams resp for bldg & mntning
XFin Conn Voice Prtl, Xfin
Conn mbl app, and all undlying mddlwre; Reqs: Bach in
CS, Eng or rel; 5 yrs exp dev
SW use Agile methods, Java or
J2EE, Eclipse, Jmeter, Junit &
Soap UI; & prfrm data analysis
& logging use Splunk & Elasticsearch; 3 yrs incl use HTTP,
SIP, WebRTC or SOAP comm
prtcls; & perfm CI/CD use
Jenkins, Concourse, & Github;
& 1 yr incl use PL/SQL &
Perl, Python, or Unix. Apply
to: renu_puril@comcast.com
Ref Job ID #6155

To apply, send resume to
3423@google.com. Must reference Job Code # below:
Customer Engineer (Reston,
VA) Collaborate w/ Google
teams to understand & meet
business
requirements.
Google LLC; 1615.65396 Exp
Inc: Python & SQL; PySpark &
Tensorflow; AI & Mach Learning systems; & Design &
Mgmt of Big Data Technologies, Databases & Info
Retrieval systems. Trvl Rq’d.
Position reports to the Google
Reston office & may allow for
partial telecommuting.
Engineering
ST Engineering iDirect Inc.,
seeks a Senior Engineer I
DevOps at our office location
in Herndon, VA to use cntxt
drvn tech solutions that enble
dlvry tms to prdctbly & rpdtly
dlvr w/cnfdnce. Ths reqs a
Bchlr’s dgr in Systms Engg,
Elctrcl Engg, Sftwr Engg,
Comp Sci, or a rltd fld of stdy
& 5 years of exprnc. The co
wld als accpt a Mstr’s dgr
& 3 yrs of exprnc. Exprnc
mst invlv 3 yrs in the fllwng:
at lst 1of the fllwng cnfgrtn
mngmnt tls in prdctn envrnmnts: Chf, Pppt, Ansble, Slt,
Mven, Bmboo, Jnkins, or Crse
Cntrl; implmntng infrstrctr as
cde & sftwr dfnd ntwrkng in
bth cld & physcl envrnmnts
(Terrfrm & CldFrmtn); rvson
cntrl srce cde rpstres (GIT &
SVN); Scld Agle & Ln mthdlgs;
atmtng a rl-wrld prdctn envrnmnt; vrtlzd Envrnmnts; Entrprse LAN/WAN ntwrk archtctr, TCP/IP, rtng prtcls, ld blncng, frwlls & ntwrkng bst
prctcs; srvr & wrksttn oprtng
systms & archtctrs (Wndws &
Lnx; at lst one scrptng lngg
(PwrShll, Pythn, Bsh, Rby, or
Prl); atmt applctn bld prcdrs
& rltd bld jbs fr bth dvlpmnt
& prdctn envrnmnts; atmtd
mntrng, rprtng, & anlyss fr all
aspcts of the DevOps envrnmnts; intgrtn of sftwr tl-chn
int a Cntns Intgrtn & Cntns
Dplymnt
envrnmnt;
Chf,
Pppet, Slt, or Ansbl in prdctn
envrnmnts; dplyng & mngng
rsrcs on AWS; & mngmnt of
contnus intgrtn srvrs, incldng
Jnkns, Bmboo & TeamCity.
Send res by mail, ref Job Code
2022-1846 to ST Engineering
iDirect, Inc., ATTN: Carole
Knott, 13861 Sunrise Valley
Dr., Ste 300, Herndon, VA
20171.
Engineer, Research
Scientist, Sr.
FireEye Security Holdings US
LLC., Reston, VA. Perform
leading-edge exploit, vulnerability and malware research
using static and dynamic
analysis techniques to generate security content for
detection in the FireEye Endpoint Security product across
Windows, Linux and macOS
operating systems. May work
remotely from anywhere in
the United States. To apply,
please mail resume to ATTN:
Heidi Vaughn, 11951 Freedom
Drive, 6th Floor, Reston, VA
20190. Please refer to job
#21087.30.

Front End Developer wanted
by Berkley Insurance Company (d/b/a Berkley Alternative Markets Tech) in Manassas, VA. Translate functional
reqmts for customer portal
into techn'l reqmts &/or
change orders to expand customer portal capabilities &
automate processes & procedures in-house. Master's deg
in Comp Sci, Mech Engg or
rel + 3 yrs exp OR Bach's
deg in Comp Sci, Mech Engg
or rel + 5 yrs exp. Addt'l job
reqs on our website. Apply
at berkley.com/careers (ID
2022-6838)
FULL STACK DEVELOPER
Bechtel Global Corp. hiring
Full Stack Developer in
Reston, VA. Design & deliver
data pipelnes & features
using mdrn cloud & big-data
architectures. BS+5yrs exp or
MS+3yrs exp reqd. Email
resume & cover letter to
bechtelusjobs@bechtel.com
ref Req # 228194

Full Stack Java Dvlprs
with Java skills sought by
AJACE INC based in Chantilly,
VA. Full Duties & reqmts available at https://www.
ajace.com/category/jobs.
Send resume with code
FSD21 to recruitment@
ajace.com.
GIS Technical Lead: Bach in CS
& Engineering, IT, Geographic
Science or rel + 5 yr exp.
Use ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS
Portal, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS
API for JavaScript, .Net, & C#
to implement web apps. F/T.
Leidos, Inc. Bethesda, MD. CV
to gordon.k.hall@leidos.com
& ref. job #6534.
Principals only. No calls/visa
sponsorship.

Intellitek Inc has mult. F/T
perm. opening for Programmer/ Sys/ QA/ Bus/ Lead/ IT
Analysts, Project Mngrs. Work
loc'n: Sterling, VA and various
unanticipated loc'n in U.S.
Reloc’n poss, travel reqd. Mail
Resume to: HR, Intellitek, Inc.,
21525 Ridgetop Circle, Suite
120, Sterling, VA, 20166.

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IT Consultant. Manassas, VA.
Will work at unanticipated
client locs. throughout the
U.S. Dsgn, dvlp, test, & maintain automation s/ware for
Point-of-sale suite of application incl OMNI retail & OMNI
indirect. Dvlp custom libraries
for automation using Java,
Selenium WebDriver, Appium.
Dsgn & dvlp API automation
framework w/ Rest assured.
Dvlp automation framework
of mobile regression suite
using Java, TestNG, Eclipse,
SDK for Android & IOS mobile
testing w/ Appium. Coord w/
team members, dvlprs, test
execution team & project
mgrs for proper defect mgmt
strategies. Translating s/ware
specs & user reqmts into test
scenarios. Tools & Technologies: Java, MySQL, Selenium
WebDriver, Appium, Mongo
DB, Eclipse, AWS, JIRA,
XCODE. Reqmts: Master's
deg. in Comp. Sci, Comp. Sci
Engg or a rltd field & 1 yr of
exp in comp. s/ware dvlp'g
&/or consulting. Will accept
Bachelor's deg. & 5 yrs of exp
in lieu. Will accept US equiv
of the degrees. Respond to
Attn.: HR (Ref. GG962B), Vaisnavi Group, LLC, 8809 Sudley
Rd, Manassas, VA 20110.

IT Professionals
Ent. Lvl to Sen. Lvl Sftwr
Engnrs, Prgmr Anlysts, Sftwr
Dvlprs, Sys. Admins, DBAs, QA
Anlysts are needed for our
Herndon, VA office. May req.
traveling. Send resume, Cvr
Ltr., & Sal. Req. to Nantez Inc
at 503 Carlisle Dr., Ste 175A,
Herndon VA, 20170
IT Professionals
Ent. Lvl to Sen. Lvl Sftwr Devs.
are needed for our Arlington,
VA office. May req. traveling.
Pls send resume, Cvr Ltr., &
Sal. Req. to
SalesIntel
Research, Inc. at HR@
salesintel.io

IT Professionals (Tysons, VA)
Software Engineers, Software
Developers, Software Quality
Assurance Engineers, Mult
positions. May also req travel
to various unanticipated
client sites nationally. Mail
resume to CloudWave Inc.,
Attn: HRGC, 1775 Tysons Blvd,
5th Flr, Tysons, VA 22102.
IT Professionals (multiple
positions) to consult with
clients, gather and analyze
requirements, recommend
solutions and develop/design,
test and implement software
applications,
interfaces,
forms or reports. Some positions involve technical project
management, software engineering, quality assurance or
big data engineering. Will
work with various skills/tools
such as: Angular, JavaScript,
NodeJS, Bootstrap, Media
Queries,
HTML,
CSS,
Java/J2EE, Jenkins, Jasmine,
APIs, TDD, RESTful Web Services, Ajax, JSON, Spring,
Spring Boot, Spring MVC,
Spring IOC, DI, JPA, Postman.
Hibernate, MVC, Agile/Scrum.
Bit Bucket, Python, Cassandra, Hive. Apache. Spark,
Scala, Cloudera, Kafka, ETL,
SQL Server Management Studio, ETL, Visual Studio, Defect
management tools, Windows,
Azure, PHP, AngularJS, SQL,
NoSQL, Oracle, Mongodb, Git
or JIRA. Each available position does not require every
listed skill/tool so your
resume should indicate your
specific
skills.
Worksite:
Reloc. for long/short term
projects to var. unantic. client
sites in U.S. req'd. Send
resumes to Sundeep Punreddy, Axis Tech, Inc., 22648
Glenn Dr, Ste 106, Sterling,
VA 20164.
Lead Software Engineer
Capital One Services, LLC in
Northern VA; Mult pos avail:
Lead overall tech design,
dvlpmnt, modification, &
implementation of comp apps
using existing & emerging
tech platforms. To apply, visit
https://capitalone.wd1.
myworkdayjobs.com/
Capital_One and search
"Lead Software Engineer"
or "R137762".

Machine Learning /DevOps
Developer: BS in computer
related. 6 months training/internship in software
dev. Expertise in software
engr, Data science & visualization, computational linguistics, computer vision,
machine learning, data structures & algorithms. Tech.
skills in AngularJS, JAVA
Spring, Python, PHP, MVC &
SonarQube.
Travel/Reloc.
Resumes to: Biswas Information Technology Solutions,
171 Elden Street, Suite 2CI,
Herndon, VA 20170 email:
hsbiswas@b-itsinc.com
Principal Associate, Data
Science – Capital One Services, LLC in Northern VA;
Mult pos avail: Lead application & validation of stat &
other math methods to collect, organize, interpret, &
sum econ data to assist in
decision-making & spprt the
dvlpmnt of bus strat.
To apply, visit https://
capitalone.wd1.myworkday
jobs.com/Capital_One and
search "Principal Associate,
Data Science" or "R140001".

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PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Computer Sciences Corporation is accepting resumes for
the position of Professional
Programmer Analyst in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #5678850).
Codes, tests, debugs, implements, and documents programs. Assists in the modification of company products
and/or customer/internal systems to meet the needs of the
client and/or end-user. Gathers information from the system, analyzes program and
time requirements, and prepares documentation
to
change existing programs.
Will work at unanticipated
client sites throughout the
U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Email resume to
globallmobility@dxc.com.
Resume must include Ref.
#5678850, full name, email
address & mailing address.
No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S.
without sponsorship. EOE.
QA Engineer (mult open).
Undrstnd Bus flow & bus reqs.
Use ETL, Ab initio, Oracle, Teradata, JMS Viewer, Elastic
Search, XML, HTML, PL/SQL,
Putty, Jira, HP ALM, MS Office
Suite. 40 hrs/wk, MS/equiv
Comp Sci, Electr Eng, Info Syst
or rel fld (will accept BS+5 yrs
exp in lieu of MS), 1 yr exp
(or 1 yr exp in rel occup).
Must be willing to travel or
relocate to unanticip loctns in
US on short notice for extended periods of time. Mail res
w/ ID#289: Tekorg, Inc, 22636
Glenn Drive, Suite 203, Sterling, VA 20164.
REPORT DEVELOPERS/DATA
ANALYSTS
(Frederick, MD): The Report
Developer/Data Analyst will
analyze audio quality, data
performance, call performance and video quality data
for wireless device performance. Deliver high quality
reports to our customers.
Develop quality control methods and procedures to
improve the quality of data
collected and reports generated. Apply via website:
www.spirent.com/careers.
Reference job #AD373795.
Senior Developer
for Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. in
Rockville, MD to work with
Big Data technologies including Hive, Hadoop, Spark and
Scala. Requires: Bachelor's
degree in computer science,
information systems, engineering, mechanical engineering (willing to accept foreign education equivalent)
plus five years of experience
in software development
within the Big Data ecosystem. Specific skills/other
requirements - Experience
must include (quantitative
experience requirements not
applicable to this section):
Hive and Hadoop framework;
Spark framework; Scala programming language; OOZIE
orchestration/job
management; Java programming; and
SQL Query and analytic functions.
Reference Position
Number: If interested in this
role, visit www.finra.org/
careers and apply online to
position # R-004335.
Senior Manager, Product
Innovation (Mult Pos)
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Advisory Services LLC, Washington, DC. Help clnts w incrprtng increasd automation in
crtcl bus prcsses, increase
analytic capabilities through
data intgrtn, manpltn and
cnsmptn lifecycle. Req Bach’s
deg or foreign equiv in Ops
Research, Comp Sci, Bus
Admin, MIS or rel + 6 yrs rel
work exp, of which 5 yrs must
be post-bach’s, progrssv rel
work exp; OR Master’s deg
or foreign equiv in Ops
Research, Comp Sci, Bus
Admin, MIS or rel + 4 yrs
rel work exp. 80% telcmmtng
permitted. Mst be able to
commute to designated local
office. Travel up to 80% req.
Apply by mail, referencing Job
Code DC3304, Attn: HR
SSC/Talent
Management,
4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd,
Tampa, FL 33607.
SOFTWARE
Amazon.com Services LLC
seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions
available) in Arlington, VA:
Software Developers,
Applications
Software
Development
Engineer II
(Job ID 2006311). Design,
develop, implement, test,
document and deliver largescale, multi-tiered, distributed or embedded software
applications, tools, systems
and services using Object Oriented programming, distributed or embedded programming, C#, C++, Java, C, relational databases and/or related technologies in Linux,
Unix, or related sophisticated
platform or operating system
in an Agile environment. Limited telecommuting benefits
available.
Qualified applicants should
apply at https://www.
amazon.jobs/en/ referencing
Job ID.
Software Developers
Degree In comp/engr. MS
(2YRS) or BS (5YRS) expr.
Expertise in Software Engr,
OOPS,
OOAD,
Statistical
Methods & appls, TDD, Entity
& Pivotal Foundry Framework, Urban code deployment, Web API, jQuery,
JAVAScript, C# & .NET Tech.
Telecommuting
allowed.
Resumes to: H.R., Creative
Systems and Consulting,
2550 S Clark St., Ste 1200,
Arlington, VA 22202
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Gather & analyze user
reqmtts, design & develop
new software, modify & test
commercial client server
apps, evaluate existing &
emerging software, full life
cycle development to perform sophisticated software
engineering jobs. Provide
ongoing support for system
modification, maintenance,
optimization, & prep documentation. Participate in system & database design meetings. Meet w/clients to
resolve
ongoing
dvlpmt
issues. Travel & reloc possible to unanticipated locations
throughout the U.S. Work loc:
Columbia, MD. Mail res: Unify
Solutions, Inc., 5457 Twin
Knolls Rd., Ste 405, Columbia
MD 21045
SQL Database Developer
and Data Visualization
Specialist
Implmnt systm rqrmnts; Dsgn
& dvlp data models & dtbse
architectr; Write & maintn
dtbse docmntation, procedures & definitns for data dictionary (metadata); Manage
integrtn of data thru key &
index mngmnt; Resolv escaltd
reprtg & dtbse issues; custmr
srvc & coverage for critical
problms; Identify issues &
recmmnd solutns; Create
techncl docmntatn, data
models & data flow diagrms;
Conduct wrk brkdwns, task
definitn, vndor coordnatn &
status reprtng using Projct
Mangmnt Methodlgy & Agile
Methodlgies; Prvd updates on
activties & projct status incl.
spcl reprts in respns to
user/admin inqry; Prvd vndor
liaison for princpl projcts &
eval vendr prpsls; Dsgn rprtng
dtbse schema & ETL stratgy to
spprt data analytics focused
web app; Implmnt row-lvl
security on data & app security layer models in Power
BI; Dsgn & dvlp data analysis
tools thru PowerBI; Use DAX
query & M formula lang to
genrate calculatns & visuals;
Intgrte Power BI rprts into
apps using PowerBI Embed
API. REQ: Mstr's degree in Info
Tech, Electrcl Engrg, Comp Sci
or rltd fld & 6 mnths exp
w/ Microsoft SQL Server &
content management systems (CMS) OR Bchlr's degree
in Info Tech, Electrcl Engrg,
Comp Sci or rltd fld & 5 yrs
exp w/ Microsoft SQL Server
& content management systems (CMS). Exp must incld
6 mnths in each of the foll:
Creating a Data Warehouse
using Microsoft SQL Server
Analysis Services to develop
data modeling for business
intelligence, analysis, and
visualization; OLAP, SSIS,
SSRS,
PowerBI,
Crystal
Report; DAX Studio, PostmanAPI, Azure data studio; Web
applications
development
using ASP.NET & VB.NET; &
Stored procedure & trigger
development using MSSQL
server. Auto Care Assoc.,
Bethesda, MD. To apply send
resume & cvr ltr to:
Lea Diamond, Director of HR,
Auto Care Assoc. @
autocarejobs@autocare.org
Must include job code
sq0422
Sr. Engineer, Data Warehouse
(Arlington, VA - Tlcmmt’ng
prmssbl) (Mult pos). Srv as
a key membr of the Bus. Intllgnc tchnlgy tm. Prtcpt in the
intgrtn wrk strm to dsgn, dvlp,
& dlvr intgrtn sltns, adhr’ng
to estblshd dvlpmnt & prjct
lfcycl procss. Req. Mstr’s deg
or frgn equiv in InfoSys, IT,
or Engg (any w/ the use of
IT) & 2 yrs of exp in the jb
offrd or a rltd pos wrk’ng w/
a data intgrtn envrnmnt prt of
applctns pltfrm dvlpmnt. Or,
in the alt, must’ve Bachlr’s
degree in same and exp in
same. Must’ve relvt work exp.
Apply res/cvr let to Evolent
Health LLC., Ref SC2022,
humanresources@
evolenthealth.com. No calls.

Sr. Software Engineer I
with Cambium Assessment,
Inc. (Washington, DC). Prvde
cstm sftwre slutns for clnts
& intrnl spprt systms. Wrk
frm
hme/telecmmtng
is
prmssble. Rprts to hdqrtrs in
Wshngtn, DC. Reqs: Bac's in
Comp Sci or rel plus 4 yrs'
prfssnl .NET sftwre dvlpmnt
exp. Must hve 3 yrs w/ each:
Utlzng C#, ASP.Net, XML &
Entity Frmwrk to dvlp bcknd
layer code; Wrkng w/ rlatnl
DBs & wrtng SQL queries to
dsgn effcnt data strge/anlyses data/speed up data
retrievng; Cndctng objct orientd (OO) anlysis & dsgning
princpls to stndrdze codng
princpls & ease code maintnancs; Undrstndng algrthms
to mke prgrm to run qckly
& effcntly; Utlzng frntnd layer
dvlpmnt langugs, HTML, SCSS,
JavaScript, jQuery & Vue.js,
to dvlp frntnd layer code;
Undrstndng VB & usng it in Sql
Srvr Rprtng Systm to gnrate
PDF & Excl rprts drctly from
DB; Usng TeamCity & Octopus
to build & dploy code into
dffrnt envrnmnts; & Usng
Redgate tools to cndct
Schema & Data mgrtn.
Qualified Applicants: Apply on
our website https://
cambiumlearning.wd1.my
workdayjobs.com/en-US/
camb/details/SeniorSoftware-Engineer-I_REQ1680
SW Engineer Sr. to work in
Reston, VA. Opportunity to
work from home. Apply
www.saic.com,
Science
Applications
International
Corporation.
Job
code#
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TECH-Multiple IT Positions in
Fairfax, VA area:
Software Engineers I: Develop, design & code software
programs, components, apps,
modules & units. Dev/prep
software test plans.
Software
Engineers
II:
Design, develop, modify,
analysis, implement, document & post implement support of software apps.
Computer Systems
Analysts I: Analyze, modify and evaluate existing or
proposed software, hardware
and business processes. All
positions req travel/reloc to
various unanticipated locations.
Send res to Sunraise Technologies, 9516 Lee Highway,
Suite A, Fairfax, VA 22031.
Technical Analyst
Softthink Solutions has positions for Technical Analyst
with Associates degree in
Computer Science, Arts, or
related & 3 yrs of exp to
deploy code to QA by coord
w/ Deployment team. Writ
reusable, test, & efficient
code. Integrate user-facing
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dvlprs w/ server-side logic.
Implmnt server-side CSS preprocessors. Attend scrums &
Iteration
planning
sessions/Rqmnt Gatherings. Take
product specifs & translate
to UI templates using HTML5,
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Wrk location is Herndon,VA
with reqd travel to client locations throughout the USA.
Please mail resumes to 560
Herndon
Parkway,
Suite
100A, Herndon,VA 20170 (OR)
email : stsi_hr@softthink.com
TECHNOLOGY
Sr. Analyst, Data Quality: Job
based in McLean, VA. Supp.
data qlty. mgmt. Must have
exper. in data mgmt.., database & SQL concepts incl.
database table design & relationships, analy. data using
SQL queries, BI tools incl.
Tableau & MicroStrategy, adv.
formulas & pivot tables in MS
Excel & analy. & quant. problem-solving. Apply to Hilton
Domestic Operating Company Inc. at
https://jobs.hilton.com/us/en
using req. #COR012A9
TECHNOLOGY
PROFESSIONALS
Multiple openings available in
Reston, VA. Wal-Mart is seeking candidates for the following positions: Software Engineer III, Software Engineer II.
Job duties incl but not limited
to dsgn’g, dvlp’g, implementing, testing & supporting systs
& bus. apps. For job req’mts &
to apply, visit
http://careers.walmart.com
& apply to any of
the following Job ID #’s:
R-1038271, R-1038985,
R-1038719. EOE, AAE.
TECHNOLOGY
Deloitte Consulting LLP seeks
a Consulting, Specialist Senior
in McLean, Virginia and various unanticipated Deloitte
office locations and client
sites nationally to drive software development and implementation services to help
companies unlock the value
of big technology investments, ranging from requirements to architecture, design
to development, testing to
deployment, and beyond as
discrete services or comprehensive solutions. 50% travel
required nationally. Telecommuting permitted. To apply
visit apply.deloitte.com. Enter
XBAL22FC0422MCL6934 in
"Search jobs" field. EOE,
including disability/veterans.
Validation Eng’r III
Rockville, MD. Ensure product release meets standards.
Dvlp comprehensive s/w test
plans. Plan for & dvlp Automated frameworks / Automation scripts. Analyze & document results, report & track
s/w issues, verify & validate
fixes. Dvlp code scripts. Dvlp
perf test scripts / s/w utilities.
Apply online w/Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. at
https://
leidosbiomed.csod.com/
ux/ats/careersite/4/
home/requisition2602?c=
leidosbiomed

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SHIH-TZU PUPPIES - $1000.
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MALTESE PUPPIES, pure bread, white,
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MIXED PUPPIES - Mom Gr Pyr / Newfie. Dad Bernese Mtn Dog. M/F avail.
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Yorkshire Terrier - Yorkie 1 F, 1 M, 10
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The Emmes Company, LLC
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1957 by the Virginia State Corporation Commission…
Industrial Electrician I/
Trainee–Herndon
Fairfax Water has an immediate opening for an Industrial
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more experienced Industrial
Electrician, provides assistance with the installation,
maintenance and repair of
electrical systems…

Industrial Electrician
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Performs highly skilled electrical/HVAC work associated
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systems and equipment by:
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to schedule on all electrical
operated…

Member Services
Representative/Teller–
Washington D.C.
Sparks Group, partnering
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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to ensuring that each and every one of them achieves success.
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Registrar I–Alexandria
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are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent
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Government Contractor–Established in 1980, MIL provides innovative cyber, engineering, financial, and information technology
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Grants Analysis, Analyst–
Washington D.C.
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Labor Relations Consultant
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position to Fairfax County
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the County Executive and all
managers of all departments
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staff members is needed to ensure the smooth and successful
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schools located in Largo, Landover & Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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a competitive salary and benefit package. The mission of The
Foundation Schools is to serve the special education…
Administrative Assistant
(Type II Program) (11
Months) SY 2022-2023–
Rockville
The Foundation Schools is a
special education day school
which delivers innovative
school programs and support services for children
and adolescents with emotional disabilities, autism
spectrum disorders…

Senior Project Manager/
Client Manager Healthcare–Fairfax
Dewberry is seeking to grow
our MEP Healthcare practice
in the Mid-Atlantic region
and looking for a Senior Project Manager/Client Manager
to lead the continued expansion for our Fairfax, Virginia
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Consulting-Specifying…

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engineering, management and vision issues in defense systems acquisition and sustainment in support of our National
defense. DCS, a privately-held and employee-owned…
Systems Engineer–Belcamp
DCS is seeking a Systems
Engineer to perform a wide
range of systems engineering services to ensure the
customer is compliant with
program requirements and
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