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veterans
With new hot line, state’s mental health overhaul shows promise — and problems
By Felice J. Freyer
GLOBE STAFF of N.Y. to
W
hen Lynn’s 15-year-old

try to fix T
daughter started acting
erratically earlier this
month, the Methuen
mother turned to a new source of
help: the state’s Behavioral Health
Help Line.
She was skeptical; in the four
Four new leaders named
years since her daughter started as shake-up continues
showing signs of bipolar disorder,
Lynn had found little help when cri- By Taylor Dolven
ses occurred. GLOBE STAFF

But still, she gave it a try. Four veterans of New York’s transportation sys-
In so doing Lynn meta- tem are headed to top roles at the beleaguered
phorically walked through MBTA in new general manager Phillip Eng’s most
the state’s new “front door” public shake-up of the agency since taking over in
to mental health care — April after a career in New York.
and experienced its poten- The new leaders will be responsible, in part, for
tial and its pitfalls. the agency’s faulty tracks and crumbling stations.
The help line — 833-773- And on Thursday they were confronted with per-
BHHL — is a key aspect of a haps their first jolt of reality about the task at hand
broader overhaul of mental when the T’s board of directors unanimously ap-
health services in Massachu- proved a five-year capital budget that provides on-
setts launched on Jan. 1 by the ly about 16 percent of the new funding requested
Department of Health and Hu- by the agency’s staff, according to previous T pre-
man Services. Providers and sentations.
advocates say the overall project Dennis Varley, the new chief of stations, who
— which includes urgent care starts on Aug. 28, said he’s still getting up to speed
centers, short-term “crisis stabi- but is up to the challenge, which he acknowledged
lization” beds, and a team-based is not small.
approach to ongoing care — is “It’s a lot, there’s no doubt about it . . . there’s
showing promise but remains obviously some issues here,” he said. “But you chip
very much a work in progress away, you make it better, and people start seeing
amid severe staffing challenges. some positive results.”
MENTAL HEALTH, Page A6 Those can’t come soon enough.
Subway service has deteriorated in recent
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ASHLEY BORG/ADOBE STOCK
months amid an uptick in slow zones, where
trains have to travel at reduced speeds because of
track defects, and buses are coming far less fre-
quently than they were a year ago. Pieces of ceil-
Always late
Excluding the fiscal year 2021
budget, the Legislature has been
an average of 9.7 days late in
Biden stays mum on son’s issues ings at Red Line stations have fallen on or near un-
suspecting riders, injuring at least one. And a key
fire suppression piping system that may not have
been inspected in years malfunctioned after a
sending the budget to the
governor since fiscal year 2014.
As GOP pounds without responding to reporters..
White House press secretary Kar-
they support him as he is working to
rebuild his life,” Jean-Pierre said.
MBTA, Page A7

30 Still in
progress
away, Democrats ine Jean-Pierre later also batted “I’m just not going to say anything
away multiple questions on the top- beyond that.”
25 28
steering clear
Here’s some
ic in the wake of Wednesday’s col- The president’s almost complete
20 lapse of a plea deal that Hunter silence on the controversy sits just
By Jim Puzzanghera Biden’s lawyers struck with the Jus- fine with congressional Democrats
15 GLOBE STAFF tice Department to settle misde- — at least for now — even as Repub-

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WA S H I N G T O N — Pr e s i d e n t
Biden had just finished speaking
about the extreme high tempera-
5
tures blanketing much of the nation
0 when he faced a different kind of
’15 ’17 ’19 ’21* ’23
heat Thursday: questions about the
meanor tax charges and a separate
gun charge. She offered more than
the president, but not much, calling
it a “personal matter,” although she
did answer “no” when asked if there
was any possibility that Biden would
licans have been hammering away
at it in hopes of inflicting political
damage as the 2024 campaign be-
red meat
for all the
gins.
A House hearing last week fea-
tured two whistle-blowers from the

SOURCE: Mass. Taxpayers
Foundation • Days between the end
of the fiscal year and the day the
budget was sent to the governor.
*The fiscal year 2021 budget was
156 days late due to the COVID
pandemic.
GLOBE STAFF
Overdue
state budget
legal troubles of his son Hunter.
But as he has done almost with-
out fail in recent weeks, the presi-
dent left the White House stage
FACE TO FACE
pardon his son.
“Of course, and we have said this
multiple times, the president and
the first lady, they love their son and
tick haters
IRS alleging the Justice Department
improperly interfered in their inves-
tigation of Hunter Biden. Republi-
BIDENS, Page A5
A nasty new variety
on the Cape can suck the
joy out of your burger
By Beth Teitell

just keeps
GLOBE STAFF

The warning from my friend’s bug guy in

getting later
By Matt Stout
GLOBE STAFF
The Legislature on Thurs-
day passed another stopgap
spending plan to keep state
government funded through
August, signaling that law-
makers’ plodding closed-
door negotiations over the
annual state budget — now
four weeks past due — could
continue to drag on.
The Democrat-led Legis-
lature is already on track to
notch its tardiest perfor-
mance in delivering the bud-
get — the institution’s most
fundamental task — in more
than two decades, excluding
the chaotic first year of the
COVID pandemic. Massa-
chusetts is also one of just
four states, along with Ore-
g o n , Pe n n s y l v a n i a , a n d
North Carolina, that have yet
to enact a fiscal year 2024
budget, according to data re-
leased Thursday by the Na-
tional Conference of State
Legislatures.
The House and Senate
moved quickly to advance
the $6 billion interim spend-
ing bill just hours after Gov-
ernor Maura Healey filed it
and just days before the first
stopgap spending plan
passed by the Legislature was
BUDGET, Page A6
Wellfleet sounded outlandish. A new tick —
the Lone Star — is invading the Cape, and a
single bite can render you allergic to red
meat. Apparently a roast beef sandwich can
now send you into anaphylactic shock.
Really?
Well, let’s just say that over the course of
a week I went from blasé — I don’t even eat
red meat — to a woman lusting after the full-
body, hooded, anti-tick jumpsuit that costs
$140.
In between those two mood states, I
spent time with my junior high school friend
Laura. She lives in North Carolina, where
the Lone Star tick, and the allergy it can trig-
ger, “Alpha-gal Syndrome,” is as infamous as
the Lyme-carrying deer tick is here.
I hadn’t seen Laura in years, but she
came to Plymouth last weekend for a small
reunion, and be-
cause the tick
is moving up
the East
Coast, I would
soon come to
think of her
JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF a s a
visi-
Slavian Borecki, of Poland, was hard at work Thursday as he prepared for the annual International t o r
Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach. Fifteen sculptors from around the world will compete for a from a
$28,000 cash prize at the festival, which runs through Sunday. B2. TICKS, Page A7
Former president Donald Trump faced new Maine has risen by roughly 50 percent. B5. Catching the wave VOL . 304, NO. 28
charges in the case accusing him of illegally *
possessing classified documents. A2. The baseball trade deadline is around the cor- Friday: Hot and humid again.
Suggested retail price
ner, and Dan Shaughnessy says the red-hot Red High 88-93. Low 73-78.
$3.50
A total of 10 of the 18 Boston-operated pools Sox should . . . sell. Check out his reasoning. C1. Saturday: Last day of it.
are closed for repairs and renovations. B1. High 83-88. Low 64-69.
The darkness keeps spreading in Common-
Weather and Comics, G6-7.
The cost of a power line to bring hydroelectrici- wealth Shakespeare Company’s gripping pro-
Obituaries, C9.
ty from Canada to Massachusetts via western duction of “Macbeth,” writes Don Aucoin. G1.
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ARIZONA MOTHER SENTENCED TO LIFE — Elizabeth Archibeque, who pleaded guilty to murder in the starvation death of her 6-year-
old son, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday in Flagstaff, Ariz., after witnesses described the horrors
of the tiny closet that reeked of urine where he and his young brother were kept and denied food.
More accusations in Trump documents case
He allegedly
sought to have
footage deleted
By Eric Tucker
and Zeke Miller
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Former
president Donald Trump faced
new charges Thursday in a case
accusing him of illegally pos-
sessing classified documents,
with prosecutors alleging that
he asked a staffer to delete cam-
era footage at his Florida estate
in an effort to obstruct a federal
investigation into the records.
ºTrump’s lawyers meet with
office of special counsel. A5.
The indictment includes
new counts of obstruction and
willful retention of national de-
fense information, adding fresh
detail to an indictment issued
last month against Trump and a
close aide. T he additional
charges came as a surprise at a
time of escalating anticipation
of a possible additional indict-
ment in Washington over his ef-
Biden unveils steps to help deal with extreme heat
Measures to aid
communities
adapt to effects
By Erica L. Green
and Lisa Friedman
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — President
Biden directly linked recent re-
cord heat waves with climate
change Thursday and an-
nounced new measures aimed
at helping communities endure
extreme weather, as rising tem-
peratures scorch much of the
country and amplify alarms
about global warming.
The announcement came as
the National Weather Service
warned that temperatures in
the nation’s capital could hit tri-
ple digits for the first time in
nearly seven years.
“Even those who deny we
are in a climate crisis can’t deny
the impact extreme heat is hav-
ing on Americans,” Biden said,
citing examples such as a wom-
an in Phoenix who fell out of a
wheelchair and received third-
degree burns after five minutes
on the ground.
Calling heat extremes “the
No. 1 weather-related killer,” re-
sponsible for about 600 deaths
in the United States annually,
Biden announced new protec-
tions for workers who are most
vulnerable to heat deaths, fund-
ing to improve weather predic-
tion, and grants to help ensure
clean drinking water across the
West.
The kind of measures an-
nounced — trying to adapt to
forts to overturn the results of
the 2020 presidential election.
The updated allegations make
clear the vast — and unknown
— scope of legal exposure faced
by Trump as he seeks to reclaim
the White House in 2024 while
fending off criminal cases in
multiple cities.
The new allegations from
special counsel Jack Smith cen-
ter on surveillance footage at
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in
Palm Beach, evidence that has
long been vital to the case.
Trump is alleged to have asked
to have the footage deleted after
FBI and Justice Department in-
vestigators visited in June 2022
to collect classified documents
he took with him after leaving
the White House. The new in-
dictment also charges him with
illegally holding onto a docu-
m e n t h e 's a l l e g e d t o h a v e
shown off to visitors in New Jer-
sey.
A Trump spokesperson dis-
missed the new charges as
“nothing more than a contin-
ued desperate and flailing at-
tempt” by the Biden adminis-
tration “to harass President
Trump and those around him”
President Biden announced efforts Thursday at the White House to help communities
facing extreme heat situations.
the effects of global warming
rather than dealing with its
source — illustrate Biden’s bind
on the climate. Even as heat
waves smash temperature re-
cords on three continents,
Biden has faced a Congress that
is hostile to climate legislation.
Republicans unanimously op-
posed Biden’s climate law and
in recent months have sought
to slash much of it, calling new
solar and wind manufacturing
tax credits enacted through the
legislation a gift to China.
Still, some members of
Biden’s party have called for
him to be more aggressive in
blocking fossil fuel projects. In
recent months, he approved a
T h e B o s t o n
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and to influence the 2024 presi-
dential race.
Prosecutors accuse Trump of
scheming with his valet, Walt
Nauta, and a Mar-a-Lago prop-
erty manager, Carlos De Olivei-
ra, to conceal the footage from
federal investigators after they
issued a subpoena for it. Video
from the property would ulti-
INDICTMENT UPDATED
Prosecutors accuse Donald
Trump of scheming to conceal
the footage from investigators.
mately play a significant role in
the investigation because, pros-
ecutors said, it captured Nauta
moving boxes of documents in
and out of a storage room — in-
cluding one such incident a day
before a Justice Department
visit to the property.
According to the indict-
ment, Nauta met with De Ol-
iveira on June 25, 2022, at Mar-
a-Lago, where they went to a se-
curity guard booth where
surveillance video was dis-
played on monitors and walked
major oil project in Alaska; al-
lowed expanded exports of liq-
uefied natural gas; and threw
the administration’s support
behind the Mountain Valley
Pipeline, which has been the
subject of years of legal chal-
lenges from environmental
groups.
“ Worker protections and
water access are vital in this
deadly heat, but incremental
steps like these are the reason
we’re suffering this record-shat-
tering summer,” said Jean Su,
energy justice director at the
Center for Biological Diversity,
an environmental group. “Real
relief won’t come until Biden
confronts the culprit of deadly
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with a flashlight through a tun-
nel where the storage room was
located, observing and pointing
out surveillance cameras.
Two days later, according to
the indictment, De Oliveira
walked with an unidentified
Trump employee to an audio
room, where De Oliveira asked
how many days the server re-
tained footage.
De Oliveira, prosecutors
said, told the other employee
“that ‘the boss’ wanted the serv-
er deleted" and asked, “What
are we going to do?”
During a voluntary inter-
view with the FBI last January,
prosecutors say, De Oliveira lied
when he said he “never saw
nothing” with regard to boxes
at Mar-a-Lago.
De Oliveira was added to the
indictment, charged with ob-
struction and false statements
EVAN VUCCI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
fossil fuels.”
Scientists called the new
measures important but insuffi-
cient. With research showing
that recent heat waves in the
Un i t e d S t a t e s a n d E u r o p e
would have been “virtually im-
possible” without the influence
of human-made climate
change, many climate experts
said Biden needed to take a
strong stand against new fossil
fuels.
“We know with almost per-
fect confidence that we are su-
percharging these heat ex-
tremes — we’re doing it by
burning fossil fuels,” said Jona-
than Overpeck, dean of the
School for Environment and
related to an interview he gave
the FBI earlier this year. His
lawyer declined to comment
Thursday evening.
The superseding indictment
also charges Trump with an ad-
ditional count of willfully re-
taining national defense infor-
mation, relating to a document
he showed off to visitors at his
Bedminster, N.J., golf club dur-
ing an July 2021 interview for a
memoir by his onetime chief of
staff Mark Meadows. Prosecu-
tors have described the docu-
ment as a Pentagon plan of at-
tack and Meadows, in his sub-
sequent book, said the country
it concerned was Iran.
According to the indict-
ment, Trump returned that
document, which was marked
as top secret and not approved
to show to foreign nationals, to
the federal government on Jan.
17, 2022.
Trump has denied he had se-
cret documents before him
when he spoke.
Both Trump and Nauta have
pleaded not guilty to the origi-
nal 38-count indictment. De Ol-
iveira is due in court in Florida
on Monday.
Sustainability at the University
of Michigan. “If we don’t stop
the burning of fossil fuels, all of
this continues to get worse.”
On Thursday, Biden said the
Labor Department will issue a
first-ever heat hazard alert that
will require the agency to pro-
vide information on what em-
ployers “can and should be do-
ing now to protect their work-
ers.”
The department also will
ramp up inspections and other
enforcement of heat safety vio-
lations in what the White
House called “high-risk” indus-
tries such as construction and
agriculture.
Biden criticized states such
as Texas, which recently passed
a law that could bar cities and
counties from mandating that
private employers offer paid
water breaks.
He noted the dangers for
construction workers, in partic-
ular, “who literally risk their
lives working all day in blazing
heat, and in some places don’t
even have the right to take a
water break — that’s outra-
geous.”
Biden did not use the mo-
ment to declare a climate emer-
gency, a tool that would give the
president more power to ex-
pand renewable power and
block oil and gas projects with-
out Congress’s assent. Activists
have long pushed Biden to do
so, but the White House has ex-
pressed worries in the past
about its authority to take such
unilateral measures, fearing
that they might be overturned
in the courts.
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Daily Briefing
Bundy loses
Idaho hospital
defamation case
Far-right activist Ammon
Bundy, who led the takeover of a
federal wildlife refuge in Ore-
gon, an associate, and three of
their groups must pay over $50
million in damages for accusing
a hospital of child trafficking
and harassing medical staff, a
jury has decided.
The lawsuit brought by St.
Luke’s Regional Health accused
Bundy and Diego Rodriguez of
making defamatory statements
against the hospital and its em-
ployees after Rodriguez’s infant
grandson was removed from his
family for several days and tak-
en to St. Luke’s amid concerns
for his health.
The emergency room physi-
cian, Dr. Rachel Thomas, testi-
fied that the 10-month-old ba-
by’s stomach was distended, his
eyes were hollow, and he was
unable to sit up, according to
the Idaho Statesman newspaper.
Police said at the time that med-
ical personnel determined the
child was malnourished.
Bundy responded by urging
his followers to protest at the
hospital and the homes of child
protection service workers, law
enforcement officers, and others
involved in the case.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Missing Ariz.
teen turns up
after four years
GLENDALE, Ariz. — An Ari-
zona teenager who disappeared
days before her 15th birthday
nearly four years ago is safe after
walking into a small-town police
station in Montana, authorities
announced Wednesday.
Alicia Navarro, now 18,
showed up alone this week
about 40 miles from the Canadi-
an border and identified herself
to authorities there as the miss-
ing teenager, according to police
in Glendale, a Phoenix suburb.
Her disappearance in 2019
sparked a massive search that
included the FBI. Glendale po-
lice spokesman Jose Santiago
said that police had received
thousands of tips over the years.
Navarro’s mother, Jessica
Nunez, raised concerns that her
daughter, who was diagnosed as
being on the autism spectrum,
may have been lured away by
someone she met online.
The name of the town wasn’t
disclosed, but Montana is more
than 1,000 miles from Arizona.
“She is by all accounts safe,
she is by all accounts healthy,
and she is by all accounts hap-
py,” Santiago said at a news con-
ference.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ohio police
officer in K9
arrest fired
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A po-
lice officer in rural Ohio was
fired Wednesday after he re-
leased his police dog on a sur-
rendering truck driver despite
state troopers telling him to
hold the K9 back.
The Circleville Police Depart-
ment said that Ryan Speakman
“did not meet the standards and
expectations we hold for our po-
lice officers,” and that his termi-
nation is “effective immediately.”
His firing comes a day after the
department said he was on paid
leave, which is standard during
use-of-force investigations.
The town’s civilian police re-
view board has found Speakman
didn’t violate department policy,
Wednesday’s police statement
said, adding that the review
board doesn’t have the authority
to recommend discipline.
Officials said they would
have no further comment on the
matter “at this time” since it’s a
personnel matter.
The Ohio Patrolmen’s Benev-
olent Association, a police union
Speakman belongs to, said that
it had filed a grievance on his
behalf, and that he was fired
without just cause.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mourners carried the body of 14-year-old Palestinian Fares Abu Samrah in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
Israel’s army kills Palestinian boy, 14
Israeli minister
visits fought-
over holy site
By Tia Goldenberg
and Isaac Scharf
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — The Israeli
military killed a 14-year-old Pal-
estinian boy in the occupied
West Bank on Thursday, Pales-
tinian health officials said, as an
ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet
minister visited a sensitive Jeru-
salem holy site that has been a
flashpoint for violence between
Israel and the Palestinians.
The visit by Israeli National
Security Minister Itamar Ben-
Gvir to the disputed hilltop com-
pound comes during a period of
heightened Israeli-Palestinian
violence in the West Bank for
the past year and a half and
threatens to inflame already
surging tensions.
It also prompted the Hamas
militant group to announce the
King Charles running low on swans
Six wooden skiffs set out
from the town of Sunbury-on-
Thames this month on a five-
day mission with a single goal:
to uphold one of Britain’s more
obscure royal traditions and re-
port back to the king on how
many swans he owns.
And this year, because of an
outbreak of avian flu, as well as
encounters with animals and
aggressive humans, the num-
bers were not good.
“It is very disappointing,”
said David Barber, who has
been the monarch’s official
swan marker for three decades.
The annual expedition along
a 79-mile stretch of the River
Thames, known as the “swan
upping,” traces its origins to a
centuries-old English law that
gives the reigning monarch the
right to claim any unmarked
mute swans found in open wa-
21 drown as boat capsizes in Philippines
MANILA — At least 21 peo-
ple died and 40 others were res-
cued after a Philippine passen-
ger boat overturned on Thurs-
day when it was lashed by
strong winds in Laguna Lake,
southeast of Manila, police
said.
Officials said rescue opera-
tions were continuing but did
not immediately provide fig-
ures for the total number of
people on board the MBCA
Princess Aya, which capsized in
Rizal province.
The disaster happened as
the passengers onboard sud-
denly moved to one side of the
boat in panic when it came un-
der fierce winds shortly after
departing from a wharf. The
launch of a rare rocket from the
West Bank and drew condemna-
tion from across the Muslim
world.
The site is revered by Jews
and Muslims, and the compet-
ing claims lie at the heart of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Early Thursday, the Palestin-
ian Health Ministry said 14-
year-old Fares Abu Samra was
killed by Israeli forces in the
West Bank town of Qalqilya.
The Israeli military said Pales-
tinians threw rocks and fire-
bombs at troops, who respond-
ed by firing into the air. It said
the incident was being re-
viewed.
Residents of Qalqilya ac-
cused the Israeli military of
opening fire toward civilians af-
ter storming into the town to ar-
rest a Palestinian. Fares’s father,
Sharhabeel Abu Samra, a Pales-
tinian security officer, claimed
his son was walking in the street
and “not doing anything,” when
Israeli soldiers shot at him and
then hit him with their jeep.
Daily Briefing
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This year’s “swan upping”
revealed a 40 percent drop
in River Thames cygnets.
ters. Nowadays, it serves more
as a census of the fowl and a
wildlife conservation effort.
The counters recorded 94
cygnets, as young swans are
called, compared to 155 last
year, a worry for conservators
and animal lovers alike.
NEW YORK TIMES
boat overturned about 150 feet
from the shore, near the village
of Kalinawan, the coast guard
said.
Rizal provincial police said
that they immediately launched
a search and rescue operation
with the help of the coast guard
and local authorities, and that
at least 40 people were saved.
A video released by the coast
guard showed rescuers on a lo-
cal government boat pulling a
body out of the lake.
Typhoon Doksuri moved
away Thursday after battering
the northern Philippines and
whipping up seasonal monsoon
rains in a large swath of the ar-
chipelago.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
T h e B o s t o n
The World
“Where are the human
rights?” he said, crying.
Ben-Gvir joined hundreds of
Je w s v i s i t i n g t h e A l - A q s a
Mosque compound — the loca-
tion in antiquity of two biblical
Jewish temples — to mark the
Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av.
During the day of mourning and
repentance, Jews reflect on the
destruction of the First and Sec-
ond Temples, pivotal events in
Jewish history.
The Waqf, an Islamic trust
that runs civil matters at the
mosque, said that 2,240 Jews
had entered the compound for
the holiday — the highest num-
ber recorded in five years.
“This is the most important
place for the people of Israel
which we must return to and
show our rule,” Ben-Gvir said in
a video released by his office,
with the golden Dome of the
Rock in the background.
The Palestinian Authority’s
Jerusalem Affairs Ministry
warned that the government
and extremists like Ben-Gvir
Bomb blast kills six in Syria
BEIRUT — A motorcycle
planted with explosives deto-
nated in a Damascus suburb
near a Shi’ite Muslim shrine
Thursday, killing at least six
people and wounding dozens a
day before the solemn holy day
of Ashura, state media report-
ed, citing the interior ministry.
Syrian Health Minister
Hassan al-Ghabash said that 26
people wounded in the blast in
the Sayida Zeinab neighbor-
hood were being treated at sev-
eral hospitals. Twenty others
were treated on site or dis-
charged, he said.
Authorities had initially said
that the bomb was hidden in a
taxi but later reported that the
explosives were on a motorcycle
that exploded next to the cab.
The Britain-based war mon-
itor Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said that a wom-
China mum on minister’s ouster
China’s abrupt removal of
Qin Gang as foreign minister
did not stop the questions that
had dogged Chinese officials in
the month since he
vanished from public
view: Where is Qin?
Does he have health
issues? Is he under in-
vestigation?
Representatives of
the Foreign Ministry
have struggled to re- Qin Gang was
spond when pressed already erased
by reporters, repeat- from the state
edly saying that they website.
had no information
to provide. After China re-
placed him on Tuesday, nearly
all references to Qin were
scrubbed from the ministry’s
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would “push things toward reli-
gious war" by provoking Mus-
lims worldwide. The Palestinian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
it considered Ben-Gvir’s visit an
attempt to impose Israeli sover-
eignty over the site.
Neighboring Jordan, which
acts as a custodian over the site
and has a peace agreement with
Israel, said such visits “threaten
to trigger new cycles of vio-
lence." Saudi Arabia, the custo-
dian of Islam’s two holiest cities
and a country with which Israel
hopes to normalize ties, de-
nounced the visit as “a provoca-
tion of the feelings of Muslims
around the world.” Turkey de-
manded that Israeli authorities
“restrain these provocations.”
Waqf officials said crowds of
Jewish visitors danced, whis-
tled, and sang the Israeli nation-
al anthem as they streamed
through the compound.
“The government is giving
cover to these extremists,” said
Bassam Abu Labda, a Waqf offi-
cial. “This is very dangerous.”
an was among those who died,
and that her three children
were wounded. The group said
the explosion occurred close to
positions of Iranian militias, a
key ally of President Bashar As-
sad in Syria’s civil conflict,
which is now in its 13th year.
Photos shared by media
show a charred taxi surrounded
by a crowd of people and men
in military fatigues.
In a video shared on social
media, people carried two men
covered in blood and dust while
calling for help.
The neighborhood is named
after the shrine for Sayida Zein-
ab, the granddaughter of the
Prophet Muhammad. Protect-
ing the shrine became a rallying
cry for Shi’ite fighters backing
Assad in the early years of the
conflict.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
website, an unusual erasure
that has only deepened the in-
trigue. On Thursday, asked by a
reporter if China had been
transparent about
Qin’s ousting, a
spokeswoman lashed
out at what she called
“malicious hype.”
For a department
tasked with speaking
to the outside world,
the Chinese Foreign
Ministry’s floundering
response to the disap-
pearance of one of its
own top officials high-
lights the weakness of China’s
diplomatic apparatus under
President Xi Jinping.
NEW YORK TIMES
Ukraine push
continues in
southern area
held by Russia
Kyiv troops
claim to have
retaken village
By David L. Stern,
Robyn Dixon,
and Adam Taylor
WASHINGTON POST
KYIV — Intense fighting
raged along Ukraine’s front
lines Thursday, according to of-
ficials in Kyiv, as Ukrainian
troops made slow but steady
gains in their ongoing counter-
o ff e n s i v e t o d r i v e a w e d ge
through the Russian-occupied
south.
To the south of the eastern
city of Bakhmut, which fell to
Russia in May after months of
vicious fighting, Ukraine’s dep-
uty defense minister, Hanna
Maliar, said Kyiv’s forces were
“gradually moving forward.”
North of the city, Ukrainian
troops were “repelling enemy
attacks,” she said.
“Battles are quite tough,”
Maliar wrote in a post on social
media. “The enemy is firing in-
tensively.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Pres-
ident Volodymyr Z elensky
posted a video on his official
Telegram channel late Thurs-
day that showed soldiers from
Ukraine's 35th Brigade claim-
ing to have liberated the village
of Staromaiorske, in the Do-
netsk region.
If confirmed, it would be
the first village retaken by
Ukrainian forces in weeks, a
much-needed victory for Kyiv
and a grim reminder of how
much hard fighting is ahead.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian
officials said their forces made
advances south of Orikhiv in
the southeastern Zaporizhzhia
region, in a drive to reach the
Sea of Azov, which would sever
Moscow's land bridge to occu-
pied Crimea and limit Mos-
cow's ability to move troops
and equipment.
A month and a half into the
long-awaited counteroffensive,
there are concerns in Kyiv and
in Western capitals over the
slow pace of Ukraine's advanc-
es. Ukrainian officials have
vowed to press onward, despite
what they say is a lack of air
cover and long-range artillery.
US National Security Coun-
cil spokesman John Kirby said
Wednesday that the Ukraini-
a n s “ a r e m o v i n g , i t ’s n o t a
stalemate,” but acknowledged
that Zelensky “has said that it’s
not progressing as fast as he
would like.”
Zelensky visited the south-
eastern city of Dnipro on
Thursday, where he met with
military commanders and dis-
cussed updates from the front
lines, supplies of munitions to
troops, and reinforcing air de-
fenses.
Oleh Kiper, head of the Ode-
sa regional administration,
said Thursday that Russian
missiles hit port infrastructure
in an overnight attack. It was
the latest barrage in Russia’s
campaign to destroy Ukraine’s
ability to export grain after
Moscow’s recent withdrawal
from an agreement to provide
safe passage for ships trans-
porting Ukrainian agricultural
products.
The attack killed a security
guard and also damaged equip-
ment at a cargo terminal, Kiper
said.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin said Thursday that fight-
ing had “substantially intensi-
fied” in recent days, particular-
ly in Zaporizhzhia, echoing ex-
travagant, and unconfirmed,
Ministr y of Defense claims
about Ukrainian losses.
Speaking at a summit with
African leaders in St. Peters-
burg, Putin said that Ukrainian
forces had "suffered the heavi-
est personnel losses, over 200
A3
Putin woos
African
leaders
with grain
By Anton Troianovski
and Declan Walsh
NEW YORK TIMES
President Vladimir Putin
of Russia on Thursday
pledged free grain for some
African countries and ac-
cused the West of “telling
lies” about the dormant deal
that had allowed Ukrainian
food exports, scrambling to
shore up support among Af-
rican leaders and casting his
war in Ukraine as part of an
increasingly global conflict.
Putin hosted around 20
African leaders for the start
of a two-day summit in St.
Petersburg, Russia, drawing
a significant contingent of of-
ficials from across the conti-
nent looking to Russia as a
source of arms and food. But
the gathering attracted fewer
than half the number of lead-
ers who attended the summit
in 2019, a sign of how the
war has tempered support
for Moscow even in a region
it has assiduously courted.
The Russian president be-
gan the summit on the de-
fensive, having refused last
week to extend a deal that
had protected Ukrainian
grain exports, pushing up
the price of grain around the
world. But in his opening
s p e e c h T h u r s d ay, Pu t i n
pledged to ship tens of thou-
sands of tons of free grain to
six African countries —
Burkina Faso, the Central Af-
rican Republic, Eritrea, Mali,
Somalia, and Zimbabwe — in
the next three to four
months, while blaming the
West for rising grain prices.
But hard-edge geopolitics
loomed over the summit. Of
the six countries Putin said
would receive free grain, on-
ly Somalia voted against Rus-
sia at the United Nations in
February in supporting a res-
olution that called for an end
to the war in Ukraine. In Ma-
li and the Central African Re-
public, Russia’s Wagner mer-
cenary group has propped
up authoritarian govern-
ments.
And the number of at-
tendees has been a sore spot
for Russia; this week, it
claimed that the West had
pressured African countries
to stay away. In fact, only 21
of Africa’s top leaders had
confirmed their attendance
at the Russia-Africa summit
as of Tuesday, according to
the Kremlin’s foreign policy
adviser, Yuri Ushakov; doz-
ens of other countries were
being represented by lower-
level officials.
In comparison, 45 heads
of state attended the previ-
ous Russia-Africa, in 2019.
And 46 African leaders at-
tended a summit in Wash-
ington in December.
people," as well as more than
50 military vehicles including
26 tanks and 13 armored com-
bat vehicles.
“At no point in the fighting
has the enemy had any suc-
cess,” Putin said. “[They were]
driven back with heavy losses.”
Putin conceded that Rus-
sian forces had not “avoided
losses, either, unfortunately.”
“But the difference is colos-
sal,” he said. “The enemy has
lost over 10 times more than
we have,” though he did not
provide evidence for his
claims.
A4 World/Nation
Biden thanks Italian prime minister for Ukraine support
Far-right Meloni
says it’s critical
to remain united
By Aamer Madhani
and Seung Min Kim
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President
Biden on Thursday thanked far-
right Prime Minister Giorgia
Meloni for Italy’s steady backing
of Ukraine, offering a warm wel-
come to the White House to a
leader that his administration
saw with some trepidation when
she rose to power last year as the
head of Italy’s first far-right-led
government since the end of
World War II.
Biden administration con-
Niger
leader
vows to
defy coup
Remains defiant
while being held
By Declan Walsh
and Elian Peltier
NEW YORK TIMES
NAIROBI — Hours after sol-
diers seized power in the West
African nation of Niger, the
countr y ’s ousted president
sounded a defiant note Thurs-
day morning, vowing to protect
his “hard-won” democratic
gains, even as he was being held
hostage in the presidential pal-
ace by his own guards.
But his army chief poured
cold water on such hopes, say-
ing in a statement that the army
was backing the mutineers to
avoid bloodshed and prevent in-
fighting among the security
forces.
The military command was
supporting the ouster of Presi-
dent Mohamed Bazoum “to
avoid a deadly confrontation be-
tween the different forces which
could provoke a blood bath and
impinge on the security of the
population,” Gen. Abdou Sidik-
ou Issa, the army chief, said in
the statement.
If the coup holds, it will be
West Africa’s sixth military take-
over in less than three years, fol-
lowing in the footsteps of Mali,
Guinea, and Burkina Faso. It
would also be a serious blow to
democracy efforts in a region
that is rapidly regaining its un-
wanted reputation as the “coup
belt” of Africa.
Bazoum, elected two years
ago in Niger’s first peaceful
transfer of power, has been a
key Western ally against surging
Islamic militancy in the Sahel,
an arid region plagued by the
ravages of climate change and
the failure of fragile states to
provide opportunities for their
exploding, youthful popula-
tions.
By Thursday evening, 36
hours af ter Bazoum disap-
peared from public view, power
still hung in the balance in Ni-
ger, although his chances of re-
versing the coup appeared to be
receding. Earlier in the day, a
huge sandstorm rolled through
the deserted streets of the capi-
tal, Niamey, where businesses
remained closed, adding to the
sense of uncertainty.
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cerns about her ideology have
been eased by her support for
Ukraine and her seeming open-
ness to pull back from Italy’s
participation in China’s infra-
structure-building Belt and
Road Initiative. Her visit came
as Italy prepares to take up the
presidency next year of the
Group of Seven industrialized
nations.
“Italy and the United States
are also standing strong with
Ukraine, and I compliment you
on your very strong support in
defending against Russian atroc-
ities, and that’s what they are,"
Biden told Meloni at the start of
their Oval Office meeting. “And I
thank the Italian people. I want
to thank them for supporting
you and supporting Ukraine. It
Supporters of the Nigerien defense and security forces gathered outside the national assembly in Niamey, Niger, on Thursday.
Some of Bazoum’s ministers
clung to hopes that the coup
could be reversed. “Everything
can be achieved through dia-
logue,” Foreign Minister Has-
soumi Massoudou told
France24.
But the soldiers holding the
president, who called them-
selves the National Council for
the Safeguarding of the Coun-
try, made it clear that they in-
tended to press ahead with their
plan.
After announcing Wednes-
day that Niger’s borders would
be closed, the government sus-
pended, and a nighttime curfew
imposed, on Thursday, the sol-
diers suspended all political ac-
tivity in the country.
One notable exception to
that ban: Hundreds of people
who gathered to support the
coup-makers in front of the na-
tional parliament — the same
location where a crowd of simi-
lar size came out for Bazoum on
Wednesday. Some of the coup
supporters waved Russian flags.
The scene was reminiscent of
the January 2022 coup in neigh-
boring Burkina Faso, where the
military has moved closer to
Moscow in recent months.
One prominent figure in
Russia appeared to view the
coup as an opportunity.
South Korea honors Truman with monument
Statue unveiled
on anniversary
of war’s armistice
By Choe Sang-Hun
NEW YORK TIMES
On the 70th anniversary of
the armistice that halted the
Korean War, one American re-
ceived a special honor in South
Korea: former president Harry
S. Truman, in whose memory a
new, nearly 14-foot-tall statue
was unveiled on Thursday.
Although not all South Kore-
ans were happy to see another
monument for the war or a new
edifice to an American leader
built on their soil, conserva-
tives wanted to celebrate Tru-
man, who perhaps affected the
T h e B o s t o n
makes a big difference.”
Meloni, who was making her
first White House visit as prime
minister, said relations between
the US and Italy should remain
strong “regardless of the politi-
cal colors” of who is in power in
the two countries. She also un-
derscored that with their re-
sponse to Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, “Western nations have
shown that they can rely on each
other.”
“ Those who live in peace
should be the first supporters of
the Ukrainian cause,” Meloni
said.
White House officials said the
leaders’ agenda was focused on
Ukraine and China as well as the
stream of migration from North
Africa to Europe’s southern
In an audio statement, Yevg-
eny Prigozhin, the mercenary
leader whose Wagner private
military company has spear-
headed the Kremlin’s push into
Africa in recent years, charac-
terized the coup in Niger as “a
battle by the people of Niger
against their colonizers.”
Prigozhin, in a lengthy ti-
rade, claimed that “colonizers”
— an apparent reference to sol-
diers from France — wanted to
keep Nigeriens “in the condi-
tions that were in Africa hun-
dreds of years ago.”
Prigozhin’s statement more
closely resembled a business
pitch: If foreign soldiers
couldn’t bring order to Niger, he
said, Wagner’s fighters could
“bring about order” and protect
civilians from terrorists.
Bazoum is relying partly on
his Western allies to get through
the crisis. In a call Wednesday
evening, Secretary of State Ant-
ony Blinken assured the belea-
guered leader that he had Wash-
ington’s “unconditional sup-
port.”
The United States has at
least 1,100 American troops
and two drone bases in Niger, a
cornerstone of the American
campaign against Islamic mili-
tants in the Sahel. US forces in
Niger have been ordered to stay
A nearly 14-foot-tall statue of former president Harry S.
Truman was unveiled on Thursday near Daegu, South Korea.
fate of South Korea more than
any other US president. When
North Korea invaded the South
in 1950, Truman sent US troops
and engineered a United Na-
G l o b e
shores. More than 1,900 mi-
grants have died or disappeared
in the Mediterranean so far this
year, bringing the total of dead
and missing since 2014 to
27,675, according to the Inter-
national Organization for Migra-
tion.
The Biden administration
viewed Meloni’s predecessor, the
economist and former European
Central Bank chief Mario
Draghi, as an intellectual force
and one of its strongest allies in
Europe. Soon after Meloni’s vic-
t o r y i n S e p t e m b e r, B i d e n
warned about the rise of hard-
right populism in Europe and in
the United States.
“ You just saw what’s hap-
pened in Italy in that election,”
Biden said in an address to the
on their bases or headquarters
unless it’s an emergency, said a
US military official speaking on
condition of anonymity.
The coup had caught many
by surprise.
A senior West African intelli-
gence official said he was strug-
gling to understand why the sol-
diers were disgruntled with Ba-
zoum, given his focus on
growing Niger’s economy and
its military strength. Like sever-
al other officials, he declined to
be named because he wasn’t au-
thorized to speak publicly.
Others pointed to signs of
tensions inside the military. Ru-
mors had been circulating for
months that Bazoum intended
to fire Omar Tchiani, the com-
mander of the presidential
guard, said J. Peter Pham, a for-
mer special US envoy to the Sa-
hel. The presidential guard is
the branch that surrounded the
palace Wednesday and detained
the president inside.
Rivalries inside the armed
forces were also a factor, Pham
said. Nigerien special forces
trained by the United States,
France, and their allies have
emerged as a new elite inside
Niger’s military, and they are
considered especially close to
Bayoum, he said.
But the rise of the special
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tions resolution to support the
South with Allied forces.
South Korea celebrates the
armistice anniversary as a vic-
tor y for the free world that
Democratic Governors Associa-
tion after Meloni’s victor y.
“You’re seeing what’s happening
around the world. And the rea-
son I bother to say that is we
can’t be sanguine about what’s
happening here, either.”
Meloni became Italy’s first
far-right leader to serve as prime
minister in Italy’s post-World
War II republic after the Broth-
ers of Italy party she cofounded
more than a decade ago
emerged as the largest vote-get-
ter in the September 2022 elec-
tions.
But before the visit, the
W h i t e Ho u s e p l a y e d d o w n
Biden's initial skepticism about
Meloni.
“On issues of foreign policy,
there’s been a lot of overlapping
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forces was a source of resent-
ment among more traditional
military units, like the presiden-
tial guard — and when the muti-
neers began to move Wednes-
day, the special forces units
were stationed far from the cap-
ital, unable to rally to Bayoum’s
defense, Pham said.
The leaders of West Africa’s
remaining democracies,
alarmed by the flurry of military
coups in their backyard, still
hope they can persuade the
coup plotters to return to their
barracks. President Patrice Tal-
on of Benin was scheduled to ar-
rive in Niamey on Thursday for
mediation talks on behalf of
ECOWAS, West Africa’s eco-
nomic bloc.
But Talon’s whereabouts re-
mained unclear late Thursday,
and a spokesperson for his gov-
ernment did not respond to re-
quests for comment.
Michael R. Shurkin, a former
CIA analyst now at the Atlantic
Council, a nonprofit group in
Washington, said that Bazoum
had been “an ideal partner for
Western powers” — competent,
pragmatic about security, atten-
tive to governance and econom-
ic issues, and democratically
elected.
“It’s a terrible blow to the re-
gion,” he said.
helped the nation become one
of Asia’s richest economies,
while North Korea remains a
hunger-stricken, nuclear-
armed international pariah.
“The Americans’ choice to
have such a decisive leader as
President Truman in the White
House when North Korea in-
vaded saved South Korea and
the free world,” said Cho Gab-
je, a conservative journalist and
publisher who led the cam-
paign to build a Truman statue.
The statue was dedicated at
a government-run memorial
park at Dabu-dong, a famous
Korean War battle site near
Daegu in southeast South Ko-
rea. It was made by sculptor
Kim Young-won, best known
for making the statue of King
Sejong in central Seoul.
F R I D A Y, J U L Y 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
and mutually reinforcing ap-
proaches that we’re taking on
with Italy,” White House Nation-
al Security Council spokesman
John Kirby said. “Italy is a NATO
ally and they are a very compe-
tent NATO ally and they’ve been
a tremendous suppor ter of
Ukraine.”
B e f o r e h e r W h i t e Ho u s e
meeting, Meloni headed to the
US Capitol to meet with House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schum-
er, and Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, as well as oth-
er lawmakers.
In remarks to reporters after
meeting McCarthy, Meloni said
it remained critical for the West
to remain united in helping
Ukraine defend its sovereignty.
DOJ
probes
Memphis
police
Investigating civil
rights allegations
By David Nakamura
and Mark Berman
WASHINGTON POST
The Justice Department on
Thursday opened a sweeping
civil rights investigation into al-
legations that the Memphis Po-
lice Department systematically
used excessive force and dis-
criminated against Black resi-
dents, dramatically escalating
federal scrutiny seven months
after the police beating death of
Tyre Nichols.
Assistant Attorney General
Kristen Clarke said the probe is
not based on any single instance
of misconduct but was launched
after the department’s broad re-
view of public records and infor-
mation provided by community
members.
“This federal civil rights in-
vestigation will examine wheth-
er police violated the Constitu-
tion or federal civil rights laws in
a systemic way,’’ Clarke said at a
news conference in Memphis,
where she was joined by Kevin
G. Ritz, the US Attorney for the
Western District of Tennessee.
Nichols, 29, a Black man, was
beaten by several Memphis offi-
cers on Jan. 7 and died three
days later of his injuries in an in-
cident caught on police surveil-
lance and body-camera footage.
Clarke said the federal probe
will examine the department’s
use of force, whether it has inap-
propriately targeted Black resi-
d e n t s o n t ra ff i c s t o p s , a n d
whether it has discriminated
more broadly against Black peo-
ple. She did not specify how long
the investigation would take.
Other pattern and practice in-
vestigations, including in Min-
neapolis and Louisville, took
around two years to complete.
If federal investigators find
that Memphis police violated
civil rights laws, the Justice De-
partment is likely to seek a court-
approved consent decree that
would force the local police to
implement hundreds of changes.
Clarke said she briefed Mem-
phis Mayor Jim Strickland and
Police Chief Cerelyn Davis and
that they pledged to cooperate
with the probe.
After the probe was an-
nounced, Strickland said in a
statement that the city would
“be a good partner in this new
inquiry.’’
Davis said in a statement that
her department “will continue to
fully cooperate and work closely
with the Department of Justice.’’
Davis also pledged her commit-
ment “to building and maintain-
ing public trust with the citizens
of Memphis that we took an oath
to serve each and every day.’’
The Justice Department had
announced in March that it had
begun, at the request of city offi-
cials, a review of the police de-
partment’s use of force policies
and practices in Memphis, a step
that added to the scrutiny facing
the local agency. That examina-
tion has been conducted by the
Office of Community Oriented
Policing Services and such re-
views aim to help local police
with technical assistance to im-
prove policies. They lack the
type of legally enforceable agree-
ments of far broader pattern or
practice investigations.
F R I D A Y, J U L Y 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
Trump team meets with office of special counsel
Lawyers for former presi-
dent Donald Trump met Thurs-
day with officials in the office of
the special
POLITICAL counsel, Jack
NOTEBOOK Smith, as fed-
eral prosecu-
tors edged closer toward bring-
ing an indictment against
Trump in connection with his
wide-ranging efforts to overturn
the 2020 election, according to
three people familiar with the
matter.
It was not immediately clear
what subjects were discussed at
the meeting or if Smith took
part. But similar gatherings are
often used by defense lawyers
as a last-ditch effort to argue
against charges being filed or to
convey their version of the facts
and the law.
On Thursday, the prosecu-
tors were said to have listened
courteously — without signal-
ing their intentions beyond
what they had conveyed in an
earlier letter to the former pres-
ident — as Trump’s lawyers
made their arguments.
In a post following the meet-
ing on his social media site,
Trump said that his lawyers had
“a productive meeting” with the
prosecutors. He said they had
explained to Smith’s team that
“I did nothing wrong, was ad-
vised by many lawyers, and that
an indictment of me would only
further destroy our country.”
The former president’s legal
team — including Todd Blanche
and a newly hired lawyer, John
Lauro — has been on high alert
since last week, when prosecu-
tors working for the special
counsel sent Trump a so-called
target letter in the election in-
terference case. It was the clear-
est signal that charges could be
coming.
The letter described three
potential counts that Trump
could face: conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States, ob-
struction of an official proceed-
ing, and a Reconstruction-era
civil rights charge that makes it
a crime to threaten or intimi-
date anyone in the “free exer-
cise or enjoyment” of any right
or privilege provided by the
Constitution or by federal law.
Another team of lawyers
working at the time for Trump
had a similar meeting with offi-
cials at the Justice Department
last month, days before prose-
cutors led by Smith filed an in-
dictment in Florida charging
the former president with ille-
gally holding onto 31 highly
sensitive classified documents
after leaving the White House.
The original indictment in
the Florida case, which is set to
President chooses to stay mum on his son’s legal problems
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cans have called the plea agree-
ment a “sweetheart deal” that
no average American would
have received. Representative
Jason Smith, a Missouri Repub-
lican and chair of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
filed a legal brief in the case
urging the judge to reject the
deal.
The Justice Department has
denied any impropriety. The
White House and Democrats
have also pointed out that the
US attorney handling the case,
David Weiss, is a Donald Trump
appointee who was given inde-
pendent authority to investi-
gate and pursue charges if war-
ranted.
The IRS whistle-blower alle-
gations are among multiple in-
vestigations House Republi-
cans have launched into Hunt-
er Biden, seeking to connect his
personal business dealings in
Ukraine and China to the presi-
dent. So far, they’ve produced
no evidence of any connection.
Joe Biden has denied ever talk-
ing to his son about his busi-
ness dealings.
House Speaker Kevin McCa-
rthy, a California Republican,
went as far as to tell Fox News
this week that the president’s
family finances might have ris-
en to the level of a formal im-
p e a c h m e n t i n q u i r y, w h i c h
would give Congress “the stron-
gest power to get the rest of the
knowledge and information
needed.”
Representative Ralph Nor-
man, a South Carolina Republi-
can, said Thursday that Hunter
Biden’s problems had become
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House hearing on oversight of the DEA on Thursday. She faced questions on a possible plan to remove marijuana
from the list of schedule one drugs.
go to trial in May, also accused
Trump of conspiring with one
of his personal aides, Walt Nau-
ta, to obstruct the government’s
repeated attempts to retrieve
the classified documents.
If Trump is charged in con-
nection with his efforts to re-
verse his election loss, it would
be an extraordinary moment in
which a former president — and
current presidential candidate
— stood accused of using the
powers of his own government
to remain in office against the
will of the voters.
Trump, the current front-
runner for the Republican pres-
idential nomination, has al-
ready been charged not only in
the classified documents case
but also by the Manhattan dis-
trict attorney, who has accused
him of dozens of felonies relat-
ed to hush-money payments
made to a porn actress in the
run-up to the 2016 election.
Trump also faces scrutiny
from the district attorney in
Fulton County, Georgia, who is
investigating his efforts to bend
the results of the 2020 election
in that state in his favor.
NEW YORK TIMES
Supreme Court clears way
for natural gas pipeline
WASHINGTON — The Su-
more than just a political liabil-
ity for the president and no
public comments would help.
“ He’s g o i n g t o g e t i m -
peached on it,” said Norman, a
member of the hard-right Free-
dom Caucus.
But on both sides of the Cap-
itol Thursday, Democrats de-
ferred to the president on his
handling of the controversy.
Because the case remains in
the courts, Senator Jack Reed, a
Rhode Island Democrat, said
Joe Biden is wise not to com-
ment on it.
“If you talk now, the percep-
tion will be you’re trying to in-
fluence the outcome. I don’t
think he wants to do that at all,”
Reed said. “When the outcome
is firmly established, the final
judgment of a court, then I
think he will make a statement.
He should make a statement.”
Biden’s only public com-
ments about his son’s plea deal
were brief and came the day the
agreement was announced,
June 20. “I’m very proud of my
son,” he said in response to
shouted questions during a
round table event on artificial
intelligence.
Democrats said they under-
stood the difficulty the presi-
dent faces as a parent dealing
with the troubles of Hunter
Biden, 53, who has publicly ac-
knowledged years of drug and
alcohol addiction that he has
been working to overcome.
They said they were not con-
cerned about Joe Biden’s si-
lence.
“I just feel anybody that has
children who have challenges,
you love your children uncondi-
tionally,” said Senator Joe Man-
T h e B o s t o n
preme Court on Thursday tem-
porarily cleared the way for
construction of a 300-mile pipe-
line capable of carrying 2 bil-
lion cubic feet of natural gas
daily from northern West Vir-
ginia to southern Virginia.
The court’s brief order gave
no reasons, which is typical
when the justices act on emer-
gency applications, and the or-
der was provisional as the case
moves forward in the lower
courts.
The Mountain Valley Pipe-
line, which has cost more than
$6 billion, has been the subject
of years of legal challenges from
environmental groups and is
nearing completion.
A provision concerning the
pipeline was tucked into legisla-
tion enacted in June to raise the
debt limit. The provision,
championed by Senator Joe
Manchin, a West Virginia Dem-
ocrat, barred most legal chal-
lenges to the construction and
said challenges to the provision
itself must be brought in a fed-
eral appeals court in Washing-
ton.
The US Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit in Richmond
nevertheless issued orders this
month temporarily blocking the
remaining construction.
Backers of the pipeline em-
President Biden has denied ever talking to his son Hunter about his business dealings.
chin, a West Virginia Democrat
who has not been shy about
criticizing Biden on other mat-
ters.
Senator Ben Cardin, a Mary-
land Democrat whose son, Mi-
chael, then 30, killed himself in
1998, said he does not think
Hunter Biden’s problems have
become a political liability for
the president that needs to be
addressed.
“I can tell you, having gone
through this, we love our fami-
lies, but we’re not responsible
for those actions,” he said. “I
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braced the Supreme Court’s de-
cision, expressing relief that
construction would continue.
Patrick Morrisey, West Vir-
ginia’s attorney general, de-
scribed the pipeline as crucial.
“The Mountain Valley Pipe-
line is vital to the survival of
American energy independence
and affects thousands of jobs in
West Virginia,” Morrisey said in
a statement. “Its completion is
also critical to our national se-
curity.”
Environmental groups de-
nounced the ruling, calling the
pipeline “destructive” and add-
ing that they would make every
effort to stop it.
NEW YORK TIMES
Facebook’s algorithm not
necessarily a mind-changer
For years, regulators and ac-
tivists have worried that social
media companies’ algorithms
were dividing the United States
with politically toxic posts and
conspiracies. The concern was
so widespread that in 2020, Me-
ta flung open troves of internal
data for university academics to
study how Facebook and Insta-
gram would affect the upcom-
ing presidential election.
The first results of that re-
search show that the company’s
platforms play a critical role in
think Americans understand
that.”
S e n a t o r Mi tt R o m n e y, a
Utah Republican, said he em-
pathized with the president’s
situation. But he added that he
thinks Hunter Biden cashed in
on his father’s name, although
Romney hasn’t seen any evi-
dence yet of a connection to the
president.
“I’m not quick to criticize a
parent and how they deal with
their child,” he said. “I don’t
know the president has to say
anything or should say any-
funneling users to partisan in-
formation with which they are
likely to agree. But the results
cast doubt on assumptions that
the strategies Meta could use to
discourage virality and engage-
ment on its social networks
would substantially affect peo-
ple’s political beliefs.
“Algorithms are extremely
influential in terms of what
people see on the platform, and
in terms of shaping their on-
platform experience,” Joshua
Tucker, co-director of the Cen-
ter for Social Media and Politics
at New York University and one
of the leaders on the research
project, said in an interview.
“Despite the fact that we
find this big impact in people’s
on-platform experience, we find
very little impact in changes to
people’s attitudes about politics
and even people’s self-reported
participation around politics.”
The first four studies, which
were released on Thursday in
the journals Science and Na-
ture, are the result of a unique
partnership between university
researchers and Meta’s own an-
alysts to study how social media
affects political polarization
and people’s understanding and
opinions about news, govern-
ment, and democracy. The re-
searchers, who relied on Meta
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thing publicly about his son. He
loves his son. I think privately
he should have reined him in.”
Representative Don Beyer, a
Virginia Democrat, noted that
other presidents have dealt
with family members with legal
problems.
But Biden’s decision to in-
vite his son to attend last
month’s White House state din-
ner with the prime minister of
India gave him pause. Attorney
General Merrick Garland was
also among the large crowd at
the high-profile event.
The Nation A5
for data and the ability to run
experiments, analyzed those is-
sues during the run-up to the
2020 election. The studies were
peer-reviewed before publica-
tion.
The collaboration, which is
expected to be released over a
dozen studies, also will examine
data collected after the Jan. 6,
2021, attack on the US Capitol,
Tucker said.
WASHINGTON POST
Donors, others worried
about DeSantis campaign
On the day his presidential
campaign said it had laid off
more than a third of its staff to
address worries about unsus-
tainable spending, Governor
Ron DeSantis of Florida began
his morning by boarding a pri-
vate jet to Chattanooga, Tenn.
The choice was a routine one
— DeSantis and his wife, Casey,
haven’t regularly flown com-
mercial for years — but also
symbolic to close observers of
his struggling presidential cam-
paign. As DeSantis promises a
reset, setting out on Thursday
on a bus tour in Iowa to show
off a leaner, hungrier operation,
several donors and allies re-
mained skeptical about wheth-
er the governor could right the
ship.
Their bleak outlook reflects
a deep mistrust plaguing the
highest levels of the DeSantis
campaign, as well as its sup-
porters and the well-funded su-
per PAC, Never Back Down, bol-
stering his presidential ambi-
tions.
Publicly, the parties are pro-
jecting a stoic sunniness about
DeSantis, even as he has sunk
dangerously close to third place
in some recent polls. They have
said they are moving into an
“insurgent” phase in which the
candidate will be everywhere —
on national and local media,
and especially in Iowa.
But privately, the situation is
starkly different.
Major Republican donors,
including the hedge fund bil-
lionaire Kenneth Griffin, have
remained on the sidelines be-
cause they are disappointed in
his performance and his cam-
paign, according to two people
familiar with their thinking.
DeSantis donors have specif-
ically raised concerns about the
campaign’s finances, which ap-
pear both troubling and persis-
tently opaque. Some prominent
vendors did not show up on the
first Federal Election Commis-
sion report, raising questions
about how much of the spend-
ing has been deferred.
NEW YORK TIMES
“I would not have invited
him to that. It sent the wrong
signal at the wrong time,” Beyer
said.
A White House spokesper-
son said after the dinner that it
was common for presidents to
invite family members to state
dinners and “the president and
first lady love and support their
son.” In addition to Hunter
Biden and his wife, Melissa Co-
hen Biden, the state dinner
guest list included the couple’s
daughter, Naomi Biden, as well
as the president’s daughter,
Ashley Biden, and his brother,
James Biden.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll last
month found that half of Amer-
ican adults believe that Hunter
Biden is getting favorable treat-
ment from prosecutors because
he is the president’s son.
But Senator Elizabeth War-
ren, a Massachusetts Demo-
crat, said Republicans were
overstating how much people
c a r e a b o u t Hu n t e r B i d e n’s
problems.
“I think there’s great interest
in the topic among a hardcore
right-wing base, but I don’t see
a lot of evidence that much of
anyone else thinks there’s a se-
rious problem that deserves a
full congressional inquiry,”
Warren said. She added that
she had no advice for Joe Biden
on handling a complicated situ-
ation.
“The president will make his
own decision on this,” Warren
said. “I think he’s doing fine.”
Jim Puzzanghera can be
reached at
jim.puzzanghera@globe.com.
Follow him @JimPuzzanghera.
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The help line, in the eyes of
many, is a bright spot — “beauti-
fully managed,” as one advocate
put it.
When Lynn called, a woman
answered immediately and
spoke in a voice Lynn described
as soothing and kind. The help
line is intended for anyone seek-
ing mental health care, whether
they are facing a crisis like
Lynn’s daughter or just looking
for help.
Lynn, who asked to be identi-
fied by her middle name to pro-
tect her daughter’s privacy, ex-
plained the situation to the
trained specialist on the phone.
The woman connected her with
the local mobile crisis team;
such teams, which can include
nurses, social workers, and other
types of mental health providers,
are situated around the state to
visit people who need immedi-
ate attention, assess their condi-
tion, and guide them in the next
steps.
In the past, the crisis team
was available only to people cov-
ered by MassHealth, the state’s
Medicaid program, and Lynn
has commercial insurance. But
now, she learned that the state’s
“Roadmap for Behavioral Health
Care Reform” had made mobile
crisis teams available to every-
one.
Unfortunately, on this night,
the local crisis team was not es-
pecially mobile. They did not
have enough staff to visit her
daughter at home.
It’s not clear how often this
happens, but finding enough
workers remains a challenge
throughout health care, includ-
ing behavioral health.
Officials at three mental
health agencies interviewed by
the Globe said their mobile crisis
teams are fully staffed and usual-
ly able to make home visits with-
in an hour.
But Pam Sager, executive di-
rector of the Parent/Professional
Advocacy League, which works
for improved access to mental
health services for children,
youth, and their families, said
some of the 25 mobile crisis
teams “are struggling.” They’re
finding it difficult to recruit staff
willing to visit people’s homes,
and parents sometimes wait
hours for someone to arrive, Sag-
er said.
In Lynn’s case, the crisis team
offered to speak with her daugh-
ter by phone or video. The girl
declined. They invited Lynn and
her daughter to walk into the
team’s office and speak with a
clinician in person, but the teen-
ager refused to get in the car.
Meanwhile, the help line spe-
cialist, who was on hold while
Lynn spoke with the crisis team,
got back on the phone and chat-
ted some more. “They asked
about me — ‘We’re here for you
too,’ ” Lynn said. “We talked a lit-
tle and she was super nice, and
just very helpful.”
Lynn estimates the entire in-
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due to run out. While the
new stopgap offers some breath-
ing room, lawmakers are also
running up against their own
calendars: Beacon Hill typically
falls into a lull in August, with
legislators breaking for planned
vacations or summer downtime.
“ We are literally working
24/7 on tr ying to get a deal
done,” said Senator Michael J.
Rodrigues, a Westport Demo-
crat and the Senate’s lead negoti-
ator.
A late-arriving budget has be-
come the norm for Massachu-
setts. State officials have now
failed for 13 years straight to
have an annual spending plan in
place for the start of the fiscal
year. It is also the only state that
was late in completing its annu-
al spending plan every single
year since 2017, a previous
Globe review found.
But this year, the Legisla-
ture’s budget pace is an outlier
even within that dismal record.
Outside of the fiscal year 2021
proposal, when COVID-induced
delays pushed enactment of the
budget to December 2020, this
year’s plan will land on the gov-
ernor’s desk later than any bud-
get in 22 years, according to the
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foun-
d a t i o n , a b u s i n e s s - b a c ke d
teraction took about 45 minutes.
That is not unusual. Accord-
ing to state data, during the first
quarter of the year, the average
weekly “handle time” for the
help line ranged from 13 to 19
minutes. The line received 8,575
calls in the first three months of
this year and answered on aver-
age within 13 seconds. Addition-
ally, staff exchanged 2,620 texts
or online chats with people seek-
ing help, and they tended to last
about 25 minutes.
“I was pleased and surprised
with the ease of dealing with it,”
Lynn said of the help line, which
she’d heard about at work (the
state ran a media campaign).
She decided not to go to a hospi-
tal emergency department, as
they’d done in the past.
watchdog. The fiscal year 2002
proposal reached the governor
in November.
Further delays in the Legisla-
ture’s budget work could create
cascading problems for others.
Local school officials, for exam-
ple, are still in the dark about
whether a program to provide
free universal school meals will
be made permanent with the
new academic year looming just
weeks away. (The House passed
the provision, but the Senate did
not.)
“If that delays much beyond
mid-August, that would leave a
lot of questions,” said Tom Scott,
coexecutive director of the Mas-
sachusetts Association of School
Superintendents.
The House and Senate have
finally agreed on a separate bill
that includes $200 million for
towns and cities to maintain
their roads and bridges during
the heat of the summer road
work season. But will local offi-
cials also have access to another
$100 million the Senate tucked
into its budget for local trans-
portation work, but the House
did not?
“The longer these things get
pushed out, the more real and
practical deadlines they’re going
to run up against,” said Doug
Howgate, president of the Mas-
sachusetts Taxpayers Founda-
T h e B o s t o n
The help line and mobile
team “did the same assessment
and the same sort of risk stratifi-
cation the ER would have done,”
Lynn said. She and her daughter
avoided the stress of a long wait
in a frenetic environment that
would likely have not resulted in
any additional care.
Providing an alternative to
ER visits is one of the key goals
of the Roadmap for Behavioral
Health Care Reform. Today, in
emergency rooms throughout
the state, hundreds of patients in
crisis — many of them children
— “board” for weeks or days
awaiting a psychiatric bed.
Emily Bailey, chief of behav-
ioral health at MassHealth, said
the state has seen a decline in ER
boarding among MassHealth
The State House typically falls into a lull in August, with
lawmakers away for vacations.
tion. “There is no particular
magic day [for passing a bud-
get]. But as we’ve seen these
timelines lengthen in recent
years, getting something to the
governor after July is not a prec-
edent we want to set.”
Legislative leaders on Thurs-
day did not indicate when they
expect a deal to emerge, and
both Rodrigues and Representa-
tive Aaron Michlewitz — the
House’s lead negotiator — de-
clined to say where they remain
apart, citing lawmakers’ long-
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members since the beginning of
the year.
But data from the Massachu-
setts Health & Hospital Associa-
tion show little change in the
number of hospital boarders,
with 548 in the week ending Ju-
ly 17, about the same as a year
ago.
“We still view these as early
days for the Roadmap’s imple-
mentation, but we do believe
that its components will make a
major difference once they have
had time to fully take hold,” a
spokesperson said in an email.
He noted that many people still
don’t receive care for mental
health conditions until they be-
come emergencies, and there re-
mains a tendency to “instinctive-
ly ” head to the ER with any
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held practice of not publicly dis-
cussing the closed-door deliber-
ations.
“It’s hard for us to specify ex-
actly, what’s the reason why,”
said Michlewtiz, a North End
Democrat. “But it’s not a lack of
effort, it’s not a lack of trying,
not a lack of work from both
sides. I think we’ve been very,
very committed to seeing this
get done, and hopefully we’ ll
have some fruits of our labor
shortly.”
When the Legislature does
Above, a patient waited
for her session to begin at
Clinical and Support
Options, a provider
participating in the state’s
Roadmap for Behavioral
Health Care Reform. At
left, Karin Jeffers,
president and chief
executive, said everybody
seeking care “has the
ability to get at least
something.”
problem.
The Roadmap involves much
more than the help line and cri-
sis teams. The state has contract-
ed with providers who formed
25 new Community Behavioral
Health Centers — CBHCs — to
provide an array of services, in-
cluding urgent care centers
where patients can walk in, re-
ceive an assessment, and walk
out with a connection to some-
one who will help.
Instead of being paid for each
encounter with a licensed clini-
cian, the centers receive a flat
fee per day for each patient. That
frees them to employ workers
whose services aren’t normally
reimbursed: trained “peer spe-
cialists” who have personal expe-
rience with mental illness or ad-
diction, and care coordinators
who will help patients navigate
the system. It also makes it easi-
er to work in teams focused on
providing whatever the patient
needs, even if it’s not a medical
service, such as help finding a
place to live.
“We’re finally able to provide
care in the way we wanted to do
for years and have never been
able to do,” said Vicker V. Di-
Gravio III, president of Riverside
pass a budget deal, Healey has
10 days to review it. She filed the
ne w s topgap bill roughly a
month after lawmakers had
passed an initial $6.6 billion
package that was expected to
run to the end of this month.
Healey has not publicly pres-
sured lawmakers to complete
their work, saying Wednesday
that the long-running negotia-
tions are “all part of the process.”
State, local, and nonprofit of-
ficials around the state are close-
ly monitoring the budget for any
number of reasons. Community
college leaders have been pre-
paring for a program the House,
Senate, and Healey have sup-
ported to cover tuition costs for
many residents 25 and older at
the state’s 15 community colleg-
es.
David Podell, MassBay Com-
munity College’s president, said
the school, like others, has pre-
pared a marketing campaign
and examined what kinds of
classes to offer should the popu-
lation of older students swell un-
der the program.
“The closer we get to Sept. 1,
the trickier it’s going to become,”
said Podell, who chairs the
state’s community college Coun-
cil of Presidents. “Although it’s,
I’ ll say, inconvenient that we
don’t know about it today, we
will manage.”
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Community Care, a Dedham
agency that runs centers in Mil-
ford and Norwood.
The centers received 90,000
visits in their first three months
of this year, while mobile crisis
teams provided 13,000 visits on-
site and in schools, homes, and
group living environments,
about 20 percent more than the
previous year.
The centers are currently
serving primarily MassHealth
patients, one-third of the state’s
population. But if commercial
insurers were to contract with
these centers, their services
would be available to privately
insured people as well. So far,
few have. State officials say a ma-
jor goal in the coming months is
to persuade more private insur-
ers to sign on.
Meanwhile, people with pri-
vate insurance like Lynn contin-
ue to get care as in the past,
through outpatient providers,
which often involves long waits.
Lynn said her daughter was see-
ing her regular therapist and
seemed to have stabilized after a
medication change.
Even within the CBHC sys-
tem, people may have to wait for
treatment, especially if they
want individual therapy, rather
than group therapy or meeting
with peer specialists.
But Karin Jeffers, president
and chief executive of Clinical
and Support Options, which op-
erates four centers in Western
Massachusetts, said everybody
seeking care “has the ability to
get at least something.”
Under the Roadmap,
MassHealth is paying higher
rates to the centers than it pays
for mental health services in oth-
er parts of the system. That has
enabled Jeffers to increase sala-
ries by more than 25 percent,
which helped with both reten-
tion and recruitment in the CB-
HCs. But some said the higher
salaries have meant that centers
are cannibalizing the rest of the
mental health system by draw-
ing providers away from other
programs. State officials said
MassHealth is planning rate in-
creases for certain services start-
ing in August, to try to address
this problem.
Assessing the Roadmap roll-
out so far, Danna Mauch, presi-
dent and chief executive of the
Massachusetts Association for
Mental Health, said, “Given the
fact that this was implemented
in the context of a workforce cri-
sis, it is going better than many
of us predicted.”
Jeffers agreed. “It’s actually
really impressive to see what has
been accomplished by both the
state and the providers,” she
said. But she noted the demand
continues to outstrip the supply
of providers.
“Everyone wants it to be at its
full potential now. The reality is
we still have work to do.”
Felice J. Freyer can be reached at
felice.freyer@globe.com. Follow
her @felicejfreyer.
A n o t h e r u n c e r t a i n ty f o r
some students is whether a Sen-
ate-backed plan to cover tuition
costs for nursing students at
community colleges will survive.
The budget isn’t the only ma-
jor legislation in limbo. House
and Senate leaders also remain
locked in negotiations over a
wide-ranging tax relief bill,
which both Rodrigues and
Michlewitz are also leading.
Michlewitz said Thursday that
one could emerge before the
other, and he downplayed that
the presence of the tax bill has
held up the budget talks.
“It’s a separate negotiation,”
he said.
One thing is clear: Both the
House and Senate adjourned
Thursday without scheduling
another formal session — where
it can take a roll call vote to pass
a budget agreement — until
Monday.
Rodrigues expressed surprise
Thursday when a reporter sug-
gested members of the public
want to know what is holding
negotiations up.
“Really?” he said, noting he
hasn’t heard from a single con-
stituent about the budget delay.
“The public’s not asking me.”
Matt Stout can be reached at
matt.stout@globe.com. Follow
him @mattpstout.
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train fire.
To address some of those
problems, the MBTA’s board of
directors approved the $9.7 bil-
lion, five-year capital investment
plan for the agency on Thursday.
The total is larger than the pre-
vious $9.6 billion, five-year plan
approved last year, a nod to con-
cerns raised by advocates.
The plan approved Thursday
had received pushback from
transit and climate advocates for
largely maintaining the status
quo and failing to advance long-
discussed projects past the plan-
ning and design phase, such as
electrifying the commuter rail
lines while increasing the fre-
quency of trains to 15-20 min-
utes, as well as connecting the
Blue Line to the Red Line.
In March, the MBTA said
that staff had requested around
$9.2 billion in new funding for
reliability and modernization
initiatives such as bridges and
tunnels, maintenance and ad-
ministrative facilities, passenger
facilities, and vehicles, accord-
ing to a presentation to the
board. The plan approved
Thursday provides just $1.5 bil-
lion in new funding for the ini-
tiatives.
MBTA spokesperson Joe Pe-
saturo said the MBTA prioritizes
requests from staff based on
available funding.
“The financially-constrained
CIP is a priority-driven rolling
five-year capital budget shaped
by carefully weighing the costs
and benefits of proposed proj-
ects,” he said in an email.
The new leaders will have
their work cut out for them.
In addition to the new chief
of stations, Eng has also hired
Sam Zhou to be assistant gener-
al manager for engineering and
capital, Doug Connett to be chief
of infra s t ruc ture, an d Rod
Brooks to be senior adviser for
capital, operations, and safety.
All four come from Eng’s old
stomping grounds in New York,
A monthlong shutdown of the Orange Line last year failed to dramatically improve commute times for many people.
where he led the Long Island
Rail Road among other high-
profile jobs.
Varley previously worked in
top roles at the LIRR, Eng said.
Zhou has served in senior lead-
ership positions at the New York
State Department of Transporta-
tion. Connett comes from the
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority in Washing-
ton, D.C., where he was vice
president and assistant chief
safety officer of operations and
investigations after spending
much of his career in New York,
Eng said. And Brooks was senior
vice president of operations at
LIRR, Eng said.
Brooks started at the T this
week, Eng said, and the other
new hires will join between Aug.
14 and Aug. 28. Varley and Zhou
will be paid $265,000 per year,
Connett, $260,000 per year, and
Brooks is on a contract through
the end of the year at $120 an
hour, with an option to extend
for another year, according to
Pesaturo.
“I hear loud and clear what
the public wants: safety, reliabil-
ity, all these things will be on my
to-do list,” said Zhou. “My goal is
to deliver projects on time, on
budget.”
Still, he nodded to the ex-
traordinary challenges.
“I’m not Superman,” he add-
ed.
Also on Thursday, the MBTA
board approved a $119 million
contract to buy 80 battery elec-
tric buses from New Flyer of
America, marking a major mile-
stone in the agency’s long de-
layed effort to move away from
diesel powered buses. The new
battery buses won’t be emis-
sions-free though; they will in-
clude diesel heaters to help with
their range, the agency said.
The first buses of this order
were supposed to have been car-
rying passengers by now, and
another 45 were supposed to
have arrived by next year, ac-
cording to the request for pro-
posals. Now, New Flyer will pro-
vide the T with the first 10 buses
next year, 27 more in 2025, and
the final 43 in 2026, according
to Bill Wolfgang, the director of
vehicle engineering.
The MBTA used funds from a
$116 million federal grant to
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pay for much of the contract,
Wolfgang said.
The T board meeting, which
addressed a wide array of issues
from train maintenance facility
upgrades to renewable electrici-
ty, also made time for public
comment. There, the mother
and friends of Katelyn McCa-
rthy, an Abington High School
senior killed by a commuter rail
train at the Birch Street crossing
in Abington last year, tearfully
pleaded with the agency to do
more to protect children and the
elderly at crossings.
“My daughter was taken
from us and my future is over,”
said Lori Frost, Mc Carthy ’s
mother. “So I will fight for my
daughter and all the children.”
The town of Abington com-
missioned a report dated March
31 from TrafInfo Communica-
tions, a transportation consult-
ing company, that examined
whether the seven railroad
grade crossings in the communi-
ty meet industry safety stan-
dards.
The report found that five
people have been killed in 18
crashes at railroad grade cross-
ings in Abington between 1979
and March 2023. The railroad
grade crossings on North Ave-
nue and Birch Street had the
highest number of crashes, six
each.
Since the report was pub-
lished, that number has grown.
On April 26, a man who
drove his vehicle around a low-
ered gate at the railroad grade
crossing on Birch Street was
killed after a commuter train
struck the vehicle, officials said.
The report offered recom-
mendations to improve safety at
five of the railroad grade cross-
ings. The recommendations for
Birch Street included removing
one crosswalk and installing a
new one at a nearby location,
and adding lighting, a pedestri-
an gate, and a sign.
Eng said the MBTA has in-
stalled fog lights, pavement re-
flectors, and reflective bollards
at all seven Abington crossings
and is working on installing 12-
inch LED warning lights.
Eng offered condolences to
McCarthy’s family and friends.
“Safety is something that we
have to practice every day,” he
said. “One of the reasons we
took the action we took is we’ve
seen these measures work in
other places. So we want to
make sure that we did that, we
accelerated it, and we will con-
tinue to look at opportunities to
further ensure safety across our
system.”
Laura Crimaldi of the Globe
staff contributed to this report.
Taylor Dolven can be reached at
taylor.dolven@globe.com.
Follow her @taydolven.

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uTICKS
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frightening future.
As the conversation among
se ven middle- aged friends
moved from eighth grade to our
lives now, our joys, our fears,
Laura told a terrifying tale: First
came a tick bite. Then, a few
weeks later, a Sunday football
game, a bowl of beef chili, and
soon, hives, a swelling throat,
the feeling she couldn’t breathe,
a rush to the emergency room, a
collapse on the floor. “I think I
was panicking,” she said.
The diagnosis came the next
day, from an allergist who, as
good fortune would have it, hap-
pened to have learned about Al-
pha-gal Syndrome at a confer-
ence. “Have you been bitten by a
tick recently?” he asked.
(A study just published by the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reported that 42 per-
cent of health care providers
were not aware of Alpha-gal Syn-
drome, and another 35 percent
were not confident in their abili-
ty to diagnose or manage such
patients.)
Alpha-gal is a sugar molecule
found in most mammals (but
not humans) — and also in prod-
ucts made from and by mam-
mals, including gelatin, cow’s
milk, and milk products. My
friend Laura soon learned this
the hard way, after having in-
tense allergic reactions to Tyle-
nol gel caps and candy corn,
both of which she had no idea
would be hazardous for her in
her new state.
According to the CDC, short
of showing up in the ER gasping
for breath, Alpha-gal symptoms
can include: hive or an itchy
rash, nausea or vomiting, heart-
burn or indigestion, diarrhea, a
drop in blood pressure, swelling
of the lips, tongue or eyelids, diz-
ziness or faintness, or severe
stomach pain.
The Lone Star tick, which is
known to be particularly aggres-
sive, is named for the white dot
on the female’s hard-shell back,
not for any resemblance to the
Texas state flag. A second study
published Thursday by the CDC
found that suspected Alpha-gal
Syndrome cases in the United
States have increased substantial-
ly since 2010, and that more than
100,000 people have become al-
lergic to red meat since then.
Suspected cases predomi-
nantly occurred in counties
within the Southern, Midwest-
ern, and Mid-Atlantic US Census
Bureau regions, the CDC report-
ed, but suspected Alpha-gal cas-
es were also identified in areas
outside of the Lone Star tick’s
range
In Massachusetts, the highest
number of suspected cases per
capita was in Dukes, Nantucket,
Barnstable, and Berkshire coun-
ties, according to the study. The
larger counties of Worcester,
Plymouth, and Middlesex had
the highest absolute counts of
suspected cases.
The growing threat can also
be seen in data from the Univer-
sity of Rhode Island’s TickEn-
counter Resource Center, which
allows people to upload photos
of ticks. In the past few years,
there has been an enormous
growth in local Lone Star sight-
ings, said the center’s director,
entomologist and professor
Thomas Mather.
“We’ve had TickSpotters sub-
missions of Lone Stars from
southern and mid-Atlantic
states” since 2006, he said in an
email, “but in Rhode Island and
probably the Cape and Islands,
we saw a 300% increase between
2019-2022 when compared to
2014-2018.”
Scientists say likely drivers of
the tick explosion include the
warming climate and the excep-
tional growth in the numbers of
white-tailed deer, especially in
populated areas.
The good news, such as it is,
is that not every one of the “mil-
lions and millions” of people
who have been bitten by Lone
Stars develop the meat allergy —
far from it, said Mather.
“I am not trying to diminish
it,” he said, but he’s concerned
the fear may be out of propor-
tion to the threat. “I’ve had peo-
ple say, ‘I was bitten by one of
those things, I’m going to cook a
people on budgets, artists look-
ing for Alpha-gal-safe art sup-
plies, women in need of Alpha-
gal-safe beauty products, people
searching for Alpha-gal recipes.
“A lot of people have talked
about being depressed — you
have to be so careful,” said Lau-
ra, who’s in two groups. “They
feel like it limits social activities.
You don’t want to eat anyone
else’s food and you don’t know
what’s in something when you
go to a restaurant.”
Larry Dapsis, an entomolo-
gist with the Cape Cod Coopera-
tive Extension — and the pro-
ducer, director, and star of the
10-part “Tickology”series on
YouTube — said that by this
point, the Lone Star tick is “pret-
ty much all over” Cape Cod.
“This red meat allergy is the
real game changer,” said Dapsis,
who told a reporter he’s been
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called a “rock star” of the tick
The Lone Star tick is becoming more prevalent on the East Coast. world. “When I get to this part of
the presentation I do get people’s
full attention. Their eyes are
What measures you can take ‘I’ve had people say, wide open like they are in a Ste-
phen King film festival.”
With tick season here, and a new tick on the Cape and Islands, “I was bitten by one The person publicly credited
we sought advice from Larry Dapsis, an entomologist with the
Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, which educates the public on of those things, I’m with the first Lone Star sighting
on the Cape is Eugene McNeill, a
a range of topics. Here’s what he told us: going to cook a crew chief with the Cape Cod
ºTicks live at the edges of yards and in wooded areas. Wear long
sleeves and pants, and your best bet is for light-colored clothing, since hamburger and eat Mosquito Control Project.
McNeill spends his days
ticks will be most visible.
ºWhen you come back indoors check your body and your clothes for
it in my doctor’s hunting mosquito outbreaks,
and on a recent afternoon he
ticks. Put any clothing that you suspect might carry ticks into the dryer
for 20 minutes, as the heat will kill them.
parking lot in case took a break to recall the day
ºBug spray products that contain DEET are effective on exposed skin, anything happens.” ’ about a decade ago when he re-
turned to his truck on the Sand-
he said. And treating clothing and footwear with an insecticide called
permethrin is highly effective. THOMAS MATHER wich/ Barnstable town line
ºIf you do see a tick, remove it with pointy tweezers. Consider testing University of Rhode Island along Route 6A to record his ob-
it with the TickReport (tickreport.com) to see what pathogens you may TickEncounter servations and felt something on
have been exposed to. Resource Center his left thumb.
BETH TEITELL “I looked down and it was a
tick,” he said, “but I had never
seen anything like it.”
hamburger and eat it in my doc- nosed with the condition go into an appropriate avoidance diet “But it was hard to control.,”
tor’s parking lot in case anything a “clear period of denial,” he add- and access to emergency medi- he said. “It was so fast.”
happens.’ ” ed. “They really enjoy red meat.” cations [epinephrine] when When I asked which he
Just how big a risk are we fac- If you do not get subsequent needed.” feared more, sharks or Lone
ing? Without data on the num- Lone Star bites, the allergy gen- The emotional side effects Stars, it was kind of a toss-up.
ber of bites and the number of erally resolves in three to five can be seen on Facebook, where “The Lone Star, I guess,” he
allergies, doctors just don’ t years, Commins said. But so the pain pours out in support said. Pause. “But that’s because I
know the odds, said Scott Com- many people are bitten repeat- and educational groups, some don’t go in the ocean any more
mins, an allergist and associate edly over the years, he added, with thousands of members. because of the sharks.”
professor of medicine at the Uni- that it only goes away in about There are groups for diabet-
versity of North Carolina School 15 to 20 percent of people. ics with Alpha-gal Syndrome, Beth Teitell can be reached at
of Medicine. As for treatment, there is singles who suffer from it, family beth.teitell@globe.com. Follow
Some people who are diag- none, he said. “We manage with members of its victims, kids, her on Twitter @bethteitell.
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Opinion
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A ruined potato field at the Smiarowski Farm in Hatfield on July 19.
Editorial
Flooding ravaged
Massachusetts farms. The state
should help farmers recover.
T
he Teddy C. Smiarowski farm in Hat-
field, owned by Bernie Smiarowski and
his three brothers, grows 650 acres of
potatoes, 12 acres of strawberries, and
some asparagus and squash. When the
flooding hit July 10, 150 acres of potatoes were
wiped out. Subsequent heavy rain destroyed anoth-
er 50 acres.
Smiarowski estimates the damage at $1.5 million
to $2 million in lost crops. But he won’t know until
he starts harvesting in a couple of weeks. “Ques-
tions remain on how good, how marketable the rest
of our crop is going to be,” he said.
Farmers in the Connecticut River Valley were
devastated by the extremely heavy rains that pum-
meled Western Massachusetts and Vermont earlier
this month. The Massachusetts Department of Agri-
cultural Resources estimates that at least 75 farms
were flooded, damaging 2,000 acres of crops valued
at $15 million. Those numbers will likely increase as
the long-term effects are tallied.
Agriculture may not be a huge part of the Massa-
chusetts economy, but it is vital to the health of
many rural communities. The state benefits from
dairy products, cranberries, and hay produced lo-
cally. The Connecticut River Valley is known for its
fertile soil, and farms there produce potatoes, corn,
butternut squash, and other vegetables. Farms sup-
ply healthy food to local supermarkets, farmers’
markets, restaurants, schools, and food banks with-
out the climate impact of being trucked cross-coun-
try.
For all those reasons, state government should
help farmers recover from this particularly devastat-
ing storm. A $20 million fund that the state Senate
passed Wednesday is an important step. The fund
would be available to provide cash assistance in
whatever way state officials deem most effective to
flood-ravaged farmers.
There are existing farm aid programs. For in-
stance, Governor Maura Healey worked with the
United Way of Central Massachusetts to establish a
private philanthropic effort, the Massachusetts
Farm Resiliency Fund, to raise charitable funds to
assist farmers, but it will likely only meet a fraction
of the need. And while some farmers have crop in-
surance, it usually covers only specific crops and on-
ly kicks in after a certain loss threshold. For most
farmers, insurance won’t reimburse their losses.
There may also be some federal support on the
way, including funds to help fix municipal infra-
structure such as washed-out roads, bridges, and
culverts. US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed
Markey and US Representatives Richard Neal and
Jim McGovern wrote to the Farm Service Agency
and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack seeking ad-
ditional assistance.
And if the federal government issues a disaster
declaration, low-interest loans would become avail-
able to farmers who lost crops or equipment, as
would assistance to help restore damaged land.
But loans will not be enough to help many farm-
ers who borrowed money to finance this year’s
crops and now have no means to repay it. “To give a
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farmer who’s already in the hole another shovel isn’t
going to help much,” said Joe Czajkowski, whose
Hadley farm lost 40 to 50 acres of carrots, parsnips,
and other vegetables.
The proposed $20 million state public fund, to be
administered by the Executive Office for Adminis-
tration and Finance and the Department of Agricul-
tural Resources, would fill needs not covered by fed-
eral or charitable funds. This will be necessary im-
mediately, before federal loans become available,
and in the long term if farmers discover that crops
spared by the flooding succumbed to diseases relat-
ed to the torrential rains.
Karen Schwalbe, executive director of the Massa-
chusetts Farm Bureau Federation, said the floods
came at the worst time — late in the growing sea-
son, after labor and money was poured into the
crops but before most products were harvested.
When floodwaters touch anything edible, the crops
become contaminated.
The state Senate included the $20 million in its
version of a supplemental budget bill the House
passed in June, and it will likely go to a conference
committee of House-Senate negotiators. The House
and Senate should avoid internal squabbling and
send a bill to Healey’s desk quickly.
For the long term, the state needs to prepare for
more frequent extreme weather events.
While the last time Western Massachusetts farm-
ers saw catastrophic flooding was during Hurricane
Irene in 2011, just this year farmers experienced a
February deep freeze that damaged peach crops and
a May freeze that harmed apples. “Farmers are on
the front line of climate change, and we need to
think more with them about what more needs to be
done,” said state Senator Jo Comerford, a
Northampton Democrat leading the Senate relief ef-
fort.
Schwalbe said grants to help farmers improve in-
frastructure like irrigation and drainage would help,
similar to the existing Food Security Infrastructure
grant program, as would more resources for UMass
Extension, which provides scientific services to
farmers. There may be a need to expand the insur-
ance products offered to farmers. A newly formed
21st Century Agriculture Commission is examining
how climate change and other issues will affect the
Massachusetts agricultural industry’s future.
Rural farms in Western Massachusetts often
struggle to have their voices heard on Beacon Hill.
Healey made a strong first statement by appointing
former state senator Anne Gobi of Spencer, a long-
time advocate for rural communities, to a newly
formed position of director of rural affairs in the Ex-
ecutive Office of Economic Development. State Ag-
ricultural Resources Commissioner Ashley Randle
attended Monday’s event announcing the Senate
funding proposal at a Hatfield farm and voiced the
administration’s support.
The $20 million is worth it to help keep an im-
portant part of the state’s rural economy healthy.
Approving that funding now will send a message
that the Commonwealth looks after all its citizens,
rural and urban alike.
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SCOT LEHIGH
Candidates in both
parties have conspiracy
theories. It’s only an
advantage for Trump.
A
merican politics has long been humid with con-
spiracy theories — so much so that, in the internet
age, political argumentation sometimes resembles
a tornado roaring through the town dump, with
dreck, debris, and dross flying everywhere. Now we
are commencing on a presidential primary campaign character-
ized by a chaotic kaleidoscope of conspiratorialism.
On the Republican side, former president and current GOP
front-runner Donald Trump is basing his comeback candidacy
on the massive, conspiracy theory-rooted lie that the 2020 presi-
dential election was stolen from him.
On the Democratic side, challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has
made his father’s idealistic epigram an all too literal guide.
Whereas RFK dreamed of things that never were and asked
“why not?” RFK Jr. gleans things that simply aren’t and gets
caught.
The conspiracism conditions on the two sides aren’t precisely
the same.
Kennedy is seemingly trying to downplay his unhinged
views, but so packed is his cranium with ill-ordered notions that,
like a horde of unhinged Houdinis yearning to be free, one or
two are forever escaping his poorly guarded pie hole. Witness
last week’s suggestion that “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Cau-
casians and Black people,” while “the people who are most im-
mune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
Trump, by contrast, has leaned ever harder into his lies-cum-
conspiracy theories. His ability to get his cooperatively credulous
supporters to buy into them is the fuel that powers his candida-
cy. At this point, if Trump were to acknowledge the obvious — to
wit, that Biden scored a legitimate victory in 2020 — it would be
the same as admitting that he himself is a merchant of mendaci-
ty.
In other ways, however, the situations are remarkably simi-
lar. An array of Trump’s high-level former appointees, from erst-
while attorney general Bill Barr on down, have dismissed his sto-
The conspiracism conditions on the
two sides aren’t precisely the same.
len-election claims as nonsense. Kennedy’s own relatives have
not just disavowed his candidacy, they have also made it clear
they regard him the way one would a nutty uncle who believes
he’s Teddy Roosevelt perpetually charging up San Juan Hill.
As a rough rule of thumb, between 25 percent and 45 percent
of the population is prone to conspiratorialist thinking, with an
estimated 1 in 4 people strongly in the grip of conspiracy theo-
ries, said Geoff Dancy, a professor of political science at the Uni-
versity of Toronto. The tendency is most concentrated in the ide-
ological and populist extremes of both parties. “As the ideologi-
cal extremes in any population grow, conspiratorial thinking
grows with it,” he said.
So though the 20 percent of Democratic voters Kennedy gar-
nered in several early polls caught people’s attention, it really
wasn’t that extraordinary, particularly given the benefit impart-
ed by sharing his famous father’s full name. Kennedy is now
polling in the mid-teens, which suggests he is underperforming.
Trump, by contrast, is overperforming. He regularly corrals
some 50 percent of the vote in Republican presidential primary
polls.
At first blush, that level of support is odd. As his formerly loy-
al vice president turned GOP rival Mike Pence has accurately ob-
served, in trying to overturn the 2020 election results, Trump
put himself above the US Constitution. But though his support-
ers consider themselves the epitome of true American patrio-
tism, they are unfazed by their champion’s attempt to subvert
our democracy.
Here’s one major reason why: Trump’s conspiracy theories
provide MAGA members with a mental trapdoor that lets them
escape that conflict between their avowed patriotism and their
support for an antidemocratic marauder. By ignoring the dozens
of failed Trump team lawsuits and the ballot recounts and au-
dits, and insisting to themselves that Democrats stole the elec-
tion, Trump backers can rationalize supporting an authoritarian
who schemed to subvert democracy. And by training his move-
ment to reject as a denizen of the deep state or an anti-Trump
RINO anyone who speaks the truth about him, the master of
MAGA manipulation has created a formidable buttress for his
tower of bunkum.
Kennedy’s conspiratorialism lacks that power, since it isn’t as
central to the idea of his candidacy or as enabling of the delu-
sions of his supporters. That’s one big reason why, despite Dem-
ocratic unease about Joe Biden’s candidacy, RFK Jr.’s primary
challenge is ultimately a train to nowhere.
But on the Republican side, if the field of challengers doesn’t
narrow quickly after the first few primary contests, it’s entirely
possible that Trump could win the GOP nomination for a third
time.
That would be good news for Biden, who might be vulnerable
to a Republican nominee with an ability to increase their sup-
port in the center. But it would be a depressing commentary on
how much truth has been devalued with today’s conspiratorially
inclined Republican electorate.
Scot Lehigh is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at
scot.lehigh@globe.com. Follow him @GlobeScotLehigh.
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The NAACP must embrace the legacy of “abolition democracy” bequeathed to the organization by one of its
founders, W.E.B. Du Bois, pictured here at Atlanta University in 1909.
NAACP must embrace
the legacy of
‘abolition democracy’
By Peniel E. Joseph
T
he NAACP National Con-
vention arrives in Boston
this week as the nation
readies to commemorate
the 60th anniversary of
the March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom next month. 1963 is the
unofficial start of the 1960s, a decade
that witnessed days of hope and years
of tumultuous, world-historic, and at
times violent social and political trans-
formation that centered around the
struggle for Black citizenship and dig-
nity.
That year represented the centen-
nial anniversary of the Emancipation
Proclamation, and Martin Luther
King Jr. and other civil rights leaders
urged President John F. Kennedy to is-
sue a renewed call for freedom at the
start of the year. Kennedy hesitated
until racial fires in Birmingham, Ala.,
the citadel of white supremacy in the
old Confederacy, forced him, alongside
his younger brother and closest politi-
cal confidant, Attorney General Rob-
ert F. Kennedy, to confront the crisis of
race and democracy with courage and
candor. King’s “Letter From Birming-
The onslaught of racial backlash is rooted in an
ongoing battle between Reconstructionist supporters
of multiracial democracy and Redemptionist
supporters of white supremacy and the Lost Cause.
ham Jail” chastised white liberals (in-
cluding, without naming them, those
in the White House) as being more
committed to order than peace at the
expense of the nation’s soul.
The year proved a time of both test-
ing and reckoning, with President
Kennedy experiencing his finest mo-
ment as a statesman on June 11. JFK’s
televised racial justice speech remains
one for the ages; in less than 20 min-
utes the president offered a seminar
on racial injustice, a sermon on the
moral reasoning why the recognition
of Black humanity proved essential to
democracy, and a civics lesson on con-
sensus building in an era of racial ha-
tred, segregation, and violence that
belied the outward face of the postwar
liberal order.
Six decades later the state of Black
America looks, in certain ways, eerily
like 1963. The NAACP arrives in Bos-
ton underneath a gathering storm of
racial backlash. If 1963 represented a
year of crossroads amid the nation’s
Second Reconstruction — a period
where efforts to institutionalize Black
citizenship and dignity might falter
and fade or push through to unprece-
dented breakthroughs — 2023 ap-
pears to be a similar point of inflection
during this Third Reconstruction. This
latest period of Reconstruction can be
traced back to the 2008 election of Ba-
rack Obama, with the rise of Black
Lives Matter protests in 2013, the as-
cent of Donald Trump and MAGA in
2016, and the political reckonings of
2020 serving as hinge moments in this
unfolding historical epoch. We have
all witnessed since 2008 — and espe-
cially since George Floyd’s public exe-
cution on May 25, 2020 — searing jux-
tapositions that have marked all three
periods of Reconstruction.
In fact, the NAACP’s founding in
1909 grew out of the ashes of the First
Reconstruction, which unfolded from
the freedom dreams of 1865 until its
violent denouement via the Wilming-
ton, N.C., white riot of 1898 that rep-
resents the first successful domestic
political coup in American history.
The NAACP helped resurrect the
emancipationist legacy of the Civil
T h e
War; organized biracial committees
for justice; filed lawsuits in support of
voting rights and racial integration;
lobbied for an anti-lynching bill that
only recently became law; and raised
money and material and physical re-
sources to aid the resurgence of multi-
racial democracy that came to its full-
est flowering after 1963.
This year, the NAACP must em-
brace the legacy of “abolition democ-
racy” bequeathed to the organization
by one of its founders, W.E.B. Du Bois,
the brilliant Black scholar, civil rights
activist, and founding editor of the
NAACP magazine The Crisis. The title
referred to the crisis of race and de-
mocracy that remains at the heart of
our contemporary troubles.
Du Bois’s 1934 classic, “Black Re-
construction in America,” remains the
most important work ever produced
about the most consequential period
in our nation’s history. It defied the
“Lost Cause” renderings of the Civil
War that smeared abolitionists such as
Thaddeus Stevens, the Pennsylvania
congressman and chairman of the
House and Way Means Committee
during the war and a leading figure of
the Radical Republicans (so-called be-
cause of their fealty to ensuring digni-
ty and citizenship for Black folk), as
lunatics. Instead, “Black Reconstruc-
tion” examines the ways in which
newly freed Black women and men be-
came co-architects of a reimagined
multiracial democracy expansive and
inclusive enough for all people.
John F. Kennedy, amid the tumult
of the spring of 1963’s civil rights revo-
lution, confessed to Bobby Kennedy
and close advisers that he, at Harvard,
had been fed lies, a deception he
didn’t fully comprehend until his deal-
ings with Mississippi Governor Ross
Barnett during the Ole Miss crisis in
1962 and Alabama governor and lead-
ing segregationist George Wallace in
1963.
The onslaught of racial backlash is
rooted in an ongoing battle between
Reconstructionist supporters of multi-
racial democracy and Redemptionist
supporters of the white supremacy
and the Lost Cause. The struggle now,
60 years after 1963, is how to win the
narrative war for the nation’s soul.
Attacks on voting rights, reproduc-
tive justice, and the freedom to teach
Black history and the end of affirma-
tive action are only the latest policy as-
saults facing Black America. BLM pro-
tests in 2020 were indeed a great na-
tional awakening. Social justice
protesters managed — with the aid of
“The 1619 Project”; the work of Black
feminist scholars such as Kimberlé
Crenshaw; the voting rights organiz-
ing of Stacey Abrams; and the grass-
roots sit-ins, lie-downs, die-ins, and
brunch disruptions of Black Lives
Matter demonstrations — to tell a
compelling story related to the rei-
magining of public safety, the abolish-
ing of prisons, and the need to transi-
tion America’s economy from a system
based on punishment, criminaliza-
tion, segregation, and premature
death of Black folk to one capable of
investing in jobs, schools, neighbor-
hoods, mental and physical wellness,
and wealth creation for generations of
Black Americans.
What are sometimes mislabeled as
culture wars are, in fact, very real po-
litical struggles over the meaning of
B o s t o n G l o b e
democracy, citizenship, and dignity.
The through line of all three periods of
Reconstruction in America remains
the same: reconstructionist vs. re-
demptionist.
The anger over the “1619 Project”
alongside the critical race theory hoax
that has resulted in legislation ban-
ning books, eliminating whole fields of
historical inquiry, and legitimizing a
“Gone with the Wind” and “Birth of a
Nation” disfigurement of American
history is about the present and future
of America.
Our democracy is on the road to
authoritarian ruin, 160 years after
what President Abraham Lincoln at
Gettysburg characterized as a “new
birth of freedom.” Lincoln spoke too
soon. Despite the deaths of over
700,000 Americans through four
bloody years of war, freedom re-
mained elusive. It still does.
The NAACP convening in Boston, a
headquarters of abolition during the
19th century, is significant. Beyond
sweeping policy proposals in defense
of voting rights, reproductive justice,
reimagining public safety, and restor-
ing history to public education lays an
undiscovered country, one where is-
sues of reparations, immigration re-
form, LGBTQ rights, guaranteed in-
come, health care, environmental jus-
tice, and more await.
We can, against all odds, build the
beloved community free of racism,
poverty, militarism, materialism, and
violence that Martin Luther King Jr.
envisioned. This requires us to tell
each other and the nation a story
about the strength, resilience, and en-
durance of American democracy
through three periods of Reconstruc-
tion that have witnessed both trium-
phant breakthroughs and tragic, often
violent, setbacks. A nation, like peo-
ple, can be two things at once. Ameri-
can history features a legacy at once
abolitionist and proslavery, integra-
tionist and Jim Crow, reconstruction-
ist and redemptionist. The stories we
tell about ourselves inform the health
and welfare of our democratic institu-
tions. Each lie, elision, falsehood, and
myth weakens the aperture of our col-
lective democratic vision.
Boston itself contains these duali-
ties as both a site of abolitionist pro-
tests in the 19th century and segrega-
tionist violence during the 1960s and
1970s and the place where, in 2004, a
42-year-old state senator from Illinois
challenged the entire nation to, for
one evening at least, dream with him
of a freedom beyond emancipation. To
look upon America as a place where
all things are possible, not despite our
past but because of it. Barack Obama
told us a new, however incomplete,
story of us, and the nation, for a time,
responded with unexpected grace.
Now is the time to dig deeper than
we ever have before so we can share
the rich, difficult, triumphant, and
tragic but ultimately hopeful story of a
reconstructionist vision of America;
one that builds consensus through his-
torical truths that remind us that, in
this nation, freedom is never given but
earned through our collective respon-
sibility to one another. This intercon-
nected web of mutuality, what King
called the “world house,” is needed
now more than ever.
We commence by simply sharing
the hard-earned truth that Black
America’s story in the final analysis
belongs to us all.
Peniel E. Joseph teaches history and
public affairs at the University of
Texas at Austin. His latest book is “The
Third Reconstruction: America’s
Struggle for Racial Justice in the
Twenty-First Century.”
Opinion A9
Inbox
Midwives help ensure better outcomes
and should be paid accordingly
We thank the Globe’s editorial board for its recent piece “To
save mothers’ lives, reduce racism in obstetrical care” (Opin-
ion, July 23). We strongly agree that Massachusetts needs to
increase access to all qualified midwives across every appro-
priate birth setting. But we need an equally strong message
that midwifery needs to be valued.
Massachusetts midwives receive 85 percent of the reim-
bursement of physicians for the same services, e.g. vaginal
birth, pap smear, IUD placement. This pay inequity causes
health systems to underutilize midwives and close their prac-
tices. Massachusetts is the only state in the Northeast to not
guarantee reimbursement equity, countering the recommen-
dations of the Health Policy Commission and the Commis-
sion on Racial Inequities in Maternal Health.
The state underpays midwives, even though midwifery
care yields the best birth outcomes, reduces health inequi-
ties, and could save the United States $340 million per year.
The underpayment stems from a legacy of pay injustice
where midwives — who are overwhelmingly women caring
for women — work for less.
Massachusetts needs more midwives and birth centers to
meaningfully improve outcomes and experiences. This is on-
ly possible if we redress this basic economic inequity. There is
currently a bill in the Legislature that would have Massachu-
setts join the 28 other states that guarantee equitable reim-
bursement. Massachusetts has been a leader in health care
and pay equity in the past. It can be again.
KATHERINE RUSHFIRTH
Lynn
The writer is a certified nurse midwife, policy director for
the Neighborhood Birth Center, and legislative chair of the
Mass. affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Hope on the climate change front
Scot Lehigh’s column highlights Senator Ed Markey’s opti-
mism about attempts to rein in and mitigate the worst of
global warming’s spun effects (“Ed Markey sees big progress
on green energy,” Opinion, July 26). In so doing, it offered a
glimmer of hope to those of us concerned with humanity’s
continued survival on this planet. Markey credits the Infla-
tion Reduction Act for creating an impetus toward green so-
lutions even as some Democrats call GOP politicians, who
voted against the IRA, into the public square for a “ribbon
cutting” on their hypocrisy.
Many GOP pols, who know better, have politicized climate
change as they pander to a base infatuated with the internal
combustion engine and NASCAR races, and abetted by big
oil. Perhaps they are coming to the realization that there is a
political cost to pay when your constituents are the ones
who, quite literally, are feeling the heat of global warming.
Climate science can only be denied for so long before the
temperature in the public square rises to a point that the de-
niers are invited to vacate the political arena by their constit-
uents who are smelling the hypocrisy and feeling the heat.
JIM CAIN
Wakefield
Congratulations to Scot Lehigh for picking up on the good
news coming out of the implementation of the Inflation Re-
duction Act. Congratulations and thanks to Senator Ed Mar-
key for his persistence, and as Lehigh points out, his pragma-
tism. Markey recognizes that wins in red and purple states
benefit the planet, first and most important, and strengthen
the case for investing in clean energy. It seems like a snow-
ball effect, with each successful step moving us closer to hav-
ing the sustainable energy network we need.
I agree that the country’s investments in clean energy give
us more credibility across the globe and provide stronger
economic motivation for other countries to do the same.
Thank you for reporting on these wins in fighting climate
change.
SIA STEWART
Conway
Ayotte is right about one thing
Kelly Ayotte is correct — New Hampshire is a bastion of free-
dom (“Ayotte takes aim at Mass.,” Metro, July 27). Free to pay
some of the highest property taxes in the nation, regardless
of ability to pay. Free to have our private lives dictated by
right-wing ideology. Free to underfund and eviscerate public
education. Free to fund religious schools with tax money.
Please, someone save me from all this freedom!
JOSHUA GRACIANO
Manchester, N.H.
RUSTY KENNEDY/AP
The Phillies’ Pete Rose slid into third during a game
against the New York Mets on June 3, 1981.
A Rose without thorns
Dan Shaughnessy’s coverage of the 2023 Baseball Hall of
Fame inductees (“Looking forward to next no-doubter,”
Sports, July 24) was interesting but once again omitted Pete
Rose, who was perhaps the greatest player of the modern era.
Rose accumulated 4,000 hits while playing the game as it
should be played, hard and fast.
Rose was barred for life because he allegedly bet on an-
other team. Does anyone think Rose would ever trash a
game? Meanwhile, dozens of players and managers collabo-
rated to steal signs, even resorting to banging on trash cans
to tip off batters which pitch would be coming next.
The commissioner of Major League Baseball should make
Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame. “Charlie Hustle” deserves
no less.
RICHARD PRONE
Duxbury
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T records
criticized
in audit
by state
Contractor was paid
more than budgeted
By Daniel Kool
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

The MBTA paid a customer service

contractor more than budgeted over the
course of five years, costing taxpayers
millions for unknown benefit because
the T didn’t keep decent records, ac-
cording to a contract review by the
state’s inspector general.
From July 2017 to September 2022,
the MBTA contracted out customer
support services to Block by Block, a
Tennessee-based
company, in an
effort to save Mass.
inspector
PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF
money and pro-
Emma Diener (left) and Mariam Rbaibi, both 7 and visiting with their families from Pennsylvania, sat for a quick spell. The fountain in vide improved
Hancock Adams Common in Quincy provided a cool mist for those who, sat, walked, or cycled nearby. service. The con- general

Maddening heat and nowhere to go:

tractor staffed
a n d o v e r s aw a says basic
“transit ambas- routine
sador” program
of red-shirted business

Many city-operated pools are closed functions

agents stationed
across the sys-
tem, who provid- ‘were so
ed directions,
took questions poorly
and feedback, managed.’
Boston officials cite neglect of and maintained
rider safety.
facilities amid heat emergency But a review issued Wednesday by
the Office of the Inspector General’s In-
ternal Special Audit Unit found that
By Danny McDonald while the T successfully increased cov-
GLOBE STAFF erage across its stations, it failed to keep
There may be an ongoing heat emergency gripping Bos- sufficient records, reliably track perfor-
ton, but some residents, depending on what neighborhood mance, or issue penalties for shortcom-
they live in, may have to travel farther than normal to find ings, making it “nearly impossible to
a city-operated pool to cool down in, as a majority of them determine if customer service was im-
are currently closed. proved.”
Ten of the 18 city-operated pools are currently shut- “While these contract issues may
tered for repairs and renovations, with the closures span- pale in comparison to the operational
ning the city from Charlestown to West Roxbury, China- and safety challenges that the MBTA
town to Mattapan. faces, they must not be excused or mini-
While lifeguard shortages have previously prompted mized,” Jeffrey Shapiro, the inspector
the city to close pools, Mayor Michelle Wu’s office this week general, said in a statement. “These are
said the closures are not related to a dearth of lifeguards, basic, fundamental and routine busi-
but rather various work and projects going on at the loca- MBTA, Page B3
tions that host the pools. (The lifeguard shortage, which is
a nationwide problem, has prompted city authorities to
waive city residency requirements for scores of the posts in
recent years.)
Earlier this week, Wu’s office declared a heat emergency
MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF

Jeffrey Tejeda, 10, played with his brother Jonathan, 1, at the Artesani Playground
Wading Pool and Spray Deck in Brighton.
New study
reveals influx
POOLS, Page B4

How to protect yourself from the extreme heat of sharks off

By Emma Obregón Dominguez
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
After weeks of scorching weather
in other parts of the United States,
high heat moved into Massachusetts
on Thursday.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu de-
clared a heat emergency for Boston
that will remain in effect through
makes it harder for our bodies to
cool themselves and triggers upticks
in heat-related illness and mortality.
Here’s how to stay safe.
Stay alert
“The most important thing is
awareness,” said Dr. Gaurab Basu, a
primary care physician and co-direc-
Extreme heat is the leading cause
of weather-related deaths in the
United States, more than tornadoes,
hurricanes, flooding, and cold win-
ter weather, according to the Nation-
al Weather Service. And, with cli-
mate change, Boston is expected to
see longer and more intense heat
waves. According to a 2022 study, if
In response, the Center for Cli-
Cape Cod
mate, Health, and the Global Envi-
ronment at Harvard’s T.H. Chan
School of Public Health and Ameri-
Region is among
cares rolled out new toolkits for cli- top gathering places
mate-related emergencies, including
heat waves. By Martin Finucane
Basu has been using them with and John R. Ellement
patients and colleagues. GLOBE STAFF

Friday, as temperatures are forecast
to reach into the 90s, with a heat in-
dex rising to 100 degrees.
Extreme heat — generally defined
as temperatures over 90 degrees —
tor of the Center for Health Equity
Education & Advocacy at Cambridge
Health Alliance. “We have to have a
mindset that hot weather can im-
pact our health.”
greenhouse gas emissions continue
unabated, Boston will likely see 33 to
62 days of extreme heat by 2070, up
from an average of 10 days during
the 2000s.
“It is important to understand
that communities of color and low-
income communities are dispropor-
tionately impacted by heat,” said Ba-
HEAT SAFETY, Page B4
A n e s t i m at e d 8 0 0 g r e at w h i t e
sharks visited the waters of the Atlantic
side of Cape Cod between 2015 and
2018, making it one of the world’s top
gathering places for the predators, ac-
cording to a new study.
The study, published Thursday in
the journal Marine Ecology Progress

As NAACP convention returns, memories of ’82 surface Series, was based on underwater video
identification of 393 different great
white sharks during 137 boat trips off
Despite racial tensions, ‘There was no reason not to bring the convention to Boston’ Cape Cod, in which researchers had
nearly 2,295 encounters with the
By Sahar Fatima, ‘We’re still sharks. Armed with those observa-
Milton J. Valencia, tions, researchers used a “novel model-
and Tiana Woodard going ing framework” to estimate the overall
GLOBE STAFF

By 1982, the last time Boston hosted the NAACP’s an-

nual convention, the city had become ground zero for race
relations in America.
Violent riots — mostly by white people — erupted in the
mid-1970s after a federal court judge ordered the city to
bus students to schools outside their neighborhoods to
combat racial segregation. Then Black people were target-
ed by a slew of hate crimes, including in 1977, when white
men with hockey sticks and golf clubs attacked Black tour-
ists in Charlestown.
By that point, Boston had already been named host of
the 1982 convention, though its national reputation for
racism had worsened. But the conference location would
not change.
“Boston had always been a hotbed,” said Joseph D.
Feaster Jr., then president of the NAACP’s Boston chapter.
NAACP, Page B3
strong, an population in the area.
“One thing that makes estimating
organization the abundance of white sharks really
started in tricky — and is why we had to go to so
much trouble to develop an entirely
1911, and new model to do so — is because
they’re constantly moving,” said lead
we’re still author Megan V. Winton, a research
going to be scientist at the Atlantic White Shark
Conservancy in Chatham. “They can
here.’ cover so much ground. Some of them
spend a lot of time here off of Cape
JOSEPH D.
Cod. Some of them just kind of breeze
FEASTER JR.,
through the area. There’s a constant
Former president
flux into and out of the region.”
TED DULLY/GLOBE STAFF of the NAACP’s
The results suggest that “Cape Cod
Boston chapter
The NAACP sponsored a busing desegregation march along is among the larger aggregation sites
Commonwealth Avenue toward Boston Common May 17, 1975. SHARKS, Page B4
B2 Metro
Sullivan’s seating closed over seagulls
By Alex Koller
and Nick Stoico
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
One of the city’s most popu-
lar eateries is having a seagull
problem.
Sullivan’s Castle Island, a lo-
cal favorite in South Boston for
hot dogs, hamburgers, fried
clams, and ice cream, has closed
its outdoor seating area in front
of the restaurant for the last cou-
ple of days, due to seagulls
snatching food away from un-
suspecting patrons.
Orange traffic cones sat on
top of the picnic tables with yel-
low caution tape strung between
them and signs nearby warned
diners to cover their food and
“beware” of seagulls.
Of course, this was hardly
enough to keep customers from
stopping into Sullivan’s for
lunch on Thursday.
Amy Paige, 49, a South Bos-
ton native who now lives in Rox-
bury, didn’t seem too worried as
she and her son, Errol, enjoyed
their food on a bench next to the
closed-off area.
“I would punch one, I’m not
even kidding,” Paige said, laugh-
ing. “They don’t bother us at all.”
Paige said she and her son
know better than to leave their
food uncovered, especially after
one gull had the gall to rob her
friend of a cheeseburger.
A manager at the restaurant
declined to comment about the
closed tables and referred ques-
tions to director of operations
Dan O’Donnell. O’Donnell re-
sponded to a message but said
he was not available to comment
Thursday.
Assistant general manager
William Cummings told WBZ-
TV that the restaurant will re-
make food for free if it is stolen
by a gull. But that policy caused
some problems last weekend as
the thieving birds’ antics led to
the kitchen being overwhelmed
with reorders.
Andrew Vitz, MassWildlife’s
state ornithologist, said gulls are
“pretty fast learners” and can
lose their inhibitions around
people after being given food.
“Once they start getting a
food reward, they’re going to
keep coming back,” Vitz said in a
Revere, artists prepare for sand sculpting festival
By Talia Lissauer
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
REVERE — For this year’s
19th annual International Sand
Sculpting Festival at Revere
Beach, Deborah Barrett-Cutulle
chose to create images of people
of different ethnicities and body
shapes as a way to encourage
people to embrace their differ-
ences.
“My first thought was about
being in a position to make a dif-
f e r e n c e a n d m a ke p e o p l e’s
minds think,” Barrett-Cutulle
said. “I wanted to create some-
thing about society and how we
are all different and should em-
brace our differences.”
Walk along Revere Beach this
weekend and you’ll see Barrett-
Cutulle’s sculpture, along with
portrayals of a pregnant woman,
a whale made of plastic jumping
out of a can, and a dozen other
designs.
Fifteen sculptors from
around the world have gathered
here to compete for a $28,000
cash prize, which will be award-
ed Saturday night, said organiz-
er Chris Puiia. The festival,
which typically draws large
c r o w d s , r u n s f r o m Fr i d a y
through Sunday and includes
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tor and NBA Hall of Famer Bill
Bradley is 80. “Garfield” creator
Jim Davis is 78. Singer Jonathan
Edwards is 77. Actor Sally Stru-
thers is 76. Rock musician Si-
mon Kirke (Bad Company) is 74.
Rock musician Steve Morse
(Deep Purple) is 69. Jazz musi-
cian-producer Delfeayo Marsalis
is 58. Actor John David Wash-
ington is 39. Actor Dustin Milli-
gan is 38. Rapper Soulja Boy is
33. Pop/rock singer Cher Lloyd
(TV: “The X Factor”) is 30. Golf-
er Nelly Korda is 25.
ºIn 1609, the English ship
Sea Venture, commanded by Ad-
miral Sir George Somers, ran
Sullivan’s Castle Island in South Boston has blocked off its outdoor dining area because of
aggressive seagulls snatching food away from unsuspecting patrons.
phone interview. “There are no
real repercussions for them, so
they’re going to get more brazen
over time, and that’s what’s go-
ing on, it sounds like, at this res-
taurant.”
The most common species in
the area are great black-backed
gulls, the largest gulls in the
world, and herring gulls, he
said. The gull population has
been declining since the 1990s
and is starting to approach con-
cerning levels, Vitz said.
“The rate of decline is pretty
steep, and it’s starting to get a lot
more attention from biologists
in terms of [whether] we need to
be concerned about this popula-
tion decline,” he said. “We’re
starting to ask that question.”
Vitz said he hasn’t heard of
anyone being hurt by a gull, but
as wild animals, their behavior
can be unpredictable.
“They’re not going after the
people, they’re going after the
food,” he said.
Vitz stressed that it is never
wise to feed the gulls or any wild
animal for that matter.
“People do it all the time, but
there are longer-term ramifica-
tions from that behavior,” he
said. “It just brings on potential
conflict between people and
Agnese Rudzite-Kirillova, of Latvia, carved a sand sculpture
of a pregnant woman to honor her recent child.
food trucks, live entertainment,
a performance by Blue Man
Group, and a fireworks show
Saturday at 9 p.m.
The theme for the festival is
90 years of Kong, a tribute to the
1933 movie “King Kong.”
But there is no theme for the
competition, leaving artists to
create whatever sand sculpture
they want to.
For some, their sculptures
are a direct reflection of their
own life.
Agnese Rudzite Kirillova, a
This day in history
ashore on Bermuda, where the
passengers and crew founded a
colony.
ºIn 1914, World War I began
as Austria-Hungary declared
war on Serbia.
ºIn 1943, President Franklin
D. Roosevelt announced the end
of coffee rationing, which had
limited people to one pound of
coffee every five weeks since it
began in Nov. 1942.
ºIn 1945, A US Army bomb-
er crashed into the 79th floor of
New York’s Empire State Build-
ing, killing 14 people.
ºIn 1965, President Lyndon
B. Johnson announced he was
increasing the number of Ameri-
can troops in South Vietnam
from 75,000 to 125,000.
ºIn 1976, an earthquake
devastated northern China, kill-
T h e B o s t o n
wildlife.”
Outside Sullivan’s on Thurs-
day, a strong wind came off Plea-
sure Bay as a flock of gulls flew
around the area but did not
seem to bother any customers,
who ate at tables over by the wa-
ter, away from the closed-off ta-
‘There are no real
repercussions for
[the seagulls], so
they’re going to get
more brazen over
time, and that’s
what’s going on, it
sounds like, at this
restaurant.’
ANDREW VITZ,
MassWildlife’s state
ornithologist
bles.
Tod Wendland, who had just
flown in from Cincinnati and
w a s h av i n g l u n c h w i t h h i s
daughter, said although the
closed-off area was “not a big
deal,” it was “kind of ridiculous.”
JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF
competitor from Latvia, recently
gave birth to her child, so she de-
cided to carve a pregnant wom-
an in her honor. Others use their
art to shed light on issues they
are passionate about. Bouke
Atema, a competitor from the
Netherlands, is concerned about
the amount of trash in the
ocean, so he sculpted a whale
made of plastic, jumping out of a
can.
“It’s about the waves that we
created,” Atema said. “There’s
getting to be more and more
ing at least 242,000 people, ac-
cording to an official estimate.
ºIn 2013, Pope Francis’ his-
toric trip to his home continent
of South America ended after a
marathon week in Brazil. In
southern Italy, 39 people were
killed when a tour bus plunged
into a ravine.
ºIn 2016, Hillary Clinton ac-
cepted the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination at the party’s
convention in Philadelphia,
where she cast herself as a unifi-
er for divided times as well as an
experienced leader steeled for a
volatile world while aggressively
challenging Republican Donald
Trump’s ability to lead.
ºIn 2018, Pope Francis ac-
cepted the resignation of US
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick,
the emeritus archbishop of
G l o b e
JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF
“ We come out to sit down
and they have it blocked off, but
yet 50 feet away, you can sit
down and eat no problem,”
Wendland, 48, said.
Paige, the mother who said
the only thing a gull would get
from her is a punch in the beak,
said she’d never seen Sullivan’s
close its tables because of this is-
sue. She and her son theorized
that the gulls have learned how
to more effectively prey on un-
suspecting patrons.
“That’s our theory — is that
they are getting smarter and
that they are more stealthy than
they used to be,” she said.
Meanwhile, a Sullivan’s staff
member called out to a group of
four kids exiting the restaurant,
“Watch out for the seagulls with
those fries!”
A short time later, a couple of
gulls landed near a pair of boys
who were eating.
“Right behind you!” the same
staff member called out. “Don’t
feed them!”
Alex Koller can be reached at
alex.koller@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @alexkoller_.
Nick Stoico can be reached at
nick.stoico@globe.com. Follow
him @NickStoico.
trash in the ocean and we con-
tinue to use and dispose of plas-
tic, making it worse.”
As the Boston area braces for
severe weather Thursday night,
Puiia said they won’t have to
cover the sculptures unless there
is torrential rain.
“We are hoping for the best,”
Puiia said. “ The sculptures
themselves are pretty resistant
to the rain.”
But Atema was worried
about damage to the sculptures
after all the progress competi-
tors made on Thursday.
“It’s a pity because it’s not
nice to win because someone
else loses,” Atema said. “ You
want the best sculpture to win,
not the one that wasn’t ruined.”
Festivals are not just about
the competition. Rudzite Kirillo-
va said it’s about sharing artists’
work with the community.
“It’s always nice to show
what you do and see people re-
act,” Rudzite Kirillova said. “We
do it for others, not just our-
selves.”
Talia Lissauer can be reached at
talia.lissauer@globe.com.
Follow her on Instgram
@_ttphotos.
Washington, D.C., following alle-
gations of sexual abuse, includ-
ing one involving an 11-year-old
boy.
ºIn 2020, President Donald
Trump issued a stout defense of
the disproved use of a malaria
drug, hydroxychloroquine, to
treat COVID-19, hours after so-
cial media companies took
down videos shared by Trump,
his son, and others promoting
its use.
ºLast year, President Biden
declared his support for the “his-
toric” inflation-fighting agree-
ment struck by Senate Majority
Leader Chuck Schumer and
holdout Democratic Senator Joe
Manchin, an expansive health
care and climate change pack-
age that had eluded the White
House and seemed all but lost.
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Marblehead
board calls off vote
on superintendent
By Deanna Pan fewer than five cases where a
GLOBE STAFF committee has tried to act on
The Marblehead School unilateral termination lan-
Committee abruptly called off guage in a contract,” Long said.
a vote Wednesday night on the In June, the School Com-
early termination of Superin- mittee approved a “proficient”
tendent John Buckey’s con- performance evaluation for
tract, just one month after giv- Buckey, praising his “dedica-
ing Buckey a “proficient” per- tion to the district” and trans-
formance review. parency involving the budget.
The virtual meeting lasted The committee dinged Buckey
less than a minute, with School for his “engagement with crit-
Committee Chair Sarah Fox an- ics.” “Dr. Buckey needs to en-
nouncing the meeting would sure that he ... continues to
no longer move forward. In a lead proactively rather than re-
statement to the Globe on actively,” the review said.
Thursday, Fox said she was ad- But later that month, Mar-
vised by legal counsel minutes blehead residents elected two
prior to the scheduled start of new School Committee mem-
the meeting to immediately ad- bers — Jennifer Schaeffner,
journ and schedule a closed- founder of the local news web-
door executive session. site Marblehead Beacon, and
“As soon as more informa- Brian Ota, former principal of
tion is available, we will release the district.
a statement,” Fox said. Ota had previously filed a
The School Committee has complaint against Buckey with
not publicly indicated why it the Massachusetts Commis-
was seeking to vote on the ear- sion Against Discrimination,
ly termination clause of Buck- according to the Marblehead
ey’s initial three-year contract, Current, after his contract as
which says the committee can Glover’s principal was not re-
dismiss the superintendent “at newed. Ota excused himself
any time on or prior to August from last Friday’s executive ses-
31, 2022 without cause” as sion discussing Buckey’s em-
long as he is given 100 days’ ployment, the Current said.
notice and a $92,500 payout.
Buckey was hired as super-
Tom Scott, executive direc-
tor of the Massachusetts Asso-
intendent of Marblehead Pub- ciation of School Superinten-
lic Schools, a coastal suburban
district of about 2,600 stu-
dents, noted Marblehead Pub-
lic Schools has endured high
dents, in February 2020, with a leadership turnover in recent
first-year salary of $185,000. In years. Future Marblehead su-
July 2021, the School Commit- perintendent candidates may
tee voted 4 to 1 to extend his
contract for another two years.
have “second thoughts” about
working for the district, he
Only Fox, the current chair, op- said, due to the School Com-
posed the extension. mittee’s treatment of Buckey.
Michael Long, Buckey’s at- “I just think that the way
torney, said his client “has nev- that they’re handling this with-
er been told what the cause of out giving any cause, doing it
[the School Committee’s] pro- abruptly the way they are, do-
posed action is.” Early termina- ing it at a time when they can
tion provisions in Massachu- probably least afford the dis-
setts superintendent contracts, ruption to the system, I scratch
he added, are also very rare. my head,” Scott said.
“In the now 43 years of rep-
resenting school superinten- Deanna Pan can be reached at
dents, I’ve been involved in deanna.pan@globe.com.
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Serendipitous pearl find further fortifies couple’s bond

By Carlos Muñoz
GLOBE STAFF
WESTERLY, R.I. — Sandra
“Sandy” Sikorski’s engagement
ring is the stuff dreams are
made of. A s h er fiance Ken
Steinkamp
tells it, the cou-
p l e m e t
through a dat-
ing service on a
rainy night in
December
2019. They were both living in
Westerly and quickly realized
they were soulmates. They have
since weathered the ups and
downs of a relationship.
“Time together speaks to the
importance of getting engaged,”
Steinkamp told the Globe. “We
had rings early on, just as a to-
ken of our commitment, but this
[pearl ring] amps up the prom-
ise. I think it’s the making of a
Hallmark movie.”
The jewel on Sikorski’s left
hand came to the couple in a
most conspicuous way. She
slurped it from a clam, believed
to be from Narragansett Bay, at
the Bridge Restaurant and Oys-
ter Bar over Christmas 2021.
The couple, who were accom-
panied by Sikorski’s brother and
his wife from Tampa, gasped at
the silky cream-colored pearl be-
fore them. They had never seen
anything so dazzling.
The hefty Mercenaria pearl
measures 9.8 mm — about 6
karats if it were a diamond —
and is perfectly oval. No one had
ever found one dining at the
Bridge Restaurant, according to
a restaurant employee. A clam
would need to go untouched for
nearly half a century to make a
pearl this size.
“This has a really nice luster,”
Steinkamp said. “That’s what
caught my eye. It’s rare to get
one.”
Along the New England
coast, only about 1 in 5,000
hard-water clams produces a
pearl, and most are “poor quali-
ty or damaged,” according to the
International Gem Society.
The pearl is particularly spe-
cial because Sikorski prefers
clams to their pearl-making
cousins.
“I don’t like oysters. I like
cherrystones,” Sikorski said. “My
sister comes from Florida and
we travel up to many restau-
rants looking for the best cherry-
stones. That’s why we keep go-
i n g b a c k . We’r e c r a z y o v e r
them.”
A few months ago, the couple
— he’s 75, she’s 70, both are art-
ists and romantics — decided to
commit to their relationship and
have a ring made. They were
sent to Marc Fishbone, a re-
nowned goldsmith just over the
state border in North Stoning-
ton, Conn. These days the 71-
year-old jeweler, woodworker,
and former nuclear submarine
welder works in a modest shop
in a strip mall.
Sikorski spent three hours
talking to Fishbone about what
she wanted for her ring. And
Fishbone, a world traveler,
shared some of his stories about
working as an artist before get-
ting to work.
The couple was willing to
wait a year for the ring to be
completed, but Fishbone fin-
ished the intricate metalwork in
two weeks. He cast the gold,
making it sturdy and regal, so
that the pearl did not have to be
cut at all. Two diamonds from
Sikorski’s collection were added.
Fishbone said there were no
blemishes on the pearl.
“I started looking at it and I
was going in some of my draw-
ers to see what I had to play
Sandra
“Sandy”
Sikorski, Ken
Steinkamp,
and her rare-
pearl
engagement
ring.
with,” Fishbone said. “I found a
piece, I re-modified it, and I was
able to take eight prongs and
add it to the piece to make the
pearl stand up. The piece came
out beautiful, far better than
what I ever thought. When she
came to pick it up, she was al-
most crying and wanted to give
me a big hug.”
He no longer works full time.
The name of his business —
“The Black Orchid” — is a nod to
his time living and learning the
jewelry business in Sri Lanka,
where he saw a black orchid.
“Diamonds are a dime a doz-
en but a colored gemstone is
unique,” Fishbone said.
Steinkamp said he could hear
Sikorski crying when she called
to tell him she’d picked up the
ring, which worried him. Since
he was driving, he pulled over
when he got the call. But his
worry quickly turned to joy. His
bride-to-be was stunned at how
gorgeous the ring was.
“I think it’s the way it was
wrapped,” Sikorski said. “It is
wrapped in 18-karat gold, and
very elegant; a little vintage. Be-
cause of the luster of the pearl,
the gold matched it. The yellow
gold makes it appear more spe-
cial. The filigree [metal carv-
ings] made it look richer.”
“He [Fishbone] is not only a
character,” Steinkamp said, “but
well-known for his workman-
ship.”
“We went back to the Bridge
Restaurant and they were excit-
ed about it. They posted it on
their website. We didn’t think
much of it until we were called
by a TV station in Providence
that does a program about good
stories,” Steinkamp said.
Since then, it’s been a whirl-
wind for the couple, who have
heard from media outlets na-
tionwide. They are happy to
share their story.
When Steinkamp sees the
pearl ring on Sikorski’s hand, he
thinks it’s spellbinding. She said
the ring is an heirloom piece
that she wants to pass on to her
granddaughter someday.
“It’s a great feeling honestly,”
Sikorski said. “It’s a vision and
seeing a vision come true. We
were going to get married last
year but the ring was always in
the back of our minds. This is
what we were going to do for an
engagement.”
Some people have told the
couple they’ve been hunting
their entire lives for a quahog
pearl, considered to be one of
the rarest gemstones.
“I’m humbled by [the cover-
age of it],” Sikorski said. “It is
possible to make something
beautiful from something you
take for granted. A little thing
you found in a clam.”
Carlos Muñoz can be reached at
carlos.munoz@globe.com.
Follow him @ReadCarlos and
on Instagram @Carlosbrknews

The return of the NAACP convention stirs up difficult memories

uNAACP
Continued from Page B1
“There was no reason not to
bring the convention to Boston.”
This week, as the convention
returns to the city of the
NAACP’s first chartered branch,
local leaders are still trying to re-
pair Boston’s image and lay the
foundation for a more equitable
future.
Some may say Boston hasn’t
changed. But Feaster, who has
lived here nearly 60 years, dis-
agrees. Boston was never the
S o u t h , h e s a i d . Fo l k s h e r e
weren’t hanged or burned.
“We’ve had issues, but I don’t
think we’re the worst city for
race relations in this country,”
said Feaster, a lawyer with the
firm Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest,
& Garner P.C. who also chairs
the city’s Task Force on Repara-
tions and heads the board of di-
rectors of the Urban League of
Eastern Massachusetts.
Still, there were days in Bos-
ton where you couldn’t go into a
neighborhood without getting
harassed or even firebombed, he
said.
Feaster began serving with
the Boston NAACP in 1974, tak-
ing over as president from 1978
through 1983, a period marked
by high-profile civil rights cases,
including the school desegrega-
tion case that led to the busing
crisis in Boston.
In the 1970 s, the Boston
chapter was also filing a number
of lawsuits challenging housing
discrimination by the City of
Boston and the US Department
of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment. Coalitions of leaders led
by the Rev. Jeffrey Brown and
others were also working to ad-
dress youth violence within the
Black community.
Plus, Black Bostonians, dis-
satisfied with City Hall’s pre-
dominantly white makeup, ral-
lied to register Black voters and
The Boston NAACP headquarters was damaged in a firebombing on Dec. 9, 1975.
amped up its critiques of those
in leadership, said Charlotte M.
Nelson, a program coordinator
for Northeastern University’s
School of Law. Nelson, a former
president of the NAACP New
E n g l a n d A r e a Co n f e r e n c e ,
worked with Feaster and dozens
to coordinate the ’82 convention.
Then-Mayor Kevin White
pledged to confront racism “di-
rectly and aggressively” but was
facing criticism for not speaking
out enough about attacks on
Black Bostonians, among other
issues.
“There was still a lot of back
and forth between Kevin White
and Black citizens on employ-
ment, especially on employing
Black people in key decision-
making roles,” she said.
The heightened tensions at
the time emboldened the Black
community, which understood
that the city was under a nation-
al spotlight.
“That convinced the national
[NAACP] leadership that if you
want to pick a city, you want to
pick a city that’s going to bring
attention, and that it did,” Feast-
er said of the decision to name
Boston the 1982 host. The goal
wasn’t just to draw attention to
the horrors Black Bostonians
were facing, but also to their
strength and action to stand up
for their rights.
“Massachusetts and Boston
in particular wanted to put on
its best face, so we had the atten-
tion of the state government, the
federal government, we had the
attention of city government un-
der Kevin White,” Feaster said.
But at the end of the day, “the
community was front and center
of planning for this convention,
from a local perspective.”
The priorities for that year’s
convention were wide-ranging.
The NAACP had always focused
on education and student
achievement, but segregation
became a big topic, too, along
with unemployment in the Black
community and housing dis-
crimination. The Boston chapter
had also been challenging hiring
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practices in Boston police and
fire departments.
This time around, the hot-
button issues of today — such as
abortion, affirmative action, and
public education curriculums
around race — will drive the con-
vention, but subjects such as
housing and economic inequali-
ty will be a mainstay.
“One hundred and fourteen
years [after the NAACP’s found-
ing], and we’re still dealing with
the same inequities,” Nelson
said. “Isn’t that something?”
Yet, Nelson believes that at-
tendees of this week’s conven-
tion will see a new Boston. For
starters, it now has a Seaport
District. South Boston isn’t a
place for Black people to avoid
anymore. And now it has The
Embrace sculpture, which repre-
sents a shift in the city’s narra-
tive of its own history.
But all those changes haven’t
been for the best, Nelson said.
For example, a lot of the Black-
owned establishments in Rox-
bury and the South End — plac-
es ’82 convention planners listed
in travel guides for visiting dele-
gates — are long gone, with few
replacements.
“There’s all those boarded-up
buildings smack dab in the mid-
dle of Nubian Square when
you’ve got all this glimmering
stuff happening in the Seaport,”
Nelson said. “Where’s the equi-
ty?”
Today, there is still work to be
done, particularly around
wealth disparity, housing segre-
gation, and inequities in educa-
tion, and the Boston NAACP is
here once again, playing an im-
portant role.
“We’re still going strong, an
organization started in 1911,
and we’re still going to be here,”
Feaster said. “Our mission is the
same, and those pillars — educa-
tion, housing, employment —
those are the things the NAACP
i s g o i n g t o b e f i g h t i n g f o r,
against discrimination in any
form that presents itself.”
Sahar Fatima can be reached at
sahar.fatima@globe.com Follow
her on Twitter @sahar_fatima.
Milton J. Valencia can be
reached at
milton.valencia@globe.com.
Follow him @miltonvalencia
and on Instagram
@miltonvalencia617.
Tiana Woodard is a Report for
America corps member covering
Black neighborhoods. She can be
reached at
tiana.woodard@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter at
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ness functions and they are es-
sential to the effective operation
of any business entity. The fact
that they were so poorly man-
aged by the MBTA is troubling
to say the least.”
The same company contin-
ues to operate the transit ambas-
sador program, where workers
made about $20 per hour, the
Globe previously reported.
Before privatizing the work,
the MBTA spent about $19.6
million a year on salaries, bene-
fits, and overtime for in-station
customer service representa-
tives, the Globe reported in
2017. Swapping to a private con-
tractor was supposed to save the
cash-strapped agency as much
as $8.3 million annually, the T
said at the time.
In 2015, the MBTA was given
a three-year exemption to the
state’s Taxpayer Protection Act,
which mandates that state agen-
cies seeking to privatize services
currently performed by public
employees must prove that do-
ing so will reduce costs while
maintaining equal or greater
quality of service.
Block by Block’s contract was
awarded in 2017, and the final
payments were made in Decem-
ber 2022, triggering a mandato-
ry review by the Office of the In-
spector General, which is re-
sponsible for re troac tively
reviewing any contracts award-
ed during the exemption period.
Prior to reviewing Block by
Block’s, the office reviewed con-
tracts for the T’s absence man-
agement services and police dis-
patch services last year. Shapiro
said in an interview his team
found issues with record-keep-
ing “that any small, medium, or
large business in the common-
wealth is able to do” in all three
reviews.
“This is just a fundamental
business practice that the MBTA
has not been able to do, and this
is the third one,” he said. “The
concern is that across all of these
contracts, the MBTA consistent-
ly is unable to develop these con-
tracts, manage these contracts,
have proper vendor oversight.”
He added that the lack of ad-
equate records was especially
“troubling and surprising” be-
cause the T knew years in ad-
vance that these reviews would
take place when the contracts
ended.
The Inspector General’s re-
port also found that the T paid
around $5.4 million more than
expected for Block by Block’s
services, including around $3
million in costs associated with
events like Red Sox games and
concerts, for which the MBTA
failed to plan.
A spokesperson for the MB-
TA said those additional servic-
es, which also included custom-
er assistance navigating shuttle
buses during infrastructure
projects, were allowed under the
contract.
On top of failing to account
for events planned months in
advance, the T paid higher hour-
ly rates than those specified in
the contract, the review found.
Those new rates were apparent-
ly renegotiated after the contract
was signed but not reflected in
any formal, written updates.
“We were surprised to learn
that an entity of the MBTA’s size
and scope would renegotiate
rate changes outside of the con-
tract and not memorialize those
changes in a written contract
amendment,” the report contin-
ues. “This is a significant issue
for the MBTA, one that its senior
leadership should address.”
Speaking at a T Board of Di-
rectors meeting on Thursday,
general manager Phil Eng said
the agency is “taking this very
seriously.”
“We’ve already taken steps to
improve the procurement pro-
cess,” End said. “We look for-
ward to continuing to work with
the IGO on the issues they iden-
tified in their report.”
Eng began leading the agen-
cy in April, after the reviewed
contract period concluded.
Shapiro said he was “cau-
tiously optimistic” that Eng and
MassDOT Secretary Gina Fian-
daca were beginning to make
improvements in contracting.
He noted that the T’s latest con-
tract with Block by Block in-
cludes performance metrics,
which were missing from the
last, and is being “managed
more appropriately.”
“The proof is in the reality
and how it plays out,” he said.
“But I do think the tone at the
top matters.”
The T has at least a year to
prepare before the next contract
made during the exemption pe-
riod is up for review, according
to Carrie Kimball, communica-
tions officer for the inspector
general.
Joe Pesaturo, the director of
communications for the MBTA,
reiterated that the agency has
“already taken steps to improve
the procurement process and
contract management issues
identified in this report.” He cit-
ed the new metrics and said the
T will begin assigning and docu-
menting a contract manager for
all contracts over $250,000
starting next month.
“The MBTA is committed to
delivering high-quality custom-
er service while ensuring thor-
ough oversight and fiscal re-
sponsibility,” Pesaturo wrote in
an email Thursday.
The MBTA began outsourc-
ing work to Block by Block, also
known as MyDatt Services, in
2017. The arrangement was
powered by one-year contracts
until 2022, when Block by Block
was the sole bidder for a 5-year
contract. They offered to do the
work for $102 million, a con-
tract currently in effect.
Several people who picked up
the phone at Block by Block’s
Nashville headquarters declined
to comment on the company’s
structure or relationship with
the MBTA.
Taylor Dolven of the Globe staff
contributed to this report.
Daniel Kool can be reached at
daniel.kool@globe.com.
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Many city-operated public pools are closed amid high heat
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for the city, recommending that
residents limit outdoor activity
to morning and evening hours
and take precautions during
midday when ultraviolet rays
are strongest.
On Thursday, as the city swel-
tered, some city councilors were
troubled by the number of city
pool closures.
City Councilor Erin Murphy,
who represents all of Boston as
an at-large member of the legis-
lative body, called the situation
“unacceptable.”
“It’s really maddening, be-
cause it’s not like this is some-
thing that couldn’t have been
foreseen,” she said in a state-
ment. “Not everyone lives near a
beach or can hop in a car and
drive to one outside the city. ...
We tried to take steps to ensure
the administration’s readiness,
and for residents not to be able
to use these facilities as we’re
facing dangerous heat is very
frustrating.”
City Councilor Gabriela “Gi-
gi” Coletta, who represents
Charlestown, East Boston, and
the North End, said she was “ob-
viously concerned about a ma-
jority of pools being closed dur-
ing a heat wave.” One city pool in
Coletta’s district — the Clough-
erty Pool in Charlestown — is
currently closed.
Coletta said the closures were
the result of city disinvestment
in the facilities that hosted the
pools, a sign of neglect that
spanned years and multiple
mayoral administrations.
“Band-Aids were put on these
pools, rather than significant in-
vestments that would make the
pools usable for future genera-
tions,” she said.
City Council President Ed
Flynn said in a statement, “We
should work together to invest
in pools that need repairs.”
Having access to pools is an
essential part of residents, par-
ticularly youths of color, being
able to take swim lessons and
learn about water safety, which
Flynn said is a priority for him
“especially as we face high tem-
peratures in the summer.”
Councilor Ruthzee Louije-
une, who represents the entire
city, said the lack of city pools
open to the public was a “big is-
sue that ... everyone is aware of.”
She chalked up many of the clo-
sures to “deferred maintenance”
over the years.
“We haven’t done the best job
in investing in and maintaining
our assets, and that’s on us to do
a better job,” she said.
Officials are quick to mention
Steps to take to protect yourself from extreme heat this week
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su.
The kits, available in English
and Spanish, aim to narrow that
gap by providing essential infor-
mation to everyone.
Know when you’re
dehydrated
Taking preventive measures
to decrease the risk of a heat-re-
lated illness is critical, he said.
Stay hydrated; if your urine is
dark, drink 2 to 3 glasses of wa-
ter, according to the toolkit.
Water can also help cool your
body. When temperatures ex-
ceed 95 degrees Fahrenheit, fans
do little, and our bodies have
more trouble dispersing heat.
Experts recommend taking
Scientists estimate 800 sharks visited Cape from 2015-2018
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worldwide” of great white
sharks, the study said, noting
studies of the sharks’ numbers
in places such as California,
South Africa, Mexico, and Aus-
tralia.
How many great white
sharks are roaming the north-
west Atlantic is not known,
Winton said. The estimate of
their numbers off Cape Cod is
“the first estimate of abundance
for the species anywhere in its
northwest Atlantic range,” she
said. “So it’s a start,” she said. “It
provides a baseline that we now
have that we haven’t had for
this population ever — that can
be used to monitor the perfor-
mance of conser vation and
Cloughtery Pool in Charlestown is closed for demolition and rebuilding until next summer.
Bryan Rodriguez, 7, and his sister Branyelis Rodriguez beat the heat at the Artesani
Playground Wading Pool and Spray Deck.
there are other options for resi-
dents to cool down, including 15
cool centers at Boston Centers
for Youth & Families locations.
baths, showers, or wetting your
skin with a wet towel. Spraying
yourself with water while using
a fan is especially effective.
Another option is visiting one
of Boston’s 15 cooling centers,
which are open through Friday
at 5 pm.
Be min df ul of y o u r d i e t .
Avoid alcohol, sugary and caf-
feinated drinks, like coffee or
tea, during extreme heat. The
toolkit also recommends eating
easy-to-digest foods, like salads
and fruits.
Basu said that changing your
routine under the extreme heat
advisory is important. Don’t ex-
ert yourself outdoors, especially
between 11 am and 6 pm, if you
do not have to.
Avoid wearing dark clothes,
management measures for the
species.”
Taylor Chapple, a professor
at Oregon State University
whose Big Fish Lab studies the
movements and dynamics of
large marine predators, said he
was “excited to see this work
come out.”
“Understanding the role of
predators off our coast is criti-
cal,” he said. He said he was not
surprised that the estimate was
“in the magnitude range of oth-
er global aggregations that have
been studied thus far.”
“It’s an important place, an
incredibly seasonally critical
spot for sharks,” he said.
The number of the sharks off
Cape Cod peaks in late summer
and early fall as the sharks
T h e B o s t o n
Additionally, the Wu admin-
istration pointed to 64 splash
pads that are open at parks and
playgrounds throughout Boston.
and instead opt for loose and
light-colored garments, said Ba-
su. Experts also urge everyone to
wear sunscreen, hats, and other
protective gear.
Who is most at risk?
Although everyone can be
impacted by heat-related illness-
es, infants, people 65 or older,
athletes, pregnant people, and
individuals with chronic illness-
es are at a greater risk than oth-
ers, according to the CDC.
Hot weather can also irritate
the lungs, putting people with
asthma and COPD at greater
risk. Outdoor laborers are espe-
cially vulnerable, said Basu.
Chronic illnesses and
medication
move into the waters to feed on
the “abundant gray seal popula-
tion,” researchers said in the
study. Researchers believe the
seal population in the region is
about 50,000 in the summer,
providing the sharks an entic-
ing buffet.
Among the sharks that re-
searchers encountered during
their surveys, the most common
length was 3 meters, or almost
10 feet, with some longer than
16 feet, or about the length of a
Toyota Camry.
Winton emphasized that the
findings don’t mean there’s an
army of 800 great white sharks
mustered every day off Cape
Cod beaches.
While the study estimated
that in some peak months there
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The city has also promoted Bos-
ton Public Library locations as
places where residents can seek
relief from the heat.
Many medications affect your
body’s ability to deal with heat,
including medicines for high
blood pressure and SSRIs for de-
pression and anxiety. If you take
any of these, make sure to re-
main cool and well hydrated.
People with diabetes are also
more prone to becoming dehy-
drated, making their blood sug-
ar levels hard to control, and
heat can damage equipment in-
cluding test strips, insulin
pumps, and glucose monitors.
The toolkit offers advice on how
to keep equipment safe and stay
hydrated throughout the heat
wave.
Heat can also impact our
mental health, said Basu, espe-
cially for individuals with chron-
ic mental health conditions.
can be several hundred of the
s h a r k s o ff C a p e Co d , “ t h e y
weren’t all here piled up off of
the beaches all at one time,” she
said. “That’s hundreds of indi-
viduals moving through the ar-
ea over the course of a month.”
Still, people should be aware
that “Cape Cod is a white shark
hotspot, and that the summer
and the fall are peak activity
times,” she said.
“It’s really important to reit-
erate that the risk of having a
bad interaction with a white
shark is low. They are very cau-
tious, selective predators. But
there is certainly an increased
presence of white sharks here,”
she said.
“ T hat is w hy we work so
hard to get the information that
The Boston Water and Sewer
Commission’s water truck will
be at the Chinatown Gate on the
corner of Surface Road and
Beach Street until 5 p.m. Friday.
Lastly, all of the 14 public
pools and spray decks in Boston
operated by the state are open, a
state official confirmed this
week.
During last summer’s heat
wave, Boston EMS experienced
about a 20 percent rise in daily
911 calls, according to Wu’s ad-
ministration.
“Heat waves can endanger
anyone, regardless of age or
health, and it is critical for ev-
eryone to stay hydrated, limit
outdoor activity when possible,
and wear plenty of sunscreen,”
said Wu in a statement earlier in
the week.
The National Weather Ser-
vice this week warned that the
region should brace for danger-
ous heat, predicting that many
communities in Southern New
England are likely to experience
the first official heat wave of the
summer. That means tempera-
tures will reach 90 degrees for at
least three days in a row.
Temperatures T hursday
could feel as high as 100 degrees
in Boston and 98 in Providence,
“If you’re part of this popula-
tion of folks,” Basu said, “you re-
ally need to be staying in a place
where you’re not going to be
overheating because it could re-
ally impact your health.”
Nevertheless, experts recom-
mend continuing to take medi-
cation as prescribed, unless indi-
cated otherwise by your provid-
er.
The difference between heat
stroke and heat exhaustion
According to the Cleveland
Clinic, heat exhaustion is less
dangerous, but can come with
muscle cramps, headaches, diz-
ziness, weakness, fatigue, nau-
sea, and vomiting.
Heat stroke is the most severe
form of heat illness, with symp-
we’re generating from the sci-
ence that we’re doing here into
the hands of public safety offi-
cials and, most importantly, in-
to the hands of the public,” she
said. “So that they can modify
their behavior and be what we
call ‘shark-smart,’ to reduce the
risk of having a bad interac-
tion.”
The conservancy has infor-
mation about sharks on its web-
site and social media accounts
and offers a free app, Sharktivi-
ty, “where people can see where
we’re seeing white sharks over
the course of the season.”
Great white shark research
conducted on the same boat has
led to other studies over the
years, as well as stunning video
of shark encounters. The study
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LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF
according to the heat index,
which measures “how hot it real-
ly feels” when accounting for rel-
ative humidity. Those oppressive
conditions will persist into Sat-
urday, meteorologists said.
The weather service Thurs-
day also warned of heavy down-
pours, localized flooding, a
chance of “brief tornadoes,” and
gale-force winds along coastal
Massachusetts and Rhode Is-
land.
A flood watch is in effect for
major portions of the state, in-
cluding flood-prone areas in
Boston, Cambridge, and Quincy.
A gale warning is in effect for
recreational boaters in coastal
Massachusetts and Rhode Is-
land from 11 a.m. until mid-
night.
Friday will be hot and humid,
but without the storms expected
Thursday. Another round of “se-
vere storms and flash flooding”
are possible on Saturday.
Danny McDonald can be
reached at
daniel.mcdonald@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@Danny__McDonald.
John R. Ellement of Globe staff
and Globe correspondent Adri
Pray contributed to this report.
toms of confusion, altered men-
tal status, and a very high core
body temperature above 104 de-
grees Fahrenheit.
If you or anyone you know
begins to experience heat stroke,
call 911.
“Heat stroke is the most dra-
matic manifestation of the im-
pact of heat on people’s health,”
says Basu, “but I think we need
to be aware of the more broad
implications of heat on our
health, and protect ourselves.”
Emma Obregón Dominguez can
be reached at
emma.obregon@globe.com.
Follow her on Instagram
@eobredom. Material from
Globe wire services was included
in this report.
area included the ocean off
Provincetown, at the tip of Cape
Cod, down to the Cape’s elbow
and the island of Monomoy, a
favorite seal hangout.
Winton’s coauthors were
Gavin Fay, a professor at the
UMass Dartmouth School for
Marine Science and Technology,
and Greg Skomal of the Massa-
chusetts Division of Marine
Fisheries.
Skomal recently authored
“Chasing Shadows: My Life
Tr a c k i n g t h e G r e a t W h i t e
Shark.”
Martin Finucane can be
reached at
martin.finucane@globe.com.
John R. Ellement can be reached
at john.ellement@globe.com.
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Mass. likely to pay for Maine hydropower line
Project costs soared after delays tied to 2021
ballot measure, leaving a financial battle
By Jon Chesto
GLOBE STAFF
The cost of a 145-mile power line to
bring hydroelectricity from Canada to
Massachusetts via western Maine has
risen by roughly 50 percent, to $1.5 bil-
lion, in the wake of a Maine ballot mea-
sure that delayed work for more than a
year — and Massachusetts ratepayers
could end up paying much of the tab.
Avangrid chief executive Pedro Aza-
gra disclosed the updated cost of the
VINCENT ALBAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
Katie McCann carried a pink
Balenciaga purse to watch “Barbie”
at the AMC theater in Boston.
Businesses
say ‘Hi
Barbie!’
Pink is popping up
everywhere as sellers
embrace doll, movie
By Macie Parker
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Boston businesses are hopping on
the Barbie bandwagon, stocking up on
pink products, slinging pink cocktails,
and rolling out the pink carpet for Bar-
bie fans happy to part with their green.
The blockbuster opening of the Bar-
bie movie over the weekend — to the
tune of $155 million at the box office —
is only likely to add to the craze for all
things Barbie. The stock of the doll’s
maker, Mattel, Inc. of El Segundo, Calif.,
climbed 10 percent over the past
month. In Massachusetts, internet
searches for “Barbie” and “Barbie movie
tickets” are at an all-time high, accord-
ing to Google Trends.
Along Newbury Street this week, the
usual sea of shoppers and tourists was
dotted by islands of pink as groups of
Barbie fans headed to AMC Boston
Common 19 on Tremont Street to watch
the movie. Outside boutiques, manne-
quins bedecked in pink beckoned shop-
pers. Sales associates helped style cus-
tomers like the doll for Barbie-themed
events and parties. College-aged girls
were at sidewalk sales rifling through
pink clothes to fill out their summer
wardrobes exclaiming, “That’s so Bar-
bie!”
“Pink is always going to be big in the
summer, but [’Barbie’] makes it three
times as big,” said Melissa Schroeder, a
sales associate at Lipstick, a clothing
boutique. “It was definitely easy for us
to order a bunch of pink because it’s
selling super well.”
To help lure customers, Coolidge
Corner Theater in Brookline held an
opening night party, complete with a
pink carpet, pink lemonade, pink deco-
rations, and staff dressed in pink. But
the added hoopla probably wasn’t nec-
essary. The nonprofit theater sold out
six shows over the weekend, including
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project during a quarterly earnings pre-
sentation on Thursday. Avangrid has
contracts with three Massachusetts
electric utilities to build the line, a deal
it won in 2018 for $950 million in tan-
dem with power-plant owner Hydro-
Quebec. But Avangrid halted construc-
tion after Maine voters rejected the
project in a November 2021 referen-
dum. Avangrid sued to overturn the
vote and eventually won that court bat-
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tle; in April, a Maine jury agreed with them on to utilities and, ultimately, emissions. However, many Maine resi-
Avangrid that it had “vested rights” in ratepayers if authorized by the Massa- dents objected, saying the line would
the project that could not be taken away chusetts Department of Public Utilities. cut through natural areas, essentially
by voters because the company had al- The differences in the two spending acting as a giant extension cord from
ready spent hundreds of millions of dol- bills now must be reconciled by House Quebec. About one-third of the line will
lars. and Senate negotiators. cut across woodlands while the rest will
Since then, Avangrid has done little, Supporters in the Healey adminis- run along existing transmission lines.
if any, work on the line. tration and Legislature say the measure Many major infrastructure projects,
In recent weeks, the company ap- is essential to complete the power line, including a separate offshore wind proj-
proached Governor Maura Healey’s ad- which would carry the equivalent of ect proposed by Avangrid, experienced
ministration, saying the delay prompt- 1,200 megawatts of elec tricity — significant cost increases last year due
ed big cost increases. As a result, both enough for about 1 million homes — to rapid interest rate hikes, the Ukraine
the House and the Senate inserted lan- from dams run by Hydro-Quebec into war, and other supply chain issues. De-
guage into their respective supplemen- Massachusetts. The project is seen as spite the $500 million-plus cost increase
tal budget bills that would allow Avan- crucial in helping Massachusetts meet for the Maine project, hydropower is so
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The investment giant’s innovation center near South
Station focuses on coming technological advances
By Aaron Pressman
W
GLOBE STAFF
hat do robots, quantum computers,
and digital avatars have to do with
running Boston’s largest mutual
fund company? Fidelity’s Center for
Applied Technology, or FCAT for
short, is trying to figure it out.
In the past, that meant experi-
menting with trading via pagers, creating mobile
apps, and improving the company’s websites. Now,
FCAT studies the frontiers of computing, the meta-
verse, and other concepts that sound like science fic-
tion. And despite the crypto crash, the center is also
still studying the implications of bitcoin and its un-
derlying database technology known as blockchain.
FCAT focuses on concepts that may be five to 10
years away from practical use. A separate unit, Fideli-
ty Labs, works on technologies aimed at Fidelity’s cur-
rent business units over the next three years. (The lab
has produced two spinoffs, Catchlight.ai, which aids
marketing for financial advisers, and Saifr, which re-
views customer communications for compliance is-
sues.)
When it was founded in 1999, FCAT was filled
with Palm Pilots and specialized gear to track the eye
At top, a CLOi robot provides visitors with help, such as movements of web surfers. On a recent visit, the cen-
directions. In an oval-shaped room dubbed “the egg,” Fidelity ter had some of the latest virtual and augmented real-
displayed some recent apps and experiments done by Fidelity’s ity headsets on hand, plus a couple of robots.
Center for Applied Technology or FCAT. FIDELITY, Page B6
Consumers guide US economy to
second quarter’s 2.4% growth rate
2.4% By Ben Casselman
NEW YORK TIMES
growth rate in the first three months
of the year and far stronger than fore-
The US economic recovery gained casters expected a few months ago.
Consumers led the way, as they
consumer spending and resurgent have throughout the recovery from
business investment helped, once the severe but short-lived pandemic
again, to keep a recession at bay. recession in 2020. Spending rose at a
Gross domestic product, adjusted 1.6 percent rate, slower than in the
for inflation, rose at a 2.4 percent an- first quarter but still solid. Much of
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
nual rate in the second quarter, the that growth came from spending on
2021 2022 2023
Commerce Department said Thurs- services, as consumers shelled out for
GEORGE PATISTEAS/GLOBE STAFF
day. That was up from a 2 percent GDP, Page B8
B6 Business
Jobless claims at lowest in 5 months
Dip in applications
shows US labor
market is healthy
By Matt Ott
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The number of Americans ap-
plying for jobless benefits slid last
week to its lowest level in five
months, further evidence that the
US labor market continues to defy
the Federal Reserve’s attempts to
cool it off.
US applications for unemploy-
ment benefits fell by 7,000 to
221,000 for the week ending July
22, from 228,000 the week before,
the Labor Department reported
Thursday. That’s the fewest since
February.
The four-week moving average
of claims, which smooths out
some of the week-to-week volatili-
ty, fell by 3,750 to 233,750.
In Massachusetts, about 2,852
individuals filed new claims for
unemployment benefits last week,
down 225 from the week prior, ac-
cording to the Labor Department.
Jobless claim applications are
broadly seen as a proxy for the
number of layoffs in a given week.
For a few weeks this spring,
jobless claims had appeared to
reach a sustained, higher level,
above 260,000. But for more than
a month now, claims have settled
Fidelity
focuses
on future
technology
uFIDELITY
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In an oval-shaped room
dubbed “the egg,” Fidelity dis-
played some recent apps and ex-
periments done by FCAT and Fi-
delity Labs. One screen showed an
online game in Roblox called Pan-
cake Empire Tower Tycoon that
teaches kids about financial litera-
cy. In another corner, a video dem-
onstrated a digital avatar that
could offer customer assistance. A
few decommissioned PCs, once
used to mine cryptocurrencies, al-
so decorated the room.
Quantum computing research
at FCAT started in 2019 after
Google announced a break-
through in the field. Elton Zhu, di-
rector of quantum research at
FCAT, was working as a data sci-
entist for Fidelity when he was
brought in to lead the project two
years ago.
Zhu, who has a PhD in quan-
tum physics from MIT, said Fideli-
ty is studying how quantum com-
puters could both help and hurt
its current operations.
“Quantum computers promise
to solve some problems much fast-
er than any of our traditional
computers,” he said. A quantum
computer potentially could help
Fidelity model complicated invest-
ment risks in real-time, but also
could be used to crack the encryp-
tion protecting the firm’s confi-
dential data and messages.
At FCAT, the emphasis is on
developing apps that could run on
quantum computers. “We want to
make sure that the software that
we write can be executed on most
of the hardware that is available,”
Zhu said.
For example, the firm was a be-
ta tester of Amazon’s Braket ser-
vice that offers online access to
early quantum computers. The
2020 experiment involved run-
ning a program to model options
pricing on different computers. Fi-
delity has also tested sending data
securely using a quantum net-
work between offices in Boston
and Merrimack, N.H.
Zhu sees a growing cluster in
the Boston area of quantum com-
puting labs and startups, plus
quantum research units for multi-
national companies. “We’re pay-
ing close attention to the local eco-
system and we’re very engaged in
it,” he said.
Startup investors would like to
see Fidelity even more involved.
Venture capitalist Adrian Mendo-
za, a Fidelity alum himself, said he
sees a greater role for the invest-
ment giant, particularly since Dig-
ital Federal Credit Union shut
down its fintech accelerator pro-
gram last year.
“My hope is that with the DCU
innovation center closed, that Fi-
delity’s innovation center can play
T h e
US applications lower as the labor market remains
for one of the healthiest parts of the
unemployment US economy.
benefits fell Since more than 20 million
from from jobs vanished when the COVID-19
228,000 to pandemic hit in the spring of
221,000 for the 2020, US employers have added
week ending jobs at a blistering pace, more of-
July 22. ten than not beating forecasts. De-
spite the fastest interest rate hikes
since 1989, the unemployment
rate has hardly budged, remain-
ing at a historically low 3.6 per-
cent.
Fed officials have said that the
a more outward role with the
broader Boston startup ecosystem
and fill in the gap,” Mendoza said.
Fidelity’s efforts come as the fi-
nancial services industry is seeing
significant innovation in the infra-
structure used to move funds, in-
cluding by the Federal Reserve,
according to Sarah Biller, co-
founder of the FinTech Sandbox in
Boston. “Of all the innovators,
though, Fidelity has an uncanny
ability to see what’s next for the
industry and thoughtfully build
upon their comparative advantage
while being a cornerstone for the
Boston startup community,” Biller
said.
Reliable quantum computers
are still years away, but some of
FCAT’s other experiments might
become useful sooner.
Since the pandemic, Fidelity
took out the reception desk at Fidelity departments — moves
FCAT’s third-floor headquarters from the current offices next to
and has an LG robot dubbed South Station over to a new HQ
“CLOi” in place to guide visitors to the company is building in the
different areas. The robot could Seaport on the grounds of the old
really come in handy once the World Trade Center.
center — along with many other “It’s a huge space,” one FCAT
B o s t o n G l o b e
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unemployment rate needs to rise
well past 4 percent to bring infla-
tion down, but recent government
data showed that consumer prices
fell in June to their lowest level
since early 2021 — 3 percent com-
pared with a year earlier — and
much closer to the Fed’s target of 2
percent.
Despite that, on Wednesday,
the Fed announced that it was
raising its benchmark borrowing
rate by another quarter-point af-
ter pausing in June for the first
time in more than a year. Fed
executive said. “We’re going to
need a lot of CLOi’s.”
Aaron Pressman can be reached at
aaron.pressman@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@ampressman.
Chair Jerome Powell gave no hint
as to what officials might do at fu-
ture meetings.
The US economy has broadly
been resilient in the face of the
Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate-
hiking campaign in its effort to sti-
fle persistent inflation not seen
since the early 1980s.
The US economy grew at a 2.4
percent annual pace from April
through June, the government re-
ported Thursday — even better
than the 2 percent annual pace in
the first quarter of 2023.
While there have been many
high-profile layoffs recently, most-
ly in the technology sector, the
overall labor market remains
healthy.
IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce,
Twitter, Lyft, LinkedIn, Spotify,
and DoorDash all announced lay-
offs this year. Amazon and Face-
book parent Meta have each an-
nounced multiple job cuts since
November.
Outside the tech sector, Mc-
Donald’s, Morgan Stanley, and 3M
have also recently cut jobs.
Overall, 1.69 million people
were collecting unemployment
benefits the week that ended July
15, about 59,000 fewer than the
previous week and the fewest
since January.
Dana Gerber of the Globe staff
contributed to this report.
PHOTOS BY DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF
At FCAT,
Fidelity’s center
for keeping up
with cutting-
edge
technologies,
researchers
study the
frontiers of
computing, the
metaverse, and
other concepts.
At left, a replica
of a stock ticker
tape machine in
the lobby of the
center.
At bottom left,
Elton Zhu,
director of
quantum
research at
FCAT, suggests
that a quantum
computer, like
the ones at
FCAT, can help
Fidelity model
complicated
investment
risks in real
time.
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A cash transaction for marijuana.
Mastercard has told US banks to
stop allowing marijuana
purchases with its debit cards.
Mastercard
targets use
of its cards
to buy pot
By Frances Vinall
WASHINGTON POST
Mastercard has told US banks to
stop allowing marijuana purchases
with its debit cards, highlighting the
legal and financial gray area the in-
dustry exists within even as more
states legalize the drug.
Large banks and credit card com-
panies have generally restricted can-
nabis purchases because marijuana
is illegal under federal law, leaving
fewer payment options for buyers in
places where it is legal. Thirty eight
states, two territories, and Washing-
ton, D.C., allow medical use of mari-
juana for some conditions, and 23
states, two territories, and D.C. have
legalized recreational use.
Mastercard said in an emailed
statement Thursday that “the federal
government considers cannabis
sales illegal, so these purchases are
not allowed on our systems.”
But some buyers, and dispensa-
ries, had found a loophole in PIN
transactions with debit cards.
“As we were made aware of this
matter, we quickly investigated it,”
the company said. “In accordance
with our policies, we instructed the
financial institutions that offer pay-
ments services to cannabis mer-
chants and connects them to Master-
card to terminate the activity.”
Josh Glasstetter, spokesperson
for the US Cannabis Council, said
the industry’s estimated $30 billion
in revenue this year would be “over-
whelmingly” generated through
cash transactions, which he says put
workers and communities at greater
risk.
Supporters of efforts to allow
cashless transactions at dispensaries
say forcing the businesses to operate
only with cash invites would-be
thieves. “It makes absolutely no
sense that legal businesses are being
forced to operate entirely in cash,
and it’s dangerous — and sometimes
even fatal — for employees behind
the register,” Senator Patty Murray, a
Washington Democrat, said in a
statement to the Associated Press
last year amid a surge in dispensary
robberies in her state.
“State-legal cannabis businesses
are locked out of most banking and
financial services,” Glasstetter said
in a text message. “[The] announce-
ment by Mastercard is a powerful re-
minder of the need for action by
Congress.”
In 2019, California State Treasur-
er Fiona Ma told a House subcom-
mittee looking at the SAFE Banking
Act that cannabis dispensaries have
dropped off duffel bags and suitcases
full of cash to pay their taxes.
The act would protect banks and
their employees from punishment
for providing services to cannabis
businesses that are legal on a state
level.
“We have the power in this com-
mittee to prevent murders and
armed robberies, and we must use
it,” Representative Denny Heck, a
Washington Democrat, said at the
time.
The bill is still being debated. The
Senate Banking Committee held its
first hearing on the bill in May.
Glasstetter said the bill’s passage
would “open up new payment meth-
ods and vital sources of financing.”
But some lawmakers have con-
cerns. Senator Tim Scott, a South
Carolina Republican, said in a May
hearing on the bill that authorities
were concerned it could “create
loopholes in our money-laundering
laws, making it harder to catch crim-
inals.”
In a survey conducted in October,
the Pew Research Center found that
88 percent of Americans support the
legalization of marijuana for medical
use and 59 percent support legaliza-
tion for recreational use. Support
was lower among Republicans and
people age 75 or older. Support for
legalization has increased dramati-
cally over the past two decades.
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TALKING POINTS
LABOR The local effort to unionize Starbucks has a late-stage arrival in Beverly. Workers at the 29
Enon St. location petitioned to organize Wednesday with the National Labor Relations
Beverly
Starbucks
Board, becoming one of more than 330 cafes across the country to
make the move. In a statement, baristas said they are unionizing for Ohio derailment costs
double to $803m as
better working conditions, fair wages, and consistent schedules.
workers “When, after taxes and health insurance your take home pay rate is $5
petition an hour, something needs to change,” employee Rob Stevens wrote. It’s

to unionize likely the store will face fierce opposition from the Seattle-based
coffeehouse giant, which has been accused of union-busting since the
drive began in 2021. Employees in Boston and beyond allege that
cleanup continues
Starbucks has closed unionized stores and fired union leaders — actions that have By Josh Funk
sparked several strikes, including one at a Brookline storefront that lasted three months.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OMAHA, Neb. — The costs
So far, the NLRB has issued over 100 complaints against the company. — DITI KOHLI
associated with Norfolk South-
ern’s fiery February derailment
in Ohio have more than doubled
TECHNOLOGY Nearly two months after Mohamad Ali stepped down, a new CEO has been named at the to $803 million as the railroad
Needham-based technology research firm International Data Group. Genevieve Juillard works to clean up the mess and
IDG has a new CEO will take over the top job on Sept. 5, the company announced Thursday. Over the course
moves forward with all the relat-
ed lawsuits.
of her career, Juillard has spent more than 15 years at the Experian credit bureau, most
Norfolk Southern recorded
recently as president of the company’s advertising services arm, Experian Marketing another $416 million charge re-
Services. IDG — which was acquired by the private equity titan Blackstone in 2021 in a lated to the East Palestine derail-
deal valued at $1.3 billion — comprises IDC, a market intelligence provider for the ment on Thursday as part of its
technology industry, and Foundry, which oversees editorial publications such as second-quarter earnings after
Computerworld and CIO. “IDG has been ingrained in the global tech community for previously announcing a $387
million charge earlier this year.
nearly 60 years, serving top digital companies around the world with a connected global
Most of the costs are related to
team, and I could not be more excited for the opportunity to join at a pivotal time for the
the cleanup of the hazardous
business and industry,” said Juillard in a statement announcing her hire. “I am confident chemicals that were released,
that IDG is uniquely positioned to capitalize on tailwinds in the technology, data and but $222 million is a combina-
information sectors with incredible opportunities ahead of us.” — DANA GERBER tion of legal fees and the $63 mil-
lion of assistance it has offered
to the community.
The derailment near the
FAST FOOD McDonald’s is grinning thanks to Grimace after a marketing campaign Ohio-Pen nsyl vani a border
to celebrate the “birthday” of its big purple mascot went viral and con- prompted a national reckoning
Grimace tributed to surprisingly strong second quarter sales. Global same-store on railroad safety after thou-
“ We are delivering on our
commitment to recover service
quickly,” Shaw said. “We’re deliv-
ering on our commitment to
make a safe railroad even safer.
We’re delivering on our commit-
ment to address quality of life is-
sues for our hard working craft
railroaders. And we continue to
deliver on our commitment to
make things right for the people
of East Palestine and the sur-
rounding communities.”
The additional charges relat-
ed to the derailment, combined
with a 6 percent drop in the
number of shipments the rail-
road delivered, more than
halved the Atlanta-based compa-
ny’s profit to $356 million, or
$1.56 per share. That’s down
from $819 million, or $3.45 per
share, a year ago.
W i t h o u t t h e d e ra i l m e n t
costs, NS says it would have
earned $2.95 per share in the
quarter, still well below Wall
Street expectations. The analysts

brings a sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, rose nearly 12 percent in the
April-June period. That handily beat Wall Street’s forecast of a 9.4 per-
sands of people had to evacuate
when officials decided to blow
surveyed by FactSet Research
generally expected Norfolk
smile to cent increase, according to analysts polled by FactSet. The Grimace cam-
open several tank cars filled with Southern to report earnings per

McDonald’s paign, which featured a limited-time purple milkshake, took on a life of

vinyl chloride because they be-
lieved they might explode. The
bottom line its own after fans posted videos of themselves drinking the milkshake
and then ending up on the ground in a messy pool of purple, or having
resulting fire sent a towering
plume of black smoke over the
some sort of seemingly paranormal experience. — ASSOCIATED PRESS town three days after the derail-
ment that spilled several other
hazardous chemicals when the
tank cars carrying them rup-
SOCIAL MEDIA Meta Platforms shares are clawing their way back to levels last seen about a year and a tured.
half ago after the social media company reported strong results for the second quarter and The $803 million cost esti-
Meta recovers gave an optimistic outlook for the current period. Having already more than doubled this mate doesn’t include funds to
share of $3.11.
Norfolk Southern’s revenue
declined to $2.98 billion in the
quarter, which also disappoint-
ed. Analysts were expecting
$3.08 billion in revenue. Shaw
said that full-year revenue is
likely to be down at least 3 per-
cent because of the volume con-
cerns and tough pricing environ-
ment with fuel surcharges de-

from stock dive year, Meta’s stock was up more than 4 percent Thursday. Wall Street punished the compa-
ny in February 2022 for missing revenue estimates and reporting its user base stopped
compensate the East Palestine
community for any long-term
clining sharply. At the start of
the year, the railroad had pre-
health effects, drop in home val- dicted revenue would be roughly
growing but now is cheering results that indicate costs are under control and advertising
ues, or drinking water issues be- flat this year.
revenue and subscriber growth were better than expected. — BLOOMBERG NEWS
cause those are still being nego- The railroad’s traffic was hurt
tiated, so the total will grow. But by the derailment because Nor-
Norfolk Southern also expects to folk Southern had to operate
BROADBAND Comcast topped analysts’ estimates for profit in the second eventually recover some of those with only one of its two tracks by
costs from its insurance and law- East Palestine running on a busy
quarter, boosted by price hikes for faster broadband connec-
Comcast tions earlier in the year and an equipment upgrade offer, even
suits against other companies
involved in the derailment.
corridor. But consumer demand
for imported goods has also
earnings up, as internet and TV subscribers vanished. The Philadelphia-
based owner of Xfinity broadband and cable services, the NB-
CEO Alan Shaw said he’s weakened, and Norfolk South-
“proud of the way our team rose ern’s main competitor in the
but cable CUniversal media empire, and Sky TV, reported earnings ex- to the challenge” after the derail- east, CSX, has said it was able to
subscribers cluding some costs of $1.13 a share, a 12 percent increase from a year earlier and well ment, and the railroad will con- pick up some of Norfolk South-
tinue to help the community ern’s business in the wake of the
down above the 97 cents analysts predicted. Revenue rose 1.7 percent to $30.5 billion, exceeding
analysts’ average prediction of $30.1 billion. Meanwhile, the company swung to a loss of
around East Palestine recover derailment.
while also improving general Railroad executives expect
19,000 subscribers in its cornerstone broadband service in the quarter, despite investing
working conditions on the rail- they’ll be able to regain some of
heavily to gain market share and strengthen its brand. The erosion of cable-TV customers road to address employees’ qual- their lost business as service con-
continued, with a loss of 543,000 subscribers. — BLOOMBERG NEWS ity of life concerns. tinues to improve.

INTERNATIONAL The chief executive of Coutts Bank, long known as the bankers for Britain’s royal family
and nobility, has stepped down amid the furor surrounding populist politician Nigel EU investigates Microsoft
Another banking
over Teams, Office bundle
Farage’s complaints that his account was closed because of his political views. CEO Peter

CEO out in Farage Flavel’s resignation came just a day after Coutts owner NatWest Group parted ways with
its CEO, Alison Rose, the first woman to head one of Britain’s four big banks. Rose left
fallout after acknowledging that she had discussed Farage’s personal details with a journalist. By Raf Casert
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS — The European
Union said Thursday that it has
opened an antitrust investiga-
GENDER A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg wrote the bestseller “Lean In” for women tion into Microsoft over con-
navigating the corporate world. Now, she wants to inspire the next generation of cerns that bundling its Teams
Sandberg female leaders. Sandberg’s nonprofit, LeanIn.Org, has launched a new leadership
messaging and videoconferenc-
ing app with its Office productiv-
brings her program for girls 11 to 15 called Lean In Girls, which aims to teach them lessons
on resilience, positive risk-taking, and leading boldly. In raising her own family,
ity software gives it an unfair KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/GETTY IMAGES

‘Lean In’ Sandberg said she noticed that girls lose confidence and their voice “somewhere
edge over competitors.
The European Commission,
The case centers on a bundle
of the Teams messaging and
mantra around middle school,” an observation that is backed up by data. The free the 27-nation bloc’s top competi- videoconferencing app.

to girls program consists of 15 lessons that are based on social science research, expert
input, and feedback from girls. — BLOOMBERG NEWS
tion enforcer, said it would carry
out its in-depth investigation “as It added that it would “continue
a matter of priority.” to cooperate with the commis-
The investigation stems from sion and remain committed to
a complaint filed in 2020 by finding solutions that will ad-
TRAVEL Royal Caribbean shares rose 8.72 percent Thursday after raising its full-year profit Slack Tec hnologies, which dress its concerns.”
forecast to a level that significantly beat expectations, with investors betting that makes popular workplace mes- Only last week, the German
Royal Caribbean increased demand for its cruises is signaling the worst may be over for the battered saging software.
Slack, owned by business
video conferencing company al-
faview added its own complaint
sees smoother industry. The cruise operator now expects adjusted earnings per share of $6.00 to $6.20
this year, up from its prior forecast of $4.40 to $4.80. That eclipsed the average analyst
software maker Salesforce, al- over Microsoft Teams, arguing
sailing estimate of $4.73. Rivals Carnival Corp. and Norwegian Cruise Line also jumped, 3.23
leged that Microsoft was abusing
its market dominance to elimi-
that bundling gives the US tech
giant an unmatched competitive
percent and 2.70 percent respectively. — BLOOMBERG NEWS nate competition — in violation advantage “that is not justified
of EU laws — by illegally com- by performance and that com-
bining Teams with its Office petitors like alfaview cannot
suite, which includes Word, Ex- match.”
AUTOMOTIVE Volkswagen is the odd carmaker out in what’s otherwise
cel, and Outlook. The commission says open-
been an upbeat earnings season for the industry. While “Remote communication and ing the investigation in no way
Volkswagen Mercedes-Benz raised its guidance and both Stellantis and collaboration tools like Teams determines the outcome.
is an outlier Renault posted better-than-expected margins, VW on
Thursday lowered its car-sales outlook and pledged to
have become indispensable for
many businesses in Europe. We
Europe has led the way in
ratcheting up scrutiny of Big
among work on its dwindling cash flow as it struggles with must therefore ensure that the Tech companies over worries
carmakers logistics costs and waning orders in China. Unlike its peers, VW is in the midst of
markets for these products re-
main competitive,” said Mar-
that they have become too domi-
nant. When Brussels has looked
restructuring as it is falling behind in its most important market. — BLOOMBERG NEWS
grethe Vestager, the EU’s anti- into Microsoft’s recent deals,
trust commissioner. however, the company has pre-
“This is why we are investi- vailed.
ENERGY Shell, Europe’s largest energy company, said Thursday that its profit fell 56 percent in the gating whether Microsoft’s tying The EU approved Microsoft’s
of its productivity suites with plan to buy video game maker
second quarter compared with the record-breaking earnings of a year earlier, to $5.07 bil-
Shell’s profit lion. The company blamed several factors for the falloff in adjusted earnings, including low-
Teams may be in breach of EU
competition rules,” she added.
Activision Blizzard for $69 bil-
lion, after the company offered
plummets more er prices for oil and natural gas. Shell also said that earnings in liquefied natural gas, a cru-
cial business for the company, were sharply lower partly because a less turbulent environ-
Microsoft said in a statement to automatically license popular
that it respected “the European Activision titles like “Call of Du-
than 50 percent ment meant there were fewer opportunities to profit from trading. — NEW YORK TIMES Commission’s work on this case.” ty” for cloud gaming platforms.
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Local businesses say ‘Hi Barbie!’
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an extra show added to accom-
modate the surge of fans.
Ticket sales jumped nearly
500 percent compared with the
previous weekend.
“This was definitely a record-
breaking weekend for the
Coolidge,” said Beth Gilligan,
deputy director at the Coolidge
Corner Theater. “We haven’t
seen numbers like this in years.”
The Barbie craze has provid-
ed a much-needed lift for
Coolidge Corner and other the-
aters, which shut down during
the pandemic and struggled to
recover as health concerns lin-
gered and streaming changed
viewing habits. But movie the-
aters weren’t the only businesses
to get a lift from the latest cultur-
al phenomenon.
Otto Pi z za , a r e s t a u ra n t
across the street from the
Coolidge Corner Theater, was
filled with people clad in pink
for the Barbie movie, according
to general manager Buddy Ste-
phenson.
“Because we’re connected to
so many shops, I think we’ve
seen just a general level of excite-
ment, and really everyone bene-
fits,” Gilligan said. “Coolidge
Corner just felt so alive this past
weekend.”
In Harvard Square, the Rus-
sell House Tavern featured pink
Barbie-themed cocktails — jala-
peño tequila, hibiscus simple
syrup, lime juice, and agave —
on July 18 and sold out that
night. “Anything that garners
that kind of widespread excite-
ment is just a great opportunity
for us,” said bar manager Kend-
all Morales.
The Barbie excitement is still
not over. Citrus and Salt, a Mexi-
Mass. likely to pay for
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Stocks fell Thursday, taking some air out of Wall Street’s big Continued from Page B5
recent rally, despite fatter-than-expected profit reports from efficient that state officials still
big companies and the latest signals of a resilient economy. expect Massachusetts ratepay-
Investors studied several reports, including an estimate that ers to save money over time,
said growth for the overall economy accelerated in the compared with electricity rates
spring. Another report said orders for long-lasting in the current New England
manufactured goods strengthened more than expected last market that are heavily influ-
month. Thursday’s drops for stocks came despite a stronger- enced by the price of natural gas.
than-expected profit report from Meta Platforms, one of Wall Avangrid and the utilities still
Street’s most influential stocks. The owner of Facebook, need to negotiate any contract
Instagram, and WhatsApp attracted additional active changes and then get DPU ap-
members, and its stock rose 4.4 percent. McDonald’s rose 1.2 proval, those officials said, leav-
percent after it easily topped analysts’ forecasts for profits ing the ultimate impact to rate-
during the spring and said its sales grew worldwide. payers here unclear.
Honeywell International was a heavy weight on the market “Completion of the NECEC
despite reporting stronger profit for the spring than analysts line is important for Massachu-
expected. It dropped 5.7 percent after its revenue fell short of setts customers,” Elizabeth Ma-
analysts’ expectations, as did its forecast for earnings in the hony, the Healey administra-
current quarter. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4 tion’s energy resources commis-
percent from 3.87 percent late Wednesday. The two-year sioner, said in a statement. “This
Treasury yield rose to 4.92 percent from 4.85 percent. project will help stabilize our
. electric rates, provide clean, reli-
DOW JONES industrial average able winter energy supply, and
reduce the state’s emissions. We
appreciate efforts by the House
and Senate to remove barriers to
this critical clean energy project
and look forward to construc-
tion resuming this summer.”
Representative Jeff Roy, co-
chairman of the Legislature’s en-
ergy and telecom committee,
said he believed the extra money
Avangrid is seeking would re-
duce the savings expected from
the additional hydropower, from
savings of $2.64 a month to
roughly $2 a month for a typical
Massachusetts household. But
NASDAQ Composite index approving the legislation, he
said, will allow the stalled proj-
ect to start again.
“What we’re facing was the
prospect that they would not be
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uGDP
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vacation travel, restaurant
meals, and Taylor Swift tickets.
Consumers didn’t carry all
the weight, however. Business
S&P 500 index investment rebounded in the
second quarter after slumping in
the first three months of the
year, and increased spending by
state and local governments con-
tributed to growth.
“If you’re looking for a work-
ing definition of ‘resilient,’ look
no further than the American
economy,” said Joseph Brusuelas,
chief economist at RSM. “This is
absolutely rock-solid.”
The persistent strength of the
economy has surprised many
economists who thought that
high inflation — and the Federal
SOURCE: Bloomberg News Reserve’s efforts to stamp it out
G l o b e
Miriam Diabagate showed off her Barbie-inspired nails before seeing “Barbie” on July 20.
The movie has created a buzz and Boston businesses are hopping on the pink bandwagon.
can restaurant in Back Bay, is
hosting a Barbie vs. Beyoncé
drag brunch this Saturday to cel-
ebrate two female icons.
Barbie, introduced in 1959,
has engaged generations of peo-
ple, mostly young girls, and the
new movie is directed at those
girls — now all grown up. Brian
Taggerty, the president of The
Doll Doctor’s Association, a glob-
al organization for people who
study, collect, and repair dolls,
said there is no doubt that the
Barbie nostalgia tapped by the
movie will boost the doll’s sale
among adults.
“The [price of] older Barbies
will definitely go up because of
this,” Taggerty said. “Now the
older generation [has] extra
money — and they want to
able to move forward because of
the cost increase,” Roy said. “By
providing this language, we’re
able to give the DPU the flexibili-
ty to amend the contract[s].”
Construction could resume
as soon as next week. Azagra
told investors on Thursday that
the company will work on “criti-
cal path activities” at a substa-
tion in Lewiston, Maine, essen-
tially the new line’s southern
point, starting on Aug. 3.
Roy said it’s possible Avan-
grid may sue the financial back-
ers of the Maine referendum, a
group of power plant owners led
by NextEra that can stand to lose
business because Hydro-Quebec
offers cheaper electricity than
they do.
“They have not yet filed a
lawsuit but I would expect them
to mitigate the damage as much
as possible and not put it all on
the backs of ratepayers,” Roy
said. He added that the DPU
would only allow costs from ref-
erendum-related delays to be
passed on to consumers.
Meanwhile, Senator Mike
Barrett, the other co-chairman
of the energy committee, said he
remains hopeful that Massachu-
setts ratepayers “won’t be the
only parties on the hook for de-
lays caused by Maine voters” and
that other New England states
might be interested in buying
some of this clean power, partic-
ularly given the growing com-
mitment to regional cooperation
on energy issues.
Still, Barrett concedes it’s an
unfortunate extra burden for
through aggressive interest-rate
increases — would lead to a re-
cession, or at least a clear slow-
down in the first half of the year.
For a while, it looked as if they
were going to be right: Tech com-
panies were laying off tens of
thousands of workers, the hous-
ing market was in a deep slump,
and a series of bank failures set
up fears of a financial crisis.
Instead, layoffs were mostly
contained to a handful of indus-
tries, the banking crisis did not
spread, and even the housing
market has begun to stabilize.
The job market stayed strong,
giving Americans money to
spend: Personal income, after
taxes and adjusted for inflation,
rose at a 2.5 percent rate in the
second quarter.
“The things we were all
VINCENT ALBAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
spend money. They want to re-
live their youth, so if it’s Barbie
or if it’s a game or something
they used to play as a kid, that’s
great.”
The Barbie movie is not only
a triumph for people who “grew
out” of Barbie dolls as they got
older, but also for doll collectors.
Dolls are the third-most collect-
ed item, after coins and stamps,
according to Taggerty, and Bar-
bie’s resurgence of popularity is
sure to inspire new doll collec-
tors.
At Cambridge Antique Mar-
ket in East Cambridge, vintage
Barbie dolls are selling better
than ever, according to the
store’s manager, David Cohen.
“Barbie” is the latest nostal-
gia-laced move to remind older
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The cost of a hydropower line from Canada to Massachusetts
via western Maine has risen roughly 50 percent.
Massachusetts.
“It was NIMBYism on a
grand scale,” Barrett said of the
Maine vote. “Massachusetts
ratepayers are going to have to
pay for the irresponsibility of
their Maine neighbors. That is
unavoidable and true. I don’t
know how else you get the line
built. Avangrid will not go for-
ward if they are saddled with a
huge loss, and neither will the
utilities.”
Avangrid has been involved
in a parallel situation involving a
proposed offshore wind farm. In
that case, the company was not
successful in its efforts to rene-
gotiate state-sanctioned con-
tracts to build the Common-
wealth Wind project, south of
Martha’s Vineyard. Avangrid
won the rights to the contracts
in late 2021, but later said sup-
ply chain issues, interest rate
hikes, and the war in Ukraine
led to unforeseen cost increases.
The utilities — Eversource, Na-
tional Grid, and Unitil — re-
buffed Avangrid’s efforts to rene-
freaked out about earlier this
year all went away,” said Michael
Gapen, chief US economist at
Bank of America.
Inflation has also slowed sig-
nificantly. Consumer prices rose
at a 2.6 percent rate in the sec-
ond quarter, down from 4.1 per-
cent in the first quarter and from
more than 7 percent in the first
half of last year. That has eased
pressure on the Fed to keep rais-
ing rates, leading some forecast-
ers to question whether a reces-
sion is such a sure thing after all.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said
Wednesday that the central
bank’s staff economists no lon-
ger expected a recession to begin
this year.
White House officials pointed
to the report as evidence that
President Biden’s economic poli-
F R I D A Y, J U L Y 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
generations of childhood fun,
and more films are in the works.
Mattel is working on new movies
that would feature the compa-
ny’s classic toys, including a live-
action Hot Wheels movie direct-
ed by J.J. Abrams, a live-action
Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots mov-
ie starring Vin Diesel, a live-ac-
tion Polly Pocket movie starring
Lily Collins, and a new Thomas
the Train movie.
“I think it’s just the best,” said
Schroeder, the Newbury Street
boutique sales associate. “I’m so
happy that everyone is reliving
their childhood.”
Macie Parker can be reached at
macie.parker@globe.com/
Follow her on Twitter
@Macieparker22.
gotiate those contracts. Eventu-
ally, Avangrid agreed to pay $48
million to exit those contracts
and rebid, presumably at a high-
er price, for new contracts to be
awarded next year. The develop-
ers of another offshore wind
farm, SouthCoast Wind, are ex-
pected to follow a similar path.
Roy and Barrett pointed to
differences between the NECEC
and Commonwealth Wind sce-
narios. Construction was well
under way on NECEC when
Maine voters stopped it, and
thus is many years closer to de-
livering clean energy to Massa-
chusetts than Commonwealth
Wind. Another key difference:
Hydropower is typically much
less expensive than offshore
wind.
“It’s clean, renewable, and it’s
cheap,” Roy said. “I’m support-
ing any clean energy we can get,
as long as we can get it at a rea-
sonable price.”
Jon Chesto can be reached at
jon.chesto@globe.com.
cies, including investments in
infrastructure and green energy,
were paying off. In a blog post
Thursday, the president’s Coun-
cil of Economic Advisers noted
that investment in manufactur-
ing facilities contributed more
than a third of a percentage
point to overall GDP growth, the
most in more than four decades.
Biden, in a statement, said
the data was evidence of “Bide-
nomics in action.”
Still, many economists say
consumers are likely to pull back
their spending in the second half
of the year, putting a drag on the
recovery. Savings built up earlier
in the pandemic are dwindling.
Credit card balances are rising.
And although unemployment
remains low, job growth and
wage growth have slowed.
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Trade
deadline
delivers
unease
By Varun Shankar
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

Richard Bleier will pack a few extra clothes

— notably a collared shirt — for the Red Sox’
West Coast road trip.
The reasoning behind the reliever’s ex-
panded wardrobe is simple: The Sox usually
take late-night flights and have a comfortable
dress code. But this trip will take them
through the trade deadline, one that could
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send players to another team that asks its
With the trade deadline looming on Tuesday, one voice in the woods is calling for the Red Sox to deal their older, but valuable, assets: players to step up their attire.
infielder Justin Turner (left), closer Kenley Jansen (top), lefthander James Paxton (bottom), and outfielder Adam Duvall (right). Bleier doesn’t expect to be traded, but he
noted, “It’s better to be prepared than … to be
scrambling.”
Dan Shaughnessy Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim
Bloom hasn’t indicated whether he will buy,

Operative word? Sell

sell, or do both before this year’s deadline,
which is Tuesday. Bloom said he is focused on
“building a team while we build the organiza-
tion.”
For the players involved in transactions,
there can be anguish that comes with telling
your family your job uprooted their lives
again, tension in quickly finding a place to

Recent hot streak has raised expectations, but Red Sox not ready to contend
The Boston Red Sox, the hottest
team in baseball, open a West
Coast trip in San Francisco
against the Giants Friday night.
Baseball boss Chaim Bloom
plans to be back in Boston from
now through Tuesday’s trade
deadline (when the team will be
in Seattle), and he’s in a pretty
odd position.
What do you think? Should the Sox be buyers
or sellers? Are they contenders or is the recent
success fool’s gold?
Beats the heck out of me. I’ve been ready to
bury these guys since the first sunflower seed was
spit in Fort Myers, but they’ve won 15 of 20 and
just swept the best team in baseball, recovering
from a 3-0 deficit in the sixth inning Wednesday
in a nationally televised 5-3 win over the estima-
ble Braves.
The Sox have a raft of hot hitters (hello Triston
Casas), have come from behind in 30 of their
wins, seem to downright like one another, and as
of Thursday were a mere 1½ games behind To-
ronto in the quest for the final wild-card spot in
the American League. Given what he has to work
with on an everyday basis, this has to be Alex Co-
ra’s best managing job.
Swell.
But is it sustainable? Is this a team that can ac-
tually contend in the postseason?
Sorry. Just not seeing it. These Sox were not
built to win this year. And that’s why I’d trade
James Paxton, Kenley Jensen, Adam Duvall, and
Justin Turner between now and Tuesday. It is the
SHAUGHNESSY, Page C4
live, and uneasiness in assimilating into a new
team — all, of course, while trying to play well.
“We’re going to have a completely new
team in here in the next two weeks,” said Red
Sox outfielder Rob Refsnyder.
The Sox already started reshaping their
roster with the trade of Kiké Hernández to the
Dodgers, a move prompted by roster redun-
dancies and the veteran’s subpar play.
Hernández’s absence echoed through the
clubhouse ahead of Wednesday’s win over the
Braves, with players asking attendants to put
his first game with Los Angeles on the televi-
sion and Justin Turner tweeting a trio of teary-
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Celtics,
Mazzulla
US VS. PORTUGAL
Tuesday, 3 a.m., Fox

stick to Tara Sullivan

approach Horan
By Adam Himmelsbach channels
anger into
GLOBE STAFF

Tw o y e a r s a go , t he Ce lt ic s
roared to the NBA Finals and put

an early scare into the Warriors
using their top-ranked defense.
This past season, even as coach
Joe Mazzulla emphasized his of-
fensive system built on spacing
and 3-point shooting, the Celtics
still had the second-best defense
in the league.
But significant roster altera-
tions this summer appeared to be
centered on Mazzulla’s offensive
structure. Marcus Smart, the
2022 NBA Defensive Player of the
Year, was traded to the Grizzlies in
a three-team deal that brought
center Kristaps Porzingis to Bos-
ton.
The 7-foot-3-inch Porzingis is
an underrated defender and a
strong rim protector, but his di-
verse offensive game has been his
foundation.
Then the Celtics sent Grant
Williams, another physical and
gritty defender, to the Mavericks
in a sign-and-trade.
A s C e l t i c s f o r w a r d Jay l e n
Brown sat at a dais Wednesday
equalizer
As they stood on
either side of ref-
eree Yoshimi Ya-
mashita, the
game official
forcing them into
an unusual con-
versation as she
seemingly at-
tempted to broker peace in the wake of
their on-field collision, Lindsey Horan
and Danielle van de Donk continued to
gesticulate toward each other and hol-
ler their frustration to Yamashita.
It was the strangest moment of
what, to that point, had been a strange
and frustrating game for the US soccer
team, which had been reduced to chas-
ing and reaching against a disciplined
Dutch side. As the clock ticked toward
the 63rd minute of play in this second
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group-stage game of the Women’s
Bill Belichick oversees Day 2 of Patriots training camp, including the play of quarterback Mac Jones. World Cup Wednesday, the United
States trailed by a goal and was search-

Patriot deals in the works?

and signed his five-year, $304 mil-
lion contract extension that is the
most lucrative deal in NBA histo-
ry, he took a moment — with Maz-
zulla and president of basketball
operations Brad Stevens sitting
nearby — to make it known that
he does not want this team to
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ter injuring calf at practice. C2
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Angels star Ohtani homers twice,
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Dugger and Uche
among those due
By Nicole Yang
GLOBE STAFF
FOXBOROUGH — As the Patriots
gear up for the dog days of training
camp, several important personnel
decisions loom in the near future.
Safety Kyle Dugger, linebacker
Josh Uche, and guard Mike Onwenu
are entering the last season of their
rookie deals, making potential con-
tract extensions a hot topic of discus-
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sence from spring minicamp. C2
sion.
Uche, coming off a breakout sea-
son, said Thursday his agents have
been in communication with the Pa-
triots, but he does not worry himself
with negotiations.
“Wherever I’m wanted, wherever
I’m needed, I’m willing to work,”
Uche said. “Wherever I may be —
God willing, it’s here — I’ll just give it
everything I’ve got.”
Dugger expressed a similar senti-
ment on Wednesday.
“I’d love to play ball here,” he said.
“As far as everything else, I kind of
leave that to my agent. I’m just fo-
cused on playing ball while I’m here.”
A year ago, with punter Jake Bai-
ley in the same situation, the Patriots
inked him to a four-year, $13.5 mil-
lion extension. But the team ended
up releasing Bailey nine months later,
after his down season ended with a
two-game suspension.
Bailey was the only member of the
Patriots’ 2019 draft class to receive an
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ing for the type of cohesion and attack
that has long defined its international
dominance.
They found it in Horan, who took
her anger at being on the wrong end of
a physical Van de Donk tackle that
wasn’t even whistled for a foul and fu-
eled it into her play. With super sub
Rose Lavelle patiently waiting to take
the corner kick that resulted from Van
de Donk’s collision with Horan, the US
cocaptain heard the words of teammate
Julie Ertz in her head.
“Linds, please, just don’t get another
yellow card,” said Ertz, as relayed by
Horan to reporters in New Zealand.
“Just score this goal to shut everyone
up.”
And so she did. A perfect cross by
Lavelle, a perfect header by Horan, and
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extension.
Now, the Patriots have the
ability to secure three key mem-
bers of their 2020 draft class,
preventing them from entering
unrestricted free agency. Line-
backer Anfernee Jennings, se-
lected in the third round in
2020, is also eligible for an ex-
tension, though he has yet to
earn as meaningful a role as
Dugger, Uche, and Onwenu.
Director of player personnel
Matt Groh said Wednesday the
Patriots are trying to be “pretty
proactive” with addressing ex-
piring contracts. This offseason,
they extended wide receiver De-
Vante Parker and linebacker
Ja’Whaun Bentley.
“We took care of a couple of
the guys who were going to be
up next year,” Groh said. “There
are only so many of us. We can
only get so many guys done at a
time. There is a lot of time and
effort that’s put into it by our
end, contractually, and trying to
do everything that makes sense.
“We will keep looking at dif-
ferent options. I like taking care
of business, so there is not a
whole lot of sitting around and
waiting for things to happen.”
T h e Pat r i o t s a l s o h av e a
handful of veterans playing on
the last (or first and only) year
of their contracts. Among them
are tight ends Hunter Henry
and Mike Gesicki, offensive
tackle Trent Brown, wide receiv-
er Kendrick Bourne, and defen-
sive back Jalen Mills.
Asked how the high volume
of players on a contract year af-
fects the team dynamic, Groh
chalked it up to the nature of
the business.
“If you’ve got a high-profile
guy, contracts are going to be a
part of every offseason and, at a
certain point, you have got to
knuckle down and focus on the
season at hand,” he said. “A lot
of that stuff is going to take care
of itself. Trying to get contracts
done right now, you don’t have
Patriots quarterback
Mac Jones attempts
to avoid the “pass
rush” provided by
children of his
teammates.
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Bengals quarterback Burrow carted off field at practice
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati Bengals quarter-
back Joe Burrow was carted off
the practice field after he came
up hobbling from a scramble on
Thursday.
The 26-year-old franchise
quarterback hobbled on one leg
and then went to the ground af-
ter the play near the end of the
afternoon practice.
Coach Zac Taylor later said it
was a calf injury. Burrow was
wearing a sleeve on it and came
up limping.
Several teammates gathered
around while trainers tended to
the Pro Bowl quarterback before
he was helped on to the back of
a cart.
“Sometimes players feel a lit-
tle sore after the first day,” Taylor
said when asked about Burrow
wearing the sleeve on his right
calf.
“I’m not the expert here, but
all the information. The player
has got another season, where
you potentially don’t know if his
production is going to be high
or low. There are a lot of factors
that go into it — health, durabil-
ity, role on the team, leadership.
“So, with a whole ‘nother
season to go, it makes it tricky
trying to gauge the market at
these times. But when we think
that we can do that, and obvi-
ously the player and his repre-
sentatives think that we can do
that, then it is smart to try and
get something done.”
The Patriots are expected to
enter 2024 with the most sala-
ry-cap space in the NFL.
As for observations from Day
2 of training camp . . .
R Ty Montgomery left prac-
tice early after appearing to in-
jure his leg. During an 11-on-11
period, Montgomery attempted
to catch a pass from third-string
quarterback Trace McSorley
when he collided with lineback-
er Terez Hall. Montgomery im-
mediately flexed and favored
his leg after the play, before vis-
iting with the medical staff.
Montgomery tried to return to
the field but was ultimately
sidelined for the rest of the day.
R Ever y Patriot was once
again accounted for on Thurs-
day. The lone absences were the
same three players: Ownenu
(physically unable to perform
list), safety Cody Davis (PUP),
and offensive tackle Calvin An-
derson (non-football injury list).
Linebacker Matthew Judon
practiced in a limited capacity,
as did running back Rhamon-
dre Stevenson.
R Coach Bill Belichick has al-
ways preached the importance
of stacking days, so it makes
sense there was a good amount
of carryover from Day 1. The Pa-
triots continued to spend signif-
icant time in the red zone — and
the defense continued to domi-
nate.
For the second straight prac-
tice, Dugger picked off Mac
Jones in the end zone. Jones
my gut says Joe will be OK,” cen-
ter Ted Karras said in the locker
room.
“I’m not going to talk about
another player’s injuries, but I
know about calf strains all too
well, and they are painful but ar-
en’t the end of the world,” defen-
sive end Sam Hubbard said.
“They do linger a bit, but I think
the training staff and Joe are go-
ing to do the right thing and to
take care of this early in camp
and be ready to go.”
Burrow is still negotiating
with the Bengals on a long-term
contract that could make him
one of the NFL’s highest-paid
players.
Burrow had talked Wednes-
day about how good he felt at
the opening of camp after his
first three NFL training camps
were disrupted and how he
hoped to play in some preseason
games.
T h e B o s t o n
Pro football
dropped to the ground for a set
of pushups after the intercep-
tion.
“ T he red zone is to ugh,”
Henry said. “It’s the toughest
part of the field. The field is
condensed. It’s tight. Every-
thing has to be on time. It’s a lot
of timing, trust, chemistry. To
do that early in camp, it’s one of
the tougher things to do. But it’s
good for us because it challeng-
es us right out of the gate. We
have to really talk through
things.”
R Bourne had to run a lap for
making a mistake during 11-on-
11 drills. The crowd cheered
h i m o n a s h e m a d e h i s w ay
around the field. After his pro-
duction and standing with the
team took a step back last sea-
son, Bourne is among the play-
ers hoping for a bounce-back
season. As of now, JuJu Smith-
Schuster and Parker sit atop the
receiver depth chart.
R After taking the field for
his second Patriots practice
open to the media, Smith-
Schuster was asked what he will
bring to the team. His answer —
“I’m a reliable guy. In tough
times, tough situations, they
can go to me” — described an
all-too-familiar role in New
England. A go-to, dependable
slot receiver has been a corner-
stone of the Patriots’ offense,
from Troy Brown to Wes Welker
to Julian Edelman. Is Smith-
Schuster next up?
R B e l i c h i c k ’s 1 9 - s e a s o n
streak of having at least one un-
drafted rookie make the final
53-man roster may be in jeopar-
dy. Malik Cunningham, a quar-
terback turned wide receiver,
has a compelling story, but it
seems doubtful he will survive
cutdown day. Other options in-
clude linebacker Jourdan Heil-
ig, tight end Johnny Lumpkin,
and wide receiver Ed Lee,
though all are long shots.
Nicole Yang can be reached at
nicole.yang@globe.com.Follow
her @nicolecyang.
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Surgery for Ramsey
Dolphins All-Pro cornerback
Jalen Ramsey will undergo sur-
gery Friday to repair a torn me-
niscus in his left knee, a person
familiar with the diagnosis told
the Associated Press.
Ramsey was injured and
carted off the field at the end of
practice on Thursday. The per-
son, speaking to the AP on con-
dition of anonymity because the
team hasn’t released details,
said the severity of Ramsey’s in-
jury will be determined during
surgery.
The Dolphins open the sea-
son on Sept. 10 at the Chargers.
Ramsey collided with receiv-
er Tyreek Hill during an 11-on-
11 drill. Ramsey went down
grabbing at his left knee and
was attended to by trainers.
Ramsey was helped up but
didn’t appear to put any weight
on the leg. He was carted back
G l o b e
Lawrence and Adriana Guy spent some quality father-daughter time after practice.
PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK
Guy explains absence
from spring minicamp
By Christopher Price
GLOBE STAFF
FOXBOROUGH — Speaking
with media for the first time
since he skipped mandatory
minicamp in the spring, veteran
Patriots defensive tackle Law-
rence Guy explained Thursday
some of the reasoning as to why
he stayed away in June.
“I had a baby around that
time, and family is the biggest
thing for me; just going to leave
it at that,” he said after Day 2 of
Patriots training camp. “I’m
here. A big smile on my face. I’m
going to do whatever I can for
the organization. I’ll work as
hard as I can. That’s why we
play this game — to be out on
this field. To be a brotherhood.”
Guy, 33, has been with the
Patriots for six seasons but
didn’t show for the mandatory
spring workouts. There was a re-
ported contractual issue, but he
said Thursday there is contin-
ued discussion between his
agent and the organization.
“Me and my agent have been
in discussion with the organiza-
tion, and we’re just going to
keep that private between us,”
he said.
“We understand that it’s a
business out here. Our baby was
born around that time, and we
had things we had to deal with.
We’re big on family, and we had
to handle certain things. We’re
going to leave it at that.
“It is what it is. I didn’t pay
any mind to that. My job is to go
out there and play football,
right? Let everything else handle
itself out on the other side of it.”
Guy, who is considered one
of the locker room leaders, was
New England’s 2022 nominee
for the Walter Payton NFL Man
of the Year Award. The 6-foot-4-
inch, 315-pounder had 46 tack-
les and two sacks in 14 games
last season. His contract expires
at the end of the 2024 season.
Guy said retirement was nev-
er a part of the conversation, at
least at this stage.
“I think retirement is [on] ev-
eryone’s mind nowadays,” he
to the locker room as Miami’s
second full-team practice of
camp closed.
The Dolphins acquired Ram-
sey, a six-time Pro Bowl selec-
tion, in a trade with the Rams in
March.
Hall semifinalists
Versatile running back Roger
Craig, two-time Super Bowl-
winning coaches Tom Coughlin
and Mike Shanahan, and Patri-
ots owner Robert Kraft ad-
vanced to the next stage of con-
sideration for the Pro Football
Hall of Fame The selection com-
mittees cut the list of candidates
from 31 seniors and 29 coaches
and contributors to 12 in each
category. The 12-person com-
mittees for each group will meet
next month to pick up to three
senior candidates among play-
ers who last played no later
1998, and one coach and con-
said. “People retire after two,
three years. But no, I’m still en-
joying the game. When I’m done
enjoying the game and feel like I
need to hang them up, then I’ll
hang ‘em up.
“Right now, I’m just happy I
have my kids out here and they
can see me play. That’s the big-
gest thing.
“I’m here. This is what I
chose to do. I’m here for training
camp. I’m here to compete. I
love this game.”
A working man
Speaking of contracts, line-
backer Josh Uche, who is head-
ing into the final year of his cur-
rent deal, spoke about his situa-
tion.
“I just let [my agents] handle
all the little stuff and just come
out here and work each day,”
Uche said. “They’ve been in
communication, but I just didn’t
want to worry myself with the
details. I want to just let them
handle all the little stuff and
come out here and work each
day.”
Uche, 24, who finished with
11.5 sacks last year in a break-
out season, was asked if he’s up
for a long-term contract in New
England.
“Yeah,” he said. “Wherever
I’m wanted. Wherever I’m need-
ed. I’m willing to work. I just
want to work, bro.
“At the end of the day, this is
a job. Growing up, my father al-
ways put me to work on week-
ends. Yard work. All I know is
working, bro. And wherever it
may be — God willing, it’s here
— I’m just going to give it every-
thing I’ve got.”
Something cooking?
A report from ESPN Thurs-
day indicated the Patriots were
in talks about a possible visit
with free agent running back
Dalvin Cook, but there was no
update from Bill Belichick.
“I’m not going to talk about
the players who are not on our
team,” Belichick said. “That’s a
longstanding policy that I’ll con-
tributor. The finalists will be
part of the Hall’s class of 2024 if
they are supported by at least 80
percent of voters next January
. . . Free agent running Dalvin
Cook will meet with the Jets this
weekend. “We’ll never say no to
a great player,” Jets coach Rob-
ert Saleh said. “If the opportuni-
ty presents itself in the right
way. So we’re excited about him
and his visit. It’s really just being
able to get have a conversation.”
Cook has rushed for at least
1,000 yards in each of the last
four seasons, but was released
by the Vikings on June 8 for sal-
ary-cap savings . . . Two-time Pro
Bowl defensive end Trey Hen-
drickson signed a one-year con-
tract extension that ties him to
the Bengals through the 2025
season. Hendrickson receives an
additional $21 million, includ-
ing $5 million this season and
$16 million in 2025, a person fa-
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tinue to stick with.”
On Wednesday, Patriots exec-
utive director of player person-
nel Matt Groh called Cook’s situ-
ation “unique,” noting that play-
ers of his caliber are typically
not available this time of year.
“We explore as many options
as we can,” Groh said.
Three outs
Attendance for Day 2 was the
same, as offensive linemen Mike
Onwenu and Calvin Anderson as
well as special teamer Cody Da-
vis were the only missing play-
ers. For the second consecutive
day, Matthew Judon spent a siz-
able portion of practice on the
lower practice field . . . Robert
Kraft is another step closer to
the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as
the Patriots owner was named a
finalist for the Class of 2024
Thursday. Kraft is one of 12 fi-
nalists in the coach/contributor
category. He’ll find out whether
he will be enshrined in Canton,
Ohio, when this year’s class is
announced the weekend of Su-
per Bowl LVIII. The enshrine-
ment would be next summer . . .
Belichick was asked for his
thoughts regarding the retire-
ment of Bruins great Patrice
Bergeron. “All of the coaches
that have been here — Claude
[Julien], Bruce [Cassidy], Jim
[Montgomery] now — every-
body’s raved about him and
what he’s meant to the team, the
organization,” Belichick said. “It
sounds like he was kind of their
Devin McCourty, just did every-
thing right. A great leader and
player, so congratulations on a
tremendous career.” . . . The Pa-
triots announced their practice
schedule for the next week: Fri-
day: 9:30 a.m.; Saturday: off;
Sunday: 12:30 p.m.; Monday, 9
a.m.; Tuesday, 12:30 p.m.;
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.; Thurs-
day 9 a.m. For more informa-
tion, check outpatriots.com/
trainingcamp.
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miliar with the deal told the AP.
The four-year, $60 million deal
that Hendrickson signed during
2021 free agency was set to ex-
pire at the end of the 2024 sea-
son. The 28-year-old Hendrick-
son has 22 sacks and six forced
fumbles in two seasons with the
team. He played through a bro-
ken wrist last season to help the
Bengals reach the AFC Champi-
onship game for the second
straight year . . . The Cardinals
reworked the contract for All-
Pro safety Budda Baker, adding
$2.4 million in bonuses and in-
centives for this season, includ-
ing a $300,000 signing bonus,
according to a person familiar
with the deal. Baker had made it
known he was unhappy with his
contract, but was on the field for
the first practice of camp on
Wednesday, giving a good indi-
cation that contract talks were
trending in the right direction.
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Can Boston avoid a defensive dip without Marcus Smart (left) and Grant Williams?
Mazzulla, Celtics to
stick with approach
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have a full shift from an approach that has
been successful.
“I think what Kristaps can bring to us de-
fensively, and the additions some of our oth-
er guys can bring to us defensively, I want to
make sure that’s where we hang our hats
this year,” Brown said. “And that starts with
me. That starts with Jayson [Tatum]. That
starts with guys like Rob [Williams].
“With Marcus gone, we don’t want our
defensive identity to go out the door as well,
so we have to really emphasize that at the
start of training camp.”
While meeting with a small group of re-
porters about 20 minutes later, Mazzulla
was asked about Brown’s comments, and
whether they mesh with his own philoso-
phy.
He pointed out that over the years this
Celtics core has been built on defense.
There were lineups anchored by multiple
big men, such as Williams and Al Horford,
and groupings that leaned into more
switch-heavy schemes.
“I think we have an opportunity to kind
of blend both of them to where we do main-
tain our system and do some of the things
we did well for the majority of the season,
and then just kind of reinvent and find
small ways that adhere to our roster,” Maz-
zulla said. “We’ll be playing more double
big, probably, so with that we can do some
different stuff.”
Mazzulla said that, overall, he does not
expect the team’s defensive approach to be
altered all that much, despite the notable
personnel changes. He would like to see
more consistency at that end of the court,
and he will make small tweaks.
“I think we’ll have the ability, with the
current team, to play both big and small,
and bounce back from that,” he said. “And
we’ll just do whatever fits our roster, what-
GOLF ROUNDUP
Hodges captures lead at 3M
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lee Hodges got off to a good start in his
bid to make the FedEx Cup playoffs, shooting
an 8-under-par 63 for a one-stroke lead in
the first round of the 3M Open on Thursday.
Two-time major champion Justin Thom-
as, who's trying to make both the playoffs
and the US Ryder Cup team, opened with a
69 in windier afternoon conditions at the
TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minn.
Kevin Streelman
had the best of the
afternoon rounds
with a 64, matching
Hideki Matsuyama,
Brandt Snedeker
and Tyler Duncan.
Emiliano Grillo,
Nick Hardy and Jus-
tin Suh were anoth-
LEE HODGES er shot back, and
His goal is playoffs defending champi-
on Tony Finau was
one of nine players to shoot 66.
Hodges entered the week having missed
the cut in three of his past four tournaments
and 14 of 29 events this season. He's 74th in
the FedEx Cup standings; the top 70 will
make the playoffs that begin in two weeks.
He got off to a hot start with back-to-back
birdies.
“To see that wedge shot go to an inch on
the first hole and then make that 40-footer
on the second hole, I was like, ‘All right, here
we go, might as well make a lot of birdies if
we’re gonna make a couple,’” Hodges said.
Because of approaching inclement weath-
er, play was halted with seven groups on the
course. Several players were 3 under with a
few holes left. They will resume their rounds
Friday morning.
Champions — Miguel Angel Jimenez shot a
5-under 66 to take the first-round lead at the
Senior British Open in Bridgend, Wales, five
years after he became the first Spaniard to
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ever makes the most sense on both ends of
the floor. But we have some versatility and
we’re able to go to that, and I’m kind of
looking forward to playing with that versa-
tility.”
The departure of Smart, the longest-ten-
ured Celtic, will shuffle the backcourt re-
gardless. Mazzulla confirmed that Derrick
White, who emerged as the team’s second-
most valuable player behind Tatum for
much of last season, will be the starting
point guard.
But reigning Sixth Man of the Year Mal-
colm Brogdon and Payton Pritchard will
have expanded roles as well.
“I think that’s really important that
those three have an opportunity to grow,
and help them on both ends of the floor,”
Mazzulla said. “Those three guys at the
guard spot are part of our identity and a
part of what we need to get to on offense
and defense.”
Brogdon, of course, was initially the one
who was going to be sent away in the Por-
zingis trade rather than Smart. But the
three-team deal involving the Clippers
crumbled when Los Angeles decided it did
not have enough time to complete a full
physical exam of Brogdon, who was slowed
by a forearm strain in the conference finals
last May.
Mazzulla said the organization has had
discussions with Brogdon since then.
“There is a healing process, there is a lis-
tening process, and to see where we are at
and where we have to get to,” he said.
“We’ve had some conversations as an orga-
nization, but at the same time, we under-
stand that as the situation and the healing
process go on, we will move forward as well
as you can.”
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win the tournament.
Jimenez is two shots ahead of Alex Cejka
and Mario Tiziani at Royal Porthcawl. Vijay
Singh and Jeev Milka Singh are three shots
off the lead.
Jimenez, who edged Bernhard Langer by
one shot at St. Andrews in 2018, made six
birdies and one bogey.
Defending champion Darren Clarke’s 73
included a double bogey on the par-4 No. 1.
Langer, who won the last time the Senior
British Open was held at Royal Porthcawl in
2017, also carded a 73. He is a four-time win-
ner of this major and has been runner-up
three times.
The tournament is the last of five majors
on the senior schedule. The winner gets into
the British Open next year at Royal Troon.
LPGA — Paula Reto had eight birdies as she
carded a 7-under-par 64 to take a surprise
first-round lead at the Évian Championship
in Evian-les-Bains, France.
The 33-year-old South African holds a
two-shot lead over 2015 champion Lydia Ko
of New Zealand and three other players
locked on 66: Frenchwoman Celine Boutier,
American Alison Lee, and Thai golfer
Wichanee Meechai — who recovered from a
bogey and a double bogey early on.
“I had so much fun,” Reto said. “The views
and everything, it’s just awesome to be here.
I hit some good quality shots beginning of
the round and just gave myself opportuni-
ties.”
Reto’s stellar round was perhaps surpris-
ing because she has only won one tourna-
ment on the LPGA Tour and has never placed
higher than 18th at a major championship.
“You never know out here with this golf
course. Anything is possible,” Reto said.
“You’ve just got to give yourself the best op-
portunity to make par and birdie.”
Her only blemish was a bogey on the 11th
hole at the Évian Resort Golf Club, which cel-
ebrated its 10th anniversary as a major.
B o s t o n G l o b e
RED SOX NOTEBOOK
Sale open to any role
Throws 20-pitch
bullpen session
By Alex Speier
GLOBE STAFF
WORCESTER — Lefthander
Chris Sale took another step to-
ward a return to the Red Sox
Thursday, throwing live batting
practice at Polar Park against two
members of the Triple A Worcester
Red Sox. It marked the first time
he’d thrown to hitters since suffer-
ing a stress reaction in his left
shoulder in a start against the
Reds on June 1.
Sale went through a full war-
mup, sat down in the dugout, then
logged 20 pitches against Caleb
Hamilton and Niko Kavadas. He
threw his entire mix, working at
92-94 miles per hour with his fast-
ball, and sounded an optimistic
note that his next step would be a
minor league rehab game Tuesday.
“Overall, today was a good day,”
said Sale. “I’m ready for the next
step, whatever it may be. Felt
great. Felt normal, which is a good
thing. So, it’s just about building
up.”
Sale is familiar with working
his way back from injury at this
time of year. In 2018, after being
shut down for two months with
shoulder inflammation, he re-
turned to the Sox in mid-Septem-
ber and progressively built his
workload, pitching one inning in
his first outing. In 2021 and 2022,
he built to a fuller starter’s work-
load, getting to 89 pitches in 2021
and 72 in 2022.
The Sox could hasten his return
if they elect to have him build his
workload in the big leagues,
whether as an opener or reliever.
Sale deferred to the team to make
that call.
“I’ve got a locker, not an office;
those aren’t my calls,” said Sale,
who is 5-2 with a 4.58 ERA this
season. “I want to get there as
quick as I can, but I’m not here to
force anybody’s hand or step on
anyone’s toes.
“I’m going off of what they say.
If they want me coming back
throwing two innings as an open-
er, I’m in. If they want me to build
up to six innings, I’m in. If they
want me coming out of the bull-
pen in the seventh inning, deal. I
want to come in here, do my work,
do everything I can to get healthy
as quickly as possible, and then it’s
up to them how they want to use
me.”
While Sale isn’t certain of the
role or timing of his return, he is
enthused about the prospect of re-
joining the team in the middle of a
push for a playoff spot.
“Pitching in a pennant race is a
lot more fun than not,” said Sale.
“The guys have been holding it
down very well. They’ve been play-
ing great baseball after the break.
We’ve put ourselves in, I think, a
really good position.
“I’m excited to be a part of it
and be a contributing factor.”
Trade deadline delivers unease
uRED SOX
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eyed emojis.
Relationships extend beyond
the players. Refsnyder and Her-
nandez’s wives and children had
grown close — a connection that’ll
be strained by a cross-country di-
vide.
Some trades are easier than
others. Bleier was with the Orioles
during the COVID-shortened 2020
season. In his last game with the
team, a win over the Rays, he ex-
pected to come in during the sev-
enth inning. He didn’t.
He expected to come in for the
eighth inning. He didn’t.
“Man, that’s kind of weird,” he
recalled thinking.
You can guess what happened,
or didn’t happen, in the ninth.
Orioles general manager Mike
Elias called him into his office after
the game and explained why Bleier
didn’t enter the game: He’d been
traded to the Marlins.
That worked out well for the
South Florida native, who went to
a contending team and was able to
stay with his in-laws.
But as anyone who has execut-
ed any kind of major move knows,
finding housing in major metro-
politan areas isn’t usually easy —
especially on short notice.
“Most places don’ t do two-
month leases,” said Refsnyder.
The 2012 Yankees draft pick
was traded from New York to the
Blue Jays in July 2017. He first
went to Triple A Buffalo but was
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Chris Sale was throwing 92-94
miles per hour during a BP
session in Worcester.
Story building back
Sale is far from alone as a re-
habbing Red Sox in Worcester.
Shortstop Trevor Story and catch-
er Reese McGuire are playing dur-
ing rehab assignments, and with
the Sox on the West Coast, right-
handers Garrett Whitlock and
Tanner Houck are both building
pitch counts with the team.
“Our crew’s getting a little big
down here,” said Sale.
Story is likely the closest of the
group to a return. The shortstop is
4-for-11 with a homer, double, five
strikeouts, and three walks in the
first four games of his rehab as-
signment. He said his timing at
the plate is improving rapidly, and
expressed satisfaction with the in-
creased arm strength he’s felt (rel-
ative to 2021 and 2022) while
back at shorstop.
“I take a lot of pride in playing
shortstop and doing it well. That’s
been really fun getting back there,”
said Story. “I feel at home there,
just being able to run and throw
on the run and be athletic out
there and not so stagnant as at
second.”
Story described himself as
amidst a “mini spring training” to
Red Sox-Giants
series thumbnails
at Oracle Park, San Francisco
Friday, 10:15 p.m.
NESN, WEEI 93.7
W-L ERA
RHP Kutter Crawford 4-5 4.04
RHP Logan Webb 8-8 3.48
Saturday, 7:15 p.m.
Fox, WEEI 93.7
W-L ERA
LHP James Paxton 6-2 3.46
TBD — —
Sunday, 4:05 p.m.
NESN, WEEI 93.7
W-L ERA
TBD — —
TBD — —
Head to head: This is the only meet-
ing between the teams this season;
they haven’t met since 2019.
Miscellany: The Giants have lost six
of eight . . . San Francisco is 28-22 at
home . . . Giants pitchers have
walked the second-fewest batters
(268) in MLB . . . 1B LaMonte Wade
Jr. is sixth in MLB with a .399 OBP . . .
Webb’s 5.67 K/BB ratio is fifth in
MLB.
called up to Toronto soon after —
showing up late to his first game
because he got stuck at the border
trying to sort out his paperwork.
Refsnyder, whose salary in
2017 was $189,995 per Spotrac,
was able to find an “expensive”
place to live near the Blue Jays
ballpark with help from the team.
While he liked the city and said his
new teammates were good to him,
he doesn’t look back fondly on the
experience.
“Played like [expletive] in To-
ronto,” he said. “It sucked. It was
stressful trying to meet a bunch of
new people midway through the
season.”
The Blue Jays were coming off a
pair of playoff appearances and
were a pretty close group — an iso-
lating environment in which Refs-
nyder tried to fit without being
overbearing.
“You’re like the new kid,” he
said.
That isn’t a universal experi-
ence, though. Bleier said it was
easy for him to get acquainted
with players in other clubhouses
because they’d likely crossed paths
as teammates or had other connec-
tions.
Some players don’t have to go
through any kind of adjustment.
Adam Duvall has been traded
three times, most recently in 2021
when the Braves acquired him en
route to a World Series victory.
Duvall, who played for the
Braves from 2018-20, hadn’t even
been away from Atlanta for a full
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build up to a return, but didn’t
identify a specific target date for a
comeback.
“Being back by next homestand
would be great,” said Story, refer-
encing a 10-game stretch starting
Aug. 4. “But there’s not one certain
date that I’ve circled. If that hap-
pens, then that happens, but we’ve
still got some work to do. We don’t
want to rush this thing and be ir-
responsible about it.
“Usually, I get, like, 50 at-bats
in spring,” he added. “I don’t know
if that’s going to happen just given
the landscape of where we’re at . . .
If there’s a chance to come back a
little earlier and maybe not play so
much right away, all the options
are on the table. Obviously with
where we’re at in the standings —
we’re playing well — it’s a fine bal-
ance.”
Paxton prepares
As his name persists as the sub-
ject of industry trade speculation,
lefthander James Paxton (6-2,
3.46) is slated to start Saturday
against the Giants. He’s spent little
time trying to discern the likeli-
hood of being dealt.
“I’m just focused on doing my
job, and that’s being here and win-
ning ballgames,” said Paxton. “I
want to stay here, but obviously,
that’s out of my control. I’m just
focused on getting myself ready
for my next start.”
Saturday will mark his eighth
start in 2023 on at least six days’
rest. With the 34-year-old making
regular big league starts for the
first time since 2019, the team has
taken advantage of off-days to con-
trol his overall workload.
“I’m sure at some point here,
we’ll get to some [starts on] five
days’ [rest],” said Paxton. “I want
to be fresh for those games down
the stretch as we’re pushing here
to make it to the postseason. I ha-
ven’t thrown many innings in the
past couple of years, so I think
they’re also being careful with my
workload to make sure I still have
innings left in the tank when it
does come down to that.”
Paxton said he’s pleased with
how his body is bouncing back be-
tween starts. Though he left a start
on June 24 with right knee sore-
ness and wore a brace in three
subsequent outings, Paxton said
he didn’t need the brace for his
most recent start against the Mets
on July 22.
“We were able to strengthen
that knee up with just some exer-
cises and therapy,” said Paxton. “I
feel like I don’t need it anymore.”
Farewell Faria
The Sox released righthander
Jake Faria, who made one appear-
ance this year. Recently acquired
righthanders Nick Robertson and
Justin Hagenman both joined Tri-
ple A Worcester.
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season before they reacquired him.
He knew basically every face in the
clubhouse. It’s a situation similar
to Hernández’s with the Dodgers, a
team he played with from 2015-20.
“If you’re going to get traded,
then that was probably the best
spot for him,” Duvall said. “He’s go-
ing to be comfortable when he
walks in there. He’s going to know
the personnel, he’s going to know
where to live, he’s going to know
where to go eat. So those things
will make it a little easier for him.”
But even with his positive mid-
season trade experience, Duvall —
who could find himself on the
move again this year — didn’t to-
tally enjoy it.
“ You’re playing a game that
night,” he said, “but yet you still
have to figure out where you’re go-
ing to live and what your family’s
going to do and how to get all your
stuff to a new city while still trying
to perform. I think that’s the
toughest part.”
Anxiety is an ever-present part
of the baseball season, but it’s
ratcheted up around the deadline.
Even if you’re not the player being
traded, the moves could have ram-
ifications that affect you; roster
space is limited, after all.
“I think we’re all anxious,” Refs-
nyder said, “and I think it’s a big
sigh of relief once it’s done.”
Varun Shankar can be reached at
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NOTEBOOK

AL
ANGELS 6, TIGERS 0

Ohtani off trade table

GAME 1
LA ANGELS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Rengifo 2b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .223
Ohtani dh 5 0 0 0 0 2 .296
Moniak cf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .331
Ward lf 4 2 2 3 0 1 .254
Moustakas 3b 4 2 2 0 0 1 .253
Renfroe rf 4 1 3 0 0 0 .244
Cabbage 1b 3 0 1 3 0 2 .250
EAST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak Wallach c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .196
Velazquez ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .231

Celebrates with
Baltimore 62 40 .608 — 19-12 5-5 L2 Totals 36 6 11 6 1 12
Tampa Bay 62 43 .590 1½ 18-13 2-8 L1 DETROIT AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Toronto 57 46 .553 5½ 7-20 5-5 W1 McKinstry 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .238
Boston
New York
55
54
47
48
.539
.529
7
8
16-11
13-17
6-4
5-5
W4
W1
shutout, 2 HRs Greene cf
Torkelson 1b
Carpenter dh
4
2
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
2 .310
1 .231
1 .267
Vierling rf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .266
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak ASSOCIATED PRESS Báez ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .223
Baddoo lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .207
Minnesota 54 50 .519 — 21-12 6-4 L2 Short 2b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .199
Cleveland 52 51 .505 1½ 16-14 7-3 W3 Shohei Ohtani looked his Haase c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .200
Detroit 46 57 .447 7½ 18-12 4-6 L3 manager in the eye and in just a Totals 26 0 1 0 3 8
LA Angels..................................010 202 010 — 6 11 0
Chicago 41 63 .394 13 15-15 2-8 L6 few words, left no doubt of his Detroit.......................................000 000 000 — 0 1 1
Kansas City 29 75 .279 25 10-27 2-8 L2 E—Short (3). LOB—LA 5, Detroit 2. 2B—Rengifo (7),
intentions. Moniak (15), Renfroe 2 (24). HR—Ward 2 (14), off
WEST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak Logue, off Logue. CS—Cabbage (1), Velazquez (2).
“I’ll finish it,” Angels manager SF—Cabbage. DP—LA 2.
Texas 60 43 .583 — 17-13 6-4 W1 LA Angels IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Houston 58 45 .563 2 24-13 7-3 L1
Phil Nevin recalled Ohtani telling Ohtani W 9-5 9 1 0 0 3 8 3.43

Los Angeles 54 49 .524 6 16-14 8-2 W4 him after the eighth inning of Detroit IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Lorenzen L 5-7 5 5 3 3 1 7 3.58
Seattle 52 50 .510 7½ 15-11 6-4 W2 what became his first MLB shut- Logue 4 6 3 3 0 5 7.36

NL
Oakland 28 76 .269 32½ 5-26 3-7 L3 out. “He wanted it. I could see it,
WP—Lorenzen. NP—Ohtani 111, Lorenzen 88, Logue
58. Umpires—Home, Derek Thomas; First, Nate Tom-
linson; Second, Mark Carlson; Third, Tripp Gibson.
too.” T—2:16.
Ohtani polished off his one-
hit shutout of the Tigers, a 6-0
ANGELS 11, TIGERS 4
GAME 2
win, then continued his extraor- LA ANGELS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Neto ss 5 1 1 1 0 2 .251
EAST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak
dinary day in the second game of Ohtani dh 3 2 2 3 0 1 .298
Stefanic ph-dh 1 1 0 0 1 0 .250
Atlanta 64 36 .640 — 22-6 3-7 L2 Thursday’s doubleheader, hitting Moniak cf 4 1 2 0 1 0 .335
Ward lf 4 1 0 0 1 0 .251
Philadelphia 55 47 .539 10 9-15 5-5 W2 two homers to increase his major Moustakas 3b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .256
Miami 55 48 .534 10½ 13-16 2-8 W1 league-leading total to 38 before PAUL SANCYA/ASSOCIATED PRESS Velazquez 2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .222
Thaiss c 5 0 2 2 0 1 .245
*New York 47 54 .465 17½ 13-13 5-5 L1
*Washington 43 59 .422 22 9-16 6-4 W2
leaving the 11-4 victory with The Angels’ Shohei Ohtani became the first player to throw a Renfroe rf
Escobar 1b
5
4
1
2
3
1
2
1
0
1
1
0
.249
.257
cramps. shutout in one half of a doubleheader and homer in the other. Rengifo 2b-3b 4 1 1 2 0 1 .224
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak Totals 40 11 13 11 4 7
Milwaukee 57 46 .553 — 22-10 6-4 W1
The two-way superstar be- DETROIT AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Cincinnati 56 48 .538 1½ 13-19 6-4 L1 came the first player in major with the Angels,” Ohtani said Louis. Vierling cf
Ibáñez 2b
5
4
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
1
0 .265
1 .237
Chicago 51 51 .500 5½ 16-12 8-2 W6 league history to throw a shutout through a translator. “But all the Contreras was cut badly and Torkelson 1b
Carpenter rf
2
4
0
0
0
1
1
1
2
0
0 .230
0 .266
St. Louis 46 58 .442 11½ 12-18 5-5 L1 in one half a doubleheader and people talking about the trades, tumbled down. After a trainer Báez ss 3 1 0 0 0 2 .222
Pittsburgh 45 57 .441 11½ 11-15 4-6 W1 Rogers c 3 0 0 0 1 1 .219
hit one homer — much less two that’s going to be all gone. So I applied a towel to his head, Con- Cabrera dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .249
WEST W L Pct. GB Div. Last 10 Streak McKinstry lf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .242
— in the other. feel like I’m just focused on tak- treras walked off the field. The Short 3b 2 1 2 0 0 0 .210
Los Angeles 58 43 .574 — 14-11 5-5 L1 Maton ph-3b 1 0 0 0 1 0 .164
San Francisco 56 47 .544 3 15-10 4-6 W2 Hours before Ohtani deliv- ing this team to the playoffs.” Cardinals said Contreras had a Totals 32 4 8 3 5 6
LA Angels..................................050 201 003 — 11 13 2
Arizona 55 48 .534 4 17-11 3-7 L1 ered the message to his manager, The 2021 AL MVP leads the scalp laceration and was day to Detroit.......................................002 000 110 — 4 8 1
San Diego 49 54 .476 10 12-13 5-5 L1 the Angels delivered one of their majors in homers and OPS at the day to return to the lineup. E—Neto (5), Sandoval (2), Báez (14). LOB—LA 6, De-
troit 7. 2B—Moniak (16), McKinstry (13). 3B—Rengifo
Colorado 40 62 .392 18½ 6-19 5-5 L2
* — Not including late game own. plate and is among the leaders in Andrew Knizner took over be- (3). HR—Ohtani 2 (38), off Manning, off Manning, Ren-
froe (16), off Wingenter, Escobar (1), off Manning.
The franchise, desperate to opponent batting average and hind the plate, and Mikolas DP—LA 3; Detroit 1.
RESULTS LA Angels IP H R ER BB SO ERA
make the playoffs for the first strikeouts on the mound. brushed back Happ with the first Sandoval W 6-7 5 5 2 2 2 4 4.13
THURSDAY Webb 1 0 0 0 1 1 3.58
time since 2014, made a win- “He’s doing the impossible,” pitch when play resumed to run Reyes 1 2 1 0 0 0 6.75
1st: LA Angels 6 at Detroit 0 Chi. Cubs 10 at St. Louis 3 Weiss „ 0 1 1 1 1 5.06
now trade — acquiring White Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. the count to 3-1. With the next Loup ‚ 1 0 0 0 0 4.66
2nd: LA Angels 11 at Detroit 4 Cleveland 6 at Chi. White Sox 3 Barria 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.58
Sox righthanded starter Lucas “We’re playing against a genera- pitch, Mikolas hit Happ in the
Washington at NY Mets Detroit IP H R ER BB SO ERA
WEDNESDAY Giolito — to bolster its pitching tional talent.” rear. Manning L 3-2 5 7 7 7 1 5 4.32
Wingenter 2 1 1 1 1 1 7.11
staff and confirmed that Ohtani Aiming to bolster their chanc- Mikolas acted stunned by the Shreve 1 2 0 0 0 0 4.70
At Boston 5 Atlanta 3 Toronto 8 at LA Dodgers 1 White 1 3 3 3 2 1 5.48
At Washington 5 Colorado 4 At Philadelphia 6 Baltimore 4
will stay for the rest of the season es of challenging for the AL West umpires’ decision. He stopped Inherited runners-scored—Loup 2-1. HBP—by
Weiss (Báez). NP—Sandoval 97, Webb 16, Reyes 27,
Miami 7 at Tampa Bay 1 LA Angels (ppd.) at Detroit
before he becomes a free agent. title or earning a wild card if they while walking off and appeared Weiss 13, Loup 6, Barria 10, Manning 87, Wingenter
25, Shreve 23, White 31. Umpires—Home, Brennan
At Cleveland 8 Kansas City 3 At NY Yankees 3 NY Mets 1
“We’re going to roll the dice fall short in the division, the An- to gesture and call over to the Miller; First, Mark Carlson; Second, Tripp Gibson;

Seattle 8 at Minnesota 7 Chi. Cubs 10 at Chi. White Sox 7 and see what happens,” general gels acquired Giolito and felllow Cubs dugout, apparently signal- Third, Nate Tomlinson. T—2:59. A—30,238 (41,083).

At Milwaukee 3 Cincinnati 0 Texas 13 at Houston 5 manager Perry Minasian said. righthander Reynaldo López ing them to come out on the CUBS 10, CARDINALS 3
St. Louis 11 at Arizona 7 At San Francisco 8 Oakland 3 Ohtani’s start was his best in from the White Sox on Wednes- field. Marmol argued the ejection CHI. CUBS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Pittsburgh 3 at San Diego 2 the majors, a one-hitter with day night. Giolito is expected to and also was sent to the club- Tauchman cf 6 1 3 2 0 1 .257
Hoerner 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .280
eight strikeouts on 111 pitches, make his Angels debut Friday house. Wisdom ph-3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .192
Happ lf 4 1 0 0 1 0 .246
FRIDAY’S GAMES including fastballs nearing 100 night against Toronto. Bellinger 1b 5 1 3 0 0 0 .317

Odds
........2023........ Team ....... 2023 vs. opp ....... ....... Last 3 starts .......
W-L ERA rec. W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA miles per hour and wicked slid- “I think this is the first time in Santana to Brewers Kay p
Rucker p
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
—
—
Suzuki rf 4 1 0 1 1 0 .256
BOSTON AT SAN FRANCISCO, 10:15 p.m. ers and splitters that left the Ti- my six years that we’re buyers,” Carlos Santana is heading to Swanson ss 2 2 1 1 2 1 .268
Mancini ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .236
Crawford (R) +130 2-3 3.74 5-6 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 14.0 4.50 gers flailing. Ohtani said. Milwaukee. Morel dh-2b 4 3 3 2 1 0 .281
Gomes c 4 0 2 3 0 1 .274
Webb (R) -150 6-6 3.11 10-11 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 17.1 4.15 In Game 2, Ohtani returned The Angels also designated The NL Central-leading Brew- Amaya c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .263
DETROIT AT MIAMI, 6:40 p.m.
to the designated hitter role. The 2021 All-Star slugger Jared ers have acquired the veteran Mastrobuoni 3b-ss
Totals
5
41
0
10
1
14
1
10
0
5
1
6
.214

Olson (R)
Garrett (L)
+130
-150
0-2
3-2
5.59
3.88
3-4
14-5
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
0-2
1-1
12.0
12.2
6.00
9.24
lefthanded hitter hit a two-run Walsh for assignment. Walsh hit first baseman/designated hitter ST. LOUIS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Donovan dh 5 0 0 0 0 1 .283
NY YANKEES AT BALTIMORE, 7:05 p.m.
homer to left in the second in- .119 with one homer and five from the Pirates in exchange for Goldschmidt 1b 2 0 0 0 1 1 .283
Burleson 1b 2 1 1 0 0 0 .240
Cole (R) -125 8-1 2.64 15-7 0-0 5.0 9.00 0-0 13.1 2.03
ning and a line drive to right-cen- RBIs in 28 games this season, minor leaguer Jhonny Severino. Arenado 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .287
Rodriguez (R) +105 2-2 7.35 8-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 14.0 9.00 ter in the fourth. coming off an injury-stunted “We are thrilled to add Car- DeJong ss
Contreras c
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 .237
0 .248
PHILADELPHIA AT PITTSBURGH, 7:05 p.m. Ohtani became the second 2022. He’s been struggling with los,” Brewers president of base- Knizner c
O'Neill lf
4
3
2
0
2
3
3
0
0
1
0 .234
0 .252
Wheeler (R)
Keller (R)
-160
+135
6-4
8-3
3.48 13-7
3.62 11-10
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
0-1
0-2
20.0
18.0
3.15
7.00
player since at least 1900 to headaches and insomnia. ball operations Matt Arnold said Walker rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .270
Gorman 2b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .243
throw a one-hit shutout or better in a statement. “He is a switch- Carlson cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .235
LA ANGELS AT TORONTO, 7:07 p.m.
and hit a home run on the same Happ starts scuffle hitting power bat and quality de-
Motter ss-3b
Totals 35
4 0
3
0
8
0
3
0
3
2 .143
8
Giolito (R) +175 5-4 3.54 7-14 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 15.2 5.74 Chi. Cubs...................................302 101 201 — 10 14 1
Gausman (R) -210 7-3 3.10 10-10 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 17.0 4.24 day, joining Philadelphia’s Rick Cubs outfielder Ian Happ hit fender. His veteran presence and St. Louis....................................000 100 020 — 3 8 0
E—Wisdom (11). LOB—Chi. Cubs 11, St. Louis 8. 2B—
CLEVELAND AT CHICAGO WHITE SOX, 7:10 p.m. Wise, who hit a two-run homer St. Louis catcher Willson Contre- winning attitude will also be a Hoerner (18), Morel (9), Gomes (8), Burleson (12),
Arenado (20), O'Neill (8). HR—Tauchman (5), off Suár-
TBA Off — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 — during his no-hitter against Cin- ras in the head with a long fol- valuable addition to the club- ez, Knizner 2 (8), off Steele, off Kay. DP—Chi. Cubs 1.
TBA Off — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 —
cinnati on June 23, 1971. low-through on a swing, then house as we continue our push to Chi. Cubs
Steele W 11-3
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
6 5 1 1 3 4 2.87
WASHINGTON AT NY METS, 7:10 p.m.
Some speculate the 29-year- was soon hit himself by a pitch the postseason.” Palencia 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.45
Gore (L) +160 3-6 4.02 7-13 1-0 10.0 0.90 2-0 12.2 3.55 Kay 1 3 2 2 0 1 3.48
Scherzer (R) -190 6-2 4.04 11-7 1-0 5.0 1.80 0-2 18.0 5.00 old might make $500-600 mil- from Cardinals starter Miles The 37-year-old Santana hit Rucker 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.03
St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO ERA
MILWAUKEE AT ATLANTA, 7:20 p.m. lion on the open market, but the Mikolas. .235 with 12 home runs and 53 Mikolas L 6-6 „ 0 1 1 0 1 4.38
Houser (R) +160 2-2 4.12 7-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 16.2 3.78 recent developments don’t seem Mikolas and Cardinals man- RBIs in 94 games for the Pirates, Hudson
Suárez
4‚
2
9
2
5
3
5
3
2
2
3 4.19
0 13.50
Chirinos (R) -190 3-2 2.72 2-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-2 15.2 6.89
to affect his thinking. ager Oliver Marmol were ejected who have faded to last place in VerHagen 2 3 1 1 1 2 4.69
MINNESOTA AT KANSAS CITY, 8:10 p.m. Inherited runners-scored—Hudson 1-1. HBP—by
“From the beginning, my plan in the first-inning dustup that the NL Central following a fast Mikolas (Happ), by VerHagen (Amaya). PB—Knizner.
Gray (R) -165 4-1 2.56 9-11 2-0 11.0 0.82 0-2 17.2 6.62 NP—Steele 92, Palencia 13, Kay 24, Rucker 14, Mikolas
Singer (R) +140 4-7 6.34 8-12 0-1 2.2 27.00 1-1 19.0 5.68 was to finish strong this season kicked off a 10-3 Cubs win in St. start. 14, Hudson 93, Suárez 45, VerHagen 43. Umpires—
Home, Ryan Additon; First, Will Little; Second, Lance
TAMPA BAY AT HOUSTON, 8:10 p.m. Barksdale; Third, Dan Merzel. T—2:53. A—44,584
(44,383).

Red Sox should be sellers

McClanahan (L) -115 11-1 2.12 14-5 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 13.0 7.62
Javier (R) -105 7-1 3.25 14-5 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 15.0 7.80
GUARDIANS 6, WHITE SOX 3
CHICAGO CUBS AT ST. LOUIS, 8:15 p.m.
CLEVELAND AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
TBA Off — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 — Kwan lf 5 2 2 0 0 0 .273
Montgomery (L) Off 4-7 3.69 7-13 0-1 5.0 10.80 0-1 16.1 3.86 Giménez 2b 4 2 2 1 0 1 .244
Ramírez 3b 5 0 0 0 0 1 .288
OAKLAND AT COLORADO, 8:40 p.m. JoNaylor 1b 4 1 2 3 1 0 .304
Sears (L) Off 1-4 4.24 5-15 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 17.0 4.76 uSHAUGHNESSY outs. Cue the Benny Hill music. Ozzie Albies Wednesday, Albies Bell dh 4 0 0 0 1 3 .239
Brennan rf 4 0 2 1 0 0 .262
Freeland (L) Off 4-8 4.48 7-12 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 17.2 5.60 Continued from Page C1 Here’s a telling nugget: The could not make the play, the in- Gonzalez ph-rf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .203
Arias ss 4 1 2 0 1 1 .196
SEATTLE AT ARIZONA, 9:40 p.m.
opinion of this typist that the Sox Red Sox have used 15 different ning stayed alive, and a 3-1 Bos- BoNaylor c 4 0 2 1 0 1 .227
Straw cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .237
Gilbert (R)
Henry (L)
-140
+120
4-4
3-1
4.31
4.66
11-9
10-5
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
2-0
0-2
17.0
14.2
4.24
3.68
gave up on this team long before starting pitchers this year. Guess ton deficit turned into a 4-3 Totals 39 6 13 6 3 9

TEXAS AT SAN DIEGO, 9:40 p.m.

Opening Day and this recent the only team that has used lead. WHITE SOX
Benintendi lf
AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
4 0 0 0 1 1 .281
Dunning (R) +145 6-1 2.78 8-6 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 15.2 6.32
spate of success is only making it more. The Kansas City Royals, One night earlier, when the Anderson ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .241
Robert cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .267
Musgrove (R) -170 5-2 4.22 10-6 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-1 18.0 2.00 difficult to stay the course and that’s who. And the Royals are white-hot Casas hit into a triple Jiménez dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .285
Moncada 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .228
CINCINNATI AT LA DODGERS, 10:10 p.m. keep building for the future. 29-75, right there with the mori- play in the third inning (horrible Grandal 1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .251
Burger 2b 3 2 2 3 1 0 .217
Williamson (L)
Miller (R)
+195
-245
1-0
3-1
5.40
2.83
8-4
7-3
0-0
0-0
5.2
0.0
9.53
0.00
1-0
2-0
15.0
16.1
1.80
4.41
It certainly sends a bad mes- bund Oakland A’s. baserunning by the Sox again), it Colás rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .215
Zavala c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .158
Team rec. — Record in games started by pitcher this season.
sage to sell veterans when you The Sox have only three start- somehow reset the Sox lineup Sheets ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .219
Totals 34 3 8 3 2 8
are this close to a playoff spot, ing pitchers. It’s been that way and helped them produce two Cleveland..................................103 000 110 — 6 13 0
but let’s remember that the final for a while. They regularly cob- runs in the ensuing inning. Chi. White Sox.........................001 020 000 — 3 8 2
E—Colás (2), Zavala (3). LOB—Cleveland 10, Chi. 7.
LEADERS playoff spot means you are one ble together a stable of bullpen I write this not to enrage Tom 2B—Giménez (16), JoNaylor 2 (24), Brennan (17), Arias
(6). 3B—Kwan (3). HR—Burger 2 (24), off Bibee, off Bi-
of six in your league and likely arms to survive games. They’re Caron, nor to agitate loyal Sox bee. SB—Giménez (17), BoNaylor (1).
Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO ERA
AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE headed for early elimination. using Brennan Bernardino in fans who understandably are ex- Bibee W 7-2 6„ 6 3 3 2 6 3.11
Stephan 1‚ 0 0 0 0 1 3.25
Through Wednesday’s games
BATTING
Through Wednesday’s games
BATTING
It’s a tough message to your high-leverage situations. And cited about the recent success. I Clase S 28 1 2 0 0 0 1 3.02
AB R H Avg. AB R H Avg.
Díaz, TB...........................327 60 104 .318 Arraez, Mia ....................375 42 141 .376
fans to sell under these condi- getting away with it. am always prepared to be wrong. Chi. White Sox IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Cease L 4-4 5„ 9 4 4 2 5 4.15
Yoshida, Bos ..................348 53 110 .316
Bichette, Tor ..................434 49 137 .316
Freeman, LAD................403 87 132 .328
Acuña, Atl.......................401 88 131 .327
tions, but it would be the best It is a Bloominati’s paradise, I’m the guy who thought Rick Pi- Bummer „ 1 1 1 0 1 6.69
Santos 1„ 2 1 1 0 1 2.68
Tucker, Hou ...................365 58 111 .304
Naylor, Cle .....................341 40 103 .302
Stott, Phi.........................377 50 113 .300
Thomas, Was.................403 69 118 .293
thing to do for the long-term but where are you really going tino was a good idea for the Celt- Peralta 1 1 0 0 1 2 10.80
Inherited runners-scored—Stephan 1-0, Bummer
Ohtani, LAA....................374 77 112 .299 Marte, Ari .......................371 70 108 .291 health of the Red Sox. with that? ics and that the Sox needed to 1-0, Santos 1-0. HBP—by Stephan (Robert), by Bum-
Merrifield, Tor ...............344 46 103 .299 Yelich, Mil.......................376 73 109 .290
mer (Giménez). NP—Bibee 97, Stephan 16, Clase 19,
Hays, Bal ........................336 47 99 .295 Donovan, StL .................316 47 91 .288 Simply put: What we’ve seen The Sox seem to play good break the bank for Pablo San- Cease 102, Bummer 17, Santos 16, Peralta 33. Um-
Ramírez, Cle...................387 64 113 .292 Carroll, Ari......................351 75 101 .288
Turner, Bos ....................374 65 108 .289 Friedl, Cin .......................289 38 83 .287 the last few days and weeks is teams when they are playing doval. pires—Home, Tony Randazzo; First, Alex Tosi; Sec-
ond, Brian Knight; Third, Todd Tichenor. T—2:49.
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Ohtani, LAA.....................................................36 Olson, Atl.........................................................32 not sustainable. cold. The Braves (3-7 over their I also am mindful that Trevor A—20,893 (40,615).
Robert, CWS....................................................28 Alonso, NYM....................................................28
Devers, Bos......................................................25 Betts, LAD........................................................27 Let’s start with defense. The last 10) were slumping when Story is coming back to play THIS DATE IN HISTORY
García, Tex......................................................25 Schwarber, Phi...............................................26
Burger, CWS....................................................22 Martinez, LAD.................................................25 Sox defend as if they are wearing they got to Boston. The once-hot short and Tanner Houck and 1931: Bob Fothergill of Chicago hit a home run and a
Jung, Tex..........................................................20 Muncy, LAD.....................................................25 triple in an 11-run eighth inning. The White Sox set an
Siri, TB..............................................................20 Soler, Mia.........................................................24 shoes on their hands. They lead Giants have lost six of their last Garrett Whitlock should be re- American League record with 12 hits in the inning and
Judge, NYY...................................................... 19 Albies, Atl........................................................ 24
RUNS BATTED IN Acuña, Atl........................................................23 the majors in errors (70). They eight. turning soon. And Chris Sale beat the Yankees, 14-12.
1940: King Kong Keller hit three homers to give the
García, Tex......................................................84
Ohtani, LAA.....................................................77
RUNS BATTED IN
Olson, Atl.........................................................80
lead the majors in throwing er- The Sox got every break someday again will toe the slab. Yankees a 10-9 win over Chicago in the first game of
a doubleheader split.
Naylor, Cle.......................................................76
Devers, Bos......................................................76
Arenado, StL................................................... 77
Martinez, LAD.................................................74
rors (44). They have the worst Wednesday. Atlanta manager One can make a case for these 1951: Clyde Vollmer of Boston hit a grand slam in the
16th inning, the latest ever hit in a major league
Heim, Tex.........................................................70 Albies, Atl........................................................ 72 “outs above average” in the ma- Brian Snitker managed the game Red Sox. The 2021 Braves were game. The Red Sox beat the Indians, 8-4.
Tucker, Hou.....................................................69 Freeman, LAD................................................. 71 1971: Sixteen-time Gold Glove winner Brooks Robin-
Bregman, Hou.................................................66 Alonso, NYM....................................................68 jors. They consistently have play- like Pete Carroll in Super Bowl 44-45 at the All-Star break, 2½ son committed three errors in the sixth inning against
Turner, Bos......................................................66 Betts, LAD........................................................68 the A’s. Frank Robinson’s three-run homer in the ninth
Guerrero, Tor..................................................65 Muncy, LAD.....................................................67 ers playing out of position. On X L I X ( “ Ma l c o l m , g o ! ” ) . He games out of a playoff spot, and won the game for the Orioles.
Semien, Tex.....................................................63 Walker, Ari...................................................... 67 1976: John Odom (five innings) and Francisco Barrios
ON-BASE PERCENTAGE Gorman, StL....................................................65 Wednesday, it was 38-year-old pulled his starter too soon. He wound up winning the World Se- (four innings) combined on a no-hitter, and the White
Díaz, TB..........................................................401 ON-BASE PERCENTAGE Sox defeated Oakland, 2-1.
Ohtani, LAA...................................................398 Arraez, Mia....................................................425 Turner — a good hitter who can went with an untested pitcher ries. The ‘21 Red Sox got hot at 1983: AL president Lee McPhail ruled that George
Tucker, Hou...................................................387 Soto, SD........................................................ .417 Brett’s “pine tar” home run against New York on July
Lowe, Tex..................................................... .380 Freeman, LAD.............................................. .409 barely bend over — playing sec- against the veteran Turner in a the end and came within two 24 should count. The umpires had disallowed the
Yoshida, Bos..................................................378 Acuña, Atl......................................................407
Noda, Oak......................................................375 Wade, SF........................................................399 ond base. critical moment. Then he took wins of the Fall Classic. homer because the pine tar on Brett’s bat exceeded
the 18-inch limit. The rest of the game was played
Rutschman, Bal........................................... .369
Trout, LAA......................................................369
Smith, LAD.....................................................392
McCutchen, Pit.............................................382
The Sox had dearly departed the bat out of the hands of the as- So why not go for it now? Aug. 18 with the Royals beating the Yankees, 5-4.
1989: Atlanta’s Dale Murphy tied two major league re-
Crawford, Sea...............................................368
Arozarena, TB...............................................365
Betts, LAD......................................................380
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE
Kiké Hernández (thank God he’s sumed National League MVP Because they are not good cords by hitting two homers and driving in six runs in
the sixth inning in the Braves’ 10-1 victory over the Gi-
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE Freeman, LAD.............................................. .581 gone) as their everyday short- (Ronald Acuña Jr.) by trying to enough to make a serious run. ants. Murphy’s two home runs equaled the record
Ohtani, LAA...................................................668 Acuña, Atl......................................................569 shared by 13 others and the six runs batted in
Robert, CWS..................................................557 Martinez, LAD...............................................567 stop at the start of the season. steal a base in the ninth. And this recent run only gets in matched a record shared by nine players.
Devers, Bos.................................................. .528 Olson, Atl.......................................................565 1990: Shawon Dunston tied a major league record
Tucker, Hou...................................................521 Betts, LAD......................................................561 Remember second baseman Thanks for calling that slant the way of the long-term plan. with three triples and led the Cubs to a 10-7 win over
García, Tex....................................................513 Carroll, Ari.....................................................556 the Expos.
Díaz, TB..........................................................508 Walker, Ari................................................... .528 Christian Arroyo playing right pass in traffic, Brian. Thanks for Sell. 1990: Cal Ripken’s errorless streak ends at 95 consec-
Ramírez, Cle..................................................501 Arenado, StL................................................ .521 utive games, as Baltimore loses to Kansas City, 10-9.
Yoshida, Bos..................................................500 Marte, Ari..................................................... .515 field last year? Bobby Dalbec, not giving the ball to Beast The streak is a major league record for a shortstop,
OPS OPS eclipsing Kevin Elster’s 89-game mark.
Ohtani, LAA................................................1.066 Freeman, LAD.............................................. .989 who is either a first baseman or a Mode. Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe 1993: Ken Griffey Jr. tied a major league record by
Díaz, TB..........................................................909 Acuña, Atl......................................................976
Tucker, Hou...................................................907 Betts, LAD......................................................942 third baseman, played shortstop The Sox are getting the columnist. He can be reached at homering in his eighth consecutive game, but it
wasn’t enough for the Mariners in a 5-1 loss to the
Robert, CWS..................................................880
Yoshida, Bos..................................................878
Olson, Atl.......................................................926
Carroll, Ari.....................................................921
for the Sox in April. breaks. When Yu Chang hit a cer- daniel.shaughnessy@globe.com. Twins.

Ramírez, Cle..................................................863 Soto, SD........................................................ .918 The Sox consistently run into tain double play one-hopper to Follow him @dan_shaughnessy.
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In waking herself up, she woke
up the entire team, which
and just inside the far post.
R Sophia Smith. She may not

Australia on
the Americans knotted the game
at 1-1, holding on for a tie that
felt like quite a relief after such a
run of uninspired soccer.
pushed toward the final whistle have scored after netting two
with more chances in the final against Vietnam, but Smith was
third than they’d had all game. the most active US forward by
Though the long view insists far, creating chances until the fi-

Oshoala goal
And thus, with one game re- a win would have been better, nal whistle. Fellow young star
maining in round-robin play, the the small view says it was an im- Trinity Rodman nearly eased the
Americans retain a chance to portant display of resilience and US fears immediately after the
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win Group E but cede the domi- fight. Dutch took the 1-0 first-half lead,
Asisat Oshoala ripped off her jersey after n a n c e a n d e a s i e r p at h t h at A few other bright spots as but her daring long shot from be-
By John Pye giving Nigeria a 3-1 lead over Australia. would have come with a win. the United States preps for Por- yond the 18-yard box was saved.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Still, they head into the third tugal, a game that kicks off in the But warning signs too:
Asisat Oshoala had to watch from Nigeria’s “I’m so proud of these players. So many people game against Portugal having wee hours Tuesday morning. R Finishing. Turns out the
bench for an hour, desperate to get into the ac- didn’t believe,” Waldrum said. "Didn’t believe in learned one important fact about R Fitness. By the final min- Vietnam game was the warning
tion, before getting a chance to unleash all her me, in the team. themselves, a fact that should utes, it was clear the Americans sign we feared, when the Ameri-
pent up energy against co-host Australia at the “I told them after the match, keep believing.” serve as a scary reminder to the were outrunning and outpacing cans dominated in shots and
Women’s World Cup. rest of the soccer world that the the Dutch by plenty, a credit to could have had more than three
The Barcelona striker entered the game in the Portugal knocks Vietnam out Americans still set the standard. their preparedness under coach goals.
63rd minute and Nigeria took the lead two min- Telma Encarnacao scored one goal and assist- Don’t make them angry. Vlatko Andonovski. The coach The inability to finish around
utes later for the first time, 2-1. Within nine min- ed on another as Portugal defeated Vietnam 2-0 in “That little tackle,” Horan used only one sub in tapping the goal reared its head again
utes, Oshoala scored a goal that sealed an upset the Women’s World Cup, a win that ensured Viet- started, and then corrected her- Lavelle to enter after halftime, against the Netherlands, with
victory, sparked her jersey-shedding celebration, nam will not advance to the knockout stage. Por- self, “big tackle, changed the an odd choice to me given the Morgan, Smith, Rodman et al
and left Australia in a must-win scenario for tugal jumped ahead in the seventh minute follow- [mentality] in my head.” depth of scoring options and cre- missing good chances.
World Cup survival. ing a quick series of decisive passes through the As she acknowledged on tele- ativity on the bench. But the R Midfield. With Ertz moving
After losing 3-2, an Australian squad dealing Vietnamese defense. Lucia Alves dropped in a vision in the moments after the players on the field didn’t wane back to fill the gaping hole left by
with injuries to striker Sam Kerr and understudy perfect cross to Encarnacao at the top of the six- game: “I think once we got into at all, and that was impressive. Sauerbrunn, the US midfield has
Mary Fowler needs to beat Olympic champion yard box for a simple finish. Portugal still has a that tackle, all I wanted to do R S e t p i e c e s . T h e Un i t e d yet to be a strength. Part of that
Canada in Melbourne on Monday to control its shot to advance out of the group stage but will was score. Heat of the moment, I States continues to be the best in is the ongoing recovery of
own fate for a spot in the round of 16. need to win or draw against the United States, got a little pissed at [ Van de the world at setting up scoring Lavelle, who surely will stabilize
Nigeria and Canada opened with a 0-0 draw with a Netherlands loss next Tuesday against Viet- Donk], but Rose put in an abso- chances, and after an 11-1 ad- things when she can start again.
and both teams now have four points. Australia nam . . . The United States’ 1-1 draw against the lute dime, and I got on the end of vantage in corner kicks, the But the combo of Savannah De-
has three from its opening 1-0 win over Ireland. Netherlands in the Women’s World Cup drew 7.93 it.” Americans finally made one Melo and Andi Sullivan didn’t
Nigeria next faces winless Ireland, which is mak- million viewers, making it the largest combined Horan, elevated to cocaptain count. The credit goes to Lavelle, look great Wednesday night.
ing its debut in the tournament. English- and Spanish-language audience for a alongside Alex Morgan after an whose pinpoint accuracy was
Nigeria coach Randy Waldrum said he group stage match involving the American wom- injury to veteran defender Becky bested only by Irish captain Ka- Tara Sullivan is a Globe
benched Oshoala at the start of the game to man- en. The game on Thursday afternoon in Welling- Sauerbrunn (and wow, does this tie McCabe earlier in the day, columnist. She can be reached at
age her long-term injury, but always intended to ton, New Zealand, which kicked off at 9 p.m. EDT team miss Sauerbrunn in a big when McCabe scored directly on tara.sullivan@globe.com. Follow
send her on when it was most needed. Wednesday night, averaged 6,429,000 viewers. way), lived up to the bona fides. a corner by tucking the ball high her @Globe_Tara.

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By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale
contained in a certain mortgage given by Daniel R. McGlash-
ing to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as
nominee for Radius Financial Group, Inc., dated December
3, 2020 and recorded in the Plymouth County Registry of
Deeds in Book 53939, Page 253, of which mortgage the un-
dersigned is the present holder, by assignment from:
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgag-
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on May 11, 2023, in Book No. 57903, at Page 194
for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the
purpose of foreclosing, the same will be sold at Public Auc-
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premises located at 66 Booth Hill Road, Scituate, Plymouth
County, Massachusetts, all and singular the premises de-
scribed in said mortgage,
TO WIT:
Two certain parcels of land, with the buildings thereon,
situated on the Northwesterly side of Booth Hill Road, Sci-
tuate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and bounded and
described as follows:
PARCEL 1: Beginning at the most southerly corner of the
granted premises at a point in the Westerly line of said
Booth Hill Road, (said point bears North 52° 49’ 20” East and
is 107.64 feet distant from a Massachusetts highway bound
set in the Westerly line of said Booth Hill Road at its inter-
section with Justice Cushing Highway), as shown on the
plan hereinafter mentioned, thence North 41 ° 22’ 30” West,
and bounded Southerly by land now or formerly of Philip S.
Bailey, ninety-seven and 35/100 (97.35) feet to a concrete
bound; thence North 43° 00’ 20” East and bounded Westerly
by other land of said Bailey, eighty and 23/100 (80.23) feet
to a stone bound; thence South 51 ° 29’ 10” East by the
Southerly line of a right of way one hundred fourteen and
31/100 (114.31) feet to Booth Hill Road; and thence South
52° 49’ 20” West by the Westerly line of said Booth Hill Road,
one hundred and 17/100 (100.17) feet to the point of begin-
ning, containing 9,434 square feet.
Said premises are shown as Lot No. 1 on a plan entitled
“Plan of Sub-division of Land owned by Philip S. Bailey, Scit-
uate; Mass., dated May 1940, drawn on a scale of 40 ft. to 1”
by Lewis W. Perkins, Eng’r”. Said plan is recorded with Plym-
outh County Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 6, Page 189.
PARCEL 2: Beginning at a point on the Northeasterly side
of Chief Justice Cushing Highway about one hundred (100)
feet Northwesterly from the stone bound near the corner
of Booth Hill Road, as shown on the plan hereinafter men-
tioned, the line then runs in a Northeasterly direction by
Lot 4, as show on the plan hereinafter mentioned, about
two hundred twenty-two (222) feet, to a right of way shown
on said plan; thence in a Southeasterly direction by said
right of way, thirty-five and 69/100 (35.69) feet to Lot 1 on
said plan; thence in a Southwesterly direction by said Lot
1, eighty and 23/100 (80.23) feet; thence Southeasterly
again by Lot 1, ninety-seven and 35/100 (97.35) feet; thence
Southwesterly again by Booth Hill Road, one hundred seven
and 64/100 (107.64) feet; thence by a curve to the right,
seventy-seven and 75/100 (77.75) feet to a bound on Chief
Justice Cushing Highway; thence Northwesterly by said
Highway, one hundred (100) feet to the point of beginning;
containing 22,250 square feet of land, more or less.
The parcel herein conveyed is shown as Lot 3 on a plan en-
titled “Plan of Land at North Scituate, Mass., Scale 80 ft. to
1 in., Lewis Perkins, Eng’r. This Plan compiled from various
sources for Philip S. Bailey, April 14, 1945”, which plan was
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of 32.7%.
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Trial Court
BRISTOL, SS. CASE NO. 23 MISC 000331 (RBF)
Jason Duarte
v.
Gray Textile Corp., Nortek, Inc., and CGST, Inc.
TO: any officers, stockholders, creditors, and any other per-
sons claiming any interest in Gray Textile Corp., a defunct
corporation formerly located in Cranston, Rhode Island;
CGST, Inc., a defunct Delaware corporation; Nortek, Inc.,
a dissolved Rhode Island corporation, formerly located in
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Treasurer of Gray Textile Corp. and Nortek, Inc., now or for-
merly of Attleboro, Massachusetts or their heirs, devisees,
legal representatives, successors or assigns
You are hereby notified that a complaint has been filed by Request for Airport Ground Lease REAL ESTATE
Development Now Available
the above-named plaintiffs in which you are named as an
interested party. This complaint concerns two parcels of un- RESIDENTIAL
improved land in Fall River: (1) 0 Globe Mills Avenue, Fall Riv-
er, Bristol County, MA 02724, Assessor’s Map/Lot H-20/11 Fitchburg Municipal Airport is a small G.A. airport located approximately 35 miles
(“Lot I” or the “Globe Mills Property”); and (2) 0 Bay Street,
Fall River, Bristol County, MA 02724, Assessor’s Map/Lot west from downtown Boston, Ma. We are seeking interested parties looking to
H-06/14 (“Lot 2” or the “Bay Street Property”) more particu- build their own hangars on approximately 22 acres of land that became available MOVE RIGHT IN JUST
larly described in a deed recorded with the Bristol County BRING YOUR
Registry of Deeds in Book 665, Page 89. Title to said parcels due to the closing of 02/20 circa 4 years ago, when the new runway at 5001 feet TOOTHBRUSH!
is clouded as the record title holder to the property is a x 100 feet was constructed.
defunct company. Plaintiff seeks a judgment quieting title
as to the ownership of the property, specific performance
of a purchase and sale agreement between the plaintiff and
We are looking for “T” hangar development - Large up to 7000 Sq. Ft. hangar
Gray Textile Corp. c/o Nortek, Inc., and such other relief as development - and Extra Large up to 40,000 Sq. Ft and possibly larger hangar
the Court shall deem appropriate. development.
This complaint may be examined at the Land Court, Boston,
Massachusetts, or online at www.masscourts.org. Informa-
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land-court-case-docket. A copy of said complaint may also restricted area R4102A and R4102B with 20 minutes notice to the Devens Contact Maureen White
be obtained from plaintiff’s attorney. military area. 413.446.5634.
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to serve upon the plaintiff’s attorney, Anthony Panebianco,
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of August, 2023, next, the return day, hereof, and a copy
thereof must be filed in this court on or before said day. • 120 G.A. aircraft at the airport including a TBM and a Phenom jet,
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you for relief demanded in the complaint. Unless otherwise To view the RFP link please see http://www.ci.fitchburg.ma.us/bids.
provided by Rule 13(a), your answer must state as a coun-
terclaim any claim which you may have against the plaintiff
which arise out of the transaction or occurrence that is the
aspx?bid1D=314 where the RFP and Land Lease Agreement can be accessed. Engineering
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be barred from making such claim in any other action. prior to the deadline stated, in order to afford the City adequate time to respond
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this notice once in the Boston Globe, a newspaper pub-
lished in Boston, Suffolk County, in said Commonwealth will be incorporated into the solicitation and those who have received the docu- has an opening for
and once in the Providence Journal, a newspaper published
in Providence, Rhode Island, at least thirty days before the
ments via the City’s online solicitation portal will be notified of such changes. Software Systems Engineer
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3, see Plan Book 6, Page 839. Also subject to an easement authorization in the U.S. Ap-
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BOSTON.COM STAFF Lee Hodges...........................63-–63 -8
Tyler Duncan........................64-–64 -7
Hideki Matsuyama..............64-–64 -7
For Josefine Hasbo, a rising junior at Har- Brandt Snedeker.................64-–64 -7
vard, the summer of 2023 is already shaping up Kevin Streelman..................64-–64
Emiliano Grillo..................... 65-–65
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to be an ideal one for a college undergraduate. Nick Hardy............................65-–65
Justin Suh.............................65-–65
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She’s doing some traveling, and is simultaneous- Tony Finau............................66-–66 -5
Billy Horschel.......................66-–66 -5 Home games shaded For updated scores: bostonglobe.com/sports
ly working to advance what might one day be- Vincent Norrman.................66-–66 -5
Augusto Nunez....................66-–66 -5 Radio: Red Sox, WEEI-FM 93.7; Revolution, WBZ-FM 98.5
come her full-time job. J.T. Poston............................66-–66 -5
Doc Redman.........................66-–66 -5
But unlike her peers who are backpacking J.J. Spaun..............................66-–66 -5
across another continent, or might be working a
Adam Svensson...................66-–66 -5 ON THE AIR
summer internship, Hasbo is on a slightly differ-
Callum Tarren......................66-–66
Matt Kuchar.........................67-–67
Justin Lower.........................67-–67
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BASEBALL Soccer
Henrik Norlander.................67-–67 -4 6:30 p.m. Triple A: Rochester at Worcester NESN+
ent path. The 21-year-old is playing in the Wom- Matthias Schwab................67-–67 -4 8:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Houston MLB
en’s World Cup as a starting midfielder for her Kevin Tway...........................67-–67 -4 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Frankie Capan......................68-–68 -3 10:15 p.m. Boston at San Francisco NESN
GROUP A
native Denmark. Cameron Davis....................68-–68
Harrison Endycott...............68-–68
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-3 PRO BASKETBALL GP W D L Pts.
Switzerland............... 2 1 1 0 4
In doing so, Hasbo is the first player to repre- Ben Griffin............................68-–68 -3
8 p.m. WNBA: Minnesota at New York Ion New Zealand............. 2 1 0 1 3
Scott Harrington................. 68-–68 -3
Philippines................. 2 1 0 1 3
sent Harvard at a World Cup in the tourna- Kramer Hickok.....................68-–68 -3
BOXING Norway ...................... 2 0 1 1 1
Garrick Higgo.......................68-–68 -3
ment’s illustrious history. Tom Hoge.............................68-–68 -3 9 p.m. Night of Champions IV CBSSN
GROUP B
GP W D L Pts.
Beau Hossler........................68-–68 -3
“It’s a dream come true,” she said. Denmark Martin Laird.........................68-–68 -3
GOLF
Canada....................... 2 1 1 0
Nigeria ....................... 2 1 1 0
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4
Nate Lashley........................68-–68 -3
won its first game over China, 1-0, and Hasbo Max McGreevy.................... 68-–68 -3 7 a.m. Senior British Open Golf Australia .................... 2 1 0 1 3
Keith Mitchell.......................68-–68 -3 Ireland........................ 2 0 0 2 0
played the full 90 minutes. Taylor Montgomery............68-–68 -3 9:30 a.m. LPGA: Evian Championship Golf GROUP C
GARY DAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS Grayson Murray..................68-–68 -3 GP W D L Pts.
“We are obviously in a more favorable posi- C.T. Pan.................................68-–68 -3
2 p.m. US Junior Amateur (semifinals) Golf Japan.......................... 2 2 0 0 6
4 p.m. PGA: 3M Open Golf Spain .......................... 2 2 0 0 6
tion now, taking the game [against China] into Harvard’s Josefine Hasbo is playing in Martin Trainer..................... 68-–68
Tyson Alexander.................69-–69
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Zambia....................... 2 0 0 2 0
account,” she said. Denmark’s midfield at the World Cup. Aaron Baddeley...................69-–69
Sam Bennett........................ 69-–69
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HORSE RACING GROUP D
Denmark, 13th in FIFA’s rankings of wom- Zac Blair................................69-–69 -2 1 p.m. Saratoga Live FS2 GP W D L Pts.
Jason Dufner........................69-–69 -2 Denmark.................... 1 1 0 0 3
England...................... 1 1 0 0 3
en’s teams, has been on a good run in the last 12 quite expensive one,” she recalled. “We were jok- Brian Gay..............................69-–69 -2 MEN'S SOCCER
China.......................... 1 0 0 1 0
James Hahn..........................69-–69 -2
months. Wins over Japan, Norway, and Sweden ing that it could have been an investment since Jim Herman..........................69-–69 -2 7 p.m. CPL: Vancouver at Forge FS2 Haiti............................ 1 0 0 1 0
Mackenzie Hughes............. 69-–69 -2 GROUP E
showed the team’s promise heading into this we heard from other players that there were David Lipsky.........................69-–69 -2 WOMEN'S SOCCER GP W D L Pts.
Netherlands .............. 2 1 1 0 4
S.Y. Noh.................................69-–69 -2 7 a.m. Women’s World Cup: China vs. Haiti FS1
summer’s World Cup. It’s given Hasbo and her some scouts there.” Andrew Novak.....................69-–69 -2 United States............ 2 1 1 0 4
Aaron Rai..............................69-–69 -2 Portugal..................... 2 1 0 1 3
teammates confidence. This turned out to be accurate, as Hasbo was Chez Reavie..........................69-–69 -2
LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL Vietnam ..................... 2 0 0 2 0
GROUP F
“There have been some great games where I spotted by Harvard assistant coach Mike Calise. Patrick Rodgers...................69-–69 -2 1 p.m. N.E. regional final: Connecticut vs. Maine ESPN GP W D L Pts.
Sam Stevens........................69-–69 -2
Brazil .......................... 1 1 0 0 3
really felt that the team has shown a lot of char- “When I got back home, I received an email Brian Stuard.........................69-–69
Justin Thomas......................69-–69
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SOFTBALL France ........................ 1 0 1 0 1
7 p.m. AU: McCleney vs. Denham ESPN2 Jamaica...................... 1 0 1 0 1
acter,” Hasbo explained. “We’ve been training, from Mike,” Hasbo remembered. “He reached Davis Thompson..................69-–69
Eric Cole................................70-–70
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-1 Panama...................... 1 0 0 1 0
9:30 p.m. AU: Mulipola vs. Rhodes ESPNU GROUP G
disciplined, and well prepared. I just hope that out and said that he identified me as a top pros- Adam Hadwin......................70-–70 -1
GP W D L Pts.
Paul Haley II.........................70-–70 -1
we can continue this momentum and hopefully pect for that class of 2020.” Harry Hall.............................70-–70 -1 TENNIS Italy ............................ 1 1 0 0 3
Sungjae Im........................... 70-–70 -1 Sweden...................... 1 1 0 0 3
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carry that on into the next two games, which will Despite being targeted as a recruit, Hasbo Russell Knox.........................70-–70 -1 Argentina................... 2 0 1 1
South Africa.............. 2 0 1 1
1
1
Adam Long...........................70-–70 -1 (Schedule subject to change)
be critical.” said that she still had to clear the rigorous aca- Peter Malnati.......................70-–70 -1 GROUP H
GP W D L Pts.
Cameron Percy....................70-–70 -1
The next test for the Danes will come from demic hurdles needed to gain entry into Har- Chad Ramey.........................70-–70 -1 Colombia ................... 1 1 0 0 3
Sam Ryder............................70-–70 -1 Germany.................... 1 1 0 0 3
reigning European champion England on Friday vard. Robert Streb.........................70-–70 -1 Morocco..................... 1 0 0 1 0
Ben Taylor............................70-–70 -1 South Korea.............. 1 0 0 1 0
(4:30 a.m. Eastern time). The final group stage “Everything worked out and I feel lucky that
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THURSDAY'S RESULTS
Dylan Wu..............................70-–70 -1
Portugal 2................................Vietnam 0
game against Haiti takes place on Tuesday at 7 Mike was just in Dallas at that point,” she said. Kevin Yu................................70-–70
Ryan Armour........................71-–71
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Nigeria 3..................................Australia 2
South Africa 2.......................Argentina 2
a.m.. Since arriving in Cambridge, Hasbo has ex- Christiaan Bezuidenhout...71-–71
Chad Collins.........................71-–71
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E FRIDAY'S GAMES
“Overall it’s been a quite good transition, and celled. She has eight goals and seven assists in Austin Cook..........................71-–71 E TRIPLE-A INTERNATIONAL Richmond, 11-4 Denmark at England................4:30 a.m.
Haiti at China..................................7 a.m.
Dylan Frittelli........................71-–71 E
I think it’s such a huge experience to be in Aus- 24 games, not a bad tally for a midfielder. Her Brice Garnett........................71-–71 E EAST
W L Pct. GB
At The Diamond, Richmond
PORTLAND AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS
Netherlands 1................ United States 1
Lucas Glover........................71-–71 E
tralia,” Hasbo said. “It’s my first time [visiting], intelligence and stamina have also received Cody Gribble........................71-–71 E Norfolk ....................... 60 36 .625 — Rosier cf 4 1 0 1 1 1 .302 Japan 2.................................Costa Rica 0
Chesson Hadley...................71-–71 E Worcester.................. 53 44 .546 7½ Mayer ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .205 Spain 5.......................................Zambia 0
so I’m really enjoying the time here and hoping praise from the Harvard coaching staff. David Hearn.........................71-–71 E Durham ...................... 52 46 .531 9 Meidroth dh 3 2 1 1 1 0 .263 Canada 2.................................... Ireland 1
Charley Hoffman.................71-–71 E Lehigh Valley............ 50 45 .526 9½ Hickey c 4 0 1 1 0 3 .287
we’re able to create more memories with the “Harvard is such an amazing institution to be Mark Hubbard..................... 71-–71 E Buffalo........................ 48 49 .495 12½ Jordan 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .220
Stephan Jaeger....................71-–71 E Rochester .................. 46 50 .479 14 Sikes rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .224
team.” part of,” Hasbo added. “I’m really a proud stu-
Hasbo’s ascent to playing in a World Cup has dent-athlete and I want to give huge credit to my
S.H. Kim................................ 71-–71
Hank Lebioda.......................71-–71
Matthew NeSmith...............71-–71
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E
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Scranton/W.-Barre .. 45 50 .474 14½
Jacksonville............... 44 53 .454 16½
Syracuse.................... 40 56 .417 20
Binelas 1b
Dearden lf
McDonough
3 1 0 0 1 0 .226
2 0 1 0 2 0 .227 Transactions
4 0 1 0 0 1 .224 BASEBALL
Charlotte.................... 38 59 .392 22½ 2b
been years in the making. Prior to coming to coaching staff, too, for enabling me to actually Alex Noren............................71-–71
Ryan Palmer.........................71-–71
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E WEST Totals 31 4 5 4 6 9 Baltimore: P Darwinzon Hernández
W L Pct. GB released.
Harvard, she played professionally for Brøndby combine both my athletic and academic inter- Taylor Pendrith....................71-–71
Sepp Straka..........................71-–71
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E Iowa............................ 59 37 .615 —
RICHMOND AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Boston: P Jake Faria released.
Meckler cf 4 2 2 2 1 2 .343
IF, which has won more domestic women’s est, and also for being able to be absent at times Chris Stroud.........................71-–71 E St. Paul....................... 57 40 .588 2½
Nashville.................... 53 43 .552 6
Munguia lf 4 3 3 1 1 0 .323
Chi. White Sox: P Sammy Peralta
called up from minors.
Matt Wallace....................... 71-–71 E Brown rf 4 1 0 0 1 1 .232
league titles than any other club in Denmark. in the last semester or two because of the travel- Richy Werenski....................71-–71 E Louisville.................... 51 45 .531 8
Memphis.................... 49 49 .500 11
Matheny ss 2 2 1 0 3 0 .233
Cleveland: RF Oscar Gonzalez called
Brandon Wu.........................71-–71 E up from minors.
Whalen dh 5 0 1 2 0 1 .242
Along with performing for Brøndby in the ing with the [Danish] team.” Cameron Young...................71-–71 E Omaha ....................... 47 47 .500 11
Thomas c 5 0 3 3 0 2 .223 Detroit: P Trey Wingenter called up
Indianapolis .............. 46 51 .474 13½ from minors.
Aldrete 3b 5 0 0 0 0 3 .240
UEFA Champions League (one of the most pres- For now, she’s obviously focused on helping Columbus .................. 43 53 .448 16 LA Angels: P Zack Weiss called up
LPGA: EVIAN Gwinnett.................... 43 54 .443 16½
Wyatt 1b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .247
from minors. P Tucker Davidson
tigious club competitions in the world), Hasbo Denmark advance as far as possible at the World Toledo ........................ 40 57 .412 19½
Glowenke 2b 4 2 1 0 0 1 .228
Totals 37 11 13 8 6 10 designated for assignment.
At Evian Resort Golf Club, THURSDAY’S RESULTS Milwaukee: 1B Carlos Santana traded.
also became one of the youngest players to make Cup. Depending on results, a matchup with host Evian-les-Bains, France Rochester 6.....................at Worcester 5 Portland..........101 000 110 — 4 5 4
Minnesota: CF Byron Buxton
Yardage: 6,527; par: 71 At Norfolk 5............................Nashville 3 Richmond.......200 033 30x — 11 13 1
her national team debut when she came on as a nation Australia could take shape in the Round At Durham 10........................Charlotte 9 LOB—Portland 6, Richmond 8. 2B— reinstated from paternity leave list.
San Diego: P James Bourque released.
Paula Reto............................64-–64 -7 Gwinnett 5....................at Jacksonville 2 Meidroth, Hickey. 3B—Meckler. SB—
substitute in a 2-1 win over Sweden at the 2020 of 16. Celine Boutier......................66-–66 -5 Omaha 5...........................at Columbus 2 Rosier 2, Wyatt, Munguia. DP—Port- NFL
Carolina: WR Marquez Stevenson on
Lydia Ko................................66-–66 -5 Syracuse 2 (susp.)...at Lehigh Valley 2 land 2; Richmond 3.
Algarve Cup. But for Hasbo, it’s just about enjoying the Alison Lee.............................66-–66 -5 Scranton/W.-Barre 5...........at Buffalo 1 Portland IP H R ER BB SO ERA IR. WR Javon Wims signed.
Wichanee Meechai.............66-–66 -5 Louisville 9...................at Indianapolis 6 Dobbins 5 6 5 4 4 6 3.81 Cincinnati: DE Trey Hendrickson
It wasn’t until a youth tournament in Dallas moment and not getting too far ahead of things. Celine Borge.........................67-–67 -4 At Memphis 6................................Iowa 4 Webb ‚ 2 3 3 2 1 4.76 re-signed.
Cellucci „ 2 0 0 0 0 6.15 Green Bay: WR Jeff Cotton Jr. on IR.
in 2015 that she even ended up on Harvard’s ra- “It’s such a tremendous honor and I love the Ally Ewing.............................67-–67
Esther Henseleit..................67-–67
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Toledo...................................... at St. Paul
FRIDAY’S GAMES Troye 1 3 3 2 0 0 5.27 Indianapolis: CB Chris Lammons
signed/unrest FA.
dar. opportunity to compete on the world stage,” she Eun-Hee Ji.............................67-–67
A Lim Kim.............................67-–67
-4
-4
Rochester at Worcester...................6:45
Nashville at Norfolk.......................... 6:35
Guerrero 1 0 0 0 0 3 1.50
Las Vegas: CB Jordan Perryman cut.
Richmond IP H R ER BB SO ERA CB Ike Brown signed.
“It was my first time in the US and I still re- said. “I hope that it’s going to be a defining mo- Ji Su Kim...............................67-–67 -4 Charlotte at Durham.........................6:35 Zwack 4 3 2 2 2 4 6.28 LA Chargers: WR Milton Wright signed.
Hae-Ran Ryu........................67-–67 -4 Gwinnett at Jacksonville..................7:05 Madison 3 0 1 1 3 4 4.91
member talking to my mom about whether or ment for my growth as a player and for the wom- Yuka Saso.............................67-–67 -4 Omaha at Columbus.........................7:05 Helvey 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.00
NY Giants: DT Kevin Atkins signed.
San Francisco: LB Kyahva Tezino
Angel Yin.............................. 67-–67 -4 Syracuse at Lehigh Valley...............7:05 Rivera 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.50
not to attend this tournament because it was a en’s game, too.” Peiyun Chien........................68-–68 -3 Scranton/W.-Barre at Buffalo.........7:05
WP—Dobbins, Webb, Madison.
signed.
Hannah Green......................68-–68 -3 Louisville at Indianapolis.................7:05 Seattle: LB Ben Burr-Kirven signed.
Jennifer Kupcho...................68-–68 -3 Iowa at Memphis...............................8:05 T—2:38. A—7,211. Washington: S Xavier Henderson cut.
Pernilla Lindberg.................68-–68 -3 Toledo at St. Paul..............................8:07 NHL
Chella Choi...........................69-–69
Jodi Ewart Shadoff..............69-–69
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Rochester 10...................at Worcester 8
SINGLE-A CAROLINA Arizona: C Logan Cooley signed.

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Ayaka Furue.........................69-–69
Linn Grant.............................69-–69
Brooke Henderson..............69-–69
Wei-Ling Hsu........................69-–69
Andrea Lee...........................69-–69
Minjee Lee............................69-–69
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At Buffalo 14.........Scranton/W.-Barre 2
At Indianapolis 6...................Louisville 5
At St. Paul 9............................... Toledo 7
Carolina ..................... 15 10 .600 —
Lynchburg ................. 13 13 .500 2½
Salem ......................... 13 13 .500 2½
Tennis
-2 At Durham 13........................Charlotte 5 Delmarva ................... 12 13 .480 3

James’s son home after cardiac arrest

Bronny James was discharged from Cedars-
Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is rest-
ing at home, three days after the 18-year-old son
of LeBron James went into cardiac arrest. Dr.
Merije Chukumerije, a consulting cardiologist
for Bronny James, said in a statement issued by
the hospital Thursday that James was “success-
fully treated for a sudden cardiac arrest” thanks
to “the swift and effective response by the USC
athletics’ medical staff” after the incident Mon-
day at the University of Southern California's
Galen Center, where James was participating in
basketball practice. LeBron James said his fami-
ly is “safe and healthy” in a message of thanks to
supporters posted on social media by the top
scorer in NBA history.
COLLEGES
Colorado leaving Pac-12
The University of Colorado is leaving the Pac-
12, and the Big 12 is ready to welcome the Buffa-
loes back to the conference they left a dozen
years ago. Colorado's board of regents voted,
9-0, in a special remote meeting to approve the
conference switch in 2024 . . . Oregon and foot-
ball coach Dan Lanning agreed to a contract ex-
tension that will extend his deal through the
2028 season. Lanning’s new deal will pay him a
total of $45 million in base salary over six years.
Lanning led Oregon to a 10-3 record, including
a victory in the Holiday Bowl, in his first season
in charge of the Ducks in 2022 . . . Women who
were sexually assaulted by former Michigan
State University sports doctor Larry Nassar filed
a lawsuit claiming school officials made “secret
decisions” about releasing documents in the
case. It says those decisions and “secret votes” by
a public body violated the Open Meetings Act
and Michigan constitution. The lawsuit seeks
accountability, not money.
SWIMMING
Potential Olympic stars rise
Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh
picked up big victories at World Aquatics Cham-
en’s 200-meter butterfly. Australia won the
women’s 4 x 200 freestyle relay in a world-re-
cord time of 7:37.50. The United States took sil-
ver in 7:41.38, and China grabbed bronze in
7:44.40.
OLYMPICS
Ukraine eases boycott rules
More Ukrainian athletes could be competing
against Russian opponents in Olympic qualify-
ing events after a change in policy. A controver-
sial fencing match highlighted the difficulties
that could bring. Ukraine's government signaled
it will no longer bar its athletes from competing
against Russians who are taking part in sporting
events as “neutral athletes,” a significant easing
of its boycott policy a year before the Paris Olym-
pics. Hours after the new policy was announced,
Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan, a four-time
Olympian, stepped up to fight an officially neu-
tral Russian opponent at the world fencing
championships. Kharlan won, but was later dis-
qualified for refusing to shake her opponent’s
hand.
MISCELLANY
Saudi club signs Henderson
Saudi Arabian soccer club Al-Ettifaq signed
Jordan Henderson weeks after luring Liverpool
great Steven Gerrard to join as manager. Hen-
derson was captain of Liverpool when the Eng-
lish club won the Premier League and Champi-
ons League titles. He signed a three-year con-
tract and will reportedly earn $900,000 per
week . . . The Portland Sea Dogs dropped their
third straight game with an 11-4 loss to the host
Richmond Flying Squirrels in Double A baseball
. . .The Rochester Red Wings beat the host
Worcester Red Sox, 6-5, in Triple A baseball . . .
The Ottawa Senators signed free-agent right
wing Vladimir Tarasenko to a one-year, $5 mil-
lion deal . . . The Arizona Coyotes signed 2022
first-round draft pick Logan Cooley to a three-
year, entry-level contract, after the center
changed his mind about returning to Minnesota
Gaby Lopez...........................69-–69 -2
Stephanie Meadow.............69-–69 -2
Min-Ji Park............................69-–69 -2
Angela Stanford..................69-–69 -2
Patty Tavatanakit............... 69-–69 -2
Atthaya Thitikul...................69-–69 -2
Albane Valenzuela..............69-–69 -2
Rose Zhang.......................... 69-–69 -2
Daniela Darquea..................70-–70 -1
Gemma Dryburgh................70-–70 -1
Johanna Gustavsson...........70-–70 -1
Nasa Hataoka......................70-–70 -1
Dani Holmqvist....................70-–70 -1
Caroline Inglis......................70-–70 -1
Ariya Jutanugarn.................70-–70
Megan Khang.......................70-–70
-1
-1
Jin Young Ko........................70-–70
Nelly Korda...........................70-–70
-1
-1
Mi Hyang Lee.......................70-–70
Leona Maguire.....................70-–70
-1
-1
Morgane Metraux...............70-–70 -1
Ryann O'Toole..................... 70-–70 -1
Miyu Yamashita.................. 70-–70 -1
Aditi Ashok...........................71-–71 E McGuire c
Allisen Corpuz......................71-–71 E Dalbec rf
Diksha Dagar........................71-–71 E Rafaela cf
Georgia Hall.........................71-–71 E Abreu lf
Moriya Jutanugarn..............71-–71 E Fitzgerald 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .297
Grace Kim.............................71-–71 E Kavadas 1b
Hyo Joo Kim.........................71-–71 E Carolina 5..........................at Columbia 4
Cheyenne Knight.................71-–71 E
Ines Laklalech......................71-–71
Xiyu Lin.................................71-–71
E
E
Mel Reid................................71-–71
Madelene Sagstrom...........71-–71
E
E
Maddie Szeryk.....................71-–71 E Sogard, Hamilton. HR—Millas, Mejia,
Lilia Vu..................................71-–71 E Dalbec. SB—Downs, Hill, Hamilton 2,
SENIOR BRITISH OPEN
At Royal Porthcawl Golf Club,
Porthcawl, Wales
Yardage: 7,003; par: 71
Miguel Angel Jimenez........66-–66 -5
Alex Cejka.............................68-–68 -3
Mario Tiziani........................68-–68 -3
Jeev Milkha Singh...............69-–69 -2
Vijay Singh........................... 69-–69 -2
Steven Alker.........................70-–70 -1
Paul Broadhurst.................. 70-–70 -1
Tom Gillis..............................70-–70 -1
Keith Horne..........................70-–70 -1
Paul Lawrie.......................... 70-–70
Michele Reale......................70-–70
-1
-1
Jarmo Sandelin....................70-–70
Jose Manuel Carriles..........71-–71
-1
E DOUBLE-A EASTERN
Bradley Dredge....................71-–71 E At Jersey Shore 4.................Aberdeen 3
Ken Duke.............................. 71-–71 E NORTHEAST
Simon Griffiths.....................71-–71 E W L Pct. GB
Gary Orr................................71-–71 E Portland..................... 15 8 .652 —
Y.E. Yang...............................71-–71 E Somerset ................... 12 10 .545 2½
Emanuele Canonica............72-–72 +1
Clark Dennis.........................72-–72 +1
Richard Green......................72-–72 +1
Anders Hansen....................72-–72 +1
Greig Hutcheon................... 72-–72 +1
Thomas Levet......................72-–72 +1
Mauricio Molina..................72-–72 +1
Colin Montgomerie.............72-–72 +1
Michael Muehr.................... 72-–72
Tim O'Neal............................72-–72
+1
+1
Rod Pampling...................... 72-–72
Scott Parel............................72-–72
+1
+1
Phillip Price..........................72-–72 +1
Jean-Francois Remesy....... 72-–72 +1
Knud Storgaard...................72-–72 +1
Steen Tinning.......................72-–72 +1
Stuart Appleby.................... 73-–73 +2
Phillip Archer.......................73-–73 +2
Shane Bertsch......................73-–73 +2
David Branshaw..................73-–73
Christian Cevaer..................73-–73
+2
+2
Darren Clarke.......................73-–73 +2
Peter Fowler.........................73-–73 +2
Harrison Frazar....................73-–73
Ricardo Gonzalez................73-–73
+2
+2
Grant Hamerton..................73-–73 +2
Thongchai Jaidee................73-–73
Jerry Kelly.............................73-–73
+2
+2
Simon Khan..........................73-–73 +2
Bernhard Langer.................73-–73 +2
Damian Mooney..................73-–73 +2
Patrik Sjoland...................... 73-–73 +2
Nashville 5............................at Norfolk 3 Down East ................. 11 15 .423 4½
At Lehigh Valley 14.............Syracuse 11 Fredericksburg ......... 10 15 .400 5 ATLANTA OPEN
At Jacksonville 5................... Gwinnett 4 SOUTH
Iowa 10.............................. at Memphis 7 At Atlanta Station, Atlanta
W L Pct. GB
Purse: $737,170
Charleston................. 18 8 .692 —
Rochester, 6-5 Myrtle Beach ............ 14 12 .538 4 Men’s Singles
Columbia ................... 13 13 .500 5 Round of 16
At Polar Park, Worcester
ROCHESTER AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Fayetteville................ 12 13 .480 5½ Dominik Koepfer, Germany, def. Daniel
Kannapolis ................ 12 14 .462 6 Evans (3), Britain, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4.
Baker lf 5 0 1 0 0 2 .297
Augusta ..................... 11 15 .423 7 Jeffrey John Wolf (8), United States,
Hill cf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .352 THURSDAY’S RESULTS def. Maxime Cressy, United States, 7-6
Alu 3b 5 1 1 0 0 1 .296 At Salem 4...........................Lynchburg 3 (7), 6-3.
Blankenhorn At Kannapolis 8....................Delmarva 4 Taylor Fritz (1), United States, def. Yib-
3 1 0 0 1 0 .252
dh Down East 6..................at Fayetteville 4 ing Wu, China, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
Rutherford rf 4 1 3 0 0 0 .361 Kei Nishikori, Japan, def. Juncheng
Adams 1b 4 0 0 1 0 1 .259
Augusta 15..................... at Charleston 8
Carolina 11........................at Columbia 2 Shang, China, 6-4, 7-6 (3).
Millas c 3 2 3 2 1 0 .278
Mejia 2b-rf 4 1 1 2 0 0 .248
Myrtle Beach 12.....at Fredericksburg 0
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Men’s Doubles
Quarterfinals
Downs ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .183
Totals 37 6 11 5 2 5
Lynchburg at Salem..........................7:05
Delmarva at Kannapolis........................7
Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell,
Australia, def. Trent Bryde and Ethan
Down East at Fayetteville................7:05 Quinn, United States, 6-4, 6-7 (2), 10-2.
WORCESTER AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Hamilton ss 3 1 1 0 2 1 .253 Augusta at Charleston......................7:05 Julian Cash, Britain, and Robert Gallo-
Story dh 3 1 0 0 1 2 .333 Carolina at Columbia........................7:05 way, United States, def. Evan King,
4 0 2 1 0 0 .286 Myrtle Beach at Fredericksburg.....7:05 United States, and Constant Lestienne,
4 1 1 1 0 0 .297 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS France, 7-5, 3-6, 10-7.
4 1 1 0 0 2 .312 Lynchburg 9............................at Salem 3 Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson With-
4 0 0 0 0 2 .236 At Lynchburg 7...........................Salem 2 row (4), United States, def. Yuki Bham-
At Fayetteville 4................. Down East 0 bri and Saketh Myneni, India, 3-6, 6-3,
3 1 0 0 1 2 .231 At Kannapolis 5....................Delmarva 3 10-8.
Sogard 2b
Totals
4 0 2 0 0 0 .289
33 5 7 2 4 9 Myrtle Beach 10.....at Fredericksburg 5 Cressy-Wolf
Rochester.......010 003 002 — 6 11 1
Worcester...... 100 210 100 — 5 7 0
At Charleston 7.......................Augusta 4
Cressy Wolf
1st-serve percentage.............64 67
LOB—Rochester 6, Worcester 5. 2B—
HIGH-A SOUTH ATLANTIC 1st-serve winning pct............84 78
Rutherford 2, Alu, Millas, McGuire,
2nd-serve winning pct...........67 70
NORTH Aces...........................................16 6
Rafaela. DP—Rochester 1; Worcester W L Pct. GB Double faults.............................4
1. Brooklyn .................... 18 8 .692 — Break points...........................3-4 -
Rochester IP H R ER BB SO ERA Aberdeen................... 17 8 .680 ½ Receiving points................17-69 13-58
Urena 5 5 4 3 2 4 6.03 Hudson Valley .......... 13 13 .500 5
Total points won.....................62 65
12.7 Jersey Shore ............. 11 15 .423 7
Peguero 1„ 1 1 1 2 2 Greensboro ............... 10 15 .400 7½
1
Cate ‚ 0 0 0 0 0 6.14 Wilmington.................. 9 17 .346 9
HAMBURG EUROPEAN
SOUTH
Willingham
Moreno
1 0 0 0 0 1 3.21
1 1 0 0 0 2 2.32 W L Pct. GB OPEN
Hickory....................... 17 8 .680 —
Worcester IP H R ER BB SO ERA Bowling Green.......... 14 12 .538 3½ At Am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
Lamet 5 4 1 1 1 4 3.77 Greenville .................. 13 13 .500 4½ Men’s singles
Nail 1 3 3 3 1 0 5.50 Rome .......................... 12 14 .462 5½ Second Round
Shugart 2 1 0 0 0 0 7.64 Arthur Fils, def. Dusan Lajovic, 7-5,
Fernandez 1 3 2 2 0 1 8.18
Asheville .................... 11 15 .423 6½
Winston-Salem........... 9 16 .360 8 7-5; Lorenzo Musetti (3), def. Jozef
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Balk—Lamet. WP—Urena, Lamet.
At Bowling Green 8.............Greenville 3
Kovalik, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Casper Ruud (1),
def. Cristian Garin, 1-6, 6-2, 6-2; Daniel
T—2:39. A—6,677.
At Greensboro 6.........Winston-Salem 5
Rome 6............................... at Asheville 3
Altmaier, def. Andrey Rublev (2), 6-2,
6-2; Zhizhen Zhang, def. Yannick
At Brooklyn 11...................Wilmington 7
At Hickory 6..................Hudson Valley 5
Hanfmann, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Women’s singles
Quarter Finals
FRIDAY’S GAMES Daria Saville, def. Jule Niemeier, 6-3,
Greenville at Bowling Green........... 7:35 6-2; Arantxa Rus (7), def. Eva Lys, 6-2,
Winston-Salem at Greensboro........6:30 6-2; Noma Noha Akugue, def. Martina
Rome at Asheville............................. 6:35 Trevisan, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; Diana Shnaider,
Hartford ..................... 10 12 .455 4½ Wilmington at Brooklyn........................ 7 def. Bernarda Pera (3), 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.
Reading...................... 10 12 .455 4½ Hudson Valley at Hickory.....................7
Binghamton................. 9 13 .409 5½ Aberdeen at Jersey Shore............... 7:05
New Hampshire ......... 7 14 .333 7 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS PLAVA LAGUNA CROATIA
SOUTHWEST At Bowling Green 14...........Greenville 3
W L Pct. GB Aberdeen 4.................at Jersey Shore 2 OPEN UMAG
Erie.............................. 14 8 .636 — At Greensboro 7.........Winston-Salem 6
Richmond .................. 14 9 .609 ½ At Brooklyn 3.....................Wilmington 0
At Stadion Stella Maris, Umag,
Croatia
Bowie ......................... 13 10 .565 1½
Akron.......................... 11 12 .478 3½
At Jersey Shore 3.................Aberdeen 2
At Asheville 8...............................Rome 3
Men’s singles
Second Round
Altoona ........................ 9 11 .450 4
Harrisburg................... 9 14 .391 5½
Hudson Valley 7..................at Hickory 0 Jiri Lehecka (1), def. Dominic Thiem,
THURSDAY’S RESULTS 6-3, 7-5; Roberto Carballes Baena (4),
def. Taro Daniel, 6-3, 6-1; Stan
At Richmond 11......................Portland 4 CAPE COD LEAGUE Wawrinka (6), def. Federico Coria, 7-5,
Akron 10......................................at Erie 8
Altoona 5.........................at Harrisburg 3 THURSDAY’S RESULT 6-1; Jaume Munar, def. Fabian
Binghamton 6..................... at Reading 3
At Somerset 4.............................Bowie 3
Cotuit 12.............................at Chatham 6 Marozsan, 6-4, 6-3; Lorenzo Sonego
(2), def. Marco Cecchinato, 6-1, 7-6 (7).
FRIDAY’S GAMES
At New Hampshire 7.............Hartford 5 Falmouth at Cotuit............................4:30
FRIDAY’S GAMES Yarmouth-Dennis at Bourne.................6
Portland at Richmond.......................6:35 Wareham at Hyannis.............................6
BNP PARIBAS WARSAW
Akron at Erie...................................... 6:35 Brewster at Harwich.........................6:30 OPEN
Binghamton at Reading.........................7 Orleans at Chatham..........................4:30
Altoona at Harrisburg............................7 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS At Legia Tennis Centre, Warszawa,
Bowie at Somerset............................7:05 At Hyannis 8............Yarmouth-Dennis 0 Poland
Hartford at New Hampshire............7:05 At Brewster 5.........................Chatham 1 Women’s singles
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
At Richmond 7........................Portland 5
Altoona 3.........................at Harrisburg 1
At Wareham 5.........................Harwich 4
Orleans 13.........................at Falmouth 3
Cotuit 8..................................at Bourne 7
First Round
Claire Liu, def. Yue Yuan, 7-6 (3), 3-6,
6-2.
Hartford 9..............at New Hampshire 8
At Erie 7........................................Akron 5
Second Round
Heather Watson, def. Yuliya
Binghamton 5..................... at Reading 3 Hatouka, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1; Lucrezia

pionships in Japan and showed why they are
likely to be stars at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Frenchman Marchand won his third gold medal
with a dominating victory in the men’s 200-me-
ter medley. He earlier won the 200 butterfly and
the 400 medley. McIntosh, 16, of Canada, cap-
tured her second straight world title in the wom-
for another college season . . . Riquna Williams,
a member of the Las Vegas Aces WNBA champi-
onship team, was barred from team activities af-
ter her arrest on nine felony domestic violence
charges involving a person whom authorities
identified as her spouse. Williams was freed
from jail without bail Wednesday.
Paul Streeter........................73-–73 +2 Bowie 6..............................at Somerset 5
Ken Tanigawa......................73-–73 +2
Peter Baker..........................74-–74 +3
Andre Bossert......................74-–74 +3
Chris DiMarco......................74-–74 +3
David Gilford........................74-–74 +3
Joakim Haeggman..............74-–74 +3
Michael Jonzon....................74-–74 +3
John Kemp............................74-–74 +3
James Kingston...................74-–74 +3
Rob Labritz...........................74-–74
Euan McIntosh.....................74-–74
+3
+3
Tim Petrovic.........................74-–74
Esteban Toledo....................74-–74
+3
+3
Mike Weir.............................74-–74 +3
WNBA
Stefanini, def. Jodie Burrage, 6-4, 6-1;
Linda Noskova (8), def. Viktoria
Hruncakova, 6-3, 6-3; Rebecca
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
At Los Angeles 81..................Indiana 68
Sramkova, def. Karolina Muchova (2),
7-5, 3-6, 7-5; Laura Siegemund, def. Zhu
At New York 95.......................Atlanta 84 Lin (4), 6-4, 6-4; Iga Swiatek (1), def.
FRIDAY’S GAMES Claire Liu, 6-2, 6-2.
Minnesota at New York.........................7
Washington at Dallas.............................7
Seattle at Chicago..................................7
WEDNESDAY’S RESULT
At Minnesota 97.............Washington 92
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BY CITY AND TOWN (Leonard) “Chickie”
Of Randolph, passed away July 24,
BEDFORD NEWTON 2023, at the age of 90. Beloved wife of
HIGGINS, John P. VACHON, Constantina Ann (Bibbo)
John Monahan of Randolph. Loving
RICHARDSON,, John A. NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH mother of Gene Monahan of Brockton,
BELMONT HIGGINS, John P. Kim Monahan Goldman of Wareham,
HIGGINS, John P.
NORTH READING Grace Monahan of Keene, NH, and
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QUINCY grandmother of Tayla Gold, James
BOLTON ANDERSON, Victoria Ann Gold; and great-grandmother of Bentley
TIERNEY, Robert E.
STEC, Joanne S. Gold. Sister of the late Bernice Pappas,
BOSTON Claire Cronin, Doris Mackey, Lorraine
RANDOLPH
CICCIO, Rose M.
MONAHAN, Grace (Leonard) Mento, Joe, Bill, and George Leonard.
HANLON, Thomas Michael
MADIGAN, Marie Sr. MHSH REVERE Chickie lived a vibrant life, enjoying
NOBLE, Hannelore Carter SHERMAN, Leon Born December 8, 1931, in Cambridge, Of Bedford, Massachusetts and travels with her husband, John, of 72
VARTERESIAN, Alan A. years. She was a regular casino winner Of Lexington, on July 23,
ROSLINDALE MA, passed peacefully on Saturday West Palm Beach, Florida, July 21,
and scratch ticket queen. Chickie will 2023. Beloved 1st born son
BRAINTREE VARTERESIAN, Alan A. morning, July 22, 2023, in Lake 2023. Husband of Nancy A. (Bright)
be missed by extended family, nieces of the late Albert S. and
ANDERSON, Victoria Ann SHREWSBURY Forrest, CA. Born to James J. and Mary Higgins. Father of Robert Higgins of
and nephews, friends and neighbors. Phyllis E. Richardson; cherished
BREWSTER TIERNEY, Robert E. Boyle, an only child with strong familial Fort Fairfield, ME, Michael Higgins
Funeral from the Hurley Funeral Home, brother of Elaine of Lexington and West
SMITH, Kevin D. relationships with his mother’s side (Sandy) of North Attleborough, John
SOMERSET Yarmouth, Mark and his wife, Marie of
BRIGHTON of the family, he entered the seminary ‘Jack’ Higgins (Beth Feldmen) of 134 So. Main St., (Rt. 28), RANDOLPH,
BOYLE, Eugene F. Stamford, CT and Paul and his wife,
HANLON, Thomas Michael and was ordained a Roman Catholic Fairview, NY, Kathleen Higgins of on Saturday, July 29th, at 9:15 a.m.
SOMERVILLE Charlotte of Winchester. Admired uncle
BROCKTON priest in 1958. Gene left the priesthood Ayer, Maureen Robertson of Methuen, followed by a Funeral Mass at St.
SHERMAN, Leon of Connor of Lexington, Sydney of
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SMITH, Kevin D. Nashville and Emily of Winchester.
BROOKLINE and married his loving wife, Donna Phaneuf (Jeff) of Canton and the Relatives and friends are respectfully
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ROZON, Donald Joseph Flaherty; and later had their only son, late Thomas P. Higgins. Grandfather invited to attend. Visiting Hours will
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STOW black lab, Bentley. John died unexpect-
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WEST ROXBURY
HANLON, Thomas Michael
CICCIO, Rose M. (Bonfiglio) Trapelo Road, Waltham, where his
River Band. A 1971 graduate of
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LYNNFIELD Lexington High, where he was known
WEST YARMOUTH Of Everett, formerly of the North End. a.m. Burial will follow in Shawsheen
ANDERSON, Victoria Ann to push the envelope, he later enlisted
RICHARDSON,, John A. Beloved wife of the late Domenic Cemetery, Bedford. Memorial donations
MALDEN in the U.S. Army, where he worked in
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SCARLETT, James O. Sr. the motor pool in the tanks division.
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STEC, Joanne S. throughout much of his life, John
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TAYLOR, Joan K. (Hart) OUT OF STATE survived by two great-grandchildren,
his family, celebrating milestones,
Age 83 of Back Bay, Boston, MA, died delighting as the next generation
NEEDHAM FLORIDA Charlotte and Juliana; and many loving July 10, 2023. Wife of the late Richard discovered music of the 70s, always
TAYLOR, Joan K. (Hart) CICCIO, Rose M. nieces and nephews.Visiting Hours will MADIGAN, Marie Sr. MHSH Noble; mother of Kim and Katharine welcoming the energy of their visits on
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(Domenichello) of Christian Burial will be celebrated vice on August 6, 2023, at 2:00 pm at residence again at the Wingate family
at St. Mary’s Church, 155 Washington The ‘Quin House, 217 Commonwealth home. Content in the joys of daily
Of Sarasota, FL, July 22. Beloved wife St., Winchester on Saturday at 10 am. Ave., Boston, MA. The ‘Quin is private, routine, he remained happy, optimistic
of George Anderson. Loving sister of Relatives and friends are kindly invited and your name must be on the guest and keenly interested in family
Robert Domenichello and wife, Dolo- to attend. Interment at Woodlawn list. Donations can be made in Laurie’s activities and world events while
res, Paula Fullerton and late husband, Cemetery, Everett. In lieu of flowers, memory to the Hannelore and Richard splitting time between Lexington, Cape
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HANLON, Thomas Michael Went home to God, on July 21, 2023, in LEXINGTON, followed by 11am Mass
Brockton, Massachusetts. She was 100 of Resurrection at St. Brigid Church,
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soulmate of Anna Mak, sharing an
College (1984), Phillips Exeter Academy a master’s degree from Manhattanville
everlasting love. Tommy was the
(1986), Dartmouth College (1990), College in New York.
adored and beloved brother of the
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He had a long career in private equity aldine Coughlin; and several nieces
late Ellie Hanlon, Karen Breese of
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Ret. Brookine FD, of Natick,
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passed away on July 26,
2023. Beloved husband of over 60
years to Mary Lou (Mahoney) Rozon.
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SCARLETT, James O. Sr.
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Age 88, affectionately known as
“Jim” to his loved ones, passed away
peacefully on July 18, 2023. Born
in Lowell, MA, he was a long-time
resident of Malden, MA, where he met
and married his wife, Bev, of 62 years
and raised a family. In retirement, Jim
and Bev moved to Cape Cod where
they spent many years enjoying all the
Cape had to offer, beautiful beaches,
kayaking, oyster and clam fishing, to
name a few of their favorite activities.
He was the beloved husband of the
late Beverly T. (Grover) Scarlett; and
a devoted father to his four children:
James Scarlett, Jr. of Ft. Lauderdale,
FL, Laura Cavallaro (Chuck) of
Middleton, MA, Lisa Freker (Gary)
of Lowell, MA, and Donna Scarlett of
Lynn, MA. His joy was multiplied by
his five cherished grandchildren, of
whom he was so proud. At the request
of family, services will be private; they
ask that you please remember Jim with
a memorial donation to the Alzheimer’s
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SHERMAN, Leon “Lee”
Age 101, of Framingham, formerly
of Somerville and Revere, passed
away peacefully, on July 26, at the
remarkable age of 101, following a brief
illness.
Born on July 10, 1922, Lee was
the sixth of seven children of the late
Pauline and Samuel Sherman. He had
fond childhood memories of playing
baseball and watching second baseman,
Sibby Sisti and the Boston Braves in the
bleachers with the “Knothole Gang.”
Another constant thread in his life was
tennis, thanks to his older brother,
Marty, who introduced him to the
game. Since he had older siblings with
children by the time he was a young
teen, Lee became the favorite “uncle
Mashe” of his nieces and nephews. His
most trans-formative job as a young
man was working in his brother-
in-law’s dental practice doing odd
jobs, running errands, cleaning and
even working on patients under Joe’s
watchful eye. This was the spark to a
hugely successful career as a dental
technician and business owner.
In 1942, Lee was drafted into the
Army and served on the hospital ship
USS HOPE in the Pacific, where he
ran the dental lab and performed
medical surgeries. Further stories
about his adventures in World War II
are available upon request. When he
was honorably discharged in 1945,
Lee opened Sherman Dental Lab
on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston,
rapidly building the business and his
reputation in the dental industry. He
met and partnered with the premier
dentists in the area and helped
establish the Boston University Henry
M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.
Throughout the years, Lee lectured at
Boston area dental schools.
Lee enjoyed his life as a bachelor in
the 1950s. He played tennis and squash
around Boston and at singles resorts
in New England. It was at one of these
resorts where he met his future wife,
Pearl. Lee and Pearl were married at
the Hampshire House on an unusually
balmy day in November 1961, and they
settled in Framingham, MA to start
their family. Once daughter Davida
came along, he had a sidekick to teach
every sport, primarily tennis, squash
and baseball, mentor and educate on
the fine art of comedy, particularly
Henny Youngman jokes.
In the early 1970s, Lee partnered
with two other dental professionals to
establish the famously successful lab,
Denthetics, which they ran for more
than a decade before it was acquired
by National Dentex. In the late ‘80s,
Lee went back to his roots and opened
a one-man lab in the basement of a
dental office, which he tremendously
enjoyed until his retirement at age 85.
Lee and Pearl were members of
Temple Beth Am in Framingham and
later Temple Israel of Natick. Lee
also loved playing tennis at Sudbury
River Tennis Club in Framingham and
Wightman Tennis Center in Weston.
Lee is preceded in death by his
beloved Pearl; and his siblings, Sophie
Karlin, Helen Bengar, Elizabeth Weene,
Martin Sherman, Harry Sherman and
Ruth Jacobson. He is survived by his
daughter, Davida Dinerman and son-
in-law, Brad; his grandchildren, Abby
and Ari, to whom he was the “best
Poppie ever”; and Toby, “good boy,” the
goldendoodle; and many nieces and
nephews.
We remember Lee as a forever
youthful man. He was a storyteller with
a tremendous sense of humor and a
fierce love for and loyalty to his family
and friends. His most favorite thing was
spending time with his family, whom
he adored and cherished, advised
and supported until the very end. His
mantra, “110%, one day at a time,” will
forever be with us.
Graveside Service at the
Framingham-Natick Hebrew Cemetery,
Fairview Ave., Natick, MA on Friday,
July 28, 2023, at 11:00 am. Shiva will
begin after the Burial at the home
of Davida and Brad Dinerman until
4:30 p.m. Shiva will continue Sunday,
July 30, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., with
minyan at 7:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers,
donations in Lee’s memory may be
made to Boston Children’s Hospital
at bostonchildrens.org/givenow or via
check, payable to Boston Children’s
Hospital, at Boston Children’s Hospital
Trust, 401 Park Drive, Suite 602,
Boston, MA 02215-5301.
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SMITH, Kevin D. Sr.
Of North Reading, passed away on
Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at the age of
70. Born in Somerville, he is the loving
son of the late Russell and Catherine
(Fothergill) Smith. Kevin is the devoted
father of Erin Thomassen and her
husband, John Martin of Tewksbury
and the late Kevin Smith, Jr. Cherished
grandfather of Kayleigh and Jack
Martin. Beloved brother of William
Smith and his wife, Cathy of FL, Paul
Smith and his wife, Dee of Brewster,
Eugene Smith, Robert Smith and his
wife, Jane of Sterling and Brian Smith
and his wife, Sue of Litchfield, NH.
Loving father-in-law of Erin Smith of
Salem; and uncle to many loving nieces
and nephews
A Funeral Service will be held from
the Cota Funeral Home, 335 Park St.,
NORTH READING, corner of Park
St. and Rt. 28 at the Reading Line, on
Saturday, July 29, 2023, at 9:30am,
followed by a Funeral Mass celebrat-
ing Kevin at St. Theresa’s Church, 63
Winter St., North Reading, at 10:30am.
Interment to follow in Riverside Cem-
etery, North Reading.
Family and friends are cordially
invited to Visiting Hours at the Cota
Funeral Home on Friday, July 28, 2023,
from 4 to 7pm.
In lieu of flowers, please consider
making a donation in Kevin’s memory
to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute,
450 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215
or online at www.dana-farber.org
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STEC, Joanne “Sam” S.
Age 81, of Quincy, passed away peace-
fully, on Monday, July 24, 2023. She
was the beloved wife of the late Peter J.
Bagarella. Devoted mother of Amanda
L. Taylor and her husband, James of
Mansfield. Services will be private
and Visiting Hours are omitted. Those
wishing may remember Joanne with a
contribution in her memory made to a
local animal shelter of one’s choice. For
complete obituary, please visit www.
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TAYLOR, Joan K. (Hart)
Of Weston, July 25, 2023. Beloved wife
of the late Stirling G. “Snap” Taylor.
Loving mother of James Taylor and
his wife, Cynthia of Natick, Stacey T.
Brenner of Boston, and Meredith J.
Copland and her husband, Douglas of
Tillicoultry, Scotland. Grandmother of
Nicole, Stirling A., Courtney, Finlay, and
Stirling E.
Joan was a member of the Women’s
Community League of Weston and Past
President of the St. Julia’s Women’s
Club.
A Visitation will be held at the
George F. Doherty & Sons Funeral
Home, 477 Washington St. (Rt.16),
WELLESLEY, on Tuesday, August 1,
from 8:30-9:30 a.m., followed by a
Funeral Mass in St. Julia’s Church,
Weston Center, at 10:00 a.m. Relatives
and friends are kindly invited.
Interment in Linwood Cemetery,
Weston.
Expressions of sympathy may be
made in Joan’s memory to St. Anthony
Shrine, 100 Arch St., Boston, MA
02110. For online guestbook, gfdoherty.
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TIERNEY, Robert E. (Bob)
Of Stow, MA, passed away on July 21,
2023, surrounded by his loving family.
He was born to Anne A. (Connors) and
We know
that paying
George A. Tierney on May 9, 1958, in
Boston, MA. He is survived by his wife,
Kathleen (Kathy) Stewart; and children
Flora Tierney of Palo Alto, CA, and
George Tierney of Bolton, MA.
He is also survived by brothers Paul
and Rose Tierney of Shrewsbury, MA,
tribute to
George and Patti Tierney of Mashpee,
MA; and sister-in-law, Jessica Tierney of
Poulsbo, WA. As well as many brothers-
in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces and
nephews. He was predeceased by his
parents; his sister, Joanne Adamson;
your loved
and brother, Stephen Tierney.
Bob graduated from Natick High
School, and attended UMass Amherst.
He was a plumber, having worked for
Fame, Frazier, Sagamore, NCM, and
most recently McLabor Sources. He will
ones is
be remembered for his sharp wit and
will live on in the hearts of family and
many friends.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday,
August 1, 2023, at 10:00 am, with a
Memorial Service beginning at 11:30
am at Tighe Hamilton Regional Funeral
important
Home, 50 Central Street, HUDSON,
MA; followed by a procession to Brook-
side Cemetery, 36 Gleasondale Rd.,
Stow, MA, for Inurnment services.
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Reeves Callaway; maker of very fast performance cars, 75 Julian Barry,

By Neil Genzlinger mal driving. Mr. Callaway ’s
company, in its announcement
made Lenny
Bruce into
NEW YORK TIMES

Reeves Callaway, who start- of his death, said that record

ed out driving fast cars and then stood for more than 20 years.
focused on creating them, in-
cluding one that set a speed re-
Ely Reeves Callaway III was
born Nov. 22, 1947, in Bryn ‘Lenny,’ at 92
cord of 254.76 miles per hour in Mawr, Pa. His father, Ely Reeves
1988, died July 11 at his home Callaway Jr., was a textile execu- By Alex Traub
in Newport Beach, Calif. He was tive who in the 1980s founded NEW YORK TIMES

75. Callaway Golf Co., a maker of Julian Barry, whose scripts

His company, Callaway Cars,
said the cause was injuries from
a fall.
Mr. Callaway and his compa-
ny were well known in the
world of high-performance au-
tomobiles custom-made for
deep-pocketed clients. He be-
gan by modifying cars out of his
garage, then established his
company in Old Lyme, Conn.,
with the goal of challenging Eu-
ropean manufacturers such as
Porsche and Ferrari that were
making the world’s fastest vehi-
cles.
Soon the modified cars com-
ing out of his small shop were
drawing attention in motor
magazines and in speed compe-
titions. A key moment came in
the mid-1980s with Alfa Ro-
meo, an Italian auto company.
“They came to us,” he told
t h e Tr u c k S h o w Po d c a s t i n
2021, “and they said, ‘Look,
could you, within one year’s
time, develop an Alfa twin-tur-
bo system for us that we could
use to compe te against the
Maserati?’ ”
He did, making about three
dozen modified vehicles, but
then Alfa Romeo lost interest in
the project. Yet somehow one of
those modified Alfas found its
way to General Motors’ Black
Lake testing ground in Michi-
gan, and soon GM was asking if
he could do the same thing to its
Chevrolet Corvette.
“This was a huge opportuni-
ty, to become associated with
Corvette,” Mr. Callaway said.
“So we saluted and said, ‘Yes,
sir; immediately, sir; may I have
another, sir?’”
The result was an unusual
agreement that made his com-
pany an authorized “aftermar-
ket tuner,” as news accounts put
it at the time. Customers could
order a limited-edition Calla-
way-modified Corvette at select
Chevrolet dealers, and the car
would be shipped to Old Lyme
and outfitted with turbocharg-
Mr. Callaway (above) with the Ferrari 375 Plus he restored for his senior project at Amherst
College. He started out racing cars but returned to making souped-up vehicles.
ers and other modifications.
The first version, in 1987, add-
ed about $20,000 to the price,
putting the starting price that
yea r at abo ut $ 5 1 ,0 0 0 ( t he
equivalent of about $140,000
today).
Automobile journalists were
impressed.
“The awesome power of the
turbos is revealed in three
ways,” Brock Yates wrote in
Playboy in 1989, “a faint shriek
of impellers as they pump gobs
of fuel into the combustion
chambers, the whisk of the
gauge on the dash toward maxi-
mum boost and, most vivid of
all, the G-force that seems to
want to compress the driver and
the passenger into the luggage
compartment behind the seats.”
John Hicks of The Orlando
Sentinel ended a 1988 review of
the car by saying: “It’s enjoyable
to imagine standing on a street
corner telling the driver of a
smoked-out Euro rod that the
Callaway went that-a-way.”
In the podcast, Mr. Callaway
said Chevrolet had estimated
that demand worldwide for the
Callaway Corvette would be
about 25 cars. In 1988, the sec-
ond year of production, The
New York Times reported that
output that year could reach
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VIA ERCIII TRUST VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES
400 vehicles. The car, which Mr. “We basically decided that
Callaway produced through 250 miles per hour was a reach-
1991, could hit speeds of more able goal,” he told McClatchy
than 200 miles per hour, though News Service. “But if it was to
it was made for driving on ordi- have any meaning, the car had
nary roads. to be docile at low speeds as
“People who buy these cars well. It had to retain all the
don’t go that fast,” Mr. Callaway things that make a car usable on
told the Times in 1988. “What the street, such as air-condition-
they’re buying is a configuration ing.”
capable of doing that. Why do To prove the point, his team
people buy a 400-watt stereo drove the car from Connecticut
when 99 percent of the time to a 7 1/2-mile oval track in
they’re listening to music at Ohio. (It got 16 miles per gallon,
much lower levels?” they said.) At the track, it hit
In late 1988, Mr. Callaway 210 miles per hour on its first
and his engineers tweaked the run, 223 on its second. After
Corvette some more, with a ver- m o r e tw e a k i n g , i t r e a c h e d
sion they called the Sledgeham- 254.76 on its third attempt, a
mer. record for a car made for nor-
golf equipment, and his mother,
Jeanne Delaplaine (Wiler) Call-
away, was a homemaker.
He grew up in the Philadel-
phia area and in Connecticut. In
1970, he earned a fine arts de-
gree at Amherst College; for his
senior project he restored a Fer-
rari that had won the 24 Hours
of Le Mans race in France in
1954.
A self-taught tinkerer, Mr.
Callaway started out racing
dune buggies and other vehicles
he had modified, having some
success, including on the For-
mula Vee circuit. But it wasn’t a
lucrative profession.
“I decided I couldn’t earn a
living as a driver,” he told the
Times in 1994. Ins tead, he
turned to making souped-up ve-
hicles.
Though the Callaway Cor-
vette was perhaps his best-
known car, he and his company
worked on many types of cars,
adapting to computerization
and other new technologies and
opening locations in California
and Germany.
“Dad’s passion for making
beautifully designed and crafted
machines can be seen in each
and every project,” his son Peter,
president of the company, said
in a statement.
Mr. Callaway’s marriages to
Dale Vosburgh, Sue Zesiger, and
Nicole Jones ended in divorce.
In addition to his son Peter,
from his marriage to Vosburgh,
he leaves a daughter from that
marriage, Augusta Boone Calla-
way; two children from his mar-
riage to Zesiger, Sebastian and
Walker Callaway; a sister, Lou-
ise Wiler Callaway; a brother,
Nicholas; and two grandchil-
dren.
In the Truck Show Podcast,
Mr. Callaway noted that he
wasn’t an engineer, though he’d
worked with some good ones.
“I’m still the guy who loves
building stuff more than any-
thing else,” he said.
for a Broadway play and a Holly-
wood movie about Lenny Bruce,
both titled “Lenny,” became de-
finitive portraits of the comedi-
an as a truth-teller who drove
himself mad in a righteous
struggle against American hy-
pocrisy, was found dead Tuesday
morning at his home in Beverly
Hills, Calif. He was 92.
His daughter Julia Barry said
he had died in his sleep. He had
been receiving medical treat-
ment for congestive heart failure
and, in recent weeks, for late-
stage kidney disease.
Like Marilyn Monroe and
John Lennon, Bruce died young
(he was 40) and became a figure
of continually renewed pop cul-
ture lore. His comedy career and
his criminal prosecutions on
drug and obscenity charges in-
spired museum exhibitions, one-
man theatrical performances,
and biographies.
M r. B a r r y ’s p l a y, w h i c h
opened on Broadway in 1971,
five years after Bruce’s death,
proved that Bruce could draw an
audience posthumously. The
1974 movie version, which
starred Dustin Hoffman in the
title role, has endured as a clas-
sic of the Lenny Bruce mini-
genre. It earned six Academy
Award nominations, including
for best picture, best actor, and
best adapted screenplay.
In both scripts, Mr. Barry
paid homage to Bruce by includ-
ing lengthy passages of his
stand-up comedic material. His
Bruce is crude but winningly so
— more forgiving of human frail-
ty than mocking it, and skillful
in using earthy common sense to
attack the prejudices of his day.
Clive Barnes of The New York
Times called the play a “dyna-
mite shtick” of theater and re-
flected on the irony that Bruce
had been arrested after using
language in nightclubs that by
1971 seemed unexceptional
when declaimed from a Broad-
way stage. “The last laugh,” he
concluded, “is with Mr. Bruce.”
Mr. Barry’s script compared

Pamela Blair, original performer of comedic ‘Chorus Line’ number
By Brian Murphy
WASHINGTON POST
Pamela Blair, a dancer and
actress whose small-town-to-
Broadway story became part of
the character Valerie in the orig-
inal cast of “A Chorus Line” and
who defined one of the show’s
comedic highlights, a musical
ode to cosmetic surgery and
newfound curves, died July 23
at her home in Mesa, Ariz. She
was 73.
A friend, Scott Withers, said
Ms. Blair had longstanding
health complications related to
a nervous system disorder
known as Clippers disease.
Ms. Blair’s screen and stage
credits ranged from soap operas
to musicals. She was part of the
Greek chorus in Woody Allen’s
“Mighty Aphrodite” (1995);
played the world-weary prosti-
tute Amber (a role later changed
to Angel) in the 1978 original
Broadway cast of “The Best Lit-
tle Whorehouse in Texas”; and
performed in the flirtatious role
of Curley’s wife in a 1974 revival
of “Of Mice and Men” starring
James Earl Jones.
But her portrayal of Valerie
Clarke, the surgically enhanced
striver in “A Chorus Line,” gave
her original bragging rights to
one of the most memorable
characters in a Broadway jug-
gernaut — which ran for more
than 6,100 performances from
1975 to 1990 and has been re-
staged in thousands of venues
around the world.
Ms. Blair set the foundations
for Val’s character with a con-
trast of homespun perkiness —
pigtails and doe eyes — and un-
varnished big-city ambitions.
Val’s solo song, “Dance: Ten;
Looks: Three,” tells the tale of a
dancer who decides her flat-
chested and skinny frame will
not get her jobs. She goes under
the knife to enhance her bust
and butt — and finds herself
fending off casting directors.
“Fixed the chassis. ‘How do
you do!’” sings the character Val.
“Life turned into an endless
Ms. Blair performed “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three” in a
production of “A Chorus Line.”
medle y of ‘G ee, it had to be
you!’” (The song and lyrics, by
Marvin Hamlisch and Edward
Kleban, had a risqué refrain
about body parts that gave it the
n i c k n a m e t h e “ T& A s o n g ,”
which some troupes reworded
with semi-rhymes “This and
that.”)
Ms. Blair left “A Chorus Line”
in 1977 but remained part of the
show’s architecture. She and the
show’s choreographer and direc-
tor, Michael Bennett, added
some elements of her real life to
Val’s character, a Vermont-born
dancer who comes to New York
with dreams of becoming a Rock-
ette at Radio City Musical Hall.
(The plastic surgery part, howev-
er, was invented and had nothing
to do with Ms. Blair’s past.)
Like Ms. Blair — and unlike
many of the other characters in
the production — the character
BETTMANN/GETTY
Val also was not inspired to be-
come a dancer by “ T he Red
Shoes,” a 19 th-century Hans
Christian Andersen story adapt-
ed into a 1948 film.
“Whenever I don’t seem to be
getting anywhere in this busi-
ness,” Ms. Blair once said, “I try
to remember that I was once a
chambermaid in a small motel
in Vermont.”
In 1974, Ms. Blair was
among the performers invited to
workshops as Bennett explored
an idea for a musical about
dancers facing the grueling and
soul-baring competition for a
part in a show. Bennett asked in-
creasingly personal questions to
the group. The replies were
tape-recorded and used as raw
material for some of the charac-
ters as “A Chorus Line” devel-
oped.
The show opened off-Broad-
way in April 1975, and moved to
Broadway that summer. Many
reviews hailed “A Chorus Line”
as a groundbreaking work of
musical theater. Much attention
went to the candid and deeply
personal accounts shared by
some characters — including sto-
ries of childhood trauma and
coming out as gay — as they au-
ditioned and sized each other up.
(Ms. Blair’s character is among
the eight dancers ultimately cho-
sen for the chorus line.)
“What makes ‘A Chorus Line’
so devastatingly effective is its
honesty of subjec t matter,”
wrote New York Times theater
critic Clive Barnes in a 1975 re-
view, “so that even its faults can
work for it.”
Bennett said the early con-
c e p t s f o r “A C h o r u s L i n e ”
emerged from the Capitol Hill
hearings over the Watergate
break-in, which led to the resig-
nation of President Richard M.
Nixon in 1974.
“It’s my reaction to the false-
hood and apathy that seemed to
grip the country during that pe-
riod,” he told the Times in 1975.
“I was sick of it. I wanted to do
something on stage that would
show people being honest with
one another.”
Pamela Blair was born Dec.
5, 1949, in Bennington, Vt. Her
father worked at a company that
made plastic molds; her mother
was a library volunteer.
Ms. Blair moved to New York
at 16 to attend a private school,
the National Ballet Academy
New York, where she met Ben-
nett at a dance class. Their en-
counter led to her first major
Broadway dance role in his 1968
musical comedy, “Promises,
Promises,” with songs by Burt
Bacharach.
She remained with Bennett
for a dance role in his 1973 mu-
sical “Seesaw ” about a mis-
matched romance. In 1972, she
appeared in director Gower
Champion’s “Sugar,” a musical
adaptation of the 1959 film
“Some Like It Hot.”
Other Broadway perfor-
mances included a prominent
role as Lieutenant Commander
Joanne Galloway in the military
d r a m a “A F e w G o o d M e n ”
(1989), directed by her then
husband, Don Scardino. Her
film roles included a doctor in
“21 Grams,” a 2003 drama star-
ring Sean Penn and Benicio Del
Toro, and a doctor’s assistant in
the 1996 crime thriller “Before
and After” with Meryl Streep
and Liam Neeson.
“I was some movie star,” she
joked to Newsday in 1980 about
trying to parlay “A Chorus Line”
into Hollywood success. “I
couldn’t get six lines in a sit-
com.”
In 1996, she provided the
voices of a flight attendant and a
White House tour guide in the
animated “Beavis and Butt-head
Do America.”
She appeared on daytime
television dramas such as “An-
other World” and “All My Chil-
dren” and in TV series including
“L aw & Order,” “ T he Cosby
Show,” and “Sabrina, the Teen-
age Witch.” In 1983, Ms. Blair
had a supporting role alongside
Jodie Foster and Peter O’Toole
in the TV film “Svengali.”
Her marriage to Scardino
ended in divorce. Survivors in-
clude a sister. Most recently, Ms.
Blair ran a massage studio for
athletes in the Phoenix area.
In “A C h o r u s L i n e ,” M s .
Blair’s character has a memora-
ble bit about the place where
she was raised, the bucolic Ver-
mont hills about 10 miles north
of Bennington. The line, in a
sense, is a nod to everyone who
has come to New York to rein-
vent themselves and chase
dreams.
“As far as I’m concerned, I’m
Valerie Clarke; but my parents
seem to think I’m Margaret
Mary Hoolihan,” said Ms. Blair’s
character, Valerie. “Couldn’t you
just die? I was born in the mid-
dle of nowhere. I mean, it wasn’t
even a town, really. Near Arling-
ton, Vermont.”
Bruce to Aristophanes and Jona-
than Swift. Some people rolled
their eyes.
“The story Julian Barry has
extracted from Bruce’s life tends
to sanctify and, in the end, even
to solemnize Bruce rather than to
explore his obsessions,” another
Times theater critic, Mel Gussow,
wrote in a 1972 review, when
Sandy Baron replaced Gorman.
But Mr. Barry found a power-
ful fan in Bob Fosse. After direct-
ing the movie version of the
Broadway musical “Cabaret”
(1972), for which he won the
Academy Award for best direc-
tor, Fosse decided that he want-
ed “Lenny” to be his next film
project. He hired Mr. Barry to
write the script.
“In the play, I mythologized
Lenny Bruce,” Mr. Barry told
Rolling Stone in 1974. In con-
trast, he said, the movie offered
“a cold, objective approach.”
Mr. Barry was perhaps refer-
ring to the film’s depiction of
Bruce’s decline — ranting on-
stage about his arrests, shooting
heroin, speechifying pathetically
in court, and finally dying of a
morphine overdose naked on his
bathroom floor in Los Angeles.
Julian Barry Mendelsohn Jr.
was born Dec. 24, 1930, in the
Bronx, N.Y., and grew up in the
Riverdale neighborhood. His fa-
ther struggled as a salesperson
during the Depression but even-
tually rose to become an execu-
tive at the Hudson Pulp and Pa-
per Co. His mother, Grace (Fein)
Mendelsohn, donated time and
money to Jewish causes and the
theater.
He was briefly an undergrad-
uate at Syracuse University and
Emerson College in Massachu-
setts.
Mr. Barry’s four marriages
ended in divorce. In addition to
his daughter Julia, from his
third marriage, to film producer
Laura Ziskin, he leaves his long-
time partner, Samantha Harper
Macy; two daughters, Sally and
Jennifer Barry, from his second
marriage, to Patricia Foley; a
son, Michael, also from that
marriage; five grandchildren;
and one great-grandson.
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114TH NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION

Weekend brings free music,

entertainment to Seaport
By Elena Giardina
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Even if you’re not registered to at-
tend the 114th NAACP National Con-
vention in Boston this weekend, you
can enjoy some live entertainment and
social time with conventioneers and
locals at a few free events in the Sea-
port District.
The NAACP festivities officially kick
off at the Boston Convention and Exhi-
bition Center’s Hall A on Friday with
The Hub Block Party, featuring tunes
from DJ Jazzy Jeff and Dorchester-na-
tive DJ WhySham. Mayor Michelle Wu
welcomes the crowd at 5:30 p.m., and
the music starts at 6 p.m. The event,
which goes until 9 p.m., will also fea-
ture food, art installations, giveaways,
prizes, and other activities.
As a second party option Friday
night, not far from the convention cen-
ter, the city of Boston and the Artists
Initiative for Revolution (AIR Boston,
an organization that seeks social
change through the arts) host the free
Culture Nights Music Festival from 6
p.m. to 9 p.m at 88 Seaport Boulevard.
Headliner Stout, a singer and perform-
er from New Haven, shares the bill
with musicians KEI, Sheila Del
Bosque, Gogo, Saraphym, Dom the
Composer, and Tricia Reed. The Kreyol
Gourmet Food Truck will provide free
food to the first 200 attendees, and lo-
cal art vendors will be there, too.
Closing out the weekend, Sunday’s
23rd Annual GospelFest — billed as
New England’s largest gospel music
event — takes place at Leader Bank Pa-

Putting monumentality
The Hub will be open with no ad- vilion from 5-9 p.m. Hosted by Gram-
mission on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 6 my-nominated musician MAJOR, it
p.m., and on Sunday, from noon to 6 will include performances by gospel

underfoot on the Greenway

p.m. The NAACP describes it as “the
intersection of Black culture and social
impact,” a space that features live mu-
sic, art, technology, and sports enter-
tainment. Hub visitors can support
Black-owned businesses and brands as
well as attend talks and discussions.
Who will be
singers Fred Hammond and Kierra
“Kiki” Sheard as well as the Mayor’s
Gospel Choir. Doors open at 3 p.m.
There’s an interfaith prayer session be-
fore the show from 4-4:30 p.m.
For information about the conven- Maria Molteni’s ‘Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)’
tion, visit naacp.org
makes a tangy-toned debut
It’s gonna be a really, really big deal,”
promised Boston’s Director of Tourism,
By Cate McQuaid
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

here for the Sports & Entertainment John Borders

IV.
Forget monuments. They’re old and fusty and often
memorialize white, male heroes on horses, ignoring his-

convention?
By Kajsa Kedefors
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Organizers of the NAACP National
Convention, which kicks off here Fri-
day, say there will be more than a few
boldfaced names among the 10,000 or
so people expected to pass through the
Seaport this weekend.
In addition to Vice President
Kamala Harris (inset) and for-
mer first lady Hillary Clin-
ton, both of whom are
speaking at the convention,
there could be a who’s who of
heavy hitters in attendance,
and we’re not just talking about
Hall of Famers sluggers Jim Rice and
David Ortiz.
“Our city will be buzzing,” said Lori
Nelson, Boston’s Senior Advisor for Ra-
cial Justice in the Equity & Inclusion
Cabinet. “People will be able to experi-
ence what we are as a destination city.”
DJ Jazzy Jeff — one half of the
Grammy-winning duo DJ Jazzy Jeff &
the Fresh Prince — will open the week-
end with a Friday performance at the
Hub. (Sadly, Will Smith won’t be pres-
ent to reprise his Fresh Prince role.)
At Saturday night’s delegate recep-
tion, we’re told there will be surprise ce-
lebrity appearances, though no one will
confirm who. “It’ll be worth the time. …
Patriots owner Robert Kraft will sit
down Sunday with his hip-hop pal
Meek Mill and Harvard’s Henry Louis
Gates Jr. for a panel focused on anti-
semitism, race, and the relationship be-
tween the Jewish and Black communi-
ties. (Kraft, creator of the Foundation to
Combat Anti-Semitism, and Meek Mill,
who co-chairs the REFORM Alliance,
traveled together in April to March of
the Living in Poland to pay tribute
to Holocaust survivors and vic-
tims.)
Other familiar faces ex-
pected to make the scene in-
clude “A Different World” ac-
tress Jasmine Guy, who’ll be
at the Spingarn Freedom
Funds Awards Dinner. (It’s tick-
eted, so make sure you have one.)
Daytime Emmy-winning actor Rome
Flynn of “The Bold and the Beautiful”
will be at one or more convention
events, as will “Black-ish” actor Marcus
Scribner, Jabari Banks from “Bel-Air,”
Essence Atkins from “Under One Roof,”
and Gail Bean from “Snowfall.”
If celebrities aren’t your thing and
you’re just looking for a quality, post-
convention hang, head to Wally’s, a
cool, unpretentious jazz bar in the
South End with a killer jukebox, or
maybe Grace by Nia, a vibey new res-
taurant/lounge in the Seaport where
folks of all ages, colors, and fashion
senses get their groove on.
tories of people those heroes oppressed. The city of Bos-
ton last month announced “Un-monu-
GALLERIES ment | Re-monument | De-Monument:
Transforming Boston,” new program-
ming that will foster critical conversation about city
monuments.
Artist Maria Molteni and the Rose Kennedy Green-
way Conservancy are perhaps ahead of the curve. Molte-
ni’s new ground mural on the Greenway, “Gateway to
MEL TAING (ABOVE); CHRIS RUCINSKI (TOP)
Infinity,” has a subtitle: “(An Anti-monument).”
In 2010, Molteni founded the collective New Craft Maria Molteni and collaborators sit at the center
Artists in Action, which paints murals on basketball of “Gateway to Infinity.” Top: a view of the mural.
courts. The artist, who identifies as queer, flips hierar-
chies with these works, welcoming feet and play on top GATEWAY TO INFINITY (An Anti-monument)
of art. At Rose Kennedy Greenway, through fall 2024.
What, then, is an anti-monument? In this case, it’s a www.rosekennedygreenway.org/mariamolteni/
public artwork that invites viewers into community and
into their own inner lives. Rather than gazing upward at
the vaunted man on the horse, we are called here to be
with each other and gaze within. The mural is located tial planes. The artist weaves this one together with mo-
between Christopher Columbus Park and Faneuil Hall, tifs from sea, earth, and sky.
public spaces that commemorate men with fraught lega- Appropriately located near the Greenway Carousel
cies (Peter Faneuil was a slave owner). Molteni writes in and the Armenian Heritage Park labyrinth, “Gateway to
an artist’s statement that “Gateway to Infinity” is in- Infinity” invites viewers to walk its inter-looping paths.
tended to “alchemize petrified trauma.” Molteni and collaborators Vin Caponigro, Laura Cam-
It’s a beauty of a painting, a multilayered vortex in pagna, and Ash Capachione did, in a ritual performance
tangy tones with a magnetic pull. The graphic motion on the summer solstice. Leading in, out, and around,
and frolicking colors have a comic-book punch. Its sa- the spirals mimic the way thoughts meander or imagi-
cred geometry, at once dense and airy, reflects the gold- nations coil and open. It reflects how past seems to link
en ratio, also called the divine proportion, found in na- with present in the maze of memory, and how relation-
ture. ships and communities evolve. It’s a staging ground for
Molteni built the mural’s mesmerizing design on a the grandness of ordinary life.
triskelion, an ancient Irish symbol of three connecting
spirals. It’s thought to represent family, or forward Cate McQuaid can be reached at
movement, or possibly the spiritual, physical, and celes- catemcquaid@gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter @cmcq.

Meet the Taylor Swift of kids’ ear-piercing you survive,” he explains. “But then I
say, ‘I guarantee your safety, friend.’”
He also doesn’t invalidate the worry.

Harvard Square piercer Owen Beane is a legend among families for his kind demeanor He’s clear: Yes, piercing will hurt.
“It’s an unavoidable part of the expe-
and commitment to consent. Soon, he’ll open a new shop. rience. The sensation is comparable to
an injection; flu shots and COVID shots
are great references. But faster and less
By Kara Baskin ouch-y — and then way more exciting

I
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
n 1996, my friend Vicky and I
took the T to Harvard Square
from Acton and ventured into
Chameleon Tattoo at the Ga-
rage to get her belly-button
pierced, forged note from her dad in
hand. (Somehow, the bubbly cursive
didn’t give things away.) We were very
impressed with ourselves — until her
parents found out.
Fast-forward to 2023: Vicky has two
kids (and her belly-button piercing has
long since closed). But the guy who did
her piercing, Owen Beane, is now a leg-
end. Visit any town parents’ message
board, and you’ll see an array of ques-
tions: “Who can pierce my child’s ears?”
The answer is usually Owen Beane. He’s
basically the Taylor Swift of the piercing
world: capable of casting a spell over
his under-18 fans, and almost impossi-
ble to see, since he books months in ad-
vance.
Beane didn’t intend to become a
child-piercing specialist, but word of
mouth about his kind demeanor and
careful approach spread.
“Now, I’m usually piercing a child of
a person I saw in the ‘90s,” he says with
a laugh. (Ahem.) Around 2006 or 2007,
he began to realize that he’d developed
a family-oriented following; these days,
kids 6 and up comprise about 90 per-
cent of his clientele.
“It eventually changed my station in
life,” says Beane, who grew up in Man-
chester-by-the-Sea and originally in-
tended to become a recording engineer
before finding his passion for piercing.
Next year, he’ll move to a new loca-
tion at 2 Belmont St. in Watertown (still
under construction), called True Love
Body Piercing. Most piercings take a
half-hour, though they can last up to an
hour for hesitant piercers. Appoint-
ments open during the last week of ev-
ery month.
Beane’s practice isn’t just about
piercing, though: It really is about love.
He’s been practicing in Harvard Square
for 27 years, but over time, he devel-
oped a niche thanks to his mellow de-
meanor and immense respect for kids.
He also doesn’t use the piercing guns
that dominated most 1990s childhoods,
favoring needles, which he considers
cleaner and far gentler.
“A piercing needle is crazy sharp and
hollow. It does not injure or displace
tissue. It removes tissue and replaces it
with jewelry. The body is very happy
with this,” he says, whereas a piercing
gun “forces a blunt and solid object
through the ear. This damages and dis-
places the skin. The body is not happy
about that.”
For kids, it’s all a lesson in both com-
fort and consent, he says. For many, it’s
their first big decision relating to ap-
pearance, and their first brush with do-
Who wouldn’t think this was written by someone’s dad?
Piercer Owen Beane poses with his
wife, Kelly Beane.
ing something painful but ultimately
gratifying.
“My entire practice is based on
achieving informed consent from the
KARA BASKIN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
client. I make sure that every child un-
derstands that it’s only with their per-
mission that I’m allowed to pierce their
ears. This ends up creating lessons in
body autonomy, as well as helping kids
achieve the goal of having their ears
pierced,” he says. “The child controls
me. Without exception.”
Bean is especially sensitive because,
as he jokes, he’s a bit intimidating —
heavily tattooed and 6-foot-4. He devel-
oped his bedside (or ear-side) manner
to compensate. He prides himself on
understanding the psychology of kid
piercing: It’s a huge milestone, but also
hugely terrifying. This is his window of
opportunity to teach kids about how to
normalize fear.
“Kids will say, ‘I’m so scared.’ And I
explain: The reason why humans still
exist is because we’re scared of pain. We
avoid things that are physically painful.
That’s why tigers didn’t end up killing
us off. I teach them about cave-dwellers
and why being afraid of pain can help
when it’s done,” he says.
And then he reframes it: What are
you excited about? Why are you doing
it?
“The word that I’ve created to help
kids is ‘nervous-cited.’ Because every
kid who comes in is like, ‘I’m so excited!
That’s why I’m here. But now that I’m
here, I’m really nervous. I’m really
scared.’ It’s a mixed bag of emotions,
and I let them know they’re not trapped
in this experience,” he says. “It’s also
helpful if parents let their child know
on the way to the appointment that, if
they end up deciding that they’re too
nervous to go through with having their
ears pierced, that’s fine. Nobody will be
upset.”
Assuming all goes well, in addition
to picking out their jewelry, kids also
pick out a squishy toy to clutch before
Beane greets them. He asks permission
before doing even the simplest task,
from cleaning the ears to making dots
on the lobes. Sometimes he’ll demon-
strate everything on the hand before
moving to the ear.
“Kids are used to being a passenger,
but not in this experience. They’re the
pilot. I always start with: ‘Is this cool
with you? Is this OK with you?’ We real-
ly want the children to know that I’m so
proud of how brave they are. Deciding
to have your ears pierced is very brave,
in my opinion. I want them to know
that I believe in them, too,” he says. No
forged notes required.
Kara Baskin can be reached at
kara.baskin@globe.com.
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Faran Tahir
mesmerizes in
this summer’s
production on
Boston Common

By Don Aucoin

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GLOBE STAFF

ew plays force us to
fully look evil in the
face, and to consider
the inhumanity of
which humanity is ca-
pable, as insistently as “Macbeth.”
It’s like war in that way.
Indeed, as you watch the devas-
tation that one man’s will to power
visits upon innocents in Common-
wealth Shakespeare Company’s
gripping production of Shake-
speare’s blood-soaked tragedy, you
may find yourself thinking of Vladi-
mir Putin and the atrocities he has
unleashed in Ukraine.
Faran Tahir, who gave an unfor-
gettable performance in the title
role of “Richard III” in 2018’s Free
Shakespeare on the Common pro-
PHOTOS BY NILE SCOTT STUDIOS duction, delivers again. His portray-
Faran Tahir as Macbeth in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production staged on Boston Common. al of Macbeth is mesmerizing. Tahir
commands the stage as a brooding,

A ‘Macbeth’ steeped in
restlessly driven man of action who
no sooner wins renown for his ex-
ploits on the battlefield than he sets
his sights on the Scottish crown.
Macbeth is spurred to the

misery and madness

heights of ambition by the riddling
incantations and prophecies of the
three “weird sisters,“ the goading of
his ruthless wife, Lady Macbeth
(Joanne Kelly), and his own deep-
seated desire to rule.
Director Steven Whether conversing or embrac-
Maler and his ing, a passionate charge flows be-
tween Tahir’s Macbeth and Kelly’s
design team have lethal Lady. Kelly excels early in the
conjured a gothic play — when Lady Macbeth is a fig-
atmosphere that is ure of icy malevolence, demanding
that her husband murder Duncan
both haunted and
(Joe Penczak), the king of Scotland,
haunting, steeped and seize the throne for himself —
in shadows literal and she is equally compelling later,
and psychological: when remorse and madness com-
mingle as Lady Macbeth’s mind dis-
Freud meets Fritz integrates, culminating in the “Out,
Lang. damned spot!” scene.
Fat chance. The darkness just
keeps spreading in this harrowing
drama of ambition, guilt, and re-
venge, as one murder begets anoth-
er, and then another, and another.
Faran Tahir and Joanne Kelly
in “Macbeth.” ‘‘MACBETH,’’ Page G4

MOVIES MUSIC

The second By Odie Henderson

GLOBE STAFF

“Haunted Mansion” is Disney’s sec-

The sky’s the limit for Pink’s acrobatics
time’s the ond attempt to transfer the beloved
dark ride of its theme parks to the big
screen. In 2003’s “The Haunted Man-
By Nicole Kagan
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

At her concerts, Pink’s feet seldom

charm for
sion,” Eddie Murphy moved his family stay on the ground. She likes to be
into the house, encountering the un- airborne, pulling off mind-boggling
dead characters familiar to Disneyland acrobatic stunts or dangling from

Disney’s
and Walt Disney World visitors. aerial silks. And when she comes to
Twenty years later, this new iteration Fenway Park for back-to-back shows
drops the word “The” from the title, Sunday and Monday, expect to see

‘Haunted
bumps up the MPA rating (from PG to
PG-13) and adds 34 minutes to the run-
time. “Dear White People” director Jus-
tin Simien is at the helm, working from
her feats taken to another level, liter-
ally.
“This show is actual bananas psy-
chosis,” Pink said of her current sta-

Mansion’ a new script by “Parks and Recreation”

scribe Katie Dippold.
‘‘HAUNTED MANSION,’’ Page G4
dium tour, “Summer Carnival,” on In-
stagram.
In typical fashion, the show ANDREAS RENTZ/GETTY IMAGES/FILE

comes with fireworks, trapezes, mo-
torized flamingos, a grand piano, and
plenty of the singer’s signature mid-
air somersaulting. The spectacle
blows fans away.
“No picture or video could cap-
ture the energy that was radiating in
Pink went airborne during a show at Olympiastadion in Berlin last
month. She plays Fenway Park on Sunday and Monday.
that stadium,” said one fan on Twit- opened was like nothing I’ve ever ex-
ter. perienced . . . and I’ve been to HUN-
On Instagram it’s the same. “The DREDS of concerts,” someone com-
VIBE from the minute the gate PINK, Page G4

Inside
THEATER MUSIC
THE HUNTINGTON NAMES AN ECLECTIC MIX FOR
MICHAEL MASO’S SUCCESSOR ALL KINDS OF FOLKS
Christopher Mannelli to become There’s something for everyone at this weekend’s
JALEN MARLOWE
executive director in November Newport and Lowell folk festivals
From left: Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield, and Owen G3 G5
Wilson in Disney’s live-action “Haunted Mansion.”
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UPCOMING IN-PERSON AND ONLINE EVENTS, CHOSEN BY GLOBE CRITICS AND WRITERS
music
Pop & Rock
PINK: SUMMER CARNIVAL
2023 Y2K teenpop’s misfit grew
up to be one of pop’s reigning el-
ders, releasing songs that are dis-
armingly honest while remaining
endlessly hooky. Her ninth al-
bum, “Trustfall,” which came out
earlier this year, grapples with
grief and self-consciousness while
also providing a glimpse of how
well her raspy bellow would han-
dle more country-leaning cuts.
July 31 and Aug. 1, 6 p.m. Fen-
way Park. 877-733-7699, red-
sox.com/concerts
THE DRUMS Now led by found-
ing member Jonny Pierce, this
band crafts speedy, hooky twee-
pop with shooting-star guitar
lines and cutting lyrics. Their
sixth album, “Jonny,” which
homes in on Pierce’s childhood in
a New York religious community,
is out in October. July 31, 8 p.m.
The Sinclair, Cambridge. 617-
547-5200, sinclaircambridge.com
FALL OUT BOY: SO MUCH FOR
(TOUR)DUST The 2023 summer
tour I’ve been tracking most
closely is this Chicagoland four-
some’s jaunt, which has so far
boasted deep-cut-adorned setlists
that show off their versatility and
chops alongside arena-ruling
smashes like the punchily an-
themic “Sugar, We’re Goin’
Down” and 2023 gems like the
glittering “Hold Me Like a
Grudge.” Aug. 2, 5:45 p.m. Fen-
way Park. 877-733-7699, red-
sox.com/concerts
MAURA JOHNSTON
Folk, World, Country
LOWELL FOLK FESTIVAL A typi-
cally formidable roster of artists
is on offer at this year’s edition of
the all-free mid-summer festival.
On my must-see list: the country/
rockabilly sounds of former BR5-
49er Chuck Mead, some sacred
steel courtesy of Fran Grace, funk
pioneer Fred Thomas, western
swing trio Hot Club of Cowtown,
kora griot Sona Jobarteh, Spring-
field Exit’s bluegrass/acoustic
country mix, and the Haitian
roots music of Lakou Mizik. July
28, 6:15 p.m.; July 29-30, noon.
Free. Various stages, downtown
Lowell. 978-275-1764, www.low-
ellfolkfestival.org
KYLE ELDRIDGE This Kentucky
resident is an up-and-comer and
a throwback at the same time;
the music he plays is, he says,
country and western, and he
plays it on a custom, Joe Maphis-
style double-neck guitar. Sean
Mencher and Shaun Young, two-
thirds of famed rockabilly outfit
High Noon, will also perform. Ju-
ly 29, 5 p.m. $12. Askew, 150
Chestnut St., Providence. 401-
270-4040, www.askewprov.com
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN It isn’t
the easiest thing to see live west-
ern swing music these days, so if
you’re partial to that almost-
gone-but-not-forgotten form, ev-
ery opportunity is worth grab-
bing. Veteran trio Hot Club of
Cowtown is part of the Lowell
Folk Festival this weekend, but if
you miss them there or can’t get
enough of their western swing-
hot jazz mix, they’re also playing
this in-town date. Aug. 3, 8 p.m.
$25-$35. City Winery, 80 Beverly
St. 617-933-8047, www.citywin-
ery.com/boston
STUART MUNRO
Jazz & Blues
CAMBRIDGE JAZZ FOUNDA-
TION EIGHTH ANNUAL FESTI-
VAL Two days of music: Saturday
features guitarist Albino Mbie,
flutist-composer Yulia Musayely-
an, singer-songwriter Gabriela
Cotter, and percussionist Eguie
Castrillo’s Orchestra; Sunday in-
cludes pianist-composer Kris Da-
vis with trumpeter Marquis Hill,
Womxn featuring saxophonist
Patricia Perez, Sound of Soul with
saxophonist Bill Pierce and gui-
tarist Bobby Broom, and culmi-
nates with pianist Danilo Perez
and the Global Jazz Messengers.
July 29-30, noon-6 p.m.
Free-$750 (two-day gazebo rent-
al). Danehy Park, 99 Sherman
St., Cambridge. www.cambridge-
jazzfoundation.org
The Ticket
Andrea Dezsö: Unexpected Journey
What do you do when the world changes and throws you into isolation? During the early days of COVID, Dezsö, a
multimedia artist, turned to the materials she had at hand and started creating protectors and companions — cutting them
out of paper and carving blocks of wood to make prints and sculptures. This show also features layered, cut-paper tunnel
books and blown-glass sculptures. Pictured: “Summer Children.” Through Sept. 3. Pucker Gallery, 240 Newbury St.
617-267-9473, www.puckergallery.com CATE McQUAID
KNICKERBOCKER ALL-STARS
This acclaimed nine-piece, horn-
heavy blues band aggregates
some of New England’s finest
players and has performed and
recorded with the likes of Marcia
Ball, Duke Robillard, and Jimmie
Vaughan. July 29, 8 p.m. $20.
Knickerbocker Music Center, 35
Railroad Ave., Westerly, R.I.
www.knickmusic.com/events;
Aug. 4, 8 p.m. $20-$24. Bull Run
Restaurant, 215 Great Road,
Shirley. www.bullrunrestau-
rant.com
GREG ABATE QUARTET The
marvelous post-bop saxophonist
served stints in the orchestras of
Ray Charles and Artie Shaw and
plays with the soul and virtuosity
that those associations suggest.
Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m. $15. Spire Cen-
ter, 25½ Court St., Plymouth.
www.spirecenter.org
KEVIN LOWENTHAL
Classical
TANGLEWOOD It’s one of the
summer’s most eventful weeks at
Tanglewood. Conductors Gian-
carlo Guerrero, Anna Rakitina,
and Dima Slobodeniouk lead the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
from the Koussevitzky Music
Shed podium, with the weekend’s
programs including a perfor-
mance of Julia Wolfe’s powerful
“Her Story” and an appearance
by acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell
(July 28-30). In Ozawa Hall and
at the Linde Center, the Tangle-
wood Music Center hosts the Fes-
tival of Contemporary Music,
which prominently features the
music of co-curators Reena Es-
mail, Gabriela Lena Frank, Tebo-
go Monnakgotla, and Anna Thor-
valdsdottir (July 28-31). Still
want more? The reliably scintil-
lating Danish String Quartet vis-
its Ozawa Hall next Wednesday
(Aug. 2). Lenox. 800-266-1200,
www.tanglewood.org
LOUD WEEKEND Tanglewood
doesn’t have the only contempo-
rary music festival in the Berk-
shires this weekend! At Mass Mo-
CA in North Adams, Bang on a
Can LOUD Weekend packs Fri-
day and Saturday with perfor-
mances by the Bang on a Can
family and a slew of distin-
guished guests headlined by Kro-
nos Quartet. Among the other at-
tractions: a performance of Eve
Beglarian’s “A Murmur in the
Trees” for 24 double basses in a
grove of trees, a portrait concert
of Joan Tower, an electric guitar
ensemble headed up by Mission
of Burma’s Roger Clark Miller,
and so much more. July 28-29.
Mass MoCA, North Adams. 413-
662-2111, www.massmoca.org
T h e B o s t o n
BOSTON FESTIVAL ORCHES-
TRA The Boston Festival Orches-
tra closes out its summer perfor-
mance season with an intriguing
international program, featuring
music by the Dallas-based com-
poser Quinn Mason and the Pol-
ish composer Wojciech Kilar
alongside Igor Stravinsky’s
“Danses concertantes” and Man-
uel de Falla’s enchanting ballet
“El amor brujo.” July 30. NEC’s
Jordan Hall. www.bforches-
tra.org
A.Z. MADONNA
ARTS
Theater
BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY
This drama by Pearl Cleage re-
volves around the relationships
among Angel Allen (Tsilala
Brock), a singer in 1930s Harlem
who’s been fired from her job at
the Cotton Club and dumped by
her gangster boyfriend; her best
friend, Guy Jacobs (Brandon Al-
vión), a gay costume designer
who wants to move to Paris and
design clothes for the legendary
Josephine Baker; Leland Cun-
ningham (Deleon Dallas), a wid-
ower from Alabama who has his
eye on Angel; Delia Patterson
(Jasminn Johnson), a social
worker at a family planning clin-
ic; and Sam Thomas (Ryan
George), a physician at Harlem
Hospital. Directed by Candis C.
Jones. Through Aug. 5. Bar-
rington Stage Company. Boyd-
Quinson Stage, Pittsfield. 413-
236-8888; www.barrington-
stageco.org
JUST ANOTHER DAY Dan Lau-
ria, whom you may recall as the
gruff but lovable dad on ABC’s
“The Wonder Years,” wrote and
CHRIS PIZZELLO/AP/FILE
Patrick Stump and Fall Out
Boy play Fenway Park on
Aug. 2.
G l o b e
costars with Jodi Long in “Just
Another Day.” He plays an aging
comedy writer who meets a re-
nowned poet (Long) every day on
a park bench, where they banter,
share their mutual nostalgia for
old movies, and “search their
memories for how and why they
are connected, at least for that
day,” according to press materi-
als. Aug. 3-13. Great Barrington
Public Theater, Great Barrington.
Original direction by James
Glossman. 413-372-1980,
www.greatbarringtonpublicthe-
ater.org
LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE
A series of monologues, written
by Nora and Delia Ephron, in
which women reflect on the piv-
otal events of their lives through
the lens of the clothing and acces-
sories they were wearing at the
time. Directed by Paula Plum and
featuring Nettie Chickering, Bar-
bara Douglas, Lauren Elias, Eve-
lyn Holley, and June Kfoury.
Through Aug. 5. Hub Theatre
Company. At Club Café, 209 Co-
lumbus Ave. 203-530-2343,
hubtheatreboston.ticketleap.com
DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MER-
MAID Fresh off artistic director
Rachel Bertone’s terrific produc-
tion of “Oklahoma!,” the Reagle
Music Theatre of Greater Boston
heads under the sea for “Disney’s
The Little Mermaid.” Kayla Shi-
mizu, who played farm girl Lau-
rey in “Oklahoma!,” portrays Ari-
el, a mermaid whose yearning to
see what life is like on dry land
leads her to make a bad bargain
with the villainous sea witch, Ur-
sula (Katherine Pecevich). Direct-
ed and choreographed by Taavon
Gamble. July 28-Aug. 6. 781-891-
5600, www.reaglemusicthe-
atre.org/
DON AUCOIN
Dance
JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTI-
VALThis coming week, the Berk-
shire festival celebrates the 50th
anniversary of hip-hop with a
“festival within the festival”
called Hip Hop Across the Pillow.
In addition to free outdoor per-
formances during the festival, the
capper is a one-of-a-kind pro-
gram featuring two specially-
commissioned world premieres
and performances by Rennie
Harris Puremovement American
Street Dance Theater, Rokafel-
laandKwikstep, and d. Sabela
Grimes and the Ladies of Hip
Hop.Aug. 2. Choose what you
pay-$90. Becket.www.jacobspil-
low.org
THE RAINBOW SERPENT The
multidisciplinary Pittsburgh-
JOHN DAVENPORT
based collective presents an in-
progress showing of their new
“The Four World Ages.” The pro-
duction uses projections, innova-
tive light design, and augmented
reality components to comple-
ment the dancers’ depiction of
the four eras of human history
from the perspective of Nigerian-
Igbo tradition — the Age of Uni-
versal Oneness, the Age of Self-
Awareness, the Age of Light, and
our current Age of Suffering.July
29. $13-$33. The Yard at the Pa-
tricia Nanon Theater, Chil-
mark.www.dancetheyeard.org
BATES DANCE FESTIVAL Bessie
Award nominee Vanessa Ans-
paugh headlines the festival this
weekend with a new work enti-
tled “mourning after morning,”
which explores the communal ex-
perience of loss and grieving.
Featuring a multi-generational
cast, the work was inspired by a
collection of death and mourning
rituals, reflecting “the devastat-
ing, absurd, and sacred ways we
come to care for bodies and ritu-
alize endings.”July 28-29. $5-$25.
Lewiston, Maine.www.bates-
dancefestival.org/performances
REACH For 33 years, Boston Uni-
versity’s Summer Outreach/Teen
Apprenticeship Dance Program
has been providing summer
training and mentorship to teen
dancers. The upcoming annual
Outdoor Dance Performance
showcases their progress along-
side college interns and profes-
sional dancers. The eclectic pro-
gram features original choreogra-
phy in a range of styles, from
modern and jazz to hip-hop, step-
ping, and tap. Aug. 2. Free. Park-
ing lot at 766 Commonwealth
Ave. (or BU Dance Theater if in-
clement weather). www.bu.edu/
fitrec/dance/reach
KAREN CAMPBELL
Visual art
WOMEN AND ABSTRACTION:
1741-NOW Last chance for survey,
built almost entirely from the Ad-
dison’s formidable collection,
which examines the mostly-Mod-
ern convention of abstraction
with a broad lens, and suggests
the idea, while claimed by a cer-
tain cohort of mid-century Amer-
ican men, has a much longer,
less-masculine lifespan. Through
July 30. Addison Gallery of
American Art at Phillips Acade-
my. 180 Main St., Andover. 978-
749-4015, www.addisongal-
lery.org
TINY TREASURES: THE MAGIC
OF MINIATURES Technically, a
miniature is just a petite version
of its source object — a snow
F R I D A Y, J U L Y 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
globe of Big Ben, say, or Doctor
Evil’s Mini-me. But miniatures
traverse broad boundaries, from
curios and knick-knacks to rigor-
ous conceptual explorations of
material and scale. This show is
just as broad, from a diamond-
studded bicycle broach to a mini
painting by Pablo Picasso.
Through Feb. 18. Museum of Fine
Arts Boston, 465 Huntington
Ave. 617-267-9300,
www.mfa.org
ELLE PÉREZ: INTIMACIES Just
open, the photography of Bronx-
born, New York-based Pérez is
markedly intimate, whether for
its interaction between subjects
or the photographer themself.
Working primarily with the
Muay Thai, queer, and artist
communities that make up their
social sphere, their images have a
deceptive documentary air; in
fact, each of the pictures is the
product of a deep collaboration
between artist and subject, mak-
ing each one an emblem of mu-
tual trust. Closing TBD. Massa-
chusetts Museum of Contempo-
rary Art, 1040 Mass MoCA Way,
North Adams. 413-664-4481,
www.massmoca.org
MURRAY WHYTE
EVENTS
Comedy
COMEDY X MUSIC The latest
edition of host Deby Xiadani’s va-
riety series includes comedy from
Gary Petersen, Demetrius “Big
D” Hullum, Carolina Mon-
tesqueiu, and Zach Stewart, with
music from Cindy Crawford Cult
and a lip sync from Imani. July
27, 7:30 p.m. $15-$20. The Rock-
well, 255 Elm St., Somerville.
www.therockwell.org
TED ALEXANDRO Living with
his fiancée brought some big
changes to Alexandro’s life.
“When you’re in a couple, you eat
the fruits and vegetables that you
buy,” says the comic. “That was a
revelation for me. ‘Cause when
you’re single, if you buy a fruit or
a vegetable, it’s like a wish that
will very likely not come true.”
With Bryan O’Donnell. July 28,
7:30 p.m. $25. City Winery, 80
Beverly St. 617-933-8047,
www.citywinery.com/boston
JUNGLE COMEDY SHOWCASE
Petr Liu hosts this monthly after-
noon stand-up showcase in a mu-
sic venue. Performers for July in-
clude Giancarlo Biondino, Chris
Post, Emily Ruskowski, Andrew
Vickers, and Mo Mussa. July 29,
5 p.m. $10. The Jungle Commu-
nity Music Club, 6 Sanborn
Court, Somerville. 617-718-0204,
www.thejunglemusicclub.com
NICK A. ZAINO III
Family
STORYTELLING AND STEM Lis-
ten to animal tales with chil-
dren’s author Yumi Izuyama.
Families can watch her stories
come to life against the sounds of
nature before taking in an arts
and crafts presentation by Kend-
all Inglese. Participants can also
enjoy coloring, origami, and pa-
per weaving inspired by science
and technology. July 28 and Aug.
1, 10 a.m.-11 a.m. Free with ad-
mission to the park. Stone Zoo,
149 Pond St., Stoneham. macaro-
nikid.com
FAMILY FUN FAIR Join Quincy’s
Boston Chinatown Neighbor-
hood Center for a family-friendly
fair full of face painting, games,
balloon animals, and bouncy-
houses. Children can also enjoy a
lion dance, a petting zoo, and a
watermelon-eating contest. Wal-
ly the Green Monster, the Red
Sox mascot, will also make an ap-
pearance. The first 100 partici-
pants to arrive will be given free
goodie bags. July 29, 10 a.m.-
1 p.m. Free. Cavanagh Stadium,
1-99 Birch St., Quincy. bcnc.net
PUERTO RICAN FESTIVAL Cele-
brate Puerto Rican culture at this
annual festival at City Hall
Square. The whole family can en-
joy live music by local and inter-
national artists, Puerto Rican
food, arts and crafts, and rides.
July 29, noon to July 30, 10 p.m.
Free. 1 City Hall Square #500.
bostoncentral.com
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The Huntington names Michael Maso’s successor
By Don Aucoin
GLOBE STAFF
The phrase “tough act to fol-
low” might not adequately de-
scribe the challenge awaiting
Christopher Mannelli as he takes
over as executive director of the
Huntington.
Mannelli, whose appoint-
ment was announced Thursday
afternoon, will co-lead the the-
ater with artistic director Loret-
ta Greco. For the past seven
years, Mannelli has been the ex-
ecutive director and co-CEO at
the Geva Theatre Center in
Rochester, N.Y. Prior to that, he
was deputy director of the Chica-
go Shakespeare Theater and
managing director of Chicago’s
Victory Gardens.
The 50-year-old Mannelli is
stepping into the shoes of Mi-
chael Maso, a driving force in
Boston theater for more than
four decades.
In the last few years, Maso
led a massive capital campaign
to renovate the company’s main-
stage while also steering the
Huntington through a pandemic
that shook the theater industry
to its foundation, as well as man-
aged the abrupt resignation of
artistic director Peter DuBois in
2020 amid staff complaints.
Given that Greco has only
been artistic director for a year,
the face of leadership at an im-
portant regional theater is a
strikingly new one.
“I’m just so thrilled to partner
with Loretta, and to work with
this staff and this board,” Man-
nelli said in a telephone inter-
view. “It’s such an exciting orga-
nization, and I can’t wait to be
part of it. It’s clear that this
board of trustees is fully aligned
with the vision Loretta has.”
In a statement, Greco said
she is “thrilled" to “have such a
mindful partner in mapping out
The Huntington’s extraordinary
plans for the future." She lauded
Mannelli’s “deep commitment to
building an equitable organiza-
tional culture" and to “engaging
and strengthening our impact
through the work on our stages,
in classrooms, and throughout
our community.”
Winner of the 2013 Tony
Award for regional theater, the
Huntington has a staff of 120
and a budget of $20 million for
the 2023-24 season.
As executive director, Man-
nelli will mostly focus on the ad-
ministrative and financial side of
the theater’s operations while
Greco will primarily call the ar-
tistic shots. However, a Hunting-
ton spokesperson noted that
there is “a lot of overlap in these
areas.”
That was certainly the case
with Mannelli’s predecessor.
JOHN SCHLIA
Christopher Mannelli will
join the Huntington in
November.
Maso helped shape the Hunting-
ton’s reputation as a playwright-
driven company while working
with four artistic directors from
its 1982 founding as the Hun-
tington Theatre Company to his
retirement on June 30. Greco,
the first female artistic director
in the Huntington’s history, was
appointed last year.
Mannelli will join the Hun-
tington in early November. He
and Greco will both report to the
Huntington board and will occu-
py equal positions within the
company’s organizational chart.
(Mannelli’s duties will be identi-
cal to those of Maso, whose title
was managing director. In re-
cent years, theaters have favored
the title executive director for
the top administrative post.)
In a statement, Huntington
chairman Randy Peeler called
Mannelli “the right person at the
right time to lead The Hunting-
ton into its next chapter," citing
his strategic skills, love of the-
ater, “business and financial ex-
pertise," and “track record of
leading companies through
complex challenges and
growth."
Like many other theaters, the
Huntington is still struggling to
woo back audiences to pre-pan-
demic levels. “I think the thing
that brings audiences back is
creating great theater, great
works of art,” said Mannelli. “It’s
really critical right now, with so
many stories that are doom and
gloom out there, that organiza-
tions have an understanding of
what their resources are right
now, and a clear understanding
and vision of what the plan is
and how to get there.”
Among his priorities are to
reach out to communities of col-
or and young audiences, and to
showcase works by emerging
writers who are creating work
that speaks to those audiences.
“We need to look at it even
more closely, that this is the op-
portunity to find out how we can
engage more deeply and more
authentically with communities
we may not have done that with
before,” said Mannelli. “We have
to create the space that people
feel comfortable in.“ He added:
“There are stories that need to
be told, that haven’t been told
before.”
He said he wants to take
steps to diversify the Huntington
staff and “be a leader” when it
comes to antiracist initiatives,
“not only in the theater but in
the community.” Mannelli also
signaled that the Huntington
will explore more coproductions
with other theater companies,
akin to its scheduled collabora-
tion in November with Speak-
Easy Stage Company on the
Tony Award-winning musical
“The Band’s Visit.”
The Huntington’s footprint
extends beyond its mainstage,
located across from Symphony
Hall on Huntington Avenue.
Having built the Calderwood Pa-
vilion at the Boston Center for
the Arts two decades ago, the
Huntington uses one of the the-
aters inside the Calderwood as a
second stage for smaller produc-
tions while also operating the fa-
cility, providing performance
spaces for midsize and small the-
at e r c o m p a n i es , i n c lu d i n g
SpeakEasy.
Mannelli grew up on Long Is-
land and initially explored a ca-
reer as an opera singer and an
actor before moving to theater
management. Married with two
children, he plays guitar, man-
dolin, banjo, and trumpe t ,
among other instruments.
Don Aucoin can be reached at
donald.aucoin@globe.com.

STAGES

Go west, theater fans.

The Berkshires are beckoning.
By Terry Byrne
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
With two free Shakespeare
plays to enjoy — “Macbeth” on
Boston Common (through Aug.
6) and a bilingual “Hamlet” in
Chelsea (Aug. 4-19) — there’s
much to love on local stages. But
a trip west to the Berkshires also
offers both comic and dramatic
delights, indoors and out.
Shakespeare & Company in
Lenox covers both ends of the
spectrum in August with the
comedy “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream” (Aug. 1-Sept. 10) and
the drama “Golda’s Balcony”
(Aug. 5-20), while Julianne
Boyd, founder and retired artis-
tic director of Barrington Stage
Company, returns to the Pitts-
field theater to direct “Faith
Healer.”
In Lenox, award-winning ac-
tress Annette Miller returns to
the role she created in the 2002
world premiere of William Gib-
son’s story of Israel’s fourth
prime minister, Golda Meir. The
story unfolds as a series of mem-
ories as Meir sits on her balcony
reflecting on her life as a Russian
immigrant who witnessed po-
groms, an American school-
teacher, a mother, grandmother,
and Israel’s leader during the
1973 Yom Kippur War.
Miller and director Daniel
Gidron played a pivotal role in
shaping Gibson’s play, taking it
from a two-hour, multi-charac-
ter piece to a one-woman, 80-
minute drama for its premiere at
Shakespeare & Company, and
then a run at Central Square
Theatre before Tovah Feldshuh
took over the role for the Broad-
way run. While it’s been two de-
cades since that premiere, and
45 years since Meir’s death, a bi-
ography, “The Only Woman in
the Room: Golda Meir and Her
Path to Power,” was published in
2022 and Helen Mirren stars in
the film “Golda,” set for release
this fall.
“The words are the same,”
Miller says, “but I’ve grown and
so my approach is much deeper.
The story feels very prescient to-
day, considering the political sit-
uation in Israel right now. As we
rehearse, I don’t have to try to
put myself in her shoes, I feel
like we are in that same place,
where the future of the nation is
at stake.
“She’s reviewing her life, not
with guilt or regret, but with a
deeper understanding of what it
cost, and always a sense of hope
for the future,” she says.
But Miller says the appeal of
“Golda’s Balcony” is Meir her-
self.
“Golda was very pragmatic,
and one of her gifts was that
when speaking in public she
made every member of the audi-
ence feel like she was speaking
directly to them. I think if I am
honest, audiences will see that
KEVIN SPRAGUE
Annette Miller as Golda Meir
in “Golda’s Balcony” at
Shakespeare & Company.
there’s a real struggle.
“She was also deeply commit-
ted to the dream that the State of
Israel represented the redemp-
tion of the human race,” she
says. “When you are young and
determined, that doesn’t seem
unreasonable. But now at the
end of her life she does wonder
what happens when idealism be-
comes power. What happens
when we lose our moral center?”
Although Miller admits she
has a knot in her stomach con-
templating 80 minutes alone on
stage, she says, “I am so lucky to
step into her shoes. She fills me
with so much strength.”
Shakespeare & Company’s
outdoor New Spruce Theatre of-
fers a completely different kind
of journey as the lovers in Shake-
speare’s “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream” experience the magic of
an enchanted night.
“I think there’s an assump-
tion that everyone knows the
story and there are no surprises,”
says Allyn Burrows, Shakespeare
& Company artistic director,
who is directing the play. “But I
think the story follows a group of
individuals who have a rabid cu-
riosity about the meaning of
love.”
Burrows has set the produc-
tion “loosely” in the 1970s. “I
think that decade was all about
exploring new freedoms and in-
dividualism,” he says, “and the
music is all about love.”
Just up the road in Pittsfield,
Boyd returns to Barrington
Stage to direct “Faith Healer”
(Aug. 1-27, barrington-
stageco.org). Brian Friel’s haunt-
ing, three-person play that tells
the same story from three dis-
tinctly different perspectives.
“It feels particularly relevant
right now because it’s about vari-
ations of the truth,” says Boyd,
“and the ways we adjust the
truth for the audiences we are in
front of.”
The play provides Frank Har-
dy (Christopher Innvar) with an
opportunity to recount the story
of how he and his wife, Grace
(Gretchen Egolf ), and his man-
ager, Freddy (Mark H. Dold),
traveled around the Welsh and
Scottish countryside where
Frank performed as a faith heal-
er. Memories are tricky, though,
and Friel’s characters may be
distorting the “truth” to serve
their needs.
“It speaks to ar tists who
question themselves even when
they’ve achieved success,” says
Boyd. “Am I talented, or am I a
con artist masquerading as an
artist? But it also examines the
truths we all need to survive, to
go on after a failure.”
The play, says Boyd, “has a
level of mysticism that draws us
in to these storytellers. It’s really
a metaphor for all of us who suc-
ceed and fail and the stories we
need to tell to survive.”
A Joan of Arc rock opera
The Company Theatre in
Norwell is mounting the world
premiere of the musical “Born to
Do This: The Joan of Arc Rock
Opera” (July 28-Aug. 20). The
600-year-old story of the young
heroine of France resonates to-
day, say the creative team of Zoe
Bradford (book and lyrics), Me-
lissa Carubia (music and addi-
tional lyrics), and Michael Ham-
mond (collaborator).
In a program note, Bradford
says, “Joan became a hero for me
because she dared to be herself.
…There are saints among us —
ordinary people who accomplish
extraordinary things through
faith and action. There are he-
ro e s amo ng us wh o a re n ot
afraid to stand up or speak out.”
Liza Giangrande, a standout
in Greater Boston Stage Compa-
ny’s production of “Little Wom-
en,” takes on the title role, sup-
ported by a 32-member cast di-
rected by Bradford and with
music conducted by Robert Mc-
Donough. Tickets are $50-$58 at
www.companytheatre.com.
A new leader at SpeakEasy
David Beardsley has been
named SpeakEasy Stage Compa-
ny’s first executive director in
the theater’s 32-year history.
Beardsley, who most recently
served as chief of marketing and
audience engagement for the
Trustees of Reservations, will
manage the organization along-
side company founder and pro-
ducing artistic director Paul
Daigneault.
“I find SpeakEasy’s commit-
ments to equity, inclusion, and
belonging, and to working with
local talent, especially compel-
ling, and I am honored to be giv-
en a chance to contribute to such
urgent work,” Beardsley said in a
statement.
In addition, Constance Gist
Guindo, has been elected to
serve as co-chair of SpeakEasy’s
board of directors, along with in-
cumbent board chair Andrew
Fullem.
Terry Byrne can be reached at
trbyrne818@gmail.com.
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Spirited cast lifts
‘Haunted Mansion’
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I went into “Haunted Man-
sion” expecting a hot mess on
par with Murphy’s movie. In-
stead, I found an engaging and
sweet action comedy, one that’s
not only very funny but also
quite touching. Much of the
credit goes to the cast, specifical-
ly the lead per formance by
LaKeith Stanfield as Ben Mat-
thias. While comic actors like
Tiffany Haddish and Owen Wil-
son steal every scene they’re in,
Stanfield emerges as the film’s
wounded, emotional core; he’s
the aching heart beating under
all the supernatural shenani-
gans.
When we first meet Ben, the
former astrophysicist has a Meet
Cute with Alyssa (Charity Jor-
dan) at a party. She does ghost
tours in New Orleans, he’s work-
ing on a camera lens that, to put
i t s i m p l y, c a n p h o t o g r a p h
ghosts. When the film flashes
forward in time, Ben has be-
come a cynical shell of himself, a
widower who has taken over Al-
yssa’s tours after her accidental
death. He yells at the goofy tour-
ists who believe the tour will
reap ghostly benefits, disabusing
them of such notions.
In addition, Ben’s work on his
quantum lens has been discred-
ited by everyone except the one
random person who seeks his as-
As Ben, LaKeith
Stanfield emerges
as the aching heart
beating under all
the supernatural
shenanigans.
sistance. A priest named Father
Kent ( Wilson) mysteriously
shows up on Ben’s doorstep ask-
ing, “Do you want to be a hero?”
Before Kent can offer any expla-
nation, Ben answers “no.”
The reason for the priest’s
question is explained in the
film’s prologue: Gabbie (Rosario
Dawson) moves back to her na-
tive New Orleans with her son,
Travis (Chase Dillon). She buys
the titular domicile on the out-
skirts of town. Before they can
settle in, Travis notices paranor-
mal activity. Just as Gabbie is
blaming his overactive imagina-
tion, she gets an eyeful of the su-
pernatural herself. Dawson’s re-
action is the first of the film’s
many laughs.
Unfortunately for Gabbie,
once you set foot in the Gracey
estate, ghosts latch onto you and
will haunt you wherever you go.
Their goal is to get their victims
back to the mansion. Gabbie and
Travis are trapped there, as is Fa-
ther Kent when he arrives to
bless the house. He realizes this
movie needs Ghostbusters, not
The Exorcist, which leads him to
Ben.
No one tells Ben about the
clingy spirits when he arrives to
take pictures with his camera.
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YYY
HAUNTED MANSION
Directed by Justin Simien.
Written by Katie Dippold.
Starring LaKeith Stanfield,
Owen Wilson, Tiffany
Haddish, Rosario Dawson,
Danny DeVito, Chase Dillon,
Jamie Lee Curtis, Charity
Jordan. 122 minutes. At AMC
Boston Common, suburbs.
PG-13 (intense ghost effects)
Its batter y is dead, but that
doesn’t stop him from being very
condescending to Gabbie (who is
paying him $2,000 for his time).
He fakes pictures by making
camera noises with his mouth,
then lies and tells her the man-
sion contains zero ghosts.
Gabbie is quite amused when
Ben is haunted right back to her
house.
Now a true believer, Ben
proves his camera works as in-
tended. Ghosts are everywhere,
999 of them, to be exact, not
counting the film’s big bad vil-
lain, the Hatbox ghost (Jared Le-
to). Hatbox was once an evil rich
man named Crump, whose
name rhymes with, well, you-
know-who.
The next step is to find a me-
dium to communicate with the
dead. Enter Harriet (Haddish),
wearing an enormous head-
wrap, flowing robes, and outra-
geously pointy fingernails. One
of the better qualities of “Haunt-
ed Mansion” is how the film
presents what we perceive to be
fraudulent before very quickly
showing us that it is not. Harriet
is not only on the level, she’s
good at her job.
Throw in Danny DeVito as
Bruce Davis, a professor who
knows the history of the house,
and “Haunted Mansion” is off
and running. Fans of the ride
will marvel at Darren Gilford’s
se t design and the familiar
ghastly characters and artifacts
that Walt Disney himself helped
create (the original Haunted
Mansion ride was his last contri-
bution to Disneyland before he
died).
Even Madame Leota is here,
trapped in her gigantic crystal
ball and played by a very enter-
taining Jamie Lee Curtis. Leota’s
makeup and her fierce fashions
(by costume designer Jeffrey
Kurland) are so over-the-top that
they outshine any CGI ghost ef-
fect the film throws at us.
As expected, all of this is very
silly, to be sure, and not really
scary at all. Where “Haunted
Mansion” surprised me is in its
sensitive depiction of Ben’s grief.
It’s not a deep exploration —
more scenes with Alyssa would
have yielded that — but I admire
that we get to explore it at all.
Stanfield is allowed to break
your heart, and you won’t know
just how effective and moving
his performance is until the very
end.
Odie Henderson is the Boston
Globe's film critic.
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Faran Tahir as Macbeth in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production staged on Boston Common.
A ‘Macbeth’ steeped in
misery and madness
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Continued from Page G1
Children are not spared. Direc-
tor Steven Maler and his design
team have conjured a gothic at-
mosphere that is both haunted
and haunting, steeped in shad-
ows literal and psychological:
Freud meets Fritz Lang.
Are the witches (Jesse Hin-
son, John Blair, and Annika
Burley) real, telling Macbeth
that he’s destined to be king, or
are they emanations from his
subconscious? Is the ghost of
Banquo (a forceful Omar Robin-
son) real, or is that spectral fig-
ure a manifestation of Mac-
beth’s guilt at having Banquo
slain to secure his hold on the
throne?
When Banquo materializes
at a dinner Macbeth is hosting,
unseen by any of the guests or
by Lady Macbeth, Maler has Ta-
hir and Robinson stand on the
table, facing each other like
Pink set to take flight at Fenway shows
uPINK
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mented on one of Pink’s posts.
“Best Monday night of my
life,” said another.
When the whole operation
comes to Boston, supported by
opener Pat Benatar, here’s what
ticket-holders can expect:
For starters, Pink will be fly-
ing “farther and higher” than
she has before, she told Variety
ahead of the tour. The venues for
the star’s first tour since 2019
are largely open-air. This means
that there are no roofs to restrict
her as she flips above her audi-
ences.
“I’ve never asked more of this
body of mine,” Pink wrote on-
line. “And I have to admit —
there are a couple parts of this
show I’m not sure I should be
doing.”
The 43-year-old Grammy
winner had hip surgery and a
double disk replacement in her
neck during the pandemic. But
aerial stunts are a staple of her
shows, and she has no plans to
change that. “Why would I stay
on the ground if I don’t have to?”
she told People Magazine.
Even through injury — the
singer was hospitalized after an
aerial equipment malfunction
during a 2010 concert — she
continues her high-flying feats
so that no one leaves her shows
feeling let down.
A t a “ S u m m e r C a r n i va l ”
show in London last month, a
rigging problem forced Pink to
delay performing “Turbulence,”
a song she accompanies with
aerial dancing. After talking
with a crew member, she an-
nounced begrudgingly that he
wanted her to stay alive. “We’re
gonna try it one more time, and
if it doesn’ t work, we’ ll stay
alive,” she told the crowd. It
worked, and she survived after
all.
“It’s so much more than what
you expect out of your average
pop star,” said Jeremy Barham, a
Canadian fan who saw Pink per-
G l o b e
S TA G E R E V I E W
MACBETH
Play by William Shakespeare.
Directed by Steven Maler.
Presented by Commonwealth
Shakespeare Company. On
Boston Common. Through
Aug. 6. Free (chair rentals
available for $10 in advance).
Commshakes.org
combatants about to wage bat-
tle. It’s one of numerous adroit
touches by the director. In the
play’s most horrifying scene,
Maler eschews a graphic ap-
proach and leaves the worst to
our imaginations by staging it
as a kind of slow-motion ballet.
The play’s dramatic action
unfolds in a wartime setting, de-
signed by Riw Rakkulchon,
where a battered Jeep adjoins a
rusted steel girder and the walls
Pink brought her “Summer Carnival” tour to Berlin in June.
form in Paris last month for the
second time. He has tickets to
see the star again in October.
“It’s the realness of her,” said
Barham, speaking by phone.
“She refuses to lip sync. And you
can tell because when she’s do-
ing these acrobatics, she some-
times misses a note or purpose-
fully doesn’t sing because she’s
in the middle of spinning upside
down. That really impressed me
and gained my respect for her.”
For this tour, which began
with a European leg in June,
Pink descends to the stage on a
bungee trapeze after emerging
from the parted lips of a huge, il-
luminated mechanical mouth.
a r e p o c ke d b y b u l l e t h o l e s .
Characters are clothed in mili-
tary garb (the costume design is
by Nancy Leary), although Tahir
and Kelly wear nearly matching
white suits at the dinner where
Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost.
Outstanding contributions
— tolling bells, heavy martial
p e r c u s s i o n , r e v e r b e r at i n g
chords that sound as if the earth
is shaking itself to pieces — are
made by sound designer David
Remedios and assistant sound
designer Mackenzie Adamick,
who also composed original mu-
sic. The evocative lighting de-
sign by Maximo Grano De Oro
and Eric Southern is subtly ef-
fective in conveying transitions
of scene and mood.
Five years ago, in a Brookline
church, Nael Nacer gave a sear-
ing performance in the title role
of “Macbeth” in a production by
Actors’ Shakespeare Project, di-
rected by Dawn M. Simmons. In
ANDREAS RENTZ/GETTY IMAGES/FILE
Hanging upside down in her be-
jeweled pink bodysuit, she kicks
off the opening number, “Get the
Party Started.”
The “Summer Carnival” set-
list includes all of Pink’s greatest
hits from “Raise Your Glass,” to
“Just Give Me a Reason,” to “Try.”
There are also songs from the
artist’s latest album, the aptly
named “Trustfall,” released in
February.
During her shows, Pink en-
courages her fans to “feel all the
feelings.” Some take this to heart
in unique ways. One fan in Lon-
don threw a plastic bag of ashes
onto the stage during “Just Like
a Pill.”
F R I D A Y, J U L Y 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
NILE SCOTT STUDIOS
Commonwealth Shakespeare
Company’s outdoor staging,
Nacer brings his trademark in-
tensity to his portrayal of
Macduff, a Scottish nobleman
and Macbeth antagonist. After
Macduff suffers an incalculable
loss, Nacer builds the noble-
man’s grief, anguish, and fury to
an emotional temperature that
virtually singes the audience.
I ’d l i k e t o s e e Ma r i a n n a
Bassham play Lady Macbeth
someday, but till then her solid
performance as the resolute
Malcolm will have to do, al-
though only in one scene does
Bassham really get to showcase
her abilities. John Kuntz deliv-
er s an am usi ng turn as t he
drunken and loquacious gate-
keeper to the Macbeths’ castle, a
bit of comic relief in a play that
is not exactly overflowing with
levity.
And the couple inside that
castle? The power they seek and
attain ultimately brings them no
joy. For everyone else, it brings
suffering.
Don Aucoin can be reached at
donald.aucoin@globe.com.
Follow him @GlobeAucoin.
PINK
With Pat Benatar, Grouplove,
and KidCutUp. At Fenway
Park. July 31-Aug. 1.
www.mlb.com/redsox/
tickets/concerts/pink
“ This is your mom?” Pink
asked. The fan confirmed. “I
don’t know how I feel about
this,” the singer responded be-
fore carefully placing the bag
down at the foot of the stage.
Someone else handed Pink a
wheel of brie cheese in London,
which she graciously accepted,
mouthing “I love you” to the fan.
These offerings caused the sing-
er to become an instant meme,
with people taking “Summer
Carnival” concert stills and Pho-
toshopping all sorts of random
items into Pink’s hands.
Gifts and derring-do aside,
the show also features multiple
glittery costume changes for
both Pink and her back-up danc-
ers, a flame cannon, a duet be-
tween the singer and her 12-
year-old daughter, Willow, and
footage from the 2021 Capitol ri-
o t s a n d t h e 2 0 1 7 Wo m e n’s
March (shown as Pink sings
“Girls just wanna have rights/ So
why do we have to fight?”).
There’s even an acoustic section
where Pink puts all the props
and harnesses to the side to
share a raw moment with the au-
dience.
Online, Pink called “Summer
Carnival” a “fantasy feat of a life-
time.” For the grand finale, when
she’s strapped into a harness off-
stage (“like a NASCAR in a pit
stop,” she said) and launched in-
to the air to sing “So What,” as
fireworks and confetti cannons
go off around her, it’s easy to un-
derstand why.
Nicole Kagan can be reached at
nicole.kagan@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@nicolekagan_.
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At the Newport Folk Fest, Earls of Leicester Frank on mandolin and high tenor.
(Ahead of the folk festival, the band has
a date at the Cabot in Beverly on Friday.)

conjure a Flatt and Scruggs reincarnation
By Stuart Munro
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Through his work as a solo artist,
session musician, collaborator, and
member of a host of bluegrass groups
over the past 50 years, Jerry Douglas
has established himself as arguably the
premier Dobro player on the planet. His
career has included numerous stops at
the Newport Folk Festival, playing with
Alison Krauss, Paul Simon, and others.
But his appearance this weekend will be
a little different; Sunday afternoon, he’ll
be performing with the Earls of Leices-
ter, a group that has a direct connection
to the festival’s very beginnings.
As their sly chuckle of a name per-
fectly intimates, the Earls of Leicester
exist to celebrate the music of bluegrass
pioneers Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
and their band, the Foggy Mountain
Boys. As such, they are typically labeled
a tribute act. But Douglas, who founded
the group, thinks that label isn’t suffi-
cient to describe what they’re doing.
“You can call us a tribute band if you
want to, but it’s more than that to us,”
he says during a recent Zoom conversa-
tion. “We don’t feel like we’re doing a
tribute show. We’re doing our show and
we are them.”
Douglas has been mesmerized by the
music of Flatt and Scruggs since he first
heard them as a boy. “That’s maybe the
first music I ever heard,” he says, and it
had a profound effect on him. If it
wasn’t for that group, and in particular
its longtime Dobro player Josh Graves,
Douglas doesn’t think he would even be
a musician.
The banjo-playing Scruggs, he says,
“was so far ahead that no one’s ever
caught him, still. Earl was creating
something. He wasn’t reimagining
something, he was imagining it.” His
partner, Lester Flatt, “was the Bing
Crosby of his genre.”
“This is the birth of it,” he maintains.
“This is the main building-block of blue-
grass music. That’s what I wanted to re-
install, and re-inject them back into the
mainstream.”
Douglas always wanted to play with
Lester and Earl, and while he played
with each individually, he never had the
chance to do so with both together. He’s
getting as close as he can to that via the
Earls of Leicester. “The Earls was some-
thing I’d wanted to do forever, and then
suddenly I found myself in a situation
where I could use my name out in front
of it to get it through the door.”
He put together a crack outfit that
has a direct lineal connection to its pre-
decessor in Johnny Warren, the Earls’
fiddle player, who is the son of longtime
Foggy Mountain Boys fiddler Paul War-
ren (and uses his dad’s fiddle in the
band). Banjo player Charlie Cushman is
a thoroughgoing Earl Scruggs devotee,
and lead singer Shawn Camp “can go so
far into Lester — he sounds like him, he
introduces songs like him.” The New-
port iteration will also feature Daniel
Kimbro on the upright bass and Ashby
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AT NEWPORT FOLK, ALL KINDS OF FOLKS
“All music is folk music; I ain’t never heard a horse sing a
song,” a dictum variously attributed to Louis Armstrong
and Big Bill Broonzy, has been an animating principle of the
Newport Folk Festival for quite some time, and it’s on full
display again this year.
Start with some of this weekend’s big-shot acts. The
Hold Steady and Lana Del Rey both visit the festival for
the first time: Craig Finn and company will deliver their sto-
ry-centric anthemic rock (presumably including a sampling
of their latest, “The Price of Progress”) on Saturday; Del
Rey brings her damaged torch songs to the main stage
Sunday. Add to that list the
mellow melancholy of Aimee
Mann, power-pop goodness
from New Zealand’s the Beths,
and the time-warp rock ‘n’ roll
of the Heavy Heavy. Those
whose tastes run to soul music
should find satisfaction in the
sweet and classic sounds of
Thee Sacred Souls and the
global psychedelic funk of Or-
chestra Gold.
Of course, there’s plenty of
roots music of various flavors
on offer. Jaime Wyatt will play
her outlaw-leaning country on
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Saturday afternoon; earlier
Lana Del Ray that day, folkie populist Willi
Carlisle takes the stage. The
revivified Nickel Creek comes to the festival on Friday; Sat-
urday, John Oates takes off his Hall & Oates hat and gets
his folk on with a different partner in Guthrie Trapp. Sun-
day, the trad gospel-quartet revivalists the Harlem Gospel
Travelers appear. One of Sunday’s other main attractions
(at least to these ears) is Los Lobos, just another band
from East LA that has been making marvelous music for 50
years (including a stop at Newport 35 years ago); they’ll be
celebrating with unspecified “friends.” Caamp play some
of their banjo-forward indie folk on opening day, and mem-
ber Taylor Meier makes another appearance with his off-
shoot outfit, Sumbuck, on Sunday. Gregory Alan Isakov
will also play Sunday, and the festival will be closed by cur-
rent bluegrass it-boy Billy Strings.
This year’s event finds plenty of room for folks from be-
yond American borders as well, with Mdou Moctar, Jupi-
JAMIE KELTER DAVIS
Mdou Moctar (left) and his band. Below: Billy Strings
NEWPORT
FOLK FESTVAL
At Fort Adams
State Park,
Newport, R.I.,
July 28-30.
Sold out. Full
schedule at
newportfolk.org
NATHAN KLIMA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
ter & Okwess, and Cote d’Ivoire ex-pat Peter One perform-
ing. The local music community is represented via New-
port’s own Laden Valley, the Choir School of Newport
County, and MorganEve Swain, whose project the Hunt-
ress and Holder of Hands combines strains of ominous art
music and ancient murder ballads to marvelous effect.
Troubadour Dan Blakeslee has for years been making the
short trip from the Boston area to busk at the festival
(which earned him the title “Official Busker”); he’s been in-
vited to perform on the main stage this year.
Perennial festival performers Jason Isbell and the 400
Unit, Angel Olsen, and My Morning Jacket will once again
all be on hand. And there are plenty of chances to discover
something new; Mon Rovîa, Jobi Riccio, Mereba, and Se-
nora May are just a few of the possibilities on that front.
In other words, as always, something for just about ev-
ery taste. No horses, though.
STUART MUNRO
The band draws on material record-
ed from 1954 to 1965 — to Douglas’s
mind, the period of the classic Flatt and
Scruggs lineup and sound. The guiding
principle is to play that material exactly
the way Flatt and Scruggs played it.
“Our first record, we analyzed every
song we were going to play and played
the backups in
From left: Johnny the same place
Warren, Jeff White, and played the
Jerry Douglas, and solos with the
Shawn Camp of same choreog-
Earls of Leicester raphy that was
at a celebration of involved as
Earl Scruggs in close as we
Nashville in May. could.” That in-
tention ex-
tends beyond existing Flatt and Scruggs
recordings, too.
“Johnny and Charlie even remember
songs that weren’t recorded,” notes
Douglas. “They’ll pull out something,
and I’ll go, ‘When did they record that?’
‘Well, they never did. But we can play
this. I remember how it goes.’ So it’s an
experiment in a way for us and it’s a real
trial to see if we can actually channel
them and play it the way they would
have played it. I like to think of us as
Flatt and Scruggs the next day.”
To date, the Earls of Leicester have
made three albums, two studio record-
ings and one live, and Douglas himself
raises the obvious question. “If we want
to keep the Earls active, what do we
have to do? We can’t keep doing just
Flatt and Scruggs. We have enough
writers in this band that we can write
new songs and do them in their way,” he
says. “There are some other things go-
ing around too, about possibly having
some guests, especially women, which
they did not do, unless it was Mother
Maybelle Carter.”
Wherever the Earls end up heading,
for them, coming to Fort Adams State
Park Sunday is something special. It
points back to the very beginnings of
the Newport Folk Festival: Flatt and
Scruggs played it in 1959, the festival’s
second year, and again in 1966. “To play
there as the reincarnation of Lester
Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy
Mountain Boys is just about as high on
the ladder as we ever want to climb,” is
how Douglas describes it. “I was talking
about [doing] it right after we formed
the band. I had some landmarks that I
wanted to fulfill, and this was at the top
of the list.”
He plans to take the stage with a set
list suitable to the occasion — one that
tries to hit every memory the audience
might have of Flatt and Scruggs, includ-
ing that piece of popular culture, “The
Ballad of Jed Clampett,” which the Earls
have previously shied away from play-
ing.
Douglas has some ideas about how
they’ll get to the stage, too. “I would like
for us to come into shore on a boat,
playing, and play all the way to the
stage. If I can get that happening, I will.
It probably won’t happen, but I’m gon-
na work on it.”
Stuart Munro can be reached at
sj.munro@verizon.net.

10 must-see artists and events at the Lowell Folk Festival

By Lauren Daley
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Here’s your chance to hear music
from Afghanistan, Nashville, Haiti;
taste food from Brazil, Liberia, Burma;
get up-close and personal with tradi-
tional crafts, from Uyghur calligraphy
to Celtic knotwork.
This weekend’s free Lowell Folk Fes-
tival in the city’s downtown is a cultural
smorgasbord of folk music, craft tradi-
tion, and an array of fare from around
the world.
The 36th fest kicks off Friday at 6:15
p.m. with a parade of flags at Boarding
House Park, led by Haitian band Lakou
Mizik, and it ends Sunday afternoon
with the same band. The middle of the
folk sandwich? Music on four stages,
demonstrations, family fun, dancing,
and plenty of food.
Here are 10 artists — both musical
and otherwise — you shouldn’t miss
during this three-day feast for the sens-
es. Before you go: Check the website to
download festival schedules in English,
Spanish, or Portuguese.
MUSIC
Fred Thomas
Legend alert: The principal bass
player with James Brown’s band the
J.B’s for some 36 years, Thomas laid the
foundation for Brown’s “Papa Don’t
Take No Mess,” “Hot Pants,” “Make It
Funky,” “Get on the Good Foot,” “Stoned
to the Bone” … we’ll stop there. After
Brown’s death, he eventually fronted his
own band, and, clearly trained in the
School of Brown, still brings the funk.
Fran Grace
Fran “Lady Strings” Grace is billed
on the fest website as a female trailblaz-
er of sacred steel guitar in African
American Holiness-Pentecostal worship
services.
If you’ve never heard of sacred steel,
From left: Stelvyn and Leonardo Mirabal, and Melody Angel.
a gospel sub-genre that originated in
the 1930s, that’s part of the beauty of
this festival (and well-worth a web rab-
bit-hole dive). Grace’s brother, Del
Grace Sr., told Style Weekly that sacred
steel is “taught through the oral tradi-
tion. You cannot go to Juilliard and say,
‘teach me sacred steel.’” The real magic
comes when Grace’s strings take the
shape of lead vocals. As one of her signs
reads, “Music speaks for me.”
Melody Angel
Melody Angel counts Prince, Jimi
Hendrix, Carlos Santana, and Sister Ro-
setta Tharpe among her influences, and
you can sense the strong handprint of
her heroes in her guitar playing at vari-
ous points, from emotional blues to
high-octane live performances. Angel is
part Chicago blues, part rock, part R&B,
part funk. She can channel a guitar he-
ro, then turn around and deliver some-
thing like “In This America,” which feels
almost Tracy Chapman-like. Her power-
ful vocals seem lifted from a gospel
choir of another time. Check out her
STELVYN MIRABAL (LEFT); JASON ROSEWARNE
cover of “House of the Rising Sun,”
which builds to a head-rolling, hand-
raising spiritual.
The Red Trouser Show
Part Cirque du Soleil, part “America’s
Got Talent,” and totally made for TikTok
and Instagram reels, keep your phone
handy for this acrobatic duo. One might
do a headstand on top of the other’s
head, while simultaneously doing a split
and juggling upside down. Or juggling
fire.
The Hot Club Of Cowtown
Bring your dancing boots, partner.
The trio — which has toured with Bob
Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Clarence “Ga-
temouth” Brown — can bring down the
barn with an old-fashioned stompin’
and swingin’ good time. Inducted into
the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame
in 2004, the band isn’t actually from
there. The Hot Club started when fid-
dler/vocalist Elana James, a Kansan,
placed an ad in the Village Voice in
1994, and guitarist/vocalist Whit
LOWELL FOLK FESTIVAL
Downtown Lowell, July 28-30. Free.
lowellfolkfestival.org
Smith, who grew up in Wellfleet, an-
swered. Upright bassist Zack Sapunor is
now the third member.
Cheres
Billed as “protectors of the rich
Ukrainian cultural heritage,” the band’s
music is “a joyful affirmation of Ukrai-
nian identity,” according to festival bill-
ing. Bandleader Andriy Milavsky’s
grandfather, Mykhailo Sypko, was a tal-
ented clarinetist in Ukraine; by age 5,
Milavsky was in Sypko’s band. After
earning his master’s degree from the
Kyiv State Conservatory of Music in
1986, he performed with Ukraine’s clas-
sical orchestras. Cheres taps into music
of the Carpathian Mountains which, ac-
cording to the festival, “developed in di-
alog with the music of neighboring
Eastern European communities in Ro-
mania, Hungary, Moldova, and Slova-
kia, as well as regional Jewish and Ro-
mani sounds.”
CRAFTS
Stelvyn & Leonardo Mirabal:
Dominican Carnaval Traditions
Stelvyn Mirabal founded the Asocia-
ción Carnavalesca de Massachusetts in
Lawrence to bring “the colorful tradi-
tion of Dominican culture, through car-
nival and its many characters” to New
England, according to the group’s Face-
book page. And if you’ve seen them
leading parades, you’d remember: The
elaborate and colorful handmade pieces
are stunning works of art. A native of
Santiago Los Caballeros in the Domini-
can Republic, Mirabal learned the Car-
naval traditions from his uncle. He’s
now teaching his son, Leonardo.
Zhonghe (Elena) Li and Jayson Wang:
Chinese paper-cutting
The traditional Chinese art of paper-
cutting dates back centuries, often done
by women, using red paper and scis-
sors. You can try your hand at the craft
in Lowell, according to the festival web-
site. Born in Xi’an, Li spent her early
childhood in a rural region known for
its paper-cutting tradition, according to
the festival. She’s mentored teenager
Jayson Wang for several years, helping
Wang “observe the movements of birds,
insects, and mammals” to animate his
own paper-cuts, and teaching him how
the art incorporates Daoist philosophy.
Elizabeth James-Perry and Erin Genia:
Wampanoag and Dakota Adornment
James-Perry, honored this year with
a National Heritage Fellowship by the
National Endowment for the Arts,
makes wampum jewelry, textiles, and
maritime art directly tied to her Aquin-
nah Wampanoag tribal heritage. An en-
rolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpe-
ton Dakota, Genia’s apprenticeship “fo-
c u s e d o n c r e a t i n g No r t h e a s t e r n
wampum by hand from the Atlantic
Quahog shell” and in “spinning cordage
from local indigenous plants,” accord-
ing to festival billing. You can watch as
they shape and detail jewelry; use or-
ganic plant dyes, like madder root and
Osage orange, to dye cordage; and ask
about respective traditions.
Bob and Christina Fuller:
Hand-Built Wooden Steering Wheels
Four generations of Fullers have
built wooden steering wheels for ships.
At South Shore Boatworks in Carver,
Bob Fuller — who apprenticed under
his father and grandfather — is now
mentoring his daughter Christina in the
maritime craft.
Lauren Daley can be reached at
ldaley33@gmail.com.
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HOROSCOPE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, July
28, 2023:
You are independent, competitive
and adventurous! You want to
prove that you've got what it
takes. This is a year of service for
you, which means you will make a
difference in the lives of others.
This also means it’s important to
take care of yourself. Is it time for
a makeover?
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
This is a challenging day. The
Moon is at odds with your ruler
Mars, which means you have a
short fuse today. People will seem
to be irritating. (Probably because
they are.) Think of it as an oppor-
tunity for you to practice patience,
which is a great virtue. Tonight:
Cancellations?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Parents need to be patient with
their kids today, because everyone
is a bit short-tempered. Likewise,
romantic partners might experi-
ence a bit of strife. Arguments
about how to handle a social occa-
sion or something to do with
sports might also arise. Stay chill.
Tonight: Check your finances.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
I hope you read this in the morn-
ing so you can be prepared for ar-
guments with family, partners or
spouses that might occur today.
This means you need to know that
patience will be your best friend
to help you through this day. Cut
everyone some slack. Just do it.
Tonight: Someone surprises you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Be careful today, because fiery
Mars is in your House of Commu-
nications, and it’s at odds with the
Moon, which means you might be
short-tempered with others and
not even realize it. Keep your cool.
Tomorrow is a lovely day. Patience
is the key. Tonight: Guard your
pets.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
You are powerful now because the
Sun is in your sign. This energizes
you! It also means you are putting
a lot of yourself into whatever you
say. Be aware of this if you have fi-
nancial disputes with someone to-
day or an argument about a pos-
session. Take the high road. (It’s
classy.) Tonight: Protect your kids.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Your patience will be tested today,
because fiery Mars is in your sign,
and it’s at odds with the Moon.
1 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass
The Moon represents one’s emo- argue. Will this improve your day? Opening lead — ™ 6
tions and feelings, and Mars is Probably not. Tonight: Stay frosty.
ego and energy. You might feel CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I saw Cy the Cynic in the club lounge, sitting at a far-
competitive. You might feel that The definition of negativity is corner table. He looked glum.
you have to win an argument. Ask wanting things to be different “Minnie’s glasses got him again,” Rose told me. “Don’t let
yourself if this is worth crossing from the way they are. Today it’s Cy fool you. Minnie is 82, and deep down, he admires her.”
swords with someone. Tonight: easy to feel negative about some- Minnie Bottoms, our senior member, wears old bifo-
Stay chill. thing. You’re disgruntled. The key cals that make her mix up kings and jacks, often to her
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) is not to make things worse. Look opponents’ dismay. Cy has been Minnie’s chief victim. He
You like harmony around you. for a solution that makes you hap- declared today’s 3NT in a duplicate, and West led a low
You don’t like to rock the boat. pier. Tonight: Upheaval. heart.
Therefore, be diplomatic and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Minnie was East,” Rose said, “and played the jack! Cy
choose your words carefully today Disputes and disagreements with took his king and led the 10 of diamonds — and Minnie
to avoid antagonistic exchanges friends or members of groups said it was her lead.”
and potential dissension, because might arise today. Try to avoid “She thought her jack had been the king,” I smiled.
some people are looking for a these, because you value your “Cy let the 10 ride,” Rose said. “Minnie won and led
fight. Oy! Easy does it. Tonight: friendships. In fact, Aquarius is the ace and another heart, and down the Cynic went. He
Avoid accidents. the sign of friendship and net- should have led the jack of diamonds; it might have won
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) working -- all things you excel at. the trick!”
Financial squabbles and disputes Do your magic! Tonight: A sur- Minnie’s play was correct; Cy needed the king of hearts
about possessions might arise to- prise. to have 16 points his 1NT promised. If Minnie takes the
day. It’s OK to defend your best in- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ace of hearts and returns the jack, Cy holds up his king
terests; however, make sure that This will be a challenging day. Re- effectively.
something is worth fighting over. lations with bosses, parents,
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TV CRITIC’S CORNER LOVE LETTERS

BY MATTHEW GILBERT BY MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon in “Game of Thrones.”
Post-‘GoT’ retirement ends for Jack Gleeson
“Game of Thrones” made
stars of many of its cast mem-
bers, including Emilia Clarke,
Kit Harington, Sophie Turner,
and Maisie Williams. The show
seemed to be an actor’s dream,
with vividly written characters
and a massive and devoted inter-
national audience.
So it was unusual and sur-
prising when Jack Gleeson, who
played the bratty and murderous
Joffrey Baratheon, announced
that he planned to retire from
acting after his character was
killed off in 2014. Then 21,
Gleeson explained his decision
to Entertainment Weekly: “I’ve
been acting since age 8. I just
stopped enjoying it as much as I
used to. And now there’s the
prospect of doing it for a living,
whereas up until now it was al-
ways something I did for recre-
ation with my friends, or in the
summer for some fun. I enjoyed
it. When you make a living from
something, it changes your rela-
tionship with it. It’s not like I
hate it, it’s just not what I want
to do.”
But just when he thought he
was out, they pulled him back in.
He did a little theater after
MACALL B. POLAY
“Game of Thrones,” and in 2020,
he appeared in a pair of episodes
of a British series called “Out of
Her Mind.” Now comes news
that the 31-year-old has taken a
role in an upcoming BBC adap-
tation of “The Famous Five,” the
children’s adventure novels by
Enid Boynton. The adaptation is
from writer-director Nicolas
Winding Refn of “Drive.”
Welcome back, Jack. Gleeson
is also appearing in the upcom-
ing movie “In the Land of Saints
and Sinners,” along with Liam
Neeson, Ciaran Hinds, Kerry
Condon, and Colm Meaney.
Should I worry
about our sex life?
Q. My fiancé and I have known each other since
we were teenagers but began officially dating
about five years ago. We are now approaching
30, living together, and planning our wedding.
We have a great, busy life. We recently moved to
a bigger house, travel often, and have similar
views on family, kids, and what we want our fu-
ture to look like. The problem is our sex life.
When we first began dating, we’d visit each oth-
er every weekend at our apartments. Our sex
lives were active, to say the least. We’d even can-
cel dinner reservations just to stay home.
Then, when we moved in together a few
years ago, we found our routine and it became
less frequent. Obviously, long days at the office
are less sexy than weekend visits. This was un-
derstandable, but still frequent. But now we
don’t have sex. Like... maybe once every couple
of months? I’ve tried to bring this up repeatedly
and my fiancé recently told me that he feels like
we’re in a roommate phase. We do have a lot to
do for our new house on a regular basis (build-
ing furniture, trips to Home Depot, etc.) and it
has been taking up our time, but won’t this al-
ways be the case? If it’s not a new house, won’t it
be kids? Or both? We will always have things to
take care of. I feel like this should be the time in
our lives when sex comes easy. We’re engaged
and about to be newlyweds. I am learning that
this is something that really weighs on me. And
at the same time, I want it to come naturally.
Are we not prioritizing romance enough? Is it
normal to have these lack-of-sex funks? I don’t
know what to do but I love my fiancé and want
to fix this.
NORMAL?
A. Normal isn’t really a thing. Everyone is differ-
ent, and people change over time.
Also, when we compare our sex lives to what
we read about or see on TV, we can feel like we’re
doing it wrong — in all ways.
Responsibilities and schedules do change our
cadence. In my 30s, while others were frolicking
and doing whatever, I had a lot of family stuff
going on. I was grateful to be single — and
would not have been able to maintain romance
and an active sex life with a partner. Later, when
things got easier, my priorities would shift.
It does sound like you’re missing romance,
not just sex, and one tends to lead to the other.
You do need time to hang out with your partner
for unscheduled, date-night fun. House projects
don’t count.
Also, sometimes the best path to sex is time
alone. Are you together all day? All weekend? If
so, stop doing that. You can re-create some of
the excitement you had in separate apartments
by missing each other. Make sure you’re spend-
ing time on your own things, seeing friends, and
giving each other space. Then, when you recon-
vene, it might feel a bit different.
Talk about having a fun night — a relaxing
night — the kind of evening that gave you the
buzz you felt when you’d show up at each other’s
apartments back in the day. Don’t mention sex;
it shouldn’t feel like a requirement for a success-
ful evening. Get back into the routines that led
to sex in the first place.
This is good practice for later, when life will
be busier. You might be in a roommate/parent-
ing/work phase, and you’ll need to know how to
reset.
If the two of you have different feelings about
sex, in general, that’s an issue. But if you’re just
busy and out of practice, give it time.
MEREDITH
READERS RESPOND:
It seems odd that a young, engaged couple is
having a “roommate phase,” especially since you
don’t want that. Something is up with him.
FREEADVICEFORYOU
Red Flag.
HOGANHERO
Do not enter a marriage if your fiancé consid-
ers you in a roommate phase. You either need to
be on the same page sexually or you shouldn’t
get married.
HIKERGALNH128
If he’s not willing to work with you on this,
I’m sorry, but this relationship is doomed. You
think you’re frustrated now? See how it feels 10
years from now.
SEENITTOO
Send your own relationship and dating
questions to loveletters@globe.com. Catch new
episodes of Meredith Goldstein’s “Love Letters”
podcast at loveletters.show or wherever you
listen to podcasts. Column and comments are
edited and reprinted from boston.com/
loveletters.

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