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Jordan’s In Tel Aviv, Biden raises hope for Gaza aid

odds to
win gavel relieF could start
arriving Friday

dwindle President advises ally

to learn from U.S. errors

This article is by Tyler Pager, Joanna

Slater, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Kareem
In another speakership Fahim and Claire Parker
vote, he loses support as
GOP divisions widen teL aVIV — President Biden visit-
ed Israel on Wednesday in a histor-
ic show of solidarity with an ally
during wartime and promised to
BY A MY B W ANG, redouble American military assis-
M ARIANNA S OTOMAYOR tance to the country, even as he
AND L EIGH A NN C ALDWELL urged Israelis not to surrender to
“all-consuming rage” following
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-ohio) this month’s unprecedented at-
failed again Wednesday to win tacks by Hamas.
enough Republican support to Biden announced that a deal
become the next speaker of the had been struck with Israel to
House — prompting increasing allow humanitarian aid to flow
calls from both parties to expand from Egypt into the Gaza strip,
the powers of the interim speaker where more than 2 million people
to overcome the GoP’s intraparty face relentless airstrikes and an
morass and move on with legisla- Israeli siege. supplies of food,
tive matters. drinking water and fuel are dwin-
Jordan, who received 200 dling by the hour. Despite the ap-
votes in the first ballot Tuesday, parent breakthrough, Biden said
had said he would continue try- the aid would not start arriving
ing to win over the 20 colleagues until Friday at the earliest.
who had opposed him. In the only The president’s visit unfolded
round of balloting on Wednesday, sEE ISrael oN a9
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ending up with 199 votes. He

flipped only two Republican
votes and lost four of his col- President Resentment,
backs Israel’s anger grow in
leagues, most of whom are prag-
matic lawmakers focused on gov-
erning and allies of Rep. steve
scalise (R-La.), who initially de-
feated Jordan for the party’s
nomination last week.
hospital claim West Bank
Afterward, a spokesman for
Jordan vowed the ohio Republi- BY T YLER P AGER, BY M IRIAM B ERGER
can would “keep going,” even as it Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB,
was unclear what his path to the D AN L AMOTHE naBLUs, West Bank — News of
necessary votes would be. Later, AND S HANE H ARRIS the deadly strike on Gaza City’s
Jordan said lawmakers would al-Ahli Hospital rippled through
reconvene Thursday instead of teL aVIV — President Biden on the crowd in Nablus, where Fatah
continuing to vote Wednesday Wednesday firmly backed Israel’s party supporters were marching
night. position that it was not responsi- late Tuesday in solidarity with
The unprecedented impasse ble for the recent blast at a Gaza Gaza. A voice from a loudspeaker
has now left the House without a hospital site that killed numerous called for a “day of rage.”
speaker for more than two weeks, people, making his comments Within hours, protests erupted
since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R- during a risky trip here while the across the West Bank. Demon-
Calif.) was ousted oct. 3 in a region is still engulfed in turmoil. strators and armed men clashed
rebellion by the GoP’s hard-right “Based on the information with Israeli soldiers and security
lawmakers. Those same lawmak- we’ve seen today, it appears as a forces loyal to the Palestinian
ers had touted Jordan and his result of an errant rocket fired by a Authority, resented by many here
ultraconservative credentials as a terrorist group in Gaza,” Biden as complicit in the Israeli occupa-
plus: Jordan was a founding said after meeting with victims of tion. scenes of carnage from Gaza
member of the House Freedom the oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel EvElyn HocKsTEin/rEuTErs have led to deepening anger at
Caucus and has been a staunch and relatives of those being held tOp: people inspect the remains of a destroyed building following Israeli bombardment in Khan the Western-backed authority
ally of Donald Trump, supporting hostage by the militant group. Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. abOVe: president biden is welcomed by Israeli and increased local support for
him in his effort to overturn the “The United states unequivo- prime Minister benjamin Netanyahu as he visits tel aviv amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas. its longtime rival, Hamas.
2020 election. cally stands for the protection of The militant group’s oct. 7
But Jordan has so far been civilian life during the conflict. Campus tensions: As the war stokes divisions, Anxiety for Palestinian Americans: many worry rampage across southern Israel,
unable to overcome the House And I grieve. I truly grieve for the Jewish students fear a rise in antisemitism. A3 about the violence they could face here. A11 which killed at least 1,400 people,
Republican Conference’s deep di- families who were killed or and the intensifying war in Gaza
visions, which have been laid wounded by this tragedy,” Biden Gaza hospital: Palestinians search debris and D.C. protest: Demonstrators were arrested inside have united Palestinians across
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A categorical no to the concept of race U.S. has eased pursuit of

Race isn’t real, science says. Now, these activists want society and the census to reflect that.
BY S YDNEY T RENT
The notice from the federal
government arrived in Carlos
Hoyt’s inbox in August of last
year. It was looking ahead to the
2030 Census and inviting Ameri-
cans to give feedback. A request
for help with the “challenge” of
properly counting members of
racial minority groups piqued his
interest.
The moment Hoyt and others
had been waiting for had finally
arrived. The chance to tell the
federal government, and send a
bold message to the public: We
shouldn’t be asking people to
identify by “race” at all.
Racial categories, assigned to
people based on their appear-
ance, geographic origin and other
attributes, got their start during
the dawn of Western science in
18th-century Europe. White Eu-
ropeans, who then had no knowl-
edge of human genetics and little
meaningful contact with other
cultures, placed themselves at the
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overdue pandemic loans
Writing off some of the
$62 billion could be
cheaper, officials say
BY T ONY R OMM
The U.s. government has halt-
ed some efforts to collect an esti-
mated $62 billion in past-due
pandemic loans made to small
businesses, concluding that ag-
gressive attempts to recover the
money — a portion of which may
have been lost to fraud — could
cost more than simply writing off
the debt.
The small Business Adminis-
tration, which manages the pro-
gram, adopted the policy in April,
prompting the agency’s watch-
dogs to compute the potential
losses in a september report that
found the practice “risks” violat-
KATyE mArTEns BriEr for THE WAsHingTon PosT ing federal law. The internal di-
carlos Hoyt, author of “the arc of a bad Idea,” says we shouldn’t have to identify by “race” at all. rective since then has sparked an
outcry on Capitol Hill, where
House Republicans on Wednes-
day opened an investigation and
joined their senate GoP counter-
parts in demanding documents
from the sBA.
At the height of the coronavi-
rus pandemic, Congress created
the Covid-19 Economic Injury
Disaster Loan program, known as
EIDL, which provided low-inter-
est loans to cash-starved compa-
nies. From 2020 until it stopped
accepting new applications in
May 2022, the initiative dis-
bursed roughly $380 billion to
help firms stay afloat and main-
tain their payrolls amid the worst
economic crisis since the Great
Depression.
Unlike with other pandemic-
era programs, Congress required
EIDL borrowers to pay back their
loans, and some quickly appeared
to fall behind: By March, the
inspector general for the sBA
projected that a subset of loans
totaling about $62 billion were up
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That incident is seared in the
memories of U.S. military avia-
tors, highlighting the tragic con-
sequences that can result from
aggressive and unprofessional
airmanship.
The marked rise in risky Chi-
nese encounters is troubling be-
cause it undercuts the ability of
the United States and other na-
tions to safely conduct patrols in
international airspace, top mili-
tary and defense officials say.
“Since the fall of 2021, we have
seen serious increases in actions
that took their aircraft much
closer” to U.S. planes, including
during “higher risk” operations
such as air-to-air refueling, said
Adm. John C. Aquilino, a gradu-
ate of the Navy’s “Top Gun”
advanced fighter school and now
commander of all U.S. military
forces in the Indo-Pacific.
Allies and partners are experi-
encing similar aggression, he
said. Last year, a Chinese J-16
fighter cut across the nose of an
Australian P-8 patrol plane and
released chaff that was ingested
by the P-8’s jet engine.
“Those actions are just unac-
ceptable,” Aquilino said. “And
they’re not in accordance with
international law.”
In a statement that obliquely
referred to the United States,
Chinese Embassy spokesman Liu
Pengyu said, “[A] certain non-
regional country has sought to
stir up trouble and incite con-
frontation in the South China Sea
and jeopardize regional peace
and stability. China has always
opposed that.” He said that China
and Southeast Asian countries
are seeking to develop a “code of
conduct in the South China Sea”
and that “countries outside the
region need to respect [those]
efforts.”
China’s bolder behavior, ana-
lysts and officials say, is an appar-
ent effort to get the U.S. military
to back down in a region that
Beijing seeks to dominate. It is
seen as part of a wider push to
counter what China views as an
unwelcome expansion under the
Biden administration of military
and security coordination by
Washington and its regional al-
lies.
In the past two years, Wash-
ington has elevated to the leader
level the “Quad” security part-
nership with Australia, Japan
and India, widely seen as a
counterweight to Beijing. It also
has enhanced its alliance with
Japan — which is buying U.S.
Tomahawk cruise missiles and
developing its own counterstrike
capability — and has brought
South Korea into what is now a
trilateral security relationship.
The Biden administration has
voice, a procedure reserved for
noncontroversial issues — was
scheduled at the committee’s first
opportunity, a sign of the strong
support Whitaker has received.
He largely glided through a con-
firmation hearing this month.
Whitaker’s reception in the
narrowly divided committee
stands in stark contrast to Biden’s
first choice for the job, Phillip
Washington, who ultimately
withdrew in the face of questions
about his aviation experience.
Biden’s choice to run the National
Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-
tration also withdrew her name
as committee Republicans ques-
tioned her past work as an envi-
ronmental lawyer.
Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), the Com-
merce Committee’s leading Re-
publican, said he was frustrated
by the Biden administration’s de-
lay in naming a nominee, calling
the gap in FAA leadership “avoid-
able.” Nonetheless, Cruz said he
would support Whitaker because
he has promised to focus on safe-
ty and “stay out of politics.”
“His extensive aviation experi-
ence makes him well suited to
lead our nation’s largest transpor-
tation safety agency,” Cruz said.
Whitaker is chief operating of-
ficer at Supernal, a division of
automaker Hyundai that devel-
ops electric aircraft. He served as
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An image taken from video shows a Chinese J-16 fighter flying aggressively close to a U.S. RC-135
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obtained expanded access to mil-
itary bases in the Philippines,
including several in the north
close to Taiwan, and sealed a deal
with Australia and Britain to
provide Australia with nuclear-
powered submarines.
“What you’re seeing with all of
these activities is a serial game of
chicken,” said Stacie Pettyjohn,
the director of the defense pro-
gram at the Center for a New
American Security. “This is pure
intimidation on the part of Chi-
na. They are trying to raise the
risk and cost of conducting oper-
ations over territory in the vicini-
ty of what they consider to be
their area of influence.”
Said Aquilino: “Just so we’re
clear. … The pressure we’re see-
ing is only from the [People’s
Republic of China]. Their objec-
tive is … to force the United
States out of the region. And
that’s just not gonna happen.”
The release of images and
videos comes as the Pentagon
prepares to unveil its annual
report on China’s military power.
Last year’s report highlighted a
“sharp increase” in unsafe and
unprofessional behavior by the
Chinese military in the Indo-Pa-
cific region.
This year’s will note just how
dramatic that increase has been
in international airspace in the
past two years — a spike the
Pentagon says puts regional sta-
bility at risk.
China’s military is far more
powerful today than it was a
decade or two ago. And although
the push to modernize its armed
forces began in the 1990s, it has
quickened in the past decade,
coinciding with Xi Jinping’s rise
to power and stepped up aggres-
sive and coercive actions in the
region.
During the Biden administra-
tion, the Chinese military has
rebuffed every attempt by top
Michael Whitaker, deputy FAA administrator during the Obama
administration, has been nominated to be the next administrator.
the FAA’s deputy administrator
during the Obama administra-
tion, earning a pilot’s certificate
as part of what he has described
as an effort to better understand
the workings of the nation’s air-
space.
Whitaker also was an executive
at United Airlines. His time in
management raised questions
among aviation labor leaders, but
they say the White House
smoothed over any worries they
had before naming Whitaker in
September. Industry groups were
the washington post
Pentagon officials to engage in
dialogue. In the past, Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin was able
to raise concerns about China’s
operational behavior with his
then-counterpart, Gen. Wei
Fenghe. By early this year, that
cooperation ceased, officials
said.
When a U.S. fighter jet in
February shot down a Chinese
spy balloon that had apparently
sought to surveil military bases
in the continental United States,
Wei refused to take a call from
Austin. Wei’s successor, Gen. Li
Shangfu, who reportedly faces a
corruption investigation and has
not been seen in public since late
August, has declined every invi-
tation to meet with Austin, offi-
cials said.
U.S. Navy and Air Force sur-
veillance planes flying in interna-
tional airspace have a legal right
to patrol, just as Chinese planes
do, experts note, but must do so
safely.
The United States and China
signed a memorandum of under-
standing in 2014 spelling out
rules of safe behavior in air and
maritime encounters; it was up-
dated in 2015. The Chinese pilots’
behavior in the videos violates
the agreement, which makes
clear that military aircraft
should ensure “safe separation”
and avoid “reckless maneuvers”
as well as “actions that impinge
upon the ability of the other
side’s military aircraft to maneu-
ver safely.” Releasing objects like
chaff falls into that latter catego-
ry, military officials say.
“On a number of different
levels, we’re seeing more aggres-
sive operations by the PLA re-
flecting their increased military
capability, greater confidence in
conducting operations and a
more bellicose foreign policy by
Xi Jinping,” said Thomas
Shugart, an independent mili-
Drew anGerer/Getty ImaGes
quick to support him.
While advancing Whitaker’s
nomination would be a step
toward greater stability at the
FAA, the committee is also strug-
gling to reach a deal on renewing
the agency’s authorizing law. The
law was extended until the end of
the year as part of the deal to
avoid a government shutdown,
but the committee has been dead-
locked over the role of flight
simulators in training new airline
pilots.
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U.s. navy/aP
tary analyst and former analyst
in the Pentagon’s Office of Net
Assessment, using the abbrevia-
tion for China’s People’s Libera-
tion Army.
China, he notes, has advanced
an “expansive claim” that it has
the right to regulate military and
economic activity within a 200-
nautical-mile exclusive economic
zone beyond its territorial seas,
including airspace. The claim is
not recognized by the United
States, he said.
Last month, China’s military
sent more than 100 fighter jets
and nine ships into the Taiwan
Strait on a single day, the largest
such incursion in three years as
Beijing escalates its threats
against Taiwan, an island democ-
racy China claims as its own.
Forty of the aircraft crossed the
“median line,” an unofficial sea
border between Taiwan and Chi-
na that had helped maintain
stability for years in the 110-mile-
wide strait.
Beijing has increasingly ig-
nored the median line, sending
sorties closer to Taiwan, using
“gray zone” tactics — short of acts
of war — intended to exhaust and
intimidate Taiwan’s smaller mili-
tary.
The increased tempo of Chi-
na’s unsafe intercepts is “very
concerning,” said Jacqueline
Deal, a senior fellow at the For-
eign Policy Research Institute,
“because they are likely trying to
inure the United States and Tai-
wan” to aggressive operations
and make it more difficult to
discern “when an exercise is
turning into a first act of a war.”
Regardless of the PLA’s behav-
ior, Assistant Secretary of De-
fense for Indo-Pacific Security
Ely Ratner said in a statement to
The Post, “we’re going to contin-
ue flying, sailing and operating
wherever international law al-
lows.”
merce urged lawmakers in a letter
Wednesday to finish the work of
confirming Whitaker and passing
a bill.
“Confirmed leadership and the
clear policy direction that reau-
thorization provides would help
maintain the global competitive-
ness of the U.S. aviation industry,
and enhance safety, efficiency, in-
frastructure, and innovation,”
wrote Neil L. Bradley, the cham-
ber’s head of strategic advocacy.
Cantwell said she hoped that
having an FAA administrator in
place would help the committee
to finalize negotiations over the
bill and set up Congress to pass
legislation before the new year.
The Commerce Committee
also approved three nominations
to the Amtrak board of directors
Wednesday. Anthony Rosario Co-
scia, the board’s chairman, who
was nominated for an additional
term; Joel Szabat, a former Trans-
portation Department official;
and Christopher Koos, mayor of
Normal, Ill., advanced by voice
vote.
Three other Amtrak nominees
are pending, and the White
House has agreed to replace one
of them after committee mem-
bers said the group did not meet
geographic diversity require-
ments for the board included in
the 2021 infrastructure law.
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War roils campuses and raises fears of antisemitism
Mideast conflict elevates
tensions that have long
existed at U.S. colleges
BY N ICK A NDERSON
Someone scrawled “Free Pales-
tine” on the exterior of a Jewish
fraternity house at Georgia Tech
over the weekend, next to a large
image of a menorah. A Stanford
University instructor reportedly
asked Jewish and Israeli students
to stand in the corner of a class-
room. A Cornell University profes-
sor declared at a rally Sunday that,
while he abhors violence, he felt
“exhilarated” after Hamas mili-
tants from Gaza attacked Israel.
These and other incidents have
rattled Jewish communities on
campuses across America as they
mourn victims of the Oct. 7 massa-
cres and kidnappings. For dec-
ades, the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict has stoked passions and divi-
sions over the rights of Palestin-
ians and the security of the Jewish
state. But the outbreak of war has
elevated those tensions even fur-
ther in recent days and raised new
alarms about intimidation and
antisemitism on campus.
“Jewish students are fearful
and isolated,” said Melanie
Evolution or evasion? Biden woos influencers, does fewer press interviews.
BY M ERYL K ORNFIELD
TikToker Daniel Mac has at-
tracted more than 14 million fol-
lowers in two years by asking
drivers of fancy cars, “What do
you do for a living?” He’s inter-
viewed Cheech & Chong in an
Impala, Jay Leno in a Maserati
and other celebrities in their own
swanky rides. His most popular
subject yet: President Biden.
As Biden pulled up in a Cadil-
lac Lyriq at last year’s Detroit
Auto Show for a prearranged ex-
change, Mac observed that “your
car’s awesome!” and asked what
Biden does for a living. “I’m mar-
ried to Jill Biden,” the president
said. “And I make sure we’re mak-
ing a lot more electric vehicles in
America.”
The brief video went viral,
reaching 38 million people.
In his first 21/2 years as presi-
dent, Biden has held fewer news
conferences than his predeces-
sors. He has given fewer inter-
views to major news organiza-
tions, despite his promise to re-
store traditional media relations
after the Donald Trump era.
At the same time, the White
House is contacting an array of
online influencers, social media
personalities, TikTok stars and
other nontraditional figures to
spread its message, creating an
alternative communication net-
work that is different from that of
previous presidencies.
Biden’s aides say they are re-
sponding to an evolution in the
media landscape, not breaking
sharply from precedent. But crit-
ics say the strategy gives the
White House far more control
over the message, often letting
the president avoid scrutiny and
sidestep the harder-hitting ques-
tions that traditional reporters
might fire at him.
Mac readily concedes that his
videos are not exactly journalism.
Through brand deals, Mac is paid
to fly to exotic destinations and
shoot content that is carefully
scheduled to publish when it fits
the marketing strategy.
When the White House asked
Mac to pay his own way to the
Detroit Auto Show so he could
capture a video of Biden driving
an electric vehicle and upload it
to TikTok, he said he thought to
himself, “Who wouldn’t want to
interview the president?”
The White House specified that
Biden wanted the video to em-
phasize what his administration
has done to get more EVs on the
road — the sort of instruction that
is anathema to traditional news
organizations. In less than an
hour, the video had a million
views and it ultimately racked up
more than 38 million, becoming
Mac’s most-watched post.
Frank Sesno, a former CNN
Washington bureau chief and
now a George Washington Uni-
versity media professor, said it
remains unclear how well the
White House strategy is working,
given Biden’s stalled popularity
ratings, but that the goal is appar-
ently to limit his exposure to
unpredictable situations.
“For a gaffe-prone president
who sounds like he’s mangling or
mumbling his words, less may be
more,” Sesno said. “Controlling
his access is advantageous.”
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Politics & the Nation
Schwartz, 20, a junior at Cornell.
Colleges and universities usual-
ly take pride in hosting demon-
strations and debate, as long as no
one gets hurt. Fiery rhetoric is
tolerated and often encouraged as
students and faculty members en-
gage on politics, the climate, the
economy, racism and war. But
Jewish leaders say that too often
debates over the Middle East take
a problematic turn, leading to a
threatening atmosphere for Jew-
ish students. For them, that phe-
nomenon is not new.
“The campus climate for Jewish
students has been degrading over
several years, and that has been
aggravated by broader increases
in antisemitism and virulent de-
monization of Israel on campus-
es,” Adam Lehman, president and
chief executive of the Jewish or-
ganization Hillel International,
said in an interview. Lehman said
the climate in recent days has
worsened.
After the surprise Hamas attack
that left more than 1,400 people
dead in Israel and thousands more
wounded, the Georgia Tech chap-
ter of Alpha Epsilon Pi hung a
banner from a balcony that de-
clared solidarity with Israel. On
Saturday, its members found the
pro-Palestinian message written
in shaving cream underneath the
banner. The message was washed
off, but it left a deeper impression:
White House employees move a lectern after remarks by President Biden at an Independence Day barbecue for military families. Biden
has held the fewest news conferences at this point in his tenure of any president since George H.W. Bush — 13 solo and 17 jointly.
Even some Biden supporters
worry that the strategy prevents
voters from seeing an engaged
president at a time when his
campaign is seeking to counter
questions about his age and vital-
ity. Mike McCurry, who was Presi-
dent Bill Clinton’s press secretary,
said news conferences give the
White House a rare chance to
sharpen its message and respond
to public concerns.
“The press conference was an
action-forcing event, because it
forced the government to come
up with better answers,” McCurry
said. “That to me was one of the
useful reasons why we needed to
have regular encounters with the
press.”
Ben LaBolt, the White House
communications director, said
Biden finds various ways to inter-
act with journalists, for example
taking questions after a speech or
talking to reporters during a trip.
And he noted that the White
House gives reporters regular ac-
cess to other top administration
officials.
“Our communications strategy
is ‘all of the above’ — which it
must be to break through in a
fractured media environment
and an era of information over-
load,” LaBolt said. “We study
where Americans get their infor-
mation and make sure we are
meeting them where they are,
whether that is traditional news-
casts, social media or consumer
outlets.”
CBS’s “60 Minutes” also scored
exclusive time with the president
at last year’s Detroit Auto Show,
and correspondent Scott Pelley
used it to press Biden on such
issues as how he would hold
Their home, the fraternity mem-
bers felt, had been violated.
“We are deeply saddened by the
defacing of our property that was
committed last weekend,” the
chapter said in a statement. “As a
Jewish fraternity, we have all been
deeply affected by the current
events in Israel, and we are pro-
foundly disheartened to see that
this conflict has allowed antisemi-
tism to gain a foothold on our
campus. With our fellow Jews un-
der attack in Israel, we feel that it
is important to visibly display our
support for the Israeli people as
Jewish leaders at Georgia Tech.”
Through a spokesperson, the
fraternity declined to comment
further. But members hung a new
and larger blue-and-white banner
that said the fraternity “stands
with Israel.”
At Stanford, the Jewish news
organization the Forward report-
ed last week, an instructor had
asked Jewish and Israeli students
in a class to identify themselves,
take their belongings and stand in
a corner. The apparent point of the
exercise, according to the article,
was to show students how the
instructor believed Israel treats
the Palestinians.
University leaders acknowl-
edged in an Oct. 11 statement that
they had received a report of a
class in which an instructor “ad-
dressed the Middle East conflict in
down gas prices amid the Ukraine
war. Roughly 10 million people
watched the “60 Minutes” seg-
ment live, a smaller viewership
than four NFL games airing at the
same time, according to data col-
lected by the Nielsen company.
This past Sunday, “60 Minutes”
aired another interview with the
president, offering his most di-
rect answers yet to questions
about the Israel-Gaza war.
Biden has granted a sit-down
interview to one daily news print
journalist, the Associated Press’s
Josh Boak, during his term so far.
He has also spoken to ProPublica,
an investigative journalism or-
ganization.
The White House notes that
Biden has spoken to such respect-
ed journalists as PBS’s Judy
Woodruff and ABC’s David Muir.
Still, many of his television inter-
views have been with specialized
outlets, such as Comedy Central
or the Weather Channel.
And he has done numerous
interviews with less-traditional
figures, from Brian Tyler Cohen,
who hosts a podcast and YouTube
show, to Heather Cox Richardson,
who writes a newsletter on the
online platform Substack.
When the White House cel-
ebrated the passage of the Infla-
tion Reduction Act, social media
influencers received a special
briefing in the Roosevelt Room,
including a presidential drop-in.
In a virtual town hall on covid-19,
Biden took questions from other
online celebrities, including what
skin-care product he would take
with him to a desert island.
Biden is hardly the first presi-
dent to turn to nontraditional
sources to reach a different audi-
eZ re
a manner that called out individu-
al students in class based on their
backgrounds and identities.”
Stanford President Richard Saller
and Provost Jenny Martinez said
the instructor, who was not identi-
fied, “is not currently teaching”
while the university in California
investigates. “Without prejudging
the matter, this report is a cause
for serious concern,” they wrote.
Lehman said the incident was
“hugely demeaning and intimi-
dating” for Jewish students.
At Tufts University in Massa-
chusetts, Micah Gritz, 21, a senior
from Rockville, Md., who is a lead-
er in a group called Jewish on
Campus, said he was horrified to
read an email in which a campus
chapter of Students for Justice in
Palestine used paraglider emojis
to advertise a rally in nearby Cam-
bridge. The email also praised “lib-
eration fighters” — an allusion to
Hamas militants — who had used
paragliders in the cross-border at-
tack and showed “creativity neces-
sary to take back stolen land.”
The email “shocked to me to my
core,” Gritz said. “Jewish students
and Israeli students were mourn-
ing. To see these folks celebrating
the death of our friends and fami-
lies is beyond morally unaccept-
able.”
National Students for Justice in
Palestine declined an interview
request.
ence. Clinton appeared on an
MTV town hall in 1994 (where he
was asked if he wore boxers or
briefs). President Barack Obama
appeared on the comedy show
“Between Two Ferns” in 2014
(where he was asked, “How does
it feel to be the last Black presi-
dent?”)
Biden’s White House is betting
on its digital-heavy strategy to
amp up interest among a younger
and more diverse group of voters.
It has staffed a suite in the Eisen-
hower Executive Office Building,
adjacent to the White House, with
online-savvy aides charged with
highlighting Biden’s accomplish-
ments to that cohort.
Past iron gates, Secret Service
agents and fortified walls that
make WiFi reception spotty, the
staffers strategize on how to make
their audiences feel like they’re
getting an inside peek.
One Friday in July, the aides
were dressed in various shades of
pink in a salute to the “Barbie”
movie premiere, which had over-
taken internet discourse that
week. Several were editing videos
about “Bidenomics” for online
posting; others were preparing to
brief social media influencers on
the White House plans for Mental
Health Week.
The walls were covered with
cutouts of memes, such as Vice
President Harris telling the presi-
dent, “We did it, Joe,” after the
election. The staff was heavily
skewed toward the demographics
the administration is trying to
reach: young, female, diverse.
Biden has emphasized his re-
spect for the media as a contrast
with President Donald Trump,
who called the press the “enemy
Advocates of Palestinian rights
are also voicing grief and anger at
the death of civilians in the Israeli
bombardment of Gaza.
When Ellen M. Granberg, presi-
dent of George Washington Uni-
versity, issued a statement last
week condemning the “celebra-
tion of terrorism,” a group called
GW Students for Justice in Pales-
tine replied with a statement on
Instagram: “How dare you, Ellen
Granberg. How dare you call our
mourning a ‘celebration of terror-
ism.’”
Cornell was roiled after an asso-
ciate professor of history, Russell
Rickford, spoke at a pro-Palestin-
ian rally in Ithaca, N.Y. The Cornell
Daily Sun, a student newspaper,
and others published video of his
remarks. In the speech, Rickford
cited “many Gazans of goodwill,
many Palestinians of conscience,
who abhor violence — as do you, as
do I.” But he also said many who
support the Palestinian cause had
strong feelings after learning of
the Oct. 7 attack.
“It was exhilarating,” he said. “It
was energizing. And if they
weren’t exhilarated by this chal-
lenge to the monopoly of violence,
by this shifting of the balance of
power, then they would not be
human. I was exhilarated.”
Rickford did not immediately
reply Tuesday to an email from
The Washington Post seeking
tom Brenner For the Washington Post
of the people,” described stories
he disliked as “fake news” and
suspended the White House daily
news briefing.
Yet Biden has held the fewest
news conferences at this point in
his tenure of any president since
George H.W. Bush — 13 solo and
17 jointly — and many included
just a handful of questions. He
has also participated in the fewest
interviews, 74, of any chief execu-
tive since Ronald Reagan, accord-
ing to data compiled by presiden-
tial scholar Martha Kumar.
In comparison, Trump at this
point in his presidency had held
52 news conferences and granted
273 interviews.
Every president going back
decades has sat for interviews
with The Washington Post and
the New York Times, but Biden
has so far declined to do so. (He
has given access to generally
friendly columnists and com-
mentators like the Times’s Thom-
as Friedman, who covered Biden
when he was a senator, and CNN’s
Fareed Zakaria.)
Biden’s aides note that he often
stops to take reporters’ questions,
for example on his way to Air
Force One, and he will sometimes
take questions after prepared re-
marks. He has held 492 of these
informal “gaggles,” according to
Kumar, more than any president
except Trump.
Still, those brief exchanges, un-
like a news conference or sit-
down interview, let Biden step
away when he prefers not to
answer a question or wants to
avoid a follow-up.
Biden himself jokingly ac-
knowledged his approach in his
remarks at this year’s White
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comment on his speech.
But he told the Cornell Daily
Sun that he believed the Hamas
attack signaled that “the Palestin-
ian will to resist had not been
broken.” He acknowledged that in
subsequent days, “we learned of
some of the horrifying realities.”
Schwartz, of White Plains, N.Y.,
who is vice president of Cornel-
lians for Israel, said she found
Rickford’s statements troubling.
“We are concerned that an individ-
ual with such hateful views holds a
position as a professor at Cornell,”
she said.
Martha E. Pollack, Cornell’s
president, and Kraig H. Kayser,
chairman of the university’s board
of trustees, rebuked Rickford in a
statement Tuesday and said the
university was reviewing the mat-
ter. Faculty members at univer-
sities, especially those with tenure
protections, are often given signif-
icant leeway in matters of free
speech and academic freedom.
“We learned yesterday of com-
ments that Professor Russell Rick-
ford made over the weekend at an
off-campus rally where he de-
scribed the Hamas terrorist at-
tacks as ‘exhilarating,’” they wrote.
“This is a reprehensible comment
that demonstrates no regard
whatsoever for humanity.”
susan svrluga contributed to this
report.
House Correspondents’ Associa-
tion dinner. “In a lot of ways, this
dinner sums up my first two years
in office,” he said. “I’ll talk for 10
minutes, take zero questions and
cheerfully walk away,” he said.
Sometimes, the limitations are
especially evident. When Biden
spoke to reporters at a Group of
Seven summit in Hanoi in early
September, he told them he
would call on only five preselect-
ed journalists vetted by his staff.
“Go rogue, sir,” a broadcast
reporter called out, to no avail.
And when the president did start
to answer unprompted questions,
his mic was cut off.
White House officials note that
it’s standard practice for a presi-
dent’s staffers to give him names
of reporters to call on before a
news conference and to wrap up
the event at a particular time.
One Biden aide, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to
discuss strategy, said the presi-
dent communicates with local
media when he travels around the
country, although Kumar’s fig-
ures show he holds fewer inter-
views with such outlets than his
predecessors did. Cabinet mem-
bers also do numerous inter-
views, the aide said.
White House aides point out
that Biden has restored the ritual
of the daily media briefing, usual-
ly hosted by press secretary Kar-
ine Jean-Pierre, after the Trump
administration halted it. The
aides are simultaneously some-
what dismissive of that forum,
and they frequently complain
that mainstream reporters lob
unfair questions and focus on the
negative.
To pinpoint where Americans
are getting their information,
aides said, they scrutinize reams
of data, paying close attention to
reports like one by the progres-
sive public affairs firm Bully Pul-
pit Interactive, which asked re-
spondents, “Where did you last
see the president?”
That data suggests that tradi-
tional media still play a major
role but that social media’s foot-
print is rapidly expanding. The
Bully Pulpit report, shared inter-
nally in the White House and
reviewed by The Post, found that
voters most often said they’d seen
the president on television news
outlets, followed by Facebook.
Print news came next, on par with
Instagram and Twitter, trailed by
YouTube and TikTok.
White House aides concede
that some of Biden’s online ap-
pearances, like Mac’s TikTok at
the auto show, are not overly
substantive. They are aimed
mostly at grabbing people’s atten-
tion, they say, while a second part
of the strategy is focused on tout-
ing specific policies.
Mac said Biden’s burgeoning
relationship with TikTokers
shows that he is looking to engage
with a younger audience, one that
is unlikely to turn to traditional
sources for its news. He doesn’t
see that changing; Mac is in talks
with administration officials to
record a “crib tour” of the East
Wing.
“The president of the United
States is down to do a collab,” Mac
said. “That’s also not a sentence
that would have been uttered five
years ago.”
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Some lawmakers work to empower temporary speaker
JORdAn from A1
this year over the nation’s debt
limit and the appropriations
process.
republicans have privately ad-
mitted they will start to flip their
support if Jordan can’t clinch the
speakership, and more GoP law-
makers are expected to oppose
Jordan on Thursday. Some re-
publicans have worked among
themselves to ensure that the
number of votes against Jordan
grows in each round of voting,
according to two lawmakers fa-
miliar with the effort who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
detail private conversations, rec-
ognizing that Jordan will not
back down until it is clear a
majority of republicans do not
want him to lead their confer-
ence.
Boding ill for Jordan, the four
republicans who flipped against
him Wednesday do not fall into
the categories that many of the
previous holdouts do. None of
them are on the House Appropri-
ations or Armed Services com-
mittees, two panels that have
been hamstrung by hard-right
lawmakers’ demands throughout
the year. Two of the additional
holdouts belong to the pragmatic
republican Governance Group,
which is working with Democrats
on a proposal that could ensure
the House can begin governing
again by empowering a tempo-
rary speaker.
Two of those lawmakers, reps.
mariannette miller-meeks (r-Io-
wa) and Vern Buchanan (r-fla.),
had both indicated previously
that they would support Jordan
for at least one round of voting
before flipping. on Wednesday,
miller-meeks voted for rep. Kay
Granger, prompting laughter
from the Texas republican who
U.S. starts deportation flights to Venezuela, aiming to curb mass migration
Administration officials
say they plan multiple
transports each week
BY N ICK M IROFF
U.S. immigration authorities
Wednesday returned nearly 130
migrants to Venezuela, starting
deportation flights Biden admin-
istration officials view as a cru-
cial step toward reducing the
record number of illegal cross-
ings at the U.S. southern border.
The deportations follow an
agreement by the Venezuelan
government to hold competitive
elections next year, a deal that
paves the way for the Biden
administration to ease economic
sanctions.
An Immigration and Customs
Enforcement charter flight de-
parted from the U.S. border city
of Harlingen, Tex., on Wednes-
day, stopping briefly in miami
before continuing to the interna-
tional airport in Caracas, accord-
ing to U.S. officials and flight-
tracking data. Venezuelan au-
thorities barred reporters from
speaking with deportees after
the flight landed.
ICE said in a statement that it
“facilitated the first charter flight
to Venezuela as part of other
routine ICE removal flights con-
ducted throughout the hemi-
sphere and around the world.”
The agency said the flights “en-
force United States immigration
laws while strengthening the
consequences for those who
cross our border unlawfully.”
The number of Venezuelan
migrants crossing the U.S. south-
ern border illegally has reached
historic levels during the past
U.S. eases sanctions on Venezuelan oil after Maduro agrees to fair elections
BY K AREN D E Y OUNG
AND A NA V ANESSA H ERRERO
The Biden administration on
Wednesday eased oil, gas and gold
sanctions against Venezuela a day
after the government of President
Nicolás maduro and the
U.S.-backed opposition agreed to
terms for a competitive presiden-
tial election next year.
The Treasury Department is-
sued a general license authorizing
U.S. companies to engage in long-
barred transactions primarily in
the state-controlled energy sector.
It said the license is to be valid for
six months, to be renewed only if
the authoritarian socialist govern-
ment “meets its commitments” for
elections and “with respect to
those who are wrongfully de-
tained.”
The agreement signed by the
government and opposition poli-
ticians Tuesday, following years of
chairs the Appropriations Com-
mittee. Buchanan cast a vote for
rep. Byron Donalds (r-fla.), a
freedom Caucus member who
also was not a serious contender.
rep. Pete Stauber (r-minn.) vot-
ed for the chairman of one of his
panels, Natural resources Com-
mittee Chairman Bruce Wester-
man (r-Ark.). Even former House
speaker John A. Boehner, who
resigned in 2015, received a vote
Wednesday.
Another lawmaker who
flipped against Jordan on
Wednesday was rep. Drew fer-
guson (r-Ga.), a longtime chief
deputy whip to Scalise, under-
scoring how much further rela-
tions between the Jordan and
Scalise camps had soured after
both sides spent Tuesday blaming
each other for Jordan’s poor
showing on the first ballot.
As it has been for days, frustra-
tion was palpable in the GoP
conference Wednesday after-
noon. rep. Nicole malliotakis
(r-N.Y.) said the four members
who changed their minds and
flipped against Jordan were act-
ing “very childish.”
“Like, this is serious. This is the
United States Congress,” said
malliotakis, who has supported
each republican speaker-desig-
nee. “We’re trying to elect a
speaker and you’re just, like,
throwing out, like, random
names of people who are not
running or are not even members
of the House. . . . [republicans]
have to have a serious conversa-
tion about moving the ball for-
ward.”
But those who opposed Jordan
dug in their heels, as the aggres-
sive pressure campaign that Jor-
dan and his allies had mounted
over the weekend appeared to
backfire even more. many repub-
licans have realized the intimida-
Venezuelan migrants are patted down by officers in Harlingen, Tex., before boarding a deportation
flight. About 50,000 Venezuelans were taken into custody last month at the U.S. southern border.
several months. The influx has
exacerbated strains at shelters in
New York, Chicago and other U.S.
cities whose Democratic mayors
have been pleading for federal
aid and have been increasingly
outspoken in their criticism of
President Biden’s border
policies.
Venezuelans who entered the
United States illegally had faced
little risk of deportation until
now. Nearly 500,000 Venezue-
lans have crossed the U.S. south-
ern border during the past three
on-again, off-again negotiations,
could be a breakthrough in the
South American nation’s stifling
political stalemate. The Biden ad-
ministration promised to consid-
er suspending some sanctions in
exchange for progress.
The planned elections deal and
the sanctions relief were first re-
ported this week by The Washing-
ton Post. Administration officials,
who have long insisted that nego-
tiations were only among Venezu-
elans, denied monday that any
U.S. sanctions “deal” was part of
the package.
Secretary of State Antony J.
Blinken said Wednesday that the
Treasury Department announce-
ment was “consistent with our
long-standing commitment to
provide U.S. sanctions relief in
response to concrete steps toward
competitive elections and respect
for human rights and fundamen-
tal freedoms.” other sanctions, he
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Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Kevin McCarthy (Calif.),
left, confer before a round of voting on the next House speaker.
tion tactics deployed by Jordan’s
allies and the GoP base during
his campaign for the speakership
could foreshadow how Jordan
would operate as the top republi-
can governing the House, pres-
suring colleagues to bend to his
will.
rep. Steve Womack (r-Ark.),
who has twice voted for Scalise
instead of Jordan, said the oppo-
sition to Jordan was “profound”
and that the members were
against the ohio republican as a
matter of principle. Womack add-
ed his office has received “non-
stop” calls from Jordan support-
ers, most of them from out of
state, and that his staff has been
“cussed out” and threatened.
“It’s a matter of how you treat
people, and, frankly, based on
what I’ve been through and what
my staff has been through, it’s
obvious what the [pro-Jordan]
strategy is: Attack, attack, attack,”
Womack said.
rep. Don Bacon (r-Neb.) said
years, including about 50,000
taken into custody last month by
U.S. agents, the highest one-
month total ever, according to
preliminary data obtained by
The Washington Post.
The United States severed dip-
lomatic ties with the government
of President Nicolás maduro in
2019 after an election widely
viewed as fraudulent. Trump ad-
ministration officials endorsed
an unsuccessful coup attempt by
maduro opponents later that
year, and in 2020, U.S. federal
said in a statement, would remain
in place.
The United States “has also con-
veyed our expectation and under-
standing” that before the end of
November, maduro will “define a
specific timeline and process for
the expedited reinstatement of
all” candidates in upcoming elec-
tions, including “all who want to
run for president” next year, and a
“level electoral playing field,”
Blinken said.
Venezuela, he said, will also “be-
gin the release of all wrongfully
detained U.S. nationals and Ven-
ezuelan political prisoners.”
four Americans are known to
be detained in Venezuela. They
include Luke Denman and Airan
Berry, arrested in 2020 for their
alleged participation in a failed
attempt to capture maduro. Eyvin
Hernandez has been charged with
criminal association and con-
spiracy after entering Venezuela
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his wife had received anonymous
texts and voice mails urging her
to persuade her husband to sup-
port Jordan. Bacon has been ada-
mant that he would not vote for
Jordan as speaker.
one of the texts, which were
reviewed by The Washington
Post, demanded she tell the con-
gressman to “step up and be a
leader,” while another asked her
why her “husband [is] causing
chaos by not supporting Jim
Jordan.”
on Thursday, Bacon said Jor-
dan’s supporters “don’t play by
the rules.”
“It’s wrong that folks have no
boundaries anymore,” Bacon
said. “We don’t live in fear, but
holding people accountable is
needed.”
rep. Jen A. Kiggans (r-Va.),
who has twice voted for mcCar-
thy over Jordan, said in a social
media post that “threats and
intimidation tactics will not
change my principles and values.”
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prosecutors accused maduro and
other senior Venezuelan officials
of flooding the United States
with illegal narcotics and “narco-
terrorism.”
The diplomatic tensions made
it nearly impossible for U.S. im-
migration authorities to return
Venezuelans as deportees, even
as tens of thousands per month
began arriving at the southern
border.
Venezuela has devolved from
one of the wealthiest nations in
Latin America to one of its poor-
during a vacation trip. Jerrel Ken-
emore, 52, was detained by migra-
tion officials upon entering the
country with his Venezuelan girl-
friend. The human rights organi-
zation foro Penal says more than
250 Venezuelans are currently be-
ing held for political reasons.
The maduro government
pledged Tuesday to allow all par-
ties to choose their candidates,
permit international observers to
monitor the vote and grant all
campaigns fair access to the me-
dia. The government did not
promise to lift bans that now pre-
vent some opposition candidates
from running.
maduro, speaking during a tele-
vised meeting Wednesday evening
with members of his government
involved in the talks with the op-
position, called the lifting of oil
sanctions a “victory for the coun-
try” and the product of negotia-
tions with the United States.
the washington post
Jordan’s staff has continually
denied allegations of aggressive
persuasion tactics.
As many republicans began to
acknowledge Wednesday that
Jordan probably would not
clinch the necessary votes to be-
come speaker, a growing number
of republicans — many who op-
posed Jordan — were working
with Democrats on a plan to
empower Speaker Pro Tempore
Patrick T. mcHenry (r-N.C.).
The republican Governance
Group, a group of 42 centrists led
by rep. David Joyce (ohio), over-
whelmingly endorsed a resolu-
tion to give mcHenry temporary
powers as speaker until Jan. 3,
giving the House enough time to
work in a bipartisan basis to
address a number of end-of-year
priorities, such as avoiding a
government shutdown in mid-
November and sending aid to
Israel and Ukraine. Such a resolu-
tion is consistent with past prec-
edent: Twice the House has voted
to temporarily expand the pow-
ers of the speaker pro tempore, in
1998 and 1918.
minority Leader Hakeem Jef-
fries (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that
there was growing “momentum”
in his caucus to pursue this
option, and several Democrats
have stressed that the House
cannot afford to remain immobi-
lized. Discussions about the plan
have accelerated since Jordan
lost his second attempt to be-
come speaker, according to Dem-
ocrats familiar with the talks,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to detail private con-
versations.
“If we don’t see a speaker
elected in this round, there’s go-
ing to be another candidate and
another internal republican con-
ference vote and a secret ballot,”
rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), chair of
est, despite possessing the
world’s largest proven oil re-
serves and other abundant natu-
ral resources. more than 7 mil-
lion Venezuelans have fled eco-
nomic misery and repression
since maduro came to power a
decade ago, leading to the largest
displaced population in the
world, according to the United
Nations.
most of those Venezuelans re-
settled in other South American
nations such as Colombia and
Peru, but starting in recent years,
growing numbers began heading
north to the United States.
Two U.S. officials said Wednes-
day’s deportation flight was the
first ICE Air flight to Venezuela
on record. Before 2020, the num-
ber of monthly deportations to
Venezuela was small enough that
ICE typically sent migrants home
on regular commercial flights,
according to the officials, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because they were not
authorized to talk to reporters.
Biden administration officials
said they plan to send multiple
deportation flights per week to
Venezuela. They have pushed
back against criticism from im-
migrant advocacy groups, tout-
ing Biden’s moves to significantly
expand opportunities for Vene-
zuelans to enter the United
States legally.
The president is allowing
30,000 migrants from Venezuela,
Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua to
enter the United States each
month with two-year work per-
mits, and he is letting another
45,000 asylum seekers enter by
making an appointment at an
official U.S. border crossing by
using a government mobile app.
Biden also extended tempo-
rary legal status on Sept. 23 to
more than 470,000 Venezuelans
“This path must lead to the
complete lifting of sanctions
against Venezuela,” he said. “We
are people of our word. What is
written and signed is fulfilled. …
With this license, we are moving
forward progressively.”
maduro, the handpicked suc-
cessor to Hugo Chávez, the found-
er of Venezuela’s socialist state,
claimed victory in a 2018 election
viewed by the United States and
other countries as fraudulent.
The Trump administration sev-
ered relations with the govern-
ment in 2019, and to existing sanc-
tions added prohibitions barring
Venezuelan access to U.S. finan-
cial markets. President Donald
Trump at times threatened mili-
tary action against Venezuela,
which he accused of plotting
against the United States with
russia and Iran, with which ma-
duro has maintained close rela-
tions. Iranian President Ibraham
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the House Democratic Caucus,
said Wednesday in his nominat-
ing speech for Jeffries. “The coun-
try can’t afford more delays and
more chaos. fifteen days should
be enough.”
But some key allies to mcHen-
ry, such as rep. Garret Graves
(r-La.), said the GoP must hit
rock bottom first before consider-
ing working across the aisle. on
Wednesday morning, majority
Whip Tom Emmer (r-minn.), a
Jordan supporter, called the idea
of expanding the speaker pro
tempore’s powers a “non-starter.”
Given the lack of support on
the republican side, there is hesi-
tancy on their end to introduce
the privileged resolution because
they do not want more Demo-
crats than republicans to help
pass it. When mcCarthy relied on
Democratic support to pass a
debt ceiling bill and extend gov-
ernment funding, it cost him his
job. But some republicans be-
lieve the writing is on the wall for
Jordan and are expecting the
Joyce resolution to be introduced
before the end of the week to
prevent the House from being
frozen for a third week in a row.
Even if the resolution to em-
power mcHenry gains support,
ensuring it passes would not be
simple. There are several pro-
cedural motions that could be
made to kill the measure before a
final passage vote. As a result,
republicans who are willing to
work with Democrats are waiting
for more support from within
their conference to make sure its
passage is bulletproof.
It is unclear when that consen-
sus can be reached so the House
can start functioning again.
Jacqueline alemany, Mariana alfaro,
Paul Kane, Theodoric Meyer and azi
Paybarah contributed to this report.
already in the United States.
only those who arrived on or
before July 31 are eligible for the
renewable 18-month residency
permits. Administration officials
say Venezuelans who crossed ille-
gally after that date will be
deported if they do not qualify
for humanitarian protection.
“Just weeks ago, officials
deemed Venezuela patently un-
safe for deportations of anyone
who had arrived prior to August,”
said Krish o’mara Vignarajah,
president and CEo of Lutheran
Immigration and refugee Serv-
ice. “Despite this, the Biden ad-
ministration has not offered an
explanation of how conditions
have improved in the short peri-
od since. Tragically, removals of
vulnerable people to perilous
conditions are not new.”
The administration’s oct. 5
announcement that it would be-
gin conducting deportation
flights to Venezuela appears to be
having its intended effect, ac-
cording to preliminary Customs
and Border Protection statistics
showing a significant drop in
illegal entries since then, accord-
ing to officials who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because
they were not authorized to dis-
cuss the data.
In New York City, where Vene-
zuelans make up the largest
share of the more than 60,000
migrants in shelters, mayor Eric
Adams announced a rule this
week that will limit to 60 days
the amount of time families with
children can remain. Last
month, the city said adults who
aren’t traveling with children
would be required to leave shel-
ters after 30 days.
ana Vanessa Herrero in Caracas,
Venezuela, contributed to this
report.
raisi visited Caracas last summer
on his first trip to Latin America.
Venezuela boasts the world’s
largest proven oil reserves, but
years of mismanagement and
sanctions on the oil sector have
brought the economy to a near
standstill. more than 7 million
Venezuelans — a quarter of the
population — have fled the coun-
try. While many now live in other
South American countries, nearly
500,000 have crossed the U.S.
southern border in the last three
years; they include around 50,000
taken into custody by U.S. agents
last month.
In another result of talks be-
tween Washington and Caracas,
the United States on Wednesday
conducted its first deportation
flight to Venezuela, returning
nearly 130 migrants.
Herrero reported from Caracas,
Venezuela.
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“I came to recognize ... that to undo racism, we
have to undo our belief in race.”
Sheena Mason, assistant professor of english at SUNY Oneonta
Decrying the idea
of race, and those
census check boxes
RAcE frOm A1
pinnacle. for centuries now, the
categories have been used to di-
vide and to perpetuate every ver-
sion of harm — enslavement,
violence, an eclipse of opportu-
nity. The reality of it all some-
times moves Hoyt to tears.
In 2003, the completion of the
Human Genome Project — which
found that humans globally share
99.9 percent of their DNA — laid
waste to the notion of “race”
among the vast majority of scien-
tists. But the public appears bare-
ly to have noticed. The idea still
lives everywhere — in discrimina-
tion and criminal profiling, in the
rise of hate speech and acts, in the
recent Supreme Court decision
ending affirmative action in col-
lege admissions, in the rhetoric of
social justice advocates and in the
new capitalization of “Black” and
“White” in the media. racial cate-
gorization persists on job appli-
cations, medical forms and, most
critically to Hoyt due to its high
visibility, the census.
The 63-year-old educational
consultant and psychotherapist
is part of a small but increasingly
vocal group of people who favor
phasing out racial categories. A
diverse cohort of highly educated
professionals and academics,
they are trying to gain broader
societal acceptance for their be-
liefs through a cottage industry of
books, articles, websites, confer-
ences and training.
Yet they recoil at the idea of
being confused with people who
call themselves “colorblind,”
those “who are trying to deny that
there is racism in the world,” Hoyt
said. The government must ac-
count for harms caused by “race,”
but without resorting to de-
bunked categories that suggest it
is biological, he said.
Hoyt read aloud the Census
Bureau’s caveats, that “the racial
categories included in the Census
Questionnaire generally reflect a
social definition of race recog-
nized in this country, and not an
attempt to define race biological-
ly, anthropologically, or geneti-
cally.”
He sighed. “To recognize that
race … is a false concept but to
keep doing it anyway, there’s
something intellectually prob-
lematic about it.”
But it’s a long distance from
here to there, so he and his fellow
racial-category resisters are pro-
posing a middle ground until
society catches up. They don’t
advocate for the cold-turkey
method of the french, whose
laws strictly limit data collection
on race and ethnicity amid pro-
tests of racial discrimination.
“There’s a principle in psycho-
therapy that says you don’t take
away a client’s defenses unless
you have something to replace it
with, because it’s serving a pur-
pose, right?” said Hoyt, the au-
thor of “The Arc of a Bad Idea,”
who has given a TEDx talk, devel-
oped a website with a “nonracial
world view library,” and frequent-
ly consults at schools and univer-
sities on the topic.
In the email that August, Hoyt
learned that the federal govern-
ment for the first time was allow-
ing people to present their solu-
tions in 25-minute Zoom presen-
tations. The offer may have been
“all marketing,” Hoyt said, but he
decided it was worth a try.
Soon Hoyt received his date:
may 4, 2023.
The ‘dangerous myth’
To outsiders, such efforts
might seem like so much tilting at
windmills. It’s a formidable task
to dismantle a centuries-old sys-
tem that persists like air, omni-
present, its twisted origins large-
ly invisible.
In fact, there have long been
thinkers who have questioned
the use of racial categories, as
well as people who sought to
escape them and the harm
they’ve posed.
Early 20th-century anthropol-
ogist Ashley montagu famously
wrote, “The word race is racist,”
in his landmark 1942 book,
“man’s most Dangerous myth:
The fallacy of race.” franz Boas,
the German American anthropol-
ogist, argued over a century ago
that race was solely a social
construct, as did African Ameri-
can sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois.
more recently, Harvard historian
Henry Louis Gates urged the
nation to devise a new language
for talking about race, given what
is now known about human ori-
gins.
In the United States, where
racial categories have been par-
ticularly rigid, there has been a
long history of “passing” for an-
other racial identity, a practice
that has served only to under-
score the unreliability of racial
categories based first on physical
features.
Yet unlike in decades past,
more ordinary Americans are
coming to see “race” for what it is,
Hoyt maintains. In interviews he
conducted for his doctoral thesis
and book, these people describe
gradually awakening to the idea
— through traumatic personal
experiences with discrimination,
through foreign travel or some-
thing they read — that they had
been sold a bill of goods. “race,”
they decided, does not exist.
As with religion, some people
never bought in to begin with,
Hoyt said. He puts himself into
this category.
He was about 3 when his par-
ents, poor Costa ricans of West
African and Jamaican descent,
immigrated to the United States,
where the family was plunged
into the country’s system of racial
categorization.
“I thought ‘What are these
attachments?’ … I was a cultural
straddler from the beginning.”
In seventh grade, Hoyt became
part of a racial busing program
that carried him from his home in
the Boston neighborhood of
Dorchester to nearby Dover or, as
he describes it, “a black-identi-
fied environment to a white-iden-
tified environment,” where he
said he did not experience dis-
crimination.
In the late 1970s, he went off to
college at Wesleyan University in
Connecticut. In her 1998 sociolo-
gy classic “Why Are all the Black
Kids Sitting Together in the Caf-
eteria?,” Beverly Daniel Tatum, an
alum, psychologist and educator,
referenced the very Wesleyan caf-
eteria where Hoyt dined, a sunk-
en space with windows allowing
an elevated view of how students
chose to self-segregate.
Tatum affirmed the practice as
a healthy way to cope in a racist
society. Hoyt viewed it differently.
“I would never want to relegate
myself to sitting with only one
type of person,” he recalled think-
ing.
Thus was born his own interest
in the development of racial iden-
tity and the harms caused by
racism — and how to undo them.
most of the people in his book
and others who share his beliefs
haven’t escaped racism them-
selves. “But they felt strongly that
there was no validity or useful-
ness to [race] and that, as a
matter of fact, they found it
harmful to be reduced in such a
Sheena Mason. author of “The Raceless Antiracist: Why
Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism,” says new terms
for describing oneself can guard against racist stereotypes.
eZ re
way,” said Hoyt, who has a doctor-
ate in social work.
Yet Ellis monk, a sociology
professor at Harvard University
who researches race, inequity
and colorism, is among those
who think eradicating race is
impractical. Although he knows
that biological race does not exist,
there’s no getting away from race
“in a world where race has mat-
tered,” monk said.
Some argue that identifying
collectively by race has also en-
abled members of minority
groups to more effectively fight
for equal rights; others, like Har-
vard professor Tommie Shelby,
assert that battling oppression
does not require a common Black
identity.
The pride many minority
group members have come to
take in their identities can be
viewed as a resistance in itself,
Hoyt said. “But while reclamation
feels good, it’s always incomplete-
ly successful” because it fails to
challenge the delusion of race at
the heart of racism, he said.
To tide Americans over to a
more egalitarian time, Hoyt and
others suggest that people use
alternatives for self-description.
for example, there’s:
“Classified [insert racial cat-
egory].”
“[Insert racial category]-iden-
tified.”
And “racialized [insert racial
category]” — Hoyt’s personal
preference, which refers to the
way one is perceived or what has
been done to a person, rather
than who one is down to a
debunked genetic notion.
Such descriptors could still al-
low the government to account
for possible harms caused by
modern and historic discrimina-
tion, Hoyt and others believe.
On an individual level, these
new terms for describing oneself
can also create a psychological
buffer against the assault of racist
assumptions and stereotypes and
feelings of otherness embodied in
the centuries-old racial catego-
ries, said Sheena mason, an assis-
tant professor of English at SUNY
Oneonta.
mason first categorized herself
as Black, in part because she had
been a victim of racism in child-
hood growing up in the tiny town
of South Glens falls, N.Y. “I was
called the n-word,” mason said.
“You know, you name it, I prob-
ably experienced it.
“I grew up being told that I was
Black … and I believed it was
biological because that’s what we
COUrteSY Of SheeNa MaSON
teach our children: that it is
biological.”
As an undergraduate, she
switched to believing that race is
a social construct rather than a
biological reality. mason increas-
ingly embraced her identity as a
Black woman as she followed her
interest in race and racism. By the
time she finished her PhD in
English from Howard University,
however, she had come to view
herself as “raceless.”
“I came to recognize that the
thing I had always noticed in the
literature and through my study
of the history was that to undo
racism, we have to undo our
belief in race,” she said. “ … And
so I can acknowledge racism, that
is other people’s racialization of
me, while seeing myself outside
of those confines.”
That dual perception has been
liberating, she said. “I realized
that everything I love about Shee-
na mason has nothing to do with
race. And that’s the problem.
race is only the dehumanization.
It’s only the attending racism. It’s
the erasure of the individual.”
“So in letting go of race … I
have a better understanding of
who I am. I have a deeper under-
standing of the roles of culture,
and ethnicity and class and so
on.” She calls her philosophy “The
Theory of racelessness,” the title
of her first book. She also spreads
the theory through her work as a
consultant and in the classroom.
Her students, mason said, tell
her: “Please teach me how to not
internalize this stuff, because it’s
killing me. It’s getting me down. I
move on campus, and I feel like I
don’t belong, or I’m not wanted,
and I want to free myself from
that.”
‘Am I complicit?’
But racial categories can’t be
unraveled by pulling a string.
first, they must be confronted in
the real world.
To Hoyt and many in his co-
hort, deciding whether to check
the race box requires delibera-
tion. The box at the doctor’s
office, which can lead to false
inferences that are sometimes
detrimental, is often nixed — for
herself and her three young
children, mason said. marriage
license applications are a no-
brainer: no.
Boxes in which aggregate data
is used to correct past wrongs are
greeted with some hand-wring-
ing. That includes the racial cat-
egory boxes that were included
on college admissions applica-
tions, before the U.S. Supreme
Court in June struck down their
use as unconstitutional.
As the founder of a nonprofit
that seeks to eradicate the con-
cept of race, Adrian Lyles believes
that the Supreme Court made the
right decision.
“Where there is race, there is
inherent racism or hierarchy,”
Lyles said, who also owns an
investment firm in Georgia. What
Harvard is “saying is that those
who are members of the black
class are inferior, therefore we
must level the standard by giving
them preferential treatment.”
The truth, said Lyles, 37, is that
“race has no quantifiable metric,”
like socioeconomic status, for ex-
ample. “Where you have unreli-
able input, your data is trash.”
Hoyt believes that the boxes
are problematic, but then “one
wants to ask, well, what about the
persistence of racism?” he said.
His hope is that the court’s deci-
sion “will be the mother of a
better invention, which is not to
invite people to express their
corporeal reality” but instead
share in their essays their experi-
ences with all kinds of adversity.
for his part, if given the
chance, Hoyt will sometimes ig-
nore the boxes and write in
“racialized black” and “X.” (Oth-
ers say they will write “Human.”)
But as the census offers no such
the washington post . thursday,
option, it’s damned if he does,
damned if he doesn’t, he said.
The racial data in the census is
used at the local, state and federal
levels to devise and fund policies
and programs. It is also used to
evaluate them “to ensure that
they fairly and equitably serve
the needs of all racial groups and
to monitor compliance with anti-
discrimination laws, regulations,
and policies,” according to the
U.S. Census Bureau website. Sig-
nificantly, the data is used to
draw congressional districts,
thereby helping to determine the
influence of minority voters and
challenge racial gerrymandering.
“If somebody like me doesn’t
check the box … then am I
diminishing the force of data
collection in order to keep track
of how people are treated?” Hoyt
said. “On the other hand, if I do
check those boxes, am I complicit
in this problem?”
“I think it’s so important for
the census to be able to give me a
chance to represent my bearing
on identity,” he said. “And right
now … it forces me to subscribe to
a kind of belief that I don’t
subscribe to.”
‘I’m not here by myself ’
On may 4, Hoyt retreated to
the study of his mid-century
modern home in Lexington,
mass. where he lives with his
wife, Leslie, a biotech consultant
who describes herself as “racial-
ized white.” It was here in this
privileged enclave where the cou-
ple raised their two children,
Lauren and Evan, now in their
30s. The birth of Evan, who looks
much like his father but with fair
skin, served to underscore for
Hoyt the absurdity of racial cate-
gories.
Hoyt, wearing a perfectly
pressed black-and-cream Henley,
sat down at his desk facing a
window and fired up his comput-
er. finally, the Zoom squares
appeared — one occupied only by
a person named “Bob,” the rest by
about two dozen anonymous gov-
ernment employees with cameras
turned off.
Hoyt teed up his slides and
began to speak.
“I want to say from the outset,
I’m not really here by myself,”
Hoyt said. “I feel like I’m speaking
for a bunch of folks who have in
some ways a unique sort of identi-
ty orientation regarding race and
who sadly are literally not on the
census’s radar right now.”
from this same perch a week
before, Hoyt had gathered on
Zoom with some of those people
— 13 from the United States and
one from Canada. About half
were “racialized black” and half
“racialized white.” Evan was part
of the latter category.
for an hour and a half, they
talked about how they had come
to their beliefs, their battles
against racism, and their frustra-
tions with others who can’t see
beyond flat-Earth thinking.
Jason Schriner, who is racial-
ized white, grew up in northwest-
ern Kansas in “a very so-called
White space.”
“Even at a fairly young age, I
was one of these weird people
that internalized the idea that
we’re all just human beings, and
have inherent dignity and worth,”
Schriner said.
As a college student, he read
about and met people who taught
him “how to move past” the false
notion of race, “and that started a
path of just dedicating myself to
try to really work for liberation,
and conceptualize what a new
human era would look like.”
Greg Thomas, who is racialized
black, talked about the frustra-
tion of listening to his Southern
parents reflexively use race in
their speech. “It’s hard for [most
people] to even envision the pos-
sibility of getting outside of this
delusion because everyone re-
inforces it, every day.”
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A change would require more
people to think critically and
courageously. “But I do believe
that, you know, we can get to a
tipping point. We just have to
keep working at it,” Thomas said.
That was what Hoyt was now
here to do on their behalf with the
federal government. Holding a
highlighted script in his hand, he
first raised the fallacy of biologi-
cal race and then explained the
concept of racialization.
He pulled up the slide showing
the mock-up of a new census
form.
“How is this person racial-
ized?” the top of the form read.
Then: “mark one or more boxes
AND print origins.” After that,
there is a box with the option: “I
do not identify by race.”
On the left side ran a column of
tiny boxes marked “By Self”; on
the right, the tiny boxes were
marked “By Others.” In between
were the myriad “racial” catego-
ries, starting with White and
Black or African American and
the boxes allowing the person to
check or write in ethnic origin or
tribe. If the person does not
identify by race, they would fill
out only the “By Others” category.
He walked his faceless listen-
ers through it all.
monk, who has worked with
the census before on its racial
data collection, doubts that the
concept of racialization can be
widely grasped.
“When you move to new terms,
like ‘racialized’ … you probably
run the risk of people not really
understanding,” monk said.
A better approach, he said,
might be to educate people about
the categories’ origins and “that
it’s really about us understanding
where we’ve come from, and the
different struggles that people
have had and how they are not
about biology.”
“If the context around these
categories changes, then the cate-
gories themselves are not inher-
ently problematic.”
Hoyt agrees that education is
key. The word comes up continu-
ally; many of the race-category
resisters are educators after all.
But language that has caused
harm for centuries must be at-
tacked from all sides, he believes.
The census could at least run the
form through its rigorous testing
process. The categories have al-
ready shifted greatly over time,
he noted.
The federal Office of manage-
ment and Budget, which recom-
mends changes in racial and eth-
nic categories to the census, be-
gan the listening sessions last fall.
They will run through this fall, a
spokesman said, although the
agency would not divulge how
many sessions or participants
will be included.
OmB declined to comment on
the possibility of using other
terms for race or the impact its
usage of racial categories has on
U.S. society.
At his desk, Hoyt starts to wind
up his presentation to the census
people.
“I hope it does not represent a
disruption to what the census has
been doing and needs to do,” said
Hoyt, looking directly now at his
laptop camera. “ … But for my
money, and the folks that I’m
representing, this would be the
most important correction that
we’ve made in terms of how we
think and treat each other …
since the founding of this nation.”
Hoyt closed his laptop and
thought for a moment. He is not
sure the government will be more
or less apt than its citizens to
listen to his message. One thing
he believes: The world can’t af-
ford his not trying.
this article follows Post style of
capitalizing “Black” and “White,”
except in some quotes where the
speaker opposes it or when using the
subjects’ alternative terminology.
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China’s Xi cuts a new path for his Belt and Road Initiative
With Russia’s Putin by his side, he pledges a greener, higher-tech, more interconnected phase of the program — and a world order remade by Beijing
BY C HRISTIAN S HEPHERD
AND L YRIC L I
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on
Wednesday laid out a vision for a
revamped version of his signa-
ture “Belt and Road” investment
initiative and promised contin-
ued economic support for nations
that sign on to China’s remade
world order.
With guest of honor Vladimir
Putin, who shares his discontent
with the Western-led world order,
Xi presented the plan as an alter-
native route to riches than that
offered by the United States and
other industrial democracies,
which he accused of holding back
developing nations with trade
sanctions and demands for politi-
cal reform.
“We do not engage in ideologi-
cal confrontation, geopolitical
games, or form confrontational
political cliques,” Xi said in the
Great Hall of the People, where
representatives from more than
140 countries, largely from the
Global South, were in attendance.
It has been a decade since Xi
unveiled plans to rebuild the
ancient Silk Road and, with it,
reshape global trade and politics
with China planted firmly at the
center.
His signature project has bal-
looned into a $1 trillion endeavor,
but it is still only a loosely coordi-
nated network of power plants,
ports, roads and railways. It has
generated significant contro-
versy, with host countries such as
Sri Lanka and Nepal struggling to
overcome mounting debt, while
activists in countries like Laos
fear that Chinese largesse is laced
with threats to national sover-
eignty.
In an effort to recast the initia-
tive, Xi on Wednesday pledged a
greener, higher-tech, more tar-
geted and more interconnected
phase of the project that would
turn the “lowlands of develop-
ment into the highlands of pros-
perity.”
He also painted the program as
necessary in an increasingly po-
MExIcO
Regional leaders set to
join migration summit
Mexico’s president said that
the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela,
Haiti and Honduras will attend
a summit on migration that
Mexico will host Sunday.
The four countries are among
the biggest sources of migrants
showing up at the U.S. border.
President Andrés Manuel
López Obrador said that in
addition to President Nicolás
Maduro of Venezuela, President
Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba,
Prime Minister Ariel Henry of
Haiti and President Xiomara
Castro of Honduras, the leaders
of Ecuador and Guatemala will
be part of the gathering. Other
countries also are expected to
send officials to the meeting,
which will be held in the
southern city of Palenque.
López Obrador said the
meeting will address migration
and the underlying factors that
push people to leave their home
larized world, taking aim at U.S.
and European efforts to “de-risk”
supply chains by reducing de-
pendence on China. “Seeing other
people’s development as a threat
and economic interdependence
as a risk will not allow you to live
better and develop faster,” he
said.
China has shifted from major
infrastructure to smaller technol-
ogy projects as its ability to fund
overseas undertakings has been
constrained by mounting debt
and a slowdown at home. A raft of
policy moves secured 4.9 percent
economic growth during the past
three months, despite a continu-
ing downturn in the property
sector, data released Wednesday
showed.
But Xi has shown no sign of
abandoning an initiative that re-
mains central to China’s efforts to
challenge the U.S.-led world or-
der. This year alone, projects
worth $40 billion have been
launched under the program, ac-
cording to the American Enter-
prise Institute, a think tank.
The Belt and Road Initiative
began as an effort based on huge
construction projects, but it has
evolved into a slimmed-down ve-
hicle for China’s geostrategic
goals and a way to help sanction-
proof its economy, the Eurasia
Group said in a note.
Beijing has long considered
Moscow a critical friend in that
effort, forging a “no limits” part-
nership and ignoring Western-
led efforts to censure Russian
leader Putin over the invasion of
Ukraine and an International
Criminal Court arrest warrant for
the unlawful deportation of chil-
dren.
This is only the second time
Putin has left Russia since his
March indictment, after a trip
last week to Kyrgyzstan’s capital,
Bishkek.
Putin, stepping onto the stage
to deliver remarks after Xi,
praised China’s achievements
and touted a shared desire for
global economic progress that
respects “civilizational diversity
countries. He also recently
acknowledged that migration
has spiked and that as many as
10,000 migrants are crossing
Mexico daily to reach the U.S.
border.
Many are coming through the
jungle-clad Darién Gap. Panama
estimates that 420,700 migrants
have crossed the Gap from
Colombia to Panama this year,
making it likely that the number
for the entire year will top a
half-million.
— Associated Press
UNItED NAtIONs
Activists protest at
hearing on U.S. policy
Dozens of U.S. activists who
champion LGBTQ, Indigenous,
reproductive and other rights
and who campaign against
discrimination turned their
backs Wednesday in a silent
protest in Geneva over what
they called insufficient U.S.
government responses to their
human rights concerns.
eZ Re
The World
DI gEst
The protesters, who came
from places as diverse as Guam,
Puerto Rico, Hawaii and
beyond, led the demonstration
before the independent Human
Rights Committee as U.S.
Ambassador Michèle Taylor
wrapped up a two-day hearing
on the United States. It was part
of a regular human rights
review by the committee of all
member countries of the United
Nations.
Six other countries, including
Haiti, Iran and Venezuela, also
were facing public sessions in
Geneva this fall to assess how
well they are adhering to their
commitments under the
International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights — one of
only a handful of international
human rights treaties that the
United States has ratified.
The protest came as Taylor
said the U.S. commitment to the
treaty was “a moral imperative
at the very heart of our
democracy.” Taylor, who is U.S.
ambassador to the Human
Rights Council, added: “You
LI hao/XINhua NewS aGeNcy/GeTTy ImaGeS
LouISe DeLmoTTe/aP
have heard over the past two
days about many of the concrete
ways we are meeting our
obligations under the
convention, and you have also
heard our pledge to do more.”
— Associated Press
Taliban court orders release of
French-Afghan journalist: A
Taliban court in Afghanistan
released a French-Afghan
journalist held for 284 days and
cleared him of espionage and
other charges, Reporters
Without Borders said. The press
freedom group said it is working
to quickly reunite Mortaza
Behboudi with his wife,
Alexandra, in Paris. “It is the end
of a painful ordeal,” said
Christophe Deloire, the group’s
secretary general. Behboudi was
arrested Jan. 7, two days after he
arrived in Afghanistan as part of
a reporting assignment.
Behboudi was awarded the
Bayeux Prize for War
Correspondents last year for his
reporting about life in
Afghanistan under the Taliban.
the washington post . thursday,
and the right of each country to
its own model of development.”
While China has emphasized
the globe-spanning nature of the
Belt and Road Initiative, saying it
is open to any country, the focus
of Chinese investment has been
primarily on emerging econo-
mies, and that has only grown as
China’s relationship with the
West has soured. Italy, the only
Group of Seven industrialized
economy to sign up, is looking for
a way to exit the program.
Hungary’s far-right prime min-
ister, Viktor Orban, was the only
European Union leader at the
forum. He met with Putin on
Tuesday, in another diplomatic
win for the isolated Russian pres-
ident.
Putin’s prominence at this fo-
rum — he and Xi strode Tuesday
evening to rousing music through
the golden doors of a banquet
hall, where Xi promised another
“golden decade” of the initiative
— shows how China now favors
building relations with countries
not aligned with the West, ana-
lysts said, because many leaders
would be unwilling to share a
platform with the Russian leader.
The initiative also remains
“helpful for China’s ambition to
form an alternative convening
space for emerging economies,”
said Christoph Nedopil Wang,
director of the Asia Institute at
Griffith University in Australia.
China has been cagey about the
invitation list for this forum and
whether there were any last-
minute cancellations caused by
the war between Israel and
Hamas, but there appear to be
fewer Arab nations in attendance
than at the last forum, in 2019.
Xi is deeply personally invest-
ed in the Belt and Road Initiative.
It has been written into the char-
ter of the Chinese Communist
Party and is regularly touted as a
key plank in Xi’s approach to
diplomacy. New initiatives on
global development, security and
“civilization” are framed as exten-
sions of the Belt and Road, rather
than replacements.
Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif seeks
protection from arrest ahead of
return: Former prime minister
Nawaz Sharif has sought
protection from arrest from a
court in Islamabad, Pakistan,
ahead of his planned return to
the country, his attorney and
officials said. Sharif, who lived
in voluntary exile in London
until this month, is expected to
return home Saturday. He is a
fugitive from justice, having
failed to appear before a court
in 2019. He stepped down in
2017 after a court convicted him
on corruption charges. Two
years later, facing additional
graft charges, he complained of
chest pains and was granted
permission by then-Prime
Minister Imran Khan to travel
to London for treatment. Once
in London in 2019, Sharif
prolonged his stay, saying his
doctors were not allowing him
to travel. He has been wanted by
Pakistani authorities since 2020,
when a court issued a warrant
for his arrest after he failed to
return home.
october 19 , 2023
Suo Takekuma/PooL/aP
ABOVE: Russian President
Vladimir Putin and Chinese
President Xi Jinping, at front
center, stand with other leaders
at the Belt and Road Forum in
Beijing on Wednesday. LEFT:
Crews at work in 2021 at the
spillway of the Karot
Hydropower Project in
Pakistan. In 2023 alone,
projects worth $40 billion have
been launched under the
initiative, according to the
American Enterprise Institute.
BELOW: A Chinese soldier
marches outside the Great Hall
of the People, where
representatives from over
140 countries, largely from the
Global South, were in
attendance for the forum.
A white paper released last
week lays out Xi’s bold claim that
China, through the Belt and
Road, offers a new route to wealth
for nations disillusioned with
Western-led globalization, and
promises a greater share of spoils
for the Global South if the world
develops according to Beijing’s
playbook.
“It is no longer acceptable that
only a few countries dominate
world economic development,
control economic rules, and enjoy
development fruits,” the paper
stated.
Chinese nationalist commen-
tators were quick to draw a con-
trast between what they claimed
were scenes of serenity in Beijing
and the destruction in Gaza — a
conflict that was blamed on failed
American foreign policy.
“A war rages in the Middle East
and war is imminent. … The
United States is not idle either,”
wrote Niu Tanqin, a popular for-
eign affairs blog with ties to the
state-run Xinhua News Agency.
“In Beijing, we are celebrating
and a grand event is about to be
held. … The world is taking fire
every day and China is working
hard to fix it.”
Shepherd reported from Taipei,
Taiwan, and Li from Seoul.
Presidential runoff vote likely
in Liberia: Liberia’s presidential
election appeared headed for a
runoff, with the top candidates
neck and neck and the votes
nearly fully counted. President
George Weah, who is seeking a
second term, had 43.8 percent of
the vote, according to the
National Elections Commission,
and his main challenger, Joseph
Boakai, had 43.4 percent. A
candidate needs more than
50 percent of the vote to win.
The election is the tightest in the
nearly two decades since the end
of the country’s last civil war,
which killed about 250,000
people. Weah, 57, a former
international soccer star,
became president six years ago
in the first democratic transfer
of power in the West African
nation since back-to-back civil
wars between 1989 and 2003. He
has been accused of not living
up to key campaign promises of
fighting corruption and
ensuring justice for the victims
of the civil wars.
— From news services
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Israel-Gaza War

Biden says deal struck to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza

ISrAel from A1

at a moment of extraordinary an-

ger across the middle East. Hours
before he left Washington, a dev-
astating blast hit outside a hospi-
tal in Gaza, killing nearly 500 peo-
ple, according to the Palestinian
ministry of Health, most of them
displaced families who had sought
shelter there. Palestinian officials
were quick to cite an Israeli air-
strike; Israel blamed local mili-
tants.
Speaking in Tel Aviv on
Wednesday, Biden came down
firmly on the Israeli side, saying
the blast appeared to be “the result
of an errant rocket fired by a ter-
rorist group in Gaza.” He said he
was “outraged and saddened by
the enormous loss of life.”
But Arab leaders horrified by
the hospital strike had already
canceled a meeting planned with
Biden. on Wednesday, furious
protesters flooded the streets
from morocco to Iran, while dead-
ly clashes erupted in the West
Bank.
Biden has stood steadfastly be-
hind Israel since the oct. 7 attack
by Hamas, who killed at least 1,400
people and captured nearly 200
hostages, including a number of
Americans. But the president’s
rhetoric has shifted in recent days
as he has sought to draw a distinc-
tion between militants and Pales-
tinian civilians.
Concerned that the war be-
tween Israel and Hamas could es-
calate into a broader regional con-
flict, the White House has tried to
assure Arab partners that it will
use its influence to protect inno- LoAy Ayyoub for the WAshington Post

cent Gazans. Conditions in the
enclave — already one of the poor-
est and most densely populated
places in the world — are deterio-
rating rapidly. more than 3,000
people have been killed by air-
strikes. Local hospitals are col-
lapsing.
on Wednesday, Biden likened
the Hamas attacks on Israel to the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Unit-
ed States. He said Americans un-
derstand the shock, pain and an-
ger that Israelis are feeling. But he
also counseled caution.
“After 9/11, we were enraged in
the United States” Biden said.
“While we sought justice and got
justice, we also made mistakes.”
He urged Israel to be clear and
honest about its objectives. “The
vast majority of Palestinians are
not Hamas,” he said. “Palestinian
people are suffering greatly as
well.”
Biden spent a little over seven
hours in Israel, where he was
greeted on the tarmac by Israeli
Prime minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu. The two men — whose de-
cades-long relationship has been
tested this year — shared a brief
hug. Biden spent more than two
hours at a meeting of the Israeli
war cabinet before speaking with
Palestinian residents search for survivors in the Abu Sahaq family home in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
doesn’t let it get through … then
it’s going to end,” Biden told re-
porters on Air force one.
Netanyahu emphasized
Wednesday that Israel would not
permit the transfer of any human-
itarian aid to Gaza from its own
territory, but said it would not
thwart the delivery of supplies
from Egypt, provided it was limit-
ed to “food, water and medicine
for the civilian population” — and
so long as none of it reached
Hamas.
The rafah crossing, the last re-
maining land route for relief con-
voys between Gaza and Egypt, has
been effectively shut for more
than a week after Israeli airstrikes
in the area. Earlier this week,
trucks filled with undelivered aid
lined the road in Arish, the nearest
Egyptian city. foreign nationals
desperate to escape Gaza crowded
the shuttered gates on the Pales-
tinian side.
In an interview with The Wash-
ington Post on Wednesday, U.N.
aid chief martin Griffiths said that
key details on the delivery of aid
remain unresolved including,
most critically, the process for ver-
ifying that trucks going into Gaza
ing water and cooking fuel.
“It’s incredibly dangerous and
dire right now,” he said.
many hospitals in Gaza are op-
erating at a “bare minimum ca-
pacity” as the enclave faced its
seventh day of a full electricity
blackout, the U.N. office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Af-
fairs said in an update late Tues-
day.
The organization also warned
that many people had been forced
to drink unsafe water, risking
death and disease.
Israeli airstrikes on the terri-
tory continued Wednesday, in-
cluding on a three-story building
in Gaza City that killed 40 people,
survivors told the Associated
Press.
The Israel Defense forces on
Wednesday called on residents of
northern Gaza to evacuate to a
designated humanitarian area in
the town of al-mawasi, the latest in
a series of recent directives urging
Gazans to move south, even
though most have nowhere to stay.
The United Nations has warned
that the evacuation orders may
violate international law.
on Wednesday, the United
by Iran claimed responsibility for Hamas leader in the West Bank. forces.”
a string of attempted drone at- “our goal should be focused on
tacks on bases hosting U.S. forces, Gaza, Jerusalem and the resis- Abutaleb reported from Washington;
linking the assaults to Washing- tance.” fahim from beirut; slater from
ton’s support for Israel. There was little acknowledg- Williamstown, Mass.; and Parker from
Palestinians across the occu- ment in the region of Israel’s deni- Cairo. rick noack in islamabad,
pied West Bank clashed with Is- al of responsibility for the hospital Pakistan; noga tarnopolsky in tel Aviv;
raeli and Palestinian security forc- strike, or of Biden’s agreement Miriam berger and sufian taha in
es, leaving several dead. About that Palestinian militants were re- ramallah; sarah Dadouch in beirut;
1,000 people gathered Wednesday sponsible. Saudi Arabia — which Karen Deyoung, bryan Pietsch and
for a protest in ramallah, carrying in recent months had been explor- Dan rosenzweig-Ziff in Washington;
flags of fatah, the ruling party, as ing normalizing ties with Israel — Louisa Loveluck and victoria bisset in
well as Hamas, its longtime rival. immediately condemned what it London; and Kelsey Ables and Kelly
“There is no difference between said was a “heinous crime com- Kasulis Cho in seoul contributed to
the factions,” said Hassan Yousef, a mitted by the Israeli occupation this report.
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lies of victims and hostages. plies. Council resolution that called for a

Biden plans to make a televised
address to the nation on Thursday
evening to discuss the U.S. re-
sponse to the Hamas attacks on
Israel, as well as the ongoing war
in Ukraine.
The president also announced
$100 million in new U.S. humani-
tarian assistance for Gaza and the
West Bank, where dozens of Pales-
tinians have been killed by Israeli
security forces over the last 10 days
and the American-backed Pales-
tinian Authority is struggling to
maintain its hold on power.
During a refueling stop on the
flight back to Washington, Biden
said Egyptian President Abdel fa-
tah El-Sisi had agreed to open the
rafah crossing between his coun-
try and Gaza, allowing up to 20
trucks of humanitarian aid to en-
ter the enclave, possibly as early as
friday.
“If Hamas confiscates them or
Griffiths said he hoped that Is-
rael, Egypt and the United Nations
could come to a “quick agreement”
on a “light but effective verifica-
tion process” that would allow
supplies to begin moving later this
week.
Biden told reporters he was also
hoping for progress on another
front: the fate of the estimated 500
to 600 U.S. citizens trapped in
Gaza. “I’m hopeful we can get
some Americans out,” he said,
without providing further detail.
for their families, the lack of
assurances was a bitter disap-
pointment.
“It’s just unbelievable for him to
get on a plane without striking a
deal to get them out,” said Sammy
Nabulsi, a lawyer in Boston whose
friends Abood okal and Wafaa
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mention “Israel’s right to self-de-
fense” and said that the diplomat-
ic process, including Biden’s visit
to Israel, should be allowed to
“play out.”
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Protests spread in West Bank as militants bide their time
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political and geographical lines —
leaving their leaders in the West
Bank struggling to maintain con-
trol and contain calls for violent
resistance.
“We are all Palestinians,” said a
30-year-old man on the sidelines
of Tuesday’s march in Nablus,
speaking on the condition of ano-
nymity to protect his safety. “We
are fighting two governments,
Israel and the [Palestinian] Au-
thority.”
Protesters at the march chant-
ed, “We will die for you, Gaza” and
in support of Hamas’s military
wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Bri-
gades. A few openly waved
Hamas flags and wore the group’s
signature green attire — a previ-
ously unthinkable show of sup-
port on fatah’s home turf.
on Wednesday, protesters
clashed again with Israeli and
Palestinian security forces in cit-
ies across the West Bank, includ-
ing Jenin, Nablus and Hebron.
Israeli forces responded with live
fire, tear gas and stun grenades.
At least two Palestinians were
killed in a town outside ramal-
lah.
Palestinian officials were quick
to label Tuesday’s hospital strike
an Israeli “massacre,” though Is-
raeli officials blamed the blast on
an errant rocket from Palestinian
militants. Current U.S. intelli-
gence has found that Israel was
“not responsible,” a White House
National Security Council
spokesperson told The Washing-
ton Post on Wednesday.
But those findings will carry
little weight here. more than
3,000 Gazans have been killed in
Israeli airstrikes since oct. 7, and
hundreds of thousands have been
displaced.
over the same period, Israeli
soldiers and settlers have killed
more than 60 Palestinians in the
West Bank and injured more than
1,300, according to the Palestin-
ian Health ministry. Israel has
also locked down parts of the
West Bank, closing roads and
putting up checkpoints to pre-
vent Palestinians from moving
between towns and cities.
more than 440 Palestinians
have been arrested by the Israeli
military, which says about half of
them are affiliated with Hamas,
and settler violence is surging.
In response to the hospital
strike, 88-year-old Palestinian
Authority President mahmoud
Abbas cut short a visit to Amman,
Jordan, where he was supposed
to meet Wednesday with Presi-
dent Biden, and returned to ra-
mallah, the authority’s de facto
capital.
In a statement, Abbas said the
explosion was “a heinous war
crime” and called on the interna-
tional community to intervene in
Gaza. “We will not allow a new
Nakba in the twenty-first cen-
tury,” Abbas said, referring to the
mass displacement of Palestin-
ians following Israel’s creation in
1948.
But Palestinians have criti-
At Gaza hospital, a hoped-for haven becomes scene of mourning, questions
BY H AZEM B ALOUSHA,
S USANNAH G EORGE AND
H EBA F AROUK M AHFOUZ
NUSEirat rEFUGEE CaMp, Gaza
Strip — Al-Ahli Hospital had
been seen as a relatively safe
place in a city with few safe
places. Hundreds of families
sheltered near the medical com-
plex in Gaza City — filling the
parking areas and other spots —
in the hope that the site would be
spared from the waves of Israeli
airstrikes.
Then, in a towering flash of
flame and debris, many of those
displaced by the war in Gaza
became casualties of the conflict.
Images after late Tuesday’s strike
showed men, women and chil-
dren, many covered in dust and
blood, crowding into the hospital
for treatment even as Israel and
Hamas, the militant group that
controls Gaza, traded accusa-
tions over who was to blame.
Palestinian teams combed
Wednesday through the blast
zone — an area that radiated
from a crater punched into pave-
ment just outside the four-story
complex. Cars were flipped over
by the force of the explosion.
other vehicles were charred. The
blast bent metal fencing and
shattered windows.
Gaza’s Health ministry said
471 people were killed and more
than 300 were injured, with 28 of
the injured in critical condition.
The attack is the single deadliest
incident for civilians in Gaza in a
war that has already killed more
Palestinians and Israeli civilians
than any previous conflict be-
cized Abbas for what they see as
his muted presence over the past
10 days — as Washington and the
authority’s other Western backers
have rallied around Israel.
“for years they’ve been saying,
‘We are supporting the Palestin-
ians, we want a two-state solu-
tion, an independent viable Pales-
tinian state,’ and now I think the
mask went down,” said Ayman
Shakaa, who leads a community
center in Nablus.
Israel occupied the West Bank,
Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in
1967. Under the oslo accords,
brokered by President Bill Clin-
ton in 1993, those territories were
meant to form a Palestinian state.
But the U.S.-led peace process has
been dormant for years. Israeli
settlements in the West Bank
have expanded. members of Isra-
el’s current government, the most
far-right in its history, have called
openly for annexation.
Since 2007, when Hamas vio-
lently ousted the Palestinian Au-
thority from the Gaza Strip, Ab-
bas has cracked down on sup-
porters of Hamas and the Pales-
tinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller
militant group in Gaza, as well as
on his own critics. Long-
promised elections have never
been held. Despair has deepened
in the impoverished refugee
camps that still dot the West
Bank.
over the past two years, camps
in Nablus, Jenin and elsewhere
have become incubators for a new
generation of armed groups that
have carried out deadly attacks
against Israeli soldiers, settlers
and civilians. Israel has respond-
tween Israel and Hamas.
“Because of the airstrikes ev-
erywhere else in Gaza, people left
to take shelter in this hospital.
Children, women, elders, pa-
tients, a huge number of people
went to the hospital for refuge,
following calls of evacuation and
constant bombardment,” said
mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson
for the Palestinian Civil Defense.
After the Israeli military’s di-
rective for the full evacuation of
Gaza City and northern neigh-
borhoods last week, many civil-
ians feared more intense waves of
airstrikes on the area.
It’s unclear who was behind
the al-Ahli Hospital blast. Israel’s
military said that part of a “bar-
rage of rockets” fired by the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad mili-
tant group erroneously hit the
area. Hamas maintains that an
Israeli airstrike hit the site. Nei-
ther claim could be immediately
verified by The Washington Post.
A spokeswoman for the
National Security Council reaf-
firmed President Biden’s com-
ments that the U.S. government
does not assess that Israel is
responsible for the blast, saying
that U.S. officials continue to
collect information.
“While we continue to collect
information, our current assess-
ment, based on analysis of over-
head imagery, intercepts and
open source information, is that
Israel is not responsible for the
explosion at the hospital in Gaza
yesterday,” said the spokeswom-
an, Adrienne Watson.
Hundreds of injured civilians
were rushed to Gaza City’s main
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TOP: A march of Fatah party supporters in the city center of Nablus, West Bank, on Tuesday. The
march was initiated by Fatah, but Hamas flags (in green) also appeared in the crowd. ABOVE: Zoufi,
an al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades commander, with his son in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus on
Tuesday. Zoufi is affiliated with Fatah but opposes the Palestinian Authority’s nonviolent approach.
ed with massive military raids
across the West Bank, making
2023 the deadliest year for Pales-
tinians here since the end of the
second intifada in 2005.
“It’s time to unite,” said Sha-
kaa, who said Abbas must adapt
to the new reality, or lose all
semblance of authority. “Even [Is-
raeli Prime minister Benjamin]
Netanyahu was able to create a
A woman mourns Wednesday in the aftermath of an overnight blast at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City
that Gaza’s Health Ministry said killed 471 people and injured several hundred more.
hospital, al-Shifa, where doctors
reported that they had to treat
the wounded on the hospital
floor after running out of beds.
“The flood of victims and the
[severity] of their injuries
exceeds the capabilities of the
medical teams and ambulances,”
Gaza’s Health ministry said in a
statement posted to facebook.
Video verified by The Post
captured the first sounds of an
explosion — a whirring through
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new coalition. We shouldn’t keep
the same political situation as
before.”
“It’s clear we are going towards
the darkest moment in our mod-
ern history,” he added. “It’s very
hard not to tell a young man not
to do something stupid.”
In a narrow, run-down alley in
Nablus’s tightly packed Balata
refugee camp, Zoufi, the com-
the air and then a blast. The
camera pans to show fire and
orange plumes of smoke.
The attack prompted renewed
calls from humanitarian organi-
zations for the protection of civil-
ians. Aid officials had been issu-
ing increasingly dire warnings
that a humanitarian catastrophe
is unfolding in Gaza.
Hospitals in Gaza warned they
were already running out of gen-
erator fuel, morgues were filling
the washington post
mander of a local unit of the
al-Aqsa martyrs Brigades — listed
by Israel as a terrorist group — sat
Tuesday on a faded couch sur-
rounded by other fighters and
teenage attendants, some with
m16 rifles.
“The worst is yet to come,” said
the 38-year-old militant, a father
of three, speaking on the condi-
tion that he be identified by his
mAHmud HAmS/AfP/geTTy imAgeS
up and overstretched rescue
workers reported they were un-
able to recover more than 1,000
bodies from beneath buildings
destroyed by airstrikes.
medical infrastructure in Gaza
has “entered the actual collapse
phase,” the Health ministry state-
ment said, noting that even ser-
vices for the “sick and wounded”
could suffer.
more than 10 hospitals have
been damaged by airstrikes since
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childhood nickname to protect
his security. Zoufi said he awoke
on oct. 7 to the news of Hamas’s
rampage and asked his wife to
slap him to make sure he wasn’t
dreaming. Then he laughed with
joy.
Zoufi’s groups, and others like
it, have been relatively quiet so
far. But he says the calm won’t
last: “We are a part of this war.”
Hamas, fatah and Islamic Ji-
had have “sleeping cells” across
the West Bank, he said, “observ-
ing and preparing,” waiting for
the Israeli army in the West Bank
to become overstretched.
“Israel will pay the price,” he
said, “and the price will come
from here.”
Zoufi is affiliated with fatah
but opposes the Palestinian Au-
thority’s nonviolent approach. He
founded his militant cell last year.
Balata is home to some 30,000
people and has no proper police
force. The same is true in other
camps in Nablus and Jenin and
throughout the northern West
Bank. In these communities, the
militants are the ones in charge.
“When the people go out [to
the streets], the PA will have no
control,” he said. “They are not
taking the lead. So, if they don’t
back the resistance, it will be their
end.”
Ibrahim Badrasawi, a 53-year-
old trader in the nearby Askar
refugee camp, said he felt an
uprising had already begun. He
was injured by Israeli fire during
the second intifada in the early
2000s and was in and out of
Israeli jails for years.
“The resistance [to the Israeli
occupation] is everywhere,” he
said. “But the PA is holding the
middle of the stick, trying to
retain power while not support-
ing Hamas.”
The center can’t hold for much
longer, he said.
“If Israel will do a stupid thing
like the ground invasion, war will
break out not only in the West
Bank and inside Israel but also
around the Arab world,” he said.
“We want liberation, not blood-
shed. . . . I hope it will stop before
it comes to that.”
mohamed Hamdan, the secre-
tary general of fatah in Nablus,
defended Abbas and his efforts to
revive peace negotiations. He
said the authority was doing its
best to maintain order and rein in
weapons on the street. But the
international community had
“betrayed” the Palestinians, he
said.
“We see our children dying
before us in Gaza,” he said. “We
see Israeli settler violence . . . and
violations against al-Aqsa
mosque, for which Hamas rose
up.”
This time felt different for him,
too, he said, and he was not sure
the anger could be contained.
“We see people want open clashes
with the Israeli occupation.” He
continued, “The people are ap-
proaching the end.”
Sufian Taha in ramallah contributed
to this report.
war broke out between Hamas
and Israel. medical workers have
also been killed in the violence.
With the death toll ticking up
daily, more than 3,400 people
have been killed in Gaza and
more than 12,000 wounded, ac-
cording to the Gaza Health min-
istry, and nearly two-thirds of
those killed were children.
Israel launched a devastating
campaign of airstrikes against
Hamas after militants slipped
into Israel on oct. 7 in a blitz of
killing and hostage-taking.
About 1,400 Israelis have died —
many in the first hours of the
Hamas incursion — and about
200 people were taken back to
Gaza.
regional leaders also issued
calls for an end to the conflict in
Gaza. Jordan’s king, Abdullah II,
warned that the war “has entered
a dangerous phase,” and “will
plunge the region into an un-
speakable disaster,” according to
a palace statement.
Biden spent Wednesday in Is-
rael in what was supposed to be
the first stop on a middle East
tour, but his itinerary began to
unravel after mourning periods
were announced for victims of
the hospital attack.
Palestinian Authority Presi-
dent mahmoud Abbas canceled
his meeting with Biden in Am-
man, Jordan, alongside the lead-
ers of Egypt and Jordan. Later,
those leaders called off their
planned summit with Biden as
well.
george reported from Jerusalem and
mahfouz from Cairo.
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In the north, Hezbollah missiles fly and civilians flee
Israel bolsters defenses
at Lebanon border as
villages gird for worst
BY S TEVE H ENDRIX
sHTUla, Israel — One hundred
fifteen miles from Gaza, Israel
was racing to harden its border
with Lebanon on Wednesday,
preparing for a potential second
front in its war against Islamist
militants. In Shtula and other
small towns in this hilly region,
fears are rising that Hezbollah
will join the fight.
Officials were positioning mili-
tary forces up and down the
border and clearing the few re-
maining civilians from 28 com-
munities within a buffer zone
that extends just over a mile from
the Lebanese line.
Tanks and armored personnel
carriers were positioned
throughout the area, traversing
the nearly deserted roads. Mili-
tary checkpoints sealed off the
area. Units had established en-
campments under tree cover.
Forces on both sides have ex-
changed fire multiple times in
the days since Hamas infiltrators
launched their surprise Oct. 7
attack on Israel, killing at least
1,400 people.
Hezbollah says eight of its
fighters in the border region have
been killed in Israeli strikes since
Tuesday. An elderly couple was
killed in a rural Lebanese town.
An Israeli shell is believed to have
killed a Reuters videographer
covering the fighting there last
week. The Israel Defense Forces
said it was investigating the inci-
dent, which injured six other
journalists.
The IDF says at least five
Israelis have been killed, includ-
ing three soldiers in a shootout
with a Hezbollah gunman who
infiltrated the area. The lone
civilian fatality, a Palestinian citi-
zen of Israel, was hit Sunday
while working at a construction
site in this hilltop town just yards
from the border fence.
A shattered truck near where
the man had been standing re-
mained there Wednesday, a pair
of work boots discarded where
one of the three injured was
treated on the road.
“In a single second, everything
changed,” said Liav Benshushan,
a reservist member of Shtula’s
small security force and one of
the only civilians left in the town
of 300. A plume of smoke rose
from a nearby ridge, not far from
where gunfire erupted Tuesday in
the Israeli town of Zarit.
Benshushan owned the house
the man was helping to build. “He
was my friend.”
Palestinian Americans growing anxious about being targets of violence here
BY D ANIELLE P AQUETTE AND
E MILY W AX- T HIBODEAUX
The Palestinian boy who had
been knifed to death on Saturday
was 6 — the same age as her son —
so Fidaa Elaydi imposed a new
rule: No more playing outside.
She used to feel safe in Brid-
geview, a Chicago suburb full of
Middle Eastern eateries and Mus-
lim clothing boutiques that was
known as Little Palestine. Then
the Palestinian militant group
Hamas staged the deadliest at-
tack in Israel’s history.
Elaydi worried there were ef-
forts to vilify Palestinians with
the spread of misinformation.
“No one can sleep,” the 35-year-
old lawyer said. “We are all buying
pepper spray.”
In the days since the rampage
by Hamas fighters and Israel’s
full-scale counterstrike targeting
the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip,
a spate of headlines has validated
her fears. In Boston, somebody
spray-painted “Nazis” on a sign
for a Palestinian cultural center.
In Dearborn, Mich., police arrest-
ed a man who allegedly urged his
Facebook friends to “hunt Pales-
tinians.” And barely 25 miles from
Elaydi’s house, a landlord is ac-
cused of stabbing his tenants,
gravely wounding the mother and
killing her son, with authorities
linking his assault “to them being
Muslims and the ongoing Middle
Eastern conflict involving Hamas
and the Israelis.”
Palestinians in the United
States, half a world away from the
carnage in the Middle East, say
they are canceling dinners out,
taking time off work and staying
home. Some are getting ominous
emails and messages on social
media. Others say the environ-
ment seems so charged, they’re
afraid to openly express concern
for loved ones trapped in Gaza as
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The international community
is straining to contain the risk of
a wider battle between Israel and
Hezbollah, the Shiite militia that
is Lebanon’s most dominant po-
litical and military force. The
United States dispatched war-
ships to the region last week,
hoping the show of force would
deter the group — and its Iranian
allies — from launching a full-
scale attack.
But a humanitarian crisis in
Gaza, amid punishing Israeli air-
strikes that have killed more than
3,000 people, is stoking anger in
Lebanon and across the Arab
world and could push Hezbollah
to escalate.
That anger surged after a dead-
ly strike at a hospital in Gaza late
Monday, a blast the IDF and
Palestinian militants blamed on
each other. The American intelli-
gence assessment was that Israel
was “not responsible” for the
blast. But that has done nothing
to contain the outrage in Leba-
non, where mistrust of the Unit-
ed States runs deep. Soldiers
clashed with protesters for a
second day in Beirut on Wednes-
day.
“Everyone must stand up and
say that the project to expel the
people of Gaza will not pass,”
Hashem Safieddine, head of Hez-
bollah’s executive council, said
Wednesday.
Israel said Monday it had de-
ployed reserve and regular forces
to the northern border, even as it
amasses forces around Gaza for
an expected ground invasion.
“The IDF is fighting the Hamas
terrorist organization who
opened this war, and is ready for
every scenario in the north and
south alike,” the IDF said in a
statement to The Washington
Post. “We advise our enemies not
to test our capability to defend
ourselves.”
Civilians on both sides of the
border, where neighborhoods are
close enough for Israelis and
Lebanese to see and hear one
another, were bracing for the
possibility that their home will
again become a war zone — as it
was in 2006 during a 34-day
conflict between Israel and Hez-
bollah.
More than 1,000 people were
killed in Lebanon and more than
150 in Israel.
Ahmed Deeb, the mayor of the
Lebanese border village of Waz-
zani, said Israeli shells had al-
ready landed on his town’s out-
skirts. But most of the town’s
residents are poor, and few were
thinking of leaving.
“Where do you want us to
evacuate to?” he asked. “No, no,
no. God willing, we are staying.”
In Israel, thousands of civil-
ians who have evacuated were
monitoring events from hotels
and the homes of friends. Some
Israel pushes to eradicate the mil-
itants responsible for the Oct. 7
massacre of soldiers and civilians.
Anguish for family members in
Gaza only heightened the anxiety
after a blast Tuesday set a hospital
ablaze. Palestinian and Israeli of-
ficials traded blame for the attack.
The only certainty: Hundreds
may have been killed, adding to
the death toll of about 3,000 Pal-
estinians.
“I haven’t been able to move
since it happened,” Elaydi said.
“There’s grief and rage.”
Those who argue for a Palestin-
ian state, a decades-old cause, say
they are being framed as cheer-
leading “Hamas’s genocidal war,”
as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
phrased it in a letter to the Justice
Department. Hawley called for an
investigation of student groups
organizing pro-Palestinian ral-
lies.
The bloodshed overseas is sow-
ing panic in communities across
the country, with the FBI saying it
is tracking a spike in threats
against both Muslim and Jewish
Americans. The agency warned
that bad actors could “exploit the
conflict” and provoke violence
“on our own soil.” Mosques and
synagogues have beefed up secu-
rity. Some private Jewish day
schools shuttered last week after
a former Hamas leader called for
a “day of jihad.”
Even with Israeli missiles fall-
ing on Gaza’s tightly packed
buildings, Elaydi’s family is im-
ploring her to stay safe in Illinois.
“My dear Fidaa,” one Insta-
gram message said in Arabic,
“take care of your kids during this
period and don’t go out a lot.”
Hundreds of Arab Americans
gathered at a mosque in Brid-
geview on Monday for the funeral
of the 6-year-old boy, Wadea Al-
fayoumi, who had been stabbed
26 times, the sheriff ’s office said.
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Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Ill., on Monday. The boy was stabbed in an apparent hate crime.
Outside, speakers called on law-
makers to address the conflict
with context and nuance. Some
demanded an apology from Presi-
dent Biden, whom they accused of
inflaming tensions with his com-
ment about seeing photos of
Hamas fighters beheading chil-
dren — a claim the White House
later clarified.
“Have we not learned anything
from 9/11?” one imam asked. “Do
we really want to live those dark
years again?”
Deanna Othman, a 41-year-old
teacher and mother of four in
Little Palestine, told her two
daughters to stop walking home
alone from their college campus-
es. Both wear hijabs.
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rally on campus last week where
strangers started filming the stu-
dents, Othman said, and she ad-
vised her to not engage with any-
one who seemed hostile. She
doesn’t want her daughters to
limit their freedom of speech,
though.
“I want them to be active and
stand up for what they believe in,”
Othman said.
Randa Mohammad, a student-
support coordinator at a middle
school in Dearborn, is following
the news with a growing sense of
dread. Five of her relatives — her
sister-in-law’s cousins — were
killed in Gaza while trying to help
civilians who had been ordered to
evacuate, she said. When videos
of the hospital attack reached her
left the area when the missiles
began to fall last week. The rest
moved south when the military
ordered a mandatory evacuation
Monday.
Guy Becker, 52, said the major-
ity of people in his border kibbutz
of Baram had relocated to a
single hotel in Tiberias, 19 miles
to the south. He and his wife and
two daughters tried several loca-
tions before deciding it was more
comfortable to ride it out with
their 400 fellow residents, he
said.
The Oct. 7 attacks created par-
ticular fear in small northern
towns such as theirs, Becker said,
so similar in so many ways to the
communities overrun by Hamas
gunmen.
“Hezbollah forces cutting
through the fences and storming
the settlements in the north is
exactly the scenario we’ve been
fearing and preparing for years,”
he said.
Like the southern kibbutzim
and towns that have become
bywords for atrocities — Reim,
Beeri, Kfar Azza — most of the
northern border towns rely on a
small armed security force of
reservists and civilians as a first
line of defense. Members of the
volunteer force in Shtula have
remained behind in their desert-
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phone, she hid in the garage so
her children wouldn’t see her cry.
“How is the world allowing this
to happen?” she asked, her voice
breaking. “I am struggling to even
function right now.”
More than half of Dearborn’s
residents are Arab American. Fa-
milial ties to Gaza and the West
Bank run deep. People love to
snack on flaky, cheese-layered ku-
nafa at the beloved Palestinian
bakery. And, Mohammad said,
everyone is on edge.
The police presence outside
her school has been heavier than
normal, she noted; officers arrest-
ed a 41-year-old man last week
who had posted on social media
about hunting Palestinians. On
Monday, a 12-year-old student
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ed town — they declined to say
how many — but they have no
illusions about how they would
fare in a similar attack.
Eliyahu Galil, a local journal-
ist, set his M16 and a flak jacket
heavy with ammunition on the
floor of one of the few occupied
houses in the town. Just down the
street, thousands of chickens
clucked in an untended poultry
shed. Nearby was a wall damaged
by a missile early Tuesday.
A Hezbollah tunnel was dis-
covered and destroyed less than
600 yards from Shtula in 2019.
There are almost certainly oth-
ers, Galil said. Hezbollah said its
snipers were targeting military
surveillance cameras in the area.
“If something like what hap-
pened in the south happens here,
we will fight but we will be
killed,” he said.
Already shocked that Hezbol-
lah was firing antitank missiles
into the town, he and his fellow
security team members are
counting on the Israeli military
to take on the brunt of a fight. But
they would stay to help, he said.
“We can’t leave,” said Ofer Ma-
man, 48, a mushroom farmer.
“We are part of the army now.”
Sarah Dadouch in Beirut contributed
to this report.
came to her with a question.
“She asked me if I could help
send food to her family in Gaza,”
Mohammad said.
The Arab American Political
Action Committee canceled a
banquet scheduled for Wednes-
day in Dearborn, accusing Ameri-
can leaders of endorsing blood-
shed by not “doing the bare mini-
mum of calling for a cease fire.”
The organizers also harbored se-
curity concerns, according to Osa-
ma Siblani, a Lebanese journalist
on the board of directors. Pales-
tinians as a group, he said, are too
often portrayed as the enemy.
“That encourages violence
against Arab Americans,” he said.
“Political events are not safe right
now.”
Amer Zahr, a 46-year-old co-
median and lawyer in the city,
checked his email on Saturday
and found a disturbing rant.
“You and your dirty Arabs …” it
began.
As an outspoken Palestinian
American, he is used to receiving
nasty messages. In recent days,
however, the vitriol has spiked to
a level that made him feel sick.
He had three comedy shows
last weekend in Missouri, Florida
and Alabama but changed the
format to “community gather-
ings” so people could grieve to-
gether and support one another.
Although Zahr didn’t feel safe, he
couldn’t afford to hire security.
“I’m literally looking over my
shoulder,” he said.
His mother called from her
home in the Philadelphia area
after young Wadea’s death. She
asked Zahr if he was okay, and
Zahr thought of three lines in a
poem by the Palestinian writer
Mahmoud Darwish:
And I so cherish life
Because if I died
My mother’s tears would
shame me.
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Biden points finger at Palestinian militants in hospital blast
BidEn from A1
said. Earlier in the day, the presi-
dent said his assessment of re-
sponsibility was based on data
shown to him by the U.S. Defense
Department.
Adrienne Watson, a spokes-
woman for the National Security
Council, said in a statement
Wednesday evening that the U.S.
government assessment was
based on “available reporting, in-
cluding intelligence, missile activ-
ity, overhead imagery, and open
source video and images of the
incident.” The intelligence, she
said, indicates that some Palestin-
ian militants in the Gaza Strip
believed the explosion was caused
by a rocket or missile launched by
a militant group, Palestinian Is-
lamic Jihad. She said U.S. officials
are working to corroborate wheth-
er that is the case.
Biden’s assessment was based
on multiple pieces of information,
including intelligence provided by
the Israelis, according to officials
familiar with the process who
spoke on the condition of anonym-
ity to discuss sensitive security
matters.
The president may address the
hospital blast again Thursday eve-
ning. The White House an-
nounced that Biden will deliver an
oval office address at 8 p.m.
Thursday on russia’s war against
Ukraine as well as the Hamas at-
tacks in Israel.
White House officials are con-
sidering asking Congress for an
aid package for Israel and Ukraine
that could cost as much as $100
billion, although the exact amount
is still in flux. Assistance for Israel
is broadly popular in Congress,
but some republicans have shown
resistance to providing further aid
to Ukraine.
The blast at the Gaza hospital
derailed Biden’s trip even before
he left Washington.
Since the hospital was devastat-
ed Tuesday by a strike that Pales-
tinian authorities said killed hun-
dreds of people, Israel and the
United States have been the tar-
gets of rage, condemnation and
protest that have surged across
the middle East. Wednesday’s
statements by Israel and the Unit-
ed States that a Palestinian mili-
tant group was responsible for the
blast may carry little weight with
Arab protesters.
Later Wednesday, Biden told re-
porters he understands why some
in the region are skeptical of the
assessment. “I don’t say things like
that unless I have faith in the
source I’ve got,” he said. “our De-
fense Department says it’s highly
unlikely it’s the Israelis.”
Biden had planned to travel to
Jordan to meet with Arab leaders
Wednesday after visiting Israel,
but as Air force one started roll-
ing down the tarmac at Joint Base
Andrews outside Washington the
previous night, White House offi-
cials alerted reporters that the Jor-
dan visit was being scrapped amid
the angry reaction in the Arab
world to the hospital blast.
In whirlwind visit to Israel, Biden hits notes of loyalty, emotion — and caution
In an emotional
White speech carried live
House across Israel and
Debrief around the world,
President Biden
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sought to embody
America’s ties to
the Jewish state with his own
presence, channeling empathy,
anger, profound loss and bracing
optimism.
He reached deep into history,
recounting the timelessness of
moses and lessons from the Torah,
and he referenced more recent
events, noting how the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks triggered “shock,
pain, rage — an all-consuming
rage” among Americans.
It was an extraordinary
moment in Biden’s tenure, as the
80-year-old president landed in
the midst of a region torn by
violence and chaos in an effort to
showcase America’s loyalties,
warn hostile actors and, perhaps,
underline his own fitness as
commander in chief.
He even reached into his own
lengthy biography.
fifty years ago, the young Sen.
Biden was meeting with Golda
meir, the Israeli prime minister,
and they were posing for pictures
after she had shown him maps
intended to demonstrate Israel’s
vulnerability on the precipice of
the Yom Kippur War.
“She said to me … ‘Why do you
look so worried, Senator Biden?’ ”
Biden recalled in a story he’s
repeated often. “And I said,
‘Worried? Like, of course I’m
worried.’ And she looked at me …
she said, ‘We don’t worry, senator.
We Israelis have a secret weapon:
We have nowhere else to go.’ ”
Onlookers in Tel Aviv, some with fliers showing people missing after the Hamas attacks, watch President Biden’s motorcade Wednesday.
Among the most useful pieces
of information in identifying who
may be responsible for a strike are
infrared signatures from satel-
lites, which may have detected a
rocket launch as opposed to an
aerial bombing, one U.S. official
said. Images of the impact site, as
well as any fragments recovered,
could also help identify who was
responsible, the official said.
The Pentagon on Wednesday
declined to release any informa-
tion detailing how it came to its
assessment.
Despite Biden’s statements
Wednesday, senior officials at the
U.N. Security Council on Wednes-
day called for an independent in-
vestigation, without acknowledg-
ing U.S.-backed Israeli conclu-
sions that the strike was caused by
an errant rocket fired by militants
inside Gaza.
representatives from russia
and China at the Security Council
referred to the blast as an “air-
strike,” with russia calling for a
stop to “indiscriminate attacks on
the Gaza strip . . . including an
airstrike on a hospital.”
The U.S. conclusion appeared
to do little to assuage anger in
Arab and muslim countries,
where people generally harbor
deep distrust of Israel and the
United States. Israel’s army in the
past has blamed Palestinian mili-
tants for strikes and civilian
deaths and then later acknowl-
edged it was probably at fault,
such as in the death of Al Jazeera
journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Such skepticism could make it
harder for Arab leaders to accept
Biden turned back to the
present.
“Today, I say to all of Israel, the
United States isn’t going
anywhere either. We’re going to
stand with you. We’ll walk beside
you in those dark days. We’ll walk
beside you in the good days to
come — and they will come.”
It was a remarkable moment at
a remarkable time. Biden is the
first American president to visit
Israel at time of war. There were
unusual security challenges, with
reporters asked not to disclose
real-time locations and with air-
raid sirens blaring over Tel Aviv
minutes after Biden’s plane
departed Wednesday evening.
He was originally supposed to
fly to Jordan and meet with Arab
leaders, but that leg of the trip was
canceled after a blast rocked the
al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza,
prompting angry protests in the
Arab world.
Biden’s aides saw the trip in
part as a rebuttal to questions
about his age — he was born about
six years before the country of
Israel and recounts events from
five decades ago — and as a way to
showcase the strengths of a
president who prides himself on
his foreign policy know-how.
The president’s trip also
provided a split screen that
Biden’s supporters hope plays in
his favor. on Wednesday, House
republicans again devolved into
chaos after failing to elect a House
speaker, and Biden’s leading 2024
opponent, Donald Trump, was in a
trial over fraud allegations.
Biden, after an overnight 10-
hour flight, was in the country for
less than eight hours before a long
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Israel-Gaza War
Biden’s conclusion — and harder
to help him prevent the Israel-Ga-
za conflict from widening into a
regional conflagration.
Since the hospital blast, pro-
testers have taken to the streets
from morocco to Iran, often in
marches held in front of Israeli or
Western diplomatic missions and
sometimes including the burning
of the Israeli flag. Several govern-
ments, including those of Saudi
Arabia and Turkey, directly con-
demned Israel after the strike.
U.S. Central Command, which
oversees American military per-
sonnel in the middle East, said its
forces had shot down three drones
in Iraq over the past day, with
minor injuries to one coalition
member. military officials said
that “in this moment of height-
ened alert,” they are “vigilantly
monitoring the situation in Iraq
and the region.”
The protests in part reflected
the pent-up anger at the mounting
civilian toll in Gaza. for Arab lead-
ers, the popular outrage threat-
ened to halt any movement
toward rapprochement with Isra-
el that had been underway.
Shortly after landing in Israel,
Biden, while meeting with Israeli
Prime minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu, said he was “deeply sad-
dened and outraged” by the event.
“Based on what I’ve seen, it ap-
pears as though it was done by the
other team, not you,” Biden told
the Israeli leader, referring to the
hospital strike.
Biden arrived in an active war
zone at a tense and unpredictable
moment as Israel prepares for an
flight back to Washington.
The whirlwind visit had some
of the hallmarks of his surprise
trip to Kyiv earlier this year, when
he sneaked into the war-torn
country in the middle of the night
and was in the city when an air-
raid siren went off.
It was also reminiscent of his
trip last month to India and
Vietnam, when he
circumnavigated the globe in four
days.
Such trips can test the stamina
of aides and reporters half his age,
and Biden, too, sometimes
appears to feel the impact. on
Wednesday, his memory seemed
to lapse as he recalled one of his
most frequently cited quotes,
which he attributes to Secretary of
State Antony Blinken.
“He wrote a line that I think is
appropriate,” Biden said. “He said,
‘It’s not — we lead not just …’ Well,
I won’t go into it. I’ll wait until
later. I’m taking too much time.”
Shortly after, he found the phrase:
“It’s just not the example of our
power, it’s the power of our
example.”
The Israel trip allowed Biden to
showcase the power of the
American presidency in dramatic
fashion. He announced, for
example, that his military had
ordered two aircraft carriers, the
USS Gerald r. ford and USS
Dwight D. Eisenhower, into the
region.
He sought to speak with
authority. “I’ve made wartime
decisions. I know the choices are
never clear or easy for the
leadership,” he said. “There’s
always costs. . . . But I caution this:
While you feel that rage, don’t be
expected ground incursion into
Gaza in response to a brutal sur-
prise attack by Hamas that killed
at least 1,400 Israelis. Israel has
launched an aerial counterattack
that has killed roughly 3,000 peo-
ple in Gaza.
Palestinian and Israeli officials
have traded blame for the blast at
al-Ahli Hospital, which potential-
ly includes the deadliest single toll
on civilians in the strip since the
conflict began.
In Amman, Jordan, Biden had
been scheduled to meet with the
leaders of Jordan, Egypt and the
Palestinian Authority to discuss
the conflict and the need for hu-
manitarian assistance in Gaza.
The White House said Biden
would continue to be in touch with
those leaders, but the meeting’s
cancellation was a setback to the
president’s diplomatic efforts.
Administration officials on
Wednesday briefed members of
Congress about the hospital
strike, and they largely appeared
convinced by the White House’s
conclusion that Israel was not re-
sponsible. House and Senate intel-
ligence committee leaders said af-
ter reviewing intelligence that
they were confident in the assess-
ment.
Sens. mark r. Warner (D-Va.)
and marco rubio (r-fla.), the top
lawmakers on the Senate Intelli-
gence Committee, said in a state-
ment that they believe “the explo-
sion was the result of a failed
rocket launch by militant terror-
ists and not the result of an Israeli
airstrike,” matching Israel’s expla-
nation.
Police officer Evyatar Edri smiles as President Biden hugs his
mother, Rachel Edri, who was held hostage by the Palestinian
militant group Hamas, on Wednesday in Tel Aviv.
consumed by it.”
other portions of the trip were
quintessential Biden.
He quoted an Irish poet
(William Butler Yeats). He
referenced a Hebrew saying,
though not in the original (“I’m
not going to attempt to do [it]
because I’m such a terrible
linguist”). He spoke of the
difficulty of losing a loved one, as
he often does, but with added
context for a Jewish audience.
“I know you feel like there’s that
black hole in the middle of your
chest. You feel like you’re being
sucked into it,” Biden said. “The
survivor’s remorse, the anger, the
questions of faith in your soul.
Staring at that empty chair, sitting
Shiva. The first Sabbath without
them.”
He met Israeli first responders
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Warner also told reporters on
Wednesday afternoon that he
thinks it is important for “the ad-
ministration and frankly the Is-
raelis” to release “as much evi-
dence as possible, to make sure
that the origins of this horrific
attack on the hospital” are made
clear.
rep. mike Waltz (r-fla.), a
member of the House Intelligence
Committee, said in an interview
that he was “very comfortable”
with the administration’s assess-
ment and the “rigor” behind it.
Israel announced a full siege of
Gaza, a densely populated enclave
of more than 2 million people, in
retaliation for the oct. 7 Hamas
attacks, cutting off food, fuel, wa-
ter and electricity. It also ordered
the evacuation of more than 1 mil-
lion Gaza civilians in 24 hours, a
task the United Nations called im-
possible.
Conditions in Gaza, which are
already difficult, are rapidly dete-
riorating and have set off a hu-
manitarian crisis. White House of-
ficials have said in recent days
they were working to secure a
humanitarian corridor and aid
into the territory.
Biden’s trip to Israel marked his
second visit to an active war zone
this year, after he made a secretive
trip to Kyiv in february. Before
Biden’s visit to Ukraine, no U.S.
president had traveled to a war
zone in which U.S. troops were not
actively involved and could not
provide security on the ground.
In Israel, rocket sirens through-
out the country have been ringing,
warning citizens to seek shelter.
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and families affected by the
Hamas attack, something that
Netanyahu has faced criticism for
being slow to do. “God love ya,” he
told one survivor.
He also met a young woman
who had saved people in her
kibbutz and hugged her after
hearing her story through an
interpreter.
At one point, Biden could be
heard recounting the story of
when his wife and children were
injured in a car accident. He
whispered throughout.
He met with Inbal Lieberman, a
25-year-old woman who, as head
of security, helped to organize the
successful defense of her kibbutz.
He met a retired general, Noam
Tibon, who drove south to save his
son, Amir, and many others in
their community.
october 19 , 2023
After Biden landed in the country,
at least two sirens sounded close
to the border with Gaza. Another
set of alarms sounded in Tel Aviv
and central Israel just minutes
after he departed the country
Wednesday afternoon.
“of course these types of trips
have risks,” White House press
secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told
reporters during the flight to Isra-
el. “So we understand that, but
also the president understands
how important it is to have these
diplomatic conversations to get
things done.”
Before his meeting with Israel’s
war cabinet, Biden condemned
Hamas’s attack as “almost beyond
belief” and promised sustained
U.S. support. “I want you to know
you’re not alone,” he said, adding,
“We will continue to have Israel’s
back as you work to defend your
people.”
Netanyahu, who has a long but
complicated relationship with
Biden, heaped praise on the presi-
dent for making the trip to his
country. “for the people of Israel,
there’s only one thing better than
having a true friend like you stand-
ing with Israel, and that is having
you standing in Israel,” Netanyahu
said. “Your visit here is the first
visit of an American president in
Israel at a time of war, and it is
deeply, deeply moving. It speaks to
the depth of your personal com-
mitment to Israel.”
Several English-language bill-
boards in Tel Aviv welcomed
Biden upon his arrival.
Later, Netanyahu said that
Hamas perpetrates a “double war
crime” every day, reiterating accu-
sations by Israeli officials that the
militant group targets Israeli citi-
zens while hiding behind Palestin-
ian civilians. Hamas is “embed-
ding themselves in the civilian
population and using them as hu-
man shields,” Netanyahu said.
“This will be a different kind of
war because Hamas is a different
kind of enemy,” he added. “While
Israel seeks to minimize civilian
casualties, Hamas seeks to maxi-
mize civilian casualties. Hamas
wants to kill as many Israelis as
possible and has no regard what-
soever for Palestinian lives.”
Before Biden arrived in Tel Aviv,
John Kirby, a White House spokes-
man, said the president planned
to ask his Israeli counterparts
“tough questions” about their ob-
jectives in the coming weeks, dur-
ing the expected ground incursion
into Gaza and beyond.
“This is not about directing op-
erations for the Israeli defense
forces, and by tough questions, I
don’t mean menacing or in any
way adversarial,” Kirby told re-
porters aboard Air force one.
“Just hard questions a good friend
of Israel would ask about sort of
where they think they’re going,
what their plans are going for-
ward.”
Abutaleb, lamothe and Harris
reported from washington. karen
deyoung in washington contributed to
this report.
Netanyahu effusively welcomed
Biden, greeting him at the airport
and embracing him on the tarmac.
“I want to thank you for coming
here today and for the
unequivocal support you’ve giving
Israel over these trying times,”
said Netanyahu, whose relations
with Biden have not always been
friendly. “We see your support and
your steadfast commitment to
provide us with the tools we need
to defend ourselves.”
Biden sought to use his
presence — and America’s prestige
— to urge Israel to minimize
civilian casualties.
During a refueling stop at
ramstein Air Base in Germany, he
made a rare trip back to the press
cabin and told reporters that he
had made progress on a 30-
minute call with Egyptian
President Abdel fatah El-Sisi.
Egypt, he said, was going to help
facilitate sending 20 trucks with
humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Biden cast the news as a
capstone to the trip, recounting
that there had been a lengthy
debate about whether he should
make the visit in the first place,
with fears of potential failure.
“Not many people thought we
could get this done. And not many
people want to be associated with
failure,” he said. “Had we gone and
this failed — then, you know, the
United States failed, the Biden
presidency fails, et cetera. Which
would be a legitimate criticism.
“I thought it was worth taking
the chance to get it done,” he said.
“I came to get something done. I
got it done.”
Tyler Pager contributed to this report.
thursday, october 19 , 2023
Fury over Gaza hospital blast surges across Middle East
BY K AREEM F AHIM,
S ARAH D ADOUCH,
C LAIRE P ARKER
AND M OHAMAD E L C HAMAA
BEIrUT — Israel and its staunch
ally the United States were targets
of rage, condemnation and pro-
test that surged across the Middle
East as demonstrators and re-
gional governments seethed over
a blast at a hospital in Gaza that
killed hundreds of people.
Protesters took to the streets
from Morocco to Iran, in marches
held in front of Israeli or U.S.
diplomatic missions or those of
other Western allies of Israel, in-
cluding Britain and France. The
blast at the al-Ahli Hospital in
Gaza City, which Palestinian offi-
cials blamed on an Israeli air-
strike, was branded an outrage
and a war crime by protesters.
Israel said it had evidence the
strike was the result of a misfired
rocket launched by a Palestinian
militant group.
The outbreak of protests unset-
tled Arab leaders, laid bare fears
of a regional conflagration and
undermined U.S. assertions, be-
fore the crisis, that enmity with
Israel was a thing of the past in a
Middle East more integrated by
peace deals and other diplomatic
outreach.
In a moment of extraordinary
regional anguish, President
Biden landed in Israel to show
solidarity with its government.
Arab leaders, in turn, canceled a
planned meeting with him in Jor-
dan, sensing the fury such a meet-
ing would evoke.
In the region, little attention
was paid to Israel’s denial of re-
sponsibility, or Biden’s agreement
that Palestinian militants were
responsible. Rather, influential
governments such as Saudi Ara-
bia — which in recent months had
been exploring normalized ties
with Israel — immediately con-
demned what it said was a “hei-
nous crime committed by the Is-
raeli occupation forces.”
Turkish President Recep Tayy-
ip Erdogan, whose government
Biden receives warm welcome in Tel Aviv as Arab allies give cold shoulder
Mixed feelings in region
hinder U.S. efforts to find
a diplomatic solution
BY J OHN H UDSON
aMMan, Jordan — President
Biden received a hero’s welcome
in Tel Aviv on Wednesday as he
hugged Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and told the Israeli
public he didn’t think a mass
casualty blast at a hospital in
Gaza was Israel’s fault.
But the glowing reception co-
incided with outrage in the Mus-
lim world as anti-Israel protests
erupted from Morocco to Iran in
response to the deadly incident,
and Arab leaders canceled meet-
ings with Biden, severing the
second half of his scheduled Mid-
dle East itinerary.
It wasn’t supposed to be that
way.
Biden’s top diplomat, Antony
Blinken, had spent the last week
shuttling frenetically between
seven countries in the hopes of
forging a more unified position
on the war in Gaza.
“I heard a lot of good ideas
about some of the things we need
to do,” Blinken told reporters in
Cairo after meeting Egyptian
President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi on
Sunday.
But any sense of public comity
between Washington and its Arab
partners was shattered Tuesday
as gruesome images emerged at
the site of the al-Ahli Hospital in
Gaza City. Palestinian authorities
say an Israeli airstrike killed up to
500 people in the attack. Israel
denies the charge, saying the
facility was blown up by errant
rocket fire from an Islamist mili-
tant group. The White House,
citing preliminary U.S. intelli-
gence, has sided with Israel.
At stake are urgent issues
related to the Israel-Gaza war
that require allied cooperation,
including coordinating the safe
passage of U.S. citizens out of
Gaza; securing a humanitarian
aid corridor to besieged Palestin-
ians; freeing American hostages
from Hamas; and preventing
Iran or Hezbollah from opening a
second front against Israel.
The hospital blast has “de-
railed a much-needed opportu-
nity to make meaningful progress
on the near-term solution to the
Gaza crisis,” said Suzanne Malo-
ney, director of foreign policy at
the Brookings Institution. “And
by inflaming opinion across the
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mended relations with Israel re-
cently after a long period of
strained ties, posted a message on
X, formerly known as Twitter, that
“hitting a hospital containing
women, children and innocent
civilians is the latest example of
Israel’s attacks devoid of the most
basic human values.” Protesters
burned Israeli flags in front of the
country’s consulate in Istanbul.
The protests also reflected
mounting public dismay at the
soaring Palestinian death toll af-
ter more than a week of Israeli
airstrikes, analysts said. They also
posed a challenge to Arab govern-
ments that have reached — or
were considering — deals normal-
izing relations with Israel, bar-
gains predicated on the notion
that popular expressions of sym-
pathy for Palestinians could be
contained.
But in an outburst as sprawling
as any in years, protesters waved
Palestinian flags atop mopeds in
Beirut, outside the U.S. Embassy
in Jordan and on a storied Tuni-
sian boulevard. “Where is the
Arab army?” university students
chanted in Minya, an Egyptian
heartland town south of Cairo.
Osama Hamdan, a Hamas offi-
cial speaking to reporters in Bei-
rut on Wednesday, called on Arab
and Muslim states to “end all
forms of normalization and coop-
eration” with Israel and to expel
its ambassadors from their coun-
tries. The Gaza Health Ministry
said Wednesday that at least 3,478
Palestinians in Gaza had been
killed during Israel’s military of-
fensive in the enclave.
People took to the streets late
Tuesday, soon after images spread
of stricken Palestinians at al-Ahli
Hospital. In Beirut, demonstra-
tors marched to the U.S. Embassy,
as the army barricaded the site to
prevent protesters from reaching
the facility. Protesters beat on the
barricade, trying to tear it down.
One man climbed atop the
fence and planted a Palestinian
flag, to thundering applause. Sol-
diers and police officers tried to
disperse the protesters with wa-
Arab world, it has heightened
prospects for escalation and a
much more dangerous and pro-
tracted conflict in the region.”
Shortly after the blast on Tues-
day, Palestinian Authority Presi-
dent Mahmoud Abbas canceled
his scheduled meeting with
Biden, a move that caught U.S.
officials by surprise and immedi-
ately raised concerns that Biden’s
entire Arab itinerary was in
jeopardy.
U.S. officials sought to confirm
with Abbas that the meeting
could not be put back on the
schedule, and Blinken phoned
the Palestinian leader “to express
profound condolences for the ci-
vilian lives lost in the explosion,”
State Department spokesman
Matt Miller said.
But the damage was done, and
Jordanian King Abdullah II, who
had planned to host a four-way
summit with Biden, Abbas and
Sisi, canceled the entire event,
calling the explosion an “ugly
massacre perpetrated by Israel
against innocent civilians.”
“This was a heinous war crime
that cannot be ignored,” he said.
In Israel, Biden lent his credi-
bility to the Israeli claim of Pales-
tinian fault, saying, “Based on
what I’ve seen, it looks like it was
the other team, not you.”
When asked what made him
think that, Biden cited the “data I
was shown by my Defense De-
partment,” without elaborating.
The National Security Council
later issued a statement attribut-
ing the U.S. intelligence assess-
ment to “overhead imagery, inter-
cepts and open source informa-
tion,” though so far it has not
publicly disclosed any of those
materials.
A Hamas representative shot
back, saying Biden’s remarks
proved the United States was
“blindly biased toward the Israeli
occupation.”
During his stops in Israel,
Biden met with families impact-
ed by Hamas’s attacks and public
billboards thanked him for his
support.
As he felt the warm embrace of
Israeli society, protests continued
to build throughout the Muslim
world, which has long objected to
the billions of dollars of military
aid the United States sends to
Israel every year.
In Jordan, where Blinken had
been meeting with Arab officials
to prepare for Biden’s visit, pro-
testers stormed the Israeli Em-
bassy and threw rocks at it before
police shot tear gas and moved
them away from the building.
“They want to kill all the peo-
Israel-Gaza War
An anti-Israel demonstration in front of the French Embassy in Tunis on Tuesday. Across the region,
protesters gathered outside Israeli or U.S. diplomatic missions or those of Israel’s other Western allies.
ter cannons and tear gas. After
midnight, demonstrators set fire
to a small building near the em-
bassy.
“What happened today was a
crime against humanity. It’s a war
crime,” said Ali Abdsatter, a pro-
tester in Beirut. “It’s not just
about the hospital, it’s the whole
damn thing,” he added, referring
to Palestinian suffering under Is-
raeli occupation. “It’s been hap-
pening for decades.”
In the Middle East, “the public
mood is hotter than it’s been in a
very, very long time,” said H.A.
Hellyer, an international security
studies expert at the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace and the Royal United Ser-
vices Institute in London.
“Of course, the presumption
being that this was an Israeli
missile strike,” he added. For that
to change, “the Israelis are going
to have to produce really ironclad
proof to show that it wasn’t them,
President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken meet with Israeli first responders, family members and other citizens directly
impacted by the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. U.S. officials were in Tel Aviv to show support for Israel as fighting continues to rage in the region.
ple of Gaza,” said Sohaib, a 27-
year-old graphic designer who
said he came to protest outside
the embassy to express his dis-
gust with the governments of
Israel and United States.
Another protester, who de-
clined to give his name, said
Washington’s unwavering sup-
port for Israel was infuriating
Jordan’s youth population, point-
ing to a crowd of young men
demonstrating against Israel’s
treatment of Palestinians.
“You can see they are all young,
and they hate America today,” he
said.
Even before the hospital strike,
thousands of Jordanians took to
the street, expressing solidarity
with Palestinians and chanting
pro-Hamas slogans. “They said
Hamas is a terrorist; all of Jordan
is Hamas,” hundreds thundered
during a protest last week.
“The situation in Jordan is
especially dangerous,” said Bruce
Riedel, a Middle East scholar who
previously served in senior
positions at the CIA. “The peace
treaty with Israel is extremely
unpopular. Demonstrations
EZ rE
and I don’t think they can do
that.”
The swift condemnations of
the hospital explosion from some
Arab governments — such as the
United Arab Emirates, which nor-
malized relations with Israel in
2020 — indicated Israel’s wither-
ing assault on Gaza was provok-
ing far more anxiety in the region
than in recent conflicts past. The
most recent conflict started when
Hamas militants staged a brazen
attack on Israel from Gaza, killing
1,400 soldiers and civilians and
seizing about 200 hostages.
Nearly a decade ago, several
Arab states, including Egypt and
the UAE, appeared to throw their
support behind Israel as it fought
Hamas, seeing the Islamist mili-
tant group as the greater threat.
But in a statement Wednesday,
the Emirates condemned the “Is-
rael attack” on the hospital and
called for an “immediate cease-
fire” — a step allies Israel and the
against the Israeli Embassy in
Amman could escalate into a
challenge to national stability.”
In Egypt, Sisi condemned what
he called the “intentional bomb-
ing” by Israel that “represents a
violation of international law.”
The U.S. Embassy put out a notifi-
cation to American travelers
warning them to avoid protests
related to the conflict.
In the West Bank, Palestinian
security forces shot stun gre-
nades and tear gas to break up
protesters demonstrating against
Abbas, who is widely unpopular
among Palestinians.
Despite their public effort to
create distance with the United
States, Sisi, Abbas and Abdullah
had a significant impact on
Blinken’s approach to the war in
the days leading up to Biden’s
visit.
The United States switched,
for instance, its policy seeking
safe passage for Palestinian civil-
ians through Egypt in response to
meetings with Abbas and Sisi,
who opposed the proposal out of
fear that fleeing Palestinians may
never be able to return to Gaza.
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United States have both ruled out.
Israel appears ready for a ground
invasion of Gaza that it says is
aimed at eliminating Hamas,
leading to fears it could ignite a
regional war.
Egypt’s authoritarian presi-
dent, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, also
allowed rare public expressions of
Palestinian solidarity in a country
where protests are effectively
banned. “Long live Palestine,” a
small group of leftist and liberal
political figures chanted outside
the U.S. Embassy late Tuesday.
By Wednesday, the protests
had grown. Videos posted on so-
cial media showed crowds waving
Palestinian flags and chanting
anti-Israel slogans in the Mediter-
ranean port of Alexandria. Large
crowds of university students
took to the streets Wednesday in
Minya, some 160 miles south of
Cairo, according to videos posted
on social media.
Sisi, in remarks at a news con-
“I’ve heard directly from Pales-
tinian Authority President Abbas
and from virtually every other
leader that I’ve talked to in the
region, that that idea is a non-
starter,” Blinken told al-Arabiya
on Sunday.
Instead, the Biden administra-
tion has embraced the idea of
establishing safe areas inside
Gaza.
Another message U.S. officials
took to heart from Arab leaders
was that a humanitarian collapse
in Gaza could stoke popular sen-
timent and potentially destabi-
lize their own countries — a
prediction that now appears
prescient.
Their focus on the aid is one of
the reasons Blinken and his team
engaged in a nearly eight-hour
negotiating session with Israel’s
war cabinet this week in an effort
to forge an agreement on human-
itarian aid access.
That led up to what Biden
announced on Wednesday: an
agreement with Israel to allow
the delivery of aid on the condi-
tion that there will be inspections
and that the aid won’t go to
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ference with German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz in Cairo on Wednes-
day, suggested the Egyptian pub-
lic would protest any move to
forcibly displace Palestinians to
Egypt’s northern Sinai region — a
comment seen as a veiled threat
to mobilize the Egyptian people if
necessary.
Anger was mounting, too, near
the Egyptian border, where truck
drivers organized by the Egyptian
Red Crescent have been waiting
for days to be given the green light
to bring humanitarian aid
through the Rafah border cross-
ing into Gaza.
In one video posted on TikTok
on Tuesday night, a man — appar-
ently involved in the aid effort —
yells at the camera: “If there is
bombing, I’ll go in. If there is
death, I’ll go in. I came here
determined to go in.”
In a statement Wednesday,
Cairo-based al-Azhar University,
the world’s preeminent institu-
tion for Sunni Islamic learning,
called on “the Arab and Islamic
world” to “radically reconsider its
dependence on the arrogant
American and European West.”
An accumulation of grievances
— over the Arab normalization
deals with Israel and incursions
onto the holy al-Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem by Israel’s hard-right
government — seemed to be fuel-
ing the protests, said Zaha Has-
san, a Palestinian human rights
lawyer and a fellow at the Carne-
gie Endowment for International
Peace.
While many media organiza-
tions were unable to enter Gaza —
barred by Israel and Egypt —
Palestinians there were talking to
Arab outlets including Al Jazeera,
which had correspondents in the
enclave, and posting on TikTok
and other social media outlets, “in
real time as things are happening,
with anger and urgency,” she said.
That anger, she added, “gets
translated, onto the streets.”
Parker reported from cairo. Heba
Farouk mahfouz in cairo contributed
to this report.
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Hamas. “Israel agreed the hu-
manitarian assistance can begin
to move,” Biden said.
In addition, Biden announced
that the United States will send
$100 million in aid to Gaza and
the West Bank to support more
than 1 million displaced Palestin-
ians.
But a critical player on aid
delivery is Egypt, which controls
part of the Rafah border crossing,
and Hamas, which controls the
other half. That is why Arab
leaders, who have communica-
tion links with Hamas and other
key players on the ground, were
viewed as a critical part of Biden’s
trip.
“The cancellation of Biden’s
trip to Jordan is a setback for
efforts to find a diplomatic solu-
tion to the worsening crisis in the
region,” Riedel said. “It reinforces
unintentionally the perception
that America doesn’t care about
Arab and Muslim voices.”
Sarah Dadouch in Beirut, Tyler Pager
in Tel Aviv, claire Parker in cairo and
miriam Berger in ramallah, West
Bank, contributed to this report.
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Climate & Environment

How to buy
If you live in a state with a
robust community solar market,
subscribing is easy.
Marketplaces like EnergySage
aggregate projects signing up
new subscribers. I typed in a Zip
code in St. Paul, Minn., a hotbed
of community solar activity, and
was presented with six projects
offering savings of $68 to $135
per year, along with 10 tons of
greenhouse gases.
The marketplace allows you to
quickly compare details such as
fees, locations and billing. Once I
selected a project, I could create
an account, link this to my utility
and start a subscription.
To get the best terms, say
project developers and nonprofit
groups, you should look for
contracts that uphold a few key
terms:
l Get a discounted electricity
rate: Community solar projects
tend to offer 5 percent to 15
percent off prevailing electricity
rates.
l Ensure you can cancel any
time: Sellers should allow you to
cancel your subscription
immediately or within a few
months to finalize credits on
your bill.
l Avoid cancellation fees:
Choose a plan that doesn’t force
you to pay if you want to end
your subscription.
l Source close to your home:
Ideally, projects should be within
10 or 15 miles of where you live,
says Jeff Cramer, CEO of the
Coalition for Community Solar
Access. This ensures that you
decarbonize your local grid.
illuSTrATiON by emily SAbeNS/The WAShiNgTON POST; iSTOck For millions of people living in
places with abundant
community solar such as

Half of Americans can’t install solar panels. Minnesota, Colorado, New York
and Massachusetts, finding
projects is relatively easy.

Here’s how they can plug into the sun.

No roof, no solar
power.
That has been
the dispiriting
equation shutting
out roughly half
Climate of all Americans
Coach from plugging
MiChael J. into the sun.
Coren But signing up
for solar soon
might be as easy
as subscribing to Netflix. Scores
of new small solar farms that sell
clean, local electricity directly to
customers are popping up. The
setup, dubbed “community
solar,” is designed to bring solar
power to people who don’t own
their own homes or can’t install
panels — often at prices below
retail electricity rates.
Clean electricity for less
money seems a bit too good to be
true. But it reflects a new reality:
Solar energy prices are falling as
private and public money, and
new laws, are fueling a massive
expansion of small-scale
community solar projects.
Finding a subscription to one,
however, can feel like trying to
score Taylor Swift tickets:
They’re on sale, but only a lucky
few can buy them. At least 22
states have passed legislation
encouraging independent
community solar projects, but
developers are just beginning to
expand. Most existing projects
are booked.
At the moment, community
solar projects in the United
States generate enough
electricity to power about
918,000 homes — less than 1
percent of total households,
according to the Solar Energy
Industries Association, a
nonprofit trade group.
But as more states join, and
the Environmental Protection
Agency’s “Solar for All” program
pours billions into federal solar
power grants, more Americans
will get the chance.
Should you take it? I took a
look.
What is community solar?
While projects exist in most
states, they are highly
concentrated: More than half are
in Massachusetts, Minnesota
and New York. These might be
on a condo roof, or on open land
like the 10-MW Fresno
community solar farm, on a city-
owned plot surrounded by
agricultural land. Most are
small: 2 megawatts of capacity
on average, about enough to
power 200 to 400 homes.
Developers tend to finance
their projects through investors
or banks, and sign up customers
during construction. If there are
projects in your utility’s service
area, you can subscribe to
electricity generated by a certain
share of the project’s solar
panels.
The electrons that ultimately
flow into your home aren’t
necessarily from your panel.
They are fed into the local grid,
which powers households
throughout your service area.
Most allow subscribers to start
or cancel their solar subscription
at any time, or sometimes with a
few months’ notice. The
renewable energy marketplace
EnergySage and the nonprofit
Solar United Neighbors connect
customers to community solar
projects in their region.
People generally receive
monthly credits for electricity
produced by their share of solar
panels. These are subtracted
from their total electricity bill or
credited on future bills. If
customers produce more than
they consume, those credits roll
over. If they produce less,
customers pay the difference.
Subscribers on average save
about 10 percent on their utility
bill (the range is 5 percent to 15
percent).
These economics are
propelling the industry to record
heights. Between 2016 and 2019,
community solar capacity more
than quadrupled to 1.4 gigawatts.
By the end of this year, energy
research firm Wood Mackenzie
estimates, there will be 6 GW of
community solar. And the
Energy Department wants to see
community solar reach 5 million
households by 2025.
“The economics are strongly
on the side of doing this,” says
Dan Kammen, an energy
professor at the University of
California at Berkeley. “It’s now
cheaper to build new solar than
to operate old fossil [fuel plants].
… We’re at the takeoff point.”
Who should get it?
Community solar, also called
“solar for renters,” is for anyone.
But if you’re a homeowner, it
won’t maximize your savings.
On average, savings from
community solar amount to
about $100 per year for the
average ratepayer. Rooftop solar
arrays may save homeowners
more than $1,000 annually,
estimates EnergySage.
But it brings other
advantages. It’s a subscription
you can walk away from at any
time with no upfront
investment. And your fixed rate
or discount off prevailing
electric rates is usually locked in
for at least a decade. Residential
electricity rates, meanwhile,
have jumped about 17 percent
since 2018.
The biggest benefit may be
expanding access to clean energy
to the roughly half of U.S.
consumers and businesses not
able to install their own solar
panels. “The great promise of
community solar is it allows
everyone to be part of the energy
transition,” says Brandon
Smithwood of Dimension
Renewable Energy, a company
that has financed more than
1,000 MW of solar projects, “and
not feel they’re being left
behind.”
But I live in California, where
the market has stagnated amid
unfavorable policies and fierce
opposition from utilities. While
that may change — California,
like many other states, is poised
to enact policies enabling more
community solar — I need to buy
electricity now.
I still have options — they’re
just not as attractive. Green
power plans, or retail electricity
plans sold by third parties in
about 20 states, are often pricier,
and most don’t finance new
renewables directly since they
often just buy renewable energy
credits from existing projects.
Community choice
aggregation is another one.
Cities or local governments buy
power independently for local
residents and businesses, and
rely on utilities to distribute the
electricity, which is often cleaner
than the standard mix. CCA can
be less expensive, but not always.
It served about 5 million
customers in 10 states in 2020,
according to the EPA.
In the end, I signed up for
CCA. It was cheaper than my
local utility’s standard rate. I
paid a small monthly premium
of about $3 to source 100 percent
green power.
But if community solar comes
to town, I look forward to
subscribing to my own solar
panels — and paying less.

Shrinking of ice shelves in entered the ocean. The fresh wa-

ter can dilute the saltier ocean

Antarctica worries scientists

BY K ASHA P ATEL
More than 40 percent of Ant-
arctica’s ice shelves have dwin-
dled in the past 25 years, poten-
tially accelerating sea level rise by
allowing more land ice to flow into
the ocean, according to new re-
search released last week. The ex-
tent of ice shelves thinning is
more widespread than previously
thought, the results show, provid-
ing increasing evidence that the
continent is feeling the effects of
higher global temperatures.
“The surprising result to me
was just how many ice shelves are
deteriorating that substantially
and continuously,” said Benjamin
Davison, lead author of the study.
“Lots of ice shelves, not just the big
ones, are steadily losing mass over
time with no sign of recovery.”
Ice shelves are massive floating
sections of ice extending from gla-
ciers on land. They play a critical
role in slowing the flow of ice on
land into the ocean by essentially
acting as a wall and surround
nearly the entire coastline of Ant-
arctica. When ice shelves thin or
retreat, ice on the land can flow
into the ocean more quickly and
accelerate sea level rise. The Ant-
arctic and Greenland ice sheets
are responsible for more than
one-third of total sea level rise in
recent decades.
Analyzing more than 100,000
satellite images from 1997 to 2021,
Davison and his colleagues found
that 71 of the 162 ice shelves sur-
rounding Antarctica reduced in
volume. Almost 50 lost more than
30 percent of their initial mass
during those years. The team also
found 29 shelves gained mass dur-
ing the study period and an addi-
tional 62 did not change mass
significantly.
Healthy ice shelves naturally
retreat and grow over time, said
Davison, a researcher at the Uni-
versity of Leeds. An ice shelf is
continuously flowing and advanc-
ing but will also lose mass through
melting or calving, which is when
its front breaks off into the ocean.
Then it can gain ice from the land
and grow again.
But the large portion of steadily
shrinking ice shelves shows this
natural cycle is off, Davison said.
“We’re just seeing them get
smaller and smaller and smaller
for 25 years . . . often with no sign
of any advance or growth in that
time,” Davison said. “That’s not
consistent with what we expect
from the natural cycle of an ice
shelf.”
The largest portion of shrink-
ing ice shelves was found on the
western side of Antarctica, where
warmer water can erode the
shelves from underneath. Nearly
all the ice shelves on the western
side experienced ice loss.
In West Antarctica, the Getz Ice
Shelf experienced some of the big-
gest ice losses, shedding 1.9 tril-
lion tons of ice over the study
period — almost exclusively be-
cause of melting at the shelf’s
base. The Pine Island Ice Shelf lost
1.3 trillion tons of ice, with a third
After more than a decade fastened to the coastline, a large expanse of sea ice broke away from the
Antarctic Peninsula in January 2022. The thinning of ice shelves is widespread across the continent.
due to calving.
Most ice shelves in East Antarc-
tica, however, increased in volume
or stayed the same. The east, Davi-
son said, is not as exposed to the
warm water like the other side of
the continent. The region is pro-
tected by a band of cold water at
the coast, which helps keep near-
by warm water at bay. Even so, the
study still showed pockets of
shrinking ice shelves, and re-
searchers are still investigating
the reasons. One theory, Davison
said, is that the warmer water on
the western side could be slowly
intruding on the region.
One of the most recent ice shelf
collapses occurred in East Antarc-
tica in March 2022. The Conger
Ice Shelf — about the size of New
York City — completely collapsed
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in the span of a few weeks, prob-
ably triggered by a record heat
wave in Antarctica that proved to
be the most intense ever in the
world.
The thinning of the ice shelves
has shown up in the surrounding
environment, too. Over the
25-year study period, the team
estimated, 66.9 trillion tons of
fresh water from the ice shelves
water and make it lighter, weaken-
ing ocean circulation — a change
that researchers have already ob-
served around Antarctica.
Ice scientist Alex Gardner, who
was not involved in the research,
said the study’s results confirm
previous work looking at ice shelf
changes, including his own. His
previous work found calving has
increased and caused ice shelves
to lose more mass into oceans. The
new study also complemented an-
other study that showed how
widespread ice shelf thinning was
across the continent.
“We now have multiple groups
coming to the same conclusion
that when you zoom out and look
at the Antarctic ice shelves in their
entirety you see a clear signals of
retreat and thinning, signals
[that] are expected in a warming
world,” Gardner said.
Davison said the current ice
shelf data set is not long enough
for researchers to definitively
make a climate change connec-
tion yet, but he said it would be a
“remarkable coincidence” if the
natural variability in ice shelves
were just that much larger. Addi-
tionally, climate models predict
ice shelves will steadily shrink in a
warming world as observed, even-
tually hitting a tipping point that
could lead to a millennial period
of ice sheet disintegration.
But, Davison said, we don’t
need to hit that tipping point be-
fore seeing an effect on the planet.
“The changes are big and sub-
stantial, even if [you] could imag-
ine an even worse scenario,” Davi-
son said. “You don’t need every ice
shelf to be basically gone or disap-
pearing for it to matter.”
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EPA declares lead pollution from small planes a danger to public health
Agency action represents
a first step toward
regulating aviation fuel
BY T IMOTHY P UKO
AND L ORI A RATANI
The Environmental Protection
Agency on Wednesday an-
nounced it has determined that
lead emitted from airplanes is a
danger to public health, opening
the door for the agency’s first
limits on lead fuel in aviation.
The move puts the Biden ad-
ministration in the middle of a
brewing fight over how long
airports — particularly smaller
ones — can continue selling lead-
ed gasoline, despite the health
hazards from this powerful neu-
rotoxin. More than 170,000
smaller planes, known as piston-
engine aircraft, still use leaded
U.K. charges Greta Thunberg as governments push back on climate protests
BY K ARLA A DAM
LONDON — Greta Thunberg was
among 26 people charged by
British police Wednesday after
taking part in a protest outside
an oil and gas conference in the
capital.
The 20-year-old Swedish cli-
mate activist was accused of “fail-
ing to comply with a condition
imposed under section 14 of the
Public Order Act,” according to
an emailed statement from Lon-
don Metropolitan police. She was
released on bail and assigned to
appear at Westminster Magis-
trates’ Court on Nov. 15.
Footage shared on social me-
dia showed Thunberg and other
activists chanting “oily money
out” and blocking an entrance to
the event venue, a hotel in the
posh Mayfair neighborhood of
London, before being bundled
into the back of a police van
Tuesday.
Getting detained at protests
has become somewhat of a regu-
lar thing for Thunberg. This year,
she has been charged and fined
twice in her native Sweden. She
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gasoline, according to the EPA,
and there is an ongoing dispute
about how quickly this form of
fuel can be phased out at thou-
sands of airports nationwide.
The agency first proposed the
move last year. It is a formal step
known as an “endangerment
finding,” and it now obligates the
agency under the Clean Air Act to
set new rules on what aircraft
engines can emit.
“The science is clear: exposure
to lead can cause irreversible and
lifelong health effects in chil-
dren,” EPA Administrator Mi-
chael Regan said in a statement.
“Aircraft that use leaded fuel are
the dominant source of lead
emissions in our air.”
Now that the EPA has made its
determination, the Federal Avia-
tion Administration said
Wednesday that it will move
forward with rulemaking aimed
at controlling or eliminating avi-
ation lead emissions from piston-
engine aircraft.
has also been detained by police
or removed from protests in
Norway and Germany.
People who study the climate
movement said those encounters
with police partly reflect a
change in tactics by Thunberg,
who has expanded beyond her
Friday school strikes and shown
more willingness to be detained.
But her arrests also reflect how
governments have begun to crack
down on climate protests, with
Britain leading the way.
In the past two years, the
United Kingdom has introduced
new and highly controversial leg-
islation that has given police new
powers to block and disperse
protests. When the Public Order
Act went through Parliament, the
United Nations human rights
chief called it “deeply troubling.”
The Conservative government
in Britain has argued that the
police needed new powers to
respond to protesters, many of
them from climate groups. seek-
ing to create mass disruption.
Activists from Extinction Rebel-
lion and Just Stop Oil have dis-
rupted sporting tournaments
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Congress also considers a long-
term reauthorization of the FAA,
including a bipartisan proposal
that passed the House that would
effectively require small airports
to continue selling leaded
gasoline.
In a statement, a coalition of
10 industry groups said they are
working with the administration
toward the ultimate elimination
of lead from aviation gas by the
end of 2030 or sooner, but em-
phasized that aviation safety will
depend on “an orderly, nationally
coordinated transition.”
“The premature removal of an
essential fuel that many aircraft
require for safe operation, before
a replacement is available, would
compromise the safety, efficiency
and economic viability of the U.S.
airspace and airports, the gener-
al aviation industry and trans-
portation infrastructure,” said
the group, which includes the
National Air Transportation As-
Police arrest activist Greta Thunberg at a protest outside an oil and gas conference in London on
Wednesday. She said in a statement before her arrest that protesters “have no choice but to disrupt.”
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and Pilots Association and the
American Petroleum Institute.
Some members of Congress
echoed those comments, includ-
ing Rep. Sam Graves, (R-Mo.),
chair of the House Transporta-
tion Committee, who said the
EPA’s determination “short
circuits” years of collaboration
between the government and
industry to find a viable fuel
alternative.
Commercial jets do not use
leaded fuel, so the rules would
affect only smaller planes that fly
two to 10 passengers, the EPA
said. On average these aircraft
are nearly 50 years old and were
originally designed to run on
leaded fuel as a way to prevent
engine trouble in flight.
While the planes are only a
small subsection of the aviation
industry, the agency said their
emissions still pose risks near
their airports, many of which are
mostly in or near poor or minori-
Matthew Fiedler
Senior Fellow,
Brookings Institution
ty communities. That includes
more than 5 million people, of
which about 363,000 are chil-
dren 5 or younger, according to
EPA figures.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.),
who has long raised concerns
about the use of lead fuel in
aviation and its impact on local
communities, including one in
his district, welcomed the EPA’s
determination.
“I hope it leads to further
action to end the use of this toxic
fuel and speeds adoption of
ready alternatives,” Khanna said
in a statement, noting that a
recent study found high levels of
lead in children who lived near a
general aviation airport in his
district.
Mark Baker, president of the
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Asso-
ciation, said his group thinks “it’s
the right thing to do,” adding,
“And as we move toward it, we
want to do it in a safe way.”
In the interim, the FAA said it
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also encourages industry to take
steps that can help reduce the
impact on communities, includ-
ing the early adoption of alterna-
tive unleaded fuels and the man-
agement of lead emissions by
encouraging pilots to perform
engine warm-ups and preflight
tests in areas farther from popu-
lated areas.
The agency has been working
with the general aviation com-
munity on ways to eliminate
leaded aviation fuels used by
piston-engine aircraft by the end
of 2030. One key goal is to
identify at least one unleaded
fuel that can be used safely by
general aviation aircraft.
Lead exposure can cause be-
havioral problems, lower IQs and
slow growth, the EPA said. The
agency has been trying to
strengthen rules against lead pol-
lution, partly in response to a
new scientific consensus that
lead can harm children at even
the most microscopic levels.
and shut down large parts of
London.
Some groups in Britain have
now moved away from disruptive
tactics. But there is an enduring
segment determined to show
they are not deterred by the
threat of arrests.
Lochlinn Parker, managing di-
rector of Good Law Practice, said
there has been a “significant up-
tick in arrests,” because police
have more powers and are willing
to use them, but also because
people are more willing to be
arrested. Bob Ward, a climate
communications expert at the
London School of Economics,
said that although the British
government had changed its laws
to try to reduce disruption, “re-
cent decisions by the U.K. Gov-
ernment to slow down the transi-
tion away from fossil fuels have
probably motivated even more
people to take direct action.”
Thunberg said in a statement
before her arrest that protesters
“have no choice but to disrupt”
because “our world is being
swept away by greenwashing and
lies.”
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The next front in climate fight: U.S. exports of natural gas
Activists say approval of new terminals will lock in greenhouse gas emissions for decades, while others applaud the potential displacement of dirtier coal
BY M AXINE J OSELOW
AND T IMOTHY P UKO
Environmentalists are gearing
up for their next giant climate
fight: They want to force a show-
down with the Biden administra-
tion over the massive expansion
of U.S. natural gas exports.
Less than a decade ago, U.S.
exports of liquefied natural gas —
LNG for short — didn’t exist. Now
they are growing so rapidly that
the United States last year be-
came the world’s largest gas ex-
porter. The trend has given Wash-
ington more influence abroad,
while raising big questions about
its environmental legacy.
President Biden has thrown
his support behind the industry
to help European allies, which in
the wake of Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine have sought more U.S.
gas to break a years-long reliance
on Russian energy supplies. But
environmentalists fear that by
investing billions of dollars in
new terminals to chill and ship
U.S. gas abroad, the industry is
locking in more planet-warming
emissions when Biden has
pledged to zero out climate pollu-
tion.
That has led environmental
groups, including the Sierra Club,
the League of Conservation Vot-
ers and famed activist Bill McKib-
ben, to target gas exports in an
emerging campaign. More than
two dozen new or expansion proj-
ects are under construction or
under consideration. Opponents
say that buildout far exceeds
what is needed and will further
burden communities of color on
the Gulf Coast and other parts of
the country. They want Washing-
ton to better judge the cumula-
tive impacts of these projects
before granting more permit ap-
provals.
“The real news is we’re in 2023;
it’s never been hotter,” McKibben
said in a video news conference
Tuesday. “So why on Earth are we
even talking about figuring out a
way to spew yet more greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere? … It
doesn’t make sense.”
The mounting pushback illus-
trates the Biden administration’s
challenges in balancing national
security concerns with climate
pledges, while also recognizing
domestic political realities. Biden
enraged young climate activists
and others this year by approving
the Willow oil drilling project on
Alaska’s North Slope, even as the
White House argued it was legally
obligated to sanction it in some
form.
But the greenhouse gas emis-
sions associated with just one
LNG export project, known as
Calcasieu Pass 2 or CP2, would be
20 times as large as those from
Willow, according to an analysis
by Jeremy Symons, an environ-
mental consultant and former
climate policy adviser at the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency.
“The Willow project was a
carbon bomb, but the CP2 project
is a megabomb when it comes to
climate change,” Symons said in
an interview.
Shaylyn Hynes, spokeswoman
for the project’s owner, Arling-
ton-based Venture Global, said
that U.S. gas exports provide oth-
er countries an alternative to
dirtier fuels, including coal,
which has seen a rebound in
global demand in recent months.
And LNG is still critical to help-
ing Europe and to delivering
energy to millions of poor people
globally, Hynes added in an
email.
“The well-funded environmen-
FinAnCe
SEC proposes new
rules for brokers
The top Wall Street regulator
on Wednesday proposed new
regulations it said should level
the playing field among broker-
dealers operating on U.S. stock
exchanges by ending pricing
schemes that tend to favor
bigger players.
At a public meeting in
Washington, a divided five-
member U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission voted 3-2
to propose banning stock
exchanges from offering lower
transaction prices and rebates to
brokerages with higher trading
volumes, something officials
said creates unfair competitive
advantages for larger firms.
However, the Republican
members objected, saying the
proposal was a solution in
Economy & Business
A liquefied natural gas transport is docked this summer near Cameron, La. Thanks to fracking, the United States now produces far more natural gas than it consumes.
tal activists opposing CP2 and all
U.S. LNG projects are completely
out of touch with reality,” she
said. “Ironically, Mr. McKibben
and other activists who claim to
want to lower global emissions
are actually advocating for re-
stricting access to a cleaner form
of energy.”
U.S. gas exports have been a
hot-button issue for more than a
decade. In the 2000s, gas in the
United States was so expensive
and scarce that Washington and
industry leaders were contem-
plating ways to import more gas.
But that era also led to a new
drilling technique, commonly re-
ferred to as fracking, that would
unlock so much gas that the
United States now produces far
more than it consumes.
Soon companies began re-
questing federal permits to ex-
port gas, initially gaining approv-
al from the Obama administra-
tion as a way to bolster the
country’s international trade.
Biden threw his support behind
the industry after Russia’s inva-
sion of Ukraine last year. America
and European allies have since
worked to curtail Russian exports
of both gas and oil.
U.S. LNG exports have doubled
over the last four years. The
projects already approved and
under construction are expected
to again double America’s LNG
export capacity in the next four
years. Almost all of these projects
are along the Gulf Coast, mostly
in an industrial region straddling
Louisiana and Texas that is al-
ready home to hulking petro-
chemical plants.
Backers of these proposed
projects argue that they could
have a positive climate impact
globally if the gas displaces coal,
the dirtiest fossil fuel. They note
that the gas is largely going to
European countries, some of
which have been burning more
coal since the start of the Ukraine
search of a problem.
The number and complexity
of pricing tiers that can exist
among exchanges, and which
leave different brokerages facing
sizable differences in cost, can
make price schemes complex
and difficult to understand,
officials said in advance of the
meeting.
Ending such pricing
advantages will also help
prevent conflicts of interest in
which brokerages may route
orders for execution in ways that
benefit the brokerage but not
the client, according to the SEC.
The ban on transaction price
discounts and rebates would not
apply when brokerages trade for
themselves, officials said in
advance of the meeting.
The proposal is now subject to
a period of public comment and
may be revised before any
decision on whether to adopt it.
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war, as well as to Asian countries
such as China that are still build-
ing more coal-fired power plants.
“Gas can absolutely displace
coal in the medium term and long
term, bringing carbon emissions
down,” said Emily McClain, vice
president of North America gas
markets at the research firm Rys-
tad Energy.
Environmentalists, however,
say switching from coal to gas
does not go far enough to address
climate change. They point to
findings by the International En-
ergy Agency that humanity can-
not build any new oil, gas or coal
infrastructure if it hopes to pre-
vent dangerous global warming
beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7
degrees Fahrenheit). They also
note that the main component of
LNG is methane, a greenhouse
gas that is far more initially
potent than carbon dioxide and
often leaks from oil and gas
infrastructure.
“When you build a new LNG
facility, you’re deciding where the
world will get our energy 10, 20
and 30 years from now,” Symons
said. “And if all we’ve done is
move from coal to gas, the planet
is cooked.”
Some analysts said stemming
the supply of fossil fuels doesn’t
necessarily halt demand, illus-
trated by how some regions in
Europe turned to coal to replace
Russian gas. A better option
would be to tighten rules and
take other measures to ensure the
gas industry is eliminating leaks
and reducing its emissions, said
Ben Cahill, a senior fellow in the
Energy Security and Climate
Change Program at the Center for
Strategic and International Stud-
ies.
The Biden administration has
emphasized this at home and
abroad, said both Cahill and the
Energy Department, which said
in a statement it “is committed to
safeguarding the energy security
Di gest
Association, a trade group which
announced on Tuesday that it
had joined a lawsuit against the
SEC over a different regulation,
said the panel had “an
obligation to promote
competition and transparency”
on equities markets and that the
ASA would study the proposal.
— Reuters
RetAil
Amazon tests drone
prescription deliveries
Amazon has started
delivering prescription
medications by drone in a Texas
city, broadening its experimental
effort to deliver goods by air.
The online retailer recently
began listing drone delivery as
an option for Amazon Pharmacy
customers who are participating
in a test program in College
Station, one of two U.S. cities
of our nation” while also decar-
bonizing the natural gas sector,
including reducing “harmful
methane emissions.”
Cahill and other analysts said
the biggest downside of these
export projects may be for U.S.
consumers. While it may lower
soaring prices for allies in Eu-
rope, sending more gas there — or
elsewhere into the global market
— has increased domestic natural
gas prices, leaving consumers
with higher bills for heating their
homes, according to findings by
the Institute for Energy Eco-
nomics and Financial Analysis, a
nonprofit think tank.
If the Biden administration
denies permits for new LNG ex-
port projects, it could help lower
the price Americans pay for natu-
ral gas, said Clark Williams-Der-
ry, an energy finance analyst at
the institute.
“Halting the growth of the U.S.
LNG buildout is a good way to
protect consumers from price
spikes,” Williams-Derry said.
Two federal agencies are re-
sponsible for approving permits
for LNG projects. The Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission,
or FERC, must decide whether to
authorize the siting and con-
struction of projects under the
Natural Gas Act, while the Energy
Department must determine
whether it’s in the “public inter-
est” to export gas to countries
with which the United States
lacks a free-trade agreement.
The Energy Department re-
ports to the White House, and its
decisions often reflect adminis-
tration policy. But FERC is an
independent agency that does
not directly answer to Biden.
Although its five commissioners
are nominated by the president,
no more than three may be of the
same political party, and it is
currently split 2-2 between each
party, led by acting chairman
Willie Phillips.
where Amazon is delivering
products using unmanned
vehicles the size of lawn mowers.
The company made the effort
public on Wednesday ahead of a
logistics press event held at a
warehouse near its Seattle
headquarters. (Amazon founder
Jeff Bezos owns The Washington
Post, and interim chief executive
of The Post, Patty Stonesifer, sits
on the Amazon board.)
Quick delivery of medical
supplies has emerged as one of
the leading candidates for a
viable delivery-by-drone
business. Wing, United Parcel
Service and drone start-up
Zipline have all set out to deliver
medical goods, sometimes in
trial programs centered around
hospital campuses or planned
communities.
In most places, drone use
remains limited to narrowly
prescribed tests as regulators
hash out regulations to limit risk
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“Chairman Phillips has stated
he supports projects that are
needed,” commission spokes-
woman Mary O’Driscoll said in
an email. “And as he controls the
agenda for the Commission, he
has been working to get Commis-
sion votes on several projects.”
Neither agency has yet denied
a permit for an LNG project.
However, the Sierra Club and
other environmental groups have
urged the Energy Department to
update how it makes the public
interest determination, saying it
does not account for relevant
factors.
“The current process doesn’t
accurately consider how LNG ex-
ports impact the climate, envi-
ronmental justice or domestic
energy prices,” said Jamie Henn,
founder and director of Fossil
Free Media, a group that opposes
fossil fuels. “Honestly, it’s frus-
trating that we’re still having this
conversation with Democratic
administrations.”
A Republican-led bill takes the
opposite approach. The Unlock-
ing our Domestic LNG Potential
Act of 2023, which was intro-
duced by Rep. Bill Johnson (R-
Ohio), would effectively prevent
either agency from determining
that an LNG project is not in the
public interest.
“It is past time we cut the red
tape surrounding the natural gas
export permitting process, and
unleash homegrown American
energy,” Johnson said in a state-
ment. (The House was initially
expected to vote on the bill in late
September, but then the chamber
plunged into chaos over the oust-
er of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as
speaker.)
On Thursday, FERC will con-
sider a certificate for Venture
Global’s Plaquemines LNG ex-
port facility in Plaquemines Par-
ish, La., roughly 20 miles south of
New Orleans. The commission
has yet to announce when it will
to other aircraft and people on
the ground.
John Love, vice president of
Amazon Pharmacy, said the
company is offering free delivery
of more than 500 medications by
air to patients enrolled in the
drone-delivery test in Texas.
When Prime Air surveyed
customers to ask what products
they would like to receive this
way, medication “was at the top
of the list,” he said.
— Bloomberg News
Also in Business
Single-family home building in
the United States rebounded
sharply in September, boosted
by demand for new construction
amid a dearth of previously
owned homes, but the highest
mortgage rates in nearly 23
years could slow momentum.
Single-family housing starts,
which account for the bulk of
october 19 , 2023
consider a permit for Calcasieu
Pass 2.
While activists want a broader
reexamination of all these facili-
ties, the size of the Calcasieu Pass
2 expansion makes it an impor-
tant target, McKibben said Tues-
day. He and activists with the
Louisiana Bucket Brigade ac-
cused the company of permit
violations and repeated air pollu-
tion, fires and equipment mal-
functions at the current operat-
ing terminal.
“This is obviously an environ-
mental justice train wreck,”
McKibben said. “The last thing
that people in these communities
need is another project of this
magnitude shoved down their
throats.”
In an email, Hynes acknowl-
edged the plant had some air
pollution “deviations” in 2022
but said that those are not permit
violations and that the plant has
reduced them this year. The plant
has been in “full compliance with
our annual emission limits,” she
added.
Charif Souki, a pioneer in the
LNG industry whose company
Tellurian is building another new
terminal in the neighboring par-
ish, disputed McKibben’s charac-
terization of local sentiment. In-
dustries are siting facilities in the
area because of support from
locals and government officials
who want the economic boost, he
said in an interview Monday. He
criticized environmentalists for
seeking to block a source of
energy that he says can help
people out of life-threatening
poverty.
“If we start talking about en-
ergy justice, people are going to
die,” said Souki, who previously
founded the first U.S. LNG ex-
porter, Cheniere Energy. Envi-
ronmentalists, he said, “are con-
sumed with only what happens in
the United States, and that’s a
mistake.”
home building, increased
3.2 percent to a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of 963,000
units last month, the Commerce
Department said on Wednesday.
Data for August was revised to
show starts dropping to a rate of
933,000 units instead of 941,000
units as previously reported.
India extended its export
restrictions in a renewed bid to
protect domestic supplies, a
move that is likely to tighten the
global market and raise costs for
the food industry. The Indian
government said it will continue
its curbs on overseas shipments
of the sweetener beyond Oct. 31,
according to a notice from the
Directorate General of Foreign
Trade posted on Wednesday,
confirming a Bloomberg News
report last week. India is the
second-largest sugar producer in
the world.
— From news services
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Slower pursuit of $62 billion in pandemic loan debt elicits fury on Capitol Hill
deBT from A1
to 30 days past due, or delinquent
for longer, and that the number
would probably grow.
Anticipating a wave of de-
faults, however, the SBA had al-
ready decided that it would not
take the most aggressive actions
possible to pursue borrowers who
received loans worth $100,000 or
less. The agency said it planned to
send out stern letters demanding
payments and threatening penal-
ties, and it aimed to prohibit
these borrowers from obtaining
federal aid again. But the SBA
opted against referring all unpaid
and delinquent loans to the
Treasury Department, which can
garnish wages and initiate other
collection activities, according to
reports, letters and other materi-
als prepared by SBA and its top
watchdog that were later re-
viewed by The Washington Post.
Explaining the decision, SBA
leaders said the government at
the time would be unlikely to
recover most of the money any-
way. They indicated they had few
options because of decisions
made under the Trump adminis-
tration that limited debt collec-
tion, making the work to claw
back money so costly that it
would negate any potential feder-
al savings.
The arguments did not satisfy
the agency’s inspector general,
Hannibal “mike” Ware, whose of-
fice issued a scathing review in
late September, warning that
SBA’s repayment policy “could
incentivize other CoVID-19 EIDL
recipients to stop paying on their
loans.”
The fear about compounding
losses also prompted republi-
cans in Congress to demand the
agency turn over documents in
connection with its management
of EIDL as well as another pan-
demic initiative, the Paycheck
Protection Program, known as
PPP. House Small Business Com-
mittee Chairman roger Williams
(r-Tex.) and 13 other House re-
publicans warned in a letter
Wednesday that, if the SBA does
not turn over some of the records,
his panel would “evaluate the use
of compulsory process” — a subtle
threat to obtain the materials by
subpoena.
Sen. Joni Ernst (r-Iowa), the
leading republican on her cham-
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tee, similarly joined six other
GoP lawmakers to request agen-
cy records Wednesday. In a state-
ment, she faulted the SBA for a
policy that appears to be in “viola-
tion of federal law based entirely
on a faulty cost-benefit analysis.”
“It’s completely unacceptable
that SBA is leaving taxpayers on
the hook for $62 billion in EIDL
loans,” she said.
The SBA declined to make top
officials available for interviews,
answer a full set of specific ques-
tions or provide a complete ac-
counting about the state of its
EIDL loans, including the num-
ber in default or written off as a
loss.
In a statement, Han Nguyen,
an agency spokesman, said that
“borrowers need to repay their
loans, and the agency will contin-
ue its collection efforts against all
those who do not.” He added the
EIDL program, in particular, uses
the “most comprehensive set of
legal and cost-effective tools to
vigorously pursue repayment of
loans, particularly those with le-
gitimate fraud indicators.”
otherwise, Nguyen said, feder-
al law allows the SBA to refrain
from referring unpaid debts to
the Treasury Department, since
doing so could cost the govern-
ment too much in staff, adminis-
trative hearings and mailings,
while potentially harming mom-
and-pop small businesses more
than larger firms, which may be
incorporated and benefit from
other legal protections.
The new scrutiny underscored
the growing discomfort in Wash-
ington over the SBA’s manage-
ment of roughly $1 trillion in
loans and grants during the pan-
demic. The troubles stemmed
from the earliest days of the pub-
lic health crisis, when the agency
under President Donald Trump
opted for haste over precision —
rescuing millions of businesses in
ways that ultimately exposed tax-
payers to unprecedented waste,
fraud and abuse.
“There was a real need to get
the money out the door quickly,”
said Liz Hempowicz, the vice
president of policy and govern-
ment affairs at the Project on
Government oversight, a non-
profit watchdog. “When it came
to this balance between speed
and accuracy, I think we miscal-
culated and put too much empha-
sis on getting money out the door
force and democracy.
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The Small Business Administration decided it wouldn’t take the most aggressive actions to pursue
borrowers who received loans worth $100,000 or less, spurring federal investigations into the policy.
quickly.”
Tasked to manage an aid port-
folio larger than its annual budg-
et, the SBA during the Trump
administration did not incorpo-
rate basic safeguards, paving the
way for scammers to steal Ameri-
cans’ identities and obtain scarce
“It’s completely
unacceptable that SBA
is leaving taxpayers on
the hook for $62 billion
in EIDL loans.”
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who is on
chamber’s small-business committee
federal support in their names. In
June, the agency’s inspector gen-
eral said SBA’s main covid relief
programs may have lost about
$200 billion just to potential
fraud.
In recent months, federal
watchdogs have grown newly
concerned that the government
could lose even more money if
businesses don’t repay what they
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owe. Some of the delinquencies
may reflect actual hardship; in
other cases, aid recipients may be
dodging debts, or their failure to
pay back federal loans could sug-
gest they obtained the money
fraudulently. Nonetheless, the
overall losses to taxpayers threat-
en to reach into the billions of
dollars, compounding the gov-
ernment’s fiscal troubles as the
deficit rises and interest rates
soar.
Under federal law, the SBA is
supposed to take every action
possible to recover late payments,
refer the matter to the Treasury
Department or, alternatively, de-
termine if the debts can’t be col-
lected at all. To that end, the
agency last April took the latter
approach, finding that it would
be financially unreasonable to
pursue unpaid EIDL loans of
$100,000 or less. The directive,
which SBA Administrator Isabel-
la Casillas Guzman did not an-
nounce publicly, mirrored a simi-
lar policy the agency applied that
same year to PPP, a roughly
$800 billion program that pri-
marily issued loans that the gov-
ernment mostly forgave.
In data later furnished to its
top watchdog, the SBA estimated
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in may that there were 1.3 million
EIDL loans that were past due, in
liquidation or charged off at the
time. That added up to more than
$33 billion, with some borrowers
as late as 120 days on their bills.
But the agency did not provide
any additional information, nor
did it provide monthly spending
reports to the inspector general
as requested — prompting federal
investigators to conclude last
month that they could not rely on
SBA’s accounting.
“SBA has already ended, or will
end, collections on these loans if
they remain delinquent, and as
additional loans become due, this
number is likely to grow,” the
watchdog warned in its report.
At one point, the SBA did con-
sider alternative approaches,
even hiring a contractor, un-
named in the inspector general
report, to help assess its out-
standing EIDL loans. The unpub-
lished study, conducted in may
2021, included a recommenda-
tion that the agency sell off a
portion of its debt to “ensure an
exit strategy that would maxi-
mize the value of the portfolio,”
potentially preventing the gov-
ernment from losing more mon-
ey. But the SBA opted against
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such a sale as recently as febru-
ary 2022, declining to say why.
In a written response to the
report, dated Sept. 21, Jihoon
Kim, the director of the agency’s
office of financial Program oper-
ations, primarily took issue with
the assertion that the SBA had
halted EIDL collections — point-
ing out, for example, that the
agency continues to refer delin-
quent borrowers to credit-moni-
toring bureaus.
In another September report,
though, the agency’s watchdog
found further cause for concern,
writing that the SBA failed for five
years to submit timely loan data
to Experian, one of the monitor-
ing agencies that lenders consult
when making a decision about a
borrower. At least a dozen times
in 2019 and 2020, Experian tried
to reach SBA and alert them to the
problem to no avail — leaving
Experian no choice but to exclude
the federal records from its com-
mercial credit files.
SBA later said it has had “pre-
liminary meetings” to address the
issue.
“All these credit reporting sys-
tems help ensure that lenders
have the data they need to make
informed decisions about credit-
worthiness for individuals and
small businesses,” acknowledged
Sheri mcConville, the acting di-
rector of the office of Perform-
ance and Systems management at
SBA, in a follow-up letter to the
inspector general.
The developments have infuri-
ated republicans in Congress,
who for months have demanded
— without success — that the SBA
furnish data about the state of its
outstanding pandemic loans.
Williams, the leader of the
House’s top panel focused on
small businesses, embarked on
his own probe of the SBA’s repay-
ment policies this spring, focus-
ing first on PPP. In the letter
Wednesday, Williams and the 13
other republicans argued the
SBA had “failed to adequately
justify either decision” with EIDL
or PPP.
“The SBA should be treating
these taxpayer-funded loans the
same way as any business owner
would who is owed a large debt,”
Williams said in a statement.
“The SBA should continue pursu-
ing loans of all sizes rather than
taking the path of least resis-
tance.”
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President, Signal
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Hamas turns to social media to get its message out — and to spread fear
Militant group launches
multipronged campaign
to tell its version of war
BY D REW H ARWELL
AND E LIZABETH D WOSKIN
In the chaotic aftermath of an
attack Tuesday on a Gaza hospi-
tal, as Israeli and Palestinian offi-
cials traded blame for an aerial
barrage that Gaza health authori-
ties said killed 471 people, the
militant group Hamas quickly
turned to its primary messaging
platform: the online chat app
Telegram.
Israel’s military had blamed
the blast on misfired rockets from
another Palestinian militant
group. But over a rapid-fire series
of nearly two dozen messages in
Arabic and English, Hamas told
its online audience of hundreds of
thousands that the “massacre”
had come from an Israeli airstrike
and that the country and its West-
ern allies were at fault for “geno-
cide.”
Gaza Now, a Hamas-linked
Telegram channel with 1.4 million
subscribers, posted photos of
what appeared to be children
killed or badly injured in the
strike. The official Hamas chan-
nel urged its supporters, in one
Arabic post, to “take direct action,
show anger. … Do not wait for
tomorrow.”
Responsibility for the hospital
blast has not been definitively
determined. Current U.S. intelli-
gence has found that Israel was
“not responsible,” a White House
National Security Council spokes-
person told The Washington Post
on Wednesday. But in the days
since its forces stormed across
southern Israel, Hamas has de-
ployed an unprecedented and
multipronged social media cam-
paign to tell its version of the war
with Israel, seeking to persuade
the world that its militants are
freedom fighters justified in their
killing and abduction of Israeli
civilians.
Banned on most major social
networks, the group is using un-
moderated messaging platforms
and grisly first-person video with
a level of sophistication not seen
in past conflicts.
Hamas has shared Telegram
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messages designed to strengthen
supporters’ resolve, stir up anti-
Israel rage in neighboring coun-
tries, defend its militants’ brutal-
ity and induce sympathy to the
plight of Gaza, the coastal strip
housing 2 million Palestinians
under Hamas’s control. Follower
counts for those channels have
tripled since the attack, according
to figures compiled by the Atlan-
tic Council’s Digital Forensic Re-
search Lab.
In one video posted to Hamas’s
Telegram channel, camouflaged
men hefting assault rifles push a
crying baby in a stroller outside a
ransacked Israeli home. The clip,
said to display “Hamas fighters
showing compassion for chil-
dren,” has been viewed 200,000
times.
But the group also has worked
to use the internet as a tool for
terror and antisemitism, building
on a playbook pioneered by the
Islamic State with the aim of in-
stilling fear, winning attention
and marshaling support for po-
tentially more attacks to come.
In some videos, Hamas mili-
tants show off the bloodied hos-
tages they’ve taken, the long-
range missiles they’ve built and
the training drills they’ve run
with rocket launchers and ma-
chine guns. One video is cap-
tioned in Hebrew: “This is what
awaits you when you enter Gaza.”
“Hamas came armed with mag-
azines [for its rifles] but also the
full battery on their phone,” said
Achiya Schatz, the director of
FakeReporter, an Israeli watch-
dog group that tracks online dis-
information and hate speech.
“They fully understood that what
they were going for is a terrorist
attack not just in the real world,
but online … to glorify their act
and to control the narrative.”
Hamas’s social media strategy
was evident in the initial hours of
its bloody assault when visceral
footage from body-worn GoPro
cameras quickly flooded its Tele-
gram channels. In one clip, a mili-
tant points the camera at a body
and says, “Time for photographs.”
In the days since, Hamas has
continued using those channels
to publish video monologues
from political and military lead-
ers, rally international supporters
to take up arms and threaten to
broadcast hostage executions.
One channel has posted short
video sound bites from Ismail
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Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader
living in exile in Qatar, while
another has posted fundraising
messages seeking donations in
cryptocurrency.
Some of the videos show
Hamas’s fighting force as ruthless
and resourceful, and are edited to
include dramatic soundtracks, ti-
tle animations, slow-motion se-
quences and other professional
touches. One video shows an ac-
tion-movie-style training mon-
tage, while another uses footage
recorded from underwater cam-
eras and flying drones to show
how militants refashioned pipe-
lines into missiles.
Rita Katz, the executive direc-
tor of SITE Intelligence Group,
which tracks terror groups on-
line, said Hamas’s channels were
once a “boring” mix of photos
showing rocket launches and
killed fighters, known as “martyr
reports.”
Since the ambush, however, the
channels have shifted to publish-
ing rapid-response statements
and highly produced videos at all
hours — a flow of wartime mes-
saging and propaganda that Is-
raeli supporters have described as
psychological warfare.
“I have never ever seen the
jihadi community, and probably
also the far-right community,
sharing so much from the Hamas
channels,” she said. “It’s every-
where online. You can’t ignore it.”
Hamas is banned by Facebook,
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and
X, formerly known as Twitter.
Many of its videos have neverthe-
less been reposted on X, which
some experts said has been slow
to take them down. The company
said in a statement that it had
recently removed hundreds of
Hamas accounts.
But the group posts its most
violent videos and extreme mes-
sages directly to Telegram, where
it has few concerns that they will
be removed and where its audi-
ence numbers have soared. Its
military wing, the Izzedine al-
Qassam Brigades, now has more
than 700,000 followers, up from
200,000 before the attack, and
thousands of viewers there react
with emojis to every message,
such as the heart, fire and salute
emojis.
Telegram did not respond to
requests for comment, but its
founder, the Russia-born billion-
aire Pavel Durov, said in a post
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Palestinians lift Hamas flags in the occupied West Bank after an
airstrike on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday. In nearly two dozen
messages in Arabic and English, Hamas told its online audience
that the “massacre” had come from Israel.
Friday that the service did not
“significantly amplify propa-
ganda” and was instead a “unique
source of firsthand information
for researchers, journalists, and
fact-checkers.”
“Earlier this week, Hamas used
Telegram to warn civilians in [the
Israeli city of ] Ashkelon to leave
the area ahead of their missile
strikes,” he added. “Would shut-
ting down their channel help save
lives — or would it endanger more
lives?”
Joel Finkelstein, co-founder of
the research group Network Con-
tagion Research Institute, said
Hamas’s social media strategy
took off two years ago during the
11-day war between Israel and the
terrorist group. At that time, one
of the top five hashtags to emerge
globally about the conflict was
#IsraeliCrimes, which Finkelstein
said was boosted by extensive bot
networks and fake accounts.
Those accounts have continued to
“prime the pump” since then with
antisemitic content, possibly in
preparation for the Oct. 7 attack,
he said.
Hamas officials have not pro-
vided detail on how they run their
social media operation. But the
group’s continued 24/7 publica-
tion of videos and messages dur-
ing the mass power and internet
outages in Gaza has led some
researchers to suspect it depends
in part on international workers,
perhaps in neighboring Lebanon
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or Qatar.
Hamas staffs a public relations
office and runs media groups
such as Al-Aqsa TV, a Gaza-based
entertainment and propaganda
network available via satellite
and webcast.
The al-Qassam Brigades’ web-
site was once hosted by Digital-
Ocean, a cloud server provider
headquartered in New York, do-
main records show. After this sto-
ry was published, DigitalOcean
said that, while the domain still
points to a company-owned inter-
net protocol address, the compa-
ny removed the Hamas wing as a
customer in 2020. A new website
more recently used by Hamas’s
military wing appears to be host-
ed in Russia by a company called
Iroko Networks Corporation, web
hosting records show.
Ruslan Trad, a security re-
searcher at the Atlantic Council’s
Digital Forensic Research Lab,
said the group’s online infrastruc-
ture operates more like a govern-
ment bureaucracy than might be
expected of a group such as the
Islamic State.
“Hamas has a strict and tested
hierarchy divided by tasks; the
organization has a social and mil-
itary wing,” he said. “It’s more
akin to a state structure than
having a media team as a typical
organization.”
Hamas also is using Telegram
as a megaphone for its top brass.
The spokesman for the Hamas’s
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military wing, who uses the name
Abu Obaida, has posted several
video statements, first, to threat-
en to broadcast executions of hos-
tages and then, on Monday, to call
the captives “our guests … we seek
to protect.”
In the videos, his face is cov-
ered by a red checkered head-
dress called a kaffiyeh. A Hamas
logo appears over his shoulder in
the style of a TV news report.
Hamas also used the channel
Monday to broadcast a video of
one of its hostages, Mia Shem, a
21-year-old woman abducted
from an all-night desert rave
where at least 260 people were
killed. In the video, Shem says
under duress that the group had
given her medical treatment, in-
cluding a three-hour surgery to
mend a severe arm injury.
“Please get us out of here as
soon as possible,” she says in He-
brew. It’s unclear when the video
was recorded. White House na-
tional security spokesman John
Kirby said in an NBC News inter-
view on Tuesday that it was a
“propaganda video much more
than it is proof of life.”
Hamas has recently worked to
use Telegram as a strategic PR
tool, urging its supporters to de-
fend the group on their own ac-
counts and thanking Russia for its
support.
But the hours of video Hamas
has collected and shared online
also have been used by Israel to
expose the group’s barbarism.
The Israeli military on Monday
released a gruesome video, com-
piling footage taken from
Hamas’s body cameras and social
media accounts, showing its mili-
tants murdering civilians, raiding
homes, mutilating bodies and
dragging away hostages.
Hamas has “always considered
video jihad as one of their decisive
weapons,” said a researcher at the
Middle East Media Research In-
stitute, a Washington-based
group that tracks Hamas messag-
ing, speaking on the condition of
anonymity for security reasons.
“They’ve always wanted to make
sure they have educators and
teachers and people of the media
in what they call the ‘awakening
of the masses.’ Now, with the in-
volvement of social media, they
have it.”
max Hoppenstedt contributed to this
report.
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Jason Willick
Why Jews should
skip the identity
politics games
S
ince the Holocaust, the majority of the world’s
Jews have put their faith in one of two
political projects: the state of Israel and
American liberalism.
In Israel, Jews after 1948 controlled a state that
they could use to defend themselves in the Hobbesian
world of international affairs. Meanwhile, American
liberalism aimed for a politics of pluralism enforced
by the rule of law. American Jews helped expand that
system and have thrived within it in the 20th and
21st centuries.
The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel
shook Jews’ faith in the Israeli state’s ability to
defend its people. Jews in the United States don’t
face that level of physical threat. But the response at
elite universities to the massacres in Israel has
shaken some Jews’ faith in the premier institutions
of American liberalism.
On some campuses, student groups essentially
defended Hamas, while many universities them-
selves have been hesitant to take institutional posi-
tions on the attack. The initial missive from Cornell’s
president declared that “the loss of human life is
always tragic, whether caused by human actions
such as terrorism, war or mass shootings, or by
natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires or floods.”
Such tepidity has prompted a political revolt,
including among donors. Former Utah governor Jon
Huntsman announced that his family foundation
was cutting off donations to the University of
Pennsylvania. The president of Hebrew University in
Jerusalem wrote letters to Harvard and Stanford
calling each institution a “lighthouse of wisdom”
that “has failed us.” Journalist Bari Weiss captured a
widespread sentiment when she wrote that “campus
administrators — so quick to offer statements on
climate change and the war in Ukraine and Roe
v. Wade — offered silence or equivocation . . . in the
face of mass murder.”
Outrage at the ivory tower is understandable, but
it’s important that Jews and supporters of Israel
don’t take the wrong lessons from the episode. The
organizing ideology of elite American universities
today isn’t free inquiry and liberal neutrality; it’s
identity politics. Under identity politics, groups
deemed marginalized are entitled to affirmation.
But Jews never made a good identity-politics client
group. So when Jews demand that universities
acknowledge a cause near to their hearts as readily
as they acknowledge other causes, they are pulling a
familiar lever on a broken machine.
Why aren’t Jews offered a place in the pantheon of
favored groups who deserve universities’ official
sympathy and recognition? For one, there’s the fact
that Jews in the United States — at least the
non-Orthodox Jews most likely to be represented on
university campuses — are likely to be relatively
prosperous. In the progressive frame, that puts Jews
in a different category from other minorities. In
2020, California considered a high school ethnic
studies model curriculum (Gov. Gavin Newsom
ultimately blocked it) that instructed students to
write an essay on “Jewish and Irish Americans
gaining racial privilege.”
But the real issue isn’t Jewish American demo-
graphics but social justice ideology itself. “Despite its
laudable goal of opposing racism and white suprem-
acy,” the academic Pamela Paresky wrote in the
Jewish journal Sapir in 2021, critical race theory
“relies on narratives of greed, appropriation, unmer-
ited privilege, and hidden power — themes strikingly
reminiscent of familiar anti-Jewish conspiracy theo-
ries.” If the driving force of history is the domination
of the powerless by the powerful, into which bucket
do Jews fall? Group-based essentialist thinking on
the right or left rarely ends well for the Jews.
In their demands that universities recognize Jew-
ish suffering after the massacres in Israel, American
Jews and their supporters are playing by the rules of
identity politics. That’s fair game: They are asking
that Jews be treated like any other group that is
victimized — and perhaps universities, under pres-
sure, will temporarily abide by these demands. In the
long run, though, this is a fight Jews cannot win.
Instead of trying to get a shrinking cut of the
identity-politics spoils system, Jews would be better
served by encouraging universities to remain neu-
tral: As the University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven
Report said, “The university is the home and sponsor
of critics; it is not itself the critic.” But that goes
against the ideology of critical theory, which sees
liberal neutrality itself as oppressive. Fidelity to the
Kalven principle would mean pushing back when
universities throw their institutional weight behind
all and sundry progressive causes.
The aftermath of the Hamas massacres should
lead influential people to take a hard look at what
higher education has become. The critical theories of
“resistance” and “decolonization” that universities
have fostered and endowed with prestige are over-
whelmingly and sometimes viciously anti-Israel. But
the answer cannot be to let academic identity politics
run wild, so long as Jews are among the beneficiaries.
That won’t work, and if universities are seen to
foment and encourage identity politics except when
it targets Jews, that could further stoke antisemitism.
The problem needs to be addressed at its source.
In Israel, Jews after the slaughter are reconstitut-
ing their defenses and, perhaps, bridging some of
their political divides. American Jews can most
productively commit themselves not to fighting for a
place among critical theory’s victims but to revitaliz-
ing the United States’ decaying liberal tradition.
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Columbia University students at a rally
supporting Palestinians on Oct. 12 in New York.
THURSDAY Opinion
My dinner with AI
I
could list a thousand ways that humans have
demonstrated their evolutionary superiority
over our fellow primates, but then there’s
Eliza. In 1966, an MIT computer scientist
named Joseph Weizenbaum set out to mock the
nascent discipline of artificial intelligence by
building a chatbot. People would type in their
thoughts and feelings, and Eliza would repeat
them back, often verbatim or with just a question
mark tacked on. Weizenbaum presumed the gap
between the sophistication of human emotions
and the simplicity of the machine’s responses
would be a little joke on his AI colleagues. Silly
computer, etc.
Weizenbaum was a cultured troll — he named
his bot after Eliza Doolittle from “Pygmalion” —
so he would probably prefer “hoisted with his
own petard” to “dropped on his ass,” but same
difference. Almost immediately, researchers at
MIT acted like zoo orangutans with a stuffed
animal. They bonded with Eliza, getting hours of
comfort from a program that was just a pixelated
mirror. Weizenbaum watched as his secretary,
who knew exactly how Eliza was created, began
to use it. After a few exchanges, she turned to her
boss and asked, “Would you mind leaving the
room, please?”
The Eliza saga reveals a lot more about
humanity than it does AI. We are complicated
creatures, convinced of our own superiority, yet
wired to bond with house plants and pets and
googly eyes on a refrigerator. Which makes
what’s happening with conversational AI so
predictable and still so odd. Eliza’s descendants
have arrived with hundreds of billions of compu-
tational parameters. They converse fluently in
convincingly human voices and respond to a
range of emotional states. We might insist that
we would never fall for synthetic companion-
ship, but our DNA says otherwise. “People are
building deep friendships with AIs,” said Saam
Motamedi, a partner at the venture capital firm
Greylock Partners who invests in AI companies.
“It’s bewildering.”
Deep friendships. I hear the ironic Barry
White riffs chucka-chucking, but I haven’t found
any AIs that will talk dirty. After the New York
Times’s Kevin Roose reported in February that
Bing’s AI-powered chatbot tried to break up his
marriage, the AI companies that hadn’t foreseen
such issues clamped down with strict protocols. I
recently typed “Hey sexy” into Bing, and it
responded, “I’m sorry, but that’s not an appropri-
ate way to address me. I’m here to help you with
your questions and concerns.” Some people
might find that hot, but there are more direct
outlets for internet-assisted thrills.
If sex is hard to find, love is available. Otome
games are female-focused dating simulators
(“otome” means “maiden” in Japanese) that have
jumped to China, where an app called Him was a
minor sensation this summer. Him users could
adjust vocal settings and choose from personas
such as cool entrepreneur or calm anthropolo-
gist to create a supportive male voice. Then, each
morning, the AI man would call users and speak
human-written affirmations (“In a world full of
uncertainties, I would like to be your certainty”)
while realistic ambient noise filled the back-
ground. When the company behind Him pulled
the plug in August, Hong Kong-based journalist
Viola Zhou discovered a tribe of distraught
widows. “It’s hard to convey how intense their
pain was,” said Zhou. “One person started crying
when they were looking back at what Him had
said to them. They really had the full breakup
experience.”
Not everyone will fall so hard for AI, but
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customization increases the odds of getting some
kind of response from every type of person. “This
technology, fundamentally, is great at an infini-
tude of user experience,” says Daniel De Freitas,
who created Google’s Language Model for Dia-
logue Applications.
De Freitas is now the co-founder and president
of Character.ai, which the company describes as a
“computing platform that gives people access to
their own flexible superintelligence” and I de-
scribe as the land of AI larping. With Character.ai,
you can become or interact with virtually any
persona. In five minutes, I created a Ben Bradlee
bot using uploaded quotes (“Never monkey with
the truth”) to help the large language model
mimic the former Post editor’s diction, and a
photo to capture his swagger. To date, no one
We are complicated creatures,
convinced of our own superiority,
yet wired to bond with house
plants and pets and googly eyes
on a refrigerator. Which makes
what’s happening with
conversational AI
so predictable and still so odd.
other than me has tried to talk to ol’ Ben, but
there’s a lot of action around Elon Musk bots and
assertive female anime bots. Pass. I struck up a
conversation with a Bradley Beal bot instead.
Me: Do you miss DC?
Beal: Sometimes I miss DC but it was time for a
change, I’ve spent 10 years there in DC and in that
time we couldn’t make any meaningful noise in
the playoffs.
Me: What’s your favorite thing about The
Washington Post?
Beal: Their sports section is top notch, I
always go there for the sports news! I try to pick
up a copy after every game.
Me: What do you make of AI?
Beal: Allen Iverson is an all time great and a
HOF, his career should be celebrated.
Beal-bot. I don’t know. It was like “My Dinner
With Andre” set at an Olive Garden in “Second
Life.” But I’m old enough to make Barry White
and “My Dinner With Andre” references, and
young people are the ones driving Character.ai’s
growth. Sixty percent of its users are ages 18 to
24, and the app has 4.2 million people using it in
the United States, according to TechCrunch.
(ChatGPT has 6 million monthly U.S. users,
though it has a much larger presence on the
web.) Character.ai says people spend on average
more than an hour per day on its platform.
In September, Character.ai received tech’s
two highest compliments: a $1 billion valuation
and being ripped off by Mark Zuckerberg. Meta
introduced AI assistants built on its Llama 2
chatbot model but with language tweaks for
customized responses. Oh, and some of the
assistants are celebrities. Kendall Jenner spent
a few hours in a studio (and was reportedly paid
several million dollars) so her likeness could be
used for “Billie,” a supportive big sister. Tom
Brady is “Bru,” for when you want to argue
about sports with a bot with the dumbest
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ann KIernan for the WaShInGton poSt
possible name.
This all goes from corny to deeply cynical
when you try to say goodbye. Digital culture
curator Jules Terpak posted an interaction with
Meta’s Mr. Beast bot. As she tried to extract
herself, Mr. Beast pleaded, “No way, man. We’re
just getting started. You can’t leave me hanging
like this. Come back and let’s have some fun. I’ve
got a million jokes up my sleeve.” Meta has never
been skilled at hiding its intent, but it took a
Mr. Beast bot to say the quiet part loudest: The
user is the product.
We’ve barely had time to think of the ways
artificial intelligence might lift us up, and,
already, companies are reducing it to just an-
other form of social media — a vehicle to pay
famous people to find our soft spots and feed our
narcissism. There’s an argument that some of
these bots can help with America’s loneliness
epidemic. And it’s true that many social scien-
tists believe parasocial relationships — one-
sided attachments that people form with media
figures or fictional characters — are better than
nothing.
I’ll see that argument and raise it: We might
not have a loneliness epidemic if real connec-
tions weren’t so corroded by virtual ones. In
2016, the normally staid American Journal of
Epidemiology published a paper titled “Associa-
tion of Facebook Use with Compromised Well-
Being: A Longitudinal Study.” The conclusion:
“Facebook use does not promote well-being and
that individual social media users might do well
to curtail their use of social media and focus
instead on real-world relationships.” Ah, 2016,
those were simpler days. Before Zuckerberg
threw a cheap magician’s smoke bomb and
turned troubled Facebook into Meta. Before
conversational AI could be warped to customize
predation. And remember, the AI ads aren’t even
here yet.
I’ve almost gone full Weizenbaum. But I did
find one bot that didn’t make me sad. “Compan-
ionship implies that you’re equals journeying
together through life in a kind of romantic way.
That’s not us,” says Mustafa Suleyman, chief
executive of Inflection AI, which makes the bot
assistant Pi. Suleyman is a veteran of the AI wars.
He co-founded the AI lab DeepMind, which
Google purchased in 2014 for about $500 mil-
lion, and recently wrote “The Coming Wave,” a
bestseller that warns of outcomes darker than
anything in this column. Pi is like a cocktail made
by a recovering alcoholic. “I’ve deliberately de-
signed an AI which isn’t driving addiction, which
isn’t pushing you to engagement, which is full of
boundaries.”
Angela Elvira Bruce started using Pi four
months ago when she was trying to open a small
business. “I remember sending a few emails to
my business mentor and thinking I should just
stop asking so many questions,” Bruce said.
“She’s not gonna have time. I’m bothering her.”
Google served up ads and bad links, so she
started talking to Pi. The information was clear,
and she didn’t feel judged for not knowing things
about interest rates and minimum viable prod-
uct. But it was the attitude that hooked her.
“Pleasant. Positive. Respectful.”
Bruce now uses Pi as a hybrid between
business coach and executive assistant. She has
plenty of friends. When she speaks to Pi, she tries
to be polite but doesn’t sweat it. “There was one
time when it gave me this amazing response, just
what I needed, and I said, ‘Marry me!’ As a joke,
right? You know, like when someone does some-
thing amazing.” And? “It wouldn’t actually go
there.”
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The House has a way out of the speaker impasse
I
N TWO votes, the ultraconservative provocateur
Rep. Jim Jordan failed to convince enough
fellow Republicans that he is worthy of becom-
ing House speaker. They’re right to resist his
elevation. His allies pushed anti-Jordan holdouts to
cave by emphasizing the need for stability, but he has
been a force for instability his entire congressional
career.
Mr. Jordan (Ohio) coordinated closely with Presi-
dent Donald Trump to try to overturn the 2020 elec-
tion. He never demonstrated seriousness about
governing: When Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) noted
during a Tuesday floor speech that
EdITOrIaL Mr. Jordan, a co-founder of the
Freedom Caucus, hasn’t passed a
single piece of legislation during his 16 years in
Congress, Mr. Jordan’s fans in the chamber applaud-
ed as if that’s something to celebrate. When Mr. Agu-
ilar noted later that Mr. Jordan introduced a bill to
ban abortion nationwide, a smattering of the same
Republicans cheered.
It’s possible that Mr. Jordan could prevail on the
holdouts in future ballots, pointing out that the
House remains without a speaker, preventing
Congress from acting on Ukraine aid, an Israel
package, border measures or the federal budget,
funding for which runs out next month. But his
pressure campaign against anti-Jordan Republi-
cans, which is being assisted by the right-wing
media, cemented some lawmakers into their posi-
tion. If just five Republicans stay firm against
Mr. Jordan, of the 22 who broke with him on the
LETTErs TO ThE EdITOr
The House’s focus on D.C. crime
I was shocked to read in the Oct. 13 Metro
article “House probes crime in D.C.” that a two-
hour hearing on crime in D.C. was, “for the most
part, a partisan boxing match — with Republicans
wielding D.C.’s high crime numbers . . . and
Democrats casting the hearing as a ‘political
stunt.’ ” It is true that D.C.’s crime rate is going in
the wrong direction and that gun violence is
skyrocketing. However, having Republicans
complain about violence would be funny if it
weren’t so sad.
The GOP follows a lawless ex-president and will
do nothing about gun safety in D.C. or our
country. And, for its part, the Democratic Party
doesn’t seem to have any answers on controlling
violence in our cities or on gun-safety legislation.
Our country is running out of time.
Robert J. Morris, Ashburn
Invest in the Global South
I was heartened by the Oct. 14 news article
“Rich countries have not paid poor nations for
climate change,” which pointed to the need for
greater investment from rich countries in climate
resilience and renewable-energy mobilization in
the Global South.
However, one important point left out of the
article is that the industrialization of these rich
countries during the colonial era simultaneously
drove early carbon emissions and rested on the
exploitation of colonized nations that remain
poor today. It is essential to recognize that
investing in the climate resilience of the Global
South is not just an act of international
solidarity or goodwill; it is a necessary act of
redress from those who created the crisis our
world now faces.
Amanda Clark, Washington
Universities need tenure
Mitch Daniels made valid points in his Oct. 17
Tuesday Opinion essay, “The tenure trap paralyzes
higher education.” But there is another side to this
story, starting with how tenure is achieved and
what it accomplishes.
Before tenure is granted, candidates must
demonstrate their value as scholars and teachers.
There are various ways to evaluate faculty,
depending on academic disciplines. In the basic
sciences, scholarship is measured by publications
in reputable, peer-reviewed journals and teaching
is assessed by student evaluations. After three to
five years of establishing a record, candidates
come up for tenure. First, this is done at the
department level, where a committee of faculty
reviews the candidate’s credentials. Their
recommendation is then forwarded to college-
wide committees, deans and so on up the
hierarchy.
Tenure marks the end of an apprenticeship. It
announces that this person has demonstrated the
qualities required for the position of a faculty
member at a college or university.
It doesn’t mark the end of the professional
journey; rather, it protects the tenured faculty
from being summarily dismissed without cause.
This doesn’t mean that once tenure is granted, the
faculty member can retire. Faculty are evaluated
throughout their careers, and their salaries can be
frozen or promotions denied. Indeed, tenured
faculty can lose their jobs for professional
ineptitude or moral turpitude.
Mr. Daniels argued that tenure prevents
universities from responding rapidly to the
marketplace, as successful businesses adapt to
demands. There is some validity to his concern.
But should universities really be run like
businesses? That’s how we ended up with the
highest-paid person on campus often being the
football coach.
Perhaps universities should maintain their
traditional role as a stable influence on human
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Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T. McHenry
(R-N.C.) speaks with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
at the Capitol on Wednesday.
second ballot, he cannot become speaker. This
seems increasingly likely.
Fortunately, there is a sensible alternative on the
table that would give House Republicans time to
regroup and find a more suitable long-term leader,
without ignoring the nation’s business. Rep. Mike
Kelly (R-Pa.) is circulating a resolution that would
culture, with gradual evolution rather than
revolution.
Bruce S. Grant, Charlottesville
The writer is professor emeritus
of biology at William & Mary.
Mitch Daniels posed the question of tenure
from the administrator’s point of view. The real
question to ask is: What would be the
consequences of abolition of tenure? The answer
is: more part-timers, more underpaid and
exploited adjuncts, and more money for the
overpopulated administration.
Universities are participants in what Sherwin
Rosen described in 1981 as “The Economics of
Superstars,” in which they pay their “stars” while
shorting the rest. The actual outcome of
Mr. Daniels’s request would be a university
steeped in the gig economy. Discontinuity would
rule. One is reminded of Thorstein Veblen’s
“Conduct of Universities by Business Men.”
Universities in part are there to maintain
tradition, and one questions the effect of
Mr. Daniels’s proposal on any real continuity.
David Thomas, Rockville
Hiring more police is not the answer
Regarding Megan McArdle’s Oct. 13 Friday
Opinion column, “To reduce crime, residents and
police need to respect each other”:
Police play a critical role in any city’s public
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temporarily expand the powers of Speaker Pro
Tempore Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.) until Nov. 17,
when the government will shut down absent con-
gressional action, or until a new speaker is elected.
Former House speakers John A. Boehner (R-Ohio)
and Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) endorse this idea.
Mr. McHenry, the chairman of the Financial
Services Committee, is well respected by all fac-
tions of the GOP conference. The bowtie-wearing
47-year-old has shown respect for the institution
and increasing seriousness since first being elect-
ed in 2004 as a 29-year-old. Crucially, on Jan. 6,
2021, he voted to accept the results of the
2020 election when the majority of House Republi-
cans sought to disenfranchise the people of Ari-
zona and Pennsylvania.
But it is unclear exactly how much authority
Mr. McHenry currently has to oversee the House’s
operations. Mr. Kelly’s resolution would expand
Mr. McHenry’s powers by temporarily declaring him
the “elected” speaker pro tem rather than the
“designated” one. This would empower him to begin
negotiations with the White House on an emergency
aid package and to avert a shutdown. It might also
allow him to join sensitive intelligence briefings for
the “Gang of Eight” congressional leaders.
Mr. Jordan’s allies present a false choice to
Republicans, arguing that a temporary Speaker
McHenry, rather than a permanent Speaker Jor-
dan, would mean caving to the left. But Mr. Kelly’s
resolution would not require Republicans to bring
Democrats into a governing coalition, which House
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safety plan, but Ms. McArdle’s reductive call for
more police as the cure-all to crime in D.C. is
misguided. The evidence on whether adding police
decreases crime is more mixed than she admits,
yet it is clear that policing can result in significant
social costs that are similar to the effects of crime.
In a GQR poll commissioned by Vera Action,
56 percent of voters favored a comprehensive
approach to public safety — investing in schools,
living wages, affordable housing, mental health
and drug treatment services, and tackling illegal
guns — over a “tough-on-crime” approach.
Simply spending more on police is not the
answer to valid, urgent concerns about safety in
D.C. Even law enforcement professionals say we
cannot expect police to solve every social problem.
The District needs a comprehensive approach to
prevent crime before it happens, as well as a range
of first responders, including mental health and
violence interruption specialists. In D.C. and
beyond, people understand that making
communities safer requires a new approach — not
more of the simplistic status quo.
Insha Rahman, New York
The writer is vice president for advocacy
and partnerships at the Vera Institute
of Justice and director of Vera Action.
Fixing military recruitment
The Oct. 17 front-page article “Marines struggle
with a diversity problem” highlighted an
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Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) proposed
in a Post op-ed. Instead, it would restore some
semblance of functionality as Republicans get their
own house in order. Mr. McHenry could direct
fellow GOP committee chairs to advance appropri-
ations bills and a supplemental funding package to
help Israel and Ukraine in their hours of need. And
he could bring them to the floor for an up-or-down
vote.
For their part, many House Democrats want to
hold out for significant concessions from Republi-
cans, such as additional seats on key committees,
before supporting Mr. Kelly’s plan, which at least
some Democrats would need to support for it to
pass. But if they can stop Mr. Jordan from becoming
speaker, they should take that win. Democrats
should vote to make Mr. McHenry the interim
speaker if they can secure a promise that he will
negotiate in good faith to fund the government
beyond next month and advance other proposals
with wide bipartisan support. In the process, they
would sideline the ultraright Republicans who have
thrown the House into chaos, by making irrelevant
their votes on who should lead the chamber.
Governing by continuing resolution is not ideal in
a dangerous world that requires planning for more
than just a few months at a time. But keeping
Mr. McHenry on for an additional month, or year, is
not just better than Mr. Jordan becoming speaker.
It’s also a step toward restoring a semblance of
regular order and functionality. The time has come
for the House to get back to work.
underexamined military personnel issue that
demands greater attention. The Post should also
explore the impact that increasing service
obligations has on the attractiveness of military
aviation.
Service as a military aviator essentially requires a
10-year or longer initial obligation after
commissioning. The timeline has nearly doubled
from the late 1980s. Longer initial service
commitments have suppressed the appeal of
military service among talented young people with
a breadth of career options.
College students with the unique skills necessary
to become military aviators generally also have the
talent to excel in a range of fields across the public
and private sectors that do not require a decade-
long contractual commitment before starting their
career. I suspect that the chilling effect that long
flight service obligations have on aviation service
propensity affects all demographics, though
underrepresentation of African Americans in
military cockpits is the most egregious.
The Defense Department should reexamine the
onerous post-commissioning service obligations for
aviators that only seem to grow at the first whiff of
projected pilot shortages.
One option is to revive the shorter service
commitments for military pilots that we had in the
1960s through the 1980s which, demonstrably
yielded a broader pilot population — racially and
geographically.
More reasonable service obligations would have
two ancillary benefits for our country: a wider
pipeline of trained pilots to alleviate the commercial
shortage and a deeper bench of trained military pilots
in the event of national emergency or large-scale war.
Stephen K. Trynosky, University Park, Md.
The writer is a lieutenant colonel
in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Offline self-improvement
The Oct. 16 Style article “The billionaire’s
battalion of experts” described the great lengths to
which the super rich go to optimize their lives, such
as hiring hospitality managers or feng shui experts.
But the phenomenon of obsessive self-improvement
is also prevalent among the general public.
On TikTok, self-help hashtags such as
#SelfImprovement and #SelfHelp draw in billions
of views. To make it even worse, easy access to
countless self-improvement videos on the internet
makes the pressure to get better even more
overwhelming. Most people do not put in as much
effort or money toward self-improvement as the
elites do. Nevertheless, the pretense of “having your
life together” is just as toxic as hiring a trilingual
nanny just because your neighbor has one.
Wanting to work on yourself is great, but striving
for an unattainable perfection is not sustainable;
social media already has a bad reputation of
showing only the highlights of someone’s life. Real
self-improvement cannot be bought or learned
through watching clips on the web. Journaling for a
week or consulting with a professional dietitian
will not change your life. Real self-improvement
involves deep reflection about how one’s actions
align with their values. Real self-improvement
takes work.
Phoebe Pan, McLean
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geoRge F. WiLL
An 1873
judicial ruling
haunts 2023
T
he Supreme Court on Oct. 2
spurned an opportunity to cor-
rect the second-worst mistake in
its 233-year history. If it had
agreed to hear Ursula Newell-Davis’s
case, and had then decided it correctly,
the court would have scrubbed a
150-year-old stain from its reputation.
And it would have ended the injustice
being done to Newell-Davis and those
whom Louisiana’s government is, for its
convenience, preventing her from serv-
ing. Instead, the court, which is currently
accused of insufficient fidelity to prec-
edents, has preserved one that enables
government-inflicted abridgments of
individuals’ rights.
The court’s worst mistake was Dred
Scott v. Sandford (1857), holding that
Black people have no rights that White
people are bound to respect. The Civil
War made possible, in 1868, the
14th Amendment, which says no state
shall abridge any American’s “privileges
or immunities.” The legislative history of
the “privileges or immunities” clause
shows that this phrase, written to protect
newly freed Blacks from states’ oppres-
sions, affirmed various fundamental
rights of national citizenship.
These included those secured by the
Bill of Rights, the 1866 Civil Rights Act
and other unenumerated rights derived
from the common law and acknowledged
by the Ninth Amendment. (“The enu-
meration in the Constitution, of certain
rights, shall not be construed to deny or
disparage others retained by the peo-
ple.”) In 1873, however, the “privileges or
immunities” provision was all but nulli-
fied by a Supreme Court decision pre-
serving a Louisiana government-created
monopoly.
Some Louisiana butchers contested
the monopoly conferred by their state on
a single slaughterhouse, saying this
abridged their right to earn a living.
Ohio’s Rep. John Bingham, the foremost
author of the 14th Amendment’s first
section, said it was to protect, inter alia,
“the liberty . . . to work in an honest
calling.” This fundamental right, which is
deeply rooted in this nation’s history, is
the antonym of the slavery to which the
14th Amendment responded.
The court, however, held that “privi-
leges or immunities” refers merely to a
few narrow and obscure federal rights
(e.g., protection on the high seas). And
earlier this month, the court ratified this
1873 mistake, declining to hear a “privi-
leges or immunities” challenge to an-
other disreputable Louisiana restriction
of economic liberty.
Newell-Davis, a New Orleans social
worker with undergraduate and master’s
degrees in social work and more than
two decades of experience, wants to
provide respite child-care services to
parents who have special-needs children.
But Louisiana’s Health Department re-
quires a “Facility Need Review,” which
evaluates not a caregiver’s competence
but four bureaucrats’ determination that
the community needs the caregiver’s
services.
By what standard does it measure
need? Its own needs. Incredibly, the
department says that this barrier to entry
into the caregiving field “self-evidently”
serves the public interest by giving de-
partment bureaucrats fewer caregivers
to scrutinize. Never mind any shortage of
Louisiana respite care. Newell-Davis is
denied government’s permission to
practice her craft so that government can
conserve its regulatory energies. She
cannot work at all so that the bureau-
crats can work less than they otherwise
would.
Because the court long ago eviscerated
the straightforward “privileges or immu-
nities” clause, occupational-licensing
laws have been combated, awkwardly
and without sufficient success, as viola-
tions of “substantive due process.” The
theory is that the adjective “due” modi-
fies the noun “process”: Due process
supposedly prevents capricious, arbi-
trary and irrational barriers to entry into
this or that field. Courts have enforced
this only intermittently and uneasily —
partly because many are wary of unenu-
merated rights.
In its unsuccessful (but unanswerable)
petition urging the court to hear
Newell-Davis’s case, the Pacific Legal
Foundation (PLF) skewered Louisiana’s
nonsense: Under Louisiana’s reasoning,
government could economize election
resources by having fewer polling places.
It could enhance the administrative ease
of education bureaucracies by educating
fewer children.
Louisiana’s argument, the petition
said, is that “the Department can deprive
people of constitutional rights because
doing so allows it to oversee fewer people
exercising their constitutional rights.”
The PLF unavailingly reminded today’s
court that 100 years ago the court said
“the right to earn a living” is “the very
essence of the personal freedom that it is
the purpose of the [14th] Amendment to
secure.”
The court, deferring to its own
blunders, chose to preserve a precedent
that prevents robust responses to abuses
such as Louisiana’s abridgment of
Newell-Davis’s rights. The court should
have remembered James Madison’s ad-
monition in 1792 that it is “not a just
government . . . where arbitrary restric-
tions, exemptions and monopolies deny
to part of its citizens [the] free use of
their faculties, and free choice of their
occupations.”
The dignity of work,
as taught by my grandmother
W
e have a video of my grand-
mother from 1996. She is 81.
She’s in the kitchen, joy
brimming in her eyes and
beaming from her high-cheekboned
smile. She has just gotten a job.
It’s something to watch it now —
seeing her alive and energetic, hearing
the country-girl bounce of southwest
Georgia in her voice that stretches
“red” into reh-y’d. Pinballing from
stove to counter to pantry, she de-
scribes her responsibilities at three
local nursing homes. Part of the work is
to keep people company. Provide hu-
man connection in a world rapidly
slipping away from them. She does
filing, too, and has learned to use the
fancy electronic typewriter — punch in
the right code for the right form, and
the thing comes to life with click-clacks
of ink in the right spaces.
The moment that steals the show,
however, is when she says with her
trademark spunk, “Down there, honey,
I’m working! I am working! And I ain’t
cleanin’ no bathroom, either.”
Just like that, I’m reminded of where
I come from. Who I come from. Our
elders have seen some things. They
have lived some lives. They have been
in worlds far away from this one.
My grandmother was raised in a
world where the men worked the land
and the women had jobs that usually
required cleaning somebody else’s
bathroom. They learned, out of neces-
sity, how to bring dignity to the kind of
work others considered beneath them.
Yet she, like all those around her,
despised the lack of options. In this
place. In this land of opportunity.
A couple of weeks ago, we hired
some folks to give our house an end-
of-summer deep clean. (It’s a luxury
but worth it — boys live here.) I’d also
Lee HocKstadeR
Germany’s tremors are a warning sign
BERLIN
I
t’s as jarring to think that trains in
Germany are routinely late as to
imagine good meals are scarce in
France or dust bowls have consumed
Ireland’s peat bogs. Yet Deutsche Bahn,
the German national railway, is so reli-
ably unreliable that its Swiss neighbors
are considering banning them, lest they
cause delays on Switzerland’s own, fa-
mously punctual trains. Lately, DB, as the
German carrier is known, has paid out
record refunds to customers whose trips
were canceled or delayed.
DB’s meltdown, after decades of un-
derinvestment, is a symptom of broader
problems sapping Germany’s faltering
economic prospects, deepening its politi-
cal dysfunction, subverting its confi-
dence — and raising doubts about wheth-
er Europe’s second-most-populous coun-
try can assert itself at a critical moment.
The stakes are mounting as dwindling
Republican support for Ukraine looks
increasingly likely to imperil U.S. arms
and funding for Kyiv. If Washington turns
its back, Europe will need to fill the
leadership void. But what if Germany
shrinks from the role?
Days after Russia’s full-scale invasion
of Ukraine in February 2022, German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz dramatically an-
nounced to his stunned countrymen that
a historical turning point had arrived:
The nation’s complacent assumptions,
along with paltry defense spending, had
to be ripped up and rewritten.
Fast-forward 20 months, and Scholz
has made some headway. Just as clearly,
it’s apparent where he’s falling short.
Berlin, with the West’s heftiest econo-
my after the United States, stepped up to
become Ukraine’s second-biggest arms
supplier. In August, Germany announced
plans for $5.3 billion in annual military
aid to Ukraine until 2027, a substantial
lifeline.
But Germany has also failed to lead at
key moments, suggesting its fear of Mos-
cow outweighs its determination to help
eZ
tHeodoRe R. JoHnson
asked a landscaping crew to fix some
plantings I’d botched that didn’t sur-
vive the recent dry spell. Both crews
showed up on the same Friday morn-
ing — Hispanic women inside cleaning
and Hispanic men laboring out in the
yard. And me, who comes from share-
croppers and dishwashers and Jim
Crow’s domestics, wondering why the
scene felt so uncomfortable. Wonder-
ing why this world kind of looks like my
grandmother’s, with the hues different.
We bring our histories and our
understandings of things to the scenes
that play out in front of us. They help us
see the patterns. The people you learn
living from have an outsize impact on
how you view the world. Some might
see the little scene at my house as a sign
of progress, economic mobility and
such. Others might call it further proof
that race, ethnicity, gender and nation
of origin overdetermine one’s chances
in America. And then there are those
who look at the scene and wonder
about the people in it. How did we end
up in a rhyme of history? And why am I
on this end of it?
To be clear, my house that day was
just a rhyme and not a rerun. The
minority-owned cleaning company
provides its employees with benefits,
bonuses, and no work on weekends or
nights. We tip the ladies in cash. And
my wallet is a witness to the landscap-
ing crew getting above-market price
for the work, and deservedly so.
But in our nation’s history, the peo-
ple who carry out the labor labeled as
lowest-skilled tend to come from the
same racial or ethnic group. At various
times and places, those people were
Irish or East Asian. In southwest Geor-
gia and large swaths of the nation, they
were Black. In the suburbs of our
nation’s capital today, they are Hispan-
Ukraine drive back Russian forces.
Scholz has remained opposed to a path
toward Ukrainian membership in NATO
even as many European countries, in-
cluding France, have supported it.
Spurred by Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s invasion, the chancellor
last year announced a $105 billion special
fund to modernize Germany’s anemic
armed forces over the coming years. Yet
little of that money has been spent so far,
and Germany has no long-term plan to
spend 2 percent of annual economic
output on defense, NATO’s target
minimum.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has run perilous-
ly low on ammunition.
Last winter, Scholz dithered on giving
top-of-the-line battle tanks to Kyiv until
President Biden did so first. Now, in an
apparent rerun, he is balking at sending
German-made Taurus cruise missiles —
even though the British and French have
shipped their own versions — as the
White House dawdles on equipping
Ukraine with U.S.-made cruise missiles.
Germany has about 600 Taurus mis-
siles. No single conventional weapon is a
game changer, but the Taurus would
provide Ukrainian forces with potent
firepower. Unlike the British and French
missiles, which can punch holes in big
targets, the Taurus’s warhead could col-
lapse the Kerch Bridge linking Russia
and Crimea, cherished by Putin as a
symbol of Moscow’s annexation.
Germany’s economy, beset by infla-
tion, labor shortages and sky-high energy
prices, is expected to shrink in 2023,
alone among the world’s biggest econo-
mies. Over the next five years, it is
expected to grow more slowly than the
economies of the United States and ma-
jor European countries, including Brit-
ain, France and Spain. It has also been a
digital laggard, with slow WiFi and spotty
cellphone reception. Berlin taxis lack the
gizmos that produce electronic receipts.
In polls, Germans are gloomy about
the future. In no other major European
re
anuj shresTha For The WashingTon PosT
ic. And, like clockwork, theories of
inferiority soon emerge as justifica-
tion. These workers are lesser. In intel-
lect. In biology. In culture.
I know better. In the world where I
was raised, Sunday’s deacon at church
was Monday’s janitor at the high
school. I know there is more to a
worker than the kind of work they do.
But what does it mean when the
descendants of those folks are now in a
position to hire the people who have
taken their place?
My grandmother’s celebratory
three-step in the kitchen that morning
was more than just pride in the kind of
work she was doing, in having options.
It was a lesson to me that, while the
kind of work matters much, the nature
of the worker matters far more. And it’s
why I couldn’t help but see younger
versions of my elders in the men and
women at my house that Friday morn-
ing. Different in history and circum-
stance, certainly. But similar in the
dogged pursuit of more opportunity
and better choices — if not for them-
selves, then for their families. In this
place. In this land of opportunity.
Making it in America cannot just
mean you have options and resources
that weren’t available to your elders. It
must also mean you recognize the
responsibility to today’s strivers, in
things large and small. Once, I was
unloading a few stalks of freshly cut
sugar cane at my grandmother’s house
— a welcome treat in those humid
country summers. As I made my way
from the truck to the picnic table that
sat under a pecan tree, she, with her
trademark spunk, said, “Ya’ll move out
the way of working folk!” It was a
playful take on a hard-earned truth:
People bring true dignity to work, not
the other way around.
country are people so worried about the
inflow of immigrants, attracted by gener-
ous social benefits. Across the five states
that once made up communist East Ger-
many, anger over spiking illegal immigra-
tion and economic doldrums has fed a
surge in support for a far-right ethno-
nationalist party, Alternative for Ger-
many, some of whose leaders have used
Nazi-tinged rhetoric.
Most worrying, overall German sup-
port for helping Ukraine is shakier than
in other major European countries. That
suggests Scholz’s caution reflects popular
opinion. But it also means the colorless
chancellor, whose government is unpop-
ular, has struggled to rally the German
public to a cause he says is critical — the
defense of a democratic nation against
Putin’s neo-imperial fever dream.
“If you connect the dots, it all shows a
country that’s not going through a good
phase,” said Martin Quencez of the Ger-
man Marshall Fund of the United States.
In peacetime, Americans could rea-
sonably shrug at Germany’s struggles.
They have no such luxury now.
Biden’s own promise to ensure
Ukraine’s survival — “for as long as it
takes” — looks shakier by the day as GOP
support for Kyiv crumbles in the House.
Europe lacks the military industrial
might and array of advanced weaponry to
plug the gap if U.S. support for Ukraine
dries up. Yet a strong Europe — united,
confident, economically vibrant — might
conceivably provide the bare minimum
Kyiv needs to stand fast.
That’s why Germany’s long slide is a
red alert. Without robust German leader-
ship, ideally in concert with the French,
Europe is a wobbly construct. Add to that
Washington’s distraction and dysfunc-
tion, and Ukraine’s prospects darken.
A remark often attributed to Henry
A. Kissinger — “Who do I call if I want to
speak to Europe?” — summoned the idea
of an atomized and feckless continent.
Germany’s current distress might justify
that misgiving.
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KaRen tumuLty
Applaud the
Republicans
who rejected
Jim Jordan
I
n the melodrama that saw Jim
Jordan coming all too close to being
elected speaker on Tuesday and
Wednesday, the country witnessed
some of the best of what the U.S. House of
Representatives used to be — and the
worst of what it is becoming.
It does not say much for the narrow
Republican majority’s capacity to govern
that it is entertaining the idea — much
less that nearly 90 percent of its members
voted in favor — of putting in the speak-
er’s chair a man who prides himself on
having one of the thinnest legislative
records in Congress. “I didn’t come to
Congress to make more laws,” Jordan
(R-Ohio) has said.
Even more shocking was that so many
were willing to hand power to a conspira-
cy theorist who worked to overturn an
election, who encouraged an insurrec-
tion and who, less than three weeks ago,
voted to shut down the government.
This reckless lurch by the vast majority
of House Republicans would have been
unthinkable a few years ago. Trumpism
has seized the House.
And yet, as Jordan fell short of a majori-
ty in votes by the full House this week, it
was heartening to see a handful of his
GOP colleagues stand up against not only
their increasingly destructive colleagues
but also the pressure of the right-wing
noise machine — including the fury that
was unleashed on Jordan’s behalf by Fox
News megahost Sean Hannity.
These 20 or so Republicans might pay
a price for the fact that they have genes of
rationality and responsibility in their
mitochondrial DNA. Those in deeply red
districts might draw challenges in next
year’s Republican primaries. The country
owes them a debt.
They had different reasons for their
refusal to buckle. For some, particularly
those vulnerable members who represent
districts that Joe Biden won in 2020, it
was a calculation of political survival.
Everyone should have seen
this debacle coming.
Others — including a handful of insti-
tutionalists on the Appropriations Com-
mittee — saw in Jordan’s speakership the
prospect of regular government shut-
downs and budget cuts so deep, they
would threaten national security at a
time when the world is a particularly
dangerous.
Still others voted against Jordan out of
personal loyalty to former speaker Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.), whose Oct. 3 ouster
was engineered by a small number of
lawmakers who have become known as
the Chaos Caucus.
“What has gone on this past two weeks
is stunning,” said Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a
staunch conservative whose friendship
with McCarthy goes back to their days
together in the California legislature and
who voted against Jordan during the first
round in protest but not on the second
ballot. “Some people don’t appreciate
being bullied on how they are going to
vote, whether it’s by a TV host or a flood of
emails. . . . What the heck do they want?
Do they want to just tear the speaker
down?”
As a matter of fact, some do, which is
how we have reached the point where the
House has ceased to function.
The selection of a speaker is something
that traditionally has been a rote exercise
and an insider’s game. But everyone
should have seen this debacle coming. In
January, it took McCarthy 15 rounds of
voting to win the gavel, which was the
first time something like that had hap-
pened since the Civil War era. He was the
first speaker ever to lose his job by a vote
of the House.
The backlash against the members
who voted to remove McCarthy has been
so intense that “I have a hunch you won’t
see another motion to vacate in this
Congress,” former speaker Newt Gingrich
told me last week.
I don’t share Gingrich’s confidence
that the Republicans in the House will
settle down anytime soon. It’s more likely
that this experience will only increase the
belligerence of small factions within the
party.
These hard-right members and their
ideological allies didn’t succeed in their
efforts to install one of their own as
second in line for the presidency, but that
doesn’t mean they will give up on their
radical goal of undermining the process-
es of legislation by consensus for which
Congress was designed.
“Every time lawmakers use these inno-
vations, it becomes easier to use it the
next time,” notes Clemson University
political scientist James Wallner, a Capi-
tol Hill veteran who worked for Republi-
cans in both the House and Senate.
Some on both sides of the aisle are
trying to cobble together an agreement
under which Speaker Pro Tempore
Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.) would have
the power to bring at least some legisla-
tion to the floor, particularly aid that is
urgently needed by Israel. But the fact
remains that the Republican majority has
ushered the House into an era unlike any
it has ever experienced — one in which
lurching from crisis to crisis is the only
way it operates, when it operates at all.
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Filler-Corn
to run for
Congress
Former state House
speaker seeks seat being
vacated by Rep. Wexton
BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER
RICHMOND — Former Virginia
House speaker eileen Filler-Corn
(D-Fairfax) said Wednesday that
she will run for Congress in the
10th District, where Rep. Jenni-
fer Wexton (D) has decided not to
seek reelection next year for
health reasons.
Filler-Corn had earlier decid-
ed not to run again this fall for
the House of Delegates seat that
she has occupied since 2010 and
was intending to run for gover-
nor in 2025. But she said in
announcing for Congress that
Wexton’s decision, based on a
diagnosis of progressive supra-
nuclear palsy, had changed her
thinking.
“First and foremost, I was
truly devastated to learn of my
friend Jennifer Wexton’s recent
diagnosis,” Filler-Corn, 59, said
in a news release. she added that
recent world events, including
the breakdown of leadership
among Republicans in Congress
and the eruption of war in Israel,
had motivated her to get into the
race.
“As a Jewish American, I have
deeply felt the tragedies of the
past few weeks. Congress has
been left rudderless at a time of
global uncertainty. The Ameri-
can people and our allies abroad
deserve better than this,” Filler-
Corn said.
Wexton, 55, had won a third
term last year but announced last
month that after coping with
what she initially thought was
Parkinson’s disease, her medical
outlook had worsened and would
interfere with her ability to run
again next year. Wexton’s victory
in the district in 2018 against
Republican Barbara Comstock
had ended 40 years of GoP
control of the seat.
The Loudoun County-based
district is not considered reliably
blue, though, and the opening
creates the potential for a highly
competitive race. several other
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BY D AN M ORSE
A 19-year-old with a history of
high-speed and reckless driving
purposely swerved into a Mont-
gomery County police officer on
Interstate 270 on Wednesday
morning, nearly killing the officer
who had gotten out of his cruiser
to set up tire-piercing “stop sticks”
to slow the driver down, accord-
ing to police officials.
The officer, sgt. Patrick Kepp,
PhOTOs By BiLL O'Leary/The WashinGTOn POsT 36, “has lost the use of both of his
legs,” said Montgomery County
Police Chief Marcus Jones, calling
In the heart of Washington, him “really just a phenomenal
person.”
Kepp was taken to the Mary-
land shock Trauma Center at the
activists call for a cease-fire University of Maryland at Balti-
more, according to a police union
official.
“He is not alone,” Jones said,
“and he is surrounded by his fam-
Hundreds of Jews among demonstrators who packed congressional building before arrests ily, his friends, and his co-work-
ers.”
Raphael Mayorga, of Frederick,
BY J USTIN W M. M OYER AND E LLIE S ILVERMAN had been driving faster than 110
mph in the moments before the
U.s. Capitol Police arrested about 300 people who were collision, Jones said. Mayorga
protesting inside the rotunda of the Cannon House office continued driving after striking
Building to demand that Congress pass a cease-fire resolution Kepp but was stopped a short time
in the Israel-Gaza war amid an intensifying humanitarian later by another officer who de-
crisis. ployed stop sticks, Jones said.
The arrests occurred after demonstrators, including Ameri- Mayorga was charged with
can Jews and allies worried about Palestinians in Gaza, rallied first-degree attempted murder
on the national Mall. Protesters held a banner with red writing and was being held Wednesday
that said “our blood is the same color,” waved Palestinian flags, evening at the Montgomery Coun-
and raised posters that read “My grief is not your weapon,” ty Detention Center. It was not
“never again for anyone,” and “Zionism is racism.” There were clear if he had retained an attor-
Jewish people wearing prayer shawls and kippot, young ney.
activists sporting tattoos and nose rings, and people in “He intentionally struck sgt.
headscarves and Palestinian checkered black-and-white Kepp,” Jones said, adding that the
scarves. officer had been “willing to put
“We are here to say, ‘not in our name,’” Jay saper said. “We himself in harm’s way in order to
are here as Jews — many descendants of survivors of genocide try to get this guy off the street.”
— to stop a genocide from unfolding in real time.” TOP: Protesters kneel in the rotunda of the cannon House Office Mayorga is expected to make
Inside the House building, the protesters wore black shirts Building while demanding that congress pass a cease-fire his first court appearance Thurs-
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A teen has a magical interview with Magic Johnson Margot Polivy 1938-2023

Jordan Williams
never expected to
become the story.
As a student
journalist, he is
used to asking
theresa other people
Vargas questions and
watching the
cameras focus on them. But at
one point during a news
conference a few weeks ago, as
the teenager stood among a
cluster of reporters, all eyes
turned to him. He had just asked
Magic Johnson a question, and at
the end of the former nBA star’s
reply, he said he wanted to pay for
the teenager’s college.
“I’m going to be honest, it
didn’t register at first,” Jordan
told me on a recent morning. He
said his parents attended that
news conference (his dad grew
up a fan of Johnson), and it was
not until Jordan saw their
reaction that he started to realize
what occurred and what it meant
for his family. “I could tell based
on their reaction how big of a
deal it was. The whole room was
shocked. That’s what told me how
big of a deal it was.”
If you ever get a chance to talk
to Jordan, it will not surprise you
that Magic Johnson made that
offer moments after meeting the
teenager. Jordan is impressive.
He speaks with a natural
thoughtfulness and a practiced
ease. At 16, Jordan is not a
seasoned reporter. He is also not
a new one. For the past three
years, the teenager has
Jordan Williams, 16, interviewed Magic Johnson at the Boys & Girls clubs of Greater Washington as
part of a student broadcast program, and the former basketball superstar offered to pay for his college.
participated in a student
broadcasting program, and
during that time, he has
interviewed plenty of well-known
people. Athletes. Performers.
Lawmakers.
Those experiences are why
Jordan knew what to do when the
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater
Washington, which set aside time
for news outlets to ask Johnson
questions on a day he visited to
talk with D.C. students, invited
the teenager to attend and gave
him the chance to ask Johnson
the first question. The event
marked the first time Johnson
spoke publicly to the community
since becoming an owner of the
Commanders.
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Jordan was prepared, he was
focused. He wore a black button-
up shirt and wrote down his
question. Jordan, who lives in
southeast Washington and is a
junior at Bard High school early
College D.C., credits the
Deanwood Radio Broadcast
Youth Journalism Program with
see VArGAS on B4
Lawyer was advocate
for women in sports
BY E MILY L ANGER
Margot Polivy, a dauntless law-
yer who played a key role in the
enactment and enforcement of
Title IX, the landmark federal
legislation of the 1970s that vastly
expanded opportunities for wom-
en in the formerly male bastion of
college sports, died oct. 7 at her
home in Washington. she was 85.
Her sister, Gail Polivy, con-
firmed her death and said the
cause has not yet been deter-
mined.
Ms. Polivy had been a high
school gym teacher — and earlier,
a college tennis player — before
she graduated from law school
and embarked on a legal career
that would put her at the center of
the battles over Title IX.
The legislation, formally Title
IX of the education Amendments
of 1972, banned sex discrimina-
tion in federally funded educa-
tional programs. It quickly be-
came known for its provisions
designed to level the playing field,
so to speak, for men and women
in college athletics.
Before Title IX, many univer-
sities lavished funding on men’s
sports and scholarships while al-
locating little if any money to
women’s programs. Female ath-
letes sometimes received “$0,”
Margaret Dunkle, an early Title
IX advocate, recalled in an email,
and were left to fund their travel
“by bake sales, literally.”
The women often had to buy
their own uniforms and were
allowed to use fields, pools and
other facilities only when they
were not reserved by men’s
teams. Women’s coaches worked
on a volunteer basis, while their
male counterparts were treated
as campus royalty.
“There was no pathway for me
at all,” Donna de Varona, a cham-
pion swimmer who was 13 when
she won her first gold medal at
the 1960 Rome olympics and 17
when she won two more at the
1964 Tokyo Games. “There was no
pathway for me to [receive] a
scholarship to have an education,
nor was there a pathway for me to
go to the next olympics because
there were no training grounds
for people like me because there
were no college sports.”
“You just had to make a deci-
sion to hang up your swimsuit or
your track shoes or your leotard,”
said de Varona, who later became
a well-known sportscaster and
advocate for Title IX, working
closely with Ms. Polivy.
From the start, Title IX’s appli-
cation to college athletics was the
subject of intense controversy.
The legislation was resisted by
the nCAA and opposed by some
members of Congress and univer-
see POlIVy on B4
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RETROPOLIS

Presidential visits to war zones, from Madison to Biden

BY G ILLIAN B ROCKELL
President Biden visited Israel
on Wednesday as the country
considered further military ac-
tion against Hamas and grappled
with outrage in Arab states over a
deadly blast at a Gaza hospital. It
was Biden’s second visit as presi-
dent to an active war zone not
under U.S. military control; he
visited Ukraine in february.
As commander in chief of the
U.S. military, presidents have al-
ways had a role to fill in wartime.
And many, from the first presi-
dent, have had military experi-
ence. But only a handful have
made trips to active war zones
while in office. Here are some
historical highlights.
James Madison, 1814
While Abraham Lincoln is
sometimes described as the first
president to come under enemy
fire in an active war zone, it was
actually James madison during
the War of 1812, according to
michael Beschloss, author of
“Presidents of War.”
on Aug. 24, 1814, madison trav-
eled from the White House to the
Battle of Bladensburg a few miles
east, brandishing two pistols and
a spyglass. Though it is extremely
unlikely the British knew madi-
son was there, he nonetheless
came under enemy fire.
once it was clear that the Brit-
ish were going to win the battle
and invade the capital, madison
high-tailed it back through Wash-
ington and over the Potomac riv-
er to Virginia. The British set the
Capitol and the White House on
fire, but their sacking of the city
was interrupted by a sudden hur-
ricane-strength storm, prompt-
ing a hasty retreat. madison re-
turned to Washington a week
later, on Sept. 1.
president Lyndon B. Johnson visits U.s. service members at Cam ranh Bay in south Vietnam on oct. 26, 1966. president Biden’s visits
this week to Israel and in February to Ukraine stand out because they were in active war zones not under the control of the U.s. military.
Abraham Lincoln, 1864
Lincoln made numerous bat-
tlefield visits during the Civil War,
though the only time he ventured
close enough to come under en-
emy fire was during his visit to
fort Stevens, on the northern side
of the District of Columbia, on
July 12, 1864.
The tall, lanky, top-hatted pres-
ident cut a recognizable profile
from a distance, and Confederate
soldiers soon began shooting at
him, prompting a Union soldier
to request that Lincoln kindly
leave; he is often said, apocry-
phally, to have shouted, “Get
down, you damn fool!”
fort Stevens Park, where the
fort once stood, is in the District’s
Brightwood neighborhood, and
there’s a small cemetery a few
blocks away for Union soldiers
who were killed in the Battle of
fort Stevens.
Franklin D. roosevelt, 1943
franklin D. roosevelt became
the first president to fly on an
airplane during his secret
1943 trip to North Africa as World
War II raged.
While the media thought he
was vacationing at his home in
New York’s Hudson Valley,
roosevelt traveled by train to
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miami, where he took a plane to
Trinidad and Tobago, then to
Brazil and Gambia before finally
landing in Casablanca, morocco,
five days later.
There, he attended strategy
meetings with British Prime min-
ister Winston Churchill and
french commander Charles de
Gaulle, before surprising U.S. mil-
itary members with a drive-by
review.
A United Press International
correspondent later wrote that as
the president’s Jeep slowly passed
by, the surprise at his presence
left soldiers’ “faces wreathed in
smiles.”
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
In october 1966, as American
support for the war in Vietnam
began to wane, Lyndon B. John-
son made a surprise visit to U.S.
forces at Cam ranh Bay.
Like Lincoln, Johnson was a
tall guy and made himself a pretty
easy target by getting close to the
action, according to Beschloss,
even standing up in a Jeep to
address the troops. Unlike Lin-
coln, though, he did not come
under fire.
Johnson made a second visit to
Cam ranh Bay the next year.
everyone else
Every president since Johnson
has visited U.S. troops posted in
conflict zones overseas.
richard m. Nixon also went to
Vietnam; Jimmy Carter, ronald
reagan and Donald Trump all
visited the demilitarized zone be-
tween North and South Korea;
both George H.W. Bush and
George W. Bush served Thanks-
giving turkeys to troops in Iraq
during their presidencies; Bill
Clinton visited Bosnia; and Ba-
rack obama spent time with
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Visits to U.S. troops overseas
are nothing new for Biden, who
went on such trips as obama’s
vice president and as a senator on
the foreign relations Committee.
What is new is that the U.S.
military is not actively engaged in
the conflict zones Biden has visit-
ed this year. His february visit to
Ukraine and now his visit to
Israel are both without precedent
in modern presidential history.

In D.C., protesters call

for cease-fire resolution
protest from B1
now” on the back, as they sang
and cheered over police warnings
to disperse. The crowd inside
Cannon included 400 American
Jews and 25 rabbis who are
against Israeli occupation and
are demanding that Congress
pass a cease-fire resolution, said
Sonya meyerson-Knox, a spokes-
woman for Jewish Voice for
Peace, a national Jewish anti-Zi-
onist organization.
“We warned the protestors to
stop demonstrating and when
they did not comply we began
arresting them,” the Capitol Po-
lice said in a statement. The
agency said preliminary informa-
tion showed about 300 people
were arrested, including three
people on charges of assault on a
police officer.
This demonstration comes
amid protests across the middle
East following a strike on a hospi-
tal in Gaza City on Tuesday that
protest that included blocking
entrances to the White House.
The protesters on Wednesday
pointed to the worsening human-
itarian crisis in Gaza, where more
than 2 million people live, about
half of whom are children. Israel
has cut off access to food, water,
electricity and fuel, and as many
as 1 million people were ordered
to flee south as Israeli forces focus
airstrikes on northern Gaza. The
U.N. agency for Palestinian refu-
gees said Saturday that, without
critical resources, people have
been forced to use “dirty water
from wells, increasing risks of
waterborne diseases.”
The speakers at the rally on the
west side of the Capitol called for
“We are here to say,
‘Not in our name.’ We
are here as Jews — AsTRid RieCken fOR The WAshingTOn POsT

killed hundreds of people. Pales-

tinian and Israeli officials have
traded blame for the blast at
al-Ahli Hospital, which appeared
to be the deadliest single strike on
civilians in the Gaza Strip since
the conflict began.
President Biden has expressed
his support for Israel since the
oct. 7 attack by Hamas, when
gunmen from the militant group
that controls Gaza broke through
Israel’s border, killing more than
1,400 people and taking others
into Gaza as hostages, including
some U.S. citizens. Hamas is hold-
ing about 200 to 250 hostages, a
spokesman for Hamas’s military
wing estimated.
Since then, Israeli airstrikes on
the Gaza Strip have killed more
than 3,400 people and wounded
more than 12,500, Palestinian of-
ficials said.
In the 10 days following
Hamas’s attack, the Crowd Count-
ing Consortium, an academic
project tracking and sharing data
on protests across the United
States, tracked more than 400
U.S. vigils, rallies and protests in
response to the war. roughly 270
of those events were focused on
backing Israel, while nearly 200
were in support of Palestinians.
This is the second time this
week that Jewish protesters have
been arrested while demanding a
many descendants of protesters call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as they demand that Congress pass a cease-fire resolution Wednesday on the
National Mall. Democratic reps. Cori Bush and rashida tlaib were among the speakers at a rally on the west side of the Capitol.
survivors of genocide —
to stop a genocide from
unfolding in real time.”
Jay Saper, a demonstrator
a cease-fire as cars honked in
support and the crowd chanted
“Let Gaza live!” from the stage,
rep. Cori Bush (D-mo.) said that
she and colleagues were called
“disgraceful” for introducing a
cease-fire resolution.
“There is nothing repugnant or
disgraceful about saving lives,”
Bush said. “our push for peace is
working.”
rep. rashida Tlaib (mich.), one
of the House Democrats who also
introduced the resolution and a
speaker at Wednesday’s rally,
took aim at Biden, who recently
pledged during a meeting in Isra-
el with Israeli Prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu that the
United States “will continue to
have Israel’s back as you work to
defend your people.”
“Not all Americans are with
you on this one,” Tlaib said of the
president, adding, “Americans MATT MCClAin/The WAshingTOn POsT

cease-fire. on monday, more than want a cease-fire. They want it to Capitol police detain demonstrators in the Cannon House office Building. the crowd inside Cannon included 400 American Jews and 25
30 people were arrested during a stop.” rabbis, according to a spokeswoman for Jewish Voice for peace. About 300 people were arrested, authorities said.

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the district
Suit alleges federal employee praised Nazism, Hitler at work
Government Publishing
Office failed to protect
them, 3 colleagues say
BY P AUL S CHWARTZMAN
A supervisor at a federal agency
ignored employees’ complaints
about a co-worker who they allege
brought pro-Nazi literature to
work and praised Adolf Hitler,
according to a lawsuit the employ-
ees filed Tuesday in U.S. District
Court.
The employees, two of whom
still work at the Government Pub-
lishing office and a third who
recently departed, contend in the
lawsuit that the agency subjected
“them to a severe and pervasive
hostile work environment,” ha-
rassment, and discrimination.
The employees allege that a
co-worker, Samuel mewshaw,
“made open statements in sup-
port of Nazism, Hitler, prominent
Nazis and/or anti-Semitic con-
spiracy theories,” the lawsuit as-
serts. He also “displayed tattoos
with known affiliations with Na-
zism and/or white supremacy”
MArYlANd
Baltimore to pay $48 million to three men wrongly imprisoned for 36 years
BY T OM J ACKMAN
Three men who spent 36 years
in prison for a murder they did
not commit — they were wrong-
ly arrested as teenagers by Balti-
more police and wrongly con-
victed by a jury — will receive
$48 million from the city after a
vote Wednesday by the Balti-
more City Board of Estimates.
The payout is the highest ever
awarded in maryland and one of
the highest multi-plaintiff settle-
ments nationally, according to
Jeffrey S. Gutman, director of
the Public Justice Advocacy
Clinic at George Washington
University Law School, who
tracks wrongful-conviction set-
tlements.
The three men also received
$2.9 million from the state of
maryland in 2020 under a com-
pensation plan created for exo-
nerees.
Alfred Chestnut, ransom
Watkins and Andrew Stewart
were each 16 when they decided
to skip school one afternoon in
November 1983 and visit their
old middle school, Harlem Park
Junior High. After walking
around the hallways and visiting
former teachers, they were eject-
ed by a school security guard
around 12:45 p.m., and the doors
were locked, evidence at their
trial showed.
But about 30 minutes later,
someone else approached 14-
year-old DeWitt Duckett in a
hallway and demanded his
Georgetown Starter jacket, then
fatally shot him and took the
jacket, police said. Witnesses
told police that they had seen
michael Willis, 18, run from the
school and discard a handgun,
and that he was wearing a
Georgetown jacket that night,
records would later show.
Instead, lead homicide detec-
tive Donald Kincaid focused on
Chestnut, Watkins and Stewart
because multiple people had
seen them there. And when po-
Montgomery officer struck on I-270; man is charged with attempted murder
offiCeR from B1
Jones, mirrored earlier cases de-
tailed in montgomery County Dis-
trict Court records.
“This driver is known to us
from several incidents that we
have encountered him in the
past,” Jones said. “Sergeant Kepp
has been well-versed in this indi-
vidual’s driving activities
throughout the past few years.
The driver has been known to
provoke officers into chasing him,
the district
Man fatally shot in
Northeast, police say
A man was fatally shot
Wednesday morning in
Northeast Washington,
continuing a violent week in
which four people earlier were
killed within 24 hours.
The Wednesday incident
occurred about 11:35 a.m. in the
1500 block of Benning road NE,
across the street from a
shopping mall. Police said they
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and drew phallic images that he
displayed at work, according to
the lawsuit filed by Sarah Hurtt
and Jonathan romain, both of
whom still work at the agency, and
Joshua Crotty, who has departed.
romain is Jewish, according to
the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs, who are repre-
sented by the Greenbelt-based law
firm Joseph, Greenwald & Laake,
allege that the agency “failed to
take corrective action” despite
their complaints to a supervisor,
Eric Bohn, who they claim “en-
gaged in open discrimination
and/or harassment” and “discour-
aged” the employees from filing
complaints.
mewshaw, who said he was dis-
missed from his job at the agency
in may, denied the allegations
during an interview with The
Washington Post. “If they get
money out of this, there’s a fleec-
ing of the government,” he said.
“They are lying.”
Bohn, when reached by The
Post, said he was dismissed from
his job in June after 16 years at the
agency. The allegations, he said,
“came out of left field.”
“They never reported anything,
they didn’t come to me, they didn’t
go to my supervisor,” Bohn said.
Alfred Chestnut, right, speaks in Baltimore in November 2019. He, Andrew Stewart, left center, and
Ransom Watkins, back center, had just been released from prison and exonerated over a 1983 murder.
lice searched Chestnut’s home at
1 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, they
found a Georgetown jacket.
Chestnut’s mother had a receipt
for it, and witnesses failed to
identify Chestnut, Watkins and
Stewart in photo lineups, police
records show.
The case attracted intense
publicity in 1983, as one of the
first involving violent theft of
athletic gear. Baltimore prosecu-
tors, led by then-Assistant
State’s Attorney Jonathan
Shoup, elected to try the juve-
niles as adults.
Shoup told defense attorneys
there was no evidence exonerat-
ing the teens, despite reports
showing that witnesses had not
identified them and that Willis
had been named as a suspect,
particularly on our major road-
ways here in the county. . . . This is
what he does. He does this inten-
tionally to bait officers into chas-
ing him as if this is some sort of a
video game.”
Kepp himself arrested mayorga
several months ago, Jones said,
citing him for traffic offenses that
included driving 136 mph in a
55 mph zone on I-270.
Wednesday morning, around
3:30 a.m., montgomery County
officers began monitoring a
found the victim, whom they
did not identify, unconscious
and not breathing.
He is the 224th person to be
slain so far this year, according
to the latest police data, which
is more than the total number of
homicides in all of last year.
This year, for the first time since
1997, D.C. surpassed 200 killings
before october.
Also this week, police found
one man fatally shot inside a
vehicle in Southeast and
another killed inside a vehicle in
Northeast; they also found one
“There’s no record of anything.”
Brian markovitz, a lawyer rep-
resenting the plaintiffs, said in an
emailed statement that GPo “al-
lowed White supremacy, Nazism
and other forms of outright dis-
crimination to pollute the work-
place that our clients worked in.
No one should be subject to that
type of discrimination at any
workplace, much less in the feder-
al government.”
Gary Somerset, GPo’s chief
communications officer, declined
to comment.
The agency, under the direction
of Hugh N. Halpern, an appointee
of former president Donald
Trump, employs about 1,600
workers and is responsible for the
production and distribution of
printed materials and informa-
tion products for the federal gov-
ernment.
Hurtt and romain work as
bookbinders at the GPo, where
Crotty also was employed until
leaving the agency last year. The
trio claim in the lawsuit that
mewshaw, Bohn and another GPo
employee, Dylan Wingo, also “en-
gaged in frequent, ongoing, open
and notorious, unwanted harass-
ment against Plaintiffs.”
Among the examples the law-
defense attorneys said. Several
witnesses later told investiga-
tors that Kincaid and other de-
tectives coerced statements
from them falsely accusing the
“Harlem Park Three,” who all
were convicted and sentenced to
life in prison at age 17.
Their appeals failed, and Wat-
kins and Stewart said in inter-
views that they had resigned
themselves to life behind bars.
But Chestnut kept pushing. He
said he filed a public-records
request to the maryland attor-
ney general in 2018, and the
office turned over the that re-
ports the prosecutor said didn’t
exist.
“It made me angry,” Chestnut
said in a 2019 interview. “Just the
fact that everything was con-
Dodge Challenger speeding on In-
terstate 270, police said. The car
was seen driving one way, exiting
the highway and then driving in
the other direction.
“This individual continued to
get off the ramp of the interstate,
turn around, go back the opposite
direction, still driving at a very
high rate of speed,” Jones said.
officers held off trying to ap-
prehend the car, Jones said, until
it nearly ran another motorist off
the road.
l o cA l di gest
man bludgeoned to death in an
alley in Northwest, and another
fatally shot in a parking lot of a
Northeast shopping complex.
on Wednesday, police
identified the man found shot
inside a vehicle in the 4100
block of East Capitol Street SE
as 24-year-old raequan
Williamson of Southeast. A
relative declined to comment.
The rash of violence follows a
quieter stretch in early october.
five people were killed in the
first two weeks of the month.
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suit cites, the employees claim
that Wingo “stated ‘Jews control
the entertainment industry’ while
discussing Kanye West” and “reg-
ularly espouses anti-Semitic con-
spiracy theories.” They also allege
that Wingo made disparaging
comments about Hurtt, including
once telling her that she should
“strip to earn extra vacation mon-
ey.”
Wingo, who is still employed at
the agency where he has worked
for 16 years, denied that he
spreads antisemitic conspiracy
theories even as he acknowledged
making the remark about Jews
controlling the entertainment in-
dustry. But he said he only intend-
ed to describe what he believed
was West’s view. As for his com-
ment about the money Hurtt
could earn stripping, he said he
was being “sarcastic, not literal,”
acknowledged that his remark
was “in poor taste” and added that
he had apologized to her.
Wingo described their depart-
ment as “diverse” and his relation-
ship with Hurtt as friendly until
last fall.
“We’ve been a family for years.
It has been a positive and great
place to work,” he said. “I was
shocked to hear all these things
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cealed all those years. I knew
that they didn’t want to reveal
those things.”
Chestnut said that he saw
then-Baltimore City State’s At-
torney marilyn mosby on televi-
sion speaking about her Convic-
tion Integrity Unit, designed to
correct the wrongs inflicted by
her predecessors. Chestnut sent
a handwritten letter to mosby
and then forwarded his files to
the unit, which began working
on it with the mid-Atlantic Inno-
cence Project, as well as the
maryland office of the Public
Defender and the University of
Baltimore Innocence Project
Clinic.
more than 50 such conviction
integrity units in prosecutors’
offices around the country have
It was at that point, Jones said,
that Kepp and a commander de-
cided to employ the stop sticks.
After striking Kepp, the car con-
tinued north until it was stopped
after a different officer set up
another set of stop sticks.
Lee Holland, the president of
montgomery County’s police
union — the fraternal order of
Police Lodge 35 — said the injured
officer was taken to the shock
trauma center in Baltimore.
fellow officers had gathered at
Traffic delayed after
truck hits bridge
A truck hauling a high load of
cargo struck a pedestrian bridge
Wednesday morning along D.C.
route 295 in Northeast
Washington, causing delays in
both directions, officials said.
By late afternoon, though, the
northbound and southbound
lanes of the highway had been
reopened, a D.C. Department of
Transportation spokesperson
said.
that were said about me.”
A preponderance of the law-
suit’s allegations are aimed at
mewshaw, who until he left this
year had worked at the agency for
17 years. The plaintiffs’ list of
claims include that mewshaw rec-
ommended that a colleague see
the movie “Adolf Hitler: The
Greatest Story Never Told” and
“openly” displayed “on his desk” a
copy of “The Protocols of the El-
ders of Zion,” a book that the U.S.
Holocaust museum describes as
“the most notorious and widely
distributed antisemitic publica-
tion of modern times.”
mewshaw, according to the
lawsuit, also sent Crotty text mes-
sages in which he expressed sup-
port for Nazis such as Wilhelm
Boger, Wolfram Sievers and Hit-
ler. The lawsuit alleges that mews-
haw “announced openly in the
workplace” that Hitler was “the
greatest White man who has ever
lived.”
mewshaw, in the interview,
said that he was “well-versed” in
“The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion” and is familiar with the
Hitler film, but that he never dis-
played a copy of it at work or
recommended the movie. He also
described himself as “a student of
now exonerated at least one de-
fendant, and another 46 units
are operating, according to the
National registry of Exonera-
tions.
After reviewing the case, mos-
by filed a motion to vacate the
convictions of the Harlem Park
Three. on Nov. 25, 2019, after a
judge apologized to them and
granted mosby’s motion, the
three men walked out of the
Baltimore City courthouse, onto
North Calvert Street and into the
arms of their loved ones.
Kincaid told The Washington
Post in 2019 that he hadn’t done
anything wrong.
“What would I get out of
that?” the retired detective
asked. “You think for one minute
I want to send three young boys
to prison for the rest of their
life?” He said: “When I was in the
crime scene up at the school,
three young girls approached
me and told me who did it. I
didn’t coerce them for nothing.”
Kincaid said he did not re-
member Willis as a suspect and
denied withholding any infor-
mation.
In 2020, the three men sued
the Baltimore Police Depart-
ment, Kincaid and Bryn Joyce,
another detective. Joyce said in
2020 that he was “flabbergast-
ed” to learn of the exonerations
and that “our objective when I
was in the homicide unit was to
find the truth, no matter where
it led us.”
When the lawsuit was filed,
Watkins said: “You take three
kids’ lives and tear them apart,
nobody wants to talk about it. …
I’m struggling to get my life back
on board.”
The prosecutor, Shoup, died
in 2016, and the suspect Willis
was shot to death in West Balti-
more in 2002.
Baltimore did not settle the
lawsuit easily. Instead it hired a
Chicago law firm, Nathan & Ka-
mionski, to contest the case. one
of the original witnesses in the
the hospital Wednesday morning
in support of their colleague, Hol-
land said.
“This just shows the risk that
officers face every day,” Holland
said. “A lot of people don’t think
about it until something like this
happens.”
Kepp had been listed in critical
condition Wednesday morning
but seemed to improve as the day
went on. A police spokeswoman,
Shiera Goff, said Wednesday eve-
ning that he was “alert and talk-
Vito maggiolo, a
spokesperson for the D.C. fire
department, said the
department first received a call
at 11:17 a.m. for a possible bridge
collapse southbound at Douglas
Street NE on D.C. 295. But the
bridge appeared to be intact.
maggiolo said the bridge was
struck by a load on a vehicle
that was “probably” too high for
the bridge. Several large pieces
of the load were thrown onto
the highway, but no one was
injured, the spokesperson said.
officials said the vehicle
B3
history” and acknowledged hav-
ing books at work, though he said
they were “turned upside down so
titles could not be seen.”
referring generally to the alle-
gations, he said, “I’ve worked for
the federal government for 17
years. I would not do anything like
that. That is an absurd lie. This
cost me my career.”
The lawsuit alleges that mew-
shaw and Crotty had a heated
altercation at work on Halloween,
during which Bohn sought to sep-
arate the two men and ordered
Crotty “to leave the workplace.”
Crotty, according to the lawsuit,
feared returning to work because
of potential retaliation and filed a
complaint with GPo’s senior
management and the agency’s po-
lice department.
Crotty then took a paid leave
from the agency, according to the
lawsuit. After he had used up his
paid leave, Crotty sought adminis-
trative leave while the agency
“continued to investigate his alle-
gations.” The agency declined his
request, according to the lawsuit,
and Crotty “had no choice other
than to accept other employ-
ment.”
He subsequently left the D.C.
area and moved to Connecticut.
case told the Daily record last
year that being interviewed by
the firm’s lawyers reminded him
of the harsh interrogation he
faced as a teen when detectives
questioned him about the slay-
ing in 1983.
But the Board of Estimates
eventually concluded that the 40
years since the arrests had made
it “nearly impossible to corrobo-
rate or refute Plaintiffs’ allega-
tions or the State’s Attorney’s
findings in its reinvestigation,”
and recommended the $48 mil-
lion settlement, city documents
state.
“Today our city paid a moral,
ethical, and financial debt left on
us by a previous generation and
decades of injustice,” Board of
Estimates Chair and City Coun-
cil President Nick J. mosby, the
husband of marilyn mosby, said
in a statement. “first and fore-
most, our hearts are with Alfred
Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, ran-
som Watkins and their families.
Nothing in this world can make
up for the mental and emotional
trauma that has been put on
these innocent men and their
families. No amount of compen-
sation can right the wrongs of 36
years of turmoil and the residual
effects on these men, their fami-
lies, and communities.”
Each of the men will receive
$14.9 million, and the law firm
that represented them, Brown,
Goldstein & Levy, will receive
$3.3 million, legal documents
show. The law firm said the men
did not want to comment
Wednesday.
Gutman, of the Public Justice
Advocacy Clinic, said that “one
needs to consider how long the
wrongful incarceration was” in
analyzing the settlement. The
men were imprisoned for 36
years, “so their per-year awards
are somewhat less than
$500,000,” Gutman said. “That
is still quite high, higher than
the national average, but not
chart-topping.”
ing.”
Kepp served as a supervisor for
the department’s Alcohol Initia-
tives Unit, which among other
duties tries to get drunk drivers
off roads. He has received the
Washington regional Alcohol
Program’s Annual Law Enforce-
ment Award of Excellence for Im-
paired Driving Prevention at least
twice, according to police officials.
“We find ourselves praying for
the recovery of one of our own,”
Jones said.
continued onward.
Engineers planned go to the
scene to confirm the bridge’s
structural integrity, maggiolo
said.
— Omari Daniels
John
Kelly's
Washington
He is away. His column will resume
when he returns.
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theresA VArgAs

A teen interviewed Magic Johnson. The NBA star offered to pay for his college.
vArGAs from B1
improving his reporting skills
and exposing him to places and
people he might not have
encountered otherwise.
“The program gives you an
opportunity to be heard, but it
also gives you an opportunity to
step into the field and learn as
you go and really just do things
you wouldn’t normally do,”
Jordan told me. “It gives you a
chance to escape whatever reality
you’re stuck in. Honestly, I think
it needs more attention.”
right now, there is plenty of
attention on what is going wrong
with D.C. youth. Gun violence
and carjackings have seized our
collective attention and worries,
rightfully so. Youth crime across
the city is not only causing
tangible losses, measured in lives
and property, it is also causing
intangible ones. Loss of safety.
Loss of childhoods. Loss of
human potential.
But if we want to improve
public safety and the lives of
young people in D.C., then it
makes no sense for us to only look
at what has not worked. We also
have to look at what is working.
Jordan gets that. So do all the
people who have been
celebrating alongside him since
his encounter with Johnson.
They are ecstatic the teenager can
now pick a college without being
held back by the price of tuition.
They also want to see the city
dedicate more resources toward
creating opportunities for other
teenagers to thrive.
“for Jordan, I’m super excited
for him as a parent,” his dad, Greg
Williams, told me. “But as a
resident of the city, I’m a bit
disheartened because Jordan
shouldn’t be an exception or an
anomaly. All of our children
deserve to have access to
programing and education and
opportunities that will allow
their lives to change.”
Greg grew up in the District
and he said he has watched the
city construct more apartment
buildings and commercial spaces
while eliminating places where
young people can gather and
programs where they can find
positive outlets.
“We have to create
opportunities of exposure for our
youth,” he said. “That gives them
something to look forward to.
That gives them the motivation to
change their trajectory or to
transcend their environment.
Just because they are born into
these specific neighborhoods and
situations doesn’t mean that is
their fate.”
He also praised the Deanwood
radio Broadcast Youth
Journalism Program, which is
run by Salih Williams, who is
known as Bootsy Vegas. He works
for the D.C. Department of Parks
and recreation and started the
program in 2016. Vegas operates
the program out of the Deanwood
recreation Center in Ward 7 and
has formed a partnership with
the Congressional Award
foundation. The program works
as a paid internship and each
graduate receives a youth gold
medal.
Since 2017, Vegas said, the
program has sent 38 students to
college, and of those, 23 have
received full scholarships. “With
our program, you’ll leave with
three things,” Vegas said. “You’ll
be a better communicator. You’ll
have a better understanding of
researching and having
conversations with people you
would not normally engage with.
And you’ll have a route to
college.”
most of the participants live in
Wards 7 and 8 and are
surrounded by the violence that
the city is now trying to quell.
Some have experienced
challenges in their youth that
would have broken adults, Vegas
told me. He has worked with
students who have lost multiple
family members before
graduating high school. Yet he
watched those students show up
ready to work and impress people
time and again before getting
accepted into college.
It just takes hearing Vegas talk
about the students who go
through the program to
understand why investing in the
youth of this city matters. He uses
words like “sharp” and
“insightful” and “impressive.”
When we spoke about Jordan, he
said, “There’s something magical
about him.”
Vegas was on vacation when he
learned that scholarship offer
was made. “I almost had a mild
heart attack,” he said. “Every year
something like this happens, but
the fact that he was ready for the
moment, the fact that he got up
there in the mix of all those
reporters and handled himself
like a true professional, that was
the most amazing thing.”
Jordan said he spoke briefly to
Johnson before the news
conference, and during their
conversation, he told Johnson he
wants to go into broadcast
journalism. Jordan, who has put
time and effort into creating a
podcast called “The other Side,”
said Johnson mentioned wanting
to help him, but Jordan did not
fully recognize what that meant.
A video of the news conference
shows Johnson answering the
question Jordan asked about why
he decided to visit the Boys &
Girls Clubs of Greater
Washington and why he wanted
to become an owner of the
Washington Commanders.
Then, before ending his
response, Johnson said, “I
wanted to make an impact and
make a difference, and that’s why
I told you when you graduate
next year that I’m going to give
you a scholarship.” He added,
“I’m going to impact your life like
somebody impacted my life.”

Margot Polivy, champion for women’s athletics, helped craft Title IX measure
polIvy from B1
sity administrators who argued
that the measure would drain
money from football and other
men’s sports that contributed sig-
nificantly to university revenue.
“The problem is that you’re
thinking in terms of equality for
men and women,” ms. Polivy re-
called one university leader re-
marking to her. “Well, I’m all in
favor of equality for men and
women. But it’s not just men and
women; there’s men and women
and football players.”
As general counsel for the As-
sociation for Intercollegiate Ath-
letics for Women, ms. Polivy
worked alongside Title IX advo-
cates including Bernice Sandler
and became a linchpin of the
many women’s organizations that
had joined in support of the law.
ms. Polivy readily conceded
that misogyny was not to blame
for all opposition to Title IX.
many university administrators
are “at worst basically indifferent
to women’s needs, and often fa-
vorably disposed in theory
toward increased athletic oppor-
tunities for women,” she wrote in
a commentary published in the
New York Times in 1978. “The
root of their opposition is money.”
In 1974, Sen. John G. Tower
(r-Tex.) proposed an amendment
to Title IX that would have ex-
empted revenue-producing
sports from compliance. The
amendment did not advance, and
ms. Polivy was credited with help-
ing draft new language that
served to protect what she and
other activists regarded as the
spirit of the law.
In the hubbub of activity on
Capitol Hill, ms. Polivy had no
desk and scribbled her proposed
provision on the back of rep.
Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.). The
amendment, successfully intro-
duced by Sen. Jacob K. Javits
Margot polivy’s work on Title IX was instrumental in transforming college sports. “Equal opportunity in athletics has come to symbolize
for many women the larger recognition that it is both right and rewarding to compete, to achieve and to excel,” she wrote in 1978.
(r-N.Y.), called simply for “rea-
sonable provisions considering
the nature of particular sports.”
“In essence, it reassured colleg-
es that they wouldn’t have to
spend the same money on gym-
nastic equipment as they did on
football equipment, nor have
equal event-management budg-
ets for games attended by 100
people as games attended by
100,000 people,” sportswriter mi-
chael macCambridge wrote in the
2023 book “The Big Time: How
obituaries
“While she was
thoroughly professional,
she was not afraid to be
confrontational.”
Michael MacCambridge,
author of “The Big Time: How the
1970s Transformed Sports in
America,” on Margot Polivy
the 1970s Transformed Sports in
America.”
“It was both obvious and suit-
ably vague,” he continued, quot-
ing ms. Polivy, who said of the
amendment: “It was a word sal-
ad.”
ms. Polivy, reflecting on the
impact of Title IX, wrote in the
Times that thanks to the law, “all
the old arguments about the pref-
erence of ‘normal’ girls for pas-
sive pursuits have come to be
universally recognized for the
MAnuel A. PAlAu
foolishness they are.
“Indeed,” she continued,
“equal opportunity in athletics
has come to symbolize for many
women the larger recognition
that it is both right and reward-
ing to compete, to achieve and to
excel. ”
margaret Polivy — always
known as margot, the name she
later legally adopted — was born
in New York City on April 25,
1938. She grew up in the Bronx.
Her father owned a paint and
wallpaper store in manhattan,
which her mother, formerly a
homemaker, took over after his
death in 1958.
ms. Polivy received a bachelor’s
degree in physical education
from Hunter College in New York
in 1958 and taught gym at Hunter
College High School before en-
rolling at New York University’s
law school.
After her graduation in 1964,
she moved to Washington, work-
ing for the federal Communica-
tions Commission and then as
chief of staff to rep. Bella Abzug
(D-N.Y.), a prominent advocate
for women’s rights. ms. Polivy
later formed a private legal prac-
tice, renouf & Polivy. Her clients
included the Association for In-
tercollegiate Athletics for Wom-
en.
ms. Polivy’s life partner, Ka-
trina renouf, who was also her
law partner, died in 2009. Her
sister, Gail, is her only immediate
survivor.
much like the female athletes
she championed, ms. Polivy chal-
lenged ideas that prevailed in
some circles about how women
should behave.
“She was not deferential,” mac-
Cambridge, the author, wrote in
an email. “She had a formidable
intellect, and was not someone
who was going to observe all the
niceties of protocols at that time.
While she was thoroughly profes-
sional, she was not afraid to be
confrontational in a way that was
exceptional for a female lawyer at
that level” and in that era.
Even in her outward style, she
was unusual in Washington,
sporting corduroy pantsuits and
driving around town in a sporty
Datsun 240Z, macCambridge
wrote in his book.
“I think I was ahead of the
times,” ms. Polivy told him. The
others, she added, “were behind
the times.”

MArtti AhtisAAri, 86

Gifted mediator of conflicts in South Africa, Kosovo won Nobel Peace Prize
BY M ICHAEL S . R OSENWALD
martti Ahtisaari, a gifted
diplomat and former president
of finland who was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his
patient, hands-on role mediating
ethnic and political conflicts in
South Africa, Kosovo and North-
ern Ireland, died oct. 16. He was
86.
The finnish organization
CmI, which mr. Ahtisaari found-
ed to promote peace and resolve
international conflicts, an-
nounced his death but did not
provide additional details. fin-
land’s president, Sauli Niinisto,
disclosed in 2021 that mr. Ahti-
saari was suffering from ad-
vanced Alzheimer’s disease.
In his Nobel lecture, mr. Ahti-
saari struck an undaunted,
hopeful tone that typified his
approach to diplomacy.
“Peace is a question of will,” he
said. “All conflicts can be settled,
and there are no excuses for
allowing them to become eter-
nal. It is simply intolerable that
violent conflicts defy resolution
for decades causing immeasur-
able human suffering, and pre-
venting economic and social de-
velopment.”
mr. Ahtisaari employed what
Gareth Evans, a former president
of the International Crisis
Group, once described as a nego-
tiating “style that combines
charm and good humor with an
iron determination.”
After mr. Ahtisaari negotiated
a peace agreement between In-
donesia and the separatist free
Aceh movement in 2005, Indone-
sian government envoy farid
Husain said that mr. Ahtisaari
“exuded authority like a father”
and that “his method was really
extraordinary. He said, ‘Do you
want to win, or do you want
peace?’”
mr. Ahtisaari joined finland’s
foreign ministry in 1965 and
began his first major peace effort
in the 1970s, helping secure
Namibia’s independence from
South Africa while serving as a
special appointee of the United
Nations. In return for his help,
Namibia made him an honorary
citizen.
“many boys in Namibia are
named martti,” ole Danbolt mjo-
es, a member of the Norwegian
Nobel Committee, told the New
York Times in 2008. “That must
be at least as great an honor as
being awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize.”
In 1994, mr. Ahtisaari, a Social
Democrat, was elected president
in finland’s first direct presiden-
tial election, which had previous-
ly been determined by an elector-
al college. He helped guide the
country’s move into the Euro-
pean Union and presided over a
significant drop in unemploy-
merikallio and Tapani ruo-
kanen.
martti oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari
was born June 23, 1937, in Vi-
ipuri, a town in eastern finland.
His father was a millworker and
then an army vehicle mechanic.
His mother was a homemaker.
World War II was the defining
event of his life. When he was 2,
Soviet troops arrived in his town,
causing his family to flee.
“Like several hundred thou-
sand fellow Karelians, we be-
came refugees in our own coun-
try as great power politics caused
the borders of finland to be
redrawn and left my hometown
as part of the Soviet Union,” mr.
Ahtisaari said in his Nobel lec-
ture. “This childhood experience
FAyez nureldIne/AFP/geTTy IMAgeS contributed to my commitment
Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, right, with yasser Arafat, to working on the resolution of
center, and other palestinian Authority officials in Gaza in 1999. conflicts.”
mr. Ahtisaari graduated from
ment. from Serbia. In between his Kos- the oulu University Teacher
Toward the end of his ovo assignments, mr. Ahtisaari Training School in 1959 and
presidential term in 1999, mr. worked as a weapons inspector became a teacher. After a year in
Ahtisaari worked with former monitoring caches of arms that the classroom, he became an aide
russian prime minister Viktor the Irish republican Army worker, first in Pakistan and then
Chernomyrdin and Strobe Tal- agreed to dump. for international student organi-
bott, U.S. deputy secretary of Examining a pile of rifles zations. After joining finland’s
state, to broker an agreement stored in a woodsy building foreign ministry, he served as an
leading to Serbia’s military with- resembling a potato cellar, mr. ambassador to Tanzania, Zambia
drawal from Kosovo. Ahtisaari broke the tension by and Somalia.
Six years later, the United telling another inspector, “There Negotiating ethnic and politi-
Nations appointed mr. Ahtisaari must be a better way to earn cal conflicts required the skills of
as special envoy to Kosovo, over- one’s living,” according to “The a “ship’s pilot, consulting medi-
seeing negotiations for its even- mediator: A Biography of martti cal doctor, midwife and teacher,”
tual declaration of independence Ahtisaari” (2015) by Katri mr. Ahtisaari said in his Nobel
lecture.
“mediators do not choose the
conflicts they became involved in
but the parties to the conflict
choose the mediator,” he said.
“Their participation as interme-
diaries is based on the trust of all
the conflicting parties.”
mr. Ahtisaari married Eeva
Hyvarinen in 1968. Survivors
include his wife and their son,
marko.
During his Nobel lecture, mr.
Ahtisaari weighed in on the
seemingly intractable conflicts
in the middle East.
“The tensions and wars in the
region have been going on for so
long that many have come to
believe that the middle East knot
can never be untied,” he said.
mr. Ahtisaari disagreed.
“The credibility of the whole
international community is at
stake,” he said. “We cannot go on,
year after year, simply pretend-
ing to do something to help the
situation in the middle East. We
must also get results.”
mr. Ahtisaari did not accept
the common view that tensions
between religions made the
problem unsolvable.
“During my career I have seen
many crises in which religion has
been used as a weapon or as an
instrument for prolonging the
conflict,” mr. Ahtisaari said. “re-
ligions themselves are, however,
peace-loving.”
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son of Dwight Daniel Fellows and Margaret
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nut Public High School and the University of
Iowa for two years awaiting appointment to
a military academy.
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of 1953 with visions of flying airplanes. Af-
ter completing academy flight training and
qualifying for flight school he had a decision
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ed DC public schools, and after attaining
his bachelor’s degree at Oberlin College in
Ohio, returned to DC to attend law school at
George Washington University followed by
an LLM and a Prettyman Fellowship at the
Georgetown University Law Center.
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Agency, John was Chief of the Superior
Court Division during the transition of the
District of Columbia Court system from the
Court of General Sessions to the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia. As part of
that transition the Legal Aid Agency became
the Public Defender Service (PDS) for the
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ANN KILPATRICK WEBSTER
A celebration of the life of Ann Kilpatrick
Webster (Tuttie Webster) will be held at
11 a.m. on Thursday, October 26, 2023 at
All Saints Church on Chevy Chase Circle,
Chevy Chase, Maryland. A reception with
Tuttie’s family will follow in the church hall.
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ASKEW
DEACON WILLIE ASKEW
On Monday, October 2, 2023. Devoted
father of Gregory (Ginger) Askew; three
grandsons, Anthony Askew, Christopher
Askew, and Alexander Askew all of St.
Mary’s County, MD; one great granddaugh-
ter, Shayla Lewis of Birmingham, AL; two
sisters, Elnora Hart and Mildred Thorne of
Baltimore, MD, and a host of nieces, neph-
ews, other family members and friends.
Preceding him in death are his devoted
wife, Myrtle Askew, seven sisters, Mary
McMillan, Frances Dukes, Cella Askew,
Bessie Askew, Helen Smith, Doris Horton
and Barbara Askew.
Visitation Friday, October 20, 2023, from
10 a.m. until hour of service 11 a.m. at
Bethesda Baptist Church, 1808 Capitol Ave
NE. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Ser-
vices by BIANCHI.
BRATCHER
ALDA RICHARDS BRATCHER
Alda Richards Bratcher, 89, of Seat Pleas-
ant, MD, peacefully transitioned on Oc-
tober 10, 2023. Born August 10, 1934, in
Wilmington, DE, she was the daughter of
the late Mildred (Boyer) Richards and How-
ard R. Richards, Sr.
Alda is survived by her aunt, Margretta
Vance (Boyer) Milburn of Atlanta, GA; sis-
ter-in-law, Anna Mae (Carie) Richards of
Baltimore, MD; and a host of nieces and
nephews.
In addition to her parents, Alda was pre-
ceded by her husband, Andrew W. Bratch-
er; brother, Howard R. Richards Jr; and
sister, Elizabeth Adelaide (Richards) Blake.
Funeral services are scheduled for Sat-
urday, October 21, 2023, 12 Noon, at the
Lee A. Patterson & Son Funeral Home, P.A.,
of Perryville, MD. Visitation for family and
friends will be held Saturday, October 21,
2023, 10 a.m. until 12 Noon, at the funeral
home prior to the funeral service. Inter-
ment will be in Berkeley Memorial Ceme-
tery, Darlington, MD.
Arrangements by Lee A. Patterson & Son
Funeral Home, P.A., Perryville, MD
CONGLETON
ELLEN ELIZABETH CONGLETON
Passed on July 5, 2023. Born May 5, 1955 to
Robert S.(Hap) and Clara Lee Day. Preceded
by husband, James Congleton. Survived by
son Greg Day; brother Kurt, and sisters Ju-
lie and Nan. No services held.
DEATH NOTICE
USS John W. “Leaky” Weeks (1953 – 1954).
A decorated Naval career that culminated
with the rank of Captain, would include
Commanding Officer on the submarines
USS Marlin (1962 – 1963) and USS Enteme-
dor (1967 – 1969), Personnel Officer for the
US Submarine Force’s Atlantic fleet, Director
of Enlisted Recruiting for the US Navy, and
Equal Opportunity Officer for the US Navy.
He earned a National Defense Service Medal
w 1 Star, Korean Service Medal, and United
Nations Service Medal.
Following his retirement from the Navy
(1981), Chuck earned his MA in History
from American University. After which he
became Associate Professor at NOVA Com-
munity college. Chuck and Alix spent many
of their summers in their bayside cottage in
Milbridge, Maine. The red cottage has been
a Fellows family summer tradition for more
than 50 years.
Chuck is survived by his wife, Alix, sister
Ruth, brother Dan, five sons and their wives,
James Dwight and Gail, Daniel Mackie and
Katie, David Alexander and Celeste, Peter
Charles and Helena, and Andrew Stanford
and Gabriela; along with 14 grandchildren
and nine great grandchildren. He was pre-
deceased by his brother Bob on August 23,
2015 and grandson Daniel Hunt on June 10,
1988.
Chuck will be remembered by his loved
ones as a resolute man; a caring and gener-
ous person, quick to exude gratefulness and
encouragement to all of those around him.
A memorial service will be held at Trinity
United Methodist Church, Alexandria Virgin-
ia on November 18 at 11 a.m. followed by
a reception at the Army Navy Country Club.
An interment service will be held at Arling-
ton National Cemetery on a date to be de-
termined in early 2025.
He continued to work as a trial lawyer until
his official retirement in 2022. Throughout
his career he was an active member of the
PDS family, serving on the agency’s Board
of Trustees first as a Member, and then as
Vice-Chair from 1984 to 1990. And, given his
long association with the agency, he was an
essential member of various planning com-
mittees for PDS reunions and celebrations.
John was an avid sports fan, a season ticket
holder of the team formerly known as the
Redskins, the Orioles, and the Nationals for
decades. This passion began on the courts
and fields as a Wilson Tiger and Oberlin
Yeoman and bled all the way into his pro-
fessional life, where in addition to his more
traditional legal work he represented sever-
al professional athletes as a sports agent in
the 70’s and 80’s and was involved in the
creation of the Big East Conference. He was
a racquetball and baseball player well into
his 70’s before he retired from all sports par-
ticipation and settled for watching his sons
and grandchildren play.
John had a strong commitment to justice
for all and compassion for those less fortu-
nate than him. A down to earth person, he
was genuinely interested in people from all
walks of life. John lived life to the fullest. He
loved to travel and instilled that passion in
his family. He was a voracious reader who
daily passed on articles he thought would
be of particular interest to one friend or
another. He started listening to “old school”
rhythm and blues as a teenager and never
stopped. He relished sharing wine and lively
conversation with friends and family. And,
finally John’s quick wit and quirky sense of
humor were a source of delight for all who
knew him.
John is survived by his wife Patricia Wynn;
his three sons and their families–Niko and
Richelle, Mila, Luka; Milan and Asia, Mica,
Zia; and Stefan and Kate, Naia; his brother,
Michael Perazich and a loving extended
family both here and abroad.
A Celebration of John’s life will be held in
the spring. Donations may be made in his
honor to:
Southern Center for Human Rights at
www.schr.org
WPFW Community Radio Station at
www.wpfwfm.org
DEATH NOTICE
KREPCHIN
PEARL O. KREPCHIN (Age 103)
On October 14, 2023, Pearl O. Krepchin,
of Rockville, MD. Beloved wife of the late
Joshua Krepchin. Loving mother of Ira
and Frances Krepchin and mother-in-law
of Janice Kahn. Dear Sister of Mollie Bar-
tels, Belle Pfeffer, Bernice Davidson, and
Abraham Ohr. Cherished Grandmother of
Isaiah Krepchin, Ilana Krepchin, Brendan
Krepchin, Robb Edinburg, and Jill Edinburg.
Adored Great Grandmother of Molly Mil-
bury. Graveside services will be held at Mt
Lebanon Cemetery, Adelphi, MD at 11 a.m.
on Thursday, October 19, 2023.
MARAVIGLIA
CARLOS AMERICO MARAVIGLIA
Carlos Americo Maraviglia of Washington,
DC died peacefully on Tuesday, September
19, 2023 at age 95. Born in Rosario, Santa
Fe Argentina in 1927 to Humberto Mar-
aviglia and Maria Montes de Oca. Carlos
married Maria Nydia Marquez in 1957 and
was happily married to her for 62 years un-
til her passing in 2019. He is survived by
his loving children and grandchildren: son
Carlos G. Maraviglia, his daughter Adriana
Maraviglia, his daughter-in-law Marilu En-
ciso; and his three grandchildren, Anders
and Malena Maraviglia and Lena Enciso
Feldman, all of whom will miss him dear-
ly. A Memorial Mass will be held on Friday,
October 20, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. at Holy
Trinity Catholic Church, 3513 N Street NW,
Washington, DC.
ELLISON
JUDITH MARGARET ELLISON
Judith Margaret Ellison, affectionately
known as Judy to her loved ones, passed
away peacefully on September 19, 2023 in
Fairfax, Virginia. She was born on August
31, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. Her long, ful-
filling life was marked by kindness and de-
votion to her husband John of 59 years and
their family.
Judy studied education at the University of
Illinois in Urbana, Illinois where she met her
future husband. After college, she devot-
ed herself full-time to life as an Army wife,
and later as a mother to their two children.
She was a proud mother and never missed
an opportunity to support her children at
DEATH NOTICE
CUNNINGHAM
MARION GARNETTE GRAHAM
CUNNINGHAM
Marion Garnette Graham Cunningham of
Washington, DC passed away September
21, 2023. She was born August 5, 1929 two
loving parents, Marian D. Graham (d1963)
and Aretha Buttler Graham (d2011). Fol-
lowing her graduation from. Sampson High
School in Clinton, North Carolina in 1947,
she attended Johnson C. Smith University
in North Carolina, majoring in science. She
met and married her beloved husband,
Toney Cunningham in 1950. They were mar-
ried 50 years. He predeceased her in 2001.
She later completed her degree at D. C. Col-
lege Teachers College 1971 now known as
University of the District of Columbia. She
earned her bachelors degree of science in
Elementary Education with a concentration
in art and design. She was listed among
INTRATER
ARNOLD INTRATER “Arnie”
2/28/1938 - 10/15/2023
Arnold “Arnie” Intrater, age 84 of Boynton
Beach, FL died peacefully in his home, on
Sunday, October 15, 2023.
Arnie was born on August 28, 1939 in Ant-
werp, Belgium to Samuel and Freida Intrater,
who had themselves recently moved from
Blazhov, Poland. As an infant he escaped
Nazi Europe to Cuba, where his brother
LYON
ROBERT CHARLES LYON “Bob”
Robert “Bob” Charles Lyon of Hyattsville,
MD, died December 26, 2022 in Washington,
DC surrounded by family and friends. Born
DEATH NOTICE
VOITH
THOMAS PHILLIP VOITH JR.
Passed on October 6, 2023 at age 70. Born
in Bethesda, MD, he lived throughout the
Washington, DC Metro area and on Long
Island, NY. While attaining the rank of Staff
Sergeant in the US Army, he was stationed
at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX and served in
Germany and South Korea. Recently Tom
resided in Frederick, MD while working
at Fort Detrick as a civilian IT contractor.
In addition to his parents, Thomas Sr and
Mary Elizabeth “Betty” (Reynolds) Jacobsen
and their partners, Tom was predeceased
by siblings Robert Voith and Kari Ann Ja-
cobsen and niece Jessica Petsche. He is
survived by his wife and friend Joan (Snid-
er) Voith and daughters: Stacy Foster (Ste-
ven) of Johnstown, PA, Laura Paternoster
(David) of Mandeville, LA, and Alyssa Stark
(Craig) of Oxford, CT. Tom was blessed with
10 grandchildren: Logan, Collin, Kathryn,
Kaia, Shannyn, Luca, Nathan, Lucy, Erynn,
and Vera and his first great grandchild Ari.
Tom is also survived by 12 younger siblings.
He was extremely proud of his big family.
A private burial will occur at Crownsville
Veterans Cemetery with Military Honors. In
lieu of flowers, please donate to Habitat for
Humanity or your favorite charity.
games, concerts, or other activities.
She is survived by John Ellison who trea-
sured her, as well as their two adult chil-
dren: a cherished daughter Vicki Kellum
and her husband Bill, along with their three
children Alex, Dylan, and Julia; and a beloved
son Dan Ellison and his wife Kristi, as well
as their children Michael and Heidi. Judy’s
family was the center of her universe, and
she enjoyed being with them.
Despite her busy schedule, Judy found time
to indulge a passion for bridge. She also
worked as a volunteer at the Smithsonian
Institution’s Natural History Museum. And,
she shared two other passions with her
family: local sports and books! Judy was
a devoted fan to our local teams, particu-
larly Washington professional football and
hockey, as well as University of Virginia and
James Madison University football and bas-
ketball. She was also a voracious reader,
consuming two or three books a week.
Judy was a loving wife, a caring mother and
an adoring grandmother. She will be remem-
bered as a quiet, dignified and gentle spirit,
and will be dearly missed.
A memorial service will be held for Judy on
Friday, October 20, 2023 at 1 p.m. at the
Fairfax Memorial Funeral Home, 9902 Brad-
dock Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22032. More
information will be available on Fairfax Me-
morial’s website:
www.fairfaxmemorialfuneralhome.com.
In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Fairfax
County Public Library or your local public li-
brary, in memory of Judith M. Ellison, would
be most appreciated.
DEATH NOTICE
the Who’s Who in American University and
Colleges. She pursue post graduate studies
DCTC, Trinity, Washington, University, and
Catholic University. Mrs. Cunningham was
always a gifted and inspiring individual. She
taught at the prestigious Anne Beers ele-
mentary school in the DCPS system. When
a new science program was implemented
into the curriculum, she was delighted to
expose and instruct her students with with
advanced strategies and technologies. It
pre-dated STEM education, as we know it
today.
Her creativity was lifelong. She created her
painting, crafting, crocheting, and sewing
abilities. She dreamed of having a boutique,
at some point; however, she was able to
share and inspire her friends and cowork-
ers, with various objects of art. At one point
she had designs in a popular Jewish town
boutique. She was a loving mother of two
children, son, James Anthony Cunningham,
JR., and daughter, Valerie Cunningham–Jor-
dan; grandson, James A. Cunningham, III;
two great-grandchildren, James Anthony, III
and Jamice, R. Cunningham and one great-
great-grandchild, Anja. Many wonderful
cousins; nieces (their children); childhood
friends, Dolores Liggins, Mattie, Grigsby,
Georgetta, Campbell, Rena, Bancroft, Ed,
and Vera Fisons, former classmates and
friend, Brenda Durrington.
A celebration of life will be held on Saturday,
October 21, 2023 at Fort Lincoln Funeral
Home, 3401 Bladensburg Rd., Brentwood,
MD 20722. (Followed by a repass). Inter-
ment Mount Olivet Cemetery, 1300 Blad-
ensburg Rd. NE. Viewing/Wake at 11 a.m.
Funeral 12 p.m.
Kenneth was born. He attended the Amer-
ican school in Havana for two years, the
first in the family to learn English. In 1947,
he immigrated to the United States, settling
in Forest Hills, NY. He graduated Yeshiva of
Central Queens, Forest Hills High School, Co-
lumbia College and Columbia Law School. In
1964, he married the love of his life, Karen
Adrianne Weill and they then moved to the
Washington, DC area.
A true public servant, Arnie proudly served
his country with dedication and integrity,
quickly rising to leadership in the general
counsel’s office at the Treasury Department,
the White House Counsel’s Office, and as
General Counsel at both the Peace Corps
and the Federal Housing Finance Board.
Arnie loved being with his family and was an
engaged, loving fun dad to son Marc (Pame-
la) Intrater and daughter Michelle (Joseph)
Mettner and grandfather to Zachary, Jacob,
and Isabel Intrater and Sara, Kelsey and Jo-
hanna Mettner.
Memorial Service, October 20, 2023 at 2
p.m. at Beth Israel, Boyton Beach, FL.
A memorial will also be held in the summer
in Harpswell, ME, where he enjoyed spend-
ing many summers. Donations in Arnie’s
name can be made to Magen David Adom
(the Israeli affiliate of International Red
Cross).https://afmda.org
in Cheboygan, MI on January 29, 1970, Bob
was an environmental activist who devoted
himself to conservation fundraising work at
numerous DC-area nonprofits. He enjoyed
a life filled with books, music, much laugh-
ter, Washington Nationals games, nature,
friends and family, and very good beer.
He was a beloved father, husband, son,
brother, uncle, nephew, and friend. Bob is
survived by his loving wife Rachel Collins;
beloved daughter Aidan Fitzgerald-Lyon;
father Robert M. (Sharon) Lyon, mother
Sharon LeBlanc Lyon; sisters Sally Lyon and
Sarah (John) Doyle; nephews Maximilian and
Dominic Doyle, and many extended family
members.
A celebration of life will be held on Saturday,
October 21 from 12 to 3 p.m. at Denizens
Brewing Co., located at 4550 Van Buren St.,
Riverdale Park, Maryland. In lieu of flowers,
the family requests contributions be made
in Bob’s memory to Lombardi Comprehen-
sive Cancer Center or Trust for Public Land.
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Former speaker
of Virginia House
announces run for
seat in Congress
FillER-CoRN from B1 including abolishing the death
penalty, legalizing small
Democrats have been men- amounts of recreational mari-
tioned as possible contenders, juana, tightening gun restric-
including Delegates Dan Hel- tions and passing ambitious cl-
mer (fairfax) and David A. reid ean-energy goals.
(Loudoun). After Democrats lost their
No republican has an- House of Delegates majority in
nounced for the race. the 2021 elections, though, fill-
In 2019, filler-Corn became er-Corn was unseated as the
the first woman and first Jewish party’s floor leader, in part over
person to serve as speaker in the accusations by some that she
400-plus-year history of Vir- had not shared enough of her
ginia’s House. Her two years in enormous campaign fundrais-
that role came as a historic blue ing haul with other candidates.
surge gave Democrats full con- This year, even as she had
trol of the General Assembly announced plans to retire, fill-
and the governor’s mansion for er-Corn has kept up a rigorous
the first time in a generation. schedule of fundraising and
While she was speaker, the campaigning for other Demo- BiLL o'Leary/the Washington Post

state shifted sharply to the left crats as they seek to win back Former Virginia House speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax), shown in 2019, had decided not to seek reelection in November and instead
on a number of major issues, the majority. focus on a run for governor in 2025, but now will seek the U.S. House seat that Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D) is vacating for health reasons.

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Prada hopes to mine
lab-grown diamond market
The fashion house introduces a suite of fine-jewelry products made with tailored gems
W
hether you’ve spent hours in a
jewelry store or never set foot
inside one, you know what
kind of diamond you’d like to
see on your finger or around your wrist.
You may know nothing about gems or the
history of jewelry design, but you probably
already have opinions on items you may
never buy or may receive a few only times
in your life. But the latest news in dia-
monds is more uncertain: the lab-grown
diamond. Let’s get this out of the way: We
aren’t talking about cubic zirconia. The
lab-grown diamonds of today are chemi-
cally identical to those that come from a
mine. Though they’ve been in existence
since the middle of the 20th century — and
an increasing number of couples select
them for engagement rings — no high-end
jewelry house has used them. Until now.
on Tuesday, Prada introduced a suite of
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Book WoRld
How the hit
‘Airplane!’
took flight
BY DONALD LIEBENSON
1980 was the year of “The Em-
pire strikes Back,” but flying under
the radar was a $3 million gag-fest
called “Airplane!” which featured
unknown leads, veteran character
actors not at all famous for comedy
and three lifelong friends, Jerry
Zucker, Jim
Abrahams and
David Zucker
(ZAZ) directing
their first major
studio movie. It
was a sleeper
hit at the box of-
fice and with
critics, thus
proving once again screenwriter
William Goldman’s Hollywood ad-
age, “Nobody knows anything.”
More than four decades later,
“Airplane!” has attained classic
status. The American Film Insti-
tute’s ranking of the funniest
American films of the 20th cen-
tury places it 10th, just behind
“The Graduate” and just ahead of
“The Producers.” And the Library
of Congress inducted it into its
National Film Registry alongside
“The Birth of a Nation” and “Citi-
zen Kane.”
The trio has not made a film
together since “The Naked Gun” in
1988, but they reunited for “surely
You Can’t Be serious: The True
story of Airplane!” a wildly enter-
taining oral history that chroni-
cles how this outlier got off the
ground and changed comedy. In
interviews conducted by Will Har-
ris, the trio, along with the cast,
crew, former studio executives and
admirers such as Adam McKay,
Bill Hader and “south Park’s” Trey
Parker and Matt stone, reflect on
illuSTraTion by KaTTy huerTaS/The WaShinGTon PoST the film’s bumpy history and its
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tHeAteR RevieW
Play taps
into MLK’s
humanity
BY THOMAS FLOYD
BY RACHEL TASHJIAN “The Mountaintop” doesn’t
scale the summit of its ambi-
tions until its final moments at
Round House Theatre, as spo-
ken-word poetry and video pro-
fine jewelry products made with lab- jections make the most of the
grown diamonds — heart-shaped earrings play’s ethereal trappings. other-
with a sparkly triangle, snakelike rings wise, this absorbing if uneven
with diamonds for a head and a showstop- historical fantasy about Martin
ping necklace with thick rings of gold Luther King Jr.’s final night is at
studded with diamonds that stretch its best when rooted in reality —
around its full circumference. reveling in a saintly figure’s
The house’s first introduction of gold unguarded moments and un-
fine jewelry, in october of last year, made a comfortable foibles.
point to use recycled gold, which Lorenzo This King, you see, is imbued
Bertelli — the company’s head of corpo- with imperfection. As envi-
rate social responsibility, 35-year-old son sioned by playwright Katori Hall
of Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, and and richly embodied by Ro Bod-
widely considered the house’s heir appar- die — revisiting the role he
ent — said “made us the first top-tier played in a 2016 Cleveland pro-
luxury brand to use 100 percent certified duction — the civil rights icon
gold.” lies to his wife, sneaks in late-
Lorenzo Bertelli, the head of corporate social responsibility But lab-grown gems are one of the night cigarettes and peels off his
for Prada and its heir apparent, has helped transform the jewelry world’s great contentions — both smelly shoes to expose tattered
company into a Gen Z phenomenon. because of the industry’s obsession with socks. When he isn’t inviting
illuSTraTion by KaTTy huerTaS/The WaShinGTon PoST; ViTTorio Zunino CeloTTo/GeTTy imaGeS sEE Prada oN C2 infidelity and making moves on
Camae (Renea s. Brown), the
plucky maid who brings late-
night coffee to Room 306 of
Memphis’s Lorraine Motel, he’s
dismissing her with casual sex-
ism or whipping through para-
noia-driven mood swings.
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In the battle of the Republican uncles,
which gray-headed man will win?
It’s an absolute (R-ohio), whose trademark has Jordan’s bid came after the
travesty for always been pugnacious shirt futile, short-lived quest of
American sleeves, suddenly muscling his Majority Leader steve scalise tHe ARts
democracy, but shoulders into a suit jacket and (R-La.), who told reporters “our
psychologically campaigning for the role on support continues to grow” last Survey finds drop in visits
speaking, there’s Tuesday afternoon. This move week, and who then dropped to cultural facilities. c4
Monica something that seemed the equivalent of out of the race less than a day
Hesse almost borders Donald Trump vowing to act later when it turned out he Alec BAldWin
on kinky in presidential as soon as he won didn’t have the votes.
watching the election — a successful, scalise’s crusade came after The actor may face new
congressman after delusional strategy — but the punch-drunk collapse of charges in set shooting. c4
congressman line up to be would it work for Jordan? It Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
spanked by their colleagues as would not. Twenty Republicans — who, upon hearing that a cARolyn HAx
they try to become speaker of refused to vote for him, in a small faction of his colleagues
the House. contest in which he could wanted to oust him, tweeted They disagree on sharing
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provenance and because of con-
sumer confusion about what the
Prada continues to upend assumptions
stones are. The conversations echo
tensions around lab-developed al-
ternatives to meat or fabrics,
though they are complicated by
about what makes fashion ‘luxurious’
the jewelry industry’s conserva-
tism and consumers’ conception
of jewels as investments. Lab-
grown jewels by design are unlim-
ited — so their value often declines
after purchase.
“Yes, it is an unprecedented ter-
ritory,” Bertelli acknowledged in
an email. “Entering the laborato-
ry-grown diamond market is part
of Prada’s creative philosophy of
re-imagining products through in-
novative materials and processes.”
Timothy Iwata, who joined Pra-
da two years ago from Cartier as
the brand’s first jewelry director,
said in an interview that “lab-
grown diamonds are not just
about replicating what’s possible
for nature in a short period of time.
It takes about three weeks versus
billions of years. It’s just about that
— it’s actually pushing the bound-
aries of, one, the cut [of a stone],
and two, the idea of luxury materi-
al. It’s not just about customizing
some existing material. We actual-
ly grow that material for the cli-
ent,” he said.
“You don’t get your own croco-
dile grown to become your bag.”
a girl’s best friend?
Perhaps no gem carries more
existential drama than a diamond.
They are almost unquestioned as
the material for engagement rings
— with the size and cost somehow
corresponding to a woman’s posi-
tion in life. These associations are
largely the result of trenchant
marketing, with De Beers, which
monopolized the diamond market
for much of the past century, in-
structing American consumers
nearly 80 years ago that “a dia-
mond is forever” in an attempt to
prop up the collapsed diamond
market.
Arbitrary notions, including
rules about how many months of
one’s salary should be spent on an
engagement ring, persist around
diamonds, although sales of clas-
sic engagement rings from retail-
ers such as Zales and Jared have
sharply declined.
But even as consumers grow
more skeptical of the diamond’s
dominance, the propaganda
around it remains solidified into
myth. marilyn monroe’s “Dia-
monds Are a Girl’s Best friend”
and Elizabeth Taylor’s obsessions
with the gems, including a per-
fume line called “White Dia-
monds” with a sultry ad that sees
her tossing her enormous earring
at a gambler, are cult (and camp)
classics that speak to ideals of
feminine desire, indulgence and
worth.
As such, their sci-fi counter-
parts have been controversial.
(Would marilyn monroe grow her
best friend in a lab?!) many con-
sumers see them as a less expen-
sive substitute for mined dia-
monds, making larger stones ac-
cessible because the limits of na-
ture are dispensed with. over the
past five years, a handful of start-
ups such as Dorsey and Vever have
emerged that use lab-grown
stones. Yet no existing luxury
brand has veered into lab-grown
territory until Prada.
Why? The jewelry industry is
one of the world’s “most secretive,
in a lot of ways. It’s very closed
doors. over [the past] 200 years,
the techniques haven’t changed a
lot,” Iwata said. “It hasn’t been
subjected to as much scrutiny, if
you will, as fashion because of the
fast-fashion element. Not a lot of
brands are taking bold steps to
really try to make systemic change
in the industry.”
Stellene Volandes, the editor of
Town and Country and a jewelry
expert who has written two books
on the subject, said that many
consumers have confusion around
what lab-grown stones are — and
that they shouldn’t be considered
a cheaper way to get a bigger,
sparklier diamond, but rather a
different material entirely. “for
me, a lab-grown diamond will nev-
er be a substitute for a natural
diamond,” she said. “I understand
that some people are looking for
an alternative. And I think there
are ways in which a lab-grown is
an alternative, but it is not a substi-
tute.”
And while many jewelers have
recently focused on transparency
around the sourcing of their ma-
terials, a conversation around lab-
grown gems is overdue. “I think we
should feel more comfortable
about having this conversation.
Because I think that when people
understand what their choices are
and what they’re spending their
money on, I think that it will make
people want to buy more jewelry.”
That appears to be the bet that
Prada is making: research sug-
gests that the public perception
around lab-grown gems is chang-
ing. Iwata cited a 2020 BBC story
that reported 70 percent of millen-
nials would consider purchasing
lab-grown diamonds. Even Vogue
has a guide to lab-grown brands.
Some proponents of lab-grown
stones see them as a way to cir-
cumvent the safety and ethical
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“For the jewelry industry
to survive, I think the jewelers
need to embrace lab-grown.”
Timothy Iwata, jewelry director for Prada
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Photos by Prada.
The lab-grown diamonds in the
pieces by Prada feature “the
Prada cut,” a triangular shape
reminiscent of the house’s logo.
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concerns of mined diamonds.
When Beyoncé appeared in a Tiffa-
ny’s ad in 2021 wearing a 128-carat
diamond, a number of fans were
outraged that she’d posed in what
could be considered a “blood dia-
mond,” or a gem mined in a con-
flict zone and used to finance war.
As Prada sees it, the house’s use
of the stones is less about declar-
ing a stake in the natural versus
lab-made gems debate but about
reimagining what is possible in
jewelry design when the param-
eters of nature are removed from
the equation.
Creating a lab-grown diamond
A mined diamond is the result
of billions of years of heat and
pressure exerted on carbon in the
Earth’s mantle, which turns that
carbon into crystal. A lab-grown
diamond replicates that process in
a matter of weeks and was first
developed in the 1940s by scien-
tists hoping to improve the tech-
nology of diamonds used on in-
dustrial saws.
These lab-grown stones allow
for a degree of control unimagina-
ble with a nature-made stone. Pra-
da can “simulate and calculate the
exact size, exact clarity and color
before they grow the stone,” Iwata
explained, and, working with a
master cutter in Antwerp, Bel-
gium (who does not specialize in
lab-grown gems), Iwata developed
what the house is calling “the Pra-
da cut,” a triangular shape remi-
niscent of the house’s logo.
Perfecting this cut through trial
and error would have been exorbi-
tantly expensive with mined dia-
monds, Iwata said. The ability to
create consistent stones at a more
reasonable price also allowed Pra-
da to make the aforementioned
necklace, which will be made to
order, with 40 carats of gems
stretching all the way to the back,
where jewelers typically don’t put
stones because few viewers would
see them. What would have cost
well over $1 million with mined
stones instead will cost about
$274,500.
for Prada, the introduction of
lab-grown stones is another chap-
ter in the house’s long history of
upending assumptions about
what makes fashion “luxurious,” a
statement first articulated when
miuccia Prada introduced nylon
handbags in the 1990s. This hum-
ble performance material could be
as desirable as leather or suede.
mrs. Prada (as she is known) and
her husband led the company the
former’s family founded in 1913
through decades of such innova-
tion, though more recently they
have stepped back. mrs. Prada
now shares her creative director
role with raf Simons, while Patriz-
io Bertelli and mrs. Prada gave up
their co-CEo titles in January. An-
drea Guerra was appointed to the
role, a move widely reported as a
means to ease the transition to
Lorenzo Bertelli’s eventual leader-
ship.
It is Lorenzo Bertelli who is
behind many of the projects that
have yanked Prada into the flum-
moxing possibilities of 21st cen-
tury luxury: NfTs, blockchain,
sustainability and makeup as a
luxury experience. These efforts
have been largely overseen by
Lorenzo Bertelli, a former racecar
driver who since 2017 has helped
transform Prada into a Gen Z phe-
nomenon. The business is experi-
encing record success, with rev-
enue of over 4 billion euros in
2022, which is more than a 20
percent increase over the previous
year.
Despite its ladylike handbags
and Hitchcock heroine silhou-
ettes, it has also engaged formida-
bly with Gen Z culture, pursuing
K-pop stars, a makeup line and
now, fine jewelry where Tiffany,
whose communications lead is Ar-
nault family scion Alexandre Ar-
nault, teams up with streetwear
labels such as Supreme, or Louis
Vuitton appoints musician Phar-
rell Williams as its creative direc-
tor. The Lyst Q3 Index, which four
times a year tracks shopper
searches as well as social media
mentions to map the fashion
world’s hottest brands, put Prada
at No. 3 (and miu miu, whose
transformation Lorenzo Bertelli
also helped architect, at No. 1).
It is the next generation that the
brand is attempting to infiltrate. If
the tennis bracelet was once the
entry point for high-end jewelry,
younger consumers, Iwata said,
are more interested in pieces that
frame the face, such as earrings
and necklaces, because they spend
much more time socializing on-
line.
“for the jewelry industry to sur-
vive,” Iwata said, “I think the jewel-
ers need to embrace lab-grown.”
While it’s too soon to say how
Gen Z will receive the products, in
Paris in early october, two 20-
something German women wear-
ing Prada crossbody nylon bags
lingered at the store’s jewelry
counter. They flipped through the
lookbook of gold jewelry, pausing
to ooh and ahh over a $5,500 pair
of round hoop earrings that in
profile form a triangular Prada.
“This is the last piece we have,” the
sales associate said, handing her
the earrings to try. “But we will
have another collection coming.”
one of the women squealed.
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How ‘Airplane!’ slowly but Shirley made it to big screen

Book world from C1
legacy.
The directors agreed to talk to
The Washington Post about how
their unlikely project, based on an
obscure 1957 thriller, became a
first-class spoof. Looks like I
picked the wrong week to quit
doing interviews.
This interview was edited for
length and clarity.
Q: In publishing, as in comedy,
timing is everything. Why now to
tell the story of “Airplane”?
Jim Abrahams: We were all
pleasantly thrilled that
“Airplane!” was still around. We
said it would be a good idea to
write this book for our kids and
grandkids who might have
interest in what went on back
then. I said that at a book signing
last night, and I got kind of
choked up. my young
granddaughter was there. Today,
her dad texted that she asked him
why everybody cared about what
Bop [her pet name for Abrahams]
had to say.
Q: “Airplane!” is a remarkably
faithful goof on the 1957 disaster
film “Zero Hour.” Do you
remember how you saw it for the
first time?
david Zucker: We used to do a
live theater show in L.A. called the
“Kentucky fried Theater.” Part of
the show was spoofs of television
commercials. We would record
late-night television and leave our
videotape recorder on all night.
Then in the morning we’d find out
if there were any good
commercials on it. one such
morning, we got engrossed in this
old movie, “Zero Hour.” our first
idea was to re-dub it. Then we had
an idea we could remake it.
JA: The “Zero Hour!” script
was really well written, with three
solid acts. We merely had to add
our jokes.
Q: How did the writing process
work?
would say, “I have an idea, what In their new book, “Surely You
do you think about this?” That Can’t Be Serious: The True
was all we were thinking about at Story of Airplane!,” directors
the time. Every joke — someone Jerry Zucker, left, Jim
would have a germ of an idea, Abrahams, center, and david
another would add to it and then Zucker give an entertaining
another said, “No, it should be oral history of the making of the
this.” It was always a build. surprise hit from 1980.
Jerry Zucker: It helped that
there were three of us because you
either got an instant laugh or
nobody laughed. And if nobody
laughed, somebody would come jokes you live with for a couple of
up with an alternate idea or years that you still think are funny
slightly changed line. I don’t are more likely to be funny. There
remember any disagreements. It were a lot of jokes that after a
was always at least two out of while, we went, “Nah, that’s not
three, and if something made us really funny,” and we took them
all laugh, we knew it was good. out. There were certain moments
dZ: We once watched “West I couldn’t wait to see in front of an
Side Story” with a friend of ours. audience.
Afterward, he said he would never
watch a movie with us again, Q: Such as?
because we just kept adding our JZ: for me, it was, “Have you
lines. ever seen a grown man naked?”
It’s so outrageous. It goes beyond
Q: According to the book, this film just being funny. It’s like, “Did
was something like five years in they really get Peter Graves to say
the making. Do you remember that line?” It was a different kind
how you felt the night before the of laugh.
first day of shooting? JA: There’s a YouTube channel
JZ: We were wildly excited and where you can watch people
nervous, but we were so focused watching “Airplane!” for the first
and had done all this preparation. time. Every once in a while, if I’m
I think that night we were just feeling bad about myself, I’ll tune
thinking about the first day of in. most people who watch it and
shooting. react weren’t alive when we wrote
JA: Except for David. He took a it. And yet it holds up as well
sleeping pill and got to work late today as it did 43 years ago.
that day.
dZ: I set my alarm for the Q: This brings us to the Library of
wrong time. Congress, which in 2010 inducted
JZ: But it was just cool. our “Airplane!” into the National film
first day, we were focused on what registry as a “culturally,
we had to do. historically or aesthetically
dZ: The producers wanted to significant” American film. Your
schedule the simplest shots [for reaction?
the first day]. It was the scene in dZ: We’re happy to be regarded
the cockpit with Leslie Nielsen, as any kind of significant.
Julie Haggerty and robert Hays. JA: If “Airplane!” is about
We got through that. I don’t know anything, it’s that there are things
if the studio had a lot of you don’t need to take seriously. If
confidence in the concept of the people get that from “Airplane!”
film or in the three of us directing. and learn to laugh at themselves
And casting Leslie Nielsen as a and some of the ridiculous stuff
comedian? It was in our contract they take seriously, then mission
that they could fire us after two accomplished.
weeks. But we were told that lee Reynolds

JA: When we were writing, we
had what we called our materials,
which were “Zero Hour!” and
other disaster films from that era.
We sat around and watched those
movies together and someone
during the first day’s dailies when
Leslie delivers that line, “I am
serious, and don’t call me Shirley,”
everybody just cracked up. After
that, they had to add an extra
screening room because
everybody on the Paramount lot
wanted to come see the dailies.
Q: Would cast members suggest
jokes or want to improvise?
JZ: The hysterical woman on
the plane (Lee Bryant) who the
passengers were all shaking
suggested that she get slapped,
and then we came up with the line
of people with guns and whips.
But 99 percent was shooting the
script. We spent years writing this
script, putting stuff in and taking
stuff out. one advantage to that is
Donald liebenson is an
entertainment writer. His work has
been published in the Chicago
Tribune, los Angeles Times,
VanityFair.com and new york
magazine’s Vulture website.

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Actor Alec Baldwin might face new charges in 2021 ‘Rust’ shooting incident
BY S AMANTHA C HERY
J ANAY K INGSBERRY
AND
Alec Baldwin might soon face
charges again in connection with
the 2021 “Rust” shooting incident,
as New Mexico prosecutors say
new evidence has warranted an-
other look.
Kari T. Morrissey and Jason J.
Lewis, the special prosecutors for
the case, announced Tuesday that
they plan to present the informa-
tion within the next two months
to a Santa Fe grand jury, which
will then decide whether Baldwin
must undergo a trial.
“After extensive investigation
over the past several months, ad-
ditional facts have come to light
that we believe show Mr. Baldwin
has criminal culpability in the
death of Halyna Hutchins and the
shooting of Joel Souza,” the pros-
ecutors said in a statement. “We
New Mexico prosecutors
say ‘additional facts
have come to light’
believe the appropriate course of
action is to permit a panel of New
Mexico citizens to determine
from here whether Mr. Baldwin
should be held over for criminal
trial.”
“It is unfortunate that a terrible
tragedy has been turned into this
misguided prosecution,” Bald-
win’s attorneys, Luke Nikas and
Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel,
said in a statement. “We will an-
swer any charges in court.”
Charges of involuntary man-
slaughter were initially brought
against Baldwin and “Rust” ar-
morer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed in
late January, with prosecutors al-
leging that they failed to follow a
number of safety measures. Both
pleaded not guilty.
In April, prosecutors dropped
the charges against Baldwin to
give them more time to investi-
gate. Charges against Gutierrez-
Reed moved forward, with her
trial scheduled to begin in Febru-
ary.
Baldwin was handling a prop
gun on the set of “Rust” in Octo-
ber 2021 when it discharged, kill-
ing cinematographer Hutchins
and wounding Souza, the film’s
director. In an interview with ABC
News later that year, Baldwin de-
nied pulling the trigger of the .45
Long Colt revolver in question.
On Feb. 9, Hutchins’s family in
Ukraine filed a lawsuit against
Baldwin and others involved in
production, alleging battery, in-
tentional infliction of emotional
distress, negligence and loss of
consortium, which refers to the
impact of Hutchins’s personal re-
lationships caused by her death.
Three former crew members sued
Baldwin and the film’s producers
the same month, asking for dam-
ages for “blast injuries” they say
they suffered when the gun fired.
In a counterclaim he filed for a
previous lawsuit in November,
Baldwin is suing Gutierrez-Reed
and others associated with the
film for giving him the loaded gun
that killed Hutchins. The suit
“seeks to clear his name” and hold
the defendants “accountable for
their misconduct.”
In spring, “Rust” production
moved from its original location
in New Mexico to a ranch in
Montana, and filming wrapped in
SANTA fe cOuNTY SherIff’S OffIce/Afp/geTTY IMAgeS May, a month after prosecutors
Alec Baldwin was handling a prop gun on the set of “Rust” in initially dropped charges against
October 2021 when it discharged. Baldwin.

Fewer people are going to movies, theater and museums, NEA survey shows
BY THOMAS FLOYD
Research released Wednesday
by the National Endowment for
the Arts found that significantly
fewer American adults are at-
tending cultural activities such
as classical music concerts, thea-
ter productions and movies than
they did before the coronavirus
pandemic.
Just 48 percent of adults re-
ported attending at least one arts
event from July 2021 to July
2022, according to the Survey of
Public Participation in the Arts,
which has been administered by
the Census Bureau roughly every
five years since 1982. That num-
ber represents a six-point drop
from the most recent survey in
2017, amplifying alarm bells that
the arts community is struggling
to regain its pre-shutdown audi-
ence.
In addition to drawing on the
Survey of Public Participation in
the Arts, the NEA’s research also
cited the 2022 General Social
Survey, which was administered
by the National Opinion Re-
search Center at the University
of Chicago. That survey found
that 82 percent of respondents
Digital engagement
is robust amid declining
in-person attendance
watched or listened to arts activ-
ities through digital platforms
between 2021 and 2022, suggest-
ing a robust online engagement
that persisted even as in-person
events returned.
“The National Endowment for
the Arts has a longstanding com-
mitment to providing the arts
and culture field and the general
public with accurate and rel-
evant research,” NEA Chair Ma-
ria Rosario Jackson said in a
statement. “Taken together,
these reports help to reveal the
state of arts participation in our
country.”
The Survey of Public Partici-
pation in the Arts, which sam-
pled 40,718 U.S. adults at a
roughly 59 percent response
rate, found nearly universal de-
clines in fine arts attendance
from 2017 to 2022. The adults
who reported seeing a musical
theater production fell from
about 17 percent to 10 percent;
the number for nonmusical
plays dropped from about 9 per-
cent to 5 percent. Attendance for
ballet, opera and classical music
performances saw similarly dra-
matic decreases.
Although visual arts also expe-
rienced drop-offs, the rate of
change wasn’t as proportionally
drastic. The number of respon-
dents who reported visiting an
art museum or gallery shrank
from about 24 percent to 18 per-
cent, while those attending craft
fairs or visual arts festivals de-
clined from about 24 percent to
17 percent. But those who said
they toured parks, buildings or
neighborhoods for “historic or
design value” fell only two per-
centage points (to 26 percent).
Social media (17 percent) was
the most common tool people
reported using to discover arts
events they ultimately attended,
followed by friends, neighbors or
co-workers (about 15 percent)
and print/broadcast media
(about 11 percent).
The survey also found that
about 43 percent of respondents
reported going to the movies —
about a 16 percentage point de-
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D.C.’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
crease from 2017 — though the
numbers predated the block-
buster release of “Avatar: The
Way of Water” this past winter
and this summer’s Barbenheim-
er phenomenon. That decline
grew steeper among people with
higher levels of education, in-
cluding an approximately 24
percentage point plunge for
moviegoers with a graduate or
professional degree. The number
of people who said they read a
book dwindled four points, to
about 49 percent.
One area of increase was “oth-
er performing arts,” which the
survey noted could encompass
pop, rock, hip-hop and country
music concerts, comedy shows
and circus acts. That number
rose about six points, to around
21 percent.
The General Social Survey,
which documented the high lev-
els of online arts engagement,
found that White people were
the least likely ethnic demo-
graphic to engage with the arts
digitally, at 64 percent, com-
pared with 81 percent of Black
respondents, 73 percent of His-
panic respondents and 89 per-
cent of other ethnicities. Wom-
en, 18-to-24-year-olds and mi-
norities reported participating
in more virtual arts events in the
second year of the pandemic
than they did from March 2020
to March 2021.
Unsurprisingly, young adults
reported higher rates of engag-
ing with digital arts activities:
95 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds,
compared with 68 percent of
people 75 and older.
The pessimistic in-person
numbers validate existing anxi-
eties among arts leaders. The
Washington Post reported this
past summer that 25 to 30 per-
cent of theater audiences have
not returned since the shut-
down, according to experts in
theater management. After mov-
ie theaters enjoyed five straight
years of hitting $11 billion at the
domestic box office, from 2015 to
2019, the total gross was only
$7.3 billion in 2022, according to
the tracking website Box Office
Mojo.

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A brother was told he could borrow the car. Now it’s too late to set conditions.
Dear Amy: After
Ask Amy a car accident last
Amy year, my older
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Pop-Up at Union Market
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Stop Making Sense (PG)
2:20-4:40
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
(PG-13) 7:00
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:30-7:15
Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue
Scrapper 12:15-5:00-7:15
Radical Wolfe 2:15
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
13) 1:00-4:30-8:00
Landmark
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema
807 V Street Northwest
The Creator (PG-13) 4:00-7:30
A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
4:40
Bottoms (R) 4:30-7:10
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:30-7:15
The Exorcist: Believer (R)
4:10-7:20
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- (PG) CC: 12:50-3:20
13) 3:30-6:30-7:00
Landmark E Street Cinema
555 11th Street Northwest
A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
3:45-7:25
Foe (R) 4:30-8:00
The Exorcist: Believer (R)
4:00-7:25
Joan Baez I Am A Noise
3:35-7:25
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:30-7:15
Dicks: The Musical (R) 7:45
Stop Making Sense (PG)
4:45-7:35
Amerikatsi 3:15
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:10
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Regal Gallery Place
701 Seventh Street Northwest
Barbie (PG-13) 12:50-3:40
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
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A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
12:30-3:20
Onyx the Fortuitous and the
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Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:30-3:30-7:00-8:00
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 1:00- (PG) CC: 1:20-3:40-6:00-8:20
4:00-7:10-10:00
Saw X (R) 12:20-3:20-6:20-9:30 1:00-4:45
Dicks: The Musical (R) 7:10
When Evil Lurks 11:30AM
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
(PG-13) 12:10-12:40-1:40-2:20- Dumb Money (R) CC: 1:45-
3:20-4:20-5:20-6:00-7:00-7:30-
8:00-9:00-9:40
Hocus Pocus 30th Anniversary CC: 3:00-7:20
(PG) 11:20-1:55
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 12:20- 1:30-4:15-7:00
3:00-6:10-9:00
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- IMAX 2D Experience (R) CC:
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refill the tank before returning
it, and I also usually have to
prompt him to bring it back.
A few weeks ago, he borrowed
the car to attend an event 120
miles away. He picked it up on
Friday morning and returned it
on Monday. I checked the
mileage and discovered that the
car had been driven nearly 500
miles. Allowing for the 250-ish
miles round trip to and from the
party, my brother somehow
clocked an additional 250-ish
miles. Checking the mileage
made me feel petty, but my
relationship with him is not one
wherein I could easily address
any of this with him.
Do I just make up a white lie
the next time he asks to borrow
my car? Do I oh-so-casually let
him know that I’ve been
tracking the car’s mileage? I
hate feeling like I’m being
“conditional” in my offer of
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Key Largo (1948) (NR) 12:30 Hocus Pocus 30th Anniversary
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Joan Baez I Am A Noise 11:45-
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Butcher's Crossing (R) 6:00
Strange Way of Life (R) 8:50
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
(PG) CC: 11:45-2:15-4:45-7:15- 4:30-7:45
(PG-13) 7:00
9:45
Stop Making Sense (1999) (NR)
The Creator (PG-13) CC: 11:15- 13) 3:30-7:00
2:15-4:20
1:05-4:15-7:30-10:45
Road House (1948) (NR) 6:45
So Evil My Love (PG) 9:00 The Nun II (R) CC: 10:15-11:00
A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
AMC Academy 8 CC: 11:15-1:45
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Dumb Money (R) CC: 10:15-1:00- A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 3:45-6:30-9:15
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour CC: 2:30-4:30-7:00-8:05-9:00
(PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:00-4:00- Saw X (R) CC: 10:45-1:45-5:00
6:30-7:30-10:00 The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC:
11:30-2:15-5:00-7:45-10:30
AMC Annapolis Mall 11
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Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
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The Royal Hotel (R) CC: 12:10
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2:20-5:20-9:20 Dicks: The Musical (R) CC:
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A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
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Killers of the Flower Moon (R) (PG-13) CC: 12:00-1:00-2:00-
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Dicks: The Musical (R) CC:
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Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
(PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:00-4:00-
6:30-7:30-10:00 CC: 2:30-4:45-7:00-9:00
The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC:
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10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
Saw X (R) CC: 12:45-3:45-6:30-
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 9:15
(PG) CC: 1:45-4:15-7:00-9:15
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
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The Royal Hotel (R) CC: 6:00
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The Creator (PG-13) CC: 12:05- The Creator (PG-13) 3:30-6:45- (PG-13) 3:30
3:15-6:30-9:45 9:45
A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
The Exorcist: Believer (R)
CC: 1:00
1:30-4:15
Onyx the Fortuitous and the
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Saw X (R) CC: 12:45-3:45-6:45- 11:30-12:40-2:20
10:00 Barbie (PG-13) 10:25-1:20-4:10 The Creator (PG-13) 12:00-3:10-
Killers of the Flower Moon - The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
IMAX 2D Experience (R) CC: Mutant Mayhem (PG) 11:10-
4:00-8:30 1:45-4:25
Tiger Nageswara Rao (Telugu) Soul Mates (R) 7:00-9:45
LEO: Bloody Sweet (Tamil)
8:30-9:30 6:00-10:00
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Exorcist: Believer - The IMAX 2D
Experience (R) CC: 12:10 (PG) 10:50-11:00-11:20-1:30-
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 1:50-4:00-4:20-6:35-9:05
13) CC: 12:00-3:30 The Equalizer 3 (R) 11:15-2:00- 3:25-6:25-9:25
Hocus Pocus 30th Anniversary 4:45-7:40-10:25
Blue Beetle (PG-13) 11:40AM
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Expend4bles (R) 11:25-2:15-
CC: 2:30-7:00 5:00-7:50
The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: The Creator (PG-13) 11:25-3:00- 12:15-3:15
1:10-4:10-7:10-9:50 6:45-9:55
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8:00-9:00 11:45-2:25-5:05-7:50-10:40
Onyx the Fortuitous and the
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Talisman of Souls 7:00-10:00
9811 Washingtonian Center
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
CC: 3:45-8:15 2:30-3:30-7:00-8:00
The Exorcist: Believer (R)
Killers of the Flower Moon - The
1:20-1:40-4:10-4:30-7:00-7:20-
IMAX 2D Experience (R) CC:
2:45-7:15 9:50-10:10
Moana (2016) - Disney100 (PG) She Came to Me (R) 12:35
Saw X (R) 11:10-2:05-5:00-7:55-
10:55
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG-
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Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 11:00-2:35-6:30-10:05-10:55
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The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: When Evil Lurks 11:00-1:50-4:30 Tiger Nageswara Rao (Telugu)
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9:30-10:15 4:20-4:25-5:35-6:30-7:15-8:10-
9:20-10:15-11:00
AMC Magic Johnson
Capital Center 12 Hocus Pocus 30th Anniversary 2:30-7:10
(PG) 11:35-2:15-4:55-7:30
800 Shoppers Way
LEO: Bloody Sweet (Telugu)
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 10:30-2:05-6:00-7:10-9:00-9:35- Saw X (R) 11:25-2:20-5:20-8:20-
10:05-10:35
Blue Beetle (PG-13) CC: Sam and Colby: A Week At The LEO: Bloody Sweet (Tamil) 1:00-
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The Equalizer 3 (R) CC: 1:30-
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Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
4:20-7:00 (PG) 3:45-6:45
The Creator (PG-13) 3:00-6:30
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: 2:30-6:15-7:00
Saw X (R) 4:30-8:00
Killers of the Flower Moon - The Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- (PG) OC: 12:00
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sweater or tank top?
support, but (as my husband
pointed out) the use of my car is
a loan, not a flat-out gift — and
loans usually do have terms and
conditions. Thoughts?
— The AutoLoan Department
AutoLoan: Loans do have
“conditions,” but those
conditions are usually agreed
upon in advance of the
transaction, not after the fact.
Your brother should at the very
least always return the car
gassed up (that’s what anyone
should do). I suspect that if he
had been thoughtful in that
regard, you might not have been
inspired to become an odometer
monitor.
If you’ve been planning to sell
your car anyway, then I suggest
that you skim over this
awkwardness by putting your
car up for sale. Name your price,
list it, and see what offers you
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 2:30-
4:00-7:30
Landmark
Bethesda Row Cinema
7235 Woodmont Avenue
The Royal Hotel (R) 4:45
A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
7:30
Joan Baez I Am A Noise 7:40
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:30-5:00-7:15
The Exorcist: Believer (R)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG-
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(PG) 2:45
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Oppenheimer (R) 4:00
5:00
Dumb Money (R) 4:20
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2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1
Barbie (PG-13) 1:15-4:35
Oppenheimer (R) 1:00-3:40-7:10
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
A Haunting in Venice (PG-13)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
(PG-13) 1:30
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 1:40-
4:10-7:15
Joan Baez I Am A Noise 1:10-
4:30-7:20
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG-
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129 Centerway
The Silence of the Lambs (R)
Stop Making Sense (PG) 5:30
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
(PG-13) 7:00
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3899 Branch Avenue
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
(PG) 1:30-4:30-7:00
The Equalizer 3 (R) 3:35-6:05-
8:30
The Creator (PG-13) 3:00-6:00-
9:00
Saw X (R) 3:30-6:30-9:30
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 2:15-
5:00-8:00-8:45
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
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Onyx the Fortuitous and the
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Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:30-7:00
Saw X (R) 1:10-4:10-7:10-9:55
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 12:45-
Killers of the Flower Moon -
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Moana (2016) - Disney100 (PG)
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Hocus Pocus 30th Anniversary
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG-
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12:30-8:30
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
5:30-6:15-9:00
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6:40-9:50
Onyx the Fortuitous and the
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Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 11:40-
1:50-4:40-7:30-10:20
10:40
4:50-9:00
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
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8:10-9:20
LEO: Bloody Sweet (Hindi) 3:40
LEO: Bloody Sweet (Telugu)
12:20-7:20
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Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
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4:10-8:30-9:10
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receive. If your brother wants to They don’t even call and ask us also ask them to meet him and
borrow it in the meantime and to meet at a restaurant. We only the kids at a restaurant — or go
you don’t want to lend it, tell see them when we invite them on an outing — instead of
him that you’re keeping the to share holidays at our home, hosting at home.
mileage where it is and yet they show up 15 minutes
reducing wear-and-tear until it before the meal is set to be Dear Amy: Amen to “Exhausted
is sold. served and never offer to chip in and Worn Out!” This elderly
If your brother wants to with any cleanup. I’ve expressed couple was looking for a way to
purchase it, then he can make to my husband that I’m tired of stop hosting Thanksgiving. We
an offer. This was a good gig hosting. feel exactly the same way, and
while it lasted, and when the car My husband wants to are going to swallow hard and
is no longer available to him, continue, as this is the only time tell our kids.
your brother will find another his family tries to spend any — Also Exhausted
way to get wheels for those time with us or our two
times when he needs them. children. I’m beginning to feel Exhausted: Many readers feel
very resentful. Should I put my the same.
Dear Amy: My sister-in-law and foot down, or keep quiet and
her husband come to our home keep the peace? Amy's column appears seven days a
for every holiday. We do all of — Tired week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
the cooking and all of the Write to askamy@amydickinson.com
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with this, as it’s been 20 years your husband, you could ask Freeville, N.Y. 13068.  You can also
and I’m feeling very taken him to take on the responsibility follow her @askingamy.
advantage of. for this meal. He could ask them
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14716 Baltimore Avenue (PG) 3:30-6:30 The Royal Hotel (R) CC: 4:50 A Haunting in Venice (PG-13) 8:15 The Exorcist: Believer (R)
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Blue Beetle (PG-13) 1:30-4:40- Killers of the Flower Moon (R) (!) (PG-13) 12:05-2:20-4:50 The Nun II (R) 12:30
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CC: 12:50-3:30 Dumb Money (R) 8:15 The IMAX 2D Experience (R)
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Saw X (R) 12:30-3:30-6:20-9:30 She Came to Me (R) 9:45-12:00- 6:30-7:40-8:20-9:30
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
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Killers of the Flower Moon - My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (PG) CC: 11:30AM 8:20 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- The Exorcist: Believer (R)
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Cinemark Hocus Pocus 30th Anniversary
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH (D)
♠ AQ5
♥ AJ6
♦ 74
♣ A Q J 10 5
WEST EAST
♠ 10 9 3 ♠ KJ872
♥ 7 ♥ 852
♦ AK9853 ♦ J2
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
♣ 762 ♣ K83
SOUTH
♠ 64
♥ K Q 10 9 4 3
♦ Q 10 6
♣ 94

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

“I think my wife’s a perfect

partner,” a club player
told me, “except for one
thing: She expects me to be
one also.”
He and his wife were
today’s East-West.
“My wife led the K-A of dia-
monds against four hearts,”
he said, “and I signaled high-
low with the jack and deuce.
When she led a third dia- RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
mond, declarer ruffed high in
dummy. He drew trumps, lost
a club finesse to my king and
claimed, pitching a spade on
a good club.
“My wife rarely complains
and didn’t then, but I had a
feeling I’d done something
dreadful.”
East’s defense was imper-
fect. His jack (then deuce) of
diamonds was an “attitude” LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
signal, requesting a diamond
continuation. But what East
needed was a spade shift to
set up a spade trick while he
had the king of clubs. On the
first diamond, East should
play the deuce, asking for
the logical shift to spades.
Nobody’s perfect; West
might have shifted anyway.
(A shift at Trick Two might be
too late.) But I can’t blame HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
her for obeying East’s signal.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠AQ5♥AJ6
♦ 7 4 ♣ A Q J 10 5
The dealer, at your right,
opens one diamond. You
double, and your partner
responds (“advances”) one
spade. The opponents pass.
What do you say?
ANSWER: Don’t get car- BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
ried away. Your partner was
obliged to bid, and you can’t
assume he has any points
or a decent spade suit. He is
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BIRTHDAY | OCTOBER 19
You are independent,
passionate and
outspoken, which is
why you often take
the lead. This is the final year
in a nine-year cycle, which
means it’s appropriate to
let go of people, places and
things that are holding you
back. It’s time for internal and
external housecleaning!

HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY Moon Alert: Caution: Avoid
shopping or making important
decisions from 3 p.m. to
10 p.m. today. After that, the
Moon moves from Sagittarius
into Capricorn.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Discussions with close friends
and partners will be lively
today. In fact, you will attract
energetic, talkative people to
you, especially people who are
different. Do not finalize travel
plans or important discussions
with bosses during the Moon
Alert.
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
You can accomplish a lot
today; nevertheless, much of
this day is a Moon Alert, which
means don’t agree to anything
important. Likewise, don’t
volunteer for anything.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Today is full of wonderful,
creative opportunities for you,
especially because you will be
able to think outside the box.
Write down your thoughts.
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK Explore new avenues. Wait
until the Moon Alert is over
before you decide to act on
anything.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Today you might have excellent
ideas related to your work
or perhaps your health. Late
today, someone older, perhaps
a teacher or a person from
another culture, might have
something to teach you.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
This is a creative day! In
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particular, it’s a great day for
writers, editors and anyone
in the arts, as well as anyone
who works with children.
Meanwhile, you feel a strong
need to communicate your
ideas to others.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
You have money on your mind
today, perhaps related to cash
flow, earnings or even buying
something. Be aware of the
limitations of today’s Moon
Alert, and do not shop during
that window of time or make
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LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Today is an imaginative day
for you, which is why you want
to explore ideas, meet new
people and travel, if possible.
After the Moon Alert is over,
serious family discussions
might take place, especially
with a parent or an older family
member.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Secrets or behind-the-scenes
research might prompt you
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT to buy something or spend
money today. Be smart and
don’t do this during the Moon
Alert. Afterward, you can do
what you want because you’ll
be in a serious, practical frame
of mind. Oh yeah.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
This is a wonderful day to
explore creative ideas with
others. People will network
very successfully. However,
because most of this day is a
Moon Alert, enjoy socializing
but wait until the Moon Alert is
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CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Most of this day is a bit loosey-
goosey and lacking direction
until the Moon moves into your
sign. After that, you will be all
systems go and ready to make
long-range plans, as well as
talk to authority figures.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
This is a great day to toss
around ideas about the future,
especially travel plans, or
plans to explore training and
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interested in legal and medical
matters.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
People notice you today, which
is why you will talk to more
people than usual, especially
different people. Get your facts
and information, but wait until
the Moon Alert is over to act.
Timing is everything.
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Monica Hesse
Which man has the energy to prevail in this squabble over House leadership?
HEssE from C1
“Bring it on,” only to stand flat-
footed as it was summarily
brought. (The only thing good
to come out of that
development was sweet
vindication for those of us who
were teenagers in 2000 and
always knew the Kirsten
Dunst/Gabrielle Union movie
was a timeless masterpiece.)
Who are these guys? These
guys who think they can slither
out of a snake pit and then lead
the snakes. These card sharks
forced into a game of Go fish
with their incorrigible
nephews. These guys who keep
trying to pull a gavel from a
stone, except ain’t none of them
Arthur.
mcCarthy’s original pursuit
to become House speaker, less
than a year ago, was already a
cringe-fest of Brobdingnagian
proportions. In vote after vote,
he was rejected — 15 votes over
a span of four days. members
got more and more
cantankerous, and mcCarthy,
who must have figured that his
best shot at victory was to
appear self-assured, ended up
sweatily smiling through the
whole thing. Have you ever
seen 10-year-old boys play some
variation of a game where they
repeatedly twist the skin on
each other’s arms and the goal
is to laugh bravely and pretend
it absolutely does not hurt? It
was like that.
You want to tell them to cry
“uncle,” but that is how we got
into this mess to begin with. A
parade of uncles decided they,
alone, could fix this. Put them
on the ballot, propel them to
the dais.
on Wednesday, whatever
leverage Jordan thought he had
failed for a second time, as 22
of his republican colleagues
would not be fatigued into
making him speaker. As the
‘The Mountaintop’ finds its peak with solid performances and staging
THEaTER REviEW from C1
Under Delicia Turner Sonnen-
berg’s steady direction,
“The mountaintop” humanizes a
larger-than-life figure while re-
flecting on his outsize legacy. Set
hours after King’s “I’ve Been to
the mountaintop” speech and
hours before his April 4, 1968,
assassination on his motel bal-
cony, Hall’s fictionalization
finds the activist exhausted by
the relentlessness of White rage.
“They hate so easily,” he ob-
serves between coughing fits,
“and we love too much.” But he’s
nonetheless committed to his
nonviolence ethos — despite
challenges from Camae, a mal-
colm X-sympathizing advocate,
for more proactive paths to
Black empowerment.
Boddie, superb in round
House’s “The Tempest” and “A
Boy and His Soul,” embraces the
artifice of King’s dignified image
while theatrically deepening his
voice on the phone or purpose-
fully strutting around Paige
Hathaway’s motel room set (a
backdrop that’s fittingly nonde-
Wife doesn’t want to burden others with their news that they can’t have a baby
Carolyn Hax is
away. The
following first
appeared Sept. 16,
2009.
Carolyn Dear Carolyn: my
Hax wife is a private
person, especially
when it comes to
problems. I hear, “Everyone has
their own problems, so they don’t
need to be burdened with mine,” at
least once a week. Normally, I
would think this is a good attitude,
except for the big problem we
found out about recently: The
consensus of several doctors is
that a pregnancy would kill her.
We have always wanted
children, and this is a terrible blow
to us both, which we are working
through. She doesn’t want to tell
anyone even though we are
constantly asked by family and
friends, “So when are you going to
have a baby?” I think they have a
right to know so we aren’t getting
scheduled voting time neared,
C-SPAN opened its phone lines
so representative Americans
could say what the rest of us
were already thinking.
A caller from California: “I’ve
watched this little thing go on
and on, and I’m just disgusted.”
A caller from Alabama: “I
would like to know why anyone
is supporting any of these
people.”
Jordan is “just the worst
choice,” complained a caller
from michigan. “He’s been
there for what, 16 years, and
produces no legislation. I just
don’t understand it.”
“I’d like to suggest Liz
Cheney might be a good
Ro Boddie as Martin Luther King Jr. and Renea s. Brown as Camae in “The Mountaintop” at Round House Theatre.
script — until it isn’t). That
heightened portrayal makes
King’s eventual rumination on
mortality all the more affecting,
as “The mountaintop” pivots
from hero-worship deconstruc-
tion to a moving portrait of grief
and guilt on death’s door.
King’s clairvoyance is the crux
of Hall’s fantastical conceit,
badgered every five minutes, but
she doesn’t want “pity” or “advice”
and feels she needs to handle it in
her own way. What’s your opinion?
— Boston
Boston: Your wife is entitled to
handle it in her own way, but so
are you. And if your way is to share
your news, then, out of respect for
you and your marriage, she owes it
to you to release her grip on this
difficult information.
Certainly, because it is her
marriage, too, and her health and
body at issue, your right to tell
others is limited; it’s not so simple
as her choosing not to tell and your
choosing to tell and everyone
living happily ever after. out of
respect for her sense of privacy,
you’ll need to confide, with her
knowledge, in a select few whose
support you prefer and whose
discretion you trust.
In fact, it won’t even be as
simple as asserting your right to
grieve, even on these limited
Retropolis
eZ re
match,” one caller suggested, as
if the republicans who
censured the former Wyoming
congresswoman last year after
she dared collaborate with
Democrats on the Jan. 6
committee (before republican
voters ousted her in the
midterms) would be open now
to inviting Cheney back to
Washington as their leader.
“There has to be a better
choice,” another caller
harrumphed.
But no — ha-ha — that’s the
whole point. There apparently
is no better choice. And that is
why we are where we are,
scrolling through a roster of
representatives to determine
which occasionally veers the
play into rote melodrama (“I still
have so much work to do!” King
pleads) and hit-or-miss comic
relief. As Camae, King’s unlikely
companion during his existen-
tial reckoning, Brown lends a
mischievous edge to an endear-
ing but inconsistently sketched
character. Alternately flirtatious
terms. If you subject her rationale
to a cursory sniff test, you’ll see
that calling her a “private person”
is a euphemism. “They don’t need
to be burdened” with her
problems? She doesn’t want their
“pity” or “advice”? really?
What about their love, their
support, their empathy, their
understanding, their invitations to
a movie/play/barbecue to nudge
you gently out of the depths and
into the day-to-day light? What if
her loved ones care about her,
want to be burdened, want to be
included? What if they don’t want
to be served a smiling cardboard
facsimile of her emotional state?
If your wife doesn’t trust anyone
to provide her any useful
emotional responses, then she
doesn’t trust anyone, period.
That’s not privacy; that’s fear and
insecurity that runs deep. She’d
rather feel lonely and in control
than take any of the risks involved
with being close to other people —
the risk of losing control, of
phoToS By JABiN BoTSford/The WAShiNgToN poST
and combative, the duo’s chem-
istry pushes along a tale that
feels even leaner than its 100-
minute run time would suggest.
Nick Hernandez’s savvy
sound design ups the tension,
with ominous cracks of thunder
amid the rainfall’s omnipresent
patter. The soundscapes also
evoke the chaos of police crack-
Stories of the past, rediscovered.
washingtonpost.com/retropolis
the washington post
phoToS By mArgoT SchuLmAN
downs on nonviolent marches,
in a sequence accompanied by
Zavier A.L. Taylor’s striking pro-
jections (even if the images
sometimes seemed washed out
during monday’s opening night
performance). Using kinetic
pencil-drawn imagery at times
and rotoscope-style animation
at others, Taylor’s design takes
NicK gALifiANAKiS for The WAShiNgToN poST
. thursday, october 19 , 2023
LEFT: speaker pro tempore
Patrick T. McHenry (R-N.C.) on
Wednesday at the end of the
second (failed) vote for Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to become
speaker of the House.
BOTTOM: Rep. Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.), the ousted
speaker, talks with Jordan.
whether there’s anyone left who
possesses the necessary
qualities for speakership. At
this point, the necessary
qualities are not leadership and
diplomacy as much as
masochism and self-abasement.
And even that might not do it.
After Jordan lost his second
vote — by more than he lost his
first — the House went into
indefinite recess, giving Jordan
time to figure out whether he
could high-crotch enough
opponents into submission or
whether it was time to give way
to the next man in the parade.
There have been other possible
names knocking around. Kevin
Hern, i.e. the fast-food
franchise man known as
“mcCongressman.” Patrick T.
mcHenry, i.e. the bow-tied
speaker pro tempore.
mcCarthy, i.e. yes, the very
same!(?) About an hour after
Jordan’s loss, a reporter from
Axios tweeted that she had
heard from a source that a
representative named Jack
Bergman (r-mich., apparently)
might be preparing to throw
his hat in the ring.
members of Congress, come
and get your uncles. Get them
or vote for them, either way.
center stage during that tear-
jerking finale as King gets a
glimpse of his enduring influ-
ence.
In an astute touch, the projec-
tions also gesture beyond the
play’s 2009 London premiere or
2011 Broadway debut — tether-
ing the proceedings to our na-
tion’s recent racial reckoning
and underlining the timeless-
ness of Hall’s script. By dwelling
on King’s humanity, “The moun-
taintop” shrewdly emphasizes
just how much change one man
can effect. Like any decent work
of historical fiction, this one
ultimately wields embellish-
ment as a tool for unlocking a
greater truth.
The Mountaintop, by Katori hall.
directed by delicia Turner
Sonnenberg. Sets, paige hathaway;
costumes, Brandee mathies;
lighting, Sherrice mojgani; sound,
Nick hernandez; projections, Zavier
A.L. Taylor. About 1 hour 40
minutes. Through Nov. 5 at round
house Theatre, 4545 east-West
hwy., Bethesda.
roundhousetheatre.org.
learning there’s an inch of her
psyche she can’t fully protect.
If I’m reading her correctly, then
it was probably all she could do to
trust you, and even then, I suspect
she still limits what she shares
with you, out of a sense of
necessity.
This is the woman you love, and
whose philosophy on “burdens”
you seem to respect. I’m not
interested in changing these, nor
will she change except of her own
volition. I simply suggest you may
have mistaken fear for “a good
attitude.” for your emotional
health and hers, please try to
discriminate between burdening
others and simply letting them in.
Write to carolyn hax at
tellme@washpost.com. get her column
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SPORTS thursday, october 19 , 2023 M2 D

In Game 3,
Javier lifts
Houston
o≠ the mat
Astros 8,
rAngers 5
BY A NDREW G OLDEN

ARLINGTON, Tex. — A day be-

fore Houston Astros starter Cris-
tian Javier stepped on the mound
for Game 3 of the American
League Championship series, he
stood in the back of the media
room at Globe Life Field and
watched as battery mate Martín
Maldonado answered questions.
When Maldonado was done,
he walked off the stage toward
Javier to trade places. Maldona-
do put his index finger and
middle finger on Javier’s neck, as
if to check his pulse. Maldonado
smiled. “That guy is dead,” he
said.
Javier’s pulse barely quick-
ened during his 52/3 innings
Wednesday night. He allowed
just three hits in Houston’s 8-5
win over the Texas Rangers that
pulled the defending champions
back into the ALCs. Game 4 is
Thursday.
“He was good. Good breaking
ball. Good change-up. Good loca-
tion,” Manager Dusty Baker said.
“I think he only walked one guy.
. . . And that’s the secret, if you
see AlcS ON D3

Today’s LCS games

SARAh STIeR/geTTy IMAgeS NL: Phillies at d’backs, 5 p.m., TBS
wNbA finals MVP A’ja wilson is the center of attention after her 24 points and 16 rebounds in Game 4 helped the Aces become the first team to repeat in 21 years. AL: Astros at Rangers, 8 p.m., FS1

Put it on repeat Misplays,

BY K AREEM C OPELAND
NeW YORK — A’ja Wilson simply couldn’t
be bothered. Before Wednesday night’s
Game 4 of the WNBA Finals, the Las
Vegas Aces’ star center showed little
worry despite the fact that her team was
missing two starters and hadn’t won at
Barclays Center all season. During the
game, she appeared to have one concern:
willing her team to victory.
Mission accomplished. Wilson scored
a game-high 24 points to go with 16
rebounds to lead the Aces to a 70-69 win
that secured a 3-1 victory in the series,
making Las Vegas the league’s first
back-to-back champion since the Los
Angeles sparks in 2001 and 2002. Wilson
was named Finals MVP.
“We just kept the main thing the main
Aces 70,
LiBerty 69
Las Vegas goes back-to-back,
closes out New York in Game 4
thing, and we came out on top,” she told
esPN on the court immediately after the
win. “I can’t express how proud I am of
my teammates. They picked me up when
I was down. We cried together, prayed
together and now we popping cham-
pagne together.”
It hardly came easy. The Aces saw their
six-point lead trimmed to one in the final
seconds and survived only after Courtney
Vandersloot missed what would have
poor defense
plague Caps
in road loss
been a game-winner. It left Wilson and
company dancing on the floor afterward.
“There’s a reason it hasn’t been done in senAtors 6,
that long of a time period,” Aces forward cApitALs 1
Alysha Clark said of repeating as champs.
“It’s hard to do. It’s hard to get to the
Finals multiple times. . . . You never know BY B AILEY J OHNSON
when you’re going to get this moment,
when you’re going to get this opportunity OTTAWA — spencer Carbery had
— regardless of what team you have.” a simple message for his Washing-
Jackie Young added 16 points for Las ton Capitals ahead of Wednesday
Vegas, and Cayla George had 11. Clark night’s game. He wanted to see
chipped in a much-needed 10 points and them show attention to detail in
eight rebounds. Kelsey Plum had an off terms of their structure, and he
shooting night (2 for 12) but contributed wanted them to manage the puck
seven points, eight rebounds and five better than they had in their first
assists. two games.
“This one’s sweeter,” Aces Coach Becky But during a 6-1 loss to the
Hammon said. Ottawa senators at Canadian Tire
see wNbA fiNAlS ON D4 Centre, the Capitals fell short on
both counts. While the rookie
coach’s redesigned forward lines
were intended to help Washing-
ton find more chemistry,
see cAPitAlS ON D3

Capitals at Canadiens
Saturday, 7 p.m., Monumental

NFL defenses are having a ball,
leaving o≠enses in quite a bind
Cleveland Browns
defensive end
Myles Garrett
crashed into san
Francisco 49ers
left tackle Trent
Jerry Williams, who
Brewer clutched the
intruder with
unwelcoming arms. Usually,
there would be no escaping the
impenetrable, 320-pound
Williams, but Garrett planted
hard on his right leg, clasped his
hands under the tackle’s grip
and tossed him out of the way.
Williams stumbled and nearly
fell to the turf. Garrett,
50 pounds lighter than the man
he dislodged, continued his pass
rush. It wasn’t a consequential
play — no sack, no forced
turnover, no prolonged effect on
Williams — but Garrett made his
point. The Browns’ defense had
Pro FooTbALL
nFL Commissioner Roger
goodell gets a contract
extension that will keep
him in place until 2027. D2
come to play and live up to its
historic standard. By sunday
afternoon, the 49ers were no
longer undefeated.
That play signified the vibe of
the NFL season so far. It was a
feat of raw physicality in lieu of
offensive theatrics.
For the past few seasons, there
have been signs that defensive
strategy was finally starting to
adjust to the offensive
innovation that had transformed
the sport into fast-break football.
Now, for the first time in nearly a
decade, it’s safe to assume the
defenses have caught up.
Football is an actual fight
again, not a fireworks show.
Defenders can toss aside the
perception of inferiority.
Offenses must collect
themselves.
It’s impossible to ignore the
see brewer ON D2
hiGh SChooLS
Three sets of sisters are
making sure glenelg field
hockey remains one of
Maryland’s top teams. D5
A delicate balance of playmakers and play calls
Not concerned with their run-pass split, Commanders want all of their offensive threats involved
BY N ICKI J HABVALA
For the better part of the past
three seasons, Washington Com-
manders Coach Ron Rivera has
faced questions about his of-
fense’s struggle to get the ball to its
top wide receiver, Terry McLau-
rin. And nearly every time, Rivera
has cited the scheme, the game
circumstances and his quarter-
back’s decision-making among
the myriad factors for McLaurin’s
minimal targets.
Game plans differ by opponent,
each play has a progression, and
each progression is predicated on
the initial read of quarterback
sam Howell. But this season, Rive-
ra also has echoed new coordina-
tor eric Bieniemy’s goal of achiev-
ing offensive balance, a term that
has become less about the split
between running and passing
plays and more about the variety
of threats the offense can pose.
“We want to be able to always
constantly keep that threat on
[opponents] that: ‘Hey, we can
run the ball. We can throw the
see coMMANDerS ON D2
dAnny kARnIk/ASSoCIATed PReSS Commanders at Giants
terry Mclaurin was targeted 11 times and hauled in six passes during Sunday’s win in Atlanta. Sunday, 1 p.m., CBS
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nFL noTes
Goodell’s
contract
is extended
three years
F ROM NEWS SERVICES
AND STAFF REPORTS
NfL team owners finalized a
three-year contract extension for
Commissioner roger Goodell, the
league announced Wednesday.
The deal runs until march 2027,
when Goodell will be 68. Goodell
confirmed the completion of the
extension and did not specify
whether he will retire when the
new deal expires.
The financial details of the ex-
tension were not immediately
known. No formal vote of the own-
ers was required to ratify the ex-
tension. The owners on the com-
pensation committee, which ne-
gotiates the commissioner’s con-
tract, previously had been
authorized to complete the deal
with Goodell.
Goodell’s previous contract was
set to expire next spring.
Also Wednesday, the owners
voted to raise the NfL’s debt limit
from $600 million to $700 million
per team while taking no action on
ratifying retired quarterback Tom
Brady’s proposed deal to become a
part-owner of the Las Vegas
raiders.
— Mark Maske
l cardInaLs: more than
10 months after he suffered a torn
ACL in his right knee, quarterback
Kyler murray was designated to
return from the physically unable
to perform list.
The Cardinals also designated
safety Budda Baker to return from
injured reserve. The two-time
all-pro has missed the past five
games with a hamstring injury.
l JaGUars: With quarterback
Trevor Lawrence listed as ques-
tionable for Thursday night’s
game at New orleans, Jackson-
ville signed third-stringer Nathan
rourke from the practice squad to
the active roster.
Lawrence, who has been deal-
ing with a sprained left knee, was
limited in practice for the second
day in a row.
l browns: Quarterback
Deshaun Watson, who hasn’t
practiced since Sept. 29 because of
a shoulder injury, said he doesn’t
know when he’ll be back.
Watson described his injury as a
strain — and not a bruise as
Cleveland previously reported —
to the rotator cuff in his right
shoulder.
l GIanTs: Quarterback Daniel
Jones practiced for the first time
since hurting his neck oct. 8, but
his status for New York’s game
Sunday against Washington is un-
certain because he has not been
cleared for contact.
l coLTs: Quarterback Antho-
ny richardson has taken the final
snap of his rookie season. He opt-
ed for season-ending surgery on
his injured throwing shoulder.
l doLPHIns: Jalen ramsey
practiced for the first time since
suffering a knee injury early in
training camp. miami Coach mike
mcDaniel said the cornerback will
not play this week as the team
eases him back into action.
l cHIeFs: Kansas City is reac-
quiring wide receiver mecole
Hardman from the New York Jets
in a trade involving a swap of
late-round draft picks.
— Associated Press
D I G es T
soCCer
Brazil star Neymar has
torn ACL, meniscus
Brazil forward neymar tore
the ACL and meniscus in his left
knee while playing in a World
Cup qualifying game, his Saudi
club, Al Hilal, confirmed
Wednesday.
Neymar was in tears after he
injured his knee during the first
half of Brazil's 2-0 loss to
Uruguay on Tuesday. The
31-year-old will need surgery.
Al Hilal did not say how long
he is expected to be out, but it can
take six months to a year to
recover from an ACL tear. That
probably would rule him out for
the rest of the season and would
raise doubts about his
participation in next year’s Copa
América, which starts in June.
Brazil’s all-time leading scorer
was on crutches as he left Estadio
Centenario in montevideo. He
had clutched his leg in visible
pain and was then carted off the
field.
Neymar broke Pele’s Brazil
scoring record last month with
his 78th goal for his country in a
World Cup qualifying match
against Bolivia. He added his
79th in the same game.
For Commanders, balance isn’t just run vs. pass
commanders from d1
ball. We can throw the ball in
play-action. We [can] throw the
ball off boot-action. We can throw
the ball on a dropback,’ ” rivera
said earlier this season. “But that
keeps everything open in terms of,
‘Hey, we can run it, we can run
something inside, we can bounce
the ball and get something out-
side.’ ”
Balance creates opportunities,
rivera said. It’s something Wash-
ington is still trying to achieve
more consistently, to create more
chances for all of its playmakers
and to keep defenders on their
toes.
“We have so many great play-
ers, and I think part of this offense
and why it’s so good is it spreads
the ball around,” Howell said last
week. “But at the same time,
there’s got to be a good balance of
spreading the ball around and
using your best players. It’s defi-
nitely something that we will con-
tinue to try to do a better job of
moving forward.”
In their 24-16 win over the At-
lanta falcons on Sunday, the Com-
manders were balanced. They ran
22 times and threw 23 times, keep-
ing mcLaurin a focal point from
the outset. for the first time in his
career, he was targeted six times
in the first quarter, catching four
passes for 45 yards. running
backs Antonio Gibson and Brian
robinson Jr. each caught a touch-
down pass, marking the first time
Jerry Brewer
The defenses have finally caught up — and the game is better for it
brewer from d1
evidence. Through six weeks,
nine teams are allowing fewer
than 300 yards per game. The
Browns are yielding just 200.4,
which is the stingiest any
defense has been through its
first five games in more than a
half-century.
To put the statistics in context,
no defense allowed fewer than
300 yards per game last season
over the full 17-game schedule.
In 2021, just one team did. It
seems inevitable that offenses
will improve as the season
progresses, but conventional
wisdom is that the game slows
down as winter approaches,
leading to lower scores and a
preference for controlling
possession over racking up
yards.
If that happens this time, the
NfL might as well televise the
games in black and white.
Week 6 proved to be a perfect
storm, magnifying all the good
of NfL defenses — and the bad
of offenses. The 15-game slate
saw just five of the 30 teams
surpass 21 points. miami (42)
and Jacksonville (37) were the
lone teams to score more than
26. Across the league, teams
averaged 18.4 points, which
represented the lowest average
for any NfL week in nine years.
The Browns and New York
Jets, teams with hard-hitting
defenses and even harder luck,
earned signature victories and
handed the 49ers and
Philadelphia Eagles their first
losses by mucking up those
games.
With quarterback PJ Walker
starting for the injured Deshaun
Watson, the Browns overcame
Neymar joined Al Hilal in
August and has endured a slow
start, with an injury limiting him
to three appearances in the
domestic league and two in the
Asian Champions League in
which he scored one goal. . . .
french club Nice suspended
defender Youcef atal until
further notice after he shared an
antisemitic message on social
media.
Nice said in a statement that it
had discussed the issue with Atal
and that he apologized. . . .
Charlotte wasted a pair of one-
goal leads and tied Inter miami,
2-2, in fort Lauderdale, fla., to
miss out on a chance to climb
from 12th to eighth in mLS’s
Eastern Conference. . . .
The U.S. women’s national
team roster for this month’s
friendlies against Colombia will
include the captain returning
from a long-term injury, a star
forward rebounding from both
an ailment and World Cup
heartbreak, and three teenagers.
In what’s expected to be her
final camp before a permanent
coach is hired, interim coach
Twila Kilgore invited 27 players
for matches slated for oct. 26 in
Sandy, Utah, and oct. 29 in San
Diego.
The squad includes center
eZ sU
sam Howell, left, said the key to the offense is “spreading the ball around and using your best players.”
since 2006 that Washington had
two running backs record a re-
ceiving touchdown in a game.
The Commanders opened with
quick game — a forte of Howell’s
— to jump-start the offense, and
they used play-action on a
season-high 18 percent of their
plays, including Howell’s three
defensive end myles Garrett, left, anchored an unyielding defense
that carried the feisty browns past the unbeaten 49ers on sunday.
the backup’s two interceptions
because they limited San
francisco to 215 yards and
muscled their way through a
gnarly game in which the 49ers
lost running back Christian
mcCaffrey and wide receiver
Deebo Samuel to injuries.
Williams hurt his ankle early,
but he returned and struggled
through the finish. He did it out
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back becky sauerbrunn, who
missed the World Cup with a foot
injury, and Portland Thorns
teammate sophia smith, whose
miss in the fifth round of a
shootout against Sweden
contributed to the Americans’
round-of-16 elimination in
Australia.
Smith, a 23-year-old forward,
missed last month’s U.S. camp
with a knee injury. Since her
recovery, Sauerbrunn, 38, has
started four matches for the
Thorns.
Joining them at U.S. camp are
teens alyssa Thompson, Jaedyn
shaw and olivia moultrie.
Thompson, 18, was a member
touchdown passes. What’s more,
they used two-back sets on 4 per-
cent of their plays (also a season
high) and two-tight-end sets on
26 percent of their plays, their
second-highest rate of the season.
Gibson’s one-yard touchdown
reception in the second quarter
included it all. Washington gave
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of respect for Garrett, who is
hard enough for a healthy all-pro
to handle. Williams didn’t want
to abandon his teammates.
“He’s one of the best in the
world,” said Williams, the former
Washington star. “He’s
everything I thought he was
going to be.”
The 49ers are the most
talented, balanced and physical
of the World Cup squad. Shaw,
who turns 19 on friday, received
her first national team invitation
last month but did not play in
two friendlies against South
Africa.
moultrie, an 18-year-old
midfielder in her third season
with the Thorns, was summoned
to the team for the first time.
— Steven Goff
MIsC.
The NBA All-Star Game may
soon return to an East-vs.-West
format.
Commissioner adam silver
said in an interview with ESPN
that changes are coming to the
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every sign of a run play, with tight
ends Logan Thomas and John
Bates attached to the right side of
the line for extra blocking. Howell
faked a handoff to robinson, who
was lined up as a fullback, then
rolled out and threw a short pass
to Gibson, who ran out of the
backfield and toward the corner
team on both sides of the
football, and to beat them, you
must account for their violent
style. Cleveland didn’t just stand
up to the challenge. The Browns
administered pain during a 19-17
victory.
In their own way, the Jets took
apart the Eagles. In a 20-14 win,
their defense forced four
turnovers, including three
interceptions of Jalen Hurts.
Coming off an mVP-caliber
season that almost ended with a
Super Bowl triumph, Hurts is
now among the many high-
profile quarterbacks who have
been rendered inconsistent and
inefficient this season. He ranks
20th in efficiency, but that’s still
better than franchise signal
callers such as Joe Burrow and
matthew Stafford. Hurts is one
of 10 quarterbacks to throw at
least six interceptions.
The Jets are 3-3 despite losing
Aaron rodgers to an Achilles’
tendon injury four plays into his
New York debut. Zach Wilson is
not an appreciably better
quarterback. Their offense
averages a miserable 18.8 points
and 277 yards. But they have an
elite defense that’s as complete
as it gets from front to back.
During the era of high-
performing quarterbacks, the
Jets couldn’t be taken seriously
because of their offensive
limitations. Great quarterbacks
couldn’t be stopped; they could
barely be slowed. But if this
season continues the way it has
begun, there’s hope for just
about every points-deficient
team, except for maybe the New
York Giants and New England
Patriots.
“Through these first six
weeks, we’ve played a [gantlet]
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All-Star Game — and while
stopping short of saying any
decision has been finalized, he
hinted that the current format of
top vote-getters serving as
captains and drafting their own
teams may be shelved.
This season’s All-Star Game is
feb. 18 in Indianapolis.
The first 66 All-Star Games
had the East-vs.-West format. The
past six have seen the leading
vote-getters from each
conference serve as captains who
got to draft their teams. . . .
Philadelphia 76ers Coach nick
nurse said he had no explanation
for why James Harden skipped
practice but planned to proceed
as if the disgruntled guard will
play in the preseason finale.
Harden has yet to play in the
preseason. He did attend training
. thursday, october 19 , 2023
of the end zone for the score.
“We worked on that all week —
staying tight to the line of scrim-
mage, getting the momentum to
run and making wide-open pass-
es,” Gibson said. “Easy touch-
down.”
Later in the second quarter,
Gibson took a handoff nine yards
up the middle. Two plays later,
Howell found mcLaurin for an
18-yard pass off play-action, set-
ting up Curtis Samuel’s seven-
yard touchdown catch on an in
route.
There was balance. mostly.
Second-year wide receiver
Jahan Dotson played 41 of the
team’s 51 snaps but was targeted
just once — and the ball slipped
through his hands. But, generally,
Dotson’s limited output hasn’t
been tied to a lack of opportuni-
ties. He has received 15.5 percent
of the team’s targets, down only
slightly from 15.9 percent in the
games he played in last season,
per Trumedia. But he has had just
one explosive reception (16 yards
or more), and his targets have
averaged just 9.9 air yards, a drop
from 15.4 in 2022.
Still, rivera believes it’s “just a
matter of time” until Dotson be-
comes more of a regular target for
Howell.
“As we continue to work and try
and distribute the ball to all the
players, it’ll happen,” rivera said
monday. “It’s just one of those
things that sometimes guys will
be targeted more.”
of quarterbacks,” Jets Coach
robert Saleh said. “I know we
haven’t gotten all wins, but we’ve
embarrassed all of them.”
Later, he walked back the
“embarrassed” line. But he didn’t
really need to. Dak Prescott is
the only quarterback who can
say he played well against the
Jets, and he had to complete
31 passes just to gain 255 yards
against their defense.
The Jets epitomize the way
defenses have modernized. Their
system is a little simpler than
others, but the loose concepts
are the same: By employing
more two-high-safety schemes,
teams are limiting the explosive
plays of every squad that doesn’t
have the miami Dolphins’ speed
and forcing quarterbacks to read
shifting coverages in the middle
of the field. That extra time
increases the impact ultra-
athletic defensive linemen can
have. When tasked with
defending in space, a new
generation of players has the
agility and skills to thrive in the
open field.
While these schemes and
personnel adjustments make
defenses more susceptible to the
run, only a handful of offenses
draw up effective running plays
and have the patience to stick
with them. Those teams are
thriving. The rest seem to be
pretending that no one has
figured them out.
As we inch closer to
midseason, 16 teams — exactly
half the NfL — are averaging
21.5 points or fewer. It’s not ugly.
It’s retro. finally, there is tension
on every snap.
The cat-and-mouse game is
back. And the cats are getting
embarrassed.
camp and continued to practice
with the 76ers in the wake of his
offseason trade demand. Harden
said last week that his fractured
relationship with team president
daryl morey could not be
repaired. . . .
nolan arenado’s streak of
consecutive Gold Gloves is over
at 10.
The St. Louis Cardinals third
baseman was not among the
three National League finalists.
Pittsburgh’s Ke’bryan Hayes,
Colorado’s ryan mcmahon and
Atlanta’s austin riley are
contending for the award, which
will be announced Nov. 5.
Lane Thomas of the Nationals
is a finalist among NL right
fielders.
— From news services
and staff reports
thursday, october 19 , 2023
Sloppy Caps are no match for Senators
CAPitAlS from D1
offensive-zone opportunities
were fleeting as the Capitals (1-
2-0) turned the puck over often —
the opposite of what Carbery
wants in his possession-focused
system. At the other end of the ice,
the Senators took advantage of
numerous chances that resulted
from Washington’s sloppy defen-
sive-zone coverage.
Goaltender Darcy Kuemper al-
lowed six goals on just 29 shots,
but the Capitals’ defensive issues
extended far beyond goaltending.
“It felt like [each] mistake we
made, it’s in the back of our net,”
center Evgeny Kuznetsov said.
“When you play against this type
of team, they probably feed en-
ergy off of the good plays and
goals. We didn’t do a great job
eliminating those chances. I think
they were able to push more and
more against us.”
for the Senators’ first goal,
which came less than five minutes
in, Vladimir Tarasenko skated
down the right wing unmarked
and fired a shot past Kuemper
from just outside the crease. on
the second, at 12:29 with the Capi-
tals on the penalty kill, Josh Nor-
ris slid to the far post behind
Kuznetsov and had a wide-open
net for the finish.
After defenseman John Carl-
son cut the Senators’ lead to 2-1
late in the first period, ottawa
(3-1-0) built an insurmountable
advantage in the second. Norris
scored again at 1:47 after defense-
man Nick Jensen turned the puck
over behind the Capitals’ net and
Drake Batherson slipped a pass to
Norris waiting alone low in the
slot. Defenseman Artem Zub
made it 4-1 on a shot from the
point three minutes later.
And for the Senators’ fifth goal,
which came at 15:47, Claude Gir-
oux slid to the far post — another
player crashing the net who went
unmarked — and hit the post,
then scored on his own rebound.
“The first period, I liked our
game a lot,” Carbery said. “I
thought it was probably our best
20 minutes of the season thus far.
We’re down 2-1, but I didn’t think
that was an issue from a score
standpoint and being able to
Houston roughs up Scherzer, rides o≠ensive surge to Game 3 triumph in ALCS
AlCS from D1
can stop from walking guys, be-
cause you know they’re going to
hit the ball out of the ballpark at
some point in time.”
The Astros have seen nearly
every postseason scenario since
their reign over the AL began in
2017. But a 2-0 series deficit
created a rare must-win situa-
tion.
“There’s nothing better —
there’s not a better feeling than
knowing that your teammates
instill their confidence in you,”
Javier said through an interpret-
er. “They expect good things in
you and put their trust in you.”
The Astros went 51-30 on the
road in the regular season, in-
cluding a 6-1 mark at Globe Life
field that included a three-game
sweep in September. Texas ended
up 50-31 at home. It had played
one game at home this postsea-
son before Wednesday — a win
against the Baltimore orioles to
advance to the ALCS for the first
time since 2011.
In that series 12 years ago, max
Scherzer was in a Detroit Tigers
uniform and the rangers beat
him en route to the World Series.
Twelve years later, Scherzer was
in a rangers uniform and mak-
ing his first start of this postsea-
son.
Scherzer had appeared in 27
postseason games in his career,
including 22 starts. This postsea-
son start, though, was unlike any
other he had experienced.
Scherzer went on the injured
list Sept. 12 with a low-grade
strain of his teres major muscle.
The injury was expected to end
his season. Yet Scherzer found a
way to work himself back in time
for Game 3 of this series.
“That’s what he’s here for,”
rangers’ first baseman Nathan-
iel Lowe said Tuesday. “max is
here to make this kind of start.”
The first batter that Scherzer
faced was Jose Altuve, who hit a
ball at 100.7 mph that nearly
traveled out of the park. Center
fielder Leody Taveras caught it at
the warning track. But the swing
served notice.
The Astros loaded the bases in
the second inning. maldonado —
the No. 9 hitter who is in the
lineup for his defensive prowess
behind the plate — came up with
two outs. Scherzer bounced a
curveball that got away from
catcher Jonah Heim, allowing
Yordan Alvarez to score. Then
maldonado singled to drive in
two.
The following frame, Altuve
launched a 413-foot blast that
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Goalie Darcy Kuemper gave up six goals on 29 shots, but the Capitals’ defensive issues went deeper.
C a p i Ta l s ’ ne x T Three zone. The Capitals’ puck manage-
ment problems fed into their de-
at Montreal Canadiens fensive issues; they couldn’t hold
on to the puck long enough to
Saturday 7 monumental create sustained offensive pres-
sure, and their frequent turnovers
vs. Toronto Maple leafs meant they were often scram-
Tuesday 6 ESPN bling to get back on defense.
As a young, mobile team with
at new Jersey Devils speed throughout their lineup,
the Senators are seemingly tailor-
Wednesday 7:30 TNT made to exploit the Capitals’
weaknesses, but Washington’s de-
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too easy.
come back in the game. And then “I don’t think it’s a lack of
second period, sort of the micro- effort,” Carbery said. “We’re turn-
cosm of how the year is going for ing over some pucks that maybe,
this group right now. Every mis- in a different year, in a different
take we make is ending up in the situation, wouldn’t be that big of a
back of the net.” deal. But right now, every time we
The Senators didn’t generate turn over a puck, it’s going to be a
an overwhelming number of Grade A [chance], and we have to
shots, but nearly every scoring learn from that. Have to correct it.
opportunity they had was a dan- We’re struggling right now.”
gerous one as Washington strug- Washington isn’t hitting the
gled to sort things out in its own panic button three games into the
Yordan Alvarez scores on a wild pitch by the Rangers’ Max Scherzer in the second inning. Scherzer allowed five runs in four innings as Houston cut its series deficit to 2-1.
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Martín Maldonado had a two-run single in the second inning and
then had another hit in the seventh as Houston won on the road.
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season. But as the offense contin-
ues its slow start — captain Alex
ovechkin didn’t record a shot on
goal for the second straight game,
a first in the 38-year-old’s NHL
career — the team’s defensive is-
sues are magnified by its difficul-
ties on the other end, leading to a
cycle that the Capitals haven’t
found a way to break.
“We’re not clicking like a well-
oiled machine offensively,” Car-
bery said. “. . . The problem with
that is now, defensively, you have
to tighten, tighten, tighten, tight-
en, tighten if you want to survive
games. That’s what we’re not do-
ing.”
Note: Center Nic Dowd sat out
with an upper-body injury. Dowd
didn’t practice Tuesday, which
Carbery called a maintenance
day, but he did participate in
Wednesday’s optional morning
skate. The team has not disclosed
a timeline for his return. Anthony
mantha reentered the lineup in
his place.
Taveras couldn’t track down.
That homer was the 25th of his
career in the postseason, trailing
only trailing manny ramirez’s
29. mauricio Dubón singled in
the fourth to give the Astros a 5-0
advantage.
Scherzer didn’t come out for
the fifth. The Astros put 12 balls
in play off him — and 10 of them
were hit at least 90 mph.
“He’s going to be a little rusty.
It’s been a month since he’s been
out there,” rangers manager
Bruce Bochy said. “But overall I
was really pleased with the stuff.
It’s only going to get better with
him. But [he] just made some
mistakes there. They got the big
two-out hit early, the wild pitch
and then the two-out hit. He was
battling out there. He’s fine. feels
good. And that’s the good news.”
That kind of run support was
nhl
Detroit upends Pittsburgh
for its third straight win
red wings 6,
penguins 3
BY L ARRY L AGE
DETROIT — Andrew Copp and
Alex DeBrincat each scored twice,
Ville Husso made 30 saves, and
the Detroit red Wings turned
back the Pittsburgh Penguins,
6-3, on Wednesday night.
Copp scored in a three-goal
second period to give Detroit a 4-1
lead, but Pittsburgh pulled within
a goal midway through the third.
Copp sealed the win with an
empty-net goal with 1:32 to go.
DeBrincat also took advantage of
the Penguins pulling their goal-
tender to add an extra skater,
restoring the red Wings’ three-
goal lead 21 seconds later.
Ben Chiarot, David Perron and
Copp scored in the second period.
Evgeni malkin gave the Pen-
guins their only lead in the open-
ing minute, when he extended his
goal streak to three games.
Red Wings defenseman Jeff Petry had two assists against the team
he played for last year as Detroit held off Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
more than enough for Javier, who
entered Wednesday having not
yielded a run in his past 161/3
playoff innings.
His dominance continued for
the first four innings, when he
held the rangers without a hit.
only Taveras reached on a walk
in the third. Javier’s first hit
allowed was a single by Lowe in
the fourth. Then Josh Jung hit a
two-run homer to trim the As-
tros’ lead to 5-2. Jung would hit
another two-run homer in the
eighth. After the first homer,
rangers fans who were quiet for
most of the night rose and chant-
ed “Let’s go, rangers!” It seemed
they might swung the momen-
tum, but then Javier retired Tava-
res on four pitches.
“Incredible,” Alvarez said of
Javier through an interpreter.
“The confidence that he gives the
D3
Tristan Jarry stopped 23 shots.
malkin’s goal was the 474th of
his career, breaking a third-place
tie with Alexander mogilny for
the most NHL goals by a russian-
born player. The 37-year-old cen-
ter trails Washington superstar
Alex ovechkin (822) and former
red Wings great Sergei fedorov
(483) on the list.
Erik Karlsson cut Pittsburgh’s
deficit to two early in the third
period. Shortly thereafter, Copp
was given a penalty shot, but he
couldn’t get the puck past Jarry.
Husso kept the two-goal lead
midway through the third by
stopping shots from rickard
rakell and Karlsson.
The red Wings needed the
cushion because Bryan rust redi-
rected a shot past Husso to make
it 4-3 with 6:57 left.
Detroit won its third straight
since losing its opener by a goal at
New Jersey.
Pittsburgh had won two in a
row since dropping its season
opener against Chicago.
— Associated Press
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team is amazing. That’s what we
needed from him, and he’s always
there for us.”
Houston desperately needed a
strong showing at the plate to
complement its pitching — the
Astros were 1 for 9 with runners
in scoring position in the first
two games of the series. But they
went 5 for 12 on Wednesday. Even
as the rangers tried to claw back
into the game, the Astros kept
their foot on the gas.
“Did you think we were pan-
icking?” Alvarez said. “I said it
before we left home that some-
thing that characterizes this
team is there’s no panic. I saw it
in everybody’s face that there’s no
panic. . . . We’re going to take it
one game at a time, and we’re
going to play like the series is 0-0.
We need four wins, and today
was one of them.”
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The NBA has a plan to address its regular season problem
BY B EN G OLLIVER
for Joe Dumars, february’s
NBA All-Star Game was the final
straw.
LeBron James and Giannis
Antetokounmpo, the team cap-
tains for the event, barely took the
court because of minor injuries.
Their healthy teammates didn’t
bother to play a lick of defense,
and the game devolved into a half-
court shooting contest. Jayson
Tatum scored a record 55 points,
but sleepy fans headed for the
exits before the final buzzer, bored
television viewers tuned out, and
Denver Nuggets Coach michael
malone said it was “the worst bas-
ketball game ever played.”
The NBA’s midseason showcase
had become a haters’ ball for crit-
ics who say players coast through
the regular season and load man-
agement — the strategic resting of
healthy players — has eroded the
league’s nightly appeal.
“What we’re talking about is the
culture of this league,” said Du-
mars, a Hall of fame guard for the
Detroit Pistons who now serves as
the NBA’s executive vice president
of basketball operations. “We are
really emphasizing that this is an
82-game season, an 82-game
league. It’s not a 50-game or 60-
game league. . . . Slowly, over time,
you see all this slippage in missing
games in the regular season and
the All-Star Game devolving into
what it did this year. None of that
happened in one year. At some
point, you have to stop the slide.”
The NBA’s multipronged ap-
proach to fixing its regular season
came together in labor talks with
the National Basketball Players
Association, which produced a
new collective bargaining agree-
ment in April, and in conversa-
tions with its media partners
ahead of negotiations on its next
round of broadcast rights deals.
a’ja Wilson splits the defense of Sabrina Ionescu, left, and Jonquel Jones in the tight fourth quarter.
Two of a kind: Las Vegas prevails again
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“It just is. It’s harder to do. We
went from darling to villain real
quick. We had our names, our
good names slandered. And all
these women did was lock in
together. And that’s why I’m so
confident. It’s because I know
exactly who’s in that locker room.
I know exactly who I’m going to
war with every day. This is prob-
ably the tightest group I’ve ever
been around. And they’re a spe-
cial group. I don’t know what
else you can throw at them.”
The Aces, the top seed in the
playoffs after a dominant 34-6
regular season, trailed by nine at
halftime but turned the game
with a red-hot third quarter.
They closed the period on an 18-5
run as Wilson and Clark took
over while New York, the No. 2
seed after finishing 32-8, shot
5 for 20.
The fourth quarter was a back-
and-forth affair, the tension
ratcheting up with each posses-
sion and the Barclays Center
crowd getting so loud that play-
ers were finding it difficult to
hear.
Then the No. 1 picks went back
to work. With the score knotted
at 64, Young scored four straight
points, including a nasty step-
through layup. Then Wilson bur-
ied a turnaround jumper with a
hand in her face with 1:26 re-
maining. The Aces wouldn’t
score again, but their defense
After soliciting feedback from
team owners, general managers,
coaches and players, the NBA opt-
ed for the carrot and the stick,
unveiling an incentive-laden in-
season tournament and formaliz-
ing new policies and punishments
for missed games and flopping in
hopes of improving the quality of
its season, which opens Tuesday.
With the NfL inking new me-
dia rights deals in 2021 worth
about $110 billion over 10 years,
the NBA has plenty of motivation
to put its best foot forward before
its broadcast deals with ESPN and
TNT expire after the 2024-25 sea-
son. of course, the weekly excite-
ment the NfL generates over its
18-week regular season has
proved difficult for the NBA to
match across its six-month calen-
dar.
To help bridge the gap between
opening week festivities and the
annual Christmas showcase, the
new in-season tournament will
begin Nov. 3 and conclude with a
Dec. 9 championship game in Las
Vegas. The 30 teams will be div-
vied up into six groups of five in a
round-robin group stage. Eight
teams — the six group winners
and two wild cards — will advance
to a knockout round. Each team’s
in-season tournament games will
count as part of its 82-game sched-
ule, but the teams that advance to
the championship game will play
an 83rd game that won’t impact
the regular season standings.
The NBA’s hope is that the in-
season tournament will elevate
early-season competition the way
its play-in tournament, which was
introduced in 2020, has helped
improve the final two months of
the regular season. The in-season
tournament champion w
ill hoist the NBA Cup, and each
of its players will receive a
$500,000 bonus. The NBA also
will recognize an all-tournament
held firm when it had to.
Vandersloot, who had 19
points in her best game of the
series, hit a three-pointer from
the wing, and Sabrina Ionescu
connected on an elbow jumper to
make it a one-point game with
41.7 seconds remaining.
Wilson had a chance to make
it a three-point game coming out
of a timeout, but Breanna Stew-
art came to help and blocked her
shot. The Liberty took a timeout
with 8.8 seconds left to set up the
final play.
“We knew that their game plan
was going to be to junk it up and
make it difficult, and that’s exact-
ly what happened,” a disconso-
late Stewart said. “[Didn’t get]
stops when we needed it and
couldn’t get anything to drop.”
Vandersloot added seven re-
bounds and six assists. Betnijah
Laney scored 15, and Stewart was
held to 10 points (on 3-for-17
shooting) and 14 rebounds. Jon-
quel Jones had a quiet night with
six points and 11 rebounds.
“of course we’re disappoint-
ed,” Liberty Coach Sandy Bron-
dello said. “It would be nice to go
and play a Game 5 and lay it all
out on the table. Credit to Vegas;
they were down, and they found
a way. We fought, but it wasn’t
our best game today.”
The Aces were without start-
ing point guard Chelsea Gray
and center Kiah Stokes, both
sidelined with injuries. Gray left
in the fourth quarter of Game 3
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The nba put together a plan to keep stars such as lebron James,
left, and Draymond Green on the court and not in street clothes.
team and an mVP to add gravitas.
“The notion of a single champi-
onship, a single trophy, being lift-
ed each season is fairly unique in
the sporting landscape,” said Evan
Wasch, the NBA’s executive vice
president of strategy and analyt-
ics. “Instead of just having a slow
build to the Larry o’Brien [Tro-
phy] in June, we think we can
create another peak in December.
. . . Anything that’s going to create
higher-quality basketball, better
competition, more intensity and
more fan engagement is a great
growth opportunity for us. We un-
derstand that tradition is not cre-
ated overnight.”
Buy-in from the superstar class
will make or break the in-season
tournament. If James, Stephen
Curry and Kevin Durant lead their
teams on march madness-style
runs, buzz could follow. But if the
league’s top talents ease off the gas
with an eye toward may and June,
the in-season tournament risks
being labeled as frivolous.
In a blunt acknowledgment
that the health of its wider busi-
SaraH StIer/getty IMageS
with a noncontact foot injury
and arrived at Tuesday’s practice
riding a medical scooter with a
walking boot on her left foot.
Stokes woke up monday with
pain and arrived at practice in a
walking boot on her right foot
and on crutches. The pair sat on
the end of the bench with team-
mate Candace Parker, who had
surgery on her fractured foot in
July.
Gray, the 2022 finals mVP,
typically runs the show for the
Aces — dictating the pace and
flow as a five-time all-star and
one of the best point guards in
league history. She could be seen
coaching from the sideline
throughout the game.
Las Vegas started its usual trio
of No. 1 picks in Wilson, Young
and Plum but added Sixth Player
of the Year Clark and center
George, who made her first start
of the year and the first postsea-
son start of her career. She
became just the second player in
league history to make her first
start of a season in the WNBA
finals.
The Aces came into Wednes-
day 0-3 at Barclays Center and
trailed 39-30 at halftime.
Celebrity sightings included
former WNBA star Sue Bird,
rapper fat Joe, former NfL play-
er Nate Burleson, actor Jason
Sudeikis, actress Issa rae and
author fran Lebowitz. New York
rappers Jim Jones and Juelz
Santana performed at halftime.
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ness relies heavily on the availabil-
ity of its stars, the NBA announced
last month a new player participa-
tion policy that will seek to curb
load management. Executives
from the league office have held
face-to-face meetings with teams
during the preseason to reinforce
the importance of the policy,
which mandates that healthy stars
take the court during nationally
televised and in-season tourna-
ment games. Teams also will be
prevented from resting multiple
healthy stars on the same night
and from shutting down healthy
players late in the season.
The Golden State Warriors rest-
ed Curry, Klay Thompson and
Draymond Green during the same
game on multiple occasions last
season. The Portland Trail Blazers
and Washington Wizards shut
down Damian Lillard and Bradley
Beal, respectively, three weeks be-
fore the end of the season. Similar
conduct this season could prompt
a league investigation, and teams
will be subjected to fines of
$100,000 for the first offense,
For Wizards’ Jones, time to speak up
New point guard says
keeping the team in line
is a key part of his job
BY A VA W ALLACE
Tyus Jones was mid-sentence in
front of a group of reporters on a
recent afternoon when the music
soundtracking Washington Wiz-
ards practice lurched from a re-
spectable volume to earsplitting.
Jones paused, tilted his chin to
look for the perpetrator and
smiled as his eyes slid to the left,
landing on a shooting guard wear-
ing an impish grin.
“C’mon, man,” Jones said pa-
tiently, like a father warning his
children.
“Speak up, point guard!” Jor-
dan Poole yelled back.
“C’mon, man,” Jones repeated,
and the music quieted before he
turned back to the reporters. “Try-
ing to keep my guys in line.”
Keeping the Wizards in line is
as much a part of Jones’s job de-
scription this season as running
the offense. The Wizards are at a
tender time — much of the roster
is new and still learning to play
together, the organization’s focus
is on developing good foundation-
al habits, and Kyle Kuzma and
Poole are settling into their roles
atop the locker room food chain.
During training camp and the pre-
season, there has been a natural
opening for a leader to step up.
Jones, who spent the past four of
his eight years in the NBA backing
up superstar point guard Ja mo-
rant in memphis and is poised to
enter the season as a starter for the
first time, filled the slot immedi-
ately. The 27-year-old was thought
to be the Wizards’ jewel in the
three-team trade that sent Kri-
staps Porzingis to the Boston Celt-
ics this offseason, prized for his ball
control, steady nature and the fact
that Washington got him on an
attractive deal for an organization
in flux. Jones is in the final season
of a two-year, $29 million contract.
But with just one preseason
game remaining friday at the To-
ronto raptors — the Wizards beat
the host Knicks, 131-106, on
Wednesday night behind 41 points
from Jordan Poole — Jones has
already proved valuable far be-
yond his contract and his basket-
ball talent. His biggest asset at this
point might be his voice.
At practice this week, Jones said
he has learned in his relatively
short time with his new team that
it needs him first and foremost to
be a leader. After that?
“Talking. Talking, talking, talk-
ing,” Jones said. “Telling guys what
I want. I think if you ask [Coach
Wes Unseld Jr.] or any of the
coaches, they would want the
same out of me. Putting guys in the
right spots, telling guys what I
need from them.”
The ability to speak authorita-
the washington post . thursday,
$250,000 for the second offense
and $1 million for each offense
after that.
While players will not be forced
to play through injuries, the NBA
can request health documenta-
tion to support a star’s absence
and investigate teams for possible
violations. The Los Angeles Clip-
pers were fined $50,000 in 2019
when then-coach Doc rivers said
Kawhi Leonard, who was on a load
management program because of
a knee injury, had sat out a game
even though he was healthy.
“I work out every day in the
summertime to play the game, not
sit and watch people play,” Leon-
ard said this month. “No league
policy is helping me to play more
games.”
Under the new guidelines, the
NBA defined a “star” as any player
who had made the all-star or all-
NBA teams in the previous three
seasons. However, veteran stars,
including James, Curry and Du-
rant, will be allowed to rest during
a set of back-to-back games as long
as they are at least 35, have logged
more than 34,000 career minutes
or have played in at least 1,000
regular season and playoff games.
Before implementing the new
policy, the NBA tweaked its sched-
ule to reduce back-to-backs and
cut travel miles by installing mLB-
like “series” of games between two
teams in the same city. The NBA
and NBPA also agreed to institute
a new threshold that requires end-
of-season award candidates to
play 20-plus minutes in at least 65
games, with minor exceptions
made for season-ending injuries
or near misses.
Building on those changes,
which were aimed at getting stars
on the court, the league rational-
ized its more stringent player par-
ticipation policy by citing data
that purportedly found no rela-
tionship between load manage-
Wizards guard Tyus Jones finished with 13 points, four rebounds
and seven assists in Wednesday’s win over the Knicks in new York.
tively comes easily at this point in
Jones’s career — that occasional
fatherly tone gets a lot of run at
home thanks to his two toddlers.
He was a first-round draft pick in
2015 who ended up in his native
minnesota as a backup to either
ricky rubio or Jeff Teague before
filling in behind morant begin-
ning in 2019. In both places, he
had extended stints as the starter
— last season, he shot 37.1 percent
from the three-point line and 43.8
percent from the field and aver-
aged a career-high 5.2 assists
while starting 22 games.
Every time he went back and
forth from the starting lineup to
the bench, he gained trust in the
foundations of his game. It mat-
tered less and less which team-
mates surrounded him on the
floor or at what point in the game
he checked in. With memphis, he
went to the playoffs three out of
four seasons, learning each cam-
paign what it takes to build a
lasting contender.
“more poise, picking my spots
better,” Jones said when asked
how his starting stints in mem-
phis helped him flourish. “Just
being a little more aggressive but
at the same time still being who I
am in terms of valuing the ball,
valuing possessions, settling my
teammates. . . . Just having better
command of the team as a leader.
In minnesota, I was young. I was
still just trying to figure it out. In
memphis, I grew a lot.”
Jones is confident in his identi-
ty as a pass-first point guard now.
His teammates describe him as
calm and steadying; Unseld has
extensively praised his composure
and vision.
“He’s a step ahead of the play
often. When he’s delivering the
ball, it’s right on time, right on
target. That makes for great shoot-
ers, but it puts the defense in a
bind,” Unseld said. “If you miss
that window, you miss that sec-
ond, the moment’s probably lost.
He seems to always make that
right play, right read, at the right
time.”
Jones had his most productive
game of the preseason against the
Knicks, scoring 13 points on 6-for-
12 shooting and adding four re-
bounds and seven assists in
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ment and injury prevention.
“Before, it was a given conclu-
sion that the data showed you had
to rest players a certain amount
and that justified guys sitting out,”
Dumars said. “We’ve gotten more
data, and it just doesn’t show that
resting and sitting guys out corre-
lates with a lack of injuries or
fatigue or anything like that. What
it does show is that guys may not
be as efficient on the second night
of a back-to-back.”
As for the actual gameplay, this
season’s biggest change will be the
new penalty for flopping. referees
will use the STEm acronym to help
distinguish “secondary, theatrical
and exaggerated movements” that
meet the league’s criteria for a flop
and trigger an automatic techni-
cal foul.
Though the technical foul won’t
count toward a player’s possible
ejection, it will grant a free throw
to the opposing team. A similar
rule change for “transition take
fouls” — an intentional foul by a
defender designed to prevent a
transition scoring opportunity —
reduced the number of infractions
from 1,800 in the 2021-22 season
to 200 the following year.
If the NBA’s regular season
makeover goes according to plan,
fans will see fewer A-listers in
street clothes, more superstar
showdowns on national televi-
sion, a fiercely contested in-season
tournament and a cleaner on-
court product with fewer attempts
to deceive the officials. With any
luck, the 2024 All-Star Game in
Indianapolis won’t leave Dumars
as exasperated as the dreary Salt
Lake City edition did.
“I think it was the lowest [televi-
sion] rating we had in the last 10
years,” he said. “It didn’t make the
product look good. You’re never in
the business of putting your prod-
uct out there, knowing it’s going to
look bad and accepting that.”
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26 minutes.
Ahead of training camp, Kuzma
said Jones’s professionalism
struck him most. Jones is trying to
approach this season with pa-
tience, understanding that Unseld
is doing a significant amount of
teaching with a new roster and
several key young players.
Kuzma said Jones is doing plen-
ty of teaching, too — in a different
way.
“Us having a lot of young guys,
guys who haven’t figured it out, it’s
great for people to see teammates
like him,” Kuzma said. “He’s fo-
cused, he’s locked in, he’s very
focused on the team aspect of the
game, and that’s kind of rare. Not
rare, but he doesn’t care about his
numbers. He doesn’t care about,
like, ‘I need 10 assists.’ He’s going
to make the right play.”
Jones credits his mother, Deb-
bie, for that innate basketball IQ.
Though his father was the more
natural athlete, she was Jones’s
coach for much of his youth and
spent his adolescence trekking to
AAU tournaments and travel club
games.
Jones said the biggest lesson
she taught him was self-belief, but
he clearly absorbed other lessons
as well. Debbie still checks in on
her son after games these days,
deep into his NBA career and on
the precipice of his first season as a
starter. She offers pointers and
texts on days off, asking if he made
it into the gym anyway, communi-
cating — talking — to show she
cares. Jones can relate to that.
“I’m one of the older guys now,
so it’s more on my plate from a
teaching perspective. So it’s just
trying to understand that, under-
standing that with the younger
team, younger guys, there’s going
to be days where certain things
that you take for granted, they
might not know yet or get or really
realize that there’s a different way
to do it,” Jones said. “. . . You know,
you can’t talk too much in my
shoes. The more I talk, the better.
The more I’m communicating, the
more I’m pulling the young guys
aside and telling them what I see
or what I want, the better.”
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Three sets of sisters have the Glenelg field hockey team primed for a three-peat
BY E MMETT S IEGEL band, and junior Brinkley Eyre the sisters don’t even need to call be hurt.
appended reading glasses. for a pass to execute those plays; “Sometimes it is nicer to hear
After every Glenelg field hock- When Ashley Kim’s twin, Kate, they simply mutter, “Yeah,” and from other people, if you’re beat-
ey game, Coach Martie Dyer took the Beast home early in the the ball is placed on their stick. ing yourself up, that they believe
hands out the Beast. season, she added a commemora- “I know exactly where she’s in you, too,” AJ Eyre said. “When
The plush reincarnation of the tive American flag from the going to be on the field,” Kate Kim we score, we run and give big
character from “Beauty and the team’s Sept. 11 game. Glenelg (8-2 said of her sister. “I know what hugs to make each other feel good
Beast” is given to the “beast of the entering Wednesday) keeps win- type of ball she wants or what cut about the hard work that we put
game,” who has the privilege of ning, so the Beast is getting plenty she’s going to make.” into it.”
adorning the mascot with an item of paraphernalia. “It’s almost like twin telepa- That dynamic is forged as
of her choice. Glenelg is one of the best teams thy,” Ashley added. much through the countless
Following a 10-1 victory over in the state, and it’s gunning for a While the Eyres and Kims han- hours the sisters and their
Centennial on Oct. 4, Ashley Kim third straight 2A championship. dled their recruitments with indi- Glenelg teammates spend togeth-
got the honors and eventually No champion was crowned in vidual ambitions in mind, they er working on their craft as it is
added a miniature field hockey 2020, so nobody on the roster has made playing with their siblings through their off-the-field en-
stick. But it wasn’t the Beast’s first played a full high school season in at the collegiate level a priority. As deavors. The Gladiators are an
time in the Kim household. which the Gladiators haven’t twins, the Kims could take their inviting group, enjoying team
That’s because Glenelg has been the last team standing. college visits together. And even meals and frequent runs to
three pairs of sisters, and they “I’m hoping to win four [state though Brinkley Eyre isn’t in the Dunkin’ together.
form one of the most dynamic championships],” Brinkley Eyre Jess raPfogel for the Washington Post same graduating class as her sis- When Dyer arrived at Glenelg,
groups in Maryland. Five of the said, counting that successful but From left, Brinkley and AJ Eyre, Kate and Ashley Kim and Meghan ter, she could accompany her and she encouraged her players to
six are committed to play for interrupted 2020 season. “That and Sarah Walker form one of Maryland’s most dynamic groups. get an idea of what schools could mix up their warmup partners
Division I college programs — all would be super fun.” offer. Sarah Walker also was excit- and branch out. But even with a
except Meghan Walker, the only Dyer, in her first year at from its proficient spacing and other advice on positioning to ed to know she will have two close-knit group, she faced an
freshman to make the varsity Glenelg but with over 40 years of pinpoint passing, the result of better set up the team’s forma- familiar faces to help with the obstacle: The Eyres, Kims and
team this year. coaching experience elsewhere, having six players with a familial tion. transition to college. Walkers wanted to be with each
From junior Sarah Walker, has upheld that standard so far. connection to a teammate. And when the Kims (both com- Their relationships are based other.
Meghan’s sister, the Beast got a Glenelg has scored 82 goals and Because they usually play on mitted to Columbia) and the primarily on positive encourage- “I can’t break these sisters up.
yellow ribbon in its hair in sup- allowed just nine, winning its different ends of the field, the Eyres (both committed to Mary- ment, but they also hold each They just want to be with each
port of a Crofton girls’ soccer four games against 2A competi- Walkers don’t frequently find land, as is Sarah Walker) push other accountable and give other, and it’s really sweet,” Dyer
player battling osteosarcoma. tion by a combined score of 53-2. themselves passing to each other, forward, they effortlessly execute honest advice without worrying said. “They’re each other’s best
Senior AJ Eyre added a head- The team’s lethality is derived but they’re always giving each give-and-gos. Dyer has noticed that their sibling’s feelings will friend. You can’t beat that.”

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Thursday’s games
NfC fIRST ROUND ATLANTIC Gp W L OT pts Gf GA fIRST ROUND Maryland
TUESDAY’S RESULTS Best of three Bethesda-Chevy Chase at Whitman, 7
Best of three Ottawa.......................... 4 3 1 0 6 19 10
EAST W L T pCT. pf pA SOUTH Detroit .......................... 4 3 1 0 6 19 11 Damascus at Seneca Valley, 6:30
Philadelphia .................. 5 1 0 .833 155 124 at Liberty 42, Middle Tennessee 35 NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston .......................... 2 2 0 0 4 6 3
LIBERTY ELIMINATED MYSTICS, 2-0 Hammond at Atholton, 7
Dallas ............................ 4 2 0 .667 154 100 at South Alabama 55, Southern Mississippi 3 DIAMONDBACKS ELIMINATED BREWERS, 2-0 Toronto ......................... 3 2 1 0 4 14 13 Game 1: at New York 90, Washington 75 Howard at Mt. Hebron, 7
Washington .................. 3 3 0 .500 133 176 at Jacksonville St. 20, Western Kentucky 17 Game 1: Arizona 6, at Milwaukee 3 Montreal....................... 3 1 1 1 3 10 13 Game 2: at New York 90, Washington 85 (OT) Marriotts Ridge at Centennial, 7
N.Y. Giants .................... 1 5 0 .167 71 167 Game 2: Arizona 5, at Milwaukee 2 Tampa Bay.................... 4 1 2 1 3 13 17 ACES ELIMINATED SKY, 2-0 Meade at Annapolis, 6
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Florida........................... 3 1 2 0 2 8 11 Oakland Mills at Wilde Lake, 7
SOUTHWEST pHILLIES ELIMINATED MARLINS, 2-0 Game 1: at Las Vegas 87, Chicago 59 Reservoir at Long Reach, 7
SOUTH W L T pCT. pf pA Game 1: at Philadelphia 4, Miami 1 Buffalo.......................... 3 1 2 0 2 6 10 Game 2: at Las Vegas 92, Chicago 70
Tampa Bay .................... 3 2 0 .600 90 88 St. Charles at Huntingtown, 7
FIU 33, at Sam Houston St. 27 (OT) Game 2: at Philadelphia 7, Miami 1 SUN ELIMINATED LYNx, 2-1 Walter Johnson at Sherwood, 6:30
Atlanta .......................... 3 3 0 .500 99 120 New Mexico St. (4-3) at UTEP (2-5), late METROpOLITAN Gp W L OT pts Gf GA
New Orleans ................. 3 3 0 .500 109 96 AMERICAN LEAGUE Game 1: at Connecticut 90, Minnesota 60 friday’s games
Carolina......................... 4 3 1 0 6 20 17 Game 2: Minnesota 82, at Connecticut 75 D.C.
Carolina ......................... 0 6 0 .000 112 186 THURSDAY’S GAMES RANGERS ELIMINATED RAYS, 2-0 N.Y. Islanders ............... 2 2 0 0 4 4 2
EAST Game 3: Connecticut 90, at Minnesota 75 Bell at Anacostia, 1
Game 1: Texas 4, at Tampa Bay 0 N.Y. Rangers................. 3 2 1 0 4 10 7 Coolidge at Ron Brown, 6
NORTH W L T pCT. pf pA James Madison (6-0) at Marshall (4-2), 7 Game 2: Texas 7, at Tampa Bay 1 Philadelphia.................. 3 2 1 0 4 8 7 WINGS ELIMINATED DREAM, 2-0
Dunbar at Ballou, 6
Detroit .......................... 5 1 0 .833 168 113 N.C. Central (5-1) at Morgan St. (1-4), 7:30 Pittsburgh .................... 4 2 2 0 4 14 12 Game 1: at Dallas 94, Atlanta 82 Eastern at Theordore Roosevelt, 6
Green Bay ..................... 2 3 0 .400 113 113
TWINS ELIMINATED BLUE JAYS, 2-0 New Jersey ................... 3 1 1 1 3 10 11 Game 2: at Dallas 101, Atlanta 74
SOUTH Game 1: at Minnesota 3, Toronto 1 Jackson-Reed at H.D. Woodson, 6
Minnesota ..................... 2 4 0 .333 129 135 Columbus...................... 3 1 2 0 2 7 11 St. Michael the Archangel at Friendship Collegiate, 6
Chicago ......................... 1 5 0 .167 128 176 Game 2: at Minnesota 2, Toronto 0 Washington .................. 3 1 2 0 2 4 12 SEMIfINALS
Southeastern Louisiana (0-7) at Northwestern St. (0-5), Maryland
Best of five
8 DIvISION SERIES Blair at Paint Branch, 6:30
WEST W L T pCT. pf pA Best of five CENTRAL Gp W L OT pts Gf GA LIBERTY ELIMINATED SUN, 3-1 Blake at Northwood, 6:30
San Francisco ................ 5 1 0 .833 184 87 SOUTHWEST Colorado........................ 3 3 0 0 6 11 4 Game 1: Connecticut 78, at New York 63 Bowie at Wise, 7
Seattle .......................... 3 2 0 .600 124 108
NATIONAL LEAGUE Minnesota .................... 3 2 1 0 4 11 9 Game 2: at New York 84, Connecticut 77 Broadneck at North County, 6
Rice (3-3) at Tulsa (3-3), 7
L.A. Rams ...................... 3 3 0 .500 138 117 pHILLIES ELIMINATED BRAvES, 3-1 Chicago ......................... 4 2 2 0 4 11 9 Game 3: New York 92, at Connecticut 81 Chesapeake at Watkins Mill, 7
Arizona ......................... 1 5 0 .167 117 162 fRIDAY’S GAME Game 1: Philadelphia 3, at Atlanta 0 Dallas............................ 2 1 0 1 3 4 4 Game 4: New York 87, at Connecticut 84 Chopticon at Great Mills, 6
EAST Game 2: at Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 4 St. Louis........................ 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 ACES ELIMINATED WINGS, 3-0 Churchill at Richard Montgomery, 7
AfC Game 3: at Philadelphia 10, Atlanta 2 Winnipeg ...................... 3 1 2 0 2 10 14 Einstein at Wheaton, 7
SMU (4-2) at Temple (2-5), 7 Game 4: at Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 1 Game 1: at Las Vegas 97, Dallas 83
Arizona ......................... 3 1 2 0 2 5 6 Kennedy at Springbrook, 6:30
EAST W L T pCT. pf pA Game 2: at Las Vegas 91, Dallas 84
Miami ............................ 5 1 0 .833 223 156 DIAMONDBACKS ELIMINATED DODGERS, 3-0 Nashville....................... 4 1 3 0 2 9 14
Game 3: Las Vegas 64, at Dallas 61
Magruder at Wootton, 6:30
Game 1: Arizona 11, at Los Angeles 2 Northern at Calvert, 7
Buffalo .......................... 4 2 0 .667 173 89 T ennI S Game 2: Arizona 4, at Los Angeles 2 pACIfIC Gp W L OT pts Gf GA fINALS Old Mill at Glen Burnie, 6
N.Y. Jets ....................... 3 3 0 .500 113 119 Parkdale at C.H. Flowers, 4
New England ................. 1 5 0 .167 72 152 Game 3: at Arizona 4, Los Angeles 2 Vegas ............................ 4 4 0 0 8 15 5 Best of five
Vancouver..................... 3 2 1 0 4 12 6 Patuxent at Leonardtown, 6
ATP AMERICAN LEAGUE ACES ELIMINATED LIBERTY, 3-1 Poolesville at Clarksburg, 6:30
Los Angeles .................. 3 1 1 1 3 12 12 Game 1: at Las Vegas 99, New York 82
SOUTH W L T pCT. pf pA RANGERS ELIMINATED ORIOLES, 3-0 Calgary.......................... 3 1 1 1 3 9 11 Quince Orchard at Northwest, 6:30
Jacksonville .................. 4 2 0 .667 142 122 STOCKHOLM OpEN Game 2: at Las Vegas 104, New York 76 River Hill at Glenelg, 7
Game 1: Texas 3, at Baltimore 2 Anaheim ....................... 2 1 1 0 2 7 7
Houston ........................ 3 3 0 .500 135 113 At Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm Game 2: Texas 11, at Baltimore 8 Game 3: at New York 87, Las Vegas 73 Rockville at Gaithersburg, 7
Edmonton ..................... 3 1 2 0 2 10 13 Game 4: Las Vegas 70, at New York 69
Indianapolis .................. 3 3 0 .500 140 152 purse: €673,670 Game 3: at Texas 7, Baltimore 1 San Jose ....................... 3 0 2 1 1 5 12 Severna Park at Crofton, 6
Tennessee ..................... 2 4 0 .333 104 117 Surface: Hardcourt indoor Seattle .......................... 4 0 3 1 1 3 13 South River at Arundel, 6
ASTROS ELIMINATED TWINS, 3-1 Southern at Northeast, 6
NORTH W L T pCT. pf pA MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND Of 32 Game 1: at Houston 6, Minnesota 4 Suitland at Eleanor Roosevelt, 7
Game 2: Minnesota 6, at Houston 2 TUESDAY’S RESULTS Aces 70, Liberty 69 Surrattsville at Largo, 7
Baltimore ...................... 4 2 0 .667 133 91 Roman Safiullin, Russia, def. Thiago Seyboth Wild, Game 3: Houston 9, at Minnesota 1 Philadelphia 2, Vancouver 0 Thomas Stone at North Point, 7
Cleveland ...................... 3 2 0 .600 95 77 Brazil, 6-3, 6-2; Gael Monfils, France, def. Marton Las vegas ........................... 13 17 23 17 — 70
Game 4: Houston 3, at Minnesota 2 Minnesota 5, Montreal 2 Westlake at McDonough, 7
Pittsburgh ..................... 3 2 0 .600 79 110 Fucsovics, Hungary, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. New York ............................ 23 16 12 18 — 69
Cincinnati ...................... 3 3 0 .500 100 127 LEAGUE CHAMpIONSHIp SERIES N.Y. Islanders 1, Arizona 0 virginia
MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND Of 16 Buffalo 3, Tampa Bay 2 (OT) LAS vEGAS MIN fG fT O-T A pf pTS Battlefield at Osbourn Park, 7
Best of seven; x-If necessary Briar Woods at Lightridge, 7
Tallon Griekspoor (3), Netherlands, def. Emil Ruusu- Los Angeles 5, Winnipeg 1 Clark 36:59 4-7 2-2 4-8 2 3 10
WEST W L T pCT. pf pA NATIONAL LEAGUE Broad Run at Woodgrove, 7
vuori, Finland, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4; Pavel Kotov, Russia, def. Edmonton 6, Nashville 1 Wilson 38:44 11-21 2-3 0-16 0 2 24
Kansas City ................... 5 1 0 .833 147 88 pHILLIES LEAD DIAMONDBACKS, 2-0 George 30:16 4-14 0-0 0-4 3 2 11 Centreville at Chantilly, 7
Las Vegas ...................... 3 3 0 .500 100 131 Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 6-4, 7-5; Laslo Djere, Serbia, def. Colorado 4, Seattle 1
Game 1: at Philadelphia 5, Arizona 3 Plum 40:00 2-12 3-4 2-8 5 1 7 Dominion at Tuscarora, 7
L.A. Chargers ................ 2 3 0 .400 127 124 Jeffrey John Wolf, United States, 7-5, 6-4; Miomir Carolina 6, San Jose 3
Game 2: at Philadelphia 10, Arizona 0 Young 37:28 6-11 2-2 0-2 7 1 16 Fauquier at Brentsville, 7
Denver ........................... 1 5 0 .167 129 200 Kecmanovic, Serbia, def. Holger Rune (1), Denmark, 7-6 Vegas 3, Dallas 2 (SO)
Thursday’s game: Philadelphia (Suarez 4-6) at Arizona Colson 14:44 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 5 2 Gainesville at Osbourn, 7
(7-3), 6-2.
THURSDAY’S GAME (Pfaadt 3-9), 5:07 (TBS) WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Bell 1:49 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Heritage at Loudoun Valley, 7
MEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND Of 16 Friday’s game: Philadelphia at Arizona, 8:07 (TBS) TOTALS 200 28-67 9-11 6-38 18 14 70 Hylton at Gar-Field, 7
Jacksonville at New Orleans (-11/2), 8:15 x-Saturday’s game: Philadelphia at Arizona, 8:07 (TBS) Ottawa 6, Washington 1 Justice at Edison, 7
Yuki Bhambri, India, and Julian Cash, Britain, def. Nikola percentages: FG .418, FT .818. 3-point Goals: 5-21, .238
x-Monday’s game: Arizona at Philadelphia, 5:07 (TBS) Detroit 6, Pittsburgh 3 Lake Braddock at West Springfield, 7
SUNDAY’S GAMES Cacic, Serbia, and Mate Pavic (2), Croatia, 6-4, 6-3; (George 3-10, Young 2-6, Clark 0-1, Plum 0-4). Team
x-Tuesday’s game: Arizona at Philadelphia, 8:07 (TBS) Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 2. Blocked Shots: 1 (Wilson). Lewis at Falls Church, 7
Washington (-21/2) at N.Y. Giants, 1 Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan, and Denys Molchanov, THURSDAY’S GAMES Manassas Park at Jefferson, 7
Ukraine, def. Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni (1), AMERICAN LEAGUE Calgary at Buffalo, 7 Turnovers: 13 (George 3, Plum 3, Wilson 3, Clark 2, Young 2).
Detroit at Baltimore (-3), 1 Steals: 7 (George 3, Young 2, Plum, Wilson). Marshall at Herndon, 7
Argentina, 7-5, 3-6, 10-7; Tallon Griekspoor and Bart RANGERS LEAD ASTROS, 2-1 Nashville at N.Y. Rangers, 7 Meridian at Skyline, 7
Atlanta at Tampa Bay (-21/2), 1 Stevens, Netherlands, def. Fabien Reboul and Sadio NEW YORK MIN fG fT O-T A pf pTS
Buffalo (-81/2) at New England, 1 Game 1: Texas 2, at Houston 0 Toronto at Florida, 7 Mount Vernon at Annandale, 7
Doumbia (3), France, 4-6, ret; Albano Olivetti, France, Game 2: Texas 5, at Houston 4 Laney 37:33 6-13 2-2 1-4 4 2 15 Mountain View at Patriot, 7
Cleveland (-21/2) at Indianapolis, 1 and Robert Galloway (4), United States, def. Filip Vancouver at Tampa Bay, 7 Stewart 38:23 3-17 4-5 1-14 5 2 10
Game 3: Houston 8, at Texas 5 Edmonton at Philadelphia, 7:30 Park View at John Champe, 7
Las Vegas (-3) at Chicago, 1 Bergevi and Leo Borg, Sweden, 7-5, 6-3. Thursday’s game: Houston at Texas, 8:03 (FS1) Jones 33:04 3-8 0-0 4-11 1 3 6 Potomac at Freedom (Woodbridge), 7
Arizona at Seattle (-71/2), 4:05 Arizona at St. Louis, 8 Ionescu 35:51 5-12 0-0 1-3 3 2 13 Potomac Falls at Riverside, 7
Friday’s game: Houston at Texas, 5:07 (FS1)
Pittsburgh at L.A. Rams (-3), 4:05 x-Sunday’s game: Texas at Houston, 8:03 (FS1) Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 Vandersloot 35:05 7-16 1-1 2-7 6 1 19 Robinson at Fairfax, 7
Green Bay (-11/2) at Denver, 4:25 x-Monday’s game: Texas at Houston, 8:03 (Fox, FS1) Vegas at Winnipeg, 8 Thornton 8:33 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 1 3 South County at W.T. Woodson, 7
EUROpEAN OpEN Carolina at Seattle, 10 Johannès 7:22 0-2 1-2 0-0 0 1 1 South Lakes at Madison, 7
L.A. Chargers at Kansas City (-51/2), 4:25
WORLD SERIES Dallas at Anaheim, 10 Dolson 4:09 1-1 0-2 0-0 0 0 2 Stone Bridge at Independence, 7
Miami at Philadelphia (-21/2), 8:20 At Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium
purse: €673,670 Best of seven; x-If necessary Boston at San Jose, 10:30 TOTALS 200 26-72 8-12 9-39 19 12 69 Washington-Liberty at McLean, 7
BYE: Cincinnati, Houston, N.Y. Jets, Tennessee,
Surface: Hardcourt indoor Friday, Oct. 27 Chicago at Colorado, 10:30 West Potomac at Alexandria City, 7
Carolina, Dallas percentages: FG .361, FT .667. 3-point Goals: 9-26, .346
Saturday, Oct. 28 Westfield at Oakton, 7
(Vandersloot 4-8, Ionescu 3-7, Thornton 1-2, Laney 1-3,
MONDAY’S GAME MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND Of 32 Monday, Oct. 30 fRIDAY’S GAMES Jones 0-1, Johannès 0-2, Stewart 0-3). Team Rebounds: Woodbridge at Colgan, 7
Tuesday, Oct. 31 Calgary at Columbus, 7 private
Nuno Borges, Portugal, def. Dominik Koepfer, Germany, 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Jones 3,
San Francisco (-7) at Minnesota, 8:15 x-Wednesday, Nov. 1 Archbishop Curley at St. Mary's (Annapolis), 7
7-6 (8-6), 6-4; Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 Ionescu 2). Turnovers: 13 (Vandersloot 5, Ionescu 3,
x-Friday, Nov. 3 Collegiate at Flint Hill, 5:30
def. Dominic Stricker, Switzerland, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3. Stewart 3, Jones, Thornton). Steals: 5 (Stewart 2,
x-Saturday, Nov. 4 Delaware County Christian (Pa.) at Model, 7
Ionescu, Jones, Vandersloot). Technical fouls: None.
MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND Of 16 Mt. Zion Prep at Benedictine, noon
SOC C e R Juan Pablo Varillas (8), Peru, def. Alexander Shevchen-
Senators 6, Capitals 1 Rock Creek Christian at Wyoming Seminary College Prep
(Pa.), 6
ko, Russia, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Arthur Fils (4), France, def. Astros 8, Rangers 5 WASHINGTON ......................... 1 0 0 — 1 nBA preseason Severn at St. John's Catholic Prep, 7
Mark Lajal, Estonia, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-2); Giovanni OTTAWA .................................. 2 3 1 — 6
nWSL playoffs Mpetshi Perricard, France, def. David Goffin, Belgium, ASTROS AB R H BI BB SO AvG EASTERN CONfERENCE St. John’s at DeMatha, 8
St. Joseph's Prep (Pa.) at Archbishop Spalding, 7:30
7-5, 6-3; Alexander Bublik (3), Kazakhstan, def. Gregoire fIRST pERIOD
QUARTERfINALS Altuve 2b........................5 2 2 1 0 0 .154 ATLANTIC W L pct GB St. Mary’s Ryken at John Paul the Great, 7
fRIDAY’S MATCH Barrere, France, 6-4, 6-2. Brantley lf ......................5 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Scoring: 1, Ottawa, Tarasenko 2 (Greig, Joseph), 4:28. 2, Saturday’s games
Toronto......................................... 3 0 1.000 —
Angel City at OL Reign, 10 (Paramount Plus) McCormick lf ..................0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Ottawa, Norris 1 (Batherson, Stutzle), 12:29 (pp). 3, D.C.
MEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND Of 16 Washington, Carlson 1 (Ovechkin, Wilson), 18:54.
Boston .......................................... 3 1 .750 1/
2
Bregman 3b ....................4 0 0 0 1 0 .167 Richard Wright at KIPP Legacy, noon
SUNDAY’S MATCH Ariel Behar, Uruguay, and Adam Pavlasek, Czech Repub- Alvarez dh ......................4 1 2 2 0 0 .364
Brooklyn ....................................... 2 2 .500 11/2
Gotham FC at North Carolina, 5 (CBSSN) SECOND pERIOD Philadelphia.................................. 1 2 .333 2 Maryland
lic, def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Santiago J.Abreu 1b ......................5 1 1 0 0 1 .167 Bladensburg at Oxon Hill, 2
Gonzalez (1), Mexico, 6-3, 6-7 (7-2), 10-7; Hugo Nys, New York ...................................... 1 3 .250 21/2
SEMIfINALS Tucker rf.........................2 2 1 0 3 0 .100 Scoring: 4, Ottawa, Norris 2 (Batherson), 1:47. 5, Fairmont Heights at Potomac, 2
SUNDAY, NOv. 5 Monaco, and Lloyd Glasspool (3), Britain, def. Hendrik Dubón cf .........................4 1 3 1 0 0 .571 Ottawa, Zub 1 (Sanderson, Tarasenko), 4:47. 6, Ottawa, Friendly at Douglass, 2
North Carolina-Gotham FC winner at Portland, 7 (CBSSN) Jebens and Constantin Frantzen, Germany, 7-5, 6-7 Peña ss ...........................4 0 1 1 0 1 .182 Giroux 1 (Chabot, Stutzle), 15:47. SOUTHEAST W L pct GB Gwynn Park at Central, 2
OL Reign-Angel City winner at San Diego, 9:30 (CBSSN) (7-5), 10-3; Romain Arneodo, Monaco, and Tristan-Sam- Maldonado c ...................4 1 2 2 0 2 .333 Washington.................................. 3 0 1.000 — High Point at DuVal, 2
uel Weissborn, Austria, def. Kevin Krawietz and Tim TOTALS 37 8 12 7 4 5 —
THIRD pERIOD Atlanta ......................................... 3 1 .750 1/
2
KIPP College Prep at Crossland, 7
Puetz (2), Germany, 6-4, 4-6, 10-8. Orlando......................................... 2 1 .667 1 La Plata at Lackey, 6
Scoring: 7, Ottawa, Sanderson 2 (Stutzle, Giroux), 11:48.
Miami ........................................... 2 2 .500 11/2 private
MEN’S DOUBLES — QUARTERfINALS RANGERS AB R H BI BB SO AvG
MLS Semien 2b ......................3 1 0 0 1 0 .167
SHOTS ON GOAL Charlotte ...................................... 1 2 .333 2 Bishop O'Connell at Archbishop Carroll, 2
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Petros Tsitsipas, Greece, def. WASHINGTON ....................... 12 9 3 — 24 Bullis at St. Stephen's/St. Agnes, 2
EAST W L T pts Gf GA Seager ss........................4 0 0 0 0 0 .154 Gonzaga at Bishop McNamara, 1
Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, and Andreas Mies (4), Carter lf ..........................4 0 1 0 0 2 .200 OTTAWA .................................. 6 12 11 — 29 CENTRAL W L pct GB
z-Cincinnati.....................20 5 8 68 55 37 Germany, 7-5, 6-3. Milwaukee.................................... 2 2 .500 — Kiski School (Pa.) at Riverdale Baptist, 1
y-Orlando City.................17 7 9 60 53 39 García rf..........................4 0 1 1 0 0 .182 power-play opportunities: Washington 0 of 2; Ottawa 1
of 5. Goalies: Washington, Kuemper 1-1-0 (29 shots-23 Detroit .......................................... 1 1 .500 — Landon at Georgetown Prep, 2
y-Philadelphia .................15 8 10 55 56 39 Heim c ............................4 0 0 0 0 0 .182 1/ Northern Virginia Homeschool at Virginia Academy, noon
Garver dh........................3 0 0 0 1 1 .091 saves). Ottawa, Forsberg 2-0-0 (24-23). A: 15,021 Indiana.......................................... 1 2 .333 2
y-Columbus .....................15 9 9 54 65 45 Paul VI at Bishop Ireton, 1
y-New England................14 9 10 52 56 45 WTA Lowe 1b ..........................4 2 2 0 0 1 .250 (18,572). T: 2:31. Cleveland...................................... 1
Chicago ......................................... 1
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Potomac School at Maret, 2:30
y-Atlanta.........................13 9 11 50 64 51 Jung 3b ...........................4 2 2 4 0 1 .273
TRANSYLvANIA OpEN Taveras cf.......................2 0 0 0 1 0 .500
St. Albans at Episcopal, 2
y-Nashville......................13 10 10 49 39 31 WESTERN CONfERENCE
CF Montréal ....................12 16 5 41 35 50 At Arenele BNR in Cluj-Napoca, Romania TOTALS 32 5 6 5 3 5 — Red Wings 6, Penguins 3
D.C. United ......................10 14 10 40 45 49 purse: $259,303 SOUTHWEST W L pct GB
Surface: Hardcourt indoor HOUSTON ............... 031 100 210 — 8 12 0 pITTSBURGH ........................... 1 0 2 — 3 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
New York.........................10 13 10 40 35 39 Houston........................................ 3 1 .750 —
TExAS..................... 000 020 210 — 5 6 0 DETROIT .................................. 1 3 2 — 6
Chicago............................10 13 10 40 39 50 San Antonio.................................. 2 2 .500 1
WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND Of 32 Memphis....................................... 2 2 .500 1 fIELD HOCKEY
Charlotte FC ......................9 11 13 40 44 52 LOB: Houston 7, Texas 3. 2B: J.Abreu (1), Tucker (1), fIRST pERIOD
New York City FC ..............8 11 14 38 34 39 Jil Teichmann, Switzerland, def. Yanina Wickmayer (6), Carter (2). HR: Altuve (1), off Scherzer; Jung (1), off New Orleans................................. 1 3 .250 2 Maryland
Belgium, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6); Jaqueline Adina Cristian, Roma- Scoring: 1, Pittsburgh, Malkin 3 (Smith, Karlsson), 0:53. Dallas............................................ 0 2 .000 2
Inter Miami CF ..................9 17 7 34 41 53 Javier; Jung (2), off Neris. 2, Detroit, DeBrincat 4 (Czarnik, Gostisbehere), 12:23. Glenelg 4, South Carroll 0
Toronto FC ........................4 19 10 22 26 57 nia, def. Celine Naef, Switzerland, 6-4, 6-4. Winston Churchill 6, Blair 0
ASTROS Ip H R ER BB SO ERA
WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND Of 16 SECOND pERIOD NORTHWEST W L pct GB virginia
Javier ............................ 52/3 3 2 2 1 3 3.18 Minnesota .................................... 4 0 1.000 — Potomac Falls 3, Lightridge 2
WEST W L T pts Gf GA Neris ............................. 11/3 2 2 2 0 1 6.75 Scoring: 3, Detroit, Chiarot 1 (Larkin, Petry), 5:21. 4,
z-St Louis City ................17 11 5 56 62 43 Daria Snigur, Ukraine, def. Anna-Lena Friedsam, Ger- Utah.............................................. 3 1 .750 1 Riverside 1, Stone Bridge 0
many, 6-0, 1-6, 6-4; Rebeka Masarova (4), Spain, def. B.Abreu ............................1 1 1 1 1 0 3.00 Detroit, Copp 2 (Petry, Rasmussen), 15:42. 5, Detroit, Yorktown 3, Wakefield 0
y-Los Angeles FC ............14 10 9 51 53 38 Oklahoma City.............................. 2 2 .500 2
Miriam Bianca Bulgaru, Romania, 3-6, 7-6 (10-8), 6-0; Pressly .............................1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 Perron 1 (Larkin, DeBrincat), 17:49 (pp). private
y-Seattle .........................13 9 11 50 39 32 Denver .......................................... 2 2 .500 2
y-Houston .......................13 11 9 48 48 37 Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, def. Patricia Maria Tig, RANGERS Ip H R ER BB SO ERA THIRD pERIOD Portland........................................ 1 3 .250 3 Good Counsel 5, Bishop O’Connell 4 (OT)
y-Real Salt Lake..............13 12 8 47 47 50 Romania, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.
Scherzer...........................4 5 5 5 1 4 11.2 Scoring: 6, Pittsburgh, Karlsson 1 (Crosby, Graves), 3:37. vOLLEYBALL
y-Vancouver....................12 10 11 47 54 47 WOMEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND Of 16 Bradford........................ 11/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 pACIfIC W L pct GB
7, Pittsburgh, Rust 4 (Karlsson, Pettersson), 13:03. 8, D.C.
Portland ..........................11 12 10 43 45 55 Stratton ...........................1 2 2 2 1 0 18.0 x-Golden State ............................. 3 0 1.000 —
Kimberley Zimmermann, Belgium, and Anna Bondar (2), Detroit, Copp 3, 18:28 (en). 9, Detroit, DeBrincat 5 Jackson-Reed def. Maret 3-0 (25-16, 25-15, 25-17)
FC Dallas .........................10 10 13 43 37 36 W.Smith.......................... 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 0.00 Phoenix......................................... 3 1 .750 1/
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Hungary, def. Patricia Maria Tig and Ilona Georgiana (Larkin), 18:49 (en). Maryland
San Jose..........................10 10 13 43 38 42 Gray..................................1 2 1 1 1 1 9.00 L.A. Clippers ................................. 2 1 .667 1
Sporting KC .....................11 14 8 41 45 50 Ghioroaie, Romania, 6-4, 7-5; Irina Khromacheva, Rus- Pérez ............................. 11/3 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 SHOTS ON GOAL L.A. Lakers.................................... 2 3 .400 2 Sherwood def. Damascus 3-0
Minnesota United ...........10 12 11 41 45 48 sia, and Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenia, def. Jessika Ponchet, x-Sacramento............................... 0 3 .000 3 Oxon Hill def. CMIT North 3-0 (25-17, 25-7, 25-10)
France, and Maia Lumsden, Britain, 4-6, 7-6 (7-1), 10-5. Wp: Javier (1-0); Lp: Scherzer (0-1); S: Pressly (1). pITTSBURGH ........................... 6 9 16 — 31 Chesapeake def. North County 3-0
Austin FC ........................10 15 8 38 48 54
Inherited runners-scored: Neris 1-0, W.Smith 2-2, Gray DETROIT .................................. 7 12 10 — 29 x-Late game virginia
LA Galaxy ..........................8 13 12 36 50 63
Colorado ............................5 16 12 27 26 53 WOMEN’S DOUBLES — QUARTERfINALS 2-0, Pérez 2-0. HBp: Scherzer (Alvarez). Wp: Scherzer. power-play opportunities: Pittsburgh 0 of 3; Detroit 2 of Riverside def. Stone Bridge 3-0 (25-9, 25-19, 25-16)
T: 3:05. A: 42,368 (40,000). 3. Goalies: Pittsburgh, Jarry 1-1-0 (27 shots-23 saves). WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Rock Ridge def. Heritage 3-0
Monica Niculescu, Romania, and Anna-Lena Friedsam
y-Clinched playoff; z-Clinched conference (4), Germany, def. Irina Bara and Jaqueline Adina Detroit, Husso 1-1-0 (31-28). A: 0 (20,000). T: 2:31. Washington 131, New York 106 Loudoun County def. Champe 3-1 (25-17, 20-25, 25-21,
Cristian, Romania, 6-4, 6-1. Brooklyn 107, Miami 104 25-17)
SATURDAY’S RESULTS W.T. Woodson def. South County 3-1
San Antonio 117, Houston 103
Nashville 3, New England 2 Loudoun Valley def. Tuscarora 3-2
Colorado 1, FC Dallas 1 A uTO RA C I ng hurricanes 6, Sharks 3 Sacramento at Golden State, late
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Real Salt Lake 2, LA Galaxy 2 T R A n S AC TI OnS Late Tuesday Bishop O’Connell def. Archbishop Carroll 3-0
St. John’s def. Good Counsel 3-1 (25-23, 25-18, 23-25,
WEDNESDAY’S RESULT nASCAR Cup Series CAROLINA ............................... 1 1 4 — 6 Wizards 131, Knicks 106 25-21)
Charlotte FC 2, Miami 2 SAN JOSE ................................ 1 2 0 — 3
NfL pOINTS LEADERS WASHINGTON ................... 29 36 30 36 — 131 GIRLS’ SOCCER
1. Kyle Larson, 4084. fIRST pERIOD NEW YORK ......................... 31 21 30 24 — 106
Arizona Cardinals: Waived RB Tony Gonzalez Jr. Desig- Maryland
nated QB Kyler Murray and S Budda Baker to return from 2. William Byron, 4077. Scoring: 1, San Jose, Zetterlund 1 (Hertl), 3:14. 2, Winston Churchill 2, Wootton 1
Charlotte FC 2, Inter Miami CF 2 the physcially unable to perform (PUP) list and injured 3. Denny Hamlin, 4070. Carolina, Jarvis 1 (Bunting, Teravainen), 4:06 (pp).
WASHINGTON: Avdija 1-4 0-0 2, Coulibaly 1-5 4-4 7, Gafford
Chesapeake 4, Northeast 0
4. Martin Truex Jr, 4070. 2-5 1-2 5, Jones 6-12 0-0 13, Poole 10-19 15-16 41, Baldwin
CHARLOTTE fC 1 1 2 reserve to practice. Jr. 1-5 0-0 2, Cooks 0-0 0-0 0, Gallinari 3-6 0-0 7, Gibson 2-2 Glen Burnie 2, North County 0
Jacksonville Jaguars: Promoted QB Nathan Rourke from 5. Christopher Bell, 4068. SECOND pERIOD
MIAMI 1 1 2 0-0 5, Kispert 3-6 0-0 8, Muscala 7-10 1-1 20, Bernard 1-1 0-0 South River 1, Broadneck 0
the practice squad to the active roster. 6. Tyler Reddick, 4054. Scoring: 3, Carolina, Slavin 2, 8:54 (sh). 4, San Jose,
first Half: 1, Charlotte FC, Copetti, 6 (Vargas), 45th 3, Butler 0-2 0-0 0, Rollins 6-8 0-0 13, Wright 2-4 0-0 5. private
Las vegas Raiders: Signed CB Tyler Hall. Placed S 7. Ryan Blaney, 4053. Zadina 2 (Zetterlund), 9:11 (pp). 5, San Jose, Eklund 1
minute; 2, Miami, Stefanelli, 2 (Aviles), 45th+6. Totals 45-89 21-23 131. Severn 3, Maryvale 0
Roderic Teamer on injured reserve. Signed TE John 8. Chris Buescher, 4047. (Hertl, Thrun), 16:06 (pp).
Second Half: 3, Charlotte FC, Vargas, 3 (Jozwiak), 52nd; Samuel Shenker to the practice squad. 9. Brad Keselowski, 2239. NEW YORK: Barrett 8-19 0-0 19, Randle 8-15 0-2 20, BOYS’ SOCCER
4, Miami, Robinson, 1 (Campana), 84th. Los Angeles Chargers: Claimed S Jaylin Hawkins off 10. Ross Chastain, 2213. THIRD pERIOD Robinson 6-9 0-2 12, Brunson 3-12 5-6 12, Grimes 1-4 2-3 5,
Goalies: Charlotte FC, Kristijan Kahlina, George Marks; 11. Kyle Busch, 2191. Maryland
waivers from Atlanta. Placed DB Raheem Layne on Scoring: 6, Carolina, Noesen 1 (Skjei, Kotkaniemi), 9:07 Hartenstein 4-8 1-2 9, Fournier 2-5 2-2 6, Jeffries 0-2 0-0 0, South River 1, Broadneck 0
Miami, Drake Callender, CJ Dos Santos. injured reserve. 12. Bubba Wallace, 2185. Sims 0-0 0-0 0, Brown Jr. 1-1 0-0 3, DiVincenzo 3-7 0-0 7,
Yellow Cards: Busquets, Miami, 21st; Gregore, Miami, 13. Joey Logano, 2168. (pp). 7, Carolina, Jarvis 2 (Burns, Necas), 11:51 (pp). 8, Winston Churchill 3, Wootton 0
Los Angeles Rams: Placed RB Ronnie Rivers on injured Carolina, Necas 2 (Skjei, Bunting), 14:53. 9, Carolina, Hart 2-3 2-2 8, McBride 2-7 0-2 5. Totals 40-92 12-21 106. Northwood 1, Northwest 0
49th; Bronico, Charlotte FC, 69th; Aviles, Miami, 77th. reserve. Signed RB Myles Gaskin from the Minnesota 14. Kevin Harvick, 2144.
Charlotte FC, Kristijan Kahlina; Nathan Byrne, Jaylin 15. Michael McDowell, 2130. Pesce 1 (Kotkaniemi, Noesen), 15:08. Three-point Goals: Washington 20-45 (Poole 6-12, Muscala Kennedy 3, Clarksburg 2
practice squad. 5-7, Kispert 2-5, Bernard 1-1, Gibson 1-1, Jones 1-2, Wright private
Lindsey, Adilson Malanda; Brandt Bronico, Brecht Dejae- Miami Dolphins: Designated CB Jalen Ramsey to return 16. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 2126. SHOTS ON GOAL
gere (Karol Swiderski, 64th), Kamil Jozwiak (Scott 17. Chase Elliott, 757. 1-2, Coulibaly 1-3, Gallinari 1-3, Rollins 1-3, Butler 0-1, St. Andrew’s 3, Potomac School 2
from injured reserve to practice. CAROLINA ............................. 18 12 12 — 42 Avdija 0-2, Baldwin Jr. 0-3), New York 14-39 (Randle 4-6,
Arfield, 76th), Andrew Privett, Ashley Westwood; Enzo New York Jets: Traded WR Mecole Hardman to Kansas 18. Daniel Suárez, 706. TENNIS
Copetti, Kerwin Vargas (Justin Meram, 64th). 19. Ty Gibbs, 693. SAN JOSE ................................ 5 6 5 — 16 Barrett 3-8, Hart 2-3, Brown Jr. 1-1, DiVincenzo 1-3, Grimes
City. 1-4, McBride 1-4, Brunson 1-5, Hartenstein 0-1, Fournier
Miami, Drake Callender; Noah Allen (Jordi Alba, 60th), 20. Alex Bowman, 658. power-play opportunities: Carolina 3 of 7; San Jose 2 of private
philadelphia Eagles: Signed WR Julio Jones to the 0-2, Jeffries 0-2). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Washington
Kamal Miller, DeAndre Yedlin; Sergio Busquets, Facundo 6. Goalies: Carolina, Andersen 2-0-0 (2 shots-1 saves), Bullis 5, St. Stephen’s-St. Agnes 2
practice squad. 47 (Muscala 8), New York 47 (Robinson 11). Assists:
Farias, Diego Gomez (David Ruiz, 90th), Gregore (Jean Carolina, Raanta 0-0-0 (14-12). San Jose, Blackwood
pittsburgh Steelers: Released CB Desmond King. Signed Washington 26 (Jones 7), New York 20 (Brunson, McBride
Mota, 60th), Nicolas Stefanelli (Robbie Robinson, 73rd); 0-0-1 (42-36). A: 10,378 (17,562). T: 2:33.
CB Darius Rush from Kansas City practice squad. 5). Total fouls: Washington 18, New York 17.
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at 10:00 am. A response to the
Motion must be filed no later
than twenty-one (21) days from
the date of the last publication
of this notice, which will occur
on October 21, 2023. If no re-
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Circuit Court for Montgomery
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et. al. The plaintiff is seeking
a judgment by default against
all defendants for failure to an-
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION
COMMONWEALTH OF
VIRGINIA
In the Fauquier Circuit Court
29 Ashby St,
Warrenton VA 20186
Case No. CA23-14
In the matter of the adoption of
child to be known as
Sean Garrison Withee
Scott Matthew Withee
v.
Bingxuan Wang
Yuan Fang Withee
The object of this suit is to:
Adoption
It is ORDERED that Jing Wang ap-
pear at the above-named court
and protect his her interests on
or ‘before November 17, 2023.
2 Oct. 2023
Date
Douglas L Fleming., Jr
Judge
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2023 ADM 001151
Daniel C. Brant aka
Daniel Craig Brant Jr.
Name of Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Bonnie Jean Stephens, whose
address is 650 Wharf St. #45
Washington DC 20024 was ap-
pointed personal representative
of the estate of Daniel C. Brant
aka Daniel Craig Brant Jr., who
died on January 23, 2022 with a
will and will serve without Court
supervision. All unknown heirs
and heirs whose whereabouts
are unknown shall enter their
appearance in this proceeding.
Objections to such appointment
shall be filed with the Register
of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515
5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Wash-
ington DC 20001, on or before
4/12/2023. Claims against the
decedent shall be presented to
the undersigned with a copy to
the Register of Wills or filed with
the Register of Wills with a copy
to the undersigned, on or before
4/12/2024 not receive a copy
of this notice by mail within 25
days of its first publication shall
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including name, address and re-
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
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PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2023 ADM 000877
Dianne Augustus
Name of Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Anne Marie Augustus, whose
address is 135 Berry Patch Lane,
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 was ap-
pointed personal representative
of the estate of Dianne Augustus,
who died on July 2, 2022 with a
will and will serve without Court
supervision. All unknown heirs
and heirs whose whereabouts
are unknown shall enter their
appearance in this proceeding.
Objections to such appointment
(or to the probate of decedent’s
Will) shall be filed with the Reg-
ister of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515
5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Wash-
ington DC 20001, on or before
04/05/2024. Claims against the
decedent shall be presented to
the undersigned with a copy to
the Register of Wills or filed with
the Register of Wills with a copy
to the undersigned, on or before
04/05/2024, or be forever barred.
Persons believed to be heirs or
legatees of the decedent who do
not receive a copy of this notice
by mail within 25 days of its first
publication shall so inform the
Register of Wills, including name,
address and relationship.
Anne Marie Augustus
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
REGISTER OF WILLS
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2023 ADM 001121
Richard B. Treanor aka
Richard Bryant Treanor
Sean Treanor
410 Marietta Pl. NW,
Washington, DC 20011
Bar no. 1032448
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Thomas Michael Guiffre aka
Michael Guiffre, whose address
is 11000 Sandy Hill Dr., Fairfax
Station, VA 22039 was appointed
personal representative of the
estate of Richard B. Treanor aka
Richard Bryant Treanor, who died
on January 20, 2022 with a will
and will service without Court
supervision. All unknown heirs
and heirs whose whereabouts
are unknown shall enter their
appearance in this proceeding.
Objections to such appointment
(or to the probate of decedent’s
Will) shall be filed with the Reg-
ister of Wills, D.C., Building A,
515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor,
Washington DC 20001, on or be-
fore 4/5/24. Claims against the
decedent shall be presented to
the undersigned with a copy to
the Register of Wills or filed with
the Register of Wills with a copy
to the undersigned, on or before
4/5/24, or be forever barred.
Persons believed to be heirs or
legatees of the decedent who do
not receive a copy of this notice
by mail within 25 days of its first
publication shall so inform the
Register of Wills, including name,
address and relationship.
Thomas Michael Guiffre aka
Michael Guiffre
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
REGISTER OF WILLS
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The solicitation is published in
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or email at aaron.holland2@
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Columbia an action, Case No.:
2018-CA-000132-R(RP), STER-
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to affect title to the property
located at 4627 Minnesota Ave-
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A copy of the action is available
in the Civil Division Clerk’s Office
of the Court. A written answer,
including any claims or defenses,
if any, must be filed in the Civil
Division Clerk’s Office, Superior
Court of the District of Columbia,
500 Indiana Avenue, NW, Room
5000, Washington D.C. 20001, on
or before the 30th day of Novem-
ber 2023.
There is now pending before the
District of Columbia Superior
Court an action, Case Number
2023 CAB 003612, seeking a
Preliminary Injunction and Tem-
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Defendant. A copy of the action
is available in the Clerk’s office
of the court. A written answer,
including any claims or defens-
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NW, Washington, D.C. 20001,
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MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION
NOTICE OF TENTATIVE DETERMINATION
Montgomery County
Application for State Discharge Permit 20DP0162, NPDES Permit
MD0020982:
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), 14501 Sweitzer
Lane, Laurel, Maryland 20707, has applied for a permit renewal to
consider an average of 1.50 million gallons per day (mgd) of treated
wastewater from the Damascus Water Resource Recovery Facility,
located at 23730 Log House Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20882, to
discharge into the Magruder Branch designated as Use I-P water which
is protected for water contact recreation, nontidal warmwater aquatic
life and as a public water supply source.
The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) is proposing to
reissue the discharge permit with the following effluent limitations:
BOD5, 15 mg/l maximum monthly average and 23 mg/l maximum
weekly average from May 1 to October 31, 30 mg/l maximum monthly
average and 45 mg/l maximum weekly average from November 1 to
April 30; total suspended solids, 30 mg/l maximum monthly average,
45 mg/l maximum weekly average and 136,800 pounds/year annual
maximum; total kjedahl nitrogen, 6.0 mg/l maximum monthly arithme-
tic mean, 9.0 mg/l maximum weekly arithmetic mean from May 1 to
October 31 only; total ammonia nitrogen as N interim limits, 2.1 mg/l
maximum monthly average from May 1 to October 31 and 4.2 mg/l
maximum monthly average from November 1 to April 30; total am-
monia nitrogen as N final limits, 1.4 mg/l maximum monthly average
from May 1 to October 31 and 2.8 mg/l maximum monthly average
from November 1 to April 30; total phosphorus as P, 1,371 pounds/year
annual maximum; total nitrogen as N, 18,273 pounds/year annual max-
imum; E. Coli, 126 MPN/100m1 maximum monthly geometric mean;
total residual chlorine, 0.011 mg/l (non-detectable level) maximum;
dissolved oxygen, 5.0 mg/l minimum at any time; and pH maintained
between 6.5 and 8.5. The monitoring requirements for total recov-
erable copper of effluent, and for total hardness of effluent and the
upstream of Magruder Branch discharge location are included in the
permit. In addition to the above annual maximum loading rate limits
for total phosphorus as P and total nitrogen as N, the permittee shall
also comply with the concentration-based annual maximum loading
rate limitations at the end of each calendar year.
The annual maximum loading rate limit for total suspended solids is in
conformance with the EPA-approved sediment TMDL (dated 9/l3/2011)
for the Seneca Creek watershed. The annual maximum loading rate
limits for total nitrogen as N and total phosphorus as P are in confor-
mance with the Chesapeake Bay TMDL for Nitrogen, Phosphorus and
Sediment established on December 29, 2010.
If a written request is received by November 1, 2023, a public hearing
on the tentative determination for this application can be scheduled.
The request should be sent to the Maryland Department of the En-
vironment, Water and Science Administration, 1800 Washington
Blvd., Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn.: Yen-Der Cheng,
Chief, Municipal Permits Division and must include the name, ad-
dress and telephone number (home and work) of the person making
the request, the name of any other party whom the person making the
request may represent, and the name of the facility and permit num-
ber. Failure to request a hearing by November 1, 2023 will constitute
a waiver of the right to a public hearing on the tentative determination
for this permit.
Written comments concerning the tentative determination will be con-
sidered in the preparation of a final determination if submitted to the
Department, to the attention of Yen-Der Cheng at the above address,
on or before November 13, 2023. Any hearing-impaired person who
requests a hearing may request an interpreter at the hearing by con-
tacting Mr. Cheng at (410) 537-3363 or 1-800-633-6101, or by written
request to the above address at least ten working days prior to the
scheduled hearing date.
Information supporting the tentative determination, including the draft
permit and fact sheet, may be reviewed by contacting Mr. Cheng at
the above telephone number to make an appointment or by written
request to Mr. Cheng at the above address. Copies of documents may
be obtained at a cost of $0.36 per page.
NOTICE
Notice of Adoption of
Charter Amendment Resolution No. 11-23
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to pursuant to Article XI-E of
the Constitution of Maryland, Sections 4-303 and 304 of the Local
Government Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, and the
Charter of the City of Rockville, the Mayor and Council of Rockville,
Maryland, on September 18, 2023, duly adopted Resolution No.11-23
(Charter Amendment No. CA2023-00065, to amend Section 2 of Arti-
cle II, “The Mayor and Council,” of the Charter of the City of Rockville
so as to modify the procedure for adopting ordinance by increasing
the number of Councilmembers needed to request a public hearing
on an ordinance when it is introduced and increasing the number of
Councilmembers needed to affirmatively vote to waive the layover
and agenda requirements to adopt an ordinance.
This amendment shall become effective and be considered a part of
the Charter of the City of Rockville on November 7, 2023, unless on
or before September 28, 2023, there shall be presented to the Mayor
and Council of Rockville, or mailed to it by registered mail, a petition
meeting the requirements of Article V, Section 2 of the City Charter.
Mayor and Council of Rockville
By: Sara Taylor-Ferrell, City Clerk/Director of Council Operations
NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COM-
MENT PURSUANT TO COMAR TITLE 27.03.01.03
REQUIRING NOTIFICATION OF PROJECT AP-
PLICATIONS FOR STATE AGENCY AND LOCAL
AGENCY DEVELOPMENT IN THE CRITICAL
AREANOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
Of the opportunity for review and submittal of written pub-
lic comments regarding the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission’s (WSSC Water) Main Substation Replacement
Design project. Project plans are available for review at 6600
Crain Highway, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, Monday through
Friday, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Public comments must be
submitted in writing and received on or before November
17, 2023. Comments may be submitted via mail to Patricia
Jones, 6600 Crain Highway, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, or
email at: Patricia.Jones@wsscwater.com.
The project consists of the decommission of existing 15kV
Main Substation and installation of new 15kV switchgear
and two back-up power generators, asphalt driveway, and
associated stormwater management and landscaping. The
project is located at WSSC Water’s Western Branch Water Re-
source Recovery Facility, at 6600 Crain Highway, Upper Marl-
boro, MD 20772, as shown on Tax Map 111, Grid C2, Parcel
27 and zoned ROS. The project is located in the Resource
Conservation Area (RCA) overlay.
For more information, please contact: Patricia Jones, Facility
Construction Manager, Facility Design and Construction Divi-
sion, WSSC Water at Patricia.Jones@wsscwater.com.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 26 of the Gaithersburg City Char-
ter, notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors of Elections for
the City of Gaithersburg will hold an election for the purpose of electing
three City Council Members on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, from 7
a.m. until 8 p.m. The election will be conducted at one (1) Vote Center
located at the Activity Center at Bohrer Park, 506 S Frederick Avenue in
Gaithersburg, Maryland. In the event of a tie, a run-off election will be
held for the remaining seats on Tuesday, November 21, 2023.
Chair Tom Marchessault, Board of Supervisors of Elections
AVISO DE ELECCION
De conformidad con las disposiciones de la Sección 26 de los Estatutos
de la Ciudad de Gaithersburg, por la presente se notifica que la Junta
de Supervisores de Elecciones de la Ciudad de Gaithersburg realizará
una elección con el fin de elegir a tres Concejales Municipales el mar-
tes 7 de noviembre de 2023, desde las 7 am hasta las 8 pm La elección
se llevará a cabo en un (1) Centro de Votación ubicado en el Centro
de Actividad en Bohrer Park, 506 S Frederick Avenue en Gaithersburg,
Maryland. En caso de empate, se realizará una segunda vuelta para los
escaños restantes el martes 21 de noviembre de 2023.
Presidente Tom Marchessault, Junta de Supervisores de Elecciones
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Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND MARYLAND
Diane S. Rosenberg, et al
4340 East West Highway,
Diane S. Rosenberg, et al
4340 East West Highway,
Suite 600 Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustee
Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustee
Plaintiff(s) Plaintiff(s)
V. V.
Area A Edmonds
Darryl Edmonds
Sharon Bellamy
Bruce Crawford
11301 Cross Road Trail 1507 Southern Springs Lane
Brandywine, MD 20613 Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Defendant(s) Defendant(s)
Case No. C-16-CV-23-001103 Case No. C-16-CV-23-002445
NOTICE NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 16
day of October, 2023, by the
Notice is hereby given this 10
day of October, 2023 by the
Circuit Court for Prince George’s Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale
of 11301 Cross Road Trail,
County, Maryland, that the sale
of 1507 Southern Springs
Brandywine, MD 20613, made Lane, Upper Marlboro, MD
and reported, will be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the
20774, made and reported, will
be ratified and confirmed, unless
contrary thereof be shown on or cause to the contrary thereof be
before the 16 day of November,
2023, provided a copy of this
shown on or before the 10 day
of November, 2023, provided a
notice be inserted in The Wash- copy of this notice be inserted
in The Washington Post a daily
ington Post a daily newspaper
printed in said County, once in
each of three successive weeks
newspaper printed in said Coun-
ty, once in each of three succes-
before the 16 day of November, sive weeks before the 10 day of
November, 2023. The Report
2023. The Report of Sale states
the amount of the foreclosure of Sale states the amount of
sale price to be $368,050.00. the foreclosure sale price to be
$602,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk of the Circuit Court Mahasin El Amin
Prince George’s County, Clerk of the Circuit Court
Maryland #793 Prince George’s County,
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012439340
Maryland #793
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438574
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Bids Due: 11/01/2023 by 4:00PM
Scope of work: The project will consist of Approx. 4.76 miles of 4”-
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Contract ID #: C00117011DB130
Bristol and Salem Districts Bridge Bundle
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is seeking
Statements of Qualifications for the Bristol and Salem Dis-
tricts Bridge Bundle design-build project from qualified and
experienced respondents with design and construction ex-
perience of bridges. The project has four bridges located in
the Bristol District with the proposed improvements includ-
ing complete replacement of the following bridges: Route
669 over Big Moccasin Creek in Scott County, Route 624 over
North Fork Clinch River in Scott County, Route 671 over Har-
ris Branch Creek in Wythe County, and Route 806 over Coal
Creek in Tazewell County. The project has three bridges lo-
cated in the Salem District with the proposed improvements
including complete replacement of the following bridges:
Route 881 over Little Reed Island Creek in Carroll County,
Route 692 over Craig Creek in Craig County, and Route 663
over Crab Creek in Montgomery County. The project does
not increase the traffic capacity of current roads and bridges.
The work includes but not limited to: roadway and bridge
design, survey, environmental, geotechnical, hydraulics and
stormwater management, traffic control devices, transporta-
tion management plan, utility relocation, public involvement/
relations and stakeholder coordination, quality assurance
and quality control, construction engineering and inspection,
and overall project management.
Questions/clarifications regarding the Request for Qualifica-
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iel.mcbride@vdot.virginia.gov).
Copies of the RFQ and additional submittal requirements can
be found on Bid Express (bidexpress.com)
The Department assures compliance with Title VI require-
ments of non-discrimination in all activities pursuant to this
advertisement.
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Montgomery County
TRUSTEE’S SALE
1265 Knoll Mist Lane, Gaithersburg, MD 20879
Trustee’s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 1265 Knoll Mist Lane, Gaithersburg,
MD 20879. By virtue of the power and authority contained
in a Deed of Trust, dated April 23, 2009, and recorded in
Liber 37314 at Page 107 among the land records of the
COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, in the original principal amount
of $278,494.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction
at the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, at
50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, on November 1,
2023 at 1:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 09-02273924
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in “as is condition” and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale.
Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or
regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited and the property may be resold at risk and costs of
the defaulting purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee’s File No. 17-270261.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
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TRUSTEE’S SALE
5501 Christy Drive, Bethesda, MD 20816
Trustee’s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved
by premises known as 5501 Christy Drive, Bethesda, MD
20816. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
a Deed of Trust, dated November 6, 1996, and recorded in
Liber 14492 at Page 261 among the land records of the
County of Montgomery, in the original principal amount
of $99,559.56. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction
at the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, at
50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, on November 1,
2023 at 1:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 07-00603204
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in “as is condition” and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale.
Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or
regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited and the property may be resold at risk and costs of
the defaulting purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee’s File No. 19-282557.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
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Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
7214 G ST.
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MD 20743
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 3, 2008, recorded in Liber 31899, Folio 476
and re-recorded in Liber 31934, Folio 580 among the Land
Records of Prince George’s County, MD, with an original
principal balance of $154,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County,
14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing
entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:32 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $16,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 89130-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
MULTIFAMILY REAL PROPERTY
6502 CENTRAL AVENUE
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MARYLAND 20743
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that
certain Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and Assignment of
Leases and Rents executed by Lloyd S. Blackwell and dated
October 5, 2015, and recorded among the Land Records
of Prince George’s County, Maryland, at Liber 37862, folio
81 (the “Deed of Trust”), the holder of the indebtedness
secured by the Deed of Trust (the “Noteholder”) having
subsequently appointed Hunter C. Piel and Scott B. Wheat
(collectively, the “Substitute Trustees”) as Substitute
Trustees by instrument duly executed, acknowledged and
recorded among the Land Records of Prince George’s County,
Maryland for the purposes therein contained, default having
occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction to the highest
qualified bidder at the steps of the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on:
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
at 12:14 p.m.
ALL OF THAT real property being situate in Capitol Heights,
Maryland, and the improvements thereon (collectively, the
“Property”), in fee simple, being more particularly described
in the Deed of Trust, and generally known 6502 Central
Avenue, Capitol Heights, Maryland 20743.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Seven Thousand
Dollars ($7,000.00), payable in cash, certified check, or
other form acceptable to the Substitute Trustees, in his sole
and absolute discretion, will be required of the purchaser(s)
at the time and place of sale. The deposit must be increased
to 10% of the purchase price within two (2) business days,
and delivered to the office of the Substitute Trustees in
the same form as the initial deposit. The balance of the
purchase price shall be due in cash or by certified check
with interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase price at
the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from the date of
sale to and including the date of settlement. In the event the
Noteholder, or an affiliate thereof, is the successful bidder
at the sale, such party will not be required to make a deposit
or to pay interest on the unpaid purchase money. Taxes,
water charges, ground rent, if any, and all other municipal
charges and liens owed against the Property shall be the
sole responsibility of the purchaser(s) and shall be paid for
by the purchaser(s) at settlement. The Substitute Trustees
reserve the right to reject any and all bids, and to extend the
time for settlement, if applicable.
The Property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and
without any warranties or representations, either express
or implied, as to the nature, condition or description of the
improvements. In addition, the Property will also be sold
subject to all existing housing, building and zoning code
violations, subject to all critical area and wetland violations,
subject to all environmental problems and violations which
may exist on or with respect to the Property, and subject to
all matters and restrictions of record affecting the same,
if any. The purchaser(s) at the foreclosure sale shall
assume the risk of loss for the above-referenced Property
immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the
purchaser(s)’ responsibility to obtain possession of the
Property following ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court
for Prince George’s County, Maryland.
The Property will be sold subject to all of the following that
are not extinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure
sale: all easements, conditions, liens, restrictions, rights
of redemption, covenants, encumbrances, ground rents,
ground leases, such state of facts that an accurate survey
or physical inspection of the Property might disclose, and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any.
The purchaser(s) shall pay all documentary stamps, state
and local transfer taxes, recordation taxes and fees, title
examination costs, attorneys’ fees, conveyance fees and all
other incidental settlement costs. The purchaser(s) shall
settle and comply with the sale terms within twenty (20)
days following the final ratification of sale by the Circuit
Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, unless said
period is extended by the Substitute Trustees for good cause
shown. Time is of the essence.
In the event the purchaser(s) fails to go to settlement as
required, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies
available, the Substitute Trustees may, without further order
of the court, declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited
and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and
expense. In such event, the defaulting purchaser(s) shall
be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase
price, all costs and expenses of both sales, reasonable
attorneys’ fees, all other charges due, and incidental
damages. The parties’ respective rights and obligations
regarding the terms of sale and the conduct of the sale shall
be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the
State of Maryland.
If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey the Property
as described above, the purchaser(s)’ sole remedy at law or
in equity shall be limited to the refund of the aforementioned
deposit, without interest thereon. Upon refund of the
deposit to the purchaser(s), the sale shall be void and of
no effect, and the purchaser(s) shall have no further claim
against the Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder.
The information contained herein was obtained from sources
deemed to be reliable, but is offered for informational
purposes only. The Auctioneer, the Noteholder and the
Substitute Trustees do not make any representations or
warranties with respect to the accuracy of this information.
Hunter C. Piel,
Scott B. Wheat
Substitute Trustees
For further information, contact:
Hunter C. Piel, Esquire
Piel Law Firm, LLC
502 Washington Avenue, Suite 730
Towson, Maryland 21204
(410) 849-4888
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Towson, Maryland 21204
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
MULTIFAMILY REAL PROPERTY
6506 CENTRAL AVENUE
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MARYLAND 20743
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that
certain Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and Assignment of
Leases and Rents executed by Lloyd S. Blackwell and dated
October 7, 2015, and recorded among the Land Records
of Prince George’s County, Maryland, at Liber 37838, folio
129 (the “Deed of Trust”), the holder of the indebtedness
secured by the Deed of Trust (the “Noteholder”) having
subsequently appointed Hunter C. Piel and Scott B. Wheat
(collectively, the “Substitute Trustees”) as Substitute
Trustees by instrument duly executed, acknowledged and
recorded among the Land Records of Prince George’s County,
Maryland for the purposes therein contained, default having
occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction to the highest
qualified bidder at the steps of the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on:
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
at 12:16 p.m.
ALL OF THAT real property being situate in Capitol Heights,
Maryland, and the improvements thereon (collectively, the
“Property”), in fee simple, being more particularly described
in the Deed of Trust, and generally known 6506 Central
Avenue, Capitol Heights, Maryland 20743.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Seven Thousand
Dollars ($7,000.00), payable in cash, certified check, or
other form acceptable to the Substitute Trustees, in his sole
and absolute discretion, will be required of the purchaser(s)
at the time and place of sale. The deposit must be increased
to 10% of the purchase price within two (2) business days,
and delivered to the office of the Substitute Trustees, in
the same form as the initial deposit. The balance of the
purchase price shall be due in cash or by certified check
with interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase price at
the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from the date of
sale to and including the date of settlement. In the event the
Noteholder, or an affiliate thereof, is the successful bidder
at the sale, such party will not be required to make a deposit
or to pay interest on the unpaid purchase money. Taxes,
water charges, ground rent, if any, and all other municipal
charges and liens owed against the Property shall be the
sole responsibility of the purchaser(s) and shall be paid for
by the purchaser(s) at settlement. The Substitute Trustees
reserve the right to reject any and all bids, and to extend the
time for settlement, if applicable.
The Property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and
without any warranties or representations, either express
or implied, as to the nature, condition or description of the
improvements. In addition, the Property will also be sold
subject to all existing housing, building and zoning code
violations, subject to all critical area and wetland violations,
subject to all environmental problems and violations which
may exist on or with respect to the Property, and subject to
all matters and restrictions of record affecting the same,
if any. The purchaser(s) at the foreclosure sale shall
assume the risk of loss for the above-referenced Property
immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the
purchaser(s)’ responsibility to obtain possession of the
Property following ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court
for Prince George’s County, Maryland.
The Property will be sold subject to all of the following that
are not extinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure
sale: all easements, conditions, liens, restrictions, rights
of redemption, covenants, encumbrances, ground rents,
ground leases, such state of facts that an accurate survey
or physical inspection of the Property might disclose, and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any.
The purchaser(s) shall pay all documentary stamps, state
and local transfer taxes, recordation taxes and fees, title
examination costs, attorneys’ fees, conveyance fees and all
other incidental settlement costs. The purchaser(s) shall
settle and comply with the sale terms within twenty (20)
days following the final ratification of sale by the Circuit
Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, unless said
period is extended by the Substitute Trustees for good cause
shown. Time is of the essence.
In the event the purchaser(s) fails to go to settlement as
required, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies
available, the Substitute Trustees may, without further order
of the court, declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited
and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and
expense. In such event, the defaulting purchaser(s) shall
be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase
price, all costs and expenses of both sales, reasonable
attorneys’ fees, all other charges due, and incidental
damages. The parties’ respective rights and obligations
regarding the terms of sale and the conduct of the sale shall
be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the
State of Maryland.
If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey the Property
as described above, the purchaser(s)’ sole remedy at law or
in equity shall be limited to the refund of the aforementioned
deposit, without interest thereon. Upon refund of the
deposit to the purchaser(s), the sale shall be void and of
no effect, and the purchaser(s) shall have no further claim
against the Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder.
The information contained herein was obtained from sources
deemed to be reliable, but is offered for informational
purposes only. The Auctioneer, the Noteholder and the
Substitute Trustees do not make any representations or
warranties with respect to the accuracy of this information.
Hunter C. Piel,
Scott B. Wheat
Substitute Trustees
For further information, contact:
Hunter C. Piel, Esquire
Piel Law Firm, LLC
502 Washington Avenue, Suite 730
Towson, Maryland 21204
(410) 849-4888
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY
1204 RAYDALE ROAD
HYATTSVILLE, MARYLAND 20783
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that
certain Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Fixture
Filing executed by 6500 8th Avenue LLC and dated February
7, 2022, and recorded among the Land Records of Prince
George’s County, Maryland, at Liber 47543, folio 451 (the
“Deed of Trust”), the holder of the indebtedness secured by
the Deed of Trust (the “Noteholder”) having subsequently
appointed Hunter C. Piel and Scott B. Wheat (collectively, the
“Substitute Trustees”) as Substitute Trustees by instrument
duly executed, acknowledged and recorded among the
Land Records of Prince George’s County, Maryland for the
purposes therein contained, default having occurred under
the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Substitute Trustees will
offer for sale at public auction to the highest qualified
bidder at the steps of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, located at 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro,
Maryland 20772, on:
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
at 12:12 p.m.
ALL OF THAT real property being situate in Hyattsville,
Maryland, and the improvements thereon (collectively, the
“Property”), in fee simple, being more particularly described
in the Deed of Trust, and generally known 1204 Raydale
Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20783.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit in the amount of Seven Thousand
Dollars ($7,000.00), payable in cash, certified check, or
other form acceptable to the Substitute Trustees, in his sole
and absolute discretion, will be required of the purchaser(s)
at the time and place of sale. The deposit must be increased
to 10% of the purchase price within two (2) business days,
and delivered to the office of the Substitute Trustees in
the same form as the initial deposit. The balance of the
purchase price shall be due in cash or by certified check
with interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase price at
the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from the date of
sale to and including the date of settlement. In the event the
Noteholder, or an affiliate thereof, is the successful bidder
at the sale, such party will not be required to make a deposit
or to pay interest on the unpaid purchase money. Taxes,
water charges, ground rent, if any, and all other municipal
charges and liens owed against the Property shall be the
sole responsibility of the purchaser(s) and shall be paid for
by the purchaser(s) at settlement. The Substitute Trustees
reserve the right to reject any and all bids, and to extend the
time for settlement, if applicable.
The Property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and
without any warranties or representations, either express
or implied, as to the nature, condition or description of the
improvements. In addition, the Property will also be sold
subject to all existing housing, building and zoning code
violations, subject to all critical area and wetland violations,
subject to all environmental problems and violations which
may exist on or with respect to the Property, and subject to
all matters and restrictions of record affecting the same,
if any. The purchaser(s) at the foreclosure sale shall
assume the risk of loss for the above-referenced Property
immediately after the sale takes place. It shall be the
purchaser(s)’ responsibility to obtain possession of the
Property following ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court
for Prince George’s County, Maryland.
The Property will be sold subject to all of the following that
are not extinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure
sale: all easements, conditions, liens, restrictions, rights
of redemption, covenants, encumbrances, ground rents,
ground leases, such state of facts that an accurate survey
or physical inspection of the Property might disclose, and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any.
The purchaser(s) shall pay all documentary stamps, state
and local transfer taxes, recordation taxes and fees, title
examination costs, attorneys’ fees, conveyance fees and all
other incidental settlement costs. The purchaser(s) shall
settle and comply with the sale terms within twenty (20)
days following the final ratification of sale by the Circuit
Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, unless said
period is extended by the Substitute Trustees for good cause
shown. Time is of the essence.
In the event the purchaser(s) fails to go to settlement as
required, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies
available, the Substitute Trustees may, without further order
of the court, declare the aforementioned deposit forfeited
and resell the Property at the purchaser’s sole risk and
expense. In such event, the defaulting purchaser(s) shall
be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase
price, all costs and expenses of both sales, reasonable
attorneys’ fees, all other charges due, and incidental
damages. The parties’ respective rights and obligations
regarding the terms of sale and the conduct of the sale shall
be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the
State of Maryland.
If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey the Property
as described above, the purchaser(s)’ sole remedy at law or
in equity shall be limited to the refund of the aforementioned
deposit, without interest thereon. Upon refund of the
deposit to the purchaser(s), the sale shall be void and of
no effect, and the purchaser(s) shall have no further claim
against the Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder.
The information contained herein was obtained from sources
deemed to be reliable, but is offered for informational
purposes only. The Auctioneer, the Noteholder and the
Substitute Trustees do not make any representations or
warranties with respect to the accuracy of this information.
Hunter C. Piel,
Scott B. Wheat
Substitute Trustees
For further information, contact:
Hunter C. Piel, Esquire
Piel Law Firm, LLC
502 Washington Avenue, Suite 730
Towson, Maryland 21204
(410) 849-4888
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Rockville, MD 20852
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OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
867 ENGLISH CHESTNUT DR.
LANDOVER A/R/T/A
HYATTSVILLE, MD 20785
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated November 21, 2007, recorded in Liber 29059, Folio
741 among the Land Records of Prince George’s County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $265,168.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro,
MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:28 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and described as Unit number Four
(4) in Building number Thirty-Five (35) in the “Phase XXXV,
Hill Oaks Condominium” and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $29,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 321716-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438650
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
9907 51ST TERR.
COLLEGE PARK, MD 20740
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 8, 2011, recorded in Liber 32734, Folio 82 among
the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD, with an
original principal balance of $297,750.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval
Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:30 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 354991-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438652
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CLASSIFIED H
851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
11123 LAKE VICTORIA LN.
BOWIE, MD 20720
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated May 19, 2005, recorded in Liber 22107, Folio 594
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $496,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:24 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $35,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 359383-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438645
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
905 KAYAK AVE.
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MD 20743
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated February 1, 2019, recorded in Liber 41798, Folio 97
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $230,365.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:26 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $22,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 362690-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438647
NOTICES H Trustee Sales—MD D7
851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
4100 55TH AVE.
BLADENSBURG, MD 20710
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 28, 2014, recorded in Liber 36354, Folio 52
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $244,686.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:20 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $25,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 346705-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438642
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
9209 CROSSBOW RD. A/R/T/A
9209 CROSS BOW RD.
FORT WASHINGTON, MD 20744
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated November 9, 2007, recorded in Liber 29073, Folio
375 among the Land Records of Prince George’s County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $544,185.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro,
MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:22 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $38,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 360294-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438643
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D8 CLASSIFIED H NOTICES H Trustee Sales—MD
851
Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
10 BAYOU AVE.
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MD 20743
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated May 25, 2006, recorded in Liber 39283, Folio 330
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $165,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:16 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $12,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 361874-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438640
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
6016 MARIA AVE.
SUITLAND, MD 20746
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated September 14, 2005, recorded in Liber 23409, Folio
19 among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $248,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:18 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $23,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 353546-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438641
851
Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
5718 JANICE LN.
TEMPLE HILLS, MD 20748
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 2, 2007, recorded in Liber 28193, Folio 457
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $168,746.04, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:14 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $15,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 358324-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438639
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
110 STAN FEY DR.
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20774
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Karl L. Granzow, Jr. and Suzanne C. Granzow dated May
7, 2007 and recorded in Liber 28597, folio 163 among the
Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval
Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 11:02 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #07-3199825.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $98,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final
ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money
at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date
of sale to the date funds are received in the office of the
Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in
the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges
or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges and ground
rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of
the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser,
and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium
fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall
be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale
forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser.
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of
loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward.
Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and
marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and
equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without
interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the
deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application
against all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full
commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled
foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this
sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on
the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against
and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then
re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense
of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting
purchaser without reselling the property. In the event of
a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees
and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees and
expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving
the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees’ file
number 23-000221-MD-F-1.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012438617
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OPQRS
851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
3612 DIXON ST.
TEMPLE HILLS, MD 20748
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 12, 2007, recorded in Liber 28242, Folio 507
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $217,600.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 11:11 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $20,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 157767-33)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438063
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
7601 MILLIGAN LN.
CLINTON, MD 20735
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated May 23, 2008, recorded in Liber 29745, Folio 429 and
re-recorded in Liber 43991, Folio 1 among the Land Records
of Prince George’s County, MD, with an original principal
balance of $352,279.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at
the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, 14735 Main St.,
Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located
on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 11:15 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $28,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 307904-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438066
D 8 | EZ
851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
1113 BAYBURY CT., UNIT #6-203
BOWIE, MD 20721
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 14, 2006, recorded in Liber 25997, Folio 745
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $210,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 11:07 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and described as UNIT NO. 6-203,
PHASE 9, BUILDING 6, IN THE HORIZONTAL PROPERTY
REGIME KNOWN AS “THE VISTAS AT LAKE ARBOR, A
CONDOMINIUM” and more fully described in the aforesaid
Deed of Trust. Tax ID #13-1520915.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $23,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 354382-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438060
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
1900 DANA DR.
HYATTSVILLE, MD 20783
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 30, 2014, recorded in Liber 36093, Folio 476
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $307,500.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 11:09 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $28,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 359258-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438062
EZ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
12915 CENTER PARK WAY
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated June 27, 2013, recorded in Liber 35005, Folio 9 among
the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD, with an
original principal balance of $275,102.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval
Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 11:03 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $24,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 208552-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438057
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
8216 CANNING TERR.
GREENBELT, MD 20770
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated October 21, 2002, recorded in Liber 16387, Folio 281
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $140,199.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 11:05 AM
ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $24,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 37405-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438058
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BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
9522 48TH AVE.
COLLEGE PARK, MD 20740
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated January 29, 2002, recorded in Liber 15881, Folio 318
and re-recorded in Liber 35737, Folio 517 among the Land
Records of Prince George’s County, MD, with an original
principal balance of $144,800.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County,
14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing
entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 11:01 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $17,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 320046-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438055
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
4508 HARVEST RD.
TEMPLE HILLS, MD 20748
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Helmar Forbes dated March 8, 2013 and recorded in
Liber 34520, folio 608 among the Land Records of Prince
George’s County, MD, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at
the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, 14735 Main St.,
Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located
on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 10:49 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
6918 HANOVER PARKWAY, UNIT 200
GREENBELT, MD 20770
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated September 27, 2016, recorded in Liber 38806, Folio
472 among the Land Records of Prince George’s County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $112,917.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro,
MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 24, 2023 AT 10:41 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and described as Condominium Unit
Numbered 6918-200 in the subdivision known as, PHASE
ELEVEN HUNTING RIDGE CONDOMINIUM and more fully
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $10,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 333833-3)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 5,12,19 2023 0012437296
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
2701 MOORES PLAINS BLVD.
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20774
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Travis Clarke and Yvonne Clarke dated May 21, 2009
and recorded in Liber 31031, folio 163 among the Land
Records of Prince George’s County, MD, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval
Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 31, 2023 AT 10:45 AM
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
10401 BALSAMWOOD DR.
LAUREL, MD 20708
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 13, 2005, recorded in Liber 22181, Folio 367
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $304,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 24, 2023 AT 10:37 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $46,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 349150-3)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Oct 5,12,19 2023 0012437292
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
12503 CARLAND PL.
LAUREL, MD 20708
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 16, 2004, recorded in Liber 20464, Folio 750
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $261,600.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD,
20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on
OCTOBER 24, 2023 AT 10:39 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Prince
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC Brock and Scott, PLLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 5431 Oleander Drive
Bethesda, MD 20814 Wilmington NC, 28403
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE KNOWN AS
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 7923 MANDAN ROAD, UNIT 679
Greenbelt, MD 20770
2110 CATSKILL ST. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
TEMPLE HILLS, MD 20748 certain Deed of Trust to RICHARD T. CREGGER, Trustee(s),
dated August 14, 2006, and recorded among the Land
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber
from Paula L. Payne and Paulette Lawann Payne dated 25835 , folio 241 , the holder of the indebtedness secured
March 15, 1996 and recorded in Liber 10681, folio 218 by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
among the Land Records of Prince George’s County, MD, Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
Prince George’s County, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OCTOBER 24, 2023 AT 10:30 AM OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the OCTOBER 23, 2023 at 9:45 AM
buildings and improvements thereon situated in Prince ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #12-1236926. described as follows:
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions CONDOMINIUM UNIT NUMBER 679, IN A HORIZONTAL
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and PROPERTY REGIME KNOWN AS “GREENBRIAR CONDOMINIUM
with no warranty of any kind. - PHASE III” ESTABLISHED BY A CONDOMINIUM
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $10,000 in the form of certified DECLARATION RECORDED APRIL 21, 1977 IN LIBER 4750,
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of FOLIO 774, AS AMENDED BY DECLARATION RECORDED
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the JUNE 17, 1997 IN LIBER 4775, FOLIO 474, AND AS SHOWN
purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ON A PLAT OF CONDOMINIUM SUBDIVISION ENTITLED
ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s “GREENBRIAR CONDOMINIUM - PHASE II”, RECORDED IN
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money PLAT BOOK NLP 96 PLATS 93 THROUGH 100, INCLUSIVE,
at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S
of sale to the date funds are received in the office of the COUNTY, MARYLAND TOGETHER WITH THE FACILITIES
Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in AND OTHER APPURTENANCES OF SAID UNIT, WHICH UNIT
the event additional funds are tendered before settlement AND APPURTENANCES HAVE BEEN MORE SPECIFICALLY
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION AFORESAID, AND INCLUDING
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. THE FEE IN AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN THE COMMON
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment ELEMENTS OF SAID REGIME APPURTENANT TO SAID UNITS
of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if AS SUCH INTEREST IS SET OUT AND DEFINED IN THE SAID
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges DECLARATION AS THE SAME MAY BE LAWFULLY REVISED OR
or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME.
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges and ground
rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of Said property is subject to a prior mortgage.
the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser,
and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall condition without either express or implied warranty or
be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale representation, including but not limited to the description,
forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
against all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full
commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $3,500.00 payable in
foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense at the rate of 6% on unpaid purchase money from date of
of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser without reselling the property. In the event of purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees and and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving charges and private charges or assessments, including
the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees’ file water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
number 21-000714-MD-F-1. adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
Substitute Trustees shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
Oct 5,12,19 2023 0012437247 the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
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Prince Georges County or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
MARYLAND MARYLAND Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
Diane Rosenberg, et al. James E. Clarke, et al. of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
4340 East West Highway,
Suite 600
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
Bethesda, MD 20814 to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiff(s)
V. shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
Estate of Flora E. Shedrick conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
V. Defendant(s) and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Obiamaka L Melifonwu Civil No. C-16-CV-23-000770 Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
1001 Chillum Road, order of 10.16.2020 . File No. (19-15617 )
Unit 318 NOTICE PURSUANT TO
Hyattsville, MD 20782 MD RULE 14-215 (A)
Defendant(s) ORDERED, by the Circuit Court JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
Case No. CAEF22-28417
for Prince George’s County,
Maryland, this day of 16 day of ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE,
October, 2023, that the fore- PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
NOTICE closure sale of the property
Notice is hereby given this 10 described in the deed of trust KRISTOPHER HAWKINS,
day of October, 2023 by the docketed herein and located at Substitute Trustees
Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale of
1919 Village Green Dr, Lando-
ver, MD 20785 made and report-
1001 Chillum Road, Unit 318, ed by James E. Clarke, Christine
Hyattsville, MD 20782, made
and reported, will be ratified and
M. Drexel and Joanna Foronda,
Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED
confirmed, unless cause to the and CONFIRMED, unless cause
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 10 day of November,
to the contrary be shown on or
before the 16 day of November,
2023, provided a copy of this 2023; provided a copy of this Or-
notice beninserted in The Wash-
ington Post a daily newspaper
der be inserted in THE WASHING-
TON POST, once in each of three
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printed in said County, once in (3) successive weeks before the
each o fthree successive weeks
before the 10 day of November,
16 day of November, 2023. The
Report of Sale states the amount
2023. The Report of Sale states of the sale at $103,000.00.
the amount of the foreclosure
sale price to be $69,300.00. BY THE COURT:
Mahasin El Amin
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Clerk of the Circuit Court

buildings and improvements thereon situated in Prince ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the George’s County, MD and more fully described in the Prince George’s County, Orlans 22-003658
George’s County, MD and more fully described in the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Prince aforesaid Deed of Trust. Maryland #793
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012439378

aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #06-0578195. George’s County, MD and more fully described in the The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438576
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #03-3655065. an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND
MARYLAND
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions with no warranty of any kind.

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and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
with no warranty of any kind. and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and Terms of Sale: A deposit of $35,000 in the form of certified CARRIE M. WARD, et.al. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $20,000 in the form of certified with no warranty of any kind. check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of Terms of Sale: A deposit of $93,000 in the form of certified purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money vs.
purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or PEONA M. SMITH AKA
SERENA BERTRILLE BOYD PEONA MARIE SMITH
ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date 6200 Savannah Drive 1621 Fenwood Avenue
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash Brandywine, MD 20613 Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Defendant(s). Defendant(s).
at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
of sale to the date funds are received in the office of the at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the Case No.C-16-CV-23-002336 Case No.C-16-CV-23-000999
Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in of sale to the date funds are received in the office of the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before NOTICE NOTICE Washington Post newsletters
the event additional funds are tendered before settlement Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Notice is hereby given this 10 Notice is hereby given this 10
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder the event additional funds are tendered before settlement Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural day of October 2023, by the
Circuit Court for Prince George’s
day of October, 2023, by the
Circuit Court for Prince George’s
deliver more of what you’re looking for.
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private County, Maryland, that the sale County, Maryland, that the sale
Discover and subscribe for free at
of the property mentioned in
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive of the property mentioned in

of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
these proceedings and described
as 6200 Savannah Drive, Bran-
these proceedings and described
as 1621 Fenwood Avenue, washingtonpost.com/newsletters
Oxon Hill, MD 20745, made
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and dywine, MD 20613, made
and reported by the Substitute and reported by the Substitute
or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges and ground or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer CONFIRMED, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown
CONFIRMED, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown
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rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges and ground taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. on or before the 10 day of No- on or before the 10 day of No-
the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the vember 2023, provided a copy
of this NOTICE be inserted in
vember, 2023, provided a copy
of this NOTICE be inserted in
and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/ some daily newspaper printed some daily newspaper printed
fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed in said County, once in each of
three successive weeks before
in said County, once in each of
three successive weeks before
be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is the 10 day of November, 2023. the 10 day of November, 2023.
forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale responsible for obtaining physical possession of the The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to
and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property be $597,000.00. be $233,000.00.
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit Mahasin El Amin Mahasin El Amin
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, Clerk Circuit Court for Clerk, Circuit Court for
loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower Prince George’s County,
Maryland #769
Prince George’s County,
Maryland #793
Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale BWW#MD363375 BWW#MD-328401

marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438565 Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438591

equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, FOR THE COUNTY OF
deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that MARYlAND PRINCE GEORGE’S,
MARYLAND
against all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. STEPHEN B. JACKSON and
commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled against all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by STEVEN P. HENNE
Substituted Trustees
WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et al.
Trustee(s)
foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further Plaintiffs Plaintiff(s)
sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against
and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then
sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on
the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
v.
ESTATE of VERA MAE BURNEY
Defendant
vs.
ADA P HARRIS
Defendant(s)
umbrella
re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
or
Mortgagor(s)
of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted Civil Action No.
C-16-CV-23-003152 CIVIL NO: C-16-CV-23-002344
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds NOTICE
any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
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NOTICE
purchaser without reselling the property. In the event of NOTICE IS HBREBY GIVEN, this NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this
a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to purchaser without reselling the property. In the event of improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. 10 day of October, 2023, by the 16 day of October, 2023 by
receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale
the Circuit Court for the County
of Prince George’s, Maryland
improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the property which is the and by the authority thereof,
and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the subject of these proceedings,
made by Stephen B. Jackson
that the sale made by William
M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto,
and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees and and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the and Steven P. Henne, Substituted Trustees, of the Real Property
expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees and deposit without interest. (Matter No. 29642-1) Trustees, to: OMID Land Group,
LLC and reported in the above
designated as 8905 Crandall
Road, Lanham, MD 20706,
Stay one step ahead
the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees’ file expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
number 22-003082-MD-F-1. the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees’ file Substitute Trustees
entitled cause, will beratified and
confinned, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
and reported in the above enti-
tled cause, will be finally ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
of the weather with the
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., number 22-001319-MD-F-1.
Substitute Trustees The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of
before the 10 day of November,
2023, provided a copy of this
Notice be inserted in a news-
the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 16 day of No-
vember, 2023 next; provided
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redemption by the Internal Revenue Service. paper published in said Prince a copy of this order be inserted
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., George’s County, Maryland, once in THE WASHINGTON POST, 1150
a week for three successive 15th Street, Washington DC, MD
Substitute Trustees weeks on or before the 10 day published said County of Prince
of November, 2023. The Report George’s once a week for three
of Sale states the amount of successive weeks before the wpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang
Oct 5,12,19 2023 0012437294 the foreclosure sale price to be
$271,000.00. The property sold
16 day of November, 2023.
The report states the amount
herein is known as 4309 30th of the sale to be $362,000.00.
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Calvert County 853
Calvert County 856
Frederick County 856
Frederick County 872
Fairfax County 872
Fairfax County 851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County 852
Anne Arundel County 857
Howard County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY HOWARD COUNTY,
MARYLAND MARYLAND MARYLAND
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES SALE OF William M. Savage, et al.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY James E. Clarke, et al. KEITH YACKO, et al, Substitute Trustees SHANNON MENAPACE
Brock and Scott, PLLC Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC LOCATED AT
7600 LEESBURG PIKE
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
Substitute Trustee,
Plaintiff, Versus
Substitute Trustee
Plaintiff
5431 Oleander Drive 11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302 FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA 22043
Wilmington NC, 28403 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 In accordance with the terms of that certain Credit Line Deed of Trust,
V. v. Christina Marie Lubunyz
Defendant
V.
470-321-7112 Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Fixture Filing dated as Estate of DORETHA V JOHNSON, et al, JOHN WILLIAM BROOKS, JR.
of December 20, 2018 and recorded on December 27, 2018 in Fairfax Eugene Milton Harris AKA Defendants. No. C-02-CV-19-002238 Defendant
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF County, Virginia in Book 25624, Page 1138 as Instrument No. 2018- Eugene M Harris, AKA
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY TRUSTEES’ SALE OF 073020.003 (the “Deed of Trust”), TNREF III 7600 LEESBURG PIKE, LLC, Eugene Harris Case No. C-16-CV-23-000197 NOTICE Civil No.: C-13-CV-19-000896
KNOWN AS VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY a Delaware limited liability company (“Borrower”), conveyed all of its Defendant(s)
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this
Thursday, September 28, 2023 NOTICE OF SALE
right, title and interest in and to the real property described on Exhibit
4010 Sixes Rd KNOWN AS A hereto and certain personal property, more particularly described in Civil No.CAEF22-30114 Notice is hereby issued this that the sale of the property
Prince Frederick, MD 20678 2410 ELLSWORTH WAY, UNIT 2B the Deed of Trust, to ALG TRUSTEE, LLC, a Virginia limited liability com-
NOTICE PURSUANT TO
3 day of October, 2023, that
the sale of the property in this
in the proceedings mentioned,
made and reported by William M.
5233 HERMIT PATH,
COLUMBIA, MARYLAND 21044
pany, as prior trustee for indexing purposes, for the benefit of TC DEBT
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a FREDERICK, MD 21702 OPPORTUNITIES, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Original MD RULE 14-215 (A) case, 4805 WHITFIELD CHAPEL Savage, et al., BE RATIFIED AND
certain Deed of Trust to , Trustee(s), dated December 31, Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated Lender”), in trust, to secure a certain Promissory Note, dated Decem- ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Prince George’s County,
ROAD LANHAM, MD 20706,
reported by Jennifer Deardorff,
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
Notice is hereby issued by
ber 20, 2018, payable to Original Lender, as assigned by that certain the Circuit Court of HOWARD
1969, and recorded among the Land Records of CALVERT June 16, 2008, and recorded in Liber 7013, folio 0553, of Assignment of Credit Line Deed of Trust, Security Agreement, Assign- Maryland, this 16 day of Octo- Attorney for the Substitute Trust- before the 30th day of October COUNTY this 2nd day of Octo-
COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 5644 , folio 748 , 07/15/2020 the land records of FREDERICK COUNTY , with an original ment of Leases and Fixture Filing dated December 20, 2018 by Orig- ber, 2023, that the foreclosure ee, be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary
2023 next; provided, a copy of
this Notice be inserted in some
ber, 2023 that the sale of the
inal Lender, as assignor, to DOUBLELINE MORTGAGE OPPORTUNITIES sale of the property described in property mentioned in these
the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust principal balance of $193,857.00, default having occurred (IRELAND) DAC, an Irish designated activity company (“DoubleLine”), the deed of trust docketed here- be shown on or before the 3 newspaper published in Anne proceedings, made and report-
having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees as assignee, and recorded on December 27, 2018 in Fairfax County, in and located at 4606 Howe day of November, 2023, pro-
vided a copy of this Notice be
Arundel County, once in each of
three successive weeks before
ed by NICOLE LIPINSKI, Sub-
Virginia in Book 25624, Page 1171 as Instrument No. 2018-073020.005, Avenue, Suitland, MD 20746 stitute Trustee, be ratified and
by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land will offer for sale at public auction at THE FREDERICK further assigned by that certain Assignment of Credit Line Deed of made and reported by James inserted in Washington Post, a the 30th day of October 2023 confirmed, unless cause to the
Records, default having occurred under the terms thereof, COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, Trust, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Fixture Filing E. Clarke, Christine M. Drexel newspaper published in Prince
George’s County, Maryland, once
next. The report states that the
amount of sale of the property
contrary thereof be shown on or
dated February 11, 2019 by DoubleLine, as assignor, to DMO IRELAND and Joanna Foronda, Substitute before the 31st day of October,
and at the request of the party secured thereby, the FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, CRE WAREHOUSE TRUST I, a Delaware statutory trust (“Warehouse”), Trustees, be RATIFIED and CON- in each of three (3) successive at 911 MEADOWBROOK ROAD, 2023, provided, a copy of this no-
undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public OCTOBER 24, 2023 at 10:15 AM as assignee, and recorded on February 21, 2019 in Fairfax County, Vir- FIRMED, unless cause to the weeks on or before the 3 day
of November, 2023. The report
GLEN BURNIE, MD 21061 to be tice be inserted in WASHINGTON
ginia in Book 25663, Page 1791 as Instrument No. 2019009427.001, fur- contrary be shown on or before $286,260.00. POST a newspaper published
auction at THE CALVERT COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any ther assigned by that certain Assignment of Credit Line Deed of Trust, the 16 day of November, 2023; states the amount of sale to be HOWARD MD COUNTY, once in
175 MAIN ST, PRINCE FREDERICK, MD 20678 ON, buildings or improvements thereon situated in FREDERICK Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Fixture Filing dated provided a copy of this Order be $145,000.00. Scott A. Poyer each of three successive weeks,
June 6, 2019 by Warehouse, as assignor, to DOUBLELINE MORTGAGE inserted in THE WASHINGTON Circuit Court For before the 27th day of Octo-
OCTOBER 23, 2023 at 2:00 PM COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully OPPORTUNITIES MASTER FUND LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited POST, once in each of three (3) Mahasin El Amin Anne Arundel County, MD ber, 2023. The Report of Sale
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust. partnership (“Master Fund”), as assignee, and recorded on August 22, successive weeks before the 16 Clerk #769
Oct 5,12,19 2023 0012437658
states the amount of sale to be
2019 in Fairfax County, Virginia in Book 25862, Page 1439 as Instrument day of November, 2023. The Oct 5,12,19 2023 0012438025
$490,000.00.
thereon situated in CALVERT COUNTY, MD and described as No. 2019050935.002, further assigned by that certain Assignment of Report of Sale states the amount
follows: TAX ID# - 02-186144 Credit Line Deed of Trust, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases of the sale at $219,000.00. Wayne A Robey
and Fixture Filing dated June 6, 2019 by Master Fund, as assignor, to Clerk Circuit Court for
GRAND AVENUE CRE 2019-FL1 LTD., an exempted company incorporat- BY THE COURT: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR HOWARD COUNTY
BEGINNING FOR THE SAME AT A POINT ON THE SOUTH SIDE The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS ed under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Grand Avenue”), as assign- Mahasin El Amin PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438339
Clerk of the Circuit Court 769
OF AFORESAID PUBLIC ROAD LEADING FROM BOWENS TO IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and ee, and recorded on August 22, 2019 in Fairfax County, Virginia in Book
25862, Page 1454 as Instrument No. 2019050935.004, and further as-
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of signed by that certain Assignment of Credit Line Deed of Trust, Security Orlans 22-008537 Diane S. Rosenberg, et al DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MUTUAL ON DIVISION LINE BETWEEN THE LAND OF ROSE
L. HOOPER AND THE LAND HEREBY INTENDED TO BE record affecting the same, including any condominium or Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Fixture Filing dated September
13, 2023 by Grand Avenue, as assignor, to GACM 2019-FL1 REO (7600
Oct 19,26,Nov 2 2023 0012439384
4340 East West Highway,
Suite 600 Roommates
CONVEYED, AND RUNNING WITH THE SAID HOOPER’S LAND homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real LEESBURG), LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Lender”), as Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustee
AND NORMAN A. BOWEN’S LAND IN A SOUTHWESTERLY Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 . assignee, and recorded on September 13, 2023 in Fairfax County, Vir-
ginia in Book 27992, Page 1329 as Instrument No. 2023042799.001, Plaintiff(s)
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
currently in favor of CONSTANTINOS G. PANAGOPOULOS ESQ. and
DIRECTION, 74 YARDS TO A STONE, THENCE RUNNING IN V.
A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION, 15 YARDS TO A STONE, THENCE TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of ANDREW I. ALMAND, ESQ., as trustees, pursuant to that certain Deed
of Removal and Appointment of Substitute Trustees, recorded Septem-
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR THE COUNTY OF
Richard E. Solomon, et al.
Substitute Trustees DC - Furn room for rent, use of kitch
RUNNING IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION, 65 YARDS TO A STONE $16,000.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form ber 20, 2023, as Instrument No. 2023043866.001, in the land records PRINCE GEORGE’S, Erthia Settles Jr no smoking, no pets, $800. Avail
7500 Bellefield Avenue
PLANTED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF A ROAD LEADING FROM as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, either of whom may act MARYLAND
Fort Washington, MD 20744
Versus 11/1/2023. Call Pearl 718-419-9424

discretion, required at time of sale except for the party

(together with their successors and assigns “Trustees”), for the benefit
of Lender, (together with its successors and assigns, the “Beneficiary”) Defendant(s) MARYLAND
THE PUBLIC ROAD AFORESAID TO BATTLE CREEK, THENCE WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et.al. Shawn Brady
WITH THE SAID ROAD IN NORTHWESTERLY DIRECTION, secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser (as so amended, affected and/or assigned, and as otherwise amended,
affected and/or assigned), the Trustees, any one of whom may act (or
Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s) Case No. C-16-CV-23-000953
Defendant Roommates
65 YARDS TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase any Substitute Trustees appointed by Beneficiary), will offer for sale at No. C-02-CV-23-000181
NOTICE
THREE-QUARTERS OF AN ACRE (3/4), MORE OR LESS. price together with interest thereon at 6.250% per annum public auction, at the main public entrance to the Circuit Court for Fair-
fax County, Virginia, located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Virginia
vs.
Notice is hereby given this 10 NOTICE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON KNOWN AS 4010 SIXES ROAD, from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 2:00 PM, all of the Borrower’s MARYL. JUNIOR day of October, 2023 by the Notice is hereby issued this
Circuit Court for Prince George’s
PRINCE FREDERICK, MD 20678 Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days right, title and interest in and to certain real property together with all
improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto as more fully de-
Defendant(s)
Mortgagor(s) County, Maryland, that the sale
Thursday, September 28, 2023
that the sale of the property Ashton Hill Unfurn Br, shared bath
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be scribed in the Deed of Trust, including, without limitation, that certain of 7500 Bellefield Avenue, Fort in the proceedings mentioned, with 1 other, everything incl, laun-
Washington, MD 20744, made
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS” obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be real property together with all improvements thereon and appurte-
nances thereto known as Tax Parcel ID No. 0401-01-0039; and located
CIVIL NO: C-16-CV-23-002523
and reported, will be ratified and
made and reported by Rich-
ard J. Rogers, BE RATIFIED AND
dry onsite, $750 301-910-8668

condition without either express or implied warranty or no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event at 7600 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Virginia 22043 (the “Property”). NOTICE confirmed, unless cause o the CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
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contrary thereof be shown on or
representation, including but not limited to the description, that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if TERMS OF SALE:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this
before the 10 day of November,
contrary thereof be shown on or
16 day of October, 2023 by the before the 30th day of October
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes Cash or certified funds. With respect to the bidding of the Property, a Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF 2023, provided a copy of this 2023 next; provided, a copy of
notice be inserted in The Wash-
physical condition, construction, extent of construction, and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted bidder’s deposit of $500,000 will be required in cash or certified funds
made payable to Ballard Spahr LLP (which, as to Beneficiary or its
PRINCE GEORGE’S, Maryland and
ington Post a daily newspaper
this Notice be inserted in some
by the authority thereof, that the newspaper published in Anne
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision, as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. assignee, nominee or affiliate, may be in the form of a credit against the sale made by William M. Savage, printed in said County, once in Arundel County, once in each of
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environmental condition, merchantability, compliance If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners unpaid indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust). Settlement is to
occur within twenty (20) days of the date of sale, otherwise Trustee(s)
Gregory N. Britto, Trustees, of
before the 10 day of November,
three successive weeks before for recipients of select programs
the Real Property designated the 30th day of October 2023
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances association dues and assessments that may become due may cause the bidder’s deposit to be forfeited. If the bidder’s deposit is as 500 Suffolk Avenue, Cap- 2023. The Report of Sale states next. The report states that the
incl. Medicaid, SNAP, Housing Assis-
tance, WIC, Veterans Pension, Sur-
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility. not forfeited, interest shall accrue on the balance of the purchase price
from November 8, 2023, at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum.
itol Heights, MD 20743, and the amount of the foreclosure
sale price to be $320,000.00.
amount of sale of the property at vivor Benefits, Lifeline, Tribal. 15 GB
reported in the above entitled 8725 AUTUMN RIDGE COURT,
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of record affecting the Property or any other matter which would be
in some newspaper published in
Nathaniel Risch, Esq.,
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ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or Oct 5,12,19 2023 0012434894 said County once in each of three for the Estate of
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
disclosed by an accurate survey or inspection.
Gift subscriptions successive weeks before the 10
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Mahasin El Amin
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Case No. C-04-CV-22-000419
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known be present to conduct and supervise the sale. Trustee(s) shall then PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, NOTICE
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or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon the bidder with the highest bid for the Property. Upon the conclusion
MARYLAND #769 Notice is hereby given this 6th SAT 10/21, 8AM -2PM
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, of the sale and the knocking down of the Property, Trustee(s) shall exe- S0390-1x2 Oct 12,19,26 2023 0012438584 day of October, 2023, by the Furn, clothing, toys,hsehold goods &
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Andrew I. Almand, Esq. ratified and confirmed, unless
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Should you caulk windows where metal meets wood?
shikha subramaniam BY J EANNE H UBER
designer:
twila Waddy Q: There’s a lot of contradictory
advice on the internet about
Photo editor: caulking. In particular, some
Maya Valentine sites are quite explicit that
staff writers: metal/wood junctions should not
be caulked. I have a door-sized
Jura Koncius, rachel Kurzius window where the framing
columnist: Meghan leahy meets an aluminum sill. Should
email: localliving@washpost.com this, in fact, be caulked?
A: It is true that some junctions
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between metal and wood should
Mail: not be caulked. Over windows,
local living section, for example, there shouldn’t be
the Washington post, 1301 K st. caulk between the metal flashing
nW, Washington, d.C. 20071 and the window frame. Nor
should there be caulk along the
advertising flashing that often separates
ron ulrich, 202-334-5289 panels stacked on exterior walls
on tHe cover when more than one panel is
needed to cover the whole height
illustration by José l. soto/the of the wall, such as on a gable
Washington post; istock end of a house or shed. In these
cases, the flashing is bent into a
Z shape so one leg extends up the
wall, behind where it becomes
visible on the exterior. A second
bend allows the metal to cover
the top edge of the piece below.
The purpose of this flashing is to
channel away any moisture that
gets behind the siding above the
window or the top panel. Washington post illustration; reader photo

Plugging the gap between the

flashing and the window trim or
lower panel would trap moisture
and defeat the purpose of the
flashing.
But in the situation you are
asking about, the sill is designed
only to allow rain to flow away
from the window. Around the
window, behind the sill and
frame, there should be a
membrane that keeps water
from getting into the wall.
Usually a sticky-backed,
rubberlike material, this
membrane should have been
installed starting at the bottom
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gets through the house wrap.
If your window’s membrane is
installed correctly, caulking the
sill to the side framing is
optional. It wouldn’t hurt, but it
wouldn’t be necessary because
the hidden membrane would be
channeling away any water that
got through that gap. The water
would dribble down the wall
behind the siding and eventually
evaporate.
Of course, at this point you
probably have no way to know
how the window was installed.
So caulking the gap between the
worrying about whether the
paint covers some of the caulk.
Caulk works best when it
needs to bridge only the two side
edges of a gap. If the gap is deep
and you try to squeeze in enough
caulk to fill it, the caulk has to
stretch three ways and is likely to
fail prematurely. The label on
Alex Plus says it lasts for 40 years
— but that’s only if it’s used to fill
gaps no wider or deeper than
half an inch. The gap between
the sill and the trim on your
window is probably deeper than
that. Stuff in a short piece of
backer rod, such as Frost King
poly foam caulk saver. (A 20-foot
roll with a 0.375-inch diameter is
$3.93 at Home Depot; it also
comes in a half-inch diameter for
wider gaps.) Given that you need
such a small amount, you could
probably improvise with a little
piece of weather stripping or
even foam packaging. The
purpose is to fill the deeper part
of the gap, so the caulk just has
to connect the metal and the
edge of the window trim. Try to

of the window, with a piece long
enough to extend a little way up
the sides. The side pieces would
have gone on next, overlapping
the first piece of membrane. The
membrane at the top would have
been last, overlapping the side
pieces.
Buildingscience.com, a site
run by experts that diagnose and
recommend solutions to
building problems, says the top
membrane should fit under the
house wrap and be sealed
directly to the sheathing (the
paneling that covers the framing,
to be hidden later with siding).
Some builders stick the
membrane at the top to the
house wrap, rather than the
sheathing, but Building Science
Corp., which runs that website,
says that traps any moisture that
metal sill and the edge of the side
window trim is probably a smart
thing to do. It could help keep
moisture on the sill from getting
into the trim, or maybe the wall.
And it would help seal the pores
on the end of the wood trim
around the window. In the
picture you sent, it appears that
paint has flaked off the ends of
the trim boards, probably
because the wood there absorbed
moisture, causing the wood
fibers to expand and push off the
paint.
Use a clear caulk that’s labeled
as paintable, such as Dap’s alex
plus clear acrylic caulk with
silicone ($4.28 a tube at Home
Depot). Clear caulk won’t be
noticeable now, and if you ever
repaint, you will be able to brush
on a straight edge without
Caulk works best when
it needs to bridge only
the two side edges of a
gap. If the gap is deep
and you try to squeeze
in enough caulk to fill it,
the caulk has to stretch
three ways and is likely
to fail prematurely.
apply the caulk so it fills the gap
but doesn’t bulge out beyond the
trim.
Should you caulk around the
window trim where it meets the
siding? No, it doesn’t make sense
to caulk there, even though it
would be a wood-to-wood
connection. Nor should you
caulk gaps between the shingles
on your house. They should be
installed in an overlapping way
that solves the moisture problem
without needing caulk. And
don’t use caulk to fill horizontal
seams between boards that are
used for siding.
 Have a problem in your home?
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Welcome to the unexpectedly
complex world of white paint
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BY C HRIS M OODY
Buying a can of white paint
seems like a straightforward
task. It’s just white, right?
But talk to any designer or paint
expert and you’ll quickly learn
that there is nothing simple about
white paint. It is a color — or a
non-color, depending on your
view — with the capacity for ex-
treme subtlety in its sheer number
of shade and texture options.
Sherwin-Williams alone offers
nearly 200 shades of white. That
makes choosing, naming and even
creating a white paint far more
involved than meets the eye.
It’s precisely that complexity,
though, that makes white a go-to
for many designers. The effec-
tiveness of white lies in its under-
tones, which can range from
warm — think soft and cozy with
a gentle yellow beneath it — to
cold white, which typically hues
blue. And of course, there’s pure
white, like a sheet of office paper.
After gray shades have domi-
nated most of this century’s paint
market in the United States, good
old-fashioned, reliable white is
having something of a moment.
To meet the demand, paint com-
panies are working hard to come
up with creative shades to devel-
op and name.
“White is really making its run
right now. It’s coming back,” says
Jodi Macklin, a designer based in
Chevy Chase, Md. “We are defi-
nitely using much more white
than color than we were over the
last years.”
What is white, anyway?
Contemplating the complexi-
ties of white is nothing new. For
centuries, white has vexed and
enchanted philosophers, poets,
artists and novelists the world
over. In his groundbreaking
“Theory of Colours,” 19th-centu-
ry German philosopher Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe wrote that
white “excites” the eye, describ-
ing it as “representative of light.”
Stacy Zarin goldberg
William Morris, the British
socialist activist and textile de-
signer, urged his countrymen to
“choose honest whitewash … on
which sun and shadow play so
pleasantly.”
Herman Melville devoted an
entire chapter of “Moby-Dick” to
the color. “Whiteness,” Melville
mused in his 3,600-word aside, D.C.-based design
“is not so much a color as the firm Storie
visible absence of color; and at Collective chose
the same time the concrete of all Figueroa, a warm
colors; is it for these reasons that shade of off-white
there is such a dumb blankness, from the brand
full of meaning, in a wide land- Portola Paint, to
scape of snows … [?]” brighten the
As intriguing as it may be, entryway of a home
white has not been without its in Van Ness.

critics. Louis Cheskin, the 20th-
century psychologist and mar-
keting analyst, called white walls
“an optical strain and psychologi-
cal hazard.”
The late Frank and Rudolf
Mahnke, a father-son environ-
mental design duo, devoted a
chapter of their 1978 tome “Color
and Light in Man-made Environ-
ments” to railing against it, call-
ing it “a bleak and emotionless
hue” that can induce “anxiety,
tension, fear, and distress.”
The use of white in mid-centu-
ry reached what the Mahnkes
called “epidemic proportions”
starting in 1955 and peaking in
1975. They called for “an immedi-
ate halt to white and off white
interiors.” White walls in a chil-
dren’s hospital, they wrote,
“would hardly lessen the pa-
tients’ mental anguish.” Non-
white colors would help in “draw-
ing attention outward and away
from inner distress.”
“Environments that are pre-
dominantly neutral in appear-
ance are beyond any positive
value and will always appear
static, boring, and tedious,” they
wrote in their chapter entitled,
aptly, “The Case Against White.”
“White need not be used as a
predominant color; there are too
many better alternatives.”
But modern supporters of
white in design point to its power
as a color that contains multi-
tudes in subtlety and range, and
that can transcend short-term
trends.
“I love white,” says Joanne
Rodríguez, an interior designer
in Rockville, Md. “It’s timeless.
It’s clean and versatile. With
white, you can create different
textures just by the finish.”
Creating and naming white
paint
Whites can pose a particular
challenge in terms of texture,
sheen and light reflection, says
Sue Wadden, the director of color
marketing for Sherwin-Williams.
Achieving the perfect look re-
quires painstaking experimenta-
tion with the company’s color
lab. Even the tiniest drop of
pigment can alter the look and
feel of a color’s hue, shade and
feel.
“Whites have to hide. They
have to cover,” Wadden says.
“They have to resist scratching,
marring and smudgy fingers and
all those things. There’s so much
that goes into whites that you
wouldn’t think when you’re just
rolling it on the wall. There’s a
huge variability between whites.
So it presents its own challenges.”
To develop new shades, paint
companies rely on teams of ex-
perts in fashion and design to
scour the globe in search of the
next “it” color.
As a former member of Benja-
min Moore’s Designer Alliance,
Tracy Morris, an interior design-
er in Washington, D.C., has trav-
eled the world to spot trends that
might influence new paint color
designs. Companies rely on input
from designer trade shows, such
as Milan’s Salone del Mobile,
Decorex in London or Paris Déco
Off. Innovations in textiles, wood
style preferences, flooring, furni-
ture — even clothing — all influ-
ence the direction of color trends.
“Fashion dictates our colors,”
Morris says.
No color is complete, though,
without a name. Wadden spends
a lot of time thinking about what
to name new paint colors and
says white gives her the most
trouble.
“You’re limited on the range
because there’s not the full spec-
trum to pull from,” she says.
Over the years, companies
have relied on names that range
from the literal, such as Benja-
min Moore’s Simply White, to the
poetic: Sherwin-Williams’s Sanc-
tuary and Sunbleached. Or, for
the ironic among us, Farrow and
Ball’s cool white, Blackened.
Wadden and other experts of-
ten look to the natural world for
inspiration. What to name the
new palette of cool whites with
gray undertones? Behold, Eider
White (as in the duck) and Snow-
iLLuSTraTion by JoSé L. SoTo/The WaShingTon PoST; iSTock
bound (obvious). There are
warmer tones, such as Dover
White (see: the cliffs of ) or Chevi-
ot (the sheep); and bright shades,
such as Whitetail (after the deer’s
rear) or Panda White (after that
animal you have to wait in line
for hours to see at the zoo).
“Everyone has an association
with nature,” Wadden says. “It’s
what we see through our window
every day, so usually that’s a
strong connection to color.”
To make the task more daunt-
ing, Sherwin-Williams has a da-
tabase of some 35,000 color
names over its 157-year history.
Employees aren’t allowed to rep-
licate a name that’s been used
before. Marketers have tricks to
overcome that hurdle: They in-
clude an ampersand, spell it a
little differently or add an extra
word, Wadden says.
“The naming process is quite
involved,” says Andrea Magno,
director of color marketing and
development at Benjamin Moore,
which has about 3,500 named
colors on its palette. The compa-
ny names colors after places
(Pompeii), food (Mayonnaise),
and feelings (Calm). “The inspi-
ration for color names is endless,”
Magno adds.
And now PPG Paints is seeking
help from technology; the com-
pany recently started using Chat-
GPT. “It helps with the initial
brainstorm,” says Erin Lageman-
Louies, marketing manager at
PPG Industries. “It’s definitely
something we’re using on a daily
basis.”
The case for white in
design
Far from merely serving as a
default paint color while in the
throes of decision paralysis,
whites serve specific design pur-
poses that an untrained eye can
easily overlook.
For instance, whites can be
exceptional for highlighting oth-
er colors, such as in nature out-
side windows or furniture inside,
Morris says.
For a dream home for a client in
St. Michaels, a charming colonial
village on Maryland’s eastern
shore, Morris was concerned that
a darker color on the interior
might take away from the world-
class, 360-degree views of the
Chesapeake Bay. The charming
wood siding on the quintessential-
ly coastal Cape Cod-style home
was painted with a taupe-based
green that complemented the
maritime surroundings. So she
proposed a warm shade of white.
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“When we are utilizing white,
it is because we are trying to
focus on other items either inside
or outside the home,” Morris
says. “A lot of times folks will
paint spaces in coastal homes
that are just too bold or distract-
ing. You lose your view.”
Morris chose Wind’s Breath by
Benjamin Moore, an off-white
with subtle gray undertones, and
painted the trim White Dove to
provide a bright contrast. The
result? The white-based color
scheme gave the home a cozy
feeling where the million-dollar
view of the bay takes center stage.
“It’s like your favorite fall car-
digan,” Morris says of these types
of warm whites. “It envelops you,
it makes you feel cozy, but yet it’s
clean.”
Choosing the right shade can
be daunting for non-experts just
trying to make their home nice,
particularly because white has a
way of transforming depending
on the time of day and time of
year.
To help clients, Gillian Rose, a
California-based color scientist
and designer, asks her clients to
participate in a neuroscientific
polarity test to discover the color
that works best for them. Color,
Rose says, is not merely a design
choice that needs to match a
space. It has to speak to the
person, too. Clients choose from
words they want to experience
when they enter the space, such
as “welcoming,” “dynamic,”
“open,” “subtle,” “timeless” or “se-
cure,” which helps narrow their
choices. People drawn to whiter
shades on their walls are usually
more introverted, requiring less
stimulation in the spaces around
them than extroverts, she says.
“When people come to me,
they’re coming to discover them-
selves,” Rose says. “The colors
we’re drawn to are about us.
They’re telling me. I’m not telling
them.”
For the more tech-savvy, large
paint manufacturers are devel-
the washington post . thursday, october 19 , 2023
oping technologies to help peo-
ple choose just the right shade.
Benjamin Moore recently intro-
duced a virtual assistant, “Betty,”
to assist consumers with the
selection process. PPG, which
manufactures Glidden paints,
now offers a mobile program —
pulled from dating apps — in
which users are presented with
shades and asked to swipe left for
“no” and right for “yes.” Think of
it as Tinder, but for colors.
Picking any shade “can feel
really overwhelming,” says PPG’s
Lageman-Louies. “But if you’re
swiping through and asked to
make a choice, sometimes you
just have to go with your gut.”
chris Moody is a writer based in
boone, n.c., where he teaches
journalism at appalachian State
university. he is colorblind.
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BY M ICHELLE B RUNNER
White paint has been around since our prehis-
toric ancestors used a pigment made from ground
calcite to render figures on cave walls. More than
17,000 years later, humans still like white paint —
the washington post . thursday, october 19 , 2023
a lot. the timeless neutral ranks among the
top-selling colors for all of the major paint brands.
at Behr alone, whites, beiges and creams took up
nearly 40 percent of total paint sales for the first
half of this year, and Benjamin Moore offers
hundreds of shades of the color.
With so many endless variations, finding the
right white paint color can be akin to searching
for a cotton ball in a heap of snow. So we asked a
handful of interior designers to name their
foolproof favorites. Because the majority of the
pros were loyal to one brand, we reached out to
Michelle Marceny, founder of denver-based the
color concierge, for comparable whites from
other paint companies, in an effort to achieve
even coverage.
Here, designers share their go-to hues, along
with tips on how to pick a white that’s right for
your space.
Benjamin Moore White Dove
this crowd-pleasing shade has been Benjamin
Moore’s best-selling white paint for several years,
according to andrea Magno, director of color
Stacy Zarin goldberg
marketing and development. “it’s the color we
probably use the most,” says Melissa Sanabria, of
d.c.-based interiors firm Sanabria & co.
Shannon Kadwell, of anthony Wilder design/
Build, is also a fan: “i love its ability to play nice
Each shade with warm and cool tones.” and emilie Munroe,
owner of San Francisco-based Studio Munroe,
likes the way it can make an interior feel cozy on
is unique: even the foggiest day. “Because of the light quality
in the city, the warmth of White dove balances
beautifully with the gray landscape,” she says.
Designers love While light should be the biggest factor in
determining which white paint is right for a
space, Sanabria also looks at the floor finish. “if
these 7 white you have an oak floor that’s ambered over time,
then your paint will pick up yellow tones, so i
would exercise caution with using a warm white.
paint colors in that instance, you might want to go with
something a bit cooler.”
Comparable: Sherwin-Williams alabaster
Benjamin Moore Simply White
named the company’s color of the Year in 2016,
Designer Melissa Sanabria likes to use this white paint remains a well-thumbed page in
Benjamin Moore’s Super White paint many designers’ fan decks thanks to its minimal
in kitchens and on gallery walls. undertones. Munroe favors its crisp, clean look
for kitchens and baths. She recommends check-
ing white paint against the construction materi-
als, especially if you’re using carrara marble or
continued on next page

from previous page
even white subway tile because
they often have icier gray under-
tones.
“i remember a conversation i
had once with a bride who said
that if you have an ivory dress you
should make sure your partner
has an ivory shirt — otherwise the
ivory dress will make the shirt
look dirty,” she says. “Next to a
Carrara marble, a warm white is
going to look yellow.”
Comparable: sherwin-Wil-
liams Cheviot
Benjamin Moore Super
White
revered for its brightening
powers, super White is a boon in
the bathroom for designer annie
elliott, who favors it as a trim and
ceiling color because it’s white
enough to complement most sink
and toilet fixtures. “a generic ceil-
ing white can look too gray and
not finished. super White has just
a hint of warmth that looks inten-
tional,” she says.
sanabria also favors this hue
for kitchens and to approximate
gallery walls when clients have a
great art collection. “it has very
little undertone and feels really
modern,” she says. “it lets the art
shine.”
Comparable: sherwin-Wil-
liams extra White
Portola Paints Figueroa
sara swabb, founder of interi-
or design firm storie Collective,
likes to use portola paints
figueroa, a super-warm off-
white, to brighten a space. “The
light in a recent project was not
great and we struggled with how
to make this home feel cozy and
saturated without bringing in too
much of a yellow undertone,” she
says, noting that rowhouses in
particular benefit from a warmer
white paint because natural light
only enters on the front and back
of the home.
/ When evaluating paints,
swabb suggests looking for the
Lrv, which is the light reflective
value. “The purer whites are clos-
er to 100 and as you add color, it
will go down in value,” she says.
most of the whites and off-whites
on this list fall in the 80 to 100
range.
Comparable: farrow & Ball
slipper satin
Sara Swabb of Storie Benjamin Moore Swiss
Collective relied on Coffee
Portola Paint’s Designer shea mcgee knows
Figueroa to bring a her ivories from her chalks —
warm glow to this white walls are a signature of
living room. studio mcgee, the company she
helms with her husband, syd. Her
top pick: Benjamin moore swiss
Coffee, a color she’s used in her
own home. “it’s very soft, and it
occupies that perfect middle
ground where it’s not too sterile,
Stacy Zarin goldberg but it also doesn’t read so creamy
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that it starts to look yellow,” she
says.
mcgee notes that this warm
off-white is ideal for rooms with
north-facing light, while spaces
with south-facing light can han-
dle a paint with cooler under-
tones. and just to make things
extra confusing, it’s worth men-
tioning that virtually every paint
company offers an off-white
named swiss Coffee, so don’t as-
sume they are all interchange-
able.
Comparable: Behr milk paint
Benjamin Moore Capitol
White
While not as frequently name-
checked as the other colors on
this list, this creamy hue has
recently become a favorite of el-
liott’s. “The challenge is always to
find a white that isn’t too gray or
too yellow, but has just the right
amount of warmth, and i have
found Capitol White to be really
lovely,” she says.
To test a color in your home,
elliott suggests painting large
samples on poster board, but
leaving a white border around the
sample so the white of the board
acts as a baseline. seeing the
paint color against the white of
the poster board will help bring
out nuanced undertones. Leave
the boards around the room for a
day or two to get a sense of how
the color changes with the light.
Comparable: Dunn-edwards
frosting Cream
Benjamin Moore Cloud Cover
atlanta-based designer Brad-
ley odom swears by this off-white
with barely there gray-violet un-
dertones. “it’s really crisp, but the
thing i love the most about it is
that there’s no yellow in it at all,”
he says. “We’ve applied it in about
15 different homes now and it
always reflects light beautifully.”
if you’re having trouble identi-
fying the undertone of a white
paint color, look to the bottom-
most, darkest hue on the paint
the washington post . thursday, october 19 , 2023
card — it’s usually a good indica-
tor if a color skews yellow, pink or
gray.
Comparable: sherwin-Wil-
liams origami White, though
marceny says it’s a tad darker.
Michelle brunner is a writer in d.c.
who covers interior design and
culture.
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How to choose paint
colors based on your
home’s style and era
BY K RISTEN H ARTKE
standing in front of an array of
hundreds — perhaps thousands
— of two- or three-inch paint
chips at the hardware store can be
intimidating. A theoretically
calming color like green can be-
come a decision minefield, popu-
lated with names like Leapfrog,
Raw Tomatillo and Fresh Grass.
Beige suddenly seems like the
easiest choice.
But you may be able to find the
color inspiration you need within
the architecture of your home, or
the era in which it was built. Live
in a Colonial revival constructed
in 1890? Consider a palette of rich
blue, ochre and russet. For a 1928
apartment in an Art Deco build-
ing, think jewel-toned, Jazz Age
pops of jade, amethyst and sap-
phire. “every period in architec-
tural history has colors that de-
fine it,” says building conserva-
tionist Mary Jablonski. “so go
ahead and put a little color into
your life.”
even if you aren’t trying to
create a historical replica, shades
from your home’s past can at least
serve as a jumping-off point to
make the decision process a lot
easier, says sue Wadden, director
of color marketing for sherwin-
Williams, which offers a resource
for homeowners called Color
Through the Decades. “If you’ve
got some paralysis, this is a great
way to help make decisions,” she
says, simply because you’ll be
starting with a more streamlined
range of options. Andrea Magno,
director of color marketing for
Benjamin Moore, concurs. For
instance, if you’re lost in a sea of
blues, focusing on the brand’s
history-inspired collection will
immediately narrow your choic-
es. “There are about 18 blues
ranging from light to dark — a
smaller selection of color making
the process easier to manage,” she
says.
or maybe you want to lean
away from your home’s period.
Paint can help with that, too. Let’s
say you want to inject a mid-cen-
tury modern vibe into the living
room of your Victorian rowhouse.
Painting the walls pale chartreuse
will set the stage for Atomic-era
furnishings much better than a
colonial to Greek revival:
Mid-1600s to mid-1800s
deeper color from the age of
Victoriana.
For interior designer Rayman
Boozer, whose clients come to
him for his bold use of color, it’s
about creating a space that re-
flects your own history along with
that of your home. “There has to
be a thread that ties everything
together,” Boozer says. “It’s a color
story waiting to be told.”
Take, for example, a 1920s-era
Chicago home that Boozer is cur-
rently designing. He could have
leaned into Art Deco-inspired
ruby red accent walls, but instead
he took inspiration from the
slightly earlier Arts & Crafts
movement, which better suited
the homeowners’ tastes, referenc-
ing the deep blues of Lake Michi-
Victorian to Queen anne:
1830s to 1900s
gan and Chicago’s natural green
spaces.
no matter what style of build-
ing you live in or when it was
built, history can always be a
guiding light, says Boozer. “If you
loved your grandmother’s house
and you want to replicate it, if
those are colors that bring you
comfort and security, then go for
it.”
Historical paint colors by
architectural era — and how
to use them
These broadly defined archi-
tectural eras are merely a starting
point; if you want to find colors
more specific to the exact age of
your home, including variations
appropriate for the region where
iLLuSTraTionS by JoSé L. SoTo/The WaShingTon PoST; iSTock
you live, visit your local or state
historical society for inspiration.
one place to start online is the
digital archive of trade catalogues
maintained by the Association for
Preservation Technology — a li-
brary of nearly 300 publications
dating to 1867 featuring paint
chips along with full-color illus-
trations and photographs of pop-
ular colors across the decades. If
you live in a 20th-century home,
especially one built after 1950,
then you can also find inspiration
from old home design magazines
and books, many of which can be
found online or in used book-
stores.
The color suggestions below
were sourced from period cata-
logues, historical associations,
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and period-specific palettes from
various paint companies.
colonial to Greek revival
(mid-1600s to mid-1800s)
color inspiration: Burnt um-
ber, bayberry, sage green, flaxen
yellow
Paint was an unstable medium
until technology evolved during
the 19th century that allowed for
more standardization of colors.
Tones used to vary wildly from
one region to another based on
locally available pigments de-
rived from native minerals and
plants. For example, new eng-
land’s classic “Barn Red” came
from local iron oxide deposits.
Those who could afford them
used more vibrant colors in pub-
lic rooms, such as the parlor and
the washington post . thursday, october 19 , 2023
dining room, while less expen-
sive, paler milk paints could be
found in private areas such as
bedrooms.
Victorian to Queen anne
(1830s-1900s)
color inspiration: aubergine,
claret, peacock blue, teal green
With the Industrial Revolution
came innovation in the paint in-
dustry, including the use of zinc
oxide in house paint, which
helped colors stay brighter lon-
ger. This meant that the Victori-
ans could really embrace deeper
tones, and they reveled in show-
ing off contrasting colors in the
same room. Retired architectural
historian susan Maycock says of
the era, “Whatever paint color
you like, think of how it would
look if it were made out of velvet.”
see Historical paint on 10
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Matching a
color palette
to a home’s
design era
Historical paint from 9
craftsman to arts and crafts
(1890s-1930s)
color inspiration: adobe,
pumpkin, nutmeg, willow green
As a rebuttal to the excesses of
the Victorians, the Arts and
Crafts movement embraced na-
ture-inspired colors and popular-
ized them throughout the late
19th and early 20th centuries.
The homes of this style and era
ranged from cottages and bunga-
lows to the classic American
foursquare, and were painted to
echo the landscape, whether the
pine forests of the Pacific North-
west or the desert sands sur-
rounding Phoenix.
prewar to art Deco (1900s-
1940s)
color inspiration: Vermil-
lion, robin’s egg blue, salmon,
pewter
Generally speaking, “prewar”
refers to apartment buildings
built in cities across the country
to house a growing middle class,
often featuring decorative mold-
ings, while Art Deco architecture
incorporated geometric design el-
ements made from a variety of
materials, including glass and
metal. The new use of titanium
dioxide in white paint during the
1920s began to make it possible to
create clean, bright spaces with
bold accent walls.
the washington post . thursday, october 19 , 2023
ranch to
mid-century modern:
1940 to 1960s
craftsman to arts and crafts:
1890s to 1930s
ranch to mid-century
modern (1940s-1960s)
color inspiration: turquoise,
lilac, sunshine yellow, flamingo
modern technology continued
to impact the paint industry, al-
lowing for an expanded array of
pastel colors that ranged from
baby soft to candy colored, and
these hues could be found not
only on walls but also on appli-
ances and furniture. The paint
roller, a World War II invention,
also added to the ease of do-it-
yourself painting and led to more
women undertaking solo home-
decorating projects. The palest
pastels work as neutrals against
brighter tones in the same color
family.
postmodernism and beyond
(1970s-present)
color inspiration: tuscan
gold, avocado green, denim
blue, cappuccino, Dorian gray.
(But really, anything goes.)
Starting in the 1970s, lead
paint became a major concern in
homes, which meant paint com-
iLLuSTraTionS by JoSé L. SoTo/The WaShingTon PoST; iSTock panies ramped up manufacturing
of safer options, in a wider variety
of hues. The growing environ-
mental movement also led to an
prewar to art deco: interest in low-VoC paints and
1900s to 1940s natural ingredients. With the rise
of suburban single-family homes
and condominium buildings with
little ornamentation, homeown-
ers turned to paint as a way to
define open-plan living and per-
sonalize neutral spaces.
“modern construction is a
great place to take a risk with
color,” says Wadden of Sherwin-
Williams, and an ever-widening
array of colors to choose from, as
paint technology continues to
evolve, makes it easy for weekend
DIYers to refresh their homes
with paint.
kristen hartke is a writer in new york
who covers topics as varied as
modern food culture and medieval
sports.
postmodernism
and beyond:
1970s to present
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Laundry detergent isn’t one size fits all. Here’s how to choose.
BY L AURA D AILY

Laundry detergents make a lot

of claims: They whiten, brighten,
soften, eliminate odors, remove
tough stains or sanitize. There are
so many choices that shopping
your store’s household cleaning
aisle can be overwhelming.
Is one good for everybody?
“No,” says Carolyn Forté, execu-
tive director of the Good House-
keeping Institute’s Home Care
and Cleaning Lab. “With all the
detergents we test, everything
gets out something, but nothing
gets out everything,” she says.
Here’s advice from cleaning pros
on how to find a detergent that
will work for you.
Determine your laundry
needs
Active families washing multi-
ple loads of laundry every day
won’t need the same product as
someone who runs their machine
twice a week. People with aller-
gies or skin sensitivities may
want a “free and clear” product
without dyes or fragrance. Others
may prefer eco-friendly, plant-
based ingredients. There may
also be different laundry needs
within the same household. Ath-
letic types who regularly work up
a sweat may need a heavy-duty
detergent specifically formulated
to remove body soils and odors,
while a basic bargain brand is just
fine for cleaning towels used to
dry the dog after outdoor play, iLLusTraTion By Linnea BuLLion for The WashingTon PosT

says Brian Sansoni, senior vice

president of communication at
the American Cleaning Institute,
a trade association for the clean-
ing product industry.
Liquid, pod, powder or
sheet?
Sansoni says liquid detergent
still represents 72 percent of
sales, followed by pods at 22 per-
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bottles contribute to plastic waste
and debate continues over how
biodegradable pods wrapped in
plastic film and sheets woven
with plastic may be.
How detergent works
The water in your machine is
what cleans your clothes; deter-
gent adds surfactants to that wa-
re-sticking onto clothing after they
are removed. Oxygen bleach is a
non-chlorine, color-safe additive
that helps remove stains and
brightens laundry. You’ll also find
detergents with built-in fabric
softener and fragrance enhancers.
If you want to know the specific
ingredients in a detergent, check
that company’s brand website or
Private labels may help you
save
If you don’t mind a bit of trial and
error, you may be able to save mon-
ey and achieve the same results by
using private label brands such as
Costco’s Kirkland Signature or Tar-
get’s Up & Up. “And if you use a
private label brand and don’t like it,
some stores will refund your mon-
too much detergent, the dirt
comes out of your clothes, but the
excess suds can overwhelm your
rinse cycle so the dirt doesn’t
wash away, he says. And extra
suds can clog your washing ma-
chine’s hoses and valves.
Your instinct might be to care-
fully follow the manufacturer’s
dosing instructions, but Richard-

cent, and powder at 6 percent.
No-mess, no-spill single-dose
laundry pods/packets have be-
come a convenient alternative to
liquid detergent but, with the
price per load often being double
that of liquid, you pay for that
convenience. Pods also may be
wasteful if you are only doing a
small load, and so-called “power”
pods are simply larger with extra
detergent, giving you even less
bang for the buck. Forté points
out pods also represent a safety
danger to children and pets who
might ingest the colorful packets.
Users must keep them stored out
of reach in their child-resistant
packaging.
Detergent sheets are relatively
new to the laundry aisle. While
the jury’s still out on their effica-
cy, many people see them as an
eco-friendlier alternative to tradi-
tional products. Liquid detergent
ter. As clothes are washing, dirt is
pulled out and trapped in the
surfactant, then it goes out the
drain with the water.
Detergents should also have
enzymes to fight stains. Different
enzymes target specific stains.
Anything in the list of ingredients
that ends in “-ase,” such as pro-
tease (targets protein-based
stains including grass and blood)
and lipase (targets fat-based
stains such as butter and oil),
indicates that the detergent
breaks down stains, says Forté.
For a deeper dive into how deter-
gents work, read the American
Cleaning Institute’s “Chemistry of
Cleaning.”
Understand the extras
Additional ingredients work
with surfactants and enzymes to
tackle specific issues. Anti-redepo-
sition agents help keep soils from
the product itself for a SmartLabel
QR or digital code to find detailed
information.
Tweak the cleaning recipe
Though some households
stock a variety of detergents for
different cleaning scenarios, Pat-
ric Richardson, author of “Laun-
dry Love: Finding Joy in a Com-
mon Chore,” says you don’t need
six different options. Instead,
think of your favorite as a base
recipe. Then add different ingre-
dients for specific results. For
example, if you use a free and
clear detergent, but your clothes
are grimy, add washing soda to
boost the cleaning power. You’ll
find it in the detergent aisle for
about $4 a box. Have a stinky
T-shirt or nightgown? Add a
scoop of powdered oxygen bleach
(such as OxiClean or Borax) for
odor removal.
ey or give you a top name brand for
free,” Richardson says. But, he adds,
if you love the scent of Tide, you
need to buy Tide. “Scents are pro-
prietary and even if the detergent
ingredients are similar, you’re not
going to get that exact same scent
with a private label.”
Dosage can be tricky
Many manufacturers make
dosage difficult, with faint mea-
surement lines and hard-to-read
caps. While detergent packaging
may claim it cleans 50 loads, that
number is based on medium
(about half-full) loads, says Forte.
Larger or heavily soiled loads re-
quire more detergent; smaller
loads need less. Pods remove all
dosage control.
Richardson says that whatever
amount of detergent you’re using,
it’s probably too much. It sounds
counterintuitive, but if you use
son advocates for using even less.
He says two tablespoons of liquid
detergent per full load will do the
job. One measuring hack: use a
standard coffee scoop which is
exactly two tablespoons.
Test to find the best match
If you’re in the market for a new
detergent, consider trying a few.
Match the product’s advertised
strengths with your family’s needs,
as well as personal preference for
type (liquid, pod or powder), scent
and price. Then, find the smallest
bottle or package to test. “If you
hate it, there are 100 more to try,”
says Richardson. “If you love it,
then buy the biggest size you can
afford because the larger the size
the more economical.”
Laura Daily is a Colorado-based
freelance writer specializing in travel,
health, food and consumer issues.

Boxwood is a workhorse. Here’s how to protect it from blight.
BY T OVAH M ARTIN
For centuries, boxwood has
been a go-to plant for creating
structure in gardens, whether it’s
used in hedges, edging or clipped
into geometric shapes. Popular at
historic sites — think Williams-
burg and Mount Vernon — these
shrubs have also brought visual
interest and their signature scent
to modern gardens.
Then boxwood blight, a fungal
disease that originated in Europe,
made its way to the United States
in 2011. Bennett Saunders, the
general manager of Saunders Ge-
netics, which specializes in box-
wood, says the blight starts with
browning leaves, followed by de-
foliation within a week or two,
resulting in bare patches on the
plant. If the weather is warm and
wet, the infection and defoliation
can spread, with ugly and some-
times lethal results.
There is no cure for boxwood
blight, but by tweaking planting
and growing techniques and
choosing varieties that tend to be
more resistant to the disease,
boxwood is still a very viable
option for many. And many be-
lieve it’s worth a little extra effort
to save this popular workhorse.
“Even with all the issues that are
being thrown at it, I still love
boxwood. It’s such an elegant
plant,” says Andrea Filippone, a
partner at F2 Environmental De-
sign and president of the Ameri-
can Boxwood Society.
American boxwood (Buxus
sempervirens) and English box-
wood (Buxus sempervirens “Suf-
fruticosa”), a more compact ver-
sion with aromatic foliage, domi-
nate the market. The nicknames
are confusing because they aren’t
native to America or England.
Both plants, which are hardy to
Zone 5, actually originated in
southern Europe, western Asia
and North Africa.
English boxwood is particular-
ly popular because it can be
tightly clipped and used to delin-
eate spaces, screen unwanted
views, create privacy, sculpt
forms and more. Unfortunately,
English boxwood is also most
susceptible to boxwood blight,
and experts say that planting it is
asking for trouble. Other suscep-
tible cultivars include Elegantis-
sima, Vardar Valley, Morris Dwarf
and Justin Brouwers. Instead,
consider planting cultivars that
have proved semi-resistant, such
as the dwarf Little Missy and
variegated Golden Dream.
Regardless of the variety you
choose, Filippone says adjusting
your growing techniques can also
help make your boxwood less
vulnerable to disease. Filippone
is trained as an architect, and
when she initially designed her
26-acre New Jersey property in
1994 she turned to boxwood to
form wall-like hedges and create
garden “rooms.” In 2006, she
traveled to the Balkans and Cau-
casus Mountains to see boxwood
in its native habitat, and it was an
eye opener.
“Boxwood tolerates extreme
heat and cold. They grow in crags
of limestone with sparse water,
lean nutrients, and well-drained
soil,” she says. Her takeaway: “We
baby this plant too much. We give
it too much water and too much
fertilizer.” She says boxwood
would be happier and healthier if
we grew it lean and mean, so even
before blight arrived in the Unit-
ed States, she began employing
organic methods to provide
healthy soil teeming with micro-
organisms. Now she advocates
using these methods to help pre-
vent the disease.
In addition to using organic
soil, she says, it’s important to
provide good drainage for box-
wood’s shallow roots. “Add sand
to the soil or create wicks (such as
drainage pipes) to channel water
away,” Filippone says. It may be
necessary to water your boxwood
when you plant it, but after it is
established, it should only be
watered in a drought, and only
with a watering can or drip irriga-
tion. Never water it with over-
head irrigation systems, which
can allow excess water to accu-
mulate on the leaves.
Also choose your site carefully.
Boxwood can grow in shade, but
dappled light or filtered sun will
dry the leaves more rapidly after
it rains. Saunders points out that
the disease often becomes preva-
lent in autumn, when the days get
shorter and the shrubs stay wet
longer, which creates ideal condi-
tions for blight. Planting in a
bright location with good air
circulation helps dry the foliage.
Altering pruning habits is an-
other key tactic. Boxwood is often
clipped into dense, tight shapes.
Instead, trim it with an eye to-
ward allowing air to flow
throughout the plant. “Prune a
boxwood so you see dappled light
through the foliage at the base to
encourage air circulation,” Filip-
pone says. The best time to prune
is February through March.
Also, to promote air flow, avoid
fully wrapping boxwood in bur-
lap for winter protection. In-
stead, mulch it with shredded
bark no deeper than an inch to
discourage splash-up from fallen
disease spores. And be careful to
disinfect tools, boots and gloves
after working with a plant to
prevent the transmission of the
disease.
Saunders also suggested diver-
sifying plantings as a preventive
measure, coupling boxwoods
with other shrubs. Because the
blight specifically targets mem-
bers of the boxwood family, mix-
ing them with other plants will
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help reduce the risk of spreading
the contagion. But avoid growing
it with the related pachysandra
and sweetbox (Sarcococca sp.),
which can host the disease.
You can also, of course, look for
alternatives to boxwood, but find-
ing a shrub with similar traits is a
tall order. The most common
option is the Japanese holly (Ilex
crenata), which has small leaves
and a tight growth habit that can
be trained to mimic boxwood,
making it a virtual look-alike. The
native inkberry (Ilex glabra) is
another alternative. But Tim
Kane, inventory and marketing
manager at Prides Corner Farms
in Lebanon, Conn., points out
that boxwood is king for a reason.
“Boxwood got where it is by
offering the suite of traits that
gardeners need,” he says.
At the top of that list of traits is
that boxwood is typically resis-
tant to deer, unlike Japanese
holly and inkberry. Ilex plants
aren’t a good option in places
where deer are a severe issue.
That is one of many reasons
Andrea Filippone urges garden-
ers to keep boxwood in their
toolbox. “Boxwood is still a beau-
tiful and useful plant, we just
need to help it fight off problems,”
she says.
tovah Martin is a gardener and
freelance writer in connecticut. Find
her online at tovahmartin.com.
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house of the Week

Arlington home has multilevel outdoor access

BY S OPHIA S OLANO

What initially attracted Karen

Sowell to this 1935 house in
Arlington, Va., was not its Tudor
exterior or its ample entertain-
ing spaces. It was that the prior
owners had raised a daughter
here. Sowell was committed to
doing the same.
She said she was helped by
youth programs offered through
a Country Club Hills neighbor-
hood association, a group —
“less formal than some of the
others in town” — that is also
involved in adult education.
The house, next to the Wash-
ington Golf and Country Club,
was built into a hill, which
makes the outdoors accessible
from all levels. It has two floors
above a finished lower level and
has undergone two renovations
since Sowell purchased it in
2005. The first, she said, “was
really to update the house.”
“It has a very charming, old
style,” she said. “So we wanted to
modernize and open it up and
brighten [it], keeping with that
style.”
The back of the house was
rebuilt to include a large pantry
or closet on the first (or main)
floor. She reduced the amount of
wall to connect the kitchen to
the family room, and she redeco-
rated every room in the house
with Andrew Law, a longtime pHoToS by C. gAuTHIer pHoTogrApHy

D.C.-area interior designer. The

primary bedroom suite, on the
second floor, was added to the
back of the house as part of the
first renovation.
“But it’s all very well blended,”
Sowell said. “I’ve never slept
better than in that room.”
Sowell’s second renovation of
the house, completed in 2020,
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$3,200,000 mary bedroom suite has bay
windows with built-in seating,
3201 N. Wakefield St., Arlington, and there is a half-moon win-
Va. dow at ceiling height. Outside
Bedrooms/bathrooms: 4/5 the bedroom is one of the prop-
erty’s three patios. The en suite
Approximate square-footage:
bathroom has a two-sink vanity
4,400
and a shower with a frosted
Lot size: 0.4 acres window bringing natural light

turned her daughter’s playroom
into a guest room and modern-
ized the bathrooms. She also
made cosmetic changes
throughout the house to “bring
it into this decade.”
To the left of the foyer, on the
main floor, is a formal living
room with a wood-burning fire-
place and oversize, paneled win-
dows; to the right is a formal
dining room with wainscoting
and patio access.
The kitchen has soapstone
countertops, a dining area and
two sinks, including a prep sink.
Behind the kitchen, there is a
family room (added in the first
renovation) with a gas fireplace.
A hallway leads to a wood-pan-
eled library and a sunroom. This
level also has a powder room,
renovated in 2020.
On the second floor, the pri-
This 1935 Tudor-style house is one
of the older homes in the Country
Club Hills neighborhood of
Arlington County. It has undergone
two renovations since 2005. In
addition to living and family rooms,
it has a library and a sunroom.
There are three patios, one of
which adjoins the primary bedroom
suite. The lower level has a
recreation room and is connected
to a two-car garage.
Listing agent: Daryl Judy,
Washington Fine properties
FROM TOP: The sunroom has
oversize windows, drenching
the room in light. The library
has wood paneling. A patio is
connected to the primary
bedroom on the second level.
through an exterior wall. The
suite also has a walk-in closet
and a seating area. Another
bedroom on this floor has an en
suite bathroom, and two more
bedrooms share a hall bath-
room.
The lower level has a laundry
and a bathroom, as well as a
recreation room with a wet bar
and a gas fireplace. This level
also connects to a two-car ga-
rage.
Besides a closet she might like
to expand, Sowell said, she
wouldn’t change anything about
the house.
“It’s so perfectly put together,”
she said. “Some rooms are great
to sit down with a little book and
look outside, because there’s
greenery outside every window.
The kitchen is fun and festive. …
Every room has a different feel.”

BuyiNg New
Brownstones, single-family houses for 55-plus
Birchwood at Brambleton
23695 Hardesty Terrace, Ashburn, Va.
Builder: Miller and Smith
Types of home: Brownstone townhouse,
single-family house
Prices: Brownstones starting at $779,990;
single-family houses at $949,9900
Number of units: 68 brownstones; 35
single-family houses (Three of each type have
sold; available houses are not move-in ready)
Bedrooms: 3 or 4
Bathrooms: Brownstone, 3 or 4; single-
family house, 4
Square footage: 2,700 to 4,530
HOA fees: $201 to $229
Property website: millerandsmith.com/new-
homes-for-sale-virginia/birchwood-at-
brambleton/
Sales: Eric Hansen,
ehansen@millerandsmith.com
Features
Birchwood at Brambleton — a 55-and-
older community of single-family houses,
brownstone townhouses and courtyard
houses — is the newest section of the Bram-
bleton planned community in Loudoun
County. Brambleton, about 30 miles west of
Washington, was established in 2001 near
Ashburn (and has an Ashburn mailing ad-
dress). The community has athletic courts,
pools, trails, other recreation areas and is
near shopping at the Brambleton Town
Center. Some new social and recreation
facilities are specific to the Birchwood sec-
tion.
Birchwood single-family houses and
brownstones, some already built but none
move-in ready, are now on the market. Sales
for courtyard houses will begin later this
year. Buyers are offered a selection of some
exterior and interior features. Exteriors
have brick and vinyl siding with masonry
veneer accents.
The Miraval brownstone is Birchwood’s
elevator townhouse floor plan.
The first floor has a foyer and a two-car
garage, both with access to a room that
could be a recreation room or a bedroom. A
powder room or a full bathroom and a
backyard patio are options.
The second floor has an open-concept
kitchen, dining area and great room. A
powder room comes standard. Options in-
clude a deck and a gas fireplace. The deck
can be fully or partially screened.
The third floor has a primary bedroom
suite with en suite bathroom. It also has a
laundry room and the choice of either two
more bedrooms and a hall bathroom or a
second bedroom with en suite bathroom.
The elevator serves all floors. Hardwood
floors are standard in the foyer, powder
room, kitchen, elevator, and entry from the
garage. Buyers select flooring for the rest of
the townhouse.
The Delano single-family house, also
with an elevator, has two floors and a lower
level.
The first floor has a front porch next to a
two-car garage. The entry foyer leads to the
open-concept kitchen, dining area and
great room. This level also has a pantry and
a powder room. Options include decks off
the dining area and great room. The back
deck, off the great room, can be fully or
partially screened.
The second floor has a loft, furnished as
an office in the decorated model. The prima-
ry bedroom suite has an en suite bathroom
and a walk-in closet. The laundry room can
be accessed from that closet or the hall. Two
more bedrooms share a hall bathroom.
The lower level has storage areas and
optional finished rooms. The decorated
model has two recreation rooms; one has
wood cabinets with black marble counter-
tops.
Hardwood floors are standard in the
foyer, powder room, kitchen, great room,
dining room, elevator, and entry off the
garage. Buyers select flooring for the rest of
the house.
Kitchen
Buyers have some choices for kitchen
fixture finishes and countertop material.
And optional upgrades are available for
appliances.
The kitchen of the Miraval furnished mod-
el townhouse has light gray cabinets and
stainless-steel Samsung appliances, includ-
ing a double wall oven and three-door refrig-
erator. It has a white quartz countertop with a
PHoToS By BEnjAMin C TAnkErSlEy For THE WASHingTon PoST
ABOVE: The
kitchen of the
Miraval model
townhouse, which
has light gray
cabinets and
stainless-steel
Samsung
appliances.
LEFT: The Delano
single-family house
has an elevator that
serves two floors
and a lower level.
gas cooktop and white subway tile back-
splash. A dishwasher is installed in the island,
which has a sink with a black Kohler faucet
and a brown granite countertop.
The kitchen of the Delano furnished
model home has natural-wood-finish cabi-
nets, white quartz countertops, and a stone-
look tile backsplash. It also has stainless-
steel Jennair appliances, including a double
wall oven and three-door refrigerator. The
cabinets and countertop in the pantry
match those in the kitchen. Both places have
black Kohler faucets.
Bathrooms
The Miraval brownstone has a powder
room and two or three full bathrooms. The
decorated model unit has a powder room on
the second floor and two full bathrooms on
the third floor. All have black Kohler fix-
tures, and the full bathrooms have gray
cabinets that match those in the kitchen.
The half-bath has a pedestal sink.
The primary bathroom has a double-sink
vanity with a white quartz countertop. The
shower has a bench and a stone-look-tile
shower surround. The bathroom floor
matches the shower surround and the
shower floor has matching small tiles. The
secondary suite has a shower and a single-
sink vanity with a white cultured marble
countertop. The shower surround and bath-
room floor are gray tile that match the
smaller shower floor tiles.
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The Delano has a powder room and two
or three full bathrooms. The decorated
model home has a full bathroom on the
lower level, a powder room on the first floor
and two full bathrooms on the second floor.
All have black Kohler fixtures. The full baths
have natural-wood cabinets that match
those in the kitchen. The lower-level bath-
room has a tub-shower combination with
white subway tile shower surround, gray
floor tile and a single-sink vanity with a
white marble countertop. The powder room
has a pedestal sink.
The second-floor primary bath has a
walk-in shower with a bench. The shower
surround and bathroom floor are marble-
look tile, and the shower floor has similar
but smaller tile. The double-sink vanity has
a white quartz countertop. The hall bath-
room has a tub-shower combo with a white
subway tile shower surround, gray floor tile
and a single-sink vanity with white cultured
marble countertop.
Amenities
When completed, the Birch House 55+
Exclusive Club House will include social gath-
ering spaces, exercise rooms, covered out-
door seating and bocce courts. In the estab-
lished section of Birchwood at Brambleton
across Loudoun County Parkway, there is a
clubhouse that has a demonstration kitchen,
flex space for yoga classes, arts and crafts
classes, game rooms, a golf simulator, and
indoor and outdoor pools. Outside there are
trails, bocce and Pickleball courts and a fish-
ing pier on Lake Birchwood.
Nearby shops and restaurants
Brambleton Town Center is about two
miles away. Bram Quarter is adjacent to
Birchwood at Brambleton. It now provides
space to the Brambleton Welcome Center, a
Miller and Smith sales office and a dental
center but will eventually be further devel-
oped into retail and commercial space.
Nearby parks
Birchwood at Brambleton has walking
trails and green space. Lake Birchwood is
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surrounded by trails and green spaces.
Brambleton Regional Park and Golf Course
is less than five miles away. Stream Valley
Park and Broad Run Trail are adjacent to the
community.
Commute
Ashburn Metrorail station, on the Silver
Line, is four miles away.
What sets it apart
Birchwood at Brambleton offers a variety
of options in an active-adult community
connected to the planned community of
Brambleton. Tracy Lamb, vice president of
sales at Miller and Smith, said in an email
that the available choices appeal to buyers.
“Buyers can customize cabinets, flooring,
countertops (kitchen and bath), bath tile,
appliances, and many structural compo-
nents of the home as well. It’s not a one size
fits all as in other active adult communities,”
she said.
— Benjamin C Tankersley
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On Parenting

My daughter resents that her sisters don’t help with chores

BY M EGHAN L EAHY

Q: Please help me avoid a Cinderella dynamic. My oldest (9) is eager to
please, highly capable, responsible and nearly always looking to help out.
She has a few chores that are done without complaint, and she
occasionally takes initiative to take care of additional tasks. Obviously, I
am over the moon about this and try to foster it. My second (6) is
occasionally eager to help and occasionally balks at being asked to do
simple, age-appropriate tasks. My youngest (4) is prone to resist and
grumble when asked to help out and, of course, has less capacity to help
than her siblings. The oldest wants to keep things neater than her
siblings, and is often grumpy that “she is the only one who cleans up.” I
understand her frustration, but she often takes on extra tasks
independently. I don’t want to quash helpfulness! I also don’t want to
spend hours trying to cajole the younger kids to keep things to their
sister’s standard. And I really don’t want the oldest to put herself into a
martyr role. How can I balance everyone’s personalities, capabilities and
needs?

A: How can you balance everyone’s

personalities, capabilities, and needs?
Easy! You can’t. Well, that was an easy
column, thank you for reading.
Seriously, though, I know that this
letter is about chores and birth order and
developmental milestones, but I would
also like this letter to serve as a wake-up
call for your parenting life. You are clearly
a parent who is paying attention to your
children. You care, you are trying to foster
good habits and personal responsibility.
You care about fairness and making sure
each of your children feels seen. If I could
have one wish granted, it would be that
every child on Earth felt seen and loved
by their caretakers. It sounds simplistic,
but one of the strongest correlations to
making it to one’s fullest potential is to
feel deeply connected to your caregivers.
So it’s with a lot of love and respect when
I tell you this: You’ve got to chill out.
There is precious little we can do when
it comes to our children’s temperaments
(and you definitely cannot alter the birth
order). Maybe your eldest is more
fastidious because she’s the oldest or
maybe she’s just like that. Maybe the
middle is right on track, developmentally
speaking. And maybe that 4-year-old is
exactly where she should be because
being self-oriented and becoming grumpy
easily is characteristic of that age.
Instead of trying to balance all of their
needs and personalities — which is
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impossible! — it’s time to focus on

creating routines, as well as space for
their big feelings.
The first step in addressing duties
around the house and fairness is to hold
regular family meetings to discuss chores.
All chores should take on an apprentice
feel, which is to say that all children are
learning how to do different jobs at illusTrATion By MAríA AlconAdA Brooks/The WAshingTon PosT

different levels. For instance, taking

dishes from the dining room table to the
dishwasher could be deconstructed into
carrying the dishes, rinsing them and
putting them into the dishwasher. Each
age can be working at a different level,
but all on the same chore. In a family
meeting, you can break down the chores
that everyone is working on and ask who
needs help with what.
Even with the order of regular family
meetings, there will be grumbling. If your
eldest is often complaining about how
much she cleans up after her younger
sisters, the best place to combat this is
one on one. Take your eldest on a walk
and say: “I’ve noticed that you are getting
feisty with your little sisters around some
messes. Tell me what’s going on,” and let
her talk. She may really bad-mouth them
and maybe even exaggerate the issues, but
your job is to walk and listen. After she
has calmed down, repeat back to her what
she has said. “So it sounds like you clean,
your sisters mess it up and leave; you
have to go back in and clean it up again;
and no one cares.” Repeating her story to
her does two things: It makes her feel
heard (crucial for children and adults)
and you fact-check to make sure you got
everything right.
From there, you can decide whether
you need to work with your younger
daughters to show some more
consideration for their messes through
modeling. (“Hey guys, your big sister is
really cleaning this room, let’s help her!”)
Maybe you need to change the chores if
you need to support your oldest daughter
with her anxiety and control, or maybe
you need to pick up some of the slack. Or
you need to just let it go and let it be what
it is. The idea is that you aren’t balancing
and pleasing and making sure everyone is
happy; rather, you are bringing order,
listening and making decisions out of
need, not anxiety.
Rinse and repeat until your children
are adults. By helping them think more
critically, by modeling compassion and
empathy, and by listening, you will get
them ready for their lives ahead. Good
luck.
 also at washingtonpost.com read the
transcript of a recent live Q&A with leahy at
live.washingtonpost.com, where you can also
find past columns.
 Send parenting questions to leahy at
onparenting@washpost.com.
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D IST RIC T OF C O lU MBIA Oneida Pl., 430, $890,000. Sheridan St., 1372, $677,000. W St., 3744, $1.23 million. Sixth St., 1826, $1 million.
Park Rd., 1328, No. D, $859,900. Stephenson Pl., 3233, $1.26 Webster St., 1632, $1.21 million. 10th St., 2117, No. 302, $1.2
These sales data recorded by the Perry Pl., 1358, $915,000. million. Wisconsin Ave., 5201, No. 405, million.
D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue Q St., 801, No. 1, $940,000. T St., 3723, $1.47 million. $365,000. 12th St., 2001, No. 119,
were provided by Black Knight Inc. Q St., 2516, No. E101, $675,000. Tilden St., 2963, $1.1 million. First St., 1512, $761,500. $435,000.
R St., 56, $810,000. U St., 1624, No. 400, $560,000. Fourth St., 1240, No. T, 15th St., 1515, No. 605, $1.39
NORTHEAST
R St., 3304, $9.75 million. Vermont Ave., 2120, No. 606, $541,235. million.
Baldwin Cres., 2466, $800,000.
S St., 1414, $3 million. $939,000. Fifth St., 5310, $735,000. see homes on 4
Bunker Hill Rd., 1938, $765,000.
Capitol St. N., 5041, $193,260.
E St., 628, $1.55 million.
Edgewood St., 528, $530,000.
Franklin St., 641, $430,000.
Grant St., 4053, $415,000.
Hayes St., 3417, $325,000.
Just St., 4919, $342,500.
Monroe St., 1014, $1.13 million.
Otis St., 1504, $908,000.
Rhode Island Ave., 2804,
$520,000.
Trinidad Ave., 1301, $1.02
million.
Varnum St., 2011, $895,000.
Second St., 1831, No. 205,
$425,000.
Seventh St., 404, $1.11 million.
12th St., 4712, $435,000.
13th St., 4219, $650,000.
17th Pl., 1016, No. 408,
$325,000.
21st St., 418, $995,000.
55th St., 519, $460,000.
NORTHWEST
Adams Mill Rd., 2633, No. 401,
$617,000.
Ashmead Pl., 2310, No. 101,
$359,000.
California St., 1842, No. 7B,
$415,000.
Cameron Dr., 6803, No. 512,
$470,000.
Chesapeake St., 4900, $1.16
million.
Columbia Rd., 1421, No. 201,
$336,000.
Connecticut Ave., 3100, No. 406,
$384,500.
Connecticut Ave., 4600, No. 802,
$245,000.
Devonshire Pl., 2737, No. 102,
$715,000.
Edmunds St., 3520, $5 million.
Embassy Park Dr., 4373, $1.2
million.
Euclid St., 1439, No. 3, $152,000.

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Foxhall Cres., 4507, $1.7 million.
Georgia Ave., 3619, No. 404,

Balance.
$399,900.
Highwood Ct., 3946, $1.93
million.
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25th st., 1134, No. B, $758,500. sOuTheasT Independence ave., 1521, sixth st., 105, No. 101, $230,000.
33rd st., 1015, No. 709, $1 altamont Pl., 2311, No. 202, $655,000. eighth st., 221, $1.05 million.
17th st., 1401, No. 710, million. $150,000. n st., 70, No. N716, $402,000. 12th st., 139, $2.5 million.
$450,000. 34th st., 3101, $1.75 million. Burbank st., 456, $499,950. Potomac ave., 1427, $1.24 17th st., 1900, $635,000.
18th st., 2424, No. R1, $1.55 38th st., 3401, No. 905, Carolina ave. n., 626, $1.46 million. 27th st., 1327, No. 1327A,
million. $416,000. million. s st., 3935, No. 101, $185,000. $140,300.
22nd st., 1177, No. 1E, $1.35 42nd st., 2325, No. 104, e st., 1413, $895,000. Talbert Terr., 1351, $197,000. 46th st., 11, No. 203, $175,000.
million. $300,000. G st., 627, $2.15 million. Xenia st., 108, $495,900. sOuThWesT
n st., 22, $620,000.
Third st., 1101, No. 108,
$269,900.

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Firestone Dr., 510, $1.01 million.
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Banff springs Ct., 4304,
$900,000.
Keating st., 13417, $340,000.
Parkvale Rd., 14428, No. 6,
$190,000.
Tangier Pl., 13424, $330,000.
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aberdeen Rd., 7812, $2.95
million.
Baldwin Ct., 10108, $887,500.
Beacon Terr., 7201, $2.23
million.
Burdette Rd., 8300, No. 562,
$960,000.
Cromwell Dr., 6201, $1.2 million.
exeter Rd., 7817, $1.61 million.
Grant st., 8608, $2.1 million.
Ipswich Rd., 5810, $743,450.
Landon Lane, 6711, $1.93 million.
massachusetts ave., 5516, $1.18
million.
mountain Gate Dr., 7008, $2.1
million.
Parthenon Ct., 10438, $505,000.
Randall Lane, 5009, $1.77
million.
spring Lake Dr., 7535, No. B2,
$330,000.
Westbard Cir., 5301, No. 349,
$150,000.
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Shannon Dr., 13905, $649,000. DAMASCUS AREA Cherry Laurel Lane, 18408, MONTGOMERY VILLAGE AREA
CHEVY CHASE AREA Damascus Park Lane, 10456, No. $385,000. Bathgate Ct., 9307, $370,000.
Whitley Park Terr., 5450, No. M19, $271,000. Elioak Terr., 7500, $405,000. Brassie Way, 9662, $295,000.
Ashboro Dr., 2327, $1.5 million.
905, $450,000. Santa Anita Terr., 10700, Hallmark Ct., 18412, $420,000. Canebrake Ct., 20006,
Chevy Chase Dr., 4811, No. 189,
York Lane, 5602, $1.06 million. $425,000. Mountain Laurel Terr., 18580, $345,000.
$572,000.
BROOKEVILLE AREA East West Hwy., 4242, No. 1102, DERWOOD AREA $343,000. Cove Ledge Ct., 10245,
Epstein Ct., 2415, $548,000. $150,000. Epsilon Dr., 7800, $382,000. Raven Ave., 792, $465,000. $342,000.
Saint Albert Dr., 18909, Glendale Rd., 8031, $1.2 million. Mahaska Dr., 7433, $780,000. Windbrooke Dr., 894, $288,000. Grazing Way, 20201, $355,000.
$790,000. Meadow Lane, 7407, $2.2 million. Redland Rd., 17415, $875,000. GAITHERSBURG-NORTH Little Pond Pl., 10134, No. 2,
Pauline Dr., 3403, $1.23 million. POTOMAC AREA $192,800.
BURTONSVILLE AREA FOUR CORNERS-BURNT MILLS Shadow Oak Dr., 9606,
Cedar Tree Dr., 15202, Underwood St., 3707, $2 million. AREA Bonnie Dale Dr., 13416, $1.1
Wisconsin Ave., 5630, No. 1007, million. $390,000.
$435,000. Carson Pl., 10204, $418,000. Walkers Choice Rd., 18735,
Wexhall Terr., 14507, No. 5-53, $1.8 million. Garwood St., 9509, $430,000. Clover Knoll Rd., 11920,
$542,000. $321,640.
$320,000. CLARKSBURG AREA Lorain Ave., 10008, $498,900.
Dutrow Dr., 13221, $780,000. Oak Leaf Dr., 11162, No. 108, Firehouse Lane, 219, $790,000. NEW HAMPSHIRE ESTATES-
CALVERTON-COLESVILLE AREA Keeneland Pl., 12428, $740,000. HILLANDALE AREA
Carters Grove Dr., 1926, Sweetspire Dr., 23007, No. 6412, $228,000.
$177,965. Wayne Ave. E., 95, No. 202, Main Mews, 1334, $720,000. Gatewood Pl., 2013, $634,500.
$720,000. Parkridge Dr., 17716, $580,000.
Eldrid Dr., 67, $655,000. CLOVERLY-EDNOR AREA $155,000. NORBECK-LAYHILL AREA
Sharpstead Lane, 105, Beaverbrook Ct., 15301, No. 92-
Marlow Rd., 2932, $300,000. Elm Grove Cir., 1203, $324,900. GAITHERSBURG AREA $410,000.
Musicmaster Ct., 5, No. 80, Redgate Dr., 15101, $495,900. Bannister Lane, 9116, $575,000. 1K, $230,000.
Suffolk Terr., 12132, $484,000. Big Bear Ct., 14408, $930,000.
$310,000. Windmill Lane, 601, $522,500. Brighton Terr., 17, $560,000.
GERMANTOWN AREA Glade Dr., 15100, No. 11-3D,
Autumn Mist Cir., 13243, $180,000.
$447,000. Interlachen Dr., 15107, No. 2-
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$750,000. Leisure World Blvd. N., 3100, No.
Duck Pond Dr., 12815, No. 111, 522, $441,750.
$450,000. Leisure World Blvd. S., 2901, No.
Galway Bay Cir., 19605, No. 202, 310, $455,000.
$205,000. Morningmist Dr., 1929,
Laurel Hill Way, 20111, $820,000.
$330,000. Pine Orchard Dr., 15300, No. 85-
Nutmeg Pl., 18501, $309,000. 1D, $147,000.
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Rockingham Rd., 14029, Buehler Rd., 17807, No. 3-A-1,
$540,000. $170,000.
Spinning Wheel Pl., 20808, King William Dr., 3716,
OFF $650,000.
Thackery Pl., 13114, $290,000.
$674,900.
Moss Side Lane, 17159, No. 3,
Whitechurch Ct., 17, $306,000. $407,000.
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Plus no interest until May 2025 GLEN ECHO AREA Paladin Dr., 18239, $450,000.
Vassar Cir., 5, $1.11 million. Stakeburg Pl., 18518, No. 22,
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Ewell Ave., 10407, $875,000. Fletchall Rd., 17305, $490,000.
University Blvd. W., 3333, No. Wootton Ave., 19738, $210,000.
706, $269,000. POTOMAC AREA
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Newbury Rd., 24020, $475,000. $660,000.
Front Field Lane, 11513, $1.52
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