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Moscow’s
influence
U.S. warns China not to assist Russia
spreads BIDEN CONSIDERING
TRIP TO EUROPE
in Africa Zelensky set to address
Congress on Wednesday
In Mali, mercenaries BYA SHLEY P ARKER,
advance the goals of D AN L AMOTHE,
C HICO H ARLAN
an isolated Kremlin AND C ATE C ADELL

National security adviser Jake

BY D ANIELLE P AQUETTE Sullivan issued a direct warning
to his Chinese counterpart Mon-
bamako, mali — They wear day about the potential conse-
army fatigues with no flag and quences of any assistance that
carry Kalashnikov assault rifles. Beijing might provide Russia in
They guard the presidential pal- its war with Ukraine, officials
ace and track extremists in the said, following Moscow’s recent
scrubland. Hundreds of Russian request for military equipment
mercenaries have landed here and aid.
over the last three months, ac- The seven-hour meeting in
cording to regional and Western Rome between Sullivan and Yang
officials, providing a shadowy Jiechi, planned several weeks
source of protection as this na- ago, took on added urgency as
tion’s alliances with the West Russia’s war against Ukraine
unravel. dragged into its third full week
The missions are unfolding as without any signs of winding
support for Russia surges in the down. A day after Russia
capital, Bamako: Protesters wave launched a salvo of cruise mis-
Russian flags and photos of siles at a military facility near the
Vladimir Putin. Signs declare “I Ukraine-Poland border, the Unit-
LOVE WAGNER” and “THANK ed Nations estimated the total
YOU WAGNER,” referencing the civilian toll in Ukraine at 596
Wagner Group, a Russian secu- dead and 1,067 injured, though it
rity organization targeted by U.S. PHOTOS BY HEIDI LEVINE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST has said it believes that the actual
sanctions that has been widely People in the Obolon district of Kyiv, Ukraine, retrieve belongings from an apartment building after it was shelled. Kyiv so far has been figures are “considerably higher.”
accused of war crimes. spared the worst of the fighting seen in some other parts of Ukraine, but officials said half of the city’s residents have fled. Sullivan’s meeting — which a
“We think they’re here to clean senior administration official de-
up the mess,” said Diamano Dolo, scribed as “intense” and “candid”
a 41-year-old souvenir merchant
whose gear with the Russian Kyiv residents on edge after strikes devastate homes — came amid reports that Presi-
dent Biden is considering a trip to
letters for “Mali” sells quickly. Europe in the coming weeks to
Wagner — seen by the United BY S IOBHÁN O ’ G RADY, disabilities. About 11 a.m., she heard a loud rally and reassure allies, a visit
States as a covert extension of the J ENNIFER H ASSAN boom and felt the windows shatter. that would follow Vice President
Kremlin — arrived in Mali after a AND M IRIAM B ERGER “The shock wave knocked me off my feet, Harris’s trip to Poland and Roma-
2020 coup d’etat isolated the and glass debris got me a bit,” she said. “I nia last week. And congressional
West African country from its kyiv, ukraine — The sidewalks were was lying on the floor for a few minutes, leaders announced that Ukraini-
democratic partners. As Russia covered in bits of glass and bloodstains. A waiting to see what happens next.” an President Volodymyr Zelensky
invades Ukraine, the Kremlin is green trolley car sat crumpled, a taxi City officials later described the attack as would deliver a virtual address to
pushing to amplify influence smashed into its side. Next to a crushed a missile or rocket strike that hit near a SEE CHINA ON A8
worldwide, and ostensibly pri- car lay what appeared to be a body, checkpoint close to residential buildings. It
vate military groups like Wagner covered by a piece of tarp. killed at least one person and wounded London: Protesters occupied a
offer a deniable way to advance In a park across the way, Irina Kostiuk, several others. mansion linked to an oligarch. A7
its goals, researchers say. 38, stood staring at the scene, clutching As at many other temporary checkpoints
Since 2016, the Russian merce- her bleeding hand. She had been inside in the capital, the trolley car damaged in the Russian elite: Israel tries to avoid
nary footprint has grown from one of the buildings damaged in the SEE KYIV ON A10 being a haven from sanctions. A9
four nations to a total of 28, Monday morning attack in Kyiv’s Podil- A wounded man in Kyiv’s Kurenivka area,
according to the Center for Stra- skyi district, volunteering at a humanitar- which was described by one neighbor as a Monica Hesse: Stories of wartime birth can U.S. economy: The war alters the
tegic and International Studies ian aid center to help civilians with beautiful residential zone in the capital city. be heartwarming — or heart-rending. C1 Fed’s plan to tackle inflation. A14
SEE MALI ON A12

Millions at risk of losing Medicaid after crisis lifts
States will decide who
no longer belongs on
pandemic-swollen rolls
BY A MY G OLDSTEIN
As many as 16 million low-
income Americans, including
millions of children, are destined
to fall off Medicaid when the
nation’s public health emergency
ends, as states face a herculean
mission to sort out who no longer
belongs on rolls that have swollen
to record levels during the pan-
demic.
The looming disruption is a
little-noticed side effect of the
coronavirus crisis, and it is stok-
ing fears among some on Medic-
aid and their advocates that vul-
nerable people who survived the
pandemic will risk suddenly liv-
ing without health coverage. For
the Biden administration —
which will make the decision on
when to lift the health emergency
— there is the potential political
stain of presiding over a surge of
SEE MEDICAID ON A17
With fewer covid protocols,
these students flourished
Colo. district’s experience
offers evidence for those
opposed to long closures
BY P ERRY S TEIN
monument, colo. — As school
systems around the country were
battening down for their first re-
mote start-of-school in the fall of
2020, the Lewis-Palmer district
here was embarking on another
kind of experiment: Elementary
students would be in class full
time, sitting maskless at commu-
nal tables. The band program
would resume in-person classes,
saxophonists and flutists playing
a few feet apart. The high school
football teams would practice and
compete.
While most of the nation kept
students at home for part or all of
the past academic year, these
BRANDON DILL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
schools in the suburbs of Colora-
Bradley Ledgerwood of Cash, Ark., with mother Ann, has cerebral palsy and has long depended on do Springs, like thousands of oth-
Medicaid. His state recently notified him, erroneously, that he is no longer eligible for benefits. ers around the country, opened
with the overwhelming majority
of students in their seats. Masks
were optional in elementary
school. Although middle- and
high-schoolers began with hybrid
learning, in November, high-
school-aged students with signifi-
cant special education needs were
back in person five days a week.
In the country’s largest school
systems, such as those in New
York City, Los Angeles, D.C. and
Chicago, teacher unions and con-
cerned parents fought plans to
reopen. Public health officials
warned that social distancing
would save lives, and schools re-
sponded by devising hybrid pro-
grams or simply sticking with
virtual learning. But, over time,
these measures also imposed
costs: Today, students are con-
tending with significant learning
loss and mental health issues.
Yet thousands of school dis-
tricts — typically small ones in
conservative-leaning counties —
reacted to the pandemic like
Lewis-Palmer District 38 did. Of-
ficials in this largely White and
affluent school district of 6,600
students near the U.S. Air Force
SEE SCHOOLS ON A18

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focus is agency integrity,
avoiding political battles
BYM ATT Z APOTOSKY,
D AVID N AKAMURA
AND D EVLIN B ARRETT
Merrick Garland begins his sec-
ond year as attorney general much
the same way he launched his first
— a quiet man at the center of
political storms over democracy,
the rule of law and Donald Trump.
A former appeals court judge,
Garland was picked to be Ameri-
ca’s top prosecutor largely in the
hopes that he would depoliticize
the Justice Department and im-
prove morale among law enforce-
ment officers after years of debili-
tating public debates over how
they investigated political cases.
A year in, the central test of
Garland’s tenure remains the
same: convince lawmakers and
the public that his is an apolitical
Justice Department at a time
when their biggest issues are in-
herently political, including the
Jan. 6 attack on Congress, a con-
gressional investigation of
Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020
election results, and partisan bat-
tles over elections and civil rights.
Garland marked his first anni-
versary in the job in typically quiet
fashion, conferring with senior
aides in his office — the kind of
face-to-face meeting that has been
rare during the coronavirus pan-
demic. In a brief exchange with
reporters before the meeting be-
gan, Garland — who declined to be
interviewed for this article —
steadfastly refused to discuss the
possibility of investigating Trump.
Speaking in his characteristi-
cally low, raspy voice, the attorney
general said the department does
not “shy away from cases that are
controversial or sensitive or politi-
cal. To do that would undermine
an element of the rule of law. …
What we must avoid is any parti-
san element of our decision-mak-
ing about cases.”
Steven Wasserman, a federal
prosecutor in D.C. and president
of the National Association of As-
sistant United States Attorneys,
said it is difficult to quantify Gar-
land’s impact on morale: Federal
prosecutors across the country
have a wide range of political
views, and the association does
not survey its members about
their boss.
But Wasserman said there have
been some notable differences
since Garland took over. Attorney
General William P. Barr, the sec-
ond attorney general under
Trump, intervened in cases, drew
objections from line prosecutors,
and famously accused career staff-
ers of injecting themselves into
politics and “headhunting” for
high-profile targets.
Garland’s tenure has not been
marked by “the type of contro-
versy that existed in the last ad-
ministration — certainly not the
same type of rhetoric coming from
the attorney general,” Wasserman
said. He noted the return of “a
level of stability and civility that I
would think most prosecutors ex-
pect” from Justice Department
leaders.
Garland’s biggest accomplish-
ment, Wasserman said, was his
supervision of the investigation
into the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol —
a sprawling, complex probe that is
by some measures the largest case
in U.S. history. Last week marked
a key moment in that investiga-
tion, when the FBI arrested Henry
“Enrique” Tarrio, the longtime
leader of the Proud Boys group, on
charges of conspiring with follow-
ers to attack Congress on Jan. 6.
The arrest of Tarrio, who says
he is no longer the Proud Boys’
leader, is significant in part be-
cause he was not in Washington
Loose camel kills two near Tennessee petting zoo
BY L INDSEY B EVER
A camel got loose and killed
two people near a petting zoo
in northwestern Tennessee,
prompting police to “put the
camel down,” authorities said.
Officials said deputies with the
Obion County Sheriff ’s Office re-
ceived a call Thursday afternoon
about a camel that was attacking
people near Shirley Farms in
Obion. When deputies arrived,
they found two people uncon-
scious on the ground.
Sheriff Karl Jackson said the
animal attacked a police vehicle.
safety, the animal headed toward
them.
“It was at this time officers had
to put the camel down for the
safety of everyone on scene,”
Jackson said in a statement.
The victims were identified as
Attorney General Merrick Garland gets credit for the return of “a level of stability and civility” at the
Justice Department, said Steven Wasserman, a federal prosecutor in D.C.
on Jan. 6 — an indication prosecu-
tors are moving farther from the
scene of the crime toward anyone
who may have plotted the attack
from afar.
Wasserman said the associa-
tion is concerned, however, with
rising violent crime in the United
States and whether the depart-
ment’s policies are appropriate to
meet the moment.
“The association believes that
this administration needs to con-
duct an honest assessment of the
policies that have encouraged le-
niency in the last 10 to 15 years,
and whether those are appropri-
ate and effective given the direc-
tion that crime is going,” Wasser-
man said.
Garland has plenty of critics on
the right. They have accused him
of blaming lawful gun owners for
crime, targeting conservative crit-
ics of school coronavirus policies
and refusing to give them infor-
mation about an ongoing investi-
gation of President Biden’s son
Hunter. But he has also faced vo-
cal skepticism from those on the
left who want him to aggressively
investigate Trump and his inner
circle for possible crimes sur-
rounding the 2020 election and
the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
Kristy Parker, a former federal
prosecutor and counsel at the ad-
vocacy group Protect Democracy,
said Garland’s legacy will prob-
ably be defined by that issue. At
stake, she said, is not just whether
Trump will face personal conse-
quences but whether the Justice
Department can hold accountable
those who commit crimes, irre-
spective of their political status.
“This is a big moment in his-
tory,” said Parker, who thinks
Trump should be investigated for
his efforts to overturn the 2020
election. “This is going to be a
defining moment in how we view
our own justice system, and how
everybody else in the world views
it. We’ve always held ourselves up
as a beacon of how to do democra-
cy in the world. And if we’re not
capable of investigating a presi-
dent of the United States who
openly flouted the law, then that’s
going to be a real turning point for
us, and in my view, we’ll be taking
the wrong turn at the fork in the
road.”
It’s still unclear whether the
department is targeting the for-
mer president specifically as it
investigates the Jan. 6 riot, Parker
said. There are some worrying
signs it is not, she said, particular-
ly in not seeking interviews with
those closest to Trump. But Gar-
land has insisted investigators are
building cases up from low-level
players and will follow the evi-
dence however high it leads. So
far, investigators are not known to
have interviewed those closest to
Trump as part of their probe.
Bobby Matheny, 42, of Ridgely,
Tenn., and Tommy Gunn, 67, of
Obion. They were pronounced
dead at the scene, authorities
said, but the official cause of
death was not released.
The Washington Post left a
message seeking comment from
Shirley Farms on Monday. A
person, who did not provide their
name, responded to that call to
say, “We are grieving,” and de-
clined to comment further.
It is not clear how the camel
got loose or why it attacked.
Veterinarian and camel expert
Bernard Faye said camels are
quiet animals that have good
relationships with people.
But Faye, chairman of the
International Society of Camelid
Research and Development who
is based in Montpellier, France,
said in an email Monday to The
Post that camels can exhibit dan-
gerous behavior under certain
THE WASHINGTON POST
Stanley Brand, a former House
counsel who represents some of
the Jan. 6 defendants and witness-
es, said Garland has done well in a
difficult first year, having come in
“under very adverse circum-
stances, with low morale and high
expectations.”
Garland’s quiet demeanor and
strategy is the right one, Brand
said, particularly for the Jan. 6
cases. “In this case, the less said
publicly the better, because you
don’t want to impact juries or
judges” or give any ammunition to
defense lawyers, he said.
In contrast, the House commit-
tee investigating Jan. 6 has been
publicly outspoken, recently argu-
ing in a court filing that it has “a
good-faith basis for concluding
that the president and members
of his campaign engaged in a
criminal conspiracy to defraud
the United States.”
Declarations like that increase
the pressure on Garland. But
those who have worked with him
in his first year says he has been
painstakingly careful to keep his
focus on the evidence and legal
issues surrounding Jan. 6.
At his first briefing on the case a
year ago, the former judge me-
thodically asked prosecutors to
explain the legal standards for the
different crimes at issue, such as
assault and obstruction. Critics
say the attorney general seemed to
be stuck in the weeds of the case
and not focused enough on the big
picture: a possible conspiracy to
overthrow the government.
The debate over whether the
Justice Department should pur-
sue Trump has drawn some public
attention away from several of the
agency’s signature actions over
the past year, including strength-
ening efforts to protect civil rights.
Garland hired a pair of civil
rights lawyers, Vanita Gupta and
Kristen Clarke, to oversee the Jus-
tice Department’s civil litigating
divisions and the civil rights divi-
sion, respectively. He doubled the
number of staff attorneys in the
voting rights section, which has
filed lawsuits against a Georgia
law that authorities allege pur-
posely discriminates against
Black voters and Texas redistrict-
ing maps that prosecutors said
discriminate against Latinos.
Two of the department’s biggest
wins came last month, with con-
victions in the hate-crimes case
against three White men in Geor-
gia who killed Ahmaud Arbery, a
Black man, and the civil rights
trial of three former Minneapolis
police officers involved in the
death of another Black man,
George Floyd.
Both were rare federal prosecu-
tions. And both outcomes repre-
sented the kind of high-level legal
accountability that activists called
for during the social justice pro-
circumstances, such as when
they are stressed and frightened
or, for males, during rutting sea-
son — an annual period of sexual
activity that runs from Novem-
ber to March in the United
States.
Faye explained that most cam-
el accidents have been caused by
rutting males.
He said their aggressive behav-
ior usually is limited to “kicking
with their legs, or sometimes
biting, but sometimes they run
after people and can kill” by lying
down on people and crushing
them under the weight.
Depending on the type of cam-
el, the animals can grow more
than six feet tall and weigh more
than 2,000 pounds — and, when
necessary, they can run as fast as
40 mph, according to Live Sci-
ence.
Faye said even a well-behaved
male camel can go “mad” during
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tests in 2020 that were sparked by
the deaths of the two men, as well
as the police killing of Breonna
Taylor, a Black woman, in Louis-
ville. Experts said successfully
charging the former Minneapolis
officers with violating Floyd’s
rights by failing to intervene and
render aid could have a wider
impact on efforts to rein in uncon-
stitutional policing.
“Sometimes the public puts
way too much stock in the poten-
tial for criminal prosecutions to
change things, but I do think this
prosecution may be a game-
changer, and DOJ should get ku-
dos for bringing it,” said Christy
Lopez, a Georgetown University
law professor who worked in the
civil rights division during the
Obama administration.
Garland also overturned a
Trump-era ban on federal consent
settlements with local jurisdic-
tions over reforms for policing
and other issues. Last year, the
department launched sweeping
pattern-and-practice investiga-
tions of the police departments in
Minneapolis, Louisville and Phoe-
nix. Justice investigators also are
probing state prison facilities in
New Jersey, Georgia and Texas.
Still, some activists have been
frustrated by the pace of change.
Civil rights groups in numerous
jurisdictions have pleaded, so far
unsuccessfully, for federal investi-
gations into their cities’ police de-
partments.
Jonathan M. Smith, executive
director of the Washington Law-
yers’ Committee for Civil Rights
and Urban Affairs, said the de-
partment got off to a slow start
because Gupta and Clarke were
not confirmed until late last
spring, and they are still working
to fully staff the civil rights divi-
sion. But he also suggested that
there was an internal culture
clash preventing bolder action.
“You have a very forward-lean-
ing, aggressive civil rights division
and staff, and I am concerned that
the higher-up leadership in the
department is much more cau-
tious,” said Smith, who served as
chief of the special litigation sec-
tion of the civil rights division
from 2010 to 2015.
S. Lee Merritt, a civil rights
attorney who represented Ar-
bery’s mother, was among a group
of civil rights activists who had
pushed Biden to appoint a Black
attorney general. He praised Gup-
ta and Clarke for being “active and
responsive, especially to cases
that are high-profile.” But he said
Garland’s more cautious ap-
proach has limited the depart-
ment’s ability to “deal with the
systemic and structural issues of
discrimination” such as qualified
immunity for police officers.
“They have not begun to ad-
dress that.”
rutting season. “The animal be-
comes crazy, really,” he said in the
email to The Post. Still, he said
accidents are not common when
the owner can properly manage
the animal.
During rutting season, male
camels in the Middle East are
typically kept in an enclosure
called a paddock, and in Turkey
their aggressive behavior is har-
nessed for an annual wrestling
festival, Faye said.
That said, camel attacks do
occur. In 2015, a male camel in
rut trampled two people to death
at a farm in Texas. In 2017, a
Florida woman sued a Confeder-
ate group, saying a camel bit her
at the site of the Jefferson Davis
home, causing fractures and oth-
er serious injuries. And the next
year, six children were injured
when a spooked camel bucked
and tore through the Pittsburgh
Shrine Circus.
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Politics & the Nation

Boston experiments with free buses for social justice
BY J OANNA S LATER
boston — On a recent raw win-
ter morning, Barry Hurd was
sitting on a bench waiting for the
bus after a trip to the supermar-
ket.
Hurd, 64, gets by on his month-
ly disability payment, but it’s not
easy. “The food is high, rent high,
everything high,” he said. “Unless
you win the lottery, you’re not
saving.”
The only thing that isn’t expen-
sive is the bus: When the No. 28
pulls up to the stop, Hurd hoists
his small metal shopping cart
through the back door and steps
in without paying a fare. “It’s a
beautiful thing,” he said of the
free bus service. “We need more of
it.”
Hurd’s bus route is part of a
bold experiment unfolding in
Boston with echoes around the
country. Michelle Wu, the city’s
newly elected mayor, has made
free public transportation a rally-
ing cry and a personal mission,
calling it a tool for social justice
and tackling climate change.
Earlier this month, Boston
took a small step toward what Wu
hopes will be a far larger goal.
Three heavily used bus lines that
run through the heart of predom-
inantly Black neighborhoods will
be fare free for the next two years
in a pilot program the city is
closely studying.
“This is part of our legacy as a
city, to truly invest in the ways
that our futures are interconnect-
ed,” Wu said in an interview. “If
we are serious about climate jus-
tice and racial equity and mobili-
ty, then removing barriers to pub-
lic transportation … would be a
major step forward.”
Boston isn’t the only place ex-
perimenting with free public
transportation. More than two
years into the coronavirus pan-
demic, the concept is having a
moment across the United States,
thanks partly to federal recovery
funds and a desire to lure back
passengers. Nationwide, rider-
ship remains just 63 percent of
pre-pandemic levels, according to
the American Public Transporta-
tion Association (APTA).
After Kansas City, Mo., stopped
collecting fares on its transit sys-
tem in 2020, it experienced a
smaller drop in ridership than
other cities during the pandemic
and security incidents declined,
an analysis found. Albuquerque,
Richmond and Olympia, Wash.,
are also running public transpor-
tation without fares. Los Angeles
recently implemented two years
of free fares for students through
A bus heads to Ruggles station in Boston. As part of a pilot program, three heavily used bus lines that
run through the heart of predominantly Black neighborhoods will be fare free for the next two years.
pilots should be closely watched
and that what works for one city
might not be right for another.
Transit is the “great social equal-
izer,” he said. “The question is,
should the rider pay nothing,
regardless of their means?”
Boston’s Wu has emerged as
the concept’s highest-profile
evangelist. When she ran for may-
or last fall, Wu memorably prom-
ised to “free the T,” the colloquial
name for the Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority
(MBTA).
Wu has spent many years as a
commuter, often managing two
small children and a stroller, and
continues to take the T’s Orange
Line subway from her home to
City Hall.
She started talking about mak-
ing public transportation free
when she was a member of the
Boston City Council. In 2019,
when the MBTA sought to raise
fares, Wu wrote an op-ed saying
fares should be abolished instead.
Her advocacy caught the atten-
tion of Daniel Rivera, a friend
who was then mayor of Lawrence,
a city of 90,000 north of Boston
whose population is predomi-
nantly Hispanic or Latino.
Rivera ran the numbers and
found that the cost of replacing
fare revenue from the city’s three
most popular bus routes for two
years was $225,000, small
enough that it could be funded
is Roxbury, a center of Boston’s the pandemic, the MBTA had a
Black community and a neigh- $2.3 billion budget and collected
borhood that doesn’t have easy about $700 million in fare rev-
access to a subway line. The re- enue, said Poftak. “If folks want to
gional planning agency for the make all modes of transportation
Boston area found that Black free … not only does that revenue
riders spent 64 more hours a year need to be replaced, we probably
on buses than White riders. need additional revenue because
“It’s hard to miss the fact that of the effect” on rides for people
we have historically underinvest- with disabilities, he said.
ed in transit in these communi- Massachusetts Gov. Charlie
ties of color,” said Jascha Frank- Baker (R) is not a proponent.
lin-Hodge, Boston’s chief of “Somebody’s going to have to
streets, transportation and sani- come up with a lot of money from
tation. “So partly this is about somebody,” he said in a television
saying, ‘How do we right that interview in November. “There’s
wrong?’ ” no such thing as a free lunch.”
The early results are encourag- Some cities in the state are
ing, he said. One of the buses pushing ahead. In Lawrence, the
became free last August in an zero-fare experiment that began
initial pilot. Ridership on the in 2019 just expanded to the
route jumped 22 percent, said regional Merrimack Valley Re-
Franklin-Hodge. Meanwhile, the gional Transit Authority. Noah
amount of time that buses spent Berger, the authority’s adminis-
stopped decreased, because pas- trator, said that for every dollar
sengers boarded more quickly the system collected in fares,
from all doors, without the need 76 cents went to the costs of
to swipe cards or fumble for collecting those fares — from
change. To absorb significantly fixing and maintaining fare boxes
more passengers without any to physically counting cash. “It’s a
LANE TURNER/BOSTON GLOBE/GETTY IMAGES negative impact on service is a very inefficient, clunky way to
“really tremendous finding,” said generate revenue,” he said.
Franklin-Hodge. Eliminating fares also removes
There was one important the primary source of friction
idealism and hard-nosed prag- drawback: About two-thirds of between drivers and riders and
matism, is accustomed to hearing the passengers said the free bus allows drivers to spend less time
that her goal of free public trans- “If we are serious about service didn’t save them any mon- at each stop, he said. “The key will
portation is unrealistic because of ey, either because they use a be how do we sustain it,” Berger
its cost. She recalled being told climate justice and monthly transit pass or because said.
that even launching a pilot of they transfer from the bus to a Wu is also thinking about the
such a project in Boston would be racial equity and train and must still pay a fare for future. She is looking to expand
impossible, particularly one that their journey. Meanwhile, some the fare-free service to key bus
lasted longer than six months. mobility, then removing experts are skeptical that free routes that connect Boston to its
Getting there wasn’t easy: It transit will dissuade people from nearest neighbors such as Cam-
took months of discussions with barriers to public using cars to commute. bridge. She also wants to see
the MBTA about the actual cost of Boston’s MBTA is open to ex- discounted fares for low-income
the experiment and its statutory transportation … would perimenting with fare-free rides residents across the system. In
implications, plus several conver- — provided someone else is spon- the long run, she said, public
sations between Wu and Trans- be a major step soring the cost. Fare-free pilots transportation is “a public good
portation Secretary Pete Butt- can be more complex than they and should be funded that way.”
igieg to overcome a regulatory forward.” appear, said Steven Poftak, gener- The bus pilot will return its
hurdle. Boston is paying for the Michelle Wu, mayor of Boston al manager of the MBTA. When investment many times over, Wu
project with $8 million of federal fares disappear for a bus, they predicted. She recalled a conver-
recovery funds. must also be eliminated for tran- sation she had with a young man
In early March, Wu stepped sit services for people with dis- who had relied on his mother to
onto a No. 29 bus on Boston’s Blue abilities in the same area, gener- pull together enough change ev-
Hill Avenue to mark the first day ating more demand for such ery time he needed bus fare to get
of free service, accompanied by rides. Boston is also covering the to class. Having the freedom to no
residents of a public housing de- cost of those increased services as longer ration your trips based on
velopment and a gaggle of report- part of the pilot. what you can afford is “life-
ers. One of the passengers was To fully “free the T” would be changing,” said Wu. “It opens up a
Yaire Cabrera, a 17-year-old high an expensive proposition. Before whole world.”
school student who was startled
to see the mayor on her bus.
At first, Cabrera didn’t realize
the bus was free: When the driver
waved her through as she board-
ed, she assumed the card reader
was broken. Once she learned
about the pilot program, her reac-
tion was disbelief, followed by
delight. She immediately texted a
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Advocates for free transporta-
tion say it increases ridership,
discourages car use and provides
greater access to jobs and educa-
tion, particularly for lower-in-
come residents and communities
of color. The major challenge is
how to pay for it, especially in
large cities where fares make up a
good chunk of transit revenue.
Art Guzzetti, a vice president at
the APTA, said that the current
through existing cash reserves.
The buses became free in 2019,
and ridership jumped.
“It takes such little money to
lift up so many people,” said Rive-
ra, who is now chief executive of
MassDevelopment, the state’s de-
velopment finance agency. At the
end of February, the zero-fare
project expanded to include all of
the bus routes in Lawrence and a
dozen neighboring communities.
Wu, who toggles between
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Workers accused at care facility for sex trafficking victims
BY L INDSEY B EVER
At least one staff member at a
Texas foster-care facility designed
to help young girls who are vic-
tims of sex trafficking is accused
of trafficking them all over again,
according to state officials and
court documents.
Nine current and former em-
ployees at the Refuge Ranch, a
state-contracted rehabilitation
facility in Bastrop County are ac-
cused of criminal activity amid
allegations of neglect, physical
and sexual abuse, and exploita-
tion of seven girls at the facility
about 30 miles southeast of Aus-
tin. The girls were left at the
facility for more than a month
after the abuse was first reported,
officials said Thursday during an
emergency court hearing, the San
Antonio Express-News reported.
“The most appalling thing
about this is the disregard of these
children,” U.S. District Judge Jan-
is Jack said during the hearing,
the Express-News reported. Jack
has been overseeing a years-long
lawsuit against the state over con-
ditions in its foster-care system.
The sex-trafficking allegations
are the latest development in that
case.
“You had to wait to get eight
calls before you took 11 female,
Greater push for police transparency Congress: Review drug firms’ tax plans
After Post investigation,
officials urge publicizing
misconduct settlements
BY K EITH L . A LEXANDER
AND S TEVEN R ICH
Two federal lawmakers and
the District’s Office of Police
Complaints renewed their calls
last week for police departments
to make public details about
police officers whose alleged
misconduct resulted in multiple
payments for claims including
wrongful arrests and excessive
force.
Virginia Democrats Sen. Tim
Kaine and Rep. Don Beyer urged
members of Congress on Friday
to pass their 2021 bill, which
they called the Cost of Police
Misconduct Act. The bill would
require federal, state and local
law enforcement agencies to
report police misconduct allega-
tions and related judgments or
settlements, including court
fees, to the Justice Department.
The goal of the bill, the authors
say, would be to increase trans-
parency and accountability, sav-
ing taxpayer dollars and poten-
tially lives.
The renewed push for trans-
parency followed a Washington
Post investigation last week
that revealed 25 of the largest
police and sheriff ’s depart-
ments spent more than $3.2 bil-
lion to resolve claims of police
misconduct over the past 10
years. The Post’s investigation
also found that more than
$1.5 billion had been spent to
settle claims against officers
who had been named in more
than one paid claim. Those
payments — and the officers
involved — are rarely tracked by
police departments or city offi-
cials who approve such taxpay-
er-financed settlements.
The lawmakers hope the Sen-
ate and House will pass their act,
which would require such pay-
ments involving police officers to
be recorded and made public at
all levels of government.
“Police misconduct causes sig-
nificant harm and puts lives at
risk, but settlements for miscon-
duct are often shrouded in secre-
cy,” Kaine told The Post in an
interview Friday. “Law enforce-
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already-trafficked children out of
this trafficking situation. This is a
system that remains broken,” she
said.
In January, a staff member at
the Refuge Ranch contacted the
Texas Department of Family and
Protective Services (DFPS) to re-
port that two children had been
abused by an employee who had
since left. The staff member said
the employee sold nude photos of
the two children and used the
proceeds to purchase illegal drugs
and alcohol, which were given to
the children, according to a state-
ment DFPS filed with the court.
Over the six weeks that fol-
lowed, at least seven additional
reports of human trafficking were
made against the former em-
ployee, the statement read.
An official said local law en-
forcement and the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety were alerted
to the allegations and a DFPS
investigator was assigned to the
case. An investigation revealed
that several other employees who
were still working with the chil-
dren also appeared to be involved,
according to the statement.
Steven Phenix, a spokesperson
for the Refuge for DMST (domes-
tic minor sex trafficking), a non-
profit organization that opened
the Refuge Ranch in 2018, said in
ment agencies often settle mis-
conduct claims out of the public
eye, burying controversies and
making full accountability im-
possible.”
The Post’s investigation, Kaine
said, made “clear that policymak-
ers need this data, and our Cost
of Police Misconduct Act would
make sure they get it. We need
full transparency so that officers
can be held accountable.”
Also in response to the article,
Michael G. Tobin, executive di-
rector of the Office of Police
Complaints, wrote D.C. Police
Chief Robert J. Contee III to
renew a push for the department
to establish a program to “sys-
tematically review” lawsuits filed
against the department and its
officers. Tobin shared a copy of
the letter with The Post.
In the letter, he also told
Contee that the department
should publicly publish reports
regarding the lawsuits and any
intervention, training or policy
changes that resulted from the
litigation.
The Post’s investigation found
65 officers in the District were
named in multiple claims be-
tween 2010 and 2020, account-
ing for $7.6 million of the more
than $90 million in payments —
the fifth-highest overall of the 25
cities surveyed.
“I have been concerned about
this for many years,” Tobin said
in an interview, adding that he
first requested the measures in
2019, but the department did not
implement his recommenda-
tions. Contee was appointed
chief in 2021.
Tobin said that if cities such as
D.C. were more aggressive in
addressing the allegations that
lead to such payments through
retraining, reassigning, disci-
plining and even dismissing offi-
cers involved, there would be
fewer patterns of misconduct —
and fewer payments.
A spokesman for the D.C. po-
lice declined to comment on
Tobin’s letter, instead saying the
department would respond to
Tobin directly.
Nationally, such police trans-
parency measures face steep
challenges.
Beyer said he hoped to have
his bill up for a vote in the House
by the end of July.
But the majority of Republi-
can senators have balked at po-
lice revision measures. Kaine
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a phone interview with The Wash-
ington Post on Friday that not all
of the nine accused staff members
took part in the alleged sex traf-
ficking. He said that there was at
least one other incident, which
involved a runaway child, and
that the details of the investiga-
tions have been getting conflated.
He said the sex-trafficking alle-
gation stems from an incident in
December in which an employee
had allegedly coerced two resi-
dents into creating commercial
sexual exploitation material. He
said the employee was fired and
management immediately con-
tacted the Bastrop County Sher-
iff’s Office and the DFPS.
“Our hearts are broken and we
are outraged by the actions of
former employees whose intent
was to harm, not help,” Brooke
Crowder, founder and executive
director of the Refuge for DMST,
said in a statement to The Post.
“While we are limited in what we
can say in order to protect the
confidentiality of the girls, I know
that the truth will prevail. We are
looking forward to a positive reso-
lution from these investigations,
and we are confident that we will
be providing child survivors of sex
trafficking with excellent care for
years to come.”
Despite the repeated reports of
said he hoped Republicans
would focus on the financial
liability of alleged police miscon-
duct and agree on creating mea-
sures that track officers involved
in repeated claims that ultimate-
ly affect “taxpayers’ pockets,” he
said.
“Every mayor and governor
could be able to see the patterns,
and why are there spikes in
payments,” Kaine said in an in-
terview. “If there is a drop in
payments, then great job, chief.
If you see what the patterns are,
you can reward good behavior.
And if there was bad behavior,
then you can take measures to
address it.”
In The Post’s investigation,
Jim Pasco, executive director of
the National Fraternal Order of
Police, said he opposed linking
such information to an officer in
public or using it as a form of
performance review, especially
since in the majority of such
payments, officers do not admit
wrongdoing nor is there a find-
ing by a court. “If there’s never
been a finding of guilt or any-
one’s fault, why put that in an
officer’s record?” Pasco told The
Post. “That would be such a
glaring omission of due process
where in the legal system in the
United States, a person is inno-
cent until proven guilty.”
“Settlements for
misconduct are often
shrouded in secrecy.”
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), on payments
for misconduct claims against officers
The authors of the bill said one
of the elements — if sought by
lawmakers as a condition of their
vote — could be that only officers
who were the subject of multiple
payments or payments of more
than an identified minimum
would be made public. Identify-
ing and measuring such pay-
ments is a way, the bill’s authors
said, to reduce them.
“It’s basically physics that you
can’t manage what you don’t
measure,” Beyer said. “Once you
measure something, then you
can change people’s behavior.”
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alleged child abuse, it appears the
allegations were not reported to
the court or the governor-ap-
pointment DFPS commissioner
until this week.
DFPS Commissioner Jaime
Masters told the court that she
was not informed of the situation
until Wednesday, the Express-
News reported.
“What is the chain of command
that you would not know that
these children are being sex-traf-
ficked and that it was reported
through your hotline as of Jan.
24?” Jack asked her Thursday,
according to the newspaper.
“What is your chain of command
that you would not know until
yesterday?”
“There is no excuse for why I
didn’t know, which is why several
people are losing their jobs,” Mas-
ters said.
Rich Richman, DFPS associate
commissioner for child-protec-
tive investigation, told the court
that the state did not immediately
remove the children because in-
vestigators thought the responsi-
ble party had been fired, the Ex-
press-News reported.
Paul Yetter, an attorney who
represents foster-care children in
the larger class-action lawsuit
that Jack is presiding over, said
not all of the 11 children who lived
Feds urged to examine
tack by opioid makers to
deduct settlement costs
BY D OUGLAS M AC M ILLAN
Congress is calling on federal
officials to review the plans of
four large drug companies to
deduct the cost of a landmark
opioid settlement from their tax-
es, after its year-long investiga-
tion into corporate disclosures
first revealed in an analysis by
The Washington Post.
On Thursday, the House Com-
mittee on Oversight and Reform
sent a letter asking the Justice
Department and the Treasury
Department to examine planned
deductions from Johnson &
Johnson, McKesson, Cardinal
Health and AmerisourceBergen.
The four firms are seeking tax
breaks that would help offset the
cost of a $26 billion legal settle-
ment finalized last month, to
bring funds to communities hurt
by the opioid epidemic.
“The committee’s investiga-
tion shows that four companies
that contributed to an opioid
crisis that has killed half a mil-
lion Americans and continues to
claim tens of thousands of lives
every year may now be attempt-
ing to put taxpayers on the hook
for billions of dollars in settle-
ment costs,” the members said in
the letter. “This would be an
outrageous tax benefit to line the
pockets of bad corporate actors.”
McKesson said in regulatory
filings that it plans to claim a
$1.4 billion tax benefit, while
AmerisourceBergen plans to
claim $1.1 billion, and Johnson &
Johnson plans to claim $1.1 bil-
lion. Cardinal Health has filed
for a $974 million tax refund but
cautioned in a recent filing “it is
possible that the tax authorities
could challenge these tax ben-
efits.”
In an email, Jake Sargent, a
Johnson & Johnson spokesman,
acknowledged that the opioid
crisis is “a public health issue
that requires a public health
response,” he said. “Our nation-
wide settlement with a majority
of U.S. states and territories will
directly support state and local
efforts to make meaningful prog-
ress in addressing the opioid
crisis.”
Cardinal Health spokesman
Erich Timmerman said in an
email the company has been
forthright about its approach to
tax obligations related to opi-
oids, which he said is permissible
under federal law. Spokespeople
for McKesson and Amerisource-
Bergen declined to comment.
Nicole Navas Oxman, a Justice
Department spokeswoman, con-
firmed that the agency “has re-
ceived the letter and will review
it.” Alexandra LaManna, a Treas-
ury Department spokeswoman,
declined to comment.
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at the Refuge Ranch had been
removed from the foster-care fa-
cility until Wednesday.
“This is a tragic and shameful
situation,” he told The Post. “Even
worse than what’s happening to
these girls is the fact that the state
took six weeks to report it to the
court. Beyond that, the state kept
these girls in the same facility for
six weeks before they finally
moved them out. Who knows
what sort of additional abuse hap-
pened during that time?”
In a statement on Thursday,
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) called the
reports of child sex trafficking
“abhorrent.”
“Child abuse of any kind won’t
be tolerated in the state of Texas,
and we are committed to ensur-
ing these despicable perpetrators
are brought to justice and pun-
ished to the fullest extent of the
law. No child should ever suffer
the atrocities of trafficking,” he
said in the statement.
Abbott said that he has ordered
the Texas Rangers to immediately
investigate “these horrific
crimes,” and that he directed
them to arrest and pursue crimi-
nal charges against anyone who
helped perpetrate abuse.
The 50-acre Refuge Range
states on its website that it is “a
long-term, residential, therapeu-
Four drug companies have planned tax deductions to offset the cost
of the $26 billion settlement to bring funds to those hurt by opioids.
There is uncertainty in the law
about these types of tax breaks,
said Matthew Gardner, a senior
fellow at the nonprofit Institute
on Taxation and Economic Pol-
icy. Though recent changes to the
tax code have attempted to close
loopholes that permit companies
to deduct legal settlements or
governmental fines from taxes
when they have committed
wrongdoing, many firms push to
make sure their settlements in-
clude a “restitution” payment for
victims, a measure that often
qualifies them for deductions,
Gardner said.
All four firms agreed to pay
“compensatory restitution” pay-
ments to the victims of the
opioid crisis but disavowed any
legal liability or wrongdoing,
according to the language in
their final settlement agree-
ments. The companies said they
produced government-approved
prescription pills, distributed
them to registered pharmacies
and took steps to try to prevent
their misuse.
In their letter, House members
questioned the legality of the
deductions. Damages paid to
government entities as the result
of a government investigation
into a potential violation of law
are generally not eligible for
deduction, the lawmakers said,
citing the U.S. tax code. The
lawsuits brought by thousands of
states, localities and tribes al-
leged that drugmakers engaged
in false and misleading market-
ing about the dangers of their
products and that drug distribu-
tors failed to report the misuse of
their products to authorities.
“If the $26 billion settlement
at issue is related to violations of
federal, state, or local law, then
these companies should not be
allowed to shift the financial
burden of the damage they have
caused to American taxpayers,”
committee members said in the
letter.
The lawmakers expressed par-
ticular concern over Cardinal
Health’s “highly questionable”
plan to use a tax provision Con-
gress included in last year’s
Cares Act relief package, intend-
. TUESDAY, MARCH 15 , 2022
tic community for girls, ages 14
through 19, who have been recov-
ered from sex traffickers.” The
live-in rehabilitation facility
states that it provides the girls
with “trauma-informed, holistic
care,” including education, medi-
cal care and mental health ser-
vices, with help from community
partners.
The accused employees have
not been publicly identified, and
many of the details surrounding
their alleged roles in the incidents
are unclear, but the statement
from the state’s child protective
services said many of the accused
employees were related to one
another by blood or marriage, or
were cohabiting.
Yetter, the attorney who repre-
sents the children, said this is not
an isolated issue.
“The state of Texas’s child wel-
fare system has been broken for
30 years, and it remains broken,”
he said.
Yetter noted that the state’s
foster-care system is now under a
federal monitoring order, “but
there is a long way to go before it
becomes safe.”
“Until the state officials get
serious about protecting these
children — which is their duty —
it’s going to put children at risk
every day,” he said.
JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
ed to help companies struggling
during the pandemic. Cardinal
Health, which agreed to pay
$6 billion in the final settlement,
has said it plans to use the Cares
Act tax provision to increase the
size of its opioid settlement tax
benefit by $420 million, filings
show.
Early on during the coronavi-
rus pandemic, Congress expand-
ed the ability for companies to
receive tax refunds on losses to
quickly get cash to businesses
facing economic peril.
Because there were few re-
strictions, billions of dollars in
tax breaks have gone to compa-
nies that laid off thousands of
workers and firms largely unaf-
fected by the pandemic. There is
little evidence the tax relief has
trickled down into the pockets of
struggling families.
Cardinal Health, a company
with a $15 billion market capital-
ization, grew its revenue in each
of the past two years, according
to regulatory filings. It has over
$3 billion in cash available.
In response to a question from
Congress about whether its tax
deduction was consistent with
the “intent” of the Cares Act,
Jessica Mayer, chief legal and
compliance officer for Cardinal,
pointed out that the law says
nothing about tax breaks being
available only to companies in
poor financial condition.
“Neither the text of the Cares
Act nor the legislative history or
IRS rulings would prohibit the
application of the Cares Act pro-
visions to facts such as ours,”
Mayer said in Cardinal’s re-
sponse letter last year.
As part of its investigation last
year, the House committee asked
drug companies to provide “a
complete list of current and
former employees who have
been disciplined” for their roles
in opioid sales and compliance
programs. In response, “none of
the companies identified mean-
ingful discipline taken against
their executives,” the members
said in their letter this week.
Meryl Kornfield and Kevin Schaul
contributed to this report.
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U.K.’s top court won’t hear Assange’s extradition appeal

WikiLeaks founder
faces espionage charges
in the United States
BY R ACHEL W EINER
Britain’s highest court refused
Monday to hear an appeal from
Julian Assange to block his extra-
dition to the United States on espi-
onage charges, saying his petition
“does not raise an arguable point
of law.”
The founder of WikiLeaks can
still appeal in various ways, but
the ruling shuts down the avenue
where he had found the most sup-
port from British courts in trying
to stay out of American prison —
that he was at high risk of commit-
ting suicide in U.S. custody.
Barry Pollack, who represents
Assange in the United States,
called the Supreme Court decision
said Assange “will continue …
fighting his extradition to the
United States to face criminal
charges for publishing truthful
and newsworthy information.”
Assange has been in London’s
Belmarsh prison since April 2019,
after seven years evading arrest
inside the Ecuadoran Embassy. He
had been charged under seal in the
United States months earlier with
involvement in computer hack-
ing. That case was later broadened
to include espionage charges.
U.S. prosecutors allege that As-
sange helped hack into classified
information and published thou-
sands of pages of military records
and diplomatic cables about the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, put-
ting lives in danger.
Assange counters that he was
acting as a journalist and publish-
er in seeking out and disseminat-
ing information on controversial
U.S. activities abroad.
He fought extradition on the
grounds that his prosecution was
a U.S. prison would amount to
torture. British courts ultimately
ruled in favor of extradition, after
assurances from U.S. authorities
that he would be treated humane-
ly. As part of that litigation, the
United States said Assange might
be able to serve any prison sen-
tence in his native Australia.
Britain’s home secretary has to
rule on the extradition. Assange
can also appeal to the European
Court of Human Rights, which
guides British court decisions.
And he can revive other claims
denied in lower court — that the
prosecution is political, that it vio-
lates free-speech rights, that it
comes too long after the alleged
crime, and that American authori-
ties acted unlawfully.
“All the appeal proceedings
thus far have been about … one
point,” said Nick Vamos, former
head of extradition for the Crown
Prosecution Service. “Now … he
can … launch his appeal on all the
grounds he lost the first time MATT DUNHAM/ASSOCIATED PRESS

“extremely disappointing” and political and that incarceration in around.” Buildings are reflected in a vehicle window as Julian Assange is transported from court in 2019.

DIGEST

IDAHO
Legislature approves
abortion-ban bill
The Idaho House on Monday
approved a Republican bill that
would ban abortions after six
weeks of pregnancy, becoming
the first state to copy parts of the
restrictive Texas law that has
banned most abortions in that
state.
The vote was 51 to 14.
The state Senate approved the
bill earlier this month. The
measure heads to Gov. Brad Little
(R), who has supported similar
abortion bans but has not
commented on this particular
bill, which includes exceptions for
rape, incest and medical
emergencies.
Idaho’s current law allows for
abortions until a fetus is viable
outside the womb, around 22 to
24 weeks. Another six-week
abortion ban in Idaho has been
stalled since it was passed and
signed by Little last spring,
requiring a favorable court ruling
on a similar law elsewhere in the
country before it can go into
effect.
If signed by the governor, the
new version of Idaho’s abortion
ban could take effect as early as
April, several months before the
Supreme Court is expected to rule
on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion
ban in a case that could overturn
or significantly weaken Roe v.
Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling
that guaranteed the right to
abortion.
While they wait for the
Supreme Court ruling,
Republican lawmakers in at least
12 states have introduced bills
modeled after the Texas ban,
which employs a highly unusual
legal strategy: empowering
private citizens to sue anyone
who helps facilitate an abortion
after the legal limit.
While Idaho lawmakers
embraced the novel enforcement
strategy behind the Texas law,
they also made significant
changes to the legislation. The
Idaho version narrows the list of
people who can sue and be sued.
Unlike Senate Bill 8 in Texas,
which allows lawsuits against
as opposed to any private citizen
anywhere in the United States, as
is the case with the Texas law.
The Idaho bill would offer at
least $20,000 to anyone who sued
successfully.
— Caroline Kitchener
MISSISSIPPI
Governor signs law
limiting race in lessons
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves
signed a bill Monday to limit how
race can be discussed in
classrooms, and it became law
KEITH RIDLER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
immediately.
The Idaho House of Representatives votes to approve a bill that would “Contrary to what some critics
ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allow family members may claim, this bill in no way, in
of the fetus to sue a doctor who performs one. The bill now heads to no shape and in no form prohibits
Republican Gov. Brad Little’s desk. the teaching of history,” Reeves
(R) said in a video posted on
social media. “Any claim that this
bill will somehow stop
anyone who helps facilitate an They could be sued up to four Mississippi kids from learning
abortion, from the receptionist years after the abortion. about American history is just
who schedules the procedure to The Idaho legislation could be flat-out wrong.”
the Uber driver who takes a enforced only by family members, The short title of Senate Bill
patient to their appointment, the including the father of the fetus, 2113 says it would prohibit
Idaho law would permit lawsuits and the fetus’s siblings, “critical race theory.” But the
only against abortion providers. grandparents, aunts and uncles, main text of the legislation does
not mention or define the theory,
and many supporters of the bill
have said they cannot define it.
The new law says no school,
community college or university
can teach that any “sex, race,
ethnicity, religion or national origin
is inherently superior or inferior.”
The ACLU of Mississippi said
in a statement that laws opposing
critical race theory “are thinly
veiled attempts to silence
discussions of race and gender”
among students and educators.
The Republican-controlled
House voted 75 to 43 to pass the
bill March 3 after a six-hour
debate in which several Black
lawmakers gave impassioned
speeches in opposition. They said
the legislation could squelch
honest discussion about the
harmful effects of racism because
parents could complain if history
lessons make White children
uncomfortable.
When the bill passed the
Republican-controlled Senate in
January, all of the Black senators
withheld their votes and walked
out in protest.
— Associated Press

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Manchin says he’ll oppose Biden Fed nominee Raskin

Democrat’s decision
appears to doom her
chances at confirmation
BY R ACHEL S IEGEL
Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomina-
tion to the Federal Reserve Board
appeared all but doomed on
Monday after Sen. Joe Manchin
III, a key Democratic vote, said
he opposed her because of her
stance on energy in an era of
inflation.
“I have carefully reviewed Sar-
ah Bloom Raskin’s qualifications
and previous public statements,”
Manchin, of West Virginia, said
in a statement Monday. “Her
previous public statements have
failed to satisfactorily address
my concerns about the critical
importance of financing an all-
of-the-above energy policy to
meet our nation’s critical energy
needs. I have come to the conclu-
sion that I am unable to support
her nomination to serve as a
member of the Federal Reserve
Board.”
Raskin’s nomination to the job
of vice chair for supervision —
the Fed’s top banking regulator
— was already under pressure,
with Republicans initially oppos-
ing her candidacy over her focus
on climate change and its threat
to financial stability.
In recent weeks, her confirma-
tion has hung in the balance after
Republicans on the Senate Bank-
ing Committee boycotted her
confirmation vote, pointing to
her time on the board of a
Colorado payments firm that got
access to a Fed payments systems
during her tenure on the compa-
ny’s board. The boycott has held
up not only her path forward but
also votes on President Biden’s
other picks for the Fed.
The White House and Demo-
crats on the Banking Committee
have stood up for Raskin, saying
Republicans’ fixation on this part
of her record is a ploy to stall her
nomination indefinitely. But af-
ter losing Manchin’s support, she
faces a fraught, if not impossible,
path to confirmation in a tightly
divided Senate.
In a statement, White House
spokesman Chris Meagher noted
Sarah Bloom Raskin is sworn in before her Senate confirmation hearing in early February. President Biden’s pick for the Fed board’s vice
chair for supervision — the central bank’s top banking regulator — drew GOP ire from the start because of her focus on climate change.
that Raskin won bipartisan sup-
port for her roles at the Fed and
“Her previous public the Treasury Department.
“She has earned widespread
statements have failed support in the face of an unprec-
edented, baseless campaign led
to satisfactorily address by oil and gas companies that
sought to tarnish her distin-
my concerns about the guished career,” Meagher said.
“We are working to line up the
critical importance of bipartisan support that she de-
serves, so that she can be con-
financing an all-of-the- firmed by the Senate for this
important position.”
above energy policy to White House press secretary
Jen Psaki on Monday said Man-
meet our nation’s chin let the White House know
about his opposition to Raskin
critical energy needs.” before making his public an-
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) nouncement.
Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.)
and other GOP lawmakers have
attacked her view that the Fed
should do more to mitigate the
BILL CLARK/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
financial risks of climate change,
including by potentially chang-
ing the way it regulates energy
producers. Manchin — who rep-
resents West Virginia and its
high concentration of energy
jobs — is adding his high-profile
voice to those warning the Fed
against tackling climate issues.
In her writing and public re-
marks, Raskin has highlighted
the economic and financial sta-
bility risks tied to climate
change. In a column published in
September, she wrote that “fi-
nancial regulators must reimag-
ine their own role so that they
can play their part in the broader
reimagining of the economy.”
Raskin’s supporters want to
see the Fed thoroughly evaluate
how more intense and frequent
climate disasters, from wildfires
to hurricanes, could harm the
health of banks or ricochet
through the financial system.
They are also hoping the Fed will
move toward encouraging banks
to reduce their exposures to cli-
mate risks.
Democrats hoped Raskin
would bring expertise to climate
policy issues. But they also note
that Raskin’s views are not out of
step with Fed Chair Jerome H.
Powell or others — often just
more specific and with a greater
sense of urgency.
Now, with Raskin’s nomina-
tion compromised, Democrats
and the White House will have to
weigh whether to select a new
candidate or try to confirm
Biden’s other picks. The Republi-
can boycott has kept Powell from
being renominated and Fed gov-
ernor Lael Brainard from being
elevated to vice chair. Biden’s
nominees for two seats on the
Fed board — economists Lisa
Cook and Philip Jefferson — also
have yet to be confirmed.
Republicans on the Banking
Committee, led by Toomey, have
said they would readily vote on
Powell’s renomination and the
other nominees. That leaves
Democrats to decide whether to
siphon off Raskin’s nomination
and move forward with the rest
of the slate.
Speaking Monday on Bloom-
berg TV as the news of Manchin’s
opposition broke, Toomey said
he was “not aware of any Repub-
lican support” for Raskin.
GOP attention on Raskin
ratcheted up after her confirma-
tion hearing, when she was ques-
tioned by Sen. Cynthia M. Lum-
mis (R-Wyo.) about her time on
the board of a Colorado pay-
ments firm, Reserve Trust.
Raskin joined the Reserve Trust
board after previously serving as
a Fed governor from 2010 to
2014.
In 2017, the Kansas City Fed
denied the Colorado firm access
to what’s known as a Fed master
account, which gives banks di-
rect access to the Fed’s payment
systems. But Reserve Trust was
then granted access a year later.
During the confirmation hear-
ing, Lummis asked Raskin
whether she used personal con-
tacts from her regulatory back-
ground to help Reserve Trust
secure its account.
Raskin repeatedly denied any
impropriety during the hearing.
The Kansas City Fed has since
issued a letter outlining its deci-
sion to grant Reserve Trust an
account, saying that before 2018,
Reserve Trust did not meet the
proper requirements to be grant-
ed access to an account. Yet even
that response added further con-
troversy, with the Colorado Divi-
sion of Banking disputing the
Kansas City’s Fed characteriza-
tion of how the application got
approved.
Raskin previously served as
deputy secretary of President
Barack Obama’s Treasury De-
partment from 2014 to 2017. She
is also a distinguished fellow of
Duke Law School’s Global Finan-
cial Markets Center.
Mike DeBonis contributed to this
report.

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U.S.: Chinese aid to Russia would have ‘consequences’
CHINA FROM A1
Congress on Wednesday, an event
likely to carry deep emotional
resonance.
Biden officials declined to dis-
close any specific warnings Sulli-
van may have conveyed to the
Chinese about offering assistance
to Russia, but the senior adminis-
tration official said that the Unit-
ed States has “deep concerns
about China’s alignment with
Russia at this time” and that Sulli-
van was “direct” with the Chinese
about “the potential implications
and consequences of certain ac-
tions.” The official spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
sensitive matters during a phone
call with reporters.
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said Monday that the
consequences for China would be
“significant,” and speaking on
several Sunday shows the day
prior, Sullivan offered a similar
refrain, telling CNN’s “State of the
Union” that “we have communi-
cated to Beijing that we will not
stand by and allow any country to
compensate Russia for its losses
from the economic sanctions.”
On the phone call with report-
ers, the senior administration of-
ficial refused to say whether the
administration thinks China has
already provided military or fi-
nancial assistance to Russia.
In a statement issued after the
meeting, Chinese officials said
Yang had made it clear that Bei-
jing is not pleased with the Rus-
sia-Ukraine conflict.
“Yang Jiechi pointed out that
the situation today in Ukraine has
reached a stage that the Chinese
side does not want to see,” the
statement said. “China has always
advocated respecting the sover-
eignty and territorial integrity of
all countries and abiding by the
purposes and principles of the
UN Charter.”
Still, the statement did not con-
demn Russia, which unilaterally
launched the invasion, saying
that “the reasonable concerns of
all parties should be responded
to.”
Earlier, Zhao Lijian, a spokes-
person for the Chinese govern-
ment, denied the reports that
Russia has asked China for mili-
tary and economic assistance,
calling them “false information”
that is “neither responsible nor
ethical” and adding, “Recently,
the U.S. has been spreading false
information against China on the
Ukraine issue, with sinister inten-
tions.”
At Monday’s session, Sullivan
and Yang also discussed North
Korea, as well as the importance
of keeping lines of communica-
tion between their two nations
open, officials said.
Asked about Biden’s possible
European trip — first reported by
NBC News — Psaki said the ad-
ministration has made no final
decision but signaled that any
such visit would involve shoring
up NATO and other Western
countries.
“We are, of course, closely en-
gaged with our NATO partners
and European allies … about the
next steps in diplomacy — wheth-
er that’s providing additional hu-
manitarian or security assistance
or the mechanics for future con-
versations,” Psaki said.
Monday’s discussions — an
outgrowth of Biden’s Nov. 15 vir-
tual meeting with Chinese Presi-
dent Xi Jinping — took place at
Rome’s Waldorf Astoria, a hotel
isolated from the city and favored
by politicians and officials visit-
ing from Washington. Journalists
were not permitted to enter.
In the months before Russia’s
invasion, Beijing and Moscow
were drawing closer, forming a
nascent alliance as Biden sought
to bring together the world’s de-
mocracies in a coalition against
authoritarianism. But the inva-
sion’s messiness and lethality
have put China in a sensitive
position, given its emphasis on
stability and continuity.
Michele Geraci, a former Ital-
ian undersecretary of state who
lives part time in Shanghai, said
he saw little incentive for China to
support Russia in a direct way.
“For China, this war is a pain,”
Geraci said. “China needs to have
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Chinese officials leave the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Rome after meeting with U.S. officials, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, to discuss the war in Ukraine.
As intense fighting continued and Russian advances stalled, China denied reports that Russia had asked Beijing for military and economic assistance.
a stable world for them to contin-
ue to develop their own economy.
For them, this is a disruptive
event.”
Geraci added that the Chinese
officials he knows were hoping
Beijing could play a mediating
role between Russian President
Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Zel-
ensky. “In order to sit between
Putin and Zelensky, you need to
be neutral,” he said.
The Sullivan-Yang meeting
came as the Pentagon concluded
that Russia had attacked the In-
ternational Peacekeeping and Se-
curity Center, a Ukrainian mili-
tary facility about 12 miles from
the border with Poland, with
cruise missiles launched from
long-range bombers Sunday. Po-
land is a NATO country, and U.S.
troops had been deployed at the
Ukrainian facility as recently as
As of March 14, 3:00 p.m. EST
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Lviv
Ukraine reported that it halted
Russian attacks from
Kherson to the northwest, but
Russian forces have not
abandoned their effort to
encircle Mykolaiv.
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last month before the Pentagon
withdrew them as it became evi-
dent that Russia was about to
invade.
At least 35 people were killed
and 134 more were injured in the
attack, Ukrainian officials said.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby
said Monday that several struc-
tures at the training center were
hit. A senior U.S. defense official,
speaking on the condition of ano-
nymity under ground rules set by
the Pentagon, said that “more
than a couple dozen” missiles
were involved and that the bomb-
ers were in Russian airspace
when they launched.
Kirby said the Pentagon is not
looking at the missile salvo as an
effort to “go after” U.S. weapons
shipments to Ukraine, which
are entering under a cloak of
secrecy from neighboring Euro-
Russian-held areas
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pean countries. “I would just tell
you that we have multiple routes
to get security assistance into
the hands of the Ukrainians,”
Kirby said. “This was not one of
them.”
The senior defense official,
speaking at a separate briefing at
the Pentagon, said Russian ad-
vances on major cities remain
stalled on numerous fronts, forc-
ing the Russians to attack from a
distance with artillery, rockets
and other long-range weapons.
Those cities include the capital,
Kyiv; the northeastern city of
Kharkiv; and the port city of Mar-
iupol in the south.
“Clearly, they are increasing
the amount of long-range fires
they are applying to these cities,
these population centers that are
holding out,” the official said.
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and chaos continued to pile up. corridor.
Shells that appeared to be Rus- Russian and Ukrainian offi-
sian struck a nine-story residen- cials announced Monday that
tial building in Kyiv’s Obolon dis- they had agreed on 11 evacuation
trict at about 6 a.m., prompting routes out of Mariupol, with cor-
frightened civilians to flee the ridors opening at 10 a.m. each day.
building and firefighters to rush It was not clear if they were
to the scene. At least one person working effectively, or if Russia —
was killed, according to Red Cross which has dropped explosives on
volunteers at the scene. previously established humani-
In Mariupol, which has been tarian corridors — was honoring
isolated and besieged by Russian the agreement.
forces for days, more than 160 Among the dead in Mariupol
cars carrying civilians were able was a pregnant woman depicted
to leave the city. They departed in an Associated Press photo-
along a previously established graph after a maternity hospital
humanitarian corridor and were there was hit with a bomb last
heading north to the city of week. The AP reported Monday
Zaporizhzhia, on the Dnieper Riv- that she and her unborn child had
er, the Mariupol City Council said died in the aftermath, as the
in a statement. The council’s mes- mother suffered from a crushed
sage, posted Monday afternoon, pelvis and detached hip.
said a cease-fire was being ob- A convoy of trucks packed with
served along the humanitarian food and medicine bound for
Mariupol was again turned away
by fierce fighting Monday, in the
Active nuclear latest setback to providing help to
power plants with trapped residents.
power-generating The convoy, which also could
capabilities offer residents a chance to get out,
remains stalled about 50 miles
southeast of Mariupol, near
Berdyansk, the Mariupol City
Council said in its statement. The
vehicles were originally expected
to arrive Sunday afternoon, but
Russian forces continued to
thwart them and violate a cease-
fire agreement, the city official
As the violence continued,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.) and Senate Majority Lead-
er Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
announced in a letter to their
colleagues that Zelensky would
deliver a virtual address to mem-
bers of Congress on Wednesday
morning. Zelensky has ad-
dressed other national legisla-
Separatist- tures, generally to raucous ap-
controlled plause.
area “The Congress remains unwav-
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Pelosi and Schumer said in the
letter.
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Fahim, Jennifer Hassan, Ellen
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Israel tries to rebuff Russian oligarchs fleeing sanctions

BY S HIRA R UBIN
tel aviv — As the West squeezes
Russia’s economy over its war in
Ukraine, Israel says it is working
to prevent Moscow’s oligarchs,
some of whom also hold Israeli
passports, from showing up and
turning the country into a haven
for sanctions evasion.
The most visible among them is
Roman Abramovich, the owner
and former director of the Chelsea
Football Club, who has Israeli citi-
zenship and was put under sanc-
tions by Britain last week. His
private jet landed at Israel’s Ben
Gurion Airport on Sunday night,
according to Israeli media.
In the weeks since the invasion
of Ukraine began, the Israeli For-
eign Ministry formed a task force
to investigate the influence some
Russian business executives, in-
cluding those with alleged ties to
the Kremlin, have in Israel. For-
eign Minister Yair Lapid also
warned his fellow cabinet mem-
bers last month against granting
the oligarchs favors, saying such a
move would cause diplomatic
damage, according to an official
present at the meeting, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity be-
cause of the sensitivity of the topic.
“Israel will not be a route to
bypass sanctions imposed on Rus-
sia by the United States and other
Western countries,” Lapid said
during a visit to Slovakia on Mon-
day.
Israel’s Channel 12 News re-
ported last week that the govern-
ment plans to limit the amount of
time private planes and yachts are
allowed to stay at Israeli airports
and docks to just 48 hours. The
move comes as a flurry of rented
private jets departing Russian cit-
ies and bound for Tel Aviv raised
speculation that Moscow’s well-
heeled elite are fleeing for Medi-
terranean shores.
At least 14 rented private planes
have departed from Moscow and
landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Air-
port in the past 12 days, Channel 12
News reported Friday. Western
nations, including Britain, the
United States and European
Union, have all imposed sanctions
on some of Russia’s most promi-
nent business executives.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in October in Sochi, Russia,
where the two leaders discussed Ukraine. Israel has recently pledged support for Kyiv, while avoiding direct criticism of Putin.
“Some of them have arrived, not
with their own planes, and are
staying at the houses of their
“It looks sometimes like spouses, their friends,” Elise Brez-
is, director of the Azrieli Center for
they try to use charity Economic Policy at Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity in central Israel, said of the
money to get influence Russian oligarchs landing in the
country. Last week, she led what
here and abroad.” she said was a tense meeting with
Leonid Nevzlin, Russian Israeli representatives from Israel’s Fi-
billionaire who is critical of Russian nance Ministry, the Bank of Israel
President Vladimir Putin and business and other government offices and
executives in his orbit financial institutions over how to
handle the presence of Russian
oligarchs in Israel.
A number of wealthy Russian
Jews applied for Israeli citizen-
ship after Russia annexed Crimea
from Ukraine in 2014, in part to
evade resulting U.S. sanctions. In
Israel, they benefited from a law
YEVGENY BIYATOV/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
exempting new immigrants from ruary, as Russian troops en-
declaring or paying taxes on their croached on Ukraine’s borders,
income for 10 years. The law was Abramovich made a donation that
used as a loophole for internation- was in the “eight figures” to Yad
al money laundering and trans- Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust
formed seaside cities such as Tel memorial and museum, accord-
Aviv, Caesarea and Herzliya into ing to the organization’s chair-
playgrounds for the ultrarich. man, Dani Dayan.
These business executives — Leonid Nevzlin, a Russian Is-
including Abramovich and bil- raeli billionaire who is critical of
lionaire banker Mikhail Fridman Russian President Vladimir Putin
— not only have Israeli passports, and the business executives in his
but also often own luxury villas orbit, said Abramovich and others
and maintain political ties and became “Jewish philanthropists,
status as high-level donors and let’s say not from the bottom of
investors in the Israeli economy. their heart, but for protection
Abramovich, who was placed worldwide.”
last week on a U.K. government “It looks sometimes like they
sanctions list, acquired Israeli citi- try to use charity money to get
zenship in 2018 and became one of influence here and abroad,” he
the largest donors to Israeli and said from his office in Herzliya, in
Jewish organizations. In late Feb- the same neighborhood where, in
2020, Abramovich bought Israel’s
most expensive home for $70 mil-
lion.
Brezis said officials last week
agreed that, on the question of
oligarchs, Israel will officially “say
nothing, because our situation is
not simple.”
Israel is walking a diplomatic
tightrope on Ukraine: It has
pledged support for Kyiv, while
avoiding direct criticism of Putin.
Russia has a large military pres-
ence in Syria on Israel’s northern
border, and for years, Putin has
unofficially allowed Israel to carry
out attacks on targets it says are
involved in the transfer of weap-
ons to the Lebanese militant
group Hezbollah.
But without official directives
from the Bank of Israel on how to
navigate the sanctions, individual
Israeli financial institutions have
had to scramble to formulate their
own policies, said an Israeli fi-
nance official, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
a sensitive subject.
Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel’s
largest banks, said on its website
only that “in light of the sanctions
. . . there may be disruptions in
money transfers to and from Rus-
sia and Ukraine.”
“Because Israel has not joined
the sanctions, there is an unclear
status for sanctioned oligarchs in
Israel, which means that Israel
could be in trouble in terms of
international law,” said Zvi Ma-
gen, who served as Israeli ambas-
sador to both Russia and Ukraine
in the 1990s.
In an interview with Channel 12
News on Friday, Victoria Nuland,
the U.S. undersecretary of state for
political affairs, warned that Israel
did not want “to become the last
haven for dirty money that’s fuel-
ing Putin’s wars.”
Roman Bronfman, a former
member of Israel’s parliament,
said that as Russia’s war in
Ukraine begins to claim more
lives, Israel will be forced to take a
stronger stance against Putin and
his alleged cronies, who have for
decades been bringing their “dark
market” money into the country.
“Israel is realizing that the time
is now for these oligarchs to pay
for their crimes,” he said.

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Kyiv residents fear avalanche of destruction and casualties
KYIV FROM A1
attack had been serving as a
barricade, dragged into the street
to slow traffic.
The strike came only a few
hours after apparent Russian
shells struck a nine-story residen-
tial building in Kyiv’s Obolon
district about 6 a.m. Residents
fled the badly damaged building
as firefighters tried to extinguish
the flames and rescue those
trapped inside. At least one per-
son was killed in that incident as
well, according to Red Cross vol-
unteers at the scene.
The two attacks left residents
in Kyiv on edge, with fears mount-
ing that if Russian forces contin-
ue to close in on the capital, it
could soon face immense damage
and high civilian casualties, com-
parable to what has unfolded in
the besieged cities of Kharkiv and
Mariupol.
By midmorning, the second
building was no longer on fire,
but the damage had rendered
much of it unlivable. One area
was badly burned. Most of the
windows were shattered, expos-
ing the apartments’ interiors to
winter weather.
The broken windows offered
views into lives that until Monday
morning had been peaceful.
Through one, a tapestry hanging
on a wall fluttered in the wind.
Through another, shelves of cas-
sette tapes appeared untouched.
On one damaged balcony with
a small Ukrainian flag planted on
the ledge, several residents stood
solemnly looking at the journal-
ists gathered below.
Emergency workers helped
evacuate residents and pets. One
family clutched a pet turtle as
they left the scene. Others went in
and out of the destroyed building,
carrying plastic bags of clothes
and other belongings to their
cars.
The strikes sparked fears over
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what could come next for the city.
Kyiv has come under bombard-
ment but so far has been spared
the worst of the fighting seen
elsewhere in northern and east-
ern Ukraine. Half of the city’s
4 million residents have fled, offi-
cials said. Those who have stayed
are bracing for a Russian offen-
sive to take the capital.
Ukrainian President Volod-
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Ukrainians. On Sunday, Zelensky
visited a Kyiv hospital to award
medals of honor to injured sol-
diers.
Russia has denied targeting
civilians in what it calls a “special
military operation,” despite evi-
dence of such attacks verified by
The Washington Post, among oth-
ers.
Tamara Tylchik, 64, who lives
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ings in Kurenivka that were badly
damaged, stood staring in disbe-
lief at the cordoned-off area on
Monday.
“It’s a beautiful residential
area,” she said. “I could never
imagine in my worst nightmare
that Russia would invade us.”
Volodymyr Borysovich, 54,
stood to the side, gazing at the
shattered balconies above.
His friends Serhiy and Natalia
and their daughter, Alina, who
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ing’s third floor. “Now they are
not picking up their phone,” he
said as he puffed anxiously on a
cigarette.
The casualties in Kyiv on Mon-
day added to the war’s devastat-
ing toll on civilians, who have
borne the brunt of Russian bom-
bardments, sieges and indiscrim-
inate violence since the Feb. 24
invasion.
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his kitchen when a blast shook his
house. “It was like a huge wave,”
he said.
An hour later, as his daughter
helped clean up the glass from his
destroyed windows, he stood out-
side surveying the damage. Even
with the glass blown out, he said,
he wouldn’t leave. “I’m not mov-
ing,” he said. “I want to stay here.”
But he pleaded for NATO to
close the sky over Ukraine to
prevent further airstrikes — a
request that Zelensky has made
repeatedly since the war began.
“If you would close the sky, we
wouldn’t experience this,” he said.
Western officials fear that en-
forcing a no-fly zone, which
would mean shooting down Rus-
sian planes, could turn into an
all-out conflict between nuclear
powers.
The United Nations has con-
firmed the deaths of more than
600 civilians thus far in Ukraine
— though the actual count, it
cautions, is probably much high-
er. Ukrainian officials say Russian
attacks have killed thousands of
people: Just in the port city of
Mariupol in southern Ukraine,
more than 1,500 people have died,
according to its mayor.
Kostiuk, who had volunteered
at the humanitarian organization
whose office was damaged Mon-
day, said she didn’t know why the
area was struck.
“There were checkpoints here,
and I guess our humanitarian
office is also a strategic object. It’s
hard to say,” she said.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko,
who came to survey the scene,
said in a video he posted that “this
is what Russia’s war against civil-
ians looks like: destroyed build-
ings, destroyed infrastructure.”
“Lives are getting lost,” he said.
“That’s the war that Russia start-
ed.”
Hassan reported from London and
Berger from Washington.
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Above it all, ISS partnership still a go Oligarch charged in U.S.

BY C HRISTIAN D AVENPORT shuttle program manager at NASA
campaign finance case
who chairs a NASA advisory
It’s going to be a busy few weeks board. BY D EVLIN B ARRETT
on the International Space Sta- “The old flight director in me
tion. says you ought to be prepared for The Justice Department un-
Tuesday morning, a pair of any contingency,” he said. “I rest sealed an indictment Monday
NASA astronauts are scheduled to assured that the right people are charging that a Russian oligarch
step outside the station for a thinking about the right things in schemed to make illegal campaign
spacewalk. Then next week, Rus- case unfortunate circumstances contributions to boost a planned
sia is flying three more cosmo- unfold. But I sure hope they don't.” marijuana business — a strange
nauts to the station. By the end of Asked whether NASA was pre- saga that previously led to a feder-
the month, NASA astronaut Mark paring for a dissolution of the al investigation of former New
Vande Hei and two Russian col- partnership, Montalbano did not York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
leagues are to fly back to earth on a provide a direct answer, saying Officials say Andrey Muraviev, PETER FOLEY/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Russian Soyuz spacecraft. And a
few hours later, a group of private
astronauts is scheduled to launch
on a SpaceX rocket for a week-long
visit to the station.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
has heightened tensions between
the United States and Russia to
levels not seen since the Cold War.
But that has not affected the coun-
tries’ partnership in space, which
has endured for more than two
decades — at least for now.
“All these activities have contin-
ued for 20 years, and nothing has
changed in the last three weeks,”
Joel Montalbano, NASA’s space
station program manager, said
Monday. “We’re aware of what’s
going on, but we are able to do our
jobs to continue operations.”
He dismissed any notion that
Vande Hei would not fly home
with his Russian colleagues as
scheduled. “I can tell you for sure
Mark is coming home on that
Soyuz,” he said. “We are in commu-
nication with our Russian col-
leagues. There’s no fuzz on that.”
The Russian and American seg-
ments of the station depend on
each other. The United States pro-
vides power to the Russian side;
Russia’s Progress vehicle uses its
thrusters to keep the station in the
correct orbit or to dodge debris.
While NASA’s Cygnus spacecraft
could also boost the station, it
would require the Russian thrust-
ers to keep it in the correct orienta-
tion, or attitude, Montalbano said.
“It’s a team. We work together,”
only that “at this time there’s no 47, tried to influence the 2018 U.S. Lev Parnas is one of Russian
indication from my Russian part- elections by plotting to send oligarch Andrey Muraviev’s
NASA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ners that they want to do anything $1 million to candidates and cam- alleged co-conspirators.
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei in 2017. Currently aboard the ISS, he’s different. So we are planning to paigns, hoping to win favor for the
set to return to Earth aboard a Russian spacecraft March 30. continue operations as we are to- unorthodox cannabis business In the indictment unsealed
day.” venture. Monday, authorities say that in
he said. “There’s not really an op- the deputy chair of Russia’s Secu- That includes getting Vande The crux of the allegations were early 2018, Muraviev, Fruman and
eration that you can just separate rity Council: “Please give it to a Hei home safely. Montalbano said known before his indictment was Parnas decided to launch a busi-
and go your own way, because of Russian mother whose son dies in there would be a team of about 20 made public because his alleged ness that would acquire licenses
the interdependency that was de- this unjust war.” on-site to take Vande Hei home co-conspirators, Lev Parnas, Igor to sell marijuana and set out to
signed from the beginning.” For now, Russia has committed after the Russian spacecraft lands Fruman, and Andrey Kukushkin, make political donations to fur-
Still, several NASA advisers to being a part of the ISS through in Kazakhstan on March 30. They were previously charged in the ther that goal. Muraviev’s money
have urged the agency to be think- 2024. NASA is planning to extend will fly him home on a NASA air- case. Fruman pleaded guilty; Par- was allegedly used to make dona-
ing about contingency plans that the life of the station to 2030. If plane. nas and Kukushkin were convict- tions in Florida, Nevada and Tex-
would be needed in a worst-case there were any kind of formal dis- Later that day, a group of pri- ed last year at trial. as. He also planned to pay for
scenario. Dmitry Rogozin, the solution of the partnership be- vate citizens, who have paid Parnas’s and Fruman’s ties to donations to politicians in New
head of Roscosmos, the Russian tween Russia and the United $55 million each, are to launch to Giuliani played prominently in York and New Jersey, according to
space agency, has said that since States, it would need to go before the space station on a mission President Donald Trump’s first the indictment.
Russia is responsible for boosting what is known as the Multilateral arranged by Axiom Space, a Hous- impeachment proceeding, in Muraviev is charged with con-
the station, it could force it to Coordination Board, the interna- ton-based company that is work- which Trump was accused of spiring to make contributions and
come crashing down. He has tional coalition that governs the ing to build a commercial space abusing his authority by threaten- donations by a foreign national
threatened to consider dissolving space station. station that could replace the ISS. ing to withhold $400 million in and in the name of another per-
the partnership, saying Russia “If the Russians want to leave, After that, NASA is preparing to military aid from Ukraine if offi- son, and making contributions by
would “closely monitor the ac- it’s going to be up to them,” said send up another crew of astro- cials there did not announce a a foreign national. He is believed
tions of our American partners Scott Pace, who is head of the nauts and bring another crew criminal investigation into candi- to be in Russia, a country with a
and, if they continue to be hostile, Space Policy Institute at George home in what amounts to an ex- date Joe Biden and his son Hunter. policy of not extraditing its citi-
we will return to the question of Washington University and traordinarily busy time on the sta- Giuliani, Trump’s former per- zens to face charges in the United
the existence of the International served as the executive secretary tion. And for now, everything is sonal attorney, had worked with States.
Space Station.” of the National Space Council in operating normally, despite the Parnas and Fruman to search for Prosecutors say Muraviev sent
And a state-run news agency the Trump administration. “I war on the ground. anything that would incriminate two $500,000 payments that were
published an animated video don’t see the partners or the MCB “The teams continue to work Biden in advance of the 2020 elec- meant to be infused into cam-
showing Russian cosmonauts kicking the Russians out. The Rus- together,” Montalbano said. “Are tion. paign coffers for people seeking
abandoning NASA astronauts in sians would have to decide on they aware of what’s going on on Giuliani has not been charged offices like governor and state at-
space. their own that they want to leave. Earth? Absolutely. But the teams in connection to the alleged cam- torney general, though Parnas
Scott Kelly, a former NASA as- And so far, they haven’t.” are professional. The astronauts paign finance scheme. But he is and Fruman allegedly used some
tronaut who spent nearly a year on Still, he said, NASA and the and cosmonauts are some of the the focus of a separate investiga- of the money to pay bills.
the space station with a Russian White House should be “thinking most professional groups you’ve tion by the U.S. attorney in Man- Evidence introduced at Par-
colleague, has been particularly about backups and alternatives,” ever seen. … And there’s really no hattan into his work in Ukraine nas’s trial showed one $10,000
vocal, calling out Rogozin on Twit- because the partnership is “not tensions with the team. This is and whether it violated any feder- donation in Fruman’s name went
ter. He also said he would return a invulnerable.” what they’ve been trained to do, al laws about working on behalf of to Adam Laxalt, the former attor-
Russian medal he received for his That was a view also expressed and they’re up there doing that foreign entities. Giuliani has de- ney general in Nevada, who lost a
spaceflight to Dmitry Medvedev, by Wayne Hale, a former space job.” nied any wrongdoing. race for Nevada governor in 2018.

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Mercenaries from Russia promote Putin’s goals in Africa
MALI FROM A1
in Washington. Eighteen are in
Africa.
“Wagner comes in, further de-
stabilizes the country, ravages
the mineral resources and makes
as much money as they can
before they choose to leave,” U.S.
Navy Rear Adm. Milton Sands,
head of Special Operations Com-
mand Africa, told The Washing-
ton Post. “The country is left
poorer, weaker and less secure.
Every time.”
This article is based on inter-
views with 13 local, regional and
Western officials who have re-
viewed intelligence, have access
to internal reports or have been
briefed on the details of Mali’s
security partnership with Russia.
Several spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss sensitive
matters and avoid retaliation.
Mali’s military junta has de-
nied hiring Wagner, saying it
works only with army instructors
from Russia, a “historic” partner.
Putin, however, made no men-
tion of a military agreement at a
February news conference.
When a reporter asked about
mercenaries in Mali, the Russian
leader acknowledged only “com-
mercial activities,” saying the
Kremlin has “nothing to do with
the companies working in Mali.”
“If Mali has opted to work with
our companies, it has the right to
do so,” Putin said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov echoed that sentiment in
an email to The Post. “We have
nothing to do with the activities
of private military companies
abroad,” he said. Peskov did not
respond to other questions about
Russia’s military presence in
Mali.
Officially, Wagner does not
exist as a single registered busi-
ness. Instead, analysts say, the
group operates as a nebulous
tangle of entities connected to
the Russian military and Yev-
geniy Prigozhin, an oligarch who
is wanted by the FBI on charges
related to interfering in the 2016
presidential election. Prigozhin
has denied ties to Wagner, and he
did not respond to a request for
comment.
The controversial backup
came after groups linked to al-
Qaeda and the Islamic State
upended life in the country of
A portrait of composer Richard Wagner, whose stoic face circulates in mercenary circles online, in Bamako, Mali, last month.
21 million over the last decade.
Thousands have died and mil-
lions have lost their homes as the
conflict sweeps through two-
thirds of Mali, which is double
the size of Texas, and spills into
neighbors.
France had sent the most
troops of any country into the
fight — backed by U.S. intelli-
gence and logistical support —
before announcing a total with-
drawal from Mali in February,
blaming soured relations and the
arrival of Wagner. The U.N. has
nearly 15,000 peacekeepers in
the nation.
Since the mercenaries began
appearing in late December, new
government rules have hindered
international missions against
the rapidly growing Islamist in-
surgency, according to five offi-
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cials close to the operations:
Surveillance flights now require
72-hour notice, and Mali’s mili-
tary partners have been ordered
to avoid areas where Russians
are deployed. Western, regional
and business leaders say the
security contractors are perform-
ing a variety of duties, including
embedding with Malian troops,
upgrading telecommunications
and running an off-limits supply
hub out of the international air-
port.
The number of Russian secu-
rity forces in Mali is a “defense
secret,” said Adama Ben Diarra, a
member of the transitional coun-
cil and one of five Malian officials
hit with European Union sanc-
ANDRE BA/XINHUA NEWS AGENCY/ASSOCIATED PRESS tions this year. Moscow sent
A security officer, left, believed to work for Wagner guards a them under a formal “state-to-
campaign rally in the Central African Republic in December 2020. state” agreement, he said, “and
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the world must prove otherwise.”
Junta spokesman Hamidou
Belco Maiga declined to com-
ment on allegations concerning
Russia, mercenaries and their
activities with the Malian army.
Wagner across Africa
After news broke last fall that
Mali was considering a deal with
Wagner, Western and regional
leaders sounded the diplomatic
alarm: Wagner is known to be
more motivated by mineral
wealth and other strategic assets
than restoring peace.
In the Central African Repub-
lic, mercenaries enlisted to coun-
ter rebels since 2018 have ab-
ducted, tortured and killed peo-
ple on an “unabated and unpun-
ished” basis, according to a U.N.
report, while a Russian company
the United Nations said is linked
to the group secured gold and
diamond mining licenses.
In Libya, one of the continent’s
oil giants, mercenaries operated
in a “context of impunity,” the
United Nations said, planting
explosive booby traps in residen-
tial areas and committing sum-
mary executions in support of a
warlord vying for control of the
country.
In Sudan, researchers say,
mercenaries teamed up with sol-
diers notorious for violently
cracking down three years ago on
crowds protesting the govern-
ment of dictator Omar Hassan
al-Bashir — in exchange for gold
mining rights.
As Wagner launched opera-
tions in Mali, pro-Russian rheto-
ric flooded Malian social media.
One video offered a solution:
Russian warriors with angel
wings. The influx of propaganda
in recent weeks has been “indus-
trial,” said one Western official in
the country.
Though pro-Russian groups in
Bamako have long demanded
stronger ties to Moscow, saying
the Soviet Union was Mali’s first
real ally after it asserted inde-
pendence from France in 1960,
demonstrations lately have burst
with Wagner memorabilia. One
February rally featured portraits
of the 19th-century German com-
poser Richard Wagner, whose
stoic face circulates in merce-
nary circles online, nodding to a
nickname for Soviet-era artil-
lery: the orchestra.
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“I’ve been saying this for
years: My inspiration — my com-
pass — was the relationship our
first president had with the So-
viet Union,” said Diarra, who
gained prominence as a pro-Rus-
sian activist and social media
star known as Ben the Brain.
“But what I care about is Mali.
Solving Mali’s problems is why
we are here.”
A charged arrival
Between 800 and 1,000 merce-
naries are now working in Mali,
according to U.S. military offi-
cials focused on Africa. France
has put the number at 1,000.
When French President Em-
manuel Macron announced that
Paris would shift troops from
Mali to bordering nations, he
cautioned that Wagner has
“predatory ambitions.” A Rus-
sian military figurehead in the
Central African Republic, Alex-
ander Ivanov, responded that he
was suing Macron for “flagrant
defamation” to raise money for
those hurt by “French neocolo-
nialism.”
The Kremlin has denied in-
volvement with soldiers of for-
tune, saying private firms are
free to peddle services anywhere.
Yet Washington says Wagner is
run by Prigozhin, an oligarch
known as “Putin’s chef ” for his
catering empire and ties to the
Kremlin.
“There are a lot of rumors
around Mr. Prigozhin and the
Wagner PMC attributed to him,”
Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman,
said in an email. “All of them are
absolutely unfounded and un-
substantiated.”
The former head of Ukraine’s
main government security agen-
cy has referred to Wagner as
Putin’s “private army.”
“Russia could start looking at
Wagner as a revenue source be-
cause the group has the ability to
seize assets like gold, diamonds
and bauxite,” said Samuel Ra-
mani, associate fellow at the
Royal United Service Institution,
a British security think tank, and
author of a forthcoming book on
Russia’s presence in Africa. “You
could see a more overt preda-
tion.”
How the mercenaries are be-
ing paid in Mali remains murky.
Most West African nations
sealed their borders and ended
all but essential trade with Mali
in January after the junta un-
veiled a five-year plan to restore
democracy. Members of the re-
gional bloc known as ECOWAS
froze the country’s assets in their
commercial banks. Bamako soon
after defaulted on domestic
debts.
But the nation is Africa’s third-
largest gold producer and boasts
reserves of lithium, which pow-
ers smartphones, and uranium, a
silvery metal used for nuclear
reactor fuel.
“I have reason to believe that
the Malian government tab for
Wagner’s services is $10 million a
month,” Army Gen. Stephen
Townsend, head of U.S. Africa
Command, said on a recent video
conference, adding: “I think they
will have to trade in kind with
natural resources such as gold
and other minerals.”
The junta is negotiating con-
cessions with Wagner, according
to three Western officials who
have reviewed intelligence on
the matter. The junta did not
respond to questions about a
financial arrangement with Rus-
sia.
Combat missions
and a cowboy bar
About a third of the Wagner
agents in Mali have embedded
with the army around the coun-
try’s center, where violence has
surged in recent years, according
to the five officials close to the
operations. They have been
tasked with cornering suspected
fighters and staging strikes in
overwhelmingly rural areas.
Since Wagner joined the Mali-
an convoys, rights groups have
flagged crackdowns they said
hurt or killed innocent people —
a problem that existed before
Wagner touched down.
The junta has said it probes
every report of abuse and is
establishing a court to punish
military wrongdoers. A spokes-
man for the Malian army did not
respond to questions about the
allegations.
European and West African
security partners in Mali, mean-
while, have lost access to areas
that Wagner patrols, the officials
said. The 72-hour requirement
for surveillance flights began in
January, they said, preventing
allies from sending aircraft
above villages in danger of immi-
nent attacks — a move meant to
spook away assailants.
“We get the impression there
is something to hide,” one official
in the country said.
Farther north in Timbuktu,
Russian contractors have moved
into an airport previously used
by French forces, the officials
PHOTOS BY PAUL LORGERIE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Adama Ben Diarra, a member of the Malian transitional council who was placed under European
Union sanctions this year, attends a protest against French troops in Bamako last month.
a Post reporter to look for Wag-
ner at a cowboy-themed bar. On a
recent Friday night, the hits of
Ricky Martin (“She Bangs”) and
Britney Spears (“Toxic”) blasted
as Ukrainian waitresses poured
shots of tequila. Two men sat at
the bar, eating pizza and chatting
in Russian. When asked what
brought them there, one replied
in English: “My life is s---.”
A geopolitical collapse
Wagner’s arrival in Mali has
hastened the breakdown of alli-
ances with France and other
European partners while strain-
ing relations with neighbors.
Ivory Coast’s president said in
an interview with the Financial
Times that hiring Wagner would
Aminata Traore Bassadiki, an incense seller in Bamako, welcomes be “suicide” for Mali.
France’s being replaced as the security partner in Mali. The country has directed more
troops to its northern border,
said. They were seen “doing tele- military estimates that between preparing for heightened tur-
communications work” — setting 3,000 and 5,000 are active on the moil.
up phone lines and Internet — continent. Mercenaries tend to “These are mercenaries,” Ni-
and fixing the Malian army’s shuttle from one conflict zone to ger’s foreign minister, Hassoumi
armored vehicles, according to a another. Massaoudou, told The Post. “We
mining consultancy’s report ob- The Central African Republic are absolutely against mercenar-
tained by The Post. usually has the deepest bench, ies in Mali and every other coun-
In the capital, mercenaries researchers say. Wagner agents try.”
guard the presidential palace, there tail the president as body- West and central African
according to the officials, and guards and attend public events troops have flagged the need for
operate a military supply hub out — like the premiere of a movie more help. On their own, officers
of a sealed-off wing of the inter- last year about the heroics of say, they lack the necessary man-
national airport. Russian commandos. power and equipment to end the
Wagner numbers in sub-Saha- Mercenaries in Bamako keep a conflict.
ran Africa fluctuate. The U.S. lower profile. One diplomat told Since Paris deployed troops to
thwart al-Qaeda extremists ad-
vancing on Bamako in 2013, the
international intervention has
failed to curb the bloodshed.
Fighters have regrouped and
scattered. Fatalities rose by 17
percent last year, according to
the African Center for Strategic
Studies in Washington.
Some in Mali feel pressure to
silence their concerns about the
junta’s new strategy, said one
former Malian official. Distrust
of Paris swelled after a U.N.
report found that a French air-
strike killed 19 civilians last year
in the central Malian village of
Bounti.
“Working with mercenaries,”
the former official said, “we will
have dozens more situations like
Bounti.”
After Paris’s top diplomat ac-
cused mercenaries of “despoil-
ing” Mali, Bamako shot back by
expelling the French ambassa-
dor.
Then Macron announced his
troops would exit, and the 800-
soldier European counterterror-
ism force meant to bolster the
French effort said it would follow
suit.
The junta invited France to
leave “without delay,” saying the
Malian army has made more
progress against extremists in
recent months than it had in
years. And pro-Russian rallies
continue in Bamako. Video
showed demonstrators burning
cardboard cutouts of Macron.
Others brandished the face of
Putin.
On the afternoon of the French
ambassador’s expulsion, a group
of friends gathered outside near
the embassy in question, crack-
ing jokes.
“We don’t even want to see the
dust he leaves behind,” said Ami-
nata Traore Bassadiki, a 46-year-
old incense seller, slapping her
knee.
She hadn’t joined the protests.
She just liked the idea of a new
partner replacing France.
Sidiki Magassouba, a 52-year-
old energy company staffer, nod-
ded along.
“The anti-French feeling is
more than boiling today,” he said.
“It is France who pushed us into
Russia’s arms.”
“Russians, Wagner — we don’t
care who they are,” Bassadiki
said, pronouncing it Vahg-ner.
“If it means we will get our peace,
we would follow Satan.”
Mamadou Tapily in Bamako
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W
hen the Federal Re-
serve raises interest
rates this week, poli-
cymakers will have
spent months fine-tuning the
best moment to begin cooling off
an overheated economy, which
by many measures had nearly
recovered from the once-in-a-
lifetime kind of recession caused
by the global pandemic.
Yet all that planning to tackle
inflation, now at 40-year highs,
has been unexpectedly upended
in just a few weeks, with the war
in Ukraine now rippling through
the U.S. economy through re-
cord-high gas prices. At the same
time, new waves of global supply
chain problems that have already
taken hold in Ukraine and Russia
could also start appearing in
China, where a new covid surge
has just started to halt produc-
tion at major manufacturing
hubs.
The Federal Reserve is poised
to start putting the brakes on an
economy that some experts now
say could be in danger of faltering
anew. Goldman Sachs analysts
have forecast that the economic
fallout of Russia’s war will pull
back on economic growth and
raise the risk of the United States
entering a recession.
There’s a lot of new uncertain-
ty, and the economic consequenc-
es depend on how long the geopo-
litical turmoil continues and the
ability for policymakers to buffer
against surging energy price
hikes that are already seeping
into the economy. But for the
central bank, what is certain is
that the next phase of Fed policy-
making will have just as thin a
playbook as the one that came
before it.
“It’s really been a series of
negative shocks, that are com-
pletely outside of their control,
that have complicated their job,”
said Stephanie Aaronson, direc-
tor of the Economic Studies pro-
gram at the Brookings Institu-
tion who spent nearly two dec-
ades at the Fed.
The initial plan was for the Fed
to moderately raise interest rates
by 25 basis points at the conclu-
sion of its policy meeting
Wednesday. Investors are count-
ing on as many as six more
gradual interest rate hikes to ease
skyrocketing inflation, up mark-
edly from the three included in
the Fed’s most recent projections.
But that game plan, now set
against the backdrop of Russia’s
war in Ukraine, could end up
being either not aggressive
enough if inflation hits double
digits in coming months, experts
say, or too aggressive if consumer
spending starts to drastically
dampen on its own and inflation
turns around.
“The war and its spillover ef-
fects substantially intensify the
conundrum the Fed already faced
about how aggressively to tighten
[policy],” said Eswar Prasad, an
economist at Cornell University.
“It’s a tough call.”
After navigating a global pan-
demic for two years, the Fed and
households across America have
been handed a whole new kind of
economic problem in the past
few weeks.
Economists at Goldman Sachs
and JPMorgan Chase last week
downgraded their forecasts for
gross domestic product, a meas-
TECHNOLOGY
DocuSign plans
changes in sales unit
DocuSign chief executive Dan
Springer is retraining his sales
team and hiring a new leader in
the division, seeking to mitigate a
swift decline in demand for the
company’s electronic-signature
software.
DocuSign’s product became a
vital lifeline for businesses,
consumers and governments
when the pandemic hit in early
2020, turning the company into
one of the most-watched
software vendors. Now that
heightened demand has
evaporated, the shares have
tumbled 76 percent, and Springer
is working to convince skittish
investors that DocuSign can
flourish in the new world of
hybrid work.
While Springer said he always
expected the pandemic boom to
subside, the drop-off caught him
and the company flat-footed.
DocuSign failed to anticipate
how substantially the return to
quasi-normal operations would
impact sales, as well as how
severely the fallout of one-time
pandemic use cases would affect
its business.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, who will hold a news conference Wednesday, is expected to raise interest rates this week.
War upends Fed’s plan to cool inflation
Supply chain problems and surging energy prices pose new economic challenges for U.S. policymakers
ure of goods and services in the
economy, with Goldman analysts
putting the risk that United
States enters a recession during
the next year at about 20 percent
to 35 percent. Policymakers at the
Fed and White House had hoped
that monthly inflation readings
would start to tick down by now.
But the war’s strain on global
energy markets only promises to
push prices higher.
Higher fuel costs are pushing
airlines to cut back on their
routes. Small businesses, from
concert venues to landscapers,
are raising prices to make up for
rising gas and transportation
costs. Food prices are expected to
keep climbing if the conflict con-
tinues through Europe’s key
planting season this spring. The
interruption of Russian oil ship-
ments, including the import ban
the White House announced last
week, threatens one of the largest
supply disruptions since World
War II.
In Lincoln, Neb., Andy’s Appli-
ance Repair is feeling the strain.
About 15 vans are dispatched
each day to make house calls, and
higher gas prices have added up,
said Dan Eckles, director of oper-
ations. That’s on top of rising
shipping costs from carriers large
and small.
Eckles said he’s tried to keep
costs down by ordering new parts
in bulk or making repair routes
as efficient as possible to save gas.
But those moves can only go so
far. With the latest surge in costs,
Eckles said he’s had no choice but
to raise prices for customers by
about 10 percent to 18 percent,
depending on the type of repair.
“It affects the business broad-
“We always believed that covid
as a dramatic tail wind would
come to an end,” Springer said in
an interview. “The place that we
missed is how fast we would see
that drop.”
The fix is underway. The
company is hiring a new sales
head, Springer told investors on
the Thursday earnings call, and
bringing on executives from
established software providers
such as Oracle and Salesforce. It’s
also educating a sales team, one
that grew substantially when
demand for DocuSign’s product
was robust, on how to effectively
sell existing customers on more
licenses or additional services.
“We didn’t properly onboard
them,” Springer acknowledged.
It’s not uncommon for
software vendors to change their
leadership teams once certain
levels of growth are achieved,
often around $1 billion in annual
sales. That wasn’t the case for
DocuSign, which reported
$2.1 billion in revenue last year, a
decision Springer says probably
contributed to the challenges the
company is facing now.
The pandemic was exactly
what DocuSign needed to
establish e-signatures as a viable
alternative to wet ink. While the
option became legal in 2000, it
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ly,” Eckles said. “We weren’t
thinking we’d have to be as ag-
gressive as we have been to stay
afloat and be competitive.”
Already, early looks at consum-
er sentiment has fallen in March
to its lowest level since 2011,
according to survey data released
Friday from the University of
Michigan, as incomes took a
beating by rising fuel prices. Con-
sumers said they held very nega-
tive prospects for the economy,
apart from the job market.
Also, major world powers can’t
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Workers with Alibaba's food delivery platform Ele.me wait for
orders in Zhujiang New Town in Guangzhou in south China's
Guangdong province.
wasn’t until relatively recently
that companies began to fully
embrace signing documents
online.
Once the coronavirus swept
the globe, the technology became
critical for businesses that
pivoted overnight to fully remote
operations. Governments also
needed to disburse
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seem to get past the pandemic, a
problem which could threaten
global supply chains anew in
coming months. In China, a surge
in covid cases has prompted lock-
downs in the manufacturing
hubs of Shenzhen and Changc-
hun, dealing a new blow to elec-
tronics and car factories that
have been repeatedly paused.
Foxconn Technology Group, a
critical supplier for Apple, said
it’s stopping production, and it’s
unclear when the lockdowns
would be lifted.
unemployment funds without
recipients coming into local
facilities and companies used e-
signatures to tap into new federal
aid.
DocuSign last week gave
quarterly and annual revenue
forecasts that fell short of
analysts’ projections, sending
shares plummeting 20 percent in
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CHONA KASINGER/BLOOMBERG NEWS
The Fed’s tools are limited;
raising or lowering interest rates
cannot heal supply chains, boost
oil supply or impose sanctions on
Russian President Vladimir Pu-
tin’s closest confidants. Monetary
policy also isn’t meant to respond
to short-term blips in the econo-
my, like an energy shock. It is
intended to see through the tur-
bulence and assess what’s hap-
pening in the economy over the
long haul.
Testifying before Congress ear-
lier this month, Federal Reserve
a day.
— Bloomberg News
RIDE HAILING
Lyft to add surcharge
to help with fuel costs
Lyft will be adding a surcharge
to rides in a bid to help drivers,
following a similar move by rival
Uber last week in response to the
rising fuel costs across the United
States.
“We’ve been closely
monitoring rising gas prices and
their impact on our driver
community,” a Lyft spokesman
said Monday in an email. “Driver
earnings overall remain elevated
compared with last year, but
given the rapid rise in gas prices
we’ll be asking riders to pay a
temporary fuel surcharge, all of
which will go to drivers.”
Lyft didn’t elaborate on how
high the new surcharge would be
or which markets would be
affected.
Ride-hailing giants are
grappling with the prospect of
drivers leaving the platform as
record-high gas prices whittle
down earnings. On Friday, Uber
announced it would be applying
a fee of 45 cents or 55 cents per
trip for rides and 35 cents or 45
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CURRENCIES
$1= 118.16 YEN, 0.91 EUROS
Chair Jerome H. Powell under-
scored the need to be “nimble”
and left the door open for the Fed
to move more aggressively if in-
flation doesn’t fall as interest
rates rise, supply chains heal and
congressional aid from last year
fades away.
“We will proceed, but we will
proceed carefully as we learn
more about the implications of
the Ukraine war for the econo-
my,” Powell told lawmakers.
But Fed experts say that kind
of patience can be hard to justify
now. Prices rose 7.9 percent in
February, with the biggest driv-
ers coming from gasoline, shel-
ter and food. Inflation has
seeped into every corner of the
economy, gutting the Fed’s mes-
sage from much of last year that
inflation would be temporary
and limited to pandemic-affect-
ed sectors.
Last month, hotels, furniture,
chicken and new cars and trucks
all saw their largest annual price
increases on record. The Febru-
ary inflation report doesn’t even
capture the strain on energy mar-
kets from the war in Ukraine —
and already showed the gasoline
index rising 6.6 percent com-
pared with 2021.
As a result, the Fed has come
under growing criticism, espe-
cially from Republicans, who say
the central bank should have
intervened with aggressive rate
hikes months ago.
“I’ve warned that it could be
extremely difficult to put the
inflation genie back in the bottle,”
Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.)
told Powell during a Senate
Banking Committee hearing ear-
lier this month. “Well, the genie is
out, and the Fed is behind the
curve. We must act with urgency
to get inflation under control.”
Such high inflation has some
economists questioning whether
the invasion of Ukraine should
change the Fed’s calculus at all.
Adam S. Posen, president of the
Peterson Institute for Interna-
tional Economics, said for the
Fed, the war doesn’t change a
fundamental need to start acting
and plow ahead to catch up with
inflation.
“We know we have to go north.
We don’t know if we need to go
north 400 miles or 700 miles, but
we have to go,” Posen said. “Four-
hundred miles is a long way, and
700 miles is rather a long way, so
we should go pretty fast.”
But there are risks of going too
fast. If the Fed raises rates too
abruptly, that could cause a reces-
sion. Now the Fed has to balance
cooling down the economy, while
also factoring in the hazards an
energy shock could have for the
broader recovery, and for peo-
ple’s own pocketbooks.
Fed watchers and the markets
will closely scrutinize how Powell
describes the path ahead at a
news conference Wednesday.
“Uncertainty” is likely to be a
major theme, one that accounts
for the tumult in Ukraine and
shields the Fed from committing
to a schedule of rate hikes.
But that may only work as an
explanation for so long.
“The Fed may end up seeing its
hand forced,” Prasad said. “I don’t
think it quite has the luxury of
being able to wait for how things
play out because they’re at the
fine edge of inflation taking off to
an extent that it becomes much
harder to corral in the future.”
cents for Uber Eats delivery
orders for the next 60 days.
— Bloomberg News
ALSO IN BUSINESS
Coupa Software on Monday
reported a loss of $96 million in
its fiscal fourth quarter. On a per-
share basis, the company based
in San Mateo, Calif., said it had a
loss of $1.29. The company
posted revenue of $193.3 million
in the period. For the year, the
company reported that its loss
widened to $379 million, or $5.13
per share. Revenue was reported
as $725.3 million.
Vail Resorts on Monday reported
a fiscal second-quarter net
income of $223.4 million. The
company, based in Broomfield,
Colo., said it had net income of
$5.47 per share. The ski resort
operator posted revenue of
$906.5 million in the period.
— From news services
COMING TODAY
8:30 a.m.: Labor Department
releases the Producer Price Index
for February.
Federal Reserve: Policymakers
begin a two-day meeting to set
interest rates.
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New iPhone SE meets

its low expectations
Sometimes the
smartest phone is
the one that costs
less.
The iPhone SE
packs the brain of
Geoffrey Apple’s latest-and-
A. Fowler greatest iPhone 13
into the smaller,
classic body of an iPhone 7. It can
connect to faster 5G cellular
networks. And at $429, it is half
the price of the flagship phones
that fancypants people think
they need.
After testing 2022’s iPhone SE
for a few days, I’m happy to
report: Apple’s least-expensive
iPhone is mostly fine for people
who don’t demand a lot from a
smartphone. Or to put it another
way, low expectations met.
But before you buy one, be
clear about what’s not included.
Here’s my guide:
1. What you need to know
This budget iPhone is zippy,
familiar, comfortable in the hand
and built to last. But its battery
life and night photo capabilities
are both mediocre.
And the headline new feature
to this third-generation of the SE
— the ability to connect to faster
5G networks — isn’t a reason
most people should spend on an
upgrade. Those networks are still
spotty in the United States, and
the SE’s 5G connection
performed poorly in my San
Francisco tests, delivering
dreadful download speeds while
draining the battery.
2. Who it’s good for
This is the iPhone for people who
aren’t on their phone all day and
don’t want to spend a ton of
money on a new one.
The SE also has a feature some
people might seek out: It’s the
last iPhone with a physical home
button and Touch ID fingerprint
reader.
In your hand, the phone is
smaller, thinner and lighter than
an iPhone 11, 12 or 13, which all
unlock with Face ID.
3. Who it’s not good for
If you bought the second-
generation iPhone SE that
debuted in 2020 or an iPhone 11
from 2019, there’s little reason to
switch to this model unless your
old phone is broken.
Busy people beware: While the
new SE’s battery life should feel
like an improvement from any
older iPhone with a home
button, the SE has the least long-
lasting battery life of any new
iPhone.
On two different test days with
a not-too-stressful load of calls,
photos, emails and video
streams, the SE died after 12
hours. Apple claims the SE can
stream video for “up to” 10 hours,
which is about the same as the
iPhone 12 mini.
If you’re looking for the
smallest-possible iPhone, the 12
mini and 13 mini are both
shorter and lighter than the SE,
while also offering more
functional screen area.
4. What the marketing fails to
mention
The 5G connectivity included in
this SE update doesn’t support
the fastest type of 5G, known as
mmWave, unlike Apple’s flagship
phones.
Despite the classic iPhone
shape, there’s still no regular
headphone jack.
And there’s only one back
camera lens — no ultrawide or
telephoto zoom like on other
models. More disappointing, the
camera doesn’t support
photography in dark situations
with Night mode.
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In daytime or well-lit situations,
the iPhone SE does fine, Apple will do for $49 out of subscriptions to Apple Music, as little as $400, which is actually
comparable to an iPhone 11. warranty. Arcade, TV+, Fitness+ and more. less than the price of a new
But in darker situations, the Accident prone? The iPhone Apple likes to advertise that iPhone SE.
SE’s camera disappoints. It SE is water resistant, but both it’s good at privacy, but my tests The new iPhone SE If you don’t care about 5G or
doesn’t support the Night mode the front and back are made of find it sometimes doesn’t go far packs the brain of would prefer a larger screen, the
that Apple first introduced with glass. enough. The iPhone software Apple’s latest-and- iPhone 11 is still a great model
the iPhone 11. offers some useful privacy greatest iPhone 13 into with a more-capable camera for
7. The catch controls, but you’ll need to know the smaller, classic body $499.
6. How long should it last? This may be a budget iPhone, but how to turn them on. of an iPhone 7. But its And though switching is
Because the iPhone SE uses Apple will still try to extract (Fortunately, we have a guide for battery life and night increasingly rare, you might find
Apple’s A15 Bionic chip and more money out of you for its that.) photo capabilities are the grass to be greener over in
supports 5G, I estimate it will be services. both mediocre. Android land. Google’s Pixel 5a
able to get software updates and The entry-level model SE 8. What are the alternatives? costs $449 and comes with a
connect to cellular networks for comes with just 64 GB of storage, If it’s a petite phone you seek, an better battery and more camera
at least six years. and after you fill that up Apple iPhone 12 mini is smaller, comes lenses than the SE. And
It’s not clear, however, if the will push subscriptions to its with 5G, two camera lenses and Samsung’s A-series Galaxy
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States to reassess Medicaid rolls in pandemic ‘unwinding’
MEDICAID FROM A1
poor, newly uninsured Ameri-
cans, depending on how things go
once states resume checking
which Medicaid beneficiaries still
qualify.
“The main concern I have is
people are going to be cut off for
reasons that have nothing to do
with their eligibility,” said Gordon
Bonnyman, a staff attorney for
the Tennessee Justice Center, a
nonprofit working for affordable
health care. “Either they drop the
ball, or the state drops the ball.”
The unprecedented work that
lies ahead will wind down a pro-
found, temporary change Con-
gress made to Medicaid, the na-
tion’s largest public health insur-
ance program, early in the pan-
demic.
The first coronavirus relief law,
in March 2020, offered states a
bargain to help them cope with
the sudden spurt of Americans
losing jobs and health benefits
that accompanied the worst pub-
lic health crisis in a century: The
federal government would give
states extra money to help pay for
Medicaid if they promised not to
move anyone off the program as
long as the emergency lasted.
Every state accepted the bar-
gain at a moment when few imag-
ined that, two years later, the
pandemic — and the public
health emergency the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Ser-
vices has been renewing every 90
days since the coronavirus’s first
winter — would still be present.
In that time, Medicaid caseloads
have jumped about 22 percent
nationally as new people have
joined and no one has cycled on
and off the rolls. The nearly
78 million Americans on Medic-
aid as of September, the latest
figure available because federal
tallies run months behind, are the
most since the program began as
a shared federal-state responsi-
bility in the 1960s as a pillar of
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s
War on Poverty.
Once the federal emergency is
lifted, every state will need to
reassess its entire bloated roster.
Many of the people who will be
removed from the safety-net in-
surance probably will qualify for
private health plans, according to
Biden administration officials
and health-care researchers and
advocates.
But large questions hover over
how many beneficiaries whose
incomes have risen above Medic-
aid’s eligibility thresholds will
simply disappear instead of slid-
ing over to other insurance. And
it is unclear how many who re-
main eligible will be removed
from the program improperly.
For Biden health officials, help-
ing states get ready for this enor-
mous task — dubbed “unwind-
ing” from the health emergency
— has been a preoccupation for
several months. They have sent
states a detailed punch list of
recommended steps to take in
preparation, dispatched letters
spelling out federal expectations
and continued to confer often
with each state.
“This is at the top … of our
priority list,” said Daniel Tsai,
who oversees Medicaid in HHS’s
Centers for Medicare and Medic-
aid Services. “We intend to and
are using all levers available to us
to make sure we are connecting
people with coverage.”
Still, each state runs its own
program. Interviews with state
officials, health-care advocates
and policy specialists reveal deep
differences over how much time,
effort and money states are devot-
ing to this work. In certain places,
advocates warn that problems —
including outdated addresses for
renewal notices and error-prone
computer systems — could un-
dermine some of the poorest
Americans’ ability to afford care.
Brad Ledgerwood knows the
possibility of errors, and he
knows the stakes. Ledgerwood
lives in Cash, Ark. — a “spot in the
road,” as he puts it, with 342
residents in the Arkansas Delta.
Nearly half live in poverty.
Ledgerwood was born with
cerebral palsy. “I can do every-
thing I want to do as far as my
mind,” he said. He has been on
Cash’s city council for nine years.
“My problem is my physical abili-
ty,” he said. “I cannot do anything
physical by myself. My mom and
dad are my hands and feet.”
At 40, he has been on Medicaid
more than half his life, since he
turned 18, under a part of Arkan-
sas’ program that covers care at
home to help people like him stay
out of nursing homes. His moth-
er, Ann, quit her job as a county
appraiser to be his caretaker.
Medicaid covers the cost of eight
hours of care a day, adding up to
about $62,000 in benefits a year
that she is paid. Ledgerwood has
that amount of coverage — three
times what he would get other-
wise — because he is grandfa-
thered into an older version of the
program for as long as he remains
eligible.
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Starting in November, Ledger-
wood said, the first of four notices
from the state arrived in the mail,
telling him that he no longer
qualifies for Medicaid — but that
his benefits would continue for
now because of the public health
emergency rules. The notices
have kept coming even after a
county nurse paid him a visit in
January and confirmed the ser-
vices he needs. They have kept
coming even after he and his
Legal Aid lawyer called the state
and were assured that a computer
glitch caused the letters.
If notices keep coming once the
health emergency ends, and he is
dropped from Medicaid even
ABOVE: The town of temporarily, he will not return to
Cash in the Arkansas the same level of benefits. Ledger-
Delta has 342 residents, wood said he worries that he and
and nearly half of them his parents couldn’t live on his
live in poverty. Resident father’s pay from a Jonesboro
Bradley Ledgerwood is factory that makes Delta truck
worried that many toolboxes. If that happened, Led-
vulnerable people in his gerwood fears, his mother might
state will be cut off from need to go back to work, and he
Medicaid. might land in a nursing home like
BELOW: New Mexico the one 60 miles away where his
Gov. Michelle Lujan grandfather spent his final years
Grisham (D), talking — rather than rolling up and
with nurse Deanne down the road in his wheelchair,
Tapia before receiving greeting neighbors when the
her coronavirus vaccine weather is fine.
last year, persuaded her Asked about such computer-
state’s legislature to generated errors, Cindy Gillespie,
devote $35 million to secretary of Arkansas’ Depart-
help people with the ment of Human Services, said, “If
transition from there is something going on, we
Medicaid. want to know and get it fixed.”
Ledgerwood’s Legal Aid law-
yer, Trevor Hawkins, questions
whether Arkansas is equipped to
handle the work ahead. Already,
the state has amassed a large
backlog of Medicaid applications.
The legislature has not provided
additional money for that or for
the unwinding, but Gillespie said
the extra money from the federal
government allowed her depart-
ment to hire a contractor a few
months ago to help it get caught
up. And the state’s Medicaid di-
rector, Dawn Stehle, said she has
been convening weekly internal
meetings since the fall to prepare
for the unwinding.
Arkansas’ Medicaid enroll-
ment has grown from 927,282 in
early 2020 to nearly 1.1 million by
January. Because the state has
continued eligibility reviews
through the pandemic, it believes
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that more than 220,000 people no
longer qualify but are still getting
benefits. Starting this month, a
nonprofit working with the state
will try to call those people to
check their phone numbers and
addresses.
But Hawkins pointed out that
Arkansas passed a law last year
that requires the state to carry out
its Medicaid eligibility decisions
within six months of when the
unwinding begins — half the time
the Biden administration says
states should take.
A recent Ohio law requires a
more tightly compressed period:
two or three months, depending
on how long someone has been on
Medicaid. Michigan lawmakers
are considering something simi-
lar.
Advocates predict that if Med-
icaid programs move hastily, they
will have too many erroneous
addresses and call centers will be
overwhelmed. And they fear that
computerized eligibility systems,
which can be error-prone in cer-
tain states in ordinary times, will
be unable to spit out accurate
renewal decisions. Compounding
the problem, many states’ Medic-
aid agencies are short-staffed,
having lost workers during the
pandemic, while some employees
hired lately have no experience at
handling renewals.
Biden health officials are tell-
ing states to take their time,
urging them to use a full year to
help ensure that renewals are
handled accurately — double the
six months the Trump adminis-
tration had said would be al-
lowed.
But there is a catch. The extra
federal money will last no more
than three months after the pub-
lic health emergency ends. After
that, states will have to shoulder a
bigger portion of the costs associ-
ated with their swollen Medicaid
caseloads while finishing the un-
winding.
The administration and con-
gressional Democrats have tried
to create a cushion to deter states
from unwinding quickly to save
money. The cushion, part of a
far-reaching social policy bill,
would ratchet down the extra
federal payments more gradually.
But the legislation, called the
Build Back Better act by its enthu-
siasts, is stalled on Capitol Hill.
One state’s experience with a
similar insurance program offers
a preview of what can go wrong if
states move too fast. In Utah, a
federal insurance program for
children from working-class fam-
ilies was initially handled in a
fashion similar to Medicaid, with
all children kept in the program
during the pandemic. Last year,
the state reversed course on the
Children’s Health Insurance Pro-
gram — widely known as CHIP —
scrambling in two months to send
renewal notices and make new
eligibility decisions. More than
40 percent of Utah children on
CHIP were dropped.
“It ended up being a disaster,”
said Matt Slonaker, executive di-
rector of the Utah Health Policy
Project, a nonprofit that fought
for several years to expand Medic-
aid in that state and coaches
Utahns to sign up for Affordable
Care Act marketplace health
plans. He fears Utah will not take
enough time for the Medicaid
unwinding, either.
A big wrinkle in planning is
that it is unclear when that un-
winding will begin.
The latest extension of the
health emergency runs through
mid-April. States are assuming
that HHS will continue it, be-
cause Biden health officials have
promised to give 60 days’ notice
before its end, and that has not
happened.
The Biden administration has
no official forecast of how many
people are likely to fall off Medic-
aid. Tsai and other policy experts
cite research by the Urban Insti-
tute, a Washington think tank,
that began estimating late last
year how many people would lose
coverage after the health emer-
gency stops. The latest updates
predict that more than 14 million
beneficiaries could lose Medicaid
if the emergency expires midsum-
mer, and nearly 16 million if it
ends early in the fall.
Matthew Buettgens, a senior
fellow at the Urban Institute who
is the study’s lead author, said
that no matter when it begins,
“the systems themselves, both hu-
man and computer, weren’t de-
signed to handle that volume.”
Meanwhile, a new study by the
Georgetown University Health
Policy Institute’s Center for Chil-
dren and Families estimates that
6.7 million children insured
through Medicaid will lose cover-
age.
“This could be disastrous for
children — especially Black and
Latino children,” whose families
are more likely to be poor, said
Joan Alker, the Georgetown cen-
ter’s executive director and the
study’s main author.
Tsai and Jonathan Blum, chief
operating officer of the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Ser-
vices, known as CMS, said the
agency is working with states’
Medicaid programs more inten-
sively than ever, coaching them to
avoid a widespread loss of eligible
people and find smooth paths to
other coverage for those who no
longer qualify.
Some states are embracing fed-
eral advice far more than others.
In California, where Medi-Cal
is the nation’s biggest Medicaid
program, the state took the rare
step starting in December of
sending letters to all 14.4 million
beneficiaries to test whether they
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reached their intended recipi-
ents, said Jacey Cooper, Medicaid
director in the state’s Department
of Health Care Services. The pro-
gram has given California’s coun-
ty social services departments,
which are in charge of renewals,
scripts to answer callers’ ques-
tions in 19 languages. To do even
more outreach, California is giv-
ing extra money to federally fund-
ed “navigators” — community
workers who help consumers
sign up for ACA health plans and
steer others toward Medicaid.
“It definitely keeps me up at
night,” Cooper said, “because I
want to ensure that people who
need coverage can remain on
coverage.”
In New Mexico, which has the
highest proportion of residents
on Medicaid in the country, the
state has told the three insurers
that provide Medicaid managed-
care plans that they must offer
ACA health plans, too, to make it
easy for people to switch over,
according to Nicole Comeaux, the
state Medicaid director. And Gov.
Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) per-
suaded the legislature to devote
$35 million to help people with
the transition from Medicaid, in-
cluding to pay premiums for a
month for anyone who moves
into a marketplace plan.
In contrast, Jodi Ray, director
of Florida Covering Kids & Fami-
lies, has been sending emails
since the fall to Florida’s Depart-
ment of Children and Families,
which runs Medicaid there. She
keeps suggesting that her squad
of navigators, the nation’s largest,
help with the unwinding.
“We are on the ground,” Ray
said. “I keep trying to offer up:
Here is a strong team that can
help.” She said she has not heard
back.
Katy DeBriere, legal director of
the nonprofit Florida Health Jus-
tice Project, said the state’s com-
puterized eligibility system is an-
tiquated and predicted that “it is
going to be a huge problem.”
Florida’s Department of Chil-
dren and Families did not re-
spond to requests for comment
about its preparations.
CMS has latitude to penalize
states if they shirk federal rules
for the unwinding — but has not
so far. Tsai said it will be better
able to assess how prepared
states are once it is clear when the
unwinding will begin.
Bonnyman, with the Tennessee
Justice Center, is one of many
advocates around the country
who are nervous. “What scares
me is this system was not working
great when they lifted the needle
off the record,” Bonnyman said of
Tennessee’s Medicaid renewals.
“We won’t know what’s going on
… until it fires back up. We just
have to wait for people to be hurt.”
From his wheelchair in Cash,
Ledgerwood has the same anxi-
ety.
“I think a bunch of people will
be getting cut off for no reason
because the computer messed
up,” he said.
“I know how to fight it,” said
Ledgerwood, who has just been
appointed to a Medicaid consum-
er advisory board that Arkansas
is creating. What he worries
about, he said, “is people who
don’t know to call a lawyer and
don’t know their rights. Some
people will fall through the
cracks.”
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This district reopened quickly. Was it the right approach?
SCHOOLS FROM A1
Academy argue they took the
right approach to reopening
schools. No child was hospital-
ized with the virus; two school
system employees were admitted,
though contact tracers did not
determine where they contracted
the virus, school officials said.
And overall, results from stan-
dardized tests show that the aver-
age student in Lewis-Palmer
made gains in reading. While they
lost ground in math, they per-
formed better than the average
Coloradan. SAT scores remained
steady.
Debate continues over which
approach was the right one, and
the circumstances in homog-
enous suburban districts differ
from those in big cities. But the
experience of systems like Lewis-
Palmer offers evidence for those
who say schools could have avoid-
ed some of the prolonged closures
— and the serious academic and
social impacts that came from
them.
“We didn’t just exist through
the pandemic,” said Mark Belcher,
director of communications for
the school district. “We made
progress through the pandemic.”
The school district supported
many early decisions with a July
2020 academic study that found
that children under 10 didn’t
transmit the virus at high rates,
according to Superintendent K.C.
Somers. The superintendent also
saw early evidence emerging
from Europe that showed it was
possible to reopen schools with
relatively few outbreaks.
To some in Lewis-Palmer, the
district took a leap of faith when
there were still big unknowns
about how the virus spread — and
got lucky that no one became
gravely ill.
To others, the school system
chased the right priorities, acted
diligently and followed health
guidelines, doing what was neces-
sary to give the community what
it wanted: open schools.
“With our kids being younger,
the risk of social delays weighed
heavily with us,” said Kim Rhine-
smith, a mother of two who sent
her two elementary-aged stu-
dents back to in-person learning
full time in Lewis-Palmer last fall.
‘As normal as possible’
Like most of the nation’s school
districts, Lewis-Palmer 38
abruptly closed its school build-
ings and sent students home on
March 13, 2020. They learned on-
line for the remainder of the aca-
demic year, and teachers quickly
saw many students’ progress
slow. Children struggled with the
coursework and felt depressed
and anxious, educators say.
School system officials sur-
veyed parents in July and deter-
mined that more than 60 percent
said they were “very likely” to
return to in-person learning. Few-
er than 10 percent of families said
they were “very unlikely” to re-
turn. More than 60 percent of
teachers, who are not unionized,
felt confident the school system
could reopen schools safely; just
15 percent disagreed.
So Lewis-Palmer 38 decided to
reopen. To craft its plan, local
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officials used health guidance put
forth by the local health depart-
ment in El Paso County. Case
numbers there were far lower
than the national averages in Au-
gust 2020.
Still, the district took liberties.
The El Paso Health Department,
for example, “strongly encour-
aged” children 10 and younger to
wear masks. Lewis-Palmer decid-
ed to require masks only in hall-
ways for this age group, and it
allowed them to go maskless in
classrooms. Officials relied on a
state constitution that gives
school boards complete control
over their schools.
“We wanted it to be as normal
as possible, and children wearing
masks is not normal,” said Chris
Taylor, president of the Lewis-
Palmer school board. “The focus
of the board was to give parents as
much choice as possible — and
children could wear masks if they
wanted.”
Lewis-Palmer didn’t entirely
escape the covid politics that en-
gulfed school reopenings across
the country. Some parents plead-
ed with the district for stricter
mask requirements. Others post-
ed signs that said “free the face”
outside the school district’s high
schools, where masks were re-
quired last academic year.
A few more teachers than usual
quit or took early retirement be-
cause they didn’t want to return,
school leaders said. At least one
high school teacher quit because
he refused to teach with a mask
on, according to one principal. A
few families reportedly fled to
nearby school districts with mask
mandates, though officials said
they also had new families enroll
in the district because of its looser
covid rules. And principals re-
ported squabbles at pickup lines
with parents who refused to fol-
low masking requirements.
EZ RE
About 65 percent of eligible
residents in El Paso County are
fully vaccinated — on par with the
state’s vaccination rate. But
school officials, teachers and par-
ents said people in the school
district rarely discuss their im-
munization status. Vaccination is
not required to participate in any
activity.
“We felt it was an infringement
on staff confidentiality to ask
about their vaccination status,”
Somers, the superintendent, said.
“But we did encourage vaccines.”
Rick Frampton, executive di-
rector of student services who led
the school system’s covid re-
sponse, said to manage the thorny
politics, he stuck with a consis-
tent interpretation of the health
guidance, not making exceptions
or modifications for any school or
family. When parents com-
plained, he referred them to the El
Paso County Health Department.
One student, he said, had to
miss the final football game of his
senior year because he was quar-
antined after a close contact at
school tested positive for the vi-
rus. His father threatened to sue,
but Frampton didn’t budge.
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“We were dealing with a lot of
disgruntled parents,” Frampton
said.
The school district posted re-
ported positive cases on its web-
site. Officials said they found no
evidence of large outbreaks in its
school buildings. But some par-
ents and teachers questioned
those findings, arguing that be-
cause the district did not conduct
any testing, many cases likely
went undetected.
Some thought the school was
insufficiently cautious. A Centers
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion study released this month
determined that school districts
with mask requirements experi-
enced significantly fewer corona-
virus cases than districts with
mask-optional policies.
Angie Jones has a son with
cystic fibrosis. He struggled with
virtual learning. She wanted him
to return to in-person learning
last year, but his doctors said he
couldn’t unless everyone was
masked. She pleaded with the
school to require his classmates to
wear masks so her son could at-
tend. But the school wouldn’t
budge, she said. She kept her son
and youngest daughter online,
fearing they could bring the virus
home.
“My child’s needs were not be-
ing met,” Jones said. “It felt like
they didn’t care.”
‘She needed to go back’
When Michelle O’Neal relocat-
ed her daughters from Washing-
ton state to Colorado Springs in
2019 for her husband’s job, she
wanted to find a school district in
the region that would have a
strong special education program
for her second-youngest daugh-
ter, a high-schooler with Down
syndrome. Parents in online fo-
rums kept referring her to Palmer
Ridge High.
The family found a house in
Monument, Colo., and enrolled
their three school-aged daughters
in fall 2019. Janae O’Neal thrived.
She took her academic courses in
a special-ed classroom with other
high-needs students and partici-
pated in electives such as ceram-
ics and dance with the rest of her
classmates.
But when schools shut down,
Michelle O’Neal saw Janae re-
gress in reading and math. The
teenager also developed severe
social anxiety and, when school
reopened in August, she had pan-
ic attacks and threw up at the
prospect of entering the building.
The family sought help from men-
tal health professionals.
Slowly she became more com-
fortable. By November, she and
her special education classmates
were in school full time. She re-
gained her English and math
skills, O’Neal said. Now she has a
boyfriend, attended the school-
wide dance and loves to dance in
front of her whole class.
During that 2020-2021 school
year, the Washington state dis-
trict where the family previously
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ABOVE: Students this month at
Lewis-Palmer Middle School in
Monument, Colo., part of a
district that reopened in 2020.
LEFT: Chris Taylor, president
of the school board, said the
board wanted “to give parents
as much choice as possible.”
lived never fully reopened to
high-schoolers.
“She needed to go back,” O’Neal
said. “Staying home, her anxiety
was only going to get worse.”
More than 7 million students
are eligible for special education-
al services under the federal Indi-
viduals with Disabilities Educa-
tion Act. These children follow an
individualized education pro-
gram that lays out what services
or attention they must receive.
School districts across the county,
including Lewis-Palmer, conced-
ed they failed these children dur-
ing virtual learning in the pan-
demic, and many of them fell
further behind than their class-
mates, with some families report-
ing their children lost skills need-
ed for an independent life.
In Lewis-Palmer, elementary
students with special education
plans made improvements in
English and math, showing great-
er growth than the average spe-
cial education student in Colora-
do.
Brandy Doan, a special educa-
tion teacher at Palmer Ridge
High, said her high school stu-
dents were learning independent
living skills and rebounded from
losses during virtual learning.
“Everyone who regressed has
already recouped the skills they
lost,” Doan said.
Districtwide, Lewis-Palmer
has always been a high-achieving
school district, performing
around the 80th percentile of
school districts across the nation
in English and math, according to
results from a national standard-
ized exam.
That didn’t appear to change
much during the pandemic.
But the results are hardly de-
finitive. Participation in the tests
was lower across the state, partic-
ularly among students from low-
income families.
Still, early results are promis-
ing.
In third-grade reading — a crit-
ical year — 60.2 percent of Lewis-
Palmer students were considered
proficient in reading in 2021, up
from 58.2 percent in 2019. During
that same time, Colorado profi-
ciency rates dropped from 41.3 to
39.1 percent.
The school district made even
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bigger gains in fifth grade. Nearly
75 percent of fifth graders were
considered proficient in reading
in 2021, up six percentage points
from 2019. Colorado state
dropped 1.2 percentage points
during that time.
Nationwide, a McKinsey & Co.
study found schools with majori-
ty-Black populations were five
months behind pre-pandemic
levels, compared with majority-
White schools, which were two
months behind.
Similar dynamics played out
here. In Lewis-Palmer, minority
students didn’t perform as well as
their White peers on a state exam,
according to data provided by the
school system. Students who
qualified for free and reduced
lunch — around 10 percent of the
population — performed better
than the average Colorado stu-
dent in the same income level,
though they lagged behind their
wealthier peers in the district.
“The results show that at the
most broad levels, our kids con-
tinued learning,” Somers said.
“But we have more work to do on
how our most marginalized stu-
dents are learning — and that was
true before the pandemic.”
Even though schools here
opened, the 85 percent of stu-
dents who opted for in-person
learning in fall 2020 were still out
for stretches of the academic year.
When the region experienced a
surge of cases in November 2020,
officials shut down middle and
high schools through winter
break, switching these students
to virtual learning. Students re-
turned to classes on a hybrid
schedule in January and were
back full time in March 2021.
And the district quarantined
entire classrooms when someone
in the room tested positive for the
virus. Last academic year, it re-
corded nearly 8,000 quarantines.
Macy Sienkowski, 11, was out
this way for more than 60 days.
Her parents, employees for the
school system, were working in
person so she was unsupervised
during virtual learning. She said
she and her friends would often
chat online during virtual learn-
ing and concedes she didn’t learn
as much as she would have had
she been in school.
District leaders said few stu-
dents tested positive while quar-
antined and they decided to stop
contact tracing this academic
year. Students no longer have to
quarantine if someone in their
class tests positive.
“We were never in the same
routine,” Macy said. “And then it
would take a while to get used to
going back to school, and once we
did, we got quarantined again.”
Still, many said the year felt
remarkably normal. Christine
Thomas — a kindergarten teacher
and president of the district’s
teacher advocacy group, Lewis-
Palmer Education Association —
said she believes last year’s kin-
dergartners left prepared for first
grade.
When she returned to the
classroom in fall 2020, she tried
to space her students and keep
them from getting too close
when they played with one an-
other. But she realized that
wasn’t feasible, and students
didn’t appear to be getting sick.
So, she let them play with one
another on the classroom carpet
with no restrictions.
Giving teachers that freedom
in classrooms was intentional,
school leaders said. They didn’t
have the funds to redesign class-
room with new spaced-out furni-
ture — and they didn’t want class-
rooms to feel different from a
standard year. So long as teachers
and students showed up, they
wanted their schools to feel nor-
mal.
“Elementary students had
close to a typical year last year,”
Frampton said. “Some kids are
still struggling, but a pandemic is
going to be hard on everyone.”
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DANA MILBANK
How does
Ron DeSantis
sleep at night?
R
epublicans are killing us.
No, really.
Until now, we’ve known that
covid-19 death rates were higher
among the unvaccinated, and also higher
in counties that went for Donald Trump,
whose supporters were more likely to
resist vaccinations, masks and other
pandemic precautions.
Now that the omicron wave is over, a
couple of new analyses of state-by-state
data both point to an inescapable conclu-
sion: Living in states run by a Republican
governor is dangerous to your health.
Using data from the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention, consultant
Doug Haddix reported Sunday that since
July 1 (when the lifesaving vaccine was
widely available), the 14 states with the
highest death rates were all run by
Republican governors. This included
Florida (at about 153 deaths per 100,000
residents), Ohio (142 deaths per
100,000), Arizona (138) and Georgia
(134). Contrast that with the deep-blue
District of Columbia (only 27 deaths per
100,000) and California (58 per 100,000).
For verification, I checked with
health-care analyst Charles Gaba, whose
data on covid-19 and voting patterns has
been widely cited. He ran the numbers
for me using data mostly from Johns
Hopkins and found similar results. The
16 states with the highest coronavirus
death rates since July 1 were all run by
Republicans. The worst was West Vir-
ginia (about 204 deaths per 100,000),
followed closely by Oklahoma, Tennes-
see, Wyoming and the aforementioned
Florida.
The states with the lowest death rates,
by contrast, were all run by Democrats —
or, in the case of Vermont, Maryland and
Massachusetts, by moderate Republican
governors who had heavily Democratic
legislatures and embraced vaccines and
masks. The best jurisdictions were D.C.,
Vermont, Hawaii and California. Look-
ing at data from the period since May 1
(by which time all U.S. adults theoretical-
ly could have been vaccinated) produced
similar results.
Florida residents were, since vaccines
have been widely available, nearly seven
times as likely to die from covid-19 as
residents of D.C., nearly three times as
likely to die as residents of California and
212 times as likely to die as residents of
New York. With Florida’s population of
about 22 million, that’s a lot of unneces-
sary deaths.
This raises a question: How does Ron
DeSantis sleep at night? Florida’s
Republican governor has been among
the most outspoken in raising fears of
the coronavirus vaccine (most recently
suggesting, falsely, that it could harm
women’s fertility), suing to stop vaccine
mandates, promoting ineffective cures,
blocking rules requiring face masks,
scolding mask-wearing kids for “covid
theater” and touting misleading
statistics.
It’s likely no coincidence that Florida,
under DeSantis, has had by far the
highest covid-19 death rate among the
most-populous states and is in the top
five of all states. Other factors, including
climate, health-care infrastructure, and
the age and underlying health of the
population, don’t fully account for it.
Maine, with an even older population
than Florida’s, had a death rate just over
half as high. Also, Florida’s vaccination
rate appears to be overstated thanks to
vaccine tourism.
In addition to the state rankings,
Gaba’s latest county-level data confirms
earlier patterns: Since May, people in the
most pro-Trump tenth of U.S. counties
had a death rate more than three times
as high as those in the most anti-Trump
tenth. The number of overall cases,
however, was only 1.3 times as high,
indicating that vaccines were preventing
death.
Every week, it seems, brings fresh
confirmation of the basic truths about
the pandemic that have long been obvi-
ous to all except those consuming the
disinformation of the Trumpy right:
Vaccines work. Masks work. Conspiracy
theories don’t.
Last week, a new CDC study con-
firmed that — shocker — masks prevent
illness. A study of Arkansas school dis-
tricts found that those with full mask
requirements had a 23 percent lower
incidence of covid-19 among students
and staff compared to districts with no
mask requirements. Those with partial
mask requirements were in between,
and those that switched from no mask to
masks had reduced illness.
Before that, a pair of studies late last
month added evidence to the original
belief that the virus emerged in late 2019
in a wet market in Wuhan, China.
Though the matter isn’t settled, the
findings make the scenario that the virus
was spread accidentally or intentionally
by a lab in Wuhan — an incendiary
accusation recklessly trumpeted by
Trump, DeSantis, Fox News and the like
— considerably less likely.
“Falsehood flies,” Jonathan Swift
wrote, “and truth comes limping after it.”
The truth has taken the lead, for those
who care. Alas, for some of those who
accepted the lies DeSantis and other
leaders told about vaccines, masks and
cures, it’s too late. They’re already dead.
TUESDAY Opinion
Volunteers sew Ukrainian flags at a workshop in Lviv, in western Ukraine, on Monday.
MATT BAI
The U.S. cause in Ukraine is inspiring.
It probably won’t stay that way.
T
hese opening weeks in Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s in-
vasion of Ukraine have given us
two things we hardly thought
possible in Washington any longer:
clarity of purpose and relative unity.
But if we expect the war to end with
Putin’s surrender and President Biden
basking in praise from Congress and
foreign capitals, we might want to
revisit Cold War history. In disputes
between nuclear powers, the cause
might be clear and just. The resolution
generally isn’t.
At this point, Putin’s unprovoked
war has provided the United States —
and the world — with a simple
narrative and uncontroversial choices.
Russia, the behemoth, is isolated from
the world and reeling from resistance.
Plucky Ukraine stands its ground and
pleads for help amid mounting
casualties.
But this period of easy choices and
simple story lines is coming to an end.
We’re reaching the phase of the crisis
where the interests of Ukraine and the
United States are no longer perfectly
aligned, and the balance will be hard to
navigate.
Like any capable leader in his situa-
tion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky wants to repel the invaders
and keep his country whole. His best
(and probably only) hope for driving
the Russians out is to draw NATO
deeper into the war.
And so Zelensky pleads movingly
with the West for leftover Russian-
made fighter jets and a no-fly zone over
Ukraine. If he’s going to hold out
JOE SCARBOROUGH
Putin’s war is moving into a new phase.
Biden and the West had better get ready.
I
n June 1940, Britain stood alone
against a Nazi war machine that had
swept across Europe. Winston
Churchill had spent the month be-
fore, his first at 10 Downing Street,
cycling through doomed military strate-
gies designed to save France. But on
June 18, the new prime minister traveled
to the House of Commons to deliver his
“finest hour” speech, warning Parlia-
ment that the war against Hitler would
soon enter a dangerous new phase: “The
Battle of France is over,” Churchill
declared. “I expect that the Battle of
Britain is about to begin.”
Over the past month, in response to
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President
Biden has assembled the most impres-
sive coalition since President George
H.W. Bush’s skillful diplomatic efforts
preceding the Gulf War. Biden has
united a fractured NATO alliance, and
Europeans have responded more force-
fully than Vladimir Putin could have
ever imagined. Russia’s economy has
been shattered by unprecedented eco-
nomic sanctions, and Putin’s military
has been slowed by stalwart Ukrainian
fighters making deadly use of NATO-
supplied weapons, which are crossing
the Polish-Ukrainian border at a dizzy-
ing rate.
But Putin’s war against Ukraine is
entering a dangerous new phase. Events
are moving rapidly, and it’s time for
Biden and his Western allies to adjust.
The horrors of Grozny and Aleppo are
being visited upon the people of Ukraine
and witnessed across the free world.
Russian airstrikes kill civilians and re-
duce cities to rubble, as Putin targets
children’s hospitals, nuclear power
EZ RE
indefinitely, he needs the United States
and Europe to do more than impose
sanctions on Russia and ferry weapons
across the border.
The United States, however, has a
different bottom line, as it did through-
out the 40-year Cold War: to avoid a
shooting war with a country that keeps
nuclear missiles aimed at U.S. cities.
“We will not fight a war against
Russia in Ukraine,” Biden said flatly on
Friday. “Direct confrontation between
NATO and Russia is World War III.”
As Biden has said, if Russia even
tiptoes over the line into NATO terri-
tory, we’ll have little choice but to take
up arms directly. The same might con-
ceivably be true if Putin unleashes
chemical weapons — an option for
which he appears to be laying a false
pretext.
But absent that kind of broader
menace, Biden will be forced to take a
realpolitik view that most of us will find
hard to stomach. No matter how unjust
Ukraine’s fate, he must continue to
reject any measure that threatens to
put U.S. troops in direct conflict with
the Russians.
Anything else would be reckless. Yes,
the absorption of Ukraine into Russia
would be a human tragedy and geopo-
litical nightmare. But a shooting war
between NATO and Russia would con-
stitute an existential crisis that some
large segment of the planet might not
survive.
This might mean pressuring Zel-
ensky to accept a negotiated solution
that is patently unjust — if it’s even
possible. No one wants to say it now,
plants, cultural landmarks and residen-
tial buildings. These attacks are not
indiscriminate; they are deliberate at-
tempts to slaughter and terrorize.
Even more ominously, Russia has
started a misinformation campaign
about Ukrainian biological laboratories,
parroted by useful idiots in the West,
suggesting Russian forces could be pre-
paring to use chemical weapons. We
must brace ourselves for horrifying
images of families choked to death by
Putin’s deployment of those weapons of
mass destruction. If Putin crosses that
moral red line, the political pressure to
respond will be overwhelming. Biden
and his allies need to prepare for that
now, in three ways:
Stop playing defense: Three weeks
ago, only 1 in 4 Americans supported
significant U.S. involvement in the war.
European allies were wary of confront-
ing Putin on a range of issues. That made
Biden’s public assurances of avoiding a
hot war against Russia politically neces-
sary and diplomatically wise.
Now, 3 in 4 Americans support a
no-fly zone over Ukraine. European
allies have flexed their military and
economic might in a way not seen since
World War II. These dramatic changes
allow the U.S. president to respond more
aggressively to the war crimes being
committed against Ukrainians.
Biden should stop telling Putin what
he will not do, stop alerting him to what
weapons he will not send, stop saying
what strategies he will not employ and
stop declaring where U.S. troops will
not deploy. It is also time for NATO to
stop being reactive to Putin’s ever-
changing definition of what constitutes
K A19
but America would sooner see Ukraine
cede some territory than risk all-out
war. It would be an imperfect solution,
but one in which we’d all live to fight
another day.
You could argue that any compro-
mise would perversely reward Putin’s
aggression and invite even more, and
it’s true: Our own policies, notably the
non-response to Putin’s annexation of
Crimea in 2014 and President Donald
Trump’s public slavishness toward Rus-
sia, led directly to where we are now.
But the universe of outcomes in
Ukraine is limited now. The most likely
scenario involves Putin unleashing sav-
agery on the country to possess it, and
it ends with Ukraine leveled, Zelensky
dead and Russian troops on the Polish
border. You’d have to think a negotiated
alternative that leaves Ukraine partly
intact, if that window opens, would be
preferable.
Such odious calculations aren’t new;
we just haven’t had to contend with
them for a while. We remember the
Cold War now as a principled stand
against tyranny — and it was.
But the story of the nuclear age was
also one of pursuing moral ends
through a cascade of compromises that
were morally ambiguous at best.
At the dawn of the Cold War in 1945,
both President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and President Harry S. Truman felt
compelled to reach unsettling terms
over the future of Europe with Joseph
Stalin. For the United States, the priori-
ty was defeating Japan, where America
wanted Stalin’s help.
That deal is generally remembered
an act of war.
First, Putin claimed that trigger
would be acceptance of Ukraine into
NATO. Then he added the introduction
of peacekeeping troops into western
Ukraine. Then the transfer of Polish jets
across the border, and then the ship-
ment of defensive weapons. And then he
moved the line again, declaring to young
flight attendants bearing flowers that
even economic sanctions against Russia
were tantamount to war.
It is as if Putin expects Americans to
forget the body bags flown to Dover Air
Force Base because of decades of Rus-
sian proxy wars fought against U.S. sol-
diers. Simply put, an alliance that caves
to Putin’s nuclear blackmail today would
be forced to respond to his chemical
weapons attacks tomorrow. Enough.
Be disruptive: At the height of the
Cold War, then-national security adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, the So-
viet Union was confined to playing a
disruptive role in the world “by the
nature of its one-dimensional power and
by the character of nuclear weapons.”
Russia upended international norms,
Brzezinski noted, because it feared “be-
ing locked into the role of the junior
partner in effect committed to the
maintenance of the global status quo.”
Almost 40 years later, little has changed.
Putin threatens nuclear war, levels cit-
ies, commits war crimes and raises the
specter of chemical weapons because
the West rationally moves with caution
to preserve the international order.
Biden should change the dynamic by
employing his own disruptive tactics.
The United States should move expedi-
tiously to have the U.N. General Assem-
BERNAT ARMANGUE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
as having sold out Poland and other
countries in the Soviet orbit, whose
freedoms were quickly crushed under
grinding Russian tanks.
For decades afterward, American
presidents enabled repressive regimes
— Chile, South Africa, Iran and so on —
all in the cause of containing commu-
nism. We abided assassinations and
undercut democracies when we
thought we had to do so.
In retrospect, it’s easy to see these
allowances as misguided and shame-
ful. But from the end of World War II to
the fall of communism, East and West
did not come to all-out war, and not a
single nuclear-armed missile was fired.
You might say we avoided Armageddon
at the cost of our collective conscience.
It would be nice if Ukraine required
no such painful calculations — if Putin
would simply put his tanks in reverse
and plead for economic mercy. But
Biden must know that he needs to
prepare the country for a more agoniz-
ing endgame. His job, in the best case,
will be to make a negotiated outcome
palatable abroad and at home.
If he does, count on this: Our much-
needed sense of unity will be shattered
overnight. Republicans will scream
that Biden is the new Neville Chamber-
lain, while internationalists in the pres-
ident’s party will complain that he
walked away from human rights.
In that event, though, Biden will
have checked Russian aggression with-
out letting NATO get drawn into an-
other world war. History tells us that in
a showdown between nuclear powers,
that’s what leadership is.
bly create humanitarian safe zones in
Ukraine that allow civilians to escape
slaughter. Putin would be assured that
the zones would not be used for military
purposes; however, any force targeting
civilians there would immediately be-
come a target of U.N. peacekeepers or
even NATO. While such a plan would
likely cause deep discomfort inside the
Biden White House, policymakers in the
West may not be able to avoid such
decisions for long. The only question is
whether they make the move at the
United Nations before or after Putin
deploys chemical weapons.
Guard your words: Just as nothing is
gained by Biden’s declarations of what
the United States will not do, the same is
true of U.S. officials making statements
suggesting Putin has no choice but to
fight to the end. While cable hosts and
opinion columnists are free to call the
Russian tyrant a war criminal, U.S. am-
bassadors to the United Nations should
be more prudent. If Putin believes his
future is inside a cage at The Hague, he
will have no incentive to end this war.
The same holds true for senior U.S. sena-
tors calling for regime change. Providing
Russia’s nuclear-armed president an
off-ramp from the military catastrophe
he created remains the best hope for the
people of Ukraine and the world.
As psychiatrist Kenneth Dekleva re-
cently told former CIA acting director
Michael Morell, “Sometimes it is better
to let the bear run out of the cage back
into the forest.” In the meantime, Biden
should do all he can to make sure that
bear cannot slaughter millions trapped
inside the cage that Ukraine has be-
come.
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Stay the course on Ukraine
Frustration is understandable, but now is not the time for the U.S. to pivot.
N
OT QUITE three weeks since it
began, the war in Ukraine seems
stuck in a bloody status quo.
Russian forces, having failed to
achieve the quick victory they anticipat-
ed, remain positioned around major cit-
ies, including the capital, Kyiv. Against all
odds, the best conceivable outcome of
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ag-
gression — military defeat at the hands of
Ukraine, without direct NATO involve-
ment — remains a possibility, albeit with
an enormous cost in civilian life, imposed
wantonly by Russia. Yet military victory
for Mr. Putin seems all too conceivable as
well, even if stable Russian political
control thereafter is not. As a result,
frustration is growing, understandably,
among many in the United States and
Europe, who wonder why, in addition to
the military assistance for Kyiv and sanc-
tions against Russia, the West is not
doing more.
In our view, it is too soon to second-
guess, much less abandon, the broadly
successful course President Biden and
his fellow democratic leaders have adopt-
ed. The key principle is to defend “every
inch” of NATO territory but otherwise
limit the alliance’s role to aiding Ukraine
with arms, intelligence, money and hu-
manitarian supplies — while punishing
Russia. We say this even though Mr. Putin
obviously meant to test the West’s “red
line” by launching a devastating missile
The high court opens a Pandora’s box
Its complacency about Texas’s antiabortion law could damage the constitutional order.
T
HE TEXAS Supreme Court on
Friday effectively extinguished
a lawsuit challenging the state’s
antiabortion law, all but ensur-
ing that Texas’s extreme restrictions
will remain on the books for the
foreseeable future. But do not imagine
that Texas’s success, the result of the
U.S. Supreme Court’s permissive atti-
tude toward the state’s aggressive legal
maneuvers, will affect only pregnant
people within its borders — or that the
consequences will be limited to abor-
tion rights. The high court’s compla-
cency might open the way for states
that seek to restrict constitutional
rights of many kinds.
Texas law bars abortion when fetal
cardiac activity is detectable, usually
around a pregnancy’s sixth week, which
is before many women even know they
are pregnant. This contradicts Roe
v. Wade and other Supreme Court dicta.
But rather than tap state authorities to
enforce the ban, Texas lawmakers em-
powered private citizens to bring civil
suits against anyone abetting a restrict-
ed abortion. This means that abortion
rights groups had no discrete entity to
sue to prevent the law’s enforcement.
Meanwhile, Texas abortion providers
would have to shut down in fear of
ruinous lawsuits.
Rather than block this end run
around the Constitution, the U.S. Su-
preme Court threw up its hands. The
Texas Supreme Court’s action on Friday
— declaring that, indeed, no state au-
thority had any power to enforce the law,
and therefore no state entity could be
sued to stop it — ended the last hope of
substantive judicial review anytime
soon. Unsurprisingly, lawmakers in at
least 12 other states have proposed
similar abortion bans.
Perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court jus-
tices anticipate that the Texas abortion
controversy will soon be moot; they are
set to rule by this summer on a major
Overdue recognition
Officer Smith’s suicide is classified as a line-of-duty death. Other cops’ should be, too.
I
N A rare ruling — one believed to be a
first for the D.C. police department —
the death of Officer Jeffrey L. Smith,
who died by suicide in the aftermath
of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S.
Capitol, has been classified as a line-
of-duty death. This gives overdue recog-
nition to the toll that police work takes on
those who do it and hopefully begins a
meaningful discussion about how police
departments can best confront the prob-
lem of officer suicides.
The D.C. Police and Firefighters Re-
tirement and Relief Board notified Erin
O. Smith, the widow of the 35-year-old
police officer who shot himself nine days
after he helped quell the mob of Trump
supporters who besieged the Capitol, of
its decision last week. Ms. Smith never
wavered in her belief that, if not for the
events of Jan. 6, 2021, her husband would
be alive today. Not only did she have to
navigate the red tape thrown up by
skeptical officials, but she also had to
contend with the macho culture tradi-
tionally associated with police work,
which has deepened the stigma too long
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EDITORIALS
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A member of the Ukrainian Territorial
Defense Forces on Monday.
strike on a Ukrainian base about 15 miles
from the border of NATO member Po-
land, and threatening more strikes on
weapons supply lines. And we say it
despite our own disappointment with
Mr. Biden’s refusal to transfer combat
aircraft from Poland to Ukraine.
Critics of Mr. Biden’s approach correct-
ly argue that the West must show Russia
that it will pay a heavy price, in blood and
treasure, lest it attempt cross-border
aggression against another country later;
the critics incorrectly imply that Moscow
has not been made to pay a heavy price.
U.S. intelligence reports that Mr. Putin’s
regime has reached out for resupply to
A protester outside the U.S. Supreme Court in November.
abortion case that could scrap Roe, and
with it any argument that Texas’s ban
violates the Constitution. Yet by condon-
ing Texas’s approach in the meantime,
they have opened up a legal Pandora’s
box that could do extreme damage to the
constitutional order.
A Missouri lawmaker has proposed
empowering private citizens to sue
anyone — even beyond the state’s
borders — assisting a Missourian in
getting an out-of-state abortion. The
notion that a state could regulate
out-of-state activity is absurd. But so is
Texas’s abortion vigilante enforcement
program, and the Supreme Court failed
to stop it. In fact, states could use a
Texas-style system to restrict practically
any constitutionally protected activity.
California lawmakers are already mov-
associated with suicide.
On Jan. 6, 2021, Officer Smith was
dispatched to assist Capitol Police who
were being overwhelmed by supporters
of President Donald Trump aiming to
upend Congress’s certification of the
2020 election. Smith was hit on the head
with a metal pole but kept working. After
a week, with seemingly cursory medical
follow-up, he was ordered back to work.
He shot himself on the day he was sup-
posed to be back on duty. Jeffrey Smith
had no history of depression or mental
health issues before Jan. 6. The injury he
suffered on Jan. 6, the retirement board
ruled, “was the sole and direct cause of
his death.”
Ms. Smith will now receive an early
annuity equal to 100 percent of her hus-
band’s salary, as opposed to the 33 per-
cent she would otherwise have received.
But her battle is not over. She wants her
husband’s name added to the D.C. police
department’s list of fallen officers and
engraved on the National Law Enforce-
ment Officers Memorial, and the official
burial honors traditionally afforded to
RE
China — against which national security
adviser Jake Sullivan rightly warned Bei-
jing — might be a sign of Russian internal
disarray or even desperation. The same
goes for reports that the Russian presi-
dent has placed key foreign-intelligence
officials under house arrest. As Russian
morale deteriorates, it’s no time to risk
reviving it by declaring a NATO no-fly
zone or dispatching NATO ground troops
into western Ukraine, thus converting
Mr. Putin’s tale of a war against NATO
from propaganda to reality.
It follows that, if the United States and
its allies aren’t going to fight on Ukraine’s
behalf, they also should not do its negoti-
ating for it. Yet alongside the talk of
greater direct NATO intervention, there
is discussion of various possible settle-
ments, in which Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky would, say, recog-
nize Russian control of Crimea and for-
swear NATO membership in return for a
cease-fire and Russian recognition. To
put it mildly, it is premature to bless any
outcome in which Russia could commit
aggression, fail on the battlefield and yet
emerge with any such gains.
The time for a different U.S. policy —
toward either the fighting or the negotia-
tions — might yet come. Certainly, the
war’s catastrophic impact on civilians is a
reason to search urgently for new and
better ideas. For now, though, Washing-
ton’s best course is the one it’s on.
EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS
ing to restrict firearms by empowering
private citizens to go after gun-shop
owners. State officials across the coun-
try are rushing to create vigilante
systems to crack down on anti-vaxxers
and speech in schools. If the court
treated such cases with the same non-
chalance as it did Texas’s abortion ban,
those restrictions could remain on the
books for long periods of time.
The court should act to close the legal
loophole Texas exploited and make
clear that it will not tolerate any state
seeking to export its abortion policies
beyond its borders. Meanwhile, those
states that hope to preserve legal abor-
tion must consider how to protect their
own abortion providers from punish-
ments that other states might try to
impose on them.
officers killed in the line of duty. That she
has yet, according to her attorney, to hear
directly from D.C. Police Chief Robert J.
Contee III or Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
is troubling. Even more troubling is that
the men who allegedly attacked Jeffrey
Smith, reportedly identified with the
help of a group of cybersleuths who
plowed through thousands of hours of
videotape, have yet to be charged. And
not to be forgotten is Howard Lieben-
good, a veteran Capitol Police officer who
died by suicide days after being called to
duty on Jan. 6 and whose family is
awaiting word on their petition that his
death be classified as in the line of duty.
Suicide is a leading cause of death of
police officers. Ms. Smith has said she
hopes her husband’s sacrifice will help
others. The death of Officer Smith is a
wake-up call that needs to be heeded.
If you or someone you know needs help, call
the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at
800-273-TALK (8255). You can also text a
crisis counselor by messaging the Crisis Text
Line at 741741.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
letters@washpost.com
Alexandria, don’t give in
Regarding the March 10 Metro article
“Plan to honor abortion providers is
withdrawn”:
Though I understand the political ne-
cessity of Alexandria Mayor Justin
M. Wilson withdrawing the proclamation
honoring abortion providers in the face of
the predictable threats and pressure from
the “pro-life” right and the Catholic hier-
archy, I am sorry he did not stand up to
them. The majority of Alexandria resi-
dents and, indeed, all Americans support
abortion rights, but too many of us stay
silent in the face of the abusive onslaught
and physical intimidation by the minori-
ty. We cannot remain silent anymore.
Abortion providers should know that
we both appreciate and support them.
They provide essential health care to
women and do so under constant threat of
violence. They well deserve our apprecia-
tion and our thanks. I remember the days
pre-Roe, and we are not going back.
Arina van Breda, Alexandria
No mercy for Boston bomber
James M. Doyle’s March 11 Friday
Opinion essay, “Why Biden should com-
mute Boston bomber’s death sentence,”
was a metaphysical tour de force if ever
there were one. He concluded that “de-
spite the thousands of stories we’ve read
about him, Tsarnaev will remain a
stranger to the community for which the
jury acted.” That community includes the
families of the three people who died, one
of whom was an 8-year-old boy. That
community includes the more than
260 people injured, 17 of whom had
limbs amputated as result of Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev’s al-Qaeda-inspired barbarism.
Despite Mr. Doyle’s confident asser-
tion that Mr. Tsarnaev will remain a
stranger to the Boston community, I’ll
wager otherwise.
William E. Fallon, Gaithersburg
Mr. Putin’s bogus rationale
The March 9 news article “Putin is
bombing the ‘Russian world’ he claims to
protect” cited Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin’s view of Ukraine as part of
“Russkiy Mir,” the Russian world he has
vowed to protect. Because his “protec-
tion” is increasingly belied by the death
and destruction of innocent Ukrainians,
including Russian speakers, he turns to
other rationale such as “history, culture
and spiritual space.” Mr. Putin is correct,
of course, that there were times when
Russia controlled Ukraine, but he ne-
glects the larger part of history when
most of modern Ukraine was part of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Aus-
tria-Hungary and Kievan Rus.
As for spiritual space, he plays on the
theme of Orthodox support for the czar
of all the Rus, emphasizing unity of faith
as justifying the war but neglecting the
fact that the patriarch of Moscow’s sup-
port for him undermines that very unity,
not only within the Orthodox Church but
also in Ukraine and the Russkiy Mir,
wherever it is.
A change of heart by the patriarch,
supported by a full-court press against
Russia’s information iron curtain, could
help undercut Mr. Putin’s bogus rationale
for war in Ukraine.
Henry Kenny, McLean
Paul Kane’s March 10 @PKCapitol col-
umn, “Uncommonly united Congress
rushes to send aid to Ukraine, with more
to come,” said “lawmakers in both parties
have pledged an unusual level of unity in
the wake of the Russian invasion” and
noted “while the initial Ukraine aid dou-
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bled in less than two weeks, it would have
tripled if Congress took another week or
two to formally unveil the proposal.” Inar-
guably, Ukraine needs aid. And yet, the
same members of Congress, after months
of debate, cannot see the humanitarian
needs of their own constituents: shelter
for the homeless, child care for low-
income households, home care for the
aging in place, food insecurity, etc. Many
needs that could be met in President
Biden’s Build Back Better bill. Give it a
different name and maybe Congress (Re-
publicans) can muster aid for its own
citizens. Finally, congressional aid to
Ukraine says we are supporting a free,
democratic Ukraine against an authori-
tarian government. And yet, Republicans
are doing everything to take away our
democratic rights in the United States
through state legislatures’ voting bills. It’s
time for Republicans to own up to their
hypocrisy.
Sally A. Kemink, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Regarding the March 10 news article
“ ‘Armageddon’ in Mariupol, mayor says”:
The world has been attempting
throughout history to get nations to hon-
or the ideals of national self-determina-
tion, sovereign borders and peaceful co-
existence. From the distant Treaty of
Westphalia to the modern Helsinki Final
Act, Paris Charter, Budapest Memoran-
dum and U.N. Charter, Russia’s assault on
Ukraine has shredded them all.
With respect to philosopher George
Santayana’s famous aphorism, the fact
that humankind has decidedly repeated
history is not that people ever forgot the
past. For they didn’t. But rather, what was
not cured by these well-intentioned
agreements was the irrepressible bub-
bling up of the basest of human instincts.
Instincts as in governments coveting
other nations’ resources; engaging in ir-
redentist aspirations; yearning for pow-
er, influence and global acknowledgment
of a respected presence on the world
stage; imagining how “the other,” as con-
venient bogeyman, has supposedly disen-
franchised ethnic, cultural or language
identities; or not being able to move
beyond long-simmering aspirations to
right perceived historical wrongs.
In the attack on Ukraine, we’re seeing
a brazen rebuff of the inviolability of
frontiers, nonintervention, and security
and cooperation predictably play out yet
again.
Keith Tidman, Bethesda
With respect to the question of wheth-
er the United States should facilitate the
transfer of Polish MiG-29 fighter aircraft
to Ukraine, using Ramstein air base in
Germany, I would like to assure President
Biden that Americans are not cowards.
Each day, The Post reports on ever
worse bombing of Ukrainian civilians,
now including even a maternity hospital
[“17 injured as concerns deepen over
escalating civilian casualties,” news,
March 10]. As with most Americans, I do
not know anyone in or from Ukraine, but
I am haunted by the death from the sky
raining down on innocent people. I think
I might speak for many or most Ameri-
cans when I say I would rather incur
some risk of conflict with Russia instead
of not doing what we can to stop the
slaughter of innocents. So, I ask Mr. Biden
to help send the Polish aircraft to
Ukraine.
James D. McMichael, Buena Vista, Va.
Forget about the United Nations, for-
get about NATO, forget about Congress.
Let’s hear it for McDonald’s. It appears
that losing McDonald’s and the “Big Mac”
is what is going to teach the Russian
people just how wrong Vladimir Putin’s
war is.
Dave Morine, Great Falls
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EUGENE ROBINSON
Gory images
show war’s
horror and
media biases
B I
rave journalists have long
risked their lives to document
the horrors of war. But why has
coverage of the Russian inva-
sion of Ukraine felt so intimate, so
explicit and so shockingly gory? Does
this say something about the times we
live in, and the ability technology has
given us to broadcast — and consume —
just about anything? Or does it reveal
more about the news media’s own affin-
ities and biases?
The war in Yemen, now in its eighth
year, has been every bit as brutal. The
war in Syria has been far deadlier, and
both regime forces and Islamist mili-
tants have employed chemical weap-
ons. Yet in those and other conflicts, we
were not shown such raw and immedi-
ate images of the dead, among them the
now-iconic New York Times close-up of
a mother and two young children killed
by Russian mortar fire in the Kyiv sub-
urb of Irpin.
It’s not that journalists didn’t see and
document such atrocities in other wars.
Photos of children starving in Yemen, or
the image of Phan Thi Kim Phuc run-
ning naked down a road in Vietnam
after being burned with napalm have
shocked the conscience. But news or-
ganizations traditionally have been
squeamish about publishing images of
people who had been killed in conflict,
with an especially strong taboo about
showing victims’ faces.
As an editor, I helped police those
boundaries. Our goal was to inform
readers while preserving the dignity of
the dead and their families. We aimed to
avoid turning our customers’ stomachs
to no productive end.
That was before social media, howev-
er. In 1994, when the bloodiest genocide
since World War II took place in Rwan-
da, there was no way for observers to
capture incidents of mass slaughter
with the cameras on their phones and
then instantly disseminate the images
worldwide. The husband and father of
those victims in Irpin first learned of
the death of his family from pictures he
saw on Twitter. In that moment, “I lost
everyone and lost the meaning of life,”
he told The Post.
Mainstream news organizations
could reasonably ask themselves whose
sensibilities they imagine they’re pro-
tecting, given the ubiquity of social
media. They could also point to other
contexts in which showing images of
people as they died and after their
deaths were universally considered to
be in the public interest — the nine-
minute cellphone video of Derek Chau-
vin’s knee on George Floyd’s neck, for
example.
Still, I have to wonder whether some-
thing more than technology is involved
in the way this war, as opposed to other
wars, is being presented. The unmistak-
able subtext of the coverage is: These
are people just like us, and we could be
at risk like them.
The vast majority of the victims in
Ukraine are European, White and
Christian. Quite a few speak at least a
little English. With their puffer coats
and their rolling suitcases, they look
familiar as they climb onto the trains
that speed them into exile. Their chil-
dren play with Muppets dolls and
Legos.
Whether intentionally or subcon-
sciously, news organizations make this
war more vivid and more tragic by focus-
ing so tightly on victims and refugees.
We get to see them as individuals, not as
an undifferentiated mass. Viewers and
readers are invited, if not forced, to imag-
ine ourselves in similar circumstances. It
is no wonder that so many members of
Congress, reflecting the views of their
constituents, are pressing the Biden ad-
ministration to intervene more robust-
ly, despite the obvious risks of entering
an armed conflict with Russia.
Civilians killed and displaced by the
2003 invasion of Iraq suffered no less
grievously. But the fact is that we rarely
get intimately acquainted with the vic-
tims (who, in that case, were neither
European nor White nor Christian)
when U.S. forces are the ones firing the
cruise missiles and lobbing the artillery
shells.
I don’t believe these are willfully
biased decisions being made by editors.
And I have nothing but awed respect for
the reporters covering the Ukraine war,
including Brent Renaud, the American
journalist and filmmaker killed on Sun-
day at a checkpoint outside Kyiv.
“This was not his first war. This was
not his first highly complex situation.
He was not a cowboy,” said Ann Marie
Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foun-
dation for Journalism at Harvard Uni-
versity, where Renaud spent the 2018-
2019 academic year as a Nieman fellow.
“He was such an unusual man, with a
very deep sensitivity, a shyness that
made people at ease. There was a pro-
found humanity about him. It was okay
to love your subject.”
Wounded in that same incident was
Juan Arredondo, Renaud’s collaborator
and Nieman classmate, who has under-
gone surgery at a hospital in Ukraine.
Bless the journalists with that kind of
courage and compassion. And may the
same empathy be extended to war vic-
tims everywhere who are every bit as
human as the people of Ukraine.
Two artifacts that were looted by British soldiers in 1897 from the Kingdom of Benin were returned to Nigeria in
February. The returned items, which included the Oba of Benin, in foreground, are valued at $2.5 million.
KAREN ATTIAH
Blood art has no place in museums
T
he world knows about blood
diamonds. It’s time it learned
about blood art.
Last week brought the wel-
come news that some of the treasures of
the Kingdom of Benin looted by the
British more than a century ago will at
last be repatriated to Nigeria. The
Smithsonian Institution has an-
nounced that it will return its collection
of priceless Benin artifacts — 39 pieces
in all — once it hammers out the details
of an agreement with Nigeria’s Nation-
al Commission for Museums and Mon-
uments. Other institutions should fol-
low the Smithsonian’s lead.
The Benin Bronzes, as they are
known, are a rich trove of centuries-old
artifacts. This year marks 125 years
since the British sent more than 1,000
troops to slaughter the people of Benin
City. The 1897 raid — known as the
Punitive Expedition — was a response
to the Benin ambush of an earlier
British expedition. The exact number
of Benin City victims is unknown
(some historians say it could be in the
thousands), but the killings and de-
struction were not the end of the crime
that was carried out.
When the British entered the palace
of the Benin king, or oba, they found
“several hundred unique bronze
plaques, suggestive of almost Egyptian
design, but of really superb casting,”
according to Reginald Bacon, an intel-
ligence officer with the expedition. Sol-
diers walked out with the plaques,
along with other art, ivory, brass, jewel-
ry and garments. Thousands of pieces
were taken.
They were “not just loot; they were
blood art,” Australian journalist Marc
Fennell explained on the podcast “Stuff
the British Stole.” Indeed, word was
sent back to Britain that selling off
CATHERINE RAMPELL
Buckle up: Inflation and the risk of recession
are about to get much, much worse
T
he outlook for the U.S. economy
has darkened.
Just as it seemed as though the
global economy and its tangled
supply chains could be getting back to
normal, three factors might supercharge
inflation and/or raise the risk of recession.
The first of the three developed in just
the past few days: a new covid wave in
China that has already led to major lock-
downs and will further stress the world’s
struggling supply chains. If you haven’t
heard much about this yet, you probably
will soon.
Daily covid cases in China have reached
numbers not publicly reported since
2020. Thanks partly to low vaccination
rates for the elderly in China, plus the
relative ineffectiveness of Chinese-made
coronavirus vaccines, the Chinese govern-
ment has responded to outbreaks with an
iron fist. Under its so-called “zero covid”
policy, several areas have been locked
down in recent days, with nonessential
workers mostly barred from leaving their
homes in the major manufacturing hubs
of Shenzhen (a city of 17.5 million people)
and Changchun (9 million).
Transportation to Shanghai, the coun-
try’s largest city (25 million), has been
severely restricted, raising fears of a possi-
ble lockdown there, too.
These measures have forced factories,
including plants affiliated with Apple,
Toyota and Volkswagen, to suspend oper-
ations. The backlog of container ships
waiting off Qingdao, one of the country’s
biggest ports, has also swelled, with near-
ly twice as many ships queued up Monday
as at the end of February. These bottle-
necks are expected to drive container
freight prices (even) higher.
All of this will be bad for already
EZ
Benin’s objects could help offset the
cost of the war.
To the Kingdom of Benin and its
descendants, the works represented
both the pinnacle of their spirituality
and the perfection of their craft. The
British saw a piggy bank for their
imperial desires.
“Blood art” is not a term we typically
use to describe treasures taken from
colonial subjects. But how are they any
different from blood diamonds and
conflict minerals?
The concept of “blood diamonds”
grew out of violent 1990s conflicts in
Africa and usually refers to diamonds
mined by African rebel groups to fund
insurgencies against legitimate gov-
ernments. In the early 2000s, repre-
sentatives of diamond-producing
states met to come up with the Kimber-
ley Process to try to curb the trade of
conflict diamonds. The 2006 movie
“Blood Diamond” also served to in-
crease global consciousness about dia-
monds that helped fuel war in Africa.
What defense can there be for hold-
ing on to looted objects, then? The stan-
dard answer is that returning works
from major institutions in the West
would come at the cost of preservation,
worldwide knowledge and admiration.
Yet true education about such objects is
already minimized. The polite little in-
formation cards under these artifacts
rarely tell viewers that the plundered
objects helped fund colonial violence.
Proudly owning and displaying sto-
len art is no less shocking than proudly
owning and displaying diamonds that
play a role in killing people. If you
wouldn’t do one, don’t do the other.
A trickle of change must be turned
into a torrent, and I hope the Smithso-
nian’s agreement will help to touch one
off. “Blood art” surely needs its Holly-
elevated inflation, in both the United
States and the rest of the world. The only
possible economic upside is that factory
shutdowns will likely reduce global de-
mand for oil.
This might be helpful in light of Shock
No. 2: the disruptions in commodity mar-
kets, including oil, resulting from Russia’s
unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
This issue has obviously generated
more coverage. Oil and natural gas prices
have climbed in recent weeks as govern-
ments and individual corporations have
placed new restrictions on transactions
with Russia. Oil prices have fallen back a
little in the past few days but remain high.
Equally worrisome are rising prices for
other commodities produced in that part
of the world. Russia and Ukraine together
supply nearly a third of global wheat
exports, with the Ukraine planting season
usually occurring in mid-March (i.e.,
now). Even before the war, global stocks of
wheat were low, and prices high, thanks to
unfavorable growing weather over the
past two years. In the wake of Russia’s
invasion, wheat prices have skyrocketed,
threatening to boost food inflation more
broadly. The risk of widespread hunger
and economic hardship is especially high
in lower-income countries that are most
reliant on Europe’s breadbasket.
Finally, there’s the third risk: tighten-
ing financial conditions, thanks to the
Federal Reserve.
The Fed is widely expected to raise
interest rates at its meeting this week.
Given that U.S. inflation is already at a
40-year high, this is hardly surprising. In a
different era, few would have predicted
that interest rates could be at zero when
inflation hit nearly 8 percent (as hap-
pened in February). With hindsight, even
RE
KOLA SULAIMON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
wood moment.
The global Black Lives Matter pro-
tests of 2020 put a long-needed spot-
light on Western museums and de-
mands by African governments to have
their heritages returned. Last year,
Germany said it would return Benin
Bronzes to Nigeria. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York returned
two of its Benin Bronzes, albeit out of a
collection of 160.
In 2012, Boston’s Museum of Fine
Arts received a promise of 32 Benin
Bronzes, to be transferred over time,
from the private collection of Robert
Owen Lehman (yes, of Lehman Broth-
ers banking stock). Though Nigeria
demanded the art be returned, the
museum displayed all 32 of the Bronz-
es and took ownership of five of them.
In November 2021, the Boston Globe’s
Malcolm Gay reported that the mu-
seum would pause the transfer of own-
ership of the remaining 27. But mu-
seum director Matthew Teitelbaum
said, “We certainly don’t think we
should encourage the return of the
objects to the donor.”
To the donor? How about doing the
right thing and sending them home?
Meanwhile, the British Museum
continues to hold on to its blood art
collection of more than 900 Benin
Bronzes, offering only temporary loans
back to Nigeria.
Lending stolen items back to their
rightful owner adds modern-day insult
to colonial-era injury.
More than a century after the Puni-
tive Expedition, the British are still
trying to get away with their plunder.
But the tide is changing — and it’s good
to see an American institution such as
the Smithsonian helping to rectify this
deep harm by repatriating art stolen in
cold blood.
Fed officials would probably agree that
they should have begun tightening
months ago.
Fed officials had delayed taking these
measures earlier because they feared do-
ing so would derail the post-pandemic
recovery. Most previous Fed efforts to
tamp down inflation by making it harder
to borrow ended with the Fed plunging the
U.S. economy into recession, after all.
Central bankers have been hoping to
avoid that outcome this time, particularly
because there are still 2 million fewer jobs
today than existed before the pandemic.
And for a long time, most economic
forecasters believed inflationary pres-
sures would largely abate on their own as
supply chains normalized. That clearly
hasn’t happened.
Engineering a “soft landing” for this
hot economy was always going to be
difficult. But it got more difficult in light
of recent global events, because the Fed is
being pulled in conflicting directions.
Chinese supply chain problems and Rus-
sia/Ukraine commodity market disrup-
tions are widely expected to push overall
inflation even higher, which would nor-
mally nudge the Fed to raise interest rates
faster. But those same forces are also
expected to drag down economic growth,
which usually suggests the Fed should
raise rates more slowly.
It’s not obvious what path the Fed
should or even could take to get inflation
under control without tipping us into
recession. Frankly, even without aggres-
sive rate hikes, recession risks are piling
up.
There’s never a good time for a down-
turn. But given all the other suffering and
loss of life over the past few years, it’s hard
to imagine a worse time than the present.
A21
MEGAN MCARDLE
Dear inflation
doves: Be
careful what
you wish for
n policy, as in life, almost every
problem you’re not having seems
easier to handle than the ones you’re
suffering through.
In recent years, people worried about
inflation were regarded as falling some-
where between fogies and cranks. Seri-
ous inflation was a thing that had
happened in the past, to people who
wore funny-looking pants. Or it was
something that happened abroad. But it
hadn’t happened to the United States
since the early 1980s, and after a while
people started to worry that we had too
little inflation — that the Federal Reserve
was choking off the economy before it
could get to full employment and should
set a higher target such as 4 percent
annual inflation, rather than its timid
2 percent.
Now, suddenly, we have all the infla-
tion the doves ever wanted, and then
some. The rate was 7.9 percent in Febru-
ary, a 40-year high, and that alarming
figure doesn’t yet reflect what the Rus-
sian invasion of Ukraine is doing to the
price of oil, natural gas and other critical
commodities. We are now rediscovering
why central banks were so obsessed with
keeping inflation low.
But first, let’s give the inflation doves
their due. Despite the worries of extreme
inflation hawks, the doves are right
about one thing: Some inflation is better
than none. Inflation eases problems such
as “sticky wages” — workers are reluc-
tant to take pay cuts, and employers are
therefore reluctant to offer them, so
when firms run into cash-flow problems,
they lay off some people instead of giving
everyone a small pay cut. By providing
that pay cut in real terms — if the cost of
living goes up while your salary remains
flat, my friend, you’ve taken a pay cut —
inflation avoids some unemployment.
Virtually all economists agree on this
much; we’re just arguing about how
much inflation is too much. But our
situation is highlighting the high per-
sonal and political costs of inflation —
costs that doves might have underesti-
mated after so many years of steady
prices.
As the example above suggests, one
way inflation boosts employment is by
lowering real wages — the opposite of
what most advocates of “running the
economy hot” seem to expect. And if that
lower unemployment rate represents
people lured into the job market by
nominally higher paychecks, some of
them will probably march right back out
again when they realize how little pur-
chasing power that check represents.
Meanwhile, there are the other costs.
Retirement savers, for example, have
long been cautioned to shift more
money into bonds as they approach 60,
because bonds are safer. But bonds
become unsafe when inflation rises,
because their fixed payouts get steadily
less valuable. Nor is that the only way
retirees get whacked by inflation: Some
will pay taxes on capital “gains” that
just reflect the general increase in
prices; some have pensions without
cost-of-living adjustments.
Workers get hit in a different way:
Because salaries rarely adjust to infla-
tion in real time, employees will typically
see price increases before their pay-
checks rise to meet them. And while
there will be offsetting gains for some
people — this is a great time to be sitting
on a mountain of fresh debt — the joy of
homeowners luxuriating in 2 percent
fixed-rate mortgages as the cost of every-
thing else goes up probably doesn’t
outweigh the cumulative anxieties of
renters worried about buying gas and
food.
The doves might retort that this all
has nothing to do with what they were
suggesting. They wanted a modestly
higher inflation target, not a convulsive
leap to nearly 8 percent. The fact that
unpredictable inflation is bad doesn’t
mean that the planned kind would also
be terrible.
Yet one could ask just how much good
it does to double a completely predict-
able target: If it really all comes out in
the wash, how effective could 4 percent
possibly be? One could also ask whether
it was ever reasonable to demand that
everything stay the same except the
inflation rate.
That predictability was hard-won by
central bankers who did roughly the
same thing, decade after decade, giving
the markets confidence that there would
never be another inflationary spiral. Had
they shifted those targets to a higher
level, they would have sacrificed some of
that credibility. And the transition costs
were bound to be large, because plans
made for a low-inflation environment
fall apart when inflation rises, as hap-
pened in the 1970s and early ’80s, and as
is happening now.
For 40 years, central bankers have
shielded us from those costs. That came
at a price. But that’s the point: We were
never choosing whether to impose costs
on people, just which costs to impose,
and who would pay them. It’s always
tempting to assume that some other
collection of trade-offs would sting less.
But before we advocate for any major
policy switch, we should always serious-
ly consider the unfortunate possibility
that whatever unsatisfactory thing we’re
doing now might, in fact, be better than
any realistic alternative.
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shootings of five homeless people is key for
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NEW SUPERVISOR
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Agencies collaborated
in 2020 robbery cases

BY P ETER H ERMANN

The robberies came fast and

furious, nearly a dozen targeting
20 people over two weeks in the
fall of 2020 in Northwest Wash-
ington. Police said people were
held up at knife and gunpoint,
and three were forced into vehi-
cles.
Authorities said they found a
common thread in many of the
attacks: The robbers stole cell-
phones and used mobile cash
apps to transfer money from the
victims’ bank accounts to their
own.
In what officials described as a
cyber twist in a run of brazen
street crimes, three people were
arrested on 98 criminal counts
including armed robbery, kidnap-
ping and fraud.
The FBI and D.C. police say a
partnership between the two
agencies helped build a financial
BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST trail to link the cases. It’s one of
many collaborations that Wayne
Authorities offer Those living on A. Jacobs, the newly named spe-
cial agent in charge of the crimi-
reward as victim in the streets face yet nal and cyber division of the FBI’s
District is identified D.C. field office, says is key to
another danger trying to reduce crime in the
region and make sure law en-
BY P ETER H ERMANN, forcement is strategically pursu-
J USTIN W M. M OYER, In his years ing perpetrators.
S HAYNA J ACOBS without a home, “It seems like a fairly simple
AND E MILY D AVIES Gregory Hammett thing, but I’ll tell you, historically,
has fought off it is something that law enforce-
A search intensified Monday heat, cold, wind, ment has at times struggled with
for a man who police believe is ice, rain, snow, — finding the right targets for us
targeting homeless people in the Petula rats, insects, to pursue,” Jacobs said in an
District and New York City in Dvorak hunger, riots and interview.
shootings that have left two dead robbers. Federal authorities and D.C.
and three wounded. This week, he added a serial police routinely work together in
Authorities are expediting killer to the list of things SEE FBI ON B5
their evidence analysis and homeless people like him have to
boosted a reward for informa- be afraid of in the nation’s capital.
tion in the attacks to $70,000 as “This is something new,” said
they warned vulnerable resi- Hammett, a 62-year-old Army
Comments
D.C. POLICE

dents to seek shelter. At a Mon- TOP: Burned clothing is seen near a tent on New York veteran from Arizona who, with
day evening news conference Avenue NE where one of the D.C. attacks occurred. his flowing silver hair and beard,
that brought together the may-
ors and top police officials from
both cities, authorities released a
ABOVE: Video surveillance images released by D.C.
police show a person of interest in the shootings. Police
said investigators linked ballistic evidence from at least
looks like Gandalf in camo and on
crutches.
There are about a dozen tents
on Black
new photograph capturing the
suspected gunman on a surveil-
lance camera.
one shooting in New York to a shooting in D.C. The
attacks come as violence against the homeless has risen.
dotting the grounds surrounding
the Christopher Columbus statue
outside Union Station, an
candidates
SEE SLAYINGS ON B2 SEE DVORAK ON B4
roil party
Maryland Democrats’
In a first since convoy’s arrival, truckers drive through D.C. deputy treasurer resigns
after email surfaces
BY E LLIE S ILVERMAN, on YouTube. “We’re right in the
K ARINA E LWOOD swamp now and creating a horri-
AND I AN D UNCAN ble mess down here.” BY O VETTA W IGGINS
Police asked for patience amid
Police blocked interstate exits the road closures along interstate A top Maryland Democratic
into downtown Washington as exits, saying authorities were try- Party official who questioned
hundreds of trucks, cars and ing to prevent the convoy from whether voters would elect a
SUVs protesting the govern- leaving the highway. Black candidate for governor
ment’s response to the pandemic “These rolling road closures stepped down on Monday as calls
rode into the nation’s capital to are occurring in real-time as they for her departure escalated.
start a second week of demon- are needed, and will be lifted as Barbara Goldberg Goldman, a
strations. soon as they are no longer neces- prolific donor who was the party’s
Members of the “People’s Con- sary,” said an alert from D.C. deputy treasurer, resigned on
voy” and thousands of other mo- Homeland Security and Emer- Monday. She also publicly apolo-
torists encountered severe back- gency Management. D.C. police gized for the comments.
ups Monday afternoon, when began to reopen exits about “We do not condone or support
highway traffic that already was 3:30 p.m. as the convoy departed the comments in her email,” state
heavy only worsened with the the city. Democratic Party Chair Yvette
convoy’s arrival. The convoy en- On live streams, truckers said Lewis said in a statement an-
tered the city via the 14th Street they never planned to leave the nouncing Goldberg Goldman’s
Bridge on Interstate 395 amid a highway and blamed police for departure. “They do not represent
near-standstill, then continued causing traffic disruptions. Alai- the values of the Maryland Demo-
to Interstate 695 before crossing na Gertz, a D.C. police spokes- cratic Party.”
the Anacostia River and return- woman, declined to comment on The resignation came shortly
ing to the Beltway. the decision to block exits, saying after John B. King Jr., a former U.S.
Eastbound traffic crawled the department doesn’t comment education secretary, and Rushern
along a four-mile stretch from on “operational tactics.” L. Baker III, a former county exec-
the Potomac River to Anacostia The convoy, a group of truckers utive in Prince George’s, called for
in the middle of the day. The D.C. and other drivers protesting pan- MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST her to step down.
detour represented an escalation demic-related health measures, Kecia Pettey, with her dog Moppett, shows her support for the “People’s Convoy” as it makes its way Her remarks, which surfaced
in the group’s tactics after an spent parts of most days last Monday along Interstate 395 in Washington. Motorists encountered severe backups in the afternoon. Sunday in a report from Axios,
application by convoy leaders for week looping the Beltway as a were made in a December email to
a nearly two-week permitted pro- form of protest, but leaders had the group would resume their to their walls,” said Mike Landis, through the city to display “a party insiders about endorsing
test on the National Mall was avoided bringing the group into Beltway loop. They left the a People’s Convoy co-organizer. bigger presence,” convoy leader former Democratic National
partially denied. the city despite a desire from Hagerstown Speedway about “We’re not going to go in and Brian Brase said in an interview. Committee chairman Tom Perez
“I believe we’re making a good some supporters. 10 a.m., but this time with throat-punch them just yet, even “We are still here, and we’re in the state’s gubernatorial pri-
statement today,” said one truck After taking the weekend off added plans for a detour into though I know we would all love not going anywhere yet,” Brase mary. Goldberg Goldman wrote:
driver whose journey was live- because of a snowstorm, convoy Washington. to do that.” said. “It won’t be stopping, it “Consider this: Three African
streamed under the account ZOT organizers announced Monday “Today we’re getting right next Organizers decided to go SEE CONVOY ON B4 SEE RESIGNATION ON B5
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Police o≠er reward for information on suspect in shootings of homeless people

SLAYINGS FROM B1
“We are looking for a person
tent near Union Market in the
District. Police identified the
D.C., NYC police seek suspect in five related shootings hands and face while standing
on a street corner, according to a
man killed in the tent as Morgan MANHATTAN police report. The man said he

ST.
who is clearly depraved and is Holmes, 54. ran south into a gated construc-
D.C.

targeting people who are vulner-
able,” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bows-
er (D) said at the John A. Wilson
Building on Monday night.
“Homelessness should not be a
homicide,” New York Mayor Eric
Adams (D) said hours after po-
lice had released video of a
possible assailant.
Authorities said they believe
the cases are linked, citing simi-
larities in the assailant’s actions,
HUDSON
On Monday, police in both tion area screaming for help and
Detail
cities handed out fliers and tried NW heard another burst of gunshots.
to steer homeless residents into NE Police said the assailant shot at
shelters and other programs. Po- . NE Detail least five more times but appar-
lice in the District headed to
SE
K AVE First ently missed.
SW YOR
First and M streets NE, near New
NE
W victim On March 9, police said a man
York Avenue and North Capitol First victim in a tent was attacked about
Street. Holland 2:50 a.m. in the 400 block of New
The area is amid towering
Third victim Tunnel York Avenue NE, blocks from
apartment buildings and had where the other man had been
been the site of an earlier home- CA shot the previous week. His tent
less encampment consisting of NA had been set on fire, authorities

T.
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the circumstances of the victims, dozens of tents that had been ST said. Police said they learned

photos and video. D.C. Police
Chief Robert J. Contee III said
investigators with the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives linked ballistic evi-
dence from at least one shooting
in New York to at least one
shooting in the District.
Contee also credited a captain
in the homicide unit, Kevin Kent-
ish, who was scrolling through
social media over the weekend
and saw an image that helped
link the cases in the two cities.
Contee said police are still trying
to determine how the gunman
moved between New York and
D.C. Police are also trying to
determine where he is from.
“I feel the knot is tightening,”
Contee said, promising an arrest.
Authorities said they have talked
with police departments along
the East Coast but so far have
found no other cases. But New
York City Police Commissioner
Keechant Sewell warned, “We
have a perpetrator who is mo-
bile, who has struck in two major
American cities.”
The attacks occurred over
12 days in two cities 225 miles
apart, each with mayors strug-
gling to find the right social and
political solutions to the complex
challenges of homelessness and
crime. In New York, Adams has
begun a campaign to clear home-
less people from subway sta-
tions. In the District, Bowser was
having homeless encampments
cleared from city streets.
Advocates say there has been a
spike in violence targeting home-
less people over the last year, and
authorities in both cities de-
scribed the latest attacks as
“coldblooded” and “cowardly.” At
least three men were shot in
their sleep, and one was found
shot and stabbed in a burning
removed from an underpass. Of-
ficials had also cleared the en-
campment from near Fourth
Street and New York Avenue,
where the man died. But nearby,
a few tents were propped on a
muddy wedge of earth between
the eastbound New York Avenue
bridge and a FedEx facility.
Sitting on a bike on the slim
strip of sidewalk between the
tents and the street, a man who
gave his name as “Dirty Redzz”
said he had been homeless for 18
years after he was injured while
working construction. Though
he has a housing voucher, he
said, he’s been hesitant about
seeking an apartment. But warn-
ings about a killer on the loose
has him rethinking his situation.
“It’s scary,” he said. “We gotta
stick together.”
Nearby, Wanda Alston ex-
plained that she had been home-
less for “the majority” of her 50
years. The D.C. native said she
has no family and can’t work
because of a disability. Alston
said she has a place to stay, but
feels safe between the concrete
islands near the street. This is
her community, threatened or
not. “They’re my friends,” she
said. “Just because I’m fortunate
enough to get a place doesn’t
mean I abandon them.”
Jesse Rabinowitz, senior man-
ager for policy and advocacy at
D.C. outreach organization Miri-
am’s Kitchen, said it shouldn’t
take a killer for people to care
about people who are homeless.
The District needs to spend more
to get people housed, Rabinowitz
said, which will in turn ease
other problems such as health
care, freezing weather and vio-
lence on the streets. “The solu-
tion to all of these problems is
housing,” he said.
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MANHATTAN
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Union Second
6TH ST. NE . NE
Station D AVE victim
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Sources: D.C. Police Department, NY Police Department
NICK MOURTOUPALAS/THE WASHINGTON POST
incidents of crime and noted it
was unfair to both homeless
people and subway patrons to
continue the status quo.
Jacquelyn Simone, policy di-
rector for the Coalition for the
Homeless in New York, said this
push has contributed to the
number of people in the city
spending nights on the streets.
She said there had not yet been
an adequate housing system in
place to handle the displace-
ment.
“As we saw this weekend, the
streets can be very dangerous for
people who are unsheltered,” Si-
mone said. “They don’t have any
protection from the elements or
from people who wish them
BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST harm, and that can have life-or-
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) speaks Monday during a news death consequences.”
conference on the shootings of five homeless people in D.C. and The first shooting in the Dis-
New York. “We are looking for a person who is clearly depraved trict attributed to the man took
and is targeting people who are vulnerable,” she said. place about 4 a.m. on March 3 in
the 1100 block of New York
Last year in the District, 69 Washington Post found a majori- Avenue NE, near Ivy City. The
people died without having a ty of D.C. residents support those victim’s injuries were not life-
permanent home, advocates efforts, though they also gave the threatening. The victim told po-
said. It could not immediately be mayor low marks for building lice he was shot in the back and
determined how many of those and maintaining affordable right shoulder as he slept.
deaths were linked to violence. housing. Five days later, police said a
The Bowser administration In New York, Adams has an- man was shot about 1:20 a.m. in
has embarked on a pilot initia- nounced a plan that would clear the 1700 block of H Street NE,
tive to clean up encampments homeless people from subways outside a grocery store off Ben-
and fast-track people into hous- and help them connect with city ning Road. The victim told police
ing. A recent survey by The services and shelters. He cited he had been shot once in the
after an autopsy that he had been
shot and stabbed.
The attacks in New York City
occurred Saturday, the first
about 4:30 a.m. near the Holland
Street Tunnel. Police said a 38-
year-old man was shot in the arm
while sleeping, and may have
avoided further injury by waking
up and shouting, “What are you
doing?”
About 90 minutes later, police
said a homeless man was found
15 blocks away in a sleeping bag,
shot in the head and neck. He
died at the scene, and was not
found until 5 p.m. that evening.
At that location in Lower Man-
hattan on Monday, a pair of
broadcast news vans were
parked and police fliers an-
nouncing a reward were at-
tached to lampposts and scaf-
folding.
Remnants of a vigil rested on a
sewer grate along the side of a
Blick Arts Materials store, to the
right of a garage door where
surveillance video shows the
sleeping victim lay when a gun-
man shot him in the head and
neck before fleeing. “Homeless
New Yorkers need safe haven
now,” read one of the signs
etched in black marker.
Julio Lopez has worked more
than five years at the security
desk at 148 Lafayette, a commer-
cial building. He wasn’t at work
at the time of the shooting, but
learned about it later on the
news. He said a rotation of
homeless people sleep outside
his building. “I feel sad for
everybody who is homeless,” Lo-
pez said.
Jacobs reported from New York.
Nicole Asbury, Martin Weil and
Devlin Barrett contributed to this
report.

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Book on 16th Street’s history paved with accounts of dust and sluggish growth
We often refer to
our highways,
roads and
avenues as
“arteries,” as if
they carried
John corpuscles
Kelly's instead of cars,
Washington platelets rather
than pedestrians.
But they are a
city’s circulatory system, from
the tiniest cul-de-sac capillary to
the mightiest aortic interstate.
And that makes John
DeFerrari and Douglas Peter
Sefton veritable cardiologists of
the asphalt. They are the
authors of the new book
“Sixteenth Street NW:
Washington, D.C.’s Avenue of
Ambitions.”
Well, I say “asphalt,” but for a
while, sections of 16th Street
were covered in another
material.
“Washington went through
this phase of being enamored
with wood blocks,” DeFerrari
said. Portions of 16th Street
were paved with them.
“They learned their lesson
pretty quickly on that,” he said.
“Definitely in a humid
environment, wood doesn't hold
up that long.”
CAPITAL WEATHER GANG
No, you’re not crazy: Our strongest wind gusts are becoming more frequent
BY I AN L IVINGSTON
AND J EFF H ALVERSON
It might be calm out now, but
Saturday’s storm delivered yet
another windy wallop to the D.C.
area. The month’s second wind
advisory was issued, and winds
gusted to around 50 mph. High
winds have been pestering and
persistent over the last few
weeks.
Our analysis of wind data
shows that the strongest gusts
have become more frequent re-
cently. Last year featured more
big wind gusts than any recent
year, a trend that has continued
into this year. Wind advisories,
issued by the National Weather
Service when gusts are expected
to top 45 mph, have also been on
the increase since the mid-2000s.
Reasons for high winds in the
D.C. region are many. The main
drivers are intense low-pressure
systems passing near the region
and powerful Arctic cold fronts
sweeping through in their wake.
Climate change may also be in-
creasing the chance of strong
winds.
We’re in high-wind season
There’s nothing particularly
unusual about it being windy this
time of year. The peak of wind
season in our region runs rough-
ly from January through April.
This is primarily because the jet
stream — which powers storms
and pushes chilly air masses
MARYLAND
Confederate statue taken down in Talbot County
BY F REDRICK K UNKLE
Workers removed a Confederate
statue early Monday from the
grounds of the Talbot County
Courthouse on the Eastern Shore
with plans to reassemble the mon-
ument on a Civil War battlefield in
Virginia, the county manager said.
Its removal was approved last
year by the Talbot County Council
following public protest and con-
tentious debate.
“The civil war monument in
front of the courthouse was care-
fully and respectfully packaged
and removed,” Talbot County Man-
ager Clay B. Stamp said Monday in
an interview. “However we han-
dled the statue, we wanted to make
sure we showed due respect for it,
because there were many people
that honored its purpose.”
The 13-foot copper statue of a
young soldier, which stood atop a
pedestal inscribed with the names
of those Talbot County men who
died for the Confederate cause, is
thought to be the last Confederate
monument standing on nonfederal
public land in Maryland, according
to the Move the Monument Coali-
tion. The nonprofit organization
said in a statement that $80,000
had been raised to relocate the
monument to the Cross Keys Bat-
tlefield in Harrisonburg, Va.
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Said Sefton: “They had a
tendency to rot on you. It was
like stepping on a soft
cobblestone: not too good with a
horse’s hoof.”
But at first the real problem
wasn’t what the road was made
of, but the fact that it wasn’t
made at all. Though 16th Street
was on Pierre L’Enfant’s
original design for the new
capital — running north from
the president’s house — the
street was slow to grow.
“Until nearly the end of the
19th century, Massachusetts
Avenue was the upper limit of
developed Washington,”
DeFerrari said.
The intersection of 16th Street
with Massachusetts and Rhode
Island avenues NW was “just a
dusty crossroads,” said Sefton,
notable mainly for the Louise
Home, a Second Empire-style
pile built in 1871 by banker
William Wilson Corcoran as a
refuge for Confederate widows.
(Corcoran was a Confederate
sympathizer whose wife and
daughter — both named Louise
— had died young.)
The topography and
hydrology of the city made
extending the street a difficult
prospect. A creek called Slash
south and east as Arctic fronts —
is strongest during the winter
months.
March is our windiest month,
but wind statistics don’t vary a
whole lot from January through
April. For March, we might ex-
pect 11.6 days featuring gusts of
30 mph or more, 3.6 days with
gusts of 40 mph or more, and 0.8
days with gusts of 50 mph or
more.
For comparison, the typical
September might bring 3.8 days
with gusts of 30 mph or more,
0.6 days with gusts of 40 mph or
more, and 0.2 days with gusts of
50 mph or more.
The warmer spring-to-sum-
mer months still feature bursts of
strong-to-damaging winds, but
the gusts are typically associated
with thunderstorms and are
highly localized. Overall, the fre-
quency of strong wind gusts
drops in the summer and fall
before increasing again.
Tropical storms and hurri-
canes containing high-intensity
winds are infrequent enough
here not to really show up in our
wind statistics, but they can
disrupt a typically quieter Sep-
tember or October once in a
while.
It’s been notably windy lately
Last year was a high-end wind
year. Washington experienced
10 days with wind gusts at or
above 50 mph. That was higher
than in any year back to at least
Crews remove the base of the “Talbot Boys” statue on the grounds
of the Talbot County Courthouse on Monday in Easton, Md.
“We commend our many sup-
porters as well as the County Coun-
cil for seeing that this symbol of the
Jim Crow-era no longer sits on the
site where justice for all is sup-
posed to reign,” the organization’s
statement says.
Efforts to remove the Confeder-
ate monument took on urgency in
2020 as protests for racial justice
swept the nation following the
murder of George Floyd while in
the custody of Minneapolis police.
An initial vote by the Talbot County
Council that summer to retain the
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The new book “Sixteenth Street NW” says sections of the street
were once paved with wood blocks. Although the area’s topography
and hydrology made it difficult to develop, a wealthy resident in
1898 proposed building a new Executive Mansion on Meridian Hill.
Run paralleled the route before
cutting east across it south of
today’s Florida Avenue NW. This
marshy and overgrown area
became known as the Slashes,
since the only way to traverse it
was by slashing through the
brush.
The escarpment of Meridian
Hill was also forbidding.
“The next big obstacle is the
valley of Piney Branch,”
DeFerrari said.
2006. Baltimore recorded nine
such days, the most since at least
1997. Annually, Washington
should expect five days with
gusts of 50 mph or more.
So far, 2022 has also proved
windy. Washington has had two
days with winds gusting to
50 mph or more, including
52 mph during the late-season
snowstorm on Saturday. There
have also been five days with
wind gusts in the 40-plus range.
Washington averages 12 days a
year with gusts of 40 mph or
more, and already has seven in
2022.
Wind advisories have also
been on the increase. In 2006, the
trendline for average annual is-
suances was at 13. In 2021, it had
risen to 18. Less-frequent high-
wind warnings, for winds gusting
over 55 mph, do not show the
same type of rise over time.
There were also historic wind-
storms here in March 2018; April
2016; February 2011, twice; and
February 2010. Some of these
were clear-sky wind events, with
widespread gusts reaching into
peak territory of 50 to 60-plus
mph. During the worst of these
events (March 2-3, 2018), power
outages surpassed 750,000.
Potential causes
Our days with intense wind-
storms almost always feature
Arctic fronts or bomb cyclones.
Bomb cyclones are intense
coastal storms or nor’easters
JULIO CORTEZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS
statue was met with local protests
that eventually led council mem-
bers to reverse course in Septem-
ber.
Stamp said workers spent Sun-
day preparing the courthouse
grounds for the monument’s re-
moval. Early Monday, a dozen
workers, assisted by a specialized
crane, disassembled the monu-
ment into two pieces and lifted
them onto a trailer for removal.
The job was wrapped up by about
1 p.m., Stamp said, with delivery to
Virginia expected in the next day
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As in so much of the city, the
Civil War spurred growth along
16th Street. Military
encampments were established
on Meridian Hill. As was
common, African Americans
fleeing the South moved to be
near them. Meridian Hill had a
vibrant Black community.
It also had stunning views of
the city below, making it ripe for
development at the busy hands
of people like Mary Foote
characterized by an unusually
rapid drop in pressure, over a
large area. This accelerates air
inward toward the storm core.
High pressure encroaching on
such storms increases the change
in pressure with distance, typi-
cally generating D.C.’s strongest
winds in their wake. Winds are
driven by pressure changes.
Over the past year or two, with
back-to-back La Niña winters,
our windstorms often seemed to
be related to a series of very
strong fronts with wicked pres-
sure rises just behind the front.
Arctic fronts occur along the
leading edge of an approaching
Canadian high-pressure system.
When isobars — lines of constant
pressure — are packed tightly
together, and move into the D.C.
region rapidly, this leads to a
strong pressure surge, generat-
ing powerful wind gusts.
This past weekend there was
both a bomb cyclone and a strong
cold front to help generate winds.
In Arctic fronts and retreating
bomb cyclones, an additional
impetus for strong wind is desta-
bilization of the atmosphere —
either by cold air moving in at
high altitudes and/or surface
warming by the sun. The unsta-
ble air begins to stir, mixing
down blobs of faster-moving air a
few thousand feet above the
surface, adding to the gustiness.
Climate change connection?
It’s the subject for a longer
or so.
“It’s all going to the same place,
and it will be re-erected at that
location,” Stamp said.
The Confederate monument
was built between 1914 and 1916,
nearly 50 years after the Civil War’s
conclusion. The statue depicted a
young boy, his chin up and hat
tipped back, holding a furled Con-
federate flag to his side. The gran-
ite pedestal carried an inscription,
“To the Talbot Boys. 1861-1865.
C.S.A.”
The monument had been built
partly through the efforts of Jo-
seph B. Seth, a lawyer in Easton
who said the county had “just pride
in her contribution of men to the
Confederate cause.” In a memoir
he co-wrote, Seth wrote that “the
bulk of the slaves were devoted to
their masters and their families,”
which “were equally devoted to the
slaves and with the whole South-
land had the tenderest affection
for the faithful old Mammies and
Uncles.”
The Talbot County branch of the
NAACP had long wanted to get rid
of the monument, calling it an
offensive symbol of racism and op-
pression. The Southern Poverty
Law Center said nearly 170 Confed-
erate symbols, including monu-
ments, were removed in 2020 fol-
lowing Floyd’s killing.
Henderson.
“She was like an imperial
force,” Sefton said of Henderson
who, with husband John B.
Henderson, lived in a castle on
the northwest corner of 16th
and Florida. She had grand
designs for 16th Street, many of
which involved demolishing the
modest homes of African
American residents and
replacing them with mansions
and embassy buildings.
“What Pennsylvania Avenue is
is really what she wanted 16th
Street to be,” DeFerrari said. “Of
course, she wanted to rename it
Avenue of the Presidents.”
Henderson dreamed of lining
the street with busts of every
president and erecting on
Meridian Hill a new Executive
Mansion to replace the White
House, which she saw as small
and tattered.
Both authors have lived near
16th Street, traveling upon it
countless times. DeFerrari grew
up in Crestwood, the
neighborhood between 16th
Street and Rock Creek Park.
“We wrote a biography of the
street,” he said. “It’s the story of
the life of a street, from infancy
to maturity.”
It’s a life that’s been fairly
article, but it’s reasonable to ask
whether bomb cyclones are in-
creasing with warmer ocean sur-
face temperatures lurking off the
Eastern Seaboard in the past few
years. An example of anomalous-
ly warm waters persisting from
this winter is shown below.
A number of studies have
linked intensification of low-
pressure systems to warm off-
shore waters — nor’easters ex-
tract heat from the upper ocean
LO C A L D I G E S T
THE DISTRICT
Police: Man fatally
stabbed in Northwest
A 42-year-old man was slain
in Northwest Washington early
Monday morning, D.C. police
said.
Police identified him as
Kenneth Thomas Jr., of Silver
Spring.
Officers responded to a
reported stabbing in the 1900
block of Ninth Street NW about
1 a.m. and found Thomas with a
stab wound inside an
establishment, police said.
He was taken to a hospital,
where he was pronounced dead.
— Jasmine Hilton
MARYLAND
Federal team helps
clear autopsy backlog
A federal team has helped the
Maryland medical examiner’s
office clear a backlog of
hundreds of bodies awaiting
autopsies, officials said.
Maryland Department of
Health spokesman Andy Owen
said that as of Friday, no bodies
were awaiting autopsy at the
Office of the Medical Examiner,
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stable — overwhelmingly
residential, compared to, say,
Connecticut Avenue or 14th
Street NW — even if national
and world events sometimes
shape it. The two blocks nearest
the White House have a new
name: Black Lives Matter Plaza.
Among the first things
newcomers notice about 16th
Street NW is the abundance of
churches. Why are there so
many?
“People often ask that,”
DeFerrari said. “I wish I could
say, ‘George Washington said
16th Street should be where the
churches are.’ There isn’t
anything like that.”
It does have qualities that
make it appealing to houses of
worship. It's centrally located,
thus easy for people to get to. It
has the cachet of one of the city’s
oldest and most prestigious
churches: St. John’s, across from
the White House.
“There’s also the fact that the
commercial prohibition means
you’re going to be in a serene
residential neighborhood and
not have a liquor store next to
you or an X-rated theater across
the street,” DeFerrari said.
Added Sefton: “You’re pretty
far from sin.”
much in the way hurricanes do.
It’s thus plausible that the warm-
ing offshore waters are strength-
ening our coastal storms.
We do, of course, need the
right weather pattern, too, and
some of the recent spurt of
activity may also be related to the
ongoing La Niña. La Niña win-
ters tend to deliver more atmos-
pheric waves than average,
which increases the chance of
offshore storm systems as well.
the Baltimore Sun reported. The
medical examiner’s office sought
help last month in managing a
backlog of more than 200
bodies that began in mid-
December.
The office is responsible for
determining the cause and
manner of death if a person is
not under the care of a
physician, or if the death is
unexpected or occurs under
suspicious or unusual
circumstances, including
homicides and drug overdoses.
In recent years, the office
suffered from staff shortages
and growing delays that have
slowed burials and criminal
cases and put the office’s
accreditation at risk.
The office has been overseen
by the acting chief since last
month, when Victor Weedn
resigned after a year on the job.
Maryland examiners typically
exceed the National Association
of Medical Examiners’ standard
of 250 autopsies a year per
examiner.
Hiring qualified pathologists
has been a national problem.
Owen said the agency “remains
focused on recruiting qualified
professionals and encourages all
applicants to apply.”
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PETULA DVORAK
People at Union Station worry a new danger could jeopardize encampment
DVORAK FROM B1
encampment that sprouted
during the pandemic. On Monday
morning, the chatter there was all
about the “coldblooded killer”
that the mayors of D.C. and New
York said has shot five men living
on the streets in both cities. And
the people in the tents worry that
it’ll mean the end of their
encampments.
“It is heartbreaking and tragic
to know that in addition to all the
dangers that unsheltered
residents face, we now have a
coldblooded killer on the loose,”
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and
New York Mayor Eric Adams said
in a joint statement Sunday night.
Police in both cities have a good
photo of a “person of interest” in
the shootings, two of which were
fatal. He looks smooth-headed, is
possibly bearded and wears blue
latex gloves when he shoots,
according to the photos released
by police.
The shootings began March 3
in D.C., where gunshots
summoned police at 4 a.m. to the
1100 block of New York Avenue
NE, where a man was shot while
outside. Five days later, another
man was shot in the face and
hands and ran away, screaming
for help. Both men survived.
In a first since protest began, detour from Beltway brings full convoy into D.C.
CONVOY FROM B1
won’t be blocking anything;
they’ll just be driving through.”
Monday’s convoy journey drew
comparisons by some drivers to
the Battle of Jericho — the bibli-
cal conflict in which the city’s
walls fell to the sound of trum-
pets after being circled by an
Israelite army for seven days.
“Seventh day and we’re blow-
ing our horns,” one driver said
over a CB radio heard during a
live stream. “What do you think is
going to happen?”
The detour brought the full
convoy into the District for the
first time since it began Feb. 23 in
Adelanto, Calif., en route to
Hagerstown, where its members
have been since March 4.
Convoy leaders say they want
to hold lawmakers accountable
for the government’s pandemic
responses, voicing frustrations
over vaccination requirements
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The Fairfax County School
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judge’s ruling that invalidated
the recently revised admissions
system for the prestigious Thom-
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An encampment in an L Street NE tunnel on Jan. 22, 2020. Homeless people in D.C. already faced
many health and safety issues, and now confront the possibility of being targeted by a serial killer.
But on March 9, a fire on New
York Avenue was extinguished by
firefighters who found a man who
had been shot and stabbed before
being set on fire.
The killer was quiet after that.
But on Saturday, he shot two
people asleep in Lower
Manhattan, killing one.
for health workers, federal em-
ployees and military personnel
intended to limit the spread of
the coronavirus. Although many
pandemic-related restrictions at
state and local levels have been
blocked or rescinded, convoy or-
ganizers have rallied supporters
by calling mandates an infringe-
ment on their freedoms.
A broader range of grievances
has also brought people to the
cause, evident in signs, flags and
chants from drivers and support-
ers in Hagerstown. Some have
expressed far-right beliefs and
misinformation that equate man-
dates to slavery; falsely claim
“Trump won,” referring to the
2020 presidential election; and
repeat QAnon conspiracies.
The People’s Convoy had also
hoped to hold a nearly two-week
permitted trucker protest on the
National Mall starting Monday,
but the application was partially
denied because of other events
ence and Technology magnet
school.
U.S. District Judge Claude M.
Hilton ruled late last month that
the admissions program at TJ, as
the school is known, discrimi-
nates against Asian American
applicants and constitutes an il-
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By Sunday police connected
the dots and made an
announcement.
“We all just heard about it
today,” said Marty Mercer, 51, who
signs letters with the address
“Tent City outside Union Station,
Washington D.C.”
“You’re already in danger when
already booked during that time
frame, according to National
Park Service records.
The Park Service was working
with the group on another date,
location and the conditions for
the protest when the People’s
Convoy withdrew the application
Sunday night, according to Park
Service spokesman Mike Litterst.
The NPS accepts permit applica-
tions on a rolling, first-come first-
serve basis.
“As far as we are concerned,
the books are closed on that
proposal,” Litterst said.
The convoy originally aimed to
bring 500 trucks, 1,000 cars and
campers, and up to 100,000 peo-
ple to the Mall between Third
and 12th streets on Jefferson and
Madison drives from March 14 at
12:01 a.m. until noon March 26,
according to the application sub-
mitted by Brase.
In conversations with Park
Service leadership, Brase said he
legal act of racial balancing. He
was ruling as part of a parent-
brought lawsuit that claims the
admissions system is discrimina-
tory. Hilton ordered that Fairfax
County Public Schools cease us-
ing the current TJ admissions
system immediately, throwing
into limbo the 2,500 students
who had already applied for a
spot in the Class of 2026 and are
midway through the application
process.
Hilton also denied a subse-
quent request from the school
board for a temporary stay of his
order, meant to allow the Class of
2026 applicants to proceed
through the current admissions
system uninterrupted.
The board filed its appeal of
Hilton’s ruling on Monday with
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
4th Circuit.
“We believe strongly that
Judge Hilton’s decision just was
not reflective of the extensive
federal case law that exists in
support of race-neutral admis-
sions,” the board’s chair, Stella
Pekarsky (Sully), said in an inter-
view Monday. “If we allow this to
stand without appeal, it could
have far-reaching repercussions
well beyond Fairfax County.”
The school district’s filing was
made by former U.S. solicitor
general Donald B. Verrilli Jr., of
the firm Munger, Tolles & Olson,
who has agreed to take the case
pro bono, according to school
system spokeswoman Julie
Moult. He was persuaded by two
of his firm’s lawyers, who are TJ
alumni, Moult said.
Legal experts were divided
over how the 4th Circuit is likely
to rule.
Some said it depends on the
composition of the panel of
judges, while others pointed out
that the use of race in admissions
in higher education is a very open
and controversial question. The
Supreme Court has agreed in its
next term, which begins in Octo-
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you’re out here,” Mercer said.
“There were two stabbings and a
rape recently.”
Surrounding the sculpture of
Columbus at Union Station are
piles of clothing, takeout food and
boxes of doughnuts left for the
men and women who stay there.
And there’s a sorting and
was considering reducing the
number of tractors without trail-
ers to no more than 50, down
from about 50 to 75, according to
a letter from Robbin Owen, chief
of the Park Service’s permits
management division. Brase also
was considering reducing the
number of participants from a
range of 10,000 to 100,000 to no
more than 200.
Brase said the permit applica-
tion was a “contingent plan in
order to bring trucks down in a
symbolic display where we were
going to park on the National
Mall.”
On the application, Brase said
he estimated “a bunch of num-
bers because I had no idea who
was going to show up and I
wanted to make sure it was pro-
tected.” But after speaking with
authorities about logistics, he
said he did not feel comfortable
with the “strain” it would put on
city and federal agencies. To ad-
ber, to hear lawsuits challenging
admission practices at Harvard
and the University of North Caro-
lina at Chapel Hill. The majority-
conservative court seems poised
to overturn decades of precedent
supporting the consideration of
race to achieve a diverse student
body.
Kim Forde-Mazrui, a law pro-
fessor at the University of Vir-
ginia, said Fairfax school officials’
best argument is that the TJ
admissions system uses race-
neutral methods to increase the
enrollment of underrepresented
students — a tactic that has long
been established as legal under
precedents including the Su-
preme Court’s rulings in the 1978
Regents of the University of Cali-
fornia v. Bakke case and the 2016
Fisher v. University of Texas.
Going by those cases, Forde-
Mazrui said, the 4th Circuit
should uphold the TJ admissions
system.
But “if the evidence does show
— maybe because of statements
people made — that they actually
want to reduce Asian numbers in
particular, while maintaining
White numbers, then I think that
will be struck down because that
wouldn’t be considered a legiti-
mate purpose,” Forde-Mazrui
said.
Natasha Warikoo, a sociology
professor at Tufts University who
studies ethnic and racial inequal-
ity in education and has been
following the TJ case, said she
thinks it will be hard to prove
Fairfax officials acted to drive
down the Asian population.
“I looked at some of the materi-
als that they claim shows that
this was about anti-Asian bias,”
she said. “I’m Asian American — I
don’t see it.”
Fairfax school officials revised
the TJ admissions system in 2020
by removing a $100 application
fee and a notoriously difficult
test. Instead, the school adopted
a “holistic review” process that
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haggling routine every morning.
“You go ahead and have those,”
a man known as Mole tells a
woman asking about a box of ribs
that someone had left.
“I’ve been homeless since I was
14,” said Mole, who got his street
name because he sees better in
the dark than in daylight. “And
I’m 55. I’ve been attacked, sure.
But a killer? Haven’t seen that.”
The folks of the encampment
wondered Monday who the killer
is and what the motive might be.
“He’s out to get rid of us, one by
one,” one said.
“Maybe he’s one of us, and he’s
blending in,” another suggested.
Violent attacks against the
homeless were on the rise and
especially horrific last year, when
a man was beheaded in Colorado,
a sleeping woman was attacked
by four kids in Washington state
and a sleeping man was set on fire
in New York.
In late 2020, the National
Coalition for the Homeless looked
at 20 years of statistics and saw a
steady rise in hate crimes against
the unhoused.
Yet folks like Mole and
Hammett sleep outside because
they feel safer there than they do
in a shelter.
“Last time I was in a shelter,
there was a fight and they
dress it, Brase said, he came up
with a smaller number of partici-
pants, but decided against it.
“Ultimately, it just didn’t sit
well with me not being able to
bring everybody down in. I didn’t
like the idea of having to select
who gets to go down there,” Brase
said. “They never told me I had to
cut it down at all. They were
totally willing to facilitate that.
It’s a First Amendment right
protest. But I was trying to, I
guess, make it easier on them.”
The application submitted by
Brase also did not include
enough information for the Park
Service to evaluate it, according
to a letter that requested plans
for security, medical aid, trans-
portation, a final list of equip-
ment and information for points
of contact. The group was not
planning acts of civil disobedi-
ence, according to the applica-
tion.
When asked on the Park Serv-
requires applicants to possess
certain academic qualifications,
including a high-level course
load and grade-point average,
but also takes into account stu-
dents’ “experience factors” in-
cluding socioeconomic status.
The factors do not include race,
which is not considered in TJ
admissions.
Officials said the revisions
were meant to boost diversity at
the school, which has historically
enrolled single-digit percentages
of Black and Hispanic students.
But the alterations immediately
drew fire as some parents alleged
they were meant to drive down
the population of Asian students
— a group that has constituted
about 70 percent of the student
body in recent years, while ac-
counting for about 30 percent of
Fairfax County’s overall popula-
tion.
In the first year the altered
admissions process took effect,
TJ admitted the most diverse
class of freshmen in recent mem-
ory. The percentage of Black,
Hispanic and low-income stu-
dents rose, while the percentage
of Asian students dropped to 50
percent. About 22 percent of of-
fers went to White students, a
number largely consistent with
the preceding four years, when
between 17 and 22 percent of
offers went to White students.
Hilton’s ruling last month
came as part of a lawsuit filed by a
group of parents and alumni
known as the Coalition for TJ,
which is opposed to the admis-
sions changes. The coalition,
which is being represented by the
Pacific Legal Foundation — a
conservative legal advocacy
group known for fighting against
affirmative action — argued that
TJ’s admissions system is dis-
criminatory and called for its
immediate end.
In his February ruling, Hilton
agreed with the coalition on pret-
ty much every point.
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knocked over a bunk bed,”
Hammett said. “I had to get out of
the way because I have a rod in
my leg and I’m not walking again
if I go down.”
Advocates worry that the
recent attacks will lead cities to
clear encampments. That’s
something most people want —
but only if there’s a solution to
house folks that’s more humane
and productive than a shelter.
“Our point has always been
that we don’t want to see anyone
living on the streets,” said Ann
Marie Staudenmaier, a staff
attorney for the Washington
Legal Clinic for the Homeless.
“But that’s often safer than being
in the horrible congregate
shelters.”
Another fear?
“Jail,” Hammett said. “I’m
worried they’re going to use this
as an excuse to throw anyone who
is homeless in jail. Now, what
good is that?”
At Columbus Circle, the folks
outside talked about keeping
watch and taking turns looking
out for the killer. They feel under
attack and unwanted, again.
“Most of the homeless people
are just trying to take care of
themselves,” Hammett said.
“Without being burdens to
others.”
ice form whether the group
thought an individual or group
would seek to disrupt their event,
Brase wrote “antifa,” referring to
anti-fascist activists.
The application also referenc-
es “TenFourDC plans,” referring
to the annual demonstration
Brase has helped to coordinate
on the Mall. The most recent
event was this past fall to protest
“the ongoing over regulation of
the trucking Industry,” according
to a permit issued by the Park
Service.
It’s unclear whether the Peo-
ple’s Convoy will again bring its
protest into D.C. or hold a permit-
ted demonstration in the future.
“That’s a day-by-day case at
this time, and we’re kind of
weighing those options day-by-
day,” Brase said. “And if I feel that
it is something that we need to
do, then I will definitely go back
down to the permits office and
file for a new permit.”
On Monday, coalition member
Harry Jackson — who noted that
he is a Black father of a son who
attends TJ and a half-Asian
eighth-grade daughter — said in
a statement that it is “disappoint-
ing but not shocking that the
failed school board members of
Fairfax County Publics have cho-
sen to dig in their heels to contin-
ue their systemic racism against
Asian students.” He said the co-
alition will “continue to fight.”
On the opposite side of the
debate, the TJ Alumni Action
Group — an advocacy group that
supports the revised admissions
system — issued a statement
Monday praising Fairfax schools
for appealing the ruling. “We
reject the false narrative of anti-
Asian discrimination and con-
demn the one-sided portrayal of
the Asian American community,”
the group wrote.
It is unclear when the 4th
Circuit will weigh in on the TJ
case, although it could take
months. The Supreme Court’s
ruling in its next term on the use
of race in admissions could have
ramifications for how the TJ case
is ultimately decided, according
to Harvard law professor Richard
H. Fallon Jr.
He said it has historically been
harder, under Supreme Court
precedent, to justify racial prefer-
ences in the K-12 arena than in
higher education.
“When the Harvard case is
decided, it will undoubtedly have
ripple effects,” Fallon said, “be-
cause what happens in postsec-
ondary education is obviously
not wholly unrelated to what
happens in the K-12 context.”
Meanwhile, the Virginia Gen-
eral Assembly last week passed
into law a bill that outlaws racial
discrimination at Governor’s
Schools, which includes TJ. A
spokeswoman for Gov. Glenn
Youngkin (R) said Monday that
the governor “looks forward to
signing the legislation.”
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New FBI supervisor says most crime now has ‘cyber footprint’ to be investigated
FBI FROM B1
a city where their jurisdictions
often overlap. They recently
formed joint task forces, includ-
ing one specifically targeting car-
jackings across the region. Now
federal and local law enforce-
ment authorities are also staffing
a command center as part of a
group called the Violent Crime
Impact Team.
Having “all the federal part-
ners sitting in one shared space”
enables them to quickly direct
resources to small groups of peo-
ple responsible for a dispropor-
tionate amount of crime, Jacobs
said.
A priority, he said, is “making
sure we are operating in the right
areas and pursuing the folks who
are driving a large percentage of
the crime. How are we identifying
those individuals, and how are we
dedicating the resources to mak-
ing sure that we hold those indi-
viduals accountable?”
The rash of robberies in North-
west began Oct. 17, 2020, near the
campus of George Washington
University and continued at a
steady pace through Halloween
weekend, when four groups of
people were held up in a matter of
hours in Tenleytown, George-
town and the West End, police
said.
Police and the FBI developed
leads through interviews and sur-
veillance videos, and by tracking
the alleged robbers “moving cash
between accounts” on stolen
phones, Jacobs said. That, he
said, led to additional victims and
expanded the scope of the case.
Two 19-year-old men from the
District have been charged with
numerous counts of armed rob-
bery and armed kidnapping. One
man was arrested after police
Md. Democratic Party o∞cial out after questioning Black candidates’ chances
RESIGNATION FROM B1
American males have run state-
wide for Governor and have lost.
Maryland is not a Blue state. It’s a
purple one. This is a fact we must
not ignore.”
The state, which according to
2020 U.S. Census data is home to
the most diverse population on
the East Coast, has yet to elect a
Black governor. That could
change this year, with three Black
candidates vying to replace Gov.
Larry Hogan (R), who is term-lim-
ited.
Baker, who is making his sec-
ond straight bid for governor, ini-
tially said that he didn’t agree but
that Democratic leaders’ skepti-
cism of Black Democratic candi-
dates’ ability to be elected state-
wide was “fair criticism, under-
standing we haven’t seen it hap-
pen yet.” But on Monday, after he
became aware of the email, he
lambasted Goldberg Goldman’s
comments, saying “such com-
ments merely serve to excuse and
legitimize acts of institutional rac-
ism, whether at the voting booth,
in our corridors of government or
our institutions of business and
civic life.”
Former gubernatorial candi-
date Ben Jealous late Sunday de-
scribed her comments as racist in
a tweet comparing her words to
those of Chief Justice Roger B.
Taney, the author of the 1857 Su-
preme Court decision stating that
THE DISTRICT
Metro to increase weekend train service during cherry blossom season
BY J USTIN G EORGE
After two years of discourag-
ing crowds from gathering at the
Tidal Basin during cherry blos-
som season, Metro announced
Monday it will increase the num-
ber of trains operating over the
next four weekends to help visi-
tors restart their pilgrimage to
see the blooming flowers.
Starting Saturday, Metro will
increase weekend service while
forgoing daytime track work for
four weekends, lessening wait
times for trains in crowded sta-
tions. The increased frequency is
in contrast to the closing of
stations and service reductions
during the past two seasons —
the latest sign that regional lead-
ers are moving beyond the pan-
demic.
The blossoms draw scores of
visitors from around the world to
take in the sight of pink and
white blossoms that form cano-
pies along the water near the
Jefferson Memorial. The nearly
3,000 trees that line the basin
were a gift from Japan in 1912 as a
symbol of friendship between the
countries.
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Wayne A. Jacobs, the new special agent in charge of the criminal and cyber division of the FBI’s D.C. field office, sees a link between
violent crime and social media. Online taunts are “stoking and driving beefs that just don’t stop,” he says.
chased him through Georgetown;
the second was arrested in Cali-
fornia. A Maryland woman was
charged with fraud and receiving
stolen property.
Jacobs grew up in South Bruns-
wick, N.J., and joined the FBI in
2003. He has worked in New York,
Los Angeles and Newark in jobs
as varied as violent crime, finan-
Black people were “regarded as
beings of an inferior order” with
“no rights which the white man
was bound to respect.”
Jealous said he thought it was
notable that he has never heard
anyone in the Republican Party
make similar remarks about Black
Republican candidates.
“I haven’t heard them say that
about Michael Steele, about Boyd
Rutherford,” he said in an inter-
view. “Our party needs to take a
long look in the mirror and finally
pull itself out from under the last
remnants of the shadow of Chief
Justice Taney.”
The email was sent to about 20
people, including Aruna Miller,
who had just been named the
running mate of gubernatorial
candidate Wes Moore, who is
Black. No one in the thread re-
sponded to Goldberg Goldman’s
comments about the electability
of Black candidates.
“I am well aware that words
matter despite how they might be
interpreted, and I sincerely apolo-
gize,” Goldberg Goldman said
Monday in an email to The Wash-
ington Post. “I would never want
to distract from the hard work and
mission of my colleagues and
friends fighting for the principles
upon which the Democratic Party
and I stand.”
Former Montgomery County
executive Isiah Leggett, a Black
Democrat, labeled Goldberg
Goldman’s comment as “unfortu-
nate and inartful” but noted that
The National Park Service pre-
dicts the trees will be at peak
bloom between March 22 and
March 25. The annual National
Cherry Blossom Festival will be
from March 20 to April 17.
Metro will run the additional
trains from Saturday until
April 17, raising weekend service
to weekday service levels. Trains
on the Red Line will arrive every
10 minutes, on average, and will
arrive every 20 minutes on other
lines. In downtown D.C., where
most stations are served by mul-
tiple lines, trains will arrive every
six to 10 minutes, according to
Metro.
Two years ago, Metro shut
down 19 stations, including the
two nearest the Tidal Basin —
Smithsonian and Arlington Cem-
etery — to dissuade people from
gathering, limit employee expo-
sure to the virus and cut down on
the use of sanitation supplies. Last
year, the National Park Service
directed people to view the blos-
soms online from a video feed.
Metro continues to operate
with a shortage of trains during a
federal investigation into a safety
defect that has sidelined about
cial fraud and counterintelli-
gence. In his interview, he talked
of the changing nature of gun
crime and drug dealing, and their
intersections with the quickly
evolving computer age and social
media.
Then-D.C. Police Chief Cathy L.
Lanier in 2015 declared large
open-air drug markets a relic of a
MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ/THE WASHINGTON POST
The Maryland State House. Barbara Goldberg Goldman, the state
Democratic Party’s deputy treasurer, resigned Monday and publicly
apologized for the comments she made in a December email.
she raised a question that African
Americans across the country
have been asking for a long time
about running in statewide races.
He added that Goldberg Gold-
man’s comments do not reflect
her character, noting that she has
been a strong supporter for years
of Black candidates, including
him, Baker, Barack Obama and
Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D-Md.), a
former lieutenant governor.
The Democratic Party has a
long, fraught history with Black
voters, who have often felt taken
advantage of by an organization
that has depended on — and often,
60 percent of its rail cars since
mid-October. The absence of
nearly 750 cars has forced Metro
to reduce service, but transit
officials said they have enough
trains to meet the seasonal de-
mand.
“Cherry Blossom season is one
of the biggest attractions of the
year and Metrorail is stepping up
service to better serve custom-
ers,” Metro General Manager
Paul J. Wiedefeld said in a state-
ment.
Metro plans to release a limit-
ed-edition SmarTrip card de-
signed by Lea Craigie-Marshall,
the official artist of the National
Cherry Blossom Festival, featur-
ing the pink cherry blossoms and
a monarch butterfly. The com-
memorative cards will be avail-
able in specially marked fare
vending machines at the Navy
Yard and L’Enfant Plaza stations
starting Friday.
Officials said the Smithsonian
station, the closest to the Tidal
Basin, will probably be busy over
the next four weeks, recommend-
ing that riders use the L’Enfant
Plaza or Federal Triangle stations
to avoid crowds.
EZ RE
bygone violent era, noting that
the Internet had largely supplant-
ed street corners in the sale and
distribution of illegal drugs.
People still sell drugs outside,
but Jacobs said that “you don’t
need to do that right now.” He
said, “We have folks who are
leveraging the ‘dark net’ to order
fentanyl straight to their homes.”
assumed — their support. Kevin
Harris, a top aide during Jealous’s
campaign, said he remembers as a
young organizer similar whispers
during Obama’s first run for of-
fice.
“There were these conversa-
tions about whether or not the
president would be able to win
over some working-class White
voters rather than to relate to
them,” Harris said. “Time and
time again, we’ve sort of broken
through these myths, but then you
get comments like this and you
are reminded that it’s just never
enough.”
James Mitchell, a National Park Service worker, cuts through a branch Friday at the Tidal Basin in
D.C. The Park Service predicts cherry blossoms will be at peak bloom between March 22 and March 25.
BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
As drug markets have changed,
so have motives behind the shoot-
ings once largely attributed to
fights over turf. A consultant
helping D.C. to form a plan to
combat crime through public
health initiatives has said a few
hundred people are responsible
for up to 70 percent of the city’s
gun violence.
Harris said he worries about
the type of impact these opinions
from top party leaders could have
on down-ballot races.
King said in a statement: “This
kind of backwards thinking has
no place in the future of the Demo-
cratic Party in Maryland, nor is it
acceptable coming from a party
official. As someone whose family
went from being enslaved in a
cabin in Gaithersburg to serving
in the cabinet of the first Black
president in just three genera-
tions, my family’s story is a testi-
mony to the progress that Black
Americans can achieve. Deputy
Treasurer Goldman must resign
from her position with the state
party.”
Perez attempted to distance
himself from his backer.
“These ill-conceived comments
do not reflect the values of our
campaign — as evidenced by
Tom’s long career to advance civil
rights and expand opportunity —
or our values as Maryland Demo-
crats,” Sean Naron, a Perez spokes-
man, said in a statement.
Naron said Perez, who is His-
panic, also urged Goldberg Gold-
man to step down.
State Comptroller Peter Fran-
chot, who is also running for the
Democratic nomination, said
Goldberg Goldman’s “decision to
resign was necessary. The diversi-
ty of Maryland’s Democratic Party
is its greatest strength, and her
comments contradict our values
as both a party and state.”
B5
While much of the violence is
still attributed to members of
gangs or street crews, the consul-
tant’s report listed personal dis-
putes as among the top motives.
Rather than arguments over ter-
ritory or drugs, the report found
shootings were driven by men
switching between crews, form-
ing alliances with rivals and per-
ceived disrespect.
Jacobs said about half of all the
shootings in the District are con-
nected to previous shootings.
And he said social media has
added to dangers, “stoking and
driving beefs that just don’t stop”
through online taunts, threats
and chatter.
“Now, you have social media,
nothing is being shut off,” he said.
“People are going back and forth.”
And, Jacobs said, gatherings
such as marijuana pop-ups with
“significant sources of cash” ad-
vertise online, attracting robbers
as well as customers.
“And I don’t even need to guess
where they are, right?” he said.
“They’re telling me.”
Jacobs agreed with police that
the proliferation of firearms, es-
pecially untraceable “ghost guns”
built from home kits, is particu-
larly troubling.
An upside for police is that
most crime now has “a cyber
footprint” that opens up new
avenues of investigation, Jacobs
said.
One challenge, Jacobs said, is
“How do we exploit that informa-
tion?”
One way turned out to be sim-
ple for police investigating the
string of robberies in Northwest
Washington. Court documents
say one of the men charged had
used his personal email address
in taking control of a victim’s
Amazon account.
A spokesman for Moore also
harshly criticized Goldberg Gold-
man’s email and used it as an
opportunity to take a swing at
Perez, calling on him to “return
the money she has donated to
him, and cancel his upcoming
fundraiser at her home.”
In this year’s crowded primary,
half of the Democratic candidates
vying to replace Hogan are men of
color. They include Baker; King;
Moore, an author and former non-
profit chief; Perez, a former U.S.
labor secretary; and Ashwani
Jain, a former candidate for the
Montgomery County Council.
Jealous, who mounted a suc-
cessful primary bid winning 22
out of 24 counties in 2018 but lost
to Hogan in the general election
by 12 percentage points, said the
email proved to him that some
leaders within the Democratic
Party hold a different set of stan-
dards for Black and White candi-
dates and are part of an effort to
hold Black candidates back from
succeeding.
“White men lose races all the
time, but no one ever ascribes that
loss to their DNA,” he said. “Black
women and Black men are en-
treated to support the Democrats
every single cycle. We are told that
the Democrats are the party that
stands for us. And then when we
stand up to lead, we’re told that
our race is an obstacle to us win-
ning.”
The Maryland primary is
June 28.
CRAIG HUDSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
B6
WILLIAM HURT, 71
Oscar winner starred in ‘Body Heat,’ ‘Broadcast News’
BY H ARRISON S MITH
William Hurt, a leading man
of 1980s Hollywood who rose to
stardom as a cocky but indolent
lawyer in “Body Heat,” won an
Oscar for playing a gay man
jailed under a South American
dictatorship in “Kiss of the Spi-
der Woman” and later estab-
lished himself as a versatile,
mold-breaking character actor,
died March 13 at his home in
Portland, Ore. He was 71.
His son Alexander Hurt an-
nounced the death in a state-
ment but did not give a cause.
Mr. Hurt revealed in 2018 that he
had been diagnosed with termi-
nal prostate cancer.
A Washington native who ap-
peared in more than 100 screen
roles, Mr. Hurt made his film
debut in the 1980 psychedelic
horror film “Altered States,” play-
ing an obsessed scientist whose
experiments with sensory depri-
vation lead him to turn into a
primeval, apelike creature. The
next year, he delivered his break-
out performance in director
Lawrence Kasdan’s neo-noir
thriller “Body Heat,” as a South
Florida lawyer seduced by Kath-
leen Turner and roped into mur-
dering her husband.
The movie was a sultry, shad-
ow-filled throwback to 1940s
film noirs like “Double Indemni-
ty.” And Mr. Hurt — tall, blond
and blue-eyed, with a square jaw
and charmingly laconic screen
persona — was suddenly in great
demand. He reunited with Kas-
dan to play a cynical, drug-ad-
dicted Vietnam War veteran in
“The Big Chill” (1983), and re-
ceived three consecutive Acad-
emy Award nominations for best
actor, including as an idealistic
teacher of the deaf in “Children
of a Lesser God” (1986) and a
handsome but ethically compro-
mised newscaster in “Broadcast
News” (1987).
“His talent is to trust that less
is more,” Kasdan told film critic
Roger Ebert after directing Mr.
Hurt in a third film, “The Acci-
dental Tourist” (1988). “I don’t
think anyone does that better in
American acting. It’s to trust that
the camera sees everything if you
are feeling it and if you’re true —
and Bill is true.”
Mr. Hurt won the Oscar for
“Kiss of the Spider Woman”
(1985), a drama adapted from
Manuel Puig’s novel of the same
name. His performance, as a gay
JOHNNY GRIER, 74
Longtime NFL field o∞cial became the league’s first Black referee
BY M ATT S CHUDEL
Johnny Grier, a longtime field
official in the National Football
League who in 1988 became the
league’s first Black referee, or
crew chief, died March 8 in Pasa-
dena, Md. He was 74.
The death was confirmed by a
granddaughter, Bryanna Grier,
who did not specify the cause.
Mr. Grier, who spent most of
his life in the Washington region,
began refereeing basketball
scrimmages while he was a stu-
dent at Dunbar High School. He
was a high school and college
football official before being
hired by the NFL in 1981.
At the time, he was one of nine
Black officials in the league. (Burl
Toler, a head linesman, became
the first African American official
in the NFL in 1965 and was the
first to work in a Super Bowl.)
Football officials are often
loosely called referees, but each of
the seven officials on the field has
a specific title and duty. The
referee, who wears a white cap
during the game, is the head of
the crew. He tosses the coin at the
beginning of a game and stands
in the offensive backfield before
the ball is snapped. (An eighth
official is in the press box to
review video replays of infrac-
tions.)
During his first seven years as
an NFL official, Mr. Grier was a
field judge, taking a sideline posi-
tion in the defensive backfield
about 25 yards from the line of
scrimmage. In that role, he made
calls on pass receptions, pass
interference and on whether a
runner stepped out of bounds. It
was a demanding job, requiring
Mr. Grier to run on many plays to
stay close to receivers and defen-
sive backs. No players were sup-
posed to get behind him.
Even when he was throwing
his flag for a penalty, Mr. Grier
was known for his ability to get
along with players and coaches.
William Hurt and Holly Hunter in the 1987 film “Broadcast News.” Mr. Hurt was nominated for four
Academy Awards in his career and won an Oscar for his role in 1985’s “Kiss of The Spider Woman.”
window dresser who trades sto-
ries with his prison cellmate
(Raul Julia), secured his reputa-
tion for playing multilayered
characters with a seemingly ef-
fortless charisma. Ebert wrote
that Mr. Hurt “creates a charac-
ter utterly unlike anyone else he
has ever played — a frankly
theatrical character, exaggerated
and mannered — and yet he
never seems to be reaching for
effects.”
Before entering movies, Mr.
Hurt built an extensive portfolio
of theater roles, culminating in
his Tony-nominated perform-
ance in David Rabe’s dark com-
edy “Hurlyburly,” which was di-
rected by Mike Nichols and
opened on Broadway in 1984. He
described himself early on as a
character actor trapped “in a
leading man’s body,” and tended
toward supporting roles later in
his career, including in Steven
Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelli-
gence” (2001), M. Night Shya-
malan’s “The Village” (2004),
Stephen Gaghan’s “Syriana”
(2005) and David Cronenberg’s
action thriller “A History of Vio-
lence” (2005), which earned him
his fourth Oscar nomination,
this time for best supporting
actor.
Mr. Hurt was in some ways an
Johnny Grier officiates a National Football League game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Diego Chargers on Sept. 17, 2000.
When Mr. Grier was hired by the league in 1981, he was one of nine Black officials. He was promoted to referee in 1988.
“In my games, you’ll see my
guys talking back and forth to the
players,” he said in a video inter-
view. “If something happens on
the field, we try to explain it to
them, especially if it’s something
that’s unusual.”
When he was promoted to ref-
eree in 1988, Mr. Grier said he
found his new position a little
easier than being a field judge —
“babysitting the quarterback,” as
he put it. In addition to watching
for holding by linemen, the refer-
ee makes calls on “roughing” the
passer or kicker — illegally knock-
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unlikely film star. Cerebral and
intense, balding by his mid-30s,
he studied theology in college
and continued to live on the East
Coast even after he began mak-
ing movies.
By some accounts, he could be
difficult to work with; he report-
edly struggled with alcohol and
drug abuse, and his former girl-
friend Marlee Matlin, who won
an Oscar starring opposite him
in “Children of a Lesser God,”
said in a 2009 memoir that he
physically and emotionally
abused her during their relation-
ship in the 1980s. “My own
recollection is that we both apol-
ogized and both did a great deal
to heal our lives,” Mr. Hurt said in
a statement at the time.
He rarely spoke about his
personal life in interviews, pre-
ferring instead to deliver impas-
sioned monologues about con-
sumerism, the relationship be-
tween church and state, the sci-
ence of condensation or the
“homogenized disruptive enti-
ties” that made acting difficult.
“Elliptical? Philosophical? I
can be that way,” he told the New
York Times in 1994, before turn-
ing to the meaning of life.
“There’s fear or faith. If you’re
living by fear, then you’re always
looking for security. If you’re
ing down the quarterback or kick-
er after the ball has been thrown
or kicked. The referee also an-
nounces penalties, verbally and
in hand gestures, and signals
when a first down has been made.
“People may consider me a
pioneer now,” Mr. Grier told Jet
magazine in 1988. “But once we
put on those striped shirts, the
first time I make a call that goes
against somebody that they don’t
like, I’m going to be just another
referee.”
Mr. Grier worked 15 playoff
games and was the field judge in
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living by faith, then you’re always
looking for freedom.” He added
that when it came to achieving a
faith-filled existence, “You just
keep at it. Defeating fear is not a
light switch. For most of us, it’s
daily work.”
William McChord Hurt was
born in Washington on March
20, 1950. His father worked on
U.S. foreign assistance programs
and was posted to Guam, where
Mr. Hurt spent his early years
before his parents divorced. He
was 10 when his mother, who
worked on business operations
at Time Inc., married Henry Luce
III, a son of the media company’s
co-founder.
Mr. Hurt attended Middlesex
prep school in Massachusetts
and Tufts University outside Bos-
ton, where he studied theology
and then drama — “the next rung
down on the ladder of ego,” as he
put it — and received a bachelor’s
degree in 1972. He enrolled in the
acting program at the Juilliard
School in Manhattan but chafed
at the school’s strict disciplinary
requirements, leaving in 1975 to
embark on a cross-country road
trip.
His travels took him to Ash-
land, Ore., where he had his
breakthrough as an actor while
appearing in a local production
Super Bowl XXII in 1988, in
which Washington defeated Den-
ver, 42-10. The game marked the
first time there had been a Black
starting quarterback — Washing-
ton’s Doug Williams — in the
Super Bowl.
As referee of a season-ending
game in 2000 between New Eng-
land and Miami, Mr. Grier contro-
versially ruled that Patriots quar-
terback Drew Bledsoe fumbled
when he lost control of the ball on
a last-second pass attempt. Mr.
Grier declared the game over.
Replay officials overruled him,
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Marlee Matlin and Mr. Hurt in
1987. Matlin, who starred
opposite Mr. Hurt in “Children
of a Lesser God,” later accused
him of abuse.
of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s
Journey Into Night.” “I had
worked for years in complete
darkness, complete doubt, com-
plete confusion,” he later told
New York magazine. “And then,
one day, I walked out onstage
and realized I had some craft. It
was just there — and it felt so
good.”
Returning to New York, he
appeared in off-Broadway plays
with the Circle Repertory Com-
pany, winning an Obie Award in
1977 for “My Life” and starring in
the original production of Lan-
ford Wilson’s “Fifth of July.” He
considered Hollywood a “cultur-
al wasteland,” but signed on to
“Altered States” after reading the
script, by acclaimed screenwriter
Paddy Chayefsky; five days after
filming ended, he returned to
New York to star in a Circle Rep
production of “Hamlet.”
Mr. Hurt was later featured in
the movies “Eyewitness” (1981),
as a janitor who teams up with a
TV news reporter (Sigourney
Weaver) to solve a murder, and
“Gorky Park” (1983), based on a
mystery novel by Martin Cruz
Smith about a Soviet detective.
By the 1990s, he was appearing
in more offbeat, independent
films, declining a role in “Juras-
sic Park” to appear in movies like
Wim Wenders’s “Until the End of
the World” (1991) and Wayne
Wang’s “Smoke” (1995).
He continued to work with
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calling the play an incomplete
pass, leaving three seconds on the
clock. It took more than 30 min-
utes to bring both teams back
from their locker rooms to com-
plete a final play, which did not
change the outcome of the game,
a 27-24 Miami victory.
Neither team “wanted to come
back on the field and I could
understand that,” Mr. Grier said.
He was sometimes criticized
for calling too many penalties
and for being slow and indecisive
in handling video reviews. Leg
injuries led him to retire in 2004,
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major directors, appearing in
Woody Allen’s “Alice” (1990),
Nora Ephron’s “Michael” (1996)
and Franco Zeffirelli’s “Jane
Eyre” (1996), while also joining
big-budget projects such as “Lost
in Space” (1998), a widely
panned adaptation of the 1960s
science-fiction series. Beginning
with “The Incredible Hulk”
(2008), he appeared in several
Marvel movies as Thaddeus
“Thunderbolt” Ross, an Army
general who becomes secretary
of state.
Mr. Hurt also worked on tele-
vision, appearing in the legal
drama “Goliath” and earning
Emmy Award nominations in
2009, for his guest role in the
drama series “Damages,” and in
2011, for starring as Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson in the
TV movie “Too Big to Fail,” about
the 2008 financial crisis.
His marriages to actress Mary
Beth Hurt and Heidi Henderson
ended in divorce. He also had a
relationship in the 1980s with
Sandra Jennings, who unsuc-
cessfully claimed in court that
she had been Mr. Hurt’s com-
mon-law wife and was entitled to
a share of his earnings.
Mr. Hurt had four children,
including a son, Alexander, from
his relationship with Jennings;
two sons, Samuel and William
Jr., from his second marriage;
and a daughter, Jeanne Bon-
naire-Hurt, from a relationship
with French actress and film-
maker Sandrine Bonnaire. Infor-
mation on survivors was not
immediately available.
Although Mr. Hurt delighted
in talking about acting, he said
he had little interest in the
celebrity status that accompa-
nied his success.
Interviewed by the Times in
1989, he recalled that he once
tried to escape out of a restau-
rant’s back door after realizing a
photographer was waiting to
snap his photo outside the main
exit. The owner declined his
request, saying, “You wanted to
be the celebrity. You wanted
this.”
“And I told him, ‘You don’t
know what I wanted. How dare
you tell me what I wanted? That’s
not what I wanted.’ What I
wanted to do was something very
generous. And I still want that,
and I get great joy out of it,” he
said. “Because it’s something I
can share. It’s my window. It’s
what I look at beauty through.”
his 24th season with the NFL.
Johnny Grier was born
April 16, 1947, in Charlotte and
later moved with his family to
Washington. His father worked in
construction, and his mother was
a homemaker.
Mr. Grier played football and
baseball at Dunbar. While serving
in the Air Force in Louisiana in
the late 1960s, he began to offici-
ate high school and later college
sports.
Even in the NFL, officiating is a
part-time job. For many years, Mr.
Grier worked as a planning engi-
neer for the old C&P Telephone
Co. (now Verizon). He received a
bachelor’s degree in business ad-
ministration from the University
of the District of Columbia in 1987
and a master’s degree from UDC
in 1993.
While still working for the
NFL, Mr. Grier became the head
of officiating of the Mid-Eastern
Athletic Conference and hired
the conference’s first female foot-
ball official, Annice Canady, in
2002. After his NFL retirement,
Mr. Grier became a supervisor of
officials for the league.
His granddaughter said Mr.
Grier was not married. Survivors
include a son from a relationship,
Lowell Grier; a sister; two grand-
daughters; and two great-grand-
sons.
Mr. Grier attended officiating
and rules clinics each year and
was instrumental in helping oth-
er Black officials advance in foot-
ball and other sports. Currently,
about 40 of the approximately
120 NFL officials are Black.
The number Mr. Grier wore as
a referee — No. 23 — is now worn
by Jerome Boger, another Black
referee.
“I’d like to be remembered by
my cohorts,” Mr. Grier said in a
2014 interview with the Massa-
chusetts School of Law, “as
somebody they’d like to walk on
the field with on Sunday after-
noon.”
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DEATH NOTICE
BEACH
ALICIA S. BEACH
August 7, 1952 - March 15, 2021
After a long, hard battle with pancreatic
cancer we said goodbye to our beautiful
mother, grandmother and sister Alicia. Ser-
vices were private.
Alicia lived her life to the fullest. She got
her joy from being a Mom, traveling all
corners of the world, staying up dancing
to her favorite songs, squeezing her grand
babies extra tight and helping her clients.
Alicia would light up a room with her infec-
tious smile and few things were as com-
forting as her laugh. She had an incredible
sense of humor, an ability to find bargain
shopping better than anybody else and a
love for sweets that rivals most.
Alicia was also a fierce advocate for those
who didn't have a voice. She spent her
career as a geriatric social worker and
her free time helping out with causes she
believed in. From the time she was young
she knew how important it was to fight for
what you believe in to make the world a
better place.
Alicia left behind four children, Samantha,
Brett, Kara and Katie; six grandchildren and
three sisters, Barbara, Cindi and Melody.
We miss her deeply and are grateful for the
years we shared.
BRANTLEY
JAMES R. BRANTLEY (Age 70)
On Friday, March 11, 2022, of
Kensington, MD. Born in Chi-
cago, IL, Jim was a graduate
of Washington High School in
East Chicago, IN, of Indiana
University in Bloomington
with a double major in criminal justice and
journalism, and of the University of Mary-
land at College Park where he received a
Masters Degree in criminal justice. After
working for many years at the National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (As-
pen Systems Corp), he rediscovered his
passion for photography, and in addition
to working as a freelance photographer
for the remainder of his career, he put in
15 years as a photographer for the Wash-
ington Times newspaper. Jim also acted in
local community theaters for many years.
Jim is survived by his beloved companion
Christine Lundy, his sister Janet Cooper,
and many loving nieces, nephews, and
cousins. A Memorial Service will be an-
nounced at a later date. Interment Private.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Montgomery County Humane Society.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
DEATH NOTICE
BRUCE
RUSSELL EDWARD BRUCE
Peacefully passed away on March 3, 2022.
Beloved husband of Beulah Bruce, loving
father of Robert E. Bruce, and Thomas E
Bruce. Also survived by his sister Sally
Tunstall, brother William Bruce and a host
of other relatives and friends. On Thursday,
March 17, 2022, friends may visit with the
family from Visitation 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Service 11 a.m. at Marshall March Funer-
al Home Of Maryland, 4308 Suitland Road,
Suitland, MD. 20746.
When the
need arises,
let families
find you in the
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Directory.
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Directory, please call
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DEATH NOTICE
DEAN
MARGARET M. DEAN (Age 83)
Quietly passed away on
Wednesday, March 9, 2022, of
Silver Spring, MD. Preceded
in death by her late husband,
Paul Dean, Sr., and her sister
Susan A. Kunkel. She leaves
to cherish her memory her siblings Louise
A. Kunkel, William C. Kunkel and James H.
(Sherry L.) Kunkel. Also survived by sever-
al nieces and nephews, step-children and
grandchildren. A visitation will be held at
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, 15661
Norbeck Blvd., Silver Spring, MD 20906 on
Friday, March 18, from 10 to 11 a.m. fol-
lowed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 11
a.m. Interment private. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be made to
Alzheimer’s Association, 108 Byte Drive
#103, Frederick, MD 21702 or Frederick
Health Hospice, 1 Frederick Health Way,
Frederick, MD 21701.
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HAYNES
GARY HAYNES
Members of IUOE Local 77 are
hereby notified of the passing
of Brother Gary Haynes. on
Sunday, March 6, 2022. Broth-
er Haynes was a member of
Local 77 for 49 years. A view-
ing will be held at Not About Me Ministries,
3106 Branch Ave., Temple Hills MD, on Sat-
urday March 26, 2022 from 10 a.m to 11
a.m. Funeral services will directly follow at
11 a.m.
Respectfully submitted
Steve Faulkner
Recording Secretary
JACKSON
JAMES ALPHEUS JACKSON (Age 82)
Peacefully passed away on Sunday, Feb-
ruary 27, 2022. James was a loving father,
grandfather, great-grandfather and devot-
ed husband of 62 years to Doris W. Jack-
son. He is also survived by a host of nieces,
nephews, other relatives and friends. On
Saturday, March 19, friends may visit with
the family from 10 a.m. until time of ser-
vice at 11 a.m., at Marshall-March Chapel
of Maryland, 4308 Suitland Rd, Suitland
Maryland, 20746. Interment Cheltenham
Veterans Cemetery, April 22 at 11:15 a.m.
BLOOM
DR. CHERYLANN TUCHMAN BLOOM
Dr. Cherylann Tuchman Bloom, of Fairfax,
Virginia, passed away peacefully on March
11, 2022, after a two-year struggle with pan-
creatic cancer. She is survived by her hus-
band of 38 years, Murray Bloom, and their
daughter, Sandra Bloom.
Dr. Bloom— “Cheri” to her friends—was
born in Benton Harbor, Michigan on October
19th, 1944. Cheri graduated from Michigan
State University with a degree in medical
technology. After first working in the labo-
ratory at Grant Hospital in Chicago, she took
a position in Houston, Texas, with NASA and
participated in the Apollo Space Program
GORAYA
VICTOR SINGH GORAYA ESQ
Victor Singh Goraya, Esq., of Gaithersburg,
MD, beloved husband, father, grandfather
and friend passed away peacefully, March
13, 2022, after a long battle with Alzhei-
mer’s disease. The full and vibrant 83 years
he lived were a quintessential embodiment
of the American Dream.
Born, April 15, 1938, to the late Amar Singh
and Gurcharan Kaur Goraya in present day
Pakistan, his family and he braved a treach-
erous passage to the Punjab region of India
amidst the cultural violence and atrocities
committed in the aftermath of the 1947 Par-
tition of India.
After receiving his law degree in India, he
married Baljit K. Virk. Ever the adventurer –
his favorite pastimes included hunting and
fishing and serving as the captain of the
bhangra squad during university, – Victor
left home in 1970 and set out for America in
search of economic opportunity and hopes
for a better life for his family. After arriving
alone in Washington, DC with just $7.00 in
his pocket and no friends or acquaintances,
Victor set to work building his future. He
worked earnestly at jobs including teaching
English to Peace Corp volunteers heading to
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DEATH NOTICE
LOWELL
CECELIA JEAN LOWELL
Cecelia Jean Lowell, age 56, died peacefully
at home on March 9, 2022, after a short
illness. Cecelia was profoundly developmen-
tally disabled from birth but survived happily
into adulthood under the loving care of her
parents and sisters. For the last 30+ years of
her life she lived with her sister Margaret and
family, backed up by sister Katie and family. She
was predeceased by her mother, Julia Lowell.
She is survived by her father, Joseph (Bill)
Lowell; her six sisters: Mary Julia Bailey, Anne
(Bill) Cairns, Katie (Ted) Junghans, Margaret
(Leszek) Syski, Elizabeth Walters, and Frances
(Paul) Speight; and her stepmother, Veronica
(Ronnie) Fellerath-Lowell. Cece is also survived
by 26 nieces and nephews; 39 grandnieces and
grandnephews; and her loving caregiver Sara
Leon.
A viewing will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday,
March 17, followed at 11 a.m. by a funeral Mass
at St. Paul Catholic Church, 9240 Damascus
Road, Damascus, MD 20872. Burial will be
at the Maryland State Veterans Cemetery at
Crownsville, MD.
In lieu of flowers please consider making a
donation to Calmra, Inc., 14100 Laurel Park
Drive, Laurel, MD 20707, or to Community
Options/Kennedy Institute, 801 Buchanan St.
NE, Washington, DC 20017.
SMITH
KATHLEEN FLATTERY SMITH (Age 81)
Kathleen Flattery Smith, 81, of Fairfax, VA,
died Saturday, March 12, 2022.
Mrs. Smith was born in Washington, DC.,
on September 24, 1940 and was the
daughter of the late Michael J. and Mary
Flattery. She was married to the late Wil-
liam T. Smith. Following a full career with
the United States Marshals Service, she
retired to Southport, NC where she was a
member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
She is survived by her three daughters:
Karen Lois Lombard and husband, John,
of Farmersville, TX; Laura Kathleen Idol
and husband, Chris, of Centreville, VA; and
Maureen Clare Eck and husband, Albert,
of Fairfax Station, VA; nine grandchildren:
Kayla, Jack, Ethan, and Travis Lombard; Al-
yssa and Amanda Idol; and Anthony, Spen-
cer, and Matthew Eck.
A memorial Mass will be held this sum-
mer at Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
Southport, NC. Inurnment will follow in the
Church Columbarium.
Online guestbook available at:
www.moneyandking.com
medical team during the moon landings.
While at the Houston Space Center, Cheri
operated a hematology lab, in which she an-
alyzed blood samples taken from the astro-
nauts before and after space flight.
Cheri later earned a master’s degree in pa-
thology at the University of Texas, Galveston
Branch. Subsequently, Cheri matriculated at
the University of Houston, where she was
awarded a Doctor of Optometry degree.
Cheri married Murray Bloom in Houston in
1983 and relocated to Northern Virginia.
Cheri worked as an optometrist at several
locations around Northern Virginia and D.C.,
specializing in low vision for the nearly blind.
Cheri followed several interests in her per-
sonal life. She was a long time member of
the NOVA Annandale Symphony Orchestra,
in which she played the violin. As a youth,
she attended Interlochen music camp two
summers in a row, each entirely by scholar-
ship. This was her personal favorite achieve-
ment. After retiring, Cheri took fused glass
classes at the Workhouse Arts Center in
Lorton. She also audited several classes
at George Mason University. Cheri enjoyed
foreign travel to many places in Europe, but
she especially enjoyed her trip to the Gala-
pagos Islands.
Cheri made friends readily with people in
many different aspects of her life. She will
be remembered fondly by all and missed
dearly.
Graveside service will be held March 15 at
12 Noon at King David Memorial Gardens,
Falls Church, VA.
India and bagging the Washington Post for
delivery. Eventually, he put himself through
Georgetown University Law School and was
accepted into the Bar Association. He spent
his long career working for the DC Superior
Court.
Victor is remembered by countless relatives
and friends as a pro bono legal advisor who
helped them navigate the long and arduous
process of becoming a legal American cit-
izen. He and his wife Baljit often provided
housing and a supportive family environ-
ment for many of these future American cit-
izens until they got their feet on the ground.
He will be forever remembered for his en-
couraging words, his perseverance and the
driving lessons he gave to anyone who was
struggling to get a license.
Victor is survived by his wife of 56 years
and his children, Capri K. Ebright, D.D.S. and
son-in-law Bradford L. Ebright, M.D., Nicky
Nuxoll, M.D. and son-in-law Dennis Nuxoll,
J.D. and Jesse Goraya and daughter-in-law
Tessa Goraya. He is also survived by grand-
sons, Alexander Watson Ebright, Jake Singh
Ebright, Bradford Singh Ebright, Lukas Singh
Nuxoll and Niklas Singh Nuxoll.
For making possible all the joys and dreams
that now fill so many lives, his grandsons
dedicate the words of Sir Isaac Newton to
their grandfather:
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on
the shoulders of giants.”
Family will receive friends at PUMPHREY’S
BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE FUNERAL HOME,
7557 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD on
Thursday, March 17 beginning at 9 a.m.,
where a funeral service will follow at 10 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be
made to the Alzheimer’s Association (www.
alz.org)
To view and sign the family guest book,
please visit:
www.PumphreyFuneralHome.com
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IN MEMORIAM
CHANG
CHOON-HI CHANG
January 30, 1928 ~ March 15, 2020
Noble, fine and brilliant soul!
My beloved mother.
Your grateful and amazed son
(changmemorial@gmail.com)
JACKSON
STANLEY M. JACKSON
March 15, 1956 - June 11, 2019
Happy 66th Birthday!
We love and miss you very much!
Love,
Your Family and Friends
DEATH NOTICE
DOBLER
ELIZABETH DOBLER "Betty"
On Saturday, February 26, 2022, Elizabeth
“Betty” Miller Dobler passed away peacefully
at the age of 94. She was born in Cumber-
land, MD to Henry and Arbutus Gordon Miller
of Paw Paw, West Virginia. Betty spent her
childhood on Imperial Orchard owned by her
father who grew Mountaineer Brand apples.
Betty attended Madison College and
received a double major in Biology and
Chemistry and was also a member of the
Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. Later she was
training to be a certified medical technician
at George Washington University when she
met her future husband, Robert F. Dobler.
She flew to Frankfurt, Germany and they
married on November 30, 1951. The couple
HALLGREN
HAL E. HALLGREN
MG, U.S. ARMY (RET.)
A longtime resident of Alexandria, Gener-
al Hallgren died on March 5, 2022. He was
born in Chicago, IL and was a 1946 graduate
of the US Military Academy, West Point, NY.
In addition to his degree from West Point,
he earned Master Degrees in Electrical
Engineering and International Affairs from
MASSEY
JAMES MASSEY
James Carlton Massey, historic preservation-
ist and architectural historian, died Novem-
ber 10, 2021 at his home near Winchester,
VA. He was 89 years old. He was attended in
his final illness by his wife of 42 years, Shirley
Maxwell, and her two sons and daughters-in-
law, Timothy and Bridget Markley and Daniel
Markley and Alison Sheehy. He is survived by
his cousin, Dr. Melvin Butler, of Pomona, CA.
In the course of his 65-year career, James
Massey steadfastly practiced and taught
about the recognition, documentation,
recording, and restoration of historically sig-
nificant buildings and areas. He held a profes-
sional degree in architecture (B.Arch.) from
the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a
Master of Planning degree from the Universi-
ty of Virginia. An associate member of the
American Institute of Architects.
He was born in San Gabriel, CA, the son of
Carl and Marion Steltz Massey. As a child,
he moved with his mother to Secane, PA,
a Philadelphia suburb, and attended schools
in Upper Darby Township 5, he served for
two years in the United States Army in the
Office of Military History, Karlsruhe, Ger-
many, where he and his first wife,
DEATH NOTICE
DELGADO
DOROTHY N. DELGADO (Age 76)
Passed away on December 13, 2021 in
Berkley, CA. She is survived by four chil-
dren, Eric B. Broome, John L. Delgado, III,
Darrie Delgado Brooks and Damion Delga-
do; one sister, Mabel Brooks, one brother,
Edward Simmons; a host of other relatives
and friends. She was preceded in death by
her father, Willie Nelson; mother; Hattie
Mae Allen Nelson; brother, Willie Nelson, Jr.
and sister, Carolyn Nelson. On Wednesday,
March 16, 2022, friends my visit starting
at 10 a.m. until service at 11 a.m. at Mar-
shall-March Funeral Home of Maryland,
4308 Suitland Rd., Suitland, MD, 20746. In-
terment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, MD.
www.marshallmarchfh.com
HAWKINS
CLAUDE MICHAEL HAWKINS
Entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, Feb-
ruary 22, 2022. He is survived by his wife,
Yvonne Hawkins; daughter, Tahisha Haw-
kins; three grandchildren, Damon Hawkins,
Dayquan Hawkins and Demarco Hayes;
two great grandchildren, Aiden Hawkins
and Nevaeh Hawkins; six sisters, Linda
Wright, Claudette Ward, Diane Edward,
Joyce Gatling, Wanda Hawkins and Brenda
Hawkins; two brothers, Jospeh Diggs and
Darrell Hawkins; a host of other relatives
and friends. Mr. Hawkins was preceded in
death by his parents, Francis, Sr. and Doro-
thy Hawkins; brother, Frankie Hawkins. Mr.
Hawkins wll lie in state at Temple of Praise,
700 Southern Ave., SE on Friday, March 18,
2022 from 10 a.m. until service at 11 a.m.
Interment at Ft. Lincoln Cemetery.
raised five children in many different coun-
tries over the course of their 64 year mar-
riage. Betty worked in many labs as a Medical
Technician and ran the household while Bob
traveled extensively for work. The Dobler
family lived on Springmann Drive in Fairfax
City, VA for thirteen years.
Betty, or “Te Te” as the grandkids called her,
was a fearless, strong woman who taught us
all to be independent and to help others. She
was a voracious reader, an accomplished
pianist, but mostly she loved travel. She was
still making international trips at age 90.
Until the last few years, Betty was an active
member and leader at Opequon Presbyterian
Church in Winchester, VA. We will miss her
sage advice, willing and tireless help, patient
parenting, but most of all her subtle, dry
humor.
Betty was preceded in death by her husband,
Bob; and sister, Eloise Auxt. She is survived
by her sister Luciclare “Ding” Ansel Young
(Paul) of San Francisco, CA; her five children:
Mary Dobler Humbert (Aubrey), Carol Juan
Stanley (Mike), Robert H. Dobler (Cindy),
Margaret Dobler Herndon (Jim McWilson),
and Helen Dobler Streeten (John). Additional-
ly, she has thirteen grandchildren; nine great-
grandchildren; and one great-great-grand-
child.
A celebration of Betty’s life will be held on
May 21, 2022, at 11 a.m. at Woodrow Union
Church in Paw Paw, WV and is open to all.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to CCAP of
Winchester, VA at P.O. Box 2112, Winchester,
VA 22604.
Arrangements are by Phelps Funeral & Cre-
mation Service.
the University of Pennsylvania and George
Washington Univ., respectively.
General Hallgren served his Army and Na-
tion for 30 years as a Field Artillery Unit
Commander and General Staff Officer. His
final active duty assignment was as Com-
manding General, US Army Concepts Anal-
ysis Agency.
He was predeceased by his beloved wife,
Margaret Benedict Vinson Hallgren. He is
survived by his son Colonel Wayne F. Hall-
gren (USAF, Ret.) (Colette); and his daughter
Laura Hallgren Thayer (CAPT Richard Thayer
USN, Ret); and four grandchildren and two
great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on a later
date at Goodwin House, 4800 Fillmore Ave.,
Alexandria, VA. A reception for family and
friends will follow.
Interment with family members present, at
a date to be determined, will be at Arlington
National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contri-
butions may be made to the Goodwin House
Foundation, 4800 Fillmore Ave., Alexandria,
VA 22311.
Anne E. McLaughlin (now Saba), an interior
designer, expanded their knowledge and
appreciation of historical architecture.
On his return to the United States, he worked
for eight years as a supervisory architect in
the development of Independence National
Park. In 1964, he was appointed Chief, His-
toric American Buildings Survey (HABS) of
the National Park Service. He left HABS in
1973 to accept a position with the National
Trust for Historic Preservation as Vice Presi-
dent of Historic Properties, overseeing the
management and, in some cases, the acqui-
sition, of the Trust’s growing stable of historic
house museums.
He served as an adjunct professor at Ball
State University, Muncie, IN, and taught
preservation courses and seminars at Drew
University, Madison, NJ, and the University
of Virginia. With his colleague Constance
Werner Ramirez, he co-founded the National
Preservation Institute, which continues to
provide training in the field for individuals
and groups. He was the principal author of
five books, including A Guide to the Arts
and Crafts in America and House Styles in
America: The Old House Journal Guide to
American Houses. For 20 years, he was a
regular contributor to The Old-House Journal
and a contributing editor for much of that
time.
On moving to Strasburg, VA, in 1984, he
and Shirley Maxwell formed the preservation
consulting firm of Massey Maxwell Asso-
ciates, advising and educating clients across
the United States. He served on the Strasburg
Planning Commission from 1988 until 2004
and on the town’s architectural review board
until 2021.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday,
April 9, 2022 at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian
Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Val-
ley, 6380 Valley Pike, Stephens City, VA. In
lieu of flowers, please consider donations
to the James C. Massey scholarship fund,
National Preservation Institute, P. O. Box
1702, Alexandria, VA 22313.
Arrangements are by Phelps Funeral & Cre-
mation Service.
B7
DEATH NOTICE
JOHNSON
AXIE P. JOHNSON
Of Fort Washington, MD, passed away peace-
fully on Friday March 4, 2022. She will be
truly missed by all who knew and loved her.
Her family will receive relatives and friends on
March 18, 2022 at St. Paul United Methodist
Church, 6634 St. Barnabas Road, Oxon Hill, MD
20745. Visitation is at 10 a.m. The Celebration
of Life begins at 11 a.m. Interment is at a later
date. Funeral services will be streamed live
at https://stpauloxonhill.online.church. Funer-
al Services provided by Pope Funeral Home.
DEATH NOTICE
LANGDON
ERNA A. LANGDON
Erna Ann Langdon, age 77, died Friday March
11, 2022 at her home in Asheville, NC after a
long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s.
Erna was born November 10, 1944 in New York,
NY to the late Ernest and Anna Stalzer. Erna
grew up in Queens and Long Island and later
graduated from St. Bonaventure University
with a degree in Math. One of her first jobs
was a programmer at the Pentagon, where she
met the love of her life Norwood "Woody".
After marrying in 1969, she and Woody lived
briefly in Virginia, then moved to Germany
before settling in Maryland. They later moved
to Houston, TX, then Leesburg, VA, and finally
Asheville, NC.
She had numerous jobs over the years, pro-
grammer, teacher, jewelry sales, and lastly
financial analyst at Computer Sciences Corpo-
ration (CSC), but Erna’s favorite roles were
wife and Mom. She loved her family deeply
and sacrificed much for them. One of the
happiest days of her life was bringing home
her first child, Matthew. And she was thrilled
to later welcome two daughters, Melissa, and
Katherine (Kate).
Erna is survived by her husband Norwood
Langdon; her daughters Melissa (Erik) Thingvoll
and Katherine (Steven) Wheat; her brother
John (Jean Marie) Stalzer; grandchildren Sara,
Julian, Alyssa, Justin, Jennifer, and Leah; one
nephew and six nieces. A viewing will be held
Friday, March 18 at 10 a.m. at First Baptist
Church of Wyoming, NY, followed by a funeral
service at 11 a.m. Funeral arrangements and
details handled by Weeks Funeral Home in
Warsaw, NY:
www.weeksfuneral.com
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The Weather
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Springlike and mostly sunny Today Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday O FFI C I AL REC O RD
Partly sunny Mostly sunny Cloudy, Partly sunny T‑storms Showers
It’s another beautiful day. There’s shower possible possible Temperatures AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

perhaps a bit more cloudiness than

Monday, but lots of sun regardless.
Highs are mainly in the mid-60s to
near 70. Winds are from the south
about 5 to 10 mph.

69° 46 ° 71° 51 ° 69° 49 ° 74° 57 ° 69° 46 ° 63° 42 °

FEELS*: 71° FEELS: 72° FEELS: 67° FEELS: 72° FEELS: 70° FEELS: 62°
CHNCE PRECIP: 0% P: 5% P: 55% P: 15% P: 35% P: 30%
WIND: SSW 4–8 mph W: ESE 6–12 mph W: NNE 7–14 mph W: SSW 7–14 mph W: WSW 10–20 mph W: NW 10–20 mph
HUMIDITY: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Low
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REGIO N N ATION Weather map features for noon today.

Reagan Dulles BWI
High 61° 5:00 p.m. 63° 3:31 p.m. 63° 3:46 p.m.
Low 32° 6:35 a.m. 24° 4:00 a.m. 26° 6:00 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
67/44 Normal 56°/38° 54°/33° 54°/33°
65/40 Record high 86° 1990 88° 1990 83° 2007
Hagerstown Record low 13° 1888 15° 1968 14° 1888
Baltimore
65/42
68/42 Dover Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +2.4° yr. to date: +0.2°
65/41
Davis Washington Cape May Precipitation PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST

53/33 Annapolis 58/42

69/46 64/41 OCEAN: 41°

Charlottesville Ocean City

71/42 59/44
OCEAN: 41°
Lexington
69/38
Richmond
70/43 Virginia Beach
64/48 Reagan Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 45°
67/47 Past 24 hours 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Total this month 1.38" 1.00" 1.36"
Kitty Hawk
60/50
Normal 1.52" 1.51" 1.78"
OCEAN: 45° Total this year 7.39" 7.20" 7.94"
Normal 7.00" 7.06" 7.76"
Pollen: Moderate Air Quality: Moderate Snow, past 24 hours 0.0" 0.0" 0.0"
Grass Low Dominant cause: Particulates Snow, season total 13.2" 16.3" 14.4"
Trees Moderate
Weeds Low UV: Moderate Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 5 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 7:20 a.m. 7:15 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny; however, some clouds Moon 4:34 p.m. 6:19 a.m.
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in northern parts. High 49 to 56. Winds southwest 4–8 Yesterday's National World
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mph. Tonight, a moonlit sky. Low 34 to 42. Winds west– High: Alice, TX 87° High: Chauk, Myanmar 112° Mars 5:17 a.m. 3:11 p.m.
Quarter Quarter
<–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ Low: Crane Lake, MN –9° Low: Kabardino, Russia –46° Jupiter 7:06 a.m. 6:34 p.m.
southwest 4–8 mph. Wednesday, partly sunny. High 52 to for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 5:56 a.m. 4:19 p.m.
59. Winds southeast 4–8 mph.
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Winds south–southwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, a moonlit Albany, NY 48/37/c 55/42/pc El Paso 75/44/s 82/54/pc Orlando 80/67/t 80/63/t Addis Ababa 81/54/s 80/54/pc Istanbul 44/35/c 47/39/pc Rome 60/42/c 60/44/pc
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mph. Atlanta 65/53/r 61/51/r Hartford, CT 60/39/pc 62/40/s Pittsburgh 58/39/pc 65/46/pc Auckland 81/59/s 79/59/pc Kabul 62/43/s 63/44/s Sarajevo 53/33/c 53/38/pc
Austin 76/41/s 80/49/s Honolulu 83/71/c 84/71/sh Portland, ME 46/34/c 49/36/pc Baghdad 63/40/pc 59/38/pc Kingston, Jam. 83/75/pc 84/76/pc Seoul 53/35/c 61/39/s
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• Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind Birmingham 62/54/r 63/50/sh Jackson, MS 68/50/r 67/48/pc Raleigh, NC 70/47/pc 66/54/sh Berlin 55/38/c 56/38/c Lima 78/67/s 76/66/s Stockholm 47/28/s 47/31/pc
south 6–12 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac and the Bismarck, ND 60/38/pc 54/29/pc Jacksonville, FL 73/60/t 75/52/r Reno, NV 61/34/r 61/34/pc Bogota 64/49/r 66/49/sh Lisbon 65/55/c 65/55/c Sydney 75/66/r 75/67/sh
Boise 54/33/r 53/29/pc Kansas City, MO 64/47/s 72/50/s Richmond 70/43/s 68/49/pc Brussels 52/43/r 65/47/pc London 58/45/pc 57/38/c Taipei City 85/68/pc 87/68/c
Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be
Boston 56/42/pc 54/42/s Las Vegas 79/58/pc 77/52/pc Sacramento 68/46/sh 72/45/s Buenos Aires 82/68/pc 79/69/s Madrid 66/50/c 61/53/r Tehran 64/51/pc 63/38/pc
around 4.00 feet today, rising to 4.10 Wednesday. Flood stage at Buffalo 47/36/r 56/45/pc Little Rock 57/48/r 71/51/s St. Louis 68/46/pc 76/50/s Cairo 61/45/pc 64/47/s Manila 94/80/t 93/80/t Tokyo 68/50/r 65/51/pc
Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 42/33/c 50/40/pc Los Angeles 79/55/pc 81/57/s St. Thomas, VI 83/74/s 83/74/s Caracas 74/63/r 76/63/sh Mexico City 80/50/c 76/52/sh Toronto 37/33/c 48/42/c
Charleston, SC 73/59/pc 69/56/r Louisville 68/43/pc 73/47/pc Salt Lake City 59/40/c 52/31/c Copenhagen 47/34/pc 45/38/pc Montreal 37/27/c 42/37/pc Vienna 59/45/c 54/33/c
Charleston, WV 64/37/pc 68/48/pc Memphis 60/51/t 68/50/pc San Diego 70/56/pc 67/52/s Dakar 73/62/pc 74/63/pc Moscow 35/20/s 31/16/c Warsaw 50/38/pc 52/31/c
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Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 1:32 a.m. 7:05 a.m. 1:38 p.m. 7:15 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 59/36/s 47/26/c Milwaukee 49/38/c 61/46/pc San Juan, PR 84/73/s 84/73/s Edinburgh 50/42/c 47/34/r Nairobi 87/61/c 87/62/pc sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
Chicago 55/42/c 65/48/pc Minneapolis 51/40/pc 58/35/c Seattle 51/42/sh 53/42/c Frankfurt 50/39/r 60/42/s New Delhi 95/73/s 96/72/pc sn-snow, i-ice
Annapolis 3:39 a.m. 10:03 a.m. 4:39 p.m. 10:43 p.m.
Cincinnati 64/42/pc 71/47/pc Nashville 69/49/c 67/48/r Spokane, WA 51/34/r 49/32/pc Geneva 63/41/pc 65/44/c Oslo 42/27/pc 42/30/c Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
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Cleveland 56/43/pc 64/48/pc New Orleans 75/56/t 71/54/pc Syracuse 47/36/r 57/45/pc Ham., Bermuda 68/63/sh 70/65/pc Ottawa 37/26/c 42/34/c quality data); National Weather Service
Norfolk 1:59 a.m. 8:28 a.m. 2:45 p.m. 8:47 p.m. Dallas 68/47/s 78/53/s New York City 61/46/pc 61/47/s Tampa 82/70/t 77/66/t Helsinki 42/23/pc 39/26/c Paris 58/47/r 67/49/c * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
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Point Lookout 5:58 a.m. 12:40 p.m. 7:08 p.m. none Denver 68/37/s 54/29/c Norfolk 67/47/s 63/52/pc Wichita 65/40/s 75/44/s Ho Chi Minh City 96/78/pc 95/78/pc Prague 52/40/sh 53/32/pc measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Telling stories of birth
surrounded by destruction
During the evacuation of
Afghanistan last summer, I
remember reading a story — a
lot of us probably remember
reading the story — of a baby
born on an airplane. The mother
Monica
was fleeing Afghanistan and
Hesse went into labor on a C-17
military aircraft somewhere en
route to the Ramstein Air Base
in Germany. Military personnel delivered the
infant in the cargo bay. In honor of the plane’s
call sign, the parents named their new daughter
“Reach.”
This is what passes for an uplifting story in
wartime. At least the baby lived. At least the
mother lived. At least the circle of life continued
despite the upheaval. The airplane’s call sign,
thankfully, was appropriately inspirational; it
could have been “Bacon” or “Anvil.” The
outcome of this story was so happy it was easy
to overlook the preamble: the fact that the
woman’s blood pressure dropped severely,
SEE HESSE ON C4
CAROLYN HAX
Ensuring equity in chores
when moving in with busy
boyfriend. C2 My entree into William Hurt’s world
JANE CAMPION
Director’s quip to tennis’s A NN H ORNADAY
BY
Williams sisters draws I had one of the most memo-
scorn online. C3 rable dinners of my working
MUSIC REVIEW
Animal Collective propels
life with William Hurt.
The actor, whose death at 71
was announced Sunday, was in
Austin in the late winter of
the past and present to 1996, filming the comedy “Mi-
the future at 9:30 Club. C4 chael” with writer-director
Nora Ephron. As the film critic
at the Austin American-States-
man, one of my duties was to
make my way onto the set of
the film and interview Ephron
and her cast, which included
John Travolta, Andie MacDow-
ell and Bob Hoskins. But my
requests kept getting rebuffed.
Finally, a publicist confided
that it was Hurt who opposed
press visits during filming,
which might distract the actor
from the job at hand.
I understood, filing the epi-
sode away under “I tried.”
Which made a subsequent invi-
tation all the more surprising:
Would I care to join Mr. Hurt
for dinner? Production on “Mi-
chael” was wrapping up, he was
about to leave town and — oh
yes — his new movie, “Jane
KYLE GUSTAFSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Eyre,” was about to be released
Avey Tare of Animal Collective in theaters. A date was set at
performs at the 9:30 Club. the dining room of the Four
KLMNO
Style TUESDAY, MARCH 15 , 2022
Motherhood,
in the
devastation
of war
Ukrainian emergency workers carry an injured
pregnant woman from a hospital bombed by Russia
last week. The woman and her baby later died.
APPRECIATION
William Hurt as the moody, broody Mr. Rochester in 1996’s “Jane Eyre.”
Seasons Hotel, just across Town
Lake from the Statesman’s
newsroom.
I was happy to have a chance
to interview Hurt. He had en-
joyed a blazing run in the
. SECTION C
1980s, making a terrific debut
as an obsessed doctor in “Al-
tered States” and becoming a
swoon-worthy screen idol in
the steamy “Body Heat” and
zeitgeisty “Big Chill.” Subse-
EZ M2
EVGENIY MALOLETKA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
In a sea of su≠ering, one
image distills the misery
BY P HILIP K ENNICOTT
Visually, the focus of this image is a red
blanket or cloth, with black dots. Emotionally,
the photograph is centered on the woman lying
on the blanket, her left arm touching what may
be a wound below her belly, which holds her
unborn child. Four men carry her on a
stretcher from the ruins of a maternity hospital
in Mariupol, Ukraine, bombed
CRITIC’S by the Russians on March 9.
NOTEBOOK The agony of the photo-
graph, taken by Evgeniy Malo-
letka, expanded on Monday when the Associat-
ed Press announced that the woman had died.
And so had her baby. Mariupol, under siege and
heavy bombardment for days by the Russian
invaders, is a humanitarian disaster, a poten-
tial “worst-case scenario,” according to the
International Committee of the Red Cross.
Even if the woman, whose name we don’t
know, had survived, this image would have
been one of the defining ones of this terrible
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BOOK WORLD
‘The Love
of My Life’:
A blissful
thriller
BY M AUREEN C ORRIGAN
Everybody who is married is
married to a stranger. That’s the
central premise of just about ev-
ery domestic suspense novel ever
written. In stories with these mar-
riages, such as Daphne du Mauri-
er’s “Rebecca” and Gillian Flynn’s
“Gone Girl,” at least one partner
(and sometimes both) has silently
vowed to “love, honor, and de-
ceive, till death do us part.”
“The Love of My Life” is a
classic example of the “I married
a stranger” domestic suspense
plot — with a twist. Usually, the
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MIRAMAX/EVERETT COLLECTION THE LOVE OF
MY LIFE
By Rosie Walsh
quent turns in “Kiss of the Pamela Dorman
Spider Woman,” “Children of a Books. 384 pp.
Lesser God” and “Broadcast $28
News” earned him Oscar nomi-
nations (he won for “Spider
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C2
William
Hurt,
pausing
to reflect
APPRECIATION FROM C1
Woman”). By the time I joined
him at a window table at the
Four Seasons, I was genuinely
curious about an actor who, for
millions of women (and not a few
men) of my generation, had be-
come the “thinking person’s” sex
symbol, the kind of movie star
whose charisma was a function
of intelligence as much as sheer
good looks.
In all honesty, though, I was a
bit preoccupied as well. The
interview had been scheduled
for mid-March, in the thick of
Austin’s South by Southwest film
and music festivals. I had had to
leave a screening of John Sayles’s
“Lone Star” early to be on time
for Hurt, and I was hoping to be
able to join friend later at La
Zona Rosa to see the legendary
Denton, Tex., band Brave Combo.
With people to see and things to
do, I figured I’d spend about an
hour with Hurt, say my goodbyes
and make it to the club in plenty
of time for the show.
It didn’t work out that way.
Given his resistance to a set visit,
I expected Hurt to be press-shy,
maybe even reticent. Instead he
was voluble, curious, direct and
disarmingly open. My cassette
tape of the interview is lost to the
sands of time and ravages of
analog decay. But my chief mem-
ory of the evening is a lively,
far-ranging conversation that
served as a reminder that, before
pursuing acting, Hurt had stud-
ied theology. He possessed an
innate sense of etiquette that
only seemed to fail once our food
came, at which point he ceased
talking and dropped his head
down, as if literally contemplat-
ing his navel.
“I stop,” he said quietly.
Uhm, hello? I looked around
the room nervously. What was
happening?
“I stop,” he repeated, still as-
suming a disquietingly inert po-
sition. We sat in silence for at
Finding the right balance for chores
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Dear Carolyn:
I’m moving in
with my fiance.
Carolyn Unfortunately, it’s
Hax at the worst time
of the year. His
business — which
he owns and is trying to keep
going during the pandemic — is
at its busiest, and he’s working
60-80 hours a week for the next
two months. We both knew this
was happening, but the right
apartment came along.
I fully support his business
and understand this situation is
temporary. Yet I’m a bit wary
that the first few months of
living together will be me doing
all the cooking, cleaning, chores,
etc.
Any suggestions on how I end
this precedent? I don’t mind
pitching in while times are
unusual, but I’m also wary of
how to change a trend that starts
when I move in.
— Setting a Precedent
Setting a Precedent: What did
he do last year during this
period, when you were still living
apart?
The way to end a precedent is
not to set it in the first place. Tell
him you’d like to stay close to
your normal approach to chores
that each of you had while living
apart; put a big X on your
calendar marking the end of this
least a minute — which, as
anyone who has sat in silence for
a minute will know, felt like an
hour. Once the ritual was com-
plete, Hurt explained that he
took these moments before every
meal — an exercise that today
would be called “mindfulness.”
With the exception of that
brief interruption, he continued
chattering, mostly about “Jane
Eyre” and his interpretation of
the moody, broody Mr. Rochester
(opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg).
I remember few specifics, except
for his revelation that he habitu-
ally took on a “spirit animal” for
every role he played. For Roches-
ter in “Jane Eyre,” he said, it was
a crow.
Stopping and spirit animals
are just the kind of affectations
that make “serious actors” such
easy fodder for ridicule. Excesses
in the name of “craft” and “com-
mitment to the work” have been
a part of showbiz lore for as long
as performers have looked for
their key light, underscoring the
kind of preening vanity and
pretentiousness that so often go
NICK GALIFIANAKIS/ILLUSTRATION FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
stretch; and as needed treat this
as a time when fewer chores get
done.
If you still end up with a major
and persistent domestic
workload imbalance when it’s all
over, then break up and move
out. Ultimately the problem
would be a partner who’s okay
with letting you do all the work,
and the solution would be a
better person for a partner.
Carolyn: This is his new
business. There is no “last year.”
I’m asking, is there a good way to
invent or put in place a “reset”
button that I can push in three
months?
— Setting again
Setting again: Okay. I still think
the less resetting, the better. If
you didn’t move in, then he’d be
managing this and his home
solo. He just would, because he’d
have to.
It’s essential not to lose sight
of that — or, to put it more
plainly from the other side, keep
firmly in mind you are not
moving in to be his unpaid
domestic. Talk to him about a
fair division of labor for regular
times, then about an adjustment
to that for crazy time, then
decide if that sounds doable to
you. Weigh his attitude carefully.
And:
Do not agree to anything you
don’t want to live with.
Do not do more than you
think is fair.
EZ RE
William Hurt, above
with co-star Kathleen
Turner in 1981’s “Body
Heat” and at right in
1987’s “Broadcast
News.”
hand in hand with talent. Who
hasn’t heard the story of Lau-
rence Olivier observing Dustin
Hoffman’s Method-esque prepa-
ration for his role as the sleepless
protagonist in “Marathon Man”
(1976) and wryly suggesting,
“Why don’t you just try acting?”
More recently, it was “Succes-
sion’s” Jeremy Strong in the
crosshairs, his actorly eccentrici-
ties indexed with almost sadistic
glee in an uncharitable New
Yorker profile, which referenced
Strong’s idol, Daniel Day-Lewis
— the O.G. when it comes to “the
work,” having inhabited his roles
so fully that he reportedly never
broke character during filming.
I’m ashamed to admit that
Hurt’s spirit animals struck me
Do not keep doing anything
past the date that he can very
well resume doing it for himself.
Do not do anything he would
refuse to do for you.
Do not do anything you
wouldn’t feel right asking of him.
You are not obligated. Period.
Dear Carolyn: About a month
ago my husband and I moved to
a new neighborhood. When I was
out to take in our trash cans
today, I saw our next-door
neighbor for the first time. I
smiled and said hello. She
frowned at me and turned away
without responding. I am at a
loss. We pick up after our dog. He
is never out by himself or off
leash. He doesn’t bark. We keep
our home and yard well-
manicured. We are quiet. What
should we do?
— New Neighbor
New Neighbor: Invite them over
— or for a pandemic-approved
walk. If the frostiness persists,
then just ask whether you’ve
done something to offend them.
Maybe your dog barks
insanely when you’re out? Still —
that’s no cause for a snub.
Write to Carolyn Hax at
tellme@washpost.com. Get her
column delivered to your inbox each
morning at wapo.st/gethax.
 Join the discussion live at noon
Fridays at washingtonpost.com/live-
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the same way. As our dinner
passed the 90-minute mark, I
was growing impatient. Hurt’s
disquisitions were beginning to
feel less spontaneous than calcu-
lated and grandiose. It was all
getting to be a bit much. Dessert?
No thank you, just the check. By
Domestic suspense with a great twist
BOOK WORLD FROM C1
partner with a secret triggers
suspicion in us canny readers
early on. (That Maxim de Winter
guy is too aloof, too insistent on
having his own way to be without
a tangled past.) But, Emma Merry
Bigelow, the enigmatic heroine of
Rosie Walsh’s “The Love of My
Life,” seems so funny, warm, com-
passionate and kind that we read-
ers root for her — even though we
learn fairly quickly that she’s liv-
ing under an assumed name and
harbors a host of other secrets,
something her adoring husband,
Leo, doesn’t know about. Walsh
just may have written the first
domestic suspense novel in which
the deceitful spouse is also a
genuinely nice person. Maybe.
Walsh, whose 2018 debut thrill-
er, “Ghosted,” was a bestseller,
splits the first-person narration
of this story chiefly between Leo
and Emma. In the novel’s opening
pages, Leo proudly tells us that
his wife is an “intertidal ecologist,
which means she studies the plac-
es and creatures that are sub-
merged at high tide and exposed
at low.” (Suspense metaphor
alert!) Leo also affirms that
Emma is a loving mom to their
young daughter, Ruby, and their
rescue dog named John Keats;
she’s also a former star of a BBC
series on marine wildlife and a
recent cancer survivor. Then
comes this kicker from Leo at the
end of his opening testimonials:
“I think it was Kennedy who
said we are tied to the ocean —
that when we return to it, for
sport or leisure or somesuch, we
are returning to the place from
whence we came. That’s how I feel
about us. To be near to my wife, to
Emma, is to return to source.
“So when I learn, in the days
following this morning — this
innocent, commonplace morn-
ing, with dogs and frogs and
coffee … — that I know nothing of
this woman, it will break me.”
Leo stumbles on the first of his
beloved wife’s fibs because of his
job: He’s a writer on the obituar-
ies desk at a British newspaper, a
department, he insists, is “the
most cheerful desk on the news
floor,” because “we spend our
time celebrating extraordinary
people.” Obituaries of famous
people who are getting on in years
or who have had brushes with
serious illnesses are written in
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the time we got in our cars —
with Hurt cheerfully honking
and waving as he sped out of the
parking garage — the “I stop”
moment was already taking
shape as yet another piquant
anecdote from a career full of
unforgettable encounters with
“The Love of My Life” author Rosie Walsh.
advance. Such just-in-case obits
are called “stock.” Because of
Emma’s BBC fame and her cancer,
now in remission, she warrants a
“stock,” and Leo, as the person
who knows her best, accepts the
assignment to write it. As he
begins researching the facts of his
wife’s life — clandestinely, so as
not to upset her — Leo stumbles
upon some “submerged” fibs the
size of the Rock of Gibraltar.
Meanwhile, Emma is cautious-
ly confiding in us readers, too.
Here, for instance, are her
thoughts in response to her doc-
tor’s suggestion that she write a
cancer memoir:
“I’ve read endless cancer mem-
oirs in the years following my
diagnosis; some written from the
warm shore of survival, others cut
short by an end note from a
bereaved relative. … But every
account … has talked about love.
About how, as we approach the
end of our life, we find ourselves
turning toward the things and
people that are most meaningful
to us.
“ … My cancer journey, by
shameful contrast, started four
years ago with the rekindling of
an obsession that could end my
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the idiosyncratic and famous.
Over the ensuing years,
though, my interpretation of
Hurt’s spirit animals changed
from a can-you-believe-this-guy
eyeroll to muted respect. The
more I’ve learned about cinema,
and the singular challenges of
acting first for the camera, then,
by extension, the mass audience,
the less cavalier I’ve become
about what it takes to achieve the
level of focus and transparency
Hurt was able to channel over
and over.
We’re conditioned to think of
actors — especially the ones who
become “movie stars” — as beau-
tiful faces, objects of desire and
vicarious glamour. But they’re
also emotional instruments: the
primary means of conveying the
music and meaning of whatever
they’re in, whether it’s a screw-
ball comedy, three-hankie tear-
jerker or something more subtle.
When viewers laugh, cry, fall in
love or simply become entranced
by an actor of Hurt’s gifts, it’s
because he’s been able to do
whatever was necessary to strip
away his psychological defenses,
access his most vulnerable emo-
tional interior, dredge up the
multitudes he contains. We love
actors, not when we catch them
acting-with-a-capital-A, but
when we watch them simply
being alive. That can be scary
stuff, and if it takes channeling
your inner crow to do it, well, fly
free, my friend.
Hurt was a serious actor. His
a-bit-muchness was precisely
what made it possible for him to
be amusingly self-deprecating
as a callow anchorman in
“Broadcast News” or the sexy,
dim-bulb patsy in “Body Heat.”
What’s more, he rose to stardom
at a time when Hollywood stu-
dios still made a place for actors
of his caliber — not just as a way
to elevate the latest superhero
franchise, as Hurt did as Secre-
tary of State Thaddeus Ross in
the Avengers movies, but as
leading players in mainstream
movies.
I look back at that 1996
dinner with a combination of
amusement, regret and nostal-
gia. As gratifying as it is to
contemplate the remarkable
performances that made up
Hurt’s career, it’s chastening to
think of the wide range of films
this consummate serious actor
was allowed to be serious in. I
still remember his final beep
and wave with exasperated
fondness. Now, on just about
every level, I wish I’d made time
for dessert.
VERITY RIVERS
marriage. It’s been about fear of
discovery and deep regret. It is
something I could never commit
to paper, or Facebook, or any-
where else.”
In a sense, the chapters of “The
Love of My Life” that are narrated
by Emma constitute her own al-
ternate cancer memoir: her ac-
count of that obsession and its
backstory. Along the way, at least
three contenders for “the love of
[her] life” surface.
As appealing as the characters
of Emma and Leo are, the essen-
tial draw of a domestic suspense
story such as this one is its plot.
Walsh concocts a doozy. Her nar-
rative is studded with evasively
worded passages that lure us
readers into dead ends, switch-
back turns, false sutures between
scenes and a startling final cli-
max. All that passes for reality is
unstable in “The Love of My Life.”
By novel’s end, readers may even
begin to wonder whether the
name of that cute family dog,
John Keats, is also an alias.
Maureen Corrigan, who is the book
critic for the NPR program “Fresh Air,”
teaches literature at Georgetown
University.
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Finding fault in Campion’s comment
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money for this stupid and insulting,” wrote Malkin asked her about actor Sam
31 Playground © 2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 3/15/22 The criticism arrived as swiftly Chicago Sun-Times editor Gene Elliott recently referring to “The
retort as the praise. Farris. Power of the Dog,” a Western with
DOWN 29 Wrap a gift, 43 Super Bowl org. 49 Grand __ Just a day after Jane Campion Writer Saeed Jones noted, a psychological thriller bent, as a
32 __ sci was applauded for the candor “That Jane Campion whiplash is a “piece of s---.” Elliott criticized the
33 Web access co. 1 3:1, e.g. slangily 44 Roaming, like a National Park
2 No more than 32 Halves of qts. knight 52 Just plain plain with which she pushed back on perfect distillation of white femi- film’s “allusions to homosexual-
36 Flute and oboe disparaging remarks made about nism.” ity” in a podcast interview and
40 Drunkard 3 Emergency 33 Holiday and 45 Brief invite 53 Napa prefix
her film, “The Power of the Dog,” Campion issued a statement zeroed in on the behavior of Ben-
copter op Days equivalent of 54 Asian holidays
41 Sorority T’s “Drinks are
the filmmaker herself caught flak Monday afternoon apologizing for edict Cumberbatch’s character. Fi-
42 Sleep disorder 4 Birthday buy 34 Editor’s 55 Israeli for a comment she made while her words. nally, he asked, “Where’s the West-
5 Midrange “Let it be” not on me!” weapons accepting best director at Sun- “I made a thoughtless comment ern in this Western?”
43 Sam or Michelle 46 Like decrees
of Georgia voices 35 Free TV ads 56 Cabinet dept. day’s Critics Choice Awards. equating what I do in the film Campion rejected Elliott’s criti-
6 Without a key 37 Mom’s mom from Francis head After pointing out that the other world with all that Serena Wil- cism. “I’m sorry, he was being a
politics 47 Fish sauce taste
7 Olympic goal 38 Awning, for one 58 QB targets nominated directors in her catego- liams and Venus Williams have little bit of a b----,” she said, spell-
44 Online 48 Screwball ry were all men, Campion turned to achieved,” she said. “I did not in- ing out the word. “He’s not a cow-
marketing 8 Artfully seek, 39 Eco-conscious 59 Top __:
as a promotion govt. group comedy Monopoly piece Serena and Venus Williams, who tend to devalue these two legend- boy; he’s an actor. The West is a
technique attended in support of the film ary Black women and world class mythic space and there’s a lot of
46 Flaky baked 9 Actress Kravitz “King Richard.” She said, “You athletes. The fact is the Williams room on the range. I think it’s a
dough 10 Make a mistake know, Serena and Venus, you are sisters have, actually, squared off little bit sexist.”
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50 Human 11 Electricity such marvels. However, you do not against men on the court (and off ), Cumberbatch and co-star Jesse
rights lawyer 12 Letter before play against the guys like I have to.” and they have both raised the bar Plemons have also commented on
Clooney Papa The audience broke out into and opened doors for what is pos- Elliott’s words — the latter saying
51 Greek “Father of 13 Coronas and cheers and applause while the sible for women in this world. The that he “laughed when I heard” —
History” Buds camera cut to Venus Williams, a last thing I would ever want to do but many were especially im-
57 Birdie plus one 18 Venetian seemingly uncomfortable smile on is minimize remarkable women. pressed by the delivery of Campi-
elder of yore her face. The response online mir- “I love Serena and Venus. Their on’s devastating response. Linda
58 “Piece of cake!” rored Williams’s (minus the smile). accomplishments are titanic and Holmes of NPR tweeted that “it’s
... and apt 21 Australian Many people expressed how un- inspiring. Serena and Venus, I the genuine *regret* she manages
description of airport code necessary it was for Campion, a apologize and completely cel- to convey about the fact that he
the starts of 23 “Star Trek” White woman, to compare her ex- ebrate you.” said something so embarrassing
17-, 22-, 36- and helmsman periences of sexism with the uphill The situation was a classic that makes it sing.”
46-Across? 24 __ husbandry battles fought by the Williams sis- “Milkshake Duck” of Hollywood Campion, the first woman to be
60 “Mad Men” 25 Logging ters, two Black women who have proportions, a term coined by Aus- nominated twice for the best di-
network tools faced unrelenting racism and sex- tralian cartoonist Ben Ward to de- rector Oscar, became the Inter-
61 Hazardous gas 26 Fairy tale ism while working toward remark- scribe the Internet phenomenon net’s sharp-tongued heroine. For
62 Shenanigan bears, e.g. able levels of success in tennis, a in which a beloved figure online is one day, that is.
63 Falsehood 27 “Seasons of White-dominated sport. quickly revealed to be problemat- “The Power of the Dog,” which
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MUSIC REVIEW

Animal Collective finds new ways to bend time and space

BY H AU C HU
There’s only one way to travel
through time on this shared rock
of ours: forward. Listening to mu-
sic offers some time-bending loop-
holes. Rewind. Fast forward. Skip.
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
On Sunday night at the 9:30
Club, Animal Collective showed
why, for nearly two decades,
they’ve set the pace as one of mu-
sic’s most blurry timekeepers. In
concert, the band uses their stage
as a jam-band test facility to tinker
with songs past, present and fu-
ture. (Much like their spiritual
forebears, the Grateful Dead.)
The band’s latest album, “Time
Skiffs,” showcases the foursome in
near-peak form, riffing on exis-
tence in our increasingly imper-
iled and fragile ecosystem. Animal
Collective thrives when layering
hypnotic, interlacing vocal har-
monies over puncturing bleeps
and blorps conjured from stacks
of synthesizers. Onstage, Avey
Tare (Dave Portner) and Panda
Bear (Noah Lennox) ping-ponged
gooey melodies with cathartic
barks, while Geologist (Brian
Weitz) and Deakin (Josh Dibb)
effortlessly toggled an assemblage
of instruments (including a hur-
dy-gurdy) to craft enveloping
soundscapes.
The pace of their live show of-
fered a fine balance in push-pull
blissoutsandtwitchyfreakoutjams.
Tracks from “Time Skiffs” shared
space with selections from their
2007 standout “Strawberry Jam” —
including “Chores” and closing
number “For Reverend Green.”
But the elephant in the Animal
Collective playroom is still “Merri-
weather Post Pavilion.” The 2009
album, named after the Columbia,
Md., amphitheater, has earned its
place as a cultural touchstone of
the indie rock boom of the late
2000s — which dovetailed with
the sunny bloom of the Obama
era. (Album opener “In the Flow-
ers” earned one of the biggest pops
from the crowd.)
It’s trendy to ride waves of nos-
talgia. This quest to build back to a
brighter, better future through the
lens of a hazily remembered past
(that we’re unreasonably sure was
worthwhile) tempts us with the
possibility of clarity on the road
ahead.
The media materials for “Time
Skiffs” refer to it as a “comeback
album” after years of solo and
experimental works — it’s the first
album in a decade to feature all
four members. Bands and albums
tend to be categorized this way. In
temporal tradition, we expect
each new release to build off the
last, or, in the case of such a defin-
ing work as “Merriweather,” make
things sound more like it.
But why do we want that?
I chatted with Weitz in 2018
about the band’s visual album
“Tangerine Reef,” which was a plea
to fight the rapid destruction of
the coral reefs, and asked him if
the band felt any pressure to think
of creating work along a timeline.
“People are discovering us, like
high school kids now,” Weitz said
then. “There’s a pretty large body
KYLE GUSTAFSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
of work for them to jump into. For
From left, Deakin, Avey Tare and Geologist of Animal Collective perform at the 9:30 Club. The band played music from its latest album, them, it’s not a linear experience of
“Time Skiffs,” which showcases the foursome in near-peak form, riffing on existence in our increasingly imperiled and fragile ecosystem. what came after what, and what
was going on in their life.”
Maybe Animal Collective has
The pace of their live show offered a fine balance found the secret to tricking time —
or they’ve found a map to the
in push-pull blissouts and twitchy freakout jams. streaming algorithms that offer
up everything except direction of
where to go.

Senselessness cradled in Putin

MONICA HESSE possibility. But the births aren’t
mitigating factors to a terrible

Hope, heartbreak in war chaos; they’re not a Chicken Soup

HESSE FROM C1
causing labor complications. The
fact that giving birth in the cargo
bay of a military aircraft while
fleeing the country is the most
horrible way imaginable to give
birth.
That story was, in fact, a
terrible one. It was terrible in the
same way that “schoolchildren
raise money for impoverished
bus driver’s cancer treatment” is
a terrible story. To get to the
uplifting part, you must
disregard the tragic, shameful
premise — the circumstances
that made it so this woman was
fleeing on an airplane while
heavily pregnant. You must begin
a sentence with “At least,” when
really the sentence should begin
with “At most.”
I’ve been thinking of this
Afghan woman. I’ve been
thinking of her because I’ve been
thinking about the way we tell
stories of birth and hope in war.
There are surrogate babies
trapped in Ukraine. It is one of
the few countries that allows for
overseas surrogacy, apparently,
for women carrying babies for
couples who live abroad. Now
these babies are being born at a
time when the biological parents
— the sperm and egg who created
the infant — are unable to reach
them. The babies are being cared
for by nannies and caseworkers.
Every few days one of the babies
will make it across the border in
the arms of a caregiver, and this
is written in headlines as silver-
lining news.
“A rescue team evacuates
premature American twins from
Kyiv in a daring mission,” read
one headline, about two infant
boys who were evacuated to
Poland.
Thank God for this. Thank
God for the medical professionals
who cared for the twins, and the
volunteer organization that
managed to save them.
But the circumstances are still
terrible. The woman who birthed
the twins had gone into early
labor. She had to spend hours
fighting military traffic to get to
the hospital. The boys were born
prematurely, precariously, at four
pounds apiece in a hospital that
didn’t have food for them. A
three-car convoy had to dodge
checkpoints on a 14-hour trip to
safety.
At least the babies survived.
At most the babies survived.
Their survival was a silver lining
because Ukraine is engulfed in
gray: rubble, dust, abandoned
lives.
We desperately need stories of
births in war because we need
hope, and hope is human. We
need stories of renewal and
for the Wartime Soul where there
are always lessons to be learned
and silver linings to be found,
and where at least pieces of the
story turn out okay. Sometimes
no pieces turn out okay.
Maybe last week you saw a
photograph of another pregnant
woman. Her hospital was
bombed as she prepared to
deliver. She was evacuated on a
stretcher against a backdrop of
smoldering rubble. In the
photograph this woman lay with
a bloodied and mangled hip on a
piece of fabric that looked like a
blanket with a design that looked
like a strawberry, and she
clutched her round belly.
In the middle of this hell, she
still clutched her belly. Can you
imagine? Of course you can. The
desire to believe that the circle of
life will continue — is continuing,
despite it all — is so powerful.
Except in this case it wouldn’t.
The Associated Press reported on
Monday that the woman in this
photograph had died, and her
baby had died, too. When she’d
learned that her baby wouldn’t
survive, she reportedly told
medics, “Kill me now,” but they
still tried to save her for more
than 30 minutes before it was
clear they couldn’t.
No silver lining. No uplift. Just
a dead woman with a broken
body and a heart that she seems
to have hoped would stop beating
before she had to live with it
being broken.
PHOTOGRAPH FROM C1
war. The whole of Vladimir Pu-
tin’s rage and cruelty seems to be
distilled here — into a visual
dialogue between the blanket
and woman resting upon it. For
some reason, I imagine an older
sibling, the brother or sister to a
baby who never saw life, staring
at this picture and asking the
questions a child might ask: Why
are these men carrying her?
Because she cannot walk. Why
can’t she walk? Because she is
hurt. Why is she hurt?
How does one answer that?
Because one man is making war
on millions of peaceful people.
Because evil.
But those answers could be
given about any image of suffer-
ing coming out of Ukraine. Why
is it that this one pierces so
directly?
The blanket captures some-
thing difficult to represent and
process, an idea that seems both
fundamentally true and entirely
banal: that war is unnecessary
suffering, a source of needless
pain. Earthquakes, fire and dis-
ease bring calamity to millions
every year. But war is a human
invention, and if our species
didn’t cough up such terrible,
twisted, bloodthirsty men as
Vladimir Putin, we might avoid
the depredations of war. Natural
disasters are inevitable; war is on
us.
The red blanket hints at that
because it represents the power
of domestic life in the midst of
public destruction. War turns
homes inside out, subjecting
their private contents to public
scrutiny. This particular blanket,
which has what looks like a
watermelon, strawberry or lady-
bug pattern, seems particularly
domestic and private, the sort of
thing an expectant mother may
have carried with her as a re-
minder of home. It isn’t mono-
chrome or gray, as one might
expect from a hospital or ambu-
lance. And its pattern of black
dots on bright red stands in
sharp visual contrast to the grid
of gaping rectangular window
frames in the background. It
functions visually as red so often
does in old paintings, drawing in
and arresting the eye with a
splash of crimson on a cloak or a
hat.
It suggests ripeness and sun
amid bleakness and death. The
pattern is a visual metaphor not
just for pregnancy but also for
the seasons of abundance that
are a world away from the trees
that frame the suffering woman,
trees blasted by winter and war.
For some reason, when I saw it, I
thought of a painting by Luis
Melendez in the Prado, of three
watermelons, two of them whole,
and the other cut open. It seems
to gape with blood and life, as if
to remind us that humans must
inevitably break things to stay
alive.
But there was no need to break
any of the broken things in this
image. War alone did this, and
Putin made that war.
The symbolically freighted or
cathected object, often cheap or
shabby, is a classic device for
focusing emotion in narrative
and images. The muff given to
the dying Mimi in Puccini’s op-
era “La Boheme,” and Rosebud,
the child’s sled, in Orson Welles’s
“Citizen Kane,” do a kind of work
that reconfigures human suffer-
ing, makes it somehow more
immediate and meaningful. It’s a
trick and easily abused, and even
when used by a master, it can
leave one feeling slightly manip-
ulated.
But here, there is no artifice,
and somehow the blanket makes
the thing that really matters —
the genuine suffering of the
woman upon it — even more
unbearable to contemplate. The
last place of innocence has been
shattered.
There is no motherhood
without the pain of childbirth.
There is no childhood without
tears. Even without war, there
is more than enough suffering
in the happiest of lives. When
Putin’s epitaph is written, look
to this woman, and this blan-
ket, and include these words:
He heaped misery upon the
world.

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When all the smoke clears, can a couple’s relationship still work?
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Today’s topic: “Up in Smoke.”
Dear Amy: My boyfriend
and I are 22. We have been
dating for almost four years.
We both used marijuana on
a daily basis (before we met).
Our pot use was a way to bond
and get to know each other,
while enjoying life. After a year
of dating, I decided to quit
smoking and focus on my
education. After receiving a
degree, I do not wish to
continue this habit.
Is it rude to interrupt a chat with something I might forget later?
Dear Miss
Miss Manners:
Manners During casual
JUDITH conversations,
MARTIN, my mother
JACOBINA would suddenly
MARTIN AND interrupt, as
NICHOLAS politely as she
IVOR MARTIN could, with
something like,
“Oh! Please excuse me, but if I
don’t mention this now, I will
surely forget!”
Then she would say
whatever it was that she had
been meaning to say, but
would otherwise have
invariably forgotten until it
was too late (e.g., the person
had gone home or the phone
call ended).
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My boyfriend continues to
smoke on a daily basis. It
doesn’t bother me that I
cannot do this with him, but I
don’t want him to do this for
the rest of his life. We have
been talking about marriage
and starting a family. He says
he will quit when we are
ready to have children. I have
been thinking about our
relationship. I have never
known him when he was
sober.
I asked him to get sober for
a short period of time so we
can be together without being
under the influence before we
take the next steps in our life.
When I talked to him about
this, he became angry and
agitated, but I think he is going
to agree. Now I am hoping that
if he quits, he won’t start
smoking again (although I
doubt it). Is it wrong of me to
ask him to do this?
— High on Life
Now that I am a senior
myself (with a senior
memory!), I am finding this
tactic very useful, but worry
that it will seem as though my
mind has been wandering
while the person is talking.
More often than not, they have
simply said something that
jogged my memory. Like my
mother, I find that if I don’t say
something when I think of it,
I’ll forget until the opportunity
has passed.
Is this sort of interruption
acceptable, even if the
information conveyed may not
be terribly important?
Not really. It assumes that the
interruption has more value
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High: When you quit I realize my daughter is an including her laziness. and Alcohol Addicted
smoking, did you quit for adult, but we have had some I don’t care what this other Children.” Rubin says: “You
your boyfriend? No, you quit issues about her smoking pot, person does, but I do care must take a firmer line and
for yourself. It is obvious that which I do not allow in my that she is encouraging my tell her to get a full-time job
you like the changes that home. daughter to use drugs that or work full-time hours
sobriety has brought to your My daughter works part have kept her from passing a within a specific time frame.
life. Now you are hoping your time and has her own money. urine test for a permanent Tell her, ‘If you’re smoking,
guy will quit his habit for a Recently, she has been going job. you obviously won’t be able to
short time, and you are upstairs and spending a great — Concerned Parent get that job and I won’t be
worried about his choices deal of time with a 60-year-old able to offer you housing any
beyond the sobriety he hasn’t female in-law, who lives in our Concerned: You seem longer.’ Give her a deadline
even achieved, yet. building. determined to confront the and calmly stick to it. In
The questions for you to One evening she came back wrong person about your addition to preserving your
ponder are: What will you do if from a visit, and she was so daughter’s drug use. Your own self and health, you have
your boyfriend doesn’t make high that her eyes were barely daughter will find someone to the opportunity to influence
any changes in his life? Can open and her speech was smoke pot with as long as she her by your example.”
you be with him as is — pot impaired. I confronted her and is using, whether it is a family (September 2012)
and all? she confirmed that they smoke member, friend or co-worker.
And do you want him — as is pot together. Her behavior is the problem Amy's column appears seven days
— to be your spouse and the I think a 60-year-old in your household. a week at washingtonpost.com/
father of your children? woman should not be You seem to assume that a advice. Write to
(August 2012) smoking pot with my 24-year- 60-year-old should “know askamy@amydickinson.com or Amy
old daughter. This woman is a better,” but age does not confer Dickinson, P.O. Box 194, Freeville,
Dear Amy: My 24-year-old bad influence. Should I wisdom — or moderation. N.Y. 13068.  You can also follow
daughter graduated from confront her? She knows I I shared your letter with her @askingamy.
college two years ago and have been concerned about Charles Rubin, author of
moved back in with me last my daughter’s use and her “Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You: © 2022 by Amy Dickinson distributed by
year. recent behavior changes, A Guide for Parents of Drug Tribune Content Agency
than what was being Dear Miss Manners: We’re all fighting. Rather than getting As Miss Manners notices that
interrupted. And it could family, sitting on the porch in a into an argument, you can say, you and your friend are both
transfer to the other person circle. I’m on the edge closest however insincerely, “Oops, careless, and you were careless
that same problem of losing a to nature, and there are many sorry, I was watching the birds first, it would be kind of you to
train of thought. beautiful tropical birds to and didn’t realize I had my treat this with some sympathy.
However, Miss Manners does watch while they feed on back to you.” You were the first one to lose
sympathize with the problem. bananas. I’ve put my back to those glasses, so it hardly befits
Shall we compromise by using the matriarch. I thought since Dear Miss Manners: I left my you to charge her for having
a short interruption? we were casual, it was okay. sunglasses at a very good done the same. The most you
Suppose you smile and hold They’d also put out lots of friend’s home, and she set can do is occasionally ask her
up a hand (unless you are on bananas! Was I supposed to go them aside for me. Several to take another look.
the telephone, in which case to another location to watch months later, when we saw
you can make a note on the the birds? each other again, she went to New Miss Manners columns are
telephone pad), saying, They’re telling me I’m rude! retrieve them for me and they posted Monday through Saturday
“Remind me to tell you about B.S., I say! were gone. on washingtonpost.com/advice.
the time I also went bear She’s looked everywhere, You can send questions to Miss
hunting.” If you are urged to And will that convince them and has asked anyone who has Manners at her website,
tell that story immediately, you that you are polite? been in her home, but turned missmanners.com. You can also
must reply, “No, no, I want to Miss Manners considers it up empty-handed. Should she follow her @RealMissManners.
hear what you were saying time to learn that there are offer to replace them? I am a
first.” some battles not worth little bothered that she hasn’t. © 2022, by Judith Martin
(!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

NEITHER SIDE VULNERABLE

NORTH
♠ 854
♥ Q9
♦ AQJ63
♣ 863
WEST EAST
♠ AKJ ♠ Q 10 9 6 2
♥ 652 ♥ 843
♦ K 10 8 7 ♦9 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ K 10 2 ♣ J754
SOUTH (D)
♠ 73
♥ A K J 10 7
♦ 542
♣ AQ9

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 ♥ Dbl 2 ♦ 2 ♠(!)
3 ♦ Pass 3 ♥ Pass
4 ♥ All Pass
Opening lead — ♠ K CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

O ptimism is fine, at least

until they start transport-
ing animals in pairs to Cape
Canaveral. But too much opti-
mism can ruin a makeable
contract.
Against today’s four
hearts, West led the king of
spades. East signaled with
the 10, and West continued
with the ace and jack. South
ruffed, drew trumps and led RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
a diamond to dummy’s jack.
The finesse won, and
things were going so well
that South had a fit of opti-
mism. He came to his ace
of clubs and led a second
diamond to the queen. Alas,
East discarded, and South
couldn’t bring in the dia-
monds. He tried a club to his
queen, and West took the
king and 10. Down one. LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
If the lie of the diamonds
had been friendly, South
could have made an over-
trick. Instead, he could and
should have played safe for
the contract.
After the jack of diamonds
wins, dummy should lead
a low diamond. West wins
but has no good return. If
he leads another diamond,
South takes the queen, ace HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
and the good fifth diamond,
winning 10 tricks.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠AKJ♥652
♦ K 10 8 7 ♣ K 10 2
You open one diamond,
your partner responds one
heart, you bid 1NT and he
tries two spades. What do
you say?
ANSWER: Partner’s sec- BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
ond bid — a “reverse” by
responder — is forcing. To
persist in notrump is tempt-
ing, but your duty is to show
a tolerance for his first suit.
Bid three hearts. Your part-
ner can still try 3NT if his pat-
tern is almost balanced and
his hearts are not robust.
— Frank Stewart
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BIRTHDAY | MARCH 15
You are hardworking
and responsible.
You are also very
persuasive. You are
a caring person and always
helpful to others. This year
there is a strong focus on
personal responsibility and
service to others, which is
why you must take excellent
care of yourself. In fact, some
of you might even consider a
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Moon Alert: Caution! Avoid

shopping or making important
decisions after 6:45 a.m.
today. The Moon is in Leo.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
There is a Moon Alert today,
which means refrain from
spending money, except on
food and gas. However, this
particular Moon Alert is in a
creative part of your chart,
which means your artistic
energy will soar!
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
You can best use today’s
energy to hunker down at
home and relate to family in
a genuine, more open way.
That’s because all of today
is a Moon Alert, which will
encourage you to let your hair
down and tell it like it is.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
This is a loosey-goosey day!
There is a Moon Alert all day,
which might make you feel
indecisive and unsure of what
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK to do next. It’s a good day
to explore new ideas as well
as brainstorm thoughts with
others.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Do be aware of the restrictions
of today’s Moon Alert,
because it is taking place in
your Money House. Restrict
spending to food and gas.
Postpone important decisions
and financial matters until
tomorrow.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK Today, virtually all day,
there is a Moon Alert in Leo!
This means your mind is
freewheeling and soaring like
a helium balloon cut free in the
sky. You will more easily grasp
creative ideas because you
can think outside the box.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Because there is a Moon Alert
today occurring in a hidden
part of your chart, this is an
excellent day for meditation,
yoga or any quiet activity
that helps calm your mind
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grounded.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Relations with friends as well
as members of groups will be
friendly and, possibly, more
frank than usual because
of today’s Moon Alert.
Nevertheless, don’t volunteer
for anything or agree to
anything important.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You are high-viz today, which
means other people notice you
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT more than usual, especially
bosses, VIPs and the police.
Because of the Moon Alert,
you might make a mistake or
be confused. Don’t volunteer
for anything.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Today there is a Moon Alert
in effect all day, which will
allow you to explore ideas you
don’t normally consider. It will
make it easier for you to listen
to people whose views are
different from yours.
CAPRICORN
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK (DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
The Moon Alert today, which is
in effect all day, takes place in
your House of Other People’s
Money. This means this is a
poor day to make decisions
about shared property, taxes,
debt or insurance issues.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Relations with partners and
close friends will be fuzzy
today because there is a Moon
Alert happening all day long
opposite your sign. This will
promote honest and open
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS conversations, but they might
be confusing.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Issues at work might be
clouded and confused
because of today’s Moon
Alert. Expect shortages and
delays. Carry on with business
as usual as best you can, but
wait until tomorrow to make
important decisions.
— Georgia Nicols
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last year’s contest and helped

judge this year’s contest, said kids
at her school often choose un-
healthy but familiar foods at home
and in the cafeteria.
“I think most of my friends
aren’t used to eating anything
healthy, so they won’t eat anything
but lettuce,” Dahlia said. “If there’s
even kale or arugula, those flavors
just put them off.”
Dietary guidelines from the
federal government call for “a va-
riety of fruits and vegetables,
whole grains, fat-free and low-fat
dairy products, a variety of pro-
tein foods, and oils,” according to
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. But many kids
Students, left, from Kenmore Middle School in Arlington serve and teens don’t have a diet that
samples of their Quinoa Quiche and Apple Arugula Walnut Salad, follows those recommendations.
above, at the Real Food for Kids Culinary Challenge on March 5. Real Food for Kids organizers
hope their challenge will inspire
kids to think about improving
their eating habits and get in-
volved in what’s served in their
school cafeterias. Coming up with
something tasty for less than
$2.70 per serving isn’t easy. For the
PHOTOS BY DEB LINDSEY Kenmore team, which won the
competition, it involved a lot of
experimentation, said Mischa Bi-

Students savor taste of victory Six teams from D.C.-area

middle schools and high schools
lanchone, the teacher who worked
with the team.
“When we were doing the first

with their healthy school lunch

planned and cooked healthy,
inexpensive meals that could be
served in a school cafeteria.
Students from Franklin Middle
School in Chantilly, left, made
BY B RIDGET R EED M ORAWSKI Apple Arugula Walnut Salad, ingredients grown in the region. their Vegejita Wrapadilla,
[versions] of the recipe, every-
thing seemed bland,” Bilanchone
said. “We didn’t want to over-sea-
son, and we didn’t want to add too
much additional salt” to the
quiche.

A
fter months of brain-
storming and prepara-
tion, André LaRue and
three classmates from
Kenmore Middle
School in Arlington thought they
had everything figured out for a
big meal that they were serving.
But on the morning of the meal,
they discovered that the apples
they had chopped had lost their
color and crunch overnight. The
team rushed to buy and cut up a
few dozen new apples for their
which was a side dish for their
entree: a quinoa-crusted quiche.
This wasn’t a meal for family or
friends, however. LaRue and
classmates Katelyn Cherbas, Ellie
Leichtman and Norah Talbot-Lilly
were trying to win the 10th An-
nual Real Food for Kids Culinary
Challenge. Teams representing
D.C.-area middle schools and high
schools were invited to plan and
cook a healthy, inexpensive meal
that could be served in a school
cafeteria. This year’s meal also
had to be plant-based with half the
The Kenmore team, one of six at
the March 5 competition, finished
making their meal in the kitchens
at Fairfax County’s Hayfield Sec-
ondary School. A panel of judges
was waiting in a nearby room to
taste their creations.
Ellie Whiteman, one of four
competitors from Franklin Mid-
dle School in Chantilly, helped
ready her team’s Vegejita Wrapa-
dilla. She was impressed with
what all the teams created.
“I think the quality of our meals
is much better” than what’s served
at school, Ellie said. But she knows
the difficulties that school offi-
cials face. “It’s so much easier to
[feed a lot of kids] with premade
things that they can just heat up, ”
she said.
Even at home, parents can’t
always prepare nutritious, tasty
food.
Ivonne Clarios, a Herndon
High School student and chal-
lenge competitor, said her family
above, for the contest.
doesn’t usually have time to cook
something new for her, her sib-
lings and cousins. “It’s very hard
to open them up to new things,”
Ivonne said of her siblings. But she
was pleasantly surprised with
their reaction to her team’s Tropi-
cal Stir-Fry. “They loved it,” she
said. “So I’d like to make it at home
for them.”
Dahlia Baht, a Takoma Park
Middle School student who won
That led the team to add low-so-
dium chicken broth and toast the
quinoa before adding the filling to
the quiche, both of which Bilan-
chone said were critical to taking
their dish up a notch in flavor.
Bilanchone said she is excited
about how contests like these en-
courage healthy habits not just in
competing students, but in other
kids, too. “We had a lot of folks just
come up [to our table at the con-
test] and ask for the recipe be-
cause their child wanted them to
make it for dinner.”

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Soto is treating this as just another spring training
The face of the Nationals is focused on hitting and says he’s not concerned about his contract situation
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
west palm beach, fla. —
Monday morning, in the first
hours of his fourth major league
spring training, Juan Soto — the
guy who finished second in rook-
ie of the year voting; was ninth,
fifth and second for MVP honors;
and won a batting title, two
Silver Slugger awards and a
World Series, all before turning
23 in October — wanted more
at-bats.
This won’t surprise anyone
who has followed Soto’s still-
young career even tangentially. If
someone’s pitching, he wants to
be hitting. If the game or life is
more complicated than that, it’s
not the one he plays or lives.
So on a near-empty field at the
Grab your lightsaber: Doolittle is
set to return on a one-year deal. D5
Washington Nationals’ spring
training facility, Soto stepped in
to face reliever Steve Cishek, a
new teammate. He took a few
pitches, fouled off another and
wagged his hips, the whole thing
a tad more muted than usual.
Then he accepted his make-be-
lieve walk, spun around, jogged
to the next field over and slapped
a make-believe single off Erick
Fedde. Then he jogged back, dug
in against Cishek and skied a
make-believe popup to left. Then
he spun around again, jogged to
the next field over again and
pulled what he called a make-be-
lieve double to right, beating
SEE SOTO ON D5
For Cohen’s Mets, hype
and expectations grow
BY C HELSEA J ANES
port st. lucie, fla. — Steve
Cohen didn’t want the golf cart
reserved for him at the New York
Mets’ spring training complex
Sunday morning. He wanted to
walk the pathways, shake hands
with the new coaches and say hi
to the fans — just your average,
everyday billionaire in a baseball
cap.
At one point, he ambled into a
small patch of shaded grass out-
side the minor league clubhouse
and into a wall of cameras wait-
ing there for him.
“Beautiful tree,” he told the
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST group before noting that it did
“I always see my future here. [I appreciate] everything they’ve not have leaves.
done for me, and I feel pretty good,” Juan Soto said of the Nats. “Wish it was warmer,” he add-
ed, his small talk teetering into
something closer to an inspec-
tion.
This world — the Port St. Lucie
complex, the Mets and increas-
ingly baseball in general — be-
longs to Cohen, after all. He is
changing the rules, even as his
fellow owners change them for
him, pulling the game’s center of
gravity to Queens with every
splurge that most owners
wouldn’t consider, seizing the
spotlight with every tweet that
most owners wouldn’t send.
Those fellow owners already
have labeled him the game’s
greatest villain. In fraught collec-
tive bargaining agreement nego-
tiations with the players union,
SEE METS ON D4

Hooked on
his success,
Brady can’t
walk away
And on the 41st
day of his
retirement, Tom
Brady said
enough. Who was
he kidding? The
Jerry most prolific
Brewer winner in NFL
history wasn’t
ready for civilian life. He couldn’t
carry on without a jersey to wear,
a defense to dissect, an audience
to captivate.
So Brady is back. He probably
didn’t have time to finish his
wife’s honey-do list, but he’s back.
All those wonderful tributes from
last month are outdated. His
retirement was merely a long
vacation.
In August, Brady will celebrate
his 45th birthday at training
camp, preparing for his 23rd pro
season, expecting again to be the
surest quarterback thing in the
league. When 2022 ends, he will
have spent more of his life in the
NFL than outside it, another
remarkable feat of longevity. And
if you think one more dance will
satisfy him, well, don’t bet on it.
Competition addicts aren’t
inclined to leave success on the
table. There’s always more to
accomplish, more to prove and,
in this lucrative business, more JOHN LOCHER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

to earn. Stanford, shown during last week’s Pac-12 tournament, is trying to become the first team other than Connecticut or Tennessee to repeat since USC back in 1984.
That mentality drove him to

A mission for more

return. It kept him from truly
giving the football afterlife a
chance.
It is, and forever will be, the
one thing Brady can’t beat. He
isn’t wired to be content. The
kind of success he feeds is
insatiable. Brady may have seven
Super Bowl rings, 624
touchdown passes, 84,520 Full of love and grit, Stanford is trying to repeat as the women’s national champion
passing yards and every other
record that makes the eyeballs
protrude. But, amazingly, he
hasn’t emptied his talent. He BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER IN LAS VEGAS said. “And, I mean, senior night, I was a mess.”

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couldn’t leave with so much good “Love you, Cam,” Hull said.
football left in him. ove, that crucial entity with March Madness teams, is All that was said on a formal interview dais just after Stanford
At 44, Brady led an NFL full of attempting to repeat. cemented its 19-0 run through the Pac-12 regular season and
mesmerizing young This is the season when every team speaks of love, no tournament. “Honestly,” 36-season coach Tara VanDerveer said,
quarterbacks in passing yards one more clearly than at Stanford, where the women “I learn more from them than they could ever learn from me.”
and touchdown passes last will try to do what nobody other than Connecticut and The Cardinal has a roster deeply similar to the one that
season. He carried the Tampa Tennessee has done since Southern California in 1984: win squeezed through one of the stranger Final Fours last April in
Bay Buccaneers when injuries consecutive national titles. The Cardinal is 28-3 and the No. 1 San Antonio, by scores of 66-65 (South Carolina) and 54-53
depleted their star power. It seed in the Spokane Region. (Arizona), but more so by withstanding two harrowing,
wasn’t a season in which he could “I think we’re really hyped,” star Haley Jones said at the Pac-12 hyperventilating finishes. As the Cardinal won VanDerveer’s
economize the physical strain, tournament. first national title in 29 years — since 1992, when dinosaurs
but it didn’t matter. Brady “We love playing with each other,” Lexie Hull said. roamed the earth — love took on a starring role then, too, as if it
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they lost in the divisional round,
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give herself Each time she returned to the front of the pack among the her match at the BNP Paribas ferocious competitor that she the Players Championship
permission to sport, she was saddled with highest-paid female athletes, Open when a woman shouted, may be on the court, has lived a
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Trubisky is high-upside, low-cost and a perfect fit at quarterback for the Steelers
Until this
On offseason, the
the NFL Pittsburgh
ADAM
Steelers had never
KILGORE experienced the
lone downside of
employing the most competent
coach in the NFL. They do not
suffer losing seasons under Mike
Tomlin, and a losing season is the
most frictionless method to
acquire a quarterback with the
pedigree to lead a franchise. Ben
Roethlisberger’s retirement left
Pittsburgh with a gaping hole
behind center, but because
Tomlin had dragged a rickety
roster to the postseason anyway,
the Steelers lacked the desirable
draft pick with which to fill it.
Only the right set of
circumstances would allow the
Steelers access to a quarterback
with the physical measurables
and perceived talent to be taken at
the top of the draft. Those
circumstances arose this spring,
and the Steelers pounced Monday,
at the start of the NFL’s legal
tampering period, with a savvy
move that could be a windfall and
won’t damage them long-term if
it’s not.
The Steelers tabbed Mitchell
Trubisky as the likely heir to
Roethlisberger, agreeing with the
2017 second overall pick on a two-
year contract. Trubisky washed
out with the Chicago Bears after
his first four seasons, unable to
build on the 12-win season he
produced in his first full year as a
starter and tumbling out of the
organization as a passer the
league viewed as a backup.
Trubisky rehabbed his reputation
as Josh Allen’s backup for a season
in Buffalo, where he won
extensive praise from coaches and
in brief cameos flashed the
potential that made him such a
coveted draft prize.
Trubisky is far from a riskless
choice to replace Roethlisberger.
In his final season in Chicago, Pro
Football Focus graded Trubisky as
NFL NOTES
Chargers bolster defense with Jackson; Jaguars bring in six, including Kirk
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Cornerback J.C. Jackson agreed
to a five-year contract with the Los
Angeles Chargers on Monday,
continuing the franchise’s aggres-
sive makeover of the defense.
Jackson’s contract will be worth
$82.5 million, including $40 mil-
lion guaranteed, two people famil-
iar with the negotiations con-
firmed to the Associated Press.
The people spoke on the condition
of anonymity because the deal
can’t become official until the
start of the new league year
Wednesday.
Later in the day, the team
agreed to deals with defensive
tackles Sebastian Joseph-Day (Los
Angeles Rams) and Austin John-
son (New York Giants).
Jackson became one of the top
available free agents after the New
England Patriots did not apply the
franchise tag to him last week. The
26-year-old cornerback earned
his first Pro Bowl selection last
season, when he led the NFL with
23 passes defended and was sec-
ond with eight interceptions. He
has 25 picks over the past four
seasons, most in the league.
The Chargers had already made
a splash last Thursday when they
agreed to acquire edge rusher
DIGEST
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Christian won’t return
as head coach at GW
Jamion Christian was fired
as men’s basketball coach at
George Washington on Monday
after wrapping up a third
consecutive losing season at the
school.
George Washington went
12-18 during 2021-22, including
a 99-88 loss to Massachusetts
last week in the Colonials’ first
game at the Atlantic 10
tournament.
Christian’s overall record was
29-50 during his three years,
including 1-3 in the conference
tournament, and the decision to
let him go “was based on our
performance on the court,”
George Washington Athletic
Director Tanya Vogel said in a
statement. . . .
South Carolina fired head
coach Frank Martin after 10
seasons with one appearance in
the NCAA tournament.
Athletic Director Ray Tanner
announced the move, saying the
change came after a “thorough
evaluation of our men’s
basketball program.”
Martin completed his 10th
season with an opening-game
loss to Mississippi State in the
Mitchell Trubisky, the No. 2 pick by the Bears in 2017, is joining the Steelers after a stint with the Bills.
the 33rd-best quarterback out of
the 38 who took at least 156 snaps.
Over his final 24 starts, Trubisky
threw 18 interceptions against 33
touchdowns while averaging just
6.4 yards per attempt. Teams don’t
decide against exercising the fifth-
year option of a first-round
quarterback lightly, and the Bears
had reason to jettison Trubisky.
But if Trubisky lacked warts, he
Khalil Mack from the Chicago
Bears for two draft picks. Coach
Brandon Staley is hoping that
Jackson can have the same type of
impact that Jalen Ramsey did
when Staley was the Los Angeles
Rams’ defensive coordinator in
2020 and had the league’s top-
ranked defense.
Jackson joins safety Derwin
James in the secondary and up-
grades a cornerback position that
struggled last season. Michael Da-
vis was inconsistent in coverage,
and Asante Samuel Jr., a rookie,
dealt with injuries late in the year.
Jackson also comes to the AFC
West, which figures to have the
league’s deepest collection of
quarterbacks. The Chargers have
Justin Herbert, but they will have
to face Patrick Mahomes of the
Kansas City Chiefs, Russell Wilson
of the Denver Broncos and Derek
Carr of the Las Vegas Raiders.
“You’re in five defensive backs
65 percent or more, so corner is
definitely going to be something
that we’re looking at,” Staley said
during the recent NFL scouting
combine. “You’re aware of these
receivers that we have to defend.”
Los Angeles, 9-8 last season, got
off to a 4-1 start but missed the
playoffs for the third straight sea-
son, winning back-to-back games
SEC tournament. The
Gamecocks finished the year
18-13, the seventh .500 or better
season in the past eight for
Martin’s teams. . . .
Northwestern Coach Chris
Collins will get at least another
year to turn around his
struggling program.
Collins met with Athletic
Director Derrick Gragg “to
discuss the high expectations we
have for our men’s basketball
program, and the path forward
for it,” Gragg said in a statement.
Gragg also said he “tasked”
Collins with “making necessary
changes to build towards success
in the 2022-23 campaign.” . . .
Florida Gulf Coast hired Pat
Chambers as its men’s
basketball coach.
Chambers resigned from Penn
State in October 2020 following
an internal investigation into
allegations of inappropriate
conduct, including referencing a
noose in conversation with a
player during the 2018-19
season.
SOCCER
Manchester City gave
Liverpool further hope in the
English Premier League title
race by stumbling against
Crystal Palace for the second
time this season.
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wouldn’t have been available to
the Steelers at such a low cost.
Jimmy Garoppolo would’ve taken
a second-day draft pick on top of
his massive salary, and the Denver
Broncos gave a haul for Russell
Wilson that the Steelers probably
couldn’t have matched if they
wanted to. The Steelers did not
have to sacrifice a single draft pick
for a 27-year-old with a 29-21
only once after Week 5 and losing
three of its final four games.
l JAGUARS: Jacksonville
agreed to deals with Arizona Car-
dinals wide receiver Christian
Kirk, Washington Commanders
guard Brandon Scherff, Atlanta
Falcons linebacker Foyesade Olu-
okun, Giants tight end Evan En-
gram, New York Jets defensive
tackle Folorunso “Foley” Fatukasi
and Raiders wide receiver Zay
Jones.
The six big-time additions are
expected to fill huge holes for
Jacksonville, which has lost 35 of
its last 41 games and is in rebuild-
ing mode again.
Kirk caught 236 passes for
2,902 yards and 17 touchdowns in
four years with Arizona.
l BROWNS: Cleveland re-
leased five-time Pro Bowl wide
receiver Jarvis Landry in a tough
but necessary cost-cutting move
after the invaluable Landry be-
came too expensive to keep.
One of the league’s steadiest
pass catchers, the 29-year-old
Landry was instrumental in the
Browns’ turnaround after the
team went just 1-31 in the two
seasons before he arrived via trade
from the Miami Dolphins in 2018.
l DOLPHINS: Not only did Mi-
ami keep one of its own free-
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A 0-0 draw at an atmospheric
Selhurst Park extended City’s
lead to four points, but second-
place Liverpool has a game in
hand in its quest to reclaim the
title from Pep Guardiola’s team.
American goalkeeper Zack
Steffen dressed for Manchester
City for the first time since
Feb. 9 and was on the bench. . . .
Karim Benzema stayed hot as
Real Madrid kept momentum
from its epic win over Paris
Saint-Germain in the
Champions League with a 3-0
victory at Mallorca to extend its
lead in La Liga. . . .
Ciro Immobile converted a
penalty to become Lazio’s all-
time leading scorer in Italy’s
Serie A as the host beat
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career record who has twice
started in the playoffs.
The Steelers also would have
needed to pay huge salaries to
either of those quarterbacks.
Trubisky agreed to sign a deal for
$14.25 million that could reach
$27 million with incentives —
affordable even if Trubisky falters
and returns to a backup role. If he
fails, the Steelers can try again
agents-to-be in pass rusher Em-
manuel Ogbah, it also struck deals
at three other positions of need —
including quarterback, where Mi-
ami native Teddy Bridgewater
agreed to come home on a one-
year deal presumably to be Tua
Tagovailoa’s backup.
Also coming to the Dolphins, on
deals that are pending and could
be finalized as soon as Wednesday
afternoon: running back Chase
Edmonds, formerly of Arizona,
and wide receiver Cedrick Wilson
Jr., formerly of the Dallas Cow-
boys. Edmonds and Wilson are
both coming off career-best sea-
sons.
The Dolphins will become
Bridgewater’s fifth NFL team and
his fourth in the past four years.
He went 7-7 in 14 starts for Denver
this past season.
l CARDINALS: Arizona is
bringing back James Conner on a
three-year deal, rewarding the
running back for a stellar 2021
season that included a fra-
nchise-record 18 touchdowns.
The Cardinals also announced
that backup quarterback Colt Mc-
Coy had agreed to a two-year deal,
linebacker Dennis Gardeck was
coming back on a three-year deal
and defensive lineman Michael
Dogbe signed a one-year deal.
relegation-threatened Venezia,
1-0. . . .
Poland will visit Scotland to
play a friendly March 24 now
that the teams no longer have
semifinal playoffs in World Cup
qualifying to fulfill on that date.
The match will raise funds for
UNICEF’s humanitarian
response in Ukraine following
the invasion by Russia. . . .
Barcelona’s spending power
was reduced again, with the club
heading into the next transfer
window more than 144 million
euros ($157 million) over its
limit, the Spanish league
said. . . .
Brazilian soccer official
Marco Polo del Nero lost his
appeal at Switzerland’s highest
THE WASHINGTON POST
next year, probably with a higher
pick in a draft class expected to be
loaded with quality quarterbacks.
Trubisky was the lottery ticket
with the best odds.
Given Roethlisberger’s steep
physical decline, Trubisky will
make the Steelers better
immediately. Given the options
available, he also represents the
clearest path to the kind of
quarterback required to win at
the highest level.
In the past five seasons, 10 of
the 20 quarterbacks who started
on conference championship
weekend were drafted in the first
10 picks. Six of the remaining 10
spots were filled by Tom Brady,
Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees,
three all-timers drafted more than
15 years ago. Nick Foles led the
Philadelphia Eagles to the Super
Bowl, but only after second
overall pick Carson Wentz starred
in the regular season before an
injury.
In five seasons, the only
quarterbacks who reached a
conference title game and were
either taken outside the top 10 or
were not surefire Hall of Famers
were Foles, Garoppolo and Case
Keenum. Almost exclusively, the
NFL’s final weekends are
populated by quarterbacks with
elite traits. No one would confuse
Trubisky for an elite quarterback,
and there are far more Baker
Mayfields and Sam Darnolds out
there than Patrick Mahomeses.
But Trubisky was drafted so high
for a reason. The Steelers will
have a chance to pull that out of
him.
A reasonable comparison for
Trubisky at this stage of his career
is Ryan Tannehill. The eighth pick
in 2012, Tannehill ran his course
in Miami, signed with the
Tennessee Titans as a backup,
seized the starting role and used
his athleticism to lead a defense-
first team to the AFC
championship game in 2019. The
lingering image of Tannehill is
l BENGALS: To fill perhaps its
biggest need, Cincinnati agreed to
contacts with a pair of offensive
linemen, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
guard Alex Cappa and Patriots
tackle Ted Karras.
The 27-year-old Cappa, who al-
lowed just one sack last season for
the Buccaneers while protecting
Tom Brady, agreed to a four-year,
$40 million deal. Karras, 28,
agreed to a three-year, $18 million
deal.
l COWBOYS: Dallas is bring-
ing back defensive end DeMarcus
Lawrence on a deal worth
$40 million over three years with
$30 million guaranteed.
l PATRIOTS: New England is
bringing back a trio of veterans in
backup quarterback Brian Hoyer,
safety Devin McCourty and spe-
cial teams captain Matthew Slater.
Hoyer, a 13-year veteran, is on his
third stint with the Patriots.
l PANTHERS: Carolina agreed
to terms on a three-year,
$15.75 million contract with free
agent safety Xavier Woods, for-
merly of the Minnesota Vikings,
and a three-year, $29.25 million
contract with Rams guard Austin
Corbett. The Panthers also re-
leased cornerback A.J. Bouye and
defensive end Morgan Fox in sala-
ry cap moves.
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court trying to overturn a
20-year ban by FIFA for taking
bribes worth millions of dollars.
WINTER SPORTS
Two-time Olympic curling
medalist Brad Gushue followed
up his Beijing bronze with an
even more impressive — and
unprecedented — achievement.
After vice skip Mark Nichols
tested positive for the
coronavirus in the middle of the
Canadian championships,
Gushue and his two remaining
teammates won the event
shorthanded. . . .
Warming up to their duel this
week for Alpine skiing’s World
Cup overall title, Mikaela
Shiffrin was faster than Petra
Vlhova in downhill training.
Shiffrin was third in the opening
. TUESDAY, MARCH 15 , 2022
him throwing away a playoff
game to the Cincinnati Bengals in
January. But he has led the Titans
to the playoffs three straight
seasons, including last year as the
No. 1 seed, while becoming an
efficient passer and an advanced-
stats darling.
Trubisky could thrive similarly
because of the infrastructure
around him. As smart as the
Steelers were to choose him,
Trubisky may have been smarter
to choose the Steelers. Tomlin
might be the best head coach in
the NFL. Innovative offensive
coordinator Matt Canada likes
play-action passes and moving
pockets, tools that weren’t
practical for Roethlisberger but
could maximize Trubisky’s skills.
Pittsburgh will surround him
with one of the league’s best
receiving corps and first-round
running back Najee Harris. The
Steelers’ defense will ensure he is
rarely asked to do more than he
can handle. For the second
straight season, Trubisky found a
cozy place to reboot his career.
The Steelers could have tried to
outbid the Broncos for Wilson,
but their 2022 first-rounder, 20th
overall, couldn’t compete with the
ninth overall pick the Broncos
could offer. And Wilson is about to
turn 34 and is coming off an
uneven season in which he lacked
the ability or willingness to run.
Wilson is the superior player, but
we don’t know how short, fast
quarterbacks will age, even in an
era when quarterbacks seemingly
play forever. Trubisky came
exponentially cheaper.
The Steelers are still playing in
an AFC stacked with Mahomes,
Allen, Wilson, Joe Burrow, Justin
Herbert and Lamar Jackson.
Trubisky, of course, doesn’t belong
anywhere near those names. But
he offers Pittsburgh the best
chance at having a quarterback
who could help this season
without hurting its chances to try
again next year.
l EAGLES: Linebacker Haason
Reddick and Philadelphia agreed
to terms on a three-year, $45 mil-
lion contract. Reddick had 11
sacks for the Panthers last year as
an edge rusher.
l BILLS: Buffalo shuffled its of-
fensive line by releasing Daryl
Williams and signing free agent
Rodger Saffold to a one-year con-
tract. Center Mitch Morse is stay-
ing after agreeing to a two-year
extension.
l TITANS: Tennessee is keep-
ing center Ben Jones in the middle
of its offensive line and adding
Seahawks offensive lineman Ja-
marco Jones.
l JETS: New York re-signed all-
pro kick returner Braxton Berrios
to a two-year, $12 million deal and
agreed to terms on deals with
former San Francisco 49ers guard
Laken Tomlinson and former Ben-
gals tight end C.J. Uzomah.
l SEAHAWKS: Seattle will re-
tain one of its most important free
agents, agreeing to terms with
free safety Quandre Diggs.
l BEARS: Chicago released
nose tackle Eddie Goldman.
Slowed by knee and ankle injuries
as well as a stint on the covid-19
list last season, Goldman set ca-
reer lows with a half-sack and one
tackle for a loss.
practice run in Courchevel,
France, and Vlhova was more
than two seconds slower in 23rd.
TENNIS
Rafael Nadal defeated 27th-
seeded Daniel Evans, 7-5, 6-3, in
the third round of the BNP
Paribas Open in Indian Wells,
Calif., improving his record to
17-0 this year in pursuit of an
ATP Tour-leading fourth title.
Daniil Medvedev’s rise to
No. 1 in the world came crashing
down in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 loss to
Gael Monfils. Medvedev needed
to reach the quarterfinals in the
desert to stay at the top, where
he replaced Novak Djokovic.
In women’s action, No. 4 seed
Anett Kontaveit lost to Marketa
Vondrousova, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5).
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Tom Brady announced his decision on Twitter: “These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands.”
JERRY BREWER
For competition addicts, always unfinished business
BREWER FROM D1
Los Angeles Rams. Though there
was speculation Brady would
walk away, his play argued the
thought was premature.
He convinced himself
otherwise. Nine days after that
playoff loss, Brady made his
goodbye official. Now, a month
and a half later, the
announcement is obsolete. Never
trust the decisions of a distraught
competitor so soon after defeat.
Brady interrupted Selection
Sunday to reveal that he had
changed his mind. Only he would
dare compete with the NCAA
tournament.
“These past two months I’ve
realized my place is still on the
field and not in the stands,”
Brady wrote on Twitter. “That
time will come. But it’s not now. I
love my teammates, and I love
my supportive family. They make
it all possible. I’m coming back
for my 23rd season in Tampa.”
He closed by saying he has
unfinished business. Only he
would dare consider his body of
work incomplete.
As free agency begins, the
Buccaneers will hustle to
maintain and improve a
CANDACE BUCKNER
Osaka is still hurting, and a return to the tennis court doesn’t seem to be helping
BUCKNER FROM D1
other and their Japanese mother
and Haitian father, who raised
them to be tennis champions. In
her Netflix docuseries, three
episodes of melancholy, Osaka
hints at a lonely upbringing.
“Growing up we kind of kept
to ourselves. . . . No one really
knows all the sacrifices that you
make just to be good,” she says.
Osaka, so soft-spoken that her
words sometimes crawl out in a
pained whisper, apologizes
when there’s nothing to be sorry
for and gushes out thank-yous
as though they’re punctuating
the end of her sentences. She’s
so polite that she probably
wouldn’t even scream “You
suck!” at a vacuum, let alone
another human being.
Yet someone else said it to
her, and instead of brushing it
off, Osaka wanted the umpire’s
microphone to address the
crowd. That showed a certain
kind of mental toughness — she
had the willingness to confront
the heckler and protect herself.
But maybe the bravest thing
Osaka can do now is save herself
by exiting the spotlight.
Anyone tempted to recycle
the hackneyed conclusion that
athletes who face real-life crises
will find their peace on the
playing field hasn’t been paying
much attention lately. Simone
Biles stepped away from the
greatest stage of her sport, the
Olympics, when her mind and
body, tormented by memories of
the sexual abuse she and her
teammates suffered, would not
align for her to perform aerial
twists. Recently, Ohio State
lineman Harry Miller said he
was “medically retiring” from
football — but only after playing
championship-caliber roster.
When we last saw them, they
nearly pulled off an incredible
comeback against the Rams.
With good health and a few
tweaks, Brady and Tampa Bay
could win a second title in three
years. The Rams, Bucs and Green
Bay Packers are the obvious NFC
front-runners as offseason
transactions start.
Perhaps a fairy-tale
championship ending last season
would’ve convinced Brady to quit
for good. But probably not.
Perhaps a fairy tale this season
will leave him figuring life can’t
get better. But probably not. It’s
most likely that he won’t exit
until the game leaves no doubt
that his time has passed. As long
as Brady is an elite player on an
elite team, he will remain greedy
to achieve.
He has the interests and life
perspective to thrive once he’s
done playing. He’s already
becoming a business and
entertainment mogul. If he
wants, he could run for office and
win. Still, nothing else he does
professionally will compare to
his Greatest Of All Time
quarterback status.
Brady realized he owes many
a few games last season in
which he wore the scars on his
wrists left by self-inflicted
wounds from a box cutter.
These athletes who walked
away prioritized their mental
health and themselves. A
healing balm isn’t always found
in suppressing emotional
turmoil through physical acts of
strength.
Osaka, of course, has already
spent time away and has shown
some growth. We’ve heard it in
her honesty, in how she has
worked to overcome extreme
shyness, to search for gratitude
in the everyday and value
herself as more than a
commodity on the tennis court.
Her post-match news
conferences sound like therapy
sessions. After her first
tournament following the initial
coronavirus outbreak in 2020,
Osaka said she spent some of
the shutdown learning to talk to
different people. (But it’s telling
that Osaka built up the stamina
to be more outgoing at a time
when there was less human
interaction and faces were
hidden behind masks.)
Then last week, after her first-
round win in Indian Wells,
Calif., when she could’ve been
frustrated by the conditions, she
instead found humor in the
gusting winds and thanked fans
for staying and watching in the
cold. During that same
interview session, Osaka didn’t
hesitate to admit that in the
past she had linked her self-
worth to her success.
“I can’t be bold enough to say
I completely changed that mind-
set,” she said. “Of course I feel
like I’m the type of person that
wants to be of value. It feels
better if people think you’re —
parts of himself this opportunity.
It’s for his curiosity, his ego, his
sense of identity, his love of the
sport and his diligently
maintained body. Most of all, it’s
for his competitiveness. For 40
days, he tried to imagine a life
without needing to win another
football game. And on the 41st
day, he admitted he wasn’t
satisfied.
Don’t call it a comeback. No,
really — don’t. The man didn’t
miss a game. He didn’t even miss
a minicamp. Don’t call it a
sabbatical or a leave of absence
or anything else. Brady told
everyone he was leaving the
party, and an hour later he was
still there. Just forget it and pour
him another drink.
“Tom Brady loves to play
football as much as anyone I have
ever been around,” Tampa Bay
Coach Bruce Arians said in a
statement. “As Tom said, his
place right now is on the football
field.”
His place will always be on the
football field. In every sport, the
game is undefeated. We like to
say some athletes transcend the
game, but who are these artists
without their canvases?
Brady has redefined several
Naomi Osaka was brought to tears by a heckler during her match Saturday at the BNP Paribas Open.
not think you’re important —
but like if I’m valuable to
someone’s life, I feel like they
treat me better or something
like that, you know?”
Maybe, when the taunt
stabbed through the silence,
Osaka felt worthless when all
she was trying to do was
entertain and compete. She said
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standards in the sport, but
football still defines him. So he’s
holding on to it and hoping to get
more from it. That desire to
maximize a great thing reminds
you he is human.
Those obsessed with legacy
sometimes say they want
superstars to leave on top. A few
fortunate ones do. But most
competitors would rather leave
empty. Brady is just the latest
legend who’s afraid to say
goodbye. Spend a career pushing
the limits, and it makes little
sense to waste lingering
greatness.
So Brady, the quiet family
man, can wait. A week ago,
quarterbacks were making all
kinds of noise, starting with
Aaron Rodgers deciding to
return to Green Bay and Russell
Wilson being traded to Denver.
Now here comes Brady, the
greatest of them all, stopping the
sports world on a day reserved
for college basketball.
Unfinished business. Look
hard enough, and you can always
find unfinished business.
Some day, he will retire for
real. But as long as he can throw
a football, you should remain
skeptical.
the jeer started to replay in her
mind an endless loop of the
disgraceful treatment that
Venus and Serena Williams
received at the same
tournament in 2001. Then, their
father, Richard, said the boos
and taunts were racially
motivated.
Who can tell what’s in the
Linemen Scher≠, Settle
are bolting Commanders
Pair reach deals to join
Jaguars, Bills on first day
of tampering window
BY N ICKI J HABVALA
The Washington Commanders
did little to add to their roster on
the first day of the NFL’s legal
tampering window Monday, but
they did — expectedly — lose a
couple of linemen.
Right guard Brandon Scherff
intends to sign with the Jackson-
ville Jaguars, according to ESPN,
ending his seven-year run with
Washington. And defensive tackle
Tim Settle agreed to a two-year
deal with the Buffalo Bills, a
person with knowledge of the
situation said. Their contracts
can’t be signed until the new
league year begins at 4 p.m.
Wednesday.
Scherff’s exit was anticipated,
given his projected value and the
team’s limited salary cap space.
The 30-year-old played on a fran-
chise tag the past two seasons
with salaries of roughly $15 mil-
lion and $18 million that made
him the highest-paid guard each
year in average value.
Scherff is widely regarded as
one of the top guards on the free
agent market again, and some
analysts project him to receive
upward of $16 million per year in
his next contract.
The No. 5 pick in 2015, Scherff
earned five Pro Bowl selections
and last year became Washing-
ton’s first first-team all-pro since
1996.
“He’s a guy that really is an
anchor on our offensive line and
someone who’s out there just
tossing dudes around,” center
Chase Roullier said in January.
“He’s such a physical player and
such a smart player, someone
who definitely is an asset to our
offensive line. We definitely love
having him around, but this game
is a business.”
When healthy, Scherff is
among the league’s best on the
interior line and was integral to
Washington’s improvement up
front last year, even amid a rotat-
ing cast of centers. But he hasn’t
played a full season since 2016.
Shoulder and elbow injuries
curtailed his 2019 season, a medi-
al collateral ligament sprain side-
lined him for part of 2020, and
another knee injury and the coro-
navirus protocols kept him out of
six games last year.
Scherff said publicly that he
hoped to remain in Washington
for his entire career, but the
likelihood of that happening fad-
ed over the past year. After he was
franchise-tagged a second time,
in March 2021, there was little to
no talk on a long-term agreement
with the team before the deadline
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heart of a hater? Maybe this
woman paid actual U.S. dollars
to attend a tennis tournament
just to harass Osaka because of
her skin color. But maybe it’s
not that simple, and neither is
Osaka’s journey to wholeness.
Growth isn’t tidy, nor is it
linear. Osaka doesn’t step away
from the tennis court for four
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Brandon Scherff plans to sign
with the Jaguars after spending
seven seasons with Washington.
that summer. And with his
$18 million salary, his floor in any
negotiations was probably far
higher than Washington was will-
ing or able to spend.
Washington had the luxury of
being able to pay him more the
past two years, largely because of
its relatively inexpensive quarter-
backs. But the Commanders re-
cently agreed to trade for Carson
Wentz, and his $28.3 million
salary cap hit leaves them with
little flexibility but plenty of ros-
ter holes.
Settle’s departure seemed pos-
sible last year at the trade dead-
line and inevitable by season’s
end. Washington re-signed Jona-
than Allen to a long-term deal
and exercised Daron Payne’s fifth-
year contract option, limiting Set-
tle’s impact. Just 24 and only a
year removed from a five-sack
season, Settle was bound to find a
bigger opportunity elsewhere.
With Buffalo, he joins the league’s
top-ranked defense.
The Commanders will, howev-
er, re-sign backup center Tyler
Larsen to a one-year deal, accord-
ing to a person with knowledge of
the move, which preserves some
depth up front. And they ten-
dered a contract to kicker Brian
Johnson, an exclusive rights free
agent signed late last season after
starter Joey Slye suffered a ham-
string injury.
Slye is a restricted free agent
and could still be tendered (a
right-of-first-refusal tender, es-
sentially a one-year tag worth
$2.4 million) or signed to a new
contract before the start of the
league year. If he’s not, Slye will
become an unrestricted free
agent and can sign with any team.
General Manager Martin May-
hew had said before the Wentz
trade that the team’s hope was to
keep as many as of its free agents
as it could. But he also warned
that some could hit the market,
which comes with the risk of
them signing elsewhere. Just how
many Washington can keep will
be determined in the coming
days.
months and then emerge whole
and healed. That’s how it works
in fiction or in those simplistic
features we in the sports media
write when an athlete returns
from an offseason with bigger
biceps and a clearer mind. We
tend to celebrate
transformations as though they
happen on a schedule, to
describe someone’s problems in
the past tense.
But real growth inches
forward. It is continuous and
uncomfortable, as is happening
with Osaka.
The purpose of this column is
not to play keyboard
psychologist, and maybe Osaka
prefers to live her emotions out
loud. In her docuseries, she
advises young star Coco Gauff
that if she needs to cry she
should do so in front of U.S.
Open spectators instead of alone
in the shower. Even as
detractors growl about her
being a soft millennial and
supporters want to embrace her,
Osaka continues to pour herself
out in public settings, no matter
how messy.
But as a teaser to the third
episode of her docuseries, Osaka
says: “Honestly, tennis is not
necessary for anything. . . . I love
doing it, but there’s more
important things in the world. I
think about, what would happen
if the world stopped? What
would happen if tennis
stopped?”
After years of dealing with
internal pressure to be great, to
stand as the symbol of mental
health and to build her brand,
Osaka should consider not just
thinking about what would
happen if tennis stopped but
actually finding out — before
the game breaks her completely.
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baseball

Mets’ Cohen hasn’t been shy about spending money NOTES

METS FROM D1
Braves trade for Olson;
they fought for (and got) a
fourth competitive balance tax
Freeman is set to leave
threshold that is $60 million
higher than the first — presum- A SSOCIATED P RESS Familia had a 3.94 ERA and one
ably exclusively to put a limit on save in 65 games with the Mets.
Cohen’s seemingly bottomless Freddie Freeman’s tenure with l ORIOLES: Baltimore signed
pockets. Cohen said that he still the Atlanta Braves appears to be catcher Robinson Chirinos to a
probably will go over that over after the World Series cham- one-year, $900,000 contract.
threshold, already known pions acquired all-star first base- The 37-year-old Chirinos hit
around the game as “the Cohen man Matt Olson from the Oakland .227 with five home runs in 45
tax.” Athletics on Monday, a franchise- games for the Chicago Cubs last
“It’s better than having a altering deal that cost a prize pack- season. He now joins an Orioles
bridge named after you,” he said, age of four players, including team whose catcher of the future
as though he had considered the young outfielder Cristian Pache. — former No. 1 overall draft pick
possibility before. Freeman was the 2020 National Adley Rutschman — made it to
As Hal Steinbrenner has League MVP and a five-time all- Class AAA Norfolk last year.
dulled his father’s free-spending star over 12 seasons with Atlanta, l CARDINALS: Catcher Yadier
ways with the New York Yankees and his leadership proved critical Molina will be a late arrival for
and as the Los Angeles Dodgers on last year’s title team. He be- what could be his final spring
have shed stars this offseason, came a free agent after the season, training.
this short man in a Mets pull- but even then it was hard to imag- “I don’t have any details other
over commenting on the foliage ine the career Brave would leave. than he had reached out to me a
has settled comfortably into the General Manager Alex Antho- few days ago just saying that he
void they left by giving everyone poulos said it became clear to him was going to be delayed for per-
else in baseball a common en- Sunday night that Freeman wasn’t sonal issues,” St. Louis President
emy — by becoming the Goliath coming back. At that point, he of Baseball Operations John Mo-
big enough to render everyone went full-steam after Olson. zeliak said. “I said that’s fine. I do
else a relative David. Anthopoulos repeatedly de- hope to talk to him in the next few
The Mets have never needed clined to discuss Freeman, who is days to get a little clarity.”
help with headline-making cha- still a free agent. Still, he admitted Molina, 39, is heading into his
os. In recent years, they devel- he has never had a tougher time 19th season. The 10-time all-star
oped a remarkable knack for emotionally pulling the trigger on and nine-time Gold Glove winner
becoming a parody of them- a trade. agreed to a one-year, $10 million
selves and an unfortunate knack “You get attached,” he said. extension in August. . . .
for regretting hires soon after MARY ALTAFFER/ASSOCIATED PRESS Olson is a two-time Gold Glove Right-hander Alex Reyes, a
they made them. But thanks to Owner Steve Cohen, above, and the Mets have spent big on big new acquisitions, led by Max Scherzer. winner with a .252 career average, 2021 all-star who saved 29 games,
Cohen, his billions and his will- 142 homers and an .859 on-base- is experiencing issues with his
ingness to spend them, the Mets the CBA negotiations, only to ting. He wants to win,” Bassitt sentment last year after the Mets plus-slugging percentage over six shoulder. St. Louis sent him for
enter this season as a substantial wave them off to focus on base- said. “We all want to win, so we gave him a contract worth seasons. The 27-year-old hit more tests, and Mozeliak wouldn’t
talent conglomerate, a reality- ball. On Monday, he stood on a all have a common goal — literal- $341 million and then he turned 39 homers and drove in 111 runs speculate as to when Reyes will
show-ready cast of big personal- mound a few feet from Mets ace ly from the very top to the in one of the worst offensive last season, finishing eighth in appear this spring.
ities charged with coexisting Jacob deGrom as they threw bottom.” seasons of his career, blamed the American League MVP voting. He The 27-year-old flamethrower
amid the ever-building hype. bullpen sessions. By the end of the day, Bassitt media for harsh coverage and is under team control through is expected to compete for a spot in
Fastidious, grizzled manager Within a few hours, Showalter had another new teammate: gave fans at Citi Field a thumbs- 2023. the starting rotation.
Buck Showalter has spent his was telling reporters that de- Cohen and Co. had added reliev- down for booing him and his A career .295 hitter, Freeman l METS: In an effort to defuse
first few days asking everyone Grom is penciled in as his Open- er Adam Ottavino on a one-year teammates. surpassed 20 homers eight times any upcoming drama, right-hand-
around him why things are done ing Day starter — ending a deal. But as he wandered past doz- with a career-high 38 in 2019. In er Jacob deGrom said he intends
the way they are — and then controversy that never began On paper, the advantage ap- ens of boxes of cleats next to his addition to his win, he finished in to opt out of his contract to be-
changing them if the answer but could have been the kind of pears to be financial, but the locker Monday, he wasn’t even the top 10 of NL MVP balloting five come a free agent after this season.
doesn’t satisfy him. Within days story that dominates a day or Mets’ talent edge is real, too. the biggest story in that corner times. He also claimed three Silver DeGrom, 33, is set to earn
of the lockout lifting, Showalter two of spring training under Cohen and new general manager of the clubhouse. Next door, Slugger awards and a Gold Glove. $33.5 million in 2023, with a
had renumbered the Mets’ prac- normal circumstances. The Mets Billy Eppler stockpiled veterans Home Run Derby champion Pete Oakland also receives minor $32.5 million club option for 2024.
tice fields out of concern that the have never found themselves in such as Eduardo Escobar, Mark Alonso called reporters over to league catcher Shea Langeliers The two-time Cy Young Award
old system was so nonsensical normal circumstances. Canha and Starling Marte, add- tell them he had been in a and right-handers Ryan Cusick winner said he wants to stay in
that it would confuse their ever- When former Oakland Athlet- ing them to an already strong “pretty brutal” car crash on his and Joey Estes. Langeliers was New York.
growing list of new arrivals. ics ace Chris Bassitt, acquired lineup that will count on enthu- way to camp Sunday. His car ranked as Atlanta’s No. 2 prospect “For me, I don’t want that to be
One of those new arrivals, just a day earlier, arrived at Mets siastic outfielder Brandon Nim- flipped three times, Alonso said, by Baseball America, one spot any distraction,” he said. “I’m ex-
three-time Cy Young Award win- camp Monday, one of the first mo and a bounce-back season and he explained that he had to ahead of Pache, with Cusick ninth cited about this team, and I’ve said
ner Max Scherzer — with his questions that New York report- from shortstop Francisco Lin- kick out the windshield to es- and Estes 14th. . . . it before, I love being a Met.”
three-year, $130 million contract ers asked him involved his new dor. cape. He held back tears as he Outfielder Marcell Ozuna said l ANGELS: Mike Trout found
— rolled into camp amid ques- owner. Lindor doesn’t deflect atten- said how happy he felt to be he addressed his Braves team- out that Los Angeles was thinking
tions about his outsize role in “Whatever we want, we’re get- tion, either. He generated re- alive. mates and apologized to fans for about moving him out of center
Showalter said later that an arrest last year on charges of field the same way many of his
Alonso sharing that story was aggravated assault by strangula- fans did: He read it on Twitter.
one of two “good moments” the tion and battery. The three-time AL MVP isn’t
team had in a pre-workout meet- Ozuna returned to the team this really the type to get worked up
ing Monday — “good” translat- week for the first time since his about such a revelation. Still, after
ing to reminders for a room full May 29 arrest. He was put on discussing it with Manager Joe
of baseball players about the administrative leave while MLB Maddon and GM Perry Minasian,
fragility of their opportunity. was investigating and missed At- Trout said he isn’t going to move
The other, he explained, was lanta’s title run. He was suspended away from the center of the action
when infielder Robinson Canó retroactively for 20 games in No- just yet — and Maddon agreed.
CALL TODAY FOR FREE QUOTE addressed his teammates in his vember and is now free to play. “He feels very strong,” Maddon

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first comments to them since he l WHITE SOX: Chicago added said. “He feels like he’s in great
was suspended for the 2021 sea- pitching depth, agreeing to deals shape. Everything is in order, so
son after testing positive for a with right-handers Joe Kelly and he’s going to play center field.

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performance-enhancing drug — Vince Velasquez. That’s that.”
the second lengthy PED suspen- Kelly’s contract is for $17 mil- l TRADE: The Seattle Mariners

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sion of his career. Showalter said
that Canó was apologetic and
that his teammates received him
well.
“In this clubhouse,” Showalter
said, “we’ve moved on.”
Canó is a career .303 hitter
lion over two years, with a
$9.5 million team option for 2024.
Velasquez receives a one-year,
$3 million deal.
Kelly, 33, posted a 2.86 ERA and
two saves in 48 relief appearances
for the Los Angeles Dodgers in
acquired all-star outfielder Jesse
Winker and third baseman Eu-
genio Suárez from the Cincinnati
Reds in exchange for a package of
players.
The trade gives the Mariners a
left-handed hitter who can play in

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with an .844 on-base-plus-slug-
ging percentage who will be a
total wild card on a roster that is
built to survive without him but
could thrive with him. Showal-
ALL WINDOWS ter said he expects to use Canó
regularly, rotating him at second
base, first base and designated
INCLUDING INSTALLATION hitter.
Plus no interest until October 2023 As constructed, the Mets
would have the largest Opening
Day payroll by about $30 mil-
lion, according to Cot’s Baseball
Contracts. But Cohen said Sun-
day that he hasn’t told his staff to
avoid pursuing a move for finan-
cial concerns, and he doesn’t
expect to do so even if he crosses
that $290 million threshold and
must pay the tax meant to slow
his spending spree.
“I got to live within the base-
ball confines, and I’m okay with
it,” he said.
“We probably will [go over it]
— I wouldn’t be surprised,” he
added. “Hard to say how much.”
2021. Velasquez, 29, had a
6.30 ERA in 25 games (21 starts)
for the Philadelphia Phillies and
San Diego Padres last year.
l PHILLIES: Philadelphia
added a pair of late-inning reliev-
ers and brought back a familiar
face, agreeing to contracts with
outfielder Odúbel Herrera, right-
hander Jeurys Familia and left-
hander Brad Hand, according to a
person familiar with the deals.
The left-handed-hitting Herre-
ra is an option to platoon with
Matt Vierling in center field. Her-
rera batted .260 with 13 homers
and 51 RBI and had a .310 on-base
percentage last year after return-
ing to the team following a suspen-
sion in 2019 for violating MLB’s
domestic violence policy.
Hand struggled last season
with the Washington Nationals
and Toronto Blue Jays but finished
strong with the New York Mets.
Overall, he put up a 3.90 ERA and
notched 21 saves in 68 outings.
the outfield and a corner infielder
with major power just three years
removed from hitting 49 home
runs.
Seattle is sending pitcher Justin
Dunn, outfielder Jake Fraley, top
pitching prospect Brandon Wil-
liamson and a player to be named
to the Reds.
Winker is coming off a career
year in which he hit .305 with
24 home runs and 71 RBI. He is
likely to be in a rotation in left field
and will get plenty of at-bats at
designated hitter.
Suárez hit just .198 last year but
still clubbed 31 home runs. He
closed the season on a surge, hit-
ting .370 with an .808 slugging
percentage in the final month.
Suárez hit 83 home runs and
had 207 RBI during the 2018 and
2019 seasons combined.
The acquisition of Suárez also
answers the question of who will
step in at third base after the re-
tirement of veteran Kyle Seager.

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Padres General Manager A.J.
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session Monday with reporters,
and Tatis later said a decision had
not been reached on whether he
will require surgery.
“It caught all of us off guard,”
terrible. I feel like everybody is
disappointed, especially me. We
have a pretty good chance this
year as a team. I just want to be
out there for my teammates and
for the fans.”
Tatis said he began feeling pain
after a minor motorcycle accident
in early December.
“That was just bruises,” Tatis
said of the accident. “I didn’t feel
that much at the time. It was just
one or two weeks [later] like
nothing crazy,” he said. “I felt like
it was something we could work
through. I always play with pain. I
felt I could get it through, but this
time we obviously couldn’t get it.”
The 23-year-old infielder has
finished among the top four in
voting for National League MVP
honors the past two seasons, hit-
ting a league-best 42 home runs
in 130 games in 2021 despite
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Nationals bring back fan favorite Doolittle
Left-hander, Washington’s former closer who helped win World Series, is latest relief addition
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
west palm beach, fla. — The
Washington Nationals are pad-
ding their bullpen with a famil-
iar face: The club and Sean
Doolittle agreed to a one-year
major league contract, accord-
ing to multiple people with
knowledge of the situation.
Since the deal is still pending a
physical, the team has not made
it official, and Doolittle’s 2022
salary was not known as of
Monday afternoon. But the 35-
year-old lefty already has a lock-
er at the Nationals’ spring train-
ing facility, his No. 63 jersey
restored.
Once Doolittle and designated
hitter Nelson Cruz join the team,
the Nationals will need to clear
two spots on their 40-man ros-
ter. Doolittle was with the Na-
tionals from July 2017 to Septem-
ber 2020, initially arriving from
the Oakland Athletics via trade.
In those three years and change,
he thrived as a closer, struggled
to stay healthy, helped lead the
team to a World Series title and
became a respected voice in the
clubhouse and city. Since leav-
ing, he signed a one-year,
$1.5 million with the Cincinnati
Reds last year, was designated
for assignment after the trade
deadline and wound up making
11 appearances for the Seattle
Mariners.
Across 492/3 innings in 2021, he
had a 4.53 ERA and walked too
many hitters. ERA+, a metric
used to compare pitchers across
the major leagues, considered
him a slightly above-average re-
liever. His first stint in Washing-
ton closed with him limping off
the mound with an oblique
strain, struggling to breathe in
the quiet of an empty stadium.
For months afterward, he hoped
for a different ending with a
team and fan base that grew
close to his heart.
And now he has a chance for
one.
“We have a great relationship
This is, it could be argued, the first true Juan Soto Year in Washington, given that the team’s other stars were dealt at July’s trade deadline.
Nats’ Soto has only one concern: Taking his at-bats
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righty Gabe Klobosits.
No one else raced between the
two batter’s boxes. No one else
answered a third request to sign
a Juan Soto bobblehead, inked
two Juan Soto jerseys or took a
photo with a family of five, just in
case they each wanted Juan Soto
in their current or future phone
backgrounds. This is, it could be
argued, the first true Juan Soto
Year in Washington, given that
the team’s other stars were dealt
away at July’s trade deadline. He
is front, center and everyone else
for the rebuilding club. On Sun-
day, General Manager Mike Riz-
zo called him the face of the
team, the franchise and maybe
all of Major League Baseball.
Juan Soto, though? Shortly
after those four at-bats — “Walk!
Single! Flyout! Double! . . . Yes,
double!” he argued with a report-
er — Soto tried to pass for
another young player. He balked
at filling the leadership void left
by Ryan Zimmerman. Being a vet
everyone turns to, he admitted
with a smile, seems like a lot of
work. He hasn’t played a game
since turning down a 13-year,
$350 million offer from the Na-
. THE WASHINGTON POST
If Sean Doolittle bounces back from his so-so 2021, he could be a
high-leverage option and potential trade chip for the Nationals.
with Doo. We know what he can
do when he’s healthy, so I’m
looking forward to getting him
back here,” Manager Dave Marti-
nez said Monday. “Honestly, he’s
one of my favorites. I can’t wait
to see him again, and hopefully
he gets right back on track. Last
year, we kept an eye on him. We
watched him get his velo back, so
we definitely think he can help
us.”
From 2019 to 2020, Doolittle’s
average fastball velocity dipped
from 93.5 to 90.9 mph, accord-
ing to FanGraphs. In 2021, it
ticked back up to 93.3, at times
even creeping into the mid- to
high 90s. For a pitcher who
throws more than 80 percent
tionals in November. And to that
end, he stuck to his usual script,
leaving the negotiations to the
team and his agent, Scott Boras.
“Scott is talking with them. I
don’t know what they’re going
through,” said Soto, who’s under
team control for three more
seasons. “Right now, I just try to
focus on baseball. They’re doing
all that stuff, and he will let me
know if he hears anything.”
“We made an offer, and all of a
sudden the lockout happened,
and we didn’t have much dia-
logue after that,” Rizzo explained
Sunday. “But our side plans to
pick it up very soon. He’s our
number-one priority.”
Did the addition of Nelson
Cruz, a respected designated hit-
ter and fellow Dominican Re-
public native, make Soto feel
better about the club’s direction
and his potential future with it?
“I mean, I always see my
future here. [I appreciate] every-
thing they’ve done for me, and I
feel pretty good,” he said. “I never
think about leaving or anything
like that. . . . I just think about
baseball and trying to stay in
shape and trying to get another
championship.”
Simple enough, for the mo-
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fastballs, spin and location often
are more important than pure
speed. But status quo velocity, or
something close to it, is impor-
tant and does show better over-
all health.
As for what this means for the
bullpen — and for the club’s
prospects in 2022 — Doolittle
can serve a few functions, none
of which are make-or-break. If
he bounces back, maintaining
some of his increased velocity
and shaving down the walks, he
could be a high-leverage option
and potential trade chip. If his
numbers don’t improve much,
he could guide younger relievers
and steady an inexperienced
clubhouse. For these reasons,
ment. At the general managers
meetings in November, Boras
told a group of reporters — told
the baseball world, really — that
Soto wants to see a commitment
to winning from the Nationals’
front office and ownership. The
exact question was if there was a
number that Mark Lerner, Wash-
ington’s managing principal
owner, could put on a check right
then to get Soto to sign long-
term. But framed by the Nation-
als’ sell-off last summer, the
response made sense.
Soto wasn’t happy with it. He
didn’t like losing Max Scherzer
and Trea Turner, Kyle Schwarber
and Josh Harrison, Yan Gomes,
Daniel Hudson, Brad Hand and
Jon Lester in a hope-crushing
two days. He didn’t like how the
boulders felt on each shoulder.
And when ESPN’s Enrique Rojas
reported the Nationals’ big offer
from November, Soto told Rojas
he expected to go year-to-year
and wait for free agency.
This wasn’t new, either. Soto
has often dually expressed an
interest in staying in Washing-
ton and doing so through the
open-market process of free
agency. Eventually, the latter
could eliminate the former. Yet
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among others, he’s a familiar,
low-risk, likely-somewhat-mar-
ginal-return-on-the-field-but-al-
so-good-to-have-around sort of
acquisition. He makes sense for
the Nationals at this stage of
their rebuild.
Since the lockout ended, Gen-
eral Manager Mike Rizzo has
been busy, agreeing to major
league deals with Doolittle, Cruz,
right-handed reliever Steve
Cishek and utility man Ehire
Adrianza; and minor league con-
tracts with starter Aníbal Sán-
chez, right-hander Aaron San-
chez and outfielder Gerardo Par-
ra. And with Cishek and Doolit-
tle on board, Martinez can tilt
his head, maybe squint a bit, and
start to see the faint outline of a
bullpen.
Unless rosters are expanded
for April, which remains possi-
ble given the shortened spring
training, the Nationals will carry
eight relievers. Cishek, Doolittle,
Tanner Rainey and Kyle
Finnegan feel like the locks. The
other relievers on the 40-man
roster are Patrick Murphy, Ma-
son Thompson, Austin Voth, An-
drés Machado, Jhon Romero,
Gabe Klobosits, Paolo Espino (a
swing man) and lefties Sam Clay
and Francisco Pérez.
Murphy and Voth are out of
minor league options, meaning
they’ll either make the club out
of spring training or go on waiv-
ers, giving the other 29 teams a
chance to claim them. Thomp-
son, Machado, Romero, Klobos-
its, Espino, Clay and Pérez have
options remaining, meaning
they can swing between the
majors and minors a maximum
of five times, providing flexibili-
ty. Veterans Carl Edwards Jr.,
Reed Garrett and lefty Luis Avi-
lán are also in camp with non-
roster invites.
Whatever the case, Doolittle is
expected to bring his steady diet
of fastballs to Nationals Park in
April. And no matter what that
yields, he’s due for the ovation
that never came two years ago.
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in the meantime, that’s for Rizzo,
Lerner and Boras to sort out. The
GM and owner watched from a
golf cart as Soto battled Cishek
on Monday. When Soto switched
fields to see Klobosits, Lerner
followed, keeping a close eye on
the star.
“How’s your family?” Lerner
asked as Soto hugged him with
one arm.
“Everybody’s good. Every-
body’s happy,” Soto answered.
“Everybody’s happy that baseball
is back.”
“I’m sure,” Lerner said. “And
I’m sure they wanted you out of
the house!”
They both laughed. Soto
tapped the dirt with his bat once,
twice, then set off for the club-
house and weight room beyond
it. Waiting was a small group of
reporters who wanted to know
about the pressure of being Juan
Soto in 2022. Or what it felt like
to have his locker moved to
where Zimmerman, Turner and a
bunch of other veterans used to
sit. Or, more simply, if he felt any
older than he did a year ago.
For 10 minutes, he held off the
notions of who he is and what he
represents. He promised to
“keep doing my thing.”
Caps’ Eller tests positive
and isolates in Canada
BY S AMANTHA P ELL
Washington Capitals center
Lars Eller tested positive for the
coronavirus and was in isolation
in Vancouver on Monday. The
positive test popped up during
routine cross-border testing after
the Capitals’ three-game road trip
through western Canada, and he
was added to the NHL’s coronavi-
rus protocols list Monday.
It was unclear as of Monday
afternoon how long Eller must
isolate before he can return to the
United States. Eller scored the
game-winner in the Capitals’ 4-3
overtime victory over the Van-
couver Canucks on Friday night
to cap a 2-0-1 road trip. The
Capitals host the New York Is-
landers on Tuesday night at Capi-
tal One Arena.
This is Eller’s second stint on
the coronavirus list this season.
He missed six games after he
tested positive in November. Eller
had traveled with Washington for
the team’s four-game West Coast
trip, but a positive test kept him
isolated in Anaheim, Calif., for 10
days.
Rookie Connor McMichael
filled in as the Capitals’ third-line
center at practice Monday, skat-
ing with Tom Wilson and Daniel
Sprong. McMichael impressed in
Friday’s win, playing one of his
best games in weeks. He drove
the pace of play, created opportu-
nities and finished with six shots.
But he hasn’t scored since Feb. 10.
He has seven goals and eight
assists in 55 games.
“When he is playing his game,
you can tell he is a special, special
player,” Wilson said. “We played
one game together and had a
bunch of good looks. I was joking
on him, he had three or four good
looks, [and] I’m like, ‘You got to
score one — like let’s go.’ We got a
fun relationship. He’s a good kid.”
Sprong has been a healthy
scratch in eight of the Capitals’
past nine games. His only appear-
ance in that stretch was March 3
against Carolina when forwards
Carl Hagelin and Joe Snively
were injured. Instead of calling a
forward up from Hershey of the
American Hockey League for that
game, Washington brought
NHL ROUNDUP
Maple Leafs’ Matthews
suspended for next two
A SSOCIATED P RESS
NHL leading goal scorer Aus-
ton Matthews will miss the To-
ronto Maple Leafs’ next two
games after being suspended for
cross-checking the Buffalo Sa-
bres’ Rasmus Dahlin in the neck.
Matthews retaliated against
Dahlin by shoving his stick up-
ward into the Sabres defense-
man’s neck late in the Heritage
Classic outdoor game Sunday.
Buffalo won, 5-2, to hand Toron-
to a fourth loss in six games
despite Matthews scoring his
45th goal of the season.
The 24-year-old from Scotts-
dale, Ariz., will forfeit $116,403
in salary as part of the suspen-
sion, which the NHL’s Depart-
ment of Player Safety announced
Monday. Matthews will miss To-
ronto’s upcoming games against
the Dallas Stars on Tuesday and
the Carolina Hurricanes on
Thursday.
Matthews and Dahlin were
each given a two-minute minor
penalty for cross-checking in the
aftermath of the incident that
happened with 5:05 left. This is
the first suspension of any kind
for Matthews in his NHL career.
l TRADE: The Anaheim
Ducks traded veteran defense-
man Josh Manson to the Colora-
do Avalanche for defense pros-
pect Drew Helleson and a sec-
ond-round pick in the 2023 draft.
The Ducks confirmed the deal
to part ways with Manson, an
eight-year NHL veteran who has
Auston Matthews was suspended for the Maple Leafs’ next two
games after a hard cross-check in the Heritage Classic on Sunday.
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Sprong back into the lineup and
had Anthony Mantha play his
first game since shoulder surgery.
Sprong has eight goals and five
assists in 43 games. His most
recent goal came Feb. 1 at Pitts-
burgh. Sprong, who turns 25 on
Thursday, is in the final year of a
two-year, $1.45 million contract
and is set to be a restricted free
agent in the offseason.
It was unclear whether Wash-
ington would recall another for-
ward from Hershey before Tues-
day’s game.
Pursuit of 767
Alex Ovechkin will try to make
history again Tuesday night. The
Capitals captain remains tied
with Jaromir Jagr for third on the
NHL’s all-time goals list with 766.
Ovechkin tied Jagr by scoring two
goals last Tuesday at Calgary. He
has 14 shots but no goals over his
past two games.
“It’s in his blood; it’s in his
nature,” Capitals Coach Peter
Laviolette said Monday.
Ovechkin nearly took sole pos-
session of third place Friday in
Vancouver, but he couldn’t con-
nect despite multiple opportuni-
ties. Center Evgeny Kuznetsov
denied Ovechkin’s best attempt at
No. 767: Ovechkin’s one-timer
clanged off the post and hit Van-
couver goalie Thatcher Demko’s
left leg before the puck slid
toward the goal line. Kuznetsov
reached for the puck, knocking it
over the line.
“I just saw the puck there,”
Kuznetsov said. “I wasn’t sure.
Even when I touched the puck, I
wasn’t sure who scored it. So he’ll
score next game for sure.”
spent his entire career with Ana-
heim. He is due to be an unre-
stricted free agent this summer.
The 30-year-old Manson is a
former sixth-round pick who
played his way onto the Ducks’
roster in late 2014. The son of
NHL enforcer Dave Manson has
been a stalwart on Anaheim’s
blue line ever since, racking up
26 goals, 87 assists and 431
penalty minutes in 453 games.
Manson, who has four goals
and five assists in 45 games this
season, will be a complementary
piece with the NHL-leading Ava-
lanche, which is building up its
depth in anticipation of a long
playoff run.
Arizona tops Ottawa on road
Nick Schmaltz scored the
game-winner to extend his point
streak, Lawson Crouse had a hat
trick and the Arizona Coyotes
beat the host Ottawa Senators,
5-3, on Monday night.
Schmaltz has 15 points in his
last six games (six goals, nine
assists), and Crouse’s goals were
varied: one at even strength, one
on the power play and one
shorthanded.
Barrett Hayton added an emp-
ty-net goal for the Coyotes, and
Scott Wedgewood made 40 saves
to pick up his 10th win of the
season.
Josh Norris had two goals for
the Senators, Connor Brown also
scored, and Filip Gustavsson
stopped 10 shots in his first NHL
start since Feb. 20.
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Wizards will face Warriors in preseason Japan trip
BY A VA W ALLACE
san francisco — Rui Hachimu-
ra may soon take on an addition-
al role with the Washington Wiz-
ards: tour guide. The Wizards are
heading to Hachimura’s native
Japan this fall to play two pre-
season games against the Golden
State Warriors, the NBA an-
nounced Monday.
The Wizards and Warriors will
face off Sept. 30 and Oct. 2 at
Saitama Super Arena north of
Tokyo, the same venue at which
Team USA won the gold medal at
the Olympics this past summer.
“We are so honored to repre-
sent the NBA and the wonderful
game of basketball in front of an
audience of Japanese fans,” Mon-
umental Sports & Entertainment
CEO Ted Leonsis said in a news
release. “. . . Our fans across our
This year, the top draft prospects are in the tournament
The NBA draft
On the landscape was
NBA splintered in
2020 and 2021,
BEN
GOLLIVER with LaMelo Ball
playing overseas
professionally, with Jalen Green
and Jonathan Kuminga signing
up for the G League Ignite and
with international prospects
such as Josh Giddey and Killian
Hayes emerging as lottery
selections.
By comparison, the 2022 class
is shaping up in more
traditional fashion. When the
draft is held June 23, it’s
possible that the top 10 picks
will have all come through the
NCAA ranks, something that
has happened just once since
2014. This consolidation of
talent will turn the NCAA
tournament into a singular
showcase.
Even better, the top three
projected picks — Paolo
Banchero, Chet Holmgren and
Jabari Smith Jr. — play for title
hopefuls.
With March Madness set to
open this week, here’s a look at
five leading prospects for NBA
fans to track.
Paolo Banchero, Duke
The Blue Devils (28-6)
stumbled into the West Region’s
No. 2 seed after losses to North
Carolina in Coach Mike
Krzyzewski’s final home game
and to Virginia Tech in the ACC
title game. Banchero, though,
has mostly delivered on the
considerable hype that built
during his prep career,
averaging 17 points and 7.8
rebounds to claim first-team all-
conference honors as a
freshman.
The 6-foot-10 Seattle native is
a polished scorer and shot-
creator who displays a
controlled pace and strength on
the ball when he works in his
preferred isolation situations.
Banchero, 19, projects as a
Tobias Harris-type power
forward unless he can
demonstrate considerable
growth as a playmaker for his
teammates.
Chet Holmgren, Gonzaga
The 7-foot, 195-pound
Holmgren leads his class in
intrigue, even though the
19-year-old freshman is just one
NBA ROUNDUP
Towns pours in career-high 60 to lead Minnesota
TIMBERWOLVES 149,
SPURS 139
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Karl-Anthony Towns had a ca-
reer-high 60 points — the most
scored in the NBA this season —
and the visiting Minnesota Tim-
berwolves outlasted the San Anto-
nio Spurs, 149-139, on Monday
night.
Towns shot 19 for 31 and
grabbed 17 rebounds in surpass-
ing his previous best of 56 points
against Atlanta on March 28, 2018.
Lakers star LeBron James and
Hawks point guard Trae Young
previously shared league-high
honors this season with 56 points.
Minnesota’s 7-foot all-star
capped his dazzling performance
by draining a three-pointer with
1:39 remaining, shortly after mak-
ing 1 of 2 free throws to reach 57
points.
San Antonio has lost two
straight since Gregg Popovich
earned his 1,336th career victory
to become the winningest coach in
NBA history. The Spurs have
dropped seven of nine and are 2-3
during a seven-game homestand.
l NUGGETS 114, 76ERS 110:
Nikola Jokic had 22 points and 13
home market in Washington D.C.
have a special connection to the
Japanese people — marked by
our annual celebration of the gift
of cherry trees given to our city by
the Mayor of Tokyo over 100 years
ago. Celebrating American and
Japanese cultures further
strengthens our bonds, and so we
look forward to taking on the
Golden State Warriors and grow-
ing new fans of the sport we all
love.”
The trip will be the Wizards’
second stint abroad in less than
four years following a regular
season game against the New
York Knicks in London in Janu-
ary 2019 — which is also the last
year the NBA went to Japan, for a
preseason series between the
Houston Rockets and the Toron-
to Raptors.
The Wizards and Warriors met
Paolo Banchero, 19, is averaging 17 points and 7.8 rebounds in his freshman season for the Blue Devils.
cog in Gonzaga’s well-oiled
machine. The Bulldogs (26-3)
enter the tournament as the
West Region’s No. 1 seed with
five players averaging in double
figures, granting them the
luxury to use Holmgren as a lob
finisher and a floor-spacer
rather than as a go-to scorer.
The Minneapolis product has
fit in well with the perennial
powerhouse, averaging 14.2
points, 9.6 rebounds and 3.6
blocks while establishing
himself as a major difference-
maker on the defensive end
despite his skinny frame. If
Gonzaga and Duke both
advance, Holmgren and
Banchero will square off in an
Elite Eight showdown.
Jaden Ivey, Purdue
In a class headlined by three
frontcourt players, Ivey has
become one of this year’s most
coveted guard prospects by
leading the Boilermakers (27-7)
to the East Region’s No. 3 seed.
The 20-year-old sophomore
hails from a family of
professional athletes — his
father and grandfather were
NFL players, and his mother
was a WNBA player — and it
shows in his relentless desire to
Karl-Anthony Towns gets a little congratulatory refreshment from
teammate D’Angelo Russell after his 60-point performance.
rebounds to lead Denver in Phila-
delphia in a battle of MVP con-
tenders.
Embiid had 34 points and a
scary fall that left the 76ers hold-
ing their breath.
Jeff Green clobbered Embiid on
a drive to the basket with 3:13
remaining, and the all-star center
landed smack on his tailbone. Em-
biid immediately grabbed at his
back but walked off the court on
his own power as the play was
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Monday night in a matchup that
ended too late for this edition.
The league’s history in Japan
runs deep. Between 1990 and
2003, the NBA played 12 regular
season games in Saitama, Tokyo
and Yokohama. A matchup be-
tween the Phoenix Suns and
Utah Jazz in 1990 was the first
attack defenses off the dribble.
Blessed with a smooth handle
and an improving jumper, Ivey
has averaged 17.3 points, 4.8
rebounds and 3.1 assists as the
leading scorer for Purdue’s elite
offense. Much like Donovan
Mitchell, the 6-foot-4 Ivey is
wired as a scoring guard rather
than a pure point guard, and
he’s at his best when he’s getting
downhill to the basket.
Bennedict Mathurin,
Arizona
The Wildcats (31-3) enter the
tournament with real
momentum, having won 15 of
their past 16 games to claim the
Pac-12 Conference title and the
South Region’s No. 1 seed.
Mathurin, a 19-year-old
sophomore guard, has
blossomed into their driving
force, capping his Pac-12 player
of the year campaign by posting
27 points and seven assists in a
conference title game victory
over UCLA.
A native of Canada whose
family hails from Haiti, the
6-foot-6 Mathurin has modeled
his all-around scoring game
after Bradley Beal’s, seeking to
generate opportunities from
hard drives to the hoop and
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reviewed. Green received a fla-
grant foul, and Embiid went 1 of 2
from the free throw line to cut the
Nuggets’ lead to 107-106.
But Denver rookie Bones Hy-
land stole the show from both of
the all-star big men, burying his
fourth three-pointer of the fourth
quarter for a 110-108 lead.
l HAWKS 122, TRAIL BLAZ-
ERS 113: Young scored 21 of his 46
points in the third period, and
Atlanta recovered from a 15-point
regular season game that a U.S.
sports league played outside
North America, according to the
NBA.
For Hachimura, the first Japa-
nese player selected in the first
round of the NBA draft, the
preseason games will be a home-
coming just one year after he was
one of the faces of the Tokyo
Olympics. The 24-year-old was
one of his country’s flag bearers
and led the first men’s basketball
team Japan sent to the Olympics
since 1976.
Washington’s previous over-
seas trips for exhibition and pre-
season games include journeys to
Israel after the Bullets won the
NBA title in 1978; to China, where
it became the first U.S. profes-
sional sports team to visit; and to
Brazil for a 2013 preseason game
against the Chicago Bulls.
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from beyond the three-point
line. Less heralded and less
polished than the highest-
profile members of this class,
Mathurin nevertheless has
worked his way into the draft
lottery by averaging 17.4 points,
5.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists.
Jabari Smith Jr., Auburn
The 18-year-old checks many
of the most important boxes to
be the No. 1 draft pick: He’s a
long, athletic and confident
scoring forward with
dependable three-point range
and versatile defensive
potential. The 6-foot-10
freshman standout has averaged
17.1 points and 7 rebounds while
shooting 42.8 percent from
beyond the arc for the Tigers
(27-5), who claimed the Midwest
Region’s No. 2 seed.
Smith’s size and shooting
stroke evoke Rashard Lewis,
and he should enjoy a smooth
transition to the NBA given his
scoring range and two-way
ability. Auburn hasn’t turned to
Smith for much ballhandling or
offense initiation, leaving scouts
to decide whether he is capable
of greater responsibilities or if
he is best suited to a wingman
role alongside a lead guard.
second-half deficit to beat visiting
Portland.
Young, who scored 47 points a
night earlier in a win over Indiana,
added 12 assists against the Trail
Blazers.
The Hawks (34-34), who en-
tered the game ninth in the East-
ern Conference, have won three
straight to reach .500 for the first
time since Dec. 15, when they were
14-14.
Josh Hart led Portland with 31
points. The Trail Blazers began the
night 11th in the Western Confer-
ence, one spot out of the play-in
tournament.
l CAVALIERS 120, CLIP-
PERS 111 (OT): Rookie big man
Evan Mobley scored a season-high
30 points and Darius Garland had
24 points and 13 assists, sending
Cleveland to the overtime victory
against visiting Los Angeles.
Ivica Zubac had 24 points, 14
rebounds and four assists and
Amir Coffey scored 19 for the Clip-
pers, who had only nine players in
uniform.
l HORNETS 134, THUNDER
116: Terry Rozier scored 30 points
for visiting Charlotte against
Oklahoma City. The Hornets
closed out a perfect two-game trip,
rallying after falling behind by as
many as 18 points in the second
quarter.
THE WASHINGTON POST
GIRLS ’ HIGH S CHOOL B AS K ETB ALL TOP 20
Sidwell Friends, the country’s top-
ranked team, leads The
Washington Post’s final rankings
after maintaining the No. 1 spot all
season. The Quakers cruised
against local competition while
winning Independent School
League and D.C. State Athletic
Association championships.
1. Sidwell Friends (28-0)
Last ranked: 1
The Quakers’ dominant season
included ISL and DCSAA
championships.
2. New Hope Academy (26-2)
LR: 2
The Tigers won their second
National Association of Christian
Athletes Division I championship in
the past three seasons.
3. St. John’s (19-5) LR: 3
The Cadets claimed their fourth
Washington Catholic Athletic
Conference title in the past five
seasons.
4. Bishop McNamara (20-5)
LR: 4
The Forestville private school’s only
WCAC loss came in the tournament
championship game.
5. Good Counsel (19-4) LR: 5
The Olney private school
announced itself as a WCAC
contender by reaching the
tournament semifinals.
6. Paul VI (22-8) LR: 6
The Panthers won their 15th
consecutive Virginia Independent
Schools Athletic Association
Division I title.
7. Georgetown Visitation (23-5)
LR: 7
The Cubs qualified for their seventh
DCSAA championship game in the
past eight seasons.
8. Madison (27-2) LR: 8
The Warhawks won their third
consecutive Virginia Class 6
championship.
9. Clarksburg (25-1) LR: 9
The Montgomery County champion
lost to Western, 81-68, in the
Maryland 4A final.
BOYS ’ HIGH S CHOOL BAS KETBALL TOP 20
Eleanor Roosevelt beat Churchill,
54-49, in double overtime to win the
program’s fourth Maryland 4A title
of the past decade. Westlake
toppled Douglass with a last-second
layup, earning a 63-61 win in the
Maryland 2A title game. And to the
south, Hayfield finished a perfect
32-0 season with a 67-47 win over
Battlefield in the Virginia Class 6
championship game.
All three programs rise in the
rankings, but they still fall behind
the two teams that have planted
themselves at the top for the past
month: Paul VI and Sidwell Friends.
Both private schools used deep and
talented rosters to navigate
treacherous schedules. Both
earned dramatic titles in league and
state play. Both will be remembered
at their schools for years to come.
1. Paul VI (31-5) Last ranked: 1
A young Panthers team ascended to
the top of the area’s toughest
league, winning a share of the
Washington Catholic Athletic
Conference regular season title and
then the conference tournament.
The Panthers also took home the
Virginia Independent Schools
Athletic Association crown.
2. Sidwell Friends (28-1) LR: 2
The Quakers dominated the Mid-
Atlantic Athletic Conference, going
undefeated en route to an outright
league title. They followed that with
a dramatic D.C. State Athletic
Association championship victory.
3. St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes (20-4)
LR: 4
The Saints won the Interstate
Athletic Conference title for the third
straight season, then finished as
runner-up in the VISAA Division I
tournament.
4. Hayfield (32-0) LR: 5
The Hawks finished their dream
season with a Class 6 title.
5. Bishop McNamara (22-6) LR: 3
The WCAC runner-up dropped two
games at the Alhambra Catholic
Invitational.
6. DeMatha (21-7) LR: 6
The Stags won three games in three
days to earn the Alhambra Catholic
Invitational championship.
7. Wilson (27-5) LR: 7
The Tigers dominated the D.C.
Interscholastic Athletic Association
and finished as runners-up in the
D.C. state tournament.
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10. Woodgrove (29-1) LR: 10
The Wolverines fell to Menchville,
59-36, in the Virginia Class 5
championship game.
11. Osbourn Park (26-2) LR: 11
Both of the Yellow Jackets’ losses
came against No. 8 Madison,
including in the Virginia Class 6
championship game.
12. Maret (18-9) LR: 12
The Frogs lost to No. 1 Sidwell
Friends in the ISL and DCSAA
playoffs.
13. Howard (19-1) LR: 13
The Lions’ 44-game winning streak
ended in a 60-37 loss to Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute in the
Maryland 3A final.
14. Glen Burnie (22-1) LR: 14
The Gophers’ turnaround season
ended against eventual champion
Western, 61-46, in the Maryland 4A
semifinals.
15. Bishop Ireton (19-12) LR: 16
The Alexandria private school’s
marquee victory came against
No. 6 Paul VI on Feb. 15.
16. Meridian (24-2) LR: 17
The Mustangs fell to Carroll County,
51-47, in the Virginia Class 3
championship game.
17. Robinson (26-3) LR: 15
The Rams lost to No. 8 Madison,
49-27, in the Virginia Class 6
semifinals.
18. C.H. Flowers (16-2) LR: 18
The Prince George’s County
champion fell to No. 9 Clarksburg,
53-35, in the Maryland 4A
semifinals.
19. National Christian (17-9)
LR: 19
The Fort Washington private school
started strong but was inconsistent
after the holiday break.
20. Potomac School (21-2)
LR: 20
The Panthers won the ISL’s lower
division for the second time in the
past four seasons.
Dropped out: None.
8. National Christian (30-9)
LR: 10
The Eagles won the first Metro
Private School Conference
tournament.
9. Westlake (23-2) LR: 14
The Wolverines won their first
Maryland state title on senior Aaron
Herron’s last-second layup.
10. Eleanor Roosevelt (21-5)
LR: 16
The Maryland 4A champions
outlasted No. 13 Churchill in double
overtime.
11. Gonzaga (18-12) LR: 9
The Eagles dropped three games
at the Alhambra Catholic
Invitational.
12. Patriot (26-1) LR: 8
The Pioneers’ perfect season ended
in a Virginia Class 6 semifinal when
rival Battlefield hit a buzzer-beating
three-pointer.
13. Churchill (24-2) LR: 12
The Bulldogs’ season ended in
heartbreak: a double-overtime
defeat to No. 10 Eleanor Roosevelt
in the Maryland 4A title game.
14. Douglass (19-4) LR: 15
The Eagles’ season ended with a
loss in the final seconds of
Saturday’s Maryland 2A
championship game.
15. Archbishop Spalding (25-11)
LR: 13
The Cavaliers emerged as a
Baltimore-area power this winter.
16. Huntingtown (21-4) LR: 17
The Hurricanes finished a strong
season as runners-up in the
Maryland 3A bracket.
17. South Lakes (24-3) LR: 11
The Seahawks fell just short of a title
appearance, losing in the Virginia
Class 6 semifinal.
18. Loudoun County (23-7)
LR: 18
The Captains fell to Varina in the
Virginia Class 4 title game.
19. Episcopal (17-8) LR: 20
The Maroon’s season ended with a
loss to No. 1 Paul VI in the VISAA
semifinals.
20. Meade (20-4) LR: 19
The Mustangs fell to Churchill in a
Maryland 4A semifinal.
Dropped out: None.
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college basketball

After Terps and Hoyas flop, no area men are in big dance
BY E MILY G IAMBALVO

College basketball coaches

flock to the Washington area to
find talented high school players,
and the region touts its basketball
culture and history. Yet the Divi-
sion I men’s programs in D.C. and
its suburbs headed into their con-
ference tournaments barely cling-
ing to hope that their seasons
might last beyond Selection Sun-
day. One team at a time, those
dreams disappeared.
Maryland and Georgetown,
historically the top local teams,
struggled all season and would
have needed stunning runs in
their conference tournaments.
But the Hoyas and Terrapins lost
in their opening postseason
matchups. Neither George Mason
nor George Washington won a
game in the Atlantic 10 tourna-
ment, and Howard had the same
fate in the Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference. American, the only
local team to win a game in its
conference tournament, ended its
season in the Patriot League quar-
terfinals, leaving Washington
without a representative in
March Madness.
Since 1978, the D.C. area has
had only one other tournament
without one of its teams in the
field. And that time, in 2018,
Maryland Baltimore County still
brought attention to this part of
the country with a historic upset
of top-seeded Virginia. This time
around, the other nearby pro-
grams of Navy, Towson, UMBC,
Coppin State, Loyola and Morgan
State missed the tournament, too.
The field’s closest teams to the
nation’s capital are Delaware and
Richmond, both with campuses
about 100 miles away. PHOTOS BY JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST

This rare occurrence is mostly
a product of the Hoyas and the
Terps having terrible seasons at
the same time. Georgetown (6-25,
0-19 Big East) lost 21 straight
games to close its dreadful cam-
paign, but Athletic Director Lee
Reed publicly gave his support to
Coach Patrick Ewing, the former
Hoyas and NBA great, seemingly
indicating a coaching change is
not imminent.
In College Park, the Terps navi-
gated a tumultuous season after
Mark Turgeon stepped down in
December. Turgeon left while in
his 11th season at the helm, hav-
ing guided Maryland to five
NCAA tournaments but never fur-
ther than the Sweet 16. Athletic
Director Damon Evans will soon
name a new coach, who he hopes
will build the program into a
contender for Big Ten and nation-
al titles. Under interim coach
Danny Manning, the Terps (15-17,
7-13) stumbled through a season
that ended with the school’s first
losing record since 1993.
“You can say what you want
about the lack of progress once
they get there, but for the most
part [Maryland has] been able to
get there to the tournament,” said
Chris Knoche, a former coach at
American and now a radio analyst
for Maryland. “You sort of take
that for granted. You think it’s a
birthright and it happens every
year. And it doesn’t.”
Georgetown and Maryland
combined for a 21-42 record, the
worst mark since both schools
began consistently fielding teams
in 1924, according to Sports Ref-
erence’s database. Both teams had
a losing record for the first time
Georgetown lost 21 straight games to close its dreadful campaign. Athletic Director Lee Reed publicly gave his support to Coach Patrick Ewing, the ex-Hoyas and NBA great.
ning the title in 1984 and losing in
the championship game in 1982
and 1985. Led by legendary coach
John Thompson Jr., Georgetown
became a name-brand program.
The Terps had some strong
teams in the 1980s, which includ-
ed the Len Bias era, but never
made it past the Sweet 16. After
Bias’s death, Gary Williams re-
built the program and took the
Terps to 11 straight NCAA tourna-
ments, a run highlighted by their
national title in 2002. In the past
two decades, the Terps haven’t
made it beyond the Sweet 16.
From 2006 to 2008, three of the
six D.C.-area teams made the tour-
nament each year, including
berths for George Mason, George
Washington and American.
During Butler’s career from
2001 to 2006, the local programs
“always had DMV talent,” he said.
“The coaches made sure that they
kept the talent home. I don’t think
that was a secret back then.”
The talent here has not dimin-
ished, but Butler, now an assistant
coach at St. Paul VI Catholic High
After Mark Turgeon stepped down as coach, Maryland stumbled to its first losing record since 1993. in Chantilly and D.C.-based Team
Takeover on the AAU circuit, be-
since 1968. “I never thought I would see 11th-seeded George Mason on its lieves the competition to land
Since the tournament expand- that, but here we are,” said Lamar remarkable run to the Final Four. these prospects has intensified.
ed to 64 teams in 1985, one or both Butler, a former George Mason “When you grow up in the DMV The D.C. area is at the “cross-
of Maryland and Georgetown has player who graduated from Oxon area, there are so many guys you roads” of several major confer-
appeared in all but five editions of Hill High in 2001. During his can look up to, that you have ences, Knoche said. “You’re not
the event. Three of those dual senior year of high school, Mary- access to because it’s such a small going to be able to recruit every-
misses — 2014, 2018 and 2022 — land reached the Final Four and area and hoops is the king sport,” body in the DMV. It just doesn’t
have come in the past decade. Georgetown lost to the Terps in said Butler, who grew up a Terps work like that. As many kids want
The thought of these two teams the Sweet 16. The next year, when fan but wasn’t one of Maryland’s to go away from home as want to
missing the tournament feels for- Butler played his freshman sea- top recruiting targets. stay home.”
eign to those who grew up in the son for the Patriots, Maryland During a 19-year stretch from Georgetown and Maryland
area and watched the programs won the national title. In 2006, his 1979 to 1997, the Hoyas appeared have attracted local players, but
reach great heights. senior year, Butler helped lead in 18 NCAA tournaments, win- some high-profile prospects have
gone elsewhere — including
standout center Hunter Dickin-
son to Michigan, along with Paul
VI products Trevor Keels and Jer-
emy Roach playing for Duke.
Georgetown and Maryland’s si-
multaneous struggles seem more
coincidental than a cause for
alarm, Knoche said — as long as
the trouble doesn’t persist. He
grew up in Fairfax, with Terps
games often on television and top
ACC matchups shaping his col-
lege basketball frame of refer-
ence. Then as a player, assistant
and head coach at American, he
had a front-row seat for the domi-
nant stretches of Georgetown and
Maryland.
But he also thinks about how
his three children, who are be-
tween the ages of 24 and 32, have
no interest in the Washington
Commanders. Knoche watched
the NFL team that won Super
Bowls in the 1982, 1987 and 1991
seasons become mostly irrelevant
during his kids’ lives.
“And you know what they do on
Sunday?” he said. “They do other
stuff.”
Apathy can be dangerous, he
said, especially in a city with plen-
ty of options to fill free time. The
young generation of sports fans in
Washington has hardly watched
Maryland or Georgetown ad-
vance beyond the first weekend of
the NCAA tournament. This year,
they won’t be on that stage at all.
“That’s why, if you’re down, you
can’t stay down,” Knoche said. “If
you’re serious about it, you’ve got
to make yourself relevant — and
do so as quickly as possible.”

Stanford begins its mission to repeat as champion

STANFORD FROM D1
might have weighed down play-
ers in the frantic closing seconds.
After Jones’s big-time 15-foot-
er with 32 seconds left gave
Stanford that 66-65 lead, South
Carolina closed with a midcourt
steal and two shots at victory, the
second one a follow by Aliyah
Boston that nudged cruelly off
the back of the rim and back out.
Arizona had the last possession
in the title game, but world-class
defense forced it into a mass-
guarded shot that would not
appear on a coach’s whiteboard.
Here in Las Vegas, another
ladder went climbed and the net
strands got cut by a stirring
amount of people who pour
themselves into the Stanford
program, interns et al. It looked
like still more love. Then the
Cardinal would get its fait-ac-
compli No. 1 seed, lodged in
perception just behind overall
No. 1 seed South Carolina, set-
ting up a potential national final
in Minneapolis as a rematch of a
rematch, the Gamecocks having
beaten Stanford, 65-61, way over
in Columbia, S.C., on Dec. 21.
The Cardinal hasn’t lost since
but did get, as a No. 2 seed in its
sorts. The Longhorns beat Stan-
ford, 61-56, long ago, on Nov. 14.
That brought loss No. 1, and 12
days later South Florida, also a
tournament team (with a shot at
playing South Carolina in the
second round), beat Stanford,
57-54, in the Bahamas.
“I think having that target on
our back all season,” Jones said,
“has led to really competitive
practices, competitive scrim-
mages, whatever it may be, being
ultracompetitive in games, being
gritty. I think we know what it
takes to get there. But we’re
going to have to work twice as
hard because everybody’s com-
ing after us.”
Jones, that 6-foot-1 junior
from Santa Cruz, upheld that in
the Pac-12 final against Utah
when, in the third quarter, she
kind of got — okay, really got —
shoved out of bounds in a man-
ner that wreaked a few gasps
from the crowd. That may or
may not have helped a game that
stood 39-36 in the third quarter
make its way toward a 73-48
finish.
That left Stanford seeking
something elusive for so many.
The 1984 Final Four happened
in UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. It
to Southern California, Cheyney
State, budding giant Tennessee
and budding mainstay Louisi-
ana Tech. The USC of Coach
Linda Sharp and certain marvel
Cheryl Miller, the No. 1 seed
from the West, won, 72-61, over
the Mideast No. 3 seed Tennes-
see of Pat Summitt, then an
ambitious pup. It brought the
Trojans’ second straight national
title.
From there all the way to here,
only the two members of the
Connecticut-Tennessee hegemo-
ny have repeated: Tennessee in
1996, 1997 and 1998; Connecti-
cut in 2002, 2003 and 2004;
Tennessee in 2007 and 2008;
Connecticut in 2009 and 2010
and from 2013 through 2016.
Weaving all through that,
VanDerveer made 13 Final Fours,
claiming titles in 1990 and 1992.
It didn’t win from 1992 on
until last April, when VanDer-
veer said: “I never really thought
about it. This isn’t why I coach. I
wanted to be a teacher.”
“And we love each other more
than just teammates,” Jones said
11 months on. “We love each
other as people, so we want to
keep playing together. And I
think that adds to the spirit to
To listen to teams male and
female for March after March
after March is to find it unargu-
able that love matters. It over-
rides other ideas such as getting
overlooked, which seems to have
happened ever so slightly and
definitely so curiously in the
case of this defending champion.
To a reasonable question
about how her team might have
generated more noise if it played
somewhere in the East, VanDer-
veer had a ready rejoinder: She
has spent the whole chunk of
history from the mid-1980s to
the early 2020s as a resident of
Palo Alto.
“And living in Palo Alto, come
on,” she said.
Everyone who had ever been
to Palo Alto understood, and
VanDerveer then said: “I’m liv-
ing my dream. And I don’t get
caught up, I don’t do Twitter and
stuff. I don’t get caught up in any
of that. Although I have done a
couple of TikToks, right, Haley?”
“You killed it,” Jones said.
“I like to keep it real,” VanDer-
veer said. “And what’s real is the
grit I saw today [in the Pac-12
title game]” — the same grit
that heaved across the finish line
first in San Antonio and may do ELLEN SCHMIDT/ASSOCIATED PRESS

bracket, Texas, which seemed drew from a tournament of only keep fighting, keep playing as so this time around in Minneap- Haley Jones (30) is averaging 13.1 points and 7.9 rebounds for the
faintly puckish of the selection 32 teams. Those 32 got whittled long as we can.” olis. Pac-12 champion Cardinal, the top seed in the Spokane Region.
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scoreboard

PR O B AS KET B A LL HOCKEY C OL LE GE BA S K E T BA L L

NBA Suns 140, Lakers 111 NHL NCAA men’s tournament NCAA women’s tournament NCAA MEN’S AP TOP 25 POLL
EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Late Sunday ATLANTIC GP W L OT Pts GF GA FIRST FOUR FIRST FOUR The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college
Miami ...........................................45 24 .652 — Florida .......................... 59 40 13 6 86 245 173 TUESDAY’S GAMES WEDNESDAY’S GAMES basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,
x-Milwaukee ................................42 26 .618 21/2 L.A. LAKERS ....................... 22 34 34 21 — 111 Tampa Bay ................... 59 38 15 6 82 200 171 IN DAYTON, OHIO IN COLUMBIA, S.C. records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points
Philadelphia..................................41 26 .612 3 PHOENIX ............................ 48 31 40 21 — 140 Toronto ........................ 59 37 17 5 79 219 181 Texas Southern (18-12) vs. Texas A&M CC (23-11), 6:40 for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place
Howard (20-9) vs. Incarnate Word (13-16), 7
x-Chicago......................................41 26 .612 3 Boston.......................... 59 36 18 5 77 180 160 Wyoming (25-8) vs. Indiana (20-13), 9:10 vote and previous ranking
L.A. LAKERS: Reaves 2-4 5-6 10, S.Johnson 0-2 2-2 2, IN AMES, IOWA
Boston ..........................................41 28 .594 4 James 10-20 6-7 31, Monk 5-10 1-1 13, Westbrook 5-10 Detroit.......................... 59 24 28 7 55 170 221 WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Dayton (25-5) vs. DePaul (22-10), 9 RECORD PTS PVS
Cleveland......................................39 29 .574 51/2 Buffalo ......................... 60 20 32 8 48 162 212
x-Toronto .....................................37 30 .552 7
3-4 13, Anthony 6-11 2-4 18, Gabriel 1-3 3-5 5, Howard
Ottawa ......................... 59 21 33 5 47 157 194
IN DAYTON, OHIO 1. Gonzaga (54) 26-3 1518 1
1-1 0-0 2, Bazemore 0-2 0-0 0, Augustin 0-2 0-0 0, Wright State (21-13) vs. Bryant (22-9), 6:40
THURSDAY’S GAMES 2. Arizona (7) 31-3 1470 2
Brooklyn .......................................35 33 .515 91/2 Bradley 3-5 0-0 9, Ellington 2-3 0-0 5, Horton-Tucker 1-8 Montreal ...................... 59 16 35 8 40 147 224 IN RALEIGH, N.C.
Rutgers (18-13) vs. Notre Dame (22-10), 9:10 3. Kansas 28-6 1388 6
Atlanta .........................................34 34 .500 101/2 1-2 3. Totals 36-81 23-31 111. Longwood (21-11) vs. Mount St. Mary’s (16-12), 7 4. Baylor 26-6 1286 3
Charlotte ......................................34 35 .493 11 METROPOLITAN GP W L OT Pts GF GA EAST REGIONAL
PHOENIX: Bridges 8-13 1-1 18, Crowder 4-10 0-0 11, IN BATON ROUGE, LA. 5. Tennessee 26-7 1235 9
x-Washington ..............................29 37 .439 141/2 Carolina ........................ 59 41 13 5 87 198 139 FIRST ROUND
Ayton 11-14 1-1 23, Booker 12-25 2-2 30, Payne 4-10 0-0 Missouri State (24-7) vs. Florida State (17-13), 9 6. Villanova 26-7 1211 8
New York......................................28 40 .412 161/2 Pittsburgh.................... 60 36 15 9 81 197 160 THURSDAY’S GAMES
9, Craig 5-8 0-0 11, Wainright 0-1 1-2 1, McGee 4-4 2-2 7. Kentucky 26-7 1178 5
Indiana..........................................23 46 .333 22 N.Y. Rangers ................ 59 37 17 5 79 180 154
Detroit..........................................18 50 .265 261/2 10, Biyombo 1-2 1-2 3, Holiday 4-9 3-3 12, Payton 3-3 0-0 IN FORT WORTH GREENSBORO REGIONAL 8. Auburn 27-5 1144 4
Washington ................. 60 32 18 10 74 197 169 Baylor (26-6) vs. Norfolk State (24-6), 2 FIRST ROUND 9. Duke 28-6 986 7
Orlando.........................................18 51 .261 27 6, Shamet 2-3 1-1 6. Totals 58-102 12-14 140. Columbus ..................... 60 30 27 3 63 199 222 North Carolina (24-9) vs. Marquette (19-12), 4:30 FRIDAY'S GAMES 10. Purdue 27-7 958 9
Three-point Goals: L.A. Lakers 16-40 (James 5-11, N.Y. Islanders............... 56 24 24 8 56 152 157 IN COLUMBIA, S.C. 11. UCLA 25-7 823 13
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Anthony 4-7, Bradley 3-3, Monk 2-4, Ellington 1-2, New Jersey .................. 59 22 32 5 49 179 208 IN PORTLAND, ORE. 12. Texas Tech 25-9 819 14
y-Phoenix .....................................54 14 .794 — Philadelphia ................. 59 18 30 11 47 148 206 Saint Mary’s (Calif.) (25-7) vs. Wyoming-Indiana win- South Carolina (29-2) vs. Howard-Incarnate Word win-
Reaves 1-2, S.Johnson 0-1, Augustin 0-2, Bazemore 0-2, 13. Providence 25-5 723 11
Memphis ......................................47 22 .681 71/2 ner, 7:20 ner, TBA
Westbrook 0-2, Horton-Tucker 0-4), Phoenix 12-33 14. Wisconsin 24-7 685 12
x-Golden State .............................46 22 .676 8 UCLA (25-7) vs. Akron (24-9), 9:50 Miami (20-12) vs. South Florida (24-8), TBA
(Booker 4-10, Crowder 3-8, Bridges 1-2, Shamet 1-2, CENTRAL GP W L OT Pts GF GA 15. Houston 29-5 665 18
x-Utah ..........................................42 25 .627 111/2 Craig 1-3, Holiday 1-3, Payne 1-3, Ayton 0-1, Wainright Colorado ....................... 60 42 13 5 89 233 170 IN INDIANAPOLIS IN AMES, IOWA 16. Iowa 26-9 661 24
Dallas ...........................................42 26 .618 12 0-1). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: L.A. Lakers 37 (James St. Louis ....................... 59 34 17 8 76 211 165 Murray State (30-2) vs. San Francisco (24-9), 9:40 Georgia (20-9) vs. Dayton-DePaul winner, TBA 17. Arkansas 25-8 578 15
Denver ..........................................41 28 .594 131/2 7), Phoenix 51 (Ayton 16). Assists: L.A. Lakers 24 Minnesota.................... 58 34 20 4 72 218 193 Kentucky (26-7) vs. St. Peter’s (19-11), 7:10 Iowa State (26-6) vs. Texas Arlington (20-7), TBA 18. Saint Mary's (Calif.) 25-7 508 17
Minnesota ....................................40 30 .571 15 (James 6), Phoenix 36 (Payne 11). Total Fouls: L.A. Nashville ...................... 59 34 21 4 72 190 166 IN IOWA CITY, IOWA 19. Illinois 22-9 457 16
L.A. Clippers .................................36 35 .507 191/2 Lakers 14, Phoenix 24. A: 17,071 (18,422) FRIDAY’S GAMES 20. Murray State 30-2 425 19
Dallas ........................... 57 32 22 3 67 170 169 IN MILWAUKEE Colorado (22-8) vs. Creighton (20-9), TBA
x-L.A. Lakers ................................29 38 .433 241/2 Winnipeg...................... 60 27 23 10 64 182 187 21. Connecticut 23-9 353 20
New Orleans.................................28 40 .412 26 Texas (21-11) vs. Virginia Tech (23-12), 4:30 Iowa (23-7) vs. Illinois State (19-13), TBA
Chicago......................... 60 22 30 8 52 161 208 22. Southern California 26-7 170 21
Portland........................................26 41 .388 271/2 Arizona......................... 59 19 36 4 42 153 213 Purdue (27-7) vs. Yale (19-11), 2 SATURDAY'S GAMES 23. Boise State 27-7 165 -
San Antonio .................................26 43 .377 281/2 SO C C ER SECOND ROUND
IN TUSCON 24. Colorado State 25-5 82 23
x-Sacramento...............................24 45 .348 301/2 North Carolina (23-6) vs. Stephen F. Austin (28-4), TBA 25. Texas 21-11 72 22
Oklahoma City..............................20 48 .294 34 PACIFIC GP W L OT Pts GF GA SATURDAY’S GAMES Arizona (20-7) vs. UNLV (26-6), TBA
Houston........................................17 51 .250 37 MLS Calgary ......................... 59 36 16 7 79 204 143 IN FORT WORTH Others receiving votes: Virginia Tech 63, San Diego
Los Angeles.................. 61 33 20 8 74 178 173 Baylor-Norfolk State winner vs. North Carolina-Mar- SECOND ROUND State 33, South Dakota State 33, LSU 25, Loyola Chicago
x-Late game; y-Clinched playoff spot Edmonton..................... 59 32 23 4 68 193 187 quette winner, TBA SUNDAY'S GAMES 18, Memphis 18, North Carolina 16, Michigan State 14,
EAST W L T Pts GF GA Vegas ........................... 61 32 25 4 68 192 183 IN COLUMBIA, S.C. Texas A&M 13, Alabama 9, Ohio State 7, Creighton 4,
SUNDAY’S RESULTS Columbus............................2 0 1 7 9 4 Vancouver .................... 60 29 24 7 65 173 174 IN PORTLAND, ORE. Vermont 3, San Francisco 2, Indiana 2, Davidson 2, Seton
Philadelphia........................2 0 1 7 5 2 UCLA-Akron winner vs. Saint Mary’s (Calif.)—Wyo- South Carolina—Howard-Incarnate Word winner vs.
at Brooklyn 110, New York 107 Anaheim....................... 62 27 25 10 64 180 197 Miami-South Florida winner, TBA Hall 1, Longwood 1, Yale 1.
New York ............................2 1 0 6 7 3 San Jose....................... 58 26 25 7 59 154 182 ming-Indiana winner, TBA
L.A. Clippers 106, at Detroit 102 D.C. United .........................2 1 0 6 4 2
Dallas 95, at Boston 92 Seattle ......................... 61 18 37 6 42 159 220 IN INDIANAPOLIS IN AMES, IOWA
Atlanta ...............................2 1 0 6 5 5 Iowa State-Texas Arlington winner vs. Georgia—Day-
Philadelphia 116, at Orlando 114 (OT) Chicago ...............................1 0 2 5 2 0 SUNDAY’S RESULTS Kentucky-St. Peter’s winner vs. Murray State-San
ton-DePaul winner, TBA
at New Orleans 130, Houston 105 New York City FC................1 1 1 4 4 2 at Pittsburgh 4, Carolina 2
Francisco winner, TBA
IN IOWA CITY, IOWA
NCAA MEN’S TOP 25
at Atlanta 131, Indiana 128 Orlando City........................1 1 1 4 3 2 SUNDAY’S GAMES
Memphis 125, at Oklahoma City 118 New England ......................1 1 1 4 5 5 Buffalo 5, Toronto 2 (at Tim Hortons Field)
IN MILWAUKEE Iowa-Illinois State winner vs. Colorado-Creighton win- COACHES POLL
Cincinnati ...........................1 2 0 3 2 7 Winnipeg 4, at St. Louis 3 ner, TBA
at Phoenix 140, L.A. Lakers 111 Montreal 4, at Philadelphia 3 (OT) Purdue-Yale winner vs. Texas-Virginia Tech winner, TBA The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college
Toronto FC..........................0 2 1 1 3 7 MONDAY'S GAMES basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,
MONDAY’S RESULTS Inter Miami CF....................0 2 1 1 1 7 at Columbus 6, Vegas 4 REGIONAL SEMIFINALS IN TUSCON records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points
Washington at Golden State, Late Charlotte FC .......................0 3 0 0 1 6 at N.Y. Islanders 4, Anaheim 3 FRIDAY, MARCH 25 Arizona-UNLV winner vs. North Carolina-Stephen F. for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place
CF Montréal........................0 3 0 0 2 8 Nashville 6, at Minnesota 2 IN PHILADELPHIA vote and previous ranking
at Cleveland 120, L.A. Clippers 111 (OT) Austin winner, TBA
Denver 114, at Philadelphia 110 at Colorado 3, Calgary 0 Baylor-Norfolk State—North Carolina-Marquette win-
WEST W L T Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 2, at Vancouver 1 ner vs. UCLA-Akron—Saint Mary’s (Calif.)—Wyoming- REGIONAL SEMIFINALS RECORD PTS PVS
at Atlanta 122, Portland 113 1. Gonzaga (54) 26-3 1518 1
Los Angeles FC ...................2 0 1 7 6 1 at Los Angeles 3, Florida 2 (SO) Indiana winner, TBA FRIDAY, MARCH 25
Charlotte 134, at Oklahoma City 116 Real Salt Lake ....................2 0 1 7 4 2 Kentucky-St. Peter’s—Murray State-San Francisco win- IN GREENSBORO, N.C. 2. Arizona (7) 31-3 1470 2
Minnesota 149, at San Antonio 139 Austin FC............................2 1 0 6 10 2 MONDAY’S RESULT ner vs. Purdue-Yale—Texas-Virginia Tech winner, TBA 3. Kansas 28-6 1388 6
South Carolina—Howard-Incarnate Word—Miami-
Chicago at Sacramento, Late Colorado..............................2 1 0 6 5 3 South Florida winner vs. Arizona-UNLV—North Caroli- 4. Baylor 26-6 1286 3
Arizona 5, at Ottawa 3 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Milwaukee at Utah, Late LA Galaxy ...........................2 1 0 6 4 3 na-Stephen F. Austin winner, TBA 5. Tennessee 26-7 1235 9
Toronto at L.A. Lakers, Late Portland..............................1 0 2 5 4 3 TUESDAY’S GAMES SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Iowa-Illinois State—Colorado-Creighton winner vs. Iowa 6. Villanova 26-7 1211 8
Minnesota United ..............1 0 2 5 3 2 N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7 Semifinal winners, TBA State-Texas Arlington—Georgia—Dayton-DePaul win- 7. Kentucky 26-7 1178 5
TUESDAY’S GAMES FC Dallas.............................1 1 1 4 3 2 ner, TBA 8. Auburn 27-5 1144 4
Anaheim at N.Y. Rangers, 7 SOUTH REGIONAL 9. Duke 28-6 986 7
Brooklyn at Orlando, 7 Houston ..............................1 1 1 4 2 2 Arizona at Montreal, 7
Nashville.............................1 1 1 4 2 3 FIRST ROUND REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 10. Purdue 27-7 958 9
Memphis at Indiana, 7 Dallas at Toronto, 7 THURSDAY’S GAMES
Seattle................................1 2 0 3 3 4 SUNDAY, MARCH 27 11. UCLA 25-7 823 13
Detroit at Miami, 7:30 Pittsburgh at Nashville, 8 IN INDIANAPOLIS 12. Texas Tech 25-9 819 14
Phoenix at New Orleans, 8 Sporting KC ........................1 2 0 3 2 5 Semifinal winners, TBA
San Jose .............................0 2 1 1 4 8 Vegas at Winnipeg, 8 Colorado State (25-5) vs. Michigan (17-14), 12:15 13. Providence 25-5 723 11
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Vancouver...........................0 2 1 1 1 6 Boston at Chicago, 8:30 Tennessee (26-7) vs. Longwood (26-6), 2:45 WICHITA REGIONAL 14. Wisconsin 24-7 685 12
Detroit at Edmonton, 9 FRIDAY’S GAMES FIRST ROUND 15. Houston 29-5 665 18
Denver at Washington, 7 SUNDAY, MARCH 6 FRIDAY'S GAMES 16. Iowa 26-9 661 24
Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 New Jersey at Vancouver, 10 IN SAN DIEGO 17. Arkansas 25-8 578 15
at Austin FC 5, Miami 1 Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 Arizona (31-3) vs. Wright State-Bryant winner, 7:27
IN LOUISVILLE
Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7 Portland 1, at Los Angeles FC 1 Louisville (25-4) vs. Albany (N.Y.) (23-9), TBA 18. Saint Mary's (Calif.) 25-7 508 17
Dallas at Brooklyn, 7:30 Florida at San Jose, 10:30 Seton Hall (21-10) vs. TCU (20-12), 9:57 19. Illinois 22-9 457 16
Nebraska (24-8) vs. Gonzaga (26-6), TBA
Portland at New York, 7:30 SATURDAY’S RESULTS WEDNESDAY’S GAMES IN PITTSBURGH 20. Murray State 30-2 425 19
Houston (29-5) vs. UAB (27-7), 9:20
IN WACO, TEXAS 21. Connecticut 23-9 353 20
L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 8 Chicago 2, at D.C. United 0 Boston at Minnesota, 7:30
Illinois (22-9) vs. Chattanooga (27-7), 6:50 Mississippi (23-8) vs. South Dakota (27-5), TBA 22. Southern California 26-7 170 21
Phoenix at Houston, 8 at New York City FC 4, CF Montréal 1 Columbus at Ottawa, 7:30 Baylor (27-6) vs. Hawaii (20-9), TBA
Ohio State (19-11) vs. Loyola Chicago (25-7), 12:15 23. Boise State 27-7 165 -
Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 8:30 at Columbus 2, Toronto FC 1 New Jersey at Calgary, 10 24. Colorado State 25-5 82 23
Chicago at Utah, 9 Los Angeles FC 2, at Miami 0
Villanova (26-7) vs. Delaware (22-12), 2:45 SATURDAY'S GAMES
Tampa Bay at Seattle, 10 IN KNOXVILLE 25. Texas 21-11 72 22
Boston at Golden State, 10 at Seattle 3, LA Galaxy 2 SECOND ROUND
THURSDAY’S GAMES Oregon (20-11) vs. Belmont (22-7), TBA Others receiving votes: Virginia Tech 63, San Diego
Milwaukee at Sacramento, 10 at Houston 2, Vancouver 1 SATURDAY’S GAMES Tennessee (23-8) vs. Buffalo (25-8), TBA
IN INDIANAPOLIS State 33, South Dakota State 33, LSU 25, Loyola Chicago
Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 Real Salt Lake 3, at New England 2 Washington at Columbus, 7
IN ANN ARBOR, MICH. 18, Memphis 18, North Carolina 16, Michigan State 14,
Cincinnati 2, at Orlando City 1 Carolina at Toronto, 7 Tennessee-Longwood winner vs. Colorado State-Michi- Texas A&M 13, Alabama 9, Ohio State 7, Creighton 4,
THURSDAY’S GAME gan winner, TBA BYU (26-3) vs. Villanova (23-8), TBA
at Philadelphia 2, San Jose 0 Dallas at Montreal, 7 Vermont 3, San Francisco 2, Indiana 2, Davidson 2, Seton
Detroit at Orlando, 7 Michigan (22-6) vs. American (23-8), TBA
at FC Dallas 2, Nashville 0 N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 7 SUNDAY’S GAMES Hall 1, Longwood 1, Yale 1.
FRIDAY’S GAMES at Colorado 2, Sporting KC 0 Nashville at Philadelphia, 7 IN SAN DIEGO SECOND ROUND
Washington at New York, 7:30 at Portland 1, Austin FC 0 Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8 Arizona—Wright State-Bryant winner vs. Seton Hall- SUNDAY'S GAMES
Dallas at Philadelphia, 7 Buffalo at Edmonton, 9 TCU winner, TBA IN LOUISVILLE
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
Memphis at Atlanta, 7:30 at Atlanta 2, Charlotte FC 1
Detroit at Vancouver, 10 IN PITTSBURGH Louisville-Albany (N.Y.) winner vs. Nebraska-Gonzaga NCAA WOMEN’S AP TOP 25 POLL
San Jose at Los Angeles, 10 Illinois-Chattanooga winner vs. Houston-UAB winner, winner, TBA
Portland at Brooklyn, 7:30 Minnesota 1, at New York 0 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s
Denver at Cleveland, 7:30 Florida at Vegas, 10:30 TBA IN WACO, TEXAS
Villanova-Delaware winner vs. Ohio State-Loyola Chica- college basketball poll, with first-place votes in paren-
L.A. Lakers at Toronto, 7:30 SATURDAY’S MATCHES Baylor-Hawaii winner vs. Mississippi-South Dakota theses, records through Sunday, total points based on 25
go winner, TBA winner, TBA
Oklahoma City at Miami, 8 D.C. United at Toronto FC, 3 points for a first-place vote through one point for a
Indiana at Houston, 8 Miami at Cincinnati, 1 REGIONAL SEMIFINALS MONDAY'S GAMES 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
New Orleans at San Antonio, 8:30 Philadelphia at New York City FC, 1
Coyotes 5, Senators 3 THURSDAY, MARCH 24 IN KNOXVILLE RECORD PTS PVS
L.A. Clippers at Utah, 9 Orlando City at LA Galaxy, 3:30 ARIZONA ................................. 2 1 2 — 5 IN SAN ANTONIO Tennessee-Buffalo winner vs. Oregon-Belmont winner, 1. South Carolina (20) 29-2 739 1
Chicago at Phoenix, 10 CF Montréal at Atlanta, 4 OTTAWA .................................. 2 0 1 — 3 Arizona—Wright State-Bryant—Seton Hall-TCU winner TBA 2. Stanford (9) 28-3 728 2
Boston at Sacramento, 10 Sporting KC at Chicago, 6 vs. Illinois-Chattanooga—Houston-UAB winner, TBA IN ANN ARBOR, MICH. 3. North Carolina State (1) 29-3 693 3
FIRST PERIOD Villanova-Delaware—Ohio State-Loyola Chicago winner
New England at Charlotte FC, 7 Michigan-American winner vs. BYU-Villanova winner, 4. Louisville 25-4 624 5
Scoring: 1, Ottawa, Norris 23 (Tkachuk), 2:39. 2, Arizona, vs. Tennessee-Longwood—Colorado State-Michigan TBA 5. Connecticut 25-5 605 6
San Jose at Minnesota, 8
Crouse 16 (Galchenyuk, Kessel), 7:49. 3, Arizona, Crouse winner, TBA 6. Texas 26-6 599 7
Portland at FC Dallas, 8:30 REGIONAL SEMIFINALS
Cavaliers 120, Clippers 111 (OT) Colorado at Houston, 8:30
17 (Keller, Gostisbehere), 9:00 (pp). 4, Ottawa, Norris 24
(Stutzle), 14:01 (pp). REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY, MARCH 26
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8.
Baylor
Iowa
27-6
23-7
597
541
4
8
Nashville at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 SATURDAY, MARCH 26 IN WICHITA 9. LSU 25-5 505 9
L.A. CLIPPERS ............... 27 30 24 25 5 — 111 SECOND PERIOD
CLEVELAND ................... 33 23 31 19 14 — 120 Semifinal winners, TBA Louisville-Albany (N.Y.)—Nebraska-Gonzaga winner vs. 10. Iowa State 26-6 473 10
SUNDAY’S MATCHES
Scoring: 5, Arizona, Crouse 18, 16:12 (sh). MIDWEST REGIONAL Tennessee-Buffalo—Oregon-Belmont winner, TBA 11. Indiana 22-8 455 11
L.A. CLIPPERS: Batum 2-8 0-0 6, Coffey 7-20 1-2 19, Columbus at New York, 2 Baylor-Hawaii—Mississippi-South Dakota winner vs. 12. Michigan 22-6 413 12
Zubac 10-15 4-4 24, Kennard 5-12 3-3 14, Mann 7-21 2-4 Seattle at Austin FC, 4:30 THIRD PERIOD FIRST ROUND 13. Maryland 21-8 383 13
THURSDAY’S GAMES Michigan-American—BYU-Villanova winner, TBA
18, Ojeleye 3-4 2-3 9, Hartenstein 5-5 0-0 10, Hood 0-2 Vancouver at Los Angeles FC, 10 Scoring: 6, Ottawa, C.Brown 9 (Tkachuk, Zub), 7:30. 7, 14. Ohio State 23-6 338 14
0-0 0, Boston Jr. 4-11 1-1 11. Totals 43-98 13-17 111. IN FORT WORTH REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 15. Kentucky 19-11 301 16
Arizona, Schmaltz 17 (Keller), 7:46. 8, Arizona, Hayton 5
Kansas (28-6) vs. Texas Southern-Texas A&M CC MONDAY, MARCH 28 16. Virginia Tech 23-9 254 17
CLEVELAND: Markkanen 5-9 3-4 17, Stevens 2-5 0-0 5, (Moser, Schmaltz), 19:12 (en).
winner, 9:57 Semifinal winners, TBA 17. North Carolina 23-6 236 18
Mobley 13-22 3-6 30, Garland 8-21 4-4 24, Okoro 4-6
11-13 20, Love 4-11 2-3 13, Osman 0-0 0-2 0, Davis 0-0 T E NN I S SHOTS ON GOAL San Diego State (23-8) vs. Creighton (22-11), 7:27
SPOKANE REGIONAL
18. Tennessee 23-8 218 19
0-0 0, Windler 0-2 0-0 0, Goodwin 0-0 0-0 0, LeVert 5-10 ARIZONA ................................. 6 3 6 — 15 IN BUFFALO 19. Arizona 20-7 213 20
Iowa (26-9) vs. Richmond (23-12), 3:10
FIRST ROUND 20. BYU 26-3 201 15
0-0 11. Totals 41-86 23-32 120. OTTAWA ................................ 15 17 11 — 43
ATP/WTA Providence (25-5) vs. South Dakota State (30-4), 12:40 FRIDAY'S GAMES 21. Notre Dame 22-8 159 22
Three-point Goals: L.A. Clippers 12-36 (Coffey 4-11, Power-play opportunities: Arizona 1 of 2; Ottawa 1 of 3. IN STANFORD, CALIF.
Goalies: Arizona, Wedgewood 10-13-3 (43 shots-40 22. Oklahoma 24-8 156 21
Boston Jr. 2-4, Batum 2-7, Mann 2-7, Ojeleye 1-1, BNP PARIBAS OPEN FRIDAY’S GAMES Stanford (28-3) vs. Montana State (22-12), TBA 23. Florida Gulf Coast 29-2 132 23
Kennard 1-5, Hood 0-1), Cleveland 15-30 (Markkanen saves). Ottawa, Gustavsson 3-10-1 (14-10). A: 9,201 IN MILWAUKEE
At Indian Wells Tennis Garden; In Indian Wells, Calif. (18,572). T: 2:23. Kansas (20-9) vs. Georgia Tech (21-10), TBA 24. UCF 25-3 58 25
4-6, Garland 4-9, Love 3-6, Okoro 1-1, Stevens 1-1, Purse: $8,584,055 LSU (22-11) vs. Iowa State (20-12), 7:20 25. Princeton 24-4 46 24
LeVert 1-2, Mobley 1-3, Windler 0-2). Fouled Out: L.A. Wisconsin (24-7) vs. Colgate (23-11), 9:50 IN COLLEGE PARK, MD.
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Virginia Tech (23-9) vs. Florida Gulf Coast (29-2), TBA
Clippers 1 (Zubac), Cleveland None. Rebounds: L.A. Others receiving votes: Ole Miss 20, Miami (Fla.) 19,
IN GREENVILLE, S.C. Maryland (21-8) vs. Delaware (24-7), TBA Villanova 14, Colorado 10, Nebraska 4, Georgia 4,
Clippers 43 (Zubac 14), Cleveland 49 (Love, Markkanen MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 32 Avalanche 3, Flames 0 Southern Cal (26-7) vs. Miami (23-10), 3:10 Georgia Tech 3, Kansas 3, Oregon 2, Florida 2, IUPUI 1,
9). Assists: L.A. Clippers 29 (Batum 6), Cleveland 28 Carlos Alcaraz (19), Spain, def. Roberto Bautista Agut Auburn (27-5) vs. Jacksonville State (21-10), 12:40 IN AUSTIN, TEXAS
(Garland 13). Total Fouls: L.A. Clippers 24, Cleveland 19. (15), Spain, 6-2, 6-0; Gael Monfils (26), France, def. Late Sunday Utah (20-11) vs. Arkansas (18-13), TBA
Gonzaga 1.
A: 18,742 (19,432) Daniil Medvedev (1), Russia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Rafael Nadal SECOND ROUND Texas (26-6) vs. Fairfield (25-6), TBA
CALGARY ................................. 0 0 0 — 0
(4), Spain, def. Daniel Evans (27), Britain, 7-5, 6-3; Reilly SATURDAY’S GAMES
COLORADO .............................. 1 0 2 — 3
Opelka (17), United States, def. Denis Shapovalov (13), IN FORT WORTH SATURDAY'S GAMES NCAA WOMEN’S TOP 25
Canada, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4; Jannik Sinner (10), Italy, def. FIRST PERIOD IN BATON ROUGE, LA.
Hawks 122, Trail Blazers 113 Benjamin Bonzi, France, 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-4; Jenson
Kansas—Texas Southern-Texas A&M CC winner vs. San
Diego State-Creighton winner, TBA Ohio State (23-6) vs. Missouri State-Florida State COACHES POLL
Brooksby, United States, def. Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), Scoring: 1, Colorado, MacKinnon 20 (Kadri, Rantanen), winner, TBA
PORTLAND ......................... 34 33 17 29 — 113 9:55 (pp). IN BUFFALO The top 25 teams in the USA Today women’s college
Greece, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2. LSU (25-5) vs. Jackson State (23-6), TBA basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses,
ATLANTA ........................... 29 29 31 33 — 122 Providence-South Dakota State winner vs. Iowa-Rich-
WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 32 THIRD PERIOD SECOND ROUND records through Monday, points based on 25 points for a
PORTLAND: Elleby 1-2 4-4 6, Watford 9-19 2-2 22, mond winner, TBA
Scoring: 2, Colorado, MacKinnon 21, 4:00. 3, Colorado, SUNDAY'S GAMES first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote
Maria Sakkari (6), Greece, def. Petra Kvitova (27), Czech SUNDAY’S GAMES
Eubanks 7-10 2-2 16, B.Williams 8-17 2-5 20, Hart 11-21 Rantanen 28 (Helm), 18:22 (en). IN STANFORD, CALIF. and last week’s ranking:
Republic, 6-3, 6-0; Veronika Kudermetova (21), Russia, IN MILWAUKEE RECORD PTS PVS
5-7 31, Brown III 1-1 0-0 2, Dunn 1-6 0-0 2, Hughes 3-4
def. Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 0-2, ret; Daria Stanford-Montana State winner vs. Kansas-Georgia 1. South Carolina (27)....................29-2 770 1
0-0 8, K.Johnson 3-8 0-1 6. Totals 44-88 15-21 113. SHOTS ON GOAL Wisconsin-Colgate winner vs. LSU-Iowa State winner,
Saville, Australia, def. Elise Mertens (20), Belgium, 6-3, Tech winner, TBA 2. Stanford (4) ...............................28-3 744 2
ATLANTA: Huerter 6-15 0-0 14, Hunter 6-17 5-6 20, 4-6, 6-3; Marketa Vondrousova (30), Czech Republic, def. CALGARY ................................. 9 15 22 — 46 TBA
Capela 4-12 0-0 8, Wright 0-3 4-4 4, Young 15-31 11-11 IN GREENVILLE, S.C. IN COLLEGE PARK, MD. 3. North Carolina State (1) ............29-3 718 3
Anett Kontaveit (4), Estonia, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5); COLORADO .............................. 9 13 10 — 32 4. Louisville ....................................26-4 666 5
46, Knox II 0-3 0-0 0, Okongwu 3-5 6-7 12, Luwawu- Viktorija Golubic (31), Switzerland, def. Jasmine Paolini, Maryland-Delaware winner vs. Virginia Tech-Florida
Power-play opportunities: Calgary 0 of 3; Colorado 1 of 2. Auburn-Jacksonville State winner vs. Southern Cal-Mi- 5. Baylor .........................................27-6 613 4
Cabarrot 2-4 0-0 5, Bogdanovic 2-13 4-4 9, L.Williams 2-6 Italy, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4); Elena Rybakina (17), Kazakh- Gulf Coast winner, TBA
Goalies: Calgary, Vladar 8-5-1 (31 shots-29 saves). ami winner, TBA 6. Connecticut ................................25-5 600 6
0-0 4. Totals 40-109 30-32 122. stan, def. Victoria Azarenka (13), Belarus, 6-3, 6-4; Paula Colorado, Kuemper 28-8-2 (46-46). A: 18,081 (18,007). T: IN AUSTIN, TEXAS 7. Texas ..........................................26-6 574 9
Badosa (5), Spain, def. Sara Sorribes Tormo (32), Spain, 2:27. REGIONAL SEMIFINALS Texas-Fairfield winner vs. Utah-Arkansas winner, TBA
Three-point Goals: Portland 10-24 (Hart 4-7, Hughes 2-3, 8. Iowa State..................................26-6 537 7
7-6 (7-4), 6-1. FRIDAY, MARCH 25 9. LSU .............................................25-5 523 8
Watford 2-4, B.Williams 2-6, Dunn 0-1, Elleby 0-1, MONDAY'S GAMES
IN CHICAGO 10. Iowa..........................................23-7 491 11
Eubanks 0-1, K.Johnson 0-1), Atlanta 12-48 (Young MEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16 IN BATON ROUGE, LA.
Kansas—Texas Southern-Texas A&M CC—San Diego
5-14, Hunter 3-9, Huerter 2-9, Luwawu-Cabarrot 1-3, Aslan Karatsev and Andrey Rublev, Russia, def. Marcel Kings 3, Panthers 2 (SO) State-Creighton winner vs. Providence-South Dakota LSU-Jackson State winner vs. Ohio State—Missouri
11. Indiana......................................22-8 485 10
Bogdanovic 1-8, Knox II 0-1, L.Williams 0-2, Wright 0-2). 12. Michigan...................................22-6 439 12
Granollers, Spain, and Horacio Zeballos (3), Argentina, Late Sunday State—Iowa-Richmond winner, TBA State-Florida State winner, TBA
Fouled Out: Portland 1 (Dunn), Atlanta None. Rebounds: 13. Maryland ..................................21-8 395 14
7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 10-4; Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan, and Auburn-Jacksonville State—Southern Cal-Miami winner
Portland 56 (Elleby 13), Atlanta 49 (Capela 16). Assists: FLORIDA ............................ 0 2 0 0 — 2 REGIONAL SEMIFINALS 14. Brigham Young.........................26-3 337 13
Alexander Zverev, Germany, def. Jean-Julien Rojer, vs. Wisconsin-Colgate—LSU-Iowa State winner, TBA
Portland 25 (B.Williams 6), Atlanta 28 (Young 12). Total LOS ANGELES .................... 1 0 1 1 — 3 FRIDAY, MARCH 25 15. Ohio State ................................23-6 328 15
Netherlands, and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez, El Salva-
Fouls: Portland 25, Atlanta 15. A: 16,432 (18,118) REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 16. Arizona .....................................20-7 297 16
dor, 7-6 (7-0), 6-3; Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul, United
LOS ANGELES WON SHOOTOUT, 2-1 IN SPOKANE, WASH. 17. Tennessee ................................23-8 296 17
States, def. Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal (4), SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Stanford-Montana State—Kansas-Georgia Tech winner
Colombia, 6-1, 6-4; Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe
FIRST PERIOD 18. North Carolina ..........................23-6 228 18
Semifinal winners, TBA vs. Maryland-Delaware—Virginia Tech-Florida Gulf
Nuggets 114, 76ers 110 Salisbury (2), Britain, def. Andres Molteni and Diego Scoring: 1, Los Angeles, Kupari 4 (Spence, Byfield), 11:50. Coast winner, TBA
19. Oklahoma .................................24-8 195
20. Florida Gulf Coast ....................29-2 169
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20
Schwartzman, Argentina, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2). WEST REGIONAL Texas-Fairfield—Utah-Arkansas winner vs. LSU-Jack-
DENVER .............................. 22 31 28 33 — 114 SECOND PERIOD FIRST ROUND 21. Notre Dame ..............................22-8 149 21
son State—Ohio State—Missouri State-Florida State 22. Kentucky.................................19-11 135 22
PHILADELPHIA .................. 37 21 30 22 — 110 WOMEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16 Scoring: 2, Florida, Luostarinen 9 (Huberdeau), 0:43 (sh). THURSDAY’S GAMES winner, TBA
Asia Muhammad, United States, and Ena Shibahara (7), IN PORTLAND, ORE. 23. Virginia Tech ............................23-9 130 23
DENVER: Gordon 3-6 0-0 7, Je.Green 3-3 0-0 6, Jokic 8-16 3, Florida, Montour 7 (Barkov, Hornqvist), 3:44. 24. Central Florida..........................22-3 125 24
Japan, def. Alison Riske and Sofia Kenin, United States, Gonzaga (26-3) vs. Georgia State (18-10), 4:15 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
5-7 22, Barton 7-14 3-4 20, Morris 5-10 1-2 11, Ja.Green THIRD PERIOD 25. Georgia .....................................20-9 51 25
1-6, 6-4, 10-1; Caty McNally and Coco Gauff (3), United Boise State (27-7) vs. Memphis (21-10), 1:45 SUNDAY, MARCH 27
5-6 0-0 10, Cousins 3-6 0-0 8, Forbes 2-5 0-0 5, Hyland States, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, and Maria Dropped out: None.
7-14 3-5 21, Rivers 1-2 1-2 4. Totals 44-82 13-20 114. Scoring: 4, Los Angeles, Frk 2 (Durzi), 19:28 (pp). IN BUFFALO Semifinal winners, TBA
Sakkari, Greece, 6-4, 6-1. Others receiving votes: Georgia Tech (21-10) 13; Liberty
PHILADELPHIA: Harris 4-9 0-2 10, Thybulle 4-7 0-0 9, SHOOTOUT Connecticut (23-9) vs. New Mexico State (26-6), 6:50 BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL (27-4) 12; Oregon (21-11) 10; Mississippi (23-8) 9;
Embiid 11-20 9-10 34, Harden 6-11 11-12 24, Maxey 7-13 Arkansas (25-8) vs. Vermont (28-5), 9:20 FIRST ROUND Princeton (24-4) 9; South Florida (24-8) 9; Utah (20-11)
3-4 19, Niang 2-12 2-2 8, Milton 1-1 0-0 3, Jordan 1-6 1-2 Los Angeles 2 (Vilardi NG, Kopitar NG, Kempe G, Byfield SATURDAY'S GAMES 6; Gonzaga (26-6) 4; Florida (21-10) 3; South Dakota
NG, Moore G), Florida 1 (Huberdeau NG, Barkov G,
FRIDAY’S GAMES
3, D.Green 0-5 0-0 0. Totals 36-84 26-32 110. IN SAN DIEGO IN RALEIGH, N.C. (27-5) 2; Colorado (22-8) 1; Massachusetts (26-6) 1;
Three-point Goals: Denver 13-33 (Hyland 4-9, Barton 3-6,
AUTO RA CING Reinhart NG, Luostarinen NG, Duclair NG).
Alabama (19-13) vs. Rutgers-Notre Dame winner, 4:15 N.C. State (29-3) vs. Longwood-Mount St. Mary’s South Dakota State (23-9) 1.
Cousins 2-5, Rivers 1-2, Forbes 1-3, Gordon 1-3, Jokic 1-3, SHOTS ON GOAL Texas Tech (25-9) vs. Montana State (27-7), 1:45 winner, TBA
Morris 0-2), Philadelphia 12-33 (Embiid 3-3, Harris 2-4, Washington State (19-10) vs. Kansas State (19-12),
Maxey 2-6, Niang 2-10, Milton 1-1, Thybulle 1-3, Harden NASCAR Cup Series FLORIDA .......................... 11
LOS ANGELES .................... 6
10
13
6
12
5 — 32
6 — 37
IN GREENVILLE, S.C. TBA G OLF
Michigan State (22-12) vs. Davidson (27-6), 9:40
1-4, D.Green 0-2). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Denver 42 SCHEDULE-WINNERS Power-play opportunities: Florida 0 of 2; Los Angeles 1 Duke (28-6) vs. Cal State Fullerton (21-10), 7:10 IN NORMAN, OKLA.
(Jokic 13), Philadelphia 48 (Embiid, Harden 9). Assists: Notre Dame (22-8) vs. Massachusetts (26-6), TBA
Denver 29 (Jokic 8), Philadelphia 25 (Harden 11). Total
Feb. 6: x-Clash at the Coliseum Heat Race 1 (Kyle Busch)
Feb. 6: x-Clash at the Coliseum Heat Race 2 (Tyler
of 4. Goalies: Florida, Knight 10-6-3 (37 shots-35 saves).
Los Angeles, Quick 16-11-7 (32-30). A: 15,822 (18,230). SECOND ROUND Oklahoma (24-8) vs. IUPUI (24-4), TBA PGA Tour
Fouls: Denver 24, Philadelphia 17. A: 21,444 (20,478) T: 2:39. SATURDAY’S GAMES
Reddick) IN BLOOMINGTON, IND. PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Feb. 6: x-Clash at the Coliseum Heat Race 3 (Justin IN PORTLAND, ORE. At TPC Sawgrass; In Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Kentucky (19-11) vs. Princeton (24-4), TBA
Haley) Gonzaga-Georgia State winner vs. Boise State-Mem- Indiana (22-8) vs. Charlotte (22-9), TBA Purse: $20 Million
Hornets 134, Thunder 116 Feb. 6: x-Clash at the Coliseum Heat Race 4 (Joey Lightning 2, Canucks 1 phis winner, TBA
IN HARTFORD, CONN.
Yardage: 7,256; Par: 72
Logano) IN BUFFALO
CHARLOTTE ....................... 29 36 37 32 — 134 Feb. 6: x-Clash at the Coliseum Last Chance Qualifying Late Sunday Arkansas-Vermont winner vs. Connecticut-New Mexico
UCF (25-3) vs. Florida (21-10), TBA FINAL ROUND
OKLAHOMA CITY ............... 41 23 27 25 — 116 Race 1 (Denny Hamlin) Connecticut (25-5) vs. Mercer (23-6), TBA Individual FedEx Cup points in parentheses
TAMPA BAY ............................ 2 0 0 — 2 State winner, TBA
Feb. 6: x-Clash at the Coliseum Last Chance Qualifying VANCOUVER ........................... 0 0 1 — 1 $3,600,000
CHARLOTTE: Bridges 11-15 0-0 27, Washington 3-9 0-0 Race 2, (Ryan Preece) SUNDAY’S GAMES SECOND ROUND
6, Plumlee 2-3 1-3 5, Ball 6-13 4-4 21, Rozier 11-17 4-4 MONDAY'S GAMES Cameron Smith (600) .............. 69 71 69 66 — 275 -13
Feb. 6: Clash at the Coliseum (Joey Logano) FIRST PERIOD IN SAN DIEGO
30, Martin 4-6 2-2 11, McDaniels 1-5 0-0 2, Thor 1-1 0-0 2, Feb. 17: x-Duel 1 at Daytona (Brad Keselowski) Texas Tech-Montana State winner vs. Alabama—Rut- IN RALEIGH, N.C. $2,180,000
Harrell 1-2 3-3 5, Oubre Jr. 4-9 2-5 11, Richards 1-2 0-0 2, Feb. 17: x-Duel 2 at Daytona (Chris Buescher) Scoring: 1, Tampa Bay, Hedman 15 (Bellemare, Maroon), N.C. State—Longwood-Mount St. Mary’s winner vs. Anirban Lahiri (330) ................ 67 73 67 69 — 276 -12
gers-Notre Dame winner, TBA
Thomas 4-10 0-0 12. Totals 49-92 16-21 134. Feb. 20: Daytona 500 (Austin Cindric) 3:26. 2, Tampa Bay, Colton 11 (Perry), 5:06. Washington State-Kansas State winner, TBA $1,380,000
IN GREENVILLE, S.C. Paul Casey (210) ...................... 70 69 69 69 — 277 -11
OKLAHOMA CITY: Bazley 10-18 1-2 25, Mann 4-12 2-2 13, Feb. 27: Wise Power 400 (Kyle Larson) THIRD PERIOD IN NORMAN, OKLA.
March 6: Pennzoil 400 (Alex Bowman) Duke-Cal State Fullerton winner vs. Michigan State-Da-
Sarr 2-5 3-4 7, Gilgeous-Alexander 12-20 5-5 32, Maledon vidson winner, TBA Oklahoma-IUPUI winner vs. Notre Dame-Massachusetts $980,000
2-9 2-2 6, Pokusevski 6-11 3-4 17, Roby 0-0 0-0 0, Krejci March 13: Ruoff Mortgage 500 (Chase Briscoe) Scoring: 3, Vancouver, Miller 24 (Garland, Pearson),
winner, TBA Kevin Kisner (150) ................... 68 74 68 68 — 278 -10
4-7 0-0 12, Waters III 2-8 0-0 4. Totals 42-90 16-19 116. March 20: QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. 5:54.
REGIONAL SEMIFINALS IN BLOOMINGTON, IND. $820,000
March 27: Texas Grand Prix, Austin SHOTS ON GOAL THURSDAY, MARCH 24
Three-point Goals: Charlotte 20-35 (Bridges 5-6, Ball 5-8, April 3: Toyota Owners 400, Richmond Indiana-Charlotte winner vs. Kentucky-Princeton win- Keegan Bradley (120) .............. 72 71 68 68 — 279 -9
Thomas 4-4, Rozier 4-8, Martin 1-1, Oubre Jr. 1-4, TAMPA BAY .......................... 15 11 5 — 31 IN SAN FRANCISCO ner, TBA $675,000
April 9: Maximum Pain Relief 400, Ridgeway, Va.
McDaniels 0-1, Washington 0-3), Oklahoma City 16-44 VANCOUVER ......................... 11 14 11 — 36 Gonzaga-Georgia State—Boise State-Memphis winner Harold Varner III (101) ............ 69 69 72 70 — 280 -8
April 17: Dirt Race, Bristol, Tenn. IN HARTFORD, CONN.
(Krejci 4-6, Bazley 4-9, Mann 3-6, Gilgeous-Alexander 3-7, Power-play opportunities: Tampa Bay 0 of 2; Vancouver vs. Arkansas-Vermont—Connecticut-New Mexico State Russell Knox (101) ................... 71 71 68 70 — 280 -8
April 24: Geico 500, Talladega, Ala. Connecticut-Mercer winner vs. UCF-Florida winner, TBA
Pokusevski 2-5, Sarr 0-1, Maledon 0-4, Waters III 0-6). 0 of 2. Goalies: Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 31-11-4 (36 winner, TBA Doug Ghim (101) ...................... 70 70 68 72 — 280 -8
May 1: Drydene 400, Dover, Del.
Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Charlotte 37 (Plumlee 11), shots-35 saves). Vancouver, Demko 26-17-3 (31-29). A: Duke-Cal State Fullerton—Michigan State-Davidson
May 8: Goodyear 400, Darlington, S.C.
winner vs. Texas Tech-Montana State—Alabama—Rut- REGIONAL SEMIFINALS $525,000
Oklahoma City 49 (Gilgeous-Alexander 8). Assists: Char- May 15: NASCAR Cup Series at Kansas, Kansas City, 18,760 (18,910). T: 2:28.
lotte 33 (Plumlee 8), Oklahoma City 31 (Mann 6). Total gers-Notre Dame winner, TBA FRIDAY, MARCH 25 Sepp Straka (80) ...................... 69 74 71 67 — 281 -7
Kan. IN BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Adam Hadwin (80) ................... 72 72 70 67 — 281 -7
Fouls: Charlotte 17, Oklahoma City 19. A: 15,810 (18,203) May 22: x-NASCAR All-Star Open, Fort Worth REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP N.C. State—Longwood-Mount St. Mary’s—Washington Viktor Hovland (80) ................. 71 73 68 69 — 281 -7
May 22: NASCAR All-Star Race, Fort Worth SATURDAY, MARCH 26 State-Kansas State winner vs. Oklahoma-IUPUI—Notre Dustin Johnson (80) ................ 69 73 76 63 — 281 -7
May 29: Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C.
NHL LEADERS
Semifinal winners, TBA Dame-Massachusetts winner, TBA $327,222
Timberwolves 149, Spurs 139 June 5: NASCAR Cup Series Race at Gateway, Madison, Ill. Entering Monday’s games.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Russell Henley (57) ................. 69 73 72 68 — 282 -6
June 12: Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. GOALS GP G FINAL FOUR
MINNESOTA ...................... 40 35 46 28 — 149 Connecticut-Mercer—UCF-Florida winner vs. Indiana- Taylor Pendrith (57) ................ 68 71 74 69 — 282 -6
June 26: Ally 400, Lebanon, Tenn. IN NEW ORLEANS
SAN ANTONIO ................... 32 41 33 33 — 139 Auston Matthews, Toronto................................. 56 45 Charlotte—Kentucky-Princeton winner, TBA Keith Mitchell (57) .................. 67 72 74 69 — 282 -6
July 3: Kwik Trip 250, Elkhart Lake, Wis. SATURDAY, APRIL 2
Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton.................................... 59 39 Erik van Rooyen (57) ............... 71 67 74 70 — 282 -6
MINNESOTA: Edwards 2-7 0-0 5, McDaniels 4-7 2-2 11, July 10: Quaker State 400, Hampton, Ga. TBD vs. TBD, TBA
July 17: Ambetter 301, Loudon, N.H. Chris Kreider, N.Y. Rangers ................................. 59 38 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Daniel Berger (57) ................... 67 75 70 70 — 282 -6
Towns 19-31 15-16 60, Beverley 5-8 7-8 20, Russell 8-12 Kyle Connor, Winnipeg ........................................ 60 37 TBD vs. TBD, TBA MONDAY, MARCH 28 Max Homa (57) ........................ 72 73 71 66 — 282 -6
0-0 19, Knight 3-7 0-0 6, Prince 5-9 1-2 13, Beasley 0-1 0-0 0, July 24: Explore the Pocono Mountains 350, Long Pond, Pa.
Alex Ovechkin, Washington ................................ 58 36 Semifinal winners, TBA Tyrrell Hatton (57) .................. 70 73 69 70 — 282 -6
Nowell 6-8 3-4 15, Okogie 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 52-90 28-32 149. July 31: Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, Speedway, Ind. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Brendan Steele (57) ................. 73 69 69 71 — 282 -6
Aug. 7: FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich. Alex DeBrincat, Chicago ...................................... 60 34 MONDAY, APRIL 4
SAN ANTONIO: Johnson 13-21 3-4 34, Richardson 1-3 Aug. 14: Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond David Pastrnak, Boston ....................................... 59 33 FINAL FOUR Shane Lowry (57) .................... 73 70 67 72 — 282 -6
Connor McDavid, Edmonton ................................ 58 32 Semifinal winners, TBA IN MINNEAPOLIS
0-0 2, Poeltl 9-12 3-4 21, Murray 10-20 9-10 30, Vassell Aug. 21: Go Bowling at the Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. $201,000
6-12 3-3 17, Collins 2-7 0-0 5, Wieskamp 0-2 0-0 0, Aug. 27: Coke Zero Sugar 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. Matt Duchene, Nashville ..................................... 55 31 FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Joaquin Niemann (43) ............. 67 73 73 70 — 283 -5
Landale 1-2 0-0 3, Jones 1-4 0-0 2, Primo 1-2 1-2 3, Sept. 4: Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. Filip Forsberg, Nashville...................................... 46 31 TBD vs. TBD, TBA Patton Kizzire (43) .................. 68 76 72 67 — 283 -5
Walker IV 8-12 3-3 22. Totals 52-97 22-26 139. Sept. 11: Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota ................................... 57
Gabriel Landeskog, Colorado ............................... 51
30
30
TR AN S AC TI ON S TBD vs. TBD, TBA Tommy Fleetwood (43) ........... 66 73 72 72 — 283 -5
Sept. 17: Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. Kevin Streelman (43) .............. 73 71 66 73 — 283 -5
Three-point Goals: Minnesota 17-33 (Towns 7-11, Bev- Elias Lindholm, Calgary ....................................... 59 30 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Sept. 25: Automotive 500, Fort Worth $143,000
erley 3-4, Russell 3-5, Prince 2-6, Edwards 1-2, McDan-
Oct. 2: YellaWood 500, Talladega, Ala. Jason Robertson, Dallas ...................................... 49 30 SUNDAY, APRIL 3
iels 1-3, Beasley 0-1, Nowell 0-1), San Antonio 13-35 Andrew Mangiapane, Calgary ............................. 59 29 NBA Semifinal winners, TBA
Corey Conners (33) .................. 70 69 75 70 — 284 -4
(Johnson 5-9, Walker IV 3-5, Vassell 2-6, Landale 1-2, Oct. 9: Roval 400, Concord, N.C. Doc Redman (33) ..................... 71 70 72 71 — 284 -4
Oct. 16: South Point 400, Las Vegas Troy Terry, Anaheim ............................................ 57 29 NBA: Fined Brooklyn $50,000 for violating local New
Collins 1-4, Murray 1-5, Jones 0-1, Primo 0-1, Wieskamp York City law and league health and safety protocols Sergio Garcia (33) .................... 71 71 71 71 — 284 -4
Oct. 23: Dixie Vodka 400, Homestead, Fla. Jake Guentzel, Pittsburgh ................................... 54 28 Alex Noren (33) ....................... 69 75 71 69 — 284 -4
0-2). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Minnesota 40 (Towns Mikko Rantanen, Colorado .................................. 57 28 during a March 13 game against New York at the Barclay
17), San Antonio 36 (Johnson 8). Assists: Minnesota 28 Oct. 30: Xfinity 500, Ridgeway, Va. Patrick Reed (33) ..................... 73 70 68 73 — 284 -4
Nov. 6: NASCAR Cup Series Championship, Avondale, Ariz. Dylan Larkin, Detroit ........................................... 54 27 Center.
(Beverley 8), San Antonio 33 (Murray 12). Total Fouls: Portland Trail Blazers: Signed G Kris Dunn to a 10-day Will Zalatoris (33) ................... 69 71 70 74 — 284 -4
x-Non-points race Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay .............................. 58 27 Sam Burns (33) ........................ 68 69 71 76 — 284 -4
Minnesota 20, San Antonio 24. A: 14,143 (18,581) contract.
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Grantor, to Jason A. Pardo and Russell S. Drazin, as Trustees,
for the benefit of Christopher Abod and Harry Roupas, as
Beneficiaries, default having occurred under the terms thereof,
and following the mailing and recordation in the Land Records
of an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and a
Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium
Unit, at the request of the current noteholder, the Trustees will
sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers,
Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC
20015, on
MARCH 22, 2022 AT 11:00 AM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON situated in the City of Washington, District of Colum-
bia, known as 2023-2025 Benning Road, N.E., Washington,
D.C. 20002 (Lot 0101 in Square 4515), and more fully
described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are released by
operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the foreclosure
of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 by cash or
cashier’s check will be required of the purchaser at the time
and place of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days
of sale. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT
TO SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase
price to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest
to be paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of
sale to the date of settlement at the rate of 18% per annum.
Purchaser shall be responsible for payment of all settlement
costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
Grantor, to Jason A. Pardo and Russell S. Drazin, as Trustees,
for the benefit of Christopher Abod and Harry Roupas, as
Beneficiaries, default having occurred under the terms thereof,
and following the mailing and recordation in the Land Records
of an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and a
Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium
Unit, at the request of the current noteholder, the Trustees will
sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers,
Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC
20015, on
MARCH 22, 2022 AT 11:10 AM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON situated in the City of Washington, District of Colum-
bia, known as 2027 Benning Road, N.E., Washington, D.C.
20002 (Lot 0102 in Square 4515), and more fully described in
the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are released by
operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the foreclosure
of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 by cash or
cashier’s check will be required of the purchaser at the time
and place of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days
of sale. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT
TO SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase
price to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest
to be paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of
sale to the date of settlement at the rate of 18% per annum.
Purchaser shall be responsible for payment of all settlement
costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $5,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 354132-1)
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reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustee and all of the expenses deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustee and all of the expenses OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
of this sale (including attorneys’ fees and full commission on the of this sale (including attorneys’ fees and full commission on the 20640 PLUM CREEK CT.
gross sale price) shall be charged against and paid out of the gross sale price) shall be charged against and paid out of the GAITHERSBURG, MD 20882
forfeited deposit. Any remaining balance of the forfeited deposit forfeited deposit. Any remaining balance of the forfeited deposit Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated July 22, 2005,
shall be applied against the outstanding balance of the debt shall be applied against the outstanding balance of the debt recorded in Liber 30478, Folio 263 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
Search our database of tested secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall pay all attorneys' secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall pay all attorneys'
MD, with an original principal balance of $559,920.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
recipes by ingredient or name. fees and costs, and all other damages of any kind or nature, fees and costs, and all other damages of any kind or nature, Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
incurred by Trustee and the secured party, and their respective incurred by Trustee and the secured party, and their respective MD 20850, on
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any such default. Trustee may resell the property at the risk and any such default. Trustee may resell the property at the risk and ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in
the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
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Prince Georges County from any resale of the property. from any resale of the property. subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT If the Trustees do not settle as required herein, purchaser’s sole If the Trustees do not settle as required herein, purchaser’s sole and with no warranty of any kind.
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund of the
deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void and of no
remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund of the
deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void and of no
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $65,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Diane S. Rosenberg Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
Mark D. Meyer
Maurice Obrien effect whatsoever. effect whatsoever. at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
4340 East West Highway, Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
Suite 600 bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
Bethesda, MD 20814
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
Substitute Trustees all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
Plaintiff(s) of bidding. of bidding. public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
v. Jason A. Pardo and Russell S. Drazin, Trustees Jason A. Pardo and Russell S. Drazin, Trustees to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
Queshana C.Long
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
4458 Lord Loudoun Court,
Unit 15-2, paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
Defendant(s) to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
Case No. CAEF19-39205 status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
NOTICE
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Notice is hereby given this 28th MARCH 9, 11, 15, 17, 21, 2022 12375242 MARCH 9, 11, 15, 17, 21, 2022 12375250 Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
day of February, 2022, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George's interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
County, Maryland, that the sale S0115-2x4
of 4458 Lord Loudoun Court, Unit Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
15-2, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
made and reported, will be ratified entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
and confirmed, unless cause to
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makes good convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
or before the 28th day of March,
2022, provided a copy of this notice is convenient. to home delivery. is convenient. ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
be inserted in a daily newspaper
printed in said County, once in
sense. sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
each of three successive weeks BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
before the 28th day of March, 2022. (Matter No. 31508-1)
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850
Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
12805 TOURMALINE CT.
SILVER SPRING, MD 20904
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated September 30, 2005,
recorded in Liber 31166, Folio 252 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $399,625.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 18, 2022 AT 1:12 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in
the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $43,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 134198-1)
PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR
STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 1, 8, 15, 2022 12375718
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
1219 MAPLE GROVE LN.
ROCKVILLE, MD 20850
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated June 17, 2005,
recorded in Liber 30215, Folio 330 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $486,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 18, 2022 AT 1:14 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and described as follows:
Lot Thirty-One (31) in Block lettered N as shown on a plat of re-subdivision entitled
plat sixty-nine King Farm: Irvington Centre and recorded at Plat No 22651 among
the Land Records of Montgomery County. Being the same property described in Liber
22718 at Folio 520. Subject to covenants and conditions on record.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $39,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 163137-1)
PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR
STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 1, 8, 15, 2022 12375719
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
20120 LOCUSTDALE DR., UNIT #342
GERMANTOWN, MD 20876
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated August 17, 2005,
recorded in Liber 30588, Folio 462 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $240,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 18, 2022 AT 1:10 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and described as Unit
342 in "Greenfields of Brandermill Condominium" and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $32,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 142881-3)
PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR
STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 1, 8, 15, 2022 12375717
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Montgomery County
Samuel I. White, P.C.
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
17210 Doctor Bird Road
Sandy Springs, MD 20860
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust to MICHAEL T. GALEONE, Trustee(s), dated
January 31, 2007, and recorded among the Land Records
of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 33792, folio
244, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of
Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by
instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at
the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned
Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50
MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON,
APRIL 4, 2022 at 1:30PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and described
as follows:
LOT NUMBERED SEVENTEEN (17) IN THE SUBDIVISION
KNOWN AS "LOTS 15-21 AND PARCEL 'A ', NORWOOD
OVERLOOK " AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AS PLAT
NO. 22684, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF MONTGOMERY
COUNTY, MARYLAND.
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condi-
tion, construction, extent of construction, workmanship, mate-
rials, liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition,
merchantability, compliance with building or housing codes or
other laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters,
and subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $ 20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 6% per annum from the
date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN
DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments on
all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class
mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by
said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a
Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. If
the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to
convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the
purchaser's only remedy is return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. (79098)
JOHN E. DRISCOLL III, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
www.hwestauctions.com
March 15, 22, 29, 2022 12376883
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
20231 RED BUCKEYE CT.
GERMANTOWN, MD 20876
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Samwel G. Yiapan,
dated April 24, 2006 and recorded in Liber 32239, folio 5 among the Land Records
of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at
the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court
House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
APRIL 1, 2022 AT 4:02 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
situated in Montgomery County, Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid
Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions,
easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if
any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or in such
other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for
$30,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be
paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price
at the rate of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in
the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other
than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within
fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold
at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest
due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes,
water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current
year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Condominium fees
and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from
the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground
rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including
agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be borne by
the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable
title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and
of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute
Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the
property immediately after the sale. (Matter #2013-44244).
Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 15, 22, 29, 2022 12377267
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
18708 FLOWER HILL WAY
GAITHERSBURG, MD 20879
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Saleh Ibrahim
and Sawsan Ibrahim, dated February 28, 2005 and recorded in Liber 29398, folio
611 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred
under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, the
undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
APRIL 1, 2022 AT 4:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
situated in Montgomery County, Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid
Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions,
easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if
any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or in such
other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for
$31,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be
paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price
at the rate of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in
the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other
than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within
fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold
at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest
due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes,
water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current
year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Condominium fees
and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from
the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground
rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including
agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be borne by
the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable
title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and
of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute
Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the
property immediately after the sale. (Matter #15-614484).
Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 15, 22, 29, 2022 12377265
OPQRS
850
Montgomery County 850
Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
14600 BOAT HOUSE WAY
GAITHERSBURG A/R/T/A NORTH POTOMAC, MD 20878
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated July 14, 2003,
recorded in Liber 25259, Folio 357 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $324,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 25, 2022 AT 1:09 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in
the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $25,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 346302-1)
PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR
STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 8, 15, 22, 2022 12376308
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
14901 ATHEY RD.
BURTONSVILLE, MD 20866
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated November 13, 2018,
recorded in Liber 57011, Folio 468 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $432,030.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 25, 2022 AT 1:05 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in
the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $43,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 345366-1)
PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR
STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 8, 15, 22, 2022 12376306
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
3929 BALLET WAY
BURTONSVILLE, MD 20866
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated February 25, 2006,
recorded in Liber 32006, Folio 735 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $205,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 25, 2022 AT 1:07 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in
the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind. The property will be sold subject to a prior mortgage,
the amount to be announced at the time of sale, if made available to the Substitute
Trustees.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $20,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of
all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 88848-1)
PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR
STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
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GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP Samuel I. White, P.C.
201 International Circle, Suite 230
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Hunt Valley, MD 21030 Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS KNOWN AS
1116 Capitol Heights Boulevard 6702 Lake Park Drive #301
Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Greenbelt, MD 20770
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
JULIA A. HARRIS, dated April 15, 2008 and recorded in Deed of Trust to MICHELLE SLATTERY, Trustee(s), dated May
book 29661 , page 122 among the Land Records of PRINCE 30, 2008, and recorded among the Land Records of PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred thereun- GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 29819, folio 531, the
der (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No. CAEF20-07759; Tax holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having
ID No. 18-2092856) the Substitute Trustee will sell at public appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument
auction PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY courthouse located at duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party
14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772. secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer
MARCH 17, 2022 at 10:04 AM for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and more MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
MARCH 24, 2022 at 10:00 AM
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
described as follows:
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 20,000.00 will be required
at the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK UNIT NUMBERED 6702-3C IN BUILDING NUMBERED I,
OR BY CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. PHASE 2, "GREENBELT LAKE VILLAGE CONDOMINIUM,
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten PHASE 2, BUILDING 1", A CONDOMINIUM, AS DEFINED
AND SET FORTH IN A DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM
days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. DATED APRIL, 1997 AND RECORDED AMONG THE LAND
If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and theRECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND IN
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. TheLIBER 11383 AT FOLIO 292, AS AMENDED FROM TIME
purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by first TO TIME. SAID UNIT IS DELINEATED ON THAT CERTAIN
class mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided CONDOMINIUM PLAT ENTITLED "GREENBELT LAKE VILLAGE
by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for CONDOMINIUM, PHASE 2, BUILDING 1", AS RECORDED IN
any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK VJ 180 AT PLATS 55 THROUGH 58,
a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. INCLUSIVE. SAID PROPERTY BEING LOCATED IN THE 21ST
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be ELECTION DISTRICT OF SAID COUNTY. TOGETHER WITH
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but AN UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON
not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise ELEMENTS, COMMON EXPENSES AND COMMON PROFITS OF
therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at THE CONDOMINIUM REGIME AS IS APPURTENANT TO SAID
UNIT ACCORDING TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE PREVIOUSLY
five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date funds are
received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be no abatement ofRECORDED DECLARATION AND BYLAWS AS WELL AS ANY
AND ALL RECORDED AMENDMENTS THERETO.
interest in the event additional funds are tendered at the time of
sale or any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes without either express or implied warranty or representation,
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condi-
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, tion, construction, extent of construction, workmanship, mate-
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's priorrials, liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition,
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,merchantability, compliance with building or housing codes or
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
other laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters,
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, and subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of the purchase price with interest at 5.5% per annum from
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
insurable title for any reason, the Purchaserâs sole remedy in TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, isby purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner
the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 44210.0268) association dues and assessments that may become due after
Eric D. VandeLinde, the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class
mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by
www.hwestauctions.com
MARCH 1, 8 , 15, 2022 12374149 said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a
Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. If
the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to
convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the
purchaser's only remedy is return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. (77306)
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP ROBERT A. JONES et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
1827 Dutch Village Drive www.hwestauctions.com
Landover, MD 20785 March 8,15,22, 2022 12373608
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust
from BEVERLY W. POSTELL, dated March 15, 2007 and
recorded in book 27488 , page 258 among the Land
Records of PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Maryland, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as
Case No. CAEF21-12133; Tax ID No. 13-1457407) the
Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction PRINCE GEORGE'S Samuel I. White, P.C.
COUNTY courthouse located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER Virginia Beach, VA 23452
MARLBORO, MD 20772.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
MARCH 17, 2022 at 10:02 AM
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements KNOWN AS
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and more
fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust. 9504 Fox Run Drive
Clinton, MD 20735
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to MICHAEL LYON, Trustee(s), dated April
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
7, 2015, and recorded among the Land Records of PRINCE
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 15,000.00 will be required GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 36957, folio 589, the
at the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having
OR BY CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for PRINCE
occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party
GEORGE'S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser.
secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer
If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and thefor sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. The
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by first OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
class mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for
any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including MARCH 24, 2022 at 10:00 AM
a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but described as follows:
not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise LOT NUMBERED FORTY-NINE (49), IN BLOCK LETTERED "D",
therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at IS THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS "SECTION TWO PARTS
five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date funds are
OF BLOCKS D, E AND G, FOX RUN ESTATES", AS PER
received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be no abatement ofPLAT THEREOF RECORDED AMONG THE PLAT RECORDS OF
interest in the event additional funds are tendered at the time of
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND, IN PLAT BOOK NLP
sale or any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
97 AT PLAT 9
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's priorparticular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condi-
tion, construction, extent of construction, workmanship, mate-
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,
rials, liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition,
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, merchantability, compliance with building or housing codes or
other laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters,
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association and subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
insurable title for any reason, the Purchaserâs sole remedy in of the purchase price with interest at 3.99% per annum from
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, ison all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 58342.0185) will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner
Eric D. VandeLinde,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
www.hwestauctions.com purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class
MARCH 1, 8 , 15, 2022 12374148 mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by
said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a
Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. If
the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to
convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the
purchaser's only remedy is return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. (74201)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
www.hwestauctions.com
March 8,15,22, 2022 12372805
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851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Samuel I. White, P.C.
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
310 Elmleaf Avenue
Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust to KHECHOK LANGCHUNG, Trustee(s), dated
October 29, 2018, and recorded among the Land Records of
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 41543, folio
173, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of
Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by
instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at the
request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF
THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735
MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MARCH 24, 2022 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOTS NUMBERED NINE (9) AND TEN (10) IN BLOCK LETTERED
(T) IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS "SECTION NO. 2, CARMODY
HILL" AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK
SDH 3 AT PLAT 10 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND.
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condi-
tion, construction, extent of construction, workmanship, mate-
rials, liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition,
merchantability, compliance with building or housing codes or
other laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters,
and subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance of
the purchase price with interest at 5.375% per annum from
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
855 855
Charles County Charles County
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
3050 Dick Simmons Place
Indian Head, MD 20640
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust
from JAMES E. SIMMONS JR. , dated August 3, 2007
and recorded in book 6519 , page 0501 among the
Land Records of CHARLES COUNTY, Maryland, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as
Case No. C08CV21000504; Tax ID No. 10-019869) the
Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction CHARLES COUNTY
courthouse located at 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE
BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA
PLATA, MD 20646 .
MARCH 17, 2022 at 12:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in CHARLES COUNTY, MD and more fully
described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 17,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final
ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for CHARLES COUNTY.
Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the purchaser
defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the property shall
be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. The purchaser
waives personal service and accepts service by first class mail
and certified mail addressed to the address provided by said
Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a
Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property.
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but
not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise
therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date funds are
received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be no abatement of
interest in the event additional funds are tendered at the time of
sale or any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
OPQRS
856 856
Frederick County Frederick County
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
519 ELLISON CT.
FREDERICK, MD 21703
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Carole L. Young, dated
August 13, 2003 and recorded in Liber 4266, folio 579 among the Land Records
of Frederick County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the
request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer
for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House
Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on
MARCH 18, 2022 AT 11:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
situated in Frederick County, Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions,
easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if
any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified check, or in such other
form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for $24,000
at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the
deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within
fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick
County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate
of 5% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office
of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the
noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen
days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at
the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest
due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes,
ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an
annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, and front foot
benefit charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale,
and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The
purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required.
Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including agricultural transfer taxes,
if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser. If the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the
purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and
the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser
shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser
at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after
the sale. (Matter #17-603220).
Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
www.alexcooper.com
March 1, 8, 15, 2022 12375722
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
CLASSIFIED H NOTICES H Trustee Sales—VA H MERCHANDISE
856 856 872
Frederick County Frederick County Fairfax County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
5422 ADAMSTOWN COMMONS DR.
ADAMSTOWN, MD 21710
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated April 27, 2012,
recorded in Liber 8918, Folio 445 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $374,821.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701,
on
MARCH 18, 2022 AT 11:10 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
improvements thereon located in Frederick County, MD and more fully described in
the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $46,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's
check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale.
Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days
of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement
of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public
and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure
sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground
rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if
any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results
from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if
ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND WEAR A COVER OVER
BOTH NOSE AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUCTION.
(Matter No. 189402-3)
PLEASE CONSULT WWW.ALEXCOOPER.COM FOR
STATUS OF UPCOMING SALES
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
Maryland Office:
908 York Road • Towson, MD 21204 • 410.828.4838
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872
Fairfax County
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
6733 Sunset Woods Court, Burke, Virginia 22015
In execution of a certain First Balloon Deed of Trust dated April 18,
2019 (the “Deed of Trust”), granted by SUNSET WOODS HOLDINGS
LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, as grantor and borrower,
securing the repayment of a loan in the original principal amount
of $325,000.00, which Deed of Trust is recorded among the Land
Records of the County of Fairfax, Virginia in Book 25718, Page 1995,
a default having occurred in the payment of that certain Confession
of Judgment Balloon First Deed Of Trust Note dated April 18, 2019
thereby secured and at the request of the holder of said Note, the
undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
the entrance of the Circuit Court building for the County of Fairfax,
Virginia (4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030), on
March 30, 2022, at 12:30 o'clock PM
the Property described in said Deed of Trust, located at the above
address and described as:
The Land referred to herein below is situated in the COUNTY OF
FAIRFAX, Commonwealth of Virginia, and is described as follows:
Lot 17-A, a resubdivision of Lots 1 through 80 and Parcels “F” and “G”,
WOODED GLEN, Section Two (2), as the same appears duly dedicated,
platted and recorded in Deed Book 6253, a Page 1671, among the land
records of the County of Fairfax, Virginia.
Property Address: 6733 Sunset Woods Court
Burke, VA 22015
Tax Map No.: 088-2-25-02-0017-A
Subject to any and all covenants, conditions, restrictions and ease-
ments, if any, affecting the aforesaid Property.
TERMS OF SALE:
A deposit of $25,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is
less, cashier or certified check, will be required at the time of sale.
Settlement shall be by cashier's check or wire transfer of immediately
available federal funds and shall occur within thirty (30) days from
date of sale, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE. The Substitute Trustees
reserve the right in their sole discretion (but are under no obligation)
to extend the date of settlement as may be necessary to complete
arrangements for settlement. The deposit, without interest, shall be
applied to the credit of the successful bidder at settlement. The
balance of the purchase price over and above the retained deposit,
with interest thereon at the note rate then being charged from the
date of sale through the date of receipt of the balance of the purchase
price, will be due at settlement. If the successful bidder fails to
complete settlement as aforesaid, the deposit shall be forfeited, and
the Substitute Trustees may resell the subject Property at the risk
and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The Substitute Trustees reserve
the right to cancel the sale, postpone the sale or remove any or all
portions of the Property from sale at any time before the sale is
announced as final for any reason, to reject any and all bids, waive
deposit requirements, extend time for settlement, and announce
additional terms of sale. Terms of sale announced at the public
auction will supersede all advertised terms of sale. All closing and
settlement costs, including without limitation the preparation of the
Substitute Trustee's deed, settlement and escrow fees and all state,
county and local grantor tax, grantee tax, regional congestion relief
fee, and WMATA capital fee shall be paid by the successful bidder.
In addition, at settlement, the successful bidder shall pay all current
and past due assessments, sewer or water charges, and real estate
taxes, and any penalties and interest due on any of the foregoing, with
respect to the Property, whether covering periods prior to or after the
foreclosure sale. The risk of loss or damage to the Property shall be
assumed by the successful bidder from and after the bid strike-down
at the time of sale. The Substitute Trustees will not deliver possession
of the Property to the successful bidder and the successful bidder
shall be solely responsible for obtaining possession of the Property.
The Property and all personal property applicable thereto shall be sold
"AS IS, WHERE IS, WITH ALL FAULTS" without any warranty whatsoever
express or implied and subject to any and all (i) senior deeds of trust,
judgments, liens, tax liens, lis pendens, and any matters of record
(ii) outstanding homeowner association assessments, (iii) existing
housing and zoning code violations, (iv) filed or unfiled mechanic’s and
materialmen’s liens, and/or (v) tenants, leasehold interests and other
parties in possession, if any.

on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, (301) 961-6555 www.alexcooper.com Neither the Substitute Trustees nor the holder of the Note, nor their
respective agents, successors, and assigns, make any representa-
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE tions or warranties with respect to the Property including, without
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect, OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON March 1, 8, 15, 2022 12375716 limitation, representations or warranties as to the structural integrity,
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner physical condition, construction, workmanship, materials, habitability,
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit 608 GLEN ECHO RD. 872 872
association dues and assessments that may become due after
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, FREDERICK, MD 21703 Fairfax County Fairfax County fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability of all or any
part of the Property. The purchaser recognizes and agrees that any
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated March 26, 2004, Trustee's Sale TRUSTEE’S SALE OF investigation, examination, or inspection of the Property being sold
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, recorded in Liber 4529, Folio 726 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, 7543 Lindberg Drive, is within the control of the owner or other parties in possession and
1524 Lincoln Way,
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association with an original principal balance of $184,200.00, default having occurred under the Alexandria, VA 22306 Mclean, VA 22102 their agents and not within the control of the Substitute Trustees,
the holder of the Note, or their respective successors or assigns.
(Parcel ID: 0924 11 0235)
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
In execution of a Deed of Trust Immediately upon the conveyance by the Substitute Trustees of the
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701,
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the on Default having been made in the in the original principal amount of Property to the purchaser at foreclosure, all duties, liabilities and
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed APRIL 1, 2022 AT 12:40 PM
terms of a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 18, 2006, in the
$227,900.00 dated April 22, 2004
recorded among the land records
obligations of the Substitute Trustees, if any, with respect to such
Property shall be extinguished. Should Settlement not occur for any
purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible original principal amount of of the Circuit Court for Fairfax reason on the part of the Substitute Trustees, the purchaser's sole
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or
mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser improvements thereon located in Frederick County, MD and more fully described in
$540,000.00 and recorded in the
Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court
County on April 23, 2004 as Instru-
ment Number: 2004016036.002,
remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest.
said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date the aforesaid Deed of Trust. of the County of Fairfax, Virginia the undersigned appointed Sub- Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, we advise
Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an "as is" condition and
on August 28, 2006, in Deed Book
18716, at page 1829, the under-
stitute Trustee will offer for sale
at public auction, at the Main
you that this is a communication from a debt collector and any
information obtained will be used for that purpose. Additional terms
Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. If insurable title for any reason, the Purchasers sole remedy in subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, signed Substitute Trustees will entrance of the courthouse for may be announced at the sale.
and with no warranty of any kind. sell at public auction on April 12, the Circuit Court of Fairfax Coun-
the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned 2022 at 10:00 AM, in front of the ty, 4110 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, Substitute Trustees: Jung Kim, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1400
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 in the form of certified check, cashier's building housing the County of VA 22030 on May 3, 2022 at 11:00 Tysons Corner, Virginia 22182 (Tel: 202-900-8595, Email: jkim@offitkur-
convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Fairfax Circuit Court, 4110 Chain AM the property described in said man.com; Alfredo Acin, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1400
purchaser's only remedy is return of the deposit. for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030, deed of trust, located at the above Tysons Corner, Virginia 22182 (Tel: 703-745-1827, Email:
the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 48433.0026) at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the property designated as Lot address and briefly described as: aacin@offitkurman.com).
Trustee's File No. (74276) the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days 235, THE GROVE AT HUNTLEY Condominium Unit No. 1524-304, INTERESTED BIDDERS are encouraged to contact Substitute Trustees
Eric D. VandeLinde, of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement MEADOWS, as the same appears The Fountains at McLean Condo- for additional information and materials concerning the Property;
ROBERT A. JONES, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before duly dedicated, platted, and
recorded in Deed Book 13454,
minium, and the limited common
elements thereto, including lim-
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, all such information and materials will be
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all provided without any representations or warranties whatsoever.
at Page 1926 among the land ited common element parking
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public records of Fairfax County, Vir- space no. G24-61, established by March 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 12376936
and/or private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure ginia. Sale is subject to all prior condominium instruments
sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted liens, easements, restrictions, recorded on August 2, 2002 873
Prince William County MARYLAND
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any covenants, and conditions, if any, among the land records of Fairfax
recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be of record, or other matters which
would be disclosed by an accu-
County, Virginia in Deed Book
13178, at Page 1214 Tax ID: 0293 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF Roommates
paid by Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rate survey or inspection of the 29060304. 3884 WERTZ DR,
rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if Montgomery Village, Gaithersburg -
www.hwestauctions.com premises. TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s WOODBRIDGE, VA 22193 extra large room. Walk in closet,
www.hwestauctions.com any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
March 8,15,22, 2022 12372526 MARCH 1, 8 , 15, 2022 12374318 for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage TERMS: CASH. A deposit of
$54,000.00 or 10% of the sale
deposit of $11,000.00 or 10% of
the sale price, whichever is lower, In execution of a Deed of Trust
very private, 301-538-8589
to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination
price, whichever is lower, will be
required of the successful bidder
will be required in the form of a
certified or cashier’s check. Cash
in the original principal amount
of $374,000.00, with an annual
Time Shares/
of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off at time of sale. Prior to the sale, will not be accepted as a deposit. interest rate of 4.255000% dated Rentals, Sales
the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the interested bidders will be Settlement within fifteen (15) April 23, 2005, recorded among

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Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without required to register with and must days of sale, otherwise Trustee the land records of the Circuit Timeshare Cancellation Experts
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of present a bid deposit which may may forfeit deposit. Additional Court for the COUNTY OF PRINCE Wesley Financial Group, LLC
be held during the sale by the terms to be announced at sale. WILLIAM as Deed Instrument Over $50,000,000 in timeshare debt
court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
snow day Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default
and purchaser shall have no further liability. The defaulted purchaser shall not be
trustee. The bid deposit must be
certified funds and/or cash, but
no more than $9,900.00 of cash
This is a communication from a
debt collector. This notice is an
attempt to collect on a debt and
Number 200504260066115, the
undersigned appointed Substi-
tute Trustee will offer for sale
and fees cancelled in 2019. Get
free informational package and
learn how to get rid of your time-
entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results will be accepted. The successful any information obtained will be
or at public auction all that property

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from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will bidder's deposit will be retained used for that purpose. located in the COUNTY OF PRINCE positive reviews.Call 888-984-2917.
convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if at the sale and applied to the (Trustee # 21-006377) WILLIAM, on the Court House
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school day? ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's
sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. BIDDERS ARE
sale price. If held by the trustee,
all other bid deposits will be Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
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With six teams in the mix, the Big Ten could end its women’s title drought
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
indianapolis — Teri Moren
jumped on the opportunity to
make a point as she sat behind a
giant Big Ten women’s basketball
tournament table skirt with a diz-
zying amount of the league’s logos
plastered behind her. In fact, she
thanked a reporter for setting her
up. The Indiana coach has guided
the Hoosiers for eight seasons
and wanted to talk about respect.
South Carolina, with superstar
coach Dawn Staley and player of
the year favorite Aliyah Boston,
has been the focus of the conver-
sation in the women’s game this
season. Connecticut always No. 4 seed Maryland, No. 6 seed [there’s a] team here in the Big “Our league was so hard this and Ohio State fell at unranked
bathes in attention even as the Ohio State and No. 8 seed Nebras- Ten, and I don’t know who it is, year, so deep,” Northwestern Syracuse.
Huskies counted the days until ka — have a chance to make a deep that could easily win a Final Four. Coach Joe McKeown said. “. . . I Maryland played a difficult
the return of Paige Bueckers. run and maybe even win the con- I love the fact that nationally, I feel like we’re just as deep as the nonconference schedule and beat
Stanford is the reigning national ference’s first national title since think, we are getting some recog- SEC or the ACC or any other Baylor but lost to North Carolina
champion, Kim Mulkey has re-en- Purdue in 1999. nition. It’s not near where we league. . . . We finished seventh; State and Stanford by 18 points
ergized LSU, and player of the “I feel like we are still fighting need it to be, but winning hope- we could have finished fifth, sixth, apiece while shorthanded.
year candidate NaLyssa Smith from a national perspective to get fully will solve a lot of those fourth. . . . [Iowa and Michigan] “I was like, ‘Oh boy, I did not see
has kept Baylor in the top 10 for the respect that this league de- issues.” we beat, and that in itself should that coming like that,’ ” analyst
most of the season. serves,” Moren said. “But from top This season has produced the separate you on your résumé.” Christy Winters Scott said. “But I
But outside of the national love to bottom, if you look at our top deepest rosters Moren has seen The conference had an early think even with the teams drop-
for Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, the Big seven, eight, nine — I mean, really, during her time in Bloomington. opportunity to earn more nation- ping some games early on, now
Ten continues to fly under the really great teams, with great The pandemic assisted some al attention but went 4-10 in the everyone is fully healthy. . . . With
radar. coaches, great players. And night schools — players were able to ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Michigan so many teams returning so many
Six Big Ten teams are in the in and night out . . . we just con- take an extra year, and many and Indiana lost to Louisville and core players and everyone came
NCAA tournament field, and all tinue to beat up on each other. teams brought back intact rosters North Carolina State in matchups back because, ‘Hey, we have un-
six — No. 2 seed Iowa, No. 3 seed “This is a special year for the after four Big Ten squads ad- of ranked teams. Iowa was upset finished business’ — okay, let’s see
Michigan, No. 3 seed Indiana, Big Ten. . . . I really feel like vanced to last season’s Sweet 16. by unranked Duke on the road, who is going to finish.”

GOLF Then he was inches away from

getting relief from a sprinkler

Better late than never, head near the green and had to
scramble for par. Smith punched
out to the fairway and matched

Smith is Players champ the par.

BY D OUG F ERGUSON
ponte vedra beach, fla. —
Cameron Smith made the longest
week at the Players Champion-
ship worth the wait.
In a dynamic conclusion to five
days of bad weather and high
drama, Smith one-putted eight of
his last nine holes with his pure
stroke and delivered one of the
gutsiest shots of his career for the
cushion he needed to win.
Leading by two on the par-3
17th hole, 135 yards to the hole on
an island green, Smith split the
difference in the 12 feet that sepa-
rated the flag from the water. The
ball ended up four feet away, and
the Australian made his record-
tying 10th birdie of the round.
Turns out he needed it. Smith
punched out from the pine straw
right of the 18th fairway all the
way into the water. After a penalty
drop, his 60-yard wedge spun
next to the hole to three feet for a
bogey and a 6-under-par 66, giv-
ing him a one-shot victory over
Anirban Lahiri of India.
Lahiri, who started the final
round with a one-shot lead, had a
birdie on the 17th and needed one
more to force a playoff. He came
up short of the green, and his
pitch was below the cup all the
way. He closed with a 69.
Paul Casey shot 69 and was the
They headed to the 17th, where
Smith’s 9-iron was bolder than he
wanted.
victim of a horrible break on the “I’d be lying if I didn’t push it a
16th hole when he was in position little bit,” he said.
to edge closer to the lead. No matter. He got the birdie,
Smith, who finished at 13-un- got the win and moved to No. 6 in
der 275, won for the second time the world.
this year and the fifth time in his So concluded a week like no
PGA Tour career, picking up other at TPC Sawgrass, where so
$3.6 million from the $20 million much rain early in the week
purse, the richest in golf. meant the first round lasted
This was about more than 54 hours 16 minutes, finishing
money, more than the three-year Saturday morning. The wind that
exemption he earned to the four followed wreaked havoc on half
majors and a five-year exemption the field.
on the PGA Tour. The bone-chilling tempera-
This was as much about family. tures Sunday made it tough on
Smith, so unflappable in the tense everyone. It was the first Monday
pressure that featured 26 holes finish since 2005 at the Players.
Monday, choked up when he Smith made it memorable for
talked about his mother and sis- so many other reasons.
ter, whom he had not seen in Kevin Kisner birdied three of
more than two years because of his last four holes for a 68 to finish
travel restrictions Down Under alone in fourth. Kisner is famous
during the pandemic. for once saying 20th place pays
Smith makes his home about pretty good. So does fourth place
five miles down the road in Ponte at the tour’s premier event. He
Vedra Beach, and he happily went SAM GREENWOOD/GETTY IMAGES earned $980,000.
to the airport last week for a Australia’s Cameron Smith earned his second victory on the PGA Tour this year, worth $3.6 million. Keegan Bradley was among
special reunion. four players who had a chance
They watched him capture the tee shot into a palmetto bush on That’s definitely a monkey I want Smith when he looked to have a over the last hour. He was one
biggest prize in golf next to the the par-3 eighth, forcing him to to get off my back,” Lahiri said. big advantage on the par-5 16th. shot behind after a birdie on the
majors. take a drop near the concession “Today was as good an opportu- Smith duck-hooked his tee shot 16th, only to three-putt the 17th
“It’s really cool to have them area that led to double bogey. It nity as any. I gave it a good go. into the pines. Casey drilled his from the front of the green to a
here,” Smith said. “My main prior- was the only shot he dropped all Made some mistakes today that I drive down the middle. But the back pin, and then took double
ity was to hang out with them. day, and his best finish on the could have avoided, but that’s ball took one last roll in the bogey on the 18th when his punch
Golf was second. It’s nice to see PGA Tour came with a $2.18 mil- golf.” rain-soaked fairway, right into shot from the trees came out hot
them and nice to get a win for lion consolation prize. Casey, meanwhile, was the vic- another player’s pitch mark. and ended up in the water. He
them.” “I’ve been here seven years; tim of bad luck. He was two shots Instead of a mid-iron into the shot 68 and finished fifth.
Lahiri’s only big mistake was a haven’t gotten over the line yet. behind and in the same group as par 5, he had to punch it out short. — Associated Press

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Two hard years later,

young people look past pandemic
BY M AX S TRICKBERGER AND A LAN J INICH

I
n 2021, as the pandemic showed no signs of abating, young people
across the country were dealing with isolation and altered dreams,
and were trying figure out what their futures would be like. We were
among them — two college students who wanted to see how our
generation was coping. For six months, we crisscrossed 23 states and
interviewed more than 80 young people suspended in that transitional time
between adolescence and adulthood. Some returned to the homes they
spent their childhood hoping to escape. Others moved across the country
when their jobs turned remote. Each reshaped parts of themselves: a Navajo
man became estranged from his lifelong pastor over alt-right politics; a
cattle sorter on the U.S.-Mexico border struggled to make time for his
newborn daughter; a lonely New Orleans waitress found a community
through online gaming; a new teacher in South Dallas scrambled to provide
support for her second-grade students. Yet, like us, they hung on to hopes
for a future free of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. We asked
members of this “Generation Pandemic” to respond to the open-ended
statement “After the pandemic, I want to . . . ” Here is how they responded in
their own writing:

When Grant Williams at age 19 began studying film at New York University in 2020,
university restrictions made socializing almost impossible. He spent hours walking the
city alone, averaging 30,000 steps a day. He developed severe anxiety, lost 20 pounds
and eventually transferred to a university near his family in Dalton, Ga. Nearly two
years later, he still thinks about his time in New York every day: “It’s a form of PTSD.”
Inspired by the therapist who cared for him, he now studies biology and hopes to
become a heart surgeon.

Couvisa Washington, 26, once made hundreds of dollars a week playing drums on a
plastic bucket on a highway exit ramp in Chicago. His income evaporated when the
pandemic kept tourists away and local traffic home. “You couldn’t see nobody outside.”
Sometimes he would play for the whole day only to make $15. Performing was a way for
him to keep busy and stay safe, however. Originally from the Englewood neighborhood
in Chicago, many of his friends have died of gun violence in the past two years.

Jamie Galicia and her boyfriend, AJ, met on the first day of school at Central Wyoming
College in 2019. They started dating until the school sent people home because of the
pandemic in March 2020 — AJ to an apartment in Colorado without WiFi and Jamie to
her family home in Idaho. They drifted apart. Months later, AJ released a song on
YouTube about Jamie. They began talking again. When Jamie got covid-19, they would
fall asleep on FaceTime. Eventually, AJ found a job near Jamie and they’ve shared a home
with Jamie’s family since then. “Sometimes I wonder if covid never happened, would we
still be together?” Jamie says. SEE PANDEMIC ON E5
PHOTOS BY ALAN JINICH; CARDS BY GENERATION PANDEMIC

INSIDE
Talking about dying can help us confront our fears, say goodbye to loved ones. E4 | “Papa pals” help older people feel less socially isolated and aid with errands, chores. E6
As places drop mask rules, here are questions to ask about indoor air quality. E6 | Reducing salt is important for health. There are ways to cut sodium from our diets. E3
E2 EZ EE THE WASHINGTON POST . TUESDAY, MARCH 15 , 2022

Tracking funnel-web spider’s behavior S C I E N C E N E WS

Oldest known fossil ancestor of octopuses is

Most studies have been
about their venom.
Caitlin Creak wants to
learn about their lives.
BY J ILL G RALOW
Some Sydney funnel-web spi-
ders are scrambling into the Aus-
tralian brush carrying special car-
go: a telemetry tracker to study
how far a mature male can travel
at night and whether their move-
ments are affected by the environ-
ment and weather.
Caitlin Creak, a doctoral candi-
date at the School of Biological,
Earth and Environmental Scienc-
es of the University of New South
Wales, has been tracking the male
Sydney funnel-web, one of the
world’s deadliest spiders, for two
summers. The nocturnal arach-
nid lives within about 62 miles of
Australia’s largest city, and is
mostly active between November
and April.
Having grown up in Australia’s
bushland, the 27-year-old is no
stranger to spiders, but her love
for them grew after she learned
about them during her biology
degree, and interacted with the
creatures she thinks are wonder-
ful.
Most studies on the Sydney
funnel-web spider are about its
venom and taxonomy, but Creak’s
study focuses on its behavior and
ecology.
“The Sydney funnel-web has a
human-lethal venom, which is
just a bit of an evolutionary coin-
cidence, as we suspect at this
stage,” she said. “That’s kind of all
we know about them, to be hon-
est. We don’t actually really know
anything else in terms of their
behavior, their biology or their
ecology.”
To be able to attach the tracker,
the spider must first be knocked
out with carbon dioxide, a stan-
dard practice for sedating inver-
tebrates, Creak said.
As the spider dozes for a couple
of minutes on a wet sponge that
Caitlin Creak, a doctoral candidate at the University of New South Wales, uses an antenna to search
for a male Sydney funnel-web spider. BELOW: A spider with an attached telemetry tracker.
Creak is cautious when han-
PHOTOS BY JILL GRALOW/REUTERS
far he’s gone overnight,” Creak
said. “Once they’re used to having
a tracker on, they’re off. They can
go, God, anywhere between a
meter to 60 meters [3 feet to 197
feet] in a night, that I’ve record-
ed.”
It is no easy task to track the
arachnids. With a receiver and
antenna, Creak must tread care-
fully over vegetation, logs and leaf
litter. The telemetry tracker on
the spider sends beeps to the
receiver as Creaks gets close.
Australia has many species of
funnel-webs but only the male
Sydney funnel-web is responsible
for human deaths. Only 13 deaths
have been recorded but more
than 30 people are bitten by the
spider each year, according to the
Australian Museum.
tracks the spider daily for as long “We’re with them all the time,
found in Montana, lived before dinosaur era
BY C HRISTINA L ARSON
Scientists have found the old-
est known ancestor of octopuses
— an approximately 330 million-
year-old fossil unearthed in Mon-
tana.
The researchers concluded the
ancient creature lived millions of
years earlier than previously be-
lieved, meaning that octopuses
originated before the era of dino-
saurs.
The 4.7-inch fossil has 10 limbs
— modern octopuses have eight
— each with two rows of suckers.
It probably lived in a shallow,
tropical ocean bay.
“It’s very rare to find soft tissue
fossils, except in a few places,”
said Mike Vecchione, a Smithso-
nian National Museum of Natural
History zoologist who was not
involved in the study. “This is a
very exciting finding. It pushes
back the ancestry much farther
than previously known.”
The specimen was discovered
in Montana’s Bear Gulch lime-
stone formation and donated to
the Royal Ontario Museum in
Canada in 1988.
For decades, the fossil sat over-
looked in a drawer while scien-
tists studied fossil sharks and
other finds from the site. But then
paleontologists noticed the 10
tiny limbs encased in limestone.
The well-preserved fossil also
“shows some evidence of an ink
sac,” probably used to squirt out a
dark liquid cloak to help to evade
predators, just like modern octo-
puses, said Christopher Whalen,
an American Museum of Natural
History paleontologist and
co-author of the study published
last week in the journal Nature
Communications.
The creature, a vampyropod,
probably was the ancestor of both
modern octopuses and vampire
squid, a confusingly named ma-
rine critter that’s much closer to
an octopus than a squid.
Previously, the “oldest known
definitive” vampyropod was from
around 240 million years ago, the
authors said.
The scientists named the fossil
Syllipsimopodi bideni, after Pres-
ident Biden.
Whether having an ancient oc-
topus — or vampire squid —
bearing your name is actually a
compliment, the scientists say
they intended admiration for the
president’s science and research
priorities.
— Associated Press
BERND KAMMERER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

keeps it hydrated, Creak places a
second sponge around its head to
safely glue the small tracking
device, slightly bigger than a
grain of rice, to its fused head and
thorax, called the cephalothorax.
dling the spider, never touching
them with her hands. Instead, she
uses foot-long forceps and when
awake, the spider is kept in a thick
plastic container.
Weather permitting, Creak
as the trackers stay functional.
They can sometimes become dis-
lodged, and the tiny batteries last
about a month.
“In the morning, I’ll come
back, and I’ll be able to see how
we might as well try and coexist An octopus at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany. Researchers say a
and to do that, we need to know fossil indicates that the ancestors of octopuses existed much earlier
more about them,” Creak said of than believed — approximately 330 million years ago.
spiders during a recent tracking
expedition.
— Reuters

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BY T IK R OOT
Thomas Edison’s incandescent
lightbulb has endured for more
than a century. But when their
characteristic wire filaments
glow, much of the electricity they
draw escapes as heat — a process
that, while once a technological
marvel, makes them modern-day
energy hogs.
Sales of incandescents have
been falling in recent years and
now make up fewer than half of
all sales. The Biden administra-
tion recently announced renewed
efforts to effectively phase them
out entirely in favor of more
efficient lighting technology that
saves electricity, lowers utility
bills and avoids planet-warming
emissions.
Switching to more efficient
lightbulbs is a “great first step” in
reducing a home’s energy use,
said Larry Zarker, chief executive
of the Building Performance In-
stitute. But with a plethora of
options, shopping for the best
replacement bulb can be confus-
ing. So, we turned to experts for
tips on finding the right fit.
The universal vote for the most
climate-friendly household light-
ing was LED (light-emitting di-
ode) bulbs, which consume far
less electricity than their pred-
ecessors. Where an incandescent
would use 60 watts, for example,
an equivalent LED uses closer to
about 8 watts.
“The best place to start for
somebody shopping is to look for
something like Energy Star la-
bels, which have gone through
some testing,” said Nadarajah Na-
rendran, the director of research
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti-
tute’s Lighting Research Center.
Energy Star is the Energy Depart-
ment and Environmental Protec-
tion Agency program that desig-
nates products as meeting certain
efficiency standards, and the blue
label should be on the packaging.
A 2017 price survey from the
nonprofit group Consumer Fed-
eration of America (CFA) found
that a house with 20 lightbulbs
could save about $1,000 per dec-
A man replaces a compact-fluorescent bulb with an LED one, which
consumes far less electricity than an incandescent lightbulb.
Zarker said, changing lightbulbs
is something renters can also do
to lower their utility bills.
In addition to Energy Star, the
government has tried more direct
measures to encourage the move
away from incandescents. On
President Barack Obama’s last
day in office, for instance, the
Energy Department issued stan-
dards that would have effectively
phased out incandescent bulbs by
2020. But President Donald
Trump’s administration reversed
that move. President Biden is
aiming to reinstate the measure.
The Appliance Standards
Awareness Project estimated that
there are still a billion sockets in
the United States using incandes-
cent bulbs. Implementing the
higher standards, it found, would
result in $20 billion in savings for
consumers and a reduction of 50
million metric tons of carbon
dioxide emissions by 2030. That’s
the equivalent of taking about 10
million cars off the road for a
year.
Politics aside, the price of LEDs
has dropped dramatically in re-
cent years, and they are now
available for a couple bucks per
bulb or less, essentially the same
price as incandescents. And ac-
cording to data that utilities sub-
ISTOCK
ing California) were LED in 2020
— that’s up from about half just
two years earlier.
“Ten years ago, this product
was not purchasable on the mar-
ket, and now they’re available
everywhere,” Zarker said. “It’s
very exciting.”
But not all Energy Star LED
lightbulbs are the same; there are
other factors to consider, as well.
Some of the choices are fairly
intuitive. “If you have a dimmable
switch, you certainly want the
bulb that works with dimmable,”
Zarker said. But other variables
can be more complex, such as the
color tones that the bulb emits.
Early iterations of efficient
lights, such as compact fluores-
cents, developed a reputation as
bright, harsh and ultimately off-
putting to consumers. Because
LEDs come in various shades,
said Steven DenBaars, an LED
expert at the University of Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara, custom-
ers “need to understand what
color temperature they want.”
“Soft” or “warm” are the closest
to traditional incandescent bulbs,
he said. The package may also list
the bulb color in a unit of temper-
ature measurement known as
Kelvin, and “soft” or “warm”
would translate to about 2,500 to
for comparison, are about 4,000
to 6,500 Kelvin.
Another metric is the color
rendering index (CRI), which is a
measure of how much a lightbulb
affects the color of objects it
shines on. Both sunlight and in-
candescent bulbs have a maxi-
mum CRI of 100, and serve as
benchmarks for how items ap-
pear under those light sources.
This is what LED makers are
striving for, said DenBaars, so he
suggested looking for high-CRI
bulbs, which are becoming more
common.
DenBaars said LEDs have im-
proved in other ways, too. Some
now come with features that shift
the color and brightness of a bulb
throughout the day or at preset
times. There are also “filament”
LED bulbs, where the diodes are
arranged to look like the fila-
ments in an incandescent bulb.
“You almost think it’s an incan-
descent,” DenBaars said.
Nonetheless, there are pitfalls
to watch out for even with LEDs.
DenBaars said that installing
efficient bulbs can sometimes
lead to complacency, in which
people are less attentive to turn-
ing off lights that aren’t in use.
“The other problem is that
people put in more lights,” he
said. In either case, it can eat into
the savings that LEDs offer.
Narendran highlighted a less-
er-known issue: overheating.
When LEDs aren’t ventilated
properly, he said, the buildup of
heat can cause their life span to
fall far short of the 10 to 15 years
often advertised.
“The heat has no place to go,
and that will affect the lightbulb
longevity,” he said. Particularly
heat-prone situations to look out
for include fixtures with multiple
bulbs, as well as LEDs that are
installed with a closed covering.
But Narendran said moving to
LEDs makes nearly universal
sense, and switching from incan-
descent lights can pay back in
lower electricity costs in a matter
of months.
“The market transformation is
already a done deal,” he said.
other sounds are associated with their emotions
BY E RIN B LAKEMORE
Pigs are noisy creatures, from
their contented oinks to their
terrified squeals.
But could those sounds contain
clues to their emotions and wel-
fare?
An international team of re-
searchers say so. For a study in
Scientific Reports, they created
an algorithm to analyze thou-
sands of pig sounds — and say it’s
a tool that could one day be used
by farmers.
If you’re wondering whether
animals have emotions at all,
you’re not alone. For centuries,
researchers have been trying to
determine if and how animals
experience feelings. In this case,
the researchers looked at pigs’
emotional arousal — heightened
activity associated with pleasant
and unpleasant stimuli.
The scientists used a data set of
over 7,000 vocalizations made
across the life span of 411 pigs on
commercial farms and in a vari-
ety of experimental scenarios.
They assigned positive or nega-
tive emotions to different situa-
tions; for example, a fight or
imminent slaughter was catego-
rized as “negative” and suckling
was categorizes as “positive.”
To tease out other pig sounds,
the researchers put pigs in a
variety of situations: They intro-
duced them to new objects, for
Classification of pig calls
produced from birth to slaughter
according to their emotional
valence and context of
production
Scientific Reports
examples, or isolated them from
the other pigs.
They analyzed the data with
the help of an algorithm. It re-
vealed that short sounds without
much fluctuation in volume —
usually ones that go from a high
to a lower frequency — are associ-
ated with positive emotions. Neg-
ative ones are associated with
longer squeals and vocalizations
at higher frequencies. Pigs made
low-frequency grunts in both sit-
uations, however.
What’s the point of listening to
pigs? Animal welfare, say the re-
searchers. Understanding the
sounds pigs make when they’re
stressed is “an important step
toward improved animal welfare
for livestock,” Elodie Briefer, an
associate professor at the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen’s biology de-
partment who co-led the study,
said in a news release.
The researchers say the algo-
rithm could be used to better
understand other animals — and
could be developed into an app
for farmers who want to improve
their animals’ lives.
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ade by switching from incandes- mitted to the Energy Depart- 2,700 Kelvin. The higher the “There is definitely no reason Researchers created an algorithm to analyze thousands of pig
cent to LEDs. And unlike some ment, about 69 percent of bulbs numbers, the more blue the light. why people should not go to sounds — and say it’s a tool that could one day be used by farmers.
energy-efficiency improvements, sold in the United States (exclud- “Cool” white fluorescent lights, LEDs.”

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Cutting back on the salt you consume

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The more fit you are, the less likely you
may be to develop Alzheimer’s disease
— with those who are the most fit
having a 33 percent lower risk for this
dementia than the least fit, according BY S HARON L IAO

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to a report to be presented to the
American Academy of Neurology at its ou probably already
percent lower risk annual meeting next month. D.C.- know that you should
based researchers, from the keep an eye on your
Washington VA Medical Center and George Washington University, daily sodium intake,
tested and tracked 649,605 veterans (average age 61) for nearly a especially if you have
decade. Based on their cardiorespiratory fitness, participants were high blood pressure. But the
divided into five categories, from lowest to highest fitness level. The health risks of getting too much
researchers found that, as fitness improved, people’s chances of of the salty stuff are back in the
developing the ailment decreased. Compared with the least-fit group, spotlight. The Food and Drug
those slightly more fit had a 13 percent lower risk for Alzheimer’s; the Administration recently issued
middle group was 20 percent less likely to develop the disease; the guidelines encouraging manufac-
next higher group was 26 percent less likely; with the odds reaching a turers to scale back the amount of
33 percent lower risk for those in the most-fit group. Alzheimer’s is sodium they use in packaged and
the most common type of dementia. It is a progressive brain disorder restaurant foods.
that, over time, destroys memory and thinking skills and interferes While this guidance is volun-
with the ability to carry out daily tasks. About 6 million Americans 65 tary, its goal is to reduce the
and older have Alzheimer’s. There are no proven ways to cure the average daily sodium intake by
disease. Researchers say, however, that increasing physical activity is about 12 percent — from the
a promising way to possibly reduce risk for the ailment. Numerous 3,400 mg that people in the
studies have found that regular physical activity can benefit the brain, United States typically get to
and the Alzheimer’s Association describes it as one of the best things 3,000 mg — over the next
people can do to decrease their chances of developing dementia. 212 years. While that’s still more
than the recommended threshold
— Linda Searing of 2,300 mg, it’s a step in the right
direction, says Anne Thorndike,
an associate professor of medi-
cine at the Harvard Medical
H EAL T H S CAN School and volunteer chair of the
American Heart Association’s
Nutrition Committee.
MEDICAL SEGREGATION Much of the sodium that peo-
ple take in — over 70 percent — ISTOCK
Researchers seek help uncovering the stories comes from packaged and pro- Fresh baked sourdough bread. Unlike packaged foods, you can lower the amount of salt in your recipes.
behind first TB sanitarium for Black patients cessed foods and restaurant
meals. So if many companies
BY E RIN B LAKEMORE Piedmont Tuberculosis follow these guidelines, it could intake. hypertension or a history of dium to food you might not
sanitarium have a significant effect on heart • Take a tally. “Write down stroke, half used a substitute expect it to be in to enhance
In the 19th and early 20th Virginia Tech and the University of health, Thorndike says. how much sodium you’re getting made from 75 percent salt and flavors and textures, and act as a
centuries, tuberculosis patients from foods throughout the day,” 25 percent potassium chloride. preservative. “The sodium in pro-
Central Florida Issues with salt
sought refuge in sanitariums. Zumpano suggests. This allows After about five years, those who cessed and packaged foods can
But in states with Jim Crow Despite what you may have you to spot the top culprits and cooked and seasoned with the really add up throughout the
segregation laws, those places of They were assisted by a unique heard about sodium getting an choose where to cut back. You substitute were 13 to 14 percent day,” Thorndike says. A slice of
respite weren’t out of racism’s set of nurses — Black women unfair shake, a majority of evi- might decide, for instance, that less likely to have a heart attack bread, for instance, can have 240
reach. pursuing advanced training at dence shows that cutting back you can’t sacrifice salting your or stroke compared with those mg or about 10 percent of the
An ongoing research project is Piedmont. As they honed their protects your health. eggs but you’re okay snacking on who used salt. As for taste, check recommended daily sodium in-
uncovering the stories of the na- skills, these nurses grappled with That’s because eating too much unsalted almonds (0 mg of sodi- out the results of a blind taste test take. Certain cereals deliver more
tion’s first sanitarium for Black inequity, “eugenicist policies, and can increase blood volume, ele- um per ounce) instead of pretzels of six popular salt substitutes by a than 300 mg in a serving, and
patients — and is looking for the paternalistic assumptions,” the vating blood pressure and forcing (about 350 mg of sodium per Consumer Reports panel of sen- pasta sauces contain upward of
public’s help. researchers write for Nursing your heart to work harder, says ounce) or opting for reduced-so- sory experts. 500 mg per half-cup. When gro-
Built in 1918, the Piedmont Clio, a peer-reviewed blog project Julia Zumpano of the Cleveland dium soy sauce. • Skip salt as you cook. Salt cery shopping, check labels to see
sanitarium in Burkeville, Va., was on the history of gender and Clinic’s Center for Human Nutri- • Train your taste buds. Ac- gets incorporated into the food, how much sodium an item is
the first facility of its kind in the medicine. tion. That raises the risk for cording to the FDA, people typi- which means you might not taste packing.
nation. It served tuberculosis pa- In the mid 1960s, the state shut stroke and heart disease. cally don’t notice small reduc- it that much in the final product, • Decode claims. “Light in
tients barred by law from TB down the sanitarium. A state-run A study published in 2014 from tions — about 10 percent — in Ross says. Instead, sprinkle it on sodium” means a product has at
facilities that served White peo- geriatric hospital is now on the Tufts University in Boston sodium. Sprinkle a little less salt right before serving. When you least 50 percent less than its
ple. Over 12,000 patients were site. showed that 1 in 10 cardiovascu- onto every meal, and gradually add it at the end, the crystals rest original or a competing one,
treated at the state-sponsored Today, tuberculosis rates have lar-related deaths worldwide is lower that amount even more. on top of the food. The salt hits while “reduced sodium” means it
sanitarium. fallen dramatically, and in 2020 because at least in part of a Over time, your tastes and prefer- your tongue, so you’re better able has at least 25 percent less. But
Researchers at Virginia Tech there were just 8,916 reported high-sodium diet. And according ences can change, so you won’t to taste it — and won’t need as even with the reduction, the sodi-
and the University of Central cases in the United States. to a study of more than 10,000 need as much salt to feel satisfied, much. um content can still be high,
Florida are delving into Pied- Inequality still casts its shadow people published in 2021 in the Ross says. • Perk up food with spices, Zumpano says. Better options:
mont’s four-decade history and over TB. According to the Centers New England Journal of Medi- • Upgrade your salt. Ounce for herbs and aromatics. They add Low sodium (140 mg or less per
uncovering stories of patients for Disease Control and Preven- cine, every 1,000 mg of sodium ounce, table, kosher and sea salt flavor and disease-fighting anti- serving), very low sodium (35 mg
and the nurses who treated them. tion, 89 percent of all new cases excreted in urine (which repre- have about the same sodium oxidants with little sodium, or less), sodium-free (less than
Health disparities were a fact occur among racial and ethnic sents intake) increases cardiovas- count. But the last two often have Zumpano says. According to re- 5 mg) and no salt added (no salt,
of life for Black Virginians, and minority groups. In 2020, 3.4 cular disease risk by 18 percent. larger crystals that take up more search published in 2015 in the but not necessarily a low-sodium
tuberculosis was no different. percent of new patients were volume on a measuring spoon, so American Journal of Clinical Nu- food).
State figures from 1920 show that Black, compared with 0.4 percent Shake it off you wind up getting less sodium trition, people who cooked with
Black people died of tuberculosis of White patients. That said, finding a balance in recipes. Another smart move: herbs and spices significantly re-
nearly twice as often as their The historians are in search of between less salt and tasty food Use a salt shaker with smaller duced their daily sodium intake.
White counterparts. more information. They’re asking can be tricky. Salt has a unique holes. That slows the flow so Experiment with garlic, onion, Consumer Reports is an
In an age before antibiotics, people to contribute details about taste that’s hard to mimic, says you’ll use less salt overall, Ross fresh and dried herbs, and sea- independent, nonprofit organization
treatment options were limited. nurses, patients and associated Carolyn F. Ross, a professor of says. soning blends. “In recipes, you that works side by side with
Sanitariums were a way to isolate community members at their food science at Washington State • Swap in salt substitutes. can replace a half or full teaspoon consumers to create a fairer, safer,
patients and reduce community website. University in Pullman. These products add either salti- of salt with an herb blend,” Ross and healthier world. CR does not
spread. What’s more, sodium is found ness or enough of a savory flavor says. An acid, such as lemon juice endorse products or services, and
Black patients who “took the Do you know anything about a past in foods where you might not called umami so you don’t miss or vinegar, can also brighten the does not accept advertising. CR has
cure” at Piedmont were put on a Piedmont resident? Visit bit.ly/ expect it, such as cereal and the salt. In a 2021 New England flavor of a dish. no financial relationship with
medically supervised regimen of PiedmontTB to learn more about the bread. These expert tips can help Journal of Medicine study of • Spot hidden sodium advertisers in this publication. Read
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Why ‘trauma-informed’ care spread
to yoga classes and tattoo parlors
BY E MILY M C C RARY- R UIZ-
E SPARZA
For years, psychiatrists, psy-
chologists, social workers and
mental health counselors have
practiced trauma-informed care,
an approach that acknowledges
that people have traumatic ex-
periences and that those experi-
ences can affect their behavior
and understanding of the world.
The goal of trauma-informed
care is to offer more effective
therapy by acknowledging trau-
ma, recognizing the signs of trau-
ma, responding to those signs
and avoiding re-traumatizing the
patient.
Now, professionals and service
providers of all kinds outside the
mental health field are adopting a
trauma-informed mind-set. Law-
yers, yoga teachers, photogra-
phers, career coaches and tattoo
artists are educating themselves
about the effects of trauma, ap-
proaching their work with this
new knowledge in mind and la-
beling their businesses “trauma-
informed.”
Although mental health pro-
fessionals take coursework from
and receive certification by aca-
demic and professional organiza-
tions that specialize in trauma-in-
formed training, those outside
the field seldom have access to
similar instruction. There’s no
consensus on how to vet profes-
sionals outside of the mental
PERSPECTIVE
Although it was terrifying for me, I learned to talk about death and dying
BY S TEVEN P ETROW
A serious illness is many things
— terrifying, painful, life-alter-
ing. The prospect of losing a loved
one, or your own life, becomes an
unspeakable agony. It’s also iso-
lating in a way I never could have
imagined. I’ve been the one in
that sickbed, and I’ve also done
some time sitting beside it. I
wouldn’t wish either experience
on anyone.
Lately, however, I’ve been
thinking about what memoirist
Meghan O’Rourke has called “the
long goodbye” and trying to focus
on the one gift it does give us: the
gift of time. Time to plan, but
mostly time to unearth and proc-
ess our feelings. And then, if we’re
fortunate, to be able to share
these deep-seated fears with
those we love.
This is not easy. When my
mother learned she had lung can-
cer several years ago, we both
turned to humor to help absorb
the meaning of her diagnosis and
to deflect the pain. One after-
noon, many months before she
died, Mom said with a wry smile,
“I think I’m really dying.” To
which I replied, “You mean to-
day? Because I’m going to the
market, so if you really think so, I
won’t shop for you.” “That’s hilari-
ous,” Mom countered, a hungry
smile now on her face. “What’s for
dinner?” Very adroitly, pretty
much reflexively, we had avoided
the elephant in the room.
Mom’s health deteriorated
over the next several weeks.
Again, she raised the question of
her death, but now without the
smile. “Will dying be painful?”
she asked. In that moment, I
knew I needed to confront my
own feelings about her mortality
and not sidestep the conversation
with facile banter.
I took Mom’s hand in mine and
health arena, nor is there any
governing body that regulates
trauma-informed programs. That
means that non-mental health
professionals could receive inad-
equate training.
Vaile Wright, senior director of
health-care innovation at the
American Psychological Associa-
tion, said the risk this poses is
twofold. “If consumers are ex-
pecting a trauma-informed yoga
teacher to heal their trauma or
treat their trauma, I think that
you run the risk of that expecta-
tion clearly not being met, and
therefore a consumer might not
reach out for help in other ways,
like [with] a professional. At its
very worst, it could end up being
re-traumatizing.”
When there is no available
training, interested professionals
such as Rosie Valentine, a photog-
rapher in central North Carolina
who labels their services trauma-
informed, are creating their own
curriculum.
“I really care about my clients’
emotional experience and their
safety. I recognize that I cannot
create a 100 percent safe space all
the time. That’s just not humanly
possible,” Valentine said. “I don’t
know folks’ individual triggers to
all of the nuanced extent that they
exist as living, complex people,
and their lived experience.”
Valentine’s trauma-informed
approach involves consent, com-
munication and boundaries. For
said, “Don’t worry, it won’t be
painful.” I told her hospice had
provided a “comfort kit,” which
contained medications for rest-
lessness, confusion, anxiety,
sleeplessness, constipation and,
of course, pain management. I
could feel Mom’s hand relax. Fi-
nally, she said, with a palpable
sense of relief, “Thank you.”
In the weeks after that, we
began a new chapter. I hadn’t
realized how much effort had
gone into my denial. I thought
about the many times I had said,
“if you die …,” which denied what
we both knew was inevitable.
After I dropped the subjunctive
and began to talk about when she
died, a barrier was eliminated.
She knew. I knew. Now, we knew
together.
I don’t think Mom suffered in
her final days. After she became
“unresponsive” (considered part
of “active dying”) I returned to
that comfort kit at the direction of
a nurse. I removed the liquid
morphine and gently squeezed
one drop, then a second into her
mouth. When the end came a few
hours later, my sister, brother and
I sat on her hospital bed, holding
hands with each other and our
mother as she died. What a gift, I
thought, as we helped her to let go
honestly, openly, and — most im-
portantly — together.
Three decades earlier, when I
was newly in remission from my
own cancer, I had so many wor-
ries — about recurrence, addi-
tional treatments, more surgery.
But at its core the fear was always
about dying, which I never ac-
knowledged, which meant no
opening for others to broach the
topic. I tried hard to keep those
anxieties buried away, mostly by
taking anti-anxiety medications.
I’d pop a Klonopin and for four
hours I’d be “fine,” as I often
repeated. Still, I felt detached
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portrait clients in particular, Val-
entine makes themself available
for hours of consultation before
the shoot, where they agree on
what kinds of poses, interaction
and language the client is com-
fortable with, when and where
the shoot will take place, and how
Valentine can make the experi-
ence a positive one. Valentine said
photo sessions often begin with a
moment of silence. “It’s typically a
pretty tender and vulnerable ex-
perience for folks being photo-
graphed. . . . It’s a pretty vulner-
able space together.”
Professionals and
others outside the
mental health field are
adopting a trauma-
informed mind-set.
As the increasing interest in
offering trauma-informed care
suggests, trauma is common. One
survey of 2,900 participants
found that up to 89.7 percent of
adults in the U.S. have experi-
enced at least one traumatic
event, and exposure to more than
one is the norm. According to the
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration,
from others, even myself, but in
my mind, that was better than
feeling. Or worse: talking about
feelings with others.
I chose to be alone.
Every time when I returned to
the hospital for follow-up labs
and scans, I’d medicate. But
For far too long,
my fears had been
caged inside me,
dense and dark.
drugs, it turns out, can do only so
much. I’d still taste the fear in my
throat, or notice the shallowness
of my breathing. A few times I
vomited — spontaneously — the
associations too strong. No mat-
ter how hard I tried, I could not
effectively lock away that demon,
that fear.
Then I decided to volunteer at
the cancer hospital that had given
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childhood trauma is common: By
age 16, more than two-thirds of
children report at least one trau-
matic event.
Traumatic events can include
community, school, racial and do-
mestic violence, physical or sex-
ual assault, psychological abuse,
loss of a loved one, neglect, natu-
ral disasters, and refugee or war
experiences, though this list is far
from exhaustive.
The effects of these events can
be profound and long-lasting and
can appear in a number of ways,
including anxiety, depression, in-
ability to concentrate, self-harm,
violent behavior, thoughts of sui-
cide, intense and intrusive mem-
ories of the traumatic event, dis-
sociation, sleep disorders, and
avoidance of emotions and sensa-
tions associated with the trau-
matic event.
To be trauma-informed, said
Carol Tosone, a professor of social
work at New York University who
co-directs its trauma-informed
clinical practice program, is to
assume “that trauma is fairly
ubiquitous, it’s widespread, that
anybody could be experiencing it,
and you need to be sensitive to the
fact that anybody could be experi-
encing it.” She also noted that
what one person registers as trau-
ma, another may not.
Aaron Skinner-Spain, a li-
censed clinical social worker who
co-directs NYU’s trauma-in-
formed program with Tosone,
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me so much, sharing my cancer
“experience” with patients, which
invariably included discussions
of fear. I realized how helpful
these conversations — about hair
and weight loss, recurrence and
remission, life and death — were
to the patients I met in the hospi-
tal, either newly diagnosed or
undergoing treatment. But these
talks changed me, too.
For far too long, my fears had
been caged inside me, dense and
dark. Laura Wallace, a licensed
clinical social worker whose prac-
tice focuses on transitions and
loss, explained that acknowledg-
ing feelings of “loss and longing,”
while deeply painful, is a much
better alternative than anger, ad-
diction and anxiety. Or denial.
Releasing these fears — into
the rooms where I had these
conversations, into the air out-
side the hospital when I would
walk away — was liberating.
Imagine a vial filled with dark
blue worry. Release a drop into a
small cup of water and it colors
the water. Release another drop,
this one into a gallon bucket, and
it becomes nearly impossible to
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characterized the approach as
one that asks, “What happened to
you?” and not “What’s wrong with
you?”
Trauma awareness is especially
appropriate in settings where
physical contact may happen,
such as a yoga class, Tosone said.
“You go to the studio, you’re doing
your poses. The instructor may
come over and correct your pose
to help you deepen it.” For some-
one who has experienced trauma,
she said, being touched can elicit
a deeply painful or unpleasant
response. “Now, in trauma-in-
formed, what the instructor
would be saying is, ‘May I ap-
proach you? May I put my hands
on you?’”
Jenn Turner, a licensed mental
health counselor based in Boston,
founded Trauma Center Trauma-
Sensitive Yoga, a program to edu-
cate yoga instructors in trauma
awareness. The 300-hour certifi-
cation course comprises class-
work, mentorship, observation,
evaluation and research, and it
requires that participants pursue
continuing education and annual
supervision to maintain their cre-
dential.
For professionals like Valen-
tine, the photographer, it can be
difficult to find trauma-informed
training. There are no licenses or
certifications for photographers,
so they have to create their own
course of study. Valentine said
they draw on their previous work
at a domestic violence agency and
their undergraduate coursework
in subjects such as sociology, hu-
man rights and colonialism, in
addition to staying apprised of
current research. “I am consis-
tently working to learn and grow
in this area. I think it’s the thing
that I will always be learning and
growing in. I do feel confident in
doing trauma-informed work at
this point, but also recognize
there’s so much expansive space
there for growth.”
Professionals seeking to make
their work trauma-informed of-
ten do so for deeply personal
reasons. “As someone who has
held a lot of trauma in my body
and mind in life, it is really mean-
ingful to me to support others
with trauma services,” Valentine
said, “and I'm really passionate
about affirming people, particu-
larly other people in the
LGBTQIA community.”
Ruby Gore is a Philadelphia
tattoo artist educating herself
about trauma. Like everyone in
her field, Gore spends a great deal
of time in close physical contact
with others, which can be diffi-
cult for someone who has had a
traumatic experience. She said
that when several clients started
asking her for scar coverups, of-
ten the result of a traumatic event
or its long-term effects, she recog-
nized that she needed a special-
ized approach.
“I was like, you know, I've
never done this before. It is some-
thing that's important to me. I'd
like to learn.” Gore said she start-
ed by having a more experienced
tattoo artist supervise and by
detect. By acknowledging and
sharing my fears openly, I let
them go and they began to dis-
solve. Eventually, I stopped tak-
ing those anti-anxiety medica-
tions.
In her recent memoir, “Going
There,” journalist Katie Couric,
whose husband died of colon can-
cer in 1998 at age 42, tells of
feeling trapped between a rock
and a hard place. “I was so wor-
ried about letting go of hope
because I didn’t want Jay to spend
whatever time he had left just
waiting to die,” she wrote. “I think
it takes extraordinary courage to
be able to face death, and I think I
was too scared, honestly.”
Couric’s words reverberated
with me, especially as I’ve tried to
take the lessons learned from my
mother’s death, and my own ill-
ness: How to be present. How to
balance today with tomorrow.
How to find the courage to em-
brace what’s so often unspeak-
able.
A longtime friend, Barry Owen,
succeeded in all three ways.
At 66, he revealed his pancreat-
ic cancer diagnosis in a blog post.
He knew, as did his husband, Dan,
the unforgiving prognosis. (Stage
IV pancreatic cancer has a five-
year survival rate of 1 percent,
according to Johns Hopkins Med-
icine.) “I have no illusions about
this disease,” Barry wrote on his
Caring Bridge blog, which was
read by about 30 of his closest
friends, including his two broth-
ers.
Three months after his diagno-
sis, Barry pushed open the door to
a conversation about dying. “Dan
and I are starting to talk about
planning, planning for my death,”
he wrote. “This is not easy to write
about.”
It was not easy to read about,
either. But we joined the conver-
sation with Barry and Dan, I
. TUESDAY, MARCH 15 , 2022
doing her own research online.
Now she’s working with a friend
in social work to understand how
she can help clients feel safe
during the tattoo process.
Like Valentine, Gore’s motiva-
tion is personal. As someone who
has experienced trauma herself,
“seeing how [scar coverups]
brought so much hope and light
to the person that I had tattooed
was . . . so rewarding on another
level that I couldn’t even explain.”
Because there are few avenues
for formal trauma education, not
everyone receives adequate train-
ing. Skinner-Spain, with NYU,
said the risk of someone outside
of mental health educating them-
selves and labeling their work
trauma-informed is that they may
not be prepared to handle trauma
responses or to hear about trau-
matic experiences. “Listening to
stories of harm is difficult both
for the practitioner, if you’re not
equipped and experienced
enough to handle that, and also
the person, if you can’t contain
the emotional charge and inter-
vene appropriately.”
How professionals represent
themselves matters, said New
York psychotherapist Jennifer
Benetato, who specializes in trau-
ma and addiction recovery. It’s a
good sign if they’ve received
training from a mental health
practitioner, but it doesn’t mean
that person is qualified to say,
“Please tell me all of your trauma,
let’s heal all of that,” she said.
One of the most popular texts
for those looking to develop trau-
ma awareness is “The Body Keeps
the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body
in the Healing of Trauma,” which
documents and explores the ef-
fects of trauma. The author, psy-
chiatrist and trauma researcher
Bessel van der Kolk, said he is
heartened by the “quite impor-
tant and quite revolutionary”
growing awareness of trauma
and its effects. He nevertheless
expressed reservation about the
trauma-informed label being
used outside of mental health.
“I like to think that I know
something about trauma,” he
said. “I would never say that I’m a
trauma-informed practitioner
because I know that people have
their own reactions, and you can
get very unexpected responses.”
He also noted that the term trau-
ma can be overapplied.
Van der Kolk worries that some
practitioners may be hiding be-
hind the label, using it as a buzz-
word. If someone wants to claim
trauma awareness, he said, there
must be demonstrable change in
the way they work with and relate
to clients. “I would say, ‘What do
you mean? What have you
learned? How are you doing
things differently?’
“I think the label doesn’t really
tell me how good you are, but
your results [do].”
Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza is a
freelance writer based in Richmond
who covers workplace culture and
policies and issues faced by women.
Find her @emilymccrary.
hope
, supporting them if not sharing
their pain.
Barry did well enough for a
while — long enough to celebrate
his 67th birthday, to make a fare-
well tour to friends, and to enjoy
the winter holidays. By spring, all
that had changed. Eleven months
after diagnosis, one of his care-
givers posted the sentence every-
one expected, yet dreaded. “So,
yes, he is dying.” We understood.
Barry’s followers made that final
journey together with him.
During those final days I
thought of “The Mary Tyler
Moore Show,” one of Barry’s fa-
vorites, specifically the final
scene where Mary, Rhoda, Lou,
Ted and all the rest huddle, and
walk offstage together, as one. It’s
a tear-jerker, for sure.
We leaned in, through the Car-
ing Bridge site. One friend ac-
knowledged the heartbreak of
losing Barry. His brother, Jamie,
posted: “We all know the inevi-
table result, but it doesn’t keep
me from becoming emotional ev-
ery day.” I wrote that I’d burst into
tears upon reading the news, but
that I felt so deeply connected to
his friends. Amid all this, a friend
reminded us that Barry’s mantra
had always been “Only connect,”
which to him spoke to the impor-
tance of our relationships to help
defeat “the isolation” — as novel-
ist E.M. Forster put it — that
keeps us apart.
I felt privileged to be among all
these beautiful souls, so in touch
with their feelings and able to
express them. I thought then — as
I do now — how rare this gift is.
When Barry died, we held onto
one another, tightly albeit it virtu-
ally. One friend posted, “Although
I only know a few of all the friends
around Barry, I feel part of you
and share your grief.” Another
wrote, “How terrible our loss.”
Yes, our loss.
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Covid changed their lives. Now they look ahead.

PANDEMIC FROM E1

Lindsay Cohen, 20, considered

her grandfather her best friend.
But when he died by suicide a
year into the pandemic, she
couldn’t remember the last time
she’d seen him in person — they
lived in different states. In his
honor, Lindsay got a tattoo of
her grandfather’s initials. “I just
called him Papa though.” Now a
sophomore at the University of
Alabama, Lindsay is working to
raise awareness about men’s
mental health issues; a link to
related resources is now part of
her Instagram bio. PHOTOS BY ALAN JINICH; CARDS BY GENERATION PANDEMIC

Three weeks after Shay Scott’s human resources job in Virginia

turned fully remote in 2021, she decided to move to New Orleans.
Shay, 26, had spent much of her childhood moving — some 40 times
before college, sometimes in and out of homeless shelters. During
the pandemic, however, she slowed down and had a chance to deal
with an eating disorder and childhood pain: “Instead of watching
everybody else, I watched myself.” At first, New Orleans felt like
home but her remote work has made it hard for her to make new
friends so she’s thinking of moving back to the East Coast, maybe
Philadelphia. Shay says she misses the cold.

Chase Hansen, 23, is a punk rock

drummer from Los Angeles who
has worked as a professional
welder since he was 17. In January
2020, he enrolled in community
college for the first time. Pandem-
ic stimulus checks helped him
stay in school but he dropped out
after three semesters: “I missed
working with my hands.” He re- When the pandemic reached Grand Teton National Park in
cently formed a new band and is Wyoming, facilities there shut down. Many park employees stayed,
in talks to sign a record deal. “I however. One of them was Luxianna Watkins, 25. Over a thousand
feel like I’ve made it in life,” he miles away from her older parents in rural Illinois, Luxianna felt
says. “I just wish there was more isolated and homesick — and stuck. She worried she might never
financial security being in a punk see her parents again: “They could die and I’d be stuck in Wyoming.”
band. I don’t really care though, Luxianna expressed gratitude for her parents by writing them a
as long as I’m happy.” six-page letter. She wanted nothing left unsaid. She now visits them
every six months.

The pandemic accelerated this now 27-year-old woman’s political

move to the right. (She asked that her name not be used.) She believes
the mainstream media has hyped the threat of covid-19. She got a tattoo
of an atom on her hand to show she is not anti-science. When her Dallas
catering business dried up because of the pandemic, she moved to D.C.,
where she says worked for a conservative group and demonstrated
outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. She is working as a waitress in
Nebraska now, but she hopes one day to launch her own podcast,
inspired by a conservative podcast she listens to.

Micah Estevan, 23, works in an

auto body shop near Window
Sharon Lemus, 23, grew up in a Rock, Ariz., the capital of the
crowded mobile home in Santa Fe. Navajo Nation. As a child, the
Until the pandemic, she organized pastor at Micah’s church helped
her life to spend as little time there install running water and elec-
as possible, working two jobs and tricity in his family’s mobile
studying at her local community home. Micah sometimes called
college. When everything shut him grandfather. But during the
down, she had no choice but to pandemic, Micah says the pastor
stay home. It was noisy, chaotic became increasingly political and
and stressful. Her brother and his far right, going after Democrats
girlfriend had a drug problem that and denigrating minority groups
worsened in lockdown and in 2021 including Native Americans like
they had a son. Eventually, her Micah. So he stopped going to
brother and his girlfriend moved church and now explores his reli-
out and Sharon helped her mom gious identity through books by
assume shared custody of their Russian novelist Feodor Dostoev-
son. Now Sharon’s looking for a ski, Japanese writer Shusaku
place of her own. Endo and others.

These stories are adapted from Generation Pandemic, an online oral history archive that can be read in full at www.generationpandemicproject.com.

Max Strickberger and Alan Jinich are seniors at the University of Pennsylvania, studying English and neuroscience respectively. They have been close friends
since childhood and grew up on the same street outside of D.C.
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‘Papa pals’ provide companionship, help for the elderly
BY P HIL G ALEWITZ
Widowed and usually living
alone, Gloria Bailey walks with a
cane after two knee replacement
surgeries and needs help with
housekeeping.
So she was thrilled last summer
when her Medicare Advantage
plan, SummaCare, began sending
a worker to her house in Akron,
Ohio, to mop floors, clean dishes,
and help with computer prob-
lems. Some days, they would
spend the two-hour weekly visit
just chatting at her kitchen table.
“I love it,” she said of the free
benefit.
Bailey, 72, is one of thousands of
elderly people around the country
being visited each week by em-
ployees of Papa. Known as “Papa
pals,” their primary aim is to pro-
vide companionship to seniors
along with helping with errands
and light housework duties. Since
2020, more than 65 Medicare Ad-
vantage plans nationwide have
signed up with Papa, a Miami-
based company, to address mem-
bers’ loneliness — a problem exac-
erbated by the pandemic.
“It’s the best thing ever” to
counteract social isolation, said
Anne Armao, a vice president at
SummaCare. More than 12 per-
cent of the company’s 23,000 Ohio
Medicare members used the Papa
benefit last year.
But SummaCare and other
health plans also stand to benefit
by sending Papa pals into mem-
bers’ homes. The workers can help
the plans collect more money
from Medicare by persuading
members to get annual wellness
exams, fill out personal health risk
assessments and undergo covered
health screenings.
Accomplishing these steps
helps plans in two ways:
By gleaning more information,
plans may discover members have
health issues that may earn higher
reimbursement rates from Medi-
care.
Plans can boost their star rat-
ings, which are based on more
than 40 performance measures,
including cancer, diabetes and
blood pressure screenings; out-
come measures such as control-
ling hypertension; and overall sat-
isfaction with the plan. Plans that
score at least four stars on a five-
star scale receive bonuses from
Medicare.
Bonus payments from the star
ratings make up an increasing
share of federal reimbursements
to these private Medicare Advan-
tage plans, which are an alterna-
As mask rules end, what about indoor air risks?
Anybody
Many places have
ended indoor
MARLENE mask mandates,
CIMONS and public health
experts say it’s
okay to forgo
mask-wearing where vaccination
rates are high and infections and
hospitalizations are low. As
maskless people begin venturing
inside, they still may wonder
whether it is safe.
“There are no absolutes in this
business,” says Howard Kipen,
professor of occupational and
environmental health at the
Rutgers University School of
Public Health and lead author of
a study examining airborne
transmission in the homes of
infected individuals. “It depends
on how crowded it is and
whether people are sneezing or
coughing or singing or talking or
yelling — and how close they are
to you. If you live where there are
high rates, or people are not well
vaccinated, there is reason to still
wear a mask.”
When experts talk about the
safety of indoor spaces, the
conversation often turns to
ventilation, meaning the
introduction of fresh air.
Airborne transmissions
Even where infections have
plummeted, the danger of
catching a virus is not zero.
Being inside always is riskier
than being outside when it
comes to airborne viral
transmission, of which there are
two primary routes, according to
research. Each requires a
different approach. Large
respiratory droplets — those
bigger than 10 microns — rapidly
fall onto surfaces, typically
within about 6 feet from the
source. Hand washing, social
distancing and face masks offer
the best protection against
exposure to these relatively large
particles that people can inhale
or transmit by touching mucous
membranes of the eyes, nose and
mouth, Kipen says.
Smaller respiratory droplets
ranging from a few microns to
0.1 microns — the size of a single
particle of the coronavirus — can
stay suspended in the air for
hours. (“One micron is one one-
hundredth of a human hair in
Tim Barrage, a “Papa pal,” helps out with some yard work at Gloria Bailey’s home in Akron, Ohio. Bailey’s Medicare Advantage
health plan contracts with a firm called Papa. Its workers provide companionship, perform light housekeeping and run errands.
Barrage visits Bailey, 72, and about a dozen other seniors in the Akron area each week.
tive to traditional Medicare. In
2021, Medicare paid plans $11.6
billion in bonus pay, double the
amount in 2017.
The federal government’s base
pay for the plans is a monthly fee
for each member, but it increases
that amount based on the mem-
bers’ health risks. So plans also get
billions of dollars a year in extra
Medicare payments by pinpoint-
ing members’ health problems
through a variety of measures, in-
cluding the health risk assess-
ments.
Yet federal investigators have
found these diagnoses often do
not always result in additional
treatment or follow-up care to
beneficiaries. As a result, the fed-
eral government is probably over-
paying the Medicare health plans
and wasting billions in taxpayer
dollars, according to an influential
advisory board that advises Con-
gress on Medicare.
In a report last September, the
Health and Human Services in-
spector general found 20 Medi-
care Advantage companies gener-
ated $5 billion in extra payments
from the federal government for
diagnoses identified through
diameter,” Kipen says.) Filters
and increased ventilation are the
best tools to disperse and reduce
their concentration, and thus
their infectiousness, he says.
“Wearing a mask, preferably
an N95, is the best way to
prevent exposure to particles
that are in the air around you,”
Kipen says, and it’s key “to
minimize the amount of time
you are in a potentially
contaminated place.”
“There are different
degrees of risk.”
Howard Kipen, professor at
the Rutgers University School
of Public Health
Questions to ask
There are several questions to
ask to help make an informed
decision about whether to stay
inside without a mask:
How much fresh air flows
into the facility?
“People should ask: How
much air is outdoor air, and how
much is recirculated?” says
Linsey Marr, professor of
environmental and water
resources engineering at Virginia
Tech’s school of engineering, who
has studied airborne
transmission of the virus that
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health risk assessments and chart
reviews without documentation
that the patients were treated for
these issues.
Nearly half of Medicare enroll-
ees get their coverage through
Medicare Advantage.
David Lipschutz, associate di-
rector of the Center for Medicare
Advocacy, said Papa pals provide
an important benefit to seniors by
helping them with chores, reduc-
ing their loneliness and getting
them to medical appointments.
But the benefit can also help the
insurers’ bottom lines.
“If there is one thing these plans
are good at is maximizing their
profit,” he said.
Medicare Advantage plans of-
ten give doctors financial incen-
tives to get patients to undergo
health assessments. Plan workers
repeatedly call patients with offers
to send nurses or doctors to their
homes to complete them. Lip-
schutz said health risk assess-
ments are useful only if the health
plans act on the information by
making sure patients are getting
treatment for those issues.
Armao said the health risk as-
sessment and annual wellness
ISTOCK
causes covid-19. “The best-case
scenario is 100 percent outdoor
air.”
How often does the air inside
change, that is, completely turn
over?
“What is the ventilation rate,
that is, how many air changes
per hour?” Marr says. “Hospitals
have 6 [to] 12 changes per hour
or more. Homes have maybe a
half air change per hour. With a
gym or a locker room, for
example, you want it to be as
high as possible, over 4 is good.
Higher is better.”
She says that many places
such as bathrooms, gyms and
locker rooms also often have fans
and blowers — which help push
the air through the filters — and
exhaust systems. Remember,
however, that fans just blow the
air around, they don’t dilute it
with fresh air.
What kind of filter are you
using? If you are using a MERV
filter, what is its rating?
When it comes to MERV
filters, the higher the number,
the better. MERV stands for
minimum efficiency reporting
value, is rated from 1 to 16, and
represents the filter’s ability to
catch larger particles between
0.3 and 10 microns. The ratings
were developed from a test
method designed by the
American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-
Conditioning Engineers. The
most effective MERV filters are
rated 11 or higher, Marr says.
exam reminders are on the list of
things Papa employees are told to
ask about on visits.
“They are our eyes and ears who
can learn so much from members
in their homes,” she explained.
Pals look in refrigerators to see if
members have enough to eat,
check on how members are feeling
and remind them to take prescrip-
tions. SummaCare even directs
pals to ask whether members have
urinary incontinence or are up to
date on cancer screenings.
Andrew Parker, who founded
Papa in 2017 after finding a couple
of college students to visit with his
grandfather and take him to doc-
tor appointments and do other
errands, said he estimates his
company will provide more than a
million hours of companionship
in 2022. The Medicare plans pay
Papa, a for-profit company, a per
member fee each month.
“Papas [pals] are very proactive
and will call you to see how you are
feeling and, maybe not on the first
day but over the course of the
program, can ask, ‘Did you know
your health plan would prefer if
you had a wellness exam and it
could help you with your health?’”
The gold standard for filters is
HEPA, which stands for high
efficiency particulate air. This
type of air filter can trap at least
99.97 percent of dust, pollen,
mold and bacteria, including
large and small airborne
particles, according to the
Environmental Protection
Agency. “MERV ratings go from
1 to 16, but HEPA is even better
than that,” Kipen says.
Many large air systems,
however, cannot handle a HEPA
filter, so you’re unlikely to find
one in your facility. “Their fans
that move the air are not strong
enough to move air through the
tighter filter,” Kipen says. “They
would have to rebuild their
whole HVAC systems.” You can,
however, buy small units with
HEPA filters and set them up in
your home. “Portable air cleaners
with HEPA filters can do the job
one room at a time,” he says.
It’s important to remember
that questions about ventilation
apply to reducing the risk of
transmission from a distance,
experts say.
“If you are close to someone
unmasked who is infected, the
ventilation won’t be as helpful,”
Marr says. “The more crowded it
is, the more important
ventilation is.”
I asked my periodontist about
his practice since mask-wearing
is impossible when someone is
working inside your mouth. He
said that he uses medical grade
filters (HEPA) in each room and
that the air turns over every
10 minutes. Both are good.
Not every facility, however,
has the answers or will provide
them. When I asked a fitness
center about its locker room,
where you cannot mask in the
shower, I learned (via email) they
use a MERV filter of at least 8
and pump in 100 percent
outdoor air. I then asked (also by
email): How often does the air
change? Would they upgrade the
filter? I received no response.
I decided to take a chance,
living in a highly vaccinated
county with a low infection rate,
although I remain a little uneasy.
“There are different degrees of
risk,” Kipen says. “Everyone has
to decide how much risk they are
willing to tolerate.”
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he said. “A pal is a trusted adviser
who can get them to think about
benefits they do not know about.”
He said insurers often don’t
know a member is facing a health
issue until they see a medical
claim. “We can identify things they
don’t know about,” he said.
Until recently, Medicare rarely
paid for non-health services. But
Papa began working with Medicare
Advantage plans in 2020, just one
year after the program began al-
lowing the private insurers to have
more flexibility addressing mem-
bers’ social needs, such as transpor-
tation, housing and food, which are
not typically covered by Medicare
but could influence health. Papa’s
goal of addressing members’ lone-
liness took on even more signifi-
cance during the pandemic when
many seniors became socially iso-
lated as they sought to reduce their
risk of getting infected.
Papa has over 25,000 pals
whose average age is mid-30s. Be-
fore being hired, pals must under-
go a criminal-background check
and a driving record review as part
of the vetting process. After being
hired, pals are trained on empa-
thy, understanding of different
800 rural hospitals may
close in next few years
BY L AUREN C OLEMAN-
L OCHNER
Slammed by the pandemic, at
least 40 percent of rural U.S. hos-
pitals are in danger of shutting
down, leaving millions of people
in smaller and less affluent com-
munities without a nearby emer-
gency and critical care facility.
That is the conclusion of the
Center for Healthcare Quality and
Payment Reform, whose study
sees 500 hospitals at immediate
risk for closing within two years
and more than 300 others at high
risk within five years. The grim
assessment by the policy center
found the problems spread across
the country, and that the threats
will persist even if the pandemic
ends because rising costs are out-
running revenue.
About 38 million Americans
live in the at-risk areas; they
would have to drive at least
20 minutes farther if their local
hospitals close, with half adding at
least 30 minutes, said Harold Mil-
ler, the center’s chief executive and
author of the report.
Many of the facilities are in
sparsely populated but important
farming, mining or ranching com-
munities.
“The myth is that these are hos-
pitals that should no longer exist
in communities that should no
longer exist,” Miller said in an
interview. Keeping those facilities
open would cost $3.4 billion, or
less than 1 percent of total annual
spending on hospitals, said Miller,
an adjunct public policy and man-
agement professor and former as-
sociate dean at Carnegie Mellon
University.
Fifteen states have more than
half of their rural hospitals at risk
of closing because of persistent
losses, including Texas and a large
swath of the South and Midwest
such as Kansas and Mississippi,
the study shows. But rural hospi-
tals in New York, Connecticut and
Washington state are also in trou-
ble.
More than 130 rural hospitals
have closed in the past decade,
according to the University of
North Carolina’s Sheps Center.
They often are the only option for
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cultures, and humility.
Michael Walling, 22, who works
as a Papa pal near his home in Port
Huron, Mich., said most seniors
are receptive to getting help or a
chance to talk to someone for a
couple of hours.
One of his clients has trouble
walking, so Walling helps vacuum
and mop her trailer and take her to
the grocery store. On Christmas
Eve, he even took her out to lunch.
“It was to be my day off, but I didn’t
want her to be alone on the holi-
day,” he said.
Tim Barrage, who visits Bailey
and about a dozen other seniors in
the Akron area each week, turned
to Papa because he was looking for
a flexible part-time job to supple-
ment income from his firearms
safety training businesses.
“I’ve done work in the garden,
hanging up and taking down
Christmas decorations, cleaning
ovens or stovetops,” said Barrage,
a former parole officer.
Each time he arrives at a mem-
ber’s home, Papa directs him to
check to see how the member is
feeling overall and then periodi-
cally ask about issues that can
include the wellness exam and
health risk assessment. At the end
of the visit, he reports to Papa
about what services he provided
and how the member interacted
with him. He alerts his supervisors
at Papa to a member’s potential
health issues, and Papa connects
with the health plan to address
them.
Jennifer Kivi, manager of Medi-
care product development for Pri-
ority Health, a Michigan health
plan, said members who have
used the Papa service said it makes
them feel less lonely.
“If we can reduce their loneli-
ness, it helps members feel better
and their physical health will im-
prove,” she said.
The insurer doesn’t want its
Papa pals to ask members a long
list of health questions, but they
can ask about cancer or diabetes
screenings, which also can bolster
a plan’s ratings. “What we have
seen is you can have a doctor tell
them and their insurance compa-
ny tell them they need it, but a
Papa pal can start to build that
relationship with them, and it
means a lot more coming from
them,” she said.
This article was produced by Kaiser
Health News, a program of the Kaiser
Family Foundation, an endowed
nonprofit organization that provides
information on health issues to the
nation.
health care in their communities.
Higher costs for labor and sup-
plies and lower revenue have
trounced hospitals as they shut
down elective procedures to care for
critically ill coronavirus patients.
Even with billions of dollars
from the federal government, op-
erating margins at U.S. hospitals
were negative-3.3 percent in Janu-
ary, health-care consultancy Kauf-
man Hall said. That includes the
strongest operators. Meanwhile,
they’re facing pending cuts in
Medicare payments along with re-
payments of funds advanced earli-
er in the pandemic.
What is hurting the smaller
providers, Miller said, is a long-
standing inability to negotiate the
same rates as their larger counter-
parts for the roughly half of their
patients who have private insur-
ance.
Bigger facilities rely on higher
payments from private insurers to
offset lower reimbursements from
Medicare and Medicaid.
Besides that, the sparser popu-
lations mean costs per patient are
higher so the hospitals cannot al-
ways count on a flow of patients to
finance essential services such as
emergency care.
“The problem is, they don’t get
paid if you don’t go,” Miller said.
This means that state and local
governments — and their taxpay-
ers — pick up more of the tab, he
said. His research shows margins
declining with hospital size.
A representative for AHIP, a
health-insurance trade group, did
not provide an immediate comment.
Some rural hospitals do get fed-
eral reimbursements that cover
their costs, and a new program
that takes effect next year will
increase payments to qualifying
facilities that eliminate inpatient
beds, which often sit empty. But
Miller said most of the hospitals
aren’t losing money on inpatient
services, but rather on their emer-
gency rooms and clinics.
Increasing payments can help,
but the system also needs more
coordinated planning to ensure
all communities have care, said
Kenneth Kaufman, Kaufman
Hall’s chair.
— Bloomberg News