abcde
In different kind of spectacle,
Arenas were empty in the NBA’s bubble on Thursday, but
players did agree to resume the playoffs.
Unified, athletes
shake sports world
and the country
More boycotts over violence against
Black people halt games temporarily
By Bob Hohler
globe staff
t he protesting athle tes
speak as if they can feel the
knee on their neck or the bul-
lets in their back, as if they
were the young men and wom-
en who look like them who
have been dying in the streets.
from coast to coast, black
sports figures stood together
thursday in unprecedented
numbers to express rage and
sorrow and to plead for prog-
ress in the nation’s bloody reck-
oning with racial injustice.
their protests interrupted the
professional basketball, hockey,
baseball, and soccer seasons
but stopped short of ending
them entirely.
in foxborough, patriots cap-
tain devin mcCourty echoed
the sentiments of many black
athletes when he told reporters
Study shows how much
harder people of color
hit by virus in Mass.
By Dasia Moore
globe staff
a new study quantifies
Covid-19’s disproportionate
toll on black and latino com-
munities in massachusetts for
the first time, and explores the
extent to which other demo-
graphic factors — including for-
eign-born noncitizen status, av-
erage household size, and the
role of the essential worker —
explain racial and ethnic gaps.
the results, drawn from an
analysis of 351 massachusetts
cities and towns, are stagger-
ing: a 10 percentage point in-
crease in the black population
is associated with 312.3 more
cases per 100,000 people. the
same increase in the latino
population is associated with
258.2 more cases per 100,000.
from the early days of the
pandemic, massachusetts cities
with large latino and black
populations have suffered high
A friendly thousand pings, from your bestest political pals
By Beth Teitell
globe staff
in the nanosecond before Jill mc-
Cracken opens a text, hope blossoms.
“someone wants to talk to me!” the
somerville indie soul singer-songwrit-
er thinks.
maybe it’s the job she’s waiting to
hear about. or a friend. but no.
“it’s always nadia from ed mar-
vol . 298, no. 59
*
suggested retail price
$3.00
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Loud and clear
the boycotts are shocking
enough to make the public
stop and take notice, writes
tara sullivan. C1.
A fixation
the 17-year-old suspect in the
fatal shooting of two in
Kenosha appeared to have
been obsessed with police. A2.
the deadly violence against
black people has left him feel-
ing heartbroken and hopeless.
“it’s just like no one cares,”
mcCourty said. “it has been
brutal.”
in a series of rapid develop-
ments unlike any other in the
history of american sports, ath-
letes of all colors and ethnici-
ties were turning away from
their vocations, boycotting
SPORTS, Page C6
infection rates and death tolls.
Chelsea, the city with the high-
est number of total cases per
capita in the state, is 66.9 per-
cent hispanic or latino. of
massachusetts Covid-19 cases
where the infected person’s race
is known, 45.6 percent are non-
hispanic white, a group that
makes up 71.1 percent of the
state’s population.
similar patterns have played
out nationally. the Centers for
disease Control and prevention
reported last week that Covid-
19 infection rates are 2.8 times
higher in the hispanic or lati-
no and american indian or
alaska native populations,
when compared to the rate for
non-hisanpic white people. for
black people, the case rate is
2.6 times higher and the death
rate is 2.1 times higher. Case
and death rates for white and
asian americans are similar.
DISPARITIES, Page A7
key’s campaign,” she said.
(nadia, if you’re reading this, you
can rest easy. mcCracken knows how
to vote.)
What bernie sanders elevated to an
art in 2016 — “peer to peer” texting, in
which one volunteer texts one person
at a time — has exploded to the point
where democratic and republican
campaigns may send a billion or more
Massachusetts is not changing
its guidelines for coronavirus
testing, despite the CDC’s
revised recommendations. B1.
A new type of dedicated bus
lane will soon come to Boston,
along a half-mile stretch of Co-
lumbus Avenue between Jack-
son and Egleston squares. B1.
Trump gets his moment
Chip somodevilla/getty images
President Trump delivered his speech before more than 1,000 supporters on the White House grounds.
Emphasis is on trappings of power in last night of GOP convention
By Liz Goodwin and Jazmine Ulloa in control of what they portrayed as a largely
globe staff ‘This election coronavirus-free country on the rise. more than
Washington — president trump officially
accepted the republican nomination thursday
will decide 1,000 supporters packed the White house
grounds on thursday evening to watch his
evening and framed the upcoming election as a whether we save speech, with few masks in sight, in a spectacle
stark choice between law and order or anarchy.
“at no time before have voters faced a clearer
the American that flouted social distancing guidelines.
the president repeatedly slammed demo-
choice between two parties, two visions, two Dream, or cratic nominee Joe biden, calling him “weak”
philosophies, or two agendas,” trump said, and a “career politician” who would not be able
largely sticking to a teleprompter script while whether we allow to steer the country out of the current crisis.
delivering his 70-minute address. “this election
will decide whether we save the american
a socialist agenda “biden is a trojan horse for socialism,” trump
claimed. “given the choice he will be the de-
dream, or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish stroyer of america’s jobs.”
to demolish our cherished destiny.” the president mounted a fierce defense of
our cherished
despite the ongoing pandemic, a new flare of
police violence that spurred more civil unrest,
and a Category 4 hurricane, republicans
destiny.’
“law and order,” claiming unrest following sev-
eral police shootings of black people had made
police officers afraid. “We have to give law en-
worked to project an image of a president firmly president trump TRUMP, Page A8
A PATH OF DESTRUCTION
Shooting
video does
not match
DA report
Victim’s family
wants review
By Dugan Arnett
globe staff
video of police killing a man
following a high-speed chase
that began outside brigham
and Women’s hospital in feb-
ruary appears to contradict a
key aspect of a district attor-
ney ’s report that found the
Joe raedle/getty images
shooting was justified.
hurricane laura, one of the most powerful ever to strike the united states, tore in his march ruling that po-
across louisiana on thursday, shearing off roofs in lake Charles (above) and leaving lice had been justified in the fa-
entire neighborhoods in ruins. flooding did not appear to be as bad as feared. A2. tal shooting of Juston root,
norfolk district attorney mi-
chael W. morrissey wrote that
in the moments immediately
preceding the shooting near a
Chestnut hill shopping area,
multiple officers shouted that
texts this cycle, said shane d’aprile, porters like you don’t miss out on your they saw root with a gun be-
co-owner and co-publisher of Cam- chance for a call with the candidate do- fore they opened fire.
paigns & elections, a nonpartisan nate now our democracy is at stake “ mo r e t h a n o n e o ff i c e r
trade journal. sign our pledge fake news don’t let us yelled ‘gun,’ ” morrissey wrote
an efficient volunteer, using a down if you think things cannot possi- in his seven-page report. “si-
texting platform that prepopulates bly get worse, trust me, they can and multaneously, six officers
phone numbers and messages, could they will if we don’t make a change opened fire to stop the threat.”
hit 1,000 or more texts per hour, he this election give now or we’ll dog you but police body cam footage
said. “easily.” until the schlep of changing your num- released Wednesday, following
We’re relying on grassroots sup- TEXTS, Page A6 a records request by the globe,
does not appear to show any of
the six officers describing a gun
in the moments before police
Governor Charlie Baker The chair of the Federal Re- Summersault fired their weapons. root, a 41-
endorsed a Democrat, Repre- serve announced a major shift year-old mattapan man with a
sentative Richard Neal, in his in how the central bank guides Friday: Heating up. long history of mental illness
primary fight with Holyoke the economy, signaling it will High 79-84. Low 66-71. who’d earlier that day pointed a
Mayor Alex Morse. B1. not raise interest rates to guard Saturday: Showers, humid. fake gun at an officer near
against coming inflation. C8. High 76-81. Low 64-69. brigham and Women’s, was fa-
With clubs still closed, come- tally shot in the barrage of po-
Sunrise: 6:05 Sunset: 7:24
dians continue to get creative, Three decades later, Bill and lice gunfire.
heading outdoors and online to Ted are back for another excel- Weather and Comics, G6-7. although six officers were
find an audience. G1. lent adventure. Ty Burr’s take, G4. Obituaries, B7. VIDEO, Page A12
a2
Daily Briefing
Putin warns Belarus protesters
moscoW — President
vladimir Putin of russia gave
an ominous warning thurs-
day to protesters in Belarus
not to push too hard to topple
their country’s embattled
president, saying that russia
had formed a special reserve
force of security officers to re-
store order in the event of
chaos in its western neighbor.
Putin, speaking in an inter-
view with russian state televi-
sion, said he had ordered the
creation of a “certain reserve
of law enforcement officers” at
the request of Belarus’s leader,
alexander lukashenko. he
said the force had not been
deployed yet, because “we also
agreed that it will not be used
unless the situation gets out of
control.”
Putin’s remarks laid out for
the first time the Kremlin’s
view of more than two weeks
of protests in Belarus, which
he described as “perhaps the
China fires missiles into South China Sea
china has fired a barrage
of medium-range missiles
across considerable distances
into the south china sea, Bei-
jing’s latest move to demon-
strate its strategic dominance
and sovereignty over the dis-
puted waters, an american
defense official said.
the missile launches on
Wednesday punctuated a se-
ries of military exercises that
china has conducted this
month at a time of rising ten-
sions with the united states
over its territorial claims in
the south china sea and its
attempts to pressure taiwan,
the self-governing island de-
mocracy that Beijing claims as
its own.
senior colonel Wu Qian, a
spokesman for the chinese
ministry of national defense,
did not mention the missiles
Pompeo violated Hatch Act, complaint says
Washington — secre-
tary of state mike Pompeo
committed an “egregious vio-
lation” of the hatch act by de-
livering a videotaped speech
from israel to the republican
national convention, accord-
ing to a complaint filed by two
law professors with the state
department’s inspector gener-
al.
Past secretaries of state
have gone to lengths to avoid
the appearance of partisan po-
litical activity, particularly dur-
ing nominating conventions
for the administrations they
served. Pompeo’s speech vio-
lated the 1939 law, which lim-
its the commingling of politi-
cal activity and government
business, says the complaint,
filed late Wednesday.
during the speech, which
was filmed during a diplomat-
ic mission using old Jerusa-
lem as a backdrop, Pompeo
praised President trump’s for-
Ex-Green Beret faces spy charges
a former army green Be-
ret accused of conspiring to
spy for russia admitted to
contacts with russian intelli-
gence agents in a written
statement in the past year,
federal prosecutors said
thursday.
Peter rafael dzibinski deb-
bins, 45, of gainesville, va.,
was arrested in the past week
and ordered held without
bond thursday. he faces up to
life in prison.
‘‘the defendant confessed
collaboration with a very so-
phisticated foreign intelli-
gence agency, the gru,’’ assis-
tant us attorney thomas
traxler said, referencing the
main directorate of the gen-
eral staff of the armed Forces
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the globe regrets the error.
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closest country to us.” While
saying that Belarusians them-
selves must decide their fu-
ture after a disputed presiden-
tial election aug. 9, he added:
“We are certainly not indiffer-
ent to what is happening
there.”
the crisis in Belarus has
confronted the russian leader
with a perilous dilemma: af-
ter weeks of protests in the
russian Far east and a wave
of indignation over the poi-
soning of his most prominent
opponent, alexei navalny, Pu-
tin is loath to see the demise
of a fellow authoritarian who
himself seemed invincible un-
til this month. it might give
russians ideas.
But Putin is wary of getting
sucked into lukashenko’s
fight for survival. that would
invite worldwide condemna-
tion and possibly new West-
ern sanctions.
neW yorK times
on thursday but confirmed
that china had carried out
long-planned drills over an ar-
ea that stretched from
Qingdao in northeastern chi-
na to disputed islands in the
south china sea known as the
spratlys.
“the above exercises are
not directed at any country,”
Wu said in Beijing.
china had signaled its
plans to test the missiles by
declaring a travel exclusion
zone in a part of the south
china sea this week. us forc-
es in the region detected the
launch of four missiles from
the mainland to that area, the
american defense official
said.
the Pentagon is now as-
sessing the types of missiles
involved.
neW yorK times
eign policy. he also celebrated
the relocation of the us em-
bassy from tel aviv to Jerusa-
lem, an issue of particular im-
portance to white evangelicals
who are a crucial voting block
for trump.
“this video is an egregious
violation of the hatch act,”
wrote claire o. Finkelstein
and richard W. Painter, the
two law school professors.
‘‘secretary Pompeo at the
same time as he was on a dip-
lomatic mission to israel gave
a partisan political speech for
an rnc campaign video in
which he referred to the us
embassy in israel, said that a
candidate in a partisan elec-
tion — donald trump —
should get credit for the relo-
cation of that embassy.’’
the trump administration
argues that Pompeo’s remarks
didn’t violate the law because
he focused on us policy.
associated Press
of the russian Federation. au-
thorities say that the alleged
conspiracy occurred between
1996 and 2011.
debbins has worked in in-
telligence and had access to
‘‘highly classified information
relating to russia in particu-
lar,’’ traxler said. his admis-
sion came during a security
clearance renewal investiga-
tion in 2019, traxler said,
when debbins was teaching in
london.
magistrate Judge John F.
anderson questioned why, if
debbins made an admission
in writing in July 2019 and his
london home was searched at
the time, he was not arrested
until now.
Washington Post
T h e B o s t o n
The hurricane blew out the windows of many buildings in Lake Charles, La.
Hurricane Laura ravages Louisiana
At least six dead;
storm stronger
than Katrina
By Melinda Deslatte
and Stacey Plaisance
associated Press
laK e charl es, l a . —
one of the strongest hurri-
canes ever to strike the united
states, laura barreled across
louisiana on thursday, shear-
ing off roofs, killing at least six
people, and maintaining fero-
cious strength while carving a
destructive path hundreds of
miles inland.
a full assessment of the
damage wrought by the cate-
gory 4 system was likely to take
days. But initial reports offered
hope that laura, despite leav-
ing entire neighborhoods in
ruins and more than 875,000
people without power, was not
the annihilating menace that
forecasters had feared.
“it is clear that we did not
sustain and suffer the absolute,
catastrophic damage that we
thought was likely,’’ louisiana
governor John Bel edwards
said. “But we have sustained a
tremendous amount of dam-
Wis. shooting suspect fixated on police
Teen charged
with killing 2
at protests
By Teo Armus
Washington Post
Before he took his rifle to
confront the unrest tuesday in
K e n o s h a , W i s ., a n d w a s
charged in a fatal shooting at
the protests, Kyle rittenhouse
seemingly idolized one thing:
the police.
growing up in chicago’s far
northern suburbs, the 17-year-
old shadowed local law en-
forcement as a cadet and filled
his social media feeds with
posts declaring that ‘‘Blue lives
matter.’’ there were videos
from the front row of a rally for
President trump, and photos
of himself posing with guns.
rittenhouse attempted to
join the marine corps in Janu-
ary, but was disqualified from
serving after discussing his op-
tions with recruiters, said ser-
vice spokeswoman yvonne car-
lock. she declined to specify
why he was disqualified, citing
the service’s privacy guidelines.
much else is still unknown
about rittenhouse, who was
charged Wednesday with first-
degree intentional homicide af-
ter two people were killed and
another seriously wounded by
gunfire at the demonstrations.
But brief accounts from neigh-
bors and local institutions
paint the picture of a high
school dropout who viewed law
G l o b e
age,’’ he said.
he called it the most power-
ful hurricane to strike louisi-
ana, meaning it surpassed
even Katrina, which was a cat-
egory 3 storm when it hit in
2005.
the hurricane’s top wind
speed of 150 miles per hour
put it among the strongest sys-
tems on record in the nation.
not until 11 hours after land-
fall did laura finally weaken
into a tropical s torm as it
thrashed arkansas.
the storm came ashore in
low-lying louisiana and clob-
bered lake charles, an indus-
trial and casino city of 80,000
people. on Broad street, many
buildings had partially col-
lapsed, and those that didn’t
were missing chunks. Win-
dows were blown out, awnings
ripped away, and trees split in
half in eerily misshapen ways.
Police spotted a floating casino
that came unmoored and hit a
bridge. at the local airport,
planes were overturned, some
on top of each other.
a confederate statue, which
local officials had voted to keep
in place just days earlier, was
toppled.
“it looks like 1,000 torna-
Protesters raised fists during a demonstration Wednesday
against the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.
enforcement officers as his per-
sonal heroes.
so much so that, when mas-
sive protests, looting, and fires
broke out in Kenosha following
the police shooting of Jacob
Blake on sunday, he crossed
state lines to offer his support
to local policemen — at times,
speaking as if their duties were
his, too.
‘‘People are getting injured,
and our job is to protect this
business,’’ he told the daily
caller on tuesday night, hours
before he would allegedly start
shooting.
the following day, those of-
ficers he so lionized arrested
him at his home in antioch, ill.
Before the deadly shooting,
rittenhouse lived with his
F r i d a y, a u g u s t 2 8 , 2 0 2 0
does went through here. it’s
just destruction everywhere,”
said Brett geymann, who rode
out the storm with three family
members in moss Bluff, near
lake charles. he described
laura passing over his house
with the roar of a jet engine
around 2 a.m.
“there are houses that are
totally gone. they were there
yesterday, but now gone,” he
said.
Fire raged thursday at a
c h e m i c al p l a n t n e a r l a ke
charles, pumping dark smoke
carrying chlorine gas into the
sky, prompting the governor to
warn residents to turn off their
air conditioners, seal their
homes, and stay indoors.
the plumes from the Bio-
lab plant, which makes chlo-
rine for swimming pools and
disinfectants, carried an un-
known amount of the gas, lou-
isiana state Police superinten-
dent Kevin reeves said. chlo-
rine gas can be toxic and cause
blistering of the skin, burning
sensations in the nose and
throat, and respiratory dis-
tress.
louisiana department of
environmental Quality hur-
riedly installed air-quality
Kerem yucel/aFP via getty images
mother, Wendy rittenhouse, a
single mom and nurse’s assis-
tant, in a quiet apartment com-
plex beside a park in antioch, a
bedroom community that sits
just south of the Wisconsin
border.
Jim mcKay, the superinten-
dent for the school district that
includes antioch, said in a
statement to the Post that rit-
tenhouse attended lakes com-
munity high school for a se-
mester in the 2017-2018 school
year and did not re-enroll in ei-
ther local high school after-
ward.
outside school, rittenhouse
participated in cadet programs
with both the antioch Fire de-
partment and the grayslake
Police department, according
Joe raedle/getty images
monitors, and the environ-
mental Protection agency
scrambled a plane to monitor
the situation. early indications
of chlorine in the air outside
the plant were negative, said
gregory langley, a spokesman
for the louisiana department
of environmental Quality.
the fire had been extin-
guished by thursday night but
a second one erupted, and the
radius of the shelter-in-place
order was expanded, langley
said.
more than 580,000 coastal
residents were ordered to join
the largest evacuation since
the pandemic began and many
did, filling hotels and sleeping
in cars. although not everyone
fled from the coast, officials
credited those who did leave
for minimizing the loss of life.
edwards said the priority in
the next day would be search
and rescue operations.
President trump said he
would visit the gulf coast this
weekend to tour the damage.
laura hit after killing near-
ly two dozen people on the is-
land of hispaniola.
Material from the Washington
Post was used in this report.
to department newsletters. the
police initiative offers partici-
pants from ages 14 to 21 ‘‘the
opportunity to explore a career
in law enforcement’’ through
ride-alongs with officers on pa-
trol and firearms training, ac-
cording to since-deleted pages
on its website.
earlier this year, he attend-
e d a tr u m p r a l l y i n d e s
moines, sitting in the front row
and posting a tiktok video
from the Jan. 30 event, Buzz-
Feed news reported.
Besides the trump rally, the
public posts on rittenhouse’s
Facebook are almost entirely
dedicated to honoring police.
his tiktok account, mean-
while, showed him in recent
weeks assembling or firing two
different types of guns, Buzz-
Feed news reported: an ar-15-
style rifle as well as a firearm he
identified as a 12-gauge shot-
gun.
on tuesday, as Kenosha
erupted into demonstrations
following the police shooting of
Blake, rittenhouse appeared to
bring the same rifle with him to
the scene.
rittenhouse and the other
armed civilians shown in vid-
eos with him were violating
Kenosha’s 8 p.m. curfew, and at
17, he is too young to openly
carry a gun in Wisconsin, the
chicago tribune reported. But
police did not challenge him on
either front.
Material from the Associated
Press was used in this report.
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
world notebook

Unlike US, UN backs testing people without symptoms

geneVa — the World
health organization said
thursday that countries should
actively test people to find coro-
navirus cases even if they don’t
show symptoms — a stance
that comes after the us centers
for disease control and preven-
tion switched its policy to say
that asymptomatic contacts of
infected people don’t need to be
tested.
Maria Van Kerkhove,
Who’s technical lead for
coVid-19, said when officials
investigate clusters of coVid-
19, “testing may need to be ex-
panded to look for individuals
who are on the more mild end
of the spectrum or who may in-
deed be asymptomatic.”
yet new guidance from the
us cdc says it’s not necessary
for people who have been in
close contact with infected peo-
ple but who don’t feel sick to
get tested. the agency had pre-
viously advised local health of-
ficials to test people who’d been
within about 6 feet of an infect-
ed person for over 15 minutes.
Van Kerkhove said that
countries were free to adapt
Who’s testing guidance for
their individual needs and that
while testing itself was impor-
tant, it was equally critical to
get testing results back fast.
she also expressed concerns
about public behavior, saying
she’s growing “a little bit con-
cerned” that the use of masks is
leading some people to think
they don’t need to keep safe
distances from others.
earlier thursday, the Who’s
chief for europe, dr. hans
Kluge, warned that the corona-
virus is a “tornado with a long
tail” and said rising infections
among young people could
spread to more vulnerable old-
er people and cause an uptick
in deaths.
he said younger people are
more likely to come into closer
contact with the elderly as the
weather cools and families
move activities inside.
associated press
UNICEF: A third of children
missed remote learning
united nations — the
un children’s agency says at
least a third of children
couldn’t access remote learning
when the pandemic closed
schools, creating “a global edu-
cation emergency.”
at the height of lockdowns
meant to curb the pandemic,
nearly 1.5 billion children were
affected by school closures,
uniceF said.
“For at least 463 million
children whose schools closed
due to coVid-19, there was no
such a thing as remote learn-
ing,” uniceF executive direc-
tor henrietta Fore said.
“the sheer number of chil-
dren whose education was
completely disrupted for
months on end is a global edu-
cation emergency,” she said.
“the repercussions could be
felt in economies and societies
for decades to come.”
the report released late
Wednesday highlights signifi-
cant inequality across regions,
with school children in sub-sa-
haran africa the most affected.
associated press
20% of France in ‘red zone’;
masks are mandated in Paris
paris — the virus is active-
ly circulating in about 20 per-
cent of France’s regions, and
masks will now be required for
everyone in paris starting Fri-
day — but the government is
determined to reopen schools
next week, get workers back on
the job, and kick off the tour de
France cycling race saturday.
showing a map of the coun-
try’s new “red zones,’’ French
prime Minister Jean castex on
thursday urged local authori-
A statue wore a mask along Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where face
coverings are mandated for all starting Friday, as France sees an uptick in COVID-19 cases.
ties to impose new restrictions
to slow infections and prevent
another economically devastat-
ing national lockdown.
he acknowledged that the
rising cases this summer — at-
tributed mostly to people going
on vacation with family and
friends — came earlier than au-
thorities expected.
France is now seeing more
than 50 positive tests per
100,000 people in paris, Mar-
seille, and other areas.
associated press
Most of Germany imposes
$59 fine for mask breaches
BerLin — Most of germa-
ny will impose a minimum fine
of 50 euros ($59) for breaching
mask-wearing rules as corona-
virus infections rise again,
chancellor angela Merkel said
thursday after a virtual meet-
ing with the country’s state
governors.
officials also agreed to ex-
tend a ban on big events where
social distancing and contact
tracing can’t be ensured, until
the end of december.
Merkel said all except the
eastern state of saxony-anhalt
agreed on the minimum fine.
the chancellor also ap-
pealed to germans not to travel
to countries and regions
deemed “risk areas” — current-
ly the united states and most
of the world outside the euro-
pean union, as well as some re-
gions inside the eu.
associated press
Virus hits tribe in remote
Andaman, Nicobar Islands
neW deLhi — Four mem-
bers of a small tribe in the re-
mote andaman and nicobar is-
lands have tested positive for
the coronavirus, an indian
christophe ena/associated press
health official said thursday.
dr. avijit ray said the four
are among the 37 members of
the great andamanese tribe
who live on strait island.
ray said the four apparently
caught the virus during a re-
cent visit to port Blair, the capi-
tal of the andaman and nico-
bar islands, a federally admin-
istered indian territory in the
Bay of Bengal.
Vulnerable tribes on the is-
lands include the sentinelese,
Jarawa, great andamanese,
shompen, and onge.
associated press
UN says it’s likely Syria has
far more cases than it says
united nations — re-
ports of syrian health care facil-
ities filling up and increasing
death notices and burials ap-
pear to indicate that actual cor-
onavirus cases in the war-torn
country “far exceed official fig-
ures” confirmed by the govern-
ment, a senior un humanitari-
an official said thursday.
syria has reported more
than 2,500 cases of coVid-19,
including 100 deaths.
however, un assistant sec-
retary general for humanitari-
an affairs ramesh rajasingham
told the un security council
that “rising patient numbers
are adding pressure to the frag-
ile health system” in syria, now
in its 10th year of war.
Many people “are reluctant
to seek care at medical facili-
ties, leading to more severe
complications when they do ar-
rive,” he said.
associated press
Christians urged to unite,
fight injustices in pandemic
Vatican city — two au-
thoritative religious bodies on
thursday called on christians
to band together to fight “sins”
laid bare or aggravated by the
pandemic, including racism
and economic injustice.
the Vatican and the World
council of churches, based in
switzerland, issued a joint doc-
ument noting that the pandem-
ic has drawn attention to ‘‘the
scandalous gap between the
rich and the poor.” the docu-
ment declared that christians
are compelled to work to heal
inequalities, including between
men and women.
christians must “own up to
our own complicity and guilt in
many systems of oppression”
and resist the “temptation” to
blame the poor for their pover-
ty, it said.
the World council of
churches brings together
churches, denominations, and
church fellowships in more
than 110 countries and territo-
ries, representing more than a
half-billion christians.
associated press

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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
national notebook

Six feet may not be enough distance, health experts warn

public health experts are re-
evaluating guidelines for safe
social distancing amid growing
evidence that the novel corona-
virus can travel farther than six
feet under some conditions.
a team of infectious-disease
experts argues in a new analy-
sis, published this week in the
journal bmJ, that six-feet pro-
tocols are too rigid and are
based on outmoded science
and observations of different
viruses.
other researchers say six
feet is a start — but only a start
— warning that more space is
almost always better, especially
in poorly ventilated areas in-
doors.
Factors such air circulation,
ventilation, exposure time,
crowd density, whether people
are wearing face masks, and
whether they are silent, speak-
ing, shouting, or singing should
be part of assessing whether six
feet is sufficient, experts say.
the conventional wisdom
behind six-foot separations
originated from research by a
german biologist, carl Flügge,
who in the late 1800s suggest-
ed that was as far as microbe-
containing droplets could trav-
el.
his hypothesis missed far-
ther-flung particles invisible to
the naked eye — in particular,
the tiny gobs of bodily fluid and
virus that float on the air as
aerosols.
if the novel coronavirus can
float in the air as a vapor, earli-
er assumptions of its range are
inadequate. airborne transmis-
sion is still not conclusively
proved, but a growing number
of experts see persuasive evi-
dence in super-spreading
events that have transmitted
the virus to people scores of
feet away from the infection
source.
washington post
Missing from schools’
COVID-19 plans: nurses
schools across the country
have spent months working on
plans to stem the spread of
covid-19 when students re-
turn to class — but in many cas-
es, they are missing a central
figure in those plans: a school
nurse.
according to the national
association of school nurses,
25 percent of schools do not
employ a nurse, while 35 per-
cent employ part-time nurses.
that leaves school personnel
with little or no medical train-
ing to handle sometimes seri-
ous medical situations.
even schools that have full-
time nurses often share them
with other campuses because
there simply are not enough for
each school building in districts
throughout the country.
washington post
Delta bars another 240
flyers for flouting mask rules
the chief executive of delta
air lines said in a letter to staff
on thursday that the carrier
had barred about 240 custom-
ers from flying for refusing to
wear masks aboard its planes
and in its lounges and gate ar-
eas, about twice the number it
had put on its no-fly list just a
month ago.
most airlines started requir-
ing masks on planes this spring
as the coronavirus pandemic
continued to spread across the
united states. after complaints
mounted that many passengers
were disregarding the mask re-
quirement, carriers promised
to step up enforcement as the
summer travel season began.
like delta, united airlines,
american airlines, and south-
west airlines have all intro-
duced similar policies.
the bans are typically used
as a last resort, a consequence
for passengers who refuse to
A ticketing agent for Delta Airlines handed a boarding pass to a passenger in the main
terminal of Denver International Airport in Denver, Colo.
where a mask while traveling
despite repeated verbal and
written warnings. most bans
are temporary and meant to
last as long as the mask policies
are in place. more recently, sev-
eral airlines have tightened the
policies, removing exceptions
to the rule even for passengers
who have disabilities or other
medical reasons that prevent
them from wearing a mask.
new york times
FDA warns hand sanitizer
may look like food or drink
the Food and drug admin-
istration is issuing a warning to
consumers: if the packaging
looks like food or drink, check
twice to ensure it isn’t hand
sanitizer.
some makers of alcohol-
based hand sanitizers are pack-
aging their products in water
bottles, beer cans, baby food
pouches, and liquor bottles, the
Fda said in a thursday news
release. some hand sanitizers
also have food flavors, such as
chocolate or raspberry. if con-
sumers ingest hand sanitizer,
they could be at risk for serious
injury or even death. the Fda
said it has witnessed an in-
creasing number of links be-
tween hand sanitizer consump-
tion and cardiac effects, impact
on the central nervous system,
hospitalizations and death.
“it’s dangerous to add scents
with food flavors to hand sani-
tizers which children could
think smells like food, eat and
get alcohol poisoning,” Fda
commissioner stephen m.
hahn said in the release. “man-
ufacturers should be vigilant
about packaging and market-
ing their hand sanitizers in
food or drink packages in an ef-
fort to mitigate any potential
inadvertent use by consumers.”
the Fda said it receives re-
ports from consumers and re-
tailers of potentially dangerous
david Zalubowski/associated press
products and will continue to
work with manufacturers to re-
call such items or strongly en-
courage them to remove them
from retail shelves.
washington post
Officials continue to urge flu
vaccines for everyone
most major drugstores have
influenza vaccine in stock as of
this week. public health offi-
cials, fearing that the conflu-
ence of covid-19 and influen-
za cases could result in a “twin-
demic” that will further
overburden hospitals and test-
ing locations, are urging vacci-
nation for nearly everyone.
“everyone above the age of 6
months should be getting the
flu vaccine,” said dr. uchenna
ikediobi, an assistant professor
of general internal medicine
and infectious diseases at yale
university.
the centers for disease
control and prevention recom-
mends that you get the vaccina-
tion no later than september or
october, before the start of the
season. healthy adults can get
one now, but adults over 65
and those with compromised
immune systems should wait
until mid-september, so that
the vaccine’s protection lasts
the entire season, experts said.
new york times
Cuomo sets guidelines for
campuses dealing with virus
governor andrew m. cuo-
mo of new york said thursday
that colleges must move classes
online for two weeks if they re-
port 100 cases or a number of
cases equal to 5 percent of their
on-campus population, which-
ever is lower, over two weeks.
a spokesman for the gover-
nor said that using a low num-
ber of cases — a tiny fraction of
some larger universities’ stu-
dent bodies — to measure
when to move classes online
was necessary to keep out-
breaks in check in a state in
which more than 30,000 have
already died from the virus.
“we should anticipate clus-
ters and that’s what we’re see-
ing,” cuomo said. “be prepared
for it, get ahead of it.”
the governor also said that
if the number of cases on cam-
pus didn’t reach either thresh-
old but a college’s ability to iso-
late and trace the outbreak was
strained, the college would be
required to return to full re-
mote learning with limited ac-
tivity on campus. the local or
state health department could
also order colleges to stop on-
campus activity “upon a find-
ing of the college’s inability to
control the outbreak, even un-
der the metric.” it was not im-
mediately clear how it would be
determined whether a college
was strained or unable to con-
trol an outbreak.
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a6 The Nation T h e B o s t o n G l o b e F r i d a y, a u g u s t 2 8 , 2 0 2 0

Rich nations cheer

leaders’ responses,
except US and UK
By Adam Taylor
Washington post
a poll of 14 developed na-
tions found that majorities in
most countries were pleased
with how their governments
had handled the coronavirus
pandemic. more than 9 in 10
respondents in australia and
denmark said their country has
done a good job in the crisis.
But there were two coun-
tries where a majority thought
otherwise: the united states
and Britain.
in the united states, 52 per-
cent said their government had
done poorly, and 54 percent in
Britain said the same about
theirs, according to the poll by
the pew research center.
in the united states, 77 per-
cent of respondents, a far larger
share than in the other coun-
tries surveyed, said the pan-
Jim mone/associated press
demic had heightened political
Minnesota National Guard stood along Nicollet Mall Thursday in Minneapolis after vandalism and looting Wednesday divisions. spain came in next,
night during protests sparked by what authorities said was misinformation about the death of a Black homicide suspect. at 59 percent.
high levels of division are
Unrest unexpected during a crisis and
could affect the fight against
using nationally representative
surveys of 14,276 adults from
June 10 through aug. 3, with
all interviews conducted by
phone. the margin of error
ranged from 3.1 percent in
south Korea to 4.2 percent in
Belgium.
some governments have
placed heavy importance on na-
tional unity during the pan-
demic. in denmark, officials
have often used the word ‘‘sam-
fundssind,’’ which roughly
translates as the act of putting
the community’s needs above
one’s own, to emphasize the
need for social distancing.
according to a study by dan-
ish researcher marianne
rathje, use of the old-fashioned
word soared after prime minis-
ter mette Frederiksen used it
during a news conference on
march 11.
many world leaders have
seen their approval ratings rise
during the pandemic. austra-
lia’s scott morrison, languish-
ing in polls at the start of the
year, saw his approval ratings

Minn. curfew expires after protests the virus, specialists say.

‘‘typically, a tragic event like
t h i s w o u l d h av e t h e ‘ r a l l y
around the flag’ effect and in-
soar during the early stages of
the spread of the coronavirus,
and the y have stayed high
since. the country has recorded
minneapoLis — an at least 33 people were ar- ing witness away and kicked dalized and set a fire at the crease social cohesiveness,’’ said 572 coVid-19 deaths.
emergency curfew expired and rested as authorities moved in the suspect’s gun away before alameda county superior yanzhong huang, a senior fel- approval ratings have
downtown minneapolis was to restore order, the state pa- performing chest compres- court building. police photos low at the council on Foreign dropped for leaders seen to
calm thursday morning after trol said thursday morning. sions. showed fireworks and burning relations. have handled the virus poorly.
unrest broke out following “this is part of a larger nar- associated press trash cans. in five wealthy countries, a popularity for British prime
what authorities said was mis- rative. it was the flash point of associated press majority of respondents said minister Boris Johnson cra-
information about the suicide george Floyd, it has spread Hundreds march in 2 Calif. their nation had become less di- tered in late spring after gov-
of a Black homicide suspect. across this nation. it does us no protests over Wis. shooting Activists to hold first Black vided since the pandemic hit. ernment setbacks and scandals.
governor tim Walz mobi- good to try and either divide or oaKLand, calif. — hun- National Convention Friday twenty-five percent of danes more than 175,000 have
lized the minnesota national ignore or to make it worse or to dreds marched in two califor- neW yorK — Black Lives said their country was more di- died of the virus in the united
guard at the request of mayor blame someone,’’ Walz said. nia cities over the shooting of a matter activists are holding vided due to the pandemic, the states, and president trump’s
Jacob Frey, who imposed the police chief medaria arra- Black man in Wisconsin, set- their first Black national con- poll found, while 72 percent handling of the pandemic has
curfew after people broke win- dondo tried to dispel rumors ting fire to property and dam- vention Friday, a virtual event said it was more united. received consistently negative
dows and stole merchandise that spread on social media aging businesses. that will adopt a political agen- pew said it gathered the data ratings in polls.
Wednesday night from stores about the death of the uniden- in Los angeles, a group of da calling for slavery repara-
on and near the nicollet mall, a tified Black man, who was sus- protesters vandalized buildings tions, universal basic income,
pedestrian plaza that runs the pected in a Wednesday after- with graffiti and clashed with environmental justice, and leg-
length of downtown. people
broke into a target store and
noon homicide and fatally shot
himself on the nicollet mall as
police in a downtown tunnel
late Wednesday night. a KaBc-
islation that entirely reimag-
ines criminal justice reform. A thousand pings, from
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emotions have remained theless sparked protests and in oakland, the police de- other shooting by a white po- Continued from Page A1 large part because they reach
raw over the death of george unrest in the heart of down- partment tweeted that 600 to lice officer of a Black man — 29- ber seems worth it. voters in what had been a per-
Floyd, a handcuffed Black man town. 700 people took part in pro- y e a r - o l d Ja c o b B l a ke — i n campaigns love texts be- sonal space — which is the ex-
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to protest after Jacob Blake, a half-dozen witnesses ran away ment said. several people were growing list of police and vigi- many text recipients ignore with the way politicians have
Black man, was shot multiple with their hands in the air. the arrested. lante violence victims will ap- the messages, but some actual- handled the pandemic and po-
times by police in Wisconsin on officers, one of whom had his calling them “violent pro- pear with civil rights leaders. ly donate or vote because lice violence against Black peo-
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Study shows how much harder people of color hit by virus
uDISPARITIES
Continued from Page A1
“We knew that these com-
munities were being hit harder,
and the question was, how
much more,” said dr. Jose
figueroa, the study’s lead re-
searcher and an assistant pro-
fessor at harvard t.h. Chan
school of Public health. “We
can now put a number to the
burden on these latino and
black communities. and it is
significant.”
“this study absolutely con-
firms and demonstrates what
we saw [in Massachusetts] and
the reasons why we saw it,” said
dr. Joseph betancourt, vice
president and chief equity and
inclusion officer of Massachu-
setts general hospital. betan-
court said that communities of
color experience a “perfect
storm of conditions for the
spread of coronavirus,” includ-
ing less access to health care
and public health information,
broken trust with medical com-
munities, environmental and
public health factors that con-
tribute to poor overall health,
and — in the case of CoVid-19
— work and living conditions
that increase exposure to the vi-
rus.
figueroa and his team, re-
searchers from harvard Chan
and beth israel deaconess
Medical Center, explored some
of those factors. they found
that higher average household
size and larger shares of food
service workers, foreign-born
noncitizens, and non-high
school graduates across cities
were all independent predictors
of higher CoVid-19 infection
rates. a city’s foreign-born non-
citizen population proved to
have an especially strong corre-
lation with higher CoVid-19
case rates.
figueroa and betancourt
pointed to “public charge” stan-
Positive test rate for virus in E. Boston is highest in city by far
By Danny McDonald
globe staff
the CoVid-19 positive test
rate in east boston has topped
11 percent, more than three
times the next highest neigh-
borhood rate in the city, accord-
ing to authorities.
east boston’s 11.4 percent
rate for the dates of aug. 11-17
was an increase of 3.2 percent-
age points from the previous
week, a trend that ran counter
to the city overall, which saw a
slight decrease in its positive
rate during the same time, offi-
cials said. the next highest
neighborhood rate in boston
was roslindale at 3.5 percent,
according to the boston Public
health Commission.
“it’s a concern and some-
thing that we’re addressing,”
said Mayor Martin J. Walsh at a
Wednesday news conference
outside City hall.
Walsh said city authorities
are examining data and will
look to contact tracing to see
“where these new cases are
coming from, who is impacted,
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Chelsea, which is 66.9 percent Hispanic or Latino. has the highest number of total cases per capita in the state.
dards, instituted by the trump
administration and enforced
beginning in february, that al-
low the united states to deny
visas and green cards to people
who have sought aid. those
rules have been temporarily
suspended during the pandem-
ic. but immigrant advocates
and public health experts wide-
ly agree that fear of “public
charge” persists and, along with
language barriers and fears of
deportation, their specter can
prevent immigrants from seek-
ing medical care.
risk associated with country
of origin and citizenship, edu-
cation, essential jobs, and
household size explained lati-
no communities’ higher infec-
and how to best intervene.” the
city, he said, plans to move a
mobile testing team to the
neighborhood starting sept. 1.
that team will supplement the
free testing offered at the east
boston neighborhood health
Center, which offers tests to
anyone who wants one, regard-
less of a person’s symptoms, ac-
cording to the city.
boston, he said, is in talks
with the state about offering
temporary isolation housing to
east boston residents who test
positive, so that they “can quar-
antine away from their families.”
geographically isolated
from the rest of the city by wa-
ter, east boston is located
across a creek from Chelsea and
is bordered to the north by re-
vere, while Winthrop lies to the
east. all three of those nearby
communities also have seen
high rates of the coronavirus,
and are labeled as red, the high-
est possible designation for dai-
ly CoVid-19 incidence rates,
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the Massachusetts department
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however, those factors are not
behind the disparities that
black communities see. addi-
tional cases associated with a
10 percent increase in the black
population barely budged after
researchers accounted for addi-
tional variables, dropping
slightly to 307.2 cases per
100,000.
because race is a social con-
cept not based in biology or ge-
netics, it does not by itself make
a person more susceptible to
CoVid-19. social factors other
than those highlighted by the
study must explain heightened
exposure and infection for
black Massachusetts residents,
researchers said.
of Public health.
Councilor lydia edwards,
who represents east boston,
thought the neighborhood’s ge-
ography may have been a con-
tributing factor to its coronavi-
rus caseload.
“We’re caught between Chel-
sea and an airport,” said ed-
wards on thursday, referencing
logan international airport.
in east boston, more than 56
percent of the neighborhood’s
46,000-plus residents identify
as hispanic or latino, accord-
ing to a february report from
the boston Planning & develop-
ment agency, and more than 36
percent of its residents say they
are not a us citizen. those fig-
ures exclude part of a census
tract that is located in eastie but
counted by the Census bureau
as being part of revere.
during his Wednesday brief-
ing, Walsh emphasized that no
questions about immigration
status will be asked for those
who seek CoVid-19 testing. he
also mentioned that a preva-
lence of multigenerational liv-
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figueroa said determining
“the predominant factors” is an
important area for further re-
search. even variables that
were not found to have a city-
wide effect might make a differ-
ence for black populations spe-
cifically, he said, citing black
workers’ higher-than-average
use of public transportation as
an example.
some known risk factors
might be better measured in
black communities using differ-
ent data than researchers ana-
lyzed. Crowded housing, for ex-
ample, presents in latino com-
munities as a higher number of
people per household. but
figueroa said measuring dense-
ly populated, multifamily
ing, where grandparents, par-
ents, and children live together
in a home, can contribute to in-
creases in CoVid-19 numbers,
something edwards also cited
as a possible factor in the num-
ber of cases in the tightly
packed neighborhood.
“there’s not a lot of breath-
ing room or spreadable room in
east boston,” she said. “We’re
highly dense.”
if case numbers continue to
increase in east boston, city au-
thorities have said officials will
consider tightening regulations
regarding gatherings in public
places, although Marty Marti-
nez, the city’s health and hu-
man ser vices chief, said
Wednesday that the city is “not
there yet.”
“What we have to do is make
sure people understand social
distancing works, wearing a
face mask works,” said Marti-
nez.
edwards said she would like
to see more signs in the neigh-
borhood’s public spaces, includ-
ing playgrounds, soccer fields,
239 South Main St. (RTE 114), Middleton, MA
apartment buildings would bet-
ter reflect the type of crowding
black communities are more
likely to experience.
“We have to be community-
specific” in our approach to
public health, said Marty Marti-
nez, boston’s chief of health and
human services. “oftentimes
we talk about black and brown
communities as if we’re one big
community. in the city of bos-
ton, that’s 55, 60 percent of the
population. so we have to be a
little bit specific in thinking
about individual communities
and their needs.”
“We’re talking about system-
ic barriers [in both communi-
ties],” Martinez said. “but we
have to be specific about what
waterfront, and areas near the
airport that emphasize the need
to wear a mask, saying that she
has noticed too many people
not wearing masks along the
east boston greenway.
“ s i g n a g e t h a t s ay s : ’ no
mask, no park. no mask, no ac-
cess’,” she said.
edwards said she has heard
from constituents who are con-
cerned the city will enforce a
hard curfew at night in an at-
tempt to curb the CoVid-19
cases in the neighborhood and
indicated she would oppose any
such measure.
“We don’t want a curfew, it
doesn’t do anything but punish
a neighborhood,” she said.
the city’s public health com-
mission has mobilized crews to
provide educational materials
to east boston residents and
materials in multiple languag-
es, including spanish and ara-
bic, at Mbta stations and busy
intersections, a spokeswoman
for the commission said in a
thursday e-mail. that effort
will soon expand to neighbor-
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those gaps are . . . so that we ex-
it CoVid more equitably than
we entered it.”
though the study’s findings
are specific to Massachusetts,
latino and black communities
across the united states are
likely to have similar needs,
figueroa said. in fact, he said,
lower household incomes and
rates of insurance coverage
might make disparities else-
where in the country even more
pronounced. “i think in Massa-
chusetts we are seeing almost a
potential best-case scenario,” he
said.
the study concluded that
“policy efforts that improve
care for foreign born nonciti-
zens, address crowded housing,
and protect food-service work-
ers” are in order. figueroa em-
phasized that measures to reas-
sure immigrants of their right
to access health care are espe-
cially important.
health care providers
should see room for improve-
ment reflected in the data, as
well, said betancourt. When
faced with future health crises,
he said, hospitals should con-
sider identifying at-risk popula-
tions, conducting community
outreach, and advocating for
equitable health policy just as
central to emergency prepared-
ness as taking stock of bed and
equipment capacity.
“this is the story not just of
Massachusetts, but of the na-
tion,” betancourt said. “Com-
munities of color were canaries
in the coal mine here, and i just
hope we have the courage to
learn the lessons and not have a
short memory about how we
need to change our public
health and health care system.”
Dasia Moore can be reached at
dasia.moore@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@daijmoore
hood parks when people are
gathering to play sports, she
said.
two ZiP codes in dorchester
have a neighborhood CoVid-
19 rate of 3.5 percent, while
Mattapan reported a rate of 3
percent. those, along with east
boston and roslindale, were
the city neighborhoods where
the rate topped the city average
of 2.6 percent, according to the
public health commission. the
week that east boston saw its
rate jump to 11 percent, it had
the fourth highest neighbor-
hood testing rate in the city, ac-
cording to the commission.
as of aug. 17, 10.1 percent
of those 153,00-plus boston res-
idents who were tested since
the start of the pandemic re-
ceived a positive result, accord-
ing to data provided by the
commission. the city’s corona-
virus caseload has included
more than 750 deaths.
Danny McDonald can be
reached at
daniel.mcdonald@globe.com.
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forcement, our police, back
their power,” trump said, while
painting protesters with a
Trump’s
broad brush as “anarchists.”
but the president, who gets
low marks for his handling of
N.H. rally
race relations in polls, also
boasted of his work for black
americans, comparing himself
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dent,” he said.
With the White house glow-
ing behind him, trump por-
trayed himself as an outsider
who disrupted “Washington in-
siders” with his trade and bor-
der security policies and “ended
the rule of the failed political
class,” painting a triumphant
and upbeat vision of his admin-
istration despite the pandemic
and its economic fallout. he
praised his handling of the cor-
onavirus, which has claimed
more than 180,000 lives, and
vowed a vaccine would be ready
by the end of the year.
trump trolled biden for re-
ferring to himself as an “ally of
the light” in his acceptance
speech that framed the election
as a crucial choice last week,
but the president also por-
trayed the election as a dire mo-
ment. he warned his support-
ers that biden would embrace
“cancel culture,” threaten gun
rights, and usher in socialism.
“if the left gains power, they
will demolish the suburbs, con-
fiscate your guns, and appoint
justices who will wipe away
your second amendment and
other constitutional freedoms,”
trump said.
it’s unclear if voters will buy
trump’s version of biden, a
moderate democrat who’s well
known to the public.
leveraging the power of in-
cumbency, trump delivered his
address from the White house’s
south lawn — a first in conven-
tion history — followed by fire-
works over the nearby national
mall. the made-for-tv specta-
cle was just one of the many
ways the embattled president,
who has lagged behind biden in
national and battleground state
polls, has used the White house
and Washington as a backdrop
for the convention this week.
the actions have blurred the
lines between the president’s
reelection efforts and official
duties and sparked investiga-
tions on capitol hill into poten-
tial violations of the hatch act,
which prohibits politicking by
federal employees.
on the opening night of the
convention monday, trump ap-
peared in prerecorded videos
The president spoke from the South Lawn, a first in convention history, blurring the lines between politics and his duties.
shot in the White house’s east
room and the diplomatic re-
ception room. the next eve-
ning, he strode through the ex-
ecutive mansion to the tune of
“hail to the chief,” and hosted a
naturalization ceremony for five
immigrant candidates in the
great hall along with acting
homeland security secretary
chad Wolfe. first lady melania
trump closed out the night with
a speech in the rose garden.
the constant reminders of
his office appeared to clash
with the message of trump as a
political outsider taking on
what he called the “Washington
establishment” that propelled
him to an upset victory in 2016.
he boasted thursday night that
“it is a fine needle to thread,”
said doug heye, a former com-
munications director for the
republican national commit-
tee, on trump trying to run as
both the incumbent and the
outsider. “What we ultimately
find might be that ‘outsider’ sta-
tus is in the eye of the beholder.”
the message’s awkwardness
was underscored when vice
president mike pence vowed
Wednesday night that trump
would “make america great
again, again” — a play on the
candidate’s original slogan that
raises questions about why the
goal wasn’t accomplished the
first time around. speakers of-
ten elided the ongoing pandem-
ic or flat-out misstated the eco-
nomic situation, as when lara
trump praised the president for
adding millions of jobs for
women since taking office, a
figure from march that has now
gone into the negative millions
due to the economic fallout of
the virus. thousands of ameri-
cans died from the coronavirus
during the four days of the con-
vention alone, but many speak-
ers downplayed the threat.
l e a d i n g u p t o tr u m p ’s
speech, the convention featured
emotional appeals attesting to
his leadership, including from
the widow of a retired police of-
ficer who was killed during a
robbery amid protests in st.
louis. the parents of Kayla mu-
eller, an american killed after
she was captured by isis, said
trump showed “empathy” to
them that they did not receive
from the obama administra-
tion. alice Johnson, a black
woman whose sentence was
commuted by trump after ce-
lebrity Kim Kardashian inter-
ceded on her behalf, said trump
showed “compassion” for her.
ivanka trump, introducing
her father, admitted that his
tweets can be “unfiltered” but
said that the “results” he’s deliv-
ered “speak for themselves.”
at times, the convention’s at-
tempts to appeal to a wider au-
dience than trump regularly
seeks led to dissonant mo-
ments. on Wednesday night,
the president of a police union,
michael mchale, slammed
biden and his running mate,
senator Kamala harris, alleg-
ing she made moves to “re-
strict” police in the past, while
pence later criticized biden for
saying there is systemic racism
in the criminal justice system.
mchale was followed by former
nfl player Jack brewer, a
trump supporter who is black,
who accused harris and biden
of “locking up” black men with
their policies — a charge that
ran counter to mchale’s argu-
ment and would underscore the
systemic racism pence sum-
marily rejected.
nevertheless, the conven-
tion showed the trump cam-
paign attempting to soften his
image from a culture warrior
inflaming his mostly white base
with tweets about the confeder-
acy to one of a hard-at-work
president setting aside partisan
battles to help a broader coali-
tion of americans. several fe-
male speakers attested to his
personal warmth and support
for women, perhaps with an eye
to trump’s historically large
de ficit with female voters
against biden in recent polling,
and black speakers vouched for
his commitment to equality.
“the campaign clearly rec-
ognized that they need to do
better in the suburbs,” said alex
conant, a republican strategist
who worked on senator marco
rubio’s 2016 presidential run.
“the convention has its share of
red meat, but the overriding
theme is one that would appeal
to suburban voters.”
the convention also fea-
tured outreach to black and la-
tino voters, as well as softer ap-
peals to independent voters
from south carolina republi-
can senator tim scott and for-
mer un ambassador nikki ha-
ley. but the prime goal ap-
peared to be shoring up
support from people who
backed trump in 2016 but have
evan vucci/associated press
since developed doubts. in re-
cent months, trump has strug-
gled with older voters and non-
college-educated white women
who were key to his victory last
time, and has faced fierce oppo-
sition from many educated
white voters in the suburbs.
“the programming is geared
at bringing people back in the
orbit who were drifting out of
the gravitational field,” said ian
russell, a democratic strate-
gist. they are generally repub-
licans who want their stock
market portfolios to do well but
“don’ t like it when the dog
whistle and racism becomes an
entire horn section.”
but some political analysts
doubted the convention would
resonate beyond trump’s base.
ratings lagged behind last
week’s democratic convention
on two of its first three nights.
viewership has been down for
both conventions compared to
four years ago.
“is it working? absolutely, it
is a good cheerleading section
for people who already live in
this bubble,” said mike madrid,
cofounder of the lincoln proj-
ect, a political action committee
created by current and former
republicans to prevent trump’s
reelection. “are they expanding
beyond that? i don’t think that
is having the effect that they
think it is having.”
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paign rally that had been slat-
ed for manchester, n.h., on
friday will instead take place
in londonderry, n.h., officials
said.
londonderry police chief
William r. hart confirmed the
switch in an e-mail, and the
trump campaign website on
thursday listed the location
for the 6 p.m. event as pro star
aviation, 8 Kelly ave., lon-
donderry.
t h e tr u m p c a m p a i g n
didn’t immediately respond to
an e-mail seeking comment on
the change.
but Wmur-tv reported
that the rally was initially
planned for a hangar in man-
chester leased by dartmouth-
hitchcock medical center to
store its medical helicopter.
members of the man-
chester republican committee
said thursday night that the
switch merely moves the rally
from the manchester side of
the airport a short distance
over the line into londonder-
ry, but they did not provide a
reason for the move.
b r i tt a ny l e c l e a r - p i n g ,
chairwoman of the committee,
said there was “some sort of
hiccup” and added, “i don’t
know the whole back story.”
“it’s just across the line,”
leclear-ping said in a phone
interview. “your parking situa-
t i o n ’s p r o b a b l y n o t e v e n
changing.”
rick adams, a spokesman
for dar tmouth-hitchcock
medical center, said in a state-
ment that the hospital was
willing to temporarily move its
dhart helicopter to accom-
modate the event, if the cam-
paign covered the cost.
“We were working to find a
suitable location for the air-
c r a f t a n d c r e w, t o a l l o w
dhart’s service to the region
to continue uninterrupted.
however, the costs associated
with that relocation need to be
reimbursed: as a not-for-prof-
it organization, d-h is prohib-
ited from making any in-kind
contributions to political cam-
paigns, and so must be reim-
bursed for the costs of the re-
location,” adams said in the
statement.
adams said that on

Republicans use prime time to push alternate reality
By Toluse Olorunnipa
Washington post
Washington — for more
than 10 hours this week, presi-
dent trump and his allies used
the unfiltered platform of a na-
tional political convention to
paint a portrait of two americas
that do not exist.
in one — a misrepresenta-
tion of life under trump — the
coronavirus has been con-
quered by presidential leader-
ship, the economy is at its pre-
pandemic levels, troops are re-
turning home, and the
president is an empathetic fig-
ure who supports immigration
and would never stoke the na-
tion’s racial grievances.
in the other — a hypotheti-
cal preview of a Joe biden presi-
dency that mischaracterizes
many of his proposals — police
are defunded, taxes are in-
creased, infanticide is legal,
suburbs are abolished, and cit-
ies burn as violence spreads na-
tionwide.
‘‘you won’t be safe in Joe
biden’s america,’’ vice presi-
dent mike pence said Wednes-
day in a speech that described
the upcoming election as ‘‘a
time of choosing’’ between a
dystopian socialist future under
democrats and a resurgent
america under trump.
While all political confabs
involve some level of spin and
revisionism, the republican
national convention this year
has stood out for its brazen defi-
ance of facts, ethical guidelines,
and tradition, according to ex-
perts on propaganda and mis-
information. While trump, a
former reality television star,
has long trafficked in mistruths
and innuendo, the broad cast of
characters who took up his tac-
tics during prime-time speech-
es underscores how his brand
of politicking has taken root in
the gop.
the result was a four-day
display of propaganda-style
programming, said peter po-
merantsev, a former russian-
television producer and author
of ‘‘nothing is true and every-
thing is possible,’’ a memoir
that describes the Kremlin’s ef-
forts to manipulate the news.
‘‘it reminds me of things i’ve
seen in russia before,’’ he said.
‘‘facts don’t really matter in this
context. you’re just telling dif-
ferent people what they want to
hear, so facts become tertiary.
they’re not trying to even win a
debate; they’re trying to feed
people’s confirmation biases
and their fears.’’
a carousel of trump endors-
ers and family members used
taped speeches and the back-
drop of federal property to de-
pict a swift descent into radical-
ism and chaos if biden is elect-
ed. they described the former
vice president as an avatar for
socialism who would wreck the
economy with trillion-dollar tax
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President Trump reviewed the setup for his RNC speech.
increases, corruptly enrich his
family members, and enact job-
killing bans on fracking and
fossil fuels.
by contrast, the convention
used highly produced videos,
emotional testimonials, and
surprise appearances to portray
trump in a positive light. the
portrayals were often at odds
with the policies and behaviors
trump has embraced during his
turbulent 3 1/2 years in office.
the contrast was perhaps
best illustrated by trump’s deci-
sion to host a naturalization
ceremony for immigrants tues-
day at the White house, with
videotaped footage that aired as
part of the republican conven-
tion’s ‘‘land of opportunity’’
programming that evening.
‘‘today america rejoices as
we welcome five absolutely in-
credible new members into our
great american family,’’ trump
said during the ceremony, the
first to be conducted at the
White house for apparent polit-
ical purposes.
during his administration,
trump has made prolific use of
his executive authority to re-
strict immigration and make it
harder for noncitizens to natu-
ralize.
several family members tes-
tified on trump’s work ethic,
countering the image of a tele-
vision-obsessed president who
doesn’t read his briefing mate-
rials. lawmakers and residents
described him as an empathetic
and caring listener behind
closed doors, a contrast to his
public image as a cruel brawler.
black supporters declared
he was not a racist, national se-
curity officials said he was a lev-
el-headed commander in chief,
and female aides countered the
image of a onetime playboy
who as president tweets about
women’s facelifts and facial fea-
tures. several medical profes-
sionals described him as a life-
saving leader who successfully
responded to the pandemic.
the deluge of back-to-back
misleading depictions offered a
distortion of reality with the
sole aim of earning trump a
second term, said barbara per-
ry, director of presidential stud-
ies at the university of virgin-
ia’s miller center.
the trump campaign has
claimed that the president is
merely using the platform of
the convention to deliver an un-
filtered message directly to the
american people, blaming the
news media for often injecting
bias into their coverage of the
White house.
during the convention,
some trump allies referred to
the pandemic in the past tense,
and others attempted to rewrite
the history of his response. the
death toll has surpassed
175,000 americans.
Wednesday afternoon, the
hospital was told “that the lo-
gistics for the president’s visit
friday had been squared away,
and there was no impact to
dhart’s operations at the air-
port.”
trump had been scheduled
to hold a rally in portsmouth,
n.h., on July 11. his campaign
abruptly postponed the event
the day before, citing concerns
over tropical storm fay as it
passed through new england.
it would have been his second
pandemic-era event since his
June rally in tulsa, okla.
friday’s rally will be held
one day after the formal con-
clusion of the republican na-
tional convention.
manchester mayor Joyce
craig, a democrat, on thurs-
day released an open letter she
sent to trump urging him to
advocate for “much-needed
federal funding for cities and
towns” that continue to battle
the covid-19 pandemic.
“please commit to taking
action to protect our residents
and jobs, and advocate to in-
crease federal funding for af-
fordable housing, public edu-
cation, healthcare institu-
tions, economic recovery and
direct funding to cities and
towns that will help move
manchester forward through
the covid -19 pandemic,”
craig wrote.
she added that without “di-
rect and flexible federal aid to
municipalities, we’re unable
to adequately address our
needs.”
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Biden: Trump ‘rooting for more violence’ as Wis. roiled

Nominee says
president sees
unrest as benefit
By Katie Glueck,
Thomas Kaplan,
and Reid J. Epstein
New york times
Joe Biden on thursday ac-
cused President trump of “root-
ing for more violence” at a mo-
ment of national unrest over
racism and police brutality, of-
fering one of his most extensive
responses yet to the republican
argument that he would be a
weak leader on law enforce-
ment and criminal justice.
after several days out of the
spotlight during the republi-
c a n Na t i o n a l Co n v e n t i o n ,
Biden, the democratic presi-
dential nominee, spoke on
msNBC against a backdrop of
upheaval in kenosha, wisc., fol-
lowing the police shooting of a
Black man, Jacob Blake, that
outraged many americans.
some protests in wisconsin
have turned destructive, and
republicans have made clear
that they sense a political op-
portunity, with Vice President
mike Pence declaring wednes-
day that “you won’t be safe in
Joe Biden’s america.”
Biden, for his part, sought to
turn the focus back to the coro-
navirus and to cast the election
as a choice between his promis-
es of calm and trump’s tenden-
cy to inflame already volatile
situations that are developing
under his presidency.
“He views this as a political
benefit to him,” Biden said of
the president. “He’s rooting for
more violence, not less, and is
clear about that. and what’s he
doing? He’s kept pouring gaso-
line on the fire. this happens to
be donald trump’s america.”
Biden was specifically refer-
ring to remarks thursday from
kellyanne Conway, trump’s de-
parting counselor, who said the
president stood to benefit polit-
ically from the kind of unrest
that had erupted in kenosha.
“the more chaos and anar-
chy and vandalism and violence
reigns, the better it is for the
very clear choice on who’s best
on public safety and law and or-
der,” Conway said on “Fox &
Friends.”
Biden, who noted that he
condemned “violence in any
form, whether it’s looting or
whatever it is,” did not rule out
a trip to wisconsin himself, if a
visit could be managed safely
amid the pandemic.
“if i were president, i’d be
going,” said Biden, who has
spoken with Blake’s family. “if i
went, what i’d be doing is try-
ing to pull together the Black
community as well as the white
community, and sit down and
talk, and talk about how we get
through this.”
after Biden’s television ap-
pearances, his running mate,
senator kamala Harris of Cali-
fornia, delivered a speech in
washington in which she con-
demned the police shooting of
Blake.
“it’s sickening to watch, it’s
all too familiar, and we must
end it,” Harris said.
all summer, trump has de-
ployed an onslaught of scatter-
shot attacks against Biden, cast-
ing him by turns as too weak on
crime and overly punitive. up
to this point, it hasn’t worked,
and the president has trailed
Biden in key battleground
states amid strong disapproval
of his stewardship during the
coronavirus crisis.
those competing republi-
can messages continued
throughout trump’s convention
week, but as the unrest intensi-
fied in wisconsin, so did re-
publican efforts to paint Biden
— a relative moderate who does
not want to defund the police —
as an ally of the “radical left.”
“President trump has re-
peatedly condemned the vio-
lence erupting in democrat-led
cities and has urged local demo-
crat leaders to accept federal
support to stop the rioting,” said
tim murtaugh, a spokesman for
trump, when asked about
Biden’s claim that the president
was “rooting” for violence.
there are early signs on the
ground in that critical battle-
ground state that the unrest has
made democrats more vulnera-
b l e , ra i s i n g t h e s t a ke s f o r
Biden’s response headed into
the fall campaign, with polls ex-
pected to tighten.

Ex-McCain staffers backing Biden

By Jonathan Martin
New york times
wa s H i N g t o N — mo r e
than 100 former staff members
for the late senator John mcCa-
time chief aide and speechwrit-
er, helped organize the letter.
“we have different views of
Joe Biden and the democratic
Party platform — most of us
TAX
cy views and recoil from
trump’s “america First” poli-
tics, which salter called his
“coddling of dictators or disin-
terest in our alliances.”

in are supporting Joe Biden, a
show of support across the po-
litical divide that they hope am-
plifies the “Country First” credo
of the former arizona senator.
that motto and “his frequent
call on americans to ser ve
causes greater than our self-in-
terest were not empty slogans
like so much of our politics to-
will disagree with a fair amount
of it — but we all agree that get-
ting donald trump out of office
is clearly in the national inter-
est,” salter said.
Coinciding with trump’s re-
nomination acceptance speech
at the republican National
Convention on thursday and
the second anniversary of mc-
FREE
the statement alone is un-
likely to affect the presidential
race. However, an allied repub-
lican group is hoping to capital-
ize on it by airing a new televi-
sion ad in arizona, a highly
competitive state, that con-
trasts mcCain’s acceptance of
the republican presidential
nomination in 2008 with a se-

day,” the group of aides, most of
them still republicans, wrote in
a joint statement, praising mc-
Cain and implicitly taking aim
at President trump. “they were
the creed by which he lived, and
he urged us to do the same.”
the list of signatories in-
cludes a range of people — from
chiefs of staff in mcCain’s sen-
ate office to junior aides on his
campaigns — who worked for
him over his 35 years in Con-
gress and during two presiden-
tial bids.
mark salter, mcCain’s long-
Cain’s death this week, the joint
endorsement of Biden repre-
sents the latest effort from anti-
trump republicans to lure con-
servatives and moderates away
from the president.
democrats used their con-
vention last week to recall the
friendship Biden and mcCain
forged and to highlight the sup-
port Biden enjoys from some
former republican lawmakers
and national security officials.
many of the onetime mcCa-
in aides who signed the letter
share his hawkish foreign poli-
3X the Savings
ries of trump’s more inflamma-
tory statements.
“a word to senator obama
and his supporters,” mcCain
said at the time, in words that
the group, republican Voters Now Accepting Pre-Orders
against trump, uses in the ad.
“despite our differences, much
more unites us than divides us.
we are fellow americans, and
that’s an association that means
more to me than any other.”
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to run in the washington Post
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Louis DeJoy must resign. Now

W
ith the election less than 70 days
away, the united states Postal ser-
vice under the trump administra-
tion has failed to assure americans
that their ballots will be counted,
should they choose to vote by mail.
given that unfortunate reality in an
election that will probably have more mail-in ballots than any
other national election in the country’s history, it has become
clear that louis deJoy, in his role as
Postmaster general, has only further
undermined public confidence in The Postmaster General is
american democracy. in his short
tenure, he has proved himself unfit to
underming the post office.
serve as usPs chief, and he must re-
sign immediately.
since deJoy has taken over the post office, the agency has
curtailed overtime pay, removed over 600 mail sorting ma-
chines, and either locked up or taken out letter collection
boxes. these supposedly cost-saving measures have resulted
in slowing down mail delivery, potentially disenfranchising
voters at a massive scale come november if their mail-in bal-
lots are not processed or delivered on time. While deJoy has
stated that he will suspend any further changes at the Postal
service until after the election, he has refused to undo the
damage that has already been done, such as reinstalling any
of the dismantled sorting machines.
beyond the election, deJoy’s leadership at the usPs has
already had real negative consequences on americans across
the country. People rely on mail not only to vote, but also to
pay bills, receive paychecks, or refill prescriptions. Just last
week, the new york times reported that prescription deliv-
eries have slowed down to a dangerous pace, causing illness-
es or infections to get worse for some patients. according to
an axios-ipsos poll, nearly 1 in 5 americans receives medica-
tion through the mail, and 5 percent of all americans have al-
ready reported either a delay in receiving their medication or
a lack of delivery altogether. Potentially delaying the delivery
of paychecks would also add extra and undue financial strain
on americans as they manage their
way through the worst economic col-
lapse since the great depression.
the Postal service is an agency that
should remain nonpartisan — a stan-
dard that is difficult to uphold under
deJoy, a major donor to donald
trump and the goP. before joining the post office, deJoy was “We can only reach two conclusions,” representative ste-
a finance chairman for the republican national committee, phen lynch of Massachusetts told deJoy during his congres-
and he is the finance chairman of this week’s republican na- sional testimony. “either through gross incompetence you
tional convention. he has also been riddled with conflicts of have ended the 240-year history of delivering the mail reli-
interest, having to divest his stocks in uPs and amazon upon ably on time, or, the second conclusion that we could gather
his appointment, and he still owns a major equity stake in is, you’re doing this on purpose.”
XPo, a usPs contractor, totaling somewhere between $30 indeed, whether deJoy is undermining the post office de-
million and $75 million. liberately or because of his incompetence, he must resign
at his congressional testimony on Monday, deJoy may from his position immediately in order to allow the agency to
well have lied under oath, stating that he did not put a limit reverse the dangerous changes it has made, and to salvage its
on overtime pay. Various reports from news outlets as well as reputation before millions of americans opt to use its services
the postal workers union say otherwise. this is simply not the to cast their vote. because no matter the intent, what is clear
kind of leadership the Postal service or the american people is that deJoy’s leadership is doing little more than unleashing
deserve. chaos at the post office — and on american democracy too.

Scot Lehigh

In two Mass. races,

it’s Pelosi vs. Ocasio-Cortez
I
t’s a battle of democratic superstars: house
speaker nancy Pelosi, prodigiously power-
ful pillar of the party establishment, versus
alexandria ocasio-cortez, the pied piper of
pugilistic progressivism.
and with the bay state as the battleground.
the pair, who eye each other warily, find them-
selves on opposite sides in two high-profile primary
races here. aoc is backing incumbent ed Markey
for the senate and challenger alex Morse for the
first district house seat. Pelosi has endorsed chal-
lane turner/globe staff lenger Joseph P. kennedy iii for the senate and in-
A kayaker enjoys the winding waterways of the Great Marsh in Ipswich. cumbent richard neal for reelection in the Western
Massachusetts district.
how those two races play out will have conse-
Renée Loth quences both in Massachusetts and in the larger
tug-of-war within the national democratic Party.
nedy’s behalf.
the speaker’s endorsement was a headline-gar-
nering get for kennedy. that said, the Markey cam-
paign claims that some $500,000 flowed in from
15,000 people in the few days after Pelosi’s an-
nouncement.
it also drew a sharp reaction from aoc. Pelosi,
after all, has not only discouraged primary chal-
lenges to democratic incumbents, but the demo-
cratic congressional campaign committee has also
blacklisted consultants who work for those chal-
lengers. yet in endorsing kennedy, Pelosi is backing
someone who is challenging a senate incumbent.
“no one gets to complain about primary chal-
lenges again,” aoc tweeted. Just a few days later, she
endorsed alex Morse, who is challenging key Pelosi
ally richard neal, the central-to-everything chair-

A grounding remedy our story starts last september, when ocasio-

cortez endorsed her green new deal partner ed
Markey for reelection to the senate, way back when
man of the house Ways and Means committee.
from a pragmatic, influence-enhancing perspec-
tive, that endorsement seems odd. it would be

for uncertain times kennedy was still mulling mounting a primary

challenge — and leading Markey by double digits in
the polls.
strange indeed for Massachusetts to trade a con-
gressional powerhouse such as neal for a political
newcomer like Morse. neal, after all, is a man who

H
ow long will this last? Will i
still have a job? is it safe to
travel? Will my favorite res-
taurant (clothing store/jazz
club/bakery/theater) sur-
vive? Will all the votes be fairly counted?
When can i get a haircut? should i even
think about thanksgiving? and how long,
oh lord, will this last?
When the uncertainty of this long corona-
virus pandemic moment threatens to swamp
me, making me feel edgy and unmoored, i
turn for solace to a reliable anchor: the con-
stancy of the natural world. here, the asters
bloom in late august and the sun depend-
ably rises in the east. you can plot the length
of days to the millisecond, and chart the
whirling constellations and the
tides. “nature is orderly,” as the
poet gary snyder has said. Find solace in
“that which appears chaotic in
nature is only a more complex the constancy
kind of order.” it is like a black-
board-spanning math equation
of nature.
called beautiful because of the
symmetry underlying all those
numbers.
august in new england is always tinged
with melancholy, but this year it’s reassuring
hurricanes blow up rapidly. it’s a dry win-
ter, or it’s snowmageddon. but even these
fluctuations are held within a container of
greater structure: gravity, the orbiting plan-
ets, the tides. these are immutable. that’s
why they’re called the laws of nature.
this week we are having especially high
tides in the afternoons, well over 10 feet in
the marshes near my summer home. it’s
wonderful to slide in a kayak over the top of
the peaty banks, watching the sea lavender
and eelgrass waving under extra inches of
water. Wonderful and worrisome too, as the
high tides are a reminder that the seas are
inexorably rising. Just this month, the trust-
ees of reservations issued a report on the
state of the Massachusetts coast, forecasting
the effects of climate change
on shoreline communities,
from loss of habitat and beach
erosion to regular flooding in
town centers from ipswich to
salem. by 2070, it predicts,
400 acres of the great Marsh i
paddled through this week
could be completely lost.
but the good news is that the climate is
nature, and as such, follows its laws. if we
only stop abusing the earth, it will heal. if
aoc’s support has been a vitally important part
of Markey’s campaign; this summer, her powerful
pro-Markey ad helped certify the 74-year-old senator
as the champion of climate-concerned younger vot-
ers. age-wise, those voters would have seemed a
more natural constituency for the 39-year-old ken-
nedy, who had hoped to benefit from a generational
divide. however, aoc’s endorsement of Markey es-
sentially blocked kennedy’s path to the sea.
but though aoc has many fans, Pelosi doesn’t
number among them. fiercely protective of house
democrats, the speaker doesn’t appreciate intra-
party challenges to incumbents — and aoc and the
lefty Justice democrats she’s allied with have used
primary challenges in their quest to push the dem-
ocratic Party to port.
here, Pelosi understands something young pro-
gressives too often miss: ideologically pure coali-
tions are not broad, while broad coalitions can’t be
pure. further, it was moderate candidates, not the
lefties, who took the house for the democrats in
2018.
the speaker clearly appreciates the fund-raising
efforts that kennedy did to boost the Pelosi-led ef-
forts to retake the house in 2018. but word is that
Pelosi is also exasperated by the prominence that
the Markey-aoc alliance has lent the maverick
congresswoman, and that that annoyance played a
significant role in her decision to jump in on ken-
delivers for Massachusetts on a regular basis. in-
deed, republican governor charlie baker, who en-
joys off-the-charts popularity with Democrats, gave
him a boost on thursday, pointedly underscoring
how important neal is to the state.
further, Morse’s campaign had seemed to be
fading. so, why did aoc get involved? given the
close relationship between Pelosi and neal, it’s hard
not to see her action as a direct response to Pelosi’s
endorsement of kennedy.
if Markey prevails — and he appears to be on a
winning trajectory — aoc will be a vital part of
that comeback story, her endorsement viewed as
more important for Markey than Pelosi’s was for
kennedy.
but it won’t be a complete victory for aoc if vot-
ers in the first district stick with neal. then Pelosi
will be able to argue she was on the winning side in
the race most important to her.
either way, the tensions between the two duel-
ing democratic stars are obviously growing. that’s
fine — as long as intraparty conflicts don’t distract
either side from an all-out effort to defeat donald
trump and win complete control of congress in
november.
Scot Lehigh is a Globe columnist. He can be
reached at scot.lehigh@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @GlobeScotLehigh.
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to see the purple loosestrife and goldenrod
blazing in the fields. right on schedule, the
tree swallows are staging in the tens of thou-
sands at the Parker river wildlife refuge. the
Perseid meteor shower and the late blueber-
ries have come and gone, as ever.
you don’t need insurance for this
grounding remedy. it is available to anyone
who opens their senses. you don’t need to
do anything. in fact, it is better if you can
still the mind from its ceaseless chatter, and
still the body, too. Just sit — in the park,
your backyard, on your porch. slowly, na-
ture comes to you. the slightest breeze is
palpable. dragonflies dart by. shadows
chase the sun across the land. the crickets
you didn’t notice minutes ago are suddenly
singing fortissimo. While you were fretting,
nature was here all along, like a generous,
steadfast friend.
of course, the seasons are always shift-
ing. the lilacs may bloom early one year;
the foliage may be especially bright another.
we stop spewing climate-disrupting emis-
sions into the sky, or toxic discharges into
the rivers, if we replenish dunes and forests,
and stop development on fragile land, the
climate will respond, as night follows day.
even this insidious, shape-shifting coro-
navirus follows laws (let’s call them “sci-
ence”). if we keep our distance, wear
masks, and wash our hands, it can’t easily
take hold. if it is deprived of hosts, it will
eventually die out. there are no absolute
guarantees. but we know what to do.
it’s easy to globalize the uncertainty we
feel six months into this pandemic, the
sense that we can’t really count on any-
thing. a contagion of lies and confusion can
make us feel as if our very reality is a thin
tissue that dissolves whenever we try to
grasp it. but we should heed nature. it only
tells the truth.
Renée Loth’s column appears regularly in
the Globe.
f r i d a y, a u g u s t 2 8 , 2 0 2 0
Choosing change
in the 12th Suffolk District
N
o matter who wins in the
democratic primary for
state representative in the
12th suffolk district, the
legislature will add one
more person of color to its ranks.
Brandy fluker oakley, stephanie
everett, and Jovan lacet are all Black
lawyers from mattapan — traditionally the
center of the district that also includes
parts of dorchester, milton, and hyde park
— vying for the seat soon to be vacated by
state representative dan cullinane, who is
white. at a time when only 7 percent of
members of the legislature are Black or
latino (14 out of 200), it’s always cause for
celebration when diversity in that body
climbs up, however slowly.
But in a three-way race, the two
candidates with similar profiles — everett
and fluker oakley — risk taking votes from
each other and opening the door for lacet,
a perennial candidate whose judgment and
confrontational style several local leaders
told me have raised doubts about his
ability to be a bridge-builder in the state
house. that’s why they’re gently trying to
coalesce support around fluker oakley,
even as many speak highly of everett.
Both everett and fluker oakley have
similar progressive stances and a solid
record working in government and the
nonprofit sector, respectively. lacet, a
former marine and Boston police officer,
was fired from the police department for
perjury. (lacet claims he was wrongfully
terminated.)
more than two-thirds of the population
in the district is Black, while roughly three-
quarters are residents of color. this
particular area has been
more vulnerable than
most to the impact of the Both Everett and
covid-19 pandemic —
it has more poverty, Fluker Oakley have
more struggling small
businesses, and a school
similar progressive
population without some stances.
of the resources of
wealthier districts.
fluker oakley has
earned the support of a fair number of
legislators of color from Boston, including
representatives russell holmes, chynah
tyler, and Jon santiago. she is a graduate
of Boston latin school, a former third-
grade teacher in Baltimore, and a former
public defender in Boston and chelsea’s
courts. it is her first time running for
office, but she has roughly eight years of
experience working as an education reform
advocate.
“Brandy naturally is going to be heavy
on education,” said holmes. he is also
intrigued by fluker oakley’s proposal to
support seniors who own their homes. in
an interview with the globe editorial
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Brandy Fluker Oakley (left) and Stephanie Everett
board, fluker oakley said, “as homes sell
at higher rates throughout the city of
Boston, that increases the taxes that many
of our seniors who are on fixed incomes
have to pay. i’d be looking to expand our
residential exemptions.”
on transportation, she supports the
idea of a light rail instead of an mBta bus
system along the Blue hill avenue corridor
and believes there is a way to bring people
together to support her vision, which
includes — why not? — something like the
commonwealth avenue mall on Blue hill
avenue.
“Being a lifelong mattapan resident,
what i know is that this community is
often wary of change,”
fluker oakley said. “not
because they don’t want
to see improvements . . .
but because there’s just a
long history of things
being done to the
community and without
the community, that it
doesn’t feel like it’s a
process that they actually
have ownership and agency over and in.”
everett is a former deputy chief of staff
to state senator sonia chang-diaz and has
an impressive personal story. she worked
as chief of staff in the state’s department of
transitional assistance and has run
unsuccessfully for three different elected
offices before: for a district seat on the
Boston city council in 2011, for this house
seat in a special election in 2013, and for
register of deeds in 2016. these previous
failed campaigns have surely been an
exercise in name recognition and
relationship-building in the district, but
also raise questions about her ability to
connect with voters.
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there was a fourth candidate running
originally, but he stepped down last
month. citing the momentous protests for
racial justice earlier in the summer,
cameron charbonnier, a city employee and
former advance man for mayor marty
walsh, suspended his campaign. “[i]t has
become clear to me that at this time and in
this district, i may not be the right
candidate for this seat,” charbonnier said
in a statement. But charbonnier, who has
endorsed everett, will still appear on the
ballot, since he withdrew after the print
deadline, and some people in the district
fear that his name on the ballot will be
confusing to voters and could take away
valuable votes.
only one person of color or woman has
been elected to represent the 12th suffolk
district: linda dorcena forry, who went
on to win the first suffolk senate seat in
2013 before leaving the legislature in
2018. though she is not endorsing a
candidate, she said in an interview that the
next legislator “is going to have to be
someone who is able to bring people to the
table.” dealing with the economic
aftermath of covid-19 has to be a priority,
dorcena forry said. “But the big [pressing
issue] is education. how is remote
schooling going to look? how are we going
to support parents? we must make sure
there is no learning loss for our young
people.”
it’s about time that voters in mattapan,
dorchester, milton, and hyde park pick a
worthy successor to dorcena forry:
another Black woman.
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A tree canopy bends
in Roxbury
trees along Melnea cass are
testament to power of local voices
re “when equity means shade: activists pan roxbury proj-
ect that would raze boulevard’s mature trees” (page a1,
aug. 24): david abel’s article shined a light on environ-
mental injustice in roxbury. nearly a decade ago, residents
formed friends of melnea cass Boulevard; ever since, they
have been raising questions about the road reconstruction
project. it is our honor to stand with them to demand a
public tree hearing for these 124 trees.
these trees are not a commodity to be built through; in-
stead, they are an asset to be built around. they provide
critical benefits for local residents.
with climate change, our summers are getting hotter;
these trees cool the streets.
with covid-19, increased asthma rates put communi-
ties at higher risk; these trees clean the air.
as a community of Black and indigenous people and
people of color, residents face increased stressors; these
trees provide calm, improving mental health.
the history of Boston’s urban tree canopy is rooted in a
painful history of redlining. the same morning as abel’s
piece, a new york times report explored the intersection
between redlining and heat islands. it traced how systemic
racist federal policy from the 1930s continues to define lo-
cal urban environments today.
melnea cass Boulevard’s trees have a more immediate
history too. they were planted after residents halted the in-
terstate highway. these trees are a testament to the power
of local voices. they have stood proudly for decades, grow-
ing with the community, providing respite and shade, hope
and solace, clean air and clean water, in a Boston neighbor-
hood that has been the center for Black culture and a site of
environmental injustice.
for the residents of Boston, trees define community and
nurture health. we support activist yvonne lalyre, resi-
dents of roxbury, and communities throughout Boston in
making sure that all residents get the trees, and the envi-
ronment, they deserve.
dwaign tyndal
Executive director
Alternatives for Community and Environment
Roxbury
david meshoulam
Executive director
Speak for the Trees, Boston
Boston
it behooves the city to rethink
its plan to cut down these trees
thank you for your informative coverage of the city of Bos-
ton’s atrocious plan to cut down 124 beautiful, climate-mit-
igating, mature trees on melnea cass Boulevard.
it is a plan formed years ago, when we had much less
understanding of mature trees’ role in sequestering carbon,
cooling city neighborhoods, and promoting the emotional
health of the people of those neighborhoods. ten years ago
we also had far less appreciation than we do today for envi-
ronmental justice and the impact of societal racism on ar-
eas inhabited mostly by people of color — areas that there-
fore often have much less tree canopy than richer and whit-
er ones. this makes every tree in such communities that
much more precious. in light of our new awareness of all
these things, it behooves the city to reconceptualize its
thinking about melnea cass Boulevard, listen to the people
of roxbury who wish passionately to preserve their trees,
and ditch this horrible idea.
louise Quigley
Braintree
remember the Memorial Drive
protest of 1964
the attempt of authorities to cut down so many trees on
melnea cass Boulevard in roxbury reminds me of how the
beautiful sycamores lining memorial drive in cambridge
were saved by demonstrating harvard students and others
in may 1964, when i was a graduate student there. good
luck to the current generation in saving the mature trees.
Jay m. pasachoff
Williamstown
the call — and calling — of ‘anthony!’
‘‘re “for much of america, he was face of the north end”
(metro, aug. 25): wouldn’t it be good if we could all pause
from the world’s troubles that surround us and think and
act like anthony martignetti?
as Billy Baker writes, martignetti, who died aug. 22 at
63, “never said a word in his role” in the prince spaghetti
ads, “and never made much money from the experience —
he bought a new set of hockey goalie pads — but it became
the defining event of his life, one he cherished and protect-
ed for five decades.”
as martignetti once told Baker, “i always understood
that it was larger than me, that i had a responsibility to
preserve what that commercial meant to people. i knew
that if i got into trouble, little anthony from the spaghetti
commercial would be all over the paper.”
peter chisholm
Ashland
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‘I think the videos and the statements and the interviews that they took paints a different picture
than what we were told, and that’s a problem.’
Jennifer root bannon, sister of Juston Root

Video of shooting by police does not match DA’s report

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involved in the shooting, only
one body camera picked up the
incident. the video footage is
largely obscured, but officers
can be heard shouting instruc-
tions for root to get down and
to put his hands up, and one of-
ficer appears to begin to say
“drop” at the moment officers
open fire.
at no point can any officer
be heard referring to a gun.
attorney Mark a. berthi-
aume, who is representing
root’s family in a wrongful
death lawsuit filed earlier this
month in us district Court, cit-
ed the discrepancies between
the district attorney’s report
and video footage as he called
upon Morrissey thursday to re-
open the investigation into the
shooting, or seek an indepen-
dent investigation.
“the video recordings that
were recently made public, as
well as the interviews of civil-
ian and law enforcement wit-
nesses, fully corroborate the de-
tailed facts outlined in the fed-
eral court complaint filed last
Monday by the root family,”
berthiaume said in a statement
to the globe on thursday. “We
believe that those facts paint a
far different picture than that
portrayed in the norfolk Coun-
ty da’s investigative report ex-
onerating the six law enforce-
ment officers.”
asked thursday about the
discrepancy between the report
and what the video appears to
show, david traub, a spokes-
man for Morrissey, said in an e-
mailed statement, “the da’s
view and findings were based
on the totality of the evidence,
not just the audio or video, and
he stands by his report.”
responding to a follow-up e-
mail about where the detail of
Evan Root and his daughter, Jennifer Root Bannon, held a photo of Juston Root, who was fatally shot by police.
shouts of “gun” might’ve come
from, traub responded, “Wit-
ness statements.”
statements by civilian wit-
nesses and police in the after-
math of the shooting were not
part of the evidence released
publicly Wednesday by the
norfolk district attorney’s of-
fice.
but in Morrissey’s report,
one of the officers involved in
the shooting — david godin,
who was also involved in the
earlier altercation with root at
brigham and Women’s — said
he had heard another officer
shout “gun” immediately be-
fore he opened fire.
“[godin] observed root
reach into his jacket, heard
someone shout ‘gun’ and fired
his weapon,” Morrissey wrote.
in an interview thursday,
root’s sister, Jennifer root
bannon, said she has watched
the video depicting her broth-
er’s shooting repeatedly and
has never heard anyone refer to
a gun.
Pat greenhouse/globe staff/file
“i’ve never heard it, and be-
lieve me, i’ve listened at full
blast,” said bannon, 44, of
needham.
the feb. 7 incident began
when root pulled a fake gun
earlier that day on an officer
outside of brigham and Wom-
en’s hospital in a chaotic and
confusing scene. officers on
scene opened fire, inadvertent-
ly injuring a valet working in
the area.
root, who also appeared to
have been shot, then took off in
a Chevy Volt and was pursued
by police before crashing more
than 3 miles away, near the
Chestnut hill shopping area.
traffic camera footage shows
root’s vehicle hitting another
vehicle, then flying through an
intersection at high speed be-
fore coming to a stop nearby.
root can be seen stumbling
from the car and eventually
falling onto a nearby sidewalk.
Police cruisers arrived with-
in moments, Morrissey’s report
states, and multiple officers
would later provide statements
saying they’d seen root reach-
ing for what they believed to be
a gun inside his jacket before
firing.
officers later found a bb
gun in a shoulder holster worn
by root, according to the re-
port, as well as a pair of plastic
paint ball guns in his crashed
vehicle.
on thursday, root’s sister
reiterated her desire for the in-
dependent inquiry into her
brother’s death, saying that
while she respects the work
that law enforcement does, the
inconsistencies between the re-
leased video footage and the
district attorney’s report war-
rant a new look.
“i think the videos and the
statements and the interviews
that they took paints a different
picture than what we were told,
and that’s a problem,” bannon
said. “i believe that this investi-
gation was faulty, and Juston,
the public, and my family de-
serves no less than an indepen-
dent investigation.”
Dugan Arnett can be reached at
dugan.arnett@globe.com.

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Despite CDC shift, Mass. stays course on testing

Change decried such tests are unnecessary, a
spokesman for the command
as dangerous center overseeing the state’s
By Felice J. Freyer
CoViD-19 response said
thursday.
and Travis Andersen “ While we are reviewing
Globe staff
testing for anyone in high-risk
communities.
Meanwhile, boston-area
public health experts joined
their peers around the country
in decrying as “harmful” and
tests when they’ve had contact
with an infected person but
don’t have symptoms them-
selves. Previously, the CDC had
recommended that such peo-
ple get tested, amid strong evi-
asymptomatic people who have
had contact with confirmed or
‘Basically, there is
probable cases. according to no good reason to
stat, redfield said the guide-
lines were intended to place
have made this
“an emphasis” on testing peo- change. it’s clearly

Massachusetts continues to
recommend testing for asymp-
tomatic people who come in
contact with someone infected
with the coronavirus, despite
new federal guidelines saying
this changed federal guidance,
it is not anticipated that any
immediate changes will be
made to the current testing
protocols,” the spokesman, to-
ry Mazzola, said in a statement.
the state has been offering free
“awful” the new CoViD -19
testing guidelines from the us
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
in an abrupt shift, the CDC
this week revised its guidelines
to say that people don’t need
dence that many get infected
and spread the virus without
ever feeling ill.
on thursday, CDC Director
robert redfield tried to soften
the guidelines’ effect by saying
testing “may be considered” for
ple with symptoms and people
vulnerable to infection.
going to be
“everyone who wants a test harmful.’
does not necessarily need a
test; the key is to engage the Dr. ashish K. Jha
needed public health commu- director,
TESTING, Page B4 Harvard Global Health Institute

CAMPAIGN 2020

Joe Kennedy’s
prosecutor
stint at issue
Past work in criminal justice
leads some to question
his progressive bona fides
By Milton J. Valencia
Globe staff

he was the new guy in the office, the entry-level

prosecutor trudging with an armful of paperwork
from his office in barnstable to one district court af-
ter another, sometimes on a 7 a.m. flight to nantuck-
et to argue the motions and bail reviews for that
day’s docket.
Joseph P. Kennedy iii was straight out of harvard
law school when he joined the Cape and islands dis-
trict attorney’s office full time in 2009, after a brief
internship. now 39 and running for senate, Kenne-
dy’s time there — and a few months in Middlesex
County as a district court prosecutor — made up the
bulk of his professional resume before he entered
electoral politics in 2012, when he was elected to the
us house of representatives.
as he looks to unseat incumbent senator edward
Markey in the sept. 1 Democratic primary, Kenne-
dy’s time as a prosecutor has become a point of con-
tention in a race that increasingly appears to hinge
on which candidate has stronger progressive bona fi- Pat Greenhouse/Globe staff
des. in an election season shaped in part by the death VETERAN VOTER — agnes Clark, 102, studied her ballot as she voted early at Mildred avenue Community Center in Mattapan.
of George floyd, a black man killed by a white police
“i’ve been voting ever since i could vote,” she said, adding that that was from age 18 or 20. she said she voted twice for fDr.
officer in Minneapolis, the two campaigns are draw-
ing very different conclusions about Kennedy’s years
working in a criminal justice system that both candi-
dates now see is in dire need of reform.
to Kennedy, the work was a learning experience
Neal, Morse back to issues in 1st District race
in the realities of the Massachusetts courts, and pro-
vided an understanding of what needs fixing. his
critics, led by Markey, question the progressive val-
ues of a young lawyer who chose to become a crimi-
By Brian MacQuarrie
Globe staff

nal prosecutor in the administration of perhaps the
most right-wing district attorney in the state, Mi-
chael o’Keefe, a republican and future supporter of
President trump.
“Congressman Kennedy had to decide where he
KENNEDY, Page B3
suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff/file 2011
Joseph P. Kennedy III, then an assistant
district attorney on Cape Cod, at work in
Falmouth District Court in 2011.
sPrinGfielD — on the
ground, the sprint to tuesday’s fin-
ish in the primary election for the
first Congressional District in
Massachusetts has plenty of tradi-
tional campaign visuals.
there’s us representative rich-
ard neal, the incumbent and dean
of the new england delegation,
snipping a red ribbon in front of a
new market and gas station here.
there’s holyoke Mayor alex Morse,
his opponent, going from store to
small store on a struggling section
of Main street, introducing himself
to immigrant owners and asking
for their vote, sometimes in span-
ish.
“i think we’re in a much stron-
ger position than we were a couple
of weeks ago,” Morse, 31, told a re-
porter as he made the rounds.
“People don’t respond well to what
happened. they see it for what it
is.”
What happened was the equiva-
Baker calls incumbent ‘a powerful voice’
By Matt Stout
Globe staff
Governor Charlie baker, a
moderate republican who has re-
peatedly eschewed national GoP
politics, splashed into one of the
state’s most contentious Demo-
cratic races thursday, endorsing
representative richard e. neal in
his primary fight with holyoke
Mayor alex Morse.
baker, writing from his person-
al twitter account, called neal “a
powerful voice for all” in the first
Congressional District, where the
71-year-old neal, the chairman of
the house Ways and Means Com-
lent of a political earthquake that
rattled what already had been a na-
tionally watched campaign by
Morse, a progressive, to unseat
neal after 32 years in Congress.
on aug. 7, the student news-
mittee, is trying to hold off a pro-
gressive challenge from Morse,
31, in their sept. 1 primary.
“the Commonwealth is a bet-
ter place because of his hard
work,” baker wrote of neal on
twitter. “i’m looking forward to
working with him now more than
ever as we fight and come back
from this pandemic. Good luck
next week, @nealforCongress!”
even within the chaotic West-
ern Massachusetts campaign,
baker’s political maneuvering was
unusual, especially for him.
While often preaching a com-
mitment to bipartisanship, the
paper at the university of Massa-
chusetts amherst reported that
the College Democrats of Massa-
chusetts had disinvited Morse
from its events. in a le tter to
Morse, the group alleged that the
republican governor had never
before endorsed in a Democratic
congressional primary since he
took office in 2015. and he’s regu-
larly avoiding wading into nation-
al politics generally, often leaning
on a line that’s focused on his
work as a governor as he leaves
open the possibility of seeking a
third term.
baker has remained steadily
popular throughout the state, and
amid the novel coronavirus pan-
demic especially, with 80 percent
of those in a June poll saying they
approved of his handling of the
BAKER, Page B3
mayor, a former lecturer at the
university, had used his position
for “romantic or sexual gain” with
students.
Morse acknowledged he had
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New bus lane coming to Boston stretch A BRAVE NEW WORLD

But cyclists feeling shut out in plans for Columbus ave. changes
By Adam Vaccaro
Globe staff
a new type of dedicated bus lane
will soon come to the streets of bos-
ton, along a half-mile stretch of Co-
lumbus avenue between Jackson and
egleston squares.
but rather than running on the
outside lanes along the curb, buses
will instead have the center lanes of
the streets to themselves, a design
that transit experts have long cham-
pioned as the best way to quickly
move buses past cars, which have
long held dominion over the roads.
but as the city and the Massachu-
setts bay transportation authority
prepare to begin construction next
month, it’s cyclists — not drivers —
who are raising concerns about the
$10 million project.
the dispute comes as the t and
municipal planners seek to increase
the number of bus-only lanes across
the boston area, and the criticism by
cyclists demonstrates the challenge
they face to rework narrow, crowded
streets to accommodate all modes of
transportation.
the curbside bus lane layout that
has grown increasingly familiar in
the boston area usually allows bikers
to share the space, because it is easy
for cyclists to get out of the way as
buses approach. but in moving the
bus lane to the center of the road,
planners have also decided not to set
aside any space on that portion of Co-
lumbus avenue for bicycles, meaning
they would have to share a busy
stretch with car traffic, but with just
one lane between them instead of
two.
Jeffrey ferris, owner of ferris
Wheels bike shop in Jamaica Plain,
accused the city of being overly eager
to try out the center-running bus
lanes, without giving consideration to
cyclists.
”there needs to be safe accommo-
dations for bicycles on the street. . . .
this looks to me kind of like: ‘oh,
center-lane bus lanes, we should try
that out somewhere. let’s try it out
here,’ ” he said. “What’s the rush on
this project? i think it needs a delay
and to go back to the drawing board.”
at a public meeting on thursday,
boston transportation planners said
they decided on the center-lane ap-
proach that excludes bikes after de-
termining that a shared lane would
barry Chin/Globe staff
be unsafe for cyclists because of the
hilly terrain on Columbus avenue. Plimoth Plantation held at a graduation ceremony for Plymouth
“We wouldn’t have designated north’s Class of 2020 thursday on the Mayflower ii, which recently
BUS LANE, Page B2 returned to the harbor after repairs.
b2 Metro
Friends of a man fatally shot in Dorchester consoled one another at the scene of the shooting.
Shooting in Dorchester is city’s 41st homicide
By John R. Ellement
globe staff
a man fatally shot Wednes-
day night in dorchester is the
city’s 41st homicide victim this
year, boston police said.
the incident happened at
10:43 p.m. near 336 adams st.,
boston police said in statement.
officers responding to the
Owner of
Clam Box in
Ipswich dies
By Jeremy C. Fox
globe correspondent
the owner of one of new
england’s most famous pint of
clams has died after a brief ill-
ness, her family said thursday.
Marina “chickie” aggelakis,
who owned the clam box in ip-
swich, renowned for its build-
ing shaped like an open pint of
clams, died Monday of cancer,
her family said. she was 70.
aggelakis was diagnosed in
early July with a cancer that ad-
vanced rapidly, according to her
daughter-in-law, Johanna
pechilis aggelakis, who is mar-
ried to aggelakis’s only child,
dimitri aggelakis.
“it was a very, very quick
metastatic cancer,” pechilis ag-
gelakis said in a phone inter-
view. “the last few days, we
knew, as i think any loved one
would going through this. We
were just grateful to have her
home. . . . she passed away with
grace.”
aggelakis died at her home,
where she had been for the past
two weeks, pechilis aggelakis
said. she had seen the end com-
ing. “she knew, but she was so,
so strong throughout the whole
thing,” pechilis aggelakis said.
“she just kept saying how ac-
complished she was, and how
proud she was of her son, my
husband, who she basically
groomed to run the business.”
aggelakis was “an icon” in
the region, her daughter-in-law
said. and for countless locals
and tourists who counted meals
at the clam box as a treasured
summer ritual, aggelakis’s
broad grin was a necessary part
of the experience.
aggelakis’s cousin, nick pap-
pas, said she “was a very great
lady,” who put in 12 hours a day
at the clam box for decades.
“she hired me when i was 15
years old at the clam box,” pap-
pas said. “she was my first boss,
and a great one at that, too. she
worked me really hard, and she
made me who i am.”
aggelakis worked as a buyer
for Jordan Marsh before she
and her husband theodore en-
tered the restaurant business
by opening three locations of
chick’s roast beef in ipswich,
gloucester, and bradford, ac-
cording to a death notice writ-
ten by pechilis aggelakis.
the couple bought the clam
box in the mid-1980s, and ag-
gelakis became involved with
the community, once being
honored by the ipswich rotary
club as its “person of the year.’’
Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at
jeremy.fox@globe.com.
area found the man with gun-
shot wounds. He was taken to
an unidentified hospital where
he was pronounced dead, po-
lice said.
the investigation is ongoing
and no arrests had been made
as of early thursday evening,
according to police.
there have been 41 homi-
“My boss couldn’t think of anything and he said ‘Put
whatever you want up there,’ ” said Dunkin’ employee
Adam Taddia. “I was feeling goofy.’’
Sign had some on social
media asking: Just what are
they brewing at this outlet?
By Steve Annear
globe staff
it was a sign of the times: a
bit erratic, slightly hard to com-
prehend, curiously disconnect-
ed from what used to be reality.
so, pretty relatable.
Maybe that’s why the zany
message on a marquee at a
dunkin’ donuts in portland,
Maine, became the talk of social
media
annear to t h i s
the ground week.
“uh
o h s p i c y ! ,” t h e s i g n r e a d .
“pumpkin! HaHaHaHa. pump-
kin tasty.”
(yes, it’s already pumpkin
flavoring season.)
Jesenia santana, who lives
near where the message was
displayed, took a picture of it on
her way to work Monday morn-
ing before posting it to face-
book. “forest ave dunkin has
some weird energy right now,”
she wrote.
by Wednesday, the picture
had struck a nerve with many
online and was shared more
than 8,000 times on the social
media site.
“i’m glad that this photo has
brought a lot of laughter to peo-
ple online since it’s hard to find
joy in daily life right now,” san-
tana said in a message to the
globe.
by late in the afternoon
Monday, her image had leapt
from facebook onto reddit and
twitter, where one tweet of the
sign was shared more than
36,000 times.
“dunkin donuts is out here
having a breakdown like the
rest of us,” the person who post-
ed santana’s picture wrote,
seeming to pinpoint exactly
why it was resonating with so
many people.
T h e B o s t o n
cides in boston this year com-
pared with 27 at this time in
2019 and 35 during the same
period in 2018, according to
boston police. last year, there
was a 20-year low in the num-
ber of murders in the city, offi-
cials said.
along with an increase in
homicides, there has been an
Jesenia santana
the sign’s message pinged
around so much on the internet
that it eventually caught the at-
tention of some of the compa-
ny’s higher-ups.
“this just goes to show that
even in summer, when it’s 90
degrees outside, nothing cre-
ates excitement like the return
of pumpkin,” drayton Martin,
dunkin’s vice president of
brand stewardship, said in a
statement.
While some people were left
scratching their heads, the 18-
year-old dunks employee be-
hind the sign said the inspira-
tion for the meme-worthy dis-
play was . . . a meme.
“My boss couldn’t think of
anything and he said ‘put what-
ever you want up there,‘ ” said
adam taddia, 18. “i was feeling
goofy. i wanted to put some-
thing funny up there.”
What he chose was a refer-
ence to a meme known as “uh
oh! stinky,” which is often
shared on message boards and
online forums.
Zahra taddia, adam’s sister,
who also works at the dunkin’
location, said people thought
maybe corporate marketing
was behind it, in an attempt to
be relatable.
“that’s what a teenage boy
would do, put an inte rne t
meme on the sign,” she said,
clearing up the confusion. “He
said, ‘oK, i’ll have at it.‘ ”
despite its apparent popu-
larity, the sign was removed
and replaced with a more sub-
tle message as of Wednesday:
“pumpkin is back!”
Steve Annear is in pursuit of
stories from the region that are
odd or unconventional. Reach
him at steve.annear
@globe.com.
G l o b e
david l. ryan/globe staff
increase in shootings this year.
boston police said there
have been 179 shooting victims
in boston in 2020 as of aug. 23
compared with 138 during the
same period last year.
Globe correspondent Adam
Sennott contributed to this
report.
Cyclists feel left out of lane plans
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them as a shared bus-bike lane
under any circumstances,” bos-
ton transportation planner Wil-
liam Moose said at the meeting
of the city’s public improve-
ment commission, which ap-
proved the plan. “that’s when
we started having these conver-
sations about pushing for the
highest and best order of bus
priority that we could get.”
t he city has also said it
wants to move quickly on the
new lanes because they will al-
low for more frequent service
and cut down on crowding in-
side buses during the coronavi-
rus pandemic.
the criticism from cyclists is
striking, because bike and tran-
sit groups are usually closely al-
lied in arguing for better condi-
tions for non-auto transporta-
tion. and in this case, cycling
advocates have been careful not
to denounce the bus lanes
themselves, but the planning
process.
becca Wolfson, director of
the boston cyclists union,
stressed that she’s not calling
for the city to abandon the cen-
ter-running lane and agreed
that the hilly portion of the
road makes sharing it with bus-
es unsafe. an alternative, she
suggested, would be to elimi-
nate parking for a bike lane.
but the bigger issue, Wolf-
son said, is that the city treated
cycling as an afterthought,
pledging to study the area’s bike
infrastructure later instead of
coming up with a solution as
part of the project.
“the city needs to see proj-
ects like this as mobility proj-
ects, not just a bus project or
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Mass. task force
headed to gulf for
hurricane relief
By Travis Andersen
globe staff
Ma s s a c h u s e tt s f i r s t r e -
sponders are headed south to
help those affected by Hurri-
cane laura, which devastated
the gulf coast with high winds
and torrential rain as it came
ashore thursday in louisiana
near the texas border.
the Massachusetts task
force 1 urban search and res-
cue team, a beverly-based
group of police officers, fire-
fighters, eMs personnel, and
civilians that respond to natu-
ral disasters, said members left
beverly thursday morning for
the storm-ravaged region down
south.
“ Ma s s a c h u s e tt s ur b a n
search and rescue taskforce 1
left beverly base this morning
at 6:00am traveling to the gulf
coast to assist the residents
who are being effected by the
forces of Hurricane laura,” the
task force posted to facebook
around 11:20 a.m. “ the 45
member task force [is] ... trav-
eling in 14 vehicles and ... ex-
pected to arrive in approxi-
mately 30 hours.”
concord firefighters are
among that group.
“concord ff todd niemi
and assistant chief Walter lat-
ta are being deployed to baton
rouge louisiana with the Mass
task force 1, usar team,” the
concord fire depar tment
An MBTA bus on busy Columbus Avenue. A new dedicated
bus lane is planned for part of the street.
bike project, and they didn’t
give bikes the consideration
that really is called for,” Wolfson
said.
Julia Wallerce, who leads the
boston division of the institute
for transportation and devel-
opment policy and has long
pushed for center-running bus
lanes, praised the transit im-
provement but agreed the city
should have incorporated a
plan for bikes.
“for the sake of expediency
and moving quickly, we may
have overlooked opportunities
to also accommodate cyclists
safely,” she said. “but the bus
stuff is great. the center-run-
ning is great.”
this stretch of columbus
avenue is different from the
section on the north side of
Jackson square, where the road
has six lanes for traffic and no
parking for long stretches, and
has a bike path built into the
southwest corridor park along
the side. With four lanes for
ºin 1955, emmett till, a
black teen from chicago, was
abducted from his uncle’s home
in Money, Miss., by two white
men after he had supposedly
whistled at a white woman; he
was found brutally slain three
days later.
ºin 1963, more than
200,000 people listened as the
rev. Martin luther King Jr. de-
livered his “i Have a dream”
speech in front of the lincoln
Memorial in Washington, d.c.
ºin 1968, police and anti-
war demonstrators clashed in
the streets of chicago as the
democratic national conven-
tion nominated Hubert H.
Humphrey for president.
ºin 1996, the 15-year mar-
riage of britain’s prince charles
and princess diana officially
ended with the issuing of a di-
vorce decree.
tweeted. “our thoughts to ev-
eryone dealing with the hurri-
cane and those heading down
to help. #besafe”
at least four people had
been killed in the storm as of
thursday evening.
laura arrived as one of the
strongest hurricanes ever to
strike the united states based
on its wind speed of 150 miles
per hour. louisiana took the
brunt of the damage when the
system barreled over lake
charles, an industrial and casi-
no city of 80,000 people, and
nearby low-lying fishing com-
munities. powerful gusts blew
out windows in tall buildings
and tossed around glass and
debris.
a number of people posted
messages of support for the
Massachusetts task force on the
group’s facebook page.
“Heroes (We thank you for
representing new england),”
one man wrote.
another person wrote,
“prayers are with you and all af-
fected by this devastating hur-
ricane.”
Material from the Associat-
ed Press was included in this re-
port.
Travis Andersen can be
reached at
travis.andersen@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@TAGlobe.
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traffic, the hilly part of colum-
bus is hemmed in by street
parking and does not have any
accommodation for cyclists.
the project will install
“floating” bus stops along the
route, which will look similar to
above-ground portions of the
green line. the stretch of co-
lumbus avenue carries popular
bus lines.
t he Mbta said the ne w
lanes “will be one of the pre-
mier pieces of bus-priority in-
frastructure in our system and
a major investment in transit
equity,” adding that it wants to
make similar improvements
elsewhere. boston officials have
already suggested they plan to
install center-running lanes on
summer street in south boston
and blue Hill avenue in Matta-
pan; officials in everett and
lynn have also flirted with the
concept.
Adam Vaccaro can be reached
at adam.vaccaro@globe.com.
º in 2 0 0 5 , ne w o r l e a n s
Mayor ray nagin ordered ev-
eryone in the city to evacuate
after Hurricane Katrina grew to
a monster storm.
ºin 2009, the los angeles
county coroner’s office an-
nounced that Michael Jackson’s
death was a homicide caused
primarily by the powerful anes-
thetic propofol and another
sedative, lorazepam.
º in 2 0 1 7 , f l o o d w a t e r s
reached the rooflines of single-
story homes as Hurricane Har-
vey poured rain on the Houston
area for a fourth consecutive
day; thousands of people had
been rescued from the flooding.
º l a s t y e a r, H u r r i c a n e
dorian strengthened as it
moved toward the us south-
east coast; the storm left little
damage in puerto rico and the
virgin islands.
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CAMPAIGN 2020
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse greeted community members as he toured downtown
Springfield on Wednesday.
Neal and Morse refocus on issues in race for 1st District
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consensual relationships with
students but denied that he had
abused his influence. He told
the daily Collegian newspaper
that he had always abided by
university guidelines, but that
he recognized that “some stu-
dents felt uncomfortable with
interactions they had with me.”
“i am sorry for that,” Morse
wrote to the paper. “this is un-
acceptable behavior for anyone
with institutional power.”
the plot thickened when
the intercept, an online news
source, reported that some Col-
lege democrats apparently had
discussed how to entrap Morse,
and that one of them hoped to
work for neal. in addition, the
counsel for the state democrat-
ic Party, James roosevelt Jr.,
has confirmed he reviewed the
College democrats’ letter before
it was sent to Morse on aug. 6.
in an interview, Morse de-
scribed the allegations as a sus-
picious smear that plays on
longstanding antigay tropes
and seemed connected to well-
placed party operatives who
back neal. both the university
and the state democratic Party
are conducting investigations.
“these things don’t fall from
the sky just three weeks before
the election,” Morse said.
despite the initial negative
publicity, Morse said, his cam-
paign has been reinvigorated.
Hundreds of new volunteers
have signed up, the campaign
tallied $130,000 in donations in
a single day, and progressive
groups such as us representa-
tive alexandria ocasio-Cortez’s
political action committee have
endorsed him.
as Morse walked Main
street this week, the allegations
never came up — neither from
Morse nor from the constitu-
ents he hopes to represent in a
far-flung district that stretches
from central Massachusetts to
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was going to work as a lawyer,
and i don’t think it was good
judgment,” Markey said bluntly
during a recent debate, point-
ing to recent protests by social
justice advocates against “the
status quo in the criminal jus-
tice system in our country.”
o’keefe, in an interview,
said Markey “knows nothing
about me” or the diversion pro-
grams his office has spearhead-
ed through the years.
He called kennedy “a great
employee” who performed the
work required of an assistant
district attorney, which he
called a training ground for a
young lawyer.
kennedy would not discuss
specifics of his caseload as a
prosecutor, but said through a
spokesperson that the work,
along with his volunteer work
during law school with the Har-
vard legal aid bureau and his
two years spent with the Peace
Corps, “helped fortify his com-
mitment to public service.”
“they also informed the is-
sues that have come to define
his congressional career, from
mental health care to justice re-
form to economic equity,” the
spokesperson, emily kaufman,
said.
kennedy has also earned the
the berkshires.
“i don’t care who sleeps with
who,” said kim rivera, 55, a
springfield activist who sup-
ports Morse. “i don’t think it was
as damaging as they thought it
would be. i think it put him on
the map, and now people want
to investigate who he is.”
they issue also didn’t come
up in public remarks at the rib-
bon-cutting neal attended.
even among ardent neal sup-
porters, the allegations against
Morse did not appear to carry
much weight at the campaign
stop.
“We’re human, and every-
body has the right to love any-
body they want in life,” said
Jo r g e Co l o n , 6 4 , a f o r m e r
springfield firefighter who
owns two funeral homes in the
city. “but i think richie neal
has done a great job for spring-
field.”
to anthony Cignoli, a politi-
cal consultant based in Western
Massachusetts, the issue has in-
jected more energy into a first
district election than any other
he can recall.
“i think both camps were
starting to get a little tired,” Ci-
gnoli said. “When these uMass
allegations broke, it’s almost as
if that super-energized them. it
was a quadruple espresso for
both candidates overnight.”
Morse said he can feel the
new energy.
the son of parents from
public housing and the brother
of someone who died from an
overdose, Morse said he is con-
sumed by grass-roots issues.
they include accessible health
care through Medicare for all,
affordable housing, better in-
ternet access, and mitigating
climate change that hurts West-
ern Massachusetts farmers.
neal has become the epito-
me of the status quo, Morse
said, and the darling of corpo-
rations that wish to curry favor
with the powerful chairman of
support of grass-roots workers
across the state, including
those who have pushed for po-
lice and court reforms.
“i’ve dealt with many per-
sons who have been on the oth-
er side of the criminal justice
system, whether they be prose-
cutors, police officers, or proba-
tion officers,” said bishop tal-
bert swan, president of the
greater springfield naaCP.
“them being for reform, for
justice, is not antithetical to
their career choice. they just
have to mete out justice fairly.”
but some of the state’s most
progressive advocates in the
criminal justice system, includ-
ing suffolk district attorney
rachael rollins, have endorsed
Markey, touting his work to-
ward gun reform.
What is clear, according to
lawyers who practiced along-
side kennedy and know the du-
ties of an entry-level prosecu-
tor, is that the laborious post
has little wiggle room to build a
political platform, and is rather
a crash course in the mechanics
of the courtroom. there is a
build-the-plane-as-you-fly-it
mentality that requires rookie
prosecutors to make daily deci-
sions that can have enduring
impacts on people’s lives, and
yet they serve only as cogs in
the wheels of the broader, fast-
T h e B o s t o n
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outbreak.
a baker adviser said thurs-
day the governor and neal
have had a close working rela-
tionship and he “wants to con-
tinue that because he thinks
it’s in the best interest of Mas-
sachusetts.”
but his backing also imme-
diately created awkwardness
for neal, who’s fending off a
challenge to his left. asked
about baker’s comments, the
democrat’s campaign said it
“didn’t know about this or ask
for it,” and offered muted ex-
citement for the endorsement.
“While richie and gover-
nor baker don’t see eye to eye
[on] every issue, they have
worked together to deliver for
the people of Western and cen-
tral Massachusetts, especially
during the pandemic,” kate
norton, a neal spokeswoman,
said in a statement.
the governor, twice-elected
on a socially liberal platform,
d i d n’ t v o t e f o r Pr e s i d e n t
trump in 2016 and said he
wouldn’t this year, either. but
he’s repeatedly declined to say
the House’s tax-writing Ways
and Means Committee.
“When you talk to everyday
people, they’re worried about
putting food on the table,”
Morse said. “you would never
know we have one of the most
powerful members of Congress
representing us.”
neal, 71, smiled when asked
about Morse’s characterization
of him as the consummate in-
sider with diminishing interest
in the bread-and-butter inter-
ests of varied constituents
spread across 87 cities and
towns.
“i think it’s kind of a vacuous
moving criminal justice system.
the life of a district court
prosecutor in Massachusetts, a
$40,000-something-a-year en-
try-level position, is meant to
groom young lawyers for big
cases in superior Court or at
the federal level, not necessari-
ly a seat in Congress.
“it’s not an indicator at all of
values, it’s an indicator that
you’re straight out of law school
learning to try a case,” said an-
drea Cabral, a former state
prosecutor and sheriff, and the
former head of the executive
office of Public safety and se-
curity. she said work as a prose-
cutor and a progressive advo-
cate are not mutually exclusive
— she specialized in domestic
violence, civil rights, and sexual
assault cases and worked to re-
form the way police and the
courts handle them — but a
prosecutor’s early years on the
job are where values are devel-
oped, not displayed.
“i think everybody finds
their way,” she said, “but it’s
about building enough confi-
dence in yourself, so that you
can scrutinize cases.” she has
not endorsed anyone in the
race.
kennedy could have been in
nantucket one day, for the ar-
raignment of a bank robber, and
perhaps falmouth the next
G l o b e
Flanked by Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno (left) and State Representative Bud
Williams, Congressman Richard Neal attended a Holyoke ribbon-cutting Wednesday.
who he’d vote for this fall, and
despite offering an 11th-hour
endorsement of former new
Jersey governor Chris Christie
in the 2016 presidential race,
he chose not to publicly sup-
port another candidate in that
race.
facing reelection in 2018,
baker said he was backing the
republican ticket that fall. but
he wobbled in his lukewarm
support of geoff diehl, a con-
servative who was challenging
senator elizabeth Warren, and
put other goP candidates at
arm’s length within reliably
blue Massachusetts.
baker said this week that
he was not invited to take part
in the republican national
Convention, where trump is
expected to accept the goP
nomination thursday. “Hon-
estly,” baker said tuesday, “i’m
a lot more focused on what’s
going on in Massachusetts
right now.”
His entrance into the fold
for neal quickly added to the
primary’s unpredictable feel.
allegations leveled by the Col-
lege democrats of Massachu-
setts roiled the race earlier this
argument that he makes,” neal
said. “He never says ‘lazy,’ and
he never says ‘ineffectual’ about
me. i think the great irony of
this campaign has been i’ve had
more to do with the big projects
in Holyoke than he has.”
the congressman’s staff
pointed to seven projects worth
$192.8 million and 572 perma-
nent jobs that Holyoke has re-
ceived through a federal tax-
credits program under neal’s
watch. those projects include a
full-service health center and a
two-story addition to Holyoke
Medical Center that houses an
emergency department.
month for the case of a police of-
ficer involved in a drunken driv-
ing crash. assistant district at-
torneys at the district court level
help process an enduring flow
of arraignments, bail requests,
and motions for dismissals of
relatively low-level crimes: dis-
orderly conduct, dui, drug pos-
session. it’s the grunt work of a
prosecutor’s office.
a teenage kennedy had
been on the other side of that
sort of courtroom himself: at
17, he was arrested on charges
of trespassing after dark in a
park owned by the Metropoli-
t a n d i s t r i c t Co m m i s s i o n ,
across from the Cambridge pri-
vate school he attended. the
charge was ultimately dis-
missed.
years later, when kennedy
had discretion about how to re-
solve low-level crimes, he was
fair, said bill robinson, a re-
tired defense lawyer who head-
ed the public defender’s office
in barnstable for two decades.
“you sometimes get young
das. they want to build their
confidence by winning cases,”
he said. that wasn’t kennedy,
he said; if anything, he would
see a case for what it was and
use his authority to propose a
reasonable outcome.
gerard t. leone, a former
federal prosecutor and the Mid-
month, when the group ac-
cused Morse of inappropriate
sexual relations with college
students before and during his
congressional campaign.
Morse, who until recently
was a lecturer at the university
of Massachusetts amherst,
quickly apologized to anyone
he made feel uncomfortable,
but maintained that he had
done nothing wrong. a string
of messages between club
leaders, and detailed by the
news website the intercept,
indicated the accusations were
part of an effort to engineer an
attack on Morse, who is openly
gay. one club leader explicitly
stated that he hoped to get a
job with neal.
the Holyoke democrat
framed baker’s support as evi-
dence of neal’s entrenched sta-
tus. “i’m not surprised to see
governor baker’s tweet, be-
cause those who are satisfied
with the status quo are sup-
porting richie neal,” he said in
a statement.
Matt Stout can be reached at
matt.stout@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @mattpstout
through the Cares act,
passed after the onset of the
pandemic, Holyoke Medical
Center received $8.7 million in
federal funding, neal’s staff
said. Holyoke also was given
$668,335 for equipment for re-
mote services such as a drive-
through CoVid-19 testing site,
telehealth visits, and video con-
ferencing.
Morse said he would have
opposed the Cares act be-
cause it bailed out too many
corporations at the expense of
small businesses and individu-
als..
at the ribbon-cutting, neal
dlesex district attorney who
hired kennedy in summer
2011, said that he had been on
track to work in superior Court,
where criminal cases are far
more serious, and the outcomes
far more consequential. but he
‘It’s about building
enough confidence
in yourself, so that
you can scrutinize
cases.’
andrea Cabral, former
state prosecutor and sheriff
hadn’t arrived at that level yet:
it typically takes more than four
years for a young prosecutor to
graduate to superior Court, and
kennedy was still honing what
it meant to be an advocate.
“Joe enjoyed the part of giv-
ing a voice to people who don’t
have a voice,” said leone, who
supports kennedy in the race.
“Whether they’re prosecutors,
or defense lawyers, or civil
rights counselors, there’s a base-
level sense of empathy you have
to have, if you’re doing it right.”
and yet the work can have
implications that go beyond the
day’s docket. one man that
Metro b3
lane turner/globe staff
reiterated in an interview that
his campaign had nothing to do
with the development or timing
o f t h e a l l e g at i o n s a g a i n s t
Morse.
“the argument that he at-
tempted to make that our cam-
paign was involved with this is
nonsense, and he knows it. the
students stepped forward, and
they should be heard,” neal said.
“i read about this in the Col-
legian when it was published.
that was my first knowledge of
it,” he added. “i’ve rejected ho-
mophobia, racism, and misogy-
ny in any form.’‘
neal also acknowledged he
has a personal reason to reject
homophobia: He has an openly
gay son.
a recent poll indicates the
congressman could be vulnera-
ble. in a phone poll of likely vot-
ers sunday and Monday, neal
led Morse, 49 percent to 40 per-
cent. the poll, produced by the
political publication Jewish in-
sider with the bipartisan polling
firm raba research, carries a
4.3 percent margin of error.
“ ne a l h a s a f i g h t o n h i s
hands,” said John del Cecato, a
partner at raba research.
“He’s under 50 percent in the
horse race, which is a warning
sign for any incumbent.”
ralph Whitehead, a retired
journalism professor at uMass
amherst, said he does not think
the uMass allegations will have
a direct effect, but he does ex-
pect a big turnout.
“it was so murky in the first
place,” Whitehead said of the al-
legations. “ to suggest that
richie neal is in any conceiv-
able way homophobic or would
press homophobic buttons is
absurd."
“if this was an attempt to
damage Morse,” he added, “it
was just such a sloppy attempt.”
Brian MacQuarrie can be
reached at
brian.macquarrie@globe.com.
kennedy prosecuted for drug
distribution had the case over-
turned, because of an error at
the trial. His record would have
been cleared. but it was too late
for the man to seek recourse; he
had already been deported to
his native Jamaica by the time
his case was dismissed.
tom shack, the former head
of the appellate unit in
o’keefe’s office, and kennedy’s
supervisor in nantucket, said
he does not recall the case di-
rectly but said it would not be
out of the ordinary to see a case
dismissed because of legal tech-
nicalities. but, he said, that
does not insinuate that the
prosecution was not fair, or
that a crime did not occur.
“the system is not perfect,
but i think that Joe is the type
of person that the justice sys-
tem needs,” said shack, who
considered himself a mentor of
kennedy and once brought him
in as co-counsel on a high-pro-
file murder appeal that went
before the supreme Judicial
Court — a learning experience
for a young prosecutor.
Jeremiah Manion of the Globe
staff contributed to this report.
Milton J. Valencia can be
reached at milton.valencia
@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @miltonvalencia.
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A person was tested for the coronavirus at a site set up on Buffum Street by the Lynn Community Health Center.
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nity in the decision with the ap-
propriate follow-up action,”
redfield wrote in a statement
to media outlets.
but redfield did not retract
the new guidelines, which ad-
vise people who have been in
close contact with an infected
person: “you do not necessarily
need a test unless you are a vul-
nerable individual or your
health care provider or state or
local public health officials rec-
ommend you take one.”
dr. ashish K. Jha, director
of the Harvard global Health
institute, said thursday that
the change is inexplicable, be-
cause the science on coronavi-
rus transmission has not
changed.
“basically, there is no good
reason to have made this
change,” Jha said. “it’s clearly
going to be harmful.” the new
guidelines, he said, will likely
“accelerate the number of new
infections.”
Jha spec ulated that the
trump administration might
be responding to the strain on
the nation’s testing capacity.
but if government officials be-
365 new
confirmed
cases of
COVID-19
State adds 20
deaths to total
By Jaclyn Reiss
globe staff
the death toll from con-
firmed cases of the coronavi-
rus in Massachusetts rose by
20 to 8,775, the state depart-
ment of Public Health report-
ed thursday, and the number
of confirmed cases climbed by
365, bringing the total to
117,450.
Key metrics being moni-
tored by state officials are still
down relative to the spring
surge. the seven-day positivity
rate fell to a new low of 1 per-
cent.
state officials also reported
thursday that 25,340 more
people had been tested for the
coronavirus, bringing the total
number of individuals tested
to more than 1.64 million. the
total number of tests adminis-
tered climbed to more than
2.24 million.
t he s tate repor ted that
new antibody tests had been
completed for 769 people,
bringing that total to
111,148.
the three-day average of
hospitalized coronavirus pa-
t i e n t s t i c ke d u p t o 3 3 9 o n
Wednesday from 330 on tues-
day. the lowest that number
has been is 313.
the number of hospitals
using surge capacity also rose
slightly from two on tuesday
to three on Wednesday; the
lowest it has been is zero.
and the three-day average
of deaths from confirmed cor-
lieve they need to ration limit-
ed testing supplies, he said,
they should just “level with the
american people.”
the recent politicization of
the CdC has tarnished its long-
standing image as a reliable
source of objec tive public
health guidance, forcing the
public to try to figure out
which guidelines are based on
science and which on politics,
Jha said. “it’s a whole new
world, and i don’t think the
american people are being
served well,” he said.
eleanor J. Murray, an assis-
tant professor of epidemiology
at boston university, strongly
criticized the new guidelines
Wednesday via twitter.
“this is 100% completely
absolutely awful. if the CdC’s
recommendations can be
changed for political reasons,
then we cannot rely on them to
keep us safe,” Murray tweeted.
“and if we can’ t rely on the
CdC, then who do we have
left???”
dr. Michael Mina, an assis-
tant professor of epidemiology
at Harvard’s t.H. Chan school
of Public Health, also took to
social media to voice opposi-
coronavirus in mass.
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March 20 Aug. 27
CASES
Total
117,450
1,687
New
365
388
DEATHS
Total 8,775
5
New
20
2
onavirus cases fell slightly
from 16 on sunday to 15 on
Monday. the lowest that num-
ber has been is 11.
the numbers come a day
after boston Mayor Martin J.
Walsh noted that east bos-
ton’s positivity rate is more
than 11 percent, which is
more than three times the
next highest neighborhood
rate in the city.
Walsh said city authorities
are examining data and will
look to contact tracing to see
“where these new cases are
coming from, who is impact-
ed, and how to bes t in ter -
vene.”
east boston’s 11.4 percent
rate for the dates of aug. 11-17
was an increase from the pre-
vious week.
Howe ver, eas t boston’s
trend ran counter to the city
overall, which saw a slight de-
crease in its positive rate dur-
ing the same time.
Danny McDonald of the Globe
staff contributed to this report.
Jaclyn Reiss can be reached at
jaclyn.reiss@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter:
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T h e B o s t o n
tion to the changes.
“at what point does society
rise up?” Mina tweeted in re-
sponse to a Cnn story about
the new guidelines. “We have a
trump administration appar-
ently placing politics and im-
age over american lives. at ev-
ery turn, the administration
has afforded #CoVid19 every
opportunity to spread further.
this is a national travesty and
should be called out as such.”
the governors of new york,
new Jersey, Connecticut, Cali-
fornia, Kentucky, and Washing-
ton — all democrats — have de-
nounced the CdC’s move, using
words like “reckless” and “in-
defensible.” Massachusetts
governor Charlie baker, a re-
publican, did not comment be-
yond issuing the command
center’s assurance that state
policy would probably not
change.
on Wednesday, dr. anthony
fauci, the country’s top infec-
tious disease expert, said he
wasn’t part of the discussion
that green-lighted the change.
fauci told Cnn he was under-
going surgery when the new
guidance was discussed last
week, adding he was “worried
Milford man fined for
hosting event amid virus
By John R. Ellement
globe staff
a Milford homeowner was
fined $1,500 by the town for
hosting hundreds of people
who did not wear masks or
practice social distancing last
saturday, an event described by
the homeowner as a fund-raiser
for a cancer patient, but decried
by the town’s public health di-
rector as a possible CoVid-19
spreader event.
“i never expected so many
people to come to help her,” said
luis loja Caguana, who orga-
nized the fund-raiser at the
home he owns at 21 franklin st.
in the Worcester County town
last saturday. “i can pay the
fine, but i was helping people,
not doing something illegal. ... i
never collected anything.”
Caguana said he agreed to
host the fund-raiser for the pa-
tient, whom he said is a woman
without insurance hospitalized
for cancer treatment, and used
his facebook account to spread
the word to the area’s ecuador-
an community that both he and
the woman are part of.
He said he personally hand-
ed masks to those who showed
up, but acknowledged that
some put them in their pockets
instead of wearing them. He al-
so said that people did not keep
6 feet apart as required by pub-
lic health rules as they barbe-
cued or watched volleyball
played on one of two courts at
the house.
Milford police arrived and
ordered the event to end, which
Caguana said happened
promptly. “the cops said more
than 200 [people] or something
like that,” Caguana said. “it was
a lot of people. but i can’t tell
you how much was it.”
Caguana said he wore a
mask the entire time and that
he has not hear of anyone who
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in brief
BROCKTOn
Man arrested in fatal stabbing
a south boston man was arrested thursday in new Hampshire
and charged with the fatal stabbing of a man outside a gas sta-
tion on Warren avenue, the Plymouth district attorney’s office
said. Cody urban, 23, is charged with murder and assault and
battery with a dangerous weapon in the death of 31-year-old
samuel rutledge of brockton, prosecutors said in a statement.
urban was arrested by state and local police from Massachu-
setts and new Hampshire around 6:15 a.m. at a Manchester,
n.H., apartment. good samaritan Medical Center in brockton
notified police just before 10 p.m. sunday that a man who had
been stabbed and had life-threatening injuries had come into
the hospital, prosecutors said. officers learned that the man
was stabbed outside a gas station at 81 Warren ave. urban al-
legedly stabbed rutledge during an altercation and fled in a
white vehicle as an acquaintance drove rutledge to the medical
center, prosecutors said. rutledge was pronounced dead short-
ly after 10:30 p.m. urban will be returned to Massachusetts,
where he will be arraigned in brockton district Court, the dis-
trict attorney’s office said.
naTiCK
Public’s help sought in crash probe
a 51-year-old woman struck in a hit-and-run crash last week
remains hospitalized with serious injuries, and authorities are
suzanne Kreiter/globe staff
seeking the public’s help as they continue to investigate, the
Middlesex district attorney’s office said thursday. the woman
was walking with a 39-year-old man on Washington avenue in
the area of summer street in natick on aug. 18 around 6:24
p.m. when they were “apparently struck on the sidewalk by a
pickup truck,” the office said in a statement. the man was also
injured but has been released from a hospital. While the driver
it will give people the incorrect in the blue four-door Chevrolet silverado fled the scene, au-
assumption that asymptomatic thorities later located and seized the pickup. the da’s office
spread is not of great concern. said investigators are interviewing witnesses and reviewing
in fact it is.” surveillance video footage in the area of the crash. authorities
an array of medical organi- are seeking additional footage, and anyone with information is
zations issued statements urged to call 508-647-9500. “More specifically, members of the
Wednesday and thursday op- public are being asked to think broadly and to contact police
posing the change. dr. susan r. both if they were in the immediate area at the time of the crash
bailey, president of the ameri- or if they were in the surrounding neighborhoods or communi-
can Medical association, called ties including sherborn or Holliston in the early evening of au-
the guideline revision “a recipe gust 18,” the statement said. Police learned the driver may have
for community spread and been seen or in contact with drivers of other vehicles on the
more spikes in coronavirus” evening of the crash, including a tan or brown sport utility ve-
and urged the CdC to “release hicle, and a black sedan that were also in the area of Washing-
the scientific justification for ton avenue before the hit-and-run.
this change in testing guide-
lines.” PROViDenCe
the association of ameri-
can Medical Colleges called the Schools get donation of face shields
change “irresponsible,” saying a rhode island-based plastics company is donating 20,000 face
that more, not less, testing is shields to the city’s public schools. the shields from east Provi-
needed now. the infectious dence-based igus inc. can be used to protect staff who work
diseases society of america, closely with students, particularly nurses who interact with
the HiV Medicine association, symptomatic students, and will allow students with hearing
and the american Public loss to read lips, superintendent Harrison Peters said in a state-
Health association also de- ment thursday. “We are so grateful to our friends at igus for do-
nounced the move. nating enough personal protective equipment to support all
our school-based staff as well as many students with unique
Material from the Associated needs,” Peters said. (aP)
Press was included in this
report. Felice J. Freyer can be aUGUSTa, Maine
reached at felice.freyer
@globe.com. Travis Andersen Emergency order approved for election
can be reached at Maine governor Janet Mills is allowing external drop boxes for
travis.andersen@globe.com. absentee ballots and will let clerks begin processing ballots ear-
lier to deal with the anticipated heavy volume, her office said
thursday. the executive order limits the number of people in
polling places to 50 and requires physical distancing. “i take se-
riously our responsibility to ensure that every Maine person has
the opportunity to cast their ballot and to do so in a way that
protects their health and safety during this ongoing pandemic,”
Mills said. the deadline will be extended from oct. 13 to oct.
19 for voter registrations submitted by mail or third person. in-
attended testing positive for person voter registration can still continue right through elec-
CoVid-19 since last saturday. tion day. the order also gives clerks the ability to start process-
He also said that he did not ing absentee ballots seven days ahead of an election, instead of
know anyone with the virus pri- four. (aP)
or to the event.
“i feel bad,” he said. “When
the cops showed up i explained
that nothing was for me.”
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BY CiTY AnD TOWn
Longtime Waltham Resident

W
ANDOVER SOUTH BOSTON
MURPHY, Madelyne R. (Sheppard) illiam “Billy” in Waltham and the surrounding
BREWSTER HANNON, Mildred June (Yetman)
HIBBERT, Steven
G. Karedes was communities. Billy was grateful to the
CAMBRIDGE reunited with his musicians who helped him learn and
MURPHY, Madelyne R. (Sheppard) STONEHAM late parents, Eva and thrive and they became some of his
CANTON Peter; and his late dearest friends. Billy became very well
LAFERTE, Roland O. MD RUSSELL, Sharon E.
brother, John, on August 23, 2020. known in the area, and a local artist’s
CHARLESTOWN
DOHERTY, Winifred A. (Burke) Born and raised in Lynn, Billy spent hand-painted rendition of him playing
STOUGHTON
CONCORD his youth playing soccer and street his guitar can be found decorating the
CASEY, Winifred Emily (Manning)
LAFERTE, Roland O. MD
hockey, hanging out with his friends, electrical utility box at the corner of
LYTLE, William O. Jr.
and playing his electric guitar. High St. and Moody St. in Waltham.
DEDHAM
HANNON, Mildred June (Yetman) WAKEFIELD
He attended Salem State College Billy considered Waltham his town.
McCARTHY, Eugene J. Theatre Arts Program and later went He made many lifelong friends there. his friends. He was so happy when
EASTHAM on to work for many years behind the For nearly 30 years, he made the
HOLT, Harriet M. (Michelfelder) local venues partially reopened and
HIBBERT, Steven
scenes in the Performing Arts. At the Waltham Mills Studios his home. His one of his final and happiest outings
EASTON
LAFERTE, Roland O. MD WALTHAM time of his death, Billy remained a loft was lined with his guitar collection before his death was sitting at an
FRAMINGHAM member of the Motion Picture Studio and the walls were decorated with outdoor table at Joco’s Bar on Moody
RUSSELL, Sharon E. Mechanics Union. He entertained beautiful art pieces created and given
KAREDES, William G. Street with his family and friends,
HINGHAM
LYTLE, William O. Jr.
family and friends with stories about to him by his artist neighbors over the eating a meatball panini and sipping a
LINCOLN
WAREHAM his experiences of working on movie years. Billy always said the residents of Woodchuck Sangria.
LYTLE, William O. Jr. sets with various well-known actors. the Waltham Mills Studios showed him Billy loved life and died too soon.
LYNNFIELD McCARTHY, Eugene J. Billy also worked at 495 Chrysler Jeep the real meaning of “community” and He will be forever missed by his family
BLAMPYE, Janet
DOHERTY, Winifred A. (Burke)
in Lowell and often said he loved his they were more than neighbors - they and friends.
WEST ROXBURY dealership coworkers like family and were people who really cared about
HOLT, Harriet M. (Michelfelder) There are no planned Funeral
MASHPEE that he planned to retire there. each other. Billy also called them his Services. For those who choose to,
LAFERTE, Roland O. MD HANNON, Mildred June (Yetman)
Although Billy loved his work, he family. donations can be made in Billy’s
MEDFORD
CASEY, Winifred Emily (Manning) found his greatest joy in entertaining Billy was very social and loved memory to a music or arts charity of
WOBURN
NORWOOD people by singing and playing his supporting local businesses. The your choice.
HANNON, Mildred June (Yetman)
DOHERTY, Winifred A. (Burke)
guitar. He played musical gigs and pandemic was hard for him because
ORLEANS open mic nights at various venues he could not go out and socialize with
HIBBERT, Steven
PLYMOUTH YARMOUTH
LAFERTE, Roland O. MD
McCARTHY, Eugene J. ETCHELLS, Marie (Petridis) DOHERTY, Winifred A. ETCHELLS, Marie (Petridis) HAnnOn, Mildred June HiBBERT, Steven
READING
DOHERTY, Winifred A. (Burke) “Winnie” (Burke) (Yetman)
ROSLINDALE
HANNON, Mildred June (Yetman) Out Of State
SOMERVILLE
BLAMPYE, Janet

BLAMPYE, Janet CASEY, Winifred Emily

“Winnie” (Manning)

On Saturday, August 22, 2020, Janet
Mancini Blampye passed away
peacefully in San Francisco at the age
of 69. She was born in Cambridge, MA
on June 6, 1951 to the late John Paul
Mancini, Sr. and the late Elizabeth
Passerini Mancini, and was the oldest
daughter of four.
Jan was exceptionally warm-hearted
and selflessly devoted to her family and
loved ones. She loved cooking, hosting
family gatherings, and preparing
amazing Italian cuisines from scratch.
Jan especially enjoyed walking the
beach in the summertime and had fond
memories of summers spent in Cape
Cod. She loved traveling and exploring
new cultures and cuisines, with Hawaii
and San Diego being two of her favorite
destinations. During her career, she
worked both as a paralegal and in
the alarm industry for 20 years, while
raising two boys as a single mother.
Jan is survived by three siblings,
John Mancini, Jr., Rosemary Mancini,
and Richard Mancini; her two sons,
Daniel Mancini of North Andover, MA
and Michael Blampye of San Francisco,
CA; and her longtime companion,
Michael Randall. She is also survived
by her four grandchildren, Daniel, John
(Jack), Victoria, and Juliana.
Due to the current pandemic, Jan’s
wishes were to not have a service in her
honor. For those who wish to honor her
life, please donate to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital.
Of Medford, August 25. Beloved wife of
the late William Casey. Devoted mother
of Christine Cohen and her husband
Howard, Elaine Boerger, Janet Casey
and her husband Guido Tamburini,
William Casey and his wife Lisa, and
Matthew Casey and his wife Francesca
Silvi Casey. Loving grandmother of
Michael Boerger, Patrick, Jeffrey and
Emily Cohen, Andrew Casey and his
wife Jamie, Allison Casey, Wiktoria,
Jadwiga and Zofia Tamburini, and
Katherine Casey, Julia and Kevin Casey.
Dear sister of the late Barbara Sforza.
Loving aunt of James Dager, Joyce
Mastromarino and Susan Sforza. A
Graveside Service will be conducted
at Oak Grove Cemetery, 230 Playstead
Rd., MEDFORD, Monday, August 31st
at 11 AM. Relatives and friends are
respectfully invited to attend. Visiting
Hours have been respectfully omitted.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be
sent in Winnie’s name to a charity of
one’s choice. To leave an online message
of condolence, please visit www.
dellorusso.net
Dello Russo Family Funeral Homes
Medford - Woburn - Wilmington
81 years of age. Of Reading, formerly of
Charlestown, August 25, 2020. Beloved
wife of 62 years to Francis J. “Franny”
Doherty (Ret. BFD). Devoted mother
of Daniel F. Doherty & wife Laurie
(Moore) Doherty, Donna M. Doherty
& spouse Maureen Haley & Denise M.
Warren. Loving Nana to Kelsey Ann
Burke Johnson, Francis D. Warren &
Casey S. Warren. Beloved sister of the
late Mary Powers, Christine Lyons, Hel-
en Hirl, William, James “Joe,” Michael,
Dennis “Frank,” Edward & John Burke.
Also many loving nieces, nephews & a
multitude of grandnieces & grandneph-
ews. Relatives & friends are invited to
attend Winnie’s Funeral on Monday at
9 AM, from The Carr Funeral Home,
220 Bunker Hill St., CHARLESTOWN,
followed by her Funeral Mass in St.
Francis De Sales Church, Charlestown,
at 10 AM. Burial at Woodlawn Ceme-
tery, Everett. Visiting Hours Sunday, 2-5
PM, in the Funeral Home. (Facial cover-
ings required inside church & Funeral
Home). In lieu of flowers, kindly make
a memorial donation in Winnie’s name
to House of Hope, 812 Merrimack St.,
Lowell, MA 01854. For obituary, direc-
tions & online condolences,
www.carrfuneral.com
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Of Yarmouth, fell asleep in the Lord on
August 24, 2020, after a long illness.
Marie was born in Harlem, New York
City in 1937 and moved to Cape Cod in
1946, where she was active in church
life in the choir, Greek School, and
teaching Sunday School. She gradu-
ated from Barnstable High School in
Hyannis, MA and then studied at Tufts
University, where she received her
Bachelor’s degree in 1959. Marie later
received a MBA degree from Boston
University.
Marie worked many years at Analog
Devices, near Boston, including time
as Director of Marketing Communica-
tions, but also holding many leadership
positions in Graphics and Communica-
tions at the Company. Marie retired in
1999 and lived on the Cape full-time
since then, including many days at the
Craigville beach.
Marie loved the Boston sports teams,
being an avid fan of the Patriots, Red
Sox, and former season ticket holder of
the Bruins.
Marie was very active with church
life at St. George Greek Orthodox
Church, now in Centerville, MA, where
she served many years on the church
Parish Council, including three years
as Parish Council president and vice-
president. Marie also co-chaired the
church festival for two years, and also
took charge of the festival advertising
booklet, growing in volume from one
page to 32 pages, with over $10,000
in advertising revenue in 2013. She
was active in many church commit-
tees and church ministries, such as the
Prayer Shawl Group, which knits and
distributes shawls to the needy and
gives baby blankets to children baptized
in the Church. As Recording Secretary
for the church Philoptochos Society for
eight years, she was very active in their
charitable activities.
Because of her dedication and many
years of service to the St. George’s Com-
munity, Marie was honored in 2014 as
the sole recipient of the Laity Award.
Marie was the daughter of Elizabeth
(Jozsy) and George Petridis. She was
the sister of Adrienne Lawson and the
late Harry Petridis. She leaves behind
six nieces and nephews, 10 grandnieces
and grandnephews, and five great-
grandnieces and great-grandnephews,
who all loved her and will miss her very
much.
The Viewing and Funeral for Marie
Etchells will be this Saturday, August
29th, at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.,
respectively, at St.George’s Greek
Orthodox Church, 1130 Falmouth
Road, Centerville, MA 02632. In lieu
of flowers, the extended family kindly
asks for any donations to be made to St.
George’s Greek Orthodox Church, 1130
Falmouth Road, Centerville, MA 02632.
For online guestbook, please visit
www.johnlawrencefuneralhome.com
Sunrise, June 9, 1939 -
Sunset, August 26, 2020
Of West Roxbury, passed away
peacefully August 26th, 2020. June
was born on June 9th, 1939 to Paul
and Mildred (McCaffey) Yetman. She
was the beloved wife of nearly 60
years to Leo L. Hannon. Cherished
mother of Brian Hannon and his
wife Melanie of Dedham, Karen
Hannon of Roslindale, Mark Hannon
of Norwood and Kelley Hannon of
Brookline. She is also survived by her
five grandchildren; Caroline, Alex, Nick,
Lauren and Joseph. Additionally, her
sisters Paula and Phyllis and brothers
Charlie, John and Kevin and several
nieces and nephews. June was born
in ‘Southie’, then resided for many
years in Roslindale and most recently
a longtime resident of West Roxbury.
A graduate of Roslindale High School,
June worked for The Boston Edison
Company, as well as the Boston Police
Dept. as a crossing guard all while
being a full time mother, raising her
four children. Besides spending time
with her family, June had a passion
for spending time in Maine. Her love
for Maine was also shared by her
brothers, sister, and her children as
she convinced them all to spend time
together there as a family. She loved
the beach, lakes, pool, but the most
memorable times for her was when the
family was assembled in a circle at the
beach, covered in umbrellas, coolers
filled with lunch, and laughter that
almost drowned out the sounds of the
waves. To her this was what life was
all about. And the family togetherness
never stopped when the sun went
down. It was back to Mom and Dad’s
place for a meal, the campfire got
going, s’mores melting, and that
continued on, and not just as family
but as close friends. Funeral from the
William J. Gormley Funeral Home,
2055 Centre Street, WEST ROXBURY
on Monday, August 31, 2020 at 9:00am
followed by a Mass of Christian Burial
in St. Teresa of Avila Church at 10
o’clock. Relatives and friends are
kindly invited to attend. Visiting Hours
Sunday, August 30th from 2:00pm to
6:00pm. Interment private. In lieu of
flowers, donations in June’s memory
may be made to the Gavin Foundation
of South Boston at 675 East Fourth St.,
02127. For directions and guestbook,
please visit: gormleyfuneral.com
William J. Gormley Funeral Service
617-323-8600
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Age 57, a loving, caring, talented and
very much missed husband, best friend,
father, grandfather, and spirited soul.
Survived by his wife, three children,
two grandchildren, his mother, sister
and three nephews. Our love for you
is ineffable. May you find peace and
comfort in your next light. You will
forever be remembered by all those
who loved you. Your battle with the rare
Anaplastic Astrocytoma brain cancer
was a two-and-a-half-year fight. You
gave it your all as hard as you could.
“God saw you were getting tired and
a cure was not to be, so he wrapped his
arms around you and whispered, ‘come
to me.’ In tears we saw you sinking
as we watched you wither away. Our
hearts were clearly broken, we could
not make you stay. But when we saw
you sleeping, so peaceful and free from
pain, we knew we could not wish you
back to suffer that again. Nothing can
be more beautiful and precious than
the memories we have of you. To us you
were someone special and God must
have thought so too.”
Forever in our hearts. We shall miss
you.
Services will be private.
Arrangements by Chapman, Cole &
Gleason Funeral Home, WAREHAM.
To leave a message of condolence visit:
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HOLT, Harriet M.
(Michelfelder)
Of Lynnfield, Aug. 25. Beloved wife of
the late Dr. Bradford F. Holt. Loving
mother of Phillip Holt of Salem, NH,
Johanna Holt of Bradford & the late
Marc, David & Gretchen Holt. Sister
of the late Martha Scott. Grandmother
of Clinton Morton, Andrea Murray &
Alyse Bonfiglio. Great-grandmother of
Jennifer Morton, Leigha Haney, Ayden
Wrenn, Jackson Murray, Bradford &
Joey Bonfiglio. A Celebration of Life
will be held at the family residence, 60
Summer St., Lynnfield on Thursday,
Sept. 3 at 12 noon. Private interment
will be held at Forest Hill Cemetery. In
lieu of flowers, contributions may be
made to Care Dimensions, 75 Sylvan
St., Suite B 102, Danvers, MA 01923.
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LAFERTE, Roland O. MD
Of Canton, formerly of Mashpee, age
87, August 26. Husband of 65 years of
Jeannine M. (Gallant) Laferte. Father
of Wayne M. Laferte and his wife Susan
of Stoughton, Steven M. Laferte and his
wife Alexandra of Plymouth, Michelle
J. Murphy and her husband William of
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LYTLE, William O. Jr.
Of Hingham, formerly of
Lincoln and Concord,
passed away on August 18,
2020. Bill was born January 1,1937 in
Pittsburgh, PA. He grew up in New
Kensington, PA, the son of William
Orland Lytle and Elizabeth Taylor Lytle.
His father was a research physicist at
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. In addition
to his parents, Bill was predeceased by
his twin sisters, Charlotte and Ann. Bill
was a graduate of Yale University. After
two years in the Navy, graduate school
at Yale and a job at Exxon, Bill came to
Boston in 1965 to work for the Polaroid
Corporation. Later, he became an
independent management consultant
and authored several books on the
subject. However, his favorite book was
entitled “The Essential Organizer - An
Ongoing Record Of Your Estate &
Personal Information.” During these
years, Bill traveled to various countries
and continued his lifelong love of
photography, taking photos to
document his experiences. While scuba
diving in the Caribbean, he developed
an interest in underwater photography.
This evolved into a magnificent exhibit
of exotic fish, coral and plant life. This
collection was selected for inclusion in
a show at Linden Ponds, where Bill
resided, and at the Hingham Library in
2015. Bill formed many friendships
which he maintained over the years. He
leaves his dear friend Nancy Gregory at
Linden Ponds and the loving family of
Jack and Marcia Fix of Stonington, CT.
A private Celebration of Bill’s Life will
be held in Pittsburgh, PA in the
summer of 2021.
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24, 2020 on his 90th
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Bill Arnett, collector and promoter of little-known Black art; at 81
By Richard Sandomir
new york times
Bill arnett had spent two de-
cades collecting and dealing an-
tiquities from around the world
— african art was his passion —
when, in 1986, he had an
epiphany in Birmingham, ala.
there, artist Lonnie holley
assembled sculptures from sal-
vaged junk, and on his first vis-
it, mr. arnett bought one — a
statement about racism made
from a mannequin and chains.
it inspired him more than any-
thing he had seen in europe,
africa, or asia ever had.
“nothing has been the same
since,” mr. arnett told the at-
lanta Journal-constitution in
1993. “i had to go out and tell
the world that there’s this for-
gotten civilization doing this
great work.”
to mr. arnett, holley’s work
— and that of the other Black
painters, sculptors, and quilters
he would soon encounter, most
of them poor — was as distin-
guished as that of acclaimed
white artists like willem de
kooning, robert rauschen-
berg, and Jasper Johns.
he became their fan, pro-
moter, and patron, paid at least
20 of them stipends of $200 to
$500 a week, and brought their
art, invisible to the traditional
art world, to the attention of
museums.
“he was to these folk artists
what alan Lomax was to folk
music,” said andrew dietz, au-
thor of “the Last Folk hero: a
true story of race and art,
Power and Profit” (2006), about
the relationship between mr.
arnett and some of the artists.
Lomax was a pioneering folk
music collector and archivist.
in the process mr. arnett
found critics, who detected a
whiff of paternalism in his rela-
tionship as a white art collector
and dealer to impoverished
Black artists.
mr. arnett died on aug. 12
at his home in atlanta. he was
81. his son Paul did not specify
a cause but said his father had a
history of diabetes and heart at-
tacks.
in addition to holley, mr. ar-
nett sought to elevate the work
of artists such as thornton dial
sr., a welder who told the story
of Black struggles in paintings
and assemblages from scav-
enged materials; mose tolliver,
who painted on wood from old
tree stumps and roots; and Bes-
sie harvey, who used branches,
roots, and found objects for her
sculptures.
and there were the quilt-
makers of gee’s Bend, ala.,
Black women whose hand-
stitched creations honored tra-
ditions that could be traced to
the mid-19th century. over four
years, mr. arnett paid $1.3 mil-
lion for more than 500 quilts.
when 70 of the quilts from mr.
arnett’s collection were exhibit-
ed at the whitney museum of
american art in new york be-
ginning in 2002, michael kim-
melman of the new york times
described them as “some of the
most miraculous works of mod-
ern art america has produced.”
mr. arnett was born william
arenowitch on may 10, 1939,
Alyce Gullattee, expert on substance abuse treatment
By Glenn Rifkin
new york times
For more than half a centu-
ry, dr. alyce gullattee treated
countless drug addicts, aids
patients, and prostitutes in
washington, even if it meant
taking to some of the city ’s
more dangerous streets to help
those in desperate need.
“dr. g,” as she was affection-
ately called by patients, became
a nationally recognized expert
on substance abuse as an asso-
ciate professor of psychiatry at
howard university and direc-
tor of howard’s institute on
drug abuse and addiction. she
also served on white house
committees on substance abuse
for three presidents: richard
nixon, gerald Ford, and Jimmy
carter.
dr. gullattee died on april
30 in rockville, md., after test-
ing positive for coVid-19, said
her daughter aishaetu gullat-
tee. she was 91. she had suf-
fered a stroke in February and
h a d b e e n h o s p it a l i z e d f o r
weeks.
a determined and outspo-
ken advocate, dr. gullattee
spent a lifetime trying to break
in segregated columbus, ga., to
hilliard and minna (moses)
arenowitch. his father was a
dry goods wholesaler, his moth-
er a homemaker.
he graduated from the uni-
versity of georgia in 1963 with
a bachelor’s degree in english.
a course he took in ancient civi-
lizations stoked his desire to ex-
plore their art. he got that
chance after college while
working for a beverage bottling
company in London, a job that
left him with time to start col-
lecting art. he began taking
trips throughout europe and to
the middle east, south ameri-
ca, and asia. it was around this
time that he and his brother,
robert, who sometimes accom-
panied him on these trips,
changed their Jewish surname
to arnett.
it was only af ter health
problems slowed his interna-
tional travel that he began his
rambles in the southeast in his
van from his base in atlanta.
For much of the next 30
years he built his collection into
a behemoth that needed a
warehouse to hold what he
boldly told the new yorker in
2013 was “the most important
cultural phenomenon that ever
took place in the united states
of america.”
mr. arnett, loquacious and
passionate about what he called
the vernacular art of african
americans, rankled some peo-
ple in the art world. one issue
was his giving stipends to Black
artists; these outlays gave him
the right of first refusal to buy
their works. “i was trying to give
the artists some financial securi-
ty and confidence; i was buying
enormous amounts of work to
get the pieces i did want,” he
told the Journal-constitution.
his link to dial in particular
c a m e u n d e r s c r u t i ny. ne d
rifkin, the former director of
“Dr. G,” as she was called,
served on White House
committees on substance
abuse for three presidents.
down racial barriers for the
most vulnerable members of
the Black community.
the rev. willie wilson, a re-
tired pastor at union temple
Baptist church in washington,
told nPr in may about the sto-
ries he heard from victims of
the drug crisis in the 1980s. “i
was working with a lot of peo-
ple who had problems with
substance abuse, and they were
telling me about this doctor
who was going up to 7th and t,
into the crack houses, pulling
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the high museum of art in at-
lanta, for one, questioned mr.
arnett’s role as dial’s exclusive
representative.
“he had his own pantheon
of hierarchical dimension
about this art. he would say,
‘dial is Picasso, this one is mat-
isse, that one is chagall.’”
in 1993, mr. arnett was a
subject of a “60 minutes” seg-
ment with morley safer in
which one artist said on camera
that mr. arnett had underpaid
him for some works; another,
harvey, said he had not re-
turned three works he had bor-
rowed (an accusation she later
dropped). the segment sug-
gested that mr. arnett con-
trolled dial by owning the
house the artist lived in.
mr. arnett defended himself
by saying dial had needed to
move from a dangerous neigh-
borhood but had been subject-
ed to racism when he tried to
get a mortgage. so mr. arnett
bought the house, he said, and
put it in his name.
‘‘they acted like i was sup-
posed to be surprised,’’ dial told
the Journal-constitution soon
after the ‘‘60 minutes’’ segment
ran. ‘‘But i knew about it. Bill
don’t own me.’’ (Full ownership
was later transferred to dial,
who remained on good terms
with mr. arnett until his death
in 2016.)
people out and taking them to
howard university for treat-
ment,” he said.
“dr. gullattee’s decades-long
service to howard university
was unparalleled,” dr. wayne
a.i. Frederick, the university’s
president, said in a statement
after her death. “she played a
significant role in the education
and training of literally thou-
sands of physicians, including a
significant percentage of the af-
rican-american physicians
practicing in this country.”
alyce chenault was born on
June 28, 1928, in detroit to
Bertha and earl chenault. her
father stoked furnaces at a
chrysler plant. though neither
of her parents attended high
school, they insisted that their
children be educated.
alyce graduated from the
university of california at san-
ta Barbara in 1956 with a de-
gree in zoology. the environ-
ment was hostile for Black stu-
dents. Frustrated by what she
s aw a s o v e r t r a c i s m a n d a
dearth of opportunities, she
picketed stores in santa Barba-
ra where there were no employ-
ees of color except in menial po-
G l o b e
agaton strom/the new york times/FiLe
mr. arnett said that the no-
toriety the “60 minutes” broad-
cast had brought him had hurt
his business, but he recovered
somewhat in 1996 when “souls
grown deep,” his exhibition of
500 works by 30 Black artists,
was shown in atlanta during
the summer olympics.
christopher knight of the
Los angeles times wrote that
the show demonstrated “the
potential power in a highly per-
sonal art commonly made from
castoff materials, by artists who
have themselves been castoffs
from american society.”
over the years, mr. arnett
said, he sold off parts of his col-
lection of antiquities and his
two houses to support the art-
ists and pay off his debts from
helping them. in 2010, he do-
nated 1,300 pieces of the artists’
works to the souls grown deep
Foundation, which he founded.
the foundation, in turn, has
made gifts to museums, includ-
ing one, in 2014, of 57 paint-
ings, drawings, sculptures,
quilts, and mixed media works
to the metropolitan museum of
art in new york.
when the met exhibited
some of the works in 2018, ro-
berta smith of the new york
times wrote, “the show seems
nearly perfect in art installation
and irrefutability of greatness.”
in addition to his son Paul,
sitions.
she met her future husband,
Latinee gullattee, at the school,
and the couple moved to wash-
ington, where alyce gullattee
was accepted into the howard
university college of medicine.
graduating in 1964 as class
president, she did her residency
at local hospitals and in 1970,
she joined the howard faculty
in the department of neuropsy-
chiatry, where she would teach
for decades.
in 1971, during the attica
prison uprising, dr. gullattee
led a six-person team of doctors
from howard who traveled to
upstate new york to consult
with officials about what had
transpired. her group was re-
fused entrance to the prison,
though white physicians were
seen entering and leaving. “i
think they’re in a state of post-
siege shock,” she told the new
york times. “they had a far
more serious crisis than they
thought.”
in addition to her daughter
aishaetu, she is survived by an-
other daught er, deb or jh a
Blackwell; 10 grandchildren;
and 14 great-grandchildren.
Thornton Dial Sr.’s
sculpture “History Refused
to Die” was on display at the
Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York in 2018. It
was part of an exhibition of
works by Black artists that
Mr. Arnett’s foundation had
donated to the museum. At
left, Mr. Arnett with quilter
Mary Ann Pettway in Gee’s
Bend, Ala., in 2007.
mr. arnett is survived by his
brother, robert; three other
sons, matt, harry, and tom; and
eight grandchildren. his wife,
Judy (mitchell) arnett, died in
2011. two of mr. arnett’s grand-
children, including Viva Vadim,
are the children of matt arnett
and Vanessa Vadim, a daughter
of Jane Fonda and director rog-
er Vadim. Fonda was a partner
with Bill arnett in a publishing
firm that produced books about
the Black artists and is on the
foundation’s board. Vanessa
Vadim and matt arnett pro-
duced a short film about the
gee’s Bend quilters in 2002.
mr. arnett was working with
his son matt in the late 1990s on
a book about african-american
quilters when a photo of a wom-
an with a quilt from alabama
riveted them. they set out to
find her — which they did, in
gee’s Bend — and were wel-
comed by her fellow quilters.
“we went to meet one quil-
ter and after a few days, we’d
met 15,” matt arnett said by
phone. “word got around that
there were two crazy white men
buying ‘ugly, raggly’ quilts. they
weren’t ugly, but they were not
the prevailing aesthetic. and
once it was clear there was
something extraordinary there,
we went as often as we could.”
Material from the Washington
Post was used in this obituary.
Jakob van Zyl, key
engineer at NASA
associated Press
Pasadena, calif. — Jakob
van Zyl, an engineer who held
crucial positions at nasa’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory and was
involved in numerous space ex-
ploration missions over de-
cades, has died. he was 63.
mr. Van Zyl, who retired in
2019 after a 33-year career, suf-
fered a heart attack on monday
and died wednesday at a hospi-
tal in Pasadena, calif., said Ve-
ronica mcgregor, a spokes-
woman for JPL.
mr. Van Zyl’s roles included
director for astronomy and
physics, director for solar sys-
tem exploration, and associate
director on a project to formu-
late a vision for JPL’s future.
mr. Van Zyl was involved in
missions that sent the Juno
spacecraft to Jupiter, dawn to
the asteroid belt, cassini to sat-
urn, and the insight mars land-
er and its tying accompanying
cubesat spacecraft. he was also
involved in the mars 2020 Per-
severance rover mission cur-
rently en route to the red plan-
et, as well as development of fu-
ture missions.
B7
At 81, Frank
Cullotta,
Las Vegas
mobster
By Julia Carmel
new york times
Frank cullotta, a mobster
who was granted immunity for
his testimony and spoke openly
about organized crime in court
and later on his own youtube
show, died thursday in a hospi-
tal in Las Vegas. he was 81.
his longtime friend adam
Flowers said the cause was
coVid-19 and underlying con-
ditions.
though he made his name
as a criminal, mr. cullotta
found a second calling later in
life, giving mob history tours in
Las Vegas and running his you-
tube show, “coffee with cullot-
ta,” about the inner workings of
organized crime.
Frank John cullotta was
born dec. 14, 1938, in chicago
to Josephine (montedore) and
Joseph raymond cullotta, who
drove getaway cars for the out-
fit, the chicago-based crime
syndicate.
Frank dropped out of stein-
metz college Prep in the ninth
grade and began committing
crimes with his friend anthony
spilotro, who would grow up to
became a prominent reputed
mobster and chicago represen-
tative in Las Vegas.
mr. cullotta was convicted
of burglary in 1968 and sent to
prison; he was released in
1974.
he moved to Las Vegas in
1979 and took part in a bur-
glary ring called the hole in the
wall gang because the mem-
bers often broke into homes
and buildings by drilling
through walls and ceilings.
mr. cullotta was caught
again July 4, 1981, while at-
tempting to burglarize a jewel-
ry store. the next year he was
approached by the FBi to testify
against spilotro, who was re-
corded telling someone about
“cleaning their dirty laundry.”
mr. cullotta believed that to be
a r e f e r e n c e t o h av i n g h i m
killed.
mr. cullotta agreed to help
the FBi, and testified that he
had been following spilotro’s
orders when he killed sherwin
Lister. spilotro, he said, be-
lieved Lister had agreed to co-
operate with the government in
a case against him.
mr. cullotta was granted im-
munity for his previously un-
charged crimes, but sentenced
to 10 years in prison (which
was later reduced to eight
years). he was paroled in 1984
and entered the witness protec-
tion program.
in his 2007 memoir “cullot-
ta: the Life of a chicago crimi-
nal, Las Vegas mobster, and
government witness,” he wrote
that he had been involved in
four murders, 20 arsons, and
more than 500 robberies and
burglaries.
“i think that Frank saw his
worst acts of crime — the mur-
ders he committed — in a simi-
lar way that soldiers in the ar-
my see their duty,” geoff schu-
macher, the vice president of
exhibits and programs for the
mob museum in Las Vegas,
said in a phone interview.
“that said, he was very care-
ful about his remorse,” schu-
macher added. “he didn’t go
out of his way to apologize.”
Later in life, mr. cullotta re-
turned to Las Vegas and began
giving tours at the mob muse-
um. after his first memoir, he
wrote two more with true crime
author dennis n. griffin.
he was a consultant on mar-
tin scorsese’s 1995 movie “casi-
no,” which was loosely based on
spilotro’s career in Las Vegas,
and had a cameo as a hit man.
mr. cullotta’s marriage to
ann Blandi ended in divorce, as
did his marriage to marie gia-
vonco.
around 1980, he married
elaine costanza, who he leaves
along with a daughter from his
first marriage, angela russo; a
stepdaughter with costanza,
kim; and his brother, Joseph.
in a 2017 interview with
the daily Beast, mr. cullotta
said he didn’t always find it
easy to live a typical lifestyle.
“it’s difficult to be legit, and
i am legit,” he said. “But i’m al-
ways having to fight the system
for some reason. it seems like
nobody wants me to be legit.”
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Cycling along the
contours of Southie
Dawn is the ideal time
for a white-knuckle-free
ride along the water
By Michael J. Bailey
B
globe staff
iking in boston is improving,
but it still is too often a white-
knuckle ride through narrow
streets plied by aggressive, inat-
tentive motorists and, madden-
ingly, clueless cyclists. for an alternative
hub-and-spokes reality, try a ride along
southie’s beaches.
dawn is the ideal time, when the horizon
holds ribbons of reds and a breeze can twist
your sweat into a quick shiver. if your sched-
ule or body rhythm argues for later, aim for
10 a.m., preferably on a weekday.
start your trek at iconic castle island and
head south along day boulevard. the road is
flat, the sightlines exceptional. you’ll pick up
an unprotected bike lane at i street but post-
rush hour traffic, both for cars and other
bikes, tends to be light.
follow the contours of the coast until you
reach moakley park on your right. you’ll
want to cross over to the harborwalk, taking
that along the harbor point housing devel-
opment. this area offers several inviting
places to stop, including a massive, round
granite map with boston harbor and the is-
lands in the middle and a timeline along the
circumference. if you stop at a gazebo at the
point, your eyes take in a terrific view of the
JfK library and museum, its white and
black building bordered in blue waters in
three directions. across the waters are spec-
tacle and thompson islands.
continue on to behind JfK, about four
miles from your starting point, and take a
few minutes to saunter along the grounds
and winding stairs that hug i.m. pei’s archi-
tectural gem. the library remains closed
due to the pandemic.
Schools are going remote — and this Berkshires resort
is offering a #SchoolFromAnywhere deal
By Lauren Daley
B
globe correspondent
oston schools are start-
ing remote, and parents
might be Zooming from
home, too. if that’s mak-
ing home feel small, this berk-
shires resort is offering an escape.
nestled at the base of Jiminy
peak ski mountain in hancock,
club Wyndham bentley brook of-
fers an in-suite ”back to school,
back to your bucket list” vacation
package.
book your school-year stay by
oct. 31 — the stay must be be-
tween sept. 14 and dec. 18. fami-
lies save 20 percent on a two-to-
five night stay, and 30 percent off a
six-plus night stay.
included in the package: up-
graded Wi-fi, pencil cases, erasers,
notebooks, additional power
strips, noise-canceling head- A view from one of the room balconies at Club Wyndham Bentley
phones, and a complimentary bot- Brook in Hancock.
T h e B o s t o n
ComfortZone
get out
A bike ride along the shore in South Boston includes a stop at a granite map of the
Harbor Islands (top) and views of the iconic JFK Library and Museum (above).
as you return along largely the same
path, keep an eye out for a spot to take a dip
in dorchester bay. unlike the horror of the
hordes of people packing m street beach on
sultry weekends, carson beach on a warm
weekday morning offers vast tracts of open
sand, with social distancing not even a con-
sideration. check tide tables before your
trip: if it’s mid to high tide, jump in. if it’s
low tide, you’ll have to walk out far before
the water even reaches your thighs and
you’ll want water shoes to traverse jagged
rocks.
hop back on the bike. because most park-
ing spots have been removed on the seaside
escape rooms
club Wyndham
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photos by michael bailey/globe staff
section of day boulevard, you’ll have your
own path, protected by barrels. if you decide
to extend the trip around the castle island
causeway, you’ll need to walk your bike.
you’ll also need to decide whether it is too
crowded for comfort.
if inbound planes for logan are over-
head, you have another option: find a spot
right under the flight path. after the largest
planes pass, the air often crackles overhead.
by then, you should feel energized in all di-
rections.
Michael Bailey can be reached at
michael.bailey@globe.com
tle of wine — because homeschool-
ing is just as hard on parents. you
might book a two-bedroom suite
(so kids can remote learn in anoth-
er room) with full kitchen, dining
areas, and free Wi-fi.
if you ski or snowboard, you
might go later in the season, as
bentley brook is a ski-in ski-out re-
sort. go in the fall if you like hik-
ing, biking, horseback riding, leaf-
peeping or kayaking. either way,
take field trips to explore the near-
by norman rockwell museum,
berkshire museum, and hancock
shaker Village.
1 Corey Road, Hancock. 413-
738-8600. See details and book
here: www.extraholidays.com/pro-
motion/work-and-school-from-
anywhere
Lauren Daley can be reached at
ldaley33@gmail.com. Follow her
on Twitter @laurendaley1.
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Tanglewood
brings
Beethoven
to Pittsfield
By Diti Kohli
L
globe correspondent
ooking to listen to a little
beethoven? it’s your lucky day.
tanglewood in the city, pitts-
field is hosting a series of video
broadcasts of beethoven’s ninth sym-
phony at pittsfield’s first street com-
mon. the performance, shown on a gi-
ant led screen, will begin with welcome
clips from conductor giancarlo guerrero
and cellist yo-yo ma, as well as a perfor-
mance by young berkshires musicians,
Kids 4 harmony.
the performance that will be broad-
cast is a recording of the bso’s aug. 25,
2019, tangle-
wood concert,
conducted by
guerrero and
featuring the
tanglewood
festival cho-
rus and vocal-
ists nicole ca-
bell, J’nai
your daily
distraction
bridges, nich-
olas phan,
and morris robinson.
four screenings will take place, at
11 a.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m., and 8 p.m. on
aug. 28. to allow for social distancing,
each showing will be limited to 50
masked attendees for the in-person ex-
perience. a larger number of tickets are
available for virtual viewing.
though admission is free, it requires
audiences to register in advance at
events@milltowncapital.com. audience
members should include first and sec-
ond desired screening times and the
number of people wishing to attend.
Viewers can also take part in a watch
party to win 2021 season lawn passes.
this is the second year for tangle-
wood in the city, pittsfield, sponsored by
mill town capital and inspired by a sim-
ilar tanglewood in the city series in bos-
ton. the broadcast aims to share one of
the festival’s major performances with a
wider group of berkshire residents.
Diti Kohli can be reached at
diti.kohli@globe.com. Follow her on
Twitter at @ditikohli_.
let’s talk shop
Support
Black-owned
businesses at
Seaport market
By Chris Morris
C
globe staff
ome out to seaport common
(85 northern ave.) on sunday,
aug. 30, from noon to 6 p.m.
to support black-owned busi-
nesses and the final days of national
black business month at the seaport x
black owned bos. market.
the event will take place outside and
showcase businesses from throughout
greater boston. you’ll find everything
from food to gifts to clothes to skincare
products. all featured vendors are mem-
bers of black owned bos., which
launched in march 2019 as a platform
to highlight and lift black-owned busi-
nesses.
“With the city phasing into the re-
opening, many vendors and local mak-
ers are eager to participate in local mar-
kets that are often great networking and
customer building opportunities,” said
Jae’da turner, founder and managing di-
rector of black owned bos., in a state-
ment.
Vendors include clarke’s cakes &
cookies, a vegan bakery in dorchester;
Q made it, an online shop that sells pop
culture-inspired merchandise; beauty n
simplicity, a handcrafted line of bath
and body products; and true 9 accesso-
ries, which sells handmade fabric, wood-
en, and beaded jewelry.
each vendor will have their own tent
to promote social distancing, and all
staff, vendors, and shoppers at the sea-
port x black owned bos. market will be
required to wear masks at all times.
shopper capacity will be limited in ad-
herence with the city’s latest coVid
safety guidelines, and shoppers are en-
couraged to use a credit card for all
transactions.
for more information and a full list of
vendors, visit bostonseaport.xyz.
Chris Morris can be reached at
christine.morris@globe.com. Follow her
on Twitter @morrisglobe
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There was a message of support posted in center field at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, where Thursday night’s Red Sox-Bue Jays game was postponed.
At tHe forefront
presenting a unified front, athletes, sports make historic stand
Tara Sullivan with the bucks declining to take the court
for their nba playoff game Wednesday —
followed by the rest of the nba, the Wn-
across these unprece- ba, mls, professional tennis player naomi
dented days, athletes osaka, mlb teams, and nfl squads slated
have proven the ad- for the practice field — are loud enough to
age that actions write their own bold-faced headlines.
speak louder than they are important acts of defiance,
words, the cascade of done with purpose and intent to amplify
canceled games and demands for social justice, shocking
practices doing more enough to make the public stop and take
to reflect the gravity notice.
of this moment than words ever could. the actions have impact, and the collec-
the stunning acts of refusal that began tive reaction to the latest police shooting of
john tlumacki/globe staff elsa/getty images
Football was secondary for Matthew A moment of silence was observed before
Slater (left) and Jason McCourty. Game 3 of the Bruins-Lightning series.
Bruins, NHL
Ben Volin
on football
Bradley, Sox
Some Patriots take 2 days off nBA decides agree to sit
losing hope to play on
By Matt Porter
globe staff
nhl players united thursday to declare
that their black teammates shouldn’t bear the
there are no nfl games to boycott yet, burden of pushing for change, as the league
but players and coaches across the league postponed its playoffs by two days in response
have responded poignantly to the recent to other leagues.
shooting of jacob blake in Wisconsin. the li- two second-round games on thursday and
ons canceled practice tuesday and held a two more on friday, including game 4 of the
demonstration outside of their team facility. bruins-lightning series, will be rescheduled
eight other teams, including the packers, can- after players decided to support a call from
celed practice thursday. many other teams the hockey diversity alliance to “allow play-
changed the start time of practice to allow ers and fans to reflect on what happened and
players to have long discussions about race to send a message that human rights must
and society. take priority over sport.”
the patriots, meanwhile, went about their the nhl did not say when the games
business. because the patriots, at least for the would resume, but saturday was the antici-
time being, have lost hope. pated date.
“i don’t have a statement, i don’t have any- thursday’s statements came a day after
thing powerful, and it’s been very dishearten- players watched as their peers in the nba,
ing just watching things transpiring,” team Wnba, mlb, and mls chose to sit out games
on football, Page C6 bRUins, Page C4
a black man — jacob blake, who was hit in
the back with seven bullets in kenosha,
Wis. — is fueling a new round of conversa-
tions about addressing and fixing our en-
demic racial imbalance.
once again, we see sports taking the
lead, much the way the nba woke us up to
the seriousness of coronavirus, with a
quick, decisive suspension of the season
following rudy gobert’s positive test snap-
ping the rest of the country into line.
and yet this is so different. these are
not lone voices of protest, but powerfully
unified coalitions, ones that cross racial di-
kim klement/associated press
NBA courts in Florida were vacant Wed-
nesday and Thursday in silent protest.
Gary Washburn
on basketball
orlando — When nba players con-
vened thursday morning at a ballroom in the
coronado convention center, there had been
a night of extensive reflection.
many are tiring of the bubble for several
reasons, most importantly because they can’t
see or don’t feel they are making a social im-
pact.
ºGame 1 of Celtics-Raptors postponed;
NBA hopes to resume this weekend. C5
they felt helpless when they watched vid-
eo of jacob blake being shot in the back seven
times by a kenosha, Wis., police officer. play-
ers questioned whether they should be here,
playing basketball, enjoying the sun, fishing
on basketball, Page C5
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vides, ignore gender differences, and pay
no mind to athletic contrasts. they are in
this together, channeling their consider-
able competitive fire to defeat a common
opponent, reminding us that the best victo-
ries aren’t always reflected on the score-
board but in changing hearts and minds,
too.
there have been tear-filled interviews
by the mets’ dom smith and the clippers’
doc rivers, frustration-fueled words from
the budding tennis star osaka, gratitude
for support and understanding from old
sUlliVan, Page C5
file/jim davis/globe staff
The Red Sox are scheduled to start a
series at Fenway vs. Washington Friday.
By Peter Abraham
globe staff
buffalo — a thunderstorm rolled over
sahlen field on thursday when the red sox
gathered to meet inside a large tent that
serves as the visiting team clubhouse.
their agenda was deciding whether to join
jackie bradley jr. in not playing against the
toronto blue jays.
bradley had informed the team earlier in
the day that he would skip the game to add
his name to the growing list of professional
athletes in all sports taking an active stand
against police brutality of black citizens.
the latest example, jacob blake being
shot seven times in the back by a Wisconsin
police officer on sunday, has led to games be-
ing postponed by mlb, nba, nhl, mls, and
Wnba teams.
bradley gave his reasons to the other play-
ers, as did two other black members of the
ReD soX, Page C2
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Red Sox raise voice, echo teammate
Peter Abraham
ON BASEBALL
BuFFaLO — Jackie Bradley Jr. has
taken a knee during the national an-
them before most of the games the
red sox have played this season. alex
Verdugo joined him on Opening day,
but beyond that, the only public sign
of support has been an occasional
hand on his shoulder.
that all changed on thursday.
Bradley decided early in the day
that he would sit out the game against
the toronto Blue Jays, joining the doz-
ens of baseball, basketball, and soccer
players who did that Wednesday night
to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake
in Wisconsin.
He spoke to manager ron roenicke
and chief baseball officer Chaim
Bloom about his decision and in-
formed his teammates.
Bradley might have done that on
Wednesday night, but he wasn’t aware
that three other games around base-
Alex Speier
Pause perfect
spark for action
On one hand, the contrast in the
images of Jackie Bradley Jr. and
Mookie Betts on Wednesday proved
stark. in Buffalo, on a night when
the sports world was upended by
protests against the police shooting
of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.,
Bradley Jr. sat alone in a Zoom ses-
sion following the red sox loss to
the Blue Jays, explaining how he felt
a “responsibility” to address the me-
dia about questions of systemic rac-
ism, police brutality, and social jus-
tice as the only Black player on the
red sox.
across the country, Betts stood
shoulder to shoulder with dodgers
manager dave roberts, and team-
mates Clayton Kershaw and Kenley
Jansen, to discuss his team’s deci-
sion to join nBa and WnBa players
in not playing.
the optics of the moment sug-
gested a drastic contrast — one play-
er part of a united protest, the other
left to stand alone. But the longtime
former lockermates also had a com-
mon trait: Both Bradley and Betts
were the only active Black players
on their respective big league ros-
ters.
that’s not an aberration. at the
start of play on Wednesday night,
14 of the 30 clubs had no more than
one active Black player on its roster.
six had none.
as Major League Baseball pre-
pares to celebrate the legacy of Jack-
ie robinson on Friday — the 75th
anniversary of robinson’s meeting
with dodgers gM Branch rickey,
which set the stage for the eventual
end of baseball’s segregation — the
absence of Black representation on
the field remains startling.
according to MLB, Black players
comprised 7.8 percent of players
(active as well as those on injured,
restricted, or bereavement lists) in
the big leagues on Opening day. in
2019, Census data estimated the
Black population as 14.7 percent of
the united states, meaning that on
big league rosters, Black players are
underrepresented relative to the
country’s population by about 47
percent.
it’s a far cry from the 1970s and
1980s, when Black players regularly
comprised roughly one-quarter of
the league.
“it was different then,” said red
sox manager ron roenicke, who
came up with the dodgers in 1981.
While there are exceptions —
most notably, the Mariners, who
had more Black players (9) than any
team in years on Opening day — the
fact remains that in 2020, there are
games being played with one or
even no Black players. that’s jarring
on the field, and potentially isolat-
ing off of it, something that the red
sox recognized in making their deci-
sion not to play on thursday.
“a lot’s been placed on [Bradley].
that’s important to all of us. it’s im-
portant to these players, realizing
that Jackie is our lone Black player
on the team. they want to support
him in any way that they can,” said
roenicke. “What we did today is us
basically telling him, ‘Jack, we’re
hearing what you’re saying. We’re
hearing what the rest of the guys are
saying. We want to make a differ-
ence. We want to support you in any
way we can.’ ”
yet while the red sox and Blue
Jays united in common cause on
thursday, baseball continues to en-
T h e B o s t o n G l o b e F r i d a y, a u g u s t 2 8 , 2 0 2 0
ball had been shut down until just be- sue of police brutality. the movement. in the last two days as a form of social
fore he took the field. “i think voices are being heard. the Blue Jays, who voted to play, protest was significant. Baseball all
as the sox were playing, his friend, Hopefully changes are being made,” he quickly lent their support. too often pays tribute to Jackie robin-
Mookie Betts, was in san Francisco said. “We just have to continue to Bradley didn’t speak to reporters son without actually living up to his
standing shoulder to shoulder with grow, continue to push forward. We’ve on thursday. teammates Xander Bo- ideals.
manager dave roberts, and team- got to be better as individuals and to- gaerts, nate Eovaldi, and Kevin Pillar robinson was a passionate advo-
mates Clayton Kershaw and Kenley gether as well.” did. they took on the task of explain- cate for equality. Wearing his no. 42 is
Jensen, explaining why he didn’t play. it’s unfortunate that it falls on ing why this is an important issue symbolic. sitting out a game is taking
“Once Mookie said that he wasn’t Bradley to give the Black perspective within baseball and society. action.
going to play that really started our on social issues. But once Betts and “For us, it’s coming together,” roenicke had a good answer about
conversation as a team as to what we david Price were traded, Bradley be- Eovaldi said. “We’re playing a game. how that can make a difference.
can do to support that,” Kershaw said. came the lone Black player on the ros- We’re on the same team and every- “if you’re a kid and you turn on the
“We felt the best thing to do was sup- ter. thing, but we’re a family. i think it tV tonight and don’t see that we’re
port that by not playing with him . . . “i have support. it’s not difficult for comes down to the brotherhood and playing, and you ask your parents,
we wanted to do the right thing as a me to address,” he said. “i am the only things like that. i want to be there and ‘Why aren’t the red sox playing?’ i
team.” Black person on this team. i feel it’s support Jackie.” hope the parents have a serious dis-
that Kershaw, an accomplished my responsibility to address it in cer- Bogaerts has known Bradley since cussion with their kids and tell them
white player, was so quick and unre- tain situations so that people can see 2011. they both debuted in the ma- what’s going on and explain what’s go-
served in throwing his support to Bet- what i feel and the things that i think jors in 2013 and have shared a wealth ing on. Because we need to discuss
ts was equally important. systemic about. i can take it on.” of experiences since, good and bad. these things more, we need to listen
racism in america won’t end until ev- But when Bradley took it on again “i believe it’s a huge thing that we more.
erybody speaks up. Betts said it was a thursday, his teammates were there to did for him,” Bogaerts said. “Being by “that’s the only way that we’re go-
day he would never forget. help. Bradley offered them a free pass, his side today, coming out as a group ing to change.”
Meanwhile, Bradley spoke to re- saying he’d understand if they went supporting him by not playing. . . . i
porters alone after the game ended. ahead and played. But the sox met at 4 think this really shows how much we Peter Abraham can be reached at
He took questions about the protests p.m. and decided to essentially go on care about him and the team.” peter.abraham@globe.com. Follow
elsewhere, and his thoughts on the is- strike for a day and add their voices to that 10 MLB games weren’t played him on Twitter @PeteAbe.
dure a diversity problem, with the
cause likely rooted in a lack of op-
portunities at the amateur level.
robert Lewis Jr., founder of the
Base — a Boston-based program
with four national locations that
provides inner-city youths with both
athletic and educational instruction
— views the proliferation of travel
ball and amateur showcase events
as having cut off opportunities.
“it’s a myth that Black kids don’t
play. they play,” said Lewis. “When i
look at our team, pre-COVid, we’re
traveling the country playing com-
petition and we’re, like, the only
one. Part of it was not talent. it was
cost . . . it’s become a pay-to-play
sport.”
in the us, both development op-
portunities (such as those afforded
by private instruction) and the
adrian Kraus/assOCiatEd PrEss
chance to be scouted at major show-
case events require money. Lewis The Red Sox and Blue Jays will likely make up their postponed game Thursday next month.
believes that players with a chance
Sox come together, sit out
to make an impact go overlooked,
which impacts every part of the
MLB pipeline, from players to
coaches to executives.
MLB funds programs such as its
youth academy (eight us locations
providing development and educa- uRED SOX my head around,” he said. “they’re all with reporters via video after the meet-
tional opportunities), as well as the Continued from Page C1 such genuine people. it shows me ing. Eovaldi was wearing a Black Lives
reviving Baseball in inner Cities group, first base coach tom good- there’s bigger topics we need to be dis- Matter t-shirt.
(rBi) program. such efforts have win and athletic trainer Brandon Hen- cussing … it’s the least we could do to “the best thing that we can do col-
made an impact, with Black players ry. they spoke of their experiences en- show them the respect and support that lectively is to continue to have those
— including many who have come countering racism and the impact it they need.” conversations, to hear each other’s sto-
through MLB programs — 18 per- had on their lives. no date to make the game up was ries, to voice our opinions whether we
cent of first-round picks since 2012. recounting those moments had immediately announced. the Blue Jays agree with them or disagree with them,
Even so, Lewis believes that manager ron roenicke in tears after- have a series at Fenway Park on sept. to have the uncomfortable conversa-
much of the work of connecting the ward. 3-6, and the expectation is the teams tions,” Pillar said.
sport to a broader, more diverse “[Bradley] told the guys, ‘this is my will play a doubleheader one of those said Bogaerts: “there’s no place [for
community has been left to take decision. i’m fine if you guys want to days. racism], no room for that and those
place at a grassroots level, without play. it’s an individual thing and a deci- along with roenicke and Eovaldi, type of actions. it’s’ not going to take
the backing of larger national orga- sion that we all have to make.’ Xander Bogaerts and Kevin Pillar met one day. it’s something that’s been go-
nizations. “He said there’s no hard feelings if ing on for a lot of years. But i think to-
“We all know the talent is there. you guys want to go out there and play. day was a good step forward.”
the talent is there to be nurtured,” But that’s not how the group felt. the Blue Jays 9, Red Sox 1 roenicke, 64, has been in profes-
Wednesday night game
said Lewis. “and there are all these group felt strongly in backing Jackie At Sahlen Field, Buffalo
sional baseball since 1977 as a player,
people around the country doing ex- and his beliefs in the issues that are go- BOSTON AB R H BI BB SO Avg. coach and manager. thursday, he said,
Verdugo lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .291
traordinary work. the problem is ing on.” Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .222 was one of his most memorable days in
Martinez dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .213
no one knows it. they don’t have in all, seven MLB games were post- Bogaerts ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .276 the game.
the resources to do anything more poned on thursday. Moreland 1b
Vázquez c
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.226 lives and should make a difference in
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teams paused to reflect on issues of able to discuss some things that are se- Biggio 2b
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.294
Peter Abraham can be reached at
diately preceding the sport’s cele- to straighten out.” Guerrero dh
Tellez 1b
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peter.abraham@globe.com. Follow him
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neer, it’s possible that the sport will field at the same time, decided to play, Espinal ss 3 1 2 0 1 0 .270
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have a chance to look anew at how it but manager Charlie Montoyo said
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sentation. the Players alliance —
comprised of 100 current and for-
that they didn’t want to play, we fully
supported them.”
HR—Moreland (8), off Yamaguchi, Grichuk (8), off Brewer,
Tellez 2 (6), off Brewer, off Brewer. SB—Gurriel (1). Runners left
in scoring position—Boston 2 (Devers, Pillar), Toronto 1 (Big-
series thumbnails
gio). RISP—Boston 0 for 3, Toronto 4 for 8. Runners moved up—
mer Black players dedicated to so- the team then issued a joint state- Espinal. GIDP—Verdugo, Gurriel. DP—Boston 1; Toronto 1.
Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA at Fenway Park
cial change and diversifying the ment. Brewer L 0-2 3„ 5 4 4 2 4 80 4.57 Friday, 7:30 p.m.
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wait for change — in our game or in “We fully respect the decision of our Inherited runners-scored—Weber 1-0, Brice 2-2. WP—Brice. W-L ERA
Umpires—Home, Ben May; First, Charlie Ramos; Second, Andy
our country,” the group wrote in a players to bring further awareness to Fletcher; Third, Dan Iassogna. T—2:58. A—0 (16,600). RHP Nate Eovaldi 2-2 4.98
statement. the systemic racism that contributes to RHP Austin Voth 0-3 6.65
how the runs scored
Whether such commitments re- police violence against Black, indige- Sunday, 1:35 p.m.
FIRST INNING
sult in a more inclusive sport re- nous and people of color in our commu- BLUE JAYS — Biggio grounded to first, unassisted. Grichuk NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7
mains to be seen. But at the least, nities. We look forward to getting back homered. Shaw struck out. Hernández singled. Guerrero struck W-L ERA
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the professed determination to on the field, and using our strongest SECOND INNING RHP Zack Godley 0-3 7.29
BLUE JAYS — Tellez homered. Gurriel walked and stole sec-
achieve change represents a starting platform, our game, to amplify our ond. McGuire grounded out to short. Espinal flied out to center, RHP Erick Fedde 1-2 3.57
Gurriel to third. Biggio struck out.
point. m e s s a ge d e m a n d i n g m e a n i n g f u l FOURTH INNING Head to head: This is the first and only series
RED SOX — Martinez flied to center. Bogaerts flied out to between the teams.
“the players paused, and now change.” right. Moreland homered. Vázquez grounded out to third. Miscellany: Going into Thursday’s game vs.
mass media is writing about it for the red sox also discussed, at first BLUE JAYS — Guerrero doubled. Tellez homered, Guerrero
scored. Gurriel grounded to third. McGuire grounded out to sec- the Phillies, the Nationals had lost three
the fan bases,” said Lewis. “it allows baseman Mitch Moreland’s suggestion, ond. Espinal walked. Weber pitching. Biggio grounded to short. straight . . . The Nationals are hitting .261 as
SEVENTH INNING a team, fifth-best in the majors . . . Top pros-
people to pause and ask questions. i working together as a team to add a BLUE JAYS — Espinal singled. Biggio singled, Espinal to third. pect Carter Kieboom, a third baseman, was
Grichuk singled, Espinal scored, Biggio to second. Shaw flied
think this is honestly having a very charitable component to their actions. out to center. Brice pitching. On wild pitch, Biggio to third, Gri- assigned to the team’s alternate site in Fred-
chuk to second. Hernández walked. Guerrero doubled, Biggio, ericksburg, Va., Wednesday after hittting .200
forceful effect.” righthander nate Eovaldi said the Grichuk, and Hernández scored. Tellez singled, Guerrero
with 20 strikeouts in 17 games . . . After mak-
scored. Gurriel grounded into a double play, short to second to
meeting was emotional. first, Tellez out. ing two starts, 2019 World Series MVP Ste-
Alex Speier can be reached at “i needed to hear some of the stories phen Strasburg (hand surgery) went on the
60-day injured list, ending his season.
alex.speier@globe.com. Follow him they’ve had to endure and go through
on twitter at @alexspeier. in their lives. it’s hard for me to wrap
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mLB NOTeBOOK dodgers 7, giants 0 Padres 10, mariners 7 braves 2, yankees 1

Another 7
GAME 1 GAME 1 Wednesday night game
LA DODGERS AB R H BI BB SO Avg. SEATTLE AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Crawford ss 3 1 1 0 0 1 .235 GAME 2
Betts rf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .294
Haggerty lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .276 NY YANKEES AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Seager ss 4 0 2 1 0 0 .308
Lewis cf 4 1 1 1 0 2 .357 Hicks cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .192
Turner 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .286
Seager 3b 3 1 1 1 1 1 .291 Judge rf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .292
Bellinger cf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .234 Nola dh-c 2 0 1 1 1 0 .319 Gardner lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .172
EAST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Pollock lf 3 1 2 2 1 1 .276 White 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Voit 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .300
Muncy 1b 3 1 0 0 1 2 .189 Marmolejos 1b 3 1 1 2 0 1 .125 Urshela 3b 2 0 0 0 1 1 .241
Tampa Bay 21 11 .656 — — 8-2 W2

games off
ChrisTaylor 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .255 Fraley rf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .167 Frazier lf-rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .300
New York 16 11 .593 2½ 1 5-5 L5 Pederson dh 1 1 1 1 0 0 .197 Long Jr. 2b 2 0 1 1 1 0 .173 Andújar dh 3 1 2 0 0 0 .160
Herndez ph-dh 2 0 0 0 0 2 .221 Odom c 2 0 0 0 0 1 .071
Toronto 15 14 .517 4½ 3 7-3 W1 Barnes c 3 1 2 2 0 1 .293 Gordon ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .157
Kratz c 2 0 1 0 0 1 .364
Sánchez ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .139
Baltimore 14 16 .467 6 4½ 2-8 L2 Totals 30 7 11 7 3 7 Williams p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Estrada 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .222
Boston 10 21 .323 10½ 9 4-6 L1 Altavilla p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
SAN FRAN. AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 29 7 9 7 3 8 Ford ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .163
Yastrzemski cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .294 Wade ss 1 0 0 1 0 0 .185
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Flores 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .292 SAN DIEGO AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 24 1 5 1 1 5
Grisham cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .252

in protest
Minnesota 20 12 .625 — — 6-4 L2 Longoria 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .293
Tatis Jr. ss 3 2 1 1 1 2 .302 ATLANTA AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Ruf lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .244
Chicago 19 12 .613 ½ — 9-1 W2 Solano ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 .350
Machado 3b 4 3 3 4 0 0 .295 Acuña Jr. cf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .268
Hosmer 1b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .263 Swanson ss 3 1 1 0 0 0 .319
Cleveland 19 12 .613 ½ — 7-3 W2 Belt 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .300 Cronenwrth 2b 4 1 2 0 0 2 .349 Freeman 1b 3 1 1 2 0 2 .304
Detroit 13 16 .448 5½ 5 4-6 W2 Bart dh 3 0 0 0 0 3 .200 Myers rf 4 1 1 3 0 1 .279 Ozuna dh 3 0 1 0 0 1 .283
Rickard rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Garcia dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 .265 d’Arnaud c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .324
Kansas City 12 19 .387 7½ 7 3-7 L1 Tromp c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .184 France ph-dh 2 0 0 0 0 2 .256 Markakis rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .359
Totals 25 0 4 0 0 5 Naylor lf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .290
WEST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Profar ph-lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .181
Duvall lf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .241
LA Dodgers....................100 400 2 — 7 11 0 Riley 3b 2 0 1 0 0 1 .205
Oakland 22 10 .688 — — 6-4 W2 San Francisco...............000 000 0 — 0 4 0
Torrens c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .125 Camargo 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .178
Hedges c 0 1 0 0 0 0 .163

Baseball joins movement

Houston 17 14 .548 4½ 2 6-4 L1 LOB—LA 7, San Francisco 4. 2B—Bellinger Totals 22 2 5 2 0 6
Totals 30 10 10 9 2 8
(5), Barnes (2), Flores (3), Solano (10). HR— NY Yankees...................000 010 0 — 1 5 0
Seattle 13 20 .394 9½ 7 6-4 W1 Pollock (6), off Suárez. DP—San Francisco 1.
Seattle............................000 300 4 — 7 9 0
San Diego...................... 000 102 7 — 10 10 2 Atlanta........................... 000 002 x — 2 5 0
Texas 11 19 .367 10 7½ 1-9 L2
after shooting of Blake
LA Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO ERA LOB—NY 4, Atlanta 2. 2B—Kratz (2). HR—

NL
E—Hedges (2), Tatis Jr. (1). LOB—Seattle 6,
Los Angeles 10 22 .313 12 9½ 3-7 W1 Kershaw W 4-1 6 4 0 0 0 4 1.80 San Diego 3. HR—Marmolejos (2), off Lamet, Freeman (5), off Green. SF—Wade. DP—NY 1;
Sborz 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Tatis Jr. (13), off Magill, Machado 2 (10), off Atlanta 1.
Newsome, off Magill, Myers (8), off Altavilla. NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO ERA
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO ERA SB—Haggerty (4), Seager (4), Fraley (1), Long Tanaka 5 3 0 0 0 4 3.48
assOCiatEd PrEss Webb L 2-3 3„ 4 5 5 2 4 4.35 Jr. (4). SF—Nola. DP—San Diego 1. Green L 2-1 1 2 2 2 0 2 1.98
Peralta 1‚ 3 0 0 0 1 5.93 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO ERA
in a typically awkward way, Major League Base- Suárez 2 4 2 2 1 2 5.40 Newsome 4 3 1 1 0 4 2.57 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Inherited runners-scored—Peralta 1-1. Misiewicz 1‚ 0 0 0 0 2 3.86 Fried W 5-0 6 4 1 1 1 5 1.35
ball has been pulled into america’s discussion HBP—by Webb (Pederson, Turner). WP— Magill BS 2 „ 3 2 2 0 1 6.10 Melancon S 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.80
Suárez. NP—Kershaw 86, Sborz 7, Webb 74, Williams L 0-1 „ 2 5 0 2 1 2.84
EAST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak
about racial injustice. Peralta 26, Suárez 30. Umpires—Home, Brian Altavilla 0 2 2 0 0 0 6.17
PB—d’Arnaud. NP—Tanaka 66, Green 21,
Fried 97, Melancon 13. Umpires—Home, Mike
Atlanta 18 12 .600 — — 7-3 W2 But across the sport, one theme became clear: Knight; First, Lew Williams; Second, Adam
Hamari; Third, Marvin Hudson. T—2:17. A—0
San Diego IP H R ER BB SO ERA Estabrook; First, Chad Whitson; Second,
Mark Carlson; Third, Junior Valentine.
Lamet 5 5 3 3 3 6 2.35
Miami 14 12 .538 2 — 5-5 L1 Baseball shouldn’t avoid potentially difficult con- (41,314). Hill 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.35 T—1:58. A—0 (41,184).
Stammen 0 4 4 4 0 0 7.90
Philadelphia 12 14 .462 4 2 5-5 W3 versations and decisions regarding social issues.
New York 13 16 .448 4½ 2½ 5-5 W1 dodgers 2, giants 0 Johnson W 3-1 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.97
Altavilla pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. athletics 3, rangers 1
Washington 11 17 .393 6 4 4-6 L3
though the process may be imperfect, there was GAME 2 Lamet pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. Stam-
Wednesday night game
agreement that coaches, players and teams should LA DODGERS AB R H BI BB SO Avg. men pitched to 5 batters in the 7th. Inherited
runners-scored—Altavilla 1-1, Hill 1-0, John-
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Betts rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .287 OAKLAND AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Chicago 18 12 .600 — — 5-5 L2

speak their mind. Seager ss 2 0 0 0 1 0 .302
son 2-1. HBP—by Williams (Hedges), by
Stammen (Crawford). WP—Williams 2. PB—
Semien ss 4 1 1 0 1 1 .234
Turner dh 1 0 0 0 1 0 .283 Laureano cf 3 1 0 0 2 1 .208
St. Louis 11 11 .500 3 1 5-5 L2 “this is at the forefront now,” said Oakland in- Bellinger 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .228
Nola. NP—Newsome 60, Misiewicz 19, Magill
14, Williams 29, Altavilla 5, Lamet 90, Hill 8,
Piscotty rf 5 1 2 1 0 1 .267
Canha lf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .278
Cincinnati 13 17 .433 5 3 4-6 W2 fielder Tony Kemp, who is Black. “By sitting out to- Muncy 3b
Pederson lf
2 0 0 0 1 1 .186
2 2 2 1 0 0 .218
Stammen 17, Johnson 12. Umpires—Home, Olson 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .178
Tom Woodring; First, David Arrieta; Second,
Milwaukee 13 17 .433 5 3 3-7 L2 night’s game, i feel like it’s just a small building Pollock ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Mark Ripperger; Third, Ted Barrett. T—2:49.
Davis dh 2 0 0 0 0 0 .155
Pittsburgh 9 19 .321 8 6 5-5 W2 Smith c 3 0 1 1 0 1 .195 A—0 (40,019). Grossmn ph-dh 0 0 0 1 1 0 .263
block of what we want to see. these couple days are Lux 2b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Murphy c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .209
WEST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Barreto 2b 3 0 0 0 0 3 .000
historic times in sports. One day our kids are going Hernández cf
Totals
3 0 0 0 0 1 .213
23 2 3 2 3 8
mariners 8, Padres 3 Kemp ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .246
Los Angeles 24 9 .727 — — 8-2 W2 Machín 3b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .105
San Diego 19 14 .576 5 — 8-2 L1 to look back and ask us what was going on and SAN FRAN. AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
GAME 2 Chapman 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .240
SEATTLE AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 33 3 5 2 6 11
Colorado 16 15 .516 7 ½ 3-7 W3 what did we do to help bring awareness to these is- Yastrzemski cf
Flores dh
2 0 0 0 1 0 .289
3 0 0 0 0 1 .284
Crawford ss 4 2 2 0 0 0 .244
Haggerty lf 4 2 2 1 0 1 .303 TEXAS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
San Francisco 15 18 .455 9 2½ 7-3 L2 sues in the world and we’re going to say, ‘One game Longoria 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .284 Lewis cf 2 1 0 0 2 2 .350 Choo lf 3 1 1 0 1 2 .216
Arizona 13 19 .406 10½ 4 2-8 L8 Belt 1b 3 0 2 0 0 0 .315 Seager 3b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .292
we just decided not to play.’ " Solano 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .340 Nola c 2 1 1 1 2 1 .323
Santana 1b
Trevino c
3 0 0 0 1 2 .145
4 0 1 0 0 0 .333
Dickerson lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .205 Marmolejos 1b 4 1 2 4 0 1 .167
resULTs Oakland’s game at texas was among seven post- Ruf ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .239 Lopes rf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .231
Gallo rf
Frazier 3b
3 0 0 0 1 1 .186
4 0 0 0 0 1 .240
THURSDAY poned thursday evening in response to the police Sandoval ph
Bart c
1 0 0 0 0 1 .210
2 0 0 0 1 1 .182
Bishop rf
Long Jr. dh
0 0 0 0 0 0 .167
4 1 1 1 0 1 .176
Solak 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .269
Dietrich dh 3 0 0 0 0 2 .222
Boston (ppd.) at Toronto 2d: Seattle 8 (7 inn.) at San Diego 3 shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Wisconsin Basabe pr
Crawford ss
0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0 2 .247
— Gordon 2b
Totals
3 0 0 0 0 1 .148
29 8 9 8 5 8 Kiner-Falefa ss 3 0 0 0 0 2 .260
Taveras cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .200
1st: Pitt. 4 (8 inn.) at St. Louis 3 Colorado (ppd.) at Arizona last weekend, along with Philadelphia at Washing- Rickard rf 1 0 0 0 1 1 .000 SAN DIEGO AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 30 1 3 0 3 12
Totals 23 0 2 0 3 8 Grisham cf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .252
2d: Pitt. 2 (7 inn.) at St. Louis 0 Oakland (ppd.) at Texas ton, tampa Bay at Baltimore, Minnesota at detroit, LA Dodgers....................010 100 0 — 2 3 0 Tatis Jr. ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .300
Oakland......................000 002 010 — 3 5 1
Texas..........................001 000 000 — 1 3 3
1st: LA Dodgers 7 (7 inn.) at S.F. 0 Philadelphia (ppd.) at Washington Colorado at arizona, Miami at the Mets, and the San Francisco...............000 000 0 — 0 2 0 Machado 3b
Hosmer 1b
4 1 1 1 0 0 .294
3 0 0 0 1 0 .253 E—Murphy (2), Frazier (2), Rodríguez (1),
LOB—LA Dodgers 4, San Francisco 5. 2B— Solak (2). LOB—Oakland 10, Texas 5. 2B—So-
2d: LA Dodgers 2 (7 inn.) at S.F. 0 Baltimore (ppd.) at Tampa Bay red sox and Blue Jays in Buffalo. six teams played Pederson (3), Smith (2). HR—Pederson (5), Myers rf
Cronenwrth 2b
2 0 0 0 1 1 .274
3 1 2 0 0 1 .360 lak (6). SB—Choo (4), Santana (2). DP—Texas
off Gausman. DP—San Francisco 1.
1st: Cin. 6 (7 inn.) at Milwaukee 1 Miami (ppd.) at NY Mets doubleheaders after opting not to play on Wednes- LA Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO ERA
France dh
Profar lf
3 0 2 0 0 1 .283
2 0 1 1 0 0 .188
1.
Oakland IP H R ER BB SO ERA
2d: Cin. 6 (7 inn.) at Milwaukee 0 Minnesota (ppd.) at Detroit day night. Ferguson 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.66
González W 2-0 2‚ 0 0 0 0 3 1.23
Naylor ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .281 Fiers W 4-1 6 3 1 0 2 7 4.86
Hedges c 1 0 0 0 0 1 .160 Soria 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.23
1st: At S.D. 10 (7 inn.) Seattle 7 some games were officially postponed a few Graterol 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.09 Mateo ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .125 Diekman 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
WEDNESDAY McGee „ 0 0 0 0 1 0.79 Torrens c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .125 Hendriks S 10 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.10
hours before the first pitch. Others appeared to be Alexander ‚ 0 0 0 2 0 1.74 Garcia ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .265
Treinen „ 0 0 0 0 1 1.32 Totals 28 3 9 3 3 7 Texas IP H R ER BB SO ERA
At Toronto 9 Boston 1 At NY Mets 5 Miami 4 on schedule until they weren’t. Jansen S 8 1 1 0 0 1 3 1.32 Seattle............................600 000 2 — 8 9 0 Allard L 0-3 5‚ 1 2 2 4 5 6.50
1st: At Atlanta 5 (7 inn.) Yankees 1 At Cleveland 6 Minnesota 3 On thursday afternoon, video of New york gen- San Diego...................... 110 010 0 — 3 9 0 LGarcía „ 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO ERA LOB—Seattle 6, San Diego 7. 2B—Haggerty Rodríguez 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.04
2d: At Atlanta 2 (7 inn.) Yankees 1 Oakland 3 at Texas 1 eral manager Brodie Van Wagenen speaking in ap- Gausman L 1-2 4„ 3 2 2 2 6 4.54 (3), Seager (9), Marmolejos (1), France (3), Hernández 0 3 1 1 0 0 2.08
Selman „ 0 0 0 1 1 2.45 Mateo (1). HR—Marmolejos (3), off Richards, Goody 1 0 0 0 0 3 3.60
LA Angels (ppd.) at Houston Cincinnati (ppd.) at Milwaukee
parent confidence appeared in a since-removed clip Gott
Coonrod
„ 0 0 0 0 0 12.46
1 0 0 0 0 1 5.06
Long Jr. (2), off Richards, Machado (11), off
Kikuchi. SB—Crawford (5), Profar (3). SF—
Cody 1 1 0 0 1 0 0.00
At Chi. White Sox 10 Pittsburgh 3 At St. Louis 6 Kansas City 5 Hernández pitched to 4 batters in the 8th.
on MLB.com. Van Wagenen laid out a proposal he Inherited runners-scored—McGee 1-0, Seager. DP—Seattle 2.
Inherited runners-scored—LGarcía 3-1,
Philadelphia 3 at Washington 2 Seattle (ppd.) at San Diego Treinen 2-0, Gott 2-0. HBP—by Selman (Turn- Seattle IP H R ER BB SO ERA
believed came from MLB commissioner rob man- er). NP—Ferguson 15, González 23, Graterol Kikuchi W 1-2 5 7 3 3 0 6 6.12
Goody 3-0. IBB—off LGarcía (Grossman).
HBP—by Hernández (Grossman). WP—LGar-
At Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore 3 Colorado 8 at Arizona 7 Fletcher ‚ 1 0 0 2 1 0.00
fred in which both teams would take the field at the 12, McGee 7, Alexander 12, Treinen 13, Jans-
en 22, Gausman 93, Selman 15, Gott 3, Coon- Gerber „ 0 0 0 0 0 4.15
cía. NP—Fiers 91, Soria 15, Diekman 20, Hen-
driks 10, Allard 91, LGarcía 8, Rodríguez 25,
At Detroit 7 Chi. Cubs 6 LA Dodgers (ppd.) at San Francisco Hirano 1 1 0 0 1 0 0.00
scheduled 7:10 start time, “then they leave the field rod 11. Umpires—Home, Mike Muchlinski;
First, Adam Hamari; Second, Marvin Hudson;
Hernández 13, Goody 15, Cody 10. Umpires—
Home, John Libka; First, Adrian Johnson; Sec-
San Diego IP H R ER BB SO ERA
and then they come back and play at 8:10.” Third, Lew Williams. T—2:30. A—0 (41,314). Richards L 1-2 „ 4 6 6 2 0 5.17 ond, Lance Barrett; Third, Gabe Morales.
Perdomo 3‚ 1 0 0 0 6 5.65 T—3:08. A—0 (40,300).
“that’s rob’s instinct. and rob — exactly what reds 6, brewers 1 Patiño 1 0 0 0 2 0 4.76
Bednar 2 4 2 2 1 2 7.11
you and i were talking about — at leadership level, GAME 1 Inherited runners-scored—Gerber 3-0.
cardinals 6, royals 5
he doesn’t get it,” Van Wagenen told someone off CINCINNATI AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
WP—Richards, Patiño. NP—Kikuchi 81,
Fletcher 19, Gerber 1, Hirano 16, Richards 33, Wednesday night game
Akiyama cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .203
screen. “He just doesn’t get it.” Castellanos rf 3 2 3 2 0 0 .267
Perdomo 41, Patiño 17, Bednar 46. Umpires—
Home, Nick Mahrley; First, Mark Ripperger;
KANSAS CITY AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Merrifield cf-rf 5 0 3 2 0 0 .301
the teams did take the field in New york, but Winker dh
Suárez 3b
3 2 3 3 1 0 .325
3 0 1 0 1 0 .163
Second, Ted Barrett; Third, David Arrieta.
T—2:39. A—0 (40,019).
Dozier rf-1b 4 0 0 0 1 2 .240
Soler dh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .245
observed 42 seconds of silence (in honor of Jackie Moustakas 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .205 O'Hearn 1b 2 0 0 0 2 0 .239
Galvis 2b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .222
robinson, an idea credited to Miami’s miguel ro- Payton lf 2 0 1 0 0 1 .286 Pirates 4, cardinals 3 Starling cf
Franco 3b
0
4
0
0
0 0 0 0 .174
0 0 0 0 .239
Ervin ph-lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .086
jas) and departed, leaving a “Black Lives Matter” Garcia ss 2 1 1 0 1 1 .500 PITTSBURGH
GAME 1
AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Gordon lf
Mondesi ss
4
4
0
1
0 0 0 1 .172
1 0 0 1 .214
shirt over home plate. Van Wagenen released a Casali c
Totals
2 0 1 1 1 1 .190
28 6 12 6 5 4
González ss-3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .263 Lopez 2b 3 2 1 0 1 0 .217
Tucker cf-rf 4 2 1 1 0 0 .255 Gallagher c 2 1 1 2 0 1 .318
statement apologizing to Manfred, explaining he’d MILWAUKEE AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Newman 2b-ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .268 McBroom ph 1 1 1 1 0 0 .302
Bell dh 2 1 0 0 2 1 .186 Viloria c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250
later clarified the suggestion came from Mets COO AGarcía cf
Yelich lf
4 0 1 0 0 0 .229
3 0 0 0 1 1 .194
Reynolds lf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .207 Totals 33 5 7 5 5 6
Stallings c 4 0 2 1 0 0 .328
Jeff Wilpon. Hiura dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .243 Polanco rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .127 ST. LOUIS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Smoak 1b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .202 Frazier 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .186 Wong 2b 4 1 1 1 2 1 .242
Manfred said in his own statement that any sug- Gamel rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .197 Osuna 3b-1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .132 Edman rf-3b 5 0 1 0 0 3 .232
Narváez c 3 1 1 1 0 0 .175 Craig 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .000
gestion he has tried to prevent or shape social injus- Arcia ss 2 0 2 0 1 0 .271 Dyson pr-cf 0 1 0 0 0 0 .157
Goldschmidt 1b 2 1 0 1 2 0 .333
BMiller dh 5 1 1 0 0 3 .333
tice protests is “wrong.” Jeff and brother Fred Wil- Peterson 2b
Gyorko ph
2 0 1 0 0 1 .250
0 0 0 0 1 0 .219
Totals 32 4 6 3 2 4 DeJong ss 4 1 1 0 1 0 .281
ST. LOUIS AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Carpenter 3b 1 1 0 0 1 1 .211
pon made statements as well, both praising Man- Urías pr-3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .268 Wong 2b 3 0 0 1 0 0 .231 Bader pr-cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .243
Sogard 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .176 Edman ss 4 0 2 0 0 0 .247 Schrock ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250
fred and incorrectly spelling Van Wagenen’s first Braun ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .204 Goldschmidt dh 3 0 1 1 1 0 .333 Molina c 4 1 2 1 0 0 .298
Mathias 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Bader pr-dh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .243 O'Neill lf 4 0 2 2 1 2 .179
name as “Brody.” Totals 28 1 7 1 3 7 BrMiller 3b 2 0 0 0 2 1 .317 Carlson cf-rf 4 0 1 1 1 3 .180
“We’re in this together — this fight for equality Cincinnati.......................012 021 0 — 6 12 0 O'Neill lf
Schrock ph
3 0 1 0 0 1 .186
1 0 0 0 0 1 .231
Totals 34 6 9 6 8 14
Milwaukee.....................000 001 0 — 1 7 0 Kansas City...............002 000 012 — 5 7 1
and social justice,” Phillies manager Joe girardi LOB—Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 9. 2B—Cas-
Molina c
Carpenter 1b
3 1 1 1 0 0 .300
3 0 0 0 0 0 .200 St. Louis.....................001 100 004 — 6 9 1
tellanos (7). HR—Castellanos (10), off Hous-
said. “in this world, i’ve always believed, there’s two er, Winker 2 (8), off Houser, off Claudio,
Fowler rf
Carlson cf
2 1 1 0 1 0 .269
3 1 1 0 0 0 .189
E—Gallagher (1), Molina (1). LOB—Kansas
City 6, St. Louis 14. 2B—Merrifield 2 (8), BMill-
Narváez (2), off Jones. SB—Payton (1), Garcia
things you can’t live without. it has nothing to do (1). SF—Castellanos. DP—Milwaukee 4.
Totals 27 3 7 3 4 3 er (3), Carlson (2). HR—Gallagher (1), off
Hudson, McBroom (4), off Cabrera. SB—
Pittsburgh....................000 100 03 — 4 6 0
with food and water. it’s love and hope. and i don’t Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO ERA St. Louis.......................000 010 02 — 3 7 3 Mondesi (8), Edman (1). SF—Goldschmidt.
DP—St. Louis 1.
grEgOry BuLL/assOCiatEd PrEss Gray W 5-1 5 4 0 0 2 4 1.94 E—BrMiller 2 (4), Wong (1). LOB—Pitts-
think we’re doing a good job in our country giving Jones „ 2 1 1 0 1 6.75 burgh 7, St. Louis 6. HR—Molina (1), off Kuhl. Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Biddle „ 1 0 0 1 1 0.00 CS—Fowler (1). SF—Wong. DP—Pittsburgh 2; Junis 3„ 4 2 2 1 6 4.26
HERO’S WELCOME — San Diego’s Wil Myers that to everyone.” RoStephenson „ 0 0 0 0 1 9.00 St. Louis 1. Newberry ‚ 0 0 0 0 0 1.80
celebrates with teammates after hitting a a statement from the Players alliance, which Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Pittsburgh
Kuhl
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
6 4 1 1 4 1 2.52
Holland
Kennedy
1 0 0 0 0 0 3.38
1 2 0 0 0 2 7.24
Houser L 1-3 4 9 4 4 1 3 4.36
three-run, walkoff home run that capped a consists of more than 100 current and former Black Claudio 1 2 1 1 1 1 5.59
Stratton W 2-0
Rodríguez S 2
1 0 0 0 0 0 4.20
1 3 2 1 0 2 3.55
Barlow 1 0 0 0 1 2 1.50
Staumont ‚ 1 0 0 2 0 0.71
seven-run rally, giving the Padres a 10-7 win players, said current players will donate their sala- Feyereisen 2 1 1 1 3 0 6.00
St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO ERA Rosenthal 1‚ 1 3 3 2 4 3.29
Houser pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. Inher- Rosario L 0-1 0 1 1 1 2 0 5.40
against the visiting Seattle Mariners. ries from thursday and Friday in “supporting our ited runners-scored—Biddle 1-0, RoStephen-
Kim
Gallegos
6 3 1 0 1 3 1.08
1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
son 1-0, Claudio 1-1. NP—Gray 85, Jones 26, St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO ERA
efforts to combat racial inequality and aid the Black Biddle 20, RoStephenson 16, Houser 82, Clau-
Gant L 0-2
Webb
„ 2 3 1 1 1 1.93
‚ 0 0 0 0 0 4.50
Hudson 6 3 2 2 3 3 3.32
Friday’s games families and communities deeply affected in the dio 29, Feyereisen 30. Umpires—Home, D.J.
Inherited runners-scored—Webb 2-0.
Cabrera 1 2 1 1 0 1 4.91
Reyburn; First, Tim Timmons; Second, Ryan Reyes W 1-0 2 2 2 2 2 2 5.68
.......2020....... Team ......2019 vs. opp...... ......Last 3 starts...... W P— G a n t . N P — K u h l 8 1 , S t r a t t o n 1 3 ,
Odds W-L ERA rec. W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA wake of recent events.” Baseball will celebrate Jack- Blakney; Third, Shane Livensparger. T—2:51.
A—0 (41,700).
Rodríguez 26, Kim 80, Gallegos 19, Gant 26, Rosario pitched to 4 batters in the 9th.
Webb 1. Umpires—Home, Jordan Baker; First, G.Cabrera pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. In-
WASHINGTON AT BOSTON, 7:30 p.m. ie robinson day on Friday. Jerry Meals; Second, Jeremie Rehak; Third, herited runners-scored—Newberry 1-0,
reds 6, brewers 0 Ed Hickox. T—2:48. A—0 (44,383). Rosenthal 3-0, Rosario 3-3, Reyes 1-0. IBB—
off Hudson (O'Hearn), off Reyes (O'Hearn).
Sánchez (R)
Pérez (L)
Off
Off
1-3
2-3
6.48
3.45
1-4
2-4
0-0
0-1
0.0
5.0
0.00
9.00
1-1
0-2
14.2
15.2
5.52
3.45 dodgers sweep rival giants GAME 2
Pirates 2, cardinals 0
HBP—by Junis (Carpenter 2), by Rosario (Mo-
lina). WP—Junis, Rosario. PB—Molina. NP—
CINCINNATI AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Junis 69, Newberry 6, Holland 11, Kennedy 16,
NY METS AT NY YANKEES, 4:05 p.m.
Clayton Kershaw pitched six scoreless innings, Akiyama cf 3 1 0 0 1 2 .195 GAME 2 Barlow 22, Staumont 18, Rosenthal 34, Rosa-
Castellanos rf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .266 PITTSBURGH AB R H BI BB SO Avg. rio 19, Hudson 83, Cabrera 22, Reyes 29. Um-
TBA
TBA
Off
Off
—
—
—
—
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
leading the Los angeles dodgers past the san Fran- Winker dh 4 1 2 1 0 1 .333 González ss 4 0 1 1 0 1 .263 pires—Home, Ed Hickox; First, Jordan Baker;
Frazier 2b 4 0 2 1 0 0 .198
NY YANKEES AT NY METS, 7:05 p.m.
cisco giants, 7-0, in game 1 of a doubleheader Suárez 3b
Moustakas 1b
4 1 1 2 0 2
3 1 2 0 1 1
.167
.234 Reynolds lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .200
Second, Jerry Meals; Third, Jeremie Rehak.
T—3:37. A—0 (44,383).
Bell 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .190
TBA Off — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00
shutout sweep a day after he spoke out in support Galvis 2b 3 1 0 0 0 1 .214
Polanco dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 .121
Payton lf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .200
TBA Off — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00 of his Black teammates as the clubs decided not to Farmer ss 4 0 2 1 0 1 .293
Tucker cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .241 rockies 8, diamondbacks 7
Osuna rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .146
Barnhart c 2 0 1 1 1 0 .188
BALTIMORE AT TORONTO, 6:37 p.m. play in protest of racial injustice. Totals 30 6 9 6 4 10
Riddle 3b
Murphy c
2 1 0 0 1 0 .138
2 1 1 0 1 1 .192
Wednesday night game
COLORADO AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Cobb (R)
TBA
Off
Off
1-2
—
3.73
—
4-2
0-0
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
0-1
0-0
17.0
0.0
4.76
0.00
“For guys to stand together and not play a major MILWAUKEE AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 27 2 6 2 2 3
Hampson cf 4 2 2 1 1 1 .259
Braun rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .193 ST. LOUIS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
ATLANTA AT PHILADELPHIA, 7:05 p.m.
league baseball game is a big deal,” dodgers manag- Yelich dh 2 0 0 0 1 0 .190 Edman 3b 2 0 1 0 1 1 .253
Story ss
Arenado 3b
2
4
1 1 0 3 1
1 2 2 1 1
.306
.241
er dave roberts said before the first game of two Hiura 2b
Gyorko 1b
3 0 0 0 0 0 .237
2 0 0 0 0 1 .206
DeJong ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .257
Goldschmidt 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .333
Blackmon rf 4 1 1 4 1 2 .390
Erlin (L) Off 0-0 5.14 2-0 0-0 1.0 0.00 0-0 8.0 2.25 Fuentes 1b 5 0 1 0 0 2 .273
Wheeler (R) Off 3-0 2.76 3-2 1-2 23.0 6.26 1-0 19.2 3.20 seven-inning contests. Smoak ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .200 BrMiller dh
O'Neill lf
3 0 1 0 0 0 .318
2 0 0 0 1 0 .180
EDíaz dh 3 0 0 0 2 1 .211
AGarcía cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Rodgers 2b 5 0 1 0 0 2 .100
CHICAGO CUBS AT CINCINNATI, 7:10 p.m. Joc Pederson homered and Will smith added an Piña c 0 0 0 0 1 0 .231 Molina c
Carlson rf
3 0 1 0 0 0 .302
3 0 1 0 0 1 .196 Hilliard lf 5 2 2 1 0 2 .241
Narváez pr-c 2 0 0 0 0 1 .169
Hendricks (R) Off 3-3 3.55 3-3 1-1 22.2 5.16 1-2 17.2 3.57 rBi double as the dodgers won the nightcap, 2-0. Mathias lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .292
Schrock 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Butera c
Totals
5
37
1 1 0 0 2
8 11 8 8 14
.185
DeSclafani (R) Off 1-1 5.71 3-1 1-0 15.1 4.11 1-1 12.1 8.03 Fowler ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .264
mookie Betts became the fourth-fastest among Urías 3b
Arcia ss
1 0 1 0 1 0 .286
2 0 0 0 0 1 .264
Bader cf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .231 ARIZONA AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
MINNESOTA AT DETROIT, 7:10 p.m. Totals 24 0 5 0 2 3
active players to reach 1,000 hits in his 824th game Totals 22 0 1 0 3 6
Pittsburgh......................002 000 0 — 2 6 0
Calhoun rf
KetMarte 2b
4 1 1 0 1 1 .224
5 1 0 1 0 0 .310
TBA Off — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 0.00 Cincinnati.......................020 020 2 — 6 9 0 St. Louis.........................000 000 0 — 0 5 0
Skubal (L) Off 0-1 10.38 1-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 4.1 10.38 with his sixth-inning single in the opener. Before Milwaukee.....................000 000 0 — 0 1 0 LOB—Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 5. 2B—Gold-
StaMarte cf 4 3 2 1 0 1 .318
Peralta lf 4 0 2 1 1 0 .302
TAMPA BAY AT MIAMI, 7:10 p.m. the game, La put 2019 all-star righthander Walker LOB—Cincinnati 8, Milwaukee 4. 2B—Cas-
tellanos (8), Winker (5), Farmer (3). HR—
schmidt (3), Carlson (3). 3B—BrMiller (1).
HR—. DP—Pittsburgh 2. Locastro pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .238
Walker dh 4 0 3 4 0 0 .310
Fleming (L) Off 1-0 3.60 1-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 5.0 3.60 Buehler on the injured list with a blister. Suárez (6), off Grimm. SB—Urías (1). Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Varsho pr-dh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .167
Mejía (R) Off 0-2 5.40 1-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 10.0 5.40 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO ERA Ponce W 1-1 5„ 5 0 0 2 2 2.00
Hartlieb ‚ 0 0 0 0 0 2.92 Escobar 3b 3 0 0 0 2 0 .189
LA DODGERS AT TEXAS, 8:05 p.m. rHP Walker traded to Blue Jays Miley
Sims W 2-0
4 1 0 0 1 3 6.57
2 0 0 0 2 2 0.69 Turley S 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.18 Ahmed ss
Vogt c
5 1 1 0 0 2 .255
2 1 0 0 2 1 .145
Iglesias 1 0 0 0 0 1 6.00 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO ERA Lamb 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .105
May (R) Off 1-1 2.79 5-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 15.1 2.93
Minor (L) Off 0-5 6.75 1-5 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 13.2 6.59 about three hours before right-hander Taijuan Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Oviedo L 0-1
Gomber
5 4 2 2 2 1 3.60
2 2 0 0 0 2 0.00
Totals 35 7 9 7 6 6
Colorado....................200 001 050 — 8 11 0
KANSAS CITY AT CHICAGO WHITE SOX, 8:10 p.m. Walker was scheduled to start the first game of a Lindblom L 1-2
Peralta
4
1
3
2
2 2 1 4 6.31
2 2 2 2 4.32
Inherited runners-scored—Hartlieb 1-0.
Arizona.......................000 100 024 — 7 9 0
WP—Oviedo. NP—Ponce 77, Hartlieb 3, Tur-
Duffy (L) Off 2-2 3.99 3-3 1-0 6.0 3.00 2-0 14.0 3.86 doubleheader against san diego, seattle an- Yardley 1 1 0 0 1 2 2.31 ley 11, Oviedo 82, Gomber 20. Umpires— LOB—Colorado 10, Arizona 9. 2B—Arenado
López (R) Off 0-1 13.50 1-1 2-2 26.1 5.81 0-1 4.0 13.50 Grimm 1 3 2 2 0 2 17.36 Home, Jerry Meals; First, Jeremie Rehak; Sec- (6), Rodgers (1), Calhoun (6), Walker (13).
nounced his trade to the Blue Jays for a player or HBP—by Lindblom (Galvis). Balk—Miley. ond, Ed Hickox; Third, Paul Clemons. T—2:02. 3B—StaMarte (1). HR—Blackmon (4), off
PITTSBURGH AT MILWAUKEE, 8:10 p.m. A—0 (44,383). Smith, Hilliard (4), off Grace. SB—Story (8),
cash. Walker was 2-2 with a 4.00 Era in five starts NP—Miley 64, Sims 42, Iglesias 14, Lindblom
75, Peralta 34, Yardley 18, Grimm 23. Um-
Fuentes (1), Hilliard (3), Varsho (1). SF—
Holland (L) Off 1-1 6.17 2-2 0-0 7.2 1.17 1-1 15.2 8.04 Walker.
Burnes (R) Off 0-0 3.42 1-2 0-0 6.1 5.68 0-0 13.2 3.29 this season. His career was interrupted by tommy pires—Home, John Bacon; First, Ryan
Blakney; Second, Shane Livensparger; Third,
al leaders Colorado IP H R ER BB SO ERA
CLEVELAND AT ST. LOUIS, 8:15 p.m. John surgery in 2018 . . . rookie José marmolejos Tim Timmons. T—2:33. A—0 (41,700). Through Wednesday’s games Gray W 2-3
Almonte
6 3 1 1 3 5 5.45
1‚ 2 2 2 0 0 4.02
BATTING
McKenzie (R) Off 1-0 1.50 1-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 6.0 1.50 hit his first grand slam and shed Long Jr. also con- this date in history AB R H Avg. Kinley „ 2 2 2 1 0 7.15
Lewis, Sea ....................... 111 25 40 .360 JDíaz „ 2 2 2 1 0 3.86
Ponce de Leon
(R)
Off 0-2 5.25 1-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 11.2 5.40 nected in the six-run first inning that carried the Severino, Bal..................... 81 8 27 .333 Hoffman S 1 ‚ 0 0 0 1 1 5.11
1926: Emil Levsen of the Indians pitched two Fletcher, LAA .................. 134 22 43 .321
SAN DIEGO AT COLORADO, 8:40 p.m.
seattle Mariners to an 8-3 victory against san diego complete-game victories over Red Sox, 6-1 Abreu, CWS..................... 125 23 40 .320 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO ERA
and 5-1. He did not strike out a batter in ei- Rendon, LAA ..................... 98 17 31 .316 Ray L 1-4 4 2 2 2 6 8 7.84
Davies (R) Off 4-2 3.03 4-2 1-0 10.1 0.87 2-1 20.0 3.15
and a split of a doubleheader in which manny ther game. The Indians used the identical Cruz, Min......................... 111 23 35 .315 López 1„ 2 1 1 1 3 6.00
lineup in both games. Ginkel 1‚ 2 0 0 1 2 7.84
Senzatela (R) Off 3-1 3.96 3-3 2-0 13.1 2.70 0-1 19.1 5.12 machado had three home runs. in the first game, 1971: In the nightcap of a doubleheader, Phil-
Jiménez, CWS................. 111 15 35
Alberto, Bal ..................... 122 22 38
.315
.311 Grace 0 3 3 3 0 0 54.00
lies pitcher Rick Wise hit two home runs to
OAKLAND AT HOUSTON, 9:10 p.m. Wil myers hit a game-ending three-run homer to help himself to a 7-3 victory over the Giants.
Grichuk, Tor.................... 101 17 31
Merrifield, KC ................. 123 20 37
.307
.301
Smith 2 2 2 2 0 1 9.00
Kinley pitched to 2 batters in the 9th. Ray
Montas (R)
Greinke (R)
Off
Off
2-2
1-0
5.22
2.29
4-2
2-4
1-1
2-0
11.1
13.0
2.38
0.69
1-1
1-0
13.1
20.1
8.78
1.77
cap a seven-run rally with two outs in the seventh 1977: Steve Garvey of Los Angeles hit three
doubles and two home runs in five at-bats,
Schoop, Det..................... 110 17 33
Voit, NYY ........................... 80 17 24
.300
.300
pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. Grace pitched
to 3 batters in the 8th. Inherited runners-
SAN FRANCISCO AT ARIZONA, 9:40 p.m.
inning and give the Padres a 10-7 win . . . erik gon- leading the Dodgers to an 11-0 victory over Díaz, TB............................ 101 13 30 .297 scored—Kinley 1-1, JDíaz 2-2, Hoffman 2-0,
the St. Louis Cardinals. Lowe, TB.......................... 108 26 32 .296 López 1-0, Ginkel 1-0, Smith 2-2. IBB—off
Anderson (L) Off 1-1 3.45 2-3 0-1 4.0 13.50 1-0 19.0 4.26
zalez and adam Frazier singled in runs, rookie 1977: In a 6-1 loss to the Orioles, Nolan Ryan Gurriel, Hou..................... 115 21 34 .296 Hoffman (Escobar), off López (Blackmon).
of the Angles struck out 11 batters to pass Hernández, Tor .............. 109 19 32 .294 HBP—by JDíaz (StaMarte). Balk—López.
Weaver (R) Off 1-4 7.77 2-4 1-0 5.0 1.80 1-1 14.0 4.50 Cody Ponce earned his first big league victory, and the 300-strikeout plateau for the fifth time in Verdugo, Bos .................. 103 18 30 .291 WP—Ray. NP—Gray 96, Almonte 20, Kinley
his career. Reyes, Cle........................ 110 16 32 .291
SEATTLE AT LA ANGELS, 9:40 p.m. the Pittsburgh Pirates beat st. Louis, 2-0, for a 1990: Ryne Sandberg became the first sec- Seager, Sea..................... 107 17 31 .290
15, JDíaz 19, Hoffman 6, Ray 99, López 32, Gin-
kel 24, Grace 3, Smith 28. Umpires—Home,
Correa, Hou..................... 111 13 32 .288
Margevicius (L) Off 1-1 4.12 1-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 14.2 3.68 sweep. Cole Tucker drove in the go-ahead run in ex- ond baseman in history to have consecutive
30-homer seasons, leading the Cubs to a 5-2
Doug Eddings; First, Bill Miller; Second, Ed-
win Moscoso; Third, Rob Drake. T—3:43. A—0
Canning (R) Off 0-3 4.88 3-3 0-0 5.0 3.60 0-1 13.1 6.75
Team rec. — Record in games started by pitcher this season. tra innings in the Pirates’ 4-3 win in the opener. victory over the Astros. (48,405).
c4 sports
nhl playoffs
eastern conference
At Scotiabank Arena, Toronto
philadelphia vs. nY islanders
Series tied at 1
Monday, Aug. 24
NY Islanders 4........ Philadelphia 0
Wednesday, Aug. 26
Philadelphia 4...NY Islanders 3 (OT)
Thursday, Aug. 27
Philadelphia....... NY Islanders ppd.
Schedule
Sat., Aug. 29..............................12
Mon., Aug. 31.......................... TBA
Wed., Sep. 2.............................TBA
*Thu., Sep. 3.............................TBA
Western conference
At Rogers Place, Edmonton
vegas vs. vancouver
Series tied at 1
Sunday, Aug. 23
Vegas 5.......................Vancouver 0
Tuesday, Aug. 25
Vancouver 5...................... Vegas 2
Thursday, Aug. 27
Vegas.................... Vancouver ppd.
Schedule
Sat., Aug. 29.................................8
Mon., Aug. 31.......................... TBA
Tue., Sep. 1...............................TBA
*Thu., Sep. 3.............................TBA
colorado vs. dallas
Stars lead series, 2-1
Saturday, Aug. 22
Dallas 5........................ Colorado 3
Monday, Aug. 24
Dallas 5........................ Colorado 2
Wednesday, Aug. 26
Colorado 6........................ Dallas 4
Schedule
Fri., Aug. 28..............................ppd.
Sun., Aug. 30............................TBA
*Mon., Aug. 31........................ TBA
*Wed., Sep. 2........................... TBA
* If necessary
avalanche 6, stars 4
Wednesday night game
Colorado ................................ 0 3 3 — 6
Dallas...................................... 1 0 3 — 4
First period — 1. Dallas, Seguin 2 (Benn, Heis-
kanen), 11:12. Penalties — Benn, Dal (tripping),
6:17. Hintz, Dal (embellishment), 12:17. Connau-
ton, Col (interference), 12:17.
Second period — 2. Colorado, Zadorov 2
(Kadri), 1:00. 3. Colorado, Burakovsky 4 (Makar,
Zadorov), 4:41. 4. Colorado, Landeskog 2 (Makar,
MacKinnon), 11:00. Penalties — Connauton, Col
(hooking), 1:43. Cole, Col (roughing), 10:31. Olek-
siak, Dal (roughing), 10:31. Fedun, Dal (interfer-
ence), 14:11. Janmark, Dal (hi stick), 17:09.
Namestnikov, Col (roughing), 20:00.
Third period — 5. Dallas, Gurianov 7 (Hintz, Per-
ry), 4:42. 6. Dallas, Comeau 2, 9:02. 7. Dallas, Benn
3 (Lindell), 10:47. 8. Colorado, Rantanen 5 (MacK-
innon), 12:02. 9. Colorado, Kadri 7 (Connauton,
Makar), 13:54. 10. Colorado, Bellemare 1 (Rant-
anen, Cole), 18:26 (en). Penalties — Landeskog,
Col (roughing), 2:36.
Shots on goal — Colorado 12-13-7 — 32. Dallas
10-11-16 — 37.
Power plays — Colorado 0-3; Dallas 0-3.
Goalies — Colorado, Francouz 2-3-0 (37 shots-
33 saves). Dallas, Khudobin 6-4-0 (31 shots-26
saves).
Referees — Brad Meier, Francois St.Laurent.
Linesmen — Brad Kovachik, Mark Shewchyk.
T — 2:40.
They hope extra time off will help
By Matt Porter
globe staff
the bruins will have two ex-
tra days to assess what went
wrong in game 3.
such as the
bruins penalty kill,
notebook which gave the
lightning six
chances and allowed three
goals.
tampa bay coach Jon coo-
per, his power play stick in an
0-for-15 rut this postseason,
moved nikita kucherov to the
left circle, the space formerly
occupied by the injured steven
stamkos. instead of a one-tim-
er threat in the right circle, the
left-shooting kucherov now
quarterbacks the formation
from his strong side.
the move worked.
kucherov, the 2019 leading
scorer (128 points) and Hart
trophy winner, assisted on all
three power-play goals in the
lightning’s 7-1 beatdown of
the bruins, while drawing the
ire of bruins such as charlie
Mcavoy with his chippy game.
after watching the tape,
bruins coach bruce cassidy felt
his team had good structure to
stop ondrej Palat’s one-timer
in the first period, which de-
flected off Zdeno chara’s stick.
on the other two power-play
strikes, cassidy found issues in
pressure and positioning.
tampa’s power play features
four left sticks — kucherov on
the left wall, Palat on the oppo-
site side, Mikhail sergachev up
top, alex killorn in front of the
net — and righty brayden Point
in the high slot. overplaying
the most dangerous player,
kucherov, is a risk.
on the second PPg they al-
lowed, the bruins collapsed to
close off kucherov’s cross-ice
and slot options. that left ser-
gachev plenty of room to roam.
kucherov found his defense-
man out high, who launched a
one-time missile past Jaroslav
Halak.
the bruins were guilty of
chasing kucherov on the third
PPg. employing a move con-
nor McDavid often uses on ed-
monton’s dangerous man-up,
kucherov circled out of the
zone and accepted a pass as he
was flying back into the zone.
kucherov’s cross-seam pass to
Palat created a rebound goal for
The Avalanche celebrated a go-ahead goal to beat the Stars in Game 3 Wednesday night.
Avalanche back in series
associated Press
nazem kadri scored the go-
ahead goal with 6:06 remain-
ing in a wild third period as the
colorado ava-
nHL lanche re-
notebook grouped to
beat the dallas
stars, 6-4, in game 3 of their
nHl Western conference semi-
final series Wednesday night in
edmonton, alberta.
dallas has a 2-1 advantage
in the second-round series.
game 4 will be friday.
leading 3-1 in the third,
colorado saw the stars rally for
three straight goals, including
one that caromed into the net
off the leg of Jamie benn to put
dallas up.
Mikko rantanen and kadri
responded with goals 1:52
apart to give the avalanche
back a 5-4 advantage. kadri
tipped in the winner off a pass
from kevin connauton.
Pierre-edouard bellemare
added a late empty-netter for
his first playoff goal to seal the
win.
“it’s a character win,” kadri
said. “it would’ve been easy for
us to get down on ourselves.
We’re pretty comfortable play-
Sean Kuraly, delivering a hard check to Tampa’s Zach
Bogosian, absorbed the worst of it Wednesday in Game 3.
Bruins schedule
Lightning lead series, 2-1
At Scotiabank Arena, Toronto
Sunday, Aug. 23
Boston 3........................ Tampa Bay 2
Tuesday, Aug. 25
Tampa Bay 4................Boston 3 (OT)
Wednesday, Aug. 26
Tampa Bay 7........................ Boston 1
Schedule
Fri., Aug. 28................................(ppd.)
+Sun., Aug. 30...............8 p.m. (NBC)
*Tue., Sep. 1..................................TBA
*Wed., Sep. 2.................................TBA
*Game 7.....................Date, time TBA
* If necessary; + — likely date
killorn.
“He does a good job. He’s a
good player, power play, five on
five, so he’s going to make
plays,” cassidy said of
kucherov. “so where we proba-
bly didn’t do a good enough job
is dictating where the shots
come from.
“maybe you’ve got to throw
some different looks at them
and pressure them if they’re
having success. at the end of
the day we gave up too much
five on five and on the [penalty
kill], took too many penalties,
which is uncharacteristic of us.
it happens, they took advan-
tage of it, so, like i said, we’ll
look at it and certainly do
some things better the next
game.
“our penalty kill has been
good all year, been good in the
playoffs. chalk that one up to
T h e B o s t o n
ing in every situation. obvious-
ly, blowing the lead, it wasn’t
our best. but this is a game that
could definitely give us some
moment and hopefully change
the series.”
before the game, there was
talk about whether the nHl
should take the ice after the
nba and other professional
sports leagues postponed
games to protest racial injustice
in the wake of the shooting on
sunday of Jacob blake, a 29-
year-old black man, by white
police officers in kenosha,
Wisc.
“We support and applaud
the nba,” kadri said. “i under-
stand this is a problem that’s
gone on for far too long . . .
eventually words get stale. it’s
about action and making a dif-
ference.”
the nHl, after a dialogue
with the Hockey diversity alli-
ance, opted to postpone playoff
games on thursday and friday
until saturday after players
from all eight remaining teams
decided not to play in those
games.
“i support what’s going on, i
support the movement,” said
tyler seguin, who had a first-
elsa/getty images
their power play just being bet-
ter than our kill and we’ll ad-
just.”
if the lightning get stamkos
back in action — no word on
that front — the bolts could be
even more dangerous. the bru-
ins already have their hands
full.
kuraly banged up
the bruins were missing a
valuable penalty-killing for-
ward. cassidy said fourth-line
center sean kuraly was “deal-
ing with an injury” and wasn’t
able to play in game 3. He
didn’t say whether kuraly
would be back in the lineup for
game 4, which is expected to
be sunday . . . doesn’t sound
like cassidy will again use 11
forwards and seven defense-
men in game 4, unless the var-
ious ailments his club is deal-
ing with dictates otherwise.
“We were protecting ourselves
against — what if the game
gets stretched on,” cassidy
said. “We went into overtime
the night before, three in four
nights. again, a couple of
bumps and bruises. that was
the decision. bigger guys. i
thought we needed to control
the front of our net better after
game 2. We didn’t do a good
enough job there. bigger bod-
ies can sometimes help that. it
didn’t work out that way.” Jere-
my Lauzon and John Moore,
G l o b e
bruce bennett/getty images
period goal for the stars. “and i
think hockey needs honestly to
do more. but i think we can all
show our actions in different
ways.”
Varlamov chased
the new york islanders
went from having confidence in
a franchise record-setting goal-
tender, to having concerns
about how semyon Varlamov
will bounce back from his
worst performance of the nHl
postseason after getting pulled
in the first period of a 4-3 over-
time loss to the Philadelphia
flyers on Wednesday.
Varlamov entered game 2
coming off back-to-back shut-
outs, and achieved a record
shutout streak in islanders
playoff history in the first peri-
od. but the flyers chased him
from his net after pumping in
three goals on 10 shots against
Varlamov, who had a .941 save
percentage going into the
game.
the 32-year-old veteran
goalie was pulled in favor of
backup thomas Greiss late in
the first period. greiss, in his
first action of this postseason,
stopped 20 shots.
Lightning 7, Bruins 1
Wednesday night game
At Scotiabank Arena, Toronto
FIRST PERIOD
Penalty — Boston, Carlo (tripping) 0:37
Penalty — Boston, NRitchie (slashing) 12:17
Tampa Bay 1, Boston 0 — Palat 2 (Sergachev,
Kucherov) 12:46 (pp)
Tampa Bay 2, Boston 0 — Gourde 3 (Coleman,
Cernak) 13:01
SECOND PERIOD
Penalty — Boston, Bergeron (hi stick) 1:18
Tampa Bay 3, Boston 0 — Sergachev 1
(Kucherov, Point) 2:14 (pp)
Penalty — Tampa Bay, Bogosian (tripping) 3:41
Tampa Bay 3, Boston 1 — Marchand 7 (Krug,
Pastrnak) 4:56 (pp)
Penalty — Boston, McAvoy (roughing) 8:18
Tampa Bay 4, Boston 1 — Killorn 3 (Palat,
Kucherov) 8:35 (pp)
Tampa Bay 5, Boston 1 — Point 6 (Killorn, Ser-
gachev) 15:23
Penalty — Tampa Bay, Johnson, major (fight-
ing) 15:23
Penalty — Boston, Krug, major (fighting) 15:23
Tampa Bay 6, Boston 1 — Killorn 4 (Gourde, Bo-
gosian) 18:01
THIRD PERIOD
Tampa Bay 7, Boston 1 — Kucherov 4 (Point)
3:58
Penalty — Boston, McAvoy, served by Kase
(roughing) 10:00
Penalty — Boston, McAvoy (misconduct) 10:00
Penalty — Boston, Bergeron (delay of game)
16:42
Penalty — Tampa Bay, Paquette (interference)
16:45
Penalty — Boston, Krejci (roughing) 18:07
Penalty — Tampa Bay, Coleman, served by
Palat, double minor (roughing) 18:07
Penalty — Boston, Krug (misconduct) 18:22
SCORE BY PERIOD
Tampa Bay ............................ 2 4 1 — 7
Boston .................................... 0 1 0 — 1
SHOTS BY PERIOD
Tampa Bay ............................ 7 18 6 — 31
Boston .................................... 8 8 8 — 24
Power plays — Tampa Bay 3 of 6; Boston 1 of 3.
Goalies — Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 8-3-0 (24
shots-23 saves). Boston, Halak 4-3-0 (16 shots-12
saves). Boston, Vladar 0-0-0 (15 shots-12 saves).
Referees — Eric Furlatt, Wes McCauley. Lines-
men — Steve Barton, Devin Berg.
Attendance — 0 (18,819). Time — 2:28.
the extra defensemen who
dressed in place of connor clif-
ton, were eager (11 combined
hits) but not particularly effec-
tive. it was moore’s first action
since march 10 . . . torey krug
had a frustrating night. after
an angry scrap with tyler
Johnson, he earned a 10-min-
ute misconduct for shooting
the puck a little too hard at ref-
eree Wes Mccauley after a
stoppage. krug landed one
shot on goal and had six at-
tempts blocked . . . the bruins
have been shorthanded the
second-fewest times (32) of the
eight teams remaining. only
Vegas (28) has been penalized
less. “Hopefully that’s a one-
off,” cassidy said. their 81.3
percent success rate on the kill
is fourth-best . . . Point
(6-9—15) moved into third in
league scoring and is squarely
in the conn smythe race. the
favorite is colorado’s nathan
Mackinnon (7-13—20), who
has been electric for the ava-
lanche.
Matt Porter can be reached at
matthew.porter@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter:
@mattyports
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ubruins
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in protest of racial injustice and
police brutality, and were wide-
ly criticized for their tepid re-
sponse.
Vegas forward ryan reaves,
who is black, said he woke up
thursday to a text from light-
ning defenseman kevin shat-
tenkirk, who “had a bunch of
g u y s t h at w a n t ed t o t a l k ,”
reaves said. He also received a
text saying players from Van-
couver, which is involved in a
heated playoff series with Ve-
gas, wanted to do the same.
reaves spoke as he stood
next to colorado’s nazem kadri
and Pierre-edouard bellemare,
two players of color, and dal-
las’s Jason dickinson and Van-
couver’s bo Horvat. behind
them stood a room full of
masked players from the gold-
en knights, stars, avalanche,
and canucks, who are sharing
space in the nHl’s edmonton
hub.
“there’s a lot of white ath-
letes in there,” reaves said.
“that’s the statement that’s be-
ing made right now. it’s great
that the nba did this, and mlb
and Wnba. they have a lot of
black players in those leagues.
for all these athletes in here to
take a stand and say, ‘We see
the problem too, and we stand
behind you’ — i go to war with
these guys and i hate their guts
on the ice, but i couldn’t be
more proud of these guys.
“two days [off] isn’t going to
fix anything, but the conversa-
tion and the statement that’s
been made is very powerful.”
all three nHl games on
Wednesday, including game 3
of the bruins-lightning second-
round series, were played as
scheduled. the first game of
the afternoon, between the fly-
ers and islanders, was under-
way when the nba’s milwaukee
bucks and orlando magic de-
cided to strike.
milwaukee is about 40 miles
north of kenosha, Wis., where
Jacob blake, a 29-year-old
black man, was shot seven
times in the back by police on
sunday. two white men pro-
testing the blake shooting were
later shot and killed, allegedly
by 17-year-old white teenager
kyle rittenhouse, who traveled
from his home in antioch, ill.,
40 minutes south of kenosha,
armed with a military-style
semi-automatic weapon.
before the bruins-lightning
game in toronto, scotiabank
arena public address announc-
er mike ross read a brief state-
ment, as video boards dis-
played the words, “end rac-
ism,” and “We skate for black
lives.”
sabres forward Wayne sim-
monds, a founding Hda mem-
ber, called the moment “a futile
attempt” to show support.
“We were disappointed with
how the nHl responded,” sim-
monds said on tsn 1050 in to-
ronto. “We were the only league
to not postpone or cancel
games yesterday, which i think
is a shame. as a black man
playing in the nHl, it’s a little
bit of a slap in the face.”
bruins captain Zdeno chara
and alternate captain Patrice
bergeron, who voiced their an-
ti-racist and pro-social justice
beliefs after george floyd was
killed by police in minneapolis
in may, reaffirmed those feel-
ings Wednesday.
they said there was no pre-
game discussion of sitting out
because it was too close to
game time.
on thursday, chara said it
was “the right thing to do to
take a stand,” and hoped every-
one inside and outside the
frank gunn/tHe canadian Press/associated Press
Players’ buses were empty as the NHL postponed two days
of games to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
game used the two days “in the
right manner.”
“We need to step back, re-
flect a little bit, just to take a lit-
tle moment to realize what’s go-
ing on,” he said. “obviously
there’s a problem in the states
. . . We all realize there needs to
be change. it started with the
conversations. acts are going to
be very important to follow.”
thursday was a day of edu-
cation for a league that said it
was listening and learning in
the wake of floyd’s death.
When asked thursday
morning if he felt it was right
that hockey continued on as
usual, lightning coach Jon
cooper said his team was dis-
cussing the issue.
“i don’t think anything feels
right right now, to be honest,”
cooper said. “these events are
happening and it’s just taking
some time to digest. so it’s hard
for me to answer that right
now.”
also that morning, Philadel-
phia coach alain Vigneault said
he was too deep in the playoffs
to consider social issues.
“i have really no idea what’s
going on in the outside world,”
Vigneault said. “We’re in this
bubble right now, i’m invested
24-7 on our team, working 20
hours a day, going through vid-
eo, and preparing our group. i
don’t do twitter, i haven’t read
a single sports article in i don’t
know how long, and i haven’t
read any type of article in i
don’t know how long.
“i guess i’m a hockey nerd,
and that’s what i’m doing right
now.”
Vigneault said he supports
the nHl’s social justice initia-
tives.
“right now what we’re try-
ing to do is play a game,” he
said. “this is the most impor-
tant time of the year for us. it’s
playoff hockey.”
that came as no surprise to
some.
“the nHl is always late to
the party, especially on these
t o p i c s ,” W i l d d e f e n s e m a n
mathew dumba, another
founding Hda member and a
canadian of filipino descent,
said Wednesday on sportsnet
650 in Vancouver.
“so it’s sort of sad and dis-
heartening for me and other
members of the Hockey diver-
sity alliance, and i’m sure other
guys across the league.”
the nHl, in its statement
announcing the postpone-
ments, mentioned by name
black victims of police shoot-
ings, but did not mention po-
lice.
“black and brown commu-
nities continue to face real,
painful experiences,” the state-
ment read. “ the nHl and
nHlPa recognize that much
work remains to be done before
we can play an appropriate role
in a discussion centered on di-
versity, inclusion, and social
justice.
“ We understand that the
tragedies involvin g Jacob
blake, george floyd, breonna
taylor, and others require us to
recognize this moment.”
ottawa defenseman mark
borowiecki had a response to
fans doubting the players’ ac-
tions would have any effect.
“What a sad mind-set,” he
wrote on instagram. “meaning-
ful change is a process, and any
proactive step to effect change,
no matter how small or seem-
ingly insignificant, is meaning-
ful. if we had adopted this ‘Why
bother?’ attitude throughout
history, would any injustice
have been corrected or fought?”
Matt Porter can be reached at
matthew.porter@globe.com.
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Opening game of Celtics-Raptors postponed

League, players
to mull next step
By Adam Himmelsbach
and Katie McInerney
globe staff
the Celtics’ playoff game
against the raptors on thurs-
day night was postponed as the
players’ protest against police
brutality and systemic racism
continued.
but the nba announced it
hopes to resume games on fri-
day or saturday.
a group of nba players and
team governors representing
the 13 teams in orlando were
expected to join representa-
tives from the national basket-
ball Players association and
league officials to determine
the next steps. in a text mes-
sage thursday, Celtics co-own-
er Wyc grousbeck declined to
comment.
the Celtics were scheduled
to play the raptors in game 1
of the eastern Conference
semifinals on thursday night.
on tuesday, raptors players
were the first to suggest the
possibility of sitting out a play-
pected to resume this week-
raptors vs. Celtics end.
When plans to restart the
eastern ConF. semiFinals season were being crafted this
Thursday, Aug. 27 summer, there was some reluc-
Boston........................... Toronto ppd.
Schedule
tance among players because
Sat., Aug. 29..................................TBA of the possibility that basket-
Mon., Aug. 31................................TBA ball could slow the momentum
Wed., Sept. 2.................................TBA
*Fri., Sept. 4...................................TBA of the social justice movement
*Sun., Sept. 6................................TBA that was sparked by the death
*Tue., Sept. 8.................................TBA of george floyd.
* If necessary Players agreed that they
would find ways to use their
u n i q u e p l at f o r m s t o ra i s e
awareness, though, from
off game in response to the kneeling during the national
shooting of Jacob blake by po- anthem to wearing social jus-
lice in Wisconsin. tice messages on their jerseys.
then on Wednesday, the but when video circulated
bucks announced they would this week showing a police offi-
not play game 5 of their first- cer shooting blake, who is
round series against the magic. black, there was a sense that
soon after, there was a dom- the gestures in orlando were
ino effect, with the lakers-trail not enough.
blazers and thunder-rockets
games also being postponed Adam Himmelsbach can be
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before the reverberations were reached at adam.himmelsbach
felt throughout the sports Jaylen Brown played an active role in a meeting among NBA players on Wednesday night. @globe.com. Follow him on
world, with baseball games Twitter @adamhimmelsbach.
and tennis tournaments also brown played an active role in season but don’t protest or de- were in favor of halting the sea- Katie McInerney can be
being halted. the all-nba meeting. He re- mand justice outside the bub- son while most others were in reached at
nba players met in orlando portedly challenged players, ble. favor of playing. katie.mcinerney@globe.com.
thursday night. the globe was saying that they’d be wasting according to multiple re- but that tone has since Follow her on Twitter at
told Celtics forward Jaylen their time if they opt to end the ports, the Clippers and lakers shifted, and the games are ex- @k8tmac.

Athletes, sports nBa playoffs

FIRST ROUND

making history Eastern Conference

milwaukee vs. orlando

on, off the field

Bucks lead series, 3-1
Tuesday, Aug. 18
Orlando 122.............. Milwaukee 110
Thursday, Aug. 20
Milwaukee 111................. Orlando 96
Saturday, Aug. 22
uSULLIVAN Milwaukee 121.............. Orlando 107
Continued from Page C1 Monday, Aug. 24
friend mookie betts, anger and frustration from leading Milwaukee 121.............. Orlando 106
voice lebron James. Schedule
Wed., Aug. 26............................... ppd.
“it’s definitely different; i think it’s historic,” said dr.
*Fri., Aug. 28..................................TBA
richard lapchick, the chair of the university of Central *Sun., Aug. 30...............................TBA
florida’s devos sport business management Program,
director of the institute for diversity and ethics in sport, toronto vs. Brooklyn
and president of the institute for sport and social Jus- Raptors win series, 4-0
tice. Monday, Aug. 17
the son of original Celtic and onetime Knicks coach Toronto 134....................Brooklyn 110
Wednesday, Aug. 19
Joe lapchick — whom he once saw burned in effigy for
Toronto 104......................Brooklyn 99
signing new york’s first black player — lapchick has de- Friday, Aug. 21
voted his life’s work to fighting for social justice. for him, Toronto 117.................... Brooklyn 92
the four years since Colin Kaepernick rocked the world Sunday, Aug. 23
on bended knee have been incredibly moving, filling the Toronto 150.................. Brooklyn 122
75-year-old activist with hope that such athletes will no
miami vs. indiana
longer be left on an island of personal risk but find safety
Heat win series, 4-0
in numbers.
Tuesday, Aug. 18
“We’ve never had a league and its Players association Miami 113....................... Indiana 101
make a decision like they did to cancel games and the Thursday, Aug. 20
dominoes that fell right after that with other sports,” he Miami 109....................... Indiana 100
said. “to me, this is the most dramatic use of sports as a Saturday, Aug. 22
tool for social change moment since almost 50 years ago. Miami 124.........................Indiana 115
Monday, Aug. 24
“you’d have to go back to tommie smith and John
Miami 99.............................Indiana 87
Carlos at the olympics in mexico City or muhammad ali
refusing to fight in vietnam to find something i think Western Conference
could have as dramatic an impact as what we’re seeing
now.
oklahoma City vs. houston
“the drama of Carlos and smith and ali — ali almost Series tied at 2
Tuesday, Aug. 18
went to prison, tommie and John didn’t get a job for sev-
Houston 123....... Oklahoma City 108
en years — they were acting alone and paid tremendous Thursday, Aug. 20
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consequences. today we have groups of athletes, teams Houston 111......... Oklahoma City 98
and leagues and Players associations standing together. Clippers coach Doc Rivers and player Lou Williams took a knee during the anthem last Sunday. Saturday, Aug. 22
“We’re at a new level today.” Okla. City 119....... Houston 107 (OT)
Monday, Aug. 24

NBA decides to play on

the importance of such unity cannot be overstated or
Oklahoma City 117....... Houston 114
undersold.
Schedule
but nor should it be misunderstood as some brand of Wed., Aug. 26............................... ppd.
groupthink that calls for immediate dismissal. there are Fri., Aug. 28....................................TBA
real human beings behind these decisions, real hurting Sun., Aug. 30.................................TBA
hearts behind these emotions, real men and women who
do not want to pop up in our news feeds as entertainers uON BASKETBALL politicians and law enforcement to and community leaders, and even
denver vs. utah
only; they want to be recognized as multidimensional Continued from Page C1 review policies and tactics in deal- powerful former players such as Jazz lead series, 3-2
Monday, Aug. 17
people determined to use the platform provided by and gaming, while others in the ing with the black community and magic Johnson, grant Hill, and
Denver 135...................Utah 125 (OT)
sports for causes they believe in. black community are still suffer- other people of color. Craig Hodges, to determine a plan Wednesday, Aug. 19
When the nba decided thursday it would stay in its ing police brutality and racism. the players felt they needed to that will have a lasting impact and Utah 124........................... Denver 105
playoff bubble and continue toward crowning a champi- the anger from the players’ make a statement after last week- make them feel more fulfilled in Friday, Aug. 21
on, it did so with the intent of continuing a conversation, meeting, after the bucks decided end’s events, which included a 17- changing their communities for Utah 124..............................Denver 87
too. to sit out their playoff game with year-old white male being allowed the better. Sunday, Aug. 23
Utah 129............................Denver 127
sports has that power. the magic on Wednesday, was evi- to walk past police during the right now, they don’t feel ful-
Tuesday, Aug. 25
“i think more people pay attention to sports than dent. Players were frustrated, feel- Kenosha protests carrying an ar- filled. they’ve been in the bubble Denver 117............................Utah 107
probably any other part of our society,” lapchick said. ing hopeless and uncertain about 15-style rifle, and then allegedly for nearly two months, and while Thursday, Aug. 27
“television, or however you are consuming sports, we their purpose. killing two people. the basketball has been enthrall- Denver................................ Utah ppd.
are interested in it. it’s unusual when sports does some- the overnight time to reflect al- Players see this and ask: Why ing and played at a high level, Schedule
thing this dramatic. it gets your attention.” lowed the players to understand should we continue to provide en- black men and women are still be- *Sat., Aug. 29................................TBA
lapchick cited a recent nielsen study that shows the that great work can still be done in tertainment for a country that ing shot in the streets, Covid-19 la Clippers vs. dallas
movement in how fans see athlete activism, from the this bubble. While their anger has doesn’t consider our lives worthy? is still running rampant, and
Clippers lead series, 3-2
largely negative reactions to Kaepernick four years ago been geared toward the establish- How is me playing ball going to american society doesn’t appear Monday, Aug. 17
to a survey that now says 70 percent of fans polled “indi- ment, the government that has prevent the next Jacob blake from to have made any improvements LA Clippers 118..................Dallas 110
cate teams and leagues should support athlete protests fostered an atrocious relationship being shot? since the murder of george floyd. Wednesday, Aug. 19
and initiatives on race.” between blacks and law enforce- those answers cannot be found there is a lot of work to be Dallas 127................ LA Clippers 114
We heard the same from nfl commissioner roger ment, their disdain was not in a few days. but what can be done, and the players realize they Friday, Aug. 21
LA Clippers 130................ Dallas 122
goodell, whose recent admission that he should have against the league that has en- done is, the suggestions made in will face major resistance from the
Sunday, Aug. 23
paid as much attention to Kaepernick’s motive as he did couraged them to express them- the past several weeks by players powers that be that would rather Dallas 135........ LA Clippers 133 (OT)
to his delivery is stunning when compared with how lit- selves on social issues. can turn into demands. there can have them just dribble a ball, shut Tuesday, Aug. 25
tle he had to say back when President trump wanted in the end, the players decided be meetings arranged by players up, and sign another sneaker deal. LA Clippers 154..................Dallas 111
anyone who dared to kneel during the anthem immedi- to continue the playoffs, but it was from every nba team and the gov- the impact of these players is Thursday, Aug. 27
ately fired. apparent they needed at least a ernor of their respective states, lessened if they don’t reach out to LA Clippers...................... Dallas ppd.
Schedule
“that opened everything up,” lapchick said. “i think couple of days off to catch their such as the Celtics with governor their communities and try to up-
*Sat., Aug. 29................................TBA
ironically [trump] infused or breathed life into athlete breath. the Celtics will likely open Charlie baker, to discuss issues lift those who may not have the in-
activism. i’m not sure it would have happened so quickly. their eastern Conference semifi- that plague the inner cities. fluence they have. those who ar- la lakers vs. portland
the black athletes, the white ally athletes, they raised nal series with the raptors on if these athletes want a seat at en’t concerned with uplifting Lakers lead series, 3-1
that powerful voice that has not been muted since then. sunday. the table, then they should have these communities are fine with Tuesday, Aug. 18
“i don’t think it will be muted. athletes who’d been the games will return, but one. and now they have a chance these players making millions of Portland 100................. LA Lakers 93
asked about injuries, whether they could play, if they nba players want to ensure they to work with the owners, if so de- dollars as long as they keep their Thursday, Aug. 20
LA Lakers 111..................Portland 88
could make the championship game, now they’re being are getting the proper support sired, to create a strong agenda for mouths shut and only relish in
Saturday, Aug. 22
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McCourty: ‘Disheartening’
By Jim McBride
globe staff
defensive back Devin Mc-
Courty missed his second
straight practice thursday,
though the
patriots longtime patri-
notebook ots captain ar-
rived to watch
his teammates over the final
few periods.
it was safe to say football
was secondary as Mccourty ab-
sorbed the workout while si-
multaneously processing the
police shooting of Jacob blake,
a black man in Kenosha, Wis.
the nba, Wnba, Major
league soccer, and Major
league baseball have post-
poned games and some nfl
clubs canceled practices as a
way of demanding justice and
showing support for the blake
family.
“everything is [secondary],”
said a somber Mccourty during
a video call. “everybody in this
locker room has so many
thoughts and feelings going on,
but i also don’t know if we
don’t practice one day and go
back practicing the next day, i
don’t know what that really ac-
complishes? i don’t know what
will be done. i’ve done a lot of
this work over the last couple of
years. i’ve studied things. i’ve
tried to do different things. i
know we could take a whole
day off and we could talk about
a whole bunch of different
things. We have talked as a
team. We’ve done all that stuff.
it just hasn’t mattered. obvi-
ously, football distracts people
from that. but if there was no
football, i don’t think people
are still going to care about
black and brown people in our
country.”
a passionate speaker on so-
cial justice issues, Mccourty
said his emotions have been a
mix of anger, sadness, and
hopelessness over the last few
days as he grapples with cur-
rent climate in the country.
“i don’t have anything pow-
erful,” said Mccourty, who did
America’s athletes express sorrow, advocate for change
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their games, and touching off
tremors throughout their mul-
tibillion-dollar industries amid
covid-19-shortened seasons.
by nightfall, the national
basketball association had
postponed its playoff schedule
for a second straight day, in-
cluding game 1 of a series be-
tween the celtics and toronto
raptors. the national Hockey
league had scratched its
thursday and friday playoff
contests, including friday’s
game 4 between the bruins
and the tampa bay lightning.
the red sox then called off
their game against the toronto
blue Jays in buffalo, after Jack-
ie bradley Jr., the team’s only
black player, announced he
would boycott the event to pro-
test police brutality. at least
four other Mlb games were
postponed.
in the national football
league, numerous teams other
than the patriots canceled prac-
tices. so did the boston college
football team, allowing time for
coaches and players — more
than 50 of whom are black — to
discuss “bringing our commu-
nity together and invoking
change in our society,” the
school said.
across the fractured nation,
additional sports organizations
and individual athletes effec-
not miss the practice as a state-
ment — he is likely rehabbing a
minor injury. “it’s just been
very disheartening. Just watch-
ing things transpire, watching
lives still be lost and it not just
police brutality. it’s everything
we deal with.’'
Mccourty was monotone as
he spoke about the sadness he
feels when he thinks about the
talks he’ll one day have to have
with his children. conversa-
tions that date “back hundreds
of years . . . that have been on-
going in black households.” He
remembers having them with
his mother.
“i have to tell my kids what
my mom taught me as i be-
came a teenager about how to
handle being arrested or, i
mean, being pulled over by a
cop, how to conduct myself,” he
said. “What clothes to wear so
that when i went somewhere
people would think that i had
an education and didn’t think
that i didn’t know how to speak
correctly or that i was intimi-
dating or a threat to them.”
along with his twin, Jason,
devin is a beacon in the new
england locker room and team-
mates will look to them for
guidance on a response or reac-
tion to this issue. though
devin acknowledged he doesn’t
have answers now, if history is
any indication, he will have
some after having time to think
things through.
increased activity
Jarrett stidham ramped up
his practice activity thursday,
seeing his most snaps since suf-
fering a lower-body injury last
week that kept him limited the
last few sessions.
“i don’t want to get too
much into it,’' the quarterback
said when asked about the ail-
ment. “but i’m very fortunate
to have a great medical team
here, a great training staff —
Jim [Whalen] and all those
guys. everybody was great last
week … i’m just happy to be
back out on the field with ev-
tively took a knee in solidarity.
leading the movement were
members of the predominantly
black nba, all of whom were
isolated in a social bubble at
disney World when a 29-year-
old black man, Jacob blake,
was shot seven times in the
back sunday in Kenosha, Wis.,
by a white police officer — the
latest in a series of shootings of
black men and women by po-
lice or white assailants.
former celtics coach doc
rivers, who is black and whose
father was a chicago police offi-
cer, fought back tears as he
said, “We’re the ones getting
killed.”
blake was reportedly left a
paraplegic by the police bullets.
“We keep loving this country
and this country doesn’t love us
back,” said rivers, who now
coaches the los angeles clip-
pers. “it’s really so sad.”
president trump, hours be-
fore he was to accept the re-
publican nomination to seek a
second term in the White
House, derided the nba for its
high-profile stance on social
change.
“they’ve become like a polit-
ical organization,” trump told
reporters thursday. “i don’t
think that’s a good thing for
sports or for our country.”
vice president Mike pence’s
chief of staff, Marc short, called
the nba protests “absurd and
T h e B o s t o n
JoHn tluMacKi/globe staff
erybody and playing with ev-
erybody again.’'
though Cam newton has
taken the lead in the race for
the starter’s job, stidham
wouldn’t concede the fight’s
over.
“i view things as every day is
a competition; whether i’m
first string, second string, third
string, fourth string, fifth
string,” he said. “i don’t view it
as that, i just view it as a great
opportunity to get better with
my teammates every single day
and to compete really hard.”
practice notes
some practice observations
through the lens of globe pho-
tographer John tlumacki, who
was on site for the full-pads ses-
sion that featured a lot of
scrimmage simulations plus a
lot of gray skies and rain:
R rookie linebackers Josh
Uche and Cassh Maluia were
absent for the first time this
summer. defensive tackle beau
allen (yet to practice), receiver
Will Hastings, and running
back Lamar Miller (knee/pup)
also were absent.
R left guard Joe thuney ap-
peared to jam his wrist and was
in obvious pain as he was tend-
ed to by medical staffers. He
never left practice but didn’t re-
turn to action.
R the defense dominated
the action … referees were on
hand . . . Kicker nick Folk had
another strong day, going 5 for
5 on field goals, his final one
from approximately 53 yards
. . . rookie kicker Justin rohr-
wasser connected on 3 of 5,
and also hit one from 53ish . . .
team owner robert kraft took
in a portion of practice … the
patriots will practice at 1 p.m.
inside gillette stadium friday
for the first time this year. the
opener is sept. 13 against Mi-
ami at 1 p.m.
Jim McBride can be reached at
james.mcbride@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@globejimmcbride.
The scoreboard in Buffalo, site of Thursday night’s
postponed Red Sox-Blue Jays game, showed “Equality.”
silly,” and trump’s son-in-law
and senior adviser, Jared Kush-
ner, said the players were “for-
tunate" they could afford to
"take a night off from work.”
black athletes in america
have a long tradition of stand-
ing up to prejudice. track star
Jesse owens spoiled adolf Hit-
ler ’s campaign to promote
white supremacy at the 1936
olympics in berlin by captur-
ing four gold medals. Jackie
robinson withstood years of
racist vitriol after he broke
baseball’s color line in 1947. so
did althea gibson, who broke
the barrier in women’s tennis in
1950, and arthur ashe, who be-
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captain devin Mccourty said
thursday. “i’ve felt very hope-
less the last couple of days.”
Mccourty has been a man of
action ever since nfl players
began seriously taking up social
justice causes in 2017, the year
colin Kaepernick was black-
balled from the nfl.
Mccourty, one of 12 govern-
ing members of the players co-
alition, has been to the Massa-
chusetts state House to talk
about raising the minimum age
for criminal responsibility from
age 7 to 12. He fought for a bill
that would distribute more
school funding to lower-income
communities. He has held fo-
rums with district attorney can-
didates and criminal justice ex-
perts. He has been in discus-
sions with nfl owners to talk
about what the league can do to
promote change.
yet the events of the last few
days in Kenosha, Wis. — blake,
a black man, getting shot seven
times by a police officer, and a
17-year-old allegedly killing
two protesters with a semi-au-
tomatic rifle — have sent Mc-
courty and several of his team-
mates into an emotional tail-
spin.
star cornerback stephon
gilmore tweeted right before
practice, “i do not have the
words to meet the depths of my
frustration & sadness.” Jason
Mccourty said he went through
the motions in thursday’s prac-
tice, his thoughts a fog of sad-
ness, anger, and frustration.
“i know a lot of other guys
i’ve talked to in the locker room
right now, we’re just lost, man,”
Jason Mccourty said. “i have no
idea why we went out there and
practiced today. i feel like we all
just go through the motions.
“We’ve all kind of become so
numb to this because it’s hap-
pened so many times and in so
many different places that we’re
all just confused. there’s a
sense of hopelessness of just
not knowing or understanding
how to fix a problem.”
there was some talk among
players about asking to cancel
thursday’s practice, the way
the nba postponed games
Wednesday night.
but the situation in Wiscon-
sin has hit a nerve for devin
Mccourty. for three years, he
and his teammates have been
having long, tough discussions
about race and privilege. they
have done countless communi-
ty events, and raised awareness
about police brutality and so-
cial inequality.
yet here they are again, dis-
cussing the same issues they
did months ago after the sense-
less deaths of george floyd and
breonna taylor at the hands of
police.
it has turned devin Mc -
courty into a fatalist. He’s hav-
ing a hard time coming up with
a plan of action, because none
adrian Kraus/associated press
came the first black man to
play on a us davis cup team, in
1963.
in 1967, when Muhammad
ali faced criminal charges for
refusing to serve in the viet-
nam War, 11 of the most promi-
nent black athletes at the time,
including bill russell, Jim
brown, and Kareem abdul-Jab-
bar, who was known as lew al-
cindor at the time, gathered
publicly to support him.
a year later, track stars tom-
mie smith and John carlos
raised black-gloved fists during
the american national anthem
after they won gold and bronze
at the Mexico city games, dur-
f r i d a y, a u g u s t 2 8 , 2 0 2 0
Patriots Jason (left) and Devin McCourty have had a
difficult time dealing with the shooting of Jacob Blake.
of his previous plans seem to be
working much.
“if we don’t practice one day
and go back practicing the next
day, i don’t know what that re-
ally accomplishes,” he said. ”i’ve
done a lot of this work over the
last couple of years. i know we
could take a whole day off and
we could talk about a whole
bunch of different things. it
just hasn’t mattered.
“if there was no football, i
don’t think people are still go-
ing to care about black and
brown people in our country.”
the Mccourtys’ best friend
and de facto younger brother,
duron Harmon, helped orga-
nize the lions’ protests tues-
day. but the Jacob blake situa-
tion has sent the Mccourtys in-
to an existential crisis. they just
don’t have the energy right now
for another round of protests
and long talks and kneeling for
the national anthem.
“i talked to duron,” Jason
Mccourty said. “i thought what
they did was awesome. does it
fix anything?
“When we cancel practice
and we sit down and we meet
and we talk, does it change any-
thing? When we stay inside for
the national anthem and then
we go out there and we play in
the game for four quarters and
we entertain everybody, does it
change anything?
“if we cancel practice today,
we sit around, we discuss race,
we discuss what happened to
Jacob blake, or we talk about
what’s continuing to happen in
our country for hundreds of
years, but then we go out and
practice tomorrow, nobody
cares.”
devin Mccourty has been
the leading voice in the patriots
locker room for the last three-
plus years. but now he is just as
lost as everyone else.
“i haven’t been able to come
to grips with anything, let alone
try to be a voice to guys,” he
said. “i saw something dray-
mond green posted about why
should athletes stop playing
and be the only people to stop
playing when why doesn’t some
of the top businesses, whether
it’s apple or something like
ing a period of racial upheaval
in the united states.
and in 2016, four years ago
thursday, nfl quarterback co-
lin Kaepernick kneeled during
the anthem to protest social in-
justice, triggering a movement
that grew slowly until the kill-
ing of george floyd in May
spurred many more of the na-
tion’s black athletes to action.
yet never has a movement
for racial equality rocked the
country’s sports community
like this. anger over the blake
shooting intensified tuesday,
when a 17-year-old white youth
shot and killed two white pro-
testers in Kenosha soon after
law enforcement officers alleg-
edly thanked the rifle-toting
counter-protester and tossed
him a bottle of water.
“[expletive] tHis Man!!!”
lakers superstar lebron James
tweeted. “ We deMand
cHange. sicK of it.”
James attended a meeting
thursday of nba players, who
decided they would resume the
2020 playoffs, despite some
pushing to shut down the en-
tire season in protest. after-
ward, James tweeted, “change
doesn’t happen with just talk!!
it happens with action and
needs to happen noW!”
the celtics said they
planned to spend the night fo-
cusing on social justice initia-
tives rather than basketball.
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that, why doesn’t their ceo
stop going to work? Why do we
only look for athletes to cancel
games to stop going to work?
“i read that and i was like,
man, like, that’s another inter-
esting point. that makes
sense.”
it was heartbreaking to hear
two of the patriots’ most enthu-
siastic leaders, who have done
so much for their communities
over the last several years, say
they have essentially given up.
“right away, i think of a
football term that every coach
has always said to me: ‘if you’re
not getting better, you’re getting
worse,’ ” devin Mccourty said.
“there’s probably some aspect
of that because the more we see
all of these different tragic
events happen, you become
numb to it.
“each time an incident hap-
pens, you are like, ‘Well, why
didn’t we learn from the other
incident?’ so, in your brain, as
those things keep happening, it
gets worse and then you be-
come numb to it. and then it
just becomes the norm.
“that is one of my biggest
fears, that someday this contin-
ues to just happen and people
get tired from yelling from bal-
conies or going and making
statements or trying to help
and they just become numb to
it and it just becomes normal-
ized.”
Hopefully the Mccourtys
don’t give up. the lower-in-
come communities they have
helped in Massachusetts and
their home state of new york
badly need their support. edu-
cation and criminal justice re-
form are still causes worth
fighting for, and can still be im-
proved.
but for now, the Mccourtys
are simply out of answers and
out of energy.
“i think we’re just struggling
with this, man,” Jason Mc -
courty said. “We don’t know
how to move forward, so we
just stick to our routine and we
move and we go through the
motions.”
Ben Volin can be reached at
ben.volin@globe.com.
When they return to the court,
they are expected to continue
wearing jerseys that bear mes-
sages such as “black lives Mat-
ter,” “equality,” and “Justice.”
but the celtics and players
across the sports world are like-
ly to make additional state-
ments and gestures as their
games resume. after the Wnba
postponed Wednesday’s games,
for instance, the Washington
Mystics kneeled together on the
court wearing coordinated t-
shirts that spelled blake’s name
on the front and bore the image
of seven bullet holes on the
back.
there is also the prospect of
nfl players boycotting games
during the regular season, as
new york giants star saquon
barkley and teammate sterling
shepard said they may do to
protest social injustice. after
the giants tandem spoke to re-
porters, the nfl and players’
union issued a joint statement
saying they were united in an-
ger and frustration over blake’s
shooting and in their commit-
ment to “call out racism and in-
justice whenever and wherever
it occurs in our country, but al-
so to fight together to eradicate
it.”
the nfl season is sched-
uled to open sept. 10.
Bob Hohler can be reached at
robert.hohler@globe.com.
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BC’s football team
pauses for dialogue
By Julian Benbow
globe staff
as video of police officers
in Kenosha, Wis., shooting 29-
year-old Jacob blake seven
times in the back spread
through social media, spark-
ing outrage, protests, and de-
cisions not to play across pro-
fessional spor ts leagues,
members of the boston col-
lege football team wanted to
make sure that every eagle
was aware.
linebacker Max richard-
son texted members of the
leadership council earlier in
the week. they decided to
take it upon themselves to
talk with every position
group. at lunch tuesday, they
went table to table.
“every table we sat down
at we just thought we’d make
note and say, ‘did you guys see
what happened in Wisconsin
the other day?’ to have that
conversation,” richardson
said. “because although we’re
in camp and our job is to play
football, we need to be aware
of what’s going on and we
need to know that there are
things going on in this coun-
try that aren’t right. it’s not
political. it has nothing to do
with the election. this is the
difference between right and
wrong. What happened to Ja-
cob blake was a tragedy. i’m
hoping that all 120 guys on
our team have seen the video
and are aware and that’s what
we’re working for.”
transfer quarterback Phil
Jurkovec hadn’t seen the vid-
eo. but when richardson and
receiver Kobay White sat with
him to talk, it opened his eyes.
“Honestly to us, it’s just
nuts that anything like that
happened,” Jurkovec said. “if
that doesn’ t outrage you,
there’s something wrong with
you. it’s very messed up. We’re
still continuing to talk and
hopefully we can help create
change with this as well.”
those conversations con-
tinued thursday as the eagles
canceled their final practice of
TMC delays approval
for 2021 alignments
By Jim Clark
globe staff
With the coVid-19 pan-
demic taking up much of the
focus of high school adminis-
trators, the Miaa’s tourna-
ment Management commit-
tee agreed thursday to push
pause on a couple of items re-
lated to the statewide tourna-
ment scheduled to start in
fall 2021.
during a virtual meeting,
the tMc voted unanimously
to delay by one month some
ke y pieces of the c urrent
timeline for approval of pro-
posed alignments.
the tMc was due to publi-
cize by sept. 1 the approved
alignment proposals for fall
and winter sports. on the rec-
ommendation of committee
chair Jim o’lear y of st.
John’s Prep, those will not be
publicized until oct. 1.
o’leary said that, given the
focus on the pandemic and
getting plans up and running
for schools to return in sep-
tember, some sport subcom-
mittees have not been able to
finish their work.
With that delay, the tMc
also agreed to push back by
one month the process for
schools to appeal their align-
ment placements.
“We have plenty of time,”
o’leary said.
another key piece of the
statewide tournament, ap-
proved in february, is the
transition to a power ranking
system for seedings. the tMc
originally settled on Max-
Preps, a california-based
company that publishes rank-
ings for multiple sports both
state-by-state and nationally,
with the plan of using the
2020-21 school year as a pilot
for the system.
at its last meeting in July,
the tMc voted to push back
the MaxPreps pilot until at
least this coming winter sea-
son. However, o’leary said
he has heard concerns from
across the state regarding cer-
tain components of the rank-
preseason camp. bc said in a
statement that the cancella-
tion was “in response to the
continuing racial injustices in
our country.”
“With the recent events
that happened, we felt it was
best as a staff and as a team
not to practice,” said eagles
coach Jeff Hafley. “i felt very
strongly about that. and we
got together this morning in-
stead and we first met as a
team and guys got up and
spoke, coaches got up and
spoke, and it was very touch-
ing and it was very emotional.
and then we broke up into
smaller groups and we contin-
ued those conversations that
went on probably longer than
our practice would’ve went
on.
“listening to our players,
of all different races and all
backgrounds, we have an ex-
ceptional team. We have a
great group of people. We
have a group of people who
a r e h u r t i n g a n d w e h av e
coaches who are hurting and
we have another group of peo-
ple who are trying to under-
stand and become educated
and we have a group of people
who might’ve stood up today
and said, ‘i’m sorry i haven’t
said anything, i don’t know
what to say and i do have em-
pathy and i do care and i want
to help.’ ”
Watching his players open
up allowed Hafley to reflect.
“i grew up in a small town,
it was mostly white people,”
he said. “and i’ve been very,
ver y fortunate that in my
coaching career, i’ve been able
to be around and make some
of the best friends in my life
with people that don’t look
like me. to the point where i
don’t see color anymore.
“and i can’t say that for ev-
ery single person that grew up
in an area like me. that’s what
sports does. that’s what more
of our world should be.”
Julian Benbow can be reached
at julian.benbow@globe.com.
ings — the proprietary formu-
la, use of point differential in
the calculations, an issue
with the handling of tied
games. the tMc agreed to re-
convene a subcommittee to
further explore MaxPreps or
other options.
the meeting opened with
an update from Miaa associ-
ate director sherry bryant on
last week’s board of directors
vote on a four-season plan for
high school at hle ti cs for
2020-21, based on input from
the coVid-19 task force and
guidelines from both the de-
partment of elementary and
secondary education, and
the executive office of ener-
gy and environmental af-
fairs.
the board of directors al-
so voted last week to not con-
duct postseason tournaments
for the fall 1 season, leaving
the tMc with no need to take
any action thursday. Howev-
er, the tMc did begin conver-
sations regarding the possi-
bility of holding tournaments
for the other three seasons —
Winter, fall 2, and spring.
“there certainly is some
opportunity for postseason
play [in the other seasons], if
you look at the structure,”
bryant said, adding that any
chance for tournament play
still would be based on updat-
ed guidance from dese and
the eea in the coming
months.
st. Mary’s athletic director
Jeff Newhall, voicing support
for the possibility of hosting
postseason tournaments,
shared concern about the
time needed to secure ice for
boys’ and girls’ hockey, noting
that it typically is a process
done “months in advance.”
Hull athletic director scott
Paine, who also serves as di-
vision 1a and south boys’
hockey tournament director,
said he already has reached
out to several of the ice facili-
ties the Miaa uses and that
they are understanding of the
situation.
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After a challenging first round, Hideki Matsuyama
managed a one-shot lead at the BMW Championship.
SportsLog
Matsuyama leads Snyder faces more fire
the difficult BMW
lawyers who represent more than a dozen former Washington
football team employees who allege they were sexually harassed
By Doug Ferguson holes for a 3-under-par 67, or exploited by male colleagues have called on Nfl commissioner
associated Press one of only three rounds un- roger Goodell to launch the league’s own investigation into the
olyMPia fields, ill. — der par on a course that was claims and to suspend owner Daniel snyder pending the outcome
one of the toughest tests of long, tough, firm, fast and of its probe. in a three-page letter that was transmitted to goodell
the year made it clear that par no thi ng like the las t two on thursday, lisa J. Banks and Debra s. Katz also called on good-
would be a weeks. ell to commit to removing snyder as majority owner if its own in-
PGa great score at tyler duncan, just outside vestigation substantiates claims former employees made in a re-
Playoffs o l y m p i a the top 30 as he tries to earn port published Wednesday in the Washington Post. Within hours
fields. leave his first trip to the tour cham- of the Post’s story, goodell responded with a statement condemn-
it to Hideki Matsuyama to pionship, made an 8-foot par ing the “unprofessional, disturbing and abhorrent behavior” de-
make a 65-foot birdie putt on putt on his last hole for a 68. tailed in the story. but he stopped short of announcing the Nfl
his final hole thursday to lead Mackenzie Hughes, one of on- would launch an investigation, saying that the league would
the bMW championship. ly four players who reached 3 weigh potential disciplinary measures after reviewing the find-
Matsuyama, the Japanese under at any point in his ings of an ongoing investigation that was initiated by and is being
player who has gone three round, was another shot be- funded by the Washington football team.
years since his last victory, hind.
birdied two of his last three “i'm not sure really what i father of Bengals CB found healthy
had going today, but that last the father of cincinnati bengals cornerback Mackensie alex-
putt, the long putt that went ander was found alive in florida, the okeechobee county sheriff’s
Golf results in, very happy with that one,” office announced. Jean odney alexandre, alexander’s father who
BmW Championship Matsuyama said. “so we’ll re- spells his last name differently than his son, had traveled to
At Olympia Fields Club, Olympia Fields, Ill. member that one.” okeechobee county with another man on Monday to pick palmet-
Yardage: 7,366; Par: 70
The second of three playoff events dustin Johnson, who won to berries. the man then left alexandre behind, and he was re-
First round
the Northern trust last week ported missing Monday night. according to the sheriff ’s office,
Hideki Matsuyama.....................................67
Tyler Duncan...............................................68
-3
-2 at 30 under par, opened with the 65-year-old alexandre walked into the ranger station at Kis-
Mackenzie Hughes.................................... 69
Abraham Ancer..........................................70
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a 71 and felt like it was a good simmee Prairie Preserve state Park early thursday morning “in
Tony Finau...................................................70
Matthew Fitzpatrick..................................70
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day’s work. He was told that good health.’' He was turned over to family members . . . eagles
Lanto Griffin................................................70 E even three straight rounds of offensive tackle andre Dillard (and 2019 first-round draft pick)
Harry Higgs.................................................70 E
Billy Horschel..............................................70 E 60 would not be enough to suffered a biceps injury in practice that will require season-end-
Mark Hubbard............................................ 70 E
Rory McIlroy................................................70 E reach 30 under at olympia ing surgery, Nfl.com reported . . . because of the coVid-19 pan-
Sebastian Munoz........................................70 E
Carlos Ortiz.................................................70 E fields. demic, the eagles and the steelers announced they will not have
Patrick Cantlay...........................................71 +1
Joel Dahmen................................................71 +1 “yeah, but i would win,” he fans at home games for the start of the 2020 season . . . tony
Jim Herman.................................................71 +1
Tom Hoge....................................................71 +1 said. Dungy was added to the Pro football Hall of fame’s selection
Viktor Hovland............................................71
Dustin Johnson...........................................71
+1
+1 by a landslide, no doubt. committee, the fourth hall member to become part of the voting
Ryan Palmer................................................71
Dylan Frittelli...............................................72
+1
+2
tiger Woods needs to fin- process. dungy joins Bill Polian, James lofton and Dan fouts on
Brian Harman..............................................72
Kevin Kisner................................................72
+2
+2
ish around fourth to have any the panel.
Adam Long..................................................72 +2 hope of returning to east lake
Kevin Na.......................................................72 +2
Joaquin Niemann........................................72 +2 next week to chase the $15 colleges
Alex Noren...................................................72 +2
million bonus for the fedex
Big ten is sued by nebraska players
Louis Oosthuizen........................................72 +2
J.T. Poston...................................................72 +2
cup winner. He was hovering
Adam Scott................................................. 72 +2
Brendan Steele...........................................72 +2
Michael Thompson....................................72 +2 around even par a few shots eight Nebraska players filed a state lawsuit against the big ten
Bubba Watson............................................72 +2
Matthew Wolff............................................72 +2 out of the lead. He finished conference after the league’s decision to not play football this fall.
Byeong Hun An...........................................73 +3
with three straight bogeys for the suit filed in the district court of lancaster county seeks to in-
Daniel Berger..............................................73 +3
Paul Casey...................................................73
Bryson DeChambeau.................................73
+3
+3
a 73 and was running hotter validate the conference’s decision to postpone the 2020 season
Tyrrell Hatton............................................. 73
Danny Lee....................................................73
+3
+3
than the weather. and award damages of no more than $75,000. in a statement, the
Patrick Reed................................................73 +3 a t h r e e - t i m e us o p e n big ten conference said: “We share the disappointment that
Xander Schauffele..................................... 73 +3
Justin Thomas.............................................73 +3 champion, Woods knows all some student-athletes and their families are feeling. However,
Brendon Todd.............................................73 +3
Tiger Woods................................................73 +3 about control and patience this lawsuit has no merit and we will defend the decision to pro-
Adam Hadwin.............................................74 +4
Russell Henley............................................74 +4 and key pars putts. and then tect all student-athletes as we navigate through this global pan-
Max Homa...................................................74 +4
Jason Kokrak...............................................74 +4 he let a reasonable round get demic. We are actively considering options to get back to competi-
Richy Werenski...........................................74 +4
Harris English............................................. 75 +5 away from him. tion and look forward to doing so when it is safe to play.’’ . . . Hall
Charles Howell III.......................................75
Matt Kuchar................................................75
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+5 “the course was fine. the of fame basketball coach lute olson, who guided the university
Jon Rahm.....................................................75
Scottie Scheffler.........................................75
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+5
course is in perfect shape. Not of arizona to an unlikely 1997 Ncaa tournament championship,
Robby Shelton............................................ 75
Cameron Smith...........................................75
+5
+5
the way i wanted to finish,” died at the age of 85, according to cbssports. olson, who was a
Nick Taylor..................................................75 +5 Woods said in brief com- head coach for five decades, retired in october 2008 with a career
Gary Woodland...........................................75 +5
Corey Conners............................................76 +6 ments. record of 781-281, 589 of those wins with the Wildcats, making
Jason Day.................................................... 76 +6
Talor Gooch.................................................76 +6 t he average score was him the winningest coach in school history.
Collin Morikawa.........................................76 +6
Kevin Streelman.........................................76 +6 72.8, and only four of the 18
Cameron Champ........................................77 +7
Sungjae Im.................................................. 77 +7 holes played under par. that Miscellany
Andrew Landry...........................................77 +7
included both par 5s. this is
Maverick McNealy.....................................77
Marc Leishman...........................................80
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what the us open could have Us open tournament releases draw
used in 2003, instead of rain- american teenager Coco Gauff and two-time grand slam
european: uK Championship softened conditions. it was champion naomi osaka could face each other at the us open
At The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, England
Purse: $1.65 million hot in the morning, baking again after the draw for the grand slam tournament set up a pos-
Yardage: 7,253; Par: 72
Partial first round out a dry course. the rough is sible third-round rematch. the us tennis association quietly
Play suspended because of rain
Justin Walters............................32-32—64 -8
5 inches in spots. the greens posted the women’s and men’s singles draws online. the us open
Joel Sjoholm...............................32-35—67 -5 were hard, making it tough to is scheduled to begin Monday, without spectators. Possible wom-
Scott Vincent.............................34-33—67 -5
Benjamin Hebert.......................34-33—67 -5 get the ball close and nearly en’s quarterfinals matches: No. 1 seed Karolina Pliskova vs. No. 8
Bernd Wiesberger.................... 32-35—67 -5
Rhys Enoch................................36-32—68 -4 impossible to get shots to stop Petra Martic; No. 2 sofia Kenin vs. No. 5 aryna sabalenka; and
Marcus Kinhult..........................34-34—68 -4
Wade Ormsby...........................32-36—68 -4 on the green from out of the No. 3 serena Williams vs. No. 7 Madison Keys. the men’s quar-
Martin Kaymer..........................34-34—68 -4
Ross Fisher.................................34-34—68 -4 rough. terfinals could be top-seeded novak Djokovic vs. No. 7 seed David
David Dixon................................35-33—68 -4
Calum Hill...................................32-36—68 -4 rory Mcilroy was among Goffin; No. 2 Dominic thiem vs. No. 8 roberto Bautista agut; No.
Craig Howie...............................36-32—68
Jorge Campillo.......................... 37-32—69
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10 players who finished at 70 3 Daniil Medvedev vs. No. 6 Matteo Berrettini; and No. 4 stefa-
Marc Warren.............................35-34—69
Stephen Gallacher....................34-35—69
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and felt the day was a success. nos tsitsipas vs. No. 5 alexander Zverev . . . american twins Bob
Jeff Winther...............................35-34—69
Jack Senior.................................34-36—70
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He hasn't registered a top 10 and Mike Bryan announced their retirement after a record-break-
Lee Slattery................................34-36—70 -2 since golf returned from the ing doubles career. the 42-year-old brothers collected 16 grand
Daniel Young.............................37-33—70 -2
Thorbjorn Olesen......................34-36—70 -2 coronavirus shutdown in slam tennis championships together and helped the united
Matt Wallace.............................35-35—70 -2
Dean Burmester........................35-35—70 -2 June, and he conceded to be- states win the davis cup in 2007 . . . the california Horse racing
Richard Bland............................35-35—70 -2
Aaron Rai....................................35-36—71 -1 ing lethargic without fan en- board voted to proceed with a complaint seeking the disqualifica-
Ryan Fox.....................................35-36—71 -1
Matthias Schwab......................35-36—71 -1 ergy. tion of Justify from his victory in the 2018 santa anita derby
Oscar Lengden..........................33-38—71 -1
Jake Mcleod...............................36-35—71 -1 “i said last week if you based on laboratory findings that show his post-race sample test-
Ben Evans...................................36-35—71
Benjamin Poke..........................35-37—72
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need someone to shoot be- ed positive for scopolamine.
Gregory Havret.........................37-35—72
Matthew Baldwin..................... 35-37—72
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Matthieu Pavon.........................35-37—72 E der, i’m your man,” Mcilroy
Danny Willett.............................36-36—72
Jordan Smith............................. 37-35—72
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Louis De Jager...........................37-35—72 E AUTO RACING
Adrien Saddier..........................36-36—72 E ditions. it’s sort of weird. the
Liam Johnston...........................39-33—72 E 7:30 p.m. Xfinity: Wawa 250 NBCSN
Philip Eriksson...........................35-37—72 E way my game feels at the min-
Matthew Southgate.................37-36—73 +1 BASEBALL
Pablo Larrazabal.......................42-31—73 +1 ute, it’s just as easy for me to
Romain Langasque...................34-39—73 +1 4 p.m. NY Mets at NY Yankees MLB
David Law.................................. 35-38—73 +1 shoot even par here as it was 7:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Miami FS1
Lucas Bjerregaard....................39-34—73 +1
Dave Coupland..........................36-37—73 +1 last week in boston, for what- 7:30 p.m. NY Yankees at NY Mets MLB
Daan Huizing.............................35-38—73
Gareth Davies............................35-38—73
+1
+1
ever reason that is. 7:30 p.m. Washington at Boston NESN
Wil Besseling.............................39-34—73
Ben Stow....................................36-37—73
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+1
“but this is proper golf,” he 8 p.m. Cleveland at St. Louis FS1
Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez...38-36—74 +2 said. “ you’ve really got to 9:30 p.m. Seattle at LA Angels MLB
Ashley Chesters........................39-35—74 +2
Kalle Samooja........................... 39-35—74 +2 think about stuff. it’s nice to BASKETBALL (NOTE: NBA GAMES ARE TBA)
Steven Tiley...............................36-38—74 +2
Ross McGowan......................... 38-36—74 +2 play around of golf like that 4 p.m. NBA: Milwaukee vs. Orlando NBA
Ewen Ferguson..........................39-35—74 +2 6:30 p.m. NBA: Houston at Oklahoma City TNT
Sihwan Kim................................37-37—74 +2 again.”
Paul Dunne.................................39-35—74 +2 8 p.m. WNBA: Los Angeles at Connecticut CBSSN
Scott Hend.................................40-35—75 +3 also in that group at even 9 p.m. NBA: LA Lakers at Portland TNT
Toby Tree...................................36-39—75 +3
Julien Guerrier...........................36-39—75 +3 par was carlos ortiz of Mexi- 10 p.m. WNBA: Washington at Phoenix CBSSN
Daniel Gavins.............................39-37—76 +4
Jordan Wrisdale........................38-38—76 +4 co, notable because he was the GOLF
Mathieu Fenasse.......................37-39—76
Dale Whitnell.............................39-37—76
+4
+4
latest player to be grouped 3 p.m. BMW Championship Golf
Hurly Long..................................39-38—77
Oliver Fisher.............................. 41-37—78
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+6
with Woods for the first time. 7:30 p.m. LPGA: NW Arkansas Championship Golf
Janne Kaske...............................37-41—78
Nicolai Hojgaard.......................38-40—78
+6
+6
He raved about how Woods HORSE RACING
Richard Mcevoy........................39-41—80 +8 controls the flight of his irons. 1 p.m. Saratoga Live FS2
Lorenzo Scalise.........................36-44—80 +8
Brendan Lawlor.........................42-42—84 +12 He missed out on the massive TENNIS
crowd because there are no 2 p.m. Western and Southern Open (women’s final) ESPN2
spectators, only carts carrying 4 p.m. Western and Southern Open (men’s final) ESPN2
the broadcast crew.
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The Fed said it would focus on using interest rates to boost job growth
even if that pushed inflation above the central bank’s preferred 2 percent
2% rate, a target that has been rarely reached since it was set in 2012.
1.5%
1%
0.5%
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2012 2013
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Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell spoke during a news conference in March in Washington.
Pandemic job losses level
off, but at very high figures
By Larry Edelman
globe staff
the good news about the job mar-
ket is that it doesn’t seem to be getting
worse.
after a gut-roiling
news s u rge in ma r c h a nd
analysis april to levels not seen
since the 1930s, layoffs
declined sharply and have leveled off
over the past two months. new claims
for unemployment pay in massachu-
setts have averaged about 37,000 a
week since the start of June, down
from a peak of more than 180,000, ac-
cording to data released thursday by
the state department of unemploy-
ment assistance. in the week ended
saturday, filings were just under
30,000, a small nudge up up from the
prior week.
nationally, the trend is the same:
claims dipped to 1.61 million from a
revised 1.63 million a week earlier, the
Abbott will hire
1,200 in Maine
for testing kits
By Andy Rosen
globe staff
the maker of a recently approved
rapid test for the virus that causes
coVid-19 says it is planning to hire
1,200 people at a new manufacturing
plant in westbrook, maine, as it ramps
up production of the new product.
abbott laboratories, based in illi-
nois, said it is creating 300 permanent
jobs and 900 temporary positions for
the site near portland, where it will
make a new test for antigens, or pro-
teins, found on the surface of the virus.
the test, called binaxnow, on
wednesday won emergency use autho-
rization from the us food and drug
administration.
“abbott is committed to developing
important tools to help fight coVid-
19,” Vildan kehr, an abbott vice presi-
dent, said in a statement “these jobs
will not only make that possible, but
also help americans feel a little more
confident about their health and lives.”
binaxnow is the first rapid test for
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Business
2014 2015
us bureau of labor statistics said
thursday, while the average since
June has been about 2 million.
(both the massachusetts and us
figures combine filings under stan-
dard state programs as well as the fed-
eral pandemic emergency program
begun in april for gig workers, inde-
pendent contractors, and others who
were previously ineligible for jobless
benefits.)
but overall, unemployment re-
mains staggeringly high. some 27 mil-
lion americans received jobless pay at
the start of the month, which is equal
to 17 percent of the labor force before
the coronavirus pandemic.
meanwhile, the extra $600 a week
everyone on unemployment was get-
ting from the federal government ex-
pired at the end of July, and a stop-gap
measure to replace that bonus with
$300 a week is taking time to imple-
analysis, Page C11
Education commissioner has
encouraging words for parents
Shirley Leung
it’s the ques-
tion on so many
working par-
ents’ minds as it
becomes obvi-
ous the school
year will be far
from normal:
can i survive re-
mote learning?
some of you
reading those words might start to break
out in hives, just remembering what it was
like when schools had to close abruptly in
march to contain the coronavirus. over-
night, it turned many of us into tech sup-
port for our kindergartners and first-grad-
ers.
at least in the spring, there were few ex-
pectations from public school districts. now,
with more time to figure out what to do,
schools will be demanding more account-
ability this academic year. among other
measures: giving out grades and taking at-
tendance. in normal times, that’s a good
thing. in pandemic times, that means par-
B o s t o n G l o b e f r i d a y, a u g u s t 2 8 , 2 0 2 0
1% Fed chair
sets stage
(March 1)
for years of
lower rates
By Jeanna Smialek
new york times
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 federal reserve, announced a major
shift in how the central bank guides
the economy, signaling it will make job
growth preeminent and will not raise
interest rates to guard against coming
inflation just because the unemploy-
ment rate is low.
in emphasizing the importance of a
strong labor market and saying the
fed will tolerate slightly faster price
gains, powell and his colleagues laid
the groundwork for years of low inter-
est rates. that could translate into long
periods of cheap mortgages and busi-
ness loans that foster strong demand
and a solid job market.
the changes, which powell detailed
at the kansas city fed’s annual Jack-
son Hole, wyo., policy symposium, fol-
lows a 1½-year-long review of the cen-
tral bank’s monetary policy strategy. in
conjunction with his remarks, the fed
released an outline of its long-run poli-
cy plan.
“our revised statement emphasizes
that maximum employment is a broad-
based and inclusive goal,” powell said
in the remarks. “this change reflects
our appreciation for the benefits of a
strong labor market, particularly for
many in low- and moderate-income
communities.”
market reaction to powell’s an-
nouncement was mixed. investors had
Jacquelyn martin/associated press/file
already penciled in years of rock-bot-
tom interest rates and analysts will be
watching for more concrete rate guid-
ance at the fed’s upcoming meetings.
8 million
6.87m still, powell’s announcement could
7 (March 28) mark a defining moment in his tenure
as chair, which began in early 2018 in
US initial jobless claims
6
the midst of the longest economic ex-
(seasonally adjusted)
5 pansion on record and has run straight
into the sharpest downturn since the
4
great depression. the fed raised rates
1m
3 212,000 (Aug. 22) nine times between 2015 and late
2
(Jan 4) 2018, with four of those increases un-
der powell’s watch, as it tried to guard
1 against inflation. price increases in-
stead stagnated, making the fed’s
0
moves seem like overkill and helping
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug
to inspire and inform the policy re-
view.
200,000 181,423
(March 28) the central bank is facing major
long-run challenges as price gains
prove tepid and as interest rates have
150,000
Mass. initial jobless claims slipped lower across advanced econo-
(not seasonally adjusted) mies including the united states, leav-
100,000
ing fed officials with less room to cut
borrowing costs and coax higher
9,464 17,157 growth following recessions. those
(Jan 4) (Aug. 22)
50,000
slow-burn problems are what prompt-
ed powell and his colleagues to revamp
their policy framework. at the same
0 time, the coronavirus pandemic has
created a significant short-run threat,
Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug
shuttering businesses and costing mil-
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis GEORGE PATISTEAS/GLOBE STAFF FeD, Page C11
Hotel party
brings state
warning for
Encore
By Andy Rosen
globe staff
the massachusetts gaming com-
mission said thursday that it had sent
encore boston Harbor a notice of non-
compliance with state coVid-19 stan-
dards after a large party in one of the
everett casino’s hotel suites had to be
broken up by police.
the regulatory body sent the notice
on aug. 20, four days after the party
sam doran/pool that authorities said drew more than
100 people. the state limits indoor
ents will be expected to keep their remote Education gatherings to eight people per 1,000
learners on track. Commissioner square feet, or a maximum of 25. com-
for straight talk on what we’re facing, i Jeff Riley said, mission staff added that encore had
went straight to the top of the k-12 food “The education responded quickly and had made
chain: state education commissioner Jeff sector owes a changes intended to make sure such
riley, who tried to assure me that the par- debt of an incident does not happen again.
ents will be all right. gratitude for commission chairwoman cathy
“the education sector owes a debt of families for Judd-stein emphasized that the regu-
gratitude for families for really diving in last really diving in latory body’s jurisdiction extends be-
leUnG, Page C10 last spring.” enCORe, Page C10
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talking points
INSURERS amazon unveiled its foray into the fitness wearables sector on thursday, and Boston-
based insurer John Hancock is on board for the ride. John Hancock is the first insurer
John Hancock
teams up with
to incorporate the new amazon Halo wristband into its life insurance products. the
Halo uses a mobile app to help people track their fitness through various measures,
such as steps, calories burned, or heart rate, as well as the quality of their sleep each
‘Liquid biopsy’
Amazon on its
new fitness
night. starting this fall, all new members of John Hancock’s Vitality Plus premium
wellness program will be able to get the Halo Band for free along with three years of from Foundation
wristband
Medicine gets OK
Halo membership, said Brooks tingle, president and ceo of John Hancock insurance.
(those participating in the free version of Vitality could also get the Halo for free if
they upgrade to Vitality Plus.) as another option, Hancock will also continue to offer
these members Fitbits for free, or apple Watches on a sliding cost scale based on well-
ness points achieved through the program. of Hancock’s roughly 1.5 million life insur- By Elizabeth Cooney the test also gauges micro-
stat satellite instability, a flaw in the
ance customers, about 70,000 are Vitality members, and most of those participate in
the Food and drug admin- cell’s ability to correct mistakes
the Vitality Plus program, which costs $2 a month, tingle said. He said amazon first
istration has approved a cam- that occur when dNa is copied
reached out to Hancock in late 2018 after the company announced it would make the bridge company’s comprehen- in the cell. that defect occurs
Vitality program available for all of its life policies going forward. tingle hinted there sive “liquid biopsy” most often in colorectal cancer,
could be other amazon-Hancock partnerships ahead. — JoN cHesto Stat platform that can de- gastric cancer, and endometrial
tect multiple kinds of cancer.
cancer and genomic alterations the liquid biopsy field is a
from pieces of tumor dNa cir- crowded one, with products
AUTOMOTIVE the us government’s road safety agency is offering a smartphone app that will alert culating in a patient’s blood. from thrive, grail, guardant,
drivers if their vehicles are recalled. the National Highway traffic safety administra- the Foundation Medicine test, and others.
NHTSA to offer tion was scheduled to roll out the free app for both android and apple phones thurs- designed to identify specific guardant Health won Fda
smartphone app day. owners key in or scan their 17-digit vehicle identification number, and the app
will search the agency’s database for recalls. if there is one, the app will send an alert,
types of cancer and match pa-
tients’ mutations to genetically
approval for its liquid biopsy
companion diagnostic using
to alert drivers the agency says. People also can add child seats, trailers, and tires, and the app will
targeted therapies, joins one next-generation sequencing

to recalls check those for recalls. — associated Press

approved earlier this month de-
veloped by guardant Health.
technology to identify patients
with specific mutations of the
the Fda has previously ap- egFr gene implicated in meta-
proved liquid biopsy tests for in- static non-small cell lung can-
HOUSING Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will ex- dividual cancers and as so-called cer. t he agenc y called the
companion diagnostics, which guardant360 cdx test the first
tend their suspension of mortgage
Fannie, Freddie foreclosures through at least the end
identify whether patients are
likely to benefit from a specific
to combine two technologies —
next-generation sequencing
extend of the year, providing more relief for
homeowners who are grappling with
targeted drug. Foundation Med- and liquid biopsy — in one di-
icine, a unit of swiss biopharma agnostic test in order to guide
moratorium the economic pain of the coronavi- roche, has won the agency’s sec- treatment decisions.
on foreclosures rus. Fannie and Freddie, which back- ond nod for a pan-cancer blood clinical trials of Founda-
stop about $5 trillion of home loans, assay, which combines liquid bi- tion’s platform have been re-
opsy with other kinds of testing ported at large cancer meet-
will also extend their moratorium on
to find more diagnostic and ge- ings, including last year’s san
evictions from real-estate owned
nomic biomarkers. antonio Breast cancer sympo-
properties until at least dec. 31, the on aug. 7 the Fda approved sium and the american society
Federal Housing Finance agency guardant360 cdx for profiling of clinical oncology confer-
said in a thursday statement. the relief on foreclosures and evictions were both set to multiple tumor mutations, also ence. For the virtual 2020 ver-
lapse at the end of the month. — BLooMBerg NeWs known as comprehensive ge- sion of asco in late May, 18 ab-
nomic profiling, in patients stracts from Foundation de-
with any solid tumor. scribed liquid biopsy testing in
cindy Perettie, Foundation’s a variety of cancers.
AVIATION Boeing’s grounded 737 Max jet took a major step toward ceo, called it “game-changing” a clinical trial of the testing
a return to flying after europe’s air-safety regulator said it to see the actionable genome in platform in patients with early
Retooled Boeing would send pilots to canada to conduct test flights, over- one look at a blood sample with triple-negative breast cancer
the test’s comprehensive pro- found that in patients who re-
737 Max coming coVid 19-related travel curbs. the european
union aviation safety agency will carry out the certifica-
file. ceived chemotherapy before
to undergo test tion flights from Vancouver in the week of sept. 7, easa
“Having multiple biomark-
ers, being better able to profile
they had surgery, detecting cir-
culating tumor dNa at that
flights said thursday. the tests will be preceded by simulator the tumor and then also contex- point predicted whether their
sessions in the uK this coming week. the Max, the latest tualize that with the best infor- disease came back, offering a
version of Boeing’s workhorse 737 series, was grounded mation possible, is really im- new way to assess risk.
worldwide in March 2019 after the two crashes killed portant,” said Brian alexander, Wednesday’s approval came
346 people. — BLooMBerg NeWs a neuro-radiation oncologist months after the Fda’s target
who is Foundation’s chief medi- date for the decision, but Foun-
cal officer. “doctors and pa- dation said in a statement that
tients have to make tradeoff de- the so-called MduFa date is “a
BANKING Barclays top shareholder stepped up his campaign to oust chief executive Jes staley, cisions all the time. We see our- timing goal and not a commit-
pointing to a subpoena that requires JPMorgan chase & co. to hand over staley’s com- selves as a company informing ment.”
Activist investor munications with deceased sex offender Jeffrey epstein. activist edward Bramson said that entire decision.”
one challenge for the liquid
Foundation works with bio-
pharma companies during drug
invokes Jeffrey in a letter sent to his investors this week and seen by Bloomberg News that the request
could further damage Barclays’s reputation. authorities in the us Virgin islands de-
biopsy platform is to find more development and also sells its
Epstein in effort manded the information in May from JPMorgan, staley’s former employer, as part of
mutations than a standard tis-
sue biopsy can, to cement an
tests to physicians. the new
platform will cost $5,800 per
to oust CEO their investigation into epstein. — BLooMBerg NeWs advantage beyond the ease of patient, a price that falls to
drawing a blood sample com- $3,800 for patients on Medi-
pared to taking tissue from a tu- care, which the company antici-
mor. according to results pre- pates will cover the test. the
COSMETICS cosmetics maker coty reported worse-than-ex-
sented at last year’s american company said the test will be
pected results in its fourth quarter, posting a association for cancer re- available to order from its web-
Coty struggles $1.2 billion drop in sales year on year as con- search meeting, the Foundation site as of Friday.
with pandemic sumers stuck at home during the pandemic
skipped beauty-product purchases. after a brutal
platform did so in neuroblasto-
ma. studies to demonstrate its
the new test provides “in-
formation to understand how
sales drop, even spring and summer with many on lockdown superiority in other cancers are aggressive a tumor is going to
with the around the united states and the world, the
ongoing.
the Foundationone Liquid
be or whe ther or not it re-
sponds to a drug through a
Kardashians owner of Max Factor and covergirl said things
are starting to turn around, albeit slowly. the
test searches for more than 300 comprehensive profiling of the
genes implicated in various tumor, rather than knowing
company saw sales get gradually better from types of cancer. it also measures one thing about one drug or
april through June, with ‘‘significant improvements’’ in July and august, it said. coty the tumor mutational burden, one thing about the tumor,” al-
has also tied its fortunes more closely to the Kardashian family, investing a combined which is correlated with how exander said. “Whether it re-
$800 million in cosmetics lines by Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian West in the hopes well a patient responds to treat- sponds to one drug is, i think,
ments, especially checkpoint probably not sufficient any-
of appealing to younger customers. — BLooMBerg NeWs
inhibitors. those immunother- more.”
apies work by releasing the
brakes on immune cells, and Elizabeth Cooney can be
WEALTH a group of multimillionaire investors in the united states are hoarding cash at unprec- they tend to work best in can- reached at elizabeth.cooney
edented levels. tiger 21, a club of more than 800 investors, reported thursday that its cers with many mutations. @statnews.com.
Rich investors members have raised their cash holdings to 19 percent of their total assets on concerns
bulk up their over the economic consequences of the pandemic in the united states. that’s up from

cash reserves
about 12 percent since the start of the pandemic. about a quarter now expect the crisis
to continue until the end of next June, the group said. — BLooMBerg NeWs More companies pledge to
give workers time to vote
E-COMMERCE Walmart inc. is divesting two more of its online brands, continuing its strategy of jetti-
By Dee-Ann Durbin four hours off. coca-cola, twit-
soning some of the digital assets it has acquired in recent years to focus on its main associated Press ter, cisco, and uber are giving
Walmart to sell website. the world’s biggest retailer is selling footwear website shoes.com to private- a growing number of us employees the day off.
two of its online equity firm criticalPoint capital, while lingerie brand Bare Necessities will be acquired
by delta galil industries Ltd., an israeli apparel maker that also owns the 7 for all
companies are pledging to give
workers time off to vote in the
“No american should have
to choose between earning a
brands Mankind denim business. terms of the deals were not disclosed. the divestments fol- presidential election this No- paycheck and voting,” said Pay-
vember, an effort that’s gaining Pal president and ceo dan
low Walmart’s sale of indie apparel brand Modcloth in october, and its decision earlier
steam despite the government’s schulman.
this year to shutter the Jet.com e-commerce site. Walmart will continue to sell items
reluctance to make election the idea isn’t entirely new.
from Bare Necessities and shoes.com through its third-party marketplace site, which day a federal holiday. general Motors, Ford, and Fi-
carries products from a wide variety of merchants. — BLooMBerg NeWs starbucks said thursday it atchrysler have given employ-
will give its 200,000 us employ- ees the day off to vote since
ees flexibility on election day, 1999, when they agreed to the
encouraging them to plan change in a contract with the
LITIGATION Bayer’s $11 billion settlement of thousands of us lawsuits over its roundup weed killer
a h e ad w i t h m a n a ge r s a n d united auto Workers union.
is less defined than the company disclosed, a judge overseeing the suits said. He threat- schedule time to vote or volun- But this year, the idea is
Bayer’s $11b ened to lift a pause on the litigation and let it move forward. us district Judge Vince teer at polling places. the star- gaining steam. six hundred
settlement chabbria forcefully criticized the company’s description of the settlement in June and
said during a hearing thursday he’s inclined to make public several confidential letters
bucks app will also help cus-
tomers learn how to register to
companies, including Lyft,
airbnb, and Paramount, have
of Roundup suits from consumer lawyers complaining that Bayer’s Monsanto unit is reneging on the vote, the company said. signed on to electionday.org,
could be in deal. William Hoffman, a lawyer for Bayer, told the judge he thought the negotiations
Walmart says it will give its
1.5 million us workers up to
which asks companies to give
employees time off to vote or
trouble were “on the road to a comprehensive solution,” but that there had been “a speed
bump, a slight hiccup” in the process. — BLooMBerg NeWs
three hours paid time off to distribute information on vot-
vote. apple is giving workers ing.
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yond the gaming floor and into
other aspects of casinos’ business —
including hotels. she said encore
and other facilities must adhere to
the strict limits put in place as a con-
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dition of reopening after a four-
month closure spurred by the pan-
demic.
“the stakes are too high for any-
thing but full compliance with those
safety standards,” Judd-stein said
during a commission meeting held
via teleconference thursday.
encore said previously that it has
implemented new standards to keep
hotel rooms from becoming over-
crowded. the casino said it would
levy a $3,000 fine against guests
with more than four people in a
room or eight in a two-bedroom
suite. the resort said it has also
stepped up security patrols and is
aggressively monitoring how much
food and drink is being brought up
to rooms.
state Police officers, who broke
up the party, said a 23-year-old
dracut man faces a criminal sum-
mons for allegedly disturbing the
peace. He also could be fined $500
for violations of state Covid-19
rules.
according to gaming commis-
sion staff, the host of the party rent-
ed the room on aug. 15, received
three key cards, and then began
bringing people up in small groups.
around midnight, someone called
hotel management to report that
they saw posts on social media
showing a party attended by about
100 people.
soon after, a butler at encore re-
ported that he had made a delivery
to the suite and saw that it was over
capacity, commission staff said, and
management called the room to or-
der the host to clear out his guests.
the commission said 36 people left
at that time, but the party contin-
ued. someone else then called man-
agement, threatening to alert the
board of health.
at about 3 a.m. on aug. 16, en-
core security alerted state Police. at
that time, the police said, there were
still about 110 people partying, “in-
cluding a dJ and adult dancers,”
plus “a large amount of alcohol.”
Commission member gayle
Cameron said during the meeting
that it is clear that encore needed
stronger standards.
“this is much more serious than
a guest being disturbed by noise,
and certainly whatever measures
they had before were not effective
enough,” she said.
state regulators monitoring the
casino told the commission encore
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management made significant ef- The Encore
forts to shore up safety following the said it would
party. levy a $3,000
bruce band, assistant director of fine against
investigations and enforcement, guests with
noted that several people had can- more than four
celed their reservations at the front people in a
desk when they were told of the room or eight
strict rules on gatherings. encore in a two-
has also broken up several smaller bedroom suite.
gatherings that did not violate state
standards but were above the casi-
no’s own limits.
“encore seems to be holding fast
to their new rules and really sticking
to their guns about what they’re try-
ing to get their guests to abide by
them,” band said. “i was impressed,
because that’s not easy to do with
your loyal guests.”
Andy Rosen can be reached at
andrew.rosen@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @andyrosen.

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spring during this pandemic,” riley
said.
that was a good way to start our
conversation, but then the reality of
education in the age of Covid-19
set in. riley confirmed that remote
learning will be “more robust” than
the spring. the good news: your
kids will actually be learning some-
thing. the bad news: Parents will
still need to help.
“we’ve issued strong guidance
about how to ramp up the educa-
tional experience for kids,” said ri-
ley. “while that will never complete-
ly absolve parents from having to be
involved, we hope they have to be
less involved than last spring with
this guidance.”
to which, i replied: “really?”
“we are going to put out more
guidance that will allow for a better
experience for both students, teach-
ers, and families,” riley added.
that’s not exactly the same as
saying parents won’t become part-
time teachers and/or part-time it
workers again. each child is differ-
ent; some will need more hand-
holding, while others are quite inde-
pendent.
i believe riley when he says it’s
possible for the experience to be bet-
ter than the spring only because it
was so awful then. but the longer
duration is what might send parents
over the edge: nine months of some
form of remote learning versus three
months.
even with about 70 percent of
school districts in massachusetts go-
ing hybrid or in-person, that still
leaves a lot of students taking classes
online. this is the hybrid schedule
for my kids: two half-days one week,
three half-days the other week. that
works out to six to nine hours of in-
person instruction a week, while the
rest is remote. the logistics of in-
person instruction alone (8:35 a.m.
to 11:35 a.m.) are enough to drive a
working parent batty.
for those parents who are able to
work remotely, being worried about
finding the time to help with your
kids’ online classes can feel like a
first-world problem. Parents whose
jobs don’t allow them to work from
home are in a much more precari-
ous situation. that is why more than
ever employers need to step up to
help with this pandemic-induced
child care crisis, in the form of such
things as flexible schedules and in-
creased subsidies. the impact on
workplaces is real: a recent
Care.com survey of working parents
found that if schools don’t reopen
fully and stay open, 73 percent said
that they may have to make major
changes at work, including amend-
ing their schedule and or even quit-
ting.
what gnaws at me is how stu-
dents, parents, and teachers will
launch a herculean effort to get
through this abnormal school year,
yet it will pale in comparison to
what could have been.
“education is not going to be the
same right now as it was pre-pan-
demic. but the more students can
get into class [in person], the better
the educational quality is going to
be,” riley said. “remote learning
can work, and it can be effective. i
don’t think it can be as effective as
in-person instruction.”
teachers unions, however, have
fought tooth and nail to start the
school year remotely because they
are concerned about safety. data
and many doctors support reopen-
ing most massachusetts schools for
some in-person instruction. i can’t
help but wonder how much of this is
really about public health and how ‘Remote
Markets
much is politics.
”some have questioned the moti- learning
vations of the teachers unions,” said can work,
riley. “i don’t think it would be ap-
propriate for me to say one way or and it can S&P 500 pushes record higher
the other.”
but riley didn’t shy away from
be the s&P 500 ticked further into record territory on thurs-
pointing out that based on the data, effective. I day after the federal reserve made a major overhaul to its
more school districts should be of- strategy, one that could keep interest rates low for longer.
fering in-person instruction. Just don’t the benchmark index rose 0.2 percent, to another all-time
compare massachusetts with Con-
necticut, two states with seven-day
think it high, but it veered through a jumbled day of trading to get
there. the dow Jones industrial average climbed 160.35
positivity rates well below 5 percent, can be as points, or 0.6 percent, to 28,492.27 after fading back from
according to Johns Hopkins univer- an earlier gain of 302 points. the nasdaq composite, mean-
sity. only 70 percent of massachu- effective while, fell 39.72 points, or 0.3 percent, to 11,625.34. the
setts districts are offering some in- as in- benchmark s&P 500 gained 5.82 points to 3,484.55 to set a
person instruction, while 98 percent closing record for the fifth straight day. it’s surged nearly 56
of Connecticut districts are. person percent since late march. abbott laboratories jumped 7.8
“one would ask why our num-
bers are going to be lower than that,
instruc- percent for one of the biggest gains in the s&P 500 after
federal regulators gave emergency use authorization for its
and i think it is because of the teach- tion.’ Covid-19 test, which can provide results in 15 minutes
ers unions,” said riley. and will cost only $5. stocks of companies that sorely need
riley delayed the start of the Jeff riley people feeling comfortable enough with the pandemic to
school year to give teachers an addi- Education get back to “normal” life were also strong. live nation en-
tional 10 days of training to prepare commissioner tertainment rose 8.8 percent, norwegian Cruise line was
for their return. for those with child up 5.9 percent, and united airlines rallied 5.8 percent.
care issues, riley issued guidelines
last week that teachers in districts DOW JONES industrial average
with remote learning be allowed to
bring their children to school with
them, and that children of teachers
get priority, along with high-need
students, for full-time, in-person in-
struction.
“we want to support our teach-
ers,” said riley.
riley himself has two children at-
tending public schools. He said
when their schools are ready for in-
person instruction, “i’m sending my
kids back.”
if being in school is good enough
for Jeff riley’s kids, it should be
good enough for the rest of us.
NASDAQ Composite index
Shirley Leung is a Business
columnist. She can be reached at
shirley.leung@globe.com.

Walmart joins Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok

By Mike Isaac
new york times
san franCisCo — the
race to buy tiktok took another
turn thursday when walmart
said it was teaming up with mi-
crosoft on a potential bid for
the popular Chinese-owned vid-
eo app.
the discussions are ongo-
ing, and other suitors are in-
volved, said two people close to
the deal talks, who were not au-
thorized to speak publicly. it is
unclear which companies will
ultimately secure a deal, though
tiktok will likely make a deci-
sion in the coming days, they
said.
in a statement, walmart
said, “we are confident that a
walmart and microsoft part-
nership would meet both the
expectations of us tiktok users
while satisfying the concerns of
us government regulators.”
tiktok declined to com-
ment, and microsoft did not
immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment. CnbC earli-
er reported walmart’s partici-
pation.
tiktok, which is owned by
the Chinese internet company
bytedance, has been under
pressure from the trump ad-
ministration, which has be-
come increasingly tough on
China. white House officials
have said that tiktok poses a
national security threat because
it could provide data about us
users to beijing. this month,
President trump signed an ex-
ecutive order mandating that
tiktok sell its us operations by
mid-september or cease trans-
actions within the country.
microsoft has been talking
with tiktok and bytedance for
weeks about a potential acquisi-
tion, people with knowledge of
the talks have said. they initial-
ly discussed microsoft taking
just a minority stake in tiktok,
before the scope of a deal bal-
looned.
Prices for a potential deal
have ranged from $20 billion to
$50 billion, the people with
knowledge of the talks said.
microsoft, with $137 billion
in cash and a market value of
more than $1.7 trillion, is far
larger than other potential ac-
quirers and has the deepest re-
sources.
dan ives, an analyst at wed-
bush securities, said in a note
to investors that the participa-
tion of walmart was likely “the
final piece of the puzzle that ul-
timately cements microsoft suc-
cessfully acquiring tiktok’s us
operations for likely $35 billion
to $40 billion.”
late wednesday, kevin may-
er, tiktok’s chief executive, said
he was resigning from the com-
pany because he had signed on S&P 500 index
for a global role. He alluded to
how the app’s global structure
would likely change given all
the political criticism. in a note
to employees, he also indicated
that a deal for tiktok might be
close.
“we expect to reach a resolu-
tion very soon,” mayer wrote.
Zhang yiming, bytedance’s
chief executive, said in his own
note that bytedance and tik-
tok were moving swiftly to re-
solve its issues in the united
states and india, where the app
was banned in June. SOURCE: Bloomberg News
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lions of people their jobs.
Powell’s announcement cod-
ifies a critical change in how the
central bank tries to achieve its
twin goals of maximum em-
ployment and stable inflation
— one that could inform how
the Fed sets monetary policy in
the wake of the pandemic-in-
duced recession.
the Fed had long raised
rates as joblessness fell to avoid
an economic overheating that
might result in breakaway infla-
tion — the boogeyman that has
haunted monetary policy ever
since price gains hit double-dig-
it levels in the 1970s. but the
Fed’s updated framework rec-
ognizes that too low inflation is
now the problem, rather than
too high.
“it seems like a pretty subtle
shift to most normal human be-
ings,” said Janet yellen, the for-
mer Fed chair. but “most of the
Fed’s histor y has revolved
around keeping inflation under
control. this really does reflect
a decisive recognition that
we’re in a very different envi-
ronment.”
the Fed’s revised statement
says that its policies will be in-
formed by “shortfalls” of em-
ployment from its maximum
level, rather than by “devia-
tions” — suggesting that the
central bank is no longer plan-
ning to raise rates to cool off the
economy simply because unem-
ployment has dipped to low lev-
els.
the central bank is also for-
mally shifting its inflation ap-
proach, aiming to average 2
percent inflation over time,
rather than as an absolute goal.
in doing so, the Fed is trying to
convince the public and inves-
tors that it will allow prices to
rise a little bit faster. if public
inflation expectations slip, it
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in
Washington, D.C., pictured on Aug. 18.
like an odd goal to anyone who
buys milk or pays rent, but ex-
cessively weak price gains can
actually have damaging effects
on the economy. a circle of stag-
nation has played out in coun-
tries including Japan, in which
lower price gains leave less
room to cut rates, limiting poli-
cymakers’ ability to stimulate
the economy and resurrect in-
flation.
“we are certainly mindful
that higher prices for essential
items, such as food, gasoline,
and shelter, add to the burdens
faced by many families, espe-
cially those struggling with lost
jobs and incomes,” Powell said.
“However, inflation that is per-
sistently too low can pose seri-
ous risks to the economy.”
in a question-and-answer
session after the speech, Powell
said the Fed was “talking about
inflation moving moderately.”
if the Fed can achieve slight-
ly higher price gains, it will
translate into more room for fu-
ture rate cuts — and buying
that extra headroom is a crucial
goal in 2020. long-running
economic changes, such as an
aging population with different
erin scott/bloomberg news
edged toward over the past de-
cade. the Fed was patient in be-
ginning to lift interest rates fol-
lowing the recession from 2007
to 2009, even as unemployment
fell.
when it did start to raise
borrowing costs in late 2015,
under yellen, it did so slowly.
under Powell’s leadership,
the Fed has increasingly em-
phasized the benefits of that
strong labor market, which
pulled long-sidelined workers
into jobs and helped to foster
strong wage growth for those
who earn the least.
yellen, who has long argued
that a strong labor market
could boost marginalized
groups, said the Fed’s shift is
“great” and “a recognition that
tight labor markets are benefi-
cial.”
the long-run document
promises that the central bank
will continue to hold reviews,
roughly every five years, and
will continue to consult the
public as it has done over the
past year through its “Fed lis-
tens” events.
“Public faith in large institu-
tions around the world is under
Here’s where we stand on the future
of the economy and unemployment
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ment.
where does the job market
go from here? will the govern-
ment come through with more
money to bulk up unemploy-
ment pay? Here are some im-
portant things to watch as the
summer winds down.
COVID-19 cases
the economy’s future will
be driven largely by the course
of the pandemic.
the shutdown of all but es-
sential businesses triggered the
biggest drop in gross domestic
product on record. the output
of goods and services contract-
ed by 31.7 percent during the
april-June quarter, the com-
merce department reported
thursday, slightly less than its
original estimate in July. some
22 million jobs disappeared in
march and april.
Hiring recovered as states
began to reopen, with 13 mil-
lion jobs filled in the past three
months, but the pace slowed as
coVid -19 cases surged in
many part of the country.
consumer spending, which
powers two-thirds of the econ-
omy, will not fully recover until
people feel safe getting on a
plane or train, going to movies
and sporting events, and re-
turning in large numbers to
their offices.
and until that time, unem-
ployment will remain at elevat-
ed levels.
Long-term unemployment
rates
while nationally, weekly
jobless claims have dropped
dramatically from their peak of
6.6 million in april, they con-
tinue at a rate far higher than
the previous record of 695,000
in 1982. and thursday’s report
from bls showed a growing
number of people struggling to
find work.
the number of claims for
extended federal coverage,
which provides up to an addi-
tional 13 weeks of benefits,
climbed by 119,000 to 1.4 mil-
lion in the week ended aug. 8,
the latest data available. in
massachusetts, more than
100,000 people have requested
the federal extension.
Enhanced jobless benefits
as part of the cares act
passed in march, congress au-
thorized $600 a week in en-
hanced unemployment com-
pensation. the money, which
played a vital role in keeping
f a m i l i es a n d t h e e c on o my
afloat, stopped flowing at the
e n d o f Ju l y a s l a w m a k e r s
couldn’t agree on an extension.
President trump subse-
quently steered up to $44 bil-
lion from the Federal emergen-
cy management agency for a
$300-a-week supplement .
while better than nothing, the
Fema allocation is a short-
term fix for what is expected to
be a long stretch of high unem-
ployment. the Federal reserve
forecasts that 2020 will end
with the jobless rate at 9.3 per-
cent, dropping to 6.5 percent —
almost double the level prior to
the pandemic — by the end of
the following year.
Massachusetts benefits
massachusetts is one of 34
states that has been approved
by Fema to pay the extra $300
a week. it was allocated almost
$645 million to cover the
weeks ended aug. 1, aug. 8,
and aug. 15, according to a
summary of the award memo
from Fema.
the state hasn’t said when it
will begin sending out the bo-
nus, which is being funded
through Fema’s disaster relief
fund. delivery hinges on mak-
ing upgrades to its computer
systems.
the baker administration
also hasn’t said how long it will
be able to pay the extra cash. it
will have to apply weekly to Fe-
ma. based on recently unem-
ployment levels, the $44 billion
the agency is authorized to dis-
tribute would last about 5
weeks.
the Fema bonus is sup-
posed to go to people who re-
ceive at least $100 a week in
state benefits. the state
couldn’t say what percentage of
recipients meet that threshold.
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Anything—and anywhere
Top: Tony V. performs at Giggles Comedy Club’s
outdoor tent, which has been set up in the Saugus
venue’s parking lot. Above: Emcee Greg Howell cleans
the mic before introducing the next comic.
photography
At Currier Museum,
mighty images from
the civil rights era
By Mark Feeney
Globe staff
Manchester, n.h. – rac-
ism is an abstraction. Its conse-
quences are anything but ab-
stract, though they tend to be
visible only to its victims. ralph
ellison knew just what he was
doing in giving his great novel
the title “Invisible Man.” this
ostensible invisibility has
meant that the photographic
image, whether moving or still,
has played a vital role in open-
ing eyes and changing hearts
and minds. the George floyd
movies
absurdly
charming
Keanu Reeves
and Alex Winter
reprise their
decades-old roles
in ‘Bill & Ted Face
the Music’
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photos by Josh reynolds for the boston Globe
—for a laugh By Nick A. Zaino III
Globe correspondent
With most clubs assuming they have an iphone or a car to take them to the nearest drive-in
still closed, show, fans of live comedy have a lot of new ways to get their laughs during
the pandemic. they also have almost none of the traditional choices that
comics are would have been normal just a few months ago.
reaching comedy
Most indoor clubs around the region are shut down, in-
cluding laugh boston, Improv asylum, the comedy studio,
audiences Improvboston, and nick’s. the Wilbur, one of the busiest comedy stages in
outdoors and town, has rescheduled or canceled numerous dates. Joe rogan’s october
show at the td Garden has been pushed back a year. comics come home,
online the annual charity show hosted by denis leary that was supposed to take
place at the Garden in november, was canceled in July.
fans and practitioners alike have spent the past several months getting
comedy, page g2
movies
‘Ghost Tropic’:
a long night
yet a surpassing
video is just the most shocking
recent instance. the Jacob
sense of peace
blake video is the latest.
there are only 10 images in By Ty Burr
T
“photographs from the civil Globe staff
rights Movement.” they come he depths of night in a city — the hours be-
from the permanent collection tween, say, midnight and dawn — have their
of the currier Museum of art. own community, their own sense of time. If
the show, curated by the curri- you’re awake, you’re probably working; if you’re
er ’s Kurt sundstrom, runs working, it’s because you have to; if you have to,
through dec. 31. you’re possibly an immigrant, taking jobs the native-born
that small size is a virtue, al- can afford to sleep through. the streets are empty yet there’s
lowing for close and sustained a solidarity of night clerks and custodians, security guards
attention. nor does lack of and cab drivers; young people breaking free of parents and
cUrrIer MUseUM of art
quantity mean lack of quality. bedtimes. the minutes stretch out like silly putty. anything
currier, page g3 Ernest Withers’s “Daddy, I Want to Be Free Too,” 1961. can happen, or very little.
“Ghost tropic,” available as a virtual screening via the
brattle theatre, is a movie where very little yet a great deal
happens. the third film from the belgian director bas de-
vos, it’s about a cleaning lady crossing brussels by foot in the
Inside
‘‘ghost tropic,’’ page g4
Art movies
picturing past meets
strength present
‘Heirloom’ Armando Iannucci
exhibition wraps whimsically
Black Bostonians adapts Dickens in
with the wonders ‘The Personal
of pre-colonial History of David
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what’s happening (digitally) in the arts world

music dara Jammott hosts this show

with tawanda gona, norlex Bel-
ma, Jamal richardson, norah
yahya, caitlin Peluffo, and nick
Pop, Folk & World simmons to benefit the stanley
Manning vocal Music scholar-
ROCK ’N’ ROLL RUMBLE TAKE- ship at syracuse university. Aug.
OVER the time-honored battle of 28, 7 p.m. Free. Search “Zoomed
the Boston bands takes over once Out!” on www.eventbrite.com
Ballroom’s virtual venue this
weekend with two nights of rum- VIRTUALLY THE SAME the
ble content — first a night of comedy studio has started doing
rumble-related music videos and its flagship show three nights a
more curated by anngelle Wood, week, bringing in comics from
then a triple bill of rumble alum- around the country. friday,
ni and contestants-to-be. Aug. 28 they’ve got dan crohn, Harrison
and 29. Free, donations encour- greenbaum, shafi Hossain, giu-
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ZoË Madonna saturday, drew dunn, Kathleen
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Classical ma Willmann. sunday, chanel
ali, Big d, christian finnegan,
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Boston symphony orchestra per-
forming Beethoven’s ninth sym- KING GONG ONLINE the come-
phony in grand digital fashion. dy store in Manchester, england,
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carlo guerrero conducting the now streaming live on facebook
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wood festival chorus, and a
quartet of vocal soloists. it will be
broadcast on the Pittsfield com-
mon on aug. 28 in a series of four
screenings limited to 50 people
each. and it’s already streaming
free through the virtual festival’s
portal. you can watch knowing
something that audiences did not
know at the time: this would be
Malcolm lowe’s final perfor-
mance as the orchestra’s concert-
master of over three decades (he
announced his retirement shortly
afterward). www.tanglewood.org
JereMy eicHler
Judges are randomly selected
from the Zoom audience, and if
all three bang the gong (or raise
the explosive rapper is sitting pretty atop the Billboard chart with “WaP,” a dream team collaboration with cardi B that their card), the unlucky comic is
done. Hosted by adam rowe.
made for the raunchiest no. 1 in the chart’s history — and now the Houston Hottie is joining the paid-stream tide with her
Aug. 31, 4 p.m. Free. www.the-
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Theater
PRIDE 10-MINUTE VIRTUAL
THEATER FESTIVAL new rep’s
artistic director Michael Bobbitt
and award-winning artist lady
dane figueroa edidi wrote plays
for the theater offensive’s Pride
10-Minute virtual theater festi-
val, viewable aug. 28. Bobbitt’s
“tam’s two dads” is a shadow
play for young audiences to talk
about loving communities of
queer and gender fluid people,
while edidi’s “the dance of
Memories” traces the struggles of
a Black trans woman navigating
life and love during the pandem-
adolf Hitler. the play will have a
reading on gloucester stage
company’s neverdark series
sept. 3-6. noted shakespearean
actor Malcolm ingram plays
chamberlain, while Ken Bolden
plays Hitler. www.gloucester-
stage.com
FRONT PORCH@STARLIGHT
some of Boston’s favorite musical
theater artists perform cabaret
sept. 2-6 at starlight square in
central square, cambridge. sher-
ee dunwell (lyric stage’s “little
shop of Horrors”), carolyn saxon
(central square theater’s “black
odyssey Boston”), dwayne P.
Dance
terry Byrne
THE LAND ON WHICH WE
DANCE Jacob’s Pillow sits on
land with deep connections to
the agawam, nipmuc, Pocumtuc,
and Mohican people. to honor
those roots, the festival hosted a
weeklong celebration of indige-
nous dance, song, and storytell-
ing last summer. until the end of
this month, the festival’s youtube
channel is hosting a virtual one-
year anniversary tribute featur-
ing excerpts of that momentous
gathering. Through Aug. 31.
Karen caMPBell
profiles of its impressive array of
artists, shot while in quarantine.
did i say impressive? Pick from
Mark Bradford, george condo,
avery singer, and plenty more. i
especially enjoyed the recent visit
with luchita Hurtado, the vene-
zuelan-born, los-angeles-based
artist who died this month at age
99. remarkably, she had her first
blush of fame just last year when
her first-ever retrospective trav-
eled from london’s serpentine
gallery to the los angeles county
Museum. Hurtado offers some-
thing we could all benefit from in
this strange time: perspective, de-
termination, and the long, long
view. www.youtube.com/
HauserWirth1
Murray WHyte
versity, through the giddily ab-
stracted Maine landscapes of the
1990s and 2000s, to the portraits
he painted as his hand began to
fail him, he always went where
his paint took him. in person and
online. Through Oct. 10. Cove
Street Arts, 71 Cove St., Portland,
Maine. 207-808-8911, www.cove-
streetarts.com/exhibitions-1/im-
ber-retrospective
cate McQuaid
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and celebrity readings of “Harry
Potter and the sorcerer’s stone.”
george Weasley and lucius Mal-
foy may even make an appear-
ance. Aug. 28 to 31, 8 a.m. Free.
www.wizardingworld.com
BABY IN TUNE if your family is
in the mood for some tunes, mu-
sician vered plays kid-friendly
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it’s a good time to take a break in
the day to dance, shake, and
jump. Sept. 2, 3:30 p.m. Free.
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used to virtual comedy on facebook,
instagram, twitch, and Zoom. online
comedy is still burgeoning, but in-per-
son comedy started coming back in
June as phased openings advanced
around new england. giggles comedy
club in saugus opened a tent. stages
popped up at drive-in theaters and
converted parking lots. the Worcester
Beer garden Pavilion is doing socially
distanced comedy outdoors, including
shows with Kelly Macfarland and
robert Kelly in september. the scene
is in perpetual transition with no sense
of when “normal” might return.
some comedians have been waiting
it out until they can get in front of an
audience they can see and hear. others
have embraced the technology and are
creating their own opportunities.
Boston comic corey rodrigues has
enjoyed both the virtual and in-person
worlds. He developed “corey’s stories,”
a charming kids’ show, for youtube
and facebook and continues to do
stand-up online while also performing
at clubs and drive-ins. He logged his
first in-person shows in June at Mohe-
gan sun in connecticut with a socially-
distanced, reduced-capacity audience.
“i have a very tolerant attitude towards
all of this, you know?” he says. “this is
my living, this is my profession. this is
what i love to do.”
christine Hurley has played every-
thing from small clubs to comics
come Home at the td garden over her
16-year career in stand-up, but the
new environment has meant constant
adjustment. “you’re not getting any
immediate gratification back,” she
says. “you can’t hear the laughter. i’d
have to have two good stiff highballs
before i did a Zoom.”
she has been doing in-person
shows again at giggles and WooHaHa,
the Worcester Beer garden Pavilion’s
comedy club, but she had to knock off
some rust, and found audiences were a
bit hesitant at first. “i was a wreck be-
cause i was out of practice. it was
tough,” she says. “i’m grateful to be
back doing live shows, but it’s not the
same.”
those club owners who are doing
in-person shows have to keep up with
state and local safety guidelines. But
for some, that’s the only way forward.
Mike clarke, owner of giggles comedy
club, is no fan of online shows. He
wants his comedians to have a proper
stage, sound, and lighting, and most
importantly, audience feedback. so he
set up a tent at his route 1 club and
seats groups of four to six together
with limited capacity. “after being
open 31 years, i didn’t want my legacy
to be ruined by a virus,” he says. “i have
no intentions of going under or clos-
ing. i’m just trying to adapt. things
change weekly, monthly.”
‘I have a very tolerant
attitude towards all of
this, you know? This is
my living, this is my
profession. This is
what I love to do.’
corey rodrigues, Boston comic
rodrigues has heard comics com-
plaining about not being able to play
full rooms, but he’s not one of them.
“you can’t have a full crowd. so what?
you still go in and rock it.”
drive-in shows have become a pop-
ular alternative to theater shows, some
featuring national headliners such as
nikki glaser, who plays the yarmouth
drive-in saturday, and Jim Breuer,
who does a show at the cheshire fair-
Rick Jenkins of the Comedy Studio introduces a virtual show.
grounds in swanzey, n.H., sept. 4. it’s
an unusual environment for comedi-
ans accustomed to reading an audi-
ence by the sound of their laughter or
the looks on their faces. the perform-
ers are projected on a big screen and
their audio is piped into the cars.
Horns beeping and lights flashing re-
place laughter and applause.
norm laviolette is owner of improv
asylum in the north end and co-own-
er of laugh Boston in the seaport, nei-
ther of which are currently open for in-
person shows. He has produced and
hosted a drive-in show, and appreci-
ates how the comedians have adapted.
“they’re the ones that have to step up,
look around, not hear the laughter,
hope that their audio is going into the
cars,” he says.
Boston stand-up comic lamont
Price is sticking to online shows for
now, reevaluating the scene every cou-
ple of weeks. He jokes that he may
have wished the Zoom comedy trend
into existence. “i’d be like, ‘Man if ever
there came the day where i could just
skype myself in and not leave the
house, that’s what i’m looking forward
to,’ ” he says. “now here we are.”
He misses getting onstage, but he
misses hanging out with his fellow
comics even more. “that, to me, is the
real show,” he says.
earning a living is another worry.
some online shows pay a stipend, but
many comics are depending on the
tips they can get during their spots by
mentioning their venmo or PayPal ad-
dresses. Price mentions that back in
March, a lot of comics thought they
might be out of work for maybe a
month. “it’s starting to get a little
tight,” he says.
Private gigs have dried up, too,
which has taken a big bite out of Hur-
ley’s earnings. “a lot of people would
say ‘come do my husband’s birthday
party, come do a baby shower,’ ” she
says. “that’s done. those are gone. . . .
i figure i’ve probably lost $40,000 in
income by not having those.”
after an awkward initial stage, on-
line shows are starting to look better.
stand-ups are figuring out lighting and
sound and finding their way through
the lack of audience response. “come-
dians seem to be adapting to it,” says
rick Jenkins, owner of the comedy
studio in somerville. “i think at first a
lot of comedians who are more estab-
lished and have been around a long
time felt it was artificial and didn’t
want to bother. But now it looks like
it’s going to be here to stay. Being able
to work on a computer is now part of
the job.”
in august, the studio increased its
live offerings online and now has
shows almost every day of the week. in
some ways, according to Jenkins,
Zoom shows can be even more inti-
mate than an in-person show. “you are
having a one-to-one conversation
now,” he says, “instead of speaking to a
big, wide room.”
laviolette says one or two online
shows a week won’t help a club’s bot-
tom line much. still, laugh Boston is
experimenting with ways to put on a
professional show and expects to offer
a full virtual schedule with national
headliners sometime in the fall —
events that he expects to continue even
after the club eventually reopens. “i
think where the payoff for this technol-
ogy is going to be is that this is here to
stay, and there is going to be, for a long
time, large amounts of people that just
don’t want to go out,” he says.
clubs also aren’t as limited by re-
gion anymore. anyone can watch an
online show from flappers comedy
club in Burbank, calif., acme comedy
co. in Minneapolis, or nowhere come-
dy club, which exists only online. Jen-
kins hopes to move the comedy studio
toward the national spotlight and “in-
crease the viewership to the point
where we’re a viable comedy club
again.”
the virtual comedy landscape will
continue to change as bigger players
step in and figure out ways to improve
the look of the shows and optimize
profits. “as the larger clubs start to fig-
ure it out, there’ll just be more compe-
tition and there’ll be more marketing
dollars behind it from the bigger clubs
and the bigger brands,” says laviolette.
“We all have to figure this out. and
we’re all investing in it.”
Nick A. Zaino III can be reached
at nick@nickzaino.com.
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classical albums
A bridge to
the artists
we love
By David Weininger
globe correspondent
the classical music world en-
dures in a state of suspension, with
the occasional live music event pro-
viding the occasional feint toward
normalcy. even though fully fledged
concert life seems dispiritingly far
away, excellent recordings of every
stripe continue to appear. Here are a
few recent releases of local interest
that will hopefully ameliorate our
ongoing isolation, and compensate
for the persistent silence in our con-
cert venues.
robert hoNsteiN: soul house,
hub New music (New Amsterdam)
presumably without knowing it in
advance, robert Honstein has crafted
the perfect music for our quarantine
moment. How many of us have spent
the spring and summer holed up at
home, growing ever more impatient
with our confinement? if you need a
cure for the feeling of being trapped in
your domicile, here is “soul House,” an
ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous
Wrapping Black Boston
with the wonders
of pre-colonial Africa
By Cate McQuaid
globe correspondent
images of george Floyd’s murder
have brought a reckoning about racial
injustice. cellphone videos of police vi-
olence toward black americans have
played a crucial role — this week, in
Kenosha, Wis., it was Jacob blake.
it’s soul-sapping to witness. What
does seeing this kind of brutality do to
black children?
“Heirloom,” a collaboration be-
tween boston artists stacey s. Hamil-
ton and stephen Hamilton at medicine
Wheel productions’ spoke gallery, of-
fers an antidote. stacey is a portrait
photographer; stephen is a painter,
textile artist, and mixed-media artist,
and the two are cousins.
the Hamiltons put out a call on so-
cial media for black models. local art-
ists, scholars, and healers responded.
a community came together.
stephen Hamilton employs tradi-
tional techniques such as weaving,
dyeing, and carving, drawing on the vi-
sual language of precolonial africa to
tap into ancestral cosmologies. the
subjects of these portraits appear
against radiantly dyed fabric back-
drops, garbed in indigo robes, wearing
resplendent headdresses. at the same
time, stacey Hamilton’s photographs
lucidly capture personalities of today’s
black boston.
steeped in african designs and pat-
terns, the images bring to mind the
works of 20th-century painter John
biggers, for whom the motifs and cos-
mologies of Western africa were foun-
dational. biggers’s celebration of afri-
can matriarchies resonates especially
in the one painting here, “owners of
the earth,” depicting a triumvirate of
women — chanel thervil, collette “lo-
tus” brown, and chalaun lomax.
in her individual portrait, thervil,
holding a sprig of greenery, sits in pro-
file. Her face moves in our direction
and her eyes slide past us. she looks re-
gal, young, and sly, a princess planning
to go rogue.
shawn phillip steps forward onto a
low stool, holding an ose sango, a
dance wand and ceremonial axe used
by priests worshiping sango, a yoruba
spirit. His posture, arms akimbo, looks
ceremonial. His expression is solemn,
T h e
love letter by Honstein, a former bos-
ton composer, to his childhood home
in new Jersey. each of the piece’s nine
movements conjures a particular part
of the house, and
while there’s an
audible sense of
nostalgia, “soul
House” is no ex-
ercise in simple
sentimentality.
instead, Hon-
stein uses long-
breathed melodies, refined textures,
and irrepressible energy to create
mini-tone poems that evoke wistful
memories (“bay Window”) or a care-
free childhood (“backyard”). the
openness of Honstein’s musical lan-
guage makes the episodes of biting dis-
sonance all the more striking. the
players in Hub new music render all
of it with effervescence and transpar-
ency. listen, and see if you can’t redis-
cover the magic of your own dwelling.
harolD shapero: orchestral
worKs, boston modern orchestra
project/gil rose (BMOP/sound)
the 72nd entry in bmop’s indis-
pensable series documenting modern
and contemporary american music
brings it to Har-
old shapero, a
bostonian and a
member of the
group of midcen-
tury composers
that artistic di-
rector gil rose
has made it a
mission to rescue from obscurity. “the
most gifted and the most baffling com-
poser of his generation” was copland’s
stacey s. Hamilton
stacey s. Hamilton
“Heirloom” features collaborative
works by photographer Stacey S.
Hamilton and artist Stephen
Hamilton. Above: Shawn Phillip.
art review
HEIRLOOM
At Spoke Gallery, Medicine Wheel
Productions, 110 K St., 2nd Floor, South
Boston, through Sept. 10. 617-268-6700,
https://mwponline.org/wordpress/
programs/spoke-gallery/
summoning the proud spirit of his an-
cestors, channeling their gods.
“Heirloom” deftly straddles the im-
mediacy of portraiture and the eterni-
ty of iconography. taking on the man-
tles of their forebears, these women
and men celebrate the strength of their
community. it’s a necessary exhibition
right now, and a balm.
Cate McQuaid can be reached at
catemcquaid@gmail.com. Follow her
on Twitter @cmcq.
B o s t o n G l o b e
backhanded compliment about shape-
ro, citing his prodigious musical skills
on the one hand and his puzzling need
to hew close to his musical models on
the other. you can hear both sides in
this terrific collection of orchestral
music. the sinfonia in c minor calls to
mind stravinsky’s neoclassicism, while
the credo for orchestra has a cop-
landesque warmth and breadth of ex-
pression. much harder to classify is the
serenade in d for string orchestra,
whose harmonic cast is more ambigu-
ous than the presence of a key signa-
ture might suggest. regardless of the
influence, though, the craft of shape-
ro’s writing is impeccable, as are
bmop’s crisp, confident performanc-
es.
wally guNN: the asceNDaNt and
michael harrisoN: Just coNstel-
latioNs, roomful of teeth (New Am-
sterdam)
the omnivorous vocal ensemble
roomful of teeth usually takes up resi-
dence at mass moca each summer. to
compensate for its absence this year,
here are two eps
containing works
that could hardly
sound more dif-
f e r e n t . g u n n’s
“the ascendant”
is a song cycle on
poems by maria
Zajkowski, in
which close harmonies are anchored
by driving rhythmic grooves. the hyp-
notic, interlacing patterns get some
subtle reinforcement from Jason
treuting’s drumming. at the other end
of the aesthetic spectrum is michael
Harrison’s “Just constellations,” a soft-
10 mighty civil rights-era photos
ucurrier
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both garry Winogrand and bruce
davidson have work in the show. and
two of the six photographs from er-
nest Withers are among the most jus-
tifiably famous images of the civil
rights era.
another virtue is a willingness to
define “movement” loosely. the Win-
ogrand photograph, “central park
Zoo,” from 1967, is one his most fa-
mous (and surreal). although it has
nothing to do with the civil rights
movement, per se, it has everything
to do with race and society.
We see a handsome man and at-
tractive woman. He’s black, she’s
white. the obvious inference is that
they ’re a couple (in fact, they
weren’t). What further encourages
that inference also upends it: each is
carrying a chimpanzee — and the
chimps are dressed up, like human
children. Winogrand’s friend diane
arbus once said, “a photograph is a
secret about a secret.” the secret here
is the longstanding american obses-
sion with miscegenation. that same
year, in loving v. Virginia, the su-
preme court ruled that laws banning
interracial marriage were unconstitu-
tional.
part of the weirdness of the Win-
ogrand is how (ostensibly) straight-
forward it is. conversely, charles
moore’s photograph of bloody sun-
day, when civil rights marchers in sel-
ma, ala., were attacked in 1965 trying
to cross the edmund pettus bridge,
manages to be dreamlike as well as
horrifically reportorial.
the title is grimly straightforward:
“state police Wearing gas masks Fire
teargas at the marchers and then
charge them a second time.” there’s
nothing abstract about that. yet fill-
ing the background, behind two offi-
cers and a demonstrator trying to
protect himself, is a cloud of white-
ness, the gas, which is soft and sinis-
ter and all the more symbolic for be-
ing chokingly real.
bloody sunday is one of three
landmark events recorded here. in
1957, nine black students integrated
little rock central High school, in
arkansas. Withers shows them get-
ting out of a station wagon in front of
the school. bending over to help them
is a soldier from the 101st airborne
division, called in by president eisen-
hower to escort the students. the
paratrooper looks like nothing so
much as a doorman opening a taxi
door for hotel guests. it’s almost as
surreal an image as the Winogrand.
in another photograph, Withers
shows martin luther King Jr. and his
chief lieutenant, ralph abernathy,
sitting in a crowded bus. the title ex-
plains why the event shown is histor-
ic: “First desegregated bus ride.”
What we’re seeing is the outcome of
the montgomery bus boycott. What
we’re also seeing is Withers’s artistry.
He makes sure we register the pres-
ence of King and abernathy, but he
makes equally sure to situate it with-
in the bus interior. one way he does
this is by not cropping out the partial
profile of an expressionless white
man in front of King. instead of clut-
tering the image, it works to frame
King’s face.
ly incandescent exercise in just (or
pure) tuning, in which intervals follow
the harmonic series and have a differ-
ent resonance than the more familiar
equal tempera-
ment. the music
is largely made
up of ecstatically
slow, miasmatic
chords, suspend-
ed in space like a
sug ges tive but
unfamiliar cloud
pattern. adding to the unearthly feel
of the music is the resonance of the
tanK center for sonic arts in range-
ly, colo., a 65-foot-tall former water
tower where “Just constellations” was
recorded.
peter serKiN: the complete rca
album collectioN (Sony) and
peter serKiN: coNcertos iN coN-
cert (Verdant World Records)
serkin, a pianist who was a fixture
with the bso and at tanglewood
throughout his career, died in Febru-
ary, during the preparation of a 35-cd
set of his record-
ings for the rca
label, which
forms the core of
his recorded out-
put. the son of
rudolf serkin,
one of the 20 th
century’s preemi-
nent pianists, the younger serkin
fought to separate his own identity
from his illustrious family legacy. the
result was an embrace of new music
and an approach to the canon that
deftly navigated the twin shoals of tra-
dition and individuality. the deeply
Garry Winogrand’s “Central
Park Zoo,” 1967 (top) and
Charles Moore’s “State Police
Wearing Gas Masks Fire
Teargas at the Marchers and
then Charge Them a Second
Time,” 1965.
photography review
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT
At Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St.,
Manchester, N.H., through Dec. 31.
603-669-6144, currier.org.
Withers understood what an effec-
tive graphical element letters can be:
on placards, on signs. they don’t just
convey a message — obviously, a mat-
ter of great importance in this context
— they’re also visually arresting. da-
vidson understood this, too. His im-
age of the back of a police van strik-
ingly provides frames within frames
(doors, divider). but what really
catches the eye is off to the side, a pro-
test sign confiscated by a policeman:
“Khrushchev can eat here Why can’t
We.”
Withers has three sign photo-
graphs here. one is famous. it shows
striking memphis sanitation workers
holding a sea of signs, all bearing the
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personal nature of that journey is au-
dible everywhere in this set, from an
unusually graceful account of
beethoven’s diabelli Variations to hyp-
notically slow schubert to sparkling
mozart concertos. of special note: a
landmark recording of messiaen’s pia-
no cycle “Vingt régards sur l’enfant
Jésus” and an account of the same
composer’s “Quartet for the end of
time” with the chamber group tashi
that remains unmatched in insight.
a more spontaneous picture of
this great artist is offered by “concer-
tos in concert,” which captures two
live collaborations between serkin and
the ill us trio us
composer and
conductor leon
Kirchner. a 1984
account of bee-
thoven’s Fourth
piano concerto
with the Kirch-
ner-led Harvard
chamber orchestra offers a fascinat-
ing mix of impulsivity and exploratory
detail, with an exceptionally broad
opening movement. sparks fly in
berg’s knotty chamber concerto for
piano, violin, and winds, recorded at
the 1971 marlboro music Festival,
with the violinist pina carmirelli.
Kirchner’s immersion in the second
Vienna gives this difficult music a
wonderful sense of swing, and serkin
and carmirelli follow him step for
step. the sound isn’t terrific, but these
are fascinating documents of the work
of two sympathetic and committed
artists.
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globeclassicalnotes@gmail.com.
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same sans-serif message: “i am a
man.” “all men are created equal” the
declaration of independence says.
With just four syllables, the strikers
are holding america to account.
it was in support of the strike that
King had gone to memphis when he
was murdered. nearby hangs a pho-
tograph taken there after the assassi-
nation. marchers carry signs with
several messages, but all with a simi-
larly blunt black-on-white sans-serif
force. Withers shot the sanitation
workers straight on. Walker evans
couldn’t have done it more classically.
Here the camera angle is oblique, as if
a strictly frontal approach would
have been too painful.
the final sign photograph creates
a cross-section of society. a black fa-
ther pushes his child in a stroller. it
bears a sign, “daddy, i Want to be
Free too.” Father and child fill the
left-hand side of the photo. a police
cruiser with the words “emergency
squad” and “police city of memphis”
fills the middle. in the background
we see the signage for two stores.
Withers manages to present family
and politics, government and the sta-
tus quo, and, dominating both, com-
merce. that’s an awful lot to get into a
single frame, but Withers does it.
Which is fitting, since “photographs
From the civil rights movement”
gets a lot into a single, small exhibi-
tion, too.
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mark.feeney@globe.com.
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A new ‘David Copperfield,’ in which past meets present
By Ty Burr
globe staff
Whimsy and edge are a peculiar
combination, and very few people can
pull it off. charles dickens could, and
it’s one reason his works were hugely
popular when they were published
and remain classics today: the delight-
ful eccentricity of his characters — of
their names alone — nestles against a
portrait of industrial age england
that’s honest and outraged enough to
stir the conscience. the books simulta-
neously entertain and tell bitter truths.
but movies adapted from dickens
— and there are too many to count —
struggle with this dichotomy; perhaps
the best evidence is “oliver!” (1968),
an upbeat oscar-winning musical
about starving orphans and whores
getting beaten to death. “the Personal
history of david copperfield,” newly
arriving in newly reopened theaters,
doesn’t suffer from that level of cogni-
tive dissonance. in fact, it’s wholly en-
joyable on a scene-by-scene and char-
acter-by-character basis. but the high
spirits of this handsome, well-played
production fight against low-angle
glimpses of grinding poverty and pen-
ury until the entire affair has to be
called a draw.
the director and co-screenwriter
(with simon blackwell) is armando
iannucci, taking a much-deserved va-
cation after seven seasons of hbo’s
“veep.” in that show and in films like
“in the loop” (2009) and “the death
of stalin” (2017) — both modern mas-
terpieces of political warfare — ian-
nucci was 100 percent edge, with a
trenchant cynicism that eviscerated
any and all pieties. here his love of the
source novel and his desire to meta-
textually fiddle with it overrun any so-
cial concerns. his david, solemn and
ingratiating, is played by dev Patel
Keanu Reeves (left) and Alex Winter in a scene from “Bill & Ted Face the Music.”
Who needs a TED Talk when
you can hear ‘Bill & Ted’ talk?
By Ty Burr
globe staff
time has not been kind to bill s.
Preston, esq. and ted “theodore” lo-
gan, but, really, when has it ever
been? “bill & ted face the music,” a
sequel 30 years along a long and
winding road, finds the boneheaded
buddies from san dimas, calif.,
stranded in middle age, from which
there is no escape. and time has only
been slightly kinder to Keanu reeves
and alex Winter, the now-grown ac-
tors playing bill and ted. gravity has
had its way in sagging chins and slow-
er reflexes, wrinkles and regrets. but
it’s oK — time comes for us all. that’s
one of the messages of this sweet,
dumb, unnecessary, and absurdly
charming movie.
do you need to have seen “bill &
ted’s excellent adventure” (1989)
and “bill & ted’s bogus Journey”
(1991) to make sense of “bill & ted
face the music,” which arrives on
streaming platforms this week? abso-
lutely, but less to understand the plot
than to familiarize yourself with the
bill & ted vibe, which is uniquely stu-
pid, fairly smart, and above all good-
natured. the original film had the
duo availing themselves of a time-
traveling phone booth from the fu-
ture to rifle the past of famous figures
— napoleon, billy the Kid, Joan of
arc, “so-crates” — in order to pass a
high school history exam. the stakes
are only slightly higher this go-round.
they have roughly 90 minutes — the
film’s running time, conveniently —
to compose a song so good that it will
stop all of reality from collapsing in
on itself.
in this, they’re abetted not by their
wives (erinn hayes and Jayma mays,
sadly as superfluous as diane frank-
lin and Kimberley Kates were in the
first movie) but by ted’s daughter, bil-
lie (brigette lundy-Paine) and bill’s
daughter, thea (samara Weaving).
they’re as enthusiastic as their dads
about obscure pockets of rock ’n’ roll
history if rather more on the ball. un-
like their mothers, the kids intuitively
understand that the bill & ted bond is
so tight that the guys would think
T h e
Dev Patel in Armando
Iannucci’s “The Personal
History of David Copperfield.”
(“slumdog millionaire”), and the iro-
nies of casting an actor of indian de-
scent as a stalwart young hero of the
british empire are implied rather than
stated.
all of the casting is color-blind in a
way that playfully calls attention to the
artifice of the tale and to the conceit
that david is relating his story as we
watch. the film opens in a theatrical
lecture hall that opens up into a color-
ful version of mid-19th-century eng-
land. even by dickens’s standards,
“david copperfield” is an overpacked
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BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC
Directed by Dean Parisot. Written by
Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.
Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter,
Brigette Lundy-Paine, Samara
Weaving. At Embassy Waltham and
available on demand. 88 minutes.
PG-13 (some language).
couples therapy meant both couples
together.
thirty years ago, we were assured
the heroes would unite humanity and
pave the way for a glorious future
through their musical career. it didn’t
really happen — their power-metal
band, the Wyld stallyns, had some
hits, then fizzled — and the future is
ticked. the great leader (holland
taylor) dispatches her daughter Kelly
(Kristen schaal) back several centu-
ries to our modern day to light a fire
under the duo. she also sends a neu-
rotic terminator cyborg (anthony
carrigan), just in case.
With stellar bill and ted logic, the
two assume that if they travel far
enough into the future, they’ll already
have written the tune that will restore
the universe and can thus save them-
selves the trouble of actually writing
it. some of the funniest scenes in
“face the music” involve the heroes
encountering progressively older and
more bizarre versions of themselves,
including a prison-yard sequence that
may be the film’s highlight in terms of
outré laughs and outrageous body
modifications. also, rocker dave
grohl figures in here somehow. don’t
ask. this is a movie where rapper Kid
cudi, playing himself, is the designat-
ed authority on quantum theory.
Written by the original’s screen-
writers, chris matheson and ed solo-
mon, and directed by dean Parisot
(“galaxy Quest”), the new movie is as
slapdash and sloppy as the earlier it-
erations, and if you don’t have a taste
for the willfully silly, you’d best stay
away. even for fans, there are sour
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hansom cab of characters, and iannuc-
ci has a fine old time matching talent-
ed faces to squidgy names: tilda swin-
ton as aunt betsey trotwood, shooing
donkeys from her yard; hugh laurie
as gentle mr. dick, perhaps the first re-
alistic schizophrenic in literature; ben
Whishaw sporting a tragic bowl cut as
the groveling, malevolent uriah heep;
darren boyd as david’s cruel godfa-
ther, mr. murdstone; and gwendoline
christie (“game of thrones”) as his icy
sister, Jane.
iannucci weaves these characters
and more through a galumphing pas-
tel version of the novel, using theatri-
cal scene transitions and dabs of surre-
alism to call attention to the story’s
subjectivity. at the same time, you can
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notes. all the supporting players from
the earlier movies are back — William
sadler as a mopey death, hal landon
Jr. as ted’s slow-burning dad, amy
stoch as bill’s ex-stepmom missy —
except the wives, who’ve been cast
with younger women. the subplot in
which the daughters go on their own
time-bender to create a super-band
featuring storied musicians from the
pas t — includin g Jimi hend rix
(dazmann still) and louis armstrong
(Jeremiah craft) — has an undercur-
rent of blinkered suburban entitle-
ment just barely papered over by the
enthusiastic performances of lundy-
Paine and Weaving.
still, those performances go a long
way toward making “bill & ted face
the music” hang together almost de-
spite itself. lundy-Paine in particular
captures the slack-jawed cheerfulness
of reeves’s younger ted — the way
that every thought that managed to
pierce his skull only added to the
character’s delight. back in 1989,
“bill & ted’s excellent adventure”
convinced me that Keanu reeves is,
among other things, the black labra-
dor retriever of movie stars, and lun-
dy-Paine honors that connection.
interestingly, older ted, as played
by a 55-year-old reeves, has ex-
changed that upbeat je ne sais quoi
for a more grounded, sometimes even
grim attitude toward the world.
there’s a little bit of John Wick to this
ted, as well as a lot of life’s disap-
pointments. by contrast, Winter,
whose subsequent acting career
hasn’t been as high-profile as his co-
star’s but who has found success in di-
recting features and documentaries,
lets bill hang on to his doofus opti-
mism through middle age all the way,
it’s implied, to death’s door. the ac-
tor’s and his character’s high spirits
buoy this metaphysical trifle of a
movie and ultimately those of his co-
star and friend as well. and why
shouldn’t they? dude, bill and ted
have already met the grim reaper,
and he’s in the band.
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tell he’s deeply invested in period: the
re-creations of yarmouth’s docksides,
the back alleys of london, and the
squalid bottle factory where young da-
vid (Jairaj varsani) is sent to work are
both lush and convincing.
the movie, then, is a picaresque
that gets lost in the weeds of its own
telling, the only theme being the hero’s
struggle to define himself as a writer
and his own man. (tellingly, david is
given different nicknames by almost
everyone he meets; only Patel’s innate
charisma keeps the hero from fading
into the woodwork.) Parts work but
others don’t, especially the scenes in-
volving dora spenlow (morfydd
clark), here portrayed as the ninny da-
vid falls for before finally realizing his
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frigid wee hours, trying to get home.
in her journey, she meets other deni-
zens of the night, and their interac-
tions are filled with hesitancy and
hope. that’s it; that’s the movie. it gave
me a greater feeling of peace than i’ve
had in months.
it’s also very slow, as befits a film
unfolding in the lost hours. you have
to adjust your metabolism to its som-
nolent pace. you know how when
you’re very tired, you can find yourself
staring at an object for a very long
time? that’s the first shot of “ghost
tropic”: a small, homey living room at
sunset, slipping incrementally into
darkness. a prelude.
We next see Khadija (saadia benta-
ïeb) taking a midnight meal break with
her co-workers at the office high-rise
they’re cleaning. devos cuts in at the
end of someone’s comic anecdote; the
crew laughs and Khadija can’t stop
laughing, because the story’s funny
and then because her laughter itself is
cracking her up. she’s in her 50s, with
a headscarf, a muslim from north afri-
ca or the balkans, but the scene in-
stantly takes her out of a type and into
individuality.
cinema guild
Saadia Bentaïeb stars in “Ghost
Tropic.”
Khadija boards the train home at
the end of her shift, as she always does,
and the camera stays with her for long
minutes as the rocking of the car lulls
her to sleep. she wakes up at the end of
the line; the trains have stopped run-
ning. she can’t raise her son on the
phone. it’s too cold to gripe. she starts
walking.
“ghost tropic” has been shot (by
grimm vandekerckhove) on 16mm
Kodak stock that brings out the grain
of brussels’s nighttime architecture;
the effect turns the buildings into mys-
terious swirls of darkness. the film is
unexpectedly beautiful and hushed,
the soundtrack unadorned except for
occasional passages of brecht ameel’s
acoustic guitar and the cries of night-
time birds. a security guard (stefan
gota) at a closed shopping center lets
Khadija in to use the atm, but there’s
not enough in her account to call a cab.
a woman (maaike neuville) closing
down a convenience store lets her sit
inside while she finishes her tea and
offers a lift partway. allowances are
made by and for these citizens of an
unseen city, these nighthawks at a vast
urban diner. What they share is so
much greater than their differences.
the film isn’t explicitly political,
but it doesn’t have to be. the most
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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID
COPPERFIELD
Directed by Armando Iannucci. Written
by Iannucci and Simon Blackwell, based
on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh
Laurie, Rosalind Eleazar, Peter Capaldi,
Ben Whishaw. At Boston theaters,
Kendall Square, suburbs. 121 minutes.
PG (thematic material, brief violence).
true love is agnes Wickfield (rosalind
eleazar). (in the book, dickens kills
dora off; iannucci has her simply and
nonsensically ask david to “write her
out” of the story.)
“the Personal history of david
copperfield” does give viewers the
weird deja view of seeing hugh laurie
and Peter capaldi (as the ever-hopeful
mr. micawber) in the same frame —
two long, lean figures who’ve each
done sly work elsewhere. but if you’re
hoping for the ruthless sting capaldi
brought to his role as the cabinet min-
ister in “in the loop,” you’ll be disap-
pointed. iannucci keeps cutting to
homeless extras in the london streets
and then back to the hero’s roller-
coaster journey, yet the math never
adds up. this is a movie about happy
endings made by a man working hard
to convince himself — just this once —
that they exist.
note: “the Personal history of da-
vid copperfield” is available only at
movie theaters. Please use your best
judgment when deciding to attend.
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GHOST TROPIC
Written and directed by Bas Devos.
Starring Saadia Bentaïeb. Available
for virtual screening at brattlefilm.org.
In French, with subtitles. 85 minutes.
Unrated (as PG: underage drinking)
pointed sequence involves the clean-
ing lady passing by the house of a for-
mer client; it’s empty, but she peers in
and sees a young arab man (ghasam
mousavi), a squatter, who raises his
finger to his lips. shortly thereafter, a
belgian man (Willy thomas) out for a
late walk grills her as to what she’s do-
ing there with a sense of ownership as
invisible to him as it’s obvious to her
and to us. (When he finds out she’s a
cleaning lady, he asks if she has any
free days.)
“ghost tropic” acquires aspects of
poetry as it goes. those bird cries on
the soundtrack — are they real or
piped in from some distant beach? to-
ward the end of her trek, Khadija sees
her teenage daughter (nora dari) out
with a group of friends, drinking and
hanging out in an urban park. instead
of intervening, she hangs back and
spies on the group, and devos parks
his camera close to her face, allowing
us to guess at a mother’s feelings to-
ward a daughter disappearing into a
host culture. fear? envy? memories of
her own adolescent disaffection? the
close-ups that follow of the daughter,
lost in her own nighttime daydreams,
feel like a benediction.
the theme, when all is said and
done, is kindness — kindness and an
openness to a world that can bless you
as easily as crush you. Whenever it
feels as if “ghost tropic” is leaning on
its heroine’s saintliness, it reminds you
that she’s traveled far and hard to give
herself a new life. but that journey
may have also opened her heart to fel-
low travelers, which ultimately include
all of us, whether we’re awake at 3 in
the morning or not. at one point,
Khadija sneaks into a hospital to check
in on the freezing homeless man (guy
dernul) she called the emts to rescue
earlier in her trek. the nurse takes her
to the wrong room — she assumes a
muslim woman must be visiting her
muslim husband — but both Khadija
and the filmmaker sit by this sleeping
stranger’s bed and consider him at
length, too. no one is to be left behind.
“ghost tropic” is a slender 85 min-
utes, but it expands in your mind even
as you watch it. it ends on a note or
two of mystery, as if Khadija had one
more person (or dog) to rescue before
she could call it a night. the sun rises
on that selfsame living room, and then
we’re on a tropical beach, the daughter
racing ecstatically toward the surf with
her friends. i don’ t know what it
means either. i just know that day has
finally come.
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ty.burr@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @tyburr.
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A lovable Where one wanderer

heroine pays tribute to another
whose life By Mark Feeney
globe staff

is anything it seems inevitable that the english

travel writer and novelist bruce chatwin

but lovable
By Ty Burr
globe staff
amber appleton (auli’i craval-
ho) is one of life’s born optimists, a
perennially cheerful ray of sun-
shine dedicated to helping other
people. she brings doughnuts to
the elderly, helps co-workers get
their geds, and uses the high
school talent show to raise money
for charity. she’s so good and so
adorable your teeth may grit, just a
little.
but every night amber sneaks
into a parked school bus where she
and her mother, becky (Justina
machado), live. Homelessness is
her secret, the shadow behind the
smile. in “all together now,” an ad-
aptation of a young adult novel ap-
pearing on netflix, that shadow
lengthens and lengthens until am-
ber’s smile finally disappears. it’s a
movie that dramatizes, with some
melodrama, what it takes to bring
an upbeat young woman down —
and then shows, rather incredibly,
what it takes to raise her back up
again.
“all together now” surrounds
the heroine with a support system
of friends, each with his or her
quirk or condition: the wheelchair-
bound chad (gerald isaac Waters);
his artsy sister Jordan (taylor
richardson); the pun-happy ricky
(anthony Jacques), who’s some-
where on the spectrum. ty (rhen-
zy feliz), who rounds out the crew,
is just shy and handsome — i.e., the
designated love interest. none of
them know that amber’s mother
has spiraled into drink and depres-
sion after her husband’s death and
that the two have been evicted
from their house. at its most in-
sightful, the film shows the shame
and the subterfuges — all the tiny
lies — that come with hidin g
homelessness from the rest of the
world.
directed by brett Haley from
Auli’l Cravalho in “All Together Now.”
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ALL TOGETHER NOW
Directed by Brett Haley. Written by
Haley and Marc Basch, based on the
novel by Matthew Quick. Starring
Auli’i Cravalho, Justina Machado,
Rhenzy Feliz, Carol Burnett, Fred
Armisen. Available on Netflix.
92 minutes. PG (thematic content,
some language, brief suggestive
comments).
the 2010 novel “sorta like a rock
star” by matthew Quick (“the sil-
ver linings Playbook”), “all to-
gether now” is set in Portland,
ore., and thus bears a thematic re-
semblance to “leave no trace,” the
2018 drama about a iraq War vet
and his teenage daughter hiding
out in that city’s 5,000-acre forest
Park. the similarities end there.
the new film is more beholden to
mainstream storytelling conven-
tions of movies and novels for
younger readers, even as amber’s
situation turns increasingly peril-
ous. the mother has an abusive
boyfriend, but he remains conve-
niently offscreen. the other adults
in amber’s life range from the fine-
ly drawn — rickey’s mother, don-
na (Judy reyes), a nurse with a
sharp and sympathetic eye — to
the one-note (fred armisen as a
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gently supportive teacher). carol
burnett pops up as a humorless
codger at an old age home and only
the comedy legend’s immense skill
keeps a viewer from predicting an
eventual thaw.
yet for all the after school spe-
cial glibness and minor believabili-
ty issues (amber’s pet chihuahua
never goes to the bathroom; ty
drives a vintage Westphalia that
never breaks down; it’s Portland
but it never rains), “all together
now” got to me emotionally, and it
may get to you. much of that goes
to cravalho — she voiced the lead
in “moana” — who has a soulful
simplicity that keeps you in am-
ber’s corner even as the calamities
pile up well past the breaking
point. neither should you discount
Haley’s directorial touch, even if
he’s working with less adult mate-
rial than in “i’ ll see you in my
dreams” (2015), with blythe dan-
ner, or “the Hero” (2017), with
sam elliott. Haley’s movies tend to
seek out and celebrate the connec-
tions that draw unruly people to
each other and, by extension, to a
wider, more crowded, and more
supportive world. the only differ-
ence here is that his people are
usually unrulier — and rather
more interestingly complex.
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Twitter @tyburr.
would be friends with Werner Herzog.
chatwin once described Herzog as “the
one person i could discuss the sacramen-
tal aspect of walking” with. they were
such kindred spirits that he bequeathed
his backpack to Herzog — his backpack
being as important to chatwin the writer
as pen and paper were.
chatwin, who died in 1989, was a fan-
tastical creature: boyishly handsome, end-
lessly restless, a connoisseur of oddity, as
likely to turn up in Patagonia or the aus-
tralian outback as Paris or london. a gift-
ed writer, he had an enormous (and de-
served) vogue in the ’80s. as for Herzog,
he is the most vigorously, even crazily, ex-
otic of filmmakers: not so much endless in
his restlessness as demonic.
it’s fitting that Herzog made a movie,
“cobra verde” (1987), from a chatwin
novel, “the viceroy of ouidah.” it’s even
more fitting that he’s now made a docu-
mentary tribute to his friend, “nomad: in
the footsteps of bruce chatwin.” one of
the more striking moments in a film that
has several comes when a chatwin biogra-
pher shows Herzog his friend’s annotated
copy of the “cobra verde” script. Herzog
had never seen it.
in the film, he says of chatwin, “i had a
similar worldview.” Herzog says a lot in
“nomad,” both on camera and in voi-
ceover. as interesting as he is, a problem
with the documentary is an inevitable im-
balance between filmmaker, very much
with us (Herzog turns 78 next week), and
long-deceased subject.
their worldviews were similar enough
to overlap but not so similar as to be con-
gruent. for chatwin, nature was of little
interest without a human presence. that
presence could take extenuated or unusu-
al form (he was drawn to eccentrics the
way Hemingway was to bullfighters), and
the more extenuated or unusual the better.
but it was people who mattered to him.
for Herzog, people are interesting, but in-
teresting in the way severe weather is. na-
ture would be better off without people,
and Herzog is more sympathetic than not
to such a view. Where the two men met
was in their shared appreciation for the id-
iosyncratic and extreme (and love of walk-
ing, of course). but each then went in a dif-
ferent direction from that middle ground.
Herzog is less interested in chatwin
music box films
Werner Herzog (left) and Bruce
Chatwin, circa 1983.
Movie review
YY½
NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE
CHATWIN
Written and directed by Werner Herzog.
At Kendall Square. 89 minutes. Unrated.
himself than his ideas and the places he
visited. it’s strange that so vivid a person-
ality would be largely missing from a mov-
ie about him. We see a few photographs,
hear him read a few passages from his first
book, “in Patagonia,” learn a few bio-
graphical details. there are interviews
with chatwin’s widow, elizabeth, a few
friends, and nicholas shakespeare, the bi-
ographer. shakespeare nicely addresses
chatwin’s penchant for fabrication: “He
didn’t tell half -truths. He told truths and a
half.”
Herzog has organized the film in chap-
ters, as if it were a book. that makes sense,
since it’s a film about an author. it makes
sense for another reason. Herzog is him-
self a very capable writer. His remarkable
1978 book, “of Walking in ice,” was the
initial bond between him and chatwin.
“nomad” has several indelible moments:
seeing the backpack and annotated script,
Herzog’s account of visiting chatwin just
before his death. but overall the film is
static and more wayward than not. affec-
tion and admiration, an excellent combi-
nation in life, has limited utility in art.
Would an extended essay rather than doc-
umentary have better served Herzog —
and, writer that he was, chatwin?
Mark Feeney can be reached at
mark.feeney@globe.com.

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New places and acquaintances budget. Be alert. Follow through
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, tions first. Friday is your lucky day usher in a very happy day. you'll with a promising opportunity. to- Opening lead — ♥ 4
aug. 28, 2020: each week. Make purchases and be appreciated. take note of imag- night: read Forbes or research. My friend the English professor is a stickler for word
Convincing, articulate and a mas- decisions then to enhance success. inative ideas that come spontane- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan 19) usage. He chastised me for writing that Unlucky Louie
ter of language, you persuade oth- tonight: Friday night too. ously now. One will be a real gem. reputation is a sensitive issue. “continuously” makes errors.
ers of the brilliance of your proj- GEMINI (May 21-June 20) you have new talents emerging. Cultivate your image. try a new “‘Continuously’ means ‘unbroken,’” the prof said. “The
ects and make this year an ex- Encourage a discussion of dreams tonight: Celebrate yourself as only hairstyle or wardrobe item. Make proper word is ‘continually,’ meaning ‘over and over.’”
tremely successful one. you must over breakfast. dream analysis a Virgo knows how. travel plans. your ideas impact When Louie was declarer at four hearts, West led a
compromise at the year's begin- might provide insight concerning LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) others. One of the best cycles for trump. Dummy played low, and East took the queen and
ning, but you'll get what you the needs of those closest to you. a relative or household member romance, creativity and overall returned a trump. When West won and led a third trump,
want. if single, a deeper under- today brings upbeat financial might announce some unexpected better change is about to begin. Louie was doomed. He could discard the jack of spades and
standing of your needs finds you a news. an inheritance, investment plans. Be understanding and sup- tonight: you actually feel it about a diamond on dummy’s clubs but still had two diamond
mate mid-year. if attached, pas- or settlement is involved. tonight: portive. today accents security is- to begin. losers.
sion rules and your bond deepens, read over the fine print and in be- sues. Balancing old monetary obli- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Louie’s mistakes could comprise a whole library,” I said.
but listen more to your partner tween the lines. gations with current expenses re- Quietly performing anonymous
“‘Comprise’ means ‘embrace,’” the prof sighed. “The
hinting about difficulty. aQuari- CANCER (June 21-July 22) quires humor and tolerance. acts of kindness brings you a deep
whole comprises its parts, not the other way around.
us seems easygoing but is not. a deeper understanding of what tonight: dine as friends. you need happiness, and you might un-
Louie’s mistakes constitute a library.”
ARIES (March 21-April 19) you need as well as what you more time for a balanced reaction. knowingly befriend an angel in
In any case, Louie lost a cold game. Since West won’t be
Prepare for some heavy competi- could offer a companion develops SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) disguise today. Prepare to take on
leading a trump from the queen, Louie must play dummy’s
tion today. direct energy construc- today. if a relationship isn't work- a sibling or neighbor is changing. a new project or to make a jour-
king at Trick One. Then the defenders can’t remove dum-
tively and keep trying. your pro- ing, face up to the facts and per- don't be in denial when obvious ney. tonight: you wonder about
my’s trumps, and Louie can ruff a diamond in dummy for
fessional aspirations are very im- form a ritual of release. you will signs are being sent. transporta- this angel in disguise. you reach
portant. Pursue that which be doubly blessed. tonight: the tion needs are being considered out. his 10th trick.
nurtures your creative needs sadness comes. and information exchange is very PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
while weighing financial consider- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) important. Be alert and stay well answers to security-related prob- DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ A J ♥ J 10 8 7 2 ♦ J 8 3 2
ations. tonight: What a day! you Focus on your health today. re- informed and all will be well. to- lems come from a neighbor or ♣ K Q. Your partner opens one diamond, you respond one
take the whole night off, deserved- lease stress and prepare whole- night: Catch up with your oldest loved one. you'll feel much more heart and he bids one spade. What do you say?
ly. some meals. there is so much go- friend and laugh. confident. it's a great day to seek
ANSWER: Don’t bid notrump. Support partner’s first suit;
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ing on that you can feel uncharac- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) advice and to network. you're
Much can be accomplished be- teristically overwhelmed. you will Examine habits regarding money more visible to influential profes- bid three diamonds. Many pairs treat a jump-preference in
cause your energy level will be have a new awareness of how oth- management. Figure out what sional contacts. tonight: a safe opener’s minor as forcing, but if partner has a minimum
high, but do quell impatience. it's ers impact your life. a sense of hasn't been working and don't re- night out on the town. and passes, you may not have a game. Note that he has
especially easy to overreact today. changing times ahead prevails. peat the pattern. today is wonder- (c) 2020 by King Features syndi- at least four diamonds: He would open one diamond on a
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tv critic’s corner Love Letters

by MAtthew Gilbert by Meredith Goldstein

The other guy got in touch

The season 1 finale of “Survivor,” won by Richard Hatch, aired on Aug. 23, 2000.
Two decades later, where has ‘Survivor’ brought us?
twenty years ago this month, the first sea-
son of “survivor” came to a close. the show
had quickly become a sensation, and the rat-
ings for the season finale on aug. 23, 2000,
were huge. We don’t see many shows drawing
51.7 million viewers these days.
richard Hatch was the winner, having fig-
ured out some of the secrets of the game on his
own. among other things, he spent time naked
in front of the other players, an offensive intim-
idation scheme and something that is no lon-
ger allowed. Hatch also brushed up naked
against a player (sue Hawk) a few years later
during an “all-stars” season. it was all part of
the beginning of the mainstreaming of bad be-
havior as a winning approach on reality tV, a
harbinger of all kinds of negative effects of the
genre on our culture.
MONty BriNtON/CBs Via rEutErs
i looked up a story i did in anticipation of
the “survivor” premiere, in which i raised
questions about what direction the show might
take our country. We’d already seen “the tru-
man show” and “Edtv,” two movies about the
horrors of giving up privacy to the cameras,
and we’d already seen, in the more niche set-
ting of MtV, the misbehavior that can erupt in
the exhibitionistic atmosphere of “the real
World.” When i asked “survivor” creator Mark
Burnett about whether reality tV could repre-
sent a subtle erosion of our dignity, he scoffed
at me.
“some writers aren’t maybe great at their
writing jobs,” he said with mild hostility, “and
they’re looking for the easy thing to hang their
hat on, and not really cerebrally thinking it
through.”
during lockdown
Q. i’ve been with my husband for 12 years, mar-
ried for two. i love him very much. He’s a great
man and i can’t wait to have kids with him. Prob-
lem is, a few years ago, before we got married, i
met someone else. instant deep connection, and
i’ve never really felt that before. i think i fell in
love with this other guy. Of course, he’s married
with kids, so i chose life with my husband, con-
tinue to choose him, and we’re happy.
Lockdown has actually been really good for
us; we’re in a great place. But of course the other
guy got in touch during this time, and if i’m hon-
est, he was never really out of my head complete-
ly before that. We live in different cities and never
see each other, but staying in touch is too easy
these days. i don’t think i still love him but i
think of him often. i guess my question is: do i
need to forget this guy completely to have a truer
relationship with my husband? and if so, how?
a LittLE tOrN
A. you don’t have to forget this guy, but you do
need to call him what he is, which is history. He’s
a character from another era, not a friend you
should be messaging all day. He reached out and
you responded, but now you can move on.
Over the past six months, we’ve seen that exes
have reached out during this pandemic for so
may reasons. 1. they’re remembering simpler
times and want to talk to a person who repre-
sents that past. 2. they’re super bored and stuck
in the house. 3. they’ve had time to sit with
memories of their past behavior and now seek
forgiveness. 4. they want to express gratitude to
people who’ve contributed to their personal his-
tory. 5. they’ve decided they’re ready to leave
their current relationship and are seeking out
other options. 6. they want to check in on people
who are meaningful to them, to make sure those
people are safe. the list goes on and on.
Personally, i love No. 4. yours could be a little
No. 4 with a big dose of Nos. 1 and 2. But bore-
dom is where things get dicey and can ruin all of
the nice parts of No. 4 and maybe even lead to
No. 5.
if you've had your nice moment of nostalgia
with this ex, stop the messages. spend time on
the man you chose, a.k.a. your husband.
MErEditH
READERS RESPOND:
you should be with your husband because of
all the men you know, “he” is the one for you.
doesn’t mean that you aren’t going to find other
people attractive but you shouldn’t be entertain-
ing possible “others.” it’s not fair to your husband
and it certainly won’t be fair to your kids. do
some real thinking and be clear as to what this
other guy really means to you.
JsMus
“but staying in touch is too easy these days. . .”
. . . so is not staying in touch.
PErEagaiN
so you’re saying your husband was your sec-
ond choice, and now that guy No. 1 has contacted
you, your marriage is in jeopardy. Just asking
about it says you have one foot out the door al-
ready.
JaCQuisMitH
People do this at times of crisis. they look
back, take stock, and wonder what if . . .? War,
pestilence, famine . . . we should all expect it. you
don’t need to forget someone to put them aside.
decide what you want and do that.
WiZEN
^People do this when they’re bored. Crisis op-
tional.
HarrisBstONE
^Or drunk.
WiZEN
you don’t need to completely get him out of
your head, but you should get him out of your
phone. He’s not relevant to your current life and
he has his own as well. the part that’s alarming is
that you don’t “think” you love him anymore.
Why are you holding onto this if your relation-
ship with your husband is your choice and going
great? you fell in love before you got married,
whilst your husband was still your boyfriend it
seems, but this man also has a marriage and kids.
What does that say about you both? Let it go.
things burn bright and are passionate and they
end.
BraVE-NEW-WOrLd
Catch new episodes of Meredith Goldstein’s Love
Letters podcast at loveletters.show or wherever
you listen to podcasts. Column and comments
are edited and reprinted from boston.com/
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