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Despite mishap, J&J doses still coming
Spoiled vaccine won’t affect
bonus allotment for Mass.;
future supply in question
By Robert Weisman and Travis Andersen
GLOBE STAFF
A day after heralding a windfall of Johnson &
Johnson vaccine doses, state officials said Thurs-
day that future shipments of the drug maker’s cov-
eted one-shot COVID-19 vaccine are “under re-
view” due to a mistake by a contractor that ruined
millions of doses at a Maryland plant.
After being vaccinated, Jackie Jones and Jeffrey Abramson finally were able to hug their grandson Henry.
An endless
wait for that
special touch
The pandemic kept them apart from
their grandchildren, missing precious
time. Would things ever be the same?
Herd immunity could be an elusive goal
Many unknowns with virus,
vaccines complicate the math
By Adam Vaccaro
GLOBE STAFF
For months, the two words have been a beacon for
a weary world, touted by public health experts and
government officials: If we reach “herd immunity,”
they say, we can stomp out the coronavirus, emerge
safely from the pandemic, and return to normal life.
The idea is a simple one: If enough people are vac-
cinated or otherwise become immune to the virus, it
will run out of bodies to infect and eventually smolder
out.
But as the nationwide vaccine drive kicks into high
gear, the concept of herd immunity is fraying under
the scrutiny. Far from a clear target that we can aim
for in vaccination programs, herd immunity has be-
come a catch-all term that may mean different things
to different people — and it’s not clear whether using
the strategy to fully squelch the virus is even possible.
Public health specialists offer a wide range of esti-
mates when suggesting the target number of people
who must be protected from COVID-19 for herd im-
munity to stamp out the virus, ranging from 60 to 90
percent of the population. Massachusetts has set a
goal of vaccinating about 75 percent of adults in the
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The mishap won’t jeopardize the 100,000 doses
of J&J’s vaccine coming to Massachusetts next
week, which officials described as a “one-time bo-
nus” allotment that will dwarf previous weekly
shipments of the vaccine.
But the federal review of J&J’s production
threatens what was expected to be a surge of vac-
cine supply in the coming weeks, just as the gener-
al public becomes eligible for shots.
The pace of deliveries is now “the big open
question,” Governor Charlie Baker said at a brief-
ing. He said he expects to learn more from federal
officials next week.
For weeks, Baker has trumpeted J&J as key to
By Evan Allen
GLOBE STAFF
CONCORD — Finally, the grandchil-
dren would be here any minute. For
more than a year, Jackie Jones and Jef-
frey Abramson had ached for this mo-
ment.
When was the last time they held
Henry and Amelia? It had to have been
January 2020, but neither of them
could remember it exactly — the smell
of the kids’ hair, whether their little
hands were hot or cold. It hadn’t
seemed momentous then. Just another
goodbye, just for a little while. And then
the virus came.
Now, 14 months later, it was the
night of the Passover seder. Jackie and
Jeffrey and their daughter and her hus-
band were fully vaccinated. The kids
WHAT IS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE IT
When enough individuals in a population are immunized, a virus loses the
ability to find new hosts to continue spreading and dies out, something
called “herd immunity.” However, the more contagious a virus is, the more
people need to be immunized to achieve it.
When the infection ... one person on average will
rate is three ... infect three other people ...
... and those three people will on average infect
nine more people.
With an infection rate of three, two out of every
three people would need to be immunized to achieve
herd immunity.
Note: Immunity to a virus can come from vaccinations or people who have been infected and recovered.
For purposes of this graphic, it is assumed that immunized individuals do not spread COVID-19 to
unimmunized people.
State Education Commissioner Jeffrey
Riley proposed exempting this year’s
11th-graders from passing the MCAS to
receive their high school diplomas. B1.
The prosecution presented a fuller
picture of George Floyd the person
on the fourth day of testimony in the
murder trial of Derek Chauvin. A2.
accelerating the state’s vaccination push and re-
turning to “the normal that we left behind,” though
it has accounted for a small fraction of the state’s
vaccine supply until now. J&J’s one-and-done for-
mula is considered ideal for reaching rural parts of
the state and urban sites lacking the ultracold re-
frigeration required by the two-dose vaccines.
It is also thought to be a more practical option
for groups such as homebound residents who can’t
get to clinics or college students less inclined to
show up for a second shot.
“We were really excited about the fact that, af-
ter a bunch of weeks of hearing that it was coming,
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had tested negative for COVID that
morning. They were on their way. Jack-
ie and Jeffrey were scrambling to get
the last special items on the table — the
parsley, to be dipped in salt water repre-
senting tears; the matzoh, to symbolize
the hardship of slavery and the flight to
freedom.
They heard the car pull in. Could
they pick up where they left off? A year
is a long time in the life of a child. It’s a
long time in the life of a grandparent,
too. What if they were expecting too
much of this moment? Jackie and Jef-
frey opened the front door and stepped
outside.
***
Two summers ago, when Henry was
3 years old, Jeffrey decided to teach him
GRANDPARENTS, Page A8
Infected Vaccinated
When the infection ... one person on average will
rate is four ... infect four other people ...
... and those four people will on average infect
16 more people.
With an infection rate of four, three out of every
four people would need to be immunized to achieve
herd immunity.
The heating oil industry is pushing
back on a proposal to take away energy-
efficiency rebates from customers. C8.
A 24/7 video feed of a stop sign has
become a must watch in Salem. B1.
“Godzilla vs. Kong” delivers the mon-
ster thrills, writes critic Ty Burr. G1.
Caution
urged as
Boston
cases rise
More virus spread feared
with Passover and Easter
By Martin Finucane and Zoe Greenberg
GLOBE STAFF
Amid new evidence that Boston’s COVID
positivity rate is continuing to climb, elected of-
ficials on Thursday urged residents to remain
vigilant over the upcoming Easter and Passover
weekend and Governor Charlie Baker an-
nounced vaccination efforts in the state’s hard-
est-hit communities.
Acting Mayor Kim Janey pleaded with resi-
dents to be cautious, noting that the city’s sev-
en-day test positivity rate was 4.8 percent. Bos-
ton Public Health Commission spokeswoman
Caitlin McLaughlin said that the city’s goal is to
keep the overall rate below 4 percent and that 5
percent is a “threshold for concern.”
“I want to take a moment to remind every-
one that COVID-19 is still with us,” Janey said
at a news conference. “We know everyone’s
tired, but we’re really close. We just need every-
one to hang in there a little bit longer.”
Neighborhoods in Dorchester, South Bos-
ton, Roxbury, and East Boston were all above 5
percent.
The highest seven-day positivity rate for the
week ending March 25, the latest date for
which numbers were available, was 8.3 percent
in the Dorchester ZIP codes of 02122 and
02124, which include Fields Corner, Codman
Square, and Ashmont, according to the city’s
website. That was up from 6.4 percent for the
week ending March 21.
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Progressives
wary of Biden
pick’s writings
on gig workers
By Jim Puzzanghera
GLOBE STAFF
Joe Biden has vowed to be “the most pro-
union president” and helped back that up by
choosing Martin J. Walsh, a former union
leader, as labor secretary. But some progres-
sives aren’t happy with Biden’s pick for anoth-
er job — this one a labor policy position inside
the White House — that is filled by a Washing-
ton veteran who they said brings troubling
baggage on the key issue of expanding protec-
tions to gig economy workers.
Seth Harris, who spent a dozen years in the
Labor Department and served as acting secre-
tary for six months in the Barack Obama ad-
ministration, was named in February as depu-
ty assistant to the president for labor and
economy. He was the principal labor policy
adviser to Biden’s campaign and reportedly
was a leading candidate for labor secretary.
Union leaders who’ve known Harris for years
have publicly supported the choice.
“He believes fundamentally in the power of
workers’ voices, and in making workplaces
stronger through unions and collective bar-
gaining,” said Randi Weingarten, president of
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The rain stopped in the morning
Thursday, but with the cold conditions,
the Red Sox decided they could wait
another day to start the season. B1, C1.
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Floyd’s girlfriend describes
caring partner and father
Also testifies of
shared addiction
By Tim Arango and
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
NEW YORK TIMES
MINNEAPOLIS — They
met one evening four summers
ago, and she was instantly
d r aw n t o h i s “ g r e a t , d e e p ,
Southern voice.” She gave him
her phone number that night,
and they became close, explor-
ing the city’s sculpture garden
and its vibrant restaurant
scene. Soon she was simply
calling him “Floyd,” just like
his friends did.
For Courteney Ross, a life-
long resident of Minneapolis,
George Floyd made her home-
town seem new again, undis-
covered.
“Floyd was new to the city,
so everything was kind of new
to him,” Ross said. “He made it
seem like I was new to my own
city.”
On the fourth day of testi-
mony in the murder trial of
Derek Chauvin, the former offi-
HOLY PROCESSION — Franciscan friars wearing masks marched in procession during a Mass to commemorate the Washing of the Feet around
the Edicule, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, on Holy Thursday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Gender-reveal gala ends in tragedy
The small plane arced over a
blue lagoon near the Caribbean
Sea, flying low above a family in
a boat on Tuesday afternoon. As
they clapped, it released a pink
cloud into the sky.
‘‘Girl! Girl!’’ a man aboard
the boat yelled in Spanish, cele-
brating the dramatic results of
the elaborate gender-reveal
stunt for a new baby in the fam-
ily. ‘‘It’s a girl!’’
Seconds later, the family’s
video shows, the small aircraft
plummeted into the Nichupté
Hong Kong sentences activist leaders
HONG KONG — Seven of
Hong Kong’s leading prodemoc-
racy advocates, including a me-
dia tycoon and an 82-year-old
veteran of the movement, were
convicted Thursday for organiz-
ing and participating in a march
during massive antigovernment
protests in 2019 that triggered a
crackdown on dissent.
The verdict was the latest
blow to the flagging democracy
movement as the governments
in Hong Kong and Beijing exert
greater control over the semiau-
tonomous Chinese territory.
Hong Kong had enjoyed a vi-
brant political culture and free-
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cer charged in Floyd’s death,
the prosecution presented a
fuller picture of George Floyd
the person. In testimony, Ross,
who had been dating Floyd for
almost three years, described
how he was a caring partner, a
devoted father, and passionate
about exercise — a guy who
loved to ride his bike and play
ball with the neighborhood
children.
She also talked about the
ups and downs of their rela-
tionship, his love for his mother
and the devastation he felt
when she died a few years ago.
And like so many Ameri-
cans, the couple had a shared
struggle: opioid addiction.
“Our story, it’s a classic story
of how many people get addict-
ed to opioids,” she said. “We
both struggled from chronic
pain. Mine was in my neck and
his was in his back.”
After three days of emotion-
al testimony from bystanders
who witnessed Floyd’s death in
police custody last May, prose-
cutors on Thursday nudged the
trial forward to one of the cen-
Lagoon, off the east coast of
Cancún, as the family and their
guests watched in disbelief.
Both the pilot and the co-pi-
lot were killed, officials said. An
investigation into the cause of
the crash is underway, and the
names of the victims have not
been released. The crash is the
latest incident of a gender-re-
veal celebration that turned fa-
tal. The practice has sparked
multiple wildfires and led to
several deaths in explosions.
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doms not seen elsewhere in Chi-
na during the decades it was a
British colony. Beijing had
pledged to allow the city to re-
tain those freedoms for 50 years
when it took the territory back
in 1997, but recently it has ush-
ered in a series of measures that
make Hong Kong similar to cit-
ies on the mainland.
Jimmy Lai, owner of the out-
spoken Apple Daily tabloid; Mar-
tin Lee, the octogenarian found-
er of the city’s Democratic Party;
and five former pro-democracy
lawmakers were found guilty in a
ruling handed down by a district
judge. They face up to five years
T h e B o s t o n
tral aspects of the case: Floyd’s
drug use. In calling Ross to the
stand, prosecutors both sought
to humanize Floyd and seize
the narrative around his strug-
gle with drugs.
By showing he had a high
tolerance for opioids, prosecu-
tors hope to cushion the blow
of what is expected to be Chau-
vin’s primary defense — that
Floyd died from a drug over-
dose, not from Chauvin’s knee
pressing into his neck for more
than nine minutes.
Over the on-and-off relation-
ship between Floyd and Ross,
there were periods where they
were clean, followed by relapse.
When they could not obtain
prescriptions for opioids from
doctors, she said, they bought
drugs on the streets.
Eric Nelson, Chauvin’s law-
yer, approached his cross-exami-
nation of Ross delicately, and
started by saying: “I’m sorry to
hear about your struggles with
opioid addiction. Thank you for
sharing that with the jury.”
Ross told Nelson that they
relapsed together last spring,
Daily Briefing
N.M. set to legalize recreational pot
New Mexico was set to be-
come the 16th state to legalize
recreational marijuana after
the Legislature passed a bill
Wednesday, joining a national
movement to rethink antidrug
laws that are increasingly seen
as impediments to racial justice
and the economy.
Governor Michelle Lujan
Grisham, a Democrat, said she
would sign the bill, which
would also expunge the crimi-
nal records of people who pos-
sessed marijuana for personal
in prison. Two other former law-
makers charged in the same case
had pleaded guilty.
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and that Floyd was hospitalized
for several days in March after
she found him doubled over in
pain from an overdose.
Jurors also heard testimony
from a former police supervi-
sor, who said Chauvin could
have stopped kneeling on
Floyd’s neck after he no longer
resisted.
Chauvin also failed to imme-
diately tell the supervisor, Da-
vid Pleoger, that he'd knelt on
Floyd’s neck while restraining
him, waiting more than 30
minutes until he stood outside
the hospital emergency room
where Floyd remained unre-
sponsive to disclose that detail.
Pleoger, who was a supervi-
sor in the city’s 3rd Precinct,
testified he called Chauvin after
getting a call from a concerned
911 dispatcher who was watch-
ing a city security camera and
saw police holding Floyd on the
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use. She said in a statement
that workers, entrepreneurs,
and the government would
benefit from the new industry,
creating jobs and tax revenue.
The bill passed on the same
day that New York state legal-
ized recreational marijuana.
Lawmakers in both states said
they were motivated to produce
a legal, tax-revenue-generating
industry that formerly operated
underground, and to end ar-
rests for low-level offenses.
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Martin Lee, 82, a former
lawmaker, was one of seven
prodemocracy activists
found guilty Thursday.
Courteney Ross,
George Floyd’s
girlfriend, wiped
her eyes as she
testified in the
trial of Derek
Chauvin, who is
accused of
murder in Floyd’s
death.
ground.
In a phone conversation par-
tially captured by Chauvin’s
body camera, the officer is
heard telling Pleoger that the
officers ‘‘just had to hold the
guy down.’’
‘ ‘ He w a s g o i n g c ra z y . . .
wouldn’t go back in the squad,’’
Chauvin said just before he
shut off his body camera.
It was only at the hospital
w h e r e P l e o g e r h a d go n e t o
check on Floyd’s condition that
Chauvin told him he had knelt
on Floyd’s neck.
A s k e d h i s ‘ ‘o p i n i o n’ ’ o n
whether that was an appropri-
ate use of force, Pleoger told
prosecutors, ‘‘When Mr. Floyd
was no longer offering up any
resistance to the officers, they
could have ended the restraint.’’
Material from the Washington
Post was used in this report.
Black adviser
quits after UK
report on racism
LONDON — The most se-
nior Black adviser to UK Prime
Minister Boris Johnson has re-
signed, the government said
Thursday, the day after a report
on racial disparities concluded
that Britain does not have a sys-
temic problem with racism.
The government denied any
link between the departure of
Samuel Kasumu and the much-
criticized report, which activ-
ists and academics have ac-
cused of ignoring the experi-
ences of ethnic-minority
Britons.
The prime minister’s office
said Kasumu would leave his
job as a special adviser for civil
society and communities in
May, as had “been his plan for
several months.”
But Simon Woolley, a former
government equalities adviser
and a member of the House of
Lords, said Kasumu’s exit was
connected to the “grubby” and
“divisive” report.
“(There is a) crisis at No. 10
when it comes to acknowledg-
ing and dealing with persistent
race inequality,” Woolley said.
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Bill may
advance
without
GOP
Infrastructure
plan opens a split
WASHINGTON POST
WA S H I N G T O N — W h i t e
House chief of staff Ron Klain on
Thursday suggested the admin-
istration is willing to advance its
$2 trillion jobs and infrastruc-
ture plan with no Republican
support, setting the stage for an-
other bruising spending battle.
While stressing the White
House hopes to secure GOP sup-
ºPlan seeks to address high-
ways that split ethnic neigh-
borhoods. A5.
port, he signaled the administra-
tion is willing to use the Demo-
crats’ narrow majorities in the
House and the Senate to approve
legislation aimed at rebuilding
the nation’s infrastructure and
confronting climate change.
Republicans have balked at
Biden’s sprawling initiative since
its introduction on Wednesday,
leveling particularly fierce criti-
cism at proposed tax hikes on
businesses that would reverse
much of their 2017 tax law.
“Let’s work together, and see
if there’s a way for us to deliver
this,” Klain told Politico. “In the
end, let me be clear, the presi-
dent was elected to do a job. And
part of that job is to get this
country ready to win the future.
That’s what he’s going to do.”
Lawmakers of both parties
have traditionally supported in-
frastructure investments, but
Republicans have never backed
the extent of clean energy poli-
cies or tax hikes Biden’s new
plan entails. If Republicans uni-
fy in opposing the measure,
Democrats could pass it through
the Senate with their narrow
majority through a parliamenta-
ry procedure called budget rec-
onciliation that allows them to
avoid the 60-vote threshold nec-
essary to end a filibuster. The
Senate is split 50-50 between Re-
publicans and lawmakers who
caucus with Democrats, though
Vice President Kamala Harris
can cast a tie-breaking vote.
Biden’s American Jobs Plan
would devote more than $600
billion to infrastructure such as
roads, bridges and highways;
about $400 billion to clean-ener-
gy credits; more than $200 bil-
lion to housing; and hundreds of
billions to fixing the nation’s
electric grid, high-speed broad-
band, and lead water pipes.
Republicans have panned the
plan, saying it’s full of wasteful
spending and would hurt busi-
nesses. Biden’s proposal would
raise at least $2 trillion from tax-
es, by increasing the corporate
tax rate to 28 percent from 21
percent and bringing the global
minimum tax to 21 percent.
Speaking in Kentucky Thurs-
day, Senate minority leader
Mitch McConnell called the pro-
posed tax increases a “big mis-
take.” While GOP lawmakers
support infrastructure invest-
ments, he said, Congress can’t
afford to “whack the economy
with major tax increases or run
up the national debt even more.”
Senator Shelley Moore Capito
of West Virginia, senior Republi-
can on the Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works,
similarly criticized the infra-
structure proposal as a “clear at-
tempt to transform the economy
by advancing progressive priori-
ties in an unprecedented way.”
It “would aggressively drive
down the use of traditional ener-
gy resources and eliminate good-
paying jobs,” she added. “Per-
haps worst of all, it would bur-
den the American economy with
tax increases as our country at-
tempts to recover from econom-
ic hardship.”
“We know it has bipartisan
support in the country, so we’ll
try our best to get bipartisan
support in Washington,” Klain
said. “You can go any given week
to any Rotary Club in America
and find elected leaders at every
level of government” who sup-
port infrastructure spending.
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New GOP-led
voting limits move
forward in Texas
Restrict hours,
ballot options
By Acacia Coronado
and Paul J. Weber
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Re-
publicans advanced a slate of
proposed new voting restric-
tions Thursday that would re-
duce options to cast ballots,
limit polling hours, and hand
more power to partisan poll
watchers.
All those efforts are rolled
into a single bill that cleared
the GOP-controlled state Sen-
ate — a key marker in a cam-
paign by Republicans, includ-
ing Governor Greg Abbott, to
impose new restrictive mea-
sures over elections in Ameri-
ca’s biggest red state.
A first vote on the Senate bill
was slowed by hours of ques-
tioning by Democrats that
spilled overnight into early
Thursday morning. The mea-
sure eventually passed 18-13 in
a vote along party lines.
It comes after an elections
overhaul was signed into law
last week in Georgia, where op-
ponents have already filed law-
suits and are calling for boy-
cotts of corporations that are si-
lent on restrictive voting
measures.
Critics of the Texas legisla-
tion say the efforts particularly
target expanded access put into
place during last year’s election
i n Ha r r i s Co u n ty, w h i c h i s
home to more than 2 million
voters, controlled by Demo-
crats, and a key Texas battle-
ground that includes Houston.
One measure would elimi-
nate drive-thru voting, which
more than 127,000 people
around Houston used during
early voting last year. More
than half of those voters were
Black, Latino or Asian, said
Democratic state Senator Carol
Alvarado.
“Hearing all of that, who are
you really targeting when
you’re trying to get rid of drive-
thru voting?” she said.
Republicans rejected accu-
sations that the bill was de-
signed to suppress turnout.
“None of what we’ ve dis-
cussed is voter suppression.
And none of what we’ve dis-
cussed is Jim Crow,” Republi-
can state Senator Paul Betten-
court said.
A similar measure in the
House chamber could advance
Europe
smashes
monthly
heat records
By Matthew Cappucci
WASHINGTON POST
Temperatures in much of Eu-
rope are running 20 degrees or
more above average as an early-
season heat dome, a strong
high-pressure system several
miles up in the atmosphere that
t r a p s h e a t b e l o w, r e m a i n s
parked over the area. Monthly
records have fallen in at least
three countries as the region
gets a taste of what could be an-
other anomalously hot summer.
It's the latest in a series of
heat records that are dispropor-
tionately outpacing the occur-
rence of cold extremes, largely
the product of a changing cli-
mate and a planet whose tem-
peratures are skewed hot.
It comes at the same time as
mild temperatures in Japan
brought the earliest peak bloom
to Kyoto's cherry blossom trees
in at least 1,200 years of book-
keeping. Record warm tempera-
tures have extended to much of
Asia, with another area of ex-
ceptional warmth concentrated
in southern China.
On Wednesday, Germany
and the Netherlands set all-time
March records, reporting highs
of 81 degrees and 79 degrees,
respectively. Kew Gardens,
about 10 miles west of London
on the River Thames, hit 76.1
degrees on Tuesday, the warm-
est March temperature set in
t h e Un i t e d K i n g d o m s i n c e
1968.
toward a full vote as soon as
Thursday.
The bill is one of two major
voting packages in Texas that
mirrors a nationwide campaign
by Republicans after former
president Donald Trump made
false claims about election
fraud.
Voting rights groups say the
measures would disproportion-
ately impact racial and ethnic
minority voters.
In Texas, which already has
some of the strictest voting
laws in the United States, the
proposed legislation grants
more power to partisan poll
watchers and eliminates the
option to cast a ballot via drive-
thru.
The bill also includes a pro-
vision requiring a doctor’s note
for people with disabilities who
want to vote by mail, although
Republicans signaled during
the debate that language could
change.
Trump won Texas but by
fewer than 6 points. It was the
closest victory by any GOP pres-
idential nominee in Texas since
1996, underscoring Republi-
cans’ loosening iron grip on the
state.
The Senate bill cleared a
committee last week following
hours of testimony by voters.
Some said the ongoing coro-
navirus pandemic is forcing
them to choose between their
health and their right to be
heard by their government af-
ter weighing the risk of testify-
ing on the bill in-person at the
Texas capitol, where masks are
not enforced.
Ofelia Alonso, 25, a volun-
teer with the civil rights advo-
cacy group Texas Rising and
volunteer deputy registrar, said
Friday she drove hundreds of
miles from Cameron County
along the US-Mexico border,
which has been hit extremely
hard by COVID-19, to testify in
Austin for the members of her
community who couldn’t afford
the health risk.
“Honestly, because we all
work doing voter registration,
we know how nonsensical this
bill is,” Alonso said.
“It makes absolutely no
sense to criminalize people for
wanting to participate in de-
mocracy, which should be our
goal. It is almost like Texans get
punished for coming out and
voting in large numbers,” she
added.
A beach in England was crowded Tuesday as temperatures rose and virus restrictions fell.
Climate historian Maximilia-
no Herrera has been tracking
the records and their historical
context, and describes the epi-
sode as "historic."
Fr a n c e a l s o s a w r e c o r d
warmth on Tuesday as the na-
tion's average temperature was
higher than any other March
day in recorded history. More
than 220 weather stations, or
roughly 37 percent of France's
network, observed new maxi-
mum March temperatures.
In Switzerland, a number of
monthly records fell at individu-
al weather stations on Tuesday,
including some at high eleva-
tions of the Alps. That demon-
strates just how deep, or how
high off the ground, the warm
air mass was, something to be
expected with a large-scale heat
T h e B o s t o n
Big birds
A great white pelican shared a park bench with a man in London on Thursday as others gathered.
Myanmar’s military targets journalists
Scores arrested
since Feb. 1 coup
By Richard C. Paddock
NEW YORK TIMES
Ten days after seizing power
in Myanmar, the generals issued
their first command to journal-
ists: Stop using the words
“coup,” “regime,” and “junta” to
describe the military’s takeover
of the government. Few report-
ers heeded the Orwellian direc-
tive, and the junta embraced a
new goal: crushing all free ex-
pression.
Since then, the regime has ar-
rested at least 56 journalists,
outlawed online news outlets
known for hard-edge reporting,
and crippled communications
by cutting off mobile data ser-
vice. Three photojournalists
have been shot and wounded
while taking photographs of the
anticoup demonstrations.
With professional journalists
under pressure, many young
people who came of age during a
decade of social media and infor-
mation sharing in Myanmar
have jumped into the fray, call-
ing themselves citizen journal-
ists and risking their lives to help
dome. Chaserral, a roughly
mile-high mountain peak in
northwest Switzerland, climbed
to 57.2 degrees, compared with
the previous record of 55.4 de-
grees in March of 1990.
Other stations in Switzer-
land beat their previous records
by 2 degrees or more, whereas
typically records are only bro-
ken by a few tenths of a degree.
Belgium and Austria saw 13
and 29 stations, respectively,
break local monthly records on
Tuesday, with records falling in
Spain and Oman as well. Bel-
gium missed its national
monthly record temperature
Wednesday by just half a de-
gree, but set a new March re-
cord for the national average
temperature.
Farther east, India has been
G l o b e
document the military’s brutali-
ty. They take photographs and
videos with their phones and
share them online when they get
access. It is a role so common
now they are known simply as
“CJs.”
“They are targeting profes-
sional journalists, so our country
needs more CJs,” said Ma Thuzar
Myat, one of the citizen journal-
ists. “I know I might get killed at
some point for taking a video re-
cord of what is happening. But I
won’t step back.”
Thuzar Myat, 21, noted that
few people were able to docu-
ment the protests in 1988, when
the Tatmadaw, as the military is
known, stamped out a prode-
mocracy movement by massa-
cring an estimated 3,000 people.
She said she saw it as her duty to
help capture evidence of today’s
violence even though one soldier
had already threatened to kill
her if she did not stop.
The regime’s apparent goal is
to turn back the clock to a time
when the military ruled the
country, the media was firmly in
its grip, and only the wealthiest
people had access to cellphones
and the Internet. But the new
generation of young people who
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flirting with records, with tem-
peratures rising above 114 de-
grees in spots as summer heat
already builds. Hong Kong re-
corded a number of records as
well.
The heat in Europe is thanks
to a dome of high pressure
that’s brought clear skies, sink-
ing air, and unusual warmth.
The heat has been enough to ex-
pand columns of air vertically
such that the “halfway” mark of
the atmosphere is now about
656 feet higher than typical.
In the coming days, the heat
dome over Europe will relin-
quish its grasp and dissipate
some, while a new, even more
formidable area of high pres-
sure is forecast to become estab-
lished over Iceland and the
northern United Kingdom.
grew up with the Internet say
they are not giving up their free-
doms without a fight.
“What we are witnessing is
an all-out assault on the centers
of democracy and liberty,” said
Swe Win, cofounder and editor-
in-chief of Myanmar Now, one of
the banned outlets. “We are very
concerned that Myanmar will
become North Korea.”
The Tatmadaw has a history
of suppressing opposition.
When it seized control in 1962,
it reigned for nearly a half-centu-
ry before deciding to share pow-
er with elected civilian leaders
and opening the country to the
outside world.
Since the Feb. 1 coup, pro-
tests have erupted almost daily
— often with young people at the
forefront — and a broad-based
civil disobedience movement
has brought the economy to a
virtual halt. In response, soldiers
and police have killed at least
536 people.
At the United Nations on
Wednesday, the special envoy on
Myanmar, Christine Schraner
Burgener, warned that “a blood-
bath is imminent.” The regime
has arrested thousands, includ-
ing the country’s civilian leader,
Four killed in shooting
at Calif. office building
Victims include
9-year-old boy
By Louis Keene
and Giulia McDonnell
Nieto del Rio
NEW YORK TIMES
ORANGE, Calif. — A gun-
man opened fire at a Southern
California real estate office on
Wednesday, killing four people,
including a 9-year-old boy.
The shooting was likely re-
lated to a “business and person-
al relationship which existed
between the suspect and all of
the victims,” said Lieutenant
Jennifer Amat, a spokeswoman
for the Orange Police Depart-
ment, at a news conference on
Thursday morning.
“This appears to be an iso-
lated incident, and we believe
everyone knew each other,”
Amat said.
The boy appeared to have
died in his mother’s arms as she
attempted to save him during
the shooting, the Orange Coun-
t y d i s t r i c t a t t o r n e y, To d d
Spitzer, said, before cautioning
that a formal identification of
the boy and the woman had not
yet been made. The woman was
also wounded in the shooting
and remained in the hospital
on Thursday, having under-
gone emergency treatment.
The suspect, identified as
Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez,
44, of Fullerton, was also hospi-
talized in critical condition
with a gunshot wound, the au-
thorities said.
The victims, who also in-
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Aung San Suu Kyi. On Thursday,
one of her lawyers said she had
been charged with violating the
official secrets act, adding to a
list of alleged offenses.
While the military uses state-
owned media to spread its pro-
paganda and fire off warnings,
attacks on journalists have in-
creased drastically in recent
weeks, as have arrests.
To keep from being targeted,
journalists have stopped wear-
ing helmets or vests emblazoned
with the word “PRESS” and try
to blend in with the protesters.
Many also keep a low profile by
not receiving credit for their
published work and avoiding
sleeping in their own homes.
Even so, their professional-quali-
ty cameras can give them away.
At the same time, soldiers
and police routinely search civil-
ians’ phones for protest photo-
graphs or videos.
Of the 56 journalists arrest-
ed, half have been released, ac-
cording to a group that is track-
ing arrests. Among those freed
were reporters for the Associat-
ed Press and the BBC. But 28 re-
main in custody, including at
least 15 who face prison sentenc-
es of up to three years.
cluded a man and two women,
were attacked at the offices of
Unified Homes, which is a real
estate and mobile home dealer,
according to the business’s
website. Additional details
about the victims were not yet
available from police officials.
At the scene, which covered
two floors and a courtyard area
of the building, officials recov-
ered several items including a
semi-automatic handgun and a
backpack containing pepper
spray, handcuffs, and ammuni-
tion, Amat said, which officials
believe belonged to the suspect.
Gonzalez, the suspect,
locked the gates to the complex
with bicycle cable locks, and of-
ficers had to force their way in-
to the scene, officials said.
In March, two mass shoot-
ings — one in Atlanta and the
other in Boulder, Colo. — oc-
curred within one week.
The gunfire began around
5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Or-
ange, about 30 miles southeast
of Los Angeles, according to au-
thorities.
Amat said that the city of
Orange had not seen “an inci-
dent like this” since a rampage
in 1997 at a Caltrans mainte-
nance yard, in which a gunman
killed four people and was later
killed by the police in a shoot-
out.
Governor Gavin Newsom of
California said on Twitter that
he was jolted by the shooting.
“Horrifying and heartbreak-
ing,” he said. “Our hearts are
with the families impacted by
this terrible tragedy tonight.”
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Biden enlists Cabinet to help sell infrastructure plan
WASHINGTON — President
Biden held his first Cabinet
meeting Thursday, a day after
rolling out
POLITICAL his $2 tril-
NOTEBOOK lion infra-
structure
plan, with the socially distanced
participants gathering in the
East Room of the White House
— a less cramped space than the
Cabinet Room.
The meeting came just over
10 weeks into Biden’s presiden-
cy, a period in which the Senate
confirmed all of his Cabinet sec-
retaries and almost all of his
nominees to other Cabinet-level
positions.
Biden began by delegating
five secretaries — Pete Buttigieg
at Transportation, Marcia L.
Fudge, at Housing, Gina Rai-
mondo at Commerce, Jennifer
Granholm at Energy, and Marty
Walsh, at Labor — as his emis-
saries on infrastructure.
“These Cabinet secretaries
will represent me in dealing
with Congress, engage the pub-
lic in selling the plan, and help
work out the details as we refine
it and move forward,” said
Biden.
The president, seeking to ce-
ment the inroads he made
among Midwestern voters last
fall, reiterated his intention to
enact a governmentwide “Buy
American” initiative to encour-
age the use of domestic vendors
and suppliers on federal proj-
ects.
He told the Cabinet “to take a
hard look at their agency spend-
ing” to ensure taxpayer money
was going to American workers
and companies.
After that, he asked members
of the news media to leave the
room and ignored shouted ques-
tions from reporters.
The gathering struck a differ-
ent tone from the stilted meet-
ings in then-President Trump’s
administration, when his at-
Progressives wary
of Biden pick’s
views on gig work
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the American Federation of
Teachers.
But the appointment has
raised alarms in parts of the
progressive community be-
cause of work by Harris in re-
cent years that they consider
unfriendly to organized labor,
particularly coauthoring a 2015
paper that factored into a roll-
back by voters last fall of
groundbreaking protections for
gig economy workers in Califor-
nia. They worry that he might
try to dissuade the White
House from expanding labor
rights for ride-sharing drivers
and other contract workers in
an issue that is playing out in
Washington as well as states
like Massachusetts.
“We think Harris has been
bad for working people,” said
Jeff Hauser of the Revolving
Door Project, a public interest
group that monitors the execu-
tive branch. “I’m hopeful that if
labor and friends of labor are
vigilant, Harris won’t be getting
his way on the gig economy.”
But Harris said that he
agrees on policy with Biden and
Walsh and that the 2015 pa-
per’s role in the California bal-
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President Biden assembled Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (right) and other members the
Cabinet at the White House on Thursday, the first such meeting of his presidency.
tendees, one after the other,
showered him with praise and
gratitude.
NEW YORK TIMES
President backs call to move
All-Star Game out of Georgia
WASHINGTON — As pres-
sure builds to move the MLB All-
Star Game out of Georgia over
the state’s restrictive new voting
law, one particularly well-known
baseball fan has expressed his
support for the move: President
Biden.
’'I think today’s professional
athletes are acting incredibly re-
sponsibly. I would strongly sup-
port them doing that,’' Biden
told ESPN late Wednesday. ’'Peo-
ple look to them. They’re lead-
ers.’'
The divisive law, signed last
week by Governor Brian Kemp,
lot initiative has been distorted.
“Secretary Walsh is the top
labor adviser in the administra-
tion. He’s the voice of workers
and labor in the Cabinet,” Har-
ris said in an interview. “We’re
in alignment on the president’s
agenda.”
A Labor Department
spokesperson also said Walsh
and the White House were on
the same page.
“Secretary Walsh has been
laser-focused, and fully in sync
with White House advisers in-
cluding Seth Harris, on how
best to execute the president’s
agenda to better lift up, support
and protect workers, including
members of organized labor,”
t h e s p o ke s p e r s o n s a i d i n a
statement.
Harris actually could help
Walsh by being a strong labor
voice at the White House, said
Ben Olinsky, senior vice presi-
dent of policy and strategy at
the liberal Center for American
Progress think tank.
“ The most precious com-
modity in the White House is
the president’s time,” said Olin-
sky, who was special assistant
to the president for labor and
workforce policy in the Obama
administration. “Having some-
one as senior as Seth in a role at
the White House where he will
have access to the president is a
good thing because it is an op-
portunity to elevate these is-
sues and in my mind get more
runway to have the Department
of Labor act more aggressively.”
“Walsh is a very pro-labor,
pro-worker, pro-union guy.
That’s where Biden has always
been and is, and that’s where
Seth is and where the team is,”
Olinsky said. “I see everything
aligning really well for this to
be a very pro-labor administra-
tion.”
Expanding unions is a prior-
ity for Biden and Walsh. A ma-
jor battle on that front is play-
ing out in Alabama as employ-
ees at an Amazon warehouse
push to become the company’s
first unionized workforce. Am-
azon has aggressively opposed
that effort, and other major
technology companies, such as
Uber and Lyft, have fought at-
T h e B o s t o n
enacts sweeping changes that
critics say will restrict access to
the ballot. It imposes new iden-
tification requirements for mail-
in ballots and makes it a crime
for third-party groups to hand
out food and water to voters
standing in line, among other
measures.
As dozens of GOP-led state
legislatures consider similar re-
strictions, the Georgia bill has
emerged as an early flash point
in the partisan war over voting
rights — pulling in plenty of fig-
ures from outside of the state
houses.
Some of the largest compa-
nies based in the Peach State, in-
cluding Coca-Cola and Delta Air
Lines, have spoken out against
the law in recent days after they
faced criticism for not publicly
opposing it before passage. Most
Seth Harris coauthored a paper that proposed a category between independent contractors and traditional employees.
tempts to organize gig economy
workers or expand labor pro-
tections for them.
One of the biggest fights
took place in California last
year.
In 2019, the state made it
more difficult for businesses to
classify workers as independent
contractors, as popular ride-
hailing and food-delivery apps
do, which denied them basic la-
bor protections like a minimum
wage, overtime paid sick leave,
and workers compensation for
injuries.
A new law mandated that a
worker for an app-based service
would be considered an em-
ployee if their job is part of a
company’s core business, the
work is directed by the compa-
ny, and the worker hasn’t estab-
lished an independent business
in the same field.
Uber, Lyft, Doordash and
other gig economy companies
aggressively fought back. They
spent about $210 million to
fund a ballot measure that Cali-
fornia voters approved in No-
vember that exempted drivers
for app-based companies from
the law. The initiative, Proposi-
tion 22, created a new category
of worker with limited protec-
tions, such as minimum pay
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DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
major Hollywood studios, which
have a large production pres-
ence in the Atlanta area, have
remained quiet.
Now, with MLB’s All-Star
Game set to be played at Atlan-
ta’s Truist Park in July, eyes are
turning to the world of sports.
Several big names in the
MLB have called for the league
to discuss moving the game out
of Georgia. Among them is Tony
Clark, executive director of the
MLB Players Association, who
said players are ’'very much
aware’' of the new law.
’'We have not had a conversa-
tion with the league on that is-
sue. If there is an opportunity to,
we would look forward to hav-
ing that conversation,’' Clark
told The Boston Globe last week.
WASHINGTON POST
when driving but not when
waiting for a ride, that fell short
of what was mandated under
the 2019 law.
The idea of a third worker
category — between indepen-
dent contractors and tradition-
al employees — with limited la-
bor law protections was pro-
posed in a lengthy 2015 paper
titled “A Proposal for Moderniz-
ing Labor Laws for Twenty-
First-Century Work: The ‘Inde-
pendent Worker’ ” that Harris
wrote with Alan Krueger, an-
other former Obama adminis-
tration official.
But some progressives were
angry that Harris coauthored
the paper, which was used as “a
template for Proposition 22,”
said Nelson Lichtenstein, direc-
tor of the Center for the Study
of Work, Labor, and Democracy
at the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Progressives also were upset
that Harris worked for Den-
tons, a giant law firm that has
represented Walmart in labor
disputes, although there’s no
indication he was involved in
those cases.
“There are things in Harris’s
past that give legitimate con-
cern to pro-labor people and ac-
tivists,” Lichtenstein said.
Watchdog raps aid program
Ivanka Trump pushed
WASHINGTON — One of
Ivanka Trump’s top initiatives, a
legislative overhaul of programs
to assist small businesses run by
women around the world, was
so haphazardly managed by a
federal agency that an indepen-
dent watchdog was unable to
determine if it actually worked.
In a report released Thurs-
day, the Government Account-
ability Office said programs
funded through the Women’s
Entrepreneurship and Econom-
ic Empowerment Act, which the
eldest daughter of then-Presi-
dent Donald Trump helped ush-
er through Congress in 2018,
were deeply flawed and ham-
pered by poor oversight.
Officials at the US Agency for
International Development,
which oversaw $265 million per
year in spending on the initia-
tive and an associated antipov-
erty program, never worked out
“an explicit definition” of who
was eligible to receive millions
in aid, the report said.
The aid agency was also un-
able to determine the percent-
age of funding going to “the very
poor and enterprises owned,
managed, and controlled by
women,” the authors concluded
after a 14-month audit, covering
actions in both the Obama and
Trump administrations.
The GAO recommended the
Agency for International Devel-
opment make six major chang-
es. The agency’s current leaders,
who were appointed by the
Biden administration, said they
planned to implement them.
Ivanka Trump did not direct-
ly oversee the program, but she
promoted her role in expanding
federal aid to target female en-
trepreneurs and vowed to “rig-
orously track the execution and
efficacy of the money that we
were spending.”
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Henry DeGroot, executive
director of the Boston Indepen-
dent Drivers Guild, an associa-
tion of Uber and Lyft drivers,
said Harris “should not be ad-
vising the president on labor is-
sues.”
“Seth Harris’s work prior to
joining the Biden administra-
tion suggests that he prioritizes
megacorporations’ profits over
workers’ rights,” said DeGroot,
who is an Uber driver.
But Proposition 22 departed
from the paper’s proposal in a
significant way, effectively pre-
venting app-based drivers from
organizing and collectively bar-
gaining.
“That article had at its core
collective bargaining. That was
the centerpiece of our solution,
t h a t th e s e w o r ke r s ne e d e d
unions. Prop. 22 is nothing like
the proposal that Alan and I
put forward,” Harris said. “We
talked about these workers be-
ing treated largely like employ-
ees. Prop 22 doesn’t do that.”
Biden opposed Proposition
22 and his campaign platform
called for expanded protections
for gig economy workers. Biden
and Walsh also support the Pro-
tecting the Right to Organize
Act, a sweeping pro-union bill
approved by the House in
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
Republican says his vote to
impeach lifted fund-raising
WASHINGTON — Represen-
tative Adam Kinzinger of Illi-
nois, one of just 10 House Re-
publicans to vote to impeach
then-president Donald Trump in
January, an-
nounced that
his fund-rais-
ing got a
boost after
that vote and
his forma-
Adam tion of a PAC
Kinzinger designed to
push Trump-
ism out of the GOP.
In the first quarter of the
year, Kinzinger raised $1.1 mil-
lion for his reelection commit-
tee, tripling the amount raised
in the corresponding periods of
2019 and 2017.
He said that he raised
another $1.1 million for his
Country 1st PAC, which has
been collecting money for only
two months.
“This is a very huge number,”
Kinzinger told reporters in a
Zoom call.
Instead of being punished
politically for his apostasy
against Trump, the 42-year-old
Republican said his strong fund-
raising showed there is a “silent
majority that will support you”
in these times.
At least one Republican has
announced a campaign to chal-
lenge Kinzinger, once a rising
star of the insurgent Tea Party
class of 2010, with Trump advis-
er Corey Lewandowski touting
that opponent.
Trump and his advisers have
placed political targets on the
backs of the 10 House Republi-
cans who on Jan. 13 voted to
impeach, a week after a violent
mob ransacked the Capitol as
Congress worked to certify Joe
Biden’s victory in the November
2020 election.
WASHINGTON POST
March that among other things
would make it easier for gig
economy workers to unionize
and collectively bargain.
Harris’s role at the White
Ho u s e Na t i o n a l E c o n o m i c
Council is to assist in advancing
Biden’s labor policy. That in-
volved helping write the script
for a video the president made
in February emphatically sup-
porting workers’ right to orga-
nize amid the unionization ef-
fort at Amazon’s Alabama facil-
ity.
Tom Perez, who served as la-
bor secretary from 2013-17 in
the Obama administration,
said the White House plays an
important role in coordinating
labor policy between depart-
ments. And he predicted Walsh
won’t have any problems taking
the lead on policy because of
his longtime friendship with
Biden.
“Marty Walsh has an inde-
pendent relationship with the
president,” Perez said. “He has
the president’s trust. The buck
stops with Marty.”
Jim Puzzanghera can be
reached at
jim.puzzanghera@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter:
@JimPuzzanghera.
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Va. Supreme Court clears

path for removal of Lee statue
By Gregory S. Schneider
WASHINGTON POST
RICHMOND — The Supreme
Court of Virginia has cleared the
way for the city of Charlottes-
ville to take down the statue of
Confederate General Robert E.
Lee that was the focus of 2017’s
deadly Unite the Right rally, and
the ruling appears to open the
door for statue removals
throughout the state.
T he C harlottesville City
Council voted to take down both
the Lee statue and a nearby stat-
ue of Stonewall Jackson shortly
after the rally in which white su-
premacists defended Confeder-
ate iconography, with one of
them driving his car through a
crowd of counterprotesters and
killing a young woman.
But several residents sued to
prevent the statues’ removal.
They argued that a state law
passed in 1997 prohibited local-
ities from removing Confederate
war memorials.
A circuit court judge agreed
and placed an injunction
against any removal, even or-
dering the city to pay court
costs.
The city appealed, and on
Thursday the Supreme Court of
Virginia ruled that the 1997
state statute applies only to
monuments erected after the
law was adopted.
That law provides authority
for localities to create war me-
morials and monuments, and
the prohibition on taking them
down “only applies to monu-
ments and memorials erected
prospectively under that stat-
ute’s grant of authority,” the
court wrote.
“The statute has no language
which imposes regulation upon
the movement or covering of
war monuments and memorials
erected before [the law] was en-
acted,” the justices ruled.
The court found that Char-
lottesville is free to take down its
statues.
“It feels good,” said Charlot-
tesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker,
an independent, adding that “it
provided some inspiration today
to continue this work” of seek-
ing social justice. But the ruling
does not heal the wounds of
2017 or make up for the deep ra-
cial inequities that remain in the
United States, she said.
The news made a happy day
for Zyahna Bryant, who led the
first petition to remove the Lee
statue five years ago, when she
was in ninth grade. Now a sec-
ond-year student at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, Bryant said the
court’s ruling was a “full-circle”
moment for her.
“I feel almost overwhelmed,
because around this time in
2016 is when we were pushing
the petition and organizers were
trying to get people to even have
that conversation,” she said.
A city spokesman said there
is no timetable for taking the
JOHN MCDONNELL/WASHINGTON POST
statues down. Noting that no
current City Council member The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was a focal point of a nationalist rally in 2017.
was serving in 2017, spokesman
Brian Wheeler said staffers will locally erected monuments, the vor, but the case was appealed to 1880 s and 1920 s. What this
brief the council about options ruling has no bearing on Gover- the state Supreme Court, which means is that none of those
at a meeting Monday night. nor Ralph Northam’s effort to has agreed to hear the case. monuments are governed by
“These are not small statues, take down a giant statue of Lee Steven Emmert, a Virginia this statute,” Emmert said.
and it’s a complicated process” on state property in Richmond, Supreme Court analyst, said the Virginia Attorney General
to take them down, Wheeler state officials said. ruling suggests that localities in Mark Herring, a Democrat, has
said. The city wants to “make Northam, a Democrat, or- the state had the power to take made the same argument.
sure we do it in a way that dered the removal last spring, down their old statues all along. The General Assembly
doesn’t get us back in court in but the order has been held up “Most of the statues that passed a law last year that set up
some fashion.” by a lawsuit filed by several were erected for Civil War lead- a mechanism for localities to
Because the code section at nearby property owners. A cir- ers or veterans were put up in a take down statues using a
issue in the case applies only to cuit judge ruled in Northam’s fa- period roughly between the lengthy public review process.

Part of infrastructure plan tackles roads that split enclaves

By Ian Duncan
WASHINGTON POST
Since she moved back home
to Tremé almost a decade ago,
Amy Stelly has waged a cam-
paign for the removal of a high-
way that cuts through her New
Orleans neighborhood.
She struggled to get support
from local leaders. Neighbors
considered the quest to be wish-
ful thinking.
“Nobody thinks you can get
rid of a highway,” she said.
On Wednesday, Stelly’s effort
gained a considerable boost
when the White House named
the highway, the Claiborne Ex-
pressway, an example of a his-
toric inequity that President
Biden’s new infrastructure plan
would seek to address through
billions in new spending.
Stelly didn’t know the road
had been singled out until a re-
porter called.
“I’m floored,” she said. “I’m
thrilled to hear President Biden
would call out the Claiborne Ex-
pressway as a racist highway.”
Stelly is part of a growing
movement across the country to
take down highways bored
through neighborhoods pre-
dominantly home to people of
color. Most were created as the
federal government worked to
connect the nation after the
birth of the interstate highway
system. Many such highways
are reaching the end of their 50-
year life span, raising the ques-
tion of whether they should be
rebuilt or reimagined.
“It’s the same in many Black
communities, not only in Loui-
siana,” Stelly said. “It’s great the
federal government and this ad-
ministration is recognizing that
this is something that must be
corrected if we are to be fair and
just in America.”
The elevated Claiborne Ex-
pressway was built atop Clai-
borne Avenue and completed in
1968. From her second-floor
porch, Stelly can see a ramp to
the highway rising up from the
street. She said air pollutants
stick to her home.
Beneath the highway, the
wide median of the old Clai-
borne Avenue is still largely in-
tact. It used to be a busy thor-
oughfare. Stelly wants it re-
stored to something like its
former condition.
A spokesman for New Or-
leans Mayor LaToya Cantrell
said she appreciated the Biden
administration’s acknowledg-
ment of “the devastation to sur-
rounding African American
businesses” the highway con-
struction has caused.
Biden’s plan calls for a $20
billion fund to “reconnect”
neighborhoods cut off by old
transportation projects. Docu-
ments released Wednesday by
the White House provided little
detail about how the money
could be used, but the projected
cost of taking down highways
varies from a few hundred mil-
lion dollars to billions.
“This plan is important not
only for what and how it builds,
but [it ’s] also impor tant to
where we build,” Biden said
Wednesday. “Too often, eco-
nomic growth and recovery is
concentrated on the coast. Too
often, investments have failed to
meet the needs of marginalized
communities left behind.”
Support in Washington for
taking down highways or miti-
gating problems they caused
has grown in recent years. Sen-
ate Democrats, including major-
ity leader Chuck Schumer of
New York, included $10 billion
for highway removal in an eco-
nomic justice bill introduced
late last year. During the Obama
administration, Transportation
Secre tar y Anthony Foxx
launched a program that en-
couraged communities to re-
think highways and design ways
to cross them.
The White House plan is part
of an effort by Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg to ad-
vance racial equity alongside
work on the environment and
safety. Communities of color of-
ten suffer most from highway
pollution.

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New York to end long-term

solitary confinements
15-day limit set
for jails, prisons
By Troy Closson
NEW YORK TIMES
In a far-reaching move that
will fundamentally change life
behind bars in New York, Gover-
nor Andrew Cuomo on Wednes-
day signed into law a bill that
will end the use of long-term sol-
itary confinement in prisons
and jails.
The law is set to restrict pris-
ons and jails from holding peo-
ple in solitary confinement —
LAS CRUCES FIRE DEPARTMENT VIA NEW YORK TIMES
nearly all-day isolation — for
Honey bees invaded a shopper’s car in the parking lot of a supermarket on Sunday. more than 15 consecutive days.
Wednesday evening before the
bill became law.
In recent years, more law-
makers across the country have
joined a push to curb the wide-
spread use of solitary confine-
ment, also referred to as puni-
tive segregation, over the objec-
tions of corrections officials,
who argue that rollbacks to the
practice will make effective dis-
cipline more difficult and make
prisons and jails less safe.
Still, public defenders point
to data showing racial dispari-
ties in the use of solitary. In New
York state, Black people repre-
sent about 48 percent of the
prison population, but 58 per-
tions in isolation.
A measure similar to the new
law appeared primed to pass in
2019 but died after union push-
back and a threat of veto from
Cuomo, who cited concerns over
large potential costs to carry out
the changes. (Those projections
were later disputed.) Instead,
the governor agreed to roll out
several less-expansive adminis-
trative changes to alter the prac-
tice.
After Democrats secured a
legislative supermajority in last
November’s elections, which al-
lowed a veto from the governor
to be overridden, their efforts to
pass the measure gained trac-

Not quite on his shopping list

Man returns with groceries, finds 15,000 bees in car
By Neil Vigdor
NEW YORK TIMES
He had just finished grocery
shopping, but a New Mexico
man got much more than he bar-
gained for when he returned to
his car in the store’s parking lot:
A swarm of 15,000 honey bees
had decamped in the back seat.
The man, whose name was
not released, had left a window
down in a Buick while he made a
10-minute stop at an Albertsons
supermarket on Sunday after-
noon in Las Cruces, N.M., the
authorities said.
It wasn’t until he had started
to drive away that he noticed
something was amiss, according
to the Las Cruces Fire Depart-
ment.
“Then he turned back and
looked and like was, ‘Holy cow,’ ”
Jesse Johnson, an off-duty fire-
fighter and paramedic whose
hobby is beekeeping, said of the
man’s reaction in an interview
on Wednesday.
“He called 911 because he
didn’t know what to do.”
Johnson, 37, a 10-year mem-
ber of the Fire Department and a
father of two, said he had just
finished a family barbecue when
he got the call from the Fire De-
partment and figured that he
could safely remove and relocate
the bees to his property.
“I’ll do anything to keep peo-
ple from killing the bees,” he
said.
It’s common in the spring for
colonies of bees to split, accord-
ing to Johnson.
He suggested that the bees,
which collectively weighed
about 3½ pounds, might have
come from a parapet, gutter sys-
tem, or home in a nearby neigh-
borhood.
“ L u c k i l y, w h e n b e e s a r e
swarming, they’re pretty docile,”
he said.
But don’t tell that to the driv-
er of the car, who watched John-
son wrangle the bees from a
healthy distance in the parking
lot of Albertsons.
“He didn’t want to have any-
thing to do with it,” Johnson
said. “He was worried because
the car was borrowed from a
friend.”
Protected by a white beekeep-
er’s jacket and veil, Johnson ap-
proached the car with an empty
hive box that he said he had
treated with lemongrass oil.
“It really mimics the scent of
the queen,” he said.
While this was one of the
larger swarms he has relocated,
Johnson said, he could have
completed the delicate task in
just five to 10 minutes. But he
didn’ t want to rush it, so he
spent 20 to 30 minutes at the
scene.
“The meat-and-potatoes part
was real quick,” Johnson said,
adding, “I didn’t want to leave
him with 1,000 bees still in his
car looking for their queen.”
Fire Chief Jason Smith said in
an interview on Wednesday that
Johnson had distinguished him-
self as an emergency responder.
The Fire Department ordi-
narily doesn’t remove bees, but
Smith said that because the bees
were in a relatively high-traffic
area, it made sense for Johnson
to remove them.
His efforts on Sunday will
come with a sweetener, he said:
honey.
It also bars the practice en-
tirely for several groups, includ-
ing minors and people with dis-
abilities.
The new limitations, which
do not take effect for one year,
mirror recent changes in several
other states that have limited
the practice. Cuomo signed the
bill Wednesday, his office con-
firmed, but signaled that he
planned to negotiate some
changes to the legislation.
The law was long sought by
advocates for incarcerated peo-
ple, who have raised concerns
about the mental health ramifi-
cations of solitary confinement
and the apparent racial inequity
in its use. Black and Latino peo-
ple make up about 70 percent of
the state’s prison population and
represent more than four-fifths
of those in solitary confinement.
Other provisions in the law
focus on the mental health con-
sequences of solitary confine-
ment. The law requires screen-
ings for suicide risk and the cre-
ation of rehabilitation units for
prisoners who need to be sepa-
rated from the general popula-
tion for more than 15 days.
“Having spent a lot of time
with the advocates who have di-
rect stakes in this bill, this is
deeply meaningful,” Senator Ju-
lia Salazar, a Democrat who
sponsored the legislation, said
cent of those in special housing
units.
A large body of research also
links solitary confinement to in-
creased risks for self-harm and
suicide, worsened mental ill-
ness, and higher rates of death
after release.
“It didn’ t take me long to
start seeing things that weren’t
in my cell, to start having a con-
versation with nobody there,”
said Vic tor Pate, who cam-
paigned for the legislation after
being released from prison. Pate
said he spent more than two
years in isolation over his rough-
ly 15 years in the system. “You
never get over that. I’m not well,
by a long shot.”
Colorado barred the use of
long-term isolation in its prisons
in 2017, and two years later,
New Jersey restricted solitary
confinement to 20 consecutive
days.
At least 11 other states, in-
cluding Georgia, Nebraska, and
New Mexico, in 2019 also limit-
ed or banned punitive segrega-
tion for certain groups.
A large campaign to limit the
use of solitary confinement in
New York kicked off more than
eight years ago. But those efforts
had long fallen short in Albany.
The state agreed in 2015, fol-
lowing a lawsuit, to changes that
included improved living condi-
tion. Activists in recent weeks
staged several rallies outside
Cuomo’s office in Manhattan.
The measure passed both cham-
bers with wide support last
month, and some lawmakers
threatened to push ahead even
without Cuomo’s signature.
In his approval of the law,
Cuomo wrote that “amend-
ments are necessary” in order to
protect people living and work-
ing in correctional facilities. He
said those changes would in-
volve addressing “all possible
circumstances” in which incar-
cerated people may need to be
separated from the general pop-
ulation, including when they
commit “multiple violent acts.”
He did not offer additional
specifics.
The current legislation re-
stricts the use of solitary to no
more than 15 consecutive days,
or 20 total days over a two-
month period. Punitive segrega-
tion is banned entirely for peo-
ple under 22 or over 54, those
who are pregnant, and individu-
als with mental and physical dis-
abilities, among other groups.
Some of those changes, such
as the ban for people under 22,
had already been adopted in
New York City, where Mayor Bill
de Blasio has pledged to eventu-
ally do away with solitary con-
finement altogether.

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state — 4.1 million residents —
but that’s only roughly 60 per-
cent of its entire population, in-
cluding children. It’s an ambi-
tious goal, but no one is sure if it
will be enough to reach the
threshold.
The reason for all the uncer-
tainty? There is still a lot that we
don’t know about both the virus
and the vaccines.
Herd immunity itself is quite
real, and we’ve seen it in action:
Measles largely disappeared
from the United States when
about 95 percent of the popula-
tion was immunized, according
to the World Health Organiza-
tion. Epidemiologists even have
a formula to calculate how many
people must be vaccinated to
achieve herd immunity against
any particular virus.
“It’s not hard to calculate if
you knew all the numbers to put
in,” said Dr. Marc Lipsitch, direc-
tor of the Center for Communi-
cable Disease Dynamics at the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health. “What’s hard is to
be sure about what numbers do
go into it.”
In interviews, public health
experts explained why the con-
cept is so tricky. But they also
stressed that immunizing a high
portion of the population is still
crucial, even if it won’t fully
eradicate the virus.
An uncertain target
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director
of the National Institute of Aller-
gy and Infectious Diseases, has
suggested that 70 to 85 percent
of the population should be vac-
cinated to reach full herd immu-
nity against COVID-19.
The considerable gulf owes to
a yearlong struggle to fully un-
derstand a key characteristic of
COVID-19: just how infectious
the disease is when people aren’t
taking precautions such as wear-
ing masks or social distancing.
The world never got a clear
look at that number, Lipsitch
said.
Early on in the pandemic,
many scientists came to believe
that with COVID-19, each infec-
tious person would infect 2.5 to
three others, he said. If the num-
ber is three, it would mean that
reaching herd immunity would
require about two-thirds of peo-
ple to become inoculated, ac-
cording to the mathematical for-
mula.
But scientists may have un-
derestimated the brutal efficien-
cy of COVID-19 because early
testing was so limited that it may
have missed lots of people who
would have tested positive. And
it has since become impossible
to get a more precise number,
because so many people have
changed their behavior.
“We we were sort of stuck
with bad data,” Lipsitch said.
“And there’s no really good way
JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 2021
to get past it, because, appropri-
ately, we weren’t spending our Scientists agree that it’s crucial to vaccinate as much of the population as possible, even if the coronavirus can’t be eradicated.
time trying to measure the num-
ber. We were spending time try- nated people can still transmit by up to 80 percent — which he immunity threshold, particular- stressed that despite these hur-
ing to make it lower.” the disease to others, potentially called “pretty good.” But if vacci- ly with kids not being vaccinat- dles, it remains highly important
The rise of coronavirus vari- harming those who have not nated people can still transmit ed,” Pitzer said. “If we were to to vaccinate large portions of the
ants also complicates this pic- been immunized. the disease at some level, it will immunize every age-eligible in- population.
ture, because they are widely un- “If you think of people as tin- further increase the threshold dividual in the US, we wouldn’t Though the virus may not ful-
derstood to be more infectious der and vaccine as water to try to needed to stamp out the virus. achieve herd immunity.” ly die out, a high uptake of vac-
than the original form of the vi- stop a fire, we don’t know how “It’s a pretty good number, One additional factor may cines would still substantially
rus. wet each person gets from a sin- b u t p r e tty go o d d o e s m a ke help, however: the millions of slow the spread — enough to po-
The higher the infectiousness gle vaccine,” Lipsitch said. things harder,” Lipsitch said. If people who have already been tentially resume normal life.
rate, the higher the herd immu- “Whether they get so wet that the vaccine only cuts out about infected by COVID-19, bringing And if the virus will still circu-
nity threshold. If, for example, they can never catch on fire, or if 80 percent of virus transmission, some additional level of immu- late, protecting those most vul-
each person could infect four they just get wet enough that it’s the real herd immunity target nity to the population. While nerable would become especially
people, three quarters would harder to catch them on fire and may be “pretty close to 100 per- many will probably also get vac- critical.
need to be immune to make the they don’t burn as hot.” cent” of the population vaccinat- cinated, some could ultimately “If we can turn this into a dis-
virus dwindle. Five people Scientists are still exploring ed. add to the legions of the inocu- ease that is harmful, but to a
would require 80 percent, and this question, and it could take lated. smaller number of people, and
six would require nearly 85 per- some time to get a solid answer. Is the target even realistic? “That will be our friend in the on a smaller scale in terms of the
cent. Some research suggests the vac- If eradicating COVID-19 will short run,” Lipsitch said. “It hospital system, we will then de-
“The threshold to achieve cines — already shown to dra- require population-wide immu- won’t last forever, because the cide as a society, as we do with
herd immunity is always a calcu- matically reduce illness, hospi- nization, it simply may not be more we reduce transmission, the flu . . . to try to reduce it, but
lated back of the envelope,” said talization, and death — can also feasible. the more people will be born not to disrupt life on the same
Dr. Virginia Pitzer, an epidemiol- significantly reduce transmis- Even if the threshold is lower, with no immunity or people’s scale we’ve disrupted life so far
ogy professor at the Yale School sion, but maybe not entirely. Ro- significant numbers of people immunity will wane. So it to control it,” Lipsitch said. “We
of Public Health. chelle Walensky, director of the will likely not schedule appoint- doesn’t solve the problem in the should not despair.”
Centers for Disease Control and ments. And the vaccines haven’t long run. But in the short run, it
Water and fire Prevention, said this week that yet been approved for those un- helps a lot.” Adam Vaccaro can be reached at
Further muddling the math the data so far is very promising. der 16. adam.vaccaro@globe.com.
is another uncertainty: Whether Lipsitch suspects vaccines “I think it’s going to be nearly Strength in numbers Follow him on Twitter at
— and to what extent — vacci- can reduce disease transmission impossible to achieve the herd Lipsitch and Pitzer both @adamtvaccaro.

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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
US launches ad campaign to combat vaccine hesitancy
WASHINGTON — The Biden
administration on Thursday an-
nounced an advertising cam-
paign in-
CORONAVIRUS tended to
NOTEBOOK encour-
age as
many Americans as possible to
be vaccinated against the coro-
navirus.
The campaign, with ads in
English and Spanish that will air
throughout April on network TV
and cable channels nationwide,
as well as online, comes as the
administration is rapidly ex-
panding access to coronavirus
vaccines, but skepticism about
vaccines also remains high.
President Biden announced
last week a new goal of adminis-
tering 200 million doses by his
100th day in office, doubling his
initial goal of “100 million shots
in the arms” of Americans that
he set when he was inaugurated.
And last month, in an address to
the nation, he announced a goal
of making all US adults eligible
for a vaccine by May 1. Gover-
nors and public health officials
in more than 40 states have said
that they will meet or beat that
deadline.
But deep skepticism about
the vaccine remains a problem,
particularly among Black peo-
ple, Latinos, Republicans, and
white evangelicals.
Two hundred and seventy-
five organizations will partici-
pate in the administration’s new
public awareness push — in-
cluding NASCAR, the Catholic
Health Association of the United
States, and the North American
Meat Institute — that is aimed at
communities where vaccine hes-
itancy remains high. Among the
organizations are many Catholic
and evangelical groups that are
expected to help address reli-
gious concerns about the John-
son & Johnson vaccine, which
uses abortion-derived fetal cell
lines.
The group is collectively
called the COVID-19 Communi-
ty Corps, administration officials
Jeffrey and Jackie were in their 70s. They had moved from Texas to Massachusetts in May 2020 to be closer
to Amelia and Henry, then 8 and 4 years old. They had planned it for years.
An endless
wait for
the special
touch
uGRANDPARENTS
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to play Wiffle ball. They’d gone
down in the basement together
so Henry could practice his
swing, the yellow plastic bat
whooshing through the air. He
kept missing, and he was getting
upset. “Everybody misses some-
times,” Jeffrey told him gently,
over and over. Henry swung and
missed again. “Everybody miss-
es sometimes,” he said in his lit-
tle voice.
It was a small sweet memory,
and in the heat of the pandemic
summer that followed, Jeffrey
mourned the lost afternoons.
Jeffrey and Jackie were in
their 70s. They had moved from
Texas to Massachusetts in May
2020 to be closer to Amelia and
Henry, then 8 and 4 years old.
They had planned it for years.
But once they arrived, they
found themselves — like grand-
parents all over the world —
stuck at a terrible distance.
When they saw Amelia and
Henry, they all wore masks and
stayed outside, at least 6 feet
apart. When it got cold, they
took freezing walks in the
woods, thankful that the little
ones didn’t mind trudging
around all bundled up. They
bought a fire pit, and watched
their grandchildren growing up
across the flames.
Before they moved north,
they had imagined the pleasure
of bedtimes. The bath, the paja-
mas, the calm. Climbing into
bed and reading the same books
they read to their own daugh-
ters: “Blueberries for Sal,” “Make
Way for Ducklings,” “Charlotte’s
Web.” Traveling together into
that other world between wak-
ing and sleep.
When their own daughters
were little and they couldn’t fall
asleep, Jeffrey used to lay on
said, and participating organiza-
tions are able to reach millions
of Americans who trust those in-
dividual groups.
A new poll by the Kaiser
Family Foundation this week
found that the number of Black
adults willing to be vaccinated
had increased substantially
since February. But 13 percent
of respondents overall said that
they would “definitely not” get a
vaccine. Among Republicans
and white evangelical Chris-
tians, almost 30 percent of each
group said that they would “def-
initely not” get a shot.
NEW YORK TIMES
No safety concerns seen for
Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine
An updated analysis of clini-
cal trial data shows that the Pfiz-
er-BioNTech vaccine continues
to offer strong protection with-
out serious safety concerns, the
companies said on Thursday.
The new data also suggested
that the vaccine works against a
worrisome virus variant in
South Africa, although more
studies are needed, experts said.
Pfizer and BioNTech made
the announcement in a news re-
lease. The data have not been
peer-reviewed nor published in
a scientific journal.
Dr. Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s
chief executive, said in a state-
ment that the new data “confirm
the favorable efficacy and safety
profile of the vaccine” and will
allow the companies to submit
an application to the Food and
Drug Administration for full ap-
proval. The vaccine has emer-
gency authorization now.
The new analysis is an up-
date to data gathered in the
more than 44,000-person clini-
cal trial that led to the authori-
zation in the United States and
in other countries in December.
Pfizer and BioNTech have now
recorded 927 cases of Covid-19
among participants in the study,
and the new analysis finds that
the vaccine is more than 91 per-
cent effective after the second
their floor and tell them a story
he made up. There was a tree
with golden leaves outside their
window, the story went, and in
the winter when all the leaves
T h e B o s t o n
dose, given three weeks after the
first.
In November, the companies
said that the vaccine was 95 per-
cent effective, based on 170
COVID cases reported among
participants. The new analysis
found the vaccine was nearly
100 percent effective in prevent-
ing severe disease and death, as
was the case in November.
More than 12,000 people
who received the vaccine in the
trial have passed the six-month
mark since the second dose, and
no new safety issues were identi-
fied, company researchers also
said. The companies did not
provide specific efficacy data for
that group.
NEW YORK TIMES
Firm producing J&J vaccine
had history of violations
The company at the center of
quality problems that led John-
son & Johnson to discard 15
million doses of its coronavirus
vaccine has a string of citations
from US health officials for qual-
ity control problems.
Emergent BioSolutions, a lit-
tle-known company vital to the
vaccine supply chain, was a key
to Johnson & Johnson’s plan to
deliver 100 million doses of its
vaccine to the United States by
the end of May.
But the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration repeatedly has cit-
ed Emergent for problems such
as poorly trained employees,
cracked vials, and problems
managing mold and other con-
tamination around one of its fa-
cilities, according to records ob-
tained by the Associated Press
through the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act. The records cover
inspections at Emergent facili-
ties since 2017.
Johnson & Johnson said
Wednesday that a batch of vac-
cine made by Emergent at its
Baltimore factory, known as
Bayview, cannot be used be-
cause it did not meet quality
standards.
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fell off, the tree got cold. So they
would reach out the window
and hang scarves over its
branches to keep it warm. The
tree was so thankful that in the
G l o b e
This vial of AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine was made in India.
Africa CDC says serum woes
could be ‘catastrophic’
DAKAR, Senegal — Africa is
unlikely to meet its targets for
vaccinating the continent
against COVID-19 if supply de-
lays from a key Indian manufac-
turer continue, the director of
the Africa Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention warned
Thursday.
Dr. John Nkengasong told a
press briefing that officials hope
the problems at the Serum Insti-
tute of India will only be tempo-
rary.
‘‘I really want to deliberately
hope that it is a delay — not a
ban — because that would be
catastrophic,” he said.
More than half of the 29.1
million vaccine doses received
by African nations so far have
come through the global COVAX
initiative. But the Serum Insti-
tute of India recently said that as
many as 90 million doses of the
AstraZeneca vaccine destined
for COVAX worldwide will be
delayed through the end of April
as India’s government grapples
with a spike in infections among
the country’s 1.4 billion people.
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Ontario imposes restrictions
provincewide amid 3rd wave
TORONTO — The leader of
Canada’s most populous prov-
The seder was a joyous
occasion for the family,
finally able to be together
again in Concord. Above,
Jackie Jones embraced
Henry, with Amelia nearby.
At left, she was happy to be
with her daughter Sarah
Abramson.
spring, it would drop its golden
leaves right into their bedroom.
He planned to switch out his
daughters’ names and tell it to
Amelia and Henry. Jeffrey and
Jackie had set up two bedrooms
in their new house in Concord,
but the kids had never stayed
the night.
Time marched on. Henry
BRIAN INGANGA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ince announced Thursday what
he calls a provincewide shut-
down for four weeks because of
a third surge of coronavirus in-
fections fueled by more conta-
gious virus variants.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford
said they are fighting a new pan-
demic with the variants and said
the virus is spreading faster. The
measures ban indoor public
events and gatherings except for
retail and grocery stores.
Schools will also remain open.
There will be a 25 percent ca-
pacity limit in retail stores and
50 percent in supermarkets.
Hair salons will be closed,
and there will be no indoor or
patio dining.
Ontario reported more than
2,500 new cases on Thursday
and record numbers in intensive
care this week.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pakistan residents will be
allowed to buy vaccine shot
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan
said on Thursday that it would
allow COVID-19 vaccine doses
to be sold commercially to pa-
tients, starting with the vaccine
developed in China by CanSino
Biologics. The Russian Sputnik
V vaccine will also be sold, offi-
cials said.
The policy will allow affluent
Pakistanis to pay to get the shots
turned 5 and Amelia turned 9.
Their beds waited, neatly made.
***
Amelia burst from her family’s
car at a run and catapulted herself
into her grandfather’s arms. Hen-
ry followed, a brand new monster
truck in his backpack, waiting to
hurtle across his grandparents’
floor. Jackie grabbed him so tight
she nearly lifted him right out of
his red Crocs. How big he’d
grown. She was crying.
A long, lovely evening await-
ed. Passover: a celebration of
freedom. They would reflect on
the story of the Jews’ liberation
from slavery in Egypt, and the
passing over of the forces of de-
struction. The quiet house in
Concord would fill with the
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at large private hospitals when-
ever they want, while most peo-
ple wait their turn for a state-
supplied vaccination.
The CanSino Biologics vac-
cine, which is administered in a
single shot, will be sold for
around $28 a dose, a federal
government minister said.
The pricing for Sputnik V, a
two-shot vaccine, is under dis-
pute between the private com-
pany that plans to import it and
the national drug regulator.
Pakistan, with a population
of more than 220 million, has
reported more than 623,000
coronavirus cases and more
than 14,000 deaths, according
to a New York Times database.
NEW YORK TIMES
US official switches jobs
after planning indoor party
The White House has direct-
ed the Interior Department’s
chief of staff, Jennifer Van der
Heide, to step down from her
position after she attempted to
plan an indoor party with
roughly 50 attendees to cele-
brate the confirmation of Interi-
or Secretary Deb Haaland, ac-
cording to an administration of-
ficial with knowledge of the
matter.
White House officials had
initially expressed concerns last
week about the planned party,
according to the official, who
spoke on condition of anonymi-
ty because the official was not
authorized to speak on the re-
cord. The White House officials
worried that the party would
spread the virus while under-
mining President Biden’s efforts
to urge Americans to continue
to practice social distancing to
avoid a possible new surge.
Van der Heide will remain as
a senior counselor to Haaland,
while Larry Roberts, who served
as the agency’s acting assistant
director of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in the Obama adminis-
tration, will become Haaland’s
new chief of staff.
NEW YORK TIMES
PHOTOS BY ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF
racket of the children exploring
a new home. The table was set
with the family china, blooming
with tiny pink flowers. Jeffrey
would lead the seder, just like
his father before him. Amelia
was learning Hebrew now, she
was so grown up, and she would
ask the four ritual questions,
starting with: “How is this night
different from all other nights?”
But for now, Jackie and Jef-
frey stood outside their house in
the evening breeze and there
was only this: a little boy and a
little girl, taller now than before,
who were desperate to hug
them, too.
Evan Allen can be reached at
evan.allen@globe.com. Follow
her on Twitter @evanmallen.
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The state’s overall positivity
rate was 2.49 percent, officials
reported Thursday.
“There’s so much talk about
the vaccine, and it’s providing a
lot of hope for sure,” McLaughlin
said. But as of now, only about
18 percent of Boston residents
are vaccinated. “We all need to
continue to take precautions, to
protect ourselves and to protect
each other,” she said.
Dr. Renee Crichlow, chief
medical officer at the Codman
Square Health Center in Dor-
chester, said that neighborhood
has been hit hard because many
residents are essential workers
who haven’t been able to work
from home, who take mass tran-
sit to work, and who return home
at night to close quarters and
multigenerational households.
“We know our community’s
at risk,” Crichlow said. “We want
to make sure our community
knows that Codman Square is
there for them.”
She noted that positivity
rates in the area reached even
higher levels during the surge
that began last fall and peaked
early this year, but she said the
current rates are a “warning.” If
the numbers keep climbing, pol-
icies will need to be reexamined
at the local, state, and national
level, she said.
Baker, who toured a vaccina-
tion site at La Colaborativa in
Chelsea, said the state will ramp
up its vaccine outreach to some
of its hardest-hit communities,
opening mobile vaccine units
starting next week in Chelsea,
Revere, Boston, Fall River, and
New Bedford. The governor said
there would be up to 500 vac-
cines available per day in each
community in city parks, park-
ing lots, and other public places.
Chelsea was among several
cities that had initially been
promised much less aid in the
federal relief bill than wealthier
and whiter cities nearby. After
an outcry from local activists
and elected officials, Baker
promised to direct an additional
$100 million to Chelsea, Everett,
Randolph, and Methuen.
“We’re committed to ensur-
ing that communities like Chel-
sea get the support that they
Despite mishap,
J&J bonus doses
are still coming
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there was finally this really sig-
nificant move upward,” Baker
said. But after the next J&J ship-
ment, he said, “we don’t know
what’s happening.”
The state’s vaccination pro-
gram has grown steadily since
February, including 448,045
doses administered in the past
week, and 1.3 million residents
fully vaccinated since mid-De-
cember. J&J’s vaccine only be-
came available here in late
March, but the Baker adminis-
tration had hoped that it would
become a growing part of the
supply in coming weeks, with
the general public set to become
eligible for shots on April 19.
White House officials ac-
knowledged Thursday that they
have known about J&J’s produc-
tion problem since last week,
but they don’t expect it to slow
down their vaccination drive.
On Tuesday, The New York
Times reported that up to 15
million J&J doses were spoiled
last month when workers at a
pair of Baltimore plants operat-
ed by Emergent BioSolutions, a
contractor that was making both
J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines,
mixed up their ingredients. The
mistake delayed regulatory au-
thorization of production at the
sites.
Speeding up the national vac-
cination campaign has become
increasingly urgent in recent
weeks as new, highly transmissi-
ble coronavirus variants have
been circulating in the United
States, pushing up infection
rates in Massachusetts and other
states.
Baker, who repeated his daily
A vaccine was administered Thursday at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center clinic at La Colaborativa in Chelsea. “We’re committed to ensuring that
communities like Chelsea get the support that they need so that people here get vaccinated,” Governor Charlie Baker said.
need so that people here get vac-
cinated,” Baker said Thursday at
the clinic, which is run by La Co-
laborativa and the East Boston
Neighborhood Health Center.
Baker has faced criticism for
the unequal vaccine rollout
across the state so far. The vast
majority of residents who have
received at least one dose are
white, at 72 percent; 5 percent
are Black; and 5 percent are His-
panic, according to the latest
state figures.
Health and Human Services
Secretary Marylou Sudders said
that starting next week, 200 bi-
lingual community organizers
will fan out across Chelsea and
other impacted communities to
educate residents about the vac-
warnings Thursday against large
gatherings for the Easter and
Passover holidays, said the state
can ill afford any vaccine supply
delays.
“It’s a shame to have 15 mil-
lion vaccines, when you’re in a
race against variants, go down
the drain,” the governor said.
J&J issued a statement that
gave few details of what hap-
pened at the contractor’s plants.
It said J&J’s quality control pro-
cess identified the problem be-
fore contaminated vaccine was
sent to the final production and
packaging stages known as fill-
ing and finishing. The drug giant
said it had met its commitment
to deliver 20 million doses to the
United States by the end of
March.
Dr. Dan Barouch, director of
the Center for Virology and Vac-
cine Research at Beth Israel Dea-
coness Medical Center, who
helped develop the J&J vaccine,
said it’s being manufactured at
multiple sites around the world.
Doses earmarked for Massa-
chusetts next week are part of an
11 million-dose distribution to
the United States this week from
a J&J-operated plant in the
Netherlands, he said.
Emergent’s plant in Balti-
more, which had yet to be
cleared for operation by the
Food and Drug Administration,
had planned to handle future US
production. Now, until the FDA
certifies it’s fixed its problem,
J&J doses will have to come
from elsewhere.
“This is an unfortunate event
with the first batch of doses,” Ba-
rouche said. “But at the end of
the day, this is going to be just a
speed bump. I would call this a
T h e B o s t o n
cine.
“It’s like a political campaign,
except it’s vaccine canvassing,”
Sudders said.
At La Colaborativa, residents
eager for a shot waited in line as
the governor spoke.
“I came because I didn’t want
to die,” Ana Estella Gonzales de
Garcia, 62, said in Spanish.
She said she had been slightly
nervous about how the vaccine
would affect her, but was looking
forward to living with “less fear.”
As Baker toured the clinic, Gon-
zales de Garcia waited the requi-
site 15 minutes after her shot,
clutching an Easter egg donated
by the White House for vaccine
recipients.
On Monday, Massachusetts
La Colaborativa executive director Gladys Vega spoke Thursday at the East Boston
Neighborhood Health Center vaccine clinic in Chelsea.
minor setback.”
Barouche said he remains
confident that J&J will be able to
deliver the 100 million doses the
US government has purchased
by the end of June. “They had
hoped to accelerate that if they
could,” he said. “But over the
next month or two, there will
still be a dramatic increase in
J&J doses.”
With production of the two-
dose vaccines from Pfizer-BioN-
Tech and Cambridge-based
Moderna also ramping up, the
United States should remain on
track to have enough supply to
vaccinate about 320 million
Americans by the summer, said
Jen Kates, a senior vice presi-
dent and global health policy di-
rector at the Kaiser Family Foun-
dation in Washington.
But as public health officials
press their efforts to persuade
unvaccinated populations to get
injections, she said, any delay in
J&J’s timetable could deprive
them of an important tool.
“To the extent that some indi-
viduals are more comfortable
with one dose, if the one-dose
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residents 55 and older, as well as
people with one of the listed
health conditions, will become
eligible to make vaccine appoint-
ments. By April 19, all residents
16 and older will be eligible.
Gladys Vega, the executive di-
rector of La Colaborativa, urged
young people to choose to be
vaccinated when they can.
“As we’ve been doing door
knocking, that has been the big-
gest challenge: convincing indi-
viduals that are 35 and under.
They don’t believe in the vacci-
nation,” Vega said.
Meanwhile, another set of
numbers released Thursday
showed cause for concern.
The state listed a total of 55
communities now considered
vaccine isn’t available for a time,
that adds to the challenge of
reaching everyone,” Kates said.
J&J vaccines arriving in Mas-
sachusetts next week will be sent
to CVS and Walgreens pharma-
cies, including 20 to 30 outlets
opening for vaccinations just to
handle the J&J supply. Others
doses will go to regional vaccine
collaboratives, community
health centers, low-income se-
nior housing, and mobile units
that inoculate homebound resi-
dents.
The aim is “to take our exist-
ing channels and pump it out,”
said Health and Human Services
Secretary Marylou Sudders.
State and federal officials
plan to redouble their outreach
to the hardest-hit communities
in the coming weeks, with edu-
cation campaigns and “pop-up”
vaccination sites operated by the
Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency nationwide.
The mass vaccination site at
the Hynes Convention Center,
jointly operated by CIC Health
and FEMA, had planned to use
J&J vaccines next month not on-
high risk for the spread of
COVID-19, an increase from 32
last week. The state releases a
map on a weekly basis that uses
case counts to show which com-
munities are at high, moderate,
and low risk.
Among the communities
added to the high risk list were
Brockton, Canton, Framingham,
Milford, Nantucket, Peabody,
Raynham, and Saugus.
Elsewhere in the state, some
residents were changing plans
ahead of the holiday weekend.
The St. Patrick parish in Stone-
ham announced it would not
hold in-person Masses on Easter
Sunday, as the number of staff
members and clergy testing pos-
itive for COVID-19 continued to
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ly at the Hynes but in mobile
units sent to pop-up clinics in
Boston neighborhoods as well as
Chelsea, Revere, and other high-
risk communities.
Baker administration offi-
cials have already begun work-
ing to dispel misinformation and
overcome vaccine hesitancy in
those communities. The gover-
nor said he doesn’t see the J&J
stumble further undermining
confidence in vaccination.
Baker noted that the error
was detected at the Baltimore
plant before the tainted vaccines
were released to the public.
“People screwed up, people
recognized, people ditched it,”
Baker said. “Right? I mean, the
message to me is, whatever the
[quality] control process was, it
was in place there. It worked.”
Robert Weisman can be reached
at robert.weisman@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@GlobeRobW. Travis Andersen
can be reached at
travis.andersen@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@TAGlobe.
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climb.
“I do not make this decision
lightly as it comes during the
most sacred and meaningful
time in the church’s calendar,
Easter,” the Rev. Mario J. Orrigo
wrote in a note to the communi-
ty. “Yet, as we consider how this
sacrifice disrupts the plans all of
us have made, I am struck by
how it can help so many.”
Travis Andersen and Amanda
Kaufman of the Globe staff
contributed to this report.
Martin Finucane can be reached
at martin.finucane@globe.com.
Zoe Greenberg can be reached at
zoe.greenberg@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@zoegberg.
Report says
pandemic
has stalled
gender parity
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA — The think tank
behind the annual gathering of
world leaders in Davos, Switzer-
land, says the COVID-19 pan-
demic is affecting gender parity
in the workplace, but time will
tell whe ther the damage to
women’s roles in the economy
proves permanent.
The World Economic Forum
predicted Wednesday that gen-
der parity — already not expect-
ed for a century — will have to
wait dozens more years to come
about because of the coronavi-
rus’ impact. It said the hard-hit
consumer, retail, travel, and
tourism industries tend to be
large employers of women.
“The pandemic has already
begun to show partial impact on
the data, and it’s not looking like
great news for gender equality in
the future,’’ said forum manag-
ing director Saadia Zahidi in an
interview.
“It remains to be seen if some
of this is permanent scarring in
the labor market,” she added.
The forum says that when
care-industry workplaces closed,
“housework, childcare and elder
care responsibilities fell dispro-
portionately on women.” And
data show hiring rates for wom-
en in leadership roles were lower
than for men, Zahidi said.
Meanwhile, fast-growing sec-
tors in technology, computing,
and engineering have dispropor-
tionately low representation of
women, the forum said.
The forum said countries can
work to close their gender gaps
with strategies like investing in
the care sector, ensuring equal
work-leave time for men and
women, and setting policies that
can help improve unbiased hir-
ing and promotion practices.
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Editorial
Massachusetts’
hate crimes law
needs an update
I
n the latest act of vio-
lence against Asian
Americans, a 38-year-old
man was charged with
hate crimes in New York
City on Wednesday after he was
captured on video stomping an
elderly Filipina immigrant he
encountered on a Manhattan
street, a random attack that sent
the victim to the hospital with a
fractured pelvis.
Given the depraved nature of
the assault, and the blatant big-
otry displayed by the suspect,
the charges were more than war-
ranted. But the incident served
to underscore just how brazen
an act needs to be before prose-
cutors file hate crime charges,
something that is as true in Mas-
sachusetts as it is in New York.
Now, with the surge in vio-
lence against Asian Americans,
Massachusetts is among the
states considering whether it
needs to toughen its hate crime
laws. Obviously, prosecuting
bias-related crimes after the fact
is no substitute for addressing
the root causes of racist violence.
But making it a bit easier to
prosecute hate crimes as such
would help send a strong mes-
sage that hate has no place in
our communities.
In Massachusetts, where 376
hate incidents were reported in
2019, there’s an effort afoot in
the Legislature to reform the
state’s two hate crime statutes.
State Representative Tram Nguy-
en, state Senator Adam Hinds,
and Attorney General Maura
Healey have filed a bill that
would rework the two sections
in Massachusetts law that ad-
dress bias-related crime.
The bill combines the two
hate crime statutes into one,
clarifies what kind of behavior
constitutes a hate crime, and re-
structures penalties. It also ex-
pands the law’s scope to include
immigration status and gender
as two additional characteristics
to be protected in addition to a
person’s race, color, religion,
national origin, ethnicity, dis-
ability, gender identity, and sexu-
al orientation.
To be clear, everything that
can be prosecuted as a hate
crime is also a regular crime.
The question is when prosecu-
tors can seek stiffer punish-
ments.
To better understand the gaps
in the current statutes, consider
the following hypothetical sce-
nario: Say two people are in-
volved in a road-rage incident
and one of them is a Black driv-
er; both end up stopping their
cars and a heated argument en-
sues, which includes racial slurs
against the Black driver. The
other driver returns to their ve-
hicle and runs over the Black
driver, causing a non-life-threat-
ening injury like a broken leg.
That’s the kind of case that
causes a lot of confusion in the
courts, according to Healey’s of-
fice. Even if it’s charged as a hate
crime, prosecutors or judges
might conclude that while the
perpetrator used racial slurs, the
incident started as an argument
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over driving and thus wasn’t en-
tirely about race. What ends up
happening, according to Hea-
ley’s office, is that the perpetra-
tor is just charged with assault,
and the hate crime aspect in the
incident is too often dismissed or
unaddressed as the case makes
its way through the criminal jus-
tice system.
Making it a bit easier
to prosecute hate
crimes as such would
help send a strong
message that hate has
no place in our
communities.
“Right now, you have to show
that the perpetrator is mainly
motivated by the victim’s pro-
tected class,” said Nguyen in an
interview. “When people commit
crimes, there are many factors.
The bill we filed would make it
clear that [hostile] conduct
against a person based on a pro-
tected class does not need to be
the predominant or sole reason”
for a crime. It is not sufficiently
clear in existing law what behav-
ior qualifies or what role reli-
gion, race, color, or other pro-
tected class should play in the of-
fense.
“Based on our work, we know
that our laws do not meet the
moment,” Healey said at a virtu-
al forum to discuss the legisla-
tion earlier this week.
Another issue with existing
Massachusetts hate crime stat-
utes is that they don’t include
enhanced penalties for repeat of-
fenders. Furthermore, those con-
victed of a hate crime are sup-
posed to complete a diversity-
awareness program, per current
law, but that program was never
established, according to Hea-
ley’s office. Crucially, the new
proposal differentiates between
various crimes and sets punish-
ments according to the severity,
while providing judges with sen-
tencing discretion (and without
creating new mandatory mini-
mum sentences).
Ultimately, it’s clear that over-
hauling the state’s hate crime
laws is not a silver bullet against
bigotry. “This is not the be-all
and end-all,” said Nguyen. “This
isn’t the only tool to address hate
and violence.” She said other
tools include better education
for K-12 students to “learn di-
verse and inclusive curriculum
that’s intentionally designed to
avoid perpetuating gender, cul-
tural, ethnic, or racial stereo-
types.”
Still, amid a spike in violence
against Asian Americans that is
terrorizing a whole community,
lawmakers would certainly be
sending a powerful counter-
message against hate if they pass
this bill. As Nguyen put it,
“That’s how we communicate
to communities that we see
them and that these crimes are
unacceptable.”
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A sign outside the Capitol Rotunda in February memorializes Capitol Police Officer
Brian Sicknick, who died after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
KIMBERLY ATKINS
Civil suits could hold
Trump accountable
for the insurrection
T
here’s a basic principle taught in It is one of several civil suits Trump faces
the first days of law school: When arising out of the Jan. 6 insurrection, includ-
someone acts in a negligent way, ing those filed against Trump and his associ-
that person can and should be ates by Representatives Bennie Thompson of
held legally accountable for the Mississippi and Eric Swalwell of California.
injuries that negligent act causes others — But the complaint by Blassingame and
even when that person is the most powerful Hemby stands apart from the other civil
person in America. claims in a few important ways.
This week, two of the police officers who First, the plaintiffs here are the very peo-
were viciously attacked by the insurrection- ple Trump claimed to champion: law enforce-
ists who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6 ment. Since his 2016 presidential campaign,
filed suit in an exercise of that tenet of Ameri- Trump used police as a political weapon
can legal justice. And the sole defendant in against Democrats, the Black Lives Matter
the case is Donald J. Trump. movement, and anyone else who demanded
While the idea of justice being delivered justice for Black Americans killed by police.
under the law makes most people think of Trump railed against protesters, from those
criminal courts, it is the civil law system that gathered near the White House who faced
could be the key to Trump and the others tear gas from federal authorities to kneeling
responsible for that brutal attack being held NFL players he insulted and slurred, making
accountable. them all pawns in the culture wars he stoked,
So far, Trump has evaded responsibility, where he painted himself on the side of law
despite an impeachment trial. House law- enforcement. The complaint by Blassingame
makers detailed his actions in calling sup- and Hemby details the verbal and physical
porters to Washington for a “wild” protest, abuse Trump’s supporters inflicted on the po-
holding a rally within walking distance of the lice in his name, calling officers “traitors” and
Capitol, and directing the crowd to go “to try telling them: “We are listening to Trump —
and give our Republicans, the weak ones . . . your boss.”
the kind of pride and boldness that they need Second, Trump is the only defendant
to take back our country.” They also detailed named in the suit. As the case moves toward
his failure to call off the rioters after they discovery — the phase where testimonial and
stormed in — despite pleas from lawmakers documentary evidence is gathered — it will be
inside the building for him to do so. But his laser-focused on the former president’s ac-
acquittal by a Republican-controlled Senate tions in a way Trump has avoided until now
— much like Justice Department policy that even in the flurry of civil and criminal investi-
prevents sitting presidents from facing crimi- gations he’s a party to. And that evidence,
nal charges — made justice seem out of reach once gathered, can be used against him, in
as far as Trump was concerned. criminal court as well as in other civil mat-
But now, civil lawsuits like the one filed by ters, and it will become part of the historical
Capitol Police Officers James Blassingame record of his legacy.
and Sidney Hemby could not only provide a Lawsuits, of course, cannot make entirely
way to bring a sense of justice but also serve whole what was broken that day. No judg-
another important purpose: bringing to light ment can undo the physical and emotional
the necessary facts and evidence to allow the suffering that Hemby continues to endure
truth of that day to prevail over the lies and from being crushed against the Capitol’s east-
disinformation that Trump and his allies con- ern doors by an angry mob who proclaimed
tinue to spew. to be engaged in the “fight for Trump.” No rul-
While Trump continues to claim that the ing in the case will erase the searing imprint
insurrectionists posed “zero threat,” the six- on Blassingame’s memory of the racial epi-
count lawsuit filed in federal district court thets hurled at him as he was being slammed
paints a different picture. In it, the officers against one of the Capitol’s stone columns. No
detail how they were confronted by a growing judicial ruling can reverse the damage done
mob of Trump supporters, how they watched to our democracy that day at the urging of an
as the rioters approached and breached barri- American president.
ers around the Capitol, how they were But these suits can be a way of finally
crushed against the Capitol doors and as- showing that no one, not even a former presi-
saulted by the rioters’ fists, bottles, and what- dent, is above the law.
ever objects were in reach. It underscores that
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Genocide education
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JEFF JACOBY if it hasn’t already
No! It’s too soon for the 2024 campaign. We must teach the lesson
of what hate can grow into

J
oe Biden has been president
for only 72 days. The 2024
election is more than three
and a half years away. Nor-
mal Americans — a category
that excludes insatiable political junk-
ies — have no desire this far out to see
or hear from wannabe presidential can-
didates. It is way too soon to be inun-
dated by their speeches and promises,
their press releases and attack ads: too
soon for everything in American life to
start getting filtered through the parti-
san lens of a fight for the White House.
We emerged from a grueling presiden-
tial campaign only a few months ago.
The last thing most of us want is the ar-
rival of the next one.
Too bad. It’s already underway.
At Friday’s meeting of the Westside
Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa,
the guest of honor was former secretary
of state Mike Pompeo, who calls himself
a “strong maybe” on running for presi-
dent. As C-SPAN’s cameras rolled,
Pompeo commented on foreign policy,
criticized “radical woke-leftism,” took
questions from the audience — and
mentioned that his wife is from Iowa
City.
Senator Rick Scott of Florida, mean-
while, another Republican presidential
prospect, is due in Cedar Rapids Thurs-
day evening for a state party reception.
On April 15, Senator Tim Scott of South
Carolina flies to Davenport for a third
GOP event.
The 2024 presidential hopefuls ar-
en’t looking only to Iowa. Pompeo will
join a fund-raiser next week in New
Hampshire. So will Senator Tom Cotton
of Arkansas, who was in the Granite
State in January and promised to re-
turn “very, very soon.” The Protect Free-
dom PAC, a group affiliated with Sena-
tor Rand Paul of Kentucky, recently
sent mailers to Republican lawmakers
in New Hampshire, declaring that “it’s
time to stop election fraud” — promi-
nently featuring Paul’s image.
Surveying these pre-primary presi-
dential rumblings, Republican consul-
tant Jim Merrill remarked happily:
“It’s never too early for the next presi-
dential primary in New Hampshire or
Iowa.”
Oh, yes it is.
In most modern democracies, na-
tional election campaigns are conduct-
ed over the course of a few weeks or
months. Only in the United States do
presidential election seasons drag on
and on and on.
“The present length of presidential
campaigns is a nightmarish feature of
our election system,” wrote political
scientist Malcolm Moos in The New
York Times — in 1964. His essay “Is
the Long Campaign Necessary?” ap-
peared in an era when presidential
campaigning generally got underway
11 or 12 months before Election Day.
Today, the trek to 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue begins far earlier. Scarcely
have the votes been counted in one
presidential election than candidates
dreaming of winning the next election
begin hiring advance teams and lining
up speaking engagements. And, over-
whelmingly, their attention is concen-
trated on Iowa and New Hampshire,
the two “first-in-the-nation” states.
The longer presidential campaigns
stretch, the more exhausting and
dispiriting voters find them. Each qua-
drennium generates new think-pieces
on how America’s elections could be
shortened. Yet so long as Iowa and
New Hampshire maintain their grip
on the nation’s first caucus and prima-
ry, each crop of candidates will be
tempted to start campaigning even
earlier than their predecessors.
There’s a solution: Break the Iowa/
New Hampshire duopoly.
No, don’t end the tradition of sub-
SCOT LEHIGH
jecting presidential hopefuls to the rig-
ors of “retail” campaigning in smaller
states, which has proved to be a valu-
able discipline. Instead, reform that
tradition by means of two key chang-
es. First, withdraw the privilege of go-
ing automatically first from Iowa and
New Hampshire and award it every
four years to two small states selected
by lottery: Delaware and South Caroli-
na one cycle, say, or Kentucky and
Rhode Island the next. Second — and
crucially — don’t designate each new
pair of lead-off battlegrounds until
New Year’s Day of the presidential
election year.
If no one knew in advance which
states would get the coveted first-in-
the-nation status, presidential candi-
dates would no longer have any incen-
tive to swarm into those states long
before any votes are cast. Each elec-
tion, two new “retail” states would en-
joy a turn in the spotlight and a bout
of intensive campaigning, but it would
be a bout of a few reasonable months,
not a years-long slog.
Would-be presidents wouldn’t stop
busying themselves with the things
ambitious politicians do: raising mon-
ey, seeking publicity, giving speeches.
But they might also spend more time
focusing on the jobs they have. The all-
consuming obsession with Iowa and
New Hampshire would become a
thing of the past. Presidential cam-
paigns could shrink to a more humane
length. And Americans could finally
(re)discover what their counterparts
in other democracies have long
known: Political campaigns are better
when they don’t go on forever.
Jeff Jacoby can be reached at
jeff.jacoby@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @jeff_jacoby. To subscribe to
Arguable, his weekly newsletter, visit
bitly.com/Arguable.
The article “Calls grow for education on Holocaust,” by Nao-
mi Martin (Page A1, March 31), was a harsh reminder that
the Holocaust could be forgotten. After all, time makes mem-
ory fade, and the eyewitnesses are dying. Therefore, we must
teach the lesson that hate can lead to genocide.
Educators have a unique opportunity to have an impact
on students at an early age. Auschwitz is the world’s largest
cemetery. There are no gravestones, just remnants of the gas
chambers. There is the entrance gate and buildings housing
haunted memories of torture and death.
I visited Auschwitz in 1979 with a US government fact-
finding commission. The visual site is literally sickening. The
audible of the word “Auschwitz” belongs in a classroom, not
on the football field. I commend educators for acting. The
horror of the Holocaust deserves nothing less.
STEVEN A. LUDSIN
East Hampton, N.Y.
The writer was a member of the President’s Commission
on the Holocaust and the first US Holocaust Memorial Coun-
cil, which created the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C.
A film to assign class on Holocaust
I would like to suggest to Duxbury’s school system that par-
ents, faculty, and students watch a documentary movie to-
gether: “Night and Fog” by Alain Resnais.
Resnais made the film 10 years after the liberation of the
concentration camps at the end of World War II. It is a hard
slog, but it tells what happened, unblinkingly. As a naive kid
from the Boston suburbs
coming to college in 1961,
Seeing ‘Night and I really had no idea about
Fog’ made me the Holocaust, except as
an abstract fact of history.
understand how Seeing “Night and Fog”
that year made me under-
deep unconscious stand how deep uncon-
biases can lead scious biases can lead in-
dividuals, possibly includ-
individuals, ing me, to join in group
cruelties, particularly if
possibly including leaders emerge lacking
me, to join in empathy and corrupted
by power.
group cruelties. The Holocaust was a
result of this, as were oth-
er horrors of the 20th cen-
tury, unfortunately continuing into the present. The daily
news has constant reminders of where this unconsciousness
can lead.
HENRY STONE
Weston

Beware the red scare Anti-Semitism, racism

are born of ignorance

A
new red scare is
sweeping the land
— or certain pixi-
lated right-wing
precincts of it, any-
way. Joe Biden and Kamala Har-
ris are radicals and socialists,
and perhaps even communists.
Or, in another variant, captive of
the many Fabians who purport-
edly populate their party.
Now, let’s be clear: There are
legitimate grounds for doubt
and disagreement about the
Biden-Harris spending priori-
ties. The term “infrastructure”
looks rather like a cavernous
steamer trunk into which any
number of unrelated priorities
will be stuffed. In an economi-
cally rational world, meanwhile,
the streamlined elegance of a
(refundable) carbon tax would
be better at battling climate
change than the multifarious
government incentives and sub-
sidies aimed at coaxing a change
in transportation habits. (That
said, there clearly isn’t the politi-
cal will for such a levy at this
point.)
Doug Holtz-Eakin, the well-
regarded conservative econo-
mist who heads the American
Action Forum, considers the $2
trillion plan a conceptual hodge-
podge that’s insufficiently back-
stopped by a persuasive cost/
benefit analysis. But that hardly
makes it socialism, let alone
communism.
His puckish observation:
“Not every massive policy mis-
take is an ideological revolution.
This is just the former.”
All of which is to say, let’s de-
bate the plan based on its merits
or demerits and not on silly
fears that it will start us down
the slippery slope to socialism or
communism. It won’t.
Here are a few important dis-
tinctions to steer by when evalu-
ating such claims. (Thanks to
William Galston, senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution, for
helping me distill them to the
essentials.)
Under communism, there is
no private property. Everything,
at least theoretically, is held in
common. To the degree that in-
dividual ownership of property
or goods is tolerated in practice,
that ownership is not legally
protected. The government runs
the economy. There is no private
sector, no place for profits or
price signals. And as Galston
notes, in practice communism
has proved itself incompatible
with democracy.
Nothing Biden has proposed
comes within a light-year of
that, so to call this communism
is to develop an advance case of
the vapors — or to engage in
purposeful fear-mongering.
But neither is the Biden pro-
gram socialism. In a socialist
system, one can have private
property, but the state controls
the central aspects of the econo-
my. Socialism, after all, calls for
the public ownership of the so-
called means of production. As
an example of such a program,
Galston cites the agenda of Brit-
ain’s Labor Party under Clement
Attlee. After coming to power in
1945, Labor proceeded to na-
tionalize industries such as en-
ergy, railroads, aviation, steel,
hospitals, and the Bank of Eng-
land.
Is Biden advocating such a
system? To ask that question is
to answer it. Much to the con-
sternation of the lefties, the
president isn’t even advocating a
single-payer health care system.
So what does Bidenism rep-
resent? A step toward more of
the programmatic supports seen
in European social democracies
like France, Sweden, or Norway.
Those countries have signifi-
cantly more generous social pro-
grams, but also significantly
higher middle-class taxes to pay
for them.
But Biden is hardly talking
taxes of that magnitude. Under
him, even the top marginal rate
would merely return to the 39.6
percent it was during Bill Clin-
ton’s presidency and Barack
Obama’s second term. That, it’s
instructive to remember, was
still 10 points lower than the 50
percent top rate brought about
by Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax
cut, which conservatives of that
era considered sufficient to
turbo-charge capitalism.
Yes, Biden would hike the
corporate income tax from 21 to
28 percent, but even there, it
would be significantly lower
than the 35 percent it was be-
fore the economically marginal
2017 tax cut.
ADOBE
As the debate moves for-
ward, bear these three things in
mind.
First, Republicans have said
pretty much the same thing
about every Democratic presi-
dent or candidate since the days
of FDR.
“Whenever center-left politi-
cians try to expand the welfare
state in the direction of what the
Europeans call social democracy
— not socialism, but social de-
mocracy — they are accused of
being socialists or communists,”
Galston noted.
Second, Republicans have re-
peatedly predicted economic di-
saster would ensue from Demo-
cratic policies.
Third, since World War II,
the economy has performed sig-
nificantly better under Demo-
cratic presidents than under Re-
publicans.
That’s an inconvenient fact
for conservatives, but unlike the
nonsense about socialism, it
happens to be true.
Scot Lehigh is a Globe columnist.
He can be reached at
scot.lehigh@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter
@GlobeScotLehigh.
Reading the articles and reader responses (“A coach is fired,
but now the work must begin,” Letters, March 27) about the
beloved Duxbury football team, and wondering how these
kids (the coach is another story) became so brazen has me re-
calling my childhood.
The Globe suggested in its March 27 editorial, “Lessons
from Duxbury High: A ‘never again’ moment,” that this is a
teachable moment, but hard, gut-wrenching teachable mo-
ments are hard to produce in places like Duxbury (and my
own community), where upsetting precious kids is off the ta-
ble, especially champion football players.
How do you deal with hate in a coddled white world?
Much of anti-Semitism and racism is born through ignorance
that’s often been cultivated since childhood.
I grew up in Newton Highlands in the 1960s when it was
a cultural mix of working people, and maybe half of the ju-
nior high was made up of Jewish kids from other parts of the
city. What happened to the Jews in the 1930s and throughout
World War II was never a mystery to us.
In seventh grade, we sat in the auditorium and listened to
Holocaust survivors talk about their experiences, and sat
through black-and-white films of Jews coming off loaded
train cars and walking into gas chambers with their prison
suits falling off their emaciated bodies.
We had other teachable moments in seventh grade that
are still etched in my memory and conscience. We had a for-
mer Harlem social worker who had recently moved from
New York to our city come in and talk about racism and pov-
erty. He showed us a film of him lovingly counseling and be-
friending Black and Hispanic people struggling with addic-
tion..
Could these “teachable moments” happen in today’s sub-
urban schools? These kids need to be brought into history
that’s full of pain and hate, and taught the opposite, without
the hovering parental fear of their child’s fragility.
PAUL J. SMITH
Norfolk
Genocide education
calls for a broad focus
If the Globe and state lawmakers are serious, and the pro-
posed Genocide Education Act truly is aimed at educating
Massachusetts students about genocide, it needs to focus
across the board on genocide in world history.
The genocide of Nazi Germany against Jews, Gypsies, ho-
mosexuals and dissidents during the 1930s and 1940s is
atrocious and should always be part of students’ world histo-
ry education, but courses also must include other instances of
genocide.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines genocide as “the
deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or
cultural group.” Students ought to learn about the Edict of
Nantes (1598) and the Edict of Fontainebleau (1695) that re-
voked it, and the slaughter of Protestants by Catholics in
France, as well as the Armenian genocide, the Chinese geno-
cide from 350 against the ethnic Jie to the current campaign
against the Uighur, and Rwanda in Africa in 1994.
Almost no part of the world has been exempt from this
sort of atrocity back through history.
PRISCILLA M. LEITH
Needham
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T H E B O S T O N G L O B E F R I DAY, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1 | B O S T O N G L O B E .C O M / M E T R O
Kevin Cullen
Charlie in
the middle
Reports of Charlie
Baker’s demise appear
to have been greatly
exaggerated.
It wasn’t so long ago
that partisans and pun-
dits smelled blood in the
water. Baker’s headaches
with the Massachusetts
State Police, the T, and especially the pan-
demic appeared to make him vulnerable.
In a year of awakening, not to mention
wokeness, it seemed the worst thing you
could be is male, pale, and stale.
An earnest Democrat, Ben Downing,
threw his hat in the ring for the governor’s
office. Maura Healey seemed to be dip-
ping her toe in the water, sampling the
temperature. Emboldened Democratic
legislators dropped their usual deference.
But a funny thing happened the other
day. A poll by The Boston Globe and
Suffolk University found the supposedly
mortally wounded Charlie Baker was, as
the guy in the Monty Python “Bring Out
Your Dead” skit insisted, not dead yet.
The poll found most state residents ap-
prove of Baker’s job performance, cutting
him slack on screwups, real or perceived.
More than 70 percent approved of his
handling of the pandemic, and while the
initially messy rollout of vaccinations was
widely seen as making him politically vul-
nerable, nearly 60 percent gave him high
marks for that, too.
If you’re Ben Downing, touting that
you’ve raised $227,712 in eight weeks,
you realize you’re going to need a bigger
boat. If you’re Maura Healey, you realize
the pool water is not nearly as warm as
you thought. And if you’re a progressive,
you’re bewildered that Baker is more pop-
ular with women, Blacks, and Hispanics
than he is with men, whites, and Asians.
There were polls showing Baker’s popu-
larity slipping in the face of anxiety and
uncertainty over vaccines and when and
how to reopen the economy and schools.
But that slippage was from historic highs
and frankly inevitable, given the shambolic
rollout of a vaccine appointment website.
The rollout wasn’t smooth. But then,
name a state where it was.These are un-
charted waters in unprecedented times.
Massachusetts is doing better than
most states. At least it’s not Florida, where
rich people get pushed to the front of the
line. Donald Trump carried 12 of the 13
states that have vaccinated the least num-
ber of residents; surely, just coincidence.
Baker has his problems. The State
Police need substantial reform. As evi-
denced by the horrific death of a 14-year-
old developmentally disabled boy in Fall
River, the DCF is always one scandal away
from undermining any administration.
But that new poll suggests most people
in Massachusetts give Baker the very
thing every politician would give their
right arm for: the benefit of the doubt.
There are many Democrats who will
not rest until Charlie Baker climbs on top
of the Golden Dome and renounces his
own party. And for some of them, that still
wouldn’t be enough.
Baker is also dismissed as a RINO by
many Republicans, who will never forgive
him for his denunciations of Trump.
Between those two poles lies the ear-
nest middle that is the essence of Baker’s
popularity.
If the far left and the far right think
he’s a bum, then a lot of moderate-minded
people reason that he must be doing
something right.
In Massachusetts, registered Demo-
crats outnumber Republicans by more
than 3 to 1. But the more salient fact is
that Massachusetts has more unenrolled
voters than Democrats and Republicans
combined, voters who often vote more
tactically than ideologically.
Like his Republican pals, Governors
Phil Scott in Vermont and Larry Hogan in
Maryland, Baker is seen by a lot of voters
as a check against one-party rule. He’s far
from perfect, but he’s a decent guy and
not ideologically rigid in a state where
voter registration suggests the majority of
voters value those sensibilities.
Baker can mitigate the extremes of
Democrats, who never met a tax they
didn’t like, and Republicans, whose state
party apparatus is dominated by tone-deaf
reactionaries who worship Trump and
hopelessly and haplessly long for the days
when guys slicked their hair back with
Brylcreem and gals majored in Home Ec.
Sometimes, the middle is a good place
to be.
Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can
be reached at kevin.cullen@globe.com.
Metro
B
Thomas Farragher
Official
proposes
MCAS
waiver
Class of 2022
would not need
to pass state test
By James Vaznis
GLOBE STAFF
State Education Commissioner
Jeffrey Riley, facing a mounting
backlash over MCAS testing this
spring, proposed a number of
changes on Thursday, including
one radical measure that would
exempt this year’s 11th-graders
from passing the tests in order to
graduate from high school.
The state has never let an en-
ERIN CLARK/GLOBE
tire class of students receive their
John Kilroy, 84, held his Boston Red Sox World Series baseball and a collectible bat outside of his diplomas without passing the
Westwood home. He has attended more than 70 Sox home openers. MCAS since the exams became a
high school graduation require-
HE’S AT HOME
ment in 2003. But Riley indicated
that such a move was necessary
due to the disruptions the pan-
demic has caused to learning and
AT THE SOX’S
the MCAS testing schedule.
This year’s 11th-graders, for
instance, were supposed to take
most of the MCAS exams last year,
but the tests were canceled be-
HOME OPENER cause of the closure of school
buildings at the start of the pan-
demic. The MCAS testing exemp-
tion will require approval by the
H
state’s Board of Elementary and
e walks slowly now, a revered Secondary Education, which is
father and grandfather, but days slated to meet this month.
like this can transport him back to Nathan O’Connell, a junior at
when he was a little kid — a 12- Somerville High School, said
year-old from Jamaica Plain who waiving the test requirement
‘The fans sat in reverential silence each time would reduce the stress many stu-
Ted Williams approached the dents have experienced since the
love the Red plate. pandemic upended learning.
Sox. They “Fifty cents,” 84-year-old John Kilroy said, recalling
the ballyard’s price of admission and the days of his
“There are people in my grade
that are already not doing too well
always will.’ youth, when the games were broadcast in black-and- in school, and I feel like it would
white to big, boxy TV sets with antennas called rabbit just put … a lot more stress on
JOHN KILROY
ears. them if they had to carry this bur-
Longtime Sox fan
He was eager to return to Fenway Park Friday to den going into their last year in
notch a personal record of his own: some 75 home high school,” O’Connell, 16, said
openers at Fenway. in an interview.
As game time approaches, Kilroy plans to join a The other changes Riley pro-
small group of family members as they walk toward posed include allowing students
the corner of Jersey Street and Brookline Avenue. in grades 3-8 to take the MCAS ex-
Then they’ll step inside, joining some 4,500 fans al- ams at home remotely and to ex-
lowed to watch the Red Sox play the Baltimore Orioles. tend the MCAS testing schedules
Flags will wave. An anthem will be sung. And an- for all grade levels to June 11. In a
other season like no other will begin. statement, state education offi-
A season of pandemic and despair. A season of cials said MCAS testing will pro-
hope that comes with the dawn of spring. Another vide “critical insight into academ-
blessed season of baseball in Boston. ic losses that must be addressed,”
FARRAGHER, Page B5 MCAS, Page B4
In Salem, it’s a sign for the times R.I.
Drivers captured on livestream boost website, alert city officials
By Steve Annear Soon after it rippled through the In- lack of compliance concerning.
school
GLOBE STAFF
David Kucharsky, director of traf-
fic and parking in Salem, would have
ternet, thousands of viewers poured
onto the video channel, “StopSign-
Cam,” with some watching for hours
The stream went up in mid-Febru-
ary as “a good way to shed some light
on the issue,” the person who runs
talks at a
preferred a simple e-mail or perhaps a
phone call.
Instead, Kucharsky learned about
to see which cars would choose to
obey the law as they approached.
The camera is now broadcasting
“StopSignCam” said in a direct mes-
sage on Twitch.
Its viewership started off small.
standstill
a problem with drivers zipping from a different intersection in the But its popularity exploded after a By Dan McGowan
through a busy city neighborhood, city, after neighbors had privacy con- TikTok video about the livestream GLOBE STAFF
and completely ignoring a stop sign, cerns. But the original feed gained so was viewed more than 2 million times PROVIDENCE — On a hot July
the way that thousands of others had: much attention that city officials are last Monday. morning in 2019, Providence
by watching them online. taking a hard look at how they might “I have found one of the most in- Teachers Union president Mari-
Last week, a 24/7 video feed of fix the traffic issue, Kucharsky said. teresting streams on Twitch,” user jh- beth Calabro sat by herself in the
scofflaws blowing through the red “We’ve already started looking at bteam said on the social media app. auditorium at Hope High School,
sign became a must-watch event on it,” said Kucharsky, who briefly Some “streamers” were already quietly jotting down notes as she
the livestreaming website Twitch. watched the video feed and called the VIDEO, Page B4 listened to a new, straight-talking
education commissioner lay out a
compelling and overwhelming
case that the city’s schools were in
SPRING need of a dramatic overhaul.
TRADITION — Calabro had seen her fair share
Tourists boarded of would-be change agents come
a duck boat near and go in her 24 years as a Provi-
the Prudential dence teacher, and she had outlast-
ed all of them. In five years as the
Center on
union president, she had come out
Thursday as
unscathed from two tense contract
Boston Duck battles with two different reform-
Tours kicked off minded mayors, and was more
its 2021 season. powerful than ever.
The boats are The commissioner, Angelica In-
operating with fante-Green, was a Dominican-
American woman from New York
enhanced
City who was crisscrossing the city
COVID-19 safety
to make the case directly to par-
measures, ents that Providence schools were
including reduced broken and she wanted to fix
capacity and them. She spoke in English and
face-mask Spanish, often reminding crowds
requirements. that public forums were the easy
part.
“Everybody wants change until
DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF
SCHOOLS, Page B3
B2 Metro
PARROTS DIE IN BIRD SANCTUARY FIRE — Firefighters remained at the scene after a four-alarm fire swept
through a bird sanctuary in Hopkinton, R.I., on Thursday, killing scores of birds, authorities said. The fire broke out
just after 5 a.m. at Foster Parrots on Woodville Alton Road, a rescue service for birds. Rhode Island Deputy State
Fire Marshal James Given said between 50 and 70 birds died in the fire. No people were injured. The fire was
caused by malfunctioning electrical equipment, Given said.
Cardinal calls for unity in Easter message
By Travis Andersen
GLOBE STAFF
Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley,
the leader of the Boston Archdi-
ocese, on Thursday released an
Easter message calling for unity
and compassion amid the ongo-
ing COVID-19 pandemic, and he
also decried the “intensified ex-
pressions of racism” being di-
rected at people of color and im-
migrants.
“In some form, we have all
been impacted by this silent and
elusive but deadly virus,” O’Mal-
ley said in his message, which
the archdiocese provided to the
press. “No community has been
spared, and some communities
have been devastated. Recovery
will require a spirit of collabora-
tion, cooperation and compas-
sion. Easter tells us we will not
be alone in this effort; the Risen
Christ calls us to be very good
neighbors to each other.”
He noted that communities
of color have suffered dispropor-
tionately during the pandemic.
“African American and His-
Alleged serial rapist charged with 9th assault
By John R. Ellement
GLOBE STAFF
An alleged serial rapist has
been charged with assaulting a
ninth woman after Boston police
discovered he recorded a sexual
assault on an “unconscious or
semi-conscious or unresponsive”
woman in 2018 that lasted at
least 46 minutes, authorities
said Thursday.
Alvin R. Campbell Jr., of
Cumberland, R.I., allegedly
posed as an Uber driver to target
intoxicated women leaving
nightspots in downtown Boston
between 2017 and 2019, accord-
ing to the Suffolk district attor-
ney’s office.
Campbell, 39, was first
charged in 2019 with raping a
26-year-old woman, an assault
he allegedly recorded on his cell-
Today is Friday, April 2, the
92nd day of 2021. There are 273
days left in the year.
Birthdays: Actor Linda Hunt
is 76. Singer Emmylou Harris is
74. Social critic and author Ca-
mille Paglia is 74. The Cars
drummer Dave Robinson is 72.
Actor Christopher Meloni is 60.
Actor Pedro Pascal is 46. Actor
Michael Fassbender is 44. Ma-
roon 5 musician Jesse Carmi-
chael is 42. Singer Lee Dewyze
(TV: “American Idol”) is 35. Ac-
tor Drew Van Acker is 35.
ºIn 1792, Congress passed
the Coinage Act, which autho-
rized establishment of the US
Mint.
ºIn 1917, President Wilson
asked Congress to declare war
panic communities suffered dra-
matically greater losses — of life
and welfare — than the general
population,” O’Malley said. “Of-
ten, these communities have
been where many front-line
workers live; they kept faithfully
serving others even as they suf-
fered disproportionately them-
selves. National recovery should
reward this service appropriate-
ly in gratitude and in public poli-
cies focused on these communi-
ties.”
In addition, he praised the
many acts of charity that have
been offered during the health
crisis, but he also conceded that
bigotry has reared its ugly head.
“There have been countless
acts of charity and compassion
offered quietly and effectively
each day to those in need,”
O’Malley said. “And, by contrast,
there have been intensified ex-
pressions of racism in our public
life; historic patterns aimed at
Asian Americans, African Amer-
icans, and immigrants. Children
and youth perceived as different
phone. After that arrest, detec-
tives found video recordings of
attacks on seven other women,
prosecutors said. Campbell has
been held in custody without
bail since he was indicted last
year.
Detectives obtained a search
warrant to investigate the cloud
storage linked to Campbell’s cell-
phone, authorities said. They
discovered videos of a woman
Campbell had allegedly taken on
June 16, 2018, including one
that was time-stamped 5:42 a.m.
“The victim [was] uncon-
scious and dressed while lying
on her back on the backseat of
the defendant’s SUV,” according
to prosecutors’ statement of the
case. Campbell “proceeded to
rape her ... for extended periods
of time while she remained un-
This day in history
against Germany, saying, “The
world must be made safe for de-
mocracy.” (Congress declared
war four days later.)
ºIn 1932, aviator Charles A.
Lindbergh and John F. Condon
went to a cemetery in The
Bronx, N.Y., where Condon
turned over $50,000 to a man in
exchange for Lindbergh’s kid-
napped son. (The child, who was
not returned, was found dead
the following month.)
ºIn 1968, “2001: A Space
Odyssey,” the groundbreaking
science-fiction film epic pro-
duced and directed by Stanley
Kubrick, had its world premiere
in Washington, D.C.
ºIn 1982, several thousand
troops from Argentina seized the
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CARDINAL
O’MALLEY
‘...the
Risen
Christ
calls us to be very
good neighbors.’
are often the object of bullying
that can push young people into
depression, risky behaviors or
suicide.”
O’Malley urged the Catholic
faithful to work toward healing.
“There will not be lasting
healing and recovery unless we
are committed as a society to ex-
pand the circle of compassion
and charity manifested by many
and resist, by word and deed, by
law and policy, the forces in our
society which refuse to acknowl-
edge the dignity of every per-
son,” O’Malley said. “Easter of-
fers hope: it also calls us to be
signs of hope, not hatred, on the
conscious or semiconscious and
unresponsive.”
Campbell allegedly took a
photo of the woman’s passport,
and when investigators found
her she said she believed she had
been raped during that ride but
never reported it to authorities.
She had gone out with friends in
downtown Boston and was
drunk when she left a nightclub,
intent on grabbing a ride home.
“There was a black SUV
parked nearby” with Campbell
behind the wheel, according to
prosecutors. She “entered the ve-
hicle and had no memory of
what ensued or where she was
taken until she awoke in the
back seat.”
Campbell was arraigned in
S u ff o l k S u p e r i o r C o u r t o n
Wednesday on three counts of
disputed Falkland Islands, locat-
ed in the south Atlantic, from
Britain. (Britain regained the is-
lands the following June.)
ºIn 2002, Israel seized con-
trol of Bethlehem; Palestinian
gunmen forced their way into
the Church of the Nativity, the
traditional birthplace of Jesus,
w h e r e th e y b e g a n a 3 9 - d ay
standoff.
ºIn 2005, Pope John Paul II
died in the Vatican at age 84.
ºIn 2007, in its first case on
climate change, the US Supreme
Court, in Massachusetts v. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency,
ruled 5-4 that carbon dioxide
and other greenhouse gases
were air pollutants under the
Clean Air Act.
G l o b e F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
New England
in brief
BOSTON
Two teens arrested in fatal shooting
Police on Thursday morning arrested two Randolph teenagers in
the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Keenan Ritter, who was killed in
the predawn hours of Sept. 27 on Hubbardston Road in Dor-
chester, authorities said. Jarrid Campbell, 18, and Christ
Daphnis, 19, were arrested in Randolph around 7 a.m. on an out-
standing warrant, Boston police said in a statement. The war-
rant, police said, charges both teens with murder, carrying a fire-
arm without a license, possession of a firearm without an FID
card, and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building.
Both will be arraigned in the Dorchester Division of Boston Mu-
nicipal Court.
Baker signs unemployment bill
Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill Thursday that will freeze
unemployment insurance rates and attempt to ease taxpayers’
burdens by excluding federal relief loans from taxable income,
state officials said. The new law maintains current unemploy-
ment insurance rates for 2021 and 2022, which will prevent a 60
percent increase from hitting employers, and does not tax Pay-
check Protection Program loans and Economic Injury Disaster
Loan advances, according to a letter from Baker to the Senate
and the House. In addition, the legislation requires employers to
provide about a week’s paid sick leave for workers who are get-
ting immunized, become sick with COVID-19, must quarantine
or isolate because of the virus, or are caring for a family member
in one of those situations, Baker said. It also authorizes the state
to issue bonds, secured by a tax on employers, to repay advances
from the federal unemployment account and help pay benefits
and related expenses, according to the letter. The governor also
requested changes from lawmakers on some elements of the leg-
islation. On the paid sick leave program, he asked that lawmakers
to iron out differences between the state’s version and a similar
federal mandate, and requested that they adopt the federal re-
quirement that the unemployed receive no less than their usual
pay rate, up to $850, or two-thirds the rate paid for family leave.
He also asked legislators to convert funding for the leave program
to a tax credit of $40 per employee, whether or not employees
take leave, for employers unable to access federal tax credits.
Malware halts vehicle inspections
road to recovery. This Easter is The Registry of Motor Vehicles said there were no vehicle inspec-
time to make clear choices to re- tions Thursday in Massachusetts, the second straight day inspec-
new our common life.” tions were halted due to a problem with a vendor that was at-
He delivered his message as tacked by digital malware, officials said. The vendor, Applus
one Catholic church in Stone- Technologies, said the problem “is a nationwide system issue that
ham announced it won’t hold in- they are working to resolve,” the RMV said on Twitter. Law en-
person Easter Masses on Sunday
due to the spread of the virus
forcement has been notified and the agency has asked for “coop-
eration and discretion in citing those with an expired sticker who
among parish staffers. may have attempted to visit a station this week,” according to a
“Throughout the past year, tweet. Applus issued a statement Wednesday saying the restora-
there have been multiple exam- tion of service requires resetting technology “and will take some
ples of what being a good neigh- time to fully restore the functionality of vehicle inspections.”
bor means,” O’Malley said in his
message. “We have seen health Officials push for student debt relief
care workers risk their lives to
save lives; we have seen front- With the White House indicating it was considering its options,
line workers in stores, delivery Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ayanna Pressley
agencies and police and fire de- renewed their call Thursday for President Biden to use his execu-
partments show up every day, tive authority to forgive up to $50,000 in student loan debt for
even at personal risk, so basic federal borrowers. Warren and Pressley were hosted in Boston by
needs could be met and life Attorney General Maura Healey, who described the student loan
could be sustained. These exam- system as “fundamentally broken.” She said her office has used
ples inspire hope in human the legal system to prosecute predatory lenders and tried to help
terms; we will need this kind of borrowers restructure payment plans, get their loans out of de-
generosity on an even wider fault, and resolve billing disputes. “It’s a system that has reckless-
scale in the days and months ly saddled borrowers with loans they can’t possibly afford to re-
ahead.” pay,” Healey said. Biden has moved to cancel student loans for
borrowers defrauded by for-profit schools and paused the accrual
Travis Andersen can be reached of interest on student loans in default, but he has previously said
at travis.andersen@globe.com. he will not use his executive authority to forgive $50,000 in stu-
dent loan debt. Instead, he has asked Congress to forgive $10,000
of students loans for federal borrowers. White House chief of staff
Ron Klain, however, said Thursday in an interview with Politico
that Biden had asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to
prepare a memo on his legal authority to forgive student loan
debt, and would make a final decision based on that. (SHNS)
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A local scholar is uncovering the story of R.I.’s first lady
By Alexa Gagosz
GLOBE STAFF
BRISTOL, R.I. — In June
1650, she wrote, “My dear and
loving husband.”
Those five words are the only
surviving, legible examples of
former Rhode Island first lady
Mary Williams’s handwriting.
There are no other documents,
and even in this letter, a differ-
ent ink partially bleeds onto her
script.
She was the daughter of Rev-
erend Richard Bernard, an im-
portant Puritan clergyman in
England. She was the mother of
six children who reached adult-
hood. She frequently hosted In-
digenous leaders at her home in
the mid-17th century.
But despite being in the pres-
ence of rule breakers and trail-
blazers of the time, today she is
mainly known only as the wife
of religious and political leader
Roger Williams, who eventually
founded the state of Rhode Is-
land.
“Women were also important
then. Mary Williams influenced
the world around her. I think in
her own way, she was a change-
maker,” said Dr. Charlotte Car-
rington-Farmer, an associate
professor of history at Roger
Williams University, and resi-
dent scholar of the university’s
namesake. “And I think the days
of history of just great men are
numbered.”
Carrington-Farmer, who next
year will teach a class about
Mary Williams and the other
women of her era, has been re-
searching the state’s founder for
nearly 20 years.
She “was hooked” while tak-
ing a course on Puritanism in
the Atlantic World as a second-
year undergraduate student at
the University of Leicester in
2002. She spent the summer be-
fore her senior year in New Eng-
land, working at Camp Nashoba
North in Maine and traveling to
historic sites from Providence to
Newport, all connected to Roger
Williams and his life.
She returned to England in
2003 and wrote her senior thesis
Two years in, Providence teachers union talks are at a standstill
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change comes,” Infante-Green
said that day, a phrase she would
repeat nearly every day that
summer.
The message resonated with
most residents, and Calabro
agreed to lean in to the changes
that Infante-Green was seeking.
The union supported the state’s
bid to take total control of Provi-
dence schools later that year,
even though that meant that it
would be negotiating a new
union contract with Infante-
Green rather than the mayor.
Less than two years later, and
with the COVID-19 pandemic
overshadowing nearly all of the
takeover, Calabro now says that
the relationship between the
union and Infante-Green has de-
teriorated beyond repair, and
she is asking state lawmakers to
give control of the school district
back to the city of Providence.
She is also calling for Infante-
Green and Superintendent Har-
rison Peters to be removed from
their positions.
Now the union has taken
votes of no-confidence in Infan-
te-Green and Peters, and the fu-
ture of who will oversee 24,000
students in the state’s largest
school district hangs in the bal-
ance, with neither side showing
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on how Roger Williams’ reli-
gious views affected how he in-
teracted with Indigenous peo-
p l e s a r o u n d Ne w E n g l a n d .
Three years later, she picked up
her interest in him again during
her PhD research at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, which she
said “examined dissent and de-
viance in 17 th-century New
England.” A chapter of her thesis
focused on Roger Williams, and
was edited and published in
“Law and Religion in the Liberal
State,” last May.
But after her work on Rhode
Island’s founding father was
published, she realized there
was little to be found about his
wife, or about other women of
that time.
“The process involved pains-
a willingness to budge.
“We had hope that our state
takeover here would provide the
much-needed support, resourc-
es, and changes to help our stu-
dents move forward,” Calabro
said during a Monday press con-
ference. “And we had hope that
our educators’ collective skills,
experience, and expertise would
be seen as a welcome part of
transforming out schools. Sadly,
our hopes have died.”
Calabro acknowledged that
the union doesn’t yet have a
sponsor in the House or the Sen-
ate to help end the takeover, and
leadership in both chambers
didn’t immediately signal sup-
port for such a change. Governor
Dan McKee said “e ver yone
needs to come to the table, give
the mediation process a chance,
and act in the best interest of our
students.”
The union and Infante-Green
have spent more than 300 hours
at the negotiating table since the
union’s contract expired on Aug.
31, 2020, but even that process
has fallen apart in recent weeks.
The two sides still meet twice
a week in the union’s headquar-
ters, but they now sit in separate
rooms, and a mediator — former
state Supreme Court justice
Frank Flaherty — walks back
and forth to present proposals to
T h e B o s t o n
Globe Rhode Island
takingly tracking down where
the documents were located,”
said Carrington-Farmer, who is
hoping to finish her research in
the UK this summer, but is still
waiting for archives to reopen.
Most of them have been closed
for the last year due to the pan-
demic.
The primary sources on
Mary Williams are letters, mar-
riage and christening records,
and deeds that are scattered
across two continents, in Bos-
ton, Plymouth, Mass., and Provi-
dence, and in London, Notting-
hamshire, Cambridge, Essex,
and Somerset in England. Many
records — including many about
Mar y Williams — were los t
when Williams’ home was de-
stroyed in King Philip’s War in
each group.
On Monday, Infante-Green
and Peters spoke to a Globe re-
porter on a Zoom call from the
union’s office while the two sides
were scheduled to be negotiat-
ing.
“It is about control for them,”
Infante-Green said, referring to
the union. “They have never
been there for the community.
They’re feeling very stressed out
now.”
As for the contract, Peters
was blunt: “We’re not anywhere.
We’re just not anywhere.”
Earlier this year, both sides
said they believed they were
making progress on a new con-
tract, but talks stalled when Gov-
ernor Gina Raimondo was nomi-
nated to be US commerce secre-
tary by President Biden.
Raimondo supported the
takeover, and assigned a top
aide, Kevin Gallagher, to moni-
tor negotiations. Gallagher has
since joined Raimondo’s staff in
the commerce office, which has
left the McKee administration
playing catch-up on contract dis-
cussions and the overall take-
over.
The most recent sticking
point between the union and
management has revolved
around a provision in the cur-
rent union contract that gives
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the 1670s. So Carrington-Farm-
er has had to rely on records and
letters about Mary Williams that
were written by her husband,
and the men around her.
“As a historian, you have to
take ever ything with a real
pinch of salt. It was a man’s
world in the 17 th century and
when you married, you subject-
ed yourself to your husband,”
said Carrington-Farmer. “But in
Rhode Island, it was different.
Women had more power that
shook up the typical norms of
the time.”
Within those letters and oth-
er records are the little-known
pieces of Mary Williams’s life.
Before she was married,
Mary Barnard worked as a maid
in the household of a country
veteran teachers preference over
newer teachers when it comes to
hiring. Seniority tends to be a sa-
cred cow for public employee
unions, and the teachers have re-
sisted changes that would give
Infante-Green and Peters more
control over the hiring process.
Both Infante-Green and Pe-
ters say they believe the Crowley
Act, the state law that gave them
the power to take control of the
school district, allows them to
make unilateral changes to the
contract. But they fear that such
a tactic would send the two sides
to court, prolonging a series of
negotiations that has already re-
sulted in the city paying more
than $1 million to lawyers advis-
ing management.
Calabro accused Infante-
Green and Peters of blaming the
union contract for their inability
to recruit new teachers to the
district. She said the district is
experiencing a “mass exodus” of
teachers, and there are 65 teach-
ing vacancies.
“Teachers are exhausted and
disheartened by the culture of
finger-pointing and vitriol,
which is the current state of
leadership, and is intensifying
day by day,” Calabro said. “It is
no surprise that new applicants
are going to other districts,
where teachers are treated with
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magistrate in 1629 in Essex
county. She was more of a com-
panion than a servant, a com-
mon position for daughters of
the upper clergy.
During that time, Roger Wil-
liams was appointed as the
chaplain following his gradua-
tion from Cambridge University,
and wrote letters professing his
love to a woman named Jane
Whalley, the cousin of Mary Bar-
nard’s employer’s wife. He was
forbidden to marry Whalley, and
soon after, a marriage certificate
stored at the Essex County ar-
chives in Chelmsford, England,
shows that Roger married Mary
Barnard in December 1629. It’s
unclear if she ever knew of her
husband’s previous attraction.
The couple came to Boston in
STICKING POINT
The union
voted no-
confidence
in Angelica
Infante-Green.
respect and appreciated for their
expertise.”
So can the two sides resolve
their differences?
Kenneth Wong, an education
policy expert and professor at
Brown University who has ad-
vised city and state leaders on a
wide range of school funding
and reform initiatives over the
past decade, said he sees the
next few weeks as crucial to find-
ing common ground.
Wong said the state deserves
some credit for some initial
progress during the takeover.
The state has issued a clear set of
goals for Providence schools, like
raising the graduation rate from
73.6 percent in the 2018-19
school year to 89 percent by the
2024-25 school year, and slash-
ing chronic absenteeism from 37
percent to 10 percent during the
same period.
But for the takeover to suc-
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February 1631, fleeing the reli-
gious climate in England, says
Carrington-Farmer. Roger Wil-
liams turned down a position at
the Boston church. The couple
moved several times and, four
years after arriving in Boston,
they were banished from the
Massachusetts Bay colony for
his “new and dangerous opin-
ions.”
When she arrived in Provi-
dence, a “magical place for reli-
gious freedom,” Mary Williams
finally settled down, Carrington-
Farmer said.
“By spring of 1636 Williams
and his followers (including his
wife Mar y) from Salem had
started to build a settlement
along the Seekonk River, in pres-
ent-day Rumford, R.I. Williams,
in keeping with his views on the
land rights of Indigenous peo-
ples, bought the land from Mas-
sasoit. However, Plymouth as-
serted that the land was within
their jurisdiction, which meant
that Williams could be arrested,”
Carrington-Farmer wrote.
“Even though Williams and
his followers had already begun
to build houses and plant crops,
they decided to cross the
Seekonk River and settle in a
place that lay beyond Plym-
outh’s boundaries. After round-
ing the river, Williams crossed
into Narragansett land and ac-
cordingly he purchased land
from the Narragansett Sachems,
Canonicus, and Miantonomi.
He named the settlement Provi-
dence, as he believed that it was
God’s providence that had car-
ried them to safety.”
Carrington-Farmer says the
most exciting part of Mary Wil-
liams’ story is that it’s an unfin-
ished puzzle.
“Her place in history mat-
ters,” said Carrington-Farmer.
“Doing women’s history is hard.
You have to be creative with the
sources that you use.”
Alexa Gagosz can be reached at
alexa.gagosz@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@alexagagosz.
ceed, Wong said McKee should
intervene and “spend some of
his friendly, social, and political
capital to make this work.” He
said the two sides should take a
few weeks to cool off, but they
need to reconvene shortly or he
could see the state taking “a
more drastic measure.”
“The window is getting tight-
er and tighter, and they know
that,” Wong said. “The window
of the next four weeks is critical.”
Providence School Board
President Nicholas Hemond,
who has functioned as a liaison
between the union and manage-
ment ever since the state took
control of the school system,
said both sides need to be more
reasonable with their expecta-
tions.
Hemond said he considers
the union “to be good partners”
with the district, but they’re not
going to sign off on dramatic
change overnight.
“You’re not going to change
the entire school system and fix
every problem with one con-
tract,” he said.
“Change happens incremen-
tally.”
Dan McGowan can be reached at
dan.mcgowan@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter at
@danmcgowan.
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
2,455 new state cases, 32 deaths, and 83,879 vaccinations
By Martin Finucane
GLOBE STAFF
Massachuse tts repor ted
2,455 new confirmed coronavi-
rus cases Thursday, while the
seven-day average continued its
worrisome rise, increasing to
2,048 from 2,022 the day be-
fore.
The number of municipali-
ties considered at high risk for
the virus jumped to 55, more
than double the number report-
ed two weeks ago, according to
data from the Department of
Public Health.
With experts warning of the
possibility of another surge, the
department also reported that
the high-stakes campaign to
vaccinate people delivered an-
other 83,879 shots.
The new confirmed corona-
virus cases brought the total
number in the state during the
pandemic to 600,632.
The department also report-
ed 32 new confirmed coronavi-
rus deaths, bringing the state’s
toll to 16,876.
The state remains in a strug-
gle with the coronavirus more
than a year after it arrived.
Experts say fast-spreading
coronavirus variants, pandemic
fatigue and spring fever, and
loosened restrictions could be
behind a recent increase in cas-
es. Officials are urging people to
not let their guard down, while
they try to vaccinate as quickly
as possible.
The DPH said 32,868 people
were estimated to have active
cases of the potentially deadly
virus, and 700 confirmed coro-
navirus patients were in the
hospital.
The DPH also reported that
107,740 more tests had been
conducted for coronavirus. The
total number of tests adminis-
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and identify which students
have struggled amid the pan-
demic.
“Administering the MCAS
will make it possible to reliably
assess students’ progress in re-
lation to curriculum standards,”
the statement said.
Riley’s proposal comes as
teachers unions, superinten-
dents, school committees, and a
growing number of Beacon Hill
lawmakers are pressuring him
to entirely scrap all the MCAS
exams this year or postpone
them to the fall.
On Thursday, 29 state sena-
tors submitted a letter urging
Riley to delay MCAS testing un-
til the fall. The senators argued
that testing this spring will
waste money and learning time.
Many teachers and superin-
tendents say they have been
monitoring the progress of stu-
dent learning throughout the
year and are keenly aware what
material is not being covered
and where students are strug-
gling. They also note the MCAS
results will provide little value
to them, given they won’t re-
ceive the data until the fall.
The timing of the MCAS this
spring is also causing signifi-
cant headaches for schools. Dis-
tricts across the state are in the
midst of resuming full-time in-
Drivers captured on livestream boost website, alert officials
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aware of the camera feed be-
f o r e i t pinballed online, and
went to the residential intersec-
tion to stage lightsaber fights or
do backflips for the camera.
“We put on a good show for
t h e s t r e a m ,” Tw i t t e r u s e r
@OD_Technology, who simulat-
ed a “Star Wars” fight scene with
friends, said in a message to the
Globe.
But as more people caught
on, the antics intensified, an un-
fortunate byproduct of Internet
fame. According to the video
game website Kotaku, the site’s
surge in popularity led to neigh-
bors receiving unwanted food
deliveries, pranks from viewers
who figured out its location.
Salem police Captain Fred
Elizabeth Goldrick administered tests Wednesday at a drive-through clinic at the Human Services Building in Sandwich.
tered climbed to more than
18.9 million. New antigen tests
had been completed for 3,681
people, bringing that total to
654,412.
The DPH reported that the
seven-day average rate of posi-
tive tests, which is calculated
from the total number of tests
administered, was at 2.49 per-
cent.
The department said the
rate would be 4.2 percent if the
effect of college testing pro-
grams — in which asymptomat-
ic people can be tested repeat-
edly in an effort to rapidly iden-
tify new cases — is factored out.
Baker seeks ‘robust summer school’ for Mass. students
By Felicia Gans
GLOBE STAFF
Given the disruptions to tra-
ditional learning that Massa-
chusetts students have faced in
the past year, Governor Charlie
Baker implored education lead-
ers Thursday to organize a “ro-
bust summer school” program
for students to help combat
learning loss from the pandem-
ic.
With federal funding made
available to states and local
communities, Baker said, “we
have to have a really robust
summer school program for
person learning. Districts are
under a state deadline to fully
reopen elementary schools by
April 5, although a few dozen
districts have received waivers,
and middle schools by April 28.
A date for high schools has not
been set.
Merrie Najimy, president of
the Massachusetts Teachers As-
sociation, said she was pleased
the commissioner was finally
addressing some of the con-
cerns being raised about MCAS,
but added he needs to do more.
“Clearly the commissioner is
feeling the heat,” Najimy said in
Ryan said he was aware of peo-
ple’s grievances with the original
livestream.
“I heard they were complain-
ing they didn’t like all the atten-
tion the neighborhood was get-
ting outside of the traffic issue,”
he said.
The livestream’s moderator,
who did not want to use his
name, said once he learned
neighbors were getting pizza de-
liveries he “stopped the stream
to prevent that from happening.”
“I didn’t want any neighbors
getting bothered,” he said.
A woman who lives next to
the stop sign from the original
livestream said in an interview
that “no one expected” the feed
to become as popular as it did.
She acknowledged that the cam-
era was mounted at her house,
T h e B o s t o n
Ne w data from DPH also
showed that 55 of the state’s
351 cities and towns are consid-
ered high-risk for the virus, up
from 32 communities last week
and 20 the week before.
Communities added to the
high-risk category included
Abington, Adams, Athol, Ayer,
B r o c k t o n , C a n t o n , C a r v er,
Dracut, Everett, Framingham,
Granby, Halifax, Hampden,
Lakeville, Ludlow, Mansfield,
Milford, Nantucket, Orange, Pe-
a b o d y, R a y n h a m , S a u g u s ,
Seekonk, Southborough,
Springfield, Tyngsborough,
Ware, West Boylston, and Wil-
kids. And if we don’t have one,
shame on us.”
Speaking during a press con-
ference at the La Colaborativa
headquarters in Chelsea, Baker
said that by the summer, the
majority of the general popula-
tion who wants to be vaccinated
against the coronavirus will
have had the opportunity, and it
will be vital to start thinking
about preparing kids for the
next academic year.
“ We really need to make
sure that we do all we can for
kids to ensure that by the time
they get back to school in the
an interview. “Everyone in the
education world thinks the
MCAS is a waste of time.”
She said allowing younger
students to take the MCAS at
home was “absurd,” noting that
many households in urban and
rural areas have unreliable
broadband or no Internet ser-
vice at all. She urged the com-
missioner to file for a waiver
from federal rules that are re-
quiring states to continue with
standardized testing this
spring.
Under federal law, states are
required to test students annu-
but said she was not behind the
livestream itself.
“A t t h e b e g i n n i n g t h e y
thought it was a good idea, be-
cause it brings attention to a
problem in the area,” said the
woman, who declined to give
her name. “That’s why I let it be
put up to begin with.”
Even though the original
livestream was taken down for a
few days, its replacement, which
chronicles a different intersec-
tion nearby, has proved equally
popular, perhaps because its
stop sign is similarly ignored.
The “StopSignCam” account
now has 207,000 followers.
While it might seem tedious,
watching the intersection has
become something of a pastime
for fervent fans, inspiring its
own lingo as viewers track driv-
G l o b e
March 20, 2020
Mass. COVID-19 cases
Confirmed, by date case was
reported to the state
85
(Cumulative total: 600,632)
Mass. COVID-19 deaths
Confirmed, by date death was
reported to the state
(Cumulative total: 16,876)
1
The state did not report data 8/23, 11/26, 12/25, 1/1, or 3/28
SOURCE: Mass. Department of Public Health
fall or the time they go off to col-
lege or whatever it might be,
that we’ve given them a signifi-
cant opportunity to catch up on
all that’s been lost,” he said.
Baker’s comments came the
same day that state Education
Commissioner Jeffrey Riley an-
nounced a proposal to waive
the MCAS graduation require-
ment for the Class of 2022, cur-
rent 11th graders. For the past
two decades, students have
been required to pass the MCAS
exams to graduate from high
school. The proposal would also
allow students in grades 3
ally in math and English in
grades 3 through 8 and in one
grade level in high school. Addi-
tionally, testing in science is re-
quired once in elementary, mid-
dle, and high schools.
Although 11th-graders
would be exempt from the
MCAS graduation requirement,
juniors could still take the
MCAS if they want to qualify for
the Adams Scholarship and Ko-
plik Certificate of Mastery.
Beth Kontos, president of
the American Federation of
Teachers Massachusetts, said
the state should eliminate the
A livestream of a Salem
intersection went viral.
ers’ habits. After all, Massachu-
se tts drivers aren’ t exac tly
known for their road etiquette.
There are “rollers,” drivers
who slow down but don’t stop;
“zoomers,” who don’t slow down
and speed through; “stoppers,”
who come to a complete stop be-
fore the white line; and “forced
stoppers,” who halt only because
JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF
April 1
In Mass:
Seven-day
average
2,455 new
positivity rate:
2.49%
Patients with
COVID-19
currently in
hospitals:
700
32 new
Average age of
hospitalized
patients:
GLOBE STAFF 64
through 8 who are learning
from home to take the MCAS
remotely.
Baker called Riley’s idea “a
tiered approach” to dealing
with academic assessments. He
said state leaders have had to
take into account a variety of is-
sues when deciding about test-
ing for the year: logistics, time,
and alternative strategies for
figuring out where kids are aca-
demically.
Felicia Gans can be reached at
felicia.gans@globe.com. Follow
her on Twitter @FeliciaGans.
MCAS for this school year, given
the disruptions the pandemic
has caused in education and the
ongoing risk of infection.
She noted that on Thursday
state officials had announced
the highest COVID -19 case
count of the academic year, with
801 students infected and 244
cases among school staff.
“I think, certainly, in a pan-
demic, we should be waiving
something that many people
don’t think is valuable under
any circumstances,” Kontos said
in an interview. “I don’t think
an MCAS test gives you a real
of turning traffic, not because
the stop sign demands it.
For the statistically minded, a
breakdown of activity is shared
on a webpage called “stopsign-
cam bot.” There’s even a Reddit
page “dedicated . . . to the Twitch
stream,” where fans can “discuss
how often cars stop at the sign
and other happenings on the
stream.”
At 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, more
than 900 people were logged on
to the new livestream, which for
privacy reasons uses a live-chat
box to block out nearby homes.
That number quickly shot past
1,100 as the morning progressed
and more vehicles were on the
road.
The camera’s owner also said
the quality of the stream is inten-
tionally bad, to prevent street
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
liamstown. Bellingham, Haver-
hill, Lancaster, Lee, Millis, and
Southwick dropped off of the
high-risk list this week.
Massachusetts school offi-
cials on Thursday also reported
1,045 new cases among public
school students and staff mem-
bers for the week that ended
Wednesday — the highest week-
ly total since the start of the ac-
ademic year. There were 801
new cases among students and
244 for school staff members.
Meanwhile, on the vaccina-
tion front, the relatively strong
day of vaccinations brought the
total number of shots adminis-
tered to 3,638,590.
T h u r s d a y ’s v a c c i n a t i o n
numbers outpaced Wednes-
day’s, when 71,434 were report-
ed.
The total number of shots
administered amounted to 83.7
percent of the 4,348,010 doses
shipped to providers in the
state so far, the Department of
Public Health said.
The total shots administered
included 2,268,511 first shots
and 1,279,486 second shots of
the Pfizer and Moderna two-
shot vaccines. It also included
90,593 shots of the Johnson &
Johnson one-shot vaccine.
The number of people fully
vaccinated — with either two
shots of the Moderna or Pfizer
vaccines or one shot of the
Johnson & Johnson — rose to
1,370,079. The state’s goal is to
vaccinate 4.1 million adults to
achieve herd immunity.
Martin Finucane
can be reached at
martin.finucane@globe.com.
Peter Bailey-Wells of the
Globe staff and correspondent
Jeremy C. Fox contributed to
this report.
reflection of a child’s learning
experiences.”
Keri Rodrigues, founder of
Massachusetts Parents United,
voiced frustration over Riley’s
proposal. “The Baker adminis-
tration’s decision to water down
graduation requirements for
the Class of 2022 means their
diplomas might as well have a
‘pandemic’ stamp on them,” she
said in a statement. “Rather
than keeping a sharp focus on
preparing the Class of 2022 aca-
demically and getting them
ready for college or career suc-
cess, the decision today is tell-
ing these high school juniors
that we do not believe in them.”
Governor Charlie Baker on
Thursday backed Riley’s han-
dling the MCAS testing issues.
“I think the commissioner’s
making what I would describe
as a tiered approach to dealing
generally with MCAS and with
assessments overall,” he said.
Riley’s proposal represents
the latest pivot the commission-
er has made to modify the
MCAS and other state standard-
ized tests during the pandemic.
James Vaznis can be reached at
james.vaznis@globe.com.
Follow him on twitter
@globevaznis. Correspondent
Jeremy C. Fox and Felicia Gans
of the Globe staff contributed to
this report.
signs and license plates from be-
ing identifiable.
The channel may have found
a new focus, but the city still
plans to address problems raised
by the original webcast that
landed on their radar last week.
Kucharsky said the city’s traffic
and parking commission will
bring up the intersection at its
next meeting in April. In the
meantime, they will look at
crash history in the area and fig-
ure out what can be done.
“We aren’t aware of every-
thing going on all of the time in
the city, and we look to the pub-
lic to bring things to our atten-
tion,” he said. “I’m glad it came
to our attention.”
Steve Annear can be reached at
steve.annear@globe.com.
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And, again, Kilroy will be
there.
“The fans love the Red Sox,”
he told me this week. “They al-
ways will.”
Mr. Kilroy certainly has.
He’s cheered for the great Ted
Williams. As a kid, he’d plunk
down 50 cents and sit just about
anywhere he wanted, watching
up to 40 games a season. He’ll
never forget the Impossible
Dream team of 1967, the year
New England’s love affair with
the Red Sox was cemented.
He remembers — as many
New Englanders do — the first
time he walked up the ramp and
spied the emerald infield and
the impossibly manicured out-
field. Who could ever forget
that?
lyard will recall for Kilroy the
bad old days when the Rex Sox
were cellar-dwellers and packed
houses were as uncommon as a
no-hitter.
Still, from where he will sit, a
pared-down crowd will be better
than none at all.
And it’s hard not to smile,
thinking about John Kilroy tak-
ing his rightful place among the
thinned-out Fenway faithful on
Good Friday.
That’s the way Christine Sly-
ne, Kilroy’s niece, felt about Fri-
day’s opener.
“When he called and asked if
I would be able to go to Opening
Day, my first reaction was: I
would be honored,” she said,
“because it was such a bummer
to miss it last year.
WEYMOUTH end of their days. In 1951, he married
LYNNFIELD
FEDERICO, David Michael STEELE, Mary M. (Spriggs) his beloved Jeanie of Waterville, ME.
MEDFORD Two years later while living in
WINCHESTER Brookline, they had their first son, and
FEDERICO, David Michael
RIBEIRINHA-BRAGA, Andre Luis RIBEIRINHA-BRAGA, Andre Luis soon after their second son was born,
MELROSE they moved to Jamaica Plain, where
WINTHROP they would remain until 1961. By this
RIBEIRINHA-BRAGA, Andre Luis
MILTON DeGREGORIO, Michael G. time, they had added two daughters,
and with four children, they decided to
NOLAN, Rosemary Ann
WOBURN leave the city for a seaside suburb. They
NEEDHAM
FEDERICO, David Michael RIBEIRINHA-BRAGA, Andre Luis chose Scituate, where they would add
SHEEHY, Paul W. the last two of their six children and
WRENTHAM happily remain for 52 years. Jack
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NOLAN, Rosemary Ann FEDERICO, David Michael started Burkhardt Brothers Moving and
Storage in 1962 with his beloved
Age 54, of Needham, passed away
NORTH ANDOVER peacefully on March 26, 2021. Beloved
brother Robert P. Burkhardt. Once
RITCHIE, Jane Marie son of Armando and Ida Federico of
OUT OF STATE Jack’s kids moved on, Jack and his
Needham. Brother of Richard Federico
NORWOOD darling Jean traveled repeatedly to
AHEARN, David C. NEW HAMPSHIRE and wife Madeline, Maria D’Errico
Ireland and Italy, where they were
PEABODY (Federico) and husband Tom, Mark
OLIVEIRA, Henry J. fortunate to have dear friends to both
LeBLANC, Frances (Palladino) visit and travel with. Jack was a prolific Federico, and Linda Federico. Loving
READVILLE NEW YORK reader, autodidact, sailor (Jack’s uncle of Julia D’Errico, Christina
MEIGHAN, Faye C. (Driscoll) D’Errico, David D’Errico and Richard
GRANOFF, Frances lifetime love of sailing culminated with
REVERE his sea sprite daysailer “MAINE A. Federico. Nephew of Flora Federico,
Joe Federico (deceased), Gino Federico,
LeBLANC, Frances (Palladino) CHANCE”), woodcarver, music lover,
ROSLINDALE OUT OF COUNTRY Celtics fanatic and consumer of Jeanie’s Mario and Dora Federico, Gerda and
FEDERICO, David Michael culinary wonders. He was the loving Jurgen Heyer of Germany, and
CANADA numerous cousins.
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“Yeah, I remember,” Kilroy
said. “Third base side. Twelve
rows back. I was 12 years old.
And I had me and my friend.
We had tickets for Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday. And there
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were two girls — sisters — who

sat behind us. They hated the
Yankees.”
As the years rolled by, the
names in the box scores kept
changing. Carl Yastrzemski. Ri-
co Petrocelli. George Scott. Wade
Boggs. Dwight Evans. Nomar
Garciaparra. Mo Vaughn. Pedro
Martinez.
But the man in the stands —
the steady, unwavering fan with
the well-worn scorebook in his
lap — never did.
“Roger Clemens. I remember
having a crush on him,” Tricia
Burke, Kilroy’s daughter, told
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Age 91, formerly of
Falmouth and Norwood, Hospice over the last few weeks of
Serving Greater Boston Jack’s life. Friends and family will be
all his programs.’ Massachusetts, died on
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at Brookdale invited to attend a Memorial Celebra-
Sakonnet Bay in Tiverton, Rhode tion when the darned virus is under
MARYANNE FITZGERALD, control. In lieu of flowers, donations
Island. He was born in Norwood on
speaking about her father, July 28, 1929 to the late William and may be made in Jack’s memory to the
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of Houston, TX; Paul D. Ahearn and
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me. “And the idea of watching
him and Wade Boggs and just
knowing how important they
were to my dad was special. My
father would explain their stats
to me. He showed me how to
keep score.
“It’s deeply rooted in him. It’s
just incredible.”
Forecasters are calling for
springtime temperatures in the
mid-50s Friday, and John Kilroy
will walk into Fenway Park like a
man returning to a comfortable
home after a cold and miserable
winter away.
“He’s just a simple man who
loves, loves, loves his sports, and
baseball is his first love,” said
Maryanne Fitzgerald, 51, the
older of his two girls, the daugh-
ter with whom he lives. “He used
to keep score in pencil and saved
all his programs.”
“The fact that he’s [84] and
he s till ge ts it and can talk
about it and he’s so excited for
“And I know how important
it is to him. I started to tear up
because it was just like the light
at the end of the tunnel. It’s a
feel-good story, especially after
this past year. It’s a big morale
boost.”
If you’re lucky enough to get
a ticket next to John Kilroy this
season, take some time between
innings to ask him to review the
highlights from his days in the
grandstand under a brilliant
summer sun or the bright lights
that burn from the light stan-
dards after the sun sets.
Remember Carlton Fisk wav-
ing the ball fair after his game-
winning home run in the 12th
inning of Game 6 of the 1975
World Series?
John Kilroy does.
“I was there,” he said. “I was
sitting on the third-base side. I
was waving that the ball would
be fair.”
Have the
talk of a
lifetime
You talk about many
things with your loved
ones: from day-to-day
details to big events.
Sharing stories with
those who matter most
isn’t just important
today; it will be
especially significant
when it’s time to honor
and commemorate
your lives.
Meaningful memorial-
ization starts when
loved ones talk about
what matters most:
P. Ahearn, who predeceased him.
He is also survived by his brothers,
Kenneth Ahearn and John Ahearn,
and his sister-in-law, Helen. He was
predeceased by his brothers, Francis
Ahearn, William Ahearn, and Rev.
Thomas Ahearn. He was a devoted
grandfather of Rachel and Alexander.
David was a graduate of Boston
College (1953) and New England
School of Law (1961). He served in the
U.S. Army (1947-48). He worked as an
attorney, and served as a Massachusetts
State Representative, and as a Norfolk
County Commissioner. David loved to
play tennis and golf with his wife Jean
and their friends.
A memorial gathering will be held at
a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations may be made to Cape
Cod Health Care Foundation, PO
Box 370, Hyannis, MA 02601 www.
givetocapecodhealth.org
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Reverend Cynthia A. Frado, 66, passed
away Sunday, March 28, 2021, at
her home in Hadley, surrounded by
loved ones. Cherished wife of James
Walker of Hadley, Cindy is survived
by daughter Eve Chetwynd and her
partner Jason Hendricks of Orange,
CT; son Alexander Chetwynd and his
partner Jennifer Bisceglia of Worcester;
sister Kathleen (Frado) Sousa and her
husband William of Seekonk; sister-in-
law Chris (Hall) Frado of Winchester,
NH; stepson Jonathan Walker and
his wife Catherine of Lebanon, CT;
stepdaughter Carolyn Taylor and her
husband Matthew of Amherst; adopted
daughter Stefanie Jordão; eight loving
Of Billerica, March 30, 2021, Joseph
grandchildren: Arielle, Hayden, Chris-
P. Callahan, age 76. Beloved husband
tian, Jack, Ella, Piper, Elin, and August;
of Mary E. (Burke) Callahan. Devoted
and several nieces and nephews. Cindy
father of Deborah Callahan and her
was predeceased by her sister Madeline
husband Sean, Susan Doherty and her
Jeffries and brother John Frado. In lieu
husband Paul, and Joseph P. Callahan,
of flowers, please consider giving to the
Jr., all of Woburn. Brother of John Cal-
Cancer Center at Boston Children’s Hos-
lahan and his wife Mary of Plymouth,
pital, in memory of Rev. Cynthia Frado.
and Daniel Callahan and his wife
Contributions can be made at www.
Nancy of Thornton, NH. Loving grand-
bostonchildrens.org/givenow through
father of Sean, Brian, Shayla, Patrick,
the Tribute Fundraiser. Or mail checks,
Aiden, and Megan. Son-in-law of John
payable to Boston Children’s Hospital,
F. Burke of Waltham. Also leaves his
to Boston Children’s Hospital Trust,
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this is great,’’ she added. “He
told somebody he’s going to the
Super Bowl. But I loved that.
I’m thrilled for him.”
The Super Bowl. For John
Kilroy, walking into Fenway
Park means something even big-
ger than that. Something grand-
er. Something that he has felt in
his bones since boyhood.
“It’s deeply rooted in him,”
Tricia Burke said. “I’ ll never
have the passion that he has, but
I get excited walking into Fen-
way Park. I don’t ever want Fen-
way Park to be different than it
is today.”
Like father, like daughter.
But, of course, this is differ-
ent.
Or maybe not. With the Red
Sox allowing just about 4,500
people — or about 12 percent of
Fenway Park’s capacity — into
the opener on Friday, the old bal-
Who wasn’t?
There are those moments of
cherished triumphs. And too
many squandered chances.
But on Friday, as he settles in-
to his seat — into the comfort-
able embrace of the old ballpark
— it will be time for a fresh start.
Time to open a brand-new score-
book.
S o w h at a b o u t t h e h o m e
team’s chances this year as the
calendar turns to April, when
the hardball slate once again has
been wiped clean?
“They need pitching,” their
longtime and ardent fan said.
“Like all teams do.”
He speaks the truth.
He’s seen it all.
Play ball.
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GRANOFF, Frances
Of Slingerlands, NY, formerly of
Brookline, MA, passed away peacefully
on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, her family
at her bedside, a few weeks before her
99th birthday.
Born in East Orange, NJ, she
graduated from Upsala College and was
employed as a chemist. She met her
husband, the late Phillip Granoff, on a
blind date and they shared a wonder-
ful, loving marriage for 47 years. They
loved symphony concerts, theatre, and
travel and delighted in their children’s
many music and dance recitals and
baseball games.
An avid bridge player for 75 years,
she was also an accomplished hostess,
cook, baker, and gardener. She was hap-
piest with family and friends laughing
around her dining room table and her
quiet strength, warmth and grace were
effused with a sparkle of mischievous
wit. She would describe her day as
“wonderful” just because she had spent
it in the sunshine. The day she passed
away, she said simply, “Happiness. Not
tears.”
Due to the pandemic, all Services
will be private at Sharon Memorial Park
in SHARON, MA.
She is survived by her four children:
George Granoff (Carol) of Boynton
Beach, FL, Mark Granoff (Lisa) of
Natick, MA, Ellen Busch of Glenmont,
NY, and Joan Goldfarb of Lake Forest,
CA, her six grandchildren: Brian Busch
(Robin) of Belmont, MA, Lori Feldman
(Eli) of Boston, MA, Dara Wolkoff
(Eric) of Boston, MA, Adam Granoff
(Chelsea James) of New York City, NY,
Alex Granoff of Waltham, MA, and
Todd Granoff of Brooklyn, NY, and her
four great-grandchildren: Madeline
and Lucy Busch and Wesley and Evelyn
Wolkoff.
The family wishes to thank Dr. Sha-
ron Tietgens for her outstanding care
and devotion, and Dr. Bob and Kathy
Busch for their love and support.
Donations in Frances’ memory may
be made to the American Heart Asso-
ciation, 4 Atrium Dr. #100, Albany, NY
12205 or your charity of choice.
To leave an online condolence for
the family, please visit
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HENEIN, Eglal
1942 - 2021
We are sorry to inform you that Eglal
Henein has passed away peacefully
on March 30, 2021. Eglal was born in
Egypt and got her “Doctorat d’État”
from the Sorbonne in Paris (1992).
Eglal taught for over 40 years at Yale
and Tufts University and has stayed
in touch with many students over the
years. She is “Chevalière de l’Ordre des
Palmes Académiques”. Eglal leaves in
mourning her brothers Fekri and Nabil
(and his wife Amal), her nephew Marc
(and family) as well as a large family
scattered all over the world (https://
www.urgelbourgie.com/fr/necrologie-
avis-de-deces).
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LeBLANC, Frances
(Palladino)
Of Revere, formerly of East Boston,
on March 29th, following a brief
illness at 73 years. Devoted wife of
51 years to Retired Boston Fire Lt.
Paul R. Leblanc of Revere. Loving
mother of Andre R. LeBlanc & wife
Elise of Wakefield, Jason P. Leblanc
& Joseph A. LeBlanc, both of Revere.
Cherished grandmother of Christina
E. LeBlanc, Olivia G. LeBlanc & Drew
A. LeBlanc, all of Wakefield. Dear
sister of Rocco A. Palladino & wife
Sandra M. of Peabody & the late Carol
Ann Faughnan & her late husband
William Faughnan. Beloved aunt of
Tara Murphy & husband Matthew of
Revere, Alyssa Morales & husband
Christopher of Peabody & the late
Anthony R. Palladino and Liam
Faughnan of Rowley. Also lovingly
survived by several grandnieces &
grandnephews. Family & friends are
invited to attend the Funeral from the
Vertuccio & Smith, Home for Funerals,
773 Broadway (Rte. 107), REVERE,
on Tuesday, April 6th at 10:00 a.m.,
followed by a Funeral Mass in St.
Anthony of Padua Church, 250 Revere
St., REVERE, at 11:00 a.m. Services
will conclude with interment in
Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. Visiting
Hours will be held in the Funeral Home
on Monday from 4-7 p.m. Parking
available in lot left of the funeral
home. Due to the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, all visitors & attendees must
wear a face mask and maintain social
distancing in the funeral home, church
& cemetery. Temperatures will be taken
and your name & contact number
must be provided prior to entering
the funeral home & church. Frances
worked as a Teacher’s Aide for the City
of Revere at the Lincoln School & later
for the Mystic Valley Elder Services. In
lieu of flowers, remembrances may be
made to St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis,
TN 38105-9959. To send online
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MEIGHAN, Faye C. (Driscoll)
Of Dedham, March 29, 2021. Beloved
wife of the late Robert Meighan.
Devoted mother of Robert Meighan
and his wife Kelly of Dedham, David
Meighan and his domestic partner
Andres Caro of San Francisco, CA,
Paul Meighan and his wife Deb of
South Walpole, and Deborah Giguere
and her husband Marc of Foxboro.
Grandmother of Aaron, Mike,
Benjamin, and Meighan.
A visitation will be held at the
George F. Doherty & Sons Wilson-
Cannon Funeral Home, Friday, April
2 from 9:00-11:00am followed by a
Funeral Service in the funeral home
beginning at 11:00am. Relatives and
friends kindly invited. Interment in
Brookdale Cemetery, Dedham.
Online guestbook and directions at
gfdoherty.com
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Dedham 781-326-0500
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NOLAN, Rosemary Ann
“Rosie”
Of Milton, formerly of Chelsea and
Saugus, passed away on Saturday,
March 27th from complications due
to Alzheimer’s. She was 75 years of
age. Rosie was born and raised on
Library Street, educated and graduated
from St. Rose School, all in Chelsea.
She was well known due to the fact
that she worked as a part-time sales
clerk while in high school and after
graduation as a Senior Buyer at
Wolper’s, a popular clothing store
on Broadway in Chelsea for 18 years
until the store closed. She completed
her working career employed by the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Department of Transitional Assistance/
Welfare at offices in Boston, Revere
and Chelsea, retiring in 2002. Making
and keeping numerous friends along
the way. In her retirement years, she
dedicated her time to her beloved
family, especially her late mother Mary
(Cronin) Nolan. In addition to her
mother, Rosie was also predeceased by
her twin brother and former Chelsea
Mayor Thomas J. Nolan, Jr. and brother
John “Jack” Nolan. Rosie’s priorities in
life were her faith, family and friends.
She is survived by her loving sister
Regina Nolan (Masucci) of Milton, her
devoted brother Robert “Bob” Nolan
and his wife Kathleen of Saugus,
nephew and godson, Christopher
Nolan (Masucci), his wife Elizabeth
and their children Emily, Evan, Patrick
and Christopher Nolan, Jr., all of
Milton, niece, Mary Kathryn (Nolan)
Corazzini, her husband Tom and their
son Charles “Chip-Bob” Corazzini, all of
Georgetown. Dear sisters-in-law, Linda
Nolan of Revere and Charlotte “Cam”
Nolan of Newburyport.
Visiting Hours: Will be held in the
Welsh Funeral Home, 718 Broadway,
Chelsea on Saturday morning April
3rd from 9:00 AM to 10:00 A.M.
Relatives and friends are most
kindly invited. Funeral Services will
follow the visitation in the funeral
home at 10:00 A.M. Services will
conclude with interment at Puritan
Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody. All
services will be held in accordance to
the Commonwealth of MA Covid-19
Phase-IV regulations. We continue
to encourage family and friends who
wish, to offer condolences at this time
by means of the online guestbook or
to send a personalized sympathy card
visit; www.WelshFH.com. Should
friends desire, contributions in Rosie’s
name should be directed to Alzheimer’s
Assoc., 309 Waverly Oaks Rd.,
Waltham, MA 02452.
Welsh Funeral Home
Chelsea, MA
OLIVEIRA, Henry J.
Of Atkinson, NH, formerly of Arlington.
Passed away peacefully surrounded
by his loving family on March 30,
2021. Beloved husband of the late
Rita F. (Mahoney). Loving father of
Diane McInnis and her husband Frank
of Tewksbury, Trish Rose and her
husband Don of Atkinson, NH, Susan
Donnelly and her husband Kevin of
Atkinson, NH and Nancy Hughes and
her husband Brad of Atkinson, NH.
Loving “Papa” of Shannon Squillante
and her husband Stephen, Emily, and
Matt Rose, Kelly, Frank, and Michael
McInnis, Erin, Kaitlyn, Cameron, and
Colleen Donnelly, and Jason, Jessica,
and Jennifer Hughes. Dear brother of
Rev. Humbert Oliveira. Henry worked
as a controller for many years at
Raytheon. He loved being surrounded
by family and friends and spending
as much time as possible on the Cape.
Visiting Hours will be held from the
Keefe Funeral Home, 5 Chestnut Street,
ARLINGTON, on Monday, April 5th
from 4-7PM. All attendees are required
to wear face coverings, practice social
distancing, and kindly pay their
respects and exit to allow other guests
to enter. His Funeral Mass will be
celebrated at St. John’s Church, 2254
Mass Ave., NORTH CAMBRIDGE, on
Tuesday at 11:00AM. Burial will follow
in Cambridge Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, donations in Henry’s memory
may be made to Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation: JDRF, PO BOX
37920, Boone, IA 50037-0920, or online
at www.jdrf.org/donate For directions
or to send an online condolence, visit
www.keefefuneralhome.com
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RIBEIRINHA-BRAGA, Andre
Luis
Age 22, of Winchester, MA, passed
away suddenly, following a car accident,
March 25, 2021. Born in Stoneham, he
is the beloved son of Dianne Ribeir-
inha-Braga and Sergio Braga. Cherished
brother to Daniel Ribeirinha-Braga and
Lillian Ribeirinha-Braga. Nephew to
Lucilene Ribeirinha and cousin to Jon
Ribeirinha-Prata and Jessica Ribeir-
inha-Prata. He is the loving grandson
of Helena Ribeirinha and her late hus-
band Manuel Ribeirinha, the late Joao
and Geni Braga. Family and friends are
respectfully invited to gather for Calling
Hours at the McLaughlin - Dello Russo
Family Funeral Home, 60 Pleasant St.,
WOBURN, Monday, April 5th, from 4
to 8 p.m. There will be a Prayer Service
beginning at 6 p.m. All attending must
wear a face mask and adhere to social
distancing protocols. The family has
requested that memories of Andre can
be shared at the following link:
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For complete obituary and to leave an
online message of condolence, please
visit www.dellorusso.net
Dello Russo Family Funeral Homes
Woburn - Medford - Wilmington
RITCHIE, Jane Marie
Age 72, passed away peacefully on
March 31, 2021, surrounded by her
sons Christopher and David Ritchie.
Jane’s positive sphere of influence
reached countless people in countless
ways through her infectious personality
and commitment to public service. Jane
was tenacious, caring, and optimistic,
and her family and loved ones will
dearly miss her.
She was born on June 25th, 1948,
in Lawrence, MA, to Jane and Joseph
Spindler. She is survived by her two
sons David and his wife Elizabeth of
Marblehead, MA, and Christopher
and his wife Lisa of Saugus, MA. She
has four loving grandchildren Colton,
Devon, Emma, and Benjamin. As well
as her former spouse David W. Ritchie
and siblings Mary Jo Hayes, Peggy
Clarke, Joseph Spindler, and Tim
Spindler.
Jane was preceded in death by her
parents, her son Sean J. Ritchie and
brother James Spindler
Jane’s successful banking career
began as a teller, greeting each male
customer as “handsome,” and later
graduated on the dean’s list from
Bentley University in 2000.
Jane led a life of public service that
spanned several decades over several
organizations, including, Kiwanis club
of Greater Lawrence (1990 to present)
where she was the first woman member
and first woman president, Saint
Michael’s Scouting pack 82 from 1978
to 1992, and she was a member of the
Board of Directors of North Andover
Joseph N. Herman Youth Center as well
as an organizer of the Battle of Barkers
field to celebrate the 350th anniversary
of North Andover.
Jane’s (aka Private Christian) favorite
hobby was dressing up like she would
raid a ship and throw English tea in
Boston harbor and was a long-standing
member of the New England Patriots
end zone militia (2004-Present). Jane
loved the Patriots except when it was
cold out, and they did not score often.
After the Patriots would score, everyone
got to shoot their musket, and it kept
them warm.
Visiting Hours: Family & friends
are invited to attend Visiting Hours
on Wednesday from 9:30 AM to 11:00
AM at Conte Funeral Home, 17 Third
St., NORTH ANDOVER, MA 01845. A
Funeral Service will follow at 11:30 AM
at Saint Mary’s immaculate conception
mausoleum.
In lieu of flowers, please make a
donation to the Joseph N. Herman
Youth Center Inc., Po Box 215, North
Andover, MA 01845.
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SHEA, Elaine Marie
(Fitzgerald)
A lifetime resident of Arlington passed
away peacefully at home surrounded
by her six children on March 29, 2021.
Beloved wife of the late William E.
Shea. Loving mother of William J.
and wife Meg of Belmont, Michael and
wife Jane of Reading, Taryn LaRaja
and husband Ray of Amherst, Katlyn
Shea of Lincoln, Meghan Shea and
husband Brian Pendleton of Arlington,
Kristen Donahue and husband Micah
of Newburyport. Proud grandmother of
Brigette, Elizabeth, Paul, Conor, Erin,
Alex, Kathryn, Luca, Cameron, Phineas,
Téa, Emma, Max, Lucy, and Owen. She
is survived by many cousins, nieces
and nephews, and her brother Richard
and was predeceased by her brothers
Arthur and Neil.
Elaine touched many lives. She
had an extraordinary capacity to
connect with people in a caring and
authentic way. She showed her love
and appreciation for others by writing
poems and books, giving lots of hugs,
and sharing her famous chocolate
chip cookies. Elaine was dedicated to
helping people find their voice, which
inspired her to be one of the founders
of the First Step domestic violence
support group in Arlington. She was
a graduate of Matignon High School,
Newton College of the Sacred Heart,
and Boston University School of Social
Work, where she earned her Masters
while raising six young children. She
had a special place in her heart for so
many people and places including her
Lincoln Street neighborhood, where
this past year she initiated weekly
outdoor gatherings to inspire hope
during the pandemic. Elaine was proud
to be from Arlington and worked to
make it a community of upstanders
who look out for one another. She
modeled how being grateful, helping
others, and being true to oneself leads
to a happy and fulfilling life.
Relatives and friends are invited to
visit in the DeVito Funeral Home, 1145
Mass. Ave., ARLINGTON on Monday
from 3:00 - 7:00 pm and to her funeral
mass on Tuesday at 10:00 am in St.
Camillus Church. Please meet directly
at church. All attendees are required
to wear face coverings, practice social
distancing, and pay their respects and
exit the funeral home promptly to allow
other guests to enter. A limited number
of guests will be allowed in the building
at one time.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be
made in Elaine’s memory to: Arlington’s
AYCC/First Step, 670R Mass. Ave.,
Arlington, MA 02476 or arlingtonma.
gov/departments/health-human-
services/arlington-youth-counseling-
center-aycc/donate; Project Hope
Boston 550 Dudley St., Roxbury, MA
02119 or prohope.org; Salvation Army’s
Arlington Shea House, Cambridge
Salvation Army - for Shea House, 402
Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 or
give.salvationarmy.org/give/171555/#!/
donation/checkout. Please visit
devitofuneralhome.com to view an
online guestbook.
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F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
SHEEHY , Paul W.
Longtime resident of Needham,
formerly of South Boston, passed away
suddenly on March 30, 2021. Beloved
husband of the late Joan (Fay) Sheehy.
Devoted father of Kathryn Kester and
her husband Joseph of NY, NY., Paul
Sheehy Jr., Alison Sheehy, and Amy
Doherty and her fiancé Tim Flynn,
all of Needham. Loving Papa of Riley,
Lily, and Tatum Doherty and Kathryn
Kester. Son of the late Cecilia and
Edward Sheehy. Brother of the late
Edward Sheehy.
Proud graduate of Christopher
Columbus High School and Boston
College. Paul played varsity hockey
at Boston College, Class of 1957.
He coached hockey at Marian High
School, Boston College High School,
and Needham Youth Hockey. Known
to many as “Coach”, Paul enjoyed his
retirement years working at Needham
Golf Club. He was a longtime faithful
parishioner at St. Joseph Church.
Visiting hours at the George F.
Doherty & Sons Funeral Home 1305
Highland Ave. Needham, on Monday,
April 5th from 4-6pm. Funeral from
the funeral home on Tuesday, April 6th
at 9am, followed by a Funeral Mass at
St. Joseph Church, Needham, at 10am.
Relatives and friends kindly invited,
please follow all covid guidelines.
Paul will be interred with his late
wife at Calvary Cemetery, Winchester.
Interment will be private. Expressions
of sympathy may be made in Paul’s
memory to The South Boston Boys &
Girls Club 230 W Sixth St, Boston, MA
02127. For directions and guestbook
gfdoherty.com.
George F. Doherty & Sons
Needham 781 444 0687
STEELE, Mary M. (Spriggs)
Age 80, of South Weymouth, died
March 31, 2021. Mary was born in Bos-
ton to the late Isaac and Julia Spriggs.
She grew up in the Saint Peters’ Parish
area of Dorchester and attended
Cardinal Cushing High School, Class of
1958. Mary worked as a Histologist for
Boston City Hospital for over 35 years.
In her younger years, she was a cham-
pion bowler and would often draw a
crowd of onlookers when she was in a
match. She enjoyed spending time with
her family, and Summers on the Cape
in Bourne. She was proud of her Irish
heritage and really enjoyed playing
Irish music on her piano and singing.
Beloved wife of 59 years to Norbert
F. “Bob” Steele of Weymouth. Loving
mother of John M. Steele and his wife
Dina of Kingston, Robert J. Steele and
his wife Laura of Hanover, Katherine
A. Cugini and her husband Glenn of
Marshfield and Thomas B. Steele and
his wife Karla of Rutland. Proud Nana
of 11 grandchildren Joe, Dan, John,
Owen, Julia, Megan, Lauren, Alyssa,
Erin, Brianna, Isaac and 2 great-grand-
children Noah and Jabe.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the Visiting Hours
on Monday, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM in the
McDonald Keohane Funeral Home,
SOUTH WEYMOUTH at 809 Main
Street (Rte. 18 opp. South Shore Hospi-
tal). Following the visitation, a Funeral
Mass will be held at St. Francis Xavier
Church, South Weymouth at 10 AM on
Monday. Burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery,
South Weymouth. For those who can-
not gather together with Mary’s family
at this time, friends may still offer their
support by visiting www.Keohane.com
and sharing a special memory or mes-
sage. If you cannot access the website,
please call 781-335-0045 to have your
message added.
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
Mr. Schmautz battled with the Montreal Canadiens’ Larry Robinson for the puck during a Stanley Cup playoff tilt.
Bobby Schmautz; his 1978 OT goal part of Bruins lore
By Bryan Marquard
GLOBE STAFF
Bobby Schmautz knew what
the scouting reports had recom-
mended as he approached the
net on May 21, 1978, with the
Boston Bruins and Montreal Ca-
nadiens tied 3-3 in overtime dur-
ing the fourth game of the Stan-
ley Cup finals.
He was 5-foot-9 and Montre-
al’s goalie, Ken Dryden, was 6-
foot-4. “They tell us to shoot low
on him,” Mr. Schmautz told the
Globe’s Will McDonough after-
ward. “You know, the guy’s all
arms and legs.”
But more than 6 minutes into
overtime at Boston Garden
wasn’t an ideal time to pause
and mentally review pre-game
plans, so he went with his in-
stincts.
“To be honest, I didn’t even
think. I just wheeled and let it
go,” he said. “When it went in – I
never had a better feeling in my
life.”
Mr. Schmautz died Sunday in
his Arizona home on his 76th
birthday, the Bruins said. A
cause of death was not disclosed.
His over time goal in the
fourth game of the 1978 Stanley
Cup finals, tying the series 2-2,
was his most memorable mo-
ment with the Bruins, even
though the Canadiens won the
ne xt two g a mes t o t a ke t he
championship, 4-2.
Playing in the National Hock-
ey League from 1967 to 1981, he
joined the Bruins in February
1974 and was traded to the Ed-
monton Oilers in December
1979.
He helped Boston reach the
Stanley Cup finals in 1974, ’77,
and ’78, only to see the Bruins
fall short all three times.
Paul Feinman, 61,
first openly gay
judge in N.Y. court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBANY — Paul Feinman,
the first openly gay judge to
serve on New York’s highest
court, died recently after step-
ping down because of his health,
state officials said Wednesday.
He was 61.
No cause of death was given.
He had retired from the court
March 23.
Mr. Feinman was appointed
in 2017 by Governor Andrew
Cuomo to serve on the Court of
Appeals after serving five years
on a midlevel appeals court.
“ T hroughout his career,
Judge Feinman was a tireless
and resolute champion of LG-
BTQ rights, a trailblazing pio-
neer for LGBTQ lawyers and
judges, and an incredibly dedi-
cated mentor who inspired
countless judges, attorneys, and
law students,” Chief Judge Janet
DiFiore said in a statement.
Though small, Mr. Schmautz was known for his scrappy play,
including dropping the gloves to take on such players as
John Marks of the Chicago Black Hawks.
Mr. Schmautz scored 20 or
more goals for five straight sea-
sons in Boston. In 1977-78, he
was among a record 11 players
on the team to score 20 or more
goals that season — Mr. Schmau-
tz’s total of 27 was third-highest
among the Bruins.
Upon first hearing rumors
during the 1973-74 season that
the Vancouver Canucks might
trade him to Boston, he at first
considered it “a matter of wait
and see.”
When the news was finally of-
ficial, “I guess you shouldn’t say I
was just happy — I’m thrilled
about going from a last-place
team to a first-place team,” he
Ms. Mullarkey was first female, and longest-serving, Supreme Court chief justice of Colorado.
T h e B o s t o n
Obituaries
DAN GOSHTIGIAN/GLOBE STAFF/1975
told the Globe in February 1974.
Known in Vancouver nearly
as much for his penalty minutes
as he was for his scoring, he said
upon arriving in Boston that
when it came to shooting, “I
don’t rely on one thing. I mix it
up pretty much between slap
shots and wrist shots. I’m not
the type that can hang in front of
the net, so most of my goals are
scored from 12 to 20 feet out.”
And though Mr. Schmautz
was somewhat small for the
NHL — just 160 pounds at the
time of the trade, the Globe re-
ported — he gave little thought
to the difference between him
and other players.
G l o b e
TOM LANDERS/GLOBE STAFF/1979
“I know it would be better to
be bigger and taller,” he said,
“but I just make the most of
things.”
For his career, he played in
764 games, with 271 goals and
557 points.
Born on March 28, 1945, in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Rob-
ert Schmautz played junior
league hockey before landing a
professional contract with the
Los Angeles Blades of the West-
ern Hockey League in 1964.
In 1967, he joined the NHL’s
Chicago Black Hawks, and three
years later he was with the Ca-
nucks, then an expansion team.
His best scoring season was in
Vancouver — in 1972-73, when
he had 38 goals and 71 points in
77 games, career-high totals in
all three categories.
After leaving Boston, Mr.
Schmautz played for Edmonton
and the Colorado Rockies before
finishing his career in Vancouver.
A complete list of survivors
and information about a memo-
rial service was not immediately
available.
T h e o v e r t i m e g o a l M r.
Schmautz scored for Boston in
the 1978 Stanley Cup finals
“was the high point of my ca-
reer,” he recalled in a 1988 Globe
interview, almost a decade to the
day after his shot tied the series
at two games each.
“Nothing, nothing, matched
the feeling of being in the Cup fi-
nal with the Bruins,” he added.
“I still feel disappointment today
because we worked so hard and
came up short in ’78. But when
you look back, it’s amazing what
we did, really amazing.”
Bryan Marquard can be reached
at bryan.marquard@globe.com.
ED ANDRIESKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buddy Deppenschmidt, 85;
helped ’60s bossa nova boom
By Matt Schudel
WASHINGTON POST
Buddy Deppenschmidt, a
jazz drummer who learned the
rhythms of Brazilian music on a
State Department tour, then ap-
peared on a best-selling 1962 al-
bum, ‘‘Jazz Samba,’’ which
helped launch a worldwide
bossa nova boom, died March 20
at a nursing facility in Doyle-
stown, Pa. He was 85.
His daughter Allyson Cover
confirmed the death but the
family did not provide a cause.
For many years, Deppen-
schmidt was considered a musi-
cal footnote, a sideman who
played on one of the most popu-
lar jazz recordings of all time but
then disappeared from the lime-
light. ‘‘Jazz Samba,’’ which fea-
tured saxophone great Stan Getz
and guitarist Charlie Byrd, was
the first bossa nova recording by
American musicians to become
a major hit and remains the only
jazz instrumental album to
reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop
chart.
Getz won a Grammy Award
and became a jazz superstar, and
Byrd was acclaimed throughout
the world. Both were given cred-
it for popularizing the bossa no-
va, especially after Getz’s 1963
hit song ‘‘The Girl From Ipane-
ma.’’
Byrd told DownBeat maga-
zine in 1963 that ‘‘Buddy Dep-
penschmidt deserves an awful
lot of credit for his part in the al-
bum,’’ but the full extent of his
contribution to ‘‘Jazz Samba’’
was largely overlooked for years.
Music historian David Adler
first highlighted Deppen-
schmidt’s role in a 2004 article
i n Ja z z T i m e s . Me m b e r s o f
Byrd’s family disagreed with the
assessment, but others, includ-
ing Keter Betts, who was Byrd’s
bass player at the time, corrobo-
rated Deppenschmidt’s recollec-
tion of the events.
In 1961, Deppenschmidt was
a 25-year-old drummer working
in Washington with Byrd, who
was known for interspersing
classical guitar pieces with jazz.
That year, Byrd’s trio embarked
on a three-month tour of 18 Cen-
tral and South American coun-
tries as part of a cultural ex-
change program sponsored by
the State Department.
‘‘Everyone agrees about one
thing ,’’ Adler wrote in Jazz
Times. ‘‘The seed for ‘Jazz Sam-
ba’ was planted during the Char-
lie Byrd Trio’s 1961 State Depart-
ment tour.’’
Deppenschmidt’s favorite
stop on the tour was Brazil,
where the new bossa nova music
was taking shape. Bossa nova,
which means roughly ‘‘new
trend,’’ was based on Brazil’s tra-
ditional samba music, but with a
slower, more gentle rhythm and
delicate, sinuous melodies.
Some of its earliest proponents
included singer-guitarist João
Gilberto and composers Antonio
Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa.
Several bossa nova record-
ings had been released in the
United States, but it had yet to
catch on as a major trend. Dur-
ing his time in Brazil, Deppen-
schmidt was transfixed by the
music. After their concerts, he
and Betts often went out to lis-
ten to Brazilian musicians in
clubs, bars, and people’s homes.
‘‘There were nights we stayed
Mary Mullarkey, 77; Colo.
Supreme Court chief justice
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — The first female
Supreme Court chief justice of
Colorado has died after living for
years with multiple sclerosis.
Mary Mullarkey, who was 77,
died Wednesday. She spent 23
years on the state’s highest court
and 12 years as the court’s chief.
“Justice Mullarkey was an ex-
traordinary individual with an
unparalleled mind,” Democratic
Governor Jared Polis said in a
statement. “Her impact on Colo-
rado’s courts cannot be overstat-
ed. As the first female Supreme
Court chief justice, she inspired
countless future jurists. ... Jus-
tice Mullarkey never allowed
multiple sclerosis to slow her
down, but continued to bring
compassion, zeal, and wisdom to
the court. She is already deeply
missed.”
Ms. Mullarkey was appointed
to the state Supreme Court in
B7
up all night,’’ Deppenschmidt
said in a 2013 interview with
music writer Chris McGowan for
the Brazilian Sound blog. ‘‘I’m
glad I didn’t just go to embassy
cocktail parties. I reserved most
of my off time to hang out with
local people and most of the
time they were musicians.’’
During the trip, a musician
spent hours teaching Deppen-
schmidt the subtle, syncopated
two-beat rhythm of the bossa no-
va, in which the drummer typi-
cally uses a brush in one hand, a
stick in the other.
As he and Betts began to
practice the music together,
Deppenschmidt later recalled, ‘‘I
said, ‘We’ve got to do an album
of this stuff.’ ‘‘
Byrd was skeptical at first,
thinking his fans at Washing-
ton’s Showboat Lounge would
not go for the new music. Dep-
penschmidt and Betts finally
prevailed on Byrd’s wife, Ginny,
to give Brazilian music a try.
Late in 1961, the trio began to
work some bossa nova tunes in-
to their repertoire, and the audi-
ences immediately responded.
When Byrd’s record label
showed no interest in a bossa
nova, he went to Verve, Getz’s la-
bel.
Getz won a Grammy for best
jazz solo on ‘‘Desafinado,’’ the al-
bum’s opening track, by Jobim.
Throughout the tune, Deppen-
schmidt can be heard keeping
time by striking a muffled cow-
bell.
‘‘Jazz Samba’’ sold 500,000
copies in 18 months and became
a rare crossover hit for a jazz re-
cording, and bossa nova soon
became a nationwide sensation.
W i l l i a m He n r y D e p p e n -
schmidt III was born Feb. 16,
1936, in Philadelphia. His father
was a musician and bandleader
under the name Buddy Wil-
liams. His parents divorced
when he was 4, and Deppen-
schmidt moved to Richmond
with his mother, who worked in
a doctor’s office.
He became a professional
drummer at 17, working in
Richmond and later with trum-
peter Billy Butterfield before
moving to northern Virginia. He
joined Byrd’s trio in 1960, ap-
peared on several of the guitar-
ist’s recordings and accompa-
nied many major figures, includ-
i n g C o l e m a n Haw k i n s a n d
Lionel Hampton.
By the mid-1960s, Deppen-
schmidt had moved to Bucks
County, Pa., where he led bands
and worked in small ensembles.
He owned a music store in Flem-
ington, N.J., taught at a music
school in Newtown, Pa., and
gave private drum lessons for
more than 50 years,
His marriages to Charlotte
Gravatt and Jean Apple ended in
divorce. He leaves his longtime
companion, Marjorie Danciger;
two daughters from his first
marriage, Laura Thomasson and
Allyson Cover; four half broth-
ers; a half sister; three grandchil-
dren; and four great-grandchil-
dren.
In 2001, Deppenschmidt
sued Verve Records, seeking roy-
alties and an acknowledgment
of his role in helping bring about
‘‘Jazz Samba.’’ He received a set-
tlement three years later, but he
was legally prohibited from dis-
closing the terms.
1987 and was elected to serve as
chief justice in 1998. She was the
longest-serving chief justice in
state history when she retired in
2010, the Denver Post reported.
T he former chief justice
earned her undergraduate de-
gree with honors from St. Nor-
bert College and her law degree
from Harvard University in
1968.
Before her appointment to
the Colorado Supreme Court,
Ms. Mullarkey specialized in the
appellate practice and headed
the appellate section in the Colo-
rado attorney general’s office.
She later served as Colorado’s so-
licitor general.
Ms. Mullarkey leaves her hus-
band Tom Korson, their son, Dr.
Andrew Korson, daughter-in-
law, Emily Korson, and two
granddaughters. A mass of
Christian burial is scheduled at
the Cure d’Ars Catholic Church
in Denver.
B8
10 ways to make your days 8.
easier — starting now
Cheap, simple, healthy life hacks for the frazzled
By Kara Baskin
M
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
odern life requires
seismic adjustment
and involuntary
change: Turn your
home into an of-
fice. Turn your home into a school.
Modify lifelong methods of human
interaction and hygiene. Oh, and re-
main optimistic. Easy!
Yet when COVID-19 hit, so many
articles, tips, and Instagram accounts
cropped up dedicated to making our-
selves the Best Pandemic People Pos-
sible: how to transform a living room
into a learning den; how to stage a
quarantine “glow up” and emerge
lithe and toned. Always, a battery of
self-improvement advice with under-
currents of scolding: You are failing,
and a pandemic is the prime oppor-
tunity to do better.
But lasting change is incremental
and manageable.
“You are what you repeatedly do,”
says Alanna Fincke, a board-certified
health coach and senior vice presi-
In a year of staying put,
I’ve gone far and wide — and
even learned to folk dance
By Joanna Liss
I
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
have rarely ventured out of my
house during the past year, save
for intermittent grocery shop-
ping trips and infrequent walks.
I know I am among the lucky ones. But
even those of us without serious health,
family, or financial issues have been
prone to loneliness, anxiety, and gener-
al concern about the state of the world.
During the pandemic, I have found
a wealth of online virtual programming
that has opened up whole new hori-
zons even as I hibernate at home. I
choose to focus on those that are pre-
sented live, rather than recorded. It
makes a world of difference to me to
have the instructor and participants
there in real time, and in most cases
there is opportunity to interact with
them. The structure these programs
have added to my days has been as
much a help as the content. I usually
schedule a couple of events a day, but
sometimes three if there is something
particularly enticing.
I am constantly adding more pro-
grams to my list. I gravitate to subjects
related to art and culture, but there are
many with subjects relating to science,
T h e
ComfortZone
dent of Boston-based resilience train-
ing program MeQuilibrium. “We
think our health and well-being is in
grand declarations and huge chang-
es, but it’s built in small, tiny, repeat-
ed actions.”
If you’re reading this, I’m guessing
you lack time for major life overhauls
but wouldn’t mind feeling a little bit
better, some of the time. What if mi-
cro, non-intimidating shifts unleash
actual consequences?
They could. Here are a few from
Fincke and life coach Rachel Estapa,
founder of Somerville’s More to Love
Yoga, focusing on plus-size wellness.
1.
Measure wellness through
values, not metrics. Wellness
comes from many sources:
Maybe it’s making your favorite din-
FIRST PERSON
history, politics, and more. While stay-
ing at home has been frustrating, these
programs have opened up whole new
worlds to me. I have traveled to places I
have always wanted to visit and revisit-
ed others to which I have yearned to re-
turn.
There are museums, travel organi-
zations, universities, libraries, and
more offering programs — and some
have multiple choices in a day. My local
library has had a Monday morning pre-
sentation for years. Next week I will at-
tend one about the Museum of Bad Art.
It’s free, and you don’t need to be a
member. Check out your own or any li-
brary. One of the few positives of the
pandemic is access to programs that
wouldn’t have been available before.
A friend recently asked what I was
doing to keep occupied. I gave her my
list, and she promptly enrolled in a
seminar about Art Deco radios and
watched it with her son. She also asked
me if it was OK to pass the list along to
a friend of her mother’s who was hav-
ing trouble coping. Of course!
Even some of the more regional or-
B o s t o n G l o b e
ner or going to bed an hour early
with a book. It’s not just about calo-
ries burned or minutes on a tread-
mill.
“Factor in your body, mind, and
heart, not just how many steps, cal-
ories, or minutes. Aim toward well-
ness acts that enhance your day-to-
day life and satisfy core values,” Es-
tapa says. “What’s the best wellness
act? The one that is doable in this
moment.”
2.
Visualize your energy
output. Fincke keeps an
actual jar on her desk
filled with 60 beads. (You can use
Legos, pennies, whatever.) She
thinks of it as a tank that shows
“energy in, energy out.” Draining
meeting? Remove a Lego. Scored a
deal at Carter’s? Add one. If this
feels taxing, just make checks in a
notebook. The important thing is to
maintain a concrete picture of your
energy tank so you know when it’s
low. This way, you’ll see it before
you feel it — in the form of a head-
ganizations have programming of in-
terest to a wider audience. The New
York Art Deco Society has multiple
seminars daily. The New York Adven-
ture Club also has a range of topics.
Coming up next in my calendar: “The
History of the Bra, from Push-ups to
Protest.”
Some of my favorite programs have
been through Context Travel. They
have a plethora of possibilities. I enjoy
just browsing through their website
and imagining the possibilities. I took a
five-session course about Japanese
woodblock prints. The teacher is an
American history professor who has
lived in Kyoto for 20 years. He is
knowledgeable, personable, and funny.
He teaches several courses with Con-
text, and I plan to sign up for another.
At the end of the course, he invited any
of us to look him up if we ever visited
Kyoto. I in turn, invited him to look me
up if he comes to Boston, which he has
before. I hope he will.
I gave a friend her choice of a Con-
text seminar for her birthday. She
chose Naples through the eyes of Elena
Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels. I joined
her and it was great — aside from the
spoilers (I haven’t yet read the books).
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ache, explosive encounter with your
kids, et cetera.
3.
Take three minutes before
waking up. I usually roll
over and grope for my iP-
hone, then sleuth acquaintances on
Instagram (How are they on vaca-
tion? Are they vaccinated? When will
I get vaccinated?), and check messag-
es. Before even standing up, I’m at a
mental disadvantage. Instead, Fincke
urges clients to lie there and name
three things they’re grateful for. May-
be you have a day of zero meetings or
you’re getting takeout from your fa-
vorite sushi place later. Conjure your
happy trio — then, if you must, check
your phone.
4.
Delegate, delete, do. If
your days feel unmanage-
able, pare down. Don’t
martyr yourself: Delegate jobs to a
partner or kids; delete pointless tasks
that zap your energy; and repriori-
tize. For instance, Fincke’s husband
now does the laundry, which she al-
Atlas Obscura is a great organiza-
tion with many seminars and work-
shops. Perhaps the weirdest one I’ve
seen is about mammal taxidermy. In
normal times they feature in-person
trips to unusual places. Their newslet-
ter highlighting obscure places of inter-
est around the globe is entertaining
and engrossing.
I have taken “walks” thru Gaza and
through Paris at night, the first one live
but with recorded and visual materials.
It was presented by an organization
that promotes Israeli-Palestinian un-
derstanding, and does actual tours in
non-pandemic times. I may go on one
of their artisan tours when it is safe.
The Paris tour was actually live, with
the guide taking us down dark streets
via his phone. Paris was under curfew,
so I suppose I should not have partici-
pated, but the most interesting part
was seeing the eerily quiet streets.
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
ways did out of habit. “He shrunk
my shirts, but I let go of that,” she
says.
5.
Habit stack. Intertwine
good, new habits with long-
standing ones to make
them stick. “Think of it as a sand-
wich. Wake up at 6:30, have coffee at
6:40, shower at 6:50. Could you
sandwich something in between
that, like two minutes of medita-
tion?” Fincke asks. “Cue yourself by
attaching a habit to something you
already do, which makes it much
easier to implement in your life.”
6.
Ritualize enjoyment. It’s as
simple as savoring small
moments, like the taste of
iced coffee or the coolness of your
pillow at night. “Savoring is a form
of mindful meditation that invites
you to experience enjoyment in the
moment. When we savor, we prac-
tice paying attention to nice things,”
Estapa says. Attainable things, too —
something as tiny as a cold glass of
water.
7.
Move a little bit. “Start
small, so small that you
think, ‘Pfft, that won’t mat-
ter.’ All bodies like to move,
and no type of movement is ‘better’
than another,” Estapa says. In other
words: Don’t let the perfect be the
enemy of the good. Roll your wrists
at your desk, rock your ears toward
your shoulders, stand up and stretch
(just hide yourself on Zoom).
Treat yourself. We’re moti-
vated intrinsically and ex-
trinsically. You might work
out because you know it’s good for
your heart, which is intrinsic. It’s al-
so abstract. If you need an extra
push, Fincke recommends attaching
external motivators to tasks. “If you
go for a walk three days in a row, tell
yourself you’ll buy something at Old
Navy when it’s on sale, or whatever
is going to motivate you,” she says.
Doesn’t have to be fancy.
9.
Make visual walls be-
tween home and work. In
this netherworld of zero
boundaries, Fincke tells
clients to drape a scarf over their
computer when they’re done with
work: Think of it as a subtle door-
slam on the day. Or put your stuff in
a drawer. Shove papers into a filing
cabinet. Whatever it is, signal visual-
ly that you’re off the clock.
10.
Keep a win list.
“We’re wired to expe-
rience negative emo-
tions more quickly than positive
ones, so call out the wins, from the
tiniest thing to the biggest thing,”
Fincke says. Keep a running list — in
a notebook, on your phone, wherev-
er. Nothing is too small. Maybe you
cleaned the hell out of a closet. May-
be you negotiated a mega-raise.
They’re all worth tracking, and
they’re great to refer to when you’re
in a slump.
Kara Baskin can be reached at
kara.baskin@globe.com. Follow her
on Twitter @kcbaskin.
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I am taking a live international folk
dance class. (Picture me dancing
around my basement holding hands
with imaginary companions, listening
to a Macedonian melody.) When the
pandemic subsides, I will have to say
goodbye to my wonderful teacher, Dan-
ny at the 92Y Himan Brown program,
who greets each participant personally
every week.
The Tenement Museum, in Manhat-
tan, is a wonderful place, located in
buildings that were previously tene-
ments. Now they are offering nine dif-
ferent tours online. They are $10-$15
each, per household.
I will keep collecting sites, I’m sure,
even as I hope that I will not need to
virtually visit them all. Hopefully in the
not-too-distant future, I can visit some
of them in person. And I hope some of
you will take my suggestions — maybe I
will see some of you online.
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Reopening day
With powerful Dalbec, Bogaerts talks Cora,
it’s bottoms up change, and leadership
By Alex Speier the last spot of the order. Ordi- By Peter Abraham longest such streak in team his-
GLOBE STAFF narily, such a position attests to GLOBE STAFF tory.
Historically, the ninth spot in limited expectations. At only 28, Xander Bogaerts Before the Red Sox left spring
the batting order has been little Not with Dalbec. is the longest-tenured member training, Bogaerts sat for an ex-
more than a black hole. Major “I think he can be one of the of the current Red Sox, having tended interview to discuss the
League Baseball has legislated most impactful power hitters in made his debut on Aug. 20, coming season, his place in the
that in the National League by Major League Baseball,” said 2013. game, and how his views on
refusing to adopt a universal Red Sox vice president of scout- The two-time All-Star has leadership have been shaped.
designated hitter. Even with the ing Mike Rikard. known the joy of two World Se- Q. You were 20 when you
DH, American League teams The suggestion is offered ries championships, the despair made your debut and 28 now.
typically have modest expecta- matter-of-factly, not as hyperbo- of three last-place finishes, and How are you different?
tions for the spot, which will le, and it does come with cave- has played with too many team- A. As a player, so different. If
have the fewest plate appearanc- ats. In his debut last year, Dal- mates to remember them all. you asked me then, I was fo-
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es over the course of the season. bec displayed plenty of power in Bogaerts has made seven cused on hitting and now I prob-
And then there are the 2021 blasting eight homers in 92 consecutive Opening Day starts ably think more about defense
Red Sox. When they take the plate appearances, but he also SNOW BALL — The Red Sox got rained out in Boston but at shortstop for the Sox. With than offense. As a shortstop, you
field for Opening Day on Friday, struck out an unsettling 42.4 Nomar Mazara and the Tigers played through wintry one more Friday, he will match have a lot of responsibility, and
rookie Bobby Dalbec will be in RED SOX, Page C4 flurries in Detroit. Coverage of Opening Day games, C5 Everett Scott (1914–21) for the BOGAERTS, Page C4

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ON FOOTBALL

‘Sky judge’
among
NFL rules
proposals
The Ravens want a “sky judge” to be
able to call penalties from the instant
replay booth. They also want to take a
sledgehammer to the current overtime
format.
The Eagles want to create an alter-
native to the onside kick. The Bills want
to push back the NFL’s coach/GM hir-
ing calendar. And the Rams are propos-
ing a new rule that was inspired by —
who else? — Tom Brady.
Those are among the 14 rules pro-
posals released by the NFL Thursday
that league owners will vote upon later
in April. It takes a vote of 24 of 32 own-
ers for a new rule to pass.
Five proposals likely will pass be-
cause they were recommended by the
league’s competition committee.
Among them: Eliminating overtime in
the preseason (yes, please); and ex-
panding the prohibition on blocks be-
low the waist for player safety.
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The other nine proposals came from
the teams. The Patriots, who were ac- Bruins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk skates past celebrating Penguins after Jason Zucker scored in the third period to give Pittsburgh a 3-1 lead.

Bear bones
tive in proposing new rules in 2014-15,
did not submit any proposals.
Here is a look at the most notewor-
thy:
R The Ravens were the busiest team,
submitting four rule proposals. Two of
them relate to giving the officiating
crew extra help from the instant replay
booth. One proposal would permit the
instant replay official to help the on-
field crew in making calls for complete
By Matt Porter
GLOBE STAFF
Bruins show nothing in loss to Penguins laps.
“We’ve had trouble executing for a
or incomplete; possession; touching of Penguins 4 The Bruins, looking while now. It’s one of the reasons our
a loose ball or boundary line; down by very much like a much of a peep, 4-1, to the Penguins. ins (18-10-5) have four games in hand offensive numbers are down,” said
contact; and more. The rules currently Bruins 1 fourth-place club, The gap between those teams was 9 on the latter two, and three on the coach Bruce Cassidy, his club 22nd in
only allow the replay judge to help with squandered an opportunity to make points at the close of business Thurs- Caps. goals per game (2.61) and 30th in 5-
penalty enforcement; proper down; up ground in the East Division. They day, the visitors tying the Islanders and The way they are playing, it does on-5 scoring (52 goals). “We’re not
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with no answers. C2 Tuckerman Inferno You have to balance putting on a good race and
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the race.”
Rainout does not dampen
After a one-year hiatus because of the corona-
more predictions. Finn, C5
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“It’s a matter of perspective,” says the presi- base of the tallest mountain in the Northeast.
season. GL S-1 1st
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NBA Celtics spinning NHL

HEAT 116, WARRIORS 109
GOLDEN STATE
FG FT Reb
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

wheels — and
Green.......36 7-13 1-1 3-10 8 4 16
Wiggins...35 7-16 4-6 1-8 4 4 23
Wisman...19 1-5 2-2 3-4 1 3 4
Oubre ......35 4-11 0-1 0-4 1 2 8
EASTERN CONFERENCE Curry .......36 9-19 13-13 2-11 3 2 36 EAST
Bazemre .18 2-2 2-2 0-3 2 2 6
ATLANTIC W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. Looney ....21 2-4 0-0 2-4 3 3 4 GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA

getting nowhere
Lee...........23 1-3 0-0 0-1 1 1 3
Brooklyn 34 15 .694 — W4 20-6 18-10 Mulder.......2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Washington 36 23 9 4 50 21 125 112
Poole .......13 3-9 0-0 1-1 0 4 9
Philadelphia 33 15 .688 ½ W1 19-4 23-7 Andrson ....0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 NY Islanders 37 23 10 4 50 21 114 88
New York 24 24 .500 9½ L2 14-9 17-15 Mannion....1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh 37 24 11 2 50 21 121 95
Totals . ..... 36-82 22-25 12-46 23 26 109
BOSTON 23 25 .479 10½ L2 13-9 16-13 BOSTON 33 18 10 5 41 15 89 81
FG%: .439, FT%: .880. 3-pt. goals: 15-37,
Toronto 18 30 .375 15½ L4 9-12 12-17 .405 (Green 1-3, Wiggins 5-11, Oubre 0-3, *Philadelphia 35 17 14 4 38 16 107 129
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf.
Curry 5-11, Looney 0-1, Lee 1-2, Poole 3-6). NY Rangers 36 17 15 4 38 16 115 96
Team rebounds: 3. Team turnovers: 20 (27
*New Jersey 34 13 16 5 31 13 83 106
Milwaukee 30 17 .638 — W1 18-7 18-9 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Wiggins 3). Turnovers: 20
(Green 4, Wiggins 3, Wiseman 5, Oubre 2, By Adam Himmelsbach Buffalo 36 7 23 6 20 5 79 126
Indiana 21 25 .457 8½ L2 8-13 13-15 Curry 3, Bazemore, Poole, Mannion). GLOBE STAFF
Steals: 7 (Green 4, Wiggins, Oubre, Poole).
Chicago 19 27 .413 10½ L5 9-16 9-11 NORTH
Cleveland 17 31 .354 13½ L4 11-13 13-13 FG
MIAMI
FT Reb
Danny Ainge’s weekly and contractually obligated appear-
Detroit 14 34 .292 16½ W1 9-14 10-21 Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt ances on 98.5 The Sports Hub this year almost seem as if they GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA
Ariza ........26 3-6 2-2 0-4 1 0 10
Butler ......35 7-13 7-9 1-6 8 2 22 are running on a loop. Toronto 36 23 10 3 49 23 119 92
SOUTHEAST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. Adebayo .30 5-13 9-9 1-8 6 3 19 Winnipeg 37 22 13 2 46 22 120 102
Charlotte 24 23 .511 — L1 13-9 13-10 Oladipo ...23 2-8 2-5 1-3 5 5 6 The Celtics president of basketball operations says he is Edmonton 37 22 14 1 45 22 122 107
Robinsn...37 8-15 1-1 0-4 3 2 21
Miami 25 24 .510 — W3 13-12 15-15 Bjelica .....17 3-6 0-0 0-2 0 3 8 puzzled by his team’s slow start. He defends coach Brad Ste- Montreal 33 16 8 9 41 15 108 88
Atlanta 23 24 .489 1 L2 11-9 13-12 Herro .......35 8-13 2-2 1-4 3 3 20
Igudala....23 3-6 2-2 1-6 2 3 10 vens. He says he believes the team can still find its rhythm. Calgary 37 16 18 3 35 15 96 112
Washington 17 30 .362 7 L2 10-15 7-22 Vincent....13 0-2 0-0 0-0 2 1 0 Vancouver 37 16 18 3 35 13 100 120
Orlando 17 31 .354 7½ W2 10-15 10-17 Totals . ..... 39-82 25-30 5-37 30 22 116 On Thursday, he called out his players a bit, saying he is put-
Ottawa 37 12 21 4 28 10 95 139
FG%: .476, FT%: .833. 3-pt. goals: 13-39,
.333 (Ariza 2-4, Butler 1-3, Oladipo 0-4, Rob-
ting the responsibility for the turnaround on their shoulders.
WESTERN CONFERENCE inson 4-11, Bjelica 2-5, Herro 2-5, Iguodala “I think they need to look internally,” Ainge said. “They CENTRAL
2-5, Vincent 0-2). Team rebounds: 11. Team
PACIFIC W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. turnovers: 12 (18 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Ariza 2, need to want it more, and they need to be able to fight GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA
Phoenix 33 14 .702 — W4 17-8 19-8 Adebayo, Robinson, Herro, Iguodala).
Turnovers: 11 (Butler, Adebayo 3, Oladipo through adversity better.” Tampa Bay 36 25 9 2 52 24 127 87
*LA Clippers 32 17 .653 2 L1 17-7 18-9 3, Bjelica, Iguodala 3). Steals: 10 (Butler 4,
Florida 37 24 9 4 52 23 122 101
LA Lakers 30 18 .625 3½ L1 16-11 19-10 Oladipo 2, Bjelica, Herro 2, Vincent). The Celtics generally have started games with good ener-
Golden State ........... 24 30 27 28 — 109 Carolina 35 24 8 3 51 20 117 89
Golden State 23 25 .479 10½ L1 14-9 12-14 Miami ....................... 23 36 27 30 — 116 gy, but when an opponent starts making tough shots and the Nashville 38 19 18 1 39 16 96 113
Sacramento 22 26 .458 11½ L1 12-12 10-12 A — (19,600). T — 2:22. Officials — Pat Celtics start missing open ones, the body language of Boston’s Chicago 38 17 16 5 39 15 109 119
Fraher, Derek Richardson, Phenizee Ran-
SOUTHWEST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. som. players becomes abysmal. Columbus 38 14 16 8 36 12 96 121
Dallas 25 21 .543 — W2 11-10 15-14 No one — not Ainge, not Stevens, not the players them- Dallas 34 12 12 10 34 11 95 92
San Antonio 24 21 .533 ½ W1 12-14 13-17 NETS 111, HORNETS 89 Detroit 38 12 21 5 29 12 82 122
Memphis 22 23 .489 2½ L1 11-14 11-17
selves — can pinpoint the root cause of this issue. The players
CHARLOTTE
New Orleans 21 26 .447 4½ L1 14-12 12-17 FG FT Reb have talked about how they must fix it, but then the problem WEST
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Houston 13 34 .277 12½ L2 6-17 9-17 Wshgtn ...26 3-11 1-1 0-8 1 2 8 resurfaces. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether this group tru- GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA
Haywrd ...29 5-11 2-2 2-4 1 1 13
NORTHWEST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. Biyombo..11 1-4 0-1 2-3 1 1 2 ly hates losing, or just says that it does after letting another Colorado 35 23 8 4 50 23 127 80
Utah 36 11 .766 — W7 20-2 16-6
Rozier ......26 4-11 2-4 0-5 3 1 12
game slip away. *Vegas 34 24 9 1 49 24 110 79
Graham...21 3-9 5-5 1-5 0 0 13
*Denver 29 18 .617 7 W3 14-9 15-11 CoMrtin...18 1-7 0-0 1-2 3 1 3 *Minnesota 34 21 11 2 44 21 99 86
Bridges....30 3-9 2-2 3-5 3 0 10 The Zoom interviews after losses have taken on a similar St. Louis 35 16 13 6 38 14 100 113
Portland 29 18 .617 7 W4 14-9 15-12 Zeller .......21 2-3 2-2 1-5 2 0 6
Okla. City 20 27 .426 16 W1 9-15 11-18 CaMrtin...12 0-3 0-0 0-3 1 0 0 vibe to Ainge’s radio appearances. The differences are that Arizona 36 16 15 5 37 13 95 112
Minnesota 12 36 .250 24½ W1 7-17 8-21 Monk .......22 4-11 0-0 1-3 4 1 11 they occur much more frequently, the players are typically Los Angeles 34 14 14 6 34 13 96 96
Wanmkr..14 3-5 2-2 0-0 3 2 9
* — Not including late game San Jose 35 15 16 4 34 10 99 120
McDanls....5 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 frustrated because they just lost another game, and recently
THURSDAY’S RESULTS Richards....4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Anaheim 37 11 20 6 28 10 83 123
Darling ......2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 they have seemed sick of explaining themselves. * — Not including late game; ROW — Regulation plus overtime wins
Totals . ..... 30-86 16-19 11-43 22 9 89
Philadelphia 114 at Cleveland 94 At Miami 116 Golden St. 109 FG%: .349, FT%: .842. 3-pt. goals: 13-38, “Everybody wants to be pessimistic, to pick everything THURSDAY’S RESULTS
At Detroit 120 Washington 91 Atlanta 134at San Antonio 129 (2OT) .342 (Washington 1-4, Hayward 1-4, Rozier
2-6, Graham 2-6, Co.Martin 1-3, Bridges 2-5, apart,” Jaylen Brown said after Wednesday’s loss to Dallas. “It Pittsburgh 4 at Boston 1 NY Rangers 3 at Buffalo 2 (OT)
At Brooklyn 111 Charlotte 89 Denver at LA Clippers Zeller 0-1, Ca.Martin 0-1, Monk 3-5, Wana-
maker 1-2, McDaniels 0-1). Team re- doesn’t help.” Montreal 4 at Ottawa 1 Philadelphia (ppd.) at New Jersey
Orl. 115 at New Orleans 110 (OT) bounds: 3. Team turnovers: 12 (14 pts.).
Blocks: 5 (Washington 2, Graham, Bridges It almost sounded like a more subtle version of Rick Pi- At Florida 3 Detroit 2 (OT) Carolina 4 at Chicago 3
FRIDAY’S GAMES 2). Turnovers: 11 (Washington 2, Biyombo
2, Rozier 3, Graham, Monk 2, Wanamaker).
tino’s memorable rant 21 years ago when, as Celtics coach, he At Tampa Bay 3 Columbus 2 Dallas 4 at Nashville 1
Houston at BOSTON 7:30 Chicago at Utah 9 Steals: 11 (Washington, Graham, Co.Mar-
tin 3, Bridges, Zeller 2, Ca.Martin, Monk,
lashed out at the negativity in Boston after another loss. At NY Islanders 8 Washington 4 Minnesota at Vegas
Golden St. at Toronto 7 Atlanta at New Orleans 9 FRIDAY’S GAMES
McDaniels). Guard Marcus Smart, for one, had no issues with being
Dallas at New York 7:30 Okla. City at Phoenix 10 BROOKLYN
FG FT Reb accountable after these losses. He believes it has some value. Washington at New Jersey 7 St. Louis at Colorado 9
Charlotte at Indiana 8 Milwaukee at Portland 10 Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Harris ......33 3-10 0-0 1-4 6 2 9 “We should feel uncomfortable with these conversations Toronto at Winnipeg 8 Arizona at Anaheim 10
Minnesota at Memphis 8 LA Lakers at Sacramento 10 Green.......31 8-17 0-0 0-8 2 1 21
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Aldridge ..29 4-10 2-2 0-9 6 2 11 talking about the same thing over and over,” he said. “It Calgary at Edmonton 9 San Jose at Los Angeles 10
Brown......29 7-10 0-0 3-6 0 2 14
should hurt. Hopefully we kind of get that into our brains to WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
Irving.......34 7-17 0-0 3-11 8 2 15
Dallas 113 at BOSTON 108 At Okla. City 113 Toronto 103 Shamet....21 6-10 0-0 0-1 2 2 17
Portland 124 at Detroit 101 At Minnesota 102 New York 101 Claxton....14 1-2 1-2 4-7 3 3 3 fix it and figure it out, whatever that is.” Toronto 3 at Winnipeg 1 Los Angeles 4 at Vegas 2
TJohnsn...22 5-7 0-0 0-3 1 0 15
Some other Celtics thoughts: At Buffalo 6 Philadelphia 1 Calgary (ppd.) at Vancouver
Miami 92 at Indiana 87 At San Antonio 120 Sacramento 106 Cabarrot .15 0-2 0-0 0-1 4 2 0
At Colorado 9 Arizona 3 At San Jose 4 Minnesota 2
At Brooklyn 120 Houston 108 Milwaukee 112 at LA Lakers 97
Chiozza .....4
AJohnsn ....4
0-1
1-1
0-0
0-0
0-0 2 0 0
1-5 0 0 2
R Their remaining strength of schedule is in the middle of
Utah 111 at Memphis 107 At Phoenix 121 Chicago 116
Perry..........4 2-4
Totals . ..... 44-91
0-0 1-1 0 2 4
3-4 13-56 34 18 111
the pack, with their opponents entering Thursday with a
FG%: .484, FT%: .750. 3-pt. goals: 20-45, combined winning percentage of .494, the 15th-most diffi- ISLANDERS 8, CAPITALS 4 LIGHTNING 3, JACKETS 2
.444 (Harris 3-9, Green 5-12, Aldridge 1-1,
Irving 1-4, Shamet 5-7, T.Johnson 5-7, cult in the league. But most of the teams they are jostling Washington.................2 2 0 — 4 Columbus.....................0 1 1 — 2
Cabarrot 0-2, Chiozza 0-1, Perry 0-2). Team NY Islanders................4 2 2 — 8 Tampa Bay ..................1 0 2 — 3
rebounds: 5. Team turnovers: 15 (15 pts.). with in the East have easier paths. The Knicks have the First period — 1. Washington, Carl- First period — 1. Tampa Bay, Point 14
Blocks: 5 (Aldridge, Brown, Irving 2, Perry). son 8 (Wilson, Sheary), 1:01. 2. NY Is-
Turnovers: 15 (Green, Brown, Irving 4, eighth-toughest schedule, followed by the Hornets (17th), landers, Eberle 12 (Komarov, Barzal),
(Stamkos, Hedman), 15:45 (pp). Penal-
ties — Texier, Cls (holding), 13:59. , Cls,
Shamet 3, Claxton 2, T.Johnson 2, Chiozza,
Perry). Steals: 8 (Green 2, Aldridge 2, Heat (19th), Hawks (22nd) and Pacers (25th). 5:02. 3. NY Islanders, Barzal 11, 16:09. 4.
NY Islanders, Nelson 13 (Bailey), 17:32.
served by Domi (too many men on ice),
14:58.
Brown 2, Irving, Cabarrot).
Charlotte.................. 11 37 17 24 — 89
R The Celtics have issues, but they’ve also had consider- 5. Washington, Sprong 7 (Eller), 17:54.
6. NY Islanders, Barzal 12 (Eberle, May- Second period — 2. Columbus, We-
renski 5 (Robinson, Domi), 9:04. Penal-
Brooklyn................... 32 36 24 19 — 111 able roster inconsistency. Jayson Tatum, Robert Williams, field), 18:53. Penalties — None.
Second period — 7. NY Islanders, ties — Foligno, Cls (hooking), 3:35. Jo-
A — 1,773 (17,732). T — 1:59. Officials — seph, TB (roughing), 3:35. Killorn, TB
Rodney Mott, Brian Forte, Matt Myers. Tristan Thompson, and Romeo Langford were all sidelined Cizikas 7 (Clutterbuck), 3:03. 8. Wash-
(slashing), 16:03. Foudy, Cls (tripping),
ington, Oshie 10 (Ovechkin, Back-
with COVID-19. Langford also missed the first half of the strom), 6:47 (pp). 9. NY Islanders, Eber- 18:34.
MAGIC 115, PELICANS 110 le 13 (Barzal, Greene), 8:08. 10. Wash- Third period — 3. Columbus, Robin-
year recovering from wrist surgery. ington, Carlson 9 (Vrana, Sprong), son 5 (Domi, Werenski), 10:54. 4. Tam-
ORLANDO 19:01. Penalties — NYI, served by Eber- pa Bay, Colton 3 (Maroon, Joseph),
FG FT Reb Kemba Walker missed the first 11 games while he le (too many men on ice), 5:59. 14:49. 5. Tampa Bay, Point 15 (Palat,
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Third period — 11. NY Islanders, Bai- Johnson), 15:54. Penalties — None.
Okeke......34 3-9 2-2 3-10 4 1 8 strengthened his left knee and is still not playing in the sec- ley 6 (Nelson, Beauvillier), 3:13. 12. NY Shots on goal — Columbus 11-15-12
Ennis........38 6-9 0-0 1-4 3 4 13 Islanders, Barzal 13 (Bailey, Mayfield), — 38. Tampa Bay 15-7-12 — 34.
Birch..........5 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
ond half of back-to-backs. Smart missed nearly six weeks 18:54. Penalties — Backstrom, Was (hi Power plays — Columbus 0-1; Tam-
Bacon ......33 5-13
Randle.....35 5-16
4-5
2-2
0-3 2 1 14
1-6 2 3 15
with a calf strain. Payton Pritchard missed two weeks with a stick), 8:26. Oshie, Was (hooking),
14:59. Hathaway, Was (roughing),
pa Bay 1-3.
Goalies — Columbus, Merzlikins 6-
Bamba.....17
Ross.........34 8-21
5-9 1-2
2-3
3-5 1 4 11
0-2 5 2 19
knee sprain. Semi Ojeleye is currently out with a side strain. 18:54. Johnston, NYI (roughing), 18:54.
Chara, Was (roughing), 20:00. Martin,
6-2 (34 shots-31 saves). Tampa Bay,
Vasilevskiy 22-5-1 (38 shots-36 saves).
Porter ......21 2-8 2-2 0-3 0 0 6 And new additions Evan Fournier, Moe Wagner, and Luke NYI (roughing), 20:00.
Shots on goal — Washington 7-7-8 — Referees — Wes McCauley, Jon
Hampton.17 3-6 2-2 0-4 1 1 8
Carter......31 8-13 5-5 4-12 2 3 21 Kornet are still learning the ropes. 22. NY Islanders 13-9-11 — 33. McIsaac. Linesmen — Jesse Marquis,
Ryan Daisy.
SARAH STIER/GETTY IMAGES Totals . ..... 45-106 20-23 12-49 20 20 115 Power plays — Washington 1-1; NY
FG%: .425, FT%: .870. 3-pt. goals: 5-25, Yes, every team has dealt with setbacks during this unusu- Islanders 0-2. A — 3,800 (19,092). T — 2:23.
.200 (Okeke 0-2, Ennis 1-1, Bacon 0-2, Ran- Goalies — Washington, Samsonov 8-
Kyrie Irving had 15 points, 11 rebounds. and 8 dle 3-7, Bamba 0-2, Ross 1-5, Porter 0-4, al year. But it’s tough to judge exactly where the Celtics stand 2-1 (24 shots-18 saves). Washington,
Hampton 0-1, Carter 0-1). Team rebounds: Vanecek 14-6-3 (9 shots-7 saves). NY STARS 4, PREDATORS 1
assists as the Nets (minus Kevin Durant and 10. Team turnovers: 11 (17 pts.). Blocks: 5 until all — or even most — of the pieces are able to play to- Islanders, Varlamov 15-7-3 (22 shots-
18 saves).
James Harden) routed the Hornets, 111-89. (Okeke 2, Bamba, Ross, Carter). Turnovers:
10 (Randle 2, Bamba 3, Ross 2, Hampton,
gether. As Stevens said after Wednesday’s loss, there hasn’t Referees — Jean Hebert, Brian Poch-
Dallas............................1
Nashville ......................1
1
0
2 —
0 —
4
1
mara.
Carter 2). Steals: 16 (Okeke, Ennis 4, Ba-
con, Randle 3, Bamba, Ross 2, Porter 3,
even been a chance to tinker with lineups and rotations, be- A — 1,400 (13,900). T — 2:30. First period — 1. Dallas, Lindell 4
76ERS 114, CAVALIERS 94 PISTONS 120, WIZARDS 91 Hampton). cause he’s mostly just been forced to use whoever is available.
(Comeau, Dickinson), 2:39. 2. Nashville,
Sissons 5 (Trenin), 16:21. Penalties —
PHILADELPHIA WASHINGTON
NEW ORLEANS
FG FT Reb Having said that, the Celtics’ lack of depth has been appar- RANGERS 3, SABRES 2 Lindell, Dal (tripping), 7:19.
FG FT Reb FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Second period — 3. Dallas, Robert-
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Hart .........47 4-11 5-6 1-17 5 4 14 ent when they are shorthanded. The NBA expanded rosters NY Rangers .............0 1 1 1 — 3
Buffalo......................1 0 1 0 — 2
son 8 (Hintz, Pavelski), 8:49. Penalties
— Faksa, Dal (tripping), 6:11. Josi, Nsh
Green.......26 3-8 2-3 3-6 2 1 11 Hchmra ...30 5-12 0-1 1-2 2 3 10 Johnson...28 5-11 4-4 0-3 2 3 17
Harris ......15 4-7 4-4 0-1 3 4 12 Avdija ......34 4-10 2-5 0-10 1 3 11 Adams.....36 4-8 0-0 3-10 3 4 8 this season and made two-way-contract players eligible, but First period — 1. Buffalo, Asplund 3 (cross check), 12:50. Ekholm, Nsh (hi
Bledsoe ...46 5-13 1-2 1-5 6 2 14 (Skinner), 2:06. Penalties — Mittel- stick), 19:46.
Scott........20 1-5 0-0 1-4 1 0 2 Len...........21 7-12 0-2 1-5 0 4 14
Simmns...24 2-11 1-3 4-13 5 2 5 Robinsn.....9 0-3 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Walker.....38 13-24 1-2 0-8 3 3 31 it’s clear Stevens simply does not have faith in his second-year stadt, Buf (roughing), 17:34. Di Third period — 4. Dallas, Benn 6 (Gu-
Curry .......24 7-15 0-0 1-4 4 2 19 Wstbrok..36 7-16 1-6 2-11 12 3 16 Iwundu....20 2-7 3-3 1-4 1 1 7 Giuseppe, NYR (slashing), 19:56. rianov, Klingberg), 1:41 (pp). 5. Dallas,
Howard ...26 6-7 6-9 2-15 1 3 18 Htchisn....21 2-5 1-2 0-4 1 0 5 Lewis.......33 4-13 0-0 3-5 4 4 9 two-way players, Tacko Fall and Tremont Waters. Second period — 2. NY Rangers, Heiskanen 5 (Pavelski), 17:51 (en).
Blackwell 9 (Panarin, Strome), 6:40. Penalties — Comeau, Dal (interfer-
Thybulle..25
Milton......27 10-14
2-6 0-0
2-2
0-2 0 1 5
1-5 4 0 27
Mathws...23
Neto.........23
1-2
4-7
0-0
0-0
0-1 0 1 3
0-2 3 1 9
Hayes ......16 4-7 2-2 3-3 2 2 10
Totals . ..... 41-94 16-19 12-55 26 23 110
Last weekend, Oklahoma City two-way-contract player Penalties — Miller, Buf (tripping), ence), 5:26. Dellandrea, Dal, major
14:55. (fighting), 19:53. Kunin, Nsh, major
Korkmz....19
Maxey .....22
2-8
2-8
2-2
2-2
0-1 3 2 7
0-2 4 1 6
Lopez.......27 7-10
Bonga......10 1-4
2-3
0-0
0-2 3 1 16
0-2 2 2 2
FG%: .436, FT%: .842. 3-pt. goals: 12-29, Moses Brown erupted for 21 points and 23 rebounds in a loss Third period — 3. NY Rangers, Chytil (fighting), 19:53. Olivier, Nsh (miscon-
.414 (Hart 1-6, Johnson 3-5, Bledsoe 3-6,
7 (Gauthier, Lafreniere), 6:17. 4. Buffa-
Joe .............4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Winston ....6 2-4 0-0 0-0 0 2 5 Walker 4-7, Iwundu 0-2, Lewis 1-3). Team to the Celtics, and he was soon rewarded with an NBA deal. lo, Thompson 2 (Mittelstadt, Reinhart),
duct), 20:00.
Shots on goal — Dallas 10-13-8 — 31.
Reed ..........4 1-3 0-0 0-2 0 2 2 Totals . ..... 40-85 6-19 4-40 25 21 91 rebounds: 6. Team turnovers: 24 (36 pts.).
Tucker.......3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 FG%: .471, FT%: .316. 3-pt. goals: 5-19, Blocks: 7 (Johnson 2, Bledsoe 2, Walker, The Celtics certainly could have used a slice of that produc- 19:56. Penalties — Ristolainen, Buf
(holding), 7:39. Fogarty, Buf (interfer-
Nashville 11-4-7 — 22.
Totals . ..... 40-93 19-25 12-55 27 19 114 .263 (Avdija 1-4, Robinson 0-1, Westbrook Lewis, Hayes). Turnovers: 23 (Hart 5, John- Power plays — Dallas 1-2; Nashville
FG%: .430, FT%: .760. 3-pt. goals: 15-37, 1-5, Hutchison 0-1, Mathews 1-2, Neto 1-2, son, Adams 2, Bledsoe 4, Walker 5, Iwundu tion from their two-way slots this year. ence on the goaltender), 13:55.
Overtime — 5. NY Rangers, Zibane- 0-3.
.405 (Green 3-7, Scott 0-2, Curry 5-10, Thy- Lopez 0-1, Bonga 0-2, Winston 1-1). Blocks: 3, Lewis 2, Hayes). Steals: 7 (Bledsoe 2,
bulle 1-4, Milton 5-7, Korkmaz 1-3, Maxey 6 (Robinson, Westbrook, Neto, Lopez 3). Walker, Iwundu 2, Lewis, Hayes). R It’s hard to believe that with just 24 games left, the Celt- jad 12 (Panarin, Fox), 4:32. Penalties —
None.
Goalies — Dallas, Khudobin 7-9-4 (22
shots-21 saves). Nashville, Saros 10-
0-3, Joe 0-1). Blocks: 8 (Green, Harris, How- Turnovers: 14 (Hachimura, Avdija, Robin- Orlando .................27 25 19 30 14 — 115
ard 2, Thybulle 3, Maxey). Turnovers: 9. son, Westbrook 9, Lopez, Bonga). Steals: 6 New Orleans.........26 19 31 25 9 — 110 ics have not played the Shots on goal — NY Rangers 10-15- 7-0 (30 shots-27 saves).
21-1 — 47. Buffalo 12-2-8-1 — 23. Referees — Corey Syvret, Kelly
Steals: 11 (Green 3, Simmons, Curry 2,
Howard, Thybulle 2, Milton, Korkmaz).
(Hachimura, Avdija, Len, Hutchison, Neto,
Bonga).
A — 3,700 (16,867). T — 2:30. Officials —
Curtis Blair, Eric Dalen, Jason Goldenberg.
Hornets. The teams are Power plays — NY Rangers 0-4; Buf- Sutherland. Linesmen — Brandon
falo 0-1. Gawryletz, Tony Sericolo.
CLEVELAND
FG FT Reb FG
DETROIT
FT Reb
battling in the middle of Goalies — NY Rangers, Shesterkin 9- T — 2:23.
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt HAWKS 134, SPURS 129 the conference standings,
8-1 (23 shots-21 saves). Buffalo, Tokar-
ski 0-3-1 (47 shots-44 saves).
Okoro ......28 4-4 1-3 0-5 1 3 9 Bey...........26 3-8 4-4 1-4 1 2 11
Wade.......38 6-14 1-1 0-8 2 3 16 Grant .......25 4-14 3-4 0-4 4 1 12 ATLANTA and they will meet Sun- Referees — Justin StPierre, Conor HURRICANES 4, B’HAWKS 3
O'Donnell. T — 2:25.
Love.........20 4-10 2-2 1-4 3 1 13 Plumlee...28 6-11 1-2 3-11 7 2 13 FG FT Reb
Garland ...33 3-8 0-0 0-4 8 2 6 Lee ...........23 3-7 2-2 1-7 3 1 8 Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt day for the first time. Carolina........................1 1 2 — 4
Sexton.....33 7-15 9-9 1-3 3 3 24 JJackson..29 13-21 1-2 1-2 4 3 31 Hill............25 1-4 0-0 0-6 1 1 3 CANADIENS 4, SENATORS 1 Chicago........................0 1 2 — 3
Prince......21 2-9 1-1 0-3 2 2 6 Stewart ...17 2-7 0-0 1-7 2 6 4 Snell.........44 2-5 0-0 0-4 1 3 6 The teams remain in- First period — 1. Carolina, Trocheck
Hrtnsten..20 5-9 1-3 0-7 1 5 12 Joseph.....24 3-6 4-4 0-2 7 0 10 Capela.....44 9-15 10-10 6-17 0 3 28
Osman.....20 2-4 1-2 0-1 1 1 6 Cook ........23 2-5 0-0 2-3 0 2 4 Bgdnvic...45 12-17 0-0 0-5 5 5 28 extricably linked, of Montreal ......................1 1 2 — 4
Ottawa .........................0 0 1 — 1
14 (Hamilton, Fast), 9:48. Penalties —
DeBrincat, Chi (hooking), 18:49.
Dllvdva ....16 0-4 0-0 1-2 5 2 0 Ellington..19 4-8 0-0 1-5 1 0 11 Young......35 11-23 4-6 0-2 12 5 28
Stevens .....6 1-2 0-0 1-2 0 0 2 FJackson .21 4-6 3-4 0-2 2 1 13 Gallinari ..36 5-12 4-4 1-12 1 2 16 course. Two seasons ago, First period — 1. Montreal, Danault 3 Second period — 2. Carolina, Foegele
(Gallagher, Tatar), 10:48. Penalties — 7 (Staal, Niederreiter), 2:22. 3. Chicago,
Thomas.....4 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 2 0
Totals . ..... 34-80 16-21 4-40 26 24 94
Sirvydis .....4 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 3
Totals . ..... 45-94 18-22 10-48 31 18 120
Huerter ...16
Williams..22 3-10
0-4 0-0
1-2
0-1 1 1 0
1-2 5 0 7
Walker left the Hornets to Petry, Mon (tripping), 19:13. Kubalik 12 (Kalynuk, de Haan), 15:21.
Second period — 2. Montreal, Byron Penalties — Martinook, Car (tripping),
FG%: .425, FT%: .762. 3-pt. goals: 10-35, FG%: .479, FT%: .818. 3-pt. goals: 12-29, Goodwin ...9
Okngwu ..12
3-4
4-6
0-0
2-4
0-3 2 0 8
2-5 0 2 10
sign with the Celtics in 3 (Evans, Lehkonen), 0:48. Penalties — 4:28. Hamilton, Car (hi stick), 9:15.
.286 (Wade 3-11, Love 3-6, Garland 0-3, .414 (Bey 1-6, Grant 1-4, Lee 0-1, J.Jackson Coburn, Ott (tripping), 13:50. Reilly, Ott
Sexton 1-4, Prince 1-4, Hartenstein 1-1, Os- 4-7, Stewart 0-1, Ellington 3-6, F.Jackson Totals . ..... 50-100 21-26 10-57 28 22 134 free agency. That meant (hooking), 16:58.
Third period — 4. Chicago, Hagel 5
(Dach), 5:46. 5. Carolina, Foegele 8
man 1-3, Dellavedova 0-1, Stevens 0-1, 2-3, Sirvydis 1-1). Blocks: 5 (Plumlee, Stew- FG%: .500, FT%: .808. 3-pt. goals: 13-24, Third period — 3. Montreal, Perry 7
Thomas 0-1). Blocks: 3 (Hartenstein 2, Os- art 2, Joseph, Ellington). Turnovers: 13 .542 (Hill 1-3, Snell 2-4, Bogdanovic 4-5, that Terry Rozier’s time in (Evans, Mete), 4:43. 4. Montreal, Gal-
(Niederreiter, Staal), 6:54. 6. Chicago,
Strome 7 (Murphy, Janmark), 10:24. 7.
man). Turnovers: 18. Steals: 5 (Okoro, (Grant 2, Plumlee, Lee, J.Jackson, Stewart Young 2-2, Gallinari 2-4, Huerter 0-3, Wil- lagher 14 (Danault, Tatar), 10:04. 5. Ot-
Wade, Garland, Sexton 2). 2, Joseph, Cook 4, F.Jackson). Steals: 8 liams 0-1, Goodwin 2-2). Team rebounds: Boston was over; he tawa, CBrown 8 (Norris, Reilly), 18:13
Carolina, Fast 5 (Trocheck, Pesce),
19:31. Penalties — Hamilton, Car (inter-
Philadelphia ............ 31 27 27 29 — 114 (Bey, Plumlee, Lee, J.Jackson, Joseph 4). 10. Team turnovers: 12 (19 pts.). Blocks: 9 (pp). Penalties — Paul, Ott (roughing),
Cleveland................. 31 25 17 21 — 94 Washington............. 22 22 24 23 — 91 (Hill, Capela 5, Bogdanovic 2, Okongwu). agreed to a deal with 15:09. Lehkonen, Mon (tripping), 18:06.
ference), 11:52.
Detroit ...................... 32 31 24 33 — 120 Turnovers: 12 (Young 7, Gallinari, Huerter, Shots on goal — Carolina 13-8-10 —
A — 4,100 (20,562). T — 2:05. Officials —
Tyler Ford, Gediminas Petraitis, Haywoode A — 750 (21,000). T — 2:09. Officials — Williams, Goodwin, Okongwu). Steals: 3 Charlotte and was sent Shots on goal — Montreal 14-14-10 —
38. Ottawa 11-6-6 — 23. 31. Chicago 3-11-11 — 25.
(Bogdanovic, Young, Gallinari). NICK WASS/ASSOCIATED PRESS Power plays — Carolina 0-1; Chicago
Workman. Scott Foster, Jacyn Goble, Simone Jelks.
SAN ANTONIO
there in a sign-and-trade. Power plays — Montreal 0-3; Ottawa
1-2. 0-3.
FG FT Reb
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Terry Rozier is averaging This season, Rozier Goalies — Montreal, Allen 5-3-4 (23 Goalies — Carolina, Reimer 14-4-1
shots-22 saves). Ottawa, Gustavsson 2- (25 shots-22 saves). Chicago, Lankinen
Johnson...27 2-8 0-0 1-7 1 0 5 20.7 points, 4 rebounds, and has played like a border- 1-1 (38 shots-34 saves). 13-9-4 (31 shots-27 saves).

This weekend on TV and radio DeRozan..47 14-27 8-10

SATURDAY
BASEBALL
1 p.m. — Toronto at NY Yankees, MLB
1:10 p.m. — Baltimore at Boston, NESN,
WEEI-FM 93.7
4:05 p.m. — Atlanta at Philadelphia, FS1
8:10 p.m. — LA Dodgers at Colorado, FS1
11 p.m. — Chi. White Sox at LA Angels (in
progress), MLB
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
10 a.m. — Geico national girls final, ESPN2
12 p.m. — Geico national boys final, ESPN
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
5:14 p.m. — NCAA Final Four: Houston vs.
Baylor, CBS
8:34 p.m. — NCAA Final Four: UCLA vs.
Gonzaga, CBS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
5 p.m. — Southern University at Jackson
St., ESPN
GOLF
1 p.m. — PGA: Texas Open, Golf
3:30 p.m. — PGA: Texas Open, NBC
5 p.m. — LPGA: ANA Inspiration, Golf
PRO HOCKEY
1 p.m. — Detroit at Tampa Bay, NHL; Pitts-
burgh at Boston, NESN Plus, WBZ-FM 98.5
7 p.m. — Dallas at Carolina, NHL
10 p.m. — San Jose at Los Angeles, NHL
HORSE RACING
5:30 p.m. — Wood Memorial Bluegrass
Stakes, NBCSN
RUGBY
3:30 p.m. — Heineken Champions Cup: Ly-
on at Exeter (tape), NBCSN
SOCCER
7:25 a.m. — Premier: West Bromwich at
Chelsea, NBCSN
9:55 a.m. — Premier: Sheffield at Leeds,
NBCSN
12 p.m. — Bundesliga: Bayern Munich at
Leipzig, ESPN2
12:25 p.m. — Premier: Manchester City at
Leicester City, NBCSN
2:30 p.m. — Serie A: Inter Milan at Bologna,
ESPN2
11 p.m. — Liga MX: Atletico San Luis at
Monterrey, FS1
WOMEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL
12:30 p.m. — Big East tournament, FS1
WRESTLING
7:30 p.m. — US Olympic trials, NBCSN
SUNDAY
BASEBALL
1:05 p.m. — Atlanta at Philadelphia, ESPN
1:10 p.m. — Baltimore at Boston, NESN,
WEEI-FM 93.7
4 p.m. — Arizona at San Diego, MLB
8:37 p.m. — Chicage White Sox at LA An-
gels, ESPN
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
1:30 p.m. — Slam Dunk & 3-Point champi-
onship, CBS
PRO BASKETBALL
3:30 p.m. — LA Lakers at LA Clippers, ABC
6 p.m. — Charlotte at Boston, NBCSB, WBZ-
FM 98.5
7:30 p.m. — Golden State at Atlanta, NBA
10 p.m. — Orlando at Denver, NBA
BOWLING
2 p.m. — PBA: USBC Masters, FS1
GOLF
8 a.m. — Drive, Chip & Putt from Augusta,
Golf
1 p.m. — PGA: Texas Open, Golf
2:30 p.m. — PGA: Texas Open, NBC
5 p.m. — LPGA: ANA Inspiration, Golf
PRO HOCKEY
12 p.m. — Detroit at Tampa Bay, NBC
3 p.m. — Washington at New Jersey, NHL
7 p.m. — Dallas at Carolina, NBCSN
RUGBY
4:30 p.m. — Heineken Cup: Bristol at Bor-
deaux-Begles (tape), NBCSN
SOCCER
9 a.m. — Premier: Tottenham at Newcas-
tle, NBCSN
11:25 a.m. — Premier: Fulham at Aston Vil-
la, NBCSN
2:10 p.m. — Premier: Brighton at Man-
chester United, NBCSN
WOMEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER
1 p.m. — Drexel at Northeastern, NESN
Plus
WOMEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL
4 p.m. — NCAA Selection Special, ESPNU
(Schedule subject to change)
Poeltl .......44
Murray ....41 7-13
6-8
1-5 9 4 36
2-3 4-10 3 3 14
2-3 2-9 2 5 16
White.......45 10-20 2-3 0-1 3 1 29
Mills.........32 1-10 0-0 2-2 3 2 3
Vassell.....12 2-6 1-1 0-1 0 3 6
Gay ..........31 6-16 3-4 0-6 4 2 18
Eubanks ..12 1-2 0-0 1-5 0 2 2
Totals . ..... 49-110 18-24 11-46 25 22 129
FG%: .445, FT%: .750. 3-pt. goals: 13-40,
.325 (Johnson 1-5, DeRozan 0-1, Murray 0-2,
White 7-13, Mills 1-8, Vassell 1-3, Gay 3-8).
Team rebounds: 9. Team turnovers: 6 (3
pts.). Blocks: 6 (Poeltl, White 2, Vassell,
Gay 2). Turnovers: 6 (DeRozan, Poeltl, Mur-
ray, White 2, Eubanks). Steals: 8 (Poeltl 2,
Murray 2, White, Vassell, Gay 2).
Atlanta ............... 32 22 30 26 9 15 — 134
San Antonio ...... 22 26 32 30 9 10 — 129
A — 2,949 (18,797). T — 2:47. Officials —
Tre Maddox, Dedric Taylor, Danielle Scott.
LEADERS
Not including Thursday’s games
SCORING
FG FT Pts.
Beal, Was ................... 449 296 1284
Lillard, Por ................. 413 329 1343
Curry, GS.................... 386 202 1162
Doncic, Dal................. 414 224 1177
Antetokonmpo, Mil... 450 296 1247
LaVine, Chi................. 442 200 1238
Jokic, Den................... 497 195 1260
Williamson, NO ......... 444 264 1160
Leonard, LAC............. 376 209 1038
Harden, Bkn............... 334 275 1060
Mitchell, Uta .............. 387 206 1131
Booker, Pho ............... 405 198 1096
Young, Atl .................. 343 350 1144
James, LAL................. 388 168 1042
Tatum, Bos................. 390 165 1061
Fox, Sac...................... 423 229 1161
Brown, Bos................. 407 149 1079
Vucevic, Chi............... 462 101 1146
Sexton, Cle................. 353 184 957
Ingram, NO ................ 391 205 1097
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
FG Att.
Holmes, Sac ........................268 413
Gobert, Uta..........................259 400
Harrell, LAL..........................298 469
Allen, Cle..............................209 330
Williamson, NO...................444 712
3.5 assists for the Hornets. line All-Star. He is averag-
Referees — Marc Joannette, Brad
Meier. T — 2:19.
ing 20.7 points, 4.0 re-
PANTHERS 3, RED WINGS 2
bounds, and 3.5 assists while shooting 47.6 percent from the
Detroit......................1 0 1 0 — 2
field and 41.9 percent from the 3-point line. He is also nearly Florida ......................1 0 1 1 — 3
First period — 1. Detroit, Erne 7
4 years younger than Walker. It hasn’t been a great tradeoff (Stecher, Nemeth), 4:21. 2. Florida, Ac-
so far for Boston. ciari 4 (Verhaeghe, Yandle), 11:55. Pen-
alties — Lomberg, Fla, major (fighting),
And then there is Gordon Hayward, who left Boston last 5:50. Smith, Det, major (fighting), 5:50.
Second period — None. Penalties —
fall and signed a four-year deal with Charlotte. Celtics fans Namestnikov, Det (boarding), 8:51.
Lammikko, Fla (hi stick), 12:16. Fabbri,
grew frustrated with Hayward’s injury-marred stint here, but Det (roughing), 14:36. Gudas, Fla
(roughing), 14:36. Larkin, Det, served
one just has to look at the team’s performance to understand by Smith (roughing), 16:06.
Third period — 3. Detroit, Mantha 10
how valuable Hayward was to the operation. He is averaging (Rasmussen, Nemeth), 6:07. 4. Florida,
Vatrano 11 (Verhaeghe, Huberdeau),
19.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 4.1 assists for the Hornets. 10:39 (pp). Penalties — Smith, Det, ma-
jor (fighting), 0:49. Stillman, Fla, major
(fighting), 0:49. Huberdeau, Fla (hook-
ing), 1:27. Merrill, Det (slashing), 8:26.
Adam Himmelsbach can be reached at Merrill, Det (delay of game), 10:33.
PPG
31.3 adam.himmelsbach@globe.com. Overtime — 5. Florida, Wennberg 8
(Forsling, Vatrano), 1:25. Penalties —
29.8 None.
29.1 Shots on goal — Detroit 11-8-8-0 —
28.7 27. Florida 9-19-7-1 — 36.
Rockets thumbnails
28.3 Power plays — Detroit 0-2; Florida
27.5
1-4.
26.8
Goalies — Detroit, Greiss 2-14-5 (36
26.4
shots-33 saves). Florida, Driedger 10-
26.0 R When, where: Friday, 7:30 p.m., at TD Garden. 4-2 (27 shots-25 saves).
25.9 Referees — TJ Luxmore, Francis
25.7 R TV, radio: NBCSN, WBZ-FM (98.5). Charron.
25.5 R Scoring: Christian Wood 21.2, John Wall 20.2, Kelly Olynyk 18.3. A — 4,359 (19,250). T — 2:31.
25.4
25.4
R Rebounding: Wood 9.7, Jae’Sean Tate 5.4, Olynyk 5.3.
25.3 R Assists: Wall 6.8, Kevin Porter Jr. 5.8, D.J. Augustin 4.3. LEADERS
24.7 R Head to head: This is the second and final meeting. The Celtics
Not including Thursday’s games
24.5
24.4 won the first, 134-107, March 14. SCORING
G A Pts.
23.9 R Miscellany: The Rockets have lost 24 of their last 26 games . . . At McDavid, Edm ................. 21 42 63
23.8
the trade deadline last week, Houston dealt Victor Oladipo to Miami Draisaitl, Edm .................. 19 35 54
Pct. for Olynyk, Avery Bradley, and a conditional 2022 pick . . . Wall Kane, Chi .......................... 13 36 49
Marner, Tor...................... 13 33 46
.649 (knee) missed Wednesday’s game against the Nets, and Eric Gordon Scheifele, Wpg ................ 15 29 44
.648
.635 (groin) is out indefinitely . . . The Rockets shoot a league-worst 33.0 Rantanen, Col .................. 21 22 43
Matthews, Tor................. 24 18 42
.633 percent from 3-point range. Huberdeau, Fla................ 14 27 41
.624
Stone, VGK....................... 12 28 40
MacKinnon, Col............... 10 30 40
Referees — Peter MacDougall, Ian
Walsh. Linesmen — Ryan Galloway,
James Tobias.
T — 2:32.
AVALANCHE 9, COYOTES 3
Wednesday night game
Arizona.........................2 1 0 — 3
Colorado ......................5 1 3 — 9
First period — 1. Colorado, Donskoi
13 (Jost, Girard), 4:04. 2. Colorado,
Burakovsky 8 (Kadri, Girard), 4:31. 3.
Arizona, Bunting 1 (Goligoski,
NSchmaltz), 4:41. 4. Colorado, Belle-
mare 5 (Compher, MacDonald), 5:36. 5.
Colorado, Donskoi 14 (Graves, Ni-
chushkin), 6:04. 6. Colorado, Donskoi
15 (Rantanen, Landeskog), 7:31 (pp). 7.
Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 2 (Crouse),
18:57 (pp). Penalties — Goligoski, Ari
(tripping), 0:49. Ari, served by Hunt
(too many men on ice), 7:22. Jost, Col
(interference on the goaltender),
10:32. Ekman-Larsson, Ari (hooking),
11:15. Toews, Col (hooking), 12:19.
Jost, Col (hooking), 14:36. Rantanen,
Col (cross check), 17:33. Hayden, Ari
(roughing), 20:00.
Second period — 8. Arizona, Garland
10 (Bunting), 17:45. 9. Colorado,
Landeskog 13, 18:06. Penalties — Belle-
mare, Col (tripping), 15:12.
Third period — 10. Colorado, Rant-
anen 21 (MacKinnon, Toews), 6:05
(pp). 11. Colorado, Landeskog 14 (Ran-
tanen, MacKinnon), 11:57. 12. Colora-
do, Burakovsky 9 (Donskoi, Bellemare),
16:49. Penalties — Hayden, Ari (hold-
ing), 4:33. MacKinnon, Col, double mi-
nor (roughing), 14:41. MacKinnon, Col
(misconduct), 14:41. Garland, Ari
(roughing), 14:41.
Shots on goal — Arizona 13-8-10 —
31. Colorado 18-10-10 — 38.
Power plays — Arizona 1-6; Colorado
2-4.
Goalies — Arizona, Hill 4-4-1 (10
shots-6 saves). Arizona, Prosvetov 0-
0-0 (28 shots-23 saves). Colorado,
Grubauer 22-7-1 (31 shots-28 saves).
Referees — Pierre Lambert, Chris
Lee. T — 2:34.
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
Called out, youngsters respond with zeros
By Matt Porter
GLOBE STAFF
The trade deadline is a week
from Monday. The playoffs start
in about six weeks. A few expe-
rienced hands
BRUINS may soon to re-
NOTEBOOK turn to the
lineup.
For several young Bruins
hoping to be a part of the play-
off push, show-me time is now.
Coach Bruce Cassidy did not
make changes to his lineup be-
fore Thursday’s 4-1 loss to the
Penguins, which meant another
shot for the down-the-order
players he said lacked energy
and sharpness in Tuesday’s jit-
tery win over the Devils: for-
wards Karson Kuhlman, Trent
Frederic, Zach Senyshyn and
Anton Blidh, and defenders Jer-
emy Lauzon, Jakub Zboril and
Connor Clifton.
After being called out by
name, each one followed it up
with a forgettable game.
Cassidy’s name-check Tues-
Bruins show nothing in an embarrassing loss
uBRUINS
Continued from Page C1
clean. We don’t take care of the
puck well enough.”
It wasn’t just the young play-
ers getting a chance to show
their stuff, though they ranged
from ineffective to miserable
(Jeremy Lauzon will want to
burn the tape of Mike Matheson,
the Penguins defenseman, walk-
ing around him for the 2-0 goal).
The momentum-destroying
carelessness with the puck went
right to the top of the lineup.
Three minutes after Brad
Marchand (14th goal) made it a
one-score game in the third peri-
od off a Patrice Bergeron feed,
David Pastrnak coughed it up at
center ice with Charlie McAvoy
standing by, and the Penguins
shoved it right back at the Bru-
ins to make it 3-1.
“A lot of it was our top guys
tonight,” Cassidy said. “Yeah, our
younger guys are learning the
ropes here a little bit. But you’ve
got to do a better job taking care
of the puck.”
Pastrnak has been quiet of
late, with zero goals and one as-
sist in his last five games. It’s
hard to fault Bergeron for his
play of late — his feed to March-
and followed a one-man rush up
the ice — but he submitted his
ninth straight game without a
goal (0-3—3). Marchand and
McAvoy (29:45, three shots, sev-
en attempts, two blocks) are the
team’s MVPs at the moment.
“I’m not frustrated with those
guys,” Cassidy said. “I’m disap-
pointed that they don’t recog-
nize the value of the puck and
where we are in the game, and
they haven’t stepped up a little
more. I ge t frustrated with
younger guys that make the
same mistakes, or can’t get their
shot through from the point.”
That was a bugaboo for inex-
perienced defensemen Jakub
Zboril, Connor Clifton and Lau-
zon, each of whom had a shot
blocked. The latter, however,
threw it into Penguins forward
Bryan Rust’s pads and commit-
ted an interference penalty as
Rust broke the other way. The
Bruins, down by two goals, were
on the penalty kill, 31 seconds
‘Sky judge,’ changes to overtime among NFL’s rules proposals
uON FOOTBALL
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spot of a foul; and the game
clock.
R A second proposal by the
Ravens would go a step further,
creating an eighth member of
the officiating crew and putting
him in the instant replay booth
and letting him call fouls via use
of a TV monitor. The NFL has
yet to be in favor of the “sky
judge,” preferring to let the on-
field officials call the penalties.
R The Ravens also proposed
two rules that would change the
league’s overtime format. Both
revolve around “spot and
choose” — instead of starting
overtime with a kickoff, one
team would choose the spot of
the ball and the end zone to de-
fend, and the other team would
decide whether to start on of-
fense or defense.
In one proposal, which was
co-signed by the Eagles, the NFL
Penguins 4, Bruins 1
At TD Garden
FIRST PERIOD
No scoring
Penalty — Pittsburgh, Dumoulin (cross check)
10:59
SECOND PERIOD
Pittsburgh 1, Boston 0 — Aston-Reese 8 (Tanev,
Gaudreau) 2:01
Pittsburgh 2, Boston 0 — Matheson 3 (Angello,
Ceci) 13:12
No penalties
THIRD PERIOD
Penalty — Boston, Lauzon (interference) 0:31
Penalty — Pittsburgh, Letang (holding) 1:03
Penalty — Boston, Marchand (roughing) 1:03
Pittsburgh 2, Boston 1 — Marchand 14
(Bergeron, Zboril) 11:14
Pittsburgh 3, Boston 1 — Zucker 5 (Rodrigues,
Pettersson) 13:07
Pittsburgh 4, Boston 1 — Guentzel 15 (Letang,
Crosby) 17:51 (en)
Penalty — Pittsburgh, Jankowski (holding)
18:44
SCORE BY PERIOD
Pittsburgh.............................. 0 2 2 — 4
Boston .................................... 0 0 1 — 1
SHOTS BY PERIOD
Pittsburgh.............................. 7 10 6 — 23
Boston .................................... 2 13 16 — 31
Power plays — Pittsburgh 0 of 1; Boston 0 of 2.
Goalies — Pittsburgh, DeSmith 9-3-0 (31 shots-
30 saves). Boston, Vladar 2-1-0 (22 shots-19
saves).
Referees — Garrett Rank, Dan O’Rourke. Lines-
men — Libor Suchanek, Shandor Alphonso.
Attendance — 2,191 (17,565). Time — 2:28.
day night “lights a fire under us,
for sure,” Kuhlman said before
puck drop of a group that, on a
player-per-player basis, aver-
aged about a half-season’s
Coach Bruce Cassidy knows the score — and so do his dejected Bruins — as the final seconds tick away in a lackluster 4-1 loss.
Charlie McAvoy, minus-3 on the night, took another hit during a collision with Sam Lafferty.
would return to a true sudden
death format. Currently the NFL
has a modified sudden death —
the game is over if a team scores
a touchdown on the first posses-
sion, but the game continues if
the team only scores a field goal.
R The Ravens’ other overtime
proposal also includes “spot and
choose,” but instead of sudden
death, the Ravens propose play-
ing an entire quarter that is only
7 minutes, 30 seconds in length.
Currently, overtime is 10 min-
utes long.
The “spot and choose” meth-
od is intriguing, but may not
pass on its first try. NFL owners
usually are hesitant to make sig-
nificant changes to the game,
and this is the first year any
team has proposed the “spot and
choose” concept.
The untimed overtime period
also has its merits, but the NFL
has been trying to reduce over-
time play in the last few years
T h e B o s t o n
worth of NHL experience.
“We all know what we’re
here for. “We want to help this
team win. I think all three of us
on our line [Blidh-Frederic-
Kuhlman] know what we’ve got
to do to help the team night in,
night out. Now it’s just a matter
of executing that.”
That line tailed off after a
few energetic shifts early on,
and while Blidh (seven hits) and
Senyshyn (six) led the hit pa-
rade, they were often chasing
the play. The age-25-and-under
defenders, particularly Lauzon,
had a rougher time.
Lauzon, whose giveaways
hampered the Bruins against
the Devils Tuesday, submitted
another tough night. He took a
momentum-stunting interfer-
ence penalty after his shot was
blocked and broken out by the
Penguins. In the second, he
didn’t move his feet quickly
enough to stop Penguins defen-
seman Mike Matheson, who
blew his doors off for a high-
because its research shows that
more injuries happen in OT
when players are fatigued.
And there is little evidence
that overtime needs fixing. In
2020, the team that won the
overtime coin toss went 4-5-1,
and only one game ended with a
touchdown on the first posses-
sion.
R The Eagles proposed an al-
ternative to the onside kick that
has been on the ballot for the
last few years. Twice per game, a
team could choose to go for a
fourth-and-15 situation from
the 25-yard line instead of at-
tempting an onside kick. The of-
fense keeps the ball if it con-
verts, and gives the ball to the
other team if it comes up short.
If the offense commits a penalty,
it cannot elect to kickoff and in-
stead must go for the longer at-
tempt.
The owners have previously
voted this rule down because it’s
G l o b e
light-reel, breakaway goal.
Unless he’s willing to give
the youngsters a longer leash,
Cassidy may have lineup chang-
es to make for Saturday’s game.
Jarred Tinordi and Steven
Kampfer are on the sidelines
waiting. Brandon Carlo’s upper-
body injury — he left the game
after the first period — may play
a factor.
The Bruins have options up
front. Chris Wagner (healthy
scratch), Jack Studnicka and
Greg McKegg are waiting in the
wings. Sean Kuraly, now off the
COVID list, skated before the
game with Ondrej Kase (not
seen since knocking his head
Jan. 16). Jake DeBrusk, still
stuck in COVID purgatory, skat-
ed on his own. How soon Kura-
ly, who has missed six games,
and DeBrusk (five) could con-
tribute is unclear. Cassidy clari-
fied Kase’s status this week by
mentioning that “anything he
gives you is gravy.”
A trade for help, be it any-
JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF
a little gimmicky, but it may be
picking up momentum. The
NFL has been looking for ways
to reduce onside kicks because
of the injury factor. And new
kickoff rules, in which only five
players can line up on a side,
have rendered the onside kick
nearly impossible. In the 2020
regular season, only four of 67
onside kicks were successful.
R The Rams proposed a new
rule that would create a loss of 5
yards and a loss of down if a
team throws two passes from be-
hind the line of scrimmage. Cur-
rently, the only penalty is a 5-
yard loss.
This proposal was inspired
by Brady, who in a Week 11
game against the Rams threw a
pass that was batted back by a
defensive lineman, caught it,
and threw it again to Mike Ev-
ans for 8 yards. Brady was penal-
ized, but the Rams declined it
because it would have given Bra-
where in the lineup, is a possi-
bility. But the Bruins will be in a
much better place if the young
players getting a chance prove
they can hack it.
Cassidy said players general-
ly understand their place on the
roster, and what might prevent
them from moving up. Much of
the rest is up to them.
“When a player comes to me
and is like, ‘What’s going on?’
It’s like, ‘You’re in the lineup
ahead of a player that may have
helped us get to the Stanley
Cup, and got injured along the
way,” Cassidy said. “He was a
valuable player for us. There’s
some loyalty there. But we feel
you might give us a better
chance to win, so you have to do
your part.’ Those messages cer-
tainly go out to the players.”
When it goes public, it isn’t
new information.
“I don’t think any player or
any person in general wants to
get called out through the me-
dia,” he said. “Everything you’ve
JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF
into the third.
“It’s frustrating when teams
collapse against you, and you get
it low to high and you look like
you’ve got some action and you
get a shot blocked, and back they
come and you’re in the penalty
box, and you lose momentum,”
Cassidy said. “That’s the frustra-
tion. That’s just the learning
curve for some of them. Some of
them will learn it and be better
off for it. Some of them won’t,
and they won’t be here.”
Regardless of their play, the
Bruins may need them to patch
holes. They played with five de-
fensemen for the final 40 min-
utes after Brandon Carlo left
with an upper-body injury. He
skated a regular shift in the first,
playing 6:59. It was unclear
what happened to Carlo, playing
his second game after missing
25 days in March with a concus-
sion. Cassidy had little informa-
tion to share: “Hopefully have
better news tomorrow.”
Boston escaped a miserable
first period (outshot, 7-2) and
dy another chance to convert a
third down. In the Rams’ pro-
posal, the Bucs would have been
penalized and would have lost
the down.
R The Bills submitted a rule
that would push back the calen-
dar for coach and general man-
ager hirings and put every team
on an equal time frame. The
Bills propose that job interviews
can’t begin until the Monday af-
ter the conference champion-
ship games, and hirings can’t be
made until the Monday after the
Super Bowl.
Currently, a team can start
interviewing candidates as soon
as its season is complete, and
hirings can be made as soon as a
coach is eliminated. But coaches
from teams in the playoffs can
be at a disadvantage. One, the
interviews can be a distraction
as the coach tries to prepare for
a playoff game; and two, some
teams eliminate candidates who
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heard, typically, I’d say 95 per-
cent of the time has gone
through the players’ ears. It’s
been addressed: why, what the
expectation is, and sometimes
I’m asked a question and I’ll an-
swer about specific players,
right or wrong.”
Malkin sidelined
The Penguins were without
centers Evgeni Malkin, who
missed his eighth game in a
row, and Teddy Blueger (nine in
a row). Without Malkin on the
power play half-wall over the
last seven games, the Penguins
were 7 of 20 (35 percent) . . .
The Bruins are 4-2-1 in their
last six, 7-5-3 in their last 15 . . .
Charlie McAvoy and Nick
Ritchie were minus-3 . . . Jaro-
slav Halak is likely to start Sat-
urday against the Penguins,
with Tuukka Rask (upper body)
still out.
Matt Porter can be reached at
matthew.porter@globe.com.
stayed in it thanks to backup
netminder Dan Vladar (19 saves
on 23 shots in all). The lanky
Czech (6-foot-5-inch, 185
pounds) was under fire for most
of his second career start.
“I don’t really care how the
team plays in front of me. I want
to win every single game. I want
to save every shot,” said Vladar,
faulting himself on the third goal
for not picking up Jason Zucker,
who smacked home a cross-ice
one-timer from the slot. “If you
score one goal, you can win with
one goal if the goalie saves every-
thing.”
The team in front of him
couldn’t do much of anything for
the first 30 minutes. Pittsburgh
pushed them off the puck and
out of the way, held them up,
parried their advances. Break-
outs were darn near impossible.
When the Bruins allowed the
first two goals and looked head-
ed for a shutout, Marchand and
Bergeron got one back. The cap-
tain lugged the puck up the ice,
doing the work a few quick pass-
es couldn’t accomplish, and into
the zone. Marchand deposited
his sharp feed with 8:46 to go.
But with 6:53 left, Pastrnak’s
turnover came back at them.
Cassidy pulled Vladar with 3:09
left, but Jake Guentzel flipped
home an empty-netter a minute
later.
“I trust this group to bounce
back,” said Cassidy, his team due
for another look at the Penguins
Saturday (1 p.m.). “We don’t re-
ally go into these long stretches.
We’ve had games like this, where
we just don’t respect the process.
We don’t respect taking care of
the puck, and good offensive
teams shove it right up . . . ”
The Penguins came in with
10 losses in a row (0-8-2) in Bos-
ton, dating to Dec. 16, 2015, but
came in smoking hot, even with-
out Evgeni Malkin. They im-
proved to 12-2-1 in their last 15.
The Bruins, who opened this
year 10-1-2, know the feeling.
Right now, they are lukewarm.
Matt Porter can be reached at
matthew.porter@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter:
@mattyports.
advance far in the playoffs be-
cause the team wants to hire
someone immediately.
R The Chiefs want to expand
the eligible jersey numbers for
different positions. Currently,
only quarterbacks, punters, and
kickers can wear Nos. 1-19. The
Chiefs propose that running
backs, fullbacks, tight ends, H-
backs, and wide receivers be
able to wear any number from 1-
49 and 80-89.
Defensive backs would also
be eligible to wear any number
from 1-49, and linebackers
could wear 1-59 and 90-99.
Linebackers are currently re-
stricted to 40-59 and 90-99. And
all offensive linemen would be
eligible to wear Nos. 50-79. Cur-
rently, only centers can wear 50-
59.
Ben Volin can be reached at
ben.volin@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @BenVolin.
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BASEBALL (PPD.) COUNTDOWN TO THE RED SOX OPENER

Rodriguez goes on IL;

Houck goes in Game 2
By Julian McWilliams
GLOBE STAFF

The Red Sox officially placed

In his debut last Eduardo Rodriguez on the in-
year, Bobby jured list ahead of Thursday’s
Dalbec Opening Day
displayed
RED SOX postponement.
plenty of power NOTEBOOK Rodriguez is
in blasting eight still going
homers in 92 through his progression after
plate dealing with a case of dead arm
appearances, toward the end of spring train-
but also struck ing. He will pitch in a simulated
out an unsett- game Friday at the team’s alter-
ling 42.4 per- nate site in Worcester.
JOHN BAZEMORE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
cent of the time. The hope is Rodriguez will
FILE/MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF
return to the rotation next Tanner Houck struggled to find his command in the spring.

Bottoms up with Dalbec

week. If so, he could pitch as
early as Thursday in Baltimore. eighth, and the other the ninth. Seabold, Caleb Simpson, Mar-
He has been impressive at Cam- After Ryan Brasier’s injury, cus Walden, and Ryan Weber.
den Yards in his career, posting the bullpen structure took a hit. Catchers: Jett Bandy, Chris
a 5-2 record and a 2.60 ERA in Brasier likely would have han- Herrmann, and Connor Wong.
52 innings. dled the seventh inning, but Infielders: Jonathan Araúz,
uRED SOX coach Tim Hyers said. “It shows what he’s capable In the meantime, Tanner now the relievers might have to Michael Chavis, Chad De La
Continued from Page C1 of doing. Houck will fill Rodriguez’s ros- be a bit more flexible, perhaps Guerra, Jeter Downs, Yairo Mu-
percent of the time — the fifth-highest rate in the “He’s hitting the ball to all fields. That’s where ter spot and is scheduled to including Ottavino and Barnes. ñoz, and Josh Ockimey.
big leagues among players with 80 PAs. he has to stay. I think when he gets too pull-happy, start Saturday. At the very least, it sounds as Outfielders: Jarren Duran,
Yet Dalbec’s power is exceptional in a way that I think that’s when the strikeouts will pile up. But Houck’s spring was inconsis- if the Red Sox are still trying to Michael Gettys, César Puello,
creates the possibility of reducing those strikeouts he’s confident, seeing the baseball deep, using all tent. He struggled to find his figure out how to maneuver the and Marcus Wilson.
and unlocking the sort of production that belongs fields. He’s capable of hitting it out of any ballpark command, walking 11 batters in pieces. Bandy is on the team’s taxi
not in the ninth spot, but in the middle of the or- anywhere.” 10„ innings. But there were “Those are the things that squad.
der. Often, players who are able to generate power positives, too, particularly in his kind of, like, slow down the de-
Dalbec can destroy baseballs to the opposite without forcing it — particularly those who feel last start against the Braves, cision [on a closer],” Cora said. Roster facts
field — particularly right-center — in a fashion ri- comfortable doing so to the opposite field, rather when he fanned six in 4‚ in- “But those two guys, you know, Garrett Whitlock is the first
valed by few in the game. Last year, in just 23 than rushing their swings — prove capable of con- nings and surrendered just two they’re going to be pitching in pitcher in 26 years to make the
games, the 25-year-old Dalbec hit four opposite- trolling their strikeouts enough to become signifi- hits. That glimmer of success those two innings, and their Red Sox’ Opening Day roster af-
field homers. cant contributors. gives the Red Sox confidence versatility is very important for ter being selected in the Rule 5
He was one of 20 players to hit at least that Dalbec has managed to do that as he’s worked that Houck can contribute as he us. draft the previous winter. The
many, and he had the second-fewest plate appear- through his professional career. In his first full pro did in the latter part of last sea- “Barnes has been amazing in last to do it was Vaughn Eshel-
ances of those players. Of that group, 17 had an season, 2017, he struck out at a 37.4 percent clip son. the seventh and eighth, and I man in 1995 . . . Nine players on
OPS of .800 or better, and 13 (including Dalbec) with Single A Greenville. Then, questions were “Just watching him pitch the know he can do the job in the the Opening Day roster weren’t
had at least .900. raised about whether he would make enough con- last [spring game] and him ninth. With Adam, obviously, on the 2020 club: Ottavino,
The ability to obliterate pitches was not a mis- tact to allow his power to play as he moved up the knowing the situation, you can it’s a different look. And we can Whitlock, Franchy Cordero,
leading element of a compressed season. Red Sox ladder. tell he breathed,” manager Alex mix and match with him.” Kiké Hérnandez, Marwin Gon-
area scout Vaughn Williams recalled a jaw-drop- Yet even as he faced steadily higher-quality Cora said. “He was in control, zalez, Hunter Renfroe, Matt An-
ping demonstration of that ability when Dalbec competition, he cut his strikeout rate at every level, just throwing his sinker and The alternates driese, Garrett Richards, and
played at the University of Arizona. whittling it to 23.6 percent in Triple A at the end of four-seamer and slider. That The Sox announced their al- Hirokazu Sawamura . . . Six Red
“I can tell you exactly what light pole he hit,” 2019. was a good lineup, too. And ternate-site roster, which will Sox players made the first Open-
said Williams. “That right-center light pole, up That track record, in combination with the elite there were some bad swings, consist of 14 pitchers, three ing Day roster of their career:
there at the very top, near the lights. He took a fast- all-fields power that makes it possible, allows the but I think it was kind of like catchers, six infielders, and four Bobby Dalbec, Darwinzon Her-
ball on the outer half of the plate and hit it up near Red Sox to imagine rare production from the No. 9 the comfort level.” outfielders. nandez, Josh Taylor, Sawamura,
the light pole. It was up at the very top of the lights. spot — or the type that would ensure Dalbec’s de- Houck was dominant upon Pitchers: Eduard Bazardo, Whitlock, and Houck.
I don’t want to embellish, but that was 475 [feet], parture from it. They know he will endure hot and his arrival to the big leagues last Seth Blair, Colten Brewer,
easy — maybe even longer.” cold streaks as he continues to adjust to the big season, registering a 0.53 ERA Raynel Espinal, Stephen Gon- Julian McWilliams can be
Had Williams ever seen a homer to the opposite leagues and opposing pitchers continue to dissect and 21 strikeouts in three starts salves, Daniel Gossett, Matt reached at julian.mcwilliams
field like that? him. (17 innings). Yet success isn’t Hall, Kyle Hart, Kevin McCa- @globe.com. Follow him on
“Absolutely not,” he said. “Nothing to that mag- Last year was instructive. Dalbec became just linear, of course, something rthy, Kaleb Ort, Connor Twitter @byJulianMack.
nitude.” the seventh position player ever to strike out multi- Houck experienced this spring
It is not an accident. Dalbec understands that ple times in each of his first four games. Unde- as he tried to make an impres-
he has the strength to drive the ball out of the park terred after he went 0 for 3 with one strikeout in sion.
even when his bat catches it deep in the strike his fifth game, he homered in each of the next five “It’s not that he was uncom- POSSIBLE (RE)OPENING DAY LINEUPS
zone, before it’s fully accelerated. If he can remain contests. fortable early on, but he was
patient enough to drive fastballs to the opposite “He kept swinging,” said Williams. “He kept do- trying to do more,” said Cora. RED SOX ORIOLES
field, it positions him not only to have extra milli- ing what Bobby does. He’s going to fight at the “And that’s part of the learning Kiké Hernández 2B Cedric Mullins CF
seconds to recognize a pitch but also to demolish plate and if you make a mistake, punish it. process. Alex Verdugo CF Anthony Santander DH
off-speed pitches to the pull side, making him a “Keeping in mind that first full season there’s “He’s going to be excited on J.D. Martinez DH Trey Mancini 1B
line-to-line power threat. going to be some ups and downs, the sky is the lim- Saturday because he’s going to Xander Bogaerts SS Ryan Mountcastle LF
“I’m comfortable [letting pitches get] deep be- it with this young man. He’s shown that he can do pitch in front of his family for Rafael Devers 3B Rio Ruiz 3B
cause I know I can hit the ball hard the other way,” it. He’s shown he can make adjustments. And he’s the first time as a big leaguer. Hunter Renfroe RF Austin Hays RF
he said. “I don’t feel like I have to sell out pull side shown he can rebound. But I think he’s in a good posi- Marwin Gonzalez LF Freddy Galvis SS
or get that extra giddy-up to do damage. “He’s got a lot to prove, don’t get me wrong. But tion now to come here and con- Christian Vázquez C Pedro Severino C
“If my default in my head is right-center, and I the ingredients to prove it are all there.” tribute.” Bobby Dalbec 1B Pat Valaika 2B
know I can do damage there, it makes hitting a lot Ingredients alone do not make a meal. But as Nate Eovaldi (R) SP John Means (L) SP
less stressful. I can do damage to heaters to the big the Red Sox imagine scenarios that would permit Loose ends in bullpen
part of the field and let off-speed take care of itself, them to surpass expectations, the sense of Dalbec’s The Red Sox are keeping FRIDAY’S FENWAY FORECAST — The Red Sox 2021 opener against
I think we’re in a pretty good spot.” potential — even from the bottom of the order — their fans in limbo. Heading in- the Orioles Thursday afternoon was postponed because of rain.
Dalbec remained in that spot throughout the can nourish such visions. to Friday, they still haven’t an- There is no rain in the forecast for Friday’s makeup game, but the
spring. He led the big leagues with seven spring nounced who will be the closer, limited number of fans at Fenway should plan on wearing lots of
training homers — four of which went to the oppo- Alex Speier can be reached at Matt Barnes or Adam Ottavino. layers. Temperatures will be in the low 40s at first pitch (2:10
site field. alex.speier@globe.com. Follow him on twitter at Cora didn’t give any hints, say- p.m.), with a high of 43 around 4 p.m. under partly cloudy skies.
“It just shows his raw power,” Red Sox hitting @alexspeier. ing only one will pitch the

‘Older’ Bogaerts eager to share experience, keep winning

uBOGAERTS
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I’m learning more every year.
I look back at that 20-year-
old kid and he was just trying to
survive. I’m a lot more confident
than I was then. I was just a
young guy on a team with so
many veterans. I just wanted to
fit in.
Q. What about as a person?
A. That’s a good question be-
cause I think about that myself a
lot. I used to just go ahead and
do things, and later on I’d won-
der if I was doing the right
thing. Now if you ask me to do
something, I’m going to pause
and think about if this is some-
thing I should be doing. I’m a lot
more careful now.
As you get older, you think
more about the future. But I feel
like I’m the same kid from Aru-
ba as always.
Q. With Jackie Bradley Jr.
and Dustin Pedroia gone, you’re
the player who has been here
the longest. Has that sunk in?
A. When Jackie signed [with
Milwaukee], it did. Dustin, we
all know what he went through
trying to come back. It was terri-
ble what happened with him be-
cause I know how much he
wanted to play again.
For me, I think about all the
guys who were in the minors
with me or after me and I saw
them make their debuts. Mookie
[Betts], Christian [Vázquez],
Matt Barnes, [Andrew] Benin-
tendi, Eddie [Rodriguez], and
[Rafael] Devers, too. I went
through a lot with those guys.
Now we’re going through some
changes as a team.
Q. How do you view your role
as a team leader?
A. You don’t want to force it,
right? I want to set a good exam-
ple by doing the right things and
want people to come to me if I
can help them.
I saw how Pedey and David
[Ortiz] did it, and it’s different.
I’m not the same personality as
them. But I know as one of the
older guys now I have to let peo-
ple know how the Red Sox do
things and let them learn from
my experience.
I try to make myself available
to people.
Q. It seems like you’ve taken
that on more and more the last
few years.
A. That’s true. If you see
something, you have to step up.
Whether it’s talking to [the me-
dia] or talking to A.C. [Alex Co-
ra] about what’s going on, it’s
something I know is part of
what I do. I’m more comfortable
now with that side of things.
I want to speak up when it’s
Shortstop Xander Bogaerts is in line to play his 1,000 MLB
game — all with the Red Sox — sometime next month.
needed.
It’s like with the COVID, we
have responsibilities to each oth-
er to be careful, and I talk to the
guys a lot about that.
Q. There are so many good
shortstops in the game now.
How do you think you rank with
them?
A. That’s a tough question.
There are a lot of shortstops out
there, really good ones, and they
have good numbers. But I will
say when you look at the accom-
plishments, I have two rings and
how many can say that? I think
accomplishments matter.
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You can compare statistics,
and I feel like I’ve had good sta-
tistics. But I like my two rings.
Q. Even since you were a
rookie, how the game is played
has changed. Do you think this
is good for baseball?
A. I think about how you
used to see hit-and-runs and
bunts and stolen bases and now
everybody is trying to hit a
home run and if they don’t, they
strike out. It has changed.
I like baseball and I’ll watch
games when they’re on. I think I
watched most of the playoff
games. But sometimes you do
think to yourself that it’s kind of
boring. I like stolen bases and I
like seeing good defensive plays.
I don’t know if you can change it
back because everybody wants
to hit home runs.
The way people hit has
changed. It’s hard for me to say
whether it’s good or bad. I just
know it’s different.
Q. How has it been having Al-
ex back as manager?
A. I’m glad it happened. He
knows us and we know him, and
he knows how to get the best out
of you. I know he got the best
out of me a few years ago, and
that team we had in ’18 was spe-
cial. What did we win — 119
games — that year? Oh, man.
I feel like we’ve had a good
camp and there’s been good en-
ergy and everybody working
hard. Having A.C. back I think
gave everybody a lift. There’s
good energy.
Q. There are fewer than 150
players in history who have
played in the World Series for
the winning team three times.
What would a third ring mean
to you?
A. That’s the goal. Three or
four or five. I just want to keep
winning. That’s the biggest
thing. Once you win a few, you
want to keep doing it. Every-
thing comes back to that.
Q. Do you feel like this team
is going back in that direction?
A. We’ll see. We brought in
some players who have been
winners and I think that helps. I
like some of the young kids I
saw in camp. We have some
good arms, especially in the
bullpen. We’re in a good divi-
sion. But we have a good team.
We’re definitely better.
Q. When you signed your ex-
tension, you said you wanted to
build an academy back home in
Aruba. Is that something you
still have in the plans?
A. Eventually, yes. For now
we’re helping teams who want
to get to tournaments or need
money for equipment. We’re
helping kids get to tryouts. I’d
like to build an indoor batting
cage so kids have someplace to
hit.
An academy would be great,
but maybe that won’t be until I
retire.
Q. That won’t be for a while, I
assume?
A. Not yet. Not yet. I still
have a lot I want to do with
baseball. I have a lot of good
years left.
Peter Abraham can be reached at
peter.abraham@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@PeteAbe.
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BASEBALL 2021 SEASON GETS UNDERWAY

Rainout doesn’t dampen . . . predictions

RAYS 1, MARLINS 0
TAMPA BAY AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Tsutsugo 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .000
Meadows lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .250
Arozarena rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250
Lowe 2b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .333
YaDíaz 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000

Chad Finn
Kiermaier cf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .250
Adames ss 4 0 1 0 0 2 .250
with the shaky assumption that they play a I declared that Alex Verdugo, who hit R Matt Barnes will lead the Red Sox in Zunino c 3 0 0 0 1 1 .000
full 162 games. .308 last year, including .313 in each of the saves, but Adam Ottavino will be the re- Glasnow p
Margot ph-lf
2
2
0
0
0 0 0 2
0 0 0 0
.000
.000
I wrote that Garrett Richards will be final two months of the season, will be in liever counted upon to get the highest-le- Totals 32 1 5 1 3 12
MIAMI AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Drat. A rainout. This is no way to start the Sox’ second-best starter. I’d like to the hunt for the batting title. He might verage outs. Dickerson lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Marte cf 4 0 0 0 0 4 .000
the new Red Sox season. amend that one. He’s going to be this sea- even win the thing. The lefthanded hitter R Xander Bogaerts will be consistent Aguilar 1b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .500
The purple prose that Opening Day an- son’s version of 1995 Erik Hanson — a batted .320 against lefties last year, and is and classy day after day after day, and ev- Duvall rf-lf
BAnderson 3b
4 0 0 0 0 1 .000
3 0 0 0 0 0 .000
nually (and understandably) inspires has pitcher with excellent stuff and a rough in- going to achieve all the things Andrew Be- ery once in a while we’ll remember not to Chisholm Jr. 2b
Alfaro c
3 0 0 0 0 0 .000
3 0 1 0 0 1 .333
told us forever that the first day of baseball jury history who puts it together for one nintendi was supposed to. He’s the Red take him for granted. Rojas ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Alcantara p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
season is about renewal and new begin- excellent season. Hanson was 15-5 with a Sox’ most underrated player entering this R Christian Vázquez, one of a dwindling Sierra ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Cooper ph-rf 0 0 0 0 1 0 —
nings and, also, I believe, bunting. (The 4.24 ERA for the ’95 Sox, making the All- season. number of true everyday catchers, will Totals 30 0 3 0 1 9
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decorative kind, not the speedy-leadoff-hit- Star team in his only season in Boston. OK, now that the reiterations and ad- make his first All-Star team. Miami.........................000 000 000 — 0 3 0
LOB—Tampa Bay 8, Miami 4. 2B—Lowe (1).
ter skill. That kind of bunting is mostly Richards is older than I realized when justments are out of the way, let’s tear R Hustling, athletic Kiké Hernández HR—Meadows (1), off García. SB—Alfaro (1).
gone from the game forever.) the Red Sox signed him — he turns 33 in through some brand-new, mint-condition will become an instant fan-favorite, but fel- Tampa Bay
Glasnow
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
6 1 0 0 0 6 0.00
I was stunned they called it so soon May. He went 15-12 with a 3.65 ERA for predictions. low super-versatile acquisition Marwin Thompsn W 1-0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Fairbanks 1 1 0 0 1 0 0.00
Thursday morning. You can’t postpone re- the 2015 Angels, his last fully healthy sea- R Bobby Dalbec will break Walt Dropo’s Gonzalez (.698 OPS in two seasons since Castillo S 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Miami IP H R ER BB SO ERA
newal! And aren’t new beginnings needed son. I bet he can do it again. By the way, record for home runs by a rookie (34, set leaving the Astros) will struggle. Alcantara 6 2 0 0 2 7 0.00
more than ever this season? Postponed? his career adjusted ERA is 106, or 6 per- in 1950) and the franchise season record R Franchy Cordero will draw compari- Floro
García L 0-1
1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
1 1 1 1 0 1 9.00
C’mon. Who cares if the bunting isn’t wa- cent above league average. Hanson’s was for strikeouts (Mike Napoli, 187 in 2013). sons to Wily Mo Pena, but in a good way, Detwiler
Cimber
„ 2 0 0 0 2 0.00
‚ 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
terproof? 105. The latter by a lot. putting up numbers similar to Pena’s 2006 HBP—by Alcantara (YaDíaz). NP—Glasnow
77, Thompson 12, Fairbanks 20, Castillo 12,
Ah, well, I suppose we can wait one I also predicted J.D. Martinez would R The Yankees will regret losing Garrett season with the Red Sox (11 homers, .838 Alcantara 83, Floro 12, García 15, Detwiler 14,
Cimber 14. Umpires—Home, Jerry Layne;
more day. At least the rain provides one have a batting average of no higher than Whitlock to the Red Sox much more than OPS, .301 average, 90 strikeouts in 304 First, Hunter Wendelstedt; Second, Mike Es-
tabrook; Third, Quinn Wolcott. T—2:44.
last chance to wash away the residue of the .250. I’d like to amend that one too: He they did Ramiro Mendoza. plate appearances). A—7,062 (37,446).
lost and lousy 2020 season. will have a batting average of no higher R LeBron James’s Red Sox will win at R The pitching will be much better, not
PHILLIES 3, BRAVES 2
The one-day delay also gives me a than .260. He will hit for power — the least twice as many games in June as will that it could be worse after the Sox used an
ATLANTA AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
chance to squeeze in a few more predic- over/under is 28 homers, I say — but I’m LeBron James’s Lakers. absurd 30 pitchers (including three posi- Acuña Jr. rf 4 0 2 0 1 1 .500
tions about these 2021 Red Sox before the skeptical that having his in-game routine R Jeter Downs will impress so much in tion players) in 60 games en route to a staff Albies 2b
Freeman 1b
5
4
0
0
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0
.000
.000
season begins in earnest. It’s good to get back the way he likes it will make a huge a late-season call-up that those of us who ERA of 5.58. Ozuna lf
d'Arnaud c
5
4
0
0
1 0 0 2
1 0 0 2
.200
.250
them on the record, I figure, so when difference in his struggles catching up with swore we’d never accept the Mookie Betts R You may resist. You may still be put Swanson ss
Riley 3b
4
3
0
0
0 0 0 1
1 0 0 0
.000
.333
they’re 87 percent wrong at season’s end, hard fastballs. trade or a Red Sox player named Jeter will off by the Betts trade, the miserable 2020 Pache cf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .250
Fried p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000
you’ll have this documented evidence to You want a comparison for Martinez? have to make some concessions. season, and ownership’s indifference to Matzek p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Sandoval ph 1 1 1 2 0 0 1.000
use to humiliate me. You’re welcome. You asked for it: Martinez will produce like R With the Red Sox in postseason con- communicating with the fans. But by the Adrianza ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Smith p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
I’ve fired out a few predictions already Jack Clark in the 1991 season with the Red tention, Chris Sale will return for six late- end of the season, you’ll like this team, NatJones p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Totals 37 2 7 2 2 10
in assorted preview pieces. I have the Sox Sox, when he had an .840 OPS and 28 season starts, and to Red Sox fans’ relief, even if it takes you until June to figure out
PHILADELPHIA AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
winning 83, and playing meaningful homers, but just a .249 average. Let’s ig- he’ll look much more like 2018 Sale than which streaming and cable services have McCutchen lf 4 1 1 0 1 2 .250
Hoskins 1b 5 1 1 0 0 3 .200
games in September. I’ll stick with that, nore what happened after that. 1981 Frank Tanana. NESN and which ones don’t. Harper rf 4 1 1 0 1 1 .250
Realmuto c 4 0 2 1 0 0 .500
Bohm 3b 3 0 0 1 1 1 .000

AL
Gregorius ss 4 0 1 0 1 3 .250

Nats on hold
Segura 2b 5 0 2 1 0 0 .400
TIGERS 3, INDIANS 2 BLUE JAYS 3, YANKEES 2 Haseley cf
Quinn cf
3 0 1 0 0 1 .333
1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Nola p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000
CLEVELAND AB R H BI BB SO Avg. TORONTO AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Bradley p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Luplow cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Semien 2b 5 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Alvarado p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Gamel ph-cf 1 0 0 0 1 1 .000 Biggio 3b 5 0 0 0 0 3 .000 Miller ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000

after multiple
Hernandez 2b 4 0 1 0 1 0 .250 Bichette ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Neris p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Ramírez 3b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .333 Hernández rf 4 2 3 1 0 1 .750 Brogdon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
EddiRosario lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .250 Guerrero Jr. 1b 2 0 1 0 2 0 .500 Totals 36 3 9 3 4 13
EAST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak FraReyes dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .250
Atlanta................... 000 000 200 0 — 2 7 1
Naylor rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 Tellez dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Philadelphia..........101 000 000 1 — 3 9 1
Tampa Bay 1 0 1.000 — 0-0 1-0 W1 Chang 1b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Davis pr-dh 0 1 0 0 0 0 —
E—Freeman (1), Hoskins (1). LOB—Atlanta
Bauers ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Grichuk cf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .500
Toronto 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 1-0 W1 9, Philadelphia 10. 2B—Acuña Jr. (1), Pache

positive tests
Rosario ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 Jansen c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .250
(1), Hoskins (1), Realmuto (1). HR—Sandoval
Baltimore 0 0 — ½ 0-0 0-0 — RoPérez c 2 1 1 2 2 1 .500 Totals 36 3 8 3 2 13
(1), off Nola. SB—Segura (1). S—Nola. SF—Bo-
Giménez ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Boston 0 0 — ½ 0-0 0-0 — Totals 32 2 6 2 6 5 NY YANKEES AB R H BI BB SO Avg. hm. DP—Atlanta 1.
LeMahieu 2b-1b 4 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO ERA
New York 0 1 .000 1 0-1 0-1 L1 DETROIT AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Judge rf 5 0 1 0 0 2 .200 Fried 5 6 2 2 2 8 3.60
Grossman lf 1 0 0 0 3 0 .000 Hicks cf 4 0 0 0 1 3 .000 Matzek 1 1 0 0 1 1 0.00
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak Candelario 3b 4 1 1 0 0 3 .250 Stanton dh 5 0 0 0 0 3 .000 Minter 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Detroit 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 1-0 W1 WCastro ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 Torres ss 4 1 1 0 1 2 .250 ChriMartin 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Cabrera 1b 4 1 1 2 0 0 .250 Urshela 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Smith 1 0 0 0 0 3 0.00
Kansas City 1 0 1.000 — 0-0 1-0 W1 Schoop 2b 3 0 1 0 1 2 .333 Sánchez c 3 1 2 2 1 0 .667 NatJones L 0-1 „ 1 1 0 1 0 0.00
*Chicago 0 0 — ½ 0-0 0-0 — ASSOCIATED PRESS Mazara dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Bruce 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .000
Ramos c 3 0 0 0 1 3 .000 Frazier lf 3 0 2 0 1 0 .667 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Cleveland 0 1 .000 1 0-1 0-1 L1 The Opening Day game between the Nationals and VicReyes rf 4 1 0 0 0 2 .000 Totals 35 2 6 2 6 13 Nola 6„ 6 2 2 0 6 2.70
Bradley ‚ 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Minnesota 0 1 .000 1 0-0 0-1 L1 Jones cf 3 0 1 1 0 1 .333 Toronto.................. 010 001 000 1 — 3 8 0
New York Mets in Washington, D.C., was postponed Totals 30 3 5 3 5 14 NY Yankees...........020 000 000 0 — 2 6 0
Alvarado
Neris
1 1 0 0 1 3 0.00
1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
WEST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak Cleveland...................000 000 002 — 2 6 1
hours before it was scheduled to begin Thursday night Detroit........................210 000 00x — 3 5 0
LOB—Toronto 6, NY 10. 2B—Grichuk (1).
HR—Hernández (1), off GCole, Sánchez (1),
Brogdon W 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
*Houston 0 0 — — 0-0 0-0 — IBB—off NatJones (Gregorius). HBP—by
*Los Angeles 0 0 — — 0-0 0-0 —
because of coronavirus concerns after E—Ramírez (1). LOB—Cleveland 9, Detroit off Ryu. SB—Tauchman 2 (2). CS—Grichuk
Fried (Realmuto), by Alvarado (Riley). NP—
NOTEBOOK at least three of the 2019 World Series 8. 2B—Hernandez (1), Jones (1). HR—RoPérez
(1), off Soto, Cabrera (1), off Bieber. SB—
(1). DP—Toronto 1; NY 1.
Toronto IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Fried 94, Matzek 17, Minter 7, ChriMartin 13,
*Oakland 0 0 — — 0-0 0-0 — Grossman (1). DP—Detroit 1. Ryu 5‚ 4 2 2 1 5 3.38
Smith 14, NatJones 6, Nola 84, Bradley 7, Al-
varado 21, Neris 15, Brogdon 7. Umpires—
*Seattle 0 0 — — 0-0 0-0 — champions’ players tested positive for Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO ERA Chatwood „ 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 Home, Bill Miller; First, Doug Eddings; Sec-

NL
Texas 0 1 .000 ½ 0-0 0-1 L1 Bieber L 0-1 6 5 3 3 3 12 4.50 Phelps 1 2 0 0 1 0 0.00 ond, Brian Knight; Third, Gabe Morales.
COVID-19. Shaw 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 Dolis 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.00 T—3:33. A—8,529 (42,792).
Karinchak 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 Romano W 1-0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0.00
Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said in a video Merrywther S 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0.00
conference with reporters that his team also has a fourth
Detroit
Boyd W 1-0
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
5„ 3 0 0 4 2 0.00 NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO ERA
PADRES 8, DIAMONDBACKS 7
Cisnero 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 GCole 5‚ 5 2 2 2 8 3.38
player considered a “likely positive.” He did not identify Norris 1‚ 1 0 0 1 1 0.00 Green 1„ 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
ARIZONA
Rojas ss
AB
5
R H BI BB SO
0 0 0 0 3
Avg.
.000
Soto S 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 18.00 Loaisiga 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
any of the players involved, and said “for the most part, NP—Bieber 95, Shaw 13, Karinchak 17, O’Day 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00 Marte cf
Walker 1b
5
4
2 4 1 0 1
1 1 0 1 0
.800
.250
Nelson L 0-1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.00
EAST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak
the whole team has been — we put them — in lockdown Boyd 92, Cisnero 14, Norris 21, Soto 27.
T—3:03. A—8,000 (41,083). NP—Ryu 92, Chatwood 15, Phelps 22, Dolis
Peralta lf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Cabrera 3b 5 1 2 3 0 1 .400
Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 1-0 W1 and they’re self-quarantining.” 18, Romano 23, Merryweather 11, GCole 97,
Green 17, Loaisiga 8, O’Day 22, Nelson 15.
Escobar 2b 4 1 0 0 0 2 .000

New York 0 0 — ½ 0-0 0-0 — The game will not be made up Friday, originally set PIRATES 5, CUBS 3 T—3:45. A—10,850 (46,537).
PaSmith rf
Locastro ph-rf
2
2
0 1 0 0 0
1 1 2 0 0
.500
.500
Vogt c 4 1 1 1 0 2 .250
Washington 0 0 — ½ 0-0 0-0 — up as a day off to allow for a makeup contest if there PITTSBURGH AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Atlanta 0 1 .000 1 0-1 0-1 L1 Frazier 2b 4 1 2 2 2 0 .500 BREWERS 6, TWINS 5 Bumgarner p
Mathisen ph
2
1
0 1 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 1
.500
.000
Miami 0 1 .000 1 0-0 0-1 L1
were an issue with Game 1, such as a rainout. Rizzo said Hayes 3b 5 1 1 2 1 1 .200 Ginkel p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Reynolds lf 4 0 1 0 1 0 .250 MINNESOTA AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Crichton p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
one of the players testing positive had a fever, while the Moran 1b 2 1 0 0 3 1 .000 Arraez lf-3b 5 0 2 1 1 1 .400 AlexYoung p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak Newman ss 5 0 2 0 0 0 .400 Donaldson 3b 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.000
Milwaukee 1 0 1.000 — 0-0 1-0 W1
others were not displaying COVID-19 symptoms. Polanco rf 4 1 0 0 1 2 .000 Cave lf 4 1 0 0 1 3 .000
CKelly ph
Clarke p
1
0
0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
1.000
—
Stallings c 4 0 2 1 1 2 .500 Polanco 2b 4 0 0 0 1 2 .000 Totals 40 7 12 7 1 12
Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 1-0 W1
St. Louis 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 1-0 W1 Lindor takes big deal; Correa passes Alford cf
Kuhl p
Fowler ph
3
1
1
1
0
0
0 0 2 3 .000
0 0 0 0 .000
1 0 0 0 1.000
Sanó 1b
Kepler rf
Buxton cf
4
5
3
1 1 0 1 3
1 3 1 0 0
1 1 2 2 2
.250
.600
.333
SAN DIEGO
Pham cf
AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
4 0 1 0 0 1 .250
Chicago 0 1 .000 1 0-1 0-1 L1 Though the Mets didn’t play, they did win: Shortstop González ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Garver c 5 0 0 0 0 3 .000 Tatis Jr. ss 5 1 1 0 0 3 .200
Perez ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Simmons ss 4 1 2 0 1 1 .500 Machado 3b 5 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Cincinnati 0 1 .000 1 0-1 0-1 L1 Hosmer 1b 4 1 3 3 0 1 .750
Francisco Lindor and the team agreed to a $341 million, Totals 35 5 9 5 11 10 Maeda p
Cruz ph
1
1
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1
.000
.000 Myers rf 3 2 1 1 1 0 .333
WEST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak CHI. CUBS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
10-year pact that could keep the four-time All-Star in Happ cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .000
Garlick ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Cronenwrth 2b
Profar lf
2 3 2 0 2 0 1.000
2 0 0 1 1 0 .000
Colorado 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 1-0 W1 WContreras c 3 2 0 1 0 1 .000
Astudillo ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
San Diego 1 0 1.000 — 1-0 1-0 W1 Queens for the rest of his career. The deal kicks in for the Rizzo 1b 3 0 1 1 0 1 .333
Totals 39 5 10 4 7 17 Caratini c
Darvish p
4 0 2 3 0 1 .500
2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
*San Francisco 0 0 — ½ 0-0 0-0 — 2022 season, meaning Lindor will be 38 when the con- Bryant 3b
Pederson lf
3 0 0 0 1 1 .000
2 0 0 1 1 2 .000
MILWAUKEE
Wong 2b
AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
3 2 1 0 1 2 .333
Hill p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Kela p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Arizona 0 1 .000 1 0-1 0-1 L1 tract expires. New York’s offer was $1 million more than Báez ss 4 0 0 0 0 3 .000 Hiura 1b 5 1 0 0 0 2 .000 Marcano ph 0 1 0 0 1 0 —
Heyward rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .000 Yelich lf 4 2 2 1 0 1 .500
Los Angeles 0 1 .000 1 0-1 0-1 L1 Pagán p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
* — Not including late game Fernando Tatis Jr. got from San Diego in February, mak- Bote 2b 1 0 0 0 1 1 .000 García rf 5 0 2 0 0 1 .400 Kim ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Duffy ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Shaw 3b 4 0 2 3 1 0 .500 Pomeranz p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
ing it the biggest payday ever for a shortstop. Sogard 2b 2 1 1 0 0 0 .500 Cain cf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .200 Melancon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
RESULTS Totals 26 3 2 3 4 13 Narváez c 5 0 2 1 0 1 .400 Totals 32 8 10 8 5 10
Meanwhile, Houston and Carlos Correa couldn’t Pittsburgh..................210 010 100 — 5 9 2 Urías ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Arizona.......................100 060 000 — 7 12 0
THURSDAY Chi. Cubs................... 101 000 010 — 3 2 0 Vogelbach ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 San Diego..................023 101 10x — 8 10 1
agree on a contract extension before their season opener E—Frazier (1), Stallings (1). LOB—Pitts- Arcia ss 2 0 0 1 0 0 .000 E—Tatis Jr. (1). LOB—Arizona 7, San Diego
Baltimore (ppd.) at Boston St. Louis 11 at Cincinnati 6 Woodruff p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
in Oakland, hitting the star shortstop’s self-imposed burgh 15, Cubs 4. 2B—Frazier (1), Stallings
(1), Rizzo (1), Sogard (1). HR—Hayes (1), off McKinney ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.000
7. 2B—Marte (1), PaSmith (1), Bumgarner (1),
Hosmer (1). 3B—Cronenworth (1). HR—Marte
Toronto 3 (10 inn.) at Yankees 2 Tampa Bay 1 at Miami 0 Bradley Jr. ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
deadline and likely meaning the top pick in the 2012 Hendricks. SB—Frazier (1), Alford (1), Fowler
(1), WContreras (1). CS—Alford (1). S—Hen- Robertsn ph-3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
(1), off Darvish, Cabrera (1), off Darvish, Lo-
castro (1), off Hill, Vogt (1), off Hill, Hosmer
At Detroit 3 Cleveland 2 At Kansas City 14 Texas 10 Totals 40 6 11 6 2 9
draft will go to free agency after the season. dricks. SF—WContreras, Rizzo, Pederson. (1), off Bumgarner, Myers (1), off Bumgarner.
At Milwaukee 6 (10 inn.) Minn. 5 NY Mets (ppd.) at Washington Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO ERA Minnesota..............002 100 200 0 — 5 10 2 SF—Profar. DP—Arizona 1.
Pittsburgh 5 at Chi. Cubs 3 Chi. White Sox at LA Angels
Correa turned down a six-year, $120-million offer Kuhl 3 1 2 1 3 2 3.00 Milwaukee.............001 010 003 1 — 6 11 0 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Underwood 1 0 0 0 0 3 0.00 E—Colomé (1), Simmons (1). LOB—Minne- Bumgarner 4 7 6 6 3 6 13.50
At Phil. 3 (10 inn.) Atlanta 2 Houston at Oakland
from the team early in spring training, and said the Holmes 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 sota 13, Milwaukee 10. 2B—Donaldson (1), Ginkel 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
Howard W 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0.00 Kepler (1), Shaw (1). 3B—Kepler (1). HR— Crichton „ 1 1 1 1 1 13.50
At San Diego 8 Arizona 7 San Francisco at Seattle team’s counteroffer was for five years and $125 million. Bednar 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 Buxton (1), off Yardley. SB—Buxton (1). S— Young L 0-1 1‚ 2 1 1 0 1 6.75
Stratton 1 1 1 1 0 0 9.00 Maeda. Clarke 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
At Colorado 8 LA Dodgers 5
Cabrera’s 488th is No. 1 in 2021 Rodríguez S 1
Chi. Cubs
1 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Minnesota
Maeda
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
4‚ 6 2 1 2 5 2.08
San Diego
Darvish
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
4„ 8 4 4 1 6 7.71
Duffey „ 2 0 0 0 0 0.00
Hendricks L 0-1 3 4 3 3 3 4 9.00 Hill ‚ 2 3 0 0 1 0.00
Miguel Cabrera sent the first home run of the 2021 Workman „ 1 0 0 2 0 0.00
Stashak
Rogers
1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Kela 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Brothers „ 1 1 1 1 1 13.50 Pagán W 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
season, the 488th of his career, into snow flurries at De- Adam 1 1 0 0 2 1 0.00
Robles
Colomé BS 1
1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
1 2 3 0 0 0 0.00
Pomeranz 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.00
Winkler 1„ 1 1 1 1 2 5.40 Melancon S 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
troit’s Comerica Park, the Tigers hanging on to beat Chafin „ 1 0 0 1 0 0.00
Dobnak L 0-1 0 1 1 0 0 0 -
Inherited runners-scored—AlexYoung 2-1.
Tepera ‚ 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
reigning AL Cy Young Shane Bieber and Cleveland, 3-2, Mills 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Milwaukee
Woodruff
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
4 6 3 3 2 5 6.75
HBP—by Bumgarner (Pham). NP—Bumgar-
ner 91, Ginkel 13, Crichton 13, AlexYoung 25,
in A.J. Hinch’s debut as their manager . . . Daniel Bard HBP—by Adam (Evans). NP—Kuhl 63, Un- Peralta
Yardley
2 2 0 0 3 6 0.00
1 2 2 2 0 0 18.00
Clarke 7, Darvish 93, Hill 16, Kela 12, Pagán
20, Pomeranz 21, Melancon 7. Umpires—
derwood 18, Holmes 12, SaHoward 13, Bed-
got Mookie Betts to line out and cement an 8-5 Rockies nar 12, Stratton 19, RichRodríguez 14, Hen- Feyereisen
Lindblom
1 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
Home, Ted Barrett; First, Angel Hernandez;
dricks 63, Workman 23, Brothers 16, Adam 38, Second, Stu Scheurwater; Third, Jose Navas.
win in Denver over the defending champion Dodgers. Winkler 31, Chafin 14, Tepera 12, Mills 17. Hader W 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0.00 T—3:26. A—8,773 (40,019).
Umpires—Home, Mark Wegner; First, Chris HBP—by Maeda (Yelich), by Colomé
Clayton Kershaw was tagged for 10 hits and five earned Guccione; Second, Ramon De Jesus; Third, Al- (Wong). WP—Woodruff, Hader. NP—Maeda
ROYALS 14, RANGERS 10
an Porter. T—4:00. A—10,343 (41,649). 88, Duffey 11, Stashak 10, Rogers 10, Robles
runs, and Cody Bellinger lost a home run when Justin 12, Colomé 17, Dobnak 3, Woodruff 78, Peral-
ta 53, Yardley 18, Feyereisen 15, Lindblom 14, TEXAS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Turner, believing Bellinger’s liner over the wall in the CARDINALS 11, REDS 6 Hader 11. T—4:14. A—11,740 (41,700). Kiner-Falefa ss 5 3 1 0 1 0 .200
Dahl lf 5 2 3 0 1 2 .600
third inning was caught, raced back to the bag and ST. LOUIS AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Gallo rf 3 1 2 2 3 0 .667
passed Bellinger on the basepaths. By rule, Bellinger was Edman 2b 5 1 1 0 0 0 .200 ROCKIES 8, DODGERS 5 Solak 2b 5 2 1 1 0 3 .200
Goldschmidt 1b 5 3 4 1 0 0 .800 Lowe 1b 6 1 2 4 0 3 .333
Holt 3b 2 0 1 0 3 0 .500
out, credited with a single and an RBI, but no home run Arenado 3b
DeJong ss
5 1 2 1 0 2 .400
5 1 1 1 0 1 .200
LA DODGERS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
White dh 4 0 2 2 1 2 .500
Betts rf 6 1 2 0 0 1 .333
. . . Randal Grichuk led off the 10th with an RBI double, O'Neill lf 4 2 1 2 0 1 .250 Seager ss 3 0 2 1 2 0 .667 Taveras cf
Trevino c
5 0 0 0 0 4
5 1 3 0 0 2
.000
.600
Molina c 4 1 0 1 0 0 .000 Turner 3b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .250
Julian Merryweather struck out the side on 11 pitches Carlson cf 3 1 1 3 1 2 .333 Bellinger cf 4 1 2 1 1 0 .500 Totals 40 10 15 9 9 16
JustWilliams rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Muncy 1b 4 0 2 1 1 1 .500 KANSAS CITY AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
in the bottom half, and Toronto won its first game after Flaherty p 1 1 0 0 2 0 .000 Taylor lf 3 0 1 0 2 1 .333 Merrifield 2b 5 2 3 2 0 0 .600
DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS Carpenter ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Lux 2b 4 0 2 1 0 1 .500 Benintendi lf 5 2 1 0 1 2 .200
an active offseason, 3-2, in the major league opener at Totals 37 11 10 9 3 7 Ríos ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Santana 1b 3 2 1 1 3 0 .333
Barnes c 2 0 0 0 2 0 .000
Clayton Kershaw allowed 10 hits and five Yankee Stadium . . . Austin Meadows’s home run with CINCINNATI AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Kershaw p 3 1 2 0 0 0 .667
Perez c
Soler dh
4 2 0 1 1 2 .000
2 2 2 2 2 0 1.000
Winker lf 4 2 2 0 1 2 .500 McKinstry 2b 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000
earned runs in the Dodgers’ 8-5 loss. two outs in the eighth inning was all Tampa Bay needed Castellanos rf 5 2 3 2 0 0 .600 Beaty ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Dozier 3b
Alberto 3b
4 1 0 1 1 2 .000
1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Votto 1b 5 0 1 1 0 0 .200
for a 1-0 win over the Marlins in Miami . . . Michael A. Suárez ss 3 1 1 1 2 1 .333
Totals 36 5 15 5 8 6 Isbel rf 5 1 3 2 0 2 .600
Taylor cf 5 1 3 3 0 0 .600
FRIDAY’S GAMES Taylor homered, drove in three runs, and threw out two
Moustakas 3b 2 0 0 1 2 0 .000 COLORADO AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Lopez ss 4 1 2 1 0 0 .500
Senzel cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Tapia lf 5 0 1 2 0 0 .200
..........2021.......... Team ..........2020 vs. opp .......... Naquin ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Fuentes 3b 5 0 1 1 0 1 .200 Totals 38 14 15 13 8 8
Odds W-L ERA rec. W-L IP ERA players at the plate from center field in a do-it-all debut Aquino ph-cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Story ss 5 0 2 0 0 0 .400 Texas..........................512 001 001 — 10 15 3
India 2b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .500 Kansas City...............502 300 31x — 14 15 0
BALTIMORE AT BOSTON, 2:10 p.m. for the Royals, 14-10 winners over Texas in Kansas City, Barnhart c 1 1 0 0 0 0 .000
Blackmon rf
Cron 1b
3 1 0 0 1 1 .000
4 2 2 0 0 0 .500 E—Kiner-Falefa (1), Taveras (1), Trevino
(1). LOB—Texas 13, Kansas City 13. 2B—Kin-
Eovaldi (R) Off — — 3-0 3-0 19.0 0.95 Mo. Each team scored five times in the first inning of a Blandino ph
Farmer ph-lf
1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
EDíaz c
Owings 2b
4 0 1 0 0 2 .250
3 3 3 1 1 0 1.000 er-Falefa (1), Dahl (1), Lowe (1). HR—Merri-
field (1), off Allard, Soler (1), off Cody, Taylor
Means (L) Off — — 0-1 0-1 3.0 9.00 game that took 4 hours, 26 minutes, with fellow KC Stephenson c
Totals
3 0 1 0 0 0 .333
34 6 10 5 5 8
Hampson cf
Márquez p
3 2 1 1 1 0 .333
1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 (1), off Hearn. SB—Gallo (1). SF—Merrifield,
TAMPA BAY AT MIAMI, 7:10 p.m.
newcomer Andrew Benintendi scoring twice in a 1-for-5 St. Louis.....................610 400 000 — 11 10 0 Daza ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Lopez. DP—Kansas City 1.
Texas IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Cincinnati.................. 102 120 000 — 6 10 2 McMahon ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Yarbrough (L)
López (R)
-125
+105
—
—
—
—
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-2
6.2
11.0
0.00
5.73
debut . . . Austin Meadows’ home run with two outs in E—Suárez 2 (2). LOB—St. Louis 3, Cincin- Totals 35 8 11 5 3 4 Gibson
Hearn
‚ 4 5 5 3 1 135.0
2‚ 4 2 2 1 2 7.71
nati 9. 2B—Goldschmidt 2 (2), Winker (1), LA Dodgers................001 012 010 — 5 15 2
LA DODGERS AT COLORADO, 8:40 p.m.
the eighth inning was all Tampa Bay needed for a 1-0 Castellanos (1), India (1). HR—O'Neill (1), off Colorado....................002 022 20x — 8 11 0 Cody L 0-1 1 4 3 3 1 2 27.00
Bedrosian, Carlson (1), off Castillo, Castella- E—Seager (1), Turner (1). LOB—LA Dodg- Sborz 1‚ 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
Bauer (R) -275 — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00
win over the Marlins in Miami . . . Paul Goldschmidt nos (1), off Flaherty, Suárez (1), off Flaherty. ers 14, Colorado 7. 2B—Betts (1), Bellinger King 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
de Geus 1 1 3 3 2 0 27.00
Senzatela (R) +225 — — 0-0 1-1 17.0 4.76 and Nolan Arenado combined for six hits as the Cardi- S—Castillo. SF—Moustakas. DP—St. Louis 1;
Cincinnati 1.
(1), McKinstry (1), Cron (1). 3B—Muncy (1),
Owings (1). SB—Owings 2 (2). CS—Story (1). Allard 1 2 1 1 0 1 9.00
CHICAGO WHITE SOX AT LA ANGELS, 9:38 p.m. nals roughed up Luis Castillo for six runs in the first in- St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO ERA S—González. SF—Turner. DP—Colorado 3. Kansas City
Keller
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
1‚ 9 6 6 2 0 40.50
Flaherty 4‚ 6 6 6 2 4 12.46 LA Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Keuchel (L)
Heaney (L)
-105
-115
—
—
—
—
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
ning of an 11-6 victory at Cincinnati . . . Eric Hosmer Webb „ 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Kershaw L 0-1 5„ 10 6 5 1 2 7.94 Zimmer „ 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
Helsley 1 3 0 0 0 1 0.00 Knebel ‚ 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Herndez W 1-0 3 3 2 2 1 5 6.00
HOUSTON AT OAKLAND, 9:40 p.m.
had a homer among his three hits and drove in three Cabrera 1 0 0 0 2 0 0.00 Nelson „ 1 2 2 2 1 27.00 Hahn 1 1 1 1 1 2 9.00
Gallegos W 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 Alexander 1‚ 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Barlow 1„ 1 0 0 2 4 0.00
runs, and San Diego beat visiting Arizona, 8-7, despite Reyes 1 1 0 0 1 1 0.00
Colorado IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Holland „ 1 1 0 2 1 0.00
Javier (R) +120 — — 0-0 0-2 8.0 7.88 WaDavis S 1 „ 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Luzardo (L) -140 — — 0-0 1-0 12.2 2.84 giving up four long balls in the fifth inning and blowing Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO ERA Márquez 4 6 1 1 6 2 2.25
HBP—by de Geus (Perez, Soler), by Hahn
Castillo L 0-1 3‚ 8 10 8 2 0 21.60 González W 1-0 2 5 3 3 1 2 13.50
(Solak). WP—Hahn, Holland. PB—Trevino,
ARIZONA AT SAN DIEGO, 10:10 p.m. a five-run lead. Fernando Tatís Jr. struck out three times Bedrosian „ 1 1 1 0 1 13.50 Almonte 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
Perez. Catchers interference—Trevino. NP—
Romano 2 0 0 0 1 2 0.00 Kinley 1 2 1 1 0 0 9.00
Kelly (R) +195 — — 0-0 2-0 12.2 0.71 in the first game after signing his megadeal this offsea- Fulmer 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 Bard S 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 0.00
Gibson 32, Hearn 50, Cody 38, Sborz 28, King
11, de Geus 26, Allard 15, Keller 51, Zimmer
Snell (L) -245 — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 Doolittle 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.00 HBP—by Bard (Smith). WP—Nelson 2, Al-
son . . . Lorenzo Cain scored the winning run in the 10th HBP—by Flaherty (Barnhart), by Castillo exander, ChiGonzález. NP—Kershaw 77,
15, CarlHernández 44, Hahn 23, Barlow 36,
Holland 25, WaDavis 8. Umpires—Home, Jerry
SAN FRANCISCO AT SEATTLE, 10:10 p.m. (O'Neill). —Flaherty, Castillo. NP—Flaherty
after Travis Shaw capped a three-run comeback in the 94, Webb 7, Helsley 17, Cabrera 18, Gallegos
Knebel 4, Nelson 28, Alexander 22, Márquez
92, ChiGonzález 42, Almonte 12, Kinley 20,
Meals; First, Ed Hickox; Second, Vic Carapaz-
Cueto (R) +110 — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 za; Third, Jansen Visconti. T—4:26. A—9,155
Kikuchi (L) -130 — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 ninth with a two-out double, and Milwaukee beat reign- 19, Reyes 21, Castillo 73, Bedrosian 9, Roma-
no 26, Fulmer 23, Doolittle 15. T—3:31.
Bard 24. Umpires—Home, Bill Welke; First,
Chris Conroy; Second, Pat Hoberg; Third, Ben
(37,903).
Team rec. — Record in games started by pitcher this season.
ing AL Central champs Minnesota, 6-5, in Minneapolis. May. T—3:46. A—20,570 (46,897).
C6 Sports
SportsLog
UNC’s Williams
calls it a career
North Carolina announced Thurs-
day that Hall of Fame basketball coach
Roy Williams is retiring after a 33-year
career that includes three national
championships. The decision comes
two weeks after the 70-year-old Wil-
liams closed his 18th season with the
Tar Heels after a highly successful run
at Kansas. Williams won 903 games in
a career that included those three ti-
tles, all with the Tar Heels, in 2005,
2009 and 2017. Williams spent 10 sea-
sons at his alma mater as an assistant
coach to late mentor Dean Smith be-
fore leaving to take over the Jayhawks
program in 1988. Along the way, Wil-
liams had just one losing season — an
injury-plagued 14-19 year in 2019-20
— and otherwise missed the NCAA
Tournament only in his first season at
Kansas when he inherited a program
on probation and in 2010 with a UNC
team that reached the NIT final.
Iowa’s Garza named
men’s player of year
Luka Garza of Iowa was named the
Associated Press men’s national player
of the year after finishing second last
season. He was the runaway choice for
the award, receiving 50 of 63 votes
from AP Top 25 voters. Ayo Dosunmu,
who led Illinois to the Big Ten Tourna-
ment title and a No. 1 NCAA seed, was
second with six votes, followed by
Oklahoma State freshman Cade Cun-
ningham with three. Gonzaga’s Corey
Kispert and Baylor’s Jared Butler each
earned two votes.
BASKETBALL
Durant apologizes for
profane messages
Kevin Durant apologized Thursday
for threatening and profane comments
he made to entertainer Michael Rapa-
port through social media. Rapaport
released images of the private messag-
es Tuesday on his Twitter account, and
they included homophobic and misog-
ynistic language from the Brooklyn
Nets star. “I’m sorry that people seen
the language that I used,” Durant said.
“That’s not really what I want people to
see and hear from me, but hopefully I
can move past it and get back out on
the floor.” The NBA hasn’t weighed in
yet on Durant’s comments and wheth-
er he would be fined. Brooklyn coach
Steve Nash said the team has dis-
cussed the remarks but would keep the
conversation internal. Durant is near-
ing a return from a left hamstring
strain that has sidelined him since
mid-February. He could be back some-
time next week.
Harden out for Nets
with hamstring injury
James Harden didn’t play Thursday
night against Charlotte after leaving
Brooklyn’s game a night earlier with
right hamstring tightness. He joins fel-
low All-Star Kevin Durant, who has
missed a month and a half with his
own hamstring injury, on the injured
list for the Eastern Conference leaders.
Harden sat out the fourth quarter of
the Nets’ 120-108 victory over Houston
on Wednesday. Coach Steve Nash said
after the game he didn’t believe Hard-
en’s injury would be a long-term con-
cern . . . Hawks forward John Collins
will be out at leas t a week with a
sprained left ankle. Collins was injured
during Tuesday night’s loss at Phoenix.
He underwent an MRI that showed a
lateral ankle sprain and associated
bone bruise . . . Veteran guard Jeff
Teague signed with the Bucks after the
Magic waived him last week. Teague
played 34 games for Boston this season
but was traded to Orlando last week as
part of the deal that brought guard Ev-
an Fournier to the Celtics.
HOCKEY
NHL postpones three
more Canucks games
The NHL postponed three more
Vancouver Canucks games because of
COVID-19 issues. Forward Adam Gau-
dette, defenseman Travis Hamonic,
and a member of the Canucks coaching
staff are in NHL COVID-19 protocol.
Canucks games at Edmonton Saturday,
and at Winnipeg Sunday and Tuesday,
have been postponed. That’s in addi-
tion to the home game against the Cal-
gar y Fl ames that was p os tp one d
Wednesday. Rescheduled dates have
not been announced.
TENNIS
Barty returns to the
final of Miami Open
Defending champion Ash Barty re-
turned to the final of the Miami Open
by beating No. 5-seeded Elina Svitoli-
na, 6-3, 6-3. On Saturday, Barty will
play the winner of the second semifinal
between No. 8 Bianca Andreescu and
No. 23 Maria Sakkari. Barty is assured
of retaining her No. 1 ranking next
week. She won the Miami title in 2019,
and the event was canceled last year at
the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
T h e B o s t o n
NCAA WOMEN’S FINAL FOUR
UConn and
Arizona to be
clash of stars
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO — One is a freshman who stepped in-
to the job of leading the most successful program in
women’s basketball. The other is a senior who accepted
the call to build one of the worst into one of this season’s
best.
Together, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and Arizona’s Aari
McDonald are two of the most dynamic scorers in the
country heading into their Friday night clash in the
women’s NCAA Tournament Final Four.
UConn won the River Walk region and rides into its
13th consecutive Final Four as Bueckers this week be-
came the first freshman to win The Associated Press na-
tional player of the year award.
The challenge for Bueckers this season was learning
how to lead a program that had already produced some
of the game’s greatest players — including Rebecca Lobo,
Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore and Breanna Stew-
art — in the Huskies' charge for a potential 12th national
championship.
Bueckers led the Huskies (28-1) in scoring, assists
and steals this season and scored 28 points in their 69-67
regional final win over Baylor. Auriemma this week
called Bueckers “dominant” in “the biggest games we
played.”
McDonald’s burden was to build a winner at a pro-
gram stuck in a basketball desert. Coach Adia Barnes put
that job on her as soon as McDonald transferred from
Washington in 2017 when the Wildcats were living at the
bottom of the Pac-12.
McDonald sat out the 2017-2018 season and watched
at Arizona won just six games. Now she is the conference
player of the year and has the Wildcats on level ground
with the Huskies for at least one more day.
“It’s crazy. We really started at the bottom,” McDonald
said. “Coach Barnes and the other coaches. They do a
great job recruiting. They changed the culture since I’ve
been here. My teammates have put in so much work and
it’s exciting to see it all pay off.”
. . .
Dawn Staley remembers talking to her Olympic coach
Tara VanDerveer before she took the job at Temple two
decades ago.
The longtime Stanford coach actually suggested that
Staley not become the head coach at the Philadelphia
school because she was still playing in the WNBA and
wouldn’t have the time to do both well.
Twenty-one years later and Staley admits she still has
a bit of a chip on her shoulder about that conversation
and has used it as motivation both at Temple and now
South Carolina.
“I don’t look down on her because she put that chip
on my shoulder,” Staley said. “I just needed that, the past
21 years. I thank her for making the chip a little bit big-
ger.”
The two friends meet Friday night in the Final Four
when VanDerveer and Stanford takes on Staley’s Game-
cocks, and this isn’t the first meeting between the two on
the big stage. They played in the 2017 Final Four and
South Carolina rallied from a nine-point halftime deficit
to win en route to the NCAA championship.
Stanford has been making 3-pointers at an impressive
rate, connecting on 50 of them in the first four games of
the tournament. The Cardinal are fifth in the country in
made threes and sixth in 3-point shooting percentage at
38.3 percent.
South Carolina has been playing stellar defense, shut-
ting out Texas in the fourth quarter in their Elite Eight
matchup.
The Gamecocks blocked 14 shots in that game and
held the Longhorns to just 23 percent shooting. South
Carolina has been giving up just 74 points per 100 pos-
sessions in the women’s NCAA Tournament so far, which
only five teams have done over the past five years.
Wie West (70) in
the hunt at ANA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michelle Wie West was back on a major champion-
ship leaderboard Thursday at the ANA Inspiration in
Rancho Mirage, Calif. So was Shanshan Feng in her first
tournament in 16 months.
GOLF Playing for the second straight
ROUNDUP week after a 21-month break, Wie
West shot a 2-under 70, leaving her
four strokes behind leader Patty Tavatanakit.
“Came into the day like, ‘OK, no stress today, easy
golf,’ ” Wie West said. “And the first couple holes were not
easy golf. I’m just happy to see my name on the first page
of the leaderboard. That’s really special to me. Been a
long time since I’ve seen that.”
Feng birdied three of her last five holes for a bogey-
free 67 in the morning. The Chinese star hadn’t played a
competitive round since November 2019 because of the
coronavirus pandemic and a recent visa delay.
Tavatanakit, the 21-year-old former UCLA player
from Thailand, closed with a birdie on the par-5 18th for
a bogey-free 66. She reached all the par 5s in two, birdie-
ing three of them.
Leona Maguire of Ireland matched Feng with a 67 in
the afternoon, when temperatures were in the low 90s.
Triple-digit heat was expected the next three days.
PGA — Camilo Villegas chipped in twice to highlight a
nine-birdie round that earned him an 8-under 64 and the
first-round lead at the Valero Texas Open at San Antonio.
Jordan Spieth, whose struggles the past three years
appear to be subsiding after four top-10 finishes the past
two months, sits three back (67) with Seung-Yul Noh and
Hideki Matsuyama.
Phil Mickelson dropped to 15 shots back when he had
a 10 on the 18th hole. He took two penalty shots and an-
other three strokes trying to get away from a greenside
stream, and ended with a 79.
Augusta National Women’s Amateur — Ingrid Lindblad
of Sweden had a 2-under-par 70 for one of only three
rounds under par in the wind and chill, giving her a
share of the lead with top-ranked Rose Zhang going into
the final round at Augusta, Ga.
G l o b e
Boston English’s Giovanni Antonie (right) can’t get a grip on East Boston’s Alex Valencia.
East Boston tops English
Jets on pace for a City
League title in Fall II
By Nathaniel Weitzer
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
East Boston 20 There are strong ties
between the coaches
Boston English 6 for East Boston and
Boston English, but when they tangle on the
football field, it’s all about the competition.
English coach Ryan Conway spent 19 years
as an assistant at Eastie before taking the
coaching job at his alma mater, and East Bos-
ton coach John Parziale said he remains good
friends with his adversary today.
On a gusty Thursday at John Sartori Stadi-
um, Parziale’s East Boston Jets packed more
punch than the visiting Boston English Eagles,
controlling the action with a strong ground
game to earn a 20-6 City League victory.
“English is a great team and Ryan Conway is
a good friend of ours,” said Parziale. “I hate
playing him. We love each other. But for two
hours, we go at it.”
East Boston (4-0) squandered a couple of
red-zone opportunities early before senior
Aamir Johnson (25 carries, 118 yards, 2 touch-
downs) broke through with a 1-yard touch-
down early in the second quarter.
English (1-3) also came up empty on a cou-
ple of red-zone possessions, but started the
third quarter with a strong drive to tie the con-
test, 6-6, on a 4-yard touchdown run from ju-
nior Keesean Kerr.
East Boston responded emphatically, with
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROUNDUP
Sizable victory for Winthrop
By Trevor Hass
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
In Duke Doherty’s eyes, divisions don’t mat-
ter in the slightest. Neither does the size of the touchdowns (5 passing, 1 rushing), including a
players on the field. It’s all about who makes
plays on a given night, regardless of where a
team comes from and who it’s up against.
“Who cares about size?” the Winthrop senior
quarterback said with a grin through his mask.
“We’re all short here. There’s something in the
water that makes us short or something, but size
never mattered to me, it never mattered to any
of these boys. We always grinded our whole life.”
The Navy football-bound Doherty, who previ-
ously played for perennial power Everett, is now
a leader for his hometown team as a senior cap-
tain. He powered the Division 6 Vikings to a sig-
nature 22-6 home win over 15 th-ranked
Framingham Thursday night, throwing a first-
quarter touchdown pass and rushing for a two-
point conversion late in the quarter as well.
The game was scheduled at the last minute,
as both teams needed an opponent and wanted
to play someone — anyone. Winthrop (3-0) max-
imized the unusual situation, continuing its de-
fensive dominance.
“It’s certainly a statement win for our pro-
gram,” Winthrop coach Jon Cadigan said. “I’m
just proud of my guys for how they played.”
Two third-quarter interceptions in a span of
three minutes helped the Vikings build on a 14-6
halftime lead and put the game out of reach.
Archbishop Williams 35, Arlington Catholic 8
— Junior quarterback Will Leclair tossed three
touchdown passes in the first half, including a
41-yard strike to Matt Kowalski on the first of-
fensive play, as the host Bishops (3-1) cruised to Wellesley 26, Weymouth 7 — Sophomore Vin-
the Catholic Central win.
Bishop Fenwick 21, Bishop Feehan 7 — Fenwick
(3-0) continued its impressive defensive start,
surrending just its second touchdown in three
games in the Catholic Central win at McGrath
Field. “I had a feeling we were going to be very
strong on the defensive side of the ball
because of all the returning players and
a couple of new transfers,” said senior
Jake Connolly, who scored a rushing and
a receiving touchdown.
Blue Hills 20, West Bridgewater 14 —
Devlin Young rushed for two touch-
downs for the visiting Warriors (2-0), a
45-yard run in the third quarter and a
16-yard go-ahead score with just over a
minute left in regulation to fuel the May-
flower victory.
Brighton 16, Tech Boston 14 — Sahmir
Morales scampered in for the tying
touchdown from 3 yards in the fourth
quarter and connected with Jathan Framingham’s Robert Viele (right) celebrates his
Greene (16 carries, 144 yards) for the go- first-quarter touchdown with teammate Tim
ahead two-point conversion to power Sullivan but Winthrop dominated the game, 22-6.
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6-foot, 210-pound sophomore Jaye Kincade (7
carries, 26 yards) running through a pile of de-
fenders for a 3-yard touchdown. An intercep-
tion by John Festa set up Johnson’s second
score, from 2 yards, and Michael O’Neill added
a 2-point rush to put the game out of reach late
in the fourth quarter.
“ We found a few openings and our line
stepped up and blocked a little better,” said Par-
ziale. “It’s a good group and they work hard in
practice every day, so it’s fun to watch.”
After the game, former East Boston coach
John Sousa congratulated the team on a hard-
hitting effort. A senior captain on the 1969
Eastie team that went undefeated, Sousa
coached Conway when the latter was a player
at English in the 1980s, and served as Eastie’s
coach from 1994 to 2009.
“I just told the kids, any time the Blue and
Gold gets a win, we’re always proud,” said Sou-
sa.
East Boston is now on pace for a City
League title in the shortened Fall II season. For
student-athletes in areas of the city that have
been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic,
simply getting out of the house to compete is a
victory.
“With COVID, East Boston was one of the
hardest hit in the state, and in the nation,” said
Parziale.
“It was tough for the kids. We had a lot of
people who were sick. I grew up here in East
Boston. We got small houses, and if you’re
stuck there for a year, it’s not fun. They finally
get to breathe some fresh air and play the sport
they love, so we’re happy.”
Brighton to the Boston City League win.
Cambridge 48, Wayland 42 — Senior quarter-
back Ashur Carraha accounted for six total
go-ahead 38-yard score to Jaron Dottin with 38
seconds left as the Falcons overcame a 14-point
fourth quarter deficit to capture the Dual Coun-
ty League road win.
Canton 17, Sharon 6 — Vincent O’Brien (33
yards) and Andrew Butler (32 yards) reeled in
first-half touchdown receptions and Will Keefe
drilled a 33-yard field goal to power the Bulldogs
(2-2) to the Hockomock win.
Lincoln-Sudbury 42, Waltham 0 — Senior cap-
tain Collin Murphy forced a fumble, scooped up
another, and picked off another pass as the host
Warriors (4-0) waltzed to DCL win.
Marshfield 48, Plymouth North 0 — Junior Ow-
en Masterson had a career night for the Rams
(3-0) in the Patriot League win, scoring from 4
and 6 yards out and tossing TD passes of 11, 17
and 39 yards.
Peabody 24, Danvers 7 — Senior Kyle Maglione
ran for a pair of first-half touchdowns and added
an interception and two sacks on defense to lead
the host Tanners (2-1) in the Northeast Confer-
ence win.
Plymouth South 39, Pembroke 13 — Freshman
Casious Johnson ran for touchdowns of 7, 4, and
39 yards as the host Panthers (3-1) scored 32 un-
answered points in the Patriot League win.
Scituate 40, Quincy 13 — Andrew Bossey (13
carries, 102 yards) rushed for first-half touch-
downs of 15, 9, and 13 yards as the host Sailors
(3-0) soared to a 33-0 cushion in the first half of
the Patriot League win.
cent Ferrara (230 yards passing) connected with
senior Anthony Perez for scoring strikes of 32
(first quarter) and 75 yards (third quarter) to
propel the visiting Raiders (3-1) to the Bay State
Conference win.
Brendan Kurie reported from Attleboro.
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BASKETBALL
BAL BAL BAL TB TB TB BAL
BOYS
GREATER BOSTON 2:10 1:10 1:10 7:10 7:10 1:10 3:05
Tournament Semifinals NESN NESN NESN NESN NESN YouTube NESN
Everett 59....................Lynn Classical 33
Lynn English 54.................Somerville 28
GIRLS
GREATER BOSTON
Tournament Semifinals
PIT PHI PHI WAS
Everett 69.............................. Medford 49 1:00 7:00 7:00 7:00
Lynn Classical 44...........Revere 37 (OT)
NESN+ NESN+ NESN+ NESN
FOOTBALL
BAY STATE HOU CHA PHI NY
Braintree 48...........................Brookline 6 7:30 6:00 7:30 7:30
Natick 35................................Needham 0
Wellesley 26........................Weymouth 7 NBCSB NBCSB NBCSB, NBCSB
Winthrop 22.....................Framingham 6 TNT*
CATHOLIC CENTRAL
Abp. Williams 35........ Arlington Cath. 8
Bp. Fenwick 21...................Bp. Feehan 7
DUAL COUNTY LAFC LAG2
Lincoln-Sudbury 42...............Waltham 0 (exh.) (exh.)
HOCKOMOCK
Canton 17...................................Sharon 6 10:00 2:00
Foxboro 40........................Oliver Ames 6
NORTHEASTERN
Peabody 24.............................. Danvers 7 Home games shaded For updated scores: bostonglobe.com/sports
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PATRIOT
Hingham 14.......................Silver Lake 13 On the radio, unless noted: Red Sox, WEEI-FM 93.7; Bruins, Celtics, and Revolution, WBZ-FM 98.5; *WROR-FM 105.7
Race participants gather their gear to take part in the pentathlon on Mount Washington. Marshfield 48.............Plymouth North 0
Plymouth South 39...........Pembroke 13
Scituate 40............................... Quincy 13
SOUTH COAST ON THE AIR

Tuckerman Inferno race

Apponequet 28.......Somerset Berkley 0
SOUTH SHORE BASEBALL Latest line
Abington 21............................Cohasset 0 2:10 p.m. Baltimore at Boston NESN NBA
E. Bridgewater 22..................Norwell 12
Friday
NONLEAGUE 7 p.m. Tampa Bay at Miami MLB
Brighton 16.....................Tech Boston 14 Favorite Line Underdog
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Golden State........ 3½ ..........At Toronto

gets a five-star rating

E. Boston 20.................Boston English 6
Cambridge 48.......................Wayland 42 At Boston..........OFF ..............Houston
Blue Hills 20..............W. Bridgewater 14 10:30 a.m. Geico national girls semifinal ESPNU Dallas.....................5½ .......At New York
At Indiana..............4 .............Charlotte
12:30 p.m. Geico national girls semifinal ESPNU At Memphis..........7 .......... Minnesota
FRIDAY’S GAMES
2:30 p.m. Geico national boys semifinal ESPN2 At N. Orleans...OFF ................Atlanta
CAPE ANN — Ipswich at Newburyport, At Utah..............OFF ...............Chicago
5. 4:30 p.m. Geico national boys semifinal ESPN2 At Phoenix..........12½ ...Oklahoma City
COMMONWEALTH — Lynn Tech at Milwaukee............3½ .........At Portland
Northeast, 4; Greater Lowell at Essex
Tech, 5:30; Whittier at Nashoba Valley
PRO BASKETBALL At Sacramento.....4½ ............LA Lakers
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
uTUCKERMAN Tech, 6; Shawsheen at Greater Law-
rence, 7.
7:30 p.m. Dallas at New York NBA Saturday
Continued from Page C1 MERRIMACK VALLEY — Lawrence at 7:30 p.m. Houston at Boston NBCSB Favorite Line Underdog
Andover, 5; Lowell at Chelmsford, 5; Baylor........................5 .............. Houston
10 p.m. Milwaukee at Portland NBA
dium, course organizers met with mountain Methuen at Haverhill, 5; Tewksbury at Gonzaga................. 14 ....................UCLA
North Andover, 5. National Hockey League
guides and experts, including the Mount PATRIOT — Pembroke at Plymouth
NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Friday
South, 6. 6 p.m. Final Four: South Carolina vs. Stanford ESPN
Washington Avalanche Center. They made sev- SOUTH COAST — Dighton-Rehoboth at
Favorite Line Underdog
Washington....-175 At NJ Devils...+163
Line
Bourne, 4; Old Rochester at Greater 9:30 p.m. Final Four: Arizona vs. UConn ESPN
eral last-day course changes because the snow New Bedford, 4; Seekonk at Case, 4;
Toronto...........-141 At Winnipeg..+131
At Edmonton..-137 Calgary..........+127
GOLF
was being undermined by running water. Wareham at Fairhaven, 4.
SOUTH SHORE — Carver at Mashpee,
At Colorado....-230 St. Louis.........+210
12 p.m. LPGA: ANA Inspiration Golf At LA Kings.... -124 San Jose........ +114
Risch said skiers were required to carry the 6.
SATURDAY’S GAMES 4 p.m. PGA: Texas Open Golf
Arizona............-120 At Anaheim...+110

minimum standard backcountry safety kit, in- CAPE & ISLANDS — Dennis-Yarmouth
7 p.m. LPGA: ANA Inspiration Golf
at Nauset, 12; Nantucket at Monomoy,
cluding an avalanche beacon, probe, and shov- 1.

el. Additionally, they recommended that rac-

ers on the ski/snowboard mountaineering leg
carry crampons and an ice axe.
There were 50 solo racers, and 20 teams
competing on a picture-perfect day — the first
of spring. Risch, whose father started the pen-
tathlon here 21 years ago, says the race is a
nod to the history of Inferno races.
The original Inferno, the world’s oldest am-
ateur downhill ski race, began in Murren,
Switzerland, in 1928, and a similar race start-
ed at Tuckerman Ravine in 1937.
“We want to pay homage to those old races,
but give it a new twist,” Risch says.
A wrong turn made it famous.
On April 16, 1939, in the third American
Inferno held at Tuckerman Ravine, Toni Matt,
a 19-year-old ski champion who fled Nazi-oc-
cupied Austria, missed a gate and when he re-
alized his mistake, it was too late. He was
speeding straight toward the headwall. He de-
cided to tuck his arms and go straight off the
lip.
Matt nailed the landing and raced down
the mountain at speeds of up to 85 miles per
STAN GROSSFELD/GLOBE STAFF
Running in the snow is a special skill,
requiring special shoes; snowshoeing is
one leg on the Tuckerman pentathlon.
an, unpacking his Fat Bike for the 6-mile seg-
ment that starts the race. “It takes no gas to
get to the top.”
It was still dark out when the first sound of
cowbells rang out in the valley as families
cheered on their loved ones. More cowbells
soon followed. Everyone knows you always
need more cowbell.
Creative volunteers used red Gatorade to
mark the starting line in the snow. There were
no crowds, and racers departed in 10-second
staggered starts. On Tuckerman Ravine Trail,
one photographer complained because he
CAPE ANN — North Reading at Ames-
bury, 1; Pentucket at Hamilton-Wen-
ham, 1.
CATHOLIC CENTRAL — Austin Prep at
Bishop Stang, 1.
CATHOLIC CONFERENCE — St. John’s
Prep at St. Johns (Shrewsbury), 12;
Xaverian at Catholic Memorial, 12.
COMMONWEALTH — Lowell Catholic
at KIPP Academy, 10a.
DUAL COUNTY — Newton South at Ac-
ton-Boxborough, 10:30a.
HOCKOMOCK — Milford at Franklin,
12; Stoughton at North Attleborough,
1; King Philip at Mansfield, 6:30.
MAYFLOWER — Upper Cape at Cape
Cod Tech, 11a.
MERRIMACK VALLEY — Central Catho-
lic at Billerica, 1.
MIDDLESEX — Arlington at Win-
chester, 10a; Burlington at Wakefield,
11a; Stoneham at Watertown, 11a;
Wilmington at Melrose, 12; Belmont at
Reading, 1; Lexington at Woburn, 1:30.
NORTHEASTERN — Saugus at Salem,
10a; Gloucester at Beverly, 1; Mas-
conomet at Marblehead, 2.
TRI-VALLEY — Dover-Sherborn at Bell-
ingham, 10a; Westwood at Norwood,
12; Holliston at Ashland, 1; Medfield at
Hopkinton, 1; Medway at Dedham, 5.
NONLEAGUE — Hull at Randolph, 11a;
Milton at Bedford, 12; Rockland at
Whitman-Hanson, 12; Lynnfield at
Manchester Essex, 1; Millis at St.
Marys, 2.
INDOOR TRACK
BOYS
HOCKOMOCK
Canton 57...............................Foxboro 33
GIRLS
HOCKOMOCK
Foxboro 57...............................Canton 43
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Yardage: 7,494; par: 72
Viloria and P Scott Blewett for assign-
First round (yardage: 6,865; par: 72) ment. Selected the contracts of CF
Camilo Villegas...........................64 -8 Kyle Islbel from Quad Cities (High-A
Patty Tavatanakit.......................66 -6 Sung Kang...................................66 -6 Central) and P Jake Brentz from North-
Shanshan Feng...........................67 -5 Cameron Tringale......................66 -6 west Arkansas (Double-A Central).
Leona Maguire............................67 -5 Hideki Matsuyama.....................67
Seung-yul Noh............................ 67
-5
-5
LA Angels: Signed INF David Fletch-
Ariya Jutanugarn........................68 -4 er on a five-year contract.
Moriya Jutanugarn.....................68 -4 Jordan Spieth..............................67 -5
Megan Khang..............................68 -4 Tom Hoge....................................68 -4 Oakland: Selected the contracts of P
Reymin Guduan and INF Jed Lowrie
Sebastian Munoz........................68 -4
Anna Nordqvist...........................68
Georgia Hall................................ 69
-4
-3 Scottie Scheffler.........................68 -4 from Las Vegas (Triple-A West). Op-
Kevin Stadler...............................69 -3 tioned P A.J. Puk and P Daulton Jeffer-
Charley Hull.................................69 -3
Matt Wallace...............................69 -3 ies to the alternate training site.
Jin Young Ko...............................69 -3 Placed RHPs Mike Fiers and Trevor
Vincent Whaley..........................69 -3
Jessica Korda..............................69 -3 Rafa Cabrera Bello.....................70 -2 Rosenthal on the 10-day injured list.

hour. He finished in an incredible 6 minutes,
29.4 seconds, slashing the course record near-
ly in half.
Matt, who died in 1989, recalled that he
was “19 and stupid with strong legs.”
“Going over the lip is a terrifying experi-
ence, especially the first time. It’s like jumping
into a 600-foot-deep hole from a speeding car
. . . there wasn’t time to be afraid because I
was too busy watching for bumps,” he said.
Jason McGowan, a software engineer from
Newfield, N.H., was doing the Tuckerman In-
ferno pentathlon for the first time, but knew
all about the legendary Matt.
“He was pretty crazy,” he says. But he readi-
ly admits he’s crazy, too.
He says it’s well worth the effort to get to
Tuckerman Ravine, “one of the most beautiful
places in New England.”
For McGowan and other competitors, zoom
means zipping down trails, not suffering
through yet another meeting on the computer.
“I think a lot of people are in the backcoun-
try for environmental reasons,” says McGow-
STAN GROSSFELD/GLOBE STAFF
Fat bike riders take off from Great Glen
Trails on Mount Washington for a 6-mile
couldn’t get a photo of anyone grimacing, lug-
ging backpacks and skis up the mountain. All
he saw were smiles.
The same was true at the finish line.
Molly Campbell of Dover, N.H., did a snow
angel after snowboarding down the Sherburne
Ski Trail with her team “Carrying the Banner.”
“Who does the pentathlon after being
locked up for a year?” says the University of
New Hampshire writing instructor. “Oh my
God. What a beautiful day. You actually get to
forget about COVID for a minute. You feel so
good to be out here in the world.”
Two Massachusetts residents won the solo
awards and each received a $1,000 prize.
Brian MacIlvain, 36, of Wayland, finished
in 3 hours, 2 minutes, 31.4 seconds and Dr.
Josie Fisher, a Mass General internist, com-
pleted the course in 3:13:08.
The “Wildtuckerettes” won the women’s ti-
tle. “Fresh Off The Couch” captured the men’s
team title.
The men’s team race was exciting. There
were seven lead changes with the defending
champion team, “All Stoved Up And Tucked
Out,” just missing another victory.
Their snowboarder, Matt Burkett, was all
smiles at the finish, sipping an ice cold beer.
He loved the reconfigured course that had
them ski two flanks of the Tuck, but climbing
up the second time was problematic when
conditions got icy and very slippery.
He was in first place and didn’t want to
make a stop and put on his crampons. At
times he was on his hands and knees crawling.
“I messed up and I didn’t put crampons on.
And that might have been the race,” he says.
“But it was awesome. It really was. It was cool.
What a fun race.”
Stan Grossfeld can be reached at
SOCCER Jennifer Kupcho..........................69
Bronte Law..................................69
BOYS Mirim Lee.....................................69
NONLEAGUE Yuka Saso....................................69
Diman 1..............................Upper Cape 0
GIRLS
Carlota Ciganda..........................70
Dani Holmqvist...........................70
SOUTH COAST
Seekonk 3.......................................Case 2
Sarah Kemp.................................70
Christina Kim..............................70
NONLEAGUE Cheyenne Knight........................70
Blue Hills 4.....................................Avon 1 Lydia Ko.......................................70
Boston Latin 7.......................Winthrop 0 Azahara Munoz...........................70
Inbee Park...................................70
VOLLEYBALL Pornanong Phatlum...................70
Gerina Piller.................................70
Sophia Popov..............................70
GIRLS
BAY STATE Lexi Thompson...........................70
Needham 3..................................Natick 0 Michelle Wie West.....................70
Newton North 3..........................Milton 1 Amy Yang....................................70
Walpole 3.........................Framingham 0 Pajaree Anannarukarn..............71
Wellesley 3..........................Weymouth 1 Nicole Broch Larsen...................71
BOSTON CITY Ally Ewing....................................71
E. Boston 3.............................S. Boston 1 Hannah Green.............................71
Latin Acad. 3..........................Snowden 0
OBryant 3..........................Boston Int'l. 0
Jaye Marie Green.......................71
Mi Jung Hur.................................71
CAPE & ISLANDS
Nantucket 3................................Nauset 2
Yui Kawamoto............................ 71
Nelly Korda..................................71
COMMONWEALTH Jeongeun Lee..............................71
Essex Tech 3............................Whittier 0 Yu Liu............................................71
Mystic Valley 3................Lowell Cath. 0 Stephanie Meadow....................71
DUAL COUNTY Ryann O'Toole.............................71
Concord-Carlisle 3................Westford 0 Sung Hyun Park..........................71
Lincoln-Sudbury 3.................Waltham 0 Mel Reid.......................................71
Wayland 3................Cambridge 0 (3OT) Madelene Sagstrom.................. 71
MAYFLOWER
Bristol-Plymouth 3...........Upper Cape 0
Sarah Schmelzel.........................71
Jenny Shin................................... 71
MIDDLESEX
Melrose 3............................Watertown 0
Lauren Stephenson....................71
Kelly Tan......................................71
NORTHEASTERN Perrine Delacour........................ 72
Peabody 3..................................Saugus 0 Jodi Ewart Shadoff.....................72
Kristen Gillman...........................72
R For updated scores and highlights, Caroline Inglis.............................72
go to bostonglobe.com/sports/high- Eun-Hee Ji....................................72
schools.
Danielle Kang..............................72
Cristie Kerr..................................72
Hyo Joo Kim................................72
Sei Young Kim............................ 72
Colleges
Nanna Koerstz Madsen.............72
Brittany Lang.............................. 72
Minjee Lee...................................72
Xiyu Lin........................................ 72
BASKETBALL Pernilla Lindberg........................72
MEN
Gabriela Ruffels..........................72
So Yeon Ryu................................72
Final Four
Saturday
Alena Sharp.................................72
Hinako Shibuno..........................72
at Indianapolis Jennifer Song..............................72
Houston vs. Baylor, 5:15; UCLA vs. Angela Stanford......................... 72
Gonzaga, 8:30 Angel Yin......................................72
National Championship Aditi Ashok..................................73
Monday Ashleigh Buhai............................73
at Indianapolis
TBA vs. TBA, 9
In Gee Chun.................................73
Austin Ernst.................................73
WOMEN
Katherine Kirk.............................73
Aline Krauter...............................73
Final Four
Friday
Mi Hyang Lee..............................73
Brittany Lincicome.....................73
at San Antonio Gaby Lopez..................................73
South Carolina vs. Stanford, 6; UConn Caroline Masson.........................73
vs. Arizona, 9:30 Amy Olson...................................73
National Championship
Sunday
Hee Young Park..........................73
Maria Torres............................... 73
at San Antonio
TBA vs. TBA, 6
Ayako Uehara............................. 73
Jing Yan........................................73
Marina Alex.................................74
-3
-3
Adam Hadwin.............................70 -2 Designated OF Skye Bolt for assign-
ment.
Brandon Hagy.............................70 -2
-3 Tampa Bay: Placed RF Brett Phillips
-3
Padraig Harrington....................70
Matt Kuchar................................70
-2
-2 and 1B Ji-Man Choi on the 10-day in-
jured list.
-2
-2
Kyoung-Hoon Lee.......................70 -2
Texas: Selected the contracts of P
Pat Perez..................................... 70 -2
-2 Brendan Steele...........................70 -2 Matt Bush and INF Charlie Culberson
from Round Rock (Triple-A West). Re-
-2 Martin Trainer.............................70 -2
-2 Keegan Bradley..........................71 -1 called P Kolby Allard from Round Rock.
-2 Wesley Bryan..............................71 -1 Placed P Demarcus Evans, LHPs Brock
-2 Corey Conners............................71 -1 Burke, Brett Martin and Joely Rodri-
-2 Cameron Davis...........................71 -1 guez, C Sam Huff, OFs Willie Calhoun
Zach Johnson..............................71 -1 and Khris Davis on the 10-day injured
-2
Patton Kizzire..............................71 -1 list. Assigned P Hunter Wood and P
-2
-2 Anirban Lahiri.............................71 -1 Hyeon-jong Yang to the alternate
training site. Designated INF Rougned
Denny McCarthy.........................71 -1
-2
Ryan Moore.................................71 -1 Odor for assignment.
-2
Toronto: Selected P Tim Mayza and
-2 Rory Sabbatini............................71
Charl Schwartzel........................71
-1
-1 INF Joe Panik from Buffalo (Triple-A
-1
-1
Kyle Stanley................................71
Sepp Straka.................................71
-1
-1
East). Recalled P Joel Payamps from
the alternate training site. Optioned
-1
-1
Vaughn Taylor............................71 -1 LHPs Travis Bergen and Anthony Kay
to the alternated training site. Placed
Erik van Rooyen......................... 71 -1
-1
-1
Gary Woodland...........................71 -1 RHPs Thomas Hatch, Kirby Yates and
Nate Pearson, P Robbie Ray and OF
Abraham Ancer.......................... 72 E
-1
-1
Akshay Bhatia.............................72 E George Springer on the 10-day injured
Joseph Bramlett......................... 72 E list. Designated C Reese McGuire and
-1 Rafael Campos............................72 E INF Breyvic Valera for assignment.
-1 K.J. Choi........................................72 E Arizona: Recalled P Riley Smith from
-1 Jason Dufner...............................72 E Reno (Triple-A West). Placed P Zac
-1 Brice Garnett...............................72 E Gallen and RF Kole Calhoun on the 10-
-1 Will Gordon................................. 72 E day injured list.
-1 John Huh......................................72 E
-1 Si Woo Kim..................................72 E
Chi. Cubs: Placed RHPs Jonathan
Holder and Rowan Wick and C Austin
-1
-1
Chris Kirk.....................................72
Martin Laird................................ 72
E
E
Romine on the 10-day injured list.
Cincinnati: Optioned 2B Max Sch-
-1 Keith Mitchell..............................72
Ryan Palmer................................72
E
E
rock, LF Mar Payton to the alternate
-1 training site. Designated P Edgar Gar-
E Doc Redman................................72 E cia for assignment. Placed CF Shogo
E Chase Seiffert.............................72 E Akiyama, RHPs Sonny Gray and Mi-
E Roger Sloan.................................72 E chael Lorenzen on the 10-day injured
E Brandt Snedeker........................ 72 E list. Selected the contract of 3B Jona-
E
Jimmy Walker.............................72 E than India from Chattanooga (Dou-
Ryan Brehm.................................73 +1 ble-A South). Activated 1B Joey Votto
E
E
Tyler Duncan...............................73 +1 from the 10-day injured list.
Tony Finau...................................73 +1 Colorado: Signed P Jhoulys Chacin.
E Michael Gligic.............................73 +1 Designated P Jairo Diaz for assign-
E
Lucas Glover............................... 73 +1
E Chesson Hadley..........................73 +1
ment. Placed P Kyle Freeland and 2B
Brendan Rodgers on the 10-day injured
E Scott Harrington.........................73 +1
E David Hearn................................ 73 +1
list.
LA Dodgers: Placed P Brusdar
E
E
Charles Howell III.......................73
Tain Lee........................................73
+1
+1
Graterol on the 60-day injured list and
P Joe Kelly on the 10-day injured list.
E
E
Tom Lewis...................................73
Luke List.......................................73
+1
+1
Miami: Placed RF Jesus Sanchez and
P Jorge Guzman on the 10-day injured
E Adam Long..................................73 +1 list.
E Peter Malnati..............................73 +1
Milwaukee: Placed RHPs Bobby
E Ben Martin...................................73 +1
Wahl and Justin Topa, C Jacob Notting-
E Matthew NeSmith......................73 +1
E D.A. Points...................................73 +1
ham, RF Derek Fisher on the 10-day in-
jured list.
+1 Greyson Sigg...............................73 +1
+1 Brian Stuard................................73 +1 NY Mets: Placed RHPs Carlos Car-
rasco, Drew Smith and Seth Lugo on
Nick Taylor..................................73 +1
+1
+1 Harold Varner III........................ 73 +1 the 10-day injured list and INF Jose
Bernd Wiesberger......................73 +1 Martinez on the 60-day injured list.
+1
Danny Willett..............................73 +1 Philadelphia: Selected the contract
+1 of 2B Ronald Torreyes from Lehigh Val-
Ryan Armour...............................74 +2
+1
Sebastian Cappelen...................74 +2 ley (Triple-A East). Designated P Kyle
+1 Dohy for assignment and then as-
+1
Joel Dahmen................................74
Sam Fidone..................................74
+2
+2 signed him outright to the alternate
+1 training site.
+1
Doug Ghim...................................74
Harry Higgs.................................74
+2
+2 Pittsburgh: Selected P Clay Holmes
+1
+1
Beau Hossler...............................74 +2 to the 40-man roster. Placed P Steven
Brault on the 60-day injured list, P
Russell Knox................................74 +2
+1 Hunter Mahan.............................74 +2 Cody Ponce on the 10-day injured list
and P Kyle Crick on the COVID-injured
+1 Graeme McDowell......................74 +2
+2 Adam Schenk..............................74 +2 list.

ride to get the Inferno really cooking. stanley.grossfeld@globe.com.

HOCKEY
MEN
Frozen Four
Thursday, April 8
at Pittsburgh
St. Cloud St. vs. Minnesota St., 5; UM-
ass vs. Minnesota-Duluth, 9
Championship
Saturday, April 10
at Pittsburgh
TBA vs. TBA, 7
NCAA Div. 3 Scores
MEN
Stevenson 3...........................Neumann 2
WOMEN
Chatham 4.............................................. 3
Elmira 10................................Neumann 0
Nazareth 5.....................................Utica 3
Manhattanville 4.................Stevenson 1
Premier League
GP
Manchester City .... 30
Man. United ............ 29
Leicester City ......... 29
Chelsea .................... 29
West Ham ............... 29
Tottenham............... 29
Liverpool.................. 29
Everton .................... 28
Arsenal..................... 29
Aston Villa............... 28
Leeds United........... 29
Crystal Palace ........ 29
Wolverhampton ..... 29
Southampton.......... 29
Burnley..................... 29
Brighton................... 29
Newcastle................ 29
Fulham..................... 30
West Bromwich...... 29
Sheffield .................. 29
STAN GROSSFELD/GLOBE STAFF
Mary Campbell of Dover, N.H., performs a snow angel after finishing the pentathlon.
Chella Choi..................................74 +2 D.J. Trahan...................................74 +2 St. Louis: Placed P Dakota Hudson
and Miles Mikolas, P Kwang Hyun Kim
Cydney Clanton..........................74 +2 Bo Van Pelt..................................74 +2
Maria Fassi..................................74 +2 Jhonattan Vegas.........................74 +2 and CF Harrison Bader on the 10-day
Haru Nomura.............................. 74 +2 Kristoffer Ventura......................74 +2 injured list.
Su-Hyun Oh.................................74 +2 Kiradech Aphibarnrat................75 +3 San Diego: Placed RHPs Austin Ad-
Robynn Ree.................................74 +2 Sam Burns...................................75 +3 ams, Dan Altavilla, Javy Guerra, Pierce
Lizette Salas................................74 +2 Kevin Chappell............................75 +3 Johnson and Dinelson Lamet, C Austin
Brittany Altomare...................... 75 +3 Branden Grace............................75 +3 Nola, OF Jorge Ona, RF Trent Grisham
Celine Boutier.............................75 +3 Lanto Griffin................................75 +3 on the 10-day injured list and P Michel
Charley Hoffman........................75 +3 Baeez on the 60-day injured list.
Jennifer Chang............................75 +3
Nasa Hataoka..............................75 +3 Kelly Kraft....................................75 +3 San Francisco: Placed P Alex Wood
Andrew Landry...........................75 +3 on the 10-day injured list. Assigned P
Brooke Henderson.....................75 +3
Davis Love III...............................75 +3 Trevor Gott and Nick Tropeano, P Con-
Tiffany Joh...................................75 +3
Patrick Rodgers..........................75 +3 ner Menez, C Chadwick Tromp and OF
Bianca Pagdanganan.................75 +3 Sam Ryder...................................75 +3 LaMonte Wade Jr. to the alternate
Linnea Strom...............................75 +3
Carlos Sainz, Jr...........................75 +3 training site.
Jasmine Suwannapura..............75 +3 Robby Shelton.............................75 +3 NBA
Lindsey Weaver..........................75 +3 Henrik Stenson...........................75 +3
Brooklyn: Signed F Alize Johnson to
A Lim Kim....................................76 +4 Aaron Wise..................................75 +3 a 10-day contract.
In-Kyung Kim..............................76 +4 Scott Brown.................................76 +4
Indiana: Signed F Oshae Brissett to
Andrea Lee..................................76 +4 Bronson Burgoon....................... 76 +4 a 10-day contract.
Stacy Lewis.................................76 +4 Rickie Fowler...............................76 +4 Milwaukee: Signed G Jeff Teague to
Yealimi Noh.................................76 +4 Brian Gay.....................................76 +4 a rest of season contract.
Emily Pedersen...........................76 +4 Rhein Gibson...............................76 +4 NFL
Marissa Steen.............................76 +4 Kramer Hickok............................76 +4
Emma Talley............................... 76
Jenny Coleman...........................77
+4
+5
Bo Hoag........................................76
Michael Kim................................76
+4
+4
Atlanta: Re-signed DE Steven Means.
Signed OL Josh Andrews and DT Jona-
than Bullard.
W D L Pts. Annie Park...................................77 +5 Satoshi Kodaira..........................76 +4
Nate Lashley............................... 76 +4 Baltimore: Re-signed LB L.J. Fort to a
22 5 3 71 Morgan Pressel.......................... 77 +5 one-year contract.
16 9 4 57 Yani Tseng...................................77 +5 Hank Lebioda..............................76 +4
Troy Merritt.................................76 +4 Chicago: Signed OT Germain Ifedi.
17 5 7 56 Albane Valenzuela.....................77 +5
Cameron Percy...........................76 +4 Detroit: Signed CB Corn Elder.
14 9 6 51 Erika Hara....................................78 +6
Ted Potter, Jr..............................76 +4 Indianapolis: Re-signed WR T.Y. Hil-
14 7 8 49 Mina Harigae.............................. 78 +6
Byeong Hun An...........................77 +5 ton. Signed DT Al-Quadin Muhammad,
14 6 9 48 Wei-Ling Hsu...............................78 +6
Cameron Champ........................77 +5 FS Sean Davis and OG Chris Reed.
13 7 9 46 Jane Park.....................................78 +6
14 4 10 46 Luke Donald................................ 77 +5 Philadelphia: Signed RB Boston Scott
12 6 11 42 Austin Eckroat............................77 +5 on a exclusive rights contract.
12 5 11 41 Jim Furyk..................................... 77 +5 Pittsburgh: Signed DE Tyson Alualu.
12 3 14 39 Danny Lee....................................77 +5 San Francisco: Signed DB Jason Ver-
10 7 12 37
9 8 12 35
9 6 14 33
Tennis Mac Meissner............................. 77
Rob Oppenheim..........................77
Andrew Putnam......................... 77
+5
+5
+5
rett.
Washington: Signed WR DeAndre
Carter.
8 9 12 33 Scott Stallings.............................77 +5 NHL
7 11 11 32 Austin Cook.................................78 +6 NHL: Fined Colorado F Nathan
7 7 15 28 MIAMI OPEN J.B. Holmes..................................78
J.J. Killeen.................................... 78
+6
+6
MacKinnon for unsportsmanlike con-
5 11 14 26 duct against Arizona F Conor Garland
3 9 17 18 Henrik Norlander........................78 +6 during and March 31 game. Suspended
Men’s singles quarterfinals
4 2 23 14 J.J. Spaun.....................................78 +6
Hubert Hurkacz (26), def. Stefanos Vegas F Chandler Stephenson for
Phil Mickelson.............................79 +7 three-games for elbowing LA Kings D
Tsitsipas (2), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Nick Watney................................79 +7 Tobias Bjornfot in a March 31 game.
Xinjun Zhang...............................79 +7
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Business
Heating oil industry raps plan to end rebates
It’s part of state effort Ferrante, president of the
‘I wouldn’t signed by Governor Charlie
M a s s a c h u se tts Energ y Baker last week. One provi-
to cut fossil fuel use Marketers Association. “I say it’s sion allows municipalities
wouldn’t say it’s going to to adopt net-zero building
By Jon Chesto cripple the industry. But it’s going to codes for new construction,
GLOBE STAFF

The heating oil industry is fired up

going to hurt us. And it’s
going to hurt heating oil
cripple the which could effectively
block fossil-fuel hookups in
about a proposal to take away energy- customers.” industry. future projects.
efficiency rebates from its customers as
part of a state-led effort to wean home-
The proposal from the
council, which is chaired by
But it’s Significant changes in
how buildings are heated
owners off fossil fuels. the state energy resources going to will be needed if Massachu-
At issue are priorities endorsed commissioner, follows rec- setts is to reach its 2050
March 24 by the Energy Efficiency Ad- ommendations issued by hurt us.’ emissions goal. State offi-
visory Council that include phasing out the Baker administration in cials and environmentalists
MICHAEL
Mass Save rebates for new oil-fired sys- December for Massachu- hope to encourage the use
FERRANTE
tems for heat and hot water, as well as setts to reach “net-zero” of electric heat pumps in
President, Mass.
no-interest loans for homeowners to in- carbon emissions by 2050. homes and discourage fos-
Energy Marketers
stall them, as soon as January. Rebates The changes also line up sil fuels. The ramifications
Association
for natural gas-fired and propane in- with aggressive goals to re- could be huge for the
CHRIS CHRISTO FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
stallations would be ratcheted back sig- duce greenhouse gas emissions that 700,000-plus homeowners in the state
nificantly. were included in a sweeping climate who use heating oil — as well as for the Russ Berg of Noar’s Oil made a delivery in the Greenwood Parkway
“It’s simply not fair,” said Michael law passed by the Legislature and HEATING OIL, Page C11 neighborhood of Holden.

CABINETS Sean P. Murphy

55% THE FINE PRINT

Price points going up

If you’re planning a home improvement project this spring, expect to pay more

L
ast year, homeowners in Greater Bos-
ton sunk $6 billion into home improve-
ment and remodeling projects. It was
an impressive amount of spending, one
of the largest of any metropolitan area
nationally. But it was only a 1 percent
increase over 2019. No doubt, the pan-
HOME
demic helped dampen spending.
ADDITION
Does that mean pent-up demand for home im-
30% provements will fuel a banner year in 2021? As re-
modeling projects begin to proliferate with the
advent of warmer weather, here are some consid-
erations — including big price increases — for any
homeowners who may want to redo a bathroom
or kitchen, or add space to their homes.
Q. How hard will it be to find a contractor?
A. Difficult (as always), but not impossible, ac-
cording to one leading study. Total spending on
home and yard improvements is actually expect-
ed to decline by 1 percent this year in Greater
Boston, according to Harvard’s Joint Center on
Housing Studies, which has compiled data on re-
modeling expenditures for more than 25 years.
That suggests the demand for contractors won’t
be super crazy, or at least no worse than in recent
years.
Q. Why is spending expected to decline this year
in Greater Boston?
A. One major reason is the very tight and expen-
sive housing market. Sellers of homes tend to
spruce up their properties before putting them on
the market, while buyers often make improve-
ments immediately after moving in. But invento-
ry of houses for sale remains at rock-bottom lev-
els: the Greater Boston Association of Realtors re-
cently listed fewer than 900 homes for sale in the
64 cities and towns it tracks, a drop of more than
50 percent compared with the previous year.
Q. What about costs of remodeling?
A. Expect sticker shock. The big culprit is lumber.
In the last 12 months, the cost of lumber and ply-
wood has increased a whopping 56 percent, while
THE FINE PRINT, Page C10

LANDSCAPING NEW RANGES

SIDING DISHWASHERS
17% 14% 11%
16% BATHROOM
NEW AIR
REMODEL REFRIGERATORS
CONDITIONING/
13% HOME HEATING 13% LAUNDRY
OFFICE
9% APPLIANCES
10% KITCHEN EXTERIOR NEW NEW
10%
REMODEL PAINTING ROOFING WINDOWS NEW DECK
OR PORCH
8% 7% 7% 7%
Cost
6% NEW
FLOORING 3
increases
compared
1 2 3%
with a
year ago

1 2 3

SOURCES: Angi Homeservices Inc., Gap Intelligence GEORGE PATISTEAS/GLOBE STAFF; GLOBE FILE PHOTOS

Consumers who switch electricity MORE Jobless claims still high,

sellers often get bad deals, AG says
By Jon Chesto
GLOBE STAFF
Attorney General Maura Healey
ratcheted up the pressure on the retail
electricity supplier industry Thursday,
releasing a report showing that Massa-
chusetts consumers who chose these
suppliers over basic service with their
electric utilities collectively ended up
paying nearly $90 million more for elec-
tricity in each of the past two years.
The study updates two previous re-
ports issued by Healey’s office that
showed similar levels of higher charges
in earlier years. The newest report, writ-
ten by utility consultant Susan M. Bald-
win for Healey’s office, shows that many
consumers who switched to competitive
suppliers over the likes of Eversource
and National Grid were billed at rates
that were higher than what the utilities
charged.
The report also showed that
low-income households still make up a
disproportionately large share of the
roughly 450,000 customers in the
state’s individual competitive supply
market, and pay particularly high prices
in that market.
Healey’s office said it has received
more than 1,000 complaints in recent
years about competitive suppliers en-
gaging in aggressive sales tactics. The
allegations range from salespeople pre-
tending to be from utility companies to
ELECTRICITY, Page C9
AVIATION
Air traffic is near normal
at vacation locales,
smaller airports. C10.
MANUFACTURING
Factory activity shows
largest surge in years. C10.
but could come down soon
By Ben Casselman
NEW YORK TIMES
A year after they first rocketed up-
ward, jobless claims may finally be re-
turning to earth.
More than 714,000 people filed for
state unemployment benefits last week,
the Labor Department said Thursday.
That was up slightly from the week be-
fore, but still among the lowest weekly
totals since the pandemic began.
In addition, 237,000 people filed for
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a
federal program that covers people who
do not qualify for state benefits pro-
grams. That number, too, has been fall-
ing.
In Massachusetts, about 18,150 in-
dividuals filed new claims for unem-
ployment benefits, up roughly 2,660
from the previous week’s revised level.
Another 3,090 filed claims under the
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
program, down 268 from the week pri-
or.
Still, many in Massachusetts have
moved onto extended benefits pro-
grams, meaning they are still out of
work. Last week 32,226 people filed
new claims for extended benefits pro-
grams, up about 8,300 from the week
prior.
Jobless claims nationwide remain
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TALKING POINTS
ADVERTISING Boston ad agency Connelly Partners is broadening its international horizons again, this
time with the acquisition of an agency in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Boston com-
Connelly
Partners buys
pany, led by president Steve Connelly, has completed the purchase of VRX Studios, which
specializes in photography and other visual content for the hospitality sector. VRX got its
start by providing content for the travel website Expedia, and it has held long-term part-
New right-leaning
Canadian
company
nerships with some of the biggest names in the hotel industry. The deal brings nearly 20
people into Connelly Partners, which will now have a full-time staff of roughly 140. Con- Fox News show takes
on late-night comedy
nelly negotiated the deal completely virtually, all via video, with a goal of ramping up its
travel/tourism practice. VRX will keep its name and home base in Vancouver. The finan-
cial terms were not disclosed. Connelly also has an office in Dublin, through the acquisi-
tion in 2018 of an Irish firm. — JON CHESTO
By Christopher Palmeri
BLOOMBERG NEWS

Fox News is entering the late-

AUTOMOTIVE Herb Chambers Cos. has opened a new Jaguar Land Rover dealership at its former Hon- night talk-show wars.
da-Infiniti dealership on Commonwealth Avenue in Allston. The four-story, 200,000- The Rupert Murdoch-con-
Herb Chambers square-foot dealership opened earlier this week, with roughly 60 employees. (The Honda trolled network is moving its in-
house political satirist, Greg
opens Jaguar dealership is now on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester, and Infiniti has gone to Route 9
in Westborough.) Auto magnate Herb Chambers also controls a Jaguar Land Rover deal-
G utfeld, over to an 11 p.m.
Land Rover ership in Sudbury. Chambers initially considered opening a Jaguar Land Rover dealer-
weeknights slot where he can go
joke-to-joke with other late-
dealership ship in Dorchester, but opted for the Allston location, in part because of its proximity to night hosts, including ABC’s
in Allston existing BMW and Porsche dealerships. The Somerville-based dealership group is made
up of 60 auto dealerships, many at shared locations, with more than 2,000 employees and
Jimmy Kimmel, CBS’s Stephen
Co l b e r t , a n d N B C ’s Ji m my
FOX NEWS CHANNEL VIA AP
annual sales that exceed $2.7 billion. — JON CHESTO Fallon, who start about a half-
hour later. Greg Gutfeld will host a late-
The network, part of Mur- night weeknight talk show
doch’s Fox Corp., has been buy- on Fox News.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS Verizon has won its first industrial ing ad spots on those and other
5G deal in Europe, beating out local late-night programs to promote for social media as rivals such as
Verizon wins 5G telecommunications companies and “Gutfeld!,” as the new show will Fallon, CBS’s James Corden, and
be called. Fox News even placed HBO’s John Oliver.
contract marking an early win in a push to
sell the wireless systems to global
a billboard across the street from Gutfeld, a 14-year veteran at
in Europe businesses. Verizon will build and
the Los Angeles studio where
Kimmel records his show, de-
Fox News, had been drawing a
strong audience with his last
run a private network for Associated claring, “Cancel culture just got program, “The Greg Gutfeld
British Ports Holdings Ltd. in South- cancelled!” The Gutfeld program Show,” which aired at 10 p.m.
ampton on the south coast of Eng- premieres April 5. New York time on Saturdays. It
land, and the network will run on Fox executives are hoping he averaged 2.56 million total view-
equipment from Finland’s Nokia Oyj, can do for late-night TV what the ers a night last year, according to
channel did in news: create a Nielsen data. That put it ahead
the company said in a statement on
conservative alternative to the of all the other late-night hosts
Thursday. Verizon and ABP declined to share the financial terms of the deal. New York-
other middle-of-the-road or lib- but Colbert, who averaged 2.61
based Verizon opened a showroom in London last year and spoke about its hopes to mus- eral-leaning networks. It’s cer- million.
cle in on 5G enterprise deals beyond the United States. — BLOOMBERG NEWS tainly worked for Fox News, “The country is divided, al-
which has been the most-viewed most in half,” said Steve Nason,
cable news channel for 19 years research director at Parks Asso-
running. Gutfeld, in an inter- ciates, a market-research firm.
ELECTRICITY With summer’s heat approaching, California’s plan for avoiding a repeat of last year’s
view, said he sees the same sce- “There’s certainly a place for oth-
blackouts hinges on a humble savior — the battery. Giant versions of the same technology nario playing out. er perspectives.”
California hopes that powers smartphones and cars are being plugged into the state’s electrical grid at “They are covering the same Gutfeld, 56, has taken an odd
giant batteries breakneck speed, with California set to add more battery capacity this year than all of
China, according to BloombergNEF. It will be the biggest test yet of whether batteries are
turf. They are getting all their
sustenance from the same buf-
route to becoming a conserva-
tive provocateur. He grew up in
will prevent reliable enough to sustain a grid largely powered by renewables. Last year, when the fet,” he said of his rivals. “That the San Francisco Bay area,
blackouts this worst heat wave in a generation taxed California’s power system and plunged millions in-
leaves a whole swath for me to
pick apart.”
where he majored in English at
the University of California
summer to darkness in the first rolling blackouts since the Enron crisis, many blamed the state’s
aggressive clean-energy push and its reliance on solar power. — BLOOMBERG NEWS
At stake is a slice of a late- Berkeley. He recalls campaign-
night TV advertising market ing for nuclear disarmament in
worth some $500 million a year, high school and losing a debate
according to market researcher on the topic his senior year.
Kantar. But it’s about more than At college, however, a school-
EMPLOYMENT A record share of US small-business owners reported unfilled positions in March, and
ad dollars for Fox News. For the mate turned him on to conserva-
firms are starting to boost wages to attract talent, a report by the National Federation of
first time in its history, the net- tive publications such as the
Record number Independent Business showed Thursday. Some 42 percent of firms had job openings last work is facing competition from American Spectator and Nation-
of small month, and 56 percent of owners reported adding workers or trying to hire in March.
Nearly a quarter of those surveyed are planning to create jobs in the next three months,
even-more-conservative chan-
nels, Newsmax and One Ameri-
al Review.
“I’d never seen them before
businesses the second-highest reading since 2018. The data, out a day before the government’s ca News Network. Offering more and there’s actually funny stuff
need workers monthly employment report, underscore how a loosening of business restrictions and a unique programming may help
it stand out.
in there,” he recalled. “They’re
well-written, witty pieces.”
pickup in economic activity are encouraging firms to hire. Even so, an overwhelming
Fox Corp., which sold the He worked as a magazine edi-
number of small businesses are having trouble finding qualified applicants to fill open po-
bulk of its entertainment assets tor, for titles such as Men’s
sitions. More than 90 percent of owners looking to hire reported few or no “qualified” ap- to Walt Disney Co. two years Health and later the UK version
plicants for the jobs they were trying to fill last month. — BLOOMBERG NEWS ago, is trying to broaden its of- of Maxim, the men’s lifestyle
ferings beyond political news. Its magazine, and contributed to
$6-a-month Fox Nation video the Huffington Post. But he also
streaming service, for example, made appearances on Fox News,
INTERNATIONAL Pakistan’s media regulatory agency on Thursday reinstated access to the Chinese video
features true-crime stories, Bible which led to him being hired for
service TikTok, after a court banned it weeks ago and urged authorities to ensure that it studies, and reruns of “Duck Dy- “Red Eye,” a very late-night
Pakistan lifts carried no “vulgar” content. The court in Peshawar, Pakistan, had issued the ban on nasty,” the reality show about a show, in 2007.
ban on TikTok March 11 following complaints about the alleged presence of “immoral and indecent con-
tent” on the popular social media app. On Thursday, after consulting with the media
Louisiana bird-hunting clan.
A satirical late-night chat
Gutfeld is perhaps best
known to the broader Fox News
agency, it repealed it. At the hearing, senior agency official Tariq Gandapur said that con- show could potentially attract a audience for his regular mono-
younger audience to Fox News, logues on “The Five,” the net-
tact had been established with TikTok to ensure those who share obscene content are
particularly if Gutfeld can prove work’s afternoon panel discus-
blocked. The app, owned by China’s ByteDance, has been downloaded almost 39 million
as adept at creating viral videos sion show.
times in Pakistan. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

BUILDING US construction spending fell in February after several months of steady gains, likely be-
cause of unseasonably cold weather and winter storms in the south. The Commerce De-
Switching electricity
Construction
fell in February,
partment said Thursday that spending on building projects slipped 0.8 percent in Febru-
ary, after a 1.2 percent gain in January. The drop was driven by lower spending on apart-
ments, hotels, hospitals, and educational facilities. Public construction spending also
providers cost millions
largely due dropped sharply, declining by 1.7 percent. State and local government budgets have come uELECTRICITY consumers through settlements
to weather under strain during the pandemic, as tax revenue has fallen amid widespread unemploy-
Continued from Page C8
harassing customers with re-
with three competitive suppliers
to resolve accusations of overly
ment and lower business revenue. — ASSOCIATED PRESS
peated calls or home visits, to aggressive sales tactics and over-
forcing their way into homes charges. Those recoveries in-
and refusing to leave without cluded $7.25 million from a $10
ROBOCALLS The US Supreme Court limited the reach of the decades-old federal ban on robocalls, re- signed contracts. million settlement with Starion
jecting a lawsuit that accused Facebook of repeatedly sending unwanted text messages. As a result, Healey has pur- Energy and two executives in
Supreme Court The unanimous ruling puts new curbs on the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
sued state legislation that would
ban competitive suppliers from
August 2020 and funds from two
smaller settlements with Just
loosens ban Facebook contended that law doesn’t cover texts that go to a wrong number. Facebook
was appealing a lower court decision the company said would put businesses at risk of
selling electricity to individual Energy in 2015 and Viridian En-
on robocalls massive damage awards for relatively small transgressions. — BLOOMBERG NEWS
consumers.
She was unsuccessful in the
ergy in 2018.
The Retail Energy Supply As-
last two-year session. So her bill sociation has repeatedly pushed
has been refiled this session by back at Healey’s claims. The
Senator Brendan Crighton and trade group issued a report in
OFFICE SPACE The amount of office space available in Man-
Representative Frank Moran. March that said Massachusetts
hattan is at the highest level in at least 30 The proposed ban would not af- residents could save at least 9
Empty offices in years. The availability rate jumped to 17.2 per- fect suppliers for industrial and percent by using a retail energy
Manhattan at cent in the first quarter, according to a report
Thursday by Savills. Much of that was driven
commercial customers, nor
would it affect efforts by munici-
supplier, with the potential for
consumers to collectively save
a 30-year high by a surge in sublease space, which reached 22 palities to purchase electricity hundreds of millions over time.
on behalf of residents. A spokeswoman for the asso-
million square feet, 62 percent higher than be-
Likewise, Healey’s studies ciation said in an e-mail that
fore the pandemic, the real estate services
look only at the impact of com- Healey’s office continues to rely
firm said. — BLOOMBERG NEWS petitive electricity suppliers on on flawed data. Despite being
individual consumers. Business- told about the flaws, the spokes-
es and municipalities typically woman said, the attorney gener-
put contracts out to bid to get al’s office “continues to release
MORTGAGES Mortgage rates in the United States rose for a seventh straight week. The average for a 30-
the best price and have experts the same report with misleading
year loan was 3.18 percent, up from 3.17 percent last week and the highest since June,
who can analyze the fine print. and false information.”
Rates continue Freddie Mac data showed Thursday. The 15-year fixed-rate average was unchanged at Healey’s energy and telecom-
to inch up 2.45 percent. — BLOOMBERG NEWS munications division has recov-
ered more than $15 million for
Jon Chesto can be reached at
jon.chesto@globe.com.
C10 Business
Manufacturing in
US shows largest
surges since ’83,
Numbers indicate
a solid rebound
By Vince Golle
BLOOMBERG NEWS
US manufacturing expanded
in March at the fastest pace
since 1983, catapulted by the
firmest orders and production
readings in 17 years. The data
add to evidence of an economy
poised to accelerate.
A gauge of factory activity
jumped to 64.7 from 60.8 a
month earlier, according to In-
stitute for Supply Management
data released Thursday. Index
levels above 50 indicate expan-
s i o n a n d t h e Ma r c h f i g u r e
topped all but one estimate in a
Bloomberg survey of econo-
mists.
Stronger growth in new or-
ders and output highlight accel-
erating household and business
demand as increased vaccina-
tions, fewer pandemic-related
restrictions, and fiscal relief pro-
vide a clearer path for the eco-
nomic recovery.
“The manufacturing econo-
my continued its recovery in
March,” Timothy Fiore, chair of
ISM’s Manufacturing Business
Survey Committee, said in a
statement. At the same time,
purchasing managers “reported
that their companies and suppli-
ers continue to struggle to meet
increasing rates of demand due
to coronavirus impacts limiting
availability of parts and materi-
als.”
All but one of 18 ISM manu-
facturing industries reported
growth in March, led by textiles,
electrical equipment and appli-
ances, machinery, and comput-
ers and electronic products.
The US data mirror results
from around the world. Factory
activity across Asia strengthened
after the volatile Lunar New Year
period, with Taiwan leading the
way, according to IHS Markit.
The group’s purchasing manag-
ers index for the UK advanced to
a decade high, while euro area
manufacturing was historically
strong.
The ISM’s measure of US or-
der backlogs climbed in March
to the strongest reading in re-
cords back to 1993 and a gauge
of supplier delivery times
reached an almost 47-year high.
ELAINE THOMPSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE 2020
Traffic passed the Boeing airplane production plant, in
Everett, Wash. US manufacturers expanded in March at the
fastest pace in 37 years, a sign of strengthening demand.
Home improvement projects this spring will likely cost more
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plastic construction material, in-
sulation material, and Gypsum
(for drywall) have all increased
between 5 percent and 8 per-
cent, according to the consulting
company Cumming.
HomeAdvisor, the digital
marketplace for homeowners
and service providers, says the
biggest increase in costs are for
cabinets, now 55 percent more
expensive, and for home addi-
tions, 30 percent higher.
HomeAdvisor lists double-
digit increases for landscaping
(17 percent); new siding (16
percent); bathroom remodeling
(13 percent); and home office
(10 percent). Smaller increases
are expected for new heating/air
conditioning (9 percent); kitch-
en remodeling (8 percent); exte-
rior painting (7 percent); new
roofing (7 percent); new win-
dows (7 percent); new deck or
porch (6 percent); and new
flooring (3 percent).
Both indexes underscore supply
challenges faced by producers
that are also paying more for
raw materials and shipping.
Shortages of semiconductors
have been particularly disrup-
tive to the auto industry, where
production in recent months has
been restrained due to the lack
of supply. On Wednesday, Ford
announced it was idling plants
that make its best-selling F-150
pickup truck because of chip
shortages.
On a call with reporters,
Fiore said that while manufac-
turers previously anticipated the
supply-chain challenges would
be resolved in several months,
“there’s a feeling now that we’ll
go into the summer or into late
summer. That struggle will con-
tinue as demand continues to
grow, which is positive.”
President Biden announced
Wednesday a sweeping infra-
structure proposal that calls on
Congress to invest $50 billion in
semiconductor manufacturing
and research.
At 85.6 in March, the group’s
index of prices paid for inputs
was little changed from Febru-
ary’s 86 reading that was the
highest since July 2008.
Growing order backlogs, in-
creased production, and faster
orders growth have encouraged
manufacturers to beef up head
counts. The ISM’s measure of
factory employment improved
to a more than three-year high of
5 9 . 6 i n Ma r c h f r o m 5 4 . 4 a
month earlier.
The government’s monthly
jobs report on Friday is project-
ed to show manufacturing pay-
rolls increased by 35,000 in
March, the strongest in four
months. Overall employment is
forecast to rise 650,000.
Meanwhile, lean business in-
ventories suggest robust output
and orders to factories will be
sustained in coming months.
The ISM’s gauge of customer in-
ventories dropped to the lowest
in records back to 1997. None of
the 18 manufacturing industries
reported higher inventories.
With demand seen picking
up in the summer months as
more of the nation gets vaccinat-
ed against the coronavirus, pro-
ducers may expect to see order
books and assembly lines stay-
ing full.
The skyrocketing costs are
mostly because of the pandemic,
which has caused some factories
and mills to close or slow down
and has disrupted supply
chains. The international supply
chain was further disrupted last
month when a huge container
ship ran aground in the Suez Ca-
nal, blocking shipping traffic
through that crucial artery for
almost a week before being
freed on March 29.
It could take weeks, possibly
months, for backlogs in global
shipping to be cleared, experts
say.
Q. What about kitchen and
laundry appliances?
A. Expect double-digit increases
in cost, according to Gap Intelli-
gencecq, which tracks prices for
appliances nationally. Since the
pandemic began a year ago,
prices have gone up for: ranges
(14 percent); refrigerators (13
percent); dishwashers (11 per-
cent); and laundry appliances
T h e B o s t o n
Passengers were greeted in Key West, Fla., as they arrived on a new United Airlines nonstop route from Washington Dulles.
Air travel back to normal in some places
Smaller airports
show traffic rise
By Quoctrung Bui
and Sarah Kliff
NEW YORK TIMES
In Florida, Key West Interna-
tional Airport is busier than nor-
mal, while Miami International
has half as many passengers as
it did before the pandemic.
In the West, big-city airports
— in San Francisco; Portland,
Ore.; Seattle — are serving a
fraction of their typical traveler
volume, between 24 percent and
46 percent. But smaller regional
airports, near Jackson Hole,
Wyo., and Colorado ski country,
have passenger volume as much
as 12 percent higher than this
time last year.
This pattern is typical across
the country, detailed new data
shows. Large hub airports have
just a fraction of the travelers
they did at this time last year,
even as Americans are returning
to flying, particularly to vaca-
tion destinations.
“You see airports in Colora-
do, Montana, Key West, having
recovered quite a lot,” said Kevin
Williams, a Yale economist who
Court upholds easing of media ownership limits
By Mark Sherman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Su-
preme Court on Thursday unan-
imously upheld federal regula-
tors’ decision to ease ownership
limits on local media, rejecting a
claim that the change would
hurt minority and female owner-
ship.
The court said the Federal
Communications Commission
acted reasonably in 2017 when
it modified rules that predated
the Internet.
The old rules prohibited a
single entity from owning a ra-
dio or TV station and a daily
newspaper in the same media
market. They also limited how
many radio and TV stations one
company could own in a single
market and restricted the num-
(10 percent).
Gap Intelligence also tracks
appliance availability. Here
there is a rapidly improving
trend: Before the pandemic,
stores had 90 percent of their
appliances in stock; in Novem-
ber, that measure had plunged
to 52 percent; as of last week,
availability had rebounded to 82
percent.
Q. How do I find a contractor?
A. You can go online to use
HomeAdvisor, Houzz or other
digital marketplaces. Those sites
ask a series of questions to
“match” you with contractors.
The big home improvement
stores, such as Home Depot and
Lowe’s, offer installation of bath-
rooms, kitchens, and other proj-
ects.
Ask for references from
friends, relatives, and cowork-
ers. And you can drive around
the neighborhood looking for
the names of contractors dis-
played on signs in front of hous-
G l o b e
studies air travel data. “And
then you have a lot of major cit-
ies that are still down quite a
lot.”
He has compiled granular
Transportation Security Admin-
istration data that tracks how
many people move through air-
port screening checkpoints. It
shows that, with millions being
vaccinated daily and states roll-
ing back pandemic restrictions,
Americans are returning to lei-
sure travel in large numbers.
But airports that serve major
cities are still serving far fewer
travelers than they did early last
year. Washington National,
close to the District of Colum-
bia, is down 70 percent in pas-
senger volume. San Francisco
International is serving a quar-
ter of its typical volume, and
Kennedy Airport in New York is
at about one-third.
This may reflect in part the
slower return of business travel.
These hub airports also tend to
have many international flights,
which are expected to take lon-
ger to recover. Additionally,
many urban attractions for lei-
sure travelers — Broadway the-
aters in Ne w York Ci ty, the
Smithsonian museums in Wash-
ber of TV stations a company
could operate in one media mar-
ket.
“The FCC considered the re-
cord evidence on competition,
localism, viewpoint diversity,
and minority and female owner-
ship, and reasonably concluded
that the three ownership rules
no longer serve the public inter-
est,’' Justice Brett Kavanaugh
wrote for the court.
The decision comes as news-
paper and broadcasting indus-
tries say they need the changes
to deal with growing competi-
tion from the Internet and cable
companies.
The FCC adopted the changes
on a party-line, 3-2 vote, with
three Republican-appointed
commissioners in the majority.
The dissenting Democratic ap-
es where remodeling is ongoing.
Q. How do I check out a pro-
spective contractor?
A. Anyone who performs resi-
dential contracting work must
register with the state as a home
improvement contractor. You
can check whether a contractor
is registered here. That website
also lists complaints against
contractors. (If you want to file a
complaint against a contractor,
go here.)
Check the Better Business
Bureau, Yelp, Google, and other
websites for reviews. You can al-
so look online for legal actions
brought against a contractor.
Q. What are the basics in
choosing a contractor?
A. It’s best to get at least three
written, detailed bids. If the dol-
lar amounts on all three are
close, it’s probably the going
price. If there are wide dispari-
ties, make sure there are no dif-
ferences in the type of materials
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ington — remain closed because
of the pandemic.
A few dozen smaller airports,
where travel is thriving despite
growing coronavirus case num-
bers nationally, appear to fall in-
to two categories: those espe-
cially close to outdoor vacation
destinations, and those serving
communities whose residents
are more willing to travel amid a
pandemic.
“The only thing that is differ-
ent is the masks,” said Richard
Strickland, airport director at
Key West International, who has
flown five times in the past five
months. “We’re now busier than
we were in 2019.”
Idaho Falls Regional Airport
is about two hours from Yellow-
stone National Park, which at-
tracted many visitors last year.
The airport’s passenger volume
is now 80 percent of what it was
last year — a stronger recovery
than at the state’s largest air-
port, in Boise, which is at rough-
ly 60 percent of its regular travel
volume.
Two other airports that serve
Yellowstone, one in Wyoming
and another in Montana, were
fully back to pre-pandemic trav-
el volume in early March.
pointees and other critics said
the changes would encourage
consolidation and hurt diversity.
Republicans have long
sought changes to the media-
ownership rules. The FCC in
2017, then run by a Republican
chairman, decided that since the
Internet has so changed media,
allowing more consolidation in
newspapers and broadcasters
would be good for consumers.
The FCC now has a Demo-
cratic chairwoman who dissent-
ed from the 2017 order. But it is
not yet fully staffed to let it take
on controversial measures.
The FCC did not reply to a re-
quest for comment Thursday.
Advocacy groups that oppose
the consolidation of the industry
called on the FCC, the Biden ad-
ministration, and Congress to
to be used and that the work to
be done is the same. The lowest
bid isn’t always the one to
choose. When I put an addition
on my house 10 years ago, I
picked the second lowest bid be-
cause I got a better vibe from
that contractor. ”I’ll treat your
home like it were my own,” he
said. (And he did).
Q. What about the terms of the
contract?
A. Contractors cannot require an
upfront deposit that exceeds
one-third of the total contract
price, according to state regula-
tions. And final payment cannot
be demanded until the contract
is completed to the owner’s sat-
isfaction. A common practice is
to pay a small deposit, then one-
third when work begins, one-
third halfway to completion,
and one-third at completion.
Q. What if something goes
wrong?
A. Your options include media-
F R I D A Y, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1
“For late summer and
through the fall, we were seeing
close to the same numbers that
we’d had in 2019,” said Rick
Cloutier, executive director of
the Idaho Falls airport. “ We
were fortunate recipients of the
people’s desire to get to the great
outdoors.”
Passenger volume has re-
turned to normal at Canyon-
lands Field airport in Utah, near
Arches National Park. On Flori-
da’s Gulf Coast, airports near
beaches are having a similarly
good year. There were 24 per-
cent more passengers passing
through Northwest Florida
Beaches airport in early March
than around that time last year.
Airports in one outdoors va-
cation destination have re-
mained notably empty, though:
Hawaii’s airports are down be-
tween 51 percent and 84 per-
cent in passenger volume. The
state, which has had relatively
few COVID cases, requires visi-
tors to obtain a negative test
within three days before travel
or to quarantine for 10 days up-
on arrival, making travel there
more complicated. The longer
time spent on a flight may also
scare away potential passengers.
develop new rules to encourage
local, diverse ownership.
’'I wouldn’t be surprised if
this decision opens the flood-
gates to more consolidation for
media conglomerates. But that
doesn’t mean the FCC has to ap-
prove every merger that comes
knocking on its door,” said Yosef
Getachew, media and democra-
cy program director for Com-
mon Cause.
The US Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit had blocked
FCC efforts to change the rules
for the past 17 years. The Phila-
delphia-based court’s latest rul-
ing, in 2019, prompted the FCC’s
appeal to the Supreme Court.
The FCC is supposed to re-
view media-ownership rules ev-
ery four years, according to a
1996 law.
tion, arbitration, and legal ac-
tion.
Mediation must be agreed
upon by both parties. Check
with local consumer programs
affiliated with the attorney gen-
eral’s office.
By law, registered contractors
must agree to arbitrate. During
arbitration, a neutral third party
decides whether to order the
contractor to provide a refund
for poor or unfinished work.
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Index of publicly traded companies in Massachusetts
Globe 25 index
Markets
S&P 500 pushes past 4,000
Wall Street kicked April off with a milestone as a tech rally
helped drive the S&P 500 past the 4,000 mark for the first
time. The benchmark index finished 1.2% higher a day after
closing out its fourth straight quarterly gain. Apple, Micro-
soft (up 2.8%), Facebook (1.4%), and Google’s parent, Alpha-
bet (3.3%), were among the winners, along with smaller com-
panies, which stand to benefit from a quickly growing econo-
my. The Russell 2000 index picked up 1.5%. Amazon added
2.2%. ChargePoint gained 11.8% after President Biden out-
lined steps to support the use of electric vehicles. Lagging
were the stocks of health care and household goods compa-
nies and utilities. Tech stocks benefited from another drop in
bond yields, which have been driving the market for several
weeks. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 1.69%. (High-
er bond yields make stocks seem more expensive by compari-
son.) “What a great way to start the second quarter,” said J.J.
Kinahan, at TD Ameritrade. “There’s money out there look-
ing to be put to work.” The rally capped a holiday-shortened
week for the market. US stock exchanges will close for Good
Friday, though bond trading will be open for half a day.
DOW JONES industrial average
NASDAQ Composite index
S&P 500 index
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T h e B o s t o n
Climate plan riles heating oil suppliers
uHEATING OIL
Continued from Page C8
companies that serve them.
Massachusetts electricity rates,
meanwhile, are among the highest in
the United States, nearly double the
national average.
It’s against this backdrop that the
Massachusetts Energy Marketers As-
sociation, which represents about
400 heating oil dealers, finds itself
about to lose Mass Save rebates,
which range from $400 to $800 per
installation, as well as access to the
popular no-interest HEAT loans, to
subsidize oil system installations.
(The council recommends studying
the impacts on low-income house-
holds before changing the incentives
for those customers.)
Heating oil companies argue that
their customers pay into Mass Save
via electric bill surcharges and
should be able to get rebates to up-
grade their heating systems. Ferrante
said he worries the utilities that work
with state officials on the program
have no incentive to support his in-
dustry. He said his association in-
tends to challenge the changes in
court if they are finalized.
“We’re under the microscope to be
wiped off the map,” Ferrante said.
He noted that many heating oil
suppliers have taken steps to address
environmental impacts, by shifting
to biofuel blends that have much
lower carbon emissions. For exam-
ple, nearly 80 dealers participate in a
state-run program to encourage the
use of biofuel, primarily discarded
cooking oil, that can be blended with
standard heating oil; they receive in-
centives funded by the penalties elec-
tric utilities pay for falling short of re-
newable energy goals.
Among the participants: Cubby
Jobless claims tick up but may fall soon
uJOBLESS CLAIMS
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high by historical standards and are
far above the norm before the pan-
demic, when around 200,000 people
a week were filing for benefits. Appli-
cations have improved only gradually
— even after the recent declines, the
weekly figure is modestly below
where it was last fall. Some 18 mil-
lion people in total are receiving job-
less assistance, many of them
through programs that extend bene-
fits beyond the 26 weeks that are of-
fered in most states.
But economists are optimistic that
further improvement is ahead as the
vaccine rollout accelerates and more
states lift restrictions on business ac-
tivity. Fewer companies are laying off
workers, and hiring has picked up,
meaning that people who lose their
jobs are more likely to find new ones
quickly.
“We could actually finally see the
jobless claims numbers come down
because there’s enough job creation
to offset the layoffs,” said Julia Pollak,
a labor economist at the job site
ZipRecruiter.
Economists will get a more com-
plete, albeit less timely, picture of the
job market Friday, when the Labor
Department releases data on hiring
and unemployment in March. Fore-
casters surveyed by FactSet expect
the report to show that US employers
added more than 600,000 jobs last
month, the most since October.
Even better numbers probably lie
ahead. The March data was collected
early in the month, before most
states broadened vaccine access and
G l o b e
Oil & Energy. President Charlie Ugli-
etto said nearly all of the Wilmington
company’s roughly 6,000 customers
burn a 50/50 blend of petroleum and
used cooking oil. He said it costs
homeowners about $50 more a year
than unblended heating oil. A few
customers use fuel made solely from
discarded cooking oil.
From Uglietto’s perspective, bio-
diesel is a more cost-effective way of
addressing emissions than heat-
pump installations, which state offi-
cials want prioritized in the new
Mass Save plan.
“Neither the state nor Mass Save
nor a lot of people recognize the val-
ue of liquid renewable fuels,” Uglietto
said. “Why are we making people buy
$25,000 heat pump installations
when we can just change the fuel
that goes into people’s oil burners
and achieve greenhouse reductions
today for pennies on the dollar? I just
don’t get it.”
Caitlin Peale Sloan, who heads
Massachusetts policy efforts for the
Conservation Law Foundation, said
there isn’t enough discarded cooking
oil from restaurants to go around for
the heating oil industry to solely rely
on it as a solution.
Ending oil rebates is one of many
proposed changes to the Mass Save
program, which is regulated by the
state and funded by surcharges on
electricity and natural gas bills. They
will now be used by the state’s major
electric and natural gas utilities as
they formulate a plan for the next
three years, with an eye toward in-
corporating climate benefits.
“We are really scrutinizing all our
fossil fuel incentives and will be care-
ful about which fossil fuel incentives
that will be retained in the next plan.
This is not just about heating oil,”
before most Americans began receiv-
ing $1,400 checks from the federal
government as part of the newly
passed relief package. Those forces
should lead to even faster job growth
in April, said Jay Bryson, chief econo-
mist for Wells Fargo.
“If you don’t get a barn burner in
March, I think you’re probably going
to get one in April,” he said.
The biggest risk to the economy is
as it has been for the last year: the vi-
rus itself. Virus cases are rising again
in much of the country as states have
begun easing restrictions. If that up-
ward trend turns into a full-blown
new wave of infections, it could force
some states to reverse course, which
could act as a brake on the recovery,
Bryson warned.
But few economists expect a re-
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said Patrick Woodcock, the state en- The Massa-
ergy resources commissioner. “We chusetts Energy
think that heat pumps should be in- Marketers
tegrated across the state. . . . It’s a Association
technological breakthrough that finds itself
Massachusetts will seize. It’s just a about to lose
matter of time. We do think that time Mass Save
is now.” rebates, which
Amy Boyd, a member of the effi- range from
ciency council, said it and the utili- $400 to $800, as
ties will hash out a final version by well as access to
the end of October. She noted that no-interest
heating oil customers could still use HEAT loans, to
Mass Save funds for other efficiency subsidize oil
measures, such as insulating their system
homes. installations.
“Using ratepayer money to buy
things that will keep fossil fuels
around longer is wasting ratepayer
money,” said Boyd, policy director at
the Acadia Center, a climate-focused
think tank. “I’m really glad that the
EEAC is taking a stance on the need
for electrification.”
But Emerson Clauss, co-owner of
Allegiance Construction & Develop-
ment in Northbridge, said the shift to
electric heat still relies heavily on
natural gas, the most prevalent fuel
source for New England’s power
plants. Clauss said he’s also troubled
by the climate law’s net-zero lan-
guage for new construction, because
it could box out heating oil, propane,
and natural gas as heating sources.
“More than half of our electricity
comes from natural gas,” said Clauss,
president-elect of the Home Builders
and Remodelers Association of Mas-
sachusetts. “It sounds like we’re do-
ing a great thing, moving in the right
direction. But aren’t we just moving
where the smoke is burned off?”
Jon Chesto can be reached at
jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @jonchesto.
CHARLES KRUPA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
peat of last winter, when a jump in The number of
COVID-19 cases pushed the recovery Americans
into reverse. More than a quarter of filing for
US adults have received at least one unemployment
dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and last week was
more than 2 million people a day are among the
being inoculated. That should allow lowest weekly
economic activity to continue to re- totals since the
bound. pandemic
Still, Pollak cautioned that the job began.
market would not return to normal
overnight. Even as many companies
resume normal operations, others
are discovering that the pandemic
has permanently disrupted their
business model.
“There are still a lot of business
closures and a lot of layoffs that have
yet to happen,” she said. “The reper-
cussions of this pandemic are still
rippling through this economy.”
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Pursuant to the authority of M.G.L. c. 118E and in accor-
dance with M.G.L. c. 30A, five remote public hearings will
be held on Friday, April 23, 2021, each at the respective
time listed below, relative to the adoption of amendments
to the following regulations. Each amended regulation
described below is proposed in accordance with M.G.L.
c. 118E, Section 13D, which requires EOHHS to estab-
lish by regulation rates for social service programs. Each
cost adjustment factor (CAF) described below was deter-
mined by using baseline and prospective Massachusetts
Economic Indicator data from IHS Economics – Fall 2020
Forecast, optimistic scenario data, and reflects the period
between the rates’ base period (calendar year 2021 Q2)
and the prospective period of fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
For each amended regulation described below rates have
been updated to incorporate an employer and employee
contribution required by the Massachusetts paid family
and medical leave law, the tax and fringe rate has been
benchmarked to 22.40%, and the administrative allocation
has been benchmarked to 12%.
1. 9:30 a.m.: 101 CMR 414.00: Rates for Family Sta-
bilization Services. The proposed amendments update
the family resource center rates for family stabilization
services by a CAF of 2%. As part of the workforce initiative,
all staff salaries, with the exception of the program man-
agement position, have been benchmarked to the Massa-
chusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median wages
for 2017/2018. The program management salary has been
benchmarked to 101 CMR 427.00: Rates for Youth and
Young Adult Support Services.
2. 10:00 a.m.: 101 CMR 430.00: Rates for Program of
Assertive Community Treatment Services. The Program
of Assertive Community Treatment Services (PACT) rates
are being updated to include an increase by a CAF of 2%.
As part of the workforce initiative, staff salaries, with the
exception of the program management positions, have
been benchmarked to the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) median wages for 2017/2018. The manage-
ment salaries have been benchmarked to the FY19 Uni-
form Financial Statements and Independent Auditor’s Re-
ports (UFRs) weighted average for management positions.
The programmatic expenses have also been benchmarked
to the FY19 UFR. Finally, the separate workforce initiative
rate has been removed from the regulation because the
workforce initiative goal of the rate review has been met
with the incorporation of BLS benchmarking into the rates.
The proposed amendments to the Program of Assertive
Community Treatment services for the Department of
Mental Health are expected to result in an estimated in-
crease in annual aggregate expenditures of $574,000. The
proposed amendments to the Program of Assertive Com-
munity Treatment services for MassHealth are expected to
result in an estimated increase in annual aggregate expen-
ditures of $167,000.
3. 10:30 a.m.: 101 CMR 421.00: Rates for Adult Hous-
23, 2020 and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of
Deeds in Book 64785, Page 142, (ii) Assignment of Mortgage
October 28, 2019 and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry
of Deeds in Book 64786, Page 301, (ii) Assignment of Mortgage
WAREHOUSEMANS LIEN.
THE FOLLOWING PROP-
by and between Crowd Lending Capital, LLC, as assignor, by and between Crowd Lending Capital, LLC, as assignor, ERTIES WILL BE SOLD AT
and SGIA Residential Bridge Loan Venture V LP, as assignee, and SGIA Residential Bridge Loan Venture V LP, as assignee, A PUBLIC AUCTION ON
dated January 23, 2020 and recorded with the Suffolk County dated October 28, 2019 and recorded with the Suffolk County JANUARY 26, 2019 AT 9:
Registry of Deeds in Book 64785, Page 144, (iii) Assignment Registry of Deeds in Book 64786, Page 303, (iii) Assignment 30 A.M. ON THE PREMISES
of Mortgage by and between SGIA Residential Bridge Loan of Mortgage by and between SGIA Residential Bridge Loan OF TRIPLE M. MOVERS &
Venture V LP, as assignor, and Wilmington Trust, N.A., Trustee Venture V LP, as assignor, and Wilmington Trust, N.A., Trustee STORAGE INC. 1109 MON-
for Bridge Loan Venture V Trust 2017-1 as assignee, dated for Bridge Loan Venture V Trust 2017-1 as assignee, dated TELLO ST. BROCKTON,
January 7, 2021 and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry January 7, 2021 and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry MA 02303. TELEPHONE
of Deeds in Book 64785, Page 146, and (iv) Confirmatory of Deeds in Book 64786, Page 305, and (iv) Confirmatory 508-586-4685 OR 508-400-
Assignment by and between Fidelis Residential Bridge Loan Assignment by and between Fidelis Residential Bridge Loan 0793
Venture V LP f/k/a SGIA Residential Bridge Loan Venture V LP, Venture V LP f/k/a SGIA Residential Bridge Loan Venture V LP, MA LIC #2440
as assignor, and Wilmington Trust, N.A., Trustee for Bridge Loan as assignor, and Wilmington Trust, N.A., Trustee for Bridge Loan JOHN ADAMS
Venture V Trust 2017-1 dated March 11, 2021 and recorded Venture V Trust 2017-1 dated March 11, 2021 and recorded VIOLETTE LOIUS & ROBEN-
with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 65113, Page with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 65113, Page SON ALEXANDRE
145, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, 147, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, ERIC ANDERSON & SCOTT
for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the ANDERSON
purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction JORGE J. ANDRADE, DAN-
at 11 o’clock A.M. on the 23rd day of April, 2021 at 64 Woolson at 12 o’clock P.M. on the 23rd day of April, 2021 at 64 Woolson
IELLE BATES & LANCE WAL-
Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, all and singular Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, all and singular LACE
the premises described in said mortgage, the premises described in said mortgage, LEONYCE BARRETT
MOHAMED BENDER-
To wit: To wit: DOUCHE & CAJIGAS CHAR-
LENNE
A certain parcel of land with all of the buildings and structures A certain parcel of land with all the buildings thereon situated JAMES D BRANDI & LINDA C
and now or hereafter standing or placed thereon, situated in in that part of Boston called Dorchester, now known as CRISAFULLI
the Dorchester District of Boston in the County of Suffolk and numbered 64 Woolson Street, and being Lot eleven (11) as ALFRED BROWN
Commonwealth of Massachusetts being shown as Lot No. 14 shown on a plan made by H.A. Sherman, C.E. dated October ANDRIA BUENTE
on Plan by Moses Bates, dated 1872 and recorded with Suffolk 1911, and recorded with Suffolk Deeds in Book 3628, Page 349. ANITA CHAMIZO
Deeds at the end of Book 1239, bounded and described as Said parcel is bounded and described as follows: OTELIO DA GRACA
follows: STEPHEN KELLY & DYLAN
Southwesterly by Woolson Street, forty-one and 40/100 (41.40) DALTON
Southwesterly: By Hamilton Street fifty-five (55) feet; feet;
JOHN F. DAVIS
Southeasterly: By Lot No. 12 on said plan, one hundred (100) Northwesterly by Lot 12 as shown on said plan, seventy-four EGYPT GORMAN
feet; and 31/100 (74.31) feet;
JEAN GUILLAUME
Northeasterly: By a ten foot passageway, fifty-five (55) feet; Northeasterly by Lot 13 as shown on said plan, forty-one and TIMOTHY HOWARD
Northwesterly: By Lot No. 16 on said plan, one hundred (100) 25/100 (41.25) feet; and HON P. HUI
feet. Southeasterly by Verrill Street, seventy and 79/100 (70.79)
BENJAMIN JARDEN
Containing 5500 square feet. feet. ANDREW JOHNSON
Being the same premises conveyed in deed dated 03/12/2019 Containing according to said plan 2993 square feet of land,
JARED JOHNSON
and recorded 03/13/2019 at Book 60843, Page 37. be said contents or measurements more or less or however RAYMOND JOYCE
otherwise the same premises measured or described.
KELLY KIGER
In the event of any typographical error set forth herein in the Being and all the same premises conveyed in Deed Book JOY LISENBY
legal description of the Mortgaged Premises, the descriptions 59579 Page 174. JORGE LOZA & MARIA MU-
as set forth and contained in the Mortgage shall control by
RALLES
reference. In the event of any typographical error set forth herein in the STACEY MAGEE & DANIEL
legal description of the Mortgaged Premises, the descriptions MADDEN
The Mortgagee reserves the right to postpone the sale to a later as set forth and contained in the Mortgage shall control by CAROLYN MAJCHER
date by public proclamation at the time and date appointed for reference. KARLY MALCOM
the sale and to further postpone at any adjourned sale date KAREN MALONEY & GAIL
by public proclamation at the time and date appointed for the The Mortgagee reserves the right to postpone the sale to a later BLANCHETTE
adjourned sale date. date by public proclamation at the time and date appointed for COREY J MCELROY
the sale and to further postpone at any adjourned sale date MELISSA MCKENNA
Premises to be sold and conveyed subject to and with the by public proclamation at the time and date appointed for the MICHAEL NOTA & TAYLOR
benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements,
covenants, liens, or claims in the nature of liens, improvements,
adjourned sale date. WELCH
JEFFREY PENA
public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, Premises to be sold and conveyed subject to and with the JEFFREY PIERCE, ANGELA
tax liens, water and sewer lines, and any other municipal benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, PIERCE & CARLA WALSH
assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record covenants, liens, or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, ESTATE OF LEONARD RAD-
which are in force and are applicable, having priority over public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, LO
said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, tax liens, water and sewer lines, and any other municipal ANGIE RODRIGUEZ
easements, improvements, liens, or encumbrances is made in assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record JENNIFER SCHERER &
the deed. which are in force and are applicable, having priority over BRANDON SHEEHAN
said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, MELISSA SEEPERSAD,
The Mortgaged Premises will be sold and conveyed together easements, improvements, liens, or encumbrances is made in JAMES ANTHONY & JEREMI-

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and community support services rates are being updated Mortgaged Premises and all easement rights, appurtenances, HANG SHAN
to include an increase by a CAF of 2%. As part of the work- rents, royalties, mineral, oil and gas rights and profits, water The Mortgaged Premises will be sold and conveyed together RODNEY LEONARD SMALL
force initiative, staff salaries, with the exception of the pro- rights and stock and all fixtures now or hereafter a part of the with all the improvements now or hereafter erected on the RAYMOND SMITH JR, VIVI-
gram management positions, have been benchmarked to Mortgaged Premises. All replacements and additions shall Mortgaged Premises and all easement rights, appurtenances, AN SMITH, BEVERLY SMITH,
the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median also be covered by this sale. rents, royalties, mineral, oil and gas rights and profits, water THERESA SMITH- TRACEY &
wages for 2017/2018. The management salaries have been rights and stock and all fixtures now or hereafter a part of the JOHNIE SMITH
benchmarked to the FY19 Uniform Financial Statements In the event that the successful bidder at the foreclosure Mortgaged Premises. All replacements and additions shall LAURA R TURKEL NICOLE
and Independent Auditor’s Reports (UFRs) weighted aver- sale shall default in purchasing the within described property also be covered by this sale. ELIZABETH KIRBY
age for management positions. The programmatic expens- according to the terms of this Notice of Sale and/or the EDUARDO URBINA
terms of the Memorandum of Sale executed at the time of In the event that the successful bidder at the foreclosure CARICE WATKINS
es have also been benchmarked to the FY19 UFR. Finally, the foreclosure, the Mortgagee reserves the right to sell the sale shall default in purchasing the within described property
the separate workforce initiative rate has been removed according to the terms of this Notice of Sale and/or the
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Mortgaged Premises to the second highest bidder, provided DENNIS & CHRISTOPHER
from the regulation because the workforce initiative goal that the second highest bidder shall deposit with Mortgagee’s terms of the Memorandum of Sale executed at the time of
of the rate review has been met with the incorporation of attorney, Giangrasso Law LLC, the amount of the required the foreclosure, the Mortgagee reserves the right to sell the
BENNETT
BLS benchmarking into the rates. deposit as set forth herein with three (3) business days after Mortgaged Premises to the second highest bidder, provided
DENISE WHITEHEAD
4. 11:00 a.m.: 101 CMR 419.00: Rates for Supported written notice of default of the previous highest bidder and that the second highest bidder shall deposit with Mortgagee’s
RAY WINGATE
Employment Services. The rates for supported employ- title shall be conveyed to said second highest bidder within attorney, Giangrasso Law LLC, the amount of the required
YAQI XIA
ment services are being updated to include an increase by twenty (20) days of said written notice. deposit as set forth herein with three (3) business days after
CHUNAN ZHU & FENGIU FEI
a CAF of 2%. As part of the workforce initiative, staff sal-
aries, with the exception of the program management po-
written notice of default of the previous highest bidder and
sitions, have been benchmarked to the Massachusetts Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median wages for 2017/2018.
Terms of sale: A deposit of Ten Thousand and 00/100 dollars
($10,000.00) by certified or bank check will be required to be
title shall be conveyed to said second highest bidder within
twenty (20) days of said written notice.
STORAGE FACILITY OPER-
paid by the purchaser at the time and place of the sale. The
The management salary has been benchmarked to the balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at the office Terms of sale: A deposit of Ten Thousand and 00/100 dollars ATES SALE FOR NON-PAY-
rates in 101 CMR 415.00: Rates for Community-Based Day of Giangrasso Law LLC, 60 Walnut Street, Suite 301, Wellesley, ($10,000.00) by certified or bank check will be required to be MENT OF STORAGE RENT
Support Services. The programmatic expenses have been MA 02481 within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed paid by the purchaser at the time and place of the sale. The PURSUANT TO MGL CHAP-
benchmarked to the FY19 Uniform Financial Statements will be provided to purchaser for recording upon receipt in full balance is to be paid by certified or bank check at the office TER 106 SECTION 7-210
and Independent Auditor’s Report (UFR). Additionally, a
rate for individual ongoing supports has been established
of the purchase price. To qualify to bid, potential bidders must
demonstrate that they have the required deposit in hand. The
of Giangrasso Law LLC, 60 Walnut Street, Suite 301, Wellesley,
MA 02481 within thirty (30) days from the date of sale. Deed
ENFORCEMENT OF THE
WAREHOUSEMANS LIEN.
THE FOLLOWING PROP-
in this regulation. Finally, the separate workforce initiative
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OMNIPOP
Slow-burning debut
by Maxwell still
simmers after 25 years
By Maura Johnston
S
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
ince the mid-’90s,
the Brooklyn-born
Maxwell has been
one of popular mu-
sic’s most exciting
artists; when the R&B auteur
releases new music it’s a drop-
everything occasion, and when
he looks back it’s a good time
Maxwell continues to reign as an R&B auteur.
Weekend
T H E B O S T O N G L O B E F R I DAY, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 2 1 | B O S T O N G L O B E .C O M /A RT S
MOVIES
‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ has two very big stars.
They don’t play well with others — especially each other
BY TY B U R R | G LO B E STA F F
I
don’t know what you want from a movie called
“Godzilla vs. Kong,” but I know what I want: to
be transported back to 1967, when I was lying
on my stomach in front of a big floor-model
RCA watching “Ghidorah the Three-Headed
Monster” on a Saturday afternoon. A simple re-
quest, really, and one that this latest monster
ramalama, appearing in theaters and on HBO Max as
of Wednesday, makes good on. The fact that I watched
the new movie two days ago and can barely remember
a thing about it — other than that a giant lizard and a
big ape have a colossal playground fight — is not a criti-
cism but a recommendation.
The film is the fourth and most enjoyably silly in the
“monsterverse” series produced by Legendary Pic-
tures, following two earlier Godzilla films and a 2017
Inside
TELEVISION
to reflect on his discography. STANDING UP TO
His 1996 debut, “Maxwell’s Ur-
ban Hang Suite,” which comes
MISOGYNY
out in remastered form to cele- Female comics shine a light
brate its quarter-century anni- on some not-so-funny issues
versary on Friday, still sounds
brand new — brimming with
in documentary ‘Hysterical’
the optimism that comes part G4
and parcel with romance, with
lyrics full of awe and music
MAXWELL, Page G2
MOVIES
ANCHORED IN
HISTORY
Idris Elba, Philadelphia riders
bring authenticity to
SAAD AMER ‘Concrete Cowboy’
G5
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kong reboot. Characters and actors from those films
reappear here, but in no way do you need to go out and
bone up in order to prep for “Godzilla vs. Kong,” since
making sense has never been a top priority for what
the Japanese call kaiju movies. And in fact the new
film, directed by Adam Wingard and written by a small
committee, has an amusingly high order of scientific
monster-movie mumbo-jumbo, delivered with serious
intonations by well-respected actors as they stare in
awe at a green screen.
I mean, Rebecca Hall is in this thing! And Alexan-
der Skarsgård, and Millie Bobby Brown from “Stranger
Things,” and Brian Tyree Henry (Paper Boi from TV’s
“Atlanta”), and Julian Dennison, the kid from “Hunt
for the Wilderpeople.” Hall’s character, Dr. Ilene An-
‘‘GODZILLA VS. KONG,’’ Page G5
TELEVISION
This American larger than life
By Mark Feeney
T
GLOBE STAFF
he most famous American
writer of the 19th century
was Mark Twain. The most
famous of the 20th was Er-
n e s t He m i n g w a y. T h e
younger man much admired the older.
Modern American literature starts with
Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” he de-
clared. Hemingway and Twain had
much in common: sons of the Midwest
(Illinois and Missouri, respectively);
masters of idiomatic American English;
fashioners, and prisoners, of an outsize
persona. Even more than their books,
those personas are why Hemingway
and Twain remain so famous. A.E. HOTCHNER
They now have something else in
common: Ken Burns. “Mark Twain” Ernest Civil War in between), a lifelong battle
came out in 2001. “Hemingway,” co-di- Hemingway, with manic depression, oceans of alco-
rected with Lynn Novick, airs on GBH at his home hol, big-game hunting and fishing, a
Channel 2 Monday, Tuesday, and in Cuba in bit of boxing, too, as well as famous
Wednesday, from 8 to 10 p.m. It can al- the 1950s, is friendships, and, not unrelated to the
so be streamed at PBS.org and the PBS the subject boxing, many feuds, often with famous
Video App. of a new former friends.
Hemingway committed suicide in three-part There was mileage to go with the
1961. He was about to turn 62. For the documen- eventfulness. No writer has more plac-
last 15 years of his life, it was common- tary from es more indelibly associated with his
ly said that he looked a good two de- Ken Burns name: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
cades older than his actual age. That and Lynn Paris, Pamplona, Key West, Havana,
made sense, since he managed to pack Novick. East Africa, Venice. Any account of
into his larger-than-life existence the Hemingway’s life is as much itinerary
eventfulness of at least that many addi- as biography. His memoir of Paris in
tional years: four marriages, three wars the ’20s is called “A Moveable Feast.”
(the two world wars, with the Spanish HEMINGWAY, Page G4
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UPCOMING IN-PERSON AND ONLINE EVENTS, CHOSEN BY GLOBE CRITICS AND WRITERS

Music Zoom show is a fund-raiser for

Asian Americans Advancing

Pop & Rock
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA The
storied gospel group celebrates
Easter Weekend with a special
livestream of classic and new ma-
terial. April 2, 9 p.m. www.blind-
boys.com
EMMYLOU HARRIS AND STEVE
EARLE Two titans of country mu-
sic team up onstage at Nashville’s
City Winery for a show benefiting
Bonaparte’s Retreat, Harris’s dog
rescue. April 3, 9 p.m. www.em-
mylouharris.com
A.Z. MADONNA
Classical
OXFORD BACH SOLOISTS UK-
based Oxford Bach Soloists have
a full slate of Bach’s Easter season
choral works on offer, including
the St. John Passion, the Easter
Oratorio, and two cantatas. Re-
corded live at Christ Church Ca-
thedral and New College Chapel
in Oxford. Performances avail-
able for on-demand viewing with
ticket until April 30. April 2-5.
www.oxfordbachsoloists.com
ZEENA PARKINS Composer and
harpist Zeena Parkins brings her
Green Dome trio to the stage of
Brooklyn’s “Roulette” to present
her own deeply tactile original
music. April 8, 8 p.m. https://
roulette.org
A.Z. MADONNA
days through Saturdays, with one
play per day, and a question-and-
Dionne Warwick:
At Home With You
Pop superstar of many decades and Twitter superstar of 2021,
Dionne Warwick promises “all the hits and more” in her Easter
Sunday foray into digital concerts. April 4, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
https://boxoffice.mandolin.com A.Z. MADONNA
with a words-per-minute velocity
that rivals Aaron Sorkin.” Pre-
REBECCA SMEYNE/THE NEW YORK TIMES/FILE
Visual Arts collection, with American sculp-
tor Ruth Asawa and Finnish
Justice, and features Aparna
Nancherla, Ike Ufomadu, Josh
Sharp, and Jenny Yang with a
video from Dan Fox and Desi
Domo. April 3, 8 p.m. $20 sug-
gested donation. https://link-
tr.ee/lookingfwd
GAYS R US COMEDY SHOW Co-
median, actor, and host of the
“Sports Without Balls” podcast
Erin Foley hosts stand-ups Cat
Davis, Veronica Garza, Eman El-
husseini, Justin Martindale, and
Bridget McManus in this
month’s edition of the “Gays R
Us” virtual showcase, which fea-
tures a regular rotation of lesbi-
an, gay, transgender, queer, and
straight comics. April 7, 10 p.m.
$15. www.rushtix.com
NICK A. ZAINO III
Family
SPRING FLING AT ZOO NEW
ENGLAND To celebrate the be-
ginning of spring, animals at the
Stone and Franklin Park zoos
are getting their favorite treats
— and you’re invited to watch.
Hippos, gorillas, anteaters, and
otters from the two zoos will be
saying hi to guests, and on your
way to meet the creatures re-
member to keep an eye out for
hidden flowers from that zoo’s
mobile scavenger hunt. April 3,
9 a.m. $12.95-$19.95.
www.zoonewengland.org/en-
gage/spring-fling/
KIDDOS IN THE KITCHEN At
Powisset Farms, kids are invited

ARTS answer session after each read-

Theater
UNVEILED A digital presentation
of a solo performance piece, writ-
ten and performed by Rohina
Malik and originally presented
locally in 2018, in which five
Muslim women recount their ex-
periences of bigotry in post-9/11
America. Presented by New Rep-
ertory Theatre. April 2-18. Tick-
ets $25. www.newrep.org/pro-
ductions/unveiled-digital
BOSTON THEATER MARATHON
XXIII: SPECIAL ZOOM EDITION
Taking place online for the sec-
ond year in a row due to the pan-
demic, this annual event will
showcase 50 10-minute plays, all
written by New England play-
wrights and presented by New
England theater companies. The
readings will begin at noon Mon-
ing. Presented by Boston Play-
wrights’ Theatre. Through May
28. Free, but audiences are “en-
couraged to donate to participat-
ing theatre companies and/or to
the Theatre Community Benevo-
lent Fund.” www.BostonPlay-
wrights.org
THE NICETIES A Black college
student and her white professor
collide over questions of race,
power, and language in a virtual
production of a searing drama by
Brookline native Eleanor Bur-
gess, directed by Joann Green
Breuer and starring Amy Bren-
neman (”Tell Me Your Secrets,”
“Judging Amy,” “The Leftovers”)
and Tsilala Brock. In my review
of the 2018 premiere at Boston’s
Huntington Theatre Company, I
described “The Niceties” as “a di-
dacticism-prone but provocative
and blisteringly smart play” that
“generates a verbal whirlwind
sented by Martha’s Vineyard
Playhouse. Through April 4. Tick-
ets $15. www.mvplayhouse.org
DON AUCOIN
Dance
THE ART OF CLASSICAL BAL-
LET Boston Ballet’s current
BB@yourhome program, the
fifth in its virtual season, delves
into the company’s deep well of
ballet classics with fresh eyes and
vibrant, newly filmed in-studio
performances. Repertoire ranges
from virtuoso excerpts from fa-
vorite masterpieces like “Swan
Lake” and “Giselle” to less famil-
iar works, such as “Satanella,” “La
Esmerelda,” “Gayane,” and “Suite
en Blanc.” Through April 4. $60
subscription includes final “Pro-
cess & Progress” program (May
13-23) as well. www.bostonbal-
let.org
KAREN CAMPBELL
WRITING THE FUTURE: BAS-
QUIAT AND THE HIP HOP GEN-
ERATION The first to link Jean-
Michel Basquiat to his peers in
New York’s 1980s graffiti and
hip-hop scene, this show enriches
the experience of his famously ex-
pressive canvases with volumes
of context about the world he
lived in and the people with
whom he was closest. Through
May 16. Museum of Fine Arts,
465 Huntington Ave. 617-267-
9300, www.mfa.org/exhibition/
writing-the-future
MURRAY WHYTE
REVISED EDITION Painter Coral
Woodbury tweaks the art histori-
cal canon, repopulating master-
pieces with women artists and
inking their portraits over pages
from “Janson’s History of Art.” In
one painting, she replaces the
girls in John Singer Sargent’s
“The Daughters of Edward Dar-
ley Boit,” a treasure of the MFA’s
painter Ellen Thesleff. Through
April 25. Abigail Ogilvy Gallery,
460 Harrison Ave. 617-820-
5173, www.abigailogilvy.com
CATE McQUAID
EVENTS
Comedy
DAVE RUSSO The Giggles Pavil-
ion is back up and running for
in-person shows under the tent.
This week, Boston staple and af-
fable goof Dave Russo headlines
with Jody Sloan and Danny
Miller. April 2-3, 8:30 p.m. $25.
Giggles Comedy Club, 517
Broadway, Saugus. 781-233-
9950, www.princerestau-
rant.com
LOOKING FORWARD TO IT
WITH JOSH GONDELMAN This
edition of Gondelman’s regular
to whip up some Easter treats
just in time for the holiday. The
aspiring chefs will learn to cre-
ate bird’s nest cookies, Easter
egg sugar cookies, and a farm
fresh vegetable dip. The best
part? There’ll be plenty of food
to bring home for the rest of the
family. April 3, 10 a.m. $60.
https://buy.acmeticketing.com/
FRIENDS AND FAMILY CHOC-
OLATE ART FOR EASTER The
best way to prep for the upcom-
ing chocolate-filled holiday is
with, well, more chocolate. Join
Linda, a professional chocolate
and sugar artist, in creating
chocolate ornaments, ribbons,
leaves, flowers, and boxes using
only household items. Each tick-
et comes with the class on one
device, a recipe packet, and a list
of local chocolate sources for in-
gredients. April 3, 2 p.m. $70.
https://ccae.org/classes
NATACHI ONWUAMAEGBU

Maxwell remains influential and vital 25 years after his debut

uMAXWELL
Continued from Page G1
that feels boundless.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Max-
well was influenced early on by the R&B
that was popular in the early ’80 s,
which blended the vibe of live music
with the then-new sonics offered by syn-
thesizers. “Urban Hang Suite” brought
that spirit into the ’90s, with contribu-
tions from songwriter and producer Le-
on Ware and Funk Brothers guitarist
Melvin “Wah-Wah Watson” Ragin root-
ing the album in tradition and Max-
well’s songwriting and production giv-
ing those conventions a new-school
spin. The result is a fully realized world
where love rules; the flinty guitar and
synth noodles of “Sumthin’ Sumthin’”
add a playful element to his come-on,
while the gorgeous “Reunion” cele-
brates a rekindled love with instrumen-
tation that gives off heat, Maxwell’s vo-
cal rising to the occasion. The remaster
shows how meticulously crafted “Urban
Hang Suite” was, and how thorough
and confident a statement Maxwell —
just in his early 20s — was making over
its near-hour length.
Listeners heard it — and reacted in
kind. “Urban Hang Suite” was a slow
burner, but it eventually hit big in the
United States, selling double-platinum
and helping kick-start the commercial
embrace of a movement known as “neo-
soul” — which threw back to the decid-
edly analog R&B of the ’70s and ’80s
while also looking toward the looming
21st century lyrically — alongside early
albums by other revered R&B artists
like D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and Lau-
ryn Hill. It also resulted in Maxwell be-
ing invited to record an episode of
“MTV Unplugged” — a sign that he had
Made It not only commercially, but crit-
A remastered “Urban Hang Suite” by Maxwell, shown performing in New York City in 2015, is being released.
ically, given the ideals of “authenticity”
surrounding that show.
In addition to tracks from “Urban
Hang Suite,” that performance, record-
ed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
included a funked-up rework of Nine
Inch Nails’ glitchy “Closer” that trades
in the original’s menace for joy, capping
it with a frantic gospel breakdown. It al-
so marked the on-record debut of his
take on Kate Bush’s delicate yet steely
“This Woman’s Work,” and his reverent
vocal showed off both his falsetto and
his tender interpretative skill. (When I
saw him at the now-Rockland Trust
Bank Pavilion in 2014, he introduced
the track with Bush’s 2011 re-recording
of it — a nod to her continued artistry as
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well as his own.)
Maxwell works at his own pace.
Since “Urban Hang Suite” came out in
1996, he’s released four albums and EPs
with reimaginations of his own songs,
as well as an EP-length edit of the “Un-
plugged” taping. (A studio version of
“ This Woman’s Work” appears on
2001 s “Now.”) He’s fine-tuning the fi-
nal piece of his “Blacksummersnight”
trilogy, which began in 2009 and has, so
far, resulted in indelible songs like the
shimmering “Pretty Wings” and the
lush “Lake By the Ocean.” “Shame,”
which came out in 2018, is the first
taste of part three, and its sumptuous
groove and feather-light rebuke of the
social-media-saturated present day —
”true love ain’t digital, nah nah,” he
murmurs over brushed drums and
lightly touched synths — are both gentle
reminders of what the word “classic”
can mean.
The first two installments of “Black-
summersnight” show how Maxwell re-
mains vital as an artist in his own right,
but his influence on contemporary R&B
can’t be overstated, with artists such as
H.E.R. and Gallant absorbing his com-
bined ideals of studio perfection and ex-
ploratory composition. Echoes of his
work can be heard even at the top of the
pop charts; the current No. 1 on Bill-
board’s Hot 100, the Justin Bieber-led
love song “Peaches,” has a besotted
verse from Toronto soul singer Daniel
Caesar that lyrically recalls the romanti-
cism of Maxwell’s most lovelorn work.
During Saturday’s broadcast of the
NAACP Image Awards, Maxwell per-
formed the “Urban Hang Suite” track
“Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder),” a
groove-led profession of love that shows
off his supple upper register and his
knack for writing instantly grabbable
melodies. Shot in crisp black and white,
the performance captured Maxwell
walking around New York City, reveling
in his hometown’s tableau while de-
lighting in his lyrics’ expression of love.
Maxwell wrote that song when he was
in his early 20s, but his performance of
it at age 47 was no less potent, full of
hope and joy and triumph.
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Groupmuse aims for ‘structural change’ with
switch to musician-owned business model
By A.Z. Madonna
GLOBE STAFF
Quick, imagine a string quartet con-
cert in a private home. Marble floors,
vaulted ceilings, and uniformed servers
with hors d’oeuvres platters probably
come to mind. But this was rarely or
never the case with the private concerts
organized through the buzzy classical
music startup Groupmuse, which
matched musicians with music lovers
— often younger than those in the typi-
cal Symphony Hall audience — who
hosted casual, intimate concerts in
backyards and living rooms.
But now, with Groupmuse rapidly
approaching its second decade, a num-
ber of seismic changes are being imple-
mented. First and foremost: The busi-
ness is going cooperative.
Founder Sam Bodkin, a Newton na-
tive, majored in political science as an
undergrad but fell “madly in love” with
classical music, he said over the phone
recently. Groupmuse was born from a
combination of his experiences couch-
surfing across Europe and fond memo-
ries of evenings at “Linden Hall,” an All-
ston apartment where New England
Conservatory students would host com-
bination concerts and house parties.
Groupmuse formed amid the start-
up boom of the early 2010s. At the time,
Bodkin dreamed of riding the wave of
financial success that prosperous start-
ups promised. But reality eventually
hit, Bodkin said. “It quickly became
clear that an organization that concen-
trated profit in the hands of a couple
people, like the standard startup para-
digm suggests, would not work — and it
would feel terrible. All these musicians
put their lives and labor into creating
amazing stuff.”
Transforming the company into a
cooperatively owned venture has been a
goal for a few years, Bodkin explained,
but the pandemic provided the neces-
sary push. As conventional concert ven-
ues shut down last spring, Groupmuse
was quick to bring shows online. And
the first few months were some of the
most profitable the organization has
seen. But as screen fatigue set in and
Giving
shape to
lives lived
and lost
By Cate McQuaid
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
It’s impossible to comprehend the
sheer numbers lost to COVID-19. Jap-
anese painter Yuri Shimojo’s series
“Memento Mori,” which meditates on
losing individuals and multitudes,
helps.
Shimojo made these paintings af-
ter the 2011 earthquake and tsunami
in Japan, which killed close to 16,000
people, and this is the first time
they’ve been shown in the United
States. She was already intimate with
loss; everyone in her immediate fami-
ly died before she was 30. Now she
was overcome with the magnitude of
it.
A month after the disaster, the
New York-based artist learned that
cherry blossoms had bloomed in Fu-
kushima. She began to paint single
petals as a means of coping. Eventual-
ly, those accumulated into a large
mandala painting, “Sakura,” the first
in this series.
It’s a remarkable, quivering piece.
Tiny petals, blushing white with red
tips, float and eddy. They are difficult
to distinguish against the pale paper
— a clamor of petals, like a crowd on a
city street. But at the mandala’s core
Shimojo painted a gray circle. Petals
there stand out like souls coming into
focus before they fade into darkness.
In Japan, gray ink signifies condo-
lence, the artist explained in a Zoom
talk about the exhibition for Duke Arts
at Duke University. “I wanted to wrap
it around the petals almost like the
tsunami waters wrapped around
those bodies, softly, and honor them,”
she said.
Evocations of death in “Memento
Mori” make its references to life — its
sensuality, its cycles — tender and
dear. In “Vine,” dancing green leaves
and stems wheel and curl. Their buds,
though, are shadowy gray, pregnant
with death even as they blossom.
Some paintings move toward re-
birth. Others feel haunted. In “Univer-
sal Stain,” inky blots with eyes and
mouths flit like shadows. This manda-
la could be a petri dish full of menac-
ing microbes, or a murmuring imagi-
nation on the edge of sleep.
Working with sound artist Alec
Fe l l m a n a n d l i g h t a r t i s t Ma r i a
Takeuchi, Shimojo has created a site-
specific installation “Petal Mori.” Petri
T h e
temperatures climbed, audiences start-
ed spending more time outside. Bodkin
watched that revenue dwindle.
“If we’re going to stay strong as an
organization, we’re going to have to be
candid about money,” Bodkin said.
“Sometimes there are good months,
sometimes there are bad months, and
we’re really working hard to continue
being in service of the mission.”
The company became a worker-
owned cooperative in late 2020, offer-
ing shares of ownership to anyone who
worked more than 20 hours a week for
the past six months. (All six eligible em-
ployees opted in, with a seventh becom-
ing eligible soon.) At present, the plan is
opening up ownership to active musi-
cians this summer — allowing them to
allocate funds, share resources, and
weigh in on organization-wide policies.
In the meantime, a 10-person Musician
Founding Council is laying groundwork
IMAGES BY YURI SHIMOJO
From top: Yuri Shimojo’s
paintings “Vine,” “Sakura,” and
“Universal Stain.”
ART REVIEW
MEMENTO MORI
At Praise Shadows Art Gallery,
313A Harvard St., Brookline,
through April 18. 617-487-5427,
https://praiseshadows.com
dishes, each with a paper cherry blos-
som petal, are assembled on a circle of
salt on the floor. Gentle music plays as
dishes are illuminated in remem-
brance. Praise Shadows has storefront
windows, and “Petal Mori” is best
viewed after sunset. That makes
sense; when it comes to reckoning
with what we have lost, we are still in
darkness.
Cate McQuaid can be reached at
catemcquaid@gmail.com. Follow her
on Twitter @cmcq.
B o s t o n G l o b e
‘I’m really pushing for
Groupmuse to provide
this education for all of
these musicians and
give them the skills to
. . . have financially
rewarding and
meaningful careers.’
KIYOSHI HAYASHI, violinist and
founding council member
for what the new phase of Groupmuse
will offer.
Jamaica Plain-based violinist and
founding council member Kiyoshi
Hayashi started playing Groupmuse
Bevin O’Gara is named interim
artistic director at New Rep
By Don Aucoin
GLOBE STAFF
In another high-profile addition to
the steadily growing ranks of women in
leadership positions at Boston-area the-
ater companies, director and adminis-
trator Bevin O’Gara has been named in-
terim executive artistic director at Wa-
tertown’s New Repertory Theatre.
O’Gara, 38, is replacing former artis-
tic director Michael J. Bobbitt, who left
New Rep to become executive director
of the Mass Cultural Council.
The appointment of O’Gara, which
was announced Tuesday, underscores
the significant increase in the number
of female theater leaders over the past
few years, as women have succeeded
male artistic directors or assumed top
posts in new organizations. “It’s been
decades coming,” O’Gara said in a tele-
phone interview, then added wryly:
“Maybe centuries.”
“It is time for women to be taking
leadership positions,” she said. “This is
a really important moment.”
After being an in-demand, award-
winning director in Boston for a decade,
O’Gara left in 2017 to become produc-
ing artistic director at the Kitchen The-
atre Company in Ithaca, N.Y. “I have the
skills and the experience that I didn’t
have four years ago, and I can bring
those home to an organization at a time
when it needs support,” she said.
Indeed, O’Gara is taking the helm at
New Rep in a period of huge uncertain-
ty. She is tasked with figuring out when
and how to reopen after a year when the
Watertown company’s finances, like
those of virtually all theaters, have been
decimated by the pandemic. Since last
March, New Rep has lost a projected
$1.3 million, which equals the entirety
of its usual earned revenue per year, and
amounts to 70 percent of its annual op-
erating budget.
A key step in figuring out solutions
for the battered local theater industry,
O’Gara said, is for the leaders of midsize
theater companies to collaborate and
“articulate larger protocols on how
we’re making our artists and audiences
safe.”
“I’ve worked at all of those theaters,’'
she noted. “I have relationships with all
those artistic directors and managing
directors.”
She will find the leadership land-
scape changed even from a few years
ago. In early 2020, Courtney O’Connor
succeeded Spiro Veloudos as artistic di-
rector at Lyric Stage Company of Bos-
ton, not long after Courtney Sale re-
placed artistic director Sean Daniels at
Lowell’s Merrimack Repertory Theatre.
Erica Lynn Schwartz was named gener-
SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF
concerts in the early days, back when
he was still a student at New England
Conservatory. He got “hooked immedi-
ately” on the way it discarded every-
thing he disliked about concert hall
playing.
“It just made it . . . all about the mu-
sic and having a good time and really
connecting to people,” Hayashi said in a
phone interview.
When he cofounded the Rasa String
Quartet in 2019, the group did its first
concerts through Groupmuse. When
the pandemic canceled all his gigs,
Hayashi did online Groupmuse shows
with his housemates, and he was
amazed at the opportunity to connect
with audiences worldwide, including
those in Japan, California, and Chicago.
The goal of the founding council is
to eventually be the voice of the musi-
cian-owners so that Groupmuse can
better serve them, Hayashi said. “We’re
ANDRE BOGARD
Bevin O’Gara (with son Henry
Michael Dunn) joins an increasing
number of female theater leaders
over the past few years.
al manager of the Emerson Colonial
Theatre in 2017, and Dawn M. Sim-
mons is the coproducing artistic direc-
tor of the Front Porch Arts Collective, a
Black-led theater company launched in
2016.
They have joined such veteran the-
ater leaders as Diane Paulus and Diane
Borger at Cambridge’s American Reper-
tory Theater, Catherine Carr Kelly at
Central Square Theater, Debra Wise at
Underground Railway Theater, and Lee
Mikeska Gardner at The Nora (formerly
Nora Theatre Company).
O’Gara will be New Rep’s fourth ar-
tistic director in the past decade, follow-
ing Kate Warner, Jim Petosa, and Bob-
bitt, the first Black artistic director in
the company’s history. Much of Bob-
bitt’s stint in the job was dominated by
the pandemic, but he became a leading
voice in the Boston theater community,
emphasizing diversity and racial equity
as fundamental tenets of the operations
and identity of New Rep and theater
generally — an emphasis O’Gara, who is
white, said she intends to maintain.
“I love what Michael has said in the
New Repertory Theatre statement
about diversity being an act of love,” she
said. “The stories that we tell, the peo-
ple we choose to tell them, and the peo-
ple who engage with us as we tell them
need to be as broad and reflective as
possible.”
“There is still a dearth of BIPOC rep-
resentation. The movement that has
been made in terms of female represen-
tation in leadership positions will also
hopefully lead the way for further BI-
POC representation as well,” she said,
using the acronym for Black, indige-
G3
really targeting musicians who aren’t
necessarily taken care of by larger insti-
tutions. Who haven’t necessarily taken
the traditional routes of getting an or-
chestra job or teaching position at a
university. We’re seeing if we can pro-
vide this community that can give them
the resources and whatever they need
to thrive as musicians and as people.”
That might mean a gear lending li-
brary, or furthering their education in
entrepreneurship and marketing —
topics Hayashi feels are lacking in mu-
sic school curricula. “I’m really pushing
for Groupmuse to provide this educa-
tion for all of these musicians and give
them the skills to honestly have finan-
cially rewarding and meaningful ca-
reers,” Hayashi said.
It also means embracing music be-
yond the Western classical tradition.
Previously, half of each Groupmuse
concert had to be from the classical can-
on. At the beginning of this year, that
was replaced with a requirement for
“historical music,” opening it up to
global music traditions as well as jazz.
“This change has really come from
the musicians who expressed a little bit
of annoyance at Groupmuse for being
like ‘Hey, you didn’t program, like,
Bach, for the first half; this can’t be a
Groupmuse,’ ” Hayashi said.
But classical music remains the fo-
cus for the moment, since the vast ma-
jority of Groupmuse musicians are clas-
sically trained. For now, the overarch-
ing focus is helping artists recover from
the pandemic, which has forced numer-
ous musicians to leave the field or take
extended hiatus.
“Classical music is in this moment of
transition where it became clear how
dysfunctional some of the patterns that
have played out over the last century re-
ally are,” Bodkin said. “Musicians are
really out at sea without a paddle. . . . I
think like in so many other aspects of
our society, dysfunctions were laid bare
and became un-ignorable during
COVID. This is the moment where we
can bring structural change to the clas-
sical music world.”
A.Z. Madonna can be reached at
az.madonna@globe.com. Follow her on
Twitter @knitandlisten. Madonna’s
work is supported by the Rubin
Institute for Music Criticism, San
Francisco Conservatory of Music, and
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
nous, and people of color. “The more di-
verse our perspectives are, the more
rich our lives are.”
New Rep is holding off on naming a
permanent artistic director. A spokes-
person said Tuesday that the theater’s
board of directors plans to “conduct a
broad, potentially national, search for
the next permanent Artistic Director,”
and in the meantime wanted to “bring
on an interim to help support and guide
the organization through the pandem-
ic.’' Asked whether she will be a candi-
date for the permanent position, O’Gara
replied: “It’s still early to tell that as
there are many factors that will need to
be ascertained on both sides before get-
ting to that point.”
“I want to start by focusing on the
good I can do in the short term with get-
ting us through the pandemic,’' she add-
ed. “And I know the staff and board feel
the same way.’'
After graduating from Boston Uni-
versity, O’Gara worked as an assistant to
celebrated Huntington Theatre Compa-
ny artistic director Nicholas Martin,
then went to New Rep as the artistic as-
sociate. After two years, she became as-
sociate producer at the Huntington
while directing acclaimed productions
at the Huntington, SpeakEasy Stage
Company, Company One Theatre, New
Rep, Lyric Stage, Bad Habit Produc-
tions, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Bos-
ton Playwrights’ Theatre, and Nora The-
atre Company. She worked with numer-
ous notable playwrights, such as
Boston-area dramatists Kirsten
Greenidge and Melinda Lopez, which
could conceivably mean more pre-
mieres at New Rep.
“I’m not the person with the best
idea in the room, but my greatest talent
is recognizing the best idea in the
room,” she said.
Especially given the financial losses
of the past year, O’Gara knows that
fund-raising will be a key part of her
job. Questions of strategic planning and
resource allocation will need to be ad-
dressed, all in the context of fluctuating
news about the coronavirus. At the mo-
ment, she is focused on getting to know
her staff of 10 as well as the New Rep
board of directors, settling in at the the-
ater that helped to launch her career.
“The theater and arts community
here is home,”: she said. “I love that I
have the opportunity to take all that I’ve
learned over the last four years and re-
turn the favor to Boston. It feels very
full-circle.”
Don Aucoin can be reached at
donald.aucoin@globe.com. Follow him
on Twitter @GlobeAucoin.
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In the film ‘Hysterical,’ female comics
cut loose onstage, persevere backstage
By Stuart Miller
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Kelly Bachman is the least estab-
lished, least known of 15 comedians
featured in “Hysterical,” the documen-
tary about women who perform stand-
up, premiering Friday on FX. In fact,
she was a last-minute addition to the
film. Yet her appearance speaks vol-
umes about the road traveled by wom-
en comedians, who still face chauvin-
ism and outright misogyny at almost
every level of their male-dominated
field.
In the fall of 2019, Bachman learned
that film producer Harvey Weinstein
was lounging in a VIP booth in the New
York comedy club where she was about
to perform. When she went onstage,
Bachman called out the sex abuser, tell-
ing the audience she couldn’t ignore
“the elephant in the room” and dryly
commenting, “I didn’t know we had to
bring our own Mace and rape whistles.”
While women cheered her on, men in
the crowd started booing, but Bachman
didn’t back down and the video went vi-
ral.
“Hysterical” director Andrea Blaugr-
und Nevins quickly added Bachman to
the movie she was working on, but also
interviewed veteran headliners includ-
ing Nikki Glaser and Margaret Cho,
who said they admired Bachman’s re-
solve.
“That’s feminism,” actress and come-
dian Judy Gold says in the film, refer-
ring to her peers getting onstage and
talking about rape. “Women have been
silent about this for thousands of years.”
Nevins, whose 2018 film “ Tiny
Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie” used
Barbie dolls as an entry point for exam-
‘Hemingway’ is a look at
the man and the myth
uHEMINGWAY
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Burns and Novick could have called
their film “A Moveable Cornucopia.”
Writers lead lives that are primarily
interior. What they write is more impor-
tant than who they are. That’s why we
care about who they are: because of
what they write. Hemingway was differ-
ent — or, rather, additional (that word
again). He certainly led an interior life,
and there’s a shelf of books and a Nobel
Prize to prove it.
More important, there’s the literary
influence to prove it. Loathe Heming-
way or love him — it’s possible, proba-
bly even sensible, to do both — but none
can deny that his emphasis on clarity,
precision, and, for lack of a better word,
solidity transformed how the English
language was written. “He dared to im-
personate simplicity,” the literary schol-
ar Stephen Cushman says.
Interiority means that any film
about a writer’s life is likely to be hard–
pressed for visual material. It’s true that
Burns and Novick do some of the stan-
dard writer-documentary things: read-
ings of text (Jeff Daniels is the voice of
Hemingway), shots of typewriters with
keys clacking out letters on a blank
page, interviews with other writers.
Among them are Mario Vargas Llosa,
Tobias Wolff, and Mary Karr. Biogra-
phers and scholars weigh in.
We also hear from Hemingway’s one
surviving son, Patrick, and … John Mc-
Cain? Yes, the late Republican senator’s
hero, literary or otherwise, was Robert
Jordan, the protagonist of Hemingway’s
“For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Think of Mc-
T h e
Top (from left): Rachel Feinstein, Nikki Glaser, and Jessica Kirson perform together in “Hysterical.” Above:
Sherri Shepherd (left) with director Andrea Blaugrund Nevins. Marina Franklin is among the comics featured.
ining the past 60 years of the women’s
movement, turned to women comedi-
ans because she felt there was more to
say about feminism. “I wanted to ex-
plore what it’s like to feel vulnerable in
that space, standing onstage alone as a
woman and having to go on the road to
practice your craft. It was a little bit
shocking to think it’s still dangerous.”
Comedian Jessica Kirson, who ini-
tially brought the film idea to FX,
served with Nevins as executive produc-
er. “I spent a lot of time really picking
her brain about whether I was getting it
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Cain as representing the millions of
Hemingway readers, though few are as
famous or could speaking as movingly
or with such passion.
Mostly, though, Burns and Novick
face the opposite challenge: an excess of
material. The evidence of the eventful-
ness of that life — its exteriority — is ex-
tensive, to say the least. Meeting that
challenge, they demonstrate a fine eye
for detail. One example: Visible in some
footage of London, where Hemingway
briefly stopped on his way to France as a
war correspondent, is a pub called The
Rising Sun. Might the author of “The
Sun Also Rises” have ever paid a visit?
Burns and Novick draw upon family
snapshots, vintage photos, newsreels,
television broadcasts, home movies, nu-
merous magazine covers, and newspa-
per front pages. Hemingway, who start-
ed out as a newspaper reporter, was
nothing if not good copy. He was as
much celebrity as artist. Part of the en-
during fascination of his life — also the
vexation — is trying to square the two.
Hemingway did his best to confuse
assessment. It’s not just that he was
such a bundle of contradictions: sensi-
tive and cruel, generous and selfish,
acute and obtuse. It was as much how
he presented himself. “There’s all that
bluster,” says the novelist Edna O’Brien,
B o s t o n G l o b e
right,” Nevins says, since she has never
— and will never — get up onstage her-
self. “Absolutely not. I’m a shy person.
These women are superheroes — they
turn themselves inside out and can
weave their lives into a story and have
an audience walk away laughing and
with life revelations.”
Equally important was that Kirson is
trusted and respected by her fellow
comics. “Everybody’s worried about
trusting their story to a stranger. But
Jessica opened the doors,” Nevins says.
In addition to Cho, Glaser, and Gold,
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Ernest Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, in 1941.
who despite the bluster adores the writ-
ing. “He mythologized himself.”
It’s that self-mythologizing which
gets in the way: the safaris, the bull-
fighting (the bull-slinging, too), the ob-
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the comedians featured in “Hysterical”
include Kathy Griffin, Lisa Lampanelli,
Iliza Shlesinger, and Fortune Feimster.
They address the issues they face from
fans, male comics, and bookers and
club owners. Experts who study wom-
en’s issues appeared in an early cut of
the film, but Nevins says that as smart
as they were, “they felt pedantic and
bookish” next to the comics. “These
women have a lot to say and it’s all first-
hand.”
In one scene showing a group of
male and female comics eating together
session with violence and death, the al-
most-parodic machismo. Burns and
Novick make sure to include many
women among the talking heads as an
antidote to Hemingway’s thick streak of
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On FX, April 2 at 9 p.m. Streams on Hulu
beginning April 3.
at the Comedy Cellar in New York, Ma-
rina Franklin tells a male comedian that
a motel he’d recommended to her in Se-
attle had been horrible and dangerous.
He had mostly remembered that you
could get good pancakes there, prompt-
ing Rachel Feinstein to chime in that
men “have a different set of priorities —
he’s thinking about where he can get
food and [have sex]. We’re thinking
about safety.”
The women all have tales of being
stalked and groped by fans and assault-
ed by male comics. Nevins makes it dif-
ficult to dismiss these comments as ex-
aggeration by showing how male com-
ics have long generated cheap laughs
with jokes about acts of violence against
women. Among a collection of clips by
big stars like Sam Kinison, Chris Rock,
and Bill Burr, Burr yells at an audience
member, “I’m talking about hitting
women, sweetheart, and I think you
just added another reason” as the
crowd roars in laughter.
“These women are angry about the
situation, but it’s not an angry movie or
a piece that bashes men,” Nevins says,
explaining that the women are attack-
ing unfairness and bad behavior.
And the movie never loses its sense
of humor, with plenty of performance
clips, like one in which Glaser acknowl-
edges she should not send naked pic-
tures over her phone — “the cloud is not
secure . . . but neither am I” — or con-
fessing that she was a legitimately ugly
child. “I was diagnosed as one at the age
of 11 by a caricature artist at a Six Flags,
so I have the documentation.”
Nevins says one reason she amassed
a large group of comics instead of focus-
ing on one or two was strength in num-
bers. She hopes that having so many tal-
ented women speak in the film helps
change attitudes of men — those who
sit in audiences and those who have
power in the industry. “Hopefully peo-
ple will be more open-minded and
open-hearted, and I think if you see
this, you can’t help but be.”
She also feels some hope because of
the camaraderie she found among the
women, noting that as they have gained
clout their competitiveness has faded,
with comics supporting each other and
helping the next generation.
“The only people who have given me
amazing career boosts were women,”
Gold said during a press event on Zoom
to promote the film. Sherri Shepherd
added, “I tell every young [comic], ‘If
you need me, call me,’ because I don’t
want them to have to go through all the
[expletive] that we all have had to expe-
rience with these male comics and all of
this.”
Nevins hopes the growing number
of established women comedians, com-
bined with #MeToo and a change of
tone in the post-Trump era, can foster
change. She hopes bookers and club
owners watch the film and reflect on
the industry’s institutionalized sexism.
“It’s very hard to undo,” Nevins says,
“but I hope this film and the talent of all
these women will help open doors and
get people to take these issues into con-
sideration.”
Stuart Miller can be reached at
stuartmiller5186@gmail.com.
misogyny. Very much a man of his time,
he was also a racist. This is all the more
startling, and disappointing, because in
other respects Hemingway could hold
quite enlightened views. “I don’t think
you can dry-clean Hemingway,” Cush-
man says, and the documentary
doesn’t.
Among the many pleasures Burns’s
work affords is continuity. Some of that
is stylistic: the careful, expressive pan-
ning over photographs; the deft use of
period music; the Dutch-interior light-
ing for interviews. Some is a matter of
personnel. Peter Coyote, who has nar-
rated so many of the documentaries,
does so again. Geoffrey C. Ward wrote
the narration. The novelist Tim O’Brien,
a memorable talking head in “The Viet-
nam War” (2017), is also one here. Mer-
yl Streep, the voice of Eleanor Roosevelt
in “The Roosevelts: An Intimate Histo-
ry” (2014), is the voice of Hemingway’s
third wife, Martha Gellhorn. Florentine
Films, Burns’s production company, is
also a kind of repertory company.
The most important sense of conti-
nuity comes of a four-decade-long en-
gagement with the American past —
and an awareness that it isn’t really
past. History doesn’t just describe what
we have been. The past inevitably
shapes what we might become.
It’s a convention of English usage to
refer to literary characters in the pres-
ent tense. Robert Jordan is. What has
done so much to enrich Burns’s body of
work — what helps make him so uncon-
ventional — is his ability to turn the
“was” of Huey Long and the Civil War
and Twain and Jack Johnson and Prohi-
bition and the Roosevelts and the Viet-
nam War and, yes, Ernest Hemingway,
into an ongoing “is.”
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mark.feeney@globe.com.
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By Ty Burr
GLOBE STAFF
You’re either on Azazel Jacobs’s
wavelength or you’re not. If you aren’t,
“French Exit” will seem lugubrious and
weird, a self-conscious display of quirk.
But if you are, the director’s new film,
now in theaters, may reveal itself as a
warm and funny-sad tale of an impossi-
ble woman exploring the possibilities of
feeling. Plus it’s a big mash note to Mi-
chelle Pfeiffer, who rarely gets a part
like this these days and who dines upon
it like a Porterhouse steak at the 21
Club.
She plays Frances Price, a New York
socialite and denizen of the most rar-
efied strata of Manhattan society. She
seems to have been the type of legend-
ary beauty who hasn’t had to work hard
at anything; who married rich to a
brute who died and left her with a son,
Malcolm (Lucas Hedges), with whom
she lives in a Park Avenue apartment
that’s like a mausoleum. Frances is jad-
ed, cool, witty, and bored. Maybe a little
crazy. And broke, we learn in an early
scene, her private banker giving her the
news as if he were explaining exactly
how money works. (She calls him “mon
petit cochon,” which he takes as a com-
pliment until an assistant tells him it
means “my little pig.”)
An old friend — Susan Coyne as
Joan, the sanest person in the movie —
loans Frances her Paris apartment as a
refuge, to which she and Malcolm re-
pair with a dwindling stock of euros.
The son, a barely formed adult who
seems like a refugee from a J.D. Salinger
story, leaves behind a fed-up fiancée,
Susan (Imogen Poots), but woos a surly
Idris Elba saddles up
for ‘Concrete Cowboy’
By Ty Burr
GLOBE STAFF
Never underestimate the power of a
novel setting to revitalize a tired
plotline. “Concrete Cowboy,” arriving on
Netflix after touring last fall’s festivals,
tells of a teenager who’s heading down
the wrong path in life until he gets
shipped off to a father he barely knows
and oh-so-gradually learns self-respect.
You can practically tick off the life les-
sons on your fingers as they arrive, yet
none of that matters, because the film
takes place among the Black cowboys of
Philadelphia.
The what? The men and women who
ride horses out of rundown urban sta-
bles in the city’s Strawberry Mansion
neighborhood and elsewhere are de-
scended from the hostelers and grooms
of pre-automobile American society;
their grandparents cared for horses and
From left: Alexander Skarsgård, Rebecca Hall, and Kaylee Hottle.
Monster mashup of fun
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drews, is, in the actress’s words, the
“Jane Goodall of Kong,” and she has a
little deaf Kong Island adoptee named
Jia (Kaylee Hottle) who can communi-
cate with the big fella via ASL and who’s
this movie’s equivalent of the miniature
twin fairies from “Mothra.” Andrews is
contacted by Dr. Nathaniel Lind (Skars-
gård), an Indiana Jones Lite in search of
a gateway to the Hollow Earth, a prehis-
toric landscape inside our planet (with a
light source I never was able to figure
out).
There’s a corporate bad guy (Demián
Bechir), his soulless corporate daughter
(Eiza González), a mad scientist (Shun
Oguri); more satisfyingly, there’s a con-
spiracy theorist podcaster (Henry) who
with the nosy kids played by Brown and
Dennison ends up on an express trip
through Earth to Hong Kong.
But you don’t care about the hu-
mans; well, maybe you do, but the mov-
ie doesn’t. You’re here for the kaiju
smackdowns, which are doled out spar-
ingly until the climactic main event in
Hong Kong (or what’s left of it), which
features an Extra Special Double-Top-
Secret Kaiju, just like a real professional
wrestling match. I enjoyed these scenes
immensely while still being of two
minds: Advances in computer technolo-
gy have made it possible to create digi-
tal Godzillas and Kongs of startling real-
ism, every hair and scale defined in
multi-pixel glory — yet part of me miss-
es the guys in the rubber suits from the
T h e
Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges in “French Exit.”
Pfeiffer in ‘French Exit’: ‘upset in
a general sense,’ and gloriously so
professional psychic, Madeleine (Dan-
ielle Macdonald of “Patti Cake$”), dur-
ing the Atlantic crossing. Because of
course Frances would go by boat.
“French Exit” allows Pfeiffer free
rein to play, and her performance is glo-
rious in a major key of scornful hauteur
and a minor key of self-pity. Frances is a
sort of enervated Auntie Mame, given
to malicious play when the little people
don’t behave. A waiter is tardy bringing
the check? Fine, she’ll set the floral ar-
rangement on fire. What keeps the
so do they. “Concrete Cowboy” is a fic-
tional tale — adapted from G. Neri’s
young adult novel “Ghetto Cowboy” —
that avails itself of real locations and
real urban cowpokes in the supporting
cast.
The film is ably directed by Ricky
Staub, making his feature debut, and
executive produced by Idris Elba, who
also stars as Harp, the terse father to the
movie’s troubled young hero Cole (Caleb
McLaughlin, one of the kids from
“Stranger Things” in a radically differ-
ent role). Cole has screwed up in his De-
troit high school too many times and,
despairing, his mother (Liz Priestley)
drives him all the way to Philly and
leaves him with her estranged ex-hus-
band. Right off, Cole notices something
different about his father’s living ar-
rangements: There’s a horse in the liv-
ing room.
CHUCK ZLOTNICK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOVIE REVIEW
YYY
GODZILLA VS. KONG
Directed by Adam Wingard. Written by
Eric Pearson, Max Borenstein, Terry
Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach
Shields. Starring Godzilla and King Kong
— c’mon! Also Rebecca Hall, Alexander
Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown.
Available in theaters and on HBO Max.
113 minutes. PG-13 (intense sequences
of creature violence/destruction, brief
language)
classic Toho Studios era, or Willis
O’Brien’s pioneering stop-motion gorilla
from the original “King Kong” in 1933.
They were crude by today’s standards,
but they had a certain handmade funk
to them. They had soul.
By contrast, “Godzilla vs. Kong” has
speed, wit, and a refreshing refusal to
take itself very seriously. We learn the
intricacies of giant-gorilla CPR, so
there’s an educational aspect, too. And
if the title behemoths are a little less
cuddly than in the old days, they’re ap-
preciably more believable as they give
each other diving headbutts and short-
arm clotheslines. To quote an expert: I
think this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship.
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character from becoming hateful is the
regality with which the actress plays
her, and the melancholy we glimpse be-
hind a diva’s detachment. “I’ve upset
your mother,” someone says to Mal-
colm, who responds, apologetically,
“She’s upset in the general sense.”
Jacobs, the son of experimental film
legend Ken Jacobs, makes fluky slow-
motion comedies about people uncom-
fortable in their own skins: A grown
man who can’t leave his parents’ house
in “Momma’s Man” (2008), a bitter
AARON RICKETTS/NETFLIX
Idris Elba stars in “Concrete
Cowboy” on Netflix.
Features? Forget about ’em.
This year’s Oscar nominees for short films in the live action
and animated categories are long on interest
By Ty Burr
GLOBE STAFF
How did plebes like us ever handi-
cap the Academy Awards before the
“Oscar Nominated Short Films” pro-
grams started making the rounds of
theaters around a decade ago? This
year’s lineups, at the Kendall Square
and streaming via the Coolidge Cor-
ner’s Virtual Screening Room, offer the
usual bargain: a chance to look at some
of the better short films out there as
well as an occasion to wonder what on
earth the Academy is thinking.
The live-action category is especial-
ly strong this year, full of passion and
political anger that has been success-
fully transmuted into drama. “Two
Distant Strangers” melds the Black
Lives Matter movement with “Ground-
hog Day” in a tale of a man (an empa-
thetic Joey Bada$$) who finds himself
in a time loop in which he’s killed by
the same New York cop (Andrew How-
ard, equally good) in different ways ev-
ery day. Directors Travon Free and
Martin Desmond Roe balance horror,
humanity, exhaustion, and resilience
in clever and ultimately moving ways;
the movie could win.
So could “The Letter Room,” which
stars Oscar Isaac (directed by his wife,
Elvira Lind) as a lonely prison guard
assigned to vet the mail sent to the in-
mates. The poetic and erotic letters
sent to one death row prisoner by his
girlfriend start to obsess the guard,
leading to a touching moment of con-
nection. Isaac is terrific in the lead and
makes you realize that the best perfor-
mances in any given year aren’t always
in the feature films.
Two shorts set in Israel offer stark
and troubling human stories. Spring-
ing from a real occurrence in filmmak-
er Tomer Shushan’s life, the single-take
“White Eye” follows a young Israeli
(Daniel Gad) trying to retrieve a stolen
bicycle and inadvertently setting off a
heartbreaking chain of events. “The
Present,” from director Farah Nabulsi,
follows a Palestinian man (Saleh
Bakri) and his young daughter (Mari-
am Kanj) as they try to bring home a
LOU SCAMBLE/FSONY PICTURES CLASSICS
married couple who start cheating on
their lovers with each other in “The
Lovers” (2017). Here he lets screenwrit-
er Patrick DeWitt adapt his own novel,
gradually filling the screen as Frances’s
Paris apartment starts filling up with
people. A nervous little busybody, in
awe of this doyenne and happy to be
her friend, more or less moves in — Val-
erie Mahaffey is a slapstick delight in
the role — and then the psychic, and
then a deadpan private detective
(Isaach de Bankolé), and then the fian-
MOVIE REVIEW
YYY
CONCRETE COWBOY
Directed by Ricky Staub. Written by
Staub and Dan Walser, based on a novel
by G. Neri. Starring Caleb McLaughlin,
Idris Elba. Available on Netflix. R
(language throughout, drug use, some
violence).
A reconnection with an old friend
(Jharrel Jerome of “Moonlight”) who’s
trying to break into the local crime
scene offers predictable temptations
and follows a familiar arc, as do scenes
of Cole starting at the bottom (literally)
by mucking out the stables. There’s a
horse nobody can seem to ride except
the kid — the scene where he does so is
a honey, a spooky nighttime circle of
community. And there’s a girl, Esha
(Ivannah Mercedes, one of the local rid-
ers), but the romance is pleasingly low-
key. The best scenes in “Concrete Cow-
boy” bump along at an engaged trot —
MOVIE REVIEW
YYY½
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS
2021: LIVE ACTION
At Kendall Square and streaming via
the Coolidge Corner. 130 minutes.
Unrated (violence and tragedy)
YY½
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS
2021: ANIMATED
At Kendall Square and streaming via
the Coolidge Corner. 99 minutes.
Unrated.
new refrigerator and become ensnared
in dehumanizing checkpoint bureau-
cracy. It’s a telling sign of the times that
so many of these shorts bristle with fu-
SHORTSTV
Top: Oscar Isaac in “The Letter
Room.” Above: a scene from
“Genius Loci.”
G5
MOVIE REVIEW
YYY
FRENCH EXIT
Directed by Azazel Jacobs. Written by
Patrick DeWitt, based on his book.
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas
Hedges, Valerie Mahaffey. At Kendall
Square, Boston Common, suburbs. R
(language, sexual references).
cée and her new fiancé (Daniel di To-
masso), and eventually the place is as
crowded as the stateroom in “A Night at
the Opera.” Yet Frances retains her life-
saving aloofness, as if she simply
breathed different oxygen than the oth-
ers.
“French Exit” gets goofy at times,
enough so that you’ll be charmed or
throw up your hands and call it a night.
A séance brings on the spirit of the dead
husband — annoyed to be bothered and
speaking in the voice of playwright-ac-
tor Tracy Letts — and there’s a secret
about Frances’s pet cat that you’d just
laugh at if I told you. So I won’t. But Ja-
cobs’s films, while not for everybody,
have a generosity that’s rare and an
awareness of the infinite ways life can
disappoint us while still springing sur-
prises every day. And in Frances Price,
he and his star create a heroine to re-
member: a prima donna stubbornly
keeping her chin above water while
waiting for the ship to go down.
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the speed of life.
Although there are neighborhood
barbecues and horse races in grassy va-
cant lots, the movie conveys the precari-
ousness of the Fletcher Street Urban
Riding Club’s existence, with city bu-
reaucrats and animal welfare officials
threatening to close it all down and gen-
trification chipping its way toward the
stables block by block. Elba’s Harp is
presented as the most forthright keeper
of the flame, but the presence of Mer-
cedes, Jamil Prattis, Albert C. Lynch Jr.,
and other Philadelphia riders gives
“Concrete Cowboy” an authenticity that
anchors it in history and the soul of an
actual place. Best of all are the moments
when a scene right out of a classic west-
ern — a cowboy funeral, a campfire ser-
enade, one last round-up — is allowed
to play out amidst struggling lives and
potholed streets. The film is a shrine to
a hardy subculture, its people, and the
animals they love. Long may they run.
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ry at armed figures of authority: police-
men here and abroad and soldiers de-
manding compliance with Byzantine
webs of rules.
The animated shorts can be
screened in a separate program (as can
the nominated documentary shorts,
reviewed separately and available only
via the Coolidge), and aside from the
wrenching “If Anything Happens I
Love You” are less concerned with cur-
rent events. That film, a wordless de-
piction of parents grieving a child
killed in a school shooting, visually ex-
plores loss in heartfelt and powerful
ways. By contrast, “Burrow,” a bunny
tale from Pixar, is cute but awfully
slight, and Iceland’s computer-animat-
ed slice of life “Yes People” is milder
still. (Three non-nominated animated
shorts from the Academy’s shortlist
have been included to pad out the pro-
gram; any of them would have filled
the fifth slot better.)
Then there are the two most chal-
lenging works in the category. In the
appealingly hand-made “Genius Loci,”
Belgian animator Adrien Mérigeau ex-
plores urban spaces through a series of
images and visual transformations
that are anchored by a sense of melan-
choly exploration. If that sounds ab-
stract, it is and sometimes overwhelm-
ingly so, yet even at its most impene-
trable, the film has a beguiling poetic
logic. “Opera,” from ex-Pixar animator
Erick Oh, is even harder to explain in
words: A dazzling and damning por-
trait of human society in the shape of a
pyramid, inside which tiny figures con-
stantly act and interact, like ants has-
tening their own end. Oh claims to
have been influenced by Renaissance
artists like Botticelli, but you can see
Hieronymus Bosch here too, as well as
modern graphic artists like Chris
Ware. More art installation than tradi-
tional cartoon, “Opera” may be too out
there to win an Oscar, but it’s by far the
most visionary piece in a piecemeal
package.
Ty Burr can be reached at
ty.burr@globe.com.
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April 2, 2021: serve time to get physical with a places you might want to live. Carve out a space for alone time. “Cy is becoming insufferable,” Rose told me in the club
Funny, sharp and vigorous, pur- walk, run or swim. Tonight: A se- Make your workspace at home Just say "no" to parties and so- lounge. “He gloats over a good result.”
sue your dreams no matter how rious talk with someone close. practical and comfortable. If you cial events. Friends will under- In that day’s penny game, Cy became declarer at 3NT.
far-reaching they seem. This GEMINI (May 21-June 20) need to replace equipment, take stand. Use your imagination. A He won the first heart with the king and let the queen of
year, you initiate changes you You may have second thoughts time to research the best deal. drawing pad and notebook is all spades ride. West won and led another heart, and the Cynic
never thought possible. Keep about a commitment you made Tonight: Unwind with a mystery. you need to delve into new ways had only eight tricks. When he led a diamond to his hand
your day job but use your spare too hastily. Take time to negoti- LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) to express yourself. Tonight: Ka- and returned a club, West won and cashed three hearts for
time to fulfill physical and cre- ate the terms and conditions. Brush up on time-management raoke. down one. Cy was silent.
ative challenges. Be mindful of fi- Talk it over with someone you skills. You may have to rely on AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Played like a goat,” North grumbled.
nances since your extracurricular trust. Strengthen a connection them if overloaded with too Get together with friends who West is likely to have the ace of clubs for his vulnerable
activities may run over budget. If with someone you recently met. many projects. Set limits for make you laugh. Keep the con- overcall. Cy should win the first heart in his hand and lead
single, you will attract someone Tonight: Live dangerously with a yourself and stay true to them. versation light. A serious talk is a club. If West plays low, Cy puts up dummy’s king, then
who thinks like you. If attached, rich dessert. Too much information can tie for another time. Get tickets to a attacks the spades for nine tricks.
don't hide anything from your CANCER (June 21-July 22) you in knots. Tonight: Do what concert or sporting event. Order If West wins the first club, Cy is still safe as the cards
partner. GEMINI humors you. Give your pet special attention. you love. online. It might take time, but it lie. Cy wins the heart return and takes the king of clubs.
Find a home for a stray at an ani- SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) is worth the wait. Tonight: Play He has 10 tricks when East’s queen falls. If instead East-
ARIES (March 21-April 19) mal shelter. Teamwork saves you Make healthy lifestyle choices a trivia. West played low, Cy could cash four diamonds, then judge
Take advantage of a few hours from a monotonous job. Enter a family affair. Join a gym or take PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) whether to finesse in spades.
when you have no obligations. competition or take on a chal- power walks together. Purchase Share ideas with people you re-
Search online for an out-of-print lenge you may have passed on weights so you can work out at spect but whose views are differ-
DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ A 9 6 ♥ A 6 ♦ A Q 10 3 ♣ 8 7
or rare book you have wanted to previously. Tonight: Attend an home. Prepare nutritious and ent from yours. Incorporate
5 2. You open one diamond. Your partner bids one spade.
purchase. It requires patience, online meeting. balanced meals. The fun is eating those concepts into your work
What do you say?
but you might find what you LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) the delicious results. Tonight: and think outside the box. Re-
want. Tonight: Fun with children Lay the groundwork for fulfilling Plan weekend activities. ward yourself for your efforts. ANSWER: To bid 1NT to show a minimum balanced hand
and grandchildren. an artistic vision. A mentor can SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Treat yourself to a frivolous yet would be reasonable. I would bid two spades. Raising a
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) steer you in the right direction. Use your charisma to get your inexpensive item. Tonight: Prac- major-suit response with three-card support is often best
Your emotions may be on over- Be open to unusual ideas. Follow foot in the door. Take the lead tice public speaking.
with a suitable hand, and this hand qualifies: It has weak
drive. Feeling joyful will infect your instincts, and you can never even though you don't always
clubs and a ruffing feature in hearts. By the way, I open one
everyone around you. Don't give go wrong. Go out with friends. like being in charge. There is no (c) 2021 by King Features Syndi-
club with this pattern but would make an exception here.
in to irrational fears. Think Tonight: Laugh it up. time like the present. Friends cate Inc.

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TV CRITIC’S CORNER LOVE LETTERS

BY MATTHEW GILBERT BY MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

Can I reach out

for a second chance?
Q. I met someone last fall just after ending a
long-term relationship. She was dating some-
one at the time, so it seemed harmless to meet
up as friends. We hung out for a few drinks and
some get-to-know-you conversation. It came
with a little awkwardness, but I also continued
to think about things we discussed for weeks af-
terward. I even made some changes to my rou-
tine, and my life, as a result. This is exactly
what I would like to find in a partner.
It’s been a long time since someone chal-
lenged me in a healthy way or asked questions
that made me think about something different-
ly. It’s also rare for me to find someone as at-
tractive lately as I found her to be. Basically, I
think she was a great match for me but I wasn’t
ready to open up yet. I have been working on
myself, processing my new reality, and am
ready to start dating. I recently heard that she
might be single now. It’s been almost six
months since we met, but we have only ex-
changed a couple of short texts. Is it too late to
ask for a second chance?
SECOND CHANCE?
A. Ask for a second chance! Tell her you’re sin-
gle and hope she is too! Don’t drop hints or talk
around your desires. If you want to get to know
her and spend more time with her, make that
clear.
I keep telling people that I hope this year of
isolation, confusion, and boundaries will lead
to more honesty and clarity, whenever it’s safe
RON JAFFE/CBS
to move around. I hope people say what they
William Petersen (with Marg Helgenberger in “CSI”) will reprise Gil Grissom in “CSI: Vegas.” mean, even if it’s a simple “I would like to see
you again.”
Really, taking six months off from conversa-
There’s more than gas-set “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and a re- tion makes some sense, if you think about the
READERS RESPOND:
“Is it too late to ask for a second chance?” I
wouldn’t phrase it that way to her. Just ask di-
rectly if she’d like to go out and propose a spe-
cific day.
BKLYNMOM
Ask her out! I don’t think you have to come
on really strong ... that might be off-putting, but
you have nothing to lose. You should be able to
sense whether she’s into you or not. Good luck.
HOLLYIVY
Ask her out. If she says yes, great. If not,
you’ll have your answer and can move on and
take what you learned from the experience.
Good luck.
SELDOMSOBERBAND
Call her. “I’d love to take you out, how about
meeting at _____ for a drink?” If she says she is
dating someone, tell her the offer will still stand
if that ever changes, and then move on and date
others. Maybe she will reach out at some point.
THENURSE
^Solid advice.
THATGUYINRI
^Not solid. It’s just another way a desperate
person says, “I’ll wait for you.” I’ll wait for you is
never an appropriate response, especially if you
proceed to date others.
BIGSIGH
How about just a simple “Hi _________.
I’ve been thinking about you and wanted to
reach out to say hello. If you’re interested, I

a little originality in
the latest ‘CSI’ retread
Yesterday I was kidding about “This Is Pus”
and “Ellen’s Game of Game of Thrones” premier-
ing this week, even if they might have seemed ev-
er so slightly possible.
Today, I’m not kidding. CBS, the reigning
monarch of procedural series, the murder capital
of network TV, the home base for serial killers
and the obsessed cops who need them, is going
back at “CSI.” The channel has ordered a new se-
ries that is both a sequel to the original Las Ve-
vival of same. It’s a sevival, to help with CBS’s sur-
vival.
The show will be called “CSI: Vegas,” and it
will pick up six years after the “CSI” finale in
2015. William Petersen as Gil Grissom and Jorja
Fox as Sara Sidle will return, after the characters
reunited in the finale. Also back from the origi-
nal: Wallace Langham, who played David Hodg-
es. The new blood will include Matt Lauria (“Fri-
day Night Lights”), Paula Newsome (“Barry”),
Mel Rodriguez (“Last Man on Earth”) and Man-
deep Dhillon (“After Life”).
“CSI” premiered in 2000, and it became a rat-
ings giant that spawned three spinoffs, “CSI: Mi-
ami,” “CSI: New York,” and “CSI: Cyber.”
limitations of the past year. Many people are
coming out of their small pods and saying, “You
still there?” Also, if you’re looking for a roman-
tic relationship this time around, make sure she
knows. You met as friends first, so she might
not be sure about your intentions.
I want you to know — because it seems to be
a priority — that you can continue to work on
yourself, impress yourself, and test yourself, no
matter what happens. You can also rest a bit
during that process. The work never ends — in
a good way.
MEREDITH
would enjoy getting together for a cup of coffee
and catching up on the last few months.” Di-
rect, to the point, honest. Her response (or pos-
sible lack of response) will tell you all you need
to know. One way or the other, you will know if
you need to move on. I wish you all the best!
BIPPITYBOPPITYBOO
Send your own relationship and dating
questions to loveletters@globe.com. Catch new
episodes of Meredith Goldstein’s “Love Letters”
podcast at loveletters.show or wherever you
listen to podcasts. Column and comments are
edited and reprinted from boston.com/
loveletters.

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