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GOP backs
away from Charles III charts a more public path
strict laws HIS CANDOR, QUEEN’S
on abortion RESERVE CONTRAST
New king takes reins of
a Britain deep in grief
Lawmakers fail to pass
most extreme restrictions BY W ILLIAM B OOTH
AND K ARLA A DAM
after Roe backlash
london — What sort of monarch
will King Charles III be?
C AROLINE K ITCHENER,
BY Different from his mum. That’s
K ATIE S HEPHERD, almost certain.
R ACHEL R OUBEIN Charles offered a first glimpse
AND M ARIANNA S OTOMAYOR Friday, as he moved among the
people mourning his mother,
An aggressive push by Repub- Queen Elizabeth II, outside Buck-
licans to pass hard-line antiabor- ingham Palace.
tion measures is faltering in some One woman on the rope line
state legislatures and on Capitol thrust herself forward and asked if
Hill, the latest indication that she could give him a kiss. Recall,
many Americans are balking at nobody was supposed to ever, ever
extreme restrictions being touch the queen. But Charles
imposed since the fall of Roe v. seemed unbothered. The woman
Wade. pulled him toward her and pecked
In South Carolina, Republi- him on the cheek.
cans failed to pass a near-total As king, Charles has said he
abortion ban during an extended wants to balance tradition and
legislative session Thursday progress. Many of his closest ob-
night, unable to agree on whether servers assume he will break — or
to include exceptions for rape at least crack — the mold.
and incest. In West Virginia, a The thing is: Charles has opin-
recent special session over simi- ions. He has deep thoughts on fast
lar legislation ended in gridlock. fashion, hedgerows, parking ga-
At the same time, efforts to YUI MOK/POOL/REUTERS rages and organic tomatoes. He
advance a strict nationwide ban A well-wisher kisses the hand of King Charles III outside Buckingham Palace in London as he views messages and tributes Friday, a has established princely think
in Congress have quietly fizzled. day after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, whose “dedication and devotion as sovereign never wavered,” he said. tanks and foundations and trusts
After pushing for a national to promote “holistic solutions to
“heartbeat ban” on abortion in the challenges facing the world
the spring — which would have
outlawed the procedure as soon Debates over feminism’s A proud Irishman, Biden today.”
He says that as king he will have

role in royal legacy connected with British ruler

as cardiac activity is detected, to express his views less openly
around six weeks of pregnancy — and often — political neutrality is
Republican lawmakers and some often understood to be essential
antiabortion advocates have re- for the monarchy and its survival
treated from the idea. Some legis- BY K ARLA A DAM Britain’s longest-serving mon- BY M ATT V ISER much as some, and did not bow to in modern times.
lators are now pushing for a arch, the question is a matter of her as many do, he honored her in “My life will of course change as
15-week ban; others have aban- london — Queen Elizabeth II debate. The queen wasn’t President Biden grew up with a his own way. I take up my new responsibilities,”
doned any kind of national abor- was head of state and com- known for making bold decla- set of lessons that included a max- After their meeting last year, he SEE CHARLES ON A12
tion legislation. mander in chief of the British rations about the rights of im from his mother: Don’t kiss the paid her one of the highest compli-
“We are not elected as kings or armed forces for more than women — and some Britons pope’s ring, and don’t bow down to ments Biden can: He compared
dictators. We’re elected to serve seven decades. Her late hus- held that against her. But the queen. her to his mother. Royal speeches: The monarch’s
the will of people,” said West band gave up his career to others argue that she was a It was meant, he later recalled, “We had a long talk,” Biden said. most memorable remarks. A10
Virginia state Sen. Tom Takubo support her and dutifully feminist icon all the same. as a sign that all people are equal, “She was very generous. I don’t
(R), who refused to support a walked a few paces behind her Perhaps the closest the and no one is superior. think she’d be insulted, but she All the queen’s corgis: The furry
near-total ban without rape and in public. Her staff called her queen came to a public state- But for a man who respects reminded me of my mother, in little royals kept her company. A11
incest exceptions. “Even in the “The Boss.” Her face is on the ment about women’s rights or institutions, Queen Elizabeth II terms of the look of her and just
most rural and conservative money. gender equality was at a 2011 was, to Biden and the world, as the generosity. She was very gra- The new ruler: What to know
parts of West Virginia, I still But was she a feminist, in British Commonwealth sum- much of an institution as anyone cious.” about King Charles III. A12
believe the majority thinks there word or deed? mit in Australia, where the in modern history. So while Biden Elizabeth, who died Thursday
should be exemptions for rape As the world reflects upon theme was “Women as Agents — an Irishman to his core — may at 96 after a 70-year reign, was one Fashion icon: Her signature style
and incest.” her legacy after the death of SEE FEMINISM ON A11 not have revered the queen as SEE BIDEN ON A7 set the standard in diplomacy. C1
SEE ABORTION ON A4

Ex-professor travels America seeding voting myths E.U. energy crisis tests
BY A NNIE G OWEN
His crusade to undermine election systems limit of Dutch solidarity national coup,” he told the
crowd, standing before red,
neligh, neb. — One recent still may give Trump allies more fodder for chaos white and blue signs strung up
summer night in this tiny city on alongside a bingo board. “And BY A NTHONY F AIOLA gas field harboring the equiva-
the Nebraska prairie, more than that’s what we had.” lent of three years of Russian
60 people showed up at a senior Clements, who has no formal groningen, netherlands — imports.
citizens center to hear attorney training or background in elec- Earthquakes in this velvety The United States and Ger-
David Clements warn of an epi- tion systems, spent months criss- green patch of the Dutch coun- many in particular have raised a
demic of purported election crossing the back roads in his tryside cracked homes, made fraught question: Could the
fraud. home state of New Mexico in a businesses uninhabitable, even Dutch keep drilling in Gronin-
For two hours, Clements — battered Buick, trying to per- broke up marriages. After bil- gen for Europe’s greater good?
who has the rumpled look of an suade local leaders not to certify lions of euros’ worth of damage, “It should be forbidden to ask
academic, though he lost his election results. His words had and protests that included local us this question,” said Jan Wig-
business school professor’s job an impact: In June, officials in farmers rolling into The Hague boldus, chairman of the local
last fall for refusing to wear a three New Mexico counties on tractors, the Dutch govern- activist group Groninger Gasber-
mask in class — spoke of where he made his case either ment finally agreed to phase out aad. “But they do.”
breached voting machines, voter delayed or voted against certifi- the natural gas drilling that had And so this enclave of nearly a
roll manipulation and ballot cation of this year’s primary triggered more than 1,000 tem- half-million people, with 26,000
stuffing that he falsely claims results, even though there was blors since the 1980s. severely damaged homes, is
cost former president Donald no credible evidence of problems But now, as Russia cuts gas emerging as a stark test of how
Trump victory in 2020. The audi- with the vote. flows and energy prices remain far governments are willing to
ence, which included a local Now, Clements has taken his high, Europe is resting a covet- go, and how much people are
minister, a bank teller and farm- message nationwide, traveling to ous eye on this corner of the willing to put up with, in the
ers in their overalls, gasped in small towns in more than a dozen Netherlands — where 12th-cen- SEE UKRAINE ON A14
horror or whispered “wow” with PAUL RATJE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
states, with a focus, he said, on tury churches, rustic farmhouses
each new claim. David Clements speaks at an election fraud event in August in New places that are “forgotten and and storybook villages sit atop Ukraine: Counteroffensive makes
“We’ve never experienced a Mexico, where he fought against certifying primary results. SEE CLEMENTS ON A6 the continent’s mother lode, a “rapid” progress in northeast. A13

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$27,828.24 to the clerk for the
federal court in New York, where
Kelly — who is on trial in Chicago
on additional charges — was con-
victed.
Donnelly’s ruling comes as sen-
ior Justice Department officials
are debating changes to long-
standing Bureau of Prisons rules
governing prisoners’ money,
which current and former law
enforcement officials say shield
the funds from scrutiny and pre-
vent victims from receiving pay-
ments they are owed. The prison-
account system, which enables
inmates to spend money on such
things as snacks, emails and
phone calls, also helps pay for
many jobs at the Bureau of Pris-
ons. Last year it generated $82
million for the bureau’s operating
budget, funding 625 positions,
according to agency documents.
For years, the Bureau of Pris-
ons has argued that whatever
balance inmates may have in
their accounts, they should be
required to pay only a minimum
of $25 every three months toward
any court-ordered victim restitu-
tion.
After Post stories about in-
mates who kept large balances
while paying little to their victims
— including Boston Marathon
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and
High-schooler and his
friend accused of killing
man, 51, in his home
Attorneys for both teens de-
clined to comment to The Wash-
ington Post. The Post is not identi-
fying the boys because it does not
typically name juvenile defen-
dants.
What began as a case of a miss-
ing student-athlete has trans-
formed into a complex homicide
case, with law enforcement au-
thorities alleging that the teen
staged his disappearance after he
and his friend sneaked into Mc-
Caw’s house and killed him. Mc-
Caw once had a relationship with
the missing teen’s mother, accord-
ing to an arrest affidavit. The cou-
ple and the boy lived at McCaw’s
house for several years, the News
Tribune reported, citing court rec-
ords.
While prosecutors listed the
victim only as D.M. in court rec-
ords, the medical examiner identi-
fied McCaw as the man who had
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has no merit as a lawsuit, and
should be dismissed with
prejudice.”
Alina Habiba, an attorney for
Trump, said in a statement that
his lawyers “vehemently
disagree” with the ruling. Habiba
also said they will appeal the
decision.
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NEW YORK
Sotomayor, for now,
blocks LGBTQ club
Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor on Friday put on hold
a lower court’s order requiring
Yeshiva University in New York to
recognize an LGBTQ student club
while legal fights continue about
the group’s efforts at the religious
R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago on
June 6, 2019. Kelly’s federal trial starts Monday in Chicago.
former USA Gymnastics doctor
Larry Nassar — Deputy Attorney
General Lisa Monaco last year
ordered a review of the Bureau of
Prisons policy. That review is on-
going.
In the Tsarnaev and Nassar
cases, prosecutors filed court pa-
pers to force the Bureau of Pris-
ons to turn over the inmates’
money.
This summer, the bureau ar-
gued that inmates should have to
forfeit no more than 25 percent of
the money in their accounts, be-
been killed.
Prosecutors said the victim
died in the early hours of Aug. 28.
Around that time, the two teens
were camping with friends and
family at Panther Lake, according
to the affidavit. The family of one
of the boys told a detective during
the missing-person investigation
that the teenagers left their cabin
just after midnight on Aug. 28 and
returned around 6:30 a.m., the
affidavit states.
Just before 2 a.m., according to
the affidavit, surveillance footage
from the victim’s home captured
two “young skinny males” crawl
into the house through the dog
door. About 40 minutes later, the
affidavit states, the footage shows
the two running back and forth
between the main residence and a
detached garage before fleeing
around 2:50 a.m.
Days later, on Aug. 31, one of the
teens went “missing under suspi-
cious circumstances,” the Thur-
ston County Sheriff’s Office said.
He had left his house that after-
noon for football practice but nev-
er showed up. Deputies later
found his vehicle 14 miles away
from his school in nearby Tenino.
D IGES T
school.
A New York state trial court
ruled that as a public
accommodation, Yeshiva was
covered under the New York City
Human Rights Law and required
to provide the Pride Alliance the
same access to facilities as dozens
of other student groups. The
group said that means access to a
classroom, bulletin boards and a
club fair booth.
Sotomayor’s short order stayed
that ruling “pending further
order of the undersigned or of the
Court.” That indicated there
might be more to come, and that
the court was acting now because
of a deadline. Sotomayor is the
justice who reviews emergency
applications from the New York
region, although such requests
usually are referred to the entire
THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY,
AMR ALFIKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
cause to take more might threat-
en jobs or safety inside federal
prisons, according to people fa-
miliar with the discussions who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to describe internal delib-
erations.
Other Justice Department offi-
cials have pushed back on that
proposal, arguing that inmates
should not be allowed to shield
three-quarters of their money
from court-ordered payments.
Under the 25 percent limit, Kelly,
for example, would have to turn
It had “exterior damage, and sus-
pected blood was found on the
steering wheel and driver’s door
panel,” an affidavit for the teen’s
arrest states. His phone was also
found smashed near the vehicle,
and a resident reported seeing the
teen walking in the area, accord-
ing to the affidavit.
Authorities found him about 10
p.m. the next day. The 16-year-old
was wearing only shorts, and he
told a Thurston County detective
he could not remember what had
happened to him. He later said he
couldn’t say what happened to
him because he feared people
were going to hurt him, the affida-
vit states. He allegedly added that
he damaged his cellphone because
“he was afraid that the police were
going to find what was on it.”
Earlier that day, Pierce County
sheriff’s deputies had responded
to a welfare check at McCaw’s resi-
dence in Orting, where they found
his body in the laundry room, ac-
cording to the affidavit. He had a
gunshot wound to his head and
stab wounds to his stomach and
chest. Detectives also found two
empty gun holsters in the house,
according to the affidavit, which
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court.
Appellate courts in the state
have not yet considered Yeshiva’s
appeal, but denied the
university’s emergency request to
not comply with the lower court
decision.
In a filing asking the Supreme
Court to step in, the university
said that “as a deeply religious
Jewish university, Yeshiva cannot
comply with that order because
doing so would violate its sincere
religious beliefs about how to
form its undergraduate students
in Torah values.”
The school is represented by
the Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty, which called the lower
court ruling an “unprecedented”
violation of the university’s First
Amendment rights.
The student group said the
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over about $7,000 from his prison
account, keeping about $21,000.
Prisoners may keep as much
money as they like in the accounts
and can transfer money else-
where by check or money order.
The total amount on deposit in
the inmate accounts ballooned
last year to more than $140 mil-
lion, largely because of govern-
ment checks for pandemic assis-
tance.
In 2021, more than 20 inmates
had more than $100,000 each in
their accounts, according to rec-
ords reviewed by The Post.
One reason prisoners may
store large amounts of money in
their accounts is that it can be
difficult for convicted people to
get a traditional bank account.
But prisoners are allowed to
spend only about $400 a month
through their commissary ac-
counts, and critics of the system
say some inmates appear to be
using it to shield far larger sums
from scrutiny.
Although the Bureau of Prisons
operates accounts for inmates
and issues checks and money
transfers from those accounts on
their behalf, it does not consider
itself a financial institution. Nor
does it run bank transactions
through a Treasury Department
screening program meant to flag
outstanding debts, officials said.
said that investigators suspect the
teens stole the weapons.
The affidavit also states that a
person who knew McCaw told
them that the man once had a
relationship with the mother of
one of the teens, and detectives
began to investigate whether
there was a connection.
A day after authorities discov-
ered the body, that boy’s father
contacted a Thurston County de-
tective, saying that his son had
been “involved” in McCaw’s death,
according to the affidavit. He said
the man’s “biker buddies” had
threatened to hurt his son if he
didn’t steal an unspecified item
from the man’s house, the affidavit
states, so the teens plotted to
break in. Authorities have not
specified whether there are addi-
tional suspects.
The teens were arrested Sept 2.
One of them showed detectives
where he and his friend hid the
firearms they had allegedly stolen
from the residence, according to
the affidavit. Investigators said
the holsters they found at the
house matched the guns, accord-
ing to the affidavit. Both were reg-
istered to McCaw.
lower court’s decision was a
straightforward interpretation of
state law. It said the Supreme
Court’s intervention was
unwarranted, especially before
New York’s own appellate courts
have had the chance to weigh in.
The school does not require its
officers or professors to be
Jewish, the group said. Its
affiliated Cardozo Law School has
had an official gay students group
for years.
— Robert Barnes
GEORGIA
2 deputies serving
warrant killed; 2 held
Authorities charged a man
with murder Friday in the killing
of two sheriff’s deputies serving
an arrest warrant on another
person outside a suburban home
near Atlanta.
Cobb County Police Chief
Stuart VanHoozer said the
deputies were attempting to
arrest a man wanted on theft
charges in the driveway of his
home Thursday night when
another man inside confronted
them with a gun.
A shootout ensued when the
armed man refused commands to
drop his weapon, VanHoozer said,
and both deputies were fatally
wounded. The shooting suspect
and the man with the outstanding
warrant were both arrested
following a standoff with officers
who swarmed the neighborhood.
The two slain deputies were
identified Friday as Jonathan
Koleski, 42, and Marshall Ervin,
38.
Both men arrested at the scene
made initial court appearances
Friday afternoon.
Christopher Golden, 30, was
charged with two counts of felony
murder and two counts of
aggravated assault against law
enforcement officers. Christopher
Cook, 32, wasn’t charged in the
killings. But he was booked on six
outstanding theft charges.
— Associated Press
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that yeshivas provide
secular education
BY L AURA M ECKLER
New York state officials on
Friday proposed new rules that
would require private schools to
prove they are meeting state
education standards, a long-
awaited response to allegations
that ultraconservative Jewish
yeshivas are failing to deliver
lessons in core subjects such as
English, math and science.
Schools that refuse to comply
could lose their designation for
meeting the state’s compulsory
education requirements. And
school districts that fail to moni-
tor the private schools in their
boundaries could lose state
funding, officials said.
The rules apply to all private
schools, religious and not, but
they come in response to years of
accusations that many ultra-
Orthodox schools in Hasidic
Jewish communities spend vir-
tually all of their time studying
Torah and Talmud, religious
texts, leaving children without
the education that state law
requires they be offered in Eng-
lish, math, science and social
studies, along with a handful of
other topics.
State officials said they expect
schools and local districts to
work together to demonstrate
schools are meeting the required
benchmarks. That may prove
optimistic given the yeshivas’
contention that the entire over-
sight process is invalid and their
resistance to past investigations
and questioning.
The new regulations, which
are expected to be approved next
week by the state Board of Re-
gents, set up a fresh test of
religious liberty and schooling,
and people on both sides of the
debate predicted the dispute
will be appealed in court, possi-
bly to the highest levels. They
come at a time when a more
conservative Supreme Court has
Pedestrians outside a grocery store in Borough Park, Brooklyn, home to a large Orthodox Jewish
community. Enrollment in Jewish schools in New York overall has climbed 62.6 percent since 2000.
Education, or Yaffed, to press for
investigations and enforcement.
A study by the group found
that just under 20 percent of
students in Orthodox Jewish
schools were proficient in state
math and English language arts
tests in grades three to eight,
compared with about 45 percent
statewide, in 2019. In one-quar-
ter of the 28 yeshivas investigat-
ed by the city, just 3 percent
passed the state math test and
fewer than 1 percent passed the
English test.
Hasidic leaders in New York,
defending their schools, have
lashed out at the effort to moni-
tor curriculums and lessons,
calling it an infringement on the
right to offer religious education
as they see fit. Parents, they say,
are entitled to send their chil-
dren to schools that are consis-
tent with their values and be-
liefs.
Pearls, a coalition of yeshivas
in New York that has been vocal
on this issue, described the regu-
lation as an effort to “dictate”
schools lack instruction in re-
quired subjects.
Critics say the lack of enforce-
ment to date punishes children
who are never taught basic skills
such as how to read and write in
English, do basic math or under-
stand the larger world around
them.
In 2019, after a long delay that
city investigators found was tied
to political interference, the
New York Department of Educa-
tion found 26 of the 28 yeshivas
it examined were not meeting
standards.
New York state’s efforts have
also been drawn out partly be-
cause a court required the edu-
cation agency to put these rules
into formal regulations, as op-
posed to leaving them as mere
guidance. Officials said they re-
ceived some 350,000 public
comments, most of them ex-
pressing “philosophical opposi-
tion” to state regulation of non-
public schools.
“The regulation respects that
parents have a constitutional
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stantially equivalent” to that giv-
en to like-aged children at their
local public schools. Private and
religious schools are free to offer
instruction on additional topics,
but they must teach core sub-
jects.
Moster said that in many el-
ementary and middle schools,
students at these yeshivas may
have 90 minutes of secular edu-
cation each day. In high school,
girls learn some secular sub-
jects, he said, but boys, who
attend separate schools, study
only ancient Jewish texts. All
classes are conducted in Yid-
dish, with many students gradu-
ating without functional English
even though they have lived in
New York for their entire lives.
They know little about secular
history, and don’t even study the
Holocaust, he said.
The logic, he said, is that
secular learning is not needed to
function and thrive in the insu-
lar Hasidic community. “Every
boy is groomed and destined to
be a rabbi of some sort,” he said.
Moster estimated that nearly
100 Hasidic yeshivas in New
York are out of compliance with
state standards. Other Jewish
schools teach a broader range of
topics. Jewish day schools, for
instance, offer both religious
and secular education.
The new rules are certain to
face judicial scrutiny at a time
when the Supreme Court has
shown deference to the exercise
of religion in schools. It ruled in
June, for instance, in favor of a
high school football coach who
was disciplined for praying on
the field after games. On Friday,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor put a
hold on a lower-court ruling that
Yeshiva University in New York
City had to recognize an LGBTQ
student club.
“The doctrine has just shifted
so much over the last few years
that free exercise challenges are
just always successful,” said Zal-
man Rothschild, a Bigelow fel-
low and lecturer at the Univer-
sity of Chicago law school who
studies Hasidic education and
constitutional law.
Rothschild himself is the
product of Hasidic education
and said he received minimal
secular education. In elemen-
tary and middle school, it was
offered at the end of the day,
starting at 3:30 p.m., he said,
and taught by inexperienced
teachers who could barely speak
English.
“Really, it was just babysit-
ting,” he said. For high school, he
attended a religious school in
France where he said there were
no secular studies.
Richard Foltin, a fellow for
religious freedom at the Free-
dom Foundation, pointed to the
1972 case of Yoder v. Wisconsin,
in which the Supreme Court
ruled in favor of Amish parents
who cited religious beliefs in
pulling their children from
school after eighth grade in the
face of a state law that mandated
attendance until age 16.
“If there’s any community
that’s comparable to the Amish,
I’d say it’s the Hasidic communi-
ties of Brooklyn,” Foltin said.
Under the new regulations,
nonpublic schools will have sev-
eral options for demonstrating
that they are offering a substan-
tially equivalent education.
Schools that are accredited by a
recognized agency, for instance,
or that participate in the Inter-
national Baccalaureate program
will automatically be considered
in compliance.
But the Hasidic schools at the
center of the controversy are not
likely to qualify under the path-
ways offered and, if not, the local
school districts will be responsi-
ble for ascertaining their com-
pliance with the rules. State
officials emphasized on Friday
that districts have long been
tasked with this responsibility
under the law, though these
provisions were ignored for dec-
ades.
“We think enforcement is nec-
essary,” Moster said Friday. He
said that yeshivas deemed to no
longer be schools would lose
funding that they rely on, “so
that funding is itself the carrot
and the stick.”
New York requires schoolchil-
dren to receive instruction in
math, science, English language
arts and social studies, by a
competent teacher and in Eng-
lish. They must also learn about
patriotism and citizenship; the
history and meaning of the U.S.
Constitution, the Declaration of
Independence and the New York
State Constitution; physical edu-
cation; health education regard-
ing alcohol, drugs and tobacco
(though not sex education), and
injury prevention.
The number of students
studying at Hasidic yeshivas has
been growing at a clip. Even as
total student population in New
York state fell, enrollment in
Jewish schools overall climbed
62.6 percent since 2000, the
Manhattan Institute found in a
2020 report. Most of the growth
has been in Hasidic schools,
which educated more than
90,000 students in 2018, Yaffed
reported.

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dom rights.
Backers of the new rules say
they represent important pro-
tections for children.
“Tens of thousands of children
have been — and continue to be
“Those who want State con-
trol can choose the public
schools,” the group said in a
statement on Friday. And sound-
ing a defiant note, it added:
“Parents in New York have been
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religious schools, and that we
respect the world views of those
schools,” said Jim Balwin, senior
deputy commission for educa-
tion policy in New York. “Work-
ing together, we are seeking to

— denied a basic education,” said
Naftuli Moster, who attended a
Hasidic yeshiva in Brooklyn as a
child. Frustrated by the substan-
dard education he said he re-
ceived, in 2012 he founded the
group Young Advocates for Fair
choosing a yeshiva education for
more than 120 years, and will
continue to do so, with or with-
out the blessing or support of
State leaders in Albany.”
Still, the statement did not
refute the contention that these
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ensure that all students will
receive the education to which
they are entitled.”
Since 1895, New York state law
has required that children at-
tending nonpublic schools be
provided education that is “sub-

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GOP retreats from some hard-line abortion measures
ABORTION FROM A1
Sixty-nine percent of Ameri-
cans, including 56 percent of
Republicans, said abortion
should be legal when the preg-
nancy resulted from rape, accord-
ing to a March Pew Research Poll.
The Supreme Court’s June de-
cision to overturn the constitu-
tional right to abortion immedi-
ately triggered strict abortion
bans in states across the South
and Midwest, cutting off abortion
access for 1 in 3 women across the
country. Even so, many antiabor-
tion advocates saw an opportu-
nity to go further. In state legisla-
tures, activists teamed up with
conservative lawmakers to lobby
for extreme restrictions, includ-
ing bans without exceptions for
rape and incest, and legislation
that would stop people from
seeking abortion care across
state lines.
But lawmakers have been
forced to reckon with a growing
public backlash. Last month, vot-
ers overwhelmingly rejected an
antiabortion amendment in Kan-
sas that would have removed
abortion protections from the
state constitution. And Demo-
crats who support abortion
rights have won recent special
elections in moderate districts,
outperforming expectations.
“They saw what happened in
Kansas,” said Mary Ziegler, a
University of California at Davis
law professor who specializes in
abortion. “You have people from
certain parts of South Carolina
who are gun shy about this — and
they have reason to be.”
In South Carolina this week, a
ban from fertilization without
exceptions for victims of rape or
incest had support from 24 out of
30 GOP senators, including party
leadership, but a small group of
Republicans spent hours on
Wednesday and Thursday trying
to persuade their colleagues to
soften the bill’s language. Even-
tually, the Republicans champi-
oning a near-total ban aban-
doned the most restrictive pro-
posals because they could not
gather enough votes to pass
them.
“People are very divided,” state
Sen. Penry Gustafson (R) said.
In the days leading up to
Thursday’s vote, the senator
said she was inundated with
calls and emails from South
Carolinians weighing in on the
bill from all sides. Gustafson,
who did not support a ban
without exceptions for rape or
incest, said she had to balance
the views of her deeply con-
servative constituency with the
opinions of residents in other
parts of the state that would be
affected by the bill, especially
women.
“You’ve got to know your peo-
ple and who you’re representing,”
Justice Department declines to charge o∞cer who fatally shot 17-year-old
BY T OM J ACKMAN
The Justice Department an-
nounced Friday that it would not
file federal criminal civil rights
charges against a police officer in
Overland Park, Kan., who shot
and killed an unarmed 17-year-
old high school student who was
backing his family minivan out of
a garage.
Federal prosecutors said they
could not show that the officer
acted “willfully” while firing 13
shots into the minivan in two
short bursts, in a killing captured
by three police dashboard camer-
as. Six of the shots hit the driver.
The decision, announced by
the Justice Department’s civil
rights division in Washington,
was the second prosecutorial de-
cision to clear former officer Clay-
ton Jenison of any criminal
wrongdoing. A month after the
January 2018 slaying, the district
attorney in Johnson County,
Kan., also declined charges, say-
ing that Jenison reasonably
feared that he might be struck by
the van driven by John Albers,
who had told friends minutes
earlier on Snapchat that he was
planning to kill himself. The
friends called 911.
The Justice Department said
in a statement that to prove a
federal criminal civil rights viola-
tion, prosecutors would have to
show that Jenison not only used
force that was constitutionally
unreasonable, but that he did so
“willfully,” meaning he “acted
with a bad purpose to disregard
the law.”
“It is not sufficient for the
government to prove that an offi-
cer acted out of fear, mistake,
panic, misperception, poor judg-
ment, negligence or gross negli-
gence,” the department said.
The statement added, “Unlike
in the many state jurisdictions
that have statutes criminalizing
killings committed with lesser
mental states, such as criminal
said Gustafson, who ultimately
supported a bill that largely mir-
rors the state’s six-week ban. “My
vote directly reflects the will of
my people.”
South Carolina state Sen. Tom
Davis (R), who opposed the near-
total ban without exceptions,
said that he expects abortion to
be a major issue for voters in
November.
“We’re not just hearing from
folks who feel passionately on the
extremes . . . we’re hearing from a
lot of people who are somewhere
in the middle,” Davis said.
“Where it comes down remains to
be seen at the polls.”
While the near-total ban
failed, South Carolina lawmakers
were successful in pushing
through an amended bill that
would severely restrict access.
That measure — a version of one
already on the books but blocked
by the courts — bans abortion
after six weeks and limits rape
and incest exceptions to the first
trimester, requires a second doc-
tor’s opinion in cases where a
fetus is diagnosed with a lethal
anomaly, and mandates that doc-
tors who perform abortions in
instances of rape or incest send a
fetal DNA sample to police. The
legislation moves to the state
House, which could consider it as
early as next week.
A similar dynamic played out
in late July in West Virginia,
negligence or recklessness, the
federal government has no stat-
ute that criminalizes a police
officer’s use of unreasonable
force, if willfulness cannot be
proven beyond a reasonable
doubt.”
Attorneys from the Justice De-
partment met with Albers’s par-
ents last month to tell them of
their decision. “This was not the
outcome we envisioned while
seeking justice for John,” Sheila
Albers, John Albers’s mother,
said. “The lack of an indictment
under federal law does not
change the fact that we need
significant changes to the system
that investigates these tragedies
and for our local leaders to pro-
mote the community-based evo-
lution of law enforcement.”
She added: “They are clearly
pointing in the direction that this
should have been a state level
charge. And we have local offi-
cials that have still failed to do the
right thing.”
Overland Park, which gave Jen-
ison a $70,000 severance pay-
ment less than a month after the
killing, said it had fully cooperat-
ed with the investigation and was
“appreciative of the FBI and the
Department of Justice for investi-
gating and reviewing this matter.
The Overland Park Police Depart-
ment strives to de-escalate and
prevent the need for use of force
whenever possible. This situation
was tragic, and we at the city
continue to keep the Albers fam-
ily in our thoughts.”
Morgan Roach, the attorney
for Jenison, did not immediately
respond to a request for com-
ment.
After Johnson County District
Attorney Steve Howe declined
state-level charges in 2018,
Albers’s parents sued Jenison and
Overland Park in federal court.
Following a ruling by a federal
judge that a reasonable jury could
find that Jenison wasn’t in danger
from the van, Overland Park in
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TOP: State Sen. Tom Davis (R) reacts to Republicans trying to pass
a near-total abortion ban in South Carolina on Thursday. The
measure, which Davis opposed, failed. ABOVE: People protest a
sweeping abortion ban bill at the West Virginia Capitol in July.
where Republican lawmakers in-
troduced a near-total abortion
ban with no exceptions for rape
or incest as soon as they con-
vened for a special session.
A version of that bill had been
widely expected to pass until two
physicians who serve in the state
Senate — Takubo and Sen. Mi-
chael Maroney (R) — pushed for
an amendment that would have
removed criminal penalties for
doctors. Others introduced an
amendment to broaden the bill’s
John Albers, 17, was shot and killed by an Overland Park, Kan.,
police officer in 2018 as he backed his family van out of a garage.
2019 paid the Albers family a
$2.3 million settlement. Howe
did not respond to a request for
comment.
Sheila Albers continued to
push for information about the
shooting and discovered that
Overland Park had allowed Jeni-
son to resign in 2018 without any
notice to state licensing authori-
ties of the shooting. Not long after
that disclosure, the Justice De-
partment announced it was open-
ing a civil rights investigation
into the case.
Stephen R. McAllister was the
U.S. attorney for Kansas who
launched the civil rights case in
2020. He is also a law professor
who teaches civil rights at the
University of Kansas. He said in
an interview last week that after
meeting with Sheila Albers — and
then reading the federal court
ruling denying Overland Park’s
motion to dismiss the Albers’s
civil case or grant the officer
immunity — he met with Howe.
Howe explained why he thought
the shooting was justified, but
McAllister was unconvinced and
got the Justice Department probe
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exceptions.
The West Virginia legislature
disbanded for the month of Au-
gust, after failing to agree on a
version of the bill to move for-
ward. Lawmakers have since
been called back to the Capitol,
where debate on antiabortion
legislation will resume next
week.
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Joni Ernst
(R-Iowa) had been planning be-
hind the scenes to introduce a
“heartbeat” ban in the Senate
ANGELA N. SHIPPS
started.
Meanwhile, news media in
Kansas City sued for the details of
Jenison’s severance, and for the
release of the police case file. In
2021, Overland Park released the
nearly 500-page case file, provid-
ing a rare insight into how police
investigate one of their own. The
Washington Post recently pub-
lished a 20-minute film examin-
ing the investigation.
The shooting happened at
dusk on Jan. 20, 2018. John Albers
had been arrested for shoplifting
earlier that day, and his parents
said he was still upset and de-
clined to join them for dinner
with a relative. Once his parents
and two younger brothers left,
Albers wrote in his journal that he
planned to kill himself, then post-
ed video of himself on Snapchat
making similar comments. Some
of his friends called 911.
Jenison and another officer,
Ryan Newlon, were dispatched to
the Albers family home. The po-
lice files show they had no prior
experience with Albers or any
knowledge of his arrest that day.
Dash-cam videos show that the
THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY,
SAM WOLFE/REUTERS
after the Supreme Court deci-
sion, lending the gravitas of one
of the GOP’s most prominent
female stars to legislation that
would have banned the pro-
cedure nationwide before many
people know they’re pregnant.
Although that bill has been
drafted, there is no timeline for
Ernst or any other senator to
introduce it, according to several
antiabortion advocates close to
the situation. Ernst did not re-
spond to multiple requests for
comment.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.),
founder and chair of the Senate
Pro-Life Caucus, said he hasn’t
had conversations with lawmak-
ers about introducing a heart-
beat-style bill in the chamber
since the Supreme Court
decision.
Instead, some antiabortion ad-
vocates are hopeful that Republi-
can lawmakers will rally around a
15-week ban that Sen. Lindsey O.
Graham (R-S.C.) is expected to
introduce this fall, a proposal
that has long been denounced by
many in the antiabortion move-
ment because it would allow the
vast majority of abortions to con-
tinue. Spokespeople for Graham
didn’t return multiple requests
for comment.
Some Republican lawmakers
have expressed disinterest even
in that less-restrictive piece of
legislation.
two officers approached the
house, didn’t knock on the door
or announce themselves, and
then Newlon returned to his car
to get a phone.
As Jenison stood alone in the
front yard, the garage door
opened. The family’s Honda
Odyssey minivan had its lights
on, and the driver began to slowly
back out. One video shows that
Jenison moved close to the garage
with his weapon drawn and
shouted “Stop!” three times, then
stepped back and fired two shots.
The van stopped. Then it
moved back down the driveway,
spun 180 degrees, and placed
Jenison at the center rear of the
van. The video shows that Jenison
quickly stepped to the side of the
van. As the van reversed back
toward the garage, the video
shows Jenison fired 11 more shots
into the side, killing Albers.
Overland Park did not investi-
gate the shooting. Johnson Coun-
ty police departments use an
“Officer-Involved Shooting Inves-
tigation Team” made up of unin-
volved departments to handle po-
lice shootings. A commander
from nearby Olathe, Kan., then-
Deputy Chief Shawn Reynolds,
took over the investigation,
which the records show was com-
pleted in six days.
The police files show that the
OISIT investigation did not make
a scene diagram, did not conduct
a walk-through of the scene with
Jenison, did not examine Jeni-
son’s personnel or military files,
and did not challenge his claim
that he was in mortal danger
from the van. The interview with
Jenison lasted less than 40 min-
utes, police video shows.
A digital 3D reconstruction of
the shooting, created by The
Washington Post, indicates that
Jenison was not in the path of
the van during any of the 13
shots he fired. He, Howe and
Reynolds, now the chief in Tem-
ple, Tex., all declined to discuss
SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022
Even before an antiabortion
amendment was resoundingly
defeated in his home state, Sen.
Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) told The
Washington Post that he was not
confident there is a future for any
kind of national abortion ban.
“I just don’t see the momen-
tum at the federal level,” Marshall
said in a July 25 interview, declin-
ing a request for a follow-up
interview late last month. “I
think the legislative priority
should be at the states.”
A nationwide ban would be
extremely difficult to pass, re-
quiring 60 votes in the Senate to
overcome a filibuster. Either pro-
posal under discussion — a ban at
either six weeks or 15 — would
encounter resistance from nearly
all Democrats in addition to a
handful of Republicans who sup-
port abortion rights. Neither par-
ty is likely to gain in the midterm
elections the number of seats
necessary for a filibuster-proof
majority.
Some Republicans have
grown increasingly hesitant to
discuss the subject of a national
abortion ban on the campaign
trail. In Arizona, Republican
senate candidate Blake Masters
removed any mention of his
support for a “federal person-
hood law” from his website,
legislation that likely would have
banned abortion nationwide af-
ter conception. Masters’s web-
site now says he would support a
ban on abortions in the third
trimester, around 27 weeks of
pregnancy, which would affect a
vanishingly small percentage of
the abortions performed across
the country each year.
On the state level, abortion
rights advocates say that the de-
lays have provided an unexpect-
ed window for abortion access in
some of the most conservative
states — at least temporarily.
When the West Virginia legis-
lature adjourned in late July
without passing a ban, the staff of
the state’s only abortion clinic sat
in the gallery and cried.
“It meant we could see patients
next week,” said clinic director
Katie Quinonez, who had been
bracing herself to call every pa-
tient on the schedule to tell them
they had to get their abortions
somewhere else.
The Women’s Health Center
saw 78 patients for abortion care
last month, according to Quino-
nez, with many coming in from
states such as Kentucky and
Ohio, where strict bans are in
effect.
“We never anticipated being a
state receiving abortion patients
from states were abortion is ille-
gal,” said Quinonez. “We antici-
pated being one of those states.”
Before the law changes, she
added, “we are focused on seeing
as many patients as physically
possible.”
the investigation. Jenison has
not returned to policing since
the killing. Reynolds did not
respond to a request for com-
ment Friday. He and Howe previ-
ously said they could not discuss
the case because it was under
federal investigation.
The Justice Department state-
ment recounted the findings of
the FBI’s investigation.
Federal prosecutors took note
of the judge’s ruling in the Albers-
es’ civil suit, saying that a jury
could find that Jenison used un-
reasonable force in his first two
shots, “and the federal criminal
investigation found no substan-
tial evidence inconsistent with
that conclusion.”
Appointed by President Don-
ald Trump, McAllister stepped
down as U.S. attorney last year,
when President Biden took office,
but maintained contact with the
Albers family and accompanied
them to the meeting in Kansas
City, Kan., with Justice Depart-
ment officials from Washington
when the decision was first re-
vealed. “I think the federal team
did their job honestly, profession-
ally,” McAllister said. “I disagree
with the outcome, but at the end
of the day, the federal standard
[of willfulness] is high.”
“If it were up to me as U.S.
attorney,” McAllister said, “I
would push hard to charge it and
let a jury decide. … I also think
there’s strong consensus at least
at the federal side, that there is
more than enough evidence to
charge [Jenison] with reckless
homicide. So the state authorities
were wrong to decline the charg-
es.”
McAllister was highly critical
of the OISIT investigation, its
missing pieces, and its emphasis
on Albers’s juvenile court back-
ground, of which Jenison was
unaware. “It’s just tragic that the
Albers were victimized twice,” he
said, “by what Jenison did, and
then by what the OISIT team did.”
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In ruling for Trump, low-profile judge invites scrutiny
Aileen M. Cannon was
confirmed in a bipartisan
Senate vote in 2020
BY A NN E . M ARIMOW
Aileen M. Cannon was not yet
40 years old when the federal
prosecutor won decisive biparti-
san support in a bitterly divided
U.S. Senate to claim her seat on the
district court in South Florida, in
what would be President Donald
Trump’s final push to fill the feder-
al bench with young conservative
lawyers before leaving the White
House.
Her profile soared this week
after she intervened in the Justice
Department investigation into
Trump’s possible mishandling of
classified information and agreed
to grant his request for an inde-
pendent review of the material
that FBI agents have seized.
Trump sought the appointment of
what’s known as a special master
to assess whether the government
took anything from his Florida
residence that may be protected
by attorney-client privilege or his
status as a former president.
Cannon’s controversial ruling,
which she called necessary to “en-
sure at least the appearance of
fairness and integrity under the
extraordinary circumstances,”
temporarily bars investigators
from using the documents re-
moved last month from his Mar-a-
Lago residence. The order has
been criticized by legal experts for
seeming to extend special treat-
ment to Trump and for disrupting
the probe before anyone has been
charged with a crime. On Thurs-
day, the government said it would
appeal Cannon’s decision.
With less than two years on the
bench, she does not have an exten-
sive record to review. The Trump
dispute has put a spotlight on her
while presenting untested ques-
tions about the extent to which
assertions of executive privilege —
usually invoked by sitting presi-
What are special masters, and how do they work in a case like Trump’s?
BY P ERRY S TEIN
Lawyers for Donald Trump
made a big request last month
in a legal filing about the on-
going investigation into the
possible mishandling of classi-
fied documents at the former
president’s Florida residence:
They wanted the judge to ap-
point a special master to exam-
ine the papers to see if any
should be kept from investiga-
tors.
On Monday, the judge granted
Trump’s request.
The Justice Department says
it intends to appeal U.S. District
Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s order.
Prosecutors have asked her to
exclude the classified documents
from any potential special-mas-
ter review.
Late Friday, according to a
court filing, the Justice Depart-
ment and Trump’s lawyers have
failed to agree on a list of poten-
tial legal experts to review the
materials, and they also disagree
about what types of documents
such a person should review. The
dispute now seems to be up to
Cannon to resolve, with each side
proposing two people as possible
special masters to examine the
documents.
The Justice Department’s two
proposed candidates are former
judge Barbara S. Jones, who
acted as a special master in an
investigation of Trump’s former
lawyer, Rudy Giuliani; and
Thomas B. Griffith, a retired
appeals judge for the District of
Columbia Circuit. Trump’s side
suggested Raymond J. Dearie,
the former chief judge of the
federal court in Brooklyn; and
Details on Supreme Court’s leaked abortion opinion may emerge in report
BY R OBERT B ARNES
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said
Thursday that it was “terribly
important” to identify the source
of a leaked opinion that foretold
the Supreme Court’s overruling
of Roe v. Wade and said the
court’s investigation could be
completed soon.
“Improper efforts to influence
judicial decision-making, from
whatever side, from whomever,
are a threat to the judicial deci-
sion-making process and inhibit
our capacity to communicate
with one another,” Gorsuch said
at the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 10th Circuit’s semiannual
Bench & Bar Conference in Colo-
rado. The Wall Street Journal
and Bloomberg Law had report-
. THE WASHINGTON POST
dents to shield sensitive commu-
nications from disclosure — may
be applied to past occupants of the
White House in conflict with their
successors.
Cannon did not respond to a
request for comment.
Former senator Russ Feingold
— who leads the liberal American
Constitution Society, which close-
ly tracks judicial nominations —
said Trump and his Republican
allies in the Senate sought out
judicial nominees like Cannon,
showing an “overwhelming pref-
erence” for individuals often lack-
ing the experience “previously
considered necessary to sit on the
bench.”
“We’re now seeing the impact of
this, with an alarming disregard of
the rule of law by some,” he said in
a statement.
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida
Republican whose office asked
Cannon to apply for the position
in 2019, rejected any suggestion
that her decision in the classified-
documents case was politically
motivated and noted the support
Cannon received from Senate
Democrats. Twelve voted in favor
of her confirmation.
“Judge Cannon is a great judge
who I am very proud to have en-
thusiastically supported,” Rubio
said in a statement. “The attacks
against her are just the latest ex-
ample of hypocrisy from leftists
and their media enablers who be-
lieve the only time it is acceptable
to attack a judge is if that judge
rules against what they want.”
Cannon’s confirmation hearing
took place six months into the
coronavirus pandemic, in July
2020, and she appeared before the
Senate Judiciary Committee via
Zoom. She had the backing of the
Cuban American Bar Association,
which praised her “temperament
and academic credentials” and
pointed to her “legal mind and
demeanor.” By choosing Cannon,
the group told lawmakers, “you
enhance the diversity on the
bench and help appoint a great
candidate for the position.”
In follow-up questions, Demo-
crats pressed Cannon about her
Paul Huck Jr., a former deputy
attorney general for the state of
Florida.
Here’s what you need to know
about special masters and how
they work:
What is a special master?
A special master is an impar-
tial outside expert who can es-
sentially be viewed as a judge’s
helper, said David R. Cohen, an
attorney and longtime special
master. In theory, the special
master can help with whatever a
judge needs.
In what circumstances is
such an official usually
appointed?
Special masters are most fre-
quently named to sort through
documents involved in a court
proceeding and examine them
for certain types of privileges.
The most common of these is
attorney-client privilege, but a
special master may also be used
to detect documents potentially
protected by doctor-patient priv-
ileges or spousal privileges. The
special master would separate
documents protected by these
privileges and, with a judge’s
sign-off, they would not be used
as part of the legal proceeding.
In this instance, Trump wants
a special master to sift through
the documents FBI agents recov-
ered from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8
and set aside any materials that
may be protected for attorney-
client or executive privilege
(more on executive privilege
below). Prosecutors also said in
court filings that they had a
“filter team” set aside any of the
seized documents that could be
ers at the event.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Jr. announced an investigation
into the May leak to Politico, and
Gorsuch said an internal com-
mittee was appointed. “That
committee has been busy, and
we’re looking forward to their
report, I hope soon.”
Gorsuch did not say whether
the report would be made public,
the Journal reported, and the
conference organizers prohibit-
ed reporters from interviewing
the justice or other judges in
attendance.
The leak of Justice Samuel A.
Alito Jr.’s draft opinion shocked
the court, which prides itself on
keeping internal deliberations
secret. It has been condemned as
a harmful breach by those jus-
Aileen M. Cannon is seen in a still image from a July 2020 video
interview during her nomination to the federal bench.
record as a prosecutor, her judicial
philosophy and her membership
in the Federalist Society, the con-
servative organization that played
a major role in advising Trump on
his judicial picks. In response to
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Cannon
said she considers herself an “orig-
inalist” and a “textualist,” refer-
ring to methods of legal interpre-
tation that look to the general
understanding of the Constitution
at the time it was written, an ap-
proach most often associated with
the late conservative Supreme
Court justice Antonin Scalia.
Cannon quoted Elena Kagan,
the liberal justice who quipped at
her confirmation hearing, “We are
all originalists.”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
asked Cannon specifically wheth-
er she had any discussions during
the nomination process about
“loyalty to President Trump.”
“No,” Cannon responded in
writing.
She was one of 14 nominees
confirmed after the November
2020 election, amid the tumultu-
ous aftermath of Trump’s defeat,
an appointment that will now
stand as a notable part of his
legacy. Over four years in the
White House, he installed more
than 200 federal judges, including
A journalist outside the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 26 reads a heavily
redacted affidavit in support of an FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
protected by attorney-client priv-
ilege.
But special masters could also
be appointed in sprawling legal
cases to help the judge assess
potentially massive amounts of
information collected through
the legal discovery process —
even if the special master search
has nothing to do with privilege
issues. And in class-action cases
with huge monetary settlements,
a judge may appoint a special
tices who have discussed it pub-
licly.
The draft that leaked to Politi-
co was substantially the same as
the one that upheld a restrictive
Mississippi law and overturned
the nearly 50-year Roe precedent
that guaranteed a constitutional
right to abortion. Gorsuch was
among the five justices who
voted in Dobbs v. Jackson Wom-
en’s Health Organization to
overturn Roe. Roberts said he
would have upheld the Mississip-
pi law but not overturn Roe, and
the court’s three liberals dissent-
ed.
The decision, in essence, re-
turned the issue of abortion to
the states and has set off a
turbulent summer of political
change.
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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
three Supreme Court justices.
Until last week, one of Cannon’s
most high-profile cases in 20
months on the bench involved
sentencing a man who pleaded
guilty to making death threats
against House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexan-
dria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
In a separate case in April, one
of Cannon’s new judicial col-
leagues accused Trump of judge-
shopping for Cannon by filing a
lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
and former FBI agents in the
court’s Fort Pierce division, where
Cannon is the only federal judge.
Trump’s suit instead landed with a
judge nominated by President Bill
Clinton. The judge, who dismissed
the case this week, rejected
Trump’s move to disqualify him
from the case, writing in a filing
that when Trump is in court “be-
fore a judge that he himself ap-
pointed, he does not tend to ad-
vance these same sorts of bias
concerns.”
The Mar-a-Lago search case
was randomly assigned to Can-
non, consistent with court pro-
cedures, after Trump filed suit in
West Palm Beach.
Cannon, now 41, was born in
Colombia, the daughter of a Cu-
ban immigrant mother, and grew
master to determine who should
receive money and which law-
yers should get paid through the
settlement.
What is executive privilege?
Executive privilege is a power
that presidents can assert to
shield communications from
courts and Congress on the theo-
ry that this privacy will enable
open and honest discussion
within the White House or execu-
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, seen on Capitol Hill in 2018, said the
Supreme Court’s probe into its May leak could be completed soon.
up in Miami. She spoke at her
confirmation hearing about the
lasting influence of her mother,
who at age 7 “had to flee the
repressive Castro regime in search
of freedom and security.”
“Thank you for teaching me
about the blessings of this country
and the importance of security
and the rule of law for generations
to come,” Cannon said.
As an undergraduate at Duke
University, she worked one sum-
mer for the Spanish-language
newspaper el Nuevo Herald, writ-
ing on diverse topics including
Flamenco and prenatal yoga. At
the University of Michigan Law
School, she joined the Federalist
Society, because, as she explained
in response to Senate questions,
she appreciated the “diversity of
legal viewpoints” and discussion
of the “limited role of the judiciary
to say what the law is — not to
make the law.”
Before joining the bench, Can-
non spent much of her career in
the courtroom as a litigator. She
was a law clerk for appeals court
judge Steven M. Colloton, who
was on Trump’s list of potential
Supreme Court picks, and an asso-
ciate for three years in D.C. at the
law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutch-
er.
In 2013, as a new prosecutor in
the U.S. attorney’s office in South
Florida, Cannon handled major
crimes, including drug, firearm,
and immigration cases. Soon after
she moved to the appellate divi-
sion, Cannon was assigned to de-
fend the government’s conviction
in a large-scale, complex fraud
case. She was up against an experi-
enced appellate lawyer and ap-
pearing before a three-judge panel
at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
11th Circuit.
Richard Klugh, the veteran law-
yer on the other side, was im-
pressed.
“She was coming in against an
old hand with a tremendously
complicated record in an impor-
tant case, but she seemed to han-
dle it with ease,” Klugh said in an
interview. “She’s quick, talented
and bright. There’s no getting
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tive branch.
The Justice Department has
argued that Trump is no longer
president and can’t assert this
privilege. Government lawyers
have also argued that, even if he
had executive privilege, Trump
couldn’t shield information from
the Justice Department because
it is also part of the executive
branch.
When granting Trump’s re-
quest for a special master,
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around it. She’s very effective.”
Cannon prevailed, sustaining
the conviction of a Florida lawyer
in the life insurance scheme that
affected thousands of investors.
Howard Srebnick, an attorney
in Miami who attended the same
high school as the judge, also was
on the opposing side during Can-
non’s tenure as a prosecutor and
now has a case pending before her.
In court, Cannon is polite and
process-oriented, he said, asking a
lot of questions while making sure
litigants can fully air their views.
Srebnick submitted a letter to the
Senate in support of Cannon’s
nomination, signed by more than
a dozen alumni of the private Ran-
som Everglades High School who
also are attorneys.
She has “strength of character,”
the letter said, characterizing Can-
non as “personable and trustwor-
thy, a genuinely caring person who
treats others as she would want to
be treated herself.”
In June, Cannon ruled against
Srebnick’s client, upholding the
government’s decision to freeze
the defendant’s bank account in a
Medicare fraud case.
“She clearly spent considerable
time and thought in deciding the
question presented,” Srebnick
said. “We just disagree.”
Srebnick, however, said that he
agrees with Cannon’s decision to
appoint a special master in the
Trump case even though the Jus-
tice Department has claimed to
have already set aside potentially
privileged records.
“She is spot-on correct that a
special master, not a government-
led filter team, should be handling
those materials,” Srebnick said.
“No one from the government
should be looking at a client’s com-
munications with counsel.”
Cannon’s ruling may not be the
final word. The Justice Depart-
ment on Thursday asked the judge
to reconsider and temporarily sus-
pend part of her order before it
formally asks the appeals court to
step in.
Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this
report.
Cannon ruled that it’s not clear
cut that a former president can-
not exert executive privilege in
this scenario. Still, it’s un-
clear what types of materials
Trump’s legal team believes
would be protected by this privi-
lege.
What qualifications does a
special master need?
There are no set qualifications
a special master must have, but
the vast majority are attorneys,
according to Cohen. The judge
would need to select a person
who is neutral and whom she
trusts.
In some cases, special exper-
tise may be sought. If there is a
patent case, for example, a judge
may want the special master to
be a scientist who has an exper-
tise in a specific area, Cohen said.
After examining the docu-
ments, the special master would
typically submit his or her find-
ings and recommendations to
the judge.
In the case of the Trump
document investigation, finding
a suitable special master could
be difficult, because the Justice
Department has said in court
filings that the president had
highly classified government
documents in his possession in
Florida. A special master would
probably need to have the re-
quired government clearance to
view these sensitive documents.
Who pays for the appointee?
Typically, both parties split the
cost of a special master. But it’s
up to the discretion of the judge
— and the judge could order the
costs to be split unevenly.
While some states have forti-
fied protection for abortion
rights, others have virtually elim-
inated the procedure. It has
galvanized Democrats as they
hope to fend off a Republican
takeover of Congress in Novem-
ber’s midterm elections.
Roberts in a May statement
said he had directed Supreme
Court Marshal Gail Curley to
conduct an investigation into the
leak, which he called “absolutely
appalling.”
But the chief justice has pro-
vided nothing since then. There
have been reports that clerks and
other court personnel were
asked to turn over phone rec-
ords, but it is unclear how exten-
sive or successful that effort has
been.
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Ex-professor’s voting claims attract huge online audience
CLEMENTS FROM A1
abandoned and overlooked.” His
crusade to prove that voting sys-
tems can’t be trusted has deep-
ened fears among election ex-
perts, who say his meritless
claims could give Trump allies
more fodder to try to disrupt
elections in November and be-
yond.
Republican primary candi-
dates embracing Trump’s stolen
election rhetoric have flourished
this year. Clements’s strategy is
to target his message locally: to
county commissioners and
clerks, jobs that are lower profile
but that wield an outsize role in
administering America’s decen-
tralized election system. If local
jurisdictions fail to certify their
votes, it could throw the outcome
of an election into chaos, raising
doubt about the results and giv-
ing ammunition to losing candi-
dates who refuse to accept their
defeats.
Clements is one among a tight-
knit circle of Trump supporters
who travel the country as self-ap-
pointed election fraud evange-
lists. They embrace the instruc-
tions of leaders like former
Trump adviser turned podcaster
Stephen K. Bannon, who has
urged election deniers to run for
local races and sign up to be poll
workers in what he calls his
“precinct-by-precinct” takeover
strategy.
Like others preaching the gos-
pel of election fraud, Clements
has attracted a large following
online, where he mixes conspira-
cies with Christian nationalist
and sometimes violent rhetoric.
He has appeared on Fox News
and on Bannon’s podcast. He’s
dined with Trump and Mike
Lindell, the chief executive of
MyPillow and high-profile elec-
tion fraud conspiracist.
“We’ve got enough evidence to
have indictments, people tried
for treason and have the remedy
of firing squads. That’s what we
need,” Clements told an audience
at a New Mexico church in Febru-
ary.
A recent report from congres-
sional Democrats on election
misinformation highlighted Cle-
ments’s activities and concluded
that “the greatest current threat
to democratic legitimacy now
comes from lies by domestic
actors who seek to convince
Americans that their election
systems are fraudulent, corrupt,
or insecure.”
New Mexico Secretary of State
Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who has
clashed repeatedly with Clem-
ents and his wife, said the “mis-
information and disinformation”
were being “seeded as core be-
liefs, not just with elected offi-
cials but the general public.”
“I do worry about potential
violence toward election offi-
cials, in particular around the
upcoming general election,” she
said.
Clements said in a brief inter-
view in Nebraska that he believes
his efforts are noble.
“Why?” he asked. “Because I
care about the truth. Because I
want to make sure our voices are
accurately captured. Because the
rule of law needs to exist.”
Pacing the room at the senior
center in Neligh, microphone in
hand, Clements put the matter in
stark terms.
“We’ve figured out how they’re
screwing you out of your vote,”
Clements said. “That’s the battle.
So what’s the solution?”
“Sledgehammers!” a woman at
the back of the room yelled out.
A shifting course
Clements, 42, was a popular
tenure-track assistant professor
teaching law in the business
school of New Mexico State Uni-
versity on Jan. 6, 2021, when a
mob loyal to Trump stormed the
U.S. Capitol. As news of the
attack came, he was in his cabin
in the mountains of New Mexico
with his wife and three young
children.
Distraught that Biden’s victory
would be validated by Congress
despite the insurrection, he has
said that he ran outside and fell
on his knees, next to the fire pit.
“I said, ‘God save us, please,
please save our country,’ ” he
recalled in a speech in Michigan
last year. He looked back and saw
his wife and children standing in
the window watching him, weep-
ing. “And something happened.
My heart filled … and I heard,
‘We are going to win.’ ”
Clements came down from the
mountain filled with zeal and —
sitting down in his garage armed
with nothing more than a laptop
and a “crappy microphone” —
soon began posting about al-
leged election fraud on YouTube.
He said he began examining the
alleged evidence of fraud in con-
tested states like Georgia and
Pennsylvania in the days follow-
ing the election, and later had
some of those who claimed to
have observed it firsthand ap-
pear on his YouTube videos.
TOP: David Clements attends a meeting of the Otero County Board of Commissioners in Alamogordo, N.M. on Aug. 11, 2022.
ABOVE: Attendees raise their hands in agreement during a presentation about vulnerabilities in the election system during an event
hosted by David Clements and his wife, Erin, at the Flickinger Center in Alamogordo.
Clements said in an interview
that as an attorney he was “emi-
nently qualified” to talk about
the legalities surrounding voting
machines, and that his wife,
Erin, has two decades of exper-
tise working with data as a civil
engineer. Neither, however, has
experience running elections or
formal education in voting ma-
chine systems.
No fewer than 86 judges re-
jected at least one post-election
lawsuit filed by Trump or his
supporters, a Washington Post
review of court filings found.
Clements, who was born in
Seattle, grew up the child of
itinerant parents who worked
blue-collar jobs. Early in his life,
he struggled with drugs, alcohol
and an assault conviction, he has
said.
“I’m a child of the trailer park.
My mom worked at Kmart and
Lowe’s, my dad bagged grocer-
ies,” he said. “Dysfunctional fam-
ily. At times I felt cursed. I’d see
other happy families on vacation
while I would bus their tables as
an underage kid and say, ‘is this
it, Lord?’ ”
But, he said he realized, “God
was preparing me for something,
to see artifice, to see lies.”
He delved into politics too,
serving as a county Republican
chair and as an unsuccessful
Republican primary candidate
for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Later,
he served as the vice chair for
legal affairs of the state’s Liber-
tarian party.
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“I don’t think he understands what he’s talking
about most of the time. He takes things and
extrapolates them to a place that comes
completely out of thin air. It sounds good and
people believe it because it sounds authoritative if
you don’t know much.”
Susan Greenhalgh,
senior adviser on election security for the nonprofit Free Speech For People
At New Mexico State Univer-
sity, Clements was known for his
engaging lectures, being avail-
able to students and grading
papers late into the night, ac-
cording to David Pecchia, a for-
mer student and retired Air
Force master sergeant who was
close to Clements and consid-
ered him a mentor. Pecchia wrote
a recommendation letter for Cle-
ments for a teaching award that
recognizes excellence in pre-ten-
ure professors. Clements won
last year.
Just weeks later, in October
2021, he was fired, by his own
account, for refusing to wear a
mask in class. In his disciplinary
hearing, which Clements posted
online, the university said he
violated the school’s covid-19
mask and vaccination policy.
Pecchia said his respect for
Clements evaporated one day
when he saw his former teacher
leading an anti-mask march
through a craft market where
Pecchia sold his woodworking,
causing a disturbance.
“Clements was saying, ‘You’re
zombies, man. You’re zombies,’ ”
Pecchia recalled. “This guy has
gone off the deep end. It’s like
he’s been radicalized somehow. It
was a complete change. I never
ever got the impression he was so
radical about things like that and
I felt stupid I had submitted a
letter for this guy nominating
him for this great award.”
Anti-vaxxers quickly em-
braced Clements, with far-right
Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann
creating an online fundraiser for
him and calling him “a lightning
rod of truth and courage.” The
appeal has since brought in more
than $304,000 in donations, in-
cluding from donors who say
they support his “election integ-
rity” crusade. Clements says he is
not paid for his appearances but
asks for donations for travel
expenses at the door.
As his zeal over election fraud
heightened, other associates fell
away.
“Given his intelligence and
accomplishments, the fact that
he’s decided to pursue this prov-
ably false theory is tragic and
surprising,” said Chris Luchini,
the head of the Libertarian Party
of New Mexico and a former
colleague of Clements.
Pressing on, on foot
In October, around the time he
was fired from his university job,
David and Erin Clements mailed
a 261-page document to commis-
sioners and county clerks across
New Mexico alleging widespread
issues with the voting systems —
what the congressional report
called “imaginary fraud.”
Asked for comment, Erin Cle-
ments sent a video of Democratic
lawmakers raising concerns
about election security. Many of
the comments predated the 2020
election and focused on the po-
tential for foreign interference.
The U.S. intelligence community
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has continued to warn that for-
eign actors are probably target-
ing American elections.
David and Erin Clements
claimed that the state’s voting
tabulators are insecure and mis-
count votes. They also alleged
that unnamed bad actors “mas-
sively” manipulated voter regis-
tration rolls, allowing people to
illicitly vote in the last presiden-
tial election.
The couple soon found an ally
in Couy Griffin, a flamboyant
former Disneyland Paris rodeo
cowboy who until this week was
a member of the county commis-
sion in Otero, a rural New Mexico
community of 69,000 along the
Texan border. Griffin, who was
once thanked by Trump for say-
ing “The only good Democrat is a
dead Democrat” and who was
convicted of a misdemeanor for
entering a restricted area during
the Capitol riot, has long alleged
the 2020 presidential election
was stolen. A state judge on
Tuesday ordered Griffin removed
from office, citing his role in
having “aided the insurrection”
on Jan. 6, 2021.
“This is a nonpartisan issue,”
Griffin said in an interview.
“Whether you are a Democrat or
a Republican we should all want
to make sure our elections are
secure.”
Griffin said David Clements
“knows what he’s talking about”
and that he is the kind of expert
Griffin wants to explain compli-
cated voting systems to him,
. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022
rather than the election officials
in his own county.
By March, volunteers orga-
nized by David and Erin Clem-
ents calling themselves the New
Mexico Audit Force were going
door to door in Otero County
asking citizens about how they
voted in 2020. The canvass was
part of a controversial third-par-
ty audit that commissioners had
voted to spend nearly $50,000 on
in January, despite the fact that
the county went overwhelmingly
for Trump, with the incumbent
winning nearly 62 percent of the
vote.
The effort sparked a voter
intimidation inquiry by the
House Oversight Committee. The
audit later fell apart, with the
firm hired to analyze the results
agreeing to return part of its
initial payment, stipulating they
had found no evidence of fraud.
But David and Erin Clements
pressed on, appearing before the
three-member, all-Republican
Otero commission with a new
target: the state’s June 7 primary.
David Clements urged commis-
sioners not to perform their
statutory duty to certify the re-
sults, arguing that doing so
would place them in legal jeopar-
dy because of the problems they
alleged with the machines. The
county’s attorney disagreed, call-
ing the argument “highly unlike-
ly.”
Yet two independent election
security experts who have exam-
ined the Clements’ work — Susan
Greenhalgh, senior adviser on
election security for the nonprof-
it Free Speech For People, and
Kevin Skoglund, president and
chief technologist for the non-
partisan Citizens for Better Elec-
tions — said the fraud charges
are baseless and misleading.
New Mexico’s secretary of state
has also rejected the allegations.
A document that David Clem-
ents claims shows a failure to
update voter check-in machines
for 11 years is inaccurate, since
the state uses a different check-in
system, the secretary of state’s
office said.
The claim that the volunteer
canvassers found dozens of
“ghost voters” at one address
turned out to reference the Post
Office box at a nearby military
base.
Clements also asserted that
the digital file containing the
ballots from the 2020 elections
had been deliberately “wiped”
from the voting machines when
in fact separate files are created
for each election and the ballots
and other records are preserved.
“Their reports on election
fraud are a jumble of conspiracy
theories and full of errors. They
are wrong about voting technol-
ogy, election processes, certifica-
tion, and legal requirements,”
Skoglund said. “They even quote
me and cite my work on voting
systems with modems and inter-
net connectivity, but I disagree
with every conclusion they draw
from my work.”
“I don’t think he understands
what he’s talking about most of
the time,” said Greenhalgh. “He
takes things and extrapolates
them to a place that comes
completely out of thin air. It
sounds good and people believe
it because it sounds authoritative
if you don’t know much.”
The “fanciful arguments” of
conspiracists obscure the coun-
try’s real need to continue to
address election vulnerabilities,
she said, such as internet voting
— 31 states and the District of
Columbia allow it for overseas,
military and in some places dis-
abled voters — as well as outdat-
ed paperless voting machines.
Clements’s allegations extend
to voting machines made by
multiple companies, including
Dominion Voting Systems, which
are used in New Mexico and have
been the target of false claims by
Trump supporters. Those claims
are rooted in a 2020 election
night error by the clerk in a
Michigan county that resulted in
the heavily Republican area
briefly reporting that Biden had
beaten Trump there. The error
was quickly corrected, but the
damage was done.
Dominion officials have de-
nied all allegations made against
the company, filing multibillion-
dollar defamation lawsuits
against various people who
spread the claims.
“This is yet another example of
how lies about Dominion have
damaged our company and di-
minished the public’s faith in
elections,” Dominion spokes-
woman Stephanie Walstrom said
of Clements.
In his own backyard: claims
of fraud
At the June hearing in Otero,
David and Erin Clements turned
up to a crowded meeting room to
give the commission a nearly
three-hour update on their “find-
ings.” The couple’s conclusions
prompted Griffin to chastise his
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own clerk, Robyn Holmes, a
Republican who has 30 years of
experience running elections in
the county.
“If I was in your position I
wouldn’t be able to sleep at
night,” Griffin said to Holmes.
“You’re in the middle of elections
that are fraudulent right now if
what they’re telling us is true.”
“If what they’re telling us is
true,” Holmes said, shouting, “IF!”
Toward the end of the meet-
ing, Donna Swanson, a former
presiding poll judge in Otero
County who worked with Holmes
for years, stepped up to speak.
“I totally take exception to the
idea that Robyn Holmes — our
Republican clerk — doesn’t know
what she’s doing. So who is the
leader here today?” Swanson
asked. “Is it my county commis-
sioners or these people sitting
here who had lunch with Donald
Trump and the MyPillow guy?”
On June 17, the state’s deadline
to certify election results, Clem-
ents drove several hundred miles
in his old Buick, hoping to stop
commissions across New Mexico
from approving the votes. He
appeared first in Torrance Coun-
ty, where he led off comments at
a raucous meeting. Citizens
hurled insults at leaders voting
for certification, calling them
“cowards,” “traitors to our coun-
try” and “rubber stamp puppets.”
In Sandoval County, Clements
had so riled residents that the
commissioners had to be removed
from the hearing room by sheriff’s
deputies for their safety after
voting 4-1 to approve the results,
according to County Commission-
er Katherine Bruch, a Democrat.
In Otero, two commissioners
who had voted not to certify
earlier in the week reversed their
decisions and approved the re-
sults, bowing to an emergency
order from the state’s Supreme
Court that mandated them to
follow their statutory duty.
Griffin, the only dissenter,
called his vote in from Washing-
ton, where he had just been
“My vote to remain a no isn’t
based on any evidence, it’s not
based on any facts, it’s only based
on my gut feeling and my own
intuition, and that’s all I need,”
Griffin said, his drawl tinny on
the speakerphone.
The Otero controversy is far
from over. On Aug. 11, Clements
and his wife presented the final
findings of their “audit” in a
special five-hour commissioners
meeting, during which he got into
a shouting match with the county
attorney and told Holmes she
should resign because it was “dis-
“We’ve got enough
evidence to have
indictments, people
tried for treason and
have the remedy of
firing squads. That’s
what we need.”
David Clements, to an audience at a
New Mexico church in February
gusting how you fight the people.”
She left the meeting in tears.
Holmes has grown so dis-
heartened by the couple’s oft-re-
peated allegations that she has
stopped coming to meetings un-
less asked for. “I was to the point
that, ‘You guys aren’t even telling
half-truths anymore,' ” she re-
called. “It’s all falsehoods and
speculation. I’m not going to sit
and argue with that.”
In the end, the commissioners
voted to sue the secretary of
state’s office for forcing them to
certify the primary results. Their
county attorney, R.B. Nichols,
advised that the “frivolous law-
suit” would “not pass muster” in
court and would cost the county
more than $100,000.
That day, Democrats on the
House Oversight Committee re-
audits in Maricopa County, Ariz.,
and Otero County as key drivers
in an effort by “malicious domes-
tic actors” to erode trust in
American democracy.
A call for action
At the meeting at the Nebras-
ka senior center in early August,
Clements appealed to his audi-
ence to get on social media and
to keep showing up at county
commission meetings, again and
again, until local leaders are
worn down and give in. All they
need to do to change the system,
he assured them, is to win over a
handful of commission votes.
“We’re in a contest of wills. Who
is going to break whose will?”
Clements said. “I’m not asking
you all to storm the beaches of
Normandy, to suffer a bloody
death to save our republic. I’m
asking you all to consider showing
up to an air-conditioned building,
organizing, opening your mouth
and saying: ‘These machines suck.
I know they do. I don’t want them.
Make them go away.’ ”
One woman told him she and
others in her county were plan-
ning to have a days-long outdoor
slumber party near her county’s
one ballot drop-box before the
November election to guard it
from being stuffed with ballots —
a fear propagated by the de-
bunked film “2000 Mules.”
A rancher named Dave Wright
raised his hand to say that it was
obvious to him the Democratic
National Committee had figured
out how to cheat, so why couldn’t
the Republicans do so as well?
Clements ended on a mourn-
ful note just before the audience
began trickling out into the quiet
evening, the sun setting over
fields of thirsty corn.
“I stand before you as someone
who used to be an award-winning
professor, an award-winning
prosecutor — who is unem-
ployed,” Clements said. “I come to
you as someone who had a future.
And if we don’t fix our country, I
can’t go back to that world.”
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sentenced to 14 days in jail — leased their report into the Magda Jean-Louis and Alice Crites TOP: Voting tabulators pictured at the Otero County Clerk’s storage facility in Alamogordo.
time served — for his role in the threat of election misinforma- contributed to this report. ABOVE: Otero County Clerk Robyn Holmes stands next to voting tabulators in the storage facility.

‘She defined an era,’ but for Biden, it’s more complicated

BIDEN FROM A1

of the few who could rival Biden’s

time on the political and interna-
tional scene. She met every sitting
American president since Harry S.
Truman, other than Lyndon B.
Johnson, making Biden the 13th
president to have an audience
with her.
He will probably now be the
first American president to have
an audience with King Charles III.
And there are some similarities
between Biden, 79, and the new
king, 73. Both are men who late in
life assumed a role they had spent
decades positioning themselves
for, and who took their positions
with a deep well of experience
after having served as an under-
study. They also arguably capture
less of the public’s fascination than
their predecessors, have low ap-
proval ratings and are overseeing
countries in the midst of upheaval.
Biden on Friday told reporters
that he plans to attend the queen’s
funeral. He said he hadn’t yet spo-
ken with Charles, but said that he
does know him.
Biden first met Elizabeth in No-
vember 1982, when he traveled
with other senators to a meeting of
the British-American Parliamen-
tary Group and was among a
group that met with the monarch.
It was when Biden told his mother
that he was going on that trip that
she responded, “Don’t you bow
down to her.”
“You’re a Biden,” she said, ac-
cording to an account in his mem-
oir “Promises to Keep.” “Nobody is
better than you. You’re not better
than anybody else, but nobody is
any better than you.”
A bow or curtsy is not a require-
ment when visiting the queen — MATT DUNHAM/ASSOCIATED PRESS

the Obamas also opted for a hand-
shake on a 2016 visit, as did the
Trumps in 2019 — but it is the
traditional way to greet her.
Still, the queen boasted some of
the working-class appeal that
Biden has sought throughout his
political career, managing to
break down traditional barriers
between public figures and ordi-
nary citizens.
“Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
II was more than a monarch. She
defined an era,” Biden said in a
lengthy statement released after
the Royal Palace announced her
death Thursday. “In a world of
constant change, she was a steady-
ing presence and a source of com-
fort and pride for generations of
Britons, including many who have
never known their country with-
out her.”
He also credited her for being
the first British monarch to whom
people “could feel a personal and
immediate connection” and
praised her for “an unwavering
commitment to duty, and the in-
comparable power of her example.”
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle last year. “Her legacy will loom large in the pages of British history,” Biden said.
It has gone unmentioned in his
initial statements, but one of
Biden’s favorite movies is “The
King’s Speech,” which depicts the
unlikely ascension to the throne of
Elizabeth’s father, King George VI,
and his struggles to overcome a
speech impediment to give war-
time speeches on the radio. Biden
has spoken previously of the emo-
tional experience of watching the
film, having himself grappled with
a stutter, adding that he marks up
his own speeches in the same way
as the king did in the film.
The queen met with almost ev-
ery American president in recent
history. She rode horses with Ron-
ald Reagan and attended a base-
ball game with George H.W. Bush.
Donald Trump was particularly
taken with the grandeur of the
queen, having often recounted
how his mother — an immigrant
from Scotland — watched for
hours on television as the queen
was crowned.
When the Bidens visited Britain
last year, they were greeted by a
show of pageantry as the queen
greeted them in the quadrangle of
Windsor Castle. It was her first
time in the international spotlight
since the funeral of her husband,
Prince Philip.
“She charmed us with her wit,
moved us with her kindness, and
generously shared with us her wis-
dom,” Biden said Thursday.
After the visit, Biden revealed to
reporters that Elizabeth had
asked him, as they sipped tea,
about China’s leader Xi Jinping
and Russia’s Vladimir Putin — a
disclosure that royal watchers
noted was a breach in protocol,
since it’s considered improper to
recount what was discussed with
the queen behind closed doors.
The incident was part of a long
pattern of American presidents
struggling to adhere to the age-old
traditions of the British crown,
even as they speak of the strong
ties and “special relationship” be-
tween the two countries.
Trump walked in front of the
queen as they strolled the grounds
of Windsor Castle, something that
is generally not done. President
Barack Obama bungled a toast by
speaking over the British national
anthem. President George W.
Bush, celebrating the queen’s visit
to the United States in 2007, added
two centuries to her age by re-
marking that she had earlier been
to the United States in 1776, before
correcting that he meant 1976.
George H.W. Bush had to apolo-
gize after his staff failed to adjust
the lectern before the much short-
er queen spoke during an arrival
ceremony, leaving her striped pur-
ple hat just visible above the mi-
crophones. During a 1976 visit,
Gerald Ford escorted the queen,
wearing her diamond tiara, to the
dance floor as the band in the
White House played, “The Lady Is
a Tramp.”
Biden, though, brought per-
haps a bit more baggage to the
relationship than some of his
predecessors.
His strong Irish heritage has
been a point of pride with him,
and he’s often referred critically to
the British rule of Ireland, at least
in jest. “The BBC?” Biden said
when a reporter from that net-
work once tried, unsuccessfully, to
stop him for a question. “I’m Irish.”
On his father’s side, Biden’s
family is English and French (his
mother’s sister used to tell him,
“Your father is not a bad man. He’s
just English.”). But his mother’s
side has strong Irish roots, with
some 10 of his 16 great-great-
grandparents having been born in
Ireland in a family tree that in-
cludes the Blewitts from County
Mayo and the Finnegans from
County Louth.
His mother also reportedly
wrote poems conveying her dis-
like of the British and refused to
sleep on the bed at a hotel where
the queen had once stayed, unwill-
ing to rest in the same spot as the
monarch, Biden told screenwriter
Georgia Pritchett in an exchange
recounted in her recent memoir.
When he arrived in Great Brit-
ain last year ahead of his visit with
the queen, Biden quoted “Easter,
1916,” a poem by William Butler
Yeats about an uprising against
British rule.
Later, he and the queen spoke
about the vastness of Windsor
Castle, with Biden remarking that
the entire White House could fit in
the courtyard.
“She said, ‘What’s it like in the
White House?’ ” Biden recalled. “I
said, ‘Well, it’s magnificent, but it’s
a lot of people.’ ”
It’s also a building that Biden
has previously boasted was de-
signed by an Irishman, architect
James Hoban. He said he invited
the queen to visit, an invitation
that will now probably be extend-
ed to her son.
“Her legacy will loom large in
the pages of British history,” Biden
said on Thursday, “and in the story
of our world.”
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U.S. begins to airlift supplies into Pakistan as flood aid ramps up
BY S USANNAH G EORGE
karachi — The United States is
ramping up support for Pakistan
and beginning a days-long mili-
tary airlift into the country as it
struggles to battle devastating
floods that are expected to take
years to recover from.
The military began airlifting
supplies into Pakistan this week
as part of the additional $20 mil-
lion the Biden administration is
providing for humanitarian aid
here, Samantha Power, the head
of the U.S. Agency for Interna-
tional Development, announced
on Friday.
The announcement comes as
it is increasingly clear that Paki-
stan is incapable of providing
even the most basic relief to the
more than 33 million people
affected by the crisis.
The majority of those who
have fled their homes are living
Thousands refuse
to flee submerged
Pakistani villages
Though receiving inconsistent aid, residents
fear what awaits them on higher ground
BY S USANNAH G EORGE
khaipur nathanshah, paki-
stan — Deep inside Pakistan’s
flood zone, tens of thousands of
people are refusing to leave their
villages, frustrating already-over-
stretched relief efforts and threat-
ening a dramatic spike in deaths,
according to Pakistani officials.
Hundreds of villages have been
inundated across Pakistan and are
now reachable only by boat. Wash-
ington Post journalists secured
rare media access to several sub-
merged villages inside Dadu dis-
trict, where the waters extend to
the horizon in every direction.
The only evidence of the im-
mense devastation below the sur-
face are occasional slivers of a
rooftop, mosque minarets, power
lines, treetops and traffic signals
half-obscured by swampy waters.
About one-third of Pakistan is
underwater according to some
satellite imagery analysis. The
flooding, caused by a combination
of heavy monsoon rains and un-
usually high glacial melt, is the
worst to hit the country in record-
ed history, Pakistani officials say.
More than 33 million people have
been affected, and almost 1,400
people have died. Nearly a third of
the dead are children.
Every day, dozens of boats pass
Raza Mohammad’s shelter of tree
branches and reeds erected on a
narrow retaining wall offering
him a ride to higher ground, but
each time he waves them away.
Even in the midst of this im-
mense disaster, he refuses to leave.
Fleeing now would mean leaving
his livestock behind — all he has
left of value after his village was
inundated — and he doesn’t trust
the government to care for him
and his family on dry land.
“To be honest I don’t want to
stay here, but I cannot go without
my livestock. I would be left with
nothing,” he said.
Like many in rural areas of
Sindh province, Mohammad and
his family had been living on the
equivalent of about four dollars a
day. Since the flood hit, he’s been
unable to work. Without his ani-
mals, he wouldn’t be able to pro-
vide for his wife and three chil-
dren, he said.
“We never thought the waters
would reach this high, otherwise
we would have left earlier and
CONGO
15 killed, houses
burned in attack
Suspected militiamen carrying
guns and knives killed at least 15
people and burned hundreds of
houses during an attack
overnight on a market in a town
in eastern Congo, officials and a
resident said Friday.
The raid, near the town of
Djugu, is the latest in a string of
violent attacks in the eastern
Ituri province, where rival
groups fight over land and
resources.
“We have so far seen 15 dead
and more than 300 houses
burned and other people injured
in makeshift shelters, and many
report they are not receiving
food, clean drinking water or
medical attention.
The airlift will establish a
“beachhead” inside Pakistan’s
flood zone, Power said during a
visit to affected areas Thursday.
She said the plan is to begin
staging operations closer to
those in need so humanitarian
supplies can be distributed more
efficiently.
“It may go beyond this, but for
now we are looking at shelter
supplies to accommodate
300,000 people,” she said. She
admitted the number is a small
fraction of those affected, but
hoped other countries would fol-
low suit and move operations
inside Sindh province, one of the
worst hit areas.
The airlift is expected to last
just over a week with two to three
U.S. C-17s — massive cargo planes
taken our animals with us,” he
said. A retaining wall was built by
the Pakistani government to pro-
tect his area after the last massive
flooding in 2010.
Mohammad and his neighbors
thought the wall would hold. But it
burst suddenly in the middle of
the night. In a matters of hours,
what was about a foot of rain
became a torrent of water. By
morning, nearly the entire village
vanished, he said.
“The people in these areas have
become accustomed to flooding,”
said Pakistani Army Lt. Col. Ejaz
Karin, who is overseeing rescue
and relief efforts in Dadu district.
But Karin said he doesn’t believe
the families who are refusing to be
rescued understand it could take
weeks or months for the waters to
drain.
If thousands continue to stay in
flooded villages, Karin said, it will
create “a food emergency” and
health crisis, further stretching re-
lief efforts and causing a sudden
spike in mortality.
Food distribution to these
flooded villages is intermittent
and largely organized by private
individuals. Sometimes, boats ar-
rive daily. Other times, three days
can pass without any deliveries,
residents say. The rations consist
of flour, rice, tea and sugar.
Another farmer sheltering on
the muddy embankment, Miril So-
lengi, said he is thankful for the
food deliveries, but he is running
low on animal feed and cannot
afford to buy more.
“If we cannot feed our buffa-
loes,” he paused. “I don’t know
what we will do. Our lives depend
on these animals. All we can do is
wait for the waters to recede.”
In Solengi’s village, floodwaters
are 15 feet high. And at the current
rate, they are receding at about
two to three inches a day.
“We have already warned them,
please leave your homes and go to
safety, but they refuse,” Sona Khan
Chandio, the deputy commission-
er for Khaipur Nathanshah said in
an interview.
He said the government has
sent health teams to visit the fami-
lies remaining in the flood zone,
but the teams have not been able
to reach everyone. “We are doing
our best,” he said, adding that
those who refuse to be rescued
have a responsibility to “take care
and even kidnapped,” said
resident Lokana Maki.
The attacks were probably
carried out by the CODECO
militia, whose ranks are drawn
mainly from the ethnic Lendu
farming community, which
carries out regular attacks on
Hema herders in the area, local
chief Richard Venna said.
— Reuters
ITALY
Right headed for win
in elections, polls say
Italy’s right-wing bloc is on
track to win a clear majority in
both houses of parliament at this
month’s election, according to
EZ RE
The World
— landing daily in Sukkur, a
town in Sindh province nearly
encircled by floodwaters. The
planes will bring tens of thou-
sands of pounds of tents, field
rations and kitchen sets into the
country.
While a number of countries
have pledged millions of dollars
in humanitarian aid money to
Pakistan, aid groups on the
ground are struggling to source
the materials they need and
reach the worst-affected parts of
the country.
Floodwaters moving south are
cutting off key roads and high-
ways, turning towns into islands
and blocking the delivery of aid.
Power said she hopes the assis-
tance will also help reset percep-
tions of the United States in
Pakistan.
“I think during the war in
Afghanistan, there was an im-
pression among some Pakistanis
ABOVE: A schoolhouse is nearly submerged in the center of Pakistan's flood zone, where thousands refuse to evacuate. BELOW: Budhari
Solangi collects drinking water from a flooded mosque, but she fears it’s become contaminated and will sicken her children.
“Our only option
is to stay.”
Budhari Solangi, who doesn’t want
to break up her family and has heard
horror stories about the conditions on
higher ground
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that the U.S. saw Pakistan only
through the prism of Afghani-
stan,” Power said. “Hopefully this
is a chance through this coopera-
tion [with the Pakistani govern-
ment] to strengthen the relation-
ship between the two countries.”
U.S.-Pakistan relations have
gone through periods of intense
strain, despite decades-long hu-
manitarian and military ties that
predate the U.S. presence in
Afghanistan.
The enmity that many Paki-
stanis feel toward the United
States was clearly visible earlier
this year when former Pakistani
leader Imran Khan began to
strengthen his base of support by
claiming his ouster was part of a
U.S.-backed conspiracy.
Although anti-Americanism
remains a popular rallying cry in
Pakistan, the government led by
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif,
who replaced Khan, has moved
of themselves.”
Budhari Solangi, 24, who was
sitting with a group of other wom-
en under a tent made of reeds and
tattered cloth, said all the children
who have stayed are falling ill.
“They have fevers and skin diseas-
es we never saw before,” she said.
She called her 7-year-old son
back from the crumbling edge of
the mud bank. She lifted his foot to
reveal a raw bumpy rash running
up his ankle. “I don’t know what it
is,” she said.
Tropical Storm Kay appeared
headed out to sea just short of the
U.S. border Friday after dumping
heavy rains on a sparsely
populated area of Mexico’s Baja
California peninsula. While Kay
is expected to continue
weakening, it brought some rain
to southernmost California. Kay
came ashore as a hurricane near
Mexico’s Bahia Asuncion in Baja
California Sur state Thursday
afternoon, but by Friday it was a
tropical storm with maximum
sustained winds of 50 mph. The
U.S. National Hurricane Center
in Miami said there was a chance
the outer bands of the big storm
could bring heavy rain to parts of
parched Southern California and
southwest Arizona on Saturday.
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to improve relations with the
United States.
The U.S. military’s top com-
mander, Army Gen. Michael Erik
Kurilla, visited Pakistan in Au-
gust and acknowledged the
country’s “commendable efforts
in fight against terrorism” and its
“efforts [to promote] regional
peace and stability,” according to
a Pakistani military statement.
The visit came shortly after
the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri,
the leader of al-Qaeda, in a U.S.
drone attack on his Kabul resi-
dence.
The Taliban condemned the
attack and accused Pakistan of
allowing the United States to use
its airspace to fly drones over
Afghanistan. Pakistani authori-
ties refuted the Taliban’s allega-
tions.
“The partnership that we con-
tinue to deepen builds on years
of cooperation between our two
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While some boats deliver food,
she said no one has brought medi-
cine to her area. The Pakistani
navy has tried to encourage her to
leave, but she said she doesn’t
want to break up her family and
has heard horror stories about the
conditions on higher ground.
Families rescued by boat are
dropped along a highway miles
away from the nearest govern-
ment camp, she said. And making
the trip by foot with small children
would be impossible.
“Our only option is to stay,” she
said.
At the water’s edge, Pakistani
navy officers have set up a staging
area to expand rescue operations
and survey the damage. Behind
them, hundreds of families who
had chosen to flee their villages
were packed along the highway.
Many were still wet from the jour-
ney. Others had been there for
more than a week, living in shel-
ters they assembled themselves.
Under a tent made of branches,
scarves and woven reeds, a group
of women held up small bags of
cooked rice and begged passersby
for assistance.
“This is all they gave us!” Navee-
da Naich yelled across the road,
gesturing to the security forces
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peoples and between our two
countries,” Power said at a news
conference in Islamabad on Fri-
day.
During Power’s visit to the
heart of Pakistan’s flood zone,
she asked local officials and
families affected by the floods to
estimate the disaster’s long-term
economic effects, in particular
those linked to the loss of crops,
livestock and infrastructure.
It is clear that recovery from
these historic floods will require
a concerted effort by the donor
community and international fi-
nancial institutions for the com-
ing years,” Power said.
The support announced Fri-
day, she continued, “is another
mark of our long-standing com-
mitment to the Pakistani peo-
ple.”
Shaiq Hussain in Islamabad
contributed to this report.
just a few yards away. “Nothing
else, not even milk for our small
children.”
When a food ration truck pulled
up, the women told their children
to run to it.
“We send our sons and daugh-
ters to collect the food because the
authorities are less harsh with
them,” Gulam Zohra said. Her hus-
band once tried to bring food back
for the family, but he was badly
beaten by security forces when he
tried to push through the crowd,
she said.
The aid truck was quickly sur-
rounded by people desperate for
food, and police with batons tried
to disperse the crowd.
“Look at how they treat us,”
Zohra said, watching the scene
and beginning to cry.
Naich hurled insults at a Paki-
stani police truck driving by.
“You’re dogs! All of you, dogs! I spit
at you!” she screamed.
Zohra said she had thought she
was keeping her family safe by
leaving her possessions behind
and fleeing the floods, but now
she’s horrified by the conditions
they are living in.
“They don’t respect us,” she said
of the authorities. “They just treat
us with brutality.”
Oct. 2.
U.N. chief asks world for
‘massive’ help in Pakistan: U.N.
Secretary General António
Guterres said Friday that the
world owes impoverished
Pakistan “massive” help in
recovering from the summer’s
devastating floods because the
country bears less blame than
many other nations for climate
change, which experts say
contributed to the deluge.
Months of heavy monsoon rains
and flooding have killed 1,391
people and affected 3.3 million in
this South Asian nation while
half a million people have
become homeless.
— From news services
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North Korea codifies right to launch preemptive nuclear strikes
BY M IN J OO K IM
seoul — North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un declared his coun-
try would never relinquish its
nuclear weapons, as the regime’s
leadership codified in law its
right to launch preemptive nu-
clear strikes, state media said
Friday.
The North’s rubber-stamp par-
liament passed the law authoriz-
ing the military to use nuclear
weapons “automatically and im-
mediately” in case of an immi-
nent attack against its leadership
or “important strategic objects”
in the country, the Korean Cen-
tral News Agency said.
The law updates Pyongyang’s
Mexico puts its civilian national
guard under control of military
BY M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN
mexico city — Mexico’s Senate
voted Friday to put the army in
charge of the 115,000-member
national guard as the govern-
ment abandons plans for a
civilian-led federal security
agency and further expands the
military’s role in tackling the
country’s extreme violence.
The move is sparking outrage
from human rights groups,
security analysts and legal schol-
ars, who say it’s weakening Mexi-
co’s young democracy but won’t
address a principal cause of the
explosion in crime: a dysfunc-
tional justice system.
President Andrés Manuel
López Obrador, who took office
in 2018, created the national
guard to replace the 40,000-
member federal police. Authori-
ties said the guard would help
cement the government’s control
over Mexican territory, which is
increasingly being challenged by
organized-crime groups flush
with money from drug traffick-
ing, extortion, oil theft and other
illegal activities.
The president has defended
his new plan to place the civilian
force under army leadership.
“My proposal isn’t to milita-
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rules on when its nuclear arms
can be used, including in re-
sponse to an attack by weapons of
mass destruction or in case of a
“catastrophic crisis” that threat-
ens the safety of the North Korean
people. North Korea’s constitu-
tion already proclaims the coun-
try to be a nuclear weapons state.
“The utmost significance of
legislating nuclear weapons pol-
icy is to draw an irretrievable line
so that there can be no bargaining
over our nuclear weapons,” Kim
said in a speech to the Supreme
People’s Assembly, the country’s
titular parliament that passed the
law Thursday.
North Korea conducted its first
nuclear test in 2006, and since
rize or move toward authoritari-
anism, but to guide — under the
Defense Ministry’s vigilance —
the healthy growth of what
should be the main public secu-
rity institution in the country,”
he said last week.
He says army control will
ensure the guard doesn’t suffer
widespread corruption, as the
federal police did. That force
became central to crime-fighting
strategy under President Felipe
Calderón, who served from 2006
through 2012, and it received
millions of dollars in training
and equipment from the U.S.
government.
The official in charge of the
police, Genaro García Luna,
was eventually arrested and
charged in U.S. federal court
with taking bribes from the Si-
naloa cartel of Joaquín “El
Chapo” Guzmán.
García Luna has pleaded not
guilty; he’s scheduled to go on
trial in New York next year.
For all its problems, the feder-
al police did have a large corps of
officers trained to use intelli-
gence to build cases. The nation-
al guard, in contrast, has limited
capacity to do investigations; it
detained 8,258 people last year —
“fewer than a medium-sized mu-
then has built up an arsenal of
atomic weapons and missiles that
can deliver warheads to the U.S.
mainland. Officials in Seoul and
Washington have warned that
Pyongyang could soon resume
nuclear tests for the first time
since 2017, when the U.N. Security
Council imposed economic sanc-
tions on the regime in response to
its weapons development.
In 2019, Kim had a second
summit meeting with President
Donald Trump and called for the
lifting of sanctions in exchange
for disarmament steps. But the
talks in Hanoi broke down due to
disagreements over sanctions re-
lief, and negotiations between
Pyongyang and Washington have
nicipal police force,” wrote
Alejandro Hope, a security ana-
lyst, in the daily Universal. Just
14 of the arrests were the result
of intelligence work, according
to government figures.
“By all accounts, it’s a force
that patrols and doesn’t investi-
gate,” Hope wrote. That means
the guard won’t be effective in
reducing impunity in the justice
system, Hope and other analysts
say.
Ana Lorena Delgadillo, the
human rights activist who heads
the Foundation for Justice, said
the shift to army control will
reduce visibility into the national
guard’s budget and activities.
“For citizens, there will be a
sacrifice of transparency, ac-
countability, respect for human
rights,” she wrote in the daily
Reforma.
Since Calderón deployed the
military to fight drug trafficking
gangs, homicides have soared
and tens of thousands of peo-
ple have disappeared. López
Obrador says his strategy is mak-
ing headway, with an about 8
percent drop in homicides this
year.
The guard was established as a
civilian-led body under a consti-
tutional revision in 2019 that
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made little headway since.
In recent months, North Korea
has ramped up tensions by con-
ducting additional weapons tests,
including one of a long-range
missile earlier this year. The re-
gime has spurned the Biden ad-
ministration’s repeated offer to
sit down for nuclear talks “any-
where, anytime.”
“Pyongyang is basically saying
the only basis for future talks
would be ones that recognize
North Korea as a nuclear weap-
ons state,” said Chad O’Carroll,
chief executive of the Korea Risk
Group. The regime’s nuclear doc-
trine poses a question to the
Biden administration on whether
it can keep its policy of dialogue
Demonstrators gather this week in Mexico City to protest the plan by Mexican President Andrés
Manuel López Obrador to put the military in charge of the national guard.
envisioned the force as eventual-
ly replacing the military in fight-
ing crime.
Yet the guard has drawn most
of its members from the army
and navy, and its commander is a
retired general. Friday’s vote
recognized what was already,
in practical terms, military con-
trol of the guard. The meas-
ure was approved several
days ago by the Chamber of
with North Korea, he said.
Kim also addressed domestic
issues in the parliamentary
speech, saying that North Korea
would roll out a vaccine program
in November for the first time
since the beginning of the pan-
demic. He did not mention the
coronavirus and referred only to
battling a “malicious virus.” And
he did not give details on the type
of vaccine or how doses will be
administered.
Pyongyang has been ignoring
offers of coronavirus aid from the
United States, South Korea and
international organizations.
Gavi, a vaccine distribution net-
work for the United Nations-
backed Covax program, said in
Deputies.
López Obrador had pushed in
recent months for a constitution-
al revision to shift the guard’s
operational and administrative
control to the Defense Ministry,
but he lacked the supermajority
in congress to make that change.
In resorting to do it through
normal legislation, legal scholars
and security analysts said, he’s
violating the constitution and
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June that it “understands” North
Korea had accepted coronavirus
vaccines from China.
While increasing pressure
against Washington, North Korea
has been strengthening ties with
China and Russia, its ideological
and political allies. U.S. intelli-
gence said this week that Russia
is buying rockets and artillery
shells from North Korea as it
wages war against Ukraine.
“North Korea likely sees a
world that is bending towards its
ideals rather than away from it,
and that now is the time to make
it official that its nuclear weapons
are here to stay,” said Karl Fried-
hoff, a fellow at the Chicago Coun-
cil on Global Affairs.
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opening the door to years of
judicial wrangling.
“Everything that the National
Guard does (detentions, acquisi-
tions, regulations, disciplinary
actions et cetera) is going to be
caught up in a cloud of legal
uncertainty,” Hope wrote.
Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul and
Gabriela Martinez contributed to
this report.
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BY A DELA S ULIMAN
london — Speeches from Brit-
ain’s longest-reigning monarch,
Queen Elizabeth II, who died on
Thursday, punctuated key mo-
ments of her 70 years on the
throne — giving insights into her
family, faith and sense of duty.
Her remarks provide snap-
shots of what was going on in her
personal life and British public
life. Here are some of the most
memorable.
On her 21st birthday:
April 21, 1947
Princess Elizabeth was on a
tour of South Africa with her
parents and younger sister Mar-
garet when she turned 21 years
old. In a speech broadcast on the
radio from Cape Town, she dedi-
cated her life to the service of the
Commonwealth, in one of her
earliest public addresses.
“This is a happy day for me; but
it is also one that brings serious
thoughts, thoughts of life loom-
ing ahead with all its challenges
and with all its opportunity,” the
young Elizabeth said.
Still a princess, she went on to
make a profound royal pledge: “I
declare before you all that my
whole life, whether it be long or
short, shall be devoted to your
service and the service of our
great imperial family to which we
all belong.”
On her Coronation Day:
June 2, 1953
The queen ascended to the
throne on Feb. 6, 1952, after the
death of her father, King George
VI, but her coronation took place
in 1953, when she was 27. Her
husband, Philip, had urged that
the event be televised for the first
time, and millions in the United
Kingdom and abroad watched
the broadcast by the BBC from
London’s Westminster Abbey.
Following the event that placed
the royal family firmly in people’s
living rooms, Elizabeth, in a
broadcast to the nation that eve-
ning, reflected on the day’s mo-
mentous events.
“Although my experience is so
short and my task so new, I have
in my parents and grandparents
an example which I can follow
with certainty and with confi-
dence,” she said. “As this day
draws to its close, I know that my
abiding memory of it will be, not
only the solemnity and beauty of
the ceremony, but the inspiration
of your loyalty and affection. I
thank you all from a full heart.”
‘Annus Horribilis’:
Nov. 24, 1992
In 1992, the queen gave a
speech in London to mark the
40th anniversary of her accession
to the throne, wherein she fa-
mously defined the year in Latin
as an “annus horribilis” — or a
horrible year.
She remarked: “1992 is not a
year on which I shall look back
with undiluted pleasure. In the
words of one of my more sympa-
thetic correspondents, it has
turned out to be an ‘Annus Hor-
ribilis.’ I suspect that I am not
alone in thinking it so.”
Her speech came days after a
major fire at Windsor Castle, a
royal residence, and after three of
her children’s marriages, includ-
ing that of Prince Charles and
Princess Diana, collapsed, gener-
ating reams of tabloid headlines
that cast a critical spotlight on
British royal life.
Maintaining a quintessential
British stiff upper lip, the mon-
arch welcomed scrutiny of her
role. “Criticism is good for people
and institutions that are part of
public life,” she said. “No institu-
tion — city, monarchy, whatever
— should expect to be free from
the scrutiny of those who give it
their loyalty and support, not to
mention those who don’t.”
She added, “But we are all part
of the same fabric of our national
society, and that scrutiny, by one
part of another, can be just as
effective if it is made with a touch
of gentleness, good humor and
understanding.”
She did not repeat the Latin
phrase again publicly, but some
royal pundits speculated that she
may have been tempted to do so
in 2019, after her husband was
involved in a public car crash, her
grandsons Princes William and
Harry publicly fell out, and her
second son Prince Andrew be-
came entangled in links to the
disgraced American financier Jef-
frey Epstein.
On the death of Princess
Diana: Sept. 5, 1997
After the death of Diana in a
car crash in Paris shook the world,
the queen spoke to the nation live
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the day of their coronation at Buckingham Palace on June 2, 1953.
“I have in my parents and grandparents an example which I can follow with certainty and with confidence,” she said.
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After attending a service, the royal family stops to look at floral Queen Elizabeth II speaks of the “Annus Horribilis” at
tributes left for Princess Diana at Balmoral Castle in 1997. Guildhall on her 40th anniversary in 1992.
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Princess Elizabeth spoke of her
dedication to the service of the
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Queen Elizabeth II takes her seat, alone because of coronavirus precautions, during the funeral birthday while on tour in South
of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in 2021. Africa in 1947.
spected her — for her energy and
commitment to others, and espe-
cially for her devotion to her two
boys,” the queen said in an effort
to comfort a stunned nation after
facing media criticism for being
slow to publicly react.
“No one who knew Diana will
ever forget her. Millions of others
who never met her, but felt they
knew her, will remember her. I for
one believe there are lessons to be
drawn from her life and from the
extraordinary and moving reac-
tion to her death,” she said.
Diana died at 36 and left be-
hind two young princes, who have
both since spoken about how her
death affected the way they shape
their royal roles and public life.
On the death of Prince Philip:
April 9, 2021
Buckingham Palace an-
nounced the death of Prince Phil-
ip, Duke of Edinburgh, on April 9,
2021.
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“It is with deep sorrow that Her
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Queen’s Birthday Parade during her Platinum Jubilee on June 2. the death of her beloved hus-
band,” the palace statement said.
from Buckingham Palace. ness at Diana’s death. We have all and gifted human being. In good Philip died at Windsor Castle, and
“Since last Sunday’s dreadful been trying in our different ways times and bad, she never lost her his funeral days later and during
news we have seen, throughout to cope,” she said. capacity to smile and laugh, nor the coronavirus pandemic was
Britain and around the world, an “I want to pay tribute to Diana to inspire others with her warmth televised globally. The event
overwhelming expression of sad- myself. She was an exceptional and kindness. I admired and re- yielded moving images of the el-
. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022
derly queen, now a widow, starkly
sitting alone in keeping with pan-
demic restrictions.
Elizabeth, whom Philip affec-
tionately called Lilibet, had spo-
ken of him in 1997 when the
couple celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary, calling him
her “strength and stay.”
At the time, she recounted
events over the 50 years of their
marriage, including the end of the
Cold War, the Beatles, humans
traveling to the moon, the intro-
duction of television, mobile
phones and the internet, and
England’s winning the soccer
World Cup, as well as “the joys of
having children and grandchil-
dren” together.
“All too often, I fear, Prince
Philip has had to listen to me
speaking. Frequently we have dis-
cussed my intended speech be-
forehand and, as you will imag-
ine, his views have been ex-
pressed in a forthright manner.
He is someone who doesn’t take
easily to compliments, but he has,
quite simply, been my strength
and stay all these years, and I, and
his whole family, and this and
many other countries, owe him a
debt greater than he would ever
claim, or we shall ever know.”
After her husband’s death, she
did not directly address the na-
tion, but a phrase resurfaced that
the queen had previously sent in a
message to the United States fol-
lowing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:
“Grief is the price we pay for love,”
she said.
Annual Christmas speeches
The queen gave thousands of
speeches at royal engagements to
heads of state and diplomats,
when inaugurating buildings and
boats, and annually at Christmas.
The latter grew to become a social
staple and British holiday tradi-
tion, as her yuletide speeches
were peppered with words of wis-
dom, faith and occasionally per-
sonal reflections from the nona-
genarian.
“In the old days, the monarch
led his soldiers on the battlefield,
and his leadership at all times was
close and personal. Today things
are very different,” she said in her
first televised Christmas broad-
cast in 1957. “I cannot lead you
into battle, I do not give you laws
or administer justice, but I can do
something else. I can give you my
heart and my devotion to these
old islands and to all the peoples
of our brotherhood of nations.”
In 1974, her Christmas message
alluded to violence in Northern
Ireland and in the Middle East,
and she encouraged people glob-
ally to seek the path of peace and
reconciliation. “We may hold dif-
ferent points of view, but it is in
times of stress and difficulty that
we most need to remember that
we have much more in common
than there is dividing us,” she
said.
In 2002, despite celebrating 50
years on the throne during her
Golden Jubilee, she also mourned
the death of her mother and sister
within a few weeks of each other.
In her Christmas message that
year, she reflected on the need for
humanity amid crisis.
“Our modern world places
such heavy demands on our time
and attention that the need to
remember our responsibilities to
others is greater than ever,” she
said.
And finally, perhaps for many,
a quip that the queen made to her
aides, as reported by her royal
biographer, may be her most
charming comment. “I have to be
seen to be believed,” she joked.
Celebration of her Platinum
Jubilee: Feb. 6, 2022
In February, the queen reached
a historic milestone: becoming
the first British monarch to cel-
ebrate a Platinum Jubilee, mark-
ing 70 years of her reign. The
United Kingdom celebrated dur-
ing a four-day holiday in June
with pomp and ceremony, street
parties, musical concerts and mil-
itary parades.
It was the last time the queen
would publicly stand on the bal-
cony at Buckingham Palace,
alongside her family, waving to
millions of people who had
flocked to see her.
“I continue to be inspired by
the goodwill shown to me,” she
said, “and hope that the coming
days will provide an opportunity
to reflect on all that has been
achieved during the last 70 years,
as we look to the future with
confidence and enthusiasm.”
Elizabeth previously celebrat-
ed her Silver Jubilee in 1977, Gold-
en Jubilee in 2002 and Diamond
Jubilee in 2012.
She died at her home in Bal-
moral Castle, Scotland, at 96.
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FEMINISM FROM A1
of Change.” The queen said: “It
reminds us of the potential in our
societies that is yet to be fully
unlocked, and encourages us to
find ways to allow girls and wom-
en to play their full part.”
Although that might not sound
particularly provocative, her
words were taken as an endorse-
ment of changes in royal succes-
sion laws that year that gave
daughters of future monarchs
equal right to the throne. Before
then, women were clearly consid-
ered second-best royals: They
could become monarchs, but only
in cases like hers, if a male heir
was unavailable.
The queen also periodically
dispatched congratulatory com-
ments about women breaking
barriers in realms such as sports.
Over the summer, when Eng-
land’s women soccer team won
the Euro championship — achiev-
ing what no male English team
had done before — the queen
praised the Lionesses for having
“set an example that will be an
inspiration for girls and women
today, and for future generations
inspiration for girls and women.”
Yet Elizabeth held fast to the
custom that the head of Britain’s
constitutional monarchy should
not wade into politically tinged
subjects. And so, regardless of her
personal beliefs, she would have
considered an active role in the
women’s liberation or women’s
equality movements off-limits.
“When you talk about femi-
nism, there’s an implication of
campaigning which isn’t appro-
priate, especially for someone
who is supposed to be politically
neutral,” said Robert Lacey, a
royal biographer.
She certainly never went as far
as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,
who in 2018 declared herself a
“feminist” on the royal family
website.
Actor Olivia Colman, who por-
trayed the queen in the Netflix
series “The Crown,” said she con-
sidered Queen Elizabeth “the ul-
timate feminist.”
“She’s the breadwinner,” Col-
man told Radio Times magazine
in 2019. “She’s the one on our
coins and bank notes. Prince Phil-
ip has to walk behind her. She
fixed cars in the Second World
War. She’s no shrinking violet.”
As a princess, Elizabeth joined
the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial
Service and worked as a driver
and a mechanic in World War II.
But Guardian columnist Zoe
Williams was among those who
objected to the “ultimate femi-
nist” characterization. Being
supported by British taxpayers is
not breadwinning, she wrote.
“Fixing cars in the second world
war is neither feminist nor un-
feminist,” she added, “it would
have been feminist to continue
to fix cars once the war had
ended.”
Elizabeth became queen in
1952 — after a run of four male
monarchs, and at a time when
gender stereotypes portrayed
women as homemakers, wearing
aprons in the kitchen and dutiful-
ly waiting for the return of their
working husbands.
At the age of 25, the queen was
suddenly the head of state and a
symbol of a woman holding sta-
From left, Prince Charles, Prince Philip, Princess Anne and then-Princess Elizabeth, in 1951, a year before Elizabeth became queen.
As ruler, Elizabeth was a working mother, leaving Charles and Anne at home to embark on a six-month tour after her coronation.
Children from Crathie Primary School present Queen Elizabeth
II with a card at the Balmoral Cricket Pavilion at the estate in
Scotland on Oct. 1, 2021.
tus and influence. She was read-
ing government papers, meeting
with prime ministers, entertain-
ing world leaders — almost all of
them men.
She was a working mother who
left her kids at home. After her
coronation, she embarked on a
six-month tour of the Common-
wealth, leaving young Prince
Charles and Princess Anne at
home.
“For me personally, the Queen
has become a feminist icon,
whether she wanted to or not,
simply by never letting gender
define her,” Emma Barnett, host
of the BBC’s “Woman’s Hour,”
wrote in the Telegraph in 2015.
“Her gender has always been
irrelevant to her capacity to do
her job,” wrote Barnett, and “by
doing that job stoically and with
the utmost dedication, she’s inad-
vertently done a great deal to
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normalise the idea of having a
woman in charge.”
“She fits into this tradition of
ruling queens who are very useful
to feminism, more through their
deeds than their words,” said
Arianne Chernock, author of
“The Right to Rule and the Rights
of Women: Queen Victoria and
the Women’s Movement.”
The women’s movement start-
ed to gain traction in the late 19th
century, during the reign of
Queen Victoria, Elizabeth’s great-
great-grandmother. Victoria was
opposed to women’s rights. “We
women are not made for govern-
ing,” she once wrote in a letter to
her uncle. She thought voting
rights for women was a “mad,
wicked folly.” But much of this
was found out through private
correspondence later. At the time,
Victoria was a model to many
leaders in the women’s move-
Queen Elizabeth II attends the races during her visit to Saudi
Arabia in February 1979. Former British foreign secretary
David Owen, said the visit to the Gulf States was a great success.
ment in the 19th century, Cher-
nock said.
During Elizabeth’s reign,
among her many overseas trips,
her 1979 tour of six nations in the
Gulf States made headlines
around the world. In a region
where women’s participation in
public life was far below men’s,
here was a female monarch, shak-
ing hands with rulers in the Gulf,
as an equal.
David Owen, who was then
the British foreign secretary,
told The Washington Post in a
recent interview that the Gulf
trip was a great success and,
referring to the elderly Saudi
monarch King Khalid, he said,
“The old king fell in love with
her.”
He recalled an incident when
the Saudi king had joined the
queen and Prince Philip on the
royal yacht for a banquet. “I’ll
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never forget him driving away in
his Rolls-Royce and the queen
was up there on the bridge and he
started waving and suddenly he
puts a stick out the window and
whirls it around, and you just
knew, the trip had been a winner.
It was everything I could have
wanted in terms of foreign
relations.”
He said of the queen, “She
doesn’t make a great female
emancipation speech, but it’s the
way she conducts herself. You
need for people who are prepared
to actually go out and take the
case and argue and write about it,
and you also need people who
will just do it by example — you
need both.”
Rosie Campbell, director of the
Global Institute for Women’s
Leadership at King’s College Lon-
don, said the queen occupied the
role with “incredible grace and
dignity and can only have a posi-
tive impact on how we view
women leaders.”
“We know that women role
models matter,” she said. At the
same time, she added, “it’s not a
job that little girls can easily step
into.”
Elizabeth didn’t become queen
through merit, and the monarch’s
role, on the public stage, is a
relatively silent one. “She seems
to me to understand her role,”
Campbell said. “She makes the
distinction between being elected
and unelected, but it means that
she doesn’t have a voice except on
rare occasions.”
Royal observers say that be-
hind the scenes, the queen played
a traditional role within her own
family. “She was very keen early
on to say, ‘Yes, I’m the queen. I’ll
do the constitutional stuff. But
Philip was the head of the fam-
ily,’ ” said Robert Hardman, au-
thor of “Queen of Our Times.” He
also questioned whether the
queen would have viewed herself
as a feminist. “There are feminist
traits but I’m not sure she’d see it
like that,” he said.
“She would probably be a femi-
nist in the same sense as Marga-
ret Thatcher was the feminist,” he
said of Britain’s first female prime
minister. “Feminists may not re-
gard either [of them] as a femi-
nist figures, but they’ve undoubt-
edly helped reshape the way that
society views women and women
were empowered by their leader-
ship roles.”
Other commentators have
wondered if a different royal
might one day be dubbed the
“ultimate feminist.” Feminist Ju-
lie Bindel suggested in the Daily
Telegraph, “I don’t think it is too
much to suggest that Camilla
could one day be described as the
most feminist Queen we’ll ever
have.” Camilla, queen consort,
has long worked with charities
that campaign to end violence
against women and is president
of the Women of the World
(WOW) festival.
But there may have been occa-
sions when the queen has tried, in
her own queenly way, to score a
point for feminism.
The queen reportedly terrified
then-Saudi Crown Prince Abdul-
lah during his 2003 state visit by
zipping around in a royal Range
Rover. Sherard Cowper-Coles, the
former British ambassador to
Saudi Arabia, shared the anec-
dote in his memoir, saying that
the queen had invited Abdullah
for a tour of the grounds at
Balmoral, her royal estate in Scot-
land. “To his surprise, the Queen
climbed into the driving seat,
turned the ignition and drove
off,” Cowper-Coles wrote in his
book, “Ever the Diplomat.”
“Women are not — yet — allowed
to drive in Saudi Arabia, and
Abdullah was not used to being
driven by a woman, let alone a
queen.”
According to the diplomat, it
wasn’t a particularly calming ex-
perience as the queen “accelerat-
ed the Land Rover along the
narrow Scottish estate roads,
talking all the time.”
Cowper-Coles wrote:
“Through his interpreter, the
Crown Prince implored the
Queen to slow down and concen-
trate on the road ahead.”

For nearly a century, the monarch found companionship in corgis

BY D EREK H AWKINS
They roamed Buckingham Pal-
ace as if they owned the place.
Royal chefs prepared their
meals. Psychologists treated
them, biographers documented
their lives. They slept in cushioned
wicker baskets. At Christmas, they
each got their own stocking.
The many corgis owned by
Queen Elizabeth II over her
seven-decade reign were furry lit-
tle monarchs in their own right, as
iconic as her flamboyant hats and
her wicked sense of humor. In her
lifetime, she had more than 30 of
the squat herding dogs, with
names like Plover, Disco and Mint.
A gaggle of them trotted ahead of
her wherever she went, in what
Princess Diana once described,
perhaps not so affectionately, as
“a moving carpet.”
Her love for the pups was long
celebrated, playing a central part
in the apparent corgi renaissance
social media has helped fuel over
the past decade. Three of her cor-
gis were featured in a James Bond
skit with the queen and Daniel
Craig that aired at the 2012 Olym-
pics. The dogs have also made
frequent appearances in the Net-
flix series “The Crown,” which de-
picts Elizabeth’s tenure as head of
state.
When she died this week at 96,
Elizabeth reportedly left behind
two Pembroke Welsh corgis, a
corgi-dachshund mix known as a
dorgi, and a cocker spaniel.
It’s not clear what will happen
to the queen’s beloved pets. Royal
biographer Ingrid Seward said
they might go to her children.
“I imagine the dogs would be
looked after by the family, prob-
ably Andrew [as] he’s the one that
gave them to her,” Seward told
Newsweek. “They’re quite young,
the corgi and the dorgi.”
As Elizabeth got older, she
seemed troubled by the prospect
of her dogs living on without her
there to care for them.
At some point, she decided to
wind down the decades-long corgi
breeding program she oversaw at
Windsor Castle, where 14 genera-
tions of dogs were raised and
trained. The program appeared to
have gone quiet by about 2002,
following the death of her mother,
according to the American Kennel
Club.
In 2012, Monty Roberts, the
queen’s equine adviser, told Vanity
Fair that the death of one of her
dogs — a corgi that co-starred in
the James Bond skit — had deeply
affected her.
“She didn’t want to have any
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more young dogs,” he said. “She
Queen Elizabeth II sits with one of her corgis in 1970. She owned more than 30 of the herding dogs in didn’t want to leave any young dog
her lifetime and oversaw a breeding program at Windsor Castle that raised and trained 14 generations. behind.”
“She wanted to put an end to it,”
Roberts said of the corgi breeding.
“I understood that we would dis-
cuss it further at a later date. Well,
we never discussed it at a later
date, and I have no right to try to
force her into continuing to bring
on young puppies if she doesn’t
want to. That isn’t my right.”
When her corgi Willow died in
2018, the British press reported
that she wouldn’t be getting any
more dogs. But at some point dur-
ing the illness of her late husband,
Prince Philip, she appeared to
change her mind.
It was hard to separate the mon-
arch from her mutts.
Candy, an elderly corgi, was
with her until the end. She also
had two younger pups, Muick and
Sandy, gifted to her by family in
recent years. Her cocker spaniel is
named Lissy.
According to the BBC, the royal
family had a term for the calming
effect the corgis had over the
years: “the dog mechanism.”
“If the situation becomes too
difficult she will sometimes liter-
ally walk away from it and take the
dogs out,” wrote Penny Junor, au-
thor of “All the Queen’s Corgis.”
“Dogs and horses are her pas-
sion,” Junor wrote, “and it is with
them, and the people who share
that passion, that she truly relax-
es.”
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Charles III eyes balance of tradition, progress in his reign
CHARLES FROM A1
he said in his first address as sover-
eign Friday. “It will no longer be
possible for me to give so much of
my time and energies to the chari-
ties and issues for which I care so
deeply.”
But he is a crusader at heart.
And coming to the throne at age
73, he may not be able to turn that
off.
“He will be a different sort of
monarch. Charles is a deep think-
er, romantic, sentimentalist,” said
Robert Hardman, a royal biogra-
pher, author of “Queen of Our
Times.”
Once dismissed as a nutter by
his critics, because he confessed
he talks to trees, Charles is right on
time for 2022.
He was a rock star at last year’s
COP26 climate summit in Glas-
gow. He is ardent. He believes the
planet is going to hell while the
world’s governments fiddle.
Charles could be an ecological
warrior-king in a Savile Row suit.
The queen? She was hard to pin
down, honestly.
We could all see that Elizabeth
loved horses and sensible shoes
and dogs and handbags and the
Church of England and shooting
stags and Land Rovers and tradi-
tion and Prince Philip and duty
and her often stumbling, some-
times dysfunctional tabloid fod-
der of a family.
But what did she really think
about any of the major issues of
her time, over the course of a
70-year reign? Apartheid? Femi-
nism? Brexit? The queen believed
strongly that the monarch
shouldn’t interfere in politics.
Royal watchers often had to resort
to reading the tea leaves to guess
her stance.
And yet Britons adored her.
Even many people who dislike the
monarchy as an institution had a
soft spot for the queen.
In his speech Friday, Charles
praised his mother, “my darling
Mama,” and her lifelong commit-
ment to public service. “Her dedi-
cation and devotion as sovereign
never wavered, through times of
change and progress, through
times of joy and celebration, and
through times of sadness and
loss,” he said.
Pollsters say a lot of Britons
don’t love Charles, though they
don’t strongly dislike him, either.
In recent polling by YouGov, 57
percent said he would do a “very
good” or “fairly good” job as king.
(The numbers were more favor-
able for his son William.)
While some Britons still hold a
grudge, many seem to have given
Charles a reprieve, more than 25
years later, for his role in his disas-
trous marriage to Princess Diana,
which ended in tragedy. He was an
Britain has a new monarch: What you should know about King Charles III
BY A DELA S ULIMAN
london — Following the death
of Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland
on Thursday, the United King-
dom is swiftly readjusting to the
accession of her eldest son,
Charles. According to Bucking-
ham Palace, he will take the sov-
ereign title King Charles III, and
his wife, Camilla, will be known
as the queen consort.
Here’s what to know about the
new king.
How old is Britain’s new
king, Charles III?
Charles was born to Elizabeth
and her husband, Prince Philip,
on Nov. 14, 1948.
He was born in Buckingham
Palace in London at 9:14 p.m. Just
over a month later, he was chris-
tened Charles Philip Arthur
George by England’s archbishop
of Canterbury, the most senior
member of the Church of Eng-
land. The young prince attended a
school rather than undergo tutor-
ing at the palace; like his father, he
attended Gordonstoun, a board-
ing school in eastern Scotland. He
later attended Cambridge Univer-
sity in 1967 to study history.
Now, at age 73, Charles is ex-
pected to be the oldest British
monarch to be crowned, and he
has endured the longest wait to
ascend the throne of any heir in
British history. In recent years, as
his mother’s health flagged, he
took on more of her public cer-
emonial roles, however.
His mother became Queen
Elizabeth II at age 25 in February
1952. On her accession to the
throne, Prince Charles, then 3,
became heir apparent.
What is Charles’s new
title as king?
According to Buckingham Pal-
ace, Charles will be known as
King Charles III. He will not be
King Charles of Wales. There had
adulterer. But he was also deeply
in love. With Camilla, it turned
out, now queen consort.
Episodes of the popular televi-
sion series “The Crown” portrayed
him as a cold fish, a cruel man,
uncomfortable with himself. But
Charles is known to those who
know him to be quite warm in
person. In a long receiving line at a
palace function, the queen kept it
moving. Charles lingers.
“His staff always say his investi-
tures always take a lot longer than
the queen’s, because she’s quite
good at having a few words and
the handshake and then, right,
that’s off you go,” Hardman told
The Washington Post. “Whereas
Charles is much more prone to
start having conversations and go,
“Oh, you’re a sheep farmer. What
sort of sheep do you farm?” It’s just
a different approach.”
The new king was gracious on
Friday in his first meeting with his
new prime minister, Liz Truss —
who seemed nervous on what was
only her fourth day in her job.
Charles greeted her warmly at
Buckingham Palace, accepted her
condolences and said straight up,
on camera, “It’s the moment I’ve
been dreading, as I know a lot of
people have, but you try and keep
everything going.”
He sounded like a grieving son/
sovereign trying to keep it togeth-
er.
Although Charles became Brit-
ain’s monarch immediately upon
his mother’s death, he will go
through further formalities in the
coming days. On Saturday, the Ac-
cession Council will meet and a
proclamation announcing him as
the new king will be read from a
been media speculation that he
could have opted for another
name, such as Arthur or George.
He will inherit other titles, such
as head of the Church of England
and of the Commonwealth.
Before his mother’s death, he
held the title of Prince of Wales.
Charles was invested as the
Prince of Wales at age 20 by the
queen on July 1, 1969, in a cer-
emony at Caernarfon Castle in
Wales. Ahead of the event, he
spent time learning to speak
Welsh and in 2019, he celebrated
50 years since his investiture
alongside the queen with events
for Welsh charities and organiza-
tions he supports.
Before Charles took the throne,
his son William was known as the
Duke of Cambridge. Now that
William has become the heir ap-
parent, he assumes the title of
Duke of Cornwall. The title, creat-
ed under a charter of King Ed-
ward III in 1337 and reserved for
the eldest son of the reigning
monarch, was previously held by
Charles.
In his first speech as king,
Charles announced on Friday
that William and his wife, Cather-
ine, would become the new
Prince and Princess of Wales.
What title will Charles’s wife,
Camilla, take?
Charles married Camilla Park-
er Bowles in 2005. He divorced
his first wife, Princess Diana, in
1996, and she died a year later in a
car crash in Paris that stunned
the world.
When Charles and Camilla
married, it was announced that
Camilla would not be known as
queen when he became monarch,
but as “princess consort” — at a
time when British public senti-
ment toward her was more frosty.
But in a statement marking the
70th anniversary of her accession
to the throne during her Platinum
Jubilee earlier this year, Elizabeth
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balcony at St. James’s Palace.
Charles will travel to Wales, Scot-
land and Northern Ireland to con-
sole his subjects ahead of an elabo-
rate state funeral for his mother
back in London. World leaders
and dignitaries will be in attend-
ance, including President Biden.
While Charles is a well-prac-
ticed host, he can also be awk-
ward. Tonally off. As when he
boasted that his climate-con-
scious Aston Martin sports car ran
on wine and cheese.
He has adopted some peculiar
— and oddly specific — positions
over the years, on topics like the
best breeds of sheep and the im-
portance of proper joinery carpen-
try. He also has big ideas about
climate change, urban blight, or-
ganic farming and the dehuman-
izing nature of modern architec-
ture.
In the 2018 BBC documentary,
“Prince, Son And Heir: Charles At
70,” the future king is asked about
accusations of meddling in public
affairs. He replies: “Really? You
don’t say.”
He explains: “I always wonder
what meddling is, I mean, I always
thought it was motivating.”
“But I’ve always been intrigued,
if it’s meddling to worry about the
inner cities as I did 40 years ago
and what was happening or not
happening there, the conditions
in which people were living.”
He said, “If that’s meddling, I’m
very proud of it.”
Asked about whether his in-
volvement would continue in the
same way once he ascended to the
throne, Charles says: “No, it won’t.
I’m not that stupid, I do realize
that it is a separate exercise, being
Prince Charles on his 60th birthday. Now 73, King Charles III is
expected to be the oldest British monarch to be crowned.
announced that she wanted Ca-
milla to be known as “queen con-
sort” when Charles became king.
Camilla, previously known as
the Duchess of Cornwall, was
referred to as the queen consort
by Buckingham Palace in a state-
ment following Elizabeth’s death
on Thursday.
Who were Charles I and
Charles II?
Charles I succeeded his father,
James I, in 1625. His reign was
troubled and led to the English
Civil War. He married a Catholic,
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sovereign.”
The interview itself is a point of
contrast with his mother. Queen
Elizabeth II never gave a press
interview in her life, even though
she lived through a time when the
British press were hem-kissers to
the monarch. Charles has spent
hours and hours with BBC, despite
having faced the media buzz saw,
the worst of the worst tabloids in
the 1990s.
The queen believed, devoutly,
in Jesus Christ as lord and savior.
She was a religious figure, as “De-
fender of the Faith and Supreme
Governor of the Church of Eng-
land.” Her Christmas messages of-
ten got in a mention of Jesus.
Charles is more spiritual than
devout. In his speech on Friday, he
referenced a divine power in the
context of “the remaining time
God grants me,” but then quickly
moved back to the human realm,
pledging to serve his people,
“whatever may be your back-
ground or beliefs.”
Charles believes we have fallen
from grace, from a more tradition-
al, natural, Edenic state, by suc-
cumbing, much too much, to
mechanistic, technological, mod-
ernist thinking.
In his 2010 book “Harmony: A
New Way of Looking at Our
World,” a 336-page exposition of
his princely philosophy, he decries
how the Age of Convenience pro-
duced the Age of Disconnection.
God, for Charles, can be under-
stood in the repeating mathemat-
ic pattern of a flower’s petals.
The queen had her many chari-
ties, and so does Charles. But he
has gone much further in using his
projects and patronages to ex-
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which offended many English
Protestants, and he dissolved Par-
liament a number of times when
faced with opposition. He was
defeated by Parliament in the Civil
Wars and imprisoned for treason.
He refused to cooperate and was
later executed in London in 1649,
as England briefly became a re-
public run by Oliver Cromwell.
After his death, the Scots invit-
ed Charles I’s son, Charles II, to
come to Scotland and proclaimed
him king. Charles II was crowned
at Scone in 1651, prompting Eng-
lish forces to retaliate. He fled to
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press a world view.
As Duke of Cornwall, and over-
seer of the Duchy of Cornwall, he
was responsible for 129,600 acres
of land across 20 counties in
southwest England, focused on
“sustainability,” one of his favorite
words — and not one the queen
dwelled upon.
To promote his ideas on tradi-
tional architecture on what he
calls “the human scale,” Charles
has created — completely from
scratch — an experimental
planned community for 6,000
residents and 180 businesses,
called Poundbury, with low-rise
buildings, front gardens, reduced
car use, designed upon the “new
urbanism” that the king has called
his “vision for Britain.”
The Prince’s Trust, too, over
four decades, has helped a million
young people in Britain and
around the Commonwealth, with
free courses, grants and mentor-
ing opportunities.
Charles has said he will return
to live in Buckingham Palace in
central London, an edifice his
mother had mostly abandoned
since the pandemic. But the new
king also says he wants to slim
down the monarchy, get it on 21st-
century footing.
One of the queen’s final head-
aches was what to do about Prince
Andrew — widely thought to be
her favorite son — who faced a
lawsuit brought by a woman who
says she was trafficked to him by
convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Ep-
stein and Ghislaine Maxwell. An-
drew denied the accusations but
settled the suit. The queen contin-
ued to see him on her Windsor
estate but largely banished him
from public life. Charles may be
even less indulgent with Andrew
than his mother was.
What King Charles does with
his son, Prince Harry, remains an
France, and the English govern-
ment announced that England
and Scotland would become one
commonwealth, with a union tak-
ing effect from 1652.
Charles II spent the next nine
years in exile. Then, in 1660, after
Cromwell’s death, he was invited
back to London and restored to
the British throne. One to hold a
grudge, Charles II made sure that
anyone who signed his father’s
death warrant was executed;
even Cromwell’s body was dug up
and beheaded. The final phase of
his reign was consumed with
attempts to settle religious dis-
sension, and he died in 1685 with
no legitimate children.
What are Charles’s interests
and causes?
Charles has been known to
champion social and charitable
causes as heir to the throne. He is
patron or president of more than
400 organizations, including golf,
opera and military groups.
Nature and the preservation of
the environment have been major
concerns of his, even before the
climate was more frequently in
the news. Charles has driven elec-
tric vehicles and, like his mother,
has promoted the planting of
trees. He has backed large finan-
cial prizes for technology and sci-
entific innovations that can curb
carbon emissions and the impacts
of climate change. He also runs an
organic farm, and his produce is
available for sale in British stores.
The new king is also known for
supporting youth charities. His
Prince’s Trust charity offers skills
training to thousands of young
British people and was set up amid
an unemployment crisis. Charles
is also known to be passionate
about architecture, Middle East-
ern art and alternative medicines.
He is also known to be a prolific
letter writer, sending “black spi-
der memos” (so dubbed due to his
handwriting) to hundreds of staff
SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022
YUI MOK/POOL/REUTERS
open question. Does he work to
bring Harry and daughter-in-law
Meghan back into the fold? After
they quit their royal duties, moved
to California and then aired their
grievances to Oprah? Or does he
keep them distant?
In his remarks on Friday,
Charles granted new titles to his
eldest son and heir William and
encouraged him to “continue to
inspire and lead our national con-
versations, helping to bring the
marginal to the center ground
where vital help can be given.” He
mentioned his other son to say: “I
want also to express my love for
Harry and Meghan as they contin-
ue to build their lives overseas.”
Many in the crowd outside
Buckingham Palace on Friday
weren’t ready to look forward.
They belted out the national an-
them, with the words “God Save
the Queen.”
Maxine Lee, a teaching assis-
tant in her 50s, looked on with
mixed emotions as King Charles’s
motorcade drove by for the first
time and the new king waved in
her direction. Holding back tears,
Lee said the queen was “a hard act
to follow.”
“Charles has always been sec-
ond to the queen, he doesn’t have
that level of respect yet,” she said.
“I think everyone will be all right
with it, but we have to get over this
first.”
Her husband, Derek Lee, said
he saw promise in Charles, who
has been “groomed for this role
since he was a child” and would
govern with “expertise and empa-
thy — like his mother.”
Mark Kirby, 52, from east York-
shire, was among those who said
he didn’t want to see Charles rein
in his climate activism. “I hope he
doesn’t, it would be such a shame,”
Kirby said. “He has to have his
voice.”
members and officials.
In the past, he has been criti-
cized for being outspoken on such
topics, where traditionally the
monarchy is more guarded about
opinions. He has previously said
he was aware that he could be
perceived as “meddling” but add-
ed he had often “been challenging
the accepted wisdom.”
What happens next after
Queen Elizabeth II’s death?
King Charles III was with his
mother at Balmoral Castle, Scot-
land, when she died at age 96 on
Thursday.
He traveled back to London on
Friday, as expected, and inspected
floral tributes outside Bucking-
ham Palace and met with the
country’s new prime minister, Liz
Truss. His two children, William
and Harry, are in the United King-
dom. Prince Harry lives with his
wife and children in California.
Following Elizabeth’s death,
Charles issued a statement about
his “beloved mother,” thanking
the nation and the world for their
support. “We mourn profoundly
the passing of a cherished Sover-
eign,” he wrote. “I know her loss
will be deeply felt throughout the
country, the Realms and the Com-
monwealth, and by countless
people around the world.”
He said his family was now
entering a period of “mourning
and change.”
Later Friday, he addressed the
nation for the first time as mon-
arch, praising his mother’s legacy
of public service and devotion to
her family. “I, too, now solemnly
pledge myself, throughout the
remaining time God grants me, to
uphold the constitutional princi-
ples at the heart of our nation,” he
said.
On Saturday, Charles will be
“proclaimed” as king after a
meeting of the royal accession
council at St. James’s Palace in
London.
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Europe’s unity will help it weather the winter, says U.S. secretary of state
BY M ISSY R YAN
AND E MILY R AUHALA
brussels — The Biden adminis-
tration believes European na-
tions can navigate a looming en-
ergy crisis accelerated by Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine without
eroding continent-wide support
for the war, a top official said on
Friday.
Secretary of State Antony
Blinken, who touched down in
Brussels for talks with European
and NATO officials, touted Euro-
pean unity as a key factor in
Ukraine’s success to date in coun-
tering the offensive launched by
Russian President Vladimir Putin
in February. But he also acknowl-
edged the campaign to isolate
Russia was now taking a toll on
the finances of ordinary Euro-
peans, potentially testing resolve.
Blinken expressed confidence
that new measures being consid-
ered by the European Union and
steps being taken by the United
States would prove effective in
mitigating rising energy prices —
and that Europeans would under-
Ukraine regains
control of lands in
nation’s northeast
Russia acknowledges
‘rapid’ advances in
Kherson, Kharkiv
BY S TEVE H ENDRIX,
S IOBHÁN O ’ G RADY
AND M ARY I LYUSHINA
kharkiv, ukraine — Ukrainian
forces have clawed back signifi-
cant territory in the northeast of
the country, officials announced
this week, in what could amount
to one of their most significant
successes in pushing back the in-
vading Russians since the war be-
gan.
On Thursday, nearly seven
months into the war, Ukrainian
officials claimed that troops had
regained control of hundreds of
square miles of land in the
Kharkiv and Kherson regions,
which border Russia, and liberat-
ed more than 20 settlements in
about a week. By Friday, Ukraini-
an President Volodymyr Zel-
ensky said more than 30 settle-
ments in Kharkiv had been liber-
ated.
After announcing an attack on
the Russian-occupied city of
Balakliya earlier this week, videos
circulated on social media show-
ing Ukrainian soldiers raising the
blue and yellow flag and emotion-
al civilians greeting them.
Taking control of Balakliya
could offer the Ukrainians a stra-
tegic opportunity to push farther
toward the occupied town of
Izyum, which Russian forces have
been using as a staging ground for
Local lawmakers who urged charging Putin with treason face legal charges
BY M ARY I LYUSHINA
A group of district council
members in St. Petersburg, the
hometown of President Vladimir
Putin, called for the Russian lead-
er to be charged with treason and
removed from office in a rare but
brazen protest against the war in
Ukraine.
The brave move by the Smoln-
insky District Council drew a pre-
dictably swift and unfriendly re-
action. A day after the resolution
against Putin was made public, a
local police station told the law-
makers they were facing legal
charges “due to actions aimed at
discrediting the current Russian
government.”
The district council’s state-
ment came in the form of a
request to the Russian parlia-
ment, the State Duma, and assert-
ed that Putin’s decision to invade
Ukraine on Feb. 24 led to a mas-
sive loss of life, turned countless
Russian men into disabled veter-
ans, hindered the national econo-
my, and fast-tracked NATO’s east-
ward expansion.
A second municipal council in
Moscow’s Lomonosovsky district
followed suit and voted on a
similar motion calling on Putin to
resign. Outspoken criticism of
Putin is rare, and while the two
motions were little more than
symbolic statements, they repre-
sented a remarkable public re-
buke. They also served as evi-
dence that public support for the
war in Ukraine is not universal,
and could be eroding as a recent
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stand that the costs of inaction
would be greater.
“We won’t leave our European
friends out in the cold,” Blinken
said in a news briefing alongside
NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg. “We can, we will,
emerge stronger and in a better
place and that’s why it’s so vital
that we stay the course, that we
stay united.”
Blinken spoke as E.U. ministers
met in Brussels to discuss a
mounting energy crisis facing the
continent, where a longtime reli-
ance on Russian fossil fuels has
combined with global inflation to
create surging prices for consum-
ers.
Six months into the war, the
E.U. has taken significant steps to
reduce its reliance on Russian
energy. But prices continue to
spike and the bloc is increasingly
split on how to respond. The
European Commission has asked
member states to consider drastic
measures, including a windfall
tax on some energy producers, a
price cap on Russian gas and
mandatory targets for reducing
their attacks throughout the east-
ern Donbas region.
On Friday, Russian state televi-
sion made a rare acknowledgment
of the Ukrainian advances when
Vitaly Ganchev, the head of Rus-
sia’s administration in the occu-
pied parts of Kharkiv, described
them as occurring at a “very sharp
and rapid” pace. Footage also
showed what appeared to be Rus-
sian tanks heading toward
Kharkiv to reinforce the area.
Pro-Kremlin military analysts
on Friday also shared a map of
Ukraine’s advances into the occu-
pied territories, showing signifi-
cant gains after Kyiv’s forces
raised their flag again in Balakliya,
a critical juncture in the Kharkiv
area.
The surprise advance in
Kharkiv is occurring alongside a
Ukrainian offensive near the
southern city of Kherson, where
Ukrainian forces have recently
launched an aggressive push to
reclaim the strategic port city. The
larger Kherson region helps form
Russian President Vladimir Pu-
tin’s coveted land bridge to
Crimea, the peninsula invaded
and annexed by Russia in 2014.
The recent advances are offer-
ing a boost of optimism to Ukrai-
nians, who hope the operations
will put Moscow on the back foot
and force them out of many occu-
pied areas before winter. Zel-
ensky repeatedly has articulated
his hope of such gains, and in a
visit to Kyiv on Thursday, U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken
pledged enduring support for
Ukraine.
Still, Russia continues to con-
trol significant territory inside
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a parade marking Navy Day in St. Petersburg on July 31.
survey of Russian public opinion
found.
“We believe that the decision
made by President Putin to start
the special military operation is
detrimental to the security of
Russia and its citizens,” the Smol-
ninsky document filed on
Wednesday evening said.
“We ask you,” the lawmakers
wrote, “to initiate a treason
energy consumption. In an at-
tempt to tame inflation, the Euro-
pean Central Bank this week
raised interest rates for the sec-
ond time this year.
“In the coming months our
unity and solidarity will be tested,
with pressure on energy supplies
and the soaring cost of living
caused by Russia’s war,” Stolten-
berg said.
Officials in Ukraine have
sought to head off any erosion of
European support for the war.
President Volodymyr Zelensky
last week warned that Russia is
preparing for a “decisive energy
attack on all Europeans” this
winter. The only way to fight
back, he said, is to stay united on
sanctions to limit the Kremlin’s
oil and gas revenue.
In a recent interview with the
BBC, Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s
first lady, reminded Britons that
high prices are nothing com-
pared with what Ukrainians are
going through. “The prices are
going up in Ukraine as well, she
said, “but in addition our people
get killed.”
The Misto Hotel and Spa in Kharkiv, Ukraine, was blasted Friday by a Russian strike, which also hit a school and residential buildings.
Ukraine and continues to show-
case its capacity to launch strikes
across the country.
Despite some Ukrainian suc-
cesses in the region, Russian forc-
es still struck Kharkiv, Ukraine’s
second-largest city, on Friday,
blasting away one side of the Misto
Hotel and Spa with a salvo of
rockets. The strike also hit a near-
by school and residential build-
ings, wounding 14 in all, including
three children.
The city, which has come under
repeated attack since February, is
now split between a sense of nor-
malcy and war. Rose beds are still
charge against the president of
the Russian Federation to remove
him from office.”
Putin grew up in the Smolnin-
sky neighborhood and began his
career in St. Petersburg, where he
served as a deputy mayor. Many
of the Russian president’s closest
friends still live in St. Petersburg
where some of them have grown
fabulously wealthy during Putin’s
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“So when you start counting
pennies on your bank account or
in your pocket,” she continued,
“we do the same and count our
casualties.”
Putin has replied to Western
attempts to limit Russian income
with defiance, threatening to fur-
ther cut energy supplies. Despite
Western sanctions, high prices
have allowed Russia to reap sig-
nificant profits.
Blinken cited steps the Biden
administration had taken to tem-
per energy prices at home and
abroad, including authorizing a
major release from the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve and redirect-
ing natural gas toward Europe.
He said Russia’s decision to cut
off gas supplies via the Nord
Stream I pipeline provided fur-
ther evidence of the need for
Europe to wean itself off Russian
energy.
“Is there going to be a cost to
this? Is it going to be challenging?
Yes,” he said of Europe’s energy
outlook. He said he hoped the
moment would prove an opportu-
nity to make Europe’s energy
carefully tended in the median of
some streets near the city’s center,
not far from where the buildings
were badly damaged.
Traffic was light but moving
freely across the city on Friday.
Many store windows were board-
ed up or banked with sandbags,
but some stores were open and
electric street cars operated along
many main boulevards. Several
camouflaged tanks were posi-
tioned on the road into the city.
In Prague on Friday, U.S. De-
fense Secretary Lloyd Austin de-
scribed recent successes in Kher-
son and Kharkiv as “very, very
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22 years as the country’s supreme
leader.
The State Duma is controlled
by Putin’s United Russia party
and is effectively his rubber
stamp, at times adopting his pol-
icies by unanimous vote.
The resolution’s authors con-
ceded that they had little hope
their request would be acted but
that they believed they achieved
outlook more diversified and
climate-friendly.
“The challenge is to get
through the coming winter,” he
told reporters in Poland before
arriving in Brussels.
Western nations will also face
heightened urgency in coming
months on military support to
Ukraine. Data from the Kiel Insti-
tute for the World Economy,
which tracks pledges of weapons
and money, has shown significant
gaps between what countries
have promised and what they
have actually delivered to
Ukraine. In July, Europe’s major
powers offered no new bilateral
military aid, the institute found,
deepening concern about follow-
through.
E.U. foreign policy chief Josep
Borrell warned this week that
weapons stocks in the bloc are
running dangerously low. “The
military stocks of most member
states has been, I wouldn’t say
exhausted, but depleted in a high
proportion,” he said, “because we
have been providing a lot of
capacity to the Ukrainians.”
encouraging.”
Blinken visited Kyiv on Thurs-
day in support of Ukraine as the
White House announced an addi-
tional $675 million worth of mili-
tary supplies to Kyiv.
The weapons in that package
include high-speed antiradiation
missiles, remote-detonated anti-
tank mines, 105mm howitzer can-
nons and rounds for rocket artil-
lery systems. The United States is
also providing about $2 billion in
security assistance to Ukraine and
18 of its neighbors.
Blinken’s visit was largely fo-
cused on Ukraine’s recent coun-
their largely symbolic goal: to let
other antiwar Russians know that
they are not alone in their senti-
ment, which is often drowned out
by the state’s militaristic rhetoric,
echoed by propagandists on
state-controlled television.
The Kremlin has outlawed crit-
icism of the war and has initiated
a further crackdown on dissent,
including from journalists.
“We understand that Putin
won’t shed a tear and stop the
operation,” Nikita Yuferev, one of
the seven councilors who wrote
the document, said in an inter-
view with The Washington Post.
“These requests are written for
people who are still in Russia and
for whom the propaganda tries to
assure that they are the minority,
that there are no people who are
against this.”
The Lomonosovsky district’s
statement slammed Putin’s rheto-
ric and urged him to step side.
“The rhetoric you and your
subordinates use is full of intoler-
ance and aggression,” the state-
ment said. “People once again
fear and hate Russia while we
threaten the whole world with
nuclear weapons.” The Lomonos-
ovsky district added: “Therefore,
we ask for you to be relieved of
your duties as your views and
governance model are hopelessly
outdated.”
Yuferev said that after their
request went viral on Russian
social media, the councilors re-
ceived a “flurry” of letters of
support from people offering any-
thing from legal help to dona-
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U.S. officials described Blink-
en’s talks in Brussels, and a visit
to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian
leaders earlier in the week, as
setting the stage for a meeting of
the U.N. General Assembly later
this month, where U.S. officials
will attempt to project global
unity in support of Ukraine.
In Kyiv, Blinken announced
more than $2 billion in U.S. secu-
rity aid for Ukraine as Ukrainian
fighters seek to recapture terri-
tory now controlled by Russia.
A senior State Department offi-
cial, who spoke ahead of Blinken’s
Kyiv visit, said Russia’s steps to
reduce energy flows — including
halting Nord Stream — were hav-
ing the effect of hardening Euro-
pean sentiment against Russia
rather than turning them against
the war. The coming months will
prove how lasting that feeling
will be.
“It’s not going to be cold and
dark,” another senior State De-
partment official said of the com-
ing winter. “It’s going to be expen-
sive. That’s the main thing that
they have to grapple with.”
HEIDI LEVINE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
teroffensive operations, which he
described as “underway and prov-
ing effective.”
Ukraine’s counteroffensive also
forced Russian officials to post-
pone staging a referendum in the
Kherson region, a precursor to
annexing the occupied territory
with a veneer of procedural legiti-
macy. Occupations officials had
hoped to stage the “vote” in Sep-
tember.
O’Grady reported from Kyiv, Ukraine,
and Ilyushina from Riga, Latvia.
Natalia Abbakumova in Riga
contributed to this report.
tions to cover the fines that will
likely be imposed on the politi-
cians.
In March, the Smolninsky
councilors also wrote a letter to
Putin urging him to stop the war
as “the fate of thousands of Rus-
sian servicemen and millions
Ukrainians are at stake.”
Shortly, after Russian troops
marched across the border, the
Kremlin dialed up the level of the
repressions against its oppo-
nents, outlawing the use of the
word “war” when talking about
the invasion and threatening
those who publicly criticize the
Russian army with fines and jail
terms.
While Putin is unlikely to face
any charges, the lawmakers are
already under pressure and face
at least a fine.
Just a day after the document
went public, Yuferev received a
text message from a local police
station ordering him to come in
to testify in proceedings launched
against him and other council
members “due to actions aimed at
discrediting the current Russian
government.”
“We are sure that we have not
violated anything as we acted
strictly in accordance with the
lawful procedure written in the
Constitution,” Yuferev said. “Of
course, we live in a country where
even if everything is done legally,
but there is a desire to punish us,
it will be done … but we can
manage a 50,000 rubles fine.” (At
current exchange rates, the fine
amounts to about $850.)
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As Russian gas flow ebbs, Europe revisits Dutch drilling
UKRAINE FROM A1
interest of supporting Ukraine
and isolating Russia.
European leaders accuse the
Kremlin of weaponizing energy
exports in retaliation for the
money and weapons the Euro-
pean Union has provided to
Ukraine and the sanctions it has
imposed on Russia.
Russia’s threats to shut off the
gas to Europe entirely this win-
ter, and the E.U.’s desire to limit
Kremlin leverage, have Euro-
pean governments scrambling —
and rethinking the once un-
thinkable.
The use of coal, a fossil fuel
disparaged in green Europe for
its high carbon emissions, is
surging.
Talk of fracking is resurfacing
in countries including Germany
and Britain that had banned the
earth-slamming, ground-con-
taminating extraction of shale
gas. Germany — the continent’s
largest economy by far — is also
weighing a controversial exten-
sion of the life of its nuclear
power plants.
“Everything is on the table
now,” said Olga Khakova, a Euro-
pean energy expert with the
Atlantic Council. “Ideas that
seemed extreme or insane in the
past are now being considered.”
Nowhere in Europe would the
sacrifice be greater than here in
Groningen, a province on the
North Sea.
On a recent afternoon in the
quake-battered hamlet of Wolt-
ersum, Laurens Mengerink, a
64-year-old electrical engineer,
effortlessly plucked loose a red
brick from an outside wall of his
dangerously warped home.
“See?” he said, laughing dark-
ly. “It comes apart.”
Further tremors could critical-
ly weaken his house — and ruin
his neighbor’s newly completed
restorations. Yet Mengerink is
among those who support re-
newed drilling.
“I think we need to reopen the
gas tap,” he said.
“We need the gas because of
the war in Ukraine, because of
Russia,” he said. “We need our
own solutions, our own energy,
not theirs.”
Other residents strongly dis-
sent — some of them openly
questioning the European sanc-
tions against Russia.
“Restarting the gas would kills
us,” said Ate Kuipers, a dairy
farmer whose business has sus-
tained nearly $800,000 worth of
quake damage. Asked if the gas
shortages were worth it to pun-
ish Russian aggression, Kuipers
paused, then said: “I don’t think
so. It’s not realistic. We need the
gas from Russia. We need the oil
from Russia. We can’t handle
everything here with just renew-
ables. . . . And [Europe] can’t
have Groningen.”
Dutch officials have sought a
middle ground, backtracking on
plans to shut down wells this
year, while maintaining that
drilling will only ramp up in the
event of worst-case shortages
that cause hospitals, schools and
homes to go dark.
Extraction from the sprawling
field that once harbored more
than 2,700 billion cubic meters
(bcm) of gas started in the 1960s.
Since the late 1980s, residents
have complained of rumblings in
the earth that spooked cattle,
startled pets and caused what
often began as hairline cracks on
walls. They say they were told by
the Dutch government and the
commercial partnership of com-
panies that extracts the gas that
there was little to fear from
drilling.
At least as far back as the
1990s, official reports document-
ed a relationship between tem-
blors and extraction from the
soft, boggy earth of Groningen —
which is breached by faults that
TOP: Laurens Mengerink looks at the damage at his house last month in Woltersum, Netherlands, where natural gas drilling has triggered
earthquakes. ABOVE: Cracks caused by earthquakes are seen outside a house in the Dutch village of Usquert. BOTTOM LEFT: Gert
Warink stands in front of his damaged doorway in Loppersum, Netherlands. BOTTOM RIGHT: A damaged basement in Loppersum.
shudder when withdrawn gas
causes the ground to contract
like a squeezed sponge.
“But the common opinion at
the time was that the impact and
maximum magnitudes were rela-
tively low,” said Tom van der Lee,
head of a parliamentary commit-
tee that is now probing the
official response to decades of
quakes. “It wasn’t taken very
seriously.”
That changed 10 years ago,
after a 3.6-magnitude quake that
felt stronger because of its shal-
lowness in the soft earth. An-
other relatively strong quake rat-
tled the province in 2018 — the
year Groningen farmers, their
stables and homes cracking,
rolled into The Hague on tractors
in protest. That same year, the
national government agreed to a
phased shutdown.
The main street in Loppersum
— a village of 2,500 — is now a
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grim tableau of the quake years,
including small tremors that
continue today despite much-re-
duced extraction. The Lopster
Kroon cafe, where locals once
nursed mugs of Dutch beer, was
forced to close, its brick building
marred by cracks that made it
unsafe. The bike shop and butch-
er shut, too, along with a bevy of
other businesses, some tempo-
rarily, others for good. The Peter
and Paul Church — built in 1217
— is covered in massive scaffold-
ing. Some residents have been
relocated to clusters of tempo-
rary housing.
Many locals are still waiting
for the Dutch government — in
charge of who gets damage and
reinforcement aid, and how
much — to definitively agree to
claims, a process that for most
residents has dragged on for
years.
The struggle has taken its toll.
PHOTOS BY SANNE DERKS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Studies by the University of
Groningen found that at least
10,000 adults in the region ex-
hibit stress related health prob-
lems due to quake damage.
Ger Warink, a 60-year-old gui-
tar store owner on Loppersum’s
main street, said he suffered a
heart arrhythmia last year while
dealing with an official over
restoration plans for his dam-
aged showroom and home. He’s
been forced to temporarily move
his wares and living quarters to a
sturdier structure across the
street.
He said he doesn’t want more
gas extraction but believes a
restart is inevitable given Eu-
rope’s energy crisis. Part of him,
he said, would understand.
“Who am I to say it’s not okay
to extract the gas because people
are dying in Ukraine and the
price of gas is exploding,” he said.
“It’s horrible. It’s really horrible.”
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There are calls for the Dutch to
step up.
“Groningen . . . has the poten-
tial to weaken Russia’s energy
grip over Europe,” Alice
Stollmeyer, executive director of
The Hague-based Defend De-
mocracy think tank, and Lukas
Trakimavicius, an expert at the
NATO Energy Security Center of
Excellence, co-wrote in an op-ed
last month.
“The Dutch could come to the
rescue,” they wrote.
Just how much Groningen
could ease Europe’s energy crisis
is another question.
At the peak of extraction,
Groningen supplied Europe with
roughly 10 percent of its gas.
Nearly 450 bcm remains under-
ground, enough to power the
E.U. for an entire year, according
Jilles van den Beukel, energy
analyst with the Hague Center
for Strategic Studies, a Dutch
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think tank.
He estimates the maximum
ramp-up technically possible at
Groningen is 40 bcm per year —
or about a quarter of the gas the
E.U. purchased from Russia last
year. But Dutch officials call
those levels seismically danger-
ous. Beukel said a ramp-up to
10 or 20 bcm was politically
“more realistic,” predicting such
a move could lower the bench-
mark price in Europe by 10 to 20
percent.
“You could say that as Gronin-
gen has reduced production in
recent years [for its phase-
down], Europe’s dependence on
Russian gas has grown, as has
Putin’s leverage and ability to use
gas as weapon,” he said. “I get the
feeling the Dutch government is
reluctant to increase Groningen
production, because they see it
as a political nightmare. But as a
citizen, I say, they should do it.”
In January, as fears of a Rus-
sian invasion built, German sup-
pliers stoked the ire of Dutch
officials by seeking to buy more
Groningen gas. That same
month, U.S. officials sought to
discuss energy options with
Dutch officials, including what
role Groningen could play in
easing the region’s gas crisis.
In responses to The Washing-
ton Post, U.S. and German offi-
cials denied any “pressure” on
the Netherlands to restart pro-
duction, portraying conversa-
tions as exploratory.
In recent months, the German
government has asked the Neth-
erlands to explore more gas ex-
traction in Groningen, said Hans
Vijlbrief, the Netherlands’ state
secretary for the extractive in-
dustries.
“They indeed mentioned
Groningen,” he said. “But basi-
cally, we explained to them what
I’m saying now. Yes, you can ask
for solidarity. But it’s dangerous”
to extract gas there.
Vijlbrief said there were tech-
nical limitations to how much
gas could be sent to Germany,
but standing agreements could
still compel a ramp-up in pro-
duction in the event of an “emer-
gency”: “If in Germany people
are freezing to death because of a
lack of gas, and the Germans
have taken all other measures
like shutting down industry, and
we can solve that by transporting
gas from Groningen.” But he
called such an event “unlikely.” If
a Groningen ramp-up did hap-
pen, he said, it would be limited
and temporary — with the aim of
still sealing wells by 2024.
If emergency drilling did re-
start, residents in favor say it
should be done with new tech-
nologies that can stabilize the
earth and limit the potential
scope of future quakes — and
with revenue diverted to aiding
the damaged community.
But more extraction is a non-
starter for residents like Annette
Sins, a 65-year-old nurse whose
Loppersum house is cracked
from quakes. She is deeply sym-
pathetic to Ukraine’s plight —
and has joined weekly communi-
ty meetings to gather donations
and aid.
But she is also certain that
more gas extraction here will not
help Ukraine, or European con-
sumers. The Dutch government
— which gets the lion’s share of
gas profits — as well as the
partnership between Shell and
ExxonMobil that does the drill-
ing, she said, would surely reap
any rewards.
“We are still having earth-
quakes, and they cannot predict
what will happen if they take
more out,” she said. “ ‘Oh, it
might mean a little bit of dam-
age,’ they say. But there’s still a
chance of a big earthquake, and
then our houses will collapse.”
Michael Birnbaum in Washington
contributed to this report.
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Move over, Iron Man: The Army has a new suit to ease soldier back pain
Creation is lightweight
and less clunky than
those tried in the past
BY P RANSHU V ERMA
Futuristic military dreams of
an Iron Man exoskeleton suit
might be giving way to something
simpler: a lightweight wearable
to help with back pain.
The new suit, which weighs
just three pounds, is a soft har-
ness that soldiers strap around
their shoulders and legs. Soldiers
can press a button on the suit by
their left shoulder, which acti-
vates the straps running along
their back to help ease the burden
when lifting heavy objects like
artillery rounds, boxes or guns.
Its name is a mouthful, dubbed
Biden visit to Ohio chip factory site shows high stakes
The $20 million project aims to reestablish the U.S. as a major technology manufacturer and create thousands of jobs in the next few years
BY J EANNE W HALEN
new albany, ohio — President
Biden on Friday celebrated the
start of construction of a $20 bil-
lion project that aims to reassert
the United States as a major tech-
nology manufacturer after dec-
ades of offshoring, with the build-
ing of two giant semiconductor
factories that could deliver thou-
sands of jobs in coming years.
The Intel manufacturing facili-
ty taking shape on a verdant plot
of land outside Columbus is one of
the most expensive and conse-
quential investments in the Unit-
ed States in recent years — one
offering enormous possible ben-
efits for the economy, but also
facing considerable challenges to
reach fruition.
Billions of dollars of federal
subsidies, approved in newly
signed law, convinced California-
headquartered Intel to proceed
with the project, which aims to
dramatically boost domestic man-
ufacturing of the tiny components
that power all modern electron-
ics, from laptops to fighter jets.
But ramping up the vast manu-
facturing zone will take major ef-
fort, including consistent, years-
long investment in the face of
potential recessions and fickle
Wall Street investors, and the
training of thousands of engi-
neers and technical workers amid
a labor shortage.
In a speech, Biden said the proj-
ect — and a flurry of other big
semiconductor investment an-
nouncements — are an endorse-
ment of his push to use $52 billion
of taxpayer money to incentivize
the reshoring of manufacturing
deemed vital to U.S. economic and
national security. The approach
has also won wide support from
Republicans, who want to
strengthen U.S. competitiveness
versus China, which is pouring
state funding into tech manufac-
turing.
“Federal investment attracts
private investment. It creates
jobs. It creates industries. It dem-
onstrates that we’re all in this
together,” Biden told a crowd of
hundreds who gathered to watch
the groundbreaking ceremony, in-
cluding local officials, Ohio’s gov-
ernor and senators and engineer-
ing professors from across the
Midwest.
INTERNATIONAL
U.S., Indo-Pacific
nations meet on trade
The United States and 13 Indo-
Pacific countries agreed Friday on
parameters for negotiating closer
trade, environment and economic
ties that U.S. Commerce Secretary
Gina Raimondo said would boost
investment and jobs in the
partner countries.
U.S. Trade Representative
Katherine Tai said India, the
world’s largest democracy, did not
join the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific
Economic Framework’s (IPEF)
trade negotiations for now but
that she was discussing similar
issues bilaterally with her Indian
counterpart.
At the conclusion of a
ministerial meeting in Los
Angeles, the 14 countries agreed
on the key outlines for
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the Soldier Assistive Bionic Exo-
suit for Resupply, or SABER. It is
developed by the U.S. Army and
Vanderbilt University, and slated
to be deployed in the field in
2023.
SABER is a departure from the
clunky, robotic “warrior suits” the
military has designed in the past,
and is instead a lightweight, flexi-
ble accessory soldiers can wear
while moving heavy machinery
or artillery around. Creators say
this approach is better, because it
solves a specific problem soldiers
have while not getting in the way.
“[The Army] initially tried to
create Iron Man,” Karl Zelik, a
lead designer for SABER and
associate professor of mechanical
engineering at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity, said. “They had these
full-body robotic systems that
hoped to do everything but ulti-
mately effectively did nothing
because they [were] too bulky
President Biden speaks Friday on rebuilding U.S. manufacturing through the Chips and Science Act at the groundbreaking of a new Intel
semiconductor manufacturing facility in New Albany, Ohio.
“This is about our economic
security. It’s about our national
security. It’s about good paying
union jobs you can raise a family
on … jobs that show that the in-
dustrial Midwest is back,” Biden
added during a ceremony featur-
ing a gospel choir, Ohio State Uni-
versity’s marching band and a
panorama of dump trucks and
diggers.
Intel chief executive Pat Gels-
inger and other speakers empha-
sized the promise of bringing to
the Midwest a lucrative high-tech
industry previously located most-
ly on the West Coast.
With the investment, “we de-
clared the end of the Rust Belt and
the beginning of the Silicon
Heartland,” Gelsinger told the
crowd.
The federal subsidies, part of
the Chips Act signed into law last
month, are sparking a wave of
chip investment. Micron is hold-
ing its own groundbreaking cer-
emony on Monday for a $15 billion
negotiating four major “pillars” of
a future agreement: trade
including data flows and labor
rights, supply chain resilience,
green energy and environmental
standards, and anti-corruption
and tax measures.
IPEF will not include tariff cuts
that are the bedrock of traditional
free-trade deals, but the talks are
part of a U.S. effort to re-engage
economically with countries in
Asia.
The Los Angeles talks included
ministers from Australia, Brunei,
Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan,
South Korea, Malaysia, New
Zealand, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam. Together with the
United States, the participants
represent some 40 percent of
global GDP.
Tai said President Biden
launched the framework in May
to put workers at the center of the
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Service members test the SABER exoskeleton suit, which weighs
just three pounds, at Fort Knox, Ky., in May.
and heavy and complex and cost-
ly. … This exosuit is about as far
away from Iron Man as you can
chip factory near its headquarters
in Boise, Idaho. Chip maker Wolf-
speed on Friday announced plans
to build a new manufacturing fa-
cility in Chatham County, North
Carolina.
Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s
largest chip maker, has said it will
seek subsidies for a $12 billion
factory that it has begun building
in Phoenix and is aiming to finish
late next year.
And a partnership between Sky-
Water Technology and Purdue Uni-
versity will apply for a federal subsi-
dy to build a new $1.8 billion facto-
ry and research facility next to the
university in West Lafayette, Ind.
The United States today de-
pends heavily on Asia and partic-
ularly Taiwan for its chips manu-
facturing, a reliance that has wor-
ried U.S. officials as the self-gov-
erning island’s tensions with
China rise.
Concerns about that depend-
ence have soared over the past two
years amid global shortages of
DI GEST
economic agenda and work for
more equitable, sustainable
growth.
— Reuters
ECONOMY
Household net worth
falls amid stock drop
U.S. household net worth
declined in the second quarter by
the most on record as aggressive
action by the Federal Reserve to
tame rapid inflation sent stocks
plunging.
Household net worth
decreased by $6.1 trillion in the
April-June period, or 4.1 percent,
after falling about $147 billion in
the first quarter, a Fed report
showed Friday. The back-to-back
quarterly declines pushed the
total down to $143.8 trillion, the
lowest in a year.
The value of equity holdings
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get.”
Back pain is widespread in the
Army and has a significant im-
chips that hobbled all kinds of
manufacturers, including auto-
makers, which were forced to halt
their production for weeks at a
time.
Asian governments have long
subsidized chip manufacturing,
helping them corner the lion’s
share of production in recent dec-
ades, to the detriment of the Unit-
ed States and other Western na-
tions that took a more laissez-faire
approach. Chip factories are
among the most expensive manu-
facturing facilities to build, cost-
ing $10 billion or more, making
many investors reluctant to build
them without government assis-
tance.
About 37 percent of the world’s
semiconductors were manufac-
tured in the United States in 1990
versus about 12 percent in 2020,
according to the Semiconductor
Industry Association.
Willy Shih, a Harvard Business
School professor who specializes
in technology and manufactur-
slumped $7.7 trillion, while the
value of real estate held by
households rose by $1.4 trillion.
Recession fears multiplied in
the April-June period as inflation
worsened, gasoline prices surged
to record-highs and the Fed
deployed back-to-back
historically large rate hikes. That
sent the S&P 500 Index tumbling
more than 16 percent in the
second quarter.
While the housing market — a
key source of wealth for
Americans — has rapidly
deteriorated, home values
continue to rise. That said, a
closely watched national home-
price measure grew in June at the
softest pace in over a year as
higher borrowing costs stifled
demand.
The Fed’s report also showed
household checkable deposits, or
the money Americans have in
checking, savings and money
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pact on operations. Lower-back
injuries result in more than 1
million lost, or limited, service
days for soldiers each year, ac-
cording to the U.S. Army Public
Health Center. Roughly 460 sol-
diers are diagnosed with back
overuse injuries every day, U.S.
Army data shows.
To solve that, the military
turned to its Pathfinder project —
which aims to innovate Army
operations by having soldiers col-
laborate with universities — and
invested $1.2 million in creating
the SABER prototype suit.
To date, roughly 100 soldiers
have tested the suit at three
different Army bases. In May, 11
soldiers with the Army’s 101st
Airborne Division used the SA-
BER exoskeleton suit while on a
training mission at Fort Knox,
Ky., which required them to lift
heavy boxes of ammo and move a
howitzer gun multiple times a
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ing, praised the subsidy program
for spurring vital investment, but
said that to compete with Asian
chipmakers, domestic manufac-
turers and the U.S. government
must be ready to “play a very long
game” that could require even
more federal spending down the
road.
“The U.S., and the president,
should not be deluded into think-
ing that the $52 billion from the
CHIPS and Science Act is any-
thing more than a down pay-
ment,” Shih said.
Congressional enthusiasm for
additional subsidies is far from
assured. Some Republicans re-
main skeptical of using taxpayer
funds to incentivize industry.
Some progressives are also wary,
including Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.), who ultimately voted for
the Chips Act but called it corpo-
rate welfare for a highly profitable
industry.
Intel’s two new factories, sched-
uled for completion in 2025, will
market accounts, soared to a
fresh record of nearly $4.9
trillion.
Checkable deposits have
swelled as a variety of pandemic-
era support — like stimulus
payments — as well as restrictions
on activity led many Americans to
save more. More recently, the tight
labor market has also driven solid
wage growth for people across
industries and incomes.
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ALSO IN BUSINESS
Tesla is planning a potential
lithium refinery on the Gulf Coast
of Texas, a move that would
bolster the company’s battery-
production efforts and further
expand its footprint in the state.
The electric-car maker has told
officials that it’s considering
constructing a “battery-grade
lithium hydroxide refining
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day, Zelik said.
“Lifting 60-pound rounds you
get worn out,” Dale Paulson, a
private first class with the 101st
Airborne Division who tested the
suit, said in a statement. “Wear-
ing the suit really helped a lot,
especially with getting the
rounds out of the back of the
truck.”
Now, the design of the suit
moves from Vanderbilt Univer-
sity and the Pathfinder project to
a spinoff corporation called He-
roWear that will manufacture the
device, Zelik said.
The challenge ahead, Zelik
added, is getting the product
approved through the Army’s
“very complicated” acquisition
process. If that happens, the ef-
fects could be significant.
“You have a lot of people who
are getting hurt,” he said. “We
have the opportunity to help pre-
vent some of those injuries.”
create 3,000 Intel jobs and about
7,000 construction jobs, the com-
pany said, adding that those num-
bers will grow substantially if In-
tel opts to continue building out
the site, which can accommodate
eight chip factories in all.
Dozens of suppliers creating
thousands of additional jobs are
expected to cluster around the
factories, creating spillover eco-
nomic benefits.
With striking similarity, speak-
er after speaker at the event ex-
pressed hope that the investment
will allow Ohio’s young people to
remain in state instead leaving for
the coasts to pursue their careers.
“We’re going to keep more of
our kids and grandkids right here
in our state because of opportuni-
ties like this,” J.P. Nauseef, chief
executive of the economic devel-
opment group JobsOhio told the
crowd.
Local residents attending the
ceremony said they are cautiously
optimistic about the project and
the jobs it will bring. But some
worried that property values will
spike beyond the reach of current
residents. And Todd Huston, a
local IT professional with a degree
in biology, said he has concerns
about the environmental impact.
“My daughter lives a half mile
away from the plant — they’re
building a home — and my grand-
daughter is one year old. So I had
concerns about their health,” Hus-
ton told The Post on the sidelines
of the ceremony. “So I started
looking into the chip manufactur-
ing process, the facilities, and was
concerned because of the amount
of chemicals, the acids, the sol-
vents that are used in the process.”
He also worried about the air
emissions from the factories.
Huston said an Intel official
contacted him after seeing his so-
cial media posts on the topic, and
has been answering his questions
about the environmental impact.
“I have not seen or experienced
any kind of redirection or stone-
walling in regards to questions I
present to them, so that’s encour-
aging,” he said, adding that he has
been partly reassured to learn
about the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency regulations that the
project must follow.
Intel has said its manufactur-
ing plants will meet the highest
environmental standards.
facility,” in Nueces County,
according to a newly public
application for tax breaks filed
with the Texas Comptroller’s
Office. If built, Tesla told the state
that the facility would process the
raw ore material into a state
suitable for battery production.
The number of Bank of America
customers making child-care
payments neared pre-pandemic
levels last month, an encouraging
sign for the labor market as
parents get back to work. Those
making such payments now total
about 94 percent of the level seen
in January 2020, a noticeable
jump from the prior month, the
Bank of America Institute said in
a report Friday. The dollar value
of child-care spending per
customer was up about 7 percent
from a year ago when adjusting
for inflation.
— From news services
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Coinbase funds lawsuit against Treasury crypto sanctions

Hackers used targeted
program to launder
stolen digital tokens
BY T ORY N EWMYER
Coinbase, the largest
U.S.-based cryptocurrency ex-
change, is bankrolling a lawsuit
against the Treasury Department
challenging its decision to sanc-
tion a program that allowed
North Korean hackers and other
illicit actors to launder billions of
dollars’ worth of digital tokens.
It is a potentially risky move
that thrusts Coinbase — a publicly
traded company that has seen its
stock drop by 73 percent this year
amid a broader downturn in the
crypto market — into a fraught
national security debate. The
U.S. government has said stolen
crypto is a primary source of
money for North Korea’s nuclear
program.
Crypto interests, however,
were outraged by Treasury’s tar-
geting of the “crypto mixer” Tor-
nado Cash, which helps disguise
the origin of cryptocurrency.
They criticized the decision last
month as an unprecedented as-
sault on computer code and a
potential violation of the Consti-
tution’s free speech protections.
At least one group, the crypto
think tank Coin Center, threat-
ened legal action.
own workforce in the wake of the
sanctions to find out whether
Treasury’s move affected them
and people they know.
“We came to understand that
we had employees inside of Coin-
base who were relying upon Tor-
nado Cash to do things like do-
nate money to relief efforts in
Ukraine and to protect their
transactions and salary informa-
tion from prying eyes,” he said.
“Ordinary people doing ordinary
things suddenly swept up in des-
ignations that had no basis in
law.”
The Tornado Cash program
works by pooling digital assets
from different sources before us-
ers withdraw them, a function
intended to break the traceability
of the digital tokens on the public
ledger known as the blockchain.
Tornado Cash has processed more
than $7 billion worth of crypto
since its 2019 launch, according
to Treasury.
MICHAEL NAGLE/BLOOMBERG NEWS Tornado Cash defenders say
U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase took legal action after the Treasury Department decided most of that sum was legitimately
to sanction “crypto mixer” Tornado Cash, which helps disguise the origin of digital tokens. acquired crypto. But in June and
July, 41 percent of funds that went
But Coinbase is the first to that the company has a “unique overstepped its legal authority by through the program were linked
follow through, sponsoring a responsibility to support that sanctioning software, rather than to hacks and other thefts, accord-
court challenge that six plaintiffs cause, given our role in the crypto a person or an entity. And it ing to blockchain analytics firm
filed Thursday in federal court in ecosystem.” He pointed to Coin- claims the department infringed TRM Labs.
Waco, Tex. All of them are individ- base’s status as “the first signifi- on the plaintiffs’ First Amend- Tornado Cash had become a
uals who say they formerly used cant public crypto company any- ment rights by barring them from preferred tool of the Lazarus
Tornado Cash for legitimate pur- where in the world,” and its in- using a tool that enabled them to Group, a hacking gang that car-
poses and have been financially house resources, including “some exercise their free speech. ries out digital heists to help fund
damaged by the sanctions; two of of the most specialized expertise The Treasury Department de- the North Korean regime and its
them are Coinbase employees. on these sanctions questions any- clined to comment. weapons program, according to
Coinbase’s chief legal officer, where on the planet.” Grewal said Coinbase identi- investigators. The group used it to
Paul Grewal, said in an interview The suit argues that Treasury fied the plaintiffs by surveying its process more than $455 million
they stole earlier this year in the
largest-ever virtual theft.
Grewal argued Treasury has
other means at its disposal to
target bad actors using the pro-
gram to cover their digital tracks.
“We have a ton of respect for the
Treasury’s role here and their re-
sponsibility, but they, too, must
act according to law,” he said.
Sanctions experts defend the
department’s move by pointing to
the traditionally expansive inter-
pretation of its sanctions authori-
ty upheld by courts — and the
national security imperative in
this case to stop North Korean
hackers.
“There is a certain cavalier atti-
tude in the crypto community
that the state has no right to
infringe on their activities,” said
Gerard DiPippo, a former senior
economic analyst with the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency who is
now a senior fellow at the Center
for Strategic and International
Studies, a Washington-based
think tank. “If the U.S. identifies a
discrete service doing something
illegal, does it have a right to shut
it down? I think, yes, it does.”
But DiPippo and others agreed
the case raises novel legal ques-
tions.
“Both sides are raising valid
concerns not yet settled in law
and policy because of the newness
of how these technologies are
being used and the newness of the
policy response,” said Emily Kil-
crease, a senior fellow at the Cen-
ter for a New American Security.

Columbia acknowledges providing incorrect data for U.S. News rankings

BY N ICK A NDERSON
AND S USAN S VRLUGA
Columbia University disclosed
Friday that it had reported faulty
data on class size and faculty cre-
dentials to a publication that pro-
duces widely known college rank-
ings — errors that it attributed to a
reliance on “outdated and/or in-
correct methodologies.”
With the acknowledgment of
the embarrassing missteps, the
Ivy League university in New York
expressed contrition over prob-
lems that appeared to have been
first identified by a whistleblow-
ing math professor skeptical of
how Columbia had come to be
ranked second in the nation by
U.S. News & World Report.
Ultimately, the university lost
that ranking as it sought to answer
questions the professor raised
about data on class size, faculty
and other matters that Columbia
sent to U.S. News. Friday’s state-
University expresses
regret for ‘deficiencies’
in its reporting
ment capped an internal review of
the matter.
“We deeply regret the deficien-
cies in our prior reporting and are
committed to doing better,” Co-
lumbia’s provost, Mary Boyce, said
in the statement.
The statement provided some
detail about the errors but did not
clarify exactly what went wrong.
Columbia said it had overreported
the number of undergraduate
classes with fewer than 20 stu-
dents and the share of full-time
faculty with terminal degrees such
as a PhD. But the university did not
specify how much it overreported.
U.S. News published last year a
chart showing 83 percent of Co-
lumbia’s classes in fall 2020 had
fewer than 20 students. It was the
highest such share reported that
year among the top 50 univer-
sities. That is the kind of statistic
likely to lure college-bound stu-
dents and parents. It also was
probably far off the mark.
Columbia confirmed Friday
that the share of undergraduate
classes in fall 2021 with under 20
students was 57 percent. The uni-
versity also confirmed that the
share of full-time faculty with ter-
minal degrees was 95.4 percent.
The faculty whistleblower, Mi-
chael Thaddeus, has written that
Columbia previously claimed the
share with terminal degrees was
100 percent.
Also Friday, Columbia posted
online for the first time statistical
profiles related to its undergradu-
ate programs in the format known
as the Common Data Set. Until
now, it had been the only Ivy
League school that declined to take
that step toward transparency.
Thaddeus said he was flabber-
gasted to see the data and was
reviewing the information. He
questioned other figures Colum-
bia has provided over the years
about class sizes.
“It’s hard to believe that this
was an inadvertent error or a mi-
nor matter of methodology,” Thad-
deus said. “More likely, someone
in the University knew that there
was serious misrepresentation
afoot. If so, who was it?”
In July, after acknowledging
questions about its data reporting,
Columbia was removed from the
No. 2 spot on the U.S. News nation-
al university list and placed in the
peculiar position of being un-
ranked. Earlier, the university said
it would not submit data for the
2023 edition of the rankings,
which will be announced Monday.
Columbia had been a fixture in
the U.S. News top 10. The last time
it fell outside that exclusive club
occurred in fall 2003, according to
U.S. News chief data strategist
Robert Morse, when it was listed
11th among national universities
for the 2004 rankings.
It rose in recent years, from
No. 4 in fall 2010 to No. 3 in fall
2018 and No. 2 last fall, tied with
Harvard University and the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, in the 2022 published edition
of the U.S. News rankings.
Columbia’s ascent on the pres-
tige list drew skepticism from
Thaddeus, a professor of math-
ematics, who published in Febru-
ary, with an update in March, a
blistering critique of the univer-
sity’s data reporting and the rank-
ings themselves.
Thaddeus, curious about the
numbers behind Columbia’s posi-
tion, dove into the U.S. News rank-
ing methodology and what he
could glean from publicly available
sources on the university’s faculty,
enrollment, class sizes and financ-
es. He found what he believed were
troubling discrepancies between
what the university was claiming
on certain key measures and what
might actually be the case. For
instance, he calculated that the
share of undergraduate classes
with under 20 students was prob-
ably between 62.7 percent and 66.9
percent — not the 82.5 percent that
the university appeared to claim.
The critique touched off the in-
ternal scrutiny at Columbia.
Columbia is far from the only
prominent college or university to
make an embarrassing revelation
of faulty data sent to U.S. News and
others. Claremont McKenna Col-
lege acknowledged in 2012 that it
had misreported various admis-
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A17

Free For All

A mistaken promotion
The caption on the photograph that accompanied
Getting under
the Aug. 27 Federal Insider column, “Vitriol from
GOP leaders puts democracy in peril,” included an
improper description. The caption stated, “Demon-
the skin
strators protest outside FBI headquarters in Boston I read with interest the Aug. 28 news
after agents searched former president Donald article “How the U.S. is stretching supply of
Trump’s estate.” In fact, the FBI headquarters is at monkeypox vaccine.” However, as a derma-
935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in D.C., according to the tologist, I did notice several errors in the
official FBI website. article. First, the diagram intended to show
According to the site, there is a Massachusetts intradermal injection actually (incorrect-
field office at 201 Maple St., Chelsea, Mass., which is a ly) showed intraepidermal injection. The
far cry from a “headquarters.” needle should have been shown to extend
Each federal government agency, department, down to the thicker underlying layer
commission, etc., has only one headquarters, and labeled dermis. Second, the intradermal
most are in or near D.C. Field offices, regional offices, injection technique is quite simple to
etc., are elsewhere across the country. Labeling learn. And third, the “bleb” formed by the
Boston as the FBI “headquarters” is both incorrect intradermal injection is not, in fact, a
and confusing. blister (pocket of fluid), but local swelling
William B. Menczer, Washington from fluid spread around the skin’s colla-
gen fibers. Anyone who has had an intrad-
ermal tuberculosis test on the forearm is
A respectful descriptor familiar with the “bleb.”
Jeffrey Schuldenfrei, Gaithersburg
The Aug. 27 Free for All letter “A dreadful error”
expressed indignation at use of the term “in grave
condition” (referring to Anne Heche’s medical SUSAN BIDDLE/THE WASHINGTON POST

status at the time), citing Mercutio’s dark joke in

“Romeo and Juliet”: “Ask for me tomorrow, and you
shall find me a grave man.” The objection is based
on an assumption that the term “grave condition” is
therefore “thoughtless” and a “dreadful, uncon-
scious gag.”
However, the word “grave” is a variation of the
word “gravity.” “Gravity” refers not only to the
physical law that forces us to the lowest level of the
ground, but is also defined as “of extreme or
alarming seriousness.” “Grave,” as an adjective,
means “life-threatening” and of “extremely serious
consequence.” Thus the term “in grave condition” is
a poignant and respectful descriptor of one who is
mortally ill or wounded.
Dalal Musa, Falls Church
Cadet Megan Smith during graduation practice at Virginia Military Institute on May 17, 2001.
More to the story
The headline on the Aug. 21 Metro article “VMI’s male
cadets were berating her. The 1997 Hell Week photo
went viral.” and the photograph that accompanied the
article telegraphed the image of a young, innocent
woman being viciously harassed by a band of hateful
misogynists bent on ruining the careers of the entering
freshman female class. That’s not what was happening.
As Megan Portavoce, the woman in the photograph,
said, “Hell Week” at Virginia Military Institute is part of
a long regime intended to cull only really tough and
dynamic individuals, including George C. Marshall,
George S. Patton and Lewis “Chesty” Puller. She said, “I
think the photo is often taken out of context. It’s used as
proof of harassment towards women. But it was
equal-opportunity harassment that day.”
I firmly hail the women who have entered VMI and
know they will achieve the success of past graduates.
Edward R. Russell, Ijamsville
Wait, when did the
21st century begin?
I’m deeply dismayed that the perennial
paragon of pedantry, George F. Will, failed
at either simple arithmetic or calendar
history. In his Aug. 28 op-ed, “In Colorado,
an appealing Republican steps forward,”
he wrote, “Colorado has voted Republican
in presidential politics only twice in this
century’s six elections.” As the 21st century
began on Jan. 1, 2001, even I need only one
hand to count all the elections so far.
Kevin Dopart, Washington

We also tripped over these breaks

There appears to be a glitch in The Post’s editing.
The Aug. 31 news section contained yet more
absurdly hyphenated words. In “GOP candidates
scrub polarizing topics online,” we read “updated
pos-t-primary.” And in “Garland bars Justice De-
partment’s political appointees from partisan activi-
ty,” we read “by the-n-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.”
These strangely placed breaks cause stumbling
during reading. Whether real people or AI are
behind the proliferating hyphens, I believe some
retraining or reprogramming based on an English
dictionary is warranted. Or birth control for
hyphens?
Marie Hoffman, Washington
Crossword
puzzles for
whom exactly?
It might be time for The Post to reconsid-
er the objectives and the target audience of
the Sunday crossword puzzle in The Wash-
ington Post Magazine. There is no doubt
that Evan Birnholz is a brilliant profession-
al cruciverbalist, who deserves a more
focused and sophisticated audience with
respect to crossword puzzles. For me at
least, however, his puzzles have become
incomprehensible and unmanageable. We
had more than one letter squeezed into a
square; we had words that went over the
boundaries of the puzzle; we had words
dogleg into words below, above, right or left.
On Aug. 28, we had letters in black squares. MEGAN ROSSMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST

Why bother? FedEx Field on Aug. 28, 2009.

ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
Paige Casey, a nurse practitioner, on Aug. 30 in
Prince William County, Va.
The missing distinction
The Sept. 2 Metro article “Fired nurse in N.Va. files
suit” referred to a “fired nurse” and “former nurse
practitioner.” Nurses and nurse practitioners are
related but distinctly different professions; the titles
are not interchangeable. The fact that CVS fired
Paige Casey makes her a former employee, not a
The topics with which one had to be
knowledgeable included, and this is not an
exhaustive list: TV, movies, music (classical,
pop, jazz, etc.), science, math, sports, geog-
raphy, history, religion, medicine, French,
German, Spanish and, finally, English.
And on Aug. 28, one had to go back to The
Post’s website to be able to continue with
the puzzle. That everyone does not have
internet access was not considered.
The questions that arise for The Post are:
What is the objective of the Sunday
crossword puzzle? One would expect that in
a glossy magazine one looks for fun and not
the frustration of a “mission impossible,” as
it was put by Birnholz.
And who is the target audience? As is, it
would appear that the target is not the
average Post reader but a “meta” puzzle
Local icon Ken Mease deserved better
In my retirement years, I have developed
the habit of looking at the paid death
notices in The Post. There are many
biographies of wonderful folks whose
deaths would not be otherwise noted by
the paper. I was shocked, however, to see
such a notice for Washington sportscaster
Kenneth Webster “Ken” Mease. I checked
other portions of my hometown paper and
found no other news notice.
Mease was one of several great sports-
casters in the D.C. area in the 1980s and
1990s, a special era in Washington sports
history for a young guy. The Washington
ard was a boxing champion, the Washing-
ton Bullets had the “Beef Brothers” and the
NHL had recently come to town.
Mease was a low-key guy, especially as
he worked with the legendary Glenn
Brenner. But as Post reporter Leonard
Shapiro noted in November 2000: “For
years, Ken Mease, a solid, veteran sports-
caster with great knowledge of the local
sports scene, has offered a comprehensive
weekend report.”
Mease was very much part of the fabric
of the Washington community. He de-
served more recognition from The Post. COURTESY OF THE MEASE FAMILY

former nurse practitioner. solver with wide skills and knowledge. Redskins could never be counted out as Jim Cassedy, Ken Mease
Nick Reynolds, Arlington Kutlu Somel, Rockville Super Bowl contenders, Sugar Ray Leon- Hyattsville

One disappointing realization

Huzzah! Andrew Wyeth lives! Maybe?
The ever-engaging Sebastian Smee’s Aug. 28
Great Works, In Focus column, “The simple yet
startling vision of Andrew Wyeth,” [Arts] was head-
ed with Wyeth’s birth year. It seemed odd to me that
the great artist’s name and birth year — but not
death year — were used as the lead-in to the article. I
usually take this to mean that the subject of the
article lives on. That appears to fit The Post’s styling.
Quick research revealed that Wyeth is more than
several years deceased. This inattention is an injus-
tice to an accomplished columnist’s work.
Peter G. Wyatt, Silver Spring
Not just for emphasis!
In the fourth paragraph of her Aug. 26 op-ed,
“The $1.6 billion man,” Ruth Marcus commented on
the “10-figure” check but then added “(10!)” for
emphasis.
However, in mathematics, 10! has its own
well-established meaning. It is called “10 factorial”
and stands for 10 × 9 × 8 × 7 × 6 × … × 1, or
3,628,800, a seven-digit number, hardly in the same
ballpark as the enormous donation.
Joan Reinthaler, Washington
Recognizing a monument of ugliness
I really enjoyed Philip Kennicott’s Aug. 28 Arts &
Style column, “In Philadelphia, a monument to end
all monuments,” about “Monument in Waiting” at
Drexel University. I learned a lot about “anti-monu-
mentality,” and it was interesting to consider the
question “What is a real hero?”
Kennicott’s piece was missing only one thing:
some slight recognition that “Monument in Wait-
ing” is so hideously ugly that it hurts your eyes. It
ruins an otherwise perfect area of green grass. It’s
going to do nothing but collect bird droppings.
Better to have left the area open and to have erected
a plaque with an essay explaining that “no one is a
hero, if we look close enough.” I would like to read
that piece.
Michael I. Goldman, Hudson, N.H.
Jared Kushner in Rabat, Morocco, on Dec. 22, 2020.
A failed balancing act
Is it now The Post’s policy to have authors’ worst enemies
review their books? That might explain the choice of
Elizabeth Spiers to review Jared Kushner’s book, “Breaking
History.” [“Jared Kushner’s memoir is short on insight, long
on ego,” Aug. 28, Book World]
Spiers began her review by outlining why she really can’t
stand Kushner. As she described it, he bought the New York
Observer in 2006, when — get ready for this — he was “25
. . . [and] ostensibly a Democrat” and then “starved the
Observer of funding and ran it largely as a vanity project”
for the next 11 years. Spiers was editor in chief of the
Observer in 2011 and 2012. Spiers then used her “book
review” to malign Kushner in nearly every paragraph,
calling him “a hypothetical worst superhero” (a gratuitous,
unprofessional insult unrelated to the book, whatever it
even means), an “Olympic-level social climber,” a guy with a
“demagnetized” moral compass, and someone who is not
likely to be “honest,” to name just a few of her many barbs.
Make The Post
boomer-friendly
I’m wondering why The Post must
continually vex its most reliable read-
ers — those born before and during
the Kennedy administration. Three
recent cases in point:
· The Aug. 21 Date Lab, “He was a
‘pleasant surprise,’” informed us that
28-year-old Logan is “a UX designer.”
What in Sam Hill is that?! Either
explain it or find Logan an occupation
your loyal readership has heard of.
· Ann Hornaday’s film reviews
typically are littered with big words
that readers are forced to look up. I
would cite some specific examples,
but right now I’m eyeing a kid who I
can see is just itching to tread on my
SHEREEN TALAAT/REUTERS newly mowed lawn.
· In a former life, I was a newspaper
reporter myself. The Aug. 27 Style
section featured an article about a kid
who’s famous for having a mullet,
“Locks of attention for 8-year-old
‘Mullet Boy.’” Thank God I left print
This character hit job masquerading as a book review did a journalism before such “achieve-
disservice to Kushner, whose book (which might be good or ments” were deemed newsworthy.
bad, but we cannot judge from Spiers’s one-sided polemic) Stop glamorizing people who are big
deserved a serious, balanced review. Readers were subject- on social media. Who keeps up with
ed to a breathtaking and disgraceful level of get-even all that nonsense? Not me. Not most
pettiness from Spiers. of my contemporaries to whom I
Pat Kaufman, Fort Washington write grammatically correct texts and
emails.
After perusing the Aug. 28 Book World review of Jared Which brings up another point: It’s
Kushner’s “Breaking History” by Elizabeth Spiers, “Jared not like I’m a Luddite. My 90-year-old
Kushner’s memoir is short on insight, long on ego,” I was mother doesn’t even own a computer
struck by the inclusion of a particular word in the or a smartphone. I have both! Why, I
one-sentence author’s biographical note at the end of the am a veritable George Jetson com-
article. Why was it necessary to designate Spiers as a pared with her.
“liberal” digital strategist and writer? I reviewed every Hey, come to think of it, maybe hire
other writer’s biographical note in the Outlook section and more reporters who are old enough to
did not see any other political designations made. Not once. know who George Jetson is.
Regina Cornelius, Severna Park Eric Ries, Bethesda
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ABCDE
Delivering sanctuary
Ms. Bowser didn’t directly ask for this problem. Nonetheless, it’s hers to solve.
D
ISTRICT MAYOR Muriel
E. Bowser (D) has repeatedly
declared Washington a “sanctu-
ary city,” driving home the point,
in 2018, by denouncing the Trump
administration’s policies, celebrating the
city’s “diversity and inclusivity,” and
proclaiming “we are not a country of fear
and cruelty.” Those were inspiring
words, but only in recent months has the
mayor been challenged to back them up
with policies and resources. Finally, on
Thursday — better late than never — she
unlocked millions of dollars in city funds
through an emergency declaration in the
face of a mounting influx of Latin
American migrants arriving by bus from
states along the southwest border.
Ms. Bowser’s move was forced by that
slow-moving crisis, generated by
Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug
Ducey of Arizona. The governors, Repub-
licans eager to goad President Biden for
immigration policies they regard as a
useful electoral cudgel, last spring seized
on the stunt of busing migrants to
Washington and, later, New York City
and, most recently, Chicago — a trickle
that has now become an inundation.
“Disgusting,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
(D) said Thursday of the governors’
‘Seditious’ children’s books
Hong Kong authorities attack a book series featuring a flock of sheep.
W
HAT IS so frightening and
subversive about a children’s
book series featuring a flock
of sheep? That is a question
for Hong Kong authorities, who on
Wednesday convicted the books’ creators
on charges of sedition.
The outrageous verdict marks another
low point for Hong Kong’s degraded
justice system. The picture books in
question, written for children aged 4 to 7,
depict sheep trying to protect their vil-
lage from a pack of wolves. The series
contained indirect references to social
issues: One book revolved around a
dozen sheep that try to escape, apparent-
ly alluding to 12 young Hong Kongers
captured by China’s coast guard while
fleeing the city on a speedboat. Another
seemed to reference Hong Kong’s hesita-
tion over closing the border with China in
the early days of the pandemic. Even this
implied criticism was too much for pros-
ecutors, who claimed the books “indoc-
trinated” readers and disseminated “sep-
aratist” ideas. The district court judge —
who was handpicked by the city’s chief
executive to serve as a national security
judge — concurred, ruling that all three
books were seditious.
The series’ producers — speech thera-
pists Lorie Lai, Melody Yeung, Sidney Ng,
Samuel Chan and Fong Tsz-ho — lan-
guished in detention for more than a year
as they awaited trial. They now face up to
two years in prison, with sentences ex-
pected on Saturday.
For decades, Hong Kong’s vibrant,
open publishing landscape offered a
sharp contrast to the tightly controlled
industry in the mainland. This was clear-
ly a thorn in Beijing’s side: In 2015,
Chinese authorities reached across bor-
ders to kidnap and detain five independ-
ent booksellers and publishers on bogus
grounds. The suppression accelerated in
Let’s put to bed the old trope of a common left and right
Jason Willick’s Sept. 6 op-ed, “A 1950s
new left manifesto explains the 2020s
new right,” was revisionism about the
alleged common roots of the far right and
far left. That these not-histories virtually
always come from the right shows how
conservative intellectuals, seeing what
their progeny have done with their work,
are anxious to disown them. All the better
if one can cherry-pick historical referenc-
es and drag the left — past and present —
into the mire.
The supposed common roots of left and
right are a trope that should be put to rest.
Censorship — a right-wing instinct — is
not the same as criticism. Shouting some-
one down on campus might be rude, but it
is not about preventing access to ideas,
banning books or imprisoning those who
disagree.
The “establishment” the new left cri-
tiqued in the 1950s was exactly the milit-
ary-industrial complex that none other
than Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us
against, not a paranoid fantasy about a
“deep state.”
Leftist ideology values personal free-
dom alongside the value of the commons;
in this view, law, authority and regulation
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Publisher and Chief Executive Officer
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EDITORIALS
tactics, complaining, “They are trying to
sow chaos around the country, not just
here in Chicago.”
In the cacophony of political hyperbo-
le over migrants, whose apprehensions
at the border have spiked in recent
months, the governors’ gamesmanship
rates as little more than a peep. The
White House has scarcely taken notice of
the hundreds of eastbound buses that
have arrived in the District since April,
and twice the Pentagon brushed off
Ms. Bowser’s request for National Guard
troops to help handle logistics arising
from the arrival of what is rapidly
approaching 10,000 migrants.
Nonetheless, the governors’ caper has
been politically effective to the extent
that it has posed a growing dilemma for
Democratic officials, provoking their
pique. “Mayors do a lot of things, but
we’re not responsible for a broken immi-
gration system,” Ms. Bowser said.
That’s not really right. In fact, state
and local officials nationwide must ac-
commodate a flow of migrants — in
schools, shelters, streets — impelled to
seek refuge in the United States by
terrible conditions in their countries and
the relative security and availability of
jobs in this one. Ms. Bowser’s emergency
Li Kwai-wah, senior superintendent of Police National Security Department,
poses with three children’s books in Hong Kong on July 22, 2021.
2020, when China forced through a dra-
conian national security law that crimi-
nalized dissent and created a parallel
judicial system for vague crimes of “se-
cession,” “subversion,” “terrorism” and
“collusion.”
Now, Hong Kong authorities appear to
be weaponizing British-era sedition stat-
utes to stifle criticism. A court ruling last
December gave police vast investigative
powers over sedition cases and raised the
threshold for bail. In the following
months, arrests and charges under these
laws spiked. Among the figures arrested
were a 75-year-old man with terminal
cancer, who was handed a nine-month
sentence for planning a protest against
the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and a
67-year-old woman who attended a court
hearing for a democracy activist and
TA KI NG EX C EPTI O N
are respected as mechanisms necessary
for protecting freedom and care for the
commons.
Libertarianism has attracted individu-
als from the left and the right. Those to
whom individual freedom is a pure goal
removed from care for the commons and
the democratic guardrails that preserve
freedom and the commons are not arguing
for a fair world but for the law of the jungle.
That was never the project of the new left,
in this country or elsewhere, but was em-
braced often by the right through time.
Jill Raymond, Silver Spring
Jason Willick invoked C. Wright Mills’s
“The Power Elite” to explain today’s right
and the partisan dynamics of elite politi-
cal power today. Though correct in its
bottom line, his analysis was flawed in
important ways.
To compare the precepts of “The Power
Elite” to those informing today’s right is to
ignore Mills’s fundamental project, which
was to oppose capitalist exploitation and
critique U.S. elites’ subversion of demo-
cratic discourse by way of anti-intellectual-
ism and media manipulation. By contrast,
today’s right is stalwartly pro-free-market
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declaration, enabling her to tap $10 mil-
lion in city funds, will help fund an Office
of Migrant Services to oversee meals,
medical care and temporary housing for
the new arrivals.
That’s a smart move. It is also a
recognition that there is no end in sight
to the procession of buses inbound to
Union Station from Texas and Arizona.
Ms. Bowser, having dawdled until now in
hopes the federal government would
solve the problem, has left increasingly
overwhelmed nonprofit groups to deal
with the migrants. Now she needs to
formulate a long-term plan that reflects
the reality of the migrants’ increasing
numbers — whether or not the federal
government reimburses the city, as she
hopes, and as it should do.
It’s true that a large majority of
roughly 9,400 migrants who have disem-
barked so far in Washington have stayed
briefly before heading elsewhere. It’s
also true that the share remaining in the
city has steadily increased, and now
amounts to about 15 percent of the new
arrivals. Several hundred are staying at
two hotels in the city, and about 70 have
enrolled in D.C. public schools.
Ms. Bowser didn’t directly ask for this
problem. Nonetheless, it’s hers to solve.
VINCENT YU/ASSOCIATED PRESS
applauded from the gallery. Authorities
also invoked sedition laws against the
executives of Apple Daily and Stand
News, two fiercely independent media
outlets that have been forced to shutter.
Hong Kong’s transformation from a
bastion of freedom and rule of law to an
authoritarian, closed society has been
disturbing to witness. In just two years,
Beijing and its puppet administration in
Hong Kong have arrested dozens of
pro-democracy politicians, compelled
unions and civil society groups to dis-
band and put in place a compliant legis-
lature with no opposition. If there were
any questions remaining about how far
authorities will go to silence dissent,
Wednesday’s conviction offers an omi-
nous clue: Not even illustrated children’s
books are safe.
and marred by anti-intellectualism, and its
media is prone to disinformation.
Mr. Willick rightly pointed to how the
right’s grievances are rooted in political
exclusion and social isolation brought by
“free trade” agreements and the corporate-
led global economy. What’s missing from
his picture are the scores of leftists and
progressives, also operating from a sense
of political and economic alienation, that
the Democratic Party establishment has
suppressed. These political forces, mani-
fest in the Bernie Sanders campaigns, have
been articulating a politics of inclusion
and equality and a critique of power elites
far more in line with that of Mills.
Though Mr. Willick is wrong to apply
Mills’s work to the right, he is correct in
pointing to the bipartisan nature of politi-
cal elitism today. Whether through Demo-
crats’ brand of technocratic governance
and foreclosure of progressive alterna-
tives or the more ideologically charged
autocratic style of the GOP, political elites’
achievement of a hegemonic free market
and handmaiden state has precipitated
an alarming authoritarian drift, as Mills
forewarned more than six decades ago.
Heather Gautney, Ferrisburgh, Vt.
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LETTERS TO TH E ED ITOR
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Make Maryland clean again sponsors debates worthy of the name
between red and blue partisans.
I read with much interest the Aug. 26 The current polarization of U.S. politics
Metro article “It’s a question of access” is a major menace to our freedoms. Both
and the Sept. 5 letter “Keep Maryland extremes inspire hatred in their efforts to
wild.” Unfortunately, much of Maryland drum up support. There’s little attraction
from Baltimore to D.C. is a garbage and for those repelled by extremism.
trash dump. Howard County, where I live, In this regard, I’m hopeful about the
is one example. Routes 95, 29, 32 and 1 and new Forward Party. Its agenda seems pro-
local roads and cloverleafs are filled with gressive in the best sense of the word and
trash, including rubber from tires, mat- should appeal to Christians and liberals
tresses, car parts, bags of trash and debris. equally.
After several attempts to organize clean- John M. Rathbun, Asheville, N.C.
ups with county government, the Cham-
ber of Commerce, Visit Howard County Michael Gerson’s in-depth Sept. 4 Opin-
and the state highway department, Co- ions Essay on why evangelicals support
lumbia Association and regional politi- former president Donald Trump helped to
cians, no actions have been taken. Each clarify this puzzling behavior. Recently, a
entity says “it’s not my job.” The result is friend and I had been discussing this very
an environmental disaster. topic at lunch. After reading, I immediately
These polluting piles enter our water- forwarded this “history lesson” to her and
ways and eventually the bay. My part of clipped the pages to save in my library.
the state is disgusting, yet little or nothing Bonnie Boyle Côté, Washington
is done to stop these polluting and unsafe
conditions. Keeping Maryland beautiful I read Michael Gerson’s Sept. 4 Opin-
does not seem to be a priority. ions Essay and was awed by how brilliant-
John Mayotte, Clarksville ly he characterized Christ and his teach-
ings and their relationship to the Chris-
tian political movement today. His schol-
Luggage on the Metro? Yes! arship and insights were impressive —
and that’s an understatement. If only his
Dulles Airport director Richard message could be internalized by Chris-
Golinowski said “People don’t want to tian leaders and their flocks, our society
carry luggage on the Metro,” a sentiment and politics would be in a much healthier
subsequently invoked in the Sept. 4 letter state. Kudos on a brilliant piece of writing!
“Another update for Dulles.” I disagree. Joel Sherman, Chevy Chase
I carry luggage on Metro to Reagan
National Airport, as do many others. Michael Gerson’s magnum Sept. 4
When I travel to San Francisco, I see Opinions Essay, “Trump should fill Chris-
people with luggage on BART. At New- tians with rage. How come he doesn’t?”
ark, I see people with luggage on New was the most eloquent and powerful state-
Jersey Transit. Either Mr. Golinowski ment I can remember seeing in The Post.
doesn’t know his constituency, or this is a It was not one-sided. He articulated issues
very sad commentary on our community. with miraculous sophistication, drawing
I’m 70 years old, and I look forward to on exceptional verbal skills and extraordi-
carrying my luggage on the Silver Line. nary erudition: e.g., “Some religious lead-
James Grossman, Washington ers have fueled the urgency of this agenda
with apocalyptic rhetoric, in which the
Christian church is under Neronian per-
Ranked voting is not new secution by elites displaying Caligulan
values.” Then, of the radical right, he
The Sept. 3 news article “Alaska’s wrote, “If this is not moral ruin, then there
ranked-choice voting system comes under are no moral rules.”
fire after Peltola’s victory” reported that The Post should be congratulated for
ranked-choice voting (RCV) has drawn giving this stirring statement promi-
“fierce criticism” (from the losing side). nence.
Hardly a “novel” system, RCV is used in Frank T. Manheim, Fairfax
numerous primary and local elections
across the country and statewide in Alaska
and Maine. RCV guards against the “spoil- The cases are not the same
er effect” in the traditional first-past-the-
post election (FPTP). How? Suppose a In her Sept. 4 op-ed, “The problem that
judgeship is on the ballot in Nemo County. is Lindsey Graham,” Kathleen Parker tren-
Three candidates throw their hats into the chantly criticized Sen. Lindsey O. Graham
ring. Candidates A and B subscribe to a (R-S.C.) for his Fox News comment sug-
restorative justice philosophy, as do the gesting “there will be riots in the streets” if
majority of citizens in the county. But Can- former president Donald Trump is indict-
didate C leans toward punitive justice. In ed. Unfortunately, she concluded by also
fact, citizens prefer the candidates as fol- suggesting that if former secretary of state
low: A 35 percent, B 25 percent and Hillary Clinton wasn’t prosecuted for her
C 40 percent. In the FPTP system, C wins emails, Mr. Trump should not be pros-
the judgeship with their 40 percent, less ecuted “barring evidence that [he] in-
than a majority, even though a restorative tended to misuse the classified docu-
justice philosophy is preferred by 60 per- ments for his own purposes or obstructed
cent of citizens. In an RCV election, B is federal efforts to recover them.”
eliminated on the first tally of ballots and This whataboutism comment reflects
those votes are given to A, giving A the what might be described as willful igno-
judgeship with 60 percent of the vote, more rance. First, there is abundant evidence
accurately reflecting the will of the voters. that Mr. Trump engaged in obstruction
RCV is unbiased regarding voter phi- unless one is willing to believe his lawyers
losophy. If the majority of citizens favor would do so without his knowledge or
philosophy A over B, the A candidate will encouragement. Second, even absent the
prevail, and vice versa. By contrast, FPTP, issue of obstruction, Ms. Clinton had a legal
whether through chance or gaming, is right and need to access her documents,
vulnerable to spoiler candidates. Unlike- some of which were indeed classified, but
ly? Consider the possible effect of the next which reportedly did not jeopardize na-
third-party Ralph Nader, Ross Perot or tional security by disclosing methods or
Jesse Jackson. sources. In contrast, Mr. Trump has offered
H. Ric Blacksten, Falls Church no reason that he needed to retain in an
unsecured location top-secret documents
that could endanger national security.
About the Christian right Ms. Parker might have included these
issues when suggesting that the most
How I wish every Christian would read obvious (but, decidedly, not most conse-
Michael Gerson’s powerful and eloquent quential) difference between the two cas-
Sept. 4 Opinions Essay, “Trump should fill es was “that the media dislikes Trump
Christians with rage. How come he even more than they dislike Clinton.”
doesn’t?” Stephen Silberman, Arlington
As Mr. Gerson wrote, many Christians
are taught to accept Jesus as their person- I liked Kathleen Parker’s opinion in
al savior rather than to follow the teaching “The problem that is Lindsey Graham” in
of Jesus. Why can’t they do both? Jesus which she surmised, “Sometimes a tyrant
taught us to live with kindness and gener- is better neutralized than martyred.” Is
osity — to help the poor, blind and op- there a way former president Donald
pressed. How has his message been Trump can get probation before judg-
warped to elevate those who preach ha- ment, and then President Biden could
tred, brutality and lawlessness? pardon him but Mr. Trump could never
Instead of integrity and love for others, run for president again?
we see selfishness and fear of anyone who Jeff Weigele, Ellicott City
is different. Let us hope that more and
more Americans will see the danger in
professing faith to the politicians who are The chicken and the egg
proclaiming to uphold the message of
Jesus. Abortion rights have been in the news
Joanne Doyle, Salisbury, Md. for months now, including in the Aug. 31
news article “GOP candidates scrub po-
An ordained minister was pleased to larizing topics online.” One thing is sure,
show me Michael Gerson’s essay. We both though: The Supreme Court’s establish-
found the argument interesting. mentarians, by endorsing the fundamen-
Rage is not a Christian virtue. “Love talist Protestant and relatively recent
your enemies” is among Jesus’ most poi- (1869) conservative Catholic view on
gnant maxims. But how do we love those when life begins, have, at least for the
who hate us? Constitution, solved the old conundrum:
I would cite a rule of Stoicism in this Which came first, the chicken or the egg.
regard: Life is too short to waste in rage. Answer: The egg is a chicken. This could
Stoicism doesn’t imply contempt, howev- complicate things for lacto-ovo vegetari-
er. When possible, a Stoic will construc- ans, and some might think that the two
tively engage opponents and help them to items, as salad or sandwiches, have dif-
grow. ferent tastes and textures, but they’re one
One cannot, in a few words, provide a and the same. Other religious dogmas
manual for how to do this. If you seek one, might reach other conclusions; for Jews,
I like Mónica Guzmán’s book “I Never the egg is neither dairy nor meat. But for
Thought of It That Way.” She’s part of an our Constitution, it’s settled. Bon appétit!
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Who would truly
Curfews might help, benefit from
but more is needed loan forgiveness?
O Teachers.
n the heels of last week’s column on the rise of youth
carjackings in D.C. came a Labor Day news confer-
ence by Prince George’s County Executive Angela
D. Alsobrooks (D), who drew a sharp focus on
growing youth-involved crimes in her jurisdiction. BY A YINDÉ R UDOLPH

O
Statistics provided by Alsobrooks and county Police Chief
Malik Aziz tell the story: 438 juveniles arrested so far this pponents of President Biden’s proposal for
year in Prince George’s, a big jump from 207 juvenile arrests student loan forgiveness paint a grim pic-
through the same time last year. In D.C., youth arrests are up ture. They imagine privileged students
about 12 percent, with two-thirds of this year’s 330 carjack- picking pricey, elite universities and as-
ing arrests involving juveniles. suming mountains of debt, only to earn degrees
While youth-committed armed robberies, thefts and with zero job prospects. When we forgive student
bloodshed are shared problems in both jurisdictions, the loans, they argue, society pays the penalty for these
responses of leaders in Prince George’s County and D.C. dif- individuals’ shortsightedness. Financial responsi-
fer noticeably. bility plummets. Universities keep pumping out
“I cannot stand by and continue to watch children who are BY ANN TELNAES low-value degrees.
shot and killed, who are not only committing crimes but But pundits might want to consider debtholders
harming others, and do nothing about it,” Alsobrooks said as who don’t match this narrative: teachers.
she announced a curfew for county children 16 and younger. In the education field, debt is often the price of
Apparently, the curfew’s been on the books since 1995, but entry. Nearly half of all teachers in pre-K-12 and
not enforced in decades. This time around, starting Sept. 9 at higher education take on debt to finance their
11:59 p.m. and continuing for at least 30 days, children are education. They do so not out of thoughtlessness
banned from the streets and public areas from 10 p.m. to but out of necessity.
5 a.m. from Sunday through Thursday. The curfew also I earned my degree in education 23 years ago
applies from midnight to 5 a.m. Friday and Saturday. with funding from a Pell Grant. Pell recipients come
D.C. police followed with the acknowledgment that, weeks overwhelmingly from families that earn $60,000 a
earlier, they had quietly resumed enforcing the city’s juvenile year or less, and in 2015 more than 70 percent of
curfew, which had been suspended during the pandemic. In Black students were recipients. Back then, I select-
fact, police said they had picked up 16 people under age 17 for ed a small liberal arts school that made financial
violating curfew since Aug. 1. sense and that provided me with the degree and
How many D.C. residents knew their city has been working credentials I needed to teach. Yet I still had to
for over a month to keep children and teenagers off the streets borrow $23,000, the maximum allowable amount
during nighttime hours? Had they noticed any difference? for federal undergraduate student loans.
Which may well be beside the point, because the issue soon After college, some educators find it necessary to
became the curfew crackdown itself, not the rise in juvenile take on even more student debt. When I entered the
violence. classroom in 2000, teachers who didn’t have a
Hear the voices: bachelor’s degree in education were required to
“We oppose the county’s decision to put all children under have a master’s in education — or to be pursuing
virtual house arrest,” said Yanet Amanuel, public policy one. Over the years, some states have required
director for the ACLU of Maryland. “Criminalizing the inno- educators to earn a master’s degree within their
cent behavior of children is also fundamentally ineffective.” first five or 10 years of teaching, or have offered
Eduardo Ferrer, a Georgetown University law professor, salary incentives for them to do so. In other
called the curfew “a really blunt instrument that criminaliz- instances, teachers need an advanced degree to
es and impedes on the rights of young people, particularly BY CLAY JONES cover the bills, because teacher-pay tiers are based
Black youth.” He added, “The risks are high, while the on education and years of experience.
benefits are very low.” My first job, with Virginia’s Fairfax County Public
Amid such protests, I can’t help but think about Isreal Schools, offered a starting salary of $24,000. To
Akingbesote, 37, an employee of a gas station in the Clinton, make ends meet, I tacked on extra jobs, coaching in
Md., area. At about 4:40 a.m. on Aug. 10, Akingbesote was the afternoons and working nights and weekends
stabbed multiple times, allegedly by boys whom he had at a local learning center.
confronted about some stolen items. Akingbesote died from Even then, it was a financial struggle to provide
his injuries. Two boys, ages 12 and 15, have been arrested and for my family and pay back my student loans. I had
charged with his murder and are in Prince George’s Coun- to request a forbearance for several months when I
ty’s custody. simply wasn’t generating enough income. Often I
The incident is tragic on its own. But also: Why on earth had no discretionary funds left after paying my
were a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy on the streets at monthly bills and my loan payment.
4 in the morning? If only they had been kept at home. Now, Biden has proposed student loan forgive-
Curfew opponents probably have the facts on their side ness for people like my younger self, extending up
when they argue that the prime time for youth violence is to $20,000 in forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients
right after school lets out in the afternoons, and not and up to $10,000 for other borrowers. For those
late-night stretches when curfews are in place. Whether who go into teaching, it’s a proposal that seems long
curfews have much effect on protecting children from overdue.
violent crime hasn’t been conclusively established. Education degrees don’t lead students to the
However: Regardless of whether it happened at 4 o’clock middle of nowhere. They direct young people into a
in the afternoon or 12 hours later, Isreal Akingbesote lost his field that desperately needs them. Right now,
life, allegedly at the hands of children. schools across the country can’t find enough teach-
That is where the focus belongs. It’s the heart of the ers to meet demand, leaving leaders to scramble for
problem. solutions. Yet every year, superintendents like me
As chairman of the D.C. Council’s Judiciary Committee, say goodbye to teachers who have excelled in the
council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) is the city’s classroom but are exhausted by financial struggles.
foremost lawmaker on public safety issues. He has spoken It’s agonizing but understandable. The average
about the need for investments to address root causes of teacher in public schools makes only about
violence, to “break cycles that create pain and trauma again $63,000. Most teachers could make more money
and again.” babysitting or bartending than they do educating
A not-so-small quibble: “Cycles” don’t create pain and the next generation of Americans. Part of the
trauma. People, young and old, do that. There were no solution is to increase teacher pay. As a country,
“cycles” at that Clinton gas station stabbing, or on H Street however, we must also find other ways to make it
NE, where Washington Commanders rookie running back more comfortable and more feasible for young
Brian Robinson Jr. was shot during an attempted robbery or BY PIA GUERRA people to go into education.
carjacking. This should include reducing debt loads for
Hand-wringing over “root causes” gets us nowhere. early-career teachers. By decreasing average
Neither does a “lock ’em up and throw away the key” monthly payments, as the president’s plan would
approach. And curfews, however necessary they might or do, the program would free up more of educators’
might not be, won’t solve the problem of children leaving monthly income to cover the rapidly rising costs of
home to commit crimes. housing, groceries and other necessities. Biden’s
We must get into the homes and the communities — the plan would also go a long way toward keeping many
environments in which these troubled youths are being teachers motivated to stick with the profession and
raised. Deal with factors found there: neglectful, irresponsi- stay in the classroom.
ble behavior by parents and other adults; the absence of a Bear in mind that our country aggressively
consistently supportive family; shaky household finances subsidizes a host of other industries — farming,
and bleak outlooks; flimsy attention to children’s emotional airlines, electric-car manufacturers. Let’s ask our-
and physical needs; and yes, the often-casual presence of selves: Aren’t teachers as deserving as Tesla? If
guns and drugs. You say changing those conditions is a tall return on investment is driving the conversation,
order? Anything short of those steps means more of the same let’s talk about how it’s teachers who will produce
violence on either side of the D.C.-PG border. the next generation of farmers, pilots and
“If you see a 13- or 14-year-old out at 2 o’clock in the engineers.
morning, something is wrong with that picture,” says D.C. Po- By asking educators to mold our most precious
lice Chief Robert J. Contee III. Amen. resource — our children — we generate our own
Speaking of her predominantly Black and brown county, debt of gratitude. Why not reduce their student
Alsobrooks said, “We are working to protect children of color, loan debt to demonstrate that our society values
including those who have been victims of violent crime at the them? This is the kind of forgiveness that could
hands of other children.” truly pay dividends.
Would that more of us joined that effort. And if it means
keeping our children at home in the middle of the night for The writer is superintendent of the Mountain View
their own good, so be it. BY DREW SHENEMAN FOR THE STAR-LEDGER Whisman School District in Mountain View, Calif.

ALEXANDRA PETRI

How to become Trump’s special master

With apologies to Paulo Coelho and his novel “The “What has brought you here?” a voice asked. He man’s slippers. He steamed all his robes. He watched The boy gasped and his heart leaped within him.
Alchemist.” turned and looked. A man clad in black robes was the man sort through documents and declare that “You! You are the Special Master!”

T
he shepherd boy fell asleep in the half-ruined
democracy. He always slept soundly among
the sheep. A dream came to him. In the dream
he reviewed a lot of classified paperwork and
made significant pronouncements about it. When he
awoke, he went to tell his father of what he had seen.
His father nodded and told him, “You must fulfill your
own personal news cycle. You must seek out the
Special Master.”
The boy sold his sheep and set out on his journey.
He traveled over mountains and hills and through
tunnels and across trestles, until he came to a promi-
nent peak. He could hear very steadily from deep
inside the mountain the sound of reams of papers
being shuffled.
He called out in greeting, but there was no answer.
The door opened and a wizened arm reached out. It
tossed some shredded bits of paper at his feet. Then
the door shut again and he heard footsteps receding.
The boy spent the morning piecing together the bits of
shredded paper.
At midday, as the sun beamed hotly down on the
boy, he paused and wiped his brow.
there, someone who could be an allegory of all kinds of
things.
“I am trying to fulfill my place in the news cycle,” the
boy said. “I dreamed that I would one day review some
important documents.”
“You seek the Special Master,” the man in black said.
“Yes!” the boy cried. “Do you know of him? Can you
tell me where he makes his dwelling?”
“The Special Master dwells within that mountain,”
the man said. “But before you gain admission, you
must prove your worthiness. What are you doing with
those papers there?”
“I am piecing them together,” the boy said. “It is my
dream.”
The man studied him closely. “Can you talk to your
heart?” he asked.
“I — I think so,” the boy said. “I will try.”
“Then you may come work for me and earn your
keep here,” the man said, “while you wait to meet the
Special Master.”
The boy sprang up in gratitude. “Thank you,” he
cried.
In the days that followed, the man in black set the
boy many tasks to complete. The boy fetched the
they were covered by executive privilege.
One day, the man led him to a toilet that was
clogged. “Look into the heart of this toilet,” the man
said. “What do you see?”
“I see water,” the boy said.
“Look deeper.”
“I see toilet paper?”
“Look with your heart,” the man said.
“I . . . see documents,” the boy said. “They do not
belong there.”
The man led him to a wall where there was ketchup
and shattered bits of ceramic. “What do you see?”
“Rage,” the boy said.
“With your heart?” the man said.
“Economic . . . economic anxiety,” the boy said.
A long time passed. The sun rose and set many
times, which is one way of noting the passage of time.
The man led the boy to the top of the peak and set him
a final task: “You must declassify a document using
only your mind, telling no one about it.”
“That is impossible!” the boy said. “Everyone
knows that you can only declassify using procedures.”
“Is it impossible?” the man asked. “Or do you only
think it is impossible, o my Special Apprentice?”
“Special Master is only a title,” the man said. “There
are no requirements. Become acceptable to a district
judge and various legal teams and you, too, can
become one.”
“You wily old sorcerer!” the boy cried. “You knew all
the time that I could have stayed at home and never
left the sheep, and been spared all these puzzles and
indignities!”
“Ah,” the man said, “but then you would never have
learned the language that is within all languages, and
the song that the heart sings, and the dreams that the
angels dream for each of us in our lifetimes, and how
to call to the wind so that the wind may answer.”
“Did I learn all those things?” the boy asked, in
wonder. “Are these the powers of the Special Master?”
“Well, no,” the man said. “Mostly the Special Master
is sort of a judge’s aide, and his job is to kind of
familiarize himself with case details to a degree a
judge can’t.”
“Oh,” the boy said. “That’s a bit of an anticlimax.”
“Only if your heart says it is,” the Special Master
said. And he vanished into the mountain, never to be
seen again, like a dream or a document that had been
improperly stored.
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Pr. George’s
students
test below
grade level
Scores are slightly up
from previous year after
drop during pandemic
N ICOLE A SBURY
BY
Academic data released this
week from Prince George’s County
Public Schools showed most
students in the county are testing
below grade level and not meeting
expectations in math and English/
language arts.
In a presentation to the county’s
school board, administrators re-
viewed test scores from last school
year on the district’s exams —
called benchmark assessments.
The data, showing overall results
along with grade-level scores,
show that although students
made slight improvements from
the 2020-2021 school year, less
than 25 percent were “meeting
expectations” in reading and lan-
guage arts across grade levels for
the first assessment. Math scores
were lower, with fewer than 10
percent of students meeting
expectations on those tests.
Two benchmark assessments
were given in the fall and winter,
and a third optional assessment
for schools was given in the spring.
Students in third through 12th
grades were given the tests.
Results for the third optional
benchmark were not released dur-
ing the board meeting.
Prince George’s scores follow
last week’s release of test scores for
D.C. students. Those results
showed students’ math and read-
ing scores dropped to the lowest
levels in five years. Researchers
estimate it could take until 2027 to
catch students in the District up to
pre-pandemic levels.
The local results mirror nation-
al scores released earlier this
month for elementary school stu-
dents whose math and reading
scores plunged to their lowest lev-
els in decades.
Prince George’s administrators
said the school system results
weren’t a complete picture of how
students were fairing academical-
ly, since the state education
department is reviewing how it
defines reading and math
proficiency.
They said the scores improved
compared with the 2020-21 school
year. Third- to fifth-graders had an
increase of 5.3 percentage points
in reading and language arts, for
example. In math, kindergartners
and fifth-graders showed an eight
percentage-point increase. (The
school system did not share
growth rates from kindergarten to
second grade for reading and lan-
guage arts.)
Outside of the benchmark
scores, administrators separately
shared students’ final academic
grades to provide a glimpse of
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Metro riders weary as waits increase Audit details issues at D.C. 911 center
BY J USTIN G EORGE
AND T EO A RMUS
Since returning to in-person
work, Rafael Rodriguez has relied
on Metro four times a week to take
him from his Maryland home to
his Pentagon City office.
Metro’s train shortage has cre-
ated lengthy waits across the sys-
tem, but Rodriguez said it’s most
noticeable when transferring to
the Yellow Line.
“The Yellow is just giving me all
these headaches, all the time,” he
said while standing on a Pentagon
City station platform. “If I had to
pick, I’d probably move to another
workstation closer along the Red
Line. These transfers are just
toxic.”
For regular Yellow Line users,
the delays will become more
cumbersome beginning Saturday,
when Metro will shut down the
line for eight months to repair the
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High today at RELIGION
approx. 3 p.m.
Two N.Y. clergy members
81° will repay over $800,000
Precip: 5% in kickbacks from the sale
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6-12 mph of Black churches. B2
‘Wildlife success story’
for elk in Virginia
Herds nearly wiped out by over-hunting are now thriving
BY D ANA H EDGPETH
Centuries ago, herds of elk roamed the
United States, but their population was deci-
mated due to over-hunting and destruction of
their habitat.
Now — a decade after wildlife officials
reintroduced them in southwest Virginia —
there’s a herd of more than 250 elk in the
region.
“It’s a wildlife success story for this species,”
said Jackie Rosenberger, elk project leader for
the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resourc-
es. “A lot of folks think elk are just a species
A mature adult male elk, called a bull, top, lets out a “bellowing call” in Buchanan County,
Va., where a group of bulls, above, roam on reclaimed mine land. Wildlife experts in
Virginia worked to clean and restore about 2,600 acres to create a good habitat for the elk.
car his permanent mode of travel,
he didn’t hesitate.
Eight-month Yellow Line “Yeah,” he said. “I do.”
closure is latest hiccup in His response is one that worries
Metro, which has lost hundreds of
rail system’s operation thousands of customers to tele-
work, and Virginia business and
government leaders, who fear the
aging bridge and tunnel between shutdown could encourage peo-
the Pentagon and L’Enfant Plaza ple to stay home or avoid transit,
that serves as a crucial Washing- adding congestion to highways
ton-Northern Virginia link. In ad- with volumes near pre-pandemic
dition, six stations will shutter for levels.
the first six weeks of the shut- “The timing is truly terrible for
down. The delays are the latest people who are making decisions
that commuters will encounter on about what their commute is go-
a transit system missing more ing to look like,” Arlington County
than half of its fleet amid stagnant Board Chair Katie Cristol (D) said.
ridership growth. “We need to make sure that there
Metro will provide free shuttle is a really attractive, seamless
buses and the Blue Line will still transit option for them so that
connect riders on both sides of the people are not about to start a
Potomac River, but such trips will driving commute habit.”
take about 15 minutes longer. Ro- Metro officials say they are do-
driguez, 58, said he plans to drive. ing all they can, creating a shuttle
Asked if he could foresee making a SEE METRO ON B3
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INSPIRED LIFE VIRGINIA
At 13 years old, U.S. Open Gov. Glenn Youngkin and
sensation Frances Tiafoe Democrats are locked in a
beat an opponent who power struggle over
was 11 years his senior. B2 environmental policies. B3
Ex-coach
given 3
years in
prison
2 COUNTS RELATING
TO SEXUAL ABUSE
Former athletes describe
pattern of ‘grooming’
BY L IZZIE J OHNSON
Former Walt Whitman High
rowing coach Kirk Shipley was
sentenced Friday to three years
in prison for sexually abusing
two former students — an out-
come that appeared to stun the
former Montgomery County
teacher and his attorney.
D.C. Superior Court Judge
Maribeth Raffinan imposed 36
PHOTOS BY MIKE ROBERTS months for first-degree sexual
abuse of a secondary education
student and 24 months for pos-
session of a sexual performance
by a minor. She suspended two of
the five years.
Shipley pleaded guilty to the
felonies in June as part of a plea
deal. He will have to register as a
sex offender for the rest of his life.
Shipley and his attorney had
argued he should be given proba-
tion for his crimes. Speaking
publicly for the first time since
his arrest last year, the three-
that’s found in the Western part of the U.S., but time All-Met Coach of the Year
that’s not the case. That’s not their history, and apologized to the victims, calling
through a large restoration effort we’ve man- his actions “very, very wrong.”
aged to bring them back.” Shipley also expressed remorse
Starting from late August to October is the about the impact on hundreds of
best — and most interesting — time to see elk, his former students and athletes
experts said. They start their mating season at the high-achieving school in
around early fall, and male elk, called bulls, let Bethesda, Md., saying that he
out a unique “bellowing call” when trying to hoped that “those memories will
attract a female. be happy again” someday.
“When you hear that bugling, it’s the most Then in a rambling statement
wild sound ever,” Rosenberger said. “It defines that lasted several minutes, Ship-
nature.” ley, 48, veered from contrition to
SEE ELK ON B6 self-pity. He’d lost his two voca-
tions of teaching and coaching.
After Washington Post coverage
of his case, he said, he’d lost jobs
delivering food for Grubhub and
repairing fiberglass boats at a
friend’s company. Without em-
ployment, he’d resorted to buy-
ing and repairing furniture. He
complained that he’d lost his
savings — and his reputation.
“I have been portrayed as a
predator,” Shipley said. “That is
not who I am. . . . I have not held
a job before now that didn’t
involve service to others . . . I am
a good person.”
Raffinan seemed flummoxed
by Shipley’s statement.
“I think the fairest character-
ization is that he has wavered
with regard to his acceptance of
responsibility for these offenses,”
she said. “. . . Certainly his state-
ments . . . do not demonstrate a
full acceptance of his actions
toward these two victims.”
The victims — who were 17 and
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BY P ETER H ERMANN AND “The fact that we have not
M ICHAEL B RICE- S ADDLER made progress from the October
Officials say city made audit is very troubling,” Patter-
D.C. officials have failed to ‘minimal progress’ amid son said in an interview. “We
fully implement most recom- need a stronger commitment on
mendations made last year by the
location, dispatch errors the part of our leaders in the
city auditor to improve the 911 District to make this system
call center to more quickly dis- work.”
patch first responders to emer- sponding to medical emergen- Karima Holmes, who led the
gencies and ensure they reach cies,” Patterson said in a state- 911 center from 2015 to 2021 and
the correct addresses, according ment. “And we are failing to meet returned as acting director in
to a report issued Friday. the needs of District residents. March, said in a letter to Patter-
The report from D.C. Auditor Period.” son that she immediately began
Kathleen Patterson comes as the Patterson’s report found the “forward progress on a roadmap
Office of Unified Communica- city has made only “minimal for improvement” and that her
tions is under scrutiny after fire- progress” on a little more than 75 new executive team has “made
fighters were sent to the wrong percent of her office’s 31 recom- continued strides” in addressing
address for a newborn in cardiac mendations. In a statement, the outstanding issues.
arrest in July, and missteps de- auditor said there has been no Both Holmes and Patterson
layed the arrival of paramedics progress on two suggestions, and appeared Friday afternoon on
trying to reach a 3-month-old the 911 center still struggles with “The Politics Hour” with Kojo
boy who had been left in a car in confusion when answering 911 Nnamdi, where Holmes said she
August. Both of the children calls, glitches in dispatching first agreed with the majority of rec-
died. responders to emergencies and ommendations and defended
“There is no more important “inadequate supervision” that their slow implementation.
government service than re- lets problems fester. SEE AUDIT ON B3
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N.Y. clergy to repay $800,000 in kickbacks from sale of Black churches
BY B OB S MIETANA
A group of New York clergy
took more than $1 million from a
real estate developer who sought
to turn distressed Black churches
into lucrative properties, accord-
ing to settlements with the state’s
attorney general.
The settlements show that a
bishop, two pastors and a pastor’s
wife sought to conceal the kick-
backs from congregations that
owned the buildings, as well as
from state officials. The funds
were taken even as the developer,
Moujan Vahdat, allegedly failed
to live up to promises made to the
churches in the purchase agree-
ments. In one case, Vahdat is
accused of trying to evict a con-
gregation from the building it
once owned.
Two African Methodist Episco-
pal clergy members have agreed
to pay back more than $800,000
to the state of New York, accord-
ing to the settlements, which
were posted on the attorney gen-
eral’s website last month. Vahdat
also has signed a settlement with
the attorney general, offering to
make good on his company’s
promises to the churches or allow
Italy’s Catholic Church transforms trans community
Pope Francis blesses
one priest’s pursuit of a
revolutionary ministry
BY C LAIRE G IANGRAVÉ
vatican city — The Church of
the Immaculate Blessed Virgin
looks out onto the Mediterranean
from Torvaianica, a beach town
20 miles from Rome that’s known
more for its Mafia incursions,
drugs and sex trafficking than its
scenery. On a recent gray morn-
ing, after a celebration for the
Assumption of Mary, a handful of
middle-aged parish volunteers
were at work cleaning up.
The Rev. Andrea Conocchia,
the pastor, showed up in sweat-
pants and a T-shirt reading “God
is great and Jesus loves me,” a gift
for the 25th anniversary of his
celebrating his first Mass. He
apologized for his voice, still worn
out from guiding the Mary
procession on the town’s windy
beach.
Conocchia said he’s a big fan of
liturgies, Masses and processions,
but he prefers ministry that is
immersed in his community. His
cellphone erupts constantly with
WhatsApp messages. His favored
office is the coffee shop overlook-
ing the beach just off Torvaiani-
ca’s main square.
“I’m not just a priest at the altar.
I am a priest right now,” he ex-
plained as he loaded up on espres-
so and chunks of jam tart in the
coffee bar for the team tidying up.
In the past two years, Conoc-
chia has gained fame for serving a
particular community that found
him shortly after he arrived at
Blessed Virgin: a group of trans-
INSPIRED LIFE
At 24, I played U.S. Open sensation Frances Tiafoe. He was 13 — and won.
BY K ELYN S OONG
My opponent on the tennis
court that day was about a foot
shorter than me. His baggy
T-shirt and shorts dangled loose-
ly on his body. I had been playing
tennis for the past few years with
friends and felt my game improv-
ing with each match. But as I
went up 3-1 and then 4-1 in a
game to seven points, the player
across the net laughed and
flashed his gapped-tooth grin.
Then, before the next point be-
gan, something in his demeanor
changed. He stopped softly tap-
ping the ball back over the net
and started ripping winners.
The game was suddenly tied.
And then, what felt like seconds
later, it was over. Frances Tiafoe
had beaten me, 7-4. I was 24. He
was 13.
“That’s hilarious,” Tiafoe said
when I recounted the story to
him in 2018 for an interview with
Washington City Paper. “I don’t
remember that at all. That’s actu-
ally hilarious. That’s good by me.
I cleaned you up.”
Tiafoe said this, of course, with
a smile. He may not remember
wiping the floor with me, but oth-
ers present that day do. To ensure
my recollection was accurate, I
called Bonnie Vona, the tourna-
ment director that week for the
them to back out of their deals.
Retired AME bishop Gregory
G.M. Ingram, who previously
oversaw the church’s First Episco-
pal District, which covers much
of the northeastern United
States, agreed to pay back
$600,000 in “finder’s fees” he got
from the sale of the church
properties.
The bishop also agreed to sell a
Rolex he got as a kickback.
Former First Episcopal District
presiding elder Melvin Wilson,
who worked for Ingram, agreed
to pay back $200,000, with an
additional $101,075 in restitution
suspended.
News of the settlements led the
AME Council of Bishops to con-
demn the actions of their clergy
colleagues. That condemnation
came after the settlements, which
were signed in 2021, were made
public in late August, according
to the bishops.
“As a result of the findings of
the Attorney General of New York
and the signed agreement of the
two AME clergypersons, the
Council of Bishops of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church ex-
presses our disappointment and
condemns the inappropriate
gender women, whose lives he has
changed both practically and
spiritually.
Since April, at the invitation of
the Vatican, Conocchia has taken
four groups of LGBTQ people to
meet Pope Francis and receive
needed medical care. And since
becoming known for his work in
Torvaianica, he has started con-
ducting prayer sessions via Zoom
with disenfranchised LGBTQ
Catholics across Italy.
The trans women in Torvaiani-
ca sought out Conocchia for basic
needs. Most of them sex workers,
they had been left without clients,
and therefore income, by the
coronavirus pandemic. Because
many are HIV-positive, they are at
higher risk for serious illness. As
immigrants, they could not take
advantage of Italy’s health-care
system.
“When the pandemic hit, we as
trans people had to knock on
doors because we had nothing to
eat,” said Claudia Salas, in a mix of
Italian and her native-Argentine
Spanish. “When I went to [one
nearby] church, they closed the
door on me. They suggested to go
to the parish of Torvaianica. Don
Andrea was the only one to bring
God to us.”
Conocchia had arrived at
Blessed Virgin months before
from a small chapel in Lido dei
Pini, a half-hour down the coast,
where he had spent much of his
time preaching on the streets. As
the pandemic descended on Italy
in 2020, the Italian government
demanded that churches close.
Conocchia obeyed until one
morning, after saying Mass to the
nuns who live at the church com-
plex, he saw a line of people in the
church’s piazza. “They were fami-
lies, people dependent on unde-
clared or seasonal work, mi-
junior tennis tournament in
Fredericksburg. We both recall
matches had finished for the day
and that Tiafoe, while waiting for
his coaches, mingled on the
courts by himself with a racket in
his hand.
I was working with Vona and
the U.S. Tennis Association’s Mid-
Atlantic section as part of its
communications team, and while
cleaning up for the day, two in-
terns and I noticed Tiafoe prac-
ticing by himself. We asked him if
he wanted to play. He instantly
agreed.
“My biggest memories of Fran-
ces or thoughts when I think of
Frances is that he would hang
around and play just as long as he
could find somebody to play
him,” Vona said. “He wanted to be
on the court playing.”
Tiafoe’s insatiable passion for
tennis has always been on dis-
play. But now, the kid from Prince
George’s County who was win-
ning junior tournaments against
players years older — and games
against amateur hobby players a
decade his senior — is showing it
on the sport’s biggest stage and
inspiring tennis fans everywhere
with his unlikely path.
Tiafoe, 24, was scheduled to
play Friday night in the U.S. Open
semifinals against third-seed
Carlos Alcaraz. This marks the
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practices of our colleague and the
former presiding elder in the New
York Conference, who currently
pastors in the New Jersey Confer-
ence,” the Council of Bishops said
in a statement dated Aug. 31.
The Council of Bishops also
announced that Ingram, though
still listed as a bishop on the AME
national website, will refrain
from taking part in bishop meet-
ings or other denominational
events until 2024. Any further
discipline against Wilson will be
decided by the new bishop of the
First Episcopal District.
Neither Wilson nor Ingram
responded to requests for com-
ment.
According to the settlements,
Vahdat allegedly gave a Church of
God in Christ pastor and his wife
hundreds of thousands of dollars
in kickbacks for the sale of the
historical Childs Memorial Tem-
ple Church of God in Christ in
Harlem. That pastor and his wife
are not named in the settlements.
In 2021, however, the New York
state attorney general sued
Church of God in Christ pastor
Kevin Griffin, saying he had alleg-
edly received $900,000 from Vah-
dat, including $450,000 from the
The Rev. Andrea Conocchia with Claudia Salas, a trans woman.
“Don Andrea was the only one to bring God to us,” Salas has said.
grants, and in the crowd there
were three trans women,” he said.
Despite fears of spreading
covid-19, not least to his aging
mother who lives with him,
Conocchia opened the doors. The
second day, there were four trans
women, he said; the next, there
were eight.
At first, he offered the women
food and money through the local
chapter of Caritas, the Catholic
charitable organization. He
helped Salas get documented and
find work as a cleaner, seamstress
and cook to get her off the streets.
As the group continued to
grow, Conocchia came up with the
idea of having the women write to
Pope Francis. Some told him they
would be ashamed to describe
their lives to the pope.
But the letters went to Rome,
and in April 2020, the pope sent
money and food to Blessed Virgin
through Cardinal Konrad Kra-
jewski, the papal almoner, the
official dispenser of Francis’s
first time that an American man
has reached the semifinals since
Andy Roddick in 2006. Tiafoe is
also the first Black man from the
United States to advance to the
semifinals since Arthur Ashe in
1972, and he did so by winning
matches in a stadium named af-
ter the late Ashe.
“Every time I win, I just want
to inspire a bunch of people to
just know that you can — I mean,
anything is possible,” Tiafoe told
reporters Wednesday in his post-
match news conference. “For me
to do this and talk about how I
feel about being in the U.S. Open
from my come-up is crazy. At the
end of the day I love that because
of Frances Tiafoe, there is a lot of
people of color playing tennis.
That’s obviously a goal for me.
That’s why I’m out here trying
pretty hard.”
Tiafoe’s tennis story begins
with his parents, both immi-
grants from a war-torn Sierra Le-
one. As The Washington Post’s
Liz Clarke wrote in 2014, Tiafoe’s
father, Frances Tiafoe Sr., signed
on as a day laborer to help con-
struct the Junior Tennis Champi-
ons Center in College Park in
1999. Tiafoe Sr. took on multiple
responsibilities as a maintenance
worker, cleaning the complex
during the day and maintaining
the courts during the evening. He
sale of Childs Memorial.
In an affidavit filed in Febru-
ary, Griffin, who denies any
wrongdoing, said he took no part
in the vote to sell the church. He
also said he might receive finder’s
fees from the developer for other
church sales.
The settlements with the attor-
ney general’s office cover the ac-
quisition of seven churches — five
from the AME and two from the
Church of God in Christ — begin-
ning in 2013. Vahdat’s companies
purchased six of the churches and
obtained a 99-year lease on one of
the buildings. The idea was to
take over older church buildings
that were already heavily lever-
aged, according to the settle-
ments. Those buildings would
then be demolished and replaced
by multistory structures, which
would contain a sanctuary for the
church to worship in, with the
rest controlled by the developer.
Vahdat enlisted the aid of cler-
gy to identify and secure the
buildings, an effort complicated
by state law governing the sale of
church buildings, which is highly
regulated. According to the settle-
ments, any sale must be approved
by a state court or by the attorney
FEDERICO MANZONI/RELIGION NEWS SERVICE
philanthropy.
Since early in his pontificate,
Francis has taken a novel ap-
proach to LGBTQ issues. In 2013,
in response to a question about
gay priests, he replied, “Who am I
to judge?” He has met with a
Spanish trans man and his part-
ner at the Vatican and praised the
work of the Rev. James Martin,
the American Jesuit who advo-
cates for inclusion for LGBTQ
Catholics.
Last year, not long after the
Vatican’s office of doctrine issued
a document calling the blessing of
same-sex couples a sin, Francis
overhauled the office and re-
moved those responsible.
Francis has stopped short of
definitively changing Catholic
teaching, which still regards
homosexuality as “intrinsically
disordered.” He has called gender
theory a form of “ideological colo-
nization,” especially when taught
in schools. Measured against this
doctrinal stance, the pope’s steps
would sleep and shower at the
complex. Tiafoe’s mother, Alphi-
na Kamara, worked night shifts
as a licensed practical nurse, and
his parents’ schedules meant that
Tiafoe and his twin brother,
Franklin, would sometimes sleep
in a spare room at the tennis fa-
cility, so Tiafoe Sr. could watch
them.
The boys walked around the
facility carrying tennis rackets al-
most as big as them, and Frances
quickly developed a fascination
with the game. He watched older
kids train, whether it was in
group or private lessons, and
then mimicked those same skills
against a wall, said Martin Black-
man, the general manager for
player development for the U.S.
Tennis Association and the for-
mer director at JTCC. At 8, Tiafoe
joined the center’s 10-and-under
program, and the following year,
he qualified for the Juniors
Champions Program, then a year-
round invitation-only program
for tournament level players 12
and younger.
“The way Frances came to be in
the program and his dad was on
the construction crew that built
the facility, I think that part is
very unique and serendipitous,”
Blackman said of Tiafoe’s jour-
ney. “But once Frances was in the
program, the progression is what
THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY,
general’s office.
Six of the church sales had
been through the approval proc-
ess. But the attorney general’s
office then became aware that the
documents used to gain approval
had been altered afterward. That
led to an investigation that found
Ingram and Wilson had used
their leadership positions for per-
sonal gain, shepherding the sales
through the approval process,
which required a vote by the
congregation’s leaders, the local
district and the statewide annual
conference, led by Ingram.
Before his retirement in 2020,
Ingram played a prominent role
in the AME, serving as host
bishop for the denomination’s
200th anniversary.
As church leaders, Ingram and
Wilson were charged with pro-
tecting its property — which,
according to AME rules, is held in
trust for the denomination. New
York state law requires that non-
profit leaders recuse themselves
from any transactions in which
they have a personal interest.
According to the settlement,
Ingram misused his authority be-
cause he “authorized or caused to
be authorized what were sup-
toward openness to the LGBTQ
community are mere gestures,
but outside Vatican circles they
have been seen as earthshaking.
At Easter 2021, Krajewski
called Conocchia to tell him to
bring the trans women and others
in need to the Vatican to receive
coronavirus vaccination and
health checkups. When Conoc-
chia arrived at the Vatican City
gates with two busloads in tow,
Vatican officials asked the pope
whether they should be allowed
inside. Francis ordered them to be
admitted, saying, “Ask for their
names, ask for anything they
need, but do not ask them about
their sex,” according to activist
Juan Carlos Cruz, a friend of the
pope’s.
The next day at the papal audi-
ence, Conocchia ushered the
women forward to meet the pon-
tiff. “When I touched his hand, I
was lost for words,” Minerva Mot-
ta Nuñes said. She offered him a
traditional leather cup from Peru,
where she was born.
Afterward, Conocchia said, the
pope told him: “Keep going. Con-
tinue in this ministry. You are
doing well.”
Conocchia said he has been
reinvigorated by the pope’s ap-
proval, especially after the pas-
tor’s efforts to open the church to
the LGBTQ community have led
to pushback. Some in Torvaianica
were angry that the trans women
received vaccination before other
residents. Conocchia said it’s not
uncommon for disapproving
members of his flock to ask him
how long he thinks he will be
stationed at the parish.
Two local priests, both from
Africa, support the pope and his
message of inclusion but say fo-
cusing on questions of sexuality
seems out of touch with the de-
you would expect from someone
with the skill and passion he has.”
Chris Vrabel has seen firsthand
Tiafoe’s prodigious talent and
drive. At a USTA Mid-Atlantic
qualifying tournament for a na-
tional event, Tiafoe, then 13, beat
Vrabel, who was three years older
and one of the best junior players
in the country.
“I definitely felt a lot of pres-
sure playing him because I’m so
much older,” said Vrabel, now a
27-year-old software engineer
who lives in Seattle. “I was just
impressed with his ability and
composure to play at that age.”
That year, Vrabel stayed in the
same house as Tiafoe during a
travel tournament and discov-
ered Tiafoe’s fun-loving personal-
ity. Tiafoe would make the other
guys laugh by repeating random
quotes from TV shows, Vrabel re-
calls, and he always seemed to be
enjoying himself. The following
year, the two played again in the
final of the 18-and-under division
at a local tournament. Vrabel
went into the match extra moti-
vated and beat Tiafoe, 6-3, 6-1. He
remembers that Tiafoe became
“pretty upset” with the lopsided
loss, but just a few minutes later,
Tiafoe got over his frustrations
and started cracking jokes.
“I think everyone would agree
he was the funniest guy around,”
SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022
posed to be arms-length sale
transactions to the Developer
with full knowledge of the per-
sonal financial benefits he was
receiving from the Developer at
the same time.”
Wilson turned down a job offer
from Vahdat, according to his
settlement, saying that staying in
his leadership role at the church
would be better.
“My thought is that it would be
more beneficial TO YOU for me to
continue working as a Presiding
Elder/Minister, because this posi-
tion and title gives me entree’ into
many places,” he wrote in an
email to the developer quoted in
the settlement.
Under the settlements, Ingram
and Wilson are barred from hold-
ing leadership positions in any
nonprofit but can remain as
ministers.
News of the AME settlements
follows another church real es-
tate case from this year involving
the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church, in which a former
bishop was indicted in connec-
tion with $14 million in alleged
fraud from the sale of church
buildings.
— Religion News Service
mand for food, medicine and fi-
nancial independence in their na-
tive countries. The Rev. Blaise
Mayuma Nkwa, from Congo,
where there are more Catholics
per capita than any other nation
in Africa, won’t go on Conocchia’s
trips in the company of the trans
women. When the subject came
up at lunch, the otherwise cheer-
ful priest turned quiet.
The Rev. Omero Mananga,
Conocchia’s deputy, worried
about explaining Francis’s vision
to the die-hard core of older wom-
en at Blessed Virgin. “What will
happen when our little old ladies
die?” Conocchia asked in reply,
before answering, mostly to him-
self: “It will be all over . . . preach-
ing to no one in empty chapels.”
According to 2021 data from
Italy’s statistics agency, more than
30 percent of those who attend
Mass once a week are older than
75. The same report found that
even in Catholic Italy, only 19
percent of people attend religious
services regularly.
The trans women say Francis’s
message of inclusion is slowly
changing the church. “He moves
forward as the world moves for-
ward,” said Marcella Demarco
Muniz, who met Francis at a gen-
eral audience in April.
Blessed Virgin is moving for-
ward with him, setting a new
standard for LGBTQ Catholics in
Italy wishing to be reconciled
with the church. After Conoc-
chia’s efforts appeared in several
newspapers, groups from all over
the peninsula have asked him for
advice.
“We cannot go back,” Conoc-
chia said one afternoon, after pre-
siding at back-to-back funerals.
“Pope Francis has pushed the
church in a new direction.”
— Religion News Service
Vrabel said. “He was younger, a
little more immature, but always
fun to be around. He was con-
stantly cracking jokes, saying
things we didn’t really under-
stand but was funny. He was al-
ways joking around. It was al-
ways a good laugh around him.”
The junior tennis friends ex-
changed a text or two last year,
and Vrabel last saw Tiafoe at the
Citi Open tournament in D.C.
about six years ago.
Vrabel, who played varsity ten-
nis for Cornell University, isn’t
surprised by Tiafoe’s success. He
had the hunger and humility to
improve every year, and a game
style that seemed suited for the
pros, Vrabel said, adding, “He
was always someone who seemed
destined to make it.”
Vrabel will be rooting for his
friend and former junior tennis
teammate and rival.
“He’s always easy to get along
with, which makes it even more
easy to root for him,” Vrabel said.
Plus, thanks to Tiafoe, Vrabel
now gets to tell his friends that he
once beat a U.S. Open semifinal-
ist. But don’t expect Vrabel to ask
him for another match.
“I want to keep the 1-1 record
against him,” he joked. “I don’t
want to jeopardize it. . . . I’d be
lucky to win a game, for sure.”
I feel the same way.
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VIRGINIA
Youngkin accused of overstepping authority on gas policy
BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER
richmond — Gov. Glenn Young-
kin (R) and Democrats in the Gen-
eral Assembly are locked in a pow-
er struggle over environmental
policy, with both sides escalating
over the past week toward a possi-
ble showdown in the next legisla-
tive session.
Sixty-one Democratic lawmak-
ers wrote Youngkin on Thursday
warning that his effort to use regu-
lations to remove Virginia from an
interstate carbon cap-and-trade
compact is an improper end-run
around state law.
That’s because Virginia’s partici-
pation in the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative — known as RGGI, or
“reggie” — was mandated by a bill
passed by the General Assembly in
2020 and signed into law by
then-Gov. Ralph Northam (D).
Only a change in the law, which
would have to be passed by the
legislature and signed by the gov-
ernor, can extract Virginia from its
commitment, said the letter sent
by state Sen. Lynwood W. Lewis Jr.
(D-Accomack) and signed by most
Democrats in the Senate and
House of Delegates.
“No proposed regulation, emer-
gency regulation, regulatory act,
or any subsequent administrative
process can do so,” the lawmakers
Leaders worry Metro will
lose riders permanently
METRO FROM B1
bus service to connect riders to
rail from the six closed stations
south of Reagan National Airport.
The service includes local and ex-
press buses that will cross the
Potomac all day. When the six
stations reopen Oct. 23, Metro will
route some Blue and Green line
trains to them until the Yellow
Line project is completed in May.
Metro is seeking to limit oner-
ous commutes elsewhere, recent-
ly reopening five Orange Line sta-
tions in Maryland and D.C. that
had been closed since May for a
platform rebuilding project. The
agency is also redeploying trains
from the Yellow Line into the fleet
elsewhere, while a regulatory
agency has allowed Metro to in-
crease its usage of suspended
7000-series rail cars.
The changes will allow Metro to
double service on the Green Line,
shortening average wait times to
eight minutes — a decrease of two
minutes — while waits on the
Orange, Blue and Silver lines will
drop from 20 to 15 minutes on
weekends.
The Virginia Railway Express
commuter rail service is also offer-
ing free rides this month system-
wide to coincide with the Metro
disruption.
The shutdown could affect
about 8,400 riders on weekdays
and up to 5,500 on weekends.
Metrorail ridership has hovered
at about 40 percent of pre-
pandemic levels since late March.
The loss of commuters has transit
officials bracing for an annual op-
erating shortfall of up to $500
million starting as soon as next
summer, unless fare revenue
D.C.’s 911 center scrutinized by audit
AUDIT FROM B1
Holmes said that she was not at
the agency when the audit was
completed in October, and had
only returned to the position for
two months when Patterson
launched the follow-up report.
“We haven’t had time to do
some of the recommendations,”
she said, adding that the office
has also struggled with staffing
and attrition in recent years.
Holmes also noted a line in the
most recent report suggesting
that leadership changes at the
agency, including her return and
the hiring of a new chief of 911
Operations, have been viewed
positively by front-line staff.
Patterson’s report issued Fri-
day concentrated on what it de-
scribed as operational shortcom-
ings in the 911 center. It said that
a follow-up report will evaluate
possible failures from the emer-
gency calls about the children,
who ultimately died. Both cases
remain under investigation.
The audit alleges the city has
made “minimal progress” in
streamlining the way calls are
prioritized, ensuring the most
serious don’t get lost, and hiring a
sufficient number of supervisors
to help guide and support call-
takers. It also says that operators
need to better verify addresses.
On “The Politics Hour,”
Holmes contended that there
have only been about seven mis-
. THE WASHINGTON POST
wrote.
Youngkin’s office on Friday took
note that not every Democrat
signed the letter — three senators
and four delegates are not repre-
sented. “What this letter makes
clear is that Democrats don’t have
unified support for RGGI,” Young-
kin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter
said via text message. “They clearly
know the same thing we know —
that RGGI is nothing more than an
additional tax on household en-
ergy use for Virginia families.”
The Youngkin administration
disclosed its latest plan for with-
drawing from RGGI on Aug. 31,
the follow-up to an executive or-
der he issued shortly after taking
office in January.
Youngkin and Republican lead-
ers in the General Assembly have
also signaled that they intend to
nix another environmental meas-
ure passed by the legislature when
Democrats were in charge: Vir-
ginia’s commitment to the state of
California’s automobile emissions
guidelines.
Their outcry was provoked
after California adopted a stan-
dard late last month requiring
that all new vehicles be electric or
hydrogen-powered by 2035.
“We find ourselves today with
this ludicrous law that Virginia
has to follow California’s laws, and
increases.
Metro General Manager Randy
Clarke said lagging ridership
partly stems from a train shortage
that began after a derailment last
October. The Washington Metro-
rail Safety Commission pulled all
748 of Metro’s 7000-series cars
from service after a federal inves-
tigation uncovered a defect that
causes wheels to move outward.
The commission over four
months has allowed Metro to
slowly phase some cars into serv-
ice. Earlier this month it allowed
the agency to increase its usage
from 64 cars to 160, or 20 trains.
Cristol, a former chair of the
Northern Virginia Transportation
Commission, said she was “hold-
ing out hope” the safety commis-
sion would allow Metro to rein-
state more of the 7000-series
trains by the time the six stations
reopen in late October.
The Blue Line across the Poto-
mac will not serve as a meaningful
Yellow Line alternative if com-
muters need to wait 12 to 15 min-
utes for a train, she said.
Thony Ascencio, 54, a restau-
rant worker who travels between
his Arlington home and workplac-
es near the Mt. Vernon Square and
Gallery Place-Chinatown sta-
tions, said every minute counts
when he must be on-time for
shifts. He said he uses the Yellow
Line “every day, all day,” and
wasn’t sure of his Saturday plan.
“I have to make a choice,” he
said. “Something. Maybe Uber.”
Alexandria Mayor Justin Wil-
son (D) empathized with workers,
noting his city has only had nor-
mal or consistent Metrorail serv-
ice for about six months over the
past three years.
takes related to erroneous ad-
dresses in the past few years. But
Dave Statter, a public safety ad-
vocate and former journalist who
has used Twitter to publicly doc-
ument what he describes as re-
peated failures at the 911 center,
disputed that, alleging there have
been many more. In the past,
Statter has highlighted issues
with firefighters being sent to
wrong quadrants, or to addresses
that don’t exist.
The city has pushed back on
some recommendations, the au-
dit says, such as ensuring call-
takers closely follow a script of
questions to direct to people
seeking help, so critical informa-
tion is not lost. The city said
operators need room to impro-
vise based on unique aspects of a
call, “to do their jobs rapidly and
effectively without excess pre-
scriptive language.”
Patterson said improved su-
pervision is essential. She said
auditors too often found supervi-
sors “across the room in an office
doing paperwork,” instead of
monitoring the floor. And when
corrective action was needed,
Patterson said, there was “no
accountability, no documenta-
tion that corrective action had
been taken following an incident
with bad outcomes.”
Patterson said her follow-up
report will examine data over the
past year — including the time
from when a 911 call comes in to
so we’re going to go to work and
stop this because Virginians
should be making decisions for
Virginians,” Youngkin told Tucker
Carlson on Aug. 30 on Fox News.
Seventeen states have tied
themselves, to some degree, to
California’s emissions standards,
which are allowed by federal law
to be stricter than those of the
federal government. The auto in-
dustry often responds to Califor-
nia standards rather than federal
standards, because the state rep-
resents such a huge portion of the
automobile market.
Virginia is set to implement
California’s emissions standards
in 2024, but the state is already
participating in RGGI.
That market, which includes 11
states, allows energy generators to
buy and sell credits for carbon
emissions, with the goal of reduc-
ing the amount of greenhouse gas-
es released into the atmosphere.
Advocates note that states par-
ticipating in the compact have
seen reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions while other states have
stayed steady or seen an increase.
According to an analysis of federal
Environmental Protection Agency
figures by the Natural Resources
Defense Council, Virginia’s power
plants emitted 13 percent less car-
bon in 2021, their first year as part
Construction crews put the finishing touches on the renovated Braddock Road Metro station in 2019.
“The timing’s horrible. It’s a
time when people are finally get-
ting back into offices,” he said.
“Between the shutdown in 2019
and the pandemic and this, it has
been a rough time for commuters
in this city.”
Alexandria’s four Metro stops
are on the Blue and Yellow lines
and will be offline through late
October.
Metro last closed a line in 2021,
when there was no Blue Line serv-
ice for about three months while
platforms were rebuilt at Arling-
ton Cemetery and Addison Road,
said Metro spokeswoman Sherri
Ly. During the project, the Silver
Line ran to Largo Town Center
while the Yellow Line served the
Franconia-Springfield and Van
Dorn Street stations.
Metro officials acknowledge
the latest project will inconve-
nience riders, but said the agency
is also taking important steps
when help is dispatched — “to
see how it measures up and
whether we’ve been doing a bet-
ter job.”
Holmes was also asked on the
radio show by veteran journalist
Tom Sherwood about a separate
issue: Mayor Muriel E. Bowser
(D) has for months not formally
nominated someone to lead the
Office of Unified Communica-
tions. Mayoral nominees require
confirmation by the D.C. Council.
WTOP reported in August that
the Office of Unified Communi-
cations has been led by interim
and acting directors, including
Holmes, for more than a year and
half — in an apparent violation of
a D.C. law that says agency lead-
ers should not be paid if the
mayor fails to formally nominate
a person within 180 days of a
vacancy.
Holmes confirmed on the pro-
gram that she’s still being paid.
Patterson noted that the law has
historically not been enforced. A
spokesperson for Bowser did not
immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment.
“I’m always concerned when
we’re in violation of the D.C.
code,” Patterson said on the show.
Holmes confirmed Friday she
will appear at a virtual Sept. 28
D.C. Council roundtable focused
on 911 operations at the Office of
Unified Communications, in-
cluding call-taking and dispatch-
ing.
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of RGGI, than in 2020.
At the same time, the market
returned roughly $400 million to
Virginia for use in flood mitigation
efforts and energy efficiency pro-
grams for low-income residents.
Youngkin has argued since be-
fore taking office, though, that
RGGI is a bad deal for the state
because utilities are allowed to
charge consumers for the cost of
participating. Customers of the
state’s largest utility, Dominion
Energy, paid an average of about
$2.39 extra per month to cover the
cost — though earlier this year
Dominion notified the state that it
would stop breaking out an addi-
tional charge for RGGI and would
instead include the cost in cus-
tomers’ base rate.
During a meeting of the State
Air Pollution Control Board on
Aug. 31, the Youngkin administra-
tion reiterated its opposition to
the program and outlined a regu-
latory approach to withdrawing.
Saying the system is increasing
costs for consumers at a time
when they’re already struggling
with inflation, acting secretary of
natural and historic resources Tra-
vis Voyles said the administration
hopes to complete the administra-
tive steps for withdrawal by the
end of 2023.
Walton Shepherd of the Vir-
forward during the shutdown to
open the new Potomac Yard
station.
“We regret the inconvenience
but believe customers understand
the need to prioritize this safety
critical work,” Ly said.
Joe Haggerty, president and
chief executive of the Alexandria
Chamber of Commerce, said there
was no good time to inconve-
nience commuters with the shut-
down — especially as they are
returning to office work amid the
pandemic — but said the pause in
service now is better than more
extensive issues in the future.
“Is it going to cause people to
stay home more? Yes, until they
get things patched up more. If you
know your train route and you’re
used to getting to your station . . .
it gives you more reason to stay
home,” he said.
When it comes to the Alexan-
dria mayor’s own commute, the
THE REGION
As summer
ends, harvest
moon shines
BY M ARTIN W EIL
Although summer may not sur-
render easily, Friday, in its meteo-
rological and astronomical signs
seemed to show that we are inch-
ing our way toward fall.
With less than two weeks until
the autumn equinox, on Sept. 22,
our temperatures seem to be slid-
ing slowly toward autumn.
Washington’s high of 84 was
only a degree above average, and
Friday morning’s low of 65 was
two degrees cooler than average.
That 65 also happened to be the
coolest reading made in Washing-
ton this month.
As the sun sinks slightly more
each day, its rays follow shallower
paths, stealing between the
branches of trees, illuminating
leaves hanging at lower levels, and
casting longer shadows.
Although not directly linked to
autumn weather, a bright sign of
the autumn of our imagination
hung in the early morning sky.
Wondrous and transfixing, it
was the almost-full moon. When
full Saturday, it would carry a
name that speaks of the end of
summer.
It is the harvest moon.
ginia NRDC said the fact that the
administration has opted for such
a slow process suggests that it
knows it’s on shaky legal ground.
“This appears to be more a
chest-thumping exercise than
thinking they actually have
chances of success in the long run,”
Shepherd said. Advocates will be
eager to go to court, he said, to
challenge “a governor trying to
overturn standing law.”
And he noted that Democrats
who control the state Senate by a
21-19 margin are likely to block
any attempt to change either the
RGGI law or the California emis-
sions plan.
It remains unclear what state
Attorney General Jason S. Miyares
(R) thinks of the legality of the
RGGI effort. Earlier this year, the
Richmond Times-Dispatch report-
ed that a member of the air board
said she received “an opinion” from
Miyares’s office saying the board
can’t overturn an action of the Gen-
eral Assembly, such as RGGI.
Miyares has declined to make
any such opinion public, and the
Southern Environmental Law
Center has filed suit on behalf of
the advocacy group Appalachian
Voices to obtain the document.
A spokeswoman for Miyares de-
clined to comment on the matter
Friday.
MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST
shutdown will result in a tweak:
To get to his day job at Amtrak’s
offices in D.C., Wilson said he nor-
mally takes the city’s free DASH
bus to the Pentagon, then rides
Metro’s Yellow and Red lines.
He will now ride the bus to the
Blue Line instead.
City and regional officials have
learned from the 2019 shutdown
about what works, Wilson said,
and they are planning to provide
options for residents — including
shuttles, bike and pedestrian al-
ternatives, and even more service
for ferries connecting Old Town
and the Wharf.
“We’re throwing absolutely ev-
erything we can at this to make
sure people can get around,” he
said. “Mike Tyson says, ‘Everyone
has a battle plan until they get
punched in the face.’ We’ll figure
out next week what’s working and
what’s not working, and hopefully
the planning paid off.”
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GWU adds faculty after
sell of hospital stake
George Washington University
said Friday it will use more than
$50 million from the recent sale
of its stake in GW Hospital for a
major expansion of faculty in
medicine, health and science.
GWU, the largest university in
the nation’s capital, said it plans
to add 14 endowed professorships
in coming months. It was
described as one of the most
significant investments in the
university’s history to support
faculty.
“This is transformational for
us,” said university President
Mark S. Wrighton. “Of course,
recruiting and retaining
outstanding members of our
faculty is a key priority.”
In August, GWU completed the
sale of its 20 percent partnership
share in GW Hospital. That
netted about $54 million for the
university. The hospital, next to
Washington Circle in the District,
is now wholly owned by Universal
Health Services.
With the proceeds from the
sale, GWU said it will add nine
endowed professorships to its
school of medicine and health
sciences, and one each in public
health, nursing, chemistry,
biology and biomedical
engineering.
Searches for the faculty
positions will begin soon.
— Nick Anderson
MARYLAND
3 children, 2 adults
dead after shooting
Five people are dead after a
shooting in Maryland on Friday,
officials said.
Cecil County Sheriff Scott A.
Adams said at a news conference
that three children, a man and a
woman were found dead in the
unit block of Hebron Court in
Elks Mills, Md., around 9:20 a.m.
The community is in northern
Maryland near the Delaware
border.
Adams said officers responded
to a residence after a man called
911 to report that three children
and a woman were shot, then
hung up. Though emergency
responders called back, no one
picked up, Adams said.
The man was later found dead
in a detached garage with a
semiautomatic handgun nearby,
according to officials, while the
other four victims were found in
the residence. Adams said
authorities were not yet certain
that the man took his own life but
“it appears to be the case.” He said
the 911 caller from the scene
appeared to be “catatonic,” and
compared the shooting to a
murder-suicide in Cecil County in
2019. Officials said there was no
threat to the public.
“It’s a horrific day and I know
everybody’s prayers are
appreciated,” Adams said.
The names of the deceased
were not released pending family
notification, officials said. Adams
said the children were in the fifth,
sixth, and seventh grades and
appeared to be home-schooled.
Four schools were put on alert
as the shooting unfolded early
Friday, Adams said.
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Curfew creates confusion for Pr. George’s teens
BY N ICOLE A SBURY
When Rayanna Morris saw
news of a juvenile curfew in Prince
George’s County, she wasn’t op-
posed to it, she said, but felt like
the decision from the county exec-
utive “popped up out of the blue.”
Morris, a senior at Parkdale
High School in Riverdale Park,
said while the reasoning behind it
was understandable, she thought
that students’ voices should have
been included in the decision.
“When changes are made that
impact minors or youth in gener-
al, they’re the last people to know,
and I feel like they’re the first
people that should know,” Morris,
17, said. She added that when the
announcement rolled out, stu-
dents across the county were con-
fused about the curfew’s rules.
County Executive Angela D. Al-
sobrooks announced enforcement
of a long-standing youth curfew
earlier this week, following rough-
ly two years of rising violence and
an August that’s become the coun-
ty’s deadliest month in four dec-
ades. Enforcement will begin Fri-
day at 11:59 p.m. and last at least
30 days.
Alsobrooks’s announcement
has drawn a mix of fans and skep-
tics. Among teens, it’s spurred an
influx of questions.
Students’ grades improve, but still below grade level
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student performance. Grades
have improved since the begin-
ning of the pandemic, administra-
tors said. Those results showed
that 36 percent of second-graders
received an A in math, and 39
percent of second-graders
received an A in reading and lan-
guage arts. Of all high-schoolers,
18 percent received an A in high
school math and 21 percent
received an A in reading and lan-
Ex-coach sentenced for sexual abuse
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18 at the time of the abuse — were
not in the courtroom.
“The most disturbing aspect of
his conduct is the position that
Mr. Shipley held in relation to
these students, and his unfath-
omable persistence and continu-
ous abuse of this position of
authority,” Raffinan said. “He was
their teacher. He was their coach.
These women
looked up to
him for sup-
port and guid-
ance, and he
took advan-
tage of them.”
After deliv-
ering her sen-
Kirk Shipley tence, she or-
dered that
Shipley be incarcerated immedi-
ately.
Shipley’s attorney Thomas Key
asked if he could self-surrender
to police in two to three weeks,
arguing he’d driven his vehicle to
the courthouse and needed to
find someone to take care of his
dog.
When Raffinan denied the re-
quest, Key asked if Shipley could
have until Monday, saying again
that he needed to arrange for
someone to watch his dog.
“I’m sure Mr. Key can find
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“I think if I sit down and think
about it, I could write a book on
how many questions I’ve had,”
said La’Niyah King-Brooks, 14,
who attends school in the district,
but lives in Suitland, Md. La’Niyah
was reconsidering searching for a
part-time job, she said, because
she wasn’t sure what would hap-
pen if her shift ended past curfew
hours. The county code being en-
forced by police concerned her,
since she said law enforcement
“either take their job too seriously
or not seriously enough."
The county code does allow an
exemption for children who are
legally employed and carry a card
of employment with their hours
written on it.
Under the Prince George’s juve-
nile curfew rules, children are al-
lowed to be outside during curfew
hours if accompanied by a parent
or authorized adult. There’s also
an exception if a child is taking a
direct route home within one hour
of the end of a school activity,
religious activity or voluntary ac-
tivity, like going to the movies or a
sports game.
But county youths say there
hasn’t been enough education on
their rights surrounding the
curfew. Alvaro Ceron-Ruiz, the
student member of the Prince
George’s County Board of Educa-
guage arts.
Board of Education member
Pamela Boozer-Strother (District
3) emphasized the toll virtual
learning took on students, adding
that “nothing has been typical” for
most students.
“Parents painfully feel this
when you look at this . . . and you
see the results, that is not our
children,” Boozer-Strother said.
“We know our children are achiev-
ing more than this number.”
For the county’s assessments,
someone to take care of his dog,”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline
Burrell interjected.
“I don’t see — in light of the
way in which this case has pro-
ceeded — a reason to delay,”
Raffinan agreed.
Bailiffs helped Shipley push up
the sleeves of his suit jacket, so
they could shackle his wrists.
The hour-long sentencing be-
gan with powerful impact state-
ments from the rowing commu-
nity and the two victims, who
came forward about their abuse
last spring. A third victim also
submitted a statement.
It was a moment of catharsis
for hundreds of women, who
spanned more than 20 Whitman
High graduating classes, as well
as the Thompson Boat Center in
Georgetown, where Shipley
coached during the offseason.
In a six-page unsigned com-
munity impact statement, former
athletes described how Shipley
had pretended to mentor them as
teens, gaining their trust, then
pushing the boundaries of those
relationships by making inappro-
priate sexual overtures.
An unidentified “community
representative” read a portion of
the statement via Zoom for those
in the courtroom, often pausing
to cry, her voice breaking. Online,
more than 150 people had logged
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EZ SU
tion, said he believes that students
shouldn’t be out late at night, but
“students obviously don’t want
the government restraining what
times they’re out.” When reached
this week, it was unclear to him
what would happen to students
who are out late past curfew hours
because of a school-sanctioned
event.
“If I haven’t heard the guidance,
that means students haven’t got-
ten the guidance,” Ceron-Ruiz, a
17-year-old senior at Eleanor
Roosevelt High School in Green-
belt, said. “My hope is that by
Friday when they plan to issue
this, is that information is clear for
students and youth.”
Officials with Prince George’s
school system declined to com-
ment for this story, including an-
swering whether they were in-
volved in the county executive’s
decision to enact the curfew. Juan-
ita Miller, the school board chair,
said she was not aware of any
member of the board who was
included in a curfew discussion.
Alsobrooks’ administration re-
leased in a newsletter Friday more
information about the curfew’s ex-
ceptions, and noted that police
officers would be “focused on edu-
cation first.” Law enforcement will
review the curfew rules with the
youth, tell them to go home and
school board members requested
the data be categorized by student
race, students who were a part of
free- and reduced-price lunch pro-
grams, and students who were
English-language learners. They
also requested more information
on how kindergartners performed
on early reading assessments.
Member David Murray (Dis-
trict 1) asked for the school board
to revisit the curriculums the
school system is using.
“That impacts everything,”
on to watch the sentencing.
Shipley, dressed in a light suit
and dark mask, pressed his
hands together atop the table as
he listened to her speak. At
points, he shook his head, as if in
disagreement.
“What was modeled as normal,
commonplace and acceptable
was in fact toxic, and targeted,
and has left mental, emotional
and psychological scars,” the
community representative said.
She described Shipley’s insen-
sitivity to their struggles — men-
tal health crises, self-harm, eat-
ing disorders. His method of
isolating girls, pitting them
against their friends for a spot in
the coveted top boat, which could
earn them attention from top
colleges. The intimate conversa-
tions shared in his classroom at
lunchtime, beginning with chats
about rowing or schoolwork and
evolving into the confiding of
crushes and sexual firsts.
The girls didn’t fully realize
what was happening at the time,
the representative said. Many
were terrified of retribution from
the rowing community, where
Shipley wielded power and influ-
ence. They relied on a whisper
network, with older rowers warn-
ing younger students about Ship-
ley’s behavior. It was only later
that they learned this kind of
VINYL
notify a parent or guardian. If they
are caught out again after hours,
police will wait with the child for
two hours while a parent or guard-
ian is contacted. If they can’t be
tracked down, the child will be
turned over to social services.
There are also fines for parents
and businesses allowing children
to be out after curfew hours.
Rachel Sherman, who has a 1-
7-year-old daughter attending a
private school in the county, said
she wasn’t against the curfew, but
the county needed to be “more
proactive than reactive.” Sherman
pointed to the consolidation of the
county’s alternative schools as an
example, arguing that the schools’
programs were a proactive ap-
proach in preventing teenagers
from engaging in crime but the
school system chose to close some
of the programs.
At a Prince George’s school
board meeting Thursday, board
members did not directly refer-
ence the curfew, but asked ques-
tions about school safety and men-
tal health supports during a back-
to-school presentation. School
system administrators said they
were working with county police
to keep guns out of schools. They
also have hired 167 mental health
clinicians for the school year,
which is 27 more than last year.
Murray said. “I hate to see our
students potentially in a situation
where they’re not achieving, just
as a result of not being offered the
best curriculums they possibly
could.”
In addition to the school
system’s own benchmark assess-
ments, students also take the
state’s standardized test, the
Maryland Comprehensive Testing
Program. Results for the state
exam are expected to be released
in January.
manipulation by a trusted adult
had a name: grooming.
She was followed by state-
ments from the two victims, read
by their attorney Matthew Orn-
stein, from the Network for Vic-
tim Recovery of D.C.
“In light of what has occurred,
my life has irreversibly changed,”
wrote the first victim, who gradu-
ated in 2018. “The period of
grooming I experienced has con-
tinued to shape my relationships
with authority figures into the
present day.”
“It is not complicated when a
coach or a teacher takes advan-
tage of the trust inherent to those
roles and twists that into a
relationship of sorts,” wrote the
second victim, who graduated in
2013. “It is not complicated when
he waits until right after you
graduate to invite you over to his
apartment and then makes a
move on you under the pretenses
that ‘you’re just friends and this
is what adults do’ — even though
you are in fact 17 and he is almost
40.”
“The abuse began not long
after my 18th birthday,” wrote a
third victim, who wasn’t includ-
ed in the charges against Shipley.
“Later, when I finally worked up
the courage to end my relation-
ship with Shipley, I can only
describe the feeling as a spell
being lifted, or as if a veil had
been suddenly ripped off my
eyes. There was indescribable
guilt. Shame. Horror. I felt like I
was going to drown in it all.”
After the sentencing, the Net-
work for Victim Recovery of D.C.
hailed the message it sent.
“One of the reasons it’s so hard
for survivors of sexual abuse to
come forward is the fear that they
won’t be believed or that nothing
will be done about their abuse,”
the group said in a statement.
“So, we are grateful the court saw
Mr. Shipley for what he truly is
and held him accountable for
abuse and manipulation he in-
flicted over the last two decades.”
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IN MEMORIAM DEATH NOTICE
SMITH HAYNES
JAMES T. SMITH JR.
9/10/1933 ~ 4/7/1998
Happy 89th Birthday, Smitty.
We love you and miss you.
Your Loving Family - 2022
KIM ELIZABETH AMATOSKI HAYNES
Born September 6, 1956 and deceased
on September 3, 2022, is survived by her
beloved mother Karen Geary of Maryville,
TN; beloved brother Paul Armatoski, of
Sterling, CO; beloved sister Lisa Stevens
of Athens, TN; and beloved brother-in-law
Josh Linger of Los Alamos, NM. She was
preceded in death by beloved sister Jenny
Linger of Charlotte, NC and father Edward
DEATH NOTICE Summers of Tarpon Springs, FL. Kim grad-
uated with a Bachelor and Masters degree
from the University of Maryland and then
worked 19 years for TRW Space and De-
fense in Northern Virginia and Berkeley,
BENNETT CA. In 2001, she moved to eastern Tennes-
see and became a successful consultant.
The move allowed her to indulge her pas-
sion for world travel. Kim was passionate
about films, having attended the Toronto
Film Festival 20 times and the Cannes
Film Festival once, with friends. In her
spare time she was a voracious reader, a
quilt maker, a member of the Rotary Club
of Maryville, and a mahjong player. Led by
her faith, in more recent years she became
a passionate defender of democracy, re-
productive rights, LGBTQ rights, and social
justice causes. Kim considered herself to
be very lucky to have wonderful friends.
A memorial celebration of Kim’s life will
be held at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian
Universalist church in Knoxville, TN at 4
p.m., Sunday, September 18, 2022. All are
welcome. In lieu of flowers, consider do-
nations to the Rotary Club Foundation to
fight polio worldwide, to Planned Parent-
hood, or to Haven House, a Blount County,
TN domestic violence center.
IRIS BENNETT
Iris Bennett, nee Helmer, passed away in
Fairbanks, Alaska on September 4, 2022
at the age of 89. She was born on January
12, 1933 in Stuttgart, Germany to Amalie
Kalmbach and Karl Helmer. Iris married
Master Sergeant John (Jack) Edward Ben-
nett on September 9, 1954 in Stuttgart. She
became a naturalized United States citizen
on November 16, 1962 in El Paso, Texas. Iris
had four sons: John Dennis Bennett (Deb-
JONES
orah), Bruce Bennett (Bonnie), Brian Ben- RICHARD O. JONES (Age 74)
nett (deceased), and Kevin Patrick Bennett
(Christina). Her ashes will be buried with
Richard O. Jones of Ravenna, Ohio, died on
Sunday, September 4, 2022, in Riverdale,
Jack in the National Cemetery on the Presi- MD. Born to Reese and Gladys (Trumphour),
dio of San Francisco. At Iris’ request there
will be no services.
he graduated in 1966, enlisted in the Air
Force, deployed to Vietnam, gave his life
to Jesus through the work of the Naviga-
tors August 24, 1969, graduated U of MD
BA English, active church life at Wallace
PCA starting in 1973 where he met and
FRIED later married Marie, worked for Verizon,
and is survived by his brother, Dave, sister
Marjorie, son Daniel (w. Kendra), daughters
BARBARA KRAUSE FRIED “Bobby” Sarah (h. Josh), Rachel (h. Edward), Ruth,
Barbara “Bobby” Krause Fried Lydia, and seven grandkids. Details for
of Bethesda, Maryland passed Celebration of Life service: Wallace Presby-
peacefully on September 8, terian Church in College Park, MD, Sunday,
2022 at the age of 94. She was September 11 at 2:30 p.m.. The family is
predeceased by her beloved requesting any gifts be given to Wallace or
husband of 72 years, Allan; Wycliffe Bible Translators.
together they were a familiar sight on the
dance floor. Bobby was also a loving sister
to Lawrence Krause and devoted mother
to Joel, Carol, Gary (Beverly) and Leslie (Jef-
frey), and she treasured her seven grand-
children and three great-grandchildren.
Bobby attended the University of Maryland
where she met Allan and, with him, was a
life-long supporter of their performing arts
and athletic programs. Her passionate en-
thusiasm at Maryland football and basket-
ball games was unshakable, and familiar to
all who knew her. She was an active mem-
ber of Phi Sigma Sigma, and lifetime mem-
ber of Hadassah and Brandeis. She was ac-
tive in the sisterhood and other activities
of Adas Israel Congregation. Bobby was
kind, generous and loving. She greeted
family, friends and strangers with a warm
and affectionate smile. Most important to
Bobby was her family. They always were
first in her mind and heart.
As a lifelong Washingtonian, she appreci-
ated her lifetime of friends from the D.C.
area as well as the friendships she devel-
oped over the last 30 years at Whitley Park
Condominium.
A graveside service will be held at King Da-
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with a post-funeral celebration of her life at
the home of Leslie Fried and Jeffrey Cohen.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
in her memory to the Terrapin Club or
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Cleveland, OH, but spent her childhood in
Alexandria, VA. She moved to Aptos, CA
in 1982 with her husband, Paul Marshman
Carrick, Jr. Paul passed in April of 2016. He
had three children, Paul M. Carrick III of Los
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2/28/1935 - 9/8/2022
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row Wilson High School and then Cornell
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tend Washington School for Secretaries.
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HARTLEY
ROSEMARY GARRETT HARTLEY
On Tuesday, September 6, 2022, Rosemary
G. Hartley passed away peacefully at Maple-
wood Park Place in Bethesda, Maryland sur-
rounded by family members. Devoted wife
of James P. Hartley (deceased) for 64 years,
beloved mother to Patrick Hartley (Diane),
Mark Hartley (Mary Ellen), Kevin Hartley (Vic-
ki), Mary Hartley, Laurie Hartley Morse (Mike),
and Charles Hartley (Megan); wonderful
grandmother to Justin, Ryan, Colin, Conner,
Brooke, Grace, Tricia, Elise, Katie, James, Kev-
in, and Theresa. In addition, Rosemary has
five great-grandchildren. She also is survived
by her sister, Kathleen G. Wills and sister-in-
law, Dorothy N. Garrett.
Rosemary was a 1944 graduate of Immacu-
lata Preparatory School in Washington, DC,
HENNEMEYER
JOAN THERESE HENNEMEYER
On September 4, 2022, Joan Therese
Hennemeyer of Bethesda, Maryland, passed
away at Forest Hills Assisted Living in Wash-
ington D.C. She was 95.
Joan (nee Renaud) was born in Chicago, Il-
linois, on September 26, 1926, one of four
children of John and Mary Renaud (nee Fur-
long) who were, respectively, of French Ca-
nadian and Irish heritage. Perhaps inspired
by her brothers’ service in World War II, Joan
was eager to break out of the confines of
the South Side of Chicago and see the wider
world.
In 1952, she got her chance. Responding
to an advertisement for positions with the
U.S. Foreign Service, Joan interviewed at the
Palmer House Hotel in downtown Chicago
and literally, before she knew it, was on a
ship to Rome, where she would serve for a
few happy years at the U.S. Embassy on the
Via Veneto. While Joan had a run of excit-
ing and exotic postings – including Saigon,
Vietnam, during the final days of the French
LEONARD
EDMOND JAMES LEONARD
Edmond Leonard of Falls Church, Virginia
passed away peacefully at home surround-
ed by family at the age of 95 on Septem-
ber 7, 2022. If the measure of a life is what
you leave behind rather than what you take
from this earth, then Edmond’s was a life
well-lived.
Edmond leaves behind his loving and devot-
ed wife of 62 years, Eileen, all six of his chil-
dren—Edmond, Brendan, Cathleen (Brian),
Patrick (Eliana), Declan (Lori), Michael (Man-
dy)—as well as a growing brood of grand-
children and great-grandchildren. He is also
survived by his brother Joseph Leonard of
Delaware.
MCCART
KATHERINE HARRIS MCCART “KK”
Katherine passed away suddenly on Sep-
tember 3, 2022. Born November 21, 1974
in Richmond, Virginia, KK was full of life and
never met a stranger. She is gone far too
soon, but, thanks to her infectious personal-
ity and boundless energy, she will never be
forgotten.
She was a graduate of St. Catherine’s School
and The University of Virginia, where she
was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta So-
rority and earned her Bachelor’s of Science
and her Master’s of Teaching, which she put
to use as a dynamic and engaging science
teacher in both Missouri and Italy. She was
a loving wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt
and true friend to so many. Never one to
say “No”, she was an (over) active volunteer,
serving as the Board Chair of Westminster
Weekday Preschool, the Commissioner of
the Alexandria Lacrosse Club and served
many years as a committee member for
the Gladney Princess Ball. KK was also the
St. Stephen’s St. Agnes Gala Chair and was
a member of the National Charity League,
serving as Grade Level Advisor.
KK was an avid tennis player who will be
remembered for her tenacity and frequent
one-liners on the court, such as “boogers in
a bucket” after the occasional missed shot.
KK spent many summers at Camp Lachlan
where she was both a camper and counsel-
or; her ever present “sparkle and zest” had
a profound impact on all those she touched.
She enjoyed spending her free time at the
family cottage, TYHAJO, on Fishing Bay sur-
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and a 1948 alumnus of the College of Notre
Dame of Maryland where she met many life-
long friends. Afterwards she attended Duke
University where she earned a degree in
physical therapy and met the love of her life,
Jim, whom she married in 1952.
Rosemary’s faith, family and friends were
the foundations of her life. She was an ac-
tive parishioner at Little Flower Parish in
Bethesda for more than 50 years, attending
daily Mass and singing in the choir, and later
was a member of St Jane Frances de Chan-
tal Catholic Church. Throughout her life, she
lived her faith. She was always giving, caring,
and reaching out to others, and her kindness
and good humor will remain part of her en-
during legacy.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held at St.
Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in
Bethesda, Maryland on Monday, September
12. Family and friends are welcome to a vis-
itation from 9:30 to 10 a.m. and the Celebra-
tion of Life service at 10 a.m. Interment will
be at 2 p.m. at St. Gabriel’s Catholic Ceme-
tery in Potomac, Maryland.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made
to Maplewood Park Place in Bethesda, MD
(9707 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD
20814; Attn: MPP Resident Appreciation
Fund) or Notre Dame of Maryland University
(Office of Institutional Advancement, 4701
North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21210).
colonial era! – in the years that followed, our
family suspicion is that nothing quite beat
the “dolce vitae” of Rome in the 50s - with
Vespas and all. While in Rome she contin-
ued to date, long distance, her Chicago beau
Robert “Bob” Hennemeyer, who had also
joined the Foreign Service at Joan’s urging,
who was by then a Vice Consul in Bremer-
haven, Germany. They married in 1954 in
Bremen and proceeded to travel the world,
from Germany, to the UK, Africa, Norway,
and back to Africa while raising three chil-
dren. In 1968, Joan belatedly, although en-
thusiastically, received her BA from the Uni-
versity of Maryland and managed, between
child raising and diplomatic obligations, to
secure her MA a few years later. Her love
of learning and reading remained a passion
throughout her days, and for years she kept
lists of the books she had devoured.
Upon retirement, she and Bob settled hap-
pily in Bethesda, Maryland, and created
a new life with church activities and old
friends from the diplomatic service, as well
as spending precious time with their chil-
dren and grandchildren. Whenever a change
of scenery was required, they would spend
weekends at their cabin in West Virginia and
winters in Sarasota, Florida.
While Joan was born into a time and family
that had a rather restrictive view of what
women could and could not do, her spirit
always had other plans and she remained
as free and as determined as ever to the
very end.
She is survived by her children, Chris, Rob-
in, and Paul; her grandchildren, Mayan,
Frank, Philip, and Evan; and, Inti, her first
great-grandchild (Mayan’s son). She was
and is loved by them all, and the void she
leaves will never be filled. Plans for a me-
morial service in December will be forth-
coming.
Edmond was born on December 16, 1926
in Wilmington, Delaware to a large family.
Upon graduating from the College of the
Holy Cross, Edmond served his country
proud as a member of the US Army. He
embarked on a career of service to others,
culminating in a distinctive profession as a
Government executive advocating for the
advancement of employment for those with
disabilities. Among his many achievements
over a four-decade career in public service,
Edmond was instrumental in commission-
ing the design and adoption of the univer-
sal symbol for handicapped parking spaces
known throughout the world.
Edmond loved his Irish-American heritage
as much as he loved his Catholic faith, and
stayed true to both to the end. Whether it
was listening to “Danny Boy,” praying the
Rosary, or even sitting at his usual spot in
McDonalds, Edmond found joy in the little
things that made his life so fulfilled. Ed-
mond’s role in fostering a tight-knit, loving
extended family was often seen in his calm
and wise presence during spirited family
gatherings. His profound intellect, his capti-
vating life stories, and his witty humor will
be sorely missed.
A viewing will be held at Murphy’s Funeral
Home in Falls Church on Sunday, Septem-
ber 11, 2022 from 3 to 5 p.m. A funeral Mass
will be held at St. James Catholic Church on
Monday, September 12, 2022 at 10 a.m., fol-
lowed by a lunch reception at the Arlington
Knights of Columbus Hall.
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rounded by family and friends.
KK’s enthusiasm was evident in everything
she did. She was passionate about her fam-
ily, extending family status to a broad mix of
friends, many of whom affectionately called
her “Mama KK”. An exuberant storyteller
who never let facts interrupt a good story,
she surrounded those around her with love,
hugs, and a contagious laugh. Her zest for
life was apparent in her love for family, her
weekends at Fishing Bay, travel with her
husband, Kevin, and her unwavering loyalty
to UVA sports. The only thing KK loved more
than playing sports herself was coaching
and watching her own children play. Always
the one to initiate fun, whether impromp-
tu play with the kids (hers and any others
around), or the first cold swim of the sum-
mer, KK made the mundane both fun and
memorable.
She is survived by her loving husband, Kevin
McCart, her three amazing children, Anna,
Caroline, Harris, and their yellow lab Lily. She
is also survived by her parents, Frances and
Tyler Harris and her sister, Rendall Harris, of
Richmond, and her brother Tyler Harris, Jr.
(Bentley) of Tallahassee, Florida, as well as
her uncles, Harry Harris (Gail) and John Har-
ris of Richmond, and Bill Lawrence (Karen) of
Raleigh, North Carolina, and aunt Mrs. John
Lawrence of Southern Pines, North Carolina.
She is also survived by her mother-in-law,
Maureen McCart and sister-in-law, Maggie
Dates of Baltimore, and nieces and neph-
ews: Emily and Caitlin Dates, Henry, Thom-
as and Eleanor Harris, as well as numerous
dear cousins.
Family will receive friends on Sunday, Sep-
tember 11, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Everly-Wheat-
ley Funeral Home, 1500 W. Braddock Road,
Alexandria, Virginia. A Service of Witness
to the Resurrection is planned for Septem-
ber 12, at 12 p.m. at Westminster Presby-
terian Church, 2701 Cameron Mills Road,
Alexandria, Virginia. Livestream available at:
https://wpc-alex.org/katherine-mccart-me-
morial-service/
In lieu of flowers, please consider a contri-
bution in KK’s memory to support the caus-
es that were dear to her and to which she
gave so much of herself at: The Katherine
Harris McCart Memorial Fund, c/o Daven-
port & Company LLC, 901 East Cary Street,
Suite 1100, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
IN MEMORIAM
WASHINGTON
TANYA LARAE WASHINGTON
September 10, 2016
Principal Washington, Lives are still
changing from your good works. R.I.P.
Love, Mom and Kim
DEATH NOTICE
DEMETER
EDWARD REID DEMETER
6/16/1924 - 9/4/2022
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
See Jefferson Funeral Chapel website for
bio and funeral details.
HENRY
KATHRYN L. HENRY
On Saturday, September 3, 2022 Kathryn
Lynn Henry (63) passed away in Fairfax VA.
She graduated University of Georgia in Me-
dia Journalism; was on air personality for
stations in Dothan, Al, Waco, El Paso, TX
before joining the government with NHTSA
(Media relations) previous 30 years. She is
survived by Charles and Sandra Henry (par-
ents), brother Mark, his wife Brenda, and
nieces, Dianna Archer (Seth), Virginia Hen-
ry. Funeral and celebration of life services
to be conducted Sunday viewing from 12
to 2 p.m., Funeral and Celebration of Life
2 p.m. on September 11,2022 Fairfax Me-
morial Funeral Home, 9902 Braddock Rd.,
Fairfax, VA 22032. In lieu of flowers, a chari-
table contribution to animal welfare to pro-
vide health and protection especially cats.
ALTOBELLO
DANIEL J. ALTOBELLO
Daniel J. Altobello, of Potomac, Maryland,
died peacefully on September 2, 2022 af-
ter a long illness. He was born in Westfield,
Massachusetts on February 28, 1941 and
grew up in Meriden, Connecticut. Dan grad-
uated from the Canterbury School, Class
of 1959. He then graduated from George-
town University, Class of 1963, where he
was President of the Yard. He remained at
Georgetown to begin his professional ca-
reer serving in Alumni Relations, Assistant to
several Presidents, Secretary of the Univer-
sity and Vice President for Administration.
Georgetown recognized his service with the
John Carroll Award in 1984.
In 1979 Dan joined Marriott Corporation
leading the Institutional Food Service divi-
sion. A superior business leader, he was
subsequently promoted to Executive Vice
President of the Inflight Services Division. In
1989 he led a management buyout of that
division, founding Caterair International Cor-
poration where he was President and Chief
Executive Officer.
DRESNER
MARITA DRESNER
Marita Dresner nee Pevsner, on Thursday,
September 1, 2022, in Washington, DC. She
is survived by daughter Denny (Denise);
grandson Alexander; nephews Matthew
Morse and Jesse Morse; and a wide circle of
friends. Born in Moscow, she grew up in Italy
until her family emigrated to the US in 1939
POTTER
JAMES CRAIG POTTER
James Craig Potter, environmental lawyer of
Alexandria, Virginia, passed away of brain
cancer on July 1, 2022. He was 78.
Though raised in Illinois, Craig’s true home
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Dan was a true people person-a mentor to
many with a gift for remembering names.
He was a talented negotiator and served as
a Director of numerous corporations includ-
ing Mesa Air Group, World Air Holdings, Inc.,
Arlington Asset Investment Corp. and Dia-
mond Rock Hospitality Company. He served
on the Board of Trustees of the Canterbury
School for 12 years. He was Board Chair of
CareFirst of Maryland, Suburban Hospital
Foundation, Mount Holyoke College and
Loyola University of Maryland
In his middle years Dan developed a passion
for golf and eventually scored three holes-
in-one. Although he played many famous
courses, he remained devoted to Burning
Tree Golf Club where he was Club President
from 2010-2012. He was admired and loved
by CEOs and caddies alike. He always had a
kind word and friendly greeting. Dan was a
true gentleman and a loyal friend. He was
a collector of fine pens, a talented calligra-
pher, a sampler of red wines and a lover of
Italian food.
He leaves behind his wife of 59 loving years,
Maureen Cahill Altobello, two sons, Mark
Altobello (Karen) and David Altobello (Lee);
six grandchildren, Andrew, Anna, Tom-
my, Derek, Michael and Brady, and sisters
Patricia and Suzanne Altobello.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Our
Lady of Mercy Church, 9200 Kentsdale Drive,
Potomac, Maryland on Friday, September 16
at 11 a.m.
Dan’s youngest grandson suffers from
SYNGAP1, a rare disease that causes an
intellectual disability and epilepsy. To honor
Dan’s memory donations may be sent to
SYNGAP1 Foundation (1012 14th Street, NW
#500, Washington, DC 20005) or to his alma
mater, Georgetown University.
when Italy’s Racial Laws came out.
After attending Black Mountain College, she
was posted by the War Department to Al-
giers as a translator (she was fluent in four
languages, with a working knowledge of two
more). She then worked for the IRO (Interna-
tional Refugee Organization) as chief intake
officer at Displaced Persons camps in Italy.
In 1952 she met and married Edmund Dres-
ner and they settled in Manhattan, where
she worked for Radio Free Europe and the
ACWA labor union until her children were
born. The family moved to Rome in 1968,
where she worked for HIAS as a caseworker
for Soviet emigrants until 1975, and then at
HIAS Vienna for a few years. Before moving
to Washington in 1984, she spent a year in
Jerusalem, where she studied Hebrew. She
was a “behind the scenes” volunteer at the
Smithsonian for 25 years.
Marita will be remembered and deeply
missed by the many friends whose lives
she touched with her warmth, kindness and
generosity.
A memorial service will be held at a later
date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contribu-
tions may be made to the National Cancer
Institute.”
was Wyoming, where he began his legal
career and fell in love with the outdoors.
In 1975 Craig moved to DC for a staff attor-
ney position on Capitol Hill. From there he
served in several presidential appointments
at the Interior Department, and eventually
lead the air program at the EPA. In 1980,
Craig met Louise Carter, a schoolteacher
from Baltimore. They were married in 1982,
had their only son Spencer in 1983, and ear-
lier this year celebrated 40-years together.
Following his government service, Craig be-
gan a thriving private legal practice and es-
tablished himself as a nationally recognized
environmental attorney specializing in clean
air, clean water, and endangered species
issues. His proudest professional accom-
plishment was the 30-years of conservation
work he did for the San Diego Zoo.
Craig is remembered as a man of many
interests, a passionate environmentalist, a
devoted father and husband, a first-class
fisherman, and a lover of life. A service in
memory of Craig will be held at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church in Alexandria, VA, at 11
a.m. on October 22, 2022.
DEATH NOTICE
BRINDLEY
LESLIE BRINDLEY 1953 - 2022
Leslie Alan “Les” Brindley, 68, of Arlington,
VA, a former assistant news editor at The
Washington Post, died at Virginia Hospital
Center on August 24, 2022 due to compli-
cations from cardiac arrhythmia. His death
is mourned by a wide circle of family and
lifelong friends, as well as colleagues from
a 30+ year career at daily newspapers that
also included the Beaumont (Texas) Enter-
prise, Philadelphia Bulletin, Montgomery
(MD.) Journal and Baltimore Sun.
He joined The Washington Post in 1994,
working first in the sports and business
sections and then moving to its News Desk
– the white-hot center of the newsroom
action he loved. While it was grueling work
with overnight hours and merciless dead-
lines, he was always thrilled to be involved
in A-1 decision-making and to be part of the
team of highly dedicated colleagues who
HALL
MARIE-BETH HALL (Age 89)
Marie-Beth Hall passed away August 4, 2022
at her home in Ashburn, Virginia. A 1953
graduate of Radcliffe College, “Boots” as she
was known to her family and friends joined
Pan American Airways as a flight attendant
and purser, and flew worldwide for eight
years. That job in those days allowed her to
golf in Scotland, ski in Kitzbuhel and enjoy
the sights of the western Pacific on her time
off. She qualified as a pilot in small aircraft
and also flew sailplanes.
In 1961 Boots married Jack Hall, whom she
had met during their college days. This was
the beginning of a 61-year partnership. Be-
cause Jack was deployed with the Navy for
months at a time, Boots had most of the
responsibility for raising their four children
during their early years. In the late 1970s
she began a career as an editor and tech-
nical writer at the Department of Energy.
There she met Jean Ebbert, also the wife of
a Navy Captain, and the two of them decid-
ed to research and write about women in
the Navy outside the framework of WAVEs
INMAN
PAMELA BUSS INMAN “Pam”
September 11, 1946 - August 19, 2022
Our beloved Pam “Geepa” went home to be
with her Lord and Savior in the early hours
of the morning of August 19, 2022. She died
peacefully in Fairfax, Virginia. A resident of
Virginia for many years during her adult life
and again at the end of her life, Pam was an
immeasurable blessing to countless people,
and she was truly unique to all of us.
She was born in Whittier, California, to loving
parents and an older brother, all of whom
adored her for her sweet, gentle, thought-
ful spirit. Her father’s job took the family
all over the world, including to Puerto Rico,
where she grew up.
Pam married Charles “Chuck” Priestley In-
man, Jr. in 1970, after meeting him when the
two were students at the University of Rich-
mond, where Pam graduated with honors.
Chuck’s career took the couple to many lo-
cations, including Austin, Texas where they
had their son, Houston, Texas, Miami, Flori-
da, back to Richmond and more recently to
Princeton, New Jersey.
Pam greeted everyone she encountered
with a smile, a warm welcome, and a genu-
ine happiness about seeing them. Instead of
NOOTER
ROBERT H. NOOTER
Robert H. Nooter, 96, died from complica-
tions of a stroke on September 3, 2022 at
his home in Bethesda, surrounded by family.
Bob, also affectionately known as Noot, was
an international development leader with
the US Agency for International Develop-
ment and the World Bank, an ethnographic
art collector, museum volunteer leader, and
an avid tennis player, even into his 90s.
Mr. Nooter worked at the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) for most
of the 1960s and 70s, rising to the rank of
deputy administrator and serving as acting
administrator for a year. He was mission
director in Uruguay and Liberia and was as-
sistant administrator in charge of the eco-
nomic programs in Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos during the Vietnam War. Among other
responsibilities, he started the economic
assistance programs in Egypt, Israel, Jordan,
and Syria after the 1973 Sadat-Begin agree-
ment.
In 1980 Mr. Nooter joined the World Bank
where he was the resident representative
in Tanzania, country officer for Sudan, and
deputy department director for East Africa.
As a World Bank consultant following his
retirement, he worked on assignments in
Africa, East Asia, the Caribbean, Ukraine, the
Baltics and the Caucuses.
While in Liberia in the 70s, he and his artist
wife Nancy, developed a passion for ethno-
graphic art that continued throughout his
life. In addition to an extensive collection of
African art, the couple collected traditional
art from the Native American peoples of
the American Southwest, Plains, California,
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put out each day’s paper.
Les never became cynical regarding the vital
mission of journalism and the importance
of accurately and appropriately presenting
news to readers, whether the story was the
Jonestown massacre in Guyana, an elec-
tion-night upset, a gruesome murder trial,
the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Beltway snip-
er case or the more quotidian events that fill
most news cycles.
He stepped back from the Post during a
2009 round of voluntary staff reductions,
and happily embarked on retirement. He
traveled widely, read broadly and spent time
enjoying the performing arts and gardening.
He also became a proficient chef: “Never
turn down an invitation if Les is cooking!”
his guests would say. He loved meeting
new people and hearing their views, and
could engage in intelligent conversation
on just about any topic. A friendly, candid,
warm-hearted person who drew others to
him, he will be greatly missed by his friends
and family.
Survivors include his wife, Lisa Tocci; three
sisters, Priscilla “Sunny” Martin of Winter-
port, ME, Anna Rosica and her husband
Chuck, of Palmyra, NJ, and Patricia Salmon
and her husband Steve, of Cinnaminson,
NJ; and a brother, James Brindley and his
wife Jan, of Virginia Beach, VA. Plus scores
of cousins, nephews and nieces, and their
offspring.
A commemorative celebration of Les’s life
is planned for a later date. In lieu of flowers,
his family suggests donating to the Salva-
tion Army National Capital Area Command,
2626 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20037, or to another charity devoted to as-
sisting those in need. To read more about
Les, visit www.everlyfuneralhome.com
and nurses. This labor of love took ten years
of their spare time and was originally pub-
lished in 1993. Boots and Jean updated the
book twice and the third edition is titled
“Crossed Currents: Navy Women in a Cen-
tury of Change,” published in 1999. Their re-
search pointed them toward another untold
story and in 2002 they also published “The
First the Few the Forgotten: Navy and Ma-
rine Corps Women in World War I.”
Boots’s connection to the US Navy extend-
ed far beyond her books. Her father Albert
Walsh was a Naval Academy graduate who
served in World War II, her husband and sons
served and Boots was deeply involved with
the Navy Relief Society, volunteering many
of hours of work over a period of years in
addition to meeting her family responsibili-
ties when Jack was deployed.
Boots was well known in both the local
and national swimming communities, of-
ficiating at meets ranging from the local
summer league to Olympic Trials. She was
also a Life Member of US Swimming. As a
long-time official she served as the Officials’
Chair for Potomac Valley Swimming and the
Eastern Zone. In 2008, Boots was presented
the Maxwell Award by USA Swimming to
recognize her dedication and contributions
to local swimming, and in 2019 Potomac
Valley created the Boots Hall PVS Official of
the Year Award to honor those who demon-
strate exceptional dedication and support to
Potomac Valley Swimming. Most important-
ly, she was a mentor and friend to a gener-
ation of officials.
Boots and Jack enjoyed duplicate bridge and
competed in tournaments and club games
for many years. She was a member of the
American Contract Bridge League and held
the rank of Silver Life Master.
Boots is survived by her husband, her broth-
er Robert Walsh, four children and their
spouses, and six grandchildren. Funeral ser-
vices will be private.
speaking of herself, she preferred to inquire
about others and genuinely learn about and
care for them. She had a heart for children
and, at certain times in her life, instructed
preschool-age children, all of whom she
blessed with her patient, gentle nature.
Most of all, Pam was well-known to select
beautiful greeting cards and pen lengthy,
heartfelt messages to friends and family.
She did this with such frequency that many
often wondered how she could accomplish
it. She took joy in doing it.
She was instrumental in assisting Chuck
with the Battle Against Hunger, an organi-
zation that she and Chuck began alongside
close friends in 2002. Pam volunteered
countless hours and joined Chuck in en-
suring that the organization could bless as
many people as possible, via donations that
go directly to organizations such as soup
kitchens, shelters, and places the Lord uses
to bless the least of these. After Chuck’s un-
timely, sudden death in 2014, Pam sought to
continue blessing the organization.
Pam’s Christian faith was her foundation.
She was undoubtedly secure in knowing
that, once the Lord called her home, she
would joyfully arrive at heaven’s gate to
meet her departed husband and others
about whom she cared. Attending church
services and consistently learning Scrip-
ture gave Pam joy. Given her sweet, peace-
ful spirt, it is not surprising that she often
leaned on Psalm 46:10: “Be still and know
that I am God.”
Pam is survived by her son, Charlie Inman
(Katie); granddaughter Sydney and grandson
Andrew; her brother, Douglass Buss; sister-
in-law, Barbara Buss, and Chuck’s sister,
Carol. Her nieces and nephew also held a
special place in her heart.
A memorial service will occur at Green-
spring Chapel on the campus of Greenspring
Senior Living Community in Springfield, Vir-
ginia, on September 11, 2022 at 2 p.m. Inter-
ment will follow at a later date at Arlington
National Cemetery, where she will be laid to
rest with Chuck.
and the Northwest Coast/Alaska; Ethiopian
religious art; Russian icons; Japanese scroll
paintings; and traditional art from Tibet,
Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. The
Nooters often lent their art to museum ex-
hibitions and frequently welcomed visitors
to their home collection in Washington, D.C.
He and Nancy donated art to the National
Museum of African Art, the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, the Balti-
more Museum of Art, the Walters Museum
in Baltimore, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. He assembled an extensive
collection of Caucasian flat-woven textiles
(kilims, horse covers, bags, and sumac rugs),
and wrote the book Flat-Woven Rugs and
Textiles from the Caucasus, published in
2004.
Robert Harry Nooter was born in Webster
Groves, Missouri on July 14, 1926, graduat-
ed from Webster Groves High School and
attended Purdue University before entering
the Marine Corps in 1944. He graduated
from the University of California at Berkeley
in 1947.
In 1951-52 he served as a Marine Corps
First Lieutenant in the Korean War where he
received a medal of commendation for his
leadership during combat.
In his early career, he worked at the Nooter
Corporation in St. Louis for 14 years, before
joining the Kennedy Administration in 1962
to work at USAID.
Mr. Nooter was a board member or trustee
of the National Museum of African Art (for
30 years, twice serving as chairman), the
Textile Museum in Washington and the Mu-
seum of African Art in New York. He was a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
the Haji Baba Society and the Cosmos Club.
His papers, including his Korean War letters
and USAID materials, are housed at the Li-
brary of Congress.
He was also the patriarch of a large fami-
ly. He was predeceased by his loving wife
of 73 years, Nancy Ingram Nooter, and his
daughter Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts. He
leaves behind daughter Anne Ruch (Scott)
and sons Tom Nooter (Alice), William Nooter
(Elissa Free) and Rob Nooter (Barbara), son-
in-law, Allen Roberts, 12 grandchildren, and
10 great-grandchildren. Noot was the prima-
ry caregiver for his wife, Nancy, for the last
several years of her life.
A memorial service will take place at the
River Road Unitarian Universalist Congrega-
tion, 6301 River Road in Bethesda on Sun-
day, October 9, 2022 at 1:30 p.m.
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Once-threatened elk herds are now thriving in Va.

ELK FROM B1

She said the bulls also make

the bugle sound to “warn other
males that ‘I’m big and bad. Stay
away from me.’ ”
In the fall, she said, it’s a good
time to see — and hear — the elks
because they’re so focused on
breeding that they care less about
people being around: “They’re DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES

only focused on one thing.” Workers with the Baltimore City Department of Public Works
For those who want to make the distribute jugs of water to residents on Tuesday.
trip, there are three viewing spots
in Virginia’s Buchanan County, MARYLAND
about six hours from D.C. and
west of Blacksburg. There are also
several options for guided tours.
Elk are large animals and
Baltimore o∞cials end
require shade to keep their body
temperature regulated, so experts
advise the best time for seeing
city’s boil water advisory
them is early mornings after sun-
rise and evenings at dusk. BY J ENNA P ORTNOY Jason Mitchell, director of the
Rarely are they seen during the Baltimore City Department of Pub-
middle of the day, especially in Baltimore officials on Friday lic Works, said the city has ruled
warmer weather. They tend to morning lifted a boil water advi- out problems with the water treat-
bed down in forested areas or sory for all areas in the city but ment plant but that water main
dense vegetation. As the daytime continued to search for the source breaks, construction and a valve
temperatures get cooler, they’re of E. coli contamination. repair in a small section of West
likely to come out and roam more, “The health and well-being of Baltimore are “leading candidates”
looking for food, experts said. If our residents is our top priority, for what might be behind the con-
lucky, a viewer can see 50 elk in a HAZEL DELANEY THOMPSON and we will keep working diligent- tamination. Multiple factors could
herd together. Elk roam in a field in Buchanan County, Va. Early fall, their mating season, is the best time to see them. ly to determine the source of the be to blame or the search could be
Officials with Virginia’s wild- contamination and monitor for inconclusive, he said.
life agency recently launched an authorities. Elk need forested areas to pro- as it is commonly called, “involves illness,” Mayor Brandon Scott (D) “We’ll let the science and data
elk webcam that allows viewers to As with a lot of other species, tect themselves from heat and removing earth to expose the coal said at a news conference. lead us to that location,” Mitchell
watch the herd. For the past few there was no regulated hunting, people, as well as nearby access to beds and later putting the earth West Baltimore and parts of said.
years, the webcam has attracted “so it was just ‘willy-nilly’ on fields of grass and plants to eat. back where it was,” Rosenberger Baltimore County had been under Advocates and elected officials
about 50,000 views per year, offi- harvesting elk,” Rosenberger So experts in Virginia worked said. She said the land, once re- a boil water advisory since Mon- in Baltimore have called for
cials said. The camera typically said. “People were just hunting to clean and restore about 2,600 claimed, is safe for elk and other day, after the Baltimore City De- investment in the city’s aging wa-
runs until late December and with no limits.” acres previously used for coal wildlife to inhabit. partment of Public Works found E. ter and wastewater infrastructure
allows viewers a unique chance to She said people also drastically mines to create a good habitat for “Mining doesn’t look pretty coli bacteria at three sites in the to head off problems. City officials
see female elk, or cows as they’re altered the elk habitats, further the herd. Elk are on reclaimed when it’s actively occurring but city. Officials narrowed the affect- will discount water bills 25
called, come back from their contributing to their near demise. mine land in other parts of the after it’s reclaimed,” she said, “it ed area Thursday, after two of the percent in the next cycle.
“calving areas” with their young In 2012, an effort was launched country as well, including in West has made for some excellent early three sites tested negative for It’s unclear whether the water
to more open fields. — involving more than a half- Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania successional habitat.” contamination. contamination has sickened any
Elk were once common before dozen partners, including the and parts of Tennessee. In Virginia, the rehabilitated Officials urged residents to residents, Baltimore City Health
the 1600s across eastern North Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Strip mining for coal involves land, with partly wooded areas, flush the water systems in their Commissioner Letitia Dzirasa
America, and in Virginia they Southwest Virginia Sportsmen clearing a mountaintop of trees has provided an ideal spot for homes and businesses by letting said.
were found mainly west of the and landowners in Buchanan and vegetation. Experts said there wildlife — including white-tailed the tap run for at least 15 minutes Of two cases previously under
Blue Ridge Mountains. But they County — to bring elk back in are strict rules in place for making deer, birds, wild turkeys, insects and to discard ice trays. investigation, symptoms in a mi-
were over-hunted and their habi- Virginia. Seventy-one adult elks sure mining companies follow reg- and black bears — and the elk Water distribution will contin- nor cleared on their own. The oth-
tats were destroyed by the late and four calves were brought ulations after they’re done mining herd, which roams more than ue until noon on Saturday at one er individual is hospitalized with
1800s. The last known elk to be from nearby southeastern Ken- in an area for it to be cleaned and 10,000 acres, stretching across location: 1401 W. Lafayette Ave., sickness due to E. coli bacteria, she
harvested in Virginia was in 1855, tucky to the Buchanan County reused for other purposes. The Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise Harlem Park Middle/Elementary said, but the case has not been
according to Virginia wildlife area. mining, or mountaintop removal counties. School. linked to the water.

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Queen Elizabeth II, left, wearing a dress with embroidered California poppies. chats with first lady Nancy Reagan in 1983 before a gala honoring the monarch in Los Angeles.

A wardrobe fit for a queen

Queen Elizabeth II’s fashion
selections weren’t fussy, but
they made quite a statement
BY A SHLEY F ETTERS M ALOY

For decades now, it has been relatively easy

to dress up — for Halloween, maybe, or for
laughs at any given royal-wedding or Jubilee
watch party — as the Queen of England. All one
needs, so the common wisdom goes, are a solid
and brightly colored boxy skirt suit with a
brooch on the left shoulder, a matching hat (or,
for extra credit, umbrella) and white gloves,
with a handbag swinging gently on one fore-
arm. And perhaps a white wig.
Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday at
age 96 after reigning for more than 70 years,
undoubtedly had a uniform. In her early years
on the throne, in her 20s and 30s, the young
queen was known to wear practical but elegant
clothes. She wore gowns with clean lines and
full skirts at formal events and artfully tailored
skirt suits and dresses in the daytime, un-dar-
ing in the necklines and nipped in at the waists.
And in her later years, of course, her taste for
modest, traditional elegance distilled itself
into what we now know as her usual public-fac-
ing outfit, which as many have pointed out,
communicated the consistency and stability of
the crown even as the United Kingdom evolved
dramatically in the 20th and 21st centuries.
But the queen’s wardrobe was consistently
imbued with deeper meanings, seen as convey-
ing support or affection for other countries and
MARK CUTHBURT/GETTY IMAGES
communities, or even asserting power, when ASSOCIATED PRESS

The queen, pictured in in Cashel, Ireland, in 2011, wore outfits necessary. And because Elizabeth’s reign be- President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan with the queen
that conveyed a traditional elegance. SEE FASHION ON C2 in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1961.

‘Claim to Fame’ finds

VORACIOUSLY THEATER REVIEW

Is new Girl Scouts cookie celebrity connections
worth rallying around?
BY E MILY H EIL
Let’s start with the indisput-
able, scientifically proven fact
that Thin Mints are the superior
Girl Scouts cookie. (Sorry, Samoa
fans, I don’t make the rules here.)
And so you can hardly blame the
folks in charge of Girl Scouts of
the USA’s cookie operations for
wanting to recapture the magic of
the mighty, minty, chocolate-coat-
ed delight.
That’s clearly the impetus be-
hind the Raspberry Rally, the new
treat joining the lineup for the
2023 cookie season. It’s being
billed as the “sister” to its minty
forebear, and it has a similar
makeup: a crispy disk covered in
the same “chocolaty coating.” The
difference is in the flavor, of
course, with raspberry subbing
for the mint, and in the color —
instead of the classic cocoa-col-
ored interior, the Rallys are a
cotton-candy pink.
But like a movie sequel that
doesn’t live up to the original
(think “Dirty Dancing: Havana
Nights,” not “Top Gun: Maverick”),
the new cookie isn’t in the same
class as the Thin Mint. Granted, it
SEE VORACIOUSLY ON C4
BY S ONIA R AO
In ABC’s “Claim to Fame,”
celebrity is a double-edged
sword. A familial relation to
someone famous, be it your aunt
Cindy Crawford or your grandfa-
ther Chuck Norris, is your golden
ticket onto the reality competi-
tion show. But the moment
you’re selected as one of a dozen
anonymous contestants, celebri-
ty becomes a weakness. The
easier it is to guess your relative,
the sooner you’re sent packing.
The goal is to make it 10 weeks
in a shared house without any-
one sussing out your claim to
fame. The premise invites cyni-
cism: Granting famous people’s
lesser known or entirely un-
known relatives weekly airtime
solely because of those unearned
connections could be interpreted
as their riding coattails. Add to
that the calculated casting of
Kevin and Frankie Jonas as
hosts, the latter of whom was for
years cursed with the nickname
“Bonus Jonas,” a reference to his
not participating in the Jonas
Brothers with his three older
siblings. (It should be noted that
Kevin, while a host here, is still in
the band.)
But with each episode of
“Claim to Fame,” which conclud-
SEE TV ON C2
‘No Place to Go’ employs
charm with a solo star
BY T HOMAS F LOYD
“No Place to Go,” Ethan Lip-
ton’s irreverent musical about en-
tering the void of the unem-
ployed, yields knowing laughter
from the apparent absurdity of a
“permanent part-time” job. But if
there ever were an endorsement
for such an arrangement, it may
be star Bobby Smith — who as a
Signature freelancer, like most
actors the theater employs, is
marking his 28th production
with the Arlington troupe.
A surrealist and semi-autobiog-
raphical one-man show of sorts,
first staged by Lipton and his
three-person band at New York’s
Joe’s Pub in 2012, “No Place to Go”
has never been performed by any-
one other than its author until
now. Unsurprisingly, the endlessly
appealing Smith proves himself to
be a worthy successor. As the
50-year-old George, a part-time
information refiner and side-hus-
tling writer who learns that his job
is moving to Mars, Smith balances
the character’s world weariness
with natural charm and the sar-
donic edge of a man who can only
laugh at his lot in life.
SEE THEATER REVIEW ON C2
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‘Reassuring and recognizable’

FASHION FROM C1
gan in 1952, a time before women
were regularly seen at the highest
levels of government in the West-
ern world, she helped set a stan-
dard in politics-adjacent womens-
wear.
Queen Elizabeth’s public-fac-
ing image was “smart on the
whole, clean-cut, which I think
was a very 1950s thing, really. Not
much fuss,” says Philip Mansel, a
fellow at the Institute of Historical
Research in London, as well as the
author of “Dressed to Rule,” a book
about how rulers have controlled
their public images.
The queen’s style at home var-
ied slightly, Mansel notes: “In her
last photograph, greeting Liz
Truss, her last prime minister,
she’s very simply dressed in a
woolen skirt and woolen jersey
and woolen jacket,” which, for a
certain generation of English peo-
ple, is “exactly like everybody’s
aunt or mother.”
But in public, and in her later
years especially, “I think she al-
ways wanted to be two things:
reassuring and recognizable,”
Mansel says. Being an instantly
identifiable pillar of color was her
way of “trying to reassure people,
despite all the changes going on.”
Malcolm Barnard, the author of
“Fashion as Communication,”
wrote in an email to The Washing-
ton Post that this “kind of clothing
exemplifies values that are homol-
ogous or that fit with what one
might assume a ruling class’s val-
ues to be — those of resistance to
change, a desire for continuity, the
continuity of their dominant posi-
tions, for example.”
Indeed, Queen Elizabeth fa-
mously insisted on a rather formal
dress code for royal events. Once,
in 2002, she chastised a BBC cam-
eraman at a Royal Ascot event for
failing to wear a top hat and tails.
The stylish-but-modest daytime
dress code that Kate Middleton,
Meghan Markle, Camilla Parker
Bowles and others have followed
strictly in their time as members
of the royal family is a tradition
that dates back to Elizabeth’s
mother and grandmother, Mansel
says.
The one person who tried to
break the mold, Mansel adds, was
Princess Diana. Her style, espe-
cially when she was married to
now King Charles III, deviated
subtly from the royal formula,
sometimes incorporating more
masculine or more girlish touch-
es, like double-breasted military-
style jackets and the occasional
dropped-waist dress.
Nevertheless, Queen Elizabeth,
who has been called “a link be-
tween the end of an empire and
the beginning of a cosmopolitan
liberal democracy,” helped ce-
ment the contemporary uniform
for powerful women, proliferated
in her time on the throne. Boxy,
mid-length skirt suits are still
seen in United States government
buildings, and on women in poli-
tics throughout the Western
world. And Mansel points out that
Margaret Thatcher, the United
Kingdom’s first female prime
minister, wore “slightly formal
clothes, slightly like the queen’s,
and always a handbag.”
The queen also helped uphold
the powerful tradition of “fashion
diplomacy.” As Bethan Holt writes
in the 2022 book “The Queen: 70
Years of Majestic Style,” the mon-
arch has long been known to in-
corporate small, thoughtful
touches that nod to the local cul-
ture when she travels. On the
queen’s state visit to Ireland in
2011, Holt writes, when she was
eager to repair relations with the
neighboring nation, she wore a
deep green wool-crepe coat and a
MAXWELLS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
corresponding green-printed silk
dress upon arrival, and to a state
dinner she wore a gown adorned
with more than 2,000 tiny silk
shamrocks.
At a dinner in Canada in 2010,
the queen wore a white lace gown
with Swarovski crystal maple
leaves glittering across her shoul-
ders. She wore a gown embroi-
dered with California poppies to
meet President Ronald Reagan in
1983, a gown with an emerald-
and-white train like the Pakistani
flag when she visited in 1961, and
an outfit in shades of heather and
thistle to show her affection for
Scotland upon the formation of
the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
And as Mansel points out, she
also occasionally chose colors that
asserted her power. Upon meeting
the cardinal Archbishop of West-
minster, the head of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United
CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES Kingdom, she wore red to match
TOP: Queen Elizabeth II, left, with Irish President the cardinal’s red garments: “To
Mary McAllese in Dublin in 2011. ABOVE: The say she was just as holy and sa-
queen wears an embroidered hat at Dublin cred, in her eyes.”
Memorial Garden on the same trip. The queen’s particular habit of
communicating through small
details has flourished in the politi-
cal world. Princess Diana wore a
red polka-dot dress in Japan in
1986, a clear homage to the na-
tion’s rising-sun flag. First lady Jill
Biden wore a sunflower embroi-
dered on a royal-blue dress in
March of this year to signal sup-
port for Ukraine in its conflict
with Russia. Madeleine Albright
chose her pins strategically when
she served as U.S. secretary of
state. And in the United Kingdom,
Brenda Hale, the president of the
Supreme Court, made headlines
when she wore a brooch in the
shape of a spider to deliver her
verdict concerning Prime Minis-
ter Boris Johnson’s prorogation of
Parliament in 2019. “Some of us
recalled The Who’s song, ‘Boris
The Spider,’ ” Barnard wrote,
while others thought of Walter
Scott’s ‘tangled web’ of lies and
deceit in his 1808 poem ‘Marmi-
on.’ ”
Of course, a separate tradition
of fashion diplomacy has also
flourished: wearing clothes de-
signed by a member of a particu-
lar community as a sign of respect
or support. When she visited India
in 2009, first lady Michelle Obama
wore a cream-colored strapless
gown and a skirt designed by Indi-
an American designers Naeem
Khan and Rachel Roy, respective-
ly. On a 2019 visit to the United
Kingdom, Ivanka Trump wore en-
sembles by such British designers
as Safiyaa, Burberry and Alessan-
dra Rich. The tradition can be
traced all the way back to Mary
Todd Lincoln, who wore gowns
designed by a formerly enslaved
designer, Elizabeth Keckley.
Queen Elizabeth, by contrast,
almost always wore the work of
British designers, a tradition dat-
ing back to centuries-ago mon-
archs like King Louis XIV, who,
Mansel notes, “was obsessed with
launching the French fashion in-
dustry. So he wore French silk,
French embroidery, French lace,
above all, to do better than Vene-
tian lace, and got the ladies of his
court to do that.”
The queen did, after all, sit atop
a monarchy known for its coloni-
zation and conquest, and her in-
sistence on English-made designs
could be seen as in alignment with
the British Empire’s history of
promoting its own supremacy.
Still, Mansel says, the queen’s
clothes weren’t typically contro-
versial. They were appreciated,
both within and outside the Unit-
ed Kingdom. “A lot of French peo-
ple liked her clothes,” for example,
“because they weren’t French.
They were different,” Mansel says.
“They represented Britain.”

‘No Place to A celebrity relatives show early in the season. L.C. sails
through the later challenges,
even without access to phones or

Go’ gets the TV FROM C1 relatives. And from that point,

we hit from all directions.”
the internet. Logan keeps things
light, even when he is “as lost as a
fart in the wind” (his words).

job done ed its first season Tuesday night,

THEATER REVIEW FROM C1
Whether he’s wielding a sly
eyebrow raise or pregnant pause,
Smith brings comic sense to Lip-
ton’s spot-on satire of corporate
culture and the daily office grind.
George is amusingly obtuse about
most everything — work, family,
political beliefs — in a way that
speaks to the cold calculus that
converts humans into numbers
on a spreadsheet. His complaints
about rising rents and substan-
dard insurance sent pangs of rec-
ognition through the audience on
Thursday’s opening night, as did
his tragically misguided fantasy
that his employer will recognize
his value or rue his absence once
he’s gone.
Smith’s cavernous vocal range
allows him to not only traverse, but
also elevate Lipton’s irresistible
score (co-composed by original
bandmates Eben Levy, Vito Dieter-
le and Ian M. Riggs). That song-
book leans on blues and jazz, with
enjoyable detours into country (the
toe-tapping romp “Aging Middle-
Class Parents”) and dance pop
(“Soccer Song,” a pitch-perfect
sendup of rec sports’ quirks).
George’s bandmates — saxophon-
ist Sal (Grant Langford), guitarist
Jonah (Tom Lagana) and bass play-
Bobby Smith balances his character’s world weariness with charm
and the sardonic edge of a man who can only laugh at his lot in life.
er Duke (Riggs, a member of Lip-
ton’s band who also serves as music
director here) — punctuate their
musical contributions with dashes
of levity.
Under director Matthew Gar-
diner, who has reimagined this
lounge show as something more
theatrical, “No Place to Go” un-
folds in scenic designer Paige
Hathaway’s instantly identifiable
office drone habitat. The set
comes complete with AstroTurf-
green carpeting, wood-paneling
and a bulky copy machine,
though there’s more to the design
than meets the eye. Max Doolit-
tle’s lighting accentuates the dif-
ference between George’s sober-
ing storytelling and his musical
tangents, as fluorescent lights
give way to pops of green on
brassy interludes about that last
sandwich in the conference room
and striking strobe lights liven a
CHRISTOPHER MUELLER
rip-roaring number.
Although Lipton wrote “No
Place to Go” in response to the
financial crisis more than a dec-
ade ago, Gardiner’s shrewd deci-
sion to revive the show amid the
pandemic accentuates the un-
nerving specter of joblessness. If
this is an employee evaluation,
then he gets full marks — for
casting Smith, of course, and for
understanding that “No Place to
Go” has a way forward.
No Place to Go, by Ethan Lipton.
Music by Lipton, Eben Levy, Ian M.
Riggs and Vito Dieterle. Directed by
Matthew Gardiner. Music direction,
Riggs; set, Paige Hathaway;
costumes, Frederick P. Deeben;
lighting, Max Doolittle; sound, Matt
Rowe. About 85 minutes. Through
Oct. 16 at Signature Theatre, 4200
Campbell Ave., Arlington.
sigtheatre.org.
it becomes clearer that everyone
present is keenly aware of the
dynamic at play. The show asks
its contestants temporarily to
erase their relations and work
for the $100,000 prize using
their own charm and wit. They
reclaim their identities in the
public sphere, revealing the fu-
tile nature of a fluke celebrity
connection.
Casting the show proved diffi-
cult, even for Donna Driscoll,
who has been in this part of the
business since auditions were
sent in on VHS tapes. As the
executive vice president for cast-
ing and talent at Kinetic Content,
a production company whose
roster includes shows such as
“Love Is Blind” and “Married at
First Sight,” Driscoll led the team
that put out a flier advertising
the search for the relatives of
celebrities. In a recent interview,
she described it as depicting “an
average Joe on a red carpet.”
Not a single person respond-
ed. “We had to work for every
single applicant,” Driscoll said.
“When you reach out to people
and they are celebrity-adjacent,
there’s skepticism. They want to
make sure it’s a legitimate oppor-
tunity. The starting point for us
on Day One of casting was identi-
fying a list of over 4,000 celebri-
ties we would be interested in
trying to research to find their
Driscoll’s team hit up celebri-
ties, their publicists and some-
times the lesser-known relatives
themselves. They sent emails
and Instagram messages, even-
tually generating enough inter-
est to move on sto the interview
process, during which the team
still had to reassure potential
contestants nervous about “mak-
ing sure they were able to repre-
sent themselves and their fami-
lies in a positive way,” Driscoll
said.
In this sense, the show’s first
season strays from much of the
reality television we have come
to know: These contestants were
already acquainted with the
downsides of fame. Their moti-
vations were part of the vetting
process, according to Driscoll,
who said some contestants want-
ed to support their families or
pursue entrepreneurial dreams.
Most didn’t set out with the
intention of maximizing their
screen time to launch high-pro-
file careers of their own, as is
often the case on shows such as
“The Bachelorette,” which pre-
ceded “Claim to Fame” in ABC’s
Monday night schedule.
That doesn’t mean they
wouldn’t be able to. Contestants
such as a charismatic woman
named L.C. and drawling coun-
try boy Logan emerged as fan
favorites, partially because of a
clever partnership they strike up
Both of them make it to the
final round by maintaining the
mystery of their celebrity con-
nections, aside from a few
casually tossed-out clues, such
as when (spoiler alert) eventual
winner L.C., whose real name is
Loreal Chanel, said, “Sorry to
this man,” a nod to her sister,
Keke Palmer. Runner-up Lo-
gan, whose last name is Crosby,
is a cousin of country singer
Jason Aldean. Others have it
harder. A young woman re-
ferred to as Louise, who looks
as though someone copied and
pasted the face of Simone Biles
onto her body, only sticks it out
because of her ability to win
challenges.
Of this season’s 12 contestants,
Biles’s sister was the only clear
play for a recognizable relative
(“We did go back and forth,”
Driscoll said of the decision). But
even factoring in the indirect
involvement of an Olympian,
Louise’s prowess in the weekly
games lands with more impact.
The surprise of the celebrity
reveals tends to fade quickly,
with more intrigue directed
toward the contestants them-
selves.
“We’re looking for people who
are authentic and open books,
and who have a great sense of
who they are,” Driscoll said.
“We’ll see what happens if there
is a Season 2. I have some ideas.”

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A baker gets raspberries cookies had stuck to one another,

VORACIOUSLY FROM C1
is a high bar. But here’s where this
review comes with a major aster-
isk: The quality of this cookie var-
ies depending on where you live.
That is, there are actually two bak-
eries that produce Girl Scouts
cookies, and each makes a differ-
ent version of the Raspberry Rally.
The Girl Scouts sent us samples
of each, allowing us the rare
chance to compare them head-to-
head. The far superior version
comes from Little Brownie Bak-
ers. Its coating was glossy and
dark, and it boasted a real choco-
late flavor. The interior cookie had
a mild (which I took to be a good
thing — it tasted more natural),
jammy feel. This, I thought, was at
least grasping for the Thin Mint
mantle.
But the other, from ABC Bakers,
was a pale imitation. First off, the
package I got had clearly suffered
in the journey to my door through
the oppressive summer heat. The
and when I pried them apart, I
was left with smudgy cookies with
sad, pink bald spots showing
through the coating. The less of
that you eat, the better, though —
it was waxy and far too sweet. And
the cookie itself wasn’t any better.
The flavor was artificial, calling to
mind less a ripe, fresh raspberry
than the mythical Crunchberry
found in Cap’n Crunch cereal.
Their relatively small size and
simplicity means you could pop a
few without feeling over-
whelmed, but even with the far-
more-delicious Little Brownie
Bakers iteration, I’m not tempted
to house a sleeve of them like I
might with Thin Mints.
As with all Girl Scouts cookies,
however, the cookie itself isn’t
really the point. The annual cook-
ie sales are a way for Scouts to
learn about finances and entre-
preneurship — and the proceeds
fund their activities and projects.
But the next time you’re tempted
by their siren song (sales should
start around January, and the
Raspberry Rally is an online-only
flavor), you might want to peek at
the fine print to see who made
them.
Or, ya know, just stick with the
Thin Mints. GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA

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Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) 2:30-4:50-7:15-9:45
Avalon Theatre
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My Donkey, My Lover & I
2:30-7:45
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (PG)
5:15
Ali & Ava 12:30-2:45-5:00-7:20
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
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Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
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Three Thousand Years of Long-
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Landmark E Street Cinema
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
(R) 11:55
Back to the Future (PG) 11:55
1982 2:00-4:30-7:15-10:00
Nope (R) 1:40-7:15
The Good Boss 1:40-4:20-7:10-
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Everything Everywhere All At
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Emily the Criminal (R) 2:20-4:50-
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Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
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Loving Highsmith 2:30-5:00-
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Three Thousand Years of Long-
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Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
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Three Thousand Years of Long-
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701 Seventh Street Northwest
Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR)
1:30-6:30
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Hindi) (NR) 5:00-8:50
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Telugu) (NR) 1:10
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
12:25-3:10-6:25-9:15
Beast (R) 12:00-2:20-4:40-9:55
Bullet Train (R) 3:00-6:00-9:10
Nope (R) 12:35-6:35-9:40
The Invitation (PG-13) 3:50-
6:50-9:30
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) 12:30-3:40-9:20
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:30-
4:10-7:50
Barbarian (R) 12:10-1:30-4:40-
6:10-7:30-9:20-10:10
Medieval (R) 12:40-3:50-7:00-
10:10
Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 12:50
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D
(Hindi) (NR) 2:30
Bullet Train (R) OC: 11:50AM
Nope (R) OC: 3:35
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) OC: 6:45
Bodies Bodies Bodies (R)
4:00-9:00
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 1:00-
4:50-8:20
Barbarian (R) OC: 3:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 6:20-9:50
MARYLAND
AFI Silver Theatre
Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
(NR) 12:30
The Wrong Man (1957) (NR) 4:30
Sword of Doom (1966) (NR) 9:00
12 Angry Men (1957) (NR)
11:00AM
Carnal Knowledge (R) 6:45-8:45
Grease Sing-A-Long (PG-13) 6:30
National Theatre Live: Straight
Line Crazy 1:00
Three Thousand Years of Long-
ing (R) 12:20-2:35-4:50-7:05-9:20
AMC Academy 8
6198 Greenbelt Road
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 1:00-
4:00-7:00-9:50
10:20
Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:10-4:10-
6:50-9:30
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 1:20-
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
(PG-13) 2:10-4:40-7:40-10:10
7:00-9:40
AMC Annapolis Mall 11
1020 Annapolis Mall Road
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
CC: 11:20-12:00-2:30-5:00-6:30-
12:40-3:40-6:50-9:50
CC: 11:40-1:15-3:50
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 4:10-
6:00-9:35
Beast (R) CC: 12:20-2:50-5:20-
7:45-10:25
7:20-10:00
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 2:15-
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) CC: 1:00-3:30-7:40-10:20
2:00-3:00-4:30-5:30-7:00-8:00-
9:30-10:30
UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 1:30-
3:35-5:40-7:50-10:15
AMC Center Park 8
4001 Powder Mill Rd.
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
CC: 4:50-10:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC:
1:00-6:50
Beast (R) CC: 1:40-4:30-7:10-
10:20
Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:50-4:00-
7:20-9:40
Nope (R) CC: 1:10-4:20-9:50
Breaking (PG-13) CC: 7:20
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 2:00- Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC:
4:45-7:40-10:20
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
(R) CC: 1:45-7:10-9:40
Three Thousand Years of Long- Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
ing (R) CC: 4:30
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Spider-Man: No Way Home
(PG-13) 1:20-4:10-6:40-9:20
Barbarian (R) CC: 1:30-4:15-
7:00-9:45
AMC Columbia 14
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
CC: 12:00-2:20-4:35-6:35-9:00
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC: 3:45-6:30-9:15
12:00-3:00-6:00-9:15
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
CC: 12:50-3:30
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) ing (R) CC: 10:15
CC: 12:45-3:45-6:45
Top Gun: Maverick - The IMAX (PG-13) 2:00-4:30
2D Experience (PG-13) CC:
4:30-7:45
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 12:25- 7:45-10:30
4:10-7:40-9:05
Beast (R) CC: 2:40-5:00-9:55
Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:15-4:00-
7:00-9:50
Nope (R) CC: 12:05-3:10-6:10-
9:35
Breaking (PG-13) CC: 12:05-7:15 6:30-10:05
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 1:20- Hawa 3:50
4:00-6:25-9:00
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. 7:40
(R) CC: 6:20-9:40
Three Thousand Years of Long- Paws of Fury: The Legend of
ing (R) CC: 9:50
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Barbarian (R) CC: 1:30-4:15-
7:00-9:45
UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 12:25- 11:55-3:10-7:20-10:30
2:35-5:05-7:30-9:10
Jaws 3D (PG) CC: 12:10-3:20
Barbarian (R) CC: 12:30-3:15-
6:00-8:45
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18 Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
9811 Washingtonian Center
Cars (G) CC: 11:30AM
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
CC: 11:45-2:30-4:50-7:15-9:35
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC: 10:20
12:30-3:45-6:15-10:00
Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC:
10:00
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
CC: 12:30-3:30-6:15-9:00
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) 6:30-10:05
CC: 2:30-5:20-8:15
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Hindi) (NR) 4:45
Beast (R) CC: 11:25-1:50-4:30- Oru Thekkan Thallu Case
7:10-9:40
Bullet Train (R) CC: 12:45-3:45- UFC 279: Chimaev vs. Diaz 10:00
7:00-10:00
Nope (R) CC: 3:20-8:45
Breaking (PG-13) CC: 12:00
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 2:00- (Hindi) (NR) XD: 12:00-7:00-10:25
5:45-9:25
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 11:15-
2:00-4:45-7:30-10:15
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
(R) CC: 4:15
Orphan: First Kill (R) CC: 2:40-
5:10-7:40-10:10
Three Thousand Years of Long- Nope (R) 4:00-8:00
ing (R) CC: 11:10AM
Just Like You - Anxiety + De-
pression 11:00-1:15-6:15-8:30
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero ing (R) 2:45-6:00
(PG-13) 3:15-8:45
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Barbarian (R) CC: 11:00-1:45-
4:30-7:15-10:00
Gigi & Nate (PG-13) CC: 12:30
Medieval (R) 7:00
Jaws 3D (PG) CC: 12:15-5:45
UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 11:15-
1:30-4:00-6:30-9:30
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - CC: 1:35-4:10
The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC:
CC: 1:00
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva - An Jurassic World Dominion (PG-
IMAX 3D Experience (NR) 11:00- 13) CC: 6:20-9:30
2:45-6:30-10:15
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Hindi) (NR) 1:00-8:30
Barbarian (R) CC: 12:00-2:45-
5:30-8:15
AMC Loews
St. Charles Town Ctr. 9
11115 Mall Circle
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
CC: 12:15-2:45-5:00
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
CC: 1:30-4:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 12:15-
2:30-6:00
Beast (R) CC: 12:00-3:00-5:30-
8:00-10:30
Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:00-4:00-
7:15-10:00
Nope (R) CC: 6:45-9:45
Breaking (PG-13) CC: 3:45-10:15
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 12:15-
4:00-6:45-9:30
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) CC: 1:15-4:00-6:30-9:15
Three Thousand Years of Long-
ing (R) CC: 9:30
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
(PG-13) 1:00-6:15
Barbarian (R) CC: 11:45-2:15-
4:45-7:30-9:00-10:15
AMC Magic Johnson
Capital Center 12
800 Shoppers Way
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
CC: 1:40-5:15-7:15-10:15
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC:
4:00-9:50
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
CC: 2:45-9:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 2:15-
5:45-9:20
Beast (R) CC: 2:30-5:00-7:30-
10:10
Bullet Train: The IMAX Experi-
ence (R) CC: 3:30-6:30-9:30
Nope (R) CC: 3:30-6:45-10:00
Breaking (PG-13) CC: 4:45-9:45
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 3:15-
6:30-9:00
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) CC: 2:10-4:45-7:20-9:55
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
(PG-13) 2:20-7:15
Barbarian (R) CC: 2:05-4:40-
7:40-9:30
Single Not Searching 6:15
AMC Montgomery 16
7101 Democracy Boulevard
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
CC: 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00
12:30-3:45-7:00-10:30
CC: 12:45-3:30-6:15-9:00
CC: 12:15-3:15-6:15-9:15
(Re-Release) (PG-13) CC:
3:00-9:45
Beast (R) CC: 7:00-9:30
Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:15-4:15-
7:15-10:15
Nope (R) CC: 5:45-9:00
Breaking (PG-13) CC: 12:15
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 1:00-
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) CC: 1:30
Three Thousand Years of Long-
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Gigi & Nate (PG-13) CC: 3:00
Barbarian (R) CC: 2:15-5:00-
Medieval (R) 4:15-7:15
Single Not Searching 12:00-6:45
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
7000 Arundel Mills Circle
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:20-2:55-
Jaws 3D (PG) 10:40-1:40-4:40-
Kanam (Tamil) 2:35-10:15
Hank (PG) 11:00AM
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
10:55-1:20-3:55-6:40
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Hindi) (NR) 5:35-9:10
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
10:45-1:50-4:35-7:20-10:15
12:50-3:45-6:45-9:40
Private Watch Party 12:00-3:30
The Black Phone (R) 11:25-2:05-
4:45-7:25-10:05
Beast (R) 12:15-2:45-5:15-7:50-
Bullet Train (R) 12:10-3:15-6:55-
10:10
Nope (R) 12:20-3:35-7:15-10:35
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:20-2:55-
Medieval (R) 10:30-1:35-4:40-
7:45-10:50
Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 10:35-1:25
4:15-7:55
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D
(Hindi) (NR) XD: 3:30
Captain (Tamil) 10:40
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Cinépolis Gaithersburg
629 Center Point Way
4:30-7:00
Beast (R) 5:30-8:30
Bullet Train (R) 3:45-7:15
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) 8:15
Three Thousand Years of Long-
Barbarian (R) 3:30-7:30-9:00
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 2:30-6:30
Medieval (R) 3:15-6:45
Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 5:00
Hoyt's West Nursery
Cinema 14
1591 West Nursery Road
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
1:00-3:55-6:50-9:45
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
CC: 1:05-3:35
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
CC: 1:10-4:00-6:40-9:15
Where the Crawdads Sing (PG-
13) CC: 3:45-6:35-9:25
The Black Phone (R) CC:
6:30-9:00
Beast (R) CC: 1:45-4:50-7:20-9:35
Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:15-7:00
Nope (R) CC: 4:05-9:50
Elvis (PG-13) CC: 1:20-4:40-8:00
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 1:40-
4:30-7:10-9:45
Bodies Bodies Bodies (R) CC:
4:35-9:20
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) CC: 1:25-4:20-7:15-9:40
Three Thousand Years of Long-
ing (R) CC: 1:55-4:55-7:25
Fall (PG-13) CC: 2:00-6:55
Barbarian (R) CC: 1:50-4:45-
7:30-10:00
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 1:00
Three Thousand Years of Long-
ing (R) OC: 9:55
Landmark at
Annapolis Harbour Center
2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
1:45-4:30-7:05
Where the Crawdads Sing (PG-
13) 1:35-4:20-7:20
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (PG)
1:50-4:30-7:05
Bullet Train (R) 1:40-4:25-7:15
The Good Boss 1:35-4:20-7:10
Elvis (PG-13) 1:30-3:40-6:50
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
(PG) 1:30-4:45-7:25
Emily the Criminal (R) 2:00-
4:15-7:00
Three Thousand Years of Long-
ing (R) 1:40-4:10-7:30
Old Greenbelt Theatre
129 Centerway
Emily the Criminal (R) 5:15-8:15
Three Thousand Years of Long-
ing (R) 5:00-8:00
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
3899 Branch Avenue
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
11:00-1:30-4:00-6:45-9:25
Beast (R) 12:00-2:30-4:45-7:00-
9:35
The Invitation (PG-13) 12:30-
3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) 1:05-3:30-6:00-8:30
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:30-2:45-
6:15-9:35
Regal Bowie
15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
12:00-3:00-6:10-9:10
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
1:50-4:50-7:40-10:15
Beast (R) 12:20-2:40-6:55-10:00
Bullet Train (R) 11:55-2:50-
5:50-8:50
Nope (R) 12:05-3:10-6:15-9:45
Breaking (PG-13) 1:00-4:10-
7:00-9:55
The Invitation (PG-13) 1:10-4:20-
6:50-9:20
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) 12:50-3:30-6:20-9:00
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
(PG-13) 12:30-3:50
Barbarian (R) 12:40-3:40-6:40-
9:30
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:10-3:20-
6:30-9:15
UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 2:00-
4:40-7:10-9:40
Regal Cinemas Majestic
Stadium 20 & IMAX
900 Ellsworth Drive
Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR) 11:50-
2:10-4:45-7:20-9:55
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
12:15
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
12:00-3:10-6:20-9:30
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Hindi) (NR) 1:15-8:45
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
12:20-3:00-5:40
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Telugu) (NR) 2:15-6:00-9:45
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
12:45-3:35-10:00
Nope (R) 8:20
Beast (R) 2:50-5:25-8:00-10:30
Bullet Train (R) 12:10-3:25-6:30-
10:00
Breaking (PG-13) 1:40
The Invitation (PG-13) 4:30-
7:45-10:25
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) 1:00-3:50-6:50-9:25
Oke Oka Jeevitham 1:20-4:55-
8:30
Orphan: First Kill (R) 1:45-4:20-
7:50-10:25
Three Thousand Years of Long-
ing (R) 6:40-9:20
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
(PG-13) 12:30-3:05-5:35
Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30-
10:25
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:45-3:20-
7:00-10:30
Medieval (R) 12:50-4:00-7:10-
10:20
Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 12:40-3:40
UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 1:30-
4:10-7:00-9:40
UFC 279: Chimaev vs. Diaz 10:00
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D
(Hindi) (NR) 5:00
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva - An
IMAX 3D Experience (NR) 11:45-
3:15-6:45-10:15
Captain (Tamil) 12:10-3:20-
6:10-9:10
Regal Germantown
20000 Century Boulevard
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
11:50-2:20-5:10
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
12:00-6:30-9:50
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Hindi) (NR) 1:10-8:50
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
(Telugu) (NR) 3:10
Karthikeya 2 (Telugu) 2:30-
6:00-9:30
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
12:10-3:00-6:10-9:00
Beast (R) 7:50-10:40
Bullet Train (R) 4:00-7:10-10:20
The Invitation (PG-13) 1:40-
4:20-10:00
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) 1:30-7:40
Oke Oka Jeevitham 1:50-5:20-
9:10
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
(PG-13) 12:50
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Barbarian (R) 11:35-2:00-4:40-
7:30-10:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:30-
6:50-10:35
Hawa 4:30-10:30
Jaws 3D (PG) 12:30-3:40-6:40-
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
11:40-2:50
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 12:30-
3:15-6:00-8:45
Barbarian (R) 11:30-2:00-5:00-
6:00-8:00-9:50
Where the Crawdads Sing (PG-
13) OC: 4:55
Breaking (PG-13) 1:15-4:30-
9:45
9:40 DC League of Super-Pets (PG) Honk For Jesus. Save Your Spider-Man: No Way Home Bullet Train (R) OC: 3:25 The Invitation (PG-13) 12:40-
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D 12:10-2:40 Soul. (R) CC: 1:45-4:30-7:15- (Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:00-2:15- The Invitation (PG-13) OC: 2:05 3:50-6:40-9:30
(Hindi) (NR) 5:00 Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) 10:00 6:15-10:05 Barbarian (R) XD: 10:35-1:15- Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Captain (Tamil) 11:40-2:40- 6:50-9:30 Bodies Bodies Bodies (R) CC: Bullet Train (R) 12:30-4:15-7:40- 3:55-6:35-9:15 (R) 12:50-3:40-6:10-8:40
5:40-8:40 Top Gun: Maverick - The IMAX 8:45 10:15 Jaws 3D (PG) 10:55-1:55 Three Thousand Years of Long-
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 2D Experience (PG-13) 12:30- Orphan: First Kill (R) CC: 1:15- Angelika Film Center Mosaic Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D ing (R) 2:30-5:15-8:15
OC: 3:20 3:30-6:30-9:40 4:15-8:00 2911 District Ave (Hindi) (NR) 5:00 Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Regal Hyattsville Royale Beast (R) 12:40-3:00-5:40-8:10- Just Like You - Anxiety + Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) Barbarian (R) OC: 2:30 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
6505 America Blvd. 10:30 Depression 12:00-10:00 10:45-1:50-4:40-7:30-9:45 Regal Ballston Quarter (PG-13) 5:20-7:50-10:25
Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR) 12:30- Bullet Train (R) 12:20-3:10- Three Thousand Years of Long- Spider-Man: No Way Home 671 North Glebe Road Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:35-
3:20-5:40-8:10-10:30 6:10-9:10 ing (R) CC: 12:45-2:00 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:55-3:15- 10:25
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR) 12:05- Spider-Man: No Way Home
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG) Breaking (PG-13) 7:10-9:50 6:30-9:25 2:30-10:10
1:10-3:50-6:20-8:50 The Invitation (PG-13) 12:00- (PG-13) 3:00-8:30 Bullet Train (R) 10:50-1:40-4:25- (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:20-
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 4:00-7:40
DC League of Super-Pets (PG) 2:30-5:10-7:40-10:20 7:10-10:05 12:00-3:10-6:20-9:30
12:45-3:30-6:30-9:10 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Jaws: The IMAX 2D Experience The Good Boss 11:00-1:35-4:30- Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 3:10
(PG) CC: 12:30-3:45-7:00 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva Jaws 3D (PG) 8:20
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) (R) 1:30-4:20-9:40 7:20-10:00 (Hindi) (NR) 5:00-8:40
12:50-4:00-10:10 Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 Barbarian (R) CC: 12:45-3:30- Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
Beast (R) 12:20-2:50-5:20-8:00- Barbarian (R) 11:30-2:10-4:50- 6:15-9:00 (R) 1:55-7:35-9:55 12:20-3:00 (Hindi) (NR) 5:30
Medieval (R) 3:10-6:30
10:25 7:30-10:10 Three Thousand Years of Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Bullet Train (R) 12:25-3:30- Spider-Man: No Way Home Gigi & Nate (PG-13) CC: 12:00 Longing (R) 11:05-1:35-4:20- 12:40-3:50-7:20-10:30 (Hindi) (NR) 12:00-7:30
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D
6:40-9:55 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:50-3:20- UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 12:30- 6:55-10:15 Bullet Train (R) 12:15-3:40-
Nope (R) 12:40-3:40-7:00-10:15 6:40-10:00 3:00-5:30-8:00 Alienoid 10:55-4:20 6:45-9:50 (Hindi) (NR) 3:45
Moon Man (Du xing yue qiu)
Breaking (PG-13) 1:30-7:10 Medieval (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00- Barbarian (R) 11:15-1:45-4:15- Nope (R) 12:10-3:30-10:00 Regal Manassas & IMAX
The Invitation (PG-13) 12:10- 10:00 3:30-5:15 7:00-9:35 11380 Bulloch Drive
The Invitation (PG-13) 1:10-4:30-
2:40-5:10-7:50-10:20 Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 12:50-8:40 Jaws 3D (PG) CC: 2:15-8:15 About Fate 12:00-2:30-4:45- 7:40-10:25 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Jaws 3D (PG) 6:00-9:00 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 7:15-9:30 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. 1:30-8:10
(R) 1:40-4:30-7:15-9:55 The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) (R) 6:30-9:10 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Regal Westview & IMAX
CC: 6:45 CMX Village 14
Bodies Bodies Bodies (R) Bodies Bodies Bodies (R) (Hindi) (NR) 1:00-8:50
5243 Buckeystown Pike 1600 Village Market Boulevard
4:20-9:50 Single Not Searching 4:45- 7:50-10:15 DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 10:00 Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
Three Thousand Years of Long- 12:30-7:00-10:15 Three Thousand Years of Long- 12:20-3:10-7:10-9:55
ing (R) 1:20 Barbarian (R) CC: 1:45-4:30- 1:15-3:45-6:15
ing (R) 2:20-5:10 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 7:10-10:00 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 (Hindi) (NR) 4:40-8:30 12:40-3:55-7:10; 12:40-3:55- Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 (Telugu) (NR) 2:15
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero DC League of Super-Pets (PG) AMC Potomac Mills 18 Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30- Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
(PG-13) 4:10-7:30-10:10 2700 Potomac Mills Circle
7:10
10:20 6:00-9:00
1:00-3:50-6:40-9:30 DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
Barbarian (R) 12:00-3:00-6:00- Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) Cars (G) CC: 3:15 12:55-3:35-6:30 Spider-Man: No Way Home Beast (R) 2:20-5:10-7:50-10:30
9:00 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC: (Re-Release) (PG-13) 1:30- Top Gun: Maverick - The IMAX
12:00-3:20-6:30-9:40 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Spider-Man: No Way Home Beast (R) 12:10-2:40-5:10-7:50- 12:00 (Telugu) (NR) 12:25-4:25-8:15 5:30-9:40 2D Experience (PG-13) 12:20-
(Re-Release) (PG-13) OC: 12:15 10:25 Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG) Jaws 3D (PG) 4:10-7:10 3:40-6:50-10:10
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 1:00- Bullet Train (R) 1:10-4:30-7:30- CC: 12:30-3:00-5:30 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D Bullet Train (R) 12:50-4:10-7:20
12:50-4:00-7:15
3:15-5:30-7:45-10:00 10:40 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva (Hindi) (NR) 12:30 The Invitation (PG-13) 1:10-
Where the Crawdads Sing (PG-
Spider-Man: No Way Home The Invitation (PG-13) 10:00 (Hindi) (NR) 4:00 13) 1:25-4:30-7:35 Regal Dulles Town Center 3:50-6:30-9:10
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 4:15-8:15 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. DC League of Super-Pets (PG) Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Beast (R) 4:15-6:50-8:45 21100 Dulles Town Circle
CC: 11:45-1:15-4:10-6:00 (R) 1:40-4:30-10:00
Regal Laurel Towne Centre (R) 1:30-4:10 Bullet Train (R) 1:50-5:20-8:25 Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR)
14716 Baltimore Avenue Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 Top Gun: Maverick - The IMAX Nope (R) 5:25-8:35 3:45-6:20 Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
2D Experience (PG-13) CC: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR) Barbarian (R) 11:40-2:20-5:00- Elvis (PG-13) 12:20-4:10-7:45 Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
12:00-3:15-6:30 (PG-13) 1:20-10:05
3:50-6:20 7:40-10:20 The Invitation (PG-13) 2:10- 1:25-3:50-6:10
Spider-Man: No Way Home Barbarian (R) 4:40-7:30-10:20
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG) Spider-Man: No Way Home 5:05-8:00 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
12:20-2:50 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:30-3:10- (Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 1:00- Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 12:10-3:15-6:30-9:35 Spider-Man: No Way Home
5:00-8:45 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:40-
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 6:50-10:30 Barbarian (R) 2:00-4:45-7:30 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Beast (R) CC: 11:30-2:10-4:45- 4:20-8:00
12:10-3:40-6:50-9:50 Medieval (R) 12:50-4:00-7:10- Spider-Man: No Way Home (Hindi) (NR) 5:00-8:00-8:45
DC League of Super-Pets (PG) 10:10 7:30 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:35- Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) Hawa 12:00-3:20-6:40-9:50
11:20AM Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D Bullet Train (R) CC: 2:00-5:15- 3:20 12:20-3:25-10:10 Jaws 3D (PG) 4:00-7:00
8:30
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) (Hindi) (NR) 12:20 Medieval (R) 1:30-4:35-7:50 Beast (R) 12:40-3:05-5:35-8:00 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D
5:50-8:50 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) Nope (R) CC: 1:00-7:20 Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 2:30 Bullet Train (R) 3:35-10:15 (Hindi) (NR) 5:00
Breaking (PG-13) CC: 4:15 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
Beast (R) 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00- OC: 3:40 Breaking (PG-13) 8:35
The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 12:45- Cinema Arts Theatre OC: 4:50
10:40 Spider-Man: No Way Home 9650 Main St The Invitation (PG-13) 4:30
Bullet Train (R) 11:30-2:30- (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:40- 3:30-6:15-9:00 Bullet Train (R) OC: 10:25
Where the Crawdads Sing (PG- Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
6:00-9:00 4:20-8:00 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. (R) 1:00 Barbarian (R) OC: 1:50
(R) CC: 8:00 13) CC; DVS: 12:05-2:35-7:40
Nope (R) 10:00 Xscape Theatres Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (PG) Bodies Bodies Bodies (R) 10:30 Regal Springfield Town Center
Breaking (PG-13) 1:10-4:10-7:20 Just Like You - Anxiety + Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 6859 Springfield Mall
Brandywine 14 Depression 2:00-7:00 CC; DVS: 9:55-7:00
The Invitation (PG-13) 11:20- 7710 Matapeake Business Drive Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30- Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR)
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 Three Minutes: A Lengthening
1:50-4:20-9:50 Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG) (PG) CC; DVS: 12:10-7:50 10:25 3:40-6:20
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. CC: 11:15-1:35-3:55 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Spider-Man: No Way Home Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
(PG-13) 11:50-2:40-5:20-8:00 Breaking (PG-13) CC; DVS: 9:40-
(R) 12:40-3:20-6:10-9:20 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:00- 12:20
DC League of Super-Pets (PG) Barbarian (R) CC: 11:00-1:45- 12:00-2:30-7:30-9:45
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 CC: 11:10-1:40-4:10-6:40-9:10 A Love Song (PG) CC; DVS: 12:15- 6:40 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) 4:30-7:15 12:00-3:10-6:20-9:50
2:20-9:00 Medieval (R) 12:50-4:00-7:10-
(PG-13) 2:00-4:40-7:30-10:05 Medieval (R) 2:45-8:50 10:20 DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
CC: 1:05-4:05-6:55-9:55 UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 11:15- Emily the Criminal (R) CC; DVS:
Barbarian (R) 11:40-2:20-5:00- Private Watch Party CC: (!) 1:00- Jaws 3D (PG) 12:30-9:00 12:50
1:30-3:45-7:45 2:40-7:20-9:20
7:45-10:20 4:30-8:00 Three Thousand Years of Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
Spider-Man: No Way Home Hawa 11:10-8:15 (Hindi) (NR) 1:15 11:50-3:00-6:00-9:20
Nope (R) CC: 1:15-4:15-7:15- Jaws 3D (PG) CC: 4:10 Longing (R) CC; DVS: 10:00-
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:00-3:30- 10:15
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 12:20-9:25 Regal Fairfax Towne Center Beast (R) 2:10-4:50
7:10-10:30 Beast (R) CC: 11:20-1:50-4:20- Bullet Train (R) 12:30-3:30-7:10-
The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) The Territory (PG) CC; DVS: 4110 West Ox Road
Medieval (R) 11:50-3:10-6:30- 7:00-9:30 10:05-2:00-6:00-9:25 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
10:15
9:30 CC: 6:10 Nope (R) 10:00
Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:55-4:45- Single Not Searching 2:15-5:15 Gigi & Nate (PG-13) CC; DVS: 12:00-6:20-9:30
Jaws 3D (PG) 12:50-9:10 7:35-10:25 Breaking (PG-13) 1:00-9:00
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 9:50-12:25-2:35-7:10 DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
The Invitation (PG-13) 1:10-
Regal Rockville Center Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (Hindi) (NR) 12:15-6:00 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (PG) 12:50-3:40-6:30
199 East Montgomery Avenue (PG-13) CC: (!) 6:45-9:15 OC; DVS: 4:35 3:50-6:50-9:30
Barbarian (R) CC: 12:30-3:30- Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR) Breaking (PG-13) CC: (!) 2:05- Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Hindi) (NR) 5:10-8:50 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
6:15-9:00 (R) 2:50-5:50-8:50
12:50-9:30 4:35-7:25-10:05 Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 11:00AM (PG) OC; DVS: 4:00 Hansan: Rising Dragon 12:20-
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG) The Invitation (PG-13) CC: (!) Breaking (PG-13) OC; DVS: 5:00 3:30-6:40-9:40 Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
11:40-2:10-4:40 11:40-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 AMC Shirlington 7 The Good Boss 9:40-5:05 Emergency Declaration (Bisang Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 1:00- Honk For Jesus. Save Your 2772 South Randolph St.
Emily the Criminal (R) OC; seoneon) 12:40-9:20 (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:20-10:10
4:20-7:40-11:00 Soul. (R) CC: (!) 11:30-2:00-4:30- Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC: DVS: 4:45 Bullet Train (R) 1:10-4:20-7:10- Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30-
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 7:10-9:40 1:40-4:40-7:40-10:40 Three Thousand Years of Long- 10:10 10:20
Where the Crawdads Sing (PG- Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Hindi) (NR) 1:20-8:50 Barbarian (R) CC: (!) 12:30-3:00- ing (R) OC; DVS: 4:50 Nope (R) 1:00-4:00-7:20-10:20
5:30-8:00-10:30 13) CC: 1:20-4:20-7:20-10:20 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:40-
DC League of Super-Pets (PG) Cinemark Centreville 12 Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
12:00-2:40 Beast (R) CC: 12:20-2:40-5:20- Spider-Man: No Way Home 4:10-7:40
6201 Multiplex Drive Spider-Man: No Way Home
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) 7:40-10:20 (Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 1:30- (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:10- Medieval (R) 12:10-3:20-6:30-
3:30-7:00-10:30 Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG) 9:40
1:10-4:10-10:10 Barbarian (R) CC: (!) 11:50-2:20- 10:45-1:45-3:10-5:25-7:00 3:50-7:40
4:50-7:20-9:50 Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:10-4:10- Jaws 3D (PG) 4:00-7:50
Bullet Train (R) 12:40-3:40- Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) Tasleem Ahaly 4:10-9:50
6:50-9:50 7:10-10:05 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
iPic Pike & Rose 11:30AM Jaws 3D (PG) 2:00-5:00-7:50
Nope (R) 4:50-10:50 Breaking (PG-13) CC: 5:10- Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
11830 Grand Park Avenue 10:35 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Elvis (PG-13) 5:30-9:10 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 1:15- (Hindi) (NR) 6:30-10:10 (Hindi) (NR) 1:30 Twilight (PG-13) 3:00
Three Thousand Years of Long-
The Invitation (PG-13) 12:20- 2:30-6:00-9:30 DC League of Super-Pets (PG) Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) The Twilight Saga: New Moon
3:00-5:40-8:20-10:55 ing (R) CC: 2:30-7:50 OC: 3:10 (PG-13) 5:45
Beast (R) 12:45-3:45-6:30-9:15 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero 11:55-12:50-3:35-6:20
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Bullet Train (R) 12:15-3:30-6:45- Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) Regal Fox & IMAX The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
(R) 1:50-8:10 (PG-13) 5:00-10:15 (PG-13) 8:30
10:15 10:50-4:20-7:20 22875 Brambleton Plaza
Three Thousand Years of Long- Nope (R) 12:30-2:45-6:15-9:45 Gigi & Nate (PG-13) CC: 12:45- Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR)
7:30 Bullet Train (R) 11:05-1:30- Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR)
ing (R) 7:20-10:00 4:35-7:40 3:45-6:20 3:45-10:15
Breaking (PG-13) 11:30-4:45- Barbarian (R) CC: 12:30-3:00-
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:10 7:45-11:00 The Invitation (PG-13) 12:20- Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
5:30-8:00-10:30 12:30-2:50-5:20
Barbarian (R) 11:50-2:30-5:20- The Invitation (PG-13) 11:45- 2:35-5:35-8:20-10:20 12:15-3:25-10:10
8:00-10:40 AMC Tysons Corner 16 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13)
4:00-7:15-10:30 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Spider-Man: No Way Home 7850e Tysons Corner Center 12:40-3:50-6:50-10:00
(R) 12:45 (Hindi) (NR) 5:00-8:45
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:30-3:20- Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
(R) (!) 12:00-3:15-7:00 Cars (G) CC: 3:45 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero DC League of Super-Pets (PG) Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
7:00-10:30 (Hindi) (NR) 1:15-8:40
Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC: (PG-13) 3:00-7:50 12:00
AX Cinema Nights: The House of Barbarian (R) (!) 1:00-4:15-7:30-
12:30 Oke Oka Jeevitham 10:55-5:45 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
the Lost on the Cape 2:00-5:00- 10:45 1:30-4:10
UFC 279: Chimaev vs. Diaz (!) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Barbarian (R) 12:10-2:40-5:20- (Telugu) (NR) 6:00-9:45
7:50-10:35
10:00 (PG-13) CC: 6:45 8:00-10:30 Karthikeya 2 (Telugu) 1:10-3:50- Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Moon Man (Du xing yue qiu) Just Like You - Anxiety + Spider-Man: No Way Home 7:10-10:30 (Telugu) (NR) 2:15
12:10-3:10-6:20-9:20
Jaws 3D (PG) 3:30-6:30 VIRGINIA Depression 4:55-7:15
Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:50-3:25-
6:40-10:00
Bullet Train (R) 3:00-6:05-9:10
Ranga Ranga Vaibhavanga
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
1:20-4:20-7:20-10:10
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 Where the Crawdads Sing (PG-
Barbarian (R) CC: 11:35-2:15- Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D 2:15-5:50-9:20
(Hindi) (NR) 5:10 2150 Clarendon Blvd. 5:15-8:10-10:50 13) 12:05-3:00-6:00-9:00
(Hindi) (NR) 2:50 Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
AX Cinema Nights: The House of Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC:
the Lost on the Cape 11:20AM
Medieval (R) 11:00-2:00-5:00- Captain (Tamil) 9:10 Sita Ramam (Telugu) 12:05-9:15 Beast (R) 6:40-9:10
1:30-4:30-7:30-10:15 8:00-11:00 Kanam (Tamil) 2:10-9:20 Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30- Bullet Train (R) 1:40-4:40-7:40-
Regal UA Snowden Square Spider-Man: No Way Home UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 10:40
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 1:10- 10:25
9161 Commerce Center Drive (Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 1:35- 11:20-1:35-3:50-6:05-8:20- 3:30-6:50-10:15 Spider-Man: No Way Home The Invitation (PG-13) 1:10
Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR) 3:10-6:40-10:10 10:35 Beast (R) 11:00-4:10-5:40-8:10 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 2:05-6:45- Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
3:40-6:30 Bullet Train (R) CC: 1:25-4:20- Barbarian (R) CC: 1:15-4:00- Oru Thekkan Thallu Case 9:30 10:30 (R) 3:10-8:20
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG) 7:20-10:25 6:45-9:30
Cinemark Cobra (Telugu) 12:45-5:00-8:50 Three Thousand Years of Long-
12:20-2:50 Nope (R) CC: 1:10-4:10-7:10- Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 11:00AM Natchathiram Nagargirathu ing (R) 1:00-3:45-6:30-9:20
10:10 Fairfax Corner and XD Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) AMC Worldgate 9 11900 Palace Way 12:55-4:50-8:40
11:20-2:40-6:00-9:10 The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 12:40- 13025 Worldgate Drive UFC 279: Chimaev vs. Diaz Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30-
5:10-7:40-10:35 Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) 10:25
Brahmastra Part One: Shiva Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC: 10:50-5:15-8:25 10:00
(Hindi) (NR) 1:10-5:00 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. 1:00-4:30-7:15 Batch 2013 12:35-4:15-7:45 Medieval (R) 12:50-4:00-7:10-
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13)
DC League of Super-Pets (PG) (R) CC: 5:15-10:30 Spider-Man: No Way Home 12:40-3:40-6:55 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D 10:20
12:10-3:20 Three Thousand Years of Long- (Re-Release) (PG-13) CC: 1:00- (Hindi) (NR) 1:15 Gigi & Nate (PG-13) 12:20-5:40
DC League of Super-Pets (PG)
Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) ing (R) CC: 2:30-7:50 4:15-7:00 10:30-1:20-6:50 Brahmastra Part One: Shiva - An Jaws 3D (PG) 7:50-10:50
6:10-9:20 Barbarian (R) CC: 1:20-2:45-5:20- The Invitation (PG-13) CC: 1:45- Where the Crawdads Sing (PG- IMAX 3D Experience (NR) 2:45- Brahmastra Part One: Shiva 3D
Where the Crawdads Sing (PG- 8:00-10:30 4:00-7:30 6:30-10:15 (Hindi) (NR) 5:00
UnFavorable Odds (PG-13) 12:40- 13) 10:45-1:50-8:00 Spider-Man: No Way Home
13) 12:00-3:00 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Beast (R) 10:10 Captain (Tamil) 12:35-3:35-
3:50-6:00-8:10-10:20 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 6:10-9:40
Beast (R) 11:30-2:10 (R) CC: 1:30-4:30 Bullet Train (R) 12:20-6:45-9:55 6:25-9:35
Bullet Train (R) 11:50-3:10-6:40- AMC Hoffman Center 22 Lifemark (PG-13) 7:00 Spider-Man: No Way Home Smithsonian -
The Invitation (PG-13) 11:20- Airbus IMAX Theater
10:10 206 Swamp Fox Rd. Barbarian (R) CC: 2:15-4:45- 4:50-7:40-10:25 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 12:15
The Invitation (PG-13) 11:25- Cars (G) CC: 3:45 7:45 The Invitation (PG-13) 4:05- 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.
1:00-8:40-9:50 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - (R) 11:30AM 6:55-10:00 Journey to Space (2015) (NR)
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. 1:00
(R) 7:00-9:40 Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
One Loudoun
20575 East Hampton Plaza
Oke Oka Jeevitham 2:10-5:45- Oke Oka Jeevitham 2:30-5:55 10:25-1:15-3:15
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero To Fly! (1976) (NR) 11:05-1:55
9:20
Three Thousand Years of Long- CC: 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Lifemark (PG-13) 1:00-4:00- (PG-13) 1:00 Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of
ing (R) 6:50-9:30 the Seas 2D 11:45-2:35
Top Gun: Maverick (PG-13) CC: (1974) (R) 9:00 7:00-10:05 Regal Kingstowne & RPX
Barbarian (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30- 12:15-3:30-6:45-9:30 Princess Mononoke 25th Anni- Barbarian (R) 11:50-5:10-7:50- 5910 Kingstowne Towne Center Top Gun: Maverick - The IMAX
10:30 DC League of Super-Pets (PG) versary - Studio Ghibli Fest 2022 10:30 2D Experience (PG-13) 4:00
Beautiful Blue Eyes (NR)
Spider-Man: No Way Home CC: 12:15-3:15-6:15-9:00 (PG-13) 11:30AM Spider-Man: No Way Home 1:00-6:00 The Dream is Alive (NR) 12:25
(Re-Release) (PG-13) 6:20-10:05 Thor: Love and Thunder (PG-13) CatVideoFest 2022 11:00-12:45 (Re-Release) (PG-13) 11:05-2:40- University Mall Theatre
Minions: The Rise of Gru (PG)
Medieval (R) 12:50-4:00-7:10- CC: 12:30 Jaws (PG) 3:15-6:45 6:15-9:50 12:45-3:00 10659-A Braddock Road
10:20
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

BOTH SIDES VULNERABLE

NORTH (D)
♠ Q872
♥ KJ632
♦ AQ
♣ A5
WEST EAST
♠ 4 ♠ 10 9
♥ 97 ♥ Q 10 8
♦ KJ543 ♦ 10 9 7 6 2 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ Q J 10 4 2 ♣ K87
SOUTH
♠ AKJ653
♥ A54
♦ 8
♣ 963

The bidding:
NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST
1 ♥ Pass 1 ♠ Pass
3 ♠ Pass 6 ♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♣ Q

“S imple Saturday” col- CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
umns focus on improv-
ing basic technique and logi-
cal thinking.
Experts tend to bash into
games and look carefully for
slams; a losing slam costs a
game bonus. Still, bashing
has its place. If you know the
ingredients for a slam are
present, bid it.
Today’s South zoomed
into six spades. He was will- RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
ing to gamble that a club
lead wouldn’t be fatal, and
a slower and revealing auc-
tion might help West find the
best lead. When West led the
queen of clubs, South was
relieved to see dummy’s ace.
He won and drew trumps.
How should he continue?
South can combine his
chances, a common theme
in dummy play. Indeed, he LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
may make an overtrick.
South takes the K-A of
hearts. If the queen fell, he
would have the rest.
When instead East-West
play low hearts, South leads
a diamond to dummy’s
queen. When the finesse
wins, he discards his last
heart on the ace of dia-
monds and ruffs a heart. He
can return a trump to dummy HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
to pitch two clubs on the
good hearts.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠Q872♥KJ632
♦AQ♣A5
The dealer, at your right,
opens one diamond. What do
you say?
ANSWER: Since your queen
of diamonds should be worth
as much as a king, this hand BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
is barely strong enough to
double for takeout, planning
to bid two hearts if your part-
ner “advances” two clubs.
If he advances in hearts or
spades, you will raise. If the
hand were a bit weaker, I
would overcall one heart, lest
I miss a 5-3 heart fit.
— Frank Stewart
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BIRTHDAY | SEPTEMBER 10
You are determined,
hardworking and
efficient. You make
a strong impression
on others even though you
appear reserved. You are
a romantic and a bit of a
dreamer. This year you will
seek more solitude to learn
and study. You want to
know more, and you want
to understand yourself at a
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY deeper level.

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or

making important decisions
after 8:15 p.m. today. After
that, the Moon moves from
Pisces into Aries.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Generally, the Full Moon is a
time of heightened conflict.
However, today’s Full Moon
is a release. Issues with
your health or problems with
your job will diminish. Even
problems with a pet might
JEF MALLETT disappear.
FRAZZ CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Difficulties that might have
built up in your dealings with
groups or a friend will diminish
because of today’s Full Moon.
Suddenly, a solution is at
hand. Everyone is happier.
In fact, this is a good day to
celebrate and enjoy the arts.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Today the only Full Moon that
takes place at the top of your
chart all year is happening.
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK Traditionally, this means
you feel pulled between
the demands of home and
family versus the demands
of your career or your public
reputation.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
This is an accident-prone day
because of the Full Moon,
which means you need to pay
attention to everything you say
and do. Don’t be distracted by
propaganda from others that
you don’t agree with. Instead,
be friendly with other cultures.
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Financial matters have been
building up recently. This
concerns not only your own
earnings and wealth but the
wealth of someone else or
shared property. Today’s Full
Moon will bring a breakthrough
to this situation.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Today the only Full Moon all
year that is opposite your sign
is taking place. Usually, this
heightens tension between
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partner.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Issues that have been
building up at work or with
your health can be resolved
today. A solution might be
at hand. If not, certainly you
will feel an improvement or a
breakthrough that is welcome
news.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
This is a lovely day to
schmooze and be friendly with
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT others. You will enjoy sports
events, artistic adventures,
playful times with children and
romantic get-togethers.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Today you will find a resolution
to problems that might have
been building up, pitting
your home and personal life
against your career and your
public reputation. Everything is
suddenly easier as of today.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
LINCOLN PEIRCE BILL HOLBROOK You will enjoy studying,
BIG NATE ON THE FASTRACK learning, writing and any
involvement with social media
today, because you are eager
to put the word out. Prior to
today, some difficulties might
have held you back.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Financial issues might have
been building up for some
time, perhaps related to
your earnings, a purchase
or something to do with a
possession that you own.
Whatever the case, today
you will feel some kind of
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS resolution or a solution to your
problems.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Today the only Full Moon in
your sign all year is taking
place. Possibly, you have
felt increased tension when
dealing with partners, spouses
and close friends in the past
few days. If so, today will bring
a relief of some kind.
— Georgia Nicols
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BASEBALL BASEBALL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
MLB approves a bunch of new rules for 2023: a pitch Patrick Corbin goes heavy with the sinker, and it gets Flint Hill is trying to rebuild itself into a winner, but it
clock, a ban on defensive shifts, and larger bases. D5 hit hard as the Nationals fall to the Phillies, 5-3. D5 drops its 13th straight, 34-7, against Paul VI. D6

United job
is all work,
all the time
for Rooney
BY S TEVEN G OFF

Wayne Rooney has been in the

Washington area for about two
months, and he is already bored.
That’s exactly how he wants it.
“Even when you go home, it’s
full-on work,” D.C. United’s coach
said this week. “It’s quite boring
— a boring life to live but doing
what I love. The main thing is
we’re here to put the work in.”
He lives deep in the suburbs, a
five-minute drive from the Lou-
doun County training center. The
job of reshaping a wayward MLS
club consumes all hours. He
hasn’t had time to golf or watch
many movies. His family is back
in England, where the eldest of
four sons, Kai and Klay, are pupils
in Manchester United’s youth
academy.
Morning practices in Leesburg
spill into afternoon video ses-
sions and meetings with the front
office and his staff in offices that
overlook two fields behind the
one-level structure located in the
back of a regional park.
SEE ROONEY ON D8

SARAH STIER/GETTY IMAGES D.C. United at Real Salt Lake

Frances Tiafoe came back to force a fifth set against Carlos Alcaraz but fell in their U.S. Open men’s singles semifinal Friday night, 6-7 (8-6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (7-5), 6-3. Today, 9:30 p.m., NBCSW

Tiafoe’s run ends As he goes

into Ring,
Bass thanks
Hyattsville native comes up short
as he falls in U.S. Open semifinals
Lombardi
BY S COTT A LLEN

BY A VA W ALLACE The most famous play of

new york — Frances Tiafoe’s dream run at
the U.S. Open ended Friday, his fairy-tale
spoiled not by a villain but by another of
men’s tennis’s future heroes.
The 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz is eminently
likable, sprints and stomps around a tennis
court like a prize stallion and shoots fire from
his racket. Their semifinal match made it
hard for fans to mourn Tiafoe’s exit too deeply
when the pair made the future of the sport
looked so tantalizing.
But Tiafoe’s achievements here are well
worth savoring.
He walked off Arthur Ashe Stadium after a
6-7 (8-6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (7-5), 6-3 loss and into
SEE U.S. OPEN ON D5
U.S. Open women’s singles final:
Iga Swiatek vs. Ons Jabeur
Today, 4 p.m., ESPN
Washington cornerback Mike
Bass’s career, the football folly
that will be featured in videos
long after the NFL starts using
the Roman numeral C to count
Super Bowls, came in defeat.
With two minutes remaining in
Super Bowl VII on Jan. 14, 1973,
and Washington trailing the Mi-
ami Dolphins by 14, Bass cor-
ralled Miami kicker Garo Yepre-
mian’s ill-advised and poorly exe-
cuted pass attempt after a
blocked field goal and returned it
49 yards for a touchdown. The
score — Washington’s first in a
Super Bowl — and ensuing extra
point provided the final margin
MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS in the undefeated Dolphins’ 14-7
Alcaraz, of Spain, put on a stylish performance and will face Norway’s Casper win.
Ruud in the tournament final Sunday. The world No. 1 ranking is on the line. Bass, who will be inducted into
the Commanders’ Ring of Fame
during Sunday’s season opener at
FedEx Field, contributed much
more to Washington’s success in
SEE BASS ON D2

Jaguars at Commanders
Tomorrow, 1 p.m., Fox

Maryland’s Hemby bursts into role as starting back Game vs. the Tide is big,
BY P ATRICK S TEVENS
Sophomore right tackle Delmar
Glaze didn’t have time to watch
Roman Hemby break through for
a 70-yard touchdown run early in
the second half of Maryland’s 31-10
defeat of Buffalo on Saturday.
His own task required him to
turn away, just for a moment. It
didn’t take long, but it was enough
to miss the redshirt freshman run-
ning back’s burst to bust open the
game.
“I was on the back side of that
play, so I didn’t really know what
was going on over there,” Glaze
recalled this week. “I’m making
my block, and I look over, and he’s
in the second level, gone. I was
like, ‘Yeah, that’s a big run right
there.’ ”
The view of No. 24 barreling
toward the end zone is one Glaze
and the Terrapins would like to
become commonplace as this
season unfolds. Hemby’s run —
one of his two touchdowns as part
of a 114-yard day — helped him
SEE MARYLAND ON D3
but Austin is even bigger
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY
GAMES TO WATCH
austin — Has the comeuppance
of 12 mediocre football seasons Nationally
dulled the psyche around here?
1Alabama at Texas
Has the cascade of defeats lent a
Noon, Fox
sense of self-pity to this town as
eternal No. 1 Alabama heads to 24Tennessee at 17 Pittsburgh
town for this biggie-big-big game 3:30 p.m., ABC
of Saturday late morning? Is there
20 Kentucky at 12 Florida
dread that Alabama’s visit will
7 p.m., ESPN
foreshadow upcoming life in the
SEC? 10 Southern Cal at Stanford
Hell, no! 7:30 p.m., ABC
Are you kidding?
This is Austin.
Austin as a college football Locally
town has grown more like Los Maryland at Charlotte
Angeles as a college football town, 3:30 p.m., Stadium
even if it’s not as indifferent dur-
ing the down years and not just Memphis at Navy
because about half of Los Angeles 3:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network
up and moved to Austin. It has Virginia at Illinois
gotten far too big, varied and au- 4 p.m., ESPNU
thentic to have any football game
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST engulf it. Losing can’t consume it, Boston College at Virginia Tech
Maryland running back Roman Hemby scored two touchdowns, one on a 70-yard run, against Buffalo. SEE TEXAS ON D3
8 p.m., ACC Network
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NFL NOTES

Ravens, Jackson halt contract talks as season starts

F ROM NEWS SERVICES
AND STAFF REPORTS
The Baltimore Ravens said Fri-
day they would not be able to
reach an agreement with quarter-
back Lamar Jackson on a contract
extension by Sunday’s season-
opening game, postponing fur-
ther negotiations with the former
NFL MVP until after the season.
Jackson is set to play this sea-
son on the one year remaining on
his current contract. He is eligible
himself without an agent in-
volved and, even more notably, by
a standoff over guaranteed mon-
ey arising from the fully guaran-
teed five-year, $230 million con-
tract that quarterback Deshaun
Watson signed with the Cleve-
land Browns in March.
Jackson had suggested that he
would cut off negotiations by the
season opener. He said Wednes-
day that he considered Friday the
deadline for a deal.
— Mark Maske
misdemeanor possession of an
assault weapon stemming from
separate incidents last year.
l JETS: Left tackle Duane
Brown will miss the season open-
er against Baltimore with a shoul-
der injury that could sideline him
for at least a few weeks.
Coach Robert Saleh said New
York was still gathering medical
information on Brown’s shoulder,
but he acknowledged there’s a
chance the 37-year-old offensive
lineman could end up on injured
Tremayne Anchrum will step in at
right guard.
Noteboom strained his knee
ligaments, McVay said. The Rams
don’t expect Noteboom to miss
any time, but A.J. Jackson will
man left tackle if he does.
l PACKERS: Wide receiver Al-
len Lazard didn’t practice this
week and is unlikely to play in
Green Bay’s season opener Sun-
day at the Minnesota Vikings.
Offensive linemen David
Bakhtiari and Elgton Jenkins are NICK WASS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

for unrestricted free agency in the
spring, although the Ravens
could use their franchise player
tag to restrict his movement or
keep him off the market entirely.
“Despite best efforts on both
sides, we were unable to reach a
contract extension with Lamar
Jackson,” Ravens General Manag-
er Eric DeCosta said in a state-
ment. “We greatly appreciate how
he has handled this process and
we are excited about our team
with Lamar leading the way.”
There had been skepticism all
week about the prospects for the
two sides to strike a deal. The
negotiations were complicated by
Jackson’s decision to represent
l CHIEFS: Pro Bowl defensive
end Frank Clark returned to prac-
tice, and Coach Andy Reid said he
should be available when Kansas
City opens its season at the Ari-
zona Cardinals on Sunday.
Clark missed Thursday’s prac-
tice with an illness. He also
missed two days of work last
week with an illness.
Reid said that everybody on
the roster should be “good to go
unless there’s a setback with
Frank or something.”
Reid also said he has not heard
from the NFL about any potential
disciplinary action for Clark, who
pleaded no contest this week in
Los Angeles to two counts of
reserve. That would sideline him
for at least four games.
George Fant will slide from
right tackle to left and start Sun-
day in Brown’s place. Rookie Max
Mitchell, a fourth-round draft
pick, will start at right tackle.
l RAMS: Coach Sean McVay
said center Brian Allen will be out
for at least two weeks with a knee
injury suffered in Thursday’s sea-
son-opening loss to the Buffalo
Bills, and left tackle Joseph Note-
boom is hurt as well.
Allen is set to undergo a “pro-
cedure to remove loose bodies
from his knee,” McVay said. Right
guard Coleman Shelton will move
to center in Allen’s absence, and
listed as questionable as they
return from torn ACLs in their
left knees. If they’re able to go,
Bakhtiari would start at left tack-
le and the versatile Jenkins would
get the nod at right tackle.
l TITANS: Tennessee and safe-
ty Amani Hooker agreed on a
multiyear contract extension.
Terms of the deal were not an-
nounced.
Drafted out of Iowa in the
fourth round of the 2019 draft,
Hooker has started 15 of 44 games
over the past three seasons. He
has 119 tackles, five interceptions,
12 passes defended and a forced
fumble in that span.
— Associated Press
After a season-opening loss marred by self-inflicted mistakes, Tai
Lavatai and the Midshipmen look to rebound against Memphis.
Mids trying to wipe o≠
stink from opening loss
BY K AREEM C OPELAND A long season is just begin-
ning, so Navy can’t panic after a
Clay Cromwell was concerned disappointing opener, but the
with B.O. this week, but it had Midshipmen remain optimistic
nothing to do with personal because of the nature of the loss.
hygiene. The Navy defensive The majority of those mistakes
tackle was describing a metric were self-inflicted, and those is-
kept by the program called “beat sues can be corrected.
ourselves.” “If it was a personnel issue or
The Midshipmen had an something like that, there’s not a
alarming amount of B.O. last lot you can do about that, right?”

Bass has Lombardi to thank for career
BASS FROM D1
the 1970s than one of the most
bizarre plays in Super Bowl his-
tory. He started 98 consecutive
regular season games from 1969
through 1975, registering 30 in-
terceptions, three of which he
returned for touchdowns, and six
fumble recoveries. Bass teamed
with Brig Owens, Ken Houston
and Pat Fischer to form one of the
best defensive backfields in fran-
chise history and in 2002 was
named to Washington’s
“70 Greatest” team. He is the first
addition to the Ring of Fame
since London Fletcher and Chris
Samuels in 2019.
“I was very fortunate to prac-
tice day in and day out with some
of the best receivers,” Bass, who
called the honor the “crowning
moment” of his career, said in a
recent phone interview. “Charley
Taylor. Jerry Smith. Roy Jeffer-
son. Frank Grant. I would be
remiss if I didn’t mention the
contributions of my teammates.
We helped each other out quite a
bit.”
The biggest assist during
Bass’s eight-year career came
from Green Bay Packers coach
Vince Lombardi, who selected
him in the 12th round of the 1967
NFL draft out of Michigan. The
defending Super Bowl champion
Packers boasted a talented and
experienced secondary, includ-
ing Willie Wood, Bob Jeter and
Herb Adderley. Before Bass was
released as part of the team’s
final cuts ahead of the 1967
season, Lombardi brought the
young cornerback into his office
and told him he was good enough
to play in the league.
Bass signed with the Detroit
Lions and was active for two
games as a rookie, then spent the
1968 season on the Lions’ taxi
squad before being released. Af-
ter Washington hired Lombardi
in 1969, the legendary coach
invited Bass, who was a free
agent, to training camp.
Mike Bass (41) scored Washington’s only points in a 14-7 loss to the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VII.
“I knew if anyone would give
me a fair chance, it would be
Coach Lombardi,” said Bass, who
had written to several teams in
the spring of 1969 requesting a
tryout.
Bass seized his opportunity
with Washington and justified
the belief and confidence Lom-
bardi showed in him. He im-
pressed during camp and the
preseason, intercepting two pass-
es in a loss to Cleveland, and
earned the starting job at right
cornerback.
“He had that tenacity to drive
you beyond what you thought
you could do,” Bass said of Lom-
bardi, who coached only one
season in Washington before be-
ing diagnosed with advanced co-
lon cancer and died the following
September. “Outside of my dad,
he is probably the best man that I
have ever met.”
In 1971, under first-year head
coach George Allen, Bass helped
Washington to its first playoff
berth in 26 years. He tallied eight
interceptions that season, tied
for third in the league behind Bill
Bradley and Houston. Bass
thrived under Allen. A tenacious
tackler who wasn’t afraid to take
on running backs and receivers
much bigger than his 6-foot,
190-pound frame, Bass intercept-
ed at least three passes in all
seven of his seasons in Washing-
ton. The team qualified for the
playoffs every year from 1971
through 1974 and made its first
Super Bowl appearance after go-
ing 11-3 in 1972.
Bass suffered a severe neck
injury in Week 8 of the 1975
season when he was kneed in the
head while tackling New York
Giants running back Joe Dawk-
ins. Bass was taken off the field
on a stretcher, but he returned
the following week and played
the final six games of the regular
season. He suffered recurring
headaches during the offseason
and announced his retirement at
training camp in 1976 at 31.
Looking back, Bass, 77, said he
is most proud of the fact that he
didn’t allow many catches, much
ASSOCIATED PRESS
less touchdowns. His favorite
play was an interception return
for a score in a season-opening
win against the Giants in 1974.
Bass’s name will forever be
linked with Yepremian, who said
his “mind went blank” when he
picked up the football after his
field goal was blocked in Super
Bowl VII. After the ball slipped
out of Yepremian’s hand on his
inexplicable pass, he attempted
to bat it out of bounds but instead
knocked it directly to Bass.
Bass and Yepremian became
friends when they were team-
mates on the Lions in 1967 and
kept in touch as they both found
success elsewhere.
“I have to always smile a bit
because of that play,” Bass said
recently. “And at the same time I
smile a bit because Coach Lom-
bardi saw in me something that
the Lions didn’t see in me, and
the Lions have been relegated to
40 or 45 years of losing. That
remains in thought in the back of
my mind. The Lions were not as
smart as Coach Lombardi.”
week in a 14-7 loss to Delaware —
the program’s first loss to a
Football Championship Subdivi-
sion opponent since 2007.
“We gave them gifts, essential-
ly,” Cromwell said.
The mistakes came early and
often.
Quarterback Tai Lavatai and
fullback Anton Hall Jr. lost a
fumble at the mesh point on the
first snap from scrimmage of the
season for the Mids. Rayuan
Lane was called for pass interfer-
ence on the first defensive snap,
and Delaware scored a touch-
down on the next play.
The Mids would go on to lose
three of four fumbles, miss a field
goal and experience a few crucial
defensive miscues that account-
ed for those 14 points. It was the
third consecutive loss in a season
opener for Navy. The previous
two years, Navy struggled with
preparation during the pandem-
ic and lost by a combined 104-10
to BYU and Marshall. But 2022
was supposed to be different.
Coach Ken Niumatalolo was able
to get back into his normal
offseason and training camp rou-
tines, and he said that would
greatly help the Mids.
“Guys are still down,” Niumat-
alolo said Monday. “We’re in the
tank, and we’ve got to find a way
to bounce back. . . . That’s defi-
nitely not the start we wanted.
“Our guys are hurt, which is a
good sign. If they came in jovial
to the meeting and joking
around, I’d be pretty concerned.
But it was pretty quiet in there
today.”
Navy will attempt to turn
things around in the conference
opener against Memphis (0-1) at
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial
Stadium on Saturday. The Tigers
should bring a more physically
challenging team to Annapolis
and have defeated their Ameri-
can Athletic Conference rival
three years in a row. Memphis
won, 35-17, last season led by
quarterback Seth Henigan’s
215 passing yards on just eight
completions while the Tigers
piled up 204 rushing yards. The
sophomore quarterback is back
for his second year as a starter.
Navy defensive coordinator Bri-
an Newberry said. “But if it’s
something that you have control
over, that’s what we talk about
all the time. There’s things we
can control, things we can’t.
Certainly, want to be great at the
things that we control. And we
know it’s hard to win around
here and you can’t win games
beating yourselves, especially
the close ones.
“The margin for error is very,
very small. It’s not to say we’re
not going to make mistakes, but
we can’t make the kind of mis-
takes where we give people gifts.
And we did that a couple of times
Saturday.”
Outside of the unforced errors,
Niumatalolo was frustrated with
the amount of “loafs” from his
team. There’s a certain level of
energy not only expected but
needed inside a developmental
program. Navy isn’t a program
with highly ranked recruiting
classes that can get wins by
simply being bigger and faster
than opponents.
Additionally, the Midshipmen
need Lavatai to be a bigger threat
in the running game after he
averaged 1.9 yards on 18 carries
against Delaware. The junior
was expected to make significant
strides as a returning starter.
Niumatalolo specifically men-
tioned the fullbacks, offensive
line and quarterback all need to
take steps forward in a running
game that averaged 2.9 yards on
63 attempts last week.
“That’s our biggest emphasis,
minimizing our missed assign-
ments and our loafs, which is just
effort in playing,” Niumatalolo
said. “I don’t know if guys recog-
nize the standard. They think
they’re playing hard, but that’s
not the standard of what we’re
looking for. The type of effort
level that we’re looking for was
not met.
“Some of it guys don’t recog-
nize that’s not the standard that
we play here at Navy football. It’s
definitely been addressed. . . .
Hopefully it will be crystal clear
to guys. This is the standard, and
nothing else is acceptable. And
there’s no compromising it.”

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College football

Virginia ready to hit the road running Maryland’s Hemby bursts to forefront
BY G ENE W ANG
Virginia first-year football
coach Tony Elliott requested the
sound system inside the Cava-
liers’ practice facility early this
week be cranked up so high that
offensive players barely could
hear quarterback Brennan Arm-
strong hollering signals at the
line of scrimmage.
The music blaring through the
speakers over and again was the
Illinois fight song — to provide
the Cavaliers a taste of the hostile
environment they will be facing
Saturday afternoon at Memorial
Stadium in Champaign, Ill., for
their first road game of the sea-
nior, who at 6 foot 7 presents
significant matchup issues,
missed all of last season after he
tore an ACL in spring practice.
Davis’s rousing return to the
lineup was among the many nota-
ble performances from players
who either did not contribute last
year or were only sparingly on the
field. Every starter on the offen-
sive line, for instance, was mak-
ing his starting debut in a Cava-
liers uniform, and only one mem-
ber of that group, Dartmouth
graduate transfer John Paul
Flores, had started a college game
before last weekend.
McKale Boley (6-4,
331 pounds), on the left side,
were its most since Dec. 5, 2020,
against Boston College.
“I think it took them a little
while to kind of get settled in to
the run game, but once they had
some success, they were able to
establish the run game,” Elliott
said. “Still got a lot of work to do.
You think about it: Devine’s first
start, Taylor’s first start, Furnish’s
first start, so a bunch of first
starts.”
Still the Cavaliers had two
players rush for more than
100 yards.
Armstrong led the way with
105, the second-highest total of
his career, on 10 carries. The
fifth-year senior’s 64-yard touch-
MARYLAND FROM D1
lock up the Big Ten’s freshman of
the week nod.
Anthony McFarland was the
last Terp to rush for 100 yards in
his first career start, doing so in
2018 against Temple. And the last
Maryland running back to surpass
Hemby’s yardage total while mak-
ing his starting debut? Da’Rel
Scott’s 197-yard day against Dela-
ware in the 2008 opener. (Quarter-
back C.J. Brown rushed for
162 yards against Clemson in his
first start in 2011).
It was a welcome sign for Mary-
land, which hopes Hemby and
Antwain Littleton II (another red- JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST

son.
It also served as a reminder
that after a relatively comfortable
34-17 win in the opener last week-
end against visiting Richmond,
beating the Fighting Illini almost
certainly is going to require more
focus and attention to detail.
“We practice with music, and
typically the music is loud, but I
wanted them to hear something
different to try and get them used
to — so it’s not the first time when
they strike up the band is the first
time they hear it,” Elliott said. “So
now it’s not even a distraction.
They probably won’t even pay
attention or hear it once they get
up there.”
In addition to instructing
players on how best to manage
crowd noise, Elliott indicated he
and his staff are deploying tacti-
cal tweaks in hopes of averting
the offense bogging down again,
as it did after it scored touch-
downs on four consecutive
drives against the Spiders bridg-
ing the first and second quarters.
The scoring barrage began
with Armstrong completing a 56-
yard touchdown pass to wide
receiver Lavel Davis Jr. The ju-
became the second true freshman
to start a season opener at tackle
for Virginia and the sixth in
program history to start in any
game at the position.
Center Ty Furnish and right
tackle Logan Taylor are both
sophomores. Furnish appeared in
three games last season, and Tay-
lor played in two. Starting right
guard Derek Devine, a fifth-year
senior, missed last season be-
cause of a broken foot.
“It was the first time, again a
lot of things to clean up, but I’m
happy we got out there,” Devine
said. “I’m happy we got that first
game under our belt, especially
for me. That was a lot of nerves
going into that game, and I’m
sure the other guys were a little
nervous as well.”
Despite the dearth of in-game
experience, Virginia’s offensive
line yielded only one sack and
allowed Armstrong to remain
mostly comfortable in the pocket.
It also paved the way for the
Cavaliers to rush for 259 yards,
the fourth time since 2015 they
have amassed at least 250 rushing
yards.
Virginia’s 42 rushing attempts
down run early in the second
quarter opened a 21-7 lead and
produced the longest rushing
play of his career as he set the
school’s career mark for total
offense.
Tailback Perris Jones, another
fifth-year senior, added 104 yards
and a touchdown on 19 attempts.
The former walk-on from Alexan-
dria had rushed for 12 yards total
during his first four years at
Virginia.
Jones is one of five players at
Virginia who rushed for at least
100 yards in his first start. The
last player to accomplish the feat
was quarterback Bryce Perkins
(2018), who set a number of
notable school records for offense
Armstrong since has surpassed.
“Just continuing to take the
next steps,” said Jones, who
played high school football for
Bishop Ireton before transferring
to Episcopal as a junior. “You
know, be consistent. That’s the
key. Not falling off, not having
just one good performance and
going down. It’s just continuing
to build on the performance and
getting better and better every
week.”
shirt freshman who scored twice
in the opener) can emerge as part
of an effective backfield commit-
tee as the season unfolds. It’s a
group that could be in for a strong
day Saturday at Charlotte (0-2),
which is yielding 260.5 yards a
game on the ground.
It’s a plan the Terps started
working on in the spring, when
the team was without injured
wideouts Dontay Demus Jr. and
Jeshaun Jones.
“With the emphasis we put on
the run game, especially with the
receivers being injured through-
out spring ball, I think the timing
of our run game and the comfort
level we have with the offensive
line and all of the running backs
really showed up on Saturday,”
Coach Michael Locksley said. “I’d
like a few more opportunities for
those guys.”
Hemby didn’t need many
chances to make an impact Satur-
day, taking only seven carries. He
capped Maryland’s first posses-
sion with a 33-yard score.
It wasn’t Hemby’s first college
action. He had 12 carries for
45 yards and a touchdown last
year in an early season rout of
Roman Hemby, right, ran for 114 yards and two touchdowns on
only seven carries in Maryland’s opening victory over Buffalo.
Howard, and he capped the cam-
paign with five rushes for 26 yards
and a score in the Pinstripe Bowl
against Virginia Tech.
Redshirt rules allow players to
appear in up to four games and
retain a year of eligibility, so Hem-
by was used sparingly in between
those two showings. But he was
still busy, absorbing as much as he
could to set himself up for the
future.
“I feel like last year helped me a
lot, more than I gave it credit for,”
Hemby said. “I learned how to
practice last year. Not really being
able to contribute to the game days,
I was able to treat the week like my
game day — so preparing the de-
fense for their challenges and
things like that. Now that I have my
shot, I already know how to prac-
tice hard. I already know how to
take my time with everything.”
Those lessons helped in the off-
season. Hemby learned plenty
about what to do and what not to
do last fall and dedicated himself
to becoming as consistent as pos-
sible. Having speed and strength
to begin with helped. Improving
as an all-around back did, too.
Coupled with a veteran offen-
sive line, it’s how Hemby uncorked
the longest run for any Maryland
player since McFarland’s 80-yard
jaunt in 2019 against Rutgers.
“On a play like that, I really just
had to run,” Hemby said.
It was quite the first impression
as a starter for a guy who also
played a significant role on Mary-
land’s special teams in the opener.
And as Locksley sees it, there’s
plenty of reason to believe it’s just
the beginning of the impact Hem-
by will have on the Terps in the
coming years.
“He’s exactly the poster child of
what you want out of a Terp,”
Locksley said. “. . . Here you have
your starting tailback running
down on kicks and doing all the
dirty work and little things that a
lot of people don’t want to do. To
me, that’s kind of the DNA of what
we’re developing as a team, a
bunch of guys that are like Roman
Hemby when it comes to unself-
ishness.”

Texas is preparing for No. 1 Alabama, but you wouldn’t know it in parts of Austin
TEXAS FROM D1
even if losing can start to gobble
up hope.
Roam the burgeoning burg this
week, and it’s plausible to come
across zero mentions of Alabama
coming to town, unless you want
to count the little sign on the side-
walk outside the Co-Op bookstore
on Guadalupe, which points out
that Texas leads the all-time series
7-1 while not pointing out that,
since Alabama got the “1” at the
BCS national championship game
of January 2010, Alabama has lost
17 times overall, Texas 67.
Over in one corner of the city at
Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial
Stadium, the team drilled on the
field Monday while university em-
ployees directed visiting media to
refrain from gawking through the
ninth-floor windows before the
weekly news conference.
Texas remains a football experi-
ment worthy of graduate-school
dissertations: How can this many
resources yield this few wins (83)
over this many years (12)? But
some of the talk this week con-
cerned how, during the opening
win over Louisiana Monroe on
Saturday night, new quarterback
Quinn Ewers’s car got towed. Sec-
ond-year coach Steve Sarkisian
(6-7 overall), formerly Nick Sa-
ban’s offensive coordinator at Ala-
bama, said Ewers should park
where he’s supposed to park, thus
bucking decades of American cus-
tom, which long has held that
quarterbacks should park wher-
ever the hell they wish.
In a signal of the name, image
and likeness era, Chip Brown of
247Sports asked Ewers which of
his cars got towed, bringing Ewers
to a momentary pause.
“My car,” he said, and everybody
laughed.
The campus buzzes in the morn-
ings right about now, but with its
52,000, doesn’t it always? Austin
long has had the music, but by this
point in history the Austin Chroni-
cle listed 77 music events for
Thursday, 118 for Friday and 130 for
Saturday, everybody from Stereo-
lab to the Killers to the Genders,
the Electron Donors, Damn Tall
Buildings and Johnny Nicholas &
the Hidden Charms. The food-
truck parks always do seem intent
on multiplying across the land, not
a bad idea all told. The world’s
foremost urban bat colony keeps
thriving under Ann W. Richards
Congress Avenue Bridge, and peo-
ple still come to see hundreds of
thousands of Mexican free-tailed
bats fly east in their great droves in
evenings, even if doing so can earn
the odd $87 parking ticket.
Austin, a mass celebration of
either eccentricity or what’s
deemed eccentricity by intolerant
others, remains the city where
you’re most likely to go to the
treasured Barton Springs swim-
ming hole on a hot afternoon and
come across a guy with grand tat-
toos and enviable muscles and
bright-blue toenail polish.
A 5-7 season last year has helped plunge the Longhorns into a
three-touchdown underdog against the visiting Crimson Tide.
Over at the football, Sarkisian
answers questions, beginning
with the topic of whether oppo-
nents can get too enamored of
Alabama to function properly, and
the flawed one-liners almost write
themselves.
“I think the biggest thing for us
is: be enamored with us.”
Hasn’t that been one of the prob-
lems?
“There’s definitely going to be
some cat-and-mouse going on,”
even with the game-planning fin-
ished three months ago.
Some would say it’s more lion-
and-prey.
“Our vertical passing game’s got
to come to life, which I believe it
will.”
Given those linebackers on the
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other side, there’s also a reason-
able chance of a lot of horizontal.
Austin FC, of Major League Soc-
cer, the first pro team in what used
to be the biggest city in the country
without one, won’t be home this
weekend: It will play in Seattle.
But there’s everything else: poetry
readings, a block party with Hous-
ton hip-hop artist Fat Tony and
many others, art everywhere, the
preview of Bruce Munro’s “Field of
Light” at Lady Bird Johnson Wild-
flower Center, with its 28,000 so-
lar-powered fiber-optic light pods.
In this serendipity capital, you
might walk around thinking about
football and end up wandering
into a day-making exhibit such as
photographer Laura Wilson’s “The
Writers,” depicting her visits to
38 famed writers of 10 nationali-
ties (Gabriel García Márquez, Mar-
garet Atwood, Ta-Nehisi Coates
and Sam Shepard among them).
There’s too much around here to
let glumness hush the football
town the way it happens in other
places: too much construction and
construction and construction,
too much tech, too much cycling,
too many rentable kayaks, too
many racks for parking bicycles
and electric scooters to share.
Over at the football, the 5-7 sea-
son last year with its six-game
losing streak and its thudding loss
to Kansas at home helped plunge
Texas into a three-touchdown un-
derdog. That might help.
For one thing, it’s a three-touch-
down underdog with a sellout af-
ter a season in which attendances
stayed over 90,000 for the first five
home games but dropped to
75,072 for the closer on the Friday
after Thanksgiving against Kan-
sas State. Capacity is 100,119.
For another thing, it’s a rare
posture for Texas and its custom-
ary haughtiness occasionally
earned. It has been a long time
since Alabama beat Texas, 37-21,
for Saban’s first Alabama national
title, a game ruined when quarter-
back Colt McCoy got hurt on Tex-
as’s fifth offensive play, and Texas
has had four head coaches since
then — and Alabama, well, one.
Cedric Golden of the Austin
American-Statesman asked Ewers
whether he ever has played a game
as such a substantial underdog,
especially seeing as how Ewers
stopped by for last year at titan
Ohio State. Ewers, who has a steer
tattoo on his thigh, a Bible-verse
tattoo on his arm and a mullet on
his head, mulled it for a bit and
said, “Maybe not my first time.”
He suggested that at Carroll
High near Dallas, itself a titan, he
might have been an underdog
against, say, Duncanville, but it’s
hard to say Duncanville would be
that much of a favorite over Car-
roll in Vegas.
An alleged big game will play
here Saturday at 11 a.m. local time
under the sunspot-hot sun, mean-
ing it’s too bad none of Austin’s
excellent trees will shade the field
— and maybe also shield the locals
from what goes on out there. The
bars on Sixth Street and maybe
even other streets will fill and
rumble. People at Hippie Hollow
on Lake Travis won’t be wearing
any Texas gear, if only because
they don’t wear anything at all.
Big brands-wise, though, any
game between Alabama and Texas
should be big enough for its own
T-shirt, and there are Alabama-
Texas T-shirts — “Everything Is
Bigger In Texas,” one says at the
bottom, just beneath the two com-
peting helmets — but they don’t
shout from the storefronts as they
might in a smaller town, and they
aren’t dominant, partly because
the only thing dominant here is
human energy.
This is Austin. It’s an old story
by now, but: Traffic’s bad.

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EARLY SHIFT SWING SHIFT NIGHT SHIFT

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Noon Ohio at Penn State » ABC
Noon South Carolina at No. 16 Arkansas » ESPN
Noon Missouri at Kansas State » ESPN2
Noon North Carolina at Georgia State » ESPNU
Noon Southern Miss at No. 15 Miami » ACC Network
Noon No. 23 Wake Forest at Vanderbilt » SEC Network
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Alabama is a 20-point favorite at Texas as of this writing, a scenario in
which Nick Saban-coached Crimson Tide teams usually thrive: They have
gone 26-0 as road favorites of at least 20 points under Saban, winning by
more than seven points in 25 of them. The only truly close game was last
year’s nutty 24-22 Iron Bowl win at Auburn. Last year also saw Saban lose to
a former assistant for the first time (to Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M) and the
second time (to Kirby Smart and Georgia in the College Football Playoff title
game), and Longhorns Coach Steve Sarkisian served under Saban for three
seasons, the last two as his offensive coordinator. Texas rolled up on
Louisiana Monroe last weekend, prompting some muffled cries of “Texas is
back,” but Alabama put a probably more impressive 55-0 hurt on Utah
State, which unlike the Warhawks actually could be pretty decent this year.
The Longhorns haven’t beaten an Associated Press top-five team since a
20-13 win over No. 5 Nebraska in 2010 and last beat a top-ranked team in
2008, when they vanquished Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry.
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3:30 Washington State at No. 19 Wisconsin » Fox
3:30 No. 24 Tennessee at No. 17 Pittsburgh » ABC
3:30 Colorado at Air Force » CBS
3:30 Appalachian State at No. 6 Texas A&M » ESPN2
3:30 Furman at No. 5 Clemson » ACC Network
3:30 Memphis at Navy » CBS Sports Network
4 Virginia at Illinois » ESPNU
4 Samford at No. 2 Georgia » SEC Network
4 Akron at No. 14 Michigan State » Big Ten Network
4 Iowa State at Iowa » Big Ten Network
4 Indiana State at Purdue » Big Ten Network
4 Wagner at Rutgers » Big Ten Network
4 No. 25 Houston at Texas Tech » Fox Sports 1
5 Alabama State at UCLA » Pac-12 Network
5:30 St. Francis (Pa.) at Richmond » NBC Sports Washington
Tennessee travels to Pittsburgh for the Johnny Majors Classic, with both
teams featuring intriguing passers. Volunteers quarterback Hendon Hooker,
who replaced an injured Joe Milton in last year’s loss to the Panthers and
has not relinquished the starting job since, threw for two scores and ran for
two more in Tennessee’s 49-point blowout of Ball State last weekend.
Pittsburgh features Kedon Slovis, the Southern California transfer who
replaced Kenny Pickett, who’s now in the NFL. Slovis completed 16 of
24 passes for 308 yards and a touchdown in the harrowing Backyard Brawl
win over West Virginia last week, when the Panthers tied the score late, went
ahead on M.J. Devonshire’s pick-six with 2:58 remaining and then held on as
the Mountaineers’ last-gasp touchdown drive fell just short.
7 No. 20 Kentucky at No. 12 Florida » ESPN
7 Central Arkansas at No. 22 Mississippi » SEC Network
7 Syracuse at Connecticut » CBS Sports Network
7 Western Carolina at Georgia Tech » ACC Network
7 Eastern Michigan at Louisiana Lafayette » NFL Network
7:30 No. 10 Southern California at Stanford » ABC
7:30 Arizona State at No. 11 Oklahoma State » ESPN2
7:30 San José State at Auburn » ESPNU
7:30 Southern at LSU » SEC Network
7:30 Georgia Southern at Nebraska » Fox Sports 1
8 Hawaii at No. 4 Michigan » Big Ten Network
8 Idaho at Indiana » Big Ten Network
8 Boston College at Virginia Tech » ACC Network
8:30 Eastern Washington at Oregon » Pac-12 Network
10:15 No. 9 Baylor at No. 21 BYU » ESPN
10:30 Oregon at Fresno State » CBS Sports Network
11 Mississippi State at Arizona » Fox Sports 1
The night slate features two late games that may trump going to sleep. BYU
hosts Baylor in a matchup of ranked future Big 12 rivals, with the Cougars
scheduled to join the conference next season. The Bears won last year’s
matchup, rushing for 303 yards in a 38-24 win. It was the first of four games
in which BYU allowed at least 210 rushing yards over its final seven games
(though they went 5-2 over that stretch). Baylor ran the ball 41 times for
259 yards and seven touchdowns in a season-opening demolition of Albany,
so it appears its plan of attack hasn’t changed much. . . . Fresh off its upset
of bewilderingly bad San Diego State, Arizona hosts Mississippi State
with something of a pep in its step after it finished 1-16 over its previous two
seasons. The Wildcats held the perennially ground-bound Aztecs to only
62 passing yards on 16 attempts but will face nothing remotely similar to
that with Mike Leach’s Bulldogs, who got 450 passing yards and five
touchdowns (to five players) from quarterback Will Rogers in a season-
opening win over Memphis.
— Matt Bonesteel
D4 EZ M2 THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022

Baseball
National League American League
EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR
x-Atlanta 86 51 .628 — 7-3 W-7 St. Louis 81 58 .583 — 6-4 L-2 x-Los Angeles 94 42 .691 — 6-4 W-2 New York 83 56 .597 — 5-5 L-2 x-Cleveland 70 65 .519 — 3-7 L-1 Houston 89 49 .645 — 8-2 W-2
New York 87 52 .626 — 5-5 L-1 Milwaukee 73 66 .525 8 4-6 L-1 x-San Diego 76 62 .551 19 6-4 W-2 Tampa Bay 78 58 .574 31/2 9-1 W-4 x-Chicago 70 68 .507 11/2 7-3 W-2 x-Seattle 77 60 .562 111/2 8-2 L-1
Philadelphia 76 62 .551 101/2 4-6 W-1 Chicago 58 80 .420 221/2 3-7 W-1 Arizona 65 72 .474 291/2 5-5 L-3 Toronto 77 60 .562 5 8-2 W-2 x-Minnesota 69 67 .507 11/2 4-6 W-1 Los Angeles 60 78 .435 29 5-5 L-2
Miami 57 80 .416 29 2-8 W-2 Cincinnati 56 80 .412 23 1/
2 6-4 W-3 San Francisco 65 73 .471 30 4-6 L-5 Baltimore 73 65 .529 9 1/
2 6-4 W-1 Kansas City 56 83 .403 16 4-6 L-1 Texas 59 78 .431 291/2 1-9 L-2
Washington 49 90 .353 38 6-4 L-1 Pittsburgh 51 86 .372 29 3-7 W-1 Colorado 60 79 .432 351/2 5-5 W-3 Boston 67 72 .482 16 5-5 L-4 Detroit 53 85 .384 181/2 3-7 W-2 x-Oakland 50 88 .362 39 3-7 L-3
x-Late game x-Late game

NO TE S
Henderson’s huge hit TOD AY

PERSONNEL DEPT.
Astros: Activated closer
gets O’s back on track NL games
NATIONALS AT PHILLIES, 6:05

Ryan Pressly, who has W-L ERA TEAM

been out since Aug. 25 Fedde (R) 6-9 5.08 11-11

with neck spasms, from

ORIOLES 3, RED SOX 2 Suárez (L) 8-5 3.52 15-9

the 15-day injured list. GIANTS AT CUBS, 2:20

BY N ATHAN R UIZ Webb (R) 12-8 2.90 15-13
Brewers: Placed RHP Stroman (R) 3-6 3.73 5-15
Freddy Peralta on the baltimore — For all the excitement his debut in METS AT MARLINS, 6:10
15-day IL with Cleveland brought, Gunnar Henderson had yet to Carrasco (R) 13-6 3.91 15-9
inflammation in his provide a signature moment at Camden Yards. López (R) 8-9 3.66 13-14
throwing shoulder. A possibility presented itself in the sixth inning of REDS AT BREWERS, 7:15
Orioles: RHP Jordan Friday night’s game against the Boston Red Sox. As Anderson (R) 0-2 12.60 1-1
Lyles, who missed his the Baltimore Orioles’ top prospect came to the plate, Houser (R) 5-9 4.83 6-11
scheduled start Monday he did so not only with the bases loaded and one out CARDINALS AT PIRATES, 7:35
with flu-like symptoms, is but also with Baltimore facing a one-run deficit after Flaherty (R) 0-1 4.15 1-3
on track to start Saturday
scoring its first run in 14 innings on a wild pitch. Brubaker (R) 3-11 4.35 8-17
Henderson tripled the frame’s run total and
against the Red Sox. DIAMONDBACKS AT ROCKIES, 8:10
flipped the scoreboard with one groundball through
Red Sox: 1B Eric Hosmer, the right side. His two-run single gave the Orioles a
Bumgarner (L) 6-13 4.83 11-16
Ureña (R) 3-6 6.13 3-9
who has been on the IL 3-2 lead they wouldn’t relinquish as the bullpen
since Aug. 22 with lower delivered five scoreless innings even with closer DODGERS AT PADRES, 8:40
Urías (L) 15-7 2.29 17-9
back inflammation, may Félix Bautista seemingly unavailable.
Snell (L) 6-8 3.73 6-13
not return this season, Henderson’s knock gave the 21-year-old, the
according to Manager youngest player in the majors, hits in eight of his first
Alex Cora. 10 career games and doubled his RBI total. It was the NL scores
Orioles’ first hit Friday by a player other than Cedric THURSDAY’S RESULTS
BY THE NUMBERS Mullins. Washington 11, at St. Louis 6

206
Cincinnati 4, at Chicago Cubs 3
Mullins opened Baltimore’s night against Boston Miami 6, at Philadelphia 5
starter Brayan Bello with a single but was erased Game 1: at Milwaukee 2, San Francisco 1
Game 2: at Milwaukee 4, San Francisco 2
trying to steal second base. He began the fourth with FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Strikeouts for White Sox a hard line drive off the right field wall, only for Alex at Philadelphia 5, Washington 3
right-hander Dylan Cease, Verdugo to smoothly field the ricochet and throw at Chicago Cubs 4, San Francisco 2
at Miami 6, N.Y. Mets 3
who became the seventh him out at second. at Pittsburgh 8, St. Louis 2
Cincinnati 8, at Milwaukee 2
pitcher in franchise But when he smacked a ball into left field with one at Colorado 13, Arizona 10
history with multiple MORRY GASH/ASSOCIATED PRESS out in the sixth, Mullins made little effort to advance L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, late

200-strikeout seasons. beyond first base. He finally did so when Adley

Nothing doing
2-16
Rutschman walked, beginning a string of three
AL games
Cincinnati’s Donovan Solano is cut down at home plate while attempting to score on Aristides Aquino’s straight free passes that included the run-scoring
wild pitch. RED SOX AT ORIOLES, 5:05
Record for the Twins at double in the third inning Friday as the Reds took on the wild-card-contending Brewers in Milwaukee.
— Baltimore Sun W-L ERA TEAM
Yankee Stadium since the Wacha (R) 10-1 2.58 13-5
beginning of 2017. Cubs 4, Giants 2 Marlins 6, Mets 3 Pirates 8, Cardinals 2 Reds 8, Brewers 2 Orioles 3, Red Sox 2 Blue Jays 4, Rangers 3 Lyles (R) 10-9 4.25 14-13

Drew Smyly allowed one New York could not Oneil Cruz finished a TJ Friedl homered to lead RED SOX AB R H BI BB SO AVG Bo Bichette homered for RAYS AT YANKEES, 1:05
QUOTABLE hit and no earned runs in erase an early deficit and home run short of the cy- off a five-run first inning, Pham lf ...............5 0 1 0 0 1 .271 the fifth time in the past Kluber (R) 10-7 4.00 15-11
Verdugo rf ..........4 0 2 0 1 0 .286
seven innings and Yan lost to Miami. cle, and Pittsburgh kept and left-hander Nick Lod- four games, Danny Jansen Taillon (R) 12-4 3.95 20-7
“There’s extra Gomes and Nico Hoerner Garrett Cooper hom- St. Louis from stretching olo pitched eight strong in-
Bogaerts ss ........5
Devers 3b............3
Story 2b ..............4
1
0
0
3 2 0 1 .318
0 0 1 0 .287
0 0 0 2 .238
hit a tiebreaking RBI single WHITE SOX AT ATHLETICS, 4:07
homered in Chicago’s vic- ered, doubled and singled its lead atop the National nings to lift Cincinnati. in the ninth inning, and To- Lynn (R) 5-5 4.34 9-7
motivation when
Martinez dh ........3 0 2 0 1 0 .274
tory over San Francisco. for the Marlins, who have League Central. In a matchup of rookie Casas 1b .............3 0 0 0 1 1 .111 ronto beat Texas. Martinez (R) 4-3 4.37 4-3
Hernández cf ......4 0 0 0 0 0 .217
Smyly struck out eight never had a player hit for Albert Pujols entered as starters, Lodolo easily out- Wong c................3 1 1 0 0 0 .211 Top Rangers prospect
you play on such
BLUE JAYS AT RANGERS, 7:05
and walked two before de- the cycle. a pinch hitter for the Car- performed Brewers right- McGuire ph-c ......1 0 0 0 0 1 .355 Josh Jung homered in his Gausman (R) 11-9 3.12 15-11
TOTALS 35 2 9 2 4 6 —
parting after Austin Dean METS AB R H BI BB SO AVG dinals and went 0 for 2. hander Jason Alexander. first career at-bat.
a big stage like
Arihara (R) 1-2 5.29 1-2
reached on a fielding error Nimmo cf ............2 1 1 1 2 0 .266 The 42-year-old remains Lodolo had career bests ORIOLES AB R H BI BB SO AVG BLUE JAYS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Lindor ss .............4 0 1 0 0 0 .265 Mullins cf .............4 1 3 0 0 1 .263 TIGERS AT ROYALS, 7:10
to start the eighth. McNeil 2b............3 0 0 0 0 0 .316
at 695 home runs. with 11 strikeouts and eight Rutschman c ........3 1 0 0 1 0 .255
Springer cf-rf ......5 1 1 0 0 1 .264

Yankee Stadium GIANTS AB

Brinson cf................3
and you’re the Pederson ph-lf ........0
Flores 2b .................4
Davis dh ..................2
villain.”
Longoria 3b .............4
T.Estrada ss ............4
Yastrzemski rf-cf....3
— Twins shortstop Carlos Villar 1b...................4
Dean lf-rf ................4
Correa, a target in New York Wynns c ..................1
for his role in the Astros’ Bart pr-c..................2
TOTALS 31
cheating scandal, responded
to jeering Yankees fans with CUBS AB
Madrigal 2b ........2
a tiebreaking, two-run homer McKinstry 2b ......1
in the eighth inning to lead Suzuki rf .............4
Reyes dh .............3
Minnesota to a 4-3 victory Hoerner ss ..........3
Gomes c ..............2
Thursday night. Rivas 1b ..............3
Hermosillo cf ......3
Bote 3b ...............3
STAR OF THE DAY Morel lf ...............2
Drew Smyly, Cubs TOTALS 26
SAN FRAN. .... 000 000 020 — 2 3 1
The left-hander allowed CHICAGO........ 020 002 00X — 4 5 1
just one hit and no earned E: Wynns (5), Hoerner (12). LOB: San
runs in seven innings as Francisco 7, Chicago 2. 2B: Villar (3),
Longoria (12). HR: Gomes (7), off
Chicago beat the Giants, Rodón; Hoerner (9), off Marte.
GIANTS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
4-2. Rodón ............... 51/3 3 2 2 1 11 2.93
Marte.................. 2/3 1 2 2 1 2 6.38
García ............... 11/3 1 0 0 0 0 3.44
TODAY’S GAME Littell.................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 4.93
TO WATCH
CUBS IP
Rays at Yankees, Smyly .................. 7
Rodríguez ........... 2/3
1 p.m., MLB Network Hughes ............. 11/3
Two-time Cy Young Award WP: Smyly (6-8); LP: Rodón (12-8); S:
Hughes (4). Inherited runners-scored:
winner Corey Kluber (10-7, Littell 1-0, Rodríguez 1-1, Hughes 2-0.
HBP: Smyly (Wynns), García (Morel).
4.00 ERA) takes the hill PB: Gomes (2). T: 2:52. A: 31,309
for Tampa Bay against (41,649).
RH
0 0
BI BB SO AVG
0 0 1 .227
Alonso 1b............4
Naquin rf.............3
1
0
1 2 0 1 .267
0 0 1 2 .243
CARDINALS
Donovan 2b..........5
AB R
0
H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 0 1 .292
innings while the Reds’ first
six batters reached base
Santander dh .......3
Mountcastle 1b....3
1
0
0 0 1 1 .253
0 0 1 0 .245
Guerrero Jr. 1b ....4
Bichette ss..........4
Kirk dh.................3
1
1
0
2 0 0 1 .277
2 3 0 0 .276
0 0 1 1 .300
Manning (R)
Heasley (R)
1-2
3-7
3.86
4.98
3-6
5-11
Canha lf ..............4 0 1 0 0 0 .272 Henderson ss .......3 0 2 2 1 1 .306
1 0 0 1 0 .265 Edman ss .............4 0 2 1 0 0 .267 Chapman 3b ........4 0 2 0 0 2 .237
0 0 0 0 2 .235
Vogelbach dh ......2 0 0 0 0 1 .226
Goldschmidt 1b ...4 1 1 0 0 1 .327
off Alexander. Urías 3b................2 0 0 0 1 0 .249 Tapia lf ................2 1 1 0 2 0 .263
GUARDIANS AT TWINS, 7:15
Ruf ph-dh............2 0 0 0 0 0 .156 Odor 2b ................4 0 0 0 0 1 .200 Espinal 2b............4 0 0 0 0 1 .263 McKenzie (R) 9-11 3.18 15-10
0 0 0 2 1 .247 Escobar 3b ..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .231 Arenado 3b ..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .299 REDS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Hays lf..................3 0 0 0 0 2 .247 Jansen c ..............4 0 2 1 0 0 .225
0 1 2 0 1 .244 Nido c..................4 1 2 0 0 1 .226 Dickerson lf .........4 0 1 1 0 0 .290 Stowers rf............2 0 0 0 1 2 .227 Archer (R) 2-7 4.47 8-16
0 0 0 0 2 .257 O'Neill cf..............2 0 1 0 2 1 .227 Friedl lf ...............5 2 2 1 0 1 .276 Bradley Jr. rf .......3 0 0 0 0 2 .186
0 0 0 1 1 .210 TOTALS 32 3 7 3 3 5 — Burleson dh .........2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 India 2b ...............5 2 2 2 0 0 .269 TOTALS 27 3 5 2 6 8 — Biggio ph .............1 0 0 0 0 0 .221 ANGELS AT ASTROS, 7:15
K.Farmer 3b ........5 1 3 1 0 1 .268
0 1 0 0 1 .216
MARLINS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Pujols ph-dh ........2 0 0 0 0 0 .258
Fraley dh .............4 2 2 1 0 2 .257 BOSTON......... 002 000 000 — 2 9 0
Zimmer cf............0 0 0 0 0 0 .105
Ohtani (R) 11-8 2.58 12-11
1 1 0 0 0 .250 Knizner c..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .221 TOTALS 34 4 10 4 3 8 —
0 0 0 0 1 .220 Berti 3b-2b .........5 0 0 0 0 2 .253 Gorman ph ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .232 Solano 1b ............5 1 2 1 0 0 .304 BALTIMORE... 000 003 00X — 3 5 1
Urquidy (R) 13-5 3.51 17-8
Aquino rf.............4 0 3 0 1 0 .207 E: Tate (2). LOB: Boston 10, Baltimore
0 0 0 0 0 .223 Anderson rf ........4
Cooper 1b............3
1
2
0 0 1 1 .225
3 2 1 0 .262
Nootbaar rf..........3 1 0 0 1 1 .221
Senzel cf .............5 0 0 0 0 1 .236 7. 2B: Verdugo (35), Wong (1), Hender-
RANGERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
2 3 2 4 10 — TOTALS 34 2 6 2 3 5 — Semien 2b ...........4 1 1 0 0 1 .242
L.Díaz 1b .............0 0 0 0 0 0 .170 Barrero ss ...........4
Romine c .............4
0
0
2 1 0 2 .161
1 0 0 1 .170
son (3). HR: Bogaerts (13), off Voth. Seager ss.............4 0 2 2 0 0 .247
García dh.............4 0 0 0 0 2 .230 RBI: Bogaerts 2 (65), Henderson 2 (4).
R H BI BB SO AVG
Fortes c...............4 2 3 1 0 0 .247
PIRATES AB R H BI BB SO AVG
TOTALS 41 8 17 7 1 8 — CS: Mullins (9).
Lowe 1b...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .303 AL scores
0 0 0 0 0 .249 Cruz ss ...............5 1 3 3 0 2 .226 Heim c .................4 0 0 0 0 0 .230
0 0 0 0 1 .175
Rojas ss ..............3 0 2 1 1 0 .232
Reynolds cf ........5 0 2 1 0 0 .256 RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO ERA Calhoun dh ..........4 0 0 0 0 2 .204 THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Leblanc 2b...........4 1 1 2 0 2 .290 BREWERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Taveras cf ...........3 0 1 0 0 0 .286
0 1 0 0 3 .263 Wendle 3b ..........0 0 0 0 0 0 .248 Castro 2b............4 0 1 0 0 2 .233
McCutchen dh.....4 0 0 0 0 2 .244
Bello ................. 51/3 3 3 3 4 7 5.79
Ort ...................... 2/3 1 0 0 1 0 6.33 Jung 3b................4 1 2 1 0 1 .500
Minnesota 4, at N.Y. Yankees 3
Chicago White Sox 14, at Oakland 2
1 0 0 1 1 .279 Encarnación lf.....3 0 0 0 1 2 .203 Gamel dh ............3 2 1 1 1 0 .236
2 2 2 0 0 .288 Bleday lf .............0 0 0 0 0 0 .189 Hayes 3b ............4 0 2 0 0 2 .243 Adames ss ..........4 0 1 0 0 2 .229 Kelly .................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 2.70 Smith lf ...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .213
1 1 2 1 1 .236 Suwinski lf .........3 1 1 0 1 1 .201 Yelich lf...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .257 Barnes ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.58 A.García ph..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .248 FRIDAY’S RESULTS
0 0 0 0 2 .240
De La Cruz cf.......2 0 1 0 2 1 .209
Chavis 1b............4 1 1 2 0 2 .238 Renfroe rf ...........3 0 0 0 0 2 .254 Thompson rf........3 1 1 0 0 1 .278 at Baltimore 3, Boston 2
0 1 0 0 2 .097 TOTALS 32 6 10 6 6 10 — Mitchell rf ..........3 1 3 1 1 0 .224 Brosseau 3b........3 0 2 0 0 0 .266 ORIOLES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Toronto 4, at Texas 3
TOTALS 34 3 7 3 0 7 —
0 0 0 0 2 .233 Allen pr-rf ..........0 1 0 0 0 0 .194 Hiura 1b ..............3 0 0 0 0 1 .236 Voth..................... 4 5 2 2 2 5 2.82 Tampa Bay 4, at N.Y. Yankees 2
0 0 0 0 2 .246
NEW YORK .... 001 002 000 — 3 7 0
Delay c................4 1 1 0 0 2 .232 Urías 2b...............3 1 1 0 0 1 .223 Hall ................... 11/3 1 0 0 1 0 11.3 TORONTO....... 102 000 001 — 4 10 0 at Houston 4, L.A. Angels 3
MIAMI............ 200 110 02X — 6 10 0 Caratini c.............3 0 0 0 0 1 .202 Reed ................. 11/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 TEXAS ............ 001 001 010 — 3 7 1 Detroit 10, at Kansas City 2
4 5 4 2 14 —
LOB: New York 6, Miami 8. 2B: Nido
TOTALS 35 8 15 8 3 11 — Taylor cf..............2 1 1 2 0 1 .224 Pérez .................. 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 1.48
E: Dunning (1). LOB: Toronto 6, Texas 5.
Cleveland at Minnesota, late
(12), Rojas 2 (17), Cooper (27), Fortes ST. LOUIS ...... 000 001 100 — 2 6 0 TOTALS 29 2 5 2 0 11 — Baker .................. 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 4.19 Chicago White Sox at Oakland, late
(5), De La Cruz (11). HR: Alonso (33), PITTSBURGH . 010 030 04X — 8 15 2 Tate .................. 11/3 1 0 0 0 1 2.66 2B: Guerrero Jr. (30), Chapman (26),
Semien (25), Thompson (2), Seager (19).
off Cabrera; Cooper (8), off Peterson; CINCINNATI ... 500 000 003 — 8 17 0
Leblanc (3), off Rodríguez. E: Delay 2 (6). LOB: St. Louis 8, Pitts- MILWAUKEE.. 002 000 000 — 2 5 0 WP: Reed (1-0); LP: Bello (1-5); S: Tate 3B: Bichette (1). HR: Bichette (23), off
(4). Inherited runners-scored: Ort 3-3, Dunning; Jung (1), off Stripling.
METS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
burgh 6. 2B: Dickerson (14), Gold-
schmidt (36), Edman (28), Cruz (9), LOB: Cincinnati 8, Milwaukee 1. 2B: Hall 1-0, Reed 1-0, Tate 1-0. HBP: BLUE JAYS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Interleague game
Aquino 3 (9), K.Farmer (23), Adames Barnes (Urías). WP: Ort. T: 3:29. A:
Peterson........... 32/3 5 3 3 2 7 3.47
Hunter .............. 11/3 2 1 1 1 1 2.75
Reynolds (15). 3B: Cruz (4), Chavis (3).
HR: Gamel (8), off Mikolas. (25). 3B: India (2). HR: Friedl (6), off Al- 16,451 (45,971). Stripling............... 6 3 2 2 0 4 3.03 BRAVES AT MARINERS, 9:10
Cimber .................2/3 1 0 0 0 0 3.20
Givens ................. 2 1 0 0 1 1 5.82 CARDINALS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
exander; India (10), off Suter; Fraley
(10), off Suter; Taylor (16), off Lodolo. Y.García ...............2/3 1 1 1 0 1 2.45 W-L ERA TEAM
Rodríguez ........... 1/3 2 2 2 2 0 5.31 Mayza ..................2/3 1 0 0 0 0 2.97
E.Díaz ................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 1.50 Mikolas ................. 5 8 4 4 2 8 3.42 REDS IP H R ER BB SO ERA ORIOLES’ LEADERS Fried (L) 13-5 2.48 18-8
Zack.Thompson ..11/3 2 0 0 0 1 2.03 Romano................ 1 1 0 0 0 2 1.99
Woodford............12/3 5 4 4 1 2 2.92 Lodolo.................. 8 5 2 2 0 11 3.78 Entering Saturday’s game. Kirby (R) 6-3 3.15 13-7
MARLINS IP H R ER BB SO ERA RANGERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Law ...................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Cabrera ............. 52/3 5 3 3 2 4 2.63 Batters Avg H 2B HR RBI BB
H R ER BB SO ERA PIRATES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Henderson .306 11 3 1 4 3 Dunning .............52/3 7 3 3 2 5 4.39
Nance ................. 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.38 BREWERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
1 1 0 2 8 3.57 Scott................... 1/3 2 0 0 1 0 4.36 Contreras ......... 51/3 4 1 1 2 1 3.29
Alexander ......... 51/3 9 5 5 1 4 5.29 Mancini .268 95 16 10 41 35 Santana ...............1/3
Burke ................... 2
0
2
0 0 0 0 5.21
0 0 0 3 1.51 Interleague score
1 1 1 2 1 4.05 Bañuelos .......... 11/3 0 1 1 1 1 4.07 Mullins .263 138 30 13 53 42
1 0 0 0 1 3.17
Okert ................ 12/3
Floro .................... 1
0
0
0 0 0 1 2.37
0 0 0 0 3.40 De Jong ............ 11/3 2 0 0 0 2 1.82 Topa.................. 12/3 4 0 0 0 1 0.00
Rutschman .255 80 29 10 32 51 Leclerc.................. 1 1 1 1 1 0 3.18
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Stephenson......... 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.50 Perdomo .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.45
Santander .253 124 22 27 79 48 WP: Mayza (6-0); LP: Leclerc (0-2); S: Ro-
WP: Cabrera (5-2); LP: Peterson (7-4);
WP: Contreras (5-4); LP: Mikolas (11-
Suter.................... 1 4 3 3 0 2 4.03
McKenna .252 34 9 2 11 9 mano (32). Inherited runners-scored:
No games scheduled.
S: Floro (4). Inherited runners-scored: WP: Lodolo (4-5); LP: Alexander (2-3).
Hunter 2-0, E.Díaz 2-0, Nance 1-0, Okert 11). Inherited runners-scored: Wood-
Inherited runners-scored: Topa 1-0.
Urías
Hays
.249 91 16
.247 114 30
15
15
50
54
25
27
Y.García 2-0, Mayza 1-1, Santana 3-0.
HBP: Cimber (Taveras). T: 2:49. A: 21,329
FRIDAY’S RESULT
ford 1-0, Bañuelos 2-0, De Jong 1-1. Atlanta at Seattle, late
3-0. HBP: Okert (McNeil). T: 3:05. A:
12,692 (36,742). WP: Woodford, Contreras. T: 3:12. A: HBP: Alexander (Fraley), Lodolo (Tay- Mountcastle .245 117 26 21 77 33 (40,300).
lor). T: 2:42. A: 33,660 (41,900). Stowers .227 10 1 1 4 3
15,718 (38,747).

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Philadelphia 76 62 .551 —
benched midgame after homer and Chas McCor- homers, Jeimer Candelario Late Thursday San Diego 76 62 .551 —
failing to catch consecutive mick had a two-run shot in had a three-run shot, and Yoán Moncada went 5 Milwaukee 73 66 .525 31/2
drives to left that landed for the seventh that helped Detroit beat Kansas City. for 6 with two home runs,
AL leaders run-scoring doubles in the Houston beat Los Angeles. Tigers left-hander Joey Dylan Cease stuck out nine AL WILD-CARD STANDINGS
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Arraez, Min ...................................... .314
Abreu, Chi ........................................ .310 struck out a career-high 10 second straight win. jor league victory. He son high for the White Sox. Baltimore 73 65 .529 41/2
Lowe, Tex ........................................ .306
Giménez, Cle .................................... .305
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Lowe 2b...............2
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 33
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Trout, LA ............................................. 32
Margot rf.............5
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 31
Bethancourt c .....4
Rizzo, NY ............................................ 30
R H BI BB SO AVG his fifth straight game for one. Andrus ss............5 3 2 2 0 2 .237
García ss .............1 0 0 0 0 0 .214
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3 2 0 0 .267
3 2 0 0 .272 ANGELS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Greene cf ............6 1 2 1 0 1 .255 Abreu 1b .............4 0 2 0 0 1 .310 NL leaders
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Báez ss ...............4 0 1 1 0 2 .230 Jiménez dh .........5 2 1 2 1 2 .302
0 0 0 1 1 .229 Trout cf ...............4 1 1 2 0 0 .277
Clemens 3b .........1 0 0 0 0 1 .139 Pollock lf.............4 1 2 0 1 0 .242
0 0 0 0 1 .212 Ohtani dh............4 0 1 0 0 1 .267 BATTING
Haase c ...............5 2 3 3 0 1 .257 Harrison 2b.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .246
0 1 0 0 0 .296 Ward rf ...............4 1 1 1 0 1 .261
Torkelson 1b .......5 1 3 0 0 1 .204 Vaughn rf............5 1 1 1 0 0 .283 Goldschmidt, StL ............................. .328
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Siri cf...................4 0 0 0 0 1 .253 Duffy 3b..............3 0 0 0 0 1 .250
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Tucker, Hou ........................................ 88 Torres 2b .............5 0 1 0 0 1 .236 Schwarber, Phi ................................... 36
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Witt Jr. ss ............ 4 0 1 1 0 0 .246 Brown lf-rf..........3 1 2 0 1 1 .230
García, Tex .......................................... 84 Florial lf...............1 0 0 0 0 1 .097 Altuve 2b .............4 0 0 0 0 1 .287 Riley, Atl ............................................. 35
Perez c ................. 2 0 1 0 0 0 .241 Murphy c.............3 0 0 0 0 0 .251
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 82 Locastro ph-lf .....1 0 0 0 0 0 .158 Peña ss ................4 2 2 1 0 0 .249 Betts, LA ............................................ 33
Rivero c ................ 2 0 0 0 0 0 .158 Langeliers c ........0 0 0 1 0 0 .216
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 82 Kiner-Falefa 3b ... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .268 Alvarez lf .............3 0 1 0 1 0 .290 Walker, Ari ......................................... 32
Pasquantino 1b.... 3 0 1 0 1 0 .264 Vogt dh ...............3 0 0 0 0 3 .179
Bichette, Tor ....................................... 80 Andújar dh ..........4 0 2 0 0 1 .256 Bregman 3b .........2 0 0 0 2 1 .266 Alonso, NY .......................................... 32
Taylor cf............... 2 0 0 0 0 0 .270 Neuse ph-p .........1 0 0 1 0 0 .214
Cabrera rf ............2 0 0 0 0 1 .187 Tucker rf ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .259 Isbel rf-lf.............. 2 0 0 0 0 0 .210 Laureano rf .........3 0 0 0 0 1 .219
ERA Stanton ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .213 Mancini 1b ...........2 1 1 0 2 1 .206 Dozier 3b.............. 2 0 0 0 0 2 .237 Thomas lf............1 0 0 0 0 1 .412 RBI
Guzmán 1b ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 McCormick cf.......3 1 2 3 1 0 .239
Verlander, Hou ................................ 1.84 O'Hearn ph-rf....... 2 1 1 0 0 0 .229 Machín 3b ...........4 0 1 0 0 0 .220 Goldschmidt, StL .............................. 109
Peraza ss.............3 1 0 0 1 0 .238 Hensley dh...........1 0 0 0 1 0 .353
Cease, Chi ........................................ 2.06 Eaton lf-3b........... 4 1 2 1 0 2 .263 Garcia 1b.............4 0 1 0 0 3 .277 Alonso, NY ........................................ 106
Higashioka c........4 1 3 1 0 0 .205 Matijevic ph-dh ...2 0 0 0 0 1 .209
McClanahan, TB ............................... 2.20 Waters rf-cf......... 3 0 0 0 1 1 .196 Pache cf ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .157 Turner, LA ........................................... 91
Gonzalez 1b-rf ....4 0 0 0 0 2 .196
Manoah, Tor .................................... 2.42
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022
MLB approves pitch clock, shift ban and new bases
BY C HELSEA J ANES
Potentially transformative new
rules will be in place for the 2023
regular season, MLB announced
Friday, after the majority of mem-
bers on a joint competition com-
mittee voted in favor of imple-
menting a pitch clock, a ban on
shifts, and larger bases.
Potential transformation is
coming to the minor leagues, too.
After the Major League Baseball
Players Association announced
Wednesday it had joined the AFL-
CIO, a week after the union indi-
cated it would make a push to
unionize the minors, Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred said Friday
MLB will voluntarily recognize a
minor league players union — a
surprising step given the long-
standing tension between base-
ball’s governing bodies.
“We, I believe, notified the
MLBPA today that we’re prepared
to execute an agreement on volun-
tary recognition. I think they’re
working on the language as we
speak,” Manfred said in response
to a question at the end of the
news conference at which he an-
nounced the rule changes.
The union declined to com-
ment on the process, which has
moved quickly to this point but
could slow as the sides delve into
the details of that agreement.
MLBPA Executive Director Tony
Clark told The Washington Post
on Wednesday that he hopes the
union can negotiate a collective
bargaining agreement for its mi-
nor leaguers by next year’s spring
training, though the process of
recognition is the first hurdle in
what could be a winding road to
minor leaguers’ first CBA.
The journey to implementing
Friday’s rule changes — most no-
tably banning shifts and imple-
menting the pitch clock — was
grueling. Both rules were dis-
cussed for years before finally be-
ing tested in the minor leagues,
then reaching the desk of that
joint committee, which the union
agreed would consist of six MLB
Corbin’s sinker can’t hold up against Phillies’ bats
PHILLIES 5,
NATIONALS 3
BY A NDREW G OLDEN
philadelphia — Patrick Corbin
took the mound Friday night at
Citizens Bank Park trying to exor-
cise his demons from a month ago.
The last time he faced the Phila-
delphia Phillies, on Aug. 6, he was
knocked out in the first inning.
This time around, after a recent
stretch of improved starts, he
made it through 62/3 innings but
allowed five runs and 12 hits as the
Washington Nationals lost, 5-3.
Since last month’s nightmare in
Philadelphia, Corbin has relied
heavily on his sinker, and he did so
again Friday, throwing it 54 times
in 69 total pitches (78 percent).
“He threw 15 balls all game,
attacked the strike zone,” Manag-
er Dave Martinez said. “Toward
the end there, he just started ele-
vating the balls. I think that’s what
really got him. He was throwing
the ball down. . . . He got early
swings and some defensive plays.
I thought he threw the ball really
well.”
The downsides to the pitch are
that it doesn’t generate many
swings and misses and the con-
tact can be loud. The Phillies put
22 sinkers in play off of Corbin —
compared with just three whiffs —
and 14 of those swings had an exit
velocity over 90 mph.
“They were aggressive tonight,
really aggressive,” Corbin said.
“Would’ve been nice to make it
through that seventh there. Made
a couple of good pitches, but a
couple of balls there fell in. . . . Just
a unique line tonight.”
Kyle Schwarber set the tone
when he hit a 112.8-mph line drive
to open the first, and Rhys Hosk-
ins followed with a 101.3-mph bul-
let, but both were hit right at Lane
Thomas in center field for outs.
Dalton Guthrie gave the Phil-
lies a 1-0 lead in the third inning
with a single on a first-pitch sink-
er after Corbin allowed a triple to
Edmundo Sosa. In the following
inning, Hoskins blasted a slider
for a homer to double the lead.
J.T. Realmuto hit an RBI single
later in the fourth on a sinker after
Alec Bohm doubled on the pitch in
the previous at-bat. Washington
scored two runs in the fifth, but
Realmuto hit an opposite-field
homer in the sixth off the pitch to
give Philadelphia a 4-2 lead.
Alex Call followed a 4-for-5
game Thursday with three more
hits Friday, including a solo hom-
er in the seventh inning to cut
Philadelphia’s lead to 4-3.
The Phillies ended Corbin’s
night with two weak hits off sink-
ers. Guthrie squibbed a two-out
RBI that rolled into no man’s land
between the mound and first base
. THE WASHINGTON POST
The bases on MLB diamonds will grow from 15 to 18 inches square
starting next spring, a joint competition committee decided Friday.
representatives, four players and
one umpire.
The MLBPA released a state-
ment making clear that none of
the four players on the committee
voted in favor of the pitch clock or
the shifts ban, explaining that
MLB officials had not taken player
feedback into consideration when
finalizing their rule proposals. But
the union agreed to the joint com-
mittee in this spring’s contentious
collective bargaining process,
signing off on a committee format
that virtually guaranteed MLB
could push through any rule
changes regardless of what the
players involved thought about
them.
“Player leaders from across the
league were engaged in on-field
rules negotiations through the
Competition Committee, and they
provided specific and actionable
feedback on the changes proposed
by the Commissioner’s Office,” the
union said in a statement Friday.
“Major League Baseball was un-
willing to meaningfully address
the areas of concern that Players
raised, and as a result, Players on
the Competition Committee voted
unanimously against the imple-
mentation of the rules covering
defensive shifts and the use of a
pitch timer.”
Patrick Corbin was better than in his previous start against the
Phillies but still allowed five runs and 12 hits Friday night.
at 58.5 mph to push the Phillies
ahead 5-3. Then Corbin jammed
Schwarber, who hit a ball into left
field at 75.7 mph.
Corbin said it wasn’t his plan to
throw as many sinking fastballs as
he did, but that’s how the game
unfolded. Martinez said he would
have liked to have seen Corbin
throw more off-speed pitches dur-
ing his third time through the
order to keep hitters off-balance.
“He had all those righties in
[the Phillies’ lineup]. I thought
that would’ve been a perfect spot
for him to throw his change-up,”
Martinez said. “He didn’t throw
any. So that’s something that we’ll
talk to him about the next day or
two.”
The Nationals had a chance in
the ninth. Call and Ildemaro Var-
gas picked up two-out singles to
bring the go-ahead run to the
plate, but Riley Adams grounded
out to end the game.
Here’s what else to know from
the Nationals’ loss:
Pineda earns a call to majors
The Nationals selected the con-
tract of catcher Israel Pineda from
Class AAA Rochester. Pineda re-
places Keibert Ruiz, who was
placed on the 10-day injured list
with a testicular contusion. Ruiz
was hit in the groin by a foul ball in
the second against the St. Louis
Cardinals on Thursday and exited
the game later.
To clear space on the 40-man
roster, left-handed pitcher Jake
McGee was designated for assign-
ment. Right-handed pitcher Jor-
dan Weems was called up to fill his
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Manfred acknowledged the
rules were not and will not be
universally accepted by all fac-
tions of major league players —
some of whom benefit from the
shifts more than others and some
of whom will find themselves and
their between-pitch routines af-
fected far more by the pitch clock
than others.
“It’s hard to get consensus
among a group of players on
changing the game, taking a
stance that we should change the
game,” Manfred said. “I think that
at the end of the day, what we did
here was about giving fans the
kind of game they want to see after
giving careful consideration to all
those constituents.”
Manfred, sitting alongside con-
sultant Theo Epstein and MLB
executive vice president Morgan
Sword, made the announcement
during a news conference that
was shown on East Coast club-
house televisions just as players
began trickling in for Friday night
games. The news did not come as a
surprise. But at least in the New
York Yankees’ clubhouse, the an-
nouncement sparked discussions
among executives, players and
managers as they glanced up at
the screens.
“I’m on board with it. I think
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spot in the bullpen.
Ruiz is set to join the Nationals
in Philadelphia after spending the
night in a hospital in St. Louis.
Ruiz cannot partake in “any stren-
uous activities for three weeks,”
said Martinez, who wouldn’t com-
mit to Ruiz being out for the re-
maining 23 games of the season
but didn’t sound optimistic that
the catcher would make another
appearance.
Pineda, 22, is the Nationals’
No. 26 prospect, according to
MLB Pipeline. He started this sea-
son at high Class A Wilmington
and made a quick rise toward the
majors. He was called up to Class
AA Harrisburg on July 22 and
played in 26 games before being
called up to Rochester on Aug. 31.
He played just six games in Class
AAA before he was called up. Mar-
tinez said Pineda will split playing
time with Adams and Tres Barre-
ra.
Gore heads back to mound
MacKenzie Gore will start Sun-
day for Class AAA Rochester. Gore
has been recovering from elbow
inflammation since July 26, when
he was still with the San Diego
Padres before he was included in
the Juan Soto/Josh Bell trade. The
plan is for Gore to make at least
one start with the big league team
so he can finish this season
healthy.
A special guest from D.C.
First lady Jill Biden participat-
ed in the pregame festivities for
the Phillies, who hosted Child-
hood Cancer Awareness Night.
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they’re things that have a chance
to have a positive impact on our
game. We’ll see, right?” Yankees
Manager Aaron Boone said. “. . .
Hopefully these are things that
can be small things that lead to a
more entertaining and better
product overall. I’m at least hope-
ful that these things will be posi-
tives.”
San Francisco Giants Manager
Gabe Kapler called the changes
“major” and processed them from
his team’s perspective: He told
NBC Sports and others the pitch
clock could help the Giants’ pitch-
ing staff, which has been taught to
“push the pace” and will not have
to adjust.
Chicago Cubs Manager David
Ross chuckled when asked about
the bigger bases, which will grow
from 15 inches square to 18 inches
square in accordance with the
committee’s only unanimous vote.
Some have posited they will in-
duce more stolen bases. Others
have suggested the greatest ben-
efit will be player safety, providing
more room for fielders and run-
ners to avoid collisions at the base.
Tampa Bay Rays Manager Kev-
in Cash told MLB Network Radio
that if fans want the changes these
rules could create, he and his play-
ers should listen. His organization
will take the winter to figure out
exactly how to operate within the
new regulations, he added.
“We’ll work hard this offseason
to wrap our heads around the best
ways to communicate it to the
players, work on it in spring train-
ing and see if there are some ad-
vantages we can pick up on,” Cash
said.
That the rules became official
Friday means everyone will have
plenty of time to alter rosters,
strategies and approaches to ac-
count for the changes, which will
be implemented in spring train-
ing. Change has been a constant in
MLB since the start of the pan-
demic as players have adjusted to
the health and safety protocols, a
universal designated hitter, new
sticky stuff checks and more.
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Today 6:05 MASN2
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Friday 7:05 MASN
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Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM)
Phillies 5, Nationals 3
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Thomas cf.......................4 1 2
García 2b ........................4 0 1
Meneses 1b ....................4 0 0
Voit dh............................4
Hernández 3b .................4
0 0
0 1
Abrams ss ......................4 0 1
Call lf ..............................4 1 3
Palacios rf ......................3 0 0
Vargas ph .......................1 0 1
Adams c..........................4 1 1
TOTALS 36 3 10
PHILLIES AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Schwarber lf...................4 0 1
Hoskins 1b......................4 1 1
Bohm dh .........................4 1 1
Realmuto c .....................3 1 3
Segura 2b .......................4
Stott ss ..........................4
0 1
1 1
Vierling cf.......................4 0 1
Sosa 3b...........................3
Guthrie rf .......................3
1 2
0 2
TOTALS 33 5 13
WASHINGTON........ 000 020 100 —
PHILA...................... 001 201 10X —
LOB: Washington 6, Philadelphia 5. 2B: Adams (2),
Bohm (22). 3B: Thomas (2), Sosa (1). HR: Call (3), off
Syndergaard; Hoskins (27), off Corbin; Realmuto (16),
off Corbin. RBI: Thomas (47), García (34), Call (9),
Guthrie 2 (2), Hoskins (67), Realmuto 2 (73). SB:
Thomas (6), Abrams (2).
NATIONALS IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Corbin ....................... 62/3 12 5 5 0 2 69 6.30
Ramírez .................... 11/3 1 0 0 0 2 22 2.78
PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Syndergaard ...............6
Bellatti.........................1
8
0
3 3 0 2 86 4.61
0 0 0 1 10 3.42
Alvarado ......................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.83
Hand............................ 2/3
Nelson ........................ 1/3
2
0
0 0 0 0 15 2.32
0 0 0 0
WP: Syndergaard (4-1); LP: Corbin (6-18); S: Nelson
(1). Inherited runners-scored: Ramírez 2-0, Nelson 2-0.
HBP: Ramírez (Realmuto). T: 2:39. A: 22,304 (42,792).
HOW THEY SCORED
PHILLIES THIRD
Matt Vierling grounds out. Edmundo Sosa triples. Dal-
ton Guthrie singles, Edmundo Sosa scores. Kyle
Schwarber grounds out. Dalton Guthrie out at second.
Phillies 1, Nationals 0
PHILLIES FOURTH
Rhys Hoskins homers. Alec Bohm doubles. J.T. Realmu-
to singles, Alec Bohm scores. Jean Segura grounds out.
J.T. Realmuto out at second. Bryson Stott grounds out.
Phillies 3, Nationals 0
NATIONALS FIFTH
Josh Palacios grounds out. Riley Adams doubles. Lane
Thomas triples, Riley Adams scores. Luis Garcia sin-
gles, Lane Thomas scores. Joey Meneses grounds out.
Luis Garcia out at second.
Phillies 3, Nationals 2
PHILLIES SIXTH
Rhys Hoskins lines out. Alec Bohm grounds out. J.T.
Realmuto homers. Jean Segura strikes out.
Phillies 4, Nationals 2
NATIONALS SEVENTH
Alex Call homers. Josh Palacios called out on strikes.
Riley Adams flies out. Lane Thomas grounds out.
Phillies 4, Nationals 3
PHILLIES SEVENTH
Bryson Stott singles. Matt Vierling singles. Bryson
Stott to second. Edmundo Sosa grounds out. Matt Vier-
ling out at second. Bryson Stott to third. Dalton Guthrie
singles, Bryson Stott scores. Kyle Schwarber singles.
Dalton Guthrie to second. Rhys Hoskins reaches on a
fielder’s choice. Kyle Schwarber out at second.
Phillies 5, Nationals 3
Tiafoe’s dream run
falls short in semis
U.S. OPEN FROM D1
the history books at the U.S.
Open. The son of immigrants
from Sierra Leone, Tiafoe was the
first American man to reach a
U.S. Open semifinal in 16 years
and the first Black man to do so in
50.
In less than two weeks, the
24-year-old Hyattsville native,
who arrived sporting Bradley
Beal’s No. 3 Wizards jersey, capti-
vated legions and elevated his
status from a tennis player on the
fringe of renown to a star.
That he is Black, has support-
ers in the major sports leagues
and comes with an indelibly
American story made his run that
much more buzzworthy. The
heart he brought to the tennis
court didn’t hurt.
Tiafoe choked back tears as he
addressed a packed Arthur Ashe
Stadium, apologizing for falling
short.
“I gave everything I had. Too
good from Carlos tonight,” he
said. “I gave everything — I gave
everything I had for the last two
weeks. I came here wanting to
win the U.S. Open, I feel like I let
everyone down. This one hurts.
“I’m going to come back and I
will win this thing one day. I’m
sorry guys.”
Martin Blackman, the U.S.
Tennis Association’s general
manager for player development,
has dealt with stories akin to
Tiafoe’s popping up at the U.S.
Open, such as in 2017 when all
four women’s semifinalists were
American. In these cases, the
USTA relies on established path-
ways to jump on a potential
popularity boon for U.S. tennis.
Tiafoe is forcing them to think
differently.
“He’s culturally relevant . . .
and he’s cool. The question is,
what we can do maybe a little bit
differently to capitalize on his
specific appeal. That will be
something that we’ll be discuss-
ing, and we’ll want to move
quickly on.”
For now, Tiafoe will bow out
while Alcaraz advances to face
Norway’s Casper Ruud in Sun-
day’s final with the U.S. Open
trophy and the No. 1 ranking on
the line.
“I can see this No. 1 ranking,”
Alcaraz said, “but at the same
time it is so far away.”
The combination of Alcaraz’s
style and Tiafoe’s compelling run
made the semifinal match a huge
draw before it began. Those who
weren’t already familiar with the
world No. 4, who goes by “Carli-
tos,” and his electric game got a
taste Wednesday night when he
and Jannik Sinner tangoed in an
epic quarterfinal that ended at
2:50 a.m., the latest finish ever at
the U.S. Open.
Before Friday’s match, Super
Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes sent
1 0 0 .249
1 0 0 .290
0 0 1 .319
0 0 0 .241
0 0 0 .252
0 0 0 .228
1 0 1 .317
0 0 2 .194
0 0 0 .302
0 0 0 .186
3 0 4 —
0 0 0 .212
1 0 0 .252
0 0 1 .294
2 0 0 .273
0 0 1 .283
0 0 2 .237
0 0 0 .232
0 0 0 .378
2 0 0 .333
5 0 4 —
3 10 0
5 13 0
3 4.55
Frances Tiafoe won all eight of his tiebreakers in the tournament,
including two Friday, to break Pete Sampras’s U.S. Open record.
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Tiafoe an encouraging tweet, and
Michelle Obama watched from a
suite. Former New York Rangers’
goalie Henrik Lundqvist and ac-
tor Jamie Foxx were in the crowd.
Former Cardinals wide receiver
Larry Fitzgerald sat next to Stan
Smith, of tennis and the shoes.
The capacity audience tilted in
Tiafoe’s favor (though Obama got
the loudest ovation of the night),
but plenty of Alcaraz fans came
out, and the American didn’t
have as big of an advantage as
might have been expected. Most-
ly, people were elated to be
spending their night watching
two young dudes.
Tiafoe and Alcaraz dusted
lines throughout a close first set
and gifted Arthur Ashe Stadium
the point of the tournament in
the 12th game. The pair sprinted
across the court in all four direc-
tions and lunged to trade five
balletic volleys before Alcaraz
won that one, bringing the sta-
dium to its feet.
In the second set, Alcaraz
played a ball so well that Tiafoe
climbed over the net afterward
and looked as if he was going to
slap him five. When he finally sat
in his chair, there was nothing he
could do but laugh.
Tiafoe had won the first-set
tiebreaker to improve his record
to 7-0 over the fortnight and tie
Pete Sampras’s record for most
tiebreakers won in a single U.S.
Open.
But where his other opponents
seemed to wilt in the aftermath,
Alcaraz snapped back without
pause. What was one more set to
a guy who had spent a combined
9 hours 9 minutes on court in his
previous two matches?
The Spaniard took the second
set in 45 minutes and raced
through the third in just 33 as
Tiafoe’s level dropped precipi-
tously. He had taken the first set
in the same fashion he had bull-
dozed his way through the semi-
finals, with out-of-this-world
serving. Tiafoe entered the
match with nearly four times the
number of aces Alcaraz had
racked up throughout the tour-
nament.
Tiafoe’s points won on his first
serve dropped from 88 percent to
72 percent to 67 percent in each
of the first three sets while his
unforced errors rose, from seven
to 10 to 12.
Alcaraz, who had arrived at
Billie Jean King National Tennis
Center at noon after his late night
Wednesday thanks to teenage
rejuvenation, never missed a
chance to pounce. Tiafoe just
absorbed the blows and rode the
crowd’s tide enough to force a
fourth-set tiebreaker, summon-
ing his serves from three hours
earlier back from the dead.
He moved his record in tie-
breakers to 8-0, saving a match
point along the way.
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after taking early lead NFL

NFC
WNBA playoffs
FIRST ROUND
Best of three
NCAA
THURSDAY’S RESULT
MIDWEST
FOOTBALL
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
VIRGINIA
EAST W L T PCT. PF PA Patriot 37, Forest Park, 20
STORM ELIMINATED MYSTICS, 2-0 at Missouri State 35, Tennessee Martin 30
condensed campaign in 2020. Dallas ............................ 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Freedom (Woodbridge) 36, Stone Bridge 13

PAUL VI 34, Peterson knew he would need

N.Y. Giants .................... 0
Philadelphia .................. 0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
0
0
0
0
Game 1: at Seattle 86, Washington 83
Game 2: at Seattle 97, Washington 84
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
EAST
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
D.C.
FLINT HILL 7 to earn his 16 players’ trust in Washington .................. 0 0 0 .000 0 0 ACES ELIMINATED MERCURY, 2-0
Game 1: at Las Vegas 79, Phoenix 63
at Merrimack 45, Assumption 17
SOUTH
Coolidge 40, Eastern 0
August 2021, when he left his as- SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA Game 2: at Las Vegas 117, Phoenix 80
Louisville 20, at UCF 14
KIPP 30, Anacostia 2
Cardozo 2, Parkside 0
sistant job at Loudoun County Atlanta .......................... 0
Carolina ......................... 0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
0
0
0
0
SKY ELIMINATED LIBERTY, 2-1
WEST MARYLAND
Game 1: New York 98, at Chicago 91
BY K YLE M ELNICK High to become Flint Hill’s fourth New Orleans ................. 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Game 2: at Chicago 100, New York 62 Boise State at New Mexico, late Fort Hill 9, Old Mill 7
Tampa Bay .................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Leonardtown 7, Huntingtown 0
coach in as many seasons. He built Game 3: Chicago 90, at New York 72 SATURDAY’S GAMES Patuxent 13, Lackey 7
SUN ELIMINATED WINGS, 2-1 EAST
Two hours before kickoff Friday relationships by aiding players’ NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA Game 1: at Connecticut 93, Dallas 68 Ohio (1-0) at Penn State (1-0), noon
Northern 41, Chopticon 0
Damascus 49, Magruder 0
afternoon, Kirk Peterson walked college recruitments — contacting Chicago ......................... 0
Detroit .......................... 0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
0
0
0
0
Game 2: Dallas 89, at Connecticut 79 Texas San Antonio (0-1) at Army (0-1), noon Seneca Valley 28, Gaithersburg 12
Game 3: Connecticut 73, at Dallas 58 Thomas More (0-0) at Duquesne (0-2), noon Richard Montgomery 49, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 35
toward the Flint Hill football coaches and driving players to col- Green Bay ..................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0
SEMIFINALS Fordham (1-0) at Monmouth (N.J.) (0-1), 1 Broadneck 35, South River 0
Minnesota ..................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0
team’s locker room and shared his leges for camps and visits. By Best of five Villanova (1-0) at LIU Brooklyn (0-1), 1 Walter Johnson 39, Whitman 6
Colgate (0-1) at Maine (0-1), 1 Wise 57, Northwestern 0
optimism. Aug. 20 — Peterson’s birthday — WEST W L T PCT. PF PA SUN ELIMINATED SKY, 3-2 Post (0-0) at Stonehill (1-0), 1 Mount Hebron 15, Marriotts Ridge 12
Arizona ......................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0
“Today’s the day,” Peterson said. his players threw a surprise party San Francisco ................ 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Game 1: Connecticut 68, at Chicago 63
Game 2: at Chicago 85, Connecticut 77
Lafayette (1-0) at Temple (0-1), 2
Memphis (0-1) at Navy (0-1), 3:30
Calvert 55, La Plata 13
River Hill 31, Howard 14
“This school deserves a win.” between two-a-day practices with Seattle .......................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Game 3: Chicago 76, at Connecticut 72 Tennessee (1-0) at Pittsburgh (1-0), 3:30 Northern 25, Albert Gallatin (Pa.) 0
L.A. Rams ...................... 0 1 0 .000 10 31 Game 4: at Connecticut 104, Chicago 80 Wagner (0-1) at Rutgers (1-0), 4
Peterson felt similar hope in his marble cake, handmade cards and Game 5: Connecticut 72, at Chicago 63 Lehigh (0-1) at Georgetown (1-0), 5
VIRGINIA
AFC Thomas Jefferson 53, Amelia County 14
10 previous games as Flint Hill’s a water balloon fight. ACES ELIMINATED STORM, 3-1 Holy Cross (1-0) at Buffalo (0-1), 6
Rhode Island (1-0) at Bryant (0-1), 6 Yorktown 14, Madison 11
coach, but each one ended in a “Come on, man,” Peterson told EAST W
Buffalo .......................... 1
L
0
T
0
PCT.
1.000
PF
31
PA
10
Game 1: Seattle 76, at Las Vegas 73
Game 2: at Las Vegas 78, Seattle 73
Delaware State (1-0) at Delaware (1-0), 6 Episcopal 33, Loudoun Valley 20
Colonial Forge 35, West Potomac 14
loss. Still, Friday’s home matchup his players through tears. “I’m try- Miami ............................ 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Game 3: Las Vegas 110, at Seattle 98 (OT)
Kansas (1-0) at West Virginia (0-1), 6
Sacred Heart (0-1) at CCSU (0-1), 6 Briar Woods 48, Hylton 7
N.Y. Jets ....................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Game 4: Las Vegas 97, at Seattle 92 Unity Reed 27, Woodbridge 7
against Paul VI presented another ing to get ready for game one, and New England ................. 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Morgan State (0-1) at Towson (1-0), 7
Langley 21, Oakton 14
FINALS New Hampshire (1-0) at Albany (N.Y.) (0-1), 7
opportunity to begin returning you guys got me in here snotting SUN VS. ACES Syracuse (1-0) at Connecticut (1-1), 7 Freedom (South Riding) 28, Colgan 7
SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA
the Huskies to local prominence. and stuff.” Houston ........................ 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Best of five; x-If necessary
Sunday’s game: Connecticut at Las Vegas, 3, ABC
SOUTH PRIVATE
Paul VI 34, Flint Hill 7
After a Paul VI student posted Building a winner has taken Indianapolis .................. 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Tuesday’s game: Connecticut at Las Vegas, 9, ESPN
Wake Forest (1-0) at Vanderbilt (2-0), noon
Southern Mississippi (0-1) at Miami (1-0), noon Landon 27, St. Paul’s 6
Jacksonville .................. 0 0 0 .000 0 0
an Instagram photo of Peterson’s longer. Last September, Flint Hill Tennessee ..................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Thursday’s game: Las Vegas at Connecticut, 9, ESPN
x-Sunday, Sept. 18: Las Vegas at Connecticut, 4, ESPN
North Carolina (2-0) at Georgia State (0-1), noon Severn School 41, St. Andrew’s 30
St. Mary’s Annapolis 35, St. Albans 0
Charleston Southern (0-1) at N.C. State (1-0), 12:30
face on a clown costume, Flint Hill suffered its first loss to Paul VI, x-Tuesday, Sept. 20: Connecticut at Las Vegas, 9, ESPN Va. Lynchburg (0-0) at Presbyterian (0-1), 1 Potomac School 34, St. John Paul the Great 7
NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA
coaches bought clown masks they 41-7, since 2012. The Huskies suf- Baltimore ...................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Bucknell (0-1) at VMI (0-1), 1:30 BOYS’ SOCCER
Maryland (1-0) at Charlotte (0-2), 3:30 MARYLAND
hoped players could wear after a fered nine losses by an average of Cincinnati ...................... 0
Cleveland ...................... 0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
0
0
0
0
Sun 72, Sky 63 Furman (1-0) at Clemson (1-0), 3:30 Severn 6, Glenelg 0
win. Peterson taped a photo of the 29.1 points. After adding coaches Pittsburgh ..................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Late Thursday MVSU (0-1) at Austin Peay (1-1), 4
Norfolk State (0-1) at James Madison (1-0), 4
Bowie 2, Broadneck 1
scoreboard from last year’s loss to and players in his first full offsea- WEST W L T PCT. PF PA
Connecticut ........................ 24 16 8 24 — 72 South Carolina State (0-1) at Bethune-Cookman (0-1), 4 PRIVATE
Chicago ............................... 16 24 18 5 — 63 Samford (1-0) at Georgia (1-0), 4 St. Mary’s Annapolis 9, Saints Peter and Paul 1
the Panthers on his office door. son, Peterson looked forward to a Denver ........................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0 ETSU (1-0) at The Citadel (0-1), 4
CONNECTICUT MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS GIRLS’ SOCCER
But Friday wouldn’t bring Flint win Friday as players suited up. Kansas City ................... 0
L.A. Chargers ................ 0
0
0
0
0
.000
.000
0
0
0
0 Bonner 34:39 4-8 6-6 1-9 5 2 15
St. Francis (Pa.) (0-1) at Richmond (0-1), 5:30
Albany State (Ga.) (0-0) at Florida A&M (0-2), 6 MARYLAND
Hill’s first victory since 2019. The “When we beat these people, Las Vegas ...................... 0 0 0 .000 0 0 A.Thomas 35:11 4-11 4-4 0-10 8 3 12 Winston Salem (0-0) at N.C. Central (1-0), 6 James Hubert Blake 4, Seneca Valley 0
J.Jones 31:18 5-13 5-5 1-10 2 2 15
Huskies surrendered an early lead you can swag out,” he told players. WEEK 1 Hiedeman 32:54 6-12 1-1 1-3 4 5 14
Elon (0-1) at Wofford (0-1), 6
Southeastern Louisiana (0-1) at FAU (1-1), 6
PRIVATE
THURSDAY’S RESULT Holy Child 4, St. James 0
in their 34-7 defeat in Oakton, the “Right now, it’s a business meet- Buffalo 31, at L.A. Rams 10
Williams
B.Jones
31:05
16:47
6-9 0-0 2-6 5 1 12
1-3 0-0 1-3 0 4 2
Gardner Webb (1-0) at Coastal Carolina (1-0), 6
UAB (1-0) at Liberty (1-0), 6 VOLLEYBALL
program’s 13th consecutive loss. ing.” SUNDAY’S GAMES Carrington 11:00 1-3 0-0 0-2 0 1 2 Louisiana College (0-0) at Stetson (1-0), 6 MARYLAND
“The fire inside of me to get Flint Hill took a 7-0 lead about Jacksonville at Washington (-2 ), 1 1/
2
Sims
TOTALS
7:06 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0
200 27-59 16-16 6-43 25 19 72
Old Dominion (1-0) at East Carolina (0-1), 6
Tuskegee (0-0) at Hampton (1-0), 6
Laurel def. Friendly (25-11, 25-6, 25-11)
Richard Montgomery def. Clarksburg (25-18, 25-17,
back to that team that we had nine minutes in when wide receiv- Baltimore (-61/2) at N.Y. Jets, 1 Campbell (1-0) at William & Mary (1-0), 6 25-17)
Cleveland (-11/2) at Carolina, 1 Percentages: FG .458, FT 1.000. 3-Point Goals: 2-8, .250 Central Arkansas (0-1) at Mississippi (1-0), 7
before and be able to build us back er Joshua Clarke caught a nine- Indianapolis (-71/2) at Houston, 1 (Bonner 1-3, Hiedeman 1-3, J.Jones 0-2). Team Re- Tennessee State (0-1) vs. Jackson State (1-0) in Memphis, 7
Wootton def. Damascus (25-22, 25-15, 22-25, 23-25,
15-9)
up, it’s immense,” senior lineback- yard touchdown pass from quar- New England at Miami (-31/2), 1 bounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 7
(J.Jones 2, Williams 2, A.Thomas, Bonner, Hiedeman).
Jacksonville State (2-0) at Murray State (0-1), 7
VIRGINIA
New Orleans (-51/2) at Atlanta, 1 Barton (0-0) at Davidson (0-1), 7
er Wil Thomas said. “I don’t want terback Ty Harris. But with his Philadelphia (-41/2) at Detroit, 1 Turnovers: 23 (J.Jones 7, A.Thomas 4, Williams 3, Western Carolina (1-0) at Georgia Tech (0-1), 7 Flint Hill def. Chantilly (25-14, 25-7, 25-15)
B.Jones 2, Bonner 2, Carrington 2, Sims 2, Hiedeman).
to have another season like we had team trailing 14-7 at halftime, Pe- Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (-61/2), 1 Steals: 5 (J.Jones 2, B.Jones, Bonner, Williams). Techni-
Eastern Michigan (1-0) at Louisiana Lafayette (1-0), 7
Grambling State (0-1) vs. Northwestern State (0-1) in
PRIVATE
Bishop O’Connell def. Episcopal (25-17, 25-21, 25-8)
last year. This means more than terson told his players: “Y’all are San Francisco (-61/2) at Chicago, 1
Green Bay (-11/2) at Minnesota, 4:25
cal Fouls: None. Shreveport, La., 7 St. John’s def. Spalding (25-18, 25-20, 25-18)
Stephen F. Austin (1-1) at Louisiana Tech (0-1), 7
anything to me right now.” making us what they said we were.” Kansas City (-51/2) at Arizona, 4:25 CHICAGO MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS
Alabama A&M (0-1) at Troy (0-1), 7 FIELD HOCKEY
Copper 32:44 8-19 3-5 1-2 2 2 22
When Thomas joined the pro- Paul VI (2-0) continued to wear Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers (-31/2), 4:25
Meesseman 32:31 6-14 0-0 4-6 2 3 14
Kentucky (1-0) at Florida (1-0), 7
Alcorn State (0-1) at Tulane (1-0), 7
MARYLAND
N.Y. Giants at Tennessee (-51/2), 4:25 Whitman 6, Clarksburg 0
gram as a freshman in 2019, it was down the Huskies as running back Tampa Bay (-21/2) at Dallas, 8:20
Parker
Quigley
33:29 2-7 1-2 1-9 3 3
32:15 1-12 1-2 0-8 7 3
7
3
Howard (0-2) at South Florida (0-1), 7
GIRLS’ TENNIS
one of the best in the D.C. area. Gavin Colby rushed for a pair of MONDAY’S GAME Vandersloot 32:45 5-13 1-1 0-0 3 1 12
Virginia Wise (0-0) at North Alabama (0-1), 7
Texas A&M Commerce (1-0) at Tennessee Tech (0-1), 7 PRIVATE
Flint Hill (0-2) had won 22 consec- long scores. After the Panthers Denver (-6 ) at Seattle, 8:15
1/
2 Gardner
Stevens
15:01
14:00
1-2 0-0 0-1 1 2
1-2 1-2 1-2 0 1
2
3
Southern U. (1-0) at LSU (0-1), 7:30 Stone Ridge 7, Madeira 0
WEEK 2 San Jose State (1-0) at Auburn (1-0), 7:30
utive games and back-to-back continued their rout with a touch- THURSDAY’S GAME
Allemand 7:15 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Nicholls (0-1) at Louisiana Monroe (0-1), 8
Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference down late in the third quarter, a L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 8:15
TOTALS 200 24-70 7-12 7-28 18 15 63 Boston College (0-1) at Virginia Tech (0-1), 8 S OCCER
MIDWEST
and Virginia Independent Schools Paul VI student from the bleachers SUNDAY, SEPT. 18 Percentages: FG .343, FT .583. 3-Point Goals: 8-25, .320
(Copper 3-5, Parker 2-3, Meesseman 2-4, Vandersloot Arkansas State (1-0) at Ohio State (1-0), noon
Athletic Association Division I ti- yelled at Peterson: “Coach P, this Washington at Detroit, 1 1-5, Allemand 0-1, Stevens 0-1, Quigley 0-6). Team Duke (1-0) at Northwestern (1-0), noon MLS
Miami at Baltimore, 1 Western Illinois (0-1) at Minnesota (1-0), noon
tles. After Coach Tom Verbanic sucks. I came here for a good Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 1
Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 10
(Parker 4, Stevens 2, Vandersloot 2, Copper, Meesse- Missouri (1-0) at Kansas State (1-0), noon EAST W L T Pts GF GA
stepped down in December 2018, game. It’s just like last year.” Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 man). Turnovers: 13 (Vandersloot 5, Parker 4, Gardner, South Alabama (1-0) at Cent. Michigan (0-1), 1
Missouri S&T (0-0) at Drake (0-1), 2
Philadelphia ....................17
CF Montréal ....................16
4
9
9
5
60
53
63
55
21
47
Meesseman, Quigley, Stevens). Steals: 13 (Copper 4,
his replacement lasted one sea- Peterson could only stare at the N.Y. Jets at Cleveland, 1
New England at Pittsburgh, 1 Parker 3, Vandersloot 3, Quigley 2, Meesseman). Techni- Dayton (1-0) at Youngstown State (1-0), 2 New York.........................13 9 8 47 45 36
New York City FC ............13 10 7 46 51 38
son. An interim coach led the field and walk away, knowing his Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 1
cal Fouls: Copper, 3:07 first. A: 8,014 (10,387) Michigan Tech (0-0) at St. Thomas (Minn.) (0-1), 2
Western Michigan (0-1) at Ball State (0-1), 2 Orlando City ....................12 10 6 42 35 40
10-time MAC champions during a first win would have to wait. Atlanta at L.A. Rams, 4:05 Marshall (1-0) at Notre Dame (0-1), 2:30 Columbus ..........................9 6 14 41 39 33
Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 North Carolina A&T (0-1) at North Dakota State (1-0), 3:30 Cincinnati ..........................9 8 12 39 48 49
Arizona at Las Vegas, 4:25 GOLF Kennesaw State (0-1) at Cincinnati (0-1), 3:30 New England .....................9 9 11 38 42 42
Cincinnati at Dallas, 4:25 Washington State (1-0) at Wisconsin (1-0), 3:30 Inter Miami CF ................10 12 6 36 35 46
Houston at Denver, 4:25 Akron (1-0) at Michigan State (1-0), 4 Toronto FC ........................9 14 7 34 47 53
Chicago at Green Bay, 8:20 LPGA Tour Eastern Kentucky (0-1) at Bowling Green (0-1), 4 Atlanta..............................8 12 9 33 41 48
Iowa State (1-0) at Iowa (1-0), 4 Charlotte FC ....................10 17 2 32 34 46
MONDAY, SEPT. 19 QUEEN CITY CHAMPIONSHIP Northern Iowa (0-1) at North Dakota (0-1), 4 Chicago..............................8 13 8 32 28 38
Tennessee at Buffalo, 7:15 At Kendale Course; In Cincinnati Indiana State (1-0) at Purdue (0-1), 4 D.C. United ........................7 17 5 26 32 59
Minnesota at Philadelphia, 8:30 Purse: $1.8 million Virginia (1-0) at Illinois (1-1), 4
Yardage: 6,515; Par: 72 Robert Morris (0-1) at Miami (Ohio) (0-1), 6 WEST W L T Pts GF GA
SECOND ROUND Taylor (0-0) at Butler (1-0), 6 Los Angeles FC................19 7 3 60 59 32
UC Davis (0-1) at South Dakota State (0-1), 7 Austin FC ........................15 8 6 51 60 42
Jeongeun Lee6 ................................... 68 63 — 131 -13
TENNI S Xiyu Lin .............................................. 64 68 — 132 -12
Chattanooga (1-0) at Eastern Illinois (0-1), 7 FC Dallas .........................12 8 10 46 43 33
Southeast Missouri State (0-1) at Southern Illinois (0-1), 7 Nashville .........................12 9 9 45 48 37
Ally Ewing .......................................... 69 64 — 133 -11
Massachusetts (0-1) at Toledo (1-0), 7 Minnesota United ...........13 11 5 44 44 43
Maria Fassi ......................................... 68 66 — 134 -10
U.S. Open Sarah Kemp ........................................ 66 68 — 134 -10
Valparaiso (1-0) at Illinois State (0-1), 7:30 Real Salt Lake .................11 9 9 42 38 38
Georgia Southern (1-0) at Nebraska (1-1), 7:30 Portland ..........................10 8 12 42 49 47
At USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Nasa Hataoka ..................................... 65 70 — 135 -9
Idaho (0-1) at Indiana (1-0), 8 LA Galaxy ........................11 11 6 39 46 42
In New York Ariya Jutanugarn ............................... 68 67 — 135 -9
Hawaii (0-2) at Michigan (1-0), 8 Seattle ............................11 15 3 36 40 40
Purse: $60 million Megan Khang ..................................... 69 66 — 135 -9
A Lim Kim ........................................... 66 69 — 135 -9 SOUTHWEST Vancouver .........................9 13 7 34 32 51
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Colorado ............................8 12 9 33 38 50
Andrea Lee ......................................... 69 66 — 135 -9 Alabama (1-0) at Texas (1-0), noon
MEN’S SINGLES — SEMIFINALS Angel Yin ............................................ 69 67 — 136 -8 South Carolina (1-0) at Arkansas (1-0), noon Sporting KC .......................8 15 6 30 33 51
Leona Maguire ................................... 70 67 — 137 -7 Appalachian State (0-1) at Texas A&M (1-0), 3:30 San Jose............................7 12 9 30 44 55
Casper Ruud (5), Norway, def. Karen Khachanov (27),
Anna Nordqvist .................................. 71 66 — 137 -7 Houston (1-0) at Texas Tech (1-0), 4 Houston ............................8 16 5 29 36 48
Russia, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2; Carlos Alcaraz (3), Spain,
def. Frances Tiafoe (22), United States, 6-7 (8-6), 6-3, Lauren Stephenson ............................ 69 68 — 137 -7 Northern Illinois (1-0) at Tulsa (0-1), 7 SUNDAY’S RESULTS
6-1, 6-7 (7-5), 6-3. Marina Alex ........................................ 70 68 — 138 -6 North American (0-0) at Arkansas Pine Bluff (1-0), 7
Na Rin An ........................................... 70 68 — 138 -6 Lindenwood (Mo.) (0-0) at Houston Baptist (1-0), 7 Colorado 0, at D.C. United 0
MEN’S DOUBLES — CHAMPIONSHIP Aditi Ashok ........................................ 68 70 — 138 -6 Northern Arizona (0-1) at Sam Houston State (0-1), 7 at Portland 2, Atlanta 1
Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe Salisbury (1), Hye Jin Choi ....................................... 67 71 — 138 -6 Kent State (0-1) at Oklahoma (1-0), 7 CF Montréal 4, at Toronto FC 3
Britain, def. Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, and Neal Brooke Henderson ............................. 71 67 — 138 -6 Lamar (0-1) at SMU (1-0), 7 Sporting KC 2, at LA Galaxy 2
Skupski (2), Britain, 7-6 (7-4), 7-5. Moriya Jutanugarn ............................ 67 71 — 138 -6 FIU (1-0) at Texas State (0-1), 7 at New England 3, New York City FC 0
Emma Talley ...................................... 69 69 — 138 -6 Texas Southern (0-1) at North Texas (1-1), 7:30 at Seattle 2, Houston 1
WOMEN’S DOUBLES — SEMIFINALS Gemma Dryburgh ............................... 70 69 — 139 -5 Arizona State (1-0) at Oklahoma State (1-0), 7:30
Taylor Townsend and Caty McNally, United States, def. at San Jose 2, Vancouver 0
Gaby Lopez ......................................... 68 71 — 139 -5 McNeese State (0-1) at Rice (0-1), 7:30
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST Storm Sanders, Australia, and Caroline Dolehide (12), Yealimi Noh ........................................ 70 69 — 139 -5 Tarleton State (1-0) at TCU (1-0), 8 at Los Angeles FC 2, Real Salt Lake 0
United States, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 Jasmine Suwannapura ...................... 67 72 — 139 -5 Prairie View (1-0) at Abilene Christian (1-0), 8 Orlando City at Miami ppd.
After spending two years at South River, Camrin Catterton jumped Anna Davis ......................................... 74 66 — 140 -4 New Mexico State (0-2) at UTEP (0-2), 9 WEDNESDAY’S RESULT
to Broadneck, where he played as a freshman, this past offseason. Jodi Ewart Shadoff ............................ 71 69 — 140 -4 WEST Cincinnati 1, at New York City FC 1
Ayaka Furue ....................................... 69 71 — 140 -4
A U TO RA C I NG Hannah Green .................................... 70 70 — 140 -4 Southern Utah (1-0) at Utah (0-1), 1:30
Morehead State (0-1) at Montana State (1-0), 3 FRIDAY’S RESULT
Haeji Kang .......................................... 69 71 — 140 -4
Sei Young Kim .................................... 67 73 — 140 -4 Colorado (0-1) at Air Force (1-0), 3:30 Columbus 2, at CF Montréal 2
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOTBALL NASCAR Cup Series Jessica Korda ..................................... 73 67 — 140 -4 South Dakota (0-1) at Montana (1-0), 3:30
Portland State (0-1) at Washington (1-0), 4 SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Yu Liu ................................................. 72 68 — 140 -4
UNLV (1-0) at California (1-0), 4 D.C. United at Real Salt Lake, 9:30

Bruins’ new quarterback

POINTS LEADERS Azahara Munoz .................................. 73 67 — 140 -4
Through Monday. Dana Finkelstein ................................ 72 69 — 141 -3 Middle Tennessee (0-1) at Colorado State (0-1), 4 New York City FC at Charlotte FC, 1
Wei-Ling Hsu ..................................... 73 68 — 141 -3 Northern Colorado (0-1) at Wyoming (1-1), 4 LA Galaxy at Nashville, 3:30
1. Joey Logano, 2065. San Diego (1-0) at Cal Poly (0-1), 5
2. William Byron, 2059. Caroline Inglis .................................... 70 71 — 141 -3 New England at New York, 6
Gina Kim ............................................. 68 73 — 141 -3 Alabama State (2-0) at UCLA (1-0), 5
3. Denny Hamlin, 2057. Toronto FC at Atlanta, 7:30

helps rout former team

Mi Hyang Lee ..................................... 72 69 — 141 -3 Incarnate Word (1-0) at Nevada (2-0), 5:30
4. Christopher Bell, 2055. Weber State (1-0) at Utah State (1-1), 7 San Jose at Cincinnati, 7:30
5. Tyler Reddick, 2050. Pernilla Lindberg ................................ 71 70 — 141 -3 Orlando City at Philadelphia, 7:30
Brooke Matthews .............................. 69 72 — 141 -3 Southern Cal (1-0) at Stanford (1-0), 7:30
6. Ryan Blaney, 2047. Idaho State (0-1) at San Diego State (0-1), 8 Miami at Chicago, 8
7. Kyle Larson, 2044. Sung Hyun Park .................................. 71 70 — 141 -3
Atthaya Thitikul ................................. 67 74 — 141 -3 Eastern Washington (1-0) at Oregon (0-1), 8:30 Austin FC at Seattle, 8
8. Ross Chastain, 2042. Chadron State (0-0) at Utah Tech (0-1), 9
Alana Uriell ........................................ 71 70 — 141 -3 Los Angeles FC at FC Dallas, 8:30
9. Chase Elliott, 2041. Baylor (1-0) at BYU (1-0), 10:15
10. Alex Bowman, 2037. Dottie Ardina ..................................... 75 67 — 142 -2 Sporting KC at Houston, 8:30
Jennifer Chang ................................... 72 70 — 142 -2 Oregon State (1-0) at Fresno State (1-0), 10:30
Vancouver at Colorado, 9:30
Upon arriving back at Broad- 11. Kyle Busch, 2035.
Paula Creamer .................................... 72 70 — 142 -2 Mississippi State (1-0) at Arizona (1-0), 11
Minnesota at Portland, 10
BROADNECK 35,
12. Daniel Suárez, 2029.
neck, Catterton was handed a 13. Austin Cindric, 2027. Mina Harigae ...................................... 70 72
Muni He .............................................. 72 70
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14. Austin Dillon, 2025.
sterling reputation to protect and
SOUTH RIVER 0 a large pair of cleats to fill. The
15. Chase Briscoe, 2019.
16. Kevin Harvick, 2016.
Jillian Hollis ....................................... 70 72
Min Lee ............................................... 68 74
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Louisville 20, UCF 14
D.C. United at Sporting KC, 8:30
Chicago at CF Montréal, 7:30
17. Martin Truex Jr, 819. Stephanie Meadow ............................ 71 71 — 142 -2 Columbus at Miami, 8
Bruins (1-1) did not lose a game in 18. Erik Jones, 634. Morgane Metraux .............................. 69 73 — 142 -2
LOUISVILLE ............................. 7 0 10 3 — 20 Los Angeles FC at Minnesota, 8
Pornanong Phatlum ........................... 68 74 — 142 -2
BY M ICHAEL E RRIGO Anne Arundel County last year, 19. Aric Almirola, 602.
20. Bubba Wallace, 584. Paula Reto .......................................... 74 68 — 142 -2 UCF ........................................... 7 7 0 0 — 14 New England at Houston, 8:30
fighting their way to the Maryland 21. Chris Buescher, 533. Sarah Schmelzel ................................ 71 71
Alena Sharp ........................................ 70 72
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22. Justin Haley, 507.
For Camrin Catterton, the first 4A quarterfinals behind senior 23. Kurt Busch, 485. Maddie Szeryk ................................... 72 70 — 142 -2 LOU: Evans 7 run (J.Turner kick), 10:03. Crew 2, CF Montréal 2
Elizabeth Szokol ................................ 71 71 — 142 -2
hit of the game is what makes quarterback and All-Met selec- 24. Cole Custer, 475.
Charlotte Thomas .............................. 71 71 — 142 -2
UCF: Bowser 2 run (Obarski kick), 6:33.
COLUMBUS 0 2 2
25. Michael McDowell, 473.
everything else go away. All those tion Josh Ehrlich. South River 26. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 454. Chella Choi ......................................... 73 70 — 143 -1 SECOND QUARTER MONTRÉAL 0 2 2
Lauren Coughlin ................................. 74 69 — 143 -1 First Half: None.
pregame narratives and nerves (0-2), which won the county 27. Brad Keselowski, 443.
28. Harrison Burton, 437. Casey Danielson ................................. 73 70 — 143 -1
UCF: Bowser 3 run (Obarski kick), 11:31.
Second Half: 1, Columbus, Mensah, 2 (Moreira), 66th
tend to disappear the first time a championship in 2019, provided 29. Ty Dillon, 411. Isi Gabsa ............................................. 71 72
Maude-Aimee Leblanc ....................... 69 74
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THIRD QUARTER minute; 2, Columbus, Zelarrayan, 9 (Hernandez), 68th; 3,
Montréal, Wanyama, 1 (Miljevic), 89th; 4, Montréal,
30. Todd Gilliland, 402.
defender puts his hands on you. an early-season test for a Bruins 31. Corey Lajoie, 328. Alison Lee .......................................... 73 70 — 143 -1
LOU: FG J.Turner 35, 6:07.
LOU: Cunningham 43 run (J.Turner kick), 2:46. Brault-Guillard, 3 (Kwizera), 90th+4.
Ruixin Liu ........................................... 73 70 — 143 -1 Goalies: Columbus, Eloy Room, Evan Bush; Montréal,
“You get hit once, and every- team that returned just six start- 32. Cody Ware, 237.
33. David Ragan, 89. Wichanee Meechai ............................. 73 70 — 143 -1 FOURTH QUARTER James Pantemis, Sebastian Breza.
thing is just football again,” the ers. 34. Joey Hand, 63. Katherine Perry-Hamski .................... 67 76 — 143 -1
LOU: FG J.Turner 35, 9:45.
Yellow Cards: Camacho, Montréal, 11th; Waterman,
Rachel Rohanna Virgili ....................... 73 70 — 143 -1 Montréal, 64th.
Broadneck quarterback said. Early in Friday’s game, Catter- 35. Greg Biffle, 24.
36. Jacques Villeneuve, 15. Lizette Salas ...................................... 71 72 — 143 -1 Louisville UCF Red Cards: Diaz, Columbus, 76th.
Entering Friday’s game at ton and his offense were given 37. Boris Said, 11. Yuka Saso ........................................... 73 70
Sophia Schubert ................................. 72 71
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First Downs ..................................... 19 18 Columbus, Eloy Room; Milos Degenek, Jonathan Men-
sah, Steven Moreira, Will Sands; Luis Diaz, Derick
38. Kyle Tilley, 8. Total Net Yards ............................. 427 337
South River, Catterton had plenty ample opportunities to find the 39. Mike Rockenfeller, 7. Jenny Shin .......................................... 70 73 — 143 -1 Rushes-Yards ........................... 45-226 37-206 Etienne (Josh Williams, 80th), Aidan Morris, Darlington
Luna Sobron Galmes .......................... 73 70 — 143 -1 Nagbe, Lucas Zelarrayan (Artur, 80th); Cucho Hernandez
else to think about. He had spent right rhythm as the Bruins’ de- 40. Daniil Kvyat, 2.
41. Kimi Raikkonen, 1. Ayako Uehara ..................................... 71 72 — 143 -1
Passing .......................................... 201
Punt Returns ................................ 3-17
131
3-27 (Erik Hurtado, 83rd).
the past two years playing for the fense came out determined not to Jennifer Song ................................... 76 WD Kickoff Returns ............................ 1-15 2-24 Montréal, James Pantemis; Rudy Camacho (Matko
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 1-0 0-0 Miljevic, 82nd), Alistair Johnston, Kamal Miller, Joel
Seahawks, but an offseason trans- give an inch. As they throttled the Comp-Att-Int .......................... 14-29-0 16-34-1 Waterman (Zachary Brault-Guillard, 80th); Mathieu
fer to Broadneck had put him on Seahawks’ offense, their offensive NASCAR Xfinity Series Champions Tour Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 2-5 4-14 Choiniere (Jojea Kwizera, 77th), Djordje Mihailovic,
Samuel Piette (Joaquin Torres, 77th), Victor Wanyama;
Punts ........................................ 4-48.25 8-38.5
the other side of this Anne Arun- teammates slowly put up points. KANSAS LOTTERY 300 LINEUP ASCENSION CHARITY CLASSIC Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-1 0-0 Romell Quioto, Mason Toye (Kei Kamara, 67th).
del County matchup. An arcing, 29-yard pass from Cat- After Friday qualifying; race Saturday.
At Kansas Speedway; In Kansas City, Kan.
At West Course; In St. Louis
Purse: $2 million
Penalties-Yards .......................... 12-98
Time Of Possession .................... 32:08
11-111
27:52
Dealing with a mix of emotions, terton to senior Machi Evans gave Lap length: 1.50 miles Yardage: 6,992; Par: 71 NWSL
(Car number in parentheses) PASSING
Catterton threw for three touch- the Bruins a 20-0 lead just before 1. (07) Brett Moffitt, Ford, 170.503 mph.
FIRST ROUND
Louisville: Cunningham 14-29-0-201. UCF: Plumlee 16- W L T Pts GF GA
downs and led the Bruins to a halftime. 2. (34) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, 169.956. Padraig Harrington ............................
Bernhard Langer ................................
34 31
32 33
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Portland ............................8
5
3
4
7
31
31
26
39
15
20
3. (77) Dillon Bassett, Chevrolet, 167.780.
resounding 35-0 victory in Edge- “Cam’s making great growth. 4. (66) JJ Yeley, Toyota, 167.593. Steven Alker ...................................... 33 33 — 66 -5 RUSHING Houston ............................8 5 5 29 31 23
Ernie Els ............................................. 35 31 — 66 -5 Kansas City .......................8 4 5 29 24 23
water. We don’t run a simple offense, and 5. (47) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 166.374.
6. (5) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, 164.780. Steve Flesch ...................................... 34 32 — 66 -5 Louisville: Cunningham 17-121, Evans 19-75, Mitchell x-OL Reign ........................7 4 6 27 22 16
3-26, Jordan 3-10, Huggins-Bruce 1-(minus 2), (Team)
“I wanted to come back and it’s going to take some time to get 7. (78) Stefan Parsons, Chevrolet, 163.994. Jose Maria Olazabal ..........................
Mike Weir ..........................................
32 34
32 34
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x-Chicago ..........................7 5 5 26 26 22
Angel City .........................7 5 4 25 19 18
beat them in a nice manner,” Cat- everything down,” Bruins Coach 8. (13) Akinori Ogata, Ford, 163.770.
9. (35) Joey Gase, Ford, 161.875. Doug Barron ....................................... 33 34 — 67 -4 ardson 4-45, O’Keefe 1-27. Orlando .............................5 7 6 21 20 35
terton said. “I’ve been waiting for Rob Harris said. “Tonight we saw 10. (45) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, .000. K.J. Choi .............................................
John Daly ...........................................
32 35
35 32
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Louisville...........................2
7
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19
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16
30
26
11. (02) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, .000.
this one.” some fruits of our labor.” 12. (44) Howie Disavino III, Chevrolet, .000. Joe Durant ......................................... 34 33 — 67 -4 Louisville: T.Hudson 3-67, Ford 3-38, B.Smith 3-21, Washington ......................1 6 10 13 18 23
John Huston ....................................... 33 34 — 67 -4 Huggins-Bruce 2-42, Wiggins 1-23, Melton 1-8, Evans Gotham FC ........................4 13 0 12 13 36
Catterton, who splits his time Catterton threw two more 13. (38) Cj McLaughlin, Ford, .000.
14. (68) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, .000. Robert Karlsson ................................. 34 33 — 67 -4 1-2. UCF: Jav.Baker 5-84, O’Keefe 4-8, Townsend 3-7,
between two households, played touchdowns in the second half 15. (6) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet, .000. David McKenzie .................................
Scott Parel .........................................
34 33
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16. (23) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, .000.
at Broadneck for his freshman and finished 16 for 20 for 17. (08) David Starr, Ford, .000. Steve Stricker .................................... 34 33 — 67 -4 FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Paul Broadhurst ................................. 34 34 — 68 -3 Portland 2, at Orlando 0
year but spent his sophomore and 235 yards and three scores. A 18. (31) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, .000.
Darren Clarke ..................................... 33 35 — 68 -3 TRAN S ACTION S Chicago at OL Reign, late
19. (36) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, .000.
junior seasons at South River. night that began with an awkward 20. (26) Derek Griffith, Toyota, .000. Clark Dennis ....................................... 33 35 — 68 -3
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Ken Duke ............................................ 33 35 — 68 -3
Both college and high school foot- homecoming and some nerves 21. (27) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, .000.
22. (4) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, .000. Bob Estes ........................................... 34 34 — 68 -3 NFL San Diego at Washington, 1
ball have featured an uptick in ended with Catterton relaxing 23. (91) Mason Massey, Chevrolet, .000. Timothy O'Neal ..................................
Rod Pampling .....................................
35 33
34 34
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Arizona Cardinals: Signed OLB Markus Golden to a Louisville at North Carolina, 7
24. (98) Riley Herbst, Ford, .000. one-year contract extension.
transfers in recent years, and out- with teammates on the sideline, 25. (51) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, .000. Kirk Triplett ....................................... 36 32 — 68 -3 Chicago Bears: Released DT Mike Pennel. Released DL
SUNDAY’S MATCHES
Y.E. Yang ............................................ 33 35 — 68 -3 Kansas City at Gotham FC, 6
siders often view the moves as watching his backup put the fin- 26. (18) Sammy Smith, Toyota, .000.
David Branshaw ................................. 34 35 — 69 -2
Sam Kamara from the practice squad. Released WR
Tajae Sharpe from injured reserve with a settlement. Angel City at Houston, 7
27. (48) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, .000.
callous or calculated. For Catter- ishing touches on his first win as 28. (39) Ryan Sieg, Ford, .000. Tom Byrum ........................................
Scott Dunlap ......................................
33 36
34 35
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Cleveland Browns: Placed CB Greedy Williams on injured
WEDNESDAY’S MATCH
reserve. Signed CB Herb Miller to the active roster.
ton, the decision was personal, the Broadneck varsity quarter- 29. (11) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, .000.
30. (10) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, .000. Harrison Frazar .................................. 35 34 — 69 -2 Green Bay Packers: Waived DT Akial Byers and DB Innis Kansas City at Chicago, 8
and the transition was, at times, back. 31. (19) Brandon Jones, Toyota, .000. Jerry Kelly ..........................................
Justin Leonard ...................................
34 35
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Gaines from injured reserve with settlements.
FRIDAY’S MATCH
32. (1) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, .000. Houston Texans: Released RB Royce Freeman.
overwhelming. “I wanted to play this game so 33. (21) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, .000. Billy Mayfair ...................................... 33 36 — 69 -2 Philadelphia Eagles: Released WR Greg Ward from Orlando at Louisville, 7:30
Scott McCarron .................................. 35 34 — 69 -2
“Different people are always go- bad because I wanted to prove to 34. (8) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, .000.
35. (2) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, .000. Colin Montgomerie ............................ 34 35 — 69 -2
injured reserve with a settlement.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Released LB Elijah Ponder from SATURDAY, SEPT. 17
ing to feel a certain way about it,” everyone that I know what I’m 36. (54) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, .000. Tom Pernice .......................................
Wes Short ..........................................
35 34
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injured reserve with a settlement. Gotham FC at Washington, 7
Tennessee Titans: Signed S Amani Hooker to a three- OL Reign at North Carolina, 7:30
Catterton said. “I try not to listen doing,” Catterton said. “Wanted to 37. (7) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, .000.
38. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, .000. David Toms ........................................ 33 36 — 69 -2 year contract extension. Placed LB Chance Campbell and Houston at Chicago, 8
to it that much, but it is what it is.” let my play speak.” 39. (9) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, .000. DB Elijah Molden on injured reserve. Angel City at San Diego, 10

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Amid United’s lost season, Rooney is building for the future
ROONEY FROM D1
He’s both preparing for oppo-
nents and plotting offseason
moves, evaluating who will re-
turn and who in the vast global
soccer marketplace belongs on
their transfer wish list.
His deputy, Pete Shuttleworth,
a fellow Englishman whom
Rooney hired, is living in
Rooney’s house. Shuttleworth
typically drives them to and from
work, though he is new to the
right side of the road.
“He trusts me,” Shuttleworth
said, grinning. “Six weeks in, and
we’re still here.”
They are here implementing
an ambitious project. Three years
after Rooney (the famous striker)
left, Rooney (the lightly experi-
enced coach) is using the final
stage of United’s lost season to lay
the foundation for 2023.
He has jettisoned players, such
as Michael Estrada, and recom-
mended acquisitions, such as
Ravel Morrison and Christian
Benteke. He has brought into the
fold teenage prospects, such as
Jackson Hopkins and Kristian
Fletcher, and experimented with
formations.
The results have not changed
— United is 2-5-2 since Rooney
debuted July 31 — but the struc-
ture is beginning to take hold.
Fitness levels have improved,
he said, and confidence has grad-
ually been restored. Players seem
to understand what he wants.
And while the team has scored
only six goals in those nine
games, it has conceded more
than one goal just three times.
When you’re last in a 28-team
league — with a 7-17-5 record, the
second-fewest goals for (32) and
the most against (59) en route to
missing the playoffs for the third
consecutive season — incremen-
tal steps are treasured.
“There’s a level of ownership
and responsibility with him,” for-
ward Miguel Berry said. “That’s
the first building block. What he’s
done is establish a strong base,
and we’re going to build from
there.”
Rooney has been encouraged
by the players’ response.
“We’ve definitely moved for-
ward from when I first came in,”
he said during a 30-minute inter-
view. “Even some of the games
which we’ve lost, I have found
D.C. United’s results have not changed since Wayne Rooney debuted as coach at the end of July, but his structure is starting to take hold.
positives. The lads are starting to
understand more what I want
from them both in training and
on match day. Slowly, I am seeing
the team develop.”
At times, he also has stepped
back and allowed players to re-
veal themselves. In the second
half of a 6-0 home loss to the
Philadelphia Union on Aug. 20,
Rooney purposely remained qui-
et on the sideline to see who
would take responsibility and
show leadership under adverse
circumstances. (Midfielder Chris
Durkin was the only one, he said.)
He has also made a concerted
effort to learn about players who
weren’t with the team when he
played here in 2018 and 2019.
Two days after he arrived in a
trade with the Columbus Crew,
Berry was planning to join Morri-
son in an Uber from Audi Field to
temporary housing in Loudoun
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and offered a ride.
For 45 minutes, they talked
about soccer and their back-
grounds.
“He’s just a guy who has stories
like everyone else,” said Berry, 24.
“The difference is his stories are
about [the Champions League
and World Cup] and my stories
are about under-16 youth soccer.”
Berry added, “He commands
respect for who he is as a player,
but he also earns it day-to-day
with just being a good person and
a good coach.”
Striking a bond with players is
part of Rooney’s mission. He also
wants them to buy into his plans.
“It’s always difficult when you
come in halfway through the
season, trying to get the team to
change the way they play and the
mentality to change,” he said. “It’s
really important for me to get all
the messages [through to] the
team to understand the identity I
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want from the team.”
He wants his team to become
more possession-oriented “but
with a purpose and to take more
risks.” Defensively, he said, “I
want my teams to be horrible to
play against.”
The lack of success has tested
Rooney, who, as a Manchester
United superstar, won five Pre-
mier League titles and one Cham-
pions League trophy. He also
faced an uphill climb in his
previous coaching assignment,
with England’s Derby County.
Shuttleworth, though, called
him “the most patient manager
I’ve ever worked with.”
“He accepts that, to get to a
place where we can be successful
consistently, you have to go
through these rocky bits in the
road,” Shuttleworth said.
Rooney has not given up trying
to win this season, but with the
playoffs out of reach, he is look-
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ing ahead.
“You’ll see over the last five
games some of the young lads
getting a bit of game time, which
is an opportunity for me to see
how they handle it,” he said.
Rooney also wants to evaluate
experienced players — a tryout, of
sorts, to determine their futures
with the club. The roster is al-
most certain to undergo major
changes this winter as the organi-
zation seeks to build around
Benteke and all-star attacker Taxi
Fountas.
“We’re already looking at play-
ers,” Rooney said. “We’ve got
players in mind who we want to
bring in, but that might take a bit
of time. There’s work getting
done behind the scenes and we
have to find out if those players
want to come.”
He declined to specify players
or positions but promised that
“no stone will go unturned.”
. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 , 2022
“I know the European market
quite well,” he said. “Not so much
the South American market,
[which will fall to others on the
staff ]. I think we need to do more
on the African market.”
Identifying players is one
thing; affording them is another.
Asked whether ownership, head-
ed by Steve Kaplan and Jason
Levien, is committed to spending
what’s necessary, Rooney said:
“I’ve already had those discus-
sions before I came in. With any
manager, you wouldn’t be doing
your job if you weren’t pushing
your owners for more. That’s
normal. I’ll keep pushing them.”
Less than two years after he
retired, Rooney said he has em-
braced coaching.
“It’s like solving a puzzle, and I
love it,” he said. “You have your
identity and how you want to
play, but you see the game devel-
oping and what changes you can
make, so you're constantly think-
ing.”
Rooney’s contract is unusually
short; it runs only through the
2023 season, with a club-held
option in 2024. Part of that
decision was tied to his ambition
to coach at a high level in Eng-
land.
Part of it also had to do with
being apart from his family. In
2019, he cut his D.C. playing deal
short because his wife, Coleen,
didn’t like living here. The family
was in Bethesda while the team
trained in the District. This time,
his wife and children stayed be-
hind.
Rooney said he speaks to them
every day. They came stateside a
few weeks ago and took a get-
away to Delaware. He plans to
visit during a pause in the MLS
schedule this month. In the off-
season, he said he probably will
shuttle back and forth.
“Of course I miss them, but it’s
part of the job,” he said.
Whether his D.C. tenure lasts
18 months or several years,
Rooney said he’s committed to
the cause.
“I know wherever I go as a
manager, people are always going
to look at what I’m doing and
what I’ve done,” he said. “I’m not
going to come in and take it
lightly. I’m giving everything I
can to try to develop myself as a
manager but also develop the
club.”
CJ ABRAMS
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New wave of townhouses in St. Mary’s County

BY H ARRIET E DLESON

For six years, Andrew Colon and

his wife lived in a Stanley Martin
townhouse in the Wildewood
neighborhood in St. Mary’s Coun-
ty, Md. Now they live in another.
While watching the development
of Wildewood Landing, a new sec-
tion of the master-planned com-
munity, they decided that one of
its townhouses might be for them.
They visited a few, pondered the
prices and decided to move for-
ward.
“I like the somewhat small-
town vibe,” Colon, 36, said. “It’s a
heavily wooded area with lots of
trees.”
Situated on 10 acres near where
the Patuxent River meets the
Chesapeake Bay, Wildewood
Landing has 67 townhouses. The
community is near the Patuxent
Naval Air Base and about an hour
from Washington, 75 minutes
from Annapolis and 90 minutes
from Baltimore.
Wildewood Landing town-
houses come in two models: the
Bradford and the Bernard. Forty-
six are Bradfords and 21 are Ber-
nards. Of the 40 units still avail-
able to buy, 33 are Bradfords and
seven are Bernards.
Both types of townhouse have
three levels, and the base models
have three bedrooms, two full PHOTOS BY BENJAMIN C TANKERSLEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

bathrooms and a powder room
(half-bath). The Bradford, at 2,053
square feet, is all above ground. It
is 22 feet wide and has a two-vehi-
cle garage. Prices start at
$350,000.
The Bernard, at 2,344 square
feet, has an in-ground basement
and two levels above ground. It is
20 feet wide and has no garage. A
driveway can accommodate two
vehicles. Prices start in the low-to-
ABOVE: A look inside the Bradford model townhouse at Wildewood Landing in St. Mary’s County, Md. The Bradford is one of two types of
townhouses at Wildewood Landing, part of the Wildewood master-planned community. BELOW: Bradford units viewed from the outside.
Wildewood Landing association fee includes access to
amenities, lawn care, snow remov-
44566 Nolani Way, California, Md. al in common areas, and trash
Of the 40 townhouses still removal. The Wildewood Commu-
available to buy, 33 are Bradfords nity Association Lodge is a meet-
and seven are Bernards. Prices ing space that owners can rent for
start at $350,000 for a Bradford private events.
and in the low to middle Schools: Evergreen Elemen-
tary, Esperanza Middle, Leonard-

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mid $300,000s.
On the first (entry) level, the
Bradford base model comes with a
finished recreation room and the
two-vehicle garage. The open-plan
main level has a great room, a
kitchen, a dining room, a powder
room and an attached deck. The
upper level has three bedrooms
and two full bathrooms. The own-
er’s bedroom has a large walk-in
closet and an en suite bathroom
with a double sink and an en-
closed commode.
The Bernard base model has a
lower-level recreation room. The
open-plan main level has a great
$300,000s for a Bernard.
Builder: Stanley Martin Homes
Features: Units have oak stairs.
They have luxury vinyl plank floors,
except in the bedrooms, which are
carpeted. A 10-foot island seats six
in the kitchen. A four-burner gas
stove can be upgraded to five
burners. The owner’s suite
bathroom has two sinks.
Bedrooms/bathrooms: 3/3 or 4
including one or two powder rooms
(base models).
Square-footage: Bernard base
model 2,344; Bradford base model
2,053.
Bradford’s dedicated dining room,
tw0-car garage and larger deck.
Tashia C. Mack-Moye, general
sales manager for Stanley Martin
Homes, said what attracts buyers
are “the price point and the feel” of
features for some Bernard and
Bradford townhouses, called
Smart Selected homes. There is a
set price for the design package,
rather than a cost determined by
buyers’ separate design choices.
town High
Transit: This vehicle-oriented
community is connected to the
D.C. area by way of state routes 235
and 5, I-495 and I-95, among other
highways.
Nearby: For shopping and din-
ing, Wildewood Center, St. Mary’s
Marketplace and First Colony
Shopping Center are a few min-
utes away. And the area is served
. SATURDAY,
by a variety of grocery stores, in-
cluding ALDI, Giant Food, Harris
Teeter, Target Grocery and Wal-
mart Supercenter. Historic St.
Mary’s City is about 30 minutes
away. Solomons Island, a popular
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

room, kitchen, powder room and
attached deck. The upper level has
three bedrooms and two full bath-
rooms, including an en suite own-
er’s bathroom with a double sink
and a large shower.
The Colons chose the Bradford.
Andrew Colon said they liked the
Homeowners association
fee: $130 monthly
View model: By appointment
Sales: 240-258-2012,
maryland@stanleymartin.com
the townhouses.
Exterior and interior colors
vary. Units come with oak stairs
and with luxury vinyl plank (looks
like hardwood) floors, except in
the bedrooms, which are carpeted.
The Stanley Martin design
team selects a package of design
The move-in timeline for Smart
Selected homes tends to be short-
er, typically 60 to 90 days.
Amenities include community
pools, miles of hiking and biking
trails, baseball and soccer fields,
tennis courts, and playgrounds.
The $130 monthly homeowners
weekend getaway, is about 10 min-
utes away. St. Mary’s State Park is a
little more than 10 minutes from
Wildewood, as is the member-sup-
ported, privately funded Patuxent
River Naval Air Museum, which
presents the history of naval avia-
tion.
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A little
city with
‘everything
you need’
Business owners,
residents praise the
sense of community
BY L AURA S CUDDER
Fair Lakes, a development west
of Fairfax, is like a little city.
Places to live, eat and shop are
within a minute’s drive — if not a
minute’s walk — away. And if
people are unable to find some-
thing to enjoy right in the com-
munity, residents say, other op-
portunities aren’t far.
“It’s a wonderful place to work
and live,” said Tanya Lawrence, a
27-year Fair Lakes resident. “Ev-
erything you need is right in the
neighborhood. Lots of local parks
and plenty of pedestrian-friendly
places and trails for walking, jog-
ging or biking. Vienna Metro is
close by — so public transporta-
tion is also conveniently located.
And D.C. is just a 30-minute drive
… so plenty of opportunity to take
advantage of all the wonderful
things our nation’s capital has to
offer.”
Lawrence works as a Pilates
instructor at Club Pilates in Fair
Lakes, one of many businesses in
the almost 21/2-square-mile area.
“I started practicing Pilates
several years ago,” she said. “And
when the club opened just 10
minutes from my home, I became
a member. Later when I learned
of the teacher training program, I
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took advantage of that.”
Lawrence has taught at the
studio for three years now.
Brenda Johnston doesn’t live
in Fair Lakes but owns a business
there. She commutes from
Stafford to uBreakiFix, soon to be
renamed Asurion Tech Repair
and Solutions. When she was
. SATURDAY,
looking for a location for her
business, Fair Lakes fit the bill.
“I was just looking for a loca-
tion where I felt like I could be
confident and be successful,”
Johnston said. “So looking
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around in different areas, I found
myself just attracted to the Fair
Lakes area.”
The entrepreneur made the
switch from a career in nursing to
running a business in late 2016.
The transition was intimidating,
but the Fair Lakes community
pulled her in. And though she’s
not a resident, Johnston said she
feels a sense of belonging just the
Fair Lakes in Fairfax County
PHOTOS BY AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Fair Lakes is “a wonderful place to work and live,” said longtime resident Tanya Lawrence, who noted the area’s parks, walkability and
convenient public transportation. Clockwise from top left: Public art in Fair Lakes. Most of the housing is townhouses or condos. Scouts,
from left, Lucas Shah, 6, Raiden Fehr, 9, and Daisy Fehr, 11, with Amanda Ward and Joe Fehr, sell popcorn at Fair Lakes Center.
lishes a quarterly magazine, A $900,000), usually carriage hous-
MD. View From Fair Lakes. It also es. The homeowners association
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into the city as well. So it’s not a (grades 7-8) and Fairfax High
big wish, but it would be nice.” (grades 9-12).
same. at Fair Lakes, is the main draw. Living there: Fair Lakes is Transit: Interstate 66 is the
“I started immersing myself, Chick-fil-A is an area favorite, he roughly bordered by Reston to closest major thoroughfare. The
visiting restaurants, the retail said. New stores, including cloth- the north, Fairfax Station to the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU stop on the
merchants there, and seeing how ing retailer Uniqlo, are planned south, Springfield to the east and Orange Line is the closest Metro
customers and the employees — to join the many established busi- Chantilly to the west. station, about 71/2 miles away. The
how people — were engaging,” nesses. Most homes in the area are Fair Lakes shuttle — a free service
she said. “I was just getting this The Fair Lakes League, an or- townhouses (prices range from run by the community for resi-
community feel. I just felt like ganization that works with shops $550,000 to $750,000) and con- dents and employees — serves the
everybody was so nice.” and the neighborhood, helps dos (prices range from $350,000 Metro station and other stops in
Real estate agent Danny Lee of bring the community together in to $450,000), Lee said. There are the area. Fairfax County’s bus
Samson Properties said Fair myriad ways. The league hosts some single-family houses (prices system, the Fairfax Connector,
Lakes’ shopping center, the Shops free family movie nights and pub- range from $800,000 to serves Fair Lakes as well.
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House of the Week
A stately showcase for notable Washingtonians
BY K ATHY O RTON

This Georgian house in the

Woodland Normanstone neigh-
borhood of Northwest Washing-
ton has had a long line of notable
owners.
The 1929 house was designed
by architect T.J.D. Fuller and built
by Davis, Wick & Rosengarten.
Fuller was known for designing an
extension to the Cosmos Club in
1909 when it expanded its location
at the former Dolley Madison
House on Lafayette Square. (The
Cosmos Club now resides in the
Townsend mansion on Massachu-
setts Avenue NW.)
The original owner of the house
was Walter F. Chappell, who
served in the Navy in World War I
and II. In the second war, he was
assigned to the office of naval in-
telligence. For four years, he li-
aised with British naval intelli-
gence. For his services, he was
made an officer of the Order of the
British Empire. When he returned
to civilian life, he joined the State
Department, where he became
acting director of the Office of
Consular Affairs.
Frederick S. Wynn bought the
house in 1935. He was a vice presi- PHOTOS BY HOMEVISIT

dent of the Southern Railway com-
pany. In 1941, Wynn sold the house
to Charles D. Drayton, a lawyer
and descendant of William Henry
Drayton, the first chief justice of
South Carolina. Charles Drayton
was special counsel to the Associa-
tion of American Railroads and
specialized in interstate com-
merce law. He also served as presi-
dent of Children’s Hospital for 10
years.
Henry S. Morgan and Catherine
Adams Morgan owned the house
from 1941 to 1946. He was co-
founder of Morgan Stanley. She
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
ABOVE: A view of the 1929 Georgian house and its flagstone patio. The house was designed by architect T.J.D. Fuller, and its owners have
included business leaders and prominent government officials. BELOW: The wood-paneled library, one of several rooms with a fireplace.
made an officer of the Order of the $10.9 million
British Empire. After the war, he
returned to private practice, spe- 2861 Woodland Dr. NW,
cializing in corporate law and rep- Washington, D.C.
resenting clients such as Bethle- Bedrooms/bathrooms: 8/7
hem Steel and Ford Motor Co. Approximate square-footage:
William McChesney Martin Jr. 10,100
and his wife, Cynthia, lived in the
house the longest. The Martins Lot size: 0.3 acre
took possession of the house in Features: The 1929 Georgian
1947 after he became chairman of house was designed by architect
the federal Export-Import Bank. T.J.D. Fuller and built by Davis, Wick
Martin, who became the first paid & Rosengarten. The house has

was a descendant of Presidents
John Adams and John Quincy Ad-
ams. Her father, Charles Frances
Adams III, was secretary of the
Navy in the Hoover administra-
tion.
Alfred and Winifred McCor-
mack purchased the house from
the Morgans. Alfred, a lawyer,
. SATURDAY,
president of the New York Stock
Exchange at age 31, spent three
years at the Export-Import Bank
before becoming an assistant
treasury secretary in the Truman
administration.
In 1951, Truman appointed
Martin chairman of the Federal
Reserve. His 19-year tenure in the
detailed trim, wainscoting and
molding. An elevator runs to all four
levels. The lower level has a
temperature-controlled wine cellar
with two wine refrigerators, an
exercise room and an attached
two-car garage. The backyard has a range. A breakfast room is at- ily room. The lower level has a
large flagstone patio for tached to the kitchen and over- bedroom with en suite bathroom,
entertaining, a covered porch, a

served as a high-ranking official in
military intelligence during World
War II. Shortly after Pearl Harbor,
he joined the War Department at
the request of Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson. According to
THE WASHINGTON POST
job spanned five administrations.
Martin is best known for saying
the role of the Federal Reserve was
“to take away the punch bowl just
when the party gets going.” An
avid tennis player, he served as
grilling area, a fountain and
terraced landscaping.
Listing agents: Chuck Holzwarth
and Nick Hazelton, Washington
Fine Properties
looks the backyard. The wood-
paneled library has a wood-burn-
ing fireplace and built-in shelving
and cabinetry.
The owner’s suite takes up most
of the left side of the house on the
a temperature-controlled wine
cellar with two wine refrigerators
and an exercise room. The garage,
which can fit two cars end-to-end,
is also on this level. An elevator
runs to all four levels.

his 1956 Washington Post obitu-
ary, he was a central figure in
reorganizing Army intelligence.
Alfred also arranged for the ex-
change of information with Brit-
ish Intelligence agencies during
the war. In 1944, he was made
director of intelligence of the Mili-
tary Intelligence Service. For his
service, he was awarded the Dis-
tinguished Service Medal and
president of the National Tennis
Hall of Fame and chaired the In-
ternational Tennis Hall of Fame.
Prentis B. Tomlinson Jr., chief
executive of Calibre Energy,
bought the house in 2005. He sold
it to the current owners in 2013.
A gated entry and a steep set of
stairs lead to the front of the
house. The entrance door opens to
a stately foyer with formal living
and dining rooms on either side,
each with a wood-burning fire-
place and 101/2-foot ceilings.
On the left side of the house, the
kitchen is connected to the dining
room by a butler’s pantry. The
kitchen has marble countertops,
marble backsplash, a walk-in pan-
try, two dishwashers, a double
wall oven and a six-burner gas
second floor. The bedroom has a
sitting area and a wood-burning
fireplace. There are two walk-in
closets and a bathroom with two
vanities, a marble soaking tub and
a separate marble shower with a
steam feature. Two additional
bedrooms with en suite bath-
rooms are on this level.
The top level has four bed-
rooms, two bathrooms and a fam-
The backyard has a large flag-
stone patio for entertaining, a cov-
ered porch, a grilling area, a foun-
tain and terraced landscaping.
Plantings include magnolia, crepe
myrtles, boxwoods, azaleas, ca-
mellias, roses and hydrangeas.
The eight-bedroom, seven-
bathroom, 10,100-square-foot
house is listed at just under $10.9
million.
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Rates hit 14-year highs after recent bond market sell-o≠

BY K ATHY O RTON
Mortgage rates soared to their
highest levels since 2008 this week
as the 30-year fixed rate — the
most popular home loan product
— continued its dramatic ascent,
rising three percentage points in
one year.
According to the latest data re-
leased Thursday by Freddie Mac,
the 30-year fixed-rate average shot
up to 5.89 percent with an average
0.7 points. (A point is a fee paid to a
lender equal to 1 percent of the
loan amount. It is in addition to
the interest rate.) It was 5.66 per-
cent a week ago and 2.88 percent a
year ago.
Freddie Mac, the federally char-
tered mortgage investor, aggre-
price index] report and the com- Weekly averages for
ing Fed meeting, the fact is bonds
have been selling off,” said Michael popular mortgage types
Becker, branch manager of Sierra
Pacific Mortgage. “The sell-off in
bonds has led to higher mortgage 5-Year ARM
rates over the last several weeks.
In fact, we are close to the multi- 6%
5.89%
year highs for mortgage rates that
was reached back in June. Look- 5% 5.16%
ing forward, we need some contin-
ued improvement in the inflation 4.64%
outlook for bonds to rally and 4%
mortgage rates to drop.”
When investors are worried 3%
about inflation, their appetite for
buying bonds diminishes because
the return on their investment is 2%
less when inflation is high. Infla-
tion erodes the value of a bond’s 1%
future payments. RONALD WITTEK/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK

gates rates from around 80 lend-
ers across the country to come up
with weekly national averages.
The survey is based on home pur-
chase mortgages. Rates for refi-
nances may be different. It uses
rates for high-quality borrowers
with strong credit scores and large
down payments. Because of the
criteria, these rates are not avail-
able to every borrower.
The 15-year fixed-rate average
climbed to 5.16 percent with an
average 0.8 points. It was 4.98
percent a week ago and 2.19 per-
cent a year ago. The five-year ad-
justable rate average jumped to
4.64 percent with an average 0.4
Since the Federal Reserve
wants to see signs of the economy
slowing before it pulls back on its
aggressive rate hikes and there
has been little indication so far
that inflation has abated much,
investors are expecting the Fed
will increase the federal funds rate
by another 75 basis points at its
meeting in two weeks. (A basis
point is 0.01 percentage points.)
The central bank has raised its
benchmark rate four times this
year, most recently in July when it
went up 75 basis points.
Other central banks are acting
similarly to rein in inflation. The
Bank of Canada hiked its interest
Sunflowers bloom in front of the European Central Bank, which
raised interest rates by 75 basis points Thursday.
Sept. 9, 2021 Sept. 8, 2022
Source: Freddie Mac volume — decreased 0.8 percent week,” Doug Duncan, chief econo-
NICK MOURTOUPALAS / THE WASHINGTON POST last week from a week earlier, ac- mist at Fannie Mae, wrote in an
cording to Mortgage Bankers As- email. “Since the beginning of Au-
sociation data. gust, with mortgage rates moving
numbers may give bonds some The refinance index slipped 1 up, refinance application dollar
help, but until then it’s hard to see percent and was 83 percent lower volume has declined by 18 per-
mortgage rates improving.” than a year ago. The purchase cent, reaching its lowest level
Meanwhile, higher rates con- index also slid 1 percent. The refi- since January 2019. Excluding hol-
tinued to soften mortgage de- nance share of mortgage activity iday-impacted weeks, the [Fannie
mand, which is at its lowest level accounted for 30.7 percent of ap- Mae refinance application level
in more than two decades. The plications. index] is now lower than the low-
market composite index — a “Refinance applications de- est levels of the refi slowdown in
measure of total loan application creased for the fourth consecutive the fourth quarter of 2018.”

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lighted an inflationary trend: av-
erage hourly earnings were up 5.2
percent in one year. The Federal
Reserve will keep raising interest
rates until wage growth slows
down.”
The yield on the 10-year Treas-
ury rose to its highest level since
mid-June this week, closing at
3.33 percent on Tuesday. It slipped
to 3.27 percent on Wednesday.
Yields move inversely to price.
When demand for bonds falls,
prices decrease and yields in-
crease. Because mortgage rates
tend to follow the same path as
long-term bond yields, they also
vant, chief economist at Bright
MLS. “Some of the anticipated
rate hikes are already baked into
mortgage rates but it is likely that
there will be some more upward
movement in advance of the Fed’s
meeting later this month. Mort-
gage rates could potentially re-
main as high as 6 percent through
the fall, which will continue to
cool buyer demand.”
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COVER STORY

From two
properties,
one home
emerges
The goal: To ‘create something that
looks like it was always like this’
BY H ARRIET E DLESON

Sharon Russ, who has been living in the District’s

Logan Circle neighborhood for 20 years, had a vision
for how she and her husband, David Rubin, could
take two adjacent townhouses and make them into
one home for their family.
Rubin and Russ were walking in the neighbor-
hood in 2006 when they saw an open house for a
three-level townhouse. Intrigued, the couple ven-
tured inside. The townhouse, dating to approxi-
mately 1880, had been renovated and was move-in
ready. At the time, they were living in a two-bed-
room apartment just two blocks away.
“We were having a baby, and needed a little bit
more room,” said Rubin, a managing director with
Deloitte. “We ended up buying the house.”

K
A few years later with a growing family — two
K

sons now 15 and 14 — the couple realized they

needed more space, and particularly wanted more
closet space and a dining room. Most of the closets
in the townhouse had been removed by the previous
owner.
“And we needed places where we could all be
together,” Russ said.

THE WASHINGTON POST

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

An island in the kitchen makes space for the family of four to have breakfast together They also wanted an outdoor grill on the back
deck, a bigger living room, an office for Rubin and a
larger kitchen.
“I like to cook,” said Russ, a consultant.
After buying the rowhouse next door in 2014, they
began thinking about how they could combine the
two.
“I was the one who wanted to do it, as daunting as
it was,” she said.
. SATURDAY,

Before they closed on the second townhouse, they

showed it to architect Salo Levinas, a principal with

. SATURDAY,
Shinberg Levinas Architects. They spent a year
working with the city on permits and compliance to
PHOTOS BY ALAN KARCHMER/SANDRA BENEDUM building codes. In addition to meeting the building
Sharon Russ and her husband, David Rubin, combined two adjacent townhouses into one home. A floating wall conceals the home’s second staircase. Open space on the first level creates continuous flow from codes, there were historic requirements and budget
THE WASHINGTON POST

one area to another. “You can walk and continue walking and not feel trapped in one corner,” architect Salo Levinas said. “You feel like you are in one house.” considerations.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

FROM TOP: A steel and wood staircase winds to the second and third levels. An
island in the kitchen makes space for the family of four to have breakfast together.
The bathroom in the owners’ suite. Choosing where to spend more money and where
to spend less was essential to the project, such as less expensive bathroom tiles but
splurging on the flooring in the main living area.
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COVER STORY
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The townhouses together total 6,500 square feet. The living area includes a fireplace, neutral colors, clean lines and lots of natural light. “How will they congregate as a
family, how will they be together, and spend a lot of time together, and not be isolated,” Levinas said of their goals. “That was very important to them.”
Combining townhouses to meet a family’s needs
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
“It’s historic so we couldn’t
change the facade,” Rubin said.
The stone and brick exterior of
both townhouses was restored.
The couple wanted to create
space where their family would
. SATURDAY,
be able to spend time together,
especially around meals.
“How will they congregate as a
family, how will they be together,
and spend a lot of time together,
and not be isolated,” Levinas said.
THE WASHINGTON POST
“That was very important to
them.”
Before he started designing
the space, Levinas had a long
conversation with the home-
owners.
“I try to understand the way
that they live, their relationship
with their kids, entertaining,” he
said. “Then, you start proposing
things.”
Levinas challenged Russ to
think about how the family
would use the new space. He
asked her, “What do you want
here? What do you envision
there?”
“We met all the time,” she said
of their collaboration. “We had a
lot of meetings.”
Whenever challenges arose
with building and fire codes and
how to configure the spaces, Levi-
nas had the answers.
“He’s a problem-solver,” Russ
said.
The two side-by-side struc-
tures were in different states. One
had been renovated some years
before, while the other was “in
very bad shape,” Levinas said.
The goal was to join the houses
seamlessly.
“To create something that
looks like it was always like this,”
he said. “When you are inside to
forget that you are in two town-
houses.”
Levinas designed the new
combined space of 6,500 square
feet so that the couple would have
the option to sell one of them, if
they chose in the future. The
townhouses are separately deed-
ed properties so the adaptation
had to include two staircases to
meet the fire code.
“We wanted the ability to put
Humpty Dumpty back together
again and have two separate
houses,” Russ said.
“The flow is continuous,” Levi-
nas said. “You can go from one
place to another easily. You can
walk and continue walking and
not feel trapped in one corner.”
A dining room can seat 10 and
the island in the kitchen accom-
modates the family of four and
their entertaining needs. Two
skylights and sliding-glass doors
at the back of the home bring in
natural light.
“When you start working,
when you open the structure and
the walls, you discover what you
really have,” Levinas said.
The floors on the first level
were not uniform and had to be
leveled. Two-thirds of a load-
bearing wall was removed on the
first level, necessitating the addi-
tion of a steel beam to maintain
structural integrity.
Aiming to stay within a client’s
budget is an essential part of any
project. Russ and Rubin declined
to say how much they spent
combining the townhouses.
“To me, it’s extremely impor-
ALAN KARCHMER/SANDRA BENEDUM
tant to respect the budget,” Levi-
nas said.
Choosing where to spend more
money and where to spend less
was essential to the project, such
as less expensive bathroom tiles
but splurging on the flooring in
the main living area. Closet inte-
riors were finished with a less
expensive material.
“The construction took 10
months,” Levinas said. “And they
moved out for a year.”
Living in the house is the
reward for the time and effort it
took to complete.
“It’s a really big project,” Russ
said. “You have to really love
where you are to engage in the
entire project.”
Rubin added: “It just is very
calming. Sharon had a vision and
they got to a shared vision.”
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A≠ordable apartments coming to D.C.’s Randle Heights

BY M ICHELE L ERNER

WC Smith and the Anacostia

Economic Development Corp. are
constructing 130 apartments at
Terrace Manor at 3301 23rd St. SE
in the Randle Heights neighbor-
hood of Ward 8. Every unit at
Terrace Manor, a site previously
occupied by 12 vacant buildings
with 61 apartments, will be desig-
nated as affordable housing.
All 130 apartments at Terrace
Manor will be reserved for resi-
dents earning 60 percent or less
of the area’s median income. The
median family income estimate
by the Department of Housing
and Urban Development for the
D.C. region is $142,300 for 2022.
Stoiber & Associates
Eligibility for affordable housing
is based on a sliding scale accord- All 130 apartments at Terrace Manor will be reserved for residents earning 60 percent or less of the area’s median income.
ing to family size and household
income. income. all Terrace Manor residents will front desk, free garage parking, tion of the new apartments.
Terrace Manor will include The residents in those 14 units include the Skyland Workforce bike storage and security. The The D.C. LIHTC funding is
75 one-bedroom apartments, will receive Local Rent Supple- Center, midnight basketball at community is anticipated to be from Sugar Creek Capital. Federal
47 two-bedroom apartments and ment Program vouchers through THEARC and shuttles to the Vil- complete in September 2024. LIHTC funding and a
eight three-bedroom apartments. the D.C. Housing Authority and lage of Parkland Splash Park, The District of Columbia Hous- ­HUD-insured construction loan
Fourteen of the units will be will have access to support ser- which is owned by WC Smith. ing Finance Agency issued $36.99 was secured from Wells Fargo.
designated as permanent sup- vices from the D.C. Department of Terrace Manor will also have million in tax exempt bonds and Additional financing includes a
portive housing (PSH) and re- Human Services and Community on-site amenities, including a underwrote $33.8 million in Low $24.5 million loan from the D.C.
served for residents earning Connections D.C. community room, a business cen- Income Housing Tax Credit Department of Housing and
30 percent or less of area median Resident services available to ter, a fitness center, a 24-hour (LIHTC) equity for the construc- Community Development.

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Parent has options for funding daughter’s big home renovation

Q: I read your
Real articles regularly.
Estate I would love your
Matters opinion on
options for
ILYCE GLINK financing an
AND SAMUEL addition on my
J. TAMKIN daughter’s house.
Once her
renovation is done, we will live
with her. We currently own our
own home and have no
mortgage. We hold title to the
house in our living trust. All of
our money is tied up in our
IRAs, and we have little in
savings. I withdraw monthly
from the IRA to supplement our
Social Security payments for
day-to-day living expenses.
Withdrawing approximately
$300,000 from my IRA to help
her pay for the addition would
cause us to owe a huge tax bill.
My house would probably sell
for around $650,000, but my
daughter and her family are
living with us until their house
is done.
My plan is to get a mortgage
on our current home to help
them pay for the addition and
pay the loan off when I sell our
house. I estimate it will take a
year to complete their addition
before we can all move into the
home.
Do you have any
recommendations on which type
of loan to pursue? Can my
daughter take out a second
mortgage to assist her with
financing the home? In any case,
I would pay off the loan or
mortgage when I sell my house.

A: Here’s the good news: You’ve

got a number of options to move
forward.
That said, we’re glad you’ve
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withdrawing funds from your
IRA. As you correctly note,
withdrawing that much money
from a tax-deferred account
would likely trigger a big tax
bill. You’d have to pay income
tax on those funds. And
$300,000 is a large enough
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A parent wants to spend $300,000 for a daughter’s home addition. Although the parent has IRA funds, withdrawing that money would
probably trigger a big tax bill. Better options could involve a cash-out refinance of the parent’s home or a home equity line of credit.
70 percent of that would allow type of loan are significantly might have to pay over 5 percent
you to net $455,000 in cash. You can do a cash-out lower than on permanent interest (or even as much as 7
Interest rates are a lot higher mortgages. You would need to percent) on whatever funds she
today than they were a year ago, refinance of your weigh the higher interest rate on borrows.
so this move will cost you. As we a home equity line of credit vs. When it comes to home
property. Lenders

amount that it would probably
push you into a higher tax
bracket. Also, you didn’t
mention your age, but if you are
younger than 59½, you might
owe penalties on top of the
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write this, you’d pay around 5
percent for a $455,000 30-year
fixed-rate refinance mortgage.
You could expect to pay 1.5
percent in upfront fees, and the
monthly payment would be
should allow you to
borrow up to 70 percent
or even 80 percent of
the closing costs on a cash-out
mortgage on your home.
Since you plan to pay off the
loan in a year, the overall cost
would be limited, and far less
than the tax bill associated with
improvement projects, Sam’s
favorite question is “What’s the
budget?” If you can cover the
amount with a cash-out
refinance on your existing home,
making sure you’ve set aside

taxes.
There are other ways to
finance this renovation.
First, as long as your home is
not currently listed for sale, you
can do a cash-out refinance of
your property. Lenders should
allow you to borrow up to 70
percent or even 80 percent of
the value of your home today. If
your home is worth $650,000,
around $2,400. These numbers
assume that your credit scores
are at least 740. Note that some
lenders will require you to have
a 760 credit score, or higher, to
access their best programs.
You could also consider a
home equity line of credit. While
you won’t get as much money
from a home equity line of
credit, the closing costs on this
liquidating an IRA.
Your daughter could also do a
the value of your home cash-out refinance. But if she
has a solid interest rate, she may
today. be better off taking out a home-
equity loan or line of credit.
Currently, fewer lenders offer
home equity lines of credit
(HELOCs). Interest rates on
HELOCs are higher than for
fixed-rate mortgages, so she
enough to cover the cost of the
funds, this might be the best
move. You can then, as you
indicated, pay off the mortgage
when you sell your home. You’ll
pocket whatever is left after
closing costs and fees.
The elephant in the room is
whether you and your husband
plan to “buy into” your
daughter’s home. You’re going to

Before funding the renovation, the parent and daughter should discuss whether the parent would get money back if the home were sold.
sell your house and move into
hers. But, if she sells it, your
cash is tied up with that
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You and your daughter should
talk about ownership of the
property going forward and
whether that should be shared.
If you have more than sufficient
funds for the rest of your life,
then the conversation is a bit
different. But often parents
invest funds in their children’s
homes and then can’t get at that
money if the need arises.
Once you and your daughter
have talked through these
issues, you can consult with an
estate attorney who can make
recommendations as to how you
might resolve some of the
lingering issues surrounding
ownership of the property.
Options might include placing
the property in a trust and
naming you, your daughter and
your spouse as beneficiaries. Or,
you and your spouse might get a
life estate. There are other
options as well, and each comes
with a variety of pros and cons
to sort through.
Ilyce Glink is the author of “100
Questions Every First-Time Home
Buyer Should Ask” (Fourth Edition).
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Best Money Moves, an app that
employers provide to employees to
measure and dial down financial
stress. Samuel J. Tamkin is a
Chicago-based real estate attorney.
Contact them through the website,
BestMoneyMoves.com.
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Common exterior paint is really just glue with color added. Because wood has a propensity to expand and contract when it gets wet and then dries, peeling paint is the result.
Preserving exterior wood is a problem you can’t just brush away
Not long ago in
Ask the this column, I
Builder shared why it’s so
TIM CARTER hard to preserve
exterior wood
using any number
of products. One of them was
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paint. You may have been one of
the many readers who have
written to me.
If I had to boil down the
emails I received to just one, it
would read: “Tim, I have to paint
my exterior (fill in the blank). I
don’t have a choice. Why do
paints fail? What can I do to get
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the longest-lasting result? And
what is the best exterior paint, in
your opinion?”
Countless professional papers
have been written about these
topics. Scientists with PhDs in
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chemistry spend their entire
careers wrestling with these
questions. That said, I’ll do my
best to answer them in the
limited space of this column.
First and foremost, it’s
important for you to realize that
common exterior house paint is
really just glue with color added
to it. Think about it. Glue sticks
to things, right? That’s what you
Home
Renovation
want: Your paint needs to stick
to your house siding, windows,
furniture, deck railing and so
forth. And, if given the choice,
you’d want it to stick for 20 or
30 years!
In a previous column, I wrote
that paint and wood don’t play
well together because wood has a
propensity to expand and
contract when it gets wet and
then dries. Most paints can’t take
this back-and-forth motion and
eventually crack and lose their
grip on the wood. Peeling paint is
the result.
Have you noticed that you
don’t often see paint peel from
your car or from aluminum
siding or garden tools? The
reason is simple. Metal doesn’t
expand and contract to the
degree that wood does. Yes, paint
will peel from metal, but the root
cause is often poor preparation
of the surface or cheap paint.
Glues work best when they’re
applied to clean, dry, dust-free
surfaces. The same is true with
exterior paint. Let’s exorcise the
pressure-wash demon here and
now. Pressure-washing the
object you’re about to paint does
not get it perfectly clean.
You can test this with ease.
Take your dirty car to a carwash
where you can spray it with a
pressure washer. Go ahead and
use the soap setting, get the
wand as close as you feel
comfortable to the paint and
rinse it. Then pull your car out of
the bay and drive to the edge of
the lot. Let your car dry in the
sun. You’ll see there’s still a light
film of dirt on the paint.
To get any exterior object
really clean, you need to rub the
surface with a sponge or brush
using soapy water. You then rinse
with clear water. This
mechanical agitation gets the
object clean just as your hands
rubbing across your skin gets
you clean in the shower.
Another cause of paint failure
on exterior wood objects is the
failure to pre-paint each piece of
wood before the final object is
built. Think of how you build a
deck railing, fence, picnic table
or other structure. You make all
the cuts, assemble the pieces and
then paint it. The problem with
this approach is that at each
place where one piece of wood
touches another, you’ve got a tiny
gap. Unless you live in the desert,
water makes contact with the
unpainted wood at these
locations, and you know the rest
of the story.
Most people don’t have the
patience to cut all the pieces of
wood and then prime and paint
them. The end grain of each
piece requires at least three coats
of paint for ultimate protection.
Once the paint has dried and
cured for a week, assemble the
structure.
Years ago, I knew this was
really important. When I built
my last house, I covered the
entire exterior with thousands of
linear feet of redwood siding and
redwood trim boards. It took
extra hours of work, but each
time I cut a piece of siding or a
trim board, I painted the cut
edge of the end grain of the wood
that would butt up against
another piece. I didn’t paint all
the sides that would be hidden,
but this one simple step paid off
in spades.
You can drive by this house in
Cincinnati. I painted it with the
best paint available at the time.
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It had a urethane resin. The resin
is the glue component of the
paint. I painted the house
25 years ago and drove past it a
year ago. There’s not one place
where the paint is peeling. The
current owners do what I do and
wash the outside of the house
every two years. The paint looks
as good as the day I put it on.
The last thing I want to share
is the adhesive-chain issue. If
you’re painting something that’s
already got multiple coats of
paint on it, realize that you have
a chain. Each previous layer of
paint is a link in the chain. While
you may do everything right
when applying the last coat of
paint, a layer three levels down
may fail because that painter
didn’t do things right or used a
cheap paint with inferior glue.
This is why it’s so very
important to use the best paint,
read the label instructions and, if
the manufacturer says to prime
bare wood, then do it. For best
results, apply the finish paint
within hours of the primer
drying to get the best mechanical
and chemical bond between the
two linked layers.
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