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Taliban meets early resistance
CDC set PROTESTS DRAW
VIOLENT REPRISALS

U.S. back Harsh tactics contradict

assertions of restraint

BY E ZZATULLAH M EHRDAD
Siloed approach made AND K AREEM F AHIM
nation late in recognizing
delta’s threat, critics say kabul — Rumbles of resistance to
the Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan
emerged Wednesday as protests
erupted in at least two cities, draw-
BY Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB ing a violent response from the
AND L ENA H . S UN militants that laid bare the chal-
lenges that await as the group
When Pfizer representatives attempts to transform itself from
met with senior U.S. government an insurgency into a government.
health officials on July 12, they The crackdown on the protests
laid out why they thought booster came as Taliban fighters were
shots would soon be necessary in again accused of using gunfire and
the United States. Data from Isra- violence during their struggle to
el showed the vaccine’s effective- control crowds at Kabul’s interna-
ness waned over time, especially tional airport, where thousands of
in older and immunocompro- people have gathered in recent
mised people. days hoping to find seats on evacu-
But officials from the Centers ation flights.
for Disease Control and Preven- And in Bamiyan province —
tion disagreed, saying their own home of the Buddha statues blown
data showed something quite dif- up during the Taliban’s last run in
ferent, according to four people power — locals said militants had
with direct knowledge of the destroyed the memorial to an anti-
meeting who spoke on the condi- Taliban leader, an allegation that
tion of anonymity. undercut the group’s pledges to
Other senior health officials in avoid retribution.
the meeting were stunned. Why Since Taliban fighters overran
hadn’t the CDC looped in other Kabul on Sunday, the group has
government officials on the data? sought to convince audiences at
Could the agency share it — at SPANISH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK home and abroad that it does not
least with the Food and Drug Ad- People board a Spanish military transport plane at the international airport in Kabul on Wednesday. Two other Spanish aircraft were plan a return to the brutal rule
ministration, which was responsi- expected to join the evacuation of Spanish citizens and Afghan nationals who worked with Spanish forces over the past four years. imposed in an earlier era, favoring
ble for deciding whether booster instead inclusivity and peace. The
shots were necessary? But CDC pledges, made in the soft light of
officials demurred, saying they
planned to publish it soon. Critics see politics Pentagon defends victory, have left many uncon-
vinced.
That episode, say senior admin-
istration officials and outside ex- in slow start getting planning, pledges to But intentions aside, the Tali-
ban faces myriad challenges with
perts, illustrates the growing frus-
tration with the CDC’s slow and Afghan allies out save every American the basics of governing. The group
inherits a country struggling with
siloed approach to sharing data, drought, the coronavirus pan-
which prevented officials across BY A NNE G EARAN, T YLER P AGER, BY D AN L AMOTHE AND G REG J AFFE demic and unrelenting poverty.
the government from getting real- J ACQUELINE A LEMANY The state’s coffers are empty, its
time information about how the AND M ISSY R YAN The Pentagon’s top leaders on Wednesday overseas funds are frozen, and
delta variant was bearing down sought to defend the military’s planning many aid agencies have suspend-
on the United States and behaving The Biden administration moved slowly ahead of a Taliban assault that led to the fall ed activities because of the Tali-
with greater ferocity than earlier for months to address the plight of vulner- of Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government, ban’s advance.
variants — an information gap able Afghans who had worked for the saying they are focused for now on securing Foreign governments, mean-
they say stymied the response. United States even as a deadline for U.S. the Kabul airport and evacuating all Ameri- while, have hedged on whether
“The moment there’s some- military withdrawal loomed, refugee advo- can citizens and as many Afghan allies “as they will offer the Taliban recogni-
thing really problematic, it should cates said — a lull some blamed on White possible.” tion. At home, officials with
be shared,” said Eric Topol, profes- House concern that the influx would invite In their first public remarks since the the ousted government have
sor of molecular medicine at partisan political backlash amid a rush of Afghan government’s collapse, Defense Sec- pledged to start a campaign of
Scripps Research. “In the time it migrants at the southern border. retary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark A. Milley, “resistance” to Taliban rule.
takes to get out an MMWR report Afghans who served as interpreters, fix- chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, de- “The transition from being a
[a weekly scientific digest], too ers and other staff for the U.S. military and clared the airport “secure” and said evacua- warring group that uses, among
FRANCISCO SECO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
many people have gotten infected, diplomats over the nearly 20-year U.S. tion flights were ongoing, but they repeated- other things, terror to achieve its
too many people have gotten long military mission were among thousands A man draped in the Afghan flag outside ly declined to address what will be done for goals to a government that will be
covid, too many people among evacuated in recent days, following the the E.U. headquarters in Brussels calls Americans who cannot reach the airport held to account and must learn to
them have gotten very sick, some stunning collapse of the U.S.-backed gov- attention to the crisis in Afghanistan. safely. They were even more evasive on the SEE AFGHANISTAN ON A13
SEE CDC ON A8 ernment. Getting thousands more out of question of how they planned to aid Afghan
the country is a top priority now ahead of an Russia’s tack: Country sees potential for allies whom the United States had pledged ‘There is no hope’: Afghans in U.S.
Delta crisis: Variant pushes Aug. 31 deadline to exit, the nation’s top cooperation, but readies for the worst. A19 to evacuate but who were being stopped at voice despair at recent events. A14
hospitals back into crisis mode. A7 military officials said Wednesday. Taliban checkpoints.
“We have a moral obligation to help those A lone vote remembered: Why everyone Administration officials informed Con- Social media: Taliban’s tactics
Third dose: New data persuaded SEE BIDEN ON A17 wants to hear from Rep. Barbara Lee. C1 SEE PENTAGON ON A17 show unusual sophistication. A15
White House to back boosters. A9

Haiti laments its losses: ‘It is as if we are cursed’ Some families see summer
BY A NTHONY F AIOLA
disappear in a smoky haze
l’asile, haiti — A wailing rose like she’d been hit with a second
Wednesday from the brass section slam of covid-19, but this time it
in front of what was left of St. Wildfires’ impact on air was the very air that plagued her.
Joseph’s Catholic Church. A drum quality raises health risks, The smoke from Western wild-
beat added to the doleful rhythm fires that has settled over much of
as women in white emitted gut- forcing children indoors the Pacific Northwest and Ameri-
tural, anguished cries at the foot ca’s northern tier, wafting even
of a flower-covered coffin. into parts of New England, is bad
It was a lament for Delfrygny BY M ARC F ISHER, enough for adults. But for chil-
Barbier, a truck driver killed in the J ENNIFER O LDHAM dren, the smoke is a summer
earthquake that shook Haiti’s AND S HEILA R EGAN wrecker, spoiling outdoor fun
southwestern peninsula Satur- and driving kids too long penned
day. It was also a lament for In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the up by the coronavirus pandemic
L’Asile, this proud farming com- eye-watering haze forced Camp back inside.
munity 11 miles from the epicen- Sweyolakan to pack up 150 kids “You want to put a big bubble
ter, that now lies in ruin. and cut short their week in the over them,” said Steve Jurich,
But perhaps more than any- mountains. In Denver, the acrid executive director of Camp Fire
thing, the Rev. Lucson Simeon smell clawed at the throat and led in Spokane, Wash., who had the
said before putting on his white Kathryn and Dennis Wright to unpleasant duty of shutting
vestments for yet another funeral, scrap a long-awaited family down his organization’s sleep-
it was a lament for Haiti. camping trip. away camp in northern Idaho
“It is as if we are cursed,” Sime- And in Green Bay, Wis., the this month because of the un-
on said. “We just keep getting smoke filled Sarah Cramer’s healthy air. In these past two
beaten down. I ask myself, how lungs and tightened her airway, SEE FIRES ON A28
can this be? JOSHUA LOTT/THE WASHINGTON POST prompting her to interrupt her
“All I can say is that it is as if we Mourners attend the funeral for Delfrygny Barbier in L’Asile, Haiti, on Wednesday. Barbier, a truck 9-year-old son’s reading of a Na- Dixie Fire: Blazes, heat wave
SEE HAITI ON A12 driver, was killed in the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the nation on Saturday. tional Geographic book. She felt complicate aid for evacuees. A3

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A former ice cream shop owner
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racial epithets at protesters who
came to his business to protest
after racist text messages he
allegedly wrote circulated on
social media.
Elmendorf also was accused of
calling 911 to falsely report that
armed protesters were
threatening to shoot him,
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Elmendorf’s attorney, James
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The lawsuit was the first
bought by James’s office to rely in
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year following the high-profile
case against a White woman who
called 911 on a Black birdwatcher
in New York’s Central Park and
falsely claimed he was
threatening her.
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must pay $500 each to nine
protesters, for a total of $4,500.
He is permanently barred from
making future threats against
people because of their race and
from brandishing a deadly
weapon within 1,000 feet of any
peaceful protest.
Elmendorf, who is now
working in another state, was
Extensive publicity over last
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by a Columbus police officer
won’t prevent the now-fired
officer from receiving a fair trial
in central Ohio, a judge ruled
Wednesday in denying a request
to move the trial.
Hill, 47, who was Black, was
fatally shot by ex-officer Adam
Coy, who is White, on Dec. 22 as
Hill emerged from a garage
holding up a cellphone.
Defense attorney Mark Collins
argued in a June court filing that
extensive local and national
publicity about the killing,
including news coverage, posts
on social media and billboards,
will make it impossible to
assemble an impartial jury for
Coy in Franklin County.
Assistant Ohio Attorney
General Anthony Pierson
opposed the request, contending
there was no reason to believe
that people elsewhere were less
likely to have read about the case
than were Franklin County
residents.
Franklin County Judge
Stephen McIntosh agreed,
writing in his three-page ruling,
“Therefore, where can the case be
tried where some media scrutiny
does not exist?”
Coy has pleaded not guilty to
murder and reckless homicide
charges. His trial is scheduled for

how the city of Philadelphia peaceful Black Lives Matters never properly served so no Oct. 4. In May, the city reached a
wants to remove the statue protesters was ordered defense was made in court, $10 million settlement with Hill’s
without any legal basis. The city’s Wednesday to pay them $500 Mermigis said. family.
entire argument and case is each by a judge hearing a state — Associated Press — Associated Press
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Blazes, heat wave complicate aid to Dixie Fire evacuees
BY M ARISA I ATI
susanville, calif. — A few
miles from the largest single wild-
fire in California’s history, colorful
tents dot a hillside. Volunteers dis-
tribute water, and evacuees spray
themselves with mist to mitigate
the punishing heat.
The Dixie Fire has engulfed
more than 635,000 acres in recent
weeks, its blaze incinerating
homes and displacing residents in
towns north of Sacramento. Coun-
ty governments and nonprofit or-
ganizations are scrambling to sup-
port hundreds of people amid
scorching heat, surging coronavi-
rus cases and a calamitous wild-
fire season that threatens to wors-
en at any moment.
While many evacuees are stay-
ing with friends and family, hun-
dreds of others have slept at 10
sites in Lassen, Plumas, Shasta
and Humboldt counties. Five of
those locations are extensive shel-
ters, and the rest support people
choosing to stay in their own tents
and trailers. The American Red
Cross has taken the lead at some
sites, while local counties are
managing others.
The combined pressures of this
particular wildfire have strained
resources and forged uncertainty
about even the near future, as the
organizations seek to keep their
shelters running. With its alter-
nate volunteers needed at other
wildfires, for example, the Salva-
tion Army on Monday passed meal
responsibilities at Lassen Com-
munity College in Susanville to the
Virginia-based organization Mer-
cy Chefs.
The pace of this wildfire season,
on track to break records set just
last year, has also challenged the
nearly 320,000-member Red
Cross, which has reacted to at least
six other blazes while running or
supporting Dixie Fire shelters. The
humanitarian agency has been re-
sponding to blazes in Northern
California since late May, bringing
in volunteers from across the coun-
try to help meet the need.
Denise Everhart, a division dis-
aster executive for the Red Cross,
said her organization fears the
next big wildfire — while about
100 already rage across the United
States.
“I think we’re all paying much
closer attention and are more wor-
ried than we’ve ever been before,”
she said.
In some ways, the humanitari-
an response to the Dixie Fire looks
different from the aid provided
during other blazes. Compound-
ing crises, exacerbated by severe
drought and climate change, com-
plicate efforts to help those dis-
placed. The average temperature
in Lassen County has risen 1.5 de-
grees Celsius since 1895, accord-
ing to an analysis of temperature
data by The Washington Post. Su-
sanville reached 99 degrees Fahr-
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sleeping on cots inside have fared
only slightly better: The building
is among the four Red Cross-
supported shelters without air
conditioning, a historically un-
common amenity in the Mountain
West.
“In the afternoon, we’re just
melting,” said Marshall Fisher, 62,
who evacuated from Westwood
about two weeks ago.
With some evacuees passing
through quickly and others stay-
ing for weeks, the shelters are set
up to meet a range of basic needs.
The Susanville site has a laundry
facility and outdoor trailers with
restrooms and showers. Inside an-
other shelter at a church in Quin-
cy, volunteers distribute snacks
and visit evacuees at their cots.
All the while, the responding
organizations account for the re-
surgent pandemic with packaged
meals and expanded space be-
tween cots. Evacuees and volun-
teers have to wear masks inside
Red Cross-run shelters but can
remove them while eating, sleep-
ing or sitting on their cots, away
from others. Distancing measures
have also forced the Red Cross to
open more shelters than usual.
The agencies are also scram-
bling to help evacuees cope with
the heat. Whirring fans create a
breeze. Volunteers truck in ice,
which melts quickly in the warm
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PHOTOS BY MARLENA SLOSS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
ABOVE: Dixie Fire evacuee
Ruthann Robinson of Chester,
Calif., secures her tent Aug. 12
as winds pick up at an
evacuation center at Lassen
Community College in
Susanville, Calif.
LEFT: Signs supporting
Greenville, a California town
devastated by the blaze, hang
last week in nearby Quincy.
Chester, said other evacuees have
also had to put down pets.
As her own black Lab puttered
around behind her, Sally Ange
Cowdin, 59, said the Dixie Fire was
the third time she had evacuated
because of a natural disaster. With
a history of skin cancer, she now
worries about exposure to the sun
and sprays herself with water to
keep cool.
And a perfect storm of circum-
stances has made the Susanville
shelter a breeding ground for ru-
mors and misunderstandings
about the status of evacuees’
buildings. Everhart, of the Red homes and when they might re-
Cross, said any evacuee who needs turn. At one point Saturday, a Red
a cooler space can transfer to the Cross volunteer expressed condo-
organization’s only air-condi- lences after Cowdin’s group
tioned shelter. But despite the shared the name of their town.
heat, many evacuees have elected Momentarily terrified, Cowdin
to stay at shelters without air con- put her head in her hands before
ditioning to be closer to home. the volunteer clarified that their
Pets are also struggling, with community had not burned.
owners worried about their ani- In the background of these ef-
mals’ safety. Kimberly Collier and forts lurks an alarming truth: As
her 16-year-old black Labrador re- the Dixie Fire continues to spread
triever, Umbra, slept in a tent out- and dry conditions spark fears of
side the college after they evacuat- new blazes, evacuees may have to
ed Westwood. But when the dog relocate again at any moment. The
went into respiratory distress, fire has crept east toward Susan-
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veterinarian to euthanize him. Mi- prompting evacuation warnings
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Bertucelli, a spokesman for the
firefighting effort. Gary Felt, presi-
dent of the Salvation Army’s advi-
sory board for Susanville, said his
organization would have to play
logistical catch-up if the Dixie Fire
grows in a way that forces the
Lassen Community College shel-
ter to shutter.
“In the back of our minds is,
there could be new evacuations —
new people coming in — or, con-
ceivably, if the fire comes this way,
we might have to evacuate,” he said.
People who sheltered in Ches-
ter have already moved. The Red
Cross transferred people there to
another center after the wildfire
spread and that town came under
an evacuation warning.
“What that tells us is that this is
a traumatic situation,” Everhart
said. “We know that you’ll always
want to keep people as close as
possible to their homes.”
Matt Franklin, 33, said he has
had to move four times in the past
few weeks. After Greenville came
under an evacuation order while
he was helping a friend there, he
moved to Chester, then Westwood,
then Lassen High School in Susan-
ville and finally, Lassen Communi-
ty College.
Between lights, noise and wind,
Franklin said he has slept for no
more than four hours since arriv-
ing at the college. The heat has also
been oppressive, causing him to
beg on social media for inflatable
swimming pools that children
could use to get cool. Through it
all, Franklin worries he might
have to move again.
“Every day,” he said, “you’re
wondering if it’s going to come this
way with the wind.”
Wildfire seasons have extended
significantly in the past five years,
Everhart said, and more blazes
erupt in areas that did not used to
burn. Many of the small towns
that have had to open shelters lack
large gathering spaces, forcing
people to spread out between
many smaller evacuation centers.
At the Susanville site, Watkins,
52, said her family was prepared to
pack quickly if needed and leave
again with their two dogs, three
cats and nearly a dozen birds. But
Watkins, who owns a pet supply
store in Chester, said she hoped
the next time they relocated would
not be to another shelter.
“We want to go home,” she said
as she stood outside her borrowed
trailer. “We don’t want to move
again to go somewhere else.”
Two days later, Watkins and her
family left the shelter for a friend’s
home in Reno, Nev.
Plumas Crisis Intervention and
Resource Center, a nonprofit in
Quincy, has built a database of
evacuees, helped fund motel stays
and distributed camping gear, hy-
giene supplies and gift cards. Its
executive director lost his own
home to the Dixie Fire. But the
staff knows their work will not end
when this fire is contained, said
Emergency Services Coordinator
Cathy Rahmeyer.
“Every year, something has
grown bigger,” she said. “Who
knows what’s coming?”
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Testing limits of
what a lawmaker
activist can attain
Rep. Cori Bush has made
national waves with her
zeal on police, evictions
BY M ARIANNA S OTOMAYOR
st. louis — Democratic Rep.
Cori Bush is not going to apolo-
gize for using the politically
fraught slogan “Defund the Po-
lice.”
Not because Republicans keep
attacking her over it and not
because it makes so many of her
Democratic colleagues uncom-
fortable.
To hear her tell it, the contro-
versy over the phrase is less about
whether it accurately conveys the
policing policies she and her
allies are pursuing and more
about creating a distraction from
the inaction over police violence
against communities of color.
“I’m not going to shy away
from ‘defund the police.’ Listen to
the message of what we’re saying.
I’m going to keep pushing you
until you deal with the fact that
we are dying. I don’t care if you
don’t like the words. How much
more should you not like the fact
that Black folks in this communi-
ty are dying at the rates that we’re
dying at the hands of police?” she
said while giving a reporter a tour
of her district. “No one is dealing
with it. So, because they left that
piece for me, this is still there, I
have to attack it as hard and as
fast as I can.”
For the record, she says the
point of the “defund the police”
movement she supports is not to
zero out law enforcement budg-
ets, but to move some funds to
social services programs that
supporters argue would do more
to help poor communities reduce
crime than having more officers
or tactical equipment.
“You call 911, they will still be
the same as what it is now,” said
Bush (Mo.), a freshman lawmak-
er. “If you have violence happen-
ing and you call the police, they
will still show up.”
Republicans have been thrilled
by her continued defense of the
phrase, including earlier this
month during a round of inter-
views to discuss her effort to
extend a moratorium on evic-
tions. And many of her Demo-
cratic colleagues who believe the
slogan was effectively weap-
onized against them in the 2020
election worry it could be again
as the party faces the uphill
challenge of maintaining control
of the House in 2022.
“ ‘Defund police’ is a phrase
that I wish had never been ut-
tered. But we’ve got to, we’ve got
to do a better job of talking about
what we do want to do,” Rep.
Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), who over-
saw the Democratic Congres-
sional Campaign Committee dur-
ing the 2020 election, said earlier
this year amid another political
dust-up over the slogan.
The controversy over the de-
funding movement encapsulates
the challenge facing Bush, 45, as
she attempts to bring her activist
Kushner friend charged in N.Y. eavesdropping case after Trump pardon
BY S HAYNA J ACOBS
new york — Ken Kurson, a close
friend of former president Don-
ald Trump’s son-in-law Jared
Kushner, was charged Wednesday
in a state eavesdropping and
computer-trespass case months
after receiving a federal pardon
while facing similar harassment
allegations.
The former New York Observer
editor’s arrest marks what is likely
the first instance of a local pros-
ecutor pursuing state-level charg-
es against a person after that indi-
vidual was given a pass by Trump
for the same alleged conduct that
federal authorities had pursued. A
president’s clemency grants apply
only in federal cases.
“We will not accept presiden-
Ohio man pleads guilty to running
cryptocurrency-laundering service
BY R ACHEL W EINER
An Ohio man pleaded guilty
Wednesday to laundering hun-
dreds of millions of dollars in
cryptocurrency, acknowledging
that he targeted drug traffickers
and other criminals who sought
to evade law enforcement scruti-
background and style to the legis-
lative realm in service of poor
communities, like those found in
her St. Louis-based district,
which she says Congress has long
neglected or actively discriminat-
ed against for decades.
When should an activist’s zeal
give way to a legislator’s finesse
or the search for compromise and
the best deal possible?
Her recent protest from the
Capitol steps of the Biden admin-
istration’s decision to allow a
pandemic-era eviction moratori-
um to expire is credited with
pressuring the White House to
reverse itself and keep the order
in place, and it garnered her
national attention.
In coming weeks, Bush and a
group of her like-minded col-
leagues who joined Congress in
the past two elections — often
referred to as “the Squad” — will
be tested on whether they can
make their mark legislatively by
wielding the leverage Democrats’
thin majority gives them on is-
sues such as expanding the social
safety [net], putting restrictions
on policing, homelessness and
domestic violence.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II
(D-Mo.), who has represented
Missouri’s 5th Congressional Dis-
trict for almost 20 years, said he
grew up in politics at a time when
politicians could choose to be an
“agitator” activist or a legislator.
He said he’s not sure that’s the
case anymore with the rise of
politicians like Bush, but that it’s
also not that simple a choice.
“She may be able to challenge
the axiom that I have been laying
out for several decades when
teaching young aspiring politi-
cians that you can’t do both, so
maybe she’s going to change all of
that,” he said in an interview. “But
the thing you have to be cautious
about is when you are an activist,
you’re going to irritate probably a
lot of people with whom you need
to negotiate to get something
done politically. So it is a tight
rope to be able to do the agitating,
then come inside and negotiate.”
When the House returns to
session on Monday, Democrats
will begin hammering out the
next phase of their agenda by
adopting a budget that would
clear the way for a package made
up of trillions of dollars in new
spending for education, day care,
health programs and combating
climate change. But moderates in
the party are already raising con-
cerns about the plan’s price tag,
while calling to immediately hold
a vote on a Senate-passed infra-
structure package that liberals
will only support if it is coupled
with the social spending package.
While Bush said she is focusing
on this potential showdown over
the party’s agenda, she is also
hoping to advance policies on
which her personal story and
background as an activist could
make her a persuasive messen-
ger.
Days before the eviction mora-
torium expired, Bush introduced
the Unhoused Bill of Rights that
proposes curbing homelessness
by redirecting $20 billion from
the defense budget to fixing di-
tial pardons as get-out-of-jail-free
cards for the well-connected in
New York,” Manhattan District At-
torney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in
announcing Kurson’s arrest.
Vance’s office is investigating
the Trump Organization and its
executives. The former presi-
dent’s company and Chief Finan-
cial Officer Allen Weisselberg
have been indicted in a wide-rang-
ing tax fraud scheme. Kurson’s
case is unrelated to that matter.
Kurson, 52, appeared briefly
before a Manhattan judge
Wednesday. He was handcuffed
during the arraignment and later
released without bail.
Kurson was ordered to return
to court Sept. 28. He and his
attorney, Marc Mukasey, declined
to speak to the media as they left
ny.
Larry Harmon, 38, said in D.C.
federal court that he plans to
cooperate with law enforcement
amid a crackdown on services like
his that “mix” or “tumble” bitcoin
to hide their origins.
The Treasury Department
fined Harmon $60 million last
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lapidated homes for public hous-
ing, creating 24-hour services for
the homeless and prioritizing
funding for women facing vio-
lence or suffering from mental
health problems.
She is also hoping to play a role
in getting the Violence Against
Women Act reauthorized. The
once-bipartisan law has drawn
objection from Republicans in
recent years over policies such as
the courthouse.
At the time of his first arrest by
federal authorities in Brooklyn,
Mukasey called his client “an hon-
orable man” and said the case was
“hardly the stuff of a federal crimi-
nal prosecution.”
A political consultant who co-
authored a book with Trump’s
personal attorney Rudolph W.
Giuliani, Kurson made headlines
in October when he was accused
of stalking his wife years prior
while the couple was going
through a divorce.
Prosecutors handling the state
case described a new narrative
Wednesday in which Kurson al-
legedly used spyware between
September 2015 and March 2016
to monitor his then-wife, obtain-
ing her passwords so he could
year in what the government said
was the first such penalty levied
on a bitcoin mixer. Earlier this
year, the Justice Department
charged the alleged operator of
another cryptocurrency-launder-
ing site with similar crimes.
According to court records,
Harmon operated a service called
“Helix” from 2014 to 2017 that
connected to large marketplaces
where drugs and other illegal
items were sold. Those markets
operated on the dark net, accessi-
MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
a provision that would prevent
abusive partners from obtaining
a gun.
Homelessness and domestic
violence are issues Bush knows
firsthand.
The first time Bush was evicted
was in 1999, one of several times
she was homeless. Living in her
first apartment and paying rent
on time, Bush also found herself
staying with a very “abusive”
access her Gmail and Facebook
accounts. His former wife, to
whom he was still married at the
time, told police in South Orange,
N.J., that Kurson “terrorized her
through email and social media
causing her problems at work and
in her social life,” according to his
criminal complaint.
Kurson is accused of spying on
her computer from the Observer
Media Group’s office in Manhat-
tan while serving as editor of the
publication, which was formerly
owned by Kushner, according to
court papers.
Using tracking software called
WebWatcher, Kurson allegedly
monitored keystrokes and private
communications, including be-
tween his wife and a friend who
worked with her at a summer
ble only through anonymizing
software. Prosecutors estimate
that more than $300 million
passed through his service; Har-
mon might dispute that number
at sentencing.
“One interesting thing about
this is case is there was a double-
blind system Harmon had set up
with Helix,” defense attorney
Charles Flood said in court
Wednesday. “While he completely
acknowledges that he violated the
law and was in fact laundering
THE WASHINGTON POST
JOE MARTINEZ FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Freshman Rep. Cori Bush
(D-Mo.) is unbending in her
calls to “defund the police.”
“I’m going to keep pushing
you until you deal with the
fact that we are dying. I
don’t care if you don’t like
the words.”
LEFT: A tearful Bush hugs
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a
news conference in early
August outside the Capitol.
Bush is credited with
pressuring the White House
to reverse itself and keep the
eviction moratorium in
place after her protest from
the Capitol steps.
partner. Standing outside rows of
two-story brick buildings that she
now finds unrecognizable, Bush
recalled neighbors hearing her
cries through the walls and
threatening to call the police if
her partner refused to leave her
alone.
Looking up to the second-floor
window on the left, she recalled
being pinned in a chokehold on
the room’s floor and seeing her
camp, authorities contend. Tran-
scripts of their Facebook chats
were sent to the camp’s director,
according to the complaint, which
does not disclose the nature of the
conversations.
Kurson also is accused of trying
to cover his tracks by contacting
customer support at WebWatcher
to evaluate how he could delete
the software undetected. “I need
to uninstall it PERFECTLY,” he
wrote to the company on Oct. 17,
2015, court documents say. “So
that not even an expert can detect
that it had been there.”
The intrusions were uncovered
during an FBI background check
while Trump was in office, as
Kurson was being considered for a
federal job.
Kurson’s pardon in January
money and knew it was drug
proceeds … he does not know the
exact amount laundered.”
According to the Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network,
Helix also laundered funds for
identity thieves, child exploita-
tion websites and neo-Nazi
groups.
Harmon had previously argued
that he was not guilty because
bitcoin is not “money” as defined
by D.C. law, a line of reasoning
rejected by Chief U.S. District
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 , 2021
partner’s veins bulging from his
face before she first lost her
hearing and then passed out.
After she changed the locks to the
apartment, her partner smashed
all the windows around the build-
ing. Her landlord evicted her.
It was the first time she put her
belongings in a trash bag and the
first time she realized that evic-
tions cost as much as $2,000 in
court and legal fees, which set her
back financially.
“Sometimes evictions are be-
cause of domestic violence situa-
tions,” she said. “I know people
get uncomfortable if we’re talk-
ing about evictions, but they need
to understand the totality of the
issue and that we sometimes
push women into more abusive
situations through evicting
them.”
Bush said she has been talking
to White House officials about
her interest in being involved in
the effort to get the Violence
Against Women Act reauthorized
and described them as receptive
to her input.
Sitting outside a McDonald’s
at the intersection of Natural
Bridge and Kingshighway, Bush
recalled another bout of home-
lessness and how she would of-
ten go into the fast-food restau-
rant to freshen up and clean her
two babies’ bottles — the rest-
rooms did not require a key —
before heading into work at a
day-care center.
Years later, after finding a safe
place to live, she decided to
pursue a degree in nursing to
make more money than she was
at her job in day care. But once
accepted into a program, Bush
said, she had to end her lease
early to find cheaper housing to
pay for schooling and daily ex-
penses.
Her landlord said the only way
she could break her lease was if
she signed paperwork to evict
herself. She incurred another
round of legal fees and moving
costs, but she eventually found
more affordable housing.
It was these experiences that
motivated her to sit in front of the
Capitol steps in a lawn chair for
four nights and five days at the
beginning of the month. Braving
some cooler Washington nights,
she said, was nothing compared
with knowing that 11 million
Americans would face eviction
and potentially join the roughly
553,750 homeless nationwide un-
less the moratorium was extend-
ed.
However, she soon found her-
self in the middle of another
controversy when, during a
round of interviews about the
eviction moratorium, she defend-
ed her use of “defund the police”
while paying $70,000 on private
security she said is needed be-
cause of threats made against
her.
“Police for me, but none for
thee!” House Republican Confer-
ence Chairwoman Elise Stefanik
(R-N.Y.) tweeted. “Dems hypoc-
risy knows no bounds.”
Bush said she’s having none of
it, and that the threats against
her are a result of the criticism
directed her way by Republicans
and conservative media figures.
“Me having private security is a
result of their attacks. Can they
stop with their rhetoric and their
disinformation and all the misog-
yny? If they stop with all of that
and they denounce it, then maybe
I wouldn’t need the protection
that I have. So this is on them,”
she said as two security agents
trailed her along the tour through
St. Louis.
marianna.sotomayor@washpost.com
was among a massive wave of
pardons and commutations is-
sued by Trump during his last
hours at the White House.
Also pardoned was Stephen K.
Bannon, a political provocateur
and former adviser to the presi-
dent, who was accused by federal
authorities of pocketing more
than $1 million from private char-
itable donors who shared Trump’s
desire to expand the U.S.-Mexico
border wall. Bannon’s alleged ac-
complices in the case did not re-
ceive a pardon, and their cases are
ongoing.
The Manhattan District Attor-
ney’s Office is also investigating
Bannon in connection with those
allegations. Bannon has main-
tained he did nothing wrong.
shayna.jacobs@washpost.com
Judge Beryl A. Howell.
“ ‘Money,’ ” she wrote, “com-
monly means a medium of ex-
change, method of payment, or
store of value. Bitcoin is these
things.”
No sentencing date has been
set; prosecutors said they first
wanted to give Harmon time to
work with investigators. There
are “a number of possible avenues
for cooperation,” Assistant U.S.
Attorney Christopher Brown said.
rachel.weiner@washpost.com
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Justice Dept. tells court that Missouri gun rights law undermines public safety
BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY
The Biden Justice Department
on Wednesday asked a court to
block a Missouri law that declares
certain federal gun laws invalid
and threatens financial penalties
on state and local agencies that
enforce them, arguing the meas-
ure violated the Constitution and
undermined public safety.
In a statement of interest filed
in an ongoing lawsuit against the
Missouri law in the Circuit Court
of Cole County, Justice Depart-
ment lawyers argued that the bill
signed by the governor in June
was “legally invalid” and under-
mined law enforcement activities
in the state.
A dozen local officers withdrew
from participating in Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives task forces at least in
Massacre survivors ask Justice Dept.
to intervene in mass-graves search
BY D E N EEN L . B ROWN
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors
and the descendants of victims
have asked the U.S. Justice De-
partment to intervene in the city’s
search for mass graves.
Justice for Greenwood, a foun-
dation representing three known
massacre survivors, as well as de-
scendants, historians and activ-
ists, sent a letter Friday to formal-
ly request that the Justice Depart-
ment open an investigation under
the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil
Rights Crime Act to determine
what happened during the
century-old massacre, one of the
worst incidents of racial violence
in U.S. history.
The request comes weeks after
the city reburied remains that
were exhumed from a mass grave
discovered in a city-owned cem-
etery. Still undetermined: wheth-
er the mass grave in Oaklawn
Cemetery is connected to the 1921
rampage that left as many as 300
Black people dead and the all-
Black neighborhood of Green-
wood in ruins.
Tulsa officials reinterred the re-
mains over the objections of mas-
sacre survivors, descendants of
victims and members of the 1921
Mass Graves Oversight Commit-
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part because of the law, an ATF
official asserted in an affidavit,
and several state and local law
enforcement agencies indicated
they would no longer input data
into a national system that helps
investigators match ballistics evi-
dence with crimes across the na-
tion.
“In sum, HB85 has caused, and
will continue to cause, significant
harms to law enforcement within
the State of Missouri,” the Justice
Department argued, using the
number of the bill.
The law at issue — known as
the Second Amendment Preser-
vation Act — takes aim broadly at
federal laws and regulations hav-
ing to do with taxes, registration
and transfer of firearms. It threat-
ens $50,000 fines for local juris-
dictions or governments that en-
force the provisions at issue,
tee, which voted to delay the re-
burial of the remains until the city
had completed its investigation.
Damario Solomon-Simmons,
the lead attorney in a lawsuit filed
in 2020 by massacre survivors
and descendants demanding that
the city “repair the damage”
caused by the attack, said Tulsa
has a conflict of interest in investi-
gating the massacre.
“There are innumerable rea-
sons why the Department of Jus-
tice should intervene in this case,”
attorneys wrote in the request
letter. “First, the City perpetrated
the massacre and then led the
cover up of the massacre for
75 years. Over the last 20 years
and currently, the City’s official
position is they are not responsi-
ble for the horrendous loss of life,
land, or livelihood that they
caused.”
The attorneys questioned
whether the city could “be trusted
to handle this mass grave search
with integrity” and accountabili-
ty. “The known and suspected
mass grave sites are crime scenes,”
the letter said. “As such, these
crime scenes should not be inves-
tigated by the very perpetrator(s)
of the crime, let alone entities we
know have failed to adequately
investigate and prosecute those
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which it declares to be “infringe-
ments on the people’s right to
keep and bear arms.” It was spon-
sored by Republican state Rep.
Jered Taylor and signed by Re-
publican Gov. Mike Parson.
“The Second Amendment Pres-
ervation Act is about protecting
law-abiding Missourians against
government overreach and un-
constitutional federal mandates,”
Parson said in a statement pro-
vided to The Washington Post on
Wednesday. “We will reject any
attempt by the federal govern-
ment to circumvent the funda-
mental right Missourians have to
keep and bear arms to protect
themselves and their property.
Throughout my career, I have
always stood for the Constitution
and our Second Amendment
rights, and that will not change
today or any day.”
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher, 107, listens
to testimony during a House subcommittee hearing in May.
responsible for the crimes.”
Tulsa officials declined to com-
ment on the request for the Jus-
tice Department’s intervention,
citing pending litigation, city
Communications Director Mi-
chelle Brooks said.
“The Department has received
the request filed by descendants
of the Tulsa race massacre and we
are reviewing it,” a Justice Depart-
ment spokeswoman said.
Tulsa just commemorated the
100th anniversary of the massa-
cre, which happened when a
White mob descended on the all-
Black neighborhood of Green-
wood on May 31, 1921, and de-
stroyed it. Thirty-five square
The measure generated confu-
sion and concern among some
local jurisdictions and law en-
forcement officers, who worried
it would hamper their ability to
work with federal agencies, espe-
cially the ATF, on crime-fighting
efforts. The city of St. Louis,
St. Louis County and Jackson
County filed a lawsuit seeking to
block the law.
In an affidavit, Frederic D. Win-
ston, the special agent in charge
of the ATF’s Kansas City division,
noted that gun crime is an acute
problem in Missouri. In 2020, he
wrote, the Missouri State High-
way Patrol reported more than
13,800 firearms offenses, and of
the state’s 730 homicides, about
75 percent involved a firearm. So
far in 2021, he wrote, the highway
patrol has reported more than
8,000 firearms offenses, and
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blocks were burned and more
than 10,000 Black people were left
without homes. Massacre eyewit-
nesses and survivors reported see-
ing bodies of Black people thrown
into mass graves, into the Arkan-
sas River or loaded onto trucks or
trains, making a tally of the fatali-
ties difficult.
No White person was charged
in the massacre, and insurance
claims filed by Black homeowners
and business owners were reject-
ed. For decades, there was silence
about what happened.
In 2018, Tulsa Mayor G.T. By-
num (R) reopened the investiga-
tion into whether there are mass
graves after a Washington Post
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about 75 percent of its 218 homi-
cides involved a firearm.
“ATF’s role in limiting unlawful
access to firearms is thus key to
preventing additional violent
crimes in the state,” he wrote.
Under pressure from gun-con-
trol advocates, President Biden
earlier this year announced a se-
ries of executive actions intended
to curb gun violence and pledged
to push for sweeping change to
the country’s firearms laws. At-
torney General Merrick Garland
also has emphasized the Justice
Department’s need to do more to
prevent gun deaths, saying at a
May congressional hearing the
problem was a “law enforcement
and a public health issue.”
That same month, the Justice
Department released a proposed
rule that would put new restric-
tions on “ghost guns” — kits that
story detailed unresolved ques-
tions from an earlier inquiry,
which did not include a search.
In October, remains of possible
victims were discovered in a sec-
tion of the cemetery scientists
called the “Original 18” site. It is
located near the graves of Reuben
Everett and Eddie Lockard. The
tombstones of Everett and Lock-
ard, which say they died on June 1,
1921, are the only known marked
graves of massacre victims in the
cemetery.
In July, scientists announced
they discovered as many as 35
coffins in the unmarked mass
grave, which also included steps
carved into the wall of the pit, an
indication that it contains per-
haps dozens of coffins.
During the excavation, the re-
mains of 19 people were exhumed
and taken to an on-site lab near
the mass grave. In the lab, scien-
tists examined the remains for
signs of trauma that could be
connected to the massacre.
In June, forensic scientists and
archaeologists announced they
had unearthed skeletal remains,
including those of a Black man
with multiple gunshot wounds to
his head and shoulder.
The reburial of those remains
last month sparked angry pro-
tests. But the city argued it was
required to do so to meet permit
requirements obtained before the
June excavation began. The per-
mit required the city to reinter the
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allow buyers to assemble fire-
arms without a serial number.
The rule drew pushback from
the National Rifle Association,
which said it would “do nothing
to address violent crime while
further burdening law-abiding
gun owners and the lawful fire-
arm industry with overbroad reg-
ulations.” The NRA has also
voiced concern over Biden’s nom-
inee to lead the ATF: David Chip-
man, a former ATF agent and now
a senior adviser to a gun-control
group founded by former con-
gresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
(D-Ariz.), who was severely in-
jured in a mass shooting in 2011.
Chipman’s nomination has
languished on Capitol Hill, with
the White House and Senate
Democrats struggling to muster
support even in their own ranks.
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remains after the “on-site forensic
analysis, documentation and
DNA sampling were complete,”
Brooks said.
Scientists are expected to re-
port their findings from the exca-
vation this fall, when they will
make recommendations for the
next steps in the investigation.
The letter requesting the Jus-
tice Department intervention was
signed by the three known living
massacre survivors — Lessie Ben-
ningfield Randle, 106, Viola Ford
Fletcher, 107 and Hughes Van El-
lis, 100. It was also signed by city
and state officials in Oklahoma,
Tulsa City Councilor Vanessa
Hall-Harper, State Rep. Regina
Goodwin (D-Tulsa), and several
prominent leaders of human
rights and civil rights organiza-
tions, including Bryan Stevenson,
founder of the Equal Justice Ini-
tiative; Angela Rye, CEO of IM-
PACT Strategies; Damon T. He-
witt, president of the Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law; and Nicole M. Austin-Hill-
ery, executive director of the U.S.
program at Human Rights Watch.
“We are deeply disturbed and
alarmed by the possibility that
some of the bodies recently found
could be those of the same people
we saw in the street in the wake of
the Massacre, who were senseless-
ly and violently murdered,” the
massacre survivors said in a state-
ment.
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BY F RANCES S TEAD S ELLERS,
A RIANA E UNJUNG C HA,
H ANNAH K NOWLES
AND D EREK H AWKINS
With only about half of the U.S.
population fully vaccinated
against the novel coronavirus,
hospitals across the country are
straining to respond to a deadly
fourth surge of infections driven
by the delta variant.
Doctors say the nationwide
outbreak overwhelming hospitals
could have been avoided had
more people been immunized. In
the week ending Tuesday, 46 of
the 50 states experienced double-
digit growth in covid-19 hospital-
izations, according to an analysis
by The Washington Post. Eight
states, including California and
New York, which for most of the
summer had not seen many seri-
ous cases, added more than 400
new inpatients in that time.
“It’s absolutely due to delta; it’s
absolutely due to unvaccinated
people,” said David Wohl, a spe-
cialist in infectious diseases at the
University of North Carolina.
“There is an incredible increase in
hospitalizations across the spec-
trum, from just needing oxygen
and some care to needing serious
interventions to keep people
alive. If everyone was vaccinated,
our hospitals would not be any-
where near where we are,” Wohl
said.
In rural Grants Pass, Ore., As-
ante Three Rivers Medical Center
was already busy this summer.
The hospital was struggling to fill
positions, and people who had
put off medical care during the
pandemic were finally coming in.
Then came the new wave of
serious covid-19 cases — far more
than the center had seen even in
January. The entire critical care
unit was filled Monday with un-
vaccinated patients, and a heart-
broken doctor just told seven can-
cer patients their surgeries would
have to wait. For the first time
ever, the hospital is doubling up
patients in critical care rooms
where normally each would have
had privacy.
“If you would have asked me . . .
would we ever be there? I would
have said, ‘God, I hope please we
don’t get there,’” said hospital
chief executive Win Howard, as
some staffers doubled their hours
and a nearby county asked the
state for a 300-bed field hospital.
“We are there today. It’s a sad day.”
The numbers paint a grim pic-
ture. For the week ending Aug. 15,
the country reported 911,529 new
infections, with an average of
more than 130,000 cases a day,
according to tracking by The Post.
The last time the weekly infec-
tion count was that high was the
week ending Jan. 31, when the
country logged 1,032,785 new in-
fections, Post data shows.
At the time, vaccines were
available only to vulnerable seg-
ments of the population.
The impact on hospitals is at
once distressingly familiar and
strikingly different from previous
surges, clinicians say. In addition
to handling mounting covid-19
case numbers, hospitals are play-
ing catch-up on elective surgeries
that were postponed because of
the pandemic. People are out driv-
ing on the roads and playing
sports, experiencing accidents
and injuries, and increasing the
burden on trauma departments.
Common viruses are again
spreading as people get together
— and cases of respiratory syncy-
Action ordered vs. governors
who ban school mask mandates
BY V ALERIE S TRAUSS
President Biden ordered Edu-
cation Secretary Miguel Cardona
on Wednesday to take action
against governors who have
banned universal masking in
public schools, taking a tough
stand against those who he said
are trying to “block and intimi-
date” local schools officials.
At a news conference, Biden
said his administration would
not “stand by” and allow gover-
nors to prevent local districts
from “keeping students safe”
with masking mandates for the
new academic year as cases from
the delta variant of the coronavi-
rus are skyrocketing.
He did not name any specific
governor, but Republican gover-
nors Ron DeSantis of Florida,
Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug
Ducey of Arizona, are among
those state leaders who have
threatened to withhold funding
from districts or take other action
against those districts that defy
them. In Florida, Miami-Dade
County Public Schools, the fourth
largest district in the country, on
Wednesday passed a universal
masking mandate — with only a
medical opt-out — as did Hills-
borough County Public Schools.
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Delta tips hospitals back into crisis
A woman in Houston looks into an ambulance at her son, who has symptoms consistent with covid-19, before he is taken to a
hospital. Doctors note that the delta-linked covid-19 cases overwhelming U.S. hospitals are concentrated among the unvaccinated.
tial virus, or RSV, are filling pedi-
atric hospital beds. And adminis-
tering new therapeutics, includ-
ing monoclonal antibodies, is
time-consuming.
All of this is putting extra de-
mands on staffers who have not
yet been able to process the previ-
ous surge, let alone rest. Now they
are treating deathly sick patients
who are younger than before —
but would almost certainly not be
in the hospital if they had been
vaccinated.
“It’s kind of like running a race.
We knew the finish line was a
vaccine. Now, whoop, there is an-
other half marathon in front of
you,” said Lisa Clark Pickett, chief
medical officer at Duke Univer-
sity Hospital in North Carolina.
“We have seen so much death, and
now it’s young people dying of
things we can prevent.”
Pandemic burnout and other
factors have also made hiring
harder, said Jeff Absalon, chief
physician executive for St.
Charles Health System in Oregon,
which is trying to fill some 800
open positions — more than dou-
ble what might be seen in normal
times. The health system has
brought in about 100 traveling
nurses.
“All of those things happening
at the same time . . . created this
environment that we’re in right
now,” he said.
With hospitals consistently
full, Absalon’s health system
scrambled this past weekend to
open a new urgent care clinic at a
site that’s normally used for pri-
mary care. Absalon is also having
“extreme difficulty” discharging
patients to skilled nursing facili-
ties and assisted-living centers
because of staffing shortages in
those facilities, Absalon said. St.
Charles Health System has start-
ed sending some of its employees
to those facilities to provide care
“I’m directing the secretary of
education to take additional
steps to protect our children,”
Biden said. “This includes using
all of his oversight authorities
and legal action if appropriate
against governors who are trying
to block and intimidate local
schools officials and educators.”
The Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention has said
masking is one of the strongest
tools that can be taken to protect
the spread of the delta variant,
which has caused a rise in pediat-
ric coronavirus cases. The agency
this summer, in a shift in guid-
ance, recommended everyone
over the age of 2 — even those
who are vaccinated — wear
masks inside school buildings.
But a handful of Republican
governors and legislatures have
banned mask mandates in
schools.
In letters to the governors of
Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Okla-
homa, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, and Utah, Cardona said
bans on school masking man-
dates are putting students at risk
and “may infringe upon a school
district’s authority to adopt pol-
icies to protect students and edu-
cators as they develop their safe
return to in-person instruction
THE coronavirus pandemic
New coronavirus cases, deaths and
vaccine doses in the U.S., by day
As of 8 p.m. Wednesday
CASES
Total 37,166,222
Yesterday 162,813
7-day avg.
Feb. 29 May July Sept. Nov.
DEATHS
Total 623,323
Yesterday 1,083
7-day avg.
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VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED
Total 358,599,835
Yesterday 704,840
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outside the hospital.
Greg Martin, a critical care doc-
tor at Emory Healthcare in Atlan-
ta and president of the Society of
Critical Care Medicine, said that a
few weeks ago, Atlanta was quiet.
Since then, there has been a ten-
fold increase in the number of
hospitalized patients — from 10 to
more than 100 today.
“It’s remarkable how quick this
surge has come on,” he said.
Hilo Medical Center on the Big
Island of Hawaii just welcomed
its first “relief workers” — 11 nurs-
es and one respiratory therapist
sent by FEMA and other authori-
ties, said Elena Cabatu, director of
public affairs. Now some staffers
who have been “going nonstop for
so long” can rest.
Masked students line up outside their rooms Wednesday on the
first day of classes at St. Lawrence Catholic School in Florida.
plans required by federal law.”
Cardona, in a Wednesday post
on the department’s Homeroom
Blog, said the department can
investigate any state educational
agency whose policies or actions
“may infringe on the rights of
every student to access public
education equally.”
“The department will also re-
ceive and respond as appropriate
to complaints from the public,
including parents, guardians,
and others about students who
may experience discrimination as
a result of states not allowing
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Cabatu wonders how sustain-
able that kind of help is when
covid-19 cases are spiking around
the country.
“If you look on the map, it’s red
all over the place,” she said.
Many ER departments are par-
ticularly stressed because they
have been giving remdesivir or
monoclonal antibodies to pa-
tients who are showing signs of
illness but are not sick enough to
be hospitalized, according to
Mark Rosenberg, president of the
American College of Emergency
Physicians and chair of emergen-
cy medicine at St. Joseph’s Health
in Paterson and Wayne, N.J. The
testing, preparation, infusion and
observation can take a half-day or
more.
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masking requirements and other
mitigation measures,” he wrote.
“As always, the Department’s Of-
fice for Civil Rights evaluates
allegations of discrimination on a
case-by-case basis, looking at the
specific facts of each case.
“In addition, the Department’s
Office of Special Education Pro-
grams monitors states’ imple-
mentation of the federal special
education law that requires that
students with disabilities receive
a free, appropriate public educa-
tion,” Cardona said.
The New York Times first re-
ported the education depart-
ment’s new charge from the pres-
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“If you are seeing several hun-
dred patients a day and a high
percentage have covid and re-
quire treatment, this takes up a
lot of resources and adds a lot of
hours during the day,” Rosenberg
said.
The strains on staffers reflect
grim statistics. Don Williamson,
president of the Alabama Hospi-
tal Association, said he has been
watching the virus march up the
state, starting with the counties
abutting Florida, where more
than 16,800 people are hospital-
ized with covid-19, occupying
more than 30 percent of the state’s
beds, according to federal data.
In Alabama, more than 2,700
covid patients are hospitalized,
about 400 fewer than the peak in
January. But, Williamson said,
ICU beds are already packed, even
as hospitals adapt to provide
more. The percentage of inpa-
tients under 35 has increased
from 8 or 9 percent to 16 percent.
Back “in the golden days of June,”
Williamson said, there were only
patients in Alabama hospitals
each day. Now that number is
closer to 40.
Wohl, who monitors a dash-
board that tracks hospital admis-
sions at UNC, saw an uptick a
couple of weeks after July 4.
“Holidays are good for covid-19
and bad for us,” Wohl said.
The delta variant, which deliv-
ers huge numbers of virus cases
and accounts for nearly 100 per-
cent of all new covid-19 cases, has
presented new challenges, Wohl
said, occasionally finding unex-
pected cracks in people’s immune
systems sometimes even after
they have been vaccinated. But in
the vast majority of cases, people
who get sick are unvaccinated.
“It’s extremely rare to see some-
body vaccinated struggling to stay
alive,” Wohl said.
ident.
The announcement came as
some Republican governors are
now trying to fight districts that
are defying them on mask rules.
In Arizona, Ducey said the
state would not direct federal
coronavirus relief funds to any
public school district that insti-
tutes a mask mandate — a move
that could come under investiga-
tion from the Education Depart-
ment.
In Florida, DeSantis has
threatened to cut state funding to
districts, as well as the salaries of
superintendents and other edu-
cation officials who defy his exec-
utive order stating that parents
should be allowed to decide if
their children wear masks in
schools. Cardona has said school
systems could use stimulus mon-
ey to make up any lost funds.
On Tuesday, the DeSantis-con-
trolled Florida Board of Educa-
tion determined that the school
districts in Broward and Alachua
Counties had violated state law
for imposing mask mandates
with only medical opt-outs for
families and it voted to consider
sanctions. Board Chairman Tom
Grady listed potential sanctions
against defiant districts, includ-
ing having the state remove
school officials from their posts
or act to oust local school board
members.
The increasingly bitter battle
over masking comes as Florida’s
coronavirus case numbers are
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The new variant has surprised
experts in infectious diseases, ac-
cording to Aaron Glatt, the chief
of infectious diseases and the hos-
pital epidemiologist at Mount Si-
nai South Nassau on Long Island.
With delta, “we are dealing a lot
with guesses without knowing ev-
ery piece of information that we’d
ideally want to have,” Glatt said,
adding that he is very concerned
about the next few months.
“Nothing that I thought was
going to happen happened,” Glatt
said. “Delta is much more serious
and contagious than I thought it
would be.”
Many hospitals are already cut-
ting back on routine work. Duke
University Hospital has begun
canceling some surgeries, includ-
ing joint replacements and non-
urgent hysterectomies.
“We hate to do that; it has
long-term consequences,” Pickett
said.
In Oregon, Howard said that
earlier in the pandemic, moves
there to cancel elective surgeries
were preemptive and mandated
by the state. Now such deferrals
are simply necessary, he said: The
three-hospital system of which
Three Rivers is a part has
scrapped or pushed back hun-
dreds of surgeries.
The system is licensed to oper-
ate 552 beds and is asking to add
more than 100. It is also trying to
fill about 550 job openings, far
more than usual, and is turning
more rooms into critical care
spaces to handle coronavirus pa-
tients.
It’s not just the hospitals that
are under pressure. The local am-
bulance companies are over-
whelmed, too, Howard said. So
are the skilled nursing homes to
which medical centers say they
have increasingly struggled to
discharge patients, even before
the delta wave. Open beds just
aren’t staffed.
“We are averaging about 60
patients a day in our hospitals
that don’t need to be there [but
remain] because we can’t get
them placed,” Howard said.
Tanya Phillips, an official with
nearby Jackson County Public
Health, said the entire public
health system is strained, making
contact-tracing difficult. Their re-
gion — Jackson and Josephine
counties, including Grants Pass —
had 163 people hospitalized with
covid-19 on Monday.
The old peak, on Jan. 2, was 69.
The current situation “doesn’t
really compare to what we saw
during that fall and winter surge,”
Phillips said. “It’s pretty surreal,”
she added, saying 15 of the current
covid-19 patients are on ventila-
tors.
Wohl, the infectious-disease
specialist at UNC, said that medi-
cal professionals are accustomed
to treating people who have made
bad decisions such as smoking,
using drugs or driving dangerous-
ly. What is new this time, he said,
is that they are treating people
whose decision to forgo vaccina-
tion is, in many instances, based
on misinformation and political
manipulation.
“We sabotaged ourselves,”
Wohl said. “It’s like watching the
same house burn down time and
time again.”
frances.sellers@washpost.com
ariana.cha@washpost.com
hannah.knowles@washpost.com
derek.hawkins@washpost.com
Jacqueline Dupree contributed to this
report.
rising, with the seven-day aver-
age for new cases reaching a high
of 24,720 on Tuesday. The num-
ber of cases in young people is
rising as well, and the state’s
Department of Health has re-
started a case dashboard on its
website. Thousands of students
in school districts that have al-
ready started the 2021-22 school
year are already in quarantine
after being in contact with some-
one diagnosed with the conta-
gious delta variant.
This wouldn’t be the first time
the state considers acting against
local school leaders. In 2019, De-
Santis threatened to remove
members of the Broward County
school board after it supported
then-Superintendent Robert
Runcie, who the governor wanted
to fire after the 2018 killings of 17
people by a gunman at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School
in Parkland. He acknowledged he
lacked the authority to fire Run-
cie and did not move against
board members then.
Biden promised Wednesday to
stand with school districts that
defied masking bans, saying,
“This isn’t about politics. It is
about keeping our children safe.
It’s about taking on the virus
together, united.”
He said he had phoned super-
intendents in Florida and Ari-
zona to thank them for “doing the
right thing and requiring masks
in schools.”
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even getting hospitalized.”
The CDC’s fumbles on the delta
variant, following a year when its
missteps were often attributed to
interference by the Trump admin-
istration, tell a more complicated
story — that the once-storied
agency faces other challenges that
have hampered an agile response
to the pandemic. Critics lament
that the most up-to-date data
about the delta variant has come
from other countries, such as Isra-
el, Great Britain and Singapore.
And they say the CDC’s inability to
share real-time information led
top administration officials, in-
cluding the president himself, to
offer overly rosy assessments of
the vaccines’ effectiveness against
delta that may have lulled Ameri-
cans into a false sense of security,
even as a more wily and formi-
dable variant was taking hold.
Some inside the agency share
those criticisms.
“It’s not acceptable how long it
takes for this data to be made
available,” said a senior CDC offi-
cial, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss internal
matters. “It’s done in a very aca-
demic way. Cross every ‘t,’ and dot
every ‘i,’ and unfortunately, we
don’t have that luxury in a global
pandemic. There’s going to be a
need to have a significant cultural
shift in the agency.”
There are signs of change: On
Wednesday, CDC Director Ro-
chelle Walensky announced plans
to develop a new forecasting and
outbreak analytics center to ana-
lyze data in real time to better
predict disease threats. She said it
would be the country’s first gov-
ernment-wide forecasting center.
The leadership team includes
well-respected epidemiologists,
including Marc Lipsitch from
Harvard University and Caitlin
Rivers from the Johns Hopkins
University Center for Health Se-
curity.
Walensky was unavailable for
comment on this story. But CDC
spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund
responded to criticisms of the
agency’s slowness to share data,
saying that researchers across the
country have “worked tirelessly
every day throughout this pan-
demic to gather and analyze data
so that we could make the best
possible decisions for public
health.”
Gathering and analyzing data
— especially in a crisis — needs to
balance accuracy and speed, Nor-
dlund said. The pandemic has un-
derscored the continued and sub-
stantial need for modernizing
public health data infrastructure
at all levels, she said, and Walen-
sky has put initiatives in place to
improve the agency’s ability to
provide “relevant, current data” to
inform policy decisions.
“Just this week, CDC was able to
collect, analyze and publish 10-
day-old data . . . that resulted in
actionable policy decisions to
work toward covid-19 booster
shots for all Americans,” Nord-
lund said, referring to the admin-
istration’s recommendation
Wednesday that millions of vacci-
nated Americans get booster
shots. “This included analyzing
85,593 weekly reports from 14,917
nursing homes that were as recent
as Aug. 1, 2021. This kind of analy-
sis can often take a year consider-
ing the studies involve tens of
thousands of participants.”
‘They’re not meeting a need’
There were clues beginning in
May and June that the delta vari-
ant might upend the nation’s
progress against the coronavirus,
even as the CDC told vaccinated
people on May 13 they could re-
move their masks and President
Biden vowed a return to normalcy
around the Fourth of July if
enough Americans got the shots.
Reports from other countries
battling the delta variant, with
similar or higher vaccination
rates to the United States — in-
cluding Singapore, the United
Kingdom and Israel — began to
show the vaccines appeared less
effective at preventing mild to
moderate infections, although
they were still offering robust pro-
tection against severe illness. Sin-
gapore’s Health Ministry pub-
lished data daily from contact-
tracing investigations beginning
in May, which showed that vacci-
nated people were not only get-
ting infected with the delta vari-
ant, but also transmitting the vi-
rus.
But the CDC was not releasing
real-time data. Public confusion
began to grow as high-profile
sports figures, celebrities and oth-
ers reported contracting mild cas-
es of the virus despite being fully
vaccinated, which increased pres-
sure on the CDC to provide more
information.
“They try very hard to get
things right and they keep things
very closely held until it pops . . .
and it’s not as real-time as people
would like,” said one senior ad-
ministration official, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
discuss the matter candidly.
“They’re not meeting a need. Why
are we dependent on Israeli pub-
lic health data?”
Nearly seven months into her
tenure as the agency’s director,
Walensky is among those pressing
officials to speed up publication of
data and guidance, and to share
more frequent updates with the
public. As coronavirus cases be-
gan to rip through low-vaccina-
tion states in June, she asked for
data about how the virus was af-
fecting unvaccinated people.
“Preliminary data from a col-
lection of states over the last six
months,” she stated at a White
House covid-19 briefing on July 1,
“suggest 99.5 percent of deaths
from covid-19 in these states have
occurred in unvaccinated people.”
She also said that unvaccinated
Americans accounted for more
than 97 percent of those hospital-
ized.
Other officials cited those rates
in a constant refrain throughout
July to encourage vaccinations. In
response to a reporter’s question
Aug. 5, Walensky acknowledged
they were based on data from the
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THE coronavirus pandemic
Handling of data
hampers an agile
response to virus
first six months of the year. As a
result, they almost certainly over-
stated vaccine effectiveness
against the delta variant because
the time period included several
months when most Americans
were unvaccinated and before
delta had taken hold in the United
States.
Walensky said then the agency
was updating the numbers, and
she was confident they would con-
tinue to show that unvaccinated
Americans account for the over-
whelming majority of those se-
verely ill and dying of covid-19.
Another data decision pro-
voked more bafflement — the
agency’s announcement in May
that it would track only the most
severe breakthrough infections in
vaccinated individuals that result
in hospitalizations and deaths.
Some critics argued that would
make it more difficult to gain visi-
bility into real-time changes in the
pandemic.
“It’s quite clear in my opinion
that their [decision] backing off
monitoring breakthrough infec-
tions pre-delta was a mistake,”
said Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethi-
cist at the University of Pennsylva-
nia who was part of Biden’s covid-
19 transition task force. “I’ve been
arguing to do more monitoring,
not less, and the CDC has been
going in the wrong direction.”
CDC officials and other experts
argue that a better approach lies
with studies the agency is con-
ducting that track tens of thou-
sands of people, including health-
care and essential workers and
residents of long-term care facili-
ties, to see how well vaccines are
working. Some people are tested
weekly, whether they show symp-
toms or not, Walensky said at a
recent White House briefing.
“I would rather see a smaller
population studied very, very well
than a large population where you
TOP: Cars line up Aug. 4 at a coronavirus testing site in
Houston. ABOVE: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is
seeking to speed up publication of agency data and guidance.
arrive at the wrong answers,” said
Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at
Emory University’s Rollins School
of Public Health, adding that offi-
cials need to collect information
about participants’ occupations,
previous coronavirus infections,
vaccination dates and underlying
health conditions. That’s much
harder to do if all breakthrough
infections are tracked because
“it’s too many people,” she said.
But even those who support the
agency’s approach note that until
now, it has issued only a handful of
reports from those studies — and
none based on data more recent
than April, well before the delta
variant began making inroads.
“What is very concerning is that
we’re not seeing the data come
out,” said Tom Frieden, a former
CDC director who served under
President Barack Obama. “It
needs to come out. What you can
criticize CDC for, validly, is why
aren’t you talking about the stud-
ies you’re doing of break-
throughs? Even like, what’s the
methodology? Where are they be-
ing done? What are the results so
far?”
There has been such a long lag
time, Frieden added, that some
wonder if the CDC is hiding re-
sults. “And these are the people
who are potentially friendly to
CDC, so you know you’re in trou-
ble when even your friends are
suspicious of your motives,” he
said, adding he was not talking
about himself.
The CDC has held data so close-
ly that the public learned of key
agency assessments of the delta
variant only from an internal
agency slide presentation pub-
lished in The Washington Post on
July 29. As part of that presenta-
tion, officials said it was time to
“acknowledge the war has
changed.” One slide described a
higher risk among older age
GREG NASH/POOL/REUTERS
THE WASHINGTON POST
groups for hospitalization and
death relative to younger people,
regardless of vaccination status.
Another estimated 35,000 symp-
tomatic infections per week
among 162 million vaccinated
Americans. The document includ-
ed references to CDC studies, as
well as to international data the
agency was examining.
“That exemplifies the prob-
lem,” Topol said of the leaked
slides. “The moment those data
were assembled, that should be
shared, and that basically is full
transparency and truth-telling.
People can handle the truth.
When you find out there’s a leaked
slide set from the CDC appearing
from an article in The Washington
Post, what do you think that does
for the conspiracy theories and
the mistrust?”
The day after The Post pub-
lished the slide deck, the CDC did
publish a much-anticipated study
about several hundred cases in
Provincetown, Mass., stemming
from Fourth of July celebrations,
that found that three-fourths of
the people infected with the coro-
navirus had been vaccinated. Al-
most all of those cases were mild
or moderate. But the study also
found that vaccinated people
could spread the virus to others —
a finding that the agency said was
key to its decision earlier that
same week to reinstate indoor-
masking recommendations for
the vaccinated.
The CDC “will tell us just how
bad this delta wave was with beau-
tiful science in four months, pub-
lished in JAMA,” said Scott Gott-
lieb, former FDA commissioner
under President Donald Trump
and a Pfizer board member, refer-
ring to the prestigious medical
journal. “It’s not an indictment of
them. It’s the wrong agency. Their
mind-set is we should polish it, vet
it, peer-review it.”
Increasing confidence
Critics say the agency’s delay in
publishing its findings is particu-
larly troubling in this moment,
when the United States is battling
a fast-moving variant that is caus-
ing nearly 140,000 newly reported
cases a day — still well below the
nearly 250,000 daily averages
during the worst days of the pan-
demic in January, but more than
10 times the U.S. caseload just a
month ago, according to a Post
analysis of data reported by states.
“In times like this, it’s impor-
tant to move data quickly so poli-
cymakers can make quick deci-
sions,” according to the senior
CDC official. “There isn’t time to
wait for this exquisite presenta-
tion.”
Experts say the CDC’s insis-
tence on holding onto data until it
is thoroughly vetted also means
the public is caught off guard
about the newest phase of the
pandemic.
Both current and former CDC
officials say bureaucratic realities
hamper the agency’s ability to
turn out real-time updates. The
agency has nearly 200 separate
budget line items, appropriated
by Congress. That makes it diffi-
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MARK FELIX/BLOOMBERG NEWS
cult for even the director to move
people and resources around to
address urgent concerns. And de-
spite its $8 billion budget, there is
scant money for what former CDC
director Frieden referred to as
crosscutting activities, “someone
to think big-picture about what is
it that we need in terms of covid
data.”
The agency has flu experts, re-
spiratory disease experts, virology
lab experts, Frieden said, “but you
really don’t have, structurally in
your organization, groups that
think broadly about where we are,
what we need to be doing.”
The collection of such data is
also easier in many other coun-
tries with nationalized health and
data systems: Singapore, Israel
and the United Kingdom, for in-
stance, routinely collect and ana-
lyze data on a population level.
“Our for-profit health-care sys-
tem is really a patchwork of differ-
ent systems that don’t talk to each
other,” said Edward Belongia, an
infectious-disease epidemiologist
at Marshfield Clinic Research In-
stitute in Wisconsin. “To do these
studies, we have to create these
networks where people are shar-
ing data, and that puts us at a
relative disadvantage.”
Public health experts say global
experience should inform U.S.
policy, without dictating it. They
fault CDC officials for failing to
communicate to the public how
data from other countries might
be applicable to the United States,
or to let Americans understand
what they are observing from oth-
er countries’ experiences.
“You definitely want to be
learning from other countries,”
said Richard Besser, former act-
ing director of the CDC and presi-
dent and chief executive of the
Robert Wood Johnson Founda-
tion, the nation’s largest health
philanthropy. “The way a virus
acts in Singapore will help inform
how it will likely act here, and the
question then is: At what point do
you change the recommendation
you have for people?”
The rate of breakthrough infec-
tions is one of several key ques-
tions that must be answered to
better respond to the delta surge,
said David Fleming, a former CDC
official and former global health
executive at the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. Others include
risk factors for severe disease
among vaccinated people and
how the virus spreads in school
settings, especially in younger
children. None of those questions,
however, is readily answerable
through the routine surveillance
in place in the United States, he
noted.
This kind of insight can’t wait
for the “perfect, well-designed
large-scale” studies to be pub-
lished in a top medical journal
such as the New England Journal
of Medicine, Fleming wrote in an
email. The CDC, he added, needs
to “step up to this challenge.”
yasmeen.abutaleb@washpost.com
lena.sun@washpost.com
Jacqueline Dupree and Tyler Pager
contributed to this report.
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Shots stop serious illness even as overall e∞cacy wanes
BY B EN G UARINO
AND L AURIE M C G INLEY
Three studies published
Wednesday by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
show that protection against the
coronavirus given by vaccines de-
clined in the midsummer months
when the more contagious delta
variant rose to dominance in the
United States.
At the same time, protection
against hospitalization was
strong for weeks after vaccina-
tion, indicating the shots will
generate immune fighters that
stave off the worst effects of the
virus and its current variations.
Data from these studies per-
suaded the Biden administration
to develop a plan for additional
doses to bolster the immune sys-
tems of people vaccinated
months earlier. The Biden admin-
istration will begin offering coro-
navirus booster shots to fully vac-
cinated adults who received the
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna
shots the week of Sept. 20, top
health officials announced
Wednesday, after concluding that
a third shot is needed to fight off
waning immunity.
“Examining numerous cohorts
through the end of July and early
August, three points are now very
clear,” CDC director Rochelle
Walensky said at a White House
covid-19 news briefing Wednes-
day. “First, vaccine-induced pro-
tection against SARS-CoV-2 in-
fection begins to decrease over
time. Second, vaccine effective-
ness against severe disease, hos-
pitalization and death remains
relatively high. And third, vaccine
effectiveness is generally de-
creased against the delta variant.”
The trio of reports, published
Wednesday in the Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report, the
CDC’s scientific digest, also rein-
force the idea that vaccines alone
will be unable to lift the nation
out of the pandemic.
Masks and other precautions
should be part of “a layered ap-
proach centered on vaccination,”
wrote researchers from the New
York State Department of Health
and the University at Albany
School of Public Health in their
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study of vaccine effectiveness
across New York state.
All three reports measure vac-
cine effectiveness, which com-
pares the rates of infection or
hospitalization among vaccinat-
ed people with the rates among
people who had not been vacci-
nated. Twenty percent of new
infections and 15 percent of hos-
pitalizations from covid-19, the
disease caused by the virus, were
among vaccinated people.
Until now, evaluations of vac-
cine effectiveness amid delta
largely relied on observations
from outside the United States. A
recent New England Journal of
Medicine study concluded the
Pfizer vaccine was 88 percent
effective against infections that
caused symptoms in England.
Others, such as a study in
Israel, found larger declines in
protection against infection. One
U.S. report that has not yet gone
through peer review, collecting
data from Mayo Clinic Health
System facilities in five states,
found a drop in the Pfizer-BioN-
Tech vaccine’s effectiveness
against delta infections to 42 per-
cent. The other mRNA vaccine,
made by Moderna, was 76 percent
effective.
The new study from New York
is the first to assess vaccine pro-
tection against coronavirus infec-
tion across the entirety of a U.S.
state amid delta. The study au-
thors found a modest drop in
effectiveness: It descended from
92 percent in May to 80 percent in
late July.
The second of the three studies
found effectiveness against infec-
tion declined for nursing home
residents after delta emerged. It
dropped from 75 percent in
March through May to 53 percent
in June and July. Vaccination for
visitors and staff is crucial, the
study authors wrote, and “addi-
tional doses of COVID-19 vaccine
might be considered for nursing
home and long-term care facility
residents.”
The third report, an analysis of
patients at 21 hospitals in 18
states, found sustained protec-
tion against hospitalization. Ef-
fectiveness was steady at 86 per-
cent, even in the midsummer
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months when delta outcompeted
other variants of concern. For
adults who do not have compro-
mised immune systems, that ef-
fectiveness stood at 90 percent.
Many factors influence vaccine
effectiveness and the changes the
scientists observed in New York
cannot be attributed to delta with
certitude, they noted.
If vaccinated people behave in
riskier ways, such as not wearing
masks in crowded areas, that may
influence vaccine effectiveness.
So might waning immune protec-
tions.
To conduct their study, the
researchers in New York linked
multiple health reporting sys-
tems across the state. These in-
cluded immunization registries,
the statewide collection of coro-
navirus laboratory test results
and the system that surveys New
York’s inpatient facilities daily.
Those databases allowed the
study authors to connect vaccine
status to every new case and
hospitalization reported to the
state from May 3 to July 25.
“The New York state data gives
us a nice look at how we can link
data together when you have
comprehensive reporting across
a number of systems,” said Robert
A. Bednarczyk, an epidemiologist
at Emory University Rollins
School of Public Health, who has
worked with the study authors in
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EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS
the past but was not involved
with this research.
By the end of the study period,
66 percent of New Yorkers 18 and
older were vaccinated. Vaccine
effectiveness against hospitaliza-
tion remained constant, above 90
percent. And of the more than
48,000 new infections from late
spring into summer, 9,675 were in
vaccinated people, or about 1 in 5
cases.
But Bednarczyk said break-
through cases such as these do
not mean the vaccines are failing.
“The vaccine is doing what it’s
supposed to do. It’s priming our
immune system,” he said.
Immunized people may still
get infected, because the vaccines
aren’t perfect. But it is possible
immune fighters will sweep the
virus out the door much more
quickly in a vaccinated person,
Bednarczyk said, citing a not-yet-
peer-reviewed paper from re-
searchers in Singapore. In that
report, vaccinated patients more
swiftly defeated an infection
compared with those who
weren’t.
Though the results in New York
may not easily translate to other
communities. Maria Sundaram,
an infectious-disease epidemiolo-
gist at the University of Toronto
Dalla Lana School of Public
Health, said it is difficult to make
comparisons partly because this
is an examination of an entire
state, not a model that accounts
for uncertainties in a population
sample.
The change in vaccine effec-
tiveness over time “to about 10
percent lower, I would take with a
grain of salt,” Sundaram said,
because there may be uncertainty
from mismatches between data-
bases or reporting lags.
Studies such as these show
that, as valuable as coronavirus
vaccines are, they have limits.
“As we’re releasing the brakes
on these other non-pharmaceuti-
cal interventions” — [meaning
masks and other precautions] —
“we may see more cases,” Sun-
daram said. “Vaccines are very,
very helpful but they’re not the
end-all, be-all of covid-19 preven-
tion.”
The booster shots that will
become available in September
are designed to be given eight
months after people have re-
ceived their second dose of the
Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
Surgeon General Vivek H. Mur-
thy explained at Wednesday’s
White House covid briefing how
experts settled on the eight-
month time frame, citing data
showing that about six months
after vaccination, mild to moder-
ate infections started increasing.
Murthy said that while protec-
tion against hospitalization and
death remained strong at that
point, “our anticipation is that if
the trajectory that we are seeing
continues, that we will likely see
in the future an increase in break-
through hospitalizations and
breakthrough deaths. And that’s
why we use our judgment to see
when to make a determination
when that point may be. And
that’s how we came to the eight-
month mark.”
People who received Johnson
& Johnson vaccines may need
boosters, too, Murthy said, add-
ing that officials will have more
information about additional
Johnson & Johnson shots in com-
ing weeks.
The administration announce-
ment drew mixed reaction, with
some experts praising the plan
and others saying it was prema-
ture and could subvert the proc-
A9
ess for considering vaccines and
boosters.
Paul A. Offit, director of the
Vaccine Education Center at Chil-
dren’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
questioned the premise of the
decision — that a decline in im-
munity against mild or moderate
illness would likely be followed be
a decrease in protection against
severe disease and hospitaliza-
tion. He said he believes protec-
tion against serious disease
might last a few years.
He also said he doubted that
boosters would have a major im-
pact on the pandemic, adding
that such a change can be brought
about only by getting more Amer-
icans vaccinated.
In a later news media call with
vaccine experts, Offit said he
would be more comfortable with
the administration plan if data
first had been submitted and
scrutinized by the CDC and Food
and Drug Administration and
their outside advisers. “This
seems to be a declaration without
the vetting you would have liked
to have seen,” Offit said.
Standard practice is for the
FDA to assess the safety and
efficacy of vaccines and for the
CDC’s outside advisers, the Advi-
sory Committee on Immuniza-
tion Practices, to recommend
what vaccines Americans should
get, and when — not the surgeon
general or the National Institutes
of Health. After the advisory pan-
el makes its recommendation, the
CDC director decides whether to
accept it.
Jesse Goodman, former chief
scientist at the FDA and professor
of medicine and infectious dis-
eases at Georgetown, said he sus-
pects that boosters will be needed
and added, “being prepared for a
booster campaign makes sense.”
But he said it was important for
the administration to avoid put-
ting “the cart before the horse.”
Administration officials
stressed in the covid-19 briefing
and in subsequent interviews
that a booster-shot campaign will
not go forward without the go-
ahead from the FDA and the CDC
advisory committee.
ben.guarino@washpost.com
laurie.mcginley@washpost.com
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The World

PHOTOS BY DAR YASIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY G ERRY S HIH

new delhi — Indian security forces in Kashmir fired tear

gas at demonstrators and beat photojournalists this week as
they dispersed a religious procession that has become an
Police attack Kashmir mourners
annual flash point in the restive region.
Kashmir’s small Shiite Muslim community has tradition-
ally marked the 7th-century death of their revered Imam
Hussein with days of mourning and processions on foot
through the streets of Srinagar and by boat along the
reed-lined shores of Dal Lake.
But the mourning during the Islamic month of Muhar-
ram has taken on a political bent in Indian-controlled
Kashmir, a majority-Muslim region that has chafed for
decades under New Delhi’s rule. Indian authorities say the
processions often spiral into separatist protests, and they
have banned the marches since a violent insurgency took
root in 1989. Still, mourners clad in black regularly emerge
by the thousands, often chanting pro-independence slogans
and clashing with police.
Shortly before noon Tuesday, thousands of mourners
streamed toward central Srinagar and broke through police
barricades and barbed wire near the Jehangir Chowk area.
Kashmir’s police said on Twitter that they respected “the
religious sentiments and practices” but that they took
action to “defeat the ill designs of vested interests who try to
disturb the peaceful atmosphere.”
After the crowd refused to disperse, police fired tear gas
and detained dozens. Videos shared online showed officers
chasing photographers, including thrashing them with
bamboo sticks. Sajad Hameed said that he was repeatedly
struck on his legs and that his camera was broken. The
videos drew condemnation from Kashmiri political leaders
and an apology from police officials, who called the beatings
“unacceptable” and punished officers involved.
Kashmir has seethed under a stifling security blanket,
particularly since its semiautonomous status was revoked
two years ago by India’s Parliament, inflaming local resent-
ment and India’s relations with Pakistan.
Indian authorities, who have sought to show progress in
pacifying Kashmir, said this year that they would allow the
march for the first time in years, before reversing them- TOP: Indian police charge with batons to disperse Shiite Muslims during a religious procession in Srinagar, the main city of
selves last week and declaring the processions canceled. Indian-controlled Kashmir. The Shiites were marking the 7th-century death of their revered Imam Hussein. ABOVE: Police
On Thursday, another large procession is expected to detain a man at the march, which officials had banned because they say such processions can spiral into separatist protests.
mark the 10th day of Muharram, when Imam Hussein fell at
the Battle of Karbala in the year 680.
gerry.shih@washpost.com

Shams Irfan in Srinagar contributed to this report.

DI GEST

EUROPE
E.U. blames Belarus
over illegal migration
The European Union on
Wednesday condemned what it
called Belarus’s “aggressive
behavior” in organizing illegal
border crossings with migrants
into Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
with the aim of destabilizing the
27-nation bloc.
So far this year, more than
4,100 asylum seekers, most of
them from Iraq, have illegally
crossed from Belarus into
Lithuania. That’s 50 times as
many as in all of 2020. They’re
being sheltered in temporary
camps across the Baltic E.U.
member.
Poland said Wednesday it had
deployed nearly 1,000 troops to
its border with Belarus to help
border guards cope with a surge
of migrants — again mostly from
Iraq — who were trying to enter
the country.
“This aggressive behavior . . . is
unacceptable and amounts to a
direct attack aimed at
destabilizing and pressurizing the
EU,” said a statement by Slovenia,
which holds the bloc’s rotating
presidency until the end of the
year, after emergency talks
among the bloc’s interior
ministers.
“The European Union will
need to further consider its
response to these situations in
order to increase its effectiveness
and to deter any future attempts
to instrumentalize illegal
migration in this manner,” the
statement said.
The migrant movements
spiked after the European Union
slapped sanctions on officials
from Belarus. The measures were
imposed after President
Alexander Lukashenko ordered a
crackdown on opponents and
protesters after claiming victory
in a vote last year that the West
denounced as rigged. His main
election challenger fled to
Lithuania.
— Associated Press
BOLIVIA
Former government
is accused of torture
Bolivia’s recent interim
government persecuted
opponents with “systematic
torture” and “summary
executions” by security forces in
the tumultuous aftermath of
president Evo Morales’s
resignation in 2019, according to
a new report by independent
human rights experts.
The scathing 471-page report is
the most comprehensive yet to
examine the events surrounding
the disputed 2019 presidential
vote, when Morales’s narrow
election to an unprecedented
fourth term triggered widespread
protests spurred by strong
international allegations of
voting fraud — claims later
questioned by foreign electoral
experts.
The report, presented Tuesday
in La Paz in an event attended by
new President Luis Arce, was
commissioned by the
Organization of American States
chief human rights watchdog
under an agreement with the
former interim government led
by Jeanine Áñez.
The five-member panel’s
findings of widespread abuses by
security forces acting under the
conservative interim
government’s direction is likely to
embolden leftist supporters of
Morales and Arce, who have long
maintained Áñez took power
through a coup tacitly backed by
the Trump administration.
— Associated Press
Businessman charged in Malta
killing: One of Malta’s wealthiest
business executives, Yorgen
Fenech, has been indicted on a
charge of the murder of anti-
corruption journalist Daphne
Caruana Galizia, prosecutors said
in court documents filed
Wednesday. Fenech has been
under arrest since November
2019, accused of complicity to
murder. He has since been
undergoing a pretrial
compilation of evidence in which
he pleaded not guilty. Caruana
Galizia was blown up by a car
bomb as she drove out of her
residence Oct. 16, 2017, in a killing
that shocked Europe and raised
questions about the rule of law in
the European Union’s smallest
member state.
Deaths exceed 1,000 since
Myanmar coup: The death toll as
a result of Myanmar’s Feb. 1 coup
topped 1,000 on Wednesday,
according to an official of the
Assistance Association of Political
Prisoners (AAPP) activist group,
which has been recording killings
by security forces. A spokesman
for the ruling junta did not
respond to a request for
comment. The military
authorities have previously said
the AAPP figures, widely cited by
international organizations, are
exaggerated. The army also has
said scores of members of the
security forces have been killed.
The AAPP does not include them
in its count.
China accuses Internet censor of
corruption: China’s ruling
Communist Party has expelled a
leading Internet censor and
accused him of a range of crimes
and rule-breaking, including
corruption and failure to properly
guide public opinion. Peng Bo
had been deputy head of the
Leading Group for the Prevention
and Handling of Cults, a body set
up after the party launched a
sweeping crackdown against the
Falun Gong meditation sect that
it viewed as a threat to its
authority. The announcement
was unusual both for the
sensitivity of Peng’s position and
the accusations of losing faith and
defiance of party orders.
— From news services
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Survivors of the powerful
earthquake that shook Haiti
scrambled for shelter, food and
medical supplies Wednesday as
officials acknowledged that the
deadly temblor had disrupted
vaccination efforts. The after-
math of Tropical Storm Grace
continued to snarl already feeble
relief efforts, worsening a dire
humanitarian crisis and fueling
anger.
Heavy rainfall from the storm
Tuesday battered temporary shel-
ters set up since the weekend,
drenching people stranded by
Saturday’s 7.2-magnitude earth-
quake. Some slept out in the open.
And while the sun was out
Wednesday, flooding and mud-
slides cut off roads, blocking ur-
gently needed aid deliveries and
stalling efforts to search for those
still missing or trapped beneath
the rubble.
Hospitals in the Tiburon Penin-
sula were overwhelmed, strug-
gling to secure sufficient medical
supplies, including anesthetics,
and to find enough staff members
to treat the badly injured. At least
24 health-care facilities were
damaged, including several that
were destroyed. Other hospitals
were effectively rendered “non-
functional,” USAID said, because
Racked by grief, Haitians’ anger grows as they await aid
HAITI FROM A1
are cursed.”
The official earthquake death
toll is more than 2,000 people, but
the number is expected to grow.
As mourners here gathered for yet
another hastily arranged funeral,
an untold number of townspeople
still lay buried under collapsed
concrete. A man was walking to
market when the earthquake
struck Saturday morning. Buried
by a landslide, he called out in
desperation for days. Neighbors
tried frantically to uncover him
using tools and their bare hands.
But he stopped yelling on Tuesday,
locals said, as the pounding rains
from Tropical Storm Grace
drenched what was left of L’Asile.
The country remains an active
disaster theater, with domestic
and international first responders
and volunteers struggling to
reach distant communities still
isolated by earthquake-damaged
terrain and the heavy rains of
Grace. But in a broken country
with an interim government fill-
ing in for an assassinated presi-
dent, the people of L’Asile knew
from the beginning that they were
on their own.
For days, they managed their
own crisis. After the earth shook
on Saturday, a woman carried her
dead 12-year-old daughter by a
dirt road for three hours. Resi-
dents dug desperately for their
loved ones. An elderly man, para-
lyzed when his roof collapsed, lay
crying on the floor of a makeshift
shelter where, for lack of medical
options, local doctors left him
with a catheter and a prayer.
Like Haiti, a nation of layered
suffering, L’Asile is used to pain.
Many here lost family members in
the catastrophic earthquake of
2010 that killed more than
220,000. The community lost
lives during Hurricane Matthew,
when coconuts became cannon-
balls and St. Joseph’s church lost
its roof. In 2019, violent gangs
muscled into town, kidnapping,
raping and killing poor residents,
sometimes for ransoms as little as
$100.
Then came Saturday’s quake.
For L’Asile, the worst of all.
In a matter of moments,
churches and schools fell. St. Pe-
ter’s Square, where locals pic-
nicked and strolled, is rubble. In a
city that prided itself as the “Pine-
apple Capital of Haiti,” at least
half the crops have been de-
stroyed. The water supply has
been contaminated. Streets have
become impromptu tent cities.
Mayor Martinor Gerardin said
half of the city of 52,000 has crum-
bled, and most of the rest is dam-
aged. The structures where locals
gathered for the annual Pineapple
Festival collapsed. So did Jo-
selewe, a much-loved local joint
that served goat and fish with
sides of rice and beans and plan-
tains.
Neighbors are sharing food
now, but it’s running out, they say.
The occasional aid truck passes by
L’Asile’s rocky roads, causing
hopeful residents to rush out.
But often, the aid trucks don’t
stop.
“God has turned his back on
us,” sobbed Fosnel Cassamajor,
the 45-year-old half brother of the
deceased truck driver. “He has
turned his back on this country.”
After the assassination last
month of President Jovenel
Moïse, a weak, interim govern-
ment is now in charge, leaving
Compounding crises stall
aid, search efforts and
disrupt vaccinations
they lacked adequate access to
electricity and water.
Haiti’s health ministry urged
residents to donate blood. Didier
Hérold Louis, the head of Haiti’s
national ambulance center, told
Haitian radio station Magik9 on
Wednesday that it had been inun-
dated with calls, but lacked nurs-
es, drivers and first aid workers.
“There’s no doubt, we are fac-
ing a big humanitarian emergen-
cy,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry
said in a Wednesday evening ad-
dress. “The country of all of us,
Haiti, is on his knees. This earth-
quake proves once again our lim-
its and how fragile we are.”
Carissa Etienne, director of the
Pan American Health Organiza-
tion, said the needs in Haiti are
“immense.” She said there re-
mained logistical challenges, and
a lack of clean drinking water and
sanitation increased the risk of
diarrhea, respiratory illnesses
and skin diseases.
“The earthquake aftermath,
combined with the covid-19 pan-
demic, presents a very challeng-
ing situation for the people of
TOP: People attend the
funeral for truck driver
Delfrygny Barbier at St.
Joseph’s Catholic Church on
Wednesday. Barbier was
killed in Saturday’s
earthquake. ABOVE: A man
holds 13-month-old Nael,
whose twin brother, Mael,
was killed in his high chair
when a cement wall fell. His
mother, Alvena Yolette
Dormistoire, lamented, “I
could only hold one of them
in my arms.”
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Haiti,” Etienne said.
Saturday’s quake disrupted
vaccination efforts in Haiti, where
doses are limited and just 0.17
percent of the population of more
than 11 million have received at
least one jab, according to Oxford
University’s Our World in Data.
Ciro Ugarte, director of health
emergencies for the Pan Ameri-
can Health Organization, said
vaccination efforts had been ac-
celerating in recent weeks. Then
the earthquake hit, disrupting the
rollout.
“Understandably, the priority
of the health personnel and
health authorities is to save lives
and reduce the impact of the
earthquake in many areas,”
Ugarte said, “and also, a lot of
health-care workers are over-
whelmed treating trauma pa-
tients . . . but also treating other
diseases and trying to reestablish
the health services that have been
impacted by the earthquake.”
The death toll Wednesday rose
sharply to 2,189, almost 250 more
than Tuesday’s figure. More than
12,000 people were injured, ac-
cording to Haiti’s civil protection
agency.
The earthquake compounded
woes in the Western Hemi-
sphere’s poorest nation, which
was already struggling with a cor-
onavirus outbreak and a scarce
vaccine supply, gang violence that
Haiti limping along, wracked by
fractious warlords, soaring hun-
ger and the coronavirus even be-
fore Saturday’s quake.
“We have not seen the govern-
ment come to our aid, and I don’t
expect them to,” Gerardin said.
“How will we ever rebuild our
schools, our churches, fix our wa-
ter supply? I can tell you, this
government won’t help. We are on
our own.”
Alvena Yolette Dormistoire, a
29-year-old mother, stood in front
of her crumbled house and point-
ed at the broken remains of a
wooden high chair. On Saturday
morning, she was juggling break-
fast for her twin 13-month-olds —
aid agencies have warned is
threatening relief efforts, and po-
litical turmoil that was deepened
by the assassination of President
Jovenel Moïse last month.
U.S. national security adviser
Jake Sullivan told reporters Tues-
day that it was “too early to tell”
what impact the earthquake
would have on the political disor-
der in the Caribbean nation. He
said there were no plans to send
U.S. military personnel to the
country.
UNICEF has estimated that the
earthquake affected about 1.2 mil-
lion people, including 540,000
children, and damaged or leveled
some 84,000 homes. Among
those searching for survivors was
a 10-year-old boy who pulled
three of his aunts from the rubble,
the organization said.
Bruno Maes, UNICEF’s repre-
sentative in Haiti, said 20 schools
in one of the country’s adminis-
trative regions were reduced to
rubble, while 74 others were par-
tially destroyed. He tweeted pho-
tos of school desks covered in
debris and gaping holes in class-
room walls mere weeks before the
start of the school year.
“Countless Haitian families
who have lost everything due to
the earthquake are now living
literally with their feet in the
water due to the flooding,” he
tweeted with a video of a flooded
her girl, Nael and, her boy, Mael —
when the quake hit. She was hold-
ing Nael in her lap. But Mael was
in the highchair.
A cement wall fell and crushed
his skull.
“My baby boy,” she said, staring
at the rubble in what appeared to
be shock, her eyes misty, her voice
oddly vacant.
“I could only hold one of them
in my arms, you know,” she said.
“And he was in the chair. Then
everything started moving and
falling. It happened so fast. There
was nothing I could do.”
She could barely move now. She
had an open gash on her leg, and
scabs on her shoulders from her
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street.
UNICEF estimated that
$15 million is needed to respond
to the most urgent needs.
U.N. Secretary General António
Guterres said Tuesday the United
Nations set aside $8 million in
emergency funds for health care,
water and shelter in the country.
He called for countries to step up
foreign aid to prevent a “humani-
tarian disaster.”
In L’Asile, a town in the remote
region of Nippes near the earth-
quake’s epicenter, roughly 90 per-
cent of homes were affected by the
quake and about half were re-
duced to rubble, according to
Christy Delafield, a spokeswoman
for Mercy Corps who visited the
area, at times driving with her
team through a foot of water.
Among the challenges, she
said, is that the roads leading into
the area cannot support large
trucks, meaning several smaller
vehicles would be needed to shut-
tle supplies, and buildings such as
churches and schools that might
have served as shelters were also
damaged.
“There was one school that we
visited that was only partially de-
stroyed, where there were about
200 people sheltering there over-
night,” Delafield said, “and they
said that more people are arriving
each night.”
Aid was slowly trickling into
“I blame God. I cannot
say anything good has
ever come of my life
here. And now my
daughter is dead.”
Ymen Filoxy, whose 12-year-old
daughter was killed during Saturday’s
earthquake
frantic attempts to unearth her
son, which ended only when her
neighbors came to her aid. They
moved blocks of cement and bur-
ied the boy in a shallow grave.
A local doctor gave her a pain
pill, but he had no antibiotics and
her wound had begun to feel
worse. Her 13-month old daugh-
ter also suffered head trauma. But
the area's hospital had literally
collapsed, and the best a local
clinic could do was some antisep-
tic and bandages.
Not far away, Tidieu Desir, a
poor, thin farmer with gray hair
who did not know his own age,
sobbed naked on the dirty floor of
an open air shelter.
“The bottom half of my body
has died,” he cried. “The hospital
was overwhelmed and they just
sent me home. I’ve been put here,
on the floor.”
He pulled back a dirty sheet
decorated with small suns and
stars to show the catheter a doctor
had left him with. “I just heard a
big boom, and then my roof broke
my back,” he said. “Please, there
must be something you can do for
me. I cannot move.”
Nearby hovered Ymen Filoxy,
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the country Wednesday, but some
residents were frustrated by the
discrepancy between what Henry
promised over the weekend
would be rapid relief efforts and
the reality on the ground.
Martin Coria, the regional di-
rector for Latin America and the
Caribbean for the Church World
Service charity, told The Washing-
ton Post that some of the areas
where his teams work in Haiti
have yet to receive any external
aid. Mudslides and landslides, he
said, had choked off many of the
arteries leading to the remote
towns hard-hit by the quake.
“The words that I keep hearing
from my colleagues in Haiti . . .
are that people are desperate,
traumatized and shocked,” Coria
said.
Haiti is still recovering from a
devastating 7.0-magnitude earth-
quake in 2010 near the capital of
Port-au-Prince that killed more
than 220,000 people when Satur-
day’s temblor struck.
“It’s just one thing after an-
other,” Delafield said. “Talk about
the number of shocks and stress-
es that Haiti has been though. . . .
It’s devastating and incredibly
hard.”
amanda.coletta@washpost.com
ellen.francis@washpost.com
Anthony Faiola in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, contributed to this report.
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34, vacillating between sorrow
and rage. She was working on a
farm when the quake hit, and part
of a mountain came down on her
12-year old daughter. She carried
the dead body to town herself.
“I blame God,” she said in dis-
traught anger. “I cannot say any-
thing good has ever come of my
life here. And now my daughter is
dead.”
Rood Nevil, a local doctor, was
treating wounds outside his local
clinic, now nonfunctional after
the quake’s destruction. He un-
wrapped the head bandages of a
man with a deep head gash and
put pressure on the wound, a
possible skull fracture. The pa-
tient fought back tears.
“We don’t have enough pain-
killers,” Nevil said, shrugging. “We
don’t have enough antibiotics. We
are doing the best we can. But we
are alone here. Where is the help?”
In the agricultural outskirts of
town, hundreds of residents who
lost homes are sleeping under
rudimentary shelters, tents or the
open air. They dried out clothing
they salvaged from the quake,
only to be drenched by Grace.
On Wednesday, 33-year-old
Jameson Vital was standing un-
der a hastily constructed shelter
made with an old USAID tarp left
over from Hurricane Matthew. He
was explaining how his father-in-
law died in the falling rubble of
their family home when a strong
4.8-magnitude aftershock hit.
Yelps went up as the 22 people
sharing the shelter ran for cover.
Soon the earth stopped shaking.
“We cannot win,” Vital said.
anthony.faiola@washpost.com
Widlore Merancourt contributed to
this report.
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Realities of governing quickly confront victorious Taliban
AFGHANISTAN FROM A1
leave space for a plurality of opin-
ions, politics and lifestyles, will
not be easy,” Martine van Bijlert, a
researcher and co-founder of the
Afghanistan Analysts Network,
wrote in an essay this week.
Adding to the uncertainty, for-
mer Afghan president Ashraf
Ghani said in a videotaped state-
ment Wednesday that he intended
to return to Afghanistan, days af-
ter he disappeared from Kabul as
the Taliban closed in. Ghani said
he was in the United Arab Emir-
ates. A government statement said
he been welcomed there on “hu-
manitarian grounds.”
Ghani, 72, denied reports that
he had taken large sums of money
with him as he left Kabul. He fled,
he said, fearing the Taliban would
hang him should he stay, just as
the group did to the former Soviet-
backed president the last time it
conquered Kabul, in 1996.
A day earlier in Afghanistan,
Ghani’s former vice president,
Amrullah Saleh, declared himself
the “caretaker” president and said
on Twitter that he was “reaching
out to all leaders to secure their
support & consensus.”
“JOIN THE RESISTANCE,” he
wrote in another tweet, amid re-
ports he had fled to the Panjshir
Valley, north of Kabul, and was
joining forces with Ahmad Mas-
soud, the son of Ahmad Shah Mas-
soud, the anti-Taliban command-
er who was assassinated by al-
Qaeda two days before 9/11.
“We have soldiers from the Af-
ghan regular army who were dis-
gusted by the surrender of their
commanders and are now making
their way to the hills of Panjshir
with their equipment,” Massoud
wrote in a Washington Post op-ed
that called on “friends in the West”
to support the anti-Taliban effort.
“Former members of the Afghan
Special Forces have also joined our
struggle.”
Afghanistan’s central bank gov-
ernor said Wednesday that the
Taliban would have access to only
a fraction of a percentage of the
country’s $9 billion international
reserve, most of which is held in
banks in the United States. The
Biden administration froze Af-
ghanistan’s funds in recent days to
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gain leverage over the militants.
But that move also risks strangling
the economy of Afghanistan, a
deeply impoverished country that
is heavily dependent on U.S. and
international aid.
In a lengthy thread on Twitter,
the central bank governor, Ajmal
Ahmady, detailed the location of
the reserve funds, because, he
said, he had heard that Taliban
members were asking staffers at
the central bank “about the loca-
tion of the assets.”
“If this is true — it is clear they
urgently need to add an economist
on their team,” Ahmady wrote.
“Taliban and their backers should
have foreseen this result,” he add-
ed. “Taliban won militarily — but
now have to govern. It is not easy.”
Save the Children said Wednes-
day that it was “extremely con-
cerned” about the possibility that
children in the drought-stricken
country would face a severe hun-
ger crisis as aid organizations sus-
pended work after the Taliban as-
sumed control.
“Even before the Taliban ad-
vancement, Afghanistan had the
Afghanistan falls to Taliban
second-highest number of people
facing emergency hunger levels in
the world. Half of all children un-
der five were expected to suffer
from acute malnutrition this year
and require specialized treatment
to survive,” the group said in a
statement.
As the Taliban’s leaders reck-
oned with the practical complexi-
ties of paying government em-
ployees and feeding the country,
political challenges flared up as
well. In Jalalabad, east of Kabul,
dozens of people marched
Wednesday with Afghanistan’s na-
tional flag — a black, red and green
banner. The demonstration was a
challenge to the Taliban, which
fights under its own white banner
inscribed in black letters stating
the Islamic profession of faith.
Videos of the protest that circu-
lated on social media showed pro-
testers marching as gunfire could
be heard. Al Jazeera reported that
two protesters were killed. Danish
Karokhil, the executive editor of
the Pajhwok Afghan News Agency,
said Taliban fighters had fired at
protesters and beaten one of the
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agency’s videographers after ask-
ing why he had taken footage of
the protests.
Karokhil, in a telephone inter-
view, complained that Taliban offi-
cials had not apologized, and he
urged them to keep their commit-
ments to respect freedom of
speech. “We want the Taliban to
permit us to cover the protest,
ordinary life, corruption or any
incompetence of the new upcom-
ing government,” he said. Large
demonstrations featuring protest-
ers carrying the national flag were
also held in Khost, southeast of
Kabul, according to local media.
In the capital, another journal-
ist was attacked by Taliban fight-
ers Wednesday at Hamid Karzai
International Airport while trying
to interview people attempting to
flee the country, according to the
Afghanistan Independent Jour-
nalists Association.
The chaos at the airport —
where thousands of desperate
people have tried to navigate both
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Western nations — has emerged as
another early test of the militants’
ability to manage a crisis.
Ahmadullah Wasiq, a Taliban
spokesman, said in a voice mes-
sage to reporters Wednesday that
the movement was “concerned
and unhappy” over the alleged
attack on the journalist. “We are
trying to investigate,” he said. “We
want to take legal action against
the perpetrators.”
Deputy Secretary of State Wen-
dy Sherman said Wednesday that
the United States is “in discus-
sions” with the Taliban “trying to
ensure not only safe passage for
American citizens, but for every-
body trying to get to the airport” to
leave the country.
“We have heard all the stories
. . . about checkpoints, harass-
ments, difficulties” and are “trying
to work through those issues as
best we can,” Sherman said at a
State Department briefing.
Earlier Wednesday, the U.S.
Embassy in Kabul posted a secu-
rity alert for Americans trying to
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gate controlled by U.S. forces but
saying that “the United States gov-
ernment cannot ensure safe pas-
sage” to that point.
Although Sherman said the
State Department had received no
reports of U.S. citizens being
barred from the airport by the
Taliban, there have been numer-
ous reports of Afghans being pre-
vented from reaching the gate.
Locals in Bamiyan, west of Ka-
bul, said Wednesday that Taliban
fighters had blown up a statue of
Abdul Ali Mazari, a leader of the
Shiite Hazara minority who was
executed by the Taliban in 1995.
“They dug a hole in the statue
and filled it with explosive devices.
The statue was located close to a
Taliban headquarters,” said Rajab
Ali Balkhshi Nizhad, a resident.
Both the location and target of
the attack were symbolic. Two dec-
ades ago in Bamiyan, the Taliban
blew up two massive Buddha stat-
ues carved into a cliff and dating to
the 6th century AD. The Hazaras,
who resisted the Taliban in the
1990s, have faced persecution
from the Sunni militants.
Nizhad said Taliban fighters
had stolen people’s vehicles as well
as ancient artifacts kept in a ware-
house near the destroyed Buddha
statues “These people are all
armed and can stop me and take
my vehicles away,” he said. “Bami-
yan is very chaotic.”
Mullawi Faroq, a local Taliban
official in Bamiyan, denied that
the movement’s fighters had de-
stroyed the statue of the Hazara
leader, saying “spoilers” were try-
ing to create division between
residents and the Taliban.
But he acknowledged residents’
complaints about chaos and disor-
der in the days after the Taliban
took over Bamiyan.
“We received many com-
plaints,” he said. But, he added,
Taliban fighters who had arrived
from outside the province had
since been redeployed elsewhere,
and the situation had improved.
“We have brought order and
security,” he said.
kareem.fahim@washpost.com
Fahim reported from Istanbul.
Sudarsan Raghavan in Dubai and
Karen DeYoung in Washington
contributed to this report.
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Afghans in the U.S. despair from afar
Afghan refugees in the United States have been watching in despair as heavily armed Taliban fighters take control of the
country they left behind. ¶ Seven Afghans and Afghan Americans spoke to The Washington Post about following the fall
of their homeland from afar. They shared memories of war and foreign invasion, oppression under Taliban rule, the
promise of democracy and freedom, and the excruciating pain of watching their nation plunge into turmoil once again.
SARAH SILBIGER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Bashir Sadat
Bashir Sadat still remembers the lush garden his
parents built over the years at their home in Istalif,
a village about 25 miles north of Kabul. He lights up
remembering the pear trees, the flowers and the
cherry trees.
Surrounded by verdant orchards and grape-
vines, Istalif is known for its picturesque views and
turquoise pottery. But in 1998, the Taliban sacked
and burned the village, driving thousands of people
out of their homes.
Bashir’s home was pillaged and the family’s
cherished garden was destroyed.
Bashir, now 29, arrived in the United States in
2017 to work on a PhD in education and technology
at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania after the
Taliban attempted to kidnap him, he said.
On Monday, he stood outside the White House
holding a white sign with a single word in Persian:
traitors.
Words failed him when he tried to describe the
moment he saw images of the Taliban sweeping
into the Afghan capital, where his eight brothers
and three sisters recently fled and are in hiding.
“It’s like you are watching the people you love the
most in the world from afar, and they are staring at
the future and there’s nothing but a big, black void,”
he said in tears. “There is no hope.”
MAHBOOBA HAZARA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Muzhgan Hakimi
Life in America is good — different, but good.
Muzhgan Hakimi no longer has to walk 45 minutes
to get to school and endure harassment for
pursuing an education. “You are a girl, you should
be home!” she remembers men yelling at her. And
then there were the bombs. The fear that would
never go away.
Four years ago, she and her parents and four
siblings fled the relentless violence in Afghanistan
and came to the United States. She was 12 years
old.
They resettled in Alexandria, Va., a destination
that she didn’t know much about but that would
soon become the place where she learned what
being safe feels like.
Now 16, Muzhgan loves playing soccer. She loves
ultimate Frisbee even more. What she likes most,
though, is the freedom to have a hobby.
When the news arrived of major Afghan cities
falling to the Taliban, that sense of security
vanished, she said.
“Now I don’t feel safe anymore because my
people are starving and suffering,” the high school
student said this week, standing outside the White
House, where she joined hundreds of other pro-
testers.
“I feel broken,” she said with tears streaming
from her soft eyes, an Afghan flag draped around
her shoulders. “But all of us who are here, are not
ready to give up, even if our parents have.”
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Afghanistan falls to Taliban
BY P AULINA V ILLEGAS
Somaye Sarvarzade
Somaye Sarvarzade was a month old when her
mother carried her on the back of a motorcycle as
they fled Herat in western Afghanistan, crossing
Iran’s border and arriving in the city of Mashhad.
She would live there for the next 20 years.
Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed communist gov-
ernment had forced her family out of their home
and used it to host Soviet officials, Somaye said.
In 2008, seven years after the United States and
its allies toppled the Taliban government, her
family went back to Afghanistan. With the promise
of democracy came hope for women, she said. She
started working with UNICEF to help bring educa-
tion to remote areas and became a living example
that higher education (including a master’s degree
from Stanford University), a career and a life of
one’s own were possible.
That sense of possibility was wiped out in a
matter of days after the Taliban took control of
major cities, including her hometown of Herat,
CAROLYN FONG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Aisha Wahab
Born to Afghan parents in New York City,
Aisha Wahab was elected to the City Council in
Hayward, Calif., in 2018.
As Afghans in the Bay Area frantically look for
ways to assist those back home, she is helping
organize protests, vigils, and fundraisers for
people to send money to Afghanistan.
But equally important is “to make sure elected
officials in [the House] and the Senate are held
accountable to the promise they made to the
Afghan people,” she said, referring to vows to
expedite special visas for eligible Afghan allies
and to offer humanitarian aid.
As an Afghan American, Aisha feels proud of
her roots.
“Knowing where you come from, you will
always feel a certain connection to your ethnicity
and your roots,” she said. “I am an American, but
that’s not to say that I don’t enjoy and celebrate
Afghan culture, heritage — and the beauty of this
country is that we all come from somewhere.”
Rather than criticizing the U.S. withdrawal (at
some point, the United States had to go, she
said), Aisha described its execution as “disorga-
nized and disappointing,” and argued that the
Taliban takeover was a long time coming.
“We knew this was inevitable, but we still have
a role to play,” she said.
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MAHBOOBA HAZARAFOR THE WASHINGTON POST
where her cousins told her they were not allowed
into the university on Saturday, she said.
Speaking from Virginia, where Somaye and her
husband fled in 2020 after she said they received
threats from the Afghan government, the now
36-year-old said no one factor led to this moment.
“It’s Pakistan funding and harboring the Tali-
ban, it’s the U.S. withdrawal, it’s Iran, it’s the
Afghan corrupt government, the president leaving
without a fair explanation to our people. It’s the
media forgetting about Afghanistan after two
weeks like they did in 2001,” she said.
“Everyone failed Afghanistan,” she added. “Ev-
eryone failed the people.”
Somaye said she is terrified for the safety of her
mother, who is in her 60s and lives in Herat, and
her brothers in Kabul.
“She lived through all of that trauma and now
she has to live it all over again, and it’s so unfair,”
Somaye said, sobbing.
MAHBOOBA HAZARA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Arash Yaqin
Arash Yaqin, 43, pointed at the protesters
outside the White House holding the black, red
and green Afghan flag and somberly said, “That
is no longer our flag.” The Taliban uses a white
banner with a black inscription of the shahada,
the Arabic declaration of faith in Allah.
Born in Afghanistan, Arash fled the civil war
in 1991 and lived as a refugee in Russia and
Europe for two decades. In 2009, he returned to
Kabul with the dream of helping rebuild his
country and being part of “the big development
train,” he said with a sardonic grin.
He worked as a United Nations capacity-build-
ing adviser for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and
later as a senior cultural adviser to the U.S.
Embassy in Kabul.
Arash came to the United States in 2016 with
his wife on a special immigrant visa for Afghans.
He is now a student and researcher at the
Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of
national security, intelligence and international
affairs.
The collapse of the country was not surpris-
ing, he said, but rather an expected result of
“missed policies and strategies.”
But the efforts to rebuild the country and
promote democracy hand-in-hand with the Unit-
ed States and the international community
didn’t do enough to help those who suffered the
most from the nation’s turmoil, he said.
“We focused on the elites, on the successes in
urban development, but we lost the hearts and
the minds of the people,” he said. “Our eyes were
set in the future, probably forgetting what was
happening around us.”
“In this blame game, we have to blame
ourselves, too,” he added.
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CAROLYN FONG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Rona Popal
For more than four decades, Rona Popal has
worked with Afghan refugees in the United States,
becoming a firsthand witness to the wave of
thousands who have fled their nation’s violence.
Born and raised in Kabul, she and her husband
moved to New York City when she was 19.
In 1996, when the Taliban first took power, she
founded the Afghan Coalition, a nonprofit organi-
zation that offers social services, legal counsel and
mental health services to the Afghan American
community in Fremont, Calif.
She now expects another exodus to arrive,
which she admits makes it difficult to feel hope for
her country, and easier to feel rage and disappoint-
ment.
“I see history repeating itself and can’t do
anything about it because the Afghan government,
the United States, the international community,
the Taliban, they all had a plan,” she said, “but they
all left the people vulnerable and in the dark.”
Unanswered questions surrounding the deci-
sions that led to the fall of Kabul and the country
keep her awake at night.
“Why did the U.S. stay for 20 years?” she asks.
“Why did everyone just leave? Why?”
SARAH SILBIGER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Baset Azizi
Music was his ticket out.
Baset Azizi’s talent for playing the trumpet led
the now 21-year-old to pursue a formal musical
education in the United States. He left Afghanistan
to join the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy
in Michigan when he was 16.
But leaving is never easy, he said.
Baset was born in 1999, during the first Taliban
rule. Memories of his childhood include lying
underneath the tables of his first-grade classroom
as glass scattered all over notebooks. His school
was in front of the Interior Ministry — a constant
Taliban target for bombing.
Now a student at the University of Kansas, he
studies political science, international studies and
music. He is also an intern for Rep. Jake LaTurner
(R-Kan.) and said he is “passionate about public
service and helping people understand both the
East and the West.”
When his relatives and friends told him Kabul
had fallen, he was so shocked he couldn’t eat or
sleep for days, he said.
His father has worked in the army most of his
life and with American troops, which Baset wor-
ries puts his parents and three sisters in Kabul in
great danger, so he is trying to help them get out.
“I am hopeful they will be safe,” he said. “If I
can’t be hopeful for them, then it is a game over.”
paulina.villegas@washpost.com
Abigail Hauslohner contributed to this report.
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Afghanistan falls to Taliban

Modern Taliban’s social media use is careful not to violate platforms’ rules
international investment. ley Jackson, author of the newly Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, the
But the audience for much — released “Negotiating Survival — group delivered propaganda mes-
Sophisticated tactics have and perhaps most — of what Tali- Insurgent Relations in Afghani- sages through blog posts, said Em-
some analysts convinced ban supporters push on social me- stan.” erson Brooking, a resident senior
dia is clearly international. That Daniel Knowles, a foreign cor- fellow for the Digital Forensic Re-
of professional assistance includes Afghans living in other respondent for the Economist search Lab at the Atlantic Council,
countries, potential supporters magazine, noted on Twitter that a Washington-based think tank.
abroad and even the profoundly such WhatsApp setups were com- By 2011, Brooking said, the Tali-
BY C RAIG T IMBERG skeptical Western powers that mon even before the Taliban took ban was on Twitter, and by 2014 on
AND C RISTIANO L IMA have poured trillions of dollars power. “I am slightly annoyed I Telegram. In 2016, the Taliban oc-
into attempting to create a dura- didn’t write about these Whats- cupied one key spot in a northern
For a group that espouses an- ble, Western-style democracy in App helplines ages ago,” he said province for only the few minutes
cient moral codes, the Afghan Tali- Afghanistan since a U.S.-led inva- after news of the hotline shut- it took to shoot a propaganda vid-
ban has used strikingly sophisti- sion ousted the Taliban in 2001. down was reported. “But when I eo that later circulated widely on
cated social media tactics to build The official Afghan Taliban web- heard about them, they weren’t social media. By 2019, the Taliban
political momentum and, now site offers versions in Pashto, Dari, ‘helplines’. It was more just, your had learned to take over hashtags
that they’re in power, to make a Arabic, Urdu and English. Only local Taliban were reachable by — meaning infuse a popular
public case that they’re ready to the first two are widely spoken in WhatsApp, and if you called, they hashtag with its own messages, a
lead a modern nation state after most of Afghanistan. would resolve disputes. It’s just kind of “spammy” behavior that
MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
nearly 20 years of war. Recent months have seen an how they govern.” can prompt remedial action by
In accounts swelling across uptick in online messages offering In recent months, the Afghan Taliban’s online messaging has given A person familiar with Face- tech companies.
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram a gentler, more reassuring face of a gentler, more reassuring face to the group. But analysts caution book’s deliberations, who spoke “Based on the sheer volume of
— and in group chats on apps such the Taliban, whose brutality dur- against taking seriously its claims of being more tolerant. on the condition of anonymity to output, several of the accounts are
as WhatsApp and Telegram — the ing its previous reign over the talk freely, said Facebook recog- run by individuals whose primary
messaging from Taliban support- nation was notorious, featuring sifying political crosscurrents: is listed as a sanctioned entity nizes that U.S. sanctions date to job may well be social media,” said
ers typically challenges the West’s mass executions, repressive moral U.S. conservatives have been de- under rulings from the Treasury the administration of President Darren Linvill, lead researcher for
dominant image of the group as codes and the exclusion of women manding to know why former Department’s Office of Foreign As- George W. Bush and has sought the Clemson University Media Fo-
intolerant, vicious and bent on from schools and workplaces. president Donald Trump has been sets Control (OFAC). additional guidance from OFAC. rensics Hub. “These accounts
revenge, while staying within the “The Islamic Emirate has or- banned from Twitter while vari- Citing those rulings, Facebook In the past, OFAC has created aren’t run by Taliban leaders or
evolving boundaries of taste and dered its Mujahideen and once ous Taliban figures have not. has designated the Taliban a “dan- carveouts to the sanction lists for fighters, they are run by individu-
content that tech companies use again instructs them that no one is The answer, analysts said, may gerous organization,” giving it a special cases. als with uninterrupted Internet
to police user behavior. allowed to enter anyone’s house simply be that Trump’s posts for policy-based lever to pull when it YouTube also cited compliance access on both a desktop and
The tactics overall show such a without permission,” Taliban years challenged platform rules chooses to remove accounts — no with U.S. sanctions in affirming handheld device, as well as decent
high degree of skill that analysts spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweet- against hate speech and inciting matter what the specific posts say. that it will continue to remove English language skills.”
believe at least one public rela- ed on Sunday. “Life, property and violence. Today’s Taliban, by and The company even closed down a accounts “believed to be owned As it became clear in recent
tions firm is advising the Taliban honor of none shall be harmed but large, does not. popular hotline this week that the and operated by the Afghan Tali- months that the Americans were
on how to push key themes, ampli- must be protected by the Muja- “The Taliban is clearly thread- Taliban had set up on Facebook- ban.” going to finally leave, the Taliban’s
fy messages across platforms and hedeen.” ing the needle regarding social owned WhatsApp for people to But Twitter, among some other tactics grew still more sophisticat-
create potentially viral images and Shaheen has more than media content policies and is not report incidents of violence, loot- companies, is allowing the Afghan ed, with messages heralding each
video snippets — much like corpo- 350,000 Twitter followers. yet crossing the very distinct ing and other attacks. Taliban more leeway by not re- advance on the battlefield and
rate and political campaigns do “The Taliban of today is im- policy-violating lines that Trump That move has prompted a moving accounts purporting to promising that a better Afghani-
across the world. mensely savvy with technology crossed,” Katz said. backlash among those who have speak for it. And U.S. officials in stan lay ahead.
One image from a video circu- and social media — nothing like Katz cautioned, however, that worked in the country and have public comments have been care- The Taliban’s social media tac-
lated online in Afghanistan shows the group it was 20 years ago,” said “this doesn’t mean at all that the seen the useful role that Whats- ful to note that the administration tics in recent months can be seen
Taliban fighters dressed in camou- Rita Katz, executive director of Taliban shouldn’t be removed App has played in Taliban opera- has made no decision regarding as fitting a broader charm offen-
flage and brandishing machine SITE Intelligence Group, which from social media, because the tions as it seeks to operate as a recognizing the Taliban govern- sive — including recent conciliato-
guns while posing unmolested in monitors online extremism. waves of propaganda and messag- government — as opposed to an ment, or not. ry public remarks about pardon-
an eastern province, not far from Analysts caution that claims of ing it is spreading — permissible armed insurgency. WhatsApp, “We are still taking stock of ing those who worked with Ameri-
Kabul, under a gorgeous pink and a more evolved and tolerant Tali- as it may seem by some content which functions as a primary way what has transpired over the past cans and urging skilled people not
blue sky. The text below, in Pashto ban should not be taken at face policy standards — is fueling a Afghans communicate with each 72 hours and the diplomatic and to flee the country. At a news con-
and English, reads, “IN AN value at a time when a movement newly emboldened and extremely other in a country with a rudimen- political implications of that,” ference Tuesday, Shaheen made a
ATMOSPHERE OF FREEDOM.” that once hosted Osama bin Laden dangerous global Islamist mili- tary telecommunications infra- State Department spokesman point of calling on a female jour-
Wide distribution of such and al-Qaeda reintroduces itself tant movement.” structure, for several years has Ned Price told reporters Monday. nalist and foreign reporters.
propaganda imagery would have to a skeptical world. The Taliban The challenge for American allowed people in areas where the The Taliban, like other Islamist But analysts remain wary of the
been almost impossible for an in- espouses a profoundly traditional technology companies is compli- Taliban had substantial power to movements such as the Islamic Taliban’s use of social media to
surgent movement there a genera- notion of Islam, one that has many cated by shifting geopolitics as the register complaints and concerns State and al-Qaeda, long saw op- repackage itself.
tion ago, before the arrival of Afghans with more modern views Taliban takes control, amid diver- with the group, including about portunity in turning the West’s “We should be deeply distrust-
smartphones, Internet connec- fleeing in terror. gent designations by even the U.S. civilian deaths. communication technologies ful of it,” said Brooking. “Recrimi-
tions and free social media ser- At the same time, the ability of government itself. While the State “Now that they’ve taken over against it — while showing an nations will come later.”
vices brought unprecedented on- the Taliban and its supporters to Department has designated the the entire country, it becomes very agility that sometimes frustrated craig.timberg@washpost.com
line reach to Afghanistan. The na- operate substantially within the Pakistani Taliban a foreign terror- difficult to shut down everything those charged with shutting down cristiano.lima@washpost.com
tion lags the world in Internet rules of companies such as Face- ist organization, it has not applied related to them because then, es- or blunting its messages.
connectivity but it has grown over book, Twitter and YouTube has left the same label to the Afghan Tali- sentially, Afghans suffer,” said for- Even in the first years after U.S. Elizabeth Dwoskin and John Hudson
the past decade amid a gush of Silicon Valley vulnerable to inten- ban. The Afghan Taliban, however, mer international aid worker Ash- forces chased the Taliban from contributed to this report.

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Future departures will
depend on how Taliban
governs, analysts say
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As the Biden administration
surges more evacuation person-
nel to Kabul’s international air-
port, aid groups are warning that
a much larger refugee crisis
looms because of the displace-
ment of half a million Afghans in
the past eight months of fighting
between the Taliban and Afghan
National Army.
Analysts say the size of the
refugee outflow of those and
potentially tens of thousands
more will depend heavily on how
the Taliban governs and whether
an insurgency emerges to chal-
lenge its rule, resulting in further
bloodshed and displacement.
Just as millions of Afghans
fled their country when the Tali-
ban first took power in 1996, the
reemergence of the militants on
the streets of Kabul and other
cities has already sent thousands
fleeing to the closest border they
can find.
Aid groups, such as Refugees
International, are already calling
on the Biden administration to
step up its refugee efforts by
publicly committing to resettling
up to 200,000 Afghan refugees,
as the group wrote in a letter to
President Biden this week.
“Canada stepped up, and we
need the U.S. to step up, which
will put pressure on other West-
ern governments to commit to
resettling refugees,” said Hardin
Lang, vice president for pro-
grams at Refugees International.
The number of Afghans flee-
ing the country is still relatively
small, said Christopher Boian, a
spokesman for the United Na-
tions High Commissioner for
Refugees, but aid groups say that
could quickly change.
“Right now, we don’t see large
numbers making their way
across borders, but that probably
has to do with the fact that the
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Boian, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but aid groups say that could quickly change.
Taliban are controlling roads and
checkpoints,” Lang said.
The specter of a new refugee
crisis akin to the one that result-
ed in Syria in 2015 and saw the
rise of populist parties across the
West has already focused the
attention of governments elicit-
ing displays of nativism and
altruism.
Turkey is building a wall along
its border with Iran to block
Afghan refugees — many of them
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In Europe, where millions of
refugees from Syria and other
Middle Eastern wars fled to in
recent years, some countries say
it’s their moral responsibility to
admit arriving Afghans, while
others say their tolerance for
refugees and resources has long
passed their limits.
Some in the European Union
called on the bloc’s 27 member
states to increase the number of
refugees, but the appeal by Ylva
Johansson, the European com-
missioner for home affairs, came
as some of the E.U.’s largest
members have signaled that they
are unwilling to lead on finding a
solution.
French President Emmanuel
Macron came under harsh criti-
cism for his Monday call for
Europe to “protect ourselves
against significant irregular mi-
gration flows” following the Tali-
ban takeover. He called on offi-
cials in Pakistan, Iran and Turkey
to prevent migrants reaching
their countries from traveling
any further.
Canada and Britain garnered
praise from aid groups after
promising to resettle 20,000 Af-
ghans each, focusing on women,
children, religious minorities
and LGBTQ people.
Even as the United States
continues to evacuate its own
citizens by air — and on Wednes-
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numbers it can accommodate
within the time available may be
limited.
When asked about the request
to commit to resettling 200,000
Afghans, State Department
spokesman Ned Price said the
United States wasn’t prepared to
discuss specific numbers but
would continue the airlift as long
as it safely could.
“I don’t want to put a number
on it because we are going to
keep running a thousand miles
an hour for as long as we can,” he
said during a news briefing.
Most of the refugee flows out
of Afghanistan go to Pakistan. Up
to three million Afghans already
have refugee status in Pakistan
from the years of previous Tali-
ban control. Some, but far from
all, returned home at various
points during the subsequent
20-year U.S.-led war.
The two main border cross-
ings — at Torkham in eastern
Afghanistan and Chaman in the
south — were closed by the
Taliban as it consolidated control
of those areas. This week, those
crossings have been partially re-
opened, although only for those
Afghans who can present exist-
ing Pakistani residency docu-
ments.
Prime Minister Imran Khan
said months ago that Pakistan
would seal its border with Af-
ghanistan if the Taliban took
over. But public statements since
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moved into Kabul on Sunday,
have been contradictory. Infor-
mation Minister Fawad
Chaudhry said refugees would be
admitted but isolated in tempo-
rary camps near the border.
On Wednesday, according to
Pakistani media, Interior Minis-
ter Rasheed Ahmad said that “no
Afghan refugees are coming to
Pakistan.”
Iran’s border with Afghanistan
extends nearly 600 miles, most
of it desert, and Afghans have
long crossed relatively freely to
work there. Many refugees who
fled there in the 1990s returned
to their homeland, but a new
influx is now expected, in addi-
tion to up to three million regis-
tered and unregistered Afghans
still living there, according to
international estimates.
Iran’s government, concerned
about its own economic implo-
sion and a worsening wave of the
coronavirus, says it has instruct-
ed border guards not to admit
Afghans. But it has also reported-
ly set up refugee camps in three
border provinces for fleeing mi-
grants who reach there, saying
they will only temporarily be
allowed to stay. While Iran’s
border is more tightly controlled
than that of Pakistan, it has long
served as a way station for Af-
ghans trying to get farther west,
many of them trying to cross the
northern part of the country into
Turkey.
Over the past several weeks,
Turkey’s military has begun
building a nine-foot-tall wall,
monitored by troops and sensor
technology, and flanked in some
places by 12-foot-deep trenches.
“Turkey is not a stopover for
migrants,” President Recep Tayy-
ip Erdogan said last week. “The
walls being built there are to
prevent these irregular migrants
from entering our country.”
Separate from general refugee
flows, the Biden administration
is struggling just to find coun-
tries to temporarily host Afghans
who helped the United States
during the war under the Special
Immigrant Visa program. In re-
sponse to specific appeals from
the Biden administration last
month, Uganda has agreed to
host 2,000 of them, while Alba-
nia, Kosovo and North Macedo-
nia became the first European
countries agreeing to provide at
least temporary shelter for hun-
dreds of U.S.-evacuated Afghans.
“Without any hesitation or
single conditioning, I have given
my consent to such humanitari-
an operation,” Kosovo’s presi-
dent, Vjosa Osmani, said in a
Facebook post.
“Nobody better than us knows
what it means to be expelled and
to leave by force from where you
grew up, to separate from your
loved ones, to be forced to flee to
save your life,” she said, a refer-
ence to the ethnic cleansing
during the 1990s Balkan wars.
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Pentagon avoids committing to evacuating all Afghan allies
PENTAGON FROM A1
gress earlier this week that up-
ward of 15,000 U.S. citizens were
in Afghanistan when Kabul fell.
Milley and Austin acknowledged
that significant threats remain for
those outside the facility and indi-
cated that the United States now is
relying on the Taliban to ensure
safe passage. Although the airport
is controlled by thousands of U.S.
troops sent back into the war zone
as chaos unfolded in recent days,
the militants have established
their security perimeter several
miles outside the facility.
“We’re going to evacuate every-
body that we can physically evacu-
ate,” Austin told reporters at the
Pentagon. In an interview with
ABC News that aired after the
military leaders’ joint briefing,
President Biden said, if necessary,
U.S. troops will remain in Afghani-
stan beyond his prescribed Aug. 31
deadline to ferry out all Americans
who want to leave.
“If there are American citizens
left, we’re going to stay until we get
them all out,” Biden said.
The Biden administration and
the Pentagon have been struggling
to keep up with the rapidly deteri-
orating situation in Afghanistan
for days now. Milley defended the
military’s planning on Wednes-
day, saying that while there were
intelligence reports that stated the
Kabul government could fall
quickly, “that was widely estimat-
ed and ranged.”
“There was nothing that I or
anyone else saw that indicated a
collapse of this army and this gov-
ernment in 11 days,” Milley said, a
time frame that encompasses the
fall of numerous provincial capi-
tals leading up to Kabul’s capture.
The defense officials spoke
amid rising criticism that the mili-
tary withdrawal directed by Biden
was not handled responsibly, as
administration officials said it
would be. Congressional Demo-
crats said on Wednesday that they
will investigate the “flawed” with-
drawal in a series of hearings.
Former U.S. civilian and mili-
tary officials with experience at
senior levels in Afghanistan ex-
pressed befuddlement at how un-
ready the Biden administration
appeared to the possibility that it
might have to rapidly evacuate
Administration moved slowly to address the plight of refugees, advocates say
BIDEN FROM A1
who helped us, and I feel the
urgency deeply,” Defense Secre-
tary Lloyd Austin said at the
Pentagon.
Asked Wednesday by ABC
News’ George Stephanopoulos
whether some troops might stay
beyond the end of the month if
necessary to evacuate Americans
and Afghan allies, President
Biden said: “It depends on where
they are, and whether we can
ramp these numbers up to five
[thousand] to 7,000 a day coming
out. If that’s the case, they’ll all be
out.”
Biden also said, “If there are
American citizens left, we’re go-
ing to stay until we get them all
out.”
But the administration showed
little public urgency to expedite
visas for Afghans in the months
before and immediately after
Biden’s announcement in April
that the United States would pull
U.S. forces out. White House offi-
cials said bureaucratic backlogs
and delays caused by the corona-
virus pandemic slowed the proc-
ess but that it ramped up dramat-
ically as summer approached.
The State Department ap-
proved 137 visas between Jan. 1
and March 31, resulting in more
than 650 people approved for
relocation to the United States.
Successful applicants for what is
known as special immigrant vi-
sas, or SIVs, can bring immediate
family members. The pace picked
up after that, and the State De-
partment says it reached a rate of
800 per week at the start of
August, just before the Taliban
takeover of the country and the
shuttering of the U.S. Embassy in
Kabul.
“At every stage the administra-
tion expressed nominal support
for the SIV program” while saying
that bureaucratic hurdles pre-
vented faster work, said Rep. Pe-
ter Meijer (R-Mich.), who is part
of a bipartisan group of lawmak-
ers that pushed the White House
to move more quickly.
“At every point that had an
excuse thrown up, we went and
fixed that excuse,” Meijer said. “So
at the end of the day I can’t help
but come to the conclusion that
they just didn’t want to deal with
this issue and put up every road-
block possible.”
“They were worried about the
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, left, and Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared the Kabul airport “secure”
but acknowledged that the United States now is relying on the Taliban to ensure safe passage for those outside the facility.
both U.S. citizens and their allies
after the top U.S. commander
there, Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller,
rotated out in July.
“Why didn’t they think they
were going to be evacuating this
many people?” said one former
senior Obama administration offi-
cial with experience in Afghani-
stan. The official, like others,
spoke on the condition of anonym-
ity so as not to be seen as criticiz-
ing the military’s leadership.
“They clearly weren’t planning to
evacuate [special immigrant visa]
recipients, dual citizens and hu-
man rights advocates.”
Instead of focusing on intelli-
gence failures, military analysts
pointed to planning and execu-
tion failures that hobbled the mili-
tary’s ability to respond quickly as
Megan Carlton with Refugee Services of Texas stands alongside a sign welcoming an Afghan refugee
family in Dallas. White House officials said the pandemic slowed the visa process for Afghan refugees.
optics because they lost control of
the southern border,” he said,
accusing the administration of
“leaving our Afghan friends out to
hang in the wind.”
James Miervaldis, chairman of
No One Left Behind, a nonprofit
group that helps former transla-
tors and others navigate the visa
process, described months of in-
conclusive conversations with ad-
ministration officials this spring.
Advocates warned “that this
could go bad very fast” and that
the administration needed con-
tingency plans to move people
within Afghanistan and exit strat-
egies to third countries, such as
Qatar, if they could not immedi-
ately relocate to the United
States, Miervaldis said.
“There was a very proactive
campaign from outside groups
trying to help, and we were stiff-
armed. All we asked for was a
plan. Whatever they wanted to
do, we were standing by to sup-
port. But then they didn’t do
anything,” right away, Miervaldis
said.
Although he said none of the
officials he dealt with asserted a
connection to immigration poli-
tics, Miervaldis believes there is
one.
“There are people looking at
Afghanistan falls to Taliban
events on the ground unraveled.
Chief among the failings, they
said, was the lack of a robust head-
quarters that could manage a
quickly deteriorating security sit-
uation.
“From a military standpoint, we
withdrew our only capable head-
quarters when Scott Miller left.
You can’t run a complex operation
without a capable tactical and op-
erational headquarters,” said re-
tired Lt. Gen. David Barno, a for-
mer commander of U.S. forces in
Afghanistan.
Barno questioned the decision
to have a large-scale regional thea-
ter command, such as U.S. Central
Command, play the leading role in
overseeing a fast-moving and fluid
operation on the ground after Mil-
ler departed. “I think the speed
what is happening at the border
and saying, ‘Oh we can’t all of a
sudden be bringing in refugees
from Afghanistan, people will
hammer us on immigration,’ ” Mi-
ervaldis said.
A senior administration offi-
cial denied foot-dragging or a
political motive.
“This is not true. We would
never let the prospect of bad-faith
criticism from the same people
who orchestrated the Muslim ban
and decimated America’s refugee
pipeline keep us from keeping
faith with our Afghan partners,”
said the official, speaking on the
condition of anonymity because
of sensitivity of the matter.
Officials provided a timeline of
administration action that noted
a backlog of 17,000 SIV applicants
when Biden took office. In-person
interviews were required but
none had taken place at the U.S.
Embassy in Kabul since March
2020, administration officials
said. Interviews resumed within
two weeks of Biden’s inaugura-
tion, and in February the White
House issued an order directing
additional resources for visa pro-
cessing.
Eventually the administration
committed four times as many
people to the task of processing as
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and complexity of the operation
just took them by surprise,” he
said.
Another decision that is almost
certain to draw scrutiny from law-
makers is the Pentagon’s decision
to close Bagram air base more
than six weeks ago, when the mis-
sion to evacuate America’s closest
allies had barely begun. The
sprawling airfield, with two run-
ways, is about 35 miles north of
Kabul and would have offered an
alternative to the single-runway
airport there.
“No one in their right mind
would have closed Bagram Air
Base while leaving behind thou-
sands of civilians. But that’s what
Joe Biden did,” Sen. Tom Cotton
(R-Ark.) wrote on Twitter.
Cotton’s criticism was echoed
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before, administration officials
said.
As lawmakers and advocates
were pressing the Biden adminis-
tration to expedite the SIV proc-
ess, the White House was em-
broiled in an immigration crisis
at the southern border. Biden was
growing increasingly frustrated
with his administration’s struggle
to handle the influx of unaccom-
panied minors and worried about
the government’s ability to han-
dle an influx of refugees from
other countries.
Even though they are separate
processes, the Office of Refugee
Resettlement, housed at the De-
partment of Health and Human
Services, has responsibility for
both unaccompanied minors at
the border and the separate
group of foreigners seeking refu-
gee status because of persecution,
war or oppression at home. The
Afghan SIVs, however, are not
part of the U.S. refugee cap.
Early in his term, Biden over-
ruled his top foreign policy and
national security advisers, in-
cluding Secretary of State Antony
Blinken, in deciding to keep in
place the Trump administration’s
record-low cap on the number of
refugees admitted to the United
States.
by most military experts with ex-
perience in the region. Barno, who
commanded all U.S. forces in Af-
ghanistan during the early years
of the war, said that in his experi-
ence, “Kabul international airport
is virtually indefensible.”
Laurel Miller, who worked as a
special representative for Afghan-
istan and Pakistan, said the U.S.
approach to the final days of the
war also seemed to defy planning
from several years earlier that con-
cluded that any large-scale evacu-
ation without Bagram or Kanda-
har air bases was going to be near-
ly impossible.
“We expected it would be prob-
lematic to rely on the airport in an
evacuation scenario because hav-
ing to evacuate would mean the
situation had deteriorated gravely
The move was reversed after
public outcry, but Biden’s initial
decision reflected his concerns
about how the crisis at the border
affected the broader refugee land-
scape. Biden himself acknowl-
edged there were geopolitical
considerations for not evacuating
Afghans sooner.
“Part of it was because the
Afghan government and its sup-
porters discouraged us from or-
ganizing a mass exodus to avoid
triggering, as they said, a crisis of
confidence,” the president said
Monday.
Shortly after Biden announced
his withdrawal plan on April 13, a
group of bipartisan lawmakers
created the Honoring Our Prom-
ises Working Group to pressure
the administration to protect Af-
ghan allies and expedite the SIV
process.
The administration’s first
meeting with the working group
did not come until May 13, fol-
lowed by a second meeting at the
beginning of June, according to a
source familiar with the process.
Acting on a suggestion from
the administration, the working
group quickly drafted the Hope
for Afghan SIVs Act of 2021,
which waived requirements to
undergo a medical exam for those
eligible for special immigrant sta-
tus, followed by the Averting Loss
of Life and Injury by Expediting
SIVs (ALLIES) Act, a bill designed
to expedite the SIV process by
removing burdensome applica-
tion requirements. But the meet-
ings did not come soon enough,
according to Democrats and Re-
publicans involved with the proc-
ess.
“From our perspective we’d say
it took too long but we do think
they got there with us,” said a
person familiar with the process,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to candidly describe
negotiations with the White
House.”
The Pentagon has said it may
soon be able to evacuate more
than 5,000 per day, if the Taliban
holds to an unofficial agreement
not to interfere.
Advocates began raising the
fate of Afghan interpreters and
others with Biden’s team behind
the scenes even before the new
president took office, urging swift
action to members of committees
set up to conduct planning on
issues including immigration.
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already and many Afghans and
other countries’ citizens would be
desperate to get out,” Miller said.
Another former senior U.S. mil-
itary commander, speaking on the
condition of anonymity because of
the issue’s sensitivity, said that
keeping Bagram open would have
been a “safer bet.”
“It would have given us many
tactical options right to the end,
not the least being its defensibili-
ty,” the retired general said. “As the
humanitarian situation deterio-
rated and then collapsed, operat-
ing out of Bagram could also have
provided a better platform for sup-
porting humanitarian processing
at Kabul, or even at Bagram itself.”
Asked about the decision to
close Bagram, Milley said that the
“task given to us” after the military
withdrawal was to protect the U.S.
Embassy in Kabul, and that keep-
ing Bagram and a military base at
the Kabul airport would have re-
quired a “significant number of
military forces that would have
exceeded what we had.”
Miller and Gen. Kenneth
“Frank” McKenzie, who heads U.S.
Central Command, recommended
closing Bagram and keeping open
a military presence at the airport,
Milley said. The risk of leaving
from the airport or Bagram was
“about the same,” allowing the
military to get down to about 600
to 700 troops, he added.
Asked whether the military is
considering retaking Bagram in
light of its advantages, Milley de-
murred. “Great question, but I’m
not going to discuss branches and
sequels off of our current opera-
tion,” he said.
Some former officials, such as
Eliot Cohen, who worked on Af-
ghanistan policy during the latter
years of the George W. Bush ad-
ministration, decried the failure
to protect America’s closest Af-
ghan allies as a moral failing.
“This says something about our
governing class — how shallow
and irresponsible they can be,”
said Cohen, dean of the Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced In-
ternational Studies, which has
trained hundreds of U.S. foreign
policy officials. “They can be em-
barrassed. They should be pro-
foundly ashamed.”
dan.lamothe@washpost.com
greg.jaffe@washpost.com
While President Donald Trump
had ordered the Pentagon to re-
duce U.S. force levels to 2,500 by
Jan. 15, they also knew he might
institute an abrupt withdrawal at
any time.
In May, advocates began to
publicly call for the administra-
tion to move SIV candidates and
their families to a U.S. territory
such as Guam.
There was precedent for doing
so: In 1975, the United States
moved more than 100,000 Viet-
namese allies to the island, most
of whom eventually settled in the
United States.
But ultimately the legislative
changes were largely “in the
weeds,” rather than a necessary
systemic overhaul made more ur-
gent by the approaching dead-
line, said one Senate aide, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because they were not
authorized to speak publicly.
In May, Biden officials con-
veyed they believed they had at
least a year before there was a
serious threat to individuals in
Kabul, the aide said.
But Senate aides also blamed
Trump for allowing the SIV pro-
gram to atrophy, which they said
resulted in the Biden administra-
tion inheriting a program that
was not operating at full capacity.
White House officials echoed that
critique.
The Afghan SIV program con-
tinued throughout Trump’s four-
year presidency, although appli-
cants faced wait times stretching
years.
Humanitarian aides and ex-
perts working on the issue have
struggled to find explanations for
the seemingly slow response
apart from political factors.
“The Biden administration has
been looking over its shoulder at
the southern border and worries
that politically this is an area
where demagogues can score
points as Trump did when he was
running for president,” said Bill
Frelick, refugee policy director
for Human Rights Watch. “I think
the Biden administration realizes
that the asylum issues on the
Southern border can easily be
conflated with refugee resettle-
ment.”
anne.gearan@washpost.com
tyler.pager@washpost.com
jacqueline.alemany@
washpost.com
missy.ryan@washpost.com
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Afghanistan falls to Taliban

Leaders of coalition nations grapple with awful outcome

W ILLIAM B OOTH,
BY
R ICK N OACK
AND A MANDA C OLETTA

london — It was not the U.S.

Congress that returned from its
August holiday to gnash its teeth
over intelligence failures and mil-
itary collapse in Afghanistan. In-
stead, it was the British Parlia-
ment, which was recalled for a
remarkable one-day session on
Wednesday, to hear lawmakers
give heartfelt speeches honoring
fallen soldiers and engage in
hours of finger-pointing over
what went so wrong.
The British were not alone in
such painful debate, as other al-
lies sounded off about the stun-
ning events in Kabul. In countries
that sent troops to Afghanistan —
from Europe, Canada and Aus-
tralia — politicians and veterans
of the war tried to tally what was
gained and what was lost.
Speaking in Britain’s House of
Commons, Prime Minister Boris
Johnson praised hard-won suc-
cesses in Afghanistan over the last
20 years — specifically the 3.6 mil-
lion girls now in school there and
the fragile democracy that saw
women elected to political office.
But his own lawmakers, who lev-
eled tough criticism at both him
and President Biden, said such
progress might soon be reversed.
Labour Party lawmaker Chris
Bryant said Britain had humiliat-
ed itself and dragged its honor
through the mud. He called
the resurgence of the Taliban
“the most sudden and catastroph-
ic collapse of a foreign and
military-policy objective since
Suez,” a reference to Britain’s dis-
astrous 1956 invasion of the Sinai
Peninsula after Egypt’s President
Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized
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the canal.
The prime minister warned the
Taliban that it would be judged the United States. ship led to the tragedy we are Justin Trudeau called a snap fed-
“on the choices it makes and by its Armin Laschet, the conserva- witnessing today,” Stoltenberg eral election in a bid to regain a
actions rather than its words — on tive party candidate to succeed said at a briefing. parliamentary majority.
its attitude to terror, to crime and German Chancellor Angela In Australia, another close U.S. Afghanistan has loomed over
narcotics, as well as humanitari- Merkel, called the U.S. withdraw- military ally, the Taliban victory the first days of campaigning,
an access and the rights of girls to al “the greatest debacle that has led to debate over the govern- with Trudeau on the defensive,
receive an education.” NATO has experienced since its ment’s response but little official attempting to fend off charges
Johnson committed an addi- foundation.” introspection over the decision to from his political foes and veter-
tional 800 British troops to the The chaotic aftermath may also follow the United States into bat- ans that his government was un-
Kabul airport to assist with on- dampen optimism for a new tle two decades ago. prepared for the U.S. withdrawal
going evacuations of British na- U.S.-European era under Biden Prime Minister Scott Morrison and has been far too slow to
tionals and locals who worked as and play into the hands of U.S. has called the scenes “heartbreak- evacuate Afghans who supported
support staff and interpreters for critics. The Czech Republic’s pro- ing” and “sobering” but shied Canada and are now at risk of
the British government. Russian and pro-China President away from any suggestion that Taliban reprisals.
Officials vowed to help 20,000 Milos Zeman, whose role is large- the war wasn’t worth it. In an interview with an Ottawa
Afghan refugees resettle in Brit- ly ceremonial, on Tuesday said the “Freedom is always worth it, radio station on Monday, retired
ain in the coming years. They country’s NATO spending is “a bit fighting for it, whatever the out- Maj. Gen. Denis Thompson said,
promised to take 5,000 in the first of a waste of money.” come,” he told Australian broad- “You could see this slow-moving
year — a figure that one lawmaker In an 11-minute televised ad- caster ABC on Tuesday, arguing train wreck coming for quite
called “pitiful.” dress on Monday night, French that Australia had sent soldiers to some time.”
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The country has sacrificed leader Emmanuel Macron men- Afghanistan to track down Thompson, who led NATO’s
blood and treasure in Afghani- TOP: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks in the House tioned Biden’s name only once in Osama bin Laden and prevent Task Force Kandahar from 2008
stan. Its experience in the region of Commons during an extraordinary session of Parliament called reminding his audience of how al-Qaeda from using the country to 2009, said Canadian soldiers
dates to the Anglo-Afghan Wars, to discuss the collapse of the Afghan government. ABOVE: A screen the West got to where it is now. As as a base of operations. fought to buy policymakers time
which began in 1839 when British outside Parliament announces the debate. Macron went on to describe “No Australian who has ever to find political solutions that
troops invaded from their base in whom he would work with to fallen in our uniform has ever never came.
India to put an exiled ruler on the quiet when Tory lawmaker and accused the prime minister of manage the fallout, he mostly died in vain — ever,” Morrison Alex Ruff, a Conservative Party
throne — and to blunt Russian Afghanistan veteran Tom Tu- “staggering complacency.” He talked about his European coun- said. candidate and retired infantry
influence — only to inspire a re- gendhat rose to speak. He lam- mocked Johnson and his foreign terparts — not Washington. Jason Scanes, a former captain colonel who served in Afghani-
volt against the occupiers and basted Biden for questioning the secretary, Dominic Raab, for both Many of the countries that in the Australian army who spent stan, told reporters Tuesday that
their puppet. courage of the Afghan troops that being on vacation as Kabul fell. fought alongside the United 10 months in Afghanistan, sug- he has had “hard” days speaking
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks he had been proud to fight along- “You cannot coordinate an in- States paid a heavy price. France gested otherwise. to the family members of soldiers
against the United States, in side — before Britain pulled out ternational response from the lost 89 military members in Af- “The feeling is one of sadness who died in the conflict, “because
which 67 British nationals were its own forces in 2014. beach,” Starmer said. ghanistan, more than any other and anger and despair and help- that’s when they really start ques-
killed, the U.K. sent the second- “To claim that they ran is Even lawmakers from John- E.U. member state. It was among lessness,” said Scanes, who now tioning things, and they’re ques-
largest contingent of forces to shameful,” Tugendhat said. son’s Conservative Party sounded the first NATO allies to withdraw runs a nonprofit called Forsaken tioning why we’re not doing
Afghanistan, deploying 150,000 His words were echoed by Ed frustrated — and angry. His pred- from the country, pulling out its Fighters to advocate for the evac- more.”
military personnel over the years. Davey, the leader of the Liberal ecessor, former prime minister combat troops in 2012 and ending uation of Afghan interpreters. He called the Taliban takeover
It even sent a prince: Harry, who Democrats, who said he “couldn’t Theresa May, called the Taliban its military mission in 2014, fol- “Mateship is something we take more than “a major setback. . . .
served two deployments. believe it” when Biden said the victory “a major setback for Brit- lowing an insider attack that very seriously here in Australia, I’ll even use the word failure.”
In all, 457 British soldiers died, Afghans appeared unwilling to ish foreign policy.” killed five French soldiers. something that is tightly woven william.booth@washpost.com
and many thousands came home fight. It showed that the Ameri- Britain was not the only U.S. NATO Secretary General Jens into our national psyche. We rick.noack@washpost.com
wounded in body or mind. can president had “no awareness” ally to issue harsh critiques. Stoltenberg blamed Afghani- should have been the leaders, amanda.coletta@washpost.com
Some lawmakers rose to con- of what was happening on the Among the NATO members in stan’s swift collapse on its politi- showing our coalition partners
demn Biden for withdrawing U.S. ground, he said. Europe, the Taliban takeover cal leaders, saying they “failed to exactly how we treat our mates.” Noack reported from Paris and
troops and air support, as well as Still, it was Johnson who faced prompted uncomfortable ques- stand up to the Taliban and to In Canada, which lost 158 sol- Coletta from Toronto. Reis Thebault in
for his blunt remarks on Monday the sharpest questions. tions over the future of the mili- achieve the peaceful solution that diers and seven civilians during Brussels, Michael Miller in Sydney
night. The head of the opposition, tary alliance and the degree to Afghans desperately wanted.” the war, the Taliban’s swift take- and Stefano Petrelli in Rome
The raucous chamber went Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, which Europe should depend on “This failure of Afghan leader- over came the day Prime Minister contributed to this report.

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Russia sees potential cooperation, but prepares for worst
Military expanded
its exercises at border
after Taliban took Kabul
BY R OBYN D IXON
moscow — In the wake of the
Taliban’s lightning takeover of
Afghanistan, Russian officials
moved quickly into a two-
pronged approach: cautiously
reaching out to the Taliban even
as Russia expanded military ex-
ercises with Tajikistan along the
Afghan border.
In Russia, with its bitter mem-
ories of a failed Soviet occupa-
tion in the 1980s and humiliating
withdrawal after more than nine
years, there was inevitable
schadenfreude to see its rival, the
United States, facing its own
botched departure.
Now Russia sees potential for
a more influential role with the
Taliban, while weighing risks of
regional instability or extremism
if Afghanistan slides back into
civil war.
But Moscow also has sent
strong signals of its military
might and strategic interest in
the region.
Russia has been running mili-
tary exercises on Afghanistan’s
borders in recent weeks and on
Tuesday announced a month-
long military exercise in Tajiki-
stan, where Russia’s biggest base
abroad is located.
“Is Russia worried? Yes, of
course. In the 1990s when the
Taliban took over Kabul, it pro-
duced a destructive spillover to
neighboring countries,” said Fyo-
dor Lukyanov, chairman of Rus-
sia’s Council on Foreign and
Defense Policy.
Russia’s foreign minister, Ser-
gei Lavrov, discussed the crisis
Monday with Secretary of State
Antony Blinken and Chinese For-
eign Minister Wang Yi.
Moscow has designated the
Taliban as a terrorist group but
has hosted Taliban officials sev-
eral times in recent years. Key
officials including Lavrov, Rus-
sia’s Ambassador to Afghanistan
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Troops from Uzbekistan participate in joint military drills with Russia and Tajikistan at the
Harb-Maidon firing range about 12 miles north of the Tajik border with Afghanistan last week.
Dmitry Zhirnov and special
presidential envoy on Afghani-
stan Zamir Kabulov have all
spoken positively about the Tali-
ban since the fall of Kabul.
Zhirnov and Kabulov com-
pared the Taliban favorably to
the previous government of
Ashraf Ghani, who fled the coun-
try Sunday as the government
collapsed and the Taliban moved
in.
Lavrov said Tuesday that Rus-
sia would not rush to recognize a
Taliban government. He called
for an inclusive national dialogue
including all political forces to
establish a transitional govern-
ment.
Moscow remains wary about
Islamist extremism spilling from
Afghanistan and fears that the
Taliban rule may descend into
civil war and chaos.
But Lukyanov said Russia’s
military was better equipped to
deal with potential threats than
it was in the 1990s when the
Taliban last ruled.
He said Russia now keeps
Afghanistan falls to Taliban
contact with all parties in Af-
ghanistan, in contrast with the
’90s when it focused only on the
Northern Alliance, which was
fighting the Taliban.
Some Russian analysts said
Russia could pay a heavy price
for the sudden uncertainty left
behind by Washington’s nearly
20-year war.
Elena Suponina, an analyst
with the Russian Institute for
Strategic Studies, predicted the
Taliban would not be able to
ensure stability in Afghanistan.
“First, the Taliban itself is
quite fragmented and there is no
clear, single command. Second,
regional and other powers will
continue playing on these inter-
nal differences,” she said.
“And finally, there are other
armed groups in Afghanistan
who are unwilling to obey the
Taliban,” she told the Moskovsky
Komsomolets newspaper. She
said cells of al-Qaeda and the
Islamic State in Afghanistan
could swiftly gain ground.
Kirill Semenov, an analyst at
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the Russian International Affairs
Council, said the Taliban could
split between those seeking a
more radical, hard-line approach
and those taking a softer line.
“There is a chance that a
struggle for division of spheres of
influence inside the Taliban itself
will start. That is what we should
be concerned about,” he told the
newspaper.
The Taliban’s surge across the
country sparked fears its fighters
would target people associated
with the previous government or
Western forces, as well as jour-
nalists, human rights workers
and women’s advocates.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah
Mujahid tried to calm fears at a
news conference Tuesday, saying
all enemies had been “pardoned”
and pledging to allow women to
study and work, but within the
framework of sharia law. He
would not be drawn on whether
women could work as journal-
ists.
Russian officials have been
making strenuous efforts to soft-
en the official view of the Taliban.
But Alexander Knyazev, an
expert on Central Asia studies at
the University of St. Petersburg,
told Nezavisimaya Gazeta that
the Taliban had been demonized,
making it hard for officials to
explain to the public their con-
tacts with the group.
Lavrov stepped away from
Russia’s terrorist designation for
the group, calling it “a recog-
nized political force.” He said the
Taliban’s offer to include differ-
ent voices in its government was
positive, while the Foreign Minis-
try said the Taliban was restoring
order.
“We see some encouraging
signs on the part of the Taliban,
who have declared their desire to
have a government involving
other political forces,” Lavrov
told journalists Tuesday.
Russia’s ambassador to Af-
ghanistan Zhirnov said Tuesday
that he met Taliban officials in
Kabul who pledged to guarantee
the safety of diplomats and for-
mer government officials.
“Their approach is clear. It is
good, positive and businesslike. I
cannot see obstacles which will
stop us from finding common
ground on all the specifics,”
Zhirnov said. “The current situa-
tion in Kabul is better than under
Ashraf Ghani,” the Afghan presi-
dent who fled the country Sun-
day.
Russia’s relations with Ghani
had grown chilly as the Kremlin
bypassed him in talks involving
the Taliban in Moscow in recent
years. Russia had pressed for a
transitional government includ-
ing all sides but strongly con-
demned Ghani’s decision to flee
the country as the Taliban en-
tered Kabul.
Kabulov, the presidential en-
voy, warned that “the entire in-
ternational community will be
watching” the Taliban to ensure
human rights were observed. But
it was expected, he added, that
Russia would eventually recog-
nize the Taliban government.
“Today we’re witnessing a col-
lapse of American foreign policy,”
Russian State Duma Speaker Vy-
acheslav Volodin said Tuesday.
“Despite the ongoing develop-
A19
ments, we aren't hearing state-
ments from the U.S. State De-
partment on what assistance
they will provide to Afghanistan
and the neighboring countries.”
Analyst Darya Mitina, a col-
umnist with Vedomosti newspa-
per, noted that much of the
challenges may fall on Russia
and its allies Central Asia.
“The U.S. has left all the obli-
gations and all the risks to us,”
she wrote. “Guess where the
main flow of refugees will rush
and at whose expense the bor-
ders and armies of the Central
Asian countries will be rein-
forced? And the Americans got
onto a beautiful aircraft and flew
away.”
Russia’s Central Military Dis-
trict said 1,000 Russian troops
would take part in a month-long
exercise with Tajikistan, a week
after Russia wrapped up military
drills near the Afghan border
with 2,500 Russian, Tajik and
Uzbek forces.
Under its collective security
treaty with Tajikistan, Uzbeki-
stan and other regional powers,
the Kremlin is obliged to send in
its military in the event of an
attack.
Tajik authorities also an-
nounced plans for three days of
anti-terrorism exercises this
week with forces from China’s
Ministry of Public Security.
Uzbekistan’s Foreign Ministry
said Tuesday it was in touch with
Taliban officials to ensure the
security of its border, which is
near the major northern Afghan
city of Mazar-e Sharif. It said
would maintain “friendly and
good neighborly relations with
Afghanistan” but called for a
government involving all major
political forces of the country.
Uzbek authorities said 22 Af-
ghan military aircraft and 24
Afghan helicopters carrying 585
Afghan servicemen flew into Uz-
bekistan over the weekend, land-
ing at Termez airport. Another
158 Afghan civilians and soldiers
crossed the Amu Darya River to
escape Afghanistan.
robyn.dixon@washpost.com
Liz Sly in London contributed to this
report.
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Pakistan’s connection
to the Taliban’s victory
As the Taliban
Today’s swept across
WorldView neighboring
Afghanistan, some
ISHAAN
THAROOR Pakistanis saw it
as a reason to
celebrate. Islamist organizations
in a number of Pakistani cities
doled out sweets to locals. On
social media, some people crowed
over the failure of the U.S. war
effort and nation-building project
next door.
“Afghanistan is presently
witnessing a virtually smooth
shifting of power from the
corrupt Ghani government to the
Taliban,” tweeted Raoof Hasan, a
special assistant to Pakistani
Prime Minister Imran Khan,
mocking the assessments of
Western experts on South Asia.
He added that “the contraption
that the US had pieced together
for Afghanistan has crumbled like
the proverbial house of cards.”
Khan himself made a curious
remark at an event Monday in
Islamabad. Commenting on the
cultural dangers inherent in
English-language education for
Pakistani society — and the
“mental slavery” it supposedly
imposes — he seemed to point to
the fundamentalist Taliban as an
exemplar of a kind of
empowering authenticity.
Afghans, Khan said, “had broken
the shackles of slavery.”
For now, Khan’s government
has refrained from recognizing
the new Taliban overlords as the
legitimate government in Kabul.
The prime minister, who has been
a vocal opponent of the American
“war on terror” in the region and
blames it for stoking a parallel
Pakistani Taliban insurgency,
stressed the “importance of all
sides working to secure an
inclusive political solution,”
according to local news reports
Tuesday. He and his allies cast
Pakistan as a victim of cycles of
regional unrest and conflict,
exacerbated by the interventions
of foreign powers like the United
States. “We under no
circumstances are prepared to see
protracted instability that in the
past has caused spillover into
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Afghanistan falls to Taliban
Pakistan,” national security
adviser Moeed Yusuf said in an
interview this month. “Pakistan
has suffered all of these 40 years.”
Such rhetoric would probably
stick in the craw of the Afghan
leaders of the defeated Western-
backed government. For years,
they bemoaned the support
afforded to the Afghan Taliban by
Pakistan, particularly by the
country’s military establishment
and its affiliated intelligence
apparatus, known as the Inter-
Services Intelligence, or ISI. In
January 2020, during a World
Economic Forum roundtable
with journalists, including
Today’s WorldView, then-Afghan
President Ashraf Ghani scoffed at
Pakistani claims that the Afghan
Taliban was no longer operating
from safe havens in Pakistan.
“One can also say that the
Earth does not revolve around the
sun,” he said.
The Taliban’s long-running
insurgency and its rapid takeover
of Afghanistan are inextricably
linked to Pakistan. For the better
part of half a century, Pakistan
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cultivated militant elements in
Afghanistan as part of its own A Pakistani flag, center, flies in Chaman, Pakistan, while a Taliban flag, right, waves across the nation’s border with Afghanistan.
regional pursuit of “strategic
depth.” The factions that “Taliban leaders have lived and nuisance rather than an effective Ghani’s government to “show of Afghan refugees, on top of the
coalesced into the Taliban done business in Pakistan, and fighting force,” wrote academic C. more flexibility” in the talks. approximately 3 million it has
maintained extensive logistical wounded fighters have been Christine Fair in Foreign Policy Critics argue that the talks hosted since the waning days of
and tactical ties with Pakistani treated in its hospitals. The this week. “The United States has served as a smokescreen for the the Cold War. The Taliban
agencies, while many of their Haqqani Network, an affiliate of steadfastly refused to do the one Taliban’s steady advance through takeover does not dim the threat
fighters came from a world of the Taliban, has a ‘close thing it could have done long ago: Afghanistan, and that the of anti-Islamabad militancy, and
ethnic and tribal affiliations that relationship’ with the ISI, targeted sanctions against those ultraconservative faction never it could also encourage Islamist
spanned both sides of the rugged according to a recent report from in Pakistan’s deep state who had any interest in preserving the extremist movements and ethnic
border. These same networks the US Institute of Peace.” sponsor Islamist militants.” constitutional republic that the Pashtun separatists operating
probably enabled al-Qaeda This has long been an open On the contrary, the United United States sought to solidify in within Pakistan. Meanwhile,
founder Osama bin Laden to find secret. “When history is written, it States leaned on Khan’s Kabul. This has implications for Western frustrations with the
sanctuary in a leafy compound will be stated that the ISI defeated government to facilitate talks Pakistan, too. Pakistani connection to the
not far from Pakistan’s leading the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with the Taliban. Under Trump “The Taliban’s military Afghan Taliban may only
military academy until U.S. Navy with the help of America,” Hamid administration pressure, takeover of Kabul violates the intensify in coming weeks.
SEALs killed him in a raid a Gul, a former ISI chief, said on Pakistan released Abdul Ghani peace agreement signed by the “These developments will take
decade ago. television in 2014. “Then there Baradar — the political figure Afghan Taliban and the United Pakistan further away from
For its allies in the Pakistani will be another sentence. The ISI, likely to be at the head of a future States in Doha last year, so that becoming ‘a normal country,’
establishment, the Taliban’s with the help of America, Taliban-led government — from agreement is essentially dead,” perpetuating dysfunction at
appeal was both political and defeated America.” prison in 2018 so he could wrote Pakistani journalist Hamid home and locking it into a foreign
tactical, even as Pakistan served Now, from former E.U. leaders participate in peace negotiations Mir in a Washington Post op-ed. policy defined by hostility toward
as a major U.S. ally during and to Afghans on social media, there held in Doha, the Qatari capital. “Now we face a state of yawning India and dependence on China,”
after the 2001 invasion of are calls for tougher international In a June op-ed in The uncertainty — one that affects wrote Husain Haqqani, a former
Afghanistan. “Some sympathized action on Pakistan. “Without Washington Post, Khan argued Pakistan, perhaps, more deeply Pakistani ambassador. “The
with the Islamists’ extreme Pakistan’s intelligence and that he and his government did than any other regional power.” United States is unlikely to soon
ideology, while others deemed it military establishment’s the “real diplomatic heavy lifting” At home, wrote political forgive Pakistan for its decades-
an indispensable asset to counter unstinting support for the to bring the Afghan Taliban to the scientist Fahd Humayun, long enabling of the Taliban.”
India,” noted the Financial Times. Taliban, the group would be a negotiating table and urged Pakistan could face a new influx ishaan.tharoor@washpost.com
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The United States is experienc-
ing a surge in worker productivity
that could rival that of the tech
boom 20 years ago — if it lasts.
As companies and customers
embrace new technologies, mak-
ing it easier for Americans to pro-
duce more with fewer workers, a
growing number of economists
say this is not a blip and could turn
into a boom — or, at least, a
“mini-boom” — with wide-rang-
ing benefits for years to come.
Higher productivity is the econ-
omy’s special sauce. “Productivi-
ty” refers to how much output a
worker can achieve in an hour.
When workers have better tools or
the help of robots and artificial
intelligence, they can make cars or
process data much faster. Higher
productivity typically leads to
more goods and services available
at lower cost, as well as increases
in wages. Without it, economic
growth is sluggish.
The early data in this recovery
is promising. Worker productivity
grew 4.3 percent in the first quar-
ter, one of the highest rates in
years, according to the Labor De-
partment. Second-quarter pro-
ductivity slowed to 2.3 percent
growth, but that’s still nearly dou-
ble the anemic productivity the
nation experienced in the decade
after the financial crisis — an aver-
age of just 1.2 percent.
After the Great Recession, tech
experts and economists struggled
to understand why seeming
breakthroughs with robotics and
AI were not translating into
strong and sustained productivity
during the rebound.
The optimism this time derives
partly from Congress and the
White House taking steps to make
significant investments in physi-
cal and digital infrastructure, and
partly from the coronavirus pan-
demic forcing rapid and wide-
spread adoption of the digital
economy, robots and AI.
Conditions are ripe for produc-
tivity to remain elevated for years,
according to analysts from Gold-
man Sachs and the McKinsey
Global Institute. As policymakers
run the economy hot, there’s
heavy demand for products and
services. There is also a worker
shortage, which is forcing compa-
nies to innovate even more as they
struggle to find enough employ-
ees to fill a record 10 million job
openings. If a robot can do some-
one’s job, companies are trying it.
Some economists even say the
United States could be on verge of
a productivity boom not seen
since the late 1990s.
“America used to do a lot more
public investment and it used to
grow faster. I don’t think that’s a
coincidence. It seems like we are
reentering an era of public invest-
ment,” said professor Erik Bryn-
jolfsson, director of Stanford Uni-
versity’s Digital Economy Lab. He
forecasts “a productivity surge
that will match or surpass the
boom times of the 1990s.”
Worker productivity averaged
3.1 percent from 1996 to 2004,
according to Labor Department
data, largely because of the
personal-computing revolution.
Economists have learned that
new technological breakthroughs
usually don’t cause a jump in pro-
ductivity right away. The technol-
AUTO INDUSTRY
Senators want FTC
to investigate Tesla
Two U.S. Senators are urging
the Federal Trade Commission to
investigate whether Tesla uses
deceptive marketing practices by
labeling its driver-assistance
systems “Autopilot” and “Full
Self-Driving.”
Democratic Sens. Richard
Blumenthal (Conn.) and Edward
J. Markey (Mass.) wrote in a letter
to FTC Chair Lina Khan on
Wednesday that Tesla “has
repeatedly overstated the
capabilities of its vehicles, and
these statements increasingly
pose a threat to motorists and
other users of the road.”
“We fear that Tesla’s Autopilot
and FSD features are not as
mature and reliable as the
company pitches to the public,”
the senators wrote. “Tesla drivers
listen to these claims and believe
their vehicles are equipped to
drive themselves — with
potentially deadly consequence.”
The letter comes days after the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration launched an
investigation into Tesla’s
Autopilot following almost a
dozen crashes with first-
responder vehicles.
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U.S. on cusp of a productivity boom?
New tech, federal investment are creating a surge that experts say could grow into something more
ogy needs time to marinate so
companies can test how best to
deploy it in their industries. Bryn-
jolfsson argues that AI and ma-
chine learning have now sim-
mered long enough to make a
dramatic difference. Others are
not as convinced.
“AI is nothing new, and for
more than a decade has replaced
human customer-service repre-
sentatives by annoying voice-rec-
ognition systems without reviving
growth,” argues Northwestern
University economist Robert Gor-
don, author of “The Rise and Fall
of American Growth.”
Most economists interviewed
for this article predict a mini-
boom. They don’t see productivity
rising as high as in the late 1990s,
but they think it could easily be
higher than what occurred after
the Great Recession.
It’s common to see a bounce in
productivity at the end of a reces-
sion largely because companies
have laid off so many workers that
those who remain work harder to
pick up extra tasks and impress
bosses enough to stay employed in
a scary situation. Take for example
2009, when productivity averaged
3.6 percent. That bounce tends to
fade. That’s why the real test will
likely be in 2022 and 2023.
“So far it’s a mini-boom, but it
could turn out to be a bigger
boom,” said James Manyika, chair
and director of the McKinsey
Global Institute, which forecasts
that productivity could be over
2 percent a year through 2024.
The pandemic forced many
businesses to dramatically shift
the way they operate as it was
ECONOMY
2020 U.S. income tax
payments decreased
Nearly 61 percent of U.S.
households paid no federal
income taxes during 2020
because of pandemic-related
declines in income and boosts to
government subsidies that wiped
away tax liabilities, according to
data from the Urban-Brookings
Tax Policy Center.
The number of households
owing nothing came in at
106.8 million, up from
75.9 million in 2019, the study,
released Wednesday, showed.
The 60.6 percent proportion
for last year compares with
43.3 percent over the five years
before the pandemic struck.
The number of families owing
no federal income taxes is
projected to remain high for 2021,
around 101.7 million households,
or 57.1 percent, according to the
estimates.
The data underscore how
federal assistance measures,
including stimulus payments,
tax-free unemployment benefits
and expanded child tax credits
offset the federal tax bills many
families would have otherwise
owed during the pandemic.
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unsafe to have workers near each
other — or near customers. Busi-
nesses sped up their plans for
automation and digitalization of
routine tasks, sometimes 20 to
25 times faster than they had pre-
viously thought possible, McKin-
sey found. Even industries like
meat processing that many
thought would be one of the last to
adopt robots began using them
during the pandemic.
“I do think we are in a produc-
tivity boom,” said Diane Swonk,
chief economist at Grant Thorn-
ton. “The pandemic forced us all
to learn to use technologies at a
rapid pace. It was tech adaptation
on steroids.”
One example of technology im-
proving productivity is the shift in
how quickly Americans embraced
online ordering of food and gro-
ceries. In recent months, roughly
half of Chipotle’s sales have come
from digital orders through its
own platform or other services like
DoorDash, easing the company’s
reliance on cashiers at a time when
restaurant workers are tougher to
find. Even as in-person sales have
bounced back at lunch, digital or-
ders are not declining, said chief
executive Brian Niccol, enabling
workers to process more orders.
“I think [digital ordering] is
here to stay,” Niccol said in a re-
cent Washington Post Live inter-
view. He predicted that the rev-
enue coming from digital plat-
form orders “will hold and will
just keep growing from here.”
In warehouses and factories,
there was more widespread use of
robots during the pandemic, a
trend that appears likely to con-
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Some companies are also find-
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administrative tasks. Now more-
sophisticated work is increasingly
being done by machines. Last
month, California software com-
pany Cadence Design Systems un-
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Cerebrus, a homage to the largest
part of the human brain. It’s used
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“I believe Cerebrus is a funda-
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dence Design Systems, on a recent
earnings call.
Then there is the work-from-
home trend. New research finds
that teleworking could give a
5 percent boost to productivity,
largely because workers save time
from not commuting to the office.
They can use that time to work or
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recharge. While some workers are
returning to the office, it looks
increasingly likely that more peo-
ple will be able to keep working
remotely or in a hybrid plan with
some days at home and some in
the office. In July, 13 percent of
Americans with jobs worked from
home, down from 26 percent a
year ago, Labor Department data
shows.
While it’s easy to point to recent
innovations in workplaces, it’s
more difficult to say how much of
this will show up in the official
worker-productivity data. The
study on work-from-home pro-
ductivity cautions that only a fifth
of higher productivity from tele-
working is likely to show up in the
productivity data because the
usual government measurement
doesn’t take into account com-
mute times.
“It looks like we’re on the cusp
of a productivity boom, but you
have to see it to believe it,” said
David Beckworth, a senior fellow
at the Mercatus Center at George
Mason University. “The statistics
coming out so far in this recovery
show a productivity surge. Will
that continue? It’s too early to
know for sure.”
Another key dynamic is in-
creased government investment
in the economy. The $1.2 trillion
bipartisan infrastructure bill that
recently passed the Senate has
received widespread praise
among business leaders and econ-
omists. The decision to stimulate
the economy has also created a lot
more demand than normal com-
ing out of a recession, which is
helping drive continued produc-
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tivity and business investment.
“Infrastructure investment cer-
tainly has the potential to im-
prove our productivity,” said Julia
Coronado, founder of MacroPoli-
cy Perspectives and a former Fed-
eral Reserve economist.
The nation hasn’t seen this
kind of public investment in
years. Improvements in roads and
bridges are much needed, but
economists are most excited
about the money in the bill to
expand and enhance broadband
as well as research and develop-
ment. Democrats are also work-
ing on a $3.5 trillion spending
package that is more controver-
sial, though some economists
praise parts of that bill that would
expand child care and paid leave
to make it easier for more U.S.
parents, especially mothers, to
work.
“It won’t be a game-changer to
just fix roads and bridges. It will
help at the margin, but it’s not
transformational,” Coronado
said. Instead, she noted that “cre-
ating more child-care infrastruc-
ture could cause the labor market
to be more dynamic and drive
stronger workforce participation
from women.”
Higher productivity could also
alleviate many of the nation’s top
economic concerns. Inflation is
running at a 13-year high, with
many Americans citing it as a big
worry. As prices for many goods
and services rise, workers can’t
afford to buy as much. Productivi-
ty gains typically lead to lower
prices because factories and offic-
es can produce more, and it tends
to bring higher pay as workers are
seen as more valuable and effec-
tive.
In the medium term, the big-
gest concern for the U.S. economy
is the shrinking workforce. As
baby boomers retire and popula-
tion growth slows, there are sim-
ply fewer workers. Immigration
helps with that burden, as do pro-
ductivity increases that yield a
higher output per worker.
“We are going to be short of
young people. So all the tasks that
were being done with the prior
amount of the labor will have to be
automated quite a bit,” said Ra-
jeev Dhawan, director of the Eco-
nomic Forecasting Center at
Georgia State University. “There
won’t be that many drivers avail-
able for Uber and garbage trucks
and all that. It’s very clear. Some-
thing will have to give.”
A key argument from the White
House economic team is that in-
vestments in “care infrastructure”
such as paid leave, preschool for
all, and more affordable eldercare
and child care could help more
people work. That could boost the
number of women in the work-
force, though not necessarily pro-
ductivity.
“Now is the moment to put in
place a long-term plan to build
back America better,” President
Biden said this month. “It starts
with making investments that we
know will make the economy
more productive and lead to more
growth over the long run.”
For many economists, it’s too
early to buy into the really opti-
mistic case that some technolo-
gists and politicians are making,
but they say a mini-boom is a real
possibility.
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ANALYSIS
Facebook trend report contradicts independent studies
Tech company’s
self-published data
paints a messy picture
BY W ILL O REMUS
We all know what kinds of
posts we see when we open Face-
book. But what is everyone else
seeing in their personalized
feeds? And just how much of it is
divisive, misleading, or outright
false?
Those questions have never
had a definitive answer, partly
because Facebook keeps secret
much of the relevant data. Analyt-
ics tools such as Newswhip, which
is independent, and CrowdTan-
gle, which Facebook owns, pro-
vided windows into what’s trend-
ing on the social network. And a
Twitter account called Facebook’s
Top 10, run by New York Times
technology columnist Kevin
Roose, drew on CrowdTangle’s
data to produce weekly lists of
top-performing U.S. Facebook
pages — many of which turned
out to be conservative or even
right-wing political personalities.
Meanwhile, Facebook has en-
dured harsh criticism from Presi-
dent Biden and other officials
who view it as teeming with con-
spiracies and misinformation.
Facebook has long argued such
“top 10” lists present a skewed
view of its platform, making con-
servative commentators such as
Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, and
Franklin Graham seem more pop-
ular than they really are. But it
struggled to back up its claims
without offering more data of its
own.
On Wednesday, the social giant
announced that it will begin pub-
lishing a quarterly report of its
own, called the “Widely Viewed
Content Report,” that slices its
data along new lines to produce a
very different set of rankings.
Instead of presenting Facebook as
a hotbed of right-leaning politics,
the company’s inaugural report
presents a far weirder, messier,
and spammier picture: the news
feed as a junk-mail folder.
It shows, for instance, that the
most-viewed link on Facebook in
a recent three-month period was
to the website of a Wisconsin firm
that offers to connect Green Bay
Packers fans to former players.
The second-most-viewed link was
to the online storefront of Pure
Hemp, which sells CBD products.
The third-most-viewed post in
Fed debates when to scale back market supports
BY R ACHEL S IEGEL
Federal Reserve officials are
sharpening their discussions for
when to start scaling back sup-
port for the markets, reflecting
optimism that the labor market
and broader economic recovery
will continue gaining steam.
For months, economists and
Wall Street have been eager for
any signs about when the Fed will
begin to “taper” or slow down its
$120 billion a month in asset
purchases. Fed leaders have said
they need to see “substantial fur-
ther progress” on inflation and
job growth before slowing their
sprawling bond-buying program,
which helps stimulate the econo-
my and makes borrowing easier
by holding down long-term rates.
Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell
has repeatedly said that there will
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Tourists take photos at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., in 2017. The company announced it will publish a quarterly report of
its most widely viewed content, part of a broader push to block or discredit independent research about harmful content on its platform.
“It’s like ExxonMobil
releasing their own
study on climate
change. It’s something
to counter the
independent research
and media coverage
that tells a different
story.”
Former Facebook employee
be plenty of warning before the
Fed starts to unwind its asset
purchases. Minutes released
Wednesday from the Fed’s July
policy meeting offered some in-
sight into policymakers’ think-
ing.
Overall, most Fed officials said
they felt that, as long as the
economy kept growing as expect-
ed, “it could be appropriate to
start reducing the pace of asset
purchases this year,” according to
the meeting minutes.
Some Fed officials believed it
would be “prudent” for the Fed to
get ready to scale back the pur-
chases “relatively soon,” especial-
ly if high inflation proves “to be
more persistent than they had
anticipated.”
Still, others emphasized that
there was “considerable uncer-
tainty” around the labor market,
the same period, by Facebook’s
reckoning, no longer exists at all.
A preview of the post that appears
in search engines suggests it was
a viral meme encouraging users
to disclose personal information
to discover their “porn name.”
The new report comes as part
of a broader push by Facebook to
block or discredit independent
research about harmful content
on its platform, offering its own
carefully selected data and statis-
tics instead.
“It’s like ExxonMobil releasing
their own study on climate
change,” said a former Facebook
employee, who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity due to a non-
disparagement clause. “It’s some-
thing to counter the independent
research and media coverage that
tells a different story.”
Also on Wednesday, Facebook
published a blog post rebutting
an influential recent report by a
nonprofit that found a dozen “su-
perspreaders” of false claims —
the so-called “Disinformation
Dozen” — were responsible for
some 73 percent of misinforma-
tion about the coronavirus vac-
supply chain issues, and the long-
term influence the pandemic will
have on the economy.
“Those participants stressed
that the Committee should be
patient in assessing progress
toward its goals and in announc-
ing changes to its plans on asset
purchases,” the minutes stated.
The meeting minutes don’t
name any Fed officials. But since
the Fed’s July meeting, a growing
number of policymakers have giv-
en their own opinions about
when the central bank should
start dialing back the asset pur-
chases. Some have said the draw-
down could begin this fall, thanks
in part to encouraging job gains
from June and July.
“We’ve had two months in a
row where we’ve created more
than 900,000 jobs and the unem-
ployment rate dropped by half a
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cines on Facebook. “There isn’t
any evidence for this claim,”
wrote Monika Bickert, Facebook’s
vice president of content policy, of
the finding by the Center for
Countering Digital Hate. She of-
fered in its place a different statis-
tic, asserting that those 12 people
are responsible for just 0.05 per-
cent of all views of vaccine-related
content on Facebook. Facebook
itself didn’t offer any evidence to
back up that figure.
Earlier this month, Facebook
shut down the accounts of NYU
researchers who had been study-
ing how misinformation spreads
through political ads on its plat-
form. The company cited privacy
concerns, an explanation that
drew a rare public rebuke from a
Federal Trade Commission offi-
cial.
Roose’s “Facebook’s Top 10”
lists of popular Facebook content
focused on posts from public
Facebook pages that included
links, which Roose said was a way
to zero in on content that is more
likely to be newsy and political,
and thus of public interest. Face-
book’s new report repeatedly em-
percent to 5.4 percent,” Boston
Federal Reserve Bank President
Eric Rosengren told CNBC on
Monday. “If we get another strong
labor market report, I think that I
would be supportive of announc-
ing in September that we are
ready to start the taper program.”
As a group, the Fed’s policy
board will pick up their discus-
sions at their next meeting in
September. But in the meantime,
much depends on the coronavi-
rus public health crisis — and any
repercussions for the economic
recovery.
The spread of the delta variant
has started a new phase of the
pandemic and prompted some
parts of the country to reimpose
mask mandates and other restric-
tions. Consumer confidence
plunged in the first half of August
as the delta variant spread, ac-
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nonstop crunching
noise in her head…
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phasizes that such content repre-
sents a tiny fraction of everything
users see in their feeds. For in-
stance, it noted that less than 13
percent of all views of content in
the news feed in the second quar-
ter were on posts that included
links.
For its own report, Facebook
opted to share four lists that in-
cluded eclectic mixes of domains
and content, with viral animal
memes, cooking pages, and sites
hawking Christian merchandise
crowding out big-name media
publishers. Notably, its rankings
were drawn from the three-
month period between April 1
and June 30, 2021, so they offer no
insight into what was popular in
the months preceding or immedi-
ately following the 2020 election
or the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. They
also don’t show what has been
trending recently.
Asked if he knew why an ob-
scure Green Bay Packers alumni
website was the most popular link
in Facebook’s data set, spokesper-
son Ryan Peters replied, “When
content from lesser known cre-
ators goes viral it isn’t necessarily
cording to a survey released last
week by the University of Michi-
gan. It’s too soon to tell whether
hiring or consumer spending will
suffer as a result.
Meanwhile, prices are on the
rise, and they’re expected to keep
climbing until supply chains can
catch up with consumer demand.
While Fed leaders have been wait-
ing to see progress in the job
market, some at the Fed argue
that bar has already been met
when it comes to inflation. (The
Fed is responsible for both stable
prices and maximum employ-
ment.)
Some Fed leaders have said
that if the taper starts in the next
few months, it could be wrapped
up by next summer. That timeline
suggests that Fed leaders could be
ready to raise interest rates in late
2022 or 2023, since the taper
would probably be complete be-
fore rates rise. (The Fed slashed
rates to near zero at the begin-
ning of the pandemic and are
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a bad thing. It shows that anyone,
not just established superstars,
can reach a wide audience on the
platform so long as their content
is compelling.” Peters added that
the decision not to focus the re-
port on news or political content
was intentional, reflecting the
fact that most people’s feeds are
dominated by posts from their
own friends and family, not news
outlets or ideologues.
Under other circumstances, re-
searchers might welcome new
data such as the lists Facebook
shared in its new Widely Viewed
Content report. But the immedi-
ate reception from some academ-
ics in the space was ambivalent.
Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth
political science professor who
researches online political and
health information, called the re-
port “an important corrective to
analyses that focus on the high-
est-engagement public page con-
tent on the platform,” because
public page content is only a
small part of what most people
see on Facebook. But he also
called on Facebook to provide
“greater transparency,” noting
that a single quarterly snapshot is
a poor substitute for tools such as
CrowdTangle that allow research-
ers, journalists, and the public to
perform their own queries.
Jennifer Grygiel, an associate
professor of communication at
Syracuse’s Newhouse School who
studies social media, was unim-
pressed by Facebook’s initial re-
port. “This is yet more PR,” they
said. “They’re trying to control
the narrative around CrowdTan-
gle reporting” and counter the
work of the Times’ Roose and
others with their own hand-
picked metrics.
Roose reported in July that
Facebook has moved to rein in
CrowdTangle, which had operat-
ed with a degree of autonomy
within the company since its 2016
acquisition, because executives
were upset at how some critics
were interpreting the data. Asked
by The Post on Wednesday wheth-
er it will continue to publish
CrowdTangle data, the company
did not give a direct answer, but it
offered a statement from Guy
Rosen, its vice president for integ-
rity.
“This is another step on a long
journey we’ve undertaken to be,
by far, the most transparent plat-
form on the Internet,” Rosen said
of the new reports. “We’re con-
tinuing to think through addi-
tional transparency features we
can offer.”
will.oremus@washpost.com
nowhere near considering a rate
increase.)
There’s also open debate on
how the Fed should structure and
pace the taper. The monthly asset
purchases are made up of $80 bil-
lion in Treasury securities and
$40 billion in mortgage-backed
securities. Surging home prices
have some economists arguing
that the Fed should reduce its
purchases of mortgage-backed
securities more quickly.
Others disagree, saying the
mortgage securities aren’t mean-
ingfully driving the hot housing
market and that the two catego-
ries of asset purchases should be
cut back at the same rate.
“I think that Treasury and
[mortgage-backed security] pur-
chases affect financial conditions
in very similar ways,” Powell said
last month. “There may be mod-
est differences in terms of contri-
bution to housing prices. But it’s
not something that’s big.”
rachel.siegel@washpost.com
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EPA to ban pesticide on food crops over health concerns

Move on widely used
chlorpyrifos reverses
Trump decision

BY D INO G RANDONI

The Environmental Protection

Agency will ban the use of a pesti-
cide widely applied on food crops
but linked to neurological dam-
age in children, reversing one of
the Trump administration’s most
fraught public health decisions.
The final rule released Wednes-
day will put a stop to the spraying
of chlorpyrifos on fruits and veg-
etables across the country, to pro-
tect the health of both farmwork-
ers dispersing the pesticide and
children eating produce treated
with it.
The move to curtail use of the
potent insect-killing chemical on
food overturns a 2017 decision by
then-EPA Administrator Scott
Pruitt to keep the pesticide on the
market despite a recommenda-
tion by the agency’s scientists to
restrict it, given its potential
risks.
“This comes after more than a
decade of science in which it be-
came pretty clear that there were
potential neurodevelopmental ef-
fects on children that were being
observed at lower levels than peo-
ple had previously thought,” Mi-
chal Freedhoff, the EPA’s top offi-
cial for chemical safety and pollu-
tion prevention, said in a phone
interview.
For a half-century, chlorpyrifos
DAMIAN DOVARGANES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
has proved effective in keeping all
sorts of pests off soybeans, al- A foreman watches workers pick fruit in an orchard in Arvin, Calif., in 2004. Use of chlorpyrifos has been linked to health problems among farmworkers and children.
mond trees, cauliflower and other
crops. Farmers often deploy it chemical showed up in tests on data. federal regulators struck a deal began when environmental own promises to follow the best
when no other pesticide can do his hair. “AFBF asserts that chlorpyrifos with chemical makers to limit the groups petitioned the agency in science.
the job. “It’s affecting a lot of families. is a valuable crop protection tool use of chlorpyrifos for killing ter- 2007 to revoke all uses of the “President Biden campaigned
But for the past decade, envi- We’re all being affected, either with no viable alternative,” he mites and several pests in homes. pesticide on food. Eight years lat- with the slogan of ‘Science over
ronmental, labor and public- with allergies or some with dis- wrote in a comment on the pro- The EPA was prompted to act er, in 2015, the EPA under Presi- Fiction,’ but the EPA’s decision to
health groups have clamored for abilities,” said Angulo, who is now posed rule. by a scathing federal court deci- dent Barack Obama responded by cancel all tolerances of chlorpyri-
phasing out the pesticide, which part of a class-action lawsuit. “As a But Earthjustice managing at- sion in April that blasted the proposing to prohibit the pesti- fos does not live up to that stan-
can lead to headaches or blurred mother, I’m still struggling and torney Patti Goldman, whose Trump administration’s decision cide, but the Trump administra- dard or to the EPA’s commitment
vision when inhaled or ingested. won’t stop until this pesticide is group sued the EPA after it per- to keep the chemical on the mar- tion changed course, pointing to to scientific integrity,” Novak said
Some studies of families in apart- not harming kids.” mitted continued use of the pesti- ket. The U.S. Court of Appeals for concerns from Agriculture De- in a written statement. “Decades
ment buildings found that expo- But the industry has taken aim cide, said the “only legally and the 9th Circuit ruled the agency partment officials about the nega- of review by EPA career staff and
sure during pregnancy led to at a key study identifying chlorpy- scientifically defensible action” is must ban the spraying of chlorpy- tive impact of the restrictions on independent scientific advisory
memory loss and other cognitive rifos’s risks, conducted by Colum- to ban its use on food. rifos on food crops unless its staff farmers. panels have repeatedly supported
issues in children. bia University. That research fo- “It’s kind of an archaic type of could show it can be used safely. Corteva Agriscience, once the safe uses for this product, yet this
The EPA is using a 1996 food- cused on illnesses within a specif- pest management because it just “The court basically said, world’s largest manufacturer of decision comes without a full sci-
quality law that strengthened ic group of people rather than a goes after anything,” Goldman ‘Enough is enough,’ ” Freedhoff chlorpyrifos, said last year that it entific review or a thoughtful as-
protections for infants and chil- direct test on animals, the meth- said. “It’s really old-school. But if said. “ ‘You need to make this would stop manufacturing the sessment of the beneficial uses of
dren to issue its ban. od EPA has historically used to something new pops up, then it’ll judgment once and for all.’ And so pesticide, though it stood by the this product.”
Claudia Angulo, a farmworker determine a pesticide’s safety. often be the thing that will be the Biden administration did re- chemical’s safety’s record. For now, chlorpyrifos can still
who came from Mexico to work Sam Kieffer, vice president for used.” view the science and did conclude Still, some chemical and agri- be used for growing cotton and
the citrus and broccoli fields in public affairs at the American Several states including Cali- that it is not possible to find that cultural businesses have fought to treating golf courses. The EPA will
California’s San Joaquin Valley, Farm Bureau Federation, told the fornia, Hawaii, New York, Mary- this substance is safe when used keep it on the market, given its make a decision on whether to
was pregnant when she was ex- EPA in March that the Columbia land, and Oregon — as well as on food.” effectiveness. Chris Novak, head continue to allow for those and
posed to chlorpyrifos. She blames study is “not supported by verifi- Canada and the European Union The EPA’s decision this week of the agrochemical trade associa- other nonfood uses by the end of
the pesticide for her son Isaac’s able science” since the agency is — are already phasing out the marked the culmination of a tion CropLife America, said Biden next year.
developmental delays, after the not able to look at its underlying insecticide on farms. In 2000, decade-and-a-half fight, which officials were falling short of their dino.grandoni@washpost.com

T-Mobile says hackers stole data of over 40 million people
BY H AMZA S HABAN
The names, birthdays and So-
cial Security numbers of millions
of T-Mobile customers were stolen
by hackers, the cellphone carrier
said Tuesday as it continues to
investigate a data breach dis-
closed earlier this week.
T-Mobile confirmed that perpe-
trators behind a cyberattack ac-
cessed personal information tied
to about 7.8 million current sub-
scribers, as well as records of
40 million people who previously
applied for credit with the compa-
ny. The stolen data included first
and last names and driver’s license
information, but T-Mobile said it
has no indication that the ac-
cessed files contained financial in-
formation.
“Importantly, no phone num-
bers, account numbers, PINs,
passwords, or financial informa-
tion were compromised in any of
these files of customers or pro-
spective customers,” T-Mobile
said in a statement published on
its website Tuesday.
On Monday, the company dis-
closed that hackers had gained
access to its computer networks,
but had not yet determined
whether personal data had been
stolen or how many customers
were affected. T-Mobile said it
would contact customers and of-
fer two years of identity protection
services, and recommended that
subscribers with postpaid plans
change their PINs.
Though a preliminary analysis
offered a sense of the cyberattack’s
scale, T-Mobile did not disclose
how hackers accessed its systems
or who was behind the breach.
“We take our customers’ protec-
tion very seriously and we will
continue to work around the clock
on this forensic investigation to
ensure we are taking care of our
customers in light of this mali-
cious attack,” the company said.
Motherboard first reported on
the breach, following posts on a
Web forum that claimed to be
offering to sell the private data.
The breach follows a string of
high-profile cyberattacks that re-
focused attention on the threats
posed by digital intrusions, under-
scoring the vulnerability of sensi-
tive data and the damage mali-
cious actors can inflict beyond the
theft of personal information.
This spring, a ransomware at-
tack on Colonial Pipeline disrupt-
ed the East Coast’s fuel network,
setting off panic buying and tem-
porary gasoline shortages across
several states. Weeks later, a cyber-
attack targeting the world’s larg-
est meat supplier, JBS, threatened
to knock out significant pieces of
its supply network, sparking con-
cern over potential shortages and
higher beef and pork prices.
The hacking of critical pieces of
infrastructure highlighted the ris-
ing threats to government agen-
cies, civil society groups and cor-
porations, all of which increasing-
ly rely on networked computer
systems to operate.
Lawmakers have taken notice.
As part of the bipartisan $1 trillion
infrastructure proposal, Senate
negotiators have included cyber-
security investments, reflecting
the heightened sense that com-
puter attacks could devastate en-
tire communities. The bill would
authorize nearly $2 billion in
spending for cybersecurity initia-
tives, including a $1 billion grant
program to provide federal cyber-
security assistance to state and
local governments, which experts
say are among the most vulner-
able institutions to ransomware
attacks, in which hackers break
into computer systems and de-
mand a ransom to restore access.
The bill also would fund a new
cyber director office, allowing the
federal government to better coor-
dinate its response to hacks, and
would establish a $100 million
response fund, which officials
could use to help agencies and
companies recover from attacks.
Even as ransomware attacks
have increasingly captured public
attention, cybercriminals contin-
ue to steal and sell data through
more straightforward means, and
may prefer to do so precisely be-
cause of the unwanted attention
that would come with disrupting a
large communications service like
T-Mobile, said Allie Mellen, an
analyst at Forrester Research.
T-Mobile said its probe is still
underway and it is coordinating
with law enforcement. The com-
pany said earlier this week it had
located and immediately closed
the access point it thinks hackers
used to breach its servers.
Cybercriminals have targeted
T-Mobile in the past. In 2019, the
company said that they accessed
the data of some prepaid wireless
accounts but that no financial in-
formation was compromised.
Though the cost of the breach is
not yet clear, IBM Security esti-
mates companies spent $4.2 mil-
lion, on average, on such incidents
in 2021. But that figure increases
drastically for so-called mega
breaches, in which more than
50 million records are compro-
mised.
hamza.shaban@washpost.com

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Biden said it:
History will
judge him
harshly
resident Biden lamented the failure
P this week of what he described as “our
decades-long effort to overcome cen-
turies of history and permanently
change and remake Afghanistan.”
Then he made a startling claim. “I wrote
and believed it never could be,” he said.
He went further: “Our mission in Afghani-
stan was never supposed to have been nation
building,” the president insisted at the White
House on Monday. “It was never supposed to
be creating a unified, centralized democracy.”
But Biden wrote and believed the oppo-
site. As chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee after the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, Biden pressed then-President
George W. Bush to spend vastly more on
building institutions to promote a unified,
centralized democracy.
“History is going to judge us very harshly, I
believe, if we allow the hope of a liberated
Afghanistan to evaporate because we are
fearful of the phrase ‘nation-building,’”
Biden said in a February 2002 speech to the
Center for Strategic and International Stud-
ies.
Biden’s attempt to memory-hole dozens of
other sound bites like this illustrates that he
was for nation building before he was against
it. More significantly, the revisionism is a
reminder of Biden’s erratic path on some
foreign policy matters and suggests he has
internalized the wrong lessons as he surren-
ders in our longest war. The fall of Kabul
doesn’t necessarily discredit nation building;
if anything, it underscores the importance of
doing it correctly.
Sen. Biden understood this better than
President Biden does. He warned in October
2001 that the United States must not leave
Afghanistan to fester after ousting the Tali-
ban. Biden often referenced the power vacu-
um that developed in Afghanistan after the
Soviets fled the country and set the stage for
the Taliban to take over.
“I take partial responsibility because I was
hanging around in 1988 and ’89 when the last
Soviets troops marched out,” he said on
MSNBC in October 2001. “When they
marched out, we said, ‘Okay. Job done,’ and
there was chaos.”
Nation building got a bum rap during the
1990s as U.S. troops deployed to Somalia,
Haiti and the Balkans. Bush had promised
during the 2000 campaign that he would not
use the military to perform peacekeeping
missions. “After 9/11, I changed my mind,”
Bush wrote in “Decision Points,” his 2010
memoir. “Afghanistan was the ultimate na-
tion building mission.”
Biden’s claim that promoting democracy
was never part of the Afghan mission is
equally confounding. He was there in 2005
when Bush organized his second inaugural
address around the topic. “It is the policy of
the United States to seek and support the
growth of democratic movements and insti-
tutions in every nation and culture,” Bush
declared, “with the ultimate goal of ending
tyranny in our world.”
By then, of course, Bush had made the
fateful blunder of invading Iraq, which Biden
initially supported. This diverted U.S. atten-
tion from Afghanistan at a fragile juncture,
which allowed corruption and nepotism to
poison a fledgling government in Kabul
while the Taliban regrouped. The U.S. gov-
ernment structured the Afghan military to
depend largely on U.S. contractors and air
support. Once Biden pulled that rug out from
under them this spring, collapse became
inevitable.
Biden points out that he’s keeping a cam-
paign promise to pull out, as well as imple-
menting an agreement that his predecessor,
Donald Trump, negotiated with the Taliban.
In his address to the nation, Biden highlight-
ed his private opposition to Barack Obama’s
2009 decision to surge troops into Afghani-
stan. What Biden didn’t say is that he called
for more U.S. troops and money in 2008 —
only to reverse himself a few months later.
More than anything, Americans lost the
will to maintain the minimal troop presence
that has largely kept the peace while Afghani-
stan made the slow and painful transition to
democracy. Biden, like Trump before him,
follows what polls suggest is the will of the
people. In foreign policy, that can be a
ruinous game.
Biden visited Kabul in January 2002 just
weeks after the Taliban fled. He bunked with
Marines in a bombed-out U.S. Embassy that
had been abandoned 23 years earlier amid
the mayhem caused by the Russian pullout.
Dust-coated portraits of Ronald Reagan and
George Shultz still hung on the wall.
“After the Soviet withdrawal in 1989,
America turned its back as the country
disintegrated,” Biden said at a hearing after
he returned. “President Bush has rightly
promised not to repeat this mistake. If we fail
to uphold the president’s promise, Afghani-
stan will again become a den of terrorists,
narcotics traffickers and exporters of violent
insurgency.”
Today, portraits of Biden and Secretary of
State Antony Blinken hang in a U.S. Embassy
that once again has been abandoned. As Sen.
Biden foresaw, history will judge President
Biden very harshly.
A handful of Americans felt so desperate
on 9/11 that they jumped from the twin
towers to avoid incineration. This week,
some Afghans felt so desperate as the Taliban
took over that they tried to ride piggyback on
an Air Force cargo plane, from which they fell
to their deaths. The sickening videos now
serve as bookends to the 9/11 era.
THURSDAY Opinion
A nurse vaccinates 13-year-old Jesse James of Pleasantville, Iowa, on Monday.
Why the recommendation
on booster shots is a mistake
BY W ILLIAM F . P ARKER
AND G OVIND P ERSAD
he Biden administration an-
T nounced Wednesday that it
will start offering coronavirus
vaccine booster shots next
month, recommending that Ameri-
cans who received their original doses
from Pfizer or Moderna to seek a
booster eight months after their ini-
tial shot.
This decision is a mistake. Not only
does it risk depriving millions
throughout the world of the vaccine,
but there also is no evidence that
additional shots meaningfully reduce
death or hospitalization from covid-19
for healthy Americans. Far better
would be to wait for solid trial data on
booster shots.
U.S. health officials ought to heed
the warning from Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, director general of the
World Health Organization, that the
world had fallen into a state of “vac-
cine apartheid.” High-income coun-
tries have used bilateral contracts
with vaccine manufacturers to
achieve vaccination rates as much as
50 times that of low-income countries.
A campaign for boosters could lock in
that apartheid. This profound global
inequity would not only be a humani-
tarian disaster, but also a significant
long-term risk for Americans, as sci-
entists agree that accelerating global
vaccination is the only way to prevent
the formation of deadly new variants.
The administration points to re-
cent reports from the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention showing
that the efficacy of the vaccines
against mild infection is waning to
justify boosters. This is an important
concern, but the same reports demon-
strate full vaccination is still highly
protective against severe covid-19 dis-
ease. The United States should ad-
dress this issue with the same
thoughtfulness and regulatory scruti-
ny as initial vaccine approval. That
means booster shots should be subject
to a randomized, controlled trial com-
MAX BOOT
Biden is wrong. Nothing was inevitable.
f you listen to President Biden and
I his advisers, they had no alternative
but to set in motion the collapse of
Afghanistan’s government, leaving
tens of thousands of Afghans who
worked with, and trusted, the United
States in the lurch.
National security adviser Jake Sulli-
van on Tuesday argued “that when a civil
war comes to an end . . . there are going
to be scenes of chaos” and “that is not
something that can be fundamentally
avoided.” He also argued that it “is
simply wrong” to imagine “that with
2,500 forces . . . we could have sustained
a stable, peaceful Afghanistan.” That
“would have taken a significant Ameri-
can troop presence, multiple times
greater than what President Biden was
handed. . . . And we would have taken
casualties.”
Is the Biden administration right that
the fall of Afghanistan was inevitable,
unless the United States was prepared to
pay a heavy price in blood to avert it?
That is a historical hypothetical with no
certain answer. But the bulk of the
evidence suggests that the administra-
tion is wrong.
Biden, admittedly, was left in a tough
spot by his predecessor. President
Donald Trump reduced U.S. forces in
Afghanistan from roughly 13,000 to
2,500 and promised to pull all of them
out by May 1 of this year in return for
next to nothing from the Taliban. That
agreement, reached in February 2020,
demoralized Afghan forces and em-
boldened the Taliban.
Sullivan probably has a point that
2,500 troops was too small a presence to
assure the survival of the Afghan gov-
ernment. The congressionally char-
tered, bipartisan Afghanistan Study
Group concluded in February “that
around 4,500 troops are required to
secure U.S. interests under current con-
EZ RE
paring three doses to two doses with
power to detect significant differenc-
es in hospitalizations or deaths.
With the delta variant running
rampant through the unvaccinated
population, such a trial, similar to the
vaccine trials for initial approval,
would be easy to complete. In fact,
Pfizer has just such a trial ongoing;
the Food and Drug Administration
should require they complete it before
amending the vaccine Emergency Use
Authorization. This trial should be the
first in an ongoing series of adaptive
clinical trials, using the power of ran-
domization to determine the optimal
dosing strategy for vaccines over time.
And these trials should examine actu-
al outcomes such as hospitalization —
not “surrogate” endpoints such as an-
tibody levels.
That boosting all adults would be
inappropriate without compelling ev-
idence of improved efficacy does not
mean the CDC was wrong to provide
targeted booster access for small pop-
ulations, such as organ transplant re-
cipients on immunosuppressive
drugs. Unlike the general population,
these patients have a poor immune
response to two doses and face a high
risk of hospitalization despite two-
dose vaccination. Observational data
show a third dose is needed to give
antibodies to immunocompromised
patients, making access to boosters a
reasonable precautionary approach.
Just as importantly, offering the more
than 50 million vaccines already dis-
tributed and sitting in freezers
throughout the United States to these
populations presents little risk of
global deprivation compared to pur-
chasing millions of additional doses,
not yet distributed to states, for use as
boosters in the general population.
Moderna and Pfizer are already
profiting from their vaccines to the
tune of hundreds of millions of dol-
lars. The United States must now de-
cide how to incentivize the next step
for these companies, as they can pro-
duce a billion more doses than the
U.S. population needs by the end of
ditions and at an acceptable level of
risk.” But the study group did not call for
sending U.S. troops into ground combat.
Its report argued that a slightly larger
U.S. force focused on “training, advising,
and assisting Afghan defense forces”
would be enough.
There is no reason to believe that this
slightly increased U.S. presence would
have resulted in many U.S. casualties.
U.S. troops stopped suffering heavy loss-
es after they transitioned in 2014 to a
primarily advisory mission. Most troops
were relatively safe on large bases the
Taliban could not effectively attack. Yet
the support they provided to the Afghan
government — both material and psy-
chological — remained crucial.
“The probability of maintaining some
sort of stability in Afghanistan after a
prompt withdrawal of troops and a sub-
stantial reduction in aid is minimal,” the
Afghanistan Study Group warned. “Al-
most every interlocutor the Study Group
consulted used the word ‘catastrophic’
or a synonym thereof to describe the
effects of this option.” Instead of pulling
U.S. forces out on May 1, the study group
recommended shifting to a conditions-
based pullout — i.e., U.S. troops would
leave only if peace talks made progress.
Biden ignored that good advice and
decided to withdraw even though peace
talks were going nowhere. Even then,
the callous nature of the pullout was
gratuitous. The United States could have
evacuated tens of thousands of inter-
preters and other local allies much more
readily while the Afghan government
still controlled the cities and the United
States still maintained major air bases
around the country. Instead, Biden
pulled out without having done any-
thing to get our allies to safety.
Now that task is much harder with
U.S. troops limited to one section of the
Kabul airport surrounded by Taliban
CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
the year. Should we pay high prices for
biyearly boosters for the 190 million
and counting vaccinated Americans,
which will require hundreds of mil-
lions of additional doses? Or should
we build on the 100 million doses we
have donated globally so far and
pledge at least 10 million additional
doses per week to low-income coun-
tries? The latter strategy would en-
sure domestic supply for unvaccinat-
ed Americans while we await evidence
that boosters meaningfully protect
healthy, fully vaccinated Americans.
Finally, the administration made a
mistake by letting its booster recom-
mendations become public through a
series of anonymous leaks to the me-
dia. Other major vaccine decisions
came after careful deliberation by
both the FDA and CDC, relying heavily
on rigorous analysis and advice from
the Advisory Committee for Immuni-
zation Practices. Perhaps this was
done as a trial balloon to assess the
public’s reaction. But that’s not how
public health should be done.
Based on the suggested eight-
month interval for third doses, the
United States will need more than
120 million additional mRNA doses by
the end of 2021. That’s enough doses
to vaccinate the population of covid-
decimated Botswana 26 times over.
Will already-protected Americans
line up to boost their antibodies while
the virus rages and mutates overseas,
evidence be damned? Or will we de-
mand that our government recognize
that global pandemics require global
solutions? Vaccinating the unvacci-
nated, not buffing up the antibody
levels of the already protected, is our
way out of the pandemic.
William F. Parker is an assistant professor
of pulmonary and critical care medicine at
the University of Chicago and assistant
director of the MacLean Center for Clinical
Medical Ethics. Govind Persad is an
assistant professor at the University of
Denver Sturm College of Law and
Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in
Bioethics.
checkpoints. The result has been scenes
of chaos, with thousands of desperate
Afghans swarming the runways. Some
even tried to stow away in a U.S. C-17
aircraft only to fall to their deaths. That
horrifying image will define America’s
defeat.
It will be up to future historians to
figure out why this happened — but, like
most historical events, it was hardly
predetermined. My own theory is that
Biden has been hellbent on leaving Af-
ghanistan ever since, as he mentioned
on Monday, he lost the internal debate in
the Obama administration over the Af-
ghanistan surge in 2009. The Trump
withdrawal deal, awful as it was, did not
compel the pullout but merely gave
Biden a convenient excuse to do what he
wanted to do anyway.
The callousness that Biden, normally
the most empathetic of politicians, has
displayed toward the people of Afghani-
stan is long-standing. As I noted earlier
this year, George Packer’s book “Our
Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of
the American Century” recounts a con-
versation that Holbrooke, then Obama’s
Afghanistan-Pakistan envoy, had with
then-Vice President Biden in 2010. Hol-
brooke raised the costs of abandoning
“the people who had trusted us.” Biden’s
response: “F--- that, we don’t have to
worry about that. We did it in Vietnam,
Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”
The conduct of U.S. foreign policy
should not be based on what we can get
away with — but on what we can achieve
at reasonable cost. No, we weren’t able
to magically transform Afghanistan into
Switzerland or defeat the Taliban, but
we were able, at low cost, to keep most of
the country out of the militants’ grasp.
The collapse occurred only after an
unnecessary and unwise U.S. withdraw-
al that Biden and his aides are now
unsuccessfully struggling to justify.
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Now comes
the Taliban
narco-state
BY E LAINE S HANNON
efore the Taliban took over Af-
B ghanistan by force, the United
States and the European Union
warned it that doing so would
result in a cutoff of foreign aid to the
country. Yet the Taliban seized control
anyway. Why? Because the Taliban is very
rich and can afford to scoff at Western
illusions of “leverage.”
Foreign aid is superfluous if you’re
running the world’s largest narco-state.
That is what Afghanistan under the Tali-
ban threatens to become.
The Afghan drug cartel consists of a
dozen or so trafficking dynasties that
built the Afghan drug industry from
scratch after the Soviet military invasion
of December 1979. Afghan kingpins now
control roughly 85 percent of the world
opium supply, according to the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
which monitors illicit crops worldwide.
“Our investigations showed that the
Taliban were intimately interconnected
with the drug traffickers in every corner
of Afghanistan,” says Mike Marsac, a
retired senior Drug Enforcement Admin-
istration official who led investigations in
Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2005 to
2013. “They were making tens of millions
of dollars a year easily, certainly for the
past 15 years.” In large parts of the coun-
try, he says, “it was increasingly difficult
to separate the Taliban from the drug
traffickers.”
Keith Bishop, also retired, who super-
vised a joint DEA/Afghan police base in
Kabul from 2009 to 2012, calls opium “the
Taliban’s easy, lazy gold.” The fundamen-
talist group also regards opium, he says,
“as a weapon to poison their perceived
enemies at home and abroad.”
Marsac and Bishop oversaw about
100 DEA personnel and dozens of con-
tract police trainers sent to Afghanistan
by the George W. Bush administration to
try to break the nexus between the cartel
and the Taliban insurgency. For several
years, I was embedded in their base while
I researched the Afghan cartel and its role
in the conflict.
Ultimately, disrupting the cartel
proved impossible, in part because key
Afghan national and tribal figures were
playing both sides — taking money from
the drug trade while being protected as
power brokers for the U.S.-led military
coalition. Frustrated DEA agents had a
name for those double-dealing pols:
“unarrestables.”
The United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC) estimates that the
opium economy inside Afghanistan at
$1.2 billion to $2.1 billion yearly, and
many more billions of dollars globally.
The cartel also has diversified: In 2010,
Afghanistan became the world’s biggest
producer of hashish, and, since 2015 has
been producing crystal meth by exploit-
ing the abundant native herb ephedra,
which contains the chemical stimulant in
methamphetamine.
A 2018 BBC investigation that found
that the Taliban imposed a 10 percent tax
at every stage of the opium production
process, providing $400 million in in-
come from 2011 onward, “but it is be-
lieved to have significantly increased in
recent years,” possibly as high as $1.5 bil-
lion. By comparison, before the Taliban
takeover, the United States provided
about $500 million a year to Afghanistan
in humanitarian aid.
DEA agents and U.S. military officials
say that some in the Taliban advanced
beyond tax-collection to establish their
own trafficking networks and run their
own labs.
Last year, Afghan poppy plantations
yielded a near-record crop of 6,300 tons
of opium, according to the UNODC’s
Afghanistan Opium Survey 2020. Farm-
ers evidently anticipating bad times
planted some 554,000 acres of poppy,
37 percent above the previous year.
The resulting supply glut has knocked
opium prices to historic lows. But the
cartel and Taliban may have a plan for
that: market manipulation.
Their model worked beautifully in
1999, when the Taliban was still in power.
According to DEA and U.S. intelligence
veterans I interviewed, farmers over-
planted and opium prices tanked. The
kingpins formed an advisory council and
persuaded the Taliban government to ban
new poppy cultivation. Doing so won
international praise for the Taliban and
gave the kingpins a windfall, because they
used their insider’s knowledge to buy
opium cheap from unwitting, desperate
farmers. Once the shortage set in and
prices bounced back, they sold for fat
profits, and the Taliban got its healthy cut.
Now, the Taliban controls a nation with
roaring production in opium, hashish
and crystal meth. Taliban leaders may
well announce a crackdown on religious
grounds, but don’t be fooled: It’s still
about the money and always will be. Like
traffickers everywhere, the Afghan cartel
will invest in chaos. It’s good for business.
And what’s good for the Afghan drug
business is good for the Taliban. The
world may soon face the richest, best-
armed narco-state ever conceived.
Elaine Shannon, a former Time and Newsweek
correspondent, is the author, most recently, of
“Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA
Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His
Empire.”
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ABCDE
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The great flight to freedom
Evacuations from Afghanistan must succeed.
RESIDENT BIDEN must be held
P accountable for failing to prepare
an orderly evacuation of vulner-
able civilians as he withdrew
U.S. troops from Afghanistan. What mat-
ters most for now, though, is to evacuate
everyone at risk who wants to go: U.S. citi-
zens and permanent residents, allied-
country nationals, Afghans who worked
with the U.S. government, and U.S. con-
tractors and Afghans who worked as jour-
nalists, civil society activists, or public
officials.
To their credit, Biden administration
officials have repeatedly embraced that
goal, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
declaring Wednesday: “We’re going to get
everyone that we can possibly evacuate
evacuated, and I’ll do that as long as we
possibly can.”
As the final clause of Mr. Austin’s state-
ment implied, however, there is a tension
between completing this immense task
and the Aug. 31 deadline for getting
U.S. forces out of Kabul, to which
Mr. Biden is apparently still committed.
There simply might not be enough time to
evacuate tens of thousands of people over
the next 12 days, even at the pace of more
than 5,000 per day that U.S. officials claim
The boost we need
Vaccine boosters have the same goals as the first shots: Survival and resilience.
OTHING LASTS forever — not
N even the benefits of the amazing-
ly effective vaccines that have
saved millions of lives in the
pandemic. Data disclosed Wednesday
suggests that robust protection the vac-
cines provided against infection at the
outset is starting to wane, although they
still work well against hospitalization
and death. The Biden administration
plan for booster shots should be seen as a
necessary tune-up with the same goal as
the first shots: survival and resilience.
Two studies published by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention show
the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines was
declining just as the delta variant was
spreading in the United States. One
study, based on databases of New Yorkers
from May 3 to July 25, found vaccine
efficacy against infection fell from
91.7 percent to 79.8 percent. In a second
report, looking at nursing home resi-
dents nationwide from March 1 to Aug. 1,
vaccine efficacy against infection
dropped from 74.7 percent to 53.1 per-
cent. These findings are consistent with
recent results from Israel.
Still, the vaccines remain potent. In
New York, new infections among the
fully vaccinated remained rare, with
9,675 infected out of 10.1 million people.
The rate of new infections over the
period was eight times higher among the
unvaccinated. A third study from the
CDC confirmed that vaccines are still
shielding against hospitalization and
death.
Why are they weakening against infec-
tion? The body’s immune system, trained
by the vaccines to spot the virus, may not
sustain the same vigilance over time.
Also, the delta variant became predomi-
nant in the United States in mid-June,
and its higher viral loads as well as
greater transmissibility could be a factor.
The administration’s announcement yes-
terday of boosters starting in September
is a laudable attempt to get ahead of the
curve, even if the precise reasons and
pace of waning immunity are not yet
fully understood.
Anthony S. Fauci, director of the
Don’t throw a lifeline to a despot
The Biden administration should demand a suspension of IMF funds to Belarus.
HE UNITED STATES, Britain,
T Canada and the European Union
all have placed sanctions on the
regime of President Alexander
Lukashenko of Belarus after his blatant
theft of the 2020 election and violent
suppression of protests. Sanctions have
targeted not only government officials
but also the moneyed industrialists who
prop up Mr. Lukashenko. So it makes
absolutely no sense that Belarus is about
to collect about $1 billion in reserve
assets from the International Monetary
Fund.
Mr. Lukashenko lost the election last
August to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya but
declared himself the winner and forced
her out of the country. His security forces
responded to enormous mass demonstra-
tions by arresting thousands and sending
them to maltreatment and torture in
Belarusian prisons. Mr. Lukashenko is an
illegitimate despot whose people voted to
turn him out of office. The Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe
said it confirmed “allegations that the
presidential elections were not transpar-
ent, free or fair,” and that human rights
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EDITORIALS
to be near achieving. Leaving no one be-
hind is a moral imperative, and essential
to salvaging some U.S. credibility from this
debacle. No artificial deadline, whether
Aug. 31 or otherwise, should take prece-
dence over that mission.
The United States and its partner na-
tions have restored order at the Kabul
airport, enabling about 2,000 people, in-
cluding 325 U.S. citizens, to leave on 18 Air
Force flights in a 24-hour period from
Tuesday to Wednesday. Yet on the streets
of Kabul, where the Taliban holds sway,
confusion and fear reign. Some Afghans
heading to the airport have been stopped,
sometimes violently. The United States
seems to have a deal with the Taliban for
safe passage of U.S. passport holders, at
least for the time being. There is a certain
logic to this given the top U.S. priority: to
extract U.S. citizens, of which there may
be as many as 15,000 in the country. Yet it
also implies that, for everyone else, the
time between now and Aug. 31 is shrink-
ing, and many Afghans could be left be-
hind if the United States quits Kabul on
that date.
Violent incidents at Taliban check-
points may deter even U.S. citizens from
traveling from residential areas in the city
A vial of coronavirus vaccine in Washington on July 31.
National Institute of Allergy and Infec-
tious Diseases, said that a booster could
result in a “dramatic” tenfold increase in
antibodies against the virus. The admin-
istration promises to distribute 100 mil-
lion booster doses at 80,000 sites. It will
be a welcome bonus if logistics are
smoother than last time.
Vaccine distribution around the globe
has been terribly lopsided. Poorer na-
tions are starved for vaccines, while
wealthy ones are awash. But we disagree
with those who see this as an either-or
decision. Boosters in the United States
and more vaccines for the world are both
possible. The United States has pledged
abuses “were found to be massive and
systematic and proven beyond doubt.”
The United States and its allies have
correctly imposed sanctions that squeeze
the sources of Mr. Lukashenko’s staying
power, including the oil refining and
potash industries. President Biden and
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
both personally met Ms. Tikhanovskaya
recently in a show of support. But there is
more to be done.
On Aug. 23, the 190-member IMF is to
distribute $650 billion in Special Draw-
ing Rights, reserve assets intended to
provide an economic cushion to nations
weighed down by covid and debt bur-
dens. This is a new issuance of SDRs and
the largest in the IMF’s history, allocated
by the size of each economy. Some author-
itarian governments, such as Russia, Chi-
na and Iran, qualify because the govern-
ments are broadly recognized by others.
However, Venezuela will not be able to
draw on the SDRs — many nations do not
recognize President Nicolás Maduro as
the legitimate leader and instead have
recognized opposition leader Juan
Guaidó. Myanmar, now ruled by a mili-
RE
to the airport, on Kabul’s eastern edge.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul Wednesday
reminded those who embark on the jour-
ney that “the United States government
cannot ensure safe passage,” a reality that
the Biden administration must change,
even if it means raising military pressure
on the Taliban. Deputy Secretary of State
Wendy Sherman said Wednesday that the
State Department is “trying to work
through those issues as best we can”
through negotiations.
In an interview with ABC News,
Mr. Biden himself for the first time hinted
at flexibility on the deadline, “if there are
American citizens left.” That won’t be
enough: This country’s moral responsibili-
ties begin, but do not end, with U.S. citizens.
On Tuesday, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.)
received and forwarded to Secretary of
State Antony Blinken an appeal from the
National Association of Women Judges on
behalf of 250 Afghan women judges,
trained by Americans and other Western
countries, some of whom sentenced Tali-
ban fighters to prison for murder or other
crimes. These criminals have just been
released by the Taliban. The judges have
thus joined the ranks of the fearful. This
country must make time for all of them.
CRAIG HUDSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
to export hundreds of millions of doses
to other countries, and has begun doing
so. The world needs 11 billion doses.
President Biden has backed a waiver of
patent protections for the coronavirus
vaccine shots to encourage production,
but so far little progress has been made
in World Trade Organization negotia-
tions toward that end. The real solution
is not taking away shots from anyone,
but a serious and sustained effort to
expand vaccine manufacturing every-
where, and especially in the neglected
and poor corners of the earth. The
answer is to produce enough vaccine to
reach everyone.
tary junta that took control in a February
coup, will also be unable to draw on them.
Belarus can because most nations still
recognize the Lukashenko government.
The infusion will be a sizable boost for
Belarus, which has only about $7.4 billion
in international reserve assets, of which
$3 billion is in foreign currencies.
The United States is the largest con-
tributor and largest shareholder in the
IMF, and a voting heavyweight. While it
lacks sufficient votes alone to block the
Belarus SDRs, the Biden administration
should mobilize European and other al-
lies — all members of the IMF — to
demand a suspension of the funds. To
release them now would dilute the im-
pact of sanctions.
Mr. Lukashenko has spent decades
balancing East and West in order to
remain in power. Recently, after U.S. and
British sanctions were imposed, he taunt-
ed, “You can choke on your sanctions.”
The only answer is to keep up the pres-
sure. All those who want to see democra-
cy prevail in Belarus should hit the brakes
on this misguided disbursement — and
fast.
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letters@washpost.com
Let justice not be denied
Thanks for the comprehensive yet
easy-to-follow Aug. 14 front-page arti-
cle “Audio has new details of Ghaisar
pursuit.” Justice has long been delayed in
the Bijan Ghaisar case; let’s hope it is not
denied.
Michael Fruitman, Ashburn
A full examination
The Aug. 10 article “Austin accused of
withholding data” described a Jan. 5 2020,
attack in Kenya by al-Shebab, an alleged
al-Qaeda affiliate, that killed an Army sol-
dier and two defense contactor employees,
wounding two others and destroying or
damaging contractor-operated aircraft be-
lieved to include important surveillance
aircraft used over Somalia. Frustrated
members of Congress accused Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin of stonewalling
Congress, and Mr. Austin allegedly wants a
full examination to reduce the possibility
of future incidents.
Why has Congress allowed the Pentagon
to station troops and defense contractors
with nebulous missions in 170 countries?
Defense contractors received $370 billion
from the Pentagon in 2019. There were
53,000 contractor personnel in the Middle
East in 2019 and 35,000 military person-
nel. If Congress were to dig deeply, it might
find political donations and Pentagon ac-
tivity in certain states and congressional
districts outweigh national security inter-
est. Indeed, the long-dormant Base Re-
alignment and Closure Commission is a
sad example of congressional interest in
Pentagon efficiency.
Ed Houry, Fairfax
Mistakes in Afghanistan
In his Aug. 16 op-ed, “This preventable
disaster is on Biden,” Max Boot cited the
U.S. military presence “in far larger num-
bers in countries such as Germany, Japan
and South Korea after more than 70 years”
as evidence that President Biden could
have — and should have — kept U.S. forces
in Afghanistan in perpetuity, rather than
ordering a “precipitous withdrawal” after
only 20 years. Mr. Boot must know that in
the examples he cited, the United States
was not a combatant, but in Afghanistan it
was.
If Mr. Biden had maintained even the
low-level fighting force of 2,500 soldiers in
Afghanistan that he inherited, the Taliban
would have started killing U.S. soldiers
again (after a negotiated hiatus). Mr. Biden
had two options: Withdraw and cease air-
strikes, or ramp the war back up to protect
those 2,500 troops. A continuation of the
temporary lull was not an option.
This column was Exhibit A in the Wash-
ington foreign policy establishment’s ob-
fuscation that has resulted in president
after president kicking the can down the
road.
Lora Lumpe, Washington
The writer is chief executive of the Quin-
cy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
The U.S. predicament in Afghanistan
is a reminder that military power has its
limits. The war in Vietnam remains a
potent example. We need to understand
crises where firepower won’t change out-
comes. We should try to grasp what mat-
ters is not what Washington thinks but
what the people whose lives are at stake
think and strive for.
Reporting on Afghanistan, except for
Craig Whitlock’s powerful and familiar
analysis in “The Afghanistan Papers”
[“The grand illusion that hid the truth
about the war’s end,” front-page book ex-
cerpt, Aug. 13], has echoed largely clueless
calls from Washington: Surely the people
of Afghanistan will respond to what
U.S. power brokers seek?
We need to understand the origins of
what is happening in Afghanistan. Why is
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the Taliban gobbling up territory? Why is
resistance ineffective? What do “average”
people want? Why? We need to under-
stand the roots of Taliban strength.
We can’t bomb Afghanistan into the
country Afghans want. It didn’t work in
Vietnam, why would it in Afghanistan?
Patricia “Kit” Norland, Arlington
We are being inundated by Post news
reports and op-eds and cable news shows
describing the monumental political and
humanitarian disaster unfolding at the
Kabul airport. Historians and scholars will
surely spend years analyzing the war and
fixing ultimate blame.
But let’s not lose sight of the proximate
cause of the chaos at the airport: In
negotiating a “peace agreement” directly
with the Taliban in February 2020, Presi-
dent Donald Trump threw the Afghan
people under the bus and left it to Presi-
dent Biden to drive the bus.
Jack McAndrews, Fairfax
I was and am a strong supporter of
President Biden and of withdrawing
U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But the
president cannot escape responsibility for
the disastrous end to the war. His feeble
attempt to arrange visas to third countries
for the Afghans who put their lives on the
line for our soldiers is wholly inadequate.
Unless he orders an immediate airlift,
we will soon see worldwide broadcasts of
the televised torture, forced confessions
and brutal executions of those who trusted
America, as well as the girls and women
(and men and boys!) who believed our
promises of freedom and education.
Martin Berman-Gorvine, Potomac
A lawsuit as an effective tool
Last week’s ruling by the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia green-
lighting the defamation and deceptive-
trade-practices case brought by Domin-
ion Voting Systems against Sidney Pow-
ell, Mike Lindell and Rudolph W. Giuliani
sends an important message to political
combatants: You can be held accountable
for telling lies.
For the democratic process to work,
there must be robust discourse of public
matters. Though the First Amendment
affords considerable protection to such
speech, meaningful public discourse re-
quires deceitful provocateurs be held
accountable. Misinformation and decep-
tion serve no public interest, and govern-
ment regulation of speech presents its
own concerns, but defamation suits
might prove to be an effective tool to
promote truthfulness by punishing those
who try to distort and misrepresent facts.
William J. Farah, Arlington
Bone-chillingly inscrutable
In her Aug. 15 Sunday Opinion col-
umn, “The most dangerous Trump official
you’ve never heard of needs to be heard
from,” Ruth Marcus examined the plot by
President Donald Trump and Assistant
Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark to
overturn election results. One phrase was
disturbingly discordant. She asked
“whether this activity was merely bone-
chilling or rises to the level of a criminal
offense.”
One should entail the other. Consider
the implications of “bone-chilling but
legal.” Now, the public has the fatalistic
belief that our system of justice, even in
the hands of a new administration, is
corrupt and animated by one principle:
elite impunity. The media should explain
why Mr. Trump and Mr. Clark have not
been arrested. Are coups legal? Election
tampering? What is the time frame for
investigating and prosecuting such evi-
dent crimes? Maybe there are good rea-
sons Mr. Clark and Mr. Trump walk free,
but to laymen it’s inscrutable.
Brendan Martin, Falls Church
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GEORGE F. WILL
Wielding
the tool of
‘transnational
repression’
hen Ramón Mercader, a Span-
W ish communist and Soviet
NKVD assassin, died in Cuba in
1978, his last words included “I
hear it always. I hear the scream.” The
scream occurred in 1940 when Mercader
lodged an ice ax in Leon Trotsky’s skull at
Trotsky’s exile home in Mexico City. During
Mercader’s 20-year imprisonment, Stalin
awarded him the Order of Lenin. After his
1960 release, the Kremlin brought him to
Moscow to receive the Hero of the Soviet
Union award.
This murder is perhaps the most notori-
ous example of what a Freedom House
report (“Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach”)
calls “transnational repression.” The
practice involves an arsenal of tactics to-
day employed by increasingly audacious
autocrats.
Perhaps Vitaly Shishov, 26, decided dur-
ing a morning run this month in Kyiv to
hang himself in a park. Authorities, noting
his battered face, are doubtful. Shishov was
living in Ukrainian exile from Belarus,
where he had organized protests against
the increasingly repressive Alexander Lu-
kashenko, now in his 27th year wielding
illegitimate power. In May, a Belarusian
fighter jet forced an airliner flying from
Greece to Lithuania to land in Belarus so
that a Belarusian dissident could be seized.
At the Tokyo Olympics, a Belarusian sprint-
er narrowly escaped being forcibly flown
home to an unpleasant fate after she criti-
cized her coaches, for which Belarusian
media branded her a traitor. Lukashenko’s
son chairs Belarus’s Olympic Committee.
In July 2020, a Chechen exile, a critic of
the Chechen regime, was shot dead in a
Vienna suburb. He was the fourth Chechen
killed in an apparent assassination in Eu-
rope last year. In 1992, Iran’s Islamist re-
gime ordered the killing of three dissidents
and their translator in Germany. This past
month, the United States indicted four
Iranians for a plot to kidnap a U.S. resident
and citizen, a writer the Iranians planned
to lure to a third country.
Afghanistan signals the
world’s accelerating descent
into a Hobbesian state of
nature, where life is ‘nasty,
brutish and short.’
Vladimir Putin, who was formed, or
deformed, in the KGB, successor to the
NKVD, has continued the tradition that
produced Mercader. In 2006, a former
Russian intelligence officer was murdered
in London, poisoned by a rare radioactive
isotope whose probable provenance was
the Russian government. In 2018 in Eng-
land, another former Russian intelligence
officer and his daughter survived an assas-
sination attempt using sophisticated
nerve agents.
Rogue regimes limit the mobility of
dissident citizens abroad by canceling
their passports, thereby making them vul-
nerable. Freedom House says Turkey has
taken more than 58 people in renditions
from 17 countries. Turkey calls this a “glob-
al purge.” The 2018 murder in Turkey, by
Saudi agents, of Post contributing colum-
nist Jamal Khashoggi, was directed from
the highest level of Saudi Arabia’s govern-
ment because assassinations have multi-
plier effects, demonstrating to a nation’s
diaspora that no one is beyond the reach of
ruthless regimes.
Today’s autocrats — Neanderthals with
digital competencies — will not stop. Chech-
nya’s Ramzan Kadyrov has said to Chechens
abroad: “I know all the youth who live in
Europe, every Instagram, Facebook, every
social site, we record all of your words and
we note them, we have all of your informa-
tion, who, what, we know it all. This modern
age and technology allow us to know every-
thing and we can find any of you.”
Afghanistan, the graveyard of the repu-
tations of many of today’s most senior
U.S. military leaders, signals the world’s
accelerating descent into a Hobbesian
state of nature, where life is “nasty, brutish
and short.” It will intensify the autocrats’
belief that they can inflict transnational
coercion with impunity.
Afghanistan’s plummet into bottomless
agony revives the Vietnam-era axiom that
while it is dangerous to be the United States’
enemy, it can be fatal to be its friend. When a
great order-sustaining power loses a war,
however benighted the conception and con-
duct of the war were, the repercussions
radiate. One of which will be the increased
confidence of evil regimes, including the
one watching gleefully in Beijing.
China is acquiring the charisma that
comes from the strange strength of barbar-
ians who are incapable of embarrassment.
Freedom House says China “conducts the
most sophisticated, global, and compre-
hensive campaign of transnational repres-
sion,” which Beijing calls the “overseas
struggle.” In April, the New Yorker reported
on a pro-Uyghur protest at a Chinese em-
bassy, during which a Uyghur refugee was
approached by a woman speaking Manda-
rin. She said: “If you get poisoned, do you
know how to treat yourself? . . . The Chi-
nese government is very powerful. You
could die in a car accident, or get poisoned.”
The overseas struggle had come to Con-
necticut Avenue in Washington.
Anti-Taliban Afghan fighters watch as U.S. airstrikes target the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in December 2001.
The resistance to the Taliban
begins now. But we need help.
BY A HMAD M ASSOUD
n 1998, when I was 9 years old, my
I father, the mujahideen command-
er Ahmad Shah Massoud, gathered
his soldiers in a cave in the Pan-
jshir Valley of northern Afghanistan.
They sat and listened as my father’s
friend, French philosopher Bernard-
Henri Lévy, addressed them. “When
you fight for your freedom,” Lévy said,
“you fight also for our freedom.”
My father never forgot this as he
fought against the Taliban regime. Up
until the moment he was assassinated
on Sept. 9, 2001, at the behest of the
Taliban and al-Qaeda, he was fighting
for the fate of Afghanistan but also for
the West.
Now, this common struggle is more
essential than ever in these dark, tense
hours for my homeland.
I write from the Panjshir Valley to-
day, ready to follow in my father’s
footsteps, with mujahideen fighters
who are prepared to once again take on
the Taliban. We have stores of ammuni-
tion and arms that we have patiently
collected since my father’s time, be-
cause we knew this day might come.
We also have the weapons carried by
the Afghans who, over the past
72 hours, have responded to my appeal
to join the resistance in Panjshir. We
have soldiers from the Afghan regular
KAREN TUMULTY
Where is the accountability
on the Afghanistan pullout?
ne thing has been sorely
O lacking from President Biden
and his administration in their
disastrous, tragic handling of
the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan:
accountability.
Why was it that the president could be
so confident in assuring the country only
six weeks ago that the U.S. troop with-
drawal would be “not at all comparable”
to the chaos and desperation it wit-
nessed during the 1975 fall of Saigon?
Or that his secretary of state, Antony
Blinken, could tell Congress that the
administration was exploring “every
possible contingency” to rescue the
thousands of Afghans who aided the
United States over the past two decades
— those who, if left behind, would face
Taliban reprisal.
Or that Blinken could further predict:
“Whatever happens in Afghanistan, if
there is a significant deterioration, in
security, that could well happen, we
discussed this before, I don’t think it’s
going to be something that happens
from a Friday to a Monday, so I wouldn’t
necessarily equate the departure of our
forces in July, August or by early Septem-
ber with some kind of immediate de-
terioration in the situation.”
All of the things they said couldn’t
happen have come to pass, with eerie
precision. Whether you agree with
Biden’s choice to bring an end to this
nation’s 20-year military mission in
Afghanistan, it should be a top priority
to find out why the president and the top
echelon of his foreign policy team didn’t
— or refused to — see what would
happen when we departed.
Biden officials suggest that blame for
the failure to anticipate the Taliban’s
rapid advance rests with the intelligence
community, which as recently as June
was predicting that it would take six
months for the government to collapse
after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
But the accuracy of the timeline is not
really the issue. The consequences have
EZ RE
army who were disgusted by the sur-
render of their commanders and are
now making their way to the hills of
Panjshir with their equipment. Former
members of the Afghan Special Forces
have also joined our struggle.
But that is not enough. If Taliban
warlords launch an assault, they will of
course face staunch resistance from us.
The flag of the National Resistance
Front will fly over every position that
they attempt to take, as the National
United Front flag flew 20 years ago. Yet
we know that our military forces and
logistics will not be sufficient. They will
be rapidly depleted unless our friends
in the West can find a way to supply us
without delay.
The United States and its allies have
left the battlefield, but America can
still be a “great arsenal of democracy,”
as Franklin D. Roosevelt said when
coming to the aid of the beleaguered
British before the U.S. entry into World
War II.
To that end, I entreat Afghanistan’s
friends in the West to intercede for us
in Washington and in New York, with
Congress and with the Biden adminis-
tration. Intercede for us in London,
where I completed my studies, and in
Paris, where my father’s memory was
honored this spring by the naming of a
pathway for him in the Champs-
Élysées gardens.
BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
President Biden delivers remarks on
Afghanistan on Monday.
always been clear. The nonpartisan
Afghanistan Study Group, which Con-
gress set up in 2019 to look at policy
options and their potential ramifica-
tions, used the word “catastrophic” to
describe what would happen with an
abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops.
It is not at all surprising that Biden,
who as vice president warned President
Barack Obama a decade ago that the
military was trying to “jam” him into
sending more forces into Afghanistan,
would reject the arguments of generals
and diplomats that he should go about
all of this more cautiously.
During his speech on Monday, the
president used Harry S. Truman’s old
trope that “the buck stops here,” even as
he sought to deflect blame to the
Afghans — whose forces Biden touted
last month as having “all the tools,
training and equipment of any modern
military” — and to his predecessor,
Donald Trump.
Yes, it’s true that four different presi-
dents share the blame for what has
ERIK DE CASTRO/REUTERS
Know that millions of Afghans share
your values. We have fought for so long
to have an open society, one where girls
could become doctors, our press could
report freely, our young people could
dance and listen to music or attend
soccer matches in the stadiums that
were once used by the Taliban for
public executions — and may soon be
again.
The Taliban is not a problem for the
Afghan people alone. Under Taliban
control, Afghanistan will without
doubt become ground zero of radical
Islamist terrorism; plots against de-
mocracies will be hatched here once
again.
No matter what happens, my muja-
hideen fighters and I will defend Pan-
jshir as the last bastion of Afghan
freedom. Our morale is intact. We
know from experience what awaits us.
But we need more weapons, more
ammunition and more supplies.
America and its democratic allies do
not just have the fight against terror-
ism in common with Afghans. We now
have a long history made up of shared
ideals and struggles. There is still much
that you can do to aid the cause of
freedom. You are our only remaining
hope.
The writer is the leader of the National
Resistance Front of Afghanistan.
happened, and what hasn’t, in Afghani-
stan over the past 20 years. But the
execution of the U.S. troop withdrawal is
something for which Biden alone will be
held responsible.
Figuring out the why behind his ad-
ministration’s missteps is crucial to in-
stilling confidence in its judgment going
forward. Otherwise, why should Ameri-
cans, or the United States’ international
allies, accept the president’s assurances
that he has “over-the-horizon capability
that will allow us to keep our eyes firmly
fixed on any direct threats to the United
States in the region, and act quickly and
decisively if needed”?
It is also hard to hear anything but
empty words in Biden’s promise to keep
human rights at the center, and not the
periphery, of his foreign policy, and to
“speak out” for women, girls and others
who have much to fear as a Taliban-run
Afghanistan tries to force the country
back into the 14th century.
Most urgent at the moment is the fate
of the Afghans who worked with
U.S. forces as translators and in other
roles, as well as so-called Priority 2
personnel — development workers,
journalists, women’s activists — who
shared and invested in the vision of a
modern Afghanistan. They and their
families are in a desperate situation, as
the chaotic scenes from Kabul’s interna-
tional airport show. Biden’s inadequate
contingency planning for them is a
historic failure to live up to the United
States’ moral obligation.
Biden’s expertise in foreign policy was
supposed to be one of his chief selling
points as president. “I’ve worked on
these issues as long as anyone,” he said
Monday, and “I came to understand
firsthand what was and was not possible
in Afghanistan.” Yet he and his adminis-
tration’s top officials express surprise at
how things have unfolded.
What is at question — now and going
forward — is not Biden’s experience, but
his judgment.
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E.J. DIONNE JR.
When culture
wars turn
deadly
ill our nation’s culture wars
W end up killing us?
The question is not rhetori-
cal. Continuing resistance to
the coronavirus vaccine rooted in political
and cultural suspicions is heart-rending.
For many, it is also enraging.
The longer a large minority of Ameri-
cans remains unvaccinated, and the lon-
ger right-wing politicians such as Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) politicize masking,
the longer our return to a vibrant life
together will be postponed. (Abbott, who
has tested positive for the coronavirus,
was at least willing to acknowledge that
because he had been vaccinated he has “no
fever, no aches and pains, no other types of
symptoms.”)
There have always been anti-vaxxers.
But attitudes toward this round of vacci-
nations are so embedded in tribal conflict
that persuasion on the merits is, if not
impossible — the threat of the delta
variant has changed some minds — then
far more difficult than it should be. Cul-
ture wars are like that. They shut down
conversation.
I don’t like culture wars because they
exploit our discontents when public life’s
calling in a democracy is to heal them. I’m
an old-fashioned, bread-and-butter labor
liberal. I still see the main task of politics
as solving problems and resolving dis-
putes with an eye toward making in-
comes, opportunities and life chances
more equal. Culture wars can get in the
way of all that.
Mind you, I am under no illusions that
there was some Golden Age without cul-
tural politics. Immigration has torn our
society since the days of the Know
Nothings in the 1850s. Prohibition was the
law (and divided us) from 1920 to 1933.
Racism has usually been an important
element in cultural struggles, and it has
been with our country from the
beginning.
While racism distorted President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program, we got
something of a respite with the New Deal
era and running to the late 1960s. Practi-
cal questions about economic organiza-
tion and distribution — and about nation-
al survival itself during World War II and
the Cold War — pushed back hard against
cultural politics. The New Deal may well
have been, in the title of historian Jeffer-
son Cowie’s revealing book, “The Great
Exception” in our nation’s story. But it was
a formative and productive period.
Since the rise of a counterculture in the
1960s and Richard M. Nixon’s election in
1968, cultural hostilities have returned
with a vengeance and, thanks to Donald
Trump, are fiercer than ever.
What we’re going through was
identified by James Davison Hunter, a
sociologist at the University of Virginia.
His 1991 book, “Culture Wars: The Strug-
gle to Define America,” described a stark
divide between “traditionalists” and
“progressivists.”
The traditionalist vision, he argued, “is
predicated upon the achievements and
traditions of the past as the foundation
and guide to the challenges of the present,”
while the progressivist view “is ambiva-
lent to the legacy of the past, regarding it
partly as a useful point of reference and
partly as a source of oppression.”
If traditionalists see themselves as seek-
ing “the reinvigoration and realization of
what are considered to be the very noblest
ideals and achievements of civilization,”
progressivists hope for “the further eman-
cipation of the human spirit and the
creation of an inclusive and tolerant
world.”
Notice that Hunter does something we
could use more of: He gives both sides
their due by describing their respective
ideals in positive terms. In so doing,
Hunter underscored a truth that Alan
Wolfe, a longtime political scientist at
Boston College, later brought home in a
2006 dialogue with Hunter: The real
cultural split is not “a division between
red-state and blue-state America; it’s a
division inside every person.” (Disclosure:
I organized that dialogue as part of a
Brookings Institution/Pew Charitable
Trusts project.)
Wolfe’s view, expressed in his book “One
Nation, After All” is that most Americans
“want the moral scales balanced without
being loaded down to one side.”
You might say that both Hunter and
Wolfe are right: There is one heck of a
cultural battle going on, but a lot of
Americans want no part of it.
Which brings us back to vaccines. An
August Monmouth University poll can
serve as a kind of litmus test for whether to
focus on culture wars or the possibility of a
truce.
One finding got a lot of attention be-
cause it seemed to dramatize how divided
we are: “Among those who admit they will
not get the vaccine if they can avoid it,
70 percent either identify with or lean
toward the Republican Party, while just
6 percent align with the Democrats.” That
piece of data got Democrats’ blood boiling.
Yet the same question, analyzed differ-
ently, also found that 63 percent of all
Republicans had either been vaccinated
or are persuadable. While much lower
than the 98 percent of Democrats in this
category, the figure suggests that, in
Wolfe’s terms, we are still hanging on as
one nation.
But barely. The culture wars’ distortion
of the vaccine argument is potentially
catastrophic for millions of Americans.
Can we consider putting some of our
animosity aside until we are all healthy
and safe again?
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FIRES FROM A1
summers, Jurich’s camps have
never lost a day to the pandemic;
masks kept operations going. But
for two summers in a row, he has
had to shut down one of his
camps temporarily because the
air was too foul to play outside.
Wildfires are an annual occur-
rence in the American West, but
this summer they have been exac-
erbated by suffocating heat
domes. The resulting haze is not
just a vestigial wisp of fire; it is a
carrier of tiny bits of burned
trees, plants and some of the
man-made stuff that melts in
those blazes — particles that
become ingredients of bad air,
which makes its way into people’s
lungs, bloodstreams and neuro-
logical systems.
In St. Paul, Minn., Amy and
Barrett Stoks’s three children
have seen so much in this haunt-
ing passage of their lives. School
became pictures on a screen.
Friends became one more video
experience. The Walgreens and
the Target near their house
burned down after protests
against police brutality turned
violent. As this summer ap-
proached, they hoped for a res-
pite.
But when Barrett took his
eldest son, Finley, 9, to a state
park last month, they weren’t
allowed to make a campfire be-
cause of the region’s severe
drought. The Stoks kids “were,
like, ‘What is going on?’ ” Barrett
said. “So we got to kind of talk to
them a little bit.”
The intense heat, the lack of
rain, the fires, the smoke all led to
family conversations about the
climate and how the world is
changing.
“I don’t think they fully under-
stood it,” Barrett said. “They were
kind of annoyed by it.”
Children’s reactions to this
summer of smoke are often liter-
al and basic. Last week, when the
Stoks kids were told they could
not go swimming because it was
too smoky outside, Finley ex-
pressed his disappointment with
a simple statement of the facts:
“We were supposed to go swim-
ming this morning and we
couldn’t.”
His parents have sought ways
to make the summer as normal as
possible. They shifted their vaca-
tion destination from their usual
place near Duluth to Lutsen,
Minn., another 100 minutes up
the coast of Lake Superior, where
the air was clearer, though still
abnormal. At the nearest hospi-
tal, visits to the emergency de-
partment are up this summer
because of smoke-related ail-
ments — asthma, COPD, aller-
gies, strep throat and pneumonia
— according to Kimber Wraal-
stad, chief executive at Cook
County North Shore Hospital in
Grand Marais, Minn.
The Stokses spent a few days at
a Lutsen resort, where the par-
ents had a Murphy bed and the
kids shared a king-size mattress
in a loft upstairs. The view
toward Lutsen Mountain was a
vista of thick smog.
“We had the window open just
a tiny bit and you could smell it
when we woke up,” Amy said.
They skipped their planned
morning swim, stopped at a
Dairy Queen and used the pool
later in the day when the air had
cleared a bit.
Minnesota’s air quality hit an
all-time low this month as wild-
fire smoke, which generally floats
high atop the atmosphere, hung
unusually low in places. When
Amy travels these days, “there are
all these, like, ‘Reduce your trips’
signs,” leading her to wonder if
she should just give up and stay
home.
She wants her children “to be
out and be active and not sitting
in front of a screen,” she said,
“but then I think, maybe I
shouldn’t be driving.”
Smoke knows no state or na-
tional boundaries. Fires this
summer in Siberia have pushed
smoke up to the North Pole. In
the United States, 103 large fires
in 14 states have burned nearly
2 million acres this year — rough-
ly on average with the pattern
over the past decade, according
to the National Interagency Fire
Center.
“These are big, hot fires and
they generate very large plumes,”
said Mark Friedl, an earth scien-
tist at Boston University who
studies smoke’s impact. “It’s a
toxic cocktail of particulates.
We’re nowhere near the stage of
smoke having a great impact on
the climate, but we are seeing
larger, more frequent and more
intense fires and if you have
respiratory issues, you really
should stay inside till the smoke
clears.”
At the peak of the smoke,
Jurich, the camp director in Spo-
kane, was able to move his day
campers indoors, into a Shriners
center half an hour from the
camp’s own site. But since his
overnight camp in remote north-
ern Idaho is entirely outdoors, he
felt obliged to contact parents
and have them pick up their kids.
Smoky summers are, he said,
“unfortunately the new normal
Smoky skies smother outdoor activity options
for us.” Children have grown
accustomed to wearing masks,
but there is no getting used to
canceling camp and making kids
sit at home. “Boy, sitting here
right now, I don’t have answers.”
In many places this summer,
there can seem to be no escape.
The pandemic and the wildfires
have added up to a two-fisted
assault on people’s breathing,
creating a double whammy of
anxiety over nature’s perils.
Washington state health officials
got so many worried calls, they
issued guidance: “Is it wildfire
smoke or covid-19?”
Although some effects of the
coronavirus and smoky skies can
look similar — coughing, wheez-
ing, shortness of breath — other
symptoms, such as fever, chills,
muscle aches and diarrhea, do
not stem from smoke exposure.
When in doubt, parents are ad-
vised to take their children to the
doctor — and many are.
Some hospitals are finding a
significant increase in covid cas-
es in places that suffered severe
smoke. New research by the Des-
ert Research Institute in Reno,
Nev., found an 18 percent spike in
covid diagnoses during a period
of smoke heavy enough to drive
people indoors.
“People were spending more
time socializing indoors,” ex-
“We do make sure we talk about what is happening with the Earth and we talk about what we can
do to help . . . like why we recycle, why we are cautious about driving somewhere when we can
walk, why we garden. We don’t want to overload them. . . . At the same time, we don’t want to lie.”
TOP: Haze related to Canadian wildfires fills the morning sky at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis last month. ABOVE: Finley and
Charlotte Stoks, ages 9 and 7, visit Lake Nokomis on a clear evening this month. Climate issues affecting Minnesota, including
drought and poor air quality, have cut into the Stoks family’s summer fun — things like campfires and swimming have been skipped.
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panding their opportunities to
contract the virus, said Daniel
Kiser, a scientist at the institute.
“Also, viral particles could be
hitching a ride on the smoke
particles.”
Another study, conducted in
California counties where wild-
fires caused persistent smoke,
found that covid-19 cases jumped
by more than half during a period
of heavy smoke.
The research doesn’t leave par-
ents with a lot of good choices,
Kiser said: “Being outdoors,
you’re exposed to particulates
from the wildfire smoke and
being indoors, you’re potentially
exposed to” the virus. “It’s a
double-edged sword.”
For parents such as Sarah and
Dan Cramer, the choice between
finding relative safety from the
virus outdoors and taking refuge
from smoke indoors is forced by
their children’s health.
On a midsummer morning,
Sarah sat with son Jack on the
porch swing outside their house
in Green Bay. As she sipped tea
and Jack read to her from an
early readers book, she suddenly
struggled to breathe. Having al-
ready had a bout with the virus
last year, she went straight to the
medicine cabinet for the inhaler
she had left over from that or-
deal.
Dennis Wright, father of two living in suburban Denver
The whole family caught the
virus early in the pandemic, after
Dan, then a massage therapist at
the Gaylord National Resort in
suburban Maryland, was ex-
posed during last year’s gather-
ing of the Conservative Political
Action Conference. Dan and the
kids had mild cases, but Sarah,
who is 39, was ill for two months.
They moved to Wisconsin after
Dan took a job at a Green Bay
hotel.
This time, Sarah’s coronavirus
test came up negative. The feder-
al government’s real-time air
quality tracker, airnow.gov, re-
vealed the likely culprit behind
her strained breathing: tainted
air from wildfires.
Breathing remains a strain for
Sarah when she goes outside.
Even inside, she needs three
puffs a day on the inhaler and
frequent changes of the air-con-
ditioning filters to feel okay.
Sarah’s breathing problems
upended her kids’ schedules. She
had to scratch her plan to volun-
teer at her 11-year-old daughter
Lilly’s outdoor nature camp, and
the family canceled trips to the
public pool.
“I just have to tell them, ‘Mom-
my can’t sit outside right now,’ ”
she said.
The farther smoke drifts from
its source, the weaker its odor
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becomes, making it harder for
people to recognize that the
slight haze creating lovely sun-
sets may also pose a health risk to
their children. But in suburban
Denver, it takes only a glance out
the window at the soupy, smoke-
filled air for Dennis and Kathryn
Wright to know what they’re up
against.
Both of their children require
medication to control asthma.
Yet even keeping Carson, 7, and
Maya, 4, in the house all day
hasn’t kept their rising first-grad-
er from needing his albuterol
inhaler, which protects him
against coughing spasms.
This summer’s record heat in
Denver has produced a spike in
smog, which forms when intense
sunlight mixes with chemicals
from fossil fuel combustion. The
smog and wildfire smoke create a
toxic stew that can trigger asth-
ma attacks and increase the risk
of heart and lung trouble even for
healthy people.
The word from experts on
what to do about it can seem
contradictory. The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
advises staying inside: “The best
way to protect against the poten-
tially harmful effects . . . is to
reduce your exposure. . . . Limit
your outdoor exercise when it is
smoky outside.”
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 , 2021
At the same time, the CDC
advises people to head outdoors
to limit exposure to the virus: “If
you want to spend time with
people who don’t live with you,
outdoors is the safer choice! You
are less likely to be exposed to
covid-19 during outdoor activi-
ties, even without the use of
masks.”
For the Wrights, the choice has
been clear.
In early August, the smoke got
so bad that many Denverites
couldn’t even see the 14,000-foot
peaks of the Rocky Mountains,
normally visible from most of the
city. “It was a really, really rough
weekend for anyone with lungs,”
said Heather De Keyser, a pediat-
ric pulmonologist at Children’s
Hospital Colorado.
Pediatricians say long-term ex-
posure to the pollutants in smoke
can damage children’s immune
systems, making it harder for
their bodies to defend against
allergens later in life. So the
Wrights canceled a vacation with
Kathryn’s parents near Steam-
boat Springs — a spot they’d
reserved last spring — because
they didn’t want the kids out-
doors for an extended period.
The Wrights try to give the kids
age-appropriate explanations.
“We will explain how the smoke
and particulates will travel
through the air over a given
current from far away, and we
want to make sure that when the
air isn’t good for us, we stay
inside,” said Dennis, 41, who is
wrapping up a master’s degree in
epidemiology.
Carson, ever curious, asks lots
of questions, and his parents give
details he can grasp.
“We do make sure we talk
about what is happening with the
Earth and we talk about what we
can do to help things, like why we
recycle, why we are cautious
about driving somewhere when
we can walk, why we garden,”
Dennis said. “We don’t want to
overload them at this age. At the
same time, we don’t want to lie to
them either.”
In the months to come, the
Wrights foresee tough trade-offs
between spending time outdoors
to steer clear of the virus and
staying inside to avoid the pollut-
ed air.
“Meeting with friends at a
distance at a local park has been
okay,” Dennis said. But if friends
invite them to the park during
bad smoke periods, “we would
likely have to decline. It wouldn’t
be in our kids’ best interest.”
Last week, as some of the
nation’s smokiest air descended
on Colorado from California’s
Dixie Fire and other blazes, the
Wrights set up camp inside their
house, busying Maya with a se-
quin-covered cardboard “Girl
Power” collage and Carson with a
robotics kit and a three-dimen-
sional puzzle.
Finally, being cooped up got to
be too much.
“We did let them outside for
just a little bit,” said Kathryn, 42,
a project coordinator at Colora-
do’s education department.
“They needed to get out.”
marc.fisher@washpost.com
Fisher reported from Washington,
Oldham from Denver and Regan
from St. Paul. Dan Simmons in Green
Bay, Wis., contributed to this report.

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Md. county
health chief
abruptly
steps down
Montgomery official had
faced criticism over push
for strict covid protocols
BY R ACHEL C HASON
AND R EBECCA T AN
Montgomery County Heath Of-
ficer Travis Gayles resigned
Wednesday, marking an abrupt
end to the tenure of one of the
area’s highest-profile public
health officials as coronavirus
cases have risen in the Maryland
suburb and are surging elsewhere
in the country.
Over the course of the pandem-
ic, Gayles advocated for stringent
measures to curtail the spread of
covid-19, pushed for health equity
in vaccine distribution and led a
rollout that has resulted in one of
the highest vaccination rates in
the country. He earned accolades
for his positions — including be-
ing featured this year on CBS’s “60
Minutes” — but also criticism
from some who felt he was too
cautious, especially when it came
to his advice on schools.
“We’re really going to miss him,”
County Executive Marc Elrich (D)
said during a news conference
Wednesday. “I thought he was an
extraordinary leader.”
Elrich said he learned about
Gayles’s resignation in an email
Gayles sent early Wednesday from
vacation in France. In the email,
which was obtained by The Wash-
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Md. o∞cers
indicted on
conspiracy
charges
One of 6 accused of fraud
faces murder charge in
shooting of man in cruiser
BY K ATIE M ETTLER
Six Maryland police officers
from multiple agencies have
been indicted on federal con-
spiracy charges, accused of work-
ing together to file false reports
to the Prince George’s County
Police Department — where
three of them worked — to collect
insurance money.
One of the accused officers,
Michael Owen Jr., is in jail await-
ing trial in the separate January
2020 fatal shooting of a man
who sat handcuffed inside a po-
lice cruiser. Owen, a 10-year vet-
eran officer with the Prince
George’s County police, was
charged with murder and assault
in that case.
Owen, 33, and the five other
officers are accused of orchestrat-
ing false thefts of their debit cards
or vehicles, and then reporting
those concocted thefts to authori-
ties and their banks and insur-
ance companies. A federal grand
jury indicted the officers in July
and the charges were unsealed
Wednesday.
At the time of the three alleged
incidents, which prosecutors say
happened in 2019 and early 2020,
Owen was employed by the Prince
George’s County Police Depart-
ment.
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At 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney’s funeral, cries ring out against D.C.’s tide of violence
Mandate
covers Md.
health-care
workers
HOGAN: VACCINE OR
TESTING REQUIRED
Hospital, nursing home
staff face Sept. 1 deadline
BY O VETTA W IGGINS
All nursing home and hospital
employees in Maryland will be
required to get vaccinated or
submit to regular testing for the
coronavirus, Gov. Larry Hogan
(R) announced Wednesday, the
latest move to increase vaccina-
tions in a state that is seeing a
rising number of covid-19 cases.
The order will affect the 227
nursing homes that operate in
the state and all the hospital
systems that have not already
imposed a vaccine mandate.
Workers will be required to re-
ceive their first dose of a vaccine
by Sept. 1.
Nursing homes became the
epicenter of the pandemic last
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL BLACKSHIRE/THE WASHINGTON POST year as the virus tore through
many of those that failed to test
and isolate staff and residents.
“We are concerned that the
‘We can no longer sit back delta variant surge has led to an
increase in infections among staff
in nursing homes, which has
been a consistent source of out-
breaks in these facilities through-
and think this is normal’ out the pandemic,” Hogan said
Wednesday.
Health Secretary Dennis R.
Schrader said this week that the
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New cases in region
BY J ASMINE H ILTON
Through 5 p.m. Wednesday, 3,745
new coronavirus cases were
W
alking down the aisle in
the center of the reported in Maryland, Virginia and
church, the 10-year-old the District, bringing the total
clung tightly to the
hand of a family mem-
ber as they approached the open cas-
number of cases in the region to
1,264,128.
D.C. MD. VA.
ket.
The girl’s little sister lay there,
wearing a white dress adorned with
+181
53,024
+1,012
482,581
+2,552
728,523
butterflies, pink lace gloves and a
beaded tiara crowning her head.
Nakyiah “Ky Ky” Courtney leaned
Coronavirus-related deaths
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday:
over to hug the body of the 6-year-old.
She then broke out into sobs that D.C. MD.* VA.
echoed through the empty church — +2 +8 +7
cries of pain that would soon be joined 1,153 9,907 11,632
by cries among the more than 100
others who later filled the Temple of * Includes probable covid-19 deaths.
Praise church in Southeast Washing-
ton on Wednesday to mourn the Dis- TOP: Mourners display flowers and signs Wednesday in memory of Nyiah
trict’s youngest fatal shooting victim Courtney after the 6-year-old’s funeral at the Temple of Praise church in
this year.
One month after the killing of
Nyiah Courtney, pastors and funeral-
Southeast Washington. ABOVE: A video screen displays a photo of Nyiah,
who was fatally shot while walking home with her family July 16 in
Southeast. Her parents were among five adults wounded in the attack.
Bowser
goers alike took to the microphone in
remembrance of the little girl while
also decrying the violence that has The mourners responded in agree- Nyiah was killed. Her mother was
stands firm
gripped the city.
“There’s an old proverb that says . . .
it takes a village to raise a child. . . .
ment with head nods and claps.
On the night of July 16, Nyiah, her
mother, Dominique Courtney, father
also shot and hospitalized. Four other
adults, including her father, were
wounded in the attack and suffered
on return
Anytime we’re killing our babies in
that village, our village is sick,” D.C.
Council member Trayon White Sr.
Nico Griffin and older sister Nakyiah
were walking home in their Southeast
neighborhood of Congress Heights
injuries that were not life-threaten-
ing, police said.
Less than two weeks later, police
to schools
(D-Ward 8) said to those seated in the when shots were fired from a sedan on arrested Marktwan Hargraves, 22, of
pews. “We can no longer sit back and the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Maryland, and charged him with BY P ERRY S TEIN
think this is normal.” and Malcolm X avenues. SEE FUNERAL ON B2
With less than two weeks until
the start of the academic year,
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
remained steadfast Wednesday
that nearly all public school chil-
dren in the nation’s capital would
be required to attend in-person
Alexandria to give $500 monthly to 150 families school full time for the upcoming
academic year and said she is not
eyeing any specific coronavirus
case number that could bring
in-person learning to a halt.
makes about $103,000, more said. “In some ways, the philoso- flooding infrastructure, was In May, Bowser pledged that all
Two-year pilot program than 11/2 times the national aver- phy around it is: Let’s cut all that building resiliency for what he D.C. children would be required
funded by pandemic aid age. out of there and just provide called the “working poor” — resi- to return to school buildings,
Yet local officials, flush with money.” dents who are officially above the unless they had a doctor-
supports ‘working poor’ millions in extra cash thanks to Alexandria expects to receive poverty line but struggling to get approved medical exemption.
the American Rescue Plan Act, nearly $60 million over the next by. That was when cases were still
are preparing a plan to do just two years from the Rescue Plan, a These individuals, often work- declining in the region, and well
that: Starting this fall, they will $1.9 trillion federal relief package ing minimum-wage or low-paid before the delta variant hit the
BY T EO A RMUS give $500 debit cards each month intended to offset some of the service jobs, were already partic- area with force.
to 150 families, with no strings financial harm caused by the cor- ularly susceptible to economic But at a back-to-school news
On paper, Alexandria may attached — part of a growing onavirus pandemic. Thanks to its instability before the coronavi- conference Wednesday, the may-
seem like an unusual place to test wave of places in the United classification as an independent rus, he said. The pandemic, then, or said that the latest virus num-
the idea of “guaranteed income.” States and beyond embracing the city, Alexandria’s boost from the “was this macro shock that hit all bers haven’t shaken her confi-
The Northern Virginia city of idea. plan was unusually high com- the folks who were living on that dence in the safety of in-person
160,000, known for its historic “We have built an entire appa- pared with most other municipal- edge.” learning and that she has no
Old Town, consistently ranks ratus of bureaucracy around how ities of a similar size. The city’s two-year guaran- plans to expand eligibility for
among the wealthiest counties or we administer programs de- Wilson said the city’s major teed-income pilot will provide virtual learning in the fall.
equivalent jurisdictions in the signed to address the impacts of goal for using the money, in addi- families with case management The mayor warned that resi-
nation. The median household poverty,” Mayor Justin Wilson (D) tion to updating storm water and SEE ALEXANDRIA ON B5 SEE SCHOOLS ON B4
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At 6-year-old’s funeral, calls to stem violence in District
FUNERAL FROM B1
murder in the 6-year-old’s slay-
ing.
Nyiah’s killing drew wide at-
tention in a year when homicides
are up in the city. On the same day
of her funeral, the District report-
ed three daytime homicides.
Dressed in pink garments from
hats and shirts to pants and dress-
es, members of Nyiah’s family
walked up to her casket, flanked
by flower hedges on each side that
spelled out “Ny Ny” in pink roses.
A video played on two screens
showing pictures of her smiling
face, dancing in TikToks and pos-
ing with her signature “peace and
Md. order covers 227 nursing homes, hospitals with no vaccine mandate
VIRUS FROM B1
state is seeing an increase in
outbreaks at nursing homes, re-
sulting in some breakthrough
cases among nursing home resi-
dents.
“It’s one of the reasons why
we’re stepping up our concerns
with the nursing homes,” Schrad-
er said Tuesday.
State health officials could not
provide information on how
many breakthrough cases have
occurred in long-term-care facili-
ties.
Hogan said Maryland has
launched a new antibody testing
program for 500 nursing home
residents to determine their level
of immunity. The data will be
available Sept. 1.
The mandate on health-care
workers comes about two weeks
after Hogan announced that state
employees who work at prisons,
hospitals and other congregate
settings would be required to get
vaccinated or get tested regularly.
That order, which affects about
13,000 employees at about four-
dozen facilities, also goes into
effect Sept. 1.
Hogan said health-care work-
ers who have not gotten vaccinat-
ed in the eight months since shots
were made available to them are
“needlessly exposing their vul-
nerable patients to covid-19 and
the delta variant.”
Last year, Hogan enforced
fines against nursing homes that
failed to test all residents and
staff for the coronavirus. He said
Wednesday that the state will
continue to publicly list the
names of nursing homes with the
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The family described Nyiah in
her obituary as “a shining star
with a fierce attitude” who loved
“riding her bike, dancing, singing,
skating, swimming, boxing, TIK
TOK and just being a little kid at
heart.”
She was excited to start first
grade in the fall at Ingenuity Prep
Public charter school, the family
said.
Her classmates and teachers
made her a book filled with hand-
written letters and drawings,
which were read at her funeral by
Pastor Lance Aubert.
“I love you, Nyiah. You are my
best friend. No matter what,” one
best and worst vaccination rates
among staff on the state Depart-
ment of Aging’s website.
Nursing homes that don’t com-
ply with the new vaccination
protocols or report their vaccina-
tion data will face increased fines,
civil penalties and enforcement
actions.
According to state data, 79 per-
cent of nursing home staffs state-
wide have been vaccinated, and
18 percent of the facilities are
averaging 95 percent vaccinated
or higher. The lowest performers
in the state have a vaccination
rate that is under 50 percent.
“There are far too many outlier
centers at closer to 40 percent
staff vaccination,” said Joseph
DeMattos, president of the
Health Facilities Association of
Maryland. “While all employers
have strongly encouraged and
provided opportunities for vacci-
nation, there are skilled-nursing
centers where employees have
been extremely resistant to get
the vaccine.”
Many of the state’s largest hos-
pital systems — including the
University of Maryland Medical
System, Johns Hopkins Medicine,
MedStar and GBMC HealthCare
— have already mandated vacci-
nation for their staff.
A spokeswoman for the Mary-
land Hospital Association said
the hospitals that have already
instituted a mandate employ
about 95 percent of the state’s
hospital workers.
Mohan Suntha, president of
the University of Maryland Medi-
cal System, said Wednesday that
the hospital system showed simi-
lar vaccination rates as the state
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of the letters said.
“Nyiah, there are no words that
could capture the essence of an
angel and that’s what you truly
are,” another said.
As Senior Pastor Walter Staples
took to the podium, his message
centered on a “bloody city,” in
reference to a Bible verse, and
compared it to the District.
“Every day there is bloodshed,”
Staples said to the mourners. “We
get phone calls every day . . .
about somebody who is bleeding
in the streets.”
The church burst into claps
and shouts during his eulogy as
he described the community at a
“crossroad” and needing to stand
but has seen a “steady uptick” in
the last couple of months since it
announced its mandate and as it
draws closer to its Sept. 1 dead-
line.
Hogan also expressed frustra-
tion with the Biden administra-
tion over what he called “confus-
ing messaging and conflicting
guidance” over booster shots of
the vaccine for the general popu-
lation.
Instead of waiting until the
fall, the governor said he is urging
the federal government to make
the booster shots available im-
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announces new vaccination requirements for medical staff across the
state. Speaking in Annapolis, he cited concern over a rise in infections among nursing home staff.
Listen at washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports.
“There’s an old proverb
that says . . . it takes a
village to raise a child.
. . . Anytime we’re
killing our babies in
that village, our village
is sick.”
D.C. Council member
Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8)
mediately for seniors and other
vulnerable populations.
Hogan’s announcement man-
dating vaccination for nursing
home workers came shortly be-
fore President Biden made a simi-
lar announcement that nursing
home operators would lose feder-
al funding if they fail to ensure
their employees are vaccinated.
Earlier this week, members of
the Senate Vaccine Oversight
panel called on the Hogan admin-
istration to reissue a statewide
mask mandate and to require
12-to-17-year-olds to get inoculat-
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LEFT: Friends and family outside the Temple of Praise church after
the funeral of Nyiah Courtney, 6, who was killed last month by
gunfire in Southeast. A Maryland man has been charged with
murder in the attack. ABOVE: A young mourner after the service.
up to gun violence.
“I’m calling out every politi-
cian, every pastor, every priest . . .
every constituent to do one thing
for me,” Staples said. “We have to
make some noise in this city.”
“Can you stand with me to-
day?” he continued. “If that’s you,
and you’re willing to stand, stand
up with me right now.”
Nearly everyone in the congre-
gation rose to their feet for the
city — and for Nyiah.
Nyiah loved playing with her
and her sister’s dollhouse and
dancing with her big sister, her
family said. The two girls were
“inseparable,” the family’s obitu-
ary said.
ed before school starts.
Schrader told the panel that
the state’s focus is on vaccina-
tions, not reimposing mask man-
dates. Instead, he said local juris-
dictions have the authority to
require indoor face coverings.
On Wednesday, Hogan said an
indoor mask mandate is not on
the table. “We think being at
80 percent vaccinated is a good
step, and if we get the rest of the
people vaccinated we won’t have
to revert back to some of the
things from a year ago when we
didn’t have vaccines,” he said.
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 , 2021
“We got a 10-year-old who gotta
go to school next year without her
sister,” Regina Pixley, a communi-
ty organizer in Ward 8, pleaded
through tears about the shootings
across the District. “We gotta
stop.”
Pixley remembered rushing to
the street corner the night Nyiah
was slain and going to the hospi-
tal with the family.
As they walked out of the hospi-
tal at 3 a.m., Pixley recalled, Na-
kyiah turned to her grandmother.
“Grandma, Grandma, is my lit-
tle sister okay?” she asked. “Why’d
you leave my little sister in that
hospital?”
jasmine.hilton@washpost.com
He also said the state is “not at
a point” where it needs vaccine
mandates for “a broader audi-
ence.”
Virginia has mandated the vac-
cine or regular testing for state
workers, while D.C. announced
last week that all city workers
would need to get the shot or get
tested. But Hogan said he wasn’t
considering the same for all
Maryland workers.
“We’re taking measured steps
as we see fit,” Hogan said Wednes-
day when asked about mandating
vaccination for all state employ-
ees. “We’ll just keep watching it
day-to-day.”
The discussion about vaccina-
tion and mask mandates comes
as cases rise in Maryland and in
the region. On Wednesday, the
state recorded 1,012 new corona-
virus cases, with the seven-day
average for new cases per 100,000
people rising to 15.38, a rate last
seen in April. The seven-day aver-
age of cases in the region has been
steadily rising since early June,
reaching 3,280 on Wednesday.
Tonya Webb, a covid-19 data
analyst, told the oversight panel
Tuesday that the current rate of
increase in cases is steeper than
what the state saw between
March and April of this year and
between September 2020 and
January 2021.
“I think we’re going to end up
getting there anyway,” Senate
President Bill Ferguson (D-Balti-
more City) said of a statewide
mask mandate. “So it’s a matter of
now or later, and the sooner we
do it, the faster we’re through it.”
ovetta.wiggins@washpost.com
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 , 2021
For Va. anglers to complete a 50-state quest, the hardest fish to hook was at home
In the summer of
2020 — antsy
from pandemic
lockdowns and in
no hurry to start
their upcoming
John freshman year of
Kelly's college staring at
Washington computer screens
— Luke Konson
and Daniel
Balserak set themselves a goal:
to travel the United States and
catch the official state fish from
all 50 states.
Over the next year, the friends
from Oakton, Va., traveled across
the country in Luke’s mom’s
Honda minivan, from Maine
(Atlantic salmon) to California
(golden trout) to Hawaii
(humuhumunukunuku pua’a).
Well, they didn’t drive to
Hawaii — they flew — but you get
the idea. Luke and Daniel had a
list, they had a timetable and
they had a plan: to wrap up their
epic quest with their home state’s
official fish, the brook trout.
And then Daniel couldn’t
catch one.
“It definitely played with my
emotions a bit,” said Daniel.
“Luke got his the first day.”
“That’s the rule we set,” said
Luke. “We both had to catch the
fish.”
Sometimes the fish doesn’t
want to be caught.
The pair have known each
other since they were second-
graders at Dominion Christian
School in Reston. Avid anglers,
they first fished together a
couple of years ago.
“Just bass fishing around
Northern Virginia with other
buddies,” said Luke. “A lot of no-
name neighborhood ponds.”
After graduation they fished a
lot more — “especially when
covid hit and outdoors was the
place to be,” Luke said.
They both got into Clemson
University in South Carolina, but
when it was clear their freshman
L O CA L DI G ES T
THE DISTRICT
GOP bill would prevent
vaccination mandates
Two GOP lawmakers from
Texas have introduced a bill that
would prevent the D.C.
government from issuing a
mandate requiring vaccination
certification as a condition of
entering buildings in the city,
marking the latest attempt by
Republican lawmakers to
influence District policy.
The bill, introduced by Reps.
Pat Fallon and Louie Gohmert,
does not apply to any mandate
that exists in the District.
Residents are instructed to wear
masks while indoors, and last
week Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
announced that city employees
and contractors will be required
to be vaccinated or undergo
weekly testing for the coronavirus.
Because of D.C.’s unique status
as a federal district, members of
Congress have the ability to
introduce bills that apply to
Washington as well as block
legislation passed by the city’s
council.
On Monday, Bowser said that
health-care workers in D.C. must
get their first vaccine dose by
Sept. 30, and that for now
workers can opt out in favor of
regular testing if their employer
offers that alternative.
But neither Bowser nor the
council has moved to require
residents to certify their
vaccination status as a condition of
entering city buildings or venues.
— Michael Brice-Saddler
MARYLAND
Alleged intruder is
identified by police
Montgomery County police
have identified an alleged
intruder who was fatally shot by a
homeowner.
Officers responded to a home
on Futura Court in the
Germantown area Monday night.
The homeowner called police and
said he heard someone trying to
break into his home, news outlets
Retropolis
. THE WASHINGTON POST
year would be virtual, they
decided to defer till 2021. Better,
they felt, to spend a gap year
fishing.
They set off on Aug. 22, 2020,
stopping in Maryland (tiny
striped bass, caught from Fort
Smallwood), Delaware (weakfish,
hooked from aboard a boat
called the Captain’s Lady) and
New Jersey (brook trout on small
roostertails).
On they went, raising money
for fishing licenses, tackle, food
and gas through a GoFundMe.
They blogged at fishallfifty.us.
They returned to Virginia every
now and then, switching to
Daniel’s family’s Toyota minivan
and then back to the Honda after
totaling the Toyota in a wreck.
They connected with fishing
fanatics across the country, who
shared tips, took them out on
their boats, offered sleeping
accommodations. When a
certain fish came slowly, they
despaired of finishing in a year.
But then fortune would smile —
like on an incredible five-day
sprint through New Mexico,
Arizona, Nevada and Utah — and
“We realized we might actually
be able to finish this before
school,” Luke said.
They released the
overwhelming majority of the
fish they caught. Some, they
couldn’t resist eating: steelhead
trout in Washington state,
walleye in Ohio. (Walleye is that
state’s unofficial state fish, Ohio
not having an official one. They
never did get to the District for
American shad.)
“We brought back 200 pounds
of halibut from Alaska,” Daniel
said. That’s not the state fish —
the king salmon is — but they
really like the taste of halibut.
Their families’ freezers are still
stuffed with the stuff.
The guys had a hard deadline:
Move-in day at Clemson was
Aug. 12. On Aug. 8, they drove to
the Rapidan River in central
reported. When the intruder
made it inside, the homeowner
allegedly shot and killed the
suspected intruder, identified as
Louis Alfredo Sanchez Jr. , 31, of
Germantown.
The Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner in Baltimore will
conduct an autopsy to determine
the manner and cause of death.
— Associated Press
VIRGINIA
Ex-officers reject pleas
in Capitol riot case
Two former police officers from
Virginia charged with
participating in the Jan. 6 riot at
the U.S. Capitol have rejected plea
agreements.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Elizabeth Aloi did not say at a
hearing Tuesday what
concessions prosecutors offered
Thomas “T.J” Robertson and
Jacob Fracker in exchange for
pleading guilty, the Roanoke
Times reported.
Attorneys for the two men
didn’t explain their reasons, but
Fracker has told authorities that
police let them into the Capitol.
Aloi hasn’t seen evidence of that,
she said, but prosecutors are still
sifting through footage. A status
hearing was set for Sept. 23.
Robertson, whose bond was
revoked last month after a judge
ruled he violated his pretrial
release terms by possessing
firearms, was the first to turn
down a possible plea agreement.
Since the men were offered a
“wired” plea agreement, which
takes effect if all defendants
accept the offer, Fracker didn’t
have an opportunity to decide for
himself, defense attorney Bernard
Crane said.
Robertson and Fracker are
charged with obstruction of an
official proceeding, a felony, and
two misdemeanors, entering a
restricted building and disorderly
conduct in the Capitol. Both men
were fired shortly after their
arrests. During Tuesday’s hearing,
Aloi said the government is
considering additional charges.
— Associated Press
EZ M2 B3
DANIEL BALSERAK
ABOVE: When Luke Konson caught this book trout in Virginia, he
and Daniel Balserak achieved their goal of catching all 50 official
state species. LEFT: Konson, left, and Balserak hold the logo of
Clemson University, where they will start their freshman year.
that’s it,” Daniel said. The fish on a copperhead.”
scatter, and “you can’t catch The weather had inspired
them for the next 30 or so Daniel to change his technique,
minutes.” switching from a dry fly to a lure
Said Luke: “You can’t be too that resembled a worm. And
MICHELLE KONSON
mad at them for their survival then, on his way back to his car,
instinct.” on the third-to-last hole, on the
Virginia in search of their final With Daniel repeatedly very last day, he got his fish: a
quarry. They decided the water skunked, Luke went home to get brook trout about six inches
was too low, so they headed to After high school ready for college. Daniel started long.
the north fork of the Moormans to worry he’d have to make Daniel and Luke are now
River. graduation, [we] fished weekend trips from South roommates at Clemson, which,
Luke hooked a brook trout Carolina to bag that last fish. they point out, is on Lake
almost immediately. Daniel more often, “especially Daniel entered Day 4 full of Hartwell — catfish, striped bass
didn’t. He didn’t the next day the one thing every fisherman, — and also near national forest
either. Or the next day. when covid hit and fisherwoman and fisherchild land in North Carolina.
The brook trout is a skittish must possess: hope. “That’s pretty good for trout,”
fish. Brookies gather in pools in outdoors was the place “I was confident I would get said Luke, thinking ahead.
creeks, casting wary eyes at their one,” he said. “Two hours in, john.kelly@washpost.com
surroundings. to be.” there just started to be a Twitter: @johnkelly
“You’ll literally be walking 10 Luke Konson, angler torrential downpour. I was
or 15 feet away and if your getting beat up constantly. I took  For previous columns, visit
shadow goes across the water, a couple falls. I almost stepped washingtonpost.com/john-kelly
6 Md. o∞cers indicted on federal conspiracy charges
CHARGES FROM B1 comment or queries on the offi- ism” of D’Haiti’s vehicle, then unnamed co-conspirator then
cers’ employment statuses. falsely reported it as stolen to the submitted an insurance claim for
Two other officers, 33-year-old D’Haiti was previously em- county police department and to the reportedly stolen vehicle,
Mark Ross Johnson Jr. and 34- ployed by the Prince George’s D’Haiti’s insurance company. prosecutors said.
year-old Candace Danielle Tyler, County Police Department and The officers, if convicted of the
also worked for the Prince won an award in 2016 for his work charges, face decades in prison.
George’s police department. All running the Law Enforcement Ex- “We are committed to holding
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and Johnson and Tyler are sus- Johnson, Taylor and Tyler from selves,” Jonathan Lenzner, acting
pended with pay, according to the May to June of 2019. The four thefts of their debit U.S. attorney for the District of
department. officers conspired to defraud Maryland, said in a statement. “As
The three remaining indicted three banks by orchestrating the cards or vehicles, then alleged in this indictment, these
officers are Conrad Darwin D’Hai- withdrawal of money from their members of law enforcement vio-
ti, 52, of the Maryland National own accounts via ATMs, prosecu- reporting those lated their oaths to make money
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Dupree, 37, of the Fairmount nated the submission of police concocted thefts. only victimized financial institu-
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Jaron Earl Taylor, 27, of the Anne said, then submitted false claims but also risked undermining trust
Arundel County Police Depart- to their banks seeking reimburse- That same month, Owen in our criminal justice system.”
ment. ment. worked with Taylor to relocate It was not immediately clear
The departments for D’Haiti, In January 2020, prosecutors and hide a vehicle in a garage, whether the officers had attorneys
Dupree and Taylor did not im- allege, D’Haiti and Owen “coordi- then file another false police re- representing them in this case.
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MARYLAND
Widow’s lawsuit alleges
funeral home staged
husband’s cremation
BY J ULIAN M ARK
During her husband’s memori-
al service at Wylie Funeral Homes
in Baltimore, Demetra Street sat
in the front row, wearing a brown
striped pantsuit. About 25 people
watched as she sang “His Eye Is on
the Sparrow” in memory of Ivan
Street. In the room was a framed
photograph of the man. Beside it
was an urn.
But immediately after the Jan-
uary service ended, a funeral
home employee allegedly took the
urn and hid it away, according to a
lawsuit Street filed in early Au-
gust. When Street asked the fu-
neral home to turn over Ivan’s
ashes, she says the staff refused.
That was because
Ivan’s ashes were not
in the urn, Street al-
leges. Ivan’s body, she
claims that she later
learned, was buried at
Mount Zion Cemetery
in Baltimore County
three days earlier at
the request of another
woman claiming to be
his wife.
In her lawsuit,
LAW OFFICE OF ALEX COFFIN
Street alleges that
Wylie Funeral Homes Ivan Street, 67, was
conducted two ser- buried against the
vices for Ivan Street — wishes of his widow, suit states.
one for her and one her lawsuit alleges.
for the other woman
— and pocketed both payments.
She is suing the business for was denied. A funeral home staff
$8.5 million, saying it breached its
contract with her and made false
representations to make a profit.
“It’s a really sad situation,”
Street’s lawyer, Alex Coffin, told
The Washington Post. “It’s tough
enough losing a loved one.”
Wylie Funeral Homes did not
respond to a request for com-
ment. But the funeral home’s
president, Brandon Wylie, told
the Baltimore Sun that he denies
Street’s claims.
“Due to restrictions imposed by
our confidentiality requirements
and the existence of pending liti-
gation, we are not at liberty to
disclose all of the information
relevant to this matter,” Wylie told
the Sun. “However, we vehement-
ly deny the claims advanced by
Ms. Street and assert that the
underlying matter was handled
with the utmost sensitivity
toward the loved ones of the de-
ceased.”
On Jan. 9, Ivan Street died of
congestive heart failure at age 67,
according to the lawsuit. Demetra
and Ivan were separated and liv-
ing apart at the time, Coffin said.
Records reviewed by The Post
show that, legally, Demetra Street
was Ivan’s wife at the time of his
death.
Demetra went to the funeral
home on Jan. 13, identified Ivan’s
body and provided her marriage
certificate to prove she was next of
kin. Street then entered into a
$2,500 contract for Ivan’s crema-
tion and a memorial service with
the funeral home.
Shortly after, however, another
woman allegedly told the funeral
home that she was Ivan’s wife. She
provided the funeral home with a
marriage license from October
1997 that was lacking a seal, ac-
cording to the lawsuit, which page on Jan. 20.
claims the woman insisted that
Ivan be buried.
The funeral home’s employees
then notified Street that another
woman was claiming to be Ivan’s
wife. Street, the lawsuit claims,
told them to ignore the woman,
who she said had no authority to
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make changes to the funeral
plans.
But the funeral home decided
to follow the other woman’s in-
structions instead and bury Ivan,
Street claims. When Street pro-
tested to one of the owners by
phone — identified in the lawsuit
as “Mr. Wylie” — he allegedly told
her: “So, what are you going to do
about it?”
Shortly after, however, the fu-
neral home appeared to make an
about-face. A staffer notified
Street that it would, in fact, reject
the other woman’s instructions to
bury Ivan and schedule a crema-
tion and memorial service as
Street requested.
So Ivan’s memorial com-
menced. Programs
were printed identify-
ing Demetra Street as
Ivan’s wife. The photo
and urn were placed
for all to see.
But despite Street’s
“repeated requests
that she receive Ivan’s
ashes, Defendants re-
fused to allow her or
anyone else to obtain
the ashes or to see the
funerary urn once the
Memorial Service had
concluded,” the law-
It was only days lat-
er that Street claims
she found out why the request
member allegedly sent her an
email referencing a “resting loca-
tion at Mt. Zion Cemetery.” Con-
fused, Street contacted the funer-
al home, and Mr. Wylie allegedly
told her that the funeral home
had, in fact, buried Ivan in the
cemetery. When Street expressed
her discontent, Wylie allegedly
brushed her off and hung up the
phone.
The urn that sat at the center of
her husband’s memorial turned
out to be a “sham,” according to
the lawsuit.
“On information and belief,”
the lawsuit states, “the Funeral
Home double charged the be-
reaved parties by [billing] . . . for
the cost of a casket, plot, and
burial.”
Ivan and Demetra Street were
married in Baltimore in April
2016, according to a copy of the
marriage certificate, which The
Post obtained from Coffin and
verified with a Baltimore Circuit
Court clerk. Although Ivan and
Demetra had begun divorce pro-
ceedings in 2018, they were not
completed before his death, ac-
cording to court records.
The Post was unable to deter-
mine the relationship between
Ivan Street and the other woman,
if any, and Coffin said he did not
have that information, either. The
woman could not be reached for
comment. The Post is not naming
her since her identity was not
independently verified.
The other woman “may have
believed she was the wife,” Coffin
said, “but she failed to produce a
marriage certificate with a seal on
it.”
Nevertheless, according to the
lawsuit, the other woman posted
a note on Ivan’s remembrance
“To the memory of my beloved
husband,” she wrote. “You were
my best friend. The many loving
memories I have of the [time] we
shared will forever comfort me in
your absence. . . . You will be sore-
ly missed my love.”
julian.mark@washpost.com
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dents should expect to see at least
some increase in cases as schools
reopen and in-person youth activ-
ities resume. But she does not
anticipate the case count in
schools to exceed what the gener-
al population is experiencing. If
cases reach “a trend of concern,”
Bowser said her administration
would do what’s “necessary.”
Last academic year, around a
quarter of the city’s public school
students partially attended in-
person classes, with some of those
students learning from a class-
room just a few hours a week. This
year, the Bowser administration
said just 98 of the school system’s
52,000 students have been ap-
proved for virtual learning.
“We stated from the outset
that, for our city, having in-person
learning is a priority, and that is
how we continue to approach our
response to covid, including a
masking requirement — not just
for schools — but for indoor set-
tings,” Bowser said. “We don’t
have a metric that says we are
going to shut down schools.”
The Bowser administration
also laid out Wednesday the safe-
ty protocols for school buildings
in the fall. Overall, the safety
provisions will be less stringent —
more students in each classroom,
less quarantining — than they
were in the previous academic
year, though the protocols align
with local and federal health
guidelines.
Unvaccinated and vaccinated
students and adults will still be
required to wear a mask at all
times in school buildings — a
mandate that has not been con-
troversial in the District. And
random testing of students will
be conducted weekly.
Anyone in a school building
who tests positive for the virus
will be required to isolate for at
least 10 days. If unvaccinated
students and staff are in a class-
room with someone who has the
virus, they do not have to quaran-
tine if everyone is properly
masked. Based on these rules, it is
unlikely that an entire class — or
large portion of a class — would
need to quarantine, which was a
common occurrence last aca-
demic year.
If a student is required to quar-
antine, Schools Chancellor Lewis
D. Ferebee said that student will
probably not receive live virtual
lessons. That model, known as
simulcasting and frequently used
in the past academic year, re-
Montgomery County’s health o∞cer is resigning
GAYLES FROM B1
ington Post, the health officer said
he intends to leave Sept. 12.
Gayles did not cite a reason for
his departure but said he had en-
joyed serving residents in the
Maryland suburb for four years,
including during the past 18
months of the pandemic. He
thanked residents “for creating a
space for science to be heard and
embraced.”
Gayles did not respond to ques-
tions from The Post on Wednes-
day.
More than 70 percent of Mont-
gomery’s 1 million residents have
been fully vaccinated, according
to a tracker by The Post. Mont-
gomery, a majority-minority juris-
diction, is one of the wealthiest
counties in the country, but also
has pockets of poverty.
The average number of new dai-
ly coronavirus infections has in-
creased from a low of six in June to
112 on Wednesday, though virus-
related hospitalizations have re-
mained low.
A pediatrician by training, Gay-
les served as D.C. chief medical
officer before moving to Mont-
gomery in 2017. He has been a
vocal champion for health equity,
pioneering an “equity framework”
for the county when vaccinations
became available that gave priori-
ty to vulnerable communities.
“His work has saved lives,”
County Council Vice President
Gabe Albornoz (D-At Large) said.
“There is no question about that.”
Elrich said Gayles faced a vari-
ety of challenges over the past 18
months, including repeatedly
clashing with Gov. Larry Hogan
(R), particularly about reopening
private schools, and absorbing “a
torrent of hate and vitriol” from
the public. “He has pretty much
gone through hell over the last 18
months,” Elrich said.
Gayles, who is Black, spoke pub-
licly about the stream of racist and
homophobic attacks he received
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At a back-to-school update Wednesday, acting state superintendent of education Christina Grant
shows D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee rapid coronavirus test
kits that will be given to parents and teachers. Random testing of students will be conducted weekly.
quires a teacher to instruct in-
person and virtual students at the
same time from the classroom.
Ferebee said the school system
would be selective when calling
on teachers to simulcast.
“It is a compromising learning
experience for some students,”
Ferebee said at the news confer-
“We stated from the
outset that, for our city,
having in-person
learning is a priority.”
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
ence. “And we also know that
there is time needed to plan for
execution. And so we do not want
scenarios where we are entering
into simulcast instruction for one
or two students out of 25 or 30.”
Ferebee said social distancing
is recommended but may not be
feasible everywhere as teachers
need to fit full rosters in their
classrooms. Middle- and high-
schoolers can switch classes as
normal, mixing with as many
different teachers and students as
needed for a standard schedule.
Charter schools, which educate
Under Health Officer Travis Gayles’s leadership, Montgomery
County’s inoculation rollout led to one of the highest vaccination
rates in the country, at more than 70 percent.
on social media and in communi-
cations to his office. He revealed
last year that he was in touch with
police about the attacks, and deac-
tivated his public Twitter account
in recent months to avoid the hate-
ful comments.
“His work has saved
lives. There is no
question about that.”
Gabe Albornoz,
County Council vice president
(D-At Large)
Elrich said he had not yet talked
to Gayles about why he decided to
leave, but he said he knows how
hard the pandemic has been on
health officials across the country.
Public health workers nationwide
who have quit or resigned during
the pandemic have cited burnout
from months of working overtime
or frustration with public push-
back on coronavirus restrictions.
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nearly 50 percent of the public
school population, can adopt
these rules that align with health
guidelines or enact stricter ones.
“As each local education agen-
cy is independent, implementa-
tion of those guidelines vary,”
Shannon Hodge — founding exec-
utive director of DC Charter
School Alliance, the city’s main
charter advocacy group — wrote
in a statement after Bowser’s
news conference.
The more detailed school re-
opening plan arrives as the delta
variant continues to drive an up-
tick in cases and there is no date
set for when young children will
become eligible for coronavirus
vaccines. Parents say they are
anxious about what this will
mean for the fate of the academic
year, and some have called on the
chancellor to allow more children
to continue with virtual learning
from home.
“D.C. families have endured a
lot in the past 18 months — job
losses, hardship, untold stress,
loss of family members — in order
to protect our children from
COVID,” read a letter from a
coalition of parents calling on city
leaders to give all families the
option of virtual learning. “The
lack of proper safeguards in the
D.C. in-person school reopening
plan makes that hardship and
those sacrifices worthless.”
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“[Gayles] is critiqued in a way
that not even the county executive
is in some ways. And race is a part
of that,” Earl Stoddard, who is
White, said in an interview earlier
this year while he was head of
emergency management. “I’ve no-
ticed his credentials being ques-
tioned in a way that mine haven’t,
even though his credentials when
it comes to public health are more
impressive than mine.”
County Council member Evan
Glass (D-At Large), the first openly
gay member of the body, said the
“incredible hatred” that Gayles
faced “takes a toll on a person.”
Gayles’s cautious approach to
reopening frustrated some — es-
pecially parents of children in the
county’s private schools and in its
public school system, which was
slower than many to bring stu-
dents back to the classroom last
school year. (Its first major return
of students did not come until
mid-March.)
“As a parent in the county, I am
relieved,” Jennifer Linton Rees-
man, a psychologist and mother of
an 11-year-old in Montgomery’s
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MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST
The Office of the State Superin-
tendent of Education plans to
oversee the asymptomatic, saliva-
based school testing program,
which will test a random sam-
pling of students each week. The
goal is to test 10 to 20 percent of
students at each school each
week. Students must have con-
sent forms to be tested.
Charters can opt into this pro-
gram or receive a micro grant to
adopt their own. KIPP DC and
Friendship — the city’s two larg-
est charter networks — have an-
nounced they will test all stu-
dents and staff each week in a
pooled testing model.
The school system says it will
inform families any time a case is
detected in their child’s school or
classroom.
Bowser announced earlier this
month that all city employees —
including school system employ-
ees — will need to be vaccinated
or tested for the virus weekly. The
city is not requiring eligible stu-
dents to be vaccinated but is
hosting vaccination sites where
students can receive free AirPods
if they get the shots.
The District is struggling to
vaccinate all of its eligible chil-
dren, particularly Black children,
who have drastically lower vacci-
nation rates than their White and
Hispanic peers.
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public schools, said of Gayles’s de-
parture.
She said she was frustrated by
Gayles’s continued advice to keep
schools closed, even when studies
showed the risk of coronavirus
transmission in classrooms was
low when masks and distancing
were employed. She said she un-
derstood the desire to shut down
schools when information was
scarce, but that there should have
been “a realignment” as officials
learned more.
“Instead,” she said, “there was a
digging in of the heels.”
Margery Smelkinson, an infec-
tious-disease scientist who has
four children in Montgomery pub-
lic schools, described Gayles’s ap-
proach as “very excessively overly
cautious.”
Even once students were al-
lowed to come back to the class-
room, she said, the phase-in was
slow. Her fourth-grader, for exam-
ple, had just 22 days of in-person
instruction last year. “It didn’t
have to be like that,” Smelkinson
said.
She said that she hopes that the
next health officer is willing to
look at all of the data and be “more
reasonable” than Gayles.
Albornoz said it is vital that
Elrich appoint a new health officer
“as soon as humanly possible.”
With concerns about the rise of
the delta variant nationally, espe-
cially its impact on children, he
said, it is clear the county is “not
out of the woods.”
Gayles is the second high-rank-
ing official to depart from county
government this summer, follow-
ing assistant chief administrative
officer Caroline Sturgis, who re-
signed in July to become budget
director for the city of Port St.
Lucie, Fla. Stoddard was nominat-
ed last month to succeed her.
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rebecca.tan@washpost.com
Donna St. George contributed to this
report.
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VIRGINIA
State’s economy ‘roaring,’ but virus variant poses risks, governor says
BY L AURA V OZZELLA
richmond — Gov. Ralph
Northam celebrated Virginia’s
record $2.6 billion budget sur-
plus and “roaring” economy in a
speech to legislators on Wednes-
day, while also cautioning that
the resurgent coronavirus poses
new risks to state finances and
public health.
In his annual address to the
state House and Senate money
committees, Northam (D) ticked
off a list of economic indicators
that seemed unattainable as the
pandemic first gripped the com-
monwealth in early 2020.
The state’s unemployment
rate, for instance, is 4.3 percent —
well below the 5.9 percent nation-
al average and lower than in all
its neighbors, where joblessness
ranges from 4.4 percent in Ken-
tucky to 7 percent in D.C.
“We can all be proud of Vir-
ginia’s position today,” Northam
said. “We have laid out a path for
economic prosperity, and it is
working.”
But Northam also warned that
the crisis is not entirely behind
Virginia, where the highly conta-
gious delta variant is fueling a
recent surge in cases. He also
Alexandria to spend $3 million on income pilot program
ALEXANDRIA FROM B1
as they decide how to use the
money — whether to address
housing needs, pursue more
schooling, find a job that offers
better career advancement or
support their children, Wilson
said.
To participate in the pilot, resi-
dents must make about 30 to
40 percent of area median in-
come and be earning money in
some way outside the program.
Another set of residents will serve
as a “control” group that does not
receive funding, Kate Garvey, di-
rector of the city’s Department of
Community and Human Services,
said in a virtual information ses-
sion earlier this month.
Besides $3 million for that
program, the city will spend
about $2.83 million to improve
early-childhood care for working
mothers; $1.12 million to scale an
“upskilling” program, launched
earlier in the pandemic, that of-
fers English-as-a-second-lan-
guage classes and digital literacy
training; and $2.5 million to
shore up food security initiatives,
such as large-scale distribution
events and deliveries for seniors.
Dana Wedeles, a special assis-
tant to the Alexandria city man-
THE DISTRICT
Boy, 15, is fatally stabbed outside
NE school; 16-year-old is detained
BY P ETER H ERMANN
AND P ERRY S TEIN
A 15-year-old boy was fatally
stabbed Wednesday afternoon
during an altercation that oc-
curred as students were being
dismissed from a charter high
school in Northeast Washington,
according to D.C. police.
Police Chief Robert J. Contee
III said a 16-year-old classmate of
the victim was detained.
The stabbing occurred about
3:10 p.m. at a bus stop in front of
KIPP DC College Preparatory
Public Charter School in the 1400
block of Brentwood Parkway NE,
near Union Market. It was the
third killing in the District in a
matter of hours.
Authorities said they do not
know what sparked the deadly
altercation, which happened
amid a large gathering of youths
and as administrators tried to
provide safe passage for students
leaving the school.
“Whether you are the perpetra-
tor of the crime or the deceased
person, it is sad,” Contee told re-
porters at the scene. “Because this
did not have to happen.”
The KIPP charter network is
one of the first schools to reopen
for the fall semester. The first day
of classes was Aug. 9, with nearly
all students learning in the high
school for the first time since
schools shut down in March 2020
to contain the spread of the coro-
navirus.
School officials said classes at
the college preparatory campus
would be canceled Thursday. The
school will be offering grief coun-
seling to students virtually.
Police did not release the name
of the victim. Contee said that
crimes involving juveniles in the
District are at “an unacceptable
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acknowledged the heavy finan-
cial and personal toll the pan-
demic has taken on Virginians.
“While we have a lot of positive
news about our economy these
days, we know that a lot of people
are still struggling and still hurt-
ing,” he said.
The upbeat parts of Northam’s
speech were more than a victory
lap for a term-limited governor
who leaves office in early January.
The two major-party candidates
seeking to replace Northam,
whom the state constitution pro-
hibits from seeking back-to-back
terms, have made his handling of
the pandemic and broader econo-
my central to their campaigns.
Republican candidate Glenn
Youngkin, a former private-
equity executive, has often ac-
cused Northam of driving the
state into “the ditch,” while Dem-
ocratic candidate Terry McAu-
liffe, a former governor who left
office as Northam’s term began in
2018, praises Northam’s oversight
of state finances as an extension
of his own policies.
Youngkin’s campaign did not
immediately respond to a request
for comment on Northam’s
speech, which included a men-
tion that CNBC had recently
ager, said many of the Rescue
Plan projects previously went
through a city planning process
but were delayed because of the
pandemic. Others, including the
guaranteed-income pilot, had
been floated as ideas around City
Hall but were never acted on.
The final list of projects was
drafted with about 1,300 com-
ments from city residents before
a final vote by the Alexandria City
Council last month.
Annetta Catchings, the Repub-
lican nominee for mayor in the
November election, appeared to
frame guaranteed income as a
socialist policy. She suggested
that the $3 million would not
benefit longtime Alexandria resi-
dents and could be better used to
increase wages for firefighters.
“There’s absolutely no account-
ability and no minimum require-
ment regarding length of time
lived here in our city,” she wrote
on Twitter. “Even a kindergarten-
er can connect those dots.”
But Wilson said that besides
helping families get on firmer
financial ground, the pilot may
also help Alexandria reshape its
own policies: Researchers will
examine results and more broad-
ly reconsider how the city ap-
proaches poverty reduction pro-
level” and that regardless of the
reason for the dispute, it came
down to “two young people who
were unable to resolve conflict
peacefully.”
Including Wednesday’s victim,
this year’s young homicide vic-
tims include one 6-year old, three
15-year-olds, two 16-year-olds and
one 17-year-old.
KIPP DC is D.C.’s largest char-
ter network, educating more than
7,000 students on its campuses.
The high school is the network’s
flagship upper school, with more
than 800 students enrolled.
The stabbing occurred
at a bus stop in front of
the KIPP DC College
Preparatory school.
A KIPP DC spokesman con-
firmed that the victim and sus-
pect were current students at the
school, although he could not con-
firm whether both were in classes
Wednesday.
In 2018, Tyshon Perry, a 16-
year-old KIPP high-schooler, was
fatally stabbed at the NoMa-Gal-
laudet transit station, which stu-
dents from multiple school use to
commute. Many classmates wit-
nessed the killing.
Two teenagers who are cousins
were charged in Perry’s killing.
Their trials are scheduled for No-
vember.
Perry was one of several D.C.
students killed on the way home
from school during the 2017-2018
academic year. That spurred a
citywide effort to provide more
resources for “safe passage” pro-
BOB BROWN/RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) appears at a news conference in
Richmond this month. “We can all be proud of Virginia’s position
today,” Northam said Wednesday during a revenue update. “We
have laid out a path for economic prosperity, and it is working.”
grams, including housing and
child-care assistance.
“It could be that we find out
that it’s a lot easier, and perhaps
even more efficient, to just give
people money and let them make
the decisions about what is going
to be most impactful for their
family,” he said. “But we’ll see.”
Michael Tubbs, the founder of
Mayors for a Guaranteed Income,
a national network of mayors
who support such programs, said
about a dozen cities across the
country — including relatively
prosperous ones like Alexandria
— had dedicated some portion of
their federal stimulus funds to
test out the idea.
“People are still being left be-
hind,” he said. “Even in areas of
influence, there’s pockets of in-
tense inequality. It’s a moral di-
lemma for all of us that we have to
solve. I’m glad that leadership in
Alexandria sees the entire com-
munity.”
As mayor of Stockton, Calif.,
Tubbs pioneered the nation’s first
guaranteed-income program, dis-
tributing $500 monthly checks to
125 of the city’s residents. The
results were promising: Accord-
ing to a study published this year,
participants in the pilot saw im-
proved mental health outcomes
grams to ensure that children
could get to school and home
again safely. KIPP DC students
and staffers were part of that
effort, and the charter network
started providing a shuttle that
would take students to and from
the NoMa-Gallaudet Metro sta-
tion each school day.
The Bowser administration
said Friday at a school reopening
news conference that it will have
24 new shuttle routes in Wards 7
and 8 to help students commute
to school safely.
The KIPP DC principal, Stepha-
nie Renee Young, wrote in a letter
to parents that “we are heartbro-
ken by this news and will update
you as we learn more.”
Her letter encouraged parents
to “talk with your child about safe
passage to and from school and
encourage them to come forward
to school staff if they have any
safety concerns.”
The first of D.C.’s two other
killings Wednesday, both of which
were shootings, occurred about 1
p.m. in the unit block of L Street
NW, in the old Sursum Corda
neighborhood west of North Cap-
itol Street and south of New York
Avenue.
Contee said a man was found
dead inside a vehicle near a con-
struction site. The victim’s identi-
ty had not been released as of
Wednesday afternoon.
About 1:30 p.m., police went to
the 3700 block of First Street SE in
Congress Heights. Contee said of-
ficers found a man inside a vehicle
who had been shot.
He, too, was pronounced dead
at the scene. His name has not
been released. Contee said the
two shootings did not appear to
be connected.
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EZ RE
and were twice as likely to gain
full-time employment.
Dozens of other cities have
since adopted the idea, including
Jackson, Miss.; Oakland, Calif.;
and Philadelphia. In California,
where Tubbs now serves as an
adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom
“Even in areas of
influence, there’s
pockets of intense
inequality. It’s a moral
dilemma for all of us
that we have to solve.”
Michael Tubbs, founder of Mayors
for a Guaranteed Income
(D), state lawmakers approved a
plan to give $35 million to local
governments for more trials.
Closer to the D.C. area, a few
others have followed suit.
The city of Richmond said last
fall that it was working with a
local foundation to give monthly
checks to 18 families who make
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crowned Virginia the best state
for business. In the past, Young-
kin has pointed to the state’s large
surplus as evidence of overtaxa-
tion, saying he would return
$1.5 billion of it to taxpayers.
Youngkin also has said he
would like to eliminate the state’s
personal income tax — which
accounts for more than 70 per-
cent of the general-fund portion
of the budget that a governor and
legislature control.
McAuliffe, who has said Young-
kin’s income tax elimination plan
would destabilize the state’s fi-
nances, praised Northam’s finan-
cial stewardship after the speech.
“Virginia’s economy is stronger
than ever thanks to eight years of
fiscally responsible Democratic
leadership,” McAuliffe said in a
statement. “We cannot risk our
future on Glenn Youngkin’s dan-
gerous economic agenda, which
would lead to drastic cuts to
public education and police and
drive our economy into the
ditch.”
As he opened his speech in the
Pocahontas Building on Rich-
mond’s Capitol Square, Northam
counted his in-person delivery as
a victory; his August 2020 rev-
enue speech, December budget
too much to qualify for safety net
benefits but who “still do not
make a living wage.” In Baltimore,
a group of nonprofit leaders
handpicked by the mayor is de-
signing the city’s own trial of
guaranteed income.
Kate Stewart, mayor of Takoma
Park, said she also hopes to use
Rescue Plan money to pilot the
idea, though no plans are in place.
Both she and College Park Mayor
Patrick Wojahn are members of
Mayors for a Guaranteed Income,
which is partnering with Alexan-
dria.
In Alexandria, Wilson said sev-
eral other Rescue Plan projects
on the city’s agenda aimed to
simultaneously tackle poverty
and gaps in the labor market — by
training low-income workers to
shore up the city’s economy.
Many of Alexandria’s small
businesses, he said, have been
struggling to attract and hold on
to workers, a reality that may
reflect the prohibitively high cost
of housing in Northern Virginia
for lower-income workers, partic-
ularly in the innermost D.C. sub-
urbs.
“If they have a choice between
working for $14 an hour in Prince
William and Loudoun,” he said,
“versus having a long commute
B5
address and January State of the
Commonwealth address were all
virtual because of the pandemic.
“It’s good to be together again,”
he said. “We are here in person
today because of one thing: vac-
cines.”
He noted the state’s high vacci-
nation rate — 74 percent of adults
have had at least one shot and
66 percent are fully vaccinated —
but said that’s not enough given
the threat of the delta variant,
which can sicken even vaccinated
people, although not as severely
as the unvaccinated.
A year ago, the state forecast
revenue collections to grow by
only 2.7 percent, based on recom-
mendations from economists and
Virginia business leaders whom
the state routinely consults. Tax
revenue shot up instead by 14 per-
cent.
Crediting conservative budget-
ing for helping to protect the
state’s coveted Triple-A bond rat-
ing, Northam said he will exceed
his goal of having more than
8 percent of the budget in reserve
funds.
He said the state is on track to
have almost 15 percent in re-
serves by the end of his term.
laura.vozzella@washpost.com
and then working for $14 or $15 an
hour in Alexandria, they’re going
to choose to be closer to home.”
An early-childhood care pro-
gram will take a similar approach
to a particularly crucial industry.
Millions of working mothers, par-
ticularly those at the bottom rung
of the economic ladder, have left
the workforce and face a host of
challenges to returning — chief
among them having someone to
take care of their kids.
“Essentially nothing can oper-
ate if we do not have child care,”
Wilson said, “because we don’t
have a workforce if we do not
have child care.” Even during the
peak of the pandemic, he recalled,
some health-care workers were
unable to deploy to hospitals and
testing centers because their day-
care facilities were closed.
This project will look to attract
more early-childhood care pro-
viders, increase pay, and poten-
tially fund an initiative with local
community colleges where poten-
tial employees can be accredited
and earn associate’s degrees.
“Folks who can get into that
field and stay in that field and
make a living wage in that field,”
Wilson said, “they’re going to stay
in that field.”
teo.armus@wasjhpost.com
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JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY, 79
Chronicler and champion of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam War
BY H ARRISON S MITH
In November 1965, journalist
Joseph L. Galloway hitched a ride
on an Army helicopter flying to
the Ia Drang Valley, a rugged
landscape of red dirt, brown el-
ephant grass and truck-size ter-
mite mounds in the Central High-
lands of South Vietnam. Stepping
off the chopper, he arrived at a
battlefield that one Army pilot
later called “hell on Earth, for a
short period of time.”
Mr. Galloway, a 24-year-old re-
porter for United Press Interna-
tional, went on to witness and
participate in the first major bat-
tle of the Vietnam War, in which
an outmanned American battal-
ion fought off three North Viet-
namese army regiments while
taking heavy casualties. He car-
ried an M16 rifle alongside his
notebook and cameras, and in the
heat of battle, he charged into the
fray to pull an Army private out of
the flames of a napalm blast.
“At that time and that place, he
was a soldier,” Maj. Gen. Joseph
K. Kellogg said more than three
decades later, when the Army
awarded Mr. Galloway the Bronze
Star Medal for his efforts to save
the private. “He was a soldier in
spirit, he was a soldier in actions
and he was a soldier in deeds.”
Mr. Galloway later recounted
the battle in a best-selling book,
“We Were Soldiers Once . . . and
Young” (1992), written with re-
tired Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore,
the U.S. battalion commander at
Ia Drang. The book was adapted
into the movie “We Were Sol-
diers” (2002), starring Mel Gib-
son as Moore and Barry Pepper as
Mr. Galloway, and was acclaimed
for its unflinching account of one
of the war’s bloodiest battles.
“What I saw and wrote about
broke my heart a thousand times,
but it also gave me the best and
most loyal friends of my life,” Mr.
Galloway said in a 2001 interview
with the Victoria Advocate, the
Texas daily where he had once
worked as a cub reporter. “The
soldiers accepted me as one of
them, and I can think of no higher
honor.”
Mr. Galloway, whose reporting
took him from the jungles of
Vietnam to the halls of the Krem-
lin and the deserts of Iraq, was 79
when he died Aug. 18 at a hospital
in Concord, N.C. The cause was
complications from a heart at-
tack, said his friend and former
editor John Walcott.
In a journalism career that
spanned nearly five decades, Mr.
Galloway became known for writ-
ing elegant, richly detailed stories
that immersed readers in con-
flicts around the world, including
the 1971 war between India and
Pakistan and the 1991 Persian
Gulf War, which he covered while
embedded with a tank unit for
PAT HITCHCOCK, 93
Actress spent decades protecting legacy of her ‘Master of Suspense’ father
BY H ILLEL I TALIE
Pat Hitchcock, the only child of
director Alfred Hitchcock and an
actor herself who made a memo-
rable appearance in her father’s
“Strangers on a Train” and cham-
pioned his work in the decades
following his death, died Aug. 9
at her home in Thousand Oaks,
Calif. She was 93.
Her daughter Tere Carrubba
confirmed the death but did not
disclose the cause.
“She was always really good at
protecting the legacy of my
grandparents and making sure
they were always remembered,”
said Carrubba, one of Ms. Hitch-
cock’s three daughters. “It’s sort
of an end of an era now that
they’re all gone.”
Patricia Alma Hitchcock was
born July 7, 1928, in London and
spent much of her life in and
around the family business. Dur-
ing her childhood, Alfred Hitch-
cock directed such classic films
as “The 39 Steps,” “The Lady
Vanishes” and “Shadow of a
Doubt.”
The family moved to California
after Alfred Hitchcock signed a
multipicture deal with producer
David O. Selznick and rose to
global fame as the “Master of
Suspense.” His wife, Alma Reville
Hitchcock, his indispensable ad-
viser, was a former film editor
through whom he vetted story
ideas and screenplay treatments.
“My mother had much more to
do with the films than she has
ever been given credit for — he
depended on her for everything,
absolutely everything,” Pat Hitch-
cock told the Guardian in 1999.
Joseph L. Galloway and wife Grace stand at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 2013, looking at the names of those killed in 1965 in the
Battle of Ia Drang. He recounted the battle in the book “We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young,” written with retired Lt. Gen. Harold G.
Moore. Mr. Galloway was also awarded a Bronze Star Medal for pulling a soldier out of the flames of a napalm blast during the fight.
U.S. News & World Report.
A native Texan who grew up
reading the collected reporting of
Ernie Pyle, who told the story of
World War II through the eyes of
ordinary GIs, Mr. Galloway exalt-
ed the bravery of American sol-
diers even as he questioned the
wisdom of the leaders who sent
them into battle. Gen. H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, who led U.S. forces
during the Gulf War, once called
him “the finest combat corre-
spondent of our generation — a
soldiers’ reporter and a soldiers’
friend.”
Mr. Galloway spent 22 years
with UPI and retired in 2010 after
working as a military affairs cor-
respondent and columnist for the
newspaper chains Knight Ridder
and McClatchy, where he wrote
critically of the Afghanistan and
Iraq wars. He was played by
Tommy Lee Jones in director Rob
Reiner’s movie “Shock and Awe”
(2017), about Knight Ridder’s
skeptical coverage of the George
W. Bush administration’s case for
invading Iraq.
But he remained best known
for his books and articles about
Vietnam, most notably “We Were
Soldiers Once . . . and Young,”
which sold more than 1 million
copies. He and Moore spent
10 years researching the volume,
interviewing more than 250 peo-
ple, including Vietnamese mili-
tary commanders and U.S. veter-
ans and their families.
Ms. Hitchcock would visit her
father’s movie sets and by her
teens was acting in school plays
and appearing onstage, including
the Broadway productions “Soli-
taire” and “Violet.” She was ad-
mitted to London’s Royal Acad-
emy of Dramatic Art in 1947 and
was about to graduate when her
father said he had a role for her in
his new film, “Strangers on a
Train,” adapted from the Patricia
Highsmith novel. The 1951 pro-
“I think he was having
her go through what the
audience went
through.”
Pat Hitchcock, speaking to the BBC
on her character’s memorable
appearance in father Alfred
Hitchcock’s 1951 production
“Strangers on a Train.”
duction starred Robert Walker
and Farley Granger as strangers
who meet on a train and agree —
at least Walker thinks they agree
— to a double murder: Walker
will kill Granger’s wife, and
Granger will kill Walker’s father.
Pat Hitchcock played the sister of
a woman (Ruth Roman), with
whom Granger is in love.
Walker duly carries out his
side of the deal, strangling
Granger’s wife on the grounds of
an amusement park, and pres-
sures Granger to honor the bar-
gain. Walker turns up at a party
attended by Granger and chats
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obituaries
“It is thoroughly researched,
written with equal rations of
pride and anguish, and it goes as
far as any book yet written toward
answering the hoary question of
what combat is really like,” au-
thor and Vietnam War correspon-
dent Nicholas Proffitt wrote in a
“What I saw and wrote
about broke my heart a
thousand times, but it
also gave me the best
and most loyal friends
of my life.”
Joseph L. Galloway
review for the New York Times.
He went on to call it “a car crash
of a book; you are horrified by
what you’re seeing, but you can’t
take your eyes off it.”
The Battle of Ia Drang began
Nov. 14, 1965, after Moore and
some 450 soldiers from the 1st
Battalion, 7th Cavalry were heli-
coptered to a clearing known as
Landing Zone X-Ray. They were
there on a search-and-destroy
mission — “It’s probably gonna be
a long, hot walk in the sun,” the
brigade commander had told Mr.
Galloway — and soon came under
up an elderly woman about the
best way to kill someone — stran-
gulation. He has placed his hands
on her neck, when he looks up
and sees Pat Hitchcock’s charac-
ter staring back in horror.
Unnerved by her resemblance
to his murder victim — they wear
similar glasses — Walker nearly
chokes the guest to death. Ms.
Hitchcock’s character later sobs
that she felt as if she was the one
he might have killed, leading to
suspicions about the murder of
Granger’s wife.
“I think he was using her as the
audience,” Pat Hitchcock, inter-
viewed for a 1997 BBC special on
her father, said of her character.
“I think he was having her go
through what the audience went
through.”
Ms. Hitchcock was a lively,
witty actor whose other credits
included the TV sitcoms “My
Little Margie” and “The Life of
Riley” and several roles in the TV
series “Alfred Hitchcock Pre-
sents.” She also had parts in her
father’s “Stage Fright” and in his
horror masterpiece “Psycho,” in
which she plays an office col-
league of Janet Leigh, who later
in the film is famously stabbed to
death in a motel shower.
More recently, she worked for
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Mag-
azine, and appeared at numerous
film festivals and in Hitchcock
documentaries. She contributed
photographs and a foreword to
“Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred
Hitchcock’s San Francisco,” by
Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal.
She also co-wrote a book on her
mother, who died in 1982, “Alma
Hitchcock: The Woman Behind
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withering fire.
For the next three days, they
struggled to fight off North Viet-
namese regulars, sometimes in
bloody hand-to-hand combat.
Helicopter gunships, fighter-
bombers and artillery fire helped
turn the tide, although a replace-
ment battalion was ambushed
and nearly wiped out while
marching to another clearing,
Landing Zone Albany, in what Mr.
Galloway and Moore described as
“the most savage one-day battle
of the Vietnam War.”
By the end of the fighting, more
than 230 Americans and some
3,000 North Vietnamese were
dead at Ia Drang. Both sides
claimed victory: North Vietnam-
ese leaders came away certain
that they could outlast the Ameri-
cans, while U.S. commander Wil-
liam Westmoreland was con-
vinced that his troops “could
bleed the enemy to death over the
long haul,” as Mr. Galloway and
Moore put it.
Mr. Galloway, who had arrived
on the first night of the battle,
said he planned for years to write
a book with Moore but had put it
off until 1980, when he was flip-
ping channels and came across a
Vietnam War sequence in the
movie “More American Graffiti,”
which brought back memories of
Huey helicopters and deafening
machine-gun fire.
“I found myself sitting in my
chair, shaking like a leaf, with
Pat Hitchcock, left, with actress Janet Leigh, who starred in Alfred
Hitchcock’s film “Psycho,” on Oct. 29, 1997. The only child of the
legendary director, Ms. Hitchcock was an actor herself, and had
parts in a number of her father’s movies and spent decades
championing his work and that of her mother, Alma Reville
Hitchcock, after their deaths.
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tears rolling down my cheeks at
the sight and the memories,” he
told Vietnam Magazine in 2017. “I
thought, you can run from it, and
it will catch you and eat you — or
you can face it. I picked up the
phone the next morning and
called General Moore at his home
in Colorado. ‘Are you ready to
start work on this book?’ He said,
‘I sure am.’ ”
Few memories of Ia Drang
were more painful for Mr. Gallo-
way than the death of Pfc. Jimmy
Nakayama, one of two soldiers
who were accidentally hit with
napalm during a misplaced air-
strike on the battle’s second day.
Joined by an Army medic who
was immediately shot and killed,
Mr. Galloway raced toward en-
emy fire to pull Nakayama from
the flames. The private was evac-
uated but died in a hospital two
days later.
After the Pentagon reopened
nominations for Vietnam battle-
field honors, Mr. Galloway was
awarded the Bronze Star Medal in
1998, becoming the fourth Ameri-
can journalist to receive the hon-
or for bravery in the conflict.
“I accept it,” he said at the time,
“in memory of the 70-plus report-
ers and photographers who were
killed covering the Vietnam War,
trying to tell the truth and keep
the country free.”
Joseph Lee Galloway Jr. was
born in Bryan, Tex., on Nov. 13,
1941, three weeks before the Japa-
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nese attack on Pearl Harbor. His
father served in the Army during
World War II — Mr. Galloway did
not meet him until after the war
had ended — and later got a job
with Humble Oil, leading the
family to move to Refugio, Tex.
Mr. Galloway attended com-
munity college for six weeks be-
fore dropping out in 1959 to enlist
in the Army, which he viewed as a
ticket out of South Texas. His
mother persuaded him to go into
journalism instead, reminding
him that as a boy he had written a
weekly newspaper for their
neighborhood, banging away at a
1912 Remington typewriter.
He joined UPI in 1961 as a
reporter in Kansas City, Mo., and
within two years he was bureau
chief in Topeka, Kan., where he
pestered the news agency’s senior
editors to send him to Vietnam,
sensing from dispatches by Neil
Sheehan of UPI and David Hal-
berstam of the Times that conflict
there was escalating.
Mr. Galloway got his wish in
April 1965, landing in South Viet-
nam a month after the first Amer-
ican combat troops arrived in the
country. He remained there for 16
months and was later UPI bureau
chief in Jakarta, the Indonesian
capital, and in New Delhi, Singa-
pore, Moscow and Los Angeles.
He later won a National Maga-
zine Award at U.S. News & World
Report, for a cover story about the
25th anniversary of the Battle of
Ia Drang, and worked as a special
consultant to Secretary of State
Colin L. Powell before joining
Knight Ridder in 2002.
Mr. Galloway’s wife of 29 years,
the former Theresa Null, died in
1996. His second marriage — to
Karen Metsker, whose father was
killed at Ia Drang — ended in
divorce, and in 2012 he married
Grace Liem Lim Suan Tzu, who
worked as a nurse’s helper during
the Vietnam War.
In addition to his wife, of Con-
cord, survivors include two sons
from his first marriage, Lee Gallo-
way of Corpus Christi, Tex., and
Joshua Galloway of Houston; a
stepdaughter, Li Mei of Concord;
and three grandchildren.
Mr. Galloway partnered with
Moore on another book, “We Are
Soldiers Still” (2008), and teamed
with Marvin J. Wolf to write
“They Were Soldiers” (2020),
about the postwar lives of Viet-
nam veterans. He also appeared
in documentaries such as “The
Vietnam War” (2017), directed by
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
“You do this out of sense of
obligation to those who died and
those who lived — those especial-
ly,” he told Newsday in 1993.
“Their battle had been forgotten.
You just can’t turn your back on
something like that, not if you’ve
seen it with your own eyes.”
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the Man.” (Alfred Hitchcock died
in 1980).
Pat Hitchcock was married for
more than 40 years to Joseph
O’Connell, who died in 1994.
They had three daughters.
She would insist that her child-
hood was happy and that her
parents were normal, but she
wasn’t spared her father’s dis-
tant, controlling nature and his
skewed and sometimes cruel
sense of humor. As a girl, she
often ate alone, was sent to
boarding school and deprived of
a college education when her
father decided she should instead
return to England. She would
express regret that he didn’t cast
her in more of his films.
“I certainly wish he’d believed
in nepotism,” she liked to say.
At home, the director once
painted a clown face on her while
she was sleeping, anticipating
her shock when she awoke the
next morning and first looked in
a mirror. During the filming of
“Strangers on a Train,” knowing
her fear of heights, he bet her
$100 that she wouldn’t ride a
Ferris wheel on the set. She
disputed a story from Donald
Spoto’s 1983 biography “The
Dark Side of Genius” that he left
her stranded, and terrified, for an
hour.
“What happened is they
turned off the lights and pretend-
ed they were going away — for all
of what I’d say were 35 seconds —
and put the lights on and we
came down,” she told the Chicago
Tribune in 1993. “The only ‘sadis-
tic’ part is that I never got the
hundred dollars.”
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IN MEMORIAM
SMILEY
JUDITH SULLIVAN SMILEY
April 27, 1949 - August 19, 2020
It has been a year and we miss your smile,
humor, advice and embrace. We loved you in
life and we still do.
Your Family and Friends
DEATH NOTICE
BANGURA-MINOR
CORA LOUISE BANGURA-MINOR
Transitioned on Friday, August 13, 2021. Family
will receive friends on Friday, August 27, 2021
at FREEMAN FUNERAL SERVICES CHAPEL, 7201
Old Alexandria Ferry Rd., Clinton, MD for a
Celebration of Life Service starting at 11 a.m.
Interment Heritage Memorial Cemetery.
BIELAWSKI
CLARENCE JOSEPH BIELAWSKI (Age 96)
Of Reston, VA, passed August 17, 2021. Sur-
vived by children Kathleen (Robert) Barnes
of Reston, formerly Great Falls, VA and Alan
(Diane) Bielawski of Evanston, IL. He is also
survived by grandchildren Karie (Curtis) Bed-
ford, Andrew (Kristen) Barnes, Jake Bielawski,
Sam (Jaclyn) Bielawski, Hannah and Allison
Bielawski as well as great grandchildren Marcy
and Charlie Kappes and Westin and Miles
Bielawski. Clarence is joining his beloved wife,
Andree, parents, four siblings and great-grand-
son Ryan Kappes in heaven. Born in Milwaukee,
WI on November 7, 1924, Clarence “Papa”
had nice childhood where he enjoyed playing
baseball and speed skating. After graduating
from High School Clarence was drafted into
the Army where he served as a Sergeant with
Company C, 371st Engineer Construction Bat-
talion where he participated in four campaigns
including the Battle of the Bulge. Once hon-
orably discharged in 1945, Clarence began
working for the Army as a civil service employ-
ee and was stationed outside of Paris where
he met and later married the love of his life
Andree. They remained in Europe until 1967
when they moved with their two children to
Virginia. Clarence was very involved with his
family and community. He loved spending time
on the beach, on the slopes and was a world
traveler. He will be greatly missed by his family
and many friends and acquaintances. Mass will
be at St. Thomas a Becket Catholic Church,
1421 Wiehle Ave., Reason, VA on Friday, August
20, 2021 at 1 p.m. followed by interment at
Arnon Cemetery, Great Falls, VA. In lieu of
flowers, memorial donations may be made to
the charity of your choice in Clarence’s name.
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GOWER
JOHN PATRICK GOWER
John Patrick Gower was born in Scranton,
PA in 1936 to the late George and Gertrude
Gower and was called to eternal rest on
August 14, 2021. He graduated from Central
High School in Scranton in 1954 and received
a B.S. in English Literature from the University
of Scranton and a M.A. in Political Science
from Georgetown University.
Jack, as he was commonly known, exempli-
fied a life filled with love, happiness, gen-
erosity, and service. He married the love
of his life, Mary Walsh RN, whom he first
dated in high school and survives him after
62 years of marriage. Also surviving him
are his six beloved children, John (Margaret),
Patrick (Kathryn), Catherine Muha (Richard),
Margaret Brown (James), James (Kathleen),
Molly Kress (Carl); 20 adored grandchildren
and one great grandchild; sister Sally Rogers
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DEATH NOTICE
BROCKHAUS
RICHARD R. BROCKHAUS
On Thursday, August 12, 2021 of Rockville,
MD following an extended illness. Born May
10, 1946 in Cincinnati, OH to the late Joseph
and Evelyn Brockhaus. Richard attended
Ripon College in WI and later received his
PhD in Philosophy from Brown University.
He taught Philosophy at Bucknell University
before moving to the DC area. “Doc Brock”
taught Calculus and Physics at Landon
School in Bethesda, MD for close to 30
years.
Beloved husband of Ann M. Brockhaus;
devoted father of Theresa Ayn and Michael
Richard Brockhaus; cherished step-father
of Katherine Martin (husband, James) and
Elisabeth Marousek (husband, Christo-
pher); adored grandfather of Julianna,
James “Jamie”, and Sarah Martin, Hannah
and Matthew Marousek; loving brother of
Mary Ann Himmelmann.
Services and interment to be held at a
later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial con-
tributions may be made to Ripon College,
PO Box 248, Ripon, WI 54971-0248
(www.ripon.edu) or Landon School, Devel-
opment Office, 6101 Wilson Lane, Bethes-
da, MD 20817 (www.landon.net).
For full obituary and to view and sign the
family guest book, please visit:
www.PumphreyFuneralHome.com
CHALLENGER
MYRON ETHELRIDGE CHALLENGER
Passed away on August 8, 2021. The family will
receive friends on Wednesday, August 25, 2021
at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 6634 St.
Barnabas Rd., Oxon Hill, MD from 10 a.m. until
time of funeral service at 11 a.m. Interment
Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery.
CHAPMAN
BARBARRA CHAPMAN
“Double R-Barr”
Barbarra “Double R-Barr”, passed away peace-
fully on July 31, 2021. She is survived by her son
and daughter, two granddaughters, one great
granddaughter, one friend/daughter. Her furry
friend will miss her. She was a terrific mom, a
champion golfer, lover of life and a great joke
teller. Above all, a friend to many and a best
friend to one. She would want us all to live well,
laugh often and live much - as she did. Services
are private.
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CHATLIN
SHIRLEY FREDA CHATLIN
Shirley Freda Chatlin peacefully passed away
on August 16, 2021. Beloved wife of the
recently deceased Jerry M. Chatlin; mother of
Dr. Steven Chatlin (Tracey), Mitchell Chatlin,
and Karyn Schulman (Gary); dear sister of Dr.
Sam Rudolph; cherished grandmother of Erica
Chatlin, Brad Chatlin, Michael Chatlin, Kevin
Chatlin, Sarah Schulman and Annie Coffman.
Gravesite services will be held at King David
Memorial Gardens on August 19 at 11 a.m.
Arrangements by HINES-RINALDI FUNERAL
HOME. Contributions in her memory can be
made to The American Cancer Society.
FERNANDEZ
MARTA MENES FERNANDEZ
Peacefully passed away on August 12, 2021.
Visitation will be held Thursday, August 19 from
10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Murphy Funeral Home,
Arlington. Mass will be held at St. Charles
Catholic Church on Friday, August 20 at 11
a.m. with interment to follow. To view the
full obituary, please visit https://www.digni-
tymemorial.com/obituaries/arlington-
va/marta-fernandez-10305630.
www.murphyfuneralhomes.com
FINCH
BARBARA ANN FINCH
Barbara Ann Finch, of Harlem, New York, died
August 1, 2021. She was born November 15,
1935 in Washington, DC to Francis and Ruth
Johnson and moved to New York in 1952. She
leaves behind eight nieces and nephews and
a host of other family members and friends.
On Friday, August 20, at Fort Lincoln Ceme-
tery, 3401 Bladensburg Rd., Brentwood, MD, a
viewing will take place at 9:30 a.m. followed by
a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be
held immediately following the service.
HARRISON
CHAUNCEY G. HARRISON
June 9, 1936 ~ August 8, 2021
On Friday, August 20, wake 10 a.m., service
11 a.m. at Reid Temple AME Church, 11400
Glenn Dale Rd., Glenn Dale, MD. Online services
available at the church website and at Ronald
Taylor II Funeral Home website.
(John); and many relatives and friends.
Amongst his early jobs were lifeguard at the
Jewish Community Center and disc jockey at
WARM radio. After college he attended OCS
in Newport, RI, and was commissioned an
ensign in the US Navy. He served aboard the
destroyer USS Bache which was assigned
to the Atlantic Fleet and which participated
in the naval action known as Bay of Pigs.
He later taught at the US Naval Academy,
and after active duty he remained in the
Navy Reserve. He then served honorably
and with distinction for 30 years in the
Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of
Operations clandestine service in six foreign
countries, earning many awards including
the Career Intelligence Medal and rising to
the Senior Intelligence Service. He loved his
country and was devoted to his Catholic
faith. His grandchildren were fond of his tales
of adventure storytelling and he was known
for being an excellent listener and counselor.
He spoke fluent Spanish and Italian and in
retirement enjoyed travelling internationally
with Mary.
Friends will be received at Robert A.
Pumphrey Funeral Home, Rockville, Inc., 300
W. Montgomery Ave, Rockville, MD 20850 on
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 from 5 p.m.
until 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will
be offered at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 520
Veirs Mill Road, Rockville, MD on Thursday,
August 19, 2021 at 10 a.m. Interment will
be at Arlington National Cemetery at a later
date. In lieu of flowers donations may be
made in
Jack’s name to Walter Reed Fisher House
Foundation (www.fisherhouse.org) and the
USO (www.uso.org).
Please view and sign online family guestbook
at: www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
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DEATH NOTICE
HICKMAN
HOWARD WESLEY HICKMAN, JR.
Howard Wesley Hickman, Jr. of Rockville, MD
passed away on August 14, 2021, at the age
of 62. Known to everyone as Wes, he was
born on November 17, 1958 in Escondido, CA
to the late Howard W. Hickman and the late
June L. Hickman. Wes grew up in Southern
California and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force,
serving at both Elmendorf and Vandenberg
Air Force Bases. After his Air Force service,
he moved to Montgomery Co. with his wife
Cathy L. Hickman. Wes worked at several
area businesses before joining the National
Institutes of Health in 2008 in an administrative
position. He worked there until a terminal
cancer diagnosis forced an early retirement at
the end of 2020.
Wes enjoyed home improvement projects, rock
music, and cheering for the Washington
Nationals and the now-former San Diego
Chargers. He also pursued a variety of hobbies
in his life, including playing the guitar, piano,
and video games. He also played rec league
softball for several years and enjoyed an occa-
sional round of golf. His biggest personal pur-
suit was photography, where he was always
seeking the best lighting and angle to capture
life's special, fleeting moments. Wes had firm
political beliefs and was happy to share his
opinion. Most of all, Wes loved family and loved
life. He always dreamed of a happy retirement
where he could pursue all his passions. While
that dream was cut short, Wes would want
those he leaves behind to relish life’s delights.
In addition to his wife Cathy, Wes is survived by
two daughters, Karah Richard and Trina (David)
Griles; a son, Trevor Hickman; grandchildren
Mikayla, Alex, Krista, and Ty Richard, and Leah
and David “Sam” Griles. Wes is also survived
by a sister, Elaine Hickman; and a brother,
Kevin Hickman. He also leaves behind several
brothers- and sisters-in-law, extended family,
colleagues, neighbors, and friends.
Visitation will be held from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.
on Saturday, August 21, 2021 at Robert A.
Pumphrey Funeral Home, 300 W. Montgomery
Ave., Rockville, MD. No other services are
planned. In lieu of flowers, please consider
donating, in memory of Wes, to Montgomery
Hospice at montgomeryhospice.org. Pleas
view and sign online family guestbook at
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
HOLTON
MOSES CLAYBORNE HOLTON "M.C."
Moses Clayborne "M.C." Holton ran a touch-
down into Heaven on Saturday, August, 14,
2021 at the age of 85. He was born on
December 5, 1935 in Johnstown, PA to William
Searce (Father) and Mary Thelma (Hill) Holton
(Mother). M.C. graduated from Johnstown High
School in 1953, relocating to Washington, D.C.
where he retired from the United States Postal
Service. M.C. was a faithful member and Dea-
con of John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church and a
dedicated Washington Redskins fan.
In addition to his parents, he was predeceased
by three sisters, Dorothy McKinney, Marion
Whitlow, and Betty Humphrey. He is survived
by his only brother, William Farris and numer-
ous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Viewing and Funeral services will be held:
Viewing,Thursday, August 19, 4 to 6 p.m.
Marshall-March Funeral Home
4217 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20011
Washington Viewing and Service
Friday, August 20, Viewing 10 to 11 a.m.
Service 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
John Wesley AME Zion Church
1615 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009
Johnstown Viewing and Service
Saturday, August 21, Viewing 10 to 11 a.m.
Service 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Henderson Funeral Home
215 Central Ave, Johnstown, PA 15902
Interment will be at Grandview Cemetery in
Johnstown, PA.
LITVAK
JORGE LITVAK, M.D.
On August 13, 2021, Jorge
Litvak 92, died peacefully at
his home in Bethesda, Mary-
land. Beloved husband of
Paula Litvak; loving father of
Joanna Ehat (Grant), Alexan-
dra Landow (Oliver), and Juan
Pablo Litvak (Christiane); cherished Tata of
grandsons Nate, Alex, Nick, Zack, and Theo.
He was born on May 2, 1929 in Antofagasta,
Chile to Mauricio and Juanita. He was the
last survivor of four brothers: Mario, Sergio,
and Agustin with whom he remained close
throughout their lives.
He graduated from the University of Chile
School of Medicine where he later became
the youngest professor of medicine, dean
of the medical school, and eventually was
named provost of his beloved university.
This brought him great pride. He moved his
family to Washington DC. in 1974 where he
had an illustrious career at the World Health
Organization leading efforts against non-
communicable diseases in Latin America.
A service will be held on August 20 at
3 p.m. at Joseph Gawler’s Sons in Washing-
ton, DC. For those who are not vaccinated
or are unable to attend in person, please
visit https://tinyurl.com/JorgeLitvak . Masks
will be required.
MICHEJDA
MARIA MICHEJDA, M.D., D.Sc.
(Age 84)
Of N. Potomac, MD died from heart failure
August 13, 2021. A loving mother, grand-
mother, wife and friend to many, Maria
was also a distinguished research scientist,
author and holder of patents in her multi-
decade career. She was preceded in death
by her beloved husband, Christopher
Michejda. She is survived by her loving
daughter, Monika Goodrich (Robert); and
grandchildren Gabriella Goodrich and
Andrew Goodrich. A memorial mass will
be held August 28, 2021, at 11 a.m. at
Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Potomac,
MD with a reception immediately following.
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REYNOLDS
NATHAN ABBOTT REYNOLDS
Nathan Abbott Reynolds, age 92, of Falls
Church, Virginia passed August 9, 2021.
Nate was born February 7, 1929 in Etna,
Maine to Dean Stanley and Theresa Clara
Ireland Reynolds. Nate served 10 years
with the USMC and 31 years with the U.S.
Department of State, Washington, DC. He
retired in 1991 as Chief of the Analysis
& Distribution Section, Diplomatic Commu-
nications Center at the USDOS. He is
predeceased by his wife, Virginia “Ginny”
June Mann Reynolds, in 2004, and four
siblings, all life-long residents of Maine:
Dean Stanley, Martha Blanche, Thayes Mari-
ah and Paul Henry. Nate is survived by
daughters, Janet of Raleigh, NC and Joyce
of Falls Church, VA (both graduates of
George C. Marshall High School) and three
grandchildren. Gathering is to be August
21, 2021 at National Funeral Home in Falls
Church 9:30 to 11 a.m. with burial after.
More details shared at:
www.NationalFH-MP.com
SINGLETON
LILLIAN E. SINGLETON
Lillian Corliss Easterling Singleton entered
into eternal rest on Monday, August 9,
2021. She joins her beloved husband, Way-
land S. Singleton who preceded her in
death. Also preceding were her parents,
Lewis and Adeline Easterling and Maxie
Easterling. She is survived by a loving family
including her three daughters, Sylvia S.
Banks, Wilmington, DE, Danita R. McCleary
(James), Millsboro, DE and Cynthia M.
Lewis, Fredericksburg, VA. Six grandchil-
dren, Scott C. Banks, Sonya A. Pines, Mark
Pines, III (Bonita), Carissa M. Robinson (Pre-
ston), James W. McCleary (Amanda) and
Alexys N. Lewis. Ten great-grandchildren
Kennedy Graham, Taylor Banks, Scott Banks
II, Mark Pines, IV, Lanaya Pines, Landon
Pines, Amirah Robinson, Taelynn McCleary,
Camren Jackson and Kyelle McCleary. She
also leaves to mourn her passing a host of
extended family, church family and friends.
Services will be held on Saturday, August
21, 2021 at East Washington Heights Baptist
Church 2220 Branch Ave. S.E. Washington,
D.C. 20020. Family will receive friends from
10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. with a service of
remembrance at 12noon. Masks are
required for attendees. Inurnment will take
place at Arlington National Cemetery at a
later date. Professional Services entrusted
to The Congo Funeral Home, Wilmington,
DE.
STOCKLIN
FRANK J. STOCKLIN (Age 82)
Frank Joseph Stocklin, beloved husband of
Inge for 60 years, entered into eternal rest on
August 17, 2021. He is survived by three sons:
Scott (Joanne), Kevin (Cara) and Eric (Elizabeth)
Stocklin and grandchildren Patrick, Michael,
Kristyna, Bradley and Henry, as well as his
siblings Alice, Walter and Robert. Frank’s family
was the center of his life.
Frank exemplified a life of love, happiness,
generosity and service. He grew up in Astoria,
New York, and graduated from City College of
New York, with a BS in electrical engineering.
Frank paid his way through college, working
on films and TV shows in New York City.
Upon graduation from college, he worked for
Grumman Aircraft and Motorola Corporation.
Beginning in 1967, Frank began working for
NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center,
where he spent the remainder of his career
until his death. In 2017, he was recognized
for fifty years with NASA, receiving the distin-
guished “Award of Merit.”
Frank was an avid athlete, running a marathon,
playing basketball and softball, and refereeing
high school and college basketball. He was
an active member of his community, including
coaching baseball, football and basketball for
the Laurel Boys and Girls Club, and teaching a
graduate engineering class at the University of
Maryland.
A memorial service will be held at St. Louis
Catholic Church in Clarksville, MD, on Saturday,
August 21, at 10 a.m. Friends and family are
welcome to share in this celebration of Frank’s
life.
DEATH NOTICE
TAYLOR
JOHN W. TAYLOR
On Wednesday, August 11, 2021, John W. Taylor
passed away peacefully. He was the loving
husband of Marjorie Taylor; father of Hope,
Victoria, Lamar, and Rebecca; and brother of
Earl, Donald, Paula, Roy, and Arlean. He is also
survived by 12 grandchildren: Tameka, Tiffany,
Mikal, Majik, Tyana, Jared, Malcolm, Evan,
Xavier, Paige, Quentin, and Maxwell; seven
great-grandchildren: Jacquan, Hope, Mace,
Keith, Chance, Roman, Cadence, and a host
of other relatives, church family, and friends.
Visitation 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. Service to
follow 11 a.m., Friday, August 20, 2021 at
Dupont Park Seventh Day Adventist Church,
3985 Massachusetts Ave. SE, Washington, DC
20019. Interment will be at George Washington
Cemetery in Adelphi, MD.
www.marshallmarchfh.com
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VARNER PENA
LEONARD WILLIAM VARNER, JR.
Born April 29, 1920 in Holly Hill, SC, long-
time resident of Falls Church, VA, “Bill”
Varner died on Wednesday, August 11, 2021
after living more than 101 wonderful years.
He was married to Lillian Crowell Varner
for 66 years, until her death in 2011. He
is survived by daughter Rosemary Prouty
and her husband Peter; son Bill Varner III
and his wife Linda; grandson Ryan Ging and
his wife Jill Padvelskis; and grandson Kevin
Ging. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m.
on Monday, August 23, at Demaine Funeral
Home, 10565 Main St, Fairfax, VA 22030.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m.
on Tuesday, August 24, at Faith Lutheran
Church, 3313 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, VA,
22201. Interment will be in Holly Hill, SC at
a later date. Contributions may be made
to the Wounded Warriors Project or the
Chesapeake Bay Trust. MARTIN C. PENA (Age 73)
Of Crownsville, MD passed away at his home
on Sunday, August 15, 2021. Born May 17, 1948
in Corpus Christi, TX to Manuel Pena & Francis
Gonzalez Pena.
Marty had a smile for everyone and was a
WARD positive loving person. He worked hard all his
life and founded Action Fabricators & Erectors
of which he was extremely proud. He was a fair
HAZEL JOHNSON WARD man who always believed the best in everyone.
(Age 95)
He was loyal husband, father, brother and
On August 2, 2021. Beloved wife of the late friend and will be missed by all who knew him.
Hampton H. Ward. She leave to mourn her
Marty is survived by his loving wife, Beth and
passing nieces and nephew, Lynn, Nicole
and William Hayes. Family will receive
his children, Martin Eustis (Paige) of Taney-
town, MD, Jennifer Phillips (Brice) of Riva, MD,
friends today August 19, 2021 from 10 a.m. Daniel Pena of Gambrills, MD and his step
until service at 11 a.m. at Northeastern
children, Adam Weitz of Millersville, MD and
Presbyterian Church, 2112 Varnum Street Danielle Erline (Kris) of Westminster, MD and
NE. Interment Maryland National Memorial
eight - with one on the way - grandchildren.
Park He loved his grandchildren and will always be
www.snowdencares.com
remembered for the freezer full of ice cream
and his large stash of chocolate.
Marty is also survived by his brothers, Mike,
Jerry and Mark and his sisters, Sara Pena
Robinson and Linda Pena and many cousins in
IN MEMORIAM Texas, California, and Illinois.
Marty loved life and lived it to the fullest every
GREEN single day and will be deeply missed.
The family will receive friends at Beall Funeral
Home, 6512 NW Crain Hwy., Bowie, MD 20715,
on Friday, August 20 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.,
followed by a Funeral Service.
Please view and sign Family guestbook at
www.beallfuneral.com
WEST
SEAN NICHOLAS GREEN
August 19, 1977 - November 13, 2008
Happy 44th Birthday, Sean!
Love, Mommy, Steve, Staci & Family
DEATH NOTICE
BOSTICK
EDWIN ALLYN WEST, JR. (Age 85)
Of Fremont, NH passed away surrounded
by family, August 10, 2021. He was born
October 28, 1935, in Holyoke, MA, the son
of Edwin A. West and Adah E. Dunham.
Allyn had a long career at NASA and lived
in Arlington, Virginia. Allyn is survived by
his wife Jo and four children A memorial
service will be held at a later date. Durning,
Bykowski and Young Funeral Home is han-
dling funeral arrangements.
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Partly sunny and humid Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday OFFICIAL REC ORD
Partly sunny T-storm T-storm Mostly cloudy T-storm Partly sunny
We’ll see lots of sun in the morning possible possible Temperatures AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

and some bubbling clouds as we

head into the afternoon. It’s been a
while since we’ve seen a day at or
above 90 degrees, and this one
should get to right about that mark. A shower or
storm is possible later in the day. It looks like
most of that will stay south, though. Winds will
be turning to the northwest and north with time,
90° 74 ° 81° 71 ° 84° 73 ° 88° 74 ° 91° 74 ° 90° 73 °

FEELS*: 94° FEELS: 89° FEELS: 92° FEELS: 94° FEELS: 96° FEELS: 96°
but humidity will remain high. CHNCE PRECIP: 25% P: 60% P: 45% P: 25% P: 30% P: 25%
WIND: WNW 7–14 mph W: NNE 4–8 mph W: WSW 4–8 mph W: ESE 4–8 mph W: E 4–8 mph W: N 4–8 mph
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REGIO N NATION Weather map features for noon today.

Reagan Dulles BWI
High 87° 4:00 p.m. 88° 4:00 p.m. 87° 12:35 p.m.
Low 79° 3:00 a.m. 73° 2:30 a.m. 78° 6:12 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
87/74 Normal 88°/71° 86°/65° 87°/66°
86/72 Record high 98° 2002 98° 2009 96° 2019
Hagerstown Record low 54° 1902 45° 1981 51° 1981
Baltimore
86/70
90/73 Dover Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –0.4° yr. to date: +0.2°
88/73
Davis Washington Cape May Precipitation PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST

77/63 Annapolis 87/74

90/74 89/73 OCEAN: 76°

Charlottesville Ocean City

91/71 86/75
OCEAN: 78°
Lexington
91/70
Richmond
91/72 Virginia Beach
91/78 Reagan Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 81°
91/76 Past 24 hours 0.36" 0.78" 0.07"
Total this month 5.69" 3.26" 2.33"
Kitty Hawk
87/77
Normal 1.88" 2.06" 2.42"
OCEAN: 81° Total this year 31.80" 22.92" 25.33"
Normal 26.54" 27.75" 28.11"
Pollen: Moderate Air Quality: Good
Grass Moderate Dominant cause: Ozone
Trees Low
Weeds Low UV: High Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 6 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 6:25 a.m. 7:57 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, sun, some clouds. A couple of showers Moon 6:28 p.m. 2:49 a.m.
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Aug 22 Aug 30 Sep 6 Sep 13
and a thunderstorm; any time in central parts, in the Yesterday's National World
Full Last New First
Venus 9:32 a.m. 9:30 p.m.
afternoon in southern parts, and dry in northern parts. High High: Zapata, TX 104° High: Ahwaz, Iran 114° Mars 7:47 a.m. 8:42 p.m.
Quarter Quarter
<–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ Low: Bodie State Park, CA 29° Low: La Paz, Bolivia 22° Jupiter 7:58 p.m. 6:35 a.m.
75 to 79. Winds west 4–8 mph. Tonight, a thunderstorm in for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 7:04 p.m. 5:03 a.m.
the area.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow Des Moines 88/71/pc 88/67/t Oklahoma City 85/73/t 92/73/c WORLD Today Tomorrow Hong Kong 89/81/sh 89/81/sh Rio de Janeiro 81/67/s 81/67/s
Atlantic beaches: Today, partly sunny, humid; a stray Detroit 85/68/t 85/67/t Omaha 89/75/pc 91/65/t Islamabad 100/75/s 95/77/s Riyadh 109/82/s 110/88/s
thunderstorm in the south this afternoon. High 86 to 91. Albany, NY 76/66/t 81/67/pc El Paso 90/70/s 92/69/s Orlando 95/76/t 93/76/t Addis Ababa 70/55/sh 71/55/sh Istanbul 83/71/pc 83/70/s Rome 87/71/s 87/69/s
Winds south–southwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, uncomfortably Albuquerque 86/65/pc 86/64/s Fairbanks, AK 58/50/r 55/47/r Philadelphia 87/74/pc 81/71/t Amsterdam 67/58/sh 72/56/sh Jerusalem 82/69/s 84/72/s San Salvador 81/69/t 81/69/t
humid; a thunderstorm in spots in the south. Low 73 to 77. Anchorage 63/54/pc 62/48/pc Fargo, ND 95/70/pc 77/56/t Phoenix 97/79/s 98/78/s Athens 92/78/t 91/74/s Johannesburg 70/44/s 72/49/s Santiago 57/37/r 59/43/c
Winds west–southwest 4–8 mph. Atlanta 87/72/t 87/72/t Hartford, CT 83/71/t 87/70/pc Pittsburgh 80/65/t 82/64/t Auckland 59/49/pc 61/47/pc Kabul 89/59/s 82/58/s Sarajevo 79/49/s 84/54/s
Austin 94/76/pc 94/74/pc Honolulu 87/76/s 87/76/s Portland, ME 76/68/r 83/68/c Baghdad 110/80/pc 111/81/pc Kingston, Jam. 88/80/t 88/80/t Seoul 88/72/pc 86/73/r
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, sun, some clouds. Wind Baltimore 90/73/pc 81/70/t Houston 92/79/t 96/78/pc Portland, OR 78/62/s 72/59/c Bangkok 94/78/pc 93/79/c Kolkata 86/81/t 87/81/sh Shanghai 88/78/sh 91/78/c
west 4–8 knots. Waves 2 feet or less. Visibility clear to the horizon. Billings, MT 60/53/c 69/52/sh Indianapolis 85/70/pc 86/70/pc Providence, RI 81/72/t 86/72/pc Beijing 75/69/r 81/67/pc Lagos 86/76/t 85/76/pc Singapore 85/76/c 85/77/sh
• Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind Birmingham 86/72/t 86/73/t Jackson, MS 89/75/t 90/73/t Raleigh, NC 92/72/pc 86/70/t Berlin 70/60/c 72/56/pc Lima 65/60/pc 65/61/pc Stockholm 61/47/pc 64/46/pc
southwest 4–8 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac and Bismarck, ND 90/66/c 75/55/t Jacksonville, FL 91/74/t 92/74/t Reno, NV 80/53/s 88/56/s Bogota 64/52/pc 62/50/r Lisbon 81/62/s 82/63/pc Sydney 69/50/pc 73/54/s
Boise 80/56/pc 84/59/s Kansas City, MO 87/73/pc 87/69/t Richmond 91/72/pc 80/70/t Brussels 69/56/sh 72/57/sh London 69/57/pc 74/59/c Taipei City 94/78/t 93/79/t
the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be
Boston 80/73/t 85/74/c Las Vegas 95/76/s 96/77/s Sacramento 91/59/s 90/58/s Buenos Aires 63/50/t 63/48/pc Madrid 95/66/s 95/66/s Tehran 93/77/s 96/81/s
around 3.10 feet today, rising to 3.60 Friday. Flood stage at Little Buffalo 84/68/t 85/68/pc Little Rock 86/74/t 89/76/r St. Louis 89/75/pc 87/75/t Cairo 97/77/s 99/78/s Manila 90/80/t 90/79/t Tokyo 89/79/s 88/78/s
Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 76/69/r 87/69/pc Los Angeles 80/64/pc 78/64/pc St. Thomas, VI 89/82/pc 89/83/t Caracas 72/63/t 72/64/sh Mexico City 76/55/t 73/58/pc Toronto 85/65/pc 86/69/pc
Charleston, SC 90/75/t 91/75/t Louisville 84/72/t 88/72/pc Salt Lake City 65/55/t 78/62/s Copenhagen 68/55/sh 68/54/sh Montreal 80/69/sh 89/70/pc Vienna 76/57/pc 80/60/pc
Charleston, WV 78/67/t 82/65/t Memphis 86/76/t 86/76/t San Diego 76/68/pc 75/68/pc Dakar 83/79/t 85/80/t Moscow 77/58/t 79/59/s Warsaw 72/58/pc 73/57/t
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 92/72/t 87/70/t Miami 91/78/t 91/79/t San Francisco 74/58/s 74/58/pc Dublin 65/56/sh 67/59/r Mumbai 87/81/sh 87/80/sh
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 12:08 a.m. 5:42 a.m. 1:13 p.m. 6:24 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 75/52/t 71/47/s Milwaukee 83/68/pc 84/71/pc San Juan, PR 89/80/sh 89/80/t Edinburgh 62/51/pc 65/58/sh Nairobi 75/54/pc 75/58/t sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
Chicago 86/70/pc 88/73/s Minneapolis 91/72/pc 87/65/t Seattle 76/59/s 69/57/c Frankfurt 72/56/c 76/55/pc New Delhi 93/82/t 87/79/r sn-snow, i-ice
Annapolis 3:30 a.m. 10:06 a.m. 2:59 p.m. 9:13 p.m.
Cincinnati 83/69/t 85/68/t Nashville 84/73/t 88/73/t Spokane, WA 81/57/pc 76/55/c Geneva 75/56/s 78/57/s Oslo 66/48/sh 64/47/sh Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
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Cleveland 82/65/t 83/65/t New Orleans 92/79/t 93/78/pc Syracuse 78/68/t 84/69/pc Ham., Bermuda 88/80/s 88/81/t Ottawa 81/66/c 89/68/t quality data); National Weather Service
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Baltimore o∞cer stripped of gun 20 years ago still got paid

BY J USTIN F ENTON Gorwell was ready to go. Two days before the trial date, trative roles across the agency. Gorwell is not named in the
“I have had the honor and a police crime lab technician The late Sgt. Lou Hopson was report released. But the details of
baltimore — Almost 20 years pleasure of working [with] some decided to conduct a test for prevented from carrying a gun the report, as well as the unique
ago, the Baltimore Police Depart- of the greatest hero’s on earth,” gunshot residue — using new due to a domestic violence con- arrangement, match the circum-
ment was so concerned about the Gorwell wrote in a Facebook post testing equipment that had been viction but continued working in stances of Gorwell’s case.
possibility of Officer Edward Aug. 1. “To those who are still in unavailable to police in 1993. the juvenile booking section. Over the last five years, Gor-
Gorwell beating an administra- the grind. Stay true to yourself, That test revealed traces of gun- There are some officers who well’s salary rose from $83,800 to
tive hearing and returning to the stay safe, back each other up and shot residue from Thomas’s left were once on former State’s At- $92,500, while he earned signifi-
streets that it struck an unusual join the club in [sic] your terms.” hand, police said at the time, even torney Patricia C. Jessamy’s “do cant amounts of overtime each
deal. Attorney Sean Malone was though no weapon was found at not call” list who continue to year — between $28,000 and
Gorwell had shot and killed a head of the department’s legal the scene. Prosecutors then work jobs like security. $35,000 annually. The Inspector
teenager in 1993, and was affairs at the time the deal with dropped the case on the morning “There are a lot of positions General’s Office said Gorwell was
charged with manslaughter. Gorwell was struck, and he said of Gorwell’s scheduled trial. within the police department paid $600,000 over the past five
Years went by as the case wound that the agreement was a com- “I don’t hate you,” Thomas’s that require individuals with law years.
through the court system and promise. He said his recollection father told Gorwell in the court- enforcement experience and In a response, Commissioner
was dropped eventually by pros- was that Gorwell was to retire room. “But as long as I live I will background to assist in those Michael Harrison wrote that the
ecutors in 1999. after he reached 20 years with the know in my heart my son did not positions,” said Davey, the lawyer department agreed that the per-
In 2002, fearing Gorwell might department. shoot at you. I will never give up for the Fraternal Order of Police manent suspension status pro-
prevail in an administrative hear- “The mistake that was made trying to find some evidence.” Lodge 3. “If they didn’t use offi- hibited Gorwell from “ever serv-
ing, the department agreed to let was in letting him work another Malone, the former head of cers who couldn’t testify or the ing in a law enforcement capacity
him stay on the force at an 10 years,” Malone said. ANDRÉ CHUNG/BALTIMORE SUN legal affairs, said police officials state’s attorney’s office wouldn’t for the Baltimore Police Depart-
officer’s salary and eligible for a Gorwell joined the depart- Officer Edward Gorwell lost his were concerned they would not let testify, they’d have to take ment.”
pension, but without police pow- ment in 1990. In 1993, he fatally police powers in 2002 but be able to prove an internal someone with sworn police pow- “As such, that would place into
ers and a gun. shot 14-year-old Simmont D. remained at an officer’s salary disciplinary case, and did not ers off the street.” a similar status as other members
That agreement held until ear- Thomas in the back. The boy was until his retirement this month. want Gorwell returning to the “Individuals in similar situa- who are medically unable to re-
lier this month. The Inspector fleeing from a stolen car in a streets. They also felt he was tions to Gorwell definitely have turn to full service and, pursuant
General’s Office said in a report densely wooded area at the edge performing well in the adminis- an important role in the depart- to the FOP MOU, the department
released Aug. 11 that it received a of Gwynns Falls Park in West trative job and could continue to ment,” Davey said. is able to separate them from
tip complaining about the ar- Baltimore. Gorwell said at the Over the last five years, contribute, he said. The Inspector General’s report service,” Harrison wrote.
rangement, investigated and de- time that he heard a gunshot and Gorwell had to hand in his describes Gorwell’s arrangement He said the Police Department
termined Gorwell’s permanent then opened fire, hitting the run- Gorwell’s salary rose badge and gun, and instead as “potential financial waste.” notified Gorwell and his legal
suspension of his police powers ning teen. No gun other than worked in the communications “The officer’s permanent loss counsel that he would be fired
made him eligible to be fired Gorwell’s was found at the scene. from $83,800 to section. The arrangement was of police powers contradicts their effective Aug. 1.
because he was unable to carry Within weeks, Gorwell was conveyed publicly by Malone. ability to hold the position of BPD Malone, the former legal af-
out his duties. charged with manslaughter. The $92,500, while he The Baltimore Police Depart- police officer under the City’s fairs chief, said the Inspector
Gorwell could not be reached Baltimore Sun described the case ment has long had sworn officers relevant job description,” the re- General’s Office never reached
for comment. His union attorney, at the time as “one of the more earned significant work jobs typically filled by non- port says. “The job classification out to him about the case. He said
Michael Davey, said he had been controversial and racially tinged officers in other departments, for a BPD police officer includes they also got information wrong,
working in the department’s cases of deadly force in recent amounts of overtime — and has frequently talked about performing duties such as main- such as saying that a pact on
“building and construction unit” Baltimore police history.” Thom- “civilianizing” those functions. taining order, detaining and ar- Gorwell’s status was the result of
and retired after Police Commis- as was Black; Gorwell is White. between $28,000 and And there are scores of officers resting suspects, serving arrest an administrative hearing — it
sioner Michael Harrison said His first trial in 1993 ended in a who over the years have not had warrants and summonses, and was a settlement.
he concurred with the IG’s analy- mistrial when one of the jurors $35,000 annually. their police powers suspended testifying in court. Further, a BPD “They’re ignoring the reality of
sis and would move to fire Gor- failed to show up for delibera- permanently but were kept on police officer must be able to the situation” at the time, Malone
well. tions. After appeals that reached desk jobs as a result of contro- protect life and property within said. “Is it wasteful? It seems like
“We don’t believe it would have the U.S. Supreme Court, Gorwell versy. The officers charged in the the City.” they needed him, look at all the
been a justifiable termination,” was scheduled for trial again in death of Freddie Gray all remain Per the Inspector General’s Of- overtime he worked.”
Davey said, but he added that 1999. on the force but work in adminis- fice’s policy on investigations, — Baltimore Sun

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Commission is changing Here’s what to know about Things are getting heated
its grant structure, giving the singer’s charges as at this dinner table over
more to smaller groups. C4 his trial gets underway. C4 the use of hot sauce. C8

Karen Ann
Daniels to
run Folger
Theatre
BY P ETER M ARKS

new york — Karen Ann Daniels,

who brings the Public Theater’s
productions to underserved com-
munities in New York City, has
been named as the new artistic
leader of Folger Theatre, the com-
pany announced Wednesday.
Daniels, 45, has been director
of the Public’s Mobile Unit since
2019 and before that had similar
audience-engagement responsi-
bilities for six years at the Old
Globe Theatre in her hometown
of San Diego. She assumes her
new job on Oct. 1 as artistic
director and director of program-
ming at Folger, a renowned li-
brary on Capitol Hill for Shake-
speare scholarship, with a long
tradition, too, of staging innova-
tive classical work.
“The job description said to me
that the theater was one avenue
for connecting to the D.C. public,”
Daniels said over a recent lunch
on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
“It wasn’t all about raising our
national and international pro-
file. It had to do with how do we
become relevant.”
Leadership at a number of the
nation’s performing arts institu-
tions is undergoing change as an
older generation of arts adminis-
trators departs. Daniels succeeds
Janet Griffin, who produced dra-
ma in the Folger’s 265-seat thea-
ter for 30 years. Increasingly, the
turnover is a response to a belief
— occasioned in part by the Black
Lives Matter movement — that
new thinking is urgently needed
to expand and diversify audienc-
es.
Daniels will be one of only a
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BOOK WORLD

Irresistible
allure of
The right hue that’s totally you
Back from the

mythical
creatures
BY M ICHAEL D IRDA
Sirens, mermaids, the Phoenix
and the Sphinx, dragons, griffins
and unicorns, the Roc, the Kraken
and the Wendigo, basilisks and
gorgons, vampires, werewolves
and Martian invaders — as Julie
Andrews once sang, these are a
few of my favorite things.
Ever since my father told me,
long ago, about the Cyclops, I
have been enchanted by, and
sometimes frightened of, mythi-
cal creatures and fantastic beasts.
The special-effects genius Ray
Harryhausen brought many of
these to scary life in such sword-
and-sandal epics as “The Seventh
Voyage of Sinbad,” “Jason and the
Argonauts” and “Clash of the Ti-
tans.” As a teenager, I would lie
awake wondering about the Loch
Ness monster, the Creature from
the Black Lagoon and the Abomi-
nable Snowman (not to mention
tentacled aliens in flying sau-
cers). Could they possibly exist?
As it happens, four recent books
survey, celebrate and analyze sev-
eral star attractions from the twi-
light zone of zoological fantasy.
“The Penguin Book of Mer-
maids,” edited by Cristina Bacchi-
lega and Marie Alohalani Brown,
contains 300 pages about water
deities, nereides, undines, selkies,
SEE BOOK WORLD ON C4
“I almost wish, in many ways, that I had been wrong,” says Rep. Barbara Lee, who cast the lone vote
against authorizing the use of force in 2001. “Because what’s taking place today is terrifying.”
I
would describe my appearance in pretty basic terms: I’m fair, with blue eyes and freckles. I used to have
’80s, color
analysis for
black hair when I was a kid, but now — thanks to a pandemic year without hair dye — it’s faded to silver. I
wear simple black dresses and red lipstick. But here’s what happens when I ask some color analysts —
the selfie era people trained to help clients find the colors that look best on them, often grouped according to the seasons
of the year — to describe me, instead. ¶ The first, who works in Washington, deemed me a winter with just a dash
BY M AURA J UDKIS of summer, and praised my skin tone with words like “rich” and “cool.” That was nice, but then a different one, in
Canada, said she wasn’t getting winter vibes from me at all, at least not over a Zoom call. A third color analyst, way
out West, ditched the seasonal categories altogether: ¶ “I would guess that you are bright, cool and deep,” says
Natalie Bowman, who consults with clients in Corvallis, Ore. “You have very high contrast. So those bright colors
will look perfect.” SEE COLOR ANALYSIS ON C2
Melany Carlos, an image consultant specializing in seasonal color analysis, takes a photo of client Juli Stott after draping
various colorful cloths on her. Seasonal color analysis — a big trend in the ’80s — has returned for a younger generation.
No feeling of vindication
for Afghan war dissenter
BY R OXANNE R OBERTS came here because I want to per-
sonally apologize and I want my
In 2019, Rep. Barbara Lee was son to see me apologize to you for
campaigning for Sen. Kamala that.”
Harris in South Carolina when For 20 years, Lee was like the
she was a approached by a big, mythical Cassandra: Gifted with
burly man and his child. He didn’t the ability to predict the future,
want to talk about Harris. He cursed that no one would believe
wanted to talk about something her. Then came the endless wars
Lee did in 2001: She was the only in Afghanistan and Iraq, the tril-
member of Congress to vote lions of dollars and thousands of
against authorizing unlimited lives sacrificed, and now the stun-
military force in the aftermath of ning collapse of Kabul.
the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “I almost wish, in many ways,
“I wasn’t sure what was going that I had been wrong,” she said.
on” as the man walked up to her, “Because what’s taking place to-
the California Democrat recalled day is terrifying.”
Tuesday. He explained that he was Suddenly, Lee is the voice ev-
initially furious about her vote eryone wants to hear. Every cable
but, over the years, had a change pundit wants her opinion. Her
of heart. “What you did, I hated office is inundated with media
TOM WILLIAMS/CQ ROLL CALL/ASSOCIATED PRESS you,” he told her with tears in his requests, even as she is scram-
eyes. “But I understand now ex- bling to protect and evacuate U.S.
actly what that was all about. I SEE LEE ON C3
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Wait, not everyone looks good in black? Color us intrigued.

COLOR ANALYSIS FROM C1

Who am I? What am I? What

kind of lipstick should I wear?
These existential questions, best
addressed by philosophers, clergy
and shrinks, have found a new
oracle. Seasonal color analysis — a
big trend in the 1980s — has re-
turned for a younger generation
determined to find out whether
they are a winter, spring, summer
or autumn, and subsequently,
which colors suit them.
One would think that after dec-
ades of inhabiting the same body
and seeing its reflection in the
mirror every day, a person would
know the shades that flatter them.
It might sound silly to pay some-
one hundreds of dollars to tell you
something you should be able to
figure out with your own two eyes,
but people are historically bad at
it, the analysts say.
SHINISTA ANDERSON
“Intuitively we think, ‘Well, it’s
me, I should know,’ ” says Chris- Alizebeth Wallace, 20, learned that she is a “summer” and tries
tine Scaman, founder of a color to stick to that color palette.
analysis system called 12 Blue-
prints. “But then the world gets
into your head.”
For example: Pantone declares
a particular yellow the color of the
year, even though it makes certain
skin tones look jaundiced. Or your
friend persuades you to try blue
smoky eye shadow, or tells you
that sage green bridesmaid dress
looks soooo cute, or, ugh, remem-
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ber that one year every godawful
thing was millennial pink? Be- Melany Carlos, an Arlington image consultant with the House of Color, drapes cloths over client
sides, despite what fashion maga- Juli Stott. Carlos attended a color analysis session herself — and the compliments started rolling in.
zines preach, not everyone looks
good in black.
Like me, apparently?
That’s the verdict of Melany
Carlos, an Arlington image con-
sultant with the House of Color, a
chain of trained seasonal color
analysts. Carlos tied my hair up in
a white, “Handmaid’s Tale”-esque
bonnet, and layered my neck with
about two dozen of her
336 scarves, each a different color.
In quick succession, she began
whisking them away, like a magi-
cian pulling a tablecloth out from
under a full place setting. Bright
purple. Lilac. Dark navy, then
light. Bubble gum pink, mauve,
fuchsia, strawberry. Cream, then
pure white. FAMILY PHOTO

“We lost your jawline a bit Abiola Elusoji, 22, discovered she was “bright, cool and deep”
there,” she says, frowning. after a color analysis session.
“If you are warm, these blue-
based colors can drain color from
your face, sometimes make your
lips look a bit blue, sometimes put
bags under your eyes,” she says. “If
you’re cool, these warm colors will
give you that sallow, yellow look to
your skin. Even the whites of your
eyes can go a little bit yellow.”
On the cool-toned scarves, my
skin looked “bright and healthy,”
she noted. On the warm ones, it
looked “orangy.”
Another set of scarves: Rich sky
blues, pastel yellows, maroon,
teal, slate gray. And then, Carlos’s
diagnosis: I am, it turns out, a
“dark summer” meant to wear
cool, muted colors like baby blue
and plum.
A dark summer. How 2021.
Seasonal color analysis isn’t the
only system. There’s also the Your
Color Style methodology, a frame-
work that eschews calendrical ref-
erences for a trio of adjectives for
each person’s type: You might be
“Soft, cool and medium” or “Bright,
warm and light,” for example.
“With the seasonal thing, it feels
like very poetic,” says Bowman, who
is trained in both methodologies
BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST FAMILY PHOTO
and finds Your Color Style to be
easier. “This is like: You are bright Stott holds swatches customized for her personal color characteristics by Carlos. “There’s no color Scott Orsborn, 44, compared his color analysis experience to
or soft, you are warm or cool, you police out there,” Carlos says, explaining that people can use the information however they wish. “getting your caricature drawn . . . It’s very eye-opening.”
are light, medium or deep. So it
translates a little bit easier.”
Those trained in the art of color
analysis see mismatches every- population is winter or summer,” colors with the different drapes says Abiola Elusoji, who paid For example: The book “Color makes me feel better knowing that
where, like a doctor who can’t help Janet says, confidently, and then, that’s she’s putting on me, and I about $350 for an online consulta- Your Life” by Howard and Dorothy that color actually didn’t suit me
but notice a malignant mole on a cringe: “Blacks, Jews, Italians, thought, ‘Holy smokes,’ ” she says. tion with Bowman, and learned Sun describes the “summer person- very well,” she says.
random stranger’s neck. most often, are winters.” (Moore, “I could not believe it.” that she was “bright, cool and ality” as belonging to “very serious Sometimes, a color consultant
“You can’t turn it off,” says Sca- whose colors she analyzes on cam- Previously drawn to autumn col- deep.” She expanded her mostly people with a warm heart and deep will tell someone what they are, and
man. era, is found to be a spring.) ors because of her brown hair, she black wardrobe to incorporate feelings, but they find their feelings they won’t want to hear it. When
More inclusive techniques discovered she was a winter. Then, bold jewel tones. The 22-year-old hard to express. They often lack Carlos’s mother was told she was an
any color analysis compa- eventually emerged (as did an- working as a dental hygienist, Carlos Chicago resident says it enhanced spontaneity and a basic willingness autumn, she received the news as if

M nies consider the Swiss ex-

pressionist painter Jo-
hannes Itten, a member of the
Bauhaus school, to be the fore-
father of the practice. Itten, whose
book “The Elements of Color”
rests on Carlos’s countertop, was
the first to divide colors into sea-
sons based on their tone, and to
associate palettes with personality
traits.
Color analysis entered fashion
with the publication of two books:
“Color Me a Season,” by Bernice
Kentner in 1978, and “Color Me
Beautiful,” by Carole Jackson, two
years later. The problem was that
Kentner and Jackson were both
White, and the book was written for
people who looked like them: Ev-
eryone with olive or Black skin was
automatically deemed a winter.
Like Tupperware and Mary Kay
salespeople, women who were
trained in the art of color analysis
saw clients in their homes and
earned commissions on makeup
and product sales. An Amway col-
or analyst, Janet, makes a memo-
rable appearance in Michael
Moore’s 1989 documentary, “Rog-
er & Me,” bringing her colored
scarves to a party.
“About 80 percent of the world’s
other book, in 1994 — “Women of
Color” by Darlene Mathis) that
offered a more nuanced approach.
Contemporary color analysts no
longer automatically assign a sea-
son to a person based on their skin
color, but the field is still predomi-
nantly White, and many of the im-
ages used as examples of different
seasons are White women, too.
Looking at one color analyst’s
website, “I don’t see any diversity
at all,” says D’angelo Thompson, a
stylist and makeup artist in New
York. “It only skews to fair skin,
and they say warmer skin tones,
but I don’t really see it.”
When clients ask him what sea-
son he thinks they are, he tries to
steer them away from the notion.
“I think assigning a season is
kind of antiquated,” Thompson
says. “I don’t like putting people in
boxes, even when it comes to col-
or.”
elany Carlos got into color
M analysis after she had kids
and was acclimating to a
new wardrobe for her new body.
Her mother scheduled an analysis
for both of them as an outing.
“I just remember sitting in the
chair looking at my face change
bought scrubs in all of her colors, and
the comments started rolling in from
her patients: “Have you lost weight,
were you on vacation, did you get a
tan? I had one old lady asking me if I
was having an affair,” she says. “She’s
like, ‘You just look so happy.’ ”
Then she trained with House of
Color, a British-based company
that is rapidly growing in the Unit-
ed States. Most color consulting
companies aren’t multilevel mar-
keting schemes — they operate on
a franchise model and don’t re-
quire recruiting a “downline” —
but they seem to attract a similar
clientele. Both MLMs and color
consulting firms recruit women
who want to work part time from
home, and require a large initial
investment —$16,000, for House
of Color, in addition to monthly
dues and products they purchase
through the company.
Color consultants can charge
hundreds of dollars per session,
and earn a profit even after deduct-
ing the costs of the printed swatch-
es they might include in the pack-
age for each customer. Carlos, who
charges between $215 and
$245 per session, says she has al-
ready earned back her investment.
A reading was worth the money,
her confidence.
“I immediately know, like, any-
thing that is warm makes me look
sick,” Elusoji says. “Now I just go
with the cool because I know that’s
what I am.”
o why is this early-’80s fash-
S ion practice making a come-
back among the children of
the women who believed so deeply
in it? Maybe it’s a desire to look
good on Instagram, or in all of
those Zoom meetings — a ring
light can only do so much.
Or . . . (Brace yourself, anyone
who loathes generational general-
izing.)
Millennials and Gen Z tend to
be enthralled with frameworks
that purport to tell them more
about who they are, whether it’s
Myers-Briggs, enneagrams or tar-
ot. Steeped in the language of ther-
apy and self-care, and living in an
era that prizes identity above all
else, they might see color analysis
as another way of discovering
their true selves. Some analysts
encourage the comparison, insist-
ing there are personality traits as-
sociated with each season. It’s like
having an astrology reading, but
for your shirts.
to participate in life.”
Or, “Springs [have] energy —
‘Let’s go!’ They’ve got a can-do
attitude, they’re fun,” says Sca-
man. “Autumns, it’s put your head
down and work.”
Scott Orsborn — soft, cool, and
deep, according to Bowman’s
analysis — compared his experi-
ence to “getting your caricature
drawn, when you kind of see the
way that other people see you,”
says the 44-year-old co-owner of a
flooring store in Oregon. He feels
like his new wardrobe, which in-
cludes some flashy colors, has
helped him land sales. “It’s very
eye-opening.”
“I have my notebook in my
purse at all times. So I just I run
into a store, I’ll have it right with
me and you just like, hold it up to
the color,” says Alizebeth Wallace,
20, of Stillwater, Okla. She’s on
Oklahoma State University’s pom
squad, and she’s a summer, and
those two facts, together, are prob-
lematic: Her predominant school
color is orange. Autumn. With the
exception of her cheer uniform,
she ditched nearly everything else
in her wardrobe that wasn’t in the
summer palette.
“It’s sad to see that go, but it
it were a terminal cancer diagnosis
— “My mom was in tears, really,” she
says. But once she realized there
was more to autumn than oranges
and browns, she got over it and is
“now very happily living her life as
an autumn.”
Like so many things about
women’s fashion, color analysis is
a double-edged sword: a way to
make women feel good about
themselves and bad about them-
selves, simultaneously. It’s both
empowering and limiting. I
thought about all the lovely black
dresses and tops in my closet, and
how, on a summer like me, they’re
considered harsh and overwhelm-
ing. I’ve apparently been wearing
the wrong colors for my entire life.
Acceptance takes time, Carlos
says: “I just let people break up with
black on their own.” She steers me
toward a dusky purple called
“smoked grapes.” I will probably
never wear it. But I can see myself
wearing more pink and light blue.
“There’s no color police out
there,” she says. “My only job is to
show you how absolutely beauti-
ful these colors look on you. What
you do with it afterwards is entire-
ly up to you.”
maura.judkis@washpost.com
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‘I’ve got to do more,’ lawmaker says To tackle an infestation

LEE FROM C1
citizens and Afghans fleeing the
Taliban. Once reviled, her solitary
vote against the Afghan invasion
is now being reframed as an im-
portant, prescient moment in
American history.
There is no sense of vindica-
tion. What she’s feeling right this
moment is “worry and sadness
and anxiety.” More than anything,
there’s a sense of urgency.
“I’ve got to do more,” she sighed.
More to protect women and chil-
dren, more for the Afghans who
helped American soldiers and
journalists. As chair of the House
Appropriations subcommittee on
foreign operations — which funds
diplomatic missions and humani-
tarian assistance — Lee is desper-
ately trying to bring some order to
chaos and make sure there are
enough assets in the region to get
everyone out safely. That means
cutting through some of the bu-
reaucracy to expedite special im-
migrant visas and pressure the
Defense and State departments to
move more quickly.
That urgency to do something,
anything, is a sharp contrast to
2001, when Lee was surrounded by
Americans reeling from the 9/11
attacks. Just three days later, the
House voted 420-1 on the Authori-
zation for Use of Military Force,
which gave the president power to
use all “necessary and appropriate
force” against anyone involved in
any way with the terrorist act.
Lee never considered herself a
pacifist — her father was a retired
lieutenant colonel who fought in
World War II and Korea. She was
reeling, too, but she was also
acutely aware that this was the
worst possible moment to make a
momentous decision. Her con-
cern was not the need to respond,
but that this authorization gave
the executive branch a blank
check in perpetuity for what she
calls “Forever Wars.”
“My major was psychology and
psychiatric social work; I’m a clin-
ical social worker by profession,”
she explained Tuesday. “We learn
in Psychology 101: You don’t make
hard decisions when you’re emo-
tional, when you’re feeling fear,
anger, pain, anxiety.”
In her historic speech on the
House floor, Lee — in just her third
year in Congress — pleaded with
her colleagues: “Our country is in a
state of mourning. Some of us must
say, ‘Let’s step back for a moment.
Let’s just pause, just for a minute,
and think through the implica-
tions of our actions today, so that
this does not spiral out of control.’”
“Some of us” turned out to be
Lee alone, and things did, in fact,
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) talks about opposition to war funding in 2010. With her are Reps. Jerrold
Nadler (D-N.Y.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and John Conyers (D-Mich).
provingly. Others were not so kind:
“Our country is in a Lee was publicly condemned as a
coward and a traitor and received
state of mourning. numerous death threats.
That vote shadowed her every-
Some of us must say, where. Over the years, people who
once vilified her would take her
‘Let’s step back for a aside and share their concerns
about the toll of endless wars.
moment. Let’s just There was this note: “I was one
of those who wrote you a very
pause, just for a nasty letter,” it said, as Lee recalled
it. “I condemned you, called you a
minute, and think traitor, the whole bit.” Then, wrote
the woman, she had two kids and
through the her perspective changed: “I just
want to tell you were right and I
implications of our apologize for what I said to you.”
The woman also wrote that she
actions today, so that didn’t have a lot of money, but
enclosed a check for $15.
this does not spiral Throughout it all, voters in
Oakland kept reelecting Lee,
out of control.’” who’s also the subject of the new
documentary “Barbara Lee:
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), in
Speaking Truth To Power,” sched-
a 2001 speech on the House floor
uled for release on Friday. The
liberal Democrat has worked tire-
lessly to repeal the Iraq resolution
spiral out of control. Two decades and the 2001 authorization, part-
later, she is even more convinced nering with veterans groups to
that postponing the vote even a build political support. Any presi-
short time would have yielded a dent can respond to an imminent
better result: “How can we be threat with military force, she
rational as leaders when we’re said, but Congress cannot give up
grieving for the country, when its role in declaring war. “It’s not
we’re grieving for people who easy, but again, I always say, as a
were killed, when we’re afraid for Black woman in America, we have
what might happen next?” to be persistent.”
Her father was the first person She supports President Biden’s
to call her after her speech. “You do decision to withdraw troops from
not send our troops in harm’s way Afghanistan but was stunned by
with no exit strategy,” he said ap- the rapid collapse of the country. “I
WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES
think we’re caught — I won’t say
caught off guard — but surprised
we didn’t calculate how ready the
Taliban were,” she said. Our soldiers
did everything we asked of them,
she added. There will inevitably be
hearings, the emotional deep dives
into the what and how and why.
But for now, Lee hopes there
are lessons to be learned. That
America should not be in the
business of nation-building. That
the three aspects of foreign policy
— defense, diplomacy and devel-
opment — need to be reconsid-
ered and rebalanced. As chair of
the appropriations subcommit-
tee, she oversees a budget of
about $2 billion for diplomacy
and development. The defense
budget? $714 billion in 2020.
“People need to understand
that why some of us are so ada-
mant about reducing the defense
budget,” she explained. Even a 10
percent cut, which Lee supports,
would pour tens of billions into
more nonmilitary foreign policy
initiatives.
And last, but certainly not
least: That opposition is at the
heart of our democracy, especially
when you really believe the Con-
stitution is violated or there are
moral and ethical issues at stake.
And there are so many, said Lee,
when it comes to war and peace.
“One lesson that I hope people
have learned,” she said, “is that
central to our democracy is the
right to dissent and that right has
to be protected.”
roxanne.roberts@washpost.com
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Fictional beasts have long embodied our cultural anxieties
BOOK WORLD FROM C1
nixies, tritons and other mer-folk,
altogether “more than 60 tales
from a wide range of cultures and
time periods.” Some of these are
well-known, such as the legend of
Melusina, to whom the historic
Lusignan family traces its ori-
gins; Hans Christian Andersen’s
poignant “The Little Mermaid” —
the loss of whose voice can now be
deconstructed as the silence im-
posed on women in a patriarchal
society; and a too-short extract
from Oscar Wilde’s Arabian
Nights-like fable, “The Fisher-
man and His Soul.” Some 20
stories, from the folklore of Afri-
ca, Japan, China and Hawaii, have
never before appeared in English,
making this an especially wel-
come sampler.
“Mythical Beasts,” edited by
John Cherry, was first published
by the British Museum in 1995
and reissued this summer in an
exceptionally attractive, illustrat-
ed Folio Society volume. Its five
long chapters — each written by a
different scholar — cover uni-
corns, dragons, griffins, sphinxes
and half-human creatures. In this
last section, classicist Helen King
reflects on the centaur, siren,
harpy and mermaid, noting that
all are “associated with boundar-
ies — between the living and the
Arts commission shifts grants to address equity, bringing cuts to big groups
BY P EGGY M C G LONE
The D.C. Commission on the
Arts and Humanities has dramati-
cally reshaped the way it supports
Washington’s arts community by
directing significant increases to
the city’s small and midsize arts
organizations and making steep
cuts to almost two dozen major
institutions.
Embracing a new funding for-
mula passed by the D.C. Council
earlier this month, the commis-
sion unanimously approved al-
most $16.5 million in fiscal year
2022 grants Monday night, award-
ing $9.3 million in general operat-
ing support to 97 organizations
with budgets under $1 million,
and $7.2 million to 48 grantees
with budgets larger than $1 mil-
lion. The grants are for the fiscal
year that begins Oct. 1.
The new formula cuts $5.3 mil-
lion in general operating support
from the city’s largest institutions
and distributes it to more and
smaller groups.
The new structure aims to “lev-
el the playing field,” commission
chairman Reggie Van Lee said at
Monday’s virtual meeting. Van
Lee became chairman in May, re-
placing Kay Kendall, whose term
had expired.
The shift in grant-making is
critical to the commission’s equity
and diversity efforts, Van Lee said
on Monday. In addition to focus-
ing on supporting smaller organi-
zations, the new approach is more
inclusive geographically because
it reaches organizations across the
city’s neighborhoods, grants com-
mittee chairwoman Gretchen
Wharton told commissioners on
Monday.
A primer on R. Kelly’s trial for sex tra∞cking and racketeering charges
BY S ONIA R AO
Opening statements and testi-
mony began Wednesday in the
federal trial of R. Kelly, the dis-
graced R&B singer facing sex
trafficking and racketeering
charges in New York. If convicted,
Kelly, 54, is looking at potentially
decades in prison.
In addition to the New York
charges, Kelly faces numerous
counts of sexual assault and
abuse in Illinois. Both sets of legal
proceedings were sparked by two
decades’ worth of sexual miscon-
duct allegations against Kelly,
who was previously acquitted of
child pornography charges in
2008.
Here’s what to know about the
case.
Why is R. Kelly on trial?
Kelly is standing trial in the
Eastern District of New York over
racketeering charges and viola-
tions of the Mann Act, which
criminalizes sex trafficking
across state lines. The charges
stem from March 2020, when
federal prosecutors in New York
outlined them in a superseding
indictment that followed charges
from the previous year of kidnap-
ping, racketeering, forced labor
and sexual exploitation of chil-
dren.
The federal indictment from
July 2019 coincided with another
in Illinois that included charges
of child pornography and ob-
struction of justice among its 13
counts. Both indictments arrived
dead, between the known and the
unknown, between the permitted
and the forbidden.”
Forbidden? Sirens, as King re-
minds us, symbolized what earli-
er times regarded as the destruc-
tive sexuality of women: These
enticing sweet singers lured the
unwary to shipwreck, then
clawed their bodies to pieces.
Cicero, dismissing this misogy-
nistic gloss, contended that it was
not the Sirens’ song but its con-
tent that made them so desirable.
“It is knowledge that the Sirens
offer,” he decided, in particular,
knowledge of things to come.
In “Creatures of Another Age,”
editor Richard Fallon gathers 20
stories, most featuring lonely sur-
vivors from prehistoric times. In
C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s “The Crim-
son Beast,” two friends descend
into a deep cave and learn, to
their horror, that they are not
alone in the dark underground.
In George Sand’s “Fairy Dust,” a
weathered hag reveals herself to
be a resplendent queen (perhaps
the Earth itself ), then leads a
little girl on a kind of Magic
School Bus tour of primordial
history before the appearance of
“Mr. Man.” Among other, less fa-
miliar stories are two classics of
what is sometimes dubbed
“cryptofiction”: Jack London’s
tall-tale “A Relic of the Pliocene”
“This is a paradigm shift in how
we approach public funding for
the arts in the District of Colum-
bia. The new funding structure
and increased budget allocation
for General Operating Support
grants will allow us to address
long-standing concerns of inequi-
ty and provide meaningful levels
of investment into the city’s arts
and cultural sector for the benefit
of all District residents,” Van Lee
said in an email to The Washing-
ton Post. “I look forward to con-
tinuing to work with my fellow
commissioners and staff, the D.C.
Council, and the Mayor in our
shared desire of supporting and
growing that sector.”
The new formula removes the
set-aside given to the National
Capital Arts Cohort (NCAC), a
group of the city’s major perform-
ing arts and exhibition institu-
tions, including Studio Theatre,
the National Building Museum
and Washington Performing Arts.
The D.C. Council legislated in 2019
that the commission distribute 28
percent of its grant budget to these
groups in noncompetitive grants.
Twenty-one NCAC organizations
shared $8.7 million this year.
The new formula expands gen-
eral operating support by requir-
ing the commission to award
54 percent of its annual grants
budget in competitive GOS grants
that can be used to pay a variety of
bills, salaries and programming
costs. The commission will dis-
tribute grants for projects and in-
dividual artists later in the year.
The grantees are grouped by
budget size into nine categories,
and the awards are tied to their
budgets. The commission voted to
fund all eligible applications and
mere months after Kelly was
charged with 10 counts of aggra-
vated criminal sexual abuse on
the state level.
The singer, born Robert Sylves-
ter Kelly, has denied the allega-
tions.
Why was the trial delayed?
The trial in Brooklyn federal
court was delayed because of the
pandemic, as well as the super-
seding charges that Illinois and
New York prosecutors each filed
in February and March of last
year, respectively.
Opening statements were pre-
viously scheduled for Aug. 9,
when jury selection took place.
But Kelly switched legal teams in
July, and his new team requested
more time to prepare its defense.
The pandemic also delayed
Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago,
which will take place after this
one.
Why is R. Kelly already in
jail?
In July 2019, a federal judge in
Chicago ordered that Kelly be
held in jail without bond after a
prosecutor argued that if the
singer “was attracted to middle
school girls in 1999 then he’s still
attracted to middle school girls.”
Earlier this summer, Kelly was
transferred from Chicago to New
York for the trial.
When did this all begin?
In 2000, Jim DeRogatis, then a
music critic for the Chicago Sun-
Times, received a tip that Kelly,
EZ RE
“Mythical Beasts” has five chapters — each written by a different
scholar — covering unicorns, dragons, griffins and other creatures,
and Arthur Conan Doyle’s pathos-
laden “The Terror of Blue John
Gap.”
Fallon’s informative introduc-
tion briefly tracks how the Victo-
rians’ study of geological strata
and fossils led to the discovery of
“deep time.” He reminds us, too,
that the bones of many of our
favorite primeval beasts were un-
earthed in Wyoming and Colora-
do between the 1870s and 1900s,
including Diplodocus, Bronto-
saurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus
Reggie Van Lee, chairman of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, speaks at a gala at the
Kennedy Center in June. He said the new funding structure aims to “level the playing field.”
eliminate the matching require-
ment for GOS grants and the cap
that limited them to 30 to 35 per-
cent of an organization’s budget.
The list of specific grants will
not be released until next month.
The 23 grantees with annual
budgets between $8,000 and
$99,000 will receive an average
grant of $50,000, double this
year’s average and representing
almost 74 percent of their budgets.
The 20 organizations with budg-
ets between $105,000 and
$214,000 will receive an average
grant of $75,000, a 178 percent
increase, while the 23 grantees
with annual budgets between
one of the most successful R&B
artists of the 1990s, had a “prob-
lem” with young girls. DeRogatis
teamed up with Sun-Times legal
affairs reporter Abdon Pallasch to
investigate the tip, and they dis-
covered multiple lawsuits from
the previous decade that accused
Kelly of sexually abusing girls.
The Sun-Times published an
exposé that December, and
DeRogatis became the main jour-
nalist on the story. A couple years
later, he received a videotape in
the mail that seemed to depict
Kelly abusing an underage girl.
The tape was central to Kelly’s
2008 child pornography trial,
though a jury cleared him of the
charges after the defense team
argued the identity of the girl was
inconclusive.
Years later, the lawyer who led
Kelly’s defense told the Sun-
Times that Kelly was “guilty as
hell.”
How does Aaliyah figure into
this?
After working with Aaliyah on
her debut record, “Age Ain’t Noth-
ing but a Number,” Kelly married
the up-and-coming R&B singer —
in 1994, when she was 15 and he
was 27. DeRogatis and Pallasch
reported that Aaliyah ended the
illegal marriage after her family
and the public discovered it.
Vibe magazine stated in its
December 1994/January 1995 is-
sue that an Illinois marriage cer-
tificate listed Aaliyah’s age as 18.
In December 2019, more than 20
years after the marriage — and 18
FOLIO SOCIETY
and Tyrannosaurus. Because of
their massive size, these were
inevitably likened to the biblical
Behemoth or to the dragons of
fairy tale and myth.
Myths themselves commonly
embody the religious beliefs of
ancient or preliterate peoples, but
Philip Ball suggests that we are
still generating them. Subtitled
“Adventures in the Machinery of
the Popular Imagination,” his
book, “The Modern Myths,” co-
gently argues for the originality
AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
$400,000 and $738,000 will re-
ceive average grants of $130,000,
an increase of 134 percent.
In addition, 27 of the 48 grant-
ees with budgets over $1 million
will also receive increases, al-
though at a lesser rate.
The 21 NCAC organizations will
see their grants decrease from
$8.7 million to $3.4 million, a 61 per-
cent drop. As a result of the new
formula, organizations with budgets
between $3.6 million and $6 million
will receive grants averaging 3.3 per-
cent of their budgets, while those
with budgets greater than $10 mil-
lion will receive funding averaging
1.2 percent of their budgets.
years after Aaliyah died in a plane
crash — federal prosecutors in
Brooklyn accused Kelly of having
bribed a government official to
obtain a fake ID for Aaliyah so she
would appear to be an adult.
The brief marriage to Aaliyah
is often brought up as the most
prominent example of Kelly hav-
ing had inappropriate and/or ille-
gal relationships with younger
women.
What led to this moment of
reckoning?
In November 2016, DeRogatis
received another tip — an email
from a woman in Georgia who
believed her daughter, Joy, to be
part of a sex cult run by Kelly. The
mother, Jonjelyn Savage, claimed
Kelly was controlling the lives of
six young women in an Atlanta
suburb. DeRogatis soon heard
from another set of parents and
corroborated their stories by
speaking to nearly a dozen other
sources.
DeRogatis continued report-
ing and, after an arduous search
for a publication willing to run
the story, published his second
exposé with BuzzFeed News in
July 2017. Among those he spoke
to on the record were former
members of Kelly’s inner circle —
Cheryl Mack, Kitti Jones and As-
ante McGee — who said, per
DeRogatis, that “six women live
in properties rented by Kelly in
Chicago and the Atlanta suburbs,
and he controls every aspect of
their lives: dictating what they
eat, how they dress, when they
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and potent cultural resonance of
Robinson Crusoe, Victor Fran-
kenstein and his creature, Sher-
lock Holmes, Dracula, alien in-
vaders like those of H.G. Wells’s
“War of the Worlds,” Batman and
even zombies. All these soon es-
caped from their original cre-
ators’ control and are now at
large, their stories capable of mul-
tiple and even conflicting inter-
pretations. The key to the mythic
mode, asserts Ball, is ambiva-
lence.
J.G. Ballard’s “Concrete Is-
land,” for instance, reimagines
Daniel Defoe’s solitary hero as a
modern-day architect marooned
on a traffic island. Everyone
knows that the phrase “Jekyll and
Hyde” refers to human duality,
the tension between our good and
evil impulses and the cost of
repression. Robert Louis Steven-
son’s teasing, palimpsest-like no-
vella may also reveal what Elaine
Showalter calls “fin-de-siecle
homosexual panic, the discovery
and resistance of the homosexual
self.” Similarly, Mary Shelley’s
“Frankenstein” can be read as a
study of racist or colonialist atti-
tudes toward the “other,” as well
as an early vision of a possible
machine-flesh hybrid. Her novel’s
creature dramatically, even melo-
dramatically raises the existential
question: What does it mean to be
Many local arts leaders and ad-
vocates welcome the change, but
they said they will wait to see the
list of grants before celebrating.
“I’m happy they are making
changes, but we’ll see how it rolls
out,” said Angela Byrd, founder of
MadeInTheDMV, an organization
that advocates for and supports
local artists. “We’re just coming
out of a pandemic and I’m not sure
where people’s funders are. I still
want those organizations that are
big to have the resources they
need.”
Peter Nesbett, executive direc-
tor of the Washington Project for
the Arts, said the commission’s
bathe, when they sleep, and how
they engage in sexual encounters
that he records.”
“In stark contrast to the first
Kelly story that Pallasch and I
published in the dead-tree Sun-
Times in December 2000 — a
dramatically different era — the
cult story instantly spread far and
wide thanks to social media,”
DeRogatis reflected in his book
“Soulless: The Case Against R.
Kelly.”
In January 2019, in the wake of
the #MeToo movement’s resur-
gence, Lifetime released a six-
part docuseries titled “Surviving
R. Kelly” that took a sweeping
look at the years of allegations
against him. Roughly 1.9 million
people tuned into the premiere,
high ratings that led to renewed
public and legal interest. A pros-
ecutor in Chicago put out a call
for potential victims or witnesses
to come forward in the days after
“Surviving R. Kelly” premiered.
The next month, Kelly was
charged with sexual abuse.
What is R. Kelly accused of in
Chicago?
Cook County prosecutors
charged Kelly in February 2019
with 10 counts of aggravated
criminal sexual abuse over inci-
dents that allegedly took place
between 1998 and 2010 and in-
volved four victims, three of
whom were between 13 and 16
years old. Each count carries a
sentence of three to seven years.
In July 2019, Kelly was arrested
after the U.S. attorney’s office for
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human? As Ball shows, Franken-
stein’s “New Adam” is re-envi-
sioned again and again, in such
later works as Villiers de L’Isle-
Adam’s “Tomorrow’s Eve,” in
which Thomas Edison invents a
mechanical femme fatale, Karel
Capek’s robot-play “R.U.R.” and
the cult film about powerful yet
forlorn replicants, “Blade Run-
ner.”
In general, concludes Ball, our
new myths “deal with issues of
identity and status, individual-
ism, isolation and alienation,
power and impotence, technolog-
ical transformation, invasion and
annihilation. They speak of scien-
tific discovery and spiritual en-
nui, sexual dysfunction and erotic
displacement, dystopia and apoc-
alypse.”
No doubt they do: Imaginary
creatures have long embodied
our cultural anxieties, wish-ful-
fillments and subconscious im-
pulses, what the film “Forbidden
Planet” memorably labeled
“monsters from the Id.” Still,
when dreams come, I much pre-
fer the fantastic wonders encoun-
tered by Sinbad the Sailor to the
traumatic nightmares calling for
Sigmund the Analyst.
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Michael Dirda reviews books for
Style every Thursday.
action was a big step for “smaller,
artist-driven organizations.”
“I believe that culture bubbles
up — it doesn’t trickle down — so a
rebalancing of resources such as
this is critical, especially for those
of us serving historically under-
funded artists and their commu-
nities,” Nesbett said. “The big
question that remains is whether
the commission can sustain this
type of equitable support long-
term. My colleagues and I are
hopeful that it will.”
Several leaders of the NCAC or-
ganizations were upset at the deep
cuts approved this week. The
NCAC was instrumental in secur-
ing a dedicated funding source for
the commission in 2018, a change
that has dramatically increased
the commission’s grants budget,
which is about $33 million this
year.
The organizations were pre-
pared to share $3 million in cuts
next year, not the $5.3 million
approved on Monday.
“It’s really disappointing. We
feel betrayed,” said a leader of a
NCAC organization who spoke on
the condition of anonymity for
fear of reprisal for criticizing the
commission. “We agreed to go
back [to lesser grants], but to a
point.”
Van Lee stands by the commis-
sion’s decision. “The commission
voted, unanimously, to approve
adjustments made by the grants
committee to provide for an equi-
table, impactful distribution of
funds across a greater number of
applicant organizations, in line
with the revised legislation passed
by the D.C. Council,” he said
Wednesday.
peggy.mcglone@washpost.com
the Northern District of Illinois
filed an indictment related to
many of the allegations outlined
by DeRogatis. Kelly was charged
with child pornography, enticing
a minor to engage in criminal
sexual activity and obstruction of
justice.
The federal indictment was re-
vised in February 2020 to include
another victim.
What about in New York?
The same day as news of the
Illinois indictment broke in July
2019, federal prosecutors in New
York City unsealed a different
five-count indictment that ac-
cused Kelly of leading a racke-
teering enterprise for two dec-
ades, from 1999 onward. A letter
filed that day from the U.S. attor-
ney’s office for the Eastern Dis-
trict of New York stated that Kelly
had participated in “the sexual
exploitation of children, coercing
and transporting women and
girls to engage in illegal sexual
activity, kidnapping and forced
labor.”
The superseding indictment
from March 2020 added five
counts of racketeering and four
concerning violations of the
Mann Act.
In July, the Associated Press
reported that prosecutors
claimed Kelly also abused, threat-
ened or mistreated a dozen addi-
tional people, including an un-
derage boy. The allegations have
not resulted in any additional
charges.
sonia.rao@washpost.com
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Not-quite-divorced woman needs to stop sleeping with her estranged husband

Dear Amy: I have inspiring how you and your not- Perhaps you and “Dan” are My daughter-in-law’s family of obviously lay the blame for this course, and I do that.
Ask Amy been dating a man quite-ex manage to put drawn to one another because origin have always acted entitled. rudeness on your daughter-in- Thanks for doing what you do.
AMY for more than two yourselves first, in every single you share this vacuum-space I struggle with the fact that law, but you should share your — April, in Anchor Bay, Calif.
DICKINSON years. aspect of your romantic and where your mutual impulses are there is never a thank you unless frustration with your son. He’s
He is good with parenting lives. like a narcissistic black hole, we are together when they their parent, too. April: Thank you for the
my kids and I appreciate that, Imagine, if you are able, how swallowing up all the other receive a gift. Otherwise, if you are truly tired supportive comments regarding
given that they aren’t his this scenario would play out if people in your lives. I love them and want to give to of the frustration and that awful my work.
children. your teenage children exhibited Stop sleeping with your ex. Get them for special occasions. empty feeling when your Many readers, I’m sure, would
I am not divorced and your poor judgment and a divorce (yes, you can afford it). Sending money in cards or generosity goes unnoticed, you disagree about my occasional use
occasionally meet up (if you know deliberately hurtful choices. Do not entangle your children gifts through the mail, it’s always should stop! of idioms and slang. (I thank my
what I mean) with my not-quite You: “Son, why are you into an emotional relationship the same. Keep in touch with your indulgent editors.)
ex-husband, “Dan.” fathering a child while you are with another partner of yours The only way that I know that grandchildren but find another I have five young-adult
It doesn’t happen often, but 20 still in high school?” until you choose to live it arrives is by the tracking source for your generosity. children and am active on social
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emerge and I just don’t know how how to say no, I suppose.” have a high tolerance for There have been a few times I’d Dear Amy: This is not a request My work on NPR’s comedy quiz
to say no, I suppose. You: “Daughter, why are you nonsense, your kids deserve some call just to find out if something for help, but an acknowledgment show “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me”
Dan is also dating someone sneaking around and lying to us?” stability. arrived. of your up-to-the-moment facility also inspires me to stay current.
else, and they have a 1-year-old Daughter: “I wasn’t really Three of these grandchildren with current jargon. Most importantly, I live in the
together. doing anything wrong (if you Dear Amy: We all come from are now adults. I am on a limited I frequently look up words or world, love language, and am
It would be devastating to all know what I mean). And besides, different backgrounds, I’m aware budget. How should I best handle idioms you use in your column. paying attention.
parties if our involvement were I didn’t want to devastate you of that. this? Latest: “Imma.”
discovered. with the truth.” My siblings and I were raised — Upset Grandmother I am an author who takes some Amy’s column appears seven days a
What would your best advice So, my best advice for you to thank people for gifts verbally pride in being au courant with week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
be so that I can move forward? would be to: Knock it off. Stop. or with a note, sometimes both. Upset Grandmother: These language and popular culture Write to askamy@amydickinson.com or
(My ex won’t pay for divorce The way you describe your own My children were taught the adults are your son’s children. and still find that others (you) Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194, Freeville,
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Miss Manners: Is it sister died, and I wasn’t sure what the person’s loss, to demonstrate organization where you spend can talk. Two of the people have their manners. Correcting their
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Old (PG-13) (!) 4:45
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 3:15
Free Guy (PG-13) (!) 6:45
Respect (PG-13) 3:30
The Protege (R) (!) 6:00-7:30
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) (!)
3:45-6:15
Black Widow (PG-13) 3:00
Free Guy (PG-13) 3:00-4:15
Hoyt's West Nursery
Cinema 14
1591 West Nursery Road
F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1:40-4:50-7:30-9:25
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
(PG-13) CC: 1:50
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 1:30- Free Guy (PG-13) 12:30-12:40-
4:20-6:30-9:20
Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 1:15- 4:45-6:30-6:50-7:30-7:45-8:00-
3:35-6:35-9:35
The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 1:05-
4:30-7:00-10:00
Escape Room: Tournament of Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:05-
Champions (PG-13) CC: 4:35
Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) The Suicide Squad (R) 1:00-
CC: 1:10
The Green Knight (R) CC: 3:50 Black Widow (PG-13) 12:40-
Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 1:20-4:10- 3:50-7:10
7:05-9:45
The Forever Purge (R) CC: 1:45- 2:40-3:20-4:40-5:30-7:30
4:15-7:40-10:15
Old (PG-13) CC: 2:00-4:40-
7:25-10:05
Respect (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00- The Night House (R) 8:10
7:10-9:00
Stillwater (R) CC: 2:10-4:25-
6:40-9:45
The Night House (R) CC:
7:10-9:50
The Protege (R) CC: 7:20-9:55 35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
Don't Breathe 2 (R) CC: 2:20-
5:00-7:35-10:10
Landmark Bethesda Row
Cinema
7235 Woodmont Avenue
The Green Knight (R) CC: (!)
1:30-4:20-7:10-9:55
Respect (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:50-
1:30-4:30-6:30-7:45-9:00
Stillwater (R) CC: (!) 12:40-3:40-
6:40-9:40
Annette (R) CC: (!) 12:45-3:45-
Swan Song CC: (!) 1:15-3:50-6:20
4:45-7:15-9:30-10:00
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
3899 Branch Avenue
Kung Fu Panda (PG) 10:00AM
Sing (PG) 10:00AM
The Suicide Squad (R) 12:05-
3:00-6:05-9:05
Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG)
Free Guy (PG-13) 1:30-4:15-
Respect (PG-13) 11:30-12:30-
2:45-3:45-6:00-7:45
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 12:00-2:30-
5:00-7:30-10:00
Old (PG-13) 9:15
Regal Bowie
15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
(PG-13) 8:20
4:05-7:05
Black Widow (PG-13) 1:10-
Free Guy (PG-13) 1:15-2:00-
2:30-4:50-7:15-7:45
The Suicide Squad (R) 1:50-
3:20-4:55-8:00
Respect (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-7:00
The Night House (R) 6:00
The Protege (R) 6:30-8:45
Old (PG-13) 1:30-5:15
Regal Cinemas Majestic
Stadium 20 & IMAX
900 Ellsworth Drive
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
(PG-13) 9:45
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:00-
4:05-7:15-10:20
The Suicide Squad (R) 12:30-
1:00-3:45-4:05-7:20-10:15-10:30
Black Widow (PG-13) 12:40-
3:50-7:00-10:15
Free Guy (PG-13) 4:00
Escape Room: Tournament of
Champions (PG-13) 9:25
Respect (PG-13) 12:30-2:30-
3:50-6:00-7:10-9:30-10:30
3:50-7:05-10:25
The Night House (R) 6:00-9:00
The Protege (R) 6:00-7:15-
9:00-10:15
Old (PG-13) 2:05-4:55-7:40-
10:30
Stillwater (R) 12:45-4:00
Free Guy: The IMAX 2D Experi-
ence (PG-13) 12:30-7:00
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 12:40-1:40-
3:20-4:05-4:25-6:45-7:10-7:20-
9:55-10:00
The Suicide Squad: The IMAX
2D Experience (R) 3:45-10:00
35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
6:45 (R) 10:30
Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 2:00-5:00
12:50-1:30-1:45-3:15-3:40-4:30-
9:30-10:30
Regal Germantown
20000 Century Boulevard
3:10-6:40
4:20-7:50
Free Guy (PG-13) 11:55-12:30-
Respect (PG-13) 12:00-3:30-
7:10
The Green Knight (R) 6:30
Old (PG-13) 1:20-4:30
The Protege (R) 7:05
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 11:50-2:20-
5:00-7:40
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 1:40
The Suicide Squad (R) 12:10
Regal Hyattsville Royale
6505 America Blvd.
The Night House (R) 6:00-6:30
The Protege (R) 6:00
Regal Laurel Towne Centre
14716 Baltimore Avenue
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
(PG-13) 2:00
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 2:00-
5:00-8:00
Black Widow (PG-13) 1:45-
5:00-8:10
Free Guy (PG-13) 1:00-1:30-2:00-
4:30-5:00-6:00-7:00-8:00-9:00
Respect (PG-13) 1:00-4:40-8:10
The Night House (R) 6:30
The Green Knight (R) 7:45
The Protege (R) 6:00-9:00
Old (PG-13) 1:00-3:30
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:20-3:50-
6:20-8:50
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 4:00
The Suicide Squad (R) 1:00-
2:30-4:00-7:00
Regal Rockville Center
199 East Montgomery Avenue
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:20-
2:20-5:00
Black Widow (PG-13) 1:40-
4:50-8:20
Free Guy (PG-13) 4:00-4:30-
7:00-7:30
Respect (PG-13) 1:00-4:30-8:00
The Green Knight (R) 2:20-
5:30-8:40
The Night House (R) 6:00-
7:30-9:00
Old (PG-13) 8:10
The Protege (R) 6:00-9:00
Stillwater (R) 1:20
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:40-4:20-7:10
Raging Fire (Nou fo) 1:10-
4:50-8:00
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 1:00
The Suicide Squad (R) 1:00-
2:00-4:10-5:30-8:50
Regal UA Snowden Square
9161 Commerce Center Drive
Black Widow (PG-13) 12:30-
3:50-7:25
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:50-
4:10-7:20
Free Guy (PG-13) 12:20-1:00-
1:50-4:00-4:40-6:20-7:40
Respect (PG-13) 12:20-1:30-
3:20-6:50
Old (PG-13) 12:20-4:15
The Night House (R) 6:00-
7:10-9:05
The Green Knight (R) 12:25
The Protege (R) 6:00-7:05-
8:00-9:00
Stillwater (R) 3:35
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:30-3:40-
4:20-7:10-9:10
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
The Suicide Squad (R) 12:30-
1:20-3:10-6:30
Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX
1419 South Main Chapel Way
Free Guy (PG-13) 4:10
Respect (PG-13) 12:10-3:40-7:10
The Night House (R) 6:30-7:30
The Protege (R) 6:00
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:40-4:20-
7:20
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 1:10
Regal Westview & IMAX
5243 Buckeystown Pike
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 3:20
The Suicide Squad (R) 1:40-
5:10-8:10
Black Widow (PG-13) 2:50-
3:35-6:40
Free Guy (PG-13) 12:40-1:15-
2:20-3:00-4:20-6:45-7:20-8:30
Respect (PG-13) 1:00-4:20-7:40
Nine Days (R) 12:45
The Night House (R) 6:20-9:15
The Green Knight (R) 5:30
The Protege (R) 6:20-9:00
Old (PG-13) 6:10-9:20
Stillwater (R) 3:40-7:00
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 2:20-5:10-
8:00
Free Guy: The IMAX 2D Experi-
ence (PG-13) 2:00-7:50
The Suicide Squad: The IMAX
2D Experience (R) 4:40
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 3:30
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Brandywine 14
The Green Knight (R) CC: 8:00
The Protege (R) CC: 6:30
The Night House (R) 6:00
Coda (PG-13) OC: 2:15-4:45-
Free Guy (PG-13) 12:10-2:15-
3:00-4:35-5:15-7:35-8:15-10:25
Free Guy (PG-13) 3:00-6:00-9:00
Escape Room: Tournament of
7710 Matapeake Business Drive
Old (PG-13) CC: 4:45-7:45 5:30-7:15 Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:50-4:25- Champions (PG-13) 7:20
Spider-Man: Into the Spi- Stillwater (R) CC: 7:10 6:55-9:35
Respect (PG-13) 1:45-3:45-7:30 Respect (PG-13) 3:35-4:10-7:10
der-Verse (PG) 9:30AM Don't Breathe 2 (R) CC: 4:15- Bow Tie Free Guy (PG-13) XD: 12:45- The Night House (R) 6:00-8:50
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) (!) 10:40- 5:30-7:15-8:30 Reston Town Center 11 & BTX 3:45-6:45-9:55 The Protege (R) 6:00-8:45
1:40-4:40-7:20 The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 11940 Market Street Regal Ballston Quarter
The Suicide Squad (R) (!) 12:50- 2D Experience (R) CC: 3:45-7:00 Old (PG-13) 3:20
In the Heights (PG-13) 4:15 671 North Glebe Road Don't Breathe 2 (R) 3:40-6:10-
3:50-6:50 Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 3:30-4:15-
Nine Days (R) 2:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 2:55- 7:40-8:40
Free Guy (PG-13) (!) 1:20-4:10- 7:15-7:45 6:10-9:20
7:00 Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
AMC Shirlington 7 Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train Black Widow (PG-13) 2:00- 35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
Escape Room: Tournament of 2772 South Randolph St. (R) 7:20 5:20-8:45
Champions (PG-13) (!) 1:35 Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 3:30
Respect (PG-13) (!) 11:10-11:50- Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:10- Free Guy (PG-13) 1:05-1:30- Black Widow (PG-13) 6:55
4:00-7:10 3:00-4:00-4:30-7:00-7:30-9:00
12:20-2:20-2:50-3:20-3:50-5:30- 1:00-4:10-7:10
Black Widow (PG-13) 1:50- Respect (PG-13) 12:50-4:20- Free Guy (PG-13) 3:50-4:00-
6:30-7:00 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 5:00-5:30-6:30-7:00-8:30
1:40-4:40-7:40 4:50-7:50 7:50
The Forever Purge (R) (!)
4:25-7:05 Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 1:10- Free Guy (PG-13) 2:40-5:20-8:00 The Night House (R) 6:00-9:00 Regal Manassas & IMAX
4:20-7:30 Respect (PG-13) 1:00-4:10-7:15 The Green Knight (R) 2:40- 11380 Bulloch Drive
The Night House (R) (!) 6:10
5:55-9:10
Old (PG-13) (!) 11:45-2:25- Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:20- The Green Knight (R) 7:40 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 2:50
4:55-7:35 5:10-8:00 Old (PG-13) 3:00-5:30-8:10 The Protege (R) 6:00-8:55 The Suicide Squad (R) 1:10-
Old (PG-13) 2:35
Don't Breathe 2 (R) (!) 11:40- Respect (PG-13) CC: 12:20- Annette (R) 1:15 2:50-4:15-7:30
12:40-3:10-5:40-8:00-9:00 3:40-4:30-7:00 The Suicide Squad (R) 1:30- Don't Breathe 2 (R) 3:25-6:10- Black Widow (PG-13) 1:00-
8:55
The Protege (R) (!) 6:00 Nine Days (R) CC: 1:30 4:40-7:30 4:05-7:20
Private Watch Party (!) 12:00- Stillwater (R) CC: 12:50-4:00 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Free Guy (PG-13) 1:40-2:30-
35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
1:00-3:30-7:00 The Night House (R) CC: 7:20 2:10-5:00 2:55-3:40-4:30-5:15-5:45-6:25-
Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 6:00
The Suicide Squad (R) (!) 10:30- The Protege (R) CC: 7:40 Stillwater (R) 4:45-7:45 7:15-8:15-8:30-9:00-9:10
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:20-3:40- The Suicide Squad (R) 1:20-
1:30-4:30-7:30 AMC Tysons Corner 16 Respect (PG-13) 3:00-6:20-9:40
6:00-8:15 2:45-6:15-9:25
Free Guy (PG-13) (!) 11:00-2:00- 7850e Tysons Corner Center The Green Knight (R) 5:20
Free Guy (PG-13) 1:40-4:20-7:00
4:50-7:40 The Boss Baby: Family Busi- Regal Dulles Town Center
The Night House (R) 6:00-8:45
iPic Pike & Rose ness (PG) CC: 1:10-3:55 CMX Village 14 21100 Dulles Town Circle
Old (PG-13) 1:30-4:10-7:00
11830 Grand Park Avenue F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: 1600 Village Market Boulevard Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:15-
The Protege (R) 6:00-8:50
6:35-10:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 3:30- 4:15-7:15-10:00
The Suicide Squad (R) 3:15- Stillwater (R) 2:10-8:25
4:30-7:00 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 5:00-7:05-8:10 Black Widow (PG-13) 1:30-
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 3:15-5:50-
Free Guy (PG-13) (!) 2:45-4:15- (PG-13) CC: 8:45 The Suicide Squad (R) 4:00- 4:30-8:15
8:25
6:00-7:30 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 5:10-8:25 Free Guy (PG-13) 1:00-2:15-
Free Guy: The IMAX 2D Experi-
Respect (PG-13) (!) 2:30-3:00- 12:55-4:00-7:10-10:15 Black Widow (PG-13) 4:15-7:30 7:00-10:15
ence (PG-13) 2:00-8:00
6:30-6:45 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 1:35- Space Jam: A New Legacy Respect (PG-13) 12:45-4:15-
The Night House (R) (!) 7:15 4:55-8:20-9:50 (PG) 3:40 7:45 The Suicide Squad: The IMAX
The Protege (R) (!) 8:00 Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 2:55- Free Guy (PG-13) 5:30-8:30 The Night House (R) 6:00-9:15 2D Experience (R) 4:45
Don't Breathe 2 (R) (!) 4:00- 6:15-9:30 The Night House (R) 7:35 Old (PG-13) 12:40-3:20 Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 3:20-6:10
4:45-7:45 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Stillwater (R) 4:20-7:40 Stillwater (R) 12:40 Regal Springfield Town Center
The Protege (R) 6:00-9:00
CC: 5:45 Don't Breathe 2 (R) 5:25-8:00 6859 Springfield Mall
VIRGINIA Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:05-
7:05-10:05
Raja Raja Chora 5:05-8:20
Respect Fathom Live Stream
Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:45-4:45-
7:30-10:15 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (PG-13) 2:40
Respect (PG-13) CC: 1:15-2:30- Q&A Event (PG-13) 3:50-7:15
2150 Clarendon Blvd. 4:35-8:10-9:10 Free Guy (PG-13) 4:05-4:50- 35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 2:20-
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 6:20-9:40
The Night House (R) CC: 5:30-7:00-7:50-8:30 Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 4:00
1:10-4:10-7:10 The Suicide Squad (R) 3:45- The Suicide Squad (R) 2:30-
6:00-9:00 The Protege (R) 7:20
The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 6:45-9:45 6:10-6:40-9:25-10:00
The Protege (R) CC: 6:00-9:15 Cinema Arts Theatre
1:40-4:50-7:00 The Card Counter (R) 11:00AM Black Widow (PG-13) 12:50-
9650 Main St Regal Fairfax Towne Center
Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 12:50- Raging Fire (Nou fo) 2:50- 4110 West Ox Road 4:20-7:50
2:00-3:40-4:50-7:40 Respect (PG-13) CC; DVS: 10:00-
6:20-9:35 Free Guy (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-
Respect (PG-13) CC: 12:40- 1:00-4:00-7:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:45-
6:00-7:00-9:00
Old (PG-13) CC: 1:30-4:25- 4:00-7:00
4:00-7:20 7:15-10:10 Nine Days (R) CC; DVS: 9:40-
12:05-7:40 Black Widow (PG-13) 12:15- Respect (PG-13) 12:40-2:00-
The Green Knight (R) CC: 1:10- Free Guy: The IMAX 2D Experi- 5:30-7:20-9:10
3:30-6:45
The Green Knight (R) CC; DVS:
4:10-7:30 ence (PG-13) CC: 3:05-6:05-9:05
10:10-4:30-7:15 Free Guy (PG-13) 12:00-12:30- The Night House (R) 6:00-9:00
The Protege (R) CC: 6:30-7:50 Stillwater (R) CC: 3:30
Old (PG-13) CC: 1:40-4:20 1:00-3:00-3:30-4:10-7:20
Stillwater (R) CC; DVS: 1:15- Old (PG-13) 12:45
Don't Breathe 2 (R) CC: 1:05- 4:15-7:20 Respect (PG-13) 11:50-3:20- The Protege (R) 6:00-9:20
Don't Breathe 2 (R) CC: 12:30- 3:00-4:15-6:55-9:40
3:00-5:30-8:00 6:50
Ailey (PG-13) CC; DVS: 2:35-5:05 Stillwater (R) 12:25
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home The Night House (R) 6:45 Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:40-3:50-
AMC Hoffman Center 22 35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00 Coda (PG-13) CC; DVS: 9:40-
12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30 The Green Knight (R) 7:30 4:10-4:25-7:10-9:55-10:10
206 Swamp Fox Rd. Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:00-
The Protege (R) 7:00
Swan Song CC; DVS: 9:50-12:15- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: 5:00-8:00 2:35-4:50-7:10 Don't Breathe 2 (R) 11:50- 35th Anniversary 3:00-7:00
5:20-8:40 AMC Worldgate 9 2:20-4:50
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 1:45- Cinemark Centreville 12 Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 3:00
13025 Worldgate Drive Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
3:35-4:50-8:00 6201 Multiplex Drive Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 35th Anniversary 3:00-7:05
The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 1:50- 4:15-7:15 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:55- Escape from Mogadishu 1:10- 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
3:15-4:15-5:15-6:30-7:30-8:30 4:00-7:15 4:15-7:20 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:15-
The Suicide Squad (R) CC:
Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 1:55- 4:00-7:00 The Suicide Squad (R) 12:00- Free Guy 3D (PG-13) 12:05 2:15-4:20-7:25
12:40-3:20-4:10-6:45-7:25-10:00 The Suicide Squad (R) 12:45-
5:15-8:40 Black Widow (PG-13) CC: The Suicide Squad (R) 1:05-
Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:15-2:45- 4:15-7:15 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) 4:00-7:10
12:05-3:00 2:05-4:10-5:15-7:15-8:25
3:15-5:15-5:45-6:15-8:15-8:45 Free Guy (PG-13) CC: 4:45-7:30
Free Guy (PG-13) 12:50-3:50- Regal Fox & IMAX Black Widow (PG-13) 2:00-
Respect (PG-13) CC: 2:00- Respect (PG-13) CC: 4:30-7:45
5:30-8:45 6:55-9:55 22875 Brambleton Plaza 5:10-8:15
The Green Knight (R) CC: 7:00
The Night House (R) CC: Respect (PG-13) 12:05-3:35- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Free Guy (PG-13) 1:30-4:30-7:30
The Night House (R) CC: 6:00
6:00-8:45
The Green Knight (R) CC: 2:20
Old (PG-13) CC: 4:00
7:05
Bell Bottom (Hindi) (NR) 8:00
(PG-13) 8:55
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 2:30-
Escape Room: Tournament of
Champions (PG-13) 12:55
The Protege (R) CC: 6:00 The Protege (R) 6:00-9:00 5:40-8:40 Respect (PG-13) 1:00-2:00-4:30-
The Protege (R) CC: 6:00-8:45
Don't Breathe 2 (R) CC: Old (PG-13) 1:20-4:50 Black Widow (PG-13) 2:20- 5:20-8:00
The Forever Purge (R) CC: 8:45 5:30-8:00
Old (PG-13) CC: 2:30-5:25-8:10 Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:50-4:30- 5:40-8:50 The Green Knight (R) 12:55-7:20
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - 7:10-9:50 Free Guy (PG-13) 4:30
Stillwater (R) CC: 2:10-5:30 The Night House (R) 6:00-9:00
One Loudoun Private Watch Party 12:00-3:15- Nine Days (R) 1:05
Don't Breathe 2 (R) CC: 2:15- Old (PG-13) 3:20-8:40
3:00-5:00-5:45-7:45-8:30 20575 East Hampton Plaza
6:30-9:45 Respect (PG-13) 12:20-3:50-7:20 The Protege (R) 6:00-9:00
Raja Raja Chora 2:30-6:00-9:35 The Green Knight (R) 12:30
Free Guy: The IMAX 2D Experi- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Stillwater (R) 4:05
ence (PG-13) CC: 1:45-4:30-7:30 12:00 Black Widow (PG-13) 1:00- The Night House (R) 6:10-9:20
The Protege (R) 6:00-9:10 Don't Breathe 2 (R) 1:00-3:30-
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ K84
♥ K86
♦ K642
♣ A65
WEST (D) EAST
♠ AQ5 ♠ 72
♥ Q J 10 9 5 ♥ A73
♦ Q7 ♦ 10 9 8 3 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ Q43 ♣ 10 8 7 2
SOUTH
♠ J 10 9 6 3
♥ 42
♦ AJ5
♣ KJ9

The bidding:
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
1♥ Pass Pass 1♠
Pass 3♠ Pass 4♠
All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ Q CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

C y the Cynic told me that

he was having lunch at a
deli when there was an inci-
dent at an Apple store across
the street.
“I think I saw a robbery
in progress,” Cy said. “Does
that make me an iWitness?”
When Cy was today’s
South, he and North bid
boldly to a game. West led
the queen of hearts, win- RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
ning, and continued hearts.
Cy ruffed the third heart and
led the jack of trumps. West
took his ace and led a fourth
heart, which the Cynic had to
ruff in his hand.
Cy then picked up the
trumps, but next he led a
diamond from dummy to his
jack. West took the queen
and cashed a heart: down
two.
Cy had witnessed enough LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
to make a winning play.
East had failed to respond
to West’s opening bid, so
after East showed the ace
of hearts, West had to hold
both minor-suit queens.
After the Cynic draws
trumps, he should take the
K-A of diamonds. When the
queen falls, Cy leads the
jack of clubs for a backward
finesse: queen, ace. Then a HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
BALDO
club toward his K-9 lands the
contract.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠ J 10 9 6 3 ♥ 4 2
♦AJ5♣KJ9
Your partner opens one
club, you respond one spade
and he bids two hearts. What
do you say?
ANSWER: Partner has
“reversed.” He shows longer
clubs than hearts and extra BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
strength — in some styles,
enough to expect to bid
game or slam. To bid three
clubs or 2NT would be rea-
sonable. In some systems,
you might rebid the five-card
spade suit. The important
thing is to realize that you
won’t stop below game.
— Frank Stewart
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SUDOKU

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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | AUGUST 19
You are intelligent,
courageous and
independent. You are
also stylish. People
love your warm optimism.
Although you are a dreamer,
you are also intuitive and
analytical. This year your
personal freedom matters
to you, which is why you will
incorporate major changes
in your life. Seek out new
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY opportunities.
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or
making important decisions
after 7:30 p.m. today for the
rest of the day. The Moon is in
Capricorn.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Today you might feel excited
about a creative project, or
perhaps you’re thrilled about
something to do with your
kids. Possibly, this excitement
could relate to a vacation.
TAURUS
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL (APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Today you might be thrilled
with your success in your
career, your public reputation
or your good name with your
peers. Something seems to
be coming to a head, and you
look good!
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Today you’re happy about
future plans for travel.
Perhaps these plans relate to
publishing and the media or
something to do with medicine
or the law. You know that you
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK are expanding your world, and
it feels good!
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Some kind of financial
situation might culminate
today. Something might make
you feel richer or happier
about your future earnings or
your current wealth. This is
why you feel enthusiastic and
reassured about your financial
future.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
This is a powerful time in many
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK respects for you, because
certain situations that are
important are coming to a
head. In many ways, this is a
pleasant day because you are
upbeat and enthusiastic about
something.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
This is a powerful time,
because Mercury and Mars
are both in your sign. Today,
however, you feel quietly
pleased with yourself about
something. It could be
something private that makes
you feel good.
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Today you will be pleased with
something related to friends
or a group, or perhaps a friend
in particular. It looks like
everything is unfolding as it
should. In fact, you are so keen
to have fun today that you
might go overboard in some
manner. Easy does it.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You might be pleased with
something to do with family or
WILEY RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT perhaps a parent at this time.
NON SEQUITUR BABY BLUES You’re happy and optimistic;
however, you also have some
pretty strong opinions about
something.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Optimism and physical activity
are survival issues for you.
They are important. That’s why
today is important, because
you feel optimistic! It might
be related to travel, further
education or legal matters.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK This has been your year to
increase your assets. Today
you see this unfolding, and
it makes you feel happy. As
part of this process, you might
take a look in the mirror and
decide to do some kind of a
makeover.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Something to do with a close
relationship with a partner or
friend will be very important
to you today. Quite likely, it
will be something positive and
encouraging. (On the other
hand, this is also a time when
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS certain situations come to a
culmination.)
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
You’re happy about your job
today. Others might be equally
happy about a health situation
or something to do with a
pet. Whatever happens might
make you go overboard. “Fresh
horses and more whiskey for
my men!”
— Georgia Nicols
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Bringing
her
outreach
to Folger
FOLGER FROM C1

few people of color at the helm of

a theater in the Washington area
and, by virtue of the size and
influence of the Folger, the most
prominent. Raymond O. Caldwell
is artistic director of Theater Alli-
ance in Anacostia, and Hugo Me-
drano heads GALA Hispanic
Theatre in Columbia Heights.
Holding a job with two titles,
Daniels will preside over $4 mil-
lion of Folger Shakespeare Li-
brary programs, which include a
theater that produces three or
four shows a season, the majority
of them Shakespeare but also
some by contemporary drama-
tists. She will also have authority
over the library’s poetry recitals,
screenings, public talks and con-
certs, including the highly re-
garded Folger Consort, an early-
music ensemble.
“It’s an institution that is sit-
ting in the intersection of so many
things: library, museum, per-
formance — we’re not just one
model,” Daniels said. “That’s my
MELISSA BUNNI ELIAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
thing.”
Michael Witmore, director of Karen Ann Daniels, director of the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit, above, will take over as Folger Theatre’s artistic director on Oct. 1, the company announced Wednesday.
the library and to whom Daniels
will report, said Daniels stood out
during a nationwide search for who can help us tell the stories, ted with yellow letters spelling Response,” conceived and direct- Coast, and joined the Old Globe in the end of next year, with plans to
her understanding of outreach some of which Shakespeare out “Shakespeare” on top — in a ed by Patricia McGregor. 2013, where she worked in arts resume operations in the space in
and exuberant grasp of narrative wrote, about how we become full plaza at 143rd Street and Amster- “We believe a theater is most engagement. There she helped the spring of 2023, according to
art. human beings living in society dam Avenue in a diverse Manhat- powerful when it is in conversa- devise community programs, in- Witmore. In the interim, Daniels
“If I know one thing about together.” tan neighborhood. An audience tion with the community it was cluding one that brought Shake- says, she’ll be guided by her ex-
Karen Ann Daniels, it’s that she Daniels is in the midst of the White, Black and Brown filled the created for,” Daniels said in intro- speare to California prisons. She perience in the art of arts delivery.
knows how to take things on the annual tour of the five New York salmon-colored folding chairs for ductory remarks to the crowd. created a similar initiative, the “The priority is to be out in the
road and take artist program- City boroughs with the Public’s a late afternoon of motivational Daniels was an art history ma- Mobile Unit in Corrections, for community while we’re closed,”
ming that starts with communi- Mobile Unit, a program of free reading by the Harlem-based Na- jor at UCLA and sang in the choir the Public. she said. “We’re going to go to you
ties,” Witmore said. performance that mixes spoken tional Black Theatre; a spoken- at Chula Vista (Calif.) High Mobility is a watchword at the and introduce ourselves. That’s
Of this critical moment in mis- word, hip-hop and Shakespeare. word recital, “Verses@Work,” by School. She has explored a num- Folger these days, as the library is how you go forward: Someone
sion-building for the performing On Saturday, a staff of about 25 set actor Malik Work; and an interac- ber of pathways, including acting undergoing a $72 million renova- takes you.”
arts, he added: “We need a person up the company’s truck — outfit- tive piece, “Shakespeare Call & and playwriting, on the West tion that won’t be finished until peter.marks@washpost.com

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In test vs.
Revolution,
United falls
short again
REVOLUTION 3,
D.C. UNITED 2
BY S TEVEN G OFF

foxborough, mass. — This was

always going to be a tall task for
D.C. United, what with a mix-and-
match lineup facing the class of
MLS on short rest, two more regu-
lars sidelined and another leaving
seconds after he scored an early
goal.
However, United’s 3-2 defeat to
the surging New England Revolu-
tion will not sit well with a club that
appeared to turn the corner this
summer — not after holding a half-
time lead and playing more than
20 minutes with a man advantage.
United (8-9-3) was overrun by a
wave of Bruce Arena’s halftime
substitutes, conceding two goals
in a four-minute span, then fell
further behind after a Revolution
red card. Ramón Ábila’s late strike
narrowed the gap but was too late
to prevent United’s losing streak
against New England from grow-
ing to five and its winless rut
against the Revolution from
climbing to eight.
New England (14-3-4) stretched JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST

its unbeaten streak to eight and Nationals first baseman Josh Bell blasted a three-run homer off former teammate Brad Hand in the seventh inning to lift Washington to a victory over Toronto.
grew its lead in the Eastern Con-
ference to 15 points.
“To show this level, especially in

Afternoon delight
the first half, against the leader,
not only in the East but the best
team in all of MLS, it makes me
very proud,” United Coach Hernán
Losada said. “Going back with
zero points is hard.”
It was also hard to lose another
starter. Paul Arriola scored his
first goal since he returned from
U.S. national team duty but ap- Gray provides tantalizing view NATIONALS 8, BLUE JAYS 5
peared to injure a hamstring on
the 10th-minute sequence and of a promising Nationals future Soto’s plate discipline on full display in victory
was lost for the night — and per-
haps multiple matches. When the history of the Washington Nationals is
The injury further dented a written, Wednesday afternoon at half-empty BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
SEE UNITED ON D6 Nationals Park won’t register a blip. But clip and
save one small bit because, as we continue this Juan Soto’s new normal is the feeling of surprise — measured
Atlanta United at D.C. United monumental mind-set shift, it might just matter: shock, even — if he sees a pitch he can hit, with most pitchers content
Saturday, 8 p.m., NBCSW Josiah Gray vs. a Toronto third baseman named to walk him until the rest of the Washington Nationals make that
Barry Breyvic Valera. sting.
Svrluga It was the sixth inning. The Nats led the Blue Jays So there Soto was in the first inning Wednesday afternoon, ahead
by one. Toronto had runners on first and third. in the count against Toronto Blue Jays starter José Berríos, when
There were two outs. Berríos broke a golden rule and threw a low-and-away fastball in the
Tension? Not of the kind we were accustomed to around here for zone. Runners led off first and third. Walking Soto would have loaded
a decade, the kind that comes when the division title is in the offing the bases for Josh Bell with one out. But once Soto connected and
or advancement in the playoffs is at stake. That’s Stephen Strasburg after his liner cleared the left field wall for a three-run homer, it was
out of the bullpen against Milwaukee in the wild-card game. It’s fair to wonder whether, yes, the best way to beat the Nationals is to
SPECIAL SECTION Max Scherzer in Game 7 vs. the Astros. It’s stuff gone by. avoid Soto at all costs.
We are long past Strasmas, and there are no more Scherzdays on That swing and Soto’s three walks helped Washington to an 8-5 win
Nine profiles of Black the calendar. What we are left with is: Every Fifth Day for Gray? over the Blue Jays — one that materialized with a four-run rally
baseball players that have Nah, forget it. Let’s not reach for a slogan for the kid, not yet against former Nationals reliever Brad Hand in the seventh. And
shaped the sport’s past — anyway. Let’s just be realistic about what he represents and where Soto’s big swing stood out because it was allowed to happen at all.
we can find fun over the remaining 42 games of a season unlike any “He did a great job today where he was ready every pitch,”
and its future. SECTION F the Nationals have endured. Nationals Manager Dave Martinez said. “A couple times he got to 3-0
PRO BASKETBALL “It’s going to be some growing pains, I can assure you of that,” and he really felt like . . . he didn’t want to swing at that pitch, that
said Manager Dave Martinez, a World Series winner less than two ball’s not where he wants it, which was awesome to hear him say that.
The Aces deliver a reality years ago, a development coach now. “But for the most part, we’ve He worked good counts.”
check to a Mystics team been having fun.” Soto entered the game with a 32.1 percent walk rate in August,
Fun must be redefined and not just in the clubhouse. Fun must meaning close to a third of his 53 plate appearances had resulted in a
that was hoping for a be reconsidered in the stands at the ballpark and from the couch at free pass. The next closest player, Philadelphia Phillies outfielder
second-half surge. D2 SEE SVRLUGA ON D5 SEE NATIONALS ON D5

BASEBALL
Dodgers star Trevor Bauer Nationals at Brewers | Tomorrow, 8 p.m., MASN2
is expected to take the
Fifth today in hearing over
alleged sexual assault. D5

Eagles turn to Hurts
after pivotal o≠season
A few years after victory in the Super Bowl,
reboot is afoot with second-year quarterback
BY M ARK M ASKE
philadelphia — The Philadel-
phia Eagles hit the reset button in
the offseason, and their reboot is
in full effect at training camp. A
second-year quarterback, Jalen
Hurts, runs an offense orchestrat-
ed by a first-year NFL head coach,
Nick Sirianni.
It all feels so far removed from
Nick Foles, Doug Pederson and
the “Philly Special” glory of that
memorable Super Bowl triumph
over the New England Patriots in
February 2018.
Pederson, the Super Bowl-win-
ning coach, was ousted in Janu-
ary following a 4-11-1 season that
concluded with a tanking contro-
versy. Carson Wentz, the would-
be franchise quarterback drafted
second overall in 2016 and signed
to a $128 million contract exten-
sion three years later, was sent to
the Indianapolis Colts in a trade
arranged in February. Foles, the
backup extraordinaire who quar-
terbacked the Eagles to their
Super Bowl victory and another
playoff appearance when Wentz
was sidelined by injuries, is long
gone, having spent one season in
Jacksonville and another in Chi-
cago after he departed for free
agent riches.
The accomplishments are fad-
ing quickly into memory. Expec-
tations must be recalibrated. It is
a new day and, the Eagles hope, a
fresh start.
“That’s my expectation, to be
healthy and play in every game,”
offensive tackle Lane Johnson
said following Monday’s joint
practice with the Patriots. “As far
as wins and losses, if we can start
off 1-0, the confidence will go up
from there. But really, I don’t
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Jackson’s versatility fits this WFT defense to a ‘T’
Veteran cornerback
should allow coverages
to be less predictable
BY S AM F ORTIER
William Jackson III has always
thought a lot about his footwork.
But now, after signing a three-
year contract with the Washing-
ton Football Team, he has found
himself learning new mechanics
because this system is “100 per-
cent different” from the one in
Cincinnati that helped him be-
come one of the NFL’s best corner-
backs in man-to-man coverage.
Recently, Jackson said, he
learned a press coverage tech-
nique called the “T step,” which is
a way to stay patient while break-
ing after backpedaling, and he
has been doing it everywhere —
on the field, at home, in the
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covid was in the best interest and

In WTA Tour return,
Osaka beats Gauff
Two days after a thoughtful
exchange with a local sports
columnist, Naomi Osaka
delivered a more relevant
statement on the court.
She’s back.
Down a set and a break to
17-year-old Coco Gauff, the
second-ranked Osaka fought
back to pull out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
win at the Western & Southern
Open in Mason, Ohio, on
Wednesday, her first WTA Tour
event since the French Open in
late May.
Osaka appreciated being
tested so quickly.
“It’s definitely been a while
since I played a tough opponent
in a three-set match,” she said. “It
was definitely really tough, but I
feel really good right now. I’m
super excited to play another
match.”
Citing discomfort with post-
match news conferences, the
four-time Grand Slam champion
withdrew from Roland Garros
and skipped Wimbledon. She
was eliminated in the round of 16
at the Tokyo Olympics after
lighting the Olympic cauldron in
her native Japan.
The 23-year-old Osaka is
outspoken on many social issues
and announced during Monday’s
pre-match media session that she
would be donating her
tournament prize money to
earthquake-ravaged Haiti, her
father’s homeland. Cincinnati
Enquirer columnist Paul
Daugherty asked how she
balanced her discomfort with
news conferences and her need
to speak out.
Osaka paused in thought and,
declining the moderator’s
suggestion to move on from the
topic, asked Daugherty to repeat
the question. She responded with
what the writer later described as
the best answer he has heard in
34 years of covering sports. . . .
Two-time champion Venus
health of our players in mind,
and everything we did was
approved by athletic department
administration and campus
administration,” Frost said after
practice.
Citing unidentified sources,
the Action Network report said
Nebraska has “significant video
footage” confirming practice
violations occurred in the
presence of Frost and other
assistants.
HIGH SCHOOLS
Quince Orchard, one of the
area’s top football programs, has
paused practices while the school
handles a coronavirus outbreak,
Montgomery County Public
Schools spokeswoman Gboyinde
Onijala said Wednesday.
Ten people who were last at
Quince Orchard High in
Gaithersburg on Monday tested
positive for the coronavirus,
according to a letter principal
Elizabeth Thomas sent to
families Wednesday. Those cases
involve football players and staff
members, Onijala said.
“Football practices and
activities were paused this week
out of an abundance of caution,”
Onijala wrote in an email, “and
to ensure MCPS staff and the
Department of Health and
Human Services were able to
conduct contact tracing and
connect with the 100-member
team.”
Quince Orchard is scheduled
to open its season Sept. 3 at home
against Whitman.
— Kyle Melnick
HOCKEY
The Arizona Coyotes will host
a “Rookie Faceoff ” tournament
in the desert next month.
The team announced the six-
team tournament will be held
Sept. 17-20 at Gila River Arena
and Ice Den Scottsdale, the
Coyotes’ practice facility.
The tournament will include
Pacific Division teams Anaheim,
Los Angeles, San Jose and Vegas,
along with Arizona and Colorado
Mystics leaving Las Vegas frustrated
Consecutive blown leads
against Aces stall hopes
for post-Olympics surge
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
Three times this season, the
Washington Mystics have held
significant leads against the Las
Vegas Aces.
Three times, the Mystics blew
those leads but still had a chance
to win in the final minutes of the
game.
All three times, the Mystics left
the arena with a loss.
Coach Mike Thibault put it
bluntly after a 93-83 loss on the
road Tuesday night: “We’re not as
good as them right now.”
That is the frustrating reality
for the Mystics right now. This is
a team that fancies itself a cham-
pionship contender but is 0-3
against the team that finished
Tuesday with the best record in
the WNBA. Second-half collapses
have been commonplace, which
was understandable when the
team was severely shorthanded
because of injuries during the
first half of the season, but post-
Olympics, this is the healthiest
the roster has been since the
beginning of 2021.
The Mystics were determined
to show the type of team they
think they are after the break, but
that hasn’t shown up for a full
40 minutes in the first two
games. There are plenty of statis-
tics that paint a picture of the
losses, but Tina Charles, coming
off her fifth 30-point, 10-rebound
game of the season, pointed to
something deeper.
“We need to be disciplined,”
Charles said. “The 2019 team
here in Washington, very disci-
plined team. They’d been togeth-
er for three years. They know
what they wanted to get. They
know the players to go to and
[were] very disciplined. So that’s JEFF BOTTARI/NBA ENTERTAINMENT/GETTY IMAGES

Williams will be back at the U.S.
Open after being given a wild
card into the Grand Slam
tournament.
The 41-year-old has won seven
major titles, including victories
at Flushing Meadows in 2000
and 2001. But with her WTA
ranking of No. 112, she has fallen
outside the top 104 who received
direct entry into the women’s
main draw.
On the men’s side, defending
champion Dominic Thiem
pulled out, saying he will miss
the rest of the year because of a
right wrist injury.
The sixth-ranked Thiem was
hurt in June while playing in the
Mallorca Open and said the pain
returned last week after he hit a
ball during training. Doctors
recommended he wear a wrist
splint for another six weeks
before resuming training.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Nebraska announced the
NCAA is looking into its football
program amid allegations
Cornhuskers staff improperly
used analysts and consultants
with the knowledge of Coach
Scott Frost and even moved
workouts off campus last year
when such activities were
banned during the pandemic.
Athletic Director Trev Alberts
confirmed the investigation first
reported by the Action Network,
while Frost said any workouts
were approved by his superiors.
“Everything we did through
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of the Central Division. It will
include the top prospects from
each team.
MISC.
The Women’s British Open set
a new standard for prize money
at LPGA Tour majors by
announcing a record purse of
$5.8 million, with plans to boost
it by an additional $1 million
next year. The winner this week
will receive $870,000, compared
with the $675,000 awarded last
year at Royal Troon.
The tournament starts
Thursday in Carnoustie,
Scotland. . . .
Olympic bronze medalist
Molly Seidel is one of several
standout American women
planning to run the New York
City Marathon in November, race
organizers announced.
Seidel stunned even herself
with a third-place finish in Tokyo
this month in just the third
26.2-mile race of her career. An
NCAA Division I champion at
Notre Dame in the 3,000-, 5,000-
and 10,000-meter events, she is
now the headliner for the NYC
Marathon’s 50th running in her
five-borough debut. . . .
This year’s Japanese Grand
Prix was canceled following
discussions between the
government and race promoters,
Formula One organizers said.
The race in Suzuka had been
scheduled for Oct. 10.
— From news services
and staff reports
one of the main things that I’m
trying to preach to these guys is
that we have to be disciplined.
“That’s the main thing, and
we’re not consistently disciplined
out there. We’re consistently dis-
ciplined when things are going
great. And then when things start
to break down . . . we just have to
be disciplined. And those are the
teams that make it all the way.
Chemistry and discipline.”
Inconsistency has been ram-
pant in the two games since the
break. The Aces made halftime
adjustments in both, and the
Mystics looked like a completely
different team. The ball move-
ment was excellent in the first
halves, with everyone getting in-
volved before turning stagnant
against the much bigger Vegas
roster. A’ja Wilson and Liz Cam-
bage had explosive second halves
in both games after being held in
relative check in the opening
20 minutes. Kelsey Plum poured
in 21 second-half points Tuesday
after behind held to three in the
first half.
Charles acknowledged that
WNBA
New York rallies late to beat shorthanded Seattle
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new york — Betnijah Laney
scored 17 points, including the
go-ahead basket from the top of
the key with 17.6 seconds left, to
lift the New York Liberty to an
83-79 victory over the shorthand-
ed Seattle Storm on Wednesday
night.
The Liberty (11-12) trailed by 10
heading into the fourth quarter
before rallying behind Rebecca
Riquna Williams and Las Vegas rallied Tuesday to beat the Mystics for the second time in three nights.
teams around the league know
that they can come back from
early deficits against Washing-
ton.
“If I knew the answer, [we]
would fix it,” Ariel Atkins said
about the second-half woes. “As
you guys can probably see, we
look like a championship team in
the first half, and then coming
out in the second half, we just
don’t have the same energy or
grit to us. So that’s something
that we have to figure out.
“I don’t think that’s something
that our coaches can help us
with. I think that’s on us.”
The Mystics went into the
break sitting in the No. 8 and
final playoff slot with an 8-10
record, but the two losses
dropped them to No. 9 behind
the Dallas Wings (10-13). The
Mystics have more games after
the break than any other team,
but it’s not exactly an easy sched-
ule.
The road trip continues Thurs-
day against the Phoenix Mercury
LIBERTY 83,
STORM 79
Allen, who had nine of her
17 points in the period. Her third
three-pointer of the quarter made
it a two-point game with 1:38 left.
After a basket by Natasha How-
ard tied it, New York got a stop on
the other end, and Laney took a
few dribbles from the wing and
(11-10) and another dominant
post player in Brittney Griner.
The Mercury features a more
potent backcourt than the Aces
in Diana Taurasi (16.6 points per
game), Kia Nurse (9.3) and Skylar
Diggins-Smith (18.3) that at least
should be a better matchup size-
wise. Phoenix rolled to a 91-70
victory in Washington’s second
game of the season while it was
without Myisha Hines-Allen. An
0-3 start to the second half of the
season wouldn’t be disastrous
but certainly could be a mental
hit to a team that had much
higher expectations with a
healthier roster and a mini-train-
ing camp to reset.
“You don’t really get the oppor-
tunity to just be like, ‘Oh, we’ll fix
the next game; oh, we’ll fix the
next game; oh, we’ll fix the next
game,’ ” said Atkins, who aver-
aged 22 points in the past two
games. “Before you know it, the
season’s over and you don’t have
a playoff spot.
“So it’s really important that
banked in a shot from just inside
the three-point line to beat the
shot clock.
Laney then stole the ball on the
ensuing possession, and New
York’s Sami Whitcomb made two
free throws with 2.6 seconds left
to seal the win.
The comeback ruined a stellar
effort by Jewell Loyd, who scored
21 of her 35 points in the third
quarter for Seattle. The 35 points
matched her career best.
we try to figure out what that
means for us because it can mean
different things for everybody in
the sense that, to me, discipline is
your ability to focus when things
are just not as clear. When things
are kind of like staticky. There’s
small habits that you consistent-
ly build over time. And I think,
right now, our habits aren’t
amazing. And so it’s kind of
biting us in the butt.”
More reinforcements are com-
ing with Shavonte Zellous (ankle)
possibly playing against the Mer-
cury, and the hope is that 2019
MVP Elena Delle Donne (back)
will be ready once the team
returns home to face the defend-
ing champion Seattle Storm on
Sunday.
“The most important game
right now on this trip is that
game versus Phoenix,” Charles
said. “They’re right close to us in
the standings. So we just got to
get this bad taste out of our
mouth and try to get this win.”
kareem.copeland@washpost.com
The Storm (16-7) was missing
stars Sue Bird and Breanna Stew-
art, who were still resting after
leading the United States to a
seventh consecutive gold medal
at the Olympics this month. They
are expected back when the
teams play again Friday.
New York was missing Jazmine
Jones, who was sidelined with a
minor right foot injury. She was
in a walking boot, but Coach Walt
Hopkins said she is day-to-day.

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tances between attractions to take weren’t women in this position frankly, passion for the game of ematics. Her mother was the one
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With Hurts at quarterback, Eagles starting fresh TAK EAWAYS

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EAGLES FROM D1 “We’ve been doing it together

expect [anything]. I’m taking it
one day at a time. And right now,
our offense is steadily improv-
ing.”
The focus is on Hurts, a sec-
ond-round pick in 2020. He made
four starts last season as a rookie
and provided glimpses that he
could be an effective dual-threat
quarterback.
“He’s never satisfied,” offensive
coordinator Shane Steichen said.
“That’s what makes him good. He
wants to be great. . . . He’s ascend-
ing in the right direction, and
we’re excited about his progress.”
The Eagles stuck by Wentz
following the knee injury that
ended his 2017 season, when
Foles took the team on its Super
Bowl run, and after the back
issues that cut short his 2018
season, when Foles orchestrated
a late-season rally.
All seemed well when Wentz,
with Foles gone, managed to play
a full and effective 2019 season,
leading the Eagles to the NFC
East title before an opening-
round playoff defeat to the Seattle
Seahawks.
It all unraveled last season. The
turnovers by Wentz and the losses
for the Eagles piled up to the
point that Pederson turned to
Hurts. The tumultuous season
ended with Pederson sitting
Hurts in favor of Nate Sudfeld in
the middle of a six-point loss to
the Washington Football Team.
The outcome gave Washington
the division title, and the Eagles’
approach drew a public rebuke
from New York Giants Coach Joe
Judge. The Eagles emerged with a
first-round draft pick three spots
better than they would have got-
ten with a win.
Philadelphia traded Carson Wentz and put its offense in the hands of young quarterback Jalen Hurts.
When Pederson was dismissed,
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said
the two had a “difference in vi-
sion” about how the team should
move forward. Lurie said the Ea-
gles had to “get younger” and
amass draft choices.
While there has been specula-
tion about the Eagles being a
potential landing spot for De-
shaun Watson if the Houston
Texans trade the three-time Pro
Bowl quarterback, this is Hurts’s
team at this point. There is talent
around him. The Eagles used the
10th choice in this year’s draft on
Heisman Trophy-winning wide
receiver DeVonta Smith, and last
year they used a first-round selec-
tion on wideout Jalen Reagor.
“I’ve talked about how repeti-
tion brings confidence and it
brings comfort,” Hurts said Mon-
day. “And it’s a real thing, and I see
it in all of the receivers. I see it in
everybody. The more reps they
get in the offense, the more we’re
being coached, the better we are.
It’s always an uphill climb. And
we just want to continue to take
those steps every day.”
It’s up to the 40-year-old Siri-
anni, hired after a three-year stint
as the Colts’ offensive coordina-
tor, to make it work. He and
Steichen must help Hurts strike
the proper balance between using
his improvisational skills and de-
veloping into a reliable pocket
passer.
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“We obviously want to try our
best to execute the play and have
everything done on time and in
rhythm like we’ve always talked
about before,” Hurts said. “But
that’s not how football works. It’s
not always that way. So you have
to be able to make those plays and
extend those plays when things
are covered up.”
Wentz’s woes last season could
be attributed in part to the de-
terioration of an injury-plagued
offensive line.
The Eagles aspire to have bet-
ter health and more stability in
that group with mainstays such
as Johnson, guards Brandon
Brooks and Isaac Seumalo and
center Jason Kelce.
for a while,” Brooks said. “So even
if you do miss some time, you
know how each other plays, how
each other responds, to a certain
degree what each other is really
thinking.”
The left tackle job could belong
to Jordan Mailata, a former rugby
player from Australia who is list-
ed at 6-foot-8 and 365 pounds.
The Eagles used a seventh-round
draft pick on him in 2018, and he
ended up making 10 starts last
season.
“Jordan is a freak of nature,”
Johnson said. “ . . . Once he fig-
ures it out, he should be able to do
whatever he wants, whenever he
wants, how he wants. . . . He’s
figuring it out.”
Mailata said he is “a lot more
confident in the tools that I have
in my bag” as he works to become
a polished offensive lineman. He
doesn’t watch video of his block-
ing technique from earlier in his
career, he said.
“It gives me nightmares when I
watch early tape, just looking at
the stance that I used to do,”
Mailata said. “It’s horrible.”
The learning continues, as
when Mailata didn’t know quite
what to do when the starters were
done playing after an abbreviated
outing in the preseason opener.
“I had to ask some of the guys,
‘Okay, do I take my pads off at
halftime?’ ” he said. “Because it
felt like a weird thing to do.”
So much, it turns out, feels new,
different and, yes, weird for the
Eagles these days.
“You climb this mountain,
[and] it takes time,” Hurts said.
“We value every rep that we have,
and we’re going to continue to
work to get where we want to be.”
mark.maske@washpost.com
Rivera supports NFL’s
taunting crackdown
Among the NFL’s points of
emphasis for officials this year is a
crackdown on taunting from
players. Two violations for
taunting will result in an
automatic ejection, and the
taunting player could be fined or
suspended, depending on the
severity of the violation.
Washington Football Team
Coach Ron Rivera is one of nine
coaches/executives on the
league’s competition committee
and clearly a proponent of the
emphasis.
“If you make a great play, great.
Be excited, but don’t do it toward
your opponent,” he said
Wednesday. “That’s all we’re
asking. That’s what the rule is for
because what we don’t want is an
escalation of some things that
have happened in the past. . . .
That’s not a good look for any
sport, let alone football, and
somebody’s going to get hurt, and
you just don’t want that. . . . Quite
honestly, we don’t need the young
people to see that. We don’t need
the Pop Warner, pee-wee football
kids seeing us act like that. We
want to put it out there as
professionally as possible.”
Tight end troubles
Washington could be down a pair
of tight ends in Friday’s exhibition
game against the Cincinnati
Bengals. Temarrick Hemingway
and Sammis Reyes are both in the
concussion protocol, Rivera said.
Hemingway suffered a
concussion in the team’s
preseason opener last Thursday
against the New England Patriots
and did not attend the following
three days of practice. He
attended Wednesday’s workout

Rivera hopes Jackson slide Kendall Fuller to the slot. If it

needs a bigger slot defender to
match up with a flexible tight end,
Jackson and Fuller could play out-
but was on a stationary bike
alongside Reyes, who practiced
the previous the three days.
Rivera ruled Reyes out for the

can reshape defense side with a safety such as Kam

WASHINGTON FROM D1
grocery store.
“Even my girlfriend looks at me
like, ‘What are you doing?’ ” Jack-
son said. He shrugged. “You know,
it’s just in your head after a while.”
The example is emblematic of
his larger evolution. Jackson said
he signed with Washington partly
because, at 28, he wanted to be
more than one-dimensional. He
pointed out he rarely got to play
with the vision required for zone
coverage in Cincinnati because it
used him in man coverage
“80 percent of the time.” He was
also enticed by the idea of playing
behind Washington’s elite defen-
sive line, and before the team’s
second preseason game Friday
night, when he will get to check
his progress against the Bengals,
Jackson took a shot at his old
team by saying the line here is
“making my job easier for a
change.”
With Jackson’s personal
growth, Washington hopes he can
help solve what Coach Ron Rivera
saw as one of the unit’s main
weaknesses last year: predictabil-
ity.
Rivera has said he thought the
unit relied too much on zone
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coverage last year — using it on
75 percent of its snaps, according
to the website TruMedia — and
that lessened the effectiveness of
its blitzes. For example, the de-
fense sometimes showed blitz
early and the quarterback coun-
tered with a quick pass under-
neath, beating the zone and ren-
dering extra rushers ineffective.
One fix would be to play more
man coverage, which would force
quarterbacks to hold the ball lon-
ger and allow Washington to take
advantage of its strong pass rush.
But Rivera is thinking bigger. He
wants true balance, to use man,
zone, press and other schemes
interchangeably so coordinator
Jack Del Rio can run disguises
and keep offenses guessing. The
key to executing a dizzying num-
ber of defensive combinations is
every defender having a baseline
ability to run each of them, so at
practice, Jackson works on zone
techniques, such as T step and
seeing the quarterback through
the wide receiver, while also rely-
ing on old, faithful moves.
The goal: Jackson, like the
defense overall, can find what
works against an offense and
wear it out.
“When you look at the scripts
William Jackson III (23) is preparing to play in both man-to-man
and zone coverage for Washington in his first year with the team.
from practice, you see that combi-
nation,” Rivera said. “Some days
we’ve come out and worked all
zone. Other days, we’ve worked all
man. Other days, we’ve come out
and [Del Rio has] done like he
would do it in the game: 33 per-
cent this, 33 percent that and
33 percent that, just trying to stay
balanced.”
But even as the defense chang-
es Jackson, Jackson changes it.
His skill set gives Del Rio the
ability to lock up the opposing
team’s top wide receiver in a way
he couldn’t last year. Washington
defended the pass well overall
(ranking second in DVOA, a meas-
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ure of overall defensive efficiency
from the website Football Outsid-
ers) but struggled against No. 1
wideouts (27th). Tampa Bay’s
Mike Evans, Arizona’s DeAndre
Hopkins and others didn’t neces-
sarily put up gaudy stats, but
when an opponent needed a cru-
cial conversion, Washington of-
ten struggled to contain the oppo-
nent’s top pass-catching threat.
Jackson’s presence also allows
Del Rio to find the best combina-
tion of cornerbacks each week. If
Washington wants to play more
press coverage outside, it could
pair Jackson with long, physical
rookie Benjamin St-Juste and
Curl or Landon Collins in the
Buffalo nickel role.
“[Being more versatile is] all
we’re trying to do with William,”
Rivera said. “We’re not going to
not do what he does best, but we
want to be able to have some
options and create some doubt
that our opponents have got to try
to figure out. ‘Hey, they’re not
always going to be in this cover-
age.’ So that’s really what that’s all
about.”
This approach, Rivera said, is
similar to the philosophy of for-
mer Chicago Bears defensive co-
ordinator Buddy Ryan, whom Ri-
vera played under in the 1980s.
Rivera remembered Ryan always
said, “You can’t go into a game
with just one thought, because if
they match that thought you bet-
ter have another idea.” And with
Carolina, Rivera used to tell his
coordinators they didn’t have to
call a play just because it was on
their call sheet. The options were
just there to find which ones
worked that week.
“If they can’t block it, keep
going,” Rivera said. “I can remem-
ber [Ryan] calling the same blitz
three plays in a row, and I’m
thinking to myself, ‘They’ve got to
pick it up,’ and they didn’t pick
anything up. [We] just kept going,
kept going, kept going.”
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Bengals game, and it’s plausible
to think Hemingway will be out,
too. But their timetable to return
is individual; they must clear the
NFL’s five-phase return-to-play
protocol.
Gibson’s game plan
Antonio Gibson’s focus in Friday’s
game will be his decision-making
behind the line. Asked about his
performance against the Patriots,
Gibson said he should have
approached a couple of plays
differently to break off longer
runs. For example, on a second
and four, the second-year running
back took the handoff and ran up
the middle but spun off a
defender instead of continuing
forward.
“In that situation you have to
hit it downhill,” he said. “Like two
more yards to go. I could have
easily got that. My size, my speed
could easily gotten the first down.
We would have been in a better
situation, given a better play call
for Coach. Now we don’t have to
come out of the playbook much.
We can stay on script. I made a
[defender] miss, but it was like, I
got to get back to the first down
now, and you got other people
flowing into the ball.”
Gibson is still adjusting to the
running back position after
spending his college career
mostly at wide receiver. But
Washington is hopeful he can
evolve into a three-down back,
capable of not just running but
also catching passes and

Watson’s lawyer confirms FBI probe into allegations of assault
F ROM NEWS SERVICES Houston police, in conjunction
AND STAFF REPORTS with the Harris County District
Attorney’s office, are also on-
The FBI is investigating allega- going, Hardin confirmed
tions that Deshaun Watson sexu- Wednesday.
ally harassed and assaulted wom- “Going out and talking about
en during massages, his lawyer this stuff does no one any good. I
confirmed Wednesday, as well as remain absolutely, irrevocably
allegations that one massage convinced Deshaun Watson did
therapist sought to extort the star nothing illegal or improper, and
quarterback. I’m confident all of those investi-
In a news conference Wednes- gations will show that,” Hardin
day morning, attorney Rusty Har- said.
din validated recent comments In lawsuits filed earlier this
made by Tony Buzbee, lawyer for year, 22 women accused Watson
the 22 women who have sued of harassing and assaulting them
Watson, that suggested the FBI during massages. The accusa-
was investigating the claims the tions against Watson in lawsuits
massage therapists have levied include making inappropriate re-
against Watson. marks, exposing himself and
However, Hardin said that the forcing his penis against women’s
FBI investigation started with a hands in an attempt to force them
focus on whether one of Buzbee’s to gratify him sexually. Watson
clients attempted to extort Wat- had denied all the allegations,
son. Hardin held the news confer- and Hardin has said any sex acts
ence Wednesday, he said, only to that occurred between Watson
respond to his counterpart’s and massage therapists were con-
claims in an interview with the sensual.
website League of Justice pub- The NFL is also investigating
lished the day before. whether Watson violated the
A spokeswoman for the FBI’s league’s personal conduct policy.
field office in Houston declined to — Will Hobson
confirm the existence of the in- l BEARS: Chicago is without
vestigations described by Hardin each of its top two draft picks.
and Buzbee. Investigations by Coach Matt Nagy said quarter-
back Justin Fields, the Bears’
first-round pick, was out of prac-
tice because of a groin injury and
their second-round pick, offen-
sive lineman Teven Jenkins, is
facing back surgery.
The injury to Fields is consid-
ered minor, but Jenkins has been
out all of training camp after his
back bothered him during the
four days rookies were allowed to
practice just before the start of
regular camp.
Nagy said holding Fields out of
practice was precautionary. He
wasn’t certain about Fields’s sta-
tus for Saturday’s preseason
game against Buffalo at Soldier
Field.
“I’d say it’s too early to go
there,” Nagy said. “I just think
that for him right now, again, we
want to be able to get to that
point where he’s able to play in
that game. That’s very impor-
tant.”
The back injury with Jenkins is
a far more serious matter. Jenkins
missed the final three games of
his final season at Oklahoma
State with a lumbar issue.
“You know, we tried to hope to
avoid the surgery with him, and
we tried several treatments, but
the goal is to get him back this
season, so that’s the most recent
update with him,” Nagy said.
l JETS: Guard Alex Lewis de-
cided to retire, according to a
person with direct knowledge of
the decision.
The 29-year-old Lewis last
practiced Aug. 5, when he came
off the field with what Coach
Robert Saleh said was a head
injury. The offensive lineman was
placed on the exempt/left squad
list the following day.
ESPN first reported Lewis’s
retirement. The person who con-
firmed the move to the Associat-
ed Press spoke on the condition of
anonymity because neither Lewis
nor the team had announced the
decision.
Lewis was entering his third
season with the Jets, who ac-
quired him from Baltimore for a
seventh-round draft pick in 2019.
He took over at left guard that
year when Kelechi Osemele was
injured and started 12 games.
Lewis, whom Jets General Man-
ager Joe Douglas knew from their
time together with the Ravens,
was rewarded for his solid play
with a three-year, $18.6 million
contract extension.
He began last season as the
starting left guard but was placed
on the reserve/non-football inju-
ry list after playing nine games.
That came after Lewis reportedly
had a disagreement with then-
coach Adam Gase during a prac-
tice and sought medical help.
l DOLPHINS: When Miami
practiced with and against the
Atlanta Falcons, Tua Tagovailoa
again was without the three wide
receivers listed as starters on the
team’s depth chart.
The second-year quarterback
said it’s not a big deal that veter-
ans DeVante Parker, Will Fuller
and Albert Wilson continue to
miss practice.
“It gives a lot of opportunity to
the other guys, for me to get work
with them and for them also to
experience a lot of the different
looks, the coverages,” Tagovailoa
said after practice. “Whereas a lot
of the veterans that are injured,
they’ve seen a lot of that.
Fuller has been out since the
first practice of camp, while Park-
er and Wilson have been out of
action for more than a week.
None of the three played in the
Dolphins’ exhibition opener at
Chicago on Saturday, and it’s
unlikely they will play against the
Falcons this Saturday.
— Associated Press
blocking, similar to the role
Christian McCaffrey had with the
Carolina Panthers when Rivera
was their coach.
“That’s a complete back, a guy
that can go out there and do those
things,” Rivera said. “You don’t
have to do different personnel
groupings or bring in players to
run specific plays, and that was
one of the beauties of having a
guy like Christian. . . . That’s what
we’re kind of trending toward or
at least hoping that’s how
Antonio continues to develop.
Fighting for real
There was fighting Wednesday.
And it escalated far beyond the
trash-talking that was prevalent
earlier in camp between the
defensive line and some offensive
players.
During team drills, offensive
tackle David Steinmetz and
rookie defensive end William
Bradley-King got into it and
grabbed each other’s face mask.
Steinmetz threw a punch, while
Bradley-King still had his helmet
on, and Bradley-King ripped off
Steinmetz’s helmet and tossed it
roughly 15 yards. The two were
separated, but Steinmetz went
back in to complete his rep
while Bradley-King went to the
sideline.
— Nicki Jhabvala
D4 EZ M2 THE WASHINGTON POST . THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 , 2021

Baseball
National League American League
EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR
Atlanta 65 56 .537 — 9-1 W-6 Milwaukee 74 47 .612 — 8-2 W-4 San Francisco 78 43 .645 — 8-2 L-1 Tampa Bay 74 47 .612 — 7-3 W-3 Chicago 71 50 .587 — 6-4 W-3 Houston 70 50 .583 — 5-5 L-4
x-Philadelphia 61 58 .513 3 5-5 L-2 Cincinnati 65 57 .533 91/2 4-6 L-2 x-Los Angeles 74 46 .617 31/2 9-1 W-5 New York 69 52 .570 5 8-2 W-6 Cleveland 58 61 .487 12 4-6 L-1 Oakland 68 53 .562 21/2 5-5 L-4
New York 60 60 .500 41/2 4-6 W-1 St. Louis 61 58 .513 12 7-3 L-2 San Diego 67 56 .545 12 3-7 L-3 Boston 69 54 .561 6 4-6 L-3 Detroit 58 64 .475 131/2 5-5 L-3 Seattle 65 56 .537 51/2 7-3 W-2
Washington 52 68 .433 12 1/
2 3-7 W-2 Chicago 54 69 .439 21 2-8 W-2 Colorado 55 66 .455 23 5-5 W-3 Toronto 63 56 .529 10 4-6 L-2 Minnesota 54 67 .446 17 7-3 W-1 Los Angeles 61 61 .500 10 5-5 W-2
Miami 51 70 .421 14 4-6 L-3 x-Pittsburgh 42 78 .350 311/2 1-9 L-4 x-Arizona 39 81 .325 381/2 5-5 W-1 Baltimore 38 81 .319 350-10 L-14 Kansas City 52 67 .437 18 5-5 W-3 Texas 42 78 .350 28 3-7 L-2
x-Late game x-Late game

N O TE S Rockies 7, Padres 5 Twins 8, Indians 7 (11) TOD AY

Starter Jake Arrieta got Jorge Polanco drove in
clobbered and left with an the winning run to lead Min-
TIGERS BROADCASTER injury in his Padres debut nesota over Cleveland. Interleague scores
MORRIS SUSPENDED as the Rockies scored five INDIANS AB R H BI BB SO AVG TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Jack Morris, the Hall of runs in 31/3 innings off the Straw cf...............4 2 1 1 2 2 .267
at Washington 12, Toronto 6
Rosario ss ...........6 0 2 1 0 0 .278
recently signed right-hand- Ramírez dh..........6 2 2 2 0 0 .254
Fame pitcher-turned-TV er to earn the victory. Reyes rf...............5 1 1 1 1 0 .250
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
analyst for Tigers games, Mercado lf ...........1 1 0 0 3 0 .215 at Washington 8, Toronto 5
PADRES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Zimmer ph-lf-
was suspended ...1 0 0 0 1 0 .250
Frazier 2b............4 0 0 0 1 0 .310 rf.......................
indefinitely by Bally Tatis Jr. rf...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .295 Miller 1b..............5 1 1 1 0 0 .152
Machado 3b ........5 0 1 1 0 0 .278 Chang 3b .............3 0 0 0 1 1 .188
Sports Detroit after he Cronenworth
...3 1 1 0 1 0 .280
Giménez ph-2b....0 0 0 0 1 0 .176
ss ..................... Hedges c..............3 0 0 0 1 0 .177
used an accent often Nola c..................4 1 1 0 0 0 .289 Clement 2b-3b ....5 0 0 0 0 3 .233 NL games
used to mock Asian Hosmer 1b ..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .277 TOTALS 39 7 7 6 10 6 —
Myers lf ..............4 2 2 3 0 2 .260 PHILLIES AT DIAMONDBACKS, 3:40
people as Shohei Ohtani Grisham cf ..........4 0 1 1 0 1 .259 TWINS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
W-L ERA TEAM
Arrieta p .............2 1 1 0 0 0 .130 Kepler rf ..............6 0 0 0 0 2 .205
came to bat in the sixth Pham ph..............1 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Rooker lf..............2 2 1 0 1 0 .202 Wheeler (R) 10-7 2.56 14-10
inning of Tuesday’s game. Kim ph ................1 0 1 0 0 0 .209 Cave lf .................1 0 0 0 1 0 .178 Bumgarner (L) 6-7 4.30 8-10
TOTALS 36 5 9 5 2 6 — Polanco 2b...........6 0 2 2 0 0 .271
Donaldson dh ......5 1 1 0 0 2 .251 MARLINS AT REDS, 7:10
When Ohtani came back ROCKIES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Arraez 3b.............3 1 1 1 2 0 .318
up in the ninth, Morris Joe lf ...................3 0 0 0 1 3 .286 Sanó 1b ...............4 2 2 3 1 0 .216 Thompson (R) 2-5 2.90 3-8
Hampson cf ........4 0 3 0 0 1 .237 Gordon cf.............5 1 1 1 0 1 .255 Castillo (R) 6-12 4.51 9-16
issued a lengthy apology. Blackmon rf ........4 3 2 0 0 0 .272 Jeffers c ..............4 1 1 0 0 1 .216
Story ss ..............3 2 1 2 0 1 .256 Simmons ss ........5 0 1 1 0 0 .214 BREWERS AT CARDINALS, 7:45
“It’s been brought to my Cron 1b................4 1 2 3 0 1 .269 TOTALS 41 8 10 8 5 6 —
McMahon 3b.......4 0 2 1 0 0 .264 Woodruff (R) 7-6 2.18 14-9
attention and I sincerely Trejo 2b...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .222 CLEVELAND. 111 110 002 00 — 7 7 2 Lester (L) 4-6 5.32 9-10
Nuñez c ...............4 1 1 1 0 0 .176 MINN............ 100 150 000 01 — 8 10 2
apologize if I offended González p ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 .167 One out when winning run scored. METS AT DODGERS, 10:10
Freeland ph.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .143
anybody, especially in the Motter ph ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .083
E: Plesac (2), Miller (2), Simmons (12), Walker (R) 7-7 3.75 14-8
Jeffers (3). LOB: Cleveland 12, Minne-
Asian community, for TOTALS 33 7 11 7 1 9 — sota 11. 2B: Miller (3), Rosario (21), Buehler (R) 12-2 2.10 16-8
what I said about pitching Straw (19), Ramírez (25), Sanó (18),
SAN DIEGO .... 021 101 000 — 5 9 0 Simmons (11). HR: Ramírez (27), off
and being careful to COLORADO .... 301 120 00X — 7 11 0 Thorpe; Reyes (21), off Minaya; Sanó
LOB: San Diego 7, Colorado 4. 2B: Nola (20), off Plesac. NL scores
Shohei Ohtani,” Morris (7), Cronenworth (28), Cron (17), Black- INDIANS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
began before going on to mon (19). HR: Myers (14), off González; Plesac................ 4.2 6 6 5 2 2 4.87 TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Myers (15), off Bowden; Nuñez (8), off Young................ 1.1 3 1 1 1 1 10.3
talk about his respect for Arrieta; Story (16), off Crismatt. Atlanta 2, at Miami 0
Parker .................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.33 Chicago Cubs 2, at Cincinnati 1
Ohtani’s talent. PADRES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Shaw.................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.09 Milwaukee 2, at St. Louis 0
Arrieta.............. 3.1 7 5 5 1 3 7.13 Clase .................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.61 at Colorado 7, San Diego 3
Crismatt ........... 1.2 2 2 2 0 3 3.36 Wittgren.............. 1 0 0 0 1 1 4.30 at San Francisco 3, N.Y. Mets 2
Stammen............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.16 Garza................. 0.1 1 1 0 1 0 4.76 at Arizona 3, Philadelphia 2
PERSONNEL DEPT. Pagán................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.24 at L.A. Dodgers 4, Pittsburgh 3
Hudson ................ 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.50 TWINS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Athletics: RHP Chris Thorpe............... 1.1 1 2 2 3 1 4.70 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
ROCKIES IP H R ER BB SO ERA García................ 1.2 1 1 1 2 1 5.14
Bassitt has a fractured González.............. 3 4 3 3 0 0 6.15
DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minaya................. 2 2 2 2 2 0 3.86 Chicago Cubs 7, at Cincinnati 1
Garza Jr................ 2 1 0 0 0 2 2.81 at Colorado 7, San Diego 5
cheekbone that will need Bowden ............... 1 1 1 1 0 2 6.91
N.Y. Mets 6, at San Francisco 2
surgery to repair, but the
Almonte .............. 2
Kinley ............... 0.2
Gilbreath .......... 1.1
3
0
0
1 1 0 2 9.00
0 0 1 0 5.77
0 0 1 1 5.26
Nowhere to run Thielbar................ 1
Colomé................. 1
Duffey.................. 1
0
2
0
0 0 0 1 3.66
2 2 1 0 4.24
0 0 1 1 3.55
Atlanta 11, at Miami 9
Milwaukee 6, at St. Louis 4 (10)
Oakland ace suffered no Bard ..................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.44 Connor Joe gets caught in a rundown between home plate and third base before being tagged out Coulombe............. 1 0 0 0 1 0 2.61 Philadelphia at Arizona, Late
Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, Late
eye damage after being WP: Bowden (2-2); LP: Arrieta (5-12); S: by San Diego’s Manny Machado in Denver on Wednesday. The Rockies went on to earn a 7-5 win. WP: Coulombe (3-1); LP: Garza (2-1). In-
Bard (20). Inherited runners-scored: Gil- herited runners-scored: Young 1-1, Park-
struck on the side of the breath 1-0. HBP: Arrieta (Story), er 1-0, García 3-1. IBB: off Wittgren (Ar-
head by a line drive González (Tatis Jr.). WP: Kinley. PB: raez), off Coulombe (Reyes). HBP: Plesac
Nuñez (6). T: 3:10. A: 20,692 (50,445). 2 (Jeffers, Rooker). WP: Colomé.
Tuesday night. AL games
Yankees: 1B Anthony Rays 8, Orioles 4 Yankees 5, Red Sox 2 Braves 11, Marlins 9 Cubs 7, Reds 1 Mets 6, Giants 2 (12) Angels 3, Tigers 1 ORIOLES AT RAYS, 1:10
Rizzo was reinstated from ORIOLES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Andrew Heaney pitched Freddie Freeman be- Michael Hermosillo NEW YORK AB R H BI BB SO AVG Shohei Ohtani hit his W-L ERA TEAM
the covid-19 injured list Mullins cf............4 1 1 1 0 0 .315 seven smooth innings, An- came the first Atlanta play- homered for the first time Nimmo cf ............6 0 2 0 0 1 .276 40th homer and pitched López (R) 3-13 6.14 8-16
Urías 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .257 McNeil 2b............5 2 1 0 0 0 .254
and in the lineup against Mountcastle thony Rizzo hit a two-run er to hit for the cycle twice since 2018, Ian Happ and Alonso 1b............3 1 1 0 0 0 .251 eight sharp innings, help- McClanahan (L) 7-4 3.73 11-7
...4 1 1 1 0 2 .265
the Red Sox. In addition, 1b ..................... single in his return from as the surging Braves beat Sergio Alcántara also went Blankenhorn ing Los Angeles beat De-
...1 0 0 0 0 0 .200 ANGELS AT TIGERS, 1:10
Hays rf-lf ............4 1 1 0 0 0 .240 ph.....................
closer Aroldis Chapman Severino dh.........4 0 1 1 0 2 .235 the covid-19 list, and New Miami. deep, and depleted Chica- Sisco ph ..............1 0 1 1 0 0 1.00 troit. Sandoval (L) 3-6 3.62 7-7
Mateo lf-ss .........4 1 1 0 0 1 .326 York beat Boston to match go beat Cincinnati, taking Conforto rf..........6 0 2 1 0 2 .220 The crowd of 27,282
was activated from the IL. M.Franco 3b........4 0 2 0 0 1 .214 BRAVES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Davis 3b ..............4 0 0 1 0 2 .297 Manning (R) 3-5 6.10 4-6
Wynns c ..............4 0 1 1 0 0 .182 a season high with its sixth Albies 2b ............4 1 0 1 1 1 .259 two of three from its play- Smith lf-1b .........5 1 0 0 0 0 .249 was hoping to see Miguel
Soler rf ...............3 1 0 0 2 1 .238 MARINERS AT RANGERS, 2:05
Martin ss ............2 0 0 0 0 0 .219 straight win. off-contending NL Central Villar ss...............4 0 1 0 1 3 .246 Cabrera hit his 500th ca-
QUOTABLE Santander ph- Adrianza ph ........1 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Mazeika c............4 1 1 0 0 1 .276 Flexen (R) 10-5 3.78 15-7
...1 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Freeman 1b ........5 4 4 2 1 0 .301 rival.
rf ...................... The Yankees have won Megill p...............2 0 0 0 0 1 .188 reer homer, but the Tigers Howard (R) 0-3 5.61 3-6
TOTALS 35 4 8 4 0 8 — Riley 3b...............5 2 3 2 0 0 .298 Drury ph..............1 0 0 0 0 1 .303
“It’s hard to RAYS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
18 of their past 23 games
to move into playoff posi-
Swanson ss ........4
d'Arnaud c ..........3
2
1
2 0 1 1 .265
0 1 2 2 .223
CHICAGO AB
Ortega cf.............4
R
2
H BI BB SO AVG
2 1 1 0 .329
Pillar lf ................2
TOTALS 44
1
6
1
10
3
6
0
1
0 .212
11 —
slugger went 1 for 3 with a
first-inning single. ASTROS AT ROYALS, 2:10
Duvall lf..............2 0 1 3 3 0 .224 Schwindel 1b ......4 0 2 1 1 1 .390 Garcia (R) 9-6 3.30 11-9
understand how Lowe 2b ..............3
W.Franco ss........4
2
1
1 1 2 0 .234
3 2 1 0 .256
tion in a tight AL wild-card
race.
Heredia cf ...........4
Morton p.............3
0
0
0 1 1 1 .231
0 0 0 2 .114
Happ lf ................5
Duffy 3b..............5
1
0
1 1 0 0 .186
3 1 0 0 .272
GIANTS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Instead, Ohtani put on a
show, striking out eight Minor (L) 8-11 5.35 10-14
Cruz dh................4 1 1 1 0 1 .273 Almonte ph.........1 0 0 0 0 1 .219 Bote 2b ...............4 1 1 0 1 2 .200 Wade Jr. rf-lf......5 1 2 1 0 1 .252
professional Meadows lf.........4
Phillips rf ............0
0
0
1 2 0 1 .234
0 0 0 0 .217
RED SOX AB R H BI BB SO AVG Pederson ph-rf ...0 0 0 1 1 0 .241 Hermosillo rf ......3
Chirinos c ............4
1
1
1 2 0 1 .250
1 0 0 2 .283
La Stella 2b.........5
Bryant 3b............5
0
0
1 1 0 1 .248
0 0 0 3 .271
and walking none. ATHLETICS AT WHITE SOX, 2:10
Irvin (L) 8-11 3.52 11-12
Arozarena rf-lf ...3 0 1 0 2 1 .280 Hernández 2b .....3 0 0 0 1 2 .251 TOTALS 35 11 10 11 12 9 — Belt 1b ................4 0 0 0 1 1 .240 L.A. AB R H BI BB SO AVG
hitters can be this Choi 1b................4
Wendle 3b ..........4
0
1
2 2 0 0 .246
1 0 0 1 .273
Renfroe cf...........3
Bogaerts ss ........3
1
1
1 1 1 0 .256
1 1 1 0 .307 MARLINS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Alcántara ss .......4
Sampson p..........1
1
0
1 1 0 1 .194
0 0 0 1 .000 Crawford ss ........4
Yastrzemski
0 0 0 1 0 .300 Ohtani p..............4 1 1 1 0 1 .269 Cease (R) 9-6 4.04 14-10
Devers 3b............4 0 0 0 0 2 .280 Rojas ss ..............5 0 1 1 0 0 .273 Rodríguez p.........1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 ...4 0 0 0 1 3 .218 Fletcher 2b..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .297
Mejía c ................4 1 1 0 0 0 .258 cf-rf.................. TWINS AT YANKEES, 7:05
unproductive.” Kiermaier cf........3 2 1 0 1 1 .244 Martinez rf .........4
Plawecki dh ........4
0
0
1 0 0 1 .291
1 0 0 0 .302
Chisholm Jr. 2b...5
Aguilar 1b...........5
1
1
2 1 0 3 .256
1 2 0 1 .268
Wisdom ph .........1
TOTALS 36
0
7
0 0 0 1 .253
12 7 3 10 —
Casali c................3
Posey ph-c ..........2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2 .224
1 .322
Gosselin 1b .........4
Walsh 1b.............0
1
0
2 0 0 0 .276
0 0 0 0 .262 TBD ---- ---- ----
TOTALS 33 8 12 8 6 5 — Verdugo lf...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .280 Sánchez rf ..........5 1 1 2 0 3 .245 Upton lf...............4 1 1 2 0 2 .225
Dickerson lf ........3 1 2 0 0 1 .237 Lagares lf............0 0 0 0 0 0 .239 Taillon (R) 7-4 3.89 13-10
— Mets owner Steven BALTIMORE... 200 000 110 — 4 8 1 Dalbec 1b ............3 0 0 0 0 0 .229 Brinson lf............4 0 0 0 1 2 .261 REDS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Slater pr-cf .........1 0 0 0 0 0 .231
Vázquez c............3 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Díaz 3b................4 3 3 0 1 1 .209 J.Iglesias ss ........4 0 0 0 0 1 .266
TAMPA BAY .. 200 203 01X — 8 12 0 India 2b ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .277 Flores ph.............1 0 1 0 0 0 .253 Adell rf................4 0 1 0 0 2 .232
Cohen, venting his TOTALS 30 2 4 2 3 6 — A.Jackson c.........4 2 1 0 0 2 .116 Votto 1b..............4 0 1 0 0 2 .281 Ruf ph .................1 0 1 0 0 0 .274
E: Urías (11). LOB: Baltimore 4, Tampa De La Cruz cf ......3 0 2 1 0 0 .318 Marsh cf .............4 0 1 0 0 2 .216
frustration on Twitter a day Castellanos rf .....4 0 0 0 0 1 .313 Solano ph............1 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Stassi c ...............3 0 0 0 0 1 .275 AL scores
Bay 9. 2B: M.Franco (22), Mejía (11), YANKEES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Luzardo p............0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Moustakas 3b.....4 0 0 0 0 2 .216 Longoria ph.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .289
after New York’s skid hit five Wendle (26), W.Franco (7), Kiermaier Alfaro ph ............1 0 0 1 0 0 .230 Mayfield 3b.........3 0 0 0 0 1 .212
LeMahieu 2b .......5 0 0 0 0 1 .270 Aquino lf .............3 0 0 0 1 1 .211 Chatwood p.........1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 TUESDAY’S RESULTS
(14), Meadows (26). HR: Mullins (21), Anderson ph .......1 0 0 1 0 0 .244 Naquin cf ............4 1 2 1 0 1 .257 TOTALS 34 3 7 3 0 10 —
games with a 3-2 loss to off Head; Mountcastle (20), off Arm- Rizzo 1b ..............4 0 1 2 0 1 .278 TOTALS 41 2 7 2 3 14 —
Judge rf ..............1 0 0 0 3 0 .285 León p .................1 1 1 0 0 0 .186 Barrero ss ...........3 0 2 0 0 0 .500 at Tampa Bay 10, Baltimore 0
strong. RBI: Mullins (42), Severino (30), Barnhart c...........3 0 1 0 1 2 .268 TIGERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Game 1: at N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 3 (7)
the Giants on Tuesday. Wynns (9), Mountcastle (64), Choi 2 Gallo lf ................3 0 0 0 1 1 .210 TOTALS 38 9 12 9 3 12 — NEW YORK .. 000 000 001 014 — 6 10 0
Stanton dh..........3 1 1 0 1 0 .263 Mahle p...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .050 SAN FRAN. .. 001 000 000 010 — 2 7 0 Grossman rf........4 0 0 0 0 1 .237 Game 2: at N.Y. Yankees 2, Boston 0 (7)
(35), Lowe (70), W.Franco 2 (26), Cruz ATLANTA....... 000 412 040 — 11 10 0 Akiyama ph.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .214 Schoop 2b ...........4 0 1 0 0 2 .284 L.A. Angels 8, at Detroit 2
(67), Meadows 2 (81). SB: Hays (3), Odor 3b ...............3 1 0 0 1 1 .225 LOB: New York 10, San Francisco 10. 2B:
STAR OF THE DAY Sánchez c............4 2 2 0 0 1 .218 MIAMI............ 000 020 106 — 9 12 0 Suárez ph............1 0 0 0 0 0 .172 Cabrera dh ..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 at Kansas City 3, Houston 1
Lowe (6). SF: Cruz, Meadows. Conforto (16), Villar (12), McNeil (13), Candelario 3b......4 0 0 0 0 1 .273 at Chicago White Sox 9, Oakland 0
Gardner cf...........3 0 1 1 0 0 .210 LOB: Atlanta 11, Miami 7. 2B: Freeman TOTALS 32 1 6 1 2 10 — Sisco (1), Wade Jr. (9). HR: Pillar (10),
Shohei Ohtani, Angels ORIOLES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Velazquez ss.......4 1 2 2 0 2 .217 H.Castro ss .........3 0 1 0 0 1 .268 Seattle 3, at Texas 1
(15), Duvall (13), Díaz (9). 3B: Freeman off Chatwood.
Watkins............... 4 8 4 4 2 2 5.62 CHICAGO........ 140 001 001 — 7 12 0 Núñez 1b.............3 0 1 0 0 1 .184 Cleveland 3, at Minnesota 1
TOTALS 30 5 7 5 6 7 — (1). HR: Freeman (27), off Madero; NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Scott.................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 4.06 Sánchez (4), off Smith. CINCINNATI ... 010 000 000 — 1 6 1 W.Castro lf .........3 1 1 1 0 1 .216
The two-way star pitched Fry ....................... 0 0 3 1 2 0 5.64 Megill .................. 6 5 1 1 2 6 3.21 Greiner c .............3 0 0 0 0 1 .232 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
BOSTON......... 100 000 001 — 2 4 0 BRAVES IP H R ER BB SO ERA E: India (12). LOB: Chicago 7, Cincinnati
Tate ..................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.53 Castro.................. 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.31 Reyes cf ..............3 0 1 0 0 1 .211 at Tampa Bay 8, Baltimore 4
eight sterling innings, Valdez.................. 2 3 1 1 1 2 5.76
NEW YORK .... 040 000 01X — 5 7 0
Morton ................ 6 3 2 2 1 9 3.47 7. 2B: Schwindel (8), Ortega (9), Votto
May...................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.08 TOTALS 31 1 6 1 0 10 — at Minnesota 8, Cleveland 7 (11)
LOB: Boston 4, New York 8. 2B: Sánchez Rodríguez ............ 1 1 1 1 1 0 2.42 (16), Barrero (1). HR: Happ (14), off
allowing six hits while Díaz ..................... 2 0 0 0 0 1 3.70 L.A. Angels 3, at Detroit 1
RAYS IP H R ER BB SO ERA (13). HR: Bogaerts (19), off Heaney; Minter ................. 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.34 Mahle; Hermosillo (1), off Mahle; Alcán-
Familia ................ 1 1 1 0 1 2 3.80 L.A.................. 200 000 010 — 3 7 0 at N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 2
striking out eight, and Head .................... 1 3 2 2 0 3 2.49 Renfroe (22), off Chapman. Tomlin .............. 0.2 5 5 5 0 0 6.85 tara (3), off Hoffman; Naquin (15), off
Reed .................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.93 DETROIT ........ 000 010 000 — 1 6 0 Seattle 3, at Texas 1
Yarbrough............ 5 1 0 0 0 3 4.57 Smith ............... 0.1 2 1 1 1 1 3.78 Sampson.
RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO ERA
LOB: Los Angeles 4, Detroit 3. 2B: at Kansas City 3, Houston 2
belted his MLB-leading Kittredge ............. 1 3 1 1 0 1 1.46 Pivetta.............. 1.2 4 4 4 3 1 4.43
CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA GIANTS IP H R ER BB SO ERA at Chicago White Sox 3, Oakland 2
MARLINS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Fletcher (24). HR: Upton (17), off Skub-
40th home run in a 3-1 Armstrong........... 2 1 1 1 0 1 8.18 Richards .............. 4 0 0 0 1 5 4.91 Sampson ............. 4 5 1 1 0 2 2.25 DeSclafani ........ 1.1 1 0 0 1 1 3.26
Luzardo ............... 3 4 4 4 5 4 9.68 al; Ohtani (40), off Cisnero; W.Castro
WP: Yarbrough (7-4); LP: Watkins (2-5). Pérez ................ 0.1 1 0 0 0 1 4.70 Rodríguez ............ 2 0 0 0 1 3 3.38 Álvarez ............. 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 2.25
Okert ................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.29 (8), off Ohtani.
win over the Tigers. Fry pitched to 3 batters in the 6th Inher- Ottavino .............. 1 0 0 0 2 0 3.80 Wick .................... 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 Littell................... 2 0 0 0 0 2 2.74
Guenther ............. 1 3 1 1 0 1 9.45 Morgan ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.81 García .................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.89 L.A. IP H R ER BB SO ERA
ited runners-scored: Tate 3-3. WP: Taylor .................. 1 2 1 1 0 0 3.60
Madero ................ 2 1 2 2 2 2 10.5 Megill .................. 1 1 0 0 0 3 11.1 Leone................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.67 Ohtani ................. 8 6 1 1 0 8 2.79
Scott. T: 3:09. A: 6,673 (25,000). Guzman ............ 0.2 2 4 4 4 0 32.4
TODAY’S GAME YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Rogers ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.02 R.Iglesias............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.91
Heaney ................ 7 2 1 1 2 4 5.51 Campbell .......... 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 8.31 REDS IP H R ER BB SO ERA McGee ................. 1 1 1 1 0 1 2.79 NL leaders
TO WATCH Britton................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.71 León..................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Mahle .................. 5 8 5 5 1 5 3.78 Watson................ 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 TIGERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Chapman .......... 0.2 2 1 1 1 1 3.79 WP: Morton (12-4); LP: Luzardo (2-2). Hoffman .............. 2 3 1 1 0 2 4.32 Chatwood ............ 2 5 5 3 0 4 13.5 Skubal .............. 6.2 6 2 2 0 7 4.02 Through Tuesday’s games
Mets at Dodgers, Luetge .............. 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 3.09 Inherited runners-scored: Smith 1-1, Doolittle .............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.46
WP: Familia (7-3); LP: Chatwood (0-1).
Cisnero ............. 1.1 1 1 1 0 1 2.92
BATTING
Okert 3-1, Campbell 3-1. IBB: off Guz- Wilson ................. 1 1 1 1 2 1 2.25 Ramírez ............... 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.88
10 p.m., MLB Network WP: Heaney (8-8); LP: Pivetta (9-6); S: Inherited runners-scored: Álvarez 1-0.
man (Freeman). HBP: Morton (A.Jack- WP: Rodríguez (1-2); LP: Mahle (10-4). IBB: off Familia (Crawford). HBP: DeS- WP: Ohtani (8-1); LP: Skubal (8-11); S: Turner, LA ........................................ .319
Luetge (1). Inherited runners-scored: Castellanos, Cin ............................... .317
Richards 2-0, Luetge 2-0. IBB: off Ot- son), Madero (Riley). WP: Rodríguez. HBP: Sampson (Barrero), Mahle (Her- clafani (McNeil), Littell (Mazeika), Mc- R.Iglesias (27). Inherited runners-
RHP Taijuan Walker (7-7, PB: A.Jackson (0). T: 3:49. A: 6,871 mosillo). T: 3:01. A: 16,922 (42,319). Gee (Alonso), Díaz (Slater). WP: Megill. scored: Cisnero 2-0. T: 2:25. A: 27,282 Frazier, SD ....................................... .312
tavino (Gallo). WP: Heaney. T: 3:41. A: Reynolds, Pit ................................... .308
39,166 (47,309). (36,742). T: 4:02. A: 25,360 (41,915). (41,083).
3.75) takes the hill for Winker, Cin ...................................... .307
Crawford, SF .................................... .303
New York against ace RHP Soto, Was ........................................ .303
Walker Buehler (12-2, Mariners 3, Rangers 1 Royals 3, Astros 2 White Sox 3, Brewers 6, Diamondbacks 3, Dodgers 4, Pirates 3 Segura, Phi ...................................... .301
Harper, Phi ....................................... .297
2.09) at Dodger Stadium. Kyle Seager hit a two- Hunter Dozier hit a two- Athletics 2 Cardinals 4 (10) Phillies 2 Late Tuesday Freeman, Atl .................................... .296
run homer in the first in- run homer in the seventh Luis Robert had three Milwaukee rallied to win Late Tuesday Matt Beaty hit a tie- HOME RUNS
ning, Marco Gonzales took inning, and Kansas City hits and two RBI and Eloy for the 17th time in its past Josh VanMeter hit a two- breaking, two-run double Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 34
a scoreless outing into the earned its third straight Jiménez drove in a run with 19 road games. run homer, Taylor Widener with two outs in the fifth in- Duvall, Atl ........................................... 27
AL leaders sixth, and Seattle beat Tex- win over Houston. a double to vault Chicago. ning to lead Los Angeles Votto, Cin ........................................... 26
BREWERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG pitched five quality in- Muncy, LA ........................................... 26
Through Tuesday’s games as. Alonso, NY .......................................... 26
Dozier homered off re- White Sox starter Lance Wong 2b..............5 0 1 0 0 0 .283 nings, and Arizona beat over Pittsburgh.
Adames ss ..........3 1 1 1 2 2 .300 Riley, Atl ............................................. 26
BATTING Seager’s homer was the liever Blake Taylor to help Lynn was ejected in the Yelich lf...............5 1 1 1 0 1 .238 Philadelphia. The Dodgers extended Freeman, Atl ....................................... 26
Brantley, Hou .................................. .328 34th allowed by Rangers the Royals post their middle of the fourth inning Escobar 3b ..........4 0 1 0 0 2 .256 their franchise-record win- Arenado, StL ....................................... 25
Guerrero Jr., Tor .............................. .316 Peterson ph ........1 0 1 0 0 0 .275
The Phillies lost for the 6 tied ................................................... 24
Hernández, Tor ................................ .315 starter Mike Foltynewicz, 31st come-from-behind vic- during a foreign substance Narváez c ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .288 fifth time in seven games ning streak to 15 games
Mullins, Bal ...................................... .315 Piña c...................1 0 0 0 0 1 .167
RBI
the most in the major tory of the season, fourth check at the dugout. and dropped 21/2 games against the Pirates.
Gurriel, Hou ..................................... .312 A.García rf...........4 2 2 2 0 0 .274 Aguilar, Mia ........................................ 84
Bogaerts, Bos .................................. .307 leagues. most in the American ATHLETICS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Tellez 1b..............4 0 1 0 0 0 .325 behind first-place Atlanta. PIRATES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Albies, Atl ........................................... 83
Anderson, Chi .................................. .300 League. Canha lf ..............4 0 1 0 1 0 .244 Bradley Jr. cf.......4 1 0 0 0 2 .176 Newman ss.........4 0 0 0 0 1 .226 Duvall, Atl ........................................... 81
Fletcher, LA ..................................... .298 MARINERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Peralta p .............1 0 0 0 0 1 .079 PHILLIES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Machado, SD ....................................... 79
Crawford ss ........3 0 0 1 0 1 .268 Marte cf..............4 0 1 1 0 1 .359 Hayes 3b.............3 1 1 0 1 1 .257
Martinez, Bos .................................. .292 The Royals go for a se- Olson 1b..............3 0 0 0 2 3 .279 Taylor ph .............1 0 0 0 0 1 .248 Segura 2b............4 0 0 0 0 1 .301 Reynolds cf .........4 1 1 1 0 0 .308 Arenado, StL ....................................... 78
Alvarez, Hou .................................... .289 Haniger rf ...........2 1 0 0 1 0 .257 Urías ph-3b .........2 1 0 0 0 1 .245 Realmuto c .........4 0 0 0 0 2 .265 Votto, Cin ........................................... 76
Seager 3b............4 1 2 2 0 1 .218 ries sweep Thursday. Lowrie dh............4 0 0 0 1 3 .258 Tsutsugo 1b........4 1 1 0 0 0 .167
Harrison 2b-ss....4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 TOTALS 39 6 8 4 2 13 — Harper rf .............3 1 1 1 1 1 .297 Stallings c...........4 0 0 1 0 1 .227 Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 75
HOME RUNS France 1b ............4 0 1 0 0 1 .283 Gregorius ss .......4 0 1 0 0 0 .220 Riley, Atl ............................................. 73
Toro 2b................4 0 1 0 0 0 .254
ASTROS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Chapman 3b........3 0 0 0 1 0 .224 Polanco rf ...........3 0 0 0 1 1 .201
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 39 Gomes c ..............4 0 1 0 0 0 .222 CARDINALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG McCutchen lf ......3 0 0 0 1 1 .225 Castro 2b ............3 0 0 0 0 2 .200 Reynolds, Pit ...................................... 72
Fraley lf ..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .216 Altuve 2b ............5 0 2 0 0 1 .273 Escobar, Mil ........................................ 72
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 35 Brown rf .............2 1 1 1 0 0 .209 Miller 1b .............4 1 1 0 0 1 .216 Moran ph ............1 0 1 1 0 0 .274
Torrens dh ..........3 0 0 0 0 1 .217 Brantley lf ..........3 0 0 0 1 0 .325 Edman 2b ............4 1 1 0 0 0 .254 Swanson, Atl ...................................... 72
Olson, Oak .......................................... 30 Piscotty ph-rf .....2 0 1 0 0 1 .220 Torreyes 3b.........4 0 0 0 0 1 .268 Gamel lf ..............4 0 1 0 0 1 .269
Kelenic cf ............1 1 0 0 1 0 .150 Correa ss.............4 0 2 0 0 0 .273 Goldschmidt 1b...5 1 2 1 0 0 .279
Perez, KC ............................................ 30 Andrus ss............3 1 1 0 0 0 .230 Jankowski cf.......1 0 0 0 3 0 .250 Crowe p...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .042
Raleigh c .............3 0 1 0 0 2 .181 Alvarez dh ..........4 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Arenado 3b .........4 0 0 0 0 3 .261 ERA
Gallo, NY ............................................. 29 Moreland ph .......1 0 0 0 0 0 .230 Gibson p..............2 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Difo ph ................1 0 0 0 0 0 .261
Díaz 3b................4 0 0 0 0 2 .294 Sosa 3b ...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .259
Devers, Bos ......................................... 29 TOTALS 28 3 5 3 2 6 — Murphy c.............0 0 0 0 0 0 .220 Herrera ph ..........0 0 0 0 1 0 .247 Park ph-2b ..........2 0 0 0 0 0 .235 Buehler, LA ...................................... 2.10
Gurriel 1b............4 1 1 0 0 0 .311 O'Neill lf..............5 2 2 1 0 2 .270
Lowe, TB ............................................. 28 Bohm ph .............1 0 0 0 0 0 .251 Burnes, Mil ...................................... 2.13
McCormick rf ......4 1 2 0 0 1 .259 TOTALS 34 2 7 2 5 9 — Molina c ..............4 0 1 1 0 1 .256 TOTALS 34 3 5 3 2 7 —
Semien, Tor ........................................ 27 RANGERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Meyers cf............3 0 2 0 1 1 .333 Nootbaar rf .........4 0 1 1 1 1 .222 TOTALS 30 2 3 1 6 7 — Woodruff, Mil .................................. 2.18
7 tied ................................................... 26 Hernandez 3b .....4 0 2 0 0 1 .289 Maldonado c .......2 0 0 0 0 1 .177 DeJong ss............3 0 0 0 2 1 .199 Peralta, Mil ...................................... 2.26
CHICAGO AB R H BI BB SO AVG L.A. AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Kiner-Falefa ss ...4 0 2 0 0 0 .260 Castro ph-c .........2 0 1 2 0 0 .202 Bader cf...............5 0 1 0 0 1 .265 D-BACKS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Gausman, SF ................................... 2.40
RBI García rf..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .243 Anderson ss........4 0 1 0 0 0 .300 T.Turner 2b .........4 0 1 0 0 1 .319 Wheeler, Phi .................................... 2.56
TOTALS 35 2 10 2 2 7 — Hernandez 2b .....4 1 1 0 0 3 .233 Flaherty p............1 0 0 0 1 0 .118 Rojas ss ..............4 0 3 1 0 1 .287 Seager ss ............3 2 2 0 1 1 .283
Abreu, Chi ........................................... 89 Peters cf .............3 0 0 0 1 1 .163 Rondón ph...........1 0 0 0 0 1 .263 Marte cf..............4 0 1 0 0 0 .344 Scherzer, LA .................................... 2.69
Devers, Bos ......................................... 89 Pozo dh ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Abreu 1b .............4 0 1 0 0 1 .255 Smith c ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 Miley, Cin ......................................... 2.84
ROYALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Jiménez dh .........4 0 1 1 0 1 .319 Dean ph...............1 0 0 0 0 1 .207 P.Smith rf ...........4 0 0 0 0 0 .269 Bellinger cf .........4 1 1 0 0 2 .183
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 88 Culberson 1b.......3 0 1 0 0 0 .250 Cabrera 3b ..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .240 Stroman, NY .................................... 2.84
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 86 Lowe ph ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 .248 Merrifield 2b.......4 0 0 0 0 0 .274 Moncada 3b ........3 2 1 0 1 1 .252 TOTALS 38 4 8 4 4 11 — Pollock lf.............3 1 2 2 1 1 .304 Musgrove, SD .................................. 3.11
Goodwin rf..........2 0 1 0 2 0 .241 Peralta lf.............4 0 0 0 0 1 .245 Beaty 1b .............3 0 2 2 0 0 .267
Hernández, Tor ................................... 83 J.Martin lf...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .155 Lopez ss..............4 1 3 0 0 0 .277
Robert cf.............4 0 3 2 0 0 .341 MILWAU- Walker 1b ...........2 1 0 0 1 0 .225 Muncy 1b ............1 0 0 0 0 1 .273 SAVES
Meadows, TB ...................................... 79 Ibáñez 2b ............3 1 1 0 0 0 .213 Perez c ................3 0 1 0 0 0 .275 000 110 001 3— 6 8 0
Lamb lf................3 0 0 0 0 1 .212 KEE .............. VanMeter 2b.......3 1 2 2 0 1 .223 Taylor rf..............3 0 0 0 1 2 .278
Olson, Oak .......................................... 79 Trevino c .............3 0 2 1 0 0 .223 C.Santana dh ......4 0 1 1 0 0 .225 Melancon, SD ...................................... 34
Vaughn lf ............1 0 0 0 0 0 .262 ST. LOUIS .... 210 000 000 1— 4 8 3 Varsho c..............2 1 1 0 1 1 .221 Lux 3b .................3 0 0 0 0 1 .224
Martinez, Bos ..................................... 79 Benintendi lf.......3 1 1 0 0 0 .253 Reyes, StL .......................................... 27
TOTALS 33 1 8 1 1 6 — Zavala c ..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Widener p ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Price p.................1 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 77 Dozier 3b ............3 1 1 2 0 0 .207 E: Flaherty (1), Reyes (2), Nootbaar (1). McGee, SF ........................................... 26
Ellis ph ................1 0 0 0 0 1 .111 J.Turner ph-3b....2 0 0 0 0 0 .287
Perez, KC ............................................ 77 O'Hearn 1b..........3 0 1 0 0 1 .241 TOTALS 32 3 9 3 3 7 — LOB: Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 11. 2B: Smith, Atl ........................................... 26
SEATTLE ........ 200 000 010 — 3 5 0 Hager ph .............1 0 0 0 0 1 .120
Bichette, Tor ....................................... 77 TEXAS............ 000 000 100 — 1 8 0 M.Taylor cf .........3 0 0 0 0 1 .242 Goldschmidt 2 (22), Edman (30). HR: TOTALS 31 4 8 4 3 10 — Díaz, NY .............................................. 25
Dyson rf ..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .212 OAKLAND ...... 000 100 100 — 2 7 0 Adames (17), off Flaherty; A.García TOTALS 30 3 7 3 2 9 —
PITTSBURGH . 000 200 001 — 3 5 0 Jansen, LA .......................................... 25
ERA LOB: Seattle 3, Texas 6. 2B: Seager CHICAGO........ 100 101 00X — 3 9 2 (22), off Flaherty; A.García (23), off Hader, Mil ........................................... 24
TOTALS 30 3 8 3 0 2 — PHILA............. 001 000 001 — 2 3 0 L.A.................. 002 020 00X — 4 8 2
(19), Raleigh (5), Trevino 2 (8), Kiner- Reyes. Bard, Col ............................................. 19
Lynn, Chi .......................................... 2.26 Falefa (22), Ibáñez (6). HR: Seager (27), E: Anderson (7), Moncada (10). LOB: ARIZONA ....... 000 012 00X — 3 7 0
HOUSTON ...... 000 000 200 — 2 10 0 Oakland 11, Chicago 8. 2B: Canha (19), BREWERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA E: Lux 2 (10). LOB: Pittsburgh 6, Los An- Rodríguez, Atl .................................... 14
Ray, Tor ........................................... 2.88 off Foltynewicz. KANSAS CITY 000 100 20X — 3 8 0 Jiménez (5). 3B: Andrus (2). HR: Brown LOB: Philadelphia 7, Arizona 5. 2B: Mil- geles 8. 2B: Reynolds (27), Tsutsugo Neris, Phi ............................................ 12
Cole, NY ........................................... 3.04 Peralta................. 2 5 3 3 0 2 2.45
MARINERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA (16), off Lynn. ler (5), VanMeter (15), Varsho (8), Ro- (6), T.Turner (22), Seager 2 (14), Bell-
Bassitt, Oak ..................................... 3.22 LOB: Houston 8, Kansas City 4. 2B: Ben- Strickland ............ 2 0 0 0 2 0 1.33
Gonzales........... 5.1 6 0 0 1 3 4.10 jas (26). HR: Harper (22), off Widener; inger (7), Beaty (4), Pollock (23). 3B: INNINGS PITCHED
Greinke, Hou .................................... 3.51 intendi (13). HR: Dozier (10), off B.Tay- ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Cousins ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Sadler ............... 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 1.23 VanMeter (4), off Gibson. Gamel (2).
Berríos, Tor ...................................... 3.52 lor. Blackburn ......... 5.1 5 3 3 3 3 5.06 Suter.................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 2.76 Wheeler, Phi .................................. 162.0
Irvin, Oak ......................................... 3.53 Swanson........... 0.2 2 1 1 0 0 2.25 Sánchez ............... 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.05 PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO ERA PIRATES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Buehler, LA .................................... 154.2
Smith................ 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 5.65
ASTROS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Romo ................ 1.2 2 0 0 0 3 3.13
Mize, Det ......................................... 3.69 Chafin .................. 1 2 0 0 0 1 0.00 Norris................... 1 0 0 0 1 2 9.45 Gibson ................. 6 7 3 3 2 5 4.70 Crowe .................. 4 5 2 2 2 4 5.23 Wainwright, StL ............................ 154.2
Ryu, Tor ........................................... 3.72 Sewald................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.70 Greinke ................ 6 5 1 1 0 0 3.43 Hader ................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.66 Ponce................... 2 2 2 2 1 2 8.34 Alcantara, Mia ............................... 151.1
Hammer .............. 2 0 0 0 0 4 0.69
Manaea, Oak .................................... 3.77 Steckenrider........ 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.06 B.Taylor ............ 0.1 2 2 2 0 1 3.90 Williams .............. 1 1 1 0 0 2 2.23 Shreve ................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.87
CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Montgomery, NY ............................. 3.77 Graveman......... 1.2 1 0 0 0 1 0.88 D-BACKS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Bednar ................. 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.61 STRIKEOUTS
RANGERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Lynn..................... 4 3 1 1 3 4 2.26 CARDINALS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
ROYALS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Crochet ............. 1.2 1 0 0 1 0 2.48 Widener............... 5 2 1 1 3 5 4.59 Wheeler, Phi ..................................... 187
STRIKEOUTS Foltynewicz......... 6 3 2 2 2 5 5.54 Flaherty ............... 6 4 2 2 1 8 2.68 Aguilar.............. 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 9.64 L.A. IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Burnes, Mil ....................................... 175
Evans................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.21 Singer ............... 6.2 6 2 2 2 6 5.23 Tepera .............. 0.2 1 1 1 0 1 2.35
Cole, NY ............................................ 185 Bummer............... 1 2 0 0 1 1 3.83 Cabrera ................ 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.02 Wendelken ....... 0.2 0 0 0 2 0 0.00 Price ................. 4.2 3 2 2 1 3 3.62 Scherzer, LA ..................................... 170
Cotton ................. 1 1 1 1 0 0 7.27 Tapia................. 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 2.70 Gallegos............... 1 1 0 0 1 2 3.12 Knebel .............. 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 2.89
Ray, Tor ............................................ 167 Hendriks ........... 1.2 0 0 0 0 3 3.25 Clarke .................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.26 Gausman, SF .................................... 169
Sborz ................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.46 Staumont ............ 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.40 Reyes................... 2 3 4 1 0 3 2.47 Bickford ............... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.45
Cease, Chi ......................................... 165 Clippard ............... 1 1 1 1 1 1 2.70 Nola, Phi ........................................... 163
Barlow ................. 1 3 0 0 0 0 2.64 WP: Crochet (3-5); LP: Blackburn (0-1); Treinen ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.88
Giolito, Chi ........................................ 161 WP: Gonzales (5-5); LP: Foltynewicz WP: Hader (4-2); LP: Reyes (5-6); S: Wil- WP: Aguilar (1-1); LP: Gibson (2-2); S: Woodruff, Mil ................................... 163
Rodón, Chi ......................................... 160 (2-12); S: Steckenrider (5). Inherited WP: Tapia (1-0); LP: B.Taylor (2-4); S: S: Hendriks (28). Inherited runners- Jansen ................. 1 2 1 1 1 1 2.98 Buehler, LA ....................................... 162
scored: Romo 2-1, Tepera 1-0, Bummer liams (3). HBP: Peralta (Molina), Hader Clippard (3). IBB: off Widener
Bassitt, Oak ...................................... 154 runners-scored: Sadler 1-0, Smith 1-0. Barlow (7). Inherited runners-scored: (Edman). WP: Norris, Reyes. T: 4:03. A: WP: Knebel (2-0); LP: Ponce (0-3); S: Peralta, Mil ....................................... 162
1-0, Hendriks 2-0. WP: Lynn. T: 3:20. A: (Jankowski), off Gibson (Varsho). WP:
Montas, Oak ..................................... 152 HBP: Foltynewicz (Haniger), Cotton Tapia 2-0. HBP: Graveman (Perez). T: 25,938 (45,494). Jansen (25). Inherited runners-scored: Darvish, SD ....................................... 158
22,780 (40,615). Clippard.
Manaea, Oak ..................................... 148 (Kelenic). T: 3:00. A: 19,119 (40,300). 2:49. A: 12,278 (37,903). Knebel 2-0. HBP: Bednar (McKinney) Mahle, Cin ......................................... 155
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 , 2021
Bauer expected to take stand, take the Fifth Amendment
BY G US G ARCIA- R OBERTS
los angeles — Trevor Bauer’s
attorneys wrapped up their de-
fense of the star pitcher against a
California woman who is arguing
for a restraining order Wednes-
day, asking her about text mes-
sages they say reveal a plan to
publicize her assault claims and
force him into a settlement. Bau-
er’s lawyers also called to the
stand an expert witness who dis-
puted her account of the injuries
on her body.
The only remaining witness in
the hearing over whether to grant
the woman the order is the Los
Angeles Dodgers pitcher himself,
who is expected to take the wit-
ness stand Thursday morning.
Bauer’s lawyer indicated he will
refuse to answer questions, in-
voking his right against self-in-
crimination.
“He does intend to take the
Fifth Amendment beyond saying
what he does for a living,” attor-
ney Shawn Holley said in Los
Angeles Superior Court on
Wednesday. Judge Dianna Gould-
Saltman said she will decide by
then whether Bauer will be forced
to cite that amendment in re-
sponse to every question from the
woman’s lawyers or can assert the
right only once in anticipation of
any questions he might receive.
Bauer has been a silent pres-
Moribund O’s
crash through
looking glass
as skid hits 14
RAYS 8,
ORIOLES 4
BY N ATHAN R UIZ
It is not yet the longest losing
streak in the sport’s or even the
franchise’s history. Another game
against the Tampa Bay Rays and a
lengthy homestand separates the
2021 Baltimore Orioles from those
unwanted distinctions.
But by other measures, a losing
streak that reached 14 with a 8-4
defeat to the Rays on Wednesday
at Tropicana Field in St. Peters-
burg, Fla., is perhaps the least
competitive stretch of baseball in
major league history.
In that time, the Orioles have
been outscored by 91 runs, the
largest scoring gap of the
260 teams that have dropped
more than 10 consecutive games
since 1901, according to Baseball-
Reference’s Stathead.
This losing streak — the Orioles’
second 14-game skid of the season
— has ensured their fifth straight
nonwinning season, plummeting
their record to an MLB-worst 38-
81.
The 1988 Orioles’ season-open-
ing 21-game skid is the franchise’s
only one longer than the current
drought, though the inaugural
1954 team and this May’s group
also lost 14 straight games. These
Orioles are the third team since
1901 and the first since the 1935
Boston Braves with two streaks of
that length in one season.
— Baltimore Sun
BARRY SVRLUGA
On every fifth day, Gray
is a promise for the future
SVRLUGA FROM D1
home. What has to be treasured
is that matchup between Gray
and Valera because it portends
what might be repeated in the
future. Even with a wild 8-5
victory Wednesday, there are
going to be more losses than
wins. Lots more. So how to enjoy
this?
For the remainder of the
season — and with all due respect
to the Erick Feddes and Paolo
Espinos of the world — Gray’s
starts represent the most
compelling part of a given
Nationals week. That’s a lot for
someone who, on Wednesday,
notched the 30th inning of his
big league “career.” But it’s not all
bad. Indeed, it could be exciting.
Exciting, in a different way
than we have become
accustomed.
“We won a championship
here,” Martinez said, “and I want
these young guys to understand
that we are a championship
organization, and we want to win
again — and we want to win
. THE WASHINGTON POST
ence in three days of proceedings,
most of which have been spent on
the testimony of his accuser, who
claimed in a request for a tempo-
rary restraining order in late June
that he sexually assaulted and
punched her after choking her
unconscious during two sexual
encounters in the spring. Bauer
has continued to draw his
$40 million salary while Major
League Baseball has undertaken
an investigation stemming from
her allegations, which his repre-
sentatives have denied as “base-
less” and “defamatory.”
The Washington Post does not
name alleged victims of domestic
violence unless they ask to be
identified.
The Post on Saturday reported
the existence of another tempo-
rary order of protection against
Bauer, filed by an Ohio woman
last year. The article described
similar allegations of choking
and punching during sex, and the
Ohio woman sought the order of
protection following threats he
allegedly sent her, including one
reading: “I don’t feel like spend-
ing time in jail for killing some-
one. And that’s what would hap-
pen if I saw you again.”
Bauer’s agents have denied
those allegations and questioned
the authenticity of the text mes-
sages. The Ohio woman volun-
tarily dismissed her complaint
For Soto, each game seems like a walk — or three — in the ballpark
NATIONALS FROM D1
Bryce Harper, was at 20.3 percent
for this month. Soto’s season walk
rate of 19.6 is the highest in the
majors, just ahead of New York
Yankees outfielder Joey Gallo. But
the timing of the uptick is no
coincidence.
By trading Trea Turner at the
July 30 deadline, the Nationals
(52-68) shipped off their second-
best hitter and left a huge gap
between Soto and his teammates.
The departures of Josh Harrison,
Yan Gomes and Kyle Schwarber
only further thinned the offense.
Before the fire sale, Soto had two
kinds of protection: In front of
him, Turner’s production often
made it harder for opposing clubs
to walk him. Behind Soto, Bell was
usually followed by some combi-
nation of Gomes, Harrison and
Starlin Castro — not Yadiel Her-
nandez, Carter Kieboom and Luis
García, as he was Tuesday.
A better team is typically a bet-
ter situation for a star slugger.
That’s why Gallo, who was traded
from the last-place Texas Rangers
at the deadline, has been walked
so much. And that’s why Soto is
being so obviously nibbled
around, game after game.
“When all this starts happen-
ing, now they try to pitch me like
last year, like not going to see that
many pitches, just going to see
one,” Soto said earlier this month,
explaining how the trades have
affected what he gets in the box.
“. . . It starts to be corners, corners
and try to get me out outside of the
strike zone.”
When Soto refers to last year,
the prime example is September
2020. He led the majors with a 30.4
percent walk rate, with the second
highest belonging to Milwaukee
Brewers outfielder Christian
soon.”
Let’s be realistic about that,
though: Soon is not 2022. Exhale
on that thought. Soon is, at best,
2023. Which is fine. This is no
longer about going 1-0 today. It’s
about developing a core —
through scouting and player
development — that can become
a group that goes 1-0 roughly
95 times in a season. It’s about all
those buzzwords from, say, 2009,
before this town expected to
contend every single season.
“There’s a lot of things back
then that are different than they
are now,” said Ryan Zimmerman,
pinch hitter. “I don’t think this
situation is the same.”
He has the right to assess it
because other than General
Manager Mike Rizzo — the man
who built it up, won it all, then
tore it down — he’s the only one
who had the front-row seat for
the transformation from
scrapheap to contender. The
Nats’ first-ever draft choice made
two salient points in a pregame
discussion Wednesday: Then is
not now, because this team has
baseball
after Bauer’s lawyer threatened to
sue her, accusing the woman and
her attorney of extortion.
Previous testimony in the hear-
ing in Los Angeles Superior Court
detailed the severity of injuries
the California woman alleged
were a result of the second, more
violent encounter with Bauer,
which resulted in her hospitaliza-
tion after she said he choked her
unconscious twice and punched
her repeatedly in the head, cheek-
bones, jaw and vagina. But a
forensic pathologist called to the
stand Wednesday by Bauer’s at-
torneys said that she found it
“unlikely” the injuries on the
woman’s body were caused by
being punched.
Jennifer Hammers, who stud-
ied the woman’s medical records,
CT scan results and photos of her
injuries taken shortly after al-
leged assault, said the apparent
bruising on her vagina suggested
not that she was punched there
but that she had incurred trauma
to her pubic region from rough
sex. “In two people who are thin,
fit, those impacts can cause blunt
injuries in that area,” Hammers
testified.
The forensic nurse examiner
who took the photos during the
woman’s Sexual Assault Re-
sponse Team (SART) exam had
previously testified in the hearing
that she had never before seen
Juan Soto hit a three-run home run and walked three times as the
Nationals completed a two-game sweep of the visiting Blue Jays.
Yelich (23.9). Howie Kendrick, the
usual cleanup hitter behind him,
was hurt. Aside from Turner, the
rest of the offense was struggling.
Soto, then, grew used to taking
four balls, dropping his bat in the
grass and strolling to first.
Just look at what happened in
the two plate appearances after he
crushed Berríos’s 2-0 fastball. In
the third, with no men on base,
Berríos fell behind 2-0, threw way
inside, stole a strike on the outer
half and then bounced a fastball to
walk Soto. Two pitches later, Bell
grounded into an inning-ending
double play. And in the fifth, again
with no one on, Berríos picked at
the edges and walked Soto for the
second time.
Bell flied out to center. But the
seventh inning brought another
opportunity to back Soto up. Fac-
ing Hand, Soto whiffed on a dead-
center fastball before walking to
put two on with none down. Bell
responded with a three-run blast —
right-handed, smacked the oppo-
Juan Soto as an established
superstar, not to mention the
potential of Strasburg to return
to health and Patrick Corbin to
rediscover himself. But then is
also not now because the fan base
isn’t nascent, still learning the
game. It’s established, with
expectations.
“I haven’t talked to [Rizzo] or
anyone in the front office about
this, but it’s hard for me to see
them doing a three- or a four-year
thing,” Zimmerman said. “You
risk alienating the fan base that
you now have that’s only two
years away from winning a World
Series. Without knowing the ins
and outs or ever having sat in on
one meeting on the front office
side, I feel like that would be a
risk.”
The fans that went through
this the first time, they have to
recall what it was like to find
little parcels of joy in the
summers of, say, 2008 and ’09,
when back-to-back Nats teams
combined to lose 205 games. It
was in moments like that one at-
bat: Gray against Valera.
“He reminds me a lot of Jordan
Zimmermann,” Zimmerman said,
and for old-guard Nats faithful,
that has to be encouraging
because the right-hander
Zimmermann was an original
member of the core, winning
Nats. Gray is poised, just like
Zimmermann. He pounds the
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such a severe injury to a subject’s
vaginal area.
Hammers also testified that
bruises to the woman’s face and
buttocks were “unlikely” to be
caused by being punched, as the
woman has claimed. The forensic
pathologist testified that if that
were the case, she would expect to
see a pattern of bruising from
knuckles. Additionally, she said
bruising behind the woman’s ears
was not, in her opinion, a result of
strangulation or being punched.
She testified that the bruising
appeared more likely to be the
result of the ears being twisted.
Hammers said she found the
bruises to the woman’s face were
“superficial,” and she disagreed
with the forensic nurse examin-
er’s finding of lacerations on the
woman’s face.
The woman’s attorney, Marc
Garelick, objected to Hammers
taking the stand, pointing out
among other arguments that the
vast majority of her career has
been spent doing autopsies on
deceased subjects. Hammers tes-
tified in response to Garelick’s
questioning that she is paid hour-
ly by one of the law firms repre-
senting Bauer — a common ar-
rangement for expert witnesses
— and is owed roughly $4,000.
The woman’s attorneys also
called to the stand their client’s
friend and boss, who inspected
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
site way — that nudged the Nation-
als ahead for good. Kieboom’s solo
shot then provided an even softer
cushion for Andrés Machado and
Kyle Finnegan out of the bullpen.
“If they want to walk Soto, I’ll
take my chances with Josh Bell. I
really will,” Martinez said. “He’s
done awesome protecting Juan.”
On Tuesday, Soto got a middle-
middle sinker and ripped a 116-
mph line drive, the hardest-hit
ball of his career. In his second and
third plate appearances Wednes-
day, the one strike was similar to
the pitch Soto pounced on for his
20th homer, if a bit lower in the
zone. But Soto told Martinez they
weren’t in the exact spot he was
keying on. Soto has been uber
selective since he debuted at 19 in
2018, and Martinez doesn’t want
him to change.
Combine that with a general
fear of his power, and that’s how
Soto has a .569 on-base percentage
in August (and a .960 on-base-
plus-slugging percentage for the
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Josiah Gray allowed two runs
in six innings for the Nationals
in a win over the Blue Jays.
strike zone, just like him. He
works quickly, just like him. He
just looks the part — and like
Zimmermann, he understands
the trajectory of the club and his
place in it.
“Knowing the Nationals
organization, we’re trying to
rebuild and trying to build
around young guys such as
myself, that’s something you have
to recognize and just appreciate,”
Gray said. “They want you to be a
part of the future and be a guy for
them. . . . It’s definitely
something I take a lot of pride in.”
D5
her injuries shortly after the al- appeared to joke about a poten-
leged assault of the second en- tial settlement. “Hopping in the
counter and urged her to report it goddamn RANGE ROVER,” the
and seek medical treatment. The woman texted. Holley also ques-
friend testified about the injuries tioned her about messages that
she observed to the woman’s face, showed she was eager to have the
buttocks and vaginal area. “She media pick up her story.
had been crying, throwing up. The woman acknowledged
She couldn’t open her jaw,” the during testimony Wednesday
friend said. “She could barely that her messages to friends were
talk.” “vulgar, angry and immature.”
Holley concluded an aggres- The woman, who has been sober
sive cross-examination of the for less than two years, said she
woman that has focused on the sent them partly as a coping
defense that she encouraged mechanism to avoid picking up a
rough sex from the pitcher with drink to deal with the shame and
plans to publicize her injuries stress stemming from the alleged
and pressure him into a financial assaults. “I was bullying the bul-
settlement. ly,” she said. “It wasn’t the right or
This assertion by Bauer’s law- correct way to deal with it.”
yers hinges mostly on the wom- But the woman said she was
an’s messages to Bauer and her motivated to publicize her story
confidantes. In a message sent to as much as possible only after
the woman’s Alcoholics Anony- Bauer’s lawyer, Jon Fetterolf, is-
mous sponsor following her first sued a statement suggesting any
encounter with Bauer, during violence in her encounters with
which she said he choked her Bauer was her idea. In the state-
unconscious and then anally pen- ment, Fetterolf said that the
etrated her without her consent, woman “dictate[d] what she
the woman texted: “Give me 50 wanted from him sexually and he
million dollars and dont slap my did what was asked.”
[genitals] and id be great.” The woman recounted part of
After the second encounter that statement in court Wednes-
that left the woman hospitalized day, proceedings at which Fetter-
— leading her to cooperate with olf was present, remarking, “I
police who were investigating her remember how it felt to read it for
injuries and ultimately to request the first time, and the words are
the temporary order of protec- burned into my brain.”
tion — she and the AA sponsor gus.garcia-roberts@washpost.com
Nationals 8, Blue Jays 5 HOW THEY SCORED
BLUE JAYS AB
Semien 2b ......................5
R
2
H
2
BI BB SO AVG
2 0 0 .270
NATIONALS FIRST
Robles singles to deep left field. Escobar reaches on a
fielder’s choice. Robles to third. Soto homers to left
Bichette ss .....................5
Guerrero Jr. 1b ...............5
Hernández rf ..................4
Gurriel Jr. lf ....................3
0
0
1
0
2
0
2
1
0 0 1 .288
0 0 2 .313
1 0 1 .317
0 0 0 .266
field. Escobar scores. Robles scores. Bell flies out. Her-
nandez called out on strikes. Kieboom called out on
strikes.
Nationals 3, Blue jays 0
Smith ph.........................1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 BLUE JAYS SECOND
Valera 3b ........................3 0 0 0 1 0 .225
Grichuk cf .......................2 1 0 0 2 2 .250
Hernandez homers to left field. Gurriel Jr. pops out.
McGuire c .......................1
Kirk ph-c .........................1
0
0
0
0
0 1 0 .259
0 0 0 .263
Valera lines out. Grichuk strikes out swinging.
Nationals 3, Blue jays 1
BLUE JAYS THIRD
Berríos p.........................1
Dickerson lf ....................2
0
1
0
1
0 0 0 .000
2 0 1 .282
McGuire hit by pitch. JBerrios grounds out to shallow
infield. McGuire out at second. Semien homers to left
TOTALS 33 5 8 5 4 8 — field. Bichette singles to left field.Guerrero Jr. flies out.
Nationals 3, Blue jays 2
NATIONALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG NATIONALS SIXTH
Robles cf.........................5 1 1 0 0 1 .209 Hernandez grounds out. Kieboom hit by pitch. Garcia
Escobar ss ......................5 2 1 0 0 1 .259 strikes out swinging. Adams singles to left field. CKie-
boom to second. Zimmerman singles to center field.
Soto rf ............................2
Bell 1b ............................5
2 1
1 1
3 3 0 .304
3 0 0 .241 Adams to second. Kieboom scores. Robles strikes out
Hernandez lf...................3 0 0 0 1 1 .297 swinging.
Thomas lf .......................0 0 0 0 0 0 .135 Nationals 4, Blue jays 2
Kieboom 3b ....................3 2 1 1 0 1 .270 BLUE JAYS SEVENTH
García 2b ........................4 0 1 0 0 1 .209 Grichuk walks. McGuire pops out. Dickerson homers to
Adams c..........................3 0 2 0 0 0 .346 right field. Grichuk scores. Semien homers to left field.
Gray p .............................2 0 1 0 0 1 .111 Bichette grounds outl. Guerrero Jr. called out on
Zimmerman ph...............1 0 1 1 0 0 .242 strikes.
Stevenson ph .................1 0 1 0 0 0 .216 Blue jays 5, Nationals 4
TOTALS 34 8 11 8 4 6 — NATIONALS SEVENTH
Escobar singles to center field. Soto walks. Escobar to
TORONTO ............... 011 000 300 — 5 8 1 second. Bell homers to center field. Soto scores. Esco-
WASH ..................... 300 001 40X — 8 11 1 bar scores. Hernandez lines out. Kieboom homers to
left field. Garcia grounds out. Adams hit by pitch. Ste-
E: Berríos (3), Bell (3). LOB: Toronto 7, Washington 8.
2B: Hernández (22), Adams (2). HR: Hernández (22),
venson singles to right field. Adams to second. Robles
grounds out.
off Gray; Semien (28), off Gray; Dickerson (2), off Harp- Nationals 8, Blue jays 5
er; Semien (29), off Harper; Soto (20), off Berríos; Bell
(20), off Hand; Kieboom (3), off Hand. RBI: Hernández
(84), Semien 2 (72), Dickerson 2 (8), Soto 3 (66), Zim-
merman (39), Bell 3 (65), Kieboom (11). S: Berríos.
BLUE JAYS IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA N AT I O N A L S O N D E C K
Berríos.....................5 5 3 2 3 3 88 3.52
Mayza...................0.2 1 1 1 0 1 18 3.93
Cimber ..................0.1 2 1 1 0 1 11 2.37 at Milwaukee Brewers
Hand ....................0.2 2 3 3 1 0 17 3.59
Thornton...............0.1 1 0 0 0 0 6 4.68
Richards ..................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.42 Tomorrow 8:10 MASN2
NATIONALS IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Saturday 4:05 MASN
Gray .......................... 6 5 2 2 1 4 87 3.90
Harper.................... 0.1 2 3 3 1 0 13 1.96
Thompson ............. 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 9 3.86 Sunday 2:10 MASN2
Machado ................ 0.2 0 0 0 2 2 18 2.55
Finnegan ............... 1.1 1 0 0 0 1 19 2.96
WP: Thompson (1-1); LP: Hand (5-5); S: Finnegan (4). at Miami Marlins
Inherited runners-scored: Cimber 2-1, Hand 1-1,
Finnegan 2-0. HBP: Gray (McGuire), Mayza (Kieboom), Tuesday 7:10 MASN2
Thornton (Adams). WP: Machado. T: 3:19. A: 18,336
(41,339).
Wednesday 7:10 MASN2
season). Aug. 26 7:10 MASN
“Unfortunately, it’s happened a
lot,” Martinez said Wednesday, at New York Mets
ahead of the win, of Soto’s con-
stant walks. “But he is accepting it; Aug. 27 7:10 MASN
he is taking it. The key for him Aug. 28 7:10 MASN
now, as I always tell him, is . . .
‘When you do get a ball you think Aug. 29 1:10 MASN
you can hit, be ready for it.’ They’ve
been so few and far between.” Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM)
jesse.dougherty@washpost.com
So here he came, in his fourth Josh Bell and Carter Kieboom
start since he became mattered more to the outcome.
Washington’s centerpiece in the
trade that sent Max Scherzer and
Trea Turner to the Los Angeles
That those Nats’ homers came off
lefty Brad Hand, dealt away by
Washington at the deadline,
Dodgers. Ship out a three-time Cy
Young winner and an all-star
shortstop, something of value
added a delicious little subplot.
But it mattered less for the
Nats of 2021 because they are just
better come back in return. Here exploring who might be
was a moment to discover it. competent and competitive
“I wanted to see how he pieces for them in the future. It
reacted,” Martinez said. mattered for the Nats of 2023,
Gray opened by missing with a who might well be relevant again.
fastball. But his confidence in his “A lot of these guys, three
own stuff, as a 23-year-old, is months ago, they were blocked”
evident. Behind in the count, he by more established players at
threw a curveball for a strike, their positions, Zimmerman said.
then another to get to 1-2, with “There was no chance that they
Valera looking at them both. Gray were going to get these 200 some
then came after Valera with three at-bats or these eight to 10 starts,
straight 96-mph fastballs, all of whatever it is. Take advantage of
which were fouled off, before the it. You can parlay this into a
hammer — another curve, finally career. This is what you want.
popped weakly onto the infield, This is why you play the game. . . .
and a guttural scream as he Very rarely do you get to play at
walked off the field. this level without a lot of
“Just let out that emotion,” Gray pressure on you.”
said, “because that’s a big out.” The pressure is off in 2021. It’s
That was it: six satisfying on to get the franchise back to
innings, two runs allowed, where it was accustomed to
working out from a jam, a being. Josiah Gray in the sixth
2.86 ERA with 22 strikeouts and inning of a random August
five walks with the Nats. Wednesday against a hitter you
A defining moment in the have never heard of — it matters
history of the franchise? Hardly. in redeveloping a winner and in
Even on a lazy Wednesday finding fun at the ballpark again.
between two fourth-place clubs, barry.svrluga@washpost.com
homers from Toronto’s Corey
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comes up short again NFL preseason

PRO FO O TB A L L PRO BAS K ETBALL

NBA summer league MLS

S OCCER

Red Bulls 1,
All times Eastern MONDAY’S RESULTS Crew 0
EAST W L T Pts GF GA
UNITED FROM D1 ergy minutes for the Revolution to NFC Indiana 74, Washington 65 New England ....................14 3 4 46 40 25 COLUMBUS 0 0 0
Denver 94, Milwaukee 87
draw level. Traustason laid the ball EAST W L T PCT. PF PA Oklahoma City 116, San Antonio 91
Nashville.............................7
New York City FC................9
2
6
11 32
4 31
32
34
20
19
NEW YORK RED BULLS 1 0 1
First Half: 1, New York Red Bulls, Tolkin, 1 (Fabio), 33rd
lineup that was missing several off for Tommy McNamara, who, in N.Y. Giants .................... 0 1 0 .000 7 12 Cleveland 88, Phoenix 85
New York 104, Atlanta 85
Philadelphia........................8 5 7 31 26 19 minute.
Philadelphia .................. 0 1 0 .000 16 24 Orlando City........................8 4 7 31 29 24
regulars because of a heavy sched- stride, whistled a 20-yard one-tim- Washington .................. 0 1 0 .000 13 22 Detroit 79, Orlando 78 D.C. United .........................8 9 3 27 31 29
Second Half: None.
Goalies: Columbus, Eloy Room, Evan Bush; New York Red
ule and injuries. Losada rested top er into the right side of the net. Dallas ............................ 0 2 0 .000 19 35 Memphis 104, L.A. Clippers 95
Chicago 99, Charlotte 74
CF Montréal........................7
Columbus............................6
7
8
6 27
6 24
26
21
25
25
Bulls, Carlos Miguel, Ryan Meara.
Yellow Cards: Klimala, New York Red Bulls, 55th;
scorer Ola Kamara, among others, Another four minutes, another SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA TUESDAY’S RESULTS Atlanta ...............................5 6 9 24 23 25 Hurtado, Columbus, 84th.
New York ............................6 9 4 22 23 24
and gave defender Chris Odoi- New England goal. Atlanta .......................... 0 1 0 .000 3 23
Dallas 83, Miami 82 Chicago ...............................5 10 5 20 23 32
Columbus, Eloy Room; Harrison Afful, Waylon Francis
Carolina ......................... 0 1 0 .000 18 21 (Pedro Santos, 51st), Aboubacar Keita, Jonathan Men-
Atsem and Griffin Yow their first On the counterattack, Boateng New Orleans ................. 0 1 0 .000 14 17 Philadelphia 103, Utah 98 Inter Miami CF....................5 9 4 19 18 30 sah; Liam Fraser, Alexandru Matan (Derrick Etienne,
Houston 95, Portland 92 Cincinnati ...........................3 7 8 17 18 30
starts of the year. sailed along the left flank before Tampa Bay .................... 0 1 0 .000 14 19
Toronto 86, Brooklyn 72 Toronto FC..........................3 11 6 15 24 41
51st), Kevin Molino (Erik Hurtado, 75th), Darlington
Nagbe; Bradley Wright-Phillips, Gyasi Zardes (Lucas
Attacker Edison Flores made he served a high cross to the back NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA
L.A. Lakers 84, Golden State 76
New Orleans 87, Minnesota 59
Zelarrayan, 45th+1).
WEST W L T Pts GF GA New York Red Bulls, Carlos Miguel; Kyle Duncan, Andrew
his first start since he injured a side. Buchanan blasted an angled, Chicago ......................... 1
Detroit .......................... 0
0
1
0
0
1.000
.000
20
15
13
16
Sacramento 100, Boston 67 Seattle..............................11 3 6 39 33 16 Gutman, Sean Nealis, Andres Reyes (Frankie Amaya,
hamstring May 23, taking an ad- six-yard volley toward the near Green Bay ..................... 0 1 0 .000 7 26 Sporting KC ......................11
LA Galaxy .........................11
4
7
5 38
2 35
36
31
21
30
46th), Amro Tarek (Mandela Egbo, 73rd), John Tolkin;
Minnesota ..................... 0 1 0 .000 6 33 Wikelman Carmona (Caden Clark, 71st), Sean Davis;
vanced role in the formation. Yam- corner. Kempin made contact but TEN N IS Colorado............................10 4 4 34 27 18 Fabio (Daniel Royer, 71st), Patryk Klimala (Tom Barlow,
il Asad cracked the lineup for the couldn’t prevent the goal. WEST W L T PCT. PF PA
Minnesota United ..............7
Portland..............................7
6
9
6 27
3 24
22
26
23
36
61st).

first time in a month. United’s Frédéric Brillant pre- Arizona ......................... 1

Losada kept his faith in goal-
keeper Jon Kempin, who had a
poor outing in Nashville on Sun-
day. But Kempin struggled again.
Arena also held back regulars,
resting forwards Adam Buksa
(eight goals) and Tajon Buchanan,
a Canadian rising star. Their ap-
pearances in the second half
helped turn the match.
United’s pressure on opponents
in their own end paid dividends
again in the 10th minute.
Arriola won the ball. Flores slot-
ted a pass in a channel between
two defenders to Arriola, who bore
down on goalkeeper Matt Turner,
his U.S. Gold Cup teammate. He
toe-poked an angled shot into the
far corner for his third goal of the
year.
As Arriola celebrated, team-
mates signaled to the bench for
medical treatment. Arriola, who
missed much of the Gold Cup with
hamstring tightness suffered in
the tournament opener, could not
continue.
Turner pushed away Felipe
Martins’s 20-yard blast, New Eng-
land’s Arnor Traustason missed a
clear header from eight yards, and
United kept the lead. Despite hav-
ing 37 percent of possession, Unit-
ed had almost twice as many shots
(11-6) and all three corner kicks.
“First half we were in control,”
Martins said. “We were in a good
position.”
Arena had seen enough from
his lethargic gang, making three
substitutions at the start of the
second half: Buksa, Buchanan and
former D.C. winger Emmanuel
Boateng.
It took fewer than four high-en-
Rodolfo Pizarro scored his first goal of the season to give Inter
Miami a late victory over the Chicago Fire on Wednesday.
SOCCER ROUNDUP
L.A. Rams ...................... 0
0
1
0
0
1.000
.000
19
6
16
13
ATP/WTA x-Real Salt Lake .................6 6 6 24 27 20
Los Angeles FC ...................6 8 5 23 24 26
vented further damage in the San Francisco ................ 0 1 0 .000 16 19 WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN San Jose .............................5 7 8 23 22 28 Orlando City 1, Nashville SC 1
Seattle .......................... 0 1 0 .000 7 20
69th minute with a goal-line clear- At Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati FC Dallas.............................5
Vancouver...........................4
9
7
6 21
8 20
23
21
28
29 ORLANDO CITY 0 1 1
AFC Purse: $3,028,140
ance on Buksa’s bid, the third res- Surface: Hardcourt outdoor x-Houston...........................3 7 9 18 20 28 NASHVILLE 1 0 1
Austin FC............................4 11 4 16 14 23 First Half: 1, Nashville, Sapong, 9, 23rd minute.
cue in two matches by the D.C. EAST W
Buffalo .......................... 1
L
0
T
0
PCT.
1.000
PF
16
PA
15 MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 32 Second Half: 2, Orlando City, Carlos, 2 (Pereyra), 58th.
center back. A minute later, Tur- N.Y. Jets ....................... 1 0 0 1.000 12 7 Pablo Carreno Busta (7), Spain, def. Dominik Koepfer,
x-Late match Goalies: Orlando City, Mason Stajduhar, Adam Grinwis;
Nashville, Joe Willis, Bryan Meredith.
New England ................. 1 0 0 1.000 22 13
ner made a tip save on Reyna’s Miami ............................ 0 1 0 .000 13 20
Germany, 6-4, 6-2; Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, def.
Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 7-5; Felix Auger-
SATURDAY’S RESULTS Yellow Cards: Maher, Nashville, 32nd; Smith, Orlando
City, 40th; Jansson, Orlando City, 49th; Anunga, Nash-
blast. Aliassime (12), Canada, def. Karen Khachanov, Russia, LA Galaxy 1, Minnesota 0
ville, 65th; Carlos, Orlando City, 79th; McCarty, Nash-
6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-4; Guido Pella, Argentina, def. Fabio New York City FC 2, Miami 0
The match turned again in the SOUTH W
Houston ........................ 1
L
0
T
0
PCT.
1.000
PF
26
PA
7 Fognini, Italy, 6-1, 7-5; Hubert Hurkacz (9), Poland, def. New England 2, Toronto FC 1 ville, 82nd.
Orlando City, Mason Stajduhar; Antonio Carlos, Robin
72nd minute when Traustason Indianapolis .................. 1 0 0 1.000 21 18 Andy Murray, Britain, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3; Andrey Rublev (4), CF Montréal 2, New York 1 Jansson, Joao Moutinho, Kyle Smith; Joey Dezart, Junior
Tennessee ..................... 1 0 0 1.000 23 3 Russia, def. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1; Daniil Colorado 3, Houston 1
was sent off with a second yellow Jacksonville .................. 0 1 0 .000 13 23 Medvedev (1), Russia, def. Mackenzie McDonald, Sporting KC 2, FC Dallas 0
Urso, Mauricio Pereyra (Chris Mueller, 83rd); Tesho
Akindele (Ruan, 89th), Benji Michel (Rodrigo Schlegel,
card. Losada added Kamara. United States, 6-2, 6-2; Casper Ruud (8), Norway, def.
Reilly Opelka, United States, 6-7 (7-5), 6-0, 7-6 (7-4);
Real Salt Lake 1, Austin FC 0 84th), Silvester Van der Water (Emmanuel Mas, 89th).
NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA Nashville, Joe Willis; Alistair Johnston, Daniel Lovitz,
Despite playing shorthanded, Baltimore ...................... 1 0 0 1.000 17 14 Alexander Zverev (3), Germany, def. Lloyd Harris, SUNDAY’S RESULTS Jack Maher (Taylor Washington, 79th), Dave Romney,
South Africa, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2; Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, def.
the Revolution extended the lead Cincinnati ...................... 1 0 0 1.000 19 14
Tommy Paul, United States, 7-6 (11-9), 6-2; John Isner, Atlanta 1, Los Angeles FC 0 Walker Zimmerman; Brian Anunga (Dax McCarty, 72nd),
Cleveland ...................... 1 0 0 1.000 23 13 Anibal Godoy, Randall Leal (Daniel Rios, 72nd), Hany
in the 80th minute. A counterat- Pittsburgh ..................... 2 0 0 1.000 40 19 United States, def. Jannik Sinner (11), Italy, 5-7, 7-6 Chicago 1, Columbus 0
Nashville 5, D.C. United 2
Mukhtar (Ake Arnaud Loba, 88th); C J Sapong (Alex
(7-4), 6-4; Gael Monfils, France, def. Alex de Minaur
tack fizzled, but the pressure con- (14), Australia, 6-3, 7-5; Diego Schwartzman (10), Seattle 6, Portland 2
Muyl, 79th).
WEST W L T PCT. PF PA
tinued, and when the ball squirted Denver ........................... 1 0 0 1.000 33 6
Argentina, def. Frances Tiafoe, United States, 6-1, 3-5,
6-4. TUESDAY’S RESULTS
from a scramble, DeJuan Jones Kansas City ................... 1
L.A. Chargers ................ 1
0
0
0
0
1.000
1.000
19
13
16
6 WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 32 Colorado 2, LA Galaxy 1 Sounders 1, FC Dallas 0
smashed a one-timer past Kempin. Las Vegas ...................... 1 0 0 1.000 20 7 Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, def. Bianca Andrees-
Minnesota 1, San Jose 1 SEATTLE 0 1 1
“When the other team scores in WEEK 2 cu (7), Canada, 6-4, 6-2; Angelique Kerber, Germany, WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS DALLAS 0 0 0
def. Elina Svitolina (4), Ukraine, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Elena First Half: None.
transition, when you are one man THURSDAY’S GAME Rybakina, Kazakhstan, def. Elise Mertens (15), Bel- New England 3, D.C. United 2 Second Half: 1, Seattle, Ruidiaz, 14, 63rd minute.
Atlanta 1, Toronto FC 0
up,” Losada said, “it’s hard.” New England at Philadelphia, 7:30 gium, 6-3, 6-2; Petra Kvitova (11), Czech Republic, def.
Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 6-2, 6-4; Naomi Osaka CF Montréal 0, Cincinnati 0
Goalies: Seattle, Spencer Richey, Stefan Cleveland;
Dallas, Jimmy Maurer, Kyle Zobeck, Phelipe Megiolaro.
Ábila’s first D.C. goal came with FRIDAY’S GAMES (2), Japan, def. Coco Gauff, United States, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Philadelphia 1, New York City FC 0 Yellow Cards: Cerrillo, Dallas, 40th; Acosta, Dallas, 78th;
Jil Teichmann, Switzerland, def. Bernarda Pera, United Jara, Dallas, 90th+4.
seconds left, a rasping drive from Cincinnati at Washington, 8 States, 6-1, 6-4; Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Jennifer
Miami 3, Chicago 2
New York 1, Columbus 0 A: 11,535.
16 yards that beat Turner to the Kansas City at Arizona, 8 Brady (13), United States, 6-7 (7-2), 5-4, ret; Ashleigh Orlando City 1, Nashville 1 Seattle, Spencer Richey; Xavier Arreaga, Abdoulaye
Barty (1), Australia, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 6-4, Cissoko, Shane O’Neill (Yeimar Gomez Andrade, 75th);
near side. SATURDAY’S GAMES 7-6 (7-3); Victoria Azarenka (14), Belarus, def. Alison Portland 1, Sporting KC 1
Josh Atencio, Danny Leyva, Jimmy Medranda (Bradley
Seattle 1, FC Dallas 0
“I saw a team that, for most of Baltimore at Carolina, 7 Riske, United States, 6-2, 7-5; Jessica Pegula, United
States, def. Simona Halep (12), Romania, walkover; Vancouver 2, Austin FC 1
Shaun Smith, 68th), Cristian Roldan (Joao Paulo, 46th),
Kelyn Rowe; Nicolas Benezet (Nicolas Lodeiro, 62nd),
Buffalo at Chicago, 1
the time, we were better than N.Y. Jets at Green Bay, 4:25 Belinda Bencic (10), Switzerland, def. Shelby Rogers, Houston at Real Salt Lake, Late Will Bruin (Raul Ruidiaz, 63rd).
United States, 7-6 (7-1), 6-1; Paula Badosa, Spain, def. Dallas, Jimmy Maurer; Bressan, Nkosi Tafari; Bryan
them,” Martins said. “We had Atlanta at Miami, 7 Aryna Sabalenka (3), Belarus, 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4); FRIDAY’S MATCHES Acosta, Edwin Cerrillo (Andres Ricaurte, 68th), Ryan
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7:30
more chances, and we just need to Tennessee at Tampa Bay, 7:30
Barbora Krejcikova (9), Czech Republic, def. Dayana San Jose at LA Galaxy, 10:30 Hollingshead, Jader Obrian (Franco Jara, 64th); Jesus
Yastremska, Ukraine, 6-1, 7-6 (7-5); Garbine Muguruza Ferreira, Ricardo Pepi, Szabolcs Schon (Kalil ElMedkhar,
keep finishing those chances and Houston at Dallas, 8 (8), Spain, def. Caroline Garcia, France, 6-4, 6-3; Ons SATURDAY’S MATCHES 77th), Ema Twumasi (Freddy Vargas, 77th).
eliminating individual mistakes.” Indianapolis at Minnesota, 8
Denver at Seattle, 10
Jabeur, Tunisia, def. Iga Swiatek (6), Poland, 6-3, 6-3.
Sporting KC at Minnesota, 3:30
Notes: Probable starters Kevin Las Vegas at L.A. Rams, 10
MEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 32 Seattle at Columbus, 5:30
Chicago at Orlando City, 8
Timbers 1,
Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Tim Puetz, Germany,
Paredes and Andy Najar were not SUNDAY’S GAMES def. Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Marcelo Melo (7), Brazil, CF Montréal at Philadelphia, 8 Sporting Kansas City 1
in uniform because of minor ail- N.Y. Giants at Cleveland, 1 6-2, 6-3; Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, and Wesley Atlanta at D.C. United, 8
PORTLAND 1 0 1
Koolhof, Netherlands, def. Sander Gille and Joran Cincinnati at New England, 8
ments, team officials said. Out of San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, 7:30 Vliegen, Belgium, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3); Austin Krajicek and New York City FC at New York, 8
SPORTING SPORTING KC 0 1 1
First Half: 1, Portland, Mora, 7 (Loria), 17th minute.
an abundance of caution during MONDAY’S GAME Steve Johnson, United States, def. Marcus Daniell, New
Zealand, and Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 7-5, 7-5;
Toronto FC at Miami, 8 Second Half: 2, Sporting Sporting KC, Salloi, 12 (Pulido),
FC Dallas at Houston, 8:30
his comeback from career-threat- Jacksonville at New Orleans, 8 Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, and Jannik Sinner, Italy, def.
Portland at Austin FC, 9
90th+2.
Goalies: Portland, Steve Clark, Aljaz Ivacic; Sporting
Daniel Evans and Neal Skupski, Britain, 6-3, 3-6, 10-3.
ening injuries, Najar might not Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 9 Sporting KC, Tim Melia, John Pulskamp.
MEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16 Yellow Cards: Salloi, Sporting Sporting KC, 25th; Chara,
have played on the artificial turf PRO B A SKETB A L L Los Angeles FC at Vancouver, 10
Portland, 28th; Van Rankin, Portland, 43rd; Pulido,
Fabio Fognini, Italy, and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez, El
anyway. Both seem likely to play Salvador, def. Horia Tecau, Romania, and Kevin
Sporting Sporting KC, 62nd; Bonilla, Portland, 77th;
Valeri, Portland, 84th.
Saturday against Atlanta United WNBA Krawietz (5), Germany, 3-6, 7-5, 10-7; Marcel Gra- Revolution 3, D.C. United 2 A: 17,081.
nollers, Spain, and Horacio Zeballos (2), Argentina, def.
(5-6-9) at Audi Field. . . . EAST W L PCT GB Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev, Russia, 7-6 (9-7), D.C. UNITED 1 1 2
Portland, Steve Clark; Claudio Bravo, Bill Tuiloma, Jose
Van Rankin (Pablo Bonilla, 46th), Dario Zuparic; Diego
Six other regulars remain out Connecticut .................................16
Chicago ........................................11
6
11
.727
.500
—
5
7-5. NEW ENGLAND 0 3 3 Chara, Cristhian Paredes, Renzo Zambrano (Diego Val-
First Half: 1, D.C. United, Arriola, 3 (Flores), 10th eri, 70th); Dairon Asprilla (Yimmi Chara, 46th), Marvin
with injuries, including goalkeep- New York .....................................11 12 .478 51/2 WOMEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16
minute. Loria (Sebastian Blanco, 64th), Felipe Mora (George
Washington...................................8 12 .400 7 Sam Stosur, Australia, and Zhang Shuai, China, def.
er Bill Hamid. Atlanta ..........................................6 15 .286 91/2 Magda Linette, Poland, and Bernarda Pera, United
Second Half: 2, New England, McNamara, 2 (Trausta-
son), 49th; 3, New England, Buchanan, 5 (Boateng),
Fochive, 64th).
Sporting Sporting KC, Tim Melia; Andreu Fontas, Luis
steven.goff@washpost.com Indiana...........................................4 18 .182 12 States, 4-6, 6-4, 10-4. 53rd; 4, New England, Jones, 2, 85th; 5, D.C. United, Martins, Graham Zusi; Roger Espinoza (Khiry Shelton,
Abila, 1 (Kamara), 90th+6. 80th), Gadi Kinda, Ilie Sanchez, Remi Walter; Alan
WOMEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16 Goalies: D.C. United, Jon Kempin, Chris Seitz; New
WEST W L PCT GB Pulido, Johnny Russell, Daniel Salloi.
Las Vegas ....................................17 6 .739 — Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, and Anna Blinkova, England, Matt Turner, Earl Edwards Jr, Brad Knighton.
Seattle.........................................16 7 .696 1 Russia, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Elise Mertens Yellow Cards: Asad, D.C. United, 32nd; Traustason, New
Minnesota ...................................13 8 .619 3 (1), Belgium, 7-5, 5-7, 10-5; Gabriela Dabrowski, England, 33rd; Kaptoum, New England, 42nd; DeLaGar-
Phoenix........................................11 10 .524 5 Canada, and Luisa Stefani (6), Brazil, def. Victoria za, New England, 60th; Birnbaum, D.C. United, 78th. Whitecaps 2,
Dallas...........................................10 13 .435 7 Azarenka, Belarus, and Jessica Pegula, United States, A: 11,419.
Los Angeles ...................................8 13 .381 8 6-4, 4-6, 10-7. D.C. United, Jon Kempin; Steve Birnbaum, Frederic Austin FC 1
Brillant, Joseph Mora, Chris Odoi-Atsem; Yamil Asad
(Ola Kamara, 77th), Edison Flores (Ramon Abila, 67th), VANCOUVER 0 2 2
TUESDAY’S RESULTS WTA Felipe Martins, Drew Skundrich; Paul Arriola (Yordy AUSTIN FC 1 0 1
Las Vegas 93, Washington 83 Reyna, 14th), Griffin Yow (Julian Gressel, 67th). First Half: 1, Austin FC, Ring, 2 (Driussi), 37th minute.
ORACLE CHALLENGER SERIES New England, Matt Turner; A.J. DeLaGarza, Andrew Second Half: 2, Vancouver, Nerwinski, 1, 52nd; 3,
Connecticut 72, Minnesota 60 Farrell, Henry Kessler; Lucas Maciel Felix (Tajon Bu-
At XS Tennis Village in Chicago Vancouver, White, 2 (Gauld), 74th.
Dallas 80, Chicago 76 chanan, 46th), Wilfrid Kaptoum (Emmanuel Boateng, Goalies: Vancouver, Maxime Crepeau, Thomas Hasal;
Phoenix 84, Indiana 80 Purse: $115,000
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor 46th, Christian Mafla, 90th), Tommy McNamara, Arnor Austin FC, Brad Stuver, Andrew Tarbell.
Los Angeles 85, Atlanta 80, OT Traustason; Gustavo Bou (Scott Caldwell, 75th), Teal Yellow Cards: Jimenez, Austin FC, 55th; Dajome, Van-
WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 16 Bunbury (Adam Buksa, 46th), DeJuan Jones. couver, 62nd; Besler, Austin FC, 63rd.
WEDNESDAY’S RESULT Vancouver, Maxime Crepeau; Javain Brown, Jake Ner-
Claire Liu, United States, def. Anna Kalinskaya, Russia,
New York 83, Seattle 79 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. winski, Ranko Veselinovic; Janio Bikel, Deiber Caicedo,
Leonard Owusu (Ryan Gauld, 46th), Andy Rose (Florian
THURSDAY’S GAMES WOMEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16 Jungwirth, 89th), Russell Teibert (Michael Baldisimo,
Atlanta United 1, Toronto FC 0 81st); Cristian Dajome, Brian White (Tosaint Ricketts,
Washington at Phoenix, 10 Aldila Sutjiadi and Beatrice Gumulya, Indonesia, def. Sa-
TORONTO FC 0 0 0 78th).
Minnesota at Connecticut, 7 mantha Murray Sharan, Britain, and Kimberley Zimmer- Austin FC, Brad Stuver; Matt Besler, Nick Lima, Jhohan
Atlanta at Los Angeles, 10:30 mann, Belgium, 6-3, 6-0; Ankita Raina, India, and Ekaterine ATLANTA 1 0 1
Romana (Julio Cascante, 89th); Diego Fagundez (Zan
Gorgodze, Georgia, def. Renata Voracova, Czech Republic, First Half: 1, Atlanta, Barco, 4 (Lennon), 20th minute.
FRIDAY’S GAMES Kolmanic, 75th), Hector Jimenez (Jared Stroud, 75th),
and Julia Wachaczyk (2), Germany, 6-2, 2-6, 10-8. Second Half: None.
Daniel Pereira, Tomas Pochettino (Rodney Redes, 89th),
Seattle at New York, 7 Goalies: Toronto FC, Quentin Westberg, Alex Bono;
Alexander Ring; Cecilio Dominguez (Jon Gallagher,
Atlanta, Brad Guzan, Alec Kann.
Indiana at Dallas, 8 30th), Sebastian Driussi.
Yellow Cards: None.
A: 42,502.
TRAN S ACTION S Toronto FC, Quentin Westberg; Auro, Omar Gonzalez,
Liberty 83, Storm 79 Justin Morrow, Eriq Zavaleta (Kemar Lawrence, 53rd); NWSL
Michael Bradley, Richie Laryea, Noble Okello (Marky
Seattle ................................ 24 17 31 7 — 79 MLB Delgado, 77th), Jonathan Osorio (Alejandro Pozuelo,
New York ............................ 21 21 20 21 — 83 W L T Pts GF GA
LYNNE SLADKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS Baltimore Orioles: Claimed RHP Zack Burdi off waivers 53rd); Patrick Mullins (Ifunanyachi Achara, 70th), Jacob
Portland..............................9 3 2 29 21 8
SEATTLE MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS from the Chicago White Sox and optioned him to Norfolk Shaffelburg (Yeferson Soteldo, 53rd).
North Carolina ....................7 4 3 24 18 9
Samuelson 29:07 6-10 0-0 0-4 2 1 15 (Class AAA East). Designated LHP Ryan Hartman for Atlanta, Brad Guzan; George Bello, Alan Franco, Miles
Gotham FC..........................5 2 6 21 14 9
Talbot 29:01 3-8 0-0 0-5 3 2 6 assignment. Robinson, Anton Walkes; Ezequiel Barco, Marcelino
Moreno (George Campbell, 90th+1), Santiago Sosa
Orlando ...............................5 4 6 21 18 17
Russell 25:54 2-3 2-2 0-3 2 3 6 Boston Red Sox: Optioned RHP Tanner Houck to Chicago ...............................6 7 3 21 16 22
Canada 34:20 2-9 1-1 0-4 6 2 5 Worcester (Class AAA East). (Amar Sejdic, 59th); Luiz Araujo (Erik Lopez, 67th),
Washington........................5 5 4 19 17 17
Loyd 33:12 13-26 4-5 2-4 3 3 35 Detroit Tigers: Sent LF Akil Baddoo and CF Derek Hill to Brooks Lennon, Josef Martinez (Erick Torres, 90th+1).
OL Reign .............................6 7 1 19 17 15
Magbegor 17:14 2-5 0-0 0-1 1 2 4 Toledo (Class AAA East) on rehab assignments. Rein- Houston ..............................5 6 3 18 17 20
Prince 14:39 3-7 0-0 1-2 0 1 7 stated Isaac Paredes from th 10-day IL and optioned him Louisville ............................4 6 4 16 12 20
Burke 6:47 0-2 1-2 0-1 0 0 1 to Toledo. Kansas City.........................1 9 4 7 7 20
Burdick 5:57 0-1 0-0 1-2 1 0 0 Los Angeles Angels: Recalled RHPs Aaron Slegers and Union 1,

With late goal, Miami extends Williams

TOTALS
3:45 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
200 31-71 8-10 4-26 18 14 79
Percentages: FG .437, FT .800. 3-Point Goals: 9-26, .346
Andrew Wantz from Salt Lake (Class AAA West).
Optioned RHP James Hoyt to Salt Lake. Placed LHP
Patrick Sandoval on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Aug.
15.
New York City FC 0
NEW YORK CITY FC
PHILADELPHIA
0
0
0
1
0
1
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Washington 2, Houston 2
SATURDAY’S RESULTS

Chicago’s troubles on the road
INTER MIAMI 3,
FIRE 2
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Rodolfo Pizarro scored in sec-
ond-half stoppage time to give
Inter Miami a 3-2 victory over the
Chicago Fire on Wednesday night
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Pizarro one-touched Victor
Ulloa’s pass inside the far post in
the 93rd minute for his first goal
of the season.
Miami (5-9-4) won its third
straight home game, while Chica-
go (5-10-5) had its road winless
streak extended to 18 matches —
with 12 losses.
Robbie Robinson tied it at 2 for
Miami in the 62nd minute with a
chip shot over goalkeeper Bobby
Shuttleworth. . . .
Alejandro Bedoya scored his
first goal of the season to help the
Philadelphia Union beat New
York City FC, 1-0, in Chester, Pa.
Andre Blake had two saves for
Philadelphia (8-5-7) to tie Nash-
ville’s Joe Willis and Colorado’s
William Yarbrough for the MLS
Raúl Ruidíaz scored his MLS-
leading 14th goal of the season,
and the Seattle Sounders beat FC
Dallas 1-0 in Frisco, Tex. . . .
C.J. Sapong scored his fourth
goal in the past three games and
helped Nashville SC to a 1-1 tie
with visiting Orlando City. . . .
Brian White had a sliding fin-
ish in the 74th minute to help the
visiting Vancouver Whitecaps
beat Austin FC, 2-1. . . .
John Tolkin scored in the
33rd minute for his first MLS
goal, and the visiting New York
Red Bulls beat the Columbus
Crew, 1-0. . . .
Sebastian Breza made three
saves for his first MLS shutout,
and visiting CF Montreal finished
a man down in a scoreless draw
with FC Cincinnati. . . .
Dániel Sallói scored in second-
half stoppage time for his
12th goal of the season, and Sport-
ing Kansas City tied the Portland
Timbers, 1-1, in Kansas City, Kan.
U.S. women set for fall slate
Coming off the Tokyo Olym-
pics, the U.S. women’s national
team will play four matches in
September and October.
(Loyd 5-12, Samuelson 3-7, Prince 1-1, Canada 0-2,
Talbot 0-4). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 3 (Samuelson 2, Russell). Turnovers: 14
(Talbot 3, Loyd 2, Magbegor 2, Russell 2, Samuelson 2,
Minnesota Twins: Recalled LHP Lewis Thorpe from St.
Paul (Class AAA East). Designated RHP Nick Vincent for
release or assignment.
New York Yankees: Optioned RHP Luis Gil, OF Jonathan
First Half: None.
Second Half: 1, Philadelphia, Bedoya, 1, 67th minute.
Goalies: New York City FC, Sean Johnson, Luis Barraza;
Philadelphia, Andre Blake, Matt Freese.
Portland 1, Orlando 1
Kansas City 1, OL Reign 0
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Burdick, Prince, Williams). Steals: 14 (Talbot 3, Canada Davis and RHP Nick Nelson to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Yellow Cards: Medina, New York City FC, 25th; Sands,
2, Loyd 2, Magbegor 2, Prince 2, Russell 2, Samuelson). (Class AAA East). Reinstated OF Trey Amburgey from Louisville 1, Gotham FC 1
New York City FC, 36th; Elliott, Philadelphia, 78th.
Technical Fouls: None. his rehab assignment and the 10-day injured list then
New York City FC, Sean Johnson; Malte Amundsen North Carolina 1, Chicago 0
NEW YORK MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS
optioned him to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Reinstated INF
Anthony Rizzo from the COVID-19 IL. Reinstated LHP
(Gudmundur Thorarinsson, 74th), Alexander Callens,
Maxime Chanot, Anton Tinnerholm; Nicolas Acevedo, WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
Laney
Onyenwere
35:15 8-18 0-0 1-7 8 2 17
18:43 2-5 2-2 0-3 0 3 7
Aroldis Chapman from the 10-day IL.
Jesus Medina (Talles Magno, 77th), Santiago Rodriguez Chicago 1, Louisville 1
Oakland Athletics: Placed RHP Chris Bassitt on the
Howard 22:33 4-8 2-2 0-1 1 2 10 10-day IL. Selected the contract of RHP Paul Blackburn
(Thiago, 68th), James Sands (Andres Jasson, 77th);
Valentin Castellanos (Keaton Parks, 78th), Ismael SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Ionescu 33:41 4-9 0-0 2-7 5 1 10
Whitcomb 24:27 3-4 2-2 1-4 2 1 9
from Las Vegas (Class AAA West).
Tampa Bay Rays: Activated LHP Ryan Yarbrough from
Tajouri.
Kansas City at North Carolina, 7
Philadelphia, Andre Blake; Jack Elliott, Jakob Glesnes,
Allen
Richards
26:02
21:50
5-9 2-2 0-6 1 2 17
3-3 1-2 0-1 2 1 9
the 10-day IL. Designated RHP Chris Ellis for assign-
Alvas Powell (Stuart Findlay, 89th), Kai Wagner; Ale- Gotham FC at OL Reign, 10
ment. Sent RHPS J.P. Feyereisen and Ryan Thompson to
Shook 17:27 2-4 0-0 1-2 0 1 4 Durham (Class AAA East) on rehab assignments.
jandro Bedoya (Ilsinho, 89th), Leon Maximilian Flach, SUNDAY’S MATCHES
Daniel Gazdag (Jamiro Monteiro, 63rd), Jose Martinez;
TOTALS 200 31-60 9-10 5-31 19 13 83 Toronto Blue Jays: Reinstated LHP Tim Mayza from the
10-day IL. Selected the contract of INF Kevin Smith from
Kacper Przybylko (Cory Burke, 63rd), Sergio Santos Orlando at Washington, 5
Percentages: FG .517, FT .900. 3-Point Goals: 12-25, .480 Buffalo (Class AAA East) and has activated him for
(Quinn Sullivan, 85th).
(Allen 5-6, Richards 2-2, Ionescu 2-7, Whitcomb 1-1, today’s game. Placed RHP Alek Manoah on the bereave-
Laney 1-3, Onyenwere 1-3, Shook 0-1, Howard 0-2). ment list. Designated RHP Rafael Dolis for assignment.
Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked
Shots: 4 (Allen 2, Laney, Whitcomb). Turnovers: 21
Chicago Cubs: Selected the contract of RHP Adrian Inter Miami 3, Fire 2 German Bundesliga
Sampson from Iowa (Class AAA East). Designated OF
(Howard 5, Ionescu 5, Laney 5, Whitcomb 3, Richards 2, Johneshwy Fargas for assignment. CHICAGO 1 1 2 GP W D L GF GA Pts
Allen). Steals: 6 (Allen 2, Laney 2, Howard, Whitcomb). Stuttgart ......................... 1 1 0 0 5 1 3
Technical Fouls: Onyenwere, 6:08 third.
Colorado Rockies: Reinstated RHP Chi Chi Gonzalez
from the COVID-19 IL. Placed OF Yonathan Daza on the
MIAMI 1 2 3
Hoffenheim ..................... 1 1 0 0 4 0 3
First Half: 1, Miami, Vassilev, 2, 34th minute; 2, Chicago,
A: 2,103 (17,732). 10-day IL. Transferred INF/OF Chris Owings to the Calvo, 1 (Stojanovic), 40th.
Dortmund ........................ 1
Cologne ............................ 1
1
1
0
0
0
0
5 2 3
3 1 3
60-day IL. Sent RHP Peter Lambert to Spokane (High-A
West) on a rehab assignment.
Second Half: 3, Chicago, Stojanovic, 7 (Ivanov), 48th; 4,
Miami, Robinson, 3 (Higuain), 62nd; 5, Miami, Pizarro, 1
Wolfsburg........................ 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Mainz ............................... 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Sparks 85, Dream 80 (OT) New York Mets: Recalled C Chance Sisco Syracuse (Ulloa), 90th+3. Leverkusen ...................... 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
(Class AAA East). Optioned RHP Yennsy Diaz Syracuse. Goalies: Chicago, Bobby Shuttleworth, Gabriel Slonina;
Late Tuesday Miami, Nick Marsman, John McCarthy.
Monchengladbach............ 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
NFL Bayern ............................. 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
Atlanta .......................... 17 19 19 19 6 — 80
Arizona Cardinals: Signed LB Reggie Walker.
Yellow Cards: Gonzalez Pirez, Miami, 50th; Herbers, Union Berlin..................... 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
Los Angeles ................... 17 13 19 25 11 — 85 Chicago, 60th; Robinson, Miami, 74th; Carranza, Miami,
Atlanta Falcons: Re-signed DL Eli Ankou. 84th.
Freiburg ........................... 1
Arminia Bielefeld ............ 1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0 0 1
0 0 1
ATLANTA MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS
Bradford 32:55 4-11 1-4 3-8 3 2 10
Carolina Panthers: Signed DT Walter Palmore. Placed
OT Matt Kaskey, DT Mike Panasiuk and LB Nate Hall on
A: 13,196.
Chicago, Bobby Shuttleworth; Jonathan Bornstein
Bochum............................ 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
RB Leipzig........................ 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
Dupree 36:23 6-11 0-0 0-8 1 1 12 the injured reserve list. (Miguel Navarro, 75th), Francisco Calvo, Jhon Espinoza, Hertha Berlin ................... 1 0 0 1 1 3 0
E.Williams 21:04 4-4 1-3 5-6 2 3 9 Chicago Bears: Placed CB Michael Joseph and LB Mauricio Pineda; Gaston Gimenez, Luka Stojanovic
Sims 39:00 10-27 2-5 1-3 6 1 26 Ledarius Mack on the injured reserve list. (Alvaro Medran, 90th+1); Robert Beric (Chinonso Offor,
Eintracht.......................... 1 0 0 1 2 5 0
SpVgg Greuther Furth..... 1 0 0 1 1 5 0
C.Williams 36:41 2-13 0-0 1-9 5 0 4 Dallas Cowboys: Placed LB Anthony Hines III on the
injured reserve list.
68th), Fabian Herbers, Stanislav Ivanov (Elliot Collier, Augsburg ......................... 1 0 0 1 0 4 0
Billings 23:54 5-8 0-3 5-8 2 1 10 68th), Carlos Teran (Wyatt Omsberg, 90th+2).
McDonald 16:24 1-6 3-3 1-1 1 2 5 Denver Broncos: Placed RB LeVante Bellamy and DT Miami, Nick Marsman; Nicolas Figal, Kieran Gibbs (Brek FRIDAY’S RESULT
Deyon Sizer on the injured reserve list.
Stricklen
Hawkins
10:23
8:16
1-4 0-0 0-1 0 2
1-4 0-0 1-4 0 1
2
2 Detroit Lions: Signed OLB Rashod Berry and QB Jordan
Shea, 64th), Leandro Gonzalez Pirez, Christian Makoun;
Gregore, Blaise Matuidi (Victor Ulloa, 77th), Lewis
Monchengladbach 1, Bayern 1
TOTALS 225 34-88 7-18 17-48 20 13 80 Ta’amu. Released LS Don Muhlbach. Morgan, Indiana Vassilev (Rodolfo Pizarro, 63rd); Gon- SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Green Bay Packers: Signed QB Jake Dolegala. Released zalo Higuain (Kelvin Leerdam, 90th+4), Robbie Robinson
Percentages: FG .386, FT .389. 3-Point Goals: 5-20, .250 CB Stanford Samuels III. Placed TE Isaac Nauta and WR (Julian Carranza, 77th). Wolfsburg 1, Bochum 0
Union Berlin 1, Leverkusen 1
(Sims 4-8, Bradford 1-4, C.Williams 0-1, Hawkins 0-2, DeAndre Thompkins on the injured reserve list.
Houston Texans: Released OT Roderick Johnson. Stuttgart 5, SpVgg Greuther Furth 1
Stricklen 0-2, McDonald 0-3). Team Rebounds: 13. Team
Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 2 (Billings, E.Wil- Indianapolis Colts: Placed CB Nick Nelson and WR Hoffenheim 4, Augsburg 0
Quartney Davis on the injured reserve list. Arminia Bielefeld 0, Freiburg 0
liams). Turnovers: 13 (Hawkins 3, Bradford 2, C.Williams
2, E.Williams 2, Sims 2, Dupree, McDonald). Steals: 10 Jacksonville Jaguars: Placed WR Josh Imatorbhebhe on CF Montreal 0, FC Cincinnati 0 Dortmund 5, Eintracht 2
(Dupree 3, E.Williams 3, Billings, Hawkins, McDonald, the injured reserve list. MONTREAL 0 0 0 SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Stricklen). Technical Fouls: Bradford, 7:56 third Kansas City Chiefs: Placed TE Evan Baylis and WR
Antonio Callaway on the injured reserve list.
CINCINNATI 0 0 0
Mainz 1, RB Leipzig 0
LOS ANGELES MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS First Half: None.
N.Ogwumike 37:38 6-7 1-2 0-9 9 3 13
Miami Dolphins: Placed LB Sam Eguavoen on the
reserve/covid-19 list. Placed CB Jaytlin Askew on the Second Half: None.
Cologne 3, Hertha Berlin 1

shutout lead with eight.
NYCFC (9-6-4) had its unbeat-
en streak end at six. . . .
Ezequiel Barco scored in the
20th minute to help Atlanta Unit-
ed beat Toronto FC, 1-0, at home.
Atlanta (5-6-9) has won three
in a row following a 12-game win-
less streak and is unbeaten in its
past four.
Toronto (3-11-6) is winless and
has an MLS-low 15 points. . . .
The team will play Paraguay in
Cleveland on Sept. 16 and again
on Sept. 21 in Cincinnati. It also
will play South Korea on Oct. 21 in
Kansas City, Kan., and on Oct. 26
in St. Paul, Minn.
The match in St. Paul will be
Carli Lloyd’s final game with the
national team. The 39-year-old
forward announced plans to re-
tire this week after a 16-year ca-
reer.
Sykes 40:20 8-17 1-2 2-4 5 3 17 injured reserve list. Goalies: Montreal, Sebastian Breza, Jonathan Sirois;
Cincinnati, Przemyslaw Tyton, Cody Cropper.
FRIDAY’S MATCH
Zahui B 24:19 7-13 0-0 1-7 4 4 14 New England Patriots: Placed TE Troy Fumagalli on the RB Leipzig vs. Stuttgart, 2:30
Toliver 38:40 4-15 2-2 1-2 3 1 11 reserve injured list. Yellow Cards: Maciel, Montreal, 22nd; Choiniere, Mon-
treal, 26th; Cruz, Cincinnati, 36th; Matarrita, Cincinnati,
Wheeler
Coffey
37:38 6-14 2-2 0-5 5 1 16
18:52 3-6 2-2 0-8 1 1 10
New Orleans Saints: Signed CB Brian Mills and Natrell
Jamerson, WR Kevin White, OTs Jordan Mills Caleb 62nd; Camacho, Montreal, 68th; Acosta, Cincinnati,
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Eintracht vs. Augsburg, 9:30 a.m.
Cox 14:13 2-3 0-0 2-6 1 2 4 Benenoch. Waived CB Adonis Alexander and OT Michael 89th; Brenner, Cincinnati, 90th+4.
Freiburg vs. Dortmund, 9:30 a.m.
Cooper 13:20 0-5 0-0 0-0 1 3 0 Brown due to injury and also WR Jake Lampman and DB Montreal, Sebastian Breza; Zachary Brault Guillard
TOTALS 225 36-80 8-10 6-41 29 18 85 Lawrence Woods. (Clement Bayiha, 62nd), Rudy Camacho, Kamal Miller, Hertha Berlin vs. Wolfsburg, 9:30 a.m.
Bochum vs. Mainz, 9:30 a.m.
New York Giants: Placed CB Jarren Williams on the Joel Waterman; Mathieu Choiniere (Zorhan Bassong,
46th), Maciel (Samuel Piette, 46th), Djordje Mihailovic, SpVgg Greuther Furth vs. Arminia Bielefeld, 9:30 a.m.
Percentages: FG .450, FT .800. 3-Point Goals: 5-22, .227 injured reserve list.
(Wheeler 2-2, Coffey 2-3, Toliver 1-8, Cooper 0-3, Sykes New York Jets: Placed RB Austin Walter and DT Michael Joaquin Torres (Kiki Struna, 77th), Victor Wanyama; Leverkusen vs. Monchengladbach, 12:30
Sunusi Ibrahim (Bjorn Johnsen, 62nd).
0-3, Zahui B 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 1.
Blocked Shots: 5 (Cox 2, Zahui B 2, Wheeler). Turnovers:
Dwumfour on the injured reserve list.
Philadelphia Eagles: Placed OT Casey Tucker, C Luke Cincinnati, Przemyslaw Tyton; Geoff Cameron, Nick
SUNDAY’S MATCHES
14 (Wheeler 3, Coffey 2, Cox 2, Sykes 2, Zahui B 2, Juriga and RB Kerryon Johnson on the injured reserve Hagglund, Ronald Matarrita, Gustavo Vallecilla; Luciano Hoffenheim vs. Union Berlin, 9:30 a.m.
Bayern vs. Cologne, 11:30 a.m.
Cooper, N.Ogwumike, Toliver). Steals: 9 (Sykes 2, list. Acosta, Alvaro Barreal, Allan Cruz (Florian Valot, 70th),
Toliver 2, Coffey, Cooper, Cox, N.Ogwumike, Wheeler). Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Placed C Donell Stanley on the Haris Medunjanin (Brandon Vazquez, 85th); Brenner,
Technical Fouls: Wheeler, 00:23 first. injured reserve list. Waived DB Raven Greene and OT Yuya Kubo.
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CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA
Case No.: A-21-0827707-C
Dept. No. 13
DUNHAM TRUST COMPANY
Plaintiff,
v.
CONESTOGA TRUST, a Delaware
statutory trust; STRATEGIX
SOLUTIONS, LTD, a Nevada limited
liability company; WILLIAM
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS, an individual;
and DOES 1-10, inclusive,
Defendants.
SUMMONS-CIVIL
NOTICE! YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. THE
COURT MAY DECIDE AGAINST YOU
WITHOUT YOUR BEING HEARD
UNLESS YOU RESPOND WITHIN 20
DAYS. READ THE INFORMATION
BELOW.
TO THE DEFENDANT(S): A civil Com-
plaint has been filed by the Plain-
tiff(s) against you for the relief set
forth in the Complaint.
1. If you intend to defend this law-
suit, within 20 days after this Sum-
mon is served on you, exclusive of
the ay of service, you must do the
following:
(a) File with the Clerk of this Court,
whose address is shown below,
a formal written response to the
Complaint in accordance with the
rules of the Court, with the appro-
priate filing fee.
(b) Serve a copy of your response
upon the attorney whose name and
address is shown below.
2. Unless you respond, your default
will be entered upon application of
the Plaintiff(s) and failure to so
respond will result in a judgment
against you for the relief demanded
in the Complaint, which could result
in the taking of money or property
or other relief requested in the
Complaint.
3. If you intend to seek the advice
of an attorney in this matter, you
should do so promptly so that your
response may be filed on time.
4. The State of Nevada, its political
subdivisions, agencies, officers,
employees, board members, com-
mission members and legislators
each have 45 days after service
of this Summons within which to
file an Answer or other responsive
pleading to the Complaint.
Steven D. Grierson
Clark of Court
By: Robyn Ridriguez 1/20/2021
Deputy Clerk
Regional Justice Center
200 Lewis Avenue
Las Vegas, Nevada 89155
Submitted by:
SOLOMON, DWIGGINS & FREER, LTD
By: ALAN D. FREER, ESQ.
(NV Bar No. 7706)
afreer@sdfnvlaw.com
9060 W. Cheyenne Avenue
Las Vegas, Nevada 89129
Tel: (702) 853-5483
Fax: (702) 853-5485
On or about January 11, 2021, Dun-
ham Trust Company filed its Com-
plaint for Equitable Indemnification
and Contribution against William
Christopher Davis, alleging, in part,
that William Christopher Davis must
indemnify Dunham Trust Company
for any and all liability incurred
related to the forfeited interests in
the death benefits of life insurance
policies held by the Charles L. and
Jerry R. Oliver Perpetual Care Trust,
dated October 30, 2013.
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2021 ADM 000660
MARGUERITE ELIZABETH CHAPPELLE
WHITE AUSTIN
Name of Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Terrence M. Austin, whose address
is 700 Emerson Street N.W., Wash-
ington, DC 20011 was appointed
personal representative of the
estate of Marguerite Elizabeth
Chappelle White Austin, who died
on November 10, 2020 without a
will and will service without Court
supervision. All unknown heirs and
heirs whose whereabouts are
unknown shall enter their appear-
ance in this proceeding. Objections
to such appointment (or to the
probate of decedent's Will) shall
be filed with the Register of Wills,
D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street,
N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C.
20001, on or before 02/19/2022.
Claims against the decedent shall
be presented to the undersigned
with a copy to the Register of Wills
or filed with the Register of Wills
with a copy to the undersigned,
on or before 02/19/2022, or be
forever barred. Persons believed to
be heirs or legatees of the decedent
who do not receive a copy of this
notice by mail within 25 days of its
first publication shall so inform the
Register of Wills, including name,
address and relationship.
Terrence M. Austin
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
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PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2021 ADM 722
Grace W. Madison aka Grace
Witherspoon Madison aka Grace
Fannie Witherspoon
Charles L. Wardell
1775 Eye Street NW, Suite 1150
Washington,DC 20006
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Yvette P. Madison, whose address is
1631 Webster Street, NW, Washing-
ton, DC 20011 was appointed per-
sonal representative of the estate
of Grace W. Madison, who died on
October 12, 2019 with a will and
will serve without Court supervi-
sion. All unknown heirs and heirs
whose whereabouts are unknown
shall enter their appearance in this
proceeding. Objections to such
appointment (or to the probate of
decedent's Will) shall be filed with
the Register of Wills, D.C., Build-
ing A, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd
Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or
before 02/05/2022. Claims against
the decedent shall be presented
to the undersigned with a copy to
the Register of Wills or filed with
the Register of Wills with a copy
to the undersigned, on or before
02/05/2022, or be forever barred.
Persons believed to be heirs or
legatees of the decedent who do
not receive a copy of this notice
by mail within 25 days of its first
publication shall so inform the Reg-
ister of Wills, including name,
address and relationship.
Yvette P. Madison
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
REGISTER OF WILLS
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2019 ADM 1159
Sarah M. Bullock a/k/a
Sarah McNair Bullock
Glen E. Frost, Frost Law
839 Bestgate Road, Suite 400
Annapolis, MD 21401
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
DeVal Bullock, whose address 1108
Glenraven Lane, Clermont, FL 34711
was appointed personal represen-
tative of the estate of Sarah M.
Bullock aka Sarah McNair Bullock,
who died on 05/27/2019 without a
will and will serve without Court
supervision. All unknown heirs and
heirs whose whereabouts are
unknown shall enter their appear-
ance in this proceeding. Objections
to such appointment shall be filed
with the Register of Wills, D.C.,
Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd
Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or
before 02/05/2022. Claims against
the decedent shall be presented
to the undersigned with a copy to
the Register of Wills or filed with
the Register of Wills with a copy
to the undersigned, on or before
02/05/2022, or be forever barred.
Persons believed to be heirs or
legatees of the decedent who do
not receive a copy of this notice
by mail within 25 days of its first
publication shall so inform the Reg-
ister of Wills, including name,
address and relationship.
DeVal Bullock
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
REGISTER OF WILLS
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2021 ADM 000713
HELEN ELAINE JACKSON
Alan S. Bowser, Esq.
409 Deerfield Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Tracy J. Goodeaux, whose address
is 4923 Falls Circle, Missouri City,
Texas 77459 was appointed person-
al representative of the estate of
Helen Elaine Jackson, who died on
February 4, 2021 without a will and
will service without Court supervi-
sion. All unknown heirs and heirs
whose whereabouts are unknown
shall enter their appearance in this
proceeding. Objections to such
appointment shall be filed with the
Register of Wills, D.C., Building A,
515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor,
Washington, D.C. 20001, on or
before 02/05/2022. Claims against
the decedent shall be presented
to the undersigned with a copy
to the Register of Wills or filed
with the Register of Wills with a
copy to the undersigned, on or
before 02/05/2022, or be forever
barred. Persons believed to be
heirs or legatees of the decedent
who do not receive a copy of this
notice by mail within 25 days of its
first publication shall so inform the
Register of Wills, including name,
address and relationship.
Tracy J. Goodeaux
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
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REVENUE BOND FINANCING BY 11900 Parklawn Drive, Suite 320 11900 Parklawn Drive, Suite 320
ENVIRONMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA Rockville, Maryland 20852 Rockville, Maryland 20852
NOTICE OF APPLICATION RECEIVED (470) 289-4347 (470) 289-4347
Montgomery County
Notice is hereby given that the Economic Development Authority of
Loudoun County, Virginia (the “Authority”), whose mailing address is
43777 Central Station Drive, Suite 300, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, will
TRUSTEE'S SALE TRUSTEE'S SALE
Application for State Discharge Permit 20DP0162,
hold a public hearing on the application of Poland Hill Senior VA LLC 4114 CONGER STREET, SILVER SPRING, MD 20906 7950 INVERNESS RIDGE ROAD, POTOMAC, MD 20854
NPDES Permit MD0020982: (the “Applicant”), a Virginia limited liability company whose business
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, 14501 Sweitzer
Lane, Laurel, MD 20707 applied for renewal of the permit
address is 1515 Mockingbird Lane, Suite 1010, Charlotte, NC 28209.
The Applicant has requested the Authority to issue up to $14,000,000
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
to discharge an average of 1.5 million gallons per day of of its revenue bonds, in one or more series of qualified residential dated May 12, 2005 and recorded in Deed Book 30114 at dated July 11, 2007 and recorded in Deed Book 34741 at
treated domestic wastewater from the Damascus Waste- rental bonds, at one time or from time to time pursuant to a plan of
finance, to assist the Applicant and a limited partnership controlled Page 781 among the Land Records of ,Montgomery County Page 523 among the Land Records of ,Montgomery County
water Treatment Plant located at 23730 Log House Road,
Gaithersburg, MD 20882 to the Magruder Branch (a tributary by the Applicant in financing or refinancing a portion of the costs Maryland, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Maryland, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the
of the Great Seneca Creek).
of acquiring, constructing and equipping a senior affordable housing
development to be known as Poland Hill Apartments, to consist of Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at the Montgomery Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at the Montgomery
If a written request is received by August 26, 2021, an a 82,212 square foot, one elevator served building with 78 units, to County Courthouse located at 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, County Courthouse located at 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville,
informational meeting can be held to discuss the application
and permitting process. Requests should be forwarded to
be located on a 5.3 acre site along the north side of Inas Pond Drive
and adjacent to the east end of Hillpark Street in Chantilly, VA 20152, MD 20850, on MD 20850, on
the Maryland Department of the Environment, Water parcel identification number 129-49-1416, in the County of Loudoun,
and Science Administration, 1800 Washington Blvd., Virginia (the “Project”). The Project will meet the requirements of AUGUST 30, 2021 AT 11:30 AM AUGUST 30, 2021 AT 11:30 AM
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn: Mr. Yen-Der
a qualified residential rental project within the meaning of Section
142(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
Cheng, Chief, Municipal Permits Division. Hearing-
impaired persons may request an interpreter at the informa-
“Code”). The Project will be owned by the Applicant or an entity
affiliated with and controlled by or under common ownership with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in , Maryland, buildings and improvements thereon situated in , Maryland,
tional meeting by contacting Mr. Cheng at (410) 537-3363 Applicant. located at the above address and more fully described in the located at the above address and more fully described in the
or 1-800-633-6101, or at the above address, at least ten aforementioned Deed of Trust (the “Property”). aforementioned Deed of Trust (the “Property”).
working days prior to the scheduled meeting. The issuance of revenue bonds as requested by the Applicant
Any person wishing to review the application should contact will not constitute a debt or pledge of the faith and credit of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Loudoun or the
TAX ID#: 13-01343417 TAX ID#: 10-00901573
Mr. Cheng at the above telephone number to schedule an
appointment. Copies may be obtained at a cost of $0.36 per
Authority, and neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of
the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof,
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $25,000.00 by cashier’s/certi- TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $30,000.00 by cashier’s/certi-
page. including the County of Loudoun and the Authority, will be pledged fied check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may fied check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may
to the payment of such bonds. The Authority has no taxing power.
allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE The public hearing, which may be continued or adjourned, will be held for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
ENVIRONMENT
at a meeting of the Authority commencing at 8 a.m. on Thursday,
August 26, 2021. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, the purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION Authority’s meeting, including the public hearing, will be conducted improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition without improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition without
NOTICE OF TENTATIVE DETERMINATION
as an Electronic Meeting, via a WebEx platform, in accordance with
an ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County, either express or implied warranty of any kind and subject to all either express or implied warranty of any kind and subject to all
Montgomery County Virginia, pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-1413, to assure continuity of conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
governmental operations during a disaster. Instructions for members
Application for State Discharge Permit 18DP2320, of the public who wish to view the electronic meeting or participate in same. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within same. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
NPDES Permit MD0062073:
Maryland Environmental Service, 259 Najoles Road,
the public hearing via WebEx (online or by phone) will be posted online
at www.loudoun.gov/remoteparticipation at least three business days
ten days of final ratification of sale. Interest to be paid on the ten days of final ratification of sale. Interest to be paid on the
Millersville, MD 21108 submitted an application for renewal before the public hearing. In addition, members of the public may unpaid purchase money at the rate of 4% from the date of sale unpaid purchase money at the rate of 3% from the date of sale
of a permit to discharge stormwater from a yard waste listen to and participate in the public hearing by using the dial-in
number and conference code set forth below:
to the date funds are received in the office of the Substitute to the date funds are received in the office of the Substitute
composting facility, located at 21210 Martinsburg Road,
Dickerson, MD 20842. The facility discharges an average Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event
0.24 million gallons per day to the Potomac River (Use I-P)
DIAL-IN NUMBER: 1-866-292-2994 additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement
through outfall 001 and 003, and 0.11 million gallons per day CONFERENCE CODE: 9562118259 is delayed for any reason. is delayed for any reason.
to the Monocacy River (Use I-P) through Outfall 002.
The Department proposes to renew the permit with the Any person interested in the issuance of the revenue bonds or the TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjust- TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
addition of total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and COD moni- proposed financing may provide public comment via WebEx or phone
during the hearing, or by email in advance. Written public comments ment of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
toring at Outfalls 001, 002 and 003. There will be no change
in the following parameters at Outfalls 001, 002 and 003 may be submitted to eda@loudoun.gov by 12:00 p.m. on the day applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges or applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges or
Flow (report only), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) 100
of the hearing. Any written comments received by that time will
be distributed to Authority directors and incorporated as part of the assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to
mg/L daily max, TSS 100 mg/L daily max and pH 6.5-8.5 s.u.. meeting minutes. be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
The permit has new conditions that require a COD/BOD
study with a potential reopener based on the results (Special This notice is published, and the public hearing is being held by Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
Condition Q), require the use of appropriately sensitive test or on behalf of the Authority as issuer of the proposed revenue
bonds, as required by Section 147(f) of the Code and the regulations
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward.
methods (Special Condition O), and the facility is being promulgated thereunder. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement
required to obtain coverage under the general permit for
Industrial Stormwater. Special Condition J has been modified Economic Development Authority of
expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
to add in a reopener based on results from TN, TP, and TSS Loudoun County, Virginia responsible for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If responsible for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If
to be reviewed after 24 months of data has been collected. the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any reason, the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any reason,
The permit application and related documents may be
downloaded from https://mdewwp.page.link/WWPPortal by NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited
searching for "18DP2320" as the State Num, clicking the REVENUE BOND FINANCING BY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF
to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the Purchaser to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the Purchaser
"More Info" button, and selecting the appropriate document LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees
for download.
If a written request is received by September 1, 2021, Notice is hereby given that the Economic Development Authority of
for application against all expenses, attorney's fees and the full for application against all expenses, attorney's fees and the full
a public hearing on the tentative determination for this Loudoun County, Virginia (the “Authority”), whose mailing address is commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure
application can be scheduled. The request should be sent 43777 Central Station Drive, Suite 300, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, will
hold a public hearing on the application of View Broadlands VA LLC sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including
to the Maryland Department of the Environment, Water
and Science Administration, 1800 Washington Blvd., (the “Applicant”), a Virginia limited liability company whose business attorney's fees and the full commission on the gross sale price attorney's fees and the full commission on the gross sale price
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn.: Paul Hlavinka,
address is 1515 Mockingbird Lane, Suite 1010, Charlotte, NC 28209.
The Applicant has requested the Authority to issue up to $17,000,000 of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the
Chief, Industrial Stormwater Permits Division and must of its revenue bonds, in one or more series of qualified residential forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell
include the name, address and telephone number (home
and work) of the person making the request, the name of
rental bonds, at one time or from time to time pursuant to a plan of
finance, to assist the Applicant and a limited partnership controlled the Property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser the Property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser
any other party whom the person making the request may by the Applicant in financing or refinancing a portion of the costs or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies
of acquiring, constructing and equipping a senior affordable housing
represent, and the name of the facility and permit number. development to be known as The View at Broadlands, to consist of against the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property. against the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property.
Failure to request a hearing by September 1, 2021 will
constitute a waiver of the right to a public hearing on the
one 91,657 square feet, four story building with 93 units and a pool
and garage to be located on a site at the Southwest quadrant of
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not
tentative determination for this permit. the intersection of Mooreview Parkway and Moorefield Blvd, on a be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
Written comments concerning the tentative determination portion of parcel identification number 120486253000, in Ashburn, VA
20148, in the County of Loudoun, Virginia (the “Project”). The Project
results from improvements to the Property by said defaulting results from improvements to the Property by said defaulting
will be considered in the preparation of a final determination
if submitted to the Department, to the attention of Paul will meet the requirements of a qualified residential rental project purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the
Hlavinka at the above address, on or before September 13, within the meaning of Section 142(d) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). The Project will be owned by
Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney's fees and Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney's fees and
2021. Any hearing-impaired person who requests a hearing the Applicant or an entity affiliated with and controlled by or under expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving the expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving the
may request an interpreter at the hearing by contacting Mr.
Hlavinka at (410) 537-3631 or 1-800-633-6101, or by written
common ownership with the Applicant.
Property or the proceeds of the resale. This sale is subject to Property or the proceeds of the resale. This sale is subject to
request to the above address at least ten working days prior The issuance of revenue bonds as requested by the Applicant post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed
to the scheduled hearing date. will not constitute a debt or pledge of the faith and credit of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Loudoun or the of Trust including, but not limited to, determining whether of Trust including, but not limited to, determining whether
Information supporting the tentative determination, includ-
ing the draft permit and fact sheet, may be reviewed by
Authority, and neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of prior to sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or prior to sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
the Commonwealth of Virginia or any political subdivision thereof,
contacting Mr. Hlavinka at the above telephone number to including the County of Loudoun and the Authority, will be pledged other agreement was entered into; or the loan was reinstated other agreement was entered into; or the loan was reinstated
make an appointment or by written request to Mr. Hlavinka to the payment of such bonds. The Authority has no taxing power. or paid off. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void or paid off. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void
at the above address. Copies of documents may be obtained
at a cost of $0.36 per page. The public hearing, which may be continued or adjourned, will be held and Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without and Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without
at a meeting of the Authority commencing at 8 a.m. on Thursday,
August 26, 2021. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, the
interest. interest.
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE
Authority’s meeting, including the public hearing, will be conducted
as an Electronic Meeting, via a WebEx platform, in accordance with
KEITH M. YACKO and GREGORY THORNE,, Substitute Trustees KEITH M. YACKO, GREGORY THORNE, ADRIAN JACOBS,
ENVIRONMENT an ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County, File No.MD2020-00421 ANGELA NEAL, CHRISTINE COTTON, Substitute Trustees
Virginia, pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-1413, to assure continuity of
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION governmental operations during a disaster. Instructions for members File No.:MD2021-00318
NOTICE OF APPLICATION RECEIVED of the public who wish to view the electronic meeting or participate in
the public hearing via WebEx (online or by phone) will be posted online
Prince George's County
at www.loudoun.gov/remoteparticipation at least three business days
Application for State Discharge Permit 20DP0631, before the public hearing. In addition, members of the public may
NPDES Permit MD0021725: listen to and participate in the public hearing by using the dial-in
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, 14501 Sweitzer number and conference code set forth below:
Lane, Laurel, Maryland 20707 applied for renewal of the
DIAL-IN NUMBER: 1-866-292-2994 www.hwestauctions.com
permit to discharge an average of 7.5 million gallons per
day of treated domestic and industrial wastewater from the CONFERENCE CODE: 9562118259 AUGUST 12, 19, 26, 2021 12353373 www.hwestauctions.com
Parkway Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) located
850 850 AUGUST 12, 19, 26, 2021 12353376
at 10100 Canadian Way, Laurel, MD 20708 to the Patuxent
River.
Any person interested in the issuance of the revenue bonds or the
proposed financing may provide public comment via WebEx or phone
Montgomery County Montgomery County 852 852
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
If a written request is received by August 26, 2021, an during the hearing, or by email in advance. Written public comments
may be submitted to eda@loudoun.gov by 12:00 p.m. on the day FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY
informational meeting can be held to discuss the application IN THE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
of the hearing. Any written comments received by that time will MARYLAND MARYLAND FOR
and permitting process. Requests should be forwarded to CIRCUIT COURT FOR
be distributed to Authority directors and incorporated as part of the JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
the Maryland Department of the Environment, Water meeting minutes. BRITTANY TAYLOR,
Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees William M. Savage, et al.
and Science Administration, 1800 Washington Blvd., Substitute Trustee
11900 Parklawn Drive, Suite 310 v. James E. Clarke, et al. Trustees
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn: Mr. Yen-Der This notice is published, and the public hearing is being held by Substitute Trustees
Cheng, Chief, Municipal Permits Division. Hearing- or on behalf of the Authority as issuer of the proposed revenue Rockville, Maryland 20852
Plantiffs, OLUREMI T ILUPEJU Versus
bonds, as required by Section 147(f) of the Code and the regulations Versus
impaired persons may request an interpreter at the informa- Defendant(s)
promulgated thereunder.
tional meeting by contacting Mr. Cheng at (410) 537-3363 v. Janet L. Perkins and Kimberly A Ireland
or 1-800-633-6101, or at the above address, at least ten Civil Action No. 452696V William J Knoerlein, Sr
Economic Development Authority of HASANI K. WIDEMOND Robert E. Schley
NOTICE A/K/A William J Knoerlein Sr
working days prior to the scheduled meeting. Loudoun County, Virginia 10101 Grosvenor Place, #1609 Defendant
Any person wishing to review the application should contact Rockville, MD. 20852 Defendants
Notice is hereby given this 4th
Mr. Cheng at the above telephone number to schedule an 850 850 Defendant(s) day of August, 2021, by the Cir- No. C-02-CV-20-000921
Montgomery County Montgomery County NO. C-02-CV-20-001733
appointment. Copies may be obtained at a cost of $0.36 per Case No. 425951V cuit Court for Montgomery Coun- NOTICE
page. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR NOTICE ty, Maryland, that the sale of the NOTICE
property mentioned in these pro- Notice is hereby issued, Thursday,
FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Notice is hereby issued this Mon-
Notice is hereby given this 12th ceedings and described as 10408 July 29, 2021 that the sale of the
815 825 MARYLAND MARYLAND property in the proceedings men- day, August 2, 2021 that the sale
Legal Notices Bids & Proposals ERIC D. VANDELINDE James E. Clarke, et. al.
day of August, 2021, that the sale
of the property in this case, 10101
New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring,
MD 20903, will be ratified and tioned, made and reported by of the property in the proceedings
201 International Circle, Suite 230 James E. Clarke, Substitute mentioned, made and reported by
To: Steven Andrew SAK CONSTRUCTION, LLC is
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Substitute Trustees Grosvenor Place #1609, Rockville, confirmed unless cause to the
Trustee. William M. Savage, Substitute
Plaintiffs MD 20852, reported by Jason contrary thereof be shown on
Flanigan seeking qualified MBE/SLBE firms
to bid WSSC RFQ 16781-IDIQ ESA Substitute Trustee Murphy, Substitute Trustee, be or before the 3rd day of Septem- BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
Trustee.
Sewer Rehab in PG County & Plaintiff V. ratified and confirmed, unless ber, 2021, provided a copy of this unless cause to the contrary there- BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
Jeffrey Santa Rita and
You are hereby notified that a WSSC RFQ 16782-IDIQ ESA V. cause to the contrary be shown NOTICE be published at least once of be shown on or before the unless cause to the contrary there-
guardianship case has been filed Sewer Rehab in Montgomery NANCY J. EBERSOLE, et.al. Jennifer Santa Rita on or before the 13th day of a week in each of three succes- 30th day of August 2021 next; pro- of be shown on or before the
Defendants
in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. The bid date has been 19537 Transhire Road September 2021, provided a copy sive weeks in some newspaper vided, a copy of this Notice be 1st day of September 2021 next;
County, Maryland, Case No.: 6-Z- extended to 31 AUG 2021. Montgomery Village, MD 20886 Civil No. 484580V of this notice be inserted in of general circulation published in inserted in some newspaper pub- provided, a copy of this Notice
21-0020. All persons who believe Proposals are due NLT 1200, 24 Defendant Washington Post, a newspaper said County before the 3rd day of lished in Anne Arundel County, be inserted in some newspaper
themselves to be parents of a male AUG 2021. Tasks include but are NOTICE PURSUANT published in Montgomery Coun- September, 2021. once in each of three successive published in Anne Arundel County,
CASE NO. 483590V TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
child born on July 20, 2020 in Silver not limited to ESC, MOT, Fuel, ty, Maryland, once in each of (3) weeks before the 30th day of once in each of three successive
Spring (Montgomery County), Mary- NOTICE OF SALE three successive weeks before The Report of Sale states the weeks before the 1st day of Sep-
Temp fencing & access, misc. ORDERED, by the Circuit Court amount of the sale to be August 2021 next. The report
land to Christina Nicole Barun (DOB; site/civil and related work. Notice is hereby issued by the for Montgomery County, Mary- the 13th day of September 2021. states that the amount of sale tember, 2021, next. The report
August 21, 1989), and putative $584,000.00 states that the amount of sale
Please contact Kevin Circuit Court of MONTGOMERY land, this 4th day of August, 2021, The Report states the amount of of the property at 1903 NORWICH
father, Steven Andrew Flanigan Maszkiewicz or Matt Rhoads for COUNTY this 5th day of August, that the foreclosure sale of the Karen A. Bushell ROAD, GLEN BURNIE, MD 21061 to of the property at 8483 ARBUTUS
(DOB: December 5, 1983), shall file sale to be $235,000.00 RD, PASADENA, MD 21122 to be
additional information. Phone: 2021, that the sale of the property, property described in the deed of Clerk of the Circuit Court For be $206,000.00
a written response. A copy of the 443-297-1900, or mentioned in these proceedings, trust docketed herein and located Karen A. Bushell Montgomery County, Maryland $240,000.00.
Show Cause Order may be obtained Clerk of the Circuit Court Scott A. Poyer
bidcippa@sakcon.com. made and reported by Eric D. Van- at 7740 Brink Road, Gaithersburg, Samuel I White, P.C. Clerk of the Circuit Court Scott A. Poyer
from the Juvenile Clerk’s Office at delinde, Substitute Trustee, be rat- MD, 20882, made and reported Montgomery County, MD
50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD August 12, 19, 26, 2021 12353601 for Anne Arundel County Circuit Court For
ified and confirmed, unless cause by James E. Clarke, and Christine Anne Arundel County, Maryland
20850 and phone number (240) 777- to the contrary be shown on or Drexel, Substitute Trustees, Be RAS Crane, LLC August 5, 17, 19, 2021 12350884
9530. If you do not file a written Aug 19, 26, Sept 2, 2021 12354087 August 12, 19, 26, 2021 12353603
before the 7th day of September, RATIFIED and CONFIRMED, unless
objection by September 20, 2021, 2021 provided a copy of this Notice cause to the contrary be shown
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Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County 857 Howard County 857
Howard County 873
Prince William County 873
Prince William County 265
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of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust to be announced at the
time of sale. A deposit of $20,000.00, or 10% of the sale price, whichever
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cashier’s check or money order by the purchaser. The balance of the ready togo, has been raised in our 717-372-1787.
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ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Howard County. of sale. In the event of default by the successful bidder, the entire
located at the above address and more fully described in the Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and expenses of sale
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or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be the event taxes, any other public charges have been advanced, a credit
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $15,000.00 by cashier’s/certi- obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE will be due to the seller, to be adjusted from the date of sale at the time of
settlement. Purchaser agrees to pay the seller's attorneys at settlement,
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
fied check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private a fee of $465.00 for review of the settlement documents.
allow, in their sole discretion, 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. The property and
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure
sale, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to be adjusted
to date of sale and paid at execution of the deed, except where the
secured party is the purchaser, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser.
Additional terms will be announced at the time of sale and the successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustees
a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion of bidding.
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for application against all expenses, attorney's fees and the full James E. Clarke, et. al.
commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure Substitute Trustees
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sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including
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of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the Defendant
forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell Civil No. C-04-CV-19-000556
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TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
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against the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property. for Calvert County, Maryland, this
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not 29th day of July, 2021, that the
foreclosure sale of the property
be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus described in the deed of trust
results from improvements to the Property by said defaulting docketed herein and located at
11583 Tomahawk Trail West,
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reported by James E. Clarke,
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NOTICE PURSUANT
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ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Calvert County, Maryland, this
29th day of July, 2021, that the
foreclosure sale of the property
described in the deed of trust
docketed herein and located at
311 Sheckells Road, Huntingtown,
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Bancroft Pl., 2122, $3.58 million.
Belt Rd., 4904, $1.2 million.
California St., 2122, $599,000.
Calvert St., 1946, No. 2,
$547,000.
Champlain St., 2337, No. 104,
$510,000.
Chapin St., 1415, No. LL2,
$299,000.
Church St., 1400, No. 202,
$799,900.
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Fairmont St., 776, $644,350.
Fessenden St., 4044, $1 million.
Florida Ave., 211, $468,500.
Foxview Cir., 1904, $3.5 million.
Harvard St., 1659, $1.55 million.
Idaho Ave., 3051, No. 103,
$205,000.
Iris St., 1416, $379,932.
K St., 2515, No. 704, $349,000.
Kalorama Rd., 2010, No. 201,
$419,000.
Kennedy St., 623, $815,000.
L St., 2425, No. 706, $1.1 million.
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MacArthur Blvd., 4545, No. 202,
$285,000.
Madison St., 922, No. 203,
$355,000.
Massachusetts Ave., 4301, No.
A213, $405,000.
N St., 936, No. 7, $975,000.
N St., 1745, No. 103, $479,000.
Nebraska Ave., 2329,
$1.61 million.
New Hampshire Ave., 1330, No.
1010, $462,000.
New Hampshire Ave., 4123,
$1.06 million.
Newton Pl., 739, No. 101,
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$334,900.
O St., 2721, $1.75 million.
Oglethorpe St., 1439, $889,000.
Ontario Rd., 3025, $399,999.
Patterson St., 3247,
$2.25 million.
Phelps Pl., 1835, $478,000.
Porter St., 3864, No. F366,
$514,150.
Q St., 2500, No. 747, $250,000.
R St., 1401, No. 206, $523,500.
Randolph Pl., 67, $415,000.
Rhode Island Ave., 66, No. 2,
$655,000.
Roxboro Pl., 528, $603,500.
Seaton Pl., 62, $890,000.
Sherier Pl., 5341, $1.07 million.
T St., 1318, $2.35 million.
U St., 57, $925,000.
University Terr., 3016,
$4.5 million.
Vermont Ave., 1707, $684,500.
W St., 129, No. 301, $560,000.
Water St., 3303, No. 6O,
$1.93 million.
Wisconsin Ave., 4801, No. 507,
$350,000.
Second St., 2116, $897,000.
Fifth St., 1115, $726,000.
Fifth St., 6613, $650,000.
Seventh St., 6211, $575,000.
Ninth St., 1825, $1.3 million.
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11th St., 2624, $815,000.
13th St., 1245, No. 712,
$399,000.
13th St., 2904, $1.08 million.
14th St., 2125, No. 629,
$530,000.
15th St., 3043, No. 1, $425,000.
16th St., 1801, $619,000.
16th St., 2901, No. 204,
$570,000.
17th St., 2514, No. 1, $632,000.
18th St., 1601, No. 913,
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30th St., 1312, $4.9 million.
32nd St., 5604, $1.55 million.
35th Pl., 1919, $849,000.
37th St., 1818, $2.17 million.
39th St., 3541, No. F510,
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Barnaby Terr., 1208, $400,000.
Bruce Pl., 1839, $440,000.
Carolina Ave. N., 606,
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Douglass Rd., 2607, No. 301,
$249,999.
Forrester St., 615, $395,000.
K St., 1363, No. 303, $320,000.
M Pl., 2932, $460,000.
Naylor Rd., 2760, No. T3,
$130,000.
Pennsylvania Ave., 1391, No. 11th St., 900, No. 311, $765,000.
M09, $550,000. 16th St., 34, $687,000.
Potomac Ave., 1401, No. 4, SOUTHWEST
$370,000.
G St., 350, No. N620, $422,000.
Valley Ave., 477, $433,000.
P St., 121, $715,000.
Fourth St., 528, $1.45 million.
Third St., 845, No. 301,
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The field of canine cognition is booming, with researchers studying how dogs think
and feel, how they relate to humans, and how they interact with the world. Page 2
One study asks: Can dogs “talk” by pushing buttons programmed with words? Page 3
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Inside
the canine’s
mind
There’s a field of research
dedicated to the thoughts of dog.
And it’s only growing.
BY K IM K AVIN

B
ack in 2002, when Alexandra Horo-
witz was working toward her PhD
at the University of California at
San Diego, she believed that dogs
were a worthy thing to study. But
her dissertation committee, which favored
apes and monkeys, needed convincing.
“They were primate people,” she said.
“They all studied nonhuman primates or
human primates, and that’s where it was
thought that the interesting cognitive work
was going to happen. Trying to show them
that there would be something interesting
with dogs — that was a challenge.”
Oh, how things can change in just two
decades, especially in a nation that includes
about 90 million dogs among its residents —
everything from beloved pets to working
dogs doing all kinds of tasks, from sniffing
out drugs in airports to assisting blind people
with crossing a street. Today, Horowitz is a
senior research fellow at Barnard College in
New York City, where her specialty is dog
cognition: understanding how dogs think,
including the mental processes that go into
tasks such as learning, problem-solving and
communication. Dog cognition is now a
widely respected field, a growing specialty
branch of the more general animal-cognition
research that has existed since the early 20th
century.
“This field, and animal cognition, really, is
all within our lifetimes,” Horowitz said. “It’s
not as if nobody ever looked at dogs, but they
weren’t looking at their minds.”
Looking at dogs’ minds, so far, has revealed
quite a few insights. The Canine Cognition
Center at Yale University, using a game where
humans offer dogs pointing and looking cues
to spot where treats are hidden, showed that
dogs can follow our thinking even without
verbal commands. The Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany
figured out that dogs are smart about getting
what they want — they will eat forbidden
food more frequently if humans can’t see
them. Researchers from Austria, Israel and
Britain determined that seeing a caregiver,
versus a stranger, activated dogs’ brain
regions of emotion and attachment much as
it does in the human mother-child bond.
Other European researchers showed that
negative-reinforcement training (like jerking
on a leash) causes lingering emotional chang-
es and makes the dog less optimistic overall.
Some dog owners hear about this type of
research and think: “They did a whole study
to figure out that my dog looks where I point?
I could have told you that.” But the studies
aren’t just about what a dog is doing. They’re
indicating areas to research so that we can
better understand why and how the dog is PHOTO BY MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ANNALIESE NURNBERG/THE WASHINGTON POST

doing it — in other words, what’s happening

inside the dog’s mind.
“Maybe they’re not looking at your finger
at all. Maybe they’re paying attention to your
face and not to your hand,” said Federico
Rossano, whose team at the University of
California at San Diego is trying to determine
whether dogs can translate their thoughts
into words that humans can understand
through pushing pre-recorded buttons. (See
story, next page.) “A lot of this becomes
interesting in terms of how you can train
them better.”
An evolving area of research
Right now, with no organizing body in the
field, it’s hard to say exactly how many people
are doing dog-cognition research. You can
count on two hands the number of dedicated
university spaces led by professors with
graduate students and funding grants. When
the leaders from those places get together
once a year, it’s usually at someone’s home.
But researchers at universities doing stud-
ies on dogs? There are now many dozens of
those, and there’s no lack of students wanting
to at least dabble in the work.
“The thing that gets my students all abuzz
is that people always want to know whether
their dog loves them back,” said Ellen
Furlong, associate professor of psychology at
Illinois Wesleyan University and leader of its
Dog Scientists Group.
Every semester, on the first day, she asks
students if their dogs are happy. It’s her way
of helping them understand why the study of
dog cognition is important.
“They’re always kind of offended — ‘Of
course my dog is happy. I love my dog,’ ” she
said. “But then you dig a little bit and push
them and say: ‘Your dog’s life is different from
your life. You get to decide when your dog
gets to eat and play and go outside. You
decide everything about your dog’s life, but
your dog isn’t human. They have different
wants and needs than you do.’ They have a
semester-long assignment where they have to
consider how their work on cognition can
help to design some enrichment activities to
improve the dogs’ lives.”
The topics that dog-cognition researchers
focus on today often are chosen based on
personal interests. While Furlong is most
curious about ethics, welfare and how hu-
mans can meet dogs’ psychological needs,
Horowitz is focusing her research on what
dogs understand through smell. At the Duke
Dog cognition is Canine Cognition Center in North Carolina,
now a widely Brian Hare is trying to determine — when a
respected field, a dog is still a puppy — whether the way a dog
growing specialty thinks might make her a good candidate for
branch of the more different jobs as an adult.
general animal- “We’re saying, ‘Here are some cognitive
cognition research abilities that are critical for training for these
that has existed jobs,’ ” Hare said. “It’s a little bit like talking
since the early 20th about personality, but we’re talking about
century. your cognitive personality, in a way. Maybe
you have a really good memory for space, or
maybe you’re good at understanding human
gestures. The question is whether we can
identify some of these dogs really early, in the
first two to three months of life, who will do
well in these programs.”
Hare is widely credited with having jump-
started America’s dog-cognition research
field. In the late 1990s as an undergraduate,
he was doing research with chimpanzees
when he realized they couldn’t do something
that his dogs could do: follow a human’s
pointing gesture to find food. Chimpanzees
are the closest animal relatives humans have,
and dogs could do something they couldn’t.
Researchers suddenly wanted to know why
dogs could understand something that chim-
panzees could not.
In his most recent study, published in July,
Hare and his team looked at the difference
between wolf and dog pups. There had been
some debate in the dog-cognition field about
where dogs’ unusual abilities to cooperate
with humans originate — whether those
abilities are biological or taught. So the team
gave a battery of temperament and cognition
tests to dog and wolf puppies that were 5
weeks to 18 weeks old. The pups of both
species were given the chance to approach
familiar and unfamiliar humans to retrieve
food; to follow a human’s pointing gesture to
find food; to make eye contact with humans,
and more. The team found that even at such a
young age, the dog pups were more attracted
to humans, read the human gestures more
skillfully, and made more eye contact with
humans than the wolf pups did.
The conclusion? The way that humans
domesticated dogs actually altered the dogs’
developmental pathways, meaning their abil-
ities to cooperate with us today are biological
— a research result that is likely to have many
practical implications.
“It’s highly inheritable, and it’s potentially
manipulatable through breeding,” Hare said,
adding that dogs might be bred to specialize
in certain types of thinking. The finding
opens up the idea of studying dogs in ways
that could make deep-pocketed entities like
the U.S. government want to fund more
dog-cognition research, Hare said.
By way of example, he talked about dogs he
has worked with for the U.S. Marine Corps,
compared with dogs he has worked with for
Canine Companions for Independence in
California. The Marines needed dogs in
places like Afghanistan to help sniff out
incendiary devices, while the companions
agency needed dogs that were good at
helping people with disabilities.
Just looking at both types of purpose-bred
dogs, most people would think they’re the
same — to the naked eye, they all look like
Labrador retrievers, and on paper, they
would all be considered Labrador retrievers.
But behaviorally and cognitively, because of
their breeding for specific program purposes,
Hare said, they were different in many ways.
Hare devised a test that could tell them
apart in two or three minutes. It’s a test that’s
intentionally impossible for the dog to solve
— what Star Trek fans would recognize as the
Kobayashi Maru. In Hare’s version, the dog
was at first able to get a reward from inside a
container whose lid was loosely secured and
easy to dislodge; then, the reward was placed
inside the same container with the lid locked
and unable to be opened. Just as Starfleet was
trying to figure out what a captain’s character
would lead him to do in a no-win situation,
Hare’s team was watching whether the dog
kept trying to solve the test indefinitely, or
looked to a human for help.
“What we found is that the dogs that ask
for help are fantastic at the assistance-dog
training, and the dogs that persevere and try
to solve the problem no matter what are ideal
for the detector training,” Hare said. “It’s not
testing to see which dog is smart or dumb.
What we’ve been able to show is that some of
these measures tell you what jobs these dogs
would be good at.”
What comes next in the field of dog-cogni-
tion research is probably a bit more of
everything. Some researchers are following
their interests, while others are following the
research grants. Those grants can come from
a wide array of sources, including the
government trying to help soldiers with
post-traumatic stress disorder, shelters try-
The nose knows
One example of dog cognition research with a
potential training application is a study that
Horowitz did on nose work — an activity that
lets dogs use their natural abilities with scents
to find everything from a treat hidden under a
cone to marijuana in somebody’s suitcase.
Horowitz and her team showed the dogs three
buckets and taught them that one of the
buckets always had a treat under it, and one
did not. Then she measured how quickly the
dogs went to the “ambiguous bucket” in the
middle. The dogs then attended nose-work
classes. These types of advanced classes are
widely available at the same types of schools
that teach basic obedience. In the nose-work
classes, dogs are encouraged and trained to
use their noses to search for and find treats or
favorite toys that are hidden under boxes or
cones, inside suitcases or in other places. After
a few weeks of nose-work classes, Horowitz
repeated the bucket test. “What we found was
the dogs in the nose-work class got faster at
approaching ambiguous stimulus,” she said,
adding that the results suggest that for some
dogs, taking nose-work classes could help
them feel more optimistic. “The group that had
nose work changed their behavior afterward,
so I have to say it’s something about the nose
work. I don’t know exactly what it was, but if
the effect is profound and we keep seeing it,
we would go in and try to see what it was that
made it useful for the subjects.”
ing to rehome animals and neuroscience
institutes looking for insights across species.
“It’s a really exciting moment,” Hare said.
“I think we can continue on with individual
researchers pursuing fun, interesting things
— the students and the universities love it —
but most successful academic endeavors have
two parts. Being intellectual is wonderful,
but that kind of research tends to struggle
with funding. Academic endeavors with
practical application tend to be incredibly
well funded, and then the field grows.
“If you can have both of those things, then
it will grow, and it will grow phenomenally,”
he added. “If it’s just, ‘We’re going to do this
because people love dogs,’ that’ll be fun, but it
will stay small like it is now.”
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Can these dogs really talk or are
they just pushing our buttons?
BY M AURA J UDKIS
“What Lucy want?”
Rachel Stephens poses this question to her
3-month-old black standard poodle each time
the dog stands before a panel of buttons, each
recorded to play a word that might contain the
answer. Is it “play,” maybe with her squeaky pig
toy? Or maybe “outside,” on her owner’s lawn
in Rydal, Ga.? Or “water?” or “yummies?”
Except there isn’t a button for the thing Lucy
desperately wants, which is to chew on Ste-
phens’s shoelaces.
“No, no, no,” Stephens says. “All done shoe-
laces.” She reaches over to the board and hits a
button, which chimes out: “All done.”
Stephens had seen the videos of Stella and
Bunny, social media-famous dogs whose own-
ers had taught them to “talk” by pressing
buttons recorded with words such as “outside”
and “love you.” Those were things she wanted
her dog to be able to tell her, too. So when Lucy
arrived in May, several buttons were already
waiting for her.
Each time Lucy did any activity correlated
with a button, such as whining to go outside,
Stephens would press it to model the behavior
for her. But Lucy wasn’t interested. So Ste-
phens logged on to a forum for dog owners
nationwide who are teaching their dogs how to
speak with the buttons — called augmentative
and alternative communication (AAC) devic-
es, in the speech therapy field — and who were,
like Stephens, participating in a study of these
dogs, called “They Can Talk.” Their recommen-
dation? Give Lucy a button that’s more excit-
ing.
“Her favorite thing in the entire world is a
bully stick, and we call that a chewy,” Stephens
says. “I gave her a ‘chewy’ button, and immedi-
ately — I mean, just as soon as I recorded the
button — she walked over and pressed it, and
from then, it’s just been an explosion of use,
and she started using all the buttons.”
“What Lucy want?” Stephens again calls
out. Lucy approaches the board and stomps on
one button three times: “play, play, play.”
A cautionary tale
Throughout human history, storytellers
and scientists have wondered what it would be
like if we could talk to animals, and what
animals would say if they could talk back. And
some people, both fictional (Dr. Dolittle) and
real (Francine Patterson, who taught sign
language to Koko the gorilla), have tried to
bridge our linguistic gaps. Dogs do have ways
to communicate with us, of course — they
scratch at the door when they want to go out,
they make puppy-dog eyes at us to beg for a
bite of whatever we’re eating. But instead of
learning their language, humans want them to
learn ours.
First came Christina Hunger, a speech-lan-
guage pathologist who uses AAC devices in her
work, who taught Stella, her Catahoula-blue
heeler mix, how to communicate using them.
Hunger inspired Alexis Devine to get buttons
for Bunny, her sheepadoodle puppy, in 2019.
“I didn’t really have any idea what I was
doing,” says Devine, speaking from her home
in Tacoma, Wash., while her famous dog
snoozed on the couch nearby. She, too, mod-
eled the buttons for Bunny, starting with
“outside,” which eventually, suddenly, clicked
for the dog. When Bunny pressed it on her own
for the first time, “her head flipped up and her
ears, like, flew out akimbo. And she just
seemed really proud of herself,” Devine says.
“At that point I was like, ‘Okay, if she can get
one button, then she can get all these other
buttons.’ ”
She now has 101 words and can string
together rudimentary sentences, such as
“Bunny come settle,” and “Where Dad bye.”
When Federico Rossano, an assistant pro-
fessor of cognitive science at the University of
California at San Diego who studies dogs and
primates, first saw the Bunny and Stella vid-
eos, “my reaction was massive skepticism.”
There were only two dogs, and their social
media clips didn’t always show the context of
their behavior with the buttons — what hap-
pened before or after. “You just never know
really what it means unless you study it from
the beginning,” he says.
Soon after, Leo Trottier, another cognitive
scientist in San Diego, co-founded FluentPet, a
company that makes the buttons so that other
dogs can use them, too. (Button sets retail for
$30 to $200.) Trottier sought Rossano’s help
with a citizen science research project open to
the public, soliciting information from thou-
sands of pet owners trying to teach this skill to
their dogs (and occasionally cats). Rossano
agreed to collaborate with the company on a
broader three-phase study. FluentPet is in-
volved in data collection, but Rossano’s Com-
parative Cognition Lab will do independent
research and publish the results. Rossano said
that he and his team are not being paid by
FluentPet, and that if the results indicate that
merely a few dogs have learned a really cool
party trick but not some semblance of lan-
guage, that would be “perfectly acceptable
from a scientific perspective.”
The study’s name, “They Can Talk,” seems to
present a foregone conclusion that makes him
uncomfortable (Trottier chose it before he
agreed to participate, Rossano says).
“If I had to phrase it, it would be ‘Can They
Talk?’ ” he says.
Rossano says that if that question is an-
swered in the affirmative, he thinks there
could be big implications for human-canine
relations.
“It will affect the way people care for them,
the way we see them, the way we interact with
them, the kind of rights that we give them,” he
says.
But if not? Well, he’s all too aware of a
cautionary tale from a century ago. In 1904, the
world was dazzled by Clever Hans, a horse
whose owner, a German math instructor,
claimed that he could solve simple arithmetic
problems. By tapping his hoofs a certain num-
ber of times when presented with multiple
choices, the horse could count people in a
crowd, read a clock and identify playing cards
— even if being questioned by someone other
than his owner. The German board of educa-
tion even set up a commission to study the
famous horse.
Several years later, his talents were de-
bunked. It wasn’t that Hans understood lan-
guage, but rather that he “could read the
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almost microscopic signals in the face of his
master, thus indicating that it had tapped or
was about to tap the correct number or letter
and would receive a reward,” wrote research-
ers revisiting the phenomenon in a 2013 paper
in the journal Communicative and Integrative
Biology. The famous horse met a terrible end,
the researchers reported: Drafted into World
War I as a military horse, he was “killed in
action in 1916 or was consumed by hungry
soldiers.”
To control for the “Clever Hans Effect,” as
researchers call it, later phases of the research
will involve collecting data from continuous
monitoring of the button panel and the dog.
Devine has five cameras in her home that
submit 24/7 footage to Rossano’s team, and as
other dogs acquire Bunny’s level of skill, Ros-
sano hopes they will be interested in a similar
setup. A third phase will include “direct, con-
trolled tests of learner sound button use” in a
lab setting.
“This is really about assessing what hap-
pens once you give animals a new set of
symbols or signals to communicate with hu-
mans,” Rossano says. “We are seeing, already,
evidence that once you give Bunny a bunch of
buttons, Bunny starts asking things that we
don’t expect.” He was surprised to see the dog
“inquire” about people or animals that were
not present, as well as biological categories,
such as whether people and other pets were
human or “animal.”
Nevertheless, the study has been met with
skepticism from others in the field. Clive
Wynne, founding director of the Canine Sci-
ence Collaboratory at Arizona State University,
ascribed the talking dogs’ skills to operant
conditioning rather than an understanding of
the words they seem to use.
“This is one of the most basic forms of
learning in the animal kingdom,” Wynne says.
“The dog forms an association between an
action and an outcome that it desires.”
Juliane Kaminski, who studies and teaches
dog cognition at the University of Portsmouth
in England, uses the metaphor of a vending
machine. “I know if I press this button, I get a
chocolate bar,” she says. “So, in some sense, the
dogs may have simply learned if I press this
button here, my owner is really happy, or my
owner gives me food, or my owner does some-
thing that is really positive for me.”
A glimpse into personality
It’s more than that, Victoria Gammino in-
sists. Her dog, Harper, a 1-year-old Barbet, uses
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the buttons in their home in Stonington,
Conn., in ways that make her intentions clear.
“For example, yesterday she hit the play
button and then threw her monkey [toy] at
me,” Gammino says. Harper also uses them in
unusual ways: She is a picky eater, and hits her
“food” button when she’s dissatisfied with her
dinner. “She will sort of look at the button, look
at me, look at the food, and then smack the
button again until I give her a different type of
food.”
Some dogs take to the buttons immediately.
Others are still figuring them out. Suki Lotti
has one of each. She is in the initial phases of
training Elessar, a goldendoodle, and Pip, a
border collie-goldendoodle mix. Elessar gets
it. Pip? Well, Pip prefers to do her own thing.
Lotti has a “stranger” button for when a person
or animal is outside their home in Richmond,
and for Elessar, “we’re noticing that it is
helping her at least say: ‘Yes, I know what
you’re saying. I know these words. We’re on the
same page,’ ” Lotti says. “Pip, on the other
hand, is just like, ‘Why is this a thing?’ Like, ‘I’m
not pushing that.’ ”
Most dogs start out with the basics, but as
their vocabulary increases, it’s a glimpse into
their personality, their owners say.
Cheryl Moore’s 9-month-old poodle, Jour-
ney, started with an “outside” button, and
“within a couple of days, he started pressing it
and turning and looking at me, and then
looking at the door, so I could tell it was a
definite, conscious push of the button,” she
says.
As he progresses, she hopes to add a few
more: “ouch,” if he’s hurt, “water,” “beach” and
“hike” (“so he can pick where he wants to go for
the day” near their home in Chesapeake, Va.),
“brush,” “help,” for when he gets his toys stuck
under the couch, and “Love you.”
“Love you” makes most owners’ lists of
desired buttons. It’s one of the things we
desperately want to hear from our dogs: that
they love us as much as we love them. But it’s
also a button that challenges the concept of
what language is, and how dogs interpret it.
When dogs hit the “love you” button, they’re
often rewarded with affection. But to a dog, is
“love you” an emotion, or an action? And when
they press it, are they telling us they love us, or
that they want us to love them?
Stephens says that Lucy’s use of the “love
you” button has always been contextual.
“I’m petting her and kissing her head and
then she goes over and pushes ‘love you,’ ”
Stephens says of Lucy. “I tell her all the time, ‘I
love you.’ I think she understands that.”
Kaminski says a true test of understanding
would be if, when a dog pressed a button that
ABOVE: Rachel meant one thing, “instead the owner gives
Stephens of Rydal, them something else. What is the reaction of
Ga., and her the dog? Would they still accept or would they
standard poodle, persist until they’ve actually received what
Lucy, are they — and I’m putting this in quotes — what
participating in a they ‘asked for’?”
large study led by For Tim Gupton, an associate professor of
an animal cognition linguistics and Spanish at the University of
researcher at the Georgia, the talking dogs raise interesting
University of parallels to the way humans acquire a second
California at San language. When they’re stringing together
Diego to find out sentences such as “Love you, Mommy,” they
whether dogs are may be picking up on a skill called “chunking,”
able to acquire where people learn language in phrases but do
simple language. not necessarily understand their component
parts, grammar or syntax.
BELOW: Stephens “It would be very interesting if a dog could
uses the FluentPet decompose a phrase like “I love you,” he says. “I
system, made up of don’t know that they actually are able to sort of
expandable hex break that down into its constituent parts, but
tiles and buttons, I have no doubt that they very likely associate
with Lucy. that chunk of ‘I love you’ with . . . getting pets,
scratches, rewards.”
The learning process between dogs and the
humans teaching them to use their buttons
also follows a phenomenon seen in babies,
when they are being taught to speak. “There
are these periods children go through where
they overgeneralize things,” Gupton says. For
example: Linguist Noam Chomsky’s 1995 tele-
vision miniseries “The Human Language” tells
the story of a child whose first word was Nunu,
the name of the family dog. But the child began
pointing to other things — a cow, a pair of furry
slippers, an olive — and calling those things
Nunu, too. Maybe it was because the fur
reminded him of the dog’s fur, or the black
olives looked like the dog’s shiny nose. Or
maybe there was no relation at all.
Perhaps people are doing a similar thing
when their dogs hit their buttons. Did Elessar
really want to go out? Did Harper want to play,
or did she just want attention? Was Lucy just
whacking at buttons for fun? When Bunny
strings together a sentence such as, “Mom
outside stranger bye,” is she alerting her owner
to something outside the house, or just making
gibberish?
“I think that all of the meaning is being
brought in by the human being who is listen-
ing,” says Wynne, who called it “random but-
ton presses that we, the human being observ-
ing the dog, breathe the magic breath of
language into.”
It is a possibility that Devine has considered.
“I do have to say, ‘Okay, how much am I
reading into this?’ How much of this is anthro-
pomorphized and how much is like, I’ve al-
ready interpreted these buttons in this way, so
I’m going to continue to interpret and it
becomes its own sort of dialect?” she says. “I try
and remain open to all of the possibilities.”
Nevertheless, she observes correct context
for many of the buttons Bunny presses — such
as “Dad bye” when her husband, Johnny, leaves
the house. She finds it hard to separate the
meaning of the action behind the buttons with
the words. It’s a philosophical question about
the nature of language.
The dogs in Rossano’s study might go on to
acquire more than 100 words, or they might
stall out after a few. Whether or not they learn
to talk, they will inevitably enjoy close bonds
with their owners, because of the many hours
of training that go into the endeavor. And
maybe that’s a reward in itself.
Some dogs have wonderful talents, and
others are just loving companions, Wynne
says. But the fact that so many people want
theirs to be just like Bunny reminds him of the
fictional town from “A Prairie Home Compan-
ion” where “all the children are above average.”
That makes every button a “love you” button,
in a way.
“It’s hard not to project onto them wonder-
ful abilities,” Wynne says. “Like the people of
Lake Wobegon, we want them — need them —
to be special, because we love them so much.”
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Humans are in charge. And that’s fine with dogs.
BY J ACOB B ROGAN
Late last year, my girlfriend and I adopted a
middle-aged beagle mix named Cleo. She is an
unusually beautiful creature with a long snout
that grades from brown to white, ears that flap
like a cartoon swan’s wings as she walks and
the muscular shoulders of a boxer — heavy-
weight human, not the German breed. She is
also both obstinate and cantankerous, fixated
on food and frequently aggressive toward
other dogs, especially the adorable puppy that
lives on the first floor of our building. When
Cleo came to live with us, I was unthinkingly
convinced that we had to be firm with her if we
wanted to correct these behavioral issues, sure
that she wouldn’t respect us if we didn’t prove
that we were in charge — that we were, to use a
word I thought I understood: dominant.
As I would learn, that idea has little to no
basis in the actual science of canine behavior.
Most of the available research indicates that
dogs do engage in behaviors of dominance and
submission, but not that they try to compete
with us for control over the domestic environ-
ments in which they live. Important questions
still remain, however, especially about wheth-
er dogs recognize our putative dominion over
them.
Somewhere to the side of these scientific
debates, the conviction that we have to domi-
nate our dogs is still widely established in
dog-rearing circles: A document on the SPCA
of Texas’s website instructs pet owners: “In
order for your home to be a safe and happy
place for pets and people, it’s best that the
humans in the household assume the highest
positions in the dominance hierarchy.” Some
animal trainers, especially those influenced by
Cesar Millan and the monks of New Skete, take
such ideas to extremes, advocating physically
aggressive techniques such as the “alpha roll”
— in which a disobedient dog is forced onto its
back — supposedly drawn from observation of
wolves. Even the mild form of the belief that
dogs compete with humans for dominance
tends to elicit all sorts of contortions from
owners eager to prove themselves pack leader:
insisting on passing through doors before
their dogs do, for example, or always eating
first.
Much of that, as it happens, is regarded as
nonsense by ethologists — scientists of animal
behavior — who focus on dogs. Indeed, they
contend that attempts to dominate our dogs
can range from the merely unhelpful to the
actively harmful. “All you’re doing with that is
confusing the dog,” said James Serpell, profes-
sor of ethics and animal welfare at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. “And what you end up
with is frightening the dog and making it more
aggressive.”
With such observations in mind, some dog
trainers and advocates have argued that
there’s simply no such thing as dominance in
dogs. Serpell and other scientists tend to
characterize this position as an overcorrec-
tion, but those who espouse it often begin by
questioning the homology between dogs and
wolves. It’s true, they acknowledge, that dogs
evolved from wolves, but almost certainly
from a species that is no longer extant, which
means that comparisons with animals living
today aren’t directly useful here. Further, they
point out that many of the ideas about domi-
nance and aggression that have been espoused
by trainers such as Millan are based on obser-
vation of captive timber wolves, not wild ones.
Of course, wolves in wild packs do exhibit
dominance hierarchies, but that doesn’t neces-
sarily mean domestic dogs do. In his book
“Dog Sense,” behaviorist John Bradshaw de-
scribes a study that he and his colleagues
conducted at a British sanctuary, which found
that dogs showed no “inclination to form
anything like a wolf pack, especially when they
are left to their own devices” — that is, no
hierarchy that determines who gets access to
what and when they get it. Although Brad-
Call ‘Fauci!’ at
the dog park,
and you’ll get
multiple barks
BY N ORA K RUG
Fauci is under my desk. He isn’t wearing a
mask; he never does. He doesn’t social dis-
tance or wash his hands frequently — because
he doesn’t have any.
Fauci is my dog.
I’m not the only one who thought it would
be funny, inspiring and memorable to name
my pandemic pet after the most prominent
science guy since, perhaps, Einstein (the
name, by the way of George Clooney’s late
cocker spaniel). Fauci is gaining popularity as
a name for pets, according to Rover.com,
achieving “honorable mention” on its most
popular list of 2020. Also on the rise, dogs
named after Fauci’s foe: Covi, Rona and
Corona. Alas, Rand and Trump did not make
the cut.
Is Fauci threatening to steal the top spot
from Max, Charlie or Cooper — or follow the
meteoric rise of Lizzo (up 458 percent in
2020)? Probably not.
Still, Fauci is in many ways a perfect dog
name. Two syllables that end on a happy “e!”
sound make it an ideal moniker for beckon-
ing, cuddling and, yes, reprimanding. The
name means “jaws” in Italian, a fitting hom-
age to the chewing and eating that take up so
much of a dog’s life. Also, of course, there’s the
personality of Fauci the man: tenacious. And,
depending on your politics: intelligent, empa-
thetic and loyal.
“He’s resilient with a happy face,” Donna
Shalala, a former Health and Human Services
secretary, said of her Fauci dog, a rescue she
got in July 2020. Shalala, who has known
Anthony S. Fauci the human since the 1980s,
said her nine-pound mixed breed “has Tony’s
EZ EE
Animal shaw acknowledges that dogs can be competi-
tive, he rejects the premise — central to
behaviorists Millan-style thinking — that “the dog is driven
reject the to set up a dominance hierarchy wherever it
finds itself,” holding instead that “the use of
premise that ‘dominance’ and ‘hierarchy’ to account for the
responsible behavior of pet dogs can no longer be justi-
fied.”
ownership Although that sounds definitive, many oth-
means er prominent dog researchers disagree, even if
they also reject the premise that responsible
showing our stewardship over dogs means showing them
canine who’s boss. Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus of
ecology and evolutionary biology at the Uni-
companions versity of Colorado at Boulder and the author
who’s boss. of numerous books, including “A Dog’s World,”
has been arguing for years that, yes, dogs
engage in dominance-based behavior. As he
writes in one essay, “No one who’s actually
studied the social behavior of dogs in detail
could possibly claim that they don’t display
dominance or that dominance hierarchies
don’t exist.”
That doesn’t, as he stressed to me over the
phone, mean that dogs view humans as domi-
nant over them. As Jessica Pierce, a bioethicist
at the University of Colorado and Bekoff ’s “A
Dog’s World” co-author, put it, “What happens
when they’re interacting with each other is
very different from what happens when
they’re interacting with us.”
In a recent paper for the journal Frontiers in
Psychology, Clive Wynne, a psychology profes-
sor and director of the Canine Science Collabo-
ratory at Arizona State University, goes fur-
ther. He, too, starts from the premise that dog
trainers — especially those who advocate
“painful and regressive forms of animal train-
ing” — tend to misunderstand what domi-
nance is. But in reviewing much of the scientif-
ic evidence, Wynne comes around to the
conclusion that dogs almost certainly do per-
ceive the humans in their lives as dominant.
That doesn’t mean, as he makes clear, that we
need to police or otherwise maintain our
dominance over them. Instead, he suggests,
dominance-based relations may be the inevi-
table consequence of the way dogs live with
humans in even the most serene domestic
settings.
To understand why, you have to go to the
scientific meaning of “dominance.” Ask an
ethologist to define the word and they’ll often
slip into a description of specific behaviors in
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Infectious-disease personality completely. He only barks at huge
specialist Anthony dogs” (wink-wink).
S. Fauci, below, Although some might say using the name
says he is a bit Fauci for a pet is disrespectful — to the dog or
surprised there are the man (depending on your politics), many
multiple animals owners say they chose the moniker to honor
named in his honor, the head of the National Institute of Allergy
including two dogs and Infectious Diseases as well as their furry
and a chicken, friends.
above in Takoma During the coronavirus pandemic, “Dr.
Park, Md. Fauci was a source of hope and comfort for us,
providing straight talk and helping people
manage expectations,” said Amy Goldrich, a
lawyer in New York who owns a 11-month-old
Boston terrier she and her husband call
Maximo Fauci. “The breeder had named him
Max, so we wanted to stay close to that and
found ‘Maximo.’ Then ‘Fauci’ just seemed to
flow. Dr. Fauci himself is feisty and probably
the smartest one in the room most of the time.
That’s Maximo Fauci in a nutshell.”
Actress Jennie Garth of “Beverly Hills,
90210” fame picked the name for her Chihua-
hua because she thought he looked like the
infectious-disease expert. (Is it the hair, the
eyes, the ears? I don’t see it.)
Shalala, now a trustee professor of political
science and health policy at the University of
Miami, said her rescue dog needed an Italian
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specific animals through which dominance is
asserted and submission confirmed. Anindita
Bhadra, an assistant professor at the Indian
Institute of Science Education and Research
Kolkata, who primarily studies free-roaming
dogs, told me: “Typically in behavior, when we
are talking about ‘dominance,’ it is either a
posture or some kind of interaction. It could
be a vocalization or a physical act, where one
individual is trying to somehow assert its
power or position over another individual.”
Although such behavior can sometimes
look aggressive, it would, as Pierce stressed, be
a mistake to conflate dominance with aggres-
sion. To the contrary, dominance behaviors are
typically best understood as communicative
strategies that help animals avoid truly vio-
lent conflict, not as ways to show that they’re
the best at wreaking havoc.
Wynne offered a more direct definition, one
that he summed up by telling me that “domi-
nance is defined simply as preferential access
to resources.” This has real consequences for
the ways we study and identify dominance in
dogs. Wynne noted, for example, that in Brad-
shaw’s study of sanctuary dogs, the animals
under observation were mostly sterilized and
had plenty of food, meaning that they had
little cause to compete with one another — and
hence few reasons to exhibit dominance or
submission.
Whatever their disagreements about the
particulars of these issues, none of the re-
searchers I spoke to said that any of this
should be taken to mean that dogs, as a
species, want to dominate humans. Serpell
suggested that this idea derives from a “se-
mantic problem to do with confusing ‘domi-
nance,’ which is about relationships, with
‘dominant,’ which is a behavior — in other
words, behaving in a dominant way.” He said,
“The notion that you should behave in a
dominant way toward your dog, for example,
to avoid it trying to assert itself and push you
further down the hierarchy, really doesn’t
seem to be an issue with dogs.”
The question, and it’s here that Wynne’s
paper may prove most controversial, is wheth-
er, as he asserts, dogs recognize humans as
dominant over them. Many of the studies
Wynne reviews demonstrate how quickly dogs
can attach themselves to humans, with at least
one suggesting that they may do so more
readily with our species than with their own.
name, because he had been seen running
through a tony Italian restaurant in Coconut
Grove, and Fauci fit the bill. “He loves pizza
crusts,” Shalala said of her pup.
Megan Broom, who works at a restaurant
in Dayton, Ohio, chose the name for her
Anatolian shepherd-Great Pyrenees mix after
the dog wouldn’t respond to his original
name. Broom, who lost her stepfather to
covid-19, chose Fauci out of admiration for the
doctor; also, she says, her pup has “mask
markings, which I thought was a cute coinci-
dence.”
Hi Uan Kang Haaga, an art teacher and
photographer in the District, said Fauci, her
Portuguese water dog, may be just the begin-
ning. If she got another pup, she would name
her Karikó, after Katalin Karikó, a researcher
whose work on mRNA therapies were vital to
the development of the Moderna and Pfizer-
BioNTech coronavirus vaccines.
Writer and comedian Akilah Hughes
thought the name Dogtor Starfox Fauci,
“Fauci” for short, was perfect for her Jindo
Shih Tzu mix because it was a way to
“associate something happy with the pan-
demic.” Her little pup, with his “incredibly
active ears” was “truly the best thing to
happen to me while on lockdown,” she said.
I know the feeling. My family of four added
Fauci, a red-haired labradoodle, to our fold in
November. After months of schooling and
working from home, we were getting sick of
one another; we needed another being to love
and care for. In the photos sent by the breeder,
our yet-to-be-known dog looked wise, if a little
sad, a little world-weary. As it turned out,
unlike the human Fauci, our Fauci isn’t
especially mighty: If he were to be confronted
by unmasked anti-vaccine protesters or Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), he would probably bark a
little, then cry and walk away. But we believed
in him, and in the months that he has been
with us, Fauci has both toughened up and
grown friendlier. He loves a good belly rub,
but if you try to give him a condescending pat
on the head, you’ll get a growl.
Perhaps my Fauci would be heartened to
hear of his many name twins on Instagram, a
veritable dog park of Faucis: a black Lab in
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This is not, he argues, because dogs see us as
fundamentally different from dogs, but be-
cause we interact with them differently, regu-
larly providing them with food and hovering
over them as we offer affection.
Simply put, our relationship to dogs may be
inherently dominant; indeed, according to
this line of thinking, we dominate them in a
way that no other dog could, often without
realizing it. Wynne coins the term “super-
dominance” to describe the situation, by
which he means that it “exaggerates the fea-
tures of naturally occurring” dominance, be-
cause of our total resource control. Whether or
not we realize it, Wynne argues, “when people
stroke dogs’ heads, accept licks near the
mouth and make themselves taller than dogs,
they are unconsciously expressing formal
dominance.” Pushing at this idea, he argues
that even “positive reinforcement” — in which
an animal is rewarded for desirable behaviors
instead of being punished for undesirable
ones — might be understood as an expression
of dominance from the dog’s perspective.
When I asked Serpell about this last point,
he called it “an interesting idea,” although he
declined to endorse it directly. He did, howev-
er, tell me that he thinks “dogs recognize their
owners as being the senior members of the
group, so they defer to them naturally.” Bekoff,
by contrast, rejected any such uniform inter-
pretation of dog-human relations. “A human
could say that it’s dominance, but I don’t view
it that way,” he told me. As for using food to
reward positive behavior, he said, “I never
would think of that as dominance.”
It’s possible that the biggest challenge here
may simply be the word dominance itself.
Pierce, for one, prefers to use less troublesome
terms. “I like using the language of freedom,
control over access to basic needs,” she said.
Bhadra, likewise, suggested that we might be
better off discussing the “social understand-
ing” of dogs more generally, pointing to re-
search that has found that “people who show
dominance to stray dogs, they are the ones
that the dogs will avoid.”
Wynne is cognizant of such concerns, ac-
knowledging that, yes, the word “dominance”
itself may be too loaded, especially where the
nonscientific public is concerned. Neverthe-
less, he holds that it’s still valuable to talk
about dog-human relationships as they are,
both because it can help us research the ways
we live with them and because it’s worth being
honest about what “living with them” really
entails. “I think it wouldn’t do any harm to
recognize that that is a form of dominance. It’s
not as bad, sure. It’s preferable to the shock
collars and this stupid alpha-roll nonsense,”
he said. People should recognize that they are
asserting their will over their dogs, “and that’s
called dominance.”
Is it? Bekoff questioned the value of much of
the research Wynne relies on, taking the
position that laboratory studies of dogs may
still tell us little about dogs as a species, and
instead offer us a snapshot of those dogs under
those circumstances at those times. “People
have to stop normalizing dog behavior and
saying, ‘Dogs do this and dogs don’t do this,’ ”
he told me after reading Wynne’s paper, about
which he subsequently wrote his own critical
essay.
Something about that will surely resonate
with ordinary dog lovers — those of us who
thrill at the specific way they dance when we
come through the door or the rhythms with
which their chests rise and fall as they sleep.
Whether or not our relationships with them
are characterized by dominance, it is inevita-
bly our responsibility to help them thrive in
environments that are, as Bekoff puts it,
“human dominated.” At a bare minimum, that
surely means getting to know them as individ-
uals, which is to say meeting them where they
are — even if where they are is where we have
asked them to sit and stay.
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Missouri training to be service dog; Sir Fauci
the goldendoodle in Brooklyn; an Australian
labradoodle in Rotterdam, where, apparently,
the name has been a bit of head-scratcher.
“Turns out no one in the Netherlands
knows Dr. Fauci,” says his Dutch American
owner, Sera DiMario. “Or they think I’m
saying ‘foutje,’ which is the Dutch word for
‘mistake.’ So, I’m often explaining his name is
not mistake and he’s named after an Ameri-
can scientist.”
Like their human counterpart, Fauci dogs
sometimes spark controversy. Hilary Mauro, a
director of development at a biomedical
research foundation, says that when she
walks her Cavapoochon puppy, Fauci, in
Manhattan, “everyone cracks up and loves the
name.” But when she and her husband visit
family in Florida, it’s a different story. “We
received responses like, ‘Well, I hope he is
smarter than the real Dr. Fauci,’ or ‘Ew, why
would you name it after him?’ and lots of eye
rolls and exasperated sighs.”
For the most part, Mauro said she kept her
retorts to herself. But “when people would
say, “I hope he is smarter than the real Dr.
Fauci,’ I would usually respond with some-
thing like, ‘Those are some pretty big shoes to
fill!’ ”
The human Fauci seems both appreciative
of and a bit surprised by his canine name-
sakes. “I don’t think I feel flattery about it,” he
said by phone. “I just think it’s kind of
interesting.” The NIAID director adores dogs
— his beloved mixed-breed, Bubba, died
about a decade ago, and he enjoys playing
with his daughters’ dogs, Lucca and Sammie.
“During these stressful times, having a dog
who has nothing but love for you is great,” he
said, adding that he’s “getting closer and
closer to wanting to get a dog.” (No word on
names he’s considering, but it’s unlikely that
Fauci is in the running.) As for everyone else:
What you name your dog “is entirely up to
you,” he said.
Although when I mentioned that a neigh-
bor had named her (female) chicken Fauci, he
laughed and said, “It gets weirder by the
moment.” It does.
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Many dog owners fill loaded silences with what they think — what they know — their dog is saying and how they would say it
BY M AURA J UDKIS
AND E LLIOT S MILOWITZ
Most nights, as he is about to go to sleep,
Josh Lieberthal gets into an argument with
Werner Herzog. It is often over the pillow,
which the 30-year-old communications spe-
cialist refuses to cede.
“You gave me part of your pillow,” the
argument goes, in the German director’s soft,
accented timbre. “The pillow is actually part
mine, now.”
The voice belongs to Lieberthal’s dog,
Rocky — a 5-year-old wheaten-poodle mix, or
“whoodle” — with whom he and his fiancee
share a bed. The argument is one that
Lieberthal has with himself. Rocky’s voice,
which Lieberthal provides, is that of the
78-year-old director of “Grizzly Man,” which
just seems to suit his dog.
“When you look at him, he sometimes has
this very concerned but wise look,” Lieberthal
says. “And for some reason, we kind of
attributed that to a concerned old German
man.”
He doesn’t remember when, or how, or
why he — er, his dog — adopted a thick
German accent, dropping the “w” and “th”
sounds, but he and his fiancee do it all the
time now. Even, occasionally, when they’re
not with their dog.
“I feel like a crazy person,” he says. “But at
the same time, this is just so normal for us.”
Would he feel less crazy if he knew that
Sierra Pratt, a 30-year-old Philadelphian, has
a voice for Titus, her boxer mix, that sounds a
little bit like Cookie Monster? That Ari Fertig,
35, and Liz Schwartz, 37, make their mixed-
breed dog, Teddy, sound like a cartoon
character crossed with a dumb jock? That
Will Kavanagh, 31, regularly films videos of
his pointer-hound mix, Louie, narrating his
stream-of-consciousness, Muppet-voiced
thoughts for his fiancee while she works a
night shift in the ICU? Or that Lindsay
Tarnowski, 37, of Denver, spent a portion of
her recent visit to a brewery with her black
Lab, Avery, welcoming other dogs to the
brewery in Avery’s low, dopey voice?
“I remember thinking, like, ‘Oh, I hope that
people didn’t hear us,’ because that is just
strange behavior,” Tarnowski says. “This
could get weird.”
Dog ownership is weird. You get to know
another creature’s quirks and habits. You give
them silly nicknames like “Boo Boo” or
“Piggy.” You spend way too much time
keeping tabs on their bathroom habits. You
learn to understand each other, even though
you don’t speak the same language.
But many dog owners are inclined to
bridge that conversational gap, filling in the
loaded silences with what they think — what
they know — their dog is saying.
“They talk to you, and they don’t say the
words, they say it in body language or
behavior,” Schwartz says. “So you kind of
want to fill in what they’re saying in words for
other people.”
Which, in her dog Teddy’s case, is usually
food. She and Fertig will be sitting there
eating, with Teddy politely but intently
looking at their plates, and one of them will
say, in Teddy’s voice: “If you happen to drop
something, that would be fine, that would be
okay. I could pick it up if you need me to.”
(“Especially cheese,” Schwartz notes.)
Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral
science at the University of Chicago, is an
expert on anthropomorphism, or attributing
Hello, this is dog
humanlike characteristics to non-humans.
He said people probably have been ascribing
feelings and personalities to animals since
before there were pets.
People anthropomorphize everything from
dogs to inanimate objects to ill-defined
concepts — doesn’t it feel like some rain-
storms are particularly angry? We do it to
make sense of the world around us, and to
build connections to our environment, Epley
says.
With dogs, funny voices are a way for
families to deepen connections with each
other and their pet.
“A pet is essentially a friend, and for
couples, this is another friend that they have
in common,” he says. “It seems like a
communal story-building activity that the
two folks can do together that bond them
together a little more with this third friend.”
And that’s how some households get dogs
with not only voices, but also elaborate
plotlines and three-dimensional backstories.
For example: Seamus, a 15-year-old Peking-
ese owned by 36-year-old San Diego small-
business owner Molly Beane, is the dog
version of “an older bitchy man who original-
ly grew up in the South but eventually moved
to Palm Springs.” Theo, a dachshund mix
owned by 37-year-old Phoenix TV reporter
Matt Galka, is an arrogant, preening celebrity
DJ.
“One of the places where the pets can get
boarded is called the Pet Club,” Galka says.
“And we always say he DJs at the Pet Club.” He
is very famous, Galka notes, like a canine
David Guetta.
Sabrina Cartan, a 28-year-old digital strat-
egist from Brooklyn, is constantly creating
new identities for her Galgo (a greyhound-
like Spanish breed), Oliver.
“He’s an alien from outer space one day.
The next day, he is the president of the United
States,” she says. “He was impeached several
times.”
Sarah Coughlon, 27, has an ongoing bit
with her girlfriend that their dog, Maurice, is
the manager of the Bedford-Stuyvesant We-
Work.
“He’s also sort of bumbling and, no offense
to WeWork, but they seem sort of bumbling.
And so I think he’s, like, kind of over-
whelmed,” Coughlon says. “He’s really doing
his best.”
Maurice, a mix that Coughlon describes as
“a German shepherd that has beagle ears,”
has a Midwestern accent for reasons that
Coughlon cannot explain and always refers to
his owners as “the ladies.” Coughlon, who
works in advertising, doesn’t even go to a
WeWork. Maybe this whole weird comedy bit
comes from “trying to sort of make sense of
the fact that our home that’s like our
sanctuary suddenly becomes a workspace
and that my girlfriend becomes my office-
mate. And that’s a weird relationship for us to
have,” Coughlon says. “I think we are sort of
trying to mediate that through the dog.”
It’s a common relationship dynamic, says
Alexandra Horowitz, head of the Horowitz
Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, who
sees people using “the dog’s voice in order to
talk to somebody else over some contentious
issue, like talking to the dog and saying, ‘Oh,
you know, I guess Daddy is not going to do
the dishes tonight,’ ” she says. “Most people
aren’t even aware that they’re doing it but are
kind of unconsciously bringing the dog into
the human conversation.”
When Andrew Martin, 47, walks his basset
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hound, Maude, in Washington, he often finds
himself speaking to other humans in her
voice. (“A cross between Foghorn Leghorn
and Shelby Foote, or maybe John Goodman,”
he says.)
“When we see a stranger with another dog
and you don’t know if the dogs are going to be
friendly, I will do the Maude voice as a way of
making an introduction to the dog and to the
other dog walker and say, ‘Hey Pa, I see that
dog up there on the sidewalk, can I say hi, is
that gonna be a friendly dog?’ ” Martin says.
Briana Moore, a 39-year-old photographer
who lives in Maine, was on a road trip with
her terrier mix, Quigley, when she met a
woman who greeted the dog in baby talk.
Moore voiced her terrier mix in response,
saying in his vaguely European accent that he
wished he could meet her dog. And to
Moore’s surprise, the woman replied in her
own (absent) dog’s voice.
“She was, like, responding to what would
have happened if her dog was there,” Moore
says. “But it was almost as if her dog was on
the phone, like: ‘Oh, yes, if I could see you in
person right now, I would lick your face. I
would chase you around.’ ”
Sometimes, a dog’s voice and persona can
become something bigger. Thomas Shapiro,
29, started making videos on Instagram and
TikTok for Tika, his Italian greyhound, who is
— in both her owners’ perception and real life
— a model and gay icon, with an extensive
wardrobe.
“At first, it was the clothes wearing her,”
Shapiro says. “Now, it’s her wearing the
clothes.”
In Shapiro’s videos of Tika, he voices her
thoughts about fashion and glamorous living
in snooty French-accented English reminis-
cent of another Montreal-based icon, Celine
Dion. (In her off-screen life, Tika responds
only to commands in French and does not
understand any English, Shapiro says.) The
viral clips have earned them more than a
million followers on both platforms, and
custom outfits crafted by famous human
designers, like Christian Siriano.
“There’s definitely something even more
special about her just because I’ve given her
such a voice,” he says. “I almost do believe
that that’s what she thinks, and that’s what
she sounds like, and that’s what she’s saying.”
Voice choice
Those are some reasons we make our dogs
say the things they say. But why do we make
them sound the way they sound? For some
people and their pets, that might be a
high-pitched baby voice, or a slow and low
drawl, or a sassy, indignant vocal fry.
New York dog behaviorist Michele Wan
says dogs sometimes seem to understand
that a higher-pitched “baby talk” voice is
directed to them and will be more responsive
to it, even if they don’t understand the words.
People who might not speak for their dogs
often speak to them in this tone, which some
owners adopt “almost subconsciously,” a
team of Austrian researchers noted in a 2019
study.
“Often, dogs are kind of attracted to that,
they perk up,” Wan says. “They may approach
you when you do that.”
When we’re speaking both for and to our
dogs, there are other reasons their voices
might be high-pitched or cartoonish, or
include poor syntax and grammar, or — to
put it gently — a simple personality.
“It’s reflective of the size of the dog,
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“If you happen relative to the people. I mean, even big dogs
are smaller than people,” says Deborah
to drop Tannen, a linguistics professor at George-
town University. “You feel protective toward
something, him or her. And so it’s kind of childlike.”
Cartan’s dog, Oliver, for example, asks his
that would be “momther” and “famther” for food and likes
getting some extra “attemtion.” Katie
fine, that Bowles’s dog, Ava, a pit bull mix, calls her
owner “Mutter” and calls Bowles’s boyfriend,
would be okay. Iesh, “Brudder,” speaking in the voice of Billy
Bob Thornton’s character in the 1996 film
I could pick it “Sling Blade,” a voice that emerged to meet
the dog’s level of stoic intensity.
up if you need “She’s quiet but also not smart,” Bowles
says.
me to.” Our choice of voices also reflects our
desires. Often, our dogs tell us what we want
Teddy the dog, by way to hear — whether that’s jokes, “I love yous”
of his owners, Ari Fertig or tough love.
and Liz Schwartz Amanda Lombraña’s four mini schnauzers
alternate between cheerleading and criti-
cism. Basil, whom she describes as a “girly-
girl” with a bit of a Paris Hilton voice, will
compliment her on her outfits: “She’s like:
‘Oh my God, yes. That is so perfect.’ ” But with
Queenie, “You can just feel her judgment
through her eyes,” Lombraña says. The dog
will watch her work in their Austin home,
and “she’ll just say, like: ‘Oh, my gosh, is this
the best you can do, really? We put you
through university. . . . And look at you.
You’re still Googling Excel formulas.’ ”
But when the dogs aren’t talking to her, the
schnauzer quartet — there are also two boys,
Orion and Iker — bicker and act out telenove-
la-like personal dramas in Spanish.
“I feel like I live in a house with four other
people,” says Lombraña, 30.
A dog’s voice can become such a significant
part of its personality that it outlives its
subject. Beane, owner of Seamus, the Palm
Springs Pekingese, also had a dog named
Halford who died a few years ago. She’ll
occasionally tap into Halford’s voice. It’s a
way to comfort herself when she sees things
that remind her of her old dog.
“I will talk to Seamus in the voice and say,
like, ‘Oh, your brother Halford loves and
misses you,’ ” she says. She wonders whether
people feel safer expressing complicated
emotions through their dogs. “We rarely
allow ourselves to be vulnerable and experi-
ence that sense of unconditional love with
another person,” she says.
When Pratt converses with Titus, the boxer
mix with the Cookie Monster voice, she
usually keeps it light. They have a running
gag where the extremely food-motivated dog
conveys his indignation that humans get
three meals a day, while he only gets two.
Usually he’ll start by just coming up and
saying, “LUNCH??”
“Titus! How did you hear about lunch?
Who told you about lunch?” Pratt says to him.
“Was it Archie next door, or was it the dogs at
doggy day care?”
“LUNCH??” Titus will reply, with more
urgency.
It is Titus’s way of asking for a sandwich. It
is Pratt’s way of telling her dog she loves him.
And when she responds as Titus, she hears
him saying it too, even if those aren’t the
words she’s putting in his mouth.
“People spend so much time telling their
dog that they’re the best. We want to hear
More online back that our dog cares about us,” Pratt says.
To hear the dog “We just want to be loved, too.”
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Theo’s best year
STORY BY K ARI S ONDE | PHOTOS BY N AVA D ERAKHSHANI
he year 2020 will not be remembered as a
T great year for humans. But Theo, a 5-year
old “humanly expressive” boxer mix, knew
nothing of pandemic struggles. All he
knew was that his owner, Emily Gibson,
was spending a lot more time in their Brooklyn
apartment. Instead of waiting for Gibson’s odd days
off to sleep in, they could spend every day together,
cozied up or on a grand little adventure. For many
dogs around the world, having their humans home
made 2020 the best year ever.
Gibson, 27, got Theo as a puppy. He was a total
goofball, she said, describing mischievous puppy
behavior and a habit of moving items around the
home; she would joke that he was redecorating.
But when the pair relocated from Dallas to New
York, her endless hours as a freelance set stylist kept
them apart. Then: the pandemic. Gibson was home.
“I think he really appreciated it,” she said. Their
new reality meant more time together, and some
lingering vestiges of his youthful anxiety faded.
Theo found another friend when photographer
Nava Derakhshani, 37, moved into the apartment in
July. Both humans would take Theo on longer, more
frequent walks, hiking trips and beach adventures,
with lots of opportunity for play.
“Maybe it was a return to puppyhood for him,”
Derakhshani said, describing his wild, ecstatic runs
across the sand, his joy in chasing very good sticks,
and moments of sweetness between him and Gib-
son. “He would also bring out my inner child.”
For Gibson, Theo tapped into her nurturing side,
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and caring for him got her out of her own head.
“Sometimes I can be a bit of a homebody, and it is
definitely true that I would probably not even leave
the house some days if I didn’t have to work,” Gibson
said. Not having Theo to push her outside “would
have brought me down even more.”
Derakhshani started taking photos of the pair for
a pet photography competition, but capturing Gib-
son and Theo’s playful antics became something
more. In one image, Theo stands in the doorway
watching Gibson pose with a mannequin she picked
up to decorate the apartment, just like he used to —
pleased to be a part of it all. A photo that makes
Gibson tear up shows Theo sleeping, gentleman-like
with elegantly crossed paws, head on a pillow and
his signature “super-grumpy look on his face,” with
Gibson’s tea sitting on the bedside table; she is there
with him, even when they’re not pictured together.
Theo is still living his best life, but back in Texas —
Gibson moved home to support family members,
including those who had brushes with the virus.
Theo has a new dog friend to play with while Gibson
works, and more access to the outdoors. She misses
the time they spent together during the height of the
pandemic but is grateful for the new balance they’ve
found.
But the former roommates, now miles apart, look
back on their time together with tenderness and
gratitude for each other and Theo, whose sweet, silly
nature gave them purpose, play and friendship.
“It was a sweet time,” Gibson said. “It really was.”
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BY P HILIP K ENNICOTT

I’ve lived with two dogs in my life, both of

them very good boys. Sammy, my first dog, was
a foundling, abandoned in a box outside a
grocery store in St. Louis. When I played the
piano, he would curl up at my feet and rest his
chin on my pedal foot as I played Chopin’s
Nocturnes, his head bobbing up and down to
the music.
Nathan, my current dog, was rescued from a
shelter in South Carolina. He is a border collie
mixed with Newfoundland — a “borfie,” we
dubbed him, but the name hasn’t caught on.
He is loving and mischievous, always looking
for an angle, and the bane of deer, rabbits,
birds and squirrels, none of which he has ever
caught. But he has one quirk that has made my
life difficult for the past eight years: He hates
music.
Not only does he hate music, but he hates
classical music especially and the piano in
particular. When I adopted him, I was learn-
ing to play Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and he
developed a vehement animus against the
piece, howling and barking every time I prac-
ticed it. I wrote in passing about his aversion in
a recent memoir about the Goldberg Varia-
tions, which I started learning in a futile
attempt to mitigate grief after my mother died
in 2011. I was mainly concerned with how
humans experience music, how they use it to
process emotion and give meaning and struc-
ture to life. But Nathan’s dislike of the piece
was so acute, I couldn’t help but include it in
the narrative. Did he really recognize the
music? Could he pick Bach out of an aural
lineup? And, if so, why does he so dislike a
piece I love so much?
My friends have plenty of theories. He’s just
singing along. Or, from my sharper-tongued
acquaintance: He’s a critic. People send me
YouTube videos of dogs vocalizing with gusto
while they paw away at the keyboard, extem-
porizing comic arias. Some observers, particu-
larly those who haven’t lived with a dog,
suggest poor Nathan should “just get over it.”
They find it ridiculous that I have resorted to
hiring dog walkers to free up time for practice,
or that in pre-pandemic days, I sent him to day
care twice a week to ensure a few hours of
undistracted piano time. When friends gather
at my place for supper, the most-requested
after-dinner music is an appearance by Na-
than, howling piteously along to the opening
aria of the Goldbergs.
His dislike of music isn’t funny, at least not
to me. I know him well enough to be certain
that he isn’t singing when I play Bach. When
the music starts, he stalks the piano, then
howls, and if I keep playing, he leaves the room
and heads to the farthest spot he can find in
the house. Even from there I can hear him
whimpering. I’ve long since stopped making
music when he is in earshot. But what, exactly,
is going on? Does the music simply hurt his
ears, or does he really hate Bach?
There is evidence for both possibilities, and
recently I decided to dig a little deeper into
animal psychology to find an answer. I haven’t
definitively solved the mystery, and until Na-
than learns to talk, I probably never will. But
after speaking with experts in animal cogni-
tion, animal musicology and evolutionary
biology, I’m more convinced than ever that TIFFANY BEUCHER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

what seemed to me at first an unlikely possibil-

ity is, in fact, true: that Nathan knows the
music of Bach and associates it with painful
trauma from his past. That, in turn, has made
me newly humble about the music humans
make, including the music I love most, the
canons and fugues of Bach.
“What are you observing that makes you
conclude your dog ‘hates’ Bach?” asked Patri-
cia Gray, an emeritus professor at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Greensboro and head
of the BioMusic Research Initiative. Gray is a
concert pianist and researcher who has stud-
ied the music-making capacities of other ani-
mals. In her email, she put “hate” in quotation
marks because she thinks the term confuses
things. “Love and hate are as loaded with
complexity as is the word music,” she said in a
later interview. Using those terms in relation
to animals “can get you into real shark-infest-
ed waters very quickly.”
Her initial email, and several scholarly
papers and abstracts she sent me, were invita-
tions to be intellectually cautious about every-
thing involving animals and cognition. Don’t
anthropomorphize. And don’t assume you
know what your dog is telling you. But also:
Don’t be so sure you know what it is humans
are doing when they listen to music. We exist
on a continuum, and animals and humans use
music for many of the same reasons: to
“affiliate” with each other; to find a mate;
perhaps even to relax.
Like other researchers I spoke with, Gray
asked a lot of questions and trusted my
instincts about Nathan so long as I justified
them. I told her that Nathan doesn’t just howl
at Bach. His tail and ears drop, his head sags,
he leaves the room.
“Okay, so he is communicating stress to
you,” she said. “He has been programmed to
interpret these sounds as some kind of fear,
and we don’t know why.”
Musicians, including amateurs like me, may
be particularly attuned to what is sometimes
called zoomusicology. The 19th-century
French composer Camille Saint-Saens disliked
people, especially women, but loved animals,
and was keenly aware of the musical behavior
of the animals in his life (he also wrote a
beloved suite called “The Carnival of the
Animals”). He had a dog named Delilah, a
black griffon, who responded vehemently to
music. “On hearing a piano being played she
uttered the most piercing cries,” he wrote in an
essay on music and animals. “Whether she
liked or detested it I do not know.” He also had
a dog who loved the piano but hated Chopin,
and he claimed when he played the piano in
the countryside, spiders gathered near the
Does this dog hate Bach?
instrument.
It seems as One conclusion from this is also empha-
though sized by contemporary researchers: There is
an enormous variety of responses among
Nathan, a animals to different kinds of music. Historical-
border collie- ly, zoomusicology has often tended to broad
generalizations: Music can “affect a camel’s
Newfoundland pace, persuade horses to drink, charm reptiles
mix, dislikes and lure birds,” wrote Ibn al-Haytham, an
music, Arab scientist who lived a thousand years ago.
Some contemporary researchers also tend to
specifically look for broad, species-wide conclusions
classical music about music and animals. By measuring stress
markers, including heart rate and cortisol
— and the (often called “the stress hormone”) in saliva
piano in and urine, researchers have attempted to
discern what kind of music is calming to dogs,
particular especially those in stressful situations such as
confinement in an animal shelter. In a survey
of recent articles about dogs, music and stress,
researchers concluded that, “Overall, classical
music was associated with dogs spending
more time sitting or lying down, resting and
sleeping, and less time vocalizing and stand-
ing.”
That certainly doesn’t apply to Nathan, but
that shouldn’t be surprising, said Paul
McGreevy, one of the authors of the survey.
“We shouldn’t assume that they are all the
same,” he said from Australia, where he is a
professor of animal behavior and welfare at
the University of New England. McGreevy’s
work focuses on the complexity of animal
responses, the variety and the individual fac-
tors that make broad generalizations prob-
lematic. He advocates careful study and obser-
vation of individuals. Like Saint-Saens, I was
surprised, or at least curious, that my first dog,
Sammy, seemed to like music while Nathan
clearly doesn’t. But the physical shape of the
two dogs may, in part, explain some of the
difference. Another paper by McGreevy looks
at how the size, weight and head shape of dogs
may correlate to behavior.
As a chow, Sammy had a relatively high
“cephalic index,” which measures the ratio of
the width to the length of the skull. As a borfie,
with a long snout, Nathan has a lower cephalic
index.
More online “The distance between the ears will predict
To see Nathan’s the sort of frequency that dogs are particularly
reaction, go to good at picking up,” McGreevy said. He makes
wapo.st/dog-bach no conclusions about what the cephalic index
might mean for how dogs hear music. But it
could be one factor that explains the differ-
ence in reaction between my two dogs. Nathan
may be averse to Bach, but he’s also averse to
fast, high, repetitive passages in Mozart, Bee-
thoven and even Chopin. That argues for a
more purely auditory, or sonic aversion to
music.
So perhaps it has nothing to do with Bach at
all? But if so, why does he seem so particularly
opposed not just to Bach, but to this one piece
by Bach? Years ago, I was watching “The
Silence of the Lambs” on television. As Hanni-
bal Lecter is brought his dinner in an isolation
cell, he listens to the aria of the Goldberg
Variations on a portable cassette player. As
soon as the scene began, Nathan came from
another room, whimpered at me and shot
baleful glances at the television. He didn’t stop
until Lecter began brutally murdering his
captives, which was accompanied by more
conventional horror-film music.
Over the years, I have framed Nathan’s odd
relationship to the Goldberg Variations as a
basic question: When he howls, is he saying
“this hurts,” or it something more like, “I don’t
like this song”? Is it some kind of primal
aversion, or is it something more sophisticat-
ed, a matter of taste or preference? In short, is
he responding like an animal to a stimulus, or
like a human to music?
The answer, it seems, may be both, which
suggests that the question — the dichotomy —
is basically flawed. I asked Monique Udell, an
associate professor at Oregon State University
and a Wallis Annenberg PetSpace Leadership
Institute fellow (a Los Angeles-based group
that seeks to “strengthen the human-animal
bond”), whether Nathan could have emotional
associations not just with sound, but with
music. Dogs, she said, definitely form associa-
tions and even emotional responses to sounds,
like the noise you make when you open a can of
dog food or jingle your keys before a car ride.
But, she added, “they could form associations
with pieces of music. What it is specifically
they feel or think, we can only guess at.”
My theory all along has been: When I
adopted Nathan, I was practicing the Gold-
bergs for hours at a time. He was just 3 months
old, and going through the trauma of having
been torn from his mother and his litter. He
was alone in a strange place, and the Gold-
bergs were the music he heard during this
time of pain and confusion. In the book, I
wrote, “When he hears this music, he misses
his mother.”
Udell suggested an experiment to help
figure this out. While I play the piano, my
partner should train him to do a particular
trick, like roll over or lift a paw. Every time he
does it right, the “reward” is I stop playing the
Goldberg Variations. This would give him
some control over the music, some sense of
agency, and I am definitely going to try it. All
the researchers I spoke with said this concept
was critical for improving the lives of animals.
They need to engage with us, and the world,
and have some sense that things like sound —
or music — aren’t just happening to them, but
something they have power over, too.
Would that make him “hate” Bach less?
Perhaps. From a human’s perspective, it makes
sense: If you have no choice over the music
being played, it can be maddening. We may
choose to listen to music that makes us sad for
its cathartic value. But if we were forced to
listen to that music, and had no sense of when
or if it would ever stop, it wouldn’t be cathar-
sis. It would be torture. Literally. (The CIA
reportedly used heavy metal music to try to
break Iraqi prisoners after the 2003 Gulf War.)
And that helps explain why human beings
should be a little humbler about how they
experience music. The more we sense we
“control” music, the more likely we are to
think of music as a uniquely human thing.
When I say Bach was a “great” composer, one
thing I mean is: He had enormous control over
the music, every detail, every line. Humans
tend to think that animals — birds, whales —
must make and experience music uncon-
sciously, as if it is beyond their own control,
pure instinct. But much of what I love in Bach,
and other composers, is experienced at the
same level of primal reaction. Indeed, the
human experience of music is grounded in
reactions that resemble those of animals far
more than we are willing to acknowledge.
So: I learned to play the Goldberg Variations
when I was mourning my mother. Nathan first
heard the music while he was experiencing the
loss of his mother. The main difference is: I
could choose what I was playing, when to
start, when to stop. Nathan just had to listen.
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fter a long battle with covid-19 left
A her exhausted, anxious and de-
pressed, Rachael Gibson, 43, adopt-
ed an eight-pound Chihuahua mix
she named Lola.
“When I first got out of the hospital, I was
super, like, on this high — like, I didn’t die, yay,
I can’t be depressed,” she said. “But then it just
started creeping up. And especially, I noticed
the anxiety. . . . I was having anxiety attacks,
like, every day.”
Gibson, who moved to Arizona to live with
her mom during the pandemic, adopted the
white, wispy-coated 2-year-old dog in January
from the Humane Society of Sedona and felt
an instant connection. “She was immediately
obsessed with me,” Gibson said.
But Lola — her full name is Lolita Blanquita
— also helped Gibson better cope with the
anxiety and depression that trailed her after
her health crisis in November. “Dogs are
empaths,” she said. “She’s a dog that really
senses my feelings.”
When Devan Corbello rescued Tec, a retired
racing greyhound in May 2020, the corona-
virus was already in full force, steamrolling its
way across the country. But for Corbello, 26,
the pandemic was just the beginning of what
would become an unprecedented and tumul-
tuous year.
Just months after adopting Tec, short for his
racing name, Detective, Corbello was forced
from his home in Lake Charles, La., when
Hurricane Laura — one of the most powerful
storms to hit the state — ripped the shingles
off his roof, collapsed the ceiling and drenched
his home. The pair have not returned since.
And that wasn’t the last of it. Hurricane
Delta soaked the region six weeks later, fol-
lowed by fierce winter ice storms, and historic
flooding in late May. All told, over the past 18
months, Lake Charles would be pummeled by
both the pandemic and four federally declared
weather disasters in rapid succession.
Corbello has persevered, in part because of
his pandemic pup.
“Tec did really help calm me down,” he said.
“To have something else to focus on and to
know that, okay, he’s here and I just need to
take care of him, and that’s really all that
matters right now — it helped.”
Over the course of the pandemic, thousands
of people have welcomed dogs of all shapes
and sizes into their homes — purebreds and
rescue mutts, pint-size puppies and senior
dogs. For some people, the sheer amount of
work required to care for a pet felt overwhelm-
ing. Housebreaking pandemic puppies during
quarantine or socializing sensitive shelter
dogs at a distance only amplified their dis-
tress.
But for many others, their dogs provided
levity in the darkest hours of shutdowns, a
semblance of routine when so many had lost
their jobs; a reason to leave the house when
offices, gyms and restaurants were shuttered;
and a sense of companionship and comfort
amid so much pain and loss.
The Washington Post recently asked read-
ers how they and their dogs changed during
the pandemic. More than 600 people wrote in
about their experiences. Here’s what they had
to say:
Brock, the attention hound
Mondi Kumbula-Fraser’s teenage boys had
been begging her for a dog for years, but she
and her husband were skeptical that they
could handle the myriad responsibilities that
come with pet ownership.
But as the year wore on, her sons started to
suffer. “I noticed that our boys (13&15) were
becoming subdued due to the pressures of the
pandemic, virtual learning and social justice
issues,” Kumbula-Fraser said, citing the Min-
neapolis police killing of George Floyd and the
fatal shooting in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery.
Eventually, she and her husband relented.
The family drove in October from North
Potomac, Md., to Rhode Island to adopt Brock,
a wiggly, jet-black puppy from Save a Lab
Rescue. “From day one, Brock has brought
such joy to our lives,” Kumbula-Fraser said.
“The boys are his primary caretakers and they
are VERY responsible. In fact, they are plan-
ning to open their own dog walking business
to help other dogs.”
Luca, the social butterfly
Nathan Williams’s Italian greyhound, Luca,
has brought the 45-year-old closer to his
community in Oakland, Calif. “Shop owners
and neighbors know his name and love seeing
him. Strangers have cried at the joy of making
a human connection with me on walks and
getting a ‘hug’ from Luca during the pandem-
ic,” he said. The high-energy pup has also
helped Williams stay active even when his
gym shut down during the pandemic.
Basil, the spunky snacker
When Katie Knight adopted Basil, a tricolor
mixed breed last April 2020, her life looked
nothing like she had expected it to at age 25.
“Within a span of 10 days, I broke off an
engagement to an abusive man, abruptly
moved from Portland, where I was going to
grad school, back home to Kansas City without
any closure, transitioned to online school,
moved back in with my parents, and, of course,
was anxious about the pandemic,” she said.
“I was in a dark and angry place, more
cynical than I’d ever been. I needed something
(or someone) to help bring me out of that
funk.”
Her ex had always been staunchly against
adopting a dog, she said, so in a final act of
defiance, Knight adopted Basil from a shelter
in Mission, Kan. “She’s spunky, she’s weird, she
loves to steal cookies off the counter, and
literally collects and rejoices over bones,”
Knight said. “She’ll eat anything you give her.”
Stevie and Seamus, the not-so-long-lost
siblings
After the pandemic eliminated her job as
the director of partnerships at the Tribeca
Film Festival, Kate Kelley, who was living
alone in New York City, knew it was time to get
a dog. Kelley adopted Stevie, a brown-eyed
mixed breed, through Animal Lighthouse Res-
cue, a nonprofit organization that rescues
dogs in Puerto Rico. “It was love at first sight,”
said Kelley, who named her dog after singer
Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac.
Stevie had been found in a dump with her
brother, Seamus, who had heartworm and was
left behind. But when Kelley’s sister Mary Beth
met Stevie, she, too, fell in love and decided to
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In a pandemic, these pups
have made all the di≠erence
BY J ESSICA W OLFROM
ANDRE FRASER ZARA FRITTS
Sekayi Fraser holds the family puppy, Australian shepherd Luna has brought
Brock, a wiggly attention hound. Zara Fritts’s family much joy.
SARAH YUROW ESHWAN RAMUDU
Cricket, an English working cocker spaniel, Cannoli, a fluffy Chow Chow, brought
is “my sidekick,” says Sarah Yurow. Trisha Pasricha and her husband closer.
MIMI EVANS KITT LAVOIE
“I knew immediately that he was my dog,” Golden retriever Piper joined Abby, a Lab-
says Mimi Evans of Nathan the Dachshund. border collie mix, in the Lavoie home.
inquire about Stevie’s brother. “I have to walk Luna, the bubbly personality
“My sister rescued Seamus and they were Zara Fritts welcomed her Australian shep-
reunited,” she said. “We both agree it’s the best him outside at herd, Luna, into her home in Hillsborough,
thing we have done and we could not be Calif., just two months after losing her mother
happier with our fur babies.” dawn when it’s to cancer and one month into quarantine. In
typical Aussie fashion, Luna quickly formed a
Nathan, the game changer tight bond with Fritts, 47, her primary care-
In March 2020, Mimi Evans was scouring
minus-10 taker, but also became the focal point for
the Web in search of a dog for her daughter degrees. . . . Fritts’s family, coaxing her teenagers out of
when she came upon a photo of a 10-year-old bed in the mornings.
Dachshund named Nathan at a local rescue But Nathan “She brought our family more joy during
organization. “I knew immediately that he those tough months than we could’ve hoped
was my dog,” she said. completes me.” for,” she said, “and the fact that she came
Evans, 72, wasn’t in the market for a pet. She trotting over every time a champagne bottle
was too busy enjoying her active New York Mimi Evans on her was popped almost led me to believe she could
City lifestyle, she said, untethered to the Dachshund, Nathan be my mother reincarnated!”
responsibilities of pet ownership. But Nathan
has changed all of that. “Today, 15 months Cannoli, the fluff ball of happiness
after Nathan’s arrival, I am a different person,” After a long and challenging year of work-
she said, adding that the pair have since ing in health care and losing her grandmother,
moved to Slingerlands, an Albany suburb. “I Trisha Pasricha, 32, began to feel a void in her
have to walk him outside at dawn when it’s life. She and her husband, Eshwan Ramudu,
minus-10 degrees, pick up a lot of poop and worked opposite schedules, and the combined
pay his vet instead of buying a new pair of stress of her job, grief from her loss and
shoes. But Nathan completes me.” isolation at home began to take a toll. “It was a
tough time,” she said. “The whole year just
Cricket, the sidekick started to feel more and more empty as time
Sarah Yurow, 31, moved from New York to went by.”
Surrey, England, at the height of the pandem- When the holidays arrived, the couple’s
ic. Stuck at home, she struggled to make sense of isolation was brought into high relief
friends and adjust to her new surroundings. when they couldn’t travel or gather with their
Yurow welcomed Cricket, an English working families. “We really felt that void of, like, who’s
cocker spaniel, into her home last August. missing at the dinner table this year,” Pasricha
“Getting a puppy was a welcome distraction said, “and that’s when I started to really push
that brought me so much joy at a time that him that we needed a puppy.”
would have otherwise been very lonely,” she Ramudu was reluctant at first, but he
said. relented, and the couple brought an impossi-
Now that things have opened up, her pan- bly fluffy Chow Chow puppy named Cannoli
demic pup is helping her step out into the into their home in Cambridge, Mass., in
world. “He has become my sidekick and the More online February. Cannoli arrived a month before they
perfect walking partner as I explore my new For more pandemic learned that Pasricha was pregnant. “She
home. He has also been a fantastic tool for pup stories and brought my husband and I closer together,
helping me make new friends as things start to photos, visit wapo.st/ and we’re learning lessons in time manage-
normalize.” pandemic-dogs ment and communication that I hope will
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keep us grounded when our baby arrives,”
Pasricha said. “When I watch my husband play
with her and snuggle her, I feel happier inside
than I have all year.”
Piper, the Zoom class surprise
Just months before the pandemic began,
Kitt Lavoie, a university theater teacher,
moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo., from New York
City with a newly adopted Lab-border collie
mix named Abby. Lavoie, 46, had also wanted
a golden retriever but was struggling to find a
breeder in the area. Then, during one of his
virtual classes, one of Lavoie’s students
warned him that she might need to ditch class
abruptly. Her dog was having puppies. “Later
that day, she emailed me a photo of the pups —
and they were goldens!” he said. “We would
never have found our Piper had it not been for
covid!”
Lulu, the resilient runaway
Rafaela Botti and her family weren’t look-
ing to add another dog to their four-dog pack,
but when the 12-year-old saw a loose dog
running down the street in her Houston
neighborhood, she knew she had to help.
Rafaela took the young dog home and
realized after her microchip was scanned that
she belonged to a nearby family. Before re-
turning the dog, named Dolce, Rafaela pur-
chased identification tags so others could
return her if she got out again.
In April, the brindled, lanky dog, who was
left outside 24/7, according to Rafaela, had
again escaped. This time, Dolce was hit by a
car. Panicked, Rafaela tracked Dolce down at a
local shelter and offered to adopt her. When
Rafaela was finally reunited with the dog,
whom she renamed Lulu, she teetered on
three legs. Her back right leg had been
amputated just days before.
“Initially, I was upset,” Rafaela said. “It was
sad that I had to give her up when she had four
legs and now she’s a tripod — and what that
would mean for her life.” But, she added, “it
hasn’t really had an effect on her and her
personality.”
Lulu has become an integral part of the
pack, and she has formed a strong bond with
Rafaela, who is passionate about bringing
awareness to the enormous homeless pet
population in Houston. “When I look at Lulu, I
can’t believe she once was on her own, and it
almost breaks my heart to know that there are
thousands of Lulus just in my state,” she said.
Kaylee, the sassy senior
Before the pandemic brought her world to a
halt, Melisa Sturman, 27, worked as an el-
ementary school teacher in south Minneapolis
and had a busy social life outside the class-
room. But all that was upended when the
coronavirus forced classes online and the
unrest following the police killing of George
Floyd exploded into the streets of her commu-
nity. Suddenly, instead of teaching her stu-
dents how to read, she began supporting them
through various crises.
“I turned into not only a kindergarten
teacher, but a support person who wore
multiple hats,” she said.
But these crises also deeply affected Stur-
man. She found herself completely alone,
sometimes not leaving her home for weeks on
end. In June 2020, Sturman rescued Kaylee, a
14-year-old mixed breed, who gave her a
reason to venture out into the world again.
Despite her age, Kaylee still has plenty of sass.
“She is very particular and lets you know when
she is annoyed — usually by walking up to a
plant, staring you dead in the face, then
chomping it,” Sturman said.
Pilot, the discerning Doberman
A week after bringing her new Doberman
pinscher puppy home from an Idaho breeder,
Rae Krick, 28, contracted the coronavirus and
was forced into isolation. But being stuck at
her home in Kuna, Idaho, had a silver lining: It
allowed her to form a strong bond with her
new pup, Pilot.
“Pilot is no doubt the most intelligent dog
I’ve ever been in the presence of,” she said.
“He’s quick to learn commands and tricks, and
seems to have a keen sense of my mood and
range of emotions. When I’m feeling lively,
Pilot is by my side, raring for an adventure,
and on the days I’m feeling stressed or under
par, he’s always ready to snuggle up and lie low
with Mom.” Pilot is fast approaching 70
pounds, and Krick hopes he will reach 95 to
100 pounds in the next year.
Oliver, the speed racer
Before the pandemic, Carlos Villarreal and
Oliver, the retired racing greyhound he would
soon adopt, were rarely home. Villarreal led a
busy and social lifestyle in Los Angeles, while
Oliver spent his early years sprinting around
Florida racetracks. But as the coronavirus
swept across the United States, Villarreal and
Oliver were sidelined as bars, restaurants and
racetracks closed across the country. Villarre-
al, 36, rescued Oliver in May 2020, and the pair
are learning to slow down and reset after a
challenging and unpredictable year.
“Now, instead of the afternoon previously
spent out with co-workers or friends, I enjoy
going for a walk with my dog around our
neighborhood,” Villarreal said. “Being a
‘homebody’ isn’t so bad as long as my dog is
with me.”
Rio, the unexpected gift
Luciana Daino’s pandemic puppy was an
unexpected addition to her already crowded
apartment, which the 35-year-old shares with
her mother and brother in Bogota, Colombia.
She had flown home from Washington in
November to spend the winter holidays with
her family, but her plans to return to D.C. were
upended when her closest uncle contracted
covid-19 for a second time.
His condition worsened on Christmas Day,
and he left his newly purchased Boston terrier,
Rio, with Daino and her family to care for until
he recovered. He died on Jan. 2, leaving her
family devastated and unsure how to care for a
puppy.
Over time, the family has formed a strong
bond with Rio, a black-and-white ball of
energy. “The apartment is full of his toys now,
and there is not a single thing we can eat
without him being there asking for some,” she
said. Daino said that through Rio, she feels like
a part of her uncle is still with them.
jessica.wolfrom@washpost.com
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More time together to say goodbye
While some welcomed pandemic puppies, others used the shutdown to bid a long farewell to aging pets
BY J ORGE R IBAS
Ginger the goldendoodle had moved in
across the street. Cosmo the black Lab was
playing in the yard next door. All around our
neighborhood, the pandemic puppies had ar-
rived.
Inside our house, Riley, our arthritic, nearly
13-year-old boxer, slowly emerged from her
slumber, ambled to the bottom of the stairs
and shook her floppy ears vigorously.
It was usually the first sound of the morn-
ing, letting us know she needed to go outside.
And it became the rhythm of our new remote
working life, whether we were sitting in our
makeshift home office, at the kitchen counter,
or wherever we had decided to park for the
daily round of Zoom calls and remote learning.
In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandem-
ic forced many of us out of our offices, and as
the daily commute shortened to the walk from
bed to desk, Americans increasingly adopted
or purchased dogs. For new pet owners, the
extra time at home meant easier house-train-
ing. But for others, remote work provided an
opportunity to say a long goodbye to an old
friend.
“Karma was just going to be turning 13, and
I always wanted to be that stay-at-home dog
mom,” said Candace Schlittner, a sales manag-
er associate at a Boston-area communications
firm. “I finally got that.”
Schlittner’s pre-pandemic routine started
with a 7 a.m. commute to her office. Her new
work schedule included more time with Kar-
ma. It also meant video conference calls, an
opportunity that a mischievous Karma seized
on.
“When she wanted something, she would
let everyone know,” Schlittner said. Karma
would bark or, more embarrassingly, drag her
butt in the background during Zoom calls.
“She would do it for attention. And I’m like, all
right, I’ve got to cut this short and take her
out.”
Even the rudest interruptions were oppor-
tunities for Schlittner to spend more precious
time with her aging dog. “It filled my heart a lot
that I was able to spend those three months
with her,” she said.
Karma died in June 2020. “She was there for
me through divorce, though death,” Schlittner
said. “My father had just died six months prior
to that. And she was there for me through
that.”
To help her through her grief, Schlittner
contacted Kaleel Sakakeeny, a pet loss coun-
selor and ordained animal chaplain in Boston.
“I had five times more people reaching out
to me when their pet passed during the
pandemic because it brought to the surface all
the other losses they didn’t give themselves
permission to grieve,” Sakakeeny said.
More than 614,000 people in the United
States have died of covid-19, the disease caused
by the novel coronavirus. Although the loss of
any pet can’t compare to the loss of a human
life, Sakakeeny notes that those he counsels
would frequently wonder why they felt so
much more sadness now.
“We do everything in our society that we
possibly can to avoid having to feel pain and
loss,” he said. “So all of a sudden, a lot of grief
that was never expressed over a person’s life is
triggered off by the death of a dog in the midst
of a pandemic.”
Riley’s last day came in May.
Like most families with two working par-
ents, our pre-coronavirus weekday mornings
were, to put it nicely, a commotion. There were
three elementary school-age kids to wake up,
waffles to toast, cereal to pour, lunches to
make, kids to wake up (again) and backpacks
to fill. There were last-minute scavenger hunts
for laptop chargers, work IDs, car keys and
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JULIE REINICKE MEGAN MCCORMACK
Yuna, an Akita- Briarleigh, a
collie mix. border terrier.
GAIL RIBAS
Riley the boxer is pictured with
Penelope Ribas in 2015 in Maryland.
school assignments. Sometimes there were
hugs. Sometimes yelling. Usually both.
And somewhere in the middle of that tur-
moil was Riley, the seal-brindled silent observ-
er of our chaotic lives. As the morning rush
began, she’d usually stay in her spot on the
couch, watching us race around. If her legs
were strong that day, she’d come into the
kitchen, hunting for waffle or cereal bits.
And when the world felt as though it had
stopped, it was comforting to know that she
was there every day with us. We started to fill
up screen breaks with Riley’s favorite things —
neighborhood walks and lunchtime trail
CHERYL SENTER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
hikes. Or if her legs weren’t up to it that day,
lounging in our backyard.
So when the kids returned to in-person
school in April, she came with us to the bus
stop to greet them.
Sometime in the year before, a growth had
started on her hind leg. It got bigger and we
had it tested. It was noncancerous, and our
veterinarian recommended against removing
it, saying the recovery for a dog her age would
be long and painful.
One afternoon while we were waiting at the
bus stop, Riley’s tumor ruptured, and she
started bleeding. We scrambled to help her,
trying not to upset the kids as they stepped off
the bus.
We rushed her to the emergency vet, who
said there was little they could do. It was
unlikely that the wound would heal. Her leg
could be removed, but she was too old for us to
consider that. And when the bleeding finally
stopped, they told us it wouldn’t be long until it
started again. Two hours later, she was gone.
Our kids’ reactions matched their personal-
ities. My youngest, 5, was very matter-of-fact.
“So, Riley is dead?” he asked a few times,
before moving on to play with his toys. My
7-year-old daughter was heartbroken. She had
taken on the role of Riley’s caregiver during
the pandemic, helping to feed her and let her
outside. My oldest son, 9, was angry. At me for
taking Riley to the bus stop to begin with, at
the veterinarians for not saving her and at his
brother for his youthful obliviousness.
At the end, my wife and I sat in a little room
with Riley and hugged her for the last time.
The pandemic had created barriers to grieving
everywhere, some of which I had covered as a
Washington Post video journalist. It didn’t
seem fair that we could sit with our ailing dog,
while so many people had to say goodbye to
family members and friends behind a piece of
glass or through a computer screen or tele-
phone.
“I think people came to realize the profound
nature of the animal-human connection
through the pandemic,” Sakakeeny said. “So
then when there was a death, the death was
heightened and compounded when the pet
passed.”
Megan McCormack, a security worker in
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CHERYL SENTER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Perth, Australia, lost Briarleigh, her nearly
15-year-old border terrier, in February.
“I got her when she was weeks old, so we
were together for most of her life,” McCormack
said in an email. “She was beautiful, stubborn
and so independent. She was never really a
cuddly dog, but you had no doubt that she
loved you.”
Although Australia didn’t have wide-scale
shutdowns at the start of the pandemic, Mc-
Cormack still was able to spend most days at
home for about six weeks.
“She wasn’t one for walks or anything
toward the end,” she said. “She was more
comfortable just sleeping her way through the
day, but we could be together.”
Postal delays caused challenges as the coun-
try began to institute shutdowns. Medications
were delayed, and Briarleigh’s preferred food
wasn’t always available. “So we had to try new
things, which she was not happy about,” Mc-
Cormack said.
As her dog’s health deteriorated, McCor-
mack made the difficult decision to have her
euthanized. Shutdown measures at the time
were slightly relaxed, “so I got to say goodbye.”
Even in those last moments, though, the
pandemic took a toll. “I really hated that I had
to wear a mask for her last few minutes,”
McCormack said. “I wasn’t able to smile at her
properly to help her pass peacefully.”
Briarleigh’s passing made working from
home even harder. “It was like I had no idea
what to do with myself,” she said. “I would look
TOP: Candace around and she wouldn’t be there.”
Schlittner has That’s a familiar feeling for anyone who has
several shrines lost a dog. But being home so much accentu-
honoring her dog ates it, said Jessica Kwerel, a pet grief counsel-
Karma, who died in or in Washington.
June 2020, “The pandemic is scary as hell,” she said,
including this one “but our dogs don’t know or care about that.
in a niche in her It’s like, ‘I’m right here, let’s go for a walk, let’s
living room in sit on the couch.’ It just helps to calm every-
Pepperell, Mass. thing down. I think the bond for all my clients
got dialed up high.”
ABOVE: Schlittner, Julie Reinicke, a stock clerk for a food
pictured outside her retailer in Buhl, Germany, said of her dog
apartment, has a Yuna, “She was the best thing that ever hap-
tattoo of Karma on pened to me, and she helped me tremendously
her shoulder. with just being around.” Reinicke has suffered
“She was there for from depression since she was in her early
me through divorce, teens, and having Yuna and Naruto, her Akita-
though death,” collie mixes, helped with her mental health.
Schlittner said. “My “I’d ‘visit’ them during the day, playing for a
father had just died short while, cuddling, and petting them and
six months prior to just being around them to distract me,” she
that. And she was said.
there for me Listening to news reports about the pan-
through that.” demic made Reinicke think more about people
— as well as her aging dogs — dying. In April of
this year, Yuna died at age 11. “I keep looking
for her at the top of the stairs next to my room
or on the bed in my mom’s and stepfather’s
bedroom, when I go up the stairs,” she said.
Kwerel describes this as feeling untethered,
because pets ground humans in the responsi-
bility that goes into taking care of them. As our
spaces dwindled during the pandemic, that
feeling intensified.
“They are the containers, the witnesses to
our lives in a way that no one else is,” Kwerel
said. “They are this constant that just feels
right.”
That’s the way it was with us. The pandemic
had turned the outside world upside-down, as
it continues to do. But in our home, Riley had
been there in her usual place on the couch —
the coveted spot next to a window — waiting
for another walk, an extra snuggle, a bonus
face lick.
And so, a new puppy is on our street. Her
name is Luna. She’s not quite big enough yet to
fill up that well-worn spot on the couch. But we
know she will.
jorge.ribas@washpost.com
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Neuter or not? The answer
is no longer automatic.
BY A LEXANDRA E LLERBECK
When Laura Howe’s 8-year-old golden re- she points out.
triever, Pearl, is in heat, male dogs for miles Neutering almost certainly reduces sex
around her western Montana home might drive, although it does not necessarily elimi-
catch a whiff of pheromones on the breeze. nate it, and it will often improve behaviors such
Unlike the vast majority of pet cats and dogs as mounting or marking.
in the United States, Pearl goes through hor- But there’s little evidence to suggest that it
monal cycles tied to fertility. She underwent an reduces aggression. The Harts’ research has
ovary-sparing hysterectomy, performed by a vet- found that only about one-quarter of male dogs
erinarian at Washington State University, as a neutered for aggression saw an improvement
puppy, so she can’t get pregnant, but twice a year, in their behavior. And other studies have found
she becomes extra-affectionate and starts wag- evidence that neutering can increase aggres-
gling her behind at the other dogs in the family. sion and fearfulness in some dogs.
In the United States, Pearl is a rarity. Only In some cases, the decision of whether to
about 30 percent of pet dogs in the country are spay or neuter a dog may be more about human
not neutered, according to the American Veter- psychology than it is about dog psychology.
inary Medical Association (AVMA), while the “We are especially puritan about our dogs:
American Pet Products Association’s owner often people don’t want their dogs sniffing or
surveys estimate that it’s 20 percent. The per- mounting each other!” Horowitz said in an
centage of dogs that receive an alternate pro- email. “The idea of our dogs — family members,
cedure — such as a vasectomy or hysterectomy, even considered ‘children’ — being ‘sexual’ is
which sterilizes the dog while sparing the not easy for Americans.”
hormone-producing reproductive organs — Widespread neutering is not the default
are so few that it isn’t an option in the pet everywhere. In some parts of Europe, it is
product association’s polls. considered an unnecessary, or even cruel and
But a long-held orthodoxy that responsible abusive, intervention. One survey of German
owners must always remove their pets’ repro- pet owners found that only 43 percent of dogs
ductive organs may be starting to shift, as a are spayed or neutered. In Sweden, estimates
growing body of research finds that neutering are as low as 10 percent. Norway’s animal
can increase the risk of cancer, obesity and joint welfare prohibits neutering in most cases, al-
problems, and as pet owners look to other though it allows exemptions if the surgery
countries with different ideas. would improve the welfare of the animal. Dogs
That’s what led Howe to seek out a veterinar- in these countries are left intact, and it is up to
ian to do an ovary-sparing spay on her dog the owners to ensure that they do not mate.
seven years ago, after another golden retriever Patrick Pageat, a French veterinarian, said
of hers died of cancer. In an online forum for that many people in France regard neutering in
dog owners, Howe came across a study that the same category as controversial procedures
found that early neutering increased the risk of such as declawing a cat or cropping a dog’s ears.
several cancers — including hemangiosarco- “People [in France] are less and less keen to
ma, which killed her dog — in golden retrievers. neuter animals. It is regarded as something
That study, published in 2013, is one of close to abuse,” Pageat said. “It’s your duty as a
several that have started to chip away at the responsible owner to make sure that you can
default of neutering all dogs. Since then, two of control your dog. Neutering or spaying dogs is
the researchers behind it, Benjamin Hart and not a medical necessity.”
Lynette Hart, have looked at the risks and Plus, Pageat added, some European owners
benefits of neutering in 34 other dog breeds. have psychological biases of their own, espe-
They found that early neutering increased cially when it comes to male dogs with male “We do know
the risk of joint disorders and cancers in many owners. “When you begin to speak about male
larger dogs, although the effects varied widely dogs, you get to a point where you don’t under- that the
by breed and were often ameliorated by wait- stand if you are talking about neutering the
ing until the dog was older. Smaller dogs had male dog or the male owner,” he said. hormones
little increased risk. In the United States, in contrast, neutering
“I came out of [veterinary] school with a your dog has long been a badge of responsible produced by
fairly rigid dogma that everybody gets neu- pet ownership. In many places, the sight of a
tered at 6 months,” said veterinarian Brennen pet dog with testes intact will earn more than a the gonads
McKenzie, who works at the Adobe Animal few askance glances at the dog park — if the dog
Hospital outside of San Jose. “And I think the is even allowed in. Many boarding centers, dog aren’t just
research evidence has built to the point where parks and apartment buildings require pets to
it’s clear that those kinds of generalizations and be neutered. At least 31 states and the District involved in
that kind of rigidity is no longer appropriate.” of Columbia require that shelters “fix” dogs
The AVMA also says that “there is no single before adopting them out, the AVMA says. reproduction,
recommendation that would be appropriate In Montgomery County, Md., the owner of
for all dogs” when it comes to neutering. Lucky, a pit bull terrier, battled in court with the but also in
Even as data mounts about the physical county animal rescue in 2019 over whether the
effects of the procedure, there is less informa- dog could keep his testicles. (The parties settled growth, in the
tion about how it shapes a dog’s internal world. on a vasectomy.) “My experience is that castra-
“We do know that the hormones produced tion changes the dog’s personality,” the owner musculature
by the gonads aren’t just involved in reproduc- argued. “I like Lucky’s personality as is.”
tion, but also in growth, in the musculature and Katie Herzog, a freelance journalist in Seat- and in the
in the brain,” said Alexandra Horowitz, an tle, has detailed her indecision about whether
expert of canine cognition at Barnard College. to neuter her Goldendoodle, Moose, and her brain.”
Estrogen, for instance, is implicated in learning experience continually fielding a question at
and memory function, and progesterone can the dog park whenever his testicles peeked out: Alexandra Horowitz,
play a role in inflammation in the case of injury, “When is he getting fixed?” Barnard College
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The strong social pressure in favor of neuter-
ing in the United States is in part a result of the
work of humane societies and activists who
have fought since the 1970s to reduce the
population of unwanted dogs. That campaign
has been a huge success. One study found that
about 13.5 million cats and dogs were killed in
1973. Today, that number is about 1.5 million,
according to the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Although
there is some debate about how much of a role
widespread desexing played, experts say it
probably saved lives.
Lori Gruen, a philosopher specializing in
animal ethics at Wesleyan University in Con-
necticut, said that she spent part of her early
career working in shelters where she saw per-
fectly healthy dogs destroyed and the toll it
took on employees.
Many dog owners in the United States never
confront the question of whether to spay or
neuter their pets. Neutering is standard prac-
tice in the rescue organizations and shelters,
where about 36 percent of owners obtain their
dogs, according to data published by the Hu-
mane Society. An additional 19 percent of
owners buy their dogs from breeders, who are
also likely to require that the animals be fixed.
But for those who do have to decide, making
the call can feel agonizing. Leaving a dog intact
comes with dangers, especially for female dogs
who are at risk for pyometra, an infection of the
uterus that can be life-threatening. This risk
can be ameliorated if the uterus is removed, but
it can be hard to find a veterinarian to perform
that surgery, which is not widely taught in
veterinary schools.
Female dogs that are never spayed or that are
spayed after their first heat are also at higher
risk for mammary cancer. Dogs of both sexes
that are not diligently monitored may roam,
courting accidents as they cross busy streets in
pursuit of a mating partner.
And despite the cancer risks to some dog
breeds, studies have found that dogs that are
neutered live longer. Some of those findings
could be attributable to population bias in the
studies. Dog owners who get their dogs steril-
ized may be more willing to take their pets to
the vet for other things, but there could also be
a biological basis for desexed dogs living lon-
ger, McKenzie said.
“There’s very good evidence that neutering
increases life expectancy in almost every spe-
cies that’s been looked at,” McKenzie said, refer-
encing studies in sheep, invertebrates and even
humans. “There’s even some evidence that hu-
man eunuchs live longer than intact males.”
In the end, it’s possible that there’s no one
right decision. McKenzie says that fact should
help owners relax. Neutering “is not the pri-
mary risk factor for most diseases and it’s not
the only risk factor for any disease,” he said. “I
think we can be a little less stressed about
making the quote-unquote right decision be-
cause it’s all about shifting risk profiles.”
One argument that does not gain much
traction with many experts is that dogs should
be left intact because it’s more “natural.”
“The idea that there’s something natural
about dogs in the first instance is somewhat of a
problem,” Gruen said. Dogs have been pro-
foundly shaped by humans and live among
them. “There’s all sorts of control that we
impose on the dogs that we live with. Most
people don’t let their dogs dig holes. Most
people tell their dogs what to eat. Most people
tell their dogs not to have sex,” she said.
Gruen said her dogs are desexed. But she
does allow them to dig an ever-expanding pit in
the backyard. She thinks there are only so many
limitations the dog spirit can bear.
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Breaking down,
building up
The nation’s challenged roads, bridges, rails
and ports: 10 projects showing the big-ticket needs

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the nation’s challenged infrastructure

he man running through Manhattan’s Pennsylvania Station in late 1910 hoped to buy a very special ticket — the first

T sold for a train ready to traverse a new tunnel beneath the Hudson River. The engineering feat linking New Jersey and
New York City would instantly transform the lives of thousands of commuters.
More than a century later, the tunnel is still in use, an emblem of how the country’s critical infrastructure rests on
work carried out generations ago.
Much of that infrastructure is on the decline and badly showing its age. The highways built mid-century as an extensive
interstate system are hampered these days by outdated road designs that contribute to crashes and congestion. The bridges that
are essential connections within urban and rural areas often face costly repairs or even replacement. Public transit systems
haven’t kept up with growth or changing travel patterns, leaving Americans ever more dependent on cars to get around.
In Washington, D.C., there is broad agreement that the nation’s infrastructure requires a major investment and upgrade.
President Biden has declared it an imperative, and lawmakers are weighing a proposal to spend $1.2 trillion. The Senate passed a
bipartisan package earlier this month.
The funding could support projects from coast to coast to coast: A plan costing only a few million dollars would boost bus service
in one smaller community, while another with a multibillion-dollar price tag would spur a massive undertaking to guard cities
against rising sea levels.
The Washington Post took a look at 10 sites that illustrate urgent needs or ambitious aspirations. In several locations, we did so
through the experiences of individuals who greatly understand the impact this infrastructure work could have.
What politics and resources ultimately will make happen is uncertain, but nearly 111 years later, a new Hudson tunnel is among
the targets in the mix. — Ian Duncan and Michael Laris

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A ship stacked high with containers waits at Georgia’s Port of Savannah, which moved a record After the Edenville and Sanford dams failed, floodwaters from the Tittabawassee River inundated
volume of cargo in fiscal 2021. A proposed terminal would accommodate even higher demand. downtown Midland, Mich., in May 2020. Roads and bridges were swept away.

Jasper Ocean Terminal, South Carolina
Proposed in 2007 | More than $4.5 billion estimated cost
Dates for construction and completion remain in flux.
Fifteen hundred acres on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, just a few miles downstream from the
Port of Savannah, is the targeted site for this massive terminal project. As proposed, it could handle some of
the world’s largest container ships and help meet cargo demand in the southeast through mid-century.
Notable: When fully operational, the Jasper Ocean Terminal would have the capacity to transfer 8 million, 20-
foot cargo containers a year.
Biggest challenge: The project’s development, which has involved Jasper County, S.C., as well as the state
port authorities in South Carolina and Georgia, depends in part on substantial improvements to ground
transportation infrastructure such as area highways and rail lines.
Edenville and Sanford dams, Michigan
Proposed in 2020 | $250 million to $300 million estimated cost
Debris removal and structure stabilization are underway as part of a multiphase recovery to conclude in
2026.
Torrential rains last year caused a double dam failure, which drained two lakes, forced 10,000 people to flee
and left $200 million in damage. After the dams’ owner declared bankruptcy, the local counties used eminent
domain to take control of them. A community task force was authorized to lead the repair and restoration
efforts.
Notable: Both dams were built in 1925 to generate electric power, but their licenses to do so were revoked in
2018 after years of alleged noncompliance with federal regulations and failure to meet safety standards.
Biggest challenge: The catastrophe highlighted the challenges facing dams across Michigan, many of which
were constructed before 1900. Funding is a huge hurdle here and nationally, even for addressing the most
serious deficiencies.

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Newly constructed pillars stand in California’s Central Valley and will be part of the nation’s first The aging Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles, La. President Biden chose the bridge as a
high-speed rail system. About 119 miles of the project is now under construction. backdrop for pushing his multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan this spring.

California High-Speed Rail Calcasieu River Bridge, Louisiana

Proposed in 1994 | Up to $100 billion estimated cost
The $22 billion Merced-to-Bakersfield stretch, now under construction, is projected to be ready for
passenger service by 2030.
Travelers will be whisked from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours if California’s ambitious but
controversial rail project ever comes to fruition. Supporters say the electrified bullet trains will cut greenhouse
gas emissions equivalent to taking 400,000 cars off the road every year.
Notable: This will be the first high-speed rail system in the United States. Countries such as Japan, China,
France and Germany have long had high-speed rail.
Biggest challenge: Though voters approved the project in 2008, most Californians have never experienced
high-speed rail and don’t necessarily see its potential. General support is waning as the price tag continues to
climb and the timeline keeps extending.
Proposed in 2013 | $600 million to $800 million estimated cost
Construction is expected to start in 2023, with an advocacy group estimating completion as soon as 2026.
The narrow bridge that carries Interstate 10 traffic across the Calcasieu River in southwest Louisiana was built
in 1952 with an expected life span of 50 years. Today it’s often called one of the country’s most dangerous
bridges, and a public-private partnership is moving to demolish it, build a new one and charge tolls.
Notable: The current bridge handles more than 80,000 vehicles a day, at least double the traffic of 20 years
ago. Its structural efficiency rating for how much load it can handle is 9.9 — out of 100.
Biggest challenge: The new bridge design has provoked grumbling from some locals who see the decades-old
structure as an architectural symbol of the area. But the prospect of tolls hasn’t generated significant
opposition.
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Fixes coming to dangerous mountain pass
BY E RIN B LAKEMORE
Jackknifed semis. Seventy-
car pileups. Avalanches. Officer
Bill Clausen of Colorado’s Vail
Police Department has seen it
all — and responded to plenty
of the accidents that give the
mountain corridor through
Vail Pass its deadly reputation.
“We have crashes in the mid-
dle of the day and the middle of
the night,” he says, “all year
long.”
Each day, an average of
22,000 passenger vehicles and
tractor-trailers climb up and
down its 7 percent grades, navi-
gating tight curves while spec-
tacular views of mountain peaks
compete for attention. The pass
can be treacherous even when
the weather is good, especially
for drivers ill-prepared for its
special challenges at more than
two miles elevation. But it’s
generally unavoidable since it
links eastern and western Colo-
rado. The state’s ski industry,
which generates an estimated
$4.8 billion annually, depends
on it.
“It’s kind of a lifeline,” Claus-
en says. “Plenty of people come
from the west, but it’s the main
thoroughfare for the higher
population areas in the east.
They need that route; there’s no
other way.”
When Vail Pass was dedicated
in 1978 — in honor of highway
architect Charles “Charley” Vail
— it was heralded as a master-
piece of modern engineering. Its
sweeping design, and how it was
incorporated into such a dra-
matic setting, won awards. One
exit boasted a solar-heated rest
area.
Immediately, it became an
integral thoroughfare for tour-
ists, cross-country travelers,
truckers and locals like Claus-
en.
But the state’s booming econ-
omy and surging population
collide on the pass. When this
stretch of I-70 was completed in
the 1970s, only 2.2 million
people lived in Colorado. Now
5.7 million do, a number that’s
expected to grow by more than
a third in the next three dec-
ades.
With only two lanes, the pass
can’t accommodate all that traf-
fic. A crash that might not cause
a backup elsewhere can force
hours-long closures here. State
officials estimate that each hour
results in $1 million in eco-
nomic losses, and between 2014
and 2017 alone, the pass was
shut down for 1,548 hours. The
major reconfiguration now un-
derway along 10 miles will cre-
ate an eastbound auxiliary lane
for emergency responders — to
help ensure the pass can remain
open through all but the worst
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Vail Pass, Colorado
Through a dangerous 15-mile pass
in the Rocky Mountains, a long-
sought project will add an auxiliary
lane for eastbound traffic, widen
shoulders, modify curves and
reconstruct a bridge. It also will
incorporate a system to detect
freezing temperatures and
automatically spray anti-icing
solution on the roadway.
Proposed in 2011
Estimated cost: $140.4 million
Construction is underway, with
completion slated for 2024.
Notable: The highway portion
through Vail Pass — elevation
10,666 feet — has the highest
crash rate on all of I-70, which
extends from Maryland to Utah.
wrecks.
The bad ones become part of
the lore here. A prime example:
the 2014 incident in which a car
descending toward Vail hit a
tanker truck, then plunged 120
feet over a bridge railing. The
vehicle landed in eight feet of
snow, which cushioned the im-
pact enough that both driver
and passenger survived.
Some of the corridor’s dan-
gers are pure Colorado: white-
out snowstorms and swaths of
ice that cause terrifying spin-
outs. There’s also the threat
posed by animals large and
small, especially during season-
al migrations.
Clausen remembers the en-
counter involving a county bus
and large elk that was trying to
cross the interstate. “No one
was hurt,” he says. “But the elk
really messed that bus up.”
Six new wildlife underpasses
and improved fencing will re-
duce such crashes by 80 per-
cent, officials predict.
The 55-year-old Clausen, a
patrol officer since 2003, drives
Vail Pass on his way to work
from Breckenridge to Vail. Even
on sunny days, he knows he
could be pulled away on a
FROM TOP: I-70 through Vail Pass offers stunning views of the Rockies but can challenge even experienced mountain moment’s notice to head up to a
drivers. Vail police officer Bill Clausen has been on the scene of plenty of crashes and collisions through the corridor. crash on the pass.
Each day, an average of 22,000 passenger vehicles and tractor-trailers navigate the tight curves of the thoroughfare. He can’t wait for the im-
provement project to be fin-
ished in three years. “There’s no
doubt about it,” he says. “We
need it.”
transportation@washpost.com
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Airport expansion to handle a booming region
BY C ORY V AILLANCOURT
Asheville, N.C., once was a
small, sleepy Appalachian en-
clave cradling the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. Its
airport matched that size and
vibe, with a single runway, a
one-story terminal and the old-
est control tower in the country.
Today, both Asheville and
Ashville Regional Airport are
bursting at the seams.
“I was a child when I first flew
out of this airport,” says Wendy
Banks, a native of nearby Hay-
wood County. “It was tiny back
then.”
The city is now home for the
53-year-old Banks, who owns a
company that provides corro-
sion control services and con-
crete degradation repairs for
municipal water and wastewa-
ter treatment systems through-
out the Southeast.
As her business has grown,
Banks has also managed proj-
ects globally from Mexico to
Madagascar. Pre-pandemic, she
and her employees flew tens of
thousands of miles a year in and
out of better-connected airports.
And this summer, after the com-
pany was awarded an interna-
tional contract from the State
Department, she drove more
than two hours before boarding
her plane to Washington, D.C. “I
flew out of Charlotte . . . because
we didn’t have a direct flight.”
Looking ahead, Banks is hop-
ing for more of that access and
efficiency at the airport less than
a half-hour from her front door.
Asheville Regional Airport
opened in 1961, when the city’s
population was around 60,000.
It’s now approaching 100,000,
and Buncombe County has dou-
bled in the same period to
260,000. In a region known for a
century as “Land of the Sky,” the
growth has been driven by a
mild, four-season climate, rug-
ged mountains and white water,
bluegrass and beer, and a robust
service industry to handle what
are now millions of visitors an-
nually as well as the many more
locals.
Yet with only seven gates and
a finite number of arrivals, de-
partures and destinations, the
airport has been throttled in its
efforts to keep up with demand.
In 2014, the airport authority
launched a $75 million expan-
sion called Project SOAR. Its
most significant feature: an im-
proved 8,000-foot runway, al-
most 15 percent longer than its
predecessor. That means more
passengers on larger jets and
nonstop flights to destinations
such as Boston, Chicago and
Minneapolis.
Just as SOAR finishes up,
officials are ready to go even
bigger. To accommodate the air-
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Asheville
Regional
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Asheville Regional
Airport, North Carolina
With only a single runway, the
60-year-old Asheville Regional
Airport hasn’t kept pace with the
explosive growth of the Blue Ridge
region’s tourism-based economy. A
new multistory terminal with 12
gates and 12 loading bridges will
double the facility’s current
capacity.
Proposed in 2018
Estimated cost: $230 million
Expansion of aircraft parking is
underway, and an 18-month design
phase is nearing completion in
advance of a phased opening to
end mid-2025.
Notable: It took 57 years for the
airport to hit the 1 million
annual-passenger mark in 2018. If
not for the coronavirus pandemic,
it was on track to double that
number in 2020.
lines now landing here — Jet-
Blue is set to become the sixth
carrier next June — they’re mov-
ing forward on a new terminal
with nearly double the capacity.
It’s seen as critical for the re-
gion’s long-term economic fu-
ture.
Banks is among the plan’s
boosters. In addition to her
business travel, she flies fre-
quently for pleasure with her
husband, William, a podiatrist.
“He has the wanderlust and a
bucket list that probably in-
cludes most countries,” she says.
(Even after the next expansion is
completed, however, destina-
tions abroad will still require
connections.)
Convenience is “everything,”
Banks stresses as she weaves
through the airport, pulling her
red roll-along suitcase toward a
gate at the far end. Lines as
people get ready to board often
snake down the crowded corri-
dor.
“We fly around the country,
but we also fly around the world
and being able to get to the
FROM TOP: Asheville Regional Airport is undergoing a $230 million expansion. Wendy Banks frequently flies in and Asheville airport means we’re 25
out of Asheville on business. During peak travel hours, the airport’s single corridor gets clogged with passengers. minutes from the house,” she
says. “The idea of flying into
Knoxville or Atlanta or Char-
lotte, it’s like, ‘Oh, the trip’s not
over.’ When we land here, it feels
like we’re home.”
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Racing against a crucial tunnel’s decay
BY S HOSHANA A KABAS
Frank Sacr worries about time.
Every year, the leaks in the centu-
ry-old North River Tunnel get
worse. Chlorides from saltwater
pushed in by Superstorm Sandy
keep corroding the walls and
wreaking havoc on the electrical
system, causing signal problems
that delay hundreds of thousands
of daily commuters and travelers
along the busy Northeast Corri-
dor.
As acting chief financial officer
of the Gateway Development
Commission, it is Sacr’s job to
worry about how much longer the
tunnel’s two tubes will last. But he
also worries about people. “How
many parents miss school events,
soccer games and time with the
family, because they’re stuck un-
der the Hudson River or in New
Jersey trying to get home?” His
voice sounds dismayed at the
thought of all those wasted hours.
“This project has to happen,” he
says.
Sacr and his team are racing
against the existing tunnel’s de-
cay. If one of the two current
tracks must be closed for emer-
gency repairs before another tun-
nel is built, delays caused by sin-
gle-tracking would increase the
collective regional commute by
hundreds of thousands of hours
each day and cost the U.S. econo-
my $16 billion. The sooner the
work can start, the faster it can go,
and the more cost efficient it will
be. Yet, despite the urgency, con-
struction of a new tunnel has
languished for years, stymied by
financial negotiations and, more
recently, by an uncooperative
Trump administration.
With decades of banking ex-
perience under his belt and a
friendly, lilting Australian accent,
Sacr has become something of a
money whisperer, capable of
bringing public and private sec-
tors together to structure, finance
and procure “mega projects” —
anything that comes with a
$10 billion-plus price tag. He has
worked on rails, roads and bridg-
es around the world, but he says
the Hudson Tunnel is already
higher profile than any of his
previous efforts — and the first
bulldozer hasn’t even started up.
In his home office in Jersey City,
Sacr spends most days virtually
moving from meeting to meeting,
leading conversations among
Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, the
Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey and other big players,
each with its own set of interests.
Four years into his tenure at Gate-
way, financing is looking promis-
ing, though logistical challenges
still threaten to torpedo carefully
planned schedules and budgets.
Contractors today, unlike those
who dug the original tunnel in
1910, have to contend with a maze
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New Jersey/New York
More than 400 trains run daily
through the North River Tunnel that
connects Newark’s Penn Station
and Penn Station in New York City.
But after more than 110 years of
use and saltwater damage from
Superstorm Sandy in 2012, its
tubes are badly deteriorated. A new
Hudson River Tunnel will allow them
to be closed for rehabilitation, then
will greatly increase commuter and
passenger rail capacity once both
are operating.
Proposed in 2011
Estimated cost: $11.6 billion
Work on the new tunnel — no start
date has been set — and overhaul
VICTOR J. BLUE/NEW YORK TIMES/ASSOCIATED PRESS of the existing tunnel are expected
to take about a decade.
Notable: The 2.4-mile Hudson
River Tunnel will be built by digging
a trench and lowering
preconstructed, sealed segments
of concrete tunnel into the water.
Some sections could be as much
as 250 feet deep.
of cable lines and water pipes. The
land and underwater terrains
switch from soil and clay to rock,
and the risk of unexpected costs
or delays runs high. Sacr’s job is to
mitigate risks.
One of his strategies is to have
the topography mapped out via
soil samples. The project will rely
on a virtual database of geotech
borings with core samples dating
to the original Pennsylvania Rail-
road construction in the early
1900s. That will help contractors
know what to expect when they
start digging — potentially as
soon as 2023.
On May 28, Gateway’s environ-
mental impact statement re-
ceived federal approval after be-
ing stalled for three years by the
previous administration. The
milestone allowed preconstruc-
tion plans to finally move for-
ward.
Sacr, 54, took a break to cel-
RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ebrate with his colleagues by rais-
FROM TOP: The North River Tunnel connects Newark’s Penn Station and Penn Station in New York City and sees more ing a glass of sauvignon blanc in a
than 400 trains running through it daily. There’s no concealing the decay in the 111-year-old rail tunnel. Rail lines snake toast to the team’s commitment.
below New York City’s Penn Station, the most critical link in the nation’s most important rail corridor. But time is of the essence, and the
next day, he was back to work,
“fighting the good fight.”
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A bridge to relink lives
BY J OSH W OOD
From where he lives a few miles
from the flood plain of the Wa-
bash River, Illinois farmer Clint
Spencer often would drive across
the New Harmony Bridge into
Indiana. He’d head over the
bridge for a beer and a bite in New
Harmony. He’d use it to get to
doctor appointments in Evans-
ville. And the corn and soybeans
he grows on his 1,100 acres would
journey across the bridge as well.
But when the bridge closed
nearly a decade ago, a trip that
had taken just a few minutes
became a headache nearly a half-
hour long.
The bridge has sat locked and
unused ever since, weeds growing
through cracks, its toll booth gut-
ted by fire. The road surface is so
worn, rebar shows in spots.
Folks on each side of the Wa-
bash River want it reopened.
“As far as somebody coming out
and saying, ‘This is the wrong
thing to do’ or ‘This is a waste of
money,’ I haven’t heard that from
anybody,” Spencer says.
The structure, located on what
was once the main route between
Louisville and St. Louis, has a
complicated history. A congres-
sionally created entity, the White
County Bridge Commission,
owned it starting in 1941, and the
bridge some years generated so
much toll revenue that the com-
mission was caught up in a major
corruption scandal in the 1950s.
As traffic shifted to alternate
routes, though, revenue dropped.
When millions of dollars of criti-
cal repairs were needed in 2012,
the commission couldn’t afford
them — and, as a nongovernmen-
tal body, couldn’t seek state or
federal help.
“It’s something that the federal
government created and then
they didn’t want to take it back,”
Spencer gripes. “It created a
mess.”
Without the bridge, the
57-year-old farmer pays a lot more
to haul his crops to grain elevators
in the river port of Mount Vernon.
The nearest major hospital is far
less accessible, which explains the
insurance coverage he bought for
an air ambulance service.
A few years ago, local advocates
finally got both states’ congres-
sional delegations involved,
which culminated in 2019 with
President Donald Trump’s signa-
ture on a law allowing authorities
in Illinois and Indiana to take
ownership of the bridge and then
seek public funding for its resto-
ration. They applied for a federal
grant in July.
Support for the bridge differs
by state.
The Illinois side of the river is
dominated by farmland and
pump jacks, and agriculture and
oil companies would greatly ben-
efit from the crossing’s return.
On the Indiana side sits New
Harmony, a quaint town of less
than 1,000 that was founded by a
German religious group and later
experimented with socialism and
utopian living. Tourists come for
its gardens, architecture, art gal-
leries, restaurants and stores. The
hope is that more visitors would
arrive if the bridge were re-
opened. Less welcome would be
industrial traffic again rumbling
down the town’s main thorough-
fare — an issue definitely a ways
off.
Spencer, who sits on the bridge
authority in his state, just hopes
the federal government will allo-
cate the money needed.
“The main focus for the govern-
ment is mostly the cities,” he says
during conversation at a local
coffee shop. “The rural areas real-
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Chicago
ILLINOIS INDIANA
Indianapolis
New Harmony Bridge
TIM MEKO/THE WASHINGTON POST
New Harmony Bridge,
Indiana/Illinois
When structural concerns shut
down the New Harmony Bridge in
2012, a quick drive across the
Wabash River became a half-hour
trek for locals traveling to and
from Illinois. A complicated
ownership and private
management structure kept the
bridge from being eligible for state
or federal funding. But it has new
owners who hope to secure the
funds needed for repairs.
Proposed in 2012
Estimated cost: Over $15 million
Even if funding is secured this year,
repairs are several years away.
Notable: Built as a private toll bridge
in 1930 — and opened with great
ceremony — in 1941 it was sold to a
special commission created by
Congress to purchase and manage
the bridge.
ly get kicked to the side in a lot of
instances just for the money and
everything. It kind of boils down
to politics and votes.”
His coffee finished, he heads
out. Spencer is one of the few
people with a key to the bridge, so
he walks across the river to where
he parked his truck and drives on.
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nged infrastructure

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: The New Harmony

Bridge, which had linked Illinois and Indiana for
decades, was shut down in 2012 because of
structural concerns. Repairs to the two-lane
connector are estimated at millions of dollars.
Support for the bridge differs by state. Main Street
in New Harmony, Ind., looks small-town postcard
perfect. The bridge closure has cost Illinois farmer
Clint Spencer countless hours over the past decade.

PHOTOS BY LUKE SHARRET FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

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Freeway redesign involves more than concrete
BY M AUREEN O ’ H AGAN
“I am a child of the family that
owned 1835 North Benton.”
For Sharon Gary-Smith, this is a
declaration of identity, a point of
pride, a reminder that infrastruc-
ture comes at a cost, and part of
that cost is that families lose their
homes. In Portland, Ore., much of
the loss has been borne by the
Black community. Through one
project after another, the Albina
neighborhood, its historic center,
was fractured, overtaken, then left
to deteriorate as the rest of the city
hummed along.
Even decades later, Gary-Smith
says, “the scars of people like me
are still very real.”
In the 1940s, when Frederick
and Bobbi Gary bought their tan,
three-bedroom house on North
Benton, redlining kept Black fami-
lies from living anywhere but Albi-
na. The neighborhood was a melt-
ing pot of teachers and pastors,
shipyard workers and janitors,
many of them White immigrants.
Gary-Smith’s father worked for
the Postal Service and then U.S.
customs; her mother was a whip-
smart homemaker. She and her
three sisters took music and dance
lessons, and sang in several choirs.
She was 13 in 1961 when she
learned that her home was in the
path of a new freeway that would
run on the east side of the Wil-
lamette River, skirting the down-
town core while plowing through
the Black business district. Her
parents understood the way the
world worked — which is to say,
when the government makes an
offer for your place, hold out for
more. Given Frederick Gary’s job,
the family had the wherewithal to
hang tight. They got $7,000 for
their lot; others got far less. Neigh-
bors scattered as 275 homes were
razed. The remainder of the com-
munity struggled to stay connect-
ed.
Waves of “progress” hit Albina
again and again. The freeway was
followed in the early 1970s by a
hospital expansion project — ex-
cept that after several hundred
families lost their houses through
eminent domain, the hospital de-
cided it was not going to expand.
Properties increasingly were pur-
chased by absentee landlords. The
1990s brought a plan to remedy
“blight,” which cost yet more fami-
lies their homes.
In a world where homeowner-
ship can be key to building wealth,
Gary-Smith knows the financial
toll will last generations.
And now the state transporta-
tion department wants to recon-
figure that same stretch of I-5
through Albina, a section of which
has been renamed the Rose Quar-
ter entertainment district. Many
Black residents have spent the
past few years working to ensure
that their voices will not just be
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Portland
5
O R E G O N
TIM MEKO/THE WASHINGTON POST
Interstate 5/Rose
Quarter, Oregon
Enormous bottlenecks occur
regularly on a 1.7-mile section of
I-5 near downtown Portland. A
freeway redesign aims to ease
them via new auxiliary lanes to
facilitate traffic flow and improve
safety. The most likely approach
includes a huge “cover” — a
weight-bearing platform that
spans the roadway, essentially
creating a tunnel.
Proposed in 1987
Estimated cost: $1.1 billion to
$1.2 billion
Groundbreaking is projected for
late 2023 and completion by 2030.
Notable: Hundreds of families in
Portland’s Albina neighborhood,
where most of the city’s Black
residents once lived, were pushed
out to make way for construction of
this portion of the freeway in the
1960s.
heard but will influence the plan-
ning.
Some formed the Albina Vision
Trust, a nonprofit that sees the
project as an opportunity to res-
titch the neighborhood. They’re
pushing state officials to build
large “covers” over a section of the
freeway that will allow develop-
ment on top — park space, cultural
offerings, retail and commercial
opportunities, and potentially
new housing.
Infrastructure is about more
than just concrete, the trust ar-
gues; it’s about community.
Gary-Smith returned to Albina,
where she lives across the street
from a modest building that once
served as Portland’s “Colored
YWCA.” She spent much of her
career in health advocacy and so-
cial justice philanthropy, and stays
active on several fronts, including
as president of the local NAACP.
When she walks her neighbor-
hood — today a place dotted with
high-end shops and high-rise
apartments — this Black elder
feels the eyes of Albina’s young,
overwhelmingly White residents
FROM TOP: A section of Interstate 5 will be reconfigured near downtown Portland to ease bottlenecks. Sharon Gary- on her. She wonders if some are
Smith grew up in Portland’s Albina area, once the economic, cultural and social core of the city’s Black community. The thinking, why are you here?
freeway cuts through Portland, loosely paralleling the Willamette River. Sometimes, she admits, she
feels like “a stranger in my own
homeland.” Then she reflects fur-
ther on all she’s done. “But I know
this is mine.”
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Building a barrier of storm protection
BY K EN H OFFMAN
Frank Billingsley has his eye
on the proposed Ike Dike.
Nearly 13 years ago, the TV
meteorologist spent two fearful
weeks tracking the hurricane for
which it is named. The storm
formed in the Atlantic, gained
steam in the Gulf of Mexico and
then took dead aim at Galveston
Island, Tex.
In the KPRC studio in Hous-
ton, he worried early on that
viewers were ignoring Ike’s
threat. Storm warnings along the
coast and inland had become so
routine that many residents
weren’t taking them seriously.
Except Billingsley knew Ike
was different.
“My real concern was that we
already had Tropical Storm Ed-
ouard that year, and they evacu-
ated Galveston. Then Edouard
did nothing. It fell apart,” Billing-
sley remembers.
“Not much later, we have Ike,
and a lot of complacency had set
in. People were thinking ‘Ed-
ouard wasn’t much, Ike probably
won’t be as bad as they’re saying.’
And I’m thinking, ‘Oh no, it’s
going to be worse than we’re
saying. It’s going to be terrible.’
Three days out, we knew this was
going to be our storm.”
The hurricane slammed into
Galveston’s East End as a Catego-
ry 2 system with 110-mile maxi-
mum sustained winds and a
22-foot storm surge. Famed city
landmarks like Murdoch’s Pier
and the Balinese Room were
washed out to sea. Thirteen resi-
dents died.
The destruction that Septem-
ber seemed like history repeating
itself. Turn back the calendar to
September 1900. Galveston, then
a high-rolling entertainment
town, suffered the deadliest nat-
ural disaster in U.S. history when
a hurricane pushed eight to
12 feet of water across the island.
At least 8,000 people perished;
7,000 buildings and homes were
destroyed.
Barely a century later, Ike
caused $30 billion in damage,
making it the sixth-costliest hur-
ricane to strike the U.S. main-
land.
Just as the 1900 storm prompt-
ed Galveston to build a 10-mile-
long sea wall, residents today are
pushing for the Ike Dike. The
massive undertaking would ex-
tend a barrier of protection along
70 miles of Galveston County
coastline. Some of its gates would
swing open and shut like Wild
West saloon doors to prevent
storm surges from entering the
52-mile-long Houston Ship
Channel and threatening the sec-
ond-largest petrochemical com-
plex in the world — a critical
component of U.S. national secu-
rity.
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Dallas
S
T E X A S
Houston
Galveston
TIM MEKO/THE WASHINGTON POST
Ike Dike, Texas
The “Ike Dike” is the rhyming
catchall name for a proposed
series of gates, walls and mounds
to protect Galveston and inland
cities from storm-spawned water
surges that in recent years have
caused tremendous, deadly
destruction. The project was
inspired by Hurricane Ike, the
seventh-costliest hurricane in U.S.
history.
Proposed in 2008
Estimated cost: Nearly $31 billion
Federal environmental and
feasibility studies are expected to
be finished this year; 2023 is the
earliest construction could begin.
Notable: The Netherlands built a
similar series of hydraulic gates
and walls to protect its coastline
after a devastating 1953 storm in
the North Sea killed 1,800 people.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott
supports the project, as does the
GOP-led legislature. As does
Billingsley. He owns a home in
Galveston just four blocks from
the beach, a place where he
retreats most weekends. At 61, he
loves the pace and people.
“They’re a little quirky, some of
them. People that live on an
island, it’s sort of like we’re all in
this together.”
His house suffered relatively
minor damage during Ike, the
worst being three feet of water in
his garage. Many neighbors were
far less lucky.
With climate change only in-
tensifying extreme weather ev-
erywhere, he sounds the alarm
for his cherished island. He
knows the Ike Dike “is not going
to be perfect, but nothing’s per-
fect, nothing’s foolproof.”
Walking the sea wall on a
sun-drenched weekend, Billings-
ley acknowledges how much the
personal and professional inter-
twine here.
FROM TOP: The Ike Dike is a proposed series of gates, walls and mounds that would protect Galveston and inland cities “It’s always gut-wrenching
from storm-spawned water surges. Meteorologist Frank Billingsley knows just how vulnerable Galveston remains should forecasting big storms, knowing
a big hurricane again take aim. A sea wall is a reminder of a deadly hurricane that slammed the island in 1900. what’s going to happen, especial-
ly when it’s your own communi-
ty,” he says. “People are going to
lose lives, property and the very
fabric of their town.”
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Interstate highways paved with racial injustice
BY E RIN B LAKEMORE
In the heady days after the
Eisenhower administration an-
nounced landmark legislation to
create an interstate highway sys-
tem, visions of future travel cap-
tivated the national conscious-
ness.
Soaring bridges. Cloverleaf in-
terchanges. Higher speed limits.
The modern interstates would
have them all.
Take Interstate 77, which was
greeted with fanfare in Char-
lotte. “It’ll be wide, handsome,
and toll-free,” a 1959 newspaper
story gushed.
Yet building the system would
cost more than the millions of
dollars that states and the feder-
al government poured into con-
struction. In Charlotte, it meant
bulldozing Brooklyn, a vibrant
Black neighborhood where, for-
mer resident Barbara C. Steele
recalled in a 2004 oral history,
“everybody knew everybody, and
everybody was somebody.”
“It was the path of
least resistance. The
people with the least
power were the ones
who were hurt.”
Gretchen Sorin, historian
Her displacement was more
norm than exception. Between
1957 and 1977, the U.S. Transpor-
tation Department estimates,
more than 475,000 households
were forced out for the high-
ways’ construction. A majority of
those lived in urban communi-
ties with low incomes and high
concentrations of people of col-
or.
In many cases, that was by
design.
“The interstate highway sys-
tem provided a safe, fast way of
getting from coast to coast,” said
historian Gretchen Sorin, author
of “Driving While Black: African
American Travel and the Road to
Civil Rights.” “The problem was
when you put in highways, you
have to figure out where to put
them.”
Rectifying at least some of
these past transgressions is a
goal of the Biden administra-
tion’s massive infrastructure
push, with billions of dollars
proposed to “reconnect” com-
munities and address historic
inequities. Transportation Sec-
retary Pete Buttigieg has ac-
knowledged the “racism physi-
cally built into some of our
highways” and the “lasting dam-
age” suffered by the communi-
ties that were targeted.
Many of those decisions were
set in motion long before the
interstates themselves, at a time
when America was booming —
and bursting at the seams. Veter-
ans had returned home from
World War II and started or
expanded families; Black South-
erners continued streaming to
Northern cities for greater op-
portunity. Urban centers grew
more and more crowded.
In response, the federal gov-
ernment underwrote a massive
construction program that fu-
eled the rise of the suburb. But
people of color were systemati-
cally excluded. Around the coun-
try, redlining and racially re-
strictive deeds and covenants
discouraged and often outright
forbade them from buying or
renting suburban homes.
The supposed blight of Ameri-
ca’s central cities, especially ra-
cially mixed, lower-income
neighborhoods, became a cor-
nerstone of the interstate high-
way system.
President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, the program’s greatest
champion, originally envisioned
a network akin to the German
Autobahn that would largely by-
pass cities as well as help them
empty fast in the event of a Cold
War-era nuclear attack. State
leaders eager to use federal
funds to eradicate what they saw
as slums and transportation
planners who wanted to connect
suburbs to downtown cores as
efficiently as possible ultimately
forced him to settle for a high-
way system that sliced through
cities — and neighborhoods of
color.
“Blight was a code word used
to identify Black, working-class
communities” said Eric Avila, a
UCLA historian and author of
“The Folklore of the Freeway:
Race and Revolt in the Modern-
ist City.” Urged on by officials
like Robert Moses, New York’s
“master builder,” cities were sold
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on the idea of highway construc-
tion as a way to save themselves.
The Federal-Aid Highway Act
of 1956 promised 41,000 miles of
asphalt. And when it became
time to finalize route plans, Avila
said, “race strongly influenced
routing decisions.”
Many interstate advocates
made no secret of their inten-
tions. In Miami, for example,
White leaders invoked decades-
old plans to remove all Black
residents from the city’s historic
Black center, Overtown.
The Interstate 95/395 inter-
change was slated to bypass
Overtown and use a nearby rail
corridor before planners acqui-
esced to pressure and routed it
directly through the neighbor-
hood instead. No public hearings
were held in the community.
The interchange, a behemoth
20 blocks square, displaced over
10,000 residents. With few op-
tions because of economic con-
straints and racial restrictions,
they squeezed into crowded “sec-
ond ghettos” nearby.
The pattern was repeated over
and over across the nation:
White leaders used the specter of
urban deterioration to justify
construction through low-in-
come neighborhoods of color.
Homes and businesses were
razed.
Logan Heights, the bastion of
San Diego’s Latino community,
was severed in two by Interstate
5.
Black Bottom, Detroit’s major-
DAVID BUNDY/ASSOCIATED PRESS ity-Black neighborhood, was
bulldozed to make way for Inter-
state 375.
In Montgomery, Ala., the
state’s highway director, a mem-
ber of the Ku Klux Klan, ignored
swaths of empty land in favor of
a route that displaced Black civil
rights leaders.
The new interstates fed sub-
urbanization. (A 2007 study
found that the average new
highway routed through a cen-
tral city reduces its population
by 18 percent.) As population
dwindled, poverty concentrated,
and investment further de-
clined.
Many White residents could
seek success elsewhere. Those
left behind faced a vicious cycle
of poverty and de facto segrega-
tion.
“It was the path of least resis-
tance,” Sorin said. “The people
with the least power were the
ones who were hurt.”
Impacted community mem-
bers fought back, protesting
what they called “White men’s
roads through Black men’s
homes.” Revolts were staged in at
least 50 cities. But despite pack-
ing city council meetings, orga-
nizing marches and circulating
petitions, most failed to prevent
interstates from coming through
their neighborhoods.
“There are very few instances
where that kind of formal politi-
cal protest was able to find any
success,” Avila said.
Ironically, the cross-country
BYRON ROLLINS/ASSOCIATED PRESS network offered unprecedented
independence to Black motorists
even as it destroyed the fabric of
many of their communities.
“Black people were frightened of
little towns,” Sorin noted. “You
might encounter an angry mob.”
With the dawn of the interstates,
“you could stay at highway
speeds, stop at rest stops and
hopefully be a little safer.”
Highway routing decisions
still cast a long shadow on Amer-
ican cities. According to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, more people of color
live near interstates and other
major roadways than their
White counterparts, and these
groups experience “dispropor-
tionately larger adverse health
effects from air pollution.” Such
proximity is associated with
higher levels of asthma, cardio-
vascular disease and death.
It can be dangerous in other
ways, too: Traffic fatalities dis-
proportionately impact drivers,
passengers and pedestrians of
color. A study released in June by
the Governors Highway Safety
Association found that places
with low-income populations
and concentrations of people of
color have measurably higher
levels of vehicle traffic and high-
er speed limits despite having
more residents who walk, bike or
take public transportation to
work.
For some, the overpasses and
on-ramps that ignited the imagi-
nation in the 1950s have become
REBECCA SANTANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
everyday mundanities. But for
FROM TOP: I-85 and I-65 near downtown Montgomery, Ala., in 2007. When built, the highways divided Black and the displaced, they represent a
White communities. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, right, receives recommendations for an ambitious federal-state painful past.
highway program from retired Gen. Lucius Clay, chair of the president’s advisory committee on the undertaking. An “Urban people of color re-
elevated freeway in New Orleans was built in the 1960s above a street called the “Main Street of Black New Orleans.” member what freeways did to
their neighborhoods,” Avila said.
“They remember what was lost.
They carry that memory with
them.”
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the nation’s challenged infrastructure

In many states, more than 1 in 5 roads in rough shape For some states, road expansion still a priority
Percentage of roads that are in poor condition over rehab
Percentage of capital spending on roads used on expansion or rehabilitation
0 10% 20 30 More money spent on:
road repairs new roads or lanes
AK ME
100% 90 75 50 75 82
WI VT NH

AK Wash. spends 76% of its road ME

WA ID MT ND MN IL MI NY MA
budget on expansion, despite
one-quarter of roads being poor
OR NV WY SD IA IN OH PA NJ CT RI WI VT NH

CA UT CO NE MO KY WV VA MD DE WA ID MT ND MN IL MI NY MA

AZ NM KS AR TN NC SC DC Half of R.I.’s OR NV WY SD IA IN OH PA NJ CT RI
roads are in
poor shape VA
OK LA MS AL GA CA UT CO NE MO KY WV MD DE

HI TX FL AZ NM KS AR TN NC SC DC R.I. and D.C.

dedicate all their
capital spending on
OK LA MS AL GA
Note: More than 20% of roads lacked a condition score in Alaska, Iowa, N.D. and S.D. roads to rehabilitate
Source: Federal Highway Administration, Transportation for America
HI TX FL

Sources: Federal Highway Administration, Transportation for America

KATE RABINOWITZ/THE WASHINGTON POST

Rather than fixing existing roads, some states

are still focusing more on building new ones
BYI AN D UNCAN,
M ICHAEL L ARIS
AND K ATE R ABINOWITZ
If states get an infusion of federal
highway funds, they will have a choice to
make: Use the money to fix existing roads
or build new ones.
The Federal Highway Administration
estimates a $435 billion backlog of reha-
bilitation needs, while an analysis of
agency data by The Washington Post
shows one-fifth of the nation’s major
roads — stretching almost 164,000 miles,
or more than 50 trips across the United
States — were rated in poor condition in
2019. That figure has stayed mostly un-
changed for a decade.
Yet more than one-third of states’
capital spending on roads that year,
$19 billion, went toward expanding the
road network rather than chipping away
at the backlog.
The hunger for new roads reflects a
desire to connect growing communities
and battle congestion. But transporta-
tion experts say building more roads and
highway lanes is environmentally unsus-
tainable and does the opposite of what’s
intended — adding to traffic levels over
time rather than reducing congestion.
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.), chair-
man of the House Transportation Com-
mittee, said the nation has been biased
too long in favor of highway expansion. A
transportation bill DeFazio spearheaded
would put limits on new road construc-
tion. “There is a phenomenal amount of
work that needs to go into just rebuilding
what we have,” he said.
Matthew Hardy, program director for
planning and performance management
at the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials,
said “there’s always this tension” as state
leaders try to balance maintenance and
expansion.
Some states are prioritizing rehabilita-
tion: The Post found that 11 allocated less
than one-tenth of their road spending to
expansion in 2019, the latest year for
which data is available. Rhode Island
spent nothing on new capacity as it
pushed to address what state Transporta-
tion Department spokesman Charles
St. Martin called “50 years of unprec-
edented neglect.”
But eight other states allocated more
than two-thirds of their spending to
expansion. Among them: Washington
state, where the transportation chief
warned of an annual maintenance and
preservation shortfall amounting to hun-
dreds of millions of dollars. An $18 bil-
lion proposal would shift funding toward
maintenance, but the legislature is wait-
ing to see what help it might get from the
federal government before finalizing a
plan.
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michael.laris@washpost.com
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ILLUSTRATIONS BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

There is a heritage passed down among what is now a small but proud subset of baseball players — a history, living and
breathing, that says as much about our revered “national pastime” as it does about the Black people who play it. ¶ Within the
long arc of that history — from segregation through Jackie Robinson’s debut, the 1970s heyday of the Black ballplayer and his
disappearance from the game in recent decades — we have arrived at what feels like a nadir, with Black players, who once
made up a fifth of all major league rosters, now making up less than 8 percent. ¶ Last year, Major League Baseball
announced the “elevation” of the Negro Leagues to major league status and the integration of those players’ stats into MLB’s.
It was celebrated, but it was a cosmetic change that did nothing to improve the lives of the players locked out of MLB’s gates.
¶ The history remains the history. The heritage needs no whitewashing. And it demands to be heard. ¶ The Washington Post
spent this season examining the experiences of nine Black players, from a 90-year-old icon to an 18-year-old prospect. Each
can claim a special place within that heritage. Collectively, they tell us something more — about this game and this country.

Profiles inside: Willie Mays (top illustration, story F2), Jim “Mudcat” Grant (top left, F3), Vida Blue (F4), Bo Jackson (F7), Ken Griffey Jr. (F8), CC Sabathia (F11), Bruce Maxwell (F13), Tim Anderson (F14) and Ian Moller (F17).
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Mays broke
barriers
in his
own way
The greatest living ballplayer
advanced the cause
simply by being himself
BY D AVE S HEININ
IN SAN FRANCISCO

T
hey have been playing base-
ball on these shores for
roughly 160 years, and Willie
Mays has been alive for more
than half of them.
He was born into the teeth
of the Great Depression, his playing ca-
reer spanning from the era of segregation
to the doorstep of free agency. Once
barred from Major League Baseball be-
cause of the color of his skin, he has lived
long enough to see MLB wrap itself in the
Black Lives Matter banner. His 90th birth-
day, May 6, landed a month after the
All-Star Game was shifted from Atlanta to
Denver because of a Georgia law that
could disenfranchise Black voters.
He helped usher in the era of MLB’s
westward expansion, his star power fuel-
ing the New York Giants’ move to San
Francisco in 1958. He hit 660 homers and
may have beaten Hank Aaron to Babe
Ruth’s record had he not lost nearly two
years to military service. He has more
seasons (six) of 10-plus Wins Above Re-
placement than Barry Bonds and Mike
Trout combined. And he is the correct
answer to these three questions: “Who is
the oldest living Baseball Hall of Famer?”
“Who is the greatest living ballplayer?”
And, “Which ballplayer appeared three
times on ‘The Donna Reed Show’ and once
each on ‘Bewitched’ and ‘Mr. Belvedere’?”
Willie Mays contains multitudes.
In the living history of the Black ball-
player, he is the Alpha, the headwaters of a
river that bends in some places, swells in
others and sometimes seems in danger of
drying up. His first major league manager
was Leo Durocher, who played with Ruth.
He was on deck when Bobby Thomson hit
the Shot Heard ’Round the World. He is
Barry Bonds’s godfather.
When Jackie Robinson broke the color
barrier in 1947, Mays was a 15-year-old
phenom in Westfield, Ala. His father
pulled him aside after the news broke and
said, “Now you have a chance, son.” He
was 17 when he joined the Birmingham
Black Barons of the Negro American
League, 19 when he signed with the Giants
for $4,000, 20 when he debuted in the
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majors in 1951 and 42 when he hung up his
spikes in 1973.
He was today years old when his influ-
ence was last felt by the Black ballplayers
who have followed him. Willie Mays played with ons, whose play-by-play broadcaster was for activism as Robinson, who grew up in as a player.
“There was a steady climb for us, and it a ferocity and an noted white supremacist Bull Connor. Southern California and was educated at “Derek Jeter, as an example, is a great,
was literally on the backs of players like aggressiveness Connor doubled as the city’s public safety UCLA. classy player, with a franchise where his-
Willie,” said Tony Clark, a big leaguer from reminiscent of Jackie commissioner, occasionally enforcing “Their experiences and backgrounds tory matters,” Costas said of the Yankees’
1995 to 2009 who in 2013 became the first Robinson, who was a segregation policies with fire hoses and were vastly different. That shaped who Hall of Fame shortstop. “But as great as he
Black executive director of the MLB Play- critic of Mays at times. police dogs. they were as men,” said Clark, the MLBPA was, you can’t say he was as great a player
ers Association. “I’m grateful and thank- Mays, now 90, was Even in San Francisco, a supposed bas- leader. “And we needed them both.” as Mays.
ful for him. I obviously didn’t accomplish honored at the Giants’ tion of progressive tolerance, Mays’s ini- Kendrick, the Negro Leagues museum “You have all the factors with Mays. The
half of what he did as a player, but he and Oracle Park in May. tial attempt to buy a house in November president, argued that Mays did as much objective greatness. The charisma and
the others helped pave for myself and 1957 — a cash offer of $37,500 for a home for the larger cause of the Black communi- magnetism and style. And then his per-
other Black ballplayers to play the game with majestic views on fashionable ty by being himself and demonstrating his sonality. When you saw him interviewed,
we love.” Miraloma Drive — was upended when the superiority on the field as Robinson did you just liked him. And he had great
seller, under pressure from fellow home- with his actions and words. contemporaries to be measured against in
••• owners who didn’t want Black people in “I understand where Jackie was com- Mantle and Aaron.”
Mays’s place in the history of the Black their neighborhood, suddenly pulled out ing from because he wanted Willie to be In the age of Technicolor superstars
ballplayer is sometimes lost — overshad- center fielder. of the deal. more like him and be on the front lines,” and on-demand streaming, it is hard to
owed by his place in the history of the “You had to have seen Mays to appreci- “Willie Mays, the spectacular center Kendrick said. “But it’s not everybody’s get jazzed about grainy, black-and-white
greatest ballplayers. He didn’t have Rob- ate him,” Costas said. “You had to see how fielder of San Francisco’s newly acquired calling to do that. Willie Mays made his footage of an over-the-shoulder catch,
inson’s barrier-breaking import; he didn’t electric it was when he walked from the Giants, ran into the color barrier here own indelible impact on civil rights in a especially when the old folks are constant-
even integrate the Giants, with Monte on-deck circle to the plate. How he made yesterday,” read the San Francisco Chroni- completely different way. What Willie did, ly telling you that’s what real baseball was.
Irvin and Hank Thompson beating him to even the routine play seem so stylish and cle of Nov. 14, 1957. “He and his wife were and what the vast majority of those play- But Mays has never meant more. The
the roster by two years. distinctive. How he loped into the dugout turned down in their attempt to buy a ers did who transitioned from the Negro nine-plus months between April 6, 2020,
What Mays did, though, was no less at the end of the inning. How his hat house — because they are Negroes.” It took Leagues to the major leagues, was they and Jan. 22 — a period when Mays, like
important. With his dazzling flair and would fly off on the base paths. He was so pressure from San Francisco’s mayor and demonstrated that there wasn’t a level of much of the world, was sequestered at
ebullient personality, he became the first magnetic. The stats support it, but they others to put the deal back on track, but 18 superiority [based on race]. home amid a global pandemic — brought
Black ballplayer to cross over into the don’t tell the whole story. months later someone threw a bottle “And it made people more cognizant an unprecedented run of deaths of Hall of
greater public consciousness — to win “But there were some guys I knew, through Mays’s front window. (Mays still that this [colorblind equality] shouldn’t Famers, among them some of Mays’s clos-
over White America. regrettably, whose affinity for Mantle over lives in nearby Atherton, in a house he be confined to the playing field but should est friends: Al Kaline, Tom Seaver, Joe
“While Jackie had the task of breaking Mays was more based on race. It would be bought in 1969.) be present in every walk of life.” Morgan, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Whitey
the color barrier, and while there were naive to think there weren’t some people The view of Mays’s place in the civil Ford, Phil Niekro, Tommy Lasorda, Don
legions of fans who fell in love with Jackie, who would’ve preferred a White superstar rights struggle of the 1960s is colored by ••• Sutton, then Aaron himself. Only Lasorda
there were also many who hated his guts to be at the top of the pyramid.” criticism lobbed at him by Robinson, who There can never be another like Mays, if and Ford were older than Mays.
for what he represented,” said Bob Kend- The embrace of Mays by so many White more than once called out Mays for not only because the elements for his creation So when a fully vaccinated Mays
rick, president of the Negro Leagues Base- Americans can create the impression that saying and doing more in the name of the no longer exist. Baseball no longer holds emerged for a celebration of his life at
ball Museum in Kansas City. “We never he sailed through life without being sub- larger cause. Robinson once called Mays a the imagination of the country the way it Oracle Park on May 7, the day after his
saw that level of hate with Willie. He jected to overt racism — a laughable “do-nothing Negro.” did in the 1950s and ’60s. Mays, a three- 90th birthday, it was as if he understood
experienced it in the minor leagues. But notion that, among other things, whiffs on Mays didn’t “wish to stir things up,” sport high school athlete who was the what his mere flesh-and-blood presence
he grew into this iconic figure. the entire point of why the Negro Leagues Robinson wrote in his 1964 book, “Base- quarterback of the football team and a meant to people. He was mostly pushed in
“He never succumbed to the weight of existed in the first place. For every Willie ball Has Done It.” “But there’s no escape, high-scoring guard on the basketball a wheelchair. Glaucoma and macular de-
carrying his race. Every single player who Mays who made it out of the Negro not even for Willie, . . . from being a team, probably wouldn’t even choose generation have robbed him of much of
broke into the majors in that timespan felt Leagues and into the majors, there was a Negro.” baseball, with its longer developmental his eyesight, and his hearing isn’t great,
that added pressure of representing their Piper Davis or a Pepper Bassett — two Robinson’s criticism stung, and the curve, if he emerged today. either. But when a Sharpie and a box of
race. There was a feeling of, ‘Oh, man, I Birmingham teammates who mentored sting has only partially subsided. In “24,” And there can never be another Mays baseballs were placed in front of him, he
can’t afford to fail.’ But Willie shouldered the teenage Mays — who didn’t. Mays wrote: “Jackie did a lot of things for because the game doesn’t produce super- signed them carefully and slowly. And
that tremendously well.” “We were playing for generations of the race. I did what I did. I didn’t always go stars like him anymore. No one of recent when the Giants paraded him around the
Broadcaster Bob Costas remembers players who were held back. We had a lot out and talk in the public. Sometimes I’d vintage who is in Mays’s ballpark as a warning track in a 1956 Oldsmobile con-
coming of age in New York City in the to play for, not just [for] us,” Mays told do it behind the scenes. . . . I didn’t tell player — not Bonds, not Alex Rodriguez vertible, the crowd roaring at the sight of
1950s, when the question on every kid’s author John Shea in the memoir they everyone what I did.” and not Albert Pujols, all of whom passed him in the passenger seat, he pushed
mind was this: Mickey Mantle or Willie co-wrote, “24: Life Stories and Lessons It also seems unfair, even for Robinson Mays on the all-time home run list — is himself up against the seat-back so his
Mays? As a Yankees fan, Costas’s pick was from the Say Hey Kid.” himself, to hold Mays, who grew up poor anywhere near as beloved nationally as head could be above the windshield,
easy, though he concedes that even then Mays’s Black Barons shared their sta- in the 1940s Deep South with only a high Mays. And no one who comes close to giving the fans a better view.
he knew Mays was the better all-around dium with the Class AA Birmingham Bar- school education, to the same standards Mays’s radiance as a star could touch him dave.sheinin@washpost.com
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the nine

‘Mudcat’
would not
shut up
and pitch
At the dawn of the 1960s,
Grant started singing —
and then came out swinging
BY K EVIN B . B LACKISTONE

T
hough it was a room-tem-
perature evening in Cleve-
land Stadium on Sept. 16,
1960, with a gentle breeze
blowing off Lake Erie,
Cleveland pitcher Jim
“Mudcat” Grant was hot. Red hot. Angry
hot.
It was the kind of hot that had forged
him growing up north of Tampa, in
little, mostly Black Lacoochee, Fla. — in
a shack with no hot water, no electricity,
no indoor bathroom — with his mother,
Viola, rearing her seven children on
whatever she could earn cleaning White
people’s homes and canning fruit at a
nearby citrus plant, after the father of
the family died of pneumonia working
in a lumber mill.
Yeah, that kind of hot. The kind Grant
steeped in as a baseball star who still
had to suffer the indignities of Jim Crow
America — such as picking up his and
other Black players’ luggage from the
hotels where the White players (and
only the White players) stayed. The kind
that, just a week earlier, was reheated
when a presidential candidate, John
F. Kennedy, knocked on Grant’s door
requesting a meeting to talk about what
it was like to be a Black player in a sport
that for so long didn’t want any.
Grant told Kennedy what it was like,
all right. He told him about hearing his
so-called teammates spit racist insults
at Black fans who came to watch him
play in his native Florida, a state that
was also no stranger to lynching Blacks.
About having to take directions from his
pitching coach, Ted Wilks, who was
reputed to throw regularly at the heads
of Black batters, and who, in 1947, as a
pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals, had
tried to organize a boycott against the
Brooklyn Dodgers to avoid playing
against race-barrier-breaking Jackie
Robinson.
So that day in Cleveland in 1960, as
Black college students risked their well-
being by sitting at Whites-only lunch
counters, Grant boiled over. As “The
Star-Spangled Banner” reached its con-
cluding crescendo — “O’er the land of
the free and the home of the brave” —
Grant, in the bullpen, freestyled:
“This land is not free,” he sang,
according to the Black-owned Philadel-
phia Tribune. “I can’t even go to
Mis-sah-sip-pee . . .”
•••
For most of the first half of the
previous century, Black athletes subju-
gated themselves to emasculation. They
performed. Then they behaved as was
expected of Black Americans in
post-reconstruction, pre-civil-rights-
era America. Joe Louis, Jesse Owens,
even Robinson: They were celebrated by
White America as standard-bearers for
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Black America in the country’s pursuit
of racial peace and unity, but they were
celebrated in separateness.
During that rendition of the anthem,
though, Grant — who was too ill to talk Jim “Mudcat” Grant led white team that he should take just press noted was the first time a Black the NAACP before it was Camp.”
when I called his Los Angeles home this the American League about anything.” player fought a White player. Washing- On the field, Grant wound up with a
summer and died at 85 as this story was with 21 wins in 1965 and Cleveland Manager Jimmy Dykes ton Post sports columnist Shirley Povich 14-year career. He won 145 games and
in production — refused to be another throughout his career suspended Grant for walking out on the called it an emancipatory moment for saved 54. His best seasons were in
Black athlete who turned a cheek. stood strong for what he team without informing him. Grant, Black athletes. Minnesota, where he helped the Twins
Instead, he followed high jumper Rose believed in. “I was in the though, was largely unrepentant. After punching out his pitching to the 1965 World Series while becoming
Robinson, who years earlier refused to NAACP before it was “I’m going to stand up for what I coach, Grant never stopped girding the the AL’s first Black pitcher to win 20
honor the national anthem, in evicting Camp,” he said. believe in,” he said. “I’m tired of being bridge he helped build from accommo- games. Then, in retirement, Grant
the accommodationist Black athlete called names. In Baltimore, [Orioles dationist Black athlete to activist. Upon wrote his book to celebrate the Black
and making room for something differ- Manager] Paul Richards called me a being traded to Minnesota, he called out pitchers who reached that same rung.
ent: the confrontationist Black athlete. name. I’m not going to take it anymore. Twins owner Calvin Griffith, who “He’s an extension of the Negro
Grant was a progenitor of the revolu- Grant, a 6-foot-1, 186-pound all- “If Newcombe wants to accept Wilks’s moved the club there from Washington Leagues,” said Bob Kendrick, the presi-
tionary Black athlete who fully ex- around athlete, threw a punch that put apology,” Grant continued, “that’s up to to get closer to “good-working White dent of the Negro Leagues Baseball
pressed how he felt. And he did so in the Wilks on the ground. Other players him. I’m not accepting it.” people,” for treating Black players as Museum. “When he wrote that book, he
most reactionary of sports, baseball, a saved the coach from further punish- less. Grant then chose Black catcher thought about the pitchers in the Negro
game anointed America’s pastime de- ment. Grant grabbed his things and left. ••• Earl Battey as his battery mate, in part Leagues who would’ve been 20-game
spite doing as much to propagate racial The White press noted Grant’s audac- Grant was part of the second trickle to demonstrate that a Black player winners had they been given a chance.
injustice in this country as any corner of ity with headlines like the Chicago Daily of Black major leaguers after Robinson could excel at a position that baseball That legacy meant something to him.
society. Then, of course, like now, much Tribune’s on Sept. 17, 1960 — “Mudcat joined the Dodgers in 1947. has long thought too important for He understood his place in this game.”
of White America wanted nothing more Grant is Sorry Man” — and quoted “You were always aware that you were them. The pairing won 21 games for the And he understood, no doubt, the
from Black athletes than to entertain it Grant’s Black stablemate Don New- Black because there were stares,” Grant Twins in 1965. lineage of equally successful — and
and shut up. combe apologizing for his protest and wrote years later in his book, “The Black Grant’s activism had impact, too: His similarly confrontational — Black ath-
“If you don’t like our country,” Wilks eruption. “I tried to talk Grant out of Aces: Baseball’s Only African-American meeting with Kennedy eventually re- letes who followed: Muhammad Ali,
demanded of Grant in the bullpen, going home, but he said he was leaving,” Twenty-Game Winners.” “People that sulted in the president funneling feder- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Carlos and
according to the Associated Press re- Newcombe was quoted by United Press took your money at the counter that al aid to Grant’s hometown, providing it Tommie Smith, Craig Hodges, Carlos
port, “then why the hell don’t you get International. “There’s enough trouble didn’t want to touch your hand. People with running water for the first time. Delgado, Toni Smith-Thompson, Maya
out?” around the world without getting when you sat next to them on the “Mudcat is always ahead of things,” Moore, Colin Kaepernick and more to
“What’s it to you?” Grant fired back, steamed over a little incident like this.” airplane who sat sideways, away from Frank Deford wrote in Sports Illustrat- come.
the Black-owned Afro-American report- But the Black press celebrated you.” ed in the April 8, 1968, issue, published sports@washpost.com
ed. “If I wanted to leave the country, all Grant’s refusal to just wipe more racist It is notable that his mentor in four days after Martin Luther King Jr.
I’d have to do is go to Texas, which is spittle from his face. “Don, like Roy Cleveland was the first Black player in was assassinated. “Of course, this can be Kevin B. Blackistone, ESPN panelist and
worse than Russia.” Campanella, and unlike Jackie Robin- the American League, Larry Doby, who very tricky if you are a Negro. You might professor of the practice at the Philip Merrill
“If we catch your n----- a-- in Texas,” son,” wrote L. I. Brockenbury in the Los followed Robinson’s debut by three get your head blown off being ahead of College of Journalism at the University of
Wilks reportedly spat, “we’re going to Angeles Sentinel, “feels that a Negro months — and who, in 1957, punched your time.” Maryland, writes sports commentary for The
hang you from the nearest tree.” should feel so honored to be with a out White pitcher Art Ditmar, which the Or as Grant himself put it: “I was in Washington Post.
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For Blue,
battle scars
don’t fade
with age
Legendary left-hander
fought for fair pay before
Reagan’s drug war found him
BY C ANDACE B UCKNER
IN CONCORD, CALIF.
L
etters and photos from ad-
mirers still fill the P.O. Box of
Vida Blue Jr., so every so
often he gets a lift to collect
the latest haul. Then he
brings the mail here, to the
dining room of a friend’s house where he
has been staying, and signs the photos
with a blue Sharpie, a playful nod to his
name.
On this summer Saturday, someone
has sent a double-sided 8-by-10 glossy.
On one side, he’s the firecracker Oakland
Athletics left-hander who enlivened the
game: gaze steadied, chest torqued, left
arm cocked, the young Black superstar
who took on his White owner, made a fan
in the White House and won 20-plus
games three times in his first five full
seasons.
On the other side, he’s in the twilight
of a tumultuous career with the San
Francisco Giants: mustached, older, bat-
tered. He’s the guy who served three
months in prison during a cocaine
scandal, collateral damage of a sport’s
drug war that, like the country’s drug
war, disproportionally affected Black
and Latino men.
Blue knows it’s those years captured
on the back of the 8-by-10 that so far have
cost him a spot in the Baseball Hall of
Fame. He still thinks he has a shot, still
desperately wants to make it. He’s not
the only ballplayer with baggage, he
says, though he struggles to talk about
the rough edges of his life. He prefers to
just sign both sides of the photo and
move on.
“You learn, at least for me, to stuff it,
and I probably never should’ve done
that,” Blue says. “I probably should’ve
gone somewhere and talked about it to a
shrink or someone that could’ve assisted
me and my feelings at that time, instead
of letting that stuff just build up inside of
you. Now all of a sudden you’re Mount
St. Helens — peeew! — you’re going to
explode.”
•••
The all-Black school he attended had
offered equipment to its baseball play-
ers, but Vida Blue Jr. wanted his own
glove. So he took a summer job picking
cotton and, with the money he saved,
ordered one from the Sears catalogue.
Baseball was a luxury for a young
Black boy growing up in Mansfield, La.
Blue’s parents, though loving and hard-
working, could provide only the essen-
tials: hugs, kisses and three meals a day.
Blue spent Saturdays with his dad,
Vida Sr. That meant watching baseball
and drinking beer, with Senior making
Junior promise to drink only when dad
was around. Vida Sr. worked 25 years at a
steel mill. When he sneezed, coal dust
blew out of his nose. And when he died at
45, with six kids and no pension, his
namesake became the man of the house.
Depressed, Blue quit playing sports.
But he still had scholarship offers from a
host of southern HBCUs to play quarter-
back. And even though he threw wildly
when he donned that department-store
glove, Blue attracted attention from
major league scouts. A month before his
18th birthday, he was drafted in the
second round by the Athletics and took
the $25,000 signing bonus to take care of
his family.
“When you’re from Mansfield, Louisi-
ana,” Blue says now, “that’s a trillion
dollars.”
He accelerated from Class A to the
majors as he tamed his fastball, and with
each strikeout, the left-hander’s legend
grew.
“You heard about this boy over there
in Oakland who was wild as hell and you
didn’t want to hit against him,” recalls
Bill North, who started his career with
the Chicago Cubs around the same time.
“Then all of a sudden, he started pulling
that ball and straightening it out.”
The A’s called Blue up before his 20th
birthday. On Sept. 21, 1970, at 21, he
became the fourth-youngest player in
history to throw a no-hitter.
The next year, his first full season in
the majors, Blue went 24-8 and became
only the fifth pitcher ever to win both the
MVP and Cy Young awards, packing
stadiums wherever he pitched. Time
featured Blue on its cover under the
banner “New Zip in the Old Game.” Sport
magazine anointed him Oakland’s
EZ
Vida Blue burst onto the
scene with a 24-8 record
in 1971, his first full
season, winning the
MVP and Cy Young
awards. His Athletics
teams won three
straight World Series,
but a contract dispute
“left a sour taste in my
mouth,” and drug issues
tarnished his image
later in his career.
“Miracle Pitcher.”
In August, the team visited the White
House at the request of President Rich-
ard M. Nixon, who called him “the most
underpaid player in baseball” and jok-
ingly offered to negotiate Blue’s next
contract.
The Athletics’ owner, Charlie O. Fin-
ley, didn’t laugh. Blue was making
around $14,000, a salary so small that he
qualified to live in the publicly subsi-
dized Acorn Projects in West Oakland.
What had once seemed like a trillion
bucks now felt like a slap in the face.
Finley tried placating his young star
by hosting a day in his honor, presenting
him with a baby blue Cadillac with a
white convertible top. Blue used the gas
card Finley gave him to fill up the station
wagons of the single mothers at Acorn.
He gave the Caddy to his mom.
Then he hired a lawyer.
•••
Blue figured he had given Finley no
choice. His astonishing 1971 season in-
cluded 24 wins, 24 complete games in 39
starts, 312 innings, 301 strikeouts and an
American League-best 1.82 ERA. Em-
boldened by his stats, Blue says, he and
his lawyer went to the negotiating table
seeking $92,500, less than the $125,000
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Kou-
fax received six years earlier after hold-
ing out.
It was a fantasy figure. Finley was
known to treat players like props: He
paid Rollie Fingers $300 to grow his
famous handlebar mustache as a gim-
mick; instructed the A’s radio broadcast
to refer to his ace as “True Blue” against
Vida’s wishes; and made sure players
knew his middle initial stood for
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the nine
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“Owner.”
“We had a mule, Charlie O. Finley’s
mule. It was a beautiful animal,” says
North, who joined the A’s in 1973. “But he
lived better than we did.”
Backing up the owner’s ego was base-
ball’s reserve clause, which bound a
player to his team. Outfielder Curt Flood
had challenged the clause in 1969, even-
tually paving the way for free agency. But
in 1972, the clause still ruled.
Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson endured
a drawn-out contract dispute with Fin-
ley. The experience still stings.
“I don’t know if it was because I am a
minority — that probably played a piece
of it,” Jackson says. “But Charlie was just
tight with the money.”
In 1972, the Blue-Finley negotiations
played out in the press for months.
Nixon, again, advocated for Blue. Com-
missioner Bowie Kuhn stepped in as a
meditator. Blue sat out spring training
and, at a news conference, threatened to
quit baseball to pursue a career as a
plumbing executive. His negotiation tac-
tics were sophisticated for the time, even
courageous for a player with just one full
season under his belt, but baseball’s
power structure won out. Blue settled for
$63,000.
“I remember Vida having a spectacu-
lar season in ’71,” Jackson says, “then it
was just a horror show for him in ’72 in
trying to get his money.”
Finley had treated him like a “damn
colored boy,” Blue later told reporters.
He struggled to make sense of the slight,
and when he returned to the team, he
went 6-10 and was sent to the bullpen
during the Athletics’ World Series run.
“It left a sour taste in my mouth, and
who knows how that one year — and the
incident itself — changed my attitude
about my job and the game that I loved,”
Blue says. “It created this issue with me
that I never had let go of.”
•••
He is sitting now at the head of the
dining room table, inside a ranch home
in suburban Oakland where he has been
living as a guest for more than a year.
When the pandemic hit, Blue says, he
needed a new place but couldn’t find a
real estate agent to show him condos, so
his friend Michelle Lewis opened her
doors.
Most days, Blue does an hour of cardio
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on the treadmill in the living room or
works on his short game on the putting
green out back. At 72, the wrinkles and
bald dome show his mileage, but he’s still
sturdy.
While Lewis prepares surf and turf,
Blue reminisces about the 1970s. He was
a bona fide celebrity, starring alongside
Jim Brown in a blaxploitation flick and
entertaining the troops with Bob Hope.
After 1971, he moved out of the projects
and into a swinging apartment complex
in Alameda. A few teammates lived
there, along with some Oakland Raiders
and a handful of flight attendants.
“You talk about sex, drugs and alco-
hol,” says North, Blue’s neighbor at the
time. “It was crazy.”
Eventually, Blue escaped to Oakland
Hills, where he would see activist Angela
Davis walking her Dobermans down the
quiet streets. But he couldn’t escape the
stress of being a Black superstar in
baseball. “You’re feeling the pressure of,
‘Man, if I screw this up, I’m back in the
bullpen,’ ” Blue says.
He lost 19 games in 1977, and the A’s
traded him to the Giants in 1978. That
offseason, he went to Las Vegas with his
new teammates. One invited him up to a
hotel room.
Booze had kept its hold on Blue since
his dad introduced it. He has faced at
least three DUI charges in his adult life,
including one five years ago that cost
him a night in jail and his driver’s
license. But in that hotel room, there was
marijuana. Blue puffed, then coughed,
looking like a rookie.
“That’s probably why they decided to
let me try the nose candy,” Blue says.
Before the 1982 season, Blue was
shipped to Kansas City, where he became
entangled in a federal cocaine investiga-
tion that gripped baseball. Blue and
three teammates served prison time in
1983. The next season, Blue was banned
from baseball for a year.
Cocaine was so rampant then that
even the Pittsburgh Pirates mascot was
involved in distributing it to players. In
1985, during the so-called “Pittsburgh
drug trials,” many more players were
implicated and testified in court. But
when Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
issued disciplinary actions to 11 players,
nine were Black or Latino. That mim-
icked what was happening across the
country as the drug war launched by
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Blue’s fan in the White House, Nixon,
was carried on by President Ronald
Reagan, with Black people getting ar-
rested at rates three to four times higher
than White people.
“I don’t tell names, but some Hall of
Fame White players are running around
unscathed . . . and was doing it just as
much, if not more,” says Mike Norris,
Blue’s former Oakland teammate, who
wrote a memoir, “Blackballed Twice,”
about being kicked out of baseball over
cocaine. “It wasn’t just a Black thing. We
were the fall guys for it. Honey, look,
50 percent of the league was on that
[stuff ].”
•••
Blue places the Sharpie on the table,
then pushes it away. He doesn’t hide his
mistakes; he’ll even joke about not
having that house in the hills anymore.
But he avoids diving too deeply, talking
in clipped phrases about “the drug
thing.”
He gets up and shuffles wordlessly
from the room. Lewis, who has been in
the kitchen, shares a secret. She met Blue
more than a decade ago and invited him
to speak at the independent school she
runs in Oakland. One day, one of her
students, who had gone through a dark
time at home, was preparing for college.
Blue took the boy to the side and talked
about his own tentative steps into man-
hood. Blue opened up about everything,
even the parts he tries to conceal, and
both the young man and the older man
cried.
“The dam broke,” Lewis says.
As Blue returns, Lewis relays this
story. He shrugs. Sharing his back-
ground with kids is helpful, he says,
because “you just get it out of your
system.”
When he sits back down in front of a
glass of chardonnay, more walls come
down. He’s proud of how he rehabilitat-
ed his name after the suspension, he
says. He played winter ball in Puerto
Rico and, at 35, joined the Giants in
spring training as a nonroster player. He
arrived at the ballpark early, shagged
balls, never finished last in running
drills. He made the team.
“It’s not embarrassing, but it tar-
nished my image,” Blue says. “Not that I
was squeaky clean. I didn’t have a halo
and [stuff ], but I had a reputation of
being a respectable, reputable person. I
worked my tail off to polish that image
back up and renew the name Vida Blue
Jr. But it’s a constant battle to do that
every day.”
Blue returned to play one more year in
1986 and then finally, after 17 seasons,
retired. The leather MacGregor glove he
used during his no-hitter in 1970 is on
display in Cooperstown, N.Y., and Blue
spent several years after retiring hoping
he would get voted in, too.
But in 1995, Blue — with 209 wins,
2,175 strikeouts and three World Series
titles — fell off the baseball writers’
ballot. His only way in now would come
from the Eras Committee, which votes
on those no longer eligible via the
writers’ ballot. It’s a long shot, Blue
knows.
He thinks about this possibility and
starts to sing. It’s a line from the 1981
song “Talkin’ Baseball.”
Carew and Gaylord Perry, Seaver,
Garvey, Schmidt and Vida Blue.
If Cooperstown is calling, it’s no fluke.
He taps his blue Sharpie on the floral
tablecloth.
“Dammmmn. And I blew it,” he says.
“That Hall of Fame thing, that’s some-
thing that I can honestly, openly say I
wish I was a Hall of Famer. And I know
for a fact this drug thing impeded my
road to the Hall of Fame — so far.”
candace.buckner@washpost.com
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Vida Blue

ILLUSTRATION BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

“I can honestly, openly say I wish I was a Hall of Famer.

And I know for a fact this drug thing impeded my road to the Hall of Fame — so far.”
VIDA BLUE
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Bo Jackson

ILLUSTRATION BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

“When he started to play baseball … you had to be a fan of his

because he could do things that other baseball athletes couldn’t do.”
DAVE STEWART, 16-year major leaguer, on Bo Jackson
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With Bo,
what we’ll
never know
still lingers
While it lasted, Jackson’s
multisport career captivated
fans and his fellow stars
BY G LYNN A . H ILL

I
n the clubhouse at Anaheim Sta-
dium that July night, Dave Stewart
needed to ice his arm. But he made
sure to situate himself in front of a
TV.
It was 1989. Stewart was the
American League starter in the All-Star
Game. It would be another two decades
before another Black pitcher would start
the game, but for the moment, baseball
was a game loaded with Black stars:
Kirby Puckett, Harold Baines, Jeffrey
Leonard, Ozzie Smith, Tony Gwynn,
Andre Dawson, Vince Coleman, Eric
Davis and others still.
It was the end of an era — the last
All-Star Game of a decade that featured
the highest percentage of African Ameri-
can major leaguers. Black players ac-
counted for 7.8 percent of MLB rosters on
Opening Day in 2020, down from a 1981
peak of 18.7, according to the Society for
American Baseball Research.
It was also a time when some of the
nation’s best athletes grew up playing
multiple sports but chose baseball as the
best path to create their legacies. And
none was more protean than the man
Stewart, ice on his arm, settled in to
watch: Bo Jackson.
That night, on TVs around the country,
the twang of Bo Diddley’s rectangular
electric guitar introduced clips featuring
Jackson running, dunking, swinging,
lifting and biking in Nike cross-training
shoes, part of the company’s now-iconic
“Bo Knows” campaign. The commercial
played up the burgeoning mythology
around Jackson as a multisport star.
At Auburn, Jackson was a 6-foot-1,
225-pound bulldozer who moved like a
Bugatti. As a football player, when de-
fenders could touch him, he ran through
them like twigs. He averaged 7.7 yards per
carry as a sophomore — then, during
indoor track season, he ran one of the
fastest 55-meter times in school history.
As a junior in the spring of 1985, he
batted .401 with 17 home runs on the
diamond; that fall, he won the Heisman
Trophy while setting an Auburn career
rushing mark that still stands (4,303
yards). The Tampa Bay Buccaneers draft-
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ed Jackson first overall in 1986, but he
did something today’s two-sport stars
rarely do: He chose baseball.
The Kansas City Royals drafted him in
the fourth round that year. He played The 1989 All-Star Game reers instead. Wide receiver Golden Tate more players to practice baseball. You dangers of concussions in football.
with the minor league Memphis Chicks featured a stunning chose football despite calling baseball his can’t just go out and do a one-on-one. It It was a different injury that forced
and was called up to the majors that collection of Black stars, “first love.” requires space, equipment. It requires a him to make a similar decision.
same season, and he continued to prog- many of whom had Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler lot.” Jackson was named MVP of the 1989
ress as a mighty, strikeout-prone hitter excelled in other sports. Murray reversed course after signing Davis, who has worked to increase All-Star Game and began his best NFL
with a knack for the spectacular on None shined brighter with the Oakland Athletics, who selected youth baseball participation during his season three months later, earning his
defense. Jackson scaled walls, sniped than Bo Jackson, who him with the ninth pick in 2018. He post-playing career, says MLB has not only Pro Bowl nod in 1990. But both
base runners and soared through the competed in baseball, forfeited most of a $4.66 million signing sufficiently marshaled its resources to careers came to an abrupt halt during the
outfield to rob base hits. He punished track and football at bonus with Oakland to play football, find and cultivate African American tal- third quarter of a playoff game between
pitchers — and bats — and even went Auburn — where he won becoming the top pick in the 2019 NFL ent. He also points to MLB’s dearth of his Los Angeles Raiders and the Cincin-
yard after unsuccessfully trying to call for the Heisman Trophy — draft — and earning a bonus five times Black talent beyond the playing field — in nati Bengals that season. Jackson broke
time. His 21 home runs were tied for the before becoming an greater in the process. He became an media, the coaching ranks and front loose for a 34-yard gain and suffered a
AL lead at the 1989 all-star break. MLB and NFL standout. immediate starter with the Cardinals, offices. left hip injury during the tackle. It ended
“I was a huge fan of his as an athlete — but it took three seasons for the earliest “In my day, the scouts were so on point his NFL career and threatened his time
period,” Stewart says of Jackson. “But of his fellow top-10 MLB draft picks to that they knew where to go to find Black in baseball, which concluded three sea-
when he started to play baseball . . . you make their big league debuts. players, and they did,” he says. “They sons later, after another 183 games and
had to be a fan of his because he could do Fearsome right-hander Bob Gibson Others will continue to face a similar went into South Central Los Angeles. 32 home runs with the Chicago White
things that other baseball athletes averaged more than 20 points at Creigh- choice. Jerrion Ealy participated in Per- They went into Birmingham, Alabama, Sox and California Angels.
couldn’t do. ton and delayed his Hall of Fame baseball fect Game, the amateur baseball show- to find Willie Mays and these types. Since Jackson’s retirement, as Black
“I remember having a conversation career to play for the Harlem Globetrot- case, in 2018 and was drafted by the When you have scouts that are intrigued stars have faded from the sport, Stewart
with him in the outfield in K.C., and I was ters in 1957. Dave Winfield was drafted in Diamondbacks the following year. But to want to do something, then you put has reconciled with the notion that oth-
telling him, ‘Man, shoot, you need to give four leagues: the NFL, MLB, NBA and after he failed to agree to terms with forth that effort. Today, scouts are lazy. ers may never experience what he did in
that football stuff up and just play this, American Basketball Association. Rickey Arizona, he chose instead to play baseball Today, scouts go to showcase games and his career.
bro.’ He said, ‘Man, as long as I can do ’em Henderson and Ken Griffey Jr. said they and football at the University of Missis- if you’re not a Black player that’s a As a three-sport high school star,
both, I’m going to do ’em both.’ ” received more interest to play college sippi. top-flight kid at Perfect Game, who sees Stewart turned down 30 college football
That evening in Anaheim, Jackson football than baseball. A running back and outfielder, Ealy you?” scholarship offers because of his connec-
ended the top of the first by securing On those 1989 all-star rosters alone, said baseball runs in his family; an uncle MLB has made some strides, but Davis tion to baseball. He still remembers
Pedro Guerrero’s flyball. Stewart retired Gwynn was an all-conference point played for the Houston Astros. Ealy says it must prioritize growth in Black waiting three hours to meet his first pro
to the clubhouse and found a TV. On it, guard at San Diego State. Coleman started playing at a young age, before communities. player, Willie Mays. He started playing
Vin Scully and guest commentator Ron- ditched the NFL after Washington’s pro football, and looked up to Sammy Sosa “When we talk about the nuts and baseball at 8, and by 15 he was hopping
ald Reagan conversed about the former football team tried to convert the former and Torii Hunter, whose No. 48 he wears bolts of this game, and Black kids play- fences to banter with Reggie Jackson
president’s connection to football as Florida A&M punter into a wide receiver. on the diamond. But as he got older, the ing, and Black kids getting opportunities, during Athletics batting practice — be-
Jackson stepped to the plate against Rick Leonard received more than 60 scholar- preseason all-SEC selection learned who gives those opportunities?” he asks. fore beginning a lifelong friendship with
Reuschel, whose first-pitch sinker ship offers to play college football and about Jackson and Deion Sanders, and “Has the game given us what we’ve given the Hall of Famer.
dipped below Jackson’s knees for ball basketball. He got none for baseball but he began searching for stories and high- it? You answer that question.” Stewart met Black players, saw Black
one. chose to play it anyway. lights from their careers. faces and quickly integrated into a group
“That Bo down there, that’s a pretty Davis was a Los Angeles high school “I was like, ‘I could do it, too,’ ” he says ••• for whom sharing, teaching and being
interesting hobby he has for his vacation basketball star, but he opted for the of pursuing both sports professionally. At 58, Jackson doesn’t do many inter- were the byproducts of their culture, not
when baseball ends,” Reagan said before majors over the NBA in 1980 because he “That’s the ultimate goal, to be the first views, and through his representative he initiatives or diversity projects. Having
the crack of Jackson’s bat interrupted his didn’t want to “wait for four years before person to be a Hall of Famer in two declined to be interviewed for this story. that support could help renew baseball’s
next sentence. Jackson’s moonshot sent I could make the pros.” Three years after sports.” He raises money for emergency relief attraction for those considering the
Davis jogging toward the center field his major league debut with the Cincin- Ealy, one of two Black players on through his charity bike ride, Bo Bikes sport, he says, and draw future phenoms
wall — and sent several spectators scram- nati Reds, Davis said he declined interest Mississippi’s baseball roster, partially Bama, and hosts a charity golf event that to the game — guys like Bo Jackson,
bling across tarp-covered seats, where from the Los Angeles Clippers because of credits his early exposure to baseball for benefits youth athletic and educational whom Black fans will go out of their way
the ball landed some 448 feet later. scheduling conflicts. his relationship to the sport. programs in Illinois. He is also listed as to watch.
Today, multisport athletes see baseball “With football and basketball, there’s a the president of food company Jackson “The reason I wanted to play baseball
••• as a secondary option. Jameis Winston, lot more people who played it and a lot and Partners. was because I could see me on the field —
Many of history’s greatest Black base- Colin Kaepernick, Patrick Mahomes and more people who have been successful at He has made occasional appearances not just one or two of us but an abun-
ball stars thrived in other sports and Russell Wilson are among several cur- it,” he says. “You rarely see anyone in your over the years, including a 2016 interview dance,” Stewart says. “Baseball was rich
could have taken different routes. But in rent or former NFL quarterbacks who city that has gone somewhere with base- with Sports Illustrated in which he said with Black players. That’s what made me
baseball, they could make money sooner were drafted by major league teams ball. Or it’s this: Even though there are he “probably just would have played want to play.”
and have healthier and longer careers. before pursuing professional football ca- more players on a football team, it takes baseball” if he had known about the glynn.hill@washpost.com
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‘The Kid’ is
still working
to make
baseball cool
In role as MLB adviser,
Griffey focuses on bringing
Black kids back to the game
BY C HELSEA J ANES
IN VERO BEACH, FLA.

O
ne day this summer, Ken
Griffey Jr. walked into an
empty office at the old Dodg-
ers spring training complex,
a cup of blue Gatorade in one
hand. He winced as he sat.
“I have diverticulitis,” he said, cring-
ing, his stomach ailment worsening be-
cause of his inability to resist a friend’s
Bahamian pasta. A league official tossed
him a new bucket hat, which Griffey
patted lovingly. Nothing is better than a
bucket hat for keeping the sun away on
the golf course, which is where Griffey
takes most of his swings these days.
Yes, “The Kid” is now 51, more than a
decade removed from his last major
league at-bat. But once he gets going, that
can be easy to forget. More than once, he
slipped into the present tense when talk-
ing about his swing or the way he used to
mold his glove so flyballs would stick.
It’s not always obvious that Griffey is
old or official enough to hold the title he
does: senior adviser to MLB Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred. He wore a comfort-
able black pullover and the latest version
of the Griffeys, released by Nike for the
25th anniversary of his first signature
shoe. He tossed jokes at his MLB col-
leagues, telling more than one old friend
that he “doesn’t talk to pitchers,” then
continuing to jab at former pitchers any-
way.
All of it — the levity, the enduring
youthfulness, even the sneakers — is why
Griffey was here, in the same halls Jackie
Robinson and Roy Campanella used to
walk. When he made his major league
debut in 1989, 16.5 percent of players on
major league rosters were Black. When
he retired in 2010, that number was less
than 8 percent. In 2020, it was less than 7.
Griffey is tasked with getting Black play-
ers back to baseball.
He was in town to talk to 200 of the
nation’s best Black high school players,
assembled here for the Hank Aaron Invi-
tational, a showcase held by MLB and the
MLB Players Association’s Youth Devel-
opment Foundation.
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“You look at all the things that have
given me a chance to be who I am, a
chance to live out my dream and every-
thing else. And you want the next genera-
tion to feel that way,” Griffey said. Ken Griffey Jr. and the When LeBron James was beginning conversation around Black baseball play- invited anyone who wanted to follow his
Part of Griffey’s job requires offering Mariners were raucous his NBA career, surrounded by hype and ers has changed. The police killing of lead to do so. Now, everyone in uniform
constant credit to MLB and the union, in celebration of their expectation, he met Griffey through a George Floyd in May 2020 inspired more across the game wears No. 42 on April 15.
saying all the right things, thanking all 1995 playoff series win mutual acquaintance at Nike, and the than a hundred Black big leaguers to “For the Black community in particular,
the relevant people. But he seems to know over the Yankees, a two became friends. Griffey, James wrote start the Players Alliance, a group whose we didn’t have a lot of people who looked
that crediting the right baseball people, memorable moment in in an email, was one of the few people goals include building equitable systems like us in baseball to look up to,” James
that keeping up stodgy baseball appear- his Hall of Fame career. who could relate to what he was going and creating “an inclusive culture within wrote. “But who he was and what he was
ances, isn’t what will bring Black commu- More than a decade through as a phenom. Now, Griffey re- baseball and the community.” able to do had that appeal to everyone.
nities back to baseball. Showing up is. after his final at-bat, mains one of the few baseball players in MLB, normally a follower on issues of And he didn’t have to do too much talking.
“We want these guys to understand, Griffey works for MLB history who maintains the cultural clout social and racial justice, moved its All- He let his game do the talking.”
‘You’re not alone,’ ” said Jeffrey Ham- as a special adviser to of guys like James and Michael Jordan. Star Game from Atlanta after Georgia
monds, a Stanford graduate who played Commissioner Rob “He has that cool factor about him,” passed voting laws that many activists •••
13 years in the majors before joining the Manfred. James told The Washington Post in a argued will contribute to the disenfran- Many of the questions Hank Aaron
staff of the MLBPA. “We’ve had the same statement sent by his agent. “He was an chisement of voters of color. Last year, Invitational attendees hurled at Griffey
struggles, we had the same concerns, we incredibly athletic, good-looking kid, had MLB painted “BLM” on its mounds to were more lighthearted than serious. He
had the same anxieties.” a signature shoe with Nike, everything highlight the Black Lives Matter move- politely declined to answer when some-
Hammonds remembers Griffey com- where we can show these kids [that Black you aspire to as a kid.” ment. one asked for his least favorite baseball
ing across the field to welcome him to the players] exist. It’s not a myth.” Many of the teenagers in Vero Beach Griffey has not been at the center of player. He rattled off about a dozen
big leagues when the two first crossed were too young to have seen him play, but those conversations, at least not publicly. names when asked for his favorite.
paths early in his career. Hammonds ••• they flocked to him for selfies anyway. To the extent that he talks about his own But one of the young players asked
remembers knowing exactly who Ken Griffey was born into that tradition. One kid, surrounded by his friends in a experiences with racism, he usually tells Griffey what advice he would give to
Griffey Jr. was. But what he remembers Nearly every piece of serious advice he tight circle just out of earshot of Griffey, a story from his childhood. He was sitting someone who was the only Black player
most is that Junior knew who he was, too. gave the young players devolved into a was too nervous to approach him for a with his father, a Yankee at the time, in on his high school team.
“These kids don’t feel sometimes that story of the camaraderie of his playing picture. the dugout at Yankee Stadium when a “You just have to work hard,” he said.
they can be seen,” Griffey said. “Nick days, including the time he and his dad “You have to go!” one of his fellow security guard told him that Yankees The idea, Griffey went on to say, was that
Saban, John Calipari — all these great became the first father-son duo to hit attendees said. owner George Steinbrenner didn’t want if Black players worked hard and played
coaches can come to a kid’s house and back-to-back homers in the big leagues “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportu- kids around the field. The father told his well, they would be seen eventually —
have dinner with them. The NCAA allows (and how dad’s homer went farther but nity!” another yelled at him. Reluctantly, son to look at third base, where Graig especially because making them more
that. But the NCAA doesn’t allow a pro- Junior’s left faster). the kid wandered over to Griffey, who Nettles’s son was taking groundballs. visible is part of his goal.
fessional team to go visit a kid they may But as much as Junior bantered like he posed and chatted readily. A few years later, Junior led the Mari- Griffey said he envisions a video data-
or may not draft. If Nick Saban shows up was one of the guys, everyone up there “Coming from Las Vegas, there’s not a ners to victory over Steinbrenner’s Yan- base where former big leaguers can see
at your house, everybody in the neighbor- knew he always was — and still is — lot of people that look like me,” said L.J. kees in the ALDS. His mere presence young players and advise them on skills,
hood knows it, so the notoriety is there. something bigger. Mercurius, one of the players invited to drew Black fans to a sport when football growing the MLB pipeline for Black play-
We don’t have that.” His best years coincided with some of Vero Beach for the event. “Seeing dudes and basketball were far more popular ers. Black kids should know they don’t
Griffey always knew he existed within the most complicated in baseball history, who look like me who played baseball at among kids than it might have been have to be elite players to be a part of a
a storied tradition. When he addressed including the 1994 strike that canceled an extremely high level and were Hall of among their parents. major league organization, Griffey said;
the kids in Vero Beach, he was flanked by the postseason, alienated fans and left Famers, it gives me a sense of family and “Our culture, at one time, this was a the game has places for them elsewhere,
retired Black players including Ham- MLB desperate to pick up the pieces. The community that I can actually relate to pillar in our community,” said former too. More than anything, Junior said, he
monds, Eric Davis and Marquis Grissom next fall, Griffey’s Mariners made a spirit- and be a part of.” player and manager Jerry Manuel, who wants to give the kids a sense that this
— flanked the same way he had been ed run to the postseason, knocking off the Hammonds watched as the high- helped organize the Vero Beach event. game is theirs — and so is a tradition of
since the days when his father was in the New York Yankees in an American schoolers clamored for Griffey’s atten- “After church? Fried chicken, ballgame. Black players who want others to follow
big leagues. He was flanked by his dad on League Division Series in which he hit tion and then scattered across the turf to That’s just the way it was. That was our more frequently, and more comfortably,
this day, too. So much of Junior’s mes- .391 with a 1.488 on-base-plus-slugging play catch. culture: religion, fashion, music, base- in their footsteps.
sage, to a reporter in that office or to the percentage. The Mariners’ run ended in “These are the influencers,” Ham- ball. That was us. That’s our thing. But we “Up here, you have guys that played
hundreds of kids in folding chairs, cen- the next round, but the game’s greatest monds said. “They put on his shoe and all lost a bit of that.” that want to help you. We’re hoping that
ters on the importance of being a part of star delivered an upset on the game’s of a sudden it’s back in the hallways. The Before this official role in the commis- in 20, 30 years, you’re sitting up here
this rare fraternity built on a shared greatest stage. ‘Swingman’ still has a brand. Why not get sioner’s office, Griffey made change his teaching the next generation,” Griffey
understanding that transcends genera- A year later, Nike signed Griffey and it on the backs of these future generations own way, less with words than by exam- told the kids that day. “We want to be
tions. released the first signature shoe for a who want to become him not only on the ple. In April 1997, Griffey asked to switch those old guys sitting in the barbershop,
“We’re trying to introduce them to this baseball player, an acknowledgment that field but off the field?” his Mariners number from 24 to 42 to talking about: ‘Hey, I saw him when he
history,” said Hammonds, who long the sweet-swinging kid with the back- commemorate the 50th anniversary of was this big. And now he’s here; look
pushed for Griffey to be a part of efforts ward hat had brought “cool” to a game ••• Jackie Robinson’s MLB debut. He did it where he’s going.’ ”
like this. “It’s one of those scenarios that wasn’t always known for it. In the years since Griffey retired, the again 10 years later, but this time MLB chelsea.janes@washpost.com
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Ken Gri≠ey Jr.

ILLUSTRATION BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

“These kids don’t feel sometimes that they can be seen.”

KEN GRIFFEY JR., on young Black players
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CC Sabathia

ILLUSTRATION BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

“Right now, this sport is not for us,

and we know that.”
CC SABATHIA
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An endless
summer of
brotherhood
for Sabathia
Ace felt isolated before
stint with diverse Brewers
changed everything
BY J ERRY B REWER

I
t’s just three months in his sprawl-
ing 19-season career, but for CC
Sabathia, the memories are vivid.
And personal. That summer — one
of brotherhood, one of belonging
— carries disproportionate signifi-
cance. He can boast his 3,093 strikeouts,
six all-star appearances and Cy Young
Award. He can flash his 2009 World
Series ring. But if you want to really
experience his journey through baseball,
let him recall his summer in Milwaukee.
On July 7, 2008, the Cleveland Indians
traded Sabathia to a Brewers franchise
that hadn’t made the playoffs in 26 years.
Sabathia, a free agent after the season,
had sensed his time in Cleveland was
ending. But when the deal became offi-
cial, he went home to his wife and cried.
Cleveland was the team that drafted him,
the city that embraced him. Change felt
awkward.
Then he entered the Milwaukee club-
house.
“I just fit in,” Sabathia said later. There
was so much reason for comfort. Catcher
Jason Kendall and infielder Craig Coun-
sell were quality leaders. Reliever David
Riske was a good friend and a former
Cleveland teammate. But for Sabathia,
the best part was the team’s core of Black
players. Prince Fielder started at first
base, Rickie Weeks at second, Bill Hall at
third. Mike Cameron, another respected
leader, was the center fielder. The roster
also included Ray Durham and Tony
Gwynn Jr.
After home games, they would linger
in the clubhouse and talk well into the
night. On Sundays, Cameron would blast
Michael Jackson songs. For the first time
in his major league career, Sabathia
didn’t have to shrink to have chemistry
with his teammates. It’s hard for a
6-foot-6, 300-pound man to keep shrink-
ing.
For those three months, he pitched
better than he ever had, delivering one of
the most remarkable stretches in base-
ball history. He took the ball on short rest
and dominated National League teams
unfamiliar with him. He showed power
and athleticism as a hitter. The Brewers
needed every ounce of his excellence to
win 90 games and edge the New York
Mets for a wild-card spot.
Sabathia wasn’t worried about free
agency or the risk of injury. He was just
competing, fighting for his new brothers.
So often, he felt isolated playing a sport
with diminishing appeal to the Black
community. But not that summer. He
could be loose, but he also felt a connec-
tion.
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“I didn’t want the season to end,”
Sabathia later told reporters. “We were
having so much fun.”
••• CC Sabathia made tral this season. “We all understood he had life-chang- •••
The year before, in spring training, 17 regular season starts “We had a sense of comfort that you ing money on the line,” Cameron said. Cameron was touched when he started
Sabathia had expressed frustration with for the Brewers in 2008 don’t get a chance to experience as much “But this guy, he felt like he had a respon- reading Sabathia’s book, which came out
baseball. He had been the lone Black and went 11-2 with a in the game,” Cameron said. “In baseball, sibility to us, and he couldn’t stop be- this summer and includes admiration of
player on Cleveland’s 25-man roster the 1.65 ERA to help the people become your life. If you’re cause of the joy we were having. This guy Cameron’s leadership. It felt good to
year prior and was entering a season in Milwaukee win the going to be any good, their values become put everything on his back and took care Cameron to be remembered in such a
which he and Dontrelle Willis were the National League wild your values. On that team, it was in our of us.” way. During his 17 seasons in the majors,
game’s only significant Black starting card. “I didn’t want the DNA. It was natural. It wasn’t forced. It Weeks called the performance “the he invested much of his energy in club-
pitchers. Baseball was deep into the era of season to end,” he said. elevates your game. Milwaukee, it revived best I’ve ever seen.” Sabathia went on to house cohesion.
the vanishing Black star. “We were having so me. I think it revived all of us.” win a championship with the Yankees the “We talked a lot when he was in Mil-
“It’s not just a problem,” Sabathia said much fun.” next season, and in 2010, he won 21 games waukee,” Cameron said. “For him to do
that spring. “It’s a crisis.” ••• to join the Black Aces — the name Mudcat that, he showed me the greatest respect.
He caused a stir. Some dismissed his Dave Sims, a play-by-play announcer Grant gave to the group of Black pitchers It reminded me that we had something
comments as dramatic, but the problem for the Seattle Mariners, greets every who have won 20 games in a season — special.”
of Black representation continues today. food table after a game and someone said Black person around baseball in a similar whom Sabathia grew up admiring. He In March 2019, Sabathia faced De-
His generation signifies a period in which some racist s--- that made me livid, I manner. was in the prime of his career, but amid troit Tigers outfielder Daz Cameron, the
the bridge collapsed. would just walk out.” “Glad to see you,” he will say. “Glad to all the highs, Milwaukee still has a special son of his former teammate, during a
Sabathia, 41, fell in love with the game Black players learned to appreciate see somebody that looks like me.” place. spring training game. Sabathia threw a
while shadowing his father, which meant just getting to see each other. When they Two years after the 2008 season, the As he has detailed in recent years, he first-pitch fastball, and the young play-
he grew up idolizing stars who looked like played against each other, they went to Mariners and Brewers played an inter- battled alcoholism for much of his career, er, just 22 at the time, jumped on it,
him. As a boy from Vallejo, Calif., Sa- dinner after the game. They stay connect- league series. Sabathia was gone; as ex- an addiction that dates from losing his drilling a line drive into the gap in
bathia worshiped Oakland’s Dave Stew- ed on text message threads. They knew pected, he left Milwaukee after that father and several other loved ones early left-center field.
art and Dave Parker. During his child- not to take their existence for granted. memorable run and signed a $161 million in life. When Sabathia felt alone, he Cameron sprinted to second base and
hood, he related to many of the MVPs: “When I first came up, there were so contract to join the New York Yankees. drank. The loneliness compelled him dai- grinned upon arriving safely. Sabathia
George Bell, Rickey Henderson, Frank many Black players in the league you had But the 2010 Brewers still had a reputa- ly. looked back at him, smiled and felt an-
Thomas, Ken Griffey Jr., Mo Vaughn, the luxury of not liking some of them,” tion for valuing Black talent. So when “I know the isolation that I have broad- cient as he rubbed the baseball, took off
Andre Dawson, Kevin Mitchell, Barry Sabathia wrote. “But right now,” he went Sims greeted the Brewers’ Weeks, Weeks casting while Black,” Sims said. “For these his cap and prepared to get through
Bonds, Terry Pendleton, Barry Larkin. He on, “this sport is not for us, and we know let him in on the secret. guys, that isolation has got to be murder. I another tough inning.
saw Dwight Gooden and Stewart win 20 that.” “Man, it’s the place to be,” he told Sims. can take my binoculars and count the Sabathia was 38. He was making his
games and dreamed of doing the same. The 2008 Brewers weren’t a refuge. Sabathia will always have a special number of African Americans in the ball- first start since undergoing a heart pro-
But by the time Sabathia had estab- They were an example of why diversify- piece of that legacy. In his three months, park for games. It’s just sad. The fabric of cedure three months earlier. He was at
lished himself in the big leagues, the days ing the game matters. When Sabathia he started 17 games and posted an 11-2 the game, the continuity of it, just gets the beginning of his final season, and he
of abundant Black talent were over. He arrived, they became a force, and though record with a 1.65 ERA. He threw seven lost in the Black community now. had played just long enough to compete
had too much personality to be a loner. they lost to Philadelphia in the playoffs, complete games for Milwaukee, includ- “I was raised on baseball. I did a lot in against the little Cameron boy who used
Still, he didn’t feel he could be himself. that Milwaukee team created a winning ing three shutouts. He pitched on three my career, but I was 54 before I got this to squeeze in batting cage sessions along-
“Even when I was an established vet- foundation that propelled the Brewers to days’ rest. He averaged about 72/3 innings job. I’d be at football practices, saying: side his father’s teammates.
eran, I always put being a good teammate a 96-win season in 2011. Before 2008, per start. His teammates marveled at ‘There’s our first baseman. There’s our left For Sabathia, his last year was partly
over my personal feelings,” Sabathia Milwaukee had made the postseason just how — with so much money at stake, fielder. There’s our center fielder.’ I’ve had about passing the game on, one pitch at a
wrote in his autobiography, “Till The twice. Since then, it has made five ap- money he was almost guaranteed regard- some great gigs, but this is the best gig I’ve time. And when Daz saw that fastball, he
End,” which he co-authored with Chris pearances in 13 years, and the Brewers less of how he performed — Sabathia ever had. And I just want more of us to knew exactly what to do with it.
Smith. “So if we were sitting around the have a comfortable lead in the NL Cen- refused to play it safe. have that kind of feeling about baseball.” jerry.brewer@washpost.com
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Bruce Maxwell

ILLUSTRATION BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

“When it comes to my actions, the way I went about my business,

hell no, I’d do it all over again.”
BRUCE MAXWELL, on kneeling during the national anthem
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Maxwell
took a knee.
Baseball
played on.
In 2017, the Athletics catcher
joined a movement. He’s
still fighting his way back.
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY

B
aseball is life, his father told
him, so Bruce Maxwell
trained himself, at 7 years
old, to treat it that way.
At first, in those early
springs and summers in
Huntsville, Ala., when batting practice
ended once daylight ran out, that saying
— Baseball is life, Bruce — meant swing-
ing more, throwing more, doing more of
whatever to get ahead. But time turned
the lesson into a warning.
When Maxwell was 10 and won a
tournament in Alabama, a man told him
and his father that they better leave or
people may try to hang them. Bruce’s
father, also named Bruce and a military
veteran, is Black. His mother is White.
After other games, Maxwell recalls see-
ing men dressed in white sheets on the
side of the road, heading toward the
woods. His parents later explained that
they were members of the Ku Klux Klan.
So when he was 26, when he watched
President Donald Trump speak in his
hometown in September 2017 about NFL
players kneeling during the national
anthem, something rumbled inside Max-
well.
He heard Trump’s viral line: “Wouldn’t
you love to see one of these NFL owners,
when somebody disrespects our flag, to
say: ‘Get that son of a b---- off the field
right now. Out! He’s fired.’ ”
He then heard Huntsville cheer.
By the next afternoon in Oakland,
where Maxwell was a catcher for the
Athletics, he had his response. The
teams lined up for the pregame anthem
and he knelt to the field, a silent protest
of systemic racism and police brutality in
America. He placed his hat over his heart
and lifted his eyes to the flag.
Baseball and life had never over-
lapped this much, and life would never
be the same.
•••
No other baseball player knelt during
the anthem that season. On-field pro-
tests weren’t accepted by the sport for
another three years — until players,
coaches and executives began wearing
“Black Lives Matter” shirts in batting
practice last summer, then teams all held
a black ribbon as part of a leaguewide
show of unity on Opening Day.
The Players Alliance, a large group of
Black current and former players,
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formed after George Floyd was mur-
dered by a police officer in Minneapolis.
By then, Maxwell had finished a stint in
the Mexican League, on the margins of
the margin, and was looking to get back Catcher Bruce Maxwell player who knelt in Oakland, then an- “No, it’s still broken. Still broken,” he tough for a young man to deal with
to the majors. But the label, as the young took a knee in protest gered by the guy who was charged with a continued. “People just don’t under- because he felt like he was doing the
catcher who knelt, has made that diffi- during a 2017 game in crime. stand this [expletive has] been going on right thing,” Kreuter, who is White, said
cult. Oakland. Maxwell says But after a 90-minute discussion, and for years. A lot of the issues in the game of Maxwell being known as the player
“I regret, honestly, not understanding the only thing he regrets once Maxwell agreed to have his lawyer today, when it comes to this topic, it’s who knelt. “When you feel like you’re
what was coming my way and the is “not understanding forward all legal documents to Murray, ingrained in baseball. People always say doing something right and everybody
volume,” said Maxwell, now 30, in a what was coming my she wanted to help. Maxwell moved in baseball is American, it’s our country. . . . says you’re not doing it right, it’s confus-
recent phone conversation. “I regret way and the volume.” with her and Stewart, Murray’s husband, And I’m like, ‘Yeah, it is.’ ” ing and tough and challenging.”
being by myself because everybody left He hasn’t been in the three weeks later. Then why does he want to keep Kreuter had Maxwell until the Mets
me out to dry — people I thought were majors since 2018. “He was in the eye of the storm, and playing? sent him to the Giants in early June. The
friends of mine. But when it comes to my when you’re in the eye of the storm, you “Because at the end of the day, I know I San Francisco Chronicle headline read:
actions, the way I went about my busi- can’t see the scale of it,” Murray recalled. can still do it. I can still be better than I “Giants trade for former A’s catcher
ness, hell no, I’d do it all over again.” “Part of it was owning his part, too. I do was, especially after this time to kind of Bruce Maxwell, who was first to kneel.”
Maxwell is on a minor league contract “F--- baseball!” in the back of a police car. think he turned to alcohol for coping. It reinvent myself,” he answered. “. . . The Maxwell was assigned to the Class AA
with the San Francisco Giants, recover- In April 2018, he reached a plea agree- drowned out the voices. When most kids that I mentor, my family, my friends, Richmond Flying Squirrels, to a place
ing from Tommy John surgery he under- ment, and the state dropped the felony young people come into their own, there even my friends that look up to me, I reckoning with its Confederate past.
went July 22. He is staring down a charges, stating that Maxwell didn’t is a conflict between the boy who has to never want to think of the day where I As debate in Richmond continued this
year-long recovery for just a chance to point his gun at the woman as the initial be led and the man who wants to lead. tell them I just quit. summer over whether to remove the
claw back to where he was a half-decade report alleged. Unfortunately, those worlds collided for “I’m not a quitter.” city’s statue of Robert E. Lee, Maxwell
ago. “Do I regret frightening that woman him at a crazy time. I became angered by hurt his elbow and headed west for
He wants to prove that, despite the when it comes to that altercation we had the perception of Bruce and that no one ••• surgery. The break gave him time to
past four years, he can still help a team that was misunderstood? Yes, because I stepped forward to protect him.” Before the 2020 season, following his coach a youth team in Phoenix, and he
win at the highest level. He wants to was frightened myself,” Maxwell said. stop in Mexico, Maxwell turned down plans to work with underprivileged kids
prove that for his family and himself. “But do I regret my preparation? No, ••• another opportunity from the Athletics. and on civic engagement while rehab-
On Sept. 23, 2017, when his life was because I prepared for the worst because Maxwell’s career major league stats He felt they were doing a favor for bing from surgery. But before tearing a
split in half — before and after kneeling the worst had been given to me multiple are 127 games, 88 hits, five homers, 42 Stewart, his agent and a key part of ligament in his elbow, he rediscovered
alone — Maxwell and his family received times before that moment.” RBI, 100 strikeouts and 9191/3 innings at Oakland’s great teams in the late 1980s his purpose on the field.
death threats and vitriol on social media. He played in 18 games with the catcher. His biggest regret would be and early 1990s. Stewart disagreed pub- The Flying Squirrels were in Connecti-
Maxwell called that period a “dark place” Athletics in 2018 and was granted free letting those freeze without a fight. licly, telling ESPN that Maxwell had to cut in late June, facing the Hartford Yard
and revealed he contemplated suicide. agency at the end of the year. When no Since September 2017, many players “get past his ego.” But for Maxwell, the Goats. The score was tied at 3. Maxwell
That October, while living in Scottsdale, teams called to sign him the next offsea- have admitted they wish they had knelt situation didn’t seem right. was hitless with two strikeouts, then
Ariz., he ordered food from Postmates, son, he figured he was blackballed from with Maxwell. Feelings about discussing He eventually landed with the Mets stepped into a lefty-lefty matchup with a
forgot it was coming and nodded off. The the sport, similar to Colin Kaepernick’s race or politics in the clubhouse have and spent the pandemic year at their hard-throwing prospect, two on and
knocks at the door startled him, and he situation with the NFL. Maxwell’s agent slowly evolved. But from afar, from alternate site, where minor leaguers none down.
had a confrontation with a female deliv- Dave Stewart would tell ESPN that Mexico and minor league shots with the trained and hoped for a shot. Typically His favorite part was always solving
ery person, opening the door with a gun teams were more turned away by the gun New York Mets and Giants, Maxwell an emotional player, Maxwell stayed problems, whether at the plate or behind
in hand. charge than Maxwell’s protest. hasn’t seen meaningful change. reserved and quiet off the field. Maxwell it, when he can use his brain to excel.
Maxwell, who was a licensed gun Either way, Maxwell was lost, his life “It’s like breaking your arm and then felt as if he was being watched closely, as Here, he sat fastball, predicting the
owner, was arrested and charged with and baseball unraveling together. putting a Band-Aid on it, like, ‘Get if he was one frown away from being pitcher’s move, before ripping an RBI
aggravated assault with a deadly weapon “When I met him, he was broken. He better,’ ” Maxwell said of MLB announc- released. Chad Kreuter, manager of the single in a mostly empty ballpark. He
and disorderly conduct. He later ex- was broken without confidence,” said ing in December that it would recognize Syracuse Mets, the club’s Class AAA helped a dugout of dreamers push just
plained that the death threats had put Lonnie Murray, who represents Maxwell the Negro Leagues as part of its official affiliate, reserved judgment until meet- ahead of their opponent, a small victory
him on edge and he had been drinking with Stewart, of her first encounter with records. Maxwell asked rhetorically how ing Maxwell in person. Then Kreuter in a win no one will remember.
with friends that afternoon. In a video of Maxwell in December 2018. Murray that would help increase the number of found a kid, a catcher the same age as his He called it his favorite moment of a
the arrest that was released by TMZ, agreed to sit with Maxwell as a favor, Black players in the minors or Black son, who needed someone to trust. life in baseball. He felt like he belonged.
Maxwell is seen yelling, “F--- MLB!” and, describing how she was proud of the executives in decision-making roles. “It was a burden on him, and it was jesse.dougherty@washpost.com
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Anderson
flips the
unwritten
script
The White Sox star plays
the only way he knows —
even if it’s not the ‘right way’
BY M ICHAEL L EE
IN BALTIMORE

W
hen Tim Anderson says
he’s “part of that cul-
ture,” he’s not speaking
of the personality-sup-
pressing culture that
permeates baseball.
He’s speaking of the culture that envel-
oped him while growing up in Tuscaloosa,
Ala. The one he fit snugly into as a LeBron
James-loving hoops junkie and that rules
the South Side of the city he represents.
The one he couldn’t hide even if he
tried.
“I’m Black as Black get,” Anderson, 28,
the Chicago White Sox shortstop, says one
summer day in Baltimore as he prepares
for a game against the Orioles. “I’m real as
real get.”
Anderson has won a batting title and a
Silver Slugger award, and he recently
made his first all-star team. But he re-
mains best known for an April 2019 bat
flip that really was more of a javelin toss.
The unbridled excitement, the impas-
sioned “Let’s go!” — the wood wasn’t
flipped that day. The script was. If only for
a moment, Anderson had freed the game
from its contrived and archaic “right way.”
It came after a pitch from Kansas City’s
Brad Keller, which Anderson clobbered
into left field, off some inattentive kid’s
right shoulder. Anderson lifted his bat
with the vigor of Dizzy Gillespie prepar-
ing to blow his trumpet, of Jimi Hendrix
readying to strum his Fender Stratocaster
with his teeth, and hurled it toward his
team’s dugout. He basically thanked the
bat for its service.
Aside from the home run chain that
would be placed over his head after cross-
ing home plate, Anderson had no idea
what would follow. The retaliation. The
adulation. The suspension.
But baseball hasn’t been quite the same
since. It makes sense that the only major
pro sport that requires players to wear
button-up uniforms would prize a con-
strained approach to success. But that
flair, which has long been embraced in the
NBA and recently has been encouraged by
the NFL, is starting to be promoted by
MLB to help attract a younger audience.
Anderson had to chuck it so Fernando
Tatis Jr. could flip it and hesi-step around
third base.
“We are playing a struggling game,
where you struggle every day,” Anderson
says. “It’s okay to celebrate the positive
things and not get down on yourself,
because that’s going to be a confidence
builder to keep making you get better.”
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•••
Anderson’s life is a celebration of perse-
verance and improbability. His father was
jailed on a drug conviction before he was Tim Anderson’s 2019 from leaders of the old school who want to still don’t care. To this day.” nection. He has found it. His teammates
born. He was raised by his aunt and her bat flip went viral, police the game’s “unwritten rules.” Keller hit Anderson with a 92-mph respond to his energy. La Russa has
husband, with the former serving as a shaking up the game. This season, Anderson’s White Sox pitch to the hip on his next at-bat, leading praised his leadership, acknowledging
mom and, as he got older, a close friend. Hostilities tend to teammate Yermín Mercedes homered on to a benches-clearing exchange in which Anderson as the face and backbone of the
He turned one college scholarship offer, follow, such as when the a 3-0 pitch in the ninth inning of a Anderson got so enraged, he called Keller, White Sox. Baseball struggles to sell its
in his distant-second-favorite sport, into Royals threw at blowout win. That angered the Minne- who is White, “a weak-ass n-----.” Keller stars, though, because despite his produc-
two years of community college and a spot Anderson that season, sota Twins — and White Sox Manager got suspended five games for triggering tion and bat-flipping exploits, Anderson
in the first round of the 2013 draft. He lost clearing the benches. Tony La Russa, a 76-year-old stickler for the incident. The word choice got Ander- was overlooked in all-star voting before
his closest friend to gun violence before tradition, who had instructed Mercedes, a son a one-game suspension that he didn’t MLB made him an injury replacement.
finding stardom in the major leagues. 28-year-old rookie, not to swing. Mer- bother appealing. “Sometimes you’ve got to over-prove
He didn’t overcome the odds, because cedes “disrespected” the game, the think- “Strike me out, dog,” Anderson says. yourself,” Anderson says the day he made
odds can’t compute his journey. East Central sought payback in the play- ing went. Never mind the Twins had a “Then you can do whatever back to me. the team. “I knew I was an all-star, way
“You never know where you might end offs against a team that had mercy-ruled utility player on the mound throwing Don’t hit me, man.” before this. I didn’t need anybody to
up at. Keep being you and never let nobody it twice that season. Anderson stole third slow-pitch meatballs. confirm that.”
label you,” he says. “I want to be that with his team up 11-1. “Coach, we ain’t The next game, Twins reliever Tyler ••• He also isn’t just on a crusade to inject
person that, when you at the concession, done yet,” Anderson told him as he Duffey threw a 93-mph pitch behind Mer- That weekend at Camden Yards, An- more fun into the game. He is hoping to
you want to stop and see the at-bat. When I popped up. cedes. derson emerges from the dugout to hear present baseball as cool and accepting,
step in between the lines, I know I’m the “He’s really trying to have fun playing “That’s a sign of weakness. That’s real Ja Rule blaring from the stadium speak- particularly to Black families. Anderson
best. I believe it. So it’s on me to show it. It’s the game,” Holliman says. “I don’t think weak,” Anderson says of throwing at hit- ers. “Where would I be without my ba- and his family live year-round in Chicago.
the right mind-set to have. Guys are good. he’s trying to offend anyone.” ters. “That’s just unnecessary. Beat us fair bay?” he sings, assuming the raspy bari- He and his wife, Bria, set up a charity to
If I tell myself I’m anything less, then I’m Anderson’s favorite baseball player was and square.” tone of the rapper. Then, stretching and provide back-to-school haircuts, back-
beat.” Ken Griffey Jr., with that backward cap, The incident again ignited the debate jogging with his teammates, he appears packs and school supplies to at-risk kids,
Anderson didn’t play on travel teams or that swag and those five-tool skills that about the rightful arbiter of baseball to notice that the hip-hop music suits his and they held Thanksgiving turkey give-
spend much time studying or watching made the game look easy. But Anderson’s sportsmanship. The “right way” has been tastes and says, to no one in particular, aways in Chicago and Tuscaloosa. This
the game on television; he grew up play- interest in baseball didn’t extend beyond code for the “White way” for decades, “They must’ve heard I was here.” season, Nike outfitted teams with City
ing for fun. Neal Holliman, Anderson’s playing it. James remains his favorite because it’s mostly one segment of base- Last season, Anderson was the only Connect uniforms, meant to represent a
coach at East Central Community College athlete. Though reserved, Anderson felt ball’s diverse mix of players that feels Black player on the White Sox. It wasn’t deeper connection with its communities.
in Decatur, Miss., discovered Anderson comfortable with a basketball culture obligated to enforce it. an unusual experience in MLB, where just Anderson assisted with the design, sug-
while recruiting another player at Hill- that values celebrating and mean-mug- Recently, baseball has been at war with 7 percent of players on Opening Day gesting that the jerseys read “Southside.”
crest High in Tuscaloosa. The school’s ging. And he still can’t understand why itself, promoting “Let the kids play” to rosters were Black, a percentage similar He was outspoken after George Floyd’s
baseball coach at the time told Holliman, such displays are frowned upon in base- push its product while some players flash to 1958, when the Boston Red Sox were murder last year and pointed to the lack
“My best guy is in basketball.” Anderson ball, the only sport where getting a hit 30 fun-police badges with inside fastballs. the last team yet to integrate. But that of access and opportunity for Black kids
only joined the baseball team about 10 percent of the time is viewed as greatness. After Anderson’s lumber launch, Holliman doesn’t make it easier. to pursue professional careers in base-
games into the season, after winning a “You are playing a failing game,” he says, he knew Anderson would “get “Sometimes, it can be a struggle,” An- ball. He also understands the responsibil-
state championship as a star point guard. says. “If you’re playing this game and smoked.” But he can also understand why derson says. “You walk in that locker room ity he has as a role model playing in a part
The first time Holliman saw him play, handling it well, then you’re a strong Anderson was stunned by the retribution, and you don’t see nobody that look like of Chicago besieged by violence and with
Anderson smacked two home runs. person.” because he “probably missed out” on how you, that can relate to you when you’re limited resources.
Holliman says Anderson “wasn’t some The culture of baseball is slowly shift- celebratory reactions get handled in base- going through certain things. Because you “I feel like I definitely speak for the
outbursting, flamboyant personality” ing Anderson’s way. More teams have ball. just can’t vent to anybody, know what I culture,” Anderson says that day in Balti-
back then, but he didn’t lack confidence, home run chains. Griffey draped a spin- “I didn’t realize until I did the bat flip mean? None of my homies played base- more. “I’m very aware of what’s going on
either. They butted heads over Holliman’s ning medallion around Pete Alonso’s neck that it may have been in the wrong. Not ball.” and what seat I’m in. I know I can’t mess
no-nonsense approach, but the only time after Alonso won the Home Run Derby. the wrong thing to do, but it may rub some But Anderson isn’t a loner, aimlessly this up.”
Anderson did anything showy was when There remains a resistance, however, people the wrong way,” Anderson says. “I wandering the clubhouse seeking a con- michael.lee@washpost.com
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Tim Anderson

ILLUSTRATION BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

“I’m Black as Black get.

I’m real as real get.”
TIM ANDERSON
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Ian Moller

ILLUSTRATION BY DESIREE KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

“I wouldn’t want to be fake and make it.

... I like my culture.”
IAN MOLLER
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Moller is
ready to be
Black behind
the plate
Catcher prospect balks
at calls to switch positions,
wants to upend a stereotype
BY K ENT B ABB
IN DUBUQUE, IOWA
I
t’s Pizza Friday, a Moller family
tradition, and after months of
FaceTiming in from college, Alexis
drove home for the occasion. To-
morrow morning, on a frigid spring
day on a baseball field an hour to
the southwest, her younger brother will,
for the first time in months, be playing in
an actual baseball game.
Ian Moller will step into the batter’s
box, face live pitching, crouch behind
home plate. He’s a power hitter with light-
ning-quick hands and instincts. If all goes
right, his ability at a premium position
could make him a top pick in the MLB
draft. Pizza Fridays, at least as the family
knows them, are fleeting. Tomorrow Alex-
is and their mother, Shannon, will watch
from behind a fence and hope for the best.
But Ian’s father is afraid his son, sur-
rounded by big league scouts, will step
into some invisible trap.
“You might hear some cuss words,”
Steven Moller says, and most everyone
laughs. Ian doesn’t.
“Just sit back and enjoy it,” he suggests.
“Even if you strike out?”
Steven isn’t worried because his
18-year-old son may have forgotten how to
hit. It’s actually because two parts of his
son seem in conflict. Ian Moller is a catch-
er. And he is Black. Steven wants to avoid
drawing further attention to the conflu-
ence of those facts.
“I don’t worry about it,” Ian says.
“Sometimes I see the bigger picture,”
Steven says.
For the past three decades, baseball has
tried, and mostly failed, to draw Black
Americans back into a sport whose bright-
est stars and most important figures have
included Hank Aaron and Jackie Robin-
son, Reggie Jackson and Rickey Hender-
son, Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. In
2020, only one in 12 players on major
league rosters was African American.
At no position is the decline starker than
catcher, baseball’s quarterback and time-
keeper. In the past two decades, only one
African American player, Charles Johnson,
has suited up as a big league team’s every-
day catcher. Johnson, who retired in 2005,
has since watched his kids gravitate to
football and basketball, drawn to charis-
matic players such as Chad Johnson and
LeBron James. Charles Johnson blames
towering equipment costs and the posi-
tion’s inglorious grind for pushing some
athletes away.
Those aren’t the only reasons, he says.
“The stereotype that African Americans
don’t have that kind of leadership capabili-
ties,” says Johnson, a four-time Gold Glov-
er. “Some of those issues have always been
disturbing to me in a sense, because it’s not
that they can’t do it. It’s that they haven’t
been given a chance.”
Ian Moller has played no other position
since he was 13. His goal is to become the
first Black catcher since Johnson to be
drafted in the first round. But his talent
hasn’t stopped coaches and scouts from
attempting to move him to third base or the
outfield. Ian has refused, though it’s per-
haps the only part of his identity the young
man is unwilling to trade for a chance at the
big leagues.
Sunglasses during batting practice?
Wristbands with Ian’s jersey number? His
hair? All modified or hidden, in part be-
cause Steven is almost constantly remind-
ing Ian that certain behaviors “paint a
picture” that doesn’t sit well with some
baseball traditionalists.
“I remember when you had some fancy
shoes or something,” Steven says, “and
somebody — ‘What is he trying to do? Who
is he, Deion Sanders?’ Stupid me, the next
day I went out and got him some plain
white shoes.”
Ian doesn’t reply and instead offers
Jeter, the family dog, pizza sauce from his
thumb. Steven’s phone buzzes; he reads a
text. A coach is asking if Ian can pitch
tomorrow.
Steven laughs and shows Ian the display,
and the young man sighs.
“I’m a catcher,” Ian says.
•••
The first games start at 9 a.m., and
coaches told Steven it would look bad if the
family arrived after 8:15. He pulls his SUV
into Prospect Meadows, a sprawling sports
complex near Cedar Rapids, at 7:30.
“You’re on,” he tells Ian. Steven reminds
him that scouts will evaluate him on no less
than how he steps out of the vehicle.
Ian Moller, center at
top, celebrated after the
Texas Rangers drafted
him last month. Having
played nothing but
catcher since he was 13,
Moller, pictured above
putting in work in the
batting cage, resisted
calls to change
positions, even if doing
so might have improved
his big league prospects.
Ian exits and unloads his equipment
silently, hoisting a bag onto a shoulder and
keeping his eyes forward as the gravel
crunches under his cleats. It’s late March in
eastern Iowa, snow still in the shadows five
days after a storm. But Steven grumbles
that Ian’s hoodie is cinched around his
head and expresses relief that it’s too cold
for his son to wear shorts or sandals.
As Ian walks toward Cunningham Field,
Steven shakes his head. He says this is the
price of making it, or at least one of them.
A decade ago, the family dedicated itself
to pushing Ian toward a baseball career.
They put 237,000 miles on their old Esca-
lade, driving it to fields in Orlando and
Atlanta and Chicago. Vacations were base-
ball showcases; meals were peanut butter
sandwiches and cereal mixed with pop-
corn. Steven and Shannon loaded their
credit cards with expenses related to travel
baseball.
Ian was in seventh grade when he gave
up basketball and football. A year later he
further specialized, giving up other posi-
tions to play catcher.
“I was the only kid on my team,” he says,
“who really wasn’t scared of the ball.”
Steven, who had played the same posi-
tion years earlier, always heard the quick-
est path to being drafted starts behind the
plate. But it’s hell on the knees and an
assault on the mind. Catchers call pitches,
counsel pitchers and help align the de-
fense. It’s no wonder, then, that in 2018,
nearly half of all big league managers were
former catchers. This season, only the Los
Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros have
Black managers; no team’s general manag-
er is Black.
Ian Moller was 11 when he asked his dad,
who coached his youth baseball team, to
stop calling pitches. By then Ian had
learned to watch hitters in the cage before
games, study them in the on-deck circle
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and examine their plate appearances to
determine their vulnerability to certain
pitch locations.
“After the first at-bat,” Ian says now, “I
would always know what their approach is
and what they’re trying to do.”
He fell in love with the position’s
nuances, its strains, its intellectual rigor.
Sometimes he would fire a warmup throw
to second base to strike fear into base
runners; other times he would sling it into
the outfield on purpose, daring them to
steal. And because father and son had a
plan, Steven had no intention of putting
him anywhere else.
Ian transferred out of his public middle
school after a classmate called him the
n-word, Steven says, and enrolled at pri-
vate Wahlert Catholic. As a senior, he was
one of five Black students, Ian says. He did
an independent study on Black culture,
presenting to a classroom of White kids
who asked about his hair, why certain
language is deemed inappropriate for one
race but not another and why an athletic
kid like Ian played baseball, of all things,
and not one of the cool sports.
He skipped school dances because they
shared space on the calendar with baseball
tournaments. He was usually the only
Black player in his Iowa league, and he
counted none of his teammates as friends.
He played pickup basketball and listened
to music with Black friends, but he never
invited them to his baseball games.
“I wish he would embrace them coming.
But they’re going to cheer. And they’re
going to yell,” Steven says. In the hyper-pro-
fessional baseball culture as Steven sees it,
neither is acceptable. “It’d be, ‘Who are
those guys?’ ”
Ian committed to LSU as a freshman
and, a few years ago, scouts began showing
up to watch and critique him. When Ian
crushed a home run and circled the bases,
Steven says, one of the scouts scolded Ian
and said he had trotted too slowly. The next
time, he sprinted.
If one of them asked him to fix his hat or
tuck in his shirt, he did. Steven reminded
him that every game was a job interview,
every at-bat an evaluation, every reaction a
possible hint not just into his game but his
character.
As nine scouts watch Ian warm up,
Steven sighs. Yes, he has regrets. And be-
cause he cannot travel back in time, he says,
he tells the other baseball dads what he
wishes he could tell his younger self.
“I wouldn’t let this get as serious as it
did,” he says. “Not so soon.”
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•••
In his first at-bat in six months, Ian
strikes out. The next inning, the ball slips
out of his hand as a runner steals second.
It’s clear he’s rusty, but that’s not why his
father is pacing.
“He’s got to put his shirt in his pants,”
Steven mutters. The back of Ian’s jersey is
spilling out from the bottom of his sweat-
shirt.
Shannon scowls. Alexis tells him to look
at the other players, most of whom are
wearing untucked jerseys.
“I know he’s got a sweatshirt on, but . . .”
Steven continues. The other players, he
says, don’t have a future in pro baseball.
Stealing a glance at the scouts, Steven
whispers that it makes his son look unpro-
fessional.
“I’m not going to say anything now,” he
says.
Though playing catcher has indeed put
Ian on the major league path, staying at
catcher could actually delay his arrival. The
position requires specific skills that take
years to refine.
Steven says scouts have suggested Ian
will spend at least four years in the minor
leagues if he remains at catcher. His climb
potentially would be more rapid if he
would move to a less taxing position and
focus on his bat, Steven says. Refusing
could scare off some organizations, push
him lower on draft boards and cut that
bonus in half.
Baseball teams are assigned a pool of
money to spend on draft picks, and play-
ers selected in the first round were expect-
ed to receive bonuses between $2.4 mil-
lion and $8.4 million. That makes drafting
a catcher a particularly risky investment,
especially for players who haven’t played
college baseball. But Ian suspects there’s
more to it.
“People automatically think I’m not
smart enough to handle the position —
that I need to have more developing time,”
he says. “Even now, like, they have as-
sumptions about the type of person I am.
They’ll come in and be like, ‘You’re noth-
ing like what I thought you were.’ ”
Ian says he has met with representa-
tives from 20 major league franchises. He
claims one said he “articulated well,” and
another said Ian wasn’t the “thug” the
individual initially thought he was. He
says scouts routinely express surprise that
he carried a 3.5 grade-point average.
Steven suggests teams are just looking
for any reason to justify passing on him or
paying him less. If he celebrates a home run
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or argues a close play, is he being passion-
ate or angry? If he doesn’t react, is he being
professional or apathetic?
“I’m not worried about him,” Steven
says. “I’m worried about what people’s
perception of him is.”
His body language must be neutral. He
must raise no red flags and generate no
new entries in the scouts’ notebooks. It’s
why Ian, who often wears necklaces and
earrings at home, removes any jewelry
before he arrives at the field. He takes out
his hair twists. He straightens his cap.
If he has any hope of remaining at catch-
er and dismantling a modern template,
then Ian believes he must otherwise
project an image of what major league
teams want him to be — even if that’s not
exactly what he is.
Steven paces as Ian works the count to
2-2 before watching a curveball dip into the
strike zone. When the umpire calls him out,
Ian stands for a beat and blows out a
skeptical sigh.
“Come on,” Steven whispers. “You can’t
react.”
He keeps saying it, again and again, as
the scouts take notes.
“You cannot react.”
•••
The game ends, and Ian issues hugs to
his mom and sister. Steven is a few paces
away, glad-handing scouts. After a few
minutes, he returns and pats Ian’s shoul-
der. Then he smiles and points to the
untucked jersey. He asks about that called
third strike and Ian’s reaction.
“I’m swinging next time,” Ian says. He
doesn’t try to catch up with teammates or
friends. He doesn’t slouch or spit or disap-
pear inside a playlist. Instead, with Steven
hanging back to carry on politicking, Ian
walks alone.
Baseball isn’t fun anymore, he says.
Hasn’t been since eighth grade. This — all
this — feels like work.
“It’s hard; it’s a grind,” he says. “But I
appreciate the grind.”
Reaching any mountaintop takes ma-
neuvering and sacrifice, and this can in-
clude trading away parts of who you are.
Ian has been doing this for years, and he’s
almost there.
But with his hair straight, his earrings at
home and his more colorful gear hidden,
does this mean they’re gone? Ian smiles
when he considers this question. After he’s
drafted, he says, he’ll start revealing more
of his true self. He wants the other little
Ians out there to see and celebrate him, to
be the beacon Charles Johnson was for
him.
“Even now,” Ian says, “I have kids who
come up to me, who play other sports, and
say I want to be like that.”
He keeps walking.
“That touches me, because I think —
there’s a small percentage of people who
want me to change. The majority of people
would tell me to stay the same, but those
people aren’t really in any power.”
On this March morning, the draft is still
four months away. When it arrives, a catch-
er will be the first pick. But it won’t be Ian,
who will slip to the Texas Rangers at 103rd
overall, with a bonus value of about
$565,000. He will end up signing a little
more than a week later for $700,000 and
beginning his pro career.
None of that was part of the plan. But as
he again reaches the gravel parking lot in
March, Ian is asked which is more impor-
tant: retaining his identity or success?
“I wouldn’t want to be fake and make it,”
he says, reaching the family SUV. “I don’t
know. I like my culture.”
Steven opens the back hatch from a few
yards away, and Ian pushes his equipment
bag inside.
“I would rather be real to myself and to
my people,” Ian says before his dad walks
up, “and not make it.”
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An easy fix for worn-off markings on a cooktop
BY J EANNE H UBER
Q: My 11-year-old GE Profile gas
cooktop still works fine, but the
markings that show which
burner is on and how its heat is
set on a 1-to-5 scale have worn off.
The GE logo and information
about the child lock at the top of
the cooktop have also worn off.
My son, an engineer, said the
company should have stamped
the markings into the metal. I
have called the company several
times over the years for a fix and
did not get a satisfactory answer
or a correction. I have tried a
Magic Marker and an oil-based
Sharpie, but they wear off over
time. The numbers are too small
to re-create with a brush and oil-
based paint. I just keep
repainting the dots. I gave up on
the numbers on the outside of the
dials. What can I do?
Falls Church

A: Your son is right: The

markings would be much more
durable if they were stamped into
the cooktop. Unfortunately, that
doesn’t appear to be a design
detail that manufacturers
prioritize today.
A call to GE Appliances’
customer-service number
confirmed that you’re not the first
person to experience this
problem. Asked how often calls
come in with similar complaints,
an agent who could only give her
first name, Jennifer, said:
“Sometimes, but not very many.”
She said nothing abrasive should
be used to clean a cooktop, just
dish soap and water, and drying
should be done with a microfiber
cloth. (Probably unrealistic
advice when a stove is used
frequently and gets grease
spatters and occasional boil-
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stoves and cooktops made by
numerous manufacturers hints
that your problem is not rare, nor
is it limited to appliances made
by a single manufacturer.
Stovedecals.com, which claims to
have invented this solution in
2016, makes stickers that re-
create markings on specific
models of stoves and cooktops
made by companies such as GE,
Bosch, Frigidaire, Kenmore,
Samsung, LG and Whirlpool.
Another source is the Stove
Stickers shop on Etsy (etsy.com/
shop/StoveStickers).
It may take some sleuthing to
find the model number if you
don’t already have it handy. The
The markings on this
reader’s cooktop have
worn off. One solution is
purchasing stickers
that stand up to heat and
that re-create the look of
the original markings.
If you can’t find
stickers that match
the markings on
your stove, you
can probably
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labels that should last for six
years as long as they aren’t
scrubbed with rough materials.
Stove Stickers, which is based
in the United Kingdom, also uses
vinyl labels. It warns that
pandemic complications have
slowed down mailing operations,
so orders to the United States
may take five weeks or more to
arrive.
Karlovich said decals are easy to
apply. First you would need to
remove the knobs and get rid of
remnants of old markings. Some
people rub with a paste of baking
soda and water, while others use a
low-abrasive scrub powder, such as
Bar Keepers Friend. “We use a thin

overs.) GE Appliances website, ‘shark’ razor on our test panels to

Worn knobs are easy to
replace, she said, and they are
readily available through the
company’s repair parts division.
A set of four knobs with adapters
to fit most models of gas ranges
costs $18.20. But when markings
are on the background metal, the
only way to get new markings is
to replace the entire top panel.
Not only is that an expensive part
— $469.89 at
genuinereplacementparts.com for
a piece that would fit some four-
burner GE Profile models — but
that also needs to be installed by a
technician, Jennifer said, which
would be an added expense.
However, there is an easy
solution that will last for a while:
stickers that stand up to heat.
Several companies carry these.
And the fact that they re-create
the look of original markings on
geappliances.com, says it could be
in any of four places: under the
cooktop’s right rear side, under
the front right surface, under a
control knob, or on the bottom of
the cooktop. (To see a code
stamped on the bottom of the
cooktop, try opening the cabinet
or removing a drawer
underneath.) A GE code will
begin and end with a letter. For
tips on where to look on a product
from a different brand, call the
manufacturer’s customer service
or repair parts division.
If you can’t find stickers that
match the markings on your
stove, you can probably modify
what is available. For example, if
the stickers show more than five
heat settings, just orient the
labels so the gradations from low
to high match the way your dials
turn. Most important: Make sure
modify what
is available.
that “off” on the labels matches
where the dials turn off the
burners on your stove.
Sticker prices and terms of sale
vary. Stove Decals charges from
around $39.99 to $59.99 and
includes two sets of labels in
every order. The Stove Stickers
shop on Etsy charges about $8 for
one set and about $19 for six sets
of stickers with slightly different
designs. Stove Decals is based in
Florida and ships by U.S. Postal
Service, so orders should arrive in
a few days. Ben Karlovich, the
owner and founder, said his
company uses heat-resistant vinyl
lift off any remnants,” he wrote in
an email, “but if you use this
method, you’ll want to be careful
not to scratch the panel surface.”
Wipe off the residue, then use an
alcohol pad (included in orders
from Stove Decals) to take off traces
of grease. Once the area is clean
and dry, simply press each decal
into place. “The decals will adhere
easily as long as the panel is clean
and dry,” Karlovich said. Stove
Decals provides an application
stick that you can use to press the
decals down, but Karlovich said it
isn’t really necessary. “You can use
your hand/fingers for this step just
as well if preferred.”
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When it comes to doing laundry, does sorting matter? Sort of.

BY M EG S T- E SPRIT
M C K IVIGAN

Lydia and Marcus Washington,

parents of three young kids in
Salisbury, N.C., are a house divid-
ed. Not over religion, politics or
parenting strategies — but over
the proper way to do laundry.
Lydia, 36, is a separator. She
does a load of whites, a load of
delicates, then a load of “every-
thing else.” Marcus, 39, tosses ev-
erything in together. Although his
family taught him to separate his
laundry into darks and lights be-
fore he went away to college, he
has since abandoned the practice.
“Once I realized that my whites
didn’t change colors, I never went
back to separating,” he says. “It
takes much less time, and I don’t
understand the need to ever sepa-
rate again.”
Although the Washingtons dif-
fer in their methods, most millen-
nials do not sort their laundry — at
least that seems to be the case
from perusing Twitter, where a
recent viral tweet proclaimed:
“yall wanna talk about generation-
al divides? i dont know anyone
under 40 who separates laundry
into lights and darks.” The re-
sponses explaining why cited ev-
erything from money (it’s cheaper
to do fewer loads when you’re
using coin laundry machines) to
time (it’s quicker to jam every-
thing into one load, and the blur- ISTOCK

ring of work-life lines means we

are always short on time).
Some millennials certainly dis-
agreed, but it’s clear that many of
us do things differently than our
baby-boomer parents. We dump
everything into the washer on
cold, then go about our day. And
it’s working just fine for us.
But is it, though? We talked to
three laundry experts to sort out
the mystery behind, well, sorting.
If your parents taught you to
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worry as much about sorting their
laundry as previous generations
did, because they may not have
experienced as many laundry fail-
ures,” she says. Still, she washes
her clothes in two loads: lights and
darks, with cold water.
Patric Richardson, known as
the Laundry Evangelist and host of
Discovery Plus’s “The Laundry
Guy,” cites “fast fashion” as a main
reason millennials are less likely to
require an enzyme or other special
booster to remove oils. (Many
laundry brands sell specific deter-
“Consumers gent for activewear.) Towels can be
added to a regular load without
may not worry causing harm, he says.
All of these loads go into the
as much about washer on the express cycle with
two tablespoons of detergent on a
sorting their warm-water setting. Richardson
says he has learned through the
laundry as previous years that there is no need to use a
so can lead to the machine wear-
ing down sooner. Stewart’s techni-
cians at Mr. Appliance tell clients
to separate heavy items from deli-
cate items to keep the drum on the
machine balanced as it spins.
Stewart says that, as a mom, she
knows there’s a good chance that
younger folks won’t listen to her
advice: “In that case, we advise
using cold water and trying not to
overload the washer.” Zinna adds

separate your laundry by color
before washing, they probably
told you it was so dyes on natu-
ral fibers didn’t bleed onto one
another.
“If you’ve ever washed a white
dress shirt with a new red sock and
ended up with a pink dress shirt,
you might take separating laundry
loads more seriously,” says Jessica
Zinna, a senior scientist at Tide.
But she understands why
younger generations might not re-
alize that. We aren’t being willfully
ignorant; we’ve just grown up
with a different type of clothing
than our parents. Synthetic fibers,
such as polyester, acrylic or nylon,
which have become more popular
over the past few decades, behave
differently than natural fibers,
such as cotton, and can be more
durable and bleed less onto other
fabrics when washed together,
Zinna says. “Consumers may not
properly care for their clothes. Un-
like previous generations, which
kept clothes for years, we were
raised on clothes that were practi-
cally disposable. We might not no-
tice how our clothes wear down
over time from mixing colors in
large loads in the wash, but they do.
“A few things happen, and
they’re subtle enough over time,”
Richardson says. Your clothes “are
dingier from when you started
washing them until now. It’s hap-
pening a little bit at a time. Be-
cause you didn’t sort at all, every-
thing becomes abraded.”
His strategy? Five loads of laun-
dry per week: whites; blacks (“My
black cashmere sweater and black
bedsheets go in together,” he says);
cool colors (turquoise, aubergine);
warm colors (red, orange, yellow);
and athleisure. Performance knits
need their own load, because they
tend to be water repellent and
longer cycle; a short, warm cycle
generations did, with just enough soap is extremely
efficient.
because they may not Valerie Stewart, owner of a
Mr. Appliance franchise in Little-
have experienced ton, Colo., is a boomer mom of a
millennial daughter. “I asked my
as many laundry daughter why she doesn’t sort her
laundry,” she says. “Her first an-
failures.” swer was: ‘I’m busy and want to
Jessica Zinna, get it done as quickly as possible. I
senior scientist at Tide think I wash fewer loads this way.
It must be eco-friendly, right?’ ”
Although it may seem better to
condense your laundry into fewer,
larger loads, the water you save
probably won’t offset the wear and
tear on your clothes. Worn-out
clothes clog up landfills around
the world. Sorting results in clean-
er clothes that bleed less, last lon-
ger and look better, Stewart says.
In addition, stuffing your wash-
ing machine to the brim is not
good for its mechanics, and doing
that choosing clothing made from
synthetic fibers and washing them
on a cold, delicate cycle will help
prolong their life.
That said, the consensus from
these pros is clear: Take the time to
sort your laundry, because it will
keep your clothes looking nicer for
longer. “Don’t tell your mom she’s
right, though,” Richardson says.
“Not yet. Save it for Mother’s Day
as a gift.”
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GARDENING but, in one
respect, it is the
most important.
It was here, in 1802, that
company founder and French
emigre E. I. du Pont settled,
building a gracious beige
stuccoed country house on the
banks of the Brandywine Creek
as part of Eleutherian Mills, the
gunpowder works that grew into
the corporate giant DuPont.
Hagley’s main ornamental
garden, recently replanted and
revived, is based on the type of
formal fruit and vegetable
garden that the company
patriarch would have known in
his homeland, full of espaliered
apple and pear trees basking in
the sun. But it is the shadier
garden on the other side of the
house, occupying terraces that
descend to the creek, that is far
more secret, mysterious and
alluring.
This is the Crowninshield
Garden, built as a neoclassical
ruin almost a century ago and
now a real one, left mostly
untouched for more than six
decades. It is beginning to stir
from its slumber.
Over the past couple of years,
director of gardens and
horticulture Paul Orpello and a
small gardening staff have
started to remove the porcelain
berry, bittersweet and other
monstrous vines that have
smothered the landscape,
partially revealing the contours
of the terraced landscape along
with its jewels.
At the base of a steep hill
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directly below the house, Orpello
points out freshly cleared areas
where long-dormant spring
blooms, snowdrops, snowflakes,
Virginia bluebells, trillium and
hesperis have returned after
decades underground. We pass a
pair of the largest parrotia trees
I have seen, the size of red
maples but with their distinctive
mottled, sinewy bark.
Much is still hidden, and, as
such, it is hard in one visit to
discern the interconnectedness
of the garden, its unfolding
design narrative, but as we
spend more than an hour
threading our way through the
seven acres of hillside paths (like
mountain goats, carefully), we
come upon garden features that
still conjure their magic.
At various points, imposing
iron cauldrons once used in
gunpowder manufacturing rest
TOP: In the decayed Crowninshield Garden, the Lower Pool offers
an enduring sense of the original beauty and enchantment of the
neoclassical landscape. There are plans to revive the seven-acre
garden. ABOVE: A kettle repurposed as an ornamental feature.
on walls cloaked in vegetation.
In one of the least weed-infested
areas, a large formal pond — the
Lower Pool — is framed by a
high stone wall, with arched
grottoes and capped with a
balustrade. The drama is
heightened by the blanket of
duckweed that has turned the
placid, still water a surreal shade
of green.
Elsewhere, we came across a
high facade of brick and stone,
part of the Refinery Terrace that
clearly defined an important
space in the hierarchy of the
garden. In some areas, trees
have pried loose the masonry; in
others, massive stone steps have
been dislodged by time. Orpello
led me to a sunny, open area
marked by stone and concrete
columns, evoking a Roman
atrium, with remnants of
elaborate mosaics on the
PHOTOS BY ADRIAN HIGGINS/THE WASHINGTON POST
ground. On a stone table
supported by carved griffins,
fragments of other decorative
stonework are placed. He calls
this the “Pompeii altar,” which
seems to amplify the eeriness of
the place. Self-seeded mullein
has grown up around a cracked
but intact mosaic of Pegasus.
This remarkable landscape
was made in the 1920s and ’30s
by Louise du Pont
Crowninshield and her husband,
Frank Crowninshield, a Boston
Brahmin who had been, among
others things, one of Theodore
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.
Why a neoclassical garden
when Colonial Revival was all
the rage? The couple had visited
Renaissance villas around Rome.
Edith Wharton had written a
highly influential book on
Italian villas, and many
industrialists were shaping their
gardens in the Renaissance style,
including Pierre S. du Pont over
at nearby Longwood Gardens.
What was different about the
Crowninshield Garden was that
it was built not as a polished
Beaux-Arts confection but as a
stylized ruin, with broken
columns and lost stucco and
brickwork made to look
timeworn.
There is another ghost at play
here. The heart of the garden
encompasses a major element of
the powderworks, a complex
known as the Refinery. In 1890,
its magazine, with 100,000
pounds of gunpowder, blew up.
The structure was destroyed, 12
people were killed and the
explosion could be heard in
Philadelphia, more than 30
miles away.
The mansion survived
relatively unscathed, but its du
Pont family members moved
out.
The Crowninshields came to it
after the mills closed in the early
1920s but used it only for a
month or so in the spring and
fall. They would arrive with a
full entourage of staff, and the
garden, once finished, became a
perfect stage for entertaining.
The saltpeter kettles, repurposed
as garden torches, were filled
with fuel and lit, and their light
flickered on an array of classical
statuary, columns, urns and the
like.
Although the evening soirees
were hardly bacchanalian, the
Crowninshields “were of a social
set that absolutely loved to
entertain,” said Jill MacKenzie,
executive director of the Hagley
Museum and Library.
In the 1980s, MacKenzie was
down in the Mosaic Terrace,
there was still some statuary,
Tip of the Week
Bearded iris clumps that have
become congested should be lifted
and the rhizomes separated for
replanting. Cut away diseased or
borer-infested sections, and cut
back the leaves to a third or so.
Allow the wounds to cure in the sun
for a day or two before replanting.
The rhizomes need to remain near
the soil surface to avoid winter
rotting.
— Adrian Higgins
and old rose bowers and irises
were in bloom. “At that moment,
I thought I had been transported
to someplace else,” she said. “It
was the most magical place I
had been in.”
The idea of bringing back
such an enchanted garden is an
intoxicating one. The actual
process is far more sobering. I
told Orpello that just to remove
all the weeds and keep them at
bay would be a herculean task.
He seemed unfazed. The
gardeners are equipped with
flame weeders, he replied. “If I
can get it hot enough, I can kill
the roots.”
The garden’s rehabilitation
may well reflect the aphorism
that perfect is the enemy of
good. Orpello is not looking at
some pristine return of the
freshly built garden.
But the work has begun — not
just the vine and weed clearing,
but also the development of a
five-phase, $26 million plan to
revive the Crowninshield
Garden. It will include modern
plants better able to look after
themselves and stay in bounds.
“We know it’s going to take a
large fundraising campaign, but
we believe there are people who
have this appreciation for
hidden gardens like Hagley,”
MacKenzie said.
Orpello also anticipates ranks
of volunteers stepping forward;
the Delaware Valley has more
than its share of people who are
passionate about gardens and
horticulture. “There’s nothing
like this in the States, no
postindustrial site reimagined in
this way,” he said.
The first task before any
serious work can begin will be to
stabilize structures and address
sinkholes and other pitfalls.
The process, MacKenzie said,
will be “almost like unwrapping
something and finding out truly
what was underneath.”
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LIVE Q&A

HGTV’s Anthony Carrino on the do’s and don’ts of home renovation

Anthony Carri-
no, vice presi-
dent of design at
Welcome Homes
and star of
HGTV’s “Kitchen
Cousins,” joined
staff writer Jura
Koncius last
Anthony week for our
Carrino Home Front on-
line chat. Here is
an edited excerpt.

Q: What are keys to determining

whether to buy or walk away
from a home?
A: Structural issues, plain and
simple. At the end of the day,
anything can be fixed in
construction — it’s just a factor
of time and money — and
structural issues are expensive.
Regardless of how crazy a
market gets, if you don’t have
experience in knowing what to
look for, do not waive the home
inspection. Buying a problem is
much worse than not buying
anything. Your contingencies
are there to protect you. Home
inspectors will look at the
structures, age and condition of
the roof, mechanicals and more, THEBUILD.TV

and they will give you a full Anthony Carrino says he likes to use black windows. So long as they fit your aesthetic, he says, there are no cons to having them.
report.

Q: How long does it typically

take to complete a kitchen
remodel?
A: It depends on the size of the
kitchen, whether you’re moving
mechanicals, permit and
inspector timelines, contractor
availability, product availability
and delivery, and more. Have a
general contractor quote your
projects and lay out the timeline
in the quote. The ballpark is
about eight weeks.

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Q: If we only have one full
bathroom, is it okay to put in a
standing shower instead of a
bathtub? Nobody takes a bath ANTHONY CARRINO ANTHONY CARRINO

here, but I know people say it

can be a bad idea for resale.
A: You are correct on resale.
That said, there are buyers out
there that think like you do, so if
you’re planning on being in your
home for more than three years,
then I’m a proponent of doing
what creates the best quality of
life for the people living there.
The chances that your home is
going to be designed just the
way someone else wants when
it’s time to sell are pretty slim.
Q: I was painting my bathroom
and popped the flange off my
showerhead. It won’t go back
into place, and after inspecting,
it looks as if the builder made
the hole larger than it should
have been, so the flange keeps
slipping out. How should I fix
this?
A: You can use silicone (not
caulk) to keep it in place. I
would fill the screw hole with
silicone, run a bead around the
edge of the flange, stick the
screw back into the hole you
filled, press the flange to the
wall so the silicone is in contact,
then use two or three strips of
painter’s tape to hold it in place
while the silicone dries.
Q: I really like the look of black
window trim for a new build,
but I wonder about its pros and
cons against traditional white
trim. Thoughts?
LEFT: The timeline of a kitchen
remodel will depend on various
factors, Carrino says, such as
the size of your kitchen and
whether you’re moving
mechanicals. RIGHT: Supply
chain issues are still affecting
remodeling projects, Carrino
says, so plan ahead of time.
A: I am a huge fan of black
windows; I do black inside and
out. So long as they fit your
aesthetic, there are no cons.
Q: What external factors are
affecting renovation projects? Is
there anything I should keep in
mind before moving forward
with a remodel?
A: The supply chain is still very
affected. It is sector dependent,
so you need to do all of your
planning up front, especially on
product lead times. Order early
and store on-site whenever
possible. Once you collect all of
your lead times, sit down with
your contractor and come up
with a plan together, so you’re
both on the same page.
Q: I’m in the business of
investing and remodeling, and
I have a couple of projects
going on, including a new home
my wife and I just bought.
How do I finish this project
without getting a divorce? It’s
entirely different remodeling a
home for your family rather
than for an investment. Any
tips?
A: Communication, as with all
things in life, is key here. I don’t
know her experience with
renovating, but I can tell you
that my wife, Jacey, was super
nervous when I wanted to paint
our walls black at our firehouse
renovation (thebuild.tv/
firehouse-project). She trusted
me, because I took the time to
explain the amount of natural
light we get, that paint is easy to
replace if she really didn’t like it,
etc. Think of your wife as a
super-green client, and give her
all the over-communication you
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would give to someone who
wants to write you a check.
Q: How do I repaint the pine
floor in a 100-year-old house? It
was probably previously painted
with oil paint, which has
scraped off in places. Do I need
to remove the old paint with a
palm sander, and what new
paint should I use?
A: A palm sander will take
forever. Rent a proper floor
sander, seal the room with tape
and plastic to keep dust in, and
open a window. Once you are
done sanding, use a heavy-duty
shop vacuum to get up all the
dust. Wipe the floors down with
a damp cloth, and let dry. Now
you’re ready for paint. I suggest
using Benjamin Moore’s Floor
& Patio line.
Q: I know nothing about
interior design. I want a home
that fits my style, but I don’t
know where to begin. Do you
have any tips?
A: It can be overwhelming to
start. Save inspiration images on
Instagram or Pinterest. Over
time, you will notice trends you
like and the aesthetic you want.
If you’re not confident in
executing it on your own, hire
an interior designer and be
honest with them. Let them
know you want to learn and be
part of the process. Remember:
The best design is always
personal.
Q: Our 100-year-old Colonial
needs a big second-floor
overhaul. Is it best to empty
everything into a pod and move
out, then have the bathrooms
and floors done and the walls
painted? Or can we do it a bit at
a time?
A: The way you laid this out is
exactly the way I would do it.
Doing this kind of work bit by
bit will be more expensive and
disruptive. If your budget
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allows, get it all done in one fell
swoop.
Q: Is it best to hire a general
contractor to renovate a kitchen,
or are the contractors from big-
box stores sufficient?
A: It depends on how big a
renovation you’re doing. If
you’re doing a “rip and replace,”
which means all of your
appliances are staying in the
same spot and you’re just
replacing the cabinets, counters
and backsplash, then you can
get away with working with a
contractor from a big-box store.
If you’re moving appliances,
then you also need to move the
associated mechanicals, so hire
a proper general contractor. You
also technically need to file for
permits in the building
department. Whichever route
you go, ask to see previous work,
White kitchens are timeless, Carrino says, but it’s important to remember that design is very personal.
Depending on how long you’ll be in your home, he says, choose something that speaks to you.
make sure you have a clear
schedule laid out and order all
of your materials up front, so
you can avoid delays.
Q: My partner and I would like
to redesign our kitchen this
year. He is extremely handy and
plans to do the majority of the
work, but we need a designer
and/or contractor to do some of
the initial work. How do we find
someone to design a kitchen
and let us know what we need
that we cannot do, such as
installing a beam or rerouting
plumbing?
A: If we’re talking structural (a
beam), you need to work with
an architect, and you will need
to pull permits and have
inspections to ensure the
structural stuff is done properly
and to code. The architect can
also help with your kitchen
layout. A lot of architects are
also designers, so if you take the
time to find one with both skill
sets, you can limit the number
of professionals you need to
work with and get what you are
looking for. If you want to stay
away from permits and the
building department, don’t mess
with the structural, and just hire
a designer. Make sure they can
provide you with “to-scale”
architectural drawings, and you
can do the work.
Q: My spouse and I are ready to
purchase our first home, and
we’re about to close the sale.
The house we bought is move-in
ready, and I’m excited to start
projects. How do I know where
to begin with projects and
renovations? We have a list of
“what we need and want to do
now” and “what we can do
later,” but we don’t want to wait
five years to get everything
ANTHONY CARRINO
done. It feels overwhelming.
A: I talk about this a lot in my
digital series (thebuild.tv).
Planning is key to the success of
any home project, especially a
full renovation. Continue
making your list, then put tasks
in order of priority while also
considering your available
budget. Once you have that laid
out, you can begin to check
them off one at a time. The
other aspect to consider when
reviewing your list is: “Does it
make sense to hire a contractor
to get this all done at once?” I
understand that people like
completing DIY projects, but
you need to accurately assess
your skill level before you start
doing work in your home. The
last thing you want to happen is
to have a bunch of half-finished
projects or projects that aren’t
completed correctly. I’m not
telling you not to do it yourself;
just be honest with yourself
about what you can do. YouTube
is a great resource for learning,
and my series will help you with
planning and show you a ton of
processes, from start to finish.
Q: My refrigerator leaked. Is it
necessary to remove all cabinets
and appliances to remove three
layers of old floor and subfloors?
Is it possible to cut just to the
edges or lift the cabinets and
appliances somehow without
removal to avoid an entire
renovation?
A: You can certainly leave your
cabinets and appliances in place
if you are not looking for a full
renovation. Use a multi-tool,
such as Milwaukee Tool’s M18
Fuel 18-volt lithium-ion cordless
and brushless oscillating multi-
tool ($229, homedepot.com), to
ensure that you get a flush cut
with the front of the cabinets, so
you don’t see any of the old
flooring once you install the
new stuff. Get a tool with a lot of
blades.
Q: How do you know whether to
remodel your home or move?
A: A lot of this is personal
preference. Get a quote for all
the work you want to have done,
then realize that it will probably
cost about 20 percent more than
that with change orders. After
that, look at home prices in the
area you would consider buying
in, and do the cost-benefit
analysis of renovating vs. buying
new. If you don’t have a lot of
experience with big renovations,
it can be frustrating and cause a
lot of anxiety. This is the reason
Welcome Homes
(welcomehomes.com) was
started, so consider contacting
us, and we can talk you through
some scenarios.
Q: We have a 1980s split foyer.
Which wooden cabinet colors
and designs have staying power,
and the same for flooring? We
already replaced our appliances
with stainless steel. The
countertop will be quartz, and
we’re thinking of subway tile for
a backsplash.
A: White is the simple answer
for a timeless kitchen. But
design is very personal, and
depending on how long you
plan to be in your home, I would
encourage you to choose
something that speaks to you. A
few additional pointers: A
combination of painted cabinets
and wood grain adds a lot of
visual interest, and a different
finish on your kitchen island
will create a greater sense of
depth.
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Read the rest of this transcript and
submit questions to the next chat,
Thursday at 11 a.m., at
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Plant-based diet is the best way to avoid heart disease, report says
BY C ARA R OSENBLOOM
There is constant squabbling
over the virtues of various diets,
but a new report published in
Cardiovascular Research makes
one thing clear: The best way to
avoid heart disease is to eat whole
and plant-based foods. This is
important, because people are
eating themselves to death: Ac-
cording to the 2017 Global Bur-
den of Disease study, poor food
choices account for almost
50 percent of all cardiovascular
disease fatalities.
Unfortunately, the typical
American diet is filled with ultra-
processed foods, which are
cheap, tasty, convenient — and
detrimental to heart health. And,
anecdotally at least, some of us
may be relying on such foods
even more during the coronavi-
rus pandemic.
Eating this way opens the
door for heart disease. “Excess
sodium, sugar, trans fat and ultra-
processed foods can increase in-
flammation and insulin resis-
tance in the blood vessels, which
leads to the promotion of plaque
in the arteries,” says Michelle
Routhenstein, a preventive cardi-
ology dietitian in New York City.
Plaque buildup in the arteries can
lead to a heart attack or stroke.
Gabriele Riccardi, a professor
of endocrinology and metabolic
diseases at Federico II University
of Naples and co-author of the
new meta-analysis, which includ-
ed 99 studies, says cardiovascular
disease risk is reduced when the
diet is lower in salt, sugar and
refined carbs.
Nutrition research largely sup-
ports a whole-food, plant-based
diet. Let’s unpack that. “Whole”
indicates foods that have not
been highly processed. Think
vegetables, fruit, whole grains,
beans, nuts, fish, eggs, poultry
and dairy in their simplest
forms. An orange, chicken
breast or potato are exam-
ples of whole foods, while orange-
flavored soda, chicken nug-
gets and barbecue chips are ultra-
processed versions.
In a “plant-based” diet, most of
the foods you eat come from
plants such as vegetables, fruits
and beans, rather than animals
(meat, poultry, dairy). Most defi-
nitions of “plant-based” say there
is flexibility to include some fish,
eggs, poultry, dairy and meat in
the diet, as long as most of the
diet comes from plants. So, be-
coming vegan (meaning you eat
no animal-based foods) is not a
requirement.
Andrew Freeman, a cardiolo-
gist and the co-founder of the
Nutrition and Lifestyle Work
Group at the American College of
Cardiology, recommends that his
patients turn to a plant-based
diet to reduce cardiovascular dis-
ease risk, and said he has seen
astonishing results.
“I’ve seen people whose dia-
betes, angina or blood pressure
goes into remission. I’ve seen
autoimmune diseases go away
when you cut inflammation,”
Freeman says. “The best way to
do that is with a plant-based diet,
and people get better.”
Laurence Sperling, a practic-
ing preventive cardiologist and
professor in preventive cardiolo-
gy at the Emory University
School of Medicine in Atlanta,
likes plant-based diets because
they can be followed long term.
He reminds patients that the
Greek derivation of diet is diaeta,
which means “a way of life.”
“There are many fad diets, but
they set people up for failure,”
Sperling says. “Focus on a plan or
pattern that you can do until
age 100.”
Getting started
How can you put a plant-based
diet into practice? One major step
is to eat smaller amounts of
processed and red meat. “Accord-
ing to the available evidence, the
recommended dietary pattern
should limit the consumption of
red and processed meat and re-
place it, in part, with other pro-
tein sources, mainly legumes and
nuts, but also dairy, fish, poultry
and eggs,” Riccardi says.
Her research shows that pro-
cessed and red meat are associat-
ed with increased heart disease
risk, but poultry is not. For meat
eaters, red meat should be cut to
twice a week rather than daily,
because there’s a 25 percent in-
crease in coronary heart disease
(CHD) incidence for each addi-
tional 100 grams a day of meat.
Fish is recommended a few times
per week as a replacement. Re-
garding processed meat (hot
dogs, ham, sausage, etc.), just
50 grams a day is associated with
up to 44 percent increase in CHD
incidence, so it should not be a
dietary staple.
The research also showed no
difference in heart health out-
comes for people eating either
low-fat or full-fat dairy (cheese
and yogurt) a few times per week,
so choose what you enjoy most. If
you don’t like dairy foods, they
are not essential for a healthy
diet. Just make sure you get
enough calcium and vitamin D
from nondairy sources, because
these nutrients are vital for heart
health.
The Agriculture Department’s
My Plate program offers one ap-
proach to a heart-healthy, plant-
based diet. It recommends that
half of the food on your plate at
each meal come from vegetables
and fruit (plants), a quarter come
from grains (plants) and the re-
maining quarter come from pro-
tein-rich foods (animal or plant-
based). Following this dietary
pattern means you’re automati-
cally getting 75 percent of your
meal from plants. That’s plant-
based eating. Other examples of
plant-based diets include the
Mediterranean, DASH, TLC or
Portfolio plans.
What about other diets?
If you already have a diet plan
that works for you, you may be
ISTOCK
able to adapt it to promote heart
health. A low-carb plan can fit
into heart-healthy parameters as
long as it’s rich in vegetables, fish,
poultry, nuts and olive oil.
“Carbs are not evil,” says Sper-
ling, who recommends high-
quality carbs from vegetables,
beans and whole grains rather
than from sugary soda. “Carbs are
the staple of many populations
that have healthy diets, but
[those populations] also exercise
and don’t have an abundance of
unhealthy food environments
like we do.”
The most popular low-carb
diet is the high-fat keto diet, and
Freeman says there’s some posi-
tive data to suggest that ketone
production might be a good thing
for the body.
A 2020 review study he con-
ducted with Sperling and other
colleagues showed that the keto
diet may help lower blood pres-
sure, blood sugar and triglyceride
levels, which is good. But it may
increase LDL-cholesterol levels,
which could raise heart disease
risk for some people. Research is
ongoing.
“The question is: How do you
get there?” asks Freeman about
ketosis, the metabolic state
your body is in when it burns
fat instead of carbs. He doesn’t
think consuming sticks of but-
ter or bacon-wrapped scal-
lops is the answer, because
those foods are associated with
worsened cardiovascular out-
comes and are environmentally
taxing.
If you want to follow a keto
diet, make smart food choices
that include seafood, poultry, veg-
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etables, nuts, seeds, yogurt, avo-
cado and healthy oils, instead of
lots of red meat and butter.
“I’ve seen LDL-cholesterol lev-
els off the charts due to keto
diets,” adds Sperling, who says
the keto diet should only be
attempted in full discussion with
your clinical team. “It’s not hu-
manly possible to remain in keto-
sis in a healthy way until you are
100 years old,” Sperling says. “It’s
more of a quick weight loss tool
than a long-term diet.”
As for intermittent fasting,
Freeman sees it as a complemen-
tary approach to plant-based eat-
ing. (Intermittent fasting guides
when you eat; the most popular
plan involves eight hours when
you can consume caloric food and
drink, and 16 hours of fasting
daily.) He recommends you “eat
nutrient-dense but lower-calorie
foods, which are largely plants,
throughout the day during non-
fasting hours.”
Current studies suggest that
intermittent fasting itself could
reduce the risk for cardiovascular
disease with improvement in
weight control, hypertension,
high cholesterol and diabetes, so
it’s worth discussing with your
doctor or dietitian.
Making realistic changes
Although it’s easy to recom-
mend that Americans eat more
plants, is it realistic when many
Americans fall short of vegetable,
fruit and whole grain recommen-
dations? Change must start with
small steps.
“While all these changes can be
overwhelming in the beginning, I
highly recommend not to go from
0 to 100,” says Routhenstein, who
recommends focusing on two or
three changes at a time, to ensure
that you’ll maintain them. “I also
find focusing on all the good
things we can eat is easier in this
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transition.”
Perhaps start by adding beans
to your weekly menu, swapping
out a can of soda for water or
adding a serving of vegetables to
your dinner. You can build
from there. In the end, the best
diet for heart health will be rich
in plant-based foods that you can
easily access, afford and enjoy, so
you can stick with it in the long
term.
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Aiding the in-person transition
Some kids prefer remote learning. But facing their fears of returning is vital in the long run.
BY E DIN R ANDALL
AND S AMANTHA B ENTO
Jonathan was an avid soccer player, a dedicated
student and a social young man who enjoyed
spending time with his friends. However, by the
time he limped into our clinic after a year of
chronic knee pain, he was not attending school,
was withdrawn from his peers, had retreated to his
room and was worried about the unpredictability
of his future.
As psychologists at Boston Children’s Hospital’s
Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center,
we work with youths who have severe and debili-
tating chronic pain. Kids and teens who enroll in
our program typically have withdrawn from ev-
eryday activities to reduce or avoid worsening
their pain. We have dubbed this coping approach
“comfortably uncomfortable.” Counterintuitively,
returning to daily life while coping with pain is an
essential step toward reaching the ultimate treat-
ment goal: pain relief.
We see a parallel between our patients’ experi-
ences and what many schoolchildren and their
families have faced during the pandemic: Remote
learning provided many kids relief from struggles
such as academic pressure, emotional angst and
social stress. Now, they or their parents may be
resisting a return to “normal,” because they have
become comfortable with this unconventional
form of schooling.
We worry that this problem will become perva-
sive as the school year starts — that families will
make the comfortably uncomfortable choice of
sticking with remote learning to avoid confront-
ing other problems. Some schools are returning to
full-time in-person classes, but others are plan-
ning hybrid models, with both in-person and
online learning. Although safety concerns or other
circumstances may make a hybrid model or on-
line-only schooling appropriate for some families,
a knee-jerk choice to go remote can create a
slippery slope of avoidance of what may have
caused distress before the pandemic.
As professionals who help kids return to a full
life after extended withdrawal, we offer this advice
to help parents and their children manage a tran-
sition back to a new kind of normal:
Break the fear-avoidance cycle
Avoiding what we fear often provides immedi-
ate relief, but avoidance actually feeds the fear,
making it worse. For example, virtual learning
provided immediate relief for kids who previously
avoided school because of bullying. Parents who
had to witness their child’s victimization also
experienced relief.
Wouldn’t it be easier to go remote? Yes, in the
short term. But avoidance removes opportunities
to learn how to manage social difficulties. When
your daughter opts out of school because she is
worried about getting teased, she’s losing the
chance to practice self-advocacy (by letting a
trusted adult at school know about it) and emo-
tional regulation (using coping strategies to man-
age the fear that builds as she walks past her bully
in the halls). She also won’t get to connect with
friends at school who remind her that she’s liked.
Competence and confidence develop through fac-
ing and overcoming adversity, not by avoiding it.
Normalize and celebrate the uncomfortable
People are here today because our ancestors
anticipated threats well enough to avoid danger.
The emotional discomfort that comes with facing
potential threats to survival (passing that math
test, for kids in modern times) is what urges us into
action. Waiting for difficult feelings to disappear
before action will lead to inaction.
When your son wants to ask a new friend
to hang out, he will undoubtedly worry about re-
jection. When your daughter is studying for a
test that she wants to ace, anxiety will build.
It is important to remind children that any-
thing that matters to them will probably
make them feel worried, anxious or stressed,
and that these feelings can propel them toward
success.
Tolerating — or even embracing — difficult
feelings will help your child get comfortable with
the uncomfortable.
Avoiding what
we fear often provides
immediate relief,
but avoidance
actually feeds the fear,
making it worse.
Don’t expect a smooth path
It may be a bumpy road as children transition
back to life as they knew it. We tell our patients’
families to expect this and to focus on recovery
rather than ensuring a smooth ride. If your child
has a difficult morning and is refusing to go to
school, it is tempting to get caught in a power
struggle or give in. Instead, redirect your energy
toward giving your child space and taking a few
deep breaths yourself. Once everyone is calm, work
with your child to develop a short-term action
plan. Start simple by creating a step-by-step ap-
proach through a morning routine. Next, encour-
age your child to commit to a few hours in school,
with the plan to reassess once that goal has
been met.
Respecting and making small adjustments in
response to the bumps takes the pressure off the
perfection required for a smooth road.
Help kids identify what they value
Our set of values is the compass that guides us
toward living a meaningful life. Whether your
child cares deeply about connecting with friends
or thrives on a sports field, helping them identify
what they find important will allow them to
navigate challenging moments with confidence
and agency.
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For example, if your child is refusing to return to
in-person school but is excited to resume soccer
with their school’s team, you can work with them
to make connections between the skills and traits
that support success on the soccer field to those
required in the classroom. Perhaps they value the
camaraderie of the team, the perseverance re-
quired when the game isn’t going according to
plan or the fun of expressing their creativity with
fancy footwork. These values — connection, perse-
verance and creativity — can also be cultivated in
the classroom.
By clarifying their values and drawing parallels
between activities they do and don’t like, they can
develop a sense of purpose, meaning and joy
within areas of challenge.
Foster social smarts
We have heard from some parents that aspects
of remote learning — the flexibility, learning at
their own pace, minimal social distractions —
have helped their children academically. This may
be true, but what about social-emotional intelli-
gence? It is through face-to-face interactions that
your child navigates peer relationships, develops
self-awareness and empathy, and learns to collab-
orate with others.
Take the student who transferred to a new high
school during the pandemic, socially isolated and
out of practice relating to their peers. That student
may opt to go remote this year, worried that
making new friends while trying to meet rigorous
academic demands may hurt their GPA. It’s impor-
tant to embrace your child’s commitment to good
grades while reminding them that rejoining stu-
dent government builds leadership skills, partici-
pating in the school play develops teamwork and
surviving social drama leads to resilience.
Social smarts are key to a happy and healthy
child, and they’re essential for creating a future of
strong and effective leaders.
Next steps
It is often important to look beyond the out-
ward struggles and explore what other factors
may be fueling the fire. For example, school avoid-
ance may be a sign of undetected learning issues,
underlying social anxiety or untreated depression.
We encourage parents to have frank conversa-
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tions with their children to get to the bottom of
the issue; however, you may need experts to
step in.
Next steps could include setting up an intake
with a mental health provider, consulting with a
guidance counselor to collect their impressions
and learn about school-centered supports, or pur-
suing psychoeducational or neuropsychological
testing to assess for learning difficulties.
As we make this next transition, it will take a
village to help some kids get back on track.
Together, we can encourage the comfortably un-
comfortable to return to the world as it is and help
them flourish after such a challenging time.
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Randall is a pediatric pain psychologist at Boston
Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor at
Harvard Medical School. Bento is a pediatric pain
psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a clinical
fellow at Harvard Medical School.
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Finding joy in learning

This year, kids may struggle with academic engagement. Here are 6 ways to help them take an active role in their education.

BY P HYLLIS F AGELL

When pediatrician Patricia Kapunan met with her
seventh-grade patient, she asked her if she had
discovered anything about herself last year, when she
was learning remotely, that might help her learn or
cope better this year.
“I realized I liked typing questions in the chat,
because everyone wasn’t staring at me,” the girl
replied. “But now it’s less scary to ask a question in
class, and I know how to write a message to my
teacher when I don’t understand something.”
Kapunan, an adolescent medicine specialist at
Children’s National Hospital, has been doing this
kind of processing with kids “because it helps them
realize they have agency, and it helps families recog-
nize the resilience they showed in solving problems
last year.”
Children are going to need that kind of empower-
ment this year. They not only are dealing with the

anticipatory anxiety of starting a new grade,
but they are also carrying over baggage and
frustrations from last year’s struggles with the
pandemic and online learning, including “ad-
verse effects on their developing brains and
bodies,” said Lori Desautels, an assistant pro-
fessor at Butler University’s College of Educa-
tion and author of the book “Connections Over
Compliance: Rewiring our Perceptions of Dis-
cipline.” “What we see are the behaviors, but it’s
the residue of emotional fatigue, isolation and
chronic unpredictability.”
Whether children lack confidence because
their grades took a hit during the pandemic,
they’re worried about reestablishing friend-
ships or they’re coping with stressors at home,
they could struggle with academic engagement
this year. Here are six ways caregivers can tamp
down the pressure, boost kids’ motivation and
help them take a more active, joyful role in
their own learning.
Create a manageable routine
As children adjust to the demands of in-per-
son school, they’ll need more energy, so Kapu-
nan recommends helping them “move back to
a more typical sleep schedule and practice
eating at scheduled times — including break-
fast — rather than snacking whenever they
want.”
Whatever schedule you create, do it with
your child’s input. “Ask questions that help
them figure out what they need,” such as:
“What time do you want to do your homework?
Are you a morning person or a night owl?”
suggests Jeannine Jannot, author of “The Dis-
integrating Student: Struggling But Smart,
Falling Apart, and How to Turn it Around.”
Kids may have less stamina, so allow time for
relaxation and movement. “The ability to focus
and maintain attention is a resource that gets
drawn down, and it’s refreshed by physical
activity, [which allows kids] to apply them-
selves to learning, focusing and inhibiting
their impulses,” said Annie Murphy Paul, a
science writer and the author of “The Extended
Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the
Brain.”
Practice time management and cognitive
offloading
Children may not study because they don’t
know how, or they might be disorganized
because they overestimate their ability to hold
information in their head. “They all say, ‘I’ll
remember,’ but that takes a little bit of your
brain’s ability to focus on the next thing, and
writing it down gives you more learning capac-
ity,” Jannot said.
To decrease stress, Jannot recommends that
kids put their responsibilities, appointments,
homework, extracurricular activities and so-
cial commitments in a monthly calendar, and
that they maintain a separate system for daily
reminders. On the left side of a piece of paper,
she said, kids can write down the stuff they
need to do that day. On the right side, they can
add new tasks as they come up throughout the
day.
This kind of cognitive offloading can help
kids learn, Murphy Paul added. Whether they
use a calendar, index cards or a whiteboard, “it
gets the contents of their brain out of their head
and into space, where they can manipulate
ideas as if they’re physical objects, navigating
through them like a three-dimensional land-
scape.”
Dampen the stress response, and avoid
making assumptions
If children need repeated reassurance to get
their homework done, “that’s a sign that we
need to be intentional about checking in,”
Desautels said. You might say, “Let’s agree to
get two sentences written, and I’ll check in
every 10 minutes. What do you think about
that?”
Help them identify and manage any unspo-
ken fears. Kids may want to write and share a
poem with their class, for example, but avoid
doing the assignment, because they’re con-
cerned they’ll get teased.
If their avoidance or frustration triggers you,
press the pause button. If you’re critical or
punitive, you’ll “unintentionally activate the
stress response symptoms in the body” and
prolong the conflict, Desautels said. “We’ve got
to share our calm.”
Keep in mind that what looks like laziness is
often paralysis that stems from fear of failure,
burnout, perfectionism or low confidence, Jan-
not said. “If you care about the things you’re
doing, then you’re not lazy — and students do
care.” They want to get good grades, earn the
All kids need
to feel hopeful and
believe that they
can make valuable
contributions.
respect of their teachers and peers, and make
their parents proud.
Jannot tells parents to be equally wary of the
word “best.” “If you tell a perfectionist kid to do
their best, you’ve given them an impossible
task,” she said. “They never feel like they’re
enough, and their motivation tanks.” Instead,
help them set realistic expectations.
Turn grind into play
If a child says homework is boring, turn it
into play, said Martin Reeves, the co-author of
“The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New
Ideas and Create Your Company’s Future” and
chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute.
“People are more self-driven when they play,
and it’s more self-sustaining. You won’t hear
anyone say, ‘I just played with my Lego and it
was a real grind.’ ”
If a question is rote, prompt your child to ask
and answer it faster and faster until everyone
laughs, Reeves suggested. Or turn it into a
guessing game. If a child is instructed to add
the numbers 17 and 13, for instance, you might
ask: “What do you think I think you’re going to
say?” Then follow up with: “What else could
you say?” “Even if your child knows the answer,
you get to discuss why it’s the answer,” Reeves
said.
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Whenever possible, celebrate a child’s ques-
tions. “It’s genuinely wonderful when a 5-year-
old says, ‘I’ve been wondering: Where is the
edge of the universe, and what’s beyond the
edge?’ ” he said. “I’ll say: ‘How can we think
about that problem?’ It’s a wonderful exercise
in playfulness.”
In Reeves’s own home, “if someone asks a
question and Dad doesn’t know the answer,
that’s really cool,” he said. “But if they ask a
question that mankind doesn’t know the an-
swer to, we literally go out for a celebratory
meal.”
Think beyond the brain
Murphy Paul tells her children that the brain
is overrated, and that they also can think with
their body, spaces and relationships. “The cul-
ture tells kids that the only option is to sit there
and work your brain harder until it’s done,
which causes them a lot of distress,” she said,
“but there are other ways to hook into new
knowledge and reel it in when you need it.”
For example, children can make movements
that are congruent with a concept they’re
studying, whether they move their body along
a number line on the floor or act out the
movements of the planets, Murphy Paul said.
Spaces also can be used “to evoke kids’
enthusiasm, affirm their identity as a learner
and give them a sense of control,” she said. For
instance, students can decorate their assigned
desk or locker and make it their own, or place
objects in their personal workspace, such as a
school mug or a photograph with classmates,
that help them remember that they’re “part of a
learning community, not laboring in isolation.”
That need for relationships and belonging
can help children learn, Murphy Paul said. Kids
who tutor their peers can be motivated to
understand the information, because they
want to teach it well. When children debate one
another in class, they learn how to develop an
argument while also engaging the social part of
themselves.
Focus on their strengths
All kids need to feel hopeful and believe that
they can make valuable contributions. To set
that tone, Joseph Bostic Jr., a middle school
math teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle
School in Germantown, begins every class by
saying: “Hello, everyone. I want you to repeat
after me: Today is going to be an amazing day.”
He then has his students, many of whom are
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dealing with trauma, do a breathing exercise
with affirmations that parents can try at home.
On the first breath, he says: “Repeat after me: I
believe in me.” On the second breath, he says:
“Repeat after me: I can do the impossible.” And
on the third breath, he says: “Repeat after me: I
release any tension and anxiety, because I
know that I can do anything I put my mind to.”
“Kids need to know that it’s a safe, positive
learning environment; they can do their best;
and I believe in them,” Bostic said. That will be
key for parents this year, too. “If you fixate on
the outcome — the A or the B — and not the
relationship or your kid’s growth, they’ll tense
up.”
When it comes to academic engagement,
that may be the most important takeaway. It
may seem counterintuitive, but when parents
focus more on children’s strengths than their
grades, they raise kids who not only learn more,
but also do so with a lot more joy.
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A family bubble, burst

After so long with children at home, parents are quietly dreading — or even mourning — the coming separation
BY C AITLIN G IBSON

It was only a few hours before Anna Snyder’s
9-year-old son was supposed to head off to a half-day
summer camp — the first time in well over a year
that her child would be spending significant time
outside the safety of their home — and Snyder
had been trying to hold her worries at bay, but
she suddenly felt them rising. Seized by a powerful
wave of nausea, she shut herself in the bathroom
and sank down to the floor.
“I was sure I was going to throw up from the
anxiety,” she recalls. “It was a mix of things — anxiety
about covid, because we’ve been protective of him for
a while, but it was also just that I feel like we’ve lived
together in this little bubble for 15 months, and all of
a sudden the bubble was breaking.”
The dominant narrative of pandemic-era parent-

ing emphasizes how exhausted parents are,
how utterly depleted, how desperately ready
to have their kids leave the house and return
to the classroom, to sleepaway camp, to day
care. This is widely true, yet there are some
parents whose feelings are more nuanced and
conflicted as they approach the inevitable
reentry to society. They’re quietly dreading —
or even mourning — the coming separation
from their children after so much time in
close, constant proximity.
Snyder, a 49-year-old project manager at
the University of Minnesota, eventually asked
her husband if he could drop off their son at
camp; she couldn’t bring herself to do it. “I feel
like this is good practice for us all. It’s only a
few hours,” she says. “It’s teaching us all how
to live in the world again, where we’re not
always together.”
The “bubble” that formed around many
homes may be breaking, and although life
inside a bubble often meant isolation, fear
and lost experiences, it has also held surpris-
ing and meaningful gifts: parents who were
present to witness a baby’s milestones, or to
help a young child learn how to read, or to
relish extra time with a teenager who will
soon leave for college. The bubble also afford-
ed some sense of control. The kids were
constantly around, which was tiring, but
they were seldom out of reach, which was
reassuring.
“To let them go back out there again, into
school, with the threat of violence, and sick-
ness, and people with different ideas, and
teachers with different goals — all those
things existed before, but they just feel ampli-
fied now,” says Christian Lemon, 41, a stay-at-
home father of three in Florida who feels torn
about the prospect of sending his 6-year-old
daughter and 4-year-old son back into class-
rooms in late August. “I’m excited to let them
explore who they need to become,” he says,
“but it’s hard to just let them go.”
For Becky Franklin, a 38-year-old director
of administration for an arts organization in
Minneapolis, the anxiety has manifested as a
recurring nightmare: She watches her 6-year-
old son, Archer, as he takes off on his bike at
top speed, rounding a street corner and
zooming out of sight.
“I could never keep up with him and would
shout desperately: ‘Archer! Wait!’ ” she says.
“I always woke up just as I was convinced that
Archer was gone forever.”
Her mind isn’t much calmer in her waking
life, she says, as she looks ahead to September.
“I imagine walking Archer to the corner to
watch him get on the bus to go to school, and I
imagine walking home alone with a thousand
worries,” she says.
“What if he catches a virus and gets sick?
What if he catches the virus or a variant before
he’s vaccinated? Will he feel cared for at
school? Will he be overwhelmed by every-
thing in person? Will he not want to tell me
what happened at school? What will I miss?”
W hen Jeannine Patel toured her son’s new
classroom a few days before he started
fourth grade in July — his school in North
Carolina is on a year-round schedule — she
noticed how close together the desks were
positioned. She thought about the delta vari-
ant and felt a surge of worry. Would he be safe
here? How would he handle the transition
from being alone with his family all the time
to being alone with his peers? How would she
handle it?
Patel, 38, knew her child was looking for-
ward to seeing his friends again. “But I’m just
nervous,” she says. “Does he remember how to
interact with people? Will he be respectful?
Will he remember the routines? I know he’s
excited, but he’s been extra clingy, too.”
It’s easy for these sorts of worries to spread
between parents and children, says Jerry
Bubrick, a senior psychologist in the Anxiety
Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute.
“The core feature of anxiety is difficulty
tolerating uncertainty,” he says. “And there is a
lot of uncertainty right now. But our job as
parents is not to give kids the answers. Our job
is to help them tolerate not knowing. So we
have to tolerate not knowing.”
He suggests being honest and transparent
with children, but also projecting confidence:
“It’s okay to say, you know, ‘I’m anxious about
going back to work, I’m a little bit uncertain
about what’s going to happen at school, but,
whatever happens, we can handle it.’ ”
Melissa McCeney, 46, has been happy to see
There are some
parents whose feelings
are more nuanced
and conflicted as they
approach the inevitable
reentry to society.
her three teenage daughters enjoy spending
time with vaccinated friends. Her oldest two
girls have recently gotten part-time jobs and
are no longer so housebound.
All three teens will return to school in
person in August, but McCeney, a psychology
professor at Montgomery College in German-
town, will continue to teach from home via
Zoom until January — and she says she’s
dreading the thought of being home without
her girls this fall.
“I don’t want to say I looked at this time as a
gift, because it was a terrible thing that
happened, and if I could have chosen, I would
have chosen for them to have last year, their
sports, their friends,” she says. “But at this age,
your kids are moving away from you. And so it
was a period of closeness that I wouldn’t have
gotten otherwise.”
Lemon says he is trying to make the most
of what remains of his family’s pandemic
solitude.
“I’ve gotten to luxuriate in this time, this
pause, where I got to be a crucial part of their
development, and I hope that I’m forming
bonds that will allow us, as parent and child,
to have a great relationship going forward,” he
says. “I’m a wistful, kind of sappy guy, so it’s
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always been hard for me to let them go. But
doing the right thing isn’t always comfort-
able, and the right thing is to let them go out
there.”
On a Monday in late June, Franklin lin-
gered after dropping off Archer at camp.
“I stayed close at a coffee shop, keeping my
eye on the phone, wildly imagining that
Archer might need me,” she says. “He didn’t.”
S ome parents calm their separation anxiety
by focusing on what they intend to keep
from the bubble life: family rituals, a sense of
resilience, realigned priorities.
Often, what they want to hold on to most is
time.
Patel’s son is back at school now, but she
still curls up with him before he goes to sleep
at night, and she doesn’t rush those quiet
moments when he is most likely to share his
feelings or reflections about the day. Lemon
says he and his kids will continue to spend
hours exploring the outdoors together, like
they have throughout the pandemic. Mc-
Ceney continues to read aloud with her
daughters in the evenings, a long-standing
tradition that offered both comfort and es-
cape during their isolated months at home.
Snyder hasn’t signed up her son for before-
school or after-school care, and she doesn’t
plan to. “We are not going back to 10-hour
days apart,” she says firmly. “That’s a very
privileged position, and I realize that. There
are so many people who have no choice. But
we are never doing that again.”
Tea Norfolk, a 46-year-old fiscal planning
specialist in Wisconsin, was recently required
to return to her office full time. She says her
first week away from her 10-year-old son and
5-year-old daughter “was harder than I could
have possibly imagined.” She had grown at-
tached to their daily walks, to the constant
ongoing conversation, the little chats and
check-ins with each other between work
meetings and school sessions.
Norfolk has been thinking lately about a
day near the beginning of the pandemic,
when she and her children set out on a bright,
brisk morning toward a nearby lake. As they
arrived at the sandy shoreline, the weather
turned ominous. Scattered droplets soon be-
came a deluge.
“We just walked home in the pouring rain,
and it was so fun to just roll with it instead of
being upset about being unprepared or get-
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ting your clothes messed up,” she says. “We
laughed, and we splashed in puddles. It set
the tone for every other kind of weather we
encountered over the next year and a half.
Now they’re not afraid to go out in any kind of
weather.”
Their family walks are relegated to week-
ends now, and Norfolk misses her kids during
the long workdays. Before she returned to her
office, she printed a photograph she took on
that morning at the beach, when the world
had shut down and sealed her in a bubble with
her kids.
The framed photo hangs in their home, so
they can all remember what that day felt like
— how wild and free the kids looked, and how
Norfolk was there to witness it: her children
leaping and laughing in the sand, brandishing
driftwood sticks like swords, their faces fierce
and joyful as the sky grew dark behind them.
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ON PARENTING

My son quits when he’s not the best. Can I teach him resilience?
BY M EGHAN L EAHY

Q: I have an ongoing
challenge with my almost-
9-year-old son. Each time
he starts a new activity
(soccer, swimming, skating,
art), he imagines himself to
be the best there is. He
looks up the best people in
that activity and thinks he
can be better than them.
Inevitably, because not
everyone can be Usain Bolt
or Lionel Messi, he falls
short in his own eyes and
doesn’t want to do that
activity anymore, or he
blames everyone else (his
coach is terrible, his
teammates are no good,
etc.). I would like for him to
try different activities and
have fun, but he only seems
to enjoy something if he can
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to watch him cycle through

these emotions. It’s not
even that he’s in many
different activities; there’s
usually just one at any
given time, once or twice a
week, with breaks. But this
has been his pattern for a
few years now. I’m not sure
the washington post . thursday, august 19 , 2021
A: Thank you for writing in. You
are not alone in having a child
who quits; I receive many letters
about this. First, let’s take a peek
at what typical 9-year-olds look
like, developmentally speaking.
Nine-year-olds are truly coming
into themselves, and comparing
one 9-year-old to another can be
a fool’s errand. One child may be
spirited and independent, while
your son — and this is critically
important — is your interaction
with him during these quitting
scenarios.
To be clear: I am not blaming
you for your child’s
perfectionism, but if I were
coaching you, I would be asking
many questions about what you
were doing and saying, as well as
how you were behaving and
him out, which sounds like
nothing and is an icy silence that
creates more anxiety and worry
for the child.
Again, I am not blaming you
for having these reactions; it is
incredibly frustrating to parent a
perfectionist/quitter. But the
first aspect we need to assess is
whether you are watering the
weeds, which means you’re only
If you pick up Elaine N. Aron’s
book “The Highly Sensitive
Child” or peruse the Hey
Sigmund website
(heysigmund.com), which
focuses on anxiety, depression
and more, and feel as if you’re
reading about your child, then I
would strongly suggest reaching
out to an expert for more
support. Work with a therapist

how to teach him resilience
and to enjoy the learning,
rather than trying to
become the next Roger
Federer.
another may be more withdrawn
and private. Typical 9-year-olds
can easily flare, then start to
move on more easily and want to
practice a task obsessively until
they feel it’s “perfect.”
It is also typical for 9-year-olds
to look up to the best in their
field and want to be just like
them. (I frequently imagined
myself to be Cyndi Lauper when
I sang “Time After Time” in the
mirror, and you can see how that
turned out.) Peers can take on
more importance, and it is easy
for boys to compare themselves
to their friends.
In essence, 9-year-olds are
becoming ever-complicated
humans, and parents are moving
increasingly out of the driver’s
seat and into the co-pilot’s chair.
Something I don’t know about
feeling, during these episodes.
For instance, let’s say your son
isn’t running like Usain Bolt,
blames his track coach and quits.
I would like to know whether
you are using logical thought (“It
isn’t reasonable for you to think
you can run like Usain Bolt,
Devon; you are 9, smaller and
cannot do that”), asking chronic
questions (“Why would you
think you could run like one of
the fastest people in the
world?”), cajoling him (“Come
on, get up, try again. Don’t be a
quitter, buddy!”), threatening
him (“If you don’t stop whining
and start running, I am going to
take away your iPad”), guilting
him (“Mom paid $400 for you to
run on this team, and you’re
letting me and your team down if
you keep quitting”) or freezing
paying attention to the quitting,
whining, blaming and other bad
behaviors. If you aren’t
consciously growing more of
what you want to see in your son,
then it will be hard for him to
find a new path forward; he will
be stuck in a thought and
behavior loop. (Idolize, try, fail,
quit, repeat.) Interrupting this
pattern requires creating
situations where there are small
wins, and treating the failures
and quitting with more
equanimity. I know: This is
easier said than done.
It could also be that you are
parenting an intense, highly
sensitive or anxious child (or all
three). You could be parenting
your bottom off and, without
knowing it, making his anxiety
worse.
or counselor who will see you
both, rather than just your child.
It isn’t enough for your son to be
“helped” in therapy if you are not
also going to be taught skills to
help grow his resilience and
bravery at home.
Pick up books, read websites
and talk to professionals in the
field to get the support you need
to parent him into his tween and
teen years with compassion and
courage. Good luck!
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