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Biden’s Still giving, still thankful in a tough year

moderation
unsettles
party’s left
Some see early bid to
cool partisan passions as
weakness against GOP
BY A NNIE L INSKEY
AND S EAN S ULLIVAN
wilmington, del. — Republi-
cans had been gearing up for the
first partisan brawl of the new
administration — a battle over
whether to confirm the woman
widely believed to be on Joe
Biden’s shortlist for secretary of
state.
They blasted Susan E. Rice as a
polarizing throwback to an inter-
ventionist style of foreign policy
or, as one senator put it, the “Ty-
phoid Mary” of the Obama ad-
ministration for what they saw as
her role in multiple controversies.
Some Democrats urged Biden to
pick her anyway, to stand by an
experienced hand in foreign af-
fairs who could be one of the most
prominent Black women in his
government.
That fight will have to wait.
Biden’s choice of the lower-pro-
file Antony Blinken, an establish-
ment figure with close ties to the
president-elect for decades, is
widely seen as less likely to kick
up a political storm in the closely
divided Senate that will vote on
his confirmation.
But while the State Depart-
ment nomination, along with sev-
eral other Cabinet picks rolled out
this past week, underscores
Biden’s intention to govern as a
conciliator and not a partisan
warrior, some on the left worry
that his early moves signal weak-
SEE BIDEN ON A7
Election: Trump says he will leave
if electoral college picks Biden. A3
Jonathan Moncada serves a meal to Charles Hill on Thursday at Central Union Mission in Washington. The
pandemic forced the charity to cancel its sit-down Thanksgiving meal, which usually draws hundreds, Story, B1
Remote school is leaving children sad and angry
BY H ANNAH N ATANSON
AND L AURA M ECK
Sophia Sanchez, age 9 and
stuck in perpetual Zoom school, is
crying a lot lately.
Her mother and sister rush in
and ask what went wrong. Did the
Internet go out again? Is her com-
puter plugged in? Is the math too
confusing? Sophia can’t really an-
swer. She’s too upset, wondering
whether she’ll ever learn new
things again, fearing she’ll fail the
Disconnected and full of doubt, young students
are especially struggling. Their parents are, too.
fourth grade and, more than any-
thing, missing her friends. She
hasn’t seen a single friend since
March, when she was in third
grade.
“So I just get really angry and
frustrated,” she said. “I cry.”
Some children are doing fine
with remote school; some even
prefer it. But many others are like
AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
home-school experiment, garner-
ing more than 60 responses from
families living in 18 states.
School-age children are losing
Sophia: They are suffering emo- interest in food. They are com-
tionally, mentally and even physi- plaining of back pain and burning
cally from so many hours, often eyes. They are developing feelings
alone, in front of a computer of depression.
screen. It is unsurprising, even pre-
To gauge the struggle, The dictable, experts say, and likely to
Washington Post asked parents get worse the longer school cam-
nationwide to share stories and puses throughout the country re-
artwork produced by youths par- main shut down.
ticipating in the mandatory SEE STUDENTS ON A4
Trump’s
mark
on court
sets in
CONSERVATIVES
SPLIT FROM ROBERTS
Reshaped majority backs
faith groups in covid case
BY ROBERT BARNES
The Supreme Court’s new con-
servative majority showed its mus-
cle on Thanksgiving Eve, with Jus-
tice Amy Coney Barrett playing a
key role in reversing the court’s
past deference to local officials
when weighing pandemic-related
restrictions on religious organiza-
tions.
All three of President Trump’s
nominees to the court were in the
5-to-4 majority that blocked New
York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s re-
strictions on houses of worship in
temporary hot spots where the cor-
onavirus is raging.
The court’s most conservative
justices distanced themselves from
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Trump’s
first nominee, went out of his way
to say that lower courts should no
longer follow Roberts’s guidance of
deference, calling it “mistaken
from the start.”
“Even if the Constitution has
taken a holiday during this pan-
demic, it cannot become a sabbati-
cal,” Gorsuch wrote. Rather than
applying “nonbinding and ex-
pired” guidance from Roberts in an
earlier case from California, Gor-
such said, “courts must resume ap-
plying the Free Exercise Clause.”
“Today, a majority of the court
makes this plain.”
The halt of Cuomo’s orders,
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False claims In Mexico, feminists

put GOP say ‘enough’
on tightrope Activists occupying a federal building decry
in Ga. runo≠s official inaction amid record rates of femicides
BY C LEVE R. WOOTSON JR. BY M ARISSA J . L ANG
AND A MY G ARD
mexico city — They’re groped marble building in Mexico City’s
griffin, ga. — Sen. David Perdue on the train and abused at home. central historical district, which
was encouraging a crowd at a gun Girls are assaulted at school, wom- began in September, is one of the
club south of Atlanta to support en at work. They’re killed in big most extreme acts of a feminist
him and fellow Republican Kelly cities and small villages. movement that has grown more
Loeffler in their bids for Georgia’s In 2020, on pace to become the aggressive amid the intensifying
Senate seats, which he called the deadliest year for women in Mexi- violence and what its members say
only thing standing between co on record, activists say there is is official inaction.
America and “a radical socialist no safe place left for women here. Last year, authorities here re-
agenda.” So they have made one. They ported a record 3,142 femicides —
But five minutes into the sena- kicked the government workers the killing of girls and women for
tor’s speech, a man interrupted. JOVELLE TAMAYO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST out of the federal Human Rights their gender. Activists say an un-
“What are you doing to help The Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes are working to restore salmon habitat along Commission building in Mexico dercurrent of machismo that runs
Donald Trump and this fraud Nookachamps Creek, a tributary of the Skagit River near Mount Vernon, Wash. City. They covered the walls with through every part of Mexican so-
case?” the man screamed, as one the names of rape victims and ciety — families, communities, the
woman said “Amen” and the hung posters with the faces of the government — is as much to blame
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
crowd applauded. “What are you dead. Then they invited women as the perpetrators who kill, on
doing to stop what’s been going on and children to shelter. average, nearly 10 female victims a
here and this election fraud?”
The Republican candidates in An ancient people with a modern plan “In here, you realize that you’re
not really alone, that we have all
day.
Elected leaders “say that they
Georgia’s dual Senate runoff cam- suffered some kind of gender vio- don’t know why we are angry, they
paign are navigating a highly un- BY JIM MORRISON tions of a tribe that calls itself the People of the lence and nobody has taken care of say that everything is fine in the
usual political labyrinth — caught Salmon. us — not the state, not the police,” country,” said Doc, a 21-year-old
in the middle of an intraparty war For 10,000 years, the Swinomish tribe has At the ceremony’s conclusion, single salmon said Cali, a 26-year-old member of who helps treat injured protest-
that has erupted since President fished the waters of northwestern Washington are ferried by boat in four directions — north to the group Bloque Negro, who like ers. “But the situation is abysmal.”
Trump narrowly lost the state to state, relying on the bounty of salmon and shell- Padilla Bay, east to the Skagit River, south to others spoke on the condition that Protests to fight the physical
President-elect Joe Biden and has fish not only as a staple of its diet but also as a Skagit Bay and west to Deception Pass — and her full name not be used for fear and sexual violence have overtak-
turned his fire on the Republican centerpiece of its culture. At the beginning of the eased into the water with a prayer that they will of reprisal. “So, it makes you feel en cities across the country. None
leadership there. fishing season, the tribe gathers on the beach for a tell other salmon how well they were treated. safe to know that in here we can of the activists’ demands — includ-
The infighting now threatens to First Salmon ceremony, a feast honoring the In recent years, though, the tribe’s harvest, take care of ourselves.” ing police training, a public review
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gloomy Thanksgiving, as and the impoverished their children were The spirit remains
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They were previously outvoted
when Ginsburg was alive, as she
and the other liberals joined with
Roberts to leave in place restric-
tions in California and Nevada that
imposed limits on in-person ser-
vices at houses of worship.
In the cases involved in the
court’s midnight order Wednesday,
the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Brooklyn and Jewish organizations
led by Agudath Israel challenged
Cuomo’s system of imposing drastic
restrictions on certain neighbor-
hoods when coronavirus cases
spike.
Under Cuomo’s plan, in areas
designated “red zones,” where the
virus risk is highest, worship ser-
Date:
Thursday, December 03, 2020
Time:
6:00 PM EST to 7:30 PM EST
EZ RE
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Thanksgiving Day. The annual event looked a little different this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. No spectators were allowed in the
Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pa., the site of the competition, and safety guidelines such as mask-wearing were enforced.
NORTH CAROLINA
Man who threatened
Black renters gets jail
A man who pleaded guilty
three months ago to charges that
he threatened to shoot an African
American family for renting a
home has been sentenced to
more than two years in prison.
According to the Justice
Department, the prison sentence
handed down to Douglas
Matthew Gurkins, 34, on Monday
is followed by three years of
supervised release. No
hometown was given for
Gurkins, and officials didn’t say
where the incidents occurred.
Court documents said Gurkins
drove to the family’s home, yelled
racial slurs at them and told
them they didn’t belong in the
home. According to the
documents, Gurkins threatened
to shoot the mother and four
children and any other Black
people who entered the property.
He then threatened the family
with a metal rod, prosecutors
said. The family moved out a few
days later.
vices are capped at 10 people. At the
next level, “orange zones,” there is
an attendance cap of 25. The size of
the facility does not factor in to the
capacity limit.
The diocese said in its petition
that the plan subjects “houses of
worship alone” to “onerous
fixed-capacity caps while permit-
ting a host of secular businesses to
remain open in ‘red’ and ‘orange’
zones without any restrictions
whatsoever.”
And the Jewish organizations
noted that Cuomo, a Democrat, had
specifically mentioned outbreaks
in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods
when imposing the restrictions.
“This court should not permit such
remarkable scapegoating of a reli-
D IGES T
The defendant made similar
threats toward two other Black
families living in the same
neighborhood, according to the
Justice Department.
— Associated Press
ILLINOIS
3 charged in the death
of mentally ill man
A Chicago couple acting as
caretakers for a mentally ill man
and a third person have been
charged with murder in the
man’s slaying, authorities said.
Chicago police found the
bruised body of Frederick
Johnson in the couple’s South
Side garage on June 25. He died
of multiple blunt-force trauma
injuries.
Santino Carter, 38; Dominique
Beck, 29; and Brian Gray, 48,
each have each been charged
with first-degree murder in
Johnson’s death. Beck also is
charged with neglect as a
caregiver.
Carter and Beck collected
Johnson’s disability checks to
serve as his caretakers in their
gious minority to stand,” the organi-
zations said in court documents.
Cuomo attributed the court’s or-
der to its more conservative major-
ity. “I think that Supreme Court
ruling on the religious gatherings
is more illustrative of the Supreme
Court than anything else,” Cuomo
told reporters. “It’s irrelevant from
a practical impact because the zone
that they were talking about has
already been moved. It expired last
week. I think this was really just an
opportunity for the court to ex-
press its philosophy and politics.”
Technically, the court’s order
blocks Cuomo’s restrictions from
being reimposed while legal chal-
lenges continue. But the court’s
unsigned opinion would appear to
make the ultimate outcome clear.
“Even in a pandemic, the Consti-
tution cannot be put away and
forgotten,” the opinion said. “The
restrictions at issue here, by effec-
tively barring many from attend-
ing religious services, strike at the
very heart of the First Amend-
ment’s guarantee of religious liber-
ty.”
The opinion was endorsed by
Barrett, Gorsuch and Justices Clar-
ence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr.
and Brett M. Kavanaugh, Trump’s
second appointment to the court.
It was mild compared with recent
comments from Alito and the Gor-
such opinion, which no other jus-
tices joined.
Alito, who did not write a sepa-
rate opinion, recently told the con-
servative legal organization the
Federalist Society that the pan-
demic “has resulted in previously
unimaginable restrictions on indi-
vidual liberty.”
“It pains me to say this, but in
certain quarters, religious liberty is
fast becoming a disfavored right,”
Alito said.
But Justice Stephen G. Breyer,
writing for fellow liberals Sonia
Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, said
it was a strange time for the court
to be offering relief.
“The number of new confirmed
cases per day is now higher than it
has ever been,” Breyer wrote, point-
ing to the growing national death
toll and the outsize number of fa-
talities New York has suffered,
which tracking by The Washington
Post puts at more than 34,000.
THE WASHINGTON POST
home for about two years, Cook
County prosecutors said
Wednesday. Johnson, who was in
his 40s, had schizoaffective and
bipolar disorders and a history of
seizures, prosecutors said.
Johnson’s bruised body was
found June 25 after an
anonymous tip, authorities said.
Beck, claiming to be his sister,
had reported Johnson missing
two days earlier, Assistant State’s
Attorney James Murphy said in
court.
Police traced the anonymous
tip to Gray, who admitted that
Carter paid him $100 to help
clean up the scene where
Johnson was killed and hide the
body.
Cook County Circuit Judge
John F. Lyke Jr. denied bail for
Carter and Gray, and ordered
Beck held in lieu of $1 million
bail.
— Associated Press
TEXAS
Police kill man in
shootout at trailer park
San Antonio police have shot
“The nature of the epidemic, the
spikes, the uncertainties, and the
need for quick action, taken togeth-
er, mean that the State has counter-
vailing arguments based upon
health, safety, and administrative
considerations that must be bal-
anced against the applicants’ First
Amendment challenges,” Breyer
wrote.
Sotomayor was more pointed in
a separate opinion joined by Ka-
gan: “Justices of this court play a
deadly game in second guessing
the expert judgment of health offi-
cials about the environments in
which a contagious virus, now in-
fecting a million Americans each
week, spreads most easily.”
Roberts noted in his opinion
that the rules might be unduly re-
strictive but said Cuomo has al-
ready eased them, essentially giv-
ing the churches and synagogues
the relief they had requested.
“The Governor might reinstate
the restrictions. But he also might
not,” the chief justice wrote. “And it
is a significant matter to override
determinations made by public
health officials concerning what is
necessary for public safety in the
midst of a deadly pandemic.”
Gorsuch disagreed.
“It is time — past time — to make
plain that, while the pandemic pos-
es many grave challenges, there is
no world in which the Constitution
tolerates color-coded executive
edicts that reopen liquor stores
and bike shops but shutter church-
es, synagogues, and mosques,” he
wrote.
Gorsuch’s solo opinion was at
times scathing and sarcastic. He
noted that Cuomo had designated,
among others, hardware stores,
acupuncturists, liquor stores and
bicycle repair shops as essential
businesses not subject to the most
strict limits.
“So, at least according to the
governor, it may be unsafe to go to
church, but it is always fine to pick
up another bottle of wine, shop for
a new bike, or spend the afternoon
exploring your distal points and
meridians,” Gorsuch wrote. “Who
knew public health would so per-
fectly align with secular conven-
ience?”
Gorsuch criticized Roberts for
relying on one of the court’s 1905
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and killed a man who fired on
officers and set his trailer on fire,
the city’s police chief said.
A SWAT team and other
officers were sent to a trailer
park on the Texas city’s northeast
side about 9 p.m. Wednesday
after people reported a man
firing a gun inside his trailer,
Chief William McManus told the
San Antonio Express-News.
McManus said the man began
shooting out of his trailer at the
officers and eventually set it on
fire. The man escaped the
burning trailer and proceeded to
walk around the park firing his
gun, McManus told the paper.
The man was eventually
confronted by six officers. They
exchanged gunfire, the man was
hit and he died at the scene,
McManus said.
Police did not identify the
man, who they said was in his
40s, or say why he began
shooting.
Firefighters put out the fire at
the trailer, and the six officers
involved in his shooting have
been placed on leave, McManus
said.
— Associated Press
precedents for his position that the
court should defer to local officials
during health crises.
The chief justice seemed taken
aback. He said his earlier opinion
in the California case asserted only
that the Constitution chiefly leaves
such decisions to local officials.
That, he wrote, “should be un-
controversial, and the [Gorsuch]
concurrence must reach beyond
the words themselves to find the
target it is looking for.”
He also defended the liberal jus-
tices from Gorsuch’s tough words,
even though Roberts did not join
their dissents.
“I do not regard my dissenting
colleagues as ‘cutting the Constitu-
tion loose during a pandemic,’
yielding to ‘a particular judicial
impulse to stay out of the way in
times of crisis,’ or ‘shelter[ing] in
place when the Constitution is un-
der attack,’ ” Roberts wrote, quot-
ing Gorsuch’s opinion.
“They simply view the matter
differently after careful study and
analysis reflecting their best efforts
to fulfill their responsibility under
the Constitution.”
Conservative religious organiza-
tions praised the court’s action.
“Governor Cuomo should have
known that openly targeting Jews
for a special covid crackdown was
never going to be constitutional,”
said Eric Rassbach, vice president
and senior counsel at the Becket
Fund, which represented Agudath
Israel. Covid-19 is the disease
caused by the coronavirus. “The
Supreme Court was right to step in
and allow Jews and Catholics to
worship as they have for centuries.”
But Donna Lieberman, execu-
tive director of the New York Civil
Liberties Union, said the court’s
action was dangerous.
“New York’s temporary restric-
tions on indoor gatherings do not
discriminate against houses of
worship, and, in fact, treat them
better than comparable non-reli-
gious gatherings,” Lieberman said
in a statement. “The Supreme
Court’s decision will unfortunately
undermine New York’s efforts to
curb the pandemic.”
The cases are Roman Catholic
Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo and
Agudath Israel v. Cuomo.
robert.barnes@washpost.com
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Trump says he will leave if electoral college picks Biden
Comment is president’s
first explicit commitment
to vacating White House
BY J OSH D AWSEY
President Trump said on
Thursday that he would leave the
White House if the electoral col-
lege voted for President-elect Joe
Biden next month, though he
vowed to keep fighting to over-
turn the election he lost and said
he may never concede.
“Certainly I will, and you know
that,” he said when asked if
he would leave the White
House if the electoral college
A Thanksgiving marked
by surging virus cases,
questions about vaccine
BY T IM C RAIG
AND C AROLYN Y . J OHNSON
Americans endured a gloomy
Thanksgiving on Thursday, as
coronavirus cases continued to
surge while questions swirled
about how to interpret results
from a top vaccine candidate.
Despite pleas from top gov-
ernment leaders and scientists
for Americans to scale back
Thanksgiving gatherings this
year, it appeared that a large
number still tried to gather with
loved ones.
The Transportation Security
Administration reported that
nearly 1.1 million people passed
through airport security check-
points Wednesday, the agency’s
highest screening volume since
March 16.
Those travelers still repre-
sented fewer than half of the
2.6 million screenings that TSA
agents conducted on the day
before Thanksgiving last year.
Combined with auto and rail,
AAA predicted that as many as
50 million Americans will have
been on the move by the end of
the weekend, raising concerns
that coronavirus cases will con-
tinue to flare in the coming
weeks.
With some states and big
cities suspending reporting of
new cases for the holiday, many
medical experts predict that the
country will not know until next
week just how rapidly the virus
is spreading. By Thursday eve-
ning, however, the United States
had already reported more than
127,000 new cases and more
than 1,300 additional deaths
from those locations that contin-
ued to report data.
On Tuesday and Wednesday,
the nation topped 2,000 deaths
for the first time since May 6.
Wednesday was the 33rd consec-
utive day the United States set a
record in its seven-day average
of reported cases, according to
data compiled by The Washing-
ton Post. Nearly 90,000 people
are in hospitals with covid-19,
the illness caused by the corona-
virus, another record.
As has been largely the case
since the Nov. 3 election, Presi-
dent Trump mostly kept quiet
amid the deepening crisis on
Thanksgiving, except to applaud
the 5-to-4 Supreme Court deci-
sion that blocked limits on reli-
gious worship services in coro-
navirus hot spots that had been
imposed by New York Gov. An-
drew M. Cuomo (D).
“HAPPY THANKSGIVING,”
Trump wrote on Twitter early
Thursday while referencing the
court decision, which was
reached after new Justice Amy
Coney Barrett sided with four
other conservative justices.
Later in the day, Trump issued
a Thanksgiving proclamation
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picked Biden.
Though advisers have long said
he would leave on Jan. 20, it was
Trump’s first explicit commit-
ment to vacate office if the vote
did not go his way.
Trump said he planned to con-
tinue to make claims of fraud
about the results and said, with-
out evidence, that Biden could
not have won close to 80 million
votes. His legal team has been
widely mocked — and has lost
almost every claim in every state,
as officials certify results for
Biden.
“It’s going to be a very hard
thing to concede,” he said of the
election. Aides have privately said
Trump will never concede that he
lost.
Asked whether he would at-
that compared Americans’ battle
against the virus to adversity
that European settlers faced 400
years ago.
“We have leveraged our
strengths to make significant
breakthroughs that will end this
crisis,” the White House state-
ment said, referring to “ground-
breaking therapeutics and life-
saving vaccines.”
President-elect Joe Biden,
meanwhile, released a video in
which he and his wife, Jill, called
on Americans to stick close to
home during the holiday. The
Bidens also called on the nation
to remember the more than
262,000 Americans who have
died from covid-19.
“We might not be able to join
our hands around a table with
our loved ones, but we can come
together as a nation,” the presi-
dent-elect said. “I know better
days are coming.”
But on Thursday, confusion
and new questions persisted
about the vaccine that pharma-
ceutical company AstraZeneca is
developing with the University
of Oxford, which is viewed as
one of three early candidates for
FDA approval.
AstraZeneca said Monday
that its vaccine was 70 percent
effective overall, with the most
hopeful segment of data — a
90 percent effective vaccine —
reported in a group of fewer
than 3,000 people who received
only half the initial dose of the
two-dose regimen. The full two-
dose regimen, the one being
tested in a large clinical trial in
the United States, was 62 per-
cent effective.
Although the vaccine ap-
peared less efficacious than can-
didates being developed by Mod-
erna and jointly by Pfizer and
BioNTech, the news was wel-
comed by physicians and scien-
tists. The AstraZeneca vaccine
appeared effective and had ad-
vantages — it is less expensive
and easier to distribute because
it can be stored long-term at
standard refrigerator tempera-
tures.
Then, a company executive
late Monday disclosed to Reu-
ters that the half-dose regimen
wasn’t planned. Instead, it was
an error that was noticed when
participants who received that
dose reported fewer of the short-
term reactions that were expect-
ed, such as a sore arm or fatigue.
That news, arriving hours af-
ter company leaders and Oxford
scientists disclosed results with-
out mentioning the stumble that
led to the half-dose regimen,
raised criticism about a lack of
transparency and questions
about whether the 90 percent
results would hold up.
The company has not dis-
closed details of the 131 study
participants who developed
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tend Biden’s inauguration, he de-
murred. “I know the answer,” he
said, though he declined to pro-
vide it.
Even as most of his lawyers
have quit and many campaign
officials say the effort to overturn
the election is going nowhere,
Trump said it was going “very
well.”
The president made the re-
marks in the Diplomatic Room of
the White House after he spoke to
soldiers across the world. The
Thanksgiving session — an an-
nual tradition for Trump —
marked the first time he took
questions since the election.
He planned to have dinner
with his family at the White
House on Thursday night and
spent much of the day at his golf
Airline crew members wear protective gear Tuesday at Los Angeles
International Airport. An estimated 50 million Americans are on
the move this weekend, raising concerns about virus transmission.
New coronavirus cases and deaths
in the U.S., by day
As of 8 p.m. Thursday
CASES
Total 12,880,478
7-day avg.
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Total 262,709
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covid-19, including whether they
received a placebo or the vac-
cine. Such data is pivotal in
understanding the effectiveness
of a vaccine.
“It’s very confusing at this
point,” Ira Longini, a biostatisti-
cian involved in vaccine trials at
the University of Florida, said in
an email. “We need to see all the
numbers. . . . It’s not good statis-
tical practice to publicly release
ad hoc calculations without a
completely transparent presen-
tation of all the results.”
The next day, Moncef Slaoui,
scientific leader of Operation
Warp Speed, the Trump adminis-
tration’s vaccine effort, disclosed
that people older than 55 were
not included among the study
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club in Virginia.
The president also said he
planned to campaign in Georgia
for two Republicans in Senate
runoffs set for January. The races
are key to the party keeping the
majority. Trump said he may go as
soon as Saturday, though a White
House spokesman later said he
meant next Saturday.
Republicans close to Trump
have said he was largely uninter-
ested in the runoffs until his
Thursday appearance. He railed
against Georgia officials, who he
believes have not intervened
enough as the state has counted
ballots and certified results for
Biden.
Trump’s continued rhetoric
has worried Republicans working
on the race, who fear his cam-
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participants for whom the vac-
cine proved 90 percent effective.
Older people are considered cru-
cial to study because they are at
elevated risk for severe illness
from the coronavirus. He added
that the two efficacy results were
“overlapping statistically,” mak-
ing it possible, though unlikely,
that random chance could ac-
count for the difference.
“We need to understand
what’s behind it scientifically,”
Slaoui said.
AstraZeneca chief executive
Pascal Soriot told Bloomberg
News that the company would
probably run a new trial to test
the half-dose regimen but added
that the new trial is not expected
to delay regulatory approval in
paign against the election could
discourage some supporters from
voting.
“I’m very worried about that,”
Trump said, when asked if Geor-
gia’s Senate runoff elections
would be legitimate.
“You have a fraudulent sys-
tem,” he said he told Republican
Sens. David Perdue and Kelly
Loeffler of Georgia. He said his
supporters feared the race was
illegitimate.
Trump continued to falsely
claim that there had been wide-
spread voter fraud in his election,
without offering proof. And he
again falsely said Republican poll
watchers were not allowed to
observe in Pennsylvania, though
his lawyers have said in court that
some were allowed to observe.
the United Kingdom and the
European Union.
“Now that we’ve found what
looks like a better efficacy, we
have to validate this, so we need
to do an additional study,” Soriot
said.
At an evening news confer-
ence in London, Patrick Val-
lance, the British government’s
chief scientific adviser, said he
remained optimistic that the
vaccine was still on track for
final scrutiny from government
regulators.
“Headline results: This vac-
cine works, and that’s very excit-
ing and it’s going to be put
forward for approval,” Vallance
said. “The regulators will need to
look at it and decide, and that
will be true for all of the vac-
cines.”
David Benkeser, a biostatistics
expert at Emory University’s
Rollins School of Public Health,
200k said in an email that remaining
questions about the vaccine
could be answered by modifying
150k
the ongoing trial in the United
States.
100k “The more details I hear about
these trials, the more challeng-
ing their interpretation gets,”
50k Benkeser said. “But overall, the
results are still encouraging. A
vaccine with 60 to 70 percent
Nov. 26
efficacy, a good safety profile,
tenable cold chain, and inexpen-
sive manufacturing costs is still,
by all accounts, a good vaccine.”
3k Even amid widespread specu-
lation that the FDA could ap-
2k
prove at least one of the vaccine
1k candidates before Christmas,
the Centers for Disease Control
Nov. 26 and Prevention and state health
departments braced for deaths
to increase in the coming weeks.
One model used by the CDC
projects a death toll of more
than 3,000 people a day by the
third week of December, when
the nation is likely to eclipse
300,000 total deaths since the
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discussing a 2024 presidential
bid, but he said on Thursday that
he was still focused on 2020.
“I don’t think it’s right he’s
trying to pick a Cabinet,” Trump
said of Biden. Trump had blocked
a presidential transition for sev-
eral weeks but relented this week
and allowed his team to go for-
ward.
Trump also glancingly ad-
dressed the coronavirus pandem-
ic, which has killed at least
262,000 people in the United
States, though mainly to brag.
“The vaccines — and by the way,
don’t let Joe Biden take credit for
the vaccine. . . . Don’t let him take
credit for the vaccines, because
the vaccines were me,” he said.
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pandemic began.
The nation’s governors have
cited the rising death toll — and
concerns about a critical short-
age of hospital intensive care
beds — as one reason they are
issuing new orders to try to slow
the spread of the virus.
In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom
Wolf (D) took the unusual step of
shutting down liquor sales in
bars and restaurants the night
before Thanksgiving, effectively
eliminating one of the biggest
bar nights of the year.
On Thursday morning, Cuo-
mo blasted the Supreme Court’s
new conservative majority for
ruling against his restrictions on
religious gatherings, even as he
stressed that the ruling is not a
final legal decision because the
matter will be passed down to an
appeals court.
“I think this was really just an
opportunity for the court to
express its philosophy and poli-
tics. It doesn’t have any practical
effect,” Cuomo said. “I fully re-
spect religion, and if there’s a
time in life when we need it, the
time is now, but we want to make
sure we keep people safe at the
same time.”
New York did try to offer the
nation one semblance of nor-
malcy. The annual Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day Parade was
broadcast nationally, although
the parade was confined to just
one block and some of the show
was taped beforehand.
There were no visible specta-
tors, but the parade ended with
the traditional arrival of Santa
Claus and Mrs. Claus.
Santa did not wear a mask,
although Mrs. Claus waved to the
camera while wearing a face
covering.
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helpless as
their kids
struggle
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“The strain on kids is enor-
mous,” said Matthew Biel, chief of
the child and adolescent psychia-
try division at Georgetown Univer-
sity School of Medicine. “Your 7-
year-old wants to be recognized
when they raise their hand. Often-
times doesn’t happen on Zoom.
They want to be able to make a
comment, make a joke with a peer
— can’t do that, no chatting al-
lowed. Wants to be able to get up
and walk around the classroom
and move — can’t do that, we need
to see your face on screen.”
He said it can be particularly
hard for children with special
needs, developmental delays or so-
cial struggles, but it can also be
challenging for youths who simply
crave friendship and the comfort
of school rituals.
Especially for younger children,
Biel said, the only way to express
shock, sadness and displeasure is
through emotional, sometimes vi-
olent outbursts and tantrums.
And, although parents across the
United States are rushing to reas-
sure their children, they cannot
provide the one answer that would
help most — telling children when
the pandemic will be over.
“This is just how life is now,” Biel
said. “None of us can really share
with our kids when it is going to
end. We don’t know.”
‘Frustrated and furious’
For Creedence Peterson, the
school day has become a lesson in
discomfort.
It starts when the 12-year-old
pulls on his uniform: white but-
ton-down shirt, gray slacks, blazer
and tie, as mandated by his New
York City private school. Then he
sits down on his bed, where he will
spend the next six hours attending
an almost unbroken string of
Zoom classes.
Immediately, the waistband
cuts into his stomach. The blazer
feels hot.
Two hours in, his neck starts to
bother him. His muscles feel
strained, stretched. Holding his
head in the same position for so
long is unnatural, just plain
wrong.
But the worst is when his eyes
start to water and itch, which they
almost always do. Creedence rubs
them, and that helps, but within
seconds they hurt worse. Soon
they’re bloodshot, so ghastly look-
ing that his parents at one point
tested him for pinkeye — but no, it
was just from staring at a screen
for so long.
One room over, his 8-year-old
sister, Piper, who attends Zoom
classes while in her bedroom, usu-
ally starts feeling lightheaded at
Hour 3. Her eyes begin burning
around then, too. She takes every
one of the “stretch breaks” her
school offers, but what she would
really like to do is run out to the
playground for a game of tag.
That, Piper is sure, would make
her feel better — or at least closer
to how she used to feel before the
pandemic, back when she woke up
every morning feeling happy.
There wasn’t a particular reason,
she said. She just remembers be-
ing excited for the day.
That almost never happens
now. Instead, “you get frustrated
and furious,” Piper said. “Like, you
don’t want to look at a screen. You
don’t want to be at online school.
You start crying.”
Creedence said he is just as
frustrated as his sister. He would
like to complain about school to
his friends — in online chats, be-
cause he can’t see them in person
— but so many of his friends have
moved away. There was the family
that left for Florida, and the twins,
once his best friends, who now live
in the Hamptons. Their parents
decided they didn’t like New York
anymore, Creedence said.
Piper misses her soccer team.
Creedence misses the doughnut
shop across the street, which re-
cently shut down because of a lack
of customers.
When things get too sad or
weird, the siblings like to lose
themselves in video games. The
nice thing about a video game,
Creedence said, is that it lets you
shape the world the way you want
it to look — or, he clarified, the way
you need it to look.
But as soon as he closes the
console, the same fear surges back.
“We might never be able to go
back to some of our favorite res-
taurants, because they closed
down, and we might never really
see our friends again, because they
moved away,” Creedence said.
“This may never get back to nor-
mal.”
The holes she could not fill
At the start of the school year,
Karen James tried to make things
as normal as she could for her
Olivia James attends a virtual class late last month while her mother, Karen James, works at the dining-room table at their home in Alexandria, Va.
7-year-old daughter, Olivia Gabrie-
la James. She took first-day-of-
school photos and dressed her up
in nice school clothes. Olivia was
right on time to her at-home work-
station, in the dining room of the
family’s home in Alexandria, Va.
But as time went by, James
found there were holes she could
not fill. Sometimes the mother felt
helpless.
“Hands tied, I can’t change any-
thing myself,” she thought. “And
I’m doing the best that I can.
Right? Which on some days
doesn’t seem good enough.”
A single mom, James had to
balance helping her daughter with
her own demanding work-from-
home responsibilities.
Olivia complained about tech-
nology (“It’s glitchy”) and missing
her friends (“It’s really hard”). She
longed to be in the same room with
TOP LEFT: Luke Pages, 12, a sixth-grader in Gaithersburg, Md., made this to show how the coronavirus has reshaped his life. TOP
RIGHT: Luke’s brother Ethan, 10, a fifth-grader, illustrated how he has felt most of the time. ABOVE: Karen James and daughter
Olivia take a break from work and school in Alexandria. “I try to give as many hugs and kisses and support as I can,” James said.
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her teacher. The death of George
Floyd added a layer of pain that
Olivia, who is Black, is barely able
to process. The second-grader
glimpsed some of the news foot-
age, and her mother felt forced to
talk with her about injustices years
before she would have liked.
“George Floyd died, and it just
made me really sad, upset,” Olivia
said. She knows exactly what hap-
pened. “The officer put his knee in
his neck so he couldn’t breathe.”
The hardest blow came just be-
fore Olivia’s birthday, on Aug. 2,
when James had to tell Olivia that
her grandfather would not be com-
ing to the house for her party. He
comes every year, so when James
told her daughter that he wouldn’t
be showing up this year, she feared
Olivia would think it was a trick,
setting up some kind of super-spe-
cial surprise.
LUKE PAGES
“No, baby, really, this time
Grandpa can’t come from Florida,”
she told her. “It’s real.”
Olivia was in tears. So was her
grandfather, leaving James forced
to comfort both her father and
daughter.
“I just think about the long term
and how it will affect her academi-
cally as well as emotionally, and I
try to give as many hugs and kisses
and support as I can,” James said.
“And I tell her, you know, we’re all
doing this, like everyone in Ameri-
ca this is happening to right now.
But I wonder sometimes, you
know — am I just talking over her
head? So [I] just try to love on her,
the best I can.”
‘A roller coaster of emotions’
Luke Pages, 12, has a lot of
trouble guessing how his days are
going to go.
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Not because of online school —
that’s predictable. He knows how
many 15-minute screen breaks to
expect. He knows he will be taught
by seven teachers over the course
of the week. And he knows exactly
how tired he will be — and how
much his head will hurt — by the
third Zoom class.
The uncertainty is due to his
constantly shifting emotions.
“Emotions” is not a word Luke
used a lot pre-coronavirus. The
sixth-grader, who lives in Gaithers-
burg, Md., with his parents and
little brother, Ethan, never spent
time thinking about how he was
feeling before. The answer was
almost always “good.”
He is still happy, sometimes. But
that sense of well-being has an
expiration date now, and he never
knows how long it will last. On
good days, an hour. On not-so-
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good days, 10 minutes.
On the most stressful days, he
just starts crying and can’t stop.
“I don’t know why,” Luke said.
“It’s like a roller coaster of emo-
tions.”
Ethan, who is in fifth grade, has
come up with his own words to
describe what is happening inside
his head. “Big feelings,” he calls it.
“I am feeling very sad and an-
gry,” Ethan said. “Sad because I
can’t see my friends and the people
I miss. Angry because I have to see
the same people, including my
annoying brother.”
He also wishes he could see his
teachers in person. Watching
them on Zoom is “fine,” but the
10-year-old sometimes feels as if
his teachers are not really his
teachers — and he’s not a real
fifth-grader — because he has nev-
er actually set foot in a classroom.
Ethan has questions about his
lessons, and he doesn’t know how
to put them into words that will
make sense in an online chat or an
email, which is the only way to win
private time with the teacher. He
would like to walk up to his teach-
er and explain his confusion with
his hands. Sometimes, especially
when school is hard, he closes his
eyes and imagines doing that.
Luke, meanwhile, daydreams
about something he always took
for granted — the several-minute
slices between every lesson. Back
in real school, that is when he
walked the hallways with his
friends, headed for the next class-
room. He can’t remember what
they talked about — just random
stuff, probably. Now, he can’t even
see his friends’ faces, because not
everybody likes to turn their cam-
eras on for Zoom class.
Although the rest of his emo-
tions have gone haywire, the 12-
year-old said there is one feeling
he can always count on: The end of
every school day brings the same
exhaustion and disappointment.
If Luke could just go play football
with his best friend after school,
the way he used to, that might
make him feel better. Instead, he’s
developed a mantra.
“We’re all in this together,” he
tells himself. “We will get through
it.”
It doesn’t feel like she’s
talking to her best friend
Sophia Sanchez in Los Angeles
knows who she would like to tell
about everything going wrong
with her life — her best friend,
Sofia, who shares her name and
whom she has known since first
grade. Before the pandemic, she
and Sofia were working on an
illustrated book about a spy. They
drew side by side at recess, unfold-
ing new details of the plot with
every picture. And they talked —
about school, what was happening
that day, how it made them feel.
Sofia is the only friend Sophia
has spoken to since school shut
down. But her mother doesn’t
have Sofia’s mother’s number, so
Sophia messages Sofia through
the chat function of an online
game they both play. It’s okay,
Sophia said, but it doesn’t really
feel like she’s talking to her best
friend.
If the coronavirus were some-
how gone tomorrow, that’s who
Sophia would want to see first. She
would march straight back to nor-
mal school. She would head for the
monkey bars, where she would
race Sofia, just like before.
This time, for once, she’d let
Sofia win.
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Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing again in U.S. cities
BYB RITTANY S HAMMAS,
M ARK G UARINO
AND J ACQUELINE D UPREE
For a few months, coronavirus-
weary Chicago residents got a re-
prieve from the strict regulations
that shuttered the nation’s third-
largest city during the spring.
After infections plummeted in
early June, restaurants welcomed
diners back inside. Movie thea-
ters, fitness centers and bowling
alleys reopened their doors. And
the barriers came down on the
bike pathway along the city’s cher-
ished lakefront.
But with new coronavirus cases
surging beyond the springtime
peak, Chicago is now hunkering
down. Statewide measures have
closed some businesses and limit-
ed the capacity at others, while
officials are urging residents to
stay home. Again.
“We’ve been through a heck of a
lot this year,” Lori Lightfoot, the
city’s Democratic mayor, said dur-
ing a recent news conference.
“And it’s not over.”
Across much of the United
States, the picture is similar. Ma-
jor metropolitan areas were the
face of the pandemic before being
overtaken by spikes in less-popu-
lated parts of the country in Sep-
tember. Since then, the nation’s
worst outbreaks have been con-
centrated in rural parts of the
Upper Midwest.
Yet dramatic increases have
been reported in many major U.S.
cities in recent weeks, with some
being hit harder than they were
during their previous peaks. Test-
ing has greatly ramped up since
the start of the pandemic, but that
alone does not explain the grow-
ing caseloads.
“The dreaded fall wave, in
many places, is upon us,” said Josh
Michaud, an epidemiologist and
associate director for global
health policy at the nonprofit Kai-
ser Family Foundation. “And that
includes in metropolitan areas.”
In Cook County, where Chicago
is located, the seven-day average
of new cases hit a record high of
4,654 on Nov. 17 — far outpacing
the peak of 1,690 during the spring
surge. Deaths are lower than the
numbers seen in the spring but
have climbed in recent weeks.
With winter approaching, busi-
ness owners who stayed afloat by
turning to outdoor service have
been investing in heating lamps,
hoping to keep customers coming
even in temperatures that can
drop below freezing.
Michelle Foik, co-owner of Eris
Brewery & Cider House, said she
saw the shutdown of indoor din-
ing as inevitable. The facility’s pa-
tio has been “our saving grace,” she
said, but she worries about what
will happen this winter. She’s torn
between relief that the rise in cas-
es was met with more restrictions
and concern over the effect on her
business.
“Believe me, we need the mon-
ey,” Foik said. “We’re a start-up. We
Trump’s false claims roil
GOP in Ga. Senate races
GEORGIA FROM A1
turn off the very Republican vot-
ers Perdue and Loeffler need to
stave off challenges from their
Democratic rivals, Jon Ossoff and
the Rev. Raphael Warnock.
Trump and his allies have re-
peatedly, and falsely, accused
Georgia Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger and Gov. Brian
Kemp, both Republicans, of pre-
siding over a fraudulent election.
Trump has pushed the baseless
claim that the Dominion Voting
Systems machines used in Geor-
gia were rigged as part of a global
conspiracy, and Perdue and Loef-
fler have called for Raffensperger’s
resignation.
But therein lies the conun-
drum: Perdue and Loeffler are
traveling the state pleading with
Republican voters to turn out on
Jan. 5 — effectively asking Trump
supporters to put their faith in the
same voting system their presi-
dent claims was manipulated to
engineer his defeat.
“What did [Trump] get, 73 mil-
lion votes? Those folks don’t just
disappear. Trump’s blessing goes
far here,” said the Rev. Benny Tate
of Rock Springs Church, who has
been traveling with Perdue on
campaign stops and prayed before
Monday’s event. “There are folks
that didn’t come out to vote neces-
sarily Republican, they came out
to vote for Donald Trump. I think
it’s imperative that [Perdue and
Loeffler] do get the Trump voters
back. I think it remains to be seen
whether they actually come back.”
Loeffler and Perdue are walking
what one Republican strategist
called “a high-wire act right now,
to figure out exactly where the
candidates should be relative to
the president.”
Customers eat outside at a restaurant in Chicago on Nov. 11. New coronavirus cases in Cook County, where Chicago is located, are surging
beyond the springtime peak. Statewide measures have closed some businesses, and officials are once again urging people to stay home.
are investing in our future, but if
this becomes a longtime shut-
down, it just hurts everything.”
At NorthShore University
HealthSystem, infectious-disease
specialist Kamaljit Sandhu Singh
said he and other health-care
workers were “exhausted physi-
cally and mentally” as hospitaliza-
tions and intensive care unit ad-
missions increased.
He said the pandemic remind-
ed him of growing up during the
Vietnam War: “I could never wrap
my name around the number of
soldiers’ lives lost, but the pictures
were compelling.”
Cases are surging on Chicago’s
West and Southwest sides, where
the virus spread at a dispropor-
tionate rate in the spring and the
majority of residents are Black or
Latino. Kiran Joshi, senior medi-
cal officer at the Cook County
Department of Public Health, said
“a myriad of factors” play into why
those areas are surging highest,
but that a common attribute is
that people there “experienced
structural racism over decades.”
The second peak in Chicago
mirrors those in metropolitan ar-
eas across the country. In recent
weeks, counties home to cities in-
cluding Philadelphia, Los Ange-
les, Detroit, Las Vegas and Minne-
apolis have seen new cases sur-
pass their past highs. Miami-Dade
County has been trending up
again, while Salt Lake County is
experiencing its first major peak
of the pandemic, with cases and
Complicating the senators’
pitch is the call by some Trump
advocates for voters to protest the
balloting system in ways that
some GOP strategists fear will ef-
fectively result in support for the
Democrats.
One prominent Trump ally, At-
lanta attorney Lin Wood, who un-
successfully sued Georgia election
officials to stop the certification of
the vote, has urged Republican
voters not to vote in elections with
Dominion machines.
Wood has attacked Perdue and
Loeffler for not doing enough to
help, and he told his 631,000 Twit-
ter followers last weekend that if
the senators don’t step up their
support, he would take a pass on
Jan. 5.
“If not fixed, I will NOT vote in
GA runoff,” he tweeted.
Asked whether his efforts would
depress GOP turnout, Wood told
The Washington Post via email
that the Dominion machines
“have no integrity” and insisted
that “Georgia can vote by written
ballot if necessary in January.”
Raffensperger, among the most
outspoken who have said such talk
will hurt Loeffler’s and Perdue’s
chances, expressed exasperation
at Wood’s comments. After all, a
statewide audit of the presidential
result, in which every ballot was
recounted by hand, disproved the
claims about the voting machines.
“I really don’t know what he’s
thinking,” Raffensperger said in
an interview. “If the people don’t
use the machines, then I guess
they vote absentee, and then their
ballot will be scanned on a Domin-
ion machine. People need to get a
grip on reality.”
Nonetheless, support for the
claims being spread by Trump and
his supporters is clearly strong in
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hospitalizations rising since early
October.
In Maricopa County, which in-
cludes Phoenix, Valleywise Health
“had a little breather” after the
summer’s surge in Sun Belt states,
said Michael White, the health
system’s chief clinical officer. But
the seven-day average of new cas-
es, which hovered around 500 a
day in late October, exceeded
2,000 on Monday.
“We’re hanging in there is how I
would describe it,” White said.
“Our biggest concern always is, as
we continue to see this case count
rise, that that certainly can lead to
more folks needing hospitaliza-
tion down the road, on top of a
time where we usually see a higher
rate of hospitalizations for non-
covid-related illnesses.”
Phoenix-based Banner Health
is projecting that 125 percent of
the system’s licensed hospital
beds will be full by the first week of
December. Hospital administra-
tors believe they have stocked up
on enough personal protective
equipment, ventilators and beds
to weather the surge, Chief Clini-
cal Officer Marjorie Bessel said
during a news conference Tues-
day. They worry most about staff-
ing; they’ve hired nearly 1,000
health-care workers from out of
state and are recruiting 900 more.
The health system always beefs
up its staff for the winter months,
Bessel said, but the coming weeks
are expected to be markedly dif-
ferent from previous years and
Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), left, and Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia rally supporters in
Cumming, Ga., on Nov. 13 as Loeffler and Perdue try to retain their seats and the GOP majority.
the state’s GOP base.
Hundreds of people attended
“Stop the Steal” protests outside
the Georgia Capitol and gover-
nor’s mansion Saturday.
Four senators have called for a
special legislative session to address
voting issues before the runoff.
And the state Republican chair-
man, David Shafer, has echoed
questions about the state’s voting
system. He signed a letter along
with the state party executive
committee demanding fresh scru-
tiny of signature verification on
mail-in ballots.
“We have grave concerns as to
whether or not proper verification
took place,” the letter said.
No evidence has surfaced that
ballots with nonmatching signa-
tures were counted.
The Perdue and Loeffler cam-
paigns did not respond to requests
for comment.
Perdue has privately pointed to
the challenges of campaigning in
even the Sun Belt’s summer surge.
“The entire country is surging
at the same time,” she said.
Health officials attribute the vi-
rus’s resurgence in cities to several
factors, including eased restric-
tions, increased gatherings and
what’s being called “covid fatigue.”
Eight months into the pandemic,
“there is no longer that sense of
urgency,” said Mouhanad Ham-
mami, chief health strategist in
Wayne County, home to Detroit.
“When you live with something, it
is no longer urgent, and you tend
to get desensitized to it.”
Some authorities in Chicago
blamed rock-bottom hotel prices
and the state-imposed indoor din-
ing ban, suggesting it may have
caused parties to relocate to hotel
rooms or other spaces, such as
Airbnb rentals. On Nov. 12, Light-
foot told reporters that current
restrictions apply to both.
“I know the hotel industry was
hit hard and is in many instances
is on life support, but that cannot
include parties,” she said. “I urge
the hotel industry to be much
more diligent about who is com-
ing in. . . . People think it’s party
time. It’s not.”
Officials in many hard-hit cities
also point to increasingly wide-
spread transmission across the
United States, which has been re-
porting record-setting numbers of
infections. Over the past week, the
country had well over 150,000
new cases each day. Ahead of
Thanksgiving, traditionally a time
the Trump era and the potential
benefit of running now without
the president on the ticket.
Addressing donors on a confer-
ence call earlier this month, Per-
due spoke of an “anti-Trump vote
in Georgia” and said the runoff is
about getting “enough conserva-
tive Republicans out to vote” who
might have opposed the presi-
dent’s reelection. Details of the
call were shared with The Post by a
person who provided a precise
account of the discussion.
“I’m talking about people that
may have voted for Biden but now
may come back and vote for us
because there was an anti-Trump
vote in Georgia,” Perdue said. “And
we think some of those people,
particularly in the suburbs, may
come back to us. And I’m hopeful
of that.”
The odd political dynamics
have come across in part through
the absence of some potential
campaign-trail headliners.
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of significant travel and extended
family get-togethers, health ex-
perts feared the number would
only continue to climb.
“We would love to be that shin-
ing city on the hill where we’re
avoiding all this,” said Philadel-
phia Department of Public Health
spokesman James Garrow. “But I
don’t know that anybody’s going
to be able to avoid this.”
Mortality rates have improved
from earlier in the pandemic — a
change attributed to improved
therapeutics and knowledge of
how to handle covid-19, the dis-
ease caused by the virus. Still,
authorities in areas that are seeing
spiking infections have reacted
with alarm, noting that the explo-
sion in cases will inevitably drive
up the death toll.
In Los Angeles County, where
hospitalizations are up and deaths
increased slightly last week, Pub-
lic Health Director Barbara Ferrer
on Nov. 20 described the data as
looking “really bad right now” and
added that the county had experi-
enced “three terrible days in terms
of case rates and increases in hos-
pitalizations.” She said health offi-
cials were hoping deaths “don’t go
up . . . as much as earlier in the
pandemic.”
With rapidly rising case num-
bers has come a return to some of
the restrictions of the spring. In
Los Angeles, health officials sus-
pended outdoor dining for the
first time since May. They warned
that a stay-at-home order could
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Trump has tweeted in favor of
Loeffler and Perdue, but he has
not shown up in the state so far,
though Vice President Pence did
lead a rally. On Thursday, Trump
signaled that he may campaign for
the two candidates in the coming
days.
Kemp, the governor, has also
avoided making any runoff cam-
paign appearances on behalf of his
state’s two Republican senators.
The governor has been walking a
line between supporting the integ-
rity of the election result — he
signed the certification on Friday
of the presidential votes — and
agreeing that improvements can
be made to signature verification
and voter-identification rules.
Kemp did not respond to a request
for comment.
Republican strategists say they
hope some of tensions will fade in
the weeks before the runoff, giving
the party time to air enough at-
tacks to tarnish the Democrats.
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follow if the situation worsens.
Wayne County’s health depart-
ment on Nov. 20 strongly recom-
mended that schools shift to virtu-
al instruction through mid-Janu-
ary, noting that the current wave
“is at a level higher than the first
peak in April 2020.”
Philadelphia on Nov. 20 im-
posed new “Safer at Home” re-
strictions, which required schools
to shift to online learning, restau-
rants to suspend indoor dining,
and gyms and indoor fitness class-
es to close. Movie theaters, casinos
and bowling alleys were also shut-
tered and indoor gatherings of
more than one household prohib-
ited.
“The hope is that by imple-
menting these restrictions as soon
as we could — and we’re doing it
ahead of at least a lot of surround-
ing counties and states — that
we’ll be able to head off getting to a
point where we outstrip our ca-
pacity and get to a point worse
than we were in April,” Garrow
said.
Months after the first shut-
downs in the United States, a bet-
ter understanding of how the cor-
onavirus spreads means that this
latest wave of restrictions can be
more targeted, Michaud said. Au-
thorities can focus on what is be-
lieved to carry the greatest risk of
transmission: venues where peo-
ple are crowded together indoors
for extended periods of time.
“In the spring, we didn’t know a
whole lot about the virus and ex-
actly what were the activities that
were the riskiest,” he said. “We
know a whole lot more now. And
that means that we don’t have to
put in a Chinese-style lockdown to
have an effect on transmission.
You can be much more surgical in
your approach.”
But among some already bat-
tered by earlier shutdowns, the
new restrictions drew frustration.
The Illinois Restaurant Associ-
ation released a statement object-
ing to the state’s ban on indoor
dining, arguing that it “will force
people into less controlled, private
gatherings with no safety precau-
tions — resulting in the exact op-
posite of slowing the spread” of
the virus. The organization said
that without being allowed to
serve indoors in some capacity,
“our state’s largest private sector
employer will be pushed to the
brink of permanent devastation.”
Mark Domitrovich, co-owner of
Chicago restaurants Ina Mae Tav-
ern and Frontier, said he was try-
ing to “string together as much as
an outdoor dining situation as we
can get” because takeout and de-
livery alone weren’t enough to get
by.
“At this point, we’re trying to
grind it out. To try to drive as much
business as possible,” he said. “It’ll
run out at some point, and it
doesn’t seem like the cavalry is on
the way, either, so we’re just pray-
ing right now.”
brittany.shammas@washpost.com
jacqueline.dupree@washpost.com
They say Georgia remains a con-
servative state with a history of
runoff campaigns going the GOP’s
way. And the absence of Trump on
the ballot could help win back
suburban voters who rejected his
style but still want to support con-
servatives.
One person who has been help-
ful for the Republican Senate can-
didates is Trump’s elder son, Don
Jr., who tweeted that Georgians
should “IGNORE” calls to boycott
the runoffs.
“We’re not as divided as you
think,” said one Republican strat-
egist involved in the race.
Still, many Republicans remain
concerned that the public hostility
within the party — as well as ef-
forts to foment distrust of voting
— pose serious threats to Loeffler
and Perdue.
And those tensions do not ap-
pear to be going away. Trump, for
his part, has continued to push as
recently as Wednesday the un-
founded claims about Georgia’s
voting machines.
Raffensperger hasn’t shied
away from the divisions, either.
His tenor hardened after Loeffler
and Perdue called for his resigna-
tion — and after death threats
began filtering in through social
media to him and his wife.
Now, he makes no secret of his
disdain for the unfounded attacks
on him.
“If Republicans don’t start con-
demning this stuff, then I think
they’re really complicit in it,”
Raffensperger said in the inter-
view. “It’s time to stand up and be
counted. Are you going to stand
for righteousness? Are you going
to stand for integrity? Or are you
going to stand for the wild mob?
You wanted to condemn the wild
mob when it was on the left side.
What are you going to do when it’s
on our side?”
cleve.wootson@washpost.com
amy.gardner@washpost.com
Josh Dawsey contributed to this
report.
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Democratic left signals unease as Biden avoids a warlike posture toward GOP
BIDEN FROM A1
ness even before he steps into the
Oval Office. They say Biden, 78,
naively thinks the Senate still
functions as it did during his
36 years there, with potential for
compromise and conciliation.
“To meet Republicans where
they are is to meet them in Fanta-
syland,” said Rebecca Katz, who
worked as a top aide to Nevada
Democrat Harry M. Reid when he
served as Senate majority leader.
“We don’t have any time to spare.
Sometimes you’ve got to fight. We
can’t fold before we’ve had one
fight.”
On Capitol Hill, other Demo-
crats are sounding similar warn-
ings.
“There is still plenty of room for
bipartisanship, but real biparti-
sanship, from a position of
strength, not begging Republi-
cans to confer bipartisanship
upon us if we do things their way,”
said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
(D-R.I.), who is worried that
Biden’s outreach to the GOP is
being met with resistance.
But Biden is making clear
through his early moves that he
meant it when he said, for months
on the campaign trail, that he
would turn down the partisan
heat in Washington. His team has
quietly reached out to Republi-
cans in the House and Senate and
expressed public sympathy for
their delicate political calculation
in weighing the potential back-
lash from Trump’s base if they
acknowledged the election re-
sults, according to a person famil-
iar with the strategy who, like
others, spoke on the condition of
anonymity to share internal
thinking and private discussions.
So far, Biden can boast of some
success with his approach. Along
with other olive branches to Re-
publicans, he backed away from
filing a lawsuit to force the Gener-
al Services Administration to re-
lease resources for his presiden-
tial transition. The GSA instead
relented under pressure that
came first from Democrats, and
then Republicans, along with
back-to-back-to-back losses in
state courts for the president’s
attempt to overturn the election
results.
“I’m making a judgment based
on many years of experience and
how to get things done with the
opposition,” Biden said recently
when asked why he had declined
to pursue a legal challenge to
Trump’s refusal to cooperate with
a transition.
The tension between picking
fights and pursuing conciliation
so far is typified by questions
about Rice, who was a finalist in
Biden’s vice-presidential search
and was mentioned by Biden al-
lies as a possible secretary of state
when she didn’t get that post.
“Susan will land in another key
job,” said one Biden insider. The
person declined to say whether
the position would be one requir-
ing Senate confirmation.
The person also scoffed at the
notion that Rice was set to get the
job but for Biden’s reluctance to
launch a fight with Republican
senators.
“Tony was always the choice.
Always,” the person said, refer-
ring to Blinken. “Anyone who
thinks Tony was not going to get
this doesn’t know Joe Biden.”
Rice was a leading candidate to
be secretary of state during
Obama’s second term. The Stan-
ford University-educated foreign
policy phenom had risen quickly
in the diplomatic ranks, becom-
ing one of the country’s youngest
assistant secretaries of state.
But she withdrew from consid-
eration amid furor over her initial
comments about the 2012 armed
attacks on U.S. facilities in Ben-
ghazi, Libya — which killed four
Americans, including the U.S. am-
bassador to Libya — that relied on
what turned out to be inaccurate
talking points supplied by the
White House and CIA. Eight con-
gressional panels investigated the
events; none found that Rice had
been deliberately misleading.
Instead, Obama named Rice as
his second-term national security
adviser, a job that does not require
Senate confirmation. She worked
closely with Biden as vice presi-
dent, often hashing out policy
ideas with him in the West Wing.
Before the Blinken selection,
GOP senators lined up to oppose
Rice, even as they refused to fully
acknowledge Biden’s victory. It
was Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a
member of the Armed Services
Committee, who called her the
“Typhoid Mary” of the Obama
administration’s foreign policy.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a
member of the Foreign Relations
Committee, said in an interview
that “she’s a hard person to con-
firm.”
Biden’s common-ground ap-
proach was part of his pitch to the
country — and how he worked
during a Senate career that pre-
ceded his two terms as vice presi-
dent.
“I’ve known him a long time,
and I don’t think guns blazing is
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political aspects of the Republi-
cans, many of whom still have not
acknowledged that he’s the presi-
dent of the United States.”
Rather than gearing up for a
fight, Biden has said he expects
some back-and-forth with Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell (R-Ky.) when it comes to Cabi-
net nominations.
“I take McConnell at his word,”
Biden said recently when discuss-
ing his process for making selec-
tions. “I understand he said that
he will make it clear who he’s
prepared to support or not sup-
port, and that’s a negotiation that
I’m sure we’ll have.”
Last week, Biden’s newly mint-
ed chief of staff, Ron Klain, of-
fered a more traditional posture
on the Cabinet, saying that Biden
would not defer to GOP leaders on
his choices.
“On these executive branch
nominations, these are the choic-
es for the president to make, and
then the Senate needs to act on
those choices,” Klain told CNN’s
Wolf Blitzer.
However, some Democrats
have been quick to point out that
Republicans are showing no indi-
cation they’ll work with Biden —
even as he tries to work with
them.
Some Democratic operatives
see Biden’s current strategy as an
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If President-elect Joe Biden, seen Nov. 19 in Wilmington, Del., assembles a governing team with moderate Democrats and Republicans but with the American public and
without “the progressive community,” that would be “enormously insulting” to the left, said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a liberal icon. predict that it will be short-lived.
“Biden’s entire message —
ever going to be his style,” said party untended. Sanders is hoping that Biden nominations. which I did not enjoy, but I think I
Biden friend and donor John “It seems to me pretty clear that will tap him to be labor secretary, Biden, in an NBC interview understand the political calcula-
Morgan. “He is an institutionalist. progressive views need to be ex- according to a person familiar Tuesday night, indicated that he tion — has always been seeking
He’s friendly with both sides. And pressed within a Biden adminis- with his ambitions, although that was reluctant to select Democrat- cooperation as part of his ‘healing
I think the reason he was chosen tration,” Sanders said in an inter- could reignite GOP campaign ic senators or House members for America mission,’ ” said Adam
to be vice president was because view with the Associated Press. “It talking points that Biden is cap- his Cabinet because of the poten- Jentleson, a former deputy chief
of his relationships.” would be, for example, enormous- tive to the left. Biden avoided a tial impact on the party’s legisla- of staff to Reid. “It’s fine for Re-
As he has awaited formal recog- ly insulting if Biden put together a similar fight by skipping over Sen. tive strength. publicans to be the ones to shoot
nition of his victory by the elector- ‘team of rivals’ — and there’s some Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as Democratic members urged first and break any sort of cease-
al college next month, Biden has discussion that that’s what he in- treasury secretary, a position she Biden not to dial back any Cabinet fire that may exist.”
showcased bipartisan meetings. tends to do — which might in- sought, according to several War- choices. annie.linskey@washpost.com
Speaking to a group that included clude Republicans and conserva- ren allies. “He should go by the person sean.sullivan@washpost.com
Republican governors, he vowed tive Democrats — but which ig- “You can only pick one or two that he feels is the most qualified,”
to marshal a bipartisan assault on nored the progressive communi- battles,” said a Biden insider, ex- said Rep. Gregory W. Meeks Karoun Demirjian and Karen
the coronavirus. During a meet- ty.” plaining Biden’s approach to (D-N.Y.) “Don’t worry about the DeYoung contributed to this report.
ing with mayors, he declared that
there are not “blue cities” or “red
cities.” A panel of medical experts
he named to advise him on the
pandemic includes two former
Trump administration officials.
Biden’s attempts at unity offer a
direct contrast to the way in
which Trump whooshed into the
presidency four years ago, con-
demning the Washington estab-
lishment, making early Cabinet
decisions that were highly contro-
versial and working frenetically
to undo the actions of his Demo-
cratic predecessor.
Though Biden is expected to
use executive orders to take on
issues unpopular on the right,
such as mitigating climate change
and liberalizing immigration
rules, his early focus will be on
containing the virus and bolster-
ing the economy — two issues on
which there has been recent his-
tory of bipartisan agreement.
“I am hopeful that I’m going to
be able to get cooperation from
our Republican colleagues in the
Senate and the House, as well as
the governors, to build a consen-
sus as to how we proceed when we
do,” Biden said recently.
The conciliatory tone goes be-
yond just the division between
parties.
When talking about his then-
unnamed pick for treasury secre-
tary last week, he eagerly pointed
out that the person would be “ac-
cepted by all elements of the Dem-
ocratic Party.” Former Federal Re-
serve chair Janet L. Yellen, who
has been tapped for the position,
fits that bill.
Biden’s recent meeting with na-
tional security officials included
retired Gen. Stanley A. McChrys-
tal, who clashed with Biden over
troop levels in Afghanistan and
was fired by President Barack
Obama in 2010 after he dispar-
aged administration officials, in-
cluding Biden, in comments to a
reporter for Rolling Stone.
On Monday, Biden named for-
mer secretary of state and Senate
colleague John F. Kerry to be a
special presidential envoy for cli-
mate matters, adding him to the
National Security Council —
showing that the president-elect
has no hard feelings about a Feb-
ruary cellphone call in which Ker-
ry, then in Iowa as a surrogate for
Biden, was overheard musing
about jumping into the Demo-
cratic primaries.
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the reality he faces in a closely
divided Senate — a chamber with
control now in Republican hands.
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After 2 hurricanes, Honduras braces for long recovery
Weeks since Eta and Iota’s devastation, tens of thousands are displaced amid the pandemic, and the impoverished nation appeals for help
BY D ELPHINE S CHRANK
san pedro sula, honduras —
Blanca Costa crouched on a wood-
en cart with her three daughters
under a highway bridge. It had
been days since the second of two
hurricanes roared through this
Central American country, flood-
ing their one-room home with
muddy, chest-high water.
The cart was the one possession
Costa was able to save when they
clambered out. The three horses
that pulled it, enabling her to earn
money as a trash collector, were
gone. It would take years, she said,
to save enough to buy another one.
“I’ll just have to go on foot now,”
said Costa, 40, one of about 100
people sheltering under the bridge.
“But it will be more difficult.”
Category 4 Hurricane Eta and
Category 5 Hurricane Iota cut simi-
lar paths across Central America
this month, a one-two punch that
killed scores and displaced hun-
dreds of thousands. More than a
week after the second storm, vast
areas of Honduras, Nicaragua and
Guatemala remain flooded. Some
areas are accessible only by boat.
Remote communities are relying
on food dropped by Honduran and
U.S. military helicopters. Now a
region that had already been ham-
mered by the coronavirus and a
deep economic contraction is fac-
ing a recovery that could take years.
“Honduras is facing probably
the greatest catastrophe of its his-
tory,” said Carlos Madero, secretary
VENEZUELA
6 U.S. oil executives
convicted, sentenced
A Venezuelan judge found six
American oil executives guilty of
corruption charges Thursday
and immediately sentenced them
to prison.
The judge’s ruling came with
sentences of more than eight
years for each. The “Citgo 6” had
been lured to Venezuela three
years ago for a business meeting
and arrested.
They are employees of the
Houston-based Citgo refining
company, which is owned by
Venezuela’s state oil company,
PDVSA.
Their trial started four months
ago, and closing arguments took
place Thursday.
The men accused are Tomeu
Vadell, Gustavo Cárdenas, Jorge
Toledo, brothers Jose Luis
Zambrano and Alirio Zambrano,
of the Ministry of General Coordi-
nation of the Government, charged
with managing the response. “We
never thought and never imagined
that we would have three emergen-
cies of this magnitude in one year.”
The government has begun to
sketch out a plan in three phases,
Madero said. The most pressing is
emergency and humanitarian re-
lief for tens of thousands of evacu-
ees who still need shelter, food,
water and other basic necessities.
Phase 2 would involve rapid re-
habilitation and repair of homes,
roads and bridges. The storms de-
stroyed or damaged more than 850
square miles of farmland, threat-
ening one of the few economic ac-
tivities that had remained relative-
ly dependable during the pandem-
ic. A third phase would address
“sustainable reconstruction” amid
what Madero described as “a
change in the climate that will have
a direct impact on us poor coun-
tries. . . . Honduras is the photo-
graphic example.”
It’s unclear how much the recov-
ery will cost. Madero said the gov-
ernment is talking with the United
Nations, individual countries and
multilateral banks: “Once we have
a sustainable reconstruction plan,
it will be presented to the interna-
tional community for support.”
The International Committee of
the Red Cross estimates the recov-
ery of damaged areas across Cen-
tral America will take at least two
years.
No country has been hit harder
all now U.S. citizens, and Jose
Pereira, a permanent resident.
They’re charged with
embezzlement stemming from a
never-executed proposal to
refinance some $4 billion in
Citgo bonds by offering a 50
percent stake in the company as
collateral. President Nicolás
Maduro at the time accused
them of “treason.” They all
pleaded innocent.
— Associated Press
ARGENTINA
Crowds gather to bid
farewell to Maradona
Huge crowds gathered to say
goodbye to Diego Maradona on
Thursday, and with emotions
running high, clashes between
police and fans broke out near
the presidential palace in the
Argentine capital where the
soccer great was lying in state.
Fans had earlier proceeded
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than Honduras, where at least
3.7 million people, or more than a
third of the population, have been
affected. And no region of Hondu-
ras has suffered more than the
flood-prone valley surrounding
San Pedro Sula, the country’s sec-
ond-largest city and industrial cen-
ter, where the storms caused the
Chamelecón and Ulúa rivers to
breach their banks, sending surges
crashing into densely populated
working-class neighborhoods.
“This has overwhelmed the
city’s capacities,” Mayor Armando
Calidonio said. “It’s difficult to con-
front this alone.”
TOP: People wait for a boat to cross a flooded road in San
Pedro Sula, Honduras. ABOVE: Bernardino Bustillo looks
toward his house in La Lima after it was flooded when the
Chamelecón River overflowed and broke a levee.
DI GEST
past Maradona’s casket inside
the palace to pay their final
respects. On Thursday afternoon,
the coffin was taken in a hearse
on its way to a cemetery on the
outskirts of the city.
The death of Maradona at the
age of 60 on Wednesday,
following a heart attack, has
sparked mourning worldwide
and celebrations of a true
sporting star, who was a genius
on the soccer field but lived a life
marred by struggles with
addiction.
In Italy, crowds tied hundreds
of blue and white scarfs to the
railings outside his former club
Napoli, while in France, sports
paper L’Equipe’s front page
blared out: “God is dead.”
In Argentina, three days of
national mourning were called
for the player who led the
country to a 1986 World Cup win
and is revered with cultlike
devotion.
— Reuters
Communities have been flayed
and flipped inside out, houses
burst open, their contents dumped
in the road, leaving muddy piles of
ruptured sofas, smashed televi-
sions, broken fridges.
“We lost everything. Absolutely
everything,” said Charlie
Rodríguez, a vegetable vendor, one
of 368,000 Hondurans who evacu-
ated their homes for higher
ground, according to the govern-
ment. Many remain indefinitely
crammed into schools or churches,
around gasoline stations, under
highway bridges or in trucks parti-
tioned with sheeting to fit three
PHOTOS BY ENCARNI PINDADO
ETHIOPIA
Abiy: Assault to take
Tigray could begin
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy
Ahmed announced Thursday
that the final operation to take
the capital of the rebellious
Tigray province could begin after
a 72-hour ultimatum to
surrender had expired.
Ethiopia’s military intervened
in the rugged northern province
after local forces there attacked
an army base and made off with
military equipment Nov. 3,
sparking three weeks of unrest in
which federal forces have taken
over much of Tigray.
With communications to the
province cut, it was impossible to
verify whether the military
operation against the regional
capital of Mekele had begun.
Government forces said they had
surrounded the city of 500,000
with tanks from 30 miles away.
THE WASHINGTON POST
families. The overcrowding has ne-
gated months of government
warnings to stay physically distant
during the pandemic.
Rodríguez was hustling back
from a brief visit to his apartment
in the low-lying La Planeta district
of San Pedro Sula. As floodwater
from the first storm crept up the
three-story building, he scrambled
to the roof with his wife and three
children and waited through the
night for rescue. Just after dawn, a
police boat guided by neighbors
rescued them and five other adults
and children. The family now
bunks in the home of his wife’s
employer, a grocery store manager,
sharing space on the bare floor
with some 10 strangers.
In the municipality of La Lima,
the Rev. Fredy Valdiviezo, a Catho-
lic priest, bumped along in a pick-
up truck past empty health clinics,
derelict police stations and aban-
doned schools. The only visible life
was goats, pigs and a few people
poking through the refuse. The air
was heavy with the smell of rot.
“The water went down, but
there is nothing habitable; the
houses are uninhabitable,” Valdivi-
ezo said. “Everything is full of con-
taminated mud.”
The combined death toll for
Honduras from the two storms
stands at 91, but rescue workers
expect the number to rise as com-
munication networks are restored,
the waters recede and bodies are
discovered. On Monday, about
289,000 people remained incom-
The government campaign is
against the political party
controlling the province, the
Tigrayan People’s Liberation
Front, which once dominated the
coalition that ruled the country
for nearly 30 years. With the rise
of Abiy, they retreated to their
power base in Tigray, and in
recent months, relations with the
central government have soured.
At least 40,000 refugees have
fled the fighting into neighboring
Sudan, and there have been
reports of hundreds of civilians
massacred. Photos blazed across
social media of people with
bullet and machete wounds.
— Paul Schemm
and Danielle Paquette
SOUTH KOREA
Sex crime ringleader
jailed for 40 years
Over nine months starting in
spring 2019, Cho Ju-bin lured his
. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 , 2020
municado, the government said.
They included people of the bor-
do areas, riverbank agglomera-
tions unrecognized by the govern-
ment that lack basic services.
Fredy Romero stood outside one
such bordo, the Flor de Cuba com-
munity, cut off from the city when
an improvised footbridge over the
rushing Chamelecón snapped.
Romero’s brother and nephews
were somewhere in the communi-
ty. Without electricity, he said, they
had run out of phone battery pow-
er. He didn’t know what they were
doing for food and water.
Government shelters in homes
and schools, already at capacity
after the first storm, now house
15,000 people in San Pedro Sula,
the mayor said, and 89,000 nation-
wide, according to the Permanent
Contingency Commission of Hon-
duras. Government-coordinated
medical brigades have deployed
rapid coronavirus tests and tried to
isolate the positive cases, Vice Min-
ister of Health Roberto Cosenza
said. But evacuees have frequently
refused testing, fearful of losing
their last chance at a roof.
Seen from the air this week,
large stretches of farmland re-
mained a vast brown lake.
Cristiano Sanchez is contem-
plating migrating. “We had a man-
zana of cacao,” the farmer said —
about two acres. “Gone. Rotten.
Bananas? Rotten. Before this, we
were doing well enough. But now?
We have to start from zero.”
delphine.schrank@washpost.com
victims — he called them “slaves”
— with calculated precision.
From his home in Seoul’s
suburbs, the 25-year-old
orchestrated one of South
Korea’s most infamous sex
crimes.
Under an online alias as the
“Doctor,” he blackmailed at least
74 young women, including
minors, into sharing sexually
explicit videos of themselves,
then sold the footage online
through a chat group on the
encrypted app Telegram.
On Thursday, a court
convicted Cho of organizing a
crime ring and violating child
protection laws and jailed him
for 40 years.
Prosecutors had sought a life
sentence for Cho. Both they and
Cho have a week to appeal the
verdict. Cho’s attorney could not
be reached for comment.
The police have detained 124
suspects.
— Min Joo Kim
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Indian leaders promise to combat interfaith marriages

Conspiracy theory alleges
such unions are used for
religious conversion
BY J OANNA S LATER
new delhi — Marrying across
religious lines has always been a
challenge in India, a vast multi-
faith democracy where the pull of
family and tradition remains
strong.
Now politicians in India’s rul-
ing party are contemplating laws
to thwart such unions, driven by a
conspiracy theory that views
them as a tool for conversions.
At a rally last month, the leader
of the country’s largest state
warned of the danger of “love
jihad,” an inflammatory slur re-
ferring to an alleged plot by Mus-
lim men to convert Hindu women
through marriage.
Men who “conceal their names
and play with the honor of daugh-
ters and sisters” should prepare
for their final journeys, thun-
dered Yogi Adityanath, the radi-
cal Hindu monk who leads the
state of Uttar Pradesh.
The “love jihad” smear is base-
less, but it has become common
parlance among members of In-
dia’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty. In recent weeks, four state
governments have promised to
enact new laws to combat the
purported threat.
On Tuesday, the state cabinet
in Uttar Pradesh — home to more
than 200 million people — ap-
proved an order criminalizing re-
ligious conversions “by marriage”
with jail terms of between one
and 10 years. The order, once it’s
signed by the state governor,
would also nullify unions in
which a woman changes her reli-
gion solely to marry.
The new laws will deepen con-
cerns that under Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, India’s Muslim
minority is increasingly subject
to suspicion, discrimination and
even violence.
Couples belonging to different
religions or castes have long faced
hurdles in India that range from
familial opposition to death
threats. There is no official data
on how many interfaith marriag-
es there are in the country, but a
In India, Hindus march in a rally against “love jihad” in Ahmedabad on July 22, 2018. “Love jihad” is a smear that refers to an alleged plot
by Muslim men to convert Hindu women through marriage, a baseless notion that has garnered much attention from India’s leading party.
study based on statistics from
2005 suggested they represented
about 2 percent of the total.
In recent years, some such cou-
ples have also endured harass-
ment by Hindu extremists, who
have revealed their identities and
personal details online.
Now the notion of “love jihad”
— once relegated to the Hindu
nationalist fringe — has moved
on to the legislative agenda in
states controlled by the BJP.
Conspiracy theories alleging
plots to seduce Hindu women
and convert them to Islam have
circulated for years, propagated
by “a section of Hindu nationalist
activists,” said Charu Gupta, a
historian at the University of Del-
hi who studies issues of gender
and sexuality. “But now it has this
endorsement and sanction from
authority and power.”
This week, Arun Singh, the
national general secretary of the
BJP, told reporters in Delhi that
“love jihad” is a “very serious
problem” that states should pass
laws to address. “Many mothers
and sisters have suffered its bad
consequences.”
Such assertions are without
basis. In India’s Parliament this
year, a government minister said
no case of “love jihad” has been
registered by federal authorities
and no such term is defined in
Indian law.
A probe by a national investi-
gating agency in 2018 examined
11 interfaith marriages in the
state of Kerala and found no proof
of coercion.
More recently, police in the
northern Indian city of Kanpur
formed a special investigation
team in August to scrutinize such
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relationships. The probe was ini-
tiated after several women be-
came involved “with men from a
different religion,” which caused
“public anger,” said a copy of the
team’s final report, which was
viewed by The Washington Post.
The police examined 14 cases of
interreligious relationships
where some wrongdoing was al-
leged, either by a woman or her
family members, and found no
evidence of conspiracy, said Mo-
hit Agarwal, a senior police offi-
cial in Kanpur.
Despite the absence of evi-
dence for the phenomenon of
“love jihad,” three more BJP-con-
trolled states — Madhya Pradesh,
Haryana and Karnataka — have
pledged to enact laws targeting it.
Anil Vij, a minister in the Hary-
ana government, was among
those promising strict action. “No
one should, either by trapping a
person in the web of love, tempta-
tion, by seducing or by threaten-
ing, change someone’s religion,”
he said in a recent television
interview.
Companies that depict inter-
faith romance have faced outrage.
In Madhya Pradesh, state police
registered a complaint against
two Netflix India executives after
a Hindu nationalist group object-
ed to a scene in the serial “A
Suitable Boy.” In the scene, a
Hindu woman and a Muslim man
share a kiss near a Hindu temple.
(The complaint is unlikely to re-
sult in any penalty for Netflix.)
Last month, the jewelry brand
Tanishq was forced to withdraw
an advertisement built around a
touching scene of interreligious
harmony at a baby shower. It
evoked a furious response from
some Hindu nationalists, who
threatened to boycott the brand
for promoting “love jihad.”
Such rhetoric has prompted
some unusual responses. A trio of
journalists launched an Insta-
gram account in late October
called the India Love Project to
highlight true stories of interfaith
couples. The response has been
overwhelming, said Samar
Halarnkar, one of the founders.
Every day, new stories arrive, he
said.
“It’s moving, it’s inspiring and
in a sense, frustrating,” Halarnkar
said. “The very fact that we’ve had
to start something like this indi-
cates where we are today as a
country.”
India has a decades-old law
that is supposed to make it easier
for interfaith and intercaste cou-
ples to marry but in practice often
ends up doing the opposite, said
Surbhi Karwa, a gender and law
researcher in Delhi. Under the
statute, an advance notice period
and other formalities are re-
quired to ratify such unions.
The new laws under consider-
ation in BJP-controlled states are
“effectively telling people that
you can’t marry outside your
faith,” said Karwa. Women al-
ready face an uphill battle to
assert their own choice of a
spouse in India, where arranged
marriages are the norm for most
couples. Now, Karwa said, “the
state is going to make it even
more difficult.”
Many interreligious couples
view the current atmosphere
with dismay. Abdul Mustakeem, a
civil servant, is Muslim, and his
wife, Sonam, a language trainer
who goes only by her first name, is
Hindu. They met as students, fell
in love and married in 2014. To-
day’s environment is “turning
toxic” for couples like them, Mus-
takeem said.
Close friends who once saw
their relationship as normal have
begun questioning it, the couple
said. They think twice about post-
ing their views on controversial
topics on social media to protect
their families.
“It’s hard to keep quiet, but we
choose to,” Sonam said.
joanna.slater@washpost.com
Taniya Dutta in New Delhi and
Saurabh Sharma in Lucknow
contributed reporting.

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Russia’s Sputnik vaccine volunteers share results as amateur researchers

BY R OBYN D IXON
moscow — Their friends and rela-
tives called them “test bunnies”
and warned they risked horrible
health problems from Russia’s en-
try into the vaccine race.
But a group of Russians who
dived in early as volunteers in trials
of Russia’s Sputnik V have emerged
as amateur researchers before the
official results of full Phase 3 data,
still months away even though Rus-
sian officials on Tuesday asserted
the vaccine was 95 percent effec-
tive.
Instead, they have set them-
selves up in an online community
— and, like members of a nerdy
high school science team, they are
doing their own explorations and
analyses.
Nearly 1,500 people swap mes-
sages, answer questions and share
antibody results and other health
updates in an unofficial Telegram
group that calls itself “Covid Vac-
cine Trial Volunteers.”
It’s one of the quirkiest corners
in the global race for a vaccine, with
Sputnik V among other formulas
from labs in the United States, Chi-
na and Europe.
The online group welcomes
newcomers desperate to get into
the vaccine trial, sending links to
the best places for swift acceptance.
Members commiserate with disap-
pointed participants who seem to
have gotten the trial’s placebo
shots. They plot graphs of results
and symptoms and sling around
technical information about anti-
bodies and T cells.
A few are experts, with a back-
ground in biochemistry or data re-
search, but most are ordinary folk,
as Russia’s new cases reach records
of around 24,000 a day.
Russia’s government has not
commented publicly on the Web
salon. But the chatter should seem
familiar. Like Russian officials, al-
most all of posts in the Telegram
group believe Sputnik V is effective.
“The satellite, d---, flies and
beeps!” posted Dmitry Kulish, con-
vinced of the power of the vaccine
named after Russia’s first Cold War
satellite.
Kulish, a biochemist and profes-
sor at the Center for Entrepreneur-
ship and Innovation at the Skolko-
vo Institute of Science and Technol-
ogy, a private research institute in
Moscow, took part in the trial be-
cause it was the only way to get the
vaccine.
“Long story short: I got two shots
and two days ago I got my antibody
level and it’s really high so I am so
happy about it,” he said in an inter-
view.
According to Russian investiga-
tive website Proekt, members of
Russia’s elite, including tycoons
and officials, were lining up to be
secretly given Sputnik V shots even
before it was registered in August.
Russian officials have denied that
elite Russians got early insider ac-
cess.
Max Popov, a Canadian in Moscow, and his Russian wife joined the
Sputnik V vaccine trial and a Telegram group to discuss the results.
Russian reluctance
Many other Russians, however,
remain skeptical of vaccination in
general: 59 percent of Russians
would not take a coronavirus vac-
cine, according to October polling
by the Levada Center. The polling
does not reflect the reasons for
skepticism. But, as in Europe, the
United States and elsewhere, the
anti-vaccine lobby has taken hold
in Russia in some quarters — as
have conspiracy theories suggest-
ing that the novel coronavirus does
not exist.
“As for the efficacy of the Russian
vaccine or any other vaccine, I don’t
think anyone knows. Only time will
tell,” said trial volunteer Alexander
Samsonov, 39, a member of the
MAX POPOV
Telegram group who claimed he
got a strong antibody boost based
on the Italian firm DiaSorin’s Liai-
son test, taken at a Moscow testing
center.
Samsonov quit his public rela-
tions job in the summer because his
boss insisted that employees re-
turn to office-based work, where
few bothered with protection mea-
sures like masks and gloves.
He eschewed his usual round of
concerts, walks in the park, exhibi-
tions and coffee-shop meetings
with journalists. He stayed home
for month after month, constantly
glued to his computer, working
freelance.
“I was stressed. I stayed home all
the time,” he said. “You sit down all
day and you put on weight.”
Samsonov decided to join the
vaccine trial after his 92-year-old
grandmother died of covid-19 and
friends contracted the virus.
He described the vaccine, even
still experimental, as helping lift
his mood like the curtain rising on a
premiere. He found a new job in
public relations.
“I feel much calmer. I feel like I
can get out of self-isolation now,” he
said. “I can’t live in isolation until
the summer of 2021.”
Medical ‘Kalashnikov’
As global competition heats up,
Russia is targeting markets in Asia,
Latin America, the Middle East,
Central Asia and Africa. President
Vladimir Putin pushes the vaccine
in every conversation he has with
any world leader — jostling with
rivals that include British-Swedish
giant AstraZeneca in alliance with
Oxford University, and U.S.-based
Moderna and Pfizer, the latter of
which is collaborating with Ger-
many’s BioNTech.
Russia’s claims that Sputnik V is
95 percent effective are similar to
results reported by Moderna and
by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Russia’s stance — in the words of
loyal state TV anchor Dmitry Kise-
lyov — is to pooh-pooh the West’s
vaccines as expensive and tempera-
mental products that must be kept
at very low temperatures. Sputnik
V is freeze-dried and more easily
stored and transported. Kiselyov
compared it to one of the Soviet
Union’s most famous exports.
“Sputnik V is like a Kalashnikov,
simple and reliable,” he said on the
“Vesti Nedeli” television program
earlier this month. “Just like any
frozen product, Pfizer is likely to
suffer logistical problems.”
Vladimir Rusetsky, 36, and his
wife, Yelena, both IT specialists,
started the Telegram group to
share information and were sur-
prised to see how fast it grew.
They flew 1,670 miles from their
home in Omsk to Moscow — twice
— to join the trial and take the two
sets of shots. They were afraid of
infecting their parents.
“When you have older relatives,
it’s scary,” Rusetsky said.
Max Popov, a Canadian citizen in
the Telegram vaccine community
and a related Facebook group, said
there was no reason to fear Russia’s
vaccine. But he and his Russian
wife, Natalia Khristyukova, had no
antibodies after their clinical trial
shots.
“Based on that, I figured that
both my wife and I are in the pla-
cebo group, unfortunately,” said
Popov.
Rusetsky is sure he got the vac-
cine, not the placebo. He called it
“life-changing.”
“And if those people who did not
want to be vaccinated look at me
and change their minds and will
get a vaccine,” he said, “that would
just be great.”
robyn.dixon@washpost.com

To Russia’s Putin, Biden that the Kremlin did not recognize

Biden’s victory.
referring to the Trump legal team
on election challenges led by Ru-
won. He continues to hammer
away at his claims of sweeping elec-
with Washington because they
were already spoiled.

remains just a ‘candidate’

BY R OBYN D IXON
moscow — China’s Xi Jinping did
it. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan
did it. Leaders across Europe, Asia,
Latin America and the Pacific also
have congratulated President-elect
Joe Biden.
But even as Washington moves
on with the delayed presidential
transition, Russian President
Vladimir Putin has held back on
well wishes to Biden.
Russia’s holdout diplomacy is
becoming so awkward that it risks
being interpreted as a pointed mes-
sage that Putin is siding with out-
going President Trump and his
baseless claims that the election
was rigged and apparent attempts
to delegitimize the president-elect.
Russian officials, including Pu-
tin, also have had some tart mes-
sages about the legitimacy of the
U.S. election in recent days, citing
what they called a “standoff,” after
the chaotic period triggered by
Trump’s refusal to concede defeat.
But Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry
Peskov, insisted Thursday that no
one should draw conclusions
about Russia withholding congrat-
ulations to Biden.
In his daily phone call with jour-
nalists, Peskov was asked if the
West might view the delay as a sign
“This is absolutely the incorrect
interpretation,” said Peskov. “The
Russian president will congratu-
late the U.S. president-elect in due
course, after the election results are
summed up. The election results
have not been summed up yet.”
Putin has called the delay “abso-
lutely normal.” Not everyone sees it
that way.
“Putin still has not congratulat-
ed Biden, the only major world
leader not to do so. Keep it classy,
Vladimir,” Michael McFaul, former
U.S. ambassador to Moscow, tweet-
ed Saturday.
“Thankfully, no one in the Biden
orbit really cares,” McFaul added
Tuesday. “But Putin associating
himself with Sidney Powell and
Rudy as the rest of the world moves
on is not a good look,” he tweeted,
dolph W. Giuliani. (Powell has been
removed from the team.)
The Kremlin foot-dragging
comes with various Russian offi-
cials predicting that relations
would remain in the deep freeze,
warning that Biden’s team would
probably pursue a tougher ap-
proach toward Moscow.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs recognized the result Nov. 13,
congratulating Biden. President Xi
Jinping then called Biden on
Wednesday and left a congratula-
tory message, formalizing China’s
recognition of the president-elect.
Xi’s move came after the head of
the General Services Administra-
tion, Emily Murphy, finally set the
presidential transition in motion
Monday, and Trump accepted the
transition while still insisting he
tion fraud, without evidence.
Trump’s legal team has lost a
string of lawsuits, however polling
indicates it has convinced many
Republicans that the election was
tainted.
It is a message amplified by Rus-
sian officials from Putin down. The
Russian leader said on Russian
state television Sunday that it was
up to Americans to determine the
legitimacy of the vote.
“It is primarily for Americans to
decide whether the authorities are
legitimate or not,” Putin said, asked
about whether the election was le-
gitimate.
Referring to Biden as “the presi-
dential candidate,” Putin said in
the Nov. 22 interview that the fact
he had not yet congratulated him
could not spoil Moscow’s relations
He said the delay was due to the
“internal political standoff” in the
United States and “not that we like
or dislike someone.”
“We’ll work with anyone trusted
by the American people. But who in
particular is given this trust should
be indicated either through the po-
litical custom of one side conced-
ing the other’s victory, or the final
election results should be released
in a legitimate and legal manner.
This is absolutely normal. There’s
nothing wrong with that,” Putin
said.
“Between the lines message
from Putin is clear,” tweeted An-
drew S. Weiss, a Russia expert at
the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace — that Biden “has a
legitimacy problem.”
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Mexican
feminists
call for end
to violence
FEMINISTS FROM A1
of government actions to stop the
violence and a guarantee of the
protesters’ safety — have been
met.
The shelter has been a safe har-
bor for women fleeing violent
homes, abusive relationships, sex-
ual assault, threats or the fear of
being female in a country where
researchers say femicides have
grown by 130 percent in the past
five years.
President Andrés Manuel Ló-
pez Obrador has spoken against
the violence. But he has also con-
demned the vandalism and vio-
lence at the feminists’ demonstra-
tions. Protesters have dumped
paint on statues, vandalized mon-
uments, shattered windows and
set fires.
López Obrador, a populist who
rode a wave of dramatic demon-
strations to prominence himself,
has suggested the activists are
protesting the “wrong way.”
“Without a doubt the feminist
movement deserves all our re-
spect, but I do not agree with
violence,” he told reporters in Sep-
tember. “That we all achieve peace
and tranquility, that is an objec-
tive that we have. We are working
toward that.”
The activists say the vandalism
isn’t a byproduct of their protests
— it’s a tactic.
“For years, they protested
peacefully, going to the Monu-
ment [to Independence] with pho-
tos and candles, and nobody paid
any attention,” said a 22-year-old
university student at the shelter
who wore a black hood and mask.
“It was not until private property
began to be destroyed that the
country turned to look.”
Yesenia Zamudio, whose 19-
year-old daughter was found dead
after being thrown from a fifth-
floor window in Mexico City in
2016, is a frequent protester
around the capital.
“I have every right to burn and
break,” she told a crowd in Febru-
ary. “I’m not going to ask anyone
for permission, because I am
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Activists march in Mexico City this month to demand justice for the sexual abuse, disappearances and killings of women and girls.
breaking for my daughter.”
The approach carries risk. Pro-
testers gathered in Cancún after
the body of 20-year-old Bianca
“Alexis” Lorenzana Alvarado was
found dismembered this month.
When they tore down plywood
boards blocking the entrance and
windows to the state attorney gen-
eral’s office, police opened fire. Two
journalists and several demonstra-
tors reportedly were wounded.
A 2020 government survey
found that nearly 80 percent of
Mexican women don’t feel safe in
their own country. Ten percent of
criminal cases here result in pris-
on sentences; when the victims
are women, the percentage is low-
er. Human rights groups estimate
that only about 2 percent of ac-
cused rapists in Mexico are ever
jailed.
The World Health Organization
has reported that about half of all
women in Mexico will experience
sexual or intimate-partner vio-
lence during their lifetimes. But
many suffer several attacks.
Yaderi, a 36-year-old university
student and retail worker who
lives in Mexico state, said she has
been sexually assaulted six times,
beginning at age 7 and most re-
cently six years ago. But it wasn’t
until she had a daughter, she said,
that she felt compelled to join the
movement.
Two years ago, she said, the
child came home from preschool
crying. She told her mother a man
had touched her sexually.
“I teach my children that their
body is theirs, but we live in a
country where that is not true —
not for children, not for women,”
she said. “Enough.”
Her last name is being withheld
to protect her daughter’s identity.
Yaderi joined Ni Una Menos, a
grass-roots movement across Latin
America to fight violence against
women and push for more effective
laws and harsher punishments.
“All these girls know somebody
that has been killed or disap-
peared, and they have watched the
government do nothing about it,”
said Angélica Nadurille of the Eq-
uity and Gender Collective.
“They’re angry. And they are right
to be — the government is part of
the problem because they have
closed their eyes to the problems
EZ RE
that exist, and I think that is be-
cause of the personal belief of the
president.”
López Obrador has said femi-
nist groups have been infiltrated
by his political rivals and co-opted
to undermine his administration.
He has expressed outrage over
violence against women, but he
has also slashed funding to the
National Institute of Women amid
coronavirus-related austerity
measures and threatened to with-
draw government funding from
shelters operated by nonprofit or-
ganizations — suggesting instead
that women fleeing abuse could be
given a direct cash payment.
“When the pandemic started,
he said violence against women
should be less because the home is
a very safe place to be,” Nadurille
said. “And when we said this is not
true, that it will actually make
things worse, he said no, that’s not
possible, because the family is a
happy place.”
López Obrador’s office did not
respond to requests for comment.
Dozens of families have sought
shelter at the human rights office.
They sleep in converted offices
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and live off donated food and
clothing.
Children race up and down
hallways as mothers and volun-
teers prep meals in a communal
kitchen and sort donations of
clothes, art supplies and toiletries.
Men are not allowed inside the
building.
Those who have sought shelter
here are looked after by a rotating
cast of young women in black
balaclavas — the Bloque Negro, or
the Black Bloc.
Bloque Negro activists stand
guard with baseball bats, hockey
sticks and pipes. Atop a mini-
fridge sit neat rows of ready-made
molotov cocktails, rags hanging
from the tops of old beer and
tequila bottles.
It makes women like Erika, 42,
and her 10-year-old daughter feel
safe.
Erika, a working-class mother
of three, was among the small
group of women who took over the
offices in early September. Today,
she’s one of the handful that re-
main. Infighting has driven wedg-
es in the movement and led some
women to leave.
Mayor Jon Mitchell
New Bedford, Mass.
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United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa
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Zamudio has denounced the
work of Bloque Negro at the shelter.
In occupying the building, she said,
they have lost sight of the move-
ment’s greater purpose: justice.
But for Erika, the two go hand in
hand.
“I took this building because in
response to my complaint, I was
forced to leave my home, I was
stripped of my home . . . and the
authorities did not protect me,”
she said. “We are no longer fight-
ing against the abuser, the rapist,
but instead we are fighting this
government, this system, these au-
thorities.”
A housekeeper and doll maker,
she and her youngest daughter
moved into the shelter after
months of homelessness. The two
no longer felt safe in their own
home, Erika said, after the child,
then 7, said she was sexually as-
saulted by a family member.
For two years, Erika said, she
begged police and prosecutors to
do more to resolve her daughter’s
case. Erika was sexually assaulted
herself when she was 10, she said.
But when she told her mother, her
family did nothing to help her.
“How many women put aside
their complaint because they pre-
fer to work and eat than to lose
their job, their life, like me?” she
said. “I have lost three years of our
lives, my daughter’s and mine,
fighting for this man to pay and
not do the same to other women.
That is why we fight: to stop this
from repeating.”
Her daughter can’t imagine a
future that doesn’t involve living
at the shelter, surrounded by
women. An energetic child, she
bounces as she talks and runs fast
through the open courtyard as her
dark hair trails behind her.
She likes that men aren’t al-
lowed in, she said, and that the
women are free to do and say what
they like. She likes the wall paint-
ings and the black hoods. She
helped paint over an oil portrait of
Francisco Madero, the tragic revo-
lutionary hero. She gave him
bright red lipstick; others filled in
green eye shadow and purple hair.
“I’m going to stay here for my
whole life,” she said.
Erika said the shelter has
changed the girl’s life.
“She can sleep without worry-
ing that something is going to hap-
pen to her,” she said. “She can enjoy
the entire building without worry-
ing that something is going to hap-
pen to her. I can let her run and
play without worrying that some-
thing is going to happen to her.”
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BY Y EGANEH T ORBATI
AND A ARON G REGG
The Trump administration has
used a $17 billion loan fund meant
for businesses critical to U.S. na-
tional security to help a hodge-
podge of little-known companies
with unclear importance to na-
tional defense, and the fund re-
mains mostly unspent eight
months after Congress approved it
as part of a $2 trillion stimulus bill.
Aircraft manufacturers includ-
ing Boeing were the fund’s intend-
ed recipients but balked at the
terms and did not apply. Instead,
the 11 companies that have tapped
the fund so far include a company
that has pitched its products as an
enabling technology for the facial
recognition tracking of immi-
grants, a manufacturer of road-
block barriers and surveillance
firms.
One company that received a
loan is an experimental spaceflight
technology firm backed by deep-
pocketed venture capital investors.
Others have a history of financial
losses. One manufacturer relies on
minimum-wage prison labor to
make wire harnesses for military
and commercial customers.
“The most important informa-
tion to be transparent about is why
these firms deserve these funds,”
said Mandy Smithberger, a defense
industry analyst at the Project on
Government Oversight. “Under-
standing that these are limited
funds, why were these companies
the priorities?”
The Treasury Department an-
nounced the first national security
loan, $700 million to trucking
company YRC Worldwide, in a
news release in July. The 10 follow-
ing loans — worth about $36 mil-
lion total — have been subsequent-
ly posted on Treasury’s website in
the past month. Given the timing
of the disclosures — in the days just
before and after a contentious
presidential election and in the
midst of a sharp spike in coronavi-
rus cases nationwide — the new
loans have received little scrutiny
thus far.
It is unclear how the remaining
$16.26 billion in appropriated
funds will be spent. But some in-
dustry experts and congressional
aides say they are disappointed
with how the program has been
administered so far, as billions of
dollars intended to save jobs in the
fragile aerospace industry went
unspent for seven months.
A Treasury Department spokes-
woman, Rebecca Miller, declined
to comment on the record. Jessica
Maxwell, a Defense Department
spokeswoman, said the Pentagon,
which was involved in the loan
approvals, acted in accordance
with the Cares Act, which estab-
lished the program.
“It appears again that some mis-
understand the intentions of the
CARES Act — to get money into
American businesses and to Amer-
ican workers who are dealing with
the financial toll of COVID in a
rapid, efficient and responsible
manner,” Maxwell said in a state-
ment. “That is what DoD did.”
The Congressional Oversight
Commission, created by the Cares
Act, is scrutinizing the national
security loans and plans a public
hearing next month with officials
from Treasury, the Pentagon and
the Office of the Director of Nation-
al Intelligence, said the commis-
sion’s chief clerk, Amber Venzon.
The defense industry was large-
ly uninterested in the loan terms
offered by Treasury. Only 74 com-
panies have submitted applica-
tions, standing in stark contrast to
the millions that sought loans from
the Small Business Administra-
tion. Just a handful of applications
are still being reviewed. Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in
an appearance on Fox Business last
month that, with congressional ap-
proval, the unused national secu-
In terms of value investing, this money manager says he’s in a losing battle
Now that the
presidential
election has been
decided, let’s take
a look at some
numbers that
Deals don’t involve
ALLAN SLOAN political
philosophies.
Rather, they
involve investment philosophies
— value and growth.
As a bonus, I’ll give you an
example of how an honorable
investment professional behaves
when the numbers go against
him.
So let me introduce you to
numbers that most retail
investors have never heard of that
help explain what’s been going on
in the U.S. stock market the past
few years.
I’d also like to introduce you to
the person who introduced me to
these numbers.
He’s an honorable guy named
Economy & Business
The Treasury Department has disclosed loans of about $736 million to 11 companies from a $17 billion fund for national defense.
rity loan funds could be reallocated
to help airlines.
“If they were trying to set up a
fund which no one would use, it’s
not clear to me what else they could
have done,” said David Berteau,
who is president of the Profession-
al Services Council, a trade associa-
tion for government contractors.
Manufacturers were discour-
aged by overly restrictive and shift-
ing requirements, Berteau said.
Others, including Boeing, may
have found the loan terms unat-
tractive: Publicly traded compa-
nies had to give stock or stock
warrants to the government to re-
ceive a loan, something spelled out
by Congress in the Cares Act. Firms
also faced restrictions with respect
to stock buybacks, executive com-
pensation and layoffs.
When Congress passed the
Cares Act in late March, the $17 bil-
lion national security fund was in-
tended to preserve jobs at a range
of companies that sell jets and air-
craft components to the military
and to commercial airlines, people
involved in the conversations told
The Washington Post at the time.
Boeing and the aviation division
of General Electric were seen as
likely beneficiaries of the program,
Mnuchin later clarified. Those
companies and hundreds of others
that supply them were decimated
by the sudden, near-complete
shutdown in global air travel start-
ing in March. (Boeing’s bottom line
had also taken a beating after its
flagship 737 Max jet was grounded
following two crashes that killed
346 people.)
But major aerospace companies
did not access the loan fund, opting
instead to raise funds elsewhere
and cut costs through mass layoffs.
Boeing plans to reduce its work-
force to roughly 130,000 by the end
of 2021; it stood at 160,000 before
the pandemic. GE Aviation, a ma-
jor jet engine supplier, is cutting a
quarter of its workforce.
The application period opened
April 23, with a May 1 deadline for
“expedited review,” Treasury De-
partment documents show, mean-
ing most of the loan applicants
spent only about a week preparing
their requests.
The Treasury Department then
turned to a pair of private consul-
tants — the law firm Davis Polk &
Wardwell and the financial advi-
sory firm Perella Weinberg Part-
Ted Aronson, who is closing his
value-oriented money-
management firm, AJO Partners,
and sending back his investors’
$10 billion because he has grown
increasingly dissatisfied with his
investment performance and
doesn’t want to keep fighting a
losing battle against markets.
Before we proceed, let me
explain the difference between
value and growth.
Shares of value stocks trade at
modest levels relative to their net
assets and earnings. Growth
stocks are priced at higher levels
on the assumption that their
earnings and asset values will
grow rapidly. Warren Buffett’s
Berkshire Hathaway is a classic
value stock; Jeff Bezos’s Amazon
is a classic growth stock. (Bezos
owns The Washington Post).
Growth is doing much better
than value these days, as we can
see from two market indicators
most nonprofessional investors
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Funds meant for
aerospace firms
went elsewhere
or unspent
ners — to handle most of the work
of evaluating companies’ applica-
tions. Treasury awarded Davis Polk
a $650,000 contract on May 1, and
applicants started hearing from
both firms soon after. Neither firm
responded to requests for com-
ment.
It was another two months be-
fore Treasury issued the first loan
from the fund: $700 million to YRC
Worldwide, a struggling trucking
company that lost more than
$100 million last year, long before
the pandemic hit. A YRC spokes-
man declined to comment. The 10
other loans issued so far each took
about six months to process.
Several applicants told The Post
they spent hundreds of hours on
financial due diligence and other
paperwork with consultants from
Davis Polk and Perella Weinberg.
But the Treasury Department was
rarely a part of the conversation,
they said, making it hard for appli-
cants to figure out who in the gov-
ernment was making decisions
about their applications and on
what criteria. It was unclear to
them who determined that they
met the national security require-
ments.
“The only stuff I had to do per-
taining to national security were
the initial documents, like a hand-
ful of pages,” said Gareth Block,
whose Austin-based drone soft-
ware company Third Insight, also
known as Visual Semantics, re-
ceived a $1 million loan, and quali-
fied thanks to a certification from
the Pentagon. The terms of the
Treasury loan, unsecured and at a
5.5 percent interest rate, are far
more favorable than those the
have never heard of: the S&P
Value Index and the S&P Growth
Index.
I’ve learned about these
indexes over the years from
looking at the numbers Aronson’s
AJO distributes monthly showing
the results of value, growth and
61 other market indicators —
that’s right, 63 sets of numbers —
for 32 periods that range from the
most recent month to 45 years.
That’s a lot of numbers. It can
make for MEGO — you know, My
Eyes Glaze Over. But they have a
real story to tell us.
After Aronson announced on
Oct. 15 that he’s closing AJO at
the end of the year, I started
looking more closely at the value
and growth numbers (which are
subsets of the S&P 500) and
found something that helps
explain why Aronson is calling it
quits.
It also helps explain why any
number of well-known value-
company would have received
from venture capital funds, Block
said.
Congress gave the Treasury De-
partment wide latitude in deciding
how to disburse the funds, neglect-
ing to define in the legislation what
makes a company “critical to main-
taining national security.”
The agency came up with two
criteria through which a company
could qualify for the national secu-
rity loans. Either a business had to
already be performing on a
“DX”-rated government contract
— a type of urgent defense work
that relatively few firms carry out
— or operate under a high-level
security clearance.
Those criteria turned away a lot
of otherwise interested firms, in-
dustry representatives said. Com-
panies could also qualify for the
loans if the secretary of defense or
director of national intelligence
certified that they are critical to
maintaining national security. Six
of the 11 companies that have re-
ceived loans so far got such a certi-
fication from the Defense Depart-
ment.
Maxwell, the Defense Depart-
ment spokeswoman, declined to
share any of the loan justification
documents the agency sent to
Treasury as part of the approval
process.
“DoD used the same criteria we
used for other CARES Act funding
opportunities to assess companies
for DoD certification for Treasury
loans,” Maxwell said.
Senate aides, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to describe
internal conversations, said that
they found Treasury’s standards
oriented funds — some of which I
own, and some of which you may
own or are thinking of owning —
have underperformed the market.
With one exception — the
month of October — growth has
outperformed value for every
period in AJO’s statistics from
three months to 45 years.
What’s more, except for last
month, value has also
underperformed the S&P 500, the
most common market
benchmark, during all these
periods.
Value hasn’t done better than
growth since 2007. This means
that for the past 13 years, value-
oriented investors and money
managers — whose goal is to
outperform the markets — have
faced daunting odds, while
growth-oriented investors and
managers have had the wind at
their backs.
That’s why many value
managers are frustrated. And
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for which companies qualify for
the loans to be far too narrow and
that those rules undermined Con-
gress’s intent in creating the pro-
gram. Treasury has ignored re-
quests from members of the Senate
Commerce Committee that it
broaden the criteria for how com-
panies qualify, the aides said.
One of the companies that re-
ceived a Treasury loan this month
is oVio Technologies, based in
Newport Beach, Calif. The compa-
ny, which had six U.S. employees in
March, received a nearly $1.2 mil-
lion unsecured loan, according to a
Nov. 2 transaction summary dis-
closed by the Treasury Depart-
ment. It qualified for the loan after
the Defense Department certified
its work was critical to national
security.
In promotional videos, oVio
boasts that its 3-D imaging tech-
nology can help law enforcement
and immigration control agencies
with facial recognition tracking.
One video published several years
ago says oVio’s technology can
make it easier for governments to
track immigrants and refugees.
Another video posted by the
company on its Instagram account
in September shows a heavily tat-
tooed, Latino-looking man being
photographed in an orange jump-
suit and placed behind bars. The
advertisement boasted that oVio’s
imaging scanners are “compatible
with tier 1 facial recognition soft-
ware providers.”
The video was removed after
The Post asked oVio’s chief execu-
tive, George Rebensdorf, about the
content.
“I don’t control our social media
manager, who is always pulling
and posting content,” Rebensdorf
said in an email. “Maybe I should
be more attentive.”
Civil rights advocates argue that
facial recognition technology pre-
sents myriad privacy concerns be-
cause, unlike other biometric data,
a digitized image of a person’s face
can be captured without individu-
als’ knowledge or consent.
“Even if this technology was
100 percent accurate, the serious
privacy concerns would still be
present,” said Saira Hussain, an
attorney at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. “The notion that this
is critical to national security is a
flawed premise and is a way to try
to push facial recognition technol-
why many of their investors are
frustrated, too, and taking their
money back.
It also explains why AJO’s
assets under management, once
$31 billion, were down to about
$10 billion when Aronson
announced that he would close
the firm.
“Our secret sauce wasn’t
performing,” Aronson said. For
the past five years, he had
underperformed AJO’s
performance benchmark, the
Russell 1000 Value Index. “With
the handwriting on the wall, we
decided to hold our head high,
return the capital and shutter the
business.”
Aronson, who opened his firm
in 1984, says that his age (68) has
nothing to do with his decision to
close. It’s about the numbers.
“Even if we shot the lights out, it
would take us five years to get
back to showing some decent
historical returns,” he said.
. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 , 2020
ogy despite the increasing public
concern.”
Rebensdorf said law enforce-
ment work is “not currently a focus
of” his company. He added that the
company does not make or develop
facial recognition software and
only provides images for those
platforms. In a phone interview, he
declined to speak at length about
the loan, except to say that the
company’s experience with Treas-
ury was positive and rigorous.
“I’ve never been through more
due diligence in my life, and I’ve
been through a lot of IPOs,” he said.
In a subsequent email, he said
the company did not qualify for the
loan based on its facial recognition
work, but rather its other national
security expertise. He cited a con-
tract and memorandum of under-
standing with the U.S. Air Force to
develop viewing and training plat-
forms for aircraft. Public federal
contracting data shows a $50,000
research and development con-
tract to oVio this year from the
Defense Department for “revolu-
tionary identity management.”
Early this year, oVio disclosed in
an investor presentation on an on-
line crowdfunding site that it was
“currently operating at a loss” and
has a history of doing so. Asked
about the disclosure, Rebensdorf
said the company “went through
four months of intensive financial
and legal due diligence” to qualify
for the loan.
Another company that received
a Treasury loan is SpinLaunch, a
spaceflight technology firm based
in Long Beach, Calif. A Wired arti-
cle this year detailed the compa-
ny’s plans to build a centrifuge 100
yards wide that would spin a rocket
in circles at speeds up to 5,000 mph
before launching it into space. The
firm has raised $80 million from
prominent investors, including
venture capital firms Airbus Ven-
tures, Kleiner Perkins and GV, the
venture capital arm of Google par-
ent Alphabet.
SpinLaunch’s $2.5 million
Treasury loan is secured by the
company’s assets, and the compa-
ny qualified for the loan based on a
certification from the Defense De-
partment. The company received a
contract from the Pentagon to de-
velop a satellite launch system pro-
totype. SpinLaunch did not re-
spond to an interview request.
Treasury also awarded a nearly
$2 million loan to SemahTronix, an
Arkansas firm that produces cable
assemblies and wire harnesses.
The company had earlier received
a Small Business Administration
loan worth between $350,000 and
$1 million as part of a separate
coronavirus relief program.
As of June, the company em-
ployed 97 prison inmates through
a venture with the Arkansas De-
partment of Corrections, accord-
ing to a report from the National
Correctional Industries Associa-
tion (NCIA), which reviews prison
jobs programs. The company’s
website says its “innovative part-
nership” with the state prison sys-
tem goes back to 2006.
SemahTronix President Travis
Atkinson declined to comment.
Cindy Murphy, a spokeswoman for
the Arkansas Department of Cor-
rections, said 66 female inmates
and 39 male inmates are currently
working for SemahTronix, earning
between $10 and $10.21 per hour,
which is approximately Arkansas’s
minimum wage.
NCIA data shows that for the
three-month period ending in
June, the Arkansas Department of
Corrections deducted, in aggre-
gate, about 63 percent of inmates’
pay from SemahTronix to cover
expenses including “room and
board,” taxes, family support and
victims’ programs.
yeganeh.torbati@washpost.com
aaron.gregg@washpost.com
Dalton Bennett and Magda Jean-Louis
contributed to this report.
“The latest value drought is
about 13 years,” he told me. “It’s
made value investors look like
idiots.” Indeed. For both this year
and for the 12 months ended in
October, the spread between
growth’s gains and value’s losses
has totaled more than 30 percent.
A staggering difference.
If you’ve studied history — or
financial markets — you know
that nothing lasts forever. Is Ted
Aronson abandoning ship just as
the tide is beginning to turn in
value’s favor? If that’s the case, he
quips, “We’re willing to take one
for the [value] team.”
Given these strange and
uncertain times in both our
society and the financial markets,
it would be fitting if AJO’s closing
turns out to mark the bottom of
value’s long slide against growth.
And it would sure make for
fascinating numbers for us to
kick around in the future.
allan.sloan@washpost.com
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 , 2020
DANIELLE ALLEN
A crash
course in
civics
T T
he past four years have been
hard, and this past year hard-
est of all. But there is one thing
for which we can be thankful:
We have collectively experienced an
intense, accelerated education in the
structure of our democratic institu-
tions and the values that anchor them,
after decades of declining investment
in civics.
The public, after having processed
the 2016 election, in which the winner
lost the popular vote but won the elec-
toral college (and worrying about the
potential for the same outcome this
year), now better understands how
important the states-based nature of
our federation is to our politics. The
lesson has also been driven home by
the dynamics of the Senate, in which
senators representing just 44 percent
of the population but a majority of the
states can deliver Supreme Court jus-
tices into lifetime appointments.
The impeachment and trial of Presi-
dent Trump were a project-based-
learning curriculum in the checks and
balances of our system and required
close study of the constitutional re-
quirements of the presidency. The
process provided an opportunity to
revisit the balance of power between
the legislative and executive branches,
and to consider why the legislative
branch is the first branch listed in the
Constitution. It has the job of articu-
lating the will of the people; it should
set the strategic direction for the coun-
try. The president should execute di-
rections established by the people.
The stand-up behavior of state elec-
tion officials all over the country in the
lengthy process of counting and re-
porting votes reminded us of just how
many elected officials are responsible
for the health of democracy. It also
highlighted the fact that, at the end of
the day, the structures of state govern-
ment are the foundation supporting
the whole system.
The disjunction between the out-
comes of ballot propositions and of
candidates for federal office forced us
to think again about the mechanisms
we use for voting. When we vote on
ballot propositions, we often achieve
supermajorities, as Massachusetts did
in affirming the right of small car-
repair shops to access car data in sup-
port of repairs. So, too, did voters in
New Jersey, where they affirmed the
legalization of marijuana, or in Missis-
sippi, where they adopted a new state
flag. Look at our ballot propositions,
and we do not look polarized. But if you
look at the results from our federal
election, we do.
Why the difference? The use of a
plurality voting mechanism in many
of our primaries makes it possible for
extreme candidates to squeak through
and become party nominees. They can
then set a more extreme agenda for the
whole party, forcing voters into a “two
bad choices” scenario. The alternative
— ranked-choice voting — requires
candidates to surpass a 50 percent
threshold. Particularly, when applied
to primaries, this ensures that candi-
dates who make it through to become
the party nominee have to build a
broad coalition. This can be expected
to deliver a generally moderating set
of incentives to politicians. Trump got
through the 2016 Republican primary
thanks to the plurality voting mecha-
nism, allowing him to chart a relative-
ly radical course for the party. Voting
mechanisms aren’t just for wonks;
they are core to our democracy’s
health. A lot of people have awakened
to this, as is evidenced by the adoption
of ranked-choice voting in Maine,
Alaska and New York City.
We as a nation invest about 50 fed-
eral dollars per child in STEM educa-
tion each year. For civic education, we
invest about 5 cents. As the old saw has
it, you get what you pay for. A demo-
cratic society has to equip itself with
civic strength by offering its rising
generation an education that inspires
their commitment to constitutional
democracy and equips them with the
knowledge and skills needed to sus-
tain self-government for free and
equal citizens. We haven’t been paying
for civic education for some time, and
it shows.
The past four years have been a very
expensive way of closing an achieve-
ment gap on civic knowledge — the
gap across our whole population be-
tween where our civic knowledge is
and where it should be. Perhaps it’s
time to educate ourselves more
straightforwardly by investing in civic
education in K-12 and by rebuilding
the capacity of higher education insti-
tutions to teach American political
thought, U.S. political institutions and
the theory of democracy and civic
participation.
I am thankful for the education
we’ve had over the last four years.
Now, I hope we can do right by it and
directly invest in civic education for
our children.
Danielle Allen, a Post contributing
columnist, is the author of “Cuz: The Life
and Times of Michael A.”
. THE WASHINGTON POST
FRIDAY Opinion
President Trump during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan in 2019.
We can’t abandon Afghanistan
BY K ELLY A YOTTE,
J OSEPH D UNFORD
AND N ANCY L INDBORG
O
ver the past four years, the
Trump administration took
bold actions to initiate negoti-
ations between the Kabul gov-
ernment and the Taliban insurgency.
For the first time since the Afghanistan
conflict began more than 40 years ago,
an Afghan government began talking
to its main insurgent rival about creat-
ing a foundation for a stable future.
Thanks to this diplomatic initiative,
the pressing question about the
U.S. presence in Afghanistan is no
longer about winning an “endless war”
but about brokering a lasting peace.
Congress called last year for the
establishment of the Afghanistan
Study Group, which we lead, to exam-
ine U.S. options in Afghanistan and to
report in early 2021. In our eight
months of consultations with U.S., Af-
ghan and international leaders and
experts, our 15-member bipartisan
group believes it has emerged with a
clear understanding of the current sit-
uation in Afghanistan — and what is
necessary to protect U.S. national se-
curity interests.
Our study group has a strong and
united position: An abrupt withdrawal
of U.S. troops, as is now being contem-
plated by the Trump administration,
would undermine the fragile but po-
tentially transformational peace proc-
ess. It would embolden the Taliban,
destabilize the Kabul government and
allow terrorist groups to reconsoli-
date. A civil war could result, provok-
ing a wider regional conflict and an
inevitable humanitarian and migra-
tion crisis.
The U.S. military presence in Af-
ghanistan underpins the negotiations,
which offer the likeliest path to peace
in that country since 9/11. Getting
What a conservative court really means
BY STEVEN V. MAZIE
T
hough her name appears no-
where in the 33 pages of opin-
ions issued on Thanksgiving
eve, Amy Coney Barrett looms
large in her first consequential vote as a
Supreme Court justice. Barrett played
the decisive role in the court’s decision
Wednesday to grant requests from
Catholics and Orthodox Jews in New
York City to block church and syna-
gogue attendance limits in covid-19 hot
spots.
During the pandemic’s first wave in
the spring, the Supreme Court voted
twice not to interfere when states such
as California and Nevada restricted
indoor gatherings, including church
services. Those votes were 5 to 4, with
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining
his four liberal colleagues.
But with the death of Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg in September — and
Barrett’s ascension to the bench — the
tide has turned. Roberts is now unable
to stop a majority from overruling local
officials as they try to combat the
coronavirus’s spread. Limiting attend-
ance to 10 or 25 worshipers in the most
dangerous zones, the majority said in its
unsigned opinion, is “far more severe
than has been shown to be required to
prevent the spread of the virus at the
applicants’ services.”
As infections and deaths spike across
the country, the decision is a sign that
the newly configured Supreme Court
will not look kindly on steps taken by
state and local officials to protect health
and safety if they interfere with the
autonomy of religious entities. This
switch may come at a painful cost. “I see
no justification for the Court’s change of
heart” from its earlier decisions, Justice
Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent, as
New York’s rules actually favor houses of
EZ
U.S. troops out of Afghanistan is the
Taliban’s main goal. During our consul-
tations with more than 60 interlocu-
tors, we have looked intensely at the
question of whether a credible peace
deal between the Afghan government
and the Taliban is possible. There has
been one clear and consistent re-
sponse: No deal will emerge as long as
the Taliban believes the United States is
withdrawing troops imminently, with-
out regard for the Taliban’s behavior.
If the United States takes that path
before genuine progress is achieved, it
will give up the leverage that could
produce a sustainable political com-
promise. Doing so would also damage
U.S. credibility with its allies and part-
ners.
At the same time, the greatly reduced
U.S. presence over the past few years
has signaled to the Afghan government
that the United States’ patience and
resources are limited, and that Kabul
also must negotiate in good faith.
For the immediate future, the Unit-
ed States should embrace a peace-
centered strategy that has the follow-
ing elements:
First, we should make clear to all
parties involved what the desired end
state will be. In particular, a post-peace
Afghanistan must be able to either
sufficiently control its territory to pre-
vent the harboring of terrorists or ac-
cept international assistance to do so.
Second, affirm the U.S. commitment
to Afghanistan’s constitutional order
and the country’s gains in human
rights, including the rights of women.
Having put severe pressure on the Af-
ghan government to enter talks with
the Taliban, the United States must now
show that its support will continue as
long as the Afghan government negoti-
ates in good faith, fights corruption and
reaches out to all elements of Afghan
society. During the negotiations, our
remaining troops will back Afghan se-
worship over movie theaters and sport-
ing arenas that are closed entirely. She
warns that allowing large groups to
congregate in churches “will only exac-
erbate the Nation’s suffering.”
The impact of Barrett’s arrival goes
well beyond tying states’ hands in the
fight against covid-19. Her vote will
accelerate a trend toward deference to
religious institutions that her fellow
conservatives — including the chief
justice — have been pursuing for a
decade. Once upon a time, the court
sought to balance the twin religion
clauses of the First Amendment —
separation of church and state on one
hand and free exercise of religion on the
other. More recently, its right wing has
been all but ignoring the Constitution’s
proscription against an establishment
of religion while deferring to increasing-
ly far-fetched religious-liberty claims.
Barrett is likely to ramp up the court’s
support for people and organizations
that demand carve-outs from rules that
the rest of society must follow. In recent
years, the Supreme Court has let reli-
gious corporations off the hook from an
Affordable Care Act requirement that
employee health insurance include free
contraception. It has bowed to religious
nonprofits that refuse to even sign a
form giving them an exemption from
this mandate. It has expanded the
“ministerial exemption” to federal anti-
discrimination claims for religious-
school teachers. And it told a Christian
baker he did not need to bake a wedding
cake for a gay couple, despite the state’s
protections for LGBT customers.
Now the court seems bound to favor
religion even more heavily. The wedding-
cake decision was a narrow ruling based
on specific evidence of anti-religious
hostility from a state civil rights commis-
sioner; the justices did not grapple with
the more fundamental tensions between
RE
ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
curity forces as they keep the Taliban
from a battlefield victory and continue
to lead the fight against terrorist
groups.
Third, reemphasize to the Taliban
that the full withdrawal of U.S. troops is
strictly conditional on progress toward
peace, including a genuine and broad
reduction in violence — a reduction
that at the moment is not in evidence.
Our study group’s assessment is that
the Taliban has instigated most of the
recent violence and is undermining
their claim that they can and will pre-
vent the use of Afghan soil by al-Qaeda,
the Islamic State or other terrorists.
Fourth, establish a more robust and
coordinated regional diplomatic strat-
egy. Afghanistan’s neighbors can be
spoilers in this process, but they can
also be supporters of peace, united by
their collective interest in a stable Af-
ghanistan that would greatly expand
regional trade and investment oppor-
tunities. Concerted, unified diplomatic
action by the United States is critical to
build this support and prevent regional
spoilers.
Americans generally agree that it is
time to end this war. But withdrawing
U.S. troops irresponsibly would likely
lead to a new civil war, inviting the
reconstitution of anti-U.S. terrorist
groups and providing them with a nar-
rative of victory against the U.S. super-
power. Supporting peace negotiations
offers the United States the chance to
honor U.S. sacrifices, secure core
U.S. interests and show this nation’s
enemies that they cannot prevail.
Kelly Ayotte is a former Republican
U.S. senator from New Hampshire. Joseph
Dunford is a retired U.S. Marine Corps
general and former chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Nancy Lindborg is the
former president and CEO of the
U.S. Institute of Peace. They are co-chairs of
the Afghanistan Study Group.
anti-discrimination law and religious
prerogatives. But earlier this month, the
court considered whether Philadelphia
can be forced to work with a Catholic
social services agency that rejects same-
sex couples as foster parents. This case
tees up a reconsideration of Employment
Division v. Smith, a 1990 case written by
Antonin Scalia holding that neutral laws
that apply equally to all do not violate
the Constitution, even if they have an
incidental impact on religious exercise.
This shift is bringing with it a
notable testiness among the justices.
In his concurring opinion in the New
York case, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch took
aim at Roberts and the liberal dissent-
ers, accusing them of sending the
Constitution on “a holiday during this
pandemic.” Roberts swatted back with
his customary restraint: The dissent-
ers, he wrote, “simply view the matter
differently after careful study and
analysis reflecting their best efforts to
fulfill their responsibility under the
Constitution.”
This is not the first time we have seen
tensions between Roberts, who strives
to tamp down the court’s perceived
politicization, and the justices to his
right. But Gorsuch’s bombast — and the
uncommonly partisan and recrimina-
tion-filled speech Justice Samuel A.
Alito Jr. delivered to the Federalist
Society this month — carries a disturb-
ing air of triumphalism. With Barrett’s
arrival, the court’s staunchest conserva-
tives have something to give thanks for:
a five-vote majority that does not rely on
the chief ’s assent.
Steven V. Mazie is the Supreme Court
correspondent for the Economist and
professor of political studies at Bard High
School Early College in Manhattan. His most
recent book is “American Justice 2015: The
Dramatic Tenth Term of the Roberts Court.”
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JOSH ROGIN
Rebranding
Trump’s China
policy
he Biden administration-in-waiting is
sending clear signals about its China
approach, which will look very differ-
ent from President Trump’s — at least
on the surface. But at the same time,
President-elect Joe Biden’s personnel picks so
far portend a strategy that maintains the
Trump administration’s core thrust of focus-
ing on competition — not engagement — with
Beijing. That should comfort nervous allies
even if it doesn’t satisfy hawkish Republicans.
On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jin-
ping sent Biden a congratulatory message, in
which Xi said he hopes the incoming team will
“uphold the spirit of non-conflict, non-
confrontation, mutual respect and win-win
cooperation.” This is standard Chinese Com-
munist Party doublespeak for asking the Unit-
ed States to back off criticizing Beijing’s ever-
increasing external aggression and internal
repression. As the joke in Washington has it,
when Chinese officials speak of “win-win co-
operation,” that means China wins twice.
CCP leaders are surely glad to put the
antagonism and unpredictability of the
Trump administration behind them, but they
might not want to celebrate just yet. Biden
has selected key national security officials
who are relatively hard-line on China within
the Democratic Party. And the Biden team is
already changing the United States’ Asia
policy, but not in a way that benefits Beijing.
Biden’s announcement he plans to nomi-
nate Antony Blinken as secretary of state and
Jake Sullivan as national security adviser
shows he is making a break from the Obama
White House’s engagement-focused China
policy. There were fears in the region that
Susan Rice, who resisted a more competitive
strategy when she was national security
adviser, might have become America’s top
diplomat.
Blinken laid out his thinking on China in a
July Hudson Institute event, when he argued
that Trump put the United States in a weaker
strategic position vis-a-vis China by under-
mining alliances and waffling on values pro-
motion. Blinken promised to rally allies
toward the mission of pushing back on China’s
various bad behaviors.
“There is a growing consensus across par-
ties that China poses a series of new challenges
and that the status quo was really not sustain-
able,” he said. “We are in a competition with
China, and there’s nothing wrong with compe-
tition, if it’s fair.”
Increased coordination was a theme of
Biden’s calls with regional democratic leaders,
all conducted before his still-pending conver-
sation with Xi. The Biden team readouts said
Biden emphasized working with them to
maintain a “secure and prosperous Indo-
Pacific region.” That phrasing has been delib-
erately changed from the Trump administra-
tion’s term, a “free and open Indo-Pacific”
region. Many countries in Asia prefer the term
“secure and prosperous,” although there isn’t
much difference in the substance. Biden is
essentially continuing a key feature of Trump’s
strategy but rebranding it to appeal to allies.
Sullivan, who served as Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s policy planning director, laid
out his current thinking on China in a May
essay for Foreign Policy co-written with histo-
rian Hal Brands and a Foreign Affairs essay in
September 2019 co-written with former Asia
official Kurt Campbell. In the former piece,
Sullivan and Brands argue “the signs that
China is gearing up to contest America’s global
leadership are unmistakable, and they are
ubiquitous.” In the latter piece, Campbell and
Sullivan write, “There is a growing consensus
that the era of engagement with China has
come to an unceremonious close.”
According to American Enterprise Insti-
tute visiting fellow Eric Sayers, there are
three basic camps on China inside the Demo-
cratic Party: the competitors, the centrists
and the optimists. Blinken and Sullivan
could be seen as competitors or centrists,
whereas Rice would be considered an opti-
mist. This perception is important because
Republican senators have made clear that
they want to focus on China during the
incoming team’s vetting.
“What constitutes a China-policy centrist
has moved in a more competitive direction
since the Obama years, but that won’t pre-
vent Congress from imposing a hard China
litmus test on them during confirmation,”
Sayers said.
Biden’s calls with Asian leaders all men-
tioned climate change, a nod to former secre-
tary of state John F. Kerry, who will sit on
Biden’s National Security Council as special
envoy on that issue. Everyone will be watching
how Kerry, perceived as a China optimist, will
fit into the new scheme. Biden’s defense secre-
tary choice will also be a key signal. Former
undersecretary of defense for policy Michèle
Flournoy, who had been seen as the most likely
candidate, is in the competitor camp, but her
fortunes appear to be waning.
The group of Biden officials in the running
for key sub-Cabinet-level Asia positions also
leans heavily toward the competitor camp.
They include former Obama NSC officials
Jeffrey Prescott and Ely Ratner and former
Pentagon official Kelly Magsamen. Older op-
timists such as former NSC official Jeffrey
Bader and former deputy secretary of state
Jim Steinberg are not expected to return to
government.
The Biden team will never be hawkish
enough on China to satisfy some Republicans,
but the emerging team should appeal to Asian
allies who liked Trump’s enthusiasm but not
his style. A competition-based approach is not
a panacea — it’s simply the prerequisite to
meeting the generational challenge of manag-
ing China’s rise.
josh.rogin@washpost.com
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No one is safe until everyone is
Why the Covax Facility is key to poor nations getting vaccines.
T
HE WORLD HEALTH Organiza-
tion’s director-general, Dr.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
warned in August that no coun-
try could afford to go it alone in fighting
the pandemic. Nations already depend
on global supply chains for everything
from diagnostic testing to personal
protective equipment, he said, and they
must avoid “vaccine nationalism” when
it comes to the most powerful tool to
fight covid-19. When the Group of
20 leaders held their virtual summit
meeting last weekend, they again de-
clared their intent not to hoard lifesav-
ing vaccines, saying, “We will spare no
effort to ensure their affordable and
equitable access for all people.”
But as vaccines come closer to reality,
wealthy nations of the world have
already taken care of their own needs
and signed contracts to buy up hun-
dreds of millions of vaccine doses. And
the poor? A global risk-sharing procure-
ment initiative to ensure fair and equita-
ble access to vaccines, the Covax Facility,
could bring them protection, but only if
it can get sufficient funding in 2021. This
is the world’s best chance to help the
The fight for democracy continues
Mr. Biden should invite the Belarus opposition leader to his inauguration.
F
OR NEARLY 16 weeks, the streets
of Belarus have been a testament
to the sacrifice of its citizens and
their determination to recover
their stolen election. Thousands have
been detained. Many have been beaten,
threatened and cautioned against
marching; fired from jobs; expelled
from university — and yet they keep
coming to protest President Alexander
Lukashenko’s brazen theft of the Aug. 9
ballot, which the opposition candidate
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya clearly won.
Despite all the pressure by Mr. Lu-
kashenko’s security forces, including
flash grenades and water cannons, the
nonviolent protesters returned again for
the 111th day on Nov. 22. This time they
tried a different tactic, holding rallies in
multiple residential streets and parks,
trying to evade crackdowns. The protest
movement has been extraordinarily re-
silient, coming out over and over again
despite cuts in communications tech-
nology and shutdowns of the mass
transit system.
Ms. Tikhanovskaya, who is outside
Belarus leading the opposition, de-
clared, “Belarusians faced today brutal
force, gunshots, stun grenades. Hun-
dreds were detained. Some mothers will
not meet their kids today, husbands —
their wives. The regime is trying to scare
us with terror. But we are not afraid
anymore. Your time is over.”
The protests usually grow on Sun-
days, and in recent weeks more than
1,000 people were arrested each Sunday.
Overall, the opposition says as many as
30,000 people have been detained in
various cities since the protests began. A
video posted online showed security
forces assaulting a bicyclist with trun-
cheons; he was fined $200 by a judge for
“violating the order of mass events,” but
none of the baton-wielding police were
charged.
The arrests have swept up journalists
too. According to the Association of
Belarusian journalists, 26 reporters
were incarcerated as of Nov. 18. Among
them was the chief video editor for
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Yulia
Kotskaya, charged Nov. 15 with taking
part in an unsanctioned rally; she
Justice too long deferred
Time has not blunted the outrage of Bijan Ghaisar’s needless death.
B
ijan Ghaisar, an unarmed young
accountant, died three years ago
this week, shot to death in his
barely moving Jeep by two
U.S. Park Police officers who approached
him, guns drawn, after a minor fender
bender in northern Virginia — and now
assert, implausibly, that they felt threat-
ened. The officers’ stance is preposter-
ous, as a video recording of the incident
makes clear. Whether it holds up in a
likely federal court proceeding will be a
test of whether the judge is persuaded by
tortuous legal pleadings or the plain
evidence before his eyes.
The officers, Lucas Vinyard and Ale-
jandro Amaya, were indicted last month
by a special grand jury in Virginia, each
for a count of involuntary manslaughter
and a count of reckless use of a firearm.
They are now expected to prevail in an
attempt to shift their cases from Fairfax
County to federal court, where their
prospects are likely to turn on a seem-
ingly straightforward question: Could
the officers reasonably believe that
drawing their weapons and opening fire
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EDITORIALS
poorest populations confront the pan-
demic, being led by the WHO, the
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations and Gavi, the Vaccine
Alliance.
As it stands, 92 lower- income econo-
mies will be supported by the financing
mechanism in Covax, the Advanced
Market Commitment (AMC). Ninety-
seven higher-income economies have
signed up as self-financing members of
the Covax Facility. The idea is to pool
vaccine buying power and ensure distri-
bution for all countries, including the
less-developed nations, with a goal of
obtaining 2 billion doses to protect
20 percent of their populations by the
end of 2021, enough to cover front-line
health-care workers and the most vul-
nerable. Negotiations for the shots are
underway with manufacturers. To make
this initiative work, according to the
WHO, there is an urgent need for
$7.8 billion next year from international
donors, including $5 billion for the
92 lower-income countries, and addi-
tional funds to help them set up distri-
bution systems, a demanding task. All of
that funding remains to be raised.
Demonstrators gather outside a church during a memorial service for Raman
Bandarenka in Minsk last week.
rejected the charge, saying she was
covering the event as a journalist. She
was sentenced to eight days in prison.
Other journalists from the organiza-
tion’s Belarusian service have been pe-
nalized similarly while doing their jobs.
Mr. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus
for a quarter-century, does not tolerate a
free press or free speech — the reason so
many of his people have stubbornly
returned to the streets.
Belarus citizens displayed their anger
again on Nov. 20, when thousands came
to pay last respects to Raman Bandaren-
ka, a 31-year-old protester who died
on Ghaisar was a “necessary and proper”
exercise of their duties?
That question invites a review of the
sequence of events in the minutes that
preceded the shooting, which began
when Ghaisar, whose vehicle was lightly
rear-ended on the George Washington
Memorial Parkway, drove off without
stopping. When the officers, trailed by
Fairfax police whose dash cam recorded
the incident, first pulled Ghaisar over
and baselessly pointed their weapons at
him, was that “necessary and proper”?
When, perhaps panicking, he drove off
rather than roll down his window, and
one of the officers pounded on the side
of his car with his pistol, was that
“necessary and proper” police conduct?
In an encounter stemming from a trivial
traffic incident?
And finally, when the officers opened
fire after pulling Ghaisar over for the
last time, each of them firing five times
and one officer striking him repeatedly,
was that “necessary and proper”? Con-
sidering that Ghaisar’s car was actually
turning away from the officers and
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China and Russia are developing
vaccines, too. They have their own
national regulatory process, but for
their vaccines to be used globally
through the Covax Facility, they would
have to meet international standards
through WHO review of quality, safety
and impact on disease. They could
distribute the vaccines on their own.
China has joined Covax as a participant,
allowing it to procure doses from the
facility, but Russia has not.
Among the big donors to the AMC are
the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
and Saudi Arabia. President-elect Joe
Biden should commit the United States,
too. A $200 million donation would
amount to only 2 percent of spending on
Operation Warp Speed. And we hope
Mr. Biden will rapidly return the United
States to the WHO.
The world’s wealthiest countries are
on the verge of a science triumph with
the arrival of an effective vaccine in less
than a year. But in this moment of need,
the haves should also extend a hand to
the have-nots. As Dr. Tedros said in
August, “No one is safe until everyone is
safe.”
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eight days earlier after masked security
forces reportedly beat him. Many in the
crowd outside of the Church of the
Resurrection of Christ in Minsk raised
their arms and chanted, “You are a
hero!” and “Long live Belarus!” Mr. Ban-
darenka’s last known written words —
“I’m going out” — have turned into one
of the slogans of the protests.
President-elect Joe Biden should in-
vite Ms. Tikhanovskaya to his inaugura-
tion and meet with her at the White
House to show the world that the
United States once again supports
democracy.
inching forward?
In fact, the officers’ conduct is a case
study, ready-made for the police acad-
emy, of how not to handle what could
and should have been a routine officer-
involved event. How not to escalate.
How not to rashly brandish service
weapons. How not to allow exasperation
become a pretext for the unwarranted
use of lethal force.
To read the motions filed by the
officers’ attorneys, in federal court, is to
enter into an upside-down world where
phony justifications are applied retroac-
tively regardless of the fact that they
don’t square with the truth. The video of
Ghaisar’s shooting is a plain refutation
of the officers’ assertions that they, or
the public, were somehow in danger.
Three years is too long for justice in
Ghaisar’s death. Too long for his family,
and too long for the public. The passage
of time has not blunted the sheer
outrage of such an abuse of power and a
failure of judgment — the very things we
most fear from the people paid to serve
and protect.
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DRAWING BOARD MIKE LUCKOVICH
LETTERS TO TH E ED ITOR
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Revitalize Appalachia
The plight of Appalachia, at times,
appears insurmountable, but I was en-
couraged to read the Nov. 23 op-ed
“8 mayors: We need a Marshall Plan for
Middle America.” Slowly, over the years,
globalization and other forces have
changed many areas of the region. Cities,
small towns and farming communities
that once flourished are now in decline,
with diminishing social services and
opportunities. Cities such as Pittsburgh
have been able to make the transition,
but too many other areas are not so
fortunate, and the situation worsens.
I often wondered why we did not look
at this region as we did postwar Europe
and offer the same boost to a devastated
area of our own country. Hopefully, the
idea proposed in the op-ed and support-
ed by several regional alliances will gain
traction. Revitalizing Appalachia would
be a good return on investment, just as
the Marshall Plan for Europe proved to
be good for the United States as well.
Susan Leister, Rockville
Scouts’ (lost) honor
Regarding the Nov. 21 editorial “A
jaw-dropping abuse scandal”:
As a Cub Scout, I found adventure and
camaraderie, learned practical skills and
perseverance, and was tested on re-
sourcefulness. It was a foundational ex-
perience that, years later, evolved
through the military’s ethos of leadership
and selfless service.
I am distressed by the abuses that have
been reported and endorse the punish-
ments being meted out. As a society, we
can never condone such malfeasance or
allow it to escape firm sanctions.
But I also lament the likelihood that a
century-old institution, having done so
much good for so many, will be run into
the ground and apparently disappear.
This is not a conventional bankruptcy in
which assets are liquidated on behalf of
creditors. Instead, it represents the death
of community enterprises built on char-
acter and values that have been corrupt-
ed by harmful behavior.
Scouting’s values echo those of most
people: being “trustworthy, loyal, help-
ful, friendly, courteous, kind.” Its institu-
tional mission furthers our human pur-
pose by “prepar[ing] young people to
make ethical and moral choices over
their lifetimes.” Much of the rancor on
today’s political stage would be diffused
if more leaders exhibited such qualities.
I hope, at the end of this national
nightmare, that Scouting will be re-
stored to its original purpose by extolling
diversity and equity in all their forms —
race, gender, income, geography — to
rise again as an institution that cel-
ebrates individual growth as it helps
shape society.
Sandy Apgar, Baltimore
Rigged, White and blue
Regarding Jeff Greenfield’s Nov. 22
Outlook essay, “No, the U.S. Senate isn’t
rigged against Democrats”:
The Senate is rigged not so much for
rural America but for White America. And
the current GOP has become the party of
white grievance/power. A huge block of
states from Iowa north through the Dako-
tas, west through Wyoming, Montana
and Idaho is vastly overrepresented in the
Senate. The Republicans’ refusal to give
D.C. representation, even though it has
more people than Wyoming, is proof that
they fear equal representation.
The reason some states recently went
Democratic, but are now GOP strong-
holds, lies more with the fact that they
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were Dixiecrat. The Dixiecrats now are
the GOP core. West Virginia was once a
Democratic stronghold. But it doesn’t
vote Republican now because it is rural; it
votes red because it is White.
Tom Beal, Glenn Dale
Many of the assertions in Jeff Green-
field’s essay are subject to reasonable dis-
agreement. One is not. He maintained
that Article V of the Constitution forever
forecloses altering the allocation of Senate
seats by providing that “No state, without
its consent, shall be deprived of its equal
suffrage in the Senate.” At first blush, he
may appear to be right. That sentence is
unequivocal. In fact, however, it would not
have been possible for the framers to
prevent future generations from amend-
ing the Constitution to do anything they
want, including excising this sentence
from Article V and then either abolishing
the Senate or altering the allocation of
senators — so long as they follow one of
the two routes established in Article V for
amending the founding document.
The first method requires a two-thirds
vote of each chamber of Congress, fol-
lowed by ratification by three-quarters of
the states. The second requires convening
a constitutional convention upon the ap-
plication of two-thirds of the states, fol-
lowed by ratification of any ensuing
amendments by three-quarters of the
states. While it is unlikely that superma-
jorities ever could be mustered to deprive
small states of their “equal suffrage in the
Senate,” that is a function of the number
of smaller states we currently have, not
some constitutional perpetuity.
Evan Tager, Washington
Beware the ‘Undertow’
Hugh Hewitt declared in his Nov. 23
op-ed, “The enduring impact of the Trump
Undertow,” that the much-vaunted “will
of the people” is worth less to him than a
Republican win. His glee that the GOP will
now have more control of reapportion-
ment following the census gives the game
away. His party, he crowed, will be able to
redraw congressional districts and the
electoral college to give an outsize value to
Republican votes. We are not interested in
democracy, just in power. All’s fair — if it
works. This is the attitude of his party’s
current leader, and Mr. Hewitt is happy to
embrace it. He functions as a good party
operative.
In a lame stab at justifying this, he
attempted to minimize President-elect
Joe Biden’s win, by complaining that
President Trump lost by a mere stadium
full of votes in key states. He did not try to
deal with the actual 6 million-vote differ-
ence. This is apparently just a game to
Mr. Hewitt. Forget that our lives are at
stake. He wants to win, and the future of
the nation takes a back seat. Is this
patriotism? Only in his painfully
abridged vocabulary.
Howard Schmitt, Green Tree, Pa.
I seldom get a laugh out of Hugh
Hewitt’s columns, but one line in his
Nov. 23 op-ed made me laugh out loud:
“The party Trump leads is reluctant to tilt
at legal windmills.” What has President
Trump been doing since Nov. 3 but tilting
at legal windmills? Actually, no, he isn’t
tilting at windmills, because windmills are
physical realities. Mr. Trump is tilting at
phantoms, ghosts. Fever dreams. Illusions.
He has filed more than 30 lawsuits, and
most were found by courts to be without
legal merit and baseless. Not founded on
facts. Great big nothingburgers.
So, many thanks to whatever op-ed
editor left that line in the column when it
was on its way to print. It’s fantastic. (In
both meanings of the word.)
Margaret Cervarich, Frederick
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DAVID IGNATIUS
A lame-duck
test of wills
with Iran
A A
s the sun sets on Donald
Trump’s presidency, one
piece of potentially danger-
ous unfinished business is
Iran’s nuclear program. Here’s an
area where cool heads must prevail
over the next two months to avoid an
11th-hour catastrophe.
Both the United States and Iran
have been messaging their resolve in
recent days, in signals that have
mostly gone unnoticed. Last Satur-
day, the Air Force flew a B-52 bomber
task force from its base in Minot,
N.D., to the Middle East, “to deter
aggression and reassure U.S. part-
ners and allies,” a Centcom news
release announced.
And this week, three officials said,
the Navy is likely to begin moving an
aircraft carrier task force toward the
Persian Gulf, as a hedge against un-
anticipated events.
The show of force comes as the
Trump administration is drawing
down U.S. troops in three Centcom
battle zones: Afghanistan, Iraq and
Somalia. The Pentagon’s message to
Iran seems to be a cautionary warn-
ing against exploiting the situation,
rather than a direct threat. But the
confrontation over Iran’s nuclear
program looms in the background.
Iran, too, has been signaling its
firmness — along with its willingness
to revive diplomacy with the new
administration of President-elect Joe
Biden. Tehran’s potential threat was
underscored this month by the Unit-
ed Nations’ International Atomic En-
ergy Agency, which reported that
Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched ura-
nium is now 12 times the level permit-
ted under the 2015 nuclear agree-
ment, which Trump abandoned in
2018. The IAEA said Iran is also
adding more advanced centrifuges to
speed enrichment.
Iran has been hoping to wait out
Trump’s presidency, and that theme
was reinforced last week by Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. He
said Iran would revert to the 2015
limits if the new administration re-
turned to the deal, too. “This needs no
negotiations and needs no condi-
tions,” he said.
Anti-Iran hawks in the United
States and Israel see the window
closing on the possibility of a pre-
emptive U.S.-Israeli strike against the
Iranian nuclear program. Likely sup-
porters of such an attack include
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu and some hard-line officials
around Trump. Netanyahu has said
often that the potential Iranian nu-
clear threat represents an existential
issue for Israel, and the chance to
land a knockout punch may expire
Jan. 20.
“There must be no return to the
previous nuclear agreement. We
must stick to an uncompromising
policy to ensure that Iran does not
develop nuclear weapons,” Netanya-
hu told an Israeli audience this week.
Trump considered a strike on Iran
earlier this month but decided
against it. Worried by the IAEA re-
ports that Iran was increasing its
uranium stockpile, Trump on Nov. 12
requested military options. He was
dissuaded from taking action by
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. Mark A. Milley, Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo and other offi-
cials. Trump decided it would be
unwise to start a new war with unpre-
dictable consequences in his last two
months in office. But several officials
say the possibility isn’t entirely fore-
closed, and, as one official put it,
“we’re not out of the woods yet.”
Skeptics about attacking Iran in-
clude senior military officers in both
the United States and Israel, who fear
a chain reaction that would leave all
sides worse off. One former top de-
fense official warns that the idea of a
“clean, limited, surgical strike”
against Iranian nuclear facilities is
folly; war doesn’t work that way.
U.S. intelligence agencies also cau-
tion that despite the troubling IAEA
reports, Iran remains many months
away from being able to deploy a
bomb.
Several insiders stress that Trump
doesn’t want a new conflict in the
Middle East that would undermine
what he sees as his legacy of stopping
“endless” wars there. But squeezing
Iran’s nuclear program has also been
one of his signature issues, and he’d
probably like to tighten the pressure
further before leaving office.
Elliott Abrams, Trump’s special en-
voy for Iran, stressed nonmilitary
options in comments this week: “All
through December and January,
there will be sanctions that deal with
arms, that deal with weapons of mass
destruction, that deal with human
rights. . . . So this will continue on for
another couple of months, right until
the end.”
The confrontation with Iran is the
unpredictable X-factor in national
security. Until Inauguration Day, the
danger of a U.S. or Iranian strike
remains on the table — a small but
still real possibility. Starting a war
without provocation is never wise,
but especially not for a divided coun-
try on the verge of political transition.
Twitter: @IgnatiusPost
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Tammy Benewiat looks at her husband, who is on a ventilator at a hospital in Hutchinson, Kan., on Nov. 20.
A parallel pandemic of
depression, anxiety and grief
BY E RIN N . M ARCUS
A
long with the resurgence of
covid-19, an insidious and less
perceptible pandemic has
arisen: one of anxiety, depres-
sion and grief.
It’s a phenomenon I’ve seen among
people seeking help in the primary
care clinic where I work. I think of the
woman who, after her mother and
sister died of covid, lost the motiva-
tion to take her diabetes medication,
or do much of anything else. The man
who recovered from covid but who
now can’t sleep because of flashbacks
to his time in the hospital. The woman
whose adult children recovered from
covid — but who is so anxious about
venturing out of her tiny apartment
that her normally well-controlled
blood pressure has rocketed to dan-
gerously high levels.
My observations are consistent
with those of national surveys, which
have found significant increases in
depression and anxiety during the
pandemic. In one large nationwide
survey, U.S. adults were more than
three times more likely to screen posi-
tive for anxiety and depressive disor-
ders, compared with one year earlier.
Another survey found a significant
increase in alcohol use.
Those surveys were conducted in
April through June, before the spread
of the coronavirus escalated to encom-
pass the entire nation. Today, it’s likely
that the psychological toll is much
worse. Every person who dies of covid-
19 leaves behind, on average, nine
close family members — a grandchild,
son, daughter, brother, sister, spouse,
mother or father. The grief experi-
enced by those surviving family mem-
bers and friends is a normal reaction
to loss. But some psychologists fear
that the circumstances of covid-19 —
in which people might die unexpect-
MICHAEL GERSON
The moral journalism we need
I
f you know any political journalists or
pollsters in this holiday season, it
might be a good idea to give them a
friendly, socially distanced wave or
some nicely wrapped hand sanitizer. They
could use some bucking up.
The horse-race polling that occupies so
much of their attention has once again
proved deeply flawed. After the collective
flub of 2016 — which consistently underes-
timated Donald Trump’s support by about
four points — the new, improved, refined,
adjusted version of national polling under-
estimated Trump’s support by about four
points. This means that coverage and
commentary based on the premise of a
sizable, sustained Joe Biden lead were
distorted.
The explanation, I am sure, is complex.
But one portion seems simple enough. The
type of people who show up at Trump rallies
often do not show up (in representative
numbers) in polling. Imagine asking, as a
warm-up speaker at a Trump rally, “How
many of you want to inconvenience yourself
for the sake of a Washington Post-ABC
News poll?” Or: “Raise your hand if you
want to provide personal information for a
New York Times-Siena College survey.” The
reception would probably be poor.
Whatever its cause, the crisis faced by
polling is leading to some soul-searching.
Maybe the whole business of political
analysis and commentary has placed too
much emphasis on opinion polls. Maybe
there should be less focus on the horse-race
aspect of politics and more on the issues
facing the country. Maybe we should rebal-
ance political coverage away from who is up
and who is down in favor of candidates’
policy proposals on pandemic response, or
police reform, or containing Chinese ag-
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edly or alone, and without the normal
rituals of community remembrance
such as a memorial service — may
increase the likelihood of prolonged
grief disorder, a disabling condition
that can last years and raise the risk of
suicide or alcohol and drug abuse.
More than 1 in 10 adult American
workers are employed in the health-
care sector, and many of them have
witnessed events that leave them vul-
nerable to post-traumatic stress disor-
der and other psychological conse-
quences. Other Americans have lost
their jobs, which itself can cause anxi-
ety and depression.
Mental illnesses increase a person’s
likelihood of developing other health
problems, such as heart disease. They
also significantly affect productivity,
costing employers billions annually.
To get our country on track toward
some sort of normalcy, President-elect
Joe Biden’s pandemic advisory board
will need to address our nation’s psy-
chological recovery.
Even before the pandemic, a short-
age of mental health professionals —
and a lack of adequate insurance
coverage — made it difficult if not
impossible for many people to get
timely and appropriate care. Psychiat-
ric and psychological services are of-
ten put in a separate silo by insurance
companies, making it tough for pri-
mary care physicians and nurses to
refer patients. People often don’t want
to go to a mental health professional,
both because of a perceived stigma
and because it’s so difficult to jump
through the bureaucratic hoops to get
this care.
But there are affordable ways to
begin to tackle these problems. Given
that primary care physicians and
nurses are likely to see anxious and
depressed people, it makes sense for
us to be trained to routinely screen
everyone and provide some initial
gression.
This kind of issues journalism is impor-
tant, and there should be more of it. An
informed electorate, in the long run, will
have better democratic outcomes. But the
urgent problem of American politics is not
an insufficient airing of policy disagree-
ments; it is that policy views have become a
function of cultural identity.
A matter such as climate disruption, for
example, attracts comparatively little in-
formed and reasoned disagreement. Cli-
mate skepticism has become a tenet of
populism — a revolt against elitist scientists
and liberal politicians seeking excuses for
social and economic control. The denial of
climate change has become a cultural
signifier, the policy equivalent of a gun rack
in a truck.
Will an issues-based political journal-
ism/analysis/commentary speak across this
yawning social gap? Maybe sometimes.
But the problem goes deeper still. Many
of our most serious divisions have become
openly moral. In the current case, the
president and his strongest supporters
believe that their cause — the maintenance
of power — is worth the massive invalida-
tion of legitimate votes in disproportionate-
ly Black urban areas. They claim this is a
moral action — to fight socialism, or to
protect tradition, or to serve their illustri-
ous leader, or whatever.
They are wrong. And only an ethical
argument can demonstrate it. It is racist to
seek the invalidation of mainly Black votes
in Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia or At-
lanta. It is a violation of morality and an
attack on democracy to throw away valid
votes for nakedly political reasons.
Such arguments are located in a larger
moral context. It is wrong to use other
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counseling — with adequate backup
when we need to refer patients. Low-
cost community mental health clinics,
which have long been inundated with
patients, need to be expanded so that
they can accommodate more people,
and need to be paid adequately for
telephone counseling. Telehealth sup-
port groups, led by trained mental
health professionals, have been help-
ful for front-line health workers dur-
ing the pandemic. Perhaps this strat-
egy could be expanded to help the
general public as well.
Peer support programs — in which
people who themselves have experi-
enced anxiety and depression are
trained to help others — may be a way
of reaching more people. Peer support
has been endorsed by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, which is issuing 16-
month emergency grants to states to
provide assistance for mental health
and substance abuse disorders during
covid-19; that effort may need to be
continued. Public advertising cam-
paigns — perhaps in conjunction with
the National Ad Council’s efforts to
promote vaccine acceptance — could
help de-stigmatize mental illness,
help people realize they may be ex-
periencing symptoms, and provide
information about where to go for
treatment. Social workers and other
trained counselors need to be placed
in schools, in workplaces and in com-
munity centers to make it easier for
everyone to get help.
These actions would help address
the psychological needs created by the
pandemic — and might in the longer
term begin to improve a rickety sys-
tem that has failed to reach so many
for far too long.
The writer is a professor of clinical
medicine at the University of Miami and a
Public Voices fellow.
people as objects of manipulation rather
than as human beings with inherent digni-
ty. It is wrong to vilify social and cultural
groups — migrants or refugees or Muslims
— as a method to stir up anger and gain
political support. It is wrong.
The ultimate political questions are thus:
Is moral argumentation still possible? Do
people still feel shame when their prejudice
and cruelty are exposed to scrutiny? Do
most people have some kernel of con-
science that can grow under the right
circumstances?
These ultimate questions are always
open ones. In the primordial past — say, the
1980s — it was conservatives who stood
against moral relativism. They argued that
“if it feels good, do it” does not provide an
adequate basis for our lives together, be-
cause it gives no root to our rights, and
because cruel and despicable things feel
good to some.
Now it is the right that embraces relativ-
ism. No doubt it felt good to Trump and
adviser Stephen Miller to have government
agents snatch migrant children from their
parents’ arms. The argument against such
an outrage is moral. “Whoever causes one of
these little ones who believe in me to
stumble,” said a distinguished moral teach-
er, “it would be better for him to have a
heavy millstone hung around his neck, and
to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
This is not to argue against the impor-
tance of horse-race journalism or issues
journalism, both of which will always have
their place. It is only to put in a good word
for moral journalism and moral commen-
tary — which reveal the names and faces of
those who suffer, and remind us of the
duties we have to one another.
michaelgerson@washpost.com
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CATHERINE RAMPELL
Trump’s
legacy, by
the numbers
s covid-19 hospitalizations
hit another new high on
Tuesday, President Trump
called a news conference to
boast about a different record: the
stock market.
The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age, he crowed, had just pierced
30,000. “That’s a sacred number,
30,000,” he said.
It was a bizarre statement even
for Trump. After all, Trump has
argued for years that any stock
market gains that occur after a
presidential election should be
credited to the new president-elect,
not the guy on his way out the door.
In reality, neither presidents nor
presidents-elect control stock mar-
kets, of course; but even if Trump
did unilaterally control equity pric-
es, and even if he had done so for
the entire duration of his presiden-
cy, his record would still pale in
comparison with his predecessor’s.
More important, 30,000 hardly
seems like a “sacred number” — or a
particularly significant one, in the
context of this administration’s
overall record. Here is a compendi-
um of more memorable metrics that
should forever be linked with the
Trump legacy:
262,000 (and counting): If any-
thing is “sacred,” it is human life.
This number is the minimum tally
of American lives lost to the corona-
virus as of Thursday night. By the
time Trump leaves office, it will be
higher.
$750: The amount Trump report-
edly paid in federal income taxes
the year he won the presidency. He
paid the same amount his first year
in the White House, too.
14.7 percent: The unemployment
rate in April 2020. Also the highest
unemployment rate on record since
modern statistics on joblessness
began in 1948, and likely the high-
est rate since the Great Depression.
$421 million: The amount of
loans and other debts for which
Trump is personally responsible,
with most of that amount reported-
ly coming due within four years —
that is, a period when Trump had
hoped to be serving his second
presidential term.
100.1 percent: Federal debt held
by the public as a share of gross
domestic product in the fiscal year
that recently ended, according to
the Congressional Budget Office.
The last time this measure exceeded
100 percent was just after World
War II.
$1.9 trillion: The 10-year cost of
Trump’s 2017 tax cut. (This is “dy-
namic” cost — that is, it accounts for
the effects of economic growth.)
This contributes to the debt number
above.
$130,000: The amount Trump
paid an adult-film actress with
whom he had an affair; this bought
her silence ahead of the 2016
election.
26: The number of women who
have publicly accused Trump of
sexual misconduct.
26 million: The number of Amer-
ican adults who reported that their
household didn’t have enough to
eat just ahead of Election Day.
Eight: The number of Trump
associates to date charged with or
convicted of criminal offenses. The
former aides and advisers are: one-
time 2016 campaign chairman Paul
Manafort; 2016 deputy campaign
chair Rick Gates; former national
security adviser Michael Flynn,
whom Trump pardoned Wednes-
day; foreign policy adviser George
Papadopoulos; informal Trump for-
eign policy adviser George Nader;
political adviser Roger Stone; per-
sonal attorney Michael Cohen; and
strategist Stephen K. Bannon.
666: The number of separated
migrant children whose parents
still have not been found, because
the Trump administration didn’t
keep sufficient records.
23,035: The number of false or
misleading claims Trump had made
as of mid-September, according to
The Post’s Fact Checker team. Pre-
sumably that number will continue
to grow during Trump’s final weeks
in office.
$3: The amount that Trump’s
Mar-a-Lago Club charged taxpayers
for a glass of water served to Trump.
289: The number of times Trump
visited a golf course while presi-
dent. So far.
15: The number of times that
people have to flush their toilet,
according to Trump. (Why he made
this claim on the campaign trail I do
not know.)
One: The number of viewers
Trump officials sought to reach
during their TV appearances (the
infamous “audience of one”).
49 percent: The peak share of
Americans who said they approved
of Trump’s performance as presi-
dent, according to Gallup.
306: The number of electoral
college votes Trump won in 2016,
which he called a “landslide.”
306: The number of electoral
college votes Joe Biden won in 2020.
crampell@washpost.com
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diminished by vanishing habitat
and warming waters fueled by
climate change, hasn’t been suffi-
cient to feed the hundreds of peo-
ple who come to pay homage to
their ancestors and to the fish that
sustained them.
“We don’t have that abundance
anymore,” said Lorraine Loomis,
an elder who has managed the
tribal fishery for 40 years. “To get
ceremonial fish, we buy it and
freeze it.”
For the Swinomish, perched on
a vulnerable, low-lying reserva-
tion on Fidalgo Island, the effects
of a warming world have been a
gut punch.
The tribe has responded with
an ambitious, multipronged strat-
egy to battle climate change and
improve the health of the land and
the water and the plants, animals
and people who thrived in harmo-
ny for generations. In 2010, the
Swinomish became one of the first
communities to assess the prob-
lems posed by a warming planet
and enact a climate action plan.
An additional 50 Native American
tribes have followed, creating cli-
mate strategies to protect their
lands and cultures, ahead of most
U.S. communities.
The Swinomish see the tasks
beyond addressing shoreline risk
and restoring habitats. They look
at climate adaptation and resil-
ience with the eyes of countless
generations. They recognize that
the endangered “first foods” —
clams, oysters, elk, traditional
plants and salmon — are not mere
resources to be consumed. These
foods are central to their values,
beliefs and practices and, there-
fore, to their spiritual, cultural and
community well-being.
Loomis is 80. Every member of
her family, from her grandfather
to her nine great-grandchildren,
has fished the tribe’s ancestral
waters. She has watched over the
decades as the salmon disap-
peared and her family turned to
crab, geoduck and sea cucumbers.
She’s seen the salmon season drop
to only a few days per species from
the eight months — May through
December — of decades past in
order to protect populations. The
Skagit River is the last waterway in
the United States that’s home to all
five species of Pacific salmon.
Progress has been slow; some
researchers say it could be 90
years before the salmon recover.
Loomis is taking the long view. “If I
didn’t believe we would recover
[the fishery], I guess I wouldn’t
still be working on this,” she said.
In recent years, the tribe has
fostered salmon recovery through
a variety of projects. It has re-
stored tidelands and channels,
planted trees along streambeds to
cool warming waters, and collabo-
rated with farmers to increase
stream setbacks to improve water
quality.
Restoring salmon populations
is just part of an ambitious climate
action plan to blunt the effects of
increased flooding, ocean acidifi-
cation, rising river temperatures,
more-destructive storms and hab-
itat loss.
The Swinomish are rebuilding
oyster reefs for the native Olympia
oyster. They’re planning the first
modern clam garden in the United
States on the reservation’s tide-
lands, reviving an ancient prac-
tice. They’re monitoring deer and
elk populations through camera
traps to understand the climate
change pressures and to inform
hunting limits. And they have on-
going wetland restoration proj-
ects to explore preserving native
plants and to help naturally man-
age coastal flooding.
“They’re doing really innova-
tive climate adaptation,” said
Meade Krosby, a senior scientist
with the Climate Impacts Group at
the University of Washington.
“They were way ahead of the
curve. And that really shouldn’t be
surprising, because the tribes have
shown tremendous leadership.”
While the Swinomish have been
pioneers, they are among an in-
creasing number of Indigenous
communities across the country
that have created climate plans
guided by science and culture.
The Tulalip tribes, neighbors to
the south, are relocating nuisance
beavers from urban areas to
streams with salmon to improve
water quality and lower the tem-
perature, reduce sediment flowing
into streams and mitigate the ef-
fects of increasingly intense
storms. The Karuk tribe of North-
ern California has a 232-page plan
that calls for prescribed burning to
reduce increasing wildfires and
removing dams to help decreasing
salmon and eel populations.
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai tribes of Montana have a
resilience plan that calls for pre-
scribed burns and restoring white-
bark pine, a key part of tribal
culture. They plan to identify trees
resilient to blister rust — a fungus
exacerbated by climate change —
collect their seeds and eventually
plant 100,000 seedlings on their
lands.
And in Alaska, a partnership of
11 tribes has formed to identify
harmful algae blooms so that it’s
clear when shellfish can be safely
harvested.
For the Swinomish, the warming
world has been a punch to the gut
LEFT: Swinomish member Alana Quintasket says she thinks about “my responsibility as an Indigenous woman to my relatives.”
RIGHT: Swinomish tribal elder Larry Campbell helped create a health index that includes ecosystem health and cultural beliefs.
Taylor Studzinski plants willow trees in the Barney Lake Conservation Area in Washington to help restore habitat for wildlife and
filter storm-water runoff. Other projects near the area include rebuilding reefs for the Olympia oyster and designing a clam garden.
LEFT: A carving represents a legend linking native people and the sea, at Deception Pass State Park on Fidalgo Island, Wash.
RIGHT: Sarah Grossman, a scientist for the Swinomish tribe, measures an oyster to evaluate which areas make the best habitats.
Native Americans acutely feel
the effects of the changing climate
because they were forced onto the
most vulnerable lands, places that
were of little use to others, said
Nikki Cooley, co-manager of the
Tribes and Climate Change Pro-
gram for the Institute for Tribal
Environmental Professionals.
“There’s that big push to ad-
dress climate change because
we’re feeling the effects more so
than other places,” said Cooley, 40,
who grew up without electricity or
running water, herding sheep in
the sprawling Navajo Nation res-
ervations of the Arizona desert.
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The institute has consulted
with more than 300 of the 574
tribes in the United States, Cooley
said. It’s natural that Indigenous
people who have lived with the
land for generations, attuned to
the cycles of nature, would be
leaders in adapting to climate
change and marrying that to cul-
ture and health. “We’ve always
been taught and are still being told
we have to preserve for the future
generations,” she added.
‘A symbiotic respect’
An 1855 treaty established the
Swinomish Reservation, a of the reservation, was dredged
THE WASHINGTON POST
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15-square-mile skinny rectangle and 900 acres of tidelands were
on Fidalgo Island with 2,900 acres diked and drained in 1937, block-
of tidelands and 7,450 acres of ing the way for young salmon to
uplands. The tribe, which has reach the tidal channels critical to
about 1,000 members, owns a casi- their development as places to
no, an RV park and a golf course on feed, grow and rest.
the island 80 miles north of Seat- In early 2006, a 100-year storm
tle. It leases 420 acres of the reser- struck the island, causing damag-
vation to a planned community of ing flooding. Later that year, an-
2,000 people. other storm downed trees and
The hydrology of the area has power lines, isolating the resi-
been radically altered over a cen- dents and causing evacuations.
tury, destroying critical habitat for Those extreme weather events
fish and wildlife. For example, the helped spur the tribe to examine a
Swinomish Channel, once a com- future imperiled by climate
plex waterway on the eastern edge change.
Their plans merge traditional
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and academic resources. When
looking at ways to protect wet-
lands, Todd Mitchell, the tribe’s
director of environmental protec-
tion, discovered that knowledge
about traditional plantings passed
down through the generations
was lost. So he turned to the
University of Washington, which
had archived notes by ethnogra-
phers and anthropologists who
had interviewed tribe elders in the
1950s and 1960s.
A tribal member who earned a
geology degree from Dartmouth
College and a master’s degree at
Washington State University,
Mitchell returned to work for the
tribe 20 years ago. “I think the
missing piece — and I’ve been
working on it ever since I got here
— is how to take this straight-up
science in the academic sense and
put it together with traditional
knowledge.”
One way the tribe’s approach
differs from others is an innova-
tive focus on community health.
While the health effects of a
changing climate have become a
focus in recent years, the Swinom-
ish, typically, have developed a
broader view.
Jamie Donatuto, the tribe’s en-
vironmental health officer, and
Larry Campbell, a 71-year-old trib-
al elder, have created a tool, Indig-
enous Health Indicators, that goes
beyond typical morbidity and
mortality measures and considers
ecosystem health, social and cul-
tural beliefs, and values integral to
a community. “It’s a very different
way of thinking about health,” she
said.
Seen through that lens, restor-
ing “first foods” is important not
just for diet and nutrition but also
for nourishment of the soul. Living
somewhere for a long time fosters
a sense of place, and a sense of
place fosters stewardship.
“It’s a different worldview,” said
Donatuto, who has a doctorate in
resource management and envi-
ronmental sustainability from the
University of British Columbia.
“The salmon and the crabs and the
clams are relatives. They’re living
relatives. They’re not just resourc-
es. And so you treat them with a
symbiotic respect. They feed you
because you take care of them. It’s
a very different way of thinking
about why these areas are impor-
tant.”
Donatuto and Campbell have
created an index of six health
indicators: cultural use, commu-
nity connection, self-determina-
tion, resiliency, transferring tradi-
tional knowledge across genera-
tions, and natural resource secu-
rity.
“We believe that if we can go
back to the foundation of our
teachings, the foundation of what
our elders knew, that it would help
us in the long run,” Campbell said,
adding that merging traditional
knowledge with Western science
is “the best of both worlds.”
Plans for the clam garden exem-
plify the intersection of communi-
ty health and climate adaptation.
Donatuto and Campbell surveyed
tribal members about three possi-
ble sites on the west side of the
reservation. They discovered that
one, which had been returned to
the tribe after years in private
hands, had a meaningful history.
Elders told stories about growing
up playing on the beach all day. It
had been a popular clam-digging
spot and place to net fish from the
beach. But for years, members had
been chased off the tidelands by
the property owners.
Creating the garden at that spot
would not only provide first foods
— including the return of native
littleneck clams that were once a
Swinomish staple — but also sym-
bolize community health.
A clam garden requires tribal
members to work together to
build and maintain a low rock wall
at the shoreline. Once in place, the
garden will create a spot for elders
to share stories, passing on tribal
knowledge. It will supply a first
food while serving as an example
of the tribe’s resilience, self-deter-
mination and cultural steward-
ship, all health indicators.
Krosby said the tribe’s outreach
is a lesson. “When we engage com-
munities and when we incorpo-
rate their knowledge and concerns
into climate planning, you wind
up with a more equitable and
robust outcome,” she said. “You
wind up with the backing of the
community. You end up with the
benefit of their knowledge and
expertise.”
Mitchell and Shelly Vendiola, a
tribal elder, are chairs of the Pro-
tect Mother Earth Committee,
working on involving the commu-
nity in the plan’s update and creat-
ing a climate change curriculum
for schoolchildren and adults that
marries an introduction to tribal
lore with climate science.
The idea is to interest members
in exploring science, going away to
study and perhaps returning to
help develop and implement fu-
ture climate adaptation.
“Climate change,” Mitchell said,
“is going to last for a long time. So
what we set up now builds the
foundation.”
Consider it newly traditional
knowledge to pass down across
the generations.
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Letter says kids exposed
to porn via school laptops

BY D ONNA S T. G EORGE

Two families in suburban Mary-

land allege their children were
extensively exposed to pornogra-
phy as they used their school-
issued laptops amid the pandem-
ic, according to a letter of com-
plaint sent to Montgomery County
school officials.
Calling on the state’s largest
school system to warn other par-
ents and fix weaknesses in its sys-
tem, the letter describes the ex-
periences of a third-grader and a
sixth-grader who were allegedly
able to access graphic material
online with their Chromebook
computers.
PHOTOS BY AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST The families are unacquainted
From left, Laura Wooldridge, Brandon Johnson and Hamed Shittu with the boxed meals they received Thursday at Central Union Mission in Northwest Washington. and live in different areas of the
sprawling county.
The younger child, 9 years old,

Finding hope in the ‘little things’

accessed hundreds of porno-
graphic sites through Twitter,
which his parents discovered
Nov. 11 in the Web browser history
of his school account, according to
the five-page letter of complaint
filed on the families’ behalf by
attorney Timothy F. Maloney.
“Many of these sites were relat-

Families add On Thanksgiving at a D.C. shelter, looking ahead in an especially hard year ed to popular video games, such as
Fortnite, and linked their son to

to their feasts
pornographic cartoons and por-
BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL nographic video,” the complaint

M
said.

to share with ax Mora usually spends Thanksgiving crowded around 30 relatives in the Chicago
suburbs wolfing down turkey and green-bean casserole. ¶ But the pandemic left the
The family was devastated, the
boy’s father said in an interview.

those in need
SEE COMPLAINT ON B3
former personal trainer and cook unemployed and driving around the country living
out of his car. ¶ Yet Mora, 29, couldn’t help but feel a little upbeat as he picked up a boxed
Any other year
and the
impeccably
Thanksgiving meal from the Central Union Mission homeless shelter in the heart of
Washington. He was grateful for President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, which drew him to the Old power
decorated
Whitley house
would be packed.
capital to celebrate. He was thankful for newfound time allowing him to write raps and work on
a novel about Los Angeles. ¶ “As bad as covid has been, it’s actually been a blessing for me plant to be
mixed-use
Petula Cousins and because it made me reconsider what I was doing in life,” said Mora, wearing a floral mask and
Dvorak grandmothers,
children and
preparing to drive to Maryland to volunteer at a meal distribution site there. “It’s launched me
grandchildren, great-aunts and
great friends since kindergarten
— they’d all be there.
into a whole new world.” SEE THANKSGIVING ON B2
project
“There are people in and out New cases in region
all day,” said Willie Whitley, 49,
describing a usual Thanksgiving Through 5 p.m. Thursday, 5,139
as he stood this week scanning new coronavirus cases were Alexandria site along
the food piled high on the reported in the District, Maryland Potomac slated for green
counters of his kitchen in Fort and Virginia, bringing the total
Washington. number of cases to 440,116. development, firm says
Three turkeys, a chicken, a
D.C. MD. VA.
ham, Stove Top stuffing,
cornbread, towers of dinner +220 +2,319 +2,600 BY L OLA F ADULU
rolls, green beans, collard 20,736 190,480 228,900
greens, mac and cheese, and an A development company with
industrial-size bowl of green Coronavirus-related deaths a history of transforming obso-
confection called “Watergate As of 5 p.m. Wednesday: lete facilities has purchased one
salad.” of the largest industrial sites in
“This year,” the father said, D.C. MD.* VA. Alexandria and plans to build
“it’s just four of us.” +0 +29 +21 housing, office space and retail,
So why all the food? 677 4,547 4,029 granting residents new access to
The Whitleys — like a large swath of the Potomac
thousands of other smart * Includes probable covid-19 deaths River.
families who forwent their usual Elijah Bailey was among those getting a Thanksgiving meal from the The Potomac River Generat-
SEE DVORAK ON B2 D.C. charity, which usually organizes a large sit-down gathering. ing Station, a shuttered, 71-year-
old coal-fired power plant, was
decommissioned in 2012. Hilco
Redevelopment Partners bought
the site last week for an undis-
closed amount after a 31/2-year
pursuit. Pepco will continue to
own part of the site to operate an

Capitol Hill treehouse saga ends with deal for removal in 2024
BY D ANA H EDGPETH
Like so many controversies in
Washington, the case of a tree-
house in a family’s backyard on
Capitol Hill turned into a long,
drawn-out saga — complete with
disagreements between neigh-
bors, reams of paper on arcane
zoning and permitting regula-
tions, allegations of government
malfeasance, a claim of hacking to
the FBI, and a federal lawsuit.
And after a five-year battle, it
has ended.
The final agreement between
the couple who built the treehouse
for their two daughters and the
city’s Department of Transporta-
tion came last month, after nearly
three months of back-and-forth
with a mediator during the coro-
navirus pandemic.
Both parties agreed that the
treehouse will come down — but
not until early 2024. And by then,
say Ellen Psychas and her hus-
band, Bing Yee, their girls, ages 8
and 10, will have outgrown the
castle-like play area and lost inter-
est.
“We never planned to keep it
forever,” Psychas said. “We’re fine
with the agreement. We never
planned to keep it until the kids
were teenagers.”
The city agreed to drop $8,000
in fines against the couple and
promised no additional fines. Nei-
ther side admitted wrongdoing,
and both agreed to avoid future
litigation. The couple maintain
that they complied with code re-
quirements and that they don’t
believe that the treehouse is “un-
lawfully occupying public space,”
according to a settlement agree-
ment filed in the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Colum-
bia Circuit.
A certified arborist must over-
see the removal of the treehouse
when it does come down.
Dave Bloom, a spokesman for
the D.C. attorney general’s office,
said in an email that the office had
no comment on the treehouse. A
DDOT spokeswoman also said her
office had no comment.
Denise Krepp, an advisory
neighborhood commissioner who
represents a nearby part of Capitol
Hill, said she is glad the treehouse
will stay a few more years and is
relieved the fight has ended.
“When I heard about the litiga-
tion I thought, ‘What a waste of
time,’ ” Krepp said. “The city was
dedicating lawyers to work to take
down a treehouse, and we have so
many other problems. That’s a
woeful waste of money.”
Krepp said she always believed
that the couple had followed
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electrical substation.
“We’re excited about the
chance to reintegrate it into the
surrounding urban fabric, open
up that access to the waterfront
and create a really dynamic dis-
trict with world-class architec-
ture,” said Melissa Schrock, the
senior vice president of mixed-
use development at Hilco. “We
think the city of Alexandria de-
serves nothing less.”
Hilco will be guided by Alex-
andria’s 2017 Old Town North
Small Area Plan and must in-
clude some affordable housing in
the project, officials said.
The site will include dining
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Still thankful, even on a scaled-back Thanksgiving in D.C.
THANKSGIVING FROM B1
For nonprofit operations serv-
ing the homeless, the holidays are
a time to provide big meals to
those who are in need while also
offering a few hours of celebra-
tion and community. The pan-
demic has prevented many of the
usual traditions, forcing organi-
zations to think creatively about
other ways to serve some of soci-
ety’s most vulnerable.
Central Union Mission, a
Christian charity that has served
people experiencing homeless-
ness in the nation’s capital for
more than a century, had to ditch
its usual Thanksgiving meal,
which drew about 400 annually
to the shelter cafeteria for hot
turkey, yams and stuffing.
Instead the shelter set up a
meal distribution site in its park-
ing lot, overlooked by a Walmart
and a luxury condo building, and
handed out Safeway boxes con-
taining a cold turkey sandwich, a
cup of potato salad, an apple, a
chocolate-chip cookie and a cup-
cake.
“It’s not in our DNA to turn
people away,” said Joe Mettima-
no, chief executive of Central
Union Mission. “We were deter-
mined to make sure folks out here
on the street weren’t alone feeling
like no one cared.”
Other D.C.-area groups have
pitched in to feed those in need
while isolated because of the cor-
onavirus. The restaurant Medi-
um Rare delivered meals to about
3,000 seniors living alone in the
region. The iconic turkey give-
away in Ward 8, the poorest part
of Washington, continued.
The Central Union giveaway
wasn’t as well-attended as
Thanksgiving meals past, which
drew some homeless people who
said they cared more about the
companionship than the food.
About 50 people who did show
up pumped hand sanitizer and
took a free white mask before
volunteers wearing face shields
handed them meals and courtesy
bags of gloves, hats and more
masks and hand sanitizer. Devo-
PETULA DVORAK
Nationwide, families quietly take homemade Thanksgiving meals to the streets
DVORAK FROM B1
Thanksgiving crowd to help
stop the spread of the
coronavirus — are the kind of
people who need to feed. They
are that house, the one always
full of people, buzzing with
activity.
And the thought of a quiet,
small Thanksgiving was
agonizing for them.
So they decided to cook the
same amount — Army-size — as
always and take at least 50
Thanksgiving dinners to the
people they see living under
bridges, in parks and in tents
throughout the nation’s capital.
“I heard in church that
someday, if Jesus comes back, he
could come back as a person
who is homeless,” said the
family’s younger daughter,
Courtney “Coco J” Whitley, 18.
“So I always have a special place
in my heart for them.”
Across the country, families
like the Whitleys have had the
same idea — a beautiful and
synchronous gesture by the
kinds of humans who insist on
feeding and nurturing people,
whether strangers or friends,
despite the constrictions of the
coronavirus pandemic.
While searching for
organizations that were
providing meals to the homeless
this Thanksgiving, I kept
coming across people who are
doing that work themselves.
Like a woman in Orlando
who announced on Twitter that
she’s “making mad food for
thanksgiving, then saving some
to feed the homeless.”
A man in Detroit asked
friends on Twitter if they want
to come along and help him on
Thanksgiving Day, when he’s
“just riding around with 50
spaghetti dinners in my trunk
and handing them out.”
A woman in Kentucky is
going to feed the homeless and
asked friends if they’d like to
contribute blankets that she can
give out, too.
And Asia Chloe Brown, an
urban farmer in D.C., said she
handed out about 25 plates of
food — cooking “roast chicken,
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tional music blasted from a
speaker.
A shelter volunteer dancing in
the parking lot and shouting
“Happy Thanksgiving!” to pass-
ersby caught the eye of Oliver, a
62-year-old homeless man who
declined to give his last name. He
said he was thankful for “any-
thing” to help him survive such a
rough year.
“Being homeless in a pandem-
ic? It’s like kicking a person while
they are down,” Oliver said.
More than 350 people staying
at D.C. homeless shelters have
contracted the coronavirus and
21 have died, according to city
data. The city has leased several
candied yams, cornbread
stuffing, baked mac and cheese,
collards, cornbread, yeast rolls,
cranberry sauce and Dutch
apple pie.”
On social media, she asked
others to “please consider doing
something similar in your area
in lieu of gathering. Wear your
PPE, glove up, wrap those plates
up well, and feed our houseless
friends out there.”
The Whitleys have been doing
this on Thanksgiving for a few
years. But it usually has been a
small, quiet morning routine —
just the four of them — before
all the friends and relatives
descended on their house.
They’d take 10 or so meals to the
folks they’re used to seeing on
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hotels to quarantine shelter resi-
dents and other high-risk popula-
tions; 100 rooms have been occu-
pied this week.
While other Washingtonians
have resumed dining at restau-
rants, visiting museums and
working out at gyms, the roughly
50 residents of Central Union
Mission’s shelter have remained
under a stay-at-home order since
March to prevent an outbreak.
Some chose to return to the
streets instead, but others have
found it helpful to weather the
pandemic with others struggling
with homelessness. Weekday
meals are now a place for conver-
sation. Sunday football is a time to
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hang out. Cornhole tournaments staffers who are helping him get
bring out the competitive heat. back on his feet with encourage-
“We wish we had our family, ment and Christian teachings.
but we’ve grown as a family unit,” Moncada said he is closer than
said Jonathan Moncada, a shelter ever to returning to society and is
resident who donned a neck gai- shifting his focus to finding a job.
ter and a face shield to help Eventually, he longs to reunite
distribute meals Thursday. with four daughters, ranging
It’s the second Thanksgiving at from age 9 to 14.
Central Union for Moncada, a “Next Thanksgiving, I hope to
33-year-old New York native who see my children and kiss my
arrived at the shelter shortly after mother,” Moncada said. “But the
relocating to D.C. in September spirit of Thanksgiving should be
2019. carried every day. Be grateful for
He said he was living a tran- the little things, because especial-
sient life in New York and hit ly with this pandemic, it shows
“rock bottom” during a bitter things can change from one day
divorce. Now he said he’s thank- to the next unexpectedly. It’s an
ful for new friends and shelter eye-opener.”
PHOTOS COURTESY OF WILLIE WHITLEY
ABOVE: Veronica Whitley and
her daughters, Courtney “Coco
J,” center, and Brittany, bagged
up 50 Thanksgiving dinners for
the homeless. LEFT: The family
prepared three turkeys, a
chicken, a ham, Stove Top
stuffing, cornbread, rolls, green
beans, collard greens, and mac
and cheese.
the street during their
commutes to work or school.
It’s a common impulse, on the
day of giving thanks, to want to
help others. Every year, soup
kitchens and shelters are
overrun on that day with do-
gooders who show up for a
quick spit-shine of their souls,
. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 , 2020
Others living transient lives
could count on the holidays to
reunite with family. But many
families canceled large gather-
ings, with public health authori-
ties warning that a Thanksgiving
meal with different households
mingling, laughing and shouting
indoors is a prime vector for
transmission.
Laura Wooldridge, who lives
out of a camper, said she normal-
ly celebrates Thanksgiving at her
mother’s house in North Carolina
or with extended family in Geor-
gia.
Her relatives have opted for
small meals this year, leaving
Wooldridge to stay in the District
and eat with Central Union —
while gaining a newfound appre-
ciation for the time she does get
with family.
“There are so many Thanksgiv-
ings we complained about and
moaned about,” Wooldridge, 55,
said while eating at a courtyard
table near the shelter. “What do I
have gratitude for this year? I
don’t know. It’s hard this year.
Last year I could have had an
honest answer. This year I don’t.”
Brandon Johnson, 30, struck a
more upbeat note as he spread
packaged cranberry sauce and
mustard on the slices of bread on
his sandwich.
“I’m just lucky to be out here on
Thanksgiving, because someone
just offered me a free meal and it
seems like a Thanksgiving meal
to me,” said Johnson, 30.
He held out hope that his
grandmother might allow him to
eat leftovers on the porch of her
Northeast Washington home.
And more ambitiously, maybe he
would have his own home next
Thanksgiving to cook whatever
he would like.
But a year feels like a lifetime
these days. In the meantime,
Johnson fixated on the orange-
frosted cupcake that came as
dessert in his boxed Thanksgiv-
ing meal.
“I’m already good,” Johnson
said, eyeing the cupcake with a
grin. “But I might be really good.”
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and leave feeling better about
themselves after working at the
sweet potato station of a food
line for a spell.
It’s not so easy to do amid the
pandemic this year, as those
organizations have trimmed
their offerings, minimized
contact and spent a lot of time
training volunteers on proper
coronavirus protocols.
So everyday Americans are
responding to that shift.
Without a formal movement,
petition or hashtag, folks are
turning this year’s stunted
celebration into a magnanimous
gesture.
Maybe it’s because we are all
desperate to connect with other
people.
Courtney and her 21-year-old
sister, Brittany, are back living
at home, taking college courses
online from their childhood
bedrooms. Their parents are
home with them. They are all
craving the company of others
— just like everyone. And in this
pandemic-induced social
isolation, we may have a small
glimpse of the utter loneliness
of those without a home.
“It’s not just about giving
people food or money and
walking away,” Courtney said.
“They get really excited about
the interaction.”
The Whitleys avoid the well-
known parks and big
encampments, and instead look
for people who are isolated and
alone.
“Over the years, we’ve seen
some of the same people in the
same places,” said Veronica
Whitley, 50, the matriarch of the
family. “I remember a woman
who kept telling me she didn’t
know where her son was. I
wonder if she found him.”
On Wednesday evening, she
put on her mask and showed
her daughters how to massage
the brown sugar into the ham.
“We’re going to be up all
night,” she said, leading her
daughters through years of
tradition, making a meal that
would be eaten by dozens of
strangers.
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THE DISTRICT everything and easygoing — it says gossip with,” Logania joked.
a lot about his character,” said Ana “There was not a mean bone in his

Five-decade fixture at Logania, a colleague of seven

years.
It was also in Mississippi that he
body.”
On late nights he would walk
her to the garage and make sure

Carnegie dies of covid began a lifelong love affair with

BY R ACHEL W EINER
After over half a century help-
ing run the historic Dupont Circle
home of the Carnegie Institution
for Science, the pandemic made
Don Brooks realize he was ready to
leave.
“The time off really reinforced
how much family was important
to him,” Chief Operating Officer
Timothy Doyle recalled.
A few months before he was set
to retire, the building mainte-
nance specialist died of covid-19.
He was 75.
“He just was a gentle soul,”
Doyle said. “Saying he was beloved
by everybody was an understate-
ment. . . . He just was sagely and so
even-keeled that he could offer
advice that many people said
changed their lives.”
Brooks often got a flu when the
seasons changed, and when he
developed a cough in early Octo-
ber he insisted it was not serious.
But “he just laid there, and
that’s not like him,” recalled his
wife, Gloria Brooks. When he
wasn’t working, her husband was
“a fixer-upper” — always improv-
ing their Brookland house in some
way. She persuaded him to see a
doctor, and he was hospitalized
immediately. She never saw him
alive again; he died Oct. 24.
Don Brooks grew up in a share-
cropping family in Natchez, Miss.
He met his future wife in the two-
room schoolhouse where his
mother taught. In 1963, he and his
Don Brooks died of covid-19 in October at age 75, after working for
the Carnegie Institution for Science in the District for five decades.
younger brother were arrested af-
ter protesting for the integration
of a local rubber plant; a local civil
rights leader in that campaign,
Wharlest Jackson Sr., was later
killed in a still-unsolved car bomb-
ABBY SEVCIK
ing.
“That’s the thing that struck me
about Don, someone who’s lived
and experienced some of the dark-
est moments in American history
and to still be so optimistic about
the game of golf, despite segrega-
tion barring him from most
courses. He and his brother
worked as caddies and made their
own makeshift holes in the land
along with river. Sunday was the
one day he never worked — not for
church but for golf.
He eventually moved with a
cousin to D.C. and began working
at Carnegie. Over the next 52
years, he became an institutional
memory and guide to the building.
He developed a close relationship
with Maxine Singer, president of
Carnegie from 1988 to 2002, who
said in a statement he was “vital”
in efforts to expand the institu-
tion’s local outreach.
While Singer was his favorite of
the seven presidents he worked
for, when asked Brooks insisted
that they were all great.
“He was the worst person to
she got in her car before leaving
himself. For his daughter, who
works nights, he would always
have coffee ready.
“Every girl in our family was a
college graduate. He was very
proud of that,” his brother Leroy
Brooks recalled. He drove his wife
and family anywhere they wanted
to go — Atlantic City, the Poconos.
His home was an “open door,”
his brother said, the place extend-
ed family and neighbors gathered
for fireworks and board games. He
would crack up his children and
grandchildren with his absurd
Scattergories answers and his at-
tempts to learn the latest dances.
“He’s gone, but the spirit still
lingers,” said his daughter, Chery-
lee Brooks. “We all try to cling
together and stay as a family, be-
cause that’s what he would have
wanted us to do.”
rachel.weiner@washpost.com

Treehouse hearings at the area’s Advisory

Neighborhood Commission, the
city’s Public Space Committee and
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can stay till court hearings over whether to

tear it down.
The couple asked to be grandfa-
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codes, but the city denied their
request. They filed a lawsuit in U.S.
in Fairfax hit-and-run
Fairfax police are searching
in Capitol Heights
A man was fatally shot late

old for it District Court that sought to keep

TREEHOUSE FROM B1
“what they thought were the
rules.” She said she respects them
for keeping up the fight to save
their daughters’ treehouse.
“They were good parents by
showing their daughters, ‘This is
wrong and we’re willing to fight
it,’ ” Krepp said. “They were being
good role models.”
Since the pandemic hit, shutter-
ing schools and closing play-
grounds, Psychas said the tree-
house has been a “godsend” to kids
who live near the alley. At times,
kids have played games — with
pandemic-related safety proto-
cols, she said — and used walkie-
talkies to chat from the playhouse
with others nearby.
But the battle to keep the tree-
house has involved yelling
matches at hearings, stop-work
orders, appeals, letters of support
and criticism, and accusations of
tampering with online records —
plus a lot of questioning of permit-
ting and zoning rules in city codes.
The saga started five years ago,
when the couple wanted a play
area for their young daughters,
then ages 3 and 5. Psychas, who
counsels high school students
about college, and Yee, a Depart-
ment of Homeland Security law-
yer, have lived on Capitol Hill for
30 years and in their current
house for more than a decade.
They have said the city didn’t have
specific rules on building tree-
houses. They checked with the
District’s Department of Consum-
er and Regulatory Affairs and
DDOT, believed a permit wasn’t
required and then spent $1,500 to
The treehouse, in a 100-year-old American elm, hangs 20 inches
over a public alley, Archibald Walk, on Capitol Hill.
build the play area in a 100-year-
old American elm over Labor Day
weekend in 2015.
At the crux of the dispute is the
20 inches where the eight-foot-
high treehouse hangs into the
public alley over a mulched tree
box. Over the years, the treehouse
has divided neighbors on the U-
shaped alley called Archibald
Walk, near G and Sixth streets in
Southeast Washington.
Because many of the homes on
the street don’t have traditional
the treehouse. When their com-
plaint was dismissed, they ap-
for the motorist who struck a
63-year-old Springfield man
while he was crossing the road.
Wednesday in the 7500 block of
Valley Park Road, Prince
George’s County police said.
pealed. In their suits, the couple Police said Daniel McKay was Officers responded about
accused DDOT officials of “per- crossing Backlick Road near 11 p.m. and found a man shot
mitting malfeasance and incom- Edsall Road about 6:30 p.m. outside a home in Capitol
petence.” Wednesday when he was struck Heights.
The family also claimed that by a car traveling south. McKay Police did not immediately
DDOT hacked into Psychas’s on- was not in a crosswalk, police identify the man.
line city zoning account without said. The victim was taken to a
her knowledge — a violation of a The motorist drove away. hospital, where he was
federal computer fraud and abuse Medics who arrived at the scene pronounced dead.
act. Psychas and her husband filed pronounced McKay dead. Police said they did not think
a complaint with the FBI’s Inter- Police asked anyone with the shooting was a random
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Students, 9 and 11, exposed to porn, families allege

COMPLAINT FROM B1
He described the material as
graphic depictions of sex acts, ac-
cessed over a period of a month
and a half. “He’s a little boy, and he
saw things that no one should see,
especially a child,” he said, speak-
ing on the condition of anonymity
to protect his son’s privacy.
“One of the most painful parts
about it is that he was sitting a few
feet away from us,” he added. “We
were checking on him — not once
a day, not twice a day, but a dozen
times a day.”
The older student, age 11, used
the search engine Ecosia to get to
sites with pornographic images,
according to the letter. His parents
said that he accessed the materials
for more than six weeks and that at
least one website asked for his
name and other personal details.
They discovered the problem last
week when they examined his
browser history.
“Both families ask the Board to
take immediate action to remedy
the harm done to their children
and protect their children and
other Montgomery County stu-
dents using these [school system]
accounts and Chromebooks from
further harm,” the letter of com-
plaint said.
It said that if the board does not
act, the families will seek emer-
gency relief from the courts. “They
should not have to do this,” the
complaint said.
Montgomery schools officials
declined to comment on the spe-
keep students as safe as possible,
they said.
“We filter and block all of our
devices whether in school or out of
school,” said Peter Cevenini, asso-
ciate superintendent for technol-
ogy and innovation, who said so-
cial media sites are blocked to all
students below ninth grade.
But Cevenini said the system is
not foolproof. “There’s no such
thing as perfect, but we do provide
a very strong layer of support and
services to make sure our students
are secure and safe,” he said.
Inappropriate sites can’t be ac-
cessed “unconsciously or by error,”
he said. “However, there are al-
ways ways in any type of computer
system to bypass filters and secu-
rities that are put in place and get
to things if you choose to.”
About 140,000 students in
Montgomery County are using
school-issued devices. An addi-
tional 20,000 or so are using tech-
nology provided by their families.
Cevenini said he tells families
who inquire that they could seek
additional parental controls
through their Internet service pro-
vider if they desire.
Montgomery schools spokes-
woman Gboyinde Onijala added
that if pornography were a wide-
spread problem, the system would
have heard about it, given that
school lessons went online start-
ing in March.
“This is something we have
been doing now for nine months
— keeping students safe, blocking
these websites,” she said. “While
The system also provides lessons
about digital citizenship and
strives to partner with parents as
they monitor students, they said.
Not everyone was as sure that
the letter of complaint does not
point to broader problems.
Lisa Cline, the mother of a mid-
dle school student and chair of the
safe-technology committee of the
Montgomery County Council of
PTAs, praised the families in-
volved in the complaint for com-
ing forward and “making this a big
deal.”
She wondered how many other
families don’t know or may not
come forward. In the past, she
said, she has heard reports of kids
accessing inappropriate content
but “nothing at quite that level.”
“I’m surprised that something
that overt could get through the
filter,” she said, adding that the
problem probably extends beyond
Montgomery County.
“It raises a red flag to all of us,”
she said. “I think we should look at
the browser history of our kids
and check in with them on a daily
basis. Ask them how it went at
school . . . give them the chance to
share any surprises.”
The letter alleges that schools
officials knew of the risks, failed to
warn parents and “denied there is
any problem” when contacted.
“Parents need the ability to protect
their children who use the Board’s
laptops,” it said.
The third-grader’s family was at
first told by IT staff that little could
be done and then later told Twitter
that at first an IT employee ap-
peared concerned but then Ceve-
nini contacted them, leading to a
more strained back-and-forth
about whether the sites were
blocked and how the situation
could be safer, the complaint said.
The next day, the 11-year-old’s
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Both students have struggled
emotionally, their families said.
growing number
The 11-year-old has been with- of scientists
drawn and short-tempered — believe that the
filled with guilt and shame, crying cure for disease
every day and sleepless, his mother
said in an interview. He had not can be found in
had sex education at school yet, she our DNA. But that
said. He starts therapy next week, poses a unique
“I just felt like his innocence has
been stolen,” said his mother, who
problem for some
spoke on the condition of anonym- Native Americans.
ity to protect her son’s privacy.
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The parents of the 9-year-old fans a challenge.
said their son had shown a “pro-
found change” in behavior in re-
cent weeks — anxious, withdrawn Business
and frequently angry. He does not Where’s Santa? Some retailers have suspended
want to participate in virtual les- Saint Nick visits or moved them online, but many
sons or connect with friends, they others are forging ahead with extra precautions and
said. backup plans.
“We wanted other parents to
know about the risk,” said the boy’s
father. He said the family also
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cifics of the letter — which they are
still looking into — but said they
go to great lengths to protect stu-
dents. The system of more than
160,000 students has long com-
plied with safeguards required
under federal law and works to
no system is perfect . . . there is a
whole team of folks working to
ensure that the processes we have
in place work.”
Technology staff members have
been responsive to parents with
concerns, schools officials said.
is blocked for students the boy’s
age, according to the complaint,
which included a screenshot of
some sites the child accessed. At
some point, the student’s Twitter
access was blocked.
The sixth-grader’s family said
“It’s all very distressing,” the Some stories may not run due to breaking news.
father said. “This happened be-
cause he was using the school-
issued Chromebook, which we
thought was safe. It felt like such a
betrayal.”
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baltimore — As a natural gas
pipeline proposed for Maryland’s
Eastern Shore continues to move
through the state’s regulatory ap-
proval process, environmental ac-
tivists promised to continue their
fight to stop a line they say would
encourage more fracking and
harm communities.
The energy firm Chesapeake
Utilities Co. wants to extend a
natural gas pipeline from Dela-
ware through Wicomico County
and into Somerset County.
The $34 million project would
add seven miles of new gas pipe-
line in those counties. The project
received a key approval last week
when the state Department of the
Environment signed off on its tid-
al wetlands licenses.
The licenses could go before the
Board of Public Works as early as
next month — either together or
separately. After the board rules
on the tidal wetlands licenses, the
PAOLO GABRIELE, 54
Butler to Pope Benedict leaked documents exposing turmoil in the Vatican
BY H ARRISON S MITH
As the butler to Pope Benedict
XVI, Paolo Gabriele lived in a
Vatican City apartment just in-
side the walls of the world’s
smallest country. He rose before 7
most mornings, walked four min-
utes to the papal apartments in
the Apostolic Palace, and laid out
the red papal shoes and white
dress clothes for the Holy Father.
Mr. Gabriele often joined Ben-
edict in prayer at a private morn-
ing Mass. He poured his coffee,
held the pope’s umbrella in the
rain and rode shotgun in the
popemobile. And in 2010, he re-
portedly began photocopying pa-
pal letters and memos, believing
that his beloved boss, the leader
of the Catholic Church, was being
misinformed by his advisers.
Convinced that “evil and cor-
ruption” had overtaken the Holy
See, he took hundreds of secret
papal documents to an Italian
journalist, setting off a 2012 scan-
dal known as Vatileaks. The docu-
ments revealed allegations of cor-
ruption and negligence, punc-
tured the Vatican’s reputation as
one of the world’s most impene-
trable institutions, and were later
seen as influencing Benedict’s
landmark decision to step down.
Mr. Gabriele was convicted of
stealing the documents by a Vati-
can court and served two months
in jail before being pardoned by
Benedict and exiled from Vatican
City, his professional home for
nearly two decades. He worked at
a children’s hospital in Rome,
administered by the Holy See,
before dying Nov. 24 at age 54.
His death was announced by
the Vatican’s media service, Vati-
can News, which cited a long
illness but did not offer further
details. The director of the Vati-
can press office, Matteo Bruni,
did not immediately respond to
requests for information.
Mr. Gabriele’s leaks exposed
Vatican infighting, including crit-
icism of the powerful Cardinal
Tarcisio Bertone; clashes over the
management of the Vatican bank,
whose president was ousted amid
debates over financial transpar-
ency; and allegations that the
Holy See had awarded excessive
contracts to cronies for construc-
tion work.
But the disclosures were per-
haps just as significant for mark-
ing a dramatic breach of security,
WALID AL-MOALLEM, 79
Longtime Syrian envoy
loyally stood by Assad
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Walid al-Moallem, Syria’s
longtime foreign minister who
became one of the country’s most
prominent faces to the outside
world during the uprising
against President Bashar al-
Assad, died Nov. 16 at 79.
The state-run SANA news
agency reported his death, with-
out immediately offering a cause.
His health was said to be deterio-
rating in recent years with heart
problems.
Mr. Moallem, a career diplo-
mat who served as ambassador
to Washington for nine years,
starting in 1990 during Syria’s
on-and-off peace talks with Isra-
el, was a close confidant of Assad
known for his loyalty and hard-
department will issue its review of
the pieces of the project not relat-
ed to wetlands, said department
spokesman Mark Shaffer.
Proponents say the pipeline
would bring much-needed natu-
ral gas to key facilities in Somer-
set, namely the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore and the
Eastern Correctional Institution,
and attract more businesses to the
area.
But environmentalists argue
the state is ignoring its commit-
ment to renewable energy and
brushing aside the pipeline’s po-
tential impact on the low-income
communities it would go through.
They are urging Gov. Larry Ho-
gan (R), Comptroller Peter Fran-
chot (D) and Treasurer Nancy K.
Kopp (D) to vote against the pipe-
line, which could open the door
for the state to consider greener
ways of meeting the area’s energy
needs.
Supporters say the pipeline is a
step in the right direction. The
Paolo Gabriele, the former butler to Pope Benedict XVI, walks in Rome in 2013. The previous year, Gabriele set off a scandal known as
Vatileaks when he showed a journalist hundreds of secret papal documents revealing allegations of corruption and negligence.
representing what critics de-
scribed as a betrayal from one of
the pope’s closest aides. After
months in which secret docu-
ments were mysteriously leaked
to the Italian media, Mr. Gabri-
ele’s conviction spurred shocked
headlines: Indeed, “the butler did
it.”
The Vatican faced further leak-
ing scandals in recent years un-
der Benedict’s successor, Pope
Francis, who ascended to the
papacy after Benedict resigned in
February 2013, the first pope in
nearly six centuries to do so. He
was 85 and cited failing strength
of “mind and body” but had also
faced a wave of challenges that
included Vatileaks, financial
troubles at the Holy See and
criticism over the church’s han-
line position against the opposi-
tion.
During the current crisis, he
often held news conferences in
Damascus detailing the Syrian
government’s position. Unwaver-
ing in the face of international
criticism, he repeatedly vowed
that the opposition, which he
said was part of a Western con-
spiracy against Syria for its anti-
Israel stances, would be crushed.
Walid Mohi Edine al-Moallem
was born in Damascus on Jan. 13,
1941, to a Sunni Muslim family.
He received a bachelor’s degree
in economics from Cairo Univer-
sity in 1963 and then returned to
Syria to start his career in the
Foreign Ministry. He held diplo-
matic assignments in Africa, the
Middle East and Europe.
EZ RE
prison, for instance, runs a boiler
system that feeds on burning
wood chips. The university uses a
fuel-oil and propane system, and
officials there said natural gas
would represent a major improve-
ment.
“The opportunity for the pipe-
line presented itself. It’s heading
in our direction,” said Alissa Carr,
a university spokeswoman. “We
currently have lots of dirty fuel on
our campus. And let’s take advan-
tage of this while we continue to
explore other options.”
The university already has pur-
sued renewable energy projects
and may have more in the works,
Carr said. In 2011, the school in-
stalled a solar array on its farm-
land. In 2016, it opened the Engi-
neering and Aviation Sciences
Building, which is heated and
cooled by 250 geothermal wells.
But environmentalists see a
missed opportunity to invest in
renewable energy projects in-
stead of the pipeline.
obituaries
dling of sexual abuse cases.
As Benedict’s butler, Mr. Gabri-
ele said, he was “the layman
closest to the Holy Father.” Raised
in a working-class district in
Rome, he studied painting at a
fine-arts high school, sprinkled
his conversations with quotes
from Scripture and supported
himself in part by scrubbing toi-
lets at a Catholic church, accord-
ing to a 2013 profile in GQ.
His rise through the Vatican
was reportedly fueled by an ad-
miring cardinal — or perhaps a
bishop — who asked, “Who
cleaned this bathroom?,” leading
Mr. Gabriele on a journey from
Vatican toilet cleaner to marble
polisher to papal butler. (Italian
media outlets would later offer
competing reports accounting
Walid al-Moallem, who served as Syria’s ambassador to the United
States for nine years, at a news conference in Baghdad in 2013.
In 2006, he was appointed
foreign minister at a time when
Damascus was isolated by Arab
and Western nations after the
assassination of former Leba-
nese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
“At first glance, it’s better for
them to get a pipeline of what they
call natural gas, right? Because it
burns cleaner than oil or wood
chips,” said Susan Olsen, chair of
the Sierra Club’s Lower Eastern
Shore Group. “But the thing is: It’s
a 30- to 40-year commitment.”
That commitment could ham-
per the state’s long-term renew-
able energy goals, Olsen said. The
state, through its Maryland Com-
mission on Climate Change, re-
cently set a goal to reduce state-
wide greenhouse gas emissions by
50 percent from 2006 levels by
2030 and achieve net-zero green-
house gas emissions by 2045.
Plus, environmentalists warn,
natural gas presents hazards of its
own. Some worry the new line
would encourage fracking, a proc-
ess they consider prohibitively
costly to the environment.
Fracking can yield contaminat-
ed water if not done properly.
Leaks from pipelines can have
disastrous impacts on the envi-
for his career, suggesting that he
had been recruited to the Holy
See by an influential lay move-
ment or sponsored by an Argen-
tine cardinal.)
After Pope John Paul II died in
2005, leading to Benedict’s elec-
tion, the longtime valet Angelo
Gugel announced his retirement,
following nearly three decades of
service to three popes. Mr. Gabri-
ele succeeded him in 2006 and
moved into a Vatican apartment
with his wife, Manuela Citti, and
three children, who survive him.
“His black gelled hair, dark
suits and fleshy cheeks clenched
in a cherubic grimace became so
familiar around the Vatican Gar-
dens that clerics affectionately
called him Paoletto,” journalist
Jason Horowitz wrote in a 2013
HADI MIZBAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
a year earlier.
Many Lebanese, Arabs and
Western governments blamed
Syria for the massive blast that
killed Hariri — accusations that
Damascus repeatedly denied.
THE WASHINGTON POST
ronment and cause devastating
explosions.
Chesapeake Utilities, which is
behind a portion of the project,
argues that it will help the envi-
ronment by lowering emissions
from the university and the prison
significantly, all while adding
only a small amount to the state’s
natural gas use.
Proponents have been quick to
raise economic equity concerns,
arguing that Somerset County —
which had the state’s highest pov-
erty rate, according to a 2018 sur-
vey — needs natural gas access to
attract development that will help
its residents thrive.
Somerset already has lost out
on economic opportunity because
of its lack of access to natural gas,
turning away boat manufactur-
ers, welders and others, said Dan-
ny Thompson, executive director
of Somerset County Economic De-
velopment.
Somerset’s low-income resi-
dents also could see lower energy
ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS
Washington Post report.
Mr. Gabriele shared an office
with the pope’s personal secre-
tary, giving him access to docu-
ments that included letters from
Carlo Maria Viganò, an archbish-
op who was transferred from his
Vatican posting after trying to
fight “corruption and abuse,” as
he wrote, and who suggested the
pope had been “kept in the dark”
about his efforts.
Reading the letters, Mr. Gabri-
ele was spurred to take action.
“Seeing evil and corruption ev-
erywhere in the Church,” he later
told Vatican investigators, “I was
sure that a shock, even in the
media, might be just the thing to
bring the Church back on the
right track.” He was not a thief, he
insisted, but had “acted only out
Syria was forced to end nearly
three decades of domination and
military presence in its smaller
neighbor and pulled out its
troops in April that year.
After the uprising against As-
sad began in March 2011, Mr.
Moallem was tasked with hold-
ing news conferences in Damas-
cus to defend the government’s
position.
He traveled regularly to Mos-
cow and Iran, key backers of the
Syrian government, to meet with
officials there.
In February 2013, he was the
first Syrian official to say during
a visit to Moscow that the gov-
ernment was ready to hold talks
even with those “who carried
arms.”
In early 2014, he headed Syr-
ia’s negotiating team during two
rounds of peace talks with the
opposition in Switzerland. The
talks, which eventually col-
lapsed, marked the first time
that members of the Syrian gov-
ernment sat face-to-face with
Syrian opposition figures.
Mr. Moallem was widely criti-
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bills as a result of the pipeline,
Thompson said. But those same
communities will be affected dis-
proportionately by climate
change, environmentalists argue,
and deserve a sustainable future.
A study commissioned by the
Chesapeake Climate Action Net-
work, an opponent of the project,
and conducted by a geographic
information systems consultant,
found that the majority of the
census tracts in the pipeline’s
path include large numbers of
people of color and low-income
people.
“Putting in this pipeline will
damage my campus community
and the local community because
it is not sustainable,” Jailynn Britt,
a student and climate justice ac-
tivist at UMES, said in a news
release. “It will create long-lasting
problems that affect the water
and the air, which in the long run,
hurts the people in this already
impoverished community.”
— Baltimore Sun
of visceral love for the church of
Christ and for its visible head on
Earth.”
According to news reports, he
reached out to Italian journalist
Gianluigi Nuzzi through interme-
diaries who assessed the report-
er’s trustworthiness. In 2011, they
brought Nuzzi to a Rome apart-
ment where Mr. Gabriele identi-
fied himself using a code name,
“Maria,” after Jesus’ mother. He
soon began turning over papal
files, meeting Nuzzi with pages
taped to his back or stored in a
computer thumb drive sewn into
his necktie.
Many of the files were pub-
lished in Nuzzi’s May 2012 book,
“His Holiness: The Secret Papers
of Benedict XVI,” which spurred a
leak investigation at the Holy See.
Mr. Gabriele said he “went to a
confessor” and then turned him-
self in, prompting Vatican inves-
tigators to find some 1,000 papal
documents in his apartment.
In court, he described himself
as an “agent” of the Holy Spirit
and testified that he loved the
pope “as a son loves his father.”
He was sometimes cut off at the
trial, forbidden from discussing
his conversations with various
cardinals, and was portrayed by
Vatican officials as a lone, mis-
guided operator.
News reports suggested he
may have acted with about 20
others. A Vatican computer ex-
pert, Claudio Sciarpelletti, was
later convicted of obstruction of
justice in the case and given a
two-month suspended sentence
before being pardoned.
A Vatican tribunal convicted
Mr. Gabriele of aggravated theft
in October 2012 and sentenced
him to 18 months in the Gendar-
merie barracks. He passed the
time by painting and was par-
doned by Benedict three days
before Christmas, following a 15-
minute jailhouse meeting.
Banished from Vatican City, he
was given a new home and a job,
in what the Vatican described as a
“paternal gesture.” By then, the
Vatican had also named a new
papal butler while reportedly
making some changes to office
protocol, eliminating the butler’s
desk space next to Benedict’s
personal secretary. It was there,
in full view of others, that Mr.
Gabriele said he had photocopied
documents during office hours.
harrison.smith@washpost.com
cized for a rambling speech he
gave at the start of Syria’s peace
conference in Montreux, Swit-
zerland. Then-U.N. chief Ban Ki-
moon repeatedly asked him to
step away from the podium when
he exceeded his time limit.
Mr. Moallem ignored Ban’s
pleas, setting off an exchange
that showed the tensions in try-
ing to resolve Syria’s bloody
conflict.
“You live in New York. I live in
Syria,” Mr. Moallem snapped. “I
have the right to give the Syrian
version here in this forum. After
three years of suffering, this is
my right.”
Mr. Moallem then proceeded
with his speech, saying he had a
few minutes left. Ban asked him
to keep his promise.
“Syria always keeps its
promises,” Mr. Moallem replied,
triggering approving laughter
from the Syrian government del-
egation behind him and a grin
from Ban.
Survivors include his wife,
Sawsan Khayat, and three chil-
dren.
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IN MEMORIAM
WINGFIELD
NICOLE A. WINGFIELD
Although you are at rest with your mom, Anita
L. Benton Wingfield, and Our Savior, no amount
of time will ever stop our love for you. (The Lord
is My Shepherd.)
Wingfield Family, All Relatives and Friends
DEATH NOTICE
COAKLEY
PETER W. COAKLEY
Peter W. Coakley, 81 passed away on
November 23, 2020. He is preceded in
death by Pamela Coakley, his wife of 36
years, Mason Coakley, his twin brother and
his parents, Forrest and Helene Coakley.
He is survived by his children, Brett (Jessica)
Coakley of Kennedyville, Maryland and
Laura (Andy) Woerner of Chester Springs,
Pennsylvania as well as his two grandsons,
Davis and Ryan. He is also survived by
his older brother, Gene (Becky) Coakley of
Stuarts Draft, Virginia and four nieces and
nephews.
Pete grew up in Waldorf, Maryland where
he graduated from LaPlata High School and
then served in the Army. After serving in
the Army and while attending the University
of Maryland, he met his wife, Pamela.
Together they raised their family in Crofton
where he lived for 45 years. He loved
nothing more than spending time in his
community with his friends and family. Pete
loved watching his children play sports. He
and Pamela hardly ever missed a game
regardless of its location.
Many who know Pete knew him as an
avid volunteer through a variety of different
organizations. Over the years, he spent
much of his time volunteering for the
Crofton Athletic Council, St. Stephen’s Epis-
copal Church, The Heating and Air Con-
ditioning Contractors of Maryland, Ducks
Unlimited and St. Mary’s High School Ath-
letic Association. He was particularly good
at fundraising and planning events.
In addition to his volunteer service, every
fall and spring Pete could be found attend-
ing the home football and lacrosse games
for his alma mater, University of Maryland.
He was an active member of the Toy Train
Operators Society and his collection of
Lionel trains was second to none.
Funeral services will be private at this
time due to COVID restrictions. The family
would like to celebrate Pete’s life with his
extended family and friends at a future
date.
Memorial donations and donations in lieu
of flowers be made to Hospice of the Che-
sapeake, 90 Ritchie Highway, Pasadena, MD
21122 (www.hospiceofthechesapeke.org)
or the Multiple Myeloma Research Foun-
dation (www.themmrf.org).
When the
need arises,
let families
find you in the
Funeral Services
Directory.
To be seen in the
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Directory, please call
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at 202-334-4122.
DEATH NOTICE
COLCLOUGH
JIMMIE LEROY COLCLOUGH
Beloved husband and father passed away
on November 5, 2020. Family will welcome
friends Saturday, November 28, at Johnson &
Jenkins Funeral Home, 716 Kennedy St., NW.
Visitation 1 p.m. Funeral 2 p.m. Interment
private. Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery.
CRAHAN
CHRISTOPHER GLENN CRAHAN
Chris passed away on November 13, 2020,
due to complications from surgery related
to his 17 year battle with the autoimmune
disease Myasthenia Gravis and Thymus
Cancer. He was born to the late Nicole
deVarenne and Gary Crahan in Gales Ferry,
CT. He was a graduate of the University
of Connecticut and spent his professional
career as a Certified Financial Planner at
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. He
partnered with Rhonda Ebert to form the
Ebert Crahan Group, where he served as
Vice President. He was noted for his excep-
tional efforts to work for and support his
clients. He lived in South Riding, VA for 15
years supporting his children’s activities of
soccer, swimming, and music. His children
were the center of his life. He also main-
tained many strong relationships with
friends from high school and college. He
was a selfless, giving person. He never
refused to help others. He loved wood-
working and other art projects shared with
his children. Chris is survived by his two
children, Trinity and Noah, his father, Gary;
his sister, Lauren; his former wife, Heather
Kelly; his stepmother, Carol, and stepsisters
Alexandra Grantham and Victoria Mims.
He was also close to his aunt and uncle
Sandra and Remy deVarenne and their
sons Remy and Greg of Chatham, NJ. A
small Memorial Service was conducted on
November 20 to share memories of Chris’
life. He will be sorely missed. He requested
that donations be made to the Myasthenia
Gravis Foundation in lieu of flowers.
WEBER
Dr. DENNIS MITCHELL WEBER
Dr. Dennis Mitchell Weber, 72, of Palm Beach
Gardens, FL and Rockville, MD passed away
on Tuesday November 24, 2020, after a
courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
For more than four years after his diagnosis,
Dennis lived life to the fullest and remained a
rock for his family. Dennis was born in New
York, NY on October 20, 1948, to Annette and
Jerry Weber, and spent his childhood in New
York, North Carolina, and Maryland, where
he attended High Point High School. Dennis
graduated from the University of Maryland in
three years and subsequently attended the
Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, where
he received a DPM. After marrying his
college sweetheart, Ellen Goldberg Weber,
and completing his residency in Detroit, MI,
they settled in the Maryland suburbs of
Washington DC, where they raised a family
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DEATH NOTICE
DAVIES
THOMAS L DAVIES
On Friday, November 20, 2020, Thomas L
Davies passed away at his home in Alexandria,
Virginia. He was the beloved son of Ella Davies,
brother of Patricia Teevan, William Davies and
Edward Davies (deceased), and long time com-
panion of Millie Venesi. Tom was also the uncle
of seven and great-uncle of 13 nieces and
nephews.
A Memorial Mass will be offered for Tom at St.
Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Allentown,
Pennsylvania at a future date.
Donations in Tom's name may be made to the
Salvation Army.
GIMBLE
SIDNEY GIMBLE
Of Rockville, MD passed away peacefully
on November 25, 2020, at the age of 99.
Beloved husband of the late Shirley Gimble;
loving father of Barbara (Larry) Herman,
Bonnie Gimble, Rona (Alan Unowitz) Gimble,
Glenn (Chana) Gimble, adored “papa” to
his grandchildren, Janna, Elena, Aaron
(Danielle), Matt (Erin), Shayna, Rebecca,
Kayla, Alyssa and devoted great-grandfa-
ther to Jordyn, Ella, Ariel, Hailey, Ryan and
Noah. Graveside service will be private.
Memorial contributions may be made to a
charity of your choice.
LEBBIN
GARY H. LEBBIN
On Saturday, November 21,
2020, Gary H. Lebbin of Delray
Beach, Florida and formerly
of Bethesda, Maryland, passed
away peacefully at age 103.
Beloved husband for 72 years
to the late Bernice H. Lebbin,
he is survived by his children, Carole Sue
Lebbin (Phillip Spector), Roger (Deborah)
Lebbin, cherished grandchildren, Daniel
(Erin) Lebbin, Andrea (Mike) Rubinfeld,
Adam (Molly) Spector, David (Heidi) Spector,
and eight great-grandchildren. Born in Ber-
lin, Germany, he narrowly escaped Nazi per-
secution, fleeing to America in 1938 where
he became a chemist at a Baltimore paint
company. Later, he founded the Duron Paint
Manufacturing Company, which grew to
become the second largest privately owned
paint manufacturer in the United States.
Mr. Lebbin was an astute businessman,
and pursued golf, traveling with family and
friends, and his many philanthropic pursuits
dedicated to community service. Private
funeral services to be officiated by Rabbi
Lustig of Washington Hebrew Congrega-
tion, where Mr. Lebbin was a member
for 61 years and served on the Board of
Directors for more than a decade. Memorial
contributions may be made to Washington
Hebrew Congregation, Bascom Palmer Eye
Institute or The Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence. Services entrusted to Sagel Bloom-
field Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.
www.sagelbloomfield.com
LEE
EDDY G. LEE (Age 72)
Eddy G. Lee was born in Washington, DC in
1948, youngest son of the late Olive Louis
Doong and the late Ark Kee Lee, both of
Toishan, Canton, China. He died on November
22, 2020 of COVID-19, complicated by renal
failure.
He graduated from Northwestern High School,
Class of 1965, and completed his degree from
University of Maryland in Electrical Engineering
in 1969. He performed his military service on
the USS Bordelon. Subsequently, he worked
for NAVELEX and NAVSHIPS as a civilian EE. He
was a longtime resident of University Park, MD
and served as an elections supervisor.
Eddy had an avid interest in the arts, including
collecting and playing musical instruments,
attending craft shows and making jewelry. He
was a fan of diverse musical genres, especially
folk singing. He was also a barbecue con-
noisseur and participated in local barbecue
competitions. He enjoyed giving his nieces
and later his great-nephews and niece gifts
that encouraged the exploration of science,
engineering and technology.
Eddy is survived by his brothers, David and
Arthur (Pauline), nieces, Susan (Matt Houser)
and Karen (Jon Sippel), great-nephews, Joseph,
Timothy, and Oliver and great-niece, Hannah.
There are no plans for a service due to the
pandemic. Burial is private. In lieu of flowers,
donations can be made in his honor to the
National Kidney Foundation. Condolences can
be left at www.beallfuneral.com.
LEWIS
ANNA M. LEWIS (Age 78)
Peacefully passed away November 14, 2020.
She is the wife of the late Frank Lewis. She
is survived by her three children: Angela Wash-
ington, Frank Lewis, Jr. (Lisa), and Eric Lewis;
eight siblings: Renee Williams (Steve), Angus
Williams (Ruby), Tyrone Williams, Gerald Wil-
liams, and Richard Williams (Kay); two grand-
children, Erica N. Lewis, and DeLonte Lewis;
one great-grandchild Charlie P. Crockell; one
goddaughter LaTasha Thomas; best friend of
50 years Vera Campbell; family friend Easley
Crawley, and other relatives. Visitation will be
held November 30, 2020 at Johnson & Jenkins
Funeral Home, 716 Kennedy St., NW, Washing-
ton, DC, at 12:30 until time of service at 1:30
p.m. Interment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
www.johnsonandjenkinsfh.com
LOWE
ORLANDO E. LOWE, III
Of Washington DC, passed away suddenly
on November 15, 2020. He was prede-
ceased by his father, Orlando E. Lowe Jr.
and brother, Jon K. Kennedy. He is survived
by his mother, Jean Kennedy-Lowe, siblings,
Karl Kennedy and Kimberly Lowe, daughter,
Suni Walker-Lowe and grandson, HueyP-
ierre Batchler. A 12 noon memorial service
will be held at Holy Redeemer Catholic
Church, 206 New York Avenue NW, Sat-
urday, November 28. Due to COVID-19,
only 50 people will be allowed in the
church at time. Wearing masks and social
distancing required. To livestream log onto
http://holyredeemerchurchdc.org/hrc/. In
lieu of flowers donations made in his name
to the Capital Campaign/ New annex eleva-
tor is appreciated. Arrangements Robinson
Funeral Home.
and Dennis practiced podiatry for over 40
years. Dennis was a leader in his field,
serving two terms as the President of the
Maryland State Board of Podiatric Medical
Examiners.
Dennis was predeceased by his parents,
Annette and Jerry Weber. He is survived
by his wife of 50 years, Ellen, son and
daughter-in-law Marc and Cortney Weber,
daughter and son-in-law Julie and Eugene
Gligor, grandchildren Jackson and Caden
Weber, brother Jeffrey (Suzan) Weber,
nephews Brian (Shauna) Weber and David
Weber, niece Jessica Weber. He will also be
deeply missed by the family dogs Griffin,
Addie, Maisie, and Charlotte (of which only
Griffin was truly welcome in his home!)
Dennis had many passions in life, including
boating, golfing, poker, and Jaguar cars. He
loved a good practical joke, was an avid
reader, and always looked good in a suit
or blazer. Dennis took enormous joy in
his grandchildren, introducing them to his
favorite activities and engaging in theirs,
including playing hairdresser for grand-
daughter Caden. Above all, Dennis is most
remembered as an incredible friend, who
spent a lifetime amassing a group of friends
who became family. Everywhere he went,
people were drawn to his kindness, quick
wit and willingness to talk for hours or have
an intellectual debate on almost any topic.
A private memorial will be held for family and
close friends with a celebration of Dennis’ life
planned for a future date. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made in Dennis’ memory
to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
(www.pcan.org).
DEATH NOTICE
MARSHALL
CHARLES S. MARSHALL (Age 86)
of Arlington, Virginia, passed
away November, 23, 2020.
He was born November 29,
1933 in Wamego, KS, son
of George H and Nellie (Van-
Hole) Marstall. Charlie was
a member of Saint Charles
Catholic Church, and a Honorary Life Mem-
ber of the Knights of Columbus Edward
Douglas White Council #2473 in Arlington,
VA. He was married to Loretta Carlo,
who passed away February 12, 2008. He
is survived by his daughter, Debra Ann
Ruding of Fredericksburg, Va, granddaugh-
ters, Lisa Ruding Lynn, and L. Ruding, both
of Fredericksburg, Va, and great-grandchil-
dren, Phillip S. Lynn and Elizabeth Grace
Lynn; two brothers, Lawrence E Marstall, St.
Marys, KS, and Kenneth P. Marstall, Topeka,
KS. He is preceded in death by his parents,
and brothers, George L. Marstall, James
J. Marstall, and Norman F. Marstall. Mr.
Marstall will lie in state at Murphy Funeral
Home, Arlington, VA on Sunday, November
29, 2020, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Mass
of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St.
Charles Catholic Church in Arlington, VA,
November 30, 2020, at 12 noon. Interment
will follow at Columbia Gardens Cemetery,
Arlington, VA
McDONALD
NANCY L. McDONALD (Age 70)
On Saturday, November 21, 2020,
of Manassas, VA. Beloved wife
of Thomas McDonald; mother of
Anne Davis (Clyde "JR") and Todd
McDonald (Caroline); grandmoth-
er of Nicole, Nick, Brayden, Chloe,
Nathan, Preston, and Harvey. Also
survived by her siblings Frederick Leonberger
and Janet Allen.
Relatives and friends may call at Collins Funeral
Home, 500 University Boulevard West, Silver
Spring, MD, Monday, November 30, from 11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Due to Covid, the service
and interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery
will be private. In lieu of flowers memorial
contributions may be made to Multiple Sclero-
sis Society, National Capital Chapter, 1800 M
Street, NW, Suite 750 South, Washington, DC
20036.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
NEILL
HENRY NEILL, JR. "Hank"
of Springfield, VA passed November 7,
2020. Beloved husband of Judy Y. Neill;
brother of Margaret Neill. Mass of Christian
Burial will be held at the Old Post Chapel
at Fort Myer, March 17, 2021 at 10:45
a.m. Interment Arlington National Ceme-
tery. Contributions in lieu of flowers maybe
sent to: Center for Prostate Disease
Research, c/o The Henry M. Jackson Foun-
dation, 6720A Rockledge Dr., Ste. 100,
Bethesda, MD 20817.
QUADE
NORA MEEHAN QUADE
Nora Meehan Quade 51, a
respected NIH nurse from Silver
Spring, MD, passed on November
24, 2020 after a courageous battle
with cancer. Nora is survived by
her devoted husband, Steven, a
sister, brothers, and extended
family. Donations may be made to the Chil-
drens Inn at NIH or The Edmond J. Safra Family
Lodge at NIH. A memorial event will be held
when safe to gather. Please share memories
and condolences at:
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
SNOWHITE
DEEDE SNOWHITE
Died peacefully at home in Reston, VA, on
November 19, 2020, of ALS. The daughter of
the late Abe and Ann Zeitz, she was born in
Brooklyn, NY, on April 25, 1946. She graduated
from Oceanside High School on Long Island,
NY, and earned her bachelor’s degree from
Boston University and a master’s degree from
Yeshiva University.
She started her career as a teacher in the
New York City public schools and then worked
on a task force for New York City Mayor
John Lindsay serving low-income families in
Brooklyn, NY. She married Larry Snowhite in
1969 and they moved to Virginia, where she
worked first as a teacher and then, from 1985
to 1994, in the labor relations and human
resources department of the American News-
paper Publishers Association.
She then became a technical writer and editor,
first at the engineering/consulting firm CH2M
Hill and later at ScoreBoard, a cellular industry
startup. She moved on to proposal and senior
writing positions at Northrop Grumman Corp.,
TASC and ManTech International, where she
held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented
Information security clearance. She retired in
2013.
For almost 50 years, Deede and Larry lived in
Reston, a community she loved and supported
through various endeavors over the years.
In retirement she served on the Northern
Virginia Hebrew Congregation (NVHC) Board
of Directors and as editor of their Glance
newsletter; as a board administrator for the
NVHC Sisterhood Leadership Council; as a
greeter for the ADAMS Center’s Friday prayers
at NVHC; and on the Regional Board of Direc-
tors of Hadassah.
Deede was a mentor, a friend and a fierce
advocate for social justice and equality who
will be missed by all those she touched.
She was devoted to her family, friends and
volunteer work. In addition to Larry, her
beloved husband of 51 years, she is survived by
two sons, Andrew and Robert; two daughters-
in-law, Allison and Illona; three grandchildren,
Caleb, David and Kirsi; a brother, Carl Zeitz;
two nephews, Joshua and Nate Zeitz; and four
first cousins, Karen Gejdenson, Debbie Babson,
Julie Gilman and David Black.
A memorial service took place on November
21, 2020. Donations in her memory may be
made to the Reston-based charity Corner-
stones.
DEATH NOTICE
FREEMAN
ANGELA RENEE FREEMAN
Of Springfield, VA, passed away peacefully
on Friday, November 20, 2020.
Angela was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on
May 28, 1956 to Alice Dean Story and Harvey
Lee Story. She was a resident of Norfolk,
Virginia for many years and graduated from
Booker T. Washington High School and Nor-
folk State University. Angela later married
Colonel (Retired) Michael E. Freeman. To this
union one son was born, Michael E. Freeman
II.
Her professional career culminated with the
Department of Justice as a senior team mem-
ber in the financial accounting arena with
over thirty-six years of federal service. Most
recently Angela’s hard work, dedication and
professionalism gained her recognition from
the DOJ leadership and she was awarded
with the Attorney General’s Award for Excel-
EZ RE
DEATH NOTICE
TURNER
FRANCES SOURS TURNER
Frances Sours Turner, age 77, of Falls
Church, VA, passed away peacefully in her
sleep on Thursday, November 19, 2020.
She was born in Roanoke, VA, and attended
Jefferson Senior High School. She went on
to attend Queens College (now University)
in Charlotte, NC. While at Queens, she was
a member of the Alpha Delta Pi Sorority.
She was predeceased by her parents,
Harold and Katherine Hughes Sours as well
as by her husband Robert of 43 years.
She is survived by her sons Christopher
and Andrew Turner of Denver, CO, and
her granddaughter Hayley Grace Turner
of Boulder, CO. Hayley was one of the
highlights of her life, bringing joy to her
days. She loved to tell her friends all about
her current adventures.
She was a life-long educator, beloved by her
students and other teachers, taking time
out only to raise her sons. Even after she
retired, she continued to substitute teach
until 2018. She began her teaching with the
Richmond Public Schools, before moving
to Northern Virginia to teach at Masonville
Elementary School. She then went on to
Haycock and Churchill Elementary Schools
for the last 25 years of her career, all in
Fairfax County, VA.
She was a member of The Falls Church
Episcopal Church and was also a member
of the PEO Sisterhood. She enjoyed travel-
ing, both domestically and internationally,
regularly spending time at the beach during
her summers off, walking and socializing
with friends. She was always full of conver-
sation. She loved living in the City of Falls
Church even moving back to a different
house on Forest Drive, after a few years
living in New Jersey.
There will be a Celebration of Life in Falls
Church and burial in Clifton Forge, VA,
at a later date. We will always carry
Fran’s memory in our hearts. For more
information, and to express condolences
please visit https://tinyurl.com/FSTobit .
TYLER
LEE A. TYLER
The Officers and Members of John
F. Cook Lodge #10 announces the
death of our beloved Brother Lee
A. Tyler on November 19, 2020.
The funeral services will be held
at Marshall Funeral Home, 4308
Suitland Rd., Hill Crest Heights, Maryland
20746, on Friday, November 27, 2020, the
Viewing will be held from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., with
funeral services to follow.
Albert H. Murray, III,WM
Victor T. Robinson, Secretary
When the
need arises,
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Directory, please call
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DEATH NOTICE
WILSON
MARSHALL WOODROW WILSON, II
(Age 80)
Passed away suddenly on Thursday, November
12, 2020. Marshall graduated from McKinley
Technical High School in Washington, DC in
1957. After graduation, he proudly served four
years in the US Navy and was a Sergeant with
the Metropolitan Police Department for twenty
years. Left to cherish his memory are Vanessa,
his wife of 42 years; four children: Marshall
W. Wilson, III, Sean Wilson, Erica Wilson and
Melanie Wilson; sisters Sylvia Benoit (John)
and Rita Wilson; brother Alan Wilson (Patricia);
nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren;
special nephew Timothy Wilson; a host of
other nieces, nephews and friends. Funeral
services at R. N. Horton’s Funeral Home, 600
Kennedy St NW, Washington, DC 20011 on
Saturday, November 28, 2020. Visitation: 2
p.m., Service: 3 p.m. A private Interment will
be held at a future date.
DEATH NOTICE
lence in Management. Angela was known for
aggressively meeting challenges. She was
respected, loved by all and never met a
stranger.
Angela was preceded in death by parents:
Alice Dean Story and Harvey Lee Story; and
sisters; Joyce Vonda (Story) Ziglar and Bonnie
Jean (Story) Ricks.
Angela leaves to cherish her memories, her
husband, Colonel (Retired) Michael E. Free-
man; son, Michael E. Freeman II, both of
Springfield, VA; brother, Dennis Lee Story, Sr.,
Forestville, MD; aunt, Mary Carter, Norfolk,
VA; nephews, Dennis Lee Story, Jr., Man-
assas, VA, Michael Ziglar, Jr., Norfolk, VA,
Brandon Ricks, Norfolk, VA, Derrick Watson,
Jacksonville, FL, Mark Freeman, II, and Jesse
Freeman, Jr., both of Huntsville, AL; nieces,
Rickea Story, Norfolk, VA, Charity Denise
Pope, Richmond, VA, Earkiyah King, Birming-
ham, AL, Marcelia Freeman, Los Angeles, CA,
Lashae King and Morgan Freeman, both of
Montgomery, AL; great nieces, Ryan Story
and Azya Story, both of Norfolk, VA, Taylor
Watson, Atlanta, GA, Cadence Freeman-
Carter, Huntsville, AL; brothers-in-law and
sisters-in-law, Mark (Sandra) Freeman, Laster
King, Jr.;, Jesse (Donna) Freeman, all of Mont-
gomery, AL; stepmother-in-law, Evergreen
Freeman, Union Springs, AL; godmother, Fan-
nie Mae, Norfolk, VA; and a host of other
relatives and friends.
The family has chosen to follow the COVID-
19 health guidelines in order to protect the
health and well-being of family and friends
and will have a private family service. In
lieu of flowers, please make donations to
Norfolk State University on behalf of Angela
R. Freeman. Condolences may be forwarded
to PO Box 10832, Alexandria, VA 22310.
www.demainefunerals.com
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ACEVEDO SHEAR
JUANITA CARMEN ACEVEDO
KAY M. SHEAR
Juanita Carmen Acevedo, age 75, passed
peacefully away on Tuesday, November 24, Kay Shear, loving wife and mother of Molly,
Rachel and Andrew passed away suddenly
2020 at her home in Fairfax, Virginia sur-
rounded by loved ones. on November 20, 2020 at the age of 53.
Kay was born on October 8, 1967 in Boulder,
She earned a Masters in Adult Education
from Boston College in 1974 and pursued Colorado to Pat and Bob Schreiber.
post graduate course work at Fordham
University in 1976. She worked as an She moved to Memphis, TN in 1976 and spent
her childhood there. She graduated from
Organizational Development Consultant for
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Central High School and went to college at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(FDIC) focusing on organization change,
leadership development, personal and pro- where she graduated with an undergraduate
degree in Mathematics and Theater and
fessional coaching, and teamwork.
Juanita was a devoted mother and partner. received a graduate degree in Rehabilitative
Counseling. She also obtained a Masters
She sacrificed everything for the ones she
loved. She touched many lives and was of Education from The George Washington
a happy and loving woman with great University.
strength, courage and discipline. Her way
of facing things head on was amazing with She married Rob Shear on November 15, 1997
no fear or judgment. She loved to garden, and raised their three children in Chantilly,
Virginia. She taught middle school math in
travel, and dance. Always with a smile on
her face. Fairfax County and wrote a book to help
She was especially passionate about danc-
ing. When the music started to play, she
teachers pass their certification exam. She
was very active in the community volunteering
as PTA President, Sisterhood President,
would light up a room with her dancing.
She would smile from ear to ear and dance Mom's Club President and coordinating the
local Freecycle group. Service on Friday,
like there was no tomorrow.
She is survived by her partner Ken Knapp, November 27, 2020
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her son Jonathan Allen, two sisters Muni
Chou and Olga Acevedo and two grand-
daughters Sophia Allen and Kira Allen.
We will be announcing information about a
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Diane Carol Gibson Alexander, 75, originally
from Montreal, Canada, peacefully passed
11 a.m. ~ 3 p.m.
away Thursday, November 19, 2020 at her
home in Tampa, FL. Beloved wife, mother and
friend. Diane is survived by her devoted hus-
band Robert M. Alexander, grateful children
Dawn, Sharron (Seydou), Luci and Todd, loving Photo Deadline:
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Dominic, Karim, Danielle, Ty, Santara and 1 p.m.
Nasha; great-grandchildren Dominic Jr., Isaiah
and Kyng, and a host of friends and extended
family. Memorial Services will be performed
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Friendship Church, Wesley Chapel, FL on Satur-
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Old Alexandria power plant to become mixed-use project

PROJECT FROM B1

and public open space along the

river.
The group recently redevel- “I think we really
oped Sparrows Point in Balti-
more, once one of the largest envision that this is
steel mills in the country.
“Development and develop- going to become part of
ment policy is the lifeblood of
controversy in local government, an overall eco district.”
but this is actually a pretty good Justin Wilson, mayor of Alexandria
example of a development effort
that very few people are opposed
to,” said Alexandria Mayor Justin
Wilson (D). “Everyone’s pretty
excited to see [the coal plant] go
away.” wrote a report that detailed the
Schrock said the project could concerns she and her neighbors
take five to 10 years to complete, had with the Mirant power plant,
depending on how long the com- its name at the time. She also
pany needs to conduct an envi- called the city’s attention to a
ronmental cleanup of the site. 2002 Harvard University article
The group also plans to make focused on small particulate
what it builds environmentally matter generated by the five
friendly. Hilco strives to reuse power plants in the Washington
and recycle as much material as area, including the one in Alex-
possible, Schrock said, with a andria.
goal of recycling 98 percent of “We said, ‘It’s the responsibili-
the materials. It plans to work ty of the city to protect the public
with the city to meet the goals health of its residents,’ ” Chimen-
outlined in the 2019 Green Build- to said. “The city took on the
ing Policy. project. That was a wonderful
Those goals include reducing thing because we didn’t have the
energy use, mitigating green- money to finance all these stud-
house gas emissions and improv- ies ourselves.”
ing indoor environmental quali- Alexandria formed a Mirant
ty. monitoring group, which con-
“I think we really envision that HILCO REDEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
ducted studies to document the
this is going to become part of an The Potomac River Generating pollution. The city made zoning
overall eco district, you know, Station, a 71-year-old coal-fired changes designed to close the
trying to use some cutting-edge power plant, was plant, over which the company
environmental sustainability decommissioned in 2012. sued. The city ordered the plant
components: district energy and Redevelopment plans include to do an environmental cleanup
geothermal and a lot of things making space along the river in the short term and close in the
that we haven’t seen much of in accessible to the public. It must long term.
the city,” Wilson said. include some affordable Hilco will publish an eco-
The site has a long history. The housing, officials said. nomic impact study soon,
plant was decommissioned after Schrock said, detailing the jobs
residents voiced their concerns that would be created through
about its impacts on health and construction, engineering and
the environment and prodded consultancy, as well as perma-
the city to get involved. nent ones that would come in the
Elizabeth Chimento, a 78- offices, restaurants and other
year-old retired teacher, remem- buildings.
bers attending a neighborhood Wilson called the plant’s
civic association meeting in the planned transformation poetic.
early 2000s to ask about the gray “You’re taking a site that was a
residue she was seeing on her coal-fired power plant, which is
window sills, cars and patio about the most inefficient, non-
furniture. environmentally sustainable
She said the Virginia Depart- way of generating power, and
ment of Environmental Quality you’re going to turn it into hope-
and the plant manager at the fully some of the most environ-
time assured her that there were mental, sustainable develop-
no contaminants floating around ment we’ve had in the city,” he
from the plant. said.
But she was unconvinced. She KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST
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CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

With us all starring in our own bad ‘Home Alone’ reboot, some think
We’ve grown.
holiday movies feel sad this year. Others started watching in March. Enfant terrible
tropes haven’t.
BY A NN H ORNADAY

In the new documentary “Zappa,” a

very young Frank Zappa admits in an
interview that of course he cheats on his
wife, Gail, nonchalantly adding that if he
“gets the clap,” they both simply pop
some penicillin and go on with their lives.
Famous for his irascible perfection-
ism, Zappa is remembered with affection
by Gail and his former bandmates, who
speak admiringly, if ruefully, of their
exacting, aloof and withholding leader.
It’s telling that Zappa’s biggest hit, “Val-
ley Girl,” was co-written with his daugh-
ter Moon, prompted by her pleas for
more time with her emotionally distant
dad.
As a portrait of an uncompromising
artist with intimacy issues, “Zappa” of-
fers a rock-and-roll bookend to “Mank,”
David Fincher’s just-released drama
about “Citizen Kane” screenwriter
(ahem, co-screenwriter) Herman
Mankiewicz. Portrayed with avuncular
jocularity by Gary Oldman, Mankiewicz
wears his vices humbly on his ink-stained
sleeve throughout the movie, which ad-
dresses his drinking and gambling hab-
its, as well as dalliances with other
women — a crazy-quilt of shortcomings
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on your pop
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blind spots
BY B ETHONIE B UTLER

WILL HOLIDAY FLICKS Are you a film buff who has never seen a
Star Wars movie? A TV enthusiast who
never got around to “Breaking Bad”? This

STILL DO THE TRICK?

list, compiled without judgment and in no
particular order, is for you. We scoured
streaming services for shows and films so
iconic you might not publicly admit you
missed out on them.
Have fun enjoying a pop culture phe-
nomenon (or two) for the first time!
BY A SHLEY F ETTERS AND L ISA B ONOS

D
“Star Wars” (1977)
avid Gowan, 30, has long been known to bust out his favorite Christmas movies a little on George Lucas’s saga about a galaxy far,
far away is available to stream in full. The
the early side, often just before Thanksgiving. “Elf.” “National Lampoon’s Christmas most passionate fans recommend start-
Vacation.” “Christmas With the Kranks.” But in 2020, he pulled the trigger much earlier ing with the original trilogy (“Episode IV:
A New Hope,” “Episode V: The Empire
than even he expected. The instructional-support teacher who lives by himself in Strikes Back” and “Episode VI: Return of
Jamestown, N.Y., was home channel-surfing on a Tuesday night when he unexpectedly took in his the Jedi”), followed by the less-beloved
prequels (“Episode I: The Phantom Men-
first Hallmark Channel holiday movie of the year. It was July 28. ¶ Gowan can’t remember the name ace,” “Episode II: Attack of the Clones”
of the movie he landed on that night, but he remembers it involved a guy losing his job, moving from and “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.”)
From there, you can tuck into the third
the big city back to his quaint hometown and falling in love with a beautiful woman who owns a trilogy, two anthologies, a fan-favorite an-
bookshop (not terribly helpful as a search filter, it turns out). Gowan also remembers the movie was imated series and “The Mandalorian,” but
first things first, young Padawan.
an excellent distraction from his real life. He wasn’t working at the time. He was bored and stressed (Streams on Disney Plus)
staying home alone. Outside, the country was in the grip of a deadly pandemic. ¶ “Christmas movies “Seinfeld” (1989)
just bring that warm feeling,” he said. In such a tense time, “seeing happy movies just helps.” ¶ In This sitcom, from Larry David and Jer-
2020, a year when an alarmingly small number of things are normal, Christmas movies are affecting ry Seinfeld, remains a classic more than
three decades after its debut — not too bad
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and isolation, some people have made holiday movies their anytime movies, with their low stakes,
guaranteed tidy and hopeful endings, and ability to make staying indoors seem appealingly cozy.
BOOK WORLD
Meanwhile, in a season when festive family gatherings are discouraged, others have found that
watching holiday movies is a more bittersweet experience than usual. SEE HOLIDAY MOVIES ON C2
Merger good
for margins,
bad for words
BY R ON C HARLES

It’s a small world after all. And if we

don’t speak up, it will become smaller.
Penguin Random House, already the
largest trade publisher in the country,
has announced plans to buy Simon &
Schuster from ViacomCBS for about
$2 billion. If the deal goes through, the
Big Five publishers will become the Big
Four — or, really, an industry version of
the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little
Pigs.
For book lovers, that development
may feel like background noise. After all,
when looking for something good to
read, we choose authors and titles, not
publishers.
But don’t turn the page on this news
yet. No matter what soon-to-be-enriched
executives say, the proposed consolida-
tion of the publishing business is bad for
authors, bad for readers and bad for
American culture.
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As the number of publishers shrinks,
TOP: From left, Carlos Lacamara, Meeghan Holaway, Luke Bracey and Aimee Carrero in a new Netflix holiday authors find themselves with fewer po-
offering, “Holidate.” ABOVE: Bob Newhart and Will Ferrell in 2003’s “Elf.” Holiday movies have already proved tential buyers for their proposals and
a comfort to some this year. To others, they’re a bittersweet reminder that they miss their family and friends. manuscripts. Bookstores are beholden to
a smaller number of distributors. And
readers face a shelf of titles further
dominated by familiar bestsellers most
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Nicole Sunderland, a 36-year-
old travel blogger based in Alex-
andria, Va., got an even earlier
head start on the holiday-movie
season than Gowan did: When
she had to abruptly stop traveling
the globe in March, she found
some comfort in old favorites
such as “Bad Santa” and “Mixed
Nuts.” As the year wore on and she
felt more and more distressed by
the worsening pandemic and the
tumultuous presidential election,
she kept returning to them.
At this point, Sunderland esti-
mates she’s watched Netflix’s
2018 original “The Holiday Calen-
dar” between 15 and 20 times.
“Christmas is my happy place,”
she said.
Screenwriter Karen Schaler —
who’s earned the nickname
“Christmas Karen” by writing two
Lifetime Christmas movies, a
Hallmark Christmas movie and
the 2017 Netflix hit “A Christmas
Prince,” as well as multiple Christ-
mas novels — isn’t surprised by
this trend. Holiday movies aren’t
their own genre just because they
take place during holidays, she
pointed out. They also contain
uplifting messages about “honor-
ing our family, our friends, our
faith, our community.”
Screenwriters have long under-
stood that people crave from en-
tertainment the emotions they
aren’t getting from the real world,
Schaler added. “Scandal” creator
Shonda Rhimes has said that af-
ter the Obama administration
ended and the more unpredict-
able Trump administration took
over in 2017, the appetite for the
show’s suspenseful story lines
about turmoil in Washington
waned.
Schaler has seen firsthand how
pop-culture appetites have
changed in 2020. She said she
faced pressure not to release her
new Christmas book, “Christmas
Ever After,” because of the pan-
demic, but decided to publish it
independently in response to re-
quests from readers.
“My fans were reaching out
basically saying, ‘Please, please,
please, please — we need some-
thing,’ ” Schaler said. “ ‘We need
Are references to the popular canon lost on you? Much to learn, you still have.
BLIND SPOTS FROM C1
for “a show about nothing.” Be
sure to watch it while eating a big
salad. (Streams on Hulu)
“Pulp Fiction” (1994)
And here you thought “Once
Upon a Time in Hollywood” was
peak Quentin Tarantino. (Streams
on Starz)
“Friends” (1994)
If you can get past the unrealis-
tically attainable Manhattan
apartments and (as with most ’90s
sitcoms) jokes that haven’t aged
particularly well, you’re in for a
fun and memorable binge. And
you’ll finally understand all those
“We were on a break” references.
(Streams on HBO Max)
“The Sopranos” (1999)
The late James Gandolfini won
three Emmy Awards and a Golden
Globe for playing introspective
mobster Tony Soprano on this
HBO drama, which helped usher
in the prestige TV era. (Streams on
HBO)
“Veep” (2012)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is Selina
Meyer, a vice president who just
can’t catch a break, in this occa-
sionally all-too-real political sat-
ire. (Streams on HBO)
“Living Single” (1993)
“Living Single,” about a group of
young Black professionals living
in absurdly spacious New York
housing, was “Friends” before
“Friends” was “Friends.” And
when it comes to representation
on-screen, “Living Single’s” im-
pact may be even bigger. (Streams
on Hulu)
“Martin” (1992)
The popularity of this ’90s sit-
com was perfectly captured in a
scene from Ryan Murphy’s ac-
claimed “American Crime Story”
installment, “The People v. O.J.
Simpson,” in which the seques-
tered jury was torn between
watching “Seinfeld” and Martin
Lawrence’s eponymous series.
(Streams on BET Plus)
“Jaws” (1975)
Face your fears and watch the
blockbuster that made Steven
Spielberg a household name.
(Streams on HBO)
“The West Wing” (1999)
Creator Aaron Sorkin promotes
Martin Sheen from chief of staff
(in “The American President,” that
is) to POTUS in this beloved dra-
ma about an idealistic White
Glenn McCuen and Midori Francis in Netflix’s “Dash & Lily,” which captures some 2020-appropriate, connected-while-apart hopefulness.
it. We need something happy.’ ”
But for some, the standard
holiday plotlines — family bond-
ing and stroke-of-midnight ro-
mance — can be difficult to watch
once the viewer realizes that, this
year, they can’t do any of that. For
example, in “Holidate,” a new
Netflix offering, two strangers
connect in a bustling mall and
decide to spend New Year’s Eve
together in a crowded club. Now-
adays, two singles might strike up
a conversation on the street, but
they’ll only be able to see each
other’s eyes and foreheads. A suc-
cessful chat might lead to a Skype
date, but definitely not to a night
of dancing in close quarters with
hundreds of strangers.
Tracee Ellis Ross, Jill Marie Jones, Golden Brooks and Persia White in “Girlfriends.” If you missed it the first time, catch up on Netflix.
House administration working
toward the greater good. (Streams
on Netflix)
“ER” (1994)
This medical drama marked the
breakout of so many talented ac-
tors: George Clooney, Maura Tier-
ney, Eriq La Salle, Noah Wyle and
Julianna Margulies among them.
It’s an obvious forebear to another
iconic medical drama, “Grey’s
Anatomy,” which streams on Net-
flix. (Streams on Hulu)
“Mad Men” (2007)
This acclaimed, Emmy-win-
ning period drama follows dapper
advertising exec Don Draper (Jon
Hamm) and his Madison Avenue
colleagues, played by an ensemble
including Elisabeth Moss, Vincent
Kartheiser, John Slattery and
Christina Hendricks. (Streams on
AMC Plus and Amazon Prime)
“Stranger Things” (2016)
If you were in the Upside Down
when Netflix’s massively popular
sci-fi horror premiered, you can
catch up ahead of the show’s
fourth season premiere, which has
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Francis Ferdinand, a 25-year-
old woman in Dallas, was watch-
ing “Holidate” last week when it
struck her that she’d be alone for
the holidays. “It was definitely
something I haven’t been think-
ing about, because my mind’s
been consumed with 2020,” Ferdi-
nand said. “Overall I enjoyed the
movie, but it hit a lot harder with
some of the tropes that you
wouldn’t think about as much if
you’re with friends and family.”
Some of those tropes include
the hubbub, the arguing, maybe
the burning of a turkey and al-
ways the prying into single rela-
tives’ love lives. “When I go home,
things are definitely chaotic,” Fer-
dinand said of her big Italian
been pushed back because of coro-
navirus production delays.
(Streams on Netflix)
“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”
(1982)
“Stranger Things” owes a lot to
this Spielberg classic about a boy
and his alien BFF. (Streams on
Freeform and Hulu + Live TV)
“Star Trek” (1966)
The Star Trek universe is vast
and spans decades. For the unini-
tiated, there is no better place to
start than Gene Roddenberry’s
original series, which follows the
Enterprise crew, led by the brazen
Capt. James T. Kirk (William Shat-
ner), and set the franchise’s
groundbreaking tone on diversity
and inclusiveness. From there,
you can tackle the spinoffs — “The
Next Generation,” “Voyager,”
“Deep Space Nine” and the less
popular “Enterprise” — and the
original films, followed by a trio of
more recent spin offs: “Star Trek:
Discovery,” “Picard” and the ani-
mated “Lower Decks.” And that’s
not even counting the more recent
film reboots, which are available
family in Rhode Island. They usu-
ally ask: Who are you dating? Are
you bringing anyone special
home? “This year it’s like: ‘No, I
haven’t gone on a date. I’ve been
locked in my apartment,’ ” Ferdi-
nand said. In June, she moved
from the East Coast to Dallas,
where she doesn’t know many
people and will be cooking holi-
day dishes solo and re-watching
favorites such as “White Christ-
mas.”
There are a handful of holiday
films that feel in sync with our
times. Two strangers correspond-
ing over the Internet in “You’ve
Got Mail,” with no idea that
they’re business rivals. Or this
year’s holiday-themed Netflix
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to stream on various other ser-
vices. (Streams on CBS All Access;
the first five shows are also avail-
able on Netflix)
“This Is Us” (2016)
Dan Fogelman’s multigenera-
tional family drama is centered on
the loss of a beloved patriarch and
the values he taught those he loved
so deeply. (Streams on Hulu and
Peacock)
“Casablanca” (1942)
A classic among classics. Here’s
looking at you, kid. (Streams on
HBO Max)
“The Simpsons” (1989)
Over its three-decades-and-
counting run, Matt Groening’s an-
imated comedy has predicted
Donald Trump’s presidency, the
horrors of auto-correct and sev-
eral Super Bowl outcomes. Maybe
we should all watch it. (Streams on
Disney Plus)
“Breaking Bad” (2008)
Even if you missed Bryan
Cranston as a mild-mannered
high school teacher turned drug
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darling “Dash & Lily,” about two
teenagers who write to each oth-
er, complete dares and solve puz-
zles in a notebook they pass back
and forth without meeting.
Series creator Joe Tracz said
that when the cast and crew were
filming in New York in late 2019,
they were wondering: “Will peo-
ple buy that two people can have a
connection when they’re not in
person?” This year has shown
that the answer is “Absolutely
yes.” And the series has an unex-
pected lesson for 2020: Even
while physically separated, he
said, “you can still have connec-
tions that are meaningful.”
From the first episode, the lead
characters are gearing up to
kingpin, you’ve undoubtedly
heard the name Walter White:
Vince Gilligan’s Emmy- and Gold-
en Globe-winning drama was just
that popular. (Streams on Netflix)
“The Office” (2005)
You know a sitcom is iconic
when it gets sampled on the Gram-
mys’ album of the year — 15 years
after the show came out. One
quick spoiler alert, borrowed from
our friend Pam: “Every so often,
Jim dies of boredom.” (Streams on
Netflix until 2021, when it will
move to Peacock)
“Girlfriends” (2000)
Fans of this beloved sitcom,
starring “Blackish’s” Tracee Ellis
Ross, rejoiced when it became
available to stream in September.
Issa Rae has cited the show (along
with “Living Single” and others) as
inspiration for her HBO dramedy
“Insecure,” which counts “Girl-
friends” alum Prentice Penny as
its showrunner. (Streams on Net-
flix)
“Sex and the City” (1998)
Explore love and sex in Manhat-
. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 , 2020
spend Christmas largely alone:
Dash by choice and Lily by cir-
cumstance. It’s a plot point that
hit Tracz hard. A year ago, Tracz’s
family had planned to do a big
Christmas in New York for 2020.
“And then obviously as the year
went on, it became clear that
wasn’t going to be happening,”
Tracz said. “I really felt that I was
in Lily’s shoes, realizing that the
plans you make to be with your
family — sometimes life inter-
venes.”
For some viewers, watching
experiences they won’t have is a
way of bringing a small degree of
normal into 2020. Felicia Felton,
“It hit a lot harder
with some of the tropes
that you wouldn’t
think about as much
if you’re with friends
and family.”
Francis Ferdinand, 25, of Dallas,
on her mixed feelings watching
Netflix’s “Holidate”
a 41-year-old writer in Los Ange-
les, watches holiday rom-coms
year-round because she writes
these kinds of screenplays — and
this year was no exception. “It
makes me feel like I’m going to get
through whatever I’m doing —
with work or no work, or dreams
I’m going after,” Felton said.
Come holiday time, these mov-
ies are some of the only traditions
she’ll get to maintain. Whereas
last year, she went to a tree light-
ing and had celebratory dinners
and activities with friends, this
year her plan is to “decorate my
house, sleep, watch Christmas
movies, watch Christmas movies,
watch Christmas movies,” Felton
said.
“I’m probably going to be cry-
ing a little,” she added. “It’s going
to hit me a little bit more than
normal.”
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tan (and very occasionally, the out-
er boroughs) through the eyes and
newspaper column musings of
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Brad-
shaw. (Streams on HBO)
“Do the Right Thing” (1989)
Watch Spike Lee’s still-relevant
classic about exploding racial ten-
sions on a hot day in Brooklyn. Be
prepared to be incensed over the
director’s Oscars snub. (Streams
on Showtime)
“Goodfellas” (1990)
When it comes to mafia films,
Martin Scorsese’s crime drama is
perhaps second only to “The God-
father” (which is only available to
buy or rent online). “Goodfellas”
earned Joe Pesci an Oscar for best
supporting actor, and honestly, his
most memorable scene is alone
worth the price of admission.
(Streams on Sling)
“Citizen Kane” (1941)
Discover the meaning of “Rose-
bud” by watching Orson Welles’s
classic feature debut. (Streams on
HBO Max)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
(2008)
Test your stamina and start
with “Iron Man,” working your
way up to “Spider-Man: Far From
Home.” Depending on your level
of dedication, you just might be all
caught up for the twice-postponed
release of “Black Widow,” which is
set to open in May after being
moved around the schedule be-
cause of the pandemic. (Streams
on Disney Plus)
“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
(1990)
With a drama reboot in the
works, it’s high time you watch
Will Smith’s breakout role, you
know, while you’re “chillin’ out,
maxin’, relaxin’ all cool” on the
couch. (Streams on HBO Max)
“Game of Thrones” (2011)
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s
eight-season take on George R.R.
Martin’s fantasy series became a
ratings and water-cooler bonanza.
Winter is coming, so it’s the per-
fect time to visit Westeros.
(Streams on HBO)
“Chappelle’s Show” (2003)
As comedian Dave Chappelle
noted during his post-election
“Saturday Night Live” hosting gig,
his brilliant (and famously short-
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that led his wife to be known as
“Poor Sara.”
Set in the 1930s and 1940s,
“Mank” was always intended to
be a period piece. And, like Zappa,
Oldman’s Mank is nothing if not
lovable, his flaws portrayed as
frailties rather than a cruel or evil
character. But at a time when best
practices and awareness of per-
sonal boundaries are becoming
normalized on movie sets — in-
troduced in the wake of #MeToo
and reinforced by pandemic-
mandated precautions — the be-
haviors on display in “Mank” look
as anachronistic as a stenogra-
pher typing in nothing but a pair
of pasties (one of “Mank’s” early
visual gags).
Fincher ends his film with
Mankiewicz presenting a 300-
page screenplay to the director
Orson Welles, who turned it into
the classic that is often cited as
the finest movie ever made. They
clash in “Mank,” auguring the
notorious conflicts over writing
credits that would ensue. But
Fincher is more interested in
Mankiewicz’s artistic process.
And one of the movie’s tacit mes-
sages about that process is that
the trope of the “difficult genius”
is alive and well, if prone to the
occasional hangover.
Whether it’s Jackson Pollock in
the art world or Norman Mailer
in literature, Elia Kazan in the
theater or George Balanchine at
the New York City Ballet, the
image of the narcissistic, control-
ling, borderline sociopathic artist
is such an enduring archetype
that it’s become a cliche. But
nowhere is it more thoroughly
inscribed than in the iconic figure
of the cinematic auteur, whether
in the classic forms of domineer-
ing figures such as Erich von
Stroheim and Alfred Hitchcock
or, more recently, Quentin Taran-
tino, Brett Ratner and David O.
Russell.
Some of these figures are
known for being exacting, while
some have been called out as
straight-up bullies. Others are ac-
cused of being sexually inappro-
priate, some for being predatory.
Maybe they’re prone to occasion-
al fits of pique, or insensitive to
the point of sadism. The behavior
exists on a continuum, but wher-
ever it lands, it’s been habitually
A behind-the-scenes shot of Gary Oldman in “Mank.” The actor portrays “Citizen Kane” scribe Herman Mankiewicz as a difficult genius.
justified as being in service to the
greater creative good. Kill his
demons, goes the conventional
wisdom, and you kill his God-giv-
en gifts, as well.
And it’s almost always a “him.”
There’s always room in American
cultural lore for one more story
about the demanding, mercurial
diva — Viola Davis gives an elec-
trifying performance as one in the
upcoming adaptation of “Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom.” But the
myth of the temperamental au-
teur holds pride of place in Holly-
wood, functioning as an exten-
sion of the male gaze that has
dominated American cinema for
the past century and a half, with
its practitioners regularly com-
paring the direction of a film to
leading an army into battle or
quarterbacking a football team
all the way to the Super Bowl.
Much like the punishing resi-
dency schedules that become a
point of pride for the doctors who
survive them — regardless of how
useful they are, educationally or
medically — being “difficult” has
become part of a director’s macho
bona fides, a sign that he’s above
such mundane matters as empa-
thy, mutual respect or common
consideration.
That model began to show
cracks a few years ago, when
multiple sexual assault charges
against producer Harvey Wein-
stein led to a cascade of similar
accusations throughout the film
industry. What was once per-
ceived as business as usual was
suddenly revealed for what it
was: an inexcusable — and often
illegal — abuse of power. Male
directors can no longer assume
that their film sets are personal
playgrounds; instead, they’re
workplaces, where cast and crew
are entitled to the same expecta-
tions and standards of civility of
any professional space.
In a parallel development,
more attention and energy has
gone into making crews and cre-
ative leadership more inclusive:
As women reach critical mass as
directors and department heads,
a culture steeped in the rites and
rituals of fraternity hazings will
look increasingly ludicrous — and
harmful beyond those who are
immediately victimized. In “The
Assistant,” one of the best movies
of 2020, Julia Garner plays a
secretary to a Weinstein-adjacent
movie mogul whose barbaric be-
havior infects the entire office,
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not just the unwitting young
women he invites to his inner
sanctum.
“The Assistant” brilliantly
limns the ripple effect of moral
injury to enablers, bystanders
and ignorers. And it illuminates
how utterly fatuous and counter-
productive the mythology “diffi-
cult genius” has been. “I hate the
narrative that people have to be
tortured in order to be good art-
ists,” the writer-director Marielle
Heller said in the Guardian re-
cently. “I think it’s a solipsistic
view that people use in order to be
selfish. I don’t think we have to be
jerks to make good art either, but
somehow we as a society have
romanticized that idea.”
Heller noted that when she
made “A Beautiful Day in the
Neighborhood,” she obeyed
“French hours” — a 10-hour day
with no break for lunch. The
result was that she and her collab-
orators could go home in time to
have dinner with their families.
“For many women, that’s the dif-
ference between working and not
working,” she noted.
At Women in Film and Video’s
ScriptDC conference on Nov. 17,
the director Catherine Hardwicke
(“Thirteen”) shared her own
methods, including how to exert
control with often male-dominat-
ed crews. She doesn’t engage in
theatrical swagger to establish
dominance. She arrives early,
with her shot list, knowing where
she’s going to put the camera for
the first shot. Then, she said, “I
just stand there,” so that the tech-
nicians know exactly where to put
their equipment. The strategy
worked even with “the crustiest
English grips and electrics” when
she was filming “Miss You Al-
ready” in London. “They saw that
I knew what I was doing and I had
a plan,” she recalled, “so nobody
ever argued with me.”
Heller’s and Hardwicke’s ap-
proaches coincide with a trans-
formation underway in how Hol-
lywood operates. Today, pro-
ducers frequently employ “inti-
macy coordinators” to help
protect actors from being ha-
rassed or assaulted in the course
of doing their jobs. In the wake of
the coronavirus, film crews in-
clude consultants on following
health and safety protocols. Hello
masks and six-foot perimeters.
Bye-bye creepy, unwanted hugs.
Even when production goes
back to normal, “normal” will
have shifted. Whether out of prin-
ciple or brute self-protection,
thoughtfulness and intentionali-
ty are being baked into the proc-
ess, accelerated by millennials
and Gen-Zers who are increasing-
ly loath to accommodate bad be-
havior.
In other words: We might final-
ly be able to envision a world in
which creativity is decoupled
from pathology, leadership from
impunity and greatness from un-
accountability. Even the most
gifted directors aren’t angels sent
from on high or alpha dogs mark-
ing their territory. They’re hu-
man. Which means that it’s fully
within their prodigious imagina-
tive capacities to also be humane.
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massive corporations.
Penguin Random House — the
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Bertelsmann, contains 320 im-
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of which President Trump tried to
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public intimidation.
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essentially fated in the stars.
“From our company’s inception,”
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Not surprisingly, the Authors
Guild, the nation’s largest profes-
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immediately came out against
this proposed merger. In a state-
ment released Wednesday, the
group warned: “Less competition
makes it even more difficult for
agents and authors to negotiate
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es to standard publishing con-
tracts — because authors, even
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options about where else to pub-
lish.” The Authors Guild also
notes that previous consolida-
tions in the publishing industry
have led to “editorial layoffs, can-
celing of contracts, a reduction in
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imperative in capitalism, there is
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RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

BOTH SIDES VULNERABLE

NORTH
♠ KQ63
♥ A4
♦ QJ964
♣ J4
WEST (D) EAST
♠ A8 ♠ 94
♥ KQ973 ♥ J 10 8 6 5
♦ K 10 7 ♦ 852 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ A95 ♣ Q 10 7
SOUTH
♠ J 10 7 5 2
♥2
♦ A3
♣ K8632

The bidding:
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
1 ♥ Dbl 3 ♥ 4♠
All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ K

B
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
aron Barclay, the world’s
largest source of bridge
books and products, pub-
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that really determine how
well you do.
A vital defensive skill
is distinguishing “active
RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
defense” (grabbing tricks in
a hurry) from “passive” (wait-
ing patiently). In today’s deal
from “Keys,” South takes the
ace of hearts and starts the
trumps. West wins and tries
to cash a heart, and South
ruffs, draws trumps and lets
the queen of diamonds ride.
When West wins, he may
feel like taking his ace of
clubs; dummy’s diamonds LIO MARK TATULLI MIKE PETERS
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threaten to provide discards.
But West can count South’s
tricks: four spades, four dia-
monds and a heart.
South can’t succeed
without a club trick, so West
should exit with a diamond.
South must lead clubs him-
self and lose two more tricks.
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DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠A8♥KQ973
♦ K 10 7 ♣ A 9 5
You are the dealer. West
in today’s deal opened one
heart. Do you agree with that
call?
ANSWER: Whether to
open 1NT with, or despite, a
five-card major suit is a mat- BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
ter of contention. Experts
decide case by case, but I
believe most would open 1NT
here, suggesting the hand’s
strength and approximate
shape in one bid. If you open
one heart and hear a one-
spade response, you will
have no good second bid.
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BIRTHDAY | NOVEMBER 27
Exciting, instinctive
and quick, you have
an electric quality
that feeds your
accomplished work. In 2021,
you succeed best in a project
with others that has a strict
deadline. If single, you become
very frustrated with a situation
that clearly isn’t working, and
you switch partners frequently.
If attached, you’re happiest
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY with both stability and the
freedom to roam. You have a
rare and wonderful partner.
Aries fits the bill.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Spend wisely and seek extra
income opportunities. Your
success depends upon how
well you’re able to adapt to
changing economic conditions
in the world around you. Since
you’re by nature a pioneer,
this should be easy enough to
accomplish.
TAURUS
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL (APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Loving and being loved is a
focus. A preference for beauty
and comfort always leads
you to insist upon quality. The
force of habit can’t be denied.
A sense of deja vu prevails.
There’s conflict between your
family life and professional
aspirations.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Create a wholesome mind-set
and direct your imagination
toward positive creative
projects. You must make
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK your own happiness now.
Visualization can generate
powerful magic.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Today brings word from old
friends. Past life regressions
can be especially vivid and
could bring insights about
future goals. Today can also
bring some tension to shared
finances. Control your own
purse strings.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK The role of teacher or adviser
DUSTIN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN comes your way now. You’ll
process and analyze facts
with a flair that leaves others
speechless. This promises
growth and an overall
improvement in your standard
of living.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Today promises some
interesting social opportunities.
A new relationship can begin
suddenly. You are growing
disenchanted with someone
who hasn’t lived up to his or
her promises.
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LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Information is revealed
concerning the feelings and
plans of another. You will
become aware of what you
are about to outgrow, both
personally and professionally.
A well educated or well
traveled new friend can be a
source of happiness.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Old relationships can either
assume new sparkle and
excitement or, in some cases,
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT end. Sudden new infatuations
transform your life. Romantic
happiness is likely to come
along.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Mental attitude plays a pivotal
role in your physical health.
Focus on understanding
your health conditions and
communicating with health
care practitioners so you can
alleviate anxiety about your
body.
CAPRICORN
LINCOLN PEIRCE BILL HOLBROOK (DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
BIG NATE ON THE FASTRACK A relationship that was on
hold moves forward. A really
wonderful intimacy develops.
A valued and cherished
relationship becomes more
stable. A problem linked to
child care -- for you or a loved
one -- suddenly dissolves.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Your tastes and priorities
aren’t like those of your
relatives. Flexibility and
patience help. A neighbor
becomes a better friend.
Allow a temperamental family
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work on a problem.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Strive for clear
communication. A neighbor
can become more important.
Resist the temptation to try
juggling too many projects at
once. As dark falls, the tension
subsides and it will be easier
to focus.
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U.S. ends
long layo≠
against
familiar foe
Women’s national team
meets World Cup finalist
Netherlands on Friday

BY S TEVEN G OFF

Under the best circumstances,

the U.S. women’s national soccer
team would face a tall task Friday
in attempting to stretch its unde-
feated streak to almost two years.
The opponent is the Nether-
lands — the team the Americans
defeated in the 2019 World Cup
final — and, unlike most U.S.
friendlies during three decades of
excellence, the venue is far from
home.
Then consider the United
States has not played in more
than eight months because of the
coronavirus pandemic, its longest
pause since 1989-90.
Megan Rapinoe and Carli
Lloyd aren’t up to speed and were
left behind. Alex Morgan hasn’t
played an international match
since the World Cup. Lindsey
Horan was scratched from the
roster after testing positive last
week. And a truncated National
Women’s Soccer League season
limited many of the U.S. players
to a handful of games.
“We know we are nowhere
close to our best,” said Coach
Vlatko Andonovski, who cited
physical, tactical and mental
challenges ahead of the World
Cup rematch in the Dutch city of ROGER STEINMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Breda. “We knew coming into this WASHINGTON 41, DALLAS 16: Defensive end Montez Sweat gets mobbed by his teammates after returning an interception for a touchdown to clinch the victory.
camp that we’re going to have to

Top of the heap

take a step back before we take
two steps forward.”
That is not to suggest the
team’s 31-game unbeaten streak
is doomed. Even in suboptimal
conditions, the top-ranked Amer-
icans are better than most, if not
all, foes.
Since a January 2019 loss to
France, they have won 12 straight
against European teams. Andon-
ovski is 10-0-0 since succeeding
Jill Ellis, tying the best start for a
U.S. coach. This breakthrough victory shows Washington grabs NFC East lead
The players arrived in camp
last Friday in varying degrees of Rivera’s team might be learning to win by routing Cowboys for rivalry sweep
fitness and, before starting
SEE USWNT ON D2 arlington, tex. created by Joe Burrow’s injury BY N ICKI J HABVALA Washington at Pittsburgh
On the — Learning to and butchered, baffling decisions Dec. 6, 1 p.m., Fox
United States at Netherlands NFL win — how many by Dallas Cowboys Coach Mike arlington, tex. — The Wash- Inside: Antonio Gibson has career
Today, 12:30 p.m., ESPN2 LES times have we McCarthy. ington Football Team dug deep game as young stars shine. D4
CARPENTER heard Washington Thursday’s 41-16 victory on and pulled out a trick that dates
Football Team Thanksgiving came with the gift back 90-something years: the ol’ especially in the red zone — “He
Coach Ron Rivera talk about of McCarthy’s choice not to punt Bumerooski. told us last night he was going to
PRO FOOTBALL
that? from the Dallas 34-yard line and Alex Smith fielded the snap come out and hold nothing back,”
Lamar Jackson tests For weeks he has insisted his a ridiculous fake punt from its with his offensive linemen still wide receiver Terry McLaurin
positive as the Ravens’ young team was getting better, 24. But Washington seized the standing and handed the ball off said — and Coach Ron Rivera had
understanding the fight, drawing opportunities presented it, between the legs of running back run it successfully in 2011, so why
coronavirus concerns closer to walking off victorious turning those mistakes into J.D. McKissic, who took off run- not? Something had to jump-start
reach a higher level. D2 from NFL fields even as the points to earn only its second ning while the Dallas Cowboys’ an offense that had a habit of
losing kept coming and the climb Thanksgiving victory against its defense tried to comprehend starting slow.
PRO FOOTBALL back became more improbable fiercest rival. what it witnessed. By the time it “It actually goes back to a mov-
by the game. “Learning to win,” “You’ve got to distance did, McKissic had a first down en ie called ‘Little Giants,’ and it’s
The Texans have little he would say. But suddenly yourself from them,” Rivera told route to a Washington field goal. called — I hope I don’t get in
trouble with the Lions Washington has started winning, his players at halftime, when Offensive coordinator Scott trouble — the annexation of
to kick off the NFL’s twice in a row, seizing openings SEE ON THE NFL ON D3 Turner seems to love trick plays, SEE WASHINGTON ON D3
Thanksgiving schedule. D2
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Top-ranked Gonzaga
outscores No. 6 Kansas,
102-90, in the season
opener for both teams. D5

New faces but same expectations

No. 2 recruit in nation tops list of newcomers for No. 12 Maryland women
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
Brenda Frese doesn’t sound the
least bit concerned.
A bit of trepidation could be
expected after her Maryland
women’s basketball program won
the Big Ten regular season and
tournament championships with
a 28-4 record in the spring. Five of
the top six scorers from that team
are gone, including a pair of
former five-star signees. Another
five-star recruit who didn’t play
last season transferred from the
team that ranked fourth in the
final Associated Press poll.
So the Terrapins approach the
2020-21 season with a ton of
turnover. But they are anchored
by reigning Big Ten freshman of
the year Ashley Owusu, and they
remain the highest-ranked team
in the conference at No. 12.
KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST “You’re going to see a blend of
Coach Brenda Frese said of her 19th Maryland team, “We have a tremendous amount of firepower.” familiar faces . . . and a lot of new
faces both young and old,” said
Frese, who is starting her 19th
season as Maryland’s coach. “This
team, I’m not worried about our
offense. We have a tremendous
amount of firepower. This team, it
is a better three-point shooting
team than we had last season. It’s
been a luxury because, first and
foremost, everyone on this roster
can score. . . . It’s just you guys are
used to the faces that scored it for
us last year. I’m excited for each
and every one of them to have
their opportunity this year.”
Frese’s program, in typical
fashion, has reloaded instead of
rebuilt. Meet Angel Reese, the
No. 2 recruit in the country, and
Mississippi State transfer Chloe
Bibby, who played 37 games as a
freshman on a Bulldogs team that
went to the Final Four. Enter
Harvard transfer Katie Benzan, a
three-time first-team All-Ivy
League performer, and Tennessee
Maryland vs. Davidson
Today, 2:30 p.m., in Estero, Fla.
transfer Mimi Collins, a former
McDonald’s all-American. And
don’t forget about redshirt fresh-
man guard Zoe Young, who was
ranked No. 30 in her class by
ESPN before a torn ACL forced
her to sit out last season.
Then there’s Owusu, the Big
Ten tournament MVP who aver-
aged 12 points, 5.4 assists and 3.8
rebounds as a freshman and now
faces higher expectations and
more leadership responsibilities.
She spent the offseason working
on her three-point and midrange
game after shooting 31 percent
from three-point range and
44.6 percent from the field as a
freshman.
“I’ve been trying to be more
vocal during practice,” Owusu
said. “Coach has challenged me a
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31-game streak is on line NFL NOTES

as U.S. plays Netherlands Jackson’s positive test jolts Baltimore

USWNT FROM D1
workouts, had to self-isolate and
pass coronavirus tests.
Five players arrived from Eng-
land, where they are more than
two months into the season. One
is active on the French circuit,
and another completed a Swedish
campaign before returning state-
side.
However, those in the NWSL
finished in mid-October after a
short fall series. Some opted out
of both that competition and a
month-long summer tournament
in Utah.
“A 90-minute international
game is a pretty intense load,”
said defender Kelley O’Hara, who
hasn’t played for the NWSL’s
Utah Royals or the U.S. squad
since March. “It might feel a little
weird at first because it’s been so
long.”
After sitting out the NWSL this
year, forward Christen Press
signed with Manchester United, a
move that helped accelerate her
mental and physical preparation.
for the decision Alex made to go
to England because we know it’s a
strange world we are living in,” he
said. “We know it’s a hard time.
And for her to make a decision in
the middle of a pandemic and
take her kid and move to an
environment that will prepare
her to be better for this team is
incredible.”
Morgan and her U.S. col-
leagues will not have it easy Fri-
day. The fourth-ranked Nether-
lands has played three games this
fall, extending its unbeaten
streak to 12 since losing to the
United States at the World Cup.
Everyone on the roster is active
with European clubs, though Ar-
senal star Vivianne Miedema,
who has scored 70 goals in 91
Dutch matches, is sidelined with
a hip injury.
While muscle memory and
chemistry might lag, the U.S.
team’s hunger hasn’t waned.
“That is just the way this team
is, and that is the way these
players are wired,” Andonovski
said, brushing aside suggestions
F ROM NEWS SERVICES
AND STAFF REPORTS
Baltimore Ravens star quarter-
back Lamar Jackson tested posi-
tive for the coronavirus, part of the
team’s ongoing outbreak that is
jeopardizing this weekend’s al-
ready postponed game in Pitts-
burgh and could lead to the NFL’s
regular season being extended by
a week.
The positive test result for Jack-
son, the NFL’s reigning most valu-
able player, was confirmed by a
person familiar with the situation.
According to another person with
knowledge of the matter, the Ra-
vens had four additional players
test positive for the coronavirus, in
all.
The Ravens-Steelers game re-
mained scheduled, as of Thursday
night, for Sunday at 1:15 p.m. East-
ern time, according to a person
familiar with the NFL’s planning.
But the additional positive test
results for the Ravens returned
Thursday night further imperiled
the status of that game, given the NICK WASS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

“When I play [at peak form], I
don’t think at all,” she said. “And
I’ve been away from [soccer] for
so long, at moments I can hear my
thoughts. When I am back to
[being] me, I don’t even know I’m
there. That comes with time.”
Forward Tobin Heath also
moved to Manchester United.
Midfielders Rose Lavelle and Sam
Mewis signed with Manchester
City. From a fitness standpoint,
all are well ahead of their
U.S.-based teammates.
Morgan has made two appear-
ances for London-based Totten-
ham Hotspur since giving birth in
May. She has yet to play for
Andonovski, who has been on the
job for 13 months. Nonetheless,
Andonovski said he is impressed
with Morgan’s desire to return to
world-class status.
“I have gained so much respect
the outcome won’t matter. “That
is how the staff is wired, and
that’s how this environment func-
tions.”
In the big picture, Andonovski
has his eye on the Olympics,
which are scheduled to take place
next summer after the global
health crisis forced a postpone-
ment this year. His aim, he said, is
to play as many top teams as
possible over the next seven
months. If the health situation
improves, the United States will
welcome three high-quality
teams to the annual SheBelieves
Cup in February and March.
“That is a short amount of time
to get ready [for the Olympics],”
O’Hara said. “We do look pretty
good in practice, but to get from
here to Olympic-ready, there is so
much more we have to do.”
steven.goff@washpost.com
NFL’s stance that it must be confi-
dent that transmission of the virus
is contained before a game is
played.
The game already has been
pushed back once after originally
being scheduled for Thanksgiving
night.
If the Ravens-Steelers game is
further delayed until Monday or
Tuesday, that would impact the
Ravens’ scheduled game next
Thursday against the Dallas Cow-
boys. If the Ravens-Steelers game
cannot be played at all in Week 12,
the NFL could be forced to add a
Week 18 to the regular season.
Whenever the Ravens play next,
they are likely to be without Jack-
son. Under the NFL’s treatment
protocols, a player with a con-
firmed coronavirus case is placed
in isolation and cannot rejoin
team activities for at least 10 days.
Robert Griffin III, the former
NFL offensive rookie of the year
for Washington, would be in line
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s positive test jeopardizes Sunday’s game against the Steelers.
to start in Jackson’s place.
Approximately a dozen Ravens
players and at least seven staff
members have tested positive for
the coronavirus in recent days.
— Mark Maske
l DOLPHINS: Tua Ta-
govailoa’s sore thumb was better
Thursday, and Miami Coach Brian
Flores expressed optimism that
his rookie quarterback will be able
to play Sunday against the New
York Jets.
Tagovailoa hurt the thumb on
his throwing hand in practice and
was limited in practice for the
second day in a row.
l JETS: Sam Darnold was a full
participant at practice, putting
the New York quarterback on
track to start Sunday against Mi-
ami.
Darnold missed the 0-10 Jets’
past two games with a shoulder
injury, his second since October.
He had been working in an inter-
val throwing program since last
week and was a limited partici-
pant in practice Wednesday.
l BROWNS: Cleveland didn’t
dodge the coronavirus on the holi-
day.
The Browns placed defensive
end Porter Gustin on the covid-19
reserve list, further weakening a
group already missing star Myles
Garrett and the latest move for a
team hit hard by the virus in re-
cent weeks.
Gustin’s positive test forced the
Browns to close their facility for
the third day in a row.
l BRONCOS: No. 3 quarter-
back Jeff Driskel was placed on the
covid-19 reserve list, but contact
tracing showed starter Drew Lock
and Denver’s other quarterbacks
weren’t in danger of being infect-
ed by the coronavirus.
l RAMS: Los Angeles placed
leading tackler Micah Kiser on
injured reserve, but Coach Sean
McVay said the injury was not
season-ending.
l OBITUARY: Jim Hanifan,
the former St. Louis Cardinals
coach who returned to the city as
offensive line coach to help the
Rams win the Super Bowl, died.
He was 87.
Hanifan’s daughter, Kathy Hin-
der, told the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch that he died Tuesday at Mis-
souri Baptist Hospital. She said
the cause of death hadn’t been
determined but it wasn’t related to
the coronavirus.
The Cardinals’ head coach from
1980 to 1985, Hanifan is best
known for his offensive lines as an
assistant with St. Louis and Wash-
ington. He coached star tackle
Dan Dierdorf and notorious guard
Conrad Dobler with St. Louis, then
the “Hogs” in Washington.

Watson lifts Houston with four touchdown passes

TEXANS 41,
LIONS 25
BY L ARRY L AGE
detroit — Deshaun Watson
dropped back in a protected
pocket at midfield and perfectly
lofted one of his four touchdown
passes, connecting with Will Full-
er V in stride just before he
reached the end zone.
Houston’s star quarterback
made it look easy, and the Detroit
Lions did their part by not put-
ting up much of a fight.
Watson had a pair of go-ahead
touchdown passes in the first half
and threw for two more scores in
the fourth quarter Thursday to
help Houston pull away and beat
Detroit, 41-25.
Still, Watson wasn’t satisfied.
“It was definitely good, but I
missed two touchdowns,” he said.
Watson completed 17 of 25
MICHAEL REGAN/GETTY IMAGES passes for 318 yards with no inter-
During the Americans’ long layoff, Christen Press, left, and Tobin ceptions. He has thrown 15 touch-
Heath kept in game shape while playing for Manchester United. down passes without getting
picked off in the past six games.
“You’ve got to give some credit
to the guys up front,” interim
coach Romeo Crennel said. “If
they give him time, he’s able to
make plays. Guys can get open,
and he can hit them. He has that
kind of accuracy.”
Texans star defensive end J.J.
Watt had an early pick-six and
Fuller had six receptions for 171
yards and two scores, including a
40-yard touchdown catch in
which it looked like he and Wat-
son were all alone on a practice
field.
The Texans (4-7) have won two
straight for the first time this
season and three of their past
four games with Crennel in
charge.
“That’s good, but we haven’t
won enough,” Crennel said.
The Lions haven’t, either, and it
might cost at least one man his
job.
Detroit (4-7) might end the
season with interim leaders after
losing consecutive games for the
third time this season, dropping
Coach Matt Patricia’s record to
13-29-1 and General Manager Bob
Quinn’s mark to 12 games under
.500 over five seasons.
Patricia was peppered with
questions about his job being in
jeopardy and evaded each query.
“My focus every day is on the
guys in that locker room and
working as hard as I can to help
them be successful,” he said.
The Lions retained Patricia
and Quinn for this season, and
ownership said there was an ex-
pectation they contend for the
playoffs by playing in meaningful
games in December. That seems
highly unlikely.
Detroit quarterback Matthew
Stafford said the scrutiny on Pa-
tricia has not appeared to affect
the coach.
“He’s the same guy every day,”
Stafford said. “The guy comes to
work, grinds and wants to win
like all of us. He’s a passionate
coach who loves the game. I’ve
had a lot of respect with how he’s
continued to come to work.”
Detroit, coming off its first
shutout loss since 2009, scored
first before collapsing with turn-
overs on two straight snaps and
three consecutive possessions in
the first half. Houston’s defense
entered the game with an NFL-
low five forced turnovers.
Watt put his hands up on a rush
just in time to pick off Stafford’s
pass and returned it 19 yards for a
touchdown in the first quarter.
“I saw he was going to throw
quickly so I stopped rushing and
jumped up,” Watt said. “It hit me
square in the hands.”
Jonathan Williams fumbled on
Detroit’s next snap, and Houston
took advantage with Watson’s
two-yard touchdown pass to C.J.
Prosise to go ahead 13-6.
“Three turnovers early in the
game killed the momentum,”
Stafford said.
Stafford was 28 of 42 for 295
yards with a 14-yard touchdown
pass to Mohamed Sanu in the
fourth. Detroit’s Adrian Peterson,
who had a pair of one-yard touch-
down runs in the first half, tried
to take some blame off Patricia.
“It has nothing to do with the
head coach,” Peterson said.
— Associated Press

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Arozarena was arrested
Tuesday for a situation involving
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Arozarena was released because
the ex-partner said any damages
had been settled.
Arozarena has made no public
comment, and it was not clear if
he had a lawyer. It was not clear
if he was formally charged with
any crime. Mexican law allows a
two-day period for prosecutors to
decide whether to bring charges.
Normally suspects are held in jail
pending that decision.
SOCCER
Arsenal cruised into the
knockout stage of the Europa
League with a 3-0 victory at
Norway’s Molde.
Leicester also progressed into
the round of 32 with two matches
to spare. The Premier League
club equalized three times in a 3-
DI GEST
3 draw at Braga. . . .
In London, Carlos Vinícius
scored his first two goals for
Tottenham in a 4-0 win over
Bulgarian team Ludogorets.
AC Milan was held to a 1-1
draw at Lille. Also in Group H,
Sparta Prague beat Celtic, 4-1, at
home.
A minute of silence was
observed before all the matches
to honor Diego Maradona, who
died Wednesday. Maradona’s
former club Napoli paid special
tribute to the Argentine before a
2-0 win over Rijeka.
AZ Alkmaar drew, 0-0, with
Spanish league leader Real
Sociedad in the Netherlands,
keeping both sides two points
behind Napoli in Group F.
Hoffenheim advanced from
Group L with a 2-0 win in
Liberec, Czech Republic. The
Bundesliga club has 12 points,
three more than Red Star
Belgrade, which won, 2-0, at
Gent.
In Group I, Villarreal leads
with 10 points after a 1-1 draw at
10-man Maccabi Tel-Aviv, which
is second with seven points.
Sivasspor has six points after
winning, 3-2, against Qarabag in
Istanbul.
Dinamo Zagreb blanked
Wolfsberg, 3-0, away to sit atop
Group K with eight points,
leading Feyenoord by three after
the Dutch side drew, 0-0, at
CSKA.
Roma earned a 2-0 win at Cluj
to cement its lead in Group A
with 10 points. Young Boys won
at CSKA Sofia, 1-0, to sit second
with seven points, followed by
Cluj with four.
Leverkusen and Slavia Prague
share the lead of Group C with
nine points. The Bundesliga side
beat Hapoel Beer-Sheva, 4-1,
while the Czechs won, 3-1, at
Nice.
In Glasgow, Scotland, Rangers
wasted a 2-0 lead over Benfica
and was held to a 2-2 draw.
Rangers and Benfica sit atop
Group D with eight points, while
Standard Liège and Lech Pozna
have three after drawing, 1-1.
A 2-1 victory for Granada over
visiting Omonoia kept the
Spaniards on top of Group E with
10 points. PSV jumped to second
with six points after a 3-2 win
over PAOK, which is third with
five. . . .
Nurlan Ibrahimov, a club
official from Azerbaijan, was
banned from soccer for life by
UEFA for “racist behavior” after
posting comments on social
media.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
No. 19 Southern California’s
scheduled home game Saturday
against unbeaten Colorado was
canceled because of positive
coronavirus tests for the Trojans.
Colorado (2-0) immediately
booked a replacement game
against San Diego State in
Boulder on Saturday afternoon.
PRO BASKETBALL
Marco Belinelli, 34, is going
back to Italy, announcing that he
signed a three-year contract to
play for Virtus Bologna.
ALPINE SKIING
Petra Vlhova won her third
World Cup race in six days
Thursday, beating unheralded
Paula Moltzan of the United
States in a floodlit parallel event
in Lech-Zuers, Austria.
Coming off two straight slalom
wins in Finland last weekend,
Vlhova won the first run of the
final against Moltzan by 0.21
seconds.
GOLF
Robin Roussel reeled off five
straight birdies at the start of his
back nine to shoot a 7-under-par
65 and take a share of the first-
round lead with Adrian Meronk
at the European Tour’s Alfred
Dunhill Championship in
Malelane, South Africa.
TRACK
Men’s 100-meter world
champion Christian Coleman
has formally appealed the
American’s two-year ban for
missing multiple doping tests,
the Court of Arbitration for Sport
said.
— Associated Press
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NFL WEEK 12

Washington pulls out all the tricks to blow out the Cowboys
WASHINGTON FROM D1

Puerto Rico,” Rivera explained.

“We nicknamed it the ‘Bumeroos-
ki,’ and most of these guys don’t
understand it so we had to ex-
plain to them who Bum Phillips
is, and we did as a tribute to him.”
But Washington saved its best
Thanksgiving Day trick for last: a
41-16 blowout win over its rival on
the road to claim the division lead
— at 4-7.
Welcome to the NFC East.
Washington earned its second
so-called “statement” win in only
five days to complete a season
sweep of Dallas and hand the
Cowboys their second-worst loss
on Thanksgiving.
Washington, however, wasn’t
the only one that came armed
with tricks. It’s just that its tricks
actually worked. Cowboys Coach
Mike McCarthy was ridiculed on
social media throughout the
game after he had his team pass
on fourth and one at its 34-yard
line after losing both of its start-
ing tackles to injuries, and then
basically handed the game to
Washington with a failed fake
punt deep in his team’s territory
in the fourth quarter.
Washington turned both Dal-
las gambles-gone-wrong into
scores — and continued to build
upon its midseason turnaround,
with many young players who
have emerged as foundational
pieces for the future.
For much of the first half of the
season, Washington beat itself,
committing mistakes it couldn’t
overcome. Over the past three
games, with 16th-year veteran
Alex Smith at quarterback, the
offense has found stability and
efficiency while boosting a de-
fense that had been relied upon
too often to lead the way.
Washington amassed 338
yards, 22 first downs and seven
scoring drives, and Smith — who
two years ago this week was fight- ROGER STEINMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

ing for his life after suffering a
severe leg injury — went 19 for 26
for 149 yards and one touchdown
with one interception.
“To get two wins in five days is
hard in this league, especially
coming on the road in a short
week, juggling the covid protocol
that’s intensified. I thought guys
just did a great job locking in and
not letting any of that stuff be a
distraction,” Smith said. “To get
the opportunity to play on
Thanksgiving is special and with
this rivalry even more special. So
to come down and get a win like
we did today, means a lot.
“And as far as me, it’s hard to
put into words. I never would
Washington rookie running back Antonio Gibson had 115 yards and three touchdowns on the ground and added five catches for 21 yards in Thursday’s victory at Dallas.
have dreamed in a million years
that something like this would be
happening.”
But it was Washington’s young-
est stars who shined the brightest.
Rookie wide receiver-turned-
running back Antonio Gibson
had 115 of the team’s 182 rushing
yards and added three touch-
downs to become the first player
with at least 100 rushing yards
and a hat-trick of rushing touch-
downs on Thanksgiving since
Barry Sanders in 1997. His first
touchdown — a five-yarder in the
first quarter — capped a 12-play
drive that included another trick:
Tight end Logan Thomas, a for-
mer quarterback, threw a 28-yard
completion to McLaurin on a re-
verse.
“Scotty’s got some innovation,
and when you watch some of the
things that we do, some of the
things we work on in practice, you
can see the potential for big
plays,” Rivera said. “And using the
guys and giving them the oppor-
tunities to use their skills, that’s
huge. . . . We have players with
specific skill sets we need to take
advantage of.”
Thomas later caught Washing-
ton’s go-ahead score in the second
quarter, a five-yard touchdown
after Dallas’s failed fourth and
one.
Dustin Hopkins, who had
struggled with misses, had a per-
fect kicking game with 23- and
36-yard field goals to pad Wash-
ington’s lead, and a big play from
McLaurin preserved it. Smith was
intercepted by the Cowboys’ Jay-
lon Smith in the third quarter,
and McLaurin sprinted down-
field to bring down the linebacker
at Washington’s 4-yard line.
Rivera lauded the hustle play
because it gave the defense “a
chance.” And the defense capital-
ized.
Jeremy Reaves, an undrafted
safety, broke up a would-be touch-
down that forced Dallas to kick a
short field goal to make it 20-16
late in the third quarter.
Washington quickly expanded
that edge to 25 points in the
fourth, thanks largely to Gibson.
The rookie needed only one play
to find the end zone after Dallas’s
failed fake punt, running it in
from 23 yards. He followed with a
37-yard rushing touchdown to all
but seal the victory before Montez
Sweat provided the exclamation
point: a pick-six with 3:36 re-
maining.
Throughout the season, Rivera
has stressed to his players the
need to “take ownership” and to
learn to win. Their victory Thurs-
day, he said, was proof his players
have heeded his teachings. But
just how far they have come will
be determined in the week ahead,
when it awaits a meeting with the
league’s only undefeated team,
the 10-0 Pittsburgh Steelers.
“We got a hell of a test next
week,” Rivera said. “We’ll see
where you are when you get to test
yourself against one of the elites.”
nicki.jhabvala@washpost.com

ON THE NFL

This time, Rivera’s squad is able to take advantage of another team’s misfortunes
ON THE NFL FROM D1
they held a tenuous 17-13 lead.
So many times this season, his
team hasn’t been able to open
that gap or push through when
given openings. For the second
time in five days, Washington
has done just that: churning,
churning, churning toward ugly
but effective victories. And now
it is in first place in the wretched
NFC East, with a 4-7 record that
won’t glow proudly from the top
of the standings but still screams
progress for an organization
where progress has come hard.
Learning to win — earlier this
week, Rivera was talking about
what that meant. “Doing your
job with a little something extra,”
he said.
If you make a block, you need
to hold it longer. If you run a
route, you have to do it at exactly
the right pace. If the ball is in
your hands, push for one yard
more.
“Take ownership,” he said. “If
you’re not doing it well, do it
better.”
Learning to win — there was
the burgundy blur of wide
receiver Terry McLaurin, chasing
Cowboys linebacker Jaylon
Smith down the AT&T Stadium
sideline, trying to keep Smith
from a certain touchdown after
he had intercepted an Alex Smith
pass near midfield. Washington
was up, 20-13, and Jaylon Smith
was about to tie the score until
McLaurin — after sprinting
almost 50 yards — lunged at the
racing Smith, tackling him at the
Washington 4-yard line.
Learning to win — there was
Washington’s defense on that 4-
yard line, trying to keep Dallas
from tying the score, stopping
running back Ezekiel Elliot,
stopping wide receiver CeeDee
Lamb, knocking the ball away in
the end zone, forcing a field goal
but slicing the heart from
whatever hope Dallas might have
had.
Tight end Logan Thomas (82) and running back J.D. McKissic (41) celebrate Thomas’s touchdown catch Thursday against the Cowboys.
“It gave our team a chance,”
Rivera said of McLaurin’s chase
and tackle. “That’s all you need
to do — give the team a chance.”
Perhaps they don’t seem like
much, these beatings of the
Bengals and the Cowboys.
Cincinnati was never the same
Sunday after Burrow fell to the
turf at FedEx Field, holding his
knee, screaming so loud that his
cries rattled around the empty
stands. And Dallas, already
without quarterback Dak
Prescott, lost both of its starting
tackles in the game’s early
minutes Thursday.
But for a Washington team
that couldn’t win after
dominating second halves at the
New York Giants and Detroit, the
fact that it has taken advantage
of the other team’s misfortune
and turned those advantages
into wins in back-to-back games
has to feel especially good.
Football rarely is a game of
beauty. The teams that gain from
someone else’s affliction are
those that often win most. For
years, teams have benefited from
Washington’s calamities. Rivera’s
message of doing the same to
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others shouldn’t be difficult to
grasp.
“We’re capitalizing when we
need to capitalize,” running back
Antonio Gibson said.
Change was coming on the
night Washington last slumped
from this building, as 47-16 losers
in what would become the final
game played under its old name.
By then, team owner Daniel
Snyder was finished with team
president Bruce Allen, finished
with a dismal decade that would
close two days later, finished
with a path that had only
brought misery.
He refused to even look at the
soon-to-be-exiting Allen as they
passed in the tunnel below the
stands, leaving Allen to make a
long, slow, humiliating walk to
the team buses while Snyder’s
police-escorted motorcade of
black SUVs roared past. Within
hours, Rivera would be on a
plane, signing his contract to
become the team’s new coach.
Three days later, Snyder stood
beside Rivera at the news
conference announcing a new
beginning, leaned into a
microphone and blurted, “Happy
Thanksgiving.”
While Snyder obviously had
misspoken — botching his
holiday wishes and turning his
first comments on a new start
into a joke that rolled through a
tumultuous summer — his
mistake may have turned out to
be prophetic. If the winning
should continue for Washington,
Thursday’s will be Rivera’s first
signature win, a blowout on the
scoreboard that marks a turning
point he has been seeking for
weeks.
A hard road looms with a
game at undefeated Pittsburgh
in 10 days and one at San
Francisco a week later. But in the
NFC East, which probably will
not be won by a team with a
winning record, Washington’s
back-to-back wins have given it
what a racing Terry McLaurin
did when he ran down Jaylon
Smith: a chance.
And that’s something
Washington didn’t have just five
days ago, when a young team
was still grappling to understand
that simplest of phrases forever
uttered by its new coach:
“learning to win.”
Sometimes it’s not that hard.
les.carpenter@washpost.com
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NFL WEEK 12
TOTAL NET 1 2 3 4 FINAL
S CORIN G

Washington 7 10 3 21 41
YARDS

FIRST QUARTER
x

Dallas: FG Zuerlein 33, 8:30. Drive: 11 plays, 57 yards,

Dallas 3 10 3 0 16
4:38. Key play: Elliott 8 run on third and one.
Washington: Gibson 5 run (Hopkins kick), 1:37. Drive: 12
plays, 75 yards, 6:53. Key play: Barber 2 run on third and
one.
x

SECOND QUARTER
Dallas: Cooper 54 pass from Dalton (Zuerlein kick), 14:08.
Drive: 5 plays, 75 yards, 2:29. Key play: Dalton 10 pass to
Cooper.
Washington: FG Hopkins 23, 7:13. Drive: 14 plays, 67
yards, 6:55. Key play: Johnson kick return to Washington
28.
Washington: L.Thomas 5 pass from Smith (Hopkins kick),
2:26. Drive: 5 plays, 19 yards, 2:51. Key play: Gibson 10
run.
Dallas: FG Zuerlein 32, :19. Drive: 10 plays, 61 yards, 2:07.
Key play: Dalton 9 pass to Gallup on third and 10.
THIRD QUARTER
WASH DAL Washington: FG Hopkins 36, 10:48. Drive: 6 plays, 15
338 247 yards, 3:29. Key play: Smith 15 pass to Inman.
Dallas: FG Zuerlein 28, 2:32. Drive: 4 plays, -6 yards, 1:38.
66 plays 57 plays Key play: J.Smith 43 interception return to Washington 4.
5.1 avg. 4.3 avg. FOURTH QUARTER
Washington: Gibson 23 run (Hopkins kick), 12:07. Drive: 1
play, 23 yards, 00:06.
Washington: Gibson 37 run (Hopkins kick), 3:31. Drive: 10
plays, 76 yards, 5:50. Key play: Barber 15 run on third and
NET PASSING one.
YARDS Washington: Sweat 15 interception return (Hopkins
kick), 3:24.
Attendance: 30,048.
Washington Cowboys
First downs ........................................ 22 13
x

Rushing ............................................. 14 6
Passing ................................................ 6 6
x

Penalty ................................................ 2 1
Third-down efficiency..................... 7-13 4-13
Fourth-down eff. .............................. 1-1 1-4
Total net yards ................................ 338 247
Total plays ......................................... 66 57
Average gain .................................... 5.1 4.3
Net yards rushing ............................ 182 60
Rushes ............................................... 36 18
Average per rush............................... 5.1 3.3
WASH DAL Net yards passing ............................ 156 187
Sacked-Yards lost........................... 3-21 4-28
156 187 Gross-Yards passing ....................... 177 215
27 att. 35 att. Completed-Att. ............................ 20-27
Had Intercepted .................................. 1
25-35
1
5.2 avg. 4.8 avg. Yards-Pass play ................................ 5.2 4.8
Kickoffs-End zone-TB .................. 8-8-8 5-3-3
Punts-Average ............................ 2-58.5 2-55.0
Total return yardage ......................... 71 52
Punt returns ................................... 2-15 1-9
NET RUSHING Kickoff returns ............................... 2-41 0-0
Interceptions .................................. 1-15 1-43
YARDS Penalties-Yards ............................. 5-53 5-45
Fumbles-Lost ................................... 0-0 1-1
Time of possession ...................... 35:56 24:04

RUSHING
x

Washington: Gibson 20-115, Barber 11-57, McKissic 1-6,

Thomas 1-3, Smith 3-1.
TOM PENNINGTON/GETTY IMAGES Dallas: Elliott 10-32, Dalton 3-17, Pollard 4-12, C.Wilson
1-(minus 1).
A Cowboys fan exudes dismay after visiting Washington dismantled Dallas on Thanksgiving to sweep the season series 2-0. PASSING
x

Washington: Smith 19-26-1-149, Thomas 1-1-0-28.

Dallas: Dalton 25-35-1-215.
RECEIVING
WASH DAL
Washington drives Cowboys drives Washington: McLaurin 7-92, Gibson 5-21, Thomas 4-20,
182 60 McKissic 2-21, Inman 1-15, S.Sims 1-8.
Dallas: Cooper 6-112, Gallup 6-41, Schultz 5-24, Lamb
36 att. 18 att. Time How ball Drive Number Net Last Drive Time How ball Drive Number Net Last Drive 5-21, Pollard 2-10, Elliott 1-7.
5.1 avg. 3.3 avg. received obtained degan of plays yards snap result received obtained began of plays yards snap result PUNT RETURNS
1 15:00 Kickoff WAS 25 3 -4 WAS 21 Punt 1 13:08 Punt DAL 28 11 57 WAS 15 Field goal Washington: S.Sims 2-15.
Dallas: Lamb 1-9.
2 8:30 Kickoff WAS 25 12 75 DAL 5 Touchdown 2 1:37 Kickoff DAL 25 5 75 DAL 46 Touchdown
KICKOFF RETURNS
TIME OF 3 14:08 Kickoff WAS 28 14 67 DAL 5 Field goal 3 7:13 Kickoff DAL 25 4 -6 DAL 34 Downs
Washington: Johnson 2-41.
POSSESSION 4 5:17 Downs DAL 19 5 19 DAL 5 Touchdown 4 2:26 Kickoff DAL 25 10 61 WAS 14 Field goal Dallas: None.
5 0:19 Kickoff WAS 25 1 -1 WAS 25 End of half 5 15:00 Kickoff DAL 25 2 8 DAL 31 Fumble TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS
6 14:17 Fumble DAL 33 6 15 DAL 18 Field goal 6 10:48 Kickoff DAL 25 5 12 DAL 37 Punt Washington: Holcomb 6-4-.5, Curl 5-3-0, Bostic 4-3-0,
Moreland 4-1-0, Apke 3-0-0, Young 2-0-1, Darby 2-0-0,
x

7 7:42 Punt WAS 5 9 45 50 Interception 7 4:10 Intercetion WAS 4 4 -6 WAS 10 Field goal
x

Davis 2-0-0, Fuller 2-0-0, Allen 1-3-0, Reaves 1-0-1, Settle

WASH DAL 8 2:32 Kickoff WAS 29 3 2 WAS 31 Punt 8 0:31 Punt DAL 12 7 11 DAL 24 Downs 1-0-1, Hudson 1-0-0, Payne 0-3-.5, Sweat 0-2-0, Hamilton
0-1-0, Luke 0-1-0.
35:56 24:04 9 12:13 Downs DAL 23 1 23 DAL 23 Touchdown 9 12:07 Kickoff DAL 25 5 9 DAL 34 Punt Dallas: D.Wilson 7-1-0, X.Woods 6-4-0, Awuzie 5-1-0,
10 9:21 Punt WAS 24 10 76 DAL 37 Touchdown 10 3:31 Kickoff DAL 25 1 0 DAL 25 Interception Vander Esch 4-3-0, Ra.Robinson 3-2-0, Gregory 3-0-2,
A.Smith 2-2-0, Armstrong 2-1-0, Lee 2-1-0, J.Smith 1-4-0,
11 2:08 Downs DAL 44 4 11 DAL 32 End of game 11 3:24 Kickoff DAL 25 6 19 DAL 41 Downs Lawrence 1-3-1, Lewis 1-2-0, Ankou 1-1-0, Crawford
1-0-0, Gallimore 0-1-0.
INTERCEPTIONS
Washington: Sweat 1-15.
Dallas: J.Smith 1-43.

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Gibson’s rising star shines a light on Washington’s youth

Rookie running back’s
three-touchdown effort
leads way against Dallas
BY S AM F ORTIER
arlington, tex. — After Anto-
nio Gibson got the edge, after he
knew he could outrace the de-
fense to the pylon, he allowed
himself a glance back. The rookie
running back saw Dallas Cowboys
safety Donovan Wilson giving
chase. In moments such as these,
when he is putting the exclama-
tion point on a win, Gibson usual-
ly flashed the peace sign. But this
time, he switched the ball from his
right hand to his left and waved, a
farewell to the Cowboys, a hello to
the national TV audience and a
swaggering statement about
what this team believes it can be.
For all its miscues and mis-
takes, the Washington Football
Team has proved to be a tough and
resilient unit — and the promise
finally shined through in the 41-16
Thanksgiving thumping. This
was the clearest example yet that
Coach Ron Rivera is molding the
team in the image he promised,
and the play of several of his
young players — Gibson, wide re-
ceiver Terry McLaurin, defensive
end Montez Sweat — illustrated it.
What Gibson said after the
game perhaps best embodies the
mind-set of a team that, at 4-7,
jumped into first place for the
NFC East.
“Our record isn’t the best; our
conference isn’t the best; but
we’re still in it,” Gibson said. “That
gives us hope. If we can make the
playoffs, why not?”
After a career day — 25 touches,
136 yards, three touchdowns —
Gibson couldn’t help but think
back to November 2019. He was at
Memphis, and he set a school
record against then-No. 14 South-
ern Methodist with 386 all-pur-
Rookie Antonio Gibson produced 136 total yards on 25 touches and was one of several first- and second-year players to buoy Washington.
pose yards, including a 50-yard
receiving touchdown, a 78-yard
rushing touchdown and a 97-yard
kickoff return touchdown. He
couldn’t believe the symmetry,
another breakout game on an-
other national stage against an-
other team from Dallas.
“It’s the story of my life,” he
said. “Every time the spotlight
come on, it seems like God’s al-
ways watching on me. . . . The
SMU game put me on the map.”
Since then, no one embodies
the progress and maturation of
the team better than Gibson.
Washington drafted Gibson in the
third round as a project, a young
weapon who had played a little
running back and a little receiver
in two seasons in the Football
Bowl Subdivision. Rivera com-
pared him to Carolina’s Christian
McCaffrey, the league’s highest-
paid running back, and put him in
the running backs room full time.
Early in the year, Gibson looked
like a wide receiver playing run-
ning back. He missed holes; he
misjudged linemen; he confused
protections. Slowly, though, he
made strides. His role expanded,
and he lined up in two-back for-
mations with J.D. McKissic. He
used his athleticism to help the
Air Coryell-based offense, ex-
TOM PENNINGTON/GETTY IMAGES
tremely dependent on running
backs, turning check-downs into
first downs.
On Thursday, Gibson’s prog-
ress was evident. He proved too
tough for one tackler in the run-
ning game and too slippery for
Cowboys linebacker Leighton
Vander Esch to cover one-on-one
in the passing game. He earned
the respect of the Cowboys, help-
ing attract the defense before
tight end Logan Thomas connect-
ed for a big gain on a trick-play
pass. He stood strong in blitz pro-
tection in the third quarter to key
a third-down conversion for quar-
terback Alex Smith.
With his performance Thurs-
day, Gibson became the first play-
er with 100 or more rushing yards
and three or more rushing touch-
downs on Thanksgiving Day since
NFL legend Barry Sanders in 1997.
Gibson’s first touchdown illus-
trated his growth as a power back.
In Week 1, the team used Peyton
Barber almost exclusively in
short-yardage situations; but
now, it leaned on Gibson, and he
plowed into the end zone to give
Washington a lead it would never
relinquish. He clinched it early in
the fourth quarter when the Cow-
boys tried a disastrous fake punt
deep in their own territory and
Gibson turned around to deliver a
23-yard touchdown on the first
play of Washington’s next posses-
sion.
“He’s still growing,” Rivera
said. “He had some really good
runs today — popped a couple for
touchdowns — and there’s more
[to his game]. . . . Pretty excited
about who he’s developing into.”
Nine minutes later, driving to
bleed the clock, Gibson burst up
the middle and into daylight, out-
running the defense again, this
time for a 39-yard backbreaking
touchdown. By then, even Fox
broadcaster Joe Buck had to ad-
mit, “This kid’s good, man.”
“I like everything I see from
Antonio Gibson,” agreed Troy Aik-
man, Buck’s broadcast partner
and former Cowboys quarter-
back.
Afterward, a few young players
mingled on the field. Wide receiv-
er Steven Sims Jr. and linebacker
Cole Holcomb, two important sec-
ond-year players, were close by.
Gibson lingered for a moment,
too, looking around, soaking in
the career day, standing on the
star.
sam.fortier@washpost.com
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Excerpted from
washingtonpost.com/sports
Washington moves
into playoff position
With only its second win in 10
games against the Cowboys on
Thanksgiving, Washington
completed a season sweep of
Dallas for the first time since 2012
and, more importantly, took over
sole possession of first place in
the NFC East, at least until
Sunday. Washington turned a
tight game into a rout by
outscoring the Cowboys 21-0 in
the fourth quarter and recording
its largest margin of victory
against its biggest rival since a
28-point win in 2005.
Thursday’s game wasn’t a
must-win for Washington’s
playoff hopes, but it was an
important one. Washington
improved to 4-7 and has its first
winning streak of the season, but
the schedule is about to get a
whole lot tougher. Washington
will face the Steelers, 49ers and
Seahawks over the next three
weeks before ending the season
with games against the Panthers
and Eagles. Washington is a half-
game ahead of 3-6-1 Philadelphia,
which hosts the Seahawks on
Monday night.
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
No. 1 Bulldogs give Few
his 600th career victory
GONZAGA 102,
KANSAS 90
F ROM NEWS SERVICES
AND STAFF REPORTS
Coach Mark Few and Gonzaga
keep reaching new heights.
While the top-ranked Bulldogs
opened their season with a 102-90
victory over No. 6 Kansas in Fort
Myers, Fla., Few won his 600th
game.
“I got an ice shower in the
locker, which I didn’t expect,” said
Few, who has been at Gonzaga
since 1999. “[Kansas Coach] Bill
[Self ] and I set this up for a big
college basketball game on
Thanksgiving Day before the
Cowboys game. That’s why we
love college basketball. There’s a
lot more games like this coming
across the season.”
Drew Timme scored 25 points,
Jalen Suggs had 24 and Corey
Kispert added 23 as No. 1 Gonzaga
pulled away for a statement win.
“We’re not that experienced of
a team coming back,” Few said.
“We needed Drew and Corey
against a high-, high-level team.
We needed their experience and
toughness.”
The Bulldogs built a double-
digit lead in the first half at the
Fort Myers Tip-Off, then saw the
Jayhawks tie it twice in the sec-
ond half before putting them
away. Gonzaga went on a 22-7 run
to go up 96-78.
Self said he believes the Bull-
dogs are as talented as the Ken-
tucky team in 2014-15 that went
38-0 before losing to Wisconsin in
the Final Four.
“I thought we played a great
team,” he said. “They have four
guards who I think will be the
best guards we’ll play all year.”
Suggs, who got in foul trouble
in the first half, scored 17 of his 24
points in the second half.
“I played patient, picked my
spots, picked my moments,”
Suggs said.
Few said Suggs was special.
“And he’s so good to coach,” he
added.
Marcus Garrett led Kansas
with 22 points, and Ochai Agbaji
added 17 points. Agbai picked up
his fourth foul midway through
the second half, which hurt the
Jayhawks. When he left, Kansas
trailed 70-67.
“We needed Ochai out there,”
Self said. “We’re not deep enough
to make up for him.”
l ILLINOIS 97, CHICAGO
STATE 38: Ayo Dosunmu scored
22 points, freshman Andres Cur-
belo added 18, and the eighth-
ranked Illini trounced the Cou-
gars in Champaign, Ill.
Illinois (2-0) never trailed,
scoring the first nine points and
leading 47-17 at halftime. Big man
Kofi Cockburn had 13 points and
five rebounds at the break.
Adam Miller scored 15 points,
and Cockburn finished with 14
points and 11 rebounds. It was
Cockburn’s 14th double-double in
34 career games. He had one
more rebound than the entire
Chicago State team.
The Illini used their huge re-
bounding edge (55-10) to fuel
their running game.
“Definitely rebounding is key
and will be through the end of the
season,” Illinois Coach Brad Un-
derwood said. “It gives us that
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TA KEA W A Y S
Gibson runs wild
After rushing for a career-high
128 yards on 20 carries in his
first meeting with Dallas,
Washington rookie running
back Antonio Gibson was every
bit as good in his nationally
televised encore. Gibson capped
Washington’s second possession
with a five-yard touchdown run,
and he was just getting started.
The third-round draft pick out
of Memphis had touchdown
runs of 23 and 37 yards in the
fourth quarter to ice the game,
becoming the first rookie to
score three touchdowns on
Thanksgiving since Randy Moss
caught three touchdown passes
in the Vikings’ 46-36 win at
Dallas in 1998.
Gibson finished with 20
carries for 115 yards against
Dallas’s 31st-ranked rushing
defense and also had five
catches for 21 yards. He has
eight touchdowns in his past
five games and 11 for the season,
which leaves him two
touchdowns shy of tying Alfred
Morris for the franchise rookie
record. With Morgan Moses
starting at left tackle and David
Sharpe at right tackle for the
second straight week,
Washington rushed for 182
yards on 36 carries.
ability to get the break and run.”
Illinois shot 60 percent (36 for
60) from the field and 39 percent
(7 of 18) from three-point range.
Xavier Johnson led Chicago
State (0-2) with 10 points. Jordan
Polynice had nine.
l WEST VIRGINIA 78, VCU
66: The Mountaineers missed
their first 10 shots of the game.
They still raced to a 13-0 lead over
the Rams.
Derek Culver had 23 points and
15 rebounds to help No. 15 West
Virginia beat Virginia Common-
wealth in the Crossover Classic
semifinals in Sioux Falls, S.D.
“I try to play hard on the defen-
sive end, and the offense was just
going to follow,” Culver said. “I
just ended up getting in there and
playing hard.”
West Virginia (2-0) will face
Western Kentucky in the finals
Friday.
“That’s the neat thing about a
tournament like this,” West Vir-
ginia Coach Bob Huggins said.
“Three games in three days with
three different styles of play, three
different styles of coaching.”
Culver rebounded from a sev-
en-point game Wednesday night
in the Mountaineers’ opening vic-
tory over South Dakota State,
finishing two shy of his career
high. He was 8 of 14 from the field.
Sean McNeil added 16 points,
and Oscar Tshiebwe had 11 points
and 16 rebounds.
Nah’Shon Hyland led the Rams
(1-1) with 13 points.
VCU missed its first nine shots,
finally scoring on a goaltending
call midway through the first half.
The Rams rallied with a full-court
press and cut it to two with five
minutes left in the half.
West Virginia had 21 turnovers.
Maker debuts as Bison fall
Heralded five-star recruit
Makur Maker scored 11 points
and grabbed eight rebounds in
his debut with the Bison, but
Howard committed 17 turnovers
and missed eight of 13 free throws
and fell to Belmont, 95-78, in their
season opener in the Paradise
Jam Tournament at the Walter E.
Washington Convention Center.
Thomas Weaver led the Bison
with 14 points and five assists.
Jacobi Wood led the Bruins
with 21 points.
l GEORGE MASON 66,
QUEENS (N.C.) 65: Javon
Greene scored a game-high 19
points, but the Patriots commit-
ted 18 turnovers, were out-
rebounded by 12 and had to hold
on to beat the Royals, a Division II
power from Charlotte, in the Par-
adise Jam Tournament in the sea-
son opener for both teams. . . .
George Mason redshirt senior
Ian Boyd is taking a leave of
absence from the program for
personal reasons.
l SAN FRANCISCO 79,
TOWSON 68: Jamaree Bouyea
scored 20 points and Dzmitry
Ryuny had 18 points and 10 re-
bounds to lead the Dons past the
Tigers in Uncasville, Conn.
Damari Milstead added 11
points and Samba Kane had 10
points for San Francisco (1-1).
Khalil Shabazz, who scored 31
points in the opener, was held to
five points on 2-of-11 shooting.
Zane Martin had 25 points for
the Tigers (0-2). Nicolas Timber-
lake added 12 points, and Victor
Uyaelunmo had 11 points and 10
rebounds.
Winning field position
Washington scored 17 points on
three drives totaling 57 yards that
started on Dallas’s side of the
field. With Washington leading
20-16 early in the fourth quarter,
the Cowboys ran a fake punt from
deep in their own territory. It was
a colossal failure, and on the first
play of Washington’s ensuing
drive, Gibson scored his second
touchdown of the game to give
the visitors a two-score lead.
With five minutes remaining in
the second quarter, Washington
cornerback Ronald Darby, who
was burned for a touchdown by
Amari Cooper earlier in the game,
broke up a pass intended for
CeeDee Lamb on fourth and short
from the Dallas 34. After a
personal foul penalty on tight end
Dalton Schultz, Washington’s
offense took over inside the red
zone, and Alex Smith threw a
touchdown pass to Logan
Thomas five plays later.
Meanwhile, Dallas settled for a
field goal while trailing 20-13 late
in the third quarter after
linebacker Jaylon Smith
intercepted a pass and returned it
to the Washington 4-yard line.
Terry McLaurin hustled to make a
touchdown-saving tackle on the
pick, which was the play of the
game at the time.
Guard Ashley Owusu, the Big Ten freshman of the year last season, spent the offseason working on her three-point and midrange shooting.
Maryland reloads with talented scorers
MARYLAND FROM D1
lot to talk more and say what I see
and different stuff like that. . . . I
don’t look at [sophomore year] as
pressure. I just look at it as this is
what I prepared for and this is
what I worked hard for. So I’m
just going to go out and play my
game and show everyone what
I’m capable of. We’re pretty much,
basically, a new team. So we know
that and know we have to jell
together and just be prepared for
whatever happens.”
With talent coming in from all
directions, the most intrigue may
center on Reese. The Baltimore
native is the highest-ranked in-
coming freshman in program his-
tory, and ESPN ranked her the
No. 1 wing in the country. She
averaged 18 points, 20 rebounds
and five assists in her high school
career at St. Frances Academy. At
6-foot-3, she is a problem in the
post with good footwork and an
aggressive disposition, but she
also can put the ball on the floor
from the perimeter and knock
down jumpers. Her length is an
asset on the defensive end.
Physical skills are one thing,
but Frese raved about Reese’s
competitiveness.
“The thing that has separated
Angel has been all the intangi-
bles,” Frese said. “I haven’t had a
freshman come in with the lead-
ership qualities, the vocal-ness,
the confidence that this freshman
Angel has come in with.”
That’s a strong statement from
a coach who has been named
Associated Press coach of the
year, has won a national champi-
onship and consistently sends
players to the WNBA. Reese
doesn’t shy from the expecta-
tions, and she spent the offseason
trying to improve her condition-
ing while knowing she may play
big minutes and will be counted
on to score. That confidence Frese
mentioned is immediately appar-
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Injuries dog Dallas
The Cowboys marched right
down the field and took the early
lead on a short field goal on their
opening possession, but the
drive came at a cost, with left
tackle Cameron Erving and right
tackle Zack Martin leaving the
game for good with injuries.
Without two key members of
its already decimated offensive
line, Dallas did an admirable job
protecting quarterback Andy
Dalton, as rookie defensive end
Chase Young registered
Washington’s only sack in the
first half after the two-minute
warning.
The Cowboys had less success
establishing the run. Ezekiel
Elliott, who managed only 45
yards on 12 carries against
Washington in October, was
limited to 32 yards on 10 carries
Thursday. Elliott lost his fifth
fumble of the season on Dallas’s
first drive of the second half,
which led to a Washington field
goal. On the next series, Elliott’s
longest run of the game was
negated by a holding penalty.
Washington finished with
three sacks, and Montez Sweat
capped the scoring with an
interception return for a
touchdown.
— Scott Allen
Coach Brenda Frese’s Terrapins had a legitimate shot at the NCAA championship this past season.
ent when she speaks.
“I don’t really feel it,” Reese
said. “I understand that pressure
that I do get, but it felt like a clean
fresh start when I got here be-
cause my teammates are pushing
me every day. Nobody really re-
minds me about being the No. 2
[recruit in the nation]. That was
in high school. I have a fresh start,
and this is a new thing for me. I
have to rebrand myself and re-
make myself. It’s just a fresh start.
. . . I don’t really feel the pressure
like that. I just feel so confi-
dent. . . .
“Of course I’m going to have to
score, but I know my rebounding
ability is relentless and my win-
D5
TOD AY’S COLLEGE F OOTBALL GAMES ON TV
EARLY SHIFT
Noon No. 13 Iowa State at No. 17 Texas » ABC
1 Nebraska at No. 24 Iowa » Fox
Every team in the Big 12 has at least two losses, but Iowa State — whose
last league title came in 1912, when it played in the Missouri Valley
Conference — sits alone atop the standings with just one loss in league
play. Only three players nationally are averaging more rushing yards per
game and only one has more touchdowns than Cyclones running back
Breece Hall, but Texas (Iowa State’s opponent Friday) has held two of
its past three opponents to 64 rushing yards or fewer. Likewise, the
Longhorns lean heavily on one player, in this case quarterback Sam
Ehlinger, the four-year starter who will be playing in his final home game.
Ehlinger leads the team in rushing and has thrown for 1,834 yards and 22
touchdowns with just five interceptions.
SWING SHIFT
3:30 No. 2 Notre Dame at No. 19 North Carolina » ABC
3:30 Central Florida at South Florida » ESPN
4 Stanford at California » Fox
4 Wyoming at UNLV » Fox Sports 1
4 Central Michigan at Eastern Michigan » CBS Sports Network
Notre Dame’s offensive line, touted as one of the nation’s best,
will be down two starters against North Carolina: Right guard Tommy
Kraemer had an appendectomy last week, and center Jarrett Patterson
suffered a season-ending foot injury in the Fighting Irish’s last game vs.
Boston College. This could pose a problem for a team that values ball
control (Notre Dame averages just more than 34 minutes of possession,
tops among Power Five conference teams that have played at least six
games) and running the ball (233.5 yards per game, tied for 14th
nationally). The Tar Heels, who average the exact same rushing yards per
game as the Irish, could get a number of players back from injury,
including spectacularly named cornerback Storm Duck.
NIGHT SHIFT
7 No. 15 Oregon at Oregon State » ESPN
— Matt Bonesteel
PHOTOS BY KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST
ning, competitiveness is relent- rolling with 17 consecutive wins
less. It’s something that you really and had a legitimate shot at win-
can’t teach. I know I’m going to go ning the NCAA tournament be-
hard every single day. Whatever fore the coronavirus pandemic
sacrifice Coach tells me I have to ended last season early. The Terps
make, I’m willing to do.” can’t exactly pick up where they
The Terrapins begin the season left off after so much roster turn-
in the “Beach Bubble” at the Gulf over, but Frese pointed out that
Coast Showcase in Estero, Fla., one thing doesn’t change at Mary-
with games against Davidson land — and that’s why she’s not
(Friday), No. 24 Missouri State concerned.
(Saturday) and No. 14 Arkansas “When you sign up to come to
(Sunday). They return home to Maryland,” she said, “you know
host Towson, Coppin State and it’s about winning and champion-
Mount St. Mary’s during the first ships and you want to do it at the
eight days of December before highest level. If you had the op-
starting Big Ten play. portunity to come into our prac-
There’s a bit of unfinished busi- tices, we’re competing for titles.”
ness for Maryland, which was kareem.copeland@washpost.com
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Nevada 69, Nebraska 66
10 a.m. English Premier League: Burnley at Manchester City » NBC Sports Network
WEEK 12 Colorado 84, South Dakota 61 NEVADA (2-0)
10:15 a.m. Spanish La Liga: Atlético Madrid at Valencia » beIN Sports Drake 80, Kansas St. 70 Hymes 2-3 4-4 8, Washington 1-1 0-2 2, Cambridge 7-17
12:30 p.m. English Premier League: Leeds United at Everton » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) THURSDAY’S GAMES Illinois 122, NC A&T 60 2-2 18, Milling 2-3 0-1 4, Sherfield 4-13 9-12 19, Coleman English Premier League
Indiana 89, Tennessee Tech 59 2-3 0-1 5, Robinson 1-2 0-0 2, Meeks 4-6 0-0 8,
12:30 p.m. Spanish La Liga: Sevilla at Huesca » beIN Sports Washington 41, at Dallas 16
Iowa 97, NC Central 67 Huseinovic 1-2 0-0 3, Henry 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-50 15-22
GP W D L GF GA Pts
Houston 41, at Detroit 25 Tottenham....................... 9 6 2 1 21 9 20
3 p.m. English Premier League: Sheffield United at West Brom » NBC Sports Network Marquette 99, Ark.-Pine Bluff 57 69. Liverpool .......................... 9 6 2 1 21 16 20
SUNDAY’S GAMES Miami (Ohio) 81, North Dakota 67 NEBRASKA (1-1)
3 p.m. Spanish La Liga: Alavés at Real Madrid » beIN Sports Michigan 96, Bowling Green 82
Chelsea ............................ 9 5 3 1 22 10 18
Mayen 2-9 1-3 7, Allen 3-11 9-13 17, Banton 6-17 3-4 18, Leicester .......................... 9 6 0 3 18 12 18
Arizona (-21/2) at New England, 1 Michigan St. 83, E. Michigan 67 McGowens 0-5 0-0 0, Thorbjarnarson 0-4 0-0 0, Steven-
GOLF Southampton................... 9 5 2 2 17 13 17
Carolina at Minnesota (-31/2), 1 Minnesota 99, Green Bay 69 son 3-5 3-3 9, Webster 4-10 3-4 13, Ouedraogo 0-1 2-3 2. Everton ............................ 9 5 1 3 19 16 16
Cleveland (-61/2) at Jacksonville, 1 Missouri 91, Oral Roberts 64 Totals 18-62 21-30 66. Aston Villa....................... 8 5 0 3 19 11 15
5 a.m. European Tour: Alfred Dunhill Championship, third round » Golf Channel Nebraska 102, McNeese St. 55 Halftime_Nevada 35-29. 3-Point Goals_Nevada 6-21
L.A. Chargers at Buffalo (-51/2), 1 West Ham........................ 9 4 2 3 15 10 14
12:30 p.m. Ladies European Tour: Spanish Open, third round » Golf Channel Las Vegas (-3) at Atlanta, 1 Nevada 62, N. Dakota St. 48 (Sherfield 2-4, Cambridge 2-11, Coleman 1-2, Hu- Wolverhampton .............. 9 4 2 3 9 10 14
Miami (-7) at N.Y. Jets, 1 Ohio 84, Chicago St. 61 seinovic 1-2, Meeks 0-2), Nebraska 9-41 (Banton Man United ...................... 8 4 1 3 13 14 13
AUTO RACING Ohio St. 94, Illinois St. 67 3-11, Webster 2-6, Allen 2-7, Mayen 2-9, Stevenson Crystal Palace.................. 9 4 1 4 12 13 13
N.Y. Giants (-6) at Cincinnati, 1 Purdue 77, Liberty 64 0-1, McGowens 0-3, Thorbjarnarson 0-4). Fouled Arsenal ............................ 9 4 1 4 9 10 13
Tennessee at Indianapolis (-3), 1 Saint Louis 89, SIU-Edwardsville 52
6 a.m. Formula One: Bahrain Grand Prix, practice » ESPN2 Out_Hymes. Rebounds_Nevada 47 (Robinson 9), Man City .......................... 8 3 3 2 10 11 12
Baltimore at Pittsburgh (-41/2), 1:15 W. Kentucky 93, N. Iowa 87 Nebraska 30 (Banton 7). Assists_Nevada 12 (Sher-
9 a.m. Formula One: Bahrain Grand Prix, qualifying » ESPN2 Leeds ............................... 9 3 2 4 14 17 11
New Orleans (-6) at Denver, 4:05 Wisconsin 77, E. Illinois 67 field 6), Nebraska 13 (Banton 5). Total Fouls_Nevada Newcastle........................ 9 3 2 4 10 15 11
San Francisco at L.A. Rams (-61/2), 4:05 Xavier 101, Oakland 49 27, Nebraska 24. Brighton........................... 9 2 3 4 13 15 9
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS Kansas City (-31/2) at Tampa Bay, 4:25 SOUTHWEST Burnley ............................ 8 1 2 5 4 12 5
Chicago at Green Bay (-71/2), 8:20 Fulham............................. 9 1 1 7 9 18 4
10 p.m. UFC Fight Night, heavyweights: Curtis Blaydes vs. Derrick Lewis » ESPN Abilene Christian 70, ETSU 47 West Brom ...................... 9 0 3 6 6 18 3
MONDAY’S GAMES Arkansas 142, MVSU 62 Sheffield United .............. 9 0 1 8 4 15 1
Sunday Seattle (-5) at Philadelphia, 8:15
WEEK 13
Houston 89, Lamar 45
Oklahoma St. 75, Texas-Arlington 68
SMU 97, Sam Houston St. 67
San Francisco 79, Towson 68
SAN FRANCISCO (0-1)
FRIDAY’S MATCH
Jurkatamm 2-9 1-2 5, Kane 4-5 2-2 10, Bouyea 7-12 5-7 Crystal Palace vs. Newcastle, 3
NFL THURSDAY’S GAMES
TCU 69, Houston Baptist 45
20, Milstead 4-7 0-0 11, Shabazz 2-10 0-0 5, Ryuny 6-11
Texas 91, Rio Grande 55 SATURDAY’S MATCHES
0-0 18, Kunen 2-4 2-2 8, Visser 0-0 0-0 0, Rishwain 1-2
1 p.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13) Dallas at Baltimore, 8:20 Texas State 98, Mary Hardin-Baylor 59
0-0 2. Totals 28-60 10-13 79. Brighton vs. Liverpool, 7:30 a.m.
Texas Tech 101, Northwestern St. 58
1 p.m. New York Giants at Cincinnati » WTTG (Ch. 5) SUNDAY’S GAMES
TOWSON (0-1) Man City vs. Burnley, 10 a.m.
FAR WEST Gray 1-4 0-0 2, V.Uyaelunmo 2-3 7-8 11, Gibson 3-9 0-3 7, Everton vs. Leeds, 12:30
1:15 p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11), WIYY (97.9 FM), West Brom vs. Sheffield United, 3
Cincinnati at Miami, 1 Martin 9-17 3-5 23, Timberlake 3-10 5-5 12, Dottin 0-2
WBAL (1090 AM) Arizona St. 94, Rhode Island 88 0-0 0, Allen 2-6 0-0 4, Mims 2-4 0-0 5, Thompson 2-4 0-0
Cleveland at Tennessee, 1 BYU 108, Westminster (UT) 59 SUNDAY’S MATCHES
4:05 p.m. New Orleans at Denver » WBFF (Ch. 45) Detroit at Chicago, 1 4, S.Uyaelunmo 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 24-60 15-21 68.
Fresno St. 87, William Jessup 47 Halftime_San Francisco 34-30. 3-Point Goals_San Fran-
Indianapolis at Houston, 1 Southampton vs. Man United, 9 a.m.
4:25 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13) Loyola Marymount 85, S. Utah 83 cisco 13-33 (Ryuny 6-11, Milstead 3-4, Kunen 2-3,
Jacksonville at Minnesota, 1 Chelsea vs. Tottenham, 11:30 a.m.
Memphis 73, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 56 Bouyea 1-4, Shabazz 1-6, Rishwain 0-1, Jurkatamm 0-4),
8:20 p.m. Chicago at Green Bay » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11), WJFK (106.7 FM) Las Vegas at N.Y. Jets, 1 Montana St. 91, UNLV 78
Arsenal vs. Wolverhampton, 2:15
Towson 5-17 (Martin 2-3, Mims 1-2, Gibson 1-3,
New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 Oregon St. 71, California 63 Timberlake 1-6, Allen 0-1, Gray 0-2). Fouled Out_Mims. MONDAY’S MATCHES
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Washington at Pittsburgh, 1 Pacific 66, UC Riverside 60 Rebounds_San Francisco 32 (Ryuny 9), Towson 35
Pepperdine 86, UC Irvine 72 Leicester vs. Fulham, 12:30
1 p.m. Richmond at Kentucky » ESPN L.A. Rams at Arizona, 4:05 (V.Uyaelunmo 10). Assists_San Francisco 16 (Bouyea West Ham vs. Aston Villa, 3
Sacramento St. 101, Bethesda 57 6), Towson 4 (Gibson, Martin 2). Total Fouls_San
N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 4:05 San Diego St. 73, UCLA 58
1 p.m. Hall of Fame Classic, third-place game: teams TBD » ESPN2 New England at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 Francisco 18, Towson 18.
Santa Clara 62, Idaho St. 49
2 p.m. Florida A&M at Georgia » SEC Network Philadelphia at Green Bay, 4:25 Seattle 84, Portland 72
2 p.m. Mount St. Mary’s at Maryland » Big Ten Network, WTEM (980 AM) Denver at Kansas City, 8:20 Southern Cal 95, California Baptist 87, OT
German Bundesliga
BYE: Carolina, Tampa Bay VCU 85, Utah St. 69
3:30 p.m. Hall of Fame Classic, final: teams TBD » ESPN2
MONDAY’S GAMES
Washington St. 56, Texas Southern 52 NCAA women GP W D L GF GA Pts
4 p.m. Hofstra at Rutgers » Big Ten Network Weber St. 88, Adams State 60 Bayern ............................. 8 6 1 1 28 12 19
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Dortmund ........................ 8 6 0 2 20 7 18
4:30 p.m. Baylor at Seton Hall » Fox Sports 1 Buffalo at San Francisco, 8:15 THURSDAY’S RESULTS EAST
EAST Leverkusen ...................... 8 5 3 0 16 9 18
4:30 p.m. North Dakota State at Creighton » Fox Sports 1 Boston College 80, New Hampshire 44 RB Leipzig........................ 8 5 2 1 16 5 17
5:30 p.m. Houston at Texas Tech » ESPN2 San Francisco 79, Towson 68 Delaware 111, Salem International 54 Union Berlin..................... 8 4 3 1 18 8 15
St. John’s 82, La Salle 65 Fordham 62, Stony Brook 58 Wolfsburg........................ 8 3 5 0 9 5 14
5:30 p.m. San Francisco at Rhode Island » ESPNU West Virginia 78, VCU 66 Monchengladbach............ 8 3 3 2 13 13 12
George Washington 53, Lincoln (Pa.) 38
6 p.m. Oakland at Michigan » Big Ten Network Texans 41, Lions 25 SOUTH Hofstra 81, Army 78
Penn State 84, Coppin State 45
Stuttgart ......................... 8
Bremen ............................ 8
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10
12
10
11
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6 p.m. North Florida at Miami » ACC Network Auburn 96, Saint Joseph’s 91, OT Augsburg ......................... 8 3 2 3 10 11 11
TEXANS ................................. 13 10 3 15 — 41 Pittsburgh 72, George Mason 57
6 p.m. Prairie View at Louisville » MASN LIONS ....................................... 7 7 3 8 — 25 Austin Peay 67, ETSU 66 Quinnipiac 71, Providence 65 Eintracht.......................... 8 2 5 1 11 13 11
Belmont 95, Howard 78 Hoffenheim ..................... 8 2 2 4 14 15 8
8 p.m. South Florida at Virginia Tech » ESPN2, WJFK (106.7 FM) Towson 89, East Carolina 81
Hertha Berlin ................... 8 2 1 5 15 18 7
FIRST QUARTER Liberty 84, Mississippi St. 73 U-Mass. 82, Bryant 54
Nebraska-Omaha 60, Middle Tennessee 59 Villanova 70, Rider 37 Freiburg ........................... 8 1 3 4 9 19 6
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Detroit: Peterson 1 run (Prater kick), 6:54. W. Kentucky 75, Memphis 69 Mainz ............................... 8 1 1 6 10 21 4
Houston: Watt 19 interception return (kick failed), SOUTH Arminia Bielefeld ............ 8 1 1 6 5 17 4
Noon Florida at Florida State » ACC Network 4:38. MIDWEST Cologne ............................ 8 0 3 5 8 14 3
Houston: Prosise 2 pass from Watson (Fairbairn kick), Alabama 83, Samford 68
2 p.m. Georgia at Georgia Tech » ACC Network 2:58. Gonzaga 102, Kansas 90 Appalachian State 74, Charlotte 68
Schalke ............................ 8 0 3 5 5 24 3
4 p.m. Belmont at Kentucky » SEC Network Illinois 97, Chicago St. 38 Austin Peay 88, North Alabama 78 FRIDAY’S MATCH
SECOND QUARTER Nevada 69, Nebraska 66 Charleston Southern 79, Columbia International 52
4 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at Notre Dame » ACC Network Ohio 84, NC A&T 72 Clemson 83, Furman 43 Wolfsburg vs. Bremen, 2:30
Detroit: Peterson 1 run (Prater kick), 12:56. Toledo 80, Oakland 53
Houston: D.Johnson 33 pass from Watson (Fairbairn Dayton 71, Morehead State 57 SATURDAY’S MATCHES
SOCCER kick), 10:18.
Xavier 51, Bradley 50 Duke 94, Longwood 64
Elon 88, Gardner-Webb 60 Dortmund vs. Cologne, 9:30 a.m.
8 a.m. Spanish La Liga: Osasuna at Barcelona » beIN Sports Houston: FG Fairbairn 42, 1:44. FAR WEST
Florida 90, Grambling State 47 RB Leipzig vs. Arminia Bielefeld, 9:30 a.m.
9 a.m. English Premier League: Manchester United at Southampton THIRD QUARTER California 86, Northwest University 61 Florida Gulf Coast 86, Florida Memorial 40 Union Berlin vs. Eintracht, 9:30 a.m.
Saint Mary’s (Cal) 66, N. Iowa 64 Georgia 83, Mercer 64 Augsburg vs. Freiburg, 9:30 a.m.
» NBC Sports Network Detroit: FG Prater 29, 7:24.
Georgia Tech 62, Georgia State 38 Stuttgart vs. Bayern, 9:30 a.m.
Houston: FG Fairbairn 26, 3:10. Monchengladbach vs. Schalke, 12:30
11 a.m. Turkish Super Lig: Besiktas at Fenerbahce » beIN Sports Jacksonville State 70, Georgia Southern 58
11:30 a.m. English Premier League: Tottenham at Chelsea » NBC Sports Network FOURTH QUARTER No. 1 Gonzaga 102, James Madison 69, Mount St. Mary’s 55
SUNDAY’S MATCHES
Kentucky 86, Murray State 60
12:30 p.m. Spanish La Liga: Granada at Celta Vigo » beIN Sports Houston: Fuller 40 pass from Watson (Coutee pass No. 6 Kansas 90 Miami 74, Jacksonville 58 Leverkusen vs. Hertha Berlin, 9:30 a.m.
from Watson), 12:09. Morgan State 67, UMBC 58 Mainz vs. Hoffenheim, noon
2:15 p.m. English Premier League: Wolverhampton at Arsenal » NBC Sports Network Houston: Fuller 34 pass from Watson (Fairbairn kick), GONZAGA (0-0)
N.C. Central 70, Campbell 65, 2OT
3 p.m. Spanish La Liga: Villarreal at Real Sociedad » beIN Sports 10:07. Kispert 8-13 4-4 23, Timme 11-15 3-4 25, Watson 1-1 0-0 FRIDAY, DEC. 4
N.C. State 93, North Florida 65
Detroit: Sanu 14 pass from Stafford (Sanu pass from 2, Ayayi 7-9 1-2 15, Suggs 9-15 4-5 24, Nembhard 3-6 4-5
3 p.m. MLS playoffs, Eastern Conference semifinals: New England at Orlando SC » North Carolina 90, Radford 61 Hertha Berlin vs. Union Berlin, 2:30
Stafford), 6:32. 11, Cook 1-2 0-0 2, Ballo 0-1 0-0 0, Do.Harris 0-0 0-0 0,
SE Louisiana 99, Alcorn State 65
WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) Attendance: 0. Strawther 0-0 0-0 0, Arlauskas 0-0 0-0 0, Zakharov 0-0
South Alabama 70, Mobile 40
0-0 0. Totals 40-62 16-20 102.
8 p.m. MLS playoffs, Eastern Conference semifinals: Nashville at Columbus » ESPN TEXANS LIONS KANSAS (0-0) South Carolina 119, Coll. of Charleston 38
First Downs .......................................... 21 28 UAB 80, Edward Waters 57
McCormack 3-9 2-2 8, Wilson 5-11 1-3 11, Agbaji 5-11 5-6
UCF 60, Virginia 34
GOLF Total Net Yards ................................... 384 388 17, Braun 3-6 0-2 8, Garrett 7-9 6-7 22, Thompson 5-10
UNC Asheville 70, W. Carolina 59 COLLEGE F OOTBALL
Rushes-Yards ................................. 23-77 29-109 1-2 12, Enaruna 2-2 1-2 5, Grant-Foster 1-2 0-0 3,
5 a.m. European Tour: Alfred Dunhill Championship, final round » Golf Channel Passing ................................................ 307 279 UNC Wilmington 67, Norfolk State 47
Lightfoot 2-2 0-0 4, Da.Harris 0-0 0-0 0, Jossell 0-0 0-0 0,
Punt Returns ....................................... 0-0 0-0 Virginia Tech 85, Richmond 64
12:30 p.m. Ladies European Tour: Spanish Open, final round » Golf Channel Muscadin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-62 16-24 90. THURSDAY’S GAME
Kickoff Returns ................................. 2-34 4-90 Wofford 65, Winthrop 50
Halftime_Gonzaga 54-46. 3-Point Goals_Gonzaga 6-18
Interceptions Ret. ............................. 1-19 0-0 (Kispert 3-8, Suggs 2-3, Nembhard 1-3, Cook 0-1, MIDWEST at Utah St. 41, New Mexico 27
AUTO RACING Comp-Att-Int ............................... 17-25-0 28-43-1 Timme 0-1, Ayayi 0-2), Kansas 8-18 (Garrett 2-2,
Sacked-Yards Lost ............................ 2-11 4-16 Braun 2-3, Agbaji 2-4, Grant-Foster 1-2, Thompson Bradley 84, UMKC 70 FRIDAY’S GAMES
9 a.m. Formula One: Bahrain Grand Prix » ESPN2 Punts .............................................. 3-39.0 3-46.0 1-4, Wilson 0-3). Rebounds_Gonzaga 29 (Ayayi 9), Cincinnati 73, N. Kentucky 67 (OT) SOUTH
Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 1-1 3-2 Kansas 23 (McCormack 6). Assists_Gonzaga 16 Drake 75, Creighton 62 UMass (0-3) at Liberty (8-1), Noon
BOYS’ BASKETBALL Penalties-Yards .............................. 10-74 4-44 (Suggs 8), Kansas 10 (Agbaji 4). Total Fouls_Gonzaga E. Illinois 82, Illinois Chicago 71
Time Of Possession ......................... 26:16 33:44 15, Kansas 19. E. Michigan 65, S. Illinois 52 UCF (5-3) at South Florida (1-7), 3:30
1:30 p.m. Air Nado (Nev.) vs. CBC (Calif.) » ESPNU IUPUI 85, N. Illinois 61 Notre Dame (8-0) at North Carolina (6-2), 3:30
RUSHING Indiana 100, E. Kentucky 51
3 p.m. Lake Norman Christian (N.C.) vs. Oak Hill Academy (Va.) » ESPNU
Houston: D.Johnson 9-37, Watson 8-24, Prosise 5-12, Iowa State 69, Nebraska Omaha 43 MIDWEST
8:30 p.m. Team Sizzle (Minn.) vs. Storm (N.C.) » ESPNU Louisville 74, SE Missouri 53
10 p.m. Air Nado (Nev.) vs. National Spotlight (Fla.) » ESPNU
Akins 1-4.
Detroit: Peterson 15-55, Johnson 11-46, J.Williams 1-5,
No. 8 Illinois 97, Chicago St. 38 Michigan 93, Cent. Michigan 75 Nebraska (1-3) at Iowa (3-2), 1
Cent. Michigan (2-1) at E. Michigan (0-3), 4
Stafford 1-3, Cabinda 1-0. CHICAGO ST. (0-1) Ohio 76, Liberty 72
Bonds 0-1 0-0 0, Davis 3-7 1-5 7, Jones 0-4 1-3 1, A.Lewis SIU Edwardsville 66, Fort Wayne 50 SOUTHWEST
PASSING 0-0 0-0 0, I.Lewis 3-9 0-0 7, Marble 0-6 0-0 0, Demuth 2-8 Xavier 81, Detroit 73
Iowa St. (6-2) at Texas (5-2), Noon
Houston: Watson 17-25-0-318. 0-0 4, Johnson 3-8 2-2 10, Polynice 4-7 0-0 9, Whitehead SOUTHWEST
Detroit: Stafford 28-42-1-295, Agnew 0-1-0-0. 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 15-54 4-10 38. FAR WEST
ILLINOIS (1-0) Arkansas 96, Oral Roberts 49
RECEIVING Cockburn 4-6 6-9 14, Dosunmu 8-13 6-7 22, Frazier 4-7 Baylor 82, Central Arkansas 37 Stanford (0-2) at California (0-2), 4
2-2 14, Miller 5-9 3-3 15, Williams 2-2 0-1 5, Curbelo 9-13 Houston 97, Oklahoma 85 Wyoming (1-2) at UNLV (0-4), 4

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0-0 18, Grandison 1-3 0-0 2, Bezhanishvili 2-3 0-0 4, Rice 83, Houston Baptist 54
Coutee 2-17, Prosise 1-2.
Hawkins 0-1 0-0 0, Griffith 1-1 0-0 2, Hamlin 0-0 1-2 1, TCU 84, Incarnate Word 59 SATURDAY’S GAMES
Detroit: M.Jones 6-48, Hockenson 5-89, Johnson 4-52,
Lieb 0-2 0-0 0, Serven 0-0 0-0 0, Padilla 0-0 0-0 0. Totals Texas 90, SMU 51
Sanu 4-32, J.Williams 4-21, Cephus 2-27, Hall 2-16, EAST
36-60 18-24 97. Texas A&M 77, Lamar 61
James 1-10. NC State (6-3) at Syracuse (1-8), Noon
Halftime_Illinois 47-17. 3-Point Goals_Chicago St. 4-24 Texas A&M International 89, Texas A&M CC 76
MISSED FIELD GOALS (Johnson 2-5, Polynice 1-2, I.Lewis 1-4, Bonds 0-1, Davis Texas Tech 89, Rio Grande 56 Kent St. (3-0) at Buffalo (3-0), Noon

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None. Illinois 7-18 (Frazier 4-7, Miller 2-5, Williams 1-1, UTEP 80, New Mexico State 76 (OT) Louisville (3-6) at Boston College (5-4), 4
Curbelo 0-1, Grandison 0-1, Hawkins 0-1, Dosunmu 0-2). UTSA 80, Sul Ross State University 37 Memphis (5-2) at Navy (3-4), 7
Fouled Out_Polynice. Rebounds_Chicago St. 8 (Marble Oklahoma (6-2) at West Virginia (5-3), ppd. (virus)

go with you everywhere 2), Illinois 52 (Cockburn 11). Assists_Chicago St. 6 WEST
NFC individual leaders (I.Lewis 4), Illinois 15 (Dosunmu 7). Total Fouls_Chicago N. Arizona 79, UNLV 75
SOUTH
Through Week 11 St. 22, Illinois 14. Portland 82, Seattle 70 Kentucky (3-5) at Florida (6-1), Noon
Southern Cal 85, Loyola Marymount 55 Georgia Southern (6-3) at Georgia St. (4-4), Noon
QUARTERBACKS Stanford 108, Cal Poly 40 SMU (7-2) at East Carolina (2-6), Noon
Att Com Yds TD Int Utah State 81, Montana 74 Miami (7-1) at Wake Forest (4-3), ppd. (virus)
Wilson, Sea..................... 362 256 2986 30 10 Wake Forest (4-3) at Louisville (3-6), ppd. (virus)
THURSDAY’S RESLTS
Ryan, Atl......................... 388
Brady, TB ........................ 433
255
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2955
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No. 15 West Virginia 78, VCU 66 Memphis (5-2) at Tulane (5-5), ppd. (virus)
Louisiana-Lafayette (7-1) at Louisiana-Monroe (0-8), 3
No games scheduled.
Rodgers, GB .................... 352 240 2889 29 4 VCU (1-0) FAU (5-1) at Middle Tennessee (3-6), 3:30
Douglas 3-4 0-0 6, Stockard 3-4 0-2 6, Baldwin 1-3 0-0 3, Pittsburgh (5-4) at Clemson (7-1), 3:30
RUSHERS Curry 3-8 2-6 8, Hyland 5-16 3-3 13, Williams 1-7 8-8 11, Auburn (5-2) at Alabama (7-0), 3:30
Att Yds Avg LG TD Clark 3-10 1-2 7, Watkins 2-6 2-4 7, Brown-Jones 1-2 1-2 Mississippi St. (2-5) at Mississippi (3-4), 4
Cook, Min........................ 201 1069 5.3 70t 13 3, Banks 1-3 0-0 2, Ward 0-0 0-0 0, Medley-Bacon 0-1 0-0 Duke (2-6) at Georgia Tech (2-5), 7
Jones, TB ........................ 153 754 4.9 98t 5 0. Totals 23-64 17-27 66. AUTO RACIN G W. Kentucky (4-6) at Charlotte (2-3), ppd. (virus)
Elliott, Dal....................... 171 675 3.9 24 5 WEST VIRGINIA (2-0) Georgia (5-2) at South Carolina (2-6), 7:30
Drake, Ari........................ 146 641 4.4 69t 5 Culver 8-14 7-9 23, Matthews 1-4 2-2 4, Tshiebwe 4-9 Tennessee (2-5) at Vanderbilt (0-7), ppd. (virus)
3-7 11, McBride 4-11 3-4 12, McNeil 5-15 2-2 16, NASCAR Cup Series Troy (4-4) at Appalachian St. (6-2), 8
RECEIVERS Sherman 4-7 0-0 9, McCabe 0-0 2-2 2, Osabuohien 0-1 1-2 Virginia (4-4) at Florida St. (2-6), 8
POINTS LEADERS
No Yds Avg LG TD 1, Bridges 0-1 0-0 0, Cottrell 0-0 0-1 0, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0,
Hopkins, Ari...................... 72 912 12.7 60 4 Thweatt 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-63 20-29 78. Through Sunday MIDWEST
McLaurin, Was ................. 62 871 14.0 68t 3 Halftime_West Virginia 42-33. 3-Point Goals_VCU 3-21 1. Chase Elliott, 5040. Maryland (2-1) at Indiana (4-1), Noon
Moore, Car ........................ 46 863 18.8 74t 4 (Baldwin 1-1, Williams 1-3, Watkins 1-5, Douglas 0-1, 2. Brad Keselowski, 5035. Ohio St. (4-0) at Illinois (2-3), Noon
Metcalf, Sea ..................... 48 862 18.0 62 9 Banks 0-2, Clark 0-2, Curry 0-2, Hyland 0-5), West 3. Joey Logano, 5034. N. Illinois (0-3) at W. Michigan (3-0), Noon
Virginia 6-16 (McNeil 4-9, McBride 1-2, Sherman 1-2, 4. Denny Hamlin, 5033. Ball St. (2-1) at Toledo (2-1), Noon
Bridges 0-1, Matthews 0-2). Rebounds_VCU 32 (Wat- 5. Kevin Harvick, 2410. Arkansas (3-5) vs. Missouri (3-3), ppd. (virus)
AFC individual leaders kins 5), West Virginia 45 (Tshiebwe 16). Assists_VCU 11
(Baldwin 6), West Virginia 13 (McBride, McCabe 4).
6. Alex Bowman, 2371. Bowling Green (0-3) at Ohio (1-1), Noon
7. Martin Truex Jr, 2341. Penn St. (0-5) at Michigan (2-3), Noon
Through Week 11 Total Fouls_VCU 25, West Virginia 21. 8. Kyle Busch, 2341. Vanderbilt (0-7) at Missouri (3-3), Noon
9. Ryan Blaney, 2336. Miami (Ohio) (1-1) at Akron (0-3), 1
QUARTERBACKS
10. Kurt Busch, 2287.
Att Com Yds TD Int 11. Austin Dillon, 2277. Northwestern (5-0) at Michigan St. (1-3), 3:30
Mahomes, KC.................. 374 254 3035 27 2 Xavier 51, Bradley 50 12. Clint Bowyer, 2254. Rutgers (1-4) at Purdue (2-2), 4
Watson, Hou................... 338 233 2883 20 5 BRADLEY (1-1) 13. Matt DiBenedetto, 2249. TCU (3-4) at Kansas (0-7), 8
Allen, Buf........................ 364 249 2871 21 7 14. William Byron, 2247.
Herbert, LAC................... 350 238 2699 22 6 Boya 2-5 0-0 4, Childs 8-20 0-0 17, East 2-6 0-0 5, Kingsby SOUTHWEST
1-2 0-0 2, Nolan 2-7 0-1 5, Tahvanainen 4-9 0-1 11, Henry 15. Aric Almirola, 2235.
RUSHERS 1-3 2-4 4, McAdoo 0-4 0-0 0, Mast 1-5 0-0 2, Hannah 0-2 16. Cole Custer, 2202. Texas Tech (3-5) at Oklahoma St. (5-2), Noon
0-0 0. Totals 21-63 2-6 50. 17. Erik Jones, 873. Tulsa (5-1) at Houston (3-3), ppd. (virus)
Att Yds Avg LG TD XAVIER (2-0) 18. Jimmie Johnson, 836. UTEP (3-4) at Rice (1-2), 1
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TIDEWATER AUCTIONS, LLC
CHEVY CHASE PAVILLION
5335 WISCONSIN AVENUE, NW
SUITE 440
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20015
410-825-2900
www.tidewaterauctions.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF A ROWHOUSE, WITH A PARTIALLY
DEMOLISHED INTERIOR, HAVING AN ADDRESS OF:
1236 SIMMS PLACE, NE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20002
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust and Security
Agreement (“Deed of Trust”) securing the principal amount of $585,000.00
dated November 27, 2018 and recorded December 17, 2018 as Instrument
No. 2018125601 among the Land Records of the District of Columbia
(“Land Records”) from DESIGN BUILD GROUP, LLC, as Grantor, to SCOT R.
BROWNING and PAUL L. MERRITT, as Trustees, for the benefit of CAPITAL
BANK, N.A. (the "Noteholder"), default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and following the recordation in the Land Records of a Deed of
Appointment of Substitute Trustees removing SCOT R. BROWNING and
PAUL L. MERRITT as Trustees and appointing RONALD J. MARSHALL and
KEVIN R. SEBASTIAN (the "Substitute Trustees") as Substitute Trustees
and an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, and the mailing
and recordation in the Land Records of a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of
Real Property or Condominium Unit pursuant to Public Law 90-566, at the
request of the Noteholder, Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction,
at the offices of TIDEWATER AUCTIONS, LLC, CHEVY CHASE PAVILLION,
5335 WISCONSIN AVENUE, NW, SUITE 440, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20015 on
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020 AT 11:00 A.M.
all that certain land located in the District of Columbia, together with the
improvements thereon, described as follows and being more particularly
described in the Deed of Trust (the “Property”):
LOT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX (0156) IN SQUARE NUM-
BERED FORTY HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO (4052) OF THE SUBDIVISION
MADE BY MORRIS H. GINSBURG AND JULIUS H. GINSBURG AS PER
PLAT RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE
SURVEYOR FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN LIBER 126 AT FOLIO
162.
Property Address: 1236 Simms Place, NE, Washington, DC 20002
TRUSTEES' NOTE: New Covid-19 regulations for Washington, DC foreclosure
auctions - A new process has been implemented by the Chevy Chase
Pavilion management for those attending Washington, DC foreclosure
auctions. Masks are required for entry into the Pavilion, and entry into the
facilities will be denied if this mandate is not followed. You must also sign
in with a sales representative before you will be allowed entry into suite
440 for auction proceedings. This representative will be stationed in the
downstairs lobby area of the Pavilion.
Prospective buyers are strongly encouraged to arrive at least fifteen (15)
minutes before the scheduled sale time due to these new requirements.
Please note that we cannot guarantee your attendance at the auction
should you arrive past that time. While all reasonable efforts will be made
to have a representative in the lobby up until the time of sale, that cannot
be guaranteed, and if a representative is no longer present to sign you in
when you arrive, you will not be allowed up to the suite to bid at the sale.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $25,000.00, in the form of cashier’s check
or certified check, will be required of the purchaser at the time and place
of sale. The balance of the purchase price, with interest thereon at the
interest rate set forth in the note secured by the Deed of Trust from
the date of sale through the date of settlement, shall be due in cash or
certified funds at settlement within 30 days from day of sale, TIME BEING
OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Neither
the
Noteholder nor any related party shall be required to post a deposit or pay
interest as aforesaid. If the purchaser shall be in default with respect to
the terms of sale herein, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Substitute
Trustees and the Property shall be resold at the risk and cost of the
defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the Property.
The Property is sold subject to the rights, if any, of parties in possession,
if such rights have priority over the Deed of Trust, and to any and all
covenants, conditions, restrictions, agreements, easements, rights of way
limitations, liens and encumbrances of record affecting the same that
are not extinguished by operation of law by virtue of the foreclosure
under the Deed of Trust. The Property will be sold and conveyed in an
"AS IS, WHERE IS" condition without any warranty, express or implied,
or representation of any kind. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Property will be sold without representation or warranty
as to (i) title to the Property, (ii) the nature, structural integrity, physical
condition, construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials
or fitness for a particular use of any improvements, fixtures or personal
property included within the Property, (iii) the environmental condition of
the Property, (iv) compliance of the Property with any housing, zoning,
building, environmental or safety laws and regulations, the ADA or any
similar laws or (v) the accuracy of any information furnished to prospective
bidders by the Substitute Trustees or Noteholder or any other party. The
purchaser recognizes that any investigation, examination or inspection
of the Property is within the control of the owner or other parties in
possession and not within the control of the Substitute Trustees or
the Noteholder. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the Property following settlement.
The risk of loss or damage by fire or other casualty to the Property from
and after the date of sale will be upon the purchaser. The Property will
be sold subject to all taxes, assessments, water, sewer and other public
charges, whether assessments have been levied or not. Purchaser shall
pay all settlement costs, including all recordation taxes and transfer taxes.
The Substitute Trustees and Noteholder assume no liability for any utility
charges accrued before or after the sale and such charges shall be the
sole responsibility of purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees cannot convey
title, the purchaser's sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
return of its deposit and the sale shall be shall be considered null and void
and of no effect whatsoever.
The Substitute Trustees reserve the right to require all potential bidders
required to post a deposit to show their deposit before any bidding begins,
to reject any and all bids, to postpone and/or cancel the sale at any time
before or at the auction, to extend the time to receive bids, to waive
or modify the deposit requirement or the requirement that interest be
paid on the unpaid purchase money, and to extend the period of time for
settlement. Further particulars may be announced at the sale. For further
information, please contact Ronald J. Marshall at 301-986-0100.
Ronald J. Marshall
Kevin R. Sebastian,
Substitute Trustees
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TRUSTEE'S SALE
14611 Bubbling Spring Rd, Boyds, MD 20841
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 14611 Bubbling Spring Rd, Boyds, MD
20841. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a
Deed of Trust, dated February 15, 2006, and recorded in Liber
32128 at Page 700 among the land records of the County of
Montgomery, in the original principal amount of $664,000.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, at 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville,
Maryland, on December 2, 2020 at 1:00 PM, all that property
described in said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 06-03395957
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash or
certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum from the
date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS
after the final ratification of the sale.
Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular
assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter
assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association
dues and assessments that may become due after the time
of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title
examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 15-254774.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
NOVEMBER 13, 20, 27, 2020 12323945 the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion,
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, Maryland 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
8803 SEVEN LOCKS RD.
BETHESDA, MD 20817
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Scott
A. Webber a/k/a Scott Webber and Kamla B. Deonauth a/k/a Kamla
Deonauth, dated July 25, 2002 and recorded in Liber 21609, folio 189
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having
occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties
secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court
House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
DECEMBER 2, 2020 AT 11:30 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON situated in Montgomery County, Maryland and more fully
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a
dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of
record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
kind. The property will be sold subject to a prior mortgage, the amount to
be announced at the time of sale.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or
in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their
sole discretion, for $5,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or
servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived.
Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the sale shall be null and void and purchaser's sole remedy shall
final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County,
Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate
of 16.33% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received
in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by
an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the
balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will
be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the
defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from
the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes,
water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an
annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be
adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter
by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association
dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The
purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow,
if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including
agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall
be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey
good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity
shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund
of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser
shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser
shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the
property immediately after the sale. (Matter #18-603499).
Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
ALEX COOPER AUCTS, INC.
908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204
410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com
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Biz Ops/Services: 202-334-5787
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Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC TRUSTEE'S SALE
11900 Parklawn Drive, Ste 310 11900 Parklawn Drive, Ste 310 1714 Cedar Park Road, Annapolis, MD 21401
Rockville, MD 20852 Rockville, MD 20852
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
844-442-2150 844-442-2150
premises known as 1714 Cedar Park Road, Annapolis, MD
TRUSTEES' SALE OF TRUSTEES' SALE OF 21401. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY of Trust, dated June 11, 2008, and recorded in Liber 20522
KNOWN AS KNOWN AS at Page 235 among the land records of the County of Anne
140 Old Enterprise Road Unit 129 5100 Barto Avenue Arundel, in the original principal amount of $544,185.00.
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 Suitland, MD 20746 Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the COUNTY
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated OF ANNE ARUNDEL, at 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland,
September 24, 2015, and recorded in Liber 37490, folio 549, July 24, 2012, and recorded in Liber 33920, folio 473, of the on December 15, 2020 at 4:00 PM, all that property described
of the land records of PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY , with land records of PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, with an original in said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
an original principal balance of $157,500.00, default having principal balance of $230,743.00, default having occurred
occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees will Tax ID# 06-010-08377000
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE'S Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
GEORGE'S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON, affect same, if any.
NOVEMBER 30, 2020 at 2:00 PM DECEMBER 8, 2020 at 2:00 PM TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash or
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The balance
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with
any buildings or improvements thereon situated in PRINCE any buildings or improvements thereon situated in PRINCE of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum from the
GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS
GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more
fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust. fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust. after the final ratification of the sale.
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND, TOGETHER Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular
CONDOMINIUM UNIT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-
WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AND APPURTENANCES assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter
NINE (129) THE "KETTERING CONDOMINIUM", AS ESTAB-
LISHED PURSUANT TO CONDOMINIUM MASTER DEED MADE THEREUNTO, SITUATE AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF assumed by purchaser.
BY MARYLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, INC., A MARY- PRINCE GEORGE'S, STATE OF MARYLAND, KNOWN AS 5100 If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association
LAND CORPORATION DATED SEPTEMBER 1, 1970 AND BARTO AVENUE, SUITLAND, MARYLAND 20746, AND BEING dues and assessments that may become due after the time
RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title
GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND, IN LIBER 3899, FOLIO 459 KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED NINE (9) examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
AND PURSUANT TO THE PLATS AND PLANS FOR KETTERING IN BLOCK LETTERED 'E", IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
CONDOMINIUM DESCRIBED IN SAID MASTER DEED "SECTION 2, AUTH VILLAGE", AS PER PLAT THEREOF are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF SAID COUNTY RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK WWW 27 AT PLAT 21, AMONG THE the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
AND STATE IN CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 53 AT PLATS LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND; property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
NUMBERED 18 THROUGH 22, BOTH INCLUSIVE. SAID PROP- BEING IN THE 6TH ELECTION DISTRICT. AND BEING THE FEE purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
ERTY BEING LOCATED IN THE 7TH ELECTION DISTRICT AS SIMPLE PROPERTY WHICH, BY DEED DATED SEPTEMBER 13, are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
ASSESSED AS UNIT NO.: 129 ON BLOCK 24. SUBJECT TO 2011, AND RECORDED IN THE AFORESAID LAND RECORDS of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD. IN LIBER 33002, FOLIO 352, WAS GRANTED AND CONVEYED Trustee's File No. 20-286507.
THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON BEING KNOWN AS: 140 BY THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
OLD ENTERPRISE ROAD UNIT NUMBERED: 129 UPPER NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
MARLBORO, MD 20774 TAX ID NO.: 07-0801027 CWABS, INC., ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006- Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
The property and improvements will be sold in an "AS IS" 20 (WHICH CORPORATION WAS EITHER THE ORIGINAL
physical condition without warranty of any kind and subject to all MORTGAGEE OR AN ASSIGNEE OF THE ORIGINAL MORT-
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the GAGEE) UNTIL BERNARD MCKOY. TAX MAP NO. 06-0630723
same. The property and improvements will be sold in an "AS IS"
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's deposit of physical condition without warranty of any kind and subject to all
$15,000.00 by cashier's/certified check or such other form as conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the www.hwestauctions.com
same. A181, A316, A311, A182, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463
required at time of sale except for the party secured by the Deed TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's deposit of NOVEMBER 27, DECEMBER 4, 11, 2020 12325466
of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time of auction. $25,000.00 by cashier's/certified check or such other form as 856 MARYLAND
The balance of the purchase price together with interest thereon the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion, Frederick County
at 4.375% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase required at time of sale except for the party secured by the Deed CIRCUIT COURT FOR Roommates
FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND
price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier's check of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time of auction. 100 West Patrick Street SUITLAND- Shr SFH. Fully furn room
Frederick, Maryland 21701 w/ fridge, microwave, CATV & wire-
within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder The balance of the purchase price together with interest thereon Clerk of the Court: 301-600-1976 less internet. $150/wk. 301-310-5663
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There at 3.75% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase Assigment Office: 301-600-2015
VIRGINIA
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier's check Case Number: C-10-CV-19-000218
event that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder JAMES CLARKE Roommates
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes and shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There VS. FAIRFAX- 2 rms. $800 each inc utils.
other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted as of the will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the ROBERT JONES, ET AL. Avail now. prof & respectful person.
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date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. If applicable, event that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if Date: 11/23/2020
any condominium and/or homeowners association dues and settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes and NOTICE OF SALE MD Real Estate
assessments that may become due after the date of sale shall other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted as of the Notice is hereby issued by the Auctions
be purchaser's responsibility. Purchaser shall pay all transfer, date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. If applicable, this 23rd day of November, 2020,
Circuit Court for Frederick County
Absolute Auctions in Baltimore,
documentary and recording taxes/fees and all other settlement any condominium and/or homeowners association dues and that the sale made and recorded Charles, Harford, St Marys,
costs. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the assessments that may become due after the date of sale shall the by James Clarke, for the sale of
property described in these
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deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and property. Time is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser be ratified and confirmed thirty
attorney's fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not convey
(30) days from the date of this
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limited to determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy was title for any reason, purchaser's sole remedy is return of deposit The report states the amount of free informational package and
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limited to determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy was Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 2020 12327420 225 Collectibles
be return of deposit without interest. File No. (19-403769) filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was entered SMALL COLLECTOR PAYS CASH
Brittany M. Taylor, Substitute Trustees into; or loan was reinstated or paid off. In any such even this CIRCUIT COURT FOR
FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND
James E. Clarke, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
v.
Johnnie M. Jones
Defendant
Civil No. CAEF19-39152
NOTICE PURSUANT
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for
Prince George's County, Maryland,
this 6th day of November, 2020,
that the foreclosure sale of the
property described in the deed of
trust docketed herein and located
at 3513 56th Street, Hyattsville,
MD 20784 made and reported by
James E. Clarke, Christine Drexel,
Brian Thomas and Jason Murphy,
Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED
and CONFIRMED, unless cause to
the contrary be shown on or
before the 7th day of December,
2020, provided a copy of this Order
be inserted in The Washington Post
once in each of three (3) succes-
sive weeks before the 7th day of
December, 2020.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the sale at $177,000.00.
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Nov 13, Nov 20 & Nov 27 12324939 of Trust, dated November 8, 2011, and recorded in Liber 33114 premises known as 9594 Basket Ring Road, Columbia, MD trary be shown, provided a copy
of this Notice be inserted in some
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ASDR reg, ready to go, males, $1800.
at Page 556 among the land records of the County of Prince 21045. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed Newspaper published in this Vet checked, shots, worming, will
George's, in the original principal amount of $198,313.00. of Trust, dated August 25, 2003, and recorded in Liber 7582 County, once in each of three (3)
successive weeks.
meet. Blacksburg. Call or text 540-
392-9707 or 540-552-6255
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees at Page 1 among the land records of the County of Howard, The report states the amount of
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the in the original principal amount of $103,225.00. Upon default the sale to be $157,000.00.
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE PM, all that property described in said Deed of Trust including December 17, 2020 at 10:00 AM, all that property described DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA each. Call 540-858-3392
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
54 STONEGATE DR.
but not limited to: in said Deed of Trust including but not limited to: Roommates
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SILVER SPRING, MD 20905
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TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash or TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash or
DECEMBER 9, 2020 AT 11:30 AM
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ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON situated in Montgomery County, Maryland and more fully of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum from the of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum from the shops/laundry. Call 202-403-1465 Home delivery
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS MARYLAND
dwelling.
after the final ratification of the sale. after the final ratification of the sale. makes good
The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to Roommates sense.
conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of
record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any
Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular
kind. assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or assumed by purchaser. assumed by purchaser. FORT WASHINGTON- Lg house to 1-800-753-POST
in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their
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servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived.
Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the
dues and assessments that may become due after the time dues and assessments that may become due after the time
final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title LARGO. 2 large rms avail, furn/ Take The Post for a run.
Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate
of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received
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an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the
balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes,
water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be
adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association
dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit. of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 19-282477. Trustee's File No. 20-286506.
purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow,
if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including
agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees. Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
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852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11900 Parklawn Drive, Ste 310
Rockville, MD 20852
844-442-2150
TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
1864 Severn Grove Road
Annapolis, MD 21401
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
January 17, 2006, and recorded in Liber 20463, folio 442, of
the land records of ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, with an original
principal balance of $251,800.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at THE ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD
21401 ON,
DECEMBER 8, 2020 at 4:00 pm
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN
THE COUNTY OF ANNE ARUNDEL, STATE OF MARYLAND,
AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 1R AS SHOWN ON
A PLAT ENTITLED, "ADMINISTRATIVE PLAT, LOTS 1 %U2013
9, 26 AND RESERVED PARCEL, BLOCK 5, SEVERN GROVE",
WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS
OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK NO. 142 FOLIO
1. THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON BEING KNOWN AS NO.
1864 SEVERN GROVE ROAD. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY
CONVEYED TO DANIEL J. GILDAY AND RAYMOND J. GILDAY
FROM THE BELLE GROVE CORPORATION, BY DEED DATED
JUNE 21, 2002, AND RECORDED ON JUNE 26, 2002, IN LIBER
11619, FOLIO 097.
The property and improvements will be sold in an "AS IS"
physical condition without warranty of any kind and subject to all
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same.
855 855
Charles County Charles County
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11900 Parklawn Drive, Ste 310
Rockville, MD 20852
844-442-2150
TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
140 Kalmia Court
La Plata, MD 20646
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
July 8, 2008, and recorded in Liber 6682, folio 179, of the
land records of CHARLES COUNTY, with an original principal
balance of $162,400.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees will offer for appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument
sale at public auction at THE CHARLES COUNTY COURTHOUSE
LOCATED AT 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE BREEZEWAY
BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA PLATA, MD
20646 ON,
DECEMBER 8, 2020 at 12:00
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in CHARLES
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF
CHARLES, STATE OF MARYLAND AND DESCRIBED AS FOL-
LOWS, THAT IS TO SAY: LOT NUMBERED FIFTY-SIX (56) IN
THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS "PLAT OF RESUBDIVISION,
LOTS 14 TO 31, INCLUDING KALMIA COURT, PARCEL C
& PARCEL D, KENT SQUARE", AS PER PLAT THEREOF
RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK DGB 37, AT FOLIO 121, AMONG
THE LAND RECORDS OF CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND.
The property and improvements will be sold in an "AS IS"
physical condition without warranty of any kind and subject to all
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same.
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's deposit of
$17,000.00 by cashier's/certified check or such other form as
the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion, The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
required at time of sale except for the party secured by the Deed
of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time of auction.
856 856
Frederick County Frederick County
Samuel I. White, P.C.
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
4000 Brushfield Circle
Frederick, MD 21704
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust to GARY BRADLEY, Trustee(s), dated May 25,
2006, and recorded among the Land Records of FREDERICK
COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 6321, folio 0331, the holder
of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having
duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the
party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will
offer for sale at public auction at THE FREDERICK COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, FREDERICK,
MD 21701 ON,
DECEMBER 15, 2020 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in FREDERICK COUNTY, MD and described as
follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE
LOT 15119, SECTIONS M-15 & M-16, CITY OF FREDERICK,
COUNTY OF FREDERICK, STATE OF MARYLAND, AND BEING
MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 15119
AS SHOWN AND SET OUT ON A PLAT ENTITLED "FINAL
PLAT SECTIONS M-15 AND M- 16 LOTS 15092-15098 AND
15116-15123 VILLAGES OF URBANA, URBANA P.U.D" AND
RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FREDERICK
COUNTY, MARYLAND IN PLAT BOOK 79 PAGE 15. BEING
THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO GILBERT TRUJILLO AND
MARIA TRUJILLO FROM NVR INC, BY DEED DATED JANUARY
30, 2006, AND RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 28, 2006, IN LIBER
5879, FOLIO 515 TAX ID# 07-245319
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
873 873
Prince William County Prince William County
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
14543 Stephen Street, Nokesville, VA 20181
Tax ID: 7791-39-9391
In execution of a certain First Balloon Deed of Trust in the original
principal amount of $425,000.00 dated October 17, 2017 and record-
ed on October 19, 2017 among the Land Records of Prince William
County, Virginia as Instrument No. 201710190079041 and as amend-
ed, restated or modified from time to time, (hereinafter "Deed of
Trust"), the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder on December 8, 2020 at 12:30 p.m., at
the main entrance to the Courthouse for the Circuit Court of Prince
William County, 9311 Lee Ave, Manassas, VA 20110, the real property
and improvements described in said Deed of Trust and located at
the street address of 14543 Stephen Street, Nokesville, VA 20181
(“Property”).
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder's deposit of ten percent (10%)
of the sale price in the form of cash or certified funds payable to
the Substitute Trustees must be present at the time of the sale.
The balance of the purchase price will be due within thirty (30)
days of sale, otherwise the deposit may be forfeited to Substitute
Trustees. Time is of the essence. If the sale is set aside for any
reason and or if Substitute Trustees are unable for any reason, in
their sole discretion, to convey title to the Property, the successful
bidder/purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of
the deposit, without interest. The successful bidder/purchaser may,
if provided by the terms of the Substitute Trustees' Memorandum
of Foreclosure Sale, be entitled to a $5.00 cancellation fee from
the Substitute Trustees, but shall have no further recourse against
the noteholder, owner, Substitute Trustees and or counsel for such
parties. Substitute Trustees reserve the right, in their sole discretion,
to (1) announce additional terms at the time of sale, (2) waive or
modify the requirement with respect to the bidder's deposit, (3)
accept or reject any or all bids, (4) extend the time to receive
bids, (5) withdraw the Property from the sale at any time, and
(6) postpone settlement following sale for a reasonable period of
time as determined by Trustee. The information contained herein
was obtained by sources deemed to be reliable but is offered for
informational purposes only. Additional terms, if any, to be announced
at the sale. The sale is subject to seller confirmation.
For more information contact: Mazin I. Elias and Alyssa Davies,
Substitute Trustees, c/o Offit Kurman PC
8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1400, Vienna, Virginia 22182, (703)
745-1800 (Telephone), (703) 745-1835 (Facsimile)
Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2020 12325023
878 878
Stafford County Stafford County
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
321 Belle Plains Road, Falmouth (Stafford County), Virginia 22405
Tax ID No. 55-165
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Purchase Money Deed of
Trust ("Deed of Trust") from Southern Management Asset Services, LLC,
as grantor, to George J. Shapiro, as trustee, dated March 18, 2013 and
recorded on March 25, 2013 at Instrument No. 130007405, among the
land records of Stafford County, Virginia, with an original principal balance
of $150,000.00, as modified by certain Modifications of Note and Deed
of Trust recorded among the land records of Stafford County, Virginia,
increasing the principal balance to $239,418.34, and pursuant to a Deed
of Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing George J. Shapiro as
trustee under the Deed of Trust and appointing Pardo Drazin Auctioneers
LLC ("Substitute Trustee") as substitute trustee under the Deed of Trust,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Substitute Trustee
will sell at public auction at the front door of the Circuit Court of Stafford
County, Virginia, 1300 Courthouse Rd, Stafford, VA 22554, on
DECEMBER 2, 2020 AT 11:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON situated in Stafford County, Virginia, and more fully described
in the aforesaid Deed of Trust, as well as ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY
encumbered by the Deed of Trust (collectively, "Property").
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of ten per centum of the sale price will be
required of the purchaser ("Purchaser") at the time and place of sale.
The deposit must be paid in cash or certified funds. The balance of the
purchase price to be paid in cash or certified funds within twenty (20)
days of the date of sale. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money
at the rate then applicable to the indebtedness secured by the Deed of
Trust from the date of sale to the date of settlement. The party secured
herein, if a bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
The Purchaser shall settle within twenty (20) days of the date of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT BY THE
PURCHASER. In the event that the Purchaser does not settle as required
for any reason, the Purchaser shall be in default. The defaulting Purchaser
shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
resale of the Property, and the deposit shall be forfeited to the Substitute
Trustee and all of the expenses of this sale (including attorneys’ fees and
full commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and paid
out of the forfeited deposit, with any remaining balance of the forfeited
deposit applied to the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. In the
event settlement is delayed for any reason, including, but not limited
to, exceptions to the sale, bankruptcy filings by interested parties, court
administration of the foreclosure, or unknown title defects, there shall be
no abatement of interest. Taxes, ground rent, water and all public charges,
if applicable, are to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the Purchaser. Cost of all documentary stamps,
recordation taxes, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne
by the Purchaser.
The Property will be sold in an "AS IS" condition and subject to recorded
covenants, conditions, restrictions, and agreements, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind (except as required by the Deed of Trust).
If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey title as aforesaid, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund of
the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void and of no effect.
The Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of
the Property. The Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the
Property from the date of sale forward.
The Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in the Substitute Trustee's sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the Property from sale
at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to receive bids,
to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to waive or modify the

TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's deposit of
$20,000.00 by cashier's/certified check or such other form as
the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion,
required at time of sale except for the party secured by the Deed
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The balance of the purchase price together with interest thereon particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition, requirement that interest be paid on the unpaid purchase money, and/or
to extend the period of time for settlement.
at 4.5% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials, Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The Purchaser will be
price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier's check liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer- required to execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustee a memorandum
or contract of the sale at the conclusion of bidding.
within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other
Pardo Drazin Auctioneers LLC, Substitute Trustee

of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time of auction.
The balance of the purchase price together with interest thereon
at 6.875% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase
price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier's check
within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There
supper!
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT:
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
PARDO & DRAZIN, LLC
event that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold Jason A. Pardo, Attorney
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continues to disrupt
everyday life around the
D.C. area and beyond. Due
to the recent surge in
cases, some institutions
that previously reopened
— including the National
Gallery of Art, six
Smithsonian museums
and the National Zoo,
Glenstone, the Kreeger
and the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum — have
closed indefinitely. The
Kennedy Center has
canceled nearly all of its
live performances through
April 25, 2021.
These recommendations
will be a mix of virtual and
in-person events for the
foreseeable future. You
will find the latest
developments at
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coronavirus and updates
on the local entertainment
scene at
goingoutguide.com.
Black Friday
Reimagined
“Black Friday” has a whole
’nother meaning in the craft
beer world, where pun-loving
brewers use the day after
Thanksgiving as an excuse to
release big, boozy dark beers.
Goose Island’s Bourbon
County Stout line is the best
known, but there are
adherents in the Washington
area, too. Ashburn’s Old Ox
Brewery releases four new
bourbon barrel-aged imperial
stouts this weekend, including
variants aged with coffee and
chocolate and hazelnuts. To
truly capture the flavors of the
season, the brewery offers
tasting flights on Friday and
Saturday that pair each stout
with a different type of
s’mores. For social-distancing
reasons, Old Ox offers two
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quarantine for 14 days under
the city’s current guidelines —
unless they’re a 55-foot
spruce. This year’s U.S. Capitol
Christmas Tree was selected
from the Grand Mesa,
Uncompahgre and Gunnison
National Forests in Colorado
and will be adorned by
ornaments made by children
from the Centennial State.(No
word yet on whether an
adorable owl has been found
nestled into the mighty tree, a
la Rockefeller Center.) House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
will light the tree in a
ceremony on Wednesday at 5
p.m., but it might be best to
watch it live on C-SPAN to avoid
the crowds, or pick another
time to visit, as the tree is lit
from sunset until 11 p.m. each
night.
AARON FARRINGTON When: Wednesday at 5 p.m.
Mary Chapin Carpenter’s concert at an empty Filene Center at Wolf Trap starts streaming Friday.
Where: West Lawn of the U.S.
Capitol, First Street and
Mary Chapin Carpenter Constitution Avenue NW.
aoc.gov.
In a normal year, Mary Chapin Carpenter would have barnstormed the nation with her arsenal of Admission: Free.
booming country hits and soulful ballads. The Virginia resident would have made a stop at Wolf Trap,
Let’s Talk Gardens:
as she has done nearly every year in her 30-year career, to a crowd of fans eager to hear songs from
Holiday Wreaths
her latest album, “The Dirt and the Stars.” A nationwide tour wasn’t in the cards this year, but
and Evergreen
Carpenter still got a chance to perform at her hometown venue: The country music legend recorded a Decorations
solo show at an empty Filene Center, and the cheekily titled performance, “One Night Lonely,” will be As you’re decorating for the
holiday season, you might
available to stream from 8 p.m. Friday through midnight on Sunday. (If you miss out this weekend, the
have considered buying a pine
performance will be released as a live album next week.) In press materials, Carpenter says: “As we or fir wreath to hang on your
front door, or a centerpiece for
enter the holiday season, so many of us are apart from the ones we love. I hope this concert — which
the table. But in a year when
will include songs from my first record to my most recent release — will bring us a little closer, until we many people have turned to
can gather again, shoulder to shoulder, celebrating live music once more.” crafting to escape the boredom
of stay-at-home orders,
When: Friday at 8 p.m. wouldn’t it be more fun to
Where: wolftrap.org. make your own seasonal
Tickets: $20-$80. decorations? The DIY experts
from Smithsonian Gardens are
using their weekly Zoom
webcast to cover the basics of
seatings per day, with tickets constructing an evergreen
for groups of two, four or six wreath, and using greenery to
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people at indoor and outdoor make your home more festive.
tables. The presentation includes a
list of supplies, and full videos
When: Friday and Saturday from
are posted on the
noon to 2 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m.
Smithsonian’s website
Where: Old Ox Brewing, 44652 afterward to allow you to re-
Guilford Dr., Ashburn. watch the step-by-step
oldoxbrewery.com. instructions.
Tickets: $20 per person. When: Thursday at noon.
Where: gardens.si.edu.
U.S. Capitol
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required.
Lighting
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Itineraries from a seasoned rapper
In D.C. Dream Day, we ask our favorite people in the area to tell us
how they would spend a perfect day in the District.
Four years ago, Dwayne Lawson-Brown found artistic
inspiration in a most unlikely place: a plate of wings, and an
“abhorrent” excuse for mumbo sauce.
The poet and rapper was dining at a local restaurant with fellow
performer Drew Anderson when the runny, flavorless take on the
iconic D.C. condiment steered them into a dialogue about the flavors
that define their respective hometowns. For Lawson-Brown, a D.C.
native, it was mumbo sauce. For Anderson, who calls New Orleans
home, it was gumbo.
“It really became a conversation about home,” says Lawson-Brown,
36, who co-hosts the long-running open mic Spit Dat DC with
Anderson. “What does it look like, feel like, taste like to have home?”
That conversation led Lawson-Brown and Anderson to create
“From Gumbo to Mumbo,” a fusion of theater, hip-hop and poetry that
debuted last year at the Keegan Theatre. Through Sunday, the duo is
performing a streaming version of the show live from the Keegan
stage, filmed with pandemic-related health and safety measures in
place. Although the 2019 production of “From Gumbo to Mumbo” was
crafted for young audiences, Lawson-Brown describes this version as
a more “adult” performance that responds to the coronavirus
pandemic and the 2020 political climate.
“This is an exploration of humanity through the lens of Black men
who are just trying to claim home,” Lawson-Brown says. “That’s really
what’s at the core of ‘From Gumbo to Mumbo’ — using our voices
through poetry, hip-hop, dance and some random ranting and a lot of
humor to help shape what our experience has been.”
Deciding 24 hours just isn’t enough to do D.C. justice, the Southeast
resident has outlined a pair of perfect days in the District — one
catered to the warmth of spring or summer, and another built around
a brisk day in the fall or winter.
— as told to Thomas Floyd

D.C.
is such a different city depend-
ing on what season it is, so in my
head, I have two different but
equally perfect days. If it’s the
spring or summer, I wake up, have some tea and head
over to the Congress Heights Arts & Culture Center
for yoga. It’s a Black-woman-owned gallery that
features a ton of different art from around the area.
My spring-summer day would be themed around
the south side of the city. I enjoy quiet spaces and I’m
definitely an introvert, so I would head over to the
Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens to take some
photos and take in nature for a little bit. There’s
nowhere else like it, really. Then I would get Good
Hope Carry-Out for some wings and some mumbo
sauce and head to Anacostia Park. I’d eat on the river,
hang out, people watch and maybe crochet, then go to
the skating pavilion and skate a little bit, too.
After some skating and a good meal, I’d go over to
the Fridge DC and take in some more art. They
specialize in that “counterculture is the culture” sort
of art work, and I just always love what they’re
showing. Since I’m in Eastern Market, I’d close out
my spring evening with District Soul Food. Paul
Spires, a good friend of mine, performs go-go, so I
would just vibe out with Paul, eating some soul food
and listening to go-go in the upstairs lounge. 2015 PHOTO BY AMANDA VOISARD FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Or if we’re in fall or winter time frame, I would Henry Washington, 51, an entertainer with the Anacostia Rollers & Friends, glides around the skating pavilion at
start my day by waking up, mashing some apples and Anacostia Park, one of Dwayne Lawson-Brown’s stops during his spring-summer dream day.
making hot cider at the house. My fall-winter day
would be more uptown, so I would visit the U.S.
Botanic Garden — that’s a nice little oasis — and go to
NuVegan Cafe on Georgia Avenue for lunch. I don’t
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know what they do or how they season it, but their

vegan mac and cheese is the answer. They also have a
faux barbecue situation, and the sauce hits so good.
I love hard ciders, so I would hit Capitol Cider
House farther up on Georgia Avenue and pregame
there before heading to Petworth Citizen [which
closed in February to merge with Loyalty Bookstore
next door] for 826DC’s lowercase open mic. There
would be a little bit of performance, and a lot of
listening.
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Then I’d ride the 70 down to Hill Country

Barbecue Market for Rock ’n’ Twang Karaoke with
the HariKaraoke Band. I never would have a career in
singing, but live band karaoke is an experience that I
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think everyone should have at least once — you really

do feel like a rock star. My go-to karaoke song is
“Dream On” by Aerosmith because their lead guitar-
ist nails the riff, and you just feel it. 2011 PHOTO BY REBECCA D’ANGELO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Closing out that evening, I’d slide down to the During the warmer seasons, Lawson-Brown
[National Gallery of Art’s] Sculpture Garden and ice would head to Kenilworth Park & Aquatic
skate. So no matter which day it is, I’m going to skate, Gardens, at left, to take some photos, and in the
I’m going to get some nature and I’m going to have colder seasons, the day would include a stop at
some delicious food with various sauces. Hill Country BBQ for karaoke night on with the
thomas.floyd@washpost.com BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST HariKaraoke Band providing the music.
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The strong force of D.C.-area hip-hop

BY L AWRENCE B URNEY

With the region’s hip-hop and

R&B scene in a state of perpetual
invention, area artists continue to
generate music worthy of nation-
al attention and hometown ado-
ration. This column rounds up
some of the most captivating,
entertaining and essential new
songs, projects and music videos
coming from the DMV — from
Northern Virginia to Baltimore
and everywhere between.
FreakY, “Force”
FreakY sharpened his skills in
the Baltimore alternative scene,
specifically at a now-defunct
warehouse space called the Bell
Foundry where rappers from all
over the region congregated to
establish a rich culture of experi-
mentation. (The standout track
“1539 N. Calvert” from JPEGMA-
FIA, who frequently collaborates
with FreakY, is a homage to the
place.) Like many of the artists
that used the Bell as their unoffi-
cial headquarters, FreakY’s mu-
sic, and the way he presents it,
oscillates between trap, abstract
musings and comedy. TONY LAVOY

On Halloween the Frederick Noochie provides introspective and observant

rapper released his “Red Hot accounts that are radio-ready on “Sense.”
Cheeto Fingers 2” mix tape; the
project’s artwork is a customized
Air Force 1 sneaker that features
an illustration of the Flaming Hot On “Force,” Frederick rapper FreakY lays his rhymes
Cheetos bag. The song titles alone DIAMOND DIXON over echoey synth burps and dirty bass.
(“Struggle Porn,” “Big Ass Telfar
Bag,” and “At The Hiltons Room ensures that any criticism of their
2034,” to name a few) will hook community comes from a place of
you, but you’ll soon find out that love, he raps: “Everybody getting
most have no relation to the old but ain’t nobody getting
lyrical content. grown / How you supposed to be a
“Force,” one of the more con- grown man when you ain’t even
servatively titled tracks, is a your own man?” If the same song
standout. It finds FreakY regurgi- were rapped on a trunk-rattling
tating the media we’re fed on a beat, it may have come off as
regular basis — if not to caution confrontational. But the soft gui-

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us against it, then at least to
convey how maddening it is to
hear the same thing over and
over. Repeated echoey synth
burps and dirty bass are a con-
stant as he rhymes words like
inoculation, self-degradation,
vaccination and military bases in
a muffled delivery.
Politically and socially aware
music isn’t out of FreakY’s typical
approach. Before the 2016 elec-
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Baltimore hip-hop artist Deetranada displays
sharp lyrical acrobatics on “Help!”
Noochie featuring Alex community. Southeast D.C.’s
RIP KNOXX
On “Jill Scott — Loves Me (New Club Waves Edit),”
CalvoMusic adds flair with bongos.
his Instagram feed (@noochie-
tar strums and sparse drums here
suggest a softer, more concerned
look at the world that Noochie is
living in.
Deetranada, “Help!”
The 19-year-old Baltimore rap-
per and former finalist on Jer-
maine Dupri’s teen competition
show, “The Rap Game,” has finally
been able to step into her artistry
as a young adult. Transitioning
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tion, he and JPEGMAFIA
dropped the satirical “I Might
Vote 4 Donald Trump,” a track
that poked fun at the idea of
Vaughn, “Sense”
The DMV has an abundance of
rappers who, regardless of the
subgenre they operate within,
Noochie is distinctive because he
has music that is both raw, street-
level storytelling and something
that you can imagine hearing on a
music) there are freestyles over
beats from songs by Chicago’s
Mick Jenkins, New York’s West-
side Gunn, and Virginia icon
from the spotlight as an adoles-
cent has proved to be a tough go
for many before her — specifically
in hip-hop, where any inclination
NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Trump thinking he’d secure a
victory. The two were off in their
assumption of him losing, but like
“Force,” it showed that FreakY
had a solid grasp on how to make
heads knock while adding assess-
ing much of what’s pushed on us
as a society.
have a relentless work ethic, regu-
larly dropping loose tracks or
even bite-size mix tapes to keep
their listeners occupied. But what
the area doesn’t have is a wealth
of artists who feel as if they’re
groomed for the next level in
terms of having music that’s pal-
atable to people outside of this
sports commercial.
Active on the scene for years,
Noochie favors a traditional, Lil
Wayne-esque approach rather
than what’s trendy in the area.
And because of that, he checks off
all the boxes on the rapper check-
list. Like the New Orleans legend,
no beat is safe with Noochie. On
Pusha T. When he’s not flexing his
muscle in that way, Noochie can
give introspective and observant
accounts that are radio-ready.
“Sense,” from his Halloween-
released “Sneaky Tape,” is an ex-
ample of that. With Prince
George’s County singer Alex
Vaughn handling a chorus that
toward innocence is scoffed at —
but with the music she’s been
releasing over the past 18 months,
it feels like her continued im-
provement is steadily outgrowing
her former role on the show.
Deetranada is a rare talent in
terms of her ability to shape-shift
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and her sharp lyrical acrobatics
make it so that you’re going to be
finding new gems almost every
time you run one of her tracks
back. Her most recent offering,
“Help!,” demonstrates that skill
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sounds almost identical to the
smash hits that JetsonMade has
crafted for DaBaby, with bass hits
that come so quick and often that
they’ll leave you dizzy. Deetrana-
da’s bars are nothing like the guy
from Charlotte, though. On it, she
raps about people feeling her
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scene, and how she’s like bad
knees (because she gets it “crack-
in’ ”).
I Am Northeast, “Touchin’ ”
The way that I Am Northeast —
take a guess as to which D.C.
quadrant he represents — chroni-
cles the emotional toll that life on
the streets can have if you stay in it
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long enough makes the locally be-
loved rapper’s accounts of triumph
so much sweeter. In late October,
he released “Hood President,” his
first mix tape of the year, and like
everything else he’s dropped since
2017, it has a 50/50 balance of
narratives about both the highs
and lows of he’s experienced — if
not just even-keel stories that
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plainly tell things like they are.
“Touchin’ ” falls within that
matter-of-fact storytelling,
though it is packed with humble
brags about how his track record
has afforded him access to just
about everything he could possi-
bly want. At its core, I Am North-
east’s music is classic trap, influ-
enced by the likes of Gucci Mane,
Young Dolph and Young Jeezy:
straightforward, vivid and a man-
ual on what to do and what not to
do if you’re in his world.
CalvoMusic, “Jill Scott —
Loves Me (New Club Waves
Edit)”
In the early weeks of the covid-
19 shutdowns across the country,
a group of young men from Balti-
more went viral for their disre-
gard of the new restrictions. “B----
we is from Baltimore, we don’t
care about no f------ curfew,” one
of them exclaimed into his front-
facing camera. Local club music
producer CalvoMusic took the
short clip and turned it into
2020’s most entertaining club
song by adding the city’s signa-
ture 130BPM sauce to an already
hilarious moment.
Calvo’s newest track isn’t the
attention-grabbing draw that
“B---- We From Baltimore” is, but
it’s significantly more versatile in
terms of when it’d be appropriate
to play. The song is an edit of
veteran Philly singer Jill Scott’s
classic “He Loves Me (Lyzel in E
Flat)” from her 2000 debut album
“Who Is Jill Scott? Words and
Sound Vol. 1.” In Calvo’s version,
the sweet “Oooh’s” from the origi-
nal come at you like overlapping
voices in your head while bongos
and 808s add flair. Tracks like this
show that, with club music, no era
of music is too old for a facelift.
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Washington rapper I Am
Northeast delivers vivid,
straightforward rhymes on
“Touchin’.”
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Tom Sietsema’s online discussion
Q: I loved your recent article
about getting ready to eat in the
cold. Which restaurants do you
recommend with a nice outside
ambiance in D.C.?
A: That was a fun story to report.
It’s not every day that I ring up
an explorer at the South Pole or
the Finnish ambassador. (The
word of the day is kalsarikannit.
Google it.)
Washington restaurants have
been clever with outdoor seating.
Some of my favorite alfresco
dining destinations include
Baan Siam for Thai, Anju for
Korean, Bammy’s for Caribbean,
Convivial for modern French,
Jaleo for Spanish tapas and
Reveler’s Hour for fried chicken
and eclectic wine. Outside of the
District, there’s the road trip-
worthy Thacher & Rye in
Frederick, the subject of a recent
review and the latest attraction
from veteran chef Bryan
Voltaggio.
Q: Do you think you have a duty
to encourage people to not eat
inside, at all? Given the
trajectory of the virus, wouldn’t
be prudent to encourage
everyone to only eat outdoors or
via takeout/delivery? Restaurant
employees deserve to survive,
but that should be in both a
financial and a health-related
sense. Indoor dining puts
everyone at risk unnecessarily.
A: As much as possible, I want
people to experience restaurants
through takeout/delivery or
outside. I agree, those options
are safest for all involved. On the
rare occasion I dine inside an
establishment, I at least like to
point out the safety protocols the
restaurant is following.
Q: We are looking to celebrate
our anniversary on Friday with
Italian takeout. Any price point
is okay. We honeymooned in
Rome, and cacio e pepe has a
special place in our hearts, so a
bonus if that is on the menu. Any
suggestions for D.C. or close-in
Montgomery County?
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Reveler’s Hour co-owner Bill Jensen presents a table with several
types of wine. The restaurant makes flavorful fried chicken.
Baan Siam in Northwest D.C. is among the area restaurants with appealing outdoor seating. Other spots
with alfresco options are Anju, Bammy’s, Convivial, Jaleo and Frederick’s Thatcher & Rye.
A: The Roman classic, made
with cracked black pepper and
pecorino cheese, can be found at
Holiday
the cozy Al Tiramisu in Dupont
Circle, among other spots. Can I
help you fall in lust with a
different but divine pasta,
though? Because the pappardelle
with chestnut, white Bolognese,
sage and Parmesan at
Centrolina in CityCenter is
something special. The
restaurant has lovely outdoor
seating to recommend it, too,
and is now open for lunch on
Thursdays and Fridays.
Q: I have a one-year dating
anniversary coming up in
December and hopefully it will
still be just warm enough or I
can find a place with heating to
eat outdoors. Where would you
go? I’m thinking about choosing
between Fiola (including the
rooftop experience) or Masseria’s
pergola, but let me know if there
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is another place I should be
thinking of. Outdoors,
pescatarian friendly, and good
wine list are the only
requirements here.
A: You have some great ideas
there, but let me throw a third
into the mix: Del Mar, the
dashing Spanish restaurant from
the same owner as Fiola. I
haven’t dined there since March,
but I recently got takeout from
Del Mar, and boy, was it ever
impressive. Splurge on the tuna-
stuffed peppers, frothy butternut
squash soup and a paella strewn
with lobster, mussels and more.
Q: We live in D.C. and are
celebrating our 10th wedding
anniversary. We are pescatarian
(we eat fish with fins/scales) and
are willing to eat indoor or
outdoor. Our first thought was
Rose’s Luxury, but unfortunately,
their current menu doesn’t fall
within our dietary restrictions.
We are willing to drive for this
SCOTT SUCHMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST occasion. Do you have any
recommendations?
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A: One of my favorite places for
anything from the water is Pesce
in Dupont Circle. It’s casual but
smart — the menu is written on a
chalkboard — and chef-owner
Andrew LaPorta does amazing
things with fish. He uses sushi-
grade tuna for his tartare, brings
in delicacies such as wild Danish
turbot and makes a lovely goat
cheese cheesecake. I’m a big fan
of the walnut-crusted walleye
and the three-course lobster
special for $45. Depending on
the weather, you can dine on the
sidewalk.
Q: I realize this is out of your
primary area but can you
recommend a guide to
restaurants on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland?
A: Eastern Shore is part of my
territory, thank goodness. Before
the pandemic, I made the trek
across the bridge and dined at
Bas Rouge. Add it to your road
trip roster. The place is formal
but fun. Delicious, too.
Q: I’m meeting co-workers for
lunch and would like to dine on a
heated patio. We are open to all
cuisines and price points but
would like to stay close-ish to
downtown (Shaw, U Street, Penn
margaritas? Emilie’s has
morphed into Paraiso, with an
entirely different theme:
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experience from Sababa in
Cleveland Park. The food was
delicious — we are still talking
about the charred eggplant! —
plus the staff on the phone were
knowledgeable and helpful, it
was ready right on time, and
everything was thoughtfully
packaged. Their takeout menu is
more limited, but they had
clearly selected options that
would travel better.
restaurant in Cleveland Park.
Count me a fan of the bastilla —
a round of phyllo bursting with
cumin- and cinnamon-laced
mushrooms, potatoes and
onions — in particular. To your
point, I can’t think of many
restaurants that are offering
their full, pre-pandemic menus.
Businesses are trying to buy
only as many ingredients as
they think they can cook and
sell and working with reduced
staffs.
Virginia that have heaters for
outdoor dining during the
pandemic. American Prime in
Tysons is good. Others?
A: In Great Falls, there’s the
tented-and-heated terrace
outside the charming Jacques’
Brasserie. The food is old-school
(savory crepes, soft meringue in
a pool of vanilla custard sauce)
and delicious.
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Still plenty
of cheer for
the holidays
A list of things to do, every day
from now until Christmas
BY F RITZ H AHN
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he lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the
Ellipse, and the resulting traffic jams. The model
train display at the U.S. Botanic Garden. “A
Christmas Carol” at Ford’s Theatre. Singing along with
Handel’s “Messiah” at the Kennedy Center, after waiting
in the long line for free tickets.
For people who live in the Washington area, these
annual events are as much a part of the holidays as
gathering around a table with family. You may have gone
to them as a child. You may have brought your own
children, too.
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
But this year, the National Christmas Tree’s lights will
switched on during an online ceremony. There’s no
“Messiah” at the Kennedy Center. Ford’s Theatre’s stage
will be dark and empty.
Don’t worry: The coronavirus, like the Grinch, can’t
steal the true spirit of the season. We may admire
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colorful light displays from the safety of our cars, or
watch the Rat King leap across our television screens,
but there is no shortage of opportunities to feel merry
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and bright. For every day from Black Friday to Christmas
Day, we’ve found at least one seasonal experience taking
place virtually or in real life. To make celebrating even
easier, many of the virtual events are available for more
than one night, in case they conflict with a work holiday
party on Zoom — or you need an excuse to duck out early.
(Even in a pandemic, some things never change.)
* Events marked with an asterisk
take place in person.
Nov. 27
Downtown Holiday Market *
Now in its 16th year, the popular
Penn Quarter shopping destina-
tion has expanded to encourage
social distancing. F Street NW has
been blocked off between Seventh
and Ninth streets to make room
for 60 vendors, including booths
focusing on local fashion design-
ers and Black- and minority-
owned businesses. Noon to 8 p.m.
through Dec. 23 (closed Nov. 30,
Dec. 7 and 14). Entrance in front of
the National Portrait Gallery,
Eighth and F streets NW. Free.
Nov. 28
Mount Vernon Winter Glow *
The annual Mount Vernon by Can-
dlelight is canceled this year, but
you can still visit the festively lit
grounds of George Washington’s
estate, listening to carolers, watch-
ing interactive demonstrations,
and meeting Aladdin the Camel —
yes, Washington once rented a cam-
el to entertain Christmas guests —
and a troupe of Revolutionary War
reenactors. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on
Nov. 27-29 and Dec. 11-13 and 26-28.
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial
Hwy., Mount Vernon. $25-$45.
Nov. 29
Holiday Movies at
the Wharf Transit Pier *
Even if you’ve lost track of the
number of times you’ve seen “Elf”
and “A Christmas Story,” it’s still fun
to gather around a crackling fire
and watch them on a 20-foot
screen. The $60 ticket to the
Wharf’s outdoor holiday film series
gets you up to four Adirondack
chairs arranged around a private
fire pit, and you can order food and
drinks from the waterfront Canti-
na Bambina. A different classic
movie is shown every weekend,
starting with “Home Alone” from
Nov. 27-29, and then every day from
Dec. 26 to 31. Screenings on Fridays
(6 p.m.), Saturdays (2 and 6 p.m.)
and Sundays (2 p.m.) through Dec.
20. 970 Wharf St. SW. $60.
Nov. 30
Ice Skating at Pentagon Row *
While Pentagon Row is home to the
largest outdoor ice rink in North-
ern Virginia, it can still get a little
busy on weekends, thanks to skat-
ing lessons and group outings, as
well as a restricted capacity that
only allows 50 people at once. Visit
on a weeknight for an experience as
smooth as freshly Zambonied ice,
and hit a nearby restaurant for
happy hour after. Open daily
through March. 1201 S. Joyce St.,
Arlington. $9-$10, $5 skate rental.
Dec. 1
D.C. Holiday Lights *
It’s no secret that small businesses
have suffered during the pandem-
ic. A dozen neighborhood Main
Street organizations in the District
have joined forces to encourage
residents to get out and explore
shops and restaurants during the
holiday season. Stroll one of the
festively decorated strips, includ-
ing Georgia Avenue, Mount Pleas-
ant and Logan Circle, for discounts
and participate in a scavenger
hunt, then cast your vote for the
neighborhood with the most spir-
it. Through Dec. 31. Free.
Dec. 2
Give a Can, Get a Can at Pizzeria
Paradiso *
Many people feel extra generous at
this time of year, and so do bars.
Since 2011, Pizzeria Paradiso has
held fundraisers for local nonprofit
Martha’s Table. Give a Can, Get a
Can is the most popular: Bring a
can of low-sodium pasta sauce,
vegetables or salmon (among other
items) to any of the popular Nea-
politan pizza restaurant’s locations
on Dec. 2, and you can trade it for a
can of beer to take home. Two cans
are good for two beers, but custom-
ers do need to purchase a food item
to help Paradiso meet legal re-
quirements. It’s a delicious way to
do good for others. Locations in
Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Spring
Valley and Hyattsville. Free.
Dec. 3
National Christmas Tree Lighting
The first National Christmas Tree
at the White House was lit by
President Calvin Coolidge in 1923.
(The current specimen isn’t that
old — the Colorado blue spruce
was transplanted to the Ellipse
last fall.) This year’s official light-
ing ceremony is taking place on-
line, but the public can still visit
the tree, and the 56 smaller trees
representing states, territories
and the District, in person through
MICHAEL KEY December. Available for stream-
ing at thenationaltree.org. Free.
Dec. 4
U.S. Army Band Holiday
Festival: Latin Jazz
The U.S. Army Band will post new
videos on Friday afternoons
through Dec. 18 as part of its
American Holiday Festival. Differ-
ent ensembles and styles of music
are featured each week, but one of
the most intriguing finds legend-
ary jazz trumpeter Arturo San-
doval and percussionist Pedrito
Martinez lending Cuban flair to a
program of jazz and holiday music
performed by the 18-piece U.S.
Army Blues band. Available for
streaming starting at 4 p.m. at
usarmyband.com. Free.
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Gay Men’s Chorus of
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s annual holiday show is one of the many traditional performances that will go Washington Holiday Show
virtual this year; unlike last year’s National Christmas Tree Lighting, this year’s ceremony will be online; the people who gather this year at the A holiday extravaganza like no
Ellipse near the White House for the National Chanukah Menorah Lighting will be subject to social-distancing guidelines. other, the Gay Men’s Chorus of
Washington’s annual cabaret
blends traditional choral works,
finger-snapping a cappella, high-
kicking dance routines and saucy
seasonal novelty tunes into a show
that balances quiet and beautiful
moments with laugh-out-loud
production numbers. This year’s
virtual offering, which includes
greatest hits from the group’s pre-
vious shows, features an at-home
singalong. Available for stream-
ing Dec. 5-20 at gmcw.org. $25.
Dec. 6
The Washington Ballet’s
Nutcracker Tea Party @Home
The Washington Ballet isn’t stag-
ing a full version of “The Nut-
cracker” this year, but it is keep-
ing a favorite tradition alive: an
afternoon tea for the ballet’s
youngest fans. The Sugar Plum
Fairy and the Dew Drop Fairy
make appearances in a special
video, which features excerpts
from the 2019 staging of “The
Nutcracker” at the Warner Thea-
tre; a make-at-home Nutcracker
craft project; and a special “live”
performance. (A list of the sup-
plies for the craft project will be
posted on the Ballet’s website and
social media.) “We’re encourag-
ing people to have fun and spend
a nice afternoon together, as if we
were all at the Willard in our
Sunday finest,” says the Washing-
ton Ballet’s Karen Shepherd.
Available for streaming starting
at 3 p.m. through the end of the
month on Washington Ballet’s
YouTube channel. Free.
Dec. 7
Tail Lights at Merriweather
Symphony of Lights *
On most nights, visitors to the
Symphony of Lights in Columbia
admire the animated displays of
more than 300,000 bulbs from
the warmth of their cars, driving
the one-mile course while listen-
ing to seasonal music. Not on Dec.
7, though, when customers are
allowed to walk on a path through
the lights with their leashed dogs.
(Festive costumes are encouraged
for both humans and canines.)
5:30 to 7:30 p.m., with admission
at 10-minute intervals. 10475 Lit-
tle Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia.
$10. Tickets must be purchased in
advance.
Dec. 8
Epiphany Choir Christmas Concert
The Church of the Epiphany can’t
hold concerts in its historic
downtown building, but that
hasn’t stopped the church’s long-
running lunchtime concert se-
ries. Performances by musicians
and vocalists are filmed in the
church, with stained glass win-
dows serving as a backdrop, and
posted to the church’s YouTube
channel at 12:10 p.m. on Tues-
days, when concerts traditionally
begin. This performance finds the
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Epiphany Choir paired with the
baroque ensemble Modern Mu-
sick for a program that includes
pieces by Henry Purcell, David
Willcocks and Bolivian baroque
composers. Available for stream-
ing starting at 12:10 p.m. at
epiphanydc.org. Free.
Dec. 9
Floral Design How-To: Holiday
Blooms at Hillwood
A colorful spray of flowers makes
any home feel instantly festive.
Learn the secrets of holiday decor
from Ami Wilber, the floral design-
er at the Hillwood Estate, during a
Zoom seminar and Q&A session.
Work with blooms and greenery
you’ve gathered yourself, or preor-
der a package of materials that
includes roses, carnations and
winter greens that can be picked
up at Hillwood before the pro-
gram. (Note: This class repeats on
Dec. 11.) 6:30 p.m. at hillwoodmu-
seum.org. $12; $72 with materials.
Dec. 10
The First Night of Hanukkah
Expect Hanukkah celebrations to
be socially distanced and muted
this year. Washington is home to
two large menorah displays — the
National Menorah on the Ellipse,
which is scheduled to be lit in a
ceremony beginning at 4 p.m., and
a menorah at the Wharf’s District
Square, lit between 5 and 6 p.m.
each night during the Festival of
Lights. Those who would rather
not go to a public lighting can join
the Edlavitch DC Jewish Commu-
nity Center, the Pozez Jewish
Community Center of Northern
Virginia, and the Bender Jewish
Community Center of Greater
Washington for 8 Nights of Lights,
a virtual nightly lighting cer-
emony (5:30 p.m., free). At Sixth
and I, the Count Every Night virtu-
al party on Dec. 10 includes Ha-
nukkah songs, games and a meno-
rah lighting, as well as socializing
— recipes for Hanukkah cocktails
are provided (7 p.m., $12).
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Dec. 11
Bad Santa at Park Up DC *
Universal Pictures passed on the
Coen Brothers’ “Bad Santa” after
reading the script, which they
described as “the most foul, dis-
gusting, misogynistic, anti-
Christmas, anti-children thing
we could imagine,” according to
eventual producer Bob Wein-
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stein. No wonder the story of an
alcoholic safecracker who dou-
bles as a mall Santa has become a
cult classic. “Bad Santa” plays at
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Park Up DC, the pop-up drive-in
theater located in an RFK Sta-
dium parking lot, on Dec. 11 and
17. If your tastes run to more
traditional feel-good holiday fare,
“This Christmas” is featured on
Dec. 12. 9:10 p.m. 2400 East Capi-
tol St. NE . $29-$45.
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D.C. Holiday Cocktail Seminar
If you find yourself staying in
more during the holidays, you
might find yourself in a cocktail
rut, making the same old drinks
again and again. Let the annual
D.C. Holiday Cocktail Seminar in-
troduce you to a few new and
classic beverages, whipped up by
some of D.C.’s most talented bar-
tenders and ambassadors for spir-
its brands. Hosted by author Phil-
ip Greene, this is as easy as it gets:
On Friday afternoon, you pick up
six premixed cocktails in individu-
al pouches from Last Call, near
Union Market. Then, during the
event, as the mixologists demon-
strate and discuss their seasonal
cocktails on screen, you just sit
back and sip. (Greene says that
some cocktails may involve shak-
ing or heating the liquid, but noth-
ing more complicated than that.)
Note: A version of this event with a
different set of bartenders takes
place on Dec. 11. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Tickets available via event-
brite.com. $50.
Dec. 13
Holidays at the White House
Each first lady puts her own spin
on the White House’s holiday
decor, which has included trees
decorated with “Nutcrack-
er”-themed ornaments, military
patches and wooden folk art. In
this online presentation, orga-
nized by Smithsonian Associates,
historian and author Coleen
Christian Burke discusses how
themes have been selected in dif-
ferent administrations, as well as
the role first pets have played. 10
a.m. to noon at smithsonianasso-
ciates.org. $25-$30.
Dec. 14
‘A Christmas Carol:
The Radio Play’
“A Christmas Carol” has been the
featured seasonal entertainment
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
at Ford’s Theatre since 1979, and
while it’s not possible for audienc-
es to pack into the seats to watch
Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit
and the ghosts, Ford’s isn’t giving
up on Dickens yet. Instead of
filming the play, Ford’s has adapt-
ed the story into a one-hour radio
play, with actor Craig Wallace
reprising his frequent stage role
. FRIDAY,
as Scrooge. Members of Ford’s
Theatre can hear the broadcast
starting Dec. 7, while the public
can listen beginning Dec. 14.
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Available for streaming Dec. 7
through Jan. 1 at fords.org. Free.
Dec. 15
Seasonal Music from
the U.S. Botanic Garden:
Cantor Arianne Brown
Though the U.S. Botanic Gardens’
popular Season’s Greenings train
display won’t be unpacked this
year, the tradition of having live
music on Tuesday evenings con-
tinues. In celebration of Hanuk-
kah, the featured performer is
Arianne Brown, the senior cantor
at Adas Israel in Cleveland Park.
Brown has performed in “Fiddler
on the Roof” and “The Fantas-
tiks”; sung at Carnegie Hall and
Lincoln Center; and released a
CD of Yiddish love songs. 5:30
p.m. at usbg.gov. Free.
Dec. 16
Step Afrika!’s Magical Musical
Holiday Show
Is your TV big enough to hold
Step Afrika!’s Magical Musical
Holiday Show? The local dance
troupe mixes stepping, a form of
dance driven by stomping and
clapping, with African dance, hip-
hop and marching band preci-
sion. Its annual holiday perform-
ance, with propulsive rhythms
and audience participation danc-
es, is one of the most energetic
JATI LINDSAY and inspiring in town. Step Afrika
brings the show to YouTube and
Facebook Live free this year, with
performances by DJ Frosty the
Snowman and mascots Popper
the penguin and Pinky and Polo
the polar bear twins. Available
for streaming starting at 7:30
p.m. through Jan. 1 at stepafri-
ka.org. Free.
Dec. 17
Sippin’ Santa Holiday Tiki Bar *
JATI LINDSAY
Archipelago’s annual transforma-
tion into a Christmas-themed
surf shack has been overshad-
owed by other holiday bars in
recent years, but it’s time for the U
Street tiki bar to shine. The own-
ers closed the bar before Thanks-
giving to revamp the patio, creat-
ing more covered, heated outdoor
seating. The focus will remain on
cocktails heavy on dark rum and
fruit juices, though punched up
with nutmeg or ginger spices, and
you’ll be able to drink the concoc-
tions from ceramic mugs showing
hula-dancing reindeer or Santa
RANDY SCHMIDT wearing flip-flops and shades. Ar-
chipelago’s owners are cognizant
FROM TOP: Step that not everyone wants to eat
Afrika!’s annual and drink outdoors at the mo-
Magical Musical ment, so they plan to offer cock-
Holiday Step will tail boxes featuring the seasonal
stream online; beverages, including themed tiki
Archipelago will glasses, for takeout and delivery.
again host its Starts Dec. 1. 1201 U St. NW.
Sippin’ Santa Cocktail prices vary.
Holiday Tiki Bar;
actors Craig
Wallace, left, and Dec. 18
Paul Morella play Smithsonian at 8
Scrooge in virtual Winter Solstice Celebration
performances of One of the longest nights of the
“A Christmas year is the perfect excuse for
Carol” at Ford’s Smithsonian at 8 to host an after-
Theatre and Olney hours party. The group has
Theatre, planned a full slate of virtual activi-
respectively. ties mimicking its popular in-per-
son gatherings, including stargaz-
ing with the George Mason Univer-
MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST sity Observatory; a curator talk
about how various cultures mark

the solstice; workshops on making
cocktails and assembling cheese-
boards; team trivia; and music by
DJ Trayze. (A list of cocktail ingre-
dients will be provided in advance,
and participants have the option of
ordering cheeseboard supplies
from Brightwood’s Cheesemonster
Studio.) 7:30 to 11 p.m. at smithso-
nianassociates.org. $12 until Nov.
28, then $15.
Dec. 19
Wolf Trap Holiday Sing-a-Long
From Home
While families won’t pack the
Filene Center to sing merrily with
local choral groups and “The Presi-
dent’s Own” United States Marine
Band this year, Wolf Trap is helping
replicate the experience at home.
The streaming broadcast includes
prerecorded performances by the
Marine Band, and singalong ver-
sions of carols and Hanukkah
songs. (A different virtual perform-
ance will take place on Dec. 5.) 4
p.m. at wolftrap.org. Free.
Dec. 20
The Cathedral Choral Society’s
‘Joy of Christmas’
The Cathedral Choral Society has
been hosting its “Joy of Christ-
mas” concerts at Washington Na-
tional Cathedral since 1976, and
that experience shows in the pro-
gram, which was recorded live at
the Cathedral: There are crowd-
pleasers, including “O Come All
Ye Faithful” and “Hark! The Her-
ald Angels Sing” sung by a 20-per-
son chorus; quartets performing
the 16th century “Coventry Carol”
and Holst’s 20th century arrange-
ment of “In the Bleak Midwinter”;
and a solo organ version of the
spiritual “Go Tell it on the Moun-
tain.” Available for streaming
starting at 3 p.m. at cathedralcho-
ralsociety.org. Free.
Dec. 21
National Symphony Orchestra
Holiday Pops Concert
While the Kennedy Center has
canceled most in-person perform-
ances through April 25, a trio of
concerts by the National Sympho-
ny Orchestra are being recorded
in the Concert Hall in December.
The one to note is the annual NSO
Holiday Pops program, conduct-
ed by Steven Reineke: Prior years
have included “All I Want for
Christmas is You” and “Jingle Bell
Rock” alongside freshly arranged
standards. The concert takes
place on Dec. 18, and will be
posted on the Kennedy Center’s
website the following day. Avail-
able for streaming starting Dec. 19
at kennedy-center.org. Free.
Dec. 22
Christmas with
the Folger Consort
The virtual holiday program by
the Folger Shakespeare Library’s
13
PG
early-music ensemble includes
Bach’s Cantata No. 140 (“Wachet
auf,” or “Sleepers Wake”), a selec-
tion of seasonal works by 17th
Century German composer Mi-
chael Praetorius, and a mix of
English and American traditional
carols, performed with strings,
woodwinds and a vocal quartet.
Available for streaming Dec. 11
through Jan. 5. at folger.edu.
$25-$50.
Dec. 23
‘A Christmas Carol’ at
Olney Theatre Center
Paul Morella really immerses him-
self in “A Christmas Carol” during
the holiday season: Not only did
he adapt and direct this one-man
performance, he portrays dozens
of characters throughout. He has
brought Dickens’s tale to life at
Olney since 2010, and this year, it’s
available to purchase and watch
“as many times as you like” at
home. Available for streaming
VADIM SLATVITSKIY Dec. 15 through Jan. 3 at olneythe-
atre.org. $15-$20.
Dec. 24
Manassas Ballet Theatre’s
‘The Nutcracker’
Staging “The Nutcracker” during
a pandemic presents a number of
challenges. For the Manassas Bal-
let Theatre, which is releasing a
recording of its annual produc-
tion, it’s a numbers game. For
social distancing reasons, a maxi-
mum of 20 dancers can be on-
stage at George Mason’s Hylton
Performing Arts Center at the
same time, so artistic director
Amy Wolf had to modify the
staging, cutting the number of
snowflakes in half. Rehearsals
presented their own problems,
but some of the paired dancers
are husband-and-wife duos or
live in the same household, which
allows them to practice in close
contact. Still, Wolf is excited for
the company, which will release
two versions with different casts
on Christmas Eve and Christmas
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WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL Day. Viewers from as far as Aus-
tralia and Italy have tuned in for
FROM TOP: The other performances, and Wolf
Manassas Ballet plans to make all of the compa-
rehearses for its ny’s shows available online in the
virtual future. Available for streaming
performance of for 30 days starting at 7:30 p.m.
“The Nutcracker”; at manassasballet.org. $25.
the Cathedral
Choral Society
was recorded in Dec. 25
October for “Joy Christmas Day Organ Recital at
. FRIDAY,
of Christmas”; the Washington National Cathedral
Folger Consort Let Washington National Ca-
will stream its thedral’s 10,547-pipe organ pro-
holiday concert vide the soundtrack to your
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
starting Dec. 11. Christmas Day, whether you’re
opening presents, preparing
lunch, or just settling in for a
quiet afternoon. Organists Thom-
as Sheehan and George Fergus
present an hour-long program of
festive melodies. Noon to 1 p.m. at
BRITTANY DILIBERTO cathedral.org. Free.
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Small Axe    
Micheal Ward, left, and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn in “Lovers Rock,” the second installment of “Small Axe,” Steve McQueen’s series of five films.
McQueen’s finely honed anthology
Auteur’s five-film series
is a powerful act of
restorative justice
BY A NN H ORNADAY
I
n “Lovers Rock,” we see a
young woman surreptitiously
sneaking out of a house, her
shoes in her hand. Mean-
while, a group of young men clear
furniture from the main room of
another London house, making
way for a turntable and speakers.
In the kitchen, women begin to
prepare curried goat and callaloo,
laughing and singing as they
bump into each other in the bus-
tling, cramped space.
It’s not immediately clear
what’s going on here. But in the
sensitive hands of filmmaker
Steve McQueen, the point of
“Lovers Rock” becomes mesmer-
izingly clear. Since making his
astonishing feature debut in
2008 with “Hunger,” McQueen —
whose 2013 film “12 Years a Slave”
won best picture — has devel-
oped a cinematic language all his
own. It’s a vernacular that’s si-
multaneously expansive and mi-
croscopically detailed; ruthless,
and filled with tenderness and
compassion. And it’s purely vis-
ual, especially when it comes to
the way McQueen — whose roots
are in the contemporary art
world — observes and deploys
Shaun Parkes in “Mangrove,” which chronicles the 1971
trial of a cafe owner charged with inciting to riot.
the human figure.
McQueen’s vocabulary is on
particularly glorious display in
this lambent gem of a film. “Lov-
ers Rock” takes place over the
course of one night in West Lon-
don’s West Indian community in
1980, when the titular musical
style — a sensuous reggae sub-
genre — was at its height. As the
film’s characters congregate to
dance, eat, drink and flirt, an
everyday house party becomes
something soaring and transcen-
dent, an earthy celebration of
freedom, self-expression and ro-
DES WILLIE/AMAZON PRIME WILL ROBSON SCOTT/AMAZON PRIME
John Boyega’s officer tries to change the
system in “Red, White and Blue.”
mance that feels less like a movie dance with a charismatic stranger
than an ecstatic trance. named Franklyn (Micheal Ward),
If there’s a plot to “Lovers and the night unfolds before them
Rock,” it centers on Martha (Ama- with the beckoning allure of the
rah-Jae St. Aubyn), the young unknown.
woman we see at the film’s begin- That sense of enticement also
ning. She and her friend Patty comes with an element of danger;
(Shaniqua Okwok) meet at a near- the viewer is never quite sure
by playground then make their when the escalating energy might
way to the party, which is in full spill into violence, especially
swing when they get there. Mc- where the men are concerned. But
Queen, who wrote the script with that sense of destabilization feels
Courttia Newland, has a keen eye just as true to life as the pure
for the subtle come-hither glances pleasure that McQueen luxuriates
and furtive gestures of seduction: in and invites the audience to
Eventually, Martha begins to share, whether in the perfectly
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PG
PARISA TAGHIZEDEH/AMAZON PRIME
curated clothes, furnishings and
textures that form the movie’s
gorgeous backdrop, or a stunning
moment, midway through the
proceedings, when a popular song
comes on and the partygoers
break into their own rapturous a
cappella version.
It’s a levitating sequence, and
typical of McQueen’s gift for com-
position, pacing and liltingly
graceful camera movements: As a
heart-stopping juncture, it’s of a
piece with the unbroken 17-min-
ute shot in “Hunger” when IRA
activist Bobby Sands debates with
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a priest over the morality of em-
barking on the hunger strike he
knew might kill him. And it’s
consistent with the patience and
assurance with which McQueen
has composed “Small Axe,” the
five-film anthology of which “Lov-
ers Rock” is the second install-
ment.
Although “Lovers Rock” is
based on McQueen’s memories of
the “Blues parties” he and his
. FRIDAY,
family attended (Martha is in-
spired by one of his aunts), the
other films in “Small Axe” are
much more specific and fact-
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
based: “Mangrove,” which de-
buted last week, chronicled the
1971 trial of cafe owner Frank
Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), who
had been routinely harassed by
the London police until being ar-
rested for incitement to riot; “Red,
White and Blue” stars John Boye-
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New movies available
online 18
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Opening next week
Frances McDormand plays
a woman who has lost
everything in the Great
Recession in Nomadland.
A fairy-tale wedding is
threatened by the groom’s
cancer in All My Life.
Two men who have just
discovered that they’re
related take a road trip in
Half Brothers.
Editor’s note: Several movie
theaters in Northern Virginia
and Maryland have re-
opened, with policies in place
to make moviegoing a safer
experience. These policies in-
clude: reduced auditorium
seating capacity and socially
distanced concession check-
out; enhanced cleaning pro-
tocols and hand-washing by
employees; mask require-
ments (except while guests
are eating or drinking in the
auditorium). For more infor-
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
mation on specific policies
that have been implemented
— and such perks as contact-
less concession ordering, via
Showplace Icon’s Icon Extras
app — visit amcthe-
atres.com, cinemark.com,
bowtiecinemas.com,
angelikafilmcenter.com/mo-
saic, cinemaartstheatre.com,
. FRIDAY,
universitymalltheatres.com
and showplaceicon.com. Re-
gal Cinemas recently an-
nounced the temporary clo-
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sure of all its theaters, while
the AMC and Cinemark
chains plan to remain open
for now. Theaters in the Dis-
trict remain closed.
The Croods: A New Age    
Neanderthal story with some smarts
The animated sequel
centers on a clash
between cultures
BY M ICHAEL O ’ S ULLIVAN
For anyone who missed “The
Croods,” — the animated 2013
comedy about the survival strug-
gles of a family of cave-dwelling
Neanderthals — and their en-
counter with a more advanced
hominid, in the form of the Ryan
Reynolds-voiced Guy — the new
sequel opens with a brief pro-
logue, bringing us up to speed for
the next chapter in this highly
fanciful retelling of the Dawn of
Man. As “The Croods: A New Age”
gets underway, the titular family
— Nicolas Cage and Catherine
Keener as Grug and Ugga Crood,
with Emma Stone as their now-
besotted teenager daughter Eep,
all gaga for Guy — have piled onto
the back of their rainbow-hued
saber-toothed tiger (other family
members in tow) to explore the
world beyond their humble cav-
ern.
The film’s central tension aris-
es when the protagonists run into
the Bettermans, a family as
evolved as the Croods are primi-
tive, who live in a paradisiacal
encampment with bedding,
showers and the like. They’re
gatherers to the Croods’ hunters,
and the culture clash between the
two clans fuels the serviceable
narrative.
A side plot involves the roman-
tic rivalry between Eep and the
adolescent Dawn Betterman (Kel-
ly Marie Tran), whose social-
climbing parents (Peter Dinklage
and Leslie Mann) think that Guy
is a better match for their child
than he is for Eep and her knuck-
le-dragging kin. The theme of
female empowerment — centered
on the growing friendship be-
SMALL FROM 15
ga as Leroy Logan, the son of a
similarly oppressed West Indian
immigrant who tried to change
the system from within by becom-
ing a police officer; “Alex Wheatle”
tells the real-life story of a young
Brixton man who overcame aban-
donment, neglect and harrowing
persecution to become a popular
children’s book author. The most
personal film of the series, “Edu-
cation,” tacks closely to Mc-
TOP: In the animated
sequel “The Croods: A
New Age,” a family of
Neanderthals meets a
more evolved family.
Actors providing the
voices include Nicolas
Cage, Catherine Keener,
Peter Dinklage, Leslie
Mann, Cloris Leachman,
Clark Duke and Kailey
Crawford. ABOVE: Rival
teens Eep Crood, left,
and Dawn Betterman are
voiced by Emma Stone
and Kelly Marie Tran,
respectively.
Queen’s own childhood, during
which he was almost lost to Eng-
land’s punishingly caste-based
school system.
Singly and taken together, the
films of “Small Axe” create a po-
tent portrait of individuals, as
well as an entire community, that
have been virtually erased from
the cinematic record, along with
the suffering they endured from a
cruel and hostile system. Along-
side those tales of oppression and
resistance, “Lovers Rock” pro-
tween Eep and Dawn, and incor-
porating some climactic heroics
on the part of other female char-
acters, including Eep’s grand-
mother (Cloris Leachman) —
tempers the dumb, throwback
dynamic of two girls fighting over
a boy.
Ugga, indeed.
A scene in which Eep and
Dawn go out joyriding on the
Croods’ big cat — and from which
Dawn returns loopy on bee ven-
om after a sting — establishes
that this tale is not going to cling
to fossilized cliche.
But the anarchic spirit of the
film suggests the screenwriters
vides the balm of seeing people at
their most liberated, nourished
and self-sustaining. By bringing
these stories to light with such
clarity, feeling and immersive sen-
sory detail, McQueen performs a
powerful act of restorative jus-
tice: His is a cinema not just of
intoxicating beauty but of pro-
found healing. At one point in
“Red, White and Blue” Leroy Lo-
gan notes that the authorities who
routinely hound his friends and
family are playing a long game. So
PHOTOS BY DREAMWORKS ANIMATION
(brothers Kevin and Dan Hage-
man, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan)
may also have been a little high on
bee venom when they wrote this
thing. One of the modest delights
of the original film was its imagi-
native use of hybrid animal spe-
cies that never existed: bear fish;
piranha birds and such. That
quality continues — to an almost
absurd degree — in “A New Age,”
whose climax involves such trip-
py “Croodaceous” creatures as
wolf spiders, punch monkeys and
a confrontation with a spiny man-
drilla: a behemoth that is part
gorilla, part mandrill, part spiny
anteater and part King Kong.
Okay: So nobody said the mov-
ie was a lesson in paleobiology.
What you (or your impression-
able kids) might take away from
this larky, slightly lunatic film is a
moral about social collaboration
and community. Those things are
signs of cultural sophistication —
evidence that we’re not troglo-
dytes anymore — that, sadly,
sometimes seem sorely lacking
these days.
michael.osullivan@washpost.com
PG. At area theaters. Contains
peril, action and rude humor. 95
minutes.
is Steve McQueen and, if “Small
Axe” is any indication, it’s one that
he's indisputably winning.
ann.hornaday@washpost.com
Unrated. Available on Amazon
Prime Video. “Red, White and Blue”
will be available Dec. 4. “Alex
Wheatle” will be available Dec. 11.
“Education” will be available. Dec.
18. Contains profanity, violence,
disturbing material and mature
themes. 68-126 minutes per
installment.

My Psychedelic Love Story    
A trip down memory lane with Timothy Leary’s companion
BY A NN H ORNADAY
If Joanna Harcourt-Smith
hadn’t existed, a screenwriter
might have had to invent her.
Harcourt-Smith, who died re-
cently at the age of 74, was a
jet-setting denizen of the ’60s and
’70s at their most hedonistic: The
daughter of a prosperous family,
she effortlessly joined various fab-
ulous entourages in such places as
Marbella and Gstaad. At one point
in the documentary “My Psyche-
delic Love Story,” she recounts
fetching up in Manhattan in 1972
and crashing with Diane von
Furstenberg because, why not?
“Those are just the people I grew
up with,” she says with French-ac-
cented nonchalance.
In other words, Joanna Har-
court-Smith is a marvelous crea-
ture, and she provides delightful
ballast to “My Psychedelic Love
Story,” which centers on her rela-
tionship with Harvard psycholo-
gist Timothy Leary. By the time
she met him, Leary’s outspoken
advocacy of LSD had landed him
in prison, from which he had es-
caped to go on the lam. The two
met through a mutual friend (who
was an international arms dealer,
natch), and felt an instant connec-
tion they attributed to destiny.
They immediately dropped acid
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BY A NN H ORNADAY
In “Zappa,” actor and filmmak-
er Alex Winter provides an eco-
nomical, uncritical documentary
about the eponymous musician,
who died at 52 in 1993. Frank
Zappa became famous as an icon-
oclast, his note-heavy, hyper-or-
chestrated instrumental riffs
meshing with satirically pointed
lyrics to create a cerebral, funny,
musically mind-blowing genre all
his own.
Here, Winter is given the keys
to Zappa’s vast and varied per-
sonal archive to deliver an enco-
mium to an artist who would
have been enormously influential
had anyone been able to keep up
with him. Failing that, he’ll sim-
ply go down in history as sui
generis. Tracing Zappa’s child-
hood in Edgewood, Md., where
his father worked at the Ab-
erdeen Proving Ground during
the development of mustard gas
and other chemical compounds,
“Zappa” finds a motif that would
recur throughout his life, during
The documentary “My Psychedelic Love Story” focuses on Timothy Leary, the Harvard pschologist who
was an advocate of LSD, and his partner, Joanna Harcourt-Smith.
and seemingly kept tripping
throughout sojourns in Switzer-
land, Beirut, Kabul and, eventual-
ly, California.
The fact that Harcourt-Smith
was under the influence through-
out the first few months of her
romance with Leary made her cu-
rious, in retrospect, about wheth-
er she was manipulated as an un-
witting source for federal agents
Rock icon Frank Zappa is depicted as a remote, demanding and
uncompromising leader by his former band mates.
which he attributed various ail-
ments to the years spent near
hazardous material. When the
family moved to California, Zap-
pa broke out of his stultifying —
and racist — environs by playing
music with Black bandmates at
the same time that he cultivated a
lifelong appreciation for the
investigating the controversial
Pied Piper. When she saw Errol
Morris’s engrossing documentary
series “Wormwood,” about the
CIA’s covert LSD program, she
reached out to the filmmaker to
tell him her story and, maybe, get
to the bottom of it. Leary eventual-
ly turned into a government in-
formant, an event likened to “hip-
pie Watergate,” for which many of
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avant-garde composer Edgard
Varese.
As a chronology, “Zappa” is
pretty straightforward: Winter
has a wealth of visual material to
work with, and he luckily com-
pleted interviews with Zappa’s
wife, Gail, before her death in
2015. Although Winter touches
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Leary’s misogynistic friends
blamed Harcourt-Smith. (Allen
Ginsberg’s accusations were par-
ticularly repugnant.) As “My Psy-
chedelic Love Story” opens, it’s
clear that she’s still uncertain her-
self how it all went down.
Morris’s strength has always
been to allow his subjects simply
to speak (his editorializing can be
less effective, as the recent film
on Zappa’s private life — includ-
ing his unapologetic infidelities
— he's far more interested in a
creative trajectory that never
went entirely mainstream, but
proved to be surprisingly endur-
ing nonetheless.
In part, that was because of
Zappa’s own notoriously prickly
nature and stubborn self-belief:
Interviewing former members of
his band, the Mothers of Inven-
tion, Winter conveys a vivid por-
trait of the artist as a remote,
demanding and uncompromis-
ing leader. “Zappa” covers the
attack from a fan at a 1971 concert
in London that resulted in life-
threatening injuries; Zappa’s
feuds with record labels and rock-
lyric alarmists like Tipper Gore
and Susan Baker; and his emer-
gence as an unlikely internation-
al statesman in post-Soviet
Czechoslovakia. It’s a whirlwind
yet comprehensive journey
through pop culture and politics,
during which Zappa remains a
steadfastly principled but essen-
tially unknowable presence
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“American Dharma” demonstrat-
ed). Here, he trains his camera on
the still-beautiful Harcourt-Smith
in her attractive wood-paneled
home in Santa Fe and allows her to
emerge as an exceptionally
charming, self-aware and astute
narrator — if not always an entire-
ly reliable one.
“My Psychedelic Love Story” is
essentially an illustrated mono-
logue, with Morris editing togeth-
er quick montages of period pho-
tographs, tarot cards, op-art titles
and neon-colored graphics to pro-
vide visual interest, often with
LSD blotters used as witty back-
drops and recurring motifs. The
result is an absorbing yarn and yet
another lens on that era’s social
history that baby boomers are
now excavating with frantic en-
thusiasm before their sources
transition to another astral plane.
Luckily, Morris caught up with
Harcourt-Smith before she left for
the next stop: She’s the best thing
about “My Psychedelic Love Sto-
ry,” and a far more sympathetic
and compelling character than the
man she almost risked her life for.
ann.hornaday@washpost.com
TV-14. Available Sunday on
Showtime. Contains mature
thematic material and brief nudity.
101 minutes.
(none of his children are inter-
viewed in the film). This isn’t a
revealing documentary as much
as a judiciously admiring one.
“Zappa” gives its subject his
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well-earned due within the rock
firmament. But even more valu-
able, Winter gives Zappa pride of
place among the most important
composers of the 20th century,
sharing some extraordinary per-
formances of his little-known
classical work. The most moving
sequence of the film might be
former Mothers percussionist
Ruth Underwood performing one
of Zappa’s most exquisite and
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Black Page.” In that moment, it
becomes clear that for all of
Zappa’s earthbound appetites
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and flaws, he was blessed with the
ability to tap into something cos-
mic, lasting and true.
ann.hornaday@washpost.com
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smoking, partial nudity and
suggestive material. 129 minutes.
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Set mostly in 1973, “Uncle
Frank” centers on the relation-
ship between 18-year-old Beth
Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis of “It”), a
naive but intellectually curious
freshman at New York University,
and her favorite uncle, the titular
Frank (Paul Bettany), who is a
professor at the same school. The
death of the emotionally abusive
family patriarch (Stephen Root)
— Frank’s father and Beth’s
grandfather — precipitates a road
trip back to their repressive South
Carolina hometown for the funer-
al, with Walid (Paul Macdissi),
Frank’s partner of 10 years, along
for the ride, despite Frank’s wish-
es. (Frank, who has only just come
out to his niece, is still closeted to
most of his family. To make things
even more interesting, Walid is
Muslim.) Despite some moments
of nicely unforced comedy and
just a pinch of melodrama —
especially in the overly contrived
reading-of-the-will scene — this is
a deeply poignant and beautifully
acted drama of self-acceptance.
The three main roles feel fully
inhabited by the talented Bettany,
Lillis and Macdissi, and the sup-
porting players — who include
Margo Martindale, Judy Greer,
Steve Zahn and Lois Smith — are
all top-notch, as guided by writer-
director Alan Ball. Sober-minded
yet far from morose or preachy,
the story of “Uncle Frank” is
written with compassion for all
its characters, no matter their
flaws. (Well, almost all: The fam-
ily patriarch, shown in a prologue
and in flashback, is an unmitigat-
ed jerk.) As he demonstrated in
“Six Feet Under,” Ball has an ear
for how real families work, even
when they don’t. R. Available on
Amazon Prime Video. Contains
strong language, some sexual ref-
erences and drug use. 95 minutes.
— Michael O’Sullivan
Also streaming
The documentary “Born to Be”
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting,
a surgeon at Mount Sinai Center
for Transgender Medicine and
Surgery, as well as the stories if
several of the medical center’s
patients. Through these stories,
the New York Times writes, “Ting
is an anchor, a presence of com-
passion and good sense. Anyone
confused about transgender peo-
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ple will certainly benefit from a
viewing of this picture.” Unrated.
Available at afisilver.afi.com and
sunscinema.com. 92 minutes.
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The directorial debut of actor
Josh Duhamel, “Buddy Games”
tells the story of six lifelong
friends who, after a falling out,
reunite for an absurd competi-
tion involving physical and men-
tal challenges. According to the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the
film — which stars Dax Shepard,
Olivia Munn and Kevin Dillon, in
From left, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi and Paul Bettany star in “Uncle Frank,” which follows a young
woman, her uncle and his partner as they travel from New York City to South Carolina for the funeral
of the family’s emotionally abusive patriarch.
April Watson is among the ballerinas featured in “Dance
Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker.”
Saul Dreier, right, on percussion, and Ruby Sosnowicz, left, on
the accordion, in “Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band.”
addition to Duhamel — “feels like
it could have been a movie within
the movie that was ‘Idiocracy,’ a
posited example of just how stu-
pid we would become if we didn’t
begin to shun the path we’d start-
ed down.” R. Available on various
streaming platforms. Contains
strong crude sexual material and
coarse language throughout,
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Kurt Russell reprises his role as Santa
NETFLIX Clause in “The Christmas Chronicles:
Part 2,” which Variety calls a “harmless
piece of hokum.”
LACEY TERRELL/HULU
From left, Daniel Levy, Kristen Stewart
and Mackenzie Davis star in “Happiest
SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS Season,” a rom-com about a planned
proposal during a family’s traditional
Christmas dinner.
some graphic nudity, drug use by Christmas, and you get to hang
and brief violence. 96 minutes. out with a Santa who’s traditional
but nearly cool.” PG. Available on
Kurt Russell reprises his role as Netflix. Contains mild action, vio-
Santa Claus — now joined by Gold- lence, and brief strong language.
ie Hawn as Mrs. Claus — in the 115 minutes.
sequel “The Christmas Chroni-
cles: Part 2.” Variety calls the film a Produced by Shonda Rhimes’s
“harmless piece of hokum,” where Shondaland, the documentary
the plots ruptures are all “healed “Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate
Nutcracker” goes behind the
scenes at the Debbie Allen Dance
Academy to offer a peek at prepa-
rations for Allen’s annual award-
winning holiday version of “The
Nutcracker.” TV-G. Available on
Netflix. 80 minutes.
Kristen Stewart plays a woman
who has decided to propose to her
girlfriend (Mackenzie Davis) at
her girlfriend’s traditional Christ-
mas dinner with her family —
only to discover the family
doesn’t know she’s gay in the
rom-com “Happiest Season.” PG-
13. Available on Hulu. Contains
some strong language. 102 min-
utes.
The thriller “Mosul” tells the
story of the campaign to reclaim
the titular Iraqi city from ISIS.
Variety calls the film “a well-made
but troublingly generic war-is-
hell pulse-pounder that inevita-
bly prompts the question: How
recent is too recent when it comes
to turning a theater of war into
pure theater, pure Hollywood
spectacle?” TV-MA. Available on
Netflix. 102 minutes.
“The Mystery of D.B. Cooper”
explores the myth that has arisen
around Cooper, a hijacker who is
believed to have parachuted from
a plane with $200,000 before
disappearing in 1971. According
to IndieWire, somewhere be-
neath the surface of the film is an
“illuminating meditation on the
relationship between the banality
of modern living and the fanta-
sies that people sell to the masses
to help them cope with it.” TV-14.
Available on HBO. 87 minutes.
The documentary “Saul &
Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor
Band” tells the story of two Flori-
da retirees who formed a klezmer
band to honor a fellow musician
and Holocaust survivor. Accord-
ing to the Austin Chronicle, the
story of the titular musicians is
“such a remarkable and yet im-
mediately recognizable story that
it’s a true shame that it never feels
like we get to know them.” Unrat-
ed. Available on various stream-
ing platforms. 81 minutes.
Set over a series of three con-
secutive Christmas holidays
(which in Brazil take place during
the summer), “Three Summers”
is a dramedy about a housekeeper
trying to overcome social barri-
ers. The Hollywood Reporter
writes that “the film is cleverly
structured, asking the viewer to
fill in the wide gaps between each
narrative ellipsis, as if we’re
watching a TV series where half
the episodes have been cut out.”
Unrated. Available at virtuala-
valon.org. In Portuguese with
subtitles. 94 minutes.

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The Croods: A New
Age (PG)
Age 8+
Prehistoric cartoon sequel has
slapstick, rude humor.
“The Croods: A New Age” is
the sequel to 2013’s “The Croods,”
which centered on a family of
Neanderthals, including teen
daughter Eep (voiced by Emma
Stone), trying to survive the
elements. This film focuses on
Eep’s romance with Guy (Ryan
Reynolds) and her dad Grug’s
(Nicolas Cage) worries about
losing his daughter. While the
clan faces all kinds of perilous
moments, most of them are over-
the-top and slapstick — fending
off wild beasts is just another day
in this family’s life. But as the
story goes on, more threats
emerge that could scare younger
viewers. Those threats include
monkeys with glowing eyes and
a giant ape monster that intends
to eat some of the main
characters. Some kids may also
find the “punch monkey”
characters — which
communicate by slugging each
other — hilarious and try to
imitate them. Characters use
mild insults (“dumb,” “twits,”
etc.), there’s some potty humor,
and a bee sting makes one
character act as if she’s drunk.
Characters kiss, and one male is
shown shirtless. Parent/child
separation is referenced during a
flashback, and the death of a
boy’s family is implied. This film
strays even further from actual
prehistory than the first one did,
but some tidbits could prompt
discussions about human
evolution and migration, and
there are clear themes of
courage, teamwork and the
importance of being yourself.
There are also some great “girl
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the other female characters have
to rescue the men. (95 minutes)
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Peril, emotional intensity in
adaptation of classic tale.
This adaptation of Anna
Sewell’s 1877 classic novel “Black
Beauty” is emotionally taxing,
with the central horse suffering
abuse, loss and danger. The
human characters, too, find
themselves in perilous
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kicked by horses, nearly Mackenzie Foy stars in “Black Beauty,” the Disney Plus adaptation of Anna Sewell’s 1877 classic novel.
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Beauty, and her human soul Melissa McCarthy fans will like and physical comedy — other builds comedy around the
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make fun of Jo for living and comedy about a sophisticated, themes of empathy, compassion that happen along the way,
working at the stables, saying all-powerful artificial and gratitude. (106 minutes) which sometimes cause great
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sold off to a series of different chooses a perfectly “average” function humor is also a big part
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Intricate light sculptures, digital displays, live performances, a special exhibition featuring handmade
Nativities from Malta, and an Old World Christmas Market all come together to create a new Christmas
tradition for you and your family. We all need a little Christmas this year, and Museum of the Bible has
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taken every precaution to keep you safe and to help make your holiday merry and bright.

Go to museumoftheBible.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

THE WASHINGTON POST

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