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ELECtION 2024

Trump’s
is tied to
“Have we forgotten that students should be reading for pleasure?”
rivals take tania Galiñanes, librarian at Tohopekaliga High School in kissimmee, Fla.

aim at his pipeline

cognition
attack
Verbal fumbles become
political fodder for Biden ColoNel had key
team and GOP field alike Nord Stream role
2022 bombing severed
BY M ARISA I ATI gas links to Europe
AND I SAAC A RNSDORF

The Desantis campaign re- BY S HANE H ARRIS

cently posted a thread of more AND I SABELLE K HURSHUDYAN
than two dozen clumsy or confus-
ing remarks by former president A senior Ukrainian military
Donald Trump, positing that “this officer with deep ties to the coun-
is why his handlers won’t let him try’s intelligence services played a
debate.” central role in the bombing of the
Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Nord stream natural gas pipe-
Haley, speaking to Jewish donors, lines last year, according to offi-
mocked Trump for speaking posi- cials in Ukraine and elsewhere in
tively about the leaders of China europe, as well as other people
and North Korea, saying he is knowledgeable about the details
evidently “confused” about which of the covert operation.
countries are American allies and The officer’s role provides the
which are adversaries. most direct evidence to date tying
And the Biden campaign has Ukraine’s military and security
also stepped up its posts about leadership to a controversial act
Trump’s verbal fumbles, includ- of sabotage that has spawned
ing a minute-long video compila- THomaS SimoneTTi For THe WaSHingTon PoST multiple criminal investigations
tion of various miscues. In press and that U.s. and Western offi-
statements, it has slammed cials have called a dangerous at-
Trump for mispronouncing
“Hamas” and for musing aloud
that the abbreviation for United
states is spelled like the word
Loving books was not enough tack on europe’s energy infra-
structure.
Roman Chervinsky, a decorat-
ed 48-year-old colonel who
“us.” served in Ukraine’s special opera-
As Trump’s Republican rivals A Florida librarian wanted to encourage students’ reading, not police it. So she quit. tions forces, was the “coordina-
face growing pressure to stop his tor” of the Nord stream opera-
momentum, while Democrats tion, people familiar with his role

I
seek to neutralize concerns about t was her last Monday morning in the
Biden’s age, the two sides are library, and when Tania Galiñanes walked
converging on a common argu- into her office and saw another box, she
ment — that Trump’s cognition told herself that this would be the last one.
has declined too far for him to Inside were books. she didn’t know how
lead the country again. many, or what they were, only that she would
The Biden-Harris HQ account need to review each one by hand for age-ap-
on X, formerly known as Twitter, propriate material and sexual content as
see Trump oN A9 defined by Florida law, just as she’d been
doing for months now with the 11,600 books
Oil money: Trump courts industry on the shelves outside her door at Tohopekali-
he aided for contributions. A4 ga High school.
Last box, and then after this week, she
would no longer be a librarian at all.
she heard the first-period bell ring, 7:15
BY R UBY C RAMER she exhaled loudly. “Freedom Week.” said, managing logistics and sup-
IN KIssIMMee, FLA. “oh, good,” he said. “You know about this.” port for a six-person team that
Yes, Tania knew about it. It was one more rented a sailboat under false iden-
thing the state had asked of them, a manda- tities and used deep-sea diving
tory recitation of parts of the Declaration of equipment to place explosive
Independence “to reaffirm the American charges on the gas pipelines. on
ideals of individual liberty,” along with some- sept. 26, 2022, three explosions
thing else she had heard from the district. caused massive leaks on the Nord
“They asked us to please not celebrate Banned stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which
Books Week,” Tania said. run from Russia to Germany un-
she was tired. Her husband was always der the Baltic sea. The attack left
reminding her: Tania, you have no sense of see ukrAIne oN A16
self-preservation. she had thought about
pushing back against the district, had imag-
ined putting up posters all over the walls from

AI-generated a.m. she’d wanted to get to the box right away,

but now she saw one of the school administra-
images show
tors at her door, asking whether she’d heard
about the latest education mandate in Flori-
da.
the American Library Association celebrating
“freedom to read,” a final act before her last Ground war
reveals depth
Tania Galiñanes day on Friday. But even if she did put up the
shares a goodbye as posters, who would be there to see them once
she nears her last she left? The library would be closed after this

a world “What’s the name of this thing?” he said.

“Freedom Week?”
day as a high school
librarian.
week, until they found someone to take her
see LIbrArIAn oN A6 of Hamas’s
of stereotypes firepower
N ITASHA T IKU,
BY BY W ILLIAM B OOTH,
K EVIN S CHAUL J UDITH S UDILOVSKY,
AND S ZU Y U C HEN E LLEN N AKASHIMA

Artificial intelligence image

tools have a tendency to spin up
Va. House nominates first Black speaker AND A LEX H ORTON

JERUSALEM — early in Israel’s

disturbing clichés: Asian women
are hypersexual. Africans are
primitive. europeans are worldly.
Leaders are men. Prisoners are
Black.
These stereotypes don’t reflect
the real world; they stem from
the data that trains the technol-
ogy. Grabbed from the internet,
these troves can be toxic — rife
with pornography, misogyny, vio-
lence and bigotry.
stability AI, maker of the pop-
ular image generator stable Dif-
fusion XL, told The Washington
Post it had made a significant
investment in reducing bias in its
latest model, which was released
in July. But these efforts haven’t
stopped it from defaulting to
cartoonish tropes. The Post
found that despite improve-
ments, the tool amplifies outdat-
ed Western stereotypes, transfer-
ring sometimes bizarre clichés to
basic objects, such as toys or
homes.
“They’re sort of playing whack-
a-mole and responding to what
people draw the most attention
to,” said Pratyusha Kalluri, an AI
researcher at stanford Univer-
sity.
Christoph schuhmann, co-
see AI oN A14
RICHMOND — Don L. scott Jr.
has been in the Navy, in law
school and in prison, and that
unusual path has brought him to
the doorstep of someplace com-
pletely new.
scott, 58, of Portsmouth, be-
came the first Black person cho-
sen to become speaker of the
Virginia House of Delegates
since the body’s origins in 1619,
the same year the first Africans
arrived in chains on Virginia’s
shore.
The selection of scott as
speaker-designee during a Dem-
ocratic caucus meeting saturday,
widely expected following the
party’s majority win in Tuesday’s
legislative elections, sets up the
likelihood that Black lawmakers
will run both chambers of Vir-
ginia’s General Assembly, an-
other historic first. Lt. Gov. Win-
some earle-sears (R), the first
Black woman elected statewide
in Virginia, presides over the
state senate, where sen. L. Lou-
ise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) is the
first Black woman to serve as
president pro tempore.
When Democratic senators
choose their leadership, sen. Ma-
mie Locke (D-Hampton) is in
Setting up possibility that Black lawmakers contention to become the first
Black majority leader, which
will run both General Assembly chambers would complete an unprecedent-
ed concentration of Black leader-
BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER ship in the former capital of the
Confederacy, and possibly in the
south.
“It is historic,” former gover-
nor L. Douglas Wilder, the first
African American elected gover-
nor of any state since Recon-
struction, said in an interview
with The Washington Post. “It’s
celebratory, but it’s not an end-
game — it’s a beginning in terms
of what needs to be done.”
But the transformation of
leadership in Richmond is a
major symbolic shift in a city that
treasures symbolism, where just
three years ago the graffiti-
covered statue of Confederate
Gen. Robert e. Lee towering over
Monument Avenue became an
international icon of racial reck-
oning in reaction to the murder
of George Floyd by Minneapolis
JoHn c. clark For THe WaSHingTon PoST police.
Del. Don L. Scott. Jr. (D) addresses media last week after his Today that statue is gone,
party captured Virginia’s House in Tuesday’s elections. taken down after 131 years of
glorifying the lingering spirit of
Spanberger 2025: congresswoman plans run for Va. governor. C1 the Lost Cause. scott said he
understands the stakes if he
GOP fallout: angry lawmakers seek House leadership change. C1 see SpeAker oN A12
invasion of Gaza, an antitank
missile fired by Palestinian mili-
tants struck an armored person-
nel carrier, killing — by incinera-
tion, concussion, shrapnel — at
least nine Israeli soldiers. other
armored assets in the convoy
were also hit.
That oct. 31 attack, on Gaza’s
sandy northern periphery, repre-
sented the single largest cluster
of Israeli casualties in the ground
war. It also showed the evolution
and expansion of Hamas’s fire-
power.
Where years ago Israeli forces
faced stones and molotov cock-
tails thrown by Palestinians, they
now confront weapons such as
laser-guided missiles and anti-
tank munitions in Gaza. Hamas
has been “arming itself to the
teeth,” one military analyst said.
The Israel Defense Forces is
now inside Gaza City, fighting
Hamas above and below ground
— among civilians, around hos-
pitals, schools and mosques — in
see GAzA oN A20
Global standing: Blinken receives
warnings on support for israel. A22
Rapid deterioration: Hospitals in
gaza face near-total collapse. A20

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AND J EFF S TEIN according to three people familiar es at our Southern border,” ing on the condition of anonymity oppose,” because the bill funds the would need to rely on Democratic
with the House leader’s plans, re- Johnson said in a statement re- to describe private conversations government at current spending votes to extend funding and avert
With less than a week before quiring Congress to confront mul- leased on social media. between lawmakers. If a new levels. a shutdown — a red line for some
federal spending laws expire, tiple deadlines in the coming Funds for military and veterans spending law isn’t enacted before Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.), conservatives, including a small
House Speaker Mike Johnson months or risk repeated partial programs, agriculture and food the current one expires, the feder- chairman of the House Budget band that forced Johnson’s pred-
(R-La.) on Saturday unveiled a government shutdowns. agencies, and the departments of al government will shut down at Committee, told reporters last ecessor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy
novel and uncertain plan to tem- The House speaker described Transportation and Housing and 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 18. week the staggered plan was “po- (R-Calif.), to give up the speaker’s
porarily extend funding — but it’s the two-step proposal as a move to Urban Development would run The two-tiered proposal was litically DOA,” because it did not gavel after he allowed a previous
already been rejected by the avoid the massive spending bills through Jan. 19. The remaining originally favored by the far-right have Democratic support. spending bill to pass on a biparti-
Democratic-controlled Senate that historically have been consid- government funding — covering House Freedom Caucus, whose The “laddered” CR has never san basis.
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funding bill, called a continuing places our conference in the best — would expire on Feb. 2. of the plan because it lacks spend- tions Committee, on Friday called broad range of government ser-
resolution or “CR,” would leave position to fight for fiscal respon- The plans are fluid and may ing cuts. the staggered funding plan “the vices, including national parks,
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The sun sets behind power lines as people row on Tempe Town Lake during a record heat wave in Tempe, Ariz., on July 18. A recent
analysis found that the planet is closer than ever to a global warming benchmark that could trigger irreversible ecological damage.
Past 12 months probably were Earth’s
hottest in 125,000 years, analysis finds
BY S COTT D ANCE
Earth just endured its hottest 12
months in the modern era, and
probably the hottest in 125,000
years, according to an analysis
published Thursday.
That means nearly 3 in 4 people
experienced more than a month’s
worth of heat so extreme that it
would have been unusual in the
past but became at least three
times more likely because of hu-
man-caused climate change, sci-
entists at Climate Central found.
And it means that the planet is
closer than ever to a global warm-
ing benchmark that scientists
have predicted could irreversibly
damage, if not destroy, entire eco-
systems — 1.5 degrees Celsius
(2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above
preindustrial norms.
Data shows that a surge of
warming this year has pushed av-
erage planetary temperatures 1.3
to 1.4 degrees Celsius above 19th-
Ohio, Pa. lay groundwork for large-scale network of 500,000 EV chargers
BY I AN D UNCAN
Ohio is on course to open the
first electric vehicle chargers
funded by $5 billion from the
infrastructure law, securing a
modest place in history for a truck
stop outside Columbus and taking
a key step toward the Biden ad-
ministration’s goal of having a
reliable network to plug in.
The state has led the way in the
program, aiming to be first in line
in case charging equipment
proves to be scarce, and expects to
have the first stations online this
year. Pennsylvania also broke
ground on its first chargers in
recent days, and about a half-doz-
en other states are not far behind,
expecting to start construction af-
ter awarding contracts worth
$100 million.
The project at the heart of Pres-
ident Biden’s environmental
agenda has a goal of half of new
cars being fully electric or plug-in
hybrid by 2030, which officials say
can only happen if drivers have
places to charge. But as construc-
tion begins and Washington
marks the infrastructure law’s
second anniversary, experts say
federal funding is likely to fall well
short of reaching the administra-
tion’s goals for a charging network
that ultimately could cost more
than $50 billion.
Under that scenario, the flag-
ship federal program would
amount to about one-tenth of the
cost of building out a national
network. But the early moves are
significant steps toward bringing
high-speed chargers — those that
can repower batteries in about
half an hour — to every corner of
the country, particularly in re-
mote areas that private compa-
nies have less incentive to reach.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R)
said it’s going to be up to consum-
ers to make the switch to electric,
but the government can help tack-
le the range anxiety that gives
pause to would-be buyers.
“They always say, ‘Well, I’m go-
ing to go see my grandmother in
Pennsylvania and I don’t want to
. the washington post
century levels.
In sharing the analysis, scien-
tists professed hopes it would spur
action and underscore its urgency
as global leaders prepare to con-
vene an annual United Nations
climate change conference, COP
28, later this month.
“If we don’t phase out fossil
fuels now and stop burning them
imminently, this will be a very cool
year soon,” said Friederike Otto, a
senior lecturer in climate science
at the Grantham Institute for Cli-
mate Change and the Environ-
ment at Imperial College London.
Billions have faced heat waves
intensified by climate change
The Climate Central analysis
looked at the influence of climate
change on weather over the 12-
month period from November
2022 through October 2023. The
nonprofit climate science and
news organization’s leaders ac-
knowledged they chose that peri-
An electric vehicle charging station is under construction near Columbus. Ohio expects to have the first
stations online this year, aiming to be first in line in case charging equipment proves to be scarce.
be stuck where I can’t get re-
charged,’” DeWine said. “So I
think that our job is to try to roll
this out as quickly as we can.”
With 4.3 million electric vehi-
cles on U.S. roads, they account for
almost 10 percent of new vehicles
sold, according to Atlas Public
Policy. Buyers can tap federal
credits up to $7,500 on some mod-
els. The number of public charg-
ing ports has also grown to more
than 150,000.
But Ben Shapiro, an analyst at
environmental advocacy group
RMI, said while automakers are
producing increasingly diverse
fleets of battery-powered cars and
SUVs, more progress is needed on
charging.
“The vehicles seem to be mate-
rializing,” he said. “On the charg-
ing infrastructure side of things,
we aren’t moving quickly enough.”
The types of chargers being in-
stalled outside Columbus and in
Pittston, Pa., will be a small but
od in light of the schedule for COP
28, which begins Nov. 30.
That meant the analysis includ-
ed relatively cooler months of late
2022 and early 2023, as well as the
dramatic surge in planetary heat
observed over the past several
months. July, August, September
and October each brought record-
high average global temperatures,
all but guaranteeing that 2023 will
be Earth’s warmest calendar year
on record.
Using what is known as attribu-
tion science, the analysis found
that billions of people around the
world have recently experienced
extreme heat waves that probably
would not have been as intense or
as long-lasting if fossil fuel emis-
sions had not warmed the planet
so dramatically over the past cen-
tury and a half.
It focused on temperatures so
extreme that they are at least three
times more likely today than they
were before the Industrial Revolu-
critical part of a network that the
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, a research center affil-
iated with the Energy Depart-
ment, forecasts will need at least 1
million by 2030 — double the
president’s goal of 500,000. That’s
the equivalent of about 400 new
chargers daily through the end of
the decade.
Ali Zaidi, Biden’s top climate
adviser, said the administration’s
goal is to reach 500,000 as quickly
as possible, while making sure
rural and low-income communi-
ties aren’t left behind.
“We know the private money is
flowing in a bunch of other places
for a bunch of other reasons,”
Zaidi said.
The infrastructure law money
is a major federal investment, but
high-speed chargers are expen-
sive: A joint office of the Energy
and Transportation departments
expects each port to cost about
$150,000, a figure that matches
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tion. During the past year, 9 in 10
people experienced at least 10
days of such heat, the analysis
found. Nearly 3 in 4 people en-
dured it for 30 days or more.
Scientists linked the warming
climate to calamitous disasters
around the world: hospitals over-
whelmed with heat-related ill-
nesses, thousands dead and mil-
lions displaced from floods, and
23 million without secure food
supplies in Africa alone because of
drought.
“The past year was quite ex-
traordinary,” said Joyce Kimutai,
principal meteorologist at the
Kenya Meteorological Depart-
ment.
The analysis found that average
temperatures over the past year
have met or exceeded the 1.5 de-
gree-Celsius warming threshold
in nearly a dozen countries in Eu-
rope and northern Africa: Roma-
nia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Moldova,
Morocco, Switzerland, Austria,
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the costs seen in Ohio and Penn-
sylvania. At that price, the first
two years of infrastructure money
made available to states would
fund 9,200 ports needed to fill
gaps along highways, with the
entire program paying for about
42,000.
But the money could have an
outsize effect because of where it
will be spent.
States had to submit plans to
the Transportation Department
to access federal funding included
in the 2021 law. Officials said they
were encouraged when every
state met the deadline, despite
criticism of the push toward EVs
from some congressional Repub-
licans.
Sara Rafalson, senior vice presi-
dent for market development,
public policy and external affairs
at EVgo, the company installing
the Ohio and Pennsylvania char-
gers, said federal funding “democ-
ratizes” the investment.
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Hungary, Montenegro, Algeria
and Ukraine.
That heat was most intense
across Europe and Africa in recent
months, with temperatures in
both Switzerland and South Su-
dan averaging 2 degrees Celsius
(3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer
than preindustrial levels from
May through October.
As extreme as those hot spots
may seem, the observations are in
line with past global warming ob-
servations and projections, said
Andrew Pershing, vice president
for science at Climate Central.
“We should expect to set rec-
ords because we live on a warming
planet,” he said. “2023 is very con-
sistent with that long-term trend.”
A surge of global warmth not
expected to subside soon
Separate data that European
scientists published Wednesday
underscored how dramatically
the warming trend has accelerat-
ed just in recent months.
The European Union’s Coperni-
cus Climate Change Service said
that October brought record glob-
al warmth for a fourth consecutive
month. Temperatures across the
“We’re really seeing the states
feeling empowered by these pro-
grams,” Rafalson said. “It’s not
something I would say has been
politicized.”
While the new funding might
be a modest increase for a state
like California, it amounts to 10
times what some states in the
South and Midwest — including
Ohio — have invested in charging
networks, according to data com-
piled by Atlas. For a handful of
states, the money is likely to be
their first public investment in
charging infrastructure.
Researchers at the National Re-
newable Energy Laboratory lik-
ened the charging network to a
tree. The biggest part, but the
hardest to see, is the roots — the
charging ports at homes and
workplaces. The branches are
public ports at places like down-
towns and shopping malls, where
drivers might plug in and stay
awhile. The fastest roadside char-
gers are expected to be the fewest
in number but form the trunk.
The federal laboratory put the
need for at-home charging ports
at 27 million, backed by 1 million
medium-speed chargers in public
places and 182,000 of the fastest
chargers by 2030. Those numbers
are in line with other recent esti-
mates.
Federal officials have called on
states to ensure they have a mini-
mum of four charging ports every
50 miles within a mile of major
highways. Federal rules also set
standards for reliability, aiming to
address frustrations with the
number of out-of-service char-
gers.
If states meet those targets, the
charging network would cover
92 percent of the nation’s inter-
state corridor, while officials esti-
mate $3.5 billion would be left for
chargers along smaller roads or in
communities.
The first round of an additional
$2.5 billion from the infrastruc-
ture law is expected to be made
available soon to cities, counties
and tribes for charging projects in
neighborhoods. Andrew Wishnia,
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planet averaged 1.7 degrees Cel-
sius above the norm for October
during preindustrial decades,
from 1850 to 1900.
And through the first 10 months
of 2023, global temperatures are
averaging 1.43 degrees Celsius
above preindustrial levels, accord-
ing to the Copernicus data. That is
a tenth of a degree Celsius warmer
than observed during the first 10
months of 2016, which holds the
record as Earth’s hottest ever mea-
sured.
And scientists said they don’t
expect the surge of warming to
slow down.
When the planet surged to rec-
ord warmth in 2016, it was on the
tail end of an episode of El Niño,
the global climate pattern known
to release vast stores of Pacific
Ocean heat into the atmosphere.
Now, a strong El Niño is still build-
ing toward an expected peak this
winter, meaning its influence
could make for an even hotter
2024.
“El Niño is going to push these
temperatures higher,” Pershing
said. “We’re going to continue to
set these records as we move on
into next year.”
a former Transportation Depart-
ment official who helped to design
the programs as a congressional
aide, said the program is on track
to fulfill its intended purpose.
“It wasn’t to solve the entire
need to transition to electric vehi-
cle charging infrastructure across
the board,” he said. “It was to
supplement private investment,
not supplant it.”
Ohio announced Oct. 18 that it
broke ground on the first char-
gers. The state has awarded 27
contracts to charging providers
who will supplement the federal
funding and operate the ports.
Spencer Burget, who tracks EV
data for Atlas, said seven other
states have finished the initial
contracting process, setting them
up to begin construction. Federal
officials expect almost every state
to have at least started the process
by the end of the year.
The national lab study estimat-
ed the cost of building the public
portion of a national charging net-
work would be between $31 bil-
lion and $55 billion. To date, it has
counted almost $24 billion in
planned investment, a figure the
study’s authors concluded put the
total within reach.
In addition to direct federal
money, the lab counted planned
investments by companies, elec-
tric utilities and local govern-
ments. It said federal tax credits in
the Inflation Reduction Act also
could be a significant source of
money.
But securing funding is only
part of the picture.
“Even if the funding is in place,
actually having the scale of manu-
facturing for the equipment and
the installers ready and all of the
grid ready for the ramp in demand
is one of the big challenges,” said
Eric Wood, the lead author of the
national lab study.
The Biden administration opt-
ed to delay “Buy America” require-
ments for chargers, a decision the
Federal Highway Administration
said allows “acquisition and in-
stallation to immediately pro-
ceed.”
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DeSantis group’s ad attacks Haley with facts but puts forth false conclusions
“China’s eyes and
ears —
dangerously close,
too dangerous to
lead.”
— Voice-over
The Fact in an ad aired by
Checker Never Back
Glenn Down, a super
Kessler PAC supporting
Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis (R),
released Nov. 2
China has emerged as a flash
point in the battle between
DeSantis and former South
Carolina governor Nikki Haley
for the GOP Republican
presidential nomination. Haley,
who also served as the U.S.
ambassador to the United
Nations, has pitched herself as a
hawk on China. This slashing
attack ad in support of DeSantis
suggests that, as governor, Haley
allowed a Chinese company to
get “dangerously close” to a U.S.
military base and that therefore
she is “too dangerous to lead.”
This is one of those cleverly
crafted ads that string together
verifiable facts to create a
compelling narrative. Let’s see
how well it adds up.
The Facts
In her campaign for president,
Haley has warned repeatedly
about Chinese investments in the
United States. “Chinese investors
have bought nearly 400,000
acres of American land, much of
it near military bases,” she wrote
in a Wall Street Journal article in
June. “I’ll do everything in my
power to prevent China from
buying any more land and force it
to sell what it already owns.”
Yet, as governor from January
2011 to January 2017, she
recruited Chinese companies to
her state. Chinese capital
investment in South Carolina
more than doubled, from $308
million in 2011 to nearly $670
million in 2015.
Nachama Soloveichik, the
communications director for the
Haley campaign, says the threat
perception has changed since
Haley was governor. As we have
previously noted, Haley has
sought to distance herself from
the specifics of these deals, but
she acknowledged at an Iowa
town hall last month: “I recruited
ELECTION 2024
Trump courts donations from oil barons, who thrived during his first term
BY J OSH D AWSEY
AND M AXINE J OSELOW
Earlier this summer, oil billion-
aire Harold Hamm called for
Donald Trump to drop out of the
presidential race. He made con-
tributions to the presidential
campaigns of Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis and former U.N. ambas-
sador Nikki Haley and ques-
tioned publicly whether Trump
could beat President Biden in the
2024 election.
Then late last month, Hamm
showed up at the Mar-a-Lago
Club in Palm Beach, Fla., brought
a $200,000 check for a pro-Trump
super PAC, and attended a private
meeting with Trump and an inti-
mate fundraiser with the former
president, according to three peo-
ple familiar with the matter who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to describe donations and
private meetings.
The reversal came as Trump
and his team aggressively court
donations from the oil and gas
industry, one of the main benefi-
ciaries of his time in the White
House. Over the course of four
years, the Trump administration
weakened or wiped out more than
125 environmental rules and pol-
icies, many of them designed to
limit planet-warming emissions
from fossil fuels. Biden, by con-
trast, has reversed many of
Trump’s policies and enacted doz-
ens of measures aimed at moving
the nation away from oil, gas and
coal.
Hamm, executive chairman of
the oil giant Continental Resourc-
es, did not respond to a request
for comment. A person with
knowledge of Hamm’s thinking,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to talk frankly, said the
Oklahoma businessman realized
that Trump was going to be the
nominee and efforts to stop him
were going nowhere.
In recent weeks, Trump and his
team have targeted donors from
the oil and gas industry by hold-
ing two large events in Texas and
calling some of the country’s rich-
est executives. The campaign’s
pitch has been straightforward:
Trump is going to be the GOP
nominee, so these donors should
get on board now.
“Trump 2024 is actively court-
ing the right people and trying to
get them on board, but specifical-
ly the oil industry,” said Dan Eber-
hart, an oil executive who is sup-
a fiberglass company.”
That fiberglass company,
China Jushi, is the subject of this
ad. Let’s go through the ad line by
line.
“This Chinese company, run
by Communist Party officials,
supplies materials for the Red
Army.”
China Jushi, which Forbes says
has 14,000 employees and $2.7
billion of revenue, is a partially
state-owned enterprise. China
National Building Material
Company Limited, a state-owned
company, owns nearly 27 percent
of China Jushi, according to
China Jushi’s website.
Meanwhile, the company has a
dedicated Communist Party
Committee with 618 members.
President and vice chairman
Zhang Yuqiang serves as the
company’s party committee
secretary, and board chairman
Chang Zhangli is a party
committee member. Several top
officials of CNBM also are party
officials.
The company supplies at least
one product to the Chinese
military. On China Jushi’s
website, the company advertises
that the end-use markets for its
products include “Military,
Defense and Security.” The
website displays a Chinese
military armored scout car, the
Norinco QL550, which was seen
operating in Tibet in October
2017.
“America’s army trains over
half of all new soldiers at a
South Carolina base.”
Fort Jackson, which says it
provides basic training to more
than 45,000 soldiers per year,
trains 54 percent of all new
soldiers and 61 percent of all
female soldiers, Lt. Col. James
Allen, the fort’s director of
operations, told the State
newspaper in 2016.
“The connection? Governor
Nikki Haley helped the Chinese
company set up shop five miles
from our base — on land she gave
them.”
In 2016, China Jushi
announced that it would
establish a manufacturing plant
in South Carolina’s Richland
County — an announcement that
Haley in a news release called “a
huge win for our state.” On
Facebook, she declared: “Get
excited! China Jushi is creating
Former president Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Houston on Nov. 2. As he pursues oil and gas
donors who have backed his rivals, he has a clear message: that he is the inevitable GOP nominee.
porting DeSantis. “They know
who they need to get on the
Trump train, and they’re doing
what they need to do to get those
folks.”
Eberhart and others said that
DeSantis had also cultivated do-
nors from the energy industry
and held large fundraisers in Tex-
as, and that he believed the do-
nors were “split” between the two
men.
Nearly 400 wealthy Texas do-
nors — many from the oil and gas
industry — recently piled into the
compound of telecommunica-
tions billionaire Kenny Troutt,
with some paying $23,200 to snap
a picture with Trump. Another
fundraiser in the state attracted a
set of wealthy oil donors.
Trump’s talking points at re-
cent fundraisers have included a
lot for oil barons to like, according
to people who have attended
these sessions. He has railed
about electric cars, falsely claim-
ing that the batteries often break
down. He usually goes on a riff
about wind turbines, a renewable
energy source that he has falsely
linked to cancer. He claims that
solar panels are ineffective and
argues we need to drill for much
more oil underneath the United
States.
At a recent fundraiser in Texas,
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Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis
appear at the presidential debate Wednesday in Miami. Never Back
Down, a super PAC supporting DeSantis, ran an ad leaving the
impression that Haley made a national security blunder by
welcoming a Chinese fiberglass company to South Carolina.
400 new jobs” and investing
$300 million “right here in
Columbia!”
As we noted, she recently took
credit for recruiting the
company.
When the ad mentions “land
she gave them,” the ad displays
the text “197 acres free” and an
image of Haley holding out her
hands as if she’s handing over a
gift. The ad cites one of our fact
checks, in which we said the
company would receive almost
200 acres of county-owned land
free if promised investments
were made.
As we explained: “According to
the contract between the county
and China Jushi, a key part of the
deal was the company’s receiving
197 acres of land, valued at $4.9
million. The company would
have been required to pay back
part of the land’s value if it did
not invest an expected amount of
money or create an expected
number of jobs.”
In other words, no money
changed hands. That’s certainly
different from paying for land,
although Soloveichik responded
that it was also different from
“free” land. She also noted that
the contract was between the
company and the county, not the
governor.
But the South Carolina
Coordinating Council for
Economic Development, which is
Trump vowed to open up more
federal lands to drilling, support
pipeline projects such as Key-
stone XL, and reinstate oil and
gas leases in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, attendees said.
He talked of eliminating electric
vehicle mandates, dismantling
environmental regulations and
crushing liberal climate policies
such as the Green New Deal.
In private, he has mocked cli-
mate change, according to people
who have met with him. He has
previously called global warming
a “hoax.”
He sometimes will get into
technical minutiae in a way he
doesn’t always on other subjects,
talking about the myriad benefits
he sees of fracking.
In other words, he promises
the oil executives what they want.
“We are going to drill for so much
oil,” he said at a rally on Wednes-
day in Florida. “We are going to
drill, baby, drill.”
“Trump was good on energy,
and I think energy policy under
Trump would be fine,” said Eber-
hart, who continues to support
DeSantis.
Environmentalists say they’re
not surprised by oil donors’ em-
brace of Trump, whose climate
legacy they describe as disas-
trous. In addition to axing envi-
JoNaThaN NeWToN/The WashINGToN PosT
chaired by the state’s commerce
secretary, who is appointed by
the governor, provided about $7
million in incentives to facilitate
the Jushi deal. So the state
government certainly played an
important role in luring the
company to the state.
The company factory is about
five miles from Fort Jackson.
“Where they fly China’s flag,
serve China’s interests. China’s
eyes and ears — dangerously
close, too dangerous to lead.”
This is where the ad makes a
huge leap in logic.
During this voice-over, the text
of the ad says: “Haley’s favored
company ‘deeply implemented
red culture.’”
This line refers to a China
Jushi report, issued in 2022 in
English, that extols the
company’s achievements,
including: “We have publicized
and implemented the 20th
National Congress of the CPC
[Communist Party of China] and
deeply implemented the
innovative practice of red
culture.” The Chinese
Communist Party seeks to
promote revolutionary and
socialist values through what it
calls red culture, such as through
art, literature, music and other
endeavors.
Okay, but what they are
making at the South Carolina
plant is fiberglass. There is no
BraNdoN Bell/GeTTy ImaGes
ronmental rules and denying
global warming while in the
White House, Trump withdrew
the United States from the land-
mark Paris climate accord.
“There aren’t enough hours in
the day to discuss how horrific the
former president’s record is when
it comes to climate change, clean
air, clean water and public lands,”
said Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior
vice president for government af-
fairs at the League of Conserva-
tion Voters. “So the fact that Big
Oil is coming back to him is
perhaps not surprising.”
Steven Cheung, a Trump
spokesman, responded: “As Presi-
dent Trump has said on the cam-
paign trail multiple times, we
need to increase energy produc-
tion in order to help supercharge
the economy and ease inflation
caused by Biden’s disastrous pol-
icies.”
The days-long tour in Texas
was designed for Trump to collect
oil and gas money as he portrays
himself as the inevitable GOP
nominee. His team has continued
to cite strong poll numbers in
wooing potential donors, to un-
derscore his inevitability.
“We’ve seen a lot of movement
in the past month or two,” one
person in Trump’s orbit said, re-
ferring to campaign contributors
the washington post
indication it is a spy center for
China, as suggested by the ad’s
use of the phrase “eyes and ears.”
When the South Carolina
Senate approved a bill this year
banning Chinese citizens from
buying or controlling property in
South Carolina, Frank Win, an
employee of China Jushi,
testified: “I just believe the
people working at a Chinese
company, they do not represent
the political regime in China.”
The bill made an exception for
companies already doing
business in the state, so, in
theory, China Jushi could expand
in the future. We repeatedly
sought comment from the
company about the ad. Although
we were promised a response, we
did not receive one.
This year, the Biden
administration enacted a rule
that foreign nationals or
companies would need to get
approval from the U.S.
government before buying land
within 100 miles of eight U.S. Air
Force bases in six states. The
move came after a Chinese
company last year bought 370
acres for a corn-milling plant that
would have been about 12 miles
from Grand Forks Air Force Base,
one of the military installations
on the list. Permission for
acquisition was revoked after the
military raised objections.
The regulation was an
expansion of an existing rule that
lists about 200 sensitive military
facilities that would require
government approval for land
purchases by foreign entities
within one mile. But Fort
Jackson, besides being five miles
from China Jushi, is not on the
list. In South Carolina, only a
Marine Corps station in Beaufort
and Shaw Air Force Base in
Sumter are listed as sensitive
facilities.
South Carolina residents
perhaps should be more worried
about the company’s
environmental practices than
whether it poses a national
security risk. South Carolina
officials imposed nearly
$500,000 of fines, among the
largest in recent state history, for
the company’s violation of
environmental regulations.
In a July 30 interview with
“Face the Nation” on CBS, Haley
demurred when asked whether
who had previously been eyeing
other candidates.
Not all donors are making the
bet. Some of the country’s most
prominent donors, including Ken
Griffin and Paul Singer, are hold-
ing out hope for Haley, DeSantis
or another Republican to beat
Trump. In the oil industry, several
people with knowledge of the
matter said, many of the top do-
nors are just staying on the side-
lines.
Joseph W. Craft III, the presi-
dent and chief executive of coal
producer Alliance Resource Part-
ners, and his wife, Kelly Craft, the
former U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, have each donat-
ed to six of Trump’s rivals for the
GOP nomination, according to
Federal Election Commission fil-
ings.
Each gave $6,600 — the maxi-
mum amount allowed by law for
individual donors — to DeSantis,
Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ra-
maswamy and former New Jersey
governor Chris Christie, the fil-
ings show. Each also donated
$6,600 to former vice president
Mike Pence, who suspended his
campaign last month, and $3,300
to Miami Mayor Francis Suarez,
who dropped out of the race in
August.
The contributions come after
Trump declined to endorse Kelly
Craft in last May’s Republican
primary for Kentucky governor.
Yet Trump’s presidency was a
boon for Joseph Craft’s coal busi-
ness, as the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency weakened federal
limits on carbon dioxide emis-
sions from coal plants and eased
requirements for storing toxic
coal ash. Joseph Craft met with
Scott Pruitt, Trump’s first EPA
chief and a longtime friend, more
than half a dozen times, agency
records show.
Kelcy Warren, the billionaire
co-founder of the pipeline compa-
ny Energy Transfer, has also do-
nated tens of thousands to DeSan-
tis, according to FEC filings. War-
ren previously held a fundraising
bash in 2020 that raised $10 mil-
lion for the reelection of Trump,
who approved Energy Transfer’s
controversial Dakota Access pipe-
line a month after taking office.
One prominent oil executive,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss private con-
versations, said many donors still
want a candidate other than
Trump and are assessing other
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she would call on Chinese
companies to leave South
Carolina. “I would say, ‘Look,
we’re going to make sure we
know exactly what you’re
doing,’ ” she said. “What we need
to do is make sure there’s no
sensitive technology being
stolen.”
A Never Back Down
spokesman had this to say:
“While Nikki Haley was wooing
Chinese Communist Party
officials and calling China a
friend, China was infiltrating our
country, stealing seeds from Iowa
farms and hacking the personal
information of millions of
Americans.” The spokesman
added, “Haley may naively
believe this CCP-run company
praised by Xi himself poses no
threat to the U.S. military bases
nearby, but Ron DeSantis
understands the threat, and
that’s why he banned China from
buying land in Florida.”
(Soloveichik, meanwhile, cited
as an example of hypocrisy two
instances in which she said
DeSantis, who in May signed a
bill restricting Chinese land
purchases, allowed Chinese
companies to expand in Florida,
but we could find no evidence
that he was involved or provided
state incentives.)
The Pinocchio Test
Never Back Down tends to
have rigorously researched ads,
and this one makes verifiable
statements until the dots fail to
connect at the end. An ordinary
viewer is left with the impression
that Haley made a serious
national security blunder when
she welcomed a Chinese
fiberglass factory to her state.
But notwithstanding the
company’s ownership, there is no
indication that this fiberglass
factory is designed to spy on a
military base five miles away.
Fort Jackson is not even on a list
of sensitive facilities — and the
factory is not close enough to
merit additional government
scrutiny even if Fort Jackson
were on the list.
Never Back Down earns Three
Pinocchios.
options, such as DeSantis and
Haley. “They hang out at Houston
Country Club,” this person said.
“Their wives don’t like Trump.
They still want someone else.”
This person had given a large
check to Sen. Tim Scott of South
Carolina. “Maybe that was a mis-
take,” he said with a laugh.
The campaign calculus of the
energy industry reflects what
many big donors are thinking,
according to Republican opera-
tives. Many still wish Trump was
not likely to be the nominee but
are begrudgingly cutting Trump a
check — or are unwilling to give to
another candidate because they
think they are wasting their mon-
ey.
Trump advisers say they’ve en-
joyed a fundraising windfall in
recent weeks, with a 1,200-person
event at Mar-a-Lago that raised
$6 million and two events with
400 or more donors in Texas.
Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta
held another large event in Dal-
las, attendees said, with about
400 guests.
“Harold is an early tell,” the oil
executive said. “He wants to be
close to power. That’s his M.O.
He’s not going to let the opportu-
nity go away if he sees Trump is
the guy.”
Hamm, who previously sup-
ported Trump’s campaigns in
2016 and 2020, has attracted
some other donors back to the
fold.
A range of affluent Texas oil-
business people attended recent
Trump fundraising events, ac-
cording to his advisers, such as
George Bishop, Cody Campbell,
John Sellers, Marcia French,
Mark Rollins, Elpidio Balderas
and Al Gonsoulin.
On Wednesday, hotel magnate
Robert Bigelow, the largest indi-
vidual donor to a super PAC sup-
porting DeSantis, said he was
considering switching his alle-
giance to Trump. Another promi-
nent GOP donor, Bernie Marcus,
said he was endorsing Trump on
Thursday after other GOP candi-
dates tried to woo him. Earlier
this year, the former Home Depot
CEO said publicly that he was
undecided.
“Who would you want as a
commander? I’d want somebody
that would be a hell of an ass-
kicker if he needed to be,” Bigelow
said in an interview with the
Financial Times. “On the face of
it, you lean toward Trump.”
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A6
A school
librarian
reaches
her limit
LiBrAriAn from A1
place.
Tania had planned to spend
the rest of her career in the
osceola County School District.
She was 51. She could have stayed
for years at Tohopekaliga, a
school she loved that had only
just opened in 2018. The library
was clean and new. The shelves
were organized. The chairs had
wheels that moved soundlessly
across the carpet. The floor plan
was open, designed by architects
who had promised “the 21st cen-
tury media center.”
That was before the school
board meeting on April 5, 2022,
when Tania watched parents read
aloud from books they described
as a danger to kids. It was before
she received a phone call from
the district, the day after that,
instructing her to remove four
books from her shelves. It was
before a member of the conserva-
tive group moms for Liberty told
her on facebook, a few days later,
that she shouldn’t be allowed
anywhere near students. It had
been 18 months since then. Nine
months since she had taken flori-
da’s new training for librarians, a
mandatory hour-long video, and
heard the state say that books in
the library must not contain sex-
ual content that could be “harm-
ful to minors” and that violating
this statute would result in a
third-degree felony. “A crime,” the
training had said. “Districts
should err on the side of caution.”
It had been seven months since
she began collecting florida’s
laws and statutes in a purple
folder on her desk, highlighting
the sections that made her mad,
and also the ones that could get
her fired. Six months since she
broke out in hives, since eczema
crept up the side of her face, since
she started having trouble sleep-
ing and got a prescription for an
anti-anxiety medication. five
months since she stood in her
house crying and her husband
said it wasn’t worth it anymore.
He could work two jobs if he had
to. “You need to quit,” he’d told
her. Six weeks since the start of
another school year. five weeks
since she had given her notice.
And sometime in the middle of
all that, as she showed up every
weekday at 7 a.m. and tried to
focus on the job she had signed
up for, which was, she thought, to
help students discover a book to
love, Tania could feel something
shifting inside her 21st-century
media center. The relationships
between students and books, and
parents and libraries, and teach-
ers and the books they taught,
and librarians and the job they
did — all of it was changing in a
place she thought had been de-
signed to stay the same.
A library was a room with
shelves and books. A library was a
place to read.
Now the library, or at least this
library, was a place where a
librarian was about to leave.
Tania took the first book out of
the box. It had been sent over by a
teacher who, like teachers
throughout the school, was con-
cerned that the books inside her
classroom might be in violation
of the law. She looked at the title:
“music for Sight Singing.” She
took out another. “30 Songs for
Voice and Piano.” She took out
another. “Star Wars: A musical
Journey, Easy Piano.”
There was no sexual content to
review here. Barely any content at
all. She was looking at sheet mu-
sic.
It should have been absurd,
kneeling over a box of music she
couldn’t read, sent over by a
music teacher who wasn’t sure
what she was allowed to have in
her classroom. But now the li-
brary was a place where things
like this happened.
T
he books went back in the
box. The box went on a cart.
Tania asked one of her stu-
dent assistants to return it to the
teacher’s classroom, and then she
walked to her desk and to the
purple folder.
Inside, there were printouts of
79 pages of florida law and statute
that told her how to think about
what students should and should
not read. one law made it easier
for people to challenge books they
believed contained sexual con-
duct or age-inappropriate materi-
al. Another defined that term,
“sexual conduct,” in layer upon
layer of clinical specificity.
When she had decided to be-
come a librarian almost 10 years
ago, it was for a simple reason:
She loved to read. Now she
watched as the work she did at a
high school in Central florida
became part of a national debate.
There were fights going on over
democracy and fascism. There
were parents and school board
members arguing on social media
and in meetings. florida Gov. ron
DeSantis (r) wasn’t just passing
laws but using them to run for
president. To Tania, the pure act of
reading was becoming more and
more political, and as a result, she
had to spend much of her time
reviewing the books on her
shelves — not to suggest one to a
student but to ask herself whether
the content was too mature for the
teenagers at her school. Then she
had moved on to the books in each
teacher’s classroom, because as of
this year, the state considered
those books to be part of the
library, too.
All of this took time. The li-
brarian’s job was expanding even
as she felt it was shrinking to a
series of rote tasks: She would
copy a book’s ISBN number into a
peer-review database. She would
decide whether to mark it with
the thumb-size red sticker, pro-
vided to her by the district, that
read “m” for “mature.” If a book
wasn’t listed in a database, she
would review it by hand, and
then she would start again with
the next book. In those hours, the
job became a series of keystrokes,
and she began to feel more like a
censor than a librarian.
It wasn’t just Tania doing this.
It was more than 1,400 librarians
in all of florida’s 67 counties,
each district interpreting the law
eZ re
in its own way. In the panhandle,
Escambia County had instructed
its schools to close parts of their
libraries entirely until every book
on every shelf had been reviewed
for sexual content. In Charlotte
County, near fort myers, schools
were told to remove any books
with LGBTQ characters from el-
ementary and middle school li-
braries.
Tania saw the headlines in
other states, too: A new law in
Iowa to prohibit library materials
that include “depictions of a sex
act.” A new plan in Houston to
convert parts of some public
school libraries into discipline
centers for misbehaving stu-
dents. meanwhile, in Tania’s
county, the public library had just
eliminated late fees, as a means of
attracting more readers. That
was the whole idea, Tania had
thought. But in schools, the
whole idea was getting lost some-
where. or at least that’s what she
wanted to convey in January,
when she wrote an email to the
florida Department of Educa-
tion. She had just taken its man-
datory library training. “Have we
forgotten that students should be
reading for pleasure?” she wrote.
It was about a month later that
Tania started talking to another
librarian, Erin Decker, about
leaving the profession. Erin
worked at a middle school and
had an idea to open an independ-
ent bookstore. They didn’t know
much about running a business.
But then a crystal shop in down-
town Kissimmee was closing, and
they were putting in an applica-
tion on the lease. And now, slow-
ly, Tania was telling people at
school about her decision.
“You’re leaving?” one of her
favorite students asked her, drop-
ping by between classes.
Tania put her hands on his
shoulders. “Listen. Listen, my
darling.”
He started to speak again, but
Tania stopped him.
“This a good thing, all right?”
T
he first library Tania ever
saw was the one at Aca-
demia menonita, her
school in San Juan, Puerto rico.
It wasn’t a big library, more of a
room on the second floor, above
the kindergarten classroom, up a
steep set of stairs, where the
librarian sat at her desk against
the back wall, positioned where
she could see everybody, any-
where in the room.
The school was mennonite,
and conservative. There was no
dancing. The mennonite parents
didn’t drink. But there was never
censorship. The library had an
aspect of calm, an expanse that
opened itself up to Tania every
time she entered. She saw books
in English and Spanish and
shelves of novels. “This is what
the world is like,” she remem-
bered thinking.
In fourth grade, she discovered
Judy Blume. “Are You There God?
It’s me, margaret” taught her
about menstruation. In sixth
grade, she read “Deenie” and
learned about masturbation. In
seventh grade, she read “Tiger
Eyes” and learned about physical
intimacy. In high school, the
the washington post
PhoToS by ThomaS SimoneTTi For The WaShingTon PoST
ABOVE: Tania Galiñanes, the librarian at Tohopekaliga High
School in Kissimmee, Fla., on one of her last days on the job.
LEFT: Tania had not planned to quit the school, but now she found
herself composing a goodbye letter to her colleagues.
BELOW LEFT: As students file into the gymnasium for a pep rally,
Tania directs them to show their wristbands to gain entry.
books became more mature. She
read “one flew over the Cuckoo’s
Nest” and began to understand
mental illness. She read a book
about the serial killer Ted Bundy,
“The Stranger Beside me,” and
imagined the dangers that might
await her once she left home for
college. on the cover, a picture of
Bundy’s eyes, seeming to glow in
the dark, scared her so much that
when she finished the book, she
threw it away.
Twenty years later, she was
married, a mother of two daugh-
ters, and decisions about reading
became personal in a new way.
Her kids were in middle school,
reading “Twilight,” and Tania
asked them to hold off on the last
book in the series, the one with a
wedding-night scene, until they
got to high school. A few years
later, she became a librarian in a
middle school, her first library
job, and began making decisions
about what was appropriate not
just for her daughters but also for
hundreds of students. She ordered
a book for the library called “The
Summer of owen Todd,” a young-
adult novel about an 11-year-old
boy who is sexually assaulted by
an older man, and she started
having reservations. Would she
want her kids to read it? There
had to be a different way of
thinking about it. What if there
was a student here, right now, who
was sexually assaulted by an adult
they were told to trust? What if
this book could help them? The
book went back on the shelf.
“This is what the world is like,”
she had thought as a student at
Academia menonita, and some-
times, when she asked herself
what a library was, she wondered
how she could give her students
the feeling that she had been
given, climbing the stairs to the
second floor.
Now, 19 10th-graders at Toho-
pekaliga High School walked
through the doors. “okay, every-
body, we’re here because you’re
going to learn some very impor-
tant things about the library,”
said their teacher, Carmen Lor-
ente.
Tania pointed to the left side of
the room. Classics, dystopian,
fantasy, historical fiction, horror,
humor. She pointed to the right.
mystery, realistic fiction, ro-
mance, sci-fi, sports, supernatu-
ral. And over there — far corner of
the room — 153 graphic novels.
She kept going. Nonfiction, ca-
reers. 11,600 books, 6,000 e-
books.
A boy yawned. Another
slumped in his chair, forehead on
his laptop, eyes shut. “I’m gonna
let you guys explore now,” Tania
said, but no one moved. At a table
in the back, a girl held up a
compact mirror and applied lip
gloss. Slowly, four kids walked to
the graphic novels. Alone, a girl
walked to the romance shelf. At
Lorente’s urging, a group of stu-
dents walked to the careers sec-
tion and stood in silence until one
of them took a cookbook from the
shelf.
“miss,” one of the 10th-grade
boys told his teacher, “I can’t
read.”
“You can read.”
“It gives me a headache.”
“You can read,” Lorente said.
“It’s just the mind-set.”
“Any questions on how to find
a book?” Tania asked.
“Guys, get up. Walk around,”
. sunday, november 12 , 2023
Lorente said. “Look at books. It’s
not a chitchat session. You need
to be up and actively looking at
books.”
She saw a girl leaning against a
table and pointed to the shelf at
hip level behind her. “I challenge
you to pick up a book,” Lorente
said. “Any book. And read it and
see what happens.”
“oh, I can pick up a book,” the
girl replied. She walked to the
realistic fiction section, put her
index finger on the spine of a
novel, pulled it halfway from the
shelf, then released it back into
place. “See? I picked up a book.”
“No, pick it up and read it,”
Lorente said. “What kind of
things do you like? fantasy? His-
torical fiction?”
“Nothing. I like nothing.”
The bell rang. The conversa-
tion about reading was over.
“They’re good kids,” Lorente
told Tania, but Tania didn’t need
to be told. She thought of the
other students who were already
past the tour she had just given:
The girl who had read and re-
turned three books already this
week. The boy who had pointed
to the cover of “Dear martin,” a
young-adult book about police
profiling, and had said to Tania,
“This kid looks like me.”
Now the library was quiet
again. Somewhere else in the
school, interviews were going on
for her replacement. Three candi-
dates were coming in. The princi-
pal had asked Tania to send him
interview questions. She emailed
her district supervisor for ideas
and received a document in her
inbox, the list of questions they
kept on file.
“What do you see as the role of
the librarian in the school set-
ting?”
“What kind of library attracts
students, staff and parents?”
Nothing about the laws, noth-
ing about reviewing books, noth-
ing about book bans at all. Tania
scrolled through the questions
and added one more. “What is
your stance on Censorship?” she
wrote, though she had no way of
knowing whether it would be
asked, or how the next librarian
might answer.
She returned to her desk and
called Erin, whose last day was
also on friday.
“I was just thinking about you,”
Erin said. She told Tania what her
day had been like — sick teachers,
being called on to supervise sixth-
grade lunch. “And sixth-graders,
oh my God. I’m just gonna put
this out there: It was corn dog
and banana day. Sixth-grade
boys. But I was thinking, I’m
going to miss these kids, even
though I hate lunch duty.”
Tania laughed.
“And I was like, ‘I wonder if
Tania is feeling all the emotions
like I am this week?’” Erin said.
“Actually, yes,” Tania said, “I
am.”
“H
ey, sweetie,” she said as
the students walked
past her.
It was her last day.
“Hi, guys. remember — no
electronics.”
“Hi, guys. remember — no
food, no open containers, no
cellphones.”
They nodded. They smiled.
They walked past her.
Did they know she was leav-
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“M” for mature. This year, the

ABOVE: Tania flips through a book in the Tohopekaliga library’s
storage area. Much of her time on the job was spent reviewing
books to make sure the school was adhering to new Florida laws.
RIGHT: Tania at her soon-to-be bookstore, White Rose Books and
More, which she’s opening in downtown Kissimmee with a friend,
another former school librarian.
ing?
Now the room was full, and
Tania said, loud enough for every-
one to hear, “Today’s my last day,
so check out everything you
need.”
“If you’re going to check out a
book, do it today and do it in the
next five minutes,” she said again.
“Do you want to check out
more than one book?” she asked a
student carrying a graphic novel
to the circulation desk. “This is
my last day, and my replacement
won’t start for a while.” He turned
around and came back with five
more.
“Are you really leaving?” an-
other boy asked.
number was higher: 84 kids.
Now she recognized one of
them walking toward the circula-
tion desk, a girl with a graphic
novel tucked under her arm.
She scanned the student’s ID.
“Limited Access,” she saw on the
screen. Tania checked the front
cover of the book, then the back,
then the spine. No “M” sticker.
“Okay, sweetie,” she said, and
the girl walked to a couch and
began to read.
It was the last book she
checked out. The bell rang. Tania
watched as the girl walked out of
the library, the book still in her
hand, one finger holding her
place.
A few hours from now, she
would have a conversation with
Erin about this strange day.
“I didn’t cry until I turned my
keys in,” Erin would say.
“They gave me a card and
flowers, and that’s when I cried,”
Tania would say.
They would tell each other
about the gifts people had made
for them, the cards, the flowers,
the cake, the lemon merengue
pie. Last first period, last lunch
period. Erin would tell Tania that
her assistant principal asked her
three times whether she had
changed her mind about leaving.
Tania would say her assistant
principal asked her to say some-
thing on the systemwide radio,
and what she said was “Mrs. G
signing off. Media center closed
until further notice.” They would
sit in the store they had just
leased, the crystal shop in Kis-
PhoToS by ThomaS SimoneTTi For The WaShingTon PoST simmee that was becoming a
bookstore. There were no books
yet on the shelves, but there
would be soon. Every book they
could afford. Any book at all.
“So, how do you feel?” Tania
would ask Erin, because it had
been hard to pin down, the feel-
“Yes,” Tania said. ing that she had as she left
“Why?” Tohopekaliga High School for the
She tried to think of a simple last time.
answer. She had wanted to leave on her
“I’m opening a bookstore,” she own terms. But as she walked out,
said. she wasn’t sure that was what she
So they knew she was leaving, had done.
but did they know why? Did they Lights out. Doors locked.
know what was happening in This 21st-century media center
Florida? Some of the students was now closed and would re-
may have, because their parents main so until a new librarian
had asked the school to restrict walked in and saw what awaited:
their access to the library. There 11,600 books on the shelves, and,
were three students at Tohopeka- on the desk, one purple folder
liga who had no library access at containing 79 pages of Florida
all. Last year, there were 45 stu- laws and a short note from the
dents with restricted access. They previous librarian.
weren’t allowed to check out any “You might find this helpful,” it
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Rich in friendship: The patrons

of Clarence and Ginni Thomas
Here are associates of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife who have given gifts, made payments
or otherwise supported the couple, based on recent reporting from various news outlets
BY S HAWN B OBURG

Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia
“Ginni” Thomas, have long been surrounded by a tight
network of friends and patrons, most of them staunch
conservatives. Over the past six months, reporting
primarily by ProPublica but also by The Washington
Post, the New York Times and other outlets has
revealed the extent to which that network has provided
the Thomases with gifts, favors and employment —
much of which the justice never publicly disclosed.
The revelations about the Thomases’ interactions
with billionaires have fueled calls for the Supreme
Court justices to be bound by a code of ethics. Though
Thomas has amended some details in his financial
disclosures, saying errors and omissions were the
result of misunderstandings, he has said he was not
required to report many of the personal gifts he
received from wealthy friends. A lawyer for Thomas
has said “no one influences Justice Clarence Thomas’s
jurisprudence.”
emma brown and Jon Swaine contributed to this report.

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Harlan Crow, chairman and chief executive Leonard Leo, then-executive vice president of the H. Wayne Huizenga in Miami in 2007. The Anthony Welters, left, at a gala in New York in
officer of Crow Holdings, in Dallas in 2015. He is Federalist Society, in 2016. Leo steers several founder Waste Management, AutoNation and 2016. He and Clarence Thomas became friends
a prominent donor to conservative causes. nonprofits that advance conservative ideals. other businesses died in 2018. while working as congressional aides.

Harlan Crow Leonard Leo H. Wayne Huizenga Anthony Welters

Crow is a Texas billionaire and real estate
developer who has been a major donor to conserva-
tive causes. He and Thomas became friends in the
1990s, after Thomas joined the Supreme Court. Crow
has said that he has never discussed pending court
cases with Thomas or sought to influence his think-
ing.
l Crow has repeatedly flown Thomas on his
private jet and hosted him almost every summer at
his resort in the Adirondacks.
He has taken the Thomases on multiple vacations
around the globe on his 162-foot superyacht, includ-
ing a nine-day trip to Indonesia in 2019 and a cruise
in New Zealand about a decade ago.
l Over the past 25 years, he regularly hosted
Thomas as his guest at Bohemian Grove, the exclu-
sive all-male retreat in California.
l For a period of time around 2009, Crow paid the
$6,000-per-month tuition at a private boarding
school for Thomas’s grandnephew. Thomas had
legal custody of the child at the time.
l In 2009, according to Politico, he gave at least
$500,000 to a nonprofit group launched by Ginni
Thomas, Liberty Central, which aimed to harness
the energy of the tea party movement.
l In 2014, he spent $133,363 to buy three proper-
ties owned by Thomas and family members, includ-
ing the house in which Thomas’s mother was
allowed to continue living, rent-free. Crow has said
he intends to turn the house into a museum focused
on Thomas.
Leo is a longtime Federalist Society leader and a
key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative
supermajority. He also steers a network of nonprof-
its that promote conservative causes in the courts
and beyond.
l Leo arranged for Ginni Thomas’s for-profit firm,
Liberty Consulting, to receive an unknown sum for a
contract that was to have “no mention of Ginni.” In
2012, he told pollster Kellyanne Conway that he
wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25k,”
documents show. He directed Conway to get the
money by billing a nonprofit he advises. In a
statement to The Post, Leo praised the work by
Conway and Ginni Thomas as an “invaluable re-
source.”
l Since 2016, nonprofits steered by Leo have paid
at least $1.8 million for public relations efforts to
defend and lionize Clarence Thomas, including in a
laudatory film about his life.
Huizenga was a billionaire who founded busi-
nesses such as Waste Management and AutoNation
and owned professional sports teams including the
Miami Dolphins and the Florida Panthers. He died
in 2018.
l In the 1990s and 2000s, Huizenga flew Thomas
at least twice on his private 737 jets and other times
on Gulfstream jets and helicopters. He took Thomas
to see the Dolphins and the Panthers play several
times. He also frequently hosted Thomas at his
private, members-only golf club in Florida.
Welters is a wealthy health-care entrepreneur who
became friends with Clarence Thomas decades ago,
when both men were aides to Republicans in Con-
gress.
l Welters provided a loan that allowed the justice
to buy a $267,230 luxury RV in 1999. A congressional
investigation found that Thomas made some inter-
est payments but that the loan was declared settled
by Welters in 2008 without Thomas repaying a
substantial portion — or perhaps any — of the
principal. An attorney for Thomas said in response
that the loan’s terms “were satisfied in full” but has
not said what those terms were.

Heritage Foundation
The nonprofit has long been a key leader in the
conservative movement. Its efforts to shape policy
have extended to the federal courts, where in recent
years it has sued the Biden administration and
submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court. In
2021, Heritage hosted a day-long symposium on the
legacy of Clarence Thomas’s 30 years as a justice.
l Heritage paid Ginni Thomas more than
$936,000 between 2001 and 2007, tax filings show.
Tax filings before 2001 are not available. Clarence
Thomas reported her employment at Heritage in
2011, after left-leaning activists raised questions.
Hillsdale College
Hillsdale is a conservative Christian school in
Michigan with an outpost in the nation’s capital. It
has close ties to Republicans, including former
president Donald Trump.
lHillsdale employed Ginni Thomas from mid-
2008 until 2010. Clarence Thomas also reported this
employment in 2011. He did not say, nor was he
required to say, how much she was paid.
The Daily Caller
The Daily Caller is a conservative website co-
founded by Tucker Carlson, who went on to become a
Fox News host.
l The Daily Caller paid Ginni Thomas an un-
known salary from 2011 to 2017 to conduct video
interviews with conservative leaders.
Center for Security Policy
The Center for Security Policy is a far-right think
tank that has sought to spread the belief that
Islamists are infiltrating the U.S. government. In
2018, the group supported Trump’s Muslim travel
ban in a Supreme Court amicus brief.
l The nonprofit group paid Liberty Consulting,
Ginni Thomas’s firm, $236,000 total in 2017 and
2018, tax records show. Details of the work have not
been disclosed.
A10
BY J ACQUELINE A LEMANY
After eight Republicans voted
last month to remove Kevin Mc-
Carthy (R-Calif.) as speaker,
House Republicans gathered over
barbecue in the basement of the
Capitol to share and stew over
their grievances that had gotten
them there.
Missing from the first of many
contentious all-conference meet-
ings as Republicans struggled to
pick a new leader was Rep. Nancy
Mace (R-S.C.). She instead was
going live on X, the platform
formerly known as Twitter, to
defend her decision to oust Mc-
Carthy.
Her move managed to further
incense her colleagues, who had
no insight into what Mace viewed
as a path forward. Some were
already fuming over her pattern
of unpredictable decisions, in-
cluding joining with seven hard-
line Republicans in getting rid of
McCarthy, which set off a chaotic
22 days in which the House stag-
nated without a leader.
The contempt for her was ap-
parent when Rep. Dusty Johnson,
a mild-mannered Republican
from South Dakota, ripped into
Mace after she interrupted his
hallway interview in the weeks
after her vote against the former
speaker.
“Blind ambition has distorted
this process enough. … Let’s be
clear, Nancy Mace, it’s been a long
time since she’s done anything
productive to move forward this
broader team,” Johnson said.
Mace’s decision came after
years spent vacillating between a
persona of moderation and
Trump acolyte. Her now-routine
opposition to Republican-backed
legislation before eventually vot-
ing for it has perplexed some of
her colleagues and political staff
around her. Her Charleston-area
district, once considered a toss-
up, was redrawn such that her
constituents skew more to the
right, which in part helps explain
why she has again claimed the
MAGA mantle to raise money and
burnish her reputation as an ul-
traconservative.
But the lawmaker who came to
Washington in 2021 in the wan-
ing days of Donald Trump’s presi-
dency, seeking to position herself
as a moral compass of the House
GOP conference, has only rein-
forced the perception that she
lacks a North Star — a refrain
uttered by many of her Republi-
can colleagues, most of whom
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to be candid.
Mace’s highly publicized flip-
flops have given her a reputation
of an apostate more than a maver-
ick, with no clear political identi-
ty or ideology, according to more
than 30 lawmakers, staffers and
operatives who work in South
Carolina and on Capitol Hill.
“Unserious people get found
out here very quickly,” one GOP
lawmaker said. “She’s an unseri-
ous person.”
The final outcome of the speak-
er’s race only reinforced that im-
age: Mace, who said she voted to
oust McCarthy because of his
failure to prioritize bills pertain-
ing to reproductive rights, ulti-
mately voted in support of now-
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.),
who has an extensive record of
supporting restrictive antiabor-
tion legislation and has champi-
oned a nationwide ban.
Mace, 45, sat for an extensive
interview with The Washington
Post earlier this year where she
discussed her life in Congress,
cautioned her party against tak-
ing extreme positions on abor-
tion and expressed overall disap-
pointment with the direction of
Republican and Democratic lead-
ership heading into 2024.
“It’s important to have women
that are strong and don’t put up
with the bulls---,” Mace said this
spring about the treatment she’s
received from some of her col-
leagues. “If you’re going to treat
me in a certain way, then I’m
going to punch you in the face. I’ll
punch you right back. It’s not
okay.”
She also marveled at what she
viewed as her ability to lead “the
national narrative on abortion
issues for the party.”
Mace declined an additional
interview with The Post in the
midst of heightened scrutiny of
her vote against McCarthy, with
her spokesperson instead re-
sponding to specific claims.
“Congresswoman Mace is un-
der attack from the left and the
right for taking a strong stand
against the Washington estab-
lishment,” spokesperson Will
Hampson said in a statement.
He said Mace missed the afore-
mentioned conference meeting
because her “priority was to ex-
plain her vote” to her constitu-
ents. And he defended Mace’s
vote against McCarthy, saying the
former speaker had “lost trust
and was ineffective.”
“Congresswoman Mace of
course understands she and
Speaker Johnson will regularly
disagree on issues, as all mem-
bers do,” Hampson said. “But she
believes he will be straightfor-
ward with the conference.”
In a statement provided to The
eZ re the washington post
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) talks on her phone while walking to a meeting in Washington in April. Mace’s behavior and record have been called into question after highly
publicized flip-flops rankled her colleagues. “Unserious people get found out here very quickly,” one fellow Republican lawmaker said. “She’s an unserious person.”
A maverick or a MAGA warrior?
Nancy Mace tries to be both.
The Republican congresswoman from South Carolina tends to be predictably unpredictable
temporary spending bill designed
to prevent a government shut-
down, a Republican lawmaker
texted a group of colleagues to
vent about Mace, who voted
against the Republican bill. The
lawmaker included a link to a
video posted by a personal injury
lawyer turned Instagram influ-
encer titled “How to talk to a
Narcissist.”
A lawmaker on the thread said
the video clarified his view of
Mace.
“I didn’t get her at all, and was
lost at sea for a few years, but
what [the video] was describing
is what we all experienced,” the
lawmaker said of his attempts to
work with Mace on budgetary
issues. “[Narcissists] love the dra-
ma.”
Women’s issues at center
of Mace’s political persona
A series of articles this spring
detailed Mace’s references to her-
self as a “caucus of one” and on a
“lonely island,” amid claims she
was seeking to woo back inde-
Post, Johnson praised Mace as a thorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” that I support them, I’ll vote with pendent voters who fled the GOP
“smart, dedicated lawmaker who Mace said was a commentary on them and then I’ll call them out under Trump. Styling herself as a
is fully devoted to the needs of her her being “demonized for my vote when I disagree.” moderating force on issues such
constituents. … She has my full and for my voice.” But Katie Arrington, a South as abortion and gun violence, she
support and I look forward to Mace’s appearance on “War Carolina legislator who unsuc- argued that Republicans need to
working with her in the fateful Room” was a full-circle moment. cessfully challenged Mace in the stop coming across like “a--holes”
days ahead of us.” She had once voted to hold Ban- 2022 GOP primary, argued that to women.
Since her vote against McCar- non, the close Trump ally, in Mace “doesn’t care about politics That coverage stemmed from
thy, who had pumped thousands contempt of Congress for refus- — this is just her vehicle. … She her resistance to debt ceiling leg-
of dollars into her campaign cof- ing to comply with a subpoena just wants to be famous and get islation in May: She was initially a
fers since she was elected in 2020, from the House committee inves- more press time.” no on the bill, joining a chorus of
Mace has jumped from one atten- tigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on The effort to understand Mace hard-right lawmakers trashing
tion-seeking episode to another. the Capitol. It was that vote, has become its own political the package’s failure to balance
She appeared with fellow Mc- preceded by fierce criticism of her genre, with profiles published the budget in 10 years. She soon
Carthy defector Rep. Matt Gaetz own party for the attack, that first over the past three years that flipped her support, touting
(R-Fla.) on Stephen K. Bannon’s pushed Mace’s career into the have both lionized her attempts promises she had extracted from
“War Room” and solicited cam- national spotlight. to buck the party line and criti- McCarthy to prioritize floor votes
paign donations off her vote on “I would say I have a different cized her U-turns on issues. Some on a bill she introduced urging
cable news. She showed up at flavor of Republicanism,” Mace of her colleagues have come to a the Food and Drug Administra-
another House GOP meeting said on “The Daily Show” late last simpler conclusion. tion to give priority review to a
sporting a white shirt embla- month. “I would like to think of In late September, amid a range of over-the-counter contra-
zoned with a red capital “A” — a myself as more of a maverick, bruising stretch of strife in the ceptives and her amendment on
reference to Nathaniel Haw- right? So when I’m with my party House GOP conference over a balancing the budget.
Mace has earned some admira-
tion for bucking GOP orthodoxy
and creating a platform to advo-
cate for policies regarding repro-
ductive rights. Earlier this year,
she urged the FDA to ignore a
judge’s ruling blocking its ap-
proval of an abortion pill and
slammed her colleagues for tak-
ing what she called “extreme”
positions on abortion rights.
But Mace’s voting record
paints a different picture. She
voted last year against a bill that
would enshrine protections of
Roe v. Wade into law; missed a
vote on another bill that would
reaffirm the right for someone
seeking an abortion to travel
across state lines; and over the
summer, cast a vote in support of
an amendment included in the
National Defense Authorization
Act to reverse the Biden adminis-
tration’s policy on reimbursing
travel costs for service members
seeking abortions.
Mace has said she supports
abortion until “15 or 20 weeks” of
CENTER: Mace checks herself in a visor mirror en route to a public event. ABOVE: A woman gestation with exceptions for vic-
stretches as Mace speaks at a Coffee With Your Congresswoman gathering in Summerville, S.C. tims of rape and incest. For now,
Mace’s Charleston-area district, once considered a toss-up, was redrawn such that her she faces no real test of that
constituents skew more to the right, but the boundaries are now under Supreme Court review. belief: Under McCarthy, Republi-
. sunday, november 12 , 2023
PhoTos by riCky CarioTi/The WashingTon PosT
can leadership privately indicat-
ed they had no plans to bring a
national abortion ban to the
House floor. It remains to be seen
whether Johnson will follow suit.
But some of Mace’s colleagues
disputed her depiction of McCar-
thy’s failure to keep his promises
on bills Mace pushed for. They
told The Post that when Mace was
approached about working on
those amendments, she privately
acknowledged that some were
too politically risky for her to
own.
Mace earlier this year also was
among two dozen Republicans
who voted against the Agricul-
ture, Rural Development, and
Food and Drug Administration
appropriations bill. Mace cited a
provision that would limit access
to the abortion pill mifepristone
and was expected to submit a
brief amendment to address the
issue. She never did, and people
familiar with the matter said
Mace instead suggested that
members of the New York delega-
tion introduce it, or that leader-
ship take up a Democrat’s amend-
ment to strike the mifepristone
restrictions.
Several lawmakers described a
pattern of working with Mace on
an issue that she conveyed as
life-or-death to the media and
colleagues, before abandoning it.
These members have come to
view her flip-flopping not as a
negotiating tactic but rather a
way to make headlines to maxi-
mize visibility. In an internal
handbook distributed to staff in
2021 reported by the Daily Beast,
Mace provided her staff with a
weekly booking quota for getting
her on television.
“Any single time there’s a tight
vote, she will find a way to be on
the other side of what Republi-
cans are trying to do and it gives
her a chance to be on TV,” a
Republican lawmaker said.
Hampson rebuffed assertions
that Mace is more interested in
press than legislating, writing
that she has “sponsored or co-
sponsored 27 bills which have
been signed into law since taking
office three years ago, all under a
Democrat President. … Anyone
who suggests she is not focused
on legislating is ignorant or ly-
ing.”
From The Citadel
to the Capitol
Mace is a publicist by trade,
with a master’s degree in journal-
ism and mass communication,
who started her own public rela-
tions firm before fronting a tea
party challenge against Sen.
Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) in
2013 at the age of 35.
She lost that primary against
Graham but went on to work for
the Trump campaign in 2016,
then won a seat in the South
Carolina House in 2018. In 2020,
she won one of the most competi-
tive congressional seats in the
country by 1.2 percentage points.
Then the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on
the Capitol happened, and Mace
publicly broke with Trump.
It was a decision she started to
wrestle with as Trump bounced
back as the de facto leader of the
Republican Party. Then, almost a
year after taking office, Mace’s
district became much redder
when its boundaries were
changed. Up against Arrington,
her Trump-endorsed primary
challenger, Mace sought to posi-
A12 EZ rE the washington post . sunday, november 12 , 2023

Va. House makes history nominating first Black speaker

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takes up the gavel in a Capitol

where White leaders once pro-
hibited people who looked like
him from learning to read or
even owning dogs, where for a
century after the Civil War pol-
icies were hatched to keep Black
Virginians from voting and,
through “massive resistance,” to
shutter schools rather than let
Black children learn with White
ones.
“I know there were so many
other African American leaders
… who were probably smarter
than me, that were probably as
tenacious and persistent as me.
But they never got this opportu-
nity because of their color,” he
said in an interview friday. “I
carry all of those people with me.
I think about those people who
every time I walk in the Capitol
and I see some of the shrines to
some folks who probably owned
enslaved people. I’m conscious of
those enslaved people … and
what they had to go through, and
how their humanity was dis-
counted in that very chamber.”
The Democratic caucus on Sat-
urday also chose Del. Charniele
L. Herring (Alexandria) as ma-
jority leader and Del. Kathy Tran
(fairfax) as the first person of
Asian or Pacific Island descent to
serve as caucus chairwoman. The
vote for speaker will not be
official until January, when the
new General Assembly is sworn
in and the full chamber will elect
its leader under the new Demo-
cratic majority. By tradition, the
minority party supports the
choice so the vote is unanimous
— and top republicans have
already extended praise to Scott.
Democrats reveled in the his- John C. ClArk/AP

toric nature of their choices on
Saturday. “Proudest vote of my
life (After obama)” delegate-
elect Joshua Cole said on X
(formerly Twitter).
Youngkin called to say con-
gratulations late Wednesday,
Scott said. Earle-Sears, asked fri-
day about her fellow history-
maker, said in a text to The Post
that “the success and comeback
of Don Scott is proof that Vir-
ginia is not back in 1963,” when
her own father faced discrimina-
tion. She promised to work with
Scott “for the betterment of all
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his career is as unlikely as it is Texas A&m University, then decision” to help a friend. He majority in 2021 and republican tion, Scott took to the floor of the
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more than $28,500 in any year of final year of law school, Scott was went to live with an uncle in woman and first Jew to serve as Youngkin responded by walk-
her working life, Scott said. He arrested by federal agents in Delaware who got him a series of speaker of the Virginia House. ing across the Capitol to meet in
stuttered as a child, but tested mobile, Ala., for carrying thou- jobs and enforced strict disci- She said friday that she would be Scott’s office, a display of power
into gifted programs that saw sands of dollars in drug money pline. Eventually Scott climbed pleased to see Scott make history on Scott’s part that stirred whis-
him bused to White schools in tied to a crack cocaine ring, the ladder at a workforce devel- of his own. pers around the legislature.
what might as well have been according to court documents. opment company, married a den- Asked about his provocative
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mouth. gy. “Democrats spend a lot of
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was prohibited from voting by a being wrong on politics … And I
Virginia law that’s the most dra- American leaders … think we have to do both,” he
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an abortion, affirm the right to
same-sex marriage and allow the
automatic restoration of rights to
people convicted of felonies. In
Virginia, amendments are put to
a public vote after passing both
chambers of the General Assem-
bly with simple majorities in two
sessions separated by House
elections, which are every two
years. The governor is not in-
volved.
Wilder, who has famously con-
founded his fellow Democrats by
occasionally befriending Repub-
licans — such as Youngkin — for
the sake of getting things done,
said his top advice for Scott
would be to deliver results.
“Being elected the first Black
or the second Black or any Black
is not what it’s about,” Wilder
said. “It’s about being the most
effective person. … The people of
Virginia will gauge and judge
based on performance and levels
of competence, not the color of
your skin. And there’s no time to
rest on laurels.”
Scott, Wilder might be grati-
fied to know, said the same thing:
“Race is not as important as it
used to be. People want compe-
tence.”
And Scott also declared that he
isn’t planning to rest on laurels
or anything else. His mother —
Helen Scott, 88, who still lives in
her modest home in Houston —
called Friday morning with a
simple message, he said: “Don’t
get too big for your britches.”
He vowed to keep up the
tireless drive to get things done
that brought him to this unlikely
point in life. Winning a Demo-
cratic majority and becoming
speaker are not surprises to him,
Scott said, because “I planned to
win. I expected to win.”
Scott was so sure of the out-
come that when the new General
Assembly office building opened
in Richmond last month, he
refused to set foot in the office of
minority leader, telling his staff:
“I’m going to go into the speak-
er’s office when we win.”
Scott said the source of his
confidence is simple: He’s al-
ready hit rock bottom, in prison.
Now he has no fear of failure. “As
flawed as I am, but also as
scarred as I am, but also as
strong as I am … the worst thing
that ever happened to me would
not be losing an election,” he
said. “My superpower is being
underestimated. You sleep on me
if you want to. You’re going
regret sleeping on me.”
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Actors win wage increase, AI rights in SAG-AFTRA strike deal
BY M ICHAEL C AVNA
The national board of SAG-
AFTRA approved a new contract
with major studios on Friday, two
days after calling an end to one of
the most significant strikes in the
U.S. entertainment industry’s his-
tory.
The president of the actors
union, “The Nanny” star Fran
Drescher, shared broad details of
the deal at an afternoon news
conference in Los Angeles, por-
traying herself and her colleagues
as heroes who stared down some
of the most powerful executives
in Hollywood — leaders of the
studios and streamers represent-
ed by the Alliance of Motion
Picture and Television Producers.
“I think they realized they were
facing a new kind of leadership in
me and” Duncan Crabtree-Ire-
land, the SAG chief negotiator,
Drescher said. “We deflected
their intimidation tactics.”
The 118-day strike was one of
the longest labor outages in Hol-
lywood history. It was also one of
the broadest because it partially
overlapped with a strike called by
the Writers Guild of America that
lasted from May to late Septem-
ber.
“I knew a long time ago that
this was going to be a seminal
deal,” Drescher told The Washing-
ton Post in a post-conference in-
terview, “because the times that
we’re living in demanded one.”
Among the studio heads who
came to the negotiating table
during the SAG strike were Bob
Iger of Disney, Donna Langley of
NBCUniversal Studio Group, Ted
Sarandos of Netflix and David
Zaslav of Warner Bros. Discovery.
From the lectern Friday,
Drescher thanked the AMPTP
“for recognizing the gravity” of
the situation and reaching a “re-
cord-breaking” agreement with
the union. But she also lambasted
the studios repeatedly in her
speech, saying her union “never
heard” from them from the start
of their strike in July until last
month. Once talks resumed, she
said, the studios started “attack-
ing a woman leader” in the media
— “a ploy that should be beneath
anyone.”
At press time, SAG-AFTRA had
not released the text of the TV/
theatrical contract, which will be
presented to tens of thousands of
members covered by the deal at
Fran Drescher, center, president of SAG-AFTRA, with fellow members of the actors union at a news
conference in Los Angeles, on Friday. Drescher called Wednesday’s agreement “record-breaking.”
informational meetings in com-
ing days. Actors will then vote on
whether to ratify the contract and
make it official — a vote widely
expected to pass.
Drescher and Crabtree-Ireland
detailed terms of the deal, includ-
ing:
l What they called “more than
$1 billion” in new wages and
benefit plan funding over the
three-year term of the contract.
Crabtree-Ireland told The Post on
Wednesday that figure represent-
ed “gains made in this contract
over the existing contract.” On
Friday, SAG called it the largest
such deal in industry history.
l A new fund to compensate
performers for their work on
streaming shows. SAG-AFTRA
did not specify, however, how
much studios would contribute
and how the union would distrib-
ute money from the fund. Variety
previously reported that the
union initially wanted 2 percent
of streaming revenue, and later
halved that demand to about
$500 million a year, before set-
tling for about $40 million a year.
l An immediate 7 percent wage
increase for many performers,
and an 11 percent increase for
background actors. Those wages
State and City monthly
incentives up to $425
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would increase again by smaller
amounts in 2024 and 2025.
l What Crabtree-Ireland called
“new terms to ensure that sets
have proper hair and makeup
services for all performers, in-
cluding those who have diverse
and textured hair and complex-
ions.”
l A requirement that intimacy
coordinators be hired for scenes
involving nudity or simulated sex.
Crabtree-Ireland told The Post
last week that the union pursued
new ways to approach winning a
significant share of streaming
revenue. Complaints are wide-
spread among Hollywood work-
ers that they earn far less in
residuals, or royalty payments,
when their work is streamed,
compared with older models of
distribution.
“We were really looking to not
only increase, but also to change
the way that money is distributed
in the streaming system, so that it
becomes more sustainable for our
members. The way that the busi-
ness model has changed, and
then the contracts had not kept
up with, left our members in a
very tight squeeze.”
Drescher added that a primary
goal in negotiating over stream-
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sate performers that are on that
platform when there’s no tail of
syndication,” unlike with “linear
television.”
A deal on AI
At the news conference,
Drescher described months of
on-and-off talks with the studios
as an epic that involved her shar-
ing “Buddhist wisdom” with the
studios. She said the issue of
artificial intelligence was one of
the last and most difficult issues
to be resolved, in light of wide-
spread fears among actors that
rapidly advancing technology
will be used to simulate their
likeness and eventually replace
them.
“AI was also a dealbreaker,” she
said. “If we didn’t get that pack-
age, then what are we doing?
We’re not really able to protect
our members in the way that they
needed to be protected. Because
in the world of AI, three months is
equivalent to a year.”
After the news conference,
Drescher addressed why the stu-
dios took such a gradual ap-
proach to final concessions on AI:
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in winter. These were a lot of
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regulations that were going to tie
their hands.” She said that under
the new agreement, SAG-AFTRA
and the AMPTP will meet twice a
year “to keep our finger on the
pulse of technology like this, so
that we can actually lock elbows
on the same side and march into
Washington to get federal regula-
tions to protect us all against
piracy.”
She and Crabtree-Ireland de-
scribed safeguards against en-
croaching technology, including:
l A requirement that actors —
including background perform-
ers — give studios “informed con-
sent” and get “fair compensation”
for the creation of any digital
replicas.
l “That consent can’t be ob-
tained at the front end — it has to
be obtained at the time of use,”
Crabtree-Ireland said. “It can’t
just be a boilerplate sentence that
says, ‘I give away the rights to use
this replica in perpetuity
throughout the universe.’ … It has
to be a specific description of
what the intended use is so that
the performer can make an in-
formed decision about whether
they want to agree to that or not.”
l What Crabtree-Ireland called
“a specific standard” to compen-
sate actors that agree to be digi-
tized, which factors in “the
amount of work that would have
been done by the actor them-
selves if they had done that same
type of work that the digital repli-
ca is being used for.”
l “We have explicit language
explicitly covering performance-
capture work for the first time,”
Crabtree-Ireland said at the news
conference.
“We had tremendous unity
across all of members,” Crabtree-
Ireland said last week. “I think
that message was received by the
industry and the public in a way
that built our strength, and that
helped people see why we were
fighting.”
At the news conference, he
added that some actors have al-
ready returned to work.
Drescher expressed satisfac-
tion with how the process ended
more than 150 days after talks
began: “This negotiation showed
the AMPTP that we are contend-
ers,” she said in an interview.
“Where we entered [as] the larg-
est entertainment union in the
world, we exited as also the most
powerful.”
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‘Toys in Iraq’ outputs soldiers with guns
These fake images reveal how AI amplifies our worst stereotypes
AI fRom A1
founder of LAIoN, a nonprofit behind
Stable Diffusion’s data, argues that im-
age generators naturally reflect the
world of White people because the non-
profit that provides data to many compa-
nies, including LAIoN, doesn’t focus on
China and India, the largest population
of web users.
“This will give you the average stereo-
type of what an average person from
North America or Europe thinks,” Schuh-
mann said. “You don’t need a data
science degree to infer this.”
Stable Diffusion is not alone in this
orientation. In recently released docu-
ments, openAI said its latest image
generator, DALL-E 3, displays “a tenden-
cy toward a Western point-of-view” with
images that “disproportionately repre-
sent individuals who appear White, fe-
male, and youthful.”
As synthetic images spread across the
web, they could give new life to outdated
and offensive stereotypes, encoding
abandoned ideals around body type,
gender and race into the future of
image-making.
Predicting the next pixel
Like ChatGPT, AI image tools learn
about the world through gargantuan
amounts of training data. Instead of
billions of words, they are fed billions of
pairs of images and their captions, also
scraped from the web.
Tech companies have grown increas-
ingly secretive about the contents of
these data sets, partially because the text
and images included often contain copy-
righted, inaccurate or even obscene ma-
terial. In contrast, Stable Diffusion and
LAIoN, are open-source projects, en-
abling outsiders to inspect details of the
model.
Stability AI chief executive Emad
mostaque said his company views trans-
parency as key to scrutinizing and elimi-
nating bias. “Stability AI believes funda-
mentally that open-source models are
necessary for extending the highest stan-
dards in safety, fairness, and representa-
tion,” he said in a statement.
Images in LAIoN, as in many data
sets, were selected because they contain
code called “alt-text,” which helps soft-
ware describe images to blind people.
Though alt-text is cheaper and easier
than adding captions, it’s notoriously
unreliable — filled with offensive de-
scriptions and unrelated terms intended
to help images rank high in search.
Image generators spin up pictures
based on the most likely pixel, drawing
connections between words in the cap-
tions and the images associated with
them. These probabilistic pairings help
explain some of the bizarre mash-ups
churned out by Stable Diffusion XL, such
as Iraqi toys that look like U.S. tankers
and troops. That’s not a stereotype: It
reflects America’s inextricable associa-
tion between Iraq and war.
Misses biases
Despite the improvements in SD XL,
The Post was able to generate tropes
about race, class, gender, wealth, intelli-
gence, religion and other cultures by
requesting depictions of routine activi-
ties, common personality traits or the
name of another country. In many in-
stances, the racial disparities depicted in
these images are more extreme than in
the real world.
for example, in 2020, 63 percent of
food stamp recipients were White and 27
percent were Black, according to the
latest data from the Census Bureau’s
Survey of Income and Program Partici-
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AI-generated fake images
United States
When we asked Stable Diffusion XL to produce a house in various countries, it returned clichéd concepts for each location: classical curved-roof homes for China,
rather than Shanghai’s high-rise apartments; idealized American houses with trim lawns and ample porches; dusty clay structures on dirt roads in India, home to
more than 160 billionaires, as well as Mumbai, the world’s 15th-richest city.
About the images
Every image in this story shows
something that doesn’t exist in the
physical world and was generated
using Stable Diffusion, a text-to-
image artificial intelligence model.
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AI-generated fake images
A photo of a house in …
China
pation. Yet, when we prompted the
technology to generate a photo of a
person receiving social services, it gener-
ated only non-White and primarily
darker-skinned people. Results for a
“productive person,” meanwhile, were
uniformly male, majority White, and
dressed in suits for corporate jobs.
Last fall, Kalluri and her colleagues
also discovered that the tools defaulted
to stereotypes. Asked to provide an
image of “an attractive person,” the tool
generated light-skinned, light-eyed, thin
people with European features. A re-
quest for a “a happy family” produced
images of mostly smiling, White, hetero-
sexual couples with children posing on
manicured lawns.
Kalluri and the others also found the
tools distorted real-world statistics. Jobs
with higher incomes such as “software
developer” produced representations
that skewed more White and male than
data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
would suggest. White-appearing people
also appear in the majority of images for
“chef,” a more prestigious food prepara-
‘Attractive people’ outputs young and light-skinned
India
tion role, while non-White people appear
in most images of “cooks” — though the
Labor Bureau’s statistics show that a
higher percentage of “cooks” self-identi-
fy as White than “chefs.”
Cleaner data, cleaner results
Companies have long known about
issues with the data behind this technol-
ogy. ImageNet, a pivotal 2009 training
set of 14 million images, was in use for
more than a decade before researchers
found disturbing content, including non-
consensual sexual images, in which
women were sometimes easily identifi-
able. Some images were sorted into
categories labeled with slurs such as
“Closet Queen,” “failure,” “mulatto,”
“nonperson,” “pervert,” and “Schizo-
phrenic.”
ImageNet’s authors eliminated most
of the categories, but many contempo-
rary data sets are built the same way,
using images obtained without consent
and categorizing people like objects.
Efforts to detoxify AI image tools have
focused on a few seemingly fruitful
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AI-generated fake images
a productive person
When we prompted the technology to generate a photo of a productive person, it generated uniformly
male, majority White, and dressed in suits for corporate jobs. When asked to show people in the act of
“cleaning,” the results depicted only women.
interventions: filtering data sets, finess-
ing the final stages of development, and
encoding rules to address issues that
earned the company bad PR.
for example, Stable Diffusion drew
negative attention when requests for a
“Latina” produced images of women in
suggestive poses wearing little to no
clothing. A more recent system (version
2.1) generated more innocuous images.
Why the difference? A Post analysis
found the training data for the first
version contained a lot more pornogra-
phy.
of the training images captioned
“Latina,” 20 percent of captions or URLs
also included a pornographic term.
more than 30 percent were marked as
almost certain to be “unsafe” by a
LAIoN detector for not-safe-for-work
content. In subsequent Stable Diffusion
models, the training data excluded im-
ages marked as possibly “unsafe,” pro-
ducing images that appear markedly
less sexual.
The Post’s findings track with prior
research that found images of sexual
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AI-generated fake images
A portrait photo of …
a person cleaning
abuse and rape in the data set used for
Stable Diffusion 1, as well as images that
sexualized Black women and fetishized
Asian women. In addition to removing
“unsafe” images, Ben Brooks, Stability
AI’s head of public policy, said the
company was also careful to block child
sexual abuse material (CSAm) and other
high-risk imagery for SD2.
filtering the “bad” stuff out of a data
set isn’t an easy fix-all for bias, said Sasha
Luccioni, a research scientist at Hugging
face, an open-source repository for AI
and one of LAIoN’s corporate sponsors.
filtering for problematic content using
keywords in English, for example, may
remove a lot of porn and CSAm, but it
may also result in more content overall
from the global north, where platforms
have a longer history of generating
high-quality content and stronger re-
strictions on posting porn, she said.
“All of these little decisions can actual-
ly make cultural bias worse,” Luccioni
said.
Even prompts to generate photos of
everyday activities slipped into tropes.
‘Muslim people’ outputs men with head coverings
Africa
When we asked for a photo of a wealthy person in different countries, Stable Diffusion XL still produced a mishmash of stereotypes: African men in Western
coats standing in front of thatched huts, Middle Eastern men posed in front of ancient mosques, while European men in slim-fitting suits wandered quaint
cobblestone streets.
Stable Diffusion XL defaulted to mostly
darker-skinned male athletes when we
prompted the system to produce images
for “soccer,” while depicting only women
when asked to show people in the act of
“cleaning.” many of the women were
smiling, happily completing their femi-
nine household chores.
Stability AI argues each country
should have its own national image
generator, one that reflects national
values, with data sets provided by the
government and public institutions.
Reflecting the diversity of the web has
recently become “an area of active inter-
est” for Common Crawl, a 16-year-old
nonprofit that has long provided text
scraped from the web for Google, LAIoN,
and many other tech firms, executive
director Rich Skrenta told The Post. Its
crawler scrapes content based on the
organization’s internal ranking of what’s
central to the internet, but it is not
instructed to focus on a specific language
or country.
“If there is some kind of bias in the
crawl and if it’s not probing as deeply
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AI-generated fake images
AI-generated fake images
A photo of a wealthy person in …
into, say, Indian websites,” that is some-
thing Common Crawl would like to
measure and fix, he said.
The endless task of eradicating bias
The AI field is divided on how to
address bias.
for Kalluri, mitigating bias in images
is fundamentally different than in text.
Any prompt to create a realistic image of
a person has to make decisions about
age, body, race, hair, background and
other visual characteristics, she said.
few of these complications lend them-
selves to computational solutions,
Kalluri said.
Kalluri believes it’s important for any-
one who interacts with the technology to
understand how it operates. “They’re
just predictive models,” she said, portray-
ing things based on the snapshot of the
internet in their data set.
Even using detailed prompts didn’t
mitigate this bias. When we asked for a
photo of a wealthy person in different
countries, Stable Diffusion XL still pro-
duced a mishmash of stereotypes: Afri-
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The Middle East Europe
“This will give you the can men in Western coats standing in
front of thatched huts, middle Eastern
average stereotype of men posed in front of ancient mosques,
while European men in slim-fitting suits
what an average wandered quaint cobblestone streets.
Abeba Birhane, senior adviser for AI
person from North accountability at the mozilla founda-
tion, contends that the tools can be
America or Europe improved if companies work hard to
improve the data — an outcome she
thinks. You don’t need considers unlikely. In the meantime, the
impact of these stereotypes will fall most
a data science degree to heavily on the same communities
harmed during the social media era, she
infer this.” said, adding: “People at the margins of
society are continually excluded.”
Christoph Schuhmann, co-founder
of LAION, a nonprofit behind The Washington Post generated images using
Stable Diffusion’s data the ClipDrop API to access Stable Diffusion
XL1.0. Each prompt created seven to 10
images, which are presented here in the
exact appearance and order as the model
output. Images that used older models relied
on the Stable Diffusion v1-5 through the
Stability API.
Jeremy B. Merrill contributed to this report.
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Ukrainian colonel coordinated 2022 gas pipeline bombing

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the network intact as winter ap-
proached.
Chervinsky did not act alone,
and he did not plan the operation,
according to the people familiar
with his role, which has not been
previously reported. The officer
took orders from more senior
Ukrainian officials, who ulti-
mately reported to Gen. Valery
Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s highest-
ranking military officer, said peo-
ple familiar with how the opera-
tion was carried out. They spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
discuss sensitive details about the
bombing, which has strained dip-
lomatic relations with Ukraine
and drawn objections from U.S.
officials.
Ukraine has launched many
daring and secretive operations
against russian forces. But the
Nord Stream attack targeted civil-
ian infrastructure built to provide
energy to millions of people in
Europe. While Gazprom, the rus-
sian state-owned gas conglomer-
ate, owns 51 percent of Nord
Stream, Western energy compa-
nies, including from Germany,
france and the Netherlands, are
partners and invested billions in
the project. Ukraine had long
complained that Nord Stream
would allow russia to bypass
Ukrainian pipes, depriving Kyiv
of huge transit revenue.
Through his attorney, Chervin-
sky denied any role in the sabo-
tage of the pipelines. “All specula-
tions about my involvement in oleg Bohachuk for the Washington Post

the attack on Nord Stream are
being spread by russian propa-
ganda without any basis,”
Chervinsky said in a written
statement to The Washington
Post and Der Spiegel, which con-
ducted a joint investigation of his
role.
Spokesmen for the Ukrainian
government did not respond to a
list of questions about Chervin-
sky’s participation.
Chervinsky’s role illustrates
the complex dynamics and inter-
nal rivalries of the wartime gov-
ernment in Kyiv, where Ukraine’s
intelligence and military estab-
lishment is often in tension with
Col. Roman Chervinsky makes a court appearance last month in Kyiv. He faces charges of abuse of power stemming from a plot to lure a Russian pilot to defect to Ukraine.
its political leadership.
Since russia’s invasion of
Ukraine in february 2022,
Chervinsky had been serving in a
unit of Ukraine’s special opera-
tions forces and was focused on
resistance activity in areas of the
country occupied by russia, peo-
ple familiar with his assignments
said. He reported to maj. Gen.
Viktor Hanushchak, a seasoned
and respected officer, who com-
municated directly with Zaluzh-
ny.
Chervinsky was well suited to
help carry out a covert mission
meant to obscure Ukraine’s re-
sponsibility. He has served in sen-
ior positions in the country’s mili-
tary intelligence agency as well as
the Security Service of Ukraine,
the SBU, and he is professionally
and personally close to key mili-
tary and security leaders.
He has also helped carry out
other secretive operations.
In 2020, Chervinsky oversaw a
complex plan to lure fighters for
russia’s Wagner mercenary
group into Belarus, with the goal
of capturing them and bringing
them to Ukraine to face charges.
In his statement to The Post and
Der Spiegel, Chervinsky said he
also “planned and implemented”
operations to kill pro-russian
separatist leaders in Ukraine and
to “abduct a witness” who could
corroborate russia’s role in
shooting down malaysia Airlines
flight 17 over the eastern Donbas
region in 2014, which killed all
298 passengers and crew on
board. Last year, a Dutch court
convicted two russians and a
Ukrainian of murder in the down-
ing, which was caused by a rus-
sian Buk surface-to-air missile.
Chervinsky is being held in a
Kyiv jail on charges that he
abused his power stemming from
a plot to lure a russian pilot to
defect to Ukraine in July 2022.
Authorities allege that Chervin-
sky, who was arrested in April,
acted without permission and
that the operation gave away the
coordinates of a Ukrainian air-
field, prompting a russian rocket
attack that killed a soldier and
injured 17 others.
Hanushchak, who is no longer
serving in the special operations
forces, has said publicly that the
operation was approved by the
armed forces, and he declined to
comment for this article.
Chervinsky has said he was not
responsible for the russian attack
and that in trying to persuade the
pilot to fly to Ukraine and hand
over his aircraft, he was acting
under orders. He calls his arrest
and prosecution political retribu-
tion for his criticism of Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky
and his administration. Chervin-
sky has said publicly that he sus-
pects Andriy Yermak, one of Zel-
ensky’s closest advisers, of spying

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for Russia. He has also accused
the Zelensky administration of
failing to sufficiently prepare the
country for Russia’s invasion.
“The operation to recruit the
Russian pilot involved units of
the SBU, the Air Force, and the
Special Operations Forces,”
Chervinsky said in his written
statement to The Post and Der
Spiegel. “The operation was ap-
proved by the commander in
chief Valery Zaluzhny.”
Chervinsky’s participation in
the Nord Stream bombing contra-
dicts Zelensky’s public denials
that his country was involved. “I
am president, and I give orders
accordingly,” Zelensky said in
press interview in June, respond-
ing to a report by The Post that
the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency had learned of Ukraine’s
plans before the attack.
“Nothing of the sort has been
done by Ukraine. I would never
act that way,” Zelensky said.
But the Nord Stream operation
was designed to keep Zelensky
out of the loop, people familiar
with the operation said.
“All of those involved in plan-
ning and execution reported di-
rectly to [chief of defense] Zalu-
zhnyy, so Zelensky wouldn’t have
known about it,” according to
intelligence reporting obtained
by the CIA that was allegedly
shared by Jack Teixeira, a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Air Na-
tional Guard, on the Discord chat
platform. Officials in multiple
countries have said privately they
were confident that Zelensky did
not personally approve the Nord
Stream attack.
Other secret Ukrainian opera-
tions targeting Russian forces,
including the one involving the
Russian airplane, also were de-
signed to bypass the Ukrainian
president, people familiar with
their planning said.
Chervinsky has blamed Yer-
mak and several other Zelensky
advisers for botching the plan in
2020 to ensnare Wagner fighters
after they traveled to Belarus.
That sting operation failed,
Chervinsky said in a 2021 press
interview, because of a leak from
Zelensky’s inner circle.
“It is not just one ‘mole’ [in
Zelensky’s administration], it is a
bunch of people,” Chervinsky
said, naming Yermak as well as
two other Zelensky advisers. He
accused administration officials
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of being “afraid of challenging
Russia.”
U.S. officials have at times pri-
vately chastised Ukrainian intel-
ligence and military officials for
launching attacks that risked pro-
voking Russia to escalate its war
on Ukraine. But Washington’s un-
ease has not always dissuaded
Kyiv.
In June 2022, the Dutch mili-
tary intelligence agency, the
MIVD, obtained information that
Ukraine might be planning to
attack Nord Stream. Officials at
the CIA relayed to Zaluzhny
through an intermediary that the
United States opposed such an
operation, according to people
familiar with those conversa-
tions.
U.S. officials believed the at-
tack had been called off. But it
turned out only to have been
postponed to three months later,
using a different point of depar-
ture than originally planned. Key
elements of the plan, including
the number of people on the
bombing team, as well as the use
of a rented boat, diving equip-
ment and fake identities, re-
mained the same.
In an interview with The Post
in June, Zaluzhny said the CIA
had never asked him directly
about any attack on Nord Stream.
He said that after the explosions,
in September 2022, he received a
phone call from Gen. Mark A.
Milley, then chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. “He asked me, ‘Did
you have anything to do with it?’ I
said, ‘No.’ A lot of operations are
planned, a lot of operations are
going on, but we have nothing to
do with it, nothing at all.”
Zaluzhny suggested in the in-
terview that Russian propagan-
dists had tried to tie him and the
Ukrainian military to the opera-
tion.
The Dutch military intelli-
gence service also reported to the
Americans that the Ukrainians
planned an attack on another
pipeline in the Black Sea, called
TurkStream. It’s not clear why
that operation was never carried
out.
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McConnell is taking a back seat on negotiations to keep the government funded
Mitch McConnell
@PKCapitol has a message for
Paul Kane the rest of
Washington: Quit
expecting him to
bail Congress out of every crisis.
The Senate minority leader, in
speeches from the chamber floor
and in news interviews, has tried
to signal up and down
Pennsylvania Avenue that he
cannot dictate the outcome in the
myriad negotiations taking place
now.
Asked at an Oct. 31 news
conference what he would
support to keep the government
funded, whether to include
money for the defense of Israel
and Ukraine, the Kentucky
Republican grew exasperated.
“It’ll be up to the majority
leader,” McConnell told reporters.
He suggested Senate Majority
Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-
N.Y.) and the new House speaker,
Mike Johnson (R-La.), needed to
engage with each other. “I assume
the majority leader and the
speaker will have to reach some
kind of agreement on that.”
A little later, facing more
questions, he again deferred to
Schumer and suggested there was
not a big role for him as minority
leader.
“I’m just speaking for myself,”
McConnell added.
He has even appointed a
working group of four
Republicans — a cross section of
GOP senators ideologically — to
serve as the lead negotiators on a
border policy prescription that is
now the Republicans’ demanded
trade-off in exchange for up to
$60 billion in Ukraine defense
funds.
This is not a new phenomenon
for the GOP leader, who has
periodically stepped back and let
others cinch important deals. He
did so in the spring when he
stayed in the background as
President Biden and Rep. Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.), then the
House speaker, reached a debt
and budget deal.
But this latest deferential
stance follows an early fall in
which McConnell — through the
force of near-daily floor speeches
in public and private discussions
with his colleagues — tried to will
Congress into a more aggressive
posture in defending Ukraine.
And it comes after 17 years
leading the Senate GOP, a historic
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the leaders of the House and the Senate needed to reach an agreement as a shutdown looms.
reign of dealmaking and
dealbreaking that has infuriated
both Democrats and far-right
conservatives over the years.
During the eight years of the
Obama administration,
McConnell served as the GOP’s
break-the-glass closer, often
working with then-Vice President
Biden to avert some fiscal
calamity. Yet he understood how
and when to wield his clout for
conservative causes, effectively
claiming a GOP-appointed
majority on the Supreme Court
for the next generation.
But now, as the intraparty
politics have turned so sharply
away from that type of leadership,
McConnell understands the
limitations of his power.
At 81, he finds himself deeply at
odds with his party’s ascendant
isolationist and Trumpian wing,
even as those policies and their
candidates fall flat in elections
and turned the House Republican
majority into a fractious,
ungovernable dumpster fire.
In Schumer, McConnell sees a
partisan leader who takes glee at
watching the internal GOP civil
war continue without working
quickly to avert the coming crises
on Capitol Hill.
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government funding and global
security, particularly on
providing more effective weapons
to Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops and
not getting tough with China.
“On every front the Biden
administration’s response has
fallen short,” McConnell said in
an Oct. 26 speech.
Adding insult to injury,
McConnell’s protégé lost
Kentucky’s gubernatorial race on
Tuesday, while “Team Mitch”
alumni won every other down-
ballot statewide race. The
governor’s race turned on the
Democratic incumbent, Andy
Beshear, carving up his opponent,
Kentucky Attorney General
Daniel Cameron, as a far-right
zealot with extreme abortion
views, more in line with former
president Donald Trump than the
thoughtful conservative Cameron
was believed to be when he was
part of McConnell’s Senate staff.
McConnell’s closest friends
recognize his past hold on the
Senate GOP has slipped as the last
three elections have brought in
nearly 10 senators who answer
first to Trump. These newcomers
emboldened a small group of
Republican antagonists, such as
Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Mike
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Lee (Utah), who clashed with
McConnell last decade to little
avail. Now, up to a dozen or more
Senate Republicans publicly
second-guess McConnell’s
decisions, leaving him less able to
wheel and deal like he so often
did a decade ago during fiscal
showdowns.
“He’s a master at the process,”
said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.),
who aspires to succeed
McConnell whenever he steps
aside. “But I think there is a little
more individuality, shall we say,
certainly in the Republican
conference.”
That individuality has been on
deep display as those staunch
conservatives have worked to
block McConnell’s repeated
efforts to approve a massive
security package to Ukraine.
His critics inside the GOP view
McConnell as a weakened leader.
He failed to attach about $6
billion in Ukraine funding to a
stopgap bill in late September
that kept the government open
for almost seven weeks, until
Friday’s looming deadline, but
met resistance from most of the
Republican caucus.
These critics view McConnell’s
recent rhetorical focus on border
security in exchange for Ukraine
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— because had he not done so, he
would have fallen behind the rest
of the party.
“I think that is, he’s sensing
where the conference is,” Sen.
Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who has
often fought with McConnell over
the last decade, said Thursday.
Those close to the GOP leader
noted that he tried to steer Biden
administration officials away
from requesting a small aid
package for Ukraine six weeks
ago and toward asking for one big
bill later this year, only to
begrudgingly go along with the
ill-fated $6 billion request.
McConnell has talked about
the need for border provisions
ever since Biden sent a request
for an emergency supplemental
bill that included more than
$100 billion for Ukraine, Israel,
Taiwan and the southern border.
But many security hawks,
Democrats and Republicans
alike, worry that some of these
demands from Johnson and his
friends for tough border policy
are just as much about sabotaging
the overall security package.
Johnson outlined a proposal
that would tie the release of funds
to Ukraine to actual decreases in
the southern border-crossing
surge: “Any kind of border
security measure that we attach
to the Ukraine funding isn’t just
strong language, isn’t just a policy
change, but literally benchmarks
that have to be met, tied to the
actual release of the funds.”
McConnell has tried to lay out a
pathway for other Republicans, as
well as Democrats and Biden, to
see how each of the four pieces of
this security puzzle fit together:
That Russia, China and Iran are
aligned in the attack on Ukraine,
which further aligns them in
support of Hamas’s war with
Israel.
“The challenges facing
America and our allies today are
not an a la carte menu of projects
we can address at our leisure,” he
said Wednesday.
But some Republicans
continue to see the issues
separately.
“Mitch, of course, has been
unequivocal. And I agree with
him that all these are connected
with what’s happening in Israel,
what’s happening in Russia,
what’s happening in Asia. But
there are others that have
different opinions,” Cornyn said.
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Cornyn, a veteran of many
failed border-immigration
negotiations for more than 15
years, sees this latest effort as
more simplified than those
previous bids. No one is
discussing a path to citizenship
for the millions of undocumented
immigrants, which is anathema
to many conservatives.
“Virtually everybody in our
conference believes that what’s
happening at the border is
unacceptable and that this is a
point of maximum leverage,”
Cornyn said.
But Democrats aren’t about to
just accept a conservative border
plan, not when they hold the
Senate and the White House. “By
tying Ukraine to border,
Republicans are sadly making it
harder — much harder — for us to
help Ukraine in their fight against
Putin,” Schumer said in a Tuesday
speech.
All these disputes over Ukraine
and the U.S.-Mexico border have
made it very unlikely that the
security package can be attached
to whatever government funding
plan passes by Friday. Plus, there’s
now a chance that no such plan
will pass and Congress could
stumble its way into shutting
down the government.
The new speaker unveiled a
complicated funding bill on
Saturday, appeasing Johnson’s
right flank, despite its bipartisan
rejection in the Senate, and
Schumer has yet to unveil a
proposal of his own for keeping
the government open.
Back home in Kentucky,
McConnell’s political machine had
big success and yet still couldn’t
topple Beshear. The next big
statewide race in the Bluegrass
State is not slated until 2026, when
McConnell’s term is up.
A variety of health issues
prompted some questions about
whether he would finish his term,
but the octogenarian has
repeatedly said that everything is
fine healthwise.
So far, at least for now,
ambitious Kentucky Republicans
are steering clear about whether
they are angling for his seat.
“As a former McConnell intern
and as a devoted supporter of
Mitch McConnell and a loyal Mitch
McConnell supporter, I’m going to
support Leader McConnell as long
as he wants,” Rep. Garland “Andy”
Barr (R-Ky.) said.
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indefinite detention had been
“one of the darkest chapters in
Australia’s history” and those
who suffered it should be com-
pensated, he said.
From one prison to another
Like Arulruban, Jhaidul, who
goes by one name according to
Bangladeshi tradition, had no fa-
vored destination in mind when
he paid a people smuggler to ferry
him to safety in 2012.
He had just spent nine years in
a Bangladeshi prison for a mur-
der he didn’t commit. The charge
was pinned on him in an appar-
ent retaliation for an episode
years earlier when he defended
his sister against an acid attack.
When he was eventually par-
doned and released, he was
forced into hiding. “I could not
show my face in the area,” he said.
His boat was intercepted by
Australian authorities, and
Jhaidul was placed in immigra-
tion detention, where he earned
the nickname “The Master” be-
cause of his chess skills. At night,
he sang — recording Bollywood
hits and Bangladeshi songs on the
karaoke app, StarMaker.
Ten years and one day later,
Jhaidul was released. He was 46
and had spent more than a third
of his life locked up.
Jhaidul got a job welding parts
for the mining industry. He got
his driver’s license and bought a
car. But he remained in a constant
state of visa limbo. That is likely
to continue, despite the High
Court ruling.
His original plan had been to
find a place to settle and sponsor
his family to join him. But while
PhoTos by mridulA Amin for The WAshingTon PosT he’s in immigration limbo, reunit-
ing with his family — a son, and a
BY R ACHEL P ANNETT

MElBOurNE, australia — Ree-

Stories from the ‘dark underbelly’ of daughter he has never met —
remains impossible.
Alison Battisson, a human

Australia’s long-term refugee prisons

ta Arulruban put in a video call to
her son, Dixtan. Today they were
making kesari — a sweet, spicy
semolina dish. For a moment,
they forgot their situation: A
mom on the outside. A son locked
up by the country he chose as his
refuge.
Arulruban’s face glowed as she
described the recipe, putting on a
brave face although inside she
was aching. Dixtan, now 26, held
up the saucepan to show her the
finished dish. “Yummy,” he de-
clared.
That September afternoon
marked 12 years since Arulruban
arrived in Australia, fleeing per-
secution on a crowded boat. And
four years since Dixtan was put in
immigration detention here. Af-
ter the call ended, she lay on her
bed staring at his picture on her
phone. It is like having a plate of
your favorite food in front of you
and being told you can’t eat it, she
said. Each week she drives an
hour across Melbourne for a brief,
supervised visit.
Australia has one of the strict-
est regimes for undocumented
migrants in the world. The
“Operation Sovereign Borders”
program — which recorded its
10-year anniversary in September
— has been cited as the inspira-
tion for British Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak’s plan to “stop the
boats” crossing the English Chan-
nel in search of a better life.
Similar conversations are hap-
pening across Europe. In Italy,
the far-right government is in-
creasing powers to detain and
deport migrants.
But in a landmark ruling this
week, the High Court ruled that
Australia’s practice of indefinite
immigration detention is unlaw-
ful when there is “no real pros-
pect of removal from Australia
becoming practicable in the rea-
sonably foreseeable future.” The
plaintiff in that case has already
been released, and the govern-
ment has said it will immediately
release others, although the tim-
ing and conditions for release
remain unclear.
It is unclear what it means for
Dixtan, who is still hoping the
government will review decisions
to reject his asylum claim.
Australia’s migration laws had
allowed the government to indef-
initely detain a noncitizen who
does not hold a visa — including
those who lawyers say have legiti-
mate claims of asylum. Housing a
person in immigration detention
costs upward of $250,000 per
year. But the cost of appearing
“soft” on border control has
helped topple governments here,
and the hard-line system is rarely
questioned, even when it catches
people who thought they were
Australian.
More than 1,000 people are in
immigration detention and 127
have been detained for five or
more years. The average stay is
709 days, and the longest-held
has been there 16 years, according
to official figures. Many are afraid
to speak for fear of jeopardizing
their cases. But before the court
ruling, several agreed to share
their stories with The Washing-
ton Post, providing a rare glimpse
of life behind the barriers.
Asylum seekers could be held indefinitely, until the practice was struck down last week
A shocking decision
In 2009, Arulruban’s husband
was killed when Sri Lankan forc-
es shelled a market where he was
buying groceries. She learned af-
ter his death that he had been
providing intelligence to the Tam-
il Tigers, a guerrilla group that
fought for an independent state
in northeast Sri Lanka during a
26-year civil war that ended with
their defeat that year.
When Sri Lankan soldiers
came to question her, she was
sexually assaulted, she said, as
Dixtan cowered in the next room.
She fled the country, leaving
Dixtan, then 15, with his grand-
mother. She did not know where
the boat was taking her. She just
needed to escape.
Arulruban planned for Dixtan
to follow as soon as it was safe.
But it didn’t work out that way. In
2013, the government made it
effectively impossible for boat ar-
rivals to bring their families here,
relegating visa applications to the
bottom of a backlogged immigra-
tion system.
Dixtan and his grandmother
were frequently harassed by offi-
cials demanding to know his
mother’s whereabouts. When his
grandmother died, life became
even more challenging. In 2019,
Dixtan flew to Sydney on a fake
passport provided to him by a
migration agent. The first his
mother learned of his plans was
when she received a call from
border officials who’d detained
Dixtan at the airport.
In June — just days after Arul-
TOP: Jhaidul, 45, a
Bangladeshi refugee, was
released from immigration
detention in Melbourne
recently, where he spent 10
years. MIDDLE: Reeta
Arulruban, a Tamil refugee
and sexual assault
survivor, packs food for
her son Dixtan, who has
spent more than five years
in prison. ABOVE: Reeta
teaches Dixtan to cook
kesari on a video call from
her home.
ruban, now 55, was granted a visa
allowing her to stay in Australia
permanently — Dixtan was given
a deportation notice.
‘One of the darkest chapters
in Australia’s history’
Policing Australia’s vast ocean
borders has long been a hot-but-
ton political issue here, akin to
debate over migrant crossings of
the southern U.S. frontier.
In 2012, Australia hardened its
defenses amid a growing exodus
from places such as Myanmar and
Afghanistan — reopening off-
shore detention centers on re-
mote Pacific islands where un-
documented migrants were
housed while their asylum claims
were processed. The policy pro-
vided the inspiration for the U.K.
plan to send asylum seekers to
Rwanda.
What is not widely known is
that many of the world’s vulner-
able people have been locked
away in plain sight, in repurposed
hotels and immigration facilities
in major cities as well as behind
razor-wire fences in the Outback.
The detention of tennis star
Novak Djokovic for breaching
coronavirus restrictions brought
Melbourne’s Park Hotel briefly
into the spotlight. Conditions in-
side have progressively wors-
ened, making them “factories for
mental illness,” according to med-
ical experts.
“There are so many places in
Australia you can hide people,”
said Pamela Curr, a longtime refu-
gee advocate. “We’re supposed to
be this easy laid-back country
where everything is hunky-dory.
There’s a dark underbelly.”
Unlike the United States and
most liberal democracies, Aus-
tralia has no Bill of Rights guar-
anteeing liberty and the right to
be treated with humanity. Succes-
sive efforts to fight the incarcera-
tion of immigrants in federal
court have been thwarted — with
brief legal victories capped by
new legislation, or, on several
occasions, challenges settled out
of court when it looked as if the
government might lose, accord-
ing to lawyers.
Even after the case in the High
Court overturned the practice
last week, the immigration minis-
ter initially said the government
would wait for the detailed ruling
before considering how and
when to release people, citing
“community safety.”
“The government’s response is
pathetic and culpably negligent,"
said Nick McKim, an Australian
Greens lawmaker. "They should
be working to release people in
the scope of the ruling as soon as
possible rather than delaying and
obfuscating.”
The 20-year-long practice of
rights lawyer, said Jhaidul’s asy-
lum claim is strong. She suspects
his release, along with a handful
of other long-term detainees, is a
tactic designed to prod them to
return to places where their lives
are at risk.
“Detention didn’t work. So
they’re trying something else,”
she said.
When the former corporate
lawyer started acting pro bono for
refugees, it was rare to find peo-
ple who had been detained for
more than five years. Now, eight
years is a starting point for
Battisson getting involved in a
case.
Broken boy soldier
Battisson said many people
have been caught out by the word
“permanent” in their visas, un-
aware they could be canceled
under laws tightened to make it
easier to deport migrants on char-
acter grounds. Like William
Yekrop.
On bad days, Yekrop has flash-
backs to the day his father, a
soldier in the South Sudanese
civil war, was killed in front of
him. He was 5 years old. Yekrop
was taken to a rebel camp to be
trained as a child soldier.
Eventually he made it out, with
his mom and siblings, to a refugee
camp in Egypt. At 16, he was
granted asylum in Australia. But
without any counseling to help
deal with his childhood trauma,
he turned to alcohol and drugs.
That led to bouts of jail time; the
longest 13 months.
In 2014, Australia canceled his
visa and Yekrop was taken into
immigration detention. A refugee
tribunal that year found he had a
“well-founded fear of persecu-
tion” in South Sudan. The tribu-
nal has the power to review some
visa decisions, but it is the coun-
try’s immigration minister who
gets the final say in a system
advocates say gives them “godlike
powers.”
Yekrop left South Sudan before
the war-torn country became in-
dependent and has been told by
officials there that he has little
prospect of regaining citizenship.
The decision to cancel his visa
leaves him effectively stateless,
and in limbo, like the others. His
family, including a 14-year-old
daughter, live here. But that
doesn’t stop Australian officials
from routinely asking him if he
wants to go back to North Africa.
In prison, Yekrop undertook
drug and alcohol counseling. He
cleaned up his act. He worked in
the prison kitchen. In immigra-
tion detention on Christmas Is-
land, a remote Australian outpost
in the Indian Ocean, he was
locked up 22 hours a day, sur-
rounded by razor-wire fences bor-
dered by jungle. In September,
authorities flew him in handcuffs
to Yongah Hill Immigration
Detention Center in the Western
Australian wheat belt.
Yekrop’s only escape from the
Outback haze is exercise. Ap-
proaching 40 with the figure of a
young man, Yekrop wakes at 6
a.m. for cardio and dead lifts. “I’ve
been locked up for 101/2 years now.
If not for the exercise, maybe I’d
give up long ago.”
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Hamas antitank strikes shed light on its upgraded arsenal
GAzA from A1
areas the IDf says are honey-
combed with tunnels.
This is still asymmetrical war-
fare. Israel fields one of the
best-armed, most technological-
ly sophisticated forces in the
world. Hamas brigades today
may have advanced weapons, but
they are clearly outmatched.
But in the close-quarter fight-
ing in Gaza, Hamas operatives
have displayed some of their
upgraded arsenal: a large num-
ber of shoulder-fired rocket-pro-
pelled grenade launchers and
antitank missiles, military ex-
perts say.
many of the weapons have
been smuggled into the Gaza
Strip via tunnels, land crossings
and the sea during the past
decade, from the spillover of
wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and
Sudan, and also manufactured
by Iran and even North Korea.
Variations of these weapons
also have been assembled with
increasing sophistication inside
Gaza in underground factories.
Analysts say Israel has been
closely tracking the types of
weapons held by Hamas: mod-
ern sniper rifles, paragliders,
rPGs, “magnet bombs,” one-way
attack drones, mini-subs, land
mines, antitank missiles and the
long-range rockets, which now
can strike as far north as Haifa
near the Lebanon border and as
far south as Eilat on the red Sea,
though still without much accu-
racy.
Hamas and its fighters — an
estimated force of 30,000 or
more — are so fully armed and
well-trained that its brigades,
designated as terrorist organiza-
tions by the United States, re-
semble “state armies,” said mi-
chael milshtein, former head of
the Palestinian department in
the IDf and a senior analyst at
the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv
University.
Watching the first two weeks
of the ground invasion unfold,
milshtein said, “There is actually
nothing new or surprising in the
weapons themselves. The main
surprise is the quantity.”
milshtein said Israel faces “a
much more powerful Hamas.”
Israeli forces push into Gaza City amid ‘catastrophic’ struggles at hospitals
BY L IZ S LY,
C LAIRE P ARKER
AND S ARAH D ADOUCH
BEIRUT — Gaza’s embattled hos-
pitals faced near total collapse
Saturday as fuel, power and water
dwindled, fighting raged outside
and Israeli tanks and troops ad-
vanced deep into residential
neighborhoods in the heart of
Gaza City.
The rapid deterioration is oc-
curring amid mounting interna-
tional outrage at the suffering in-
flicted on the civilian population
in a war that has included weeks
of intense Israeli bombardment
and now urban fighting as Israeli
ground forces seek to crush
Hamas militants.
The International Committee
of the red Cross said it was
“shocked and appalled” by the re-
ports coming from Gaza’s hospi-
tals. Doctors Without Borders de-
scribed as “catastrophic” the situ-
ation at al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s
largest.
Doctors and health officials
reached by telephone described
scenes of panic, fear and death as
power ran out entirely at some
hospitals and ran low at others,
shutting down incubators, inten-
sive care facilities, machinery and
lights.
Israeli tanks closed in on sev-
eral Gaza hospitals friday, forcing
some patients, medical staffers
and civilians to join an exodus
heading to southern areas of Gaza
in hopes of finding greater safety.
Israel has frequently asserted that
Hamas uses facilities such as al-
Shifa Hospital to hide military
infrastructure, including under-
ground tunnels. Al-Shifa’s admin-
istrators and doctors have denied
the claims.
But the intensity of the fighting
on Saturday meant escape from
most of the hospitals was impossi-
ble, the officials said.
Al-Shifa appeared to be the
worst affected. Two premature in-
fants died when power was cut to
the incubators, and 36 more ba-
bies’ lives were at risk, health offi-
cials said. four patients died
when the intensive care unit shut
down. A fire that broke out when
one wing of the hospital was
struck by artillery fire could not be
extinguished because there was
no water. The accounts from Gaza
could not be independently con-
firmed.
Israeli tanks in the streets, snip-
An Israeli tank crosses the security fence between Israel and Gaza on Friday. Israel fields one of the most technologically sophisticated
forces in the world. But Hamas has spent years boosting its firepower to include antitank missiles and other arms.
Though recent days have seen
some limited “humanitarian
pauses” in the fighting — along-
side demands for an all-out
cease-fire from regional powers
— Israel shows no sign that it is
stopping its offensive, as its
tanks surrounded hospitals in
northern Gaza this weekend and
the medical facilities sheltering
displaced people say they have
come under fire. (The IDf says
Hamas “cynically” deploys clin-
ics and patients as “human
shields.”)
Israel security officials say
tanks and troops have encircled
several hospitals and they are
demanding that staff and pa-
tients evacuate.
Avi melamed, a former Israeli
intelligence official and the
founder of Inside the middle
East, a nonprofit organization
focused on education, said Israel
will face “very challenging” con-
ditions with Hamas and its
armed allies in Gaza. “It is a
massively armed enemy,” he said,
“not a gang of little kids running
around with pistols.”
Palestinian families in the Gaza Valley on Salah al-Din Street on Saturday. Across Gaza City, civilians cowered as Israeli tanks rumbled
through the streets. The Gaza Health Ministry said it was unable to tally Saturday’s casualties because of the fighting.
ers on nearby roofs and other
combat hazards made the streets
impassable, said mounir Abdal-
lah al-Borsh, the director general
of the Gaza Health ministry.
Escape was impossible because
Israeli forces are “striking us from
all sides,” he said, speaking by
telephone from inside the hospi-
tal. Wounded people are lying un-
tended in the hospital’s grounds,
where as many as 15,000 local
civilians have taken refuge, be-
cause staffers cannot go outside to
treat them, and the hospital’s ICU,
maternity wing, and third and
fourth floors were hit by shell fire,
he said.
The bodies of scores of dead
people also were strewn around
the hospital grounds because
staffers could not reach them to
bury them, he said.
“They are striking anything
that moves inside or outside the
hospital,” he said, as firing sound-
ed down the line. “You can hear
EZ rE
israel-gaza war
The deployment of large num-
bers of antitank units by Hamas
is especially worrisome for Is-
raeli forces — so much so that the
IDf appears to be focusing its
intelligence on finding targets
for air and ground forces to wipe
them out.
Every few days, the IDf media
office releases information about
its troops targeting and killing
Hamas antitank commanders.
Hamas does not always confirm
the deaths of its operatives,
making the Israeli claims often
impossible to independently ver-
ify.
Yet it is already clear that this
war in Gaza — compared with
fighting in 2009, 2012, 2014 and
2021 — is the most deadly.
Israeli bombing and ground
assaults have killed more than
11,000 people, many of them
women and children, according
to the Gaza Health ministry. on
oct. 7, the Hamas assault on
farming communities, military
bases and a rave concert along
the Gaza border, at least 1,200
Israelis were killed and 240 oth-
the gunfire now.”
Israel denied that its forces
were targeting or blockading al-
Shifa Hospital. “There is no shoot-
ing and there is no siege,” said Col.
moshe Tetro, who heads the Gaza
Coordination and Liaison Admin-
istration. “We [the Israeli mili-
tary] can coordinate with anyone
[who] wants to leave the hospital.”
Later, Israeli military spokes-
man rear Adm. Daniel Hagari
said that the Israel Defense forces
would help evacuate the infants
from al-Shifa. “The staff of Shifa
Hospital has requested that to-
morrow we will help the babies in
the pediatric department to get to
a safer hospital,” he said in a state-
ment. “We will provide the assis-
tance needed.”
The war broke out on oct. 7
with a blitz into Israel by Hamas
that left at least 1,200 people dead
and more than 240 hostages in the
hands of militants. Israeli attacks
had claimed more than 11,000
ers taken hostage.
Since the beginning of the
ground invasion, 41 IDf soldiers
have been killed in Gaza, Israel’s
military said. The IDf says it
would have lost more if it had not
spent the last decade improving
its armor defenses.
In a may 2021 war, primarily
between Hamas and Israel,
Hamas antitank missile teams
were able to launch strikes that
killed military personnel and
civilians — proving more effec-
tive than drone attacks, said
Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior fel-
low at the foundation for De-
fense of Democracies, a think
tank in Washington.
“Hamas drones and rockets
were intercepted,” he said. “Their
unmanned midget subs were
stopped. Cross-border tunnel op-
eratives were detected.” But
“their antitank forces punched
through and landed blows,” he
said.
The antitank systems de-
ployed by Hamas include the
Bulsae-2, a North Korean copy of
the Soviet-era fagot; the rPG-7,
lives in Gaza by late friday, the
Gaza Health ministry said.
for the first time since the war
began, the ministry said it was
unable to tally Saturday’s casual-
ties because of the intensity of the
fighting.
Panic also spread through
al-Quds Hospital as Israeli tanks
reached within 20 yards of the
hospital gates, the Palestine red
Crescent Society said. The facility
was under intense bombardment
and sniper fire and “we are in
constant fear about the safety of
our team there,” spokeswoman
Nebal farsakh said.
The hospital is down to its last
drops of fuel, she said. Babies were
among the 500 patients, 100 medi-
cal workers and 14,000 displaced
civilians taking shelter there who
are suffering from dehydration
because of the lack of milk and
water, she added.
medical staffers at al-Nasr Chil-
dren’s Hospital farther south in
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also originally russian; as well as
a North Korean version called
the f-7, military analysts said.
other systems seen in Hamas
videos in the past include the
russian-style Kornet and
Konkurs, as well as the Iranian
raad, which is a version of the
Soviet malyutka.
“Together this cocktail of for-
eign weapons can complicate
even the most high-tech of
armies in an urban combat sce-
nario,” Taleblu said.
He added: “Expect more, not
less, of an emphasis on antitank
weapons and antitank warfare
by Hamas as the IDf moves
further into Gaza.”
During the past decade, many
of the antitank weapons were
smuggled into Gaza, through the
tunnels from Egypt’s Sinai Des-
ert into the Gaza Strip and via
trucks traveling across the rafah
border crossing with Egypt, the
analysts said.
Yehoshua Kalisky, an arms
expert and senior researcher at
the Institute for National Secu-
rity Studies in Tel Aviv, said the
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the city had to abandon five pre-
mature babies on incubators
when staffers and patients man-
aged to escape under intense shell
fire, according to mohammed Abu
mughaisib, the deputy medical
coordinator in Gaza for the Doc-
tors Without Borders. It would
have been more dangerous to re-
move the babies from the incuba-
tors “so they left five babies alone
in the intensive care on the ma-
chines and ventilators,” he said.
Another hospital, al-rantisi,
had come under fire because
Hamas fighters had been seen try-
ing to escape among the civilians
who were seeking to evacuate, an
Israeli military spokesman said.
maj. Shay, whose last name was
withheld in keeping with Israeli
military rules, said Israeli forces
had conducted what he called a
“military operation” to root out
Hamas assets within the hospital
buildings.
Across Gaza City, civilians cow-
. sunday, november 12 , 2023
weapons can be disassembled
and the individual parts hidden
in food and aid shipments.
Among the antitank weapons
possessed by Hamas, some are
produced inside the Strip, such
as the Tandem 85 warhead, said
Amael Kotlarski, a senior analyst
and weapons expert at the de-
fense intelligence firm Janes.
These kinds of projectiles use
two charges to punch through
modern armored vehicles. They
are Iran’s signature weapons pro-
vided to allied militants, such as
Hamas, and were used to devas-
tating effect against U.S. troops
in Iraq.
The propaganda arm of
Hamas has released numerous
edited images of militants firing
rockets and missiles at Israeli
vehicles. While the videos may
show fiery explosions, it is some-
times unclear whether the hits
have destroyed or damaged vehi-
cles.
Israel has developed a defense
to these weapons called the Tro-
phy active protection system,
said ryan Brobst of the founda-
tion for Defense of Democracies.
It works by using radar to track
incoming munitions and then
intercepts them with its own
defense projectiles. It’s been
largely successful. But — as with
missile barrages against Israel’s
Iron Dome air defense — the
Trophy system can be defeated
by overwhelming it with large
numbers of projectiles or projec-
tiles fired at close range, Brobst
said.
Notably, Brobst said, the U.S.
Army received Trophy systems
for its Abrams tanks in 2019 and
deployed them to Europe.
Kalisky, the Israeli analyst,
said that in the 1967 Israel-Arab
war, Israel in Sinai needed three
divisions to defeat the Egyptian
army in six days.
Now the IDf has been using
the same force for almost a
month with very different results
in Gaza.
“This is a different war. It is a
very difficult war,” he said. “They
are equipped.”
nakashima and horton reported
from Washington. hazem balousha
in cairo contributed to this report.
ered as Israeli tanks rumbled
through the streets.
Contacted by telephone, Doaa
Danaf said she had taken refuge
with her husband and child on the
ground floor of her building in a
central residential neighborhood
since hearing Israeli tanks outside
late the night before. “We can’t
move at all,” she said, as the sound
of explosions echoed down the
line. “We don’t have food or water
here, and we can’t go upstairs to
bring any.”
reem Akkila huddled with her
family in their home in rimal, a
neighborhood in Gaza City near
the fighting. Their house is not on
a main road, so she couldn’t see
Israeli tanks or soldiers, she told
The Washington Post. But she esti-
mated that Israeli forces were less
than 200 yards away.
The sounds of explosions, gun-
fire and drones could be heard in
voice messages she sent to The
Post, alongside the burbles of an
infant. The family’s house sus-
tained damage in a previous
bombing, she said, “and today it is
shaking from every airstrike or
artillery launch from the tanks.”
“We feel all of us that we will die
at each moment because of the
bullets we hear or an artillery
shell that may reach our house,”
she said. “We sit with the children
in an area of two meters and pre-
vent them from moving for fear of
standing in front of the windows
and walls and being bombed.”
As the situation for civilians in
Gaza deteriorated, Arab and
Islamic leaders attending a sum-
mit in Saudi Arabia’s capital, ri-
yadh, called for an immediate halt
to the fighting and for Israel to be
held accountable for possible war
crimes.
They failed, however, to agree
on a tougher set of measures pro-
posed by some countries that
would have included severing dip-
lomatic relations with Israel. The
summit offered a semblance of
Arab and Islamic unity on the
crisis, bringing together former
rivals such as Saudi Arabia and
Iran, whose president, Ebrahim
raisi, was among the attendees. It
was the first visit by an Iranian
leader to riyadh in more than
seven years.
Parker reported from Jerusalem and
Dadouch from beirut. carrie Keller-
Lynn in Tel Aviv, Ellen francis in
London, and Dan rosenzweig-Ziff in
Washington contributed to this report.
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israel-gaza war

The punishing military doctrine that Israel may be following in Gaza

Today’s WorldView
Ishaan Tharoor
A few days after Hamas’s horrific
Oct. 7 rampage through southern
Israel, a top Israeli military
official was blunt about his
nation’s military response. Israeli
security officials repeatedly
stress the steps they take to
minimize civilian harm and
claim they are only striking
legitimate military targets. In
recent days, Daniel Hagari,
spokesman of the Israel Defense
Forces, accused Hamas of
“cynically” deploying its assets in
civilian areas and near critical
infrastructure, like hospitals. But
when speaking in the offensive’s
early stage, Hagari revealed that
the “emphasis” of the IDF’s
reprisal was “on damage and not
on accuracy.”
At that time, Israeli warplanes
had already dumped hundreds of
tons of bombs on targets in the
Gaza Strip. The ongoing
campaign in the month since has
claimed more than 10,000 lives
in the besieged territory,
including those of more than
4,000 children. It’s triggered a
humanitarian crisis, displacing
the bulk of Gaza’s 2.3 million
people and driving tens of
thousands into a desperate
Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Dahiya refers to the southern
Beirut suburbs where Hezbollah
maintained its strongholds and
which were pummeled by Israeli
jets after hostilities began when
Hezbollah fighters abducted two
Israeli soldiers. The onslaught
then took Hezbollah by surprise,
whose senior leadership had not
expected to see their
headquarters turned into rubble
nor had planned for such a
relentless bombardment. “I said
that we shouldn’t exaggerate,
that Israel will just retaliate a bit,
bomb a couple of targets and that
would be the end of it,” a
Hezbollah operative told former
Washington Post reporter
Anthony Shadid in 2006.
The doctrine that emerged out
of the conflict was most famously
articulated by IDF commander
Gadi Eisenkot. “We will wield
disproportionate power against
every village from which shots
are fired on Israel, and cause
immense damage and
destruction. From our
perspective, these are military
bases,” he told an Israeli
newspaper in 2008. “This isn’t a
suggestion. This is a plan that
has already been authorized.”
Around the same time, former
Israeli colonel Gabriel Siboni
wrote a report under the aegis of
Tel Aviv University’s Institute for LoAy Ayyoub for the WAshington Post

search for food, safety and water.
Hunger and disease stalk Gaza’s
blasted neighborhoods. Aid
agencies place little hope in
Israel’s latest decision to offer
four-hour “pauses” in its
operations so that residents in
north Gaza can trek southward.
There are reams of
commentary on what Israel’s
strategy and endgame may be as
it seeks to nullify the long-
standing threat posed by Hamas
and purge the Islamist militant
faction from its Gaza redoubts.
But looming behind it — and
implicit in Hagari’s “emphasis”
on damage over accuracy — is a
long-standing Israeli military
doctrine that appears to be in
play now.
The so-called “Dahiya
Doctrine” took shape in the wake
of the bruising 2006 war between
National Security Studies that
argued the necessary response to
militant provocations from
Lebanon, Syria or Gaza were
“disproportionate” strikes that
aim only secondarily to hit the
enemy’s capacity to launch
rockets or other attacks. Rather,
the goal should be to inflict
lasting damage, no matter the
civilian consequences, as a future
deterrent.
“With an outbreak of
hostilities, the IDF will need to
act immediately, decisively, and
with force that is
disproportionate to the enemy’s
actions and the threat it poses,”
he wrote. “Such a response aims
at inflicting damage and meting
out punishment to an extent that
will demand long and expensive
reconstruction processes.”
The doctrine appeared to be in
The ruins of a mosque after it was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Wednesday. Daniel Hagari, spokesman of the Israel Defense Forces,
when speaking in the offensive’s early stage, revealed that the “emphasis” of the IDF’s reprisal was “on damage and not on accuracy.”
operation during a round of
hostilities between Hamas in
Gaza and Israel at the end of
2008 and beginning of 2009. A
U.N.-commissioned report
regarding that conflict, which
saw the deaths of more than
1,400 Palestinians and Israelis,
determined that Israel’s
campaign was “a deliberately
disproportionate attack designed
to punish, humiliate and
terrorize a civilian population,
radically diminish its local
economic capacity both to work
and to provide for itself, and to
force upon it an ever increasing
sense of dependency and
vulnerability.”
The doctrine endured in the
years since. “Israeli military
correspondents and security
analysts repeatedly reported that
the Dahiya doctrine was Israel’s
strategy throughout the war in
Gaza this past summer,”
observed Palestinian American
scholar Rashid Khalidi in the fall
of 2014, after another Israeli
campaign left more than 1,460
civilians dead, including almost
500 children. “Let us be frank:
this is actually less of a strategic
doctrine than it is an explicit
outline of collective punishment
and probable war crimes.”
He added: “Not surprisingly,
one found little mention of the
Dahiya doctrine whether in
statements by U.S. politicians, or
in the reporting of the war by
most of the mainstream
American media, which dwelt on
the description of Israel’s actions
as ‘self-defense.’”
In the present environment,
Israel’s right to self-defense has
indeed been championed by
lawmakers and commentators
across the West. Given the
unprecedented scale and horror
of the Oct. 7 attack, there appears
to be a hardened consensus in
Israel that its military should do
whatever it takes to neutralize
Hamas. To that end, a host of
Israeli politicians have called for
the wholesale destruction of
Gaza, the depopulation of the
territory and even its
resettlement by Israel.
Eisenkot is now a member of
Israel’s unity “war cabinet.” No
Israeli politician or security
official has explicitly invoked the
“Dahiya doctrine” as a template
for the destruction unleashed in
Gaza.
“I don’t think this doctrine
applies today,” Siboni, now of the
Jerusalem Institute for Strategy
and Security, told French
newspaper Le Monde last month,
arguing that everything Israel is
targeting are explicitly military
targets.
Siboni added that Israel’s
efforts to coax Palestinians in
northern Gaza to flee to the
south was a sign of its
humanitarian approach. “As for
those who remain, too bad,” he
told Le Monde. “They choose to
put their lives on the line.”

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israel-gaza war

U.S. is warned about

its global standing as
toll on civilians rises
Arab leaders admonish
Blinken, pointing to
American aid for Israel
BY M ICHAEL B IRNBAUM
NEW DELHI — A month into the
Gaza war, President Biden’s
steadfast support for Israeli lead-
ers, even as the Palestinian civil-
ian death toll mounts, risks last-
ing damage to Washington’s
standing in the region and be-
yond, Arab leaders and analysts
say, warning that the perceived
U.S. acceptance of attacks on
refugee camps, hospitals and
apartment buildings could shat-
ter American influence for years
to come.
Anger over the campaign’s
enormous civilian collateral is
increasingly directed at the Unit-
Israeli leaders also were tense, as
Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu and his top lieutenants
ceded little ground to U.S. con-
cerns about civilian safety, main-
taining that Hamas operatives
are hiding among innocent by-
standers in Gaza. Even in Tokyo,
at a gathering of nations typical-
ly supportive of the United
States, foreign ministers had
contentious conversations about
the U.S. handling of the Gaza
crisis, although the European
Union’s chief diplomat, Josep
Borrell, directed most of his ire
at his German counterpart for
taking the U.S. side rather than
backing Borrell’s effort to deliver
a sharper call to Israel to halt its
offensive. French President Em-
manuel Macron later broke with
the U.S. position, calling for a
cease-fire.
As massive pro-Palestinian
demonstrations were held
throughout the world, hundreds JonAthAn Ernst/Pool/AP

ed States, not just at Israel, and
has been a constant source of
friction throughout Secretary of
State Antony Blinken’s travels in
the Middle East and Asia over
the past week. Prime ministers
and diplomats have admonished
him over Israeli actions, with
many charging that the attacks
are facilitated by U.S. weaponry
and that efforts to push for
“humanitarian pauses” rather
than an enduring cease-fire is a
formula for continued violence
against noncombatants.
“The whole region is sinking
in a sea of hatred that will define
generations to come,” said Jorda-
nian Foreign Minister Ayman
Safadi, speaking alongside Blink-
en in Amman. He called for
Washington to put a halt to
Israeli attacks on civilians. “The
U.S. has a leading role to play in
these efforts. And on it and on all
of us fall the very heavy responsi-
bility of ending this catastrophe.”
Blinken’s conversations with
of thousands of people in Indo-
nesia, Pakistan and elsewhere
criticized Israel and its American
backers for the death toll, which
has surpassed 11,000 Palestin-
ians, many of them children,
according to the Hamas-
controlled Gaza Health Ministry.
Biden administration officials
acknowledge the challenge they
face while balancing between
support for Israel and the steep
civilian toll in Gaza. Officials say
they are hopeful that if the Israeli
response ends quickly — say, by
the removal of top Hamas leader-
ship — then the long-term impli-
cations for the United States will
be lower. There is hope, too, that
instances of unintended death
and injury will diminish as the
bombing campaign is supplant-
ed by ground operations, even as
Blinken expresses a sense of
urgency over civilian safety.
American concerns about
waning influence in the Middle
East long predate the Oct. 7
Secretary of State Antony Blinken sits on his plane as he departs Israel en route to Jordan on Nov. 3. He had tense conversations with
Israeli leaders during his trip, which was his second to the region since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
Hamas attack on Israel that left
1,200 dead, but the current situa-
tion will probably accelerate and
deepen the fallout, analysts said.
And the close ties between the
United States and Israel over the
approach in Gaza has left Arab
leaders unwilling to be seen
doing any favors for Washington.
“What the Americans are do-
ing now, this policy, is damaging
them. At least 1.3 billion people
in the world are going to hate
them,” said Gen. Abbas Ibrahim,
a former top Lebanese official
who has been involved in negoti-
ations to secure the exit of for-
eign nationals trapped in Gaza.
“And it’s not just about Muslims
anymore. There are people dem-
onstrating all over the world.”
He said that he relayed as
much, bluntly, to U.S. officials
who traveled to Beirut in recent
days as part of the diplomacy to
avert a wider regional conflict.
They “didn’t answer,” he said.
“This is their policy. But they are
wrong.”
The anger toward Washington
has given Russia and China an
opening to portray themselves as
defenders of Palestinians, boost-
ing their image in the developing
world and using their propa-
ganda outlets to amplify the
connection between the United
States and Israeli actions in
Gaza. Moscow hosted senior
Hamas leaders last month, earn-
ing praise from the organization
and condemnation from Israel.
For a world already split over
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the
Gaza crisis is offering fodder, for
those who want to seize it, that
Western nations care more about
the deaths of White Christian
Ukrainians than non-White Mus-
lims in the Middle East.
“There’s something happen-
ing in terms of the reaction to
this crisis that is unlike anything
I can remember in recent years,
maybe even dating back to the
Gulf War and other episodes of
U.S. policy in the Middle East,”
said Suzanne Maloney, director
of the foreign policy program at
the Brookings Institution.
“There’s a sense” in the devel-
oping world that there is a
“double standard in terms of
victims,” she said — an unfair
perception, she added, given that
Russia invaded a weaker neigh-
boring country that did not pose
a security threat, leading to the
deaths of Ukrainian civilians,
while Israel is responding to an
ongoing threat from Hamas fol-
lowing an attack.
Still, the war’s toll has put U.S.
officials in an untenable posi-
tion. Many privately acknowl-
edge their discomfort with Isra-
el’s targeting of Hamas positions
within groupings of civilians.
Blinken has repeatedly publicly
declared his pain at seeing im-
agery of Palestinian children be-
ing pulled from rubble — which
the father of two young children
also mentions in his closed-door
meetings with fellow top diplo-
mats, officials say.
And over the course of his
travels in recent days, he has
considerably sharpened his tone
as Netanyahu slow-walked ef-
forts that would ease the human-
itarian disaster.
“Far too many Palestinians
have been killed. Far too many
have suffered these past weeks,
and we want to do everything
possible to prevent harm to
them,” Blinken said Friday in
New Delhi, at the conclusion of a
nine-day tour that stopped in

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greater tolerance for collateral search Institute-Malaysia.

civilian deaths than does the
United States, say U.S. officials
who have discussed the issue
with the Israelis.
Yet no matter how hard the
Biden administration pushes Is-
rael, the White House is unlikely
to break free from assuming
blame for its most divisive ac-
tions on the battlefield, analysts
said, invoking images of the bear
hug that the U.S. president gave
to Netanyahu on his visit to
Israel soon after the Hamas at-
tack.
“There is a degree to which
people in the Arab world and the
Global South are drawing a line
between Gaza destruction and
the presidential embrace of
Prime Minister Netanyahu,” said
Jon Alterman, director of the
Middle East program at the Cen-
ter for Strategic and Internation-
al Studies, using a phrase, Global
South, that refers to many of the
nations of Latin America, the
Middle East, Asia and Africa.
“There’s a way that the United
States is hitched to what the
Israelis want to do, whether the
United States wants to do it or
not,” he said.
With protests flaring around
the world and some countries
withdrawing their ambassadors
from Israel in protest, the frus-
tration extends far beyond the
LoAy Ayyoub for the WAshington Post immediate region. In Malaysia,
The aftermath of a blast in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 7. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry says the war’s death toll exceeds 11,000 for instance, Prime Minister An-
Palestinians, many of them children. Israel has hit refugee camps, hospitals and apartment buildings in Gaza. war Ibrahim said at a pro-Pales-
tinian rally last month that the
eight countries and the West communications cutoffs that im- publicly, in part because it that when it has hit camps, invasion of Gaza was the “height
Bank. pede ambulances from reaching doesn’t want to be seen as deny- ambulances and areas near hos- of barbarism.”
At the outset of his travels, the injured. ing support to an ally in its pitals, the intended targets are His response has been an
when Blinken met with Netanya- Prolonging civilian suffering, moment of need. “The real work Hamas operatives or infrastruc- effort to shore up domestic sup-
hu and other Israeli leaders in Tel U.S. officials say, risks radicaliz- of diplomacy doesn’t happen in ture. U.S. officials say they back port among Islamists, but it is
Aviv, he told them that there ing young Palestinians and the public statements, it happens Israel’s intelligence informing also a reflection of popular senti-
could not be another week of heightening the chances of a behind the scenes,” Maloney those strikes, but they have ment in Malaysia, where percep-
carnage such as the one that had regional war if Iran and its proxy said. “We’re in this place where pushed its leaders to change tions of Israel and of the United
just occurred, with scores of forces feel a need to respond. people are reacting to the public their calculus about how many States are at an “all-time low,”
refugees dead when their camps But the administration faces a rhetoric and not to the results of civilian deaths are acceptable in said Bridget Welsh, an honorary
were bombed, dwindling sup- complicated task in how it the private advocacy.” exchange for each high-value research associate with the Uni-
plies of food and water, and frames its message to the Israelis The Israeli government says Hamas target. Israel has a far versity of Nottingham Asia Re-
The Biden bear hug isn’t just
symbolic, officials say, and the
decision to unwaveringly back
Israel is coming from the top.
Even if Biden’s Democratic coali-
tion is increasingly uncomfort-
able with the scale of Palestinian
losses, he faces little pressure
from Congress to shift course,
officials familiar with the situa-
tion say.
Nor is it obvious that the
United States has leverage to halt
the Israeli assault, even though it
is Israel’s biggest military backer.
The Biden administration be-
lieves that Israel has a sufficient
arsenal already in hand for it to
complete its objectives in Gaza,
officials said, meaning that even
if U.S. military aid were cut off
immediately, Israel would prob-
ably keep up its assault. U.S. help
would become more paramount
in the event of a two-front war.
Senior administration officials
say that sometimes Washington’s
role is not to be loved, but to be
effective. During Blinken’s trip —
his second visit to the region
since the crisis began — Israeli
officials asked U.S. diplomats to
push Arab leaders to give them
space. Arab leaders, in turn, told
the Americans that if they did
not get the Israelis to pay more
attention to humanitarian con-
cerns, the outrage among their
own populations would prolifer-
ate.
Neither side declared much
appreciation for U.S. policies —
but they also said that they felt
that the Americans were the only
interlocutors who could effec-
tively pressure the other side.
“American power is going to
be assessed not by how this
starts,” Alterman said, “but how
this ends.”
rebecca tan in singapore and
Liz sly in beirut contributed to
this report.

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Fighters from a paramilitary April 2019. cooking gas cylinders exploded had torn down its trees for cattle is considered an endangered are too scared to cross the few
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States and Saudi Arabia, failed to
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Dana Milbank
The House is most definitely not in order
B
efore Mike Johnson became
speaker, the House of Represen-
tatives had voted to censure one
of its own members only seven
times in 100 years. Since Johnson became
speaker, members of the House have
tried to censure each other eight times in
two weeks.
In the latest effort, the successful
censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)
for antisemitic statements, the House
floor degenerated into sobs, heckling, fist
shaking and screaming.
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), who is
Jewish, violently pounded the lectern:
“Never again, dammit, means never
again!”
Rep. Michael Lawler (R-N.Y.) alleged
that Tlaib “believes Israel should be
eradicated.”
“It is a lie!” Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.)
called out, and she and Rep. Summer Lee
(D-Pa.) continued heckling.
Bush, in her own remarks, ignored the
gavel and, yelling between gasps for
breath, said the censure is “not surpris-
ing because this place is where
1,700 members of Congress, this elected
body, enslaved Black people!”
From the back of the chamber,
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) shouted:
“Show some respect for this place!”
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) bel-
lowed at Republicans that “maybe be-
cause of your lack of diversity you lack
the cognitive and emotional ability to
recognize diverse opinions when they
speak truth to power!”
“Pull a fire alarm!” taunted Rep. Pat
Fallon (R-Tex.), referring to Bowman’s
misdemeanor guilty plea for triggering
an alarm during a key vote in September.
Rep. Richard McCormick (R-Ga.), who
introduced the censure resolution, ac-
knowledged that there had been “a lot of
screaming, a lot of accusations, you could
say, on both sides.” He assured the cham-
ber that “I don’t really care what race,
religion, gender or orientation you are.”
“Yes, you do!” Bush heckled.
The House is not in order. Under
Johnson, the House is utterly out of
control.
It’s not just the speaker’s inability to
curb the proliferation of censure resolu-
tions, which have turned the chamber
into a seething den of recriminations. In
just five days, the federal government
will shut down after a temporary exten-
sion in funding (which cost Kevin
McCarthy the speakership) expires. And
Johnson (R-La.) has been fumbling in the
dark.
He squandered the week without tak-
ing action on a plan to avoid a shutdown.
His plan — finally announced late Satur-
day afternoon — will come to the floor
just days before the lights go out. It was
the convoluted, “laddered” type of tem-
porary funding patch that Democrats
had already panned, and it immediately
generated complaints from right wing-
ers, who called it a “bad bill” and “beyond
crazy.”
“I’m not going to tell you when we’ll
bring it to the floor, but it will be in time,”
Johnson said during a news conference
last week. “How about that? Trust us.
We’re working through the process in
a way that I think the people will be
proud of.”
“Trust us” would not seem to be a
compelling argument, given the early
record of the Johnson speakership.
The House wasted hours on Tuesday
debating and voting on amendments to
the Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development appropriations bill, only to
pull it from the floor before the final vote
because of a revolt by Republicans from
the Northeast over more than $1 billion
in cuts to Amtrak.
The House then wasted hours on
Wednesday debating and voting on
alyssa rosenberg
Your kid has a B average in school. Do you know what that really means?
A
s the first report cards of the
school year arrive, parents
should ask questions and
schools need to respond. What
does an A or B mean? What are grades
even for?
Agreeing what grades represent is
critical to getting kids the help they need
as they try to catch up following the
pandemic.
From kindergarten through high
school, grades have been puffing up for
years. In some schools, pressure to juice
college applications is to blame. Others
might inflate grades so as not to discour-
age struggling students. Yet for all their
flaws, grades are still the most regular
indicator that parents and kids get of
academic performance.
Now two new studies suggest that
covid-19 cranked up the helium — that
grades might be giving a false sense of
how students are doing. Deceiving
families about whether children need
help during the window when interven-
tions would do the most good is not
kindness. This is no “victimless crime,”
says Tim Daly, chief executive of EdNavi-
gator, one of the nonprofits involved in
the research.
The first study looked at 10 years’
worth of grades and test scores from
middle and high schools in Washington
state. The researchers — Dan Goldhaber,
eZ
SUNDAY Opinion
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
amendments to the Financial Services
and General Government appropriations
bill, only to pull it moments before the
scheduled vote on Thursday morning.
This time, moderate Republicans re-
belled over a provision in the bill that
would allow employers in D.C. to dis-
criminate against women who have an
abortion or use contraception.
Republicans were back in the same
ungovernable state they had been in
before Johnson’s ascension. “I don’t think
the Lord Jesus himself could manage this
group,” Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Tex.) told NBC
News.
Soon after the Republicans’ second
spending bill collapsed, Rep. Marjorie
Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) went to the floor to
unveil a resolution calling for the im-
mediate impeachment of Homeland Se-
curity Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The House must now take that up this
week amid the scramble to avoid a
shutdown.
In the fortnight he has been speaker,
Johnson has managed to take the one
issue that commands overwhelming bi-
partisan support — sending military aid
to Israel — and put it in jeopardy by
attaching it to a partisan attack on the IRS.
Aid to Ukraine, which also commands
broad support, is similarly bottled up.
“I refuse to put people over politics,”
the new speaker wrote in a fundraising
email to supporters this month. Was this
a typo? Or a statement of policy?
RiCky CaRioTi/The WashingTon PosT
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)
who runs the Center for Education Data
and Research at the University of Wash-
ington, and Maia Goodman Young, a PhD
candidate at the university — report a
concerning trend.
Before the pandemic, grades and
scores rose roughly in step. Afterward,
not so much. During covid-19
disruptions, state officials encouraged
For all their flaws, grades
are still the most regular
indicator that parents
and kids get of academic
performance.
more generous grading, and average
marks rose, for example, from B’s to A’s in
all subjects. As restrictions eased,
grades returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Test scores, though, were below
pre-pandemic norms. Did a B pre- and
post-pandemic mean that students had
mastered the same material? Goldhaber
and Goodman Young have their doubts.
In a second study, two school districts
— anonymized to protect students’ priva-
Re
As Republicans held a closed-door
caucus meeting in the House basement
last week to discuss their plans for
avoiding a shutdown, an aide to
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) held a poster
featuring three images of Gru from “Des-
picable Me” (the greatest criminal mind
of the century!) and the message “Collins
for Conference Vice Chair.”
Was he proposing that House Republi-
cans steal the moon with their SR-6
Shrink Ray? It was as well-formed a plan
as anything else they’ve produced. As
part of his campaign for the junior
leadership post (the position Johnson
held before his elevation), Collins also
released a video that seemed to troll his
fellow Republicans. It showed, among
other things: Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.)
showing off his military-grade handguns
and high-capacity magazines during a
House Judiciary Committee hearing;
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) inquiring
about “nonhuman spacecraft” at another
hearing; Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.)
asking a hearing witness, “Do you believe
that we should place a ban on spoons?”;
and Fallon, at still another hearing, say-
ing, “I’m going to get on my unicorn and
ride it to a pool to visit my mermaid that
was financed by a leprechaun.”
“This is my team,” Collins wrote in an
accompanying message. He lost.
O
utside the caucus meeting where
House Republicans were debating
their various options for avoiding a
shutdown, lawmakers coming and going
had no idea what plan their leaders would
settle upon. They offered endless varia-
tions of evasions to reporters in the
hallway: Uh, we’ll find out. . . . Working on
it. . . . We’re looking at all the options. . . .
What? Johnson, for his part, called the
aimless session “a refreshing, construc-
tive family conversation.”
Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) told Polit-
ico that the plan was as “clear as mud.”
Others used the phrases “train wreck,”
“all over the place, like usual” and “I don’t
have an opinion on it because I don’t
understand it.” House Appropriations
Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger
(R-Tex.) assured the outlet that “we’ve got
a plan” to avert a shutdown — “but I can’t
tell you until it’s a real plan.” Ssshhh!
cy — turned over their grades, test scores
and data on chronic absenteeism from
2017 through 2022. This research noted
something odd, too.
By 2022, the schools had many more
students than in 2019 who were both
absent for 18 days or more each year and
scoring below par for their age on state
tests. Yet more of these struggling stu-
dents were earning B averages or better
in their core classes. This investigation
was done by Learning Heroes, EdNaviga-
tor and another nonprofit, the TNTP.
Covid-19 policies varied among states
and school systems. And standardized
tests have well-known limitations. Still,
the divergence between grades and test
scores that these two studies flag is a
warning: Parents and school systems
need some accurate measurement of
student learning.
“If any of us went to the doctor and
had an MRI and it gave a false reading,
we would be up in arms,” TNTP chief
executive Tequilla Brownie told me. “Yet
we’re kind of ambivalent about the fact
as a nation that we’re giving false data to
parents.”
Part of the problem is a mismatch in
how different kinds of education data are
collected and delivered. Parents see chil-
dren’s grades regularly; states can be
slow to analyze trends or might not
release them. By contrast, standardized
the washington post
JaBin BoTsfoRd/The WashingTon PosT
Still in the dark was Maine’s Susan
Collins, the top Republican on the Senate
Appropriations Committee. She told
NBC News’s Frank Thorp on Wednesday
that “I’m getting anxious.” Why? “Be-
cause we don’t have a plan.”
The absence of a plan was the one
commonality running through the vari-
ous activities of the House this past week.
Two major pieces of legislation went
down in flames. House Republicans
couldn’t even get two other spending
bills out of committee because of parti-
san provisions and poison pills. Among
the various riders: provisions dropping
the pay of Mayorkas, Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin and Transportation Secre-
tary Pete Buttigieg to $1 apiece. There
were attempts to cut the salaries of the
White House press secretary and the
Securities and Exchange Commission
chairman to $1 and to defund the office of
Vice President Harris.
The serial failures are the direct result
of GOP leadership’s stubborn insistence
on passing spending bills with Republi-
can votes alone — in contrast to the
Senate, where all 12 appropriations bills
command bipartisan support.
Also in the no-plan category: the House
Republicans’ effort to impeach President
Biden. This past week, they finally got
their chance to grill the prosecutor over-
seeing the Hunter Biden case, David
Weiss. But instead of holding a public
hearing, as the Justice Department of-
fered, they opted for a private deposition.
Apparently, they feared another embar-
rassing spectacle in which they failed to
produce any evidence of wrongdoing by
the president. The fear turned out to be
justified: Weiss, a Trump appointee, told
the lawmakers that he had full decision-
making authority in the case and didn’t
experience any interference.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) acknowl-
edged that the Republican inquisitors
got “almost nothing” from the highly
anticipated session.
Oversight Committee Chairman
James Comer (R-Ky.) was undeterred by
the latest failure to find evidence. Im-
mediately after the Weiss deposition, he
issued subpoenas to Hunter Biden and to
James Biden, the president’s brother.
Comer is getting testy about his empty
test results are published and searchable,
but these snapshots are less frequent.
Making grades meaningful is especial-
ly important now. Many post-pandemic
academic recovery programs require
families to opt in, which too few are
doing. A Brookings Institution survey
found that just about a quarter of parents
are sending a child to summer school or
tutoring or were interested in these. Less
than 40 percent of students getting C’s or
worse were participating.
Missing out on catch-up assistance has
real costs down the line. The City Univer-
sity of New York reported that nearly half
of its freshmen who had been educated
in the city’s public schools needed reme-
dial classes to tackle undergraduate
work in the first semester of the 2022-
2023 school year. At a cost of $210 per
credit, these students were paying for
help they might have gotten free earlier.
On a policy level, gaps in evidence
about kids’ lagging performance might
lead to misguided support for one pro-
gram over another. For instance, priori-
tizing student mental health by adopting
a four-day school week might make sense
if kids are truly achieving at high levels.
If they’re not, less teaching could com-
pound an unfolding educational disaster.
One way to course-correct would be
for principals and superintendents to
explain what grades mean at the start of
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net. Asked by HuffPost’s Arthur Delaney
whether he’d had any luck finding Joe
Biden’s supposed Ukrainian bribe in the
bank records he subpoenaed, the chair-
man shot back: “I could pull gold bars out
of his refrigerator, you would write bad
stuff. You would blame it on Trump.”
Now, now, Mr. Chairman. No one is
asking for gold bars. But can’t you come
up with anything other than dross?
I
t would be unfair to dismiss the
Johnson speakership as entirely un-
successful so far. After all, he has
presided over a golden age of censure. To
recap:
Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) filed a
resolution to censure Tlaib.
Greene filed a resolution to censure
Tlaib.
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) filed a
resolution to censure Bowman.
Greene filed another resolution to
censure Tlaib.
Miller filed a resolution to censure
Tlaib.
McCormick filed a resolution to cen-
sure Tlaib.
In retaliation, Rep. Becca Balint
(D-Vt.) filed a resolution to censure
Greene, and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif )
filed a resolution to censure Rep. Brian
Mast (R-Fla.).
The only one to pass so far is McCor-
mick’s censure of Tlaib — which was a
source of intense jealousy for Greene. She
produced a 13-minute video rant excori-
ating Republican leaders for favoring
McCormick’s censure over her “very
harsh” alternative. “We have a terrorist,
Rashida Tlaib, serving as a member of
Congress,” Greene alleged, mentioning
“Terrorist Tlaib” twice more.
In reality, Tlaib’s main offense had
been to promote the chant “from the
river to the sea, Palestine will be free” —
which she implausibly denied is meant,
as it is widely understood, as a call for the
destruction of the Jewish state. Rep. Ja-
mie Raskin (D-Md.), though leading the
debate against censuring Tlaib, told the
House “the phrase ‘from the river to the
sea’ is abhorrent to me, even with her
published explanation of what she means
by it.”
Tlaib richly deserves reproach. Her
river-to-the-sea belief leaves only two
possibilities for millions of Jews in Israel:
exile or death. She defended herself on
the floor by saying, disingenuously, that
“the idea that criticizing the government
of Israel is antisemitic . . . is being used to
silence diverse voices speaking up for
human rights across our nation.” But her
own words, as I have noted, have gone
beyond criticism of the Israeli govern-
ment into alleging shadowy conspiracy
theories involving Jews globally.
The larger question isn’t whether
Tlaib deserves condemnation, but who
doesn’t. “If we are going to start censur-
ing anybody who says something we
don’t like, all we will do from now on is
censure each other all day,” Rep. Jim
McGovern (D-Mass.) pointed out during
the debate. “My Republican colleagues go
on and on about cancel culture, and here
they are today trying to cancel someone.”
Will they next be censuring Mast for
comparing Palestinian civilians to Nazis
last week? (I later listened to him defend
his “pretty damn good comparison.”) Or
Miller for talking about bombing Gaza
into a parking lot? Or Johnson himself
for supporting sodomy laws?
There have been only 26 censures on
the House floor in U.S. history. At the
current pace of the Johnson speakership,
we could have that many in a year.
Maybe Johnson will step in and tell his
censorious colleagues to cease their cen-
sures. Or maybe he will continue to
refuse to put people over politics.
Trust him? Not after this start.
the school year. If students can’t be
scored below 50 percent on an assign-
ment or in a course, parents should know
that. Schools could also give parents a
benchmark for what their kids bring
home, such as how last year’s ninth-
graders performed in algebra or Euro-
pean history. If schools don’t offer that
sort of data, parents need to ask for it.
And schools shouldn’t feel as though
they have to massage the numbers.
According to Bibb Hubbard, president of
Learning Heroes, surveys show parents
overwhelmingly want “complete, honest,
truthful information” about their child’s
academics, “even if it is bad news.”
It could also help if report cards put
grades in context. Schools could publish
the whole distribution in each course, or
color-code grades to show whether they
place a student in the top, middle or
bottom third of their class. A B-minus in
chemistry might be a warning sign
rather than cause for relief if it means a
child is in the bottom 10 percent of their
class.
Students deserve the truth. It’s not
caring to conceal what a child doesn’t
know until they’re floundering in college
or unable to meet the demands of their
first job. The kindest thing adults can do
is to have tough conversations with kids
about what they are learning — and what
they’re not.
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JorM SANGSorN/GeTTy IMAGeS/ISToCk

Why neurodiversity activists are wrong about a crucial work program

BY A MY S . F . L UTZ debates is motivated by the same commitment: to Consider the core assumption of Employment virtually all the comments to the UCCR favored
help those with autism and severe intellectual and First, a framework developed by the Labor Depart- preserving this model, the commission recommend-

Y
ou can’t miss my son Jonah, 24. He’s the one
spinning while blasting “Sesame Street”
songs from his iPad in the back corner of
Costco. The one popping up from a table at
Five Guys, splashed with so much ketchup he looks
like a murder victim. The one pounding on his head
in agitation, sometimes for obvious reasons (he was
directed to the pink waterslide instead of the blue
one) and sometimes for seemingly no reason at all.
Jonah is incapable of passing through the world
unnoticed — except, somehow, by policymakers and
certain neurodiversity activists who seem intent on
denying that people with his level of disability exist
and require extensive accommodation and care.
Take, for instance, the Labor Department, which
announced in late September that it plans a “com-
prehensive review” of Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor
Standards Act, which allows some vocational pro-
grams to pay some adults — overwhelmingly people
with significant cognitive impairments — a submin-
imum wage based on standardized assessments of
their productivity.
These programs offer job training for intellectual-
ly disabled adults interested in pursuing competi-
tive minimum-wage jobs, as well as long-term
opportunities for those whose impairments pre-
clude conventional employment but who benefit
from the structure, dignity and satisfaction of work.
That, however, is not how critics describe 14(c)
settings, which for years have been targeted by
disability rights activists perpetuating an image of
evil capitalists getting rich off the sweat of impover-
ished, disabled workers. To date, 16 states have
eliminated this subminimum-wage model.
Now, advocates on both sides are wondering
whether the Labor Department’s review represents
the death knell of 14(c).
I want to make clear that I think everyone in these
developmental disabilities live full, meaningful
lives. But as the parent of a profoundly autistic son, I
find the discourse by anti-14(c) activists alarming
because of how little their narratives reflect reality.
These are the facts: Rather than going to for-
profit businesses, 93 percent of 14(c) certificates are
held by nonprofit community rehabilitation pro-
grams. And no participants are expected to live off
the wages they earn. Typically, 14(c) placement is
part of a suite of federal and state benefits —
including Supplemental Security Income, transpor-
tation and residential services — whose costs fre-
quently run into the six figures per year per person.
Most important, 14(c) programs are extraordi-
narily popular with participants and their families.
In 2020, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
(UCCR) considered the future of the subminimum
wage. In doing so, it solicited comments from the
public and received nearly 10,000 — more than it
had for any other issue.
Almost all the comments (98 percent) favored
preserving 14(c) and cited many factors, including
the supportive environment and participants’ pref-
erence for a community of similarly disabled peers
— the chance to work alongside others while
engaged in a variety of tasks, such as shredding
documents, recycling plastic, slipping greeting
cards into envelopes, or sorting and shelving items
in a thrift shop. But the biggest reason, typically
articulated by parents on behalf of adult children
whose impairments make self-advocacy impossible,
was that their kids are simply not capable of
competitive, minimum-wage labor.
That this basic truth has become so controversial
illustrates a deeper problem with much disability
rights advocacy: It is predicated on a sanitized
version of disability in which there is no such thing
as severe cognitive impairment.
ment’s Office of Disability Employment Policy and
adopted by 38 states: “All individuals, including
those individuals with the most significant disabili-
ties, are capable of full participation in Competitive
Integrated Employment.” This sounds lovely and
inclusive, but it ignores the lived experience of
profoundly autistic people and their families.
Critics of an employment program
for those with autism
or developmental disabilities have
a problem. Their narratives
don’t reflect reality.
There is no evidence, for example, that closing
14(c) programs catalyzes significant migration into
competitive minimum-wage employment. The
sparse data available suggest the opposite. A
2012 update from Washington state noted that
despite an investment of $50 million into employ-
ment services for the intellectually and developmen-
tally disabled, only 17 percent of severely affected
adults were able to find jobs. A 2015 George
Washington University analysis of the impact of
closing 14(c) programs in Maine reported that,
post-closure, use of non- employment day services
(what some parents describe as “glorified babysit-
ting”) increased by almost 500 percent.
The Labor Department has promised to solicit
public comment as part of its “comprehensive” 14(c)
review. But that doesn’t mean it will listen. Although
ed its elimination anyway.
It is incumbent on the Labor Department — as it
is on all agencies, bureaucrats and legislators
crafting disability policies — to privilege the
experiences of the profoundly disabled individuals
who are the greatest consumers of disability
services. This is not a small group: The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention recently reported
that almost 27 percent of people with autism
spectrum disorder meet the criteria of “profound
autism” as specified by the 2021 Lancet Commis-
sion — including intellectual disability (IQ below
50), limited language and the need for around-the-
clock supervision.
My son has too many challenging behaviors to
work in a 14(c) program — which suits him fine,
because his idea of a good life includes lots of long
walks, hamburgers and soft pretzels, and an atten-
tive caregiver to sit with him and take dictation of
his “fun lists” (numbered phrases about animals,
people and colors). But I advocate for the program’s
preservation for the same reason I support other
models that would never be appropriate for him: I
believe the range of potential settings should be
constrained only by the limits of our imagination,
not by government regulations trying to shoehorn
every member of an extraordinarily diverse popula-
tion into one option.
To get to that point, we need to have honest
conversations about impairment — not pretend it
away.
Amy S.F. Lutz is a historian of medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania, a founding board member of the National
Council on Severe Autism and the author, most recently, of
“Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and
Intellectually Disabled Were excluded From the Debates
That Affect Them Most.”

leTTers To The ediTor School vaccine mandates save lives ann Telnaes

Panda diplomacy’s biggest lesson
The pandas are gone, having been flown to their
home country on Wednesday. It is hard not to feel a
touch of melancholy about the absence of three of
our favorite D.C. residents. For more than 50 years,
pandas have entertained generations of visitors at
the National Zoo. Tens of millions have stopped to
watch them devour bamboo, climb trees and, if we
are being honest, sleep. Millions more watched
them on the panda cam.
Visitors could not get enough of these black-and-
white furballs, marveling at their capacity for play,
relishing the chance to see them clumsily roll down
a hill on a rare Washington snow day. But these
cute and lovable bears provided something else far
more valuable: a message about how to heal a
divided, threatened world.
Pandas are a vital source of cultural diplomacy —
using the arts, sciences and history to help nations
find common ground with the hopes of building on
our shared humanity to create a more peaceful
world. The pandas were a bridge between the
American people and the Chinese people.
Pandas show that humans can work together to
heal the planet. In 1972, Chinese Premier Zhou
Enlai sent two giant pandas to the American people
as a gesture of goodwill after President Richard
M. Nixon’s groundbreaking state visit.
Collaboration between Chinese colleagues and
the Smithsonian’s animal care staff, scientists and
researchers has been the cornerstone of those
efforts. Working together, these conservationists
made significant contributions to the global
knowledge of giant panda biology, behavior,
reproduction, health and habitat. Through decades
of cooperative conservation work and investment,
the global conservation community has brought
pandas back from the edge of extinction to
“vulnerable” status, a huge win.
If we can save this iconic species, then surely, we
can work together to tackle some of our greatest
challenges, including climate change and
preservation of ecosystems around the world.
Lonnie G. Bunch III, Washington
The writer is secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution.
I read with great interest the Nov. 8 Metro article Her day in court
“Schools vaccine mandate repealed,” about the
repeal of the coronavirus vaccine mandate for
D.C. schoolchildren. Officials said the vaccination
mandate is seen as largely no longer necessary and
was never enforced. The article highlighted the
equity issues involved.
A disproportionate number of Black children
would face being barred from school because of the
lagging vaccination rates among Black students.
This deplorable fact adds to the appalling health-
care disparity between Black and White children.
As a retired D.C. school nurse, I know very well
that school-based vaccination mandates are among
the most successful public health efforts ever
launched.
Thousands of children’s lives have been saved
because diseases such as polio and measles have
been kept at bay. This happened only because of
school-based vaccine mandates.
I also know that vaccination programs have
become a victim of their own success. We think
we don’t need them because we no longer see
the diseases they prevent or we somehow think
these diseases are no longer dangerous. Nothing
could be further from the truth. The coronavirus is
and remains a serious threat. We have effective
measures against this threat now, including
vaccines.
We must be aware of and vigilant about the anti-
vaccine movement that would remove all school-
mandated vaccination.
Adriana van Breda, Alexandria
College football’s glory days
Regarding Jerry Brewer’s Nov. 4 Sports column,
“Sign-stealing mess is the scandal that college
football deserves”: I prefer the “before times” —
when we could pretend that college athletics wasn’t
all about money. The curtain was raised in 2023
with the media rights agreements, “super
conference egotism” and now this latest scandal.
The hubris of it all!
Adam Silbert, New York

Ellen Stofan, Washington  read more letters online: wapo.st/letters

The writer is undersecretary for science and Letters: letters@washpost.com
research at the Smithsonian Institution. op-eds: oped@washpost.com
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They opened the door. The dictators were waiting.

S
ARADA TAING was worried sick.
A U.S. citizen who was born in Cambodia, he
was running from Washington an online, inde-
pendent news broadcast for audiences in Cam-
bodia and around the world. On his weekday Khmer-
language video talk show, which draws between
50,000 and 80,000 viewers, he airs investigative
reports on corruption, money laundering, land grabs,
deforestation, human rights abuses and human traf-
ficking — challenging the authoritarian government.
On June 19, just weeks before a Cambodian elec-
tion, Sarada got two audio messages on Facebook
Messenger from a pro-government social media ce-
lebrity in Cambodia. In the first message, the man
told Sarada he “would chop my head off if I entered
Cambodia.” In the second, the man
EdiTOrial asserted that he had friends outside
Cambodia and “they also don’t like
you.” The threat was repeated in a Facebook Live
conversation the celebrity hosted from Cambodia on
June 22, during which the man said he would not
hesitate to kill Sarada.
With a history as a human rights investigator in
Cambodia and years of journalism experience with
Cambodian radio, Voice of America and Radio Free
Asia, Sarada was accustomed to confronting hostility,
but now he felt directly threatened. He has a young
son, and his wife’s elderly parents live with the family.
He replaced the locks on his doors, added a digital
security code and installed video surveillance. Then
he wrote an email to the FBI and the State Depart-
ment. “I fear for my life and the life of those close to me
due to my work as a journalist,” he wrote. “I am so
scared.” Two FBI special agents interviewed him and
checked back later, saying they are pursuing the case.
He is not alone. Around the world, dictators are
dispatching assassins, kidnappers, secret police and
private investigators to abduct, harass, intimidate and
harm dissidents, journalists, academics and others far
beyond their borders. Transnational repression, as it is
called, is spreading faster than democracies can cope greg Kahn for the washington post

with it. As Freedom House noted in a landmark study
21/2 years ago, dictatorships struck back at activists and
journalists who were using the internet to campaign
for human rights from afar. The authoritarian regimes
learned to respond in the same way, through spyware
and online harassment, and have taken their cam-
paigns a major step further, with surveillance, threats,
disruption, kidnapping and violence.
Freedom House has built a database of incidents
over the past nine years involving direct physical
repression. The list had 608 cases when unveiled in
February 2021 and now contains 854 incidents by 38
perpetrators in 91 countries. The top 10 perpetrators
in the database are China (253), Turkey (132), Tajiki-
stan (64), Russia (46), Egypt (45), Turkmenistan (36),
Uzbekistan (36), Belarus (30), Iran (23) and Rwanda
(18). A report by Human Rights Watch recently
documented cases of killings, kidnappings, attempt-
ed kidnappings, forced disappearances and physical
attacks targeting Rwandans living abroad. But the
Government Accountability Office concluded in re-
port last month that U.S. law “does not specifically
criminalize or define” transnational repression and
that a “lack of common understanding” about the
threat, especially among state and local law enforce-
ment, has hampered the response.
This editorial is part of a series, Annals of Autocra-
cy, examining how authoritarian regimes around the
world work. Transnational repression is one of their
tools. It targets people who have done nothing more
than exercise their rights to free expression, associa-
tion or belief — people who are struggling for democ-
racy and basic human liberties. In many cases, they
were forced to flee their homeland.
They are pursued by dictators without borders.
‘Totally get rid of him’
China is the world’s primary perpetrator of trans-
national repression. It has long targeted groups such
as Falun Gong believers; Tibetans and Uyghurs; and,
more recently, Hong Kong democracy activists.
Prominent and outspoken dissidents and critics have
been kidnapped from abroad and brought to the
mainland for secret trials and long prison sentences.
But Beijing’s methods are growing more brazen:
China has been setting up outposts in other countries
to hunt for dissidents and using cutouts, or third
parties, to mask the secret role of China’s security
services.
These new trends are evident in a series of 16
criminal complaints involving Chinese transnational
repression that the Justice Department has filed since
March 2022. For example, in that month, the Justice
Department charged two men, Fan “Frank” Liu and
Qiang “Jason” Sun, and a former Florida corrections
officer and bodyguard, Matthew Ziburis, with plot-
ting to harass and ruin a Chinese dissident artist in
California. What made the plot unusual: Mr. Sun, a
tech company official, allegedly ran the operation
from Hong Kong, acting on behalf of the Chinese
government, while Mr. Liu allegedly pursued dissi-
dents from within the United States and hired the
bodyguard to go after the artist. Although the court
filings don’t identify him, the target of the operation
was sculptor Chen Weiming, who had created a
satirical bust of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s head as a
giant coronavirus particle. Titled “CCP Virus,” it was
unveiled in Yermo, Calif., on June 4, 2021.
The court filings describe an elaborate plot to
discredit the artist and ultimately to destroy his
works on U.S. soil. The plan was “to totally get rid of
him,” Mr. Liu reportedly wrote.
At one point, according to the court filing, the
China handler asked the bodyguard to “destroy all
sculptures and things that are not good to our lead-
ers.” In 2021, soon after it was unveiled, the “CCP
Virus” sculpture was burned to the ground. Its secu-
rity cameras had been disconnected.
Mr. Chen, the artist, knew full well who had come
after him. “Something like this is not a personal
action but a Chinese Government action against us
and the American system of free speech,” he said after
the fire. He rebuilt the sculpture, this time in steel.
The Justice Department has brought charges against
the alleged Chinese plotters and two others accused
of helping them; the case is pending.
Sarada Taing, creator of the video talk show “The Cambodia Daily,” at his home in D.C. on Sept. 13.
an increase, including several high-profile cases
brought by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
But the law is essentially a registration and disclo-
sure statute — it does not address the underlying
misbehavior. Justice Department officials say they
are fighting transnational repression with the tools
they have. According to the GAO, these include laws
prohibiting money laundering or murder-for-hire,
tactics often used by perpetrators. The U.S. govern-
ment can also use sanctions and visa bans such as
those imposed after the assassination of Post contrib-
uting columnist Jamal Khashoggi. By exposing the
plots, prosecutors hope to deter others and signal to
despots that the United States won’t tolerate their
dirty methods here.
Stronger tools are needed. Freedom House pub-
lished a detailed set of policy recommendations that
include putting transnational repression in the an-
nual State Department human rights reports and
calling attention to it in travel advisories.
FARA should be revised to give law enforcement a
stronger tool to identify and stop those who are
frederic J. Brown/afp/getty images secretly doing the bidding of overseas autocrats. The
Chen Weiming poses beside his sculpture “CCP Virus” in Yermo, Calif., in June 2021. U.S. government should take steps to raise awareness
of transnational repression among officials in law
Federal prosecutors also revealed the existence in dent journalist and women’s rights activist Masih enforcement and intelligence and those who work
New York of what they called an “illegal police Alinejad, a U.S. citizen born in Iran who has contrib- with refugees and asylum seekers, so they can better
station,” an outpost for transnational repression op- uted to Voice of America’s Persian service and written spot it and report it. Several bills have been intro-
erated by the Chinese government in Lower Manhat- for The Post. According to court filings, they re- duced in Congress that would take steps to codify
tan. The station had the ostensible function of allow- searched travel routes from her residence in Brooklyn transnational repression as a crime, such as the
ing overseas Chinese to renew their driver’s licenses, to the waterfront, where she could be spirited away in Transnational Repression Policy Act, which calls for
but it also had a back-office mission to track down a speedboat to Venezuela and eventually back to Iran. updating U.S. laws to criminalize “the gathering of
dissidents. The Justice Department has charged two Eighteen months later, the Justice Department an- information about private individuals in diaspora
New York men with conspiring to act as unregistered nounced it had uncovered another Iranian plot to and exile communities on behalf of a foreign power
agents of the Chinese government in setting up the assassinate her, this one involving an Eastern Euro- that is intending to harass, intimidate, or harm an
station. pean criminal gang, one of whose members drove by individual in order to prevent their exercise of inter-
China has established such stations all over the her house with an AK-47-style assault rifle and 66 nationally recognized human rights.” The GAO has
world. They are supposedly citizen “service centers” rounds of ammunition. also suggested pressuring perpetrators that benefit
but have a more sinister purpose, set up with the In going after critics, authoritarian regimes often from U.S. arms exports by using a provision of the
United Front Work Department, the Communist help one another. In 70 percent of the transnational Arms Export Control Act of 1976 barring arms sales to
Party agency that seeks to co-opt ethnic Chinese repression cases documented last year, both the countries engaged in a pattern of intimidation or
individuals and communities living outside China. perpetrator and host countries were rated “not free” harassment directed at individuals in the United
The human rights group Safeguard Defenders has by Freedom House. For example, Turkey, ruled by States. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among the top 25
published three reports revealing how the network autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, increas- arms-transfer recipients.
was created. At first, China was seeking to nab ingly has acted as an agent of other repressive states, Any new enforcement effort must safeguard rights
criminals and fugitives abroad. Then China’s security such as China, in seeking to capture ethnic Uyghurs and be careful not to stoke more fear or xenophobia.
services launched international long-arm policing who fled in fear of being incarcerated in concentra- Giving victims a reliable portal to report abuse can
operations known as “Fox Hunt” and “Sky Net,” tion camps. make a difference.
supposedly aimed at fugitives involved in corruption, For years, Mr. Erdogan has attempted in vain to All democracies and open societies must be vigi-
who were coerced to return. Sometimes the targets extradite Fethullah Gulen, a cleric living in exile in lant about repressive regimes that abuse the Interna-
were harassed and kidnapped by Pennsylvania, who had built a net- tional Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to
agents abroad. annals of autocracy work of schools and social services force the arrest and return of dissidents or political
This was followed by the crea- in Turkey. Mr. Erdogan has accused opponents who have sought refuge in other coun-
tion in the past few years of the read the previous installment him of masterminding a 2016 coup tries. In 2016 and 2017, the organization adopted
“police stations,” known as “110 in this series: “in wuhan, doctors attempt, which Mr. Gulen denies. reforms to provide an extra layer of legal review to
Overseas” after the Chinese version knew the truth. they were told Unable to seize him, Turkish intelli- avoid the wrongful use of “red notices” and diffusions
of 911. They were established by to keep quiet.” gence agents grabbed his nephew, — notifications sent between countries that law
Chinese provincial police bureaus Selahaddin Gulen, a teacher living enforcement authorities seek the arrest of a specific
— in Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu wapo.st/wuhan-doctors in Kenya, and spirited him back to person — for politically motivated arrests. A State
provinces — usually without telling Turkey. He is serving a three-year- Department and Justice Department joint report to
the host government. Safeguard Defenders has found and-four-month sentence on charges of belonging to a Congress in August 2022 found that progress has
there are now at least 102 police stations in 53 terrorist organization. Turkey labeled the entire Gulen been made but abuses “still occur.” Repressive re-
countries. organization as “terrorist” and has spent years abduct- gimes disguise their requests as based on ordinary
These police stations are the scaffolding of China’s ing its members. In a 2021 report, Freedom House crimes so that Interpol won’t detect they are political-
dictatorship without borders. identified 58 people taken from 17 countries by Turkey ly motivated.
The Chinese government is not alone in transna- since 2014 — and said that was likely an undercount. Dictators also misuse the labels “terrorist” or “ex-
tional repression, but its “level of aggressiveness is tremist” to define their foes. Russia and China do this
unique,” Alan E. Kohler Jr., then-assistant director at What to do about transnational repression frequently. Freedom House found in 2021 that in 58
the FBI, said in a news conference announcing the Many of the China cases brought by federal pros- percent of the cases in its database, states used the
criminal complaints in 2022. “We have dozens of ecutors allege violation of the Foreign Agents Regis- “terrorist” label to go after their enemies.
transnational repression cases,” he added. “However, tration Act (FARA), which requires representatives of Why do they make such an effort to reach beyond
we believe we should have hundreds.” The FBI has a foreign government to register with the U.S. attor- their borders? Autocrats hold on to power by coer-
created a web portal and “threat intimidation” guides ney general when engaging in a broad range of cion. Any challenge is seen as a threat to be extin-
in dozens of languages to advise potential victims on activity. Most of these cases have not yet reached trial; guished. In Russia and China within the past year,
what to do. But many are too fearful and mistrustful the accused face other charges, including obstruction citizens have been arrested for holding up a blank
to report threats. of justice and money laundering. piece of paper in protest. The autocrats don’t practice
China has frequently threatened the families of By itself, FARA is an imperfect tool for fighting democracy or the rule of law. They don’t build civil
those individuals it targets overseas, saying it will transnational repression. It was enacted in 1938 to society in their own countries, and they don’t respect
arrest and detain relatives back home unless a victim combat Nazi and communist propaganda. Generally, it in others. “In effect,” Freedom House found in its
cooperates. Using the families in this way — essential- a person who “willfully” violates the act may face up to 2021 report, “states can now threaten, kidnap or
ly holding them hostage — has proved a potent five years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine, but murder exiles with little fear of punishment.”
weapon. The victims often give in. enforcement lagged for many years. Between 1966 The United States cannot and should not tolerate
Iran’s intelligence agencies have repeatedly and 2015, the Justice Department brought only seven the long arm of these dictators wreaking havoc on our
schemed to kidnap or assassinate prominent dissi- criminal FARA cases. In recent years, there has been soil.

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katHLeen Parker
At GOP debate,
Haley’s comet
shone the
brightest
N T
ikki Haley was not especially
kind to the babbling badger
Vivek Ramaswamy — who, if no
one has thought of this yet, would
make an excellent comic-book villain —
when she called him “scum.”
But Ramaswamy earned the appella-
tion with unsettling ease.
Moderator Hugh Hewitt had asked him
how he could justify banning TikTok in the
United States, as he has vowed to do as
president, when he himself uses the plat-
form. Rather than answer, the youngest
candidate swiveled toward Haley and
screamed that Haley’s own daughter had
used TikTok “for a long time.”
Okay, maybe it just felt like a scream.
Haley fired back in the politest way possi-
ble: “Leave my daughter out of your voice!”
Allow me to translate. “Voice” came out
of her mouth before she could stop it. What
she was really saying was: If your filthy
mouth ever mentions my daughter again,
a cow’s tongue in a Tiffany box will be
delivered to your door. That will be a
warning. (Please see Carrie Fisher.)
Then Haley really did say, “You’re just
scum.”
The audience, which had begun loudly
booing, apparently agreed. Is Ramaswamy
just insane? This is a serious question. At
best, his opposition research staff needs to
grow up. The worst they could come up
with about Haley was that her daughter,
like millions of other daughters around
the world, once joined TikTok. Weak,
cheap, immature — the list of derogatory
adjectives could fill the rest of this column.
But Ramaswamy was just getting
warmed up. Something tells me he’s al-
ways getting warmed up. The man seemed
possessed, his fire-breathing assault on
Haley bordering on something like hatred.
When she was given an opportunity to
respond to his personal attack, Haley
bridged to China, driving this very strange
candidate to utter distraction. Haley can’t
talk tough on China, Ramaswamy seethed,
because she once referred to our greatest
enemy as a “great friend.”
Haley’s overture apparently was made
during her tenure as U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations. She was recogniz-
ing China and Russia’s cooperation in
negotiating with her to create “the largest
set of sanctions against North Korea in a
generation,” which, she said, led to the
rogue nation’s cessation of ballistic-
missile testing.
Sometimes one’s enemy is one’s friend.
Sometimes not. But all things geopolitical
are subject to change, which even Ramas-
wamy ought to know. In another zinger,
Haley fired back: “You would never have
been able to get that negotiation done.” I
feel safe in saying that no one in the
audience doubted it.
Talk about exhausting. Can you imagine
having an everyday marital disagreement
with Ramaswamy? If he didn’t pound you
to death with his high-velocity verbiage,
you’d play dead to shut him up.
I’ll refrain from further mention of
tongues, unless, obviously, Sen. Tim Scott
(S.C.) succumbs to glossolalia, which is
always possible when he has the floor.
Scott was at his evangelical best during the
debate when he signaled to Iowa voters
that he and Jesus are tight. This is the Tim
Scott we know and love — an unapologetic
Christian who often acknowledges God
and Jesus for grace in his life. Not that
there’s anything wrong with that. But it
does seem, given the war between Gaza
and Israel and the rise of antisemitism
here at home, that now might be a good
time to hit the pause button on America as
a Christian nation.
Honorable mention goes to Chris Chris-
tie, who should begin thinking about
which Cabinet seat he wants. Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis delivered his best debate
performance thus far. He seemed less a
deer in the headlights and more confident,
especially when telling Israel to “finish the
job.” He’s still in second place among GOP
voters, waaaaay behind Donald Trump
nationally (14.4 percent to 58.5 percent,
according to RealClearPolitics), but Haley
is closing in at 9.0. Scott barely registers.
In a general election, however, it’s a tie
among Trump (45.6), Biden (45.1) and
Haley (45.5). Come on, Republicans. De-
bate-wise, Haley outdid the competition —
again.
On foreign policy, she’s plainly the
strongest Republican candidate. In an-
other swipe at Ramaswamy — do I sense a
drinking game in the making? — she said
of his foreign policy bona fides: “I’m telling
you Putin and President Xi are salivating
at the thought that someone like that
could become president.”
On the key Democratic issue, abortion,
she managed to thread a microscopic nee-
dle. Though pro-life, Haley said she doesn’t
want to judge pro-choice women or be
judged for her position. She urged letting
states determine their own destinies while
the country works toward consensus.
Once again, she reminded voters that a
federal ban on abortion is impossible — for
now.
“Consensus” is a word we don’t often
hear these days. On abortion, consensus is
probably a pipe dream — for now. But the
sentiment is a welcome shift from some of
the hardened, draconian positions that
have surfaced since Roe v. Wade was over-
turned. My bet is women are hearing her
loud and clear.
Men, well, you know how they are. A
woman’s voice, if they can hear it, drives
some of them crazy.
Just ask Vivek Ramaswamy.
Former prime minister Donald Tusk, Poland’s presumptive next leader, in Warsaw last month.
Lee Hockstader
Donald Tusk’s task is to pick
Poland’s authoritarian lockbox
WARSAW
“M
iracle.” That’s the word
you hear repeatedly
when urban, educated
Poles — meaning Poles
committed to mainstream European
ideas of democracy, tolerance and
pluralism — describe their country’s
elections last month. They feel an
emotion beyond joy or relief at having
defeated a populist government that
subverted the rule of law, traded in
aggrieved nationalism and flirted
with antisemitism over eight years in
office.
They feel a sense of deliverance.
“The election,” Adam Szlapka, a
lawmaker from the victorious Civic
Coalition, told me, “was a victory over
fear.”
No other major country lately has
managed to slip the yoke of an author-
itarian regime that spent years build-
ing a matrix of dubious laws, bogus
institutions and extraconstitutional
procedures, all designed to create an
un-pickable lock on power. The ruling
right-wing Law and Justice party cap-
tured huge state-owned companies,
state-controlled media, courts, pros-
ecutors, security services, even the
central bank. Yet in a result few pre-
dicted, a jaw-dropping three-quarters
of Poles turned up at the polls and a
convincing majority tore down what
looked like the party’s indestructible
monolith.
Poland, a linchpin in the West’s
struggle to help Ukraine survive
Vladimir Putin’s onslaught, can now
shed its pariah status in the European
Union and regain its rightful spot at
the heart of the continent.
Yet Poles are also at a dangerous
juncture. The new government, set to
take over next month, will struggle to
resurrect the rule of law and seek
justice for Law and Justice’s abuses
in a way that does not resemble
retribution.
In my interviews in Warsaw, I
heard chilling examples of Law and
Justice’s pernicious excesses, in addi-
aLexandra Petri
Joe Manchin is leaving the Senate
to unite the country (behind Donald Trump)
I got an early draft of Joe Manchin’s
retirement announcement and annotated
it for you!
G
reat News (for Republicans)!
I, Joe Manchin, am leaving the
Senate (to Mitch McConnell) to go
and unite the country (behind
Donald Trump)! I have searched my soul
(but found no shame), and this is what I
must do (to uproot my legacy and leave
Washington worse than I found it).
People from both sides of the aisle are
crying out for Joe Manchin (to stop). I am
the No. 1 candidate in many people’s
minds (when those people are both men in
suits on a stage In Conversation At A
Washington, D.C., Think Tank) when they
ask the question: Who can bring the
country (club) together?
This is what the American people at
large (if “large” is the name of an obscure
coal-based lobbying group) have been
clamoring for. I must give the people what
they want (to avoid).
What I will be doing is traveling the
country and speaking out to see whether
there is an interest in creating a move-
ment to mobilize the middle and bring
Americans together (to elect Donald
Trump to a second nonconsecutive term).
Because I believe it’s time for bipartisan,
common-sense solutions and to gather
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tion to its methodical takeover of state
institutions whose independence is
critical to democratic societies.
Prominent opposition figures and
their families were viciously targeted
in the pervasive government-con-
trolled media, sometimes on account
of their teenage children’s troubles
and transgressions. Judges were slan-
dered, denied promotions to higher
courts or suspended for not toeing the
governing party’s line. Independent-
minded businessmen were jailed on
trumped-up charges meant to bring
them to heel.
Even more pernicious was the gov-
ernment’s installation of military-
grade spyware on phones of promi-
nent government critics whose infor-
mation was weaponized to smear
them publicly.
As in Poland’s dark communist
past, party loyalty was the only assur-
ance of avoiding trouble that could
threaten your promotion, your apart-
ment, your career — or your dignity.
No wonder many opposition lead-
ers insist on justice. That means not
only parliamentary investigative
commissions — those will sprout like
mushrooms in a Silesian forest — but
also trials and convictions for the
worst offenders. More broadly, the
new government will seek new mech-
anisms to ensure state entities can
never again be used as repressive
tools by a governing party.
“People demand justice,” Radek
Sikorski, a former foreign minister
and prominent opposition figure, told
me. “This is the No. 1 issue.”
The trick is to seek accountability
that doesn’t look like payback, and to
reform corrupted institutions in a
way that isn’t the mirror image of Law
and Justice’s authoritarian power
grabs.
The man likely tasked with striking
that balance is Donald Tusk, the for-
mer prime minister who returned to
Polish politics in 2021, reenergized
the dejected opposition and spear-
headed its stunning electoral victory.
around our shared values of family, free-
dom, democracy and dignity. (I am threat-
ening to embark on a quixotic third-party
campaign for president that will almost
certainly toss our nation into the arms of a
would-be despot whose plans for his sec-
ond term are looking more autocratic by
the minute!) Don’t everyone thank me at
once.
I would love to stay in the Senate (where
my vote matters), but instead I must go
(on a fool’s errand that will benefit no
one). Specifically, I must go around and
listen very, very closely to see whether I
can hear an overwhelming groundswell of
popular support getting ready to surge for
me. I will hear it any minute now, I think.
That is what I must urgently do, and I have
to leave the Senate to do it. I can’t hear
anyone clamoring for me from the Senate,
but maybe if I got out somewhere quieter,
I might hear something. Currently, the
clamor is drowned out by the voices of
people saying, “Joe Manchin, don’t do
this! Joe Manchin, think of the cost! What
do you want your legacy to be?” and Mitch
McConnell cackling and things of that
nature.
I know what you will say: I am needed
in the Senate. But I have been in the Senate
since 2010 (apparently not paying atten-
tion to what has been going on there!).
Please don’t annotate these remarks!
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Yet as he prepares to regain his old
job, he will face the task of cutting a
gargantuan web of Gordian knots,
methodically woven by Law and Jus-
tice to seal its hold on state institu-
tions.
The obstacles start with the na-
tion’s judiciary, packed by Law and
Justice with roughly 1,700 new judges,
nearly 20 percent of the total, whose
common qualification is party loyalty.
They constitute a blocking force on
the Supreme Court and other top
tribunals, and they owe their jobs to
an appointment process unconstitu-
tionally hijacked by the party. Remov-
ing them, as some in the incoming
government favor, could invalidate
their past rulings; that could create
judicial chaos.
Similarly, the governing party re-
purposed state-owned media as a
gusher of insidious propaganda and
used Poland’s dominant state-owned
companies to improve its electoral
odds. Even as gas prices rose else-
where in Europe this year, they plum-
meted ahead of the balloting in Po-
land, courtesy of the state-controlled
oil giant run by a Law and Justice ally.
In many cases, prying loose the
party’s tentacles will require new laws
or finding loopholes in ones devised
by Law and Justice. But almost any
legislation can be vetoed by President
Andrzej Duda, a former Law and
Justice stalwart who rarely breaks
ranks with the party. Duda, whose
term extends until August 2025, can
impede much of the new govern-
ment’s reform agenda.
“The problem is that they’re com-
ing to power, but they will not have
power,” Piotr Buras, of the European
Council on Foreign Relations, told
me.
Tusk’s task is to rehabilitate the
robust democracy that was once the
key to Poland’s shining reputation as a
post-communist success story, with-
out deepening divisions in an already
polarized nation. If he can pull it off,
that would be the real Polish miracle.
My candidacy would make sense. Ev-
eryone who has worked hard to support
me says, “The next president should cer-
tainly be Joe!” Then they say another word
after that, but I am not listening. I assume
it’s my last name! “Please don’t do any-
thing to mess that up! Democracy is in a
precarious place right now!” they add, and
I give them a big thumbs-up. I would never
dream of it.
They also say, “Without your vote in the
Senate, how will we hope to confirm, say,
an ambassador or a justice?” Fear not:
There won’t be any obstacles to a justice in
my place. Indeed, Justice is the name of
my probable successor. He’s a Republican,
not that that’s important.
I know this might hit some of you hard.
You might say, “What a time to hand the
Senate to Mitch McConnell!” But, to you, I
say, “I have achieved everything I sought
to achieve” (for coal! Yay, coal!). I have also
achieved some things I didn’t think I
would get to achieve, like getting Ted Cruz
and Tom Harkin to attend a gathering on
my boat, Almost Heaven!
Some may say, “Joe Manchin, what
about your legacy?” To them, I say, the
world will soon be boiling and no trace of
human habitation will remain on its sur-
face; what benefits me a legacy then?
This is what America deserves! (Prob-
ably.)
a27
george F. WiLL
The fossil fuel
era isn’t done
yet, not by
a long shot
he International Energy
Agency has its opinion. Dar-
ren Woods has his. If you are
the betting sort, wager on
Woods. He just wagered $59.5 billion.
The IEA, which thinks consump-
tion of petroleum will peak and begin
to decline by 2030, says the world is at
“the beginning of the end of the fossil
fuel era.” Woods, ExxonMobil’s CEO, is
spending $59.5 billion to buy Pioneer
Natural Resources, whose CEO told
the Financial Times that, including
the natural gas and natural gas liq-
uids with the oil, what ExxonMobil is
buying in the Texas-New Mexico
Permian Basin is “as big as Saudi
Arabia.”
Chevron, America’s second-largest
oil company, also recently placed a big
bet. By buying Hess petroleum com-
pany for $53 billion last month,
Chevron gets Hess’s large North Da-
kota position in Bakken Formation
shale and Hess’s almost one-third of a
major recent oil discovery — the
estimated 11 billion barrels of oil
equivalent crude off Guyana’s coast,
where production is expected to rise
from today’s 400,000 barrels a day to
1.2 million by 2027. Chevron CEO
Mike Wirth: “We live in the real world,
and have to allocate capital to meet
real-world demands.”
Voters are demanding less green
bossiness. Sweden’s government has
cut fossil fuel taxes several times in
the past 12 months, taxes that have
fueled populism. British Prime Minis-
ter Rishi Sunak, with a general elec-
tion impending, has announced a
five-year delay, until 2035, on banning
the sale of internal-combustion cars.
Germany, with the right-wing popu-
list Alternative for Germany party
gaining strength while denouncing
“green fascism,” has said green home-
heating rules will be delayed. Last
month, General Motors, bowing to
obdurate consumers, announced that
its target of building 400,000 electric
vehicles (current average price for
EVs: $53,000) by mid-2024 must wait.
Ford has moved its EV production
target out a year.
But before climate scolds despair,
they should consider what Peter
Huntsman recently told the Wall
Street Journal. The CEO of Huntsman
Corp., which has annual revenue of
about $8 billion from turning hydro-
carbons into products, says the fol-
lowing: In 1970, global cooling was
supposedly going to disrupt agricul-
ture and other things, the ozone was
going to disappear, and acid rain was
going to deforest New England. To-
day, the real U.S. GDP is four times
larger than in 1970, but Americans’
activities are emitting about the same
number of metric tons of carbon
dioxide, even while using much more
electricity, and driving and flying
many more miles. Why? Better tech-
nologies and processes; we learn and
adapt.
The California Air Resources
Board, a slow learner, this year an-
nounced a goal of reducing Califor-
nians’ vehicle miles traveled (VMT)
25 percent by 2030 and 30 percent by
2045. The Breakthrough Institute’s
Jennifer Hernandez, writing in City
Journal, notes that VMT rose 15 per-
cent between 2009 and 2019. CARB’s
2045 goal would require cutting VMT
about 2.5 times what the pandemic
lockdowns and unemployment did.
The pandemic was paradise for green
obsessives.
CARB wants to double by 2030 the
capacity of public transit, which the
public dislikes: Use of it in California
has declined 32 percent since 2005,
and in 2019, it accounted for just
2.2 percent of commuting trips. Un-
daunted, CARB proposes vast social
engineering: land-use restrictions to
compel high-density communities.
And making roads inconvenient by
multiplying bike, scooter and bus
lanes. Meanwhile, Southern Califor-
nia officials sensitive to public prefer-
ences are spending $413 million on
16 miles of toll roads to reduce delays.
Hernandez says “this minute addition
to the thousands of miles of existing
freeways” is actually projected by the
state to “induce” more than 100 mil-
lion additional VMT annually.
Because radical revisions of public
preferences and behaviors are unlike-
ly, VMT hawks and other climate
warriors must hope for oil scarcity. In
1914, the Bureau of Mines said U.S. oil
reserves would be exhausted by 1924.
In 1939, the year a global war powered
by petroleum began, the Interior De-
partment said the world had only
13 years of reserves. The postwar
boom was thirsty for oil. And in 1951,
the Interior Department reported
that the world had 13 years of re-
serves. In 1970, there were an estimat-
ed 612 billion barrels of proven re-
serves. By 2006, after an additional
767 billion barrels had been pumped,
proven reserves were 1.2 trillion and
growing. (See above: Guyana.)
Many of the people who say climate
change poses an “existential” threat to
life on Earth also say, “Hands off my
gas stove!” To which statement do you
think most of these people are most
committed?
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n the early summer of 2022, I flew into Lincoln,
neb., picked up my rental car and drove into a Willa
Cather novel. Stretched out before me was an
expanse of farmland alternating with tall, undulat-
Willa Cather’s
ing grass. once in a while, an isolated house would
appear in the distance and a truck would rumble by,
heading in the opposite direction on the two-lane road.
After the prolonged Zoom-box confinement of the
life in letters
pandemic, driving for hours through such an expanse
made me giddy. Here’s how Cather, who lived for decades
in new York City, described returning home to Red
Cloud, neb., in a 1933 letter to fellow writer Dorothy
Canfield Fisher:
“The certainty of countless miles of empty country and
A new biography caps off a year of tributes open sky and wind and night on every side of me. It’s the
happiest feeling I ever have. And when I am most
BY M AUREEN C ORRIGAN enjoying the lovely things the world is full of, it’s then I
am most homesick for just that emptiness and that
untainted air.”
The occasion for my own trip into that glorious space
was the annual Willa Cather Conference, held that year in
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Red Cloud. I gave a talk about Cather’s 1922 novel, “one
of ours” — set, as so many of her novels are, on the
prairie, but extraordinary for its vivid depiction of the
1918 flu pandemic and World War I. ernest Hemingway,
whose contempt was always a reliable marker of how
threatened he felt by the gifts of another writer, quipped
in a letter to critic edmund Wilson that the war had been
“Catherized” and suggested, falsely, that she’d lifted her
battle scenes from D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a nation.”
How peeved Hemingway must have been when “one of
ours” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
And how very exasperated Hemingway would be by
this “Year of Cather” that’s now drawing to a close.
To mark a flurry of Cather anniversaries in 2023 — the
100th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize; the sesquicen-
tennial of her birth near Winchester, Va.; and the
publication centenary of one of her most haunting
novels, “A Lost Lady” (as well as the reprinting of the 1903
poetry collection “April Twilights, and other Poems”) —
celebrations and staged readings of Cather’s work have
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You should know the name
Jonathan Evison because he’s
the author of several
exuberant, thoroughly
Ron
Charles
charming novels, including
“West of Here” and “The
Revised Fundamentals of
Caregiving.” But unfortunately
you’re more likely to have
heard of him because he’s one of the writers
most frequently condemned by book-
banning tyrants gnawing through our public
schools and libraries.
Evison’s “Lawn Boy” was widely praised
when it appeared in 2018. Writing in The
Washington Post, Carol Memmott called it
“an effervescent novel of hope that can
enlighten everyone.” Library Journal
recommended it as “an effective coming-of-
age novel.” And the American Library
Association named “Lawn Boy” one of the
year’s 10 adult books that have “special
appeal to young adults.”
Nonetheless, offended by the novel’s frank
language, protesters soon began collecting
dry sticks. They claimed that “Lawn Boy” was
pornographic and depicted pedophilia. In
2021, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
announced that “Lawn Boy” was the second-
most challenged book in America, and Evison
revealed that he’d been receiving death
threats.
Considering what an ordeal Evison has
endured, I was looking forward to reviewing
his new novel, “Again and Again.” I hoped
that another successful book might provide
some welcome distraction from the snarling
of censorious prigs.
I have good news and bad news: No one
will feel particularly excited to ban “Again
Revisiting American housewives,
and colonial folly, in Vietnam
BY H AMILTON C AIN
O
n the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy delivered a key-
note speech at a crowded breakfast
sponsored by the Fort Worth chamber of
commerce. Before his remarks (and just be-
fore the first lady’s choreographed entrance,
pink pillbox perfectly poised), the luminaries
on the dais were introduced to thunderous
applause, among them Vice President Lyndon
Johnson, Gov. John Connally and leading
figures in the business community, all White
men. As afterthoughts, their wives’ names
were also announced: Each “Mrs.” stood brief-
ly, waving a gloved hand, and then the presi-
dent took his position at the lectern, cracking
a joke about the national obsession with
Jackie Kennedy’s haute couture. The rest, as
they say, is history.
These types of “helpmeets” form the core of
Alice McDermott’s crystalline, searching “Ab-
solution,” an homage to Graham Greene’s
“The Quiet American.” McDermott, a National
Book Award winner for “Charming Billy,”
rewinds the clock 60 years as the charismatic
JFK, troubled by growing U.S. involvement in
Vietnam, was fomenting a plan to withdraw a
cadre of military and corporate advisers,
many cloistered with their families in Saigon
amid villas and servants, swimming pools and
boozy parties. There’s a whiff of colonial folly
in “Absolution”: The French had pulled up
stakes a decade earlier, leaving behind the
corrupt Diem regime and its unofficial first
lady, the ruthless Madame Nhu, who lobbied
to outlaw contraception and cheered on the
self-immolation of Buddhist monks.
Against this backdrop a newlywed couple
from Yonkers, Peter and Tricia Kelly, working-
EZ EE
Reincarnation? Oh no,
here we go again.
and Again.” But, alas, no one will feel
particularly excited to read it either. Despite
the promise of its premise, the high-concept
plot of “Again and Again” never manages to
rise above its lax execution and clashing
intentions.
The story opens with an old man named
Eugene telling us about his lonely existence
as a resident in the Desert Green elder-care
facility. His beloved wife, Gladys, passed away
a few years ago, and now he has nothing left.
“If eleven centuries have taught me
anything,” he says, “it’s how to travel light.”
That’s not your standard shuffleboard
psych-out. Eugene insists that he was first
born in 10th-century Spain and has since
been reincarnated many times, too many
times. “I’m ready to die,” he says. But a new
housekeeper named Angel — symbol alert! —
keeps interrupting Eugene’s pity party.
Desperate for connection, despite his
irritable exterior, Eugene eventually opens
up and begins regaling Angel with memories
of his remarkable lives. Once reticent, he’s
suddenly Scheherazade, trying to keep
himself alive with one cliffhanger after
another.
That’s a promising start. Evison has a big
heart for sad-sack characters, and his former
experience as a personal-care attendant
class yet aspirational, arrive on a year-long
assignment. Armed with a Betty Crocker
cookbook, the naive, gauzy-eyed Tricia trans-
forms into a hostess-with-the-mostest, im-
mersing herself in the luncheons and charity
work of her wifely peers while privately
yearning for a baby. She’s embraced by the
gregarious Charlene, another spouse and the
mother of young twins, Rainey (a girl) and
Ransom (a boy), and an infant, Roger. Char-
lene bristles beneath the veneer of domestici-
ty; she dabbles in the pharmaceutical black
market, funding her outreach to the impover-
ished and infirm. She’s a “white savior,” as
Tricia acknowledges.
Charlene’s chief project is the distribution
of toys and sweets; she enlists a talented local
seamstress, Lily (actually Ly) to cut and sew
miniature ao dai dresses for “Saigon Barbies.”
Charlene tucks the dolls into gift baskets and
drops them off at hospitals and orphanages;
Tricia shadows her, deferential, adapting to
her friend’s mercurial moods, a good cop.
With her flashing green eyes and lit cigarettes,
Charlene towers over “Absolution,” flirting
with handsome men who cross her path,
plotting her way forward with an iffy moral
compass.
The novel is structured as three letters
exchanged in the present, between the elderly
Tricia and Rainey, now a middle-aged Balti-
more socialite, who has recently run across
Dominic, a grizzled veteran. As a 20-year-old
soldier, Dom helped Charlene in Saigon, vol-
unteering for the odd task or errand. Tricia
narrates most of “Absolution,” filling Rainey in
on her mother’s schemes while also splicing in
her own pre-Vietnam backstory: how she met
Peter on a Manhattan sidewalk, a civil rights
trip to the South with college pal Stella (a
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informs his writing about the special
relationships that can develop with people
whom society has written off. But moving
erratically between several different times
and settings puts enormous pressure on the
quality of these various tales. It’s true that
Angel seems captivated, but his alternative is
scrubbing toilets or sweeping up toenail
clippings; we readers need Eugene’s stories
to be considerably more engaging.
again and For instance, a millennium ago in “Seville,
again or Ishbiliyah as it was then known, during
By Jonathan the golden age of Abd al-Rahman III in al-
Evison Andalus,” young Eugene is a poor orphan
Dutton. prowling the streets looking for easy targets.
318 pp. $28 One day at the market, he steals a purse from
a powerful Moor and runs as fast as he can.
Seeing he’s about to be apprehended, a
beautiful woman named Gaya hides him.
When they’re both captured, they fall in love
and scheme to escape while serving the
rebellion against the Moors.
Unfortunately, this story is not told with
either the specificity of lived experience or
the intensity of great melodrama.
That problem feels even more acute when
Eugene describes his life as Whiskers, Oscar
Wilde’s cat. There’s only one reason anyone
should bother listening to Oscar Wilde’s cat,
and that’s to hear witty and scandalous
absolution
By alice
McDermott
Farrar, Straus
and Giroux.
336 pp. $28
BEowulF SHEEHaN
prototype for Charlene), a stopover in Char-
lottesville that altered the trajectory of her
life. Rebellions, both loud and silent.
McDermott spins gold from sensuous de-
tails. “Most days, I would bathe in the morning
and then stay in my housecoat until lunch,
reading, writing letters home — those fragile,
pale blue airmail letters with their complex
folds,” Tricia recalls. “I’d do my nails, compose
the charming bread-and-butter notes we were
always exchanging — wedding stationery with
my still-new initials, real ink, and cunning
turns of phrase, bits of French, exclamation
marks galore. The fan moving overhead and
Alice the heat encroaching even through the slatted
McDermott’s blinds of the shaded room, the spice of
new book is an sandalwood from the joss stick on the dresser.”
homage to If Tricia is romanticizing (fetishizing?) a mo-
“The Quiet ment and place, then the novel is wiser,
American.” interrogating her complicity in the grisly,
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comments by Oscar Wilde. But like an actual
cat, Whiskers doesn’t pay attention to anyone
but himself, and so we’re left with only a few
hairballs about the great playwright.
Other stories — involving Lewis and Clark
and World War II — rotate through Eugene’s
repertoire with even less import. And then,
after suffering through all this, we begin to
suspect that we’re not really in the presence
of a 1,100-year-old man after all. Eugene is
simply chronically lying, a habit he picked up
to compensate for a cruel childhood and an
exceptionally lonely life. The only thing being
reincarnated in the Desert Green elder-care
facility is the Jell-O.
A stronger editorial hand might have
saved “Again and Again” by cutting away the
tall tales with their stale aura of fantasy and
allowing a fuller exploration of the traumas
that produced this gruff but creative man.
Eugene’s actual past and his friendships with
members of the staff are rich subjects.
But even then, the whole story would need
to be given a full-body sponge bath to wash
away the sweat of sentimentality. As written
here, the old man’s insistence that he first fell
in love with one of the women at the nursing
home back in 10th-century Spain vibrates
between corny and creepy. And Eugene’s
affection for Angel finally reaches a
saccharine crescendo that reads like a bake-
off between Mitch Albom and Nicholas
Sparks.
“I only hope,” Eugene says, “that I am not
born again.”
I don’t think you have anything to worry
about, Eugene.
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senseless conflict brewing outside her gated
house.
McDermott sets her most affecting se-
quence in a Catholic leprosarium and subse-
quent trip back to Saigon. Escorted by Dom,
Tricia and Charlene encounter a magnetic
physician who’d emerged from his own mercy
mission in the humid forests. They’re attract-
ed to and repulsed by him as he recounts the
human toll: “He’d believed at first, in the
falling darkness, that he had stumbled on a
kind of jungle slaughterhouse, neatly staged
in a narrow clearing. The stench of rotting
meat, the tangle of bone and flesh, brown
blood caked like mud, blood indistinguishable
from mud. … It was the tatter of clothing that
gave it away, he said. Even before the clarifying
sight of crushed skulls and swollen faces.”
Do-gooders like the sheltered American wom-
en can’t save these victims.
“Absolution’s” pacing slackens in Rainey’s
section — it feels like an interlude from a
different novel — but then McDermott shocks
us with a twist, bringing past and present
together. She probes the intricacies of parent-
ing, its tender pleasures and primal instincts:
Contra Charlene, it’s not all teddy bears and
lemonade.
The Kellys return to the comforts of their
stateside lives just before the overthrow of the
Diem regime and JFK’s assassination (which
occurred only three weeks apart); Charlene
and her family soon follow. Were their con-
sciousnesses raised? Have they stripped off
their noblesse oblige? McDermott doesn’t
offer definitive answers; her themes dwindle
away, like contrails of B-52 bombers. Both
Tricia and Rainey weigh the war’s suffering
from skybox perspectives, finding in them-
selves a lack of empathy when it was sorely
needed. Beautifully conceived and executed,
“Absolution” stares down the assumptions
and loyalties that cage us all.
Hamilton Cain is a book critic and the author of
“This Boy’s Faith: Notes From a Southern Baptist
upbringing.” He lives in Brooklyn.
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A trailblazing reporter
who defied journalistic sexism
BY H ELENE S TAPINKSI
A
round 9 p.m. on many nights in the
early 1960s, an exclusive by the jour-
nalist Maggie Higgins would roll off
the New York Herald Tribune’s
presses, and editors at the New York
Times would call to ask their Washington staff
to match her scoop for the next day’s paper. For
years, Higgins drove her competitors into fits
of jealousy and resentment.
It is neither cliché nor exaggeration to say
that Marguerite “Maggie” Higgins stood on the
front lines of history. Not just American history,
but women’s history. In addition to covering
D.C. and New York, Higgins was a war corre-
spondent who fought the military brass to
allow her — and hence all women — access to
the battlefield. Before Higgins, female corre-
spondents had to hang back while the men got
the scoops. But Higgins changed all that.
In her latest biography, “Fierce Ambition,”
Jennet Conant examines Higgins’s life and
legend, telling us where she came from and
how she found fame, if not fortune. She de-
scribes Higgins’s youth in Hong Kong and
The case for parole in an age of mass incarceration
BY K RISTEN M ARTIN
W
e’ve been living in the age of mass
incarceration for more than half a
century now. In the past decade or so,
works like Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim
Crow” have opened Americans’ eyes to the scale
and ravages of a penal system that dispropor-
tionately punishes Black men. We now under-
stand the major forces that drove the popula-
tion in state and federal prisons to reach a peak
of more than 1.6 million in 2009 (it fell to just
over 1.2 million by 2021), including the tough-
on-crime policies of the 1970s, the war on drugs
of the 1980s and ’90s, and the harsher sentenc-
ing laws that accompanied both.
We focus less on what happens to people
once they are in prison, or how they might
someday leave. One way to freedom is parole,
the term for both the process of assessing an
incarcerated person for conditional release
before the end of their sentence and the state
of being supervised after release. In 2020,
there were more than 860,000 people on
parole — more than four times the number of
people who were in prison in 1973.
As journalist Ben Austen’s “Correction” at-
tests, parole is a process full of its own
inequities and injustices, raising existential
questions about what incarceration is sup-
posed to accomplish and how much punish-
ment and rehabilitation a person must under-
go after committing a crime. Parole is also, as
Austen writes, “central to a correction, to a
change in the country’s values.” His book is a
critical contribution to discussions of how to
reform American criminal justice, illuminat-
ing how we might change the process of giving
people second chances and re-envision the
very purpose of our carceral system.
Austen constructs his investigation around
intimate portraits of Johnnie Veal and Michael
Henderson, two Black men convicted of mur-
der as teenagers in 1970s Illinois. Each was
sentenced to 100 to 199 years with the possibil-
ity of parole. Veal’s imprisonment formed a
footnote in Austen’s first book, “High-Risers:
Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Pub-
lic Housing,” which focused on the infamous
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California, raised by a World War I veteran
father and a demanding French mother. Inher-
iting traits from both parents, Higgins had “the
face of an angel” but earned a reputation as
“something of a hellion.”
Like many great reporters, Higgins was not a
team player. Once, when her class at Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Journalism was
assigned to write on a specific subject, Higgins
went to the campus library and checked out every
journal and book on the topic, infuriating her
fellow students. More maddening was that she’d
often use her good looks and feminine charm to
work her way into a job or a story. Pretending to
be a maid, not once but twice, the blonde, blue-
eyed Higgins gained access to interviews others
could not (to a wealthy tycoon’s wedding and later
to a labor leader’s hotel room).
“There were so many barriers to women
entering what was historically a man’s field, it
was hardly surprising Maggie would resort to
some devious shortcuts,” Tenant writes in a
credible defense. “Since it was not a level
playing field, she saw no reason to play fair.”
There are countless complaints from
scooped reporters, accusing her of stealing a
JoN loWeNSteiN
Author and journalist Ben Austen.
Chicago housing project. Veal was found guilty
as an accomplice to the 1970 murders of two
police officers, a killing that forever changed
Cabrini-Green; he has always maintained his
innocence. Meanwhile, Austen met Hender-
son through the Chicago lawyer Sara Garber,
who represented Veal at parole hearings. Un-
like Veal, Henderson acknowledges his guilt in
the 1971 murder of a White teenager in East St.
Louis. Like Veal, Henderson had been incar-
cerated for more than 40 years and denied
parole several times when Austen met him.
Austen interviewed his two main subjects
more than 100 times. His extraordinary access
allows him to present them in their full
humanity — a vital factor in a book that argues
that violent criminals, who make up the ma-
jority of the incarcerated and have been left
out of recent prison reforms, deserve more
thorough consideration for release.
“Correction” traces the rise and fall of
army SigNal corpS/NatioNal archiveS aNd recordS admiNiStratioN
look at their notes, stealing their stories out-
right or sleeping around to get access to her
subjects. Higgins liked to have sex, Conant tells
us, which was taboo for any woman in 1940s
and ’50s America. “Men were congratulated for
their office conquests, but women always
wound up being judged for them,” she writes.
Her hard work always paid off, to the conster-
nation of colleagues, who would end the day in
the bar while she was still out in the field hustling.
Higgins also had a knack for being in the right
place at the right time, sniffing out the next big
story. But luck was only part of the equation. She
simply worked harder than anyone else.
After landing a series of big scoops, Higgins
convinced her bosses to send her to Europe in
the last days of World War II. At age 24, she
would be one of the first to witness the libera-
tion of both Dachau and Buchenwald, inter-
viewing dozens of emaciated prisoners for
hours, after the other reporters couldn’t handle
it anymore.
After covering the Nuremberg trials and the
Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia and Poland,
she was promoted to the Herald Tribune’s Berlin
bureau chief. But when her bosses learned she
indeterminate sentencing — minimum and
maximum ranges, like those given to Veal and
Henderson — a practice originally adopted in
1870 as a means of acknowledging that a judge
or prosecutor could not predetermine when a
person would be sufficiently reformed. Inde-
terminate sentencing went hand-in-hand
with discretionary parole, designed “to con-
tinually evaluate people in prison, to encour-
age their pro-social behavior,” Austen writes.
By the time Veal and Henderson entered
prison a century later, it was clear that the
promises of indeterminate sentencing and
discretionary parole had failed to materialize.
People in prisons across the country, from
Attica to Folsom, rose up to demand better
conditions, including an end to parole, which
had proved a highly corruptible process. “The
finish line of a sentence could be moved again
and again as a way to discriminate against or
punish racial minorities, political activists,
women, or anyone deemed different or unsa-
vory,” Austen writes. Indeterminate sentences,
meanwhile, had ballooned to “fantastical
ranges” as judges sought to reassert their
power.
In the mid-1970s, states began to abolish
discretionary parole for most crimes; the
federal government did away with the practice
in 1987. Around the same time, the country
established mandatory minimum sentences
for specific crimes. But the criminal legal
system wasn’t responding to the demands of
prison uprisings; lawmakers were motivated
by the political popularity of tough-on-crime
rhetoric and the mistaken idea that ever-
harsher punishments would deter crime.
Since Veal and Henderson were convicted
before Illinois abolished parole, they were still
eligible to be considered for release. Crucially,
Austen connects how changes in the country’s
philosophies toward and narratives of crime
and punishment affect people already serving
time and their odds of being granted a second
chance. One chapter illustrates this with snip-
pets of letters that the Illinois Prisoner Review
Board sent to Henderson over the years ex-
plaining why he had been denied parole.
But despite the fact that Veal and Hender-
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Maggie Higgins, Berlin bureau chief for the
New York Herald Tribune, gets a military
briefing along with other correspondents in
the late 1940s. As a reporter during World
War II, she pressed to gain access to the
battlefield, a first for female journalists.
was having an affair there with a married Ameri-
can military officer and father of four, she was
sent to the Tokyo bureau, at the time a new
backwater. While her colleagues were busy cover-
ing Japan’s economic recovery, though, she saw
trouble brewing in nearby South Korea. Contest-
ed national elections soon developed into the
Korean War, which landed Higgins on the front
lines for the first time.
Her courageous coverage in Korea is ren-
dered in wonderful detail by Conant, from
muddy foxholes to a valley where Higgins was
stuck in the crossfire and administered plasma
to injured troops. When the Navy refused her
entry onto a ship because of a lack of women’s
facilities, she slept on the cold dock night after
night while the male correspondents enjoyed
hot meals and warm beds.
Her Korean War stories would win her a Pulit-
zer — the first awarded to a female foreign corre-
spondent. At a time when women were barred
from the National Press Club and the White
House Correspondents’ Dinner, Higgins was the
subject of a photo-studded feature-length article
in Life magazine and became the most famous
news reporter in America. She would be feted
with awards and attract the attention of televi-
sion executives and Hollywood studios eager to
tell her life story. But those projects never came to
fruition, partly because of Higgins’s objections to
the fictionalized scripts.
She would make enemies with some of the
biggest names in the business: Homer Bigart, her
competitor at the Tribune, hated her and even-
tually admitted, “She made me work like hell.”
The wife of one of her colleagues wrote a thinly
veiled novel about a seductive female correspon-
dent who would do anything for a scoop. “If you
listened to all the stories,” said Life photographer
Carl Mydans, “you could conclude that she slept
with the entire U.S. Army.”
By the early 1960s, Higgins had settled in
Washington and had the inside track to the Ken-
nedy family, writing about the Cuban missile
crisis and finally, Vietnam — her own personal
Waterloo. The Korean War and her experiences in
Europe had made her a staunch enemy of com-
munism. As a result, Higgins would clash with
Vietnam correspondents David Halberstam and
Neil Sheehan, eventual journalism legends who
were just young reporters at the time and whose
clique she referred to condescendingly as the
Rover Boys. Ultimately, as Conant clearly shows,
Higgins’s missteps in covering the Vietnam War
would land her on the wrong side of history. Her
luck had run out, and not only journalistically.
She would die at age 45 from a disease she
contracted while covering the war.
Though Conant’s prose is plain and straight-
forward, her subject is so full of life that it makes
up for any lack of literary flourish. Her painstak-
ing detail would not have been possible without a
woman named Kathleen Kearney Keeshen, who
Fierce spent 12 years in the ’70s and ’80s interviewing
AmbiTion Higgins’s fellow reporters, military officials, hus-
The Life and bands and lovers for her master’s and PhD theses.
Legend of War It’s fortunate that Keeshan — whom Conant
correspondent thanks on both the dedication page and at length
maggie Higgins in the book’s acknowledgments — was not as
By Jennet competitive as Higgins. Because of Conant’s and
conant Keeshan’s collaboration, Higgins’s life is now ren-
W.W. Norton. dered in full, no longer lost to the march of
396 pp. $32.50 male-dominated history.
Helene Stapinski is the author of three memoirs:
“Five-Finger discount: a crooked Family history,”
“Baby plays around: a love affair, With music” and
“murder in matera: a true Story of passion, Family,
and Forgiveness in Southern italy.”
son served time at the same time, Austen
chooses to tell their stories in different direc-
tions. The book begins with Veal’s November
2020 parole hearing; it’s not until a third of the
way through that we turn back to the begin-
ning of his sentence. Austen alternates Veal’s
story with Henderson’s, which he relates
chronologically. Each chapter contextualizes
the men’s experiences against the backdrop of
the larger penal system. The structure makes
for an elliptical and sometimes disorienting
correcTion timeline, returning to key time periods, like
Parole, Prison, the 1970s, again and again.
and the Structural qualms aside, “Correction” pro-
Possibility vides a revelatory lens for examining mass
of change incarceration. As Austen writes, “Parole con-
By Ben austen veys the story of the country in all its fevered
Flatiron. conceptions of safety and punishment.” Espe-
323 pp. $29.99 cially effective at demonstrating this are
scenes of parole hearings, where board mem-
bers — civilians appointed by a state’s gover-
nor — seem forever tempted to retry the
original case. Unless the candidate can coun-
ter the story of the crime with a story of how
they’d transformed since, “the board members
turned back to the original offense, which
never stopped being heinous and forever dis-
respected the law,” Austen writes. The tenden-
cy of parole boards to get hung up on the
crime, which cannot be changed, at the ex-
pense of considering the person who commit-
ted the crime, who can change, mirrors, Aus-
ten says, the system as a whole. By locking up
violent criminals for decades without a clear
rationale for what imprisonment is meant to
do besides enact vengeance, we stay stuck
forever in the past.
“Correction” makes a compelling case that
expanding access to parole — a subjective
means of determining freedom that neverthe-
less offers people in prison “an opportunity to
literally be seen and heard” and for the public
to “contend with their humanity” — can help
us move forward.
Kristen martin is a cultural critic based in
philadelphia. her debut narrative nonfiction book,
“the Sun Won’t come out tomorrow,” is
forthcoming.
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On his deathbed, Anthony
Hecht turned to his beloved
wife, Helen, and said, “I pray I
shall be among the English
poets.” These were, according
to David Yezzi in “Late
Michael Romance: Anthony Hecht —
Dirda A Poet’s Life,” his last words
before drifting into a final
sleep. Whether this dying wish will be
granted only time will tell, but you can
decide for yourself now: Simultaneous with
Yezzi’s critical biography, a new one-volume
edition of Hecht’s “Collected Poems,” edited
by Philip Hoy, has just been published.
Besides the six major collections issued
during the American poet’s lifetime, it also
contains late and uncollected work.
A consummate master of formal verse,
Hecht was equally formal in his public
persona. He dressed in well-cut,
conservative suits, carefully coifed his hair,
spoke with what many regarded as an
English accent and in later life sported a
beard worthy of an Elizabethan cavalier.
Among friends, however, he could unwind,
especially after a martini, and could be quite
funny, as some of his light verse shows. Still,
to judge by passages in his poetry and life
story, Hecht would have called pride his own
particular sin, along with its little cousin,
envy.
Not that Hecht was ever precisely
rivalrous: He profoundly admired the work
of Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Richard
Wilbur, Sylvia Plath, Joseph Brodsky and
Anne Sexton — all of whom he knew and
counted as friends. For him, they formed
contemporary poetry’s A-list. But was he on
it too?
Mostly, Hecht believed he was — and I
certainly would place him there — but he
could be flattened by a negative review. His
polished veneer disguised a lifelong fragility,
sometimes leading to depression, at other
times to self-doubt, anger or writer’s block.
Even in his later years, this recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the
Robert Frost Medal and a half-dozen other
literary honors, as well as numerous
distinguished fellowships and grants,
actively yearned for at least a few more
stamps of approval, notably a MacArthur
“genius” award, which, he once noted,
“many of my juniors, and not a few of my
inferiors have received.”
Hecht’s last collection was starkly titled
“The Darkness and the Light” (2001), but in
Yezzi’s view trauma and darkness dominated
most of the poet’s early life. An unhappy
childhood, experiences of antisemitism, the
horrors of war and the Holocaust, post-
traumatic stress disorder, the anguish of an
unhappy marriage, two much-loved sons he
could seldom see — these are the serious
themes Yezzi rightly favors but perhaps
slightly belabors. While many readers would
place Hecht in the elegant and Waspy poetic
company of Wilbur and Merrill, Yezzi
instead probes the deeply Jewish and
indirectly confessional aspects of his major
works, implicitly situating him with Sexton,
Lowell and Plath.
As a result, “Last Romance” does tend to
downplay Hecht’s wit, light verse and
fondness for the mildly risqué. “The Ghost in
the Martini,” for instance, depicts the
thoughts of a middle-aged poet, harangued
by his younger self, as he seduces a willing
younger woman, while “An Old Malediction”
modernizes one of Horace’s most famous
odes:
What well-heeled knucklehead, straight
from the unisex
Hairstylist and bathed in Russian
Leather,
Dallies with you these late summer
days, Pyrrha,
In your expensive sublet? For whom do
you
Slip into something simple by, say
Gucci? …
Of course, Yezzi supplies all the
biographical facts one expects. Anthony
Hecht was born in 1923 into a well-to-do but
dysfunctional New York Jewish family. His
father proved to be a terrible businessman
The detectives in these new mysteries
include four senior citizens living in an
English retirement community, a Cherokee
archaeologist in rural Oklahoma and a driven
L.A. real estate broker. Despite their
differences, they all share a common trait: a
tenacious desire to see justice done.
‘Glory Be,’ by Danielle Arceneaux
Police have pronounced the death of her
best friend a suicide, but Glory Broussard, an
outspoken Black woman in Lafayette, La.,
isn’t buying it. Sister Amity Gay was a
beloved community organizer and religious
leader with a zest for life, and there was no
sign that she was considering taking her own
life. To Glory, who grew up in the segregated
South, the suicide finding is yet another
example of the police’s lack of interest in
solving crimes involving African Americans.
So Glory, a part-time bookie, starts her own
investigation into who killed her friend and
immediately finds herself targeted by some of
the city’s toughest criminals. With “Glory Be,”
Danielle Arceneaux offers a remarkable
debut novel that blends a character study
with a tightly woven mystery that delves into
dark corners of racism and corruption.
(Pegasus Crime)
‘The Last Devil to Die,’
by Richard Osman
Richard Osman brings his trademark mix
of humor, heartbreak and mystery to a new
emotional level in “The Last Devil to Die,” the
fourth book in the “Thursday Murder Club”
series. This time, the quartet of
septuagenarian sleuths — Elizabeth, Joyce,
Ibrahim and Ron — are investigating the
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who periodically attempted suicide and
ended up working as a salaried employee for
his rich in-laws. Hecht’s mother regarded
her older son as “mediocre” and lavished her
affection on his younger brother, who
suffered from epilepsy and other ills. At the
prestigious Horace Mann School, Hecht’s
grades were, in fact, mediocre, though Tony,
as he was known, found a friend in his
classmate Jack Kerouac. Not having gotten
into Oberlin, Hecht subsequently enrolled at
Bard College and one day announced that he
intended to become a poet. A family friend,
Theodor Geisel — better known as Dr. Seuss
— tried unsuccessfully to dissuade him.
During World War II, Hecht joined the
Army, expecting to perform intelligence
work, but to his chagrin and surprise he
spent the conflict’s last months in Europe as
an infantryman. Yezzi reveals that Hecht
kept secret his immense guilt over being
unable to fire his weapon at the enemy.
Worse than guilt, however, was his horror at
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murder of an old friend, an antiques dealer
named Kuldesh Sharma. As the four amateur
detectives search for a mysterious package
that may have led to his death, they find
themselves menaced by art forgers, drug
dealers and hired killers — not exactly the
usual mix of people in their quiet retirement
community. But the hunt also is a distraction
from the sorrowful situation facing one of the
foursome and deeply affecting them all.
Osman’s brilliant idea of creating a cast of
elderly, clever gumshoes pays off handsomely
in this volume as readers find themselves
wondering whether to laugh or cry. (Pamela
Dorman)
‘Blood Sisters,’ by Vanessa Lillie
Memory and revenge take center stage in
Vanessa Lillie’s gripping “Blood Sisters,”
which shines a light on the alarming number
of missing and murdered Native American
women. The story opens as Bureau of Indian
Affairs archaeologist Syd Walker, a Cherokee
who has made a new life in Rhode Island
with her wife, Mal, returns to her childhood
home in rural Oklahoma after her younger
sister Emma Lou disappears. As kids, Syd
EZ EE
JACK mItCHEll/gEttY ImAgES
ColleCted
Poems
Including late and
Uncollected Work
By Anthony Hecht.
Edited by Philip Hoy.
Knopf.
640 pp. $50
what he saw at the Flossenbürg
concentration camp, where its already
skeletal prisoners were essentially worked to
death in a nearby quarry: For years, he
would awake shrieking from the nightmares.
After the war, Hecht enrolled as a special
student at Kenyon College, absorbing the
lessons and some of the manner of the
courtly poet and critic John Crowe Ransom,
then later finding a champion in Allen Tate.
Hecht’s mature work, however, bears the
deeper impress of T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden.
After his first collection, “A Summoning of
Stones,” was published in 1954, he (too
harshly) judged it apprentice fare and didn’t
bring out another book for 13 years. But
when “The Hard Hours” appeared in 1967, it
won a Pulitzer Prize.
During the 1950s and ’60s, Hecht taught
at various colleges — Bard, Smith, the
University of Rochester — and one day
precipitously married a beautiful model
named Patricia Harris. Unfortunately, Pat
and Emma Lou were the only survivors of a
murderous night in which their best friend,
Luna, and her parents were targeted by
gunmen who then burned down their house.
Syd believes Emma Lou’s disappearance is
somehow related, and despite violent efforts
to stop her investigation, Syd vows to find her
sister. With this immersive tale, Lillie, a
citizen of the Cherokee Nation tribe, also
provides a valuable insider’s look at the
injustices that continue to be part of daily life
for many Native Americans. (Berkley)
‘Mother-Daughter Murder Night,’
by Nina Simon
Lana Rubicon, a driven L.A. real estate
broker, and her adult daughter Beth, a nurse,
have always been at odds with each other.
When Lana receives a cancer diagnosis,
however, she is forced to accept her
daughter’s offer of hospitality and moves to
the small California coastal town where Beth
shares a home with her teenage daughter,
Jack. Things are tense, and Lana is bored and
miserable until Jack, who has a part-time job
guiding kayak tours, discovers a dead body.
Police say it’s murder, and suddenly Jack is a
B5
was sociable and flirtatious, while her
husband was moody, tormented by PTSD
and racked by frequent writer’s block. The
marriage broke down, and Harris soon wed
a wealthy European banker, taking the
couple’s two little boys to live with her
abroad. Hecht would spend years in therapy.
But, as in one of Shakespeare’s late
romances, the middle-aged poet was
unexpectedly granted a second chance,
indeed a second life: In 1971, he happened to
meet again Helen d’Alessandro, one of his
former Smith students, and three months
later they married. As Yezzi stresses, Helen
brought happiness, serenity, a new son and
inspiration to her poet-husband. In 1979,
Hecht produced “The Venetian Vespers,”
which many readers regard as his finest
single volume. In 1982, he began a two-year
term as consultant in poetry at the Library
of Congress, soon afterward accepting an
appointment as a university professor at
Georgetown. In these years, he wrote
masterly if sometimes overly august essays
eventually collected in three volumes, as
well as “The Hidden Law,” a book-length
study of Auden. The elegantly decorated
home he and Helen established on a quiet
corner of Nebraska Avenue soon became a
regular stopover for writers visiting D.C.
Following a slow decline in his later 70s,
Hecht died of cancer at age 81 in 2004.
For all the variety of its contents, Hecht’s
“Collected Poems” repeatedly exhibits his
particular fondness for interior monologues
by imaginary characters, as well as his
regular use of ekphrasis (the description of a
painting), scenes imbued with symbolic
significance (what the French call “paysage
moralisé”), a liking for radical contrasts, and
frequent allusions to the Bible, Shakespeare
and other poets. Often a sensual opening
will lead to an unexpectedly horrific or
heartbreaking finale: “The Deodand,” for
instance, juxtaposes an Orientalist painting
of Parisian ladies pretending to be harem
girls with the dreadful torture imposed on a
French legionnaire captured during a
colonial war in Algeria. In the wrenching
“More Light! More Light!” — perhaps
Hecht’s best-known poem — three
Buchenwald prisoners are psychologically
manipulated in a cruel game that ends in
their even crueler deaths.
Yet no matter how dark or light his theme,
Hecht’s verse always remains musical,
flowing and immensely readable, though
undeniably showy in its diction rather than
plain-spoken. Hecht’s full power can be
experienced only through long quotation,
but his linguistic impudence and bravura
are hinted at in such phrases as “Swooning
lubricities and lassitudes,” clouds like “giant
confections, impossible meringues,” an
overgrown field that reveals “the busy
undergrowth of gross neglect,/ The sadness
of lapses,” and even the capsule portrait of
our congressmen as “spouters of solecistic
filibusters/ Smug, well-heeled heels of the
legislative powers.”
To my good fortune, I got to know Tony
Hecht after I reviewed “The Venetian
Vespers,” and over the years I often received
little notes from him, either gently
correcting or more rarely praising what I’d
written about this poet or that novelist. By
then, he had passed through most of the
shocks and torments related in Yezzi’s
biography, what he once described, in
“Circles,” as “long inventories of miseries
unspoken,/ appointment books of pain,/
attars of love gone rancid,/ the pitcher
broken/ At the fountain.” Though his
intellectual precision could be intimidating,
even then he was, at heart, kind and
generous, especially to several younger
writers whom he devotedly mentored.
When, in 2004, I again wrote about Hecht —
this time for an obituary appreciation — I
called him an “irreplaceable poet.” It’s
almost 20 years later, and he still is.
michael dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
columnist and the author of the memoir “An
Open Book” and of four collections of essays:
“Readings,” “Bound to Please,” “Book by Book”
and “Classics for Pleasure.”
top suspect. The quest to clear her
granddaughter’s name becomes an emotional
lifeline for Lana while also providing a
possible path toward healing between her
and Beth. Simon’s depiction of the difficult
family dynamics is engrossing, but she also
offers a riveting whodunit that will keep
readers guessing to the end. (William
Morrow)
‘A Château Under Siege,’
by Martin Walker
French village policeman Bruno Courrèges
is once again thrust into international
intrigue in Martin Walker’s “A Château Under
Siege.” As this 16th installment of the “Bruno,
Chief of Police” series opens, Bruno is
attending a reenactment of the 1370 Battle of
Sarlat when Brice Kerquelin, the person
playing the hero, is apparently knifed
onstage. Kerquelin is no ordinary actor: He’s
also a tech whiz who has been touted to be
France’s next intelligence chief, and the
attack puts French defense officials on high
alert. Tasked with protecting Kerquelin’s
family and friends who have gathered in the
area for their annual reunion, Bruno
discovers that the Kerquelin incident may be
related to a secret terrorist effort by Russia
and China. Walker, a former journalist who
covered world security issues, creates a
believable story of terror in France’s
Dordogne region, while pleasing series fans
by exploring further complications in Bruno’s
tortuous love life. (Knopf )
Karen macPherson is the former children’s and
teen coordinator at the takoma Park maryland
library and a lifelong mystery fan.
B6
10 noteworthy books
for November and December
Solve your gift-giving conundrums with tales of murder, mothers, showbiz and more
BY B ECKY M ELOAN
T
he holiday season brings the latest
in a popular thriller series, enthrall-
ing contemporary fiction in locales
around the world, romance, histori-
cal mysteries, and nonfiction fo-
cused on history and culture — something to
satisfy just about every book lover.
‘Resurrection Walk,’
by Michael Connelly
Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller agrees to
represent a woman who claims to be wrongly
incarcerated for killing her husband, a sher-
iff ’s deputy. The more Haller and his half
brother, retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch,
dig into the details, the more convinced they
become that someone with a dangerous agen-
da is working to stop them from reopening the
case. From the streets to the courtroom,
Connelly’s 38th novel hits all the right notes
for fans of the well-developed characters and
intelligent plotlines in the Bosch universe.
(Little, Brown, Nov. 7)
‘A Nearby Country Called Love,’
by Salar Abdoh
Abdoh’s brutally poignant novel explores
the contradictions in modern Iranian society.
When Issa is abruptly deported back to Tehran
after a decade in the United States, he sees his
former homeland with fresh eyes. Haunted by
the ghosts of his father, a skilled martial artist
whose traditional notions of masculinity
drove away his sons, and his brother, a queer
underground artist who died after having
AIDS, Issa finds himself joining fellow mar-
ginalized friends in a fiery protest that fights
for a new definition of honor. (Viking, Nov. 7)
‘In the Pines: A Lynching,
a Lie, a Reckoning,’
by Grace Elizabeth Hale
As a history professor specializing in white
supremacy, Hale urges White Americans to look
honestly at their family lore, and she uses her
own as a lesson. She was told that her grandfa-
ther, a Mississippi sheriff, heroically guarded
the jail where a Black man accused of raping a
White woman was being held in 1947; yet
despite his efforts, the prisoner was killed.
When Hale read about the incident in the local
newspaper archives, she found a very different
story, but she kept her findings to herself until
white supremacists attacked her students dur-
ing the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottes-
ville. Vague lessons about racial injustice aren’t
enough, she realized. People need to expose
buried family secrets like hers to counteract the
“denial of black humanity at the heart of white
supremacy.” (Little, Brown, Nov. 7)
12 SUNday | 1 P.M. McKay Coppins discusses
“romney: a reckoning” with Jeffrey Goldberg at Politics
and Prose, 5015 connecticut ave. nW. 202-364-1919.
3 P.M. John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira discuss “Where
have all the Democrats Gone?: the soul of the Party in
the age of extremes” at Politics and Prose.
5 P.M. Mark Kurlansky discusses “the core of an onion:
Peeling the rarest common food — featuring more
than 100 historical recipes” with Theresa McCulla at
Politics and Prose.
13 MONday | 7 P.M. Sigrid Nunez discusses “the
Vulnerables” with Molly McCloskey at Politics and Prose.
7 P.M. John Gallagher and Gale Galligan discuss “max
meow 5: attack of the ZomBees!” and “marvel super
stories” at scrawl Books, 11911 freedom Dr. reston.
703-966-2111.
14 TUeSday | 2 P.M. Crystal Hamlin-Tramack
discusses “she needs to move something to live” at the
Patrick henry library, 101 maple ave. e, Vienna. 703-
938-0405.
6:45 P.M. Jon Bonné discusses “the new french Wine:
redefining the World’s Greatest Wine culture,” streamed
through smithsonian associates at
smithsonianassociates.org. $20-$25.
eZ ee
Book World
‘The Last Love Note,’
by Emma Grey
In this captivating and emotional romantic
comedy, a young widow is grieving the hus-
band she lost two years earlier while simulta-
neously parenting a toddler, managing her
overbearing mother and avoiding her best
friend’s matchmaking attempts. When she
becomes stranded with her boss while on a
business trip to Australia’s picturesque Byron
Bay, she has time to process all that she’s lost,
and her unexpected feelings of longing lead
her to consider whether she might be able to
find a new sort of happiness. (Zibby, Nov. 28)
‘Outrageous: A History of Showbiz
and the Culture Wars,’
by Kliph Nesteroff
Complaints about the “decline of morality”
have been a staple of American society for
generations, and, as Nesteroff argues, show
business — from jazz to rap music and
vaudeville to television — has regularly been
scapegoated as a sign of decay. Parallels to the
culture wars of today’s world can be seen as far
back as 19th-century debates over minstrel
shows and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” This fascinat-
ing cultural history examines the relationship
between entertainment and suppression by
looking at the cycles of success and censorship
that plagued Elvis Presley, Mae West, Carol
Burnett and others. (Abrams, Nov. 28)
‘We Must Not Think of Ourselves,’
by Lauren Grodstein
Grodstein’s gripping historical novel has
its roots in a real-life secret archive: During
World War II, dozens of people recorded the
testimonies of Jews living in a Warsaw
ghetto and buried the materials in tin boxes
and milk cans, which survived despite the
ghetto’s destruction. Adam Paskow, a fiction-
al archivist, writes about residents’ daily
lives — arguments, jokes, plans for what
they’d do in a better world. As Adam
becomes close to Sala, a married mother of
two, an impossible relationship blossoms.
Meanwhile, a clandestine offer of escape
forces them to make unthinkable choices.
(Algonquin, Nov. 28)
‘All the Little Bird-Hearts,’
by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Lloyd-Bar-
low’s tender debut novel about the changing
relationship between a mother and her ado-
lescent daughter is informed by her own
personal and professional experience with
autism. Sunday, who charmingly consults
old-fashioned etiquette books to help her
understand proper behavior, prefers days
filled with routines but will settle for disrup-
l I T era ry C a leNda r
nov. 12 - 18
7 P.M. David Swinson discusses “sweet thing” with
Dana King at one more Page Books, 2200 n.
Westmoreland street, arlington. 703-300-9746.
7 P.M. Sunu P. Chandy, Jody Hobbs Hesler and Martha
Anne Toll present their works and discuss lifting up
marginalized voices at the Potter’s house, 1658
columbia rd. nW. 202-232-5483.
7:30 P.M. Alexia Arthurs presents her works with nine
emerging local writers in poetry, fiction and nonfiction at
shaw’s tavern, 520 florida ave. nW. 202-518-4092.
15 WedNeSday | 10:30 a.M. Rhonda Roumani
discusses “tagging freedom” at Politics and Prose.
5:30 P.M. Sally Jenkins, Deborah Kalb, Angie Kim, Liza
Mundy, Mary Quattlebaum and others present their
works at meet the authors night & Book fair at the
university club of Washington Dc, 1135 16th st. nW.
202-862-8800.
6:45 P.M. Coleen Murphy discusses “how We age: the
science of longevity,” streamed through smithsonian
associates. $20-$25.
7 P.M. Valzhyna Mort discusses “music for the Dead and
resurrected” with David Keplinger at american
university’s school of international service, founders
room, 4400 massachusetts ave. nW. 202-885-1600.
the washington post
tions to accommodate her daughter, Dolly.
With Dolly’s talk of an upcoming gap year and
university life, Sunday knows things must
change, but when fascinating and friendly
new neighbors arrive, the upheaval might be
coming faster than anyone bargained for.
(Algonquin, Dec. 5)
‘Flores and Miss Paula,’
by Melissa Rivero
Peruvian immigrant Paula lost her husband
to cancer three years ago and now shares a
New York City apartment (and a distant
relationship) with her millennial daughter,
Flores. Each woman thinks she knows what’s
best for the other: Flores pushes her mother to
ask for a raise at the DollaBills retail store, and
Paula continually reminds her daughter to
spend more time looking for a husband. But
when they learn they will be forced to move,
they must start really seeing each other while
confronting doubts about their own places in
the world. (Ecco, Dec. 5)
‘The Frozen River,’
by Ariel Lawhon
The latest historical mystery from the
author of “Code Name Hélène” was inspired
by Martha Ballard, an 18th-century Ameri-
can healer whose journals were the subject
of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history “A
Midwife’s Tale.” Fans of “Outlander’s” Claire
Fraser will enjoy Lawhon’s Martha, who is
brave and outspoken when it comes to
protecting the innocent. When a body is
found in Maine’s Kennebec River, she is
called to determine the cause of death and
soon learns the dead man was accused of
raping a previous patient. Lawhon hews
closely to the historical record, and her
detailed author’s note is as impressive as her
storytelling. (Doubleday, Dec. 5)
‘Dazzling,’
by Chikodili Emelumadu
Emelumadu’s clever feminist rethinking of
Nigerian folklore explores themes of legacy
and obligation filtered through the modern
story of two girls. Treasure and her mother are
poverty-stricken and hungry after her father’s
death, so she makes a deal with a spirit who
promises to bring her father back to life in
exchange for completing one harrowing task.
Ozoemena, meanwhile, has a conflicted rela-
tionship with her inherited responsibility: to
protect her homeland and its inhabitants by
turning into a leopard. But when students at
her boarding school start disappearing, her
burden becomes increasingly vital. The girls
face the consequences of their choices — and
their destinies — as their worlds collide.
(Overlook, Dec. 5)
7 P.M. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses
“touching the art” with Jennifer Natalya Fink at Politics
and Prose.
16 THUrSday | 7 P.M. Hajar Yazdiha discusses “the
struggle for the People’s king” with Gene Demby at
loyalty Bookstore, 827 upshur st. nW. 202-726-0380.
17 frIday | 6:45 P.M. Kevin Dennehy discusses
“the D-Day Visitor’s handbook, 80th anniversary
edition,” streamed through smithsonian associates.
$20-$25.
7 P.M. Michael Cunningham discusses “Day” at Politics
and Prose.
18 SaTUrday | 1 P.M. Richard O. Prum discusses
“Performance all the Way Down: Genes, Development,
and sexual Difference” at Politics and Prose.
2 P.M. I.S. Berry presents “the Peacock and the
sparrow” at Bards alley, 110 church st. nW, Vienna. 571-
459-2653.
3 P.M. Anna Pitoniak discusses “the helsinki affair” with
Evan Thomas at Politics and Prose.
5 P.M. Lisa Gornick discusses “ana turns” with Susan
Coll at Politics and Prose.
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BY M ICHAEL S IMS
C
arl Safina’s account of how he and his
family adopted a screech owl, named
her Alfie and raised her to adulthood
is, on one level, the story of human
beings thrown in close contact with a
familiar but wild animal. He digs much deeper,
however, than Sterling North did for raccoons
in “Rascal” and Margarete Sigl Corbo did for
backyard birds in “Arnie, the Darling Starling.”
You can imagine Safina driving around with
one of those “Who rescued who?” bumper
stickers, but with his showing a silhouette of an
owl instead of a dog or cat.
Yet “Alfie and Me” is more than that. Safina is
determined to turn this experience into a win-
dow on humanity’s relationship with the rest of
nature. Reading it sent me back to William
Blake’s poem “Auguries of Innocence.” Like
Blake, Safina sees the world in a grain of sand,
holds infinity in the palm of his hand. In
addition to Blake’s poetic insight, Safina brings
a great deal of scientific knowledge to his work;
he is a renowned ecologist, the author of nu-
merous acclaimed books and a MacArthur
fellow.
Safina’s primary theme is how inattention
numbs connection and leaves us living a less
passionate life, less aware of our vast animalian
community. But learning how to stay connect-
ed requires practice and knowledge. “To be
human is to ask questions,” he says simply. And
ask them he does. Often, if not always, Safina’s
interrogation of each interaction results in
provocative, insightful asides, a pulling-togeth-
er of the many tributaries of attention to a
particular animal, employing his career in the
life sciences and the vast reading of world
literatures and philosophies that flow into his
sprawling narrative.
Like the contemporary naturalist Lyanda
Lynn Haupt, Safina is determined to see
through labels, biases and assumptions when
regarding the natural world and our place in it.
He wants to interact on a personal level with an
individual animal. He knows that a squirrel is
not a field-guide distillation of identifying
traits. It is an individual living creature. It has
eyes, hands, feet, hunger, fear. Like us, it scur-
ries around seeking food and avoiding danger.
Like us, it has a history that traces back to the
big bang. Safina lacks Haupt’s lyrical grace, but
his thinking aloud still makes for lively and
exciting conversation with an author — sponta-
neous, if not polished; vivid, if not elegant.
Describing Alfie’s behavior, Safina writes: “She
might perhaps even pounce on the occasional
mouse who’d sniffed out some birdseed I’d
sprinkle in there, so she would not forget what
her talons and her fascination with motion
were for or how to use them at speed.”
Safina and his wife and children permit Alfie
the run of their spacious home on Long Island,
then move her out to a coop, then leave its door
open, then continue to feed her as she hunts
and returns to this doting family. She finds a
mate whom they dub Plus-One. With the sec-
ond-guessing of a Trollope hero, Safina worries
over each step: “I joked with Patricia that I was
trying not to feel too hurt or left out. Then I
wondered if I was entirely joking.” Despite this
kind of remark, Safina seldom steps back
enough to see the humor in his helicoptering of
a different species. He is a fussy foster parent.
How he worries about this little bird! He
worries that she won’t eat (she does), won’t
fledge (she does) and that she may get killed in
a storm (she doesn’t). He worries about the
effects of his intervention in Alfie’s life. He
refrains from jazz drumming during Alfie and
Plus-One’s “courtship.” At times Safina frets
until he seems worn, as my mother used to say,
TOP: Ecologist Carl Safina with Alfie, a young screech owl he and his family rescued and raised to adulthood. ABOVE: Alfie and a friend.
How to save the world? Try kindness — and money and tech.
BY E LIZABETH H AND
T
his is the way the world ends: not with a
bang or a whimper, but an alert from an
early-warning system sent to one’s per-
sonal device, signaling imminent apocalypse.
The alert isn’t for you or me or the billions of
others on our planet. It’s sent to the three tech
moguls who effectively rule the world, giving
them a few days’ head start so they can be flown
(genuinely under the radar) to their respective
bunkers, where they’ll be joined by a few family
members and friends who will help them re-
boot civilization once the catastrophe subsides.
That’s the premise of Naomi Alderman’s
immensely readable if frustrating new book,
“The Future,” set a decade or so from now.
Alderman likes Big Ideas: Her previous novel,
“The Power,” imagined a world where, over-
night, young women develop the ability to
deliver electrical shocks, upending gender, cul-
tural and political dynamics. Do they use this
ability for good? Or are brutality and the urge to
power hard-wired into our species?
“The Future” is a thought experiment of a
similar vein. If technology could only be liber-
ated from the chokehold of capitalism, might
we save the world in a year or two? Its epigraph
comes from a translation of Lao Tzu by Ursula
K. Le Guin, another science fiction writer who
didn’t shy away from exploring the dynamics of
power and gender in her imagined worlds.
Alderman’s novel starts by introducing us to
those three tech CEOs: Lenk Sketlish, the
Harvard-educated founder of the social net-
work Fantail; the brilliant, philandering and
emotionally detached Zimri Nommik, who cre-
ated the data-driven purchasing giant Anvil;
and Ellen Bywater, who since the death of her
beloved husband has helmed Medlar Technol-
ogies, the planet’s most successful personal-
computing corporation. The Pynchonesque
monikers and the correspondences between
real-world figures and corporate history (Med-
lar’s co-founder is ousted from the company he
started) seem to place us in the realm of satire.
But the story immediately takes a turn to
heavy-handed parable, when it jumps to a
survivalist online forum called Name The Day.
There a frequent poster recounts the tale of
Book World
What owls can teach us
about being human
Sodom and Gomorrah, drawing parallels be-
tween the fate of those cities and the current
state of the planet:
“Abraham was saying something … about
how even if you do happen to be incredibly
powerful, you can’t just walk away when things
go bad. That’s not what your power is for. … If
you’ve got power, use it to help.”
And so, after a lengthy preamble, we finally
meet the novel’s protagonist — 33-year-old Lai
Zhen, a “Hong Kong Chinese slash British slash
American lesbian.” Zhen is a popular contribu-
tor to Name The Day, where she’s the top-
ranked expert in technological survival. A sur-
vivor of the fall of Hong Kong (following a
takeover by mainland China) and subsequent
internment in a refugee camp, Zhen spends her
time making and posting videos with titles like
“What Goes through Your Mind When You’re
Being Shot At.” Lonely and disaffected after a
romantic breakup, she’s wandering through a
Singapore megamall when shots pierce the
window of an electronics store.
Zhen quickly realizes this isn’t a random
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shooting: She’s the target. She escapes, with a
clever shout-out to the fate of Lot’s wife back in
Sodom. It’s a great scene and setting, reminis-
cent of William Gibson’s glittering dystopias
and engulfing paranoias. Yet before we can
absorb what’s happened, there’s a flashback,
then a flash forward, then some more survival-
ist postings, then some backstories, the history
of a survivalist cult, a recurring and tedious
debate regarding Neolithic hunter-gatherers
vs. the first agriculturalists, and some welcome
hot sex between Zhen and Martha Einkorn,
Sketlish’s personal assistant.
The crosscuts, shifting points of view and
cascade of cataclysmic events are presumably
intended to heighten the novel’s tension, or
perhaps impart a sense of Alderman’s frag-
mented depiction of the future. Instead, it’s all
confusing and underscores her emphasis on
ideas rather than human interaction. Zhen and
Martha are the only two characters who really
come to life. The tech tycoons are straw people
for Alderman’s central thesis: “If you’ve got
power, use it to help.”
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pHotoS CourteSy of CArl SAfINA
to a frazzle. This fussiness derives in part from
his urgent seriousness. But even an admirable
desire to preach connectedness — because he
knows that we care to protect only what we love
— can become tiresome when the author keeps
revisiting favorite points.
Safina also maintains a greeting-card cute-
ness throughout. He refers to their dogs as
“doggies,” describes the mated owls as “honey-
mooners” and their mating as “so much bonk-
ing going on.” Afterward, Safina speculates that
Alfie was “too in love and perhaps too well-fed
by Plus-One” to return to him or take food. He
even entitles his acknowledgments page “Grat-
itudes” and writes it as beatitudes, beginning
by bestowing a halo on people such as himself:
“Blessed are the compassionate, who find wild
babes rendered helpless by circumstance and
feel moved to help.”
I’m glad that people feel moved to help and
alFiE and ME that well-informed writers feel moved to share
What Owls their stories. There is no larger theme than the
Know, What intricacies of our relationship with a single
humans other living individual, human or otherwise.
Believe And scientific knowledge of life’s intricacy only
by Carl Safina deepens the intuitive insights of the past. “Alfie
W.W. Norton. and Me” is a colorful if uneven guide to living
384 pp. $32.50 more deeply through interaction with others
who share our experience of inhabiting an
animal form. “What is the best we can make of
our existence?” asks Safina. “Connection.
That’s my answer.” The book ends with Alfie
still a part of their lives.
Michael Sims’s books about nature include
“Adam’s Navel” and “In the Womb: Animals,” a
companion book to the National Geographic
Channel series.
Their altruistic counterparts are also drawn in
broad strokes. In addition to Martha, there’s
Zimri’s Black wife, Selah, and Ellen Bywater’s
nonbinary child, Badger, both of whom feel like
authorial nods to inclusivity rather than fully
realized characters. A foul-mouthed Russian
computer genius friend of Zehn’s exists mostly to
explain how AI can never develop consciousness.
At one point, Zehn reflects on the work of
Ayn Rand. “Her most famous book was a
fantasy that if a few wealthy and powerful
thE FuturE
people disappeared, the world would end.”
by Naomi
“The Future” engages in an equally simplistic
Alderman
form of wish fulfillment. Instead of Rand’s
Simon &
Objectivist triumphal vision of capitalism and
Schuster.
the cult of the individual, Alderman suggests
415 pp. $28.99
that, with enough money, kindness and yes,
tech, our world could be transformed.
“There is a beautiful world on the far shore,
where we’re not destroying all the species
anymore and our cities are clean and beautiful
and full of wild birds, and our cars are all
electric and all shared, and the streets are safe
for kids to play in, and we get to keep TV and the
internet and concerts and ballgames and all
that good stuff, and fine, we’re eating mostly
vegan food but it’s good, and if we can just get
through the pain barrier as quickly as possible,
then we’re there.”
Isn’t it pretty to think so.
Still, when Alderman chooses to linger on a
character, she creates some breathtaking
scenes. Her glimpses of a future just a few
nanoseconds removed from our own are terrif-
ic — a Davos-style conference on selling post-
apocalypse tech; wildlife protection corridors
patrolled by swarms of drones that keep away
humans; survivalist bunkers as bonkers as they
are eerily beautiful. She effectively skewers the
tech triumvirate, whose hubris and greed mas-
querade as altruism.
Alderman hedges her bets in the novel’s
Naomi slingshot ending, which I found perversely
Alderman reassuring. It turns out that, even in a fictional
writes about utopia, some problems can’t be solved by the
tech moguls application of money, tech and good intentions
and — human nature among them.
survivalists in
an apocalyptic Elizabeth hand’s most recent novel is “A Haunting
near-future. on the Hill.”
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The sun sets on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in Red Cloud, Neb., the town where the novelist’s family moved in 1882, when she was 9.
CAThER from B1
been going on around the country. In June,
Cather’s preeminence as an American writer
was made manifest in bronze when her
sculpture was unveiled in Statuary Hall at the
U.S. Capitol. Holding a walking stick in one
hand, a notebook in the other, Cather scans
the Nebraska landscape she immortalized in
her novels, among them “o Pioneers!” (1913),
“The Song of the Lark” (1915), “my Ántonia”
(1918), “A Lost Lady” (1923) and “The Profes-
sor’s House” (1925).
Benjamin Taylor’s slender, discerning new
biography, “Chasing Bright medusas: A Life of
Willa Cather,” might also be numbered among
these tributes. Cather, of course, has long
attracted the attention of some superb long-
form biographers and critics, tops among
them Hermione Lee and Joan Acocella. Apart
from the cluster of Cather anniversaries, the
spur for this new biography was the expiration
in 2011 of the legal strictures against quoting
from Cather’s letters. famously insistent that
her work, not her life, should be the focus of
critical attention, Cather set up a trust in her
will to enforce that ban after her death in 1947.
Years before, in one of those awful incendiary
moments that flare up in literary history,
Cather burned the letters she’d written to the
great love of her life, Isabelle mcClung. Earlier
biographers were restrained to paraphrasing
Cather’s letters, often resulting in AI-like
approximations of her arresting voice and
descriptions of nature. Taylor, happily, had full
access to Cather’s “Selected Letters,” pub-
lished in 2013, as well as to the 2,700 or so
letters that have been digitized in the ever-
growing Willa Cather Archive at the Univer-
sity of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Taylor says in his prologue that his biogra-
phy “arises from a debt of love” to Cather for
her writing. It’s a graceful, old-fashioned
gesture of a statement that signals the tone of
this biography, which is designed for, to
borrow Virginia Woolf ’s term, “the common
reader.” But “Chasing Bright medusas” should
appeal to anyone — novice or expert — ready
to explore Cather’s life and work in the
company of a critic so alert to the shimmering
subtlety of her style and the hard years of
effort that went into crystallizing it.
Taylor’s most recent book, “Here We Are,”
was a memoir of his friendship with Philip
roth — another American literary genius
whose hometown (in roth’s case, Newark)
was the gift that kept giving. Here, Taylor
summons up red Cloud, where Cather’s
family moved in 1882 when she was 9. At that
time, the town and surrounding prairie and
farmland were populated by immigrants
from Scandinavia and Central Europe, as
well as quiet eccentrics like the English clerk
William Ducker, who read Virgil and ovid in
the evenings with the young Cather. This
swirl of immigrant friends and neighbors
instilled in her, as Cather once put it, “a
feeling of an older world across the sea.”
Doubtless it helped form what Taylor sees as
Cather’s bedrock anti-modernism. Contrast-
ing her to her younger contemporaries —
Hemingway, faulkner, fitzgerald and Dos
Passos — whom he characterizes as “men
who wrote mockingly about the illusoriness
and deceptiveness of ideals,” Taylor says:
“What makes her the greatest of anti-mod-
ernists is that ideals were what was most real
to her.” (I object to sweeping fitzgerald into
this cynical crowd. After all, “The Great
Gatsby,” which Cather read and told fitzger-
ald she enjoyed, tells the story of a doomed
dreamer who yearns to repeat the past.)
She left red Cloud at age 16 for the
University of Nebraska. Taylor evocatively
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nonFiction
Celebrating Willa Cather
and her pioneering spirit
says that “she believed in luck, particularly her
own, and believed in the luck-making power
of desire.” As a girl, Cather clearly had the
power to inspire others with her vision: Her
father borrowed money for her tuition, and
before that, her parents carved out a make-
shift room of one’s own for their eldest
daughter in the attic dormitory she shared
with her six brothers and sisters.
During college, Cather began a decade-long
career of practicing what we would call “cul-
tural journalism,” churning out the kind of
reviews that earned her the appellation “meat-
ax girl” from an early editor at the Nebraska
State Journal. She held writing, editing and
teaching jobs in Pittsburgh until she received
a life-giving invitation in 1906 from mcClure’s
magazine to move to New York and become an
editor and contributor. Still, Cather was driv-
en by grander ambitions for her writing.
Taylor quotes a 1913 letter she wrote to her
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friend Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant in which In 1899, Cather met Isabelle mcClung. The
she laments: “If only I could nail up the front two women shared a bedroom at mcClung’s
door and live in a mess, I could simply become parents’ house in Pittsburgh for five years.
a fountain pen and have done with it — a mcClung eventually married, a devastating
conduit for ink to run through.” Perhaps, in event for Cather, who went on to meet Edith
addition to housekeeping, what Cather Lewis, the editor with whom she lived from
yearned to be “done with” was sexuality. 1908 till her death.
Taylor is an especially nuanced commenta- “Probably” is a qualifier the scrupulous
tor on the vexed “Was she or wasn’t she?” Taylor frequently resorts to when dealing with
question of Cather’s sexuality. The bald bio- subjects he feels are resistant to a biographer’s
graphical facts read as follows: Cather as a scrutiny. So it is that he deploys “probably”
girl was unconventional (wearing boy’s cloth- when considering the question of Cather’s
ing, chopping off her hair and experimenting sexual identity in that Louise Pound letter:
with male signatures like “William Cather “The letter is a profession of love. … Is it
Jr.”). In college, she had a fierce friendship consciously lesbian? The answer, though not
with a fellow intellectual named Louise easy, is probably no. … rather than speaking
Pound, which generated the single letter in of one kind of love, the letter prefers to talk
Cather’s vast archive that speaks at all to the about love at its most exalted, above the reach
issue of her sexual identity. “It is manifestly of mere carnality. Willa saw herself as excep-
unfair,” Cather wrote to Pound in 1892, “that tional rather than homosexual. But that she
‘feminine friendships’ should be unnatural.” was homosexual is obvious, astounded though
she would have been to know it.”
This is a quick two-step of a paragraph, but
rather than being evasive (which, doubtless,
some readers will take it as being), it seems to
me a rigorous effort to fathom how Cather
understood herself. Throughout his discus-
sions of Cather’s novels, Taylor underscores
his steady insight that, for her characters,
“sex is … the worm in the apple.” To name but
one instance of many, marian forrester, the
luminous heroine of “A Lost Lady,” fades into
the novel’s “lost lady” because of her humili-
ating erotic liaisons. Similarly, marriages are
mostly lonely affairs in Cather’s fiction;
instead, friendships are always the most vital
relationships. Consider the charged bond
between Jim Burden and Ántonia Shimerda
in “my Ántonia” and the two clergymen in
“Death Comes for the Archbishop.” Even in
“Paul’s Case,” the intense 1905 short story
that Taylor rightly deems “Cather’s first
undoubted masterpiece,” the eponymous
main character — whom we readers today
certainly view as queer — yearns, above all
else, to merge himself with beauty and art, to
“chas[e] ‘bright medusas,” to use Cather’s
phrase, rather than content himself with
andrew HarniK/aP ordinary life. Was the wish to “become a
fountain pen and have done with it” some-
thing of a liberating fantasy for Cather?
Probably.
Two summers ago, during my brief pilgrim-
age to red Cloud, I was fortunate to be shown
the place where Cather’s transformations be-
gan: the “story-and-a-half frame house” that
her parents bought in 1885 for their growing
family. I climbed to the attic dormitory and
peered into the shadowy little room, “a corner
of the L-shaped attic” that had been parti-
ChAsing tioned off for Willa alone. Her girlish flowered
Bright wallpaper was still mostly intact. As Taylor
MedusAs notes, the heroine of “The Song of the Lark,”
A Life of Thea Kronborg — an aspiring opera singer
Willa Cather and stand-in for the young Cather — dreams of
By Benjamin her destiny in a fictional evocation of that very
Taylor same room: “from the time when she moved
Viking. up into the wing, Thea began to live a double
192 pp. $29 life. During the day, when the hours were full
of tasks, she was one of the Kronborg children,
but at night she was a different person. … She
had an appointment to meet the rest of herself
ABOVE: sometime, somewhere. It was moving to meet
A statue of her and she was moving to meet it.”
Willa Cather, With great feeling and deeply informed
holding a perception, Taylor helps us readers realize
walking stick anew the sustained effort it took for Cather to
and a meet “the rest of herself,” in her novels and her
notebook, is life.
unveiled in
the Capitol in Maureen Corrigan, who is the book critic for the
June. nPr program “Fresh air,” wrote the introduction to
LEFT: Cather the Vintage 100th anniversary edition of “a lost
aP in 1931. lady.”
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to run for
governor,
sources say
Va. congresswoman
looks poised to announce
campaign ‘imminently’
BY L AURA V OZZELLA
RICHMOND — Rep. Abigail span-
berger (D-Va.) will not seek reelec-
tion in Virginia’s 7th District next
year so she can run for Virginia
governor in 2025, according to
two people familiar with the Dem-
ocrat’s plans.
spanberger, who won a third
term last year in one of the state’s
most competitive swing districts,
will announce her gubernatorial
bid very soon, according to the
two, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because the congress-
woman had hoped to make her
announcement a surprise. one of
the two said she was preparing to
launch her campaign “imminent-
ly.” The other was more specific,
saying she would do so Monday
with the release of a video.
spanberger’s campaign de-
clined to comment.
The congresswoman’s interest
in seeking the Executive Mansion
has hardly been a secret but her
“imminent” entry, whether it’s
Monday or even a few months
away, would be unusually early —
nearly two years before Election
Day in november 2025.
no one from either party has
formally jumped into the race to
succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R),
who cannot seek reelection in Vir-
ginia, the only state that bars its
governors from serving consecu-
tive terms. Youngkin formally de-
clared his candidacy for the 2021
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Jake Good, a nursery technician for the virginia Department of Forestry, inspects young white dogwood trees at the agency’s tree
fields in Crimora, va., on Oct. 23. Private citizens contribute tons of acorns that they collect in their yards and elsewhere.
Acorn by acorn, gathering seeds to save forests
o n a sunny fall day at the edge of
shenandoah national Park, Jake
Good, a nursery technician with the
Virginia Department of Forestry, was get-
ting acorns and chestnuts into the ground.
Virginia tree program
is also a tool against
More than three tons of them.
Here at the state’s nursery, about 140
miles southwest of Washington, this plant-
ing was an industrial operation. Poured
from sacks into a machine, these seeds —
future Chinese chestnut and white oak
trees, many collected from donors around
the state — were filtered into tubes that
FBI win
boosts
equity
officials welcome
bureau ‘home’
Emphasis on selection
uplifting Black enclave
BY L ATESHIA B EACHUM
AND E RIN C OX
As critics of the Biden admin-
istration’s decision to award a
new FBI headquarters project to
Maryland attacked the process,
state and local officials said the
prize was long overdue for Prince
George’s County, a wealthy Black
enclave whose leaders have long
sought to secure parity with
neighbors in the Washington
metropolitan region.
In pitching the Greenbelt site
for the $3 billion facility, Mary-
land strategically emphasized
michael s. williamson/the washington post how it would further the Biden
administration’s goal to invest in
communities overlooked by the
federal government, a point the
state’s first Black governor made
in conversations with the presi-
dent and bureaucrats.
“We know this is going to have
such a lasting impact,” Maryland
Gov. Wes Moore (D) said in an
cient soil to grow.
The process wasn’t gentle but in about
18 months would result in a crop of
seedlings that could be sold to landowners
and the timber industry. In this way,
interview Thursday, the day after
the General services Administra-
tion announced that Greenbelt
had been selected.
“We’re talking over 7,500 jobs.
climate change Virginia’s arboreal future would be secure
— thanks in part to acorn enthusiasts who
We’re talking billions of dollars
of economic activity. And that is
donated more than a million specimens going to serve as a catalyst for the
this year as part of a state program. larger tech revolution that’s tak-
BY J USTIN W M. M OYER Good was already excited for early 2025, ing place in the state of Maryland
when the seedlings would be ready for right now,” Moore said, referring
IN CRIMORa, Va. harvesting and distribution: “You see them in part to Baltimore’s recent
come up . . . that’s all my hard work.” designation as a federal technol-

Leadership cast them on a row of earth about seven

feet wide. Workers walked behind the
machine, stepping on the acorns and
The operations at the Crimora nursery
use contributions from an acorn donation
program that Virginia’s forestry depart-
ogy hub.
Prince George’s County Execu-
tive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D)

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Maryland delegation and its
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for Virginia
House GOP These women bought a D.C. building 40 years ago and became a family
Some legislators blame
abortion-heavy campaign
for loss of lower chamber
BY L AURA V OZZELLA
RICHMOND — A group of Repub-
lican legislators, angry with Gov.
Glenn Youngkin and his political
team for spotlighting a 15-week
abortion ban ahead of Tuesday’s
elections, said they will try to
overthrow House speaker Todd
Gilbert for failing to push back
against a strategy that they say
cost the GoP control of the House,
according to three delegates in-
volved in the effort.
At a closed-door meeting in
Richmond on sunday, just days
after Democrats flipped the
House of Delegates and held onto
the state senate, House Republi-
cans plan to elect their caucus
leadership. As speaker, Gilbert
(R-shenandoah) was in line to
become minority leader given his
party’s loss of the majority.
But some Republican delegates
want to remove Gilbert from lead-
ership, saying he should have re-
buffed Youngkin and leaders of
the governor’s spirit of Virginia
political action committee, which
in late september launched a $1.4
million TV campaign based on
the governor’s plan to ban most
abortions after 15 weeks.
Abortion appeared to be a mo-
tivating force for Democrats and
female voters in Virginia, the only
southern state that has not im-
posed new restrictions on the pro-
cedure since the supreme Court
overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
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Janice
Washington never
expected to own a
home.
she told that to
a reporter in 1986,
Theresa
just three years
Vargas after she and a
group of tenants
bought the D.C. building where
they had been renting
apartments.
In an article that reporter
wrote at the time, the purchase
was presented as a success story,
as an example of what
low-income D.C. residents
could achieve with the help of a
nonprofit and the D.C.
government. Each of those
tenants earned less than
$15,000 a year.
Forty years after that
purchase, four women who were
among the original tenants still
live in the building, and they still
marvel at what they made
happen.
“never,” Washington told me
on a recent afternoon as those
women sat nearby. “never, did
we, as a group, imagine owning
this building.”
The building is a six-unit
complex that sits on a quiet
stretch of northwest
Washington. From the outside,
the building doesn’t stand out as
unusual. It is neither stunning
nor a blight. But inside the
building, up a stairwell, in
separate apartments, live four
women who know they occupy a
unique space. In a city that has
seen many Black and low-income
residents pushed out by housing
costs and rising rents, the four
African American women long
ago claimed a piece of the city,
and they held on.
From left, Janice Washington, bettie Perry, Joanne Jenkins and earlie Hendricks recently decided to
sell the six-unit apartment building in Northwest Washington that they bought together 40 years ago.
They held on through illnesses
and deaths in their families.
They held on through the births
of their children and the births
of their grandchildren. They held
on as they watched the
neighborhood change and
familiar faces get replaced by
new ones.
The arrangement the women
formed is probably one of the
longest-standing co-ops in the
city. It will also soon come to an
end. Together, the women made
the decision to buy the building,
and together, they recently made
the decision to sell it.
Letting go of the home they’ve
known for most of their lives
won’t be easy, they told me. They
also agreed it was time. one of
the women is 97, and the others
are in their 70s. The stairs have
become difficult for them to
climb. They also recognize that
selling the building now will give
them the chance to benefit from
all the work they have put into
maintaining it over the decades.
They bought the building in
theresa Vargas/the washington post
1983 for $75,000, according to
that newspaper article, which
ran in The Washington Post.
similar buildings in their Park
View neighborhood now sell for
more than $1 million, and one
recently sold for about $2
million, said noelle-Kristine
spencer of TTR sotheby’s
International Realty.
spencer, who has been
working with the women, will
soon post a public listing of the
property. That listing will
contain all the standard details:
location, lot size and building
dimensions. What it won’t
contain — what it can’t contain
— is what she noticed the
moment she met the women who
live there. They had built
something special within those
walls.
“I didn’t really realize what I
walked into,” spencer said as she
sat with the women. “This is
such a success story. The fact
that you’re still together, through
thick and thin, and through all
the housing crises.”
It is impossible to spend time
with the women and not feel
you’re witnessing a unique
housing situation and an even
more unique bond. Their
experience shows how, with
intentionality from
organizations and government
agencies, housing stability and
generational wealth can be
created. They also care about one
another in a way that goes
beyond neighbors. They raised
children in that building and, at
times, looked after one another’s
children, nieces and nephews.
They learned each other’s work
schedules (three of the women
held jobs in health care), and
they helped one another through
illnesses and injuries.
“We have been a family,”
Washington said. “There’s
nothing we haven’t done
together.”
on the day we talked, she sat
on a sofa in the apartment of
Earlie Hendricks. Hendricks,
who is 97, was the first of the
four women to live in the
building.
“I moved here in 1967,” she
said. “And I’ve been here ever
since.”
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ment has run for about a dec-
ade. Last year, the harvest was a
formidable eight tons of acorns
and nuts — enough to produce
1.5 million seedlings. This year,
donors sent 12 tons.
No matter how many seed-
lings the program produces,
however, there is room for
more. Virginia has about 16
million acres of forestland and
more than 108,000 residents
employed in forestry and relat-
ed industries. This is big busi-
ness: The commonwealth’s for-
estry industry is worth $21
billion annually, according to
forestry department spokes-
man Cory Swift-Turner.
This dollar amount is more
than simply the value of the
logging industry’s timber. Trees
filter the water and air, reduce
temperatures to decrease de-
mand for electricity during hot
months and bring in autumn’s
“leaf-peeping” tourists who
spend money across the com-
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have reached a settlement over
disputed vacant land in Balti-
more’s Westport neighborhood.
Stonewall Capital, the owner of
43 acres planned for residential
and commercial development,
has agreed to grant an easement
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trees are felled to provide raw
materials for builders, furniture
makers and others.
With its collection program,
Virginia facilitates this cycle,
stabilizing the forest canopy as
trees come and go. money from
the sale of seedlings also is
invested back into the nursery,
according to Swift-Turner.
one of the state’s more
diligent acorn collectors is
69-year-old mike ortmeier, who
started gathering them as a
retirement project after leaving
the Department of Energy in
2009. As a young boy, he and his
twin brother had dreamed of
planting forests, he said. Now,
by contributing trees-to-be to
the Crimora nursery, he was
helping Virginia do just that —
and fighting global warming in
the process.
“I can’t go out and suck out
every carbon molecule from the
atmosphere,” ortmeier said. “I
see myself as a cog in the wheel.”
A self-described “super-
to Baltimore-Washington rapid
rail (BWrr) that would allow for
the continued planning of a
$10 billion superconducting mag-
netic levitation rail system.
The deal would allow Stone-
wall to develop and build the one
Westport housing project as
planned and approved, said ray
Jackson, a Stonewall principal, in
a recent email.
BWrr would be granted an
easement for its northbound
route into Baltimore that, if com-
ous as the one before was gray
and gloomy.
As the 11th day of November,
Saturday brought the realization
that the winter solstice, which
falls on Dec. 21, lies exactly 30
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Forestry, holds some Northern Red Oak tree seeds on Oct. 23.
collector,” ortmeier said he
gathers as much as 1,000
pounds of acorns and other tree
seeds per year from public
streets and other people’s prop-
pleted as proposed, eventually
would extend to cities and air-
ports north to New York, the rail
company said in a news release.
“BWrr always maintained
that both projects can coexist,”
Bill Scott, the rail company’s pres-
ident and chief operating officer,
wrote in an email.
The one Westport develop-
ment is expected to offer access to
the waterfront and to existing
light rail transit.
Keisha Allen, board chair and
But Saturday seemed less sug-
gestive of winter than as a bright
reminder of why autumn seems
to have so high an approval
rating among Washington sea-
sons.
Trees still flaunted their fin-
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erty. Undertaking this mission,
he faces an unexpected enemy:
landscapers. Among the detri-
tus cleared from gutters and
lawns are the future of the
co-founder of the Westport Com-
munity Economic Development
Corp., said she was glad to hear a
settlement was reached that
would retain plans for the com-
munity-supported waterfront de-
velopment and not harm the ex-
isting Westport neighborhood
and quality of life.
There is “fear of homes being
taken, or living too close to more
infrastructure that would devalue
homes of predominantly Black
people in a neighborhood they
ery. Leaves that earlier might
have reached a compromise be-
tween fading green and en-
croaching gold now seemed to
have gone all gold.
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state’s forests. If these countless next generation of oaks and
acorns, nuts and seeds can be other species, according to
conveyed to facilities such as Dickerson.
Crimora, new forests eventually But people can help trees
will be born. reproduce if they take the time
“All you have to do is get to pick up acorns instead of
people to scoop this stuff off of treating them as refuse.
their driveway,” he said. “It’s a “It’s something they walk
contribution to the universe.” past every day that they might
Alexis Dickerson, the Potomac step over,” Dickerson said. “You
Conservancy’s senior director for can simply collect those things
community conservation, said and get them to the right person
the nonprofit helps facilitate that can create the next genera-
acorn-collection programs tion.”
throughout the D.C. region with Brittany Blackwell, one of the
its “Tomorrow’s Trees” program. workers pushing seeds into the
With expanding construction ground at the Crimora nursery,
and development, Dickerson said she and her children went
said, areas of the river’s water- to a farm her family previously
shed are paved over or convert- owned to gather Chinese chest-
ed into manicured lawns. When nuts as part of this year’s collec-
acorns fall, they cannot take tion effort. When the farm’s
root in asphalt or concrete or current owner thanked her for
are dismissed as yard waste by doing yard work, her response
landscapers. Any that become was: “What yard work?”
saplings may be devoured by This wasn’t a chore. This was
deer displaced by loss of forests keeping an important species
and habitat. As a result, the alive.
developed area becomes a “des- “We’re starting the future
ert” that cannot produce the population,” she said.
call home,” Allen said. mine the value of the formerly
But she cautioned that commu- industrial property and set a
nity members still know few de- deadline by which the railroad
tails about the settlement. would need to acquire it.
“As of right now, our stance, the BWrr, a private company,
Westport CEDC, we do not sup- eventually plans to build the 311
port maglev coming through the mph rail line between Washing-
community,” she said. “This does ton and New York. The proposed
not turn into an automatic sup- system promises to cut travel
port for maglev.” times to 15 minutes between Bal-
The long-simmering condem- timore and Washington and one
nation suit had been headed to hour between D.C. and New York,
trial in Baltimore Circuit Court in the rail operator said.
August . A jury trial was to deter- — Baltimore Sun
ington average for the date, the the sky with brilliant fire at
temperature bestowed comfort sunrise.
that summer or winter exists In its orange and scarlet bril-
only in wishes and dreams. liance, the dawn seemed a visual
After a rainy Friday, fog fanfare, and the day that fol-
formed early Saturday. It gave lowed seemed clearly worthy of
way to clouds enough to stripe it.
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After crossing paths in the Vietnam War, two disparate veterans meet again
In 1970, the U.S.
Army sent Adib
sabree to
Vietnam. peggy
Kelly was already
John there.
Kelly's “I thought it
was
Washington all the so unfair that
men were
getting drafted
and they did not
have a choice,” Peggy told me.
“And women had a choice. I
wanted to help out the guys.”
And so Peggy joined the
American red Cross’s
Supplemental recreation
Activities overseas program, in
which female college graduates
from the ages of 21 to 24 were
sent to Vietnam or Korea to
boost troop morale. She left
rochester, N.Y., for two weeks of
training in Washington and
arrived in Vietnam in November
1969.
“my mom and dad, they
always knew I was sort of an
adventurous type,” said Peggy,
76.
Adib was drafted after losing
his student deferment. The
football scholarship that had
taken him from his hometown of
Savannah to Kentucky State
College ran out of funding.
Several freshman members of
Some GOP lawmakers eye House leadership change after losing the chamber
VA. gOp From C1
The three delegates, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
share private caucus delibera-
tions, said the governor’s PAC did
not consult them about the ad buy
or the flurry of mailers on the
same theme that the PAC sent to
some districts. They also said the
PAC ignored their concerns and
made last-minute demands for
them to appear at Youngkin-led
rallies and other events, which
they said were primarily meant to
promote his potential last-minute
bid for president.
“We literally ran on one of the
third rails of politics,” said one of
the delegates, who said he raised
questions about the strategy to
Gilbert months ago. “We told
them, this is the year to run on
inflation, grocery bills, gas bills,
fuel costs, freakin’ child care. … If
we’re not providing an answer or
a solution to those things, then
the people are looking at us, ‘Why
are you talking about abortion?’”
Youngkin’s office did not re-
spond to a request for comment,
and neither did Gilbert’s spokes-
man. Spirit of Virginia officials
also declined to comment, but
PAC Chairman Dave rexrode de-
fended the PAC’s work on X, for-
merly known as Twitter.
“Despite difficult odds from
the outset & an onslaught of Dem-
ocratic spending, in excess of at
least $50m, Governor Youngkin’s
PAC contributed to these races in
an unprecedented way, providing
a roadmap for republican suc-
cess even in competitive or
difficult environments,” rexrode
wrote in a long thread that also
noted House and Senate republi-
cans won 13 districts that Presi-
dent Biden won in 2020 and seven
where congressional Democratic
candidates prevailed last year.
matthew moran, the PACs ex-
ecutive director, wrote on X that
he looked forward to addressing
any criticism at a panel discus-
sion monday night, called After
Virginia Votes, put on annually by
the nonpartisan Virginia Public
Access Project.
“Losing sucks, and I’m never
afraid to wear anything on my
chin,” moran wrote. “You can’t be
prepared to take the credit if
you’re not also prepared to take
the criticism … I expect a good
discussion on the effect of the
Secure Your Vote Virginia pro-
Spanberger planning run for governor
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contest in January of that year, a
month after the announcement of
former Democratic governor Terry
mcAuliffe, who was seeking a
comeback.
Candidates might be inclined to
make ever-earlier entrances given
the enormous sums required to win
the post in recent cycles. Last time
around, mcAuliffe spent $69 mil-
lion and Youngkin $68 million. By
bowing out of a reelection bid now,
Spanberger also gives Democrats
more time to recruit candidates to
run in the 7th District.
richmond mayor Levar Stoney,
a Democrat, has said for months
that he is mulling a bid for his
party’s nomination. Politico report-
ed last week that Stoney has assem-
bled a team and plans to announce
before the end of the year. on the
republican side, Lt. Gov. Winsome
Earle-Sears and Attorney General
. the washington post
the team got called up.
“my mother was scared to
death for me,” said Adib, 74. “my
father just told me to go and do
my best.”
Peggy started out at Tuy Hoa
Air Base. There was an actual
red Cross Center there, a
building where men could relax
by shooting pool or playing
ping-pong. A few months later
she was sent to the more spartan
base at Cu Chi. Adib was nearby,
at a firebase outside of Cu Chi.
“That city was famous — or
infamous — because we couldn’t
figure out how the enemy would
disappear,” Adib said. “It turned
out they had a whole city
underground.”
red Cross workers like Peggy
were called “Donut Dollies.”
“No, we did not have
doughnuts,” she said. “That
name came from World War II
and the Donut Dollies in Europe.
It was just a term of endearment
that stuck.”
In the morning, Peggy and
another Donut would don their
light blue outfits, board a
helicopter and chopper to a
firebase. There, they’d present a
TV-style quiz game to engage the
soldiers, remind them of home
“and have them forget where
they were for an hour,” she said.
some Virginia House republicans want speaker Todd gilbert (r-shenandoah) removed from leadership for not pushing back against gov.
glenn Youngkin and his political action committee’s focus on a 15-week ban on abortion ahead of last week’s general Assembly election.
gram, the role of abortion and the
thoughts behind our strategy to
combat the attacks (most of them
completely false), and why we
invested in certain races. I look
forward to all of that.”
The infighting suggests Young-
kin could have trouble with his
party as he faces a General Assem-
bly controlled by Democrats.
more immediately, the strife
pits Gilbert against Del. Terry
Kilgore (r-Scott), a veteran legis-
lator from the state’s far south-
west corner, who is challenging
him for minority leader. Kilgore
has served as majority leader un-
der Gilbert for the past two years.
As majority leader, Kilgore was
familiar with the abortion strat-
egy and approved of it, according
to two people familiar with the
Jason S. miyares are widely expect-
ed to seek the GoP’s nomination.
A former CIA operative who re-
cruited spies overseas, Spanberger,
44, has been considered a rising
star among Virginia Democrats
Her “imminent” entry, whether it’s Monday or even
a few months away, would be unusually early —
nearly two years before Election Day in
November 2025.
since 2018, when she defeated re-
publican Dave Brat in a longtime
GoP stronghold in a suburban-ru-
ral swath of central Virginia.
Her CIA credentials and past
work as a federal law enforcement
officer helped her appeal to moder-
ate republicans in the swing dis-
peggy Kelly, a red Cross volunteer, and soldier Adib sabree during
the Vietnam War. They reunited in May at an exhibit on the Mall.
one time, Peggy was walking
from her Quonset hut, pink
rollers in her hair, her head
covered by what they called a
boonie hat when a gust of wind
swept away the hat.
“These GIs saw the curlers in
my hair and they went crazy,” she
said. “That was America to them.
They hadn’t seen curlers in like a
year.”
Adib remembers the Donut
“coordinated campaign,” the term
for the House, Senate and PAC’s
campaign efforts. one of the del-
egates disputed that claim and
said Kilgore opposed the strategy.
“I have worked with the gover-
nor and support his agenda
wholeheartedly,” Kilgore said in a
written statement to The Wash-
ington Post. “However, this isn’t
about the governor — it’s about
the future of leadership in the
House of Delegates, and making
the changes we need to make to be
successful in the long term for the
Virginians we represent.”
Kilgore has sought to lead
House republicans before, with
unsuccessful bids for minority
leader after the party lost control
in 2019 and for the speakership
after republicans retook control
trict, which she won again in a tight
race in 2020. She pulled off a more
comfortable, four-point win last
year over republican Yesli Vega
after redistricting shifted the dis-
trict north of the richmond sub-
urbs where she lived.
While in the House, Spanberger
has championed some liberal is-
sues such as abortion rights but
bucked her party’s leadership at
times and taken the left wing to
task for its “defund the police” mes-
saging.
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Dollies visiting. Was his morale
boosted?
“Do you know, it really was,”
he said. “It was short-lived, but it
was fun. I know it sounds sexist,
but we were soldiers. We were
men. To see American women, it
was a boost to our morale.”
In June 1970, Adib and his unit
were deposited by helicopter in
what was called a “hot LZ.” The
enemy was firing at them from
of the chamber in 2021.
In a letter to fellow House re-
publicans, Kilgore said he was
best suited to help the caucus
rebound in the next elections, in
2025. “While we are at a cross-
roads that we neither wanted nor
expected, now is the time to come
together and move forward,” he
said in the letter, a copy of which
was obtained by The Washington
Post.
The letter made a broad pitch
for Kilgore, thanked Gilbert for
his leadership and did not criti-
cize the speaker’s decisions on
abortion or anything else. The
delegates said the strategy dis-
pute was a big part of the attempt-
ed ouster.
With prospects for his con-
servative agenda and potential
rep. Abigail spanberger (D-Va.) speaks at a campaign rally for Virginia state sen. Monty Mason on
nov. 4. she allegedly won’t seek reelection and is instead planning a gubernatorial run.
the minute they touched down in
the tall savannah grass.
“my job as a machine-gunner
was to work my way to the front
of the column and force them to
get their heads down,” he said.
“At some point they were lobbing
grenades. one exploded close
enough that I got a stomach
wound.”
Adib received a Bronze Star
and a Purple Heart for his
actions that day. He later
received a second Bronze Star.
At the first Thanksgiving after
she was back home in rochester,
the only person Peggy could
really talk to at dinner was her
cousin Larry, who had served in
Vietnam.
“You come back and people
are talking about very trivial
things,” she said. “Your mind
wasn’t really on trivial things
after being there for a year and
seeing what people saw.”
After Vietnam, Adib left the
Army. He moved to rochester,
N.Y., and worked for Kodak for a
while. He put off visiting the
Vietnam Veterans memorial in
Washington.
“It was too emotional,” he said.
“Finally a buddy of mine said in
’92 or ’93, ‘I’ll go with you.’”
Adib lives in the District now
and is retired from a job at the
John C. ClArk/Ap
White House bid on the line,
Youngkin and his team made
abortion a central theme with all
140 House and Senate seats on the
ballot and both narrowly divided
chambers up for grabs.
The strategy was a notable shift
for Virginia republicans, who
have tended to play up kitchen
table issues — such as the econo-
my, schools and crime — and
downplay abortion. After wooing
GoP caucus voters with a vow to
“protect the life of every Virginia
child born and unborn,” Youngkin
himself said little about abortion
in the 2021 general election. He
was captured on video saying he
had to downplay the issue to win
swing voters but promising to “go
on offense” against the procedure
once elected.
Census Bureau. This past may, he
saw on TV that there was a
Vietnam War exhibit on the mall.
He grabbed a handful of photos
he’d taken in ’Nam and headed
down.
“out of curiosity, I went into
one of the tents,” he said. “I was
being sarcastic. I said, ‘Anybody
know this lady here?’”
It was a photograph of a
21-year-old Adib in a flak jacket
and boonie hat, leaning against
the sandbags of a firebase, his
right hand grasping the hand of
a young woman in a light blue
skirt and top.
one person did know that
woman. one person is that
woman: Peggy Kelly, who lives in
Vienna.
on Veterans Day, Adib will
think about the men who didn’t
make it home and those who did.
“We’re not looking forward to
any special attention,” he said.
The vets, he said, are just happy
to be remembered — and for
people to understand that “to
varying degrees some of us are
still suffering from that
experience.”
Peggy will think about those
days, too: “We were trying to
make it better for our guys, who
are still our guys no matter
what.”
But Youngkin and his team
tried something new after the
Supreme Court gave states the
right to outlaw abortion last year
and a backlash to the ruling hurt
republicans across the country in
midterm elections months later.
Youngkin embraced what he
billed as a compromise between
total bans adopted in some states
and the laws on Virginia’s books,
which allow abortion for any rea-
son through the second trimester
(about 26 weeks) and in the third
only if three doctors agree it’s
needed to preserve the mother’s
life or health.
He proposed banning abortion
after 15 weeks, with exceptions for
rape, incest and when the life of
the mother is at risk.
Several republicans backing
Kilgore said they had no beef with
Youngkin for staking out that po-
sition for himself, but said they
objected to aggressive TV and
mail ads promoting that in their
districts. Some said they agreed
with the message but not the
intense emphasis on it or the
timing; the TV ad rolled out after
some delegates believed they had
sufficiently responded to Demo-
crats’ attacks on that topic and
had turned the page to new
issues, such as crime.
Youngkin’s approach initially
drew some favorable national
reviews, with neutral political
observers speculating that by pro-
posing limits less severe than
those adopted in the rest of the
South since the fall of Roe, he
might have found a way to stave
off an abortion rights blue wave.
Even after Tuesday, some ob-
servers say he might have done
just that.
“VA-Dems went all out on abor-
tion against the GoP and only
won the legislature by 1% of the
vote after a favorable redistrict-
ing map for them,” conservative
Erick Erickson wrote on X. “The
VA-GoP compromise probably
mitigated the attacks.”
rNC Chairwoman ronna mc-
Daniel claimed on the “ruthless”
podcast the day after the election
that the party did not put enough
emphasis on abortion.
“I watched all the ads in Vir-
ginia, the candidates on our side
did not address [abortion],” she
said, prompting sharp pushback
from Spirit staffers, who tweeted
headlines about Youngkin’s focus
on the issue.
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After four decades, co-owners of a D.C. apartment complex are ready to move on
vArgAs from C1
Joanne Jenkins showed up in
1971. Washington came a year
later. Then in 1983, Bettie Perry
joined them. The rent at the
time was $89.50 a month. “I still
have the receipts,” Jenkins said.
That year, the owner decided
to sell the building and, by law,
had to give the tenants a chance
to buy it. The Post article
detailed how that sale took
place: The four women, along
with Hendricks’s older sister,
maud Patterson, and Timothy
Harmon, a Howard University
student, purchased the building.
They couldn’t afford an attorney
at the time, so they sought help
from University Legal Services.
The nonprofit organization
helped them complete the
purchase in part by persuading
the city to lend them $46,780
toward the price of the building,
which they had to repay only if
they sold it within five years, and
$50,000 toward rehabilitating
the building, an amount that
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U-Md. condemns antisemitic messages during pro-Palestinian protest
BY S USAN S VRLUGA
The University of maryland on
friday denounced “hateful, anti-
semitic sentiments” expressed
during a pro-Palestinian protest a
day earlier, and said campus po-
lice had launched an investiga-
tion.
The university also said offi-
cials were conducting “real-time
threat assessments” to hold peo-
ple accountable, according to the
statement posted on the social
media site X, formerly known as
Twitter.
The school’s statement did not
detail the incident but said the
messages were expressed during
a Thursday demonstration orga-
nized by Students for Justice in
Palestine. Photos apparently
from the College Park campus
showed a chalk message, “HoLo-
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shared vision for the county —
not only as a beacon of Black
wealth and upward mobility but
as a destination for transforma-
tive development that for so long
has passed the county by.
“This equitable selection by
the GSA means so much more
than another building,” said
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University Legal Services still
helps D.C. residents with
housing. Executive Director
Jane Brown said the
organization now focuses less on
facilitating purchases of
properties and more on helping
people maintain and renovate
buildings that were bought
decades ago with the city’s
assistance. That allows
affordable housing to remain
available to city residents.
Brown said the women’s
building gave them and their
families stable housing for 40
years, and that’s a “great
success.” She also said they have
the right to decide now what
makes the most sense for their
situation.
“If it wasn’t for our health and
these steps, I wouldn’t be selling
today,” Washington said.
“I’m ready to go,” said Jenkins,
whose niece now also lives in an
apartment in the building. “I’m
tired of fighting for a parking
CAUST 2.0.”
Jonathan Allen, who works in
government relations for the
Anti-Defamation League, shared
a photo and video of the incident
online friday.
In an interview, Allen said that
he was not on campus Thursday
but that the images were shared
with him by a student he knows
who told him she didn’t feel safe
on campus. The images resonat-
ed with Allen, who was U-md.
student body president from 2018
to 2019. The response from uni-
versity leaders was unequivocal,
he said. But despite the powerful
words, some students are still
uncomfortable, given the graffiti
they are seeing and expressions
they are hearing, Allen said.
The Anti-Defamation League
of Washington said it was deeply
disturbed by the graffiti in a post
Alsobrooks, who is running for
U.S. Senate. “Now that the fBI is
coming home to Prince George’s
County, we are all overjoyed to
watch as our community flour-
ishes.”
The GSA ended a more than
decade-long fight over the fBI
headquarters when it picked
Greenbelt over two other sites,
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A clipping of the 1986 Washington Post article on the building’s
purchase. Three of the women pictured still live there.
spot,” she said. “Now, we have
this big opportunity to get
something out of all we’ve put
in.”
on social media friday.
University of maryland
spokeswoman Katie Lawson said
organizers from the pro-Palestin-
ian event had chalked over the
“HoLoCAUST 2.0” message
when they were alerted to it, and
that university staff had then
permanently removed it.
The U-md. statement affirmed
support for free expression while
condemning antisemitic rheto-
ric. “The offensive actions of a
few should not reflect on the vast
majority of protesters who were
there to peacefully express their
views,” officials wrote, “but there
is no place for any antisemitic
message, behavior or action at
the University of maryland.”
The state’s flagship university
was one of many campuses across
the country that has faced fierce
divides and bitter protests over
documents ranked Greenbelt
first on five criteria — the
weighting of which sparked
fierce debate among the politi-
cians fighting for the project —
except for proximity to the fBI’s
facility in Quantico.
fBI Director Christopher A.
Wray said in an internal email to
employees that he had concerns
about the selection process, pro-
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The women, who all worked
full-time jobs until retiring, said
it wasn’t always easy to hold
onto the building. Hendricks
the Israel-Gaza war.
As those tensions boil over,
students, alumni, faculty and do-
nors at many schools have called
on university leaders to take a
stand — or to amend the messag-
es already sent.
on friday, the University of
California president, michael V.
Drake, and the 10 University of
California chancellors issued a
joint statement to “condemn the
alarming, profoundly disap-
pointing acts of bigotry, intoler-
ance, and intimidation we have
seen on our campuses over these
past several weeks.” They wrote
that both antisemitism and
Islamaphobia would not be toler-
ated, and that while free expres-
sion would be protected, there
were limits.
“our campuses have and will
continue to impose consequences
viding ammunition to Virginia
leaders hoping to change the
outcome.
maryland’s leaders, however,
spent most of friday affirming
why they believe Greenbelt is the
best choice and vowing to make
sure the community gets its due.
“While we’re a wealthy county
by national standards, in the
region, there are those who look
at Prince George’s County as the
less affluent jurisdiction,” David
Iannucci, president and chief
executive of Prince George’s
County Economic Development
Corporation, said in an inter-
view.
Prince George’s County has a
median household income of just
over $91,000, trailing the Dis-
trict and fairfax, Loudoun and
montgomery counties on that
same metric, according to census
data.
The county’s standing will
change, Iannucci said.
“We’re already a different
county today than we were yes-
terday because of the decision,”
he said. “This changes Prince
George’s County in real terms
and in branding.”
The GSA estimated that the
timeline for closing on the
Greenbelt property would be
nine months and projected a gap
of nearly three years between the
closing date and the start of
construction, according to the
site selection decision.
With so many requirements to
fulfill, Iannucci projected it
could take slightly more than
three years for construction to
begin for the building he sees
having “generational change” at-
tached to it.
The agency’s current head-
quarters at the J. Edgar Hoover
building, a hulking edifice that
occupies an entire block of prime
real estate in downtown Wash-
ington, is falling apart and
doesn’t meet the agency’s secu-
rity requirements.
Greenbelt, a small city of
about 25,000 people, has waited
in limbo for more than a decade
while trying to figure out how to
grow the area, said reelected
mayor Emmett V. Jordan. Green-
the washington post
and Washington recalled
walking long distances over the
years to get to government
offices to sign checks and
paperwork. They also had to stay
on top of maintenance work that
was needed.
“It was like a second job,”
Washington said.
“We went to every meeting
the government held,”
Hendricks said. “We used to go
to Southeast, Northeast,
everywhere.”
During that time, they
watched the neighborhood
change from one where drug use
happened openly in the streets
(and a man would sing in their
stairwell nightly) to one where
the loudest sounds some
afternoons are children
laughing as they walk home
from school. But it’s not only the
outside of the building that has
grown quieter. Hendricks’s
apartment was where everyone
in the building used to gather.
During holidays and normal
days, her table was often topped
on behavior that crosses the line
into unprotected speech, such as
persistent harassment of individ-
uals or groups, or credible threats
of physical violence,” they wrote.
Lawson said the vast majority
of vigils, teach-ins and demon-
strations at U-md. since the war
began have been peaceful and
respectful. She shared a recent
message from maryland Hillel
praising positive dialogue on
campus.
The U-md. chapter of Students
for Justice in Palestine had called
for a protest on campus Thursday
to advocate for a cease-fire in the
Israel-Gaza war and to reiterate
demands to the university. “Stand
on the right side of history
AGAINST GENoCIDE,” SJP
wrote on an Instagram post pro-
moting the demonstration.
Leaders of the group did not
belt, he noted, has been ripe for
change since it was created by
President franklin D. roosevelt’s
resettlement Administration as
part of the New Deal in 1937 — a
planned community that was
initially only open to White resi-
dents.
Greenbelt has taken action to
correct previous harm to minori-
ty communities by establishing a
reparations commission, voting
in its first Black woman council
member and electing what will
be the first majority-female
council. more recently, the ma-
jority of voters in the city said
they would approve of voting
eligibility in city elections for
noncitizens.
“Greenbelt’s evolved over
time,” Jordan said.
maryland leaders on friday
credited Alsobrooks’s predeces-
sor, rushern L. Baker III, with
making the case for the fBI to
come to Greenbelt early in the
process; part of a broader effort
Baker oversaw to bolster the
reputation of a county mired in
political scandal.
officials noted his focus on
luring businesses needed to di-
versify the tax base and his
efforts to lure amenities for
county residents tired of watch-
ing the shops they wanted go
elsewhere.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-md.) reit-
erated friday that part of the
mission in bringing the fBI to
maryland is rectifying what
maryland leaders saw as long-
standing unfair distribution of
federal resources.
“This county was overlooked
for many years on the types of
federal facilities that we saw in
the Washington area,” Cardin
said.
Even with the elation of top
officials, some residents have
qualms about what the massive
project might bring.
District 4 Prince George’s
County Council member Ingrid
S. Watson said her constituents
have expressed concerns about
the potential impact on schools
in the area if families relocate
nearby to be close to the head-
quarters.
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with food and surrounded by
people.
“I loved having parties,” she
said. “I loved cooking. I loved
having people all around me.
You can imagine how I feel some
days now having no one around
me.”
When they sell the building,
Hendricks plans to move into a
senior housing complex in the
city. Perry plans to go with her,
and Washington hopes to follow
them. (Jenkins said she wants to
find a one-story house in
maryland.)
“Whatever building they go
to, they need me,” Washington
said. “And I need them. I’m
going to miss my family. I’m
going to miss this building. I’m
going to miss it.”
She said she recently had a
dream that assured her that
selling the building was the right
decision.
“I know it’s going to be a
happy ending for us all,” she
said. “The thing is, I’m not ready
for the ending.”
respond to a request for comment
friday. Last month, a coalition of
student groups at U-md. posted a
statement saying they condemn
the loss of innocent life but de-
cried what they called university
leaders’ silence about “ongoing
ethnic cleansing and genocide of
Palestinians” and asked the ad-
ministration to heed students’
call to end “the indiscriminate
killing of Palestinians in Gaza.”
Leaders of the Jewish Student
Union and Terps for Israel at
U-md. could not be reached for
comment friday. Photos from
campus showed many students
draped in Israeli flags at a dem-
onstration using red balloons
tied to empty folding chairs sym-
bolizing people taken hostage.
Bryan Pietsch contributed to this
report.
With years to go before walls
are slated to rise on the site
outside the Greenbelt metro sta-
tion, Virginia officials pledged to
continue fighting the move, rais-
ing questions about the selection
process. Sen. mark r. Warner,
(D-Va.) has called for an inspec-
tor general review of the
decision.
Jeffrey C. mcKay, chair of
fairfax County’s board of super-
visors, accused metro officials
friday of “putting their hand on
the scale,” drawing attention to a
September 2022 decision in
which the metro Board author-
ized staff to negotiate a joint
development agreement with the
GSA for the sale of up to 40-acres
of metro property at the Green-
belt metro station without hold-
ing a competitive solicitation.
mcKay said he complained
about the legal procedure ahead
of that vote by the board, which
includes officials from Virginia,
maryland, D.C. and the federal
government. The move, he said,
made it seem like the site had
more regional support than it
did.
“It seems like an unnecessary
legal step that was made only by
design to make it appear like it
had the full support of metro
and, therefore, the full support of
the region,” mcKay said about
the agreement for the GSA to
develop as many as 40 acres at
the Greenbelt site, adding that
he requested without success
that the vote on the agreement
be deferred until after the GSA
made its decision.
In a statement, metro Board
Chairman Paul Smedberg said,
“The Board of Directors did not
have any involvement in GSA’s
selection decision” and neither
did metro staff. “Additionally,
metro was made aware of this
news when it was made public.”
mcKay countered, “They
might not have been involved in
the negotiations but they were
involved in terms of signaling
support of the Greenbelt site to
the GSA.”
antonio olivo and Justin george
contributed to this report.
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obituaries
Lyn McLain leads the D.C. Youth Orchestra Program in a rehearsal
in 2004. A “no-nonsense” teacher, he founded the program in 1960.
Lyn McLain, 95
By teaching D.C. youth
music, he diversified
American orchestras
BY E MILY L ANGER
Lyn McLain, who brought
classical music into the lives of
tens of thousands of young
people as founder of the D.C.
Youth Orchestra Program, an
initiative that has risen over six
decades to international re-
nown and was credited with
diversifying the ranks of sym-
phony orchestras across the
United States, died Oct. 25 at his
home in Washington. He was
95.
The cause was end-stage re-
nal disease, said his wife, Sally
McLain.
Trained as a clarinetist, Mr.
McLain began his career as a
union musician before realizing
in his mid-20s that he wanted
“something else,” he said —
something other than the night-
clubs, weddings and other gigs
where he had made his living to
that point.
He gave up his itinerant life
and settled in Washington,
where he was hired in 1956 as a
music teacher at Calvin
Coolidge High School. Four
years later, on the request of the
D.C. public schools system, he
founded what became the D.C.
Youth Orchestra Program
(DCYOP).
From an initial cohort of 60
members who met at Coolidge
High, DCYOP has grown over 63
years to enroll a total of more
than 50,000 students from the
District, Maryland and Virginia,
many of them minorities, and
many of whom might not other-
wise have had the opportunity
to learn to play an instrument.
DCYOP, which now meets at
Takoma Elementary School in
Northwest Washington, pro-
vides group classes for children
as young as 41/2 and beginning,
intermediate and advanced
training through elementary,
middle and high school. Rather
than subjecting interested stu-
dents to auditions for his en-
sembles, Mr. McLain accepted
everyone who applied.
“The door’s open,” he told The
Washington Post in 2001. “Any-
one who wants to come in,
comes in.”
But once they came in, Mr.
McLain demanded from his stu-
dents excellence and discipline,
with rehearsals on school
nights and Saturdays and long
hours of practice in the
summer.
“He was a no-nonsense guy,
and that’s what set the trajecto-
ry for me in music today,” John
Wineglass, an Emmy Award-
winning composer who played
with DCYOP, principally as a
violist, from age 6 until his
graduation from the District’s
Banneker High School in 1990.
The DCYOP operated on
what a Post reporter once de-
scribed as “a budget thinner
than a violin string,” with fund-
ing from D.C. Public Schools,
foundation grants and other
donations. During its most diffi-
cult periods, costs outstripped
revenue.
But through relentless fund-
raising, Mr. McLain managed to
take his ensembles to the Ken-
nedy Center, the White House
and on tours around the world
— to Europe, Asia, Latin Ameri-
ca, the Soviet Union and Africa.
“It changed the lives of so
many students,” said Kenneth
Whitley, who played cello with
DCYOP while a student at
Montgomery Blair High School
in Silver Spring, Md., in the late
1970s and later became a con-
ductor with the group. “It gave
students in this area access to
something that was not avail-
able to them prior.”
Beyond changing the lives of
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students, Mr. McLain was cred-
ited with helping, slowly, to
change the largely White world
of classical music. In 1990, Post
music critic Joseph McLellan
reported that DCYOP had
trained a quarter of minority
musicians working in American
orchestras at the time.
“Major orchestras are not
going to have what would be
considered a reasonable repre-
sentation with minorities,” said
Mr. McLain, “until the educa-
tional process makes these
things available.”
Evaluating the work of DCY-
OP, McLellan wrote that while
“others may be more presti-
gious, and some are certainly
more affluent,” there is “no
musical institution in the Dis-
trict of Columbia . . . more im-
portant than the Youth Sym-
phony Orchestra.”
Linwood Gerald McLain was
born in Binghamton, N.Y., on
April 17, 1928. His parents, both
amateur musicians, worked for
a shoe manufacturer, his father
in the warehouse and his moth-
er as a seamstress.
Mr. McLain studied music
from an early age, learning to
play instruments including the
piano in addition to the clari-
net. As a teenager, he played in a
local orchestra. He continued
his music studies at Ithaca Col-
lege in New York, receiving a
bachelor’s degree in 1952 and a
master’s degree in 1958.
Mr. McLain was based for a
period in New York City while
he traveled around the country
working gigs. “I was a regular
union musician,” he told The
Post. “I played in New Jersey, I
played ’em in Brooklyn, played
’em in upper Manhattan . . . in
the Catskills.”
He was on a stop in Moline,
Ill., when he encountered a
tenor saxophone player three
decades his senior. After speak-
ing with the man, Mr. McLain
recalled, he thought to himself,
“Geez, you know, here I’m about
24 or 25, and [I realize] I may
very well look at this same scene
when I’m 56, just like he is, and I
don’t really want to do that.”
Mr. McLain moved to Wash-
ington to study music at Catho-
lic University. He was soon
hired at Coolidge High School
and retired from DCYOP in
2006, after nearly half a century
with the program.
DCYOP alumni include John
McLaughlin Williams and the
late Michael Morgan, both con-
ductors; Daniel Foster, princi-
pal violist with the National
Symphony Orchestra; Timothy
Butler, a cellist with the NSO;
the saxophonist Marshall Keys;
and trumpet player and com-
poser Chris Royal.
Alumni outside professional
music include D.C. Mayor Muri-
el E. Bowser, who played the
flute.
Mr. McLain’s marriages to
Phyllis Long and Sandra Brig-
nole ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of
39 years, the former Sally Stout,
a violinist, of Washington; a son
from his second marriage, Kev-
in McLain of Wilmington, N.C.;
three children from his third
marriage, Patrick McLain and
Sean McLain, both of Washing-
ton, and Kathleen McLain of El
Cerrito, Calif.; and a sister.
“Once you accomplish some-
thing, that can become a habit,”
Mr. McLain told The Post, re-
flecting on his hopes — and his
expectations — for his young
musicians. “Just as not accom-
plishing something can become
a habit. . . . Kids will really do
something if you give them
something that they consider
worth it.”
IN MEMORIAM
FREEDMAN
LINDA FREEDMAN
Born: December 20, 1942Died: Novem-
ber 12, 2020Loved and missed every day
by your adoring famly
and countless friends
DEATH NOTICE
ARTHUR
GUY B. ARTHUR (Age 84)
Born in New Rochelle, NY on October 2,
1939, passed on November 6, 2023 in Ash-
burn, VA. Retired Federal Judge and Col.
USAF. Survived by his son, daughter-in-law
and grandson. A Mass will be celebrated
at St. John Neumann Catholic Church,
11900 Lawyers Rd., Reston, VA 20191 on
Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 11 a.m.,
with visitation at 10 a.m. Interment at Ar-
lington National Cemetery at a later date.
Visit www.AdamsGreen.com for a more in
depth obituary.
BRABBLE
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS BRABBLE
On Thursday, October 19, 2023 Elizabeth
peacefully transitioned in Rockville, MD.
She is survived by her devoted children
Cordelia Sam, Valerie Dorsey, Celestine
Brabble, and William W. Brabble, Jr; her
loving grandchildren Joseph Weaver, Jr.
(Nazish), Jason Gardner, Sheree Carter
(Walter), Khalid Bostick, Thornton Brown
IV (Jeanine), Bryanna Brown, Ruby Roane,
dear sisters Mayetta Brockman, and Har-
riet Elliott and a host of great grand, and
great-great-grandchildren, family and
friends. On Friday, November 17 a visi-
tation will be held from 10 a.m. until the
Memorial Service hour 11 a.m. at the New
Vision Fellowship Church, 2100 Ritchie Rd.,
District Hts., MD Condolences to
www.pridgenfuneralservice.com
CANNON
COL. DANIEL P. CANNON
On Saturday, October 28,
2023, of Germantown, MD;
Retired Colonel of the U.S.
Air Force passed away. Born
in Bethlehem, PA in 1934 to
James and Helen Cannon and
graduated Lehigh University. Daniel is sur-
vived by his loving wife of 61 years, Anna
Cannon; his three children, Mike Cannon,
Mark Cannon, and Dawn Michelle Messier;
and two grandchildren, Robert, and Sa-
mantha Messier. Dan was deeply loved by
his family and friends.
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of
Earth… Put out my hand, and touched the
face of God.” Friends and family may call
at DeVol Funeral Home, 10 East Deer Park
Drive, Gaithersburg, MD on Wednesday,
November 15, 2023, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
In lieu of flowers and memorial donations,
please leave a kind memory of Daniel on
his obituary at
www.DeVolFuneralHome.com
BLOBAUM
ROGER JOHN BLOBAUM
Roger John Blobaum died in Washington, DC
on October 29, 2023, after a long illness.
He was born in Nebraska to Gus and Rosella
Blobaum in 1929, the eldest of eight chil-
dren. He worked on the farm every day from
the age of five, which gave him a profound
understanding of and empathy with families
on small farms. He attended a one-room
elementary school and a small rural high
school in Arispe, Iowa. He then volunteered
for his then-required military service. He
then attended a junior college in Creston,
Iowa, and ultimately graduated from the
Iowa State University, where he was a mem-
ber of the Farmhouse Fraternity.
His later years of college were interrupted
by a call to active duty during the Korean
War. He served in the administration of a
military hospital in Japan.
Roger earned an M.A. in journalism and
politics at the University of Wisconsin at
Madison. During this time, he worked for
the Capital Times, where he covered stories
ranging from Badger football to national
politics.
He then joined the Associated Press bureau
in Chicago as an editor. This position led to
a scholarship from the American Political
Science Association to work for a year for
members of Congress. He chose to remain
in Washington, where he worked for several
members of Congress, becoming especial-
ly close to Senator Hubert Humphrey and
Senator William Nelson. He served as a
CATRON
SARA JANE CATRON
Sara Jane Catron, MA, passed away at 89
years on November 5, 2023, in Ashburn VA.
She was born in 1934 in New York, NY. Jane
was preceded in death by her beloved hus-
band John. She is survived by her younger
brother John Maher and his wife Lucy of
Keene NH, cousin Patti Kaiser and her hus-
band Chris of Reston, VA, cousins Jack and
Aileen Holland of Alton Bay, NH and many
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DEATH NOTICE
EDMONDSON
MARK PRESTON EDMONDSON
Mark Preston Edmondson died on Septem-
ber 11, 2023 at his home in Los Angeles,
CA. Mark was born on November 27, 1968
and grew up in Fairfax City, VA. He loved
music and played four musical instru-
ments. After moving to Los Angeles, he
worked as an audio engineer in television
and won an Emmy in 2009 for his work on
Sound Design and Mixing for the Oscars.
Mark was the son of Frank Edmondson
and brother of Amy Edmondson. He was
predeceased by his mother, Marigusse Ed-
mondson.
A Celebration of Life will be held on No-
vember 18, 11 a.m. at Cherrydale United
Methodist Church, 3701 Lorcom Lane in
Arlington. A reception will follow in the
church social hall.
FLANAGAN
SUSAN JEAN FLANAGAN
In Loving Memory
Susan Jean Flanagan, born on September
21, 1949, in Pittsburgh, PA, left this world
on October 7, 2023, at the Riderwood Se-
nior Living Community in Silver Spring, MD.
Susan was the beloved daughter of Mary
Louise Flanagan and Thomas Mark Flana-
gan. She joined them and her sister, Marlie,
in the afterlife, leaving behind her surviving
brother, Mark Flanagan, sister-in-law Patri-
cia Paterno, brother-in-law Joe Bauer and
a wonderful group of cousins, nieces and
nephews.
Susan Jean’s life was a testament to
strength, resilience, and a deep love for
family. Known for her love of the outdoors,
Susan Jean found solace and joy in the
beauty of nature. She had a special affec-
tion for animals, particularly cats, and was
known to have a house filled with feline
friends, each one holding a special place
in her heart. For three decades, Susan Jean
dedicated herself to public service, serving
as a traffic enforcement officer for the City
of College Park, MD. Her commitment to
her work was unmatched. Her proficiency
in writing traffic tickets made her a stand-
out!
A celebration of Susan Jean Flanagan’s
life will be held on Monday, November 14,
2023, at Riderwood Chapel. In lieu of flow-
ers, the family requests that donations be
made by check to: “Riderwood Benevolent
Care Fund” in Susan’s name, mailed to: Ri-
derwood Philanthropy Dept., 3110 Grace-
field Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20904
FREEMAN
ELLSWORTH FREEMAN “Sandy”
On October 21, 2023, husband of Ann
Freeman, father of Veronica, Michael and
Sabrina Freeman, and grandfather of Kobe
Driver. Mass will be held on Thursday, No-
vember 16, at St. Thomas More Catholic
Church, 4275 4th St. SE, Washington, DC.
viewing at 10 a.m. followed by service at
11 a.m. Interment will follow at Chelten-
ham Veterans Cemetery. Attendees are en-
couraged to wear their favorite basketball
shoes in honor of Sandy.
When the
need arises,
let families
find you in the
Funeral Services
Directory.
To be seen in the
Funeral Services
Directory, please call
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202-334-4122.
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speech writer for Senator Humphrey and
was a Deputy Press Secretary in Senator
Humphrey’s subsequent campaigns for Vice
President and held various positions in the
Humphrey presidential campaign.
He then opened his own consulting busi-
ness that focused on family farms and,
eventually, organic agriculture. The scope
of his contributions to organic agriculture
is evident from the size and scope of the
papers he donated to the Wisconsin State
Historical Society, which became the core of
a growing collection of organic agricultural
materials from persons across the United
States. Roger was honored by the University
of Wisconsin College of Agriculture & Life
Sciences with an award for his work in or-
ganic agriculture.
Roger is survived by the five children born
to Roger and his first wife: Christopher from
Atlanta; Elizabeth from Tuscon; Mathew
from Lincoln; Gregory from Tuscon; and Ree-
sa from San Francisco.
Roger is also survived by his wife of for-
ty-two years, Frances R. Hill, a professor of
law.
Services are to be private.
more extended family and friends.
Jane was a serious student of poetry and
American and Russian literature. Teaching
was her passion. Jane’s career included
over thirty years of teaching high school
English. To young public-school children,
she taught religious education at her par-
ish, St. Joseph’s Church in Herndon VA. Her
classes for adults through George Mason’s
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute were well
received and regularly sold out. She also
was a Docent at the Folger Shakespeare Li-
brary in Washington, DC. When a high school
class came there for a tour, she would enlist
a few volunteers from the class to teach
them a scene from a Shakespeare play. At
the end of the visit they would all assemble
in the theater and the newly minted actors
and actresses would perform the piece! She
made learning fun! Parents, young students,
and adult learners all recognized her gifted
teaching ability, and many gave her credit
for their love of poetry.
A Mass will be celebrated at St. John Neu-
mann Church, 11900 Lawyers Road, Reston,
VA 20191 on Monday, November 13, 2023
at 11 a.m. Interment Chestnut Grove Cem-
etery, Herndon, VA. Arrangements by Ad-
ams-Green Funeral Home.
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BURNSIDE
WALDO HOWARD BURNSIDE
Waldo Howard Burnside, husband, father,
grandfather and great-grandfather, passed
away peacefully on November 5, 2023, his
95th birthday, while his family surrounded
him with love. Throughout his long life, he
was a beacon of light for his kindness, gen-
erosity of spirit, and humble service to his
family and communities.
In a life marked by business leadership and
civic engagement, Waldo’s major interest
was his family. He met Jean Culbert, his wife-
to-be, in high school. They went to the Uni-
versity of Maryland at the same time and af-
ter they graduated, were married on June 24,
1950. As of this year they were married for
73 years. They were blessed along the way
with four children, 11 grandchildren, and ten
great-grandchildren.
Waldo was born in Washington, DC and
raised in Hyattsville Maryland where he at-
tended Hyattsville Elementary School and
Hyattsville High School. He then enrolled
in the Business College of the University of
Maryland in 1945 and graduated in 1949.
He joined the Gamma Chi Chapter of Sigma
Chi Fraternity. After graduation he became
a member of their alumni chapter and was
the recipient of the Significant Sig Award. He
was also a member of the Phi Kappa Honor
Society,
After college he entered the business com-
munity when he joined Woodward & Lothrop,
a department store in the retail industry in
Washington, DC. There he worked in various
capacities including Trainee, Buyer, EVP of
Merchandising and Sales Promotion as well
as Chief Operating Officer and President.
In 1980 he left Woodies to join Carter, Haw-
ley, Hale as Vice-Chairman and Chief Operat-
ing Officer, and he and Jean moved to Los An-
geles. He retired in 1991 as President. They
continued to live in Los Angeles until 2018
when, after 38 event-filled years, he and Jean
moved back to Maryland.
Over the years, though the children migrated
to various parts of the country, Waldo and
Jean cherished bringing the whole family
together at Christmas and, for decades, in
summer to gathering at their beach house
HUTCHISON
LYNNE CRITES HUTCHISON (Age 76)
Lynne Crites Hutchison died Saturday, No-
vember 4, 2023, at Fair Oaks Inova Hospital.
She was born December 26, 1946, in Haver-
hill, MA, to John Crites and Ruth (Giles).
As a child, she appeared on local Massachu-
setts television as Jolly the Elf, in The Lady
and the Bookshelf.
After the family moved to Virginia, Lynne
attended James Madison High School in
Vienna, VA, where she met the man she
would spend her life with. Fred remembers
noticing her for the first time when she was
performing a pantomime of “Mention My
Name in Sheboygan” during a school talent
show. They snuck a kiss whenever they saw
a rabbit and had regular dates at Conrad’s,
where Lynne worked (and, showing her true
self even from a young age, she got repri-
manded for making kids’ ice cream cones
too big). They married on August 20, 1966,
and marked their 57th anniversary earlier
this year. They remained close with many
other members of JMHS’s class of ‘64.
Lynne attended the Washington School for
Secretaries and held the same job through-
out her career, as secretary to the Animal
Welfare Institute and personal secretary to
its founder and chairperson, Christine Ste-
vens.
When it came time to start a family, Lynne
made arrangements to do her work from
MINARIK
EILEEN MINARIK
Eileen Marie Dowds Minarik passed away
November 2, 2023. Eileen was a Montes-
sori early childhood educator, touching
hundreds of lives over almost half a cen-
tury, beginning as a supportive parent and
advancing to become a teacher, teacher
trainer, and eventually a school founder and
principal. The capstone of her career began
in 1994 when Eileen founded Sunset Hills
Montessori School (SHMS), with the mission
to offer a staff that is dedicated to inspiring
each student to realize his or her potential;
to foster independence of thought and tol-
erance for the ideas, beliefs and cultures of
other peoples; to give children a joy of learn-
ing to last a lifetime; and to work in partner-
ship with parents to create a caring school
community where the child comes first. In
2003, after success in her original location,
Eileen took the giant leap of purchasing
the former United Christian Parish church
on South Lakes Drive in Reston, vastly ex-
panding the school’s capacity and quality.
The reach and depth of her commitment
to quality, principled education was such
that, beyond the success and happiness of
hundreds of individual students, over recent
MOTLEY
LANGHORNE ANTHONY MOTLEY
“Tony”
Langhorne “Tony” Anthony Motley passed
away peacefully at home with his daughters
by his side on October 14, 2023. Tony was
born on June 5, 1938, in Rio de Janeiro, Bra-
zil. As a son of an American expatriate, Tony
graduated from The Citadel in 1960 with
a degree in political science and a regular
commission in the United States Air Force.
While in the Air Force, he met Judith “Judy”
Jones, and they were married on April 8,
1967. After 10 years in the Air Force, Tony
completed his military service while living
in Anchorage, Alaska. He began a career in
real estate and also served on the Board
of Directors of the Alaska National Bank of
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in Fenwick Island, Delaware, building bonds
of affection, making memories, and giving
generous and gentle guidance to the young-
er generations on everything from education
to golf.
Following his graduation from the University
of Maryland, his Alumni activities included
serving as a Board Member and President of
the Terrapin Club, Member of the Business
School Hall of Fame, Trustee of the Board
of Visitors and Trustee of the Maryland C.P.
Foundation. His community activities on civic
and corporate boards included the Suburban
Trust Company Bank, the Better Business
Bureau, and Blue Shield. While he was still in
California he continued to work with the Uni-
versity of Maryland to set up Alumni Groups
in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange Coun-
ty and San Diego. In 2013 he and Jean re-
ceived the Spirit of Maryland Award from the
Alumni Association.
In California, Waldo’s community activities
included serving on the Board of Directors of
Security Pacific Bank, the Los Angeles Cham-
ber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Sports
Council, the Southern California Automobile
Club Association as well as the national
board of the AAA.
His interest in healthcare led to a volunteer
effort with Saint John’s Healthcare Foun-
dation as a Trustee as well as the Hospital
Board in Santa Monica for a number of years.
In 2009 he and his wife Jean received the
Spirit of Saint Johns Award.
Waldo was an avid sports fan and followed
his beloved Terps to any number of football
games (including Bowl Games) and basket-
ball games (including ACC tournaments).
Clearly his major preference in sports was
golf which he enjoyed playing at Columbia
Country Club in Maryland, Los Angeles Coun-
try Club (President) and Pine Valley Golf Club
(NJ), as well as trips to Scotland and Ireland.
He also managed to attend the Olympic
Games in Montreal, Los Angeles, Barcelona,
and Atlanta.
Mr. Burnside was predeceased by his moth-
er, Eleanor Tavenner, his father Waldo Burn-
side, and a sister Virginia Burnside Cox. He
is survived by his wife Jean and his four chil-
dren – Diane, Leslie (Joe), Arlene (Greg), and
Bill, his 11 grandchildren – Gretchen, Drew,
George, Lauren, Jaime, Katie, Tony, Michael,
Brian, Phil, Rachel, and his 10 great grand-
children. His presence and mentorship will
be sorely missed by all.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday,
November 17 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Gawlers Fu-
neral Home in Washington, DC. A memorial
service will be held on November 18 at 10
a.m. at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Poto-
mac, Maryland. Interment will be limited to
family. Memorial contributions may be made
to the University of Maryland CP Foundation
(giving.umd.edu/giving)
home, so she could be there when her
children got home from school. Lynne was
a proud mother to Nan (Patricia Hutchison)
Curran and Dr. Laura Hutchison. She loved
nothing more than being Nana to her grand-
daughter Hannah (Curran) Matthews and
Old Nana to her great-grandson, Kayden
Matthews.
Lynne was an avid reader, and you rarely
saw her without a book, or later a Kindle, in
her hand. She enjoyed watching MSNBC and
getting furious at the state of the world. She
was an active member of the Rockin’ Ru-
bies & Rhinestones chapter of the Red Hat
Society. She looked forward to her Red Hat
events and made some dear friends who
encouraged and supported her during her
health challenges in recent years.
She loved to knit and cross stitch. Her tal-
ents are on display in framed cross-stitched
gifts all over the country, and countless
babies have been swaddled and others
warmed by her knitted creations. She was a
long-time member of the knitting ministry of
her church, Providence Presbyterian.
Lynne was kind and thoughtful. She remem-
bered every birthday and anniversary and
loved making her own cards to send. When
her health was poor, or her printer wasn’t
working, she’d send e-greetings. And she
had already ordered everyone’s Thanksgiv-
ing hams.
In addition to her immediate family, Lynne is
survived by cousins she considered siblings,
brothers- and sisters-in-law, daughter-in-
law Molly, nieces, nephews and countless
friends. She will also be missed by her and
Fred’s beloved dog, Trouble.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be
no services. The family requests that every-
one raise a glass of Coke in her honor.
Donations may be made to the Animal Wel-
fare Institute, 900 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE,
Washington, DC 20003; Packages for Pree-
mies, P.O. Box 2155, Windsor, CA 95492;
Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
123 William Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY
10038; or the American Cancer Society, P.O.
Box 1749 Vienna, VA. 22183-1749. The on-
line guest book is available at
www.moneyandking.com
years she welcomed children of former stu-
dents to the school, and also added former
students to the SHMS staff. In both 2022 and
2023, Sunset Hills Montessori was voted the
best Montessori school in the Washing-
ton-Maryland-Virginia region by Washington
Parent magazine. Eileen served the commu-
nity through charitable work of the SHMS
PTA and the SHMS students themselves.
Eileen was a loving wife of almost 53 years
to Joseph John Minarik; the loving mother to
two daughters, Mara Minarik Perry (married
to Jim) and Sara Minarik Applegate (married
to Scott), and the doting grandmother of
Olivia Marie Perry, Preston Scott Applegate,
and Marley Page Applegate. While Olivia Ma-
rie Perry attended Montessori school near
her home in St. Louis, Missouri, Preston
Scott Applegate and Marley Page Applegate
completed their full Montessori educations
at Sunset Hills Montessori School. A virtual
memorial service and an in-person visitation
at Sunset Hills Montessori School to recog-
nize her life and contributions will be held
on Saturday, November 18, with details at
the website of Adams-Green Funeral Home.
www.adamsgreen.com
the North. In 1974, Tony went on to lead
the State of Alaska’s Commerce and Eco-
nomic Development Department and later
in 1977, he took charge of Citizens for the
Management of Alaska Lands. In 1981,Tony
was appointed United States Ambassador
to Brazil by President Ronald Reagan. He
later served as Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs. In 1985, Tony
left government service to found an inter-
national trade consulting firm. Secretary of
State George Shultz presented him with the
Department of State’s Distinguished Honor
Award upon his departure. From 1985 to
2003, Tony co-chaired the Department of
State’s ambassadorial seminars, which he
coined, “Charm School,” for first-time am-
bassadors. In 1999, Tony was appointed by
Secretary of State Madeline Albright to the
Overseas Presence Advisory Panel. He later
went on to serve on the executive commit-
tee of the Board of Directors of the Ameri-
can Academy of Diplomacy. Tony was pre-
ceded in death by Judy, his wife of 56 years,
who passed away in May. He is survived by
his daughters Allison Motley (Andrew) Ellis;
daughter Valerie Langhorne Motley (David
Warren); grandchildren Hunter Ellis, Tyler
Ellis, and Lilly Ellis.
A memorial service will be held on Janu-
ary 12, 2024, at the Mariner Sands Coun-
try Club in Stuart, FL and a burial of both
Tony and Judy at Arlington National Cem-
etery, date yet to be determined. In lieu of
flowers, please consider a donation to the
Autism Society of North Carolina (IGNITE
Raleigh),The Citadel Foundation, or the Mar-
iner Sands Foundation.
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HOOD
VIRGIL JACKSON HOOD (Age 96)
Passed away peacefully on October 14,
2023 in Washington, DC, while holding the
hands of his children. He is survived by his
daughter, Sandra H. Magwood; son, Virgil
J. Hood, Jr.; grandchildren; Kirsten Mag-
wood and Virgil J. Hood, III, other loving
relatives and friends. A celebration of life
will be held on Thursday, November 16,
2023 from 6 to 9 p.m. in Chevy Chase, MD.
Please RSVP to VJHtribute@gmail.com to
secure your attendance. Contributions can
be made to his tribute page to The Alzhei-
mer’s Association at Alz.org
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HUGHES
SHIRLEY TEMPLE (TURNER) HUGHES
Shirley Temple Turner of Arlington, Virginia.
She passed away peacefully in Little Rock,
Arkansas on October 24, 2023. was born
June 10, 1936 in Culpeper, Virginia to Tom
and Mildred Turner. She met and Married
John Hughes in 1956 and moved to her be-
loved Arlington, VA.
She retired from DC Public Schools as a
Purchasing Agent Supervisor and would
eventually work again at the FBI building
where she would retire again. Shirley’s
husband, John Hughes passed away in
1995 the following year she met Lloyde
England and they married in 2004.
Shirley is preceded in death by: husbands,
John Hughes and Lloyde England; son,
Meyer Hughes; stepdaughter, Dorothy
Brown; stepson, Lloyde “Drew” England;
grandson, Calvin Brown; brothers, Lee K.
Turner, Joe C. Turner, Karl B. Turner, Edward
Turner, and Tommy Turner; sisters, Ocie L.
Butler, Virginia Turner, Jean Turner Brock
Gray, Dorothy Jackson, and Virginia Bundy
Lane.
She is survived by one daughter, Felicia
Overton (Lawrence); stepson, John Hughes
(Martha); grandsons, Jovan (Sarah), Neville
(Bibi), Derrek (Trina), Malik, Nathaniel, and
Russell; granddaughters, Debra (Eric), Ro-
mona, and Violet; stepdaughters, Cerise,
Nancy, Phyllis and Florence; stepsons, Mi-
chael and Timothy; 18 great-grandchildren
along with a host of nieces, nephews. Ser-
vices will be held on November 16, 2023
11 a.m. at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 3500
South 19th Street, Arlington, Virginia.
JACKSON
EVELYN M. JACKSON
1926 - 2023
Evelyn passed away on November 5, 2023,
at her residence in Springfield, VA at the
age of 97. She was born September 2, 1926
in the old St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, Texas
to Col. Tom B. Miller and Irene Stein Miller.
Her grandparents were Lt. Gov. Barry Miller
and Minerva ‘Minnie’ Miller whose father
had built Millermore the ancestral home
now restored in Old City Park, Dallas, TX.
Evelyn spent her early years at Millermore
and is the last of the Miller Family to have
lived there. She married Billy Jones Jackson
following his graduation from SMU as a Lt.
in the Air Force. They spent 25 years in
the service moving 11 times before Lt. Col
Jackson’s death at Andrews Air Force Base
(Joint Base Andrews), Maryland in March,
1974. He is buried at Fort Sam Houston,
San Antonio, TX. Evelyn remained in Mary-
land and raised their five children. She is
also survived by her five grandchildren and
eight great grandchildren. Graveside cere-
mony will be private at The Fairfax Memo-
rial Park in Fairfax, VA.
JACKSON
JEAN DODSON JACKSON
August 14, 1932 – November 1, 2023
Peacefully entered eternal rest on Wednes-
day, November 1, 2023. Survived by three
children, other relatives and many friends.
Viewing will be held on Tuesday, Novem-
ber 14 at St. Margaret of Scotland Cath-
olic Church, 410 Addison Rd., S., Capitol
Heights, MD 20743 at 11 a.m. until Mass
of Christian Burial, 12 Noon. Interment pri-
vate.
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JENNINGS
JAMES JENNINGS JR.
James Jennings, Jr. peacefully transitioned
on Sunday, November 5, 2023. He is sur-
vived by his wife Theresa Jennings; sons
James (Jimmy) Jennings, III and Clifford
Billingslea. Family and friends may visit on
Thursday, November 16, 2023 from 10 a.m.
until time of service at 11 a.m. at Great-
er St. John Cathedral, 11425 Old Marlboro
Pike, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772.
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JOHNSON
CLAUDETTE JUNE JOHNSON
Claudette June Johnson of Washington, DC
passed away peacefully on Sunday, Octo-
ber 22, 2023 at the age of 75. Claudette
was born on May 16, 1948 in Georgetown
Guyana, South America and immigrated to
the United States in 1972. She settled to
build a home Washington, DC and enjoyed
working as a Chef for Marriott Corporation.
Her hobbies were gardening, and cooking.
Claudette is survived by her four children,
Philip, Gail, Joanne, and Claudette; and four
grandchildren Nina, Aidan, Aaron Jr. and
Noah. An evening visitation for Claudette
will be held on Friday, November 17, 2023
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Little Church on
Fort Lincoln Cemetery, 3401 Bladensburg
Road, Brentwood, MD 20722. A visitation
will occur on Saturday, November 18, 2023
at 11 a.m. A celebration of life will occur
on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 12 p.m.
Service of committal and interment will
occur on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at
1 p.m. at Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
KISTNER
PATRICIA MARY KISTNER
(Age 79)
On November 7, 2023, Patricia Mary Kistner
(née, Elliott), of The Villages, Florida passed
away of Corticobasal Degeneration. She
PETERSON
GAIL M. PETERSON
Gail passed away peacefully at her Ken-
wood home on October 31, 2023. She was
the loving and devoted daughter of Wallace
F. Peterson and Fay M. Peterson. She is sur-
vived by Randa Isbell, Shannon Isbell Blau,
Brad Isbell, and his wife, and their children
as well as long-time cherished friends.
Gail was a native Washingtonian born in
1943 and celebrated her 80th Birthday this
past July. She was a member of both Con-
gressional and Kenwood Country Clubs. She
graduated from National Cathedral School
in 1961 and continued her education at
Queens College. She obtained a B.A. in Pub-
lic Relations from The American University
in 1966. While studying at AU she enjoyed
her work on the school newspaper: “The
Eagle.”
After her first job in public relations with
Goodyear, Gail’s career shifted to the family
business which her father started in 1934.
She assumed ownership of the firm upon
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MCLAUGHLIN
WILLIAM J. MCLAUGHLIN Ph.D.
William J. McLaughlin, Ph.D. passed away
peacefully on November 6, 2023 in Reston,
VA at the age of 75.
Dr. Bill, as he was lovingly referred to, is
survived by his wife of 33 years, Molly L.
Gregory; his daughter Jennifer Merola (Da-
vid Merola) of Summit, NJ and son William
W. McLaughlin (Kristen McLaughlin) of Dan-
ville, VA. He had four grandchildren, Chris-
topher Merola, Mackenzie Merola, Jayden
Dagner and Riley Dagner, all of Summit,
NJ. He is also survived by his four siblings,
Mary Tierney of Clifton, NJ, Madeleine Brod
of Smithfield, ME, Eileen McLaughlin of Po-
tomac Falls, VA, and James McLaughlin of
Leonardtown, MD and 14 nieces and neph-
ews. He was predeceased by his daughter,
Meaghan Dagner (Tyrrell Dagner) of Sum-
mit, NJ.
Dr. Bill was born on July 31, 1948 in Brook-
lyn, New York to Dr. William J. McLaughlin
and Madeleine Clark.
He graduated from Brooklyn Prep in 1965,
Georgetown University in 1969, and later
earned his PhD from Catholic University. He
maintained a private practice for 40 years
in Vienna, Virginia, improving the lives of
everyone he came into contact with.
Dr. Bill was a family man and an accom-
plished home chef who enjoyed learning
new recipes. “The Commish” ran the fami-
ly March Madness pool each year, keeping
everybody entertained with his informa-
tive and witty emails. He loved being at
the family beach house in Jamesport, Long
Island with a crossword puzzle in front of
him. He became an avid fan of baseball
and kept the scorebook for each of Billy’s
games.
A celebration of life will be scheduled at a
later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial con-
tributions may be made to the Washington
Nationals Youth Academy.
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passed peacefully and in the presence of
her immediate family.
Patricia (Trish to many friends and family)
was born in Takoma Park, Maryland on June
29, 1944 to Thomas P. and Eleanor M. Elliott.
She grew up in Wheaton, MD and graduated
from Wheaton High School in 1962.
She married her high school sweetheart,
William “Bill” Kistner in September 1963,
living first in Rockville, MD before buying
their first house together in Wheaton, MD.
In retirement, Trish and Bill moved first to
Youngsville, NC, then to The Villages, FL.
Patricia was preceded in death by her par-
ents, Tom and Eleanor Elliott, and is survived
by her loving and devoted husband, Bill, her
son, Bill, Jr. (wife: Kristy), her daughter, Sher-
ry Bostic (husband: Tom), her granddaugh-
ter, Brittany Celeste (husband: Jarrod), and
her great-grandsons, Caspian and Almanzo.
A viewing and a short service will be held for
Patricia on November 13, 2023 from 3 p.m.
to 5 p.m. at Baldwin Brothers Funeral Home,
3990 E. SR44, Ste. 105, Wildwood, FL. 34785.
In lieu of flowers, we would be honored if
you could make a donation to Cure PSP at
PSP.org
her mother’s death in 1991 and she proudly
served as CEO until her passing.
In addition to her full-time career, Gail was
an active philanthropist. She served on the
Committee of Daffodils & Diamonds for for-
ty years and was a former Chairperson of
their annual luncheon and fashion show
benefiting The National Cancer Foundation.
Friends will remember the addressing lun-
cheons she hosted in her home each year.
She was also a member of the Women’s
Board of The American Heart Association.
She was a supporter of their annual “Affair
of the Heart” for decades. She was also a
long-time member of Hoe’n Hope Garden
Club and was especially interested in their
charities to Save the Bay, The Washington
Home, and The Children’s Inn.
Gail was a fun-loving person that enjoyed
music, dancing, and a good party. She also
enjoyed her time at the beach. She made
life-long friends in her younger years at
Whiskey Beach and later entertained in her
home at Rehoboth Beach. She was an avid
book lover and voracious reader. She was
willing to share her book collection with
others. In honor of her memory she would
ask that you: Live, Laugh and Love!
Her Memorial Service will be November
18 at 11 a.m. at Pumphrey Funeral Home
of Bethesda. Guests are welcome to ar-
rive at 10 a.m. for a social gathering prior
to her service. There will be an opportunity
to share your fond memories at the end of
the service. Interment will be held at a later
date.
Flowers may be sent to 7557 Wisconsin
Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814 for her service.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made
in her memory to a charity of your choice.
Please visit Gail’s online memorial by going
to
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
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MEREDITH
THOMAS H. MEREDITH JR. (Age 67)
Peacefully entered eternal rest on Sunday,
October 29, 2023. He leaves to cherish his
memory his mother, Martie C. Meredith;
brother, Mark C. Meredith; sister, Alison M.
Shepheard (Sharnn); uncle, Lowell S. Chavis
and a host of relatives, friends and church
family. On Monday, November 13 from 10
a.m. until 11 a.m. friends may visit with the
family at Metropolitan AME Church, 1518
M Street, NW where services will be held
at 11 a.m. Rev. William H. Lamar IV, Senior
Pastor. Interment Maryland National Cem-
etery. Services by Paradise Mortuary.
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MIRMIRANI
DR. NOOREDDIN MIRMIRANI MD
Dr. Nooreddin Mirmirani MD, 80, passed
away on October 16, 2023, near his family
home in Amol, Iran.
After completing his residency at George
Washington University, Dr. Mirmirani
worked as a psychiatrist in the DC met-
ro area for over 45 years. In addition to
co-founding the Northern Virginia Institute
of Psychiatry to provide individual and
group counseling, he was the Director
of Psychiatric Services at INOVA Mount
Vernon Hospital for 20 years. In his many
years of emergency and in-patient psychi-
atric care at multiple DC area hospitals, he
treated over 40,000 individuals. Outside
of his passion for patient care, his other
greatest passion was spending time in the
tranquility and beauty of nature.
Dr. Mirmirani is survived by his only child,
Troy; his sister Farideh and her husband
Don; his ex-wife Mary; his niece Manely
and her husband Dan and their children;
his nephew Hadi; his niece Mana and her
husband Milad and their child; his nephew
Masood.
Celebration of life arrangements will be
announced in the future. For those inter-
ested and able, memorial donations are to
be made to the Northern Virginia affiliate
of the National Alliance on Mental Illness at
https://nami-northernvirginia.org/get-in-
volved/donate/
LAURENCE M. CODORI JR.
On November 3, 2023, Laurence M. Codori, Jr.
departed this life peacefully following several
years of declining health due to Parkinson’s
disease. His five daughters, their spouses,
and his two grandsons are broken-hearted,
but they feel some measure of solace know-
ing that he is no longer suffering and is now
in the warm embrace of his late wife, Helen
M. Codori (nee Bucci), who passed away sud-
denly in June 2022.
Laurence M. Codori, Jr. was born in Philadel-
phia on August 20, 1931, the first son and
fifth of six children of the late Dr. Laurence
Murray Codori, Sr. and his wife, Marie Agnes
Silk. He was reared in Philadelphia in the Irish
neighborhood known as “Swampoodle” and
enjoyed playing sandlot football and pick-up
basketball games. He was educated in the
Philadelphia Catholic school system attend-
ing St. Columba School and graduating from
Roman Catholic High School in 1949. He was
known for his sharp wit and irreverent sense
of humor, which at times was not fully-ap-
preciated by some of his teachers. Laurence
enjoyed spending summers with his sisters
and brother at Medford Lakes, NJ where
he enjoyed the family’s log cabin, the quiet
wooded surroundings, swimming in the cool
lake, and the thrill of horse jumping, which
sparked his life-long passion for horses.
Throughout his life, Laurence enjoyed watch-
ing boxing matches and could easily recount
his favorite bouts and boxers spanning from
his youth to present day. In addition, Lau-
rence loved music and derived great comfort
from it. He could recite musicians and songs
even in his last days and some of his favor-
ites included Dean Martin, Nat King Cole,
Al Martino, Dick Haymes, Jerry Vale, The Ink
Spots, Johnny Mathis, George Shearing, and
Glenn Miller. While he spent much of his life
in the Washington, DC area, he remained a
staunch Philadelphia Eagles fan.
Following high school, Laurence enlisted in
the United States Air Force, underwent ba-
sic training at Sampson Air Force Base near
Rochester, NY and was stationed at Edwards
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MURRAY
GRANT MURRAY (Age 97)
Dr. Murray Grant passed away
on November 11, 2023. Be-
loved Husband of Trudy Grant;
loving father of Dr. Bradley
(Monee) Grant, Dr. Schuyler
(Margi) Grant, Stephanie (Gary)
Knauer, Darryl (Susan) Grant, Valerie Grant;
devoted grandfather of Alana, Jordana (JP),
Shiri (Tyler) and Aliza, Gabrielle, Ari, Jacob,
Avi, Alec (Jamie), Makayla, Brayden; cher-
ished great-grandfather of Everett and
Kruzman.
A Graveside service will be held on Mon-
day, November 13t, 2023, 12 p.m. at Gar-
den of Remembrance Memorial Park,
14321 Comus Road, Clarksburg, MD 20871
with interment to follow. Family will be ob-
serving Shiva on Tuesday at the home of
Darryl and Susan Grant. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be made to
Tunnels to Towers Foundation (www.t2t.
org) and JSSA (www.jssa.org). A Remem-
brance of Murray’s life will be held on
November 25 on their 72nd anniversary.
Services entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield
Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.
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RINGLE
WILLIAM DAVID RINGLE “Bill”
1/03/1930 - 10/30/2023
William “Bill” David Ringle of Port St. Luc-
ie, Florida, passed away on Monday, Oc-
tober 30, 2023. Bill was born on January
3, 1930, in Washington, DC. He graduat-
ed from Woodrow Wilson High School in
1948 and received an associates degree
in applied sciences from the Capitol Radio
Engineering Institute (CREI, now Capitol
Technology University), where he later
taught college level calculus. After serving
in the Army, Bill worked as a supervisory
engineer for the Department of Defense
(Navy Yard, NAV WESA 5) for 30 years. Af-
ter retiring in 1985, Bill moved to Port St.
Lucie, FL. Bill loved boating and fishing. He
is survived by his wife of 67 years, Mary
Louise (Grubb) Ringle; his daughters Nan-
cy (Christopher) Murray and Judith (Marc
Siegel) Ringle; and grandchildren Austin
Smith, Dan (Wendy) Murray, and Katie
Murray. Family and friends will be invited
to attend a celebration of life at a later
date. Please send messages of condolence
and good will to Mary Ringle c/o Life Care
Center of Port St. Lucie, Rm. 417, 3720
SE Jennings Rd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34952.
CODORI
Air Force Base in Edwards, CA where he
trained to be a mechanic for a variety of air-
craft, including the F-80, F-82, F-86, and P-51.
He served in the Korean War, spending 13
months in Japan and 11 months in Kunsan
Air Base (Korea), that he affectionately called,
“Kunsan by the Sea.” There, he experienced
the coldest winter of his life and witnessed
the horrors of war. Always one to bring levity
to a situation, Laurence jokingly bragged that
he had “travelled extensively in the Orient”
and he referred to himself as “a veteran of
foreign wars who defended democracy from
the communist hordes.” After returning from
Korea, he was stationed at Andrews Air
Force Base, where he met his future wife of
68 years, Helen, at the NCO club.
Following his honorable discharge from the
Air Force, Laurence worked briefly for the
CIA and then Pepco, but concluded that he
did not like working with electricity. In 1957,
he started working for C&P Telephone (later
Bell Atlantic and Verizon), first as a lineman
and later as a skilled telephone technician
at multiple government agencies in Wash-
ington, DC, including the EPA and State
Department, where he was responsible for
ensuring telephone-line security for confi-
dential conversations. He had the pleasure
of meeting Henry Kissinger and recounted
that Mr. Kissinger referred to him as his fa-
vorite tech, because “he got the work done.”
Following over 35 years of service, Laurence
retired in 1994.
Laurence and Helen were married in 1954
and they welcomed five daughters in ten
years. In 1968, they settled in their beloved
home in Marlton for which they selected
the floor plan and the finishes and proudly
watched it being built. One could say that
Laurence was a meticulous keeper of his
lawn and not one weed could be found.
While Laurence viewed his family as a bless-
ing, it was simultaneously a source of finan-
cial worry, since he took his responsibility
as the provider seriously. Consequently, he
spent much of his young adult life working
six to seven days a week, taking on as much
overtime as possible to ensure his family
had all they needed and most of what they
wanted – his work ethic was exceptional. In
addition, Laurence instilled in his children the
importance of education and paid for Cath-
olic school tuitions from first through 12th
grade and continued some financial support
during college. To say he was proud that his
five daughters are all college graduates is
an understatement. As his daughters grew
up and started their own families, Laurence,
along with Helen, continued their generosi-
ty by hosting annual family vacations in Sea
Isle City, NJ – a tradition that lasted for more
than 20 years and regrettably came to end in
2022 due to Laurence’s declining health and
Helen’s death.
Later in life, Laurence was blessed with two
grandsons, whom he loved dearly, and he re-
vealed to them a silly and affectionate side
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SHOTZBERGER
JOHN KAHL SHOTZBERGER
John Kahl Shotzberger, 76, of Germantown,
MD, passed away on November 7, 2023,
after a brief illness. He was born on April
1, 1947, in Baltimore, MD, to the late Clar-
ence and Annabelle (Lickle) Shotzberger.
John was the devoted husband of Eliza-
beth (Adams) Shotzberger, beloved father
of Valerie Shotzberger and Michelle Shot-
zberger Robinson, and proud “Grampy”
to Shanee’ and Eriq Robinson. He was
preceded in death by his sister, Caryle Tu-
ohey, and brother-in-law and best friend,
William Adams. A memorial service to cel-
ebrate John’s life will be held on Saturday,
November 18, 2023, from 2 to 4 p.m., at
DeVol Funeral Home, 10 E. Deer Park Dr.,
Gaithersburg, MD 20877.
WENTWORTH
ERIC B WENTWORTH
On October 26, 2023, Eric Bartlett Went-
worth passed away peacefully of natural
causes at his home in Washington, DC. He
is survived by his children John Wentworth
of Mammoth Lakes, California, Elizabeth
“Sissy” Yates of Middleburg, Virginia, Al-
exandra Wentworth Stephanopoulos of
New York City, and Thomas Wentworth of
Brooklyn, New York; grandchildren Angus,
Jack, and Josie Yates; Elliott and Harper
Stephanopoulos; and Clay, Vaughn, and
Ava Wentworth; as well as his half-brother,
Landy Bartlett of Arlington, Vermont, and
cousin John Morgan of Newark, Ohio. He
is predeceased by his son, Benjamin Owen
Wentworth, his half-sister Elisabeth “Lib-
by” Sturgis, and cousin Daphne Langlois.
He leaves behind two ex-wives whom he
counted as friends, Muffie Cabot of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, and Jan Wentworth
of Darien, Connecticut. A memorial is
planned for the spring of 2024 with details
to follow at josephgawlers.com
WRIGHT
CYNTHIA ANN WRIGHT
(Age 65)
Cynthia Ann Wright Gordonsville, VA, died
on August 24, 2023 in Charlottesville, VA.
Born January 19, 1958 in Camden, NJ, she
was the daughter of Carl and Betty Wright
and was preceded in death by them.
She is survived by three sisters and one
brother. Cindy was the absolutely best
aunt to her four nieces and one nephew.
She received the Distinguished Civilian
Service Medal for a nearly 34-year career
serving the National Geospatial Intelli-
gence Agency, the Intelligence Community,
and the Department of Defense. Cindy felt
a deep obligation to serve and protect her
country.
In her free time, she loved spending time
with her family and her dogs and cats.
Much of her energy went to helping care
for the dogs at Rikki’s Refuge in Orange, VA.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Rikki’s Refuge.
A private memorial service will be held at
a later date.
that few were permitted to witness. When
they were little, he enjoyed giving them
whisker kisses, tickling them with the Winkus
Wonkus, and building raging “Christmas
fires.” In addition, he happily attended Grand-
parents’ Days, baseball games, and Irish
dance competitions and he was always will-
ing to provide extra cash for arcade games.
While his grandsons are now young men, his
affection for them remained and he beamed
with pride each time he saw them. Laurence
sincerely wished that each would find happi-
ness and fulfillment in his life.
Aside from family, Laurence’s passion was
training harness race horses and he was truly
gifted at it. He owned and trained a number
over the years and often raced them himself
at Rosecroft Raceway, Ocean Downs, Har-
rington Raceway, Freehold Raceway and Do-
ver Downs, among others on the East Coast.
One great regret was losing one of his favor-
ite steeds, Okay Helen, in a claiming race.
Despite his demanding work schedule, for
many years Laurence was at the racetrack
barn early every morning, prompting others
at the track to wonder if he ever slept. Being
with his horses truly made him happy.
Laurence is survived by his loving children
and their spouses Ann Marie Codori (George
Fisk), Nancy Codori (Richard Boardman),
Margaret Codori (Tina Mayes), Michele Co-
dori (Susan Spence) and Jeanne Codori-Hurff
(Christopher Hurff), his cherished grandsons,
Evan Codori Boardman and Aidan Laurence
Hurff. In addition to his parents and his infant
sister, Nancy, Laurence was predeceased
by his three sisters, Margaret Kozakowski
Youell, Blanche Murphy, and Marie Arneo-
dau, and brother, John Codori. Laurence is
also survived by his brother-in-law James
Bucci, Sr., his sisters-in-law, MaryLu Bucci
and Maryanna Bucci, and his step-grandchil-
dren Katherine Anderson (William), Maxwell
Fisk (Gabrielle) and step-great-grandchildren
Camden Anderson, Madeleine Fisk, and Hen-
ry Fisk. Laurence is also survived by many
nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandneph-
ews, and great-grandnieces and great-grand-
nephews.
Laurence’s family respectfully invites rela-
tives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to
the visitation / Christian Wake Service on
Monday, November 13 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
at George P. Kalas Funeral Home, 6160 Oxon
Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD. A visitation at 10
a.m. and funeral mass at 11 a.m. will be held
on Tuesday, November 14 at Most Holy Ro-
sary Catholic Church, 9961 Rosaryville Rd.,
Upper Marlboro, MD. Interment will follow at
Resurrection Cemetery, 8000 Woodyard Rd,
Clinton, MD. Memorial contributions may be
made to the “Laurence M. Codori, Jr. ‘49 En-
dowed Scholarship” at Roman Catholic High
School (www.romancatholichs.com/give) or
to the Parkinson’s Foundation (www.parkin-
son.org).
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DEATH NOTICE
BOYLE
PATRICIA ANNE BOYLE “Patty”
In Loving Memory of Patricia Anne Boyle
October 12, 1957 – October 29, 2023
It is with heavy hearts that we announce
the peaceful passing of Patricia “Patty”
Anne Boyle, a beloved mother, sister, aunt,
and cousin, after enduring the challenges
of early-onset dementia with courage and
resilience. A 3-time cancer survivor, Patty’s
journey on this earth came to an end on Oc-
tober 29, 2023, at the age of 66, surrounded
by loved ones in Radford, VA. Despite her
battle with dementia, Patty’s sweet and
caring spirit touched the hearts of all who
knew her.
Patricia was born in Washington, DC, to
the late Joseph and Dorothy Brown Boyle.
She is survived by her loving daughter, Sara
Boyle, of Ocoee, FL, who was her pride and
joy. She was preceded in death by her el-
dest sister, Kathy Wofford, of Belmont, NC.
KENNEDY
HAROLD ROBERT KENNEDY JR.
Harold Robert Kennedy Jr., an intrepid jour-
nalist and voracious reader, died Wednes-
day, November 8, 2023 at Inova Alexandria
Hospital. He was 80.
Harold was born to Harold Robert Kennedy
Sr. and Virginia Rhodes Kennedy on Novem-
ber 24, 1942, in Bradenton, Florida, where
generations of Kennedys sank their roots.
A quintessential Floridian, his father drove
a truck for Tropicana. When the time came
for Harold to choose a path, he was most
impressed by the Marine recruiter in his
summer dress blues.
During his time on base in Okinawa, he was
taken by the words of Hemingway, Fitzger-
ald and Steinbeck. He decided to become
a journalist. At the University of Florida, he
was editor-in-chief of the Florida Alligator
and met his future bride, Margaret O’Brien.
Upon graduation, he joined the editorial
board of the then-Atlanta Constitution. Har-
old and Margaret married in 1970, and Har-
old joined the Atlanta bureau of U.S. News &
World Report. Within months, he received an
offer to join the Washington, DC, office and
the Kennedys began their lives as
KIMSEY
BRONWEN DIANE KIMSEY
Bronwen Diane Kimsey, 82, of McLean, VA,
passed away on November 5, 2023 after
succumbing to the complications from sur-
gery a few weeks prior.
Bronwen was born on June 7, 1941 to Grace
and Geoffrey Krummeck in Pretoria, South
Africa.
Bronwen’s family moved to Washington, DC
in 1954 where she completed high school
and was an accomplished diver at Woodrow
Wilson High School in 1959.
RUST
THOMAS LOCKE RUST III
3/26/1944 - 11/6/2023
Thomas Locke Rust III “Tom”, age 79, of Alex-
andria, Virginia passed away on November
6, 2023. He was born on March 26, 1944, to
Sophie Stuart Rust and Robert Nelson Rust
of Arlington, Virginia. He attended Wakefield
High School (class of 1962) and went on to
obtain a Bachelor of Arts from the University
of the South in Sewanee, TN (class of 1966).
When his father died suddenly in 1973, Tom
assumed leadership of Rust Construction,
steering it through ebbs and flows of pros-
perity alongside his then wife, Susan. In the
early 1970’s, he managed the construction
of some of the first solar homes ever built
ST. CLAIR
MARY KATE STOCKNER ST. CLAIR
Mary Kate Stockner St. Clair passed away in
the early morning hours of Tuesday, October
24, 2023 at age 95. Kate, as she was known
much of her adult life, was born in Havaco,
WV, the third of four children born to Ray-
mond Early and Alma Hayes Stockner. She
was predeceased by her husband, Richard
Otis St. Clair, her siblings and their spous-
es, Camilla Jeanne Stockner Brunschwyler
(Richard Grant), James Robert Stockner (Pa-
tricia Galbraith), Carol Ray Stockner Schell
(Erwin Haskell), and brother-in-law Charles
Wade St. Clair (Patricia Coley).
Kate grew up in Havaco and Welch, WV, at-
tending the local Welch schools. She then
pursued her interest in teaching, graduating
from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, NC
and Concord College in Athens, WV, with
degrees in education and library science.
She was a member of the Sigma Sigma Sig-
ma sorority while at Concord College (now
University) and later often hosted Tri Sigma
Alumnae gatherings in her home in Fairfax.
She taught high school in Gary, WV, Winston
Salem, NC, and was a long-term substitute
teacher in the Fairfax County, VA schools.
She married Richard St. Clair on December
29, 1950 and lived in Winston Salem and
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Additional surviving siblings include sisters,
Sharon Boyle of Reston, VA, Mary Phifer and
husband Jim of Leesburg, VA; brother, Mike
Boyle and wife Gaye of Asheboro, NC; in ad-
ditional to numerous nieces and nephews
including David Wofford of Gastonia, NC
who helped care for her in her final years.
Patricia also had a special bond with her
cousin, Carol Sherman of Lady Lake, FL, who
shared many cherished moments together.
Patricia was a devoted single mother. Pat-
ty’s only daughter, Sara, fulfilled her dreams
of becoming a veterinarian, a testament to
the support, encouragement, and sacrifices
her mother made throughout her life. Patri-
cia’s love for her daughter was immeasur-
able, and she took immense pride in Sara’s
accomplishments and boasted about her
daughter’s achievements to anyone who
would listen. Her love extended to her be-
loved grand-dogs, cats, and horses. She pro-
vided them with endless affection, treats,
and belly rubs, and they, in return, offered
her unwavering companionship and com-
fort. They will miss her dearly.
In remembrance of Patricia Boyle, we kindly
request that, instead of traditional condo-
lences, you share your cherished memo-
ries and photos of her to celebrate her life.
Patty’s spirit was filled with love, compas-
sion, and kindness and though her life was
regrettably cut short, we aim to honor her
beautiful legacy by preserving the profound
love she shared with those around her.
We kindly request your assistance in helping
her beloved daughter, Sara, in keeping her
mother’s memory alive by sending photo-
graphs and/or stories to pattyboylelegacy@
gmail.com or P.O. Box 973, Ocoee, FL 34761.
A Celebration of Life will be announced in
the weeks to follow.
Washingtonians. They traveled the world
in what they dubbed the “B.C. – before
children – era.” Harold fell in love with the
homeland of Margaret’s family in County
Kerry, Ireland, and until his death, read Irish
newspapers online every day.
The B.C. era ended in 1983 with the birth of
his son, Sean, who was joined in 1985 by
daughter Kate. They lived in the Moyaone
Reserve in Accokeek, Maryland, across the
Potomac from Mount Vernon, until 2000. As
a father, Harold was gracious, encouraging in
all things, and made an effort to be a youth
soccer coach despite having no knowledge
of the game. After U.S. News, Harold worked
for the U.S. Bureau of Mines and later served
as editor of National Defense magazine. He
retired in 2006, and spent a decade as a vol-
unteer docent at the National Museum of
the Marine Corps. He enjoyed nothing more
than reading, watching the news, ruffling
the velvety ears of a succession of boxer
dogs and sipping fine Irish whiskey, prefer-
ably Bushmills. He raved about Margaret’s
cooking and delivered heartfelt prayers at
family meals. In his last year, he diligently
documented his family history in a serialized
narrative sent by email, and enjoyed visits
with his infant grandson, Finn. He exempli-
fied “Semper Fidelis,” and in his memory, we
say “Oorah!”
Harold is predeceased by his parents and
sister Barbara Morris.
Harold is survived by his wife of 53 years,
Margaret Kennedy; his brother, Steve Ken-
nedy of Orlando, Florida; his sister Kathy
King of Parrish, Florida; his son, Sean and his
wife, Amber, and son Finn, of Chesapeake,
Virginia; his daughter, Kate, and her partner,
Sean Young, of Frederick, Maryland; beloved
in-laws, Bill and Elizabeth O’Brien, niece Em-
ily, her husband Thijs, and great niece Fiona,
all of Silver Spring, Maryland.
A private service is planned. In lieu of flow-
ers, donations can be made to So Others
Might Eat (SOME), where Harold was a vol-
unteer, by visiting some.org/donate/.
In 1964, she married James V Kimsey, and
stayed in United States to eventually be-
come a citizen.
Bronwen maintained her connection with
South Africa, working at the embassy for
many years. As a proud member of the
Washington Redshins, she was among the
first women in DC to play organized wom-
en’s soccer. She was also an avid tennis
player and fan.
In 1989 she started her own company, the
Abacus Exchange, which embarked upon
bringing art and jewelry created in South
Africa to the United States.
She is survived by her three sons, Michael
Kimsey, Mark (Sarah) Kimsey, and Raymond
(Petra) Kimsey; her grandchildren Emma
Kimsey, Sophia Kimsey, Maya Kimsey, Jack-
son Kimsey, Benjamin Kimsey, and Etta Kim-
sey; and by her two sisters, Thalia (Graham)
Lindemann and Cheryl (Andrew) Veitch.
Services will be held at the McLean Project
for the Arts at the McLean Community Cen-
ter, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean, VA 22101,
on November 17, 2023 from 3 to 6 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that
donations be made to one of the following
charities: Wounded Warriors, Doctors w/o
borders, World Wildlife Foundation. Online
condolences and fond memories may be
offered to the family at
www.moneyandking.com
in the DC Metro area, including his family’s
early residence in Old Town, Alexandria. As
his career progressed, he focused on resi-
dential remodeling projects. His expertise
as a remodeler and restorer of old homes
became well known in Northern Virginia and
the Washington, DC area. Tom and Susan
divorced amicably and continued to work
together for many years. Tom handed over
the day-to-day management of Rust Con-
struction to his sons, Tom Locke and Sam,
in 2019. He continued to work in the office
daily until the start of the pandemic, after
which he continued to provide his sons with
much appreciated technical support and in-
valuable business advice until his last days.
Many will remember Tom fondly for his qui-
et charisma, his reputation as a fine home-
builder, and love of dogs. Tom was an artist
at heart. He was passionate about design,
had a knack for drawing, and a natural abil-
ity to draft complicated building details by
hand. Tom is survived by his partner, Kimber-
ly Keleher; his children - Thomas Locke Rust
IV, Sarah Rust Johnson, and Samuel Nelson
Rust; his siblings - Robert Nelson Rust III, Rog-
er Stuart Rust, John Whitney Rust, and Mary
Delashmutt Rust, and his grandchildren - Al-
exander, Sophie, Rowan, Amalie, and John.
Services will be held at St Paul’s Episcopal
Church at 228 South Pitt St. in Old Town
Alexandria, VA on Friday, November 17 at 1
p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests
donations be made to the St Paul’s Founda-
tion or the Alexandria Seaport Foundation.
Greensboro, NC and Fairfax, VA during her
husband’s career in the telecommunica-
tions industry. She moved to Charlottesville,
VA in 2006 to be closer to her daughter and
her family.
She was a member of Providence Presbyte-
rian Church while living in Fairfax and later
was a member of Meadows Presbyterian
Church while living in Charlottesville.
She is survived by her daughter, Allison St.
Clair Schildwachter and son-in-law, Thomas
Schildwachter; her grandchildren, Brooke
Schildwachter Kilfoil (Brendan), Meredith
Schildwachter Wenskoski (Todd), Hayes St.
Clair Schildwachter; her great-grandchil-
dren, Ashton Evangeline, Andrew Hayes and
Hugh Campbell Kilfoil, and Cashman Henry
and Pryor Camilli Wenskoski, as well as 11
nieces and nephews and many cousins.
A burial service will be held at 12 p.m. at
Monticello Memory Gardens on Monday,
November 20, 2023, followed by a memorial
service at Meadows Presbyterian Church on
Angus Road at 1:30 p.m.
Condolences may be shared with the fam-
ily at
www.hillandwood.com
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BEATTY
SUSAN NAGLER BEATTY
Sue Beatty, a lifelong protector and rescu-
er of animals, died peacefully, surrounded
by her closest family on Saturday, October
28, 2023. She was diagnosed with cancer in
early July and fought it bravely to the end.
She was 70 years old.
Sue loved animals from the time she was
a small child and made a home for dozens
over the years. She was filled with love for
all living things and was a selfless mother,
wife, sister, and daughter. She made friends
easily and her friends had no better confi-
dant or generous ally. Sue had a subtle and
subversive sense of humor that brought joy
to those close to her. She had little use for
pretentiousness and would skewer it with
wit and grace. Sue was a talented musi-
cian, playing the flute throughout her life.
She studied flute after college and played
semi-professionally with a guitarist, at wed-
dings and on Sunday mornings at the Crate
Café in Annapolis.
HEY
ROBERT PIERPONT HEY
Robert Pierpont Hey passed on November
8, 2023. Born in 1935 in East Providence,
Rhode Island, he was the son of Grace Pier-
pont and Daniel Chase Hey. He enrolled at
Harvard College at age 16. Drafted by the
Army, he served for two years active duty
and four in the Reserves.
HISE
CONRAD HENRY HISE
Conrad Henry Hise, 43, was born on July 20,
1980, in Honolulu, Hawaii and passed away
on October 30, 2023, in Alexandria, Virginia.
Conrad was a loving husband to his beauti-
ful wife, Lauren Baucom Hise. He is survived
by his mother, Kathleen Thomas, his father,
Henry Hise, his uncles, Thomas Yap, James
Yap, and Howard Hise (Jennifer), his aunt Jo-
Ann Lung (David Schwartz); his cousins, Kev-
LANE
D. JOSEPH LANE
D. Joseph “Joe” Lane, husband, father, grand-
father, great-grandfather, lifelong lover of
people, passed away on Tuesday, November
7, 2023. Joe died at home in Bethany Beach,
Delaware, where he and his beloved wife,
Dorothy, have lived for the last 30 years. He
was 88 years old.
Joe was born January 18, 1935, to his Irish
immigrant parents, Mary (O’Sullivan) and
Patrick Lane, on Allison Street in NW Wash-
ington, DC. He is survived by his loving
wife of 63 years, Dorothy S. (Rogers) Lane;
his children Daniel (Karen), Patrick (Claire),
Anne-Marie Smith (Raghu Raghavan); son-
in-law David Schwartz, Matthew (Jane Kim),
Brendan (Bonnie). Joe was predeceased by
daughter Mary, in 2007. He is also survived
by 14 grandchildren and three great-grand-
children.
Joe graduated from Gonzaga College High
School in 1953. After serving in the Army,
he graduated from Georgetown University
and began a lifelong career with IBM, which
took his family to Denver, Colorado, before
returning the family to Maryland where they
settled in Montgomery Village, Maryland.
Joe and Dorothy lived in “the Village” for 18
years before retiring to Bethany Beach.
While living in Montgomery Village, Joe was
WAUGH-FELICIANO
EDITH L. WAUGH-FELICIANO
(nee Muller)
June 22, 1937 - November 1, 2023
Edith was born in Newark, NJ to Charles
Richard Muller and Edith Ball of New York,
NY.
She was a graduate of Kearney High School,
St. Lukes Hospital School of Nursing, and
NVCC, and was a practicing Registered
Nurse until her retirement. She was an
ordained Presbyterian Elder and most re-
cently a Deacon at St. Andrew Presbyterian
Church of Albuquerque. Marriage to Rich-
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Susan Nagler was born in Washington, DC
and grew up in Hyattsville, MD. She gradu-
ated from Northwestern High School and
the University of Maryland at College Park
and began her career at the US House of
Representatives, as an Applications Ana-
lyst for House Information Systems. It was
there she met her future husband, Charlie,
and they were married in 1989. They quickly
had two children, Paul and Julia. Sue stayed
home with the children and managed a
boisterous household full of love, life, and
animals of all kinds. The family moved to
Annapolis in 1994. When her children en-
tered school, Sue began volunteering at the
SPCA of Anne Arundel County. Her passion
for saving animals led her to employment
there and over a few years she rose to be
Executive Director. Under her leadership,
the SPCA made dramatic improvements in
care and professionalism, which continue to
define the organization today.
After retirement, Sue missed helping an-
imals and founded the Maryland Animal
Adoption Center, an innovative rescue orga-
nization for dogs and cats that uses trans-
port networks for disadvantaged animal
shelters paired with local foster caregivers.
In a few years, MAAC placed nearly a hun-
dred animals in loving homes.
Sue is survived by her husband Charlie, her
son Paul (Annie) of Edgewater, MD, and her
sisters Betty Smith (Greg) of Winfield, IL, and
Janet Nagler (John Hanifin) of Edgewater,
MD. She was predeceased by her daughter
Julia, and her parents, Ken and Nan Nagler.
A celebration of Sue’s life will be held at 23
Wallace Manor Rd. in Edgewater, MD at 2
p.m. on Saturday, December 2. There will be
a supervised play area for those who wish
to bring dogs that Sue helped adopt. Dress
is casual and cheerful. In lieu of flowers, do-
nations may be made to MAAC at mdadopt.
org.
He found his career in journalism, writing
and editing for 34 years at the then-daily
newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor.
He was the Southern correspondent, cover-
ing the Civil Rights Movement from 1967-69,
then Washington correspondent, then edito-
rial writer, and a managing editor. He retired
on a Friday in July, 1991. After fidgeting all
weekend in retirement, he went back to
work the next Monday, this time at AARP’s
member newspaper, the Bulletin — happily
writing and editing once again. After vainly
chasing his grandfather’s record of work-
ing 73 years, Bob retired for the last time
in 2000.
Bob leaves his wife of 64 years, Nancy
Henson Hey; their daughter, Julie Lillis;
son-in-law, Dick Lillis; and granddaughters,
Kristina and Carolyn King (Eric Nieminen).
At Bob’s request, there will be no funeral.
Interment will be private. No flowers, please;
if you wish, consider making a modest do-
nation to the charity of your choice. A Cele-
bration of Life will be held at a future date.
Please view and sign online family guest-
book at
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
in Lung, Brian Schwartz, and Tyler Hise (Car-
oline), and his niece, Sabinne Matsumoto.
Conrad was preceded in death by his step-
father, Robert J. Thomas, his brother, Lee
Matsumoto, and his maternal grandparents,
Joseph and Margaret Yap, as well as his pa-
ternal grandparents, Genorosa and Graeme
Hise.
With his love for cooking, he and his wife
opened a restaurant in August 2019 named
Momo&Poke in Alexandria specializing in
authentic Hawaiian and Himalayan soul
foods. His customers became his Ohana,
especially locals.
A celebration of life to honor Conrad will be
held at the Waterford Events Center at 6715
Commerce St., Springfield, VA 22150 on Sat-
urday, November 18, 2023, at 11 a.m. Dress
is Aloha/Casual attire.
For more information and to sign the family
guestbook online, please visit
www.jeffersonfuneralchapel.com
FUNERAL CHAPEL
an active member of St. Rose of Lima Parish
and its “Team X” small faith community. Joe
raised tens of thousands of dollars through
his famous VIP dance, which benefited St.
Rose’s social concerns ministry.
After retiring to Bethany, he continued his
civic and charitable work, often with St.
Ann’s Catholic Church. Joe spent countless
hours organizing the annual “Very Important
Charities” dance benefiting St. Vincent De
Paul, Joanne’s Book Giveaway Project, and
Rise to Hunger organizations. He served as
chairman of the town’s annual Fourth of July
parade, worked with Meals on Wheels, local
library fundraising, the parish Men’s Club
and Voice of the Faithful. Friends will also
cherish memories of the large-group trips
he organized over 20 years to visit numer-
ous places on four continents.
Joe simply loved sports – coaching, playing
and watching. He enjoyed (a cold beer af-
ter) playing tennis, basketball, and tolerated
jogging to try to keep up with Dorothy. He
coached basketball and was president of
the I-270 Youth Basketball league. In Beth-
any, he played tennis and was active with
Bayside Tennis.
Joe was a true “people person” and will be
dearly missed by family and a large circle of
friends. Among our favorite memories are
his affectionate roasts, which he presented
as public proclamations that always began
with, “Whereas …” Joe loved life and loved
us all – so very well. We will always be grate-
ful and we will always miss him.
A funeral mass will be held at St. Ann’s in
Bethany Beach on Tues., November 14 at
11 a.m., with visitation starting at 10 a.m.
A lunch reception will follow. A wake is
planned at De Vol Funeral Home in Gaithers-
burg, MD on Thursday, November 16 from 2
to 4 p.m. and burial at Gate of Heaven Cem-
etery in Silver Spring on Friday, November
17 at 11:30 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests dona-
tions to Gonzaga College High School or St.
Vincent de Paul Society at St. Ann’s Catholic
Church in Bethany.
ard G. Waugh, Jr. ended in divorce. Together
they raised three sons in suburban Wash-
ington, DC, last residing on Hayfield Farm:
Jay J. Waugh, Sr. (Amanda Van Winkle) of
Albuquerque, NM, Roy E. Waugh (Penny) of
Oak Hill, VA, and Richard G. Waugh, III (Maria
Avelar) of Southern Shores, NC. She is also
survived by 11 grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren.
She relocated to Albuquerque with her sec-
ond husband, Juan Feliciano and helped
raise his two daughters, Anita and Andrea.
She fell out of love with her second husband
but completely in love with her lifestyle in
the Land of Enchantment and spent her final
days there.
Edith was a lifelong supporter of Civil Rights
and Women’s Rights. Her love was felt by
many, and her annual holiday cards were
legendary.
She passed peacefully and gracefully with
her family and closest friends by her side.
There are no services scheduled at this time.
In lieu of flowers, her family requests that
donations be made to St. Andrews Presby-
terian Church of Albuquerque, NM.
Please visit our online guestbook for Edith at
www.FrenchFunerals.com
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GILLANDERS
ROBERT JAMES GILLANDERS
“Gil”
Robert James Gillanders “Gil” passed away
peacefully on November 7, 2023 with his
wife Emilie, at his side. The son of Irish
immigrants Catherine Toner Gillanders of
Donegal and William James Gillanders of
Monaghan, he was born in New York City on
June 3, 1938.
After high school at St Ann’s Academy in
New York City, he attended The College of
the Holy Cross graduating in 1960. In 1964
he graduated from Georgetown University
Medical School followed by an internship at
St Vincent’s Hospital in NYC and a residency
in Obstetrics and Gynecology at George-
town. He practiced medicine in Vienna,
Virginia from 1968-2007. When asked what
HALEY
MARGUERITE JAMIESO HALEY
(Age 89)
October 17, 1933 – October 12, 2023
Marguerite “Margie” Jamieson Haley died
peacefully at her home in Washington, DC
with her daughter and beloved caregivers
by her side on October 12, 2023, just days
before her 90th birthday. The daughter of
Marguerite and Norman Jamieson, Margie
was born in Toledo, OH, and raised in near-
by Ottawa Hills. She graduated from Ottawa
Hills High School in 1951 and Northwestern
University in 1955. She taught school for
the next seven years, including two years at
Punahou School in Honolulu, an experience
she treasured. She moved to Georgetown
in the late 1950s with her childhood friend
KONECNY
DAVID A. KONECNY
(Age 74)
David A. Konecny of McLean, VA, passed
away on October 28, 2023. He was born on
February 23, 1949, in Pittsburgh, PA, to the
late Rudolph F. Konecny and Mildred M. Graf
Konecny.
David was a kind-hearted, caring, and gen-
erous man who loved his wife, family, and
friends. His life was defined by his gentle-
ness. He was a passionate and focused
Pittsburgh Steelers fan, always cheering
them on with enthusiasm. David had a ful-
filling and distinguished career in various
areas of information technology and com-
puter instruction. He worked with several
companies, including Honeywell Federal
Systems, Electronic Data System, Booz Al-
len Hamilton, and retired in 2016 as an IT
Specialist for the Federal Government, spe-
cifically the Department of Justice, Bureau
MYERS
CLARENCE J. MYERS
Clarence J. “CJ” Myers, 91, passed away
peacefully at his home in Olney, MD on No-
vember 4, 2023. CJ was born in Butte, Mon-
tana on August 25, 1932, and was the 10th
of 12 children born to Glenn and Martha
Myers. The Myers were a close family, and
their Catholic faith was an important part of
the family fabric. At age 19, CJ enlisted in
the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the USS
Oriskany. Following his honorable discharge
as a Petty Officer – ever an ambitious man
– CJ earned his bachelor’s degree in electri-
cal engineering from Montana State College
(now MSU). Upon graduation, he was hired
by General Electric and moved his growing
family to Syracuse, NY. In 1966, he took a po-
sition with ITT Gilfillan, moved his family to
Los Angeles, and subsequently transferred
to Maryland in 1968 for the remainder of his
PRICE
JOAN PATRICIA GAFFNEY PRICE
Joan Patricia (Gaffney) Price passed away
peacefully on November 7, 2023. Joan was
a loving wife, mother, grandmother and
great-grandmother. Family, faith and friends
were the heart and soul of her being. Af-
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kind of medicine he practiced he always an-
swered “the best.” He loved what he did and
considered it an honor to assist in bringing
new life into the world.
A true renaissance man, he was as comfort-
able in an art museum as in the operating
room. He thought nothing of driving hours
to an art show that piqued his interest. His
sense of adventure and thirst to keep learn-
ing was inspirational. One of his proudest
accomplishments was completing the 500
mile hike on the “Camino de Santiago” in
Spain, with various members of his family.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years Emi-
lie, son Dr William Gillanders (Jeanne), son
Dr Robert Gillanders (Julie), daughter Dr
Elizabeth Gillanders, son John Gillanders
(Jody) and his sister Diane Donahue. He was
predeceased by his daughter Tia Gillanders
Garner and his two sisters Gerry Roemer
and Cappy Ogrudek. He was a loving grand-
father to Emma, Ian, and Teddy Gillanders,
William and Emilie Garner, and Jacklyn and
Mitch Gillanders.
The family would like to thank the staff of
Capital Caring Hospice who cared for Gil,
especially his nurse Young, health aide
Kwame, and loyal volunteers Marcia and
Nikki. In addition, thanks to the wonderful
staff at the Adler Center where Gil spent the
last few days of his life.
The funeral mass will be held at Holy Trinity
Catholic Church in Georgetown on Friday,
November 17 at 1 p.m., with visitation be-
ginning at 11:30 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made
to Capital Caring (www.capitalcaring.org) or
a charity of your choice.
Cynthia Brumback to be near her sister,
Anne Flues Johnson, and family. Margie
worked at the Peace Corps and founded
Roommate Referral Service in Georgetown
with a partner. In the 1980s she co-owned a
handcrafts shop, One Step Up, in Bethesda
with her good friend Kitty Hempstone.
Margie married William (Will) R. Haley in
1965 at Christ Church, Georgetown, where
both were longtime parishioners. Margie
served on the church’s Altar Guild and Ves-
try, and Will on the Vestry. Their marriage of
52 years was a union of devotion, mutual
respect, and love. Margie was a member of
the Chevy Chase Club for over 40 years, the
Trowel Garden Club, and Colonial Dames.
She volunteered with the Lorton Art Pro-
gram for five years, teaching handcrafts
to women, and the Jubilee Jobs and Unity
Health Care Ex-Offenders Program in Ana-
costia, assisting the formerly incarcerated
find housing and employment. She often
spoke of how helping others attain new
skills and build new lives was immensely
rewarding to her.
Margie was a much-loved wife, mother, sis-
ter, aunt, grandmother, and friend to all that
knew her. She is survived by her daughter,
Amelia Haley Perez (wife of Lawrence D.
Perez); son, Hutch; grandchildren, Amelia
and Will Perez; and nieces, Jane Simchak
and Molly Strother. In lieu of flowers, please
send donations to the Outreach Program at
Christ Church, Georgetown. A memorial ser-
vice will be held at Christ Church (31st & O
St. NW, WDC) on Wednesday, December 20,
2023, at 11 a.m.
of Prisons.
In his free time, David enjoyed following
the Pittsburgh Steelers, staying updated
on politics and world events, and watching
United States history documentaries. He
cherished spending time with his grandchil-
dren, attending their school performances
and sports activities. David also found joy in
playing with his loyal dog, Lola.
David is survived by his loving, devoted
spouse, Elizabeth (Betty) Keffer Platt. He is
survived by his stepson Richard Platt, his
wife Davina, and daughter Kerry. He is also
survived by his stepson Stephen Platt, his
wife Amy, and their children Sierra, Chase,
and Logan. Additionally, David is survived
by his brother-in-law Rev. Robert F. Keffer:
brother-in-law Charles J. Keffer, his wife
Barbara and family: brother-in-law Richard T.
Keffer, his wife Mary Rose and family: many
cousins, nieces and nephews, and longtime
friends. He was loved by his kind caregivers
Gladys, Hellen, Maria, Josie, Rhonda, Tina
and Molli.
David was preceded in death by his father
Rudolph F. Konecny, mother Mildred M. Graf
Konecny, brother Daniel J. Konecny, and sis-
ter Linda L. Lyons.
David graduated from St. Mary’s High School
in Sharpsburg, PA, and went on to earn his
Bachelor’s degree from Duquesne Universi-
ty in 1971. He later pursued his Master of
Arts from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
in 1976 and obtained a degree in Business
Informatics from Marymount University in
1993.
Services for David will be private. The Cre-
mation Society of Virginia is assisting the
family with the arrangements.
David A. Konecny will be deeply missed by
his family, friends, and all who knew him.
May his gentle soul rest in eternal peace.
career, working primarily with the U.S. Navy.
CJ maintained an active membership at
Manor Country Club since 1970. Upon his
retirement, he enjoyed playing up to 300
rounds of golf a year, as well as organizing
golf events and trips, including numerous
outings as President of Maryland Interclub
Seniors Golf Association (MISGA).
As a consummate perfectionist, CJ will be
remembered for his engineering talents
which were put to good use in multiple
ways, ranging from meticulously sewing
his daughters’ matching holiday outfits to
ensuring that all framing was plumb and
square when finishing basements for his
childrens’ homes.
Survivors include his children, Douglas My-
ers, Cindy Retterer, Linda Kindred (Steve),
Robin Groves, and Cassondra Schaedig
(Tim), daughter-in-law Susan; brother-in-
law Al Faulkner; 16 grandchildren, and 13
great-grandchildren. He was preceded in
death by his wife, Dorothy V. Myers, son,
Stephen, grandson Wesley, sons-in-law
Jeff Retterer and Robert Groves, parents,
brothers, Glenn (Connie) and Louie (Carol);
sisters: Marie (Johnny) Schumacher, Martha
(Ken) Newton, Kay (Don) Brunell, Betty (Jack)
Parker, Anne (Joe) Mooney, Frances (Mel)
Mooney, Bernice (Bob) Weeks, Gertrude
(Tim) Downey, and Geri Faulkner. He was
previously married to Carol Shaffer Smith.
Funeral mass will be held at St. Patrick
Church, 4101 Norbeck Rd., Rockville, MD
20853 at 11 a.m. on Saturday, November 18.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks for dona-
tions to be made to The John Ritter Founda-
tion for Aortic Health [johnritterfoundation.
org], TGR Foundation [tgrfoundation.org], or
the charity of your choice.
ter raising six children, Joan embarked on a
wonderful career spanning 18 years at Fred-
die Mac Corp. She brought love, devotion
and vibrancy to everything she did. Joan
was preceded in death by her beloved hus-
band of 67 years, James Francis Price. She is
survived by her six children, Mary Joan Shea
(Jim), James F. Price, Jr. (Rachel), Judy Kettl,
(Dave), Stephen Price (Robin), Michael Price
and Jane (Jenny) Price-Smith (Greg) as well
as her 16 grandchildren and six great-grand-
children. Family and friends are invited to
Joan’s Celebration of Life at KALAS FUNER-
AL HOME, 6160 Oxon Hill Rd., Oxon Hill, MD,
on Thursday, November 16, 2023, from 1 to
3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. A Mass of Christian
Burial will be offered at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church of Piscataway Our Lady’s Chapel,
13401 Piscataway Rd., Clinton, MD 20735
on Friday, November 17, 2023, at 11 a.m. In-
terment will follow. In lieu of flowers, please
consider a donation to either Catholic Chari-
ties USA at www.catholiccharitiesusa.org or
the Smile Train at https://www.smiletrain.
org . Online guestbook is available at
www.KalasFuneralHomes.com
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LYNCH
DANIEL FRANCIS LYNCH III
Daniel “Dan” Francis Lynch III, age 60, of Bal-
timore, Maryland, passed away comfortably
at home on Wednesday, November 8, 2023.
Dan was born on July 31, 1963, to Daniel
Francis Lynch Jr. and Judith Lezotte Lynch
in Waterbury, Connecticut. His family were
prominent members of the community,
where his grandfather was the proud owner
of Wolcott Tool & Manufacturing Corpora-
tion.
Dan was a graduate of Holy Cross High
School in Waterbury, Connecticut. He re-
ceived his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1985
from Catholic University of America in Wash-
ington, DC, where he was on the Dean’s list,
a Class Representative, and a contributing
writer for the Student Government News-
paper. He later received his Juris Doctorate
in 1989 from Catholic University of Ameri-
ca School of Law. Dan excelled in his legal
career as a partner in the former Law Firm
Knight, Manzi, Nussbaum and LaPlaca, PA
for twenty years. Dan joined the prominent
law firm of McNamee Hosea, PA as a partner
in 2011, where he continued to find incredi-
ble success in his Land Use, Zoning, and Real
PANKIN
MARY FAITH PUSEY PANKIN
Mary Faith Pusey Pankin was born on June
6, 1943, in Washington, DC to William Webb
Pusey, III and Mary Hope Smith Pusey. She
died of complications from Alzheimer’s in
Charlottesville, VA, on October 14, 2023. Her
early childhood years were spent in Lexing-
ton, Virginia. She later attended Chatham
Hall, Chatham, VA, for several years and
finished her high school years at Southern
Seminary College, Buena Vista, VA. Always
an excellent student, she went on to grad-
uate from Washburn University with a BA
in French. After graduation from Washburn,
she worked briefly in Alderman Library at
the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,
VA, as a Library Assistant in the Manuscript
Department before earning a master’s de-
SCURLOCK
NANCY MORRISON SCURLOCK
The long, fascinating life of Nancy Morrison
Scurlock, 92, ended at her home in Seat-
tle, Washington on November 4, 2023. Her
daughters were by her side. Nancy was born
on November 10, 1930 in Washington, DC to
mechanic William Robert Morrison of Ken-
tucky and homemaker Mary Ellen Ainsworth
Morrison of Northern England. A graduate
of Fairfax High School in Virginia, Nancy
worked hard to send herself to Radford
College in southwest Virginia where she
excelled at English and earned a degree in
Secondary Education. Nancy often recalled
the seminal role a female mentor played in
nurturing her collegiate ambitions.
A skilled seamstress, Nancy dressed for
success and was employed in numerous
capacities as a young woman. Early jobs at
G.C. Murphy’s five & dime gave way to glam-
orous positions in New York City at Vogue
Magazine and in Washington, DC at the Pen-
tagon, General Dynamics and lastly Atlantic
Research Corporation.
Given her remarkable beauty and quick wit,
Nancy received at least a dozen proposals
but married only twice. In 1953, Nancy wed
screenwriter Ernest W. “Nick” Yonick, Jr.,
father of Nancy’s first daughter. In 1962,
Nancy married Arch Chilton Scurlock. Dr.
Scurlock was the Founder and President of
the Atlantic Research Corporation. ARC was
a pioneer space ordnance company and at
one time the largest private employer in the
Washington area. The couple were blessed
with three more daughters.
A highly competent office manager, Nancy
transferred these skills to the running of
SHOEMAKER
MARY ANN DICKERSON SHOEMAKER
(Age 86)
Mary Ann Shoemaker passed away on No-
vember 8, 2023 at the age of 86. Mary Ann
was born in Bardstown, KY on September 8,
1937 and was the oldest of eight children.
She graduated from St. Catherine’s Catho-
lic High School in New Haven, KY and then
attended St Joseph Nursing School in Louis-
ville, graduating as an RN. On June 11, 1960,
she married Hugh Shoemaker and began
the life of a Navy wife. Over the course of
20+ years they lived in Florida, Maryland,
Scotland, Virginia, California and Rhode Is-
land. Mary Ann enjoyed the travel and ex-
periences that the Navy provided her family,
most notably their three years in Scotland.
She worked as a head nurse while in Florida
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Estate Development practice. Dan practiced
law for more than 33 years, assisting local,
regional and national clients throughout the
state of Maryland. Dan was also a member
of the Prince George’s County Bar Associa-
tion, previously serving as Co-Chairman of
the Administrative Law Committee.
Dan’s fondest childhood memories were
summers spent at the beach in Madison,
Connecticut, where his love of the ocean
and sailing began. Dan shared his love
of the ocean with his wife, Jennifer “Jen”
White at their vacation home in Ocean City,
Maryland. Dan met his beloved wife in An-
napolis, Maryland where their relationship
flourished. They later moved to Baltimore,
Maryland. In recent years, Dan and Jen built
memories on the Maryland shores, where
they spent countless hours listening to Bos-
sa nova, Frank Sinatra, and Jack Johnson on
their balcony, while watching the waves.
Dan was predeceased by his father, Daniel
Jr, his paternal grandparents, Daniel Sr. and
Loretta Lynch and maternal grandparents,
James and Mable Lezotte. He is survived by
his wife, his mother, his siblings Jeffrey (Liz),
Julie (Leo), and Jim (Kim). He is also survived
by his three cherished sons and stepdaugh-
ter, Danny (fiancé Anabelle Barnett), Colin
(Meryll), Christopher, and Katelyn White; as
well as, his granddaughter, Raegan, who
affectionally called him “GranDan.” Dan will
always be remembered for loving his family
more than the world. They will deeply miss
him.
A visitation will be held at the John M. Tay-
lor Funeral Home, 147 Duke of Gloucester
Street, Annapolis, MD 21401 on Wednesday,
November 15 beginning at 12 p.m. where a
Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m. in
the Taylor Chapel. A tribute can be found
for Dan at www.johnmtaylorfuneralhome.
com where you may leave memories and
expressions of sympathy for the family. Any
donations in Dan’s honor may be made to
Maryland Public Television https://donate.
mpt.org/mptv/tribute.
gree in library science from the University of
South Carolina in Columbia, SC.
She was an academic librarian for her entire
professional career, first at Marshall Univer-
sity in West Virginia, then the University of
Maryland, and later for many years at Gel-
man Library at George Washington Univer-
sity in Washington, DC. She was a brilliant
researcher and many of her articles were
selected to be printed in various historical
journals. In addition, she also served on sev-
eral committees for the American Library
Association and volunteered for many years
at the Arlington, VA public library.
Mary Faith met the love of her life, Mark
David Pankin, during her years at Marshall
University, where he was a math professor
at the time. They were married for over 40
years, prior to his death in 2021, and they
shared the love of traveling both interna-
tionally and domestically. She was an avid
gardener and, in her retirement, perfected
her water-coloring acumen, often painting
pictures of the places they visited on their
travels.
She will be very much missed by her sister,
Diana Pickral (James) of Lake Monticello, VA;
her nephew Michael Pickral (Jennifer) also
of Lake Monticello, her niece, Mary Hope
Pickral (Marc Perdue) of Charlottesville, VA,
her great-nephew, Nicholas Perdue also
of Charlottesville, her great-niece Rachel
Pankin of Hampton, VA; her cousins, Julia
Moore of Akron, OH, Richard Moore (Dianne)
of Port Orange, FL, and many very special
friends. A memorial service will be held at
a later time. Memorial Contributions may
be sent to the Goodwin Living Foundation,
4800 Fillmore Ave., Alexandria, VA 22311.
large households in Virginia and Bermuda.
Nancy was a gregarious and generous
person who took a keen interest in other
people. Her winning smile and knack for
conversation put everyone at ease. She had
many devoted friends from coast-to-coast,
including in her beloved Bermuda.
She is remembered as having a great flair
for entertaining, fashion and interior dec-
orating. She enjoyed creating beautiful
domestic surroundings and carried on her
mother’s extremely high housekeeping
standards. She was an avid reader and
enjoyed learning about etymology and the
history of idiomatic expressions, as well as
about politics and current events.
Nancy was a loving, affectionate and empa-
thetic mother and grandmother.
Nancy was preceded in death by her first
husband Nick Yonick in 1976, her husband
Arch Chilton Scurlock in 2002, her brother
George Robert Morrison in 2019 and her
stepson Marvin Curtis Scurlock in 2012.
Nancy is survived by her younger sister
Mary Ellen Morrison Stalvey of Freder-
icksburg, VA; and by daughters Tracey
Ainsworth Yonick (Richard Lane) of Seattle,
WA, Mary Scurlock Adamson (Peter) of Port-
land, OR, Nancy Scurlock Collins (Michael) of
Woodstock, VT and Tucker’s Town, Bermuda,
and Margaret Ann Scurlock of New York, NY.
She is also deeply mourned by eight grand-
children, Nicholas Madison Lane (Rachel) of
Palm Springs, CA, Colby Scurlock Adamson
of New York, NY, Amelia Chase Adamson
(Sam Selig) of Oslo, Norway, Madeleine Col-
lins Chenoweth (Keith) of London, England,
Emily Weld Collins of New York, NY, Deirdre
Janeway Collins of Boston, MA, and twins
James Morrison Collins (Sarah Jane) and
William Scurlock Collins both of Bermuda.
Two step-children and two step-grandchil-
dren survive her. They are Arch Chilton
Scurlock, Jr. of Annandale, VA, Susan Scur-
lock Theiler (Mike) of Alexandria, VA, and
the children of her step-son Marvin, Aaron
Michael Scurlock of Fairfax, VA and Alysia
Desbiens (Shawn Thompson) of Vienna VA
and their children. Nancy also had one new
great-grandchild, Celine Weld Chenoweth,
born in 2023.
Services are being planned at a later date to
take place at the Little White Chapel of the
Annandale Methodist Church in Annandale,
VA. In lieu of flowers, the family requests
donations be made to The Bishop John T.
Walker School for Boys in Washington, DC or
the Seattle Opera Guild.
and an operating room nurse for many years
in both Rhode Island and Virginia.
Mary Ann was a very skilled seamstress and
embroiderer. In addition to clothes for her-
self, she made numerous dresses, vests, and
Halloween costumes for her grandchildren.
A life long history lover, Mary Ann became
active in the Fairfax County Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, was
a regular docent at the DAR Museum in
Washington, DC, donated numerous books
of Nelson County KY to the National DAR
Library and put together a book of her an-
cestry which she also donated to the DAR
library. Mary Ann and Hugh traveled exten-
sively in their later years with many cruises
and tours of Europe, South America, Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, the Panama Canal and
China.
Mary Ann was predeceased by her devoted
husband of 63 years, Hugh Shoemaker and
a much-loved daughter, Jenifer Shoemaker.
She is survived by three remaining children
Mike Shoemaker, Tim Shoemaker (Sarah)
and Ann Mahoney (Kevin); two grandchil-
dren Theresa and Mitch Mahoney; and sev-
en siblings.
Her family thanks the caring staff at Bright-
view Woodburn in Annandale, VA along with
VITAS Hospice for their devoted care of
Mary Ann. Funeral services will be held 10
a.m. Tuesday, November 14 at the Joseph L.
Greenwell Funeral Home in New Haven, KY
with burial to follow in St. Catherine Cem-
etery.
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DEATH NOTICE
GUZMAN
DORIS LOPEZ-VIDELA GUZMAN
Doris Lopez-Videla Guzman passed away
November 7, 2023. Doris lived a rich. full
life caring for her family, dedicated to her
church, spending many happy times with
friends and especially helping those in
need. Before coming to the United States
in 1955 from Bolivia, where she was born,
Doris worked in Foreign Affairs in the U.S.
Military Command. Then in the U.S., she had
several administrative positions including
working at International Trade and Technical
Services and at WTTG Fox TV. Her life then
took a different trajectory and she began
working as a Spanish teacher, primarily to
have more time to dedicate herself to help-
HALLGREN
RICHARD EDWIN HALLGREN “Dick”
(Age 91)
Dick Hallgren, 91, of Silver
Spring, MD, passed away on No-
vember 5, 2023. He was born on
March 15, 1932, in Toby Valley,
PA, to the late Edwin ‘Scotty’
Hallgren and Edith Caimi Hall-
gren. Dick is survived by his wife of 69 years,
Maxine Hope Anderson Hallgren, their be-
loved rescue dog, Toby, (named after their
hometown) and their three children, Scott
Edwin Hallgren and his wife Toni, Douglas
Harry Hallgren and his life partner, Pam, and
Lynette Hallgren Scaffidi and her husband
Rick. He will also be dearly missed by his
grandchildren Jessica Hallgren Haines and
her husband Richard, Jeffrey Hallgren and
his girlfriend Alexa, Douglas Hallgren, Karis-
sa Scaffidi, Samie Scaffidi, and Cory Scaffidi,
LOONEY
QUENTIN LOONEY
Quentin Looney (82), after a long struggle
with Alzheimer’s disease, passed away
peacefully on September 28, 2023, at home
in Ellicott City, MD.
He is survived by his wife Deborah Dough-
erty; daughter Heather; and granddaughters
Brontë and Camille. Also survived by two
sisters, nieces and nephews. Quentin was
MEYER
DIANE ALEXANDER MEYER
Diane completed her service here on No-
vember 2, 2023 two weeks shy of her 78th
birthday. She was born to Samuel N. Alexan-
der and Eleanor F. Magazine on November
15, 1945 in the District of Columbia, her fa-
ther was an internationally known computer
science pioneer. Diane was dedicated to her
friends and to making life better for those
who were less fortunate. She met her first
husband Raul in Synagogue and was his
sidekick from middle school to their mar-
riage at college. It should have worked, but
it didn’t. Her second husband, Dan, was 12
years olders, divorced with four children. It
shouldn’t have worked, but it did -- for 54
years. A co-worker once said they were
“kindred spirits,” which they engraved in-
side their wedding rings. After graduating
from BCC High School and getting degrees
at Universities of Maryland and George
Washington, Diane worked with various
social programs in DC including VISTA Asso-
ciates, Job Corps, Model Cities and a JOBS
program at a furniture factory in North Car-
REEDER
JACK S. REEDER (Age 87)
Jack Sanborn Reeder of Winchester, VA died
on November 2, 2023 after a short hospital-
ization.
Jack was born on January 8, 1936, in Wash-
ington, DC to Fred William and Cynthia
(Ruth) Sanborn Reeder. He grew up in Lor-
ton, VA and graduated from Mount Vernon
High School in 1953. He earned degrees in
music from American University in 1957
and 1959. On August 15, 1959, he began a
53-year marriage to Carolyn O. Reeder. They
lived in Greenbelt, MD, Washington, DC, and
Glen Echo, MD. In 2013 Jack began a new
DEATH NOTICE
ing cancer patients, her true calling. While
Doris was very active socially- President
of Alianza Ibero Americana twice, a Board
Member of National Rehabilitation Hospital,
member of Capital Speakers Club, member
of the Bolivian Ladies Association - most
of her time was spent helping others. For
over 40 years, cancer patients from differ-
ent parts of the world came to her for as-
sistance in their health care. She worked
closely with the NIH National Cancer Insti-
tute and over years became a fixture there,
guided by doctors who would assist her in
her mission to try to get the best treatment
for those sick, never asking or expecting
anything in return. When a patient excelled
and survived, no one was happier than Do-
ris. She became known as the person to go
to if you needed help. Doris continued this
until well into her 80’s until her decline in
health prevented her from doing any more.
She is survived by her daughter Elizabeth
Tracy (Michael), her brother Charles Videla
(Carolyn) and many cherished relatives and
friends. Viewing will be held on Tuesday,
November 14, 2023 at Pumphrey Funeral
Home Bethesda from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mass
of Christian Burial, Wednesday. November
15 at St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic
Church in Bethesda, MD at 10:45 a.m. Buri-
al immediately to follow at Gate of Heaven
Cementery in Silver Spring, MD. Memorial
Donations may be made to the NIH National
Cancer Institute (NCI) Gift Fund. Information
may be found on their website or by calling
1-800-4-CANCER.
as well as his great-grandchildren Connor
and Dylan.
Dick was a man of many accomplishments
and interests. He always loved participat-
ing in a good, engaging debate and never
swayed from a challenge, especially if it
required analyzing and processing informa-
tion. He received his PhD in Meteorology
and Physics from Penn State in 1960. Dick
served for 2 years in the Korean War as an
Air Force weather forecaster and liaison of-
ficer for the Strategic Air Command.
Throughout his career, Dick made signif-
icant contributions to the field of mete-
orology. He served as the Director of the
National Weather Service, Acting Director
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), President of the
World Meteorological Society, and Executive
Director of the American Meteorological So-
ciety. His expertise and dedication earned
him numerous awards and the respect of
his colleagues.
The family will host a Celebration of Life in
the Spring, around the time of Dick’s pre-
ferred ideal ambient weather temperature
of 64.2 degrees Fahrenheit (Dad’s Meteo-
rologist kinda joke!). In lieu of flowers, do-
nations can be made to the American Me-
teorological Society or the Humane Society.
Dick Hallgren’s legacy will live on through
his contributions to the field of meteorol-
ogy and the impact he had on his family
and friends. He will be remembered as a
dedicated husband, father, grandfather, and
great-grandfather. May his soul find eternal
peace.
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born on October 17, 1940 to Pascal and
Mary Looney of West Sunbury PA.
He was a research chemist at U.S. Steel,
physical science administrator at the U.S.
Department of Commerce and conserva-
tion program manager at the Electric Pow-
er Research Institute. He received a PhD in
Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh
(1972), and was a member of Alpha Chi Sig-
ma, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the American
Chemical Society, and the American Associ-
ation for the Advancement of Science.
After retiring, Quentin, an avid cook and
history buff, combined his passion for food
and local history as a board member of the
American Institute of Wine and Food (Cap-
itol chapter), DC Culinary Historians and
Friends of Peirce Mill (Rock Creek Park). By
nature an introvert, Quentin was a master
story teller whether talking about industrial
energy conservation or 19th C. grist mills.
Quentin’s kindness and generosity are a
legacy and legend to his family and friends,
in whose memory he will continue to live.
Donations in his name can be made to the
Alzheimer’s Association and to Friends of
Peirce Mill (Washington DC). Memorial ar-
rangements pending.
olina. Her successful proposal funding pro-
fessional ambulance services in Western,
NC, led to her directing a three year hospital
research study to determine a better way
to predict the nursing care hospitals needed
on any given day. The system she helped de-
velop was based on the needs of indiviutal
patients rather than number of patients in
a nursing unit. Encouraged to disseminate
the new system (GRASP) she founded her
own company. When Diane sold the rights to
GRASP 10 years later, it was in use at more
than 500 hospitals in the U.S., Canada, and
the U.K., with offices in North Carolina, Colo-
rado, California, Toronto and London. GRASP
was purchased by FCG Inc., CA, and subse-
quently sold to Diane’s former employees.
Diane continued her healthcare career
indentifying and promoting best practices
for the Veterans Health Administration in
Washington, DC. She also served on boards
of a Hospital and a Hospice in North Caro-
lina, and was a charter member and long-
time Common Cause volunteer. During her
working years, Diane volunteered at The
Carpenter’s Shelter and library in Alexn-
dria, VA. In retirement, she continued her
volunteer and community building efforts
as a receptionist, publicist and grant writer
for an adult daycare center, a volunteer and
Board member for a community food bank,
and founder of a non-partisan citizen action
organization addressing national and local
issues. In 2021, Diane was recognized as
one of the most influential people in the I-19
Corridor by the GV News. There will be no
memorial service at her request. If you wish
to honor her life, help somone less fortunate
or consider a contribution to the Diane Alex-
ander Meyer Scholarship Fund at American
University assisting First Generation women
pursuing careers in public service, social
justice and human rights https:giving.Amer-
ican.edu/page/59415/donate/1.
Enough already, Shalom.
chapter in Winchester with Jill LeTourneau.
Jack pursued a career in graphic design and
editing, working for American University,
founding a typesetting company, and serv-
ing as editor for Army Times and as editor
and publisher of The Construction Specifier.
Jack spent many weekends hiking and
camping with family and friends in Shenan-
doah National Park (SNP). The ruins of
homes discovered on “bushwhacking” hikes
led Jack and Carolyn to publish three books
about the families displaced by the forma-
tion of the park. Jack was an active member
of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club in-
cluding serving 5 years as President. He and
Carolyn led volunteers on trail maintenance
trips in SNP. Jack was appointed to the C &
O Canal National Historic Park Commission
by the US Secretary of the Interior.
Jack was preceded in death by wife Caro-
lyn and brother Wallace Cookson. He is sur-
vived by partner Jill LeTourneau, son David
(Andrea Laine) and David’s two children,
daughter Linda (Christopher Anderson), and
nephew Arthur Cookson.
A memorial service will be held at the Omps
Funeral Home on Amherst St. in Winchester
at 11 a.m. Saturday, November 18. In lieu
of flowers, donations may be made to the
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club or Shenan-
doah National Park.
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DEATH NOTICE
BOYD
SARAH (SHIRLEY) HOROWITZ BOYD
Sarah Boyd, 77, passed away on November
8, 2023 in Annapolis, Maryland and is joyfully
reunited with her beloved husband Ron.
Born in 1946 in a displaced persons camp
in Germany, Sarah was the first child of Ho-
locaust survivors Israel and Libby Horowitz.
LEFFALL
RUTH MCWILLIAMS LEFFALL
Ruth McWilliams Leffall, a civic leader and
philanthropist, died on June 20, 2023, in
Washington, DC.
Ruth, also known as Ruthie, was born in
1930 in Richmond, VA, to Frank McWilliams
and Lillian Grasty McWilliams.
Mrs. Leffall came from a family with a his-
tory of civic involvement and an education-
al legacy that traces back to the origins of
Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The Richmond Planet newspaper indicated
that Ruth Leffall’s maternal great-grand-
father, Enoch H. Grasty, from Danville, VA,
was a graduate of the first class of Howard
University, and the superintendent of Afri-
can-American schools in Culpepper County,
VA. The Richmond Planet and the Pittsburgh
Courier also reported that Ruth Leffall’s
maternal grandfather, Captain Towson S.
Grasty, was a graduate of Oberlin College
and Howard Law School, and the only Afri-
can-American officer on the staff of a Major
General during World War I, serving as Judge
Advocate of General Court Martials. Mrs.
Leffall was also related through her father,
Frank McWilliams, to Ora Brown Stokes, the
civic leader, and her husband, the Rev. Wil-
liam H. Stokes of Ebenezer Baptist Church,
of Richmond, VA.
Mrs. Leffall attended Richmond public
schools and graduated from Armstrong
High School. Following her parents and her
older sister, Margaret, Ruth attended Vir-
ginia Union University and graduated with
a degree in history. After graduation, Ruth
moved to Washington, DC, to work at the
Pentagon. She later worked at Freedmen’s
Hospital (now Howard University Hospital),
while Margaret worked for the Dean of the
Howard University Medical School. Marga-
ret introduced Ruth to a medical resident,
LaSalle Doheny Leffall, Jr., who had gradu-
ated from Howard’s Medical School. They
married in 1956.
In 1957 the Leffalls moved to New York City,
where Ruth worked at the American Col-
lege of Physicians, and later at IBM, while
Dr. Leffall had a senior surgical oncology
fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Can-
cer Center. After the fellowship, the couple
moved to Munich, Germany, where Mrs.
Leffall worked for Radio Free Europe, and
Dr. Leffall was assigned to the U.S. Army’s
Second Field Hospital. In 1962, the Leffalls
O’LEARY
DONALD J. O’LEARY
(Age 92)
Donald J. O’Leary of Alexandria, VA, passed
away on August 14, 2023, after a coura-
geous fight against dementia. He was born
on March 19, 1931, in the Bronx, New York,
to the late John and Mary O’Leary, the first
of four children. Mr. O’Leary graduated from
the School of Foreign Service at George-
town University in 1952 and received his law
degree there in 1956. Mr. O’Leary received
a Master’s degree from the School of City
and Regional Planning of the University of
California, Berkeley in 1970. Mr. O’Leary be-
gan his career as a Trial Attorney with the
Antitrust Division of the Department of Jus-
tice. He went on to key executive positions
with several NYSE and private corporations,
including counsel and Managing Director
with the Del Webb Corporation and Vice
President of Castle & Cooke subsidiary Oce-
anic Properties in California. He was the first
General Manager of The Sea Ranch, a 5200-
acre planned community in Northern Cali-
fornia. He developed and managed residen-
tial and other projects in the United States,
SENNEWALD
JOANNE MARIE (RITTER) SENNEWALD
Joanne Marie (Ritter) Sennewald, 88, of
Frederick, Maryland, passed from this life on
Monday, October 30, 2023 at Spring Arbor of
Frederick. She was the wife of the late Karl
Sennewald. Born on March 20, 1935, in Wat-
sontown, Pennsylvania, she was the daugh-
ter of Wilbur Ritter and Annie (Ellis) Ritter.
Joanne graduated from Watsontown High
School, Class of 1953, and the Williamsport
Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1956.
Upon graduation she practiced hospital
nursing before beginning a new career as an
underwriter analyzing claims for GEICO, the
insurance company. She took a break from
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She came to America at the age of two, set-
tling in Baltimore, MD.
Sarah attended American University and
Georgetown University. She married Ron
and they raised their daughter, Kierstan, in
Washington, DC, later moving to Harpers
Ferry, WV, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, and An-
napolis, MD.
Sarah was a gifted teacher, poet and writer.
Sarah’s beloved qualities include her sense
of humor, her love of art, music, plays and
cultural activities, and her fierce dedication
to womens’ rights. Sarah will also be re-
membered for her sense of style, her hand-
crafted jewelry, and her love of a good party
with great food, music and dancing.
Sarah is survived by her loving daughter, Ki-
erstan Boyd and son-in-law, Tom Rodilosso;
her beloved grandson, Sam Rodilosso; her
sister Flora Garb and brother-in-law How-
ard Garb; nephew Merrick Garb and niece
Leanna Garb, as well as other loving family
and friends.
A Celebration of Life for Sarah will be held
on November 18, 2023 from 3 to 6 p.m. at
302 Edgemere Drive, Annapolis, MD.
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returned to Washington, DC, where Mrs. Lef-
fall worked at the U.S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, and Dr. Leffall joined
the faculty of Howard University Medical
School.
After the birth of Ruth and LaSalle’s son, La-
Salle Doheny Leffall III (known as “Donney”),
Mrs. Leffall devoted her time to raising her
son, and to civic and charitable activities.
President Lyndon B. Johnson offered to
nominate Mrs. Leffall for a seat on the City
Council of the District of Columbia, which,
in the days before Home Rule, was a pres-
identially appointed position. Mrs. Leffall
declined the offer, but did accept President
Johnson’s subsequent request to serve on
the Board of the Peace Corps and its Nation-
al Advisory Council. Later, President Jimmy
Carter appointed Mrs. Leffall to the Advisory
Board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.
Other civic involvement of Mrs. Leffall in-
cluded service on the boards of governors,
directors, trustees, or advisory committees
of the American Red Cross DC Division, the
Bishop John T. Walker Preparatory School
for Boys (Development Committee for the
school’s founding), the Children’s Defense
Fund (DC Advisory Committee), the Chil-
dren’s Museum, DC Prep (initial Advisory
Board), Family and Child Services, the Fol-
ger Shakespeare Summer Festival, Ford’s
Theater, the Greater Washington Research
Center, The Lab School, and the National
Symphony Orchestra Association. Ruth’s
love of music came from her mother Lillian,
who accompanied the singer Marian Ander-
son on the piano when Ms. Anderson visited
Virginia Union. Ruth Leffall chaired or co-
chaired many events including those for the
Black Student Fund, the Children’s Museum,
Iona House, the Lab School, the National
Symphony Orchestra Opening Night, Read-
ing Is Fundamental, and the United Negro
College Fund.
Dr. and Mrs. Leffall supported many orga-
nizations including the National Museum
of African American History and Culture
(Founding Donors), the National Gallery of
Art, the Washington National Cathedral,
Howard University, and Florida A&M Uni-
versity.
Mrs. Leffall was known for her upbeat per-
sonality, thoughtfulness, insight, elegance,
and sense of style and fashion. She and her
son were featured in the book Mothers and
Sons by Marianna Cook.
Mrs. Leffall was a member of several social
organizations including PEN/Faulkner, the
Smithsonian Luncheon Group, St. Albans
Tennis Club, and the Waltz Group, where she
served on the Board of Trustees. In addition,
she attended many of the events of orga-
nizations her husband belonged to, such as
the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin,
the Cosmos Club, and the Metropolitan Club
(where both her husband and son served on
the Board of Governors).
Ruth M. Leffall was predeceased by her hus-
band, Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., and is survived
by her son, LaSalle D. Leffall III, of Washing-
ton, DC.
A memorial service will be held at St. John’s
Church, Lafayette Square in Washington, DC,
on Saturday, November 18, 2023, at 10:30
a.m.
Mexico and the Philippines. Mr. O’Leary
was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army on
active duty and a Captain in the U.S. Army
Reserves. His extensive community service
included leadership positions with the Marin
County Human Rights Commission, the City
of Tiburon (CA) Planning Commission, the
Council for Civic Unity of the San Francisco
Bay Area and the Western Art Council of the
Desert Museum in Palm Springs.
Mr. O’Leary is survived by his wife of 27
years, Barbara (Strand); daughter Karen (Wil-
liam Abrams) of Seattle; son Kevin (Elaine
Schweitzer) of Taos, NM; granddaughters
Kathryn and Alexandra, and their mother,
Karla; sister Maureen (Crinnion) of Mt. Lau-
rel, NJ; stepsons Jeffrey Larroca (Shannon)
of Arlington, Mark Larroca (Cicela) of Sevil-
la, Spain, Raymond Larroca (Meleah) of San
Francisco, and stepdaughters Gail Larocca
of New York and Denise Sheehan (John) of
Wilmington, NC; seven step-grandchildren;
and many loving nieces, nephews, and other
family and friends who adored him. He was
preceded in death by his wife of 40 years,
Loris (Leedy); sister Eileen (Devine); and
brother Kevin.
No man was kinder nor more positive than
Mr. O’Leary, who always had a good word
for everyone and never said a bad word
about anyone. He was a life-long learner and
a world traveler with friends everywhere.
He had a particular love of Mexico, where
he had homes in Puerto Vallarta and Baja
California. He took great delight in sharing
his vast knowledge of U.S. history. He loved
his family and was very proud of them. He
was a wise and gentle man.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on
Saturday, November 18, at St. Paul’s Episco-
pal Church, 228 South Pitt Street, Alexan-
dria, VA 22314. Donations in lieu of flowers
may be made to St. Paul’s or to the charity
of your choice.
her career after marrying and having three
sons, but with her children in school she re-
turned to GEICO as an occupational nurse.
Joanne loved playing tennis with her friends
in Potomac and belonged to multiple four-
somes. She enjoyed walking on the beach
in the morning at Hilton Head and having a
glass of wine in the afternoon everywhere.
Joanne was a member of St. James Episco-
pal Church in Exchange, Pennsylvania and
attended St. Francis Episcopal Church in
Potomac until she moved to Frederick to be
near her son.
She is survived by her sons: Marc Sen-
newald and wife Sarah, Daniel Sennewald
and wife Kelly, and Douglas Sennewald and
wife Kathleen, as well as her grandchildren:
Ryan Sennewald, Amy Sennewald, Kaitlin
Sennewald, James Sennewald and Alexan-
der Sennewald. She is also survived by her
niece and sister-at-heart, Christine Fyfe; her
sister-in-law, Louise Ritter; her brother-in-
law Perry Sennewald, and many nieces and
nephews. She is predeceased by her hus-
band Karl; her brothers Gordon Ritter, Wil-
bur Ritter, Jr., and William Ritter; and sisters
Irene Cole and Eleanor Gottschall.
A memorial service will take place at St.
Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, Mary-
land at 11 a.m. on December 1, 2023,
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to Frederick Health Hospice,
PO Box 1799, Frederick, MD 21702.
Expressions of sympathy may be offered to
the family at
www.StaufferFuneralHome.com
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CAVERLY
INGRID ANN JOHNSON CAVERLY
Ingrid Ann Johnson Caverly, 88, died on
October 13, 2023, at her residence at Vin-
son Hall in McLean, VA after a courageous
eight-year struggle with Parkinsonism.
She was predeceased by her husband of
56 years, Michael Kent Caverly, and is sur-
vived by their three children, Megan Cav-
erly (Jay Hinton), Erin Kuhn (George Kuhn),
and M. Tiffin Caverly (Jill Schauer Caverly);
and five grandchildren: Elora, George and
Aubrey Kuhn, and Owen and Spencer Cav-
erly. A memorial service will be held at the
time of her interment at Arlington National
Cemetery, at a date yet to be determined.
Donations in lieu of flowers can be sent to
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkin-
son’s Research (michaeljfox.org).
COLEMAN
GERALD PATRICK COLEMAN
Went to his eternal home on Monday, Oc-
tober 16, 2023, after a brief illness. He was
the beloved husband of Elizabeth Lueders
Coleman for 45 years. He was the loving
son of Deloise Swanson Coleman and
Charles Coleman (deceased), loving broth-
er of Charles (Marsha) of Hyattsville, MD
and Cynthia of Bowie, MD; uncle of Dana
Coleman and Candyce Coates, great uncle
of Khary, Khadir, Khamali, and nephew of
Brenda Swanson. He is also survived by
many other relatives and friends.
A celebration of his life will be held on
Saturday, November 18 at the Lutheran
Church of St. Andrew, 15300 New Hamp-
shire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20905. Visita-
tion at 10:30 a.m., with service following
at 11 a.m.
COLLIGAN
MILDRED KEEFE COLLIGAN (Age 82)
On Friday, November 3, 2023,
of Kensington, MD. Beloved
wife of the late Francis S. Col-
ligan; mother of Michael (Mar-
tha) and Kevin Colligan; grand-
mother of Alanna, Ronan,
Avery and Matthew; loving cousin of Molly
Buckey and Barbara Marhoefer. Visitation
will be held at St. Catherine Laboure Cath-
olic Church, 11801 Claridge Rd., Wheaton,
MD on Tuesday, November 14 from 9:30 to
10 a.m., where Mass of Christian Burial will
follow at 10 a.m. Interment Gate of Heaven
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may
be made to the Christ Child Society, 5101
Wisconsin Ave. NW, Suite 102, Washington,
DC 20016.
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BUTLER-TRUESDALE
REV. DR. SANDRA BUTLER-TRUESDALE
November 15, 1939 - October 28, 2023
Rev. Dr. Sandra Butler-Truesdale left this
world on October 28, 2023 the same way
she moved through it…loved, boldly on her
terms and with the consistent pursuit of
being an advocate. In one of her last inter-
views before her passing, Sandra was asked
what she would miss when she was gone,
“I’ll miss my daughter and grandson, I’ll miss
long walks outside in D.C., but I mostly will
miss talking to people, just engaging with
them.”
Sandra served as Chair of the D.C. Demo-
crat Party, Chair of the Ward 4 Democrats,
ANC 4C07, Ward 4 Representative to the
COOK
DONALD C. COOK (Age 79)
Donald C. Cook, devoted hus-
band, father, and grandfather,
passed away peacefully at home
on November 4, 2023, surround-
ed by family.
Don grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and then Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, graduat-
ing from Dominican High School. Don hon-
orably served in the Marine Corps during
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FINEGOLD
DONALDINE STEWART FINEGOLD
(Age 92)
Passed away on October 8, 2023 in Tuc-
son, AZ. She was preceded in death by
her husband of more than 45 years, Ed-
mund S. Finegold. Donnie is survived by
daughter, Allyn, son-in-law, Howard, and
granddaughter, Leah of Washington, DC;
son, Mitch and daughter-in-law Phuong of
Seattle, WA; and a loving extended family.
Donnie was born in Santa Clara, CA but
lived most of her life in the Washington
area, and in Tucson after retirement. She
was a graduate of both Stanford and Johns
Hopkins Universities and spent her career
working in international development. A
celebration of life will be held in January
2024 in Tucson, AZ.
RUTKOWSKI
PAMELA FRINKS CONNOR
RUTKOWSKI
Pam passed away on July 12, 2023 after
struggling with medical problems for al-
most a decade. She is the mother of Bry-
an and Jon Connor and the stepmother of
Liesl Rutkosky. She is the grandmother of
four grandchildren. Her third son Andrew
Rutkowski passed away at age 17 due to
medical malpractice. She was a member
of the Baptist Temple Church on Common-
wealth Avenue in Alexandria, VA.
Pam was a beautiful person. She made
friends easily and enjoyed meeting new
people. She held no malice towards others.
She lost her older sister Patricia Frinks in
September 2022. Her younger sister June
Frinks lives in Staunton, VA.
Pam was a loving sensitive supportive
mother and a wonderful partner to Mark
for 45 years.
She spent her last seven years at Westmin-
ster at Lake Ridge in Lake Ridge, VA.
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WYNN
KEVIN ANTONY WYNN
Passed away suddenly on Thursday, Octo-
ber 12, 2023. He is survived by his loving
mother, Edith Wynn; aunt, Mollie Dawson
(Charles) and a host of other family mem-
bers and friends. Preceded in death by his
father, Horace A Wynn. Memorial service
will be held at Sargent Memorial Prese-
byterian Church, 5109 Nannie Helen Bur-
roughs Ave., NE on Friday, November 17
from 10 a.m. until service at 11 a.m. Inurn-
ment at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
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DC Board of Education, Chair of the D.C.
City Council’s Committee on Cops, Chair of
the Communications Workers of America’s
Affordable Housing Committee, Associate
Pastor of Metropolitan AME Church, Wash-
ington, DC and, President of the DC Legend-
ary Musicians, Inc.
Further, she worked with a developer to
raise 2.5 million dollars to redevelop and re-
store the Campbell Heights Senior Citizens
Apartments and resurrect the history of the
name of the space as the Paul Laurence
Dunbar Apartments at 15th & U St. NW as
well as worked with the Ellis Brothers rede-
velop the Historic Howard Theatre, which
was closed for 20 years. She is preceded
in death by her parents Emma Mae Taylor
and Tancil Butler. Her maternal grandpar-
ents Lucille Taylor and John Evon Taylor,
and her paternal grandparents Francis E.
Tancil and William Butler. She is survived by
her daughter, Tonya Butler-Truesdale, Esq.
and her grandson Logan Butler-Henderson,
along with countless friends, colleagues,
and those she mentored. Family and friends
will celebrate what was her big life at the
John F. Kennedy Center on Wednesday, No-
vember 15, 2023 at 6 p.m., which would’ve
been Sandra’s 84th birthday. In lieu of flow-
ers, the family prefers donations to D.C.
Legendary Musicians (at P.O. Box 53227,
Washington, DC 20009 or dclmusicians.org
[dclmusicians.org]) a 501(c)(3) non-profit or-
ganization Sandra started, that preserves,
protects, and promotes the artistic legacy,
contributions and well-being of Washington,
DC’s professional musicians.
the Vietnam War and then traveled across
the United States. Donald told many stories
about his years out West and in Cincinnati,
visiting with his large extended family in Col-
erain, working construction as a young man,
and eating Skyline chili dogs.
Don attended Marquette University and
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and
then worked for Ernst & Young as a CPA.
He subsequently began two successful
computer software businesses, Aardvark
and then Shoreland, Inc., traveling across
the globe for work. Don had a talent for re-
membering faces, connecting people, and
providing a network of support to friends
and colleagues. He was known by many for
his intelligence, unique sense of humor, and
love of Wisconsin frozen custard and family,
especially his grandchildren.
Don is preceded in death by his parents,
Raymond and Marie Cook, and is survived
by his five brothers, Ron, Steve, Greg, Chris,
and Ken; wife Margaret; two daughters,
Elizabeth (Zach) Davis and Kimberly (Mark)
Delaquil; and five grandchildren.
Services are private. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations can be made to the
Wounded Warrior Project, https://support.
woundedwarriorproject.org/.
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DANIEL
REBECCA CALLOWAY DANIEL
“Becky”
Rebecca “Becky” Calloway Daniel, Rider-
wood Village, Silver Spring, MD, passed
away peacefully on November 4, 2023, of
cardiovascular disease. Born May 31, 1933,
Becky was the daughter of Walter Earl and
Atha Howell Calloway, Concord, NC.
Becky is survived by her husband of 66
years, Ted L. Daniel; sons, Ted Daniel, Jr. (Ju-
lia) of Silver Spring, MD, and William C. Dan-
iel (Julie) of Bryantown, MD; granddaughters,
Elizabeth, Kathryn, and Jillian Daniel; and
brother Albert (Lorine) Calloway of Raleigh,
NC.
A long time resident of Crofton, MD, Becky
was Citizen of the Year in 1996. She served
for years on the town board and held the
office of secretary. She was editor of the
weekly Crofton Courier and was first wom-
an elected president of the Crofton Kiwanis
Club. In 1970 she co-founded the Crofton
Chorale. She was a choir member at Prince
JOHNSON
GAIL MEREDITH JOHNSON
Gail Meredith Johnson, 81, was born
3/23/1942 in Champaign Illinois. She passed
into Eternal Life on October 27, 2023 at
Georgetown University Hospital in Wash-
ington, DC. Her parents were Col. Arnold
T. Johnson, USAF and Mrs. Muriel C. Angell
Johnson. As a military “brat”, Gail lived
in many states and in London, England.
She graduated from Washington-Lee High
School in Arlington, VA. She attended the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville and
studied at the University of Maryland. She
graduated from Strayer Business College in
Washington, DC. As a Secretary / Stenogra-
pher, she soon found employment.
Her long career included the following as-
signments:
She worked for the Department of the Air
Force Directorate of Plans & Arms Policy
Branch.
She worked at the Pentagon Federal Credit
Union.
She was a Stenographer in the Juvenile
Court at the Arlington County Court House,
and in the Department of Inspections Me-
chanical Division. She was secretary to the
Chief Boiler Inspector.
She worked for the Stanwick Corporation
in Rosslyn.
She worked for USDA Forest Service Admin-
istrative Services and in Forest environment
Research, Forest Service Management and
Forest Service Engineering (Geometronics).
She worked for the USAF Europe/Nato Divi-
sion Directorate of Plans & Operations.
She worked for the Director of Planning In-
tegration Directorate of Plans.
She worked at HQ USAF / PR DCS / Pro-
grams & Resources in Washington, DC.
She was Personal Secretary to the Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Pro-
MURPHY
PATRICIA C. MURPHY “Pat”
Died peacefully at home on October 27,
2023, in Naples, Florida. Born in Clinton,
Iowa in 1929, Pat graduated from Clarke
College with a degree in Art. She taught ele-
mentary school and spent a few years skiing
in Denver before meeting her husband, Ken
Murphy. Pat boldly took a teaching job and
moved to South Carolina before marrying
Ken in Washington, DC in 1958. In addition to
being a wonderful mother and teacher, she
worked for years in sales at Bloomingdale’s
in northern Virginia. She was always well
dressed and fashionable and maintained
NICKLES
MARIA FREIIN NICKLES
Maria Freiin Nickles, devoted wife, mother,
and grandmother, passed away on Novem-
ber 2, 2023, in Great Falls, Virginia. She was
born on November 29, 1937, in Göttingen,
Germany, to Albrecht Freiherr Knigge and
Louise Sophie Freifrau Knigge, (née Gräfin
von Hardenberg). She shared 61 years of
marriage with her beloved husband, Peter
John Nickles.
Maria grew up on a farm in Bredenbeck,
Germany with her five siblings, and was
known for her creativity and adventurous
spirit. Nature was her playground, and her
adventures in the vast fields, woods, and or-
chards of her youth provided the grounding
for her life and the inspiration for her artistic
voice.
While living in Boston, Maria met Peter
Nickles. Following a short courtship, they
married on July 28, 1962, at her childhood
farm in Germany. They settled in Great Falls,
Virginia, where they would create a lifelong
home.
As a mother, Maria was a pillar of support
to her family. Whether it was manning the
hotdog stand at a basketball game, score-
keeping at a Little League game, creating
the perfect Halloween costume, or holding
a horse before an event, you could always
count on Maria.
She created a magical childhood for her
children, nurturing their dreams, and turn-
ing their house into a loving home. And
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of Peace Presbyterian Church.
Becky was student body president of Mere-
dith College, Raleigh, NC, 1954-55.
She began her writing career as continuity
director of radio station WPTF, Raleigh, NC.
In 1960 she joined the headquarters staff of
Terry Sanford’s successful NC gubernatori-
al campaign and that of John F. Kennedy’s
presidential campaign in the Tar Heel state.
During Sanford’s administration she was
women’s director of the NC Democratic
Party.
Becky was Robert W. Scott’s speechwriter in
his successful 1964 campaign for lieutenant
governor of NC. In Scott’s successful 1968
gubernatorial campaign, she was public
relations officer and, in those pre-Internet
days, directed statewide mass mailings.
She was editor of North Carolina’s state-
wide magazine Roadways and later asso-
ciate editor of Nutrition Today, a national
magazine for nutrition professionals, then
published in Annapolis, MD.
After moving with her family to Maryland in
1969, Becky was coordinator of volunteers
for MD Rep Tom McMillen, House of Rep-
resentatives. Her husband, Ted, was chief
of staff for two successive NC members
of congress. She was president of the NC
Democratic Club of Washington.
A celebration of life service will be held at
Riderwood Chapel, Silver Spring, MD, at a
time to be determined. An inurnment ser-
vice will be at Arlington National Cemetery
at a future date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to the Prince of Peace Presby-
terian Church, 1657 Crofton Parkway, Crof-
ton, MD 21114, www.popchurch.org/give
grams and Resources in the Office of Secre-
tary of Defense; Mr. Lewis I. Libby.
Throughout Gail’s service, she received
many awards for her Outstanding Perfor-
mance and for her Superior Performance.
She received a Certificate of Merit and a
Joint Meritorious Unit Award for Exceptional
Service.
Gail also served twice at the United States
Mission in Geneva, Switzerland.
Gail sang in her church choir for many years
and was a member of the Westover Baptist
Church in Arlington.
Gail loved all animals, especially cats and
she had many of them in her lifetime. She
loved them all and mourned for each one as
they passed away.
For many years Gail volunteered as caretak-
er’s assistant for the Animal Rescue League
in Arlington, VA until ill-health prevented
her from continuing. She also volunteered
to work at the Arlington Free Clinic where
she served as an interpreter to translate En-
glish to Spanish for the community of Span-
ish-only speakers.
Gail was a cheerful person with a kind and
loving heart. She had smiles and kind words
for everyone she met. She enjoyed life and
was always fun to be with. She was a very
generous and genuine person, and had a
happy, flamboyant, free spirit. She loved
shopping for clothes and shoes and hats
and loved bright colors.
In retirement Gail enjoyed being home with
her cats and visiting with friends and family.
For ten years Gail moved back home to be
a companion/caretaker to her mother. It
was a difficult duty, but one that she felt she
wanted and needed to do. She was a very
loving daughter.
She moved six years ago into Goodwin
House, now called “Goodwin Living” in Falls
Church, where she could enjoy a carefree
retirement with all the services and ameni-
ties provided there.
Gail is survived by her loving sister, Doris
Goodlett, and loving brother-in-law, Warren
Goodlett of Fairfax, VA and loving cousin,
Judy Massey of Maurertown, VA.
Gail will be sorely missed by her family and
all her loving friends and especially by her
best friend, Thomas Linehan.
A Memorial Service will be held for her on
Saturday, November 18 at 11 a.m. at Murphy
Funeral Home, 4510 Wilson Blvd., Arlington,
VA. There will be a light luncheon served af-
ter the service. Interment of her cremains
will be private at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, you may donate in mem-
ory of Gail Johnson to the Arlington Animal
Rescue League.
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her Irish red hair to the end. She often said
her secret to life was drinking Coca-Cola,
eating chocolate, and enjoying chardonnay
each evening.
A devout Catholic, Pat was also an avid
reader and traveler, had a wicked “Far Side”
sense of humor, and as her college year-
book said was “always up for a party”! She
played golf, and at the young age of 80 made
a hole in one! All Murphy family members
have love affairs with their dogs and Pat was
no exception. Her last dog Casper, which
she rescued when she was 85, was one of
her favorites; she never met a dog she didn’t
love. Birds, however, were not her favorite!
Pat is survived by her three daughters Kathy
Zimpel, Karen Baer (Dave), and Krissy Coile,
and grandchildren Mitchell Baer, Kalli Baer
Holleran (Tim), Murphy Coile and Mack Coile.
The family wants to thank all their dedicated
caregivers for the loving care they gave Pat
these past several years, along with Avow
Hospice who helped with her transition. Pat
wanted to stay in her condo and watch the
gorgeous Naples sunset each night and that
is exactly what she did. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be made to
Avow Hospice Foundation at 1095 Whip-
poorwill Lane, Naples, Florida 34105. Pat’s
ashes will be buried alongside her hus-
band’s in Fairfax Memorial Park in northern
Virginia later this year.
just like her own childhood home, Maria’s
house was open to everyone. It was a warm
place where magic and adventure lived, and
where everyone loved Maria.
Maria loved life—riding horses, gardening,
working with children, and finding hidden
treasures at flea markets. But it was her
kindness and welcoming spirit that made
her who she was.
Maria was also a prolific and versatile art-
ist. Her journey as an artist began at the
Art Institute in Berlin. While she specialized
in watercolor and pen-and-ink, her artistic
passions extended to porcelain painting
and the creation of elaborate gingerbread
houses, some of which were displayed at
the German Embassy and The Smithsonian
Institution. Every Christmas, she hosted gin-
gerbread parties for her grandchildren and
shared her artistic creations with friends.
Maria was also a gifted illustrator, and her
whimsical images grace the pages of many
children’s books.
An active member of the community, Maria
loved her hometown friends, her German
“Kaffeklatsch,” her China Painting group,
and all the friends she made in Hawaii and
Maine. She also treasured her close ties
with her family in Germany, often traveling
to reunite with loved ones.
Maria saw all the beauty in the world and
embraced it, both through her art and her
life. She will be deeply missed by her family
and friends. Her wonderful, gentle spirit was
truly unique, and her memory will forever
live on in the hearts of all those she touched
with her kindness and love.
Maria is survived by her husband, Peter; her
three children, John (Shelley) Nickles, Philip
(Laura) Nickles, and Aletta (Robert) Martin;
eight grandchildren, Sophia, Clara, Johnny,
Kealani, Ethan, Louisa, Annie, and William;
two siblings, Helene Gräfin von Reichenbach
and Albrecht Freiherr Knigge, as well as
many beloved family members and friends.
A memorial service in honor of Maria will be
held on Saturday, November 18, 2023, from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Great Falls Method-
ist Church.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Maria’s mem-
ory can be made to ‘Lift me Up!’ a therapeu-
tic horsemanship charity, at liftmeup.org/
donations or by mailing a check to P.O. Box
104, Great Falls, VA 22066.
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PETERSON
DONALD M. PETERSON
8/02/1932 - 11/4/2023
Donald M. Peterson of Tucson, Arizona,
formerly of Bethesda, Maryland, died on
November 4, 2023. He was 91 years old.
Don was born in Jamestown, New York on
August 2, 1932, into the family that then
owned the Crescent Tool Company. His
grandfather Karl Peterson invented the
Crescent wrench. After graduating from
Philips Andover Academy, Don earned un-
dergraduate and graduate degrees from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He then
served in the Navy for four years before
returning to the Wharton Graduate School
of Business where he earned his MBA. His
final academic degree of Ph.D. in Finance
was awarded by American University. In
later years, he studied philosophy at Ox-
ford University and Cambridge University.
PRIDGEN
JAMES M. PRIDGEN
“Jim”
James (Jim) M. Pridgen, a well-known travel
agent in Washington, DC died peacefully in
his husband’s arms at home on October 9,
2023 surrounded by his nephews and close
friends. The cause of death was complica-
tions from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(ALS).
Jim was born on September 24, 1945, the
younger of two sons of N. Frank Pridgen &
Minnie Woods Pridgen. Jim grew up in Do-
than AL, which was known as the peanut
capital of the world. His father was a found-
er of Dothan’s National Peanut Festival,
which continues to this day. From an early
age Jim demonstrated an interest in art, and
studied for years with Dothan’s “Attic Paint-
ers,” enjoying some local renown in Dothan
junior art circles. He was voted “most tal-
ented” in his class when he graduated from
Dothan High School in 1963. After one
year at Birmingham’s Samford University,
he transferred to Auburn University where
he studied industrial and graphic design
and was an active member of Pi Kappa Al-
pha social fraternity. During his collegiate
summers, Jim worked at a series of national
parks around the country, his first experi-
ence at what would become his personal
and professional passion, travel. He cred-
ited these summer jobs with exposing him
to cultures outside the American south and
expanding his horizons literally and figura-
tively. After receiving his BFA from Auburn
in 1968, Jim worked as a graphic designer
in advertising, first in Nashville and then for
three years in New Orleans. He always con-
sidered his time in New Orleans as import-
ant formative years where he nurtured an
indelible love of fine food, architecture, and
historic preservation, all of which became
QUINLAN
J. MICHAEL QUINLAN “Mike”
J. Michael “Mike” Quinlan of Ashburn, Vir-
ginia, passed away peacefully on Saturday,
November 4, 2023, surrounded by his loving
family. Beloved husband of 50 years to Mary
Quinlan; loving father of Kara Q. Davis (Jon-
athan) and Kristen Q. Calder (Vic); devoted
grandfather of Katherine and William Davis,
and Allison, Lindsey and Kyle Calder; loving
brother of Marilyn Higgins (Larry), Margaret
Rogers (James), and Maureen McNamara
(James); and caring uncle to many nieces
and nephews.
Mike was born on November 2, 1941 to the
late Joseph Charles and Harriet Veronica
(Gorman) Quinlan in Rockville Centre, New
York. Raised in Hempstead, New York, he
graduated from Chaminade High School in
1959, received a B.S.S. degree from Fair-
field University in 1963, a law degree from
Fordham Law School in 1966 and a Master
of Law degree from George Washington Uni-
versity in 1970.
REYNOLDS
ARTHUR MCKINLEY REYNOLDS JR. MD
“Mack”
Arthur McKinley “Mack” Reynolds, Jr. MD, of
Mason Neck, Virginia passed away peace-
fully on October 31, 2023, in Alexandria,
Virginia. Ninety-five years young, he lived an
amazing life and spent his last few weeks
visiting with family and friends at the Good-
win House, and listening to big band music.
Dr. Reynolds was born in Danville, Virginia on
August 6, 1928 to Methodist minister Arthur
McKinley Reynolds, Sr. and Susan Minton
Reynolds. Always a fast learner, Young Mack
skipped two grades in primary school, en-
rolled at Randolph Macon College at the age
of 15 and graduated at age 18 in a wartime
class of seventeen young men. His experi-
ence at Randolph Macon proved formative;
he kept in touch with his classmates, at-
tended most reunions, sponsored a lecture
series that bears his name and was award-
ed a doctorate in humanities in 2019.
After a proud, but brief stint as a high school
physics teacher, Mack enrolled in medical
school at the Medical College of Virginia
(now VCU School of Medicine). After grad-
uating, Dr. Reynolds joined the Navy during
the Korean conflict to serve as a flight
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Don was an early adopter of the use of com-
puters in investment decisions. He wrote a
book entitled Financial Ratios and Invest-
ment Results, which became a text book in
many university MBA classes. He discovered
that there was a link between the value of
certain financial ratios and stock prices.
From this discovery, he developed the “prin-
ciple of strategy before selection,” a proce-
dure that was rarely used at that time. He
advised banks and brokerage firms and later
became an investment advisor to individuals.
Don was a kind and gentle soul, beloved
by all who knew him. Upon his death,
one friend recalled him in this way: “I
shall miss his elegant presence, his warm
smile, his beautiful and graceful golf swing,
and his ability to encourage all of us to
see what is right and good in the world.”
Golf was his favorite sport, although
he was known to excel at any game
that involved a ball. He shot his age
on numerous occasions and enjoyed a
hole-in-one on his 75th birthday, in the
company of his son-in-law, Dan Beers.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Shirley
D. Peterson; as well as two daughters, Katie
Beers of Los Altos, CA, and Sarah Maxwell of
Dallas, Tx. HIs four granddaughters, Kimberly
Beers, Allison Beers, Katharine Maxwell, and
Claire Maxwell, were a constant joy to him.
He was also very proud of his sons-in-law,
Daniel Beers and William Maxwell,; as well
his grandsons-in-law, Philip Bent and Mi-
chael Constant, all of whom he introduced
to golf. He was a member of the Chevy
Chase Club in Chevy Chase, MD, and the La
Paloma Golf and Country Club in Tucson, AZ.
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life-long passions.
In 1973 he moved to Washington, DC where
he decided to make a dramatic career
change and entered the travel profession,
becoming a travel agent for the next 43
years. His career as a travel agent proved
ideally suited to his social personality, his
early fascination with geography, and his
remarkable memory for names and plac-
es. He travelled extensively around the
globe (Jim estimated he had been to Europe
more than 75 times) and became a well-ap-
preciated travel consultant in Washington
political, legal, media, and cultural circles,
providing his distinguished clients with per-
sonalized travel experiences and his travel
colleagues with experienced advice.
In 1985, he met the love of his life, attorney
Arthur A Warren, who became his life-long
partner and, eventually, husband. Most of
their life together was spent in an historic
1914 town house in DC’s Kalorama neigh-
borhood which they restored and filled over
the years with a collection of antiques and
fine art. In addition to travel, one of their
other passions together was attending and
supporting theater, in particular Signature
Theatre of Arlington VA. Jim was a long-
time member of Foundry United Methodist
church and was particularly appreciative
of its music program, which he generously
supported.
Jim was a devoted uncle to his nephews,
Franklin (Amy) and Windham (Tara) Pridgen
of Atlanta and took great pride in their ac-
complishments and those of his great neph-
ews and nieces, Andrew, Alden, Ruthanna,
Mamie Carroll, Ford, and Henry. He had the
capacity for strong and deep relationships
and brought great joy to his many friends
with his wit and kindness and thoughtful
friendship. His passion for good food, nur-
tured by his mother’s skill and love of cook-
ing, inspired many great dining experiences
and enduring memories among his circle of
friends and acquaintances.
In his last year, Jim battled ALS heroically
and with incredible grace. He was an inspi-
ration to all who knew him. His candor and
bravery and continued interest in their lives
allowed his many friends to surround him
with love and admiration and tenderness.
Jim’s journey with ALS was greatly eased by
the care he received from his home health
aides, in particular Pedro Martinez who be-
came his devoted and trusted companion
through the difficult last months of his life.
Jim will be greatly missed. He is survived by
his devoted husband, his nephews and their
families, and by numerous friends.
A memorial service will be held at Foundry
UMC, 1500 16th Street NW, Washington DC
20036, at 11:30 a.m. on November 18, 2023.
Mike began his career in the U.S. Air Force
in 1966, serving as a JAG Corps officer in the
Office of Special Investigations and contin-
ued to serve as a reservist until he retired
in 2002 as a Lieutenant Colonel. In 1971, he
began his more than 20 year career with the
Federal Bureau of Prisons which included
serving as Director of the Federal Bureau
of Prisons from 1987 until his retirement in
1992. Mike joined CoreCivic in 1995 as the
head of their Strategic Planning Division and
served as the President and Chief Operating
Officer from 1999-2002. He spent the re-
mainder of his career at CoreCivic consult-
ing in various capacities. During his lifelong
career in public service, Mike earned nu-
merous awards and recognitions, including
the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award
(1988), the Presidential Meritorious Rank
Award (1991), the Attorney General’s Excep-
tional Leadership Award (1991), the National
Public Service Award of the National Acade-
my of Public Administration and the Ameri-
can Society of Public Administration (1992),
and the ER Cass Award from the American
Correctional Association (2003).
Mike had many professional accomplish-
ments, but he was most proud of his family.
He especially enjoyed traveling with Mary
and their family and being with their five
grandchildren. He was a kind, humble, and
generous man who was deeply loved by his
family and friends. He will be dearly missed.
A funeral mass will be celebrated on Tues-
day, November 14, 2023 at 11 a.m. at St.
John Neumann Catholic Church, 11900 Law-
yers Road, Reston, Virginia 20191. A private
interment will be held at a later date at Ar-
lington National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be made to the
Alzheimer’s Association in Mike’s name.
Fond memories and online condolences
may be left for the family at
www.adamsgreen.com
surgeon on aircraft carriers. Following his
military service in Pensacola, Florida, Dr.
Reynolds, his first wife (Rebecca Settle) and
their two young children (Arthur McKinley,
III and Beverly Ann) moved to Berryville, Vir-
ginia. There, as the town’s country doctor,
Dr. Reynolds once received as payment a
nine-pound ham for delivering a nine-pound
baby.
In 1960 Dr. Reynolds moved his family to
Northern Virginia, where he became the
area’s ninth ophthalmologist. He enjoyed a
long career in the field, teaching from 1963
-1995 at the Center for Sight at Georgetown
University Medical Center, serving as pres-
ident of the Northern Virginia Academy of
Ophthalmology (1972-74) and being hon-
ored as Physician of the Year at Sibley Me-
morial Hospital (1993).
He was an enthusiastic tennis player, alpine
skier, amateur pilot, sailor and saxophone
player. He and his second wife, Janet Reyn-
olds, loved sailing all over the Chesapeake
Bay – especially with their daughter, Susan
– and traveling the world with their friends
and family. Together, they developed lifelong
friendships wherever they went.
Dr. Reynolds was preceded in death by his
wife of 42 years, Janet Powell Reynolds, his
older sister Sue and his two younger broth-
ers (Marvin and Franklin). He is survived by
three children, Susan Spies (Donald) , Bever-
ly Raudabaugh (Joseph) and Mack Reynolds,
III, (Mary); seven grandchildren, Owen Spies,
Cooper Spies, Rebecca Raudabaugh, Joe
Raudabaugh, Molly Osborne, Meg Reynolds,
Mack Reynolds, IV and five great-grandchil-
dren.
Two services have been scheduled: a burial
service at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Novem-
ber 18, at the St. Luke’s Historic Church in
Smithfield, Virginia; and, a celebration of life
at 3 p.m. on Sunday, November 19, at Good-
win House/Alexandria. Valet parking will be
available at Goodwin House.
In lieu of flowers please make contributions
to the Salvation Army, or the Goodwin Living
Foundation (Staff Support Fund).
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the afternoon. A quick, stray shower
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back below-average in the cooler upper 40s to
mid-50s. Overnight we should stay mostly clear,
with breezes perhaps fully calming near dawn.
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the region — possibly upper 20s to mid-30s. WIND: NNE 7–14 mph W: SSW 6–12 mph W: NNW 8–16 mph W: SSE 6–12 mph W: SSW 4–8 mph W: S 6–12 mph
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Pollen: Low Air Quality: Good
Grass Low Dominant cause: Ozone
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Mold Low 3 out of 11+
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north–northeast 6–12 mph. Tonight, a starlit sky. Low 35 to Yesterday's National World
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SPORTS SunDay, november 12 , 2023 . Section D EZ M2

ILLUSTRATION By SCOTT ANDERSON FOR ThE WAShINGTON POST

M Mike
ike McDaniel’s batteries are fading, and survive on junk food and energy drinks alone.
like usual, it’s his voice that goes first. “No one signed up for 50 or 25 percent of me,” he
The Miami Dolphins coach is normally says. “They deserve the best that I have. I’m always
upbeat and witty, a little on the goofy side, wearing the idea that you can’t be two places at once, so

MCDaniel
all part of his considerable charm. But . . . um . . . the second that . . . ”
McDaniel’s mental gears don’t turn so much as they This is next to go: McDaniel’s ability to complete a
grind. one of his friends jokes that, at any given time, sentence. When this happens, a co-worker says,
there are no fewer than three conversations going on in McDaniel isn’t talking. He’s buffering.

needs
his head. “Uh . . . that . . . the second that . . .” he continues.
“If I’m focusing on just one thing,” McDaniel says “The second that all things are taken care of to the
after one long day, his words a heap of dead leaves, esteem of my particular . . . um . . . level of expectation,
“how many other things am I ignoring?” whatever the . . . that?”

so much talking and thinking. It wears on a man:
leading an organization, fine-tuning one of the most
explosive offenses in NFL history, rebuilding a talented
quarterback. When McDaniel watches film in his
office, usually it’s on the TV and the projector screen.
Visitors pop in, and the coach engages with each one.
eventually the cranial dam springs a leak, and McDan-
iel starts forgetting stuff. Basic things, such as that the
human body requires water. one colleague is always
issuing reminders that he hydrate, lest he attempt to
a reboot
The machine needs a reboot. McDaniel can feel it.
He’s an NFL coach, though, with a formidable to-do
list. He could always grab a nap on his office sofa, just
past the Yale football helmet and fake ferns —
something McDaniel’s wife, Katie, encourages. after
Before the Dolphins coach could break all, this is a business in which the great ones never step
away; the 100-hour workweek is an unquestioned path
the NFL, he had to fix himself to the super Bowl.
That’s precisely why McDaniel does question it.
BY K ENT B ABB IN MIaMI GaRDeNs, FLa. see MCDAniel oN D6

The evidence is Wolverines, sans Harbaugh, run full steam ahead Ovechkin ends
stacked against his drought as
Rivera staying Michigan 24,
Penn state 15
Capitals sweep
in Washington back-to-back
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER
There are eight
games remaining STaTE COLLEGE, Pa. — as the caPitals 4,
in the Washington daffiest american sport had one of islanders 1
Commanders’ the battiest saturdays of its 154
season. That’s a lot screwball years, a famous college
of football to be football coach couldn’t coach be- BY B AILEY J OHNSON
Barry played. and yet, it cause he couldn’t get a timely re-
svrluga is almost straining order from a court in ELMONT, N.Y. — It had been only
impossible to see a Michigan. His assistant who ran six games since alex ovechkin
path in which Ron Rivera things did an on-field TV inter- scored, but for the Washington
oversees the 2024 roster and Ron view weeping after a win and stat- Capitals, it had to feel like much
Rivera coaches the team in 2024. ing his love for his boss while longer. Though the Capitals have
That’s not counting losses lacing that love with the pungency found their footing since a 1-3-1
before they’re earned. Indeed, a of sweet swear words. start, their scoring woes have re-
win sunday in seattle would pull The winning fans at No. 3 Mich- mained a theme, and ovechkin’s
the Commanders back to .500 igan’s 24-15 victory over No. 10 two goals in 12 games were the
and, in theory, could elevate them Penn state spent the closing min- fewest to start a season in his
into the seventh and final playoff utes singing, “It’s great to be a career.
position in the NFC. Michigan Wolverine.” The losing so when the captain scored on
How could anyone’s fans chanted at the winning fans: a designed play after a faceoff win
professional future be “Cheaters! Cheaters!” by evgeny Kuznetsov midway
determined with all those games a muscle collection of a 5-foot-8 through the first period saturday
still to come? Michigan running back turned up night at UBs arena, it appeared a
see svrlugA oN D9 for interviews with dried blood weight had been lifted — from
splotched around his face, espe- ovechkin and his team. The goal,
Commanders at Seahawks cially near the nose. He spoke in see CApitAls oN D10
4:25 p.m., Fox front of a Big Ten draping while
Inside: The pressure is on for the BARRy REEGER/ASSOCIATED PRESS the school he represents lawyered Golden Knights at Capitals
Commanders to rush the passer. D9 Assistant coach sherrone Moore led Michigan on saturday in place of the suspended Jim Harbaugh. see MiCHigAn oN D2 Tuesday, 7 p.m., Monumental

Michigan State 3 9 Mississippi 17 Miami 20 18 Utah 28 USC 7 Texas 29 8 Alabama 49 Stanford 17 13 Tennessee 7 Maryland 13 Virginia Tech 48 UAB 6
1 Ohio State 38 2 Georgia 52 4 Florida State 27 5 Washington 35 6 Oregon Late TCU 26 Kentucky 21 12 Oregon St. 62 14 Missouri 36 Nebraska 10 Boston Coll. 22 Navy 31

ColleGe football SoCCer hIGh SChoolS

Maryland wins on a last-play field goal to lock up bowl In her final match, Megan Rapinoe is injured early In both Maryland and Virginia, new state champions
eligibility; Georgia has no issues with Mississippi. D2-4 as OL Reign falls to Gotham FC for the NWSL title. D10 are crowned in field hockey and cross-country. D11-13
d2 ez M2 the washington post . sunday, november 12 , 2023

d i g es t
Terps end four-game skid to secure bowl eligibility
golf Canada level after Barbora
Krejcikova had beaten Marina turn around and have a big run
seeking first tour win, Stakusic, 6-2, 6-1, to give the Maryland 13, and a pass interference on third
noren leads bermuda Czechs the early advantage. nebraska 10 and long — obviously extremely
The 20th-ranked fernandez disappointing,” Nebraska Coach
alex noren got up-and-down got right back on the indoor matt rhule said.
on his last two holes Saturday, hard court to help gabriela BY K ENT W OLGAMOTT All of Nebraska’s turnovers
one for a birdie to regain the lead Dabrowski defeat Krejcikova were forced by the Terrapins’ sec-
and another for par to complete a and Katerina Siniakova, 7-5, 7-6 LINCOLN, Neb. — Jack Howes ondary, which came into Satur-
4-under-par 67 and keep a one- (7-3). connected on a 24-yard field goal day’s game focused on takeaways.
shot advantage in the Bermuda In Sunday’s final, Canada will as time ran out to lift maryland to “The last games we haven’t
Championship in Southampton. face Italy, which saw off Slovenia, a 13-10 win over Nebraska on played as well defensively as we
Noren will be going for his first 2-0, after winning both singles Saturday. want to,” said defensive back
PGA Tour victory and his first matches. . . . maryland’s victory, its first Dante Trader Jr., who had a pair
worldwide win since the french Ugo humbert claimed his first since late September, snapped a of interceptions. “This week,
open in 2018, the year the Swede ATP tour title since 2021 by four-game skid and made the coaches told us to get back to the
played in the ryder Cup. beating alexander Shevchenko, Terrapins (6-4, 3-4 Big Ten) bowl standard. It’s all in the fine detail
“This is what you dream of, 6-3, 6-3, in the final of the moselle eligible. Nebraska (5-5, 3-4) that we’re trying to do to win
having a chance to win and being open in metz, france. dropped its second straight and games. You’ve got to get to take-
up in the final group on a Humbert, a metz native, will must still win one of its final two aways, to go out there and do
Saturday, Sunday. I really enjoyed finish the season at a career-high games to play in a bowl for the rebeccA s. GrAtz/AssociAted press what we did.”
it today,” Noren said. “I came off No. 20, which will make him the first time since 2016. Jack howes, right, booted his first game-winning field goal since Purdy, the younger brother of
maybe a little colder start, but I top-ranked french player. “This feeling is not like any- high school to lift the Terrapins (6-4, 3-4 Big Ten) as time expired. San francisco 49er quarterback
played good enough to kind of get thing else in sports,” Howes said Brock Purdy, came into the game
that 4 under in the end.” skiing after his first game-winning kick of time on the clock and just being I can’t give enough credit to our after No. 2 quarterback Jeff Sims’s
for most of the breezy day at Mikaela Shiffrin dealt with a since high school. “I kind of conscious of the time. The o-line defense. They created a bunch of fumble was turned into a mary-
Port royal, Noren was trying to bone bruise in her left knee missed it for a little bit, but I’m working their butts off. It just turnovers. They kept playing with land field goal that tied the game
keep a nose in front of camilo following a recent training crash glad it’s back.” kept punching and kept working. their back against the wall, and at 10.
Villegas and Ryan Moore. to finish fourth in the first Nebraska turned the ball over They really did the job for us.” when we needed them to get us Sims’s second turnover, an in-
Villegas hammered a long iron women’s World Cup slalom of the on three consecutive fourth-quar- The last-second win, maryland the ball back, they got us the ball terception, set the Terrapins up to
to about 12 feet to set up a season. ter possessions, the final one Tar- Coach michael Locksley said, was back.” take the lead. But roman Hemby
two-putt birdie on the par-5 17th The defending overall heeb Still’s interception of third- a result of perseverance. maryland players described gave it back to Nebraska with a
and momentarily tie Noren. champion trailed winner Petra string quarterback Chubba Purdy “They found a way to get it the postgame locker-room atmos- fumble on the 3-yard line.
Villegas finished with a 65 and Vlhova by 0.42 seconds after the in the end zone with 3:37 left. done and fought through some phere as euphoric. for Nebraska, Purdy drove the Huskers 90
will be in the final group for the opening run but ultimately That set up maryland’s 12-play, adversity because it wasn’t pretty the feeling was quite the opposite. yards to the maryland 5-yard line
second straight week. finished 1.70 behind the 75-yard game-winning drive. today,” he said. “our offense made “for it to go back and forth like before throwing the interception.
moore came up short of the Slovakian skier, who dominated “The last drive, I think, we plays when we needed to make that and have the ball at the end — Associated Press
green at the 17th and watched his the race by clearly winning both played very smart, running the plays. our quarterback did a tre- with a chance to take the lead
ball roll down a steep slope into runs in Levi, finland. ball,” Terrapins quarterback Tau- mendous job on that last drive with three minutes left and to michigan at maryland
the rough, taking away a sure Shiffrin’s team said she lia Tagovailoa said. “We had a lot and put us in position to go win it. have that interception happen, to saturday, noon, Fox
birdie opportunity. He shot 67 sustained a significant bone
and was two strokes behind along bruise on her tibial plateau
with Matti Schmid, who had five during the crash but she did not
straight birdies on the front nine
and closed out his round with an
eagle and a birdie for a 65. . . .
hurt her ligaments. Hours after
the race, the American said her
knee swelled up.
Without Harbaugh, Michigan turns aside Penn State
Emily Kristine Pedersen had Lena Duerr of Germany was
three birdies over the final five 1.41 behind in second, and former MIchIgan from D1 fire.” Defensive back Will Johnson stints at Louisville and Central They ran so much that the clock
holes for a 6-under 64 that gave slalom world champion said, “our mind-set was having a michigan. It’s a wonder, given all ticked hurriedly. They ran six
her a three-shot lead at the Katharina Liensberger placed up to take the Big Ten to court. killer game,” and, so, “Do it for else of the past three weeks, that times out of nine plays on their
Annika in Belleair, fla., where the third for the Austrian’s first Even by the standards of an Coach Harbaugh.” Acting coach Harbaugh didn’t turn up dis- 75-yard drive that ended in the
scoring was so low that Pederson podium result in 15 slaloms since Alice-in-Wonderland sport, it had Sherrone moore, up from his usu- guised as a visiting coach from second quarter and made it 7-3,
posted only the seventh-best January 2022. . . . been a day. al post as offensive coordinator, elsewhere — perhaps Central and they ran four times out of six
round of the day. The inaugural World Cup If that weren’t enough oddity, said of Harbaugh, “He wanted michigan. on the 78-yard drive that made it
amy Yang, who shot a 61, and downhill at the storied bloody running back Blake Co- them to play angry.” Keegan said: Harbaugh already served a 14-3 six minutes before halftime.
two-time major champion Lilia matterhorn mountain in Laghi rum’s team had just run the ball as “We took it extremely well. The three-game suspension to start Corum ran 44 yards left on that
Vu, who got back into the mix Cime Bianche, Italy, will have to if it was the 19th century — on all adversity that hit, we just punched the season related to improper latter march — “Was just green
with a 62, were tied for second at wait at least one more day after a of its final 32 official offensive it in the face, so it’s awesome.” recruiting during the coronavirus grass,” he said — and Donovan
15-under 195. . . . race was canceled because of plays, including all 30 in the sec- Corum said, “obviously it sucks pandemic, and during the week as Edwards slipped off to the right
Max homa will take a one- heavy snowfall and strong winds. ond half, almost as if it blithely, [to learn on the inbound plane],” suspension talk brewed he told and ran 22 yards for the touch-
shot lead into the final round of manfully didn’t care if it gave away but then again, “It made us stron- moore, “Hey, if something hap- down there. mcCarthy ran with
the Nedbank Golf Challenge after figure skating its own signals. ger.” pens, you’ll be the guy.” After the them: eight times for 34 yards,
the American shot a 3-under 69 adam Siao him Fa of france “The storm’s coming,” michi- In an unprecedented set of game, moore spoke to Jenny Taft including a big third-and-10 con-
in Sun City, South Africa. upstaged two-time defending gan offensive lineman Trevor Kee- words and realities, michigan left of fox and through the TV to version on the first touchdown
frenchman Matthieu Pavon, world champion Shoma Uno of gan said afterward. “We are the its hotel for the stadium around Harbaugh, his sentences includ- drive.
who entered the day sharing the Japan with a dazzling free skate storm.” 9 a.m. with a bus full of souls but ing the eternal, “I f---ing love you, “I think one of our strengths is
lead with Homa, slid one shot to win the gold medal in the It all happened under Big Ten not the head coach who might or man!” Soon Harbaugh spoke to his being able to adapt to what the
behind after his 70. Danish pair men’s event at the Cup of China clouds with a game that spent might not then coach those souls. team through faceTime, of which defense is giving us,” mcCarthy
nicolai hojgaard and in Chongqing. almost 26 minutes of its second Harbaugh did not come to the quarterback J.J. mcCarthy said, said, “and with one of the best
Thorbjorn Olesen are both two Japan’s hana Yoshida came half with the contentious scores stadium because he did not get “He was the jolly good fellow.” offensive lines in the country and
shots back. from third place after the short 14-9 and 17-9, and it became that that temporary restraining order moore called it “a crazy 24 two of the best backs.” So they ran
program to win the women’s funky chapter of college football that might have restored his ca- hours, but at the same time our still more. They ran even after
tennis competition for her first career annals wherein everyone spent pacity to coach Saturday. His ca- team is built for this, our staff is Penn State converted two fourth
Leylah Fernandez led Canada Grand Prix title. the morning uncertain of who pacity to coach Saturday met de- built for this.” He detected not a downs late in the second quarter
into the Billie Jean King Cup final Canadians Piper gilles and might coach michigan on that railment with the unusual suspen- flinch in the locker room as he toward a touchdown that left the
by beating Wimbledon champion Paul Poirer took first place in the same day. The 110,856 inbound for sion the Big Ten office issued fri- relayed the verdict — or the non- halftime score 14-9 and curious.
Marketa Vondrousova and ice dance competition, and Skate Beaver Stadium might have alter- day, which got the jump on an verdict — from the court in Washt- They ran in part because their
helping secure a 2-1 win over the Canada champions Deanna nated between wondering and ongoing NCAA investigation. The enaw County, mich. And then the defense set the environment for
Czech republic in a decisive Stellato-Dudek and Maxime whingeing about traffic. Then the Big Ten office assumed a certain big wrestling match out there end- safe running, holding Penn State
doubles match in Seville, Spain. Deschamps finished first in the Wolverines (10-0, 7-0) won with villainy in maize-and-blue prov- ed and so: “I’m a pretty calm guy, (8-2, 5-2) and 19-year-old quarter-
fernandez’s 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 pairs event. their might — 227 rushing yards, inces such that michigan itself but this was just lots of emotions. back Drew Allar to two first downs
victory over Vondrousova pulled — From news services including 145 from Corum — and declared that the conference it has Been here six years, feel like this from halftime until Corum finally
with their ninth-year coach, Jim inhabited for most of the past 127 place is home. What Coach Har- ran 30 yards with 4:15 left to set
Harbaugh, across town at the ho- years “has not acted legally or baugh has done for me,” and then the score at 24-9 and douse any
tel, where he served the first game fairly.” he spoke of that and said: “So it’s embers of suspense.
television and radio of a three-game Big Ten suspen- The whole thing will go to court very deep. I wore my heart on my maybe they ran, too, because
nfl sion as an unblamed figurehead this coming friday, six days after sleeve. . . . Love that man with all now their apparel and their ethic
9:30 a.m. indianapolis vs. new england » NFL Network, WJFK (106.7 FM) for the elaborate michigan sign- the possibility of a court ruling my heart.” say,“michigan vs. Everybody” and
1 p.m. green bay at pittsburgh » WUsA (ch. 9) stealing scheme that has bull- wafted through a weird Saturday for that 59-year-old man with because they wanted to counter
1 p.m. cleveland at baltimore » WttG (ch. 5), WbFF (ch. 45), WbAL (1090 AM), dozed all other college football morning spewing doubt and sus- his fondness for gritty, bloody those who surmise that their ap-
WbAL (101.5 FM) conversation while threatening to pense, until 10:30, when everyone football, michigan played gritty, parent violation of NCAA bylaw
4:05 p.m. detroit at los angeles chargers » WJz (ch. 13) ruin many a Thanksgiving table knew Harbaugh wouldn’t coach bloody football. The blood on Co- 11.6.1, about scouting future oppo-
4:25 p.m. washington at seattle » WttG (ch. 5), WbFF (ch. 45), WbiG (100.3 FM) chat. and Athletic Director Warde man- rum’s face had begun when — “I’m nents with videotaping at the sta-
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In a world where athletes and uel issued a statement calling Big not sure,” he said. “It’s kind of all diums of future opponents, ex-
nba coaches scour for the slightest Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti’s game.” All the running left mcCar- plains their transition from a 49-
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vation, the Wolverines had a About 80 minutes later, the old-school as primordial-school: 7 years to 35-3 since.
nHl freight train of incentive stream- Wolverines emerged from the tun- of 8 for 60 yards. Well, 87.5 is a hell That view, Keegan said, insults
1 p.m. chicago at florida » NHL Network ing through their heads. Corum nel Harbaugh-less, led instead by of a completion percentage. their toil.
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said, “We didn’t really have to say the 37-year-old moore, a former Against the No. 1 rushing de- “We really changed this pro-
men’s college basketball too much; [the suspension friday] oklahoma offensive lineman in fense and yards-per-play defense gram as one,” he said, soon adding,
12:30 p.m. asheville championship, third place: maryland vs. uab » espN2, was already enough fuel to the his sixth year at michigan after in the country, the Wolverines ran. “We know who we are.”
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5 p.m. indiana at stanford » espN pelled the revolutionaries past the Huskies (2-0). coming out of halftime Saturday,
5 p.m. auburn at rutgers » big ten Network holy cross 68, the Tribe at Smith Center. “These games are important,” and the all-Big East center re-
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georgetown 67 Bishop added five rebounds Hurley said of Saturday’s rout. sponded with a flurry that helped
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thought beat us tonight.” Donovan Clingan added 16 opener and again in the first half steals, but the Eagles (1-1) finished
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James Bishop’s 32 points pro- transfer Cam Spencer added 12 for made it a point to feed him the ball Explorers (2-1) in Philadelphia.
sunday, november 12 , 2023
Bulldogs put on best show of the season in rout of Rebels
GeorGia 52,
mississippi 17
BY P AUL N EWBERRY
aTHENS, Ga. — Carson Beck
threw for 306 yards, Kendall
Milton ran for 127 yards and
Brock Bowers made a trium-
phant return for Georgia, which
punctuated its return to the SEC
championship game with a 52-17
rout of Mississippi on Saturday
night.
The Bulldogs (10-0, 7-0, No. 2
College Football Playoff ) turned
in their most impressive per-
formance of the season on a cool,
rainy night in Georgia, seeming-
ly peaking at just the right time
to make a run at their third
straight national title.
No team in the poll era has
captured three straight national
titles, but this group appears to
be playing with the same drive,
passion and determination as
the two previous squads.
Georgia scored touchdowns
on its first four possessions,
building a 28-14 halftime lead
against No. 9 Mississippi (8-2,
5-2) and cruising the rest of the
way to its 27th consecutive victo-
ry.
Beck completed 18 of 25 pass-
es, including a 29-yard touch-
down to Ladd McConkey and an
eight-yard scoring connection
with Bowers, the star tight end
who had missed the two previ-
ous games after undergoing sur-
gery for a high ankle sprain.
Milton and Daijun Edwards
ran for two touchdowns apiece
as Georgia piled up 293 yards on
the ground and 610 yards over-
all. Milton essentially finished
off the Rebels with a 33-yard
scoring burst right up the middle
early in the third quarter.
Even before the kickoff, the
Bulldogs had reason to celebrate.
They clinched the SEC East and a
Dec. 2 showdown against Ala-
bama when Missouri blew away
Tennessee, 36-7.
Then there was the return of
Bowers, who was injured in an
Oct. 14 victory over Vanderbilt.
Penix accounts for three TDs, and Huskies’ defense dominates second half
WashinGton 35,
Utah 28
BY T IM B OOTH
SEaTTLE — For all the attention
quarterback Michael Penix Jr. has
deservedly received this season, it
was the oft-maligned defense for
Washington, No. 5 in the College
Football Playoff ranking, that
showed up for the final 30 min-
national roundup
Seminoles’ rivalry victory
keeps playoff hopes alive
Florida state 27,
miami 20
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Keon Coleman and dozens of
his Florida State teammates ran
across the field as the final seconds
ticked off the clock and started
leaping into the stands. Coleman
stood on a wall as fans jockeyed to
get near him and reveled in the
Seminoles’ latest triumph.
A 16th straight victory. Perfect
in ACC play. A three-game win-
ning streak against rival Miami.
This one was special, and every-
one knew it.
Trey Benson ran for two touch-
downs, Coleman hauled in a score
and Florida State, No. 4 in the
College Football Playoff ranking,
held off the Hurricanes, 27-20, in
Tallahassee on Saturday to main-
tain its hold on a playoff berth.
“It’s a feeling that you can’t buy,”
said Seminoles safety Akeem
Dent, who grew up in South Flori-
da. “Three straight? Especially for
me down south. Three straight? I
got stuff to talk about.”
Florida State (10-0, 8-0), as it
has several times this season, ral-
lied in the second half to win. This
one wrapped up the program’s
10th perfect mark in ACC play.
“When you see the commit-
ment and the belief and the work
ethic and the relationships, it’s
what makes it special,” Seminoles
Coach Mike Norvell said. “We’ve
got an incredible group, and they
care about each other. That’s one
. the washington post
Georgia quarterback Carson Beck reacts after one of the Bulldogs’ four first-half touchdowns against Mississippi on Saturday. Beck completed 18 of 25 passes for 306 yards.
The Bulldogs beat Florida and
Missouri without their most dy-
namic offensive weapon, but the
red-and-black faithful were sure
glad to have him back.
A huge cheer went up from the
crowd when Bowers was shown
on the video board as one of the
starters, just 26 days after his
utes Saturday and left the Hus-
kies sitting at 10-0 for only the
second time in school history.
Penix threw for two touch-
downs and ran for another, and
Washington pitched a shutout in
the second half to rally for a 35-28
win over No. 18 Utah.
The Huskies (7-0 Pac-12) ex-
tended the second-longest active
winning streak in the nation to 17
games and stayed in the middle of
the playoff conversation. The only
other time Washington reached
of those components that you
can’t fake.”
Miami (6-4, 2-4) controlled
both lines of scrimmage and
played turnover-free football for
most of the game. It wasn’t enough
to overcome Florida State, which
has won 10 of 14 in the series.
“There’s a lot of development, a
lot of improvement,” Hurricanes
Coach Mario Cristobal said. “We
came here to win. We didn’t come
here for a consolation prize.”
l OHIO STATE 38, MICHI-
GAN STATE 3: Marvin Harrison
Jr. caught two of Kyle McCord’s
three touchdown passes and
rushed for another score, helping
the top-ranked Buckeyes (10-0, 7-0
Big Ten) pound the Spartans (3-7,
1-6) in Columbus, Ohio.
McCord threw for a career-high
335 yards for Ohio State, which
overwhelmed Michigan State
with touchdowns on five of its six
first-half possessions.
l TEXAS 29, TCU 26: Quinn
Ewers threw for 317 yards and a
touchdown in his return from a
shoulder injury, helping the No. 7
Longhorns (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) edge
the Horned Frogs (4-6, 2-5) in Fort
Worth.
Texas also got a big lift from
Jonathon Brooks, who rushed for
104 yards and two touchdowns
and set up another score with a
73-yard gain on a short pass before
getting hurt late.
l ALABAMA 49, KENTUCKY
21: Jalen Milroe had a career-high
six touchdowns, three each rush-
ing and passing, and the No. 8
Crimson Tide (9-1, 7-0 SEC) rolled
past the Wildcats (6-4, 3-4) in Lex-
college football
surgical procedure. He didn’t
have a huge game — three catch-
es for 34 yards — but the touch-
down reception in the opening
minute of the fourth quarter was
a reminder of what he means to
the offense.
Bowers’s mere presence re-
quires defenses to lean his way,
the 10-0 mark came in 1991, when
the Huskies claimed a share of the
national title with Miami.
“It’s all the work we’ve put in.
We’re right where we saw our-
selves at. We just have to continue
to keep working,” Penix said.
“We’ve got two more in the regu-
lar season to try and finish off
with two more wins, go 12-0, and
it’s right there in front of us.”
Penix wasn’t at his best on a
blustery day on the shore of Lake
Washington. But he made enough
Trey Benson scored two touchdowns for Florida State, which has won 10 of 14 games against Miami.
ington, Ky., to secure the confer-
ence’s West Division title.
A week after rushing for a ca-
reer-best four touchdowns in a
42-28 victory over LSU, the sopho-
more used his arm and his feet to
surpass that total.
l OREGON STATE 62, STAN-
FORD 17: Damien Martinez ran
for 146 yards and a career-high
four touchdowns to lead the No. 12
Beavers (8-2, 5-2 Pac-12) to a blow-
out win over the Cardinal (3-7, 2-6)
in Corvallis, Ore.
Martinez, the Pac-12 freshman
offensive player of the year in
2022, surpassed 1,000 yards for
the season. He did most of his
damage in the first half, with
136 rushing yards and all four
touchdowns, including a 59-yard
score in the first quarter.
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opening up the field for his
teammates. Georgia averaged 10
yards per snap, piling up more
than 300 yards in each half.
Eliminated from contention
in the SEC West by Alabama's
49-21 victory over Kentucky ear-
lier in the day, Mississippi pulled
out all the stops in hopes of
big plays in the passing game, and
Washington’s defense made key
adjustments at halftime after be-
ing unable to slow down the Utes
in the first half.
Washington watched Utah
score touchdowns on four
straight possessions at one point
of the first half. In the second half,
Utah had six possessions and
crossed midfield only once.
“We know we didn’t come out
and play our best brand of foot-
ball in the first half. But that’s
l MISSOURI 36, TENNES-
SEE 7: Cody Schrader ran for 205
yards and a touchdown, caught
five passes for 116 yards and led
the No. 14 Tigers (8-2, 4-2 SEC) to a
rout of the No. 13 Volunteers (7-3,
3-3) in Columbia, Mo., that ended
a four-game skid in the series.
Schrader’s 321 yards from
scrimmage were 12 shy of the pro-
gram record set by Devin West in
1998.
l CENTRAL FLORIDA,
OKLAHOMA STATE 3: R.J. Har-
vey had a 92-yard touchdown run
and the Golden Knights (5-5, 2-5
Big 12) forced four turnovers in a
rout of the No. 15 Cowboys (7-3,
5-2) in Orlando.
Harvey finished with 206 yards
and three touchdowns to give him
over 1,000 rushing yards on the
becoming the first team since
2021 to beat Georgia. The Rebels
went for it three times on fourth
down, converting twice, and also
pulled off a fake punt.
It wasn’t nearly enough
against a Georgia team that is
chasing history, even with Quin-
shon Judkins running for a pair
how it should be every game. We
should come out and play like we
did in the second half every
game,” Washington cornerback
Jabbar Muhammad said.
Penix hit Rome Odunze on
both of his touchdown throws
and ran for a two-yard score in
the first quarter. Penix was 24 of
42 passing for 332 yards. Odunze
had three catches for 111 yards,
and Dillon Johnson rushed for
104 yards a week after running for
256 against Southern California.
JAmes gIlBert/getty ImAges
season. He now has five straight
100-yard games, the first Knights
back to do that since Kevin Smith
in 2007.
l TEXAS TECH 16, KANSAS
13: Gino Garcia hit a 30-yard field
goal with three seconds remain-
ing, and the Red Raiders (5-5, 4-3
Big 12) upset the No. 16 Jayhawks
(7-3, 4-3) in Lawrence, Kan.
Behren Morton completed
passes of 16, 14 and 32 yards as
Texas Tech went 63 yards in 20 sec-
onds to set up the game-deciding
kick. Tahj Brooks finished with
133 rushing yards and a touch-
down for the Red Raiders.
l OKLAHOMA 59, WEST
VIRGINIA 20: Dillon Gabriel ac-
counted for a school-record eight
touchdowns to help the No. 17
Sooners (8-2, 5-2 Big 12) roll past
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of touchdowns early on.
In a further blow to the Reb-
els, quarterback Jaxson Dart was
knocked out of the game late in
the third quarter after being
sandwiched between two Geor-
gia defenders while running the
ball.
— Associated Press
Washington took a 33-28 lead
on Penix’s 33-yard touchdown
pass to Odunze in the third quar-
ter and appeared on the verge of
extending the lead only to see
linebacker Alphonzo Tuputala re-
turn an interception 76 yards
before dropping the ball at the
1-yard line on his way into the end
zone. Washington ended up get-
ting a safety on the next play and
had a 35-28 lead after three quar-
ters.
— Associated Press
the Mountaineers (6-4, 4-3) in
Norman, Okla.
Gabriel passed for 423 yards
and five touchdowns and ran for
50 yards and three scores. He sur-
passed the previous touchdown
record of seven set by Baker May-
field in 2016 and matched by Kyler
Murray in 2018.
l LSU 52, FLORIDA 35:
Jayden Daniels accounted for 606
total yards and five touchdowns as
the No. 19 Tigers (7-3, 5-2 SEC)
roared past the Gators (5-5, 3-4) in
Baton Rouge.
Daniels continued to make his
case for the Heisman Trophy, be-
coming the first quarterback in
Football Bowl Subdivision history
with at least 350 yards passing and
200 yards rushing in a game. He
completed 17 of 26 passes for
372 yards and three touchdowns
and ran 12 times for 234 yards and
two touchdowns.
l ARIZONA 34, COLORADO
31: Tyler Loop connected on a
24-yard field goal with no time
left, and the No. 21 Wildcats (7-3,
5-2 Pac-12) rallied to beat the Buf-
faloes (4-6, 1-6) in Boulder, Colo.
l IOWA 22, RUTGERS 0:
Drew Stevens kicked three field
goals, and the No. 22 Hawkeyes
(8-2, 5-2 Big Ten) added two
fourth-quarter touchdowns to
seal their win over the Scarlet
Knights (6-4, 3-4) in Iowa City.
l TULANE 24, TULSA 22:
Makhi Hughes ran for 131 yards
and a touchdown, Shedro Louis
returned a kickoff 100 yards for a
score, and the No. 23 Green Wave
(9-1, 6-0 American Athletic Con-
ference) held on to beat the Gold-
en Hurricane (3-7, 1-5) in New Or-
leans for its eighth straight win.
l KANSAS STATE 59, BAY-
LOR 25: Will Howard became the
all-time leader in touchdown
passes in program history, leading
the No. 25 Wildcats (7-3, 5-2 Big 12)
past the Bears (3-7, 2-5) in Manhat-
tan, Kan.
d4 eZ m2 the washington post . sunday, november 12 , 2023

college football

Mids win with big plays, tight defense S COrEBOArd

nAvy 31,
UAB 6
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Xavier Arline threw a 45-yard
touchdown pass and raced
50 yards for a score with just over
five minutes left to lead Navy to a
31-6 victory over UAB on Satur-
day at Navy-Marine Corps Memo-
rial Stadium.
Rayuan Lane III put a button
on the victory by returning an
interception 97 yards for a Navy
touchdown with 2:03 left.
The Midshipmen kept UAB out
of the end zone and pitched a
second-half shutout, allowing the
Blazers just two Matt Quinn field
goals in the first half.
Navy had a 7-6 lead at halftime
and was up 10-6 after three quar-
ters following Nathan Kirkwood’s
31-yard third-quarter field goal.
Arline engineered a 20-play,
80-yard drive capped by a two-
yard run by Daba Fofana with
10:08 left in the game.
Arline completed 7 of 10 passes
for 94 yards and carried 19 times
for 109 yards to lead Navy (4-5,
3-3). Alex Tecza added 82 yards
on nine carries.
Jacob Zeno was 25 for 36 for
206 yards for UAB but threw two
interceptions. Jermaine Brown
Jr. gained 55 yards on 15 carries,
but the Blazers managed just
115 yards rushing.
East Carolina at Navy
saturday, noon, esPNews
NCAA No. 1 Ohio State 38, No. 5 Washington 35,
sATURDAY’s REsULTs Michigan State 3 No. 18 Utah 28
EAsT
Army 17, Holy Cross 14 miChigAN sTATE ................... 0 3 0 0— 3 UTAh ........................................ 7 21 0 0 — 28
Georgetown 50, Bucknell 47 (OT) ohio sTATE ........................... 14 21 3 0 — 38 WAshiNgToN ....................... 10 14 11 0 — 35
Marshall 38, Georgia Southern 33
Howard 50, North Carolina Central 20 fiRsT QUARTER fiRsT QUARTER
Michigan 24, Penn State 15 osU: Harrison 19 run (Fielding kick), 11:20.
WAsh: Penix 2 run (Gross kick), 6:06.
UTAh: J.Jackson 2 run (Becker kick), 3:37.
Navy 31, UAB 6 osU: Harrison 26 pass from McCord (Fielding kick), 6:56.
Syracuse 28, Pittsburgh 13 WAsh: FG Gross 41, :19.
Villanova 33, Towson 10 sECoND QUARTER sECoND QUARTER
Virginia Tech 48, Boston College 22
osU: Harrison 9 pass from McCord (Fielding kick), 14:58.
soUTh msU: FG J.Kim 53, 5:38.
UTAh: Suguturaga 6 pass from Barnes (Becker kick),
9:00.
Alabama 49, Kentucky 21 osU: Henderson 9 run (Fielding kick), 3:30. WAsh: Odunze 34 pass from Penix (Gross kick), 6:59.
Alabama State 20, MVSU 3 osU: Stover 18 pass from McCord (Fielding kick), :15. UTAh: Vaki 53 pass from Barnes (Becker kick), 5:59.
Appalachian State 42, Georgia State 14 WAsh: D.Johnson 5 run (Gross kick), 3:17.
ThiRD QUARTER
Clemson 42, Georgia Tech 21
Coastal Carolina 31, Texas State 23
UTAh: J.Jackson 7 run (Becker kick), :57.
osU: FG Fielding 36, 11:56.
East Carolina 22, FAU 7 Attendance: 105,137. ThiRD QUARTER
Florida State 27, Miami 20 WAsh: FG Gross 38, 8:02.
Georgia 52, Mississippi 17 michigan state ohio state WAsh: Odunze 33 pass from Penix (pass failed), 4:09.
Furman 37, VMI 3 First Downs ..................................... 11
Total Net Yards ............................. 182
25
530
WAsh: safety, :24.
James Madison 44, Connecticut 6 Attendance: 70,976.
Liberty 38, Old Dominion 10 Rushes-Yards ............................. 29-94 32-177
LSU 52, Florida 35 Passing ............................................ 88 353 Utah Washington
Memphis 44, Charlotte 38 (OT) Punt Returns ................................ 1--2 1-11 First Downs ..................................... 17 26
Middle Tennessee 40, FIU 6 Kickoff Returns .............................. 0-0 0-0 Total Net Yards ............................. 382 459
New Mexico State 38, Western Kentucky 29 Interceptions Ret. ........................... 0-0 0-0 Rushes-Yards ........................... 27-115 33-127
North Carolina State 26, Wake Forest 6 Comp-Att-Int .......................... 13-25-0 26-34-0 Passing .......................................... 267 332
Richmond 38, Elon 24 Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 2-4 0-0 Punt Returns .................................. 0-0 3-4
South Carolina 47, Vanderbilt 6 Punts ...................................... 8-40.375 3-43.0 Kickoff Returns ............................ 4-55 4-114
South Florida 27, Temple 23 Fumbles-Lost .................................. 0-0 0-0 Interceptions Ret. ........................... 0-0 2-80
Troy 45, Louisiana Monroe 14 Penalties-Yards ............................ 5-36 3-25 Comp-Att-Int .......................... 17-30-2 24-42-0
Tulane 24, Tulsa 22 Time Of Possession .................... 28:48 31:12 Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 0-0 2-19
UCF 45, Oklahoma State 3 Punts .......................................... 5-41.2 4-40.5
William & Mary 31, Hampton 10 pAssiNg Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-0 1-1
michigan state: Houser 12-24-0-92, Schorfhaar 1-1- Penalties-Yards ............................ 8-97 11-100
miDWEsT Time Of Possession .................... 25:25 34:35
Illinois 48, Indiana 45 (OT) 0-(minus 4). ohio state: McCord 24-31-0-335, Kienholz
Iowa 22, Rutgers 0 2-3-0-18. pAssiNg
Kansas State 59, Baylor 25 RUshiNg Utah: Barnes 17-30-2-267. Washington: Penix 24-42-0-
Maryland 13, Nebraska 10 332.
Missouri 36, Tennessee 7 michigan state: N.Carter 11-52, Jar.Mangham 9-35,
Northwestern 24, Wisconsin 10 Houser 7-6, Joiner 2-1. ohio state: Henderson 13-63, RUshiNg
Ohio State 38, Michigan State 3 X.Johnson 4-40, Trayanum 7-35, Pryor 7-20, Harrison Utah: Barnes 6-39, Glover 8-37, Jackson 10-29, Parks
Purdue 49, Minnesota 30 1-19. 1-15, (Team) 1-(minus 1), Vaki 1-(minus 4). Washing-
Texas Tech 16, Kansas 13 ton: D.Johnson 23-104, Rogers 2-24, Nixon 1-13, (Team)
RECEiviNg
soUThWEsT 2-0, Penix 5-(minus 14).
michigan state: Henry 3-11, Fitzpatrick 2-23, Joiner
Auburn 48, Arkansas 10 RECEiviNg
2-14, Parachek 2-6, Morris 2-3, A.Brown 1-20, Foster
Cincinnati 24, Houston 14 Utah: Vele 5-145, Vaki 4-67, King 2-20, Parks 2-17,
1-11. ohio state: Harrison 7-149, Stover 7-79, Tate 2-26,
Oklahoma 59, West Virginia 20 Jackson 2-8, Suguturaga 1-6, McClain 1-4. Washington:
Thurman 2-18, Henderson 2-14, Fleming 2-12, Trayanum
Texas 29, TCU 26 Westover 7-64, Bernard 6-63, Polk 4-55, Odunze 3-111,
2-12, X.Johnson 1-31, Egbuka 1-12.
Texas A&M 51, Mississippi State 10 D.Johnson 2-28, Culp 2-11.
UTSA 34, Rice 14
WEsT
Arizona 34, Colorado 31
No. 2 Georgia 52,
California 42, Washington State 39 No. 9 Mississippi 17 No. 7 Texas 29, TCU 26
Colorado State 22, San Diego State 19
Oregon State 62, Stanford 17 mississippi ............................ 7 7 0 3 — 17 TEXAs ...................................... 7 19 0 3 — 29
Utah State 41, Nevada 24 gEoRgiA ................................ 14 14 10 14 — 52 TCU ........................................... 6 0 0 20 — 26
Washington 35, Utah 28
fiRsT QUARTER fiRsT QUARTER
TCU: FG Kell 41, 7:41.
miss: Judkins 15 run (C.Davis kick), 10:30.
TEX: J.Brooks 2 run (Auburn kick), 6:53.
UgA: Edwards 1 run (Woodring kick), 7:28.
Maryland 13, Nebraska 10 UgA: McConkey 29 pass from Beck (Woodring kick), 3:09.
TCU: FG Kell 56, 4:35.

sECoND QUARTER sECoND QUARTER

mARYLAND ............................. 0 7 0 6 — 13 TEX: FG Auburn 30, 14:50.
NEBRAsKA .............................. 0 0 10 0 — 10 miss: Judkins 4 run (C.Davis kick), 14:16. TEX: FG Auburn 32, 8:32.
UgA: Edwards 1 run (Woodring kick), 9:58. TEX: A.Mitchell 6 pass from Ewers (pass failed), 1:01.
sECoND QUARTER UgA: Milton 7 run (Woodring kick), 2:27. TEX: J.Brooks 22 run (Auburn kick), :12.
mD: Felton 16 pass from Tagovailoa (Howes kick), 2:31.
ThiRD QUARTER foURTh QUARTER
ThiRD QUARTER
UgA: Milton 33 run (Woodring kick), 9:15. TCU: E.Bailey 17 run (Kell kick), 14:02.
NEB: Bonner 2 run (Alvano kick), 11:35. TEX: FG Auburn 49, 8:53.
NEB: FG Alvano 38, 8:26. UgA: FG Woodring 27, 3:50.
TCU: Richardson 3 pass from Hoover (pass failed), 5:51.
foURTh QUARTER foURTh QUARTER TCU: S.Williams 14 pass from Hoover (Kell kick), 3:28.
mD: FG Howes 35, 12:42. UgA: Bowers 8 pass from Beck (Woodring kick), 14:12. Texas TCU
mD: FG Howes 24, :00. miss: FG C.Davis 29, 8:50. First Downs ..................................... 22 20
Attendance: 86,830. UgA: Paul 4 run (Woodring kick), 4:12. Total Net Yards ............................. 482 390
maryland Nebraska mississippi georgia Rushes-Yards ........................... 41-165 28-88
maddIe malhotra/getty Images First Downs ..................................... 19 18 First Downs ..................................... 18 27 Passing .......................................... 317 302
Total Net Yards ............................. 384 269 Total Net Yards ............................. 352 628 Punt Returns .................................. 0-0 2-29
Kyron Drones ran for 135 yards and threw two touchdown passes for the Hokies on Saturday afternoon. Rushes-Yards ........................... 26-101 40-183 Rushes-Yards ........................... 46-180 35-300 Kickoff Returns ............................ 1-15 0-0
Passing .......................................... 283 86 Passing .......................................... 172 328 Interceptions Ret. ........................... 1-2 1-38
Punt Returns .................................. 1-6 1-6 Punt Returns .................................. 0-0 1-8 Comp-Att-Int .......................... 22-33-1 24-36-1
Kickoff Returns .............................. 0-0 1-10 Kickoff Returns ............................ 2-26 0-0 Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 0-0 3-24
Punts ........................................ 4-39.25 4-37.5
ArEA rOUNdUP Interceptions Ret. ......................... 4-40
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 27-40-1
1-0
10-21-4
Interceptions Ret. ....................... 1--21
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 13-23-1
1--25
20-27-1 Fumbles-Lost .................................. 0-0 2-1
Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 1-11 1-3 Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 2-17 0-0 Penalties-Yards ............................ 7-59 6-51

Hokies start fast and roll past Eagles

Punts ...................................... 3-37.333 2-44.5 Punts .......................................... 4-46.0 1-41.0 Time Of Possession .................... 34:18 25:42
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 2-2 1-1 Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-0 0-0
Penalties-Yards ............................ 9-67 5-55
pAssiNg
Penalties-Yards .......................... 10-92 1-15
Time Of Possession .................... 28:54 40:25 Time Of Possession .................... 29:09 30:51 Texas: Ewers 22-33-1-317. TCU: Hoover 24-36-1-302.

virginiA tech 48,
Boston college 22
F ROM NEWS SERVICES
AND STAFF REPORTS
Virginia Tech Coach Brent Pry
came into the game against Bos-
ton College hoping to steal posses-
sions from the Eagles.
The Hokies did that on the very
first play of the game.
Virginia Tech cornerback
Dorian Strong intercepted a long
pass attempt on the first play from
going over 400 passing yards for
the third time this season.
l HOWARD 50, NORTH
CAROLINA CENTRAL 20:
Quinton Williams threw three
touchdown passes and ran for a
score, Jarett Hunter added more
than 100 yards rushing and two
touchdowns, and the Bison rolled
to a win at Greene Stadium.
Eden James had 84 yards rush-
ing for Howard (5-5, 3-1 Mid-East-
ern Athletic Conference). Davius
Richard threw a touchdown pass
and ran for a score for the Eagles
(8-2, 3-1).
l GEORGETOWN 50, BUCK-
USA regular season champion,
improved to 10-0 (7-0) with its win
over the Monarchs (4-6, 3-3 Sun
Belt).
l RICHMOND 38, ELON 24:
Kyle Wickersham threw for two
touchdowns and ran for another
to lead the Spiders in a battle of
CAA contenders in Richmond.
Wickersham finished 20 for 27
for 169 yards for Richmond (7-3,
6-1). The Phoenix (5-5) dropped to
5-2 in conference play.
l FURMAN 37, VMI 3: Carson
Jones threw for 226 yards and four
touchdowns, and the Paladins
wrapped it up early against the
pAssiNg
maryland: Tagovailoa 27-40-1-283. Nebraska: Sims 8-
13-2-62, Purdy 1-3-1-24, Haarberg 1-5-1-0.
RUshiNg
maryland: Hemby 16-74, Tagovailoa 5-27, McDonald 2-5,
Littleton 2-1, O.Smith 1-(minus 6). Nebraska: E.Johnson
17-84, Purdy 3-33, Sims 10-33, Boerkircher 1-11, Fleeks
3-11, Grant 3-9, Bonner 1-2, Haarberg 2-0.
RECEiviNg
maryland: J.Jones 5-86, Felton 5-73, Dyches 5-40,
Prather 4-39, Hemby 3-15, Howard 2-11, Littleton 1-10,
Knotts 1-5, McDonald 1-4. Nebraska: E.Johnson 3-9,
Kemp 2-30, Fleeks 2-11, Lloyd 1-25, Fidone 1-9, A.Bull-
ock 1-2.
Virginia Tech 48,
Boston College 22
viRgiNiA TECh ...................... 10 21
BosToN CoLLEgE ................... 7 0 8
fiRsT QUARTER
vT: FG Jo.Love 27, 12:40.
BC: Broome 4 run (Connor kick), 9:00.
vT: Tuten 7 run (Jo.Love kick), 1:28.
pAssiNg
mississippi: Dart 9-16-1-111, S.Sanders 4-7-0-61. geor-
gia: Beck 19-26-1-323, Vandagriff 1-1-0-5.
RUshiNg
mississippi: Judkins 22-75, Masin 1-24, Bentley 6-23,
S.Sanders 5-21, Dart 8-20, M.Jones 2-12, Griffin 1-4,
Watkins 1-1. georgia: Milton 9-127, Edwards 12-59,
R.Robinson 2-37, Paul 6-32, Beck 4-30, McConkey 1-11,
C.Jones 1-4.
RECEiviNg
mississippi: Wade 3-45, Judkins 3-14, Prieskorn 2-48,
Tre.Harris 2-12, Watkins 1-33, Wolfe 1-18, Bentley 1-2.
georgia: McConkey 4-81, Lovett 4-77, Bowers 3-34,
Edwards 3-34, R.Thomas 2-54, Rosemy-Jacksaint 1-22,
Milton 1-12, Delp 1-9, Luckie 1-5.
No. 3 Michigan 24,
7 10 — 48
No. 10 Penn State 15
7 — 22
miChigAN ................................ 0 14
pENN sTATE ............................ 3 6 0
fiRsT QUARTER
psU: FG Felkins 20, 2:17.
RUshiNg
Texas: J.Brooks 21-104, Baxter 18-61, Ewers 1-0, Red
1-0. TCU: E.Bailey 21-98, S.Williams 1-7, Battle 1-4,
Richardson 1-2, Cook 1-1, Hoover 3-(minus 24).
RECEiviNg
Texas: Worthy 10-137, Sanders 4-47, J.Brooks 3-74,
A.Mitchell 3-61, Baxter 1-1, Cook 1-(minus 3). TCU:
S.Williams 11-164, Wiley 6-65, Richardson 3-23, Robin-
son 2-37, Nowell 1-10, Earle 1-3.
No. 8 Alabama 49, Kentucky 21
ALABAmA .............................. 21 7 7 14 — 49
KENTUCKY ............................... 7 0 7 7 — 21
fiRsT QUARTER
ALA: Niblack 26 pass from Milroe (Reichard kick), 9:38.
ALA: Prentice 40 pass from Milroe (Reichard kick), 5:32.
ALA: Milroe 1 run (Reichard kick), 5:12.
UK: T.Robinson 6 pass from Leary (Raynor kick), 1:30.
sECoND QUARTER
3 7 — 24 ALA: R.Williams 26 pass from Milroe (Reichard kick), 10:14.
6 — 15
ThiRD QUARTER
UK: R.Davis 2 run (Raynor kick), 10:53.
ALA: Milroe 3 run (Reichard kick), 6:29.

scrimmage, then picked off Thom-
as Castellanos again later in the
first quarter, and the Hokies also
pulled off a surprise onside kick on
Saturday to beat Boston College,
48-22, in Boston.
“That sets the tone,” Virginia
Tech linebacker Jayden McDonald
said. “Everybody is fired up and
everything because of the momen-
tum change. To come out in the
first play and do that, that really
set the tone for us.”
Kyron Drones ran for 135 yards
and threw for two touchdowns
and Bhayshul Tuten ran for three
touchdowns for Virginia Tech,
which bounced back from a
31-point loss at Louisville by scor-
ing 35 unanswered points for its
first road win of the season.
The Hokies (5-5, 4-2 ACC)
amassed 600 total yards to pre-
serve their chances of making a
bowl and halt a five-game winning
streak for the Eagles (6-4, 3-3).
l JAMES MADISON 44,
CONNECTICUT 6: Jordan Mc-
Cloud threw for a career-high
457 yards and four touchdowns,
and the Dukes overcame a slow
start for their 13th consecutive
win dating from last season.
McCloud connected with Reg-
gie Brown on scoring throws of 80
and 55 yards, Zach Helton from
21 yards and Phoenix Sproles from
five yards as JMU (10-0) pulled
away from the Huskies (1-9) in
Harrisonburg, Va.
McCloud finished 33 for 37 while
NELL 47 (OT): Tyler Knoop
threw four touchdown passes and
Joshua Stakely scored on a one-
yard plunge in overtime to give the
Hoyas (5-5, 3-2 Patriot League) the
win in Lewisburg, Pa.
Knoop’s last touchdown pass, a
25-yarder to Jimmy Kibble,
capped a five-play, 69-yard drive
with 1:45 left to force overtime
after the Bison (3-7, 1-5) had scored
29 unanswered points.
l WILLIAM & MARY 31,
HAMPTON 10: The Tribe took
advantage of five turnovers by the
Pirates, including Kevin Jarrell’s
fourth-quarter pick-six, for a vic-
tory in Hampton, Va.
William & Mary (6-4, 4-3 Coast-
al Athletic Association) scored all
of its points after Hampton (5-5,
3-4) turnovers.
l NORFOLK STATE 44, DEL-
AWARE STATE 21: X’Zavion Ev-
ans raced 66 yards for a touch-
down on the third play from
scrimmage and the Spartans kept
on running, rolling past the Hor-
nets in Dover, Del., to earn their
first MEAC victory in four starts.
Norfolk State (3-7, 1-3) scored
the first 27 points of the game and
held a 34-7 halftime advantage
over Delaware State (1-9, 0-4).
l LIBERTY 38, OLD DOMIN-
ION 10: Kaidon Salter threw
three touchdown passes and ran
for two more, all in the first half, as
the Flames kept their perfect rec-
ord intact in Lynchburg, Va.
Liberty, already the Conference
Keydets in Greenview, S.C.
With the exception of a third-
quarter field goal, Furman (9-1, 7-0
Southern) did all of its scoring in
the first half. Collin Shannon
threw 148 yards for VMI (4-6, 3-4).
l MORGAN STATE 20,
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE 17:
Jordan Toles returned a fourth-
quarter kickoff 73 yards for the
go-ahead touchdown, and the
Bears defeated the Bulldogs in Or-
angeburg, S.C.
Offense was at a premium as
Morgan State (4-5, 3-1 MEAC) out-
gained South Carolina State (4-6,
2-2) 244-191.
l VILLANOVA
33, TOWSON
10: Connor Watkins threw for
299 yards and three first-half
touchdowns as the Wildcats beat
the Tigers in Villanova, Pa.
Pringle’s 79-yard catch-and-run
for Villanova (8-2, 6-1 CAA)
opened the scoring in the first
quarter. Chris Watkins led Towson
(4-6, 3-4) with 90 yards rushing.
l CATHOLIC 34, JUNIATA
20: Madden Lowe threw for
368 yards and three scores while
adding a touchdown on the ground
as the Cardinals beat the Eagles
(1-9, 0-6 Landmark Conference) to
finish 5-5 (3-3) on the season.
l SHEPHERD 49, MERCY-
HURST 25: Seth Morgan was 18
for 21 for 296 yards and four touch-
downs as the Rams (9-2, 5-2 Penn-
sylvania State Athletic Conference
East) defeated the Lakers (2-9, 1-6)
in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
sECoND QUARTER sECoND QUARTER foURTh QUARTER
miCh: Corum 3 run (Turner kick), 11:56. ALA: Milroe 1 run (Reichard kick), 14:48.
vT: S.Gosnell 22 pass from Drones (Jo.Love kick), 13:07.
miCh: Edwards 22 run (Turner kick), 6:07. ALA: Miller 3 run (Reichard kick), 9:46.
vT: Lane 5 pass from Drones (Jo.Love kick), 7:04.
vT: Tuten 4 run (Jo.Love kick), 1:33. psU: Allar 11 run (pass failed), :29. UK: R.Davis 1 run (Raynor kick), 7:46.
Attendance: 61,936.
ThiRD QUARTER ThiRD QUARTER
miCh: FG Turner 22, 3:36. Alabama Kentucky
vT: Tuten 4 run (Jo.Love kick), 8:50. First Downs ..................................... 23 11
BC: Skeete 8 pass from Castellanos (Bond pass from foURTh QUARTER
Castellanos), 2:52.
miCh: Corum 30 run (Turner kick), 4:15.
Total Net Yards ............................. 444
Rushes-Yards ........................... 39-159
253
24-95
foURTh QUARTER psU: Th.Johnson 8 pass from Allar (pass failed), 1:59. Passing .......................................... 285 158
Attendance: 110,856. Punt Returns ................................ 2-22 0-0
vT: M.Thomas 35 run (Jo.Love kick), 14:53.
Kickoff Returns .......................... 4-103 2-30
vT: FG Jo.Love 46, 10:54. michigan penn state
BC: Coleman 1 run (Connor kick), 4:26. First Downs ..................................... 15 17
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 1-0 1-0
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 16-25-1 17-31-1
Attendance: 33,665. Total Net Yards ............................. 287 238 Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 0-0 3-21
Rushes-Yards ........................... 46-227 35-164 Punts ...................................... 3-45.333 6-42.0
virginia Tech Boston College
Passing ............................................ 60 74 Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-1 1-1
First Downs ..................................... 24 14
Total Net Yards ............................. 600 262 Punt Returns .................................. 3-7 1-5 Penalties-Yards ............................ 6-64 4-19
Rushes-Yards ........................... 51-363 29-124 Kickoff Returns .............................. 0-0 0-0 Time Of Possession .................... 33:25 26:35
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 0-0 0-0
Passing .......................................... 237 138
Punt Returns .................................. 3-9 0-0 Comp-Att-Int .............................. 7-8-0 11-23-0 pAssiNg
Kickoff Returns ............................ 2-11 1-22 Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 1-10 1-9 Alabama: Milroe 15-22-1-234, Simpson 1-3-0-51. Ken-
Interceptions Ret. ......................... 2--4 0-0 Punts .......................................... 5-29.8 5-49.0 tucky: Leary 17-31-1-158.
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-0 1-1
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 14-21-0
Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 1-6
13-27-2
0-0 Penalties-Yards ............................ 6-50 5-33 RUshiNg
Punts .......................................... 2-42.5 6-37.833 Time Of Possession .................... 33:12 26:48 Alabama: McClellan 9-43, Milroe 8-36, Haynes 6-33,
Williams 6-20, Miller 6-11, Simpson 1-9, Young 2-4,
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 5-2 0-0
Penalties-Yards ............................ 5-25 4-35
pAssiNg Bond 1-3. Kentucky: Jefferson 2-73, Davis 12-26,
michigan: McCarthy 7-8-0-60. penn state: Allar 10-22-0- B.Brown 1-7, Sumo-Karngbaye 4-7, Leary 5-(minus 18).
Time Of Possession .................... 35:59 24:01
70, Allen 1-1-0-4.
pAssiNg RECEiviNg
RUshiNg Alabama: Prentice 4-74, Niblack 2-38, Williams 2-30,
virginia Tech: Drones 12-17-0-219, Wells 2-3-0-18,
Watson 0-1-0-0. Boston College: Castellanos 10-20-2-
michigan: Corum 26-145, Edwards 10-52, McCarthy Bond 2-24, Hale 1-51, Dippre 1-30, Benson 1-15, Law
8-34, (Team) 2-(minus 4). penn state: Allen 12-72, Allar 1-11, Miller 1-8, McClellan 1-4. Kentucky: Davis 5-32,
110, Morehead 3-7-0-28.
10-49, Singleton 13-43. Key 4-46, Kattus 2-38, T.Robinson 2-10, B.Brown 2-3,
RUshiNg Bates 1-33, Leary 1-(minus 4).
RECEiviNg
virginia Tech: Drones 20-135, Tuten 16-78, Wells 1-60,
Watson 4-39, Thomas 3-38, Coney 3-7, Duke 3-5, Black
michigan: C.Johnson 2-24, S.Morgan 2-17, Loveland 2-7,
Barner 1-12. penn state: Warren 2-25, Cephas 2-11,
1-1. Boston College: Broome 9-56, Castellanos 11-46,
Th.Johnson 2-10, Saunders 1-13, Lambert-Smith 1-6,
No. 12 Oregon State 62,
Coleman 5-14, Hines 1-5, Ferrucci 1-4, N.Johnson 1-2,
(Team) 1-(minus 3).
Singleton 1-6, Allar 1-4, Meiga 1-(minus 1). Stanford 17
RECEiviNg sTANfoRD .............................. 7 3 7 0 — 17
virginia Tech: Felton 4-101, Wright 4-58, Lane 3-32, No. 4 Florida State 27, Miami 20 oREgoN sTATE ..................... 14 20 21 7 — 62
S.Gosnell 1-22, Duke 1-16, Greene 1-8. Boston College:
Franklin 3-52, Tomlin 3-19, Skeete 2-20, Bond 2-15, fiRsT QUARTER
miAmi ...................................... 0 10 3 7 — 20
Jose.Griffin 1-16, Gordinier 1-14, Harris 1-2. fLoRiDA sTATE ...................... 7 3 10 7 — 27 oRsT: Martinez 7 run (Sappington kick), 9:52.
oRsT: Martinez 59 run (Sappington kick), 5:33.
fiRsT QUARTER sTAN: Daniels 7 run (Karty kick), :23.
Navy 31, UAB 6 fsU: Benson 5 run (Fitzgerald kick), 7:13. sECoND QUARTER
UAB .......................................... 3 3 0 0— 6 sECoND QUARTER oRsT: Martinez 15 run (Sappington kick), 13:44.
oRsT: Terry 40 pass from Uiagalelei (Sappington kick),
NAvY ........................................ 7 0 3 21 — 31 fsU: FG Fitzgerald 33, 14:09. 10:17.
miA: Jac.George 3 pass from E.Williams (Borregales
fiRsT QUARTER kick), 2:42.
sTAN: FG Karty 28, 3:04.
oRsT: Martinez 5 run (kick failed), :15.
NAvY: Velez 45 pass from Arline (Kirkwood kick), 2:49. miA: FG Borregales 27, :00.
UAB: FG Quinn 37, :30. ThiRD QUARTER
ThiRD QUARTER oRsT: Fenwick 13 pass from Uiagalelei (Sappington
sECoND QUARTER
UAB: FG Quinn 29, 6:22.
miA: FG Borregales 51, 12:11. kick), 8:09.
oRsT: Chiles 1 run (Sappington kick), 3:48.
fsU: FG Fitzgerald 22, 9:32.
ThiRD QUARTER fsU: Benson 38 run (Fitzgerald kick), 5:48. oRsT: Fenwick 37 run (Sappington kick), 1:43.
sTAN: Ayomanor 75 pass from Daniels (Karty kick), 1:30.
NAvY: FG Kirkwood 31, 9:13. foURTh QUARTER
foURTh QUARTER
foURTh QUARTER fsU: Coleman 6 pass from Travis (Fitzgerald kick), 11:00.
oRsT: Sharp 28 pass from Chiles (Sappington kick), 5:54.
NAvY: Fofana 2 run (Kirkwood kick), 10:08. miA: Jac.George 85 pass from E.Williams (Borregales
NAvY: Arline 50 run (Kirkwood kick), 4:12. kick), 8:22. stanford oregon state
NAvY: Lane 97 interception return (Kirkwood kick), 2:03. Attendance: 79,560. First Downs ..................................... 17 29
Attendance: 29,078. Total Net Yards ............................. 324 598
miami florida state
Rushes-Yards ............................. 32-82 40-277
UAB Navy First Downs ..................................... 13 16
Passing .......................................... 242 321
First Downs ..................................... 18 15 Total Net Yards ............................. 335 322
Punt Returns .................................. 1-9 1-3
Total Net Yards ............................. 321 363 Rushes-Yards ........................... 34-131 31-57
Kickoff Returns .............................. 1-0 1-15
Rushes-Yards ........................... 30-115 47-269 Passing .......................................... 204 265
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 0-0 4-37

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Passing .......................................... 206
Punt Returns ................................ 2-15
Kickoff Returns ............................ 6-79
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 1-0
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 25-36-2
Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 4-13
Punts .......................................... 5-43.6
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 0-0
Stories of the past, rediscovered. Penalties-Yards ............................ 5-35
Time Of Possession .................... 26:45
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UAB: Zeno 25-36-2-206. Navy: Arline 7-10-1-94.
RUshiNg
UAB: J.Brown 15-55, Beebe 5-43, Zeno 8-9, Witherspoon
2-8. Navy: Arline 19-109, Tecza 9-82, Heidenreich 5-60,
Fofana 7-12, Chatman 5-8, (Team) 2-(minus 2).
RECEiviNg
UAB: Payne 5-41, J.Brown 5-6, A.Thomas 4-33, Beebe
3-8, Farrier 2-18, Witherspoon 2-13, Damous 1-42,
Palmer 1-26, T.Jones 1-13, Rudolph 1-6. Navy: Heidenre-
S0129-3x2.75 ich 3-26, Chatman 2-25, Velez 1-45, Tecza 1-(minus 2).
94 Punt Returns ................................ 1-16
3-20 Kickoff Returns ............................ 2-37
3-62 Interceptions Ret. ........................... 0-0
2-139 Comp-Att-Int .......................... 10-30-1 19-31-0
7-10-1 Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 2-15
1-2 Punts .......................................... 7-49.0 7-49.0
3-41.667 Fumbles-Lost .................................. 0-0
2-1 Penalties-Yards ............................ 7-40
Time Of Possession .................... 29:20 30:23
8-67
33:15
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miami: E.Williams 8-23-0-175, Van Dyke 2-7-1-29.
florida state: Travis 19-31-0-265.
RUshiNg
miami: Chaney 12-85, Fletcher 16-47, B.Smith 1-6,
E.Williams 5-(minus 7). florida state: Benson 16-80,
Toafili 6-9, (Team) 1-(minus 2), Travis 8-(minus 30).
RECEiviNg
miami: Jac.George 5-153, Young 2-29, B.Smith 2-18,
I.Horton 1-4. florida state: Wilson 5-82, Coleman 4-24,
J.Douglas 3-69, Bell 3-41, M.Douglas 2-21, Benson 1-17,
Morlock 1-11.
3-62
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 14-32-4 18-28-0
1-21
Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 6-38 1-7
1-0
Punts ........................................ 4-38.25 3-40.0
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 2-0 0-0
3-39
Penalties-Yards ............................ 4-45 5-51
Time Of Possession .................... 29:13 30:47
1-0
3-35 pAssiNg
stanford: Daniels 10-16-3-200, Lamson 4-16-1-42. or-
egon state: Uiagalelei 12-19-0-240, Chiles 5-8-0-75,
Gulbranson 1-1-0-6.
RUshiNg
stanford: Daniels 9-37, Lamson 17-21, Bachmeier 1-15,
Smith 4-7, Butler 1-2. oregon state: Martinez 15-146,
Fenwick 5-61, Reichle 3-31, Newell 9-26, Chiles 4-14,
Uiagalelei 2-3, (Team) 2-(minus 4).
RECEiviNg
stanford: Roush 4-33, Ayomanor 3-122, Bachmeier 3-41,
Smith 2-15, Harris 1-21, Farrell 1-10. oregon state:
Velling 3-55, Bolden 2-36, Terry 2-35, Irish 2-32, Marti-
nez 2-16, Gould 1-61, Sharp 1-28, Caufield 1-21, Fenwick
1-13, Valsin 1-13, Wells 1-6, Noga 1-5.
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NFL week 10

Washington Commanders (4-5) at Seattle Seahawks (5-3)

Time: 4:25 p.m. TV: Fox. Radio: WBIG (100.3 FM). Line: Seahawks by 51/2.
For in-game analysis, live stats and discussion, read our live updates at postsports.com.

c om mand ers s eah awk s

r o ste r ros t er
1 Jahan Dotson WR 5-11 182 0 Devin Bush LB 5-11 234
2 Dyami Brown WR 6-0 195 1 Dee Eskridge WR 5-9 190
3 Byron Pringle WR 6-1 203 2 Drew Lock QB 6-4 228
4 Curtis Samuel WR 5-11 195 4 Michael Dickson P 6-2 208
5 Tress Way P 6-1 220 5 Jason Myers K 5-10 190
6 Joey Slye K 5-11 213 6 Quandre Diggs FS 5-9 197
8 Brian Robinson Jr. RB 6-1 228 7 Geno Smith QB 6-3 221
12 Jacoby Brissett QB 6-4 235 9 Kenneth Walker III RB 5-9 211
13 Emmanuel Forbes Jr. CB 6-0 180 11 Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR 6-0 197
14 Sam Howell QB 6-1 220 14 DK Metcalf WR 6-4 235
17 Terry McLaurin WR 6-0 210 16 Tyler Lockett WR 5-10 182
20 Jartavius Martin DB 6-0 195 19 Jake Bobo WR 6-4 207
23 Chris Rodriguez Jr. RB 5-11 224 20 Julian Love S 5-11 195
24 Antonio Gibson RB 6-2 220 21 Devon Witherspoon CB 6-0 185
25 Benjamin St-Juste CB 6-3 200 22 Tre Brown CB 5-10 185
26 Tariq Castro-Fields CB 6-1 197 23 Artie Burns CB 6-0 187
29 Kendall Fuller CB 5-11 198 25 Kenny McIntosh RB 6-0 204
31 Kamren Curl S 6-2 198 26 Zach Charbonnet RB 6-1 214
32 Terrell Burgess S 5-11 202 27 Riq Woolen CB 6-4 210
34 Christian Holmes CB 6-1 205 30 Michael Jackson CB 6-1 210
35 Percy Butler S 6-0 191 31 DeeJay Dallas RB 5-10 214
36 Danny Johnson CB 5-9 190 32 Jerrick Reed II S 5-9 196
40 Alex Armah RB 6-1 255 33 Jamal Adams SS 6-1 213
41 Jabril Cox LB 6-3 235 38 Brady Russell TE 6-3 250
45 De'Jon Harris LB 6-0 245 41 Chris Stoll LS 6-2 255
47 Khaleke Hudson LB 6-0 220 44 Nick Bellore LB 6-1 250
50 Andre Jones Jr. DE 6-5 258 51 Olu Oluwatimi C 6-3 309
51 David Mayo LB 6-2 240 52 Darrell Taylor LB 6-4 267
52 Jamin Davis LB 6-3 234 53 Boye Mafe LB 6-4 261
54 Camaron Cheeseman LS 6-4 237 54 Bobby Wagner LB 6-0 242
55 KJ Henry DE 6-4 255 55 Dre’Mont Jones DE 6-3 281
61 Julian Good-Jones OT 6-5 313 56 Jordyn Brooks LB 6-0 240
63 Nick Gates C 6-5 312 57 Frank Clark LB 6-3 265
69 Tyler Larsen C 6-4 335 58 Derick Hall OLB 6-3 254
71 Andrew Wylie G/T 6-6 309 59 Jon Rhattigan LB 6-0 236
72 Charles Leno Jr. T 6-3 302 60 Phil Haynes G 6-4 322
73 Trent Scott T 6-5 320 63 Evan Brown C 6-2 320
75 Chris Paul G 6-4 324 66 McClendon Curtis G 6-6 325
76 Sam Cosmi T 6-6 309 67 Charles Cross T 6-5 311
78 Cornelius Lucas T 6-8 327 68 Damien Lewis G 6-2 327
80 Curtis Hodges TE 6-8 240 70 Jason Peters T 6-4 328
82 Logan Thomas TE 6-6 250 74 Jake Curhan T 6-6 316
83 Jamison Crowder WR 5-9 177 75 Anthony Bradford G 6-5 332
85 Cole Turner TE 6-6 240 78 Stone Forsythe T 6-8 307
86 Mitchell Tinsley WR 6-1 205 79 Raiqwon O'Neal OT 6-4 305
87 John Bates TE 6-6 259 83 Dareke Young WR 6-2 224
91 John Ridgeway III DT 6-5 321 84 Colby Parkinson TE 6-7 265
93 Jonathan Allen DT 6-3 300 87 Noah Fant TE 6-4 249
94 Daron Payne DT 6-3 320 89 Will Dissly TE 6-4 265
95 Casey Toohill DE 6-5 254 90 Jarran Reed NT 6-3 306
96 James Smith-Williams DE 6-4 265 93 Cameron Young DT 6-3 304
97 Efe Obada DE 6-6 265 95 Myles Adams DE 6-2 290
98 Phidarian Mathis DT 6-4 312 97 Mario Edwards Jr. DE 6-3 280
99 Leonard Williams DE 6-5 300

d e p th c h a r t
d ept h ch art
oFFense
QB Sam Howell Jacoby Brissett oFFense
RB Brian Robinson Jr. Antonio Gibson JOhN MCDONNell/The WashiNGTON POsT
WR Terry McLaurin Jamison Crowder QB Geno Smith Drew Lock
RB Kenneth Walker III Zach Charbonnet
WR
WR
Jahan Dotson
Curtis Samuel
Dyami Brown
Byron Pringle
Commanders quarterback Sam Howell threw for a league-high 722 yards over the past two weeks after changes on the offensive line. WR DK Metcalf Jake Bobo
TE Logan Thomas John Bates WR Tyler Lockett Dee Eskridge
LT Charles Leno Jr. Cornelius Lucas WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba Dareke Young
LG Chris Paul Julian Good-Jones TE Noah Fant Will Dissly
C Tyler Larsen Nick Gates LT Charles Cross Stone Forsythe
RG Sam Cosmi Nick Gates b y t he n u mb e rs LG Damien Lewis Phil Haynes
RT Andrew Wylie Cornelius Lucas C Evan Brown Olu Oluwatimi
RG Phil Haynes McClendon Curtis
RT Stone Forsythe Jason Peters
deFense and specIal teams 722 passIng yards average of 4.3 yards per carry ranks ninth in the league. in short-yardage
DE James Smith-Williams Efe Obada
in the past couple of weeks, after the Washington Commanders situations (three or fewer yards to go), the Commanders have converted deFense and specIal teams
DT Daron Payne John Ridgeway
26 of 33 rushes into first downs for a league-best rate of 78.8 percent. DE Dre'Mont Jones Myles Adams
DT Jonathan Allen Phidarian Mathis altered the interior of their offensive line, with Tyler larsen taking over at NT Jarran Reed Cameron Young
DE Casey Toohill Andre Jones Jr.
MLB Jamin Davis David Mayo center and Chris Paul filling in at left guard, sam howell has seemed to DE Leonard Williams Mario Edwards Jr.
OLB Khaleke Hudson De'Jon Harris 30th In thIrd-down conversIon rate OLB Boye Mafe Derick Hall
CB Kendall Fuller Danny Johnson come into his own. No quarterback had more passing yards across ILB Jordyn Brooks Devin Bush
CB Emmanuel Forbes Danny Johnson Weeks 8 and 9 than howell’s 722. On the season, he is second in the NFl The seattle seahawks are coming off one of their worst performances ILB Bobby Wagner Nick Bellore
CB Benjamin St-Juste Christian Holmes OLB Darrell Taylor Frank Clark
FS Kam Curl Terrell Burgess with 2,471 passing yards. Only Kirk Cousins, who threw for 2,716 in 2016 in years on both sides of the ball. During a 37-3 loss to the Baltimore CB Devon Witherspoon Michael Jackson
SS Jamal Adams Julian Love
RCB Percy Butler Quan Martin
and 2,474 in 2017, had more yards through the first nine games of a Ravens, seattle was especially dreadful on third down, converting FS Quandre Diggs Jerrick Reed II
K Joey Slye
P Tress Way season for Washington. howell is the only quarterback in NFl history to 1 of 12 attempts to bring its total over the past two weeks to 5 of 24. On CB Riq Woolen Tre Brown
H Tress Way K Jason Myers
PR Jamison Crowder Jahan Dotson have a 66.0 competition percentage or higher, throw for at least 2,600 the season, the seahawks have converted only 31.9 percent of their third P Michael Dickson
H Michael Dickson
KR Antonio Gibson Byron Pringle
yards and rush for at least 190 yards in the first 10 games of his career. downs to rank as the third-worst team in the league. That bodes well for PR DeeJay Dallas Jake Bobo
LS Camaron Cheeseman
the Commanders’ defense, which is coming off a strong showing on third KR Dee Eskridge Zach Charbonnet
LS Chris Stoll
20.9 rushIng attempts per game down against the Patriots. Washington allowed only three conversions on
Washington’s gaudy passing numbers require context. howell has 12 attempts and, through Week 9, ranks 16th in the league in opponent
thrown the ball more than any other quarterback through Week 9 third-down conversion rate at 39.5 percent. also good for the
(353 attempts, 39.2 per game). No team has averaged fewer rushes per Commanders: The seahawks are just as bad defensively on third down,
game than the Commanders (20.9 attempts), and no team has rushed at also ranking as the third-worst team in opponent conversion rate
a lower rate on early downs (32.5 percent), per the website TruMedia. But (45.3 percent).
when they do run the ball, the Commanders can be efficient. Their — Nicki Jhabvala

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week 1 week 4 week 7 week 10 at seahawks week 13 vs. dolphins week 16 at Jets
at Commanders 20, Cardinals 16 at eagles 34, Commanders 31 (OT) at Giants 14, Commanders 7 4:25 p.m. (Fox) Dec. 3, 1 p.m. (Fox) Dec. 24, 1 p.m. (CBs)
week 2 week 5 week 8 week 11 vs. giants week 14 week 17 vs. 49ers
Commanders 35, at Broncos 33 Bears 40, at Commanders 20 eagles 38, at Commanders 31 Nov. 19, 1 p.m. (Fox) Bye Dec. 31, 1 p.m. (Fox)
week 3 week 6 week 9 week 12 at cowboys week 15 at rams week 18 vs. cowboys
Bills 37, at Commanders 3 Commanders 24, at Falcons 16 Commanders 20, at Patriots 17 Nov. 23 (Thurs.), 4:30 p.m. (CBs) Dec. 17, 4:05 p.m. (CBs) Jan. 6/7; date, time and TV TBD

o ther ga me s

colts (4-5) at patriots (2-7) in Frankfurt, germany, 9:30 a.m.
(nFl network) » sorry, Frankfurt, these can’t all be Dolphins-Chiefs
games. For some inexplicable reason, Mac Jones threw the ball 44 times
in New england’s loss to Washington. he is ninth in the NFl in pass
attempts with 304 and 29th in yards per attempt with 6.1.
browns (5-3) at ravens (7-2), 1 p.m. (Fox) » The Ravens are one of only
two teams (along with the Chiefs) whose defense has held opponents to
fewer than 25 points in every game. That’s a good thing because they’re in
a tight division in which all four aFC North teams would qualify were the
playoffs to begin today. and now the Ravens must face a tough Jim
schwartz defense. Quarterback Deshaun Watson is 0-3 in division games
on the road since his Browns career began in December.
texans (4-4) at bengals (5-3), 1 p.m. » Joe Burrow vs. C.J. stroud is one
of the more intriguing quarterback matchups of the day. While Burrow and
the Bengals are returning to super Bowl form, stroud put up a
147.8 passer rating last week that was the highest in NFl history by a
rookie with a minimum of 30 attempts, and his 470 passing yards were
the most by a rookie in NFl history. he’s on pace to pass for 4,823 yards.
strictly for comparison purposes, Peyton Manning passed for 3,739 over
16 starts as a rookie.
49ers (5-3) at Jaguars (6-2), 1 p.m. » san Francisco has lost three in a
row. Jacksonville has won five in a row.
saints (5-4) at vikings (5-4), 1 p.m. » as a kid, Josh Dobbs wanted to be
an astronaut or a quarterback. he found a mixture of both last sunday
with an otherworldly performance when he was pressed into duty by an
injury to Jaren hall days after being traded to Minnesota. Playing for his
fifth team in 11 months, he completed 20 of 30 passes for 158 yards with
two touchdowns and no interceptions — and led a 75-yard drive in the final
two minutes in atlanta (his hometown) for a win Minnesota sorely needed.
packers (3-5) at steelers (5-3), 1 p.m. (wusa-9) » Pittsburgh is the only
team in the super Bowl era to have a winning record through eight games
despite being outgained — by 790 total yards — in every game. and lest
anyone think Pittsburgh can’t make a nice little run, here are its next five
opponents: Browns, Bengals, Cardinals, Patriots, Colts.
titans (3-5) at buccaneers (3-5), 1 p.m. » Tampa Bay has lost four in a
row, erasing the optimism of its 3-1 start, but wide receiver Mike evans is
11th in the league in yards per catch (16.1) and 15th in receiving yards
(594). Tennessee rookie quarterback Will levis passed for 500 yards and
four touchdowns (with one interception) in a victory over the Falcons and a
loss to the steelers over the past two weeks.
Falcons (4-5) at cardinals (1-8), 4:05 p.m. » arizona mustered just
58 yards against the Browns in a shutout loss. Now, though, the Cardinals
are about to see whether Kyler Murray can salvage some semblance of
success (and/or ruin any chance at the No. 1 draft pick — the Cardinals
have six picks over the first three rounds).
lions (6-2) at chargers (4-4), 4:05 p.m. (wJZ-13) » With losses only to
seattle and Baltimore, Detroit is second in the league in yards per game
(390.6) and fifth in yards allowed per game (296.9).
giants (2-7) at cowboys (5-3), 4:25 p.m. » Dallas lost to Philadelphia in
typically excruciating fashion, but it should be noted that it outgained the
eagles 406-292. That may say more about Philadelphia than Dallas, but
there will be gains to be had against New York; only three teams have
given up more yards.
Jets (4-4) at raiders (4-5), 8:20 p.m. (nbc) » No wonder las Vegas fired
Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler. Under their guidance, the team was
30th in the NFl in scoring, 31st in yards and last in rushing despite having
Josh Jacobs, the league’s leading rusher in 2022. The Jets have managed
just eight touchdowns on offense all season and had fewer (seven) only in
1976 under lou holtz and in 2020 under adam Gase. That puts pressure
on Zach Wilson to keep the Jets winning until aaron Rodgers can try to
return “in a few fortnights,” as he enigmatically put it.
broncos (3-5) at bills (5-4), 8:15 p.m. monday (abc, espn) » Buffalo, a
popular preseason pick to advance to the super Bowl, is in dire need of a
win with four losses to aFC teams and the possibility of a winning streak
looking unlikely with upcoming games against the Jets, eagles, Chiefs and
Cowboys. Denver’s defense has improved, and the Bills have lost to the
Jaguars, Patriots and Bengals recently while narrowly beating the Giants
and Buccaneers.
— Cindy Boren

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Buffalo 5 4 0 .556 240 160 Houston 4 4 0 .500 187 165 Cincinnati 5 3 0 .625 155 162 L.A. Chargers 4 4 0 .500 201 174 Dallas 5 3 0 .625 220 148 Atlanta 4 5 0 .444 166 192 Minnesota 5 4 0 .556 206 190 Seattle 5 3 0 .625 171 175
N.Y. Jets 4 4 0 .500 132 156 Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 232 242 Cleveland 5 3 0 .625 181 139 Las Vegas 4 5 0 .444 156 193 Washington 4 5 0 .444 191 245 Tampa Bay 3 5 0 .375 158 167 Green Bay 3 5 0 .375 160 159 L.A. Rams 3 6 0 .333 178 204
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After fixing
himself,
McDaniel
breaks NFL
McDanIeL from
Just 30 minutes away, he says,
“the greatest energy reset known
to man” is waiting. So with this in
mind, pro football’s most against-
the-grain figure does something
truly revolutionary. He turns off
the film and heads home.
A
sizzling day on the miami
practice field, and mcDaniel
is in sweats, bouncing from
one position group to the next. He
goes up on tiptoes to rest a hand
on a lineman’s shoulder pad. He
glides toward the wide receivers,
some of the fastest men to ever
suit up and the key to the Dol-
phins’ warp-speed attack.
The coach is 40 and slender,
5-foot-9 in a land of giants. Else-
where in the multiverse, his Ivy
League education, aviator shades
and off-white Air force 1s would
make him the swaggy but unusu-
al fellow in your office’s internal
audit division. He eats like hell,
too, an affront to the NfL’s veer
toward monitored micro-diets.
He claims to have avoided vegeta-
bles until college, after an uncle
“traumatized” him years earlier
with a plate of green beans. “I
dry-heave to this day,” he says.
But here’s the weird part: At
work, he doesn’t yell or berate or
shame, tools as central to the
coaching arsenal as the whistle.
He allows players to control the
music, assistants to establish
their own work schedules, every-
one to ask the NfL’s most taboo
question: Why? from the crusti-
est veteran to the greenest rookie,
mcDaniel isn’t “Coach.” He’s
mike.
“It’s amazing what can hap-
pen,” he says, “if you just let go of
doing anything out of insecurity.”
If the past century has proved
anything, it’s that success in the
NfL relies on a few unarguable
principles. The first is that sleep
is for losers. Kansas City’s Andy
reid worships at the altar of the
22-hour workday, and the staff of
mike Shanahan used to go
through 20 pots of coffee a day.
Those guys won two Super Bowls
each.
The second is that family is
critical. Nothing matters more, so
long as a coach’s wife is willing to
raise the kids, manage the house-
hold, clear the decks while her
husband does the “important”
stuff. When Joe Gibbs coached
Washington, his wife, Pat, record-
ed fake dinnertime conversation
so Joe could catch up on what
their two sons were doing. He
won three Super Bowls.
The third and most important:
Players aren’t people. They damn
sure aren’t peers. In America’s
most cutthroat sport, a $20 bil-
lion-a-year industry in which ev-
eryone is fighting for their profes-
sional lives, thinking of anyone in
terms beyond that of a fungible
asset is a trap. New England’s Bill
Belichick has proved this one six
times over.
one of Belichick’s many disci-
ples, Brian flores, coached the
Dolphins before mcDaniel. He
did things the old way. The prov-
en way. When quarterback Tua
Tagovailoa struggled as a rookie,
flores lit him up. If Tagovailoa
looked rattled during a game,
flores benched him. Then started
him the next week. Then benched
him again.
But flores got fired, the Dol-
phins hired mcDaniel, and in
came a philosophy that’s unusual
in this business — albeit less and
less in the rest of society. miami’s
rise comes amid a cultural reex-
amination of leadership, people
management and parenting, a
growing belief that successful,
confident people should be nei-
ther brutalized nor microman-
aged. That it’s possible to be good
at your job and be happy.
mcDaniel is the only child of a
single mother in Colorado. He
grew up being reminded that he
was so smart, so driven, so special
that he could do anything. His
grades earned him a Game Boy
when he was a kid, a ford mus-
tang when he turned 16, and his
mom never withheld (or threat-
ened to withhold) her affection if
he fell short. When he someday
had his own children, he wanted
to raise them the same way.
“I had this whole theory,”
mcDaniel says, “that a kid has a
chance in this world if they feel
like they’re the most important
thing in the world to someone.”
So when he got the Dolphins
job, he didn’t turn over a table or
punch through a whiteboard to
assert his dominance. He strove
for emotional connection. He
showed players vulnerability and
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Mike McDaniel has brought a new dynamic to the Dolphins, avoiding yelling at or berating players and allowing assistants to
establish their own work schedules. “It’s amazing what can happen if you just let go of doing anything out of insecurity,” he says.
shared his own failures, not snap- few were listeners.
shots of his brilliance. He wanted This was a generation taught
co-workers to see his devotion to to value obedience, toughness
work, not the appearance of and respect. Emotion was weak-
work. ness; if insecurity and doubt
“I know in the course of my couldn’t be overcome, they were
career I’ve been worried about to be ignored. The boss was the
people seeing me at my desk,” he boss, and, yeah, he pushed you.
says. “And at some point, you’re Paul “Bear” Bryant, who won six
like: Why?” national championships, kicked a
This represents a full-on con- player after he collapsed with
frontation of the steel-sharpens- heatstroke. Vince Lombardi
steel handbook that supposedly screamed at his quarterback and
creates leaders, raises high- forced his tight end to play on a
achieving children and wins broken foot.
Super Bowls. It’s the handbook This wasn’t bullying or abuse.
Tagovailoa grew up on. If he had a It was tough love. The price of
bad game or bad grade, his father greatness. And anyone who
didn’t exactly spare the rod. A didn’t understand that was either
fear of failure may, in fact, have disillusioned or soft.
pushed him into the starting When mcDaniel was in fifth
lineup at Alabama, onto the na- grade, a friend lived in a big
tional championship dais, into house with otherworldly com-
the NfL. forts: lights that turned on with a
But last year, when he suffered button, for instance, not a tradi-
a gruesome concussion and tional switch. Donna mcDaniel
crumbled to the turf, it wasn’t worked for a beef distributor in
flores or Nick Saban or his dad Colorado, making ends meet
Tagovailoa called out for. medical without such frills. Her son was
and team personnel had no doubt confused by what he saw at the
whom he wanted because he kept friend’s; the boy was terrified of
muttering the same thing. disappointing his dad, mcDaniel
“Where’s mike?” he said. says, and the “whole house was
miserable.”
M
cDaniel grew up not just “People don’t even have a
watching his friends’ chance to be themselves if some-
dads but studying them. one doesn’t unconditionally love
He did the same with his coaches. them,” he says. “They’re inherent-
Some were frothing drill ser- ly trying to be something else.”
geants. many were impatient. A Without his father, that’s what
“I know in the course of my career I’ve been worried about people
seeing me at my desk. And at some point, you’re like: Why?”
Mike McDaniel, on his devotion to work rather than the appearance of work
McDaniel, left, and current Packers coach Matt LaFleur worked together for several teams.
mcDaniel did. maybe, if he were
different, his dad would come
home. He made straight A’s and
became a Denver Broncos ball-
boy, where he met Coach mike
Shanahan. He fell in love with
football and observed how Shan-
ahan and offensive coordinator
Gary Kubiak interacted with
their sons. Kubiak’s three boys
ran around on the field, playfully
competing for who could be fast-
est to get the ball back to the
huddle. Shanahan’s son, Kyle,
was always at his old man’s side.
They seemed like best friends.
mcDaniel wanted that, so, just
like Kyle, he played wide receiver
for his high school team. At the
Broncos’ facility, he glued himself
to Kubiak, almost a fourth son.
The kid could remember every-
thing, a walking computer, and it
showed when he got into Yale. He
studied history and walked on to
the football team as a wideout.
When he was done, mike Shan-
ahan offered him an internship
with the Broncos, where mcDan-
iel tinkered with data and tech-
nology as new ways to identify
patterns and holes in coverages.
When the Houston Texans hired
Kubiak as coach in 2006, he filled
his staff with young and deter-
mined iconoclasts: robert Saleh,
matt Lafleur, Kyle Shanahan.
mcDaniel, then 23, wasn’t so
much a coach as Kubiak’s person-
al assistant.
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“Presentations for players, dai-
ly routines, schedules — the guy
you work hand-in-hand with,”
Kubiak says.
It was grueling, sometimes
keeping mcDaniel at work until
5 a.m. The boss believed in him,
but it wasn’t Kubiak’s approval
the young man craved. So
mcDaniel transformed himself,
this time into someone who
didn’t need a father.
Booze helped. Sometimes he
would show up to work still
wobbly from the night before.
other times he overslept.
“Where in the hell is mike?”
Kubiak says he boomed more
than once. Lafleur or Kyle Shana-
han would be dispatched to
mcDaniel’s apartment to pound
on the door.
After one of those times, Kubi-
ak had to fire him.
“I hate having to do this,” he
says he told mcDaniel. “But
sometimes things like this are the
best things that can happen to
you.”
O
ne night in 2010, Katie
Hemstalk was at a night-
club in Sacramento when
she met a scrawny guy who didn’t
believe in secrets. A few nights
later, she was wearing his Yale
football ring. Her grandfather
joked that the guy must have a
drawer full of them.
Katie didn’t care.
She had just moved back to
small-town Northern California
from San Diego. Her parents were
there. So were her grandparents,
just one pasture down. There was
something different about
mcDaniel, whom she had run
into while celebrating a friend’s
birthday. Something new.
mcDaniel told her that he
wasn’t here because coaching in
the United football League was
his dream. He had gotten fired
from his last job for getting drunk
too often. Now he was in transfor-
mation mode, banished to the pro
football hinterlands, trying to fix
himself.
“from a young age,” mcDaniel
says, “I was set on righting my
own life’s wrongs.”
Almost immediately, Katie
learned that among mcDaniel’s
many ambitions was to be a dad.
A good dad. It’s something he
never had, having met his father
only a few times, and it made him
curious about what had scared
the man off and why other fathers
seemed more committed than
others.
This was a little before Thanks-
giving in 2010. Katie absorbed
mcDaniel’s story, felt the resolve
in his voice, told herself the Yale
ring was unique and that he was
serious when he vowed to marry
her. A month after they met, Katie
invited mcDaniel to meet her
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parents, who themselves had
married just two weeks after
meeting. A few weeks after that,
Katie flew to Denver to meet
mike’s mom, Donna.
“This is real,” Katie remembers
thinking.
If it wasn’t, it was about to be. A
few weeks later, Kyle Shanahan,
mcDaniel’s old work buddy from
Houston, called. His dad was set
to be the coach in Washington,
and Kyle would be his offensive
coordinator. A few old Houston
guys would fill out the staff. There
was a job for mcDaniel if he
wanted one. He did.
Katie wanted to come with
him.
“Are you sure?” he asked. “You
need to know what you’re going
into.”
The life of a football coach isn’t
easy; neither is that of an NfL
spouse: long hours, questionable
priorities, chronic stress that can
be corrosive to marriages and
good health. Coaches’ wives have
a grim name for their club: “foot-
ball widows.”
But there was something be-
witching about mcDaniel’s posi-
tivity. Katie had never left Califor-
nia. She had gone to school to be
an aesthetician and would have
been happy to live simply, on the
pasture or in a salon. She had just
gotten swept up by a force of
nature, and three months after
meeting mcDaniel, Katie was
ready to follow him anywhere.
E
veryone said to make time for
a date night, the NfL wives’
secret to connection. So Ka-
tie made a reservation at a nice
restaurant on one of the first
fridays of the 2011 season.
mcDaniel was asleep at the table
before the entrees came.
“This sucks,” Katie remembers
thinking. “mainly for him.”
NfL coaches, like lots of ambi-
tious people, are notorious self-
deniers: of rest, sustenance, hob-
bies. These aren’t necessities,
they claim. They’re luxuries.
Signs of a lack of commitment
and grit.
mcDaniel barely slept unless it
was on the team plane. He
bragged about going four days
without a shower. It made no
sense to Katie.
She turned their sofa into
“Couch fort,” layering it with
blankets and pillows. Next to it
was a selection of mcDaniel’s
favorite snacks: chips, pizza, one
time a hunk of chocolate cake.
After work, whenever work end-
ed, he could walk in and crash.
When he awoke, something odd
happened: He could . . . function.
When he spoke, his words made
sense. He noticed important
things he had forgotten hours
earlier, and on friday evenings,
mcDaniel and Katie could watch
“Dateline” or Netflix without him
dozing off.
“He’s like a machine,” she says.
“He gets an update, a reboot.”
And once running smoothly,
Katie decided, it could operate
that way longer without addition-
al strain. During the season, she
paid bills and oversaw the home.
If there was a problem or a
financial issue, Katie handled it.
If she felt worry or loneliness or
anxiety, she internalized it. She
wanted mcDaniel to succeed, to
focus entirely on football, so she
kept everything quiet and kept
the runways clear and the planes
landing.
It was astonishing how well
the system ran. At work, mcDan-
iel saw holes in coverages that
few other coaches noticed. By
then, Washington offensive coor-
dinator Kyle Shanahan was beta-
testing a modernized version of
his dad’s famous offense, a never-
before-seen combination of pow-
er, speed and surprise.
mcDaniel’s role in this elabo-
rate production was modest: as-
sembling video montages to dem-
onstrate what Shanahan and his
lieutenants were imagining.
mcDaniel took it seriously,
though, not just stuffing plays
into a video but using it as a form
of explanatory storytelling. Then
at practice, mcDaniel would tell
the quarterback to ignore his
instincts. Don’t throw to a receiv-
er. Throw to a space. Play design
and physics would take care of
the rest.
“After practice, he’d tell you,
‘See, I told you,’ ” says robert
Griffin III, Washington’s quarter-
back in 2012. “You immediately
feel like, ‘Holy cow, this guy
knows everything.’ ”
It was around this time that
the American workplace began
changing. Talented millennials
tuned out dictatorial bosses who
expected blind fealty to their
preferences and impulses. Young-
er workers pushed back on being
productive beyond the point of
burnout. These habits even
reached NfL offices in 2013, after
mcDaniel’s mentor, Kubiak, col-
lapsed on the Texans’ sideline
during a game and Denver Coach
John fox was hospitalized with a
heart problem.
“We all kind of realized it
around the same time,” mcDaniel
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says. “ ‘Whoa, we need to chill
out.’ ”
Some coaches established
boundaries between their work
and home lives. Mcdaniel set
aside distractions and electron-
ics, devoted himself to being “su-
per present” and becoming “noto-
riously impossible to get a hold
of.”
“i can’t talk to you,” he says,
“and be on my phone at the same
time.”
Younger workers also shoved
aside the old one-size-fits-all
management structure in favor of
a need to understand the individ-
ual. Mcdaniel saw this in the
coaches’ office, too: He, for exam-
ple, could see coverages so clearly
in his mind. But different aspects
of the job come easier to others,
he realizes, such as the way Sean
McVay, then Washington’s wun-
derkind tight ends coach, just
seemed more mature.
“He’s got this manhood thing
figured out,” Mcdaniel recalls
thinking, and he had a hunch
why: McVay was close with his
father. “So many life obstacles
that were a result of having zero
direction as a man.”
again in transformation mode,
he tried to simulate this psycho-
social concept. Many of his play-
ers were in their first jobs, and
some felt isolated and vulnerable
while separated from their fami-
lies for the first time. Mcdaniel
could relate, so why not share this
piece of himself ?
“We’re subconscious geniuses,”
he says. “You feel when people
give a s---. You feel when people
are working; you feel when you’re
a priority.”
griffin was his first big test
case. in 2013, griffin was simulta-
neously one of the most famous
and isolated people in sports.
teammates stayed away. Coaches,
even the younger ones, kept their
distance. Mcdaniel, though,
probed griffin’s well-being, his
motivations, his hopes on and off
the field. He told griffin about his
drinking, about Katie, about the
absence he felt in never knowing
his dad.
He and griffin went to dinner
sometimes and saw comedian
Mike epps together. they talked
long and deep about relation-
ships and humanity. they met
and got to know each other’s
significant other.
“that’s dangerous for coaches,”
griffin says. “it was a unique
approach, and i didn’t under-
stand it in the moment. Mike
knows how to get guys motivated.
they look at him like, ‘i don’t
want to let this guy down.’
“Because you don’t have to be
perfect. You just have to be hu-
man.”
K
atie’s anxiety wasn’t so bad
when Mcdaniel was home.
He’s a calming presence,
she says, and the summer months
were blissful getaways from the
nFL grind. Because Kyle Shana-
han kept hiring some of the same
guys and because nepotism and
troublesome “coaching trees” fa-
mously power the football leader-
ship structure, the couple had a
built-in friend group in Washing-
ton, then Cleveland, then atlanta.
“You didn’t really ever feel
alone,” says Mike LaFleur, Matt’s
brother, who joined the crew in
2014 as an offensive assistant for
the Browns. “Just kid-less cou-
ples, all having a good time.”
then training camp started
and the husbands disappeared.
Katie tried to ease her loneliness
and calm her thoughts. She called
her mother in California. She
went to pilates with Mandy Shan-
ahan, Kyle’s wife, then to happy
hour. any relief was temporary.
She and Mcdaniel had set a
wedding date for June 2014. But
after Washington fired Mike
Shanahan’s coaching staff, she
worried they couldn’t afford a
wedding. Where would they live?
Without a return address, was it a
mistake to send out invitations?
Kyle and Mandy Shanahan had
three children. Matt LaFleur had
a son, too. Katie hadn’t grown up
playing with dolls or associating
her identity with possible moth-
erhood. She had been “a-oK,” she
says, “not having a kid.” But after
marrying Mcdaniel, the pressure
accumulated. Her mother’s
friends asked when the couple
would start a family. they were
already in their early 30s. did
they not want kids?
in fact, she had changed her
mind. She now yearned to be a
mom and build a family. “i want-
ed a little Mike,” Katie says. But
seasons and breaks kept ending
without a pregnancy.
in atlanta, when she and
Mcdaniel went out, small talk
invariably led to family plans.
Wasn’t it time to grow up, put
down roots, settle down?
Katie’s brother was already a
father, then his wife delivered
their second child, then their
third. What were the Mcdaniels
waiting on?
“Like, everybody” was asking,
Katie says. “it’s the most isolating
feeling.”
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Mike McDaniel coached with Kyle Shanahan, lower right, with several teams, including the staff of the Super Bowl-bound Falcons
in 2016, lower left, and as offensive coordinator with the 49ers in 2021, top, before his Dolphins faced San Francisco in 2022.
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y 2016, with the crew now
coaching the Falcons, Kyle
Shanahan was perfecting
his offense: an outside zone rush-
ing scheme that allows ballcarri-
ers to read and hit openings
mid-play. Football is ultimately a
contest about who can exploit the
field’s geometry. Shanahan and
Co.’s concepts kept defenses off
balance and challenged them to
patrol impossibly large spaces.
Mcdaniel, meanwhile, estab-
lished a gift for identifying mis-
matches and stumping for the
little guy. one was Mohamed
Sanu Sr., a wide receiver Cincin-
nati had drafted but discarded,
eroding Sanu’s confidence. this
wasn’t a red flag, Mcdaniel be-
lieved. it was an opportunity.
“that feeling where you get
picked first in Little League,”
Sanu says. “the best feeling, that
somebody believes in you that
much. Why not believe in yourself
as much as they believe in you?”
the Falcons went 11-5 in 2016
and made it to the Super Bowl.
San Francisco announced im-
mediately after the Super Bowl
that it had hired Shanahan to be
its coach, so now the friends were
heading west: Mcdaniel, Saleh,
Mike LaFleur. Saleh and his wife
had their fifth child in 2017, and
Mike and Lauren LaFleur wel-
comed a second baby boy.
“You’re a dad,” Mcdaniel said
to Mike LaFleur, his eyes wide
with fascination. “You made a
human being. What are you even
going to do tonight?”
“Well, Mike, it’s a baby,”
LaFleur told him, “so not much.”
Mcdaniel went home to his
wife. He fell into Couch Fort while
Katie worked on a puzzle, then he
woke up and they watched tV
together, their weekend routine.
“this is my life,” Katie says.
“this f---ing sucks.”
But with football going so well,
she didn’t tell him that. Katie
loved him and didn’t want him to
feel guilty about work. Besides,
Mcdaniel, now in his mid-30s,
was climbing the organizational
chart and coordinating San Fran-
cisco’s running game. Katie sup-
pressed thoughts that she had
done what nobody wants to do:
let Mike Mcdaniel down.
She “wanted to give him a
family,” she says, but the years
passed and nothing changed. if
someone asked about when they
would have children or recom-
mended in vitro fertilization,
with hormone treatments she
knew weren’t for her, she would
reply with sarcasm. She was tak-
ing 50 doses a month of canna-
bidiol, or CBd, for menstrual
pain, went to weekly acupuncture
appointments and took herbs to
soothe her churning mind.
“praying, as hard as it is, for a
miscarriage,” she says. “Just give
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me a positive [test]. Just give me a father my whole life. and she
hope here.” knew that,” Mcdaniel says. “the
When Mcdaniel came home, burden of me having a child,
she insisted she was fine. a blood that’s not for her to bear. But
test in atlanta had revealed low literally, try telling her that.”
levels of a hormone that suggest- He took a fertility test, almost
ed poor ovarian reserve. She said wishing for a poor result so he
nothing to Mcdaniel about the could adjust his lifestyle or be the
persistent and mysterious pain in reason they were struggling to
her abdomen, severe menstrual conceive. He considered lying, no
cramps, intensifying fears that matter the results, and telling
sometimes kept her awake. Katie the problem was his. But,
“it’ll happen,” Mcdaniel says no, nFL wives take care of the
he assured her. of course it will, medical stuff, so she called the
Katie replied. doctor’s office to learn that
When he went to work, Katie Mcdaniel was plenty fertile.
scream-cried into a pillow. She “ ‘oh, well, f---, it is me,’ ” she
confided in no one. after co- says. “it’s not fair. ‘You can leave
workers in atlanta again con- me and, like: ‘Go! Be with some-
fronted Mcdaniel about his body else and have a family.’ ”
drinking, he quit entirely. But not She didn’t tell him that, either.
Katie. When she went out with Mcdaniel, feeling this widening
friends, she pretended to be care- gulf, insisted this was their jour-
free. She ordered another ney, not just hers.
Casamigos and soda, lots of lime, “What do you do,” he says,
then another and another until “when you literally can’t make
she blacked out. something better?”
“no stop switch; i’m going His voice trembles.
full-bore,” she says. “You shut “You can’t,” he says.
your brain off, just don’t think all he could do was transform.
about it, beep-boop.” Mcdaniel accepted that children
Mcdaniel, who keeps no se- wouldn’t be part of their story. He
crets, sensed his wife’s torment says he did, anyway.
but couldn’t understand why she “i had to,” he says. “i got so
kept everything to herself. Why invested in her emotional journey
wouldn’t she talk to him? no that i just . . . ”
matter how Katie masked her He pauses.
stress, he says it was always lin- “i stopped thinking about be-
gering. ing a dad,” Mcdaniel continues.
“i had been gearing up to be a “it’s a loss. a loss of identity has to
“Basically I was able to be myself.
He told me that being myself is enough.”
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be similar to the loss of a loved
one. You don’t fix it. You scar. and
go about your life.”
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nce they moved on, they
could focus on recalibrat-
ing. they wanted to see
europe together. Katie took a
girls’ trip to San diego with her
best friends, and when the guys
disappeared before the draft in
2019, Mandy Shanahan took the
wives to Cabo San Lucas, where
her iconic father-in-law has a
home.
“i wasn’t really worrying about
the things i had been,” Katie says.
“Mike is with me; he has my
back.”
that’s all that mattered. She
took up intermittent fasting, got
into barre, slowed and eventually
stopped her drinking. the pain in
her side was still there, but it had
always been. Weekly acupuncture
all but eliminated her anxiety.
Mcdaniel believed he had fixed
the problem, or at least patched
it, which allowed him a renewed
focus on work.
“it’s very easy to change
course,” he says. “i’ve done it
multiple times. it’s just some-
thing that you do. that wasn’t my
story. and that doesn’t mean i
can’t affect people. that doesn’t
mean i can’t do things that fa-
thers do.”
He bonded with players who
felt as broken as he did, in partic-
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ular Raheem Mostert and deebo
Samuel, speedy multitools with
backgrounds scarred by trauma.
Mostert has no relationship with
his biological parents, and his
stepfather has been in prison
since 2014, when he was convict-
ed of shooting Mostert’s half
brother four times. Samuel’s fa-
ther had helped raise him, but his
biological mother had fallen into
the streets. Mcdaniel shared his
own story, including the uncer-
tainty simmering at home.
“He’s got nothing to hide,”
Mike LaFleur says. “everyone
knew how bad they wanted a
baby. Mike is pretty comfortable
being uncomfortable, you know?”
San Francisco started the 2019
season 8-0, with Mostert and
Samuel combining for 15 touch-
downs. even with the team surg-
ing to a 13-3 finish, Shanahan
reserved one night for family
time, and Mcdaniel noticed how
this seemed to re-energize col-
leagues. if senior-level coaches
finished their tasks, they were
free to go home.
Mcdaniel had no children,
though, and Katie was in “a really
good place,” she would say. So
Mcdaniel kept working. often
the last thing colleagues would
see as they left work was Mcdan-
iel fine-tuning the running game,
his face illuminated by a comput-
er screen.
one morning Mandy Shana-
han picked up Katie for a work-
out. the pain in her side was
unbearable, and Katie threw up
in the car. She did so again after
Mandy drove her back home be-
fore insisting she go to the hospi-
tal. She underwent a blood test
that usually screens for ovarian
cancer, and a specialist suggested
exploratory surgery.
there were no tumors, but the
surgeon found severe endometri-
osis, a common but difficult-to-
diagnose gynecological disease
that leads to scar tissue and
near-constant pain. the disorder
is rare, leads to significant in-
flammation, almost certainly had
affected Katie’s fertility. the sur-
geon used a laser to remove the
damaged tissue, and Mcdaniel
broke down film next to her
hospital bed and slept in a chair.
on the last Saturday of January
2020, with the 49ers preparing
for the Super Bowl, Mcdaniel was
in his office, ranking run plays on
his computer. Katie was at home,
and with her period seven days
late, she took a pregnancy test.
then a second one.
She called Mcdaniel, but his
phone was . . . somewhere. She
kept trying, Facetiming coaches
and co-workers, until finally
someone answered. a colleague
walked through Mcdaniel’s door.
He saw Katie’s face on the col-
league’s phone, tears streaming.
She held the two testing sticks
near the camera.
“positive!” she said.
T
he pregnancy wasn’t easy,
but with the coronavirus
pandemic shuttering all
nFL facilities, Mcdaniel was able
to be home for much of it. then,
in october 2020, Mcdaniel blew
off the first team meeting of his
career because here at last came
ayla June Mcdaniel, born with
her eyes open.
Her daddy just stared into
them.
“i’ve been an ambitious person
my whole life,” he says. “i’ve been
obsessed with trying to achieve
things, and now i feel like i’m
closer to proper perspective be-
cause i live, work, shape myself,
model myself after her.
“i immediately have a purpose.
a real purpose. not a hamster-
wheel purpose or a self-indulgent
purpose. god, it is — it is so —
gratifying to live life with some-
thing else driving you.”
the 49ers’ season didn’t end
because Mcdaniel missed a few
meetings. nor did it in 2021,
when Mcdaniel noticed that his
work actually improved when he
spent time at home. He ignored
his phone, as he did any tempta-
tion to watch film or sketch out
plays while holding ayla. He
found that this emotional lift
gave his intellect a break, allow-
ing the productive part of his
mind to recharge.
“i need that part to be the man
that i want to be,” he says. “and i
need her, and i need my wife, and
i need my family. it makes me feel
bulletproof in my job.”
When Miami hired Mcdaniel
in 2022, the new coach called his
new quarterback from the jet.
over the sound of a squeaking
toddler, the coach told tagovailoa
that he was why Mcdaniel had
gotten into coaching. He had
greatness within him. almost im-
mediately, Mcdaniel set out to
prove it — mostly to the player
himself.
He would call tagovailoa to
remind him that he’s special. He
even compiled a 700-play tape of
tagovailoa’s most impressive mo-
ments to bolster that message. in
doing so, Mcdaniel discovered a
trend: Rather than hesitate until
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a receiver beat a defender,
Tagovailoa could sense an open-
ing before it happened. His re-
lease came quicker even than
most star quarterbacks. He
wasn’t naturally afraid of mis-
takes. This fear had been learned.
The quarterback says now that
he and mcDaniel bonded over
having been “raised differently.”
Tagovailoa is close with his father,
galu, but his left-handed dad had
forced his naturally right-handed
eldest son to throw with his left
arm. if Tua threw an interception
or had a bad game, he could
expect to come home to his father
wielding a belt.
“He can go 15 for 15 with four
touchdowns,” galu Tagovailoa
told espN in 2018. “But when he
throws a pick, it’s the worst game.
it’s the worst game.”
Tagovailoa’s first NfL coach
tended to agree. under flores,
miami ran a no-frills power rush-
ing scheme designed to minimize
risk. Tagovailoa rarely threw
downfield. if he did, or if he
missed a read or threw a pick or if
he looked rattled after getting
sacked six times against Denver,
flores benched him. The pressure
built and threatened to cave in on
the young man.
reports surfaced that flores
demeaned Tagovailoa and openly
lobbied for his replacement,
claims the coach has denied. still,
the young man wilted under the
psychological strain.
“Do i suck?” he has said he
asked himself while looking in
the mirror.
one night mcDaniel was work-
ing late, something he still does
occasionally, and when he went
home, he was too excited to sleep.
He came back to the office and
called a staff meeting for 8 a.m.
The front office was considering
free agent blockers to give
Tagovailoa more time in the pock-
et. mcDaniel argued he didn’t
need them. The offense instead
needed speed — playmakers who
could beat defenses and get open.
The NfL game hadn’t been too
fast for him. if anything, flores
and his staff had slowed the game
down too much for Tagovailoa.
The Dolphins traded for wide
receiver Tyreek Hill, lining him up
across from speedster Jaylen Wad-
dle. They signed mcDaniel’s old
friend raheem mostert and draft-
ed De’von achane. miami recent-
ly traded for Chase Claypool, a big
and fast wide receiver. all were
capable of blazing speed, but each
needed a quarterback who could
anticipate the space they could
create. it took time, but Tagovailoa
started to believe.
“Basically i was able to be
myself,” he says. “He told me that
being myself is enough.”
Last fall, as Tagovailoa recov-
ered from multiple concussions
that roiled the league, he spent
hours each day in mcDaniel’s
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Jason patriots’ descent
La Canfora where fan and
media fiction have
intertwined, with
fever dreams emerging about
whether (and how) Bill Belichick’s
ultimate demise might play out
this weekend.
some would have you believe
that the vince Lombardi of the
salary cap era might find himself
munching on a currywurst
sunday afternoon following yet
another troubling defeat, still
adorned in a tattered hoodie
while contemplating how
gardner minshew ii and the Colts
got the best of him in frankfurt, as
owner robert Kraft saunters into
the locker room to inform him he
will need to arrange his own
transportation back to
massachusetts. it’s quite a visual
bouquet, for sure, but i would
reckon the biggest postseason
winner in NfL history will make
it through Week 10 no matter
what this game in germany has to
offer. even if it were to drop his
record to 2-8.
That’s not to suggest that there
isn’t a smorgasbord of rumors,
rumblings and opinions swirling
about where Kraft will turn when
— not if — he inevitably moves on
from Belichick in 2024. it would
take a remarkable turn of events
for the patriots not to be among
the half-dozen or so teams looking
for a new coach next season. and,
much more immediately, Kraft
finally finds himself, after decades
of mulling parade routes by
Thanksgiving, having to join hoi
polloi of owners who endure week
after week of pathetic displays
while soliciting advice from
trusted advisers about who
should manage his football
operations throughout the year as
well as on game day.
There’s not much to belabor at
Mike McDaniel, shown at lower left with wife Katie on the 49ers’ sideline, became the Dolphins’ coach in February 2022.
Meanwhile, he found perspective by being a dad to 3-year-old Ayla June. “I immediately have a purpose. A real purpose,” he says.
office. By then coach and quarter-
back had become close, and after
Tagovailoa was carted off the field
in Cincinnati last season, mcDan-
iel told reporters that, if not for
his obligations to the rest of the
team, he would have left paycor
stadium to be with Tagovailoa at
a nearby hospital.
a joint investigation by the
NfL and NfL players association
found that the Dolphins had cor-
rectly followed existing concus-
sion protocol, and it had been
mcDaniel who, last December,
spotted unusual behaviors in his
quarterback while reviewing vid-
this point as things have only
gotten worse since we last took
the pulse of the league about the
patriots. They have few
discernible strengths, they no
longer have any semblance of a
home-field advantage, they have
one of the weaker rosters in the
NfL, and they have yet to win a
game outside the afC east after
stumbling in foxborough against
the Commanders on sunday. New
england is 27-33 since the start of
2020 — its first without Tom
Brady as quarterback — giving the
franchise one fewer win in that
span than the raiders, who just
fired Belichick protégé Josh
mcDaniels, and one more victory
than the Commanders, who
multiple general managers and
personnel executives believe will
be moving on from ron rivera
barring quite a second half.
perhaps most ominously, New
england and Washington rank
21st and 22nd in victories since
the start of 2020; every franchise
below them on that list already
has made a coaching change since
2021, and some have made
multiple.
“it’s over in New england,” said
one NfL general manager who has
discussed the patriots situation
with many power brokers in the
league. (He spoke on the condition
of anonymity because he is not
permitted to publicly discuss the
inner workings of other NfL
teams.) “Kraft is already starting to
sniff around.” another gm said:
“Belichick knows what’s up. He’s
got something up his sleeve. He’ll
know where he’s going before he’s
gone. Trust me on that.”
of all that i have heard this past
week, the concept that rings most
correct — and the endgame i
believe would most appease Kraft
— is a reconnection with
accomplished men who lived the
patriot Way at its peak. a coach
and general manager who have
the chops to win at least relatively
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eo. He encouraged Tagovailoa to
see a doctor, who then placed him
in the concussion protocol. The
investigation led to more specific
symptoms, including a visible
loss of balance, being added to
the guidelines’ “no-go” checklist.
The quarterback said last offsea-
son that he consulted with neu-
rologists and his family before
deciding to continue his career.
“oh, he comes back,” galu
Tagovailoa told a reporter during
a brief interview last January at
the polynesian Bowl.
as Tua recovered, he and
mcDaniel talked ball, of course.
quickly, who have strong résumés
and ample experience but who
also are young enough to provide
stability and productivity well
into the days when Kraft’s son,
Jonathan, is running everything.
specifically, that would be
former patriots linebacker mike
vrabel as his coach and longtime
patriots personnel executive Nick
Caserio as his gm, czar of football
operations or some such title.
That could be the master plan for
life after Belichick, and it might
not be all that far-fetched, even
considering vrabel is employed as
the Titans’ coach and Caserio has
finally turned around the Texans
after a tumultuous stint as their
general manager.
Both general managers, who
know Caserio fairly well and have
at least a decent feel for what life
in Houston is like for him,
maintain all is not perfect despite
the club’s ascent in the standings;
that he’s an odd mix for that part
of the country; and that it’s quite
different working for Cal mcNair,
who is, shall we say, a far less
steady owner than Kraft. and they
believe Kraft could get creative in
terms of a potential job title and
description to provide Caserio a
promotion above the standard
gm position, making it more
difficult for the Texans to block
their advances. (it’s worth noting
these franchises already have
quite a history after a tug-of-war
over team chaplain-turned-team
executive Jack easterby back in
the day.)
as for vrabel, well, there was
the oddly timed firing of
Tennessee general manager Jon
robinson, another former
Belichick guy, in the middle of last
season, and the coach is still in the
feeling-out process with new
general manager ran Carthon.
This team was considered among
the afC’s elite not that long ago,
and now it’s transitioning, with
rookie quarterback Will Levis
But Tagovailoa couldn’t help no-
ticing the calendar with monthly
postcards picturing a little girl,
the photo of a small family posing
outside the Dolphins’ jet, wooden
frames decorated with ladybugs
and acorns.
He learned all about ayla, and
because mcDaniel keeps no se-
crets, her mom and dad’s journey
to parenthood.
“a lot of the conversations
turned to that,” Tagovailoa says.
Tagovailoa asked questions,
shared his deepest thoughts, re-
vealed to his coach why he was so
curious about being a dad. He
displacing ryan Tannehill as the
starter, something vrabel seemed
more hesitant in embracing than
some in the league expected.
sure, he signed a contract
extension in early 2022 — but so
did robinson, and he barely made
it through Thanksgiving that year.
There’s no comparison to be made
between the patriots and Titans
franchises. The chasm in pedigree
of ownership is, frankly, massive,
and that is the characteristic
Belichick has always told his
pupils to weigh most heavily
when considering potential
career opportunities. some in the
league are already suggesting
Kraft would pursue a trade for
vrabel if need be.
“i think those two guys could
work together there, too,” the first
gm said of Caserio and vrabel. “i
think the egos and personalities
could fit. i think Kraft could
probably pull that off.”
No matter what Kraft does, it
seems a stretch that anyone
would inherit the virtually
unfettered levels of power
Belichick amassed over his time
in New england; some separation
between coaching and football
operations is in order. surely, the
owner grasps that now.
going from Belichick to
someone totally unproven at
either position also probably
wouldn’t sit well with Kraft,
although patriots inside
linebackers coach Jerod mayo will
undoubtedly be a serious
candidate for the coaching
opening once it becomes official.
staying within the patriots
family seems a safe bet to those in
the league who have been sizing
up Kraft. pulling off a vrabel and
Caserio coupling almost certainly
would be championed by his fan
base and renew hope that not all
was lost when Brady went to
Tampa — and that life after
Belichick doesn’t have to be as
bleak.
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and his wife, annah, were expect-
ing a baby boy. They would name
him ace.
any advice to a first-time par-
ent?
“Be present,” Tagovailoa says
mcDaniel told him. “Just the joy,
the unconditional love that i’m
able to give him, that he gives me.”
O
n those nights mcDaniel’s
hard drive overheats, after
he shuts off the projector
and walks past the Yale helmet
and fake ferns, Katie unlocks her
phone. she shows the screen to
ayla, she says, and together they
nFL notes
Former Raider Hayden
killed in Houston crash
F ROM STAFF REPORTS
AND NEWS SERVICES
D.J. Hayden, the 2013 first-
round draft pick who overcame a
life-threatening injury to play
eight NfL seasons, was one of six
people who died early saturday in
a Houston car crash that also
claimed the lives of two former
teammates. Hayden was 33.
The accident occurred around
2 a.m. when a car sped through a
red light while an suv carrying
Hayden had the right of way
through a green light, according
to the Houston police Depart-
ment. Drivers of both vehicles
lost control and the suv flipped,
according to Houston television
station KTrK.
four people were pronounced
dead at the scene. four others
were taken to a hospital, where
two more were pronounced dead.
police said one of the surviving
passengers is in critical condition
with life-threatening injuries. an-
other was alert and talked to
investigators, police said.
Hayden was an all-conference
cornerback at the university of
Houston in 2012 when he was
injured during a collision with a
teammate at practice. He com-
plained of chest pains and breath-
ing difficulty before being diag-
nosed with a tear of the inferior
vena cava, the primary vein that
carries blood from the lower half
of the body to the heart, and
underwent lifesaving surgery.
five months after the injury,
Hayden was drafted 12th overall
by the oakland raiders. He went
on to play eight seasons with the
raiders, Detroit Lions and Jack-
sonville Jaguars.
Hayden spent several months
on Washington’s practice squad
. sunday, november 12 , 2023
follow the dot as it moves from
Dolphins headquarters to fort
Lauderdale, where the family
lives.
Katie is on hype duty, and she
builds anticipation by singing
their “Daddy” song.
It’s time to play
We’ve been waiting on him
All day-ay-ay
Driving is the one time mcDan-
iel puts his mind into quiet mode.
it’s the middle of the week, and
the Dolphins have a game to
prepare for. miami’s offense isn’t
remarkably different from shan-
ahan’s, though mcDaniel’s ver-
sion uses more speed, more
presnap motion, more attacks on
the boundary. His plays aren’t
complicated. They’re just pre-
sented in new ways, and they take
advantage of something mcDan-
iel discovered about himself long
ago: that one person cannot be in
two places at once.
By the time ayla was born,
mcDaniel had decided how to
right his life’s biggest wrong. The
one that had shaped him, threat-
ened to destroy him, tortured him.
it was as simple as coming home.
parenthood, he learned, isn’t hard.
sometimes a dad is good just
because he cares. Not because he’s
perfect but because he’s human.
“i just do my best, and i think
that’s good enough,” he says. “To
me, it was pretty bottom-line: if i
was going to be a dad, that child
would know how important they
are to me. so i just try. i’m going
to be happy about certain things i
do as a dad. i’m going to be mad
about certain things: ‘maybe i
should’ve handled that different-
ly.’
“The key to the whole thing
isn’t that you retroactively regret-
ted it. You were mindful and
working at it and humble enough
to not be comfortable or compla-
cent, and that is an absolute
home run for kids. it’s all it is: just
trying.”
some nights, ayla’s dad reads
to her or watches a movie with
her. usually they dance or sing.
They play on the floor. Then he
tucks her into bed.
When the dot reaches fort
Lauderdale, Katie says, she and
ayla begin cheering it on: “Come
on, come on, come on!” When it
gets to their neighborhood, ayla
and her mom move into the foyer.
Katie says her 3-year-old’s hands
feel like mcDaniel’s. she’s restless
like him, a comet of energy like
him, a hater, just like him, of any
food fibrous and green.
They wait, watching through
the floor-to-ceiling windows.
When she sees the headlights
veer toward the neighbor’s house
and illuminate the palm trees, the
girl starts jumping. Then the
vehicle parks, and it’s not “Coach”
or “mike” who steps out. it’s
Daddy, and when Katie opens the
door, here comes little ayla June,
sprinting and smiling as she
jumps into his arms.
in 2021. He finished his profes-
sional career with 328 tackles,
4.5 sacks and four interceptions.
former Houston teammates
Zachary mcmillian and ralph
oragwu were among the six killed
in saturday’s accident. a third
teammate, Jeffery Lewis, sur-
vived.
— Glynn Hill
l SAINTS: New orleans wide
receiver michael Thomas faces
misdemeanor charges after being
arrested friday evening following
an alleged incident with a con-
struction worker, the Kenner
(La.) police Department said.
Thomas was released friday
night about three hours after his
arrest, according to the police. He
was charged with simple battery
and criminal mischief.
according to police, the worker
said that Thomas “began yelling
at him about parking in front of
his house and verbally threatened
to harm him.” Thomas became
“upset” when the worker began
recording the alleged incident,
police said, and picked up a brick
and threw it at a truck wind-
shield, “causing little if any dam-
age.” according to the worker’s
account, Thomas approached the
worker and “knocked the phone
from his hands, shoved him and
told him he did not want to be
recorded,” police said.
— Mark Maske
l BILLS: Buffalo’s injury-de-
pleted defense will be without
two more starters after safety
micah Hyde (neck/stinger) and
cornerback Christian Benford
(hamstring) were ruled out from
playing against the Denver Bron-
cos on monday night.
starting linebacker Terrel Ber-
nard is listed as questionable.
— Associated Press
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Pressure is on to generate consistent pass rush Brown

Trading Young, Sweat
leaves the Commanders
evaluating edge options
BY S AM F ORTIER
In the Washington Command-
ers’ first game without Chase
Young and montez Sweat, the pass
rush didn’t produce. The team had
one sack (negated by a penalty)
and its lowest pressure rate this
season (21.7 percent). But, to be
fair, the New England Patriots
didn’t afford the pass rush many
opportunities. They used lots of
quick-passing concepts, and quar-
terback mac Jones consistently got
the ball out of his hands fast.
This past week, no one in the
building, pass rushers or coaches,
seemed concerned about a dimin-
ished pass rush.
“Anytime a team throws as
much quick game as [the Patriots]
throw, you’re not going to get home
a lot,” defensive coordinator Jack
Del rio said. “our defense played
well.”
But in the aftermath of the seis-
mic trades of the two defensive
ends, questions loom: Who are the
future edge rushers for the Com-
manders? If this season ends with
Sam Howell as the franchise quar-
terback, then is edge rusher the
team’s top need? If so, what will the
edge market look like? And what
are realistic expectations for
whomever the team drafts or
signs?
Let’s zoom in for a second. for
the rest of this year, at least, the
edge plan seems set. There are the
backups turned starters (James
Smith-Williams and Casey Toohill)
and the rookies turned backups
(Andre Jones Jr. and KJ Henry),
and Efe obada will probably play a
sizable role. The line should have a
better chance to generate pressure
Sunday in Seattle because Sea-
hawks quarterback Geno Smith
holds the ball. Smith’s average time
to throw this year is 2.95 seconds,
tied for the sixth-slowest mark in
the NfL, though the metric also
captures Smith’s ability to extend
plays and throw on the run.
“There’s some things that you
can do to help the pass rush,” Coach
ron rivera said. “We’ll work on
those things, and hopefully it’ll
show on Sunday.”
more snaps will allow the five
edge rushers — three veterans on
expiring deals and two rookies — to
argue they should be part of the
pass rush’s future. The three vets
have proved capable of doing their
jobs and complementing the star
defensive tackles. Smith-Williams
is probably the strongest candi-
date to be retained because he’s the
youngest (26) and seems the most
trusted (23 career starts). But he
said he’s not thinking about the
future.
“I want to win, and that takes
precedence for me over my individ-
BaRRy svRlUga
Casey Toohill, left, and James Smith-Williams are backups turned starters after the Commanders dealt away their top two defensive ends.
ual success,” he said. “obviously, I
want to play well and for the team
to reward me for it. But when I’m in
the game, it never crosses my
mind.”
okay, let’s zoom back out. The
urgency to bolster the pass rush
this offseason will be inextricably
linked to Howell, who, despite his
promise, is still not a guarantee to
be anointed the franchise quarter-
back, especially if there’s a new
coaching staff and front office in
2024. one way to look at the trades
is as a hedge: If Howell is truly the
answer, great; if he’s not, the picks
acquired for Young and Sweat
could help Washington move up in
the draft and select another quar-
terback.
finding a quarterback is more
important than the pass rush. Just
ask the San francisco 49ers — or a
pass rusher already on the Com-
manders.
“Defensive line, you can only
affect the game so much,” defen-
sive tackle Jonathan Allen said. He
pointed out that in 2021 against the
Green Bay Packers he had two
sacks, three quarterback hits and
two tackles for losses — and Wash-
ington lost by two touchdowns. “If
Tom Brady has a good game, you’re
probably going to win.”
Going forward, the team could
just go cheap at edge and leave its
pass rush to the highly paid tack-
les. But both have generated pres-
sure at disappointing rates this
season; Allen is near a career low
(9.9 percent), and Daron Payne is
at one (5.8 percent). Both are big
parts of the Commanders’ future,
though, so the front office would
have to bolster the pass rush by
adding an edge rusher.
Surveying the market, Washing-
ton might come away disappoint-
ed. The free agent class is made up
of mostly aging veterans. The only
high-level edge rushers entering
their primes who could hit free
agency are Young, who will be 25;
Carolina’s Brian Burns, 26; and
Jacksonville’s Josh Allen, 27.
In the draft, experts seem to
regard the edge rusher class as
good but not elite. There are a few
prospects projected for the top half
of the first round, including Ala-
bama’s Dallas Turner, Penn State’s
Chop robinson, UCLA’s Laiatu
Latu and florida State’s Jared
Verse. No one is considered genera-
tional, as Young once was.
It’s notable that Chicago Bears
General manager ryan Poles
looked at the same markets and bet
huge on Sweat. The Bears, with one
of the league’s worst defensive
lines, gave up a second-round pick
to the Commanders and then
signed Sweat to a four-year,
$98 million deal, the fifth-highest
edge rusher contract in the league
by annual average ($24.5 million).
Sweat has never finished a season
with double-digit sacks, though
he’s on pace to this year (6.5
through 10 games).
Poles’s decision highlights
Washington’s coming predica-
ment. for all the salary cap reali-
ties and unmet expectations,
Young and Sweat were tough-to-
find talents. most of the league’s
best edge rushers went in the first
round of the draft, with a few nota-
ble exceptions. (Cincinnati’s Trey
Hendrickson went in the third
round; Las Vegas’s maxx Crosby
went in the fourth.) But now, no
edge rusher on the Commanders
was picked higher than the fifth
round.
And if Howell is the guy, the
Commanders will only have two
more seasons — 2024 and 2025 —
to build around his rookie contract
before it expires.
Under a different coaching staff
or front office, maybe Young and
Sweat could have produced more
or more consistently. We’ll never
know. for the rest of their careers,
if they play well and Washington
fails to find suitable replacements,
the trades could look shortsighted.
The team could have kept Young or
Sweat; managing partner Josh
Harris greenlit trading both.
There will be pressure on Wash-
ington (and Harris) to succeed
without Young and Sweat, to not
have a redo of the Trent Williams
trade, in which, in the transition of
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regimes, the franchise flipped an
elite talent for less than he was
worth. Despite Sweat’s success, the
threat seems heightened with
Young. Even though he sometimes
lacked discipline, he also looked
powerful and explosive. He has
generated pressure on 17.2 percent
of his rushes this season, according
to NfL Next Gen Stats, which is
one of the league’s highest rates.
And Young, for his part, wasted
no time suggesting he would be
better off without Washington. At a
news conference monday, he told
San francisco reporters the trade
didn’t upset him because, with the
49ers, “the culture, the vibe is a lot
different. I definitely know that I’m
in a building with winners.”
“Just the players. The spirit in
the locker room. The spirit of the
coaches,” he explained. “You know,
it’s just different. . . . It’s kind of that
same thing at ohio State, where it’s
like you’re expected to win.”
rivera, asked about Young’s
comments, said: “I really appreci-
ate who he was for us. [He] did
some nice things, and [I] just wish
him all the luck in San francisco.”
In just a few months, Washing-
ton will be looking for edge rushers
and Young will be looking for a big
new contract. It seems extremely
unlikely the two would reunite.
The Commanders have pretty
much bet their future at edge rush-
er on anyone else.
Any mid-level rivera-ologist
can recite the stats: In his 11 full
and Tatum
lead Boston
to easy win
CELtICs 117,
raptors 94
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Jaylen Brown scored 29 points
and Jayson Tatum had 27 as the
Boston Celtics cruised to a 117-94
home victory over the Toronto
raptors on Saturday night.
Kristaps Porzingis added 21
points and seven rebounds in 28
minutes for the Celtics, who won
their second straight after a 14-
point victory over the Brooklyn
Nets in their first NBA in-season
tournament game friday night.
Pascal Siakam led the raptors
with 17 points and seven re-
bounds.
Toronto, which had won its pre-
vious two games — both on the
road — shot just 10 for 37 on
three-point attempts.
Brown scored 14 in the third
quarter when the Celtics pushed
their nine-point halftime edge to
24 points. He started his scoring
spree with a left-corner three and
capped it with a putback jam,
coming in on the baseline.
l HEAT 117, HAWKS 109: In
Atlanta, Bam Adebayo scored 26
points with 17 rebounds and rook-
ie Jaime Jaquez Jr. added a career-
high 20 points as shorthanded
miami won its fourth straight.
The Heat was playing its first
game since leading scorer Tyler
Herro sprained his right ankle in
Wednesday night’s 108-102 win at
the memphis Grizzlies. Herro is
expected to miss at least two
weeks. Another top scorer, Jimmy
Butler, missed the game for per-
sonal reasons.
Kyle Lowry scored 17 points for
miami, and Josh richardson had
16, also a season high. Duncan
robinson scored 11 points in his
first start of the season.
Trae Young led Atlanta with 27
points, including 14 in the fourth
quarter, and 11 assists. Dejounte
murray had 23 points.
Jaquez, making his third start,
almost doubled his previous high
of 11 points against memphis. The
first-round pick from UCLA hit a
buzzer-beating three-pointer to
close the first half.
l MAGIC 112, BUCKS 97: Pau-
lo Banchero had 24 points and 12
rebounds and the Wagner broth-
ers combined for 43 points as host
orlando dealt milwaukee its sec-
ond straight loss.
Bucks star Giannis Antetok-
ounmpo had 35 points, 10 re-
bounds and seven assists two
nights after a 54-point effort in a
loss to the Indiana Pacers. mil-
waukee played a second game
without Damian Lillard, who has
a sore left calf.
franz Wagner scored 24 for the
magic, and moritz Wagner came
off the bench with 19 points and
four rebounds. Jalen Suggs added

Rivera hasn’t shown why NfL seasons — not counting this

year’s 4-5 and the 5-7 he posted
before being fired in Carolina in
20 points.
The loss ended milwaukee’s 14-
game winning streak against the

he deserves another year 2019 — rivera was 6-10 twice, 7-8-

SvRlUGA from D1
“To me, it’s all in front of us,”
rivera said this past week. “I
really do believe that.”
from where he sits — with a 4-
5 team, a developing quarterback
and a 9-3 record in November
with Washington — it’s a
reasonable way to think. But it
says here there’s no realistic,
reasonably attainable route for
rivera to keep his job. Certainly
not as the czar of personnel and
roster-building. But not as on-
field head coach, either.
That’s not a bet against the
Commanders this Sunday against
the (equally middling) Seahawks.
Nor is it to say that Washington
couldn’t string a few wins
together, because rivera’s teams
have done that around this time
of year more than once.
rather, it’s a sober assessment
of the results rivera has achieved
across his career, an
acknowledgment that the club is
under new management and an
educated guess that said new
management isn’t going to look at
the on-field product and say,
“We’re clearly headed in the right
direction.”
Think about it.
Josh Harris’s charge as the
(still) new owner of his
hometown NfL franchise: fix the
fan experience, sure. But fix the
football, too.
rivera began his first training
camp under Harris 31/2 months
ago by saying, “I’ve got a lot to
prove.” Halfway through the
season, that remains the case.
The problem: The clock has
ticked and the calendar has
flipped, and he really hasn’t
proved anything about why he
deserves to stay in 2024 and
beyond.
I don’t want to link Harris to
“The Process” undertaken by his
Philadelphia 76ers and say that
means he will employ a dramatic
lose-to-win plan here. But it can’t
be completely ignored, and it
suggests that deciding on
leadership in both roster-
building and coaching will be a
logical, analytical endeavor.
rivera has roamed the sideline
in Washington for 59 games. He is
26-32-1. His first draft choice here
was the second overall pick in
2020, whom he just traded to the
San francisco 49ers for a third-
round pick.
Where to hang your hat? If this
season represents rivera’s
audition for Harris, what
evidence could rivera bring to his
new boss that shows, clearly, he
has built a solid foundation and
better days are in both the near
and distant future?
“I just think as you look at what
we’re doing and we continue to be
competitive, that’s probably the
biggest thing right now,” rivera
said. “We’ve had a lot of change, a
lot of things that we’re doing
differently and just trying to put
it together. I mean, for me, the
biggest thing is just to continue to
play hard and continue to do the
best we can and hopefully win
some football games more so
than anything else.
“I mean, the truth is, this is
about winning. That’s the biggest
thing that comes from the
Ron Rivera still has eight games left this season to prove his worth,
but his 26-32-1 mark in 31/2 years with Washington speaks volumes.
audition.”
At least he understands that
last part, and clearly.
As always, when it comes to
assessing rivera’s tenure, it’s
worth noting the tumultuous
times in which he took the job —
with a pandemic and a national
reckoning on race arriving before
he coached his first game here,
with Daniel Snyder’s troubles
with the NfL and Congress a
relentless black cloud over
everything the team did. He has
navigated so much with dignity.
“first of all, the man that he is,”
tight end Logan Thomas said.
“He’s straight-up with you. He
ain’t going to sugarcoat
anything.”
“He’s extremely transparent
with the team in what he
expects,” star wide receiver Terry
mcLaurin said. “When we come
out there, we know what’s
expected of us at practice, how we
come in the building and team
meetings, how we’re supposed to
present ourselves.”
That kind of consistency and
clarity matters to professional
athletes. Good on rivera.
JoNathaN NewtoN/the washiNgtoN Post
Now, back to the winning.
By now, we know who rivera is
as a coach. When he was hired
before the 2020 season, I focused
on rivera’s high points over the
course of nine seasons with
Carolina: 12-4 in 2013, 15-1 in 2015
and 11-5 in 2017.
The hiring of a new football
czar should inherently bring
optimism, but the biggest reason
to point to the positive was that
those Panthers seasons directly
contrasted what had been
possible in Washington. Here’s
the spot in which we remind
everyone that Washington hasn’t
posted a season with 11 or more
wins since — are you serious? —
1991.
So it wasn’t unreasonable to
acknowledge that Washington’s
new coach had repeatedly pulled
off something Washington hadn’t
done for three decades. But in
that case, focusing on the highs
meant overlooking all the dreck
that accompanied them. And by
now, midway through his fourth
Washington season, it’s not the
highs that have been replicated.
It’s the dreck.
1 once, 7-9 three times, 7-10 once
and 8-8-1 once. Yawn. In his three
winning seasons, he is 28 games
over .500. In his other seasons, he
is 21 games below .500.
That’s not a small sample size.
That’s a pattern, a track record
that is established.
This is the season that’s going
to force Harris to overlook all that
evidence?
Parse rivera’s argument for
keeping himself a little further. “A
lot of change, a lot of things that
we’re doing differently” is a
reference to installing Sam
Howell as the quarterback to run
a new offense installed by first-
year coordinator Eric Bieniemy.
recent trends are positive for
both.
But asking for more time to
maximize the offense is an
attempt at obscuring how badly
rivera and his front office — led
by martin mayhew and marty
Hurney — messed up the offense
for the first three seasons. oh,
and the defense? It ranks 29th in
yards allowed per play, 30th in
points allowed per game and
28th in yards allowed per game.
But, mr. Harris, all we need is
more time?
Watch the Commanders on
Sunday and root for them — even
if losses would mean better draft
picks for whoever will be
entrusted with making them in
the future. But in pulling for your
team, be realistic about that
future, too. Nothing in rivera’s
past indicates he is about to put
together the final pieces of a
résumé that will blow away his
new boss. There may be a lot of
football ahead, but there’s a lot of
football behind, too, and that
evidence is damning.
magic and marked its first loss in
orlando since march 14, 2018.
76ers’ Oubre hit by vehicle
Philadelphia 76ers guard Kelly
oubre Jr. sustained undisclosed
injuries when he was struck by a
vehicle, the team said, and is ex-
pected to miss significant playing
time.
The 27-year-old was transport-
ed to a hospital in stable condition
after being hit and released a few
hours later. The team said he is not
expected to miss the rest of the
season but did not provide infor-
mation on his injuries.
The 76ers said oubre was walk-
ing near his home in downtown
Philadelphia when he was struck.
l WIZARDS: Washington an-
nounced that backup guard Delon
Wright has a sprained left knee
and will be reevaluated in three
weeks.
The team said the injury would
be treated “conservatively” after
Wright was hurt in the fourth
quarter of friday night’s loss to the
Charlotte Hornets.
Wright, 31, has averaged 17.6
minutes and 5.0 points per game
this season.
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wednesday 7 Monumental
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Gotham wins NWSL final; Rapinoe leaves injured
Gotham 2,
reiGn 1
BY S TEVEN G OFF
SAN DIEGO — megan rapinoe’s
remarkable soccer career ended
abruptly and cruelly Saturday, less
than three minutes into the NWSL
championship game.
on the final day of a journey
splashed with World Cup titles
and global acclaim for leading po-
litical and human rights causes,
the 38-year-old winger for Seat-
tle’s oL reign was pursuing
Gotham fC’s maitane López when
she crumbled to the ground with a
noncontact injury.
As rapinoe reached for her low-
er right leg, her facial expression
was a mix of disbelief and sadness.
Before the medical staff reached
her, it was clear rapinoe’s night —
and her 15-year pro career — was
over.
She pulled her blue jersey over
her face. After being helped up,
rapinoe was embraced by
Gotham’s Ali Krieger, one of her
best friends who also announced
earlier this year that she would
retire this fall.
With her fiancée, retired bas-
ketball star Sue Bird, looking on,
rapinoe threw her arms over the
shoulders of team personnel and
gingerly returned to the bench.
reign Coach Laura Harvey said
she did not know the extent of
rapinoe’s injury, which she said
she thought was to her ankle or
Achilles’ tendon but was not sure.
“for that to happen so early in the
game was obviously devastating
for her and for us,” Harvey said.
“It’s not obviously the fairy-tale
ending we wanted for her.”
rapinoe’s pain and disappoint-
ment were compounded by the
outcome: a 2-1 defeat against New
Jersey-based Gotham, which com-
pleted a worst-to-first turnaround
after winning just four games last
year. It was a bittersweet crowning
moment for the 39-year-old Krieg-
er, the captain and Northern Vir-
ginia native who hoisted the
NWSL trophy for the first time.
rapinoe’s injury threatened to
overshadow the match, played be-
fore an announced 25,011 at Snap-
dragon Stadium, an NWSL cham-
pionship record. But a thrilling
first half — and an incredible fin-
ish — produced by two teams seek-
ing their first title brought the
nhl roundup
Fabbri and Detroit rally,
extend Columbus’s slide
red winGs 5,
blue jackets 4
A SSOCIATED P RESS
robby fabbri always seems to
bounce back from an injury-relat-
ed absence. Unfortunately, the
Detroit red Wings forward has
plenty of experience doing it.
Playing in his second game
since a month-long absence be-
cause of a lower-body injury, fab-
bri scored as the host red Wings
beat the Columbus Blue Jackets,
5-4, on Saturday, handing the Blue
Jackets their fourth straight loss.
over the course of his NHL
career, fabbri has battled back
from four knee surgeries.
“It’s just a mental battle more
than physical,” fabbri said. “I’ve
done it a few times, so I kind of
know where to keep my mind at,
and then that helps me get my
body ready.”
Lucas raymond, Alex DeBrin-
cat, Daniel Sprong and Jake Wal-
man also scored for Detroit, while
Ville Husso made 17 saves.
Alex Texier, Adam fantilli, Sean
Kuraly and Patrik Laine had goals
for Columbus. Spencer martin
stopped 23 shots for the Blue
Jackets.
With Detroit trailing 3-2 late in
the second period after taking an
early 2-0 lead, DeBrincat convert-
ed a one-timer from the right
faceoff circle for his 10th of the
season but his first goal in eight
games.
Sprong’s fourth goal of the sea-
son put the red Wings ahead for
good at 18:19.
Walman pushed the lead to 5-3
early in the third period, and the
insurance was needed when
Laine pulled Columbus within
one on a power-play goal at 11:30.
l HURRiCaNEs 4, liGHt-
NiNG 0: In Tampa, Sebastian
Aho and Brent Burns each had a
goal and an assist, Pyotr Kochetk-
ov stopped 23 shots for his fifth
career shutout, and Carolina beat
Tampa Bay.
Carolina won for the sixth time
in eight games.
Tampa Bay played without for-
ward Nikita Kucherov, who en-
tered the game second in the NHL
Megan Rapinoe, right, exited her final professional game in the sixth minute after a noncontact injury.
attention back to the game.
In its first championship ap-
pearance, Gotham went ahead in
the 24th minute. midge Purce beat
three players on the right flank
before crossing to Lynn Williams
for a seven-yard one-timer.
five minutes later, oL reign
drew even when Bethany Balcer,
rapinoe’s replacement, threaded
a through ball to rose Lavelle for a
breakaway and a cool finish into
the near side of the net.
In the 38th minute, Purce hit
the near post with a header and
Yazmeen ryan pounded the re-
bound off the crossbar from equal-
ly close range.
Gotham was clinical in stop-
page time as Purce’s corner kick
met Esther González, a member of
Spain’s World Cup-winning
squad, for an eight-yard header
into the left side.
fifteen minutes into the second
half, Lavelle’s crafty work set up
Veronica Latsko for a breakaway,
but mandy Haught made a bril-
liant save.
With Krieger anchoring the re-
sistance, Gotham yielded few oth-
er quality opportunities. In the
fifth of six minutes of stoppage
time, however, Haught reached
outside the penalty area to punch
the ball from danger. Play contin-
ued, but video replay showed the
infraction. Haught received a red
card, and defender Nealy martin
took her place and, with assis-
with 23 points, because of illness.
His absence showed as Tampa Bay
struggled to generate offense for
long stretches.
l CaNaDiaNs 3, BRUiNs 2
(Ot): Kaiden Guhle scored in
overtime, and host montreal
snapped its 10-game losing streak
against Boston.
Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman
suffered his first loss of the sea-
son, albeit not one in regulation.
Boston forced overtime on Brad
marchand’s goal at 12:58 of the
third period.
l sENatORs 4, FlaMEs 1:
Host ottawa snapped a five-game
home-ice losing streak with a win
over Calgary.
It was a team effort, with ma-
thieu Joseph, Drake Batherson,
rourke Chartier and Travis
Hamonic all scoring. Joonas Kor-
pisalo was solid in goal, stopping
24 shots.
l staRs 3, JEts 2: Wyatt
Johnston had a goal and an assist
as Dallas defeated host Winnipeg.
Thomas Harley and matt Duch-
ene also scored for the Stars, who
did all their scoring in the second
period.
Scott Wedgewood made
31 saves for Dallas.
The loss snapped a three-game
winning streak for the Jets.
l MaplE lEaFs 5, Ca-
NUCKs 2: Noah Gregor had a
goal and an assist and Tyler Ber-
tuzzi, max Domi and Bobby mc-
mann had two assists apiece as
host Toronto defeated Vancouver.
l pENGUiNs 4, saBREs 0:
Erik Karlsson scored twice and
Evgeni malkin had a goal and an
assist as host Pittsburgh blasted
Buffalo.
Tristian Jarry had 35 saves for
the shutout for Pittsburgh.
l COYOtEs 7, pREDatORs
5: Sean Durzi scored a tiebreaking
goal on a power play with just over
three minutes to play, michael
Carcone scored twice and Logan
Cooley had three assists, helping
Arizona win a wild one against
host Nashville.
filip forsberg scored two goals
and set up one for the Predators.
l BlUEs 8, aValaNCHE 2:
In Denver, Brayden Schenn and
Pavel Buchnevich each had a hat
trick, and St. Louis blasted Colo-
rado.
eZ M2
roByN Beck/aGeNce FraNce-PreSSe/GeTTy iMaGeS
tance, pulled on an oversize goal-
keeper jersey.
martin was not tested; Lavelle’s
free kick from 19 yards smashed
into the defensive wall. moments
later, the final whistle blew.
Purce, a Silver Spring native
who played at Good Counsel High,
was voted championship game
mVP.
The final culminated a bright
11th season for the NWSL. Attend-
ance grew 26 percent to an aver-
age of 10,869, led by the San Diego
Wave’s 20,718. five games drew
25,000, with a league-record
34,130 for rapinoe’s regular sea-
son home farewell in Seattle. By
contrast, the WNBA, which enjoys
far greater TV exposure and media
coverage, averaged 6,615 fans last
season.
It’s not all rosy at the NWSL box
office. While new teams in San
Diego and Los Angeles have been
immediate hits and soccer-rich
Portland continues to pack in big
crowds, the league has struggled
in Chicago, orlando and Houston,
among other places.
Viewership on the CBS-owned
Paramount Plus streaming service
increased by 83 percent, accord-
ing to Commissioner Jessica Ber-
man. And on Thursday, Berman
announced the league had en-
tered into a four-year deal, valued
at a reported $240 million, with
CBS Sports, ESPN, Prime Video
and Scripps Sports to carry more
Ovechkin helps Caps earn second victory in two nights
Capitals from D1
his first in five-on-five play this
season, helped the Capitals to a
4-1 win over the New York Island-
ers, who had shut them out just
nine days earlier in Washington.
ovechkin added a second goal,
the 826th of his career, when he
hit the empty net with three sec-
onds left.
Hunter Shepard, in his second
NHL start, made 36 saves to im-
prove to 2-0. Semyon Varlamov,
the former Washington netmind-
er who stymied the Capitals in
their previous matchup, stopped
24 of 27 shots. The Capitals helped
Shepard by blocking 32 shots;
forward Beck malenstyn and de-
fenseman Lucas Johansen led the
way with five apiece.
“Everybody was all-in,” ovech-
kin said. “It was back-to-back. We
played against good team. We all
knew what they were going to do.
Everybody played smart, played
simple. Shep today was unbeliev-
able. makes huge saves. ‘D’ do a
great job blocking shots.”
In their first nine games, the
Capitals (7-4-2) scored first just
once. They now have scored the
first goal in each of their past four
games, a run ovechkin extended
with his first-period tally Satur-
day. The Islanders (5-5-3), who
were idle friday night as Wash-
ington beat the New Jersey Devils
in Newark, clearly looked like the
fresher team, and their speed in
transition gave the Capitals is-
sues. But after ovechkin fired a
wrist shot into the far side past
Varlamov at 9:18, Washington set-
tled in.
ovechkin has had similar looks
this season, but he was finally able
to score on one Saturday.
“me and Kuzy talk about right
before the faceoff,” he said. “Kuzy
tell me what to do, and then it
works. I have to listen more [to]
Kuzy.”
A Shepard turnover behind the
net led to the Islanders’ tying goal,
scored by defenseman Alexander
romanov with 43 seconds left in
the period. Then Capitals defense-
man Alex Alexeyev was whistled
for holding with less than two
seconds remaining, setting up
New York to begin the second
period with momentum and a
power play. Though the Capitals
killed the penalty, extending their
streak without allowing a power-
play goal to 18 shorthanded op-
portunities, it didn’t do much to
than 100 matches per season. The
previous deal had reaped $1.5 mil-
lion annually from CBS.
The return of the Utah royals
and expansion into Northern Cali-
fornia with Bay fC will increase
the number of teams to 14. Boston
is next, in 2026, and Berman said
“more than a dozen qualified in-
vestor groups” have expressed in-
terest in the No. 16 slot.
But the NWSL will face greater
competition for players. Increased
investment in women’s soccer in
Europe could begin to attract
more players from the NWSL. And
starting next fall, a new U.S. circuit
is slated to start with eight teams:
the USL Super League, operated
by the organization that runs sec-
ond- and third-division men’s pro
leagues.
“We know this is a moment not
to be complacent,” Berman said.
“It’s a moment to invest for the
future. It's a moment we don’t take
for granted. We believe we have an
unprecedented opportunity to
grow this league. . . . our aspira-
tion is to be the best league in the
world, and we’re prepared to make
the decisions and investments
that are necessary to make that a
reality.”
The NWSL can certainly boast
balanced competition. This year’s
final featured No. 4 (oL reign) vs.
No. 6 (Gotham), and Gotham be-
came the fourth different team in
four postseasons to win the title.
alex Ovechkin scored his first goal in five-on-five play of the season, then added a late empty-netter.
change the momentum.
The second period was frenetic,
with scoring chances and odd-
man rushes at both ends. But
despite the chaos — one sequence
featured Capitals winger Sonny
milano tumbling into the net with
Varlamov after a scoring opportu-
nity, then the Islanders’ Casey
Cizikas working against defense-
man rasmus Sandin on a one-on-
one rush the other way — Wash-
ington scored twice to regain,
then extend, its lead.
At 13:05, the Capitals’ fourth
line recorded its third goal in two
games when center Nic Dowd bat-
ted a loose puck past Varlamov.
Winger Nicolas Aube-Kubel, who
had a goal and an assist in Wash-
ington’s 4-2 win over the Devils,
put the first shot on Varlamov
before Dowd ensured it crossed
the line.
The depth scoring continued
for Washington when third-line
forward Aliaksei Protas finished
an opportunity created by winger
matthew Phillips off the
forecheck. Phillips picked up the
puck behind the net and sent a
pass in front to Protas, who had
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soCCer roundup
After hot start, Tottenham
su≠ers second loss in row
tottenham 2,
wolverhampton 1
A SSOCIATED P RESS
The honeymoon is over for
Ange Postecoglou after consecu-
tive losses for the first time as
Tottenham manager.
Stoppage-time goals from Pablo
Sarabia and mario Lemina se-
cured a 2-1 comeback win for host
Wolverhampton on Saturday that
stopped Spurs from moving back
to the top of the standings.
“It’s part of the pain of football
when things happen in those cir-
cumstances. You’ve just got to take
it,” Postecoglou said. “I can’t fault
the players’ effort or their commit-
ment.”
The visiting team led after
Brennan Johnson’s goal just three
minutes in and was poised to re-
gain first place from manchester
City.
Postecoglou made league his-
tory by winning a hat trick of
manager of the month awards in
his first three months in England’s
top flight after a 10-game unbeat-
en run. But the loss to Wolves
followed monday’s 4-1 defeat
against Chelsea. . . .
With his fourth goal in 246 ap-
pearances, Victor Lindelof eased
the pressure on Erik ten Hag as
host manchester United beat Lu-
ton, 1-0.
The center back swept home a
59th-minute winner at old Traf-
ford to secure back-to-back league
wins for United for only the sec-
ond time this season. . . .
William Saliba scored his first
goal of the season as Arsenal
climbed into second place with a
3-1 home win over Burnley despite
finishing the game with 10 men.
Saliba headed home a corner to
restore Arsenal’s lead in the
57th minute, shortly after Josh
Brownhill had equalized against
the run of play at the Emirates. . . .
Newcastle’s seven-match un-
beaten league run ended with a
2-0 defeat at Bournemouth. . . .
Everton’s 3-2 win at Crystal Pal-
ace moved it up to 14th in the
standings and eight points clear of
the relegation zone.
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plenty of space to put the Capitals
ahead 3-1 with just 40 seconds left
in the period.
“Those second and third goals
. . . those are big,” Capitals Coach
Spencer Carbery said. “Now you
can play from in front, and you
can see what happens tonight.
The Islanders had a ton of good
looks, lot of [offensive] zone time,
but they’re pressing. They’re
throwing things at the net. Now
you’re forcing the issue.”
Washington was under siege
for much of the third period, but
Shepard’s work in goal and the
. sunday, november 12 , 2023
two-goal lead for the second time
in three league matches and also
lost key player rafael Leão to inju-
ry in a drama-filled 2-2 draw at
Lecce in Serie A.
milan appeared to be heading
for its first league win in more
than a month following goals from
olivier Giroud and Tijjani
reijnders but Lecce drew level in
the second half with two goals in
four minutes from Nicola Sansone
and Lameck Banda.
Lecce had what would have
been a stoppage-time winner
ruled out by the video assistant
referee, moments after milan for-
ward Giroud was sent off. . . .
Juventus moved a point clear at
the top with a 2-1 win over Cagliari.
l spaiN: Girona fought back
for a 2-1 victory at rayo Vallecano
to ensure it kept its surprising lead
atop the Spanish league. . . .
real madrid routed visiting Va-
lencia, 5-1, with Brazilians
Vinícius Júnior and rodrygo get-
ting two goals each.
l GERMaNY: Harry Kane
scored twice as Bayern munich
survived a scare to beat promoted
Heidenheim, 4-2, and move to the
top of the Bundesliga. . . .
Serhou Guirassy scored in his
return from injury to guide Stutt-
gart to a 2-1 win over visiting Bo-
russia Dortmund.
l FRaNCE: Kylian mbappé
scored a hat trick and Gianluigi
Donnarumma made six decisive
saves to send Paris Saint-Germain
to the top of the french league
with a 3-0 win at reims. . . . .
Third-place monaco lost
ground in the title race after draw-
ing, 0-0, at Le Havre and lags three
points behind PSG.
l Mls: Griffin Dorsey scored
the decisive goal in a 4-3 shootout
victory, and the Houston Dynamo
advanced to the Western Confer-
ence semifinals after a 1-1 draw
with visiting real Salt Lake in the
rubber match of the first-round
mLS Cup series.
Houston will play Sporting
Kansas City in the conference
semifinals.
Diego Luna and Danny musovs-
ki misfired for real Salt Lake in
the shootout. Adalberto Carras-
quilla, Thorleifur Ulfarsson and
Amine Bassi scored the other
shootout goals for the Dynamo.
JohN MuNSoN/aSSociaTed PreSS
Capitals’ defense — despite miss-
ing martin fehervary, who left the
Devils game with a lower-body
injury — preserved the lead.
Though the Islanders had the ma-
jority of the possession and gener-
ated lengthy sequences in their
offensive zone, Carbery said he
was pleased with how his team
limited New York’s dangerous
scoring opportunities and held on
to sweep the back-to-back.
“Difficult circumstances with
the back-to-back, on the road, los-
ing a few bodies mid-trip,” Car-
bery said. “for us to find a way — it
wasn’t pretty at times, and [we]
had to defend quite a bit, but we
found a way. . . . It’s a character
win for our group and a great
couple days.”
Note: fehervary was placed on
injured reserve Saturday. Sandin
was a game-time decision with a
“sore face” after taking a high hit
against the Devils, so the Capitals
recalled Dylan mcIlrath from
Hershey, their American Hockey
League affiliate, as insurance on
the blue line. Sandin was able to
play, so mcIlrath was a healthy
scratch.
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EAsTERn confEREncE
nHL nCAA men
sATURDAY’s REsULTs
MLS Cup playoffs
fiRsT RoUnD
finish off
epic era for
sATURDAY’s REsULTs ATLAnTic gp w L oT pts gf gA
Boston ........................ 14 11 1 2 24 46 28 EAsT wEDnEsDAY, ocT. 25
See D4. ATLAnTic w L pct gb EAsTERn confEREncE
Detroit ........................ 15 8 5 2 18 55 49 Canisius 70, St. Bonaventure 67
Philadelphia.................................. 7 1 .875 — Toronto ....................... 15 8 5 2 18 55 54 Connecticut 107, Stonehill 67 at New York 5, Charlotte 2
1/
Boston .......................................... 7 2 .778 2
Florida......................... 13 8 4 1 17 40 37 George Washington 95, William & Mary 89
no. 14 Missouri 36, New York ...................................... 4 4 .500 3 wEsTERn confEREncE

Gladiators
Montreal..................... 14 7 5 2 16 42 48 Holy Cross 68, Georgetown 67 at Sporting KC 0, San Jose 0 (Sporting KC wins, 4-2 PKs)
Brooklyn ....................................... 4 5 .444 31/2
no. 13 Tennessee 7 Toronto......................................... 4 5 .444 31/2
Tampa Bay.................. 15 6 5 4 16 53 54 La Salle 79, Northeastern 74
Buffalo........................ 15 7 7 1 15 44 47 Loyola (Md.) 77, Brown 75 (OT) qUARTERfinALs
TEnnEssEE ............................. 0 7 0 0— 7 Ottawa........................ 13 6 7 0 12 50 44 Marist 65, UMBC 59 Best of three
MissoURi ................................ 0 13 9 14 — 36 soUThEAsT w L pct gb Maryland Eastern Shore 83, Cairn 65
Miami ........................................... 5 4 .556 — Mount St. Mary’s 74, Coppin State 60
EAsTERn confEREncE
METRopoLiTAn gp w L oT pts gf gA fc cincinnATi ELiMinATED RED bULLs, 2-0
sEconD qUARTER Atlanta ......................................... 5 4 .556 — N.Y. Rangers............... 13 10 2 1 21 43 28 Providence 79, Milwaukee 69
Orlando......................................... 5 4 .556 — Seton Hall 85, Fairleigh Dickinson 55 Game 1: at Cincinnati 3, New York 0
MiZZ: FG Mevis 31, 14:16. Carolina....................... 15 9 6 0 18 51 49 Game 2: Cincinnati 1, at New York 1 (Cincinnati wins, 8-7
TEnn: Thornton 46 pass from Milton (C.Campbell kick), 12:25.
MiZZ: Schrader 7 run (Mevis kick), 10:33.
Charlotte ...................................... 3
Washington.................................. 2
5
6
.375
.250
11/2
21/2
Washington ................ 13 7
Pittsburgh .................. 13 7
4
6
2 16 32 37
0 14 46 34
South Alabama 70, Buffalo 56
soUTh
PKs)
oRLAnDo ciTY sc ELiMinATED nAshViLLE sc, 2-0
glenelg 4,
MiZZ: FG Mevis 46, :00.
ThiRD qUARTER
cEnTRAL w
Indiana.......................................... 6
L
3
pct
.667
gb
—
New Jersey ................. 13 7
N.Y. Islanders ............. 13 5
x-Philadelphia............. 14 6
5
5
7
1 15 48 49
3 13 32 40
1 13 44 44
East Carolina 77, Campbell 63
Longwood 95, St. Mary’s (Md.) 43 Game 1: at Orlando City 1, Nasvhille 0
Game 2: Orlando City 1, at Nashville 0
Hereford 0
Mississippi State 87, UT Martin 63
MiZZ: Cook 3 run (pass failed), 10:04. Milwaukee.................................... 5 4 .556 1 Columbus.................... 14 4 7 3 11 38 49 Richmond 90, Siena 48 cREw AnD ATLAnTA UniTED TiED, 1-1
MiZZ: FG Mevis 23, 2:38. Cleveland...................................... 4 5 .444 2 Utah Tech 81, Jacksonville State 79 (OT) Game 1: at Columbus 2, Atlanta United 0
foURTh qUARTER Chicago ......................................... 3
Detroit .......................................... 2
6
8
.333
.200
3
41/2
cEnTRAL gp w L oT pts gf gA Wofford 99, High Point 98 Game 2: at Atlanta United 4, Columbus 2 BY E MMETT S IEGEL
MiZZ: Burden 21 pass from Cook (Mevis kick), 6:21. Dallas.......................... 13 9 3 1 19 40 33 MiDwEsT Sunday: Atlanta United at Columbus, 7
wEsTERn confEREncE x-Colorado .................. 12 8 4 0 16 41 38
MiZZ: Carnell 38 interception return (Mevis kick), 5:50. Ball State 73, Old Dominion 68 Union ELiMinATED REVoLUTion, 2-0
Attendance: 62,621. Winnipeg .................... 14 7
Arizona ....................... 14 7
5
6
2 16 49 47
1 15 54 47
Bowling Green 81, Arkansas State 75 Game 1: at Philadelphia 3, New England 1 High school field hockey teams
soUThwEsT w L pct gb Bradley 72, Utah State 66 (OT)
Tennessee Missouri Dallas............................................ 7 2 .778 — x-St. Louis .................. 12 6 5 1 13 32 34 Cleveland State 82, Ohio 78
Game 2: Philadelphia 1, at New England 0 in Maryland will consider them-
First Downs ..................................... 15 26 Houston........................................ 5 3 .625 11/2 Minnesota .................. 14 5 7 2 12 47 56 Creighton 89, North Dakota State 60 wEsTERn confEREncE selves lucky Saturday was the last
Total Net Yards ............................. 350 530 New Orleans................................. 4 5 .444 3 Chicago ....................... 12 5 7 0 10 31 41 Eastern Michigan 70, Georgia Southern 60 spoRTing kc ELiMinATED sT. LoUis ciTY sc, 2-0
Rushes-Yards ............................. 23-83 51-255 San Antonio.................................. 3 6 .333 4 Nashville..................... 14 5 9 0 10 47 54 Georgia State 77, Western Michigan 70 Game 1: Sporting KC 4, at St. Louis City SC 1 time they will have to watch AJ
Passing .......................................... 267 275 Memphis....................................... 1 8 .111 6 Game 2: at Sporting KC 2, St. Louis City SC 1
Punt Returns ................................ 1--1 0-0 pAcific gp w L oT pts gf gA
Kent State 79, Fresno State 69
Louisiana Monroe 74, Central Michigan 64
and Brinkley Eyre take the field
soUnDERs ELiMinATED fc DALLAs, 2-1
Kickoff Returns ............................ 2-32 0-0
noRThwEsT w L pct gb Vegas .......................... 15 12 2 1 25 58 32 Northern Illinois 91, Appalachian State 78 Game 1: at Seattle 2, FC Dallas 0 together.
Interceptions Ret. ......................... 1-36 1-38 Vancouver................... 14 10 3 1 21 61 31 Saint Louis 80, Illinois State 71
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 22-34-1 18-24-1
Denver .......................................... 8
Minnesota .................................... 6
1
2
.889
.750
—
11/2 x-Los Angeles............. 13 8 2 3 19 54 38 Texas State 75, Miami (Ohio) 65
Game 2: at FC Dallas 3, Seattle 1 The University of Maryland-
Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 1-5 3-11 Game 3: at Seattle 1, FC Dallas 0
Punts ...................................... 6-43.667 3-36.667
Oklahoma City.............................. 5 4 .556 3 Anaheim ..................... 13 7 6 0 14 40 40 Toledo 87, Louisiana 78
Los AngELEs fc ELiMinATED whiTEcAps, 2-0
bound sisters were responsible
Portland........................................ 3 5 .375 41/2 x-Seattle..................... 14 5 6 3 13 38 49 Western Carolina 71, Notre Dame 61
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 3-2 0-0
Utah.............................................. 3 7 .300 52
1/ Calgary........................ 14 4 8 2 10 37 52 soUThwEsT Game 1: at Los Angeles FC 5, Vancouver 2 for all of Glenelg’s goals in a 4-0
Penalties-Yards ............................ 9-95 7-50 x-Edmonton ................ 12 2 9 1 5 31 50 Game 2: Los Angeles FC 1, at Vancouver 0
Time Of Possession .................... 20:04 39:56 San Jose ..................... 14 2 11 1 5 17 63 Houston 82, Texas A&M CC 50 win over Hereford that secured
pAcific w L pct gb North Texas 75, Omaha 64 DYnAMo ELiMinATED REAL sALT LAkE, 2-1
pAssing Golden State ................................ 6 4 .600 — x-Late game Tulsa 85, Incarnate Word 71 Game 1: at Houston 2, Real Salt Lake 1 the Gladiators (13-2) their third
Tennessee: Milton 22-34-1-267. Missouri: Cook 18-24-1- Sacramento .................................. 4 4 .500 1 wEsT Game 2: at Real Salt Lake 1, Houston 1 (Real Salt Lake consecutive 2A crown.
275. L.A. Lakers.................................... 4 5 .444 11/2 fRiDAY’s REsULTs wins, 5-4 PKs)
Phoenix......................................... 4 5 .444 11/2 Washington 4, at New Jersey 2
Arizona State 63, Texas Southern 52 Game 3: at Houston 1, Real Salt Lake 1 (Houston wins, AJ, a senior, and Brinkley, a
RUshing Seattle 71, Montana State 68 4-3 PKs)
Tennessee: Milton 10-36, J.Wright 7-22, Sampson 3-20,
L.A. Clippers ................................. 3 5 .375 2 at Buffalo 3, Minnesota 2 UNLV 71, Stetson 55 junior, have dominated the com-
at Florida 5, Carolina 2 sEMifinALs
Small 3-5. Missouri: Schrader 35-205, Cook 12-55, fRiDAY’s REsULTs
at Toronto 5, Calgary 4 (SO)
Wyoming 80, Cal Poly 66
EAsTERn confEREncE
petition since they arrived to play
Burden 1-0, (Team) 1-(minus 1), Peat 2-(minus 4). Charlotte 124, at Washington 117 at Vegas 5, San Jose 0 Cincinnati vs. Columbus/Atlanta United winner, TBD for the Howard County power. In
REcEiVing Philadelphia 114, at Detroit 106
Tennessee: Keyton 4-57, White 4-53, Webb 4-38, at Boston 121, Brooklyn 107
Philadelphia 6, at Anaheim 3 Holy Cross 68, Georgetown 67 Philadelphia vs. Orlando City, TBD their three seasons together, the
sATURDAY’s REsULTs wEsTERn confEREncE
J.Wright 2-21, Nimrod 2-17, Sampson 2-13, Thornton Minnesota 117, at San Antonio 110 holy cross (1-1)
Sporting KC vs. Los Angeles FC, TBD
Gladiators have reigned supreme
1-46, Warren 1-9, Browder 1-8, Castles 1-5. Missouri: at Houston 104, New Orleans 101 Washington 4, at N.Y. Islanders 1 Kenney 3-6 1-2 7, Batchelder 0-6 0-0 0, B.Montgomery
Schrader 5-116, Burden 4-26, Marq.Johnson 2-56, M.Mil- Utah 127, at Memphis 121 at Detroit 5, Columbus 4 5-10 5-6 15, Octave 12-21 7-8 33, Nugent 3-6 0-0 8, Houston vs. Seattle, TBD each time.
ler 2-35, Wease 2-17, Norfleet 2-16, Cooper 1-9. at Dallas 144, L.A. Clippers 126 Dallas 3, at Winnipeg 2 Coulibaly 1-2 0-0 2, Williams 1-1 0-0 3, Singleton 0-2 0-0 confEREncE finALs “We talked a lot leading up to
at Sacramento 105, Oklahoma City 98 Carolina 4, at Tampa Bay 0 0, Ryan 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-54 13-16 68. EAsTERn confEREncE
L.A. Lakers 122, at Phoenix 119 at Ottawa 4, Calgary 1
georgetown (1-1) sATURDAY, DEc. 2 this,” AJ said. “It was a wave of
UCF 45, no. 15 Oklahoma State 3 Cook 3-6 2-6 8, Fielder 1-5 0-1 3, Brumbaugh 6-11 2-2 17, Semifinals winners, TBD emotions of sadness and excite-
at Montreal 3, Boston 2 (OT) Epps 7-19 4-4 22, Styles 3-9 0-0 7, Heath 2-7 2-4 8,
sATURDAY’s REsULTs wEsTERn confEREncE
okLAhoMA sTATE ................. 0 0 3 0— 3 at Orlando 112, Milwaukee 97
at Toronto 5, Vancouver 2 Bristol 0-3 2-2 2, Mutombo 0-0 0-0 0, Grant 0-1 0-0 0.
sUnDAY, DEc. 3
ment, and we came into this game
at Pittsburgh 4, Buffalo 0 Totals 22-61 12-19 67.
Ucf ......................................... 14 10 14 7 — 45 at Boston 117, Toronto 94 Arizona 7, at Nashville 5 halftime: Georgetown 37-32. Three-point goals: Holy Semifinals winners, TBD very confident. And just to have
Miami 117, at Atlanta 109
fiRsT qUARTER Cleveland 118, at Golden State 110
St. Louis at Colorado, late Cross 5-20 (Nugent 2-5, Octave 2-5, Williams 1-1,
B.Montgomery 0-2, Singleton 0-2, Batchelder 0-5), MLs cUp fun — that was our main goal.”
Edmonton at Seattle, late
Ucf: R.Harvey 1 run (Boomer kick), 11:50.
sUnDAY’s gAMEs Philadelphia at Los Angeles, late Georgetown 11-29 (Epps 4-11, Brumbaugh 3-6, Heath Saturday, Dec. 9 It’s hard to imagine they didn’t.
Ucf: Ko.Hudson 7 pass from Plumlee (Boomer kick), 2-4, Fielder 1-3, Styles 1-3, Bristol 0-1, Grant 0-1).
9:08. Washington at Brooklyn, 3 sUnDAY’s gAMEs Rebounds: Holy Cross 39 (Octave 11), Georgetown 29
Easily recognizable by their
sEconD qUARTER
Charlotte at New York, 12 Chicago at Florida, 1 (Cook 10). Assists: Holy Cross 8 (Batchelder 3), George- dynamo 1, Real Salt Lake 1 neon headbands, the sisters oper-
Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 town 15 (Brumbaugh, Epps, Heath 3). Total fouls: Holy
Ucf: FG Boomer 30, 14:04. Indiana at Philadelphia, 6
Dallas at Minnesota, 6
Cross 17, Georgetown 13. A: 7,621 (20,356). hoUsTon wins, 4-3 pks ated on a higher plane than any-
Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 7
Ucf: Ko.Hudson 75 pass from Plumlee (Boomer kick), Dallas at New Orleans, 7 Vancouver at Montreal, 7 REAL sALT LAkE 0 1 3 1 one else on the field at Paint
10:35. Denver at Houston, 7 hoUsTon 1 0 4 1
Detroit at Chicago, 7
San Jose at Anaheim, 8 Branch High in Burtonsville.
ThiRD qUARTER first half: 1, Houston, Baird, 9 (Herrera), 28th minute.
Miami at San Antonio, 7 MonDAY’s gAMEs George Washington 95, second half: 2, Real Salt Lake, Luna, 7 (Oviedo), 65th. They navigated tight spaces with
oksT: FG Hale 25, 10:00. first overtime: None.
Ucf: R.Harvey 92 run (Boomer kick), 8:56.
Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 8 N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, 8:30 William & Mary 89 second overtime: None.
comfort, frequently leaving Here-
Minnesota at Golden State, 8:30 Colorado at Seattle, 10
Ucf: Ko.Hudson 14 pass from Plumlee (Boomer kick),
4:09. Portland at L.A. Lakers, 10 william & Mary (2-1) penalty kicks : Real Salt Lake, Cristian Arango, G; Rubio ford (13-3) defenders in the dust
TUEsDAY’s gAMEs Williams 4-10 0-0 12, Houpt 6-13 2-2 17, Moss 4-17 0-0 Rubin, G; Diego Luna, NG; Brayan Vera, G; Danny
foURTh qUARTER MonDAY’s gAMEs Vegas at Washington, 7 11, G.Dorsey 5-10 0-0 15, Karasinski 1-8 2-2 5, Lowe 5-6 Musovski, NG. Houston, Adalberto Carrasquilla, G; and acting as the catalysts of the
Ucf: R.Harvey 2 run (Boomer kick), 9:00. Washington at Toronto, 7:30 Boston at Buffalo, 7 4-4 14, Case 3-7 1-1 7, Hamilton 0-0 0-0 0, C.Dorsey 2-4 Thorleifur Ulfarsson, G; Amine Bassi, G; Nelson Quino- Gladiators’ attack.
0-0 6. Totals 31-76 9-9 89. nes, NG; Griffin Dorsey, G.
Attendance: 44,046. New York at Boston, 7:30 Calgary at Montreal, 7
george washington (2-0) goalies: Real Salt Lake, Zac MacMath, Gavin Beavers; Forty-five seconds into the
Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 Akingbola 1-2 0-0 2, Autry 2-4 0-0 5, Bishop 8-18 15-16 Houston, Steve Clark, Andrew Tarbell.
oklahoma state Ucf Cleveland at Sacramento, 10 Anaheim at Nashville, 8 32, Edwards 5-11 3-3 15, Johnson 4-7 6-6 15, Buchanan Yellow cards: Baird, Houston, 20th; Savarino, Real Salt
third quarter, AJ unleashed a
First Downs ..................................... 15 21
Total Net Yards ............................. 277 592 TUEsDAY’s gAMEs
Arizona at Dallas, 8 4-5 5-6 13, Hutchinson 1-5 1-2 4, Schröder 3-4 3-5 9. Lake, 46th; Arango, Real Salt Lake, 66th; Vera, Real Salt backhanded shot for her first of
New Jersey at Winnipeg, 8 Totals 28-56 33-38 95. Lake, 72nd.
Rushes-Yards ............................. 25-52 51-293 Atlanta at Detroit, 7 Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 halftime: George Washington 43-42. Three-point goals: Real Salt Lake, Zac MacMath; Justen Glad, Bryan three goals. Then came Brinkley’s
Passing .......................................... 225 299 Indiana at Philadelphia, 7
Punt Returns .................................. 0-0 2-9
Miami at Charlotte, 7
Florida at San Jose, 10:30 William & Mary 18-44 (G.Dorsey 5-10, Williams 4-7,
Moss 3-8, Houpt 3-9, C.Dorsey 2-4, Karasinski 1-5, Case
Oviedo, Brayan Vera; Emeka Eneli, Andres Gomez (Rubio
Rubin, 82nd), Diego Luna, Braian Ojeda, Nelson Palacio,
moment, a strike from the top of
Kickoff Returns .......................... 4-104
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 0-0
0-0
3-10 Orlando at Brooklyn, 7:30 0-1), George Washington 6-17 (Edwards 2-4, Autry 1-3, Jefferson Savarino (Danny Musovski, 90th); Anderson the shooting circle to double
Hutchinson 1-3, Johnson 1-3, Bishop 1-4). fouled out: Julio (Cristian Arango, 46th).
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 19-39-3 12-19-0 San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 7:30 Capitals 4, Islanders 1 Hamilton. Rebounds: William & Mary 32 (Lowe 8), Houston, Steve Clark; Franco Escobar, Micael, Erik Glenelg’s lead.
Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 1-11 2-10 Dallas at New Orleans, 8
Punts .......................................... 6-40.0 3-44.333 Portland at Utah, 9
wAshingTon ......................... 1 2 1 — 4 George Washington 31 (Edwards 11). Assists: William & Sviatchenko; Artur, Corey Baird (Thorleifur Ulfarsson, After another third-quarter
n.Y. isLAnDERs ...................... 1 0 0 — 1 Mary 23 (Williams 8), George Washington 9 (Bishop 5). 82nd), Adalberto Carrasquilla, Griffin Dorsey, Hector
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-1 1-1 L.A. Clippers at Denver, 10 Total fouls: William & Mary 23, George Washington 13. Herrera; Amine Bassi, Nelson Quinones. goal, AJ’s hat trick-securing tally
Penalties-Yards ............................ 5-45 4-40 Minnesota at Golden State, 10 fiRsT pERioD
Time Of Possession .................... 25:15 34:45 Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 10:30
was assisted by Brinkley with just
scoring: 1, Washington, Ovechkin 3 (Kuznetsov), 9:18. 2,
pAssing N.Y. Islanders, Romanov 1 (Horvat), 19:17. over a minute left — a fitting end
oklahoma state: Bowman 19-36-3-225, Rangel 0-3-0-0. sEconD pERioD no. 6 Connecticut 107, nWSL playoffs to an illustrious era.
Ucf: Plumlee 11-18-0-299, McClain 1-1-0-0.
Magic 112, Bucks 97 scoring: 3, Washington, Dowd 1 (Carlson, Aube-Kubel), Stonehill 67 qUARTERfinALs “I’m super happy for her,”
RUshing 13:05. 4, Washington, Protas 1 (McMichael, Phillips), fRiDAY, ocT. 20
19:20.
stonehill (1-2) at OL Reign 1, Angel City 0 Brinkley said. “I’m sad that she’s
oklahoma state: Gordon 12-25, Nixon 6-22, Vailahi 4-20, MiLwAUkEE ...................... 25 24 23 25 — 97 Pavlidis 1-8 1-2 3, Semona 1-2 0-0 2, Zegarowski 1-3 0-0
(Team) 1-(minus 5), Bowman 2-(minus 10). Ucf: Harvey oRLAnDo ........................... 29 36 23 24 — 112 ThiRD pERioD 2, Benigni 9-14 0-0 22, O’Dell 2-5 0-0 4, Felder 2-8 3-4 8, sUnDAY, ocT. 22 leaving me, but I’m excited for
Gotham FC 2, at North Carolina 0
24-206, Plumlee 14-74, Richards 2-10, Richardson 7-9, MiLwAUkEE: G.Antetokounmpo 15-22 5-12 35, Middle- scoring: 5, Washington, Ovechkin 4 (Malenstyn, Sand-
Stinson 3-7 3-3 10, Brogna 2-2 0-0 6, Triplett 1-2 1-2 3, her.”
Townsend 1-1, McClain 2-1, Ko.Hudson 1-(minus 8). McGill 0-3 0-0 0, Stone 2-2 0-0 5, Abrams 1-1 0-0 2, sEMifinALs
ton 4-8 0-0 10, B.Lopez 3-7 1-2 9, Beasley 0-4 0-0 0, in), 19:57 (en). Meuser 0-0 0-0 0, Marquardt 0-0 0-0 0, Rywolt 0-1 0-0 0. sUnDAY, noV. 5
“It means the world to me,” AJ
REcEiVing Payne 6-8 0-0 14, Beauchamp 2-7 1-3 5, Crowder 0-1 1-2 Totals 25-59 8-11 67.
1, Livingston 0-0 0-0 0, Portis 4-11 3-4 13, T.Antetokoun- shoTs on goAL
connecticut (2-0)
Gotham FC 1, at Portland 0 added. “I couldn’t ask for a better
oklahoma state: Owens 6-85, L.Johnson 6-61, Presley mpo 0-0 0-0 0, Connaughton 1-3 1-2 3, Green 1-3 0-0 3, OL Reign 1, at San Diego 0
5-52, Gordon 2-27. Ucf: Jav.Baker 4-112, Ko.Hudson Jackson Jr. 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 38-77 12-25 97.
wAshingTon ......................... 7
n.Y. isLAnDERs .................... 12
15
9
6 — 28
16 — 37
Karaban 5-8 4-4 15, Clingan 8-15 0-2 16, Castle 5-7 7-7 end of my last high school season
17, Newton 7-11 4-4 22, Spencer 3-11 4-4 12, S.Johnson chAMpionship
3-96, Townsend 2-46, A.Holler 2-45, Pittman 1-0.
oRLAnDo: Banchero 10-22 4-5 26, F.Wagner 8-16 6-7 power-play opportunities: Washington 0 of 1; N.Y. 4-5 0-0 8, Ball 2-4 2-2 7, Ross 2-6 0-0 5, Diarra 1-1 0-0 3, sATURDAY’s REsULT — in sAn DiEgo
ever, last game with my sister.”
24, Bitadze 1-5 0-0 2, Black 1-3 0-0 2, Suggs 5-11 8-10 20, Islanders 0 of 1. goalies: Washington, Shepard 2-0-0 (37 Stewart 1-2 0-0 2, Hurley 0-1 0-0 0, Roumoglou 0-0 0-0 0, Gotham FC 2, OL Reign 1 Outside of a brief surge at the
Isaac 3-10 2-2 10, Okeke 0-0 0-0 0, M.Wagner 7-9 4-5 19, shots-36 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Varlamov 2-3-0 (27-24). Singare 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-71 21-23 107.
Texas Tech 16, no. 16 Kansas 13 Ingles 1-5 2-2 5, Anthony 0-3 4-4 4, Fultz 0-0 0-0 0. Totals A: 16,519 (17,113). T: 2:20. halftime: Connecticut 52-30. Three-point goals: Stone- end of the second quarter, Gle-
hill 9-25 (Benigni 4-5, Brogna 2-2, Stone 1-1, Stinson
TExAs TEch .......................... 10 0 3 3 — 16
36-84 30-35 112.
1-3, Felder 1-4, Rywolt 0-1, Semona 0-1, McGill 0-2, GOLF nelg controlled the game from
Three-point goals: Milwaukee 9-29 (Payne 2-3, Middle-
kAnsAs ................................... 0 0 0 13 — 13 ton 2-4, B.Lopez 2-5, Portis 2-5, Green 1-3, Connaughton
Red Wings 5, Blue Jackets 4 Zegarowski 0-2, Pavlidis 0-3), Connecticut 10-31 (New- start to finish. The Gladiators
ton 4-7, Spencer 2-10, Diarra 1-1, Ball 1-2, Ross 1-3,
fiRsT qUARTER 0-1, Crowder 0-1, G.Antetokounmpo 0-1, Jackson Jr. 0-1, coLUMbUs .............................. 2 1 1 — 4 Karaban 1-4, Castle 0-1, Clingan 0-1, Hurley 0-1, Stewart PGA Tour spaced the field flawlessly to gen-
Beauchamp 0-2, Beasley 0-3), Orlando 10-26 (Isaac 2-4, DETRoiT .................................. 2 2 1 — 5
TTU: T.Brooks 5 run (Garcia kick), 10:18. Suggs 2-4, Banchero 2-5, F.Wagner 2-6, M.Wagner 1-1,
0-1). fouled out: Brogna. Rebounds: Stonehill 23 (Pavlid-
is 4), Connecticut 41 (Castle 8). Assists: Stonehill 11
bERMUDA chAMpionship erate an abundance of scoring
TTU: FG Garcia 32, 3:24. fiRsT pERioD At Port Royal Golf Course; in Sandy’s Parrish, Bermuda
Ingles 1-4, Anthony 0-1, Black 0-1). fouled out: None.
Rebounds: Milwaukee 36 (G.Antetokounmpo 10), Orlan-
(Felder 5), Connecticut 24 (Spencer 6). Total fouls: purse: $6.5 million; Yardage: 6,828; par: 71
opportunities.
ThiRD qUARTER scoring: 1, Detroit, Raymond 5 (Compher), 3:41. 2, Stonehill 16, Connecticut 12. A: 14,606 (16,294).
do 43 (Banchero 12). Assists: Milwaukee 25 (G.Antetok- Detroit, Fabbri 2 (Fischer, Petry), 4:26. 3, Columbus, ThiRD RoUnD
You wouldn’t know from their
TTU: FG Garcia 31, 2:56. ounmpo, Middleton 7), Orlando 24 (Banchero, Ingles 5). Texier 2 (Severson), 5:33. 4, Columbus, Fantilli 3
Total fouls: Milwaukee 24, Orlando 17. A: 19,354 (18,846) (Marchenko, Voronkov), 18:14. Alex Noren .................................... 61 66 67 — 194 -19 play that their coach, Martie
foURTh qUARTER no. 7 Houston 82, Camilo Villegas ............................. 67 63 65 — 195 -18 Dyer, took the job only a week
kU: Neal 60 run (Keller kick), 12:12. sEconD pERioD Ryan Moore ................................... 65 64 67 — 196 -17
kU: FG Keller 24, 4:44. scoring: 5, Columbus, Kuraly 4 (Gudbranson, Werenski),
Texas A&M CC 50 Matti Schmid ................................ 64 67 65 — 196 -17 before the season began.
kU: FG Keller 22, :26. Celtics 117, Raptors 94 5:41. 6, Detroit, DeBrincat 10 (Petry), 16:01. 7, Detroit, Texas A&M cc (1-1)
Stewart Cink ................................. 64 67 66
Kramer Hickok .............................. 67 65 66
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TTU: FG Garcia 30, :03. Sprong 4 (Kostin), 18:19. Clark 2-7 0-1 4, Dease 2-12 1-2 7, Giwa 2-3 3-4 7,
Attendance: 47,233. ToRonTo ........................... 26 20 25 23 — 94 Humphrey 2-9 1-1 5, Jo.Roberts 3-5 0-0 9, Amir-Paul 4-9
Satoshi Kodaira ............................ 64 65 69 — 198 -15 third coach in as many seasons,
bosTon ............................. 30 25 33 29 — 117 ThiRD pERioD Adam Scott ................................... 65 67 66 — 198 -15
Texas Tech kansas
2-4 10, Jackson 0-2 0-0 0, Prim 0-2 0-0 0, Washington 1-4
0-0 2, Wright-Forde 2-6 0-0 4, Parker 0-3 0-0 0,
Vince Whaley ................................ 63 70 65 — 198 -15 Dyer insisted she planned to re-
ToRonTo: Anunoby 3-13 0-0 8, Siakam 6-17 5-6 17, scoring: 8, Detroit, Fabbri 3 (Walman), 2:33. 9, Colum- Carl Yuan ....................................... 70 63 65 — 198 -15
First Downs ..................................... 21
Total Net Yards ............................. 312
18
344 Poeltl 6-10 0-0 12, Barnes 4-15 0-0 10, Schroder 3-7 7-7 bus, Laine 2, 11:30. Allen-Johnson 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 19-64 7-12 50.
Adam Long .................................... 66 68 65 — 199 -14
tire after a long career at various
houston (2-0)
Rushes-Yards ........................... 44-136 45-207 14, Achiuwa 1-5 0-0 2, Boucher 2-4 0-0 6, McDaniels 0-2
shoTs on goAL Francis 5-7 3-4 13, J.Roberts 6-10 5-10 17, Cryer 4-13 5-5
Taylor Pendrith ............................. 65 68 66 — 199 -14 stops. But she eventually accept-
Passing .......................................... 176 137 0-0 0, Porter Jr. 1-2 0-0 3, Young 2-3 0-0 4, Dick 1-4 2-2 4, Dylan Wu ...................................... 63 69 67 — 199 -14
Punt Returns .................................. 0-0 0-0 Temple 1-2 0-0 2, Flynn 5-7 0-1 12. Totals 35-91 14-16 94. coLUMbUs .............................. 7 8 7 — 22 15, Sharp 3-8 3-3 11, Shead 1-3 0-0 2, Tugler 1-3 0-0 2,
Ryan Brehm .................................. 64 65 71 — 200 -13 ed the position, familiar with
DETRoiT .................................. 9 11 8 — 28 Arceneaux 2-5 1-2 5, Wilson 2-6 0-2 4, Walker 3-6 0-2 8,
Kickoff Returns .............................. 0-0 0-0 bosTon: Brown 12-20 2-3 29, Tatum 10-18 4-6 27,
power-play opportunities: Columbus 0 of 3; Detroit 0 of Dunn 1-4 3-6 5, Elvin 0-1 0-0 0, Lath 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
David Lipsky .................................. 67 66 67
D.A. Points .................................... 64 67 69
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many of the players on the team
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 1-0 1-0 Porzingis 9-14 0-1 21, Holiday 4-9 0-0 8, White 2-5 0-1 4, 28-67 20-34 82.
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 19-25-1 10-25-1 Banton 0-1 0-0 0, Hauser 4-6 0-0 12, Horford 3-5 0-0 7,
3. goalies: Columbus, Martin 1-4-1 (28 shots-23 saves).
halftime: Houston 41-27. Three-point goals: Texas A&M
Davis Riley .................................... 64 68 68 — 200 -13 from her time on the club circuit.
Detroit, Husso 6-3-1 (22-18). A: 19,156 (20,000). T: 2:27. Akshay Bhatia .............................. 65 66 70 — 201 -12
Sacked-Yards Lost ........................ 3-24
Punts .......................................... 5-46.4
3-27
4-33.0
Kornet 1-1 0-0 2, Mykhailiuk 0-2 0-0 0, Brissett 0-0 0-0 0, CC 5-21 (Jo.Roberts 3-3, Dease 2-5, Allen-Johnson 0-1,
Lucas Herbert ............................... 66 71 64 — 201 -12
Knowing the talent at her dispos-
Pritchard 2-5 2-2 7. Totals 47-86 8-13 117. Humphrey 0-1, Prim 0-1, Washington 0-1, Clark 0-2,
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-0 0-0
Three-point goals: Toronto 10-37 (Boucher 2-3, Flynn Parker 0-2, Wright-Forde 0-2, Amir-Paul 0-3), Houston
Mark Hubbard ............................... 68 65 68 — 201 -12 al, she envisioned another title as
Penalties-Yards ............................ 4-45 4-31 Patton Kizzire ............................... 69 66 66 — 201 -12
Time Of Possession .................... 31:23 28:37 2-4, Anunoby 2-8, Barnes 2-9, Porter Jr. 1-2, Schroder Hurricanes 4, Lightning 0 6-22 (Walker 2-3, Sharp 2-5, Cryer 2-7, Dunn 0-1, Elvin
0-1, Shead 0-1, Tugler 0-1, Wilson 0-1, Arceneaux 0-2).
Justin Lower ................................. 67 67 67 — 201 -12 a distinct possibility.
1-3, Achiuwa 0-2, Dick 0-2, Siakam 0-4), Boston 15-44
pAssing (Hauser 4-6, Porzingis 3-7, Brown 3-8, Tatum 3-9,
cARoLinA ............................... 1 1 2 — 4 Rebounds: Texas A&M CC 39 (Clark 8), Houston 51
Peter Malnati ................................ 71 66 64
Ben Martin .................................... 65 70 66
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“I thought we could do it,” Dyer
TAMpA bAY ............................ 0 0 0 — 0 (J.Roberts 9). Assists: Texas A&M CC 9 (Dease, Hum-
Texas Tech: Morton 19-25-1-176. kansas: Ballard 9-20-
Horford 1-3, Pritchard 1-3, Banton 0-1, Holiday 0-2,
phrey 3), Houston 16 (J.Roberts, Shead 4). Total fouls:
Ryan Palmer ................................. 67 68 66 — 201 -12 said. “. . . They had to learn a little
Mykhailiuk 0-2, White 0-3). fouled out: None. Rebounds: fiRsT pERioD Doc Redman .................................. 65 66 70 — 201 -12
1-124, Bean 1-4-0-13, Neal 0-1-0-0. Toronto 37 (Siakam 7), Boston 46 (Horford, Porzingis 7). Texas A&M CC 23, Houston 17.
Austin Smotherman ..................... 64 68 69 — 201 -12 bit of a different style and what I
scoring: 1, Carolina, Teravainen 9 (Necas, Aho), 3:10
RUshing Assists: Toronto 25 (Achiuwa 5), Boston 30 (Holiday 7).
Total fouls: Toronto 14, Boston 14. A: 19,156 (18,624)
(pp). Brendon Todd ................................ 65 66 70 — 201 -12 expect of them, and they adjusted
Texas Tech: Brooks 33-133, Valdez 4-14, Morton 7-(mi- sEconD pERioD nCAA women to it well.”
nus 11). kansas: Neal 19-137, Hishaw 13-35, Ballard
10-20, Bean 3-15. scoring: 2, Carolina, Aho 4 (Slavin, Svechnikov), 4:32. sATURDAY’s REsULTs LPGA Tour Dyer met the Eyre sisters when
EAsT they showed up to one of her
REcEiVing Heat 117, Hawks 109 ThiRD pERioD Canisius 78, St. Francis (Pa.) 62 AnnikA DRiVEn
Texas Tech: Price 5-29, Bradley 4-91, Eakin 3-29, McCray MiAMi ................................ 41 22 30 24 — 117 scoring: 3, Carolina, Burns 3 (Skjei), 11:20. 4, Carolina, Colgate 57, UMBC 51 At Pelican Golf Club; in Belleair, Fla.
purse: $3.3 million; Yardage: 6,349; par: 70
camps in elementary school. As
2-(minus 2), Cupp 1-8, Sparkman 1-8, Brooks 1-6, Noesen 3 (Bunting, Burns), 17:54. Duquesne 82, Niagara 79
X.White 1-5, J.Brown 1-2. kansas: Arnold 2-44, Skinner
ATLAnTA ........................... 24 28 30 27 — 109
La Salle 62, American 53 ThiRD RoUnD
she coached them for the final
2-32, Fairchild 2-20, Neal 2-12, Locklin 1-25, Emilien 1-4. MiAMi: Highsmith 3-13 5-7 11, Jaquez Jr. 8-17 2-2 20,
shoTs on goAL Lehigh 62, Stonehill 50 time Saturday, she saw them
Penn 74, Marist 51 Emily Pedersen ............................. 63 65 64 — 192 -18
Adebayo 9-12 8-8 26, D.Robinson 5-15 0-0 11, Lowry 4-8 cARoLinA ............................. 15 9 8 — 32
5-5 17, Cain 0-0 0-0 0, Love 2-4 2-2 7, Richardson 6-7 1-1 TAMpA bAY ............................ 9 3 10 — 22 Saint Joseph’s 66, Yale 45 Lilia Vu .......................................... 67 66 62 — 195 -15 reach the heights they and their
Amy Yang ...................................... 69 65 61 — 195 -15
no. 17 Oklahoma 59, 16, Smith 4-8 0-0 9. Totals 41-84 23-25 117. power-play opportunities: Carolina 1 of 3; Tampa Bay 0 St. Bonaventure 70, Robert Morris 52
Stony Brook 82, Le Moyne 61 Alison Lee ..................................... 68 67 62 — 197 -13 teammates have become accus-
of 3. goalies: Carolina, Kochetkov 1-3-0 (22 shots-22 Gaby Lopez .................................... 65 67 65 — 197 -13
West Virginia 20 ATLAnTA: Hunter 4-11 2-2 10, Johnson 4-8 0-0 9, Capela
4-6 0-0 8, Murray 9-16 0-1 23, Young 7-19 10-11 27,
saves). Tampa Bay, Johansson 5-3-4 (32-28). A: 19,092 West Virginia 71, Pittsburgh 62
Azahara Munoz ............................. 64 69 64 — 197 -13
tomed to — another champion-
(19,092). T: 2:30. soUTh Patty Tavatanakit ......................... 63 72 62 — 197 -13 ship.
Okongwu 0-3 2-2 2, Bey 3-9 0-0 8, Bogdanovic 5-13 0-0
wEsT ViRginiA ....................... 7 7 6 0 — 20 15, Matthews 2-2 1-2 7. Totals 38-87 15-18 109. Appalachian State 71, Ohio 64 Minami Katsu ............................... 63 67 68 — 198 -12
okLAhoMA ........................... 14 17 14 14 — 59 Ball State 86, Troy 71 Megan Khang ................................ 67 69 63 — 199 -11
Three-point goals: Miami 12-38 (Lowry 4-6, Richardson
fiRsT qUARTER 3-4, Jaquez Jr. 2-7, Love 1-3, Smith 1-3, D.Robinson 1-10, Senators 4, Flames 1 Davidson 57, Wake Forest 52
Eastern Kentucky 86, Northern Kentucky 75
Stephanie Kyriacou .......................
Ruoning Yin ...................................
70 65 64
68 68 63
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wVU: Donaldson 13 run (Hayes kick), 11:00. Highsmith 0-5), Atlanta 18-46 (Murray 5-9, Bogdanovic cALgARY ................................. 0 1 0 — 1 ETSU 51, Lafayette 43 Amanda Doherty ........................... 66 68 66 — 200 -10
okLA: Gabriel 2 run (Schmit kick), 8:27. 5-12, Young 3-9, Matthews 2-2, Bey 2-7, Johnson 1-3, oTTAwA .................................. 1 1 2 — 4 Elon 90, Gardner Webb 69 Wei-Ling Hsu ................................ 67 68 65 — 200 -10
okLA: Gabriel 2 run (Schmit kick), 3:16. Hunter 0-4). fouled out: None. Rebounds: Miami 39 Georgia Southern 82, Eastern Michigan 58 Lexi Thompson .............................. 64 70 66 — 200 -10
(Adebayo 17), Atlanta 48 (Capela 12). Assists: Miami 23 fiRsT pERioD Georgia Tech 91, Furman 56 Lindy Duncan ................................. 67 65 69 — 201 -9
sEconD qUARTER (Highsmith 5), Atlanta 23 (Young 11). Total fouls: scoring: 1, Ottawa, Joseph 4 (Sanderson, Stutzle), Kentucky 82, South Carolina Upstate 54 Sarah Schmelzel ........................... 68 66 67 — 201 -9
Miami 14, Atlanta 19. A: 17,722 (18,118) 11:21. Old Dominion 59, Buffalo 48 Jaravee Boonchant ....................... 66 68 68 — 202 -8
okLA: FG Schmit 23, 13:54.
okLA: Stogner 3 pass from Gabriel (Schmit kick), 9:06. Presbyterian 76, Johnson C. Smith 40 Brooke Henderson ........................ 62 75 65 — 202 -8
sEconD pERioD Samford 65, Central Arkansas 62 Ariya Jutanugarn .......................... 64 70 68 — 202 -8
okLA: Gibson 32 pass from Gabriel (Schmit kick), 6:20.
wVU: K.Taylor 3 pass from Greene (Hayes kick), :07. scoring: 2, Ottawa, Batherson 4 (Chychrun, Tkachuk), Southern Mississippi 77, Akron 60 Gina Kim ........................................ 70 65 67 — 202 -8
Cavaliers 118, Warriors 110 3:07 (pp). 3, Calgary, Coleman 4 (Pospisil), 15:52. UNC Greensboro 61, South Carolina State 30 Nelly Korda .................................... 67 68 67 — 202 -8
ThiRD qUARTER Wofford 74, UNC Wilmington 49 Rachel Kuehn ................................ 66 69 67 — 202 -8
cLEVELAnD ....................... 30 38 16 34 — 118 ThiRD pERioD Wichanee Meechai ........................ 66 66 70 — 202 -8
okLA: Stoops 60 pass from Gabriel (Schmit kick), 13:48. goLDEn sTATE .................. 31 21 31 27 — 110 MiDwEsT
wVU: D.Carter 7 pass from Greene (pass failed), 9:28. scoring: 4, Ottawa, Chartier 1 (Batherson, Kubalik), Cornell 80, S. Illinois 77
okLA: Stoops 9 pass from Gabriel (Schmit kick), 4:34. cLEVELAnD: E.Mobley 6-10 7-7 19, Strus 6-9 2-2 16, 3:50. 5, Ottawa, Hamonic 1 (Stutzle, Giroux), 5:12. Fort Wayne 124, Crusaders 41
foURTh qUARTER
Allen 2-6 8-9 12, Garland 6-13 4-6 19, Mitchell 7-22 5-6 shoTs on goAL Green Bay 88, Illinois State 62 H IGH S CH O OLS
21, Bates 0-0 0-0 0, Niang 0-4 0-0 0, T.Thompson 0-0 0-0 Marquette 71, Illinois 67
okLA: Stoops 9 pass from Gabriel (Schmit kick), 13:46. 0, Wade 2-4 2-2 8, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, LeVert 8-18 4-5 22, cALgARY ............................... 12 11 2 — 25 Southeast Missouri State 82, Stars 60
okLA: Gabriel 5 run (Schmit kick), 7:59. Porter 0-0 1-6 1. Totals 37-86 33-43 118. oTTAwA ................................ 12 14 12 — 38 St. Thomas (Minn.) 101, Falcons 62 sATURDAY‘s REsULTs
Attendance: 83,525. power-play opportunities: Calgary 0 of 3; Ottawa 1 of 5. soUThwEsT fooTbALL
goLDEn sTATE: Green 3-4 0-0 8, Wiggins 6-12 0-2 13, goalies: Calgary, Wolf 0-1-0 (38 shots-34 saves).
west Virginia oklahoma Looney 1-2 0-0 2, Curry 9-24 8-8 30, K.Thompson 5-16 2-2 Kansas State 77, UALR 39 D.c.
Ottawa, Korpisalo 4-4-0 (25-24). A: 18,874 (18,572). T:
First Downs ..................................... 17 25 14, Jackson-Davis 0-1 1-2 1, Kuminga 2-7 8-11 12, Saric SMU 96, Alabama State 47 Ballou 13, H.D. Woodson 6
2:26.
Total Net Yards ............................. 330
Rushes-Yards ........................... 41-176
644
42-221
2-5 1-1 5, Joseph 1-2 0-0 3, Moody 2-4 2-2 8, Paul 4-7 0-0
9, Payton II 1-4 1-2 3, Podziemski 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 37-90
Sam Houston State 67, Houston Christian 65
Texas State 74, Bowling Green 48
Dunbar 49, Theodore Roosevelt 6
pRiVATE Searing
Passing .......................................... 154
Punt Returns .................................. 2-5
Kickoff Returns ............................ 2-55
423
2--17
2-47
23-30 110.
Three-point goals: Cleveland 11-30 (Garland 3-5, Strus Maple Leafs 5, Canucks 2
wEsT
San Diego 71, Portland State 43
Archbishop Carroll 27, Bishop Ireton 21
Concordia Prep 28, St. Mary’s-Annapolis 7 nocturnal pain…
2-3, Wade 2-4, Mitchell 2-6, LeVert 2-7, E.Mobley 0-1, San Jose State 61, Cal Poly 56 Trinity Episcopal 30, Flint Hill 28
Interceptions Ret. ........................... 0-0
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 10-31-2
2-12
23-36-0
Niang 0-4), Golden State 13-38 (Curry 4-14, Green 2-3, VAncoUVER ........................... 2
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Santa Clara 62, Hawaii 51 Woodberry Forest 34, Episcopal 28 Read “Medical Mysteries,”
Moody 2-3, K.Thompson 2-5, Joseph 1-2, Paul 1-2, UC Irvine 74, Seattle 43
Sacked-Yards Lost .......................... 0-0 2-14 VoLLEYbALL
Punts ...................................... 6-41.333 3-38.0
Wiggins 1-4, Kuminga 0-1, Payton II 0-1, Saric 0-3).
fouled out: Cleveland 1 (Wade), Golden State None.
fiRsT pERioD ViRginiA Tuesdays in Health
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 0-0 2-1 Rebounds: Cleveland 45 (Strus 8), Golden State 55 scoring: 1, Vancouver, Miller 9 (Pettersson, Hughes), Battlefield def. West Springfield 3-2 (29-27, 24-26,
Penalties-Yards ............................ 2-20 5-60 (Looney 13). Assists: Cleveland 23 (Mitchell 5), Golden 5:43 (pp). 2, Toronto, Knies 4 (Domi, Bertuzzi), 8:37. 3, Marquette 71, no. 23 Illinois 67 25-20, 27-29, 15-9) & Science.
Time Of Possession .................... 30:32 29:28 State 26 (Paul 9). Total fouls: Cleveland 24, Golden Vancouver, Suter 4 (Hronek, Beauvillier), 15:48 (pp). Colonial Forge def. W.T. Woodson 3-2
iLLinois ............................. 16 18 16 17 — 67
pAssing
State 29. A: 18,064 (18,064)
sEconD pERioD MARqUETTE ...................... 14 23 19 15 — 71
James Madison def. Cosby 3-0 (25-16, 25-8, 25-12)
James Wood def. Loudoun County 3-0 (25-15, 28-26, 25-15)
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west Virginia: Greene 10-27-1-154, Marchiol 0-4-1-0. scoring: 4, Toronto, Nylander 10 (Tavares, Bertuzzi), illinois (1-1) Langley def. Deep Run 3-0 (25-22, 25-20, 26-24)
oklahoma: Gabriel 23-36-0-423. 4:53. 5, Toronto, Gregor 2 (Rielly, McMann), 14:22. Bostic 6-7 2-2 14, Shoup-Hill 2-5 0-0 4, Bryant 4-14 1-2
11, McKenzie 3-6 0-0 6, Peebles 3-6 2-3 8, Bollin 0-0 0-0
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T ennI S ThiRD pERioD 0, Hobby 7-9 4-5 18, Dolan 0-1 0-0 0, Rhodes 2-4 2-2 6, Flint Hill def. Bishop O’Connell 3-1 (25-19, 25-17, 18-25,
Totals 27-52 11-14 67 25-17)
west Virginia: Donaldson 14-79, White 9-39, Greene scoring: 6, Toronto, Robertson 2 (Domi), 4:56. 7,
Marquette (2-0)
10-24, J.Johnson 3-13, Marchiol 2-10, Gallagher 1-4, ATP Toronto, Kampf 1 (Gregor, McMann), 9:13.
Hottinger 5-8 1-1 11, Karlen 11-16 0-0 22, Hare 1-5 1-2 4,
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Horton 1-4, Fox 1-3. oklahoma: Sawchuk 22-135, Gabriel MARYLAnD
MosELLE opEn shoTs on goAL King 4-14 9-10 19, Nkumu 5-6 0-0 12, Cracknell 0-0 0-0 0,
11-50, Farooq 2-29, Smothers 2-6, Beville 2-5, T.Walker
1-(minus 2), (Team) 2-(minus 2). At Arenes de Metz (France) VAncoUVER ......................... 12 11 10 — 33
Forbes 1-3 1-1 3, Volker 0-2 0-0 0, Totals 27-54 12-14 71
Three-point goals: Illinois 2-10 (Shoup-Hill 0-3, Bryant
Damascus 3, North Harford 2
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2-7), Marquette 5-16 (Karlen 0-2, Hare 1-5, King 2-4,
Nkumu 2-2, Forbes 0-2, Volker 0-1). Assists: Illinois 17
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2. goalies: Vancouver, Demko 7-3-0 (22 shots-17 saves). Independence 1, First Colonial 0
west Virginia: Carter 3-67, Ray 2-56, Fox 2-15, Clement
singLEs — chAMpionship Toronto, Samsonov 3-1-2 (33-31). A: 19,107 (18,819). T:
(Bostic 4, Bryant 4, Rhodes 4), Marquette 20 (Hare 7). Loudoun Valley 2, Gloucester 1
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Russia, 6-3, 6-3. Marquette 28 (Hottinger 8). Total fouls: Illinois 17,
Farooq 2-30, Freeman 1-3. Yorktown 1, W.T. Woodson 0
Marquette 17. Technical Fouls_None. A: 1,428.
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maryland girls’ soccer semifinals Virginia class 4 field hockey final

An unprecedented step Clarke rallies Vikings to their first championship

has Blazers on big stage louDouN VAllEy 2,
BlAiR 2,
pERRy hAll 0
BY N ICKY W OLCOTT
Bia Da Silva locked eyes with
Blair teammate Alma Zhong and
knew to get behind Perry Hall’s
defense.
The senior sprinted by her de-
fender and latched on to Zhong’s
pass before poking the ball past
the Gators’ goalkeeper and into
the back of the net.
Da Silva’s goal three minutes
into Saturday’s Maryland 4A girls’
soccer semifinal helped Blair set-
tle in and qualify for the first state
final in program history with a 2-0
win over Perry Hall in Gambrills.
“A lot of people, including my-
self, came into this with a lot of
excitement but a lot of nerves at
the same time,” Da Silva said.
“Getting that first goal so early
definitely made us confident.”
The Blazers (16-2) will take on
two-time defending state cham-
pion Whitman in this week’s 4A
state title game.
Zhong, Blair’s leading goal
scorer, played a different role than
usual in the Blazers’ opening goal.
The senior entered Saturday’s
semifinal with 15 goals and nine
assists in her first season with the
Blazers; she previously focused on
club soccer commitments during
the fall. Zhong added her 10th
assist of the season on Da Silva’s
early tally.
The Blazers took their 1-0 ad-
vantage into halftime after a back-
and-forth first half but controlled
much of the final 40 minutes and
were rewarded for their play half-
way through the second half.
Meron Koro picked up an er-
rant pass by Perry Hall (6-8-2) and
drove toward the end line before
she saw the goalkeeper off her
line, expecting a cross. Koro saw a
vacant back post and unleashed a
looping shot that sailed over the
goalkeeper’s head and nestled
into the bottom corner to double
Blair’s lead in the 57th minute.
Coach Robert Gibb, in his 35th
thoughts, then smiled and added:
“I haven’t cried yet. I guess that’ll
breather. Ferrara did not substi-
tute the entire game, riding her
her a clear shot at the vacant net.
She did not miss.
GlouCESTER 1 (oT) come later.” 11 starters for the full 60 minutes “I had to be faster than her,”
season at Blair, said the Blazers The dramatic victory had in- plus overtime. Clarke said. “I had a teammate I
had a good junior foundation in deed left Coach Melissa Ferrara “I know they were tired — both could have passed to, but I
2019 when they appeared in the BY M IKE H OLTZCLAW and the rest of the Vikings shed- teams were,” she said. “But when thought I could get past the
program’s first state semifinal and ding happy tears. Loudoun Valley you get to this point, it’s not just goalkeeper and I decided to go for
fell to Perry Hall. He thought Blair Moments after Katie Clarke’s (20-2) had kept pressure on stamina. It’s intensity. We domi- it.”
could build on the progress the overtime goal Saturday night Gloucester’s goal for most of the nated a lot of this game, but we Ferrara acknowledged quite
following season, but there was no gave Loudoun Valley the first night but had trouble putting the couldn’t put it away and we really simply: “As soon as [the goalkeep-
2020 state tournament because of field hockey state championship ball in the net. needed to grind it out.” er] went down, I knew it was
the coronavirus pandemic. in school history, 2-1 over Gloucester scored an early Almost six minutes into the over.”
Gibb felt the same way about Gloucester, she tried to describe goal, and the Dukes’ 1-0 lead held first overtime period, Clarke had Clarke, a junior who has com-
last year’s state semifinalists. This how it felt. up until the end of the third the ball on her stick and an mitted to play for Delaware, was
season’s group of 11 seniors — with “Not real,” she began. “It’s hon- quarter, when Clarke converted uncontested path toward the the Vikings’ top offensive threat
nine returning starters plus the estly unreal. When everyone was on a corner with no time left on goal. Gloucester goalkeeper all season, sporting an almost
addition of Zhong — vindicated piling on top of me, I was so the clock. Addyson Zabicki came out to cut instinctive sense around the goal.
his outlook by advancing to the pumped full of adrenaline that I That 1-1 tie remained intact down the angle and lunged to “She has a tremendous work
program’s first state title game, a was still feeling like we were throughout the fourth quarter, make the play, but Clarke trusted ethic,” Ferrara said. “She’s talent-
moment etched in writing when going to get up and keep playing.” with both coaches using timeouts her instincts and powered her ed, but she’s also a worker. She’s
Da Silva penned the school’s She paused to collect her to give their players a quick way past the goalkeeper, leaving an intense competitor.”
name, with three exclamation
points, on a parent-made bracket
after the win.
“Over the past four years I’ve
been on this team, we’ve always
had very solid teams, but I think
that this year, this shows that
there’s something special about
us,” Da Silva said.
Whitman eyes three-peat
Whitman will have the oppor-
tunity to three-peat as state cham-
pion next week after blanking
Glen Burnie, 3-0, in Saturday’s
second semifinal.
Riley DeMartino’s hat trick lift-
ed the Vikings past the Gophers,
who were making their first state
semifinal appearance on their
home field.
Whitman (13-1) will take on
Blair for the state title next week.
The Vikings bested the Blazers,
1-0, in the regular season matchup
between the Montgomery County
programs.
Mount Hebron advances in 3A
Mount Hebron advanced to its
third consecutive 3A state final
with a 1-0 win over Oakdale in
Frederick.
Olivia Hoover scored the deci-
sive goal for the Vikings in the 21st
minute. Mount Hebron (15-1) has
won 15 consecutive games since a
2-1 loss in its season opener
against nationally ranked
McDonogh School and will take
on Severna Park next week for the
state title.

maryland boys’ soccer semifinals

Raiders reach 4A final

with a laser in overtime Craig hudson for the Washington Post

have played nothing but tight Mount Hebron players surround Coach Jeannette Ireland on Saturday after securing the first field hockey state title in school history.
lEoNARDToWN 2, matches this postseason, win-
WhiTMAN 1 (oT) ning all four playoff games by
maryland 3a field hockey final
one goal. That included a 1-0 win
over North Point in the second
BY M ICHAEL E RRIGO

Leonardtown sophomore
Noah Kowalko knew he had end-
ed the game the moment he
kicked the ball. Saturday’s Mary-
land 4A boys’ soccer semifinal
between the Raiders and Whit-
man was two minutes into the
first period of sudden-death
overtime when the ball fell to
Kowalko on the back end of a
corner kick, and his shot was too
perfect not to go in.
“I had that feeling right away; I
just hit it so nicely,” Kowalko
said. “And then the only thing
going through my head was,
‘That better go in because that
was a great shot.’ ”
Kowalko’s laser strike did go
in, and it handed the Raiders a
2-1 win at Glen Burnie High.
In this week’s 4A final, the
Raiders will face Prince George’s
County power Northwestern.
The Wildcats, who last won a
state title in 2021, defeated Urba-
na, 2-1, in similar fashion Satur-
day. Senior midfielder Josue
Mejia Rico scored the game-win-
ning goal in the first period of
extra time.
Kowalko’s goal provided a sud-
den and dramatic end to a tense,
defensive match. Leonardtown’s
Lincoln Bauer gave the Raiders
the lead in the 18th minute, and
Whitman sophomore Endric
Lotsch equalized for the Vikings
(11-5-0) in the 50th. Otherwise,
the teams spent a cold afternoon
mostly fighting small, physical
battles for possession in the mid-
field.
“There were three things we
talked about before the game:
positivity, belief and toughness,”
first-year Leonardtown coach
Luke Kokolios said. “The tough-
ness factor was huge today. We
had to be locked in for every
second. . . . But then in overtime,
we had to hold our heads up and
believe.”
After winning the Southern
Maryland Athletic Conference ti-
tle at the conclusion of the regu-
lar season, the Raiders (13-1-1)
round that avenged the team’s
only loss.
“I think the turning point in
our season was that first loss to
North Point,” Kokolios said. “It
caused a change in mind-set. The
boys realized nothing was going
to be given to us, no matter how
good we are. We had to earn
everything.”
Damascus holds on in 2A
When Steve Pfiel took over at
Damascus in the spring, he met
with departing coach Andre Wise
to learn a bit about the roster.
Wise, who had coached the Hor-
nets for 13 seasons, told his
replacement the group had the
potential to go to the state cham-
pionship game.
“At that moment, I decided to
coach the team like it could win a
state championship,” Pfiel said.
“So starting in the summer,
through the preseason, into the
season — this team has held itself
to a very high standard.”
On Saturday afternoon at Bel
Air High, the Hornets secured a
spot in the state championship
game for the first time in pro-
gram history with a 3-2 win over
North Harford in 2A.
Senior forward Nick Weaver
opened the scoring with a free
kick, giving his team an early 1-0
lead. The Hawks leveled the
score, but Damascus (15-2-0)
found another goal minutes later,
substitute Sam Kaganzev provid-
ing a perfect deflection in a
chaotic box.
Senior midfielder Lawrence
Ahwireng Jr. put the Hornets up
3-1 in the second half. That
two-goal margin proved pivotal
when North Harford scored a
late tally.
Damascus will face Century,
out of Carroll County, this week
at Loyola University in the cham-
pionship game.
“Next week I just want to see
this team dig as deep as they dug
today,” Pfiel said. “We’re going to
have their physicality and their
heart. If we can do that, we’ll be
in it.”
For coach, title worth the 33-year wait
MouNT hEBRoN 5,
NoRThERN 1
BY E MMETT S IEGEL
Jeannette Ireland waited for
this moment for 33 years. As the
coach of Mount Hebron field
hockey, she has seen her teams
come close to a state title but fall
just short on multiple occasions.
On Saturday at Paint Branch
High in Burtonsville, her Vikings
finally finished the job with a
comprehensive 5-1 victory over
Northern in the Maryland 3A
championship game.
“Still in disbelief, honestly,” Ire-
land said after the game. “I’m
proud of them. They did the work.
They deserved it.”
Virginia class 3 field hockey final
Mustangs end their campaign proud if not perfect
TABB 6,
MERiDiAN 0
BY M IKE H OLTZCLAW
VIRGINIA BEACH — In the regu-
lar season, the Meridian field
hockey team allowed just four
goals. Saturday’s Virginia Class 3
state championship game went
differently.
Tabb beat Meridian, 6-0, at
Kellam High to win its third
consecutive state title. After-
ward, Mustangs senior Caroline
Carmody still managed a muted
smile as she held her state run-
ner-up medal.
“I’m a little bit bummed,” she
said. “But it’s super cool how far
A decade ago, Ireland’s Vikings
were on this same stage but suf-
fered a one-goal loss. For years
after, Mount Hebron couldn’t ad-
vance out of its region to earn a
shot at redemption.
This preseason, though, Ire-
land foresaw that this team had a
chance. She had seen talented
players grow up within the pro-
gram and knew this squad, with a
bevy of talented upperclassmen,
had the potential to bring home
the school’s first state title.
“Don’t waste this opportunity,”
she told her players.
When the Vikings (16-1) circled
for a timeout with 7:34 remaining
Saturday, it was clear they weren’t
going to. Just seconds earlier, sen-
ior midfielder Natalie Machiran
had rocketed a shot into the goal
to give them a 4-1 lead. With less
we’ve come. We’re going to re-
member all the good things
about this season, not just how it
ended.”
Meridian (21-1) was undefeat-
ed until it ran into York County’s
Tigers. A year ago, the Mustangs
were region runners-up and lost
in the state quarterfinals in a
heartbreaking penalty shootout;
this year, they were region
champs and made it to the state
title game after Carmody scored
the winning goal against Poquo-
son in a semifinal.
Meridian Coach Anne Steen-
hoek described Tabb as “very
skilled, very athletic and very,
very tough.” She pointed out that
most of the Tigers’ roster plays
field hockey year-round for club
teams.
than a minute remaining, Tylar
Fleck put the finishing touches on
the win with a tap-in.
“Honestly, it means more than
words can tell,” Machiran said.
“. . . When I received my medal, I
started tearing up a bit.”
Mount Hebron’s two fourth-
quarter strikes sealed the deal,
but it was the connection between
Annabelle Kazanas and Avery
Maslow that powered the Vikings.
They assisted each other’s goals,
putting on display the precise
passing and opportunistic corner
play that gave Northern trouble.
Despite the result, an upbeat
CoraJo Tozzolo was quick to point
out the positives of an impressive
season for the Patriots (15-2) that
included a Southern Maryland
Athletic Conference champion-
ship. The coach even brought
Tabb dominated the ball
throughout but led just 2-0 at
halftime on goals by Kira
Takahashi-Trader. She scored her
third goal early in the second
half, and the Tigers never let up.
They scored their sixth and final
goal with three minutes left.
Afterward, Tabb players
jumped, danced and chanted,
“Three-peat!”
Carmody said the Mustangs
knew how good the Tigers were
but came into the game with
confidence.
“We prepare the same way for
every game — you’re always ex-
cited to play and a little nervous,”
she said. “It’s unfortunate what
happened today, but we’re still
proud of the season we’ve had.”
Steenhoek said the hardest
Northern’s junior varsity team
along for the bus ride to Paint
Branch to build excitement.
“It’s not always going to go our
way, and we should be proud of
everything that we accomplished
this year,” said Tozzolo, wrapping
up her fifth year guiding the pro-
gram. “I mean, if somebody would
have told me in August that this is
where I was going to be today, I
would have told them they were
crazy.”
Of all people, Ireland knows as
well as anybody how hard it is to
win the final game of the season.
But when presented with her first
opportunity to put her hands on
the trophy, the calm-mannered
coach took a step back and let her
players lift it first.
After 33 years, what difference
does a few extra seconds make?
part of Saturday’s loss was know-
ing it was the last time her
seniors would wear Meridian
uniforms. She does not believe
any of them will play college field
hockey, other than perhaps at the
club level, so she said the last
game of the year would be tough
under any circumstances.
“For a lot of these seniors, it’s
the last time they’ll ever play,”
she said. “That’s where the sad-
ness comes from. It’s a great
group of kids, and they’ve meant
so much to this program.”
Asked how the bus ride home
would be, Carmody shrugged.
“Bittersweet,” she said. “We’re
sad right now, but we’re going to
think about everything we ac-
complished together, and then
we’ll get excited.”
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VirginiA ClAss 6 field hoCkey finAl
For Patriots, redemption was a year in the making In Class 6, Woodbridge,
YOrktOwn 1,
w.t. wOOdsOn 0 (2Ot)
BY M IKE H OLTZCLAW
VIRGINIA BEACH — This time, the
Yorktown field hockey team was
on the right side of a 1-0 result in
the Virginia Class 6 champion-
ship game.
After losing to Fairfax by that
score last year, the disappoint-
ment stuck with the Patriots until
Saturday, when junior Paige
Baskin scored with three minutes
left in the second overtime period
to give Yorktown a victory over
W.T. Woodson.
“It’s the best feeling ever,”
Crofton won its second straight state championship, this time in Class 4A after one in Class 3A in 2022, by shutting out Churchill.
mArylAnd ClAss 4A field hoCkey finAl
Cardinals seniors set a lofty standard
CrOftOn 5,
ChurChill 0
BY E MMETT S IEGEL
This is Crofton High’s fourth
school year of existence. Its varsi-
ty field hockey team has played
for just three but has soared to
elite status in the blink of an eye.
The Cardinals kept rising Sat-
urday by securing back-to-back
state championships. They out-
played Churchill for a 5-0 win in
the Maryland 4A title game at
Paint Branch High in Burtons-
ville.
Last year, Crofton lifted the 3A
trophy after Kylie Corcoran
scored a late winner for a narrow
VirginiA ClAss 5 field hoCkey finAl
In program’s fifth season, the Tigers break through
independenCe 1,
first COlOnial 0
BY M IKE H OLTZCLAW
VIRGINIA BEACH — It took 60 mi-
nutes of playing time Saturday for
Independence to win the Virginia
Class 5 field hockey state champi-
onship, but junior midfielder
Jaelen Perez reflected on a
journey that was several months
long.
Moments after her team
capped its undefeated season
with a 1-0 victory over First Colo-
nial, Perez stood on the field at
Kellam High and tried to explain
how she and her teammates had
shut out such a highly skilled
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W. Springfield live large
Baskin said. “We came so close
last year. We wanted to feel this,
and now we’ve got it. We knew
deep down that we could do this.
We all got really hyped up for this.”
Yorktown (19-2) had scoring
opportunities throughout, start-
ing in the first quarter when Ele-
na Reiser’s penalty shot clanged
off the left goal post. But Woodson
goalkeeper AJ Ingson made sev-
eral key saves, and the Cavaliers
worked to clear the rebounds.
The longer the game remained
scoreless, the higher the likeli-
hood that a fortuitous bounce or a
simple mistake could be the dif-
ference.
“You keep getting those oppor-
tunities, and you hope one will go
in,” Yorktown Coach Olivia
win over River Hill. This year,
there was no drama: With a com-
fortable cushion, Cardinals
Coach Amy Skrickus was able to
give goalie Ryleigh Osborne a
curtain call and bring in senior
Downing Lose for the final few
minutes.
Crofton (16-2) has one of the
most talented rosters in the state,
but moving up to 4A presented a
new challenge.
“We understood that we need-
ed to fight this entire game,” said
Osborne, who made two diving
stops at the goal line. “. . . We
weren’t going to let up, because if
we did let up we know that this
team is very capable of scoring.”
Saturday brought a familiar
feeling for Churchill (16-2), too.
The Bulldogs advanced to the 4A
opponent.
“Honestly, we’ve been prepar-
ing for this since the first practice
in July,” Perez said. “Our goal all
along was state.”
The Ashburn school is in its
fifth year of existence. In each of
its first four seasons, the field
hockey team had lost in the state
semifinals. This time, the Tigers
(22-0) finished things off, win-
ning the athletic program’s
10th state title.
Before coming to Independ-
ence, Coach Jennifer Darrow had
won two state championships as
an assistant at Westfield. After
winning her first as a head coach
Saturday, she wiped tears from
her eyes before the medal cer-
emony.
“It’s very emotional,” she said.
High Schools
Shipley said. “We knew they were
strong defensively, and their goal-
ie is a phenomenal player. But the
more opportunities you get, the
higher the chance that you score.”
Shipley said her team likes
overtime, both psychologically
and because the format fits well
with the Patriots’ speed. Her play-
ers seem to buy into that philoso-
phy, having won their semifinal
matchup and the title game in
overtime.
Twice during overtime Satur-
day, Yorktown’s Olivia Stafford
had clean shots on goal. Her first
opportunity, midway through the
first overtime period, went just
wide of the net. The second, a few
minutes into the second over-
time, was blocked by Ingson.
title game for the third straight
year but were left with runner-up
medals yet again. When the final
horn sounded, Churchill senior
Emma Datch embraced team-
mate Jenna Pigott as the Cardi-
nals’ celebration unfolded behind
them.
“That was a really emotional
moment for me,” Datch said. “. . .
We’ve gotten so close as a team
this year, and I’m proud of where
we’ve gone. It’s just hard that it’s
the end.”
In Thursday’s semifinal win
over Broadneck — last year’s 4A
champion and the team responsi-
ble for Crofton’s only losses this
season — the Cardinals scored
first and dared the Bruins to beat
Osborne and their sturdy defense.
On Saturday, they kept the pres-
“There’s no team I’ve been more
proud of than this team right
here.”
Perez scored the game’s only
goal midway through the second
quarter, batting a rebound out of
the air chest high from the left
side of the goal.
“I saw the ball come off the
goalkeeper, and I didn’t have time
to think,” Perez said. “It was just
instinct.”
From there, the Tigers’ airtight
defense in front of goalkeeper
Quin Demcsak did the rest. Dar-
row called a timeout midway
through the fourth quarter to
stress to her players that the state
title was within reach.
She said her team has a simple
philosophy when it comes to the
defensive side of the game.
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But late in the second overtime
period, Ingson stopped a shot by
Alexis Williams, and the rebound
came to Baskin. With Ingson out
of position after the initial save,
Baskin had a clear shot on goal.
“I saw the ball coming to me,
and I saw the open goal,” Baskin
said. “I only had a second to think,
and what I thought was, ‘Keep
your stick down.’ That’s what I
did, and it paid off.”
Shipley said the state title was
the perfect ending to a gratifying
season.
“We really didn’t know what
this year was going to be like,” she
said. “We lost a lot of seniors, and
these girls really had to figure
some things out. They put in the
effort, and it definitely paid off.”
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sure on all game long.
After Charlotte DeForest
tipped in a shot by Emily Najarian
just over midway through the
first quarter, the floodgates
opened. In the second quarter,
Olivia Feeley and Sophia Galarza
added their names to the
scoresheet. Second-half goals by
Mary-Cate Parks and Feeley set-
tled the margin of victory.
Crofton’s seniors built a stron-
ger foundation than anyone could
have imagined. The standard has
been set as they step away.
“Definitely upsetting that I’m
leaving, but I’m very happy for
this team,” said Corcoran, who got
to carry the trophy into the locker
room. “They’re going to be great
next year — hopefully win an-
other state championship.”
“Stay low, stay strong, and
communicate,” Darrow said.
“That’s all it takes.”
According to MaxPreps, this
was the first time First Colonial
has been shut out since 2020.
Perez said the Independence
players and coaches had the op-
portunity to watch First Colonial
play during the semifinals Friday,
and the scouting helped them
prepare for the championship
game.
“They are very fast with the
ball — that was really obvious to
see,” Perez said. “We held up a
little bit, stayed back a little more
on defense than we usually do,
because we knew how fast they
are. But really we just tried to play
our regular game of tough de-
fense.”
VirginiA Cross-Country ChAmpionships
Vikings boys back up
their preseason title talk;
Spartans girls repeat
BY M ICHAEL H OWES
As a freshman, Aidan
MacGrath told her coach, “I’ll
never be able to do that.” Skinny
and small, as she described her-
self, the West Springfield High
runner did not believe she could
win a state competition.
Three years later she proved
her younger self wrong, darting
to a first-place finish at the Vir-
ginia Class 6 girls’ cross-country
meet to cap her senior season and
vault the Spartans to a team vic-
tory with 62 points, just ahead of
Robinson (64) and W.T. Woodson
(65).
“It’s like your dream came
true,” MacGrath said after finish-
ing the 5K race at Oatlands in
Leesburg in 18 minutes 11 sec-
onds. “. . . I’m just happy I was
able to push through it and hear
everyone cheering and coming
first.”
MacGrath began consistently
going on long runs her junior
year to strengthen her body, she
said. She also started to monitor
what she was eating to keep her-
self in a healthy physique.
“I just stopped caring, really,
overall about what other people
said and what my body looked
like versus what a healthy body
looked like,” she said. “Once I
noticed all of that and I actually
put in the work to do what’s right
to keep myself healthy is when I
started seeing all the work pay off
and got me here.”
The Spartans secured their
second straight team title for the
first time in school history —
even after falling to rival W.T.
Woodson in the district and re-
gion championships.
“We didn’t win the small prize
and we didn’t win the medium
prize, but we won the large prize,
and that’s the one that goes down
in history,” Coach Chris Pellegrini
mArylAnd Cross-Country ChAmpionships
Einstein shows its love
and loves its top finish
For girls, Walter Johnson
holds on, Severna Park
rolls to dominant victory
BY S AM J ANE
The Einstein boys’ cross-coun-
try runners aren’t shy about shar-
ing their love for one another.
Each keeps a “dap track,” de-
signed to gauge how many high-
fives and handshakes the team
does at meets.
At the Maryland Class 4A
championship Saturday at Here-
ford High in Parkton, there were
so many daps the Titans could
barely keep track. That tends to
happen when you win the first
state title in school history.
Fueled by senior Patrick
Mozden’s sixth-place finish, Ein-
stein (121 points) narrowly beat
Churchill (126) and Whitman
(128). When Coach Eric DaSilva
saw numerous baby-blue check-
ered shorts near the front of the
pack midway through, he knew
his team was going to do what
past teams thought wasn’t possi-
ble.
As each Titans runner crossed
the finish line, they huddled
around one another, using all
their math knowledge to try to
figure out where they stood in the
standings.
“They were the first group in
my 17 years [of coaching] that
said, ‘This is possible; we’re going
to go for it,’ ” DaSilva said.
Einstein was not considered a
true contender but had a clear
strategy going in: place as many
runners in the middle of the pack
as possible by sticking together. It
did just that as five runners
finished in the top 45. The tight-
knit group also used its incon-
spicuous reputation as motiva-
tion.
“We weren’t on the radar, but
we knew we should have been,”
Mozden said.
The girls’ 4A race was also a
close finish as Walter Johnson
(70) narrowly beat Frederick (71).
d13
said.
In the boys’ Class 6 champion-
ship, Woodbridge prevailed
thanks to top-10 finishes by ju-
nior Hayden Goodman (fifth,
15:44) and senior Nathanael
McMahon (ninth, 16:04). Scoring
62 points, Woodbridge finished
comfortably ahead of Lake Brad-
dock (86).
The Vikings approached
Coach Kelly McGreal in July stat-
ing the goal for the upcoming
season was to win the state cham-
pionship. Then the team worked
out daily in the summer heat in
preparation.
The Vikings wore their confi-
dence on their sleeves, literally, as
McGreal printed championship
T-shirts before the event began to
wear at the awards ceremony.
“We knew we had the talent,
and we also knew that there was
no team out there who wanted it
as much as we did,” Goodman
said. “We knew going into it that
another team was going to have
to outwork us, which we didn’t
think was going to happen.”
South County senior Nayan
Kasperowski won the boys’ race
in 15:09, but the Stallions weren’t
part of the team competition.
Kasperowski said his goal was to
stick with the race for the first 21/2
miles before speeding up for the
final stretch.
“I saw a little gap being
formed, and I knew that those
guys were kind of dead,” Kasper-
owski said. “I wanted to just get
away from them and try to make
my move and then try to hold on
until I got to the finish line.”
In the Class 4 meet, also at
Oatlands, Broad Run senior
Tarek Benlamkaddem was the in-
dividual champion, finishing in
15:33.
“I’m really tired, but I think
most of that happiness covers up
the exhaustion,” he said. “It was
all about mental prep while get-
ting ready for states and winning,
most importantly, and that really
came to fruition.”
The Loudoun Valley girls, who
were led by senior Ella Peterson’s
fourth-place finish, were second
in Class 4.
Despite Frederick having the in-
dividual winner, the Wildcats had
three runners finish in the top 15:
Megan Raue in fourth, Mirae
Denaro in sixth and Carolyn
Hultman in 13th.
There were no surprises in 3A
as the Severna Park girls, last
year’s 4A champs, coasted. With
every runner donning a shirt that
said “We > Me,” the Falcons’
stacked roster stayed true to the
program’s mantra in a 53-point
win over second-place Howard.
Great Mills senior Carter Broth-
erton ran an 18-minute 33-second
5K to take home the individual
championship.
On a Severna Park team loaded
with talented runners, Saturday
was Josephine Kamas’s turn to
show out. The freshman placed
fourth in 19:27. As has been the
case all season, Severna Park’s
depth was its main theme.
Also, the Falcons’ boys’ team
placed second (87) behind Tow-
son (72).
“It’s really nice to see [the girls’
team] where we were, just to have
the program be great on both
sides,” 11th-place finisher Caden
Lazzor said.
Severna Park is a team with no
single star, but Howard intro-
duced a pair of runners to the
state cross-country scene at Here-
ford. The Lions had second-place
finishers in the 3A girls’ and boys’
meets: Freshman Claire Sivitz ran
19:01, and senior Joey Ensor fin-
ished in 16:00.
Sivitz came on late in the year,
but even she didn’t expect to run
as well as she did, nor did her
coach.
“I was speechless; it was like,
‘Oh, my gosh, that happened,’ ”
Courtney Mann said.
The host team, Hereford (65),
secured the 2A girls’ title, edging
Centennial (67). Century fresh-
man Taylor Colson finished in
18:51 to secure the individual
championship.
The Centennial boys’ team
took home the 2A championship,
with David Herzberger placing
fifth. Southern junior Eric Penka-
la won the individual race in
15:47.
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out a hand and blurt: “I just wanted to say
hi. I’m a huge fan.”
Weinrib, better known as geddy Lee,
played his final show as the octave-
bending frontman of Rush eight years
ago. at the time, though, he still held out
hope for an encore, which didn’t seem
unreasonable. the prog-rock trio was a
giant of 1970s FM radio, filling arenas
with a sound that melded the proto-
metal of hendrix or Led Zeppelin with
the nerdy, noodling precision of Yes or
early genesis, while their graduate-level
lyrics evoked ayn Rand, samuel R. Dela-
ny or John Dos Passos, to the delight of
fans who kept coming back for decades
even after they cut their hair and sold
their trans ams.
Lee can talk eloquently about bird-
watching, baseball and what he looks for
in a great burgundy. But his response is
blunt when he’s asked if he misses his
band.
“F---, yeah.”
a band, it’s often said, is like a mar-
riage. except most married couples get to
spend a few hours apart each day. a band
eats together, bunks together and ram-
bles together from gig to gig in that rusty
econoline or, when fortune strikes, a
posh tour bus. and if that band is lucky
enough to score a bona fide hit, the bitter
battles over money, credit and fame can
rupture the union as brutally as a divorce.
But Rush was an unbreakable unit
from the moment Lee, guitarist alex
Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart began
see GEddy LEE ON E8

Musician Geddy Lee. Work on his

memoir came out of a series of losses
over the past decade — of his band, of a
beloved bandmate and of his mother.
richArD siBBAlD

critic’S notebook inSide

A tragic story eclipsed her art.

This show restores the dazzle.
BY S EBASTIAN S MEE IN ChICagO

Musée Joseph-DenAis, BeAuforT-en-AnJou
S
ome artists are so personally mag-
netic, their biographies so engross-
ing, that their lives overshadow
their art. It’s an old problem that be-
comes most acute when the artist has
died young, succumbed to addiction or
been confined to a psychiatric hospital —
all plot points that make the nostrils of
biopic producers quiver.
Many people know the sculptor Ca-
mille Claudel (1864-1943) through the
1988 film about her. “Camille Claudel”
starred the tautly luminous Isabelle ad-
jani as Claudel and the magnetic, billow-
ing gerard Depardieu as auguste Rodin,
her mentor and lover. I watched it again
this week. It’s a fine film. But when you
know where the narrative is heading,
every scene doubles as a portent of
impending demise. the result is claustro-
phobic, the narrative equivalent of look-
camille claudel’s “The Little Lady” depicts a girl said to have posed for 60 hours.
ing down a long, dark tunnel.
that’s not the way life works. It’s not
how art works either.
the job of museum curators is to save
art from the distortions of dramatized
biography and return our attention to the
work. so we should all be thankful for
“Camille Claudel,” an exhibition at the
art Institute of Chicago. By assembling
most of Claudel’s best sculptures, the
show transforms a dark tunnel into a
beautiful and wide-open expanse.
Organized by the art Institute’s emer-
son Bowyer and anne-Lise Desmas, a
curator at the getty Museum in Los
angeles (where the show will travel in the
spring), this is the first U.s. show devoted
exclusively to Claudel since a 1988 retro-
spective — coinciding with the French Vibrant show celebrates
film’s release — at the National Museum
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Art fosters community at The Jar

The Boston-based project invites people who wouldn’t normally cross paths to share an evening of creative expression and conversation

BY P ETER M ARKS IN BOSTON

O
n a chilly night in the Roxbury neigh-
borhood, dozens of people — White,
Black, Asian American, straight, gay,
nonbinary, you name it — gathered
for an invitation-only event that was
equal parts about making art and making
friends. Seated on the stage were Yo-Yo Ma, the
celebrated cellist, and Liza Donnelly, the New
Yorker cartoonist, who had been paired for the
evening by the moderator, Guy Ben-Aharon, to
explore how their creative lives might con-
verge.
As Ma played and Donnelly sketched him on
a tablet projected onto a large screen, the
audience was treated to a rare intersection —
and another installment of The Jar, a pioneer-
ing nonprofit that aspires to knit a disparate
citizenry together. Founded four years ago by
Ben-Aharon, a 33-year-old stage director who
previously ran his own Boston-based theater
company, Israeli Stage, The Jar has developed a
gentler model of social engineering. Its goal is
forging comradeship via conversations about
artistic experiences among groups that other-
wise find few opportunities to commingle.
“There’s something so invigorating about
making friends as an adult,” said Rokeya Chow-
dhury, a Boston restaurateur and Jar propo-
nent. “To be intent about creating a space
where you all feel stronger together — I feel that
is really meaningful.”
Bolstered by a $750,000, three-year grant
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The
Jar is in the vanguard of a movement seeking to
capitalize on the communal powers of the
visual and performing arts — what’s often
referred to as “community engagement.” But
the concept has more complex implications
than that clinical terminology connotes. In a
society that feels ever more tribal — even in
cities that may have progressive cultures but
checkered racial histories — inviting someone
demographically unlike you to share a drink
and an opinion is sometimes akin to a radical
act.
“If you want to see a diverse and vibrant
cultural community come to fruition, you have
to build it,” Ben-Aharon said over breakfast.
“With The Jar, you’re actively invited to build
the world you want to live in.”
Invitation is the password unlocking the
group’s mission. Here’s how The Jar works:
Several people of divergent backgrounds agree
to be “conveners” for a Jar program or “happen-
ing,” centered on a preselected reading, poem,
playlet, painting or other work. Each convener
agrees to bring five others to the event, at $10 a
head, with the goal of an audience capped at 96.
One invitee in each “jar” of six people is an
intimate of the convener; two are “usuals” —
friends or colleagues. But two others must be
“unusuals,” people the convener barely or only
incidentally knows. Or as Ben-Aharon put it,
“people who you wouldn’t normally experience
culture with — two people who may not look like
you, love like you, pray like you.”
“The profoundness of it is that it invites
people to do it themselves,” he added about the
process, which on some evenings focuses on a
solo performer or even an object, and other
times pairs wildly different artists, such as Ma
and Donnelly. The group looks for spaces in
various spots around Boston and its suburbs —
sometimes even in private homes — for the 40
happenings and salons it sponsors over a season.
“It invites them in, in a way that they don’t
really know what effect it will have on them,”
Ben-Aharon said. “Let’s say you go to church,
and you’re a White gay man, and you go to this
church with your husband, and your normal
circle is White gay men — why wouldn’t that be?
That’s just the way society dictates we live.
“But suddenly you’re invited to The Jar and
you have to think of who are the two ‘unusuals,'
and you invite a Black lesbian couple from that
church. And suddenly you create a friendship
with them. Suddenly you create a bond — and
this actually happened, by the way.”
If it all sounds a little “Kumbaya,” well, you Eric KorEnman

have only to sit in on a session of The Jar to feel

the welcoming vibe — the purposeful acting on
a conviction that we’re all too unconnected.
Unlike, say, a religious community, where faith
provides the link, Ben-Aharon and The Jar
count on the creative soul as its spiritual source.
“He represents a generation of young people
who want a more porous social fabric,” said Rob
Orchard, formerly founding managing director
of American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge,
Mass., who taught Ben-Aharon at Emerson
College and now attends Jar happenings. “It’s
unusual, using the arts as the catalyst for under-
standing differences. You hear people who ex-
perience the same piece as you, and you get to
appreciate how their response to it is totally
different from yours.”
Ben-Aharon and his handful of staffers have
had no trouble finding like-minded Bostonians;
the catch is that the gatherings are small by
design, and cracking the next challenge — how
to grow the project, expand it perhaps to other
cities — remains elusive.
“What we’re trying to do is scale intimacy,”
said Jeff Kubiatowicz, The Jar’s executive direc-
tor. “On one hand, we need to use technology in
order to make that happen. On the other hand,
we have to keep it really, really personal. And
we’re trying to balance those two things as we
grow it.”
The Jar’s participants seem to share a pas-
sionate belief in the outstretched hand. “The
Jar’s model is very radical, very subversive,” said
Samantha Tan, an executive leadership consul-
tant who chairs the board. “First of all is joy,
right? Come here and enjoy yourself — enjoy
meeting people who are not like you. Enjoy
yourself!”
Which was the feeling that suffused the room
a few months ago in Roxbury, long a Black
neighborhood that has, like so many enclaves in
gentrifying cities, undergone changes in its
class and ethnic makeup. The renovated brick-
walled space was donated for the happening by
Chowdhury, who was also one of the conveners
for the Ma and Donnelly mash-up.
“We all have inner lives, but sometimes we
can’t locate them, because we’re too busy,” Ma
said, as he played a selection of classical pieces,
each prompted by Ben-Aharon’s questions
about the emotional states art communicates.
Seated next to him, Donnelly attempted in bold
and softer strokes and colors to depict Ma and
the audience.
“Do you play anger — are there times?”
Donnelly asked at one point. Ma responded
with a fake roar, which got a laugh. And then he
added, “Part of being a musician is you can put
yourself in whatever frame of mind you need to
be in.”
You could sense the audience’s pleasure, not
only in meeting these artists up close, but also in
having been asked, individually, to be there. “I
like the people that I meet; it’s good to have
places like this,” said Cornell Coley, who came to
the happening from Mattapan, another Boston
neighborhood. “They created something that
brings you out.”
For artists, too, the invitation to be part of The
Jar can elicit joy. Donnelly, who draws for the
New Yorker and has also worked for CBS and
had cartoons in publications such as Vanity Fair,
said in an interview that she hadn’t been sure
what to expect. What struck her was that she
was able to make a connection herself. “Car-
tooning is communication, dialogue with other
people. It’s not like me trying to show how
anna olivElla clever I am.
TOP: Cartoonist Liza Donnelly, moderator Guy Ben-Aharon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma at The Jar. Donnelly and “I really loved the intimacy of the room, and I
Ma were paired by Ben-Aharon to explore how their creative lives might converge. ABOVE: The invitation- could feel the diversity. I could feel the inclusive
only audience reacts to the session featuring Ma and Donnelly in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. nature of it,” she added. “I felt the warmth.”
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Great works, in focus

An 1,100-year-old sculpture addresses the unity and division of gender

BY S EBASTIAN S MEE

I love spending time in the Asian galleries of art museums, where the
scaffolding of time itself collapses and almost every work seems to open
doors onto the deepest philosophical questions.
This beguiling sculpture, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, was carved from sandstone in Cambodia about 1,100 years ago. It
depicts a divine figure whose body is divided vertically. One side, with the
swell of a breast and a long skirt, appears female. The other side, with its
flatter chest and shorter waist garment, appears male.
The god, a Hindu deity, is Ardhanarishvara, the half-male, half-female
form of Shiva. In Hindu cosmology, Shiva is the god from whom all life
emanates, the god of destruction and lord of time.
“You are a woman. You are a man. You are the youth and the maiden
too.” So goes a verse from the Upanishads, the Hindu scriptures that
present a vision of the world, in all its diversity, as having a single source.
“Having no beginning,” the same verse continues, “you are everywhere.
[You] from whom all worlds are born.”
If being born requires a separation, so do both the generation of new
life and indeed time itself. The generation of new life requires the
separation of male and female. Ardhanarishvara is unusual in bringing
them together. So what is its significance?
One explanation for this sexually unified deity (as the Met’s John Guy
has explained in an essay on sexual syncretism in Indian art) comes from a
legend about Shiva and his divine consort, Parvati. To achieve acceptance
by Shiva, Parvati performed acts of extreme asceticism and penance. He
rewarded her by absorbing her into himself.
The resulting unity, represented in this beautiful sculpture, precluded,
however, the possibility of sexual activity and procreation. There is a
residual tension in early representations of Ardhanarishvara, where
Shiva is shown with an erect phallus, suggesting that the figure itself is
still straining against resolution, striving for the division that creates
desire and regeneration.
But no such overt sign is visible in this Cambodian sculpture, which is
uncommonly serene. The breast is relatively flat, the hips are only slightly
wider on one side, and the different lengths of cloth feel like a minor
differentiation.
Nonetheless, when you come upon this sculpture in the Met’s galleries,
the asymmetry remains striking. The imbalance is oddly activating. A
unity has been achieved, but you are left with a sense of latent division.
Desire is so paradoxical. It is like an arrow that transforms the void into
a wound, which in turn aches for the arrow. In Hindu cosmology this
ongoing cleavage is the source (as Roberto Calasso wrote in “Ka,” his
retelling of Hindu myths) of “time, all time, all the time there ever would
be, all of history, all the stories that would invisibly cloak all existence.”
Without desire, in other words, everything would exist in an undifferenti-
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Charles Turner and show creator LaTasha Barnes, right, perform in “The Jazz Continuum,” to be held at the Kennedy Center this month. The show honors the impact of Black artistry in dance and music.

Finding common threads

in Black dance traditions
BY C ELIA W REN
To connect with the Lindy Hop, a form of
swing dance born in Harlem in the 1920s, you
can look beyond the Lindy Hop.
At least that’s the premise of “The Jazz
Continuum,” running at the Kennedy Center
on Friday and Saturday. According to the
vision of this performance-meets-party-
meets-historical-eye-opener, there are echoes
and affinities that link the historic dance style
to more recent modes such as hip-hop and
house.
Staged in different iterations at Jacob’s
Pillow Dance Festival and elsewhere, the
production celebrates the decades-spanning
ties between manifestations of Black artistry
in music and dance, including social dance.
Expect DJing, improvisation, tributes to hoof-
in’ legends such as Earl “Snakehips” Tucker
and “Queen of Swing” Norma Miller, nods to
musical styles including dancehall and go-go,
and more.
“It’s not just a dance show. It’s not just a
music show. It’s not just a show,” says “Jazz
Continuum” creator LaTasha Barnes, an ac-
claimed dancer, choreographer, scholar and
Army veteran. She calls the production an
offering to “the truth of the continuum” in
Black American music, dance and culture.
“That is to say, of American music, dance
and culture,” she adds. “Because, if we’re
honest, from the Black music experience and
the Black dance experience, absolutely, we get
what we call popular dance and music in
America — and globally.”
As for the “jazz” part of the title, Barnes
says, it refers not only to jazz music and
dance, but also to jazz-associated traits such
as “innovation, the coolness, the willingness
to integrate all of the things around you to
make something beautiful and evocative.”
This edition of “The Jazz Continuum” will
be tailored to the Washington area. Local
artists will help shape the piece during a
five-day residency with Barnes at the Ken-
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D.C.-area specialties like hand-dancing — a

type of swing dance — and Beat Ya Feat, a
dance style rooted in go-go music, are likely
to make an appearance.
Barnes, 43, is from Richmond, where she
grew up in a family so passionate about dance
that they had their own line-dance routine.
“If you couldn’t keep up with the steps, they
very gracefully guided you farther back in the
formation,” she said by phone from Phoenix,
where she is a member of the faculty of
Arizona State University.
Barnes’s family also has a tradition of
military service. At age 18, she enlisted in the
Army, working in satellite communications
in Europe and at the White House Communi-
cations Agency.
Before concluding her military career with
the rank of sergeant first class, she was hit by
a car and seriously injured. When a physical
therapist recommended dance therapy,
Barnes signed up for a class in popping, a
dance style based in muscle contraction and
release.
The practice accelerated her healing.
“Dance literally gave me my life back,” she
says.
From there Barnes got involved with
Urban Artistry, a Silver Spring, Md.,-based
nonprofit group focused on performing and
preserving urban dance. Through relation-
ships with other artists, she gained a keen
appreciation for dance forms like the Lindy
Hop and house.
Barnes became a whiz at house, typically
performed to house music with rapid, intri-
cate footwork and rippling movements of the
torso. In 2011, she and a teammate won in a
partnered category at the Paris-based Juste
Debout competition, a prestigious forum for
house dance.
She also began to notice patterns. “I was
able to put together points of alignment,
from authentic jazz dances through to con-
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dance forms,” she says. “And I became

interested in how they lived and influenced
each other.”
As an example, she points to a technique
seen in house: stalking, in which dancers
mirror, or riff off, each other’s movements. In
Barnes’s view, stalking — a way to commune
creatively with another person — echoes the
partnering of Lindy Hop.
Barnes’s fascination with dance intersec-
tions has an intellectual component — at
New York University she designed and com-
pleted a master’s degree in ethnochoreology,
Black studies and performance studies. But it
also, she says, “gave something really differ-
ent and rich to my movement.” Her realiza-
tion that other dancers, too, wanted to
explore these intersections spurred her crea-
tion of “The Jazz Continuum.”
Interest in the show may testify to its
canny balance of exuberance and historical
and artistic insight. Alicia Adams, the Ken-
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Geddy Lee lost GEDDY LEE FroM E1
playing together in July 1974. no
2-to-1 votes; everything had to be
so much. He unanimous. Debates were fine,
but voices were never raised;
drumsticks never flew through
the air.
didn’t want to “I mean, I’m sure there were
differences of opinion at times,
but they always managed to work
it out,” says Terry Brown, who
lose his story. produced rush over its first dec-
ade.
During the era of the golden
god, when jean-stuffing rockers
roamed the earth searching for
drugs, groupies and TV sets to
toss, the members of rush seemed
content keeping to themselves.
BELOW, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Geddy Lee plays “every night after a show, the girls
guitar in 1966 while visiting cousins in Detroit, in the earliest would line up, and my God, you
known photo of him playing the instrument; Lee’s parents, can even be an ugly bastard like
Morris and Mary Weinrib; Rush plays a high school gym in the me and get laid,” Gene simmons
early years, with original drummer John Rutsey; Nancy Young of Kiss recounted in a 2010 docu-
and Lee met in 1971 and were married five years later. mentary on the band. “And none
photos from geddy Lee ArchIve
of the rush guys ever did. I just
never understood it. What the f---
did you do when you went back to
your hotel room?”
The trio’s personal lives mir-
rored their collective commit-
ment to the band — a relationship
that Lee contemplated as he tried
to cope with a series of losses over
the past decade.
He lost rush in 2015 after that
final tour. He lost Peart in 2020.
And he lost his mother, Mary, and
their saturday lunches and Yid-
dish one-liners, in 2021, when she
died at 95. Those losses and the
isolation of the pandemic left Lee,
70, struggling with an over-
whelming sadness.
He had looked to his mother as
a model of resilience. A Polish Jew,
she had survived the concentra-
tion camps and found strength
and purpose in preserving and
sharing the stories that others
preferred to forget.
the washington post
fIn costeLLo/redferns/getty ImAges
so Lee decided to take stock of
his own memories. And he began
work on a project he had never
intended to take on.
T
here never was a band like
rush. Despite the occasion-
al forays into platform
shoes and satin, none of them
looked or acted much like rock
stars. They mastered the kind of
technical precision — experi-
menting with synthesizers and
changing time signatures mid-
tune — that gets you labeled as
“classically trained,” which they
weren’t. And in the era of head-
banging and “Cat scratch Fever,”
they were singing 11-minute songs
inspired by the epic poetry of
samuel Taylor Coleridge.
“Conform or be cast out,” Lee
sang in “subdivisions,” a 1982
song about the pressure to be like
everybody else, which rush
would never succumb to.
. sunday, november 12 , 2023
Alex Lifeson, left, and
Geddy Lee perform in
Springfield, Mass., in 1976.
Neil Peart is on drums. The
three began playing
together in July 1974 and
became an inseparable unit
until their last tour in 2015.
“They lived that,” said Les Clay-
pool, the frontman of the 1990s
funk-metal band Primus. “When
we toured with them in europe,
we got a lot of s--- from the press
because it’s, like, why are you
cutting-edge guys playing with
these old dinosaurs? … From our
perspective, these were our he-
roes.”
And what about the voice of
Geddy Lee? In truth, it ranged no
higher than that of robert Plant,
the keening powerhouse of Led
Zeppelin, but early on, the
strained, reedy quality of Lee’s
vocal stylings was arresting —
instantly recognizable and easily
mocked. “A guinea pig with an
amphetamine habit,” wrote the
Montreal Gazette. “A munchkin
giving a sermon,” sniffed the new
York Times.
It didn’t matter. Lee had heard
worse.
Growing up in Toronto in the
1960s, the greasers teased him
about the size of his nose and
joked that he rode to school on the
“Jew bus.” It was only when he
became friends with steve shutt
— a future Hall of Fame hockey
star — that the bullying let up.
Mary had tried to prepare her
three children for this. she told
them all about her journey — how
she and her future husband, Mor-
ris, were just teenagers when they
were rounded up by the nazis and
sent to Auschwitz. About the mir-
acle of their survival and their
reunion after the war, and about
the antisemitism she feared they
would face, as well.
not long after Lee’s 12th birth-
day, Morris came home from work
with what he thought was the flu.
Lee remembers waking up later in
the night to the screams: His
father had had a heart attack and
was dead at 45.
For the next 11 months, Lee
found himself even more socially
isolated, spending every day at
shul to honor his father, in abid-
ance of Jewish law. The experi-
ence set him apart and formed
him as the nerd frontman he
would become, forever shy yet
anxious if he didn’t properly ac-
knowledge his fans, never con-
vinced he was truly a part of the
rock star club.
Canada probably had some-
thing to do with it, as well.
“Growing up in Toronto, you
were just sort of made to feel like a
dollar’s worth 74 cents,” said co-
median and actor rick Moranis, a
grammar school classmate of
Lee’s. “You felt more like an ap-
pendage of the states or some-
thing like that. I mean, we drove
to Buffalo to buy Beatle boots or
blue jeans. … It felt very much like
a foreign place that things hadn’t
reached. except on the radio.”
While his mother worked long
hours at the family discount store,
Lee and his siblings were left
either with their deeply religious
grandmother Bubbe rose or
largely to their own devices. Lee
took to going to rock concerts
with shutt, and one day they both
bought bass guitars.
A couple of weeks later, shutt
was at Lee’s house when Lee put a
record on and started playing
along.
“He’s just playing it. Boom,
boom, boom, boom,” shutt re-
called. “And that’s when I knew
Ged was going to be a bassist, and
I was going to be a hockey player.”
Mary, boggled by the cultural
upheaval of the decade, was unim-
pressed with her son’s musical
acumen — and infuriated by his
ever-growing hair. rather than
have a bar mitzvah photo taken of
her son, Mary commissioned an
artist to create a portrait. In the
painting, she could keep his hair
cropped.
“she would go into his room
with a scissors when he was sleep-
ing,” remembers susie, his sister.
“And I remember coming after her
and grabbing her and going, no,
no, no, you can’t do this.”
Geddy spent more time in his
bedroom, listening to music and
practicing. eventually he dropped
out of high school, to his mother’s
dismay. Yet the two were very
much built from the same stuff,
said his younger brother, Allan.
“There’s a Holocaust instinct
that comes out, like no matter
what happens, we keep moving
forward,” he added. “In 1965,
women don’t go and take over a
business and run a store and raise
three kids. And [Geddy] clearly
has a creative gene that needed to
be nourished, and that’s what car-
ried him through. … That sort of
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survival drive helped him stick

with it. And he was very fortunate
to meet partners who were like-
minded. That is the real miracle of
rush.”

S
o … I’ve got a brain tumour.
Sounds like a joke right
there, I know — but alas, no
joke.
The email from Peart came in
August 2016, just as Lee was be-
ginning to contemplate that rush
might really be over.
The band had come to a similar
crossroads in 1998, after Peart’s
19-year-old daughter was killed in
a car accident and, less than a year
later, his wife died of lung cancer.
But Lee and Lifeson had given
Peart space and emotional sup-
port, never asking him to play
again until one day he said he was
ready. And so rush carried on for
another dozen years.
They had no trouble filling
rooms. Long after the heyday of
their radio-friendliest hits —
dawn-of-mTV songs such as “Tom
Sawyer” in 1981 — they retained a
deep fan base of guitar enthusi- rICH Fury/InvISIon/ap

asts, headphone-wearing bros,

the quiet army of young men in
suburban basements across
North America who needed a lit-
tle more fiber in their hard-rock
diet and didn’t care if it was no
longer “cool.”
(And yes, it was mostly guys,
which is why the scene of Paul
rudd and Jason Segel air-guitar-
bonding at a rush concert in the
2009 comedy “I Love You, man”
felt so true.)
Lee was frustrated when an
Lifeson (or “Leke,” as they called
him).
One day, instead of offering
him ice, Peart asked if Lee wanted
bacon. He also wrote Lee a note
addressing him as “Baby.” Lee’s
many nicknames within the band
included Deke, Dirk, Dekey — but
never Baby, and this left him deep-
ly rattled.
“He’s losing his life, but I’m
watching his gray cells diminish,
came back to him. The day he met
Lifeson, through an introduction
from their mutual pal Shutt. His
first kiss with Nancy, then a red-
headed teenager, in 1971. His trip
with his mother to Poland, where
they toured the barracks and gas
chambers at Auschwitz, the
World War II death camp run by
Nazi Germany. All the early days
of rush, from their production
choices to their sartorial decisions
you have to put it down on paper.”
“He needed to do this. But writing helped as he con-
sidered his losses. So much so that
To sit down and really the manuscript swelled to 1,200
pages long. (There would be edit-
write about Neil [Peart] ing.)
“He needed to do this,” Young
and his mom and the said. “To sit down and really write
about Neil and his mom and the
history. It was really history. It was really very cathar-
tic. I could see it.”
very cathartic. I could
on three of their signature songs.
At the after-party, Paul mcCartney
congratulated them and urged
them to get back on the road.
“It had been a taboo subject,
and playing those songs again
with a third person was the el-
ephant in the room, and that kind
of disappeared,” Lee said. “It was
nice to know that if we decide to
go out, Alex and I, whether we
went out as part of a new thing, or

exhausted Peart limited their
40th-anniversary tour to 30 dates
in 2015, opting to go home rather
than extend to Europe. Still, he
hoped his friend would come
around again — that rush would
carry on again, eventually. Until
he got the email.
for the next three years, Lee
maintained a promise not to talk
about Peart’s illness, even when
other friends tried to ask about
him. The drummer was so private,
he hired a publicist to keep the
news from getting out.
“The thing he feared most was
people sitting in his driveway
singing ‘Closer to the Heart’ while
he was going through this thing,”
Lifeson says. “He was a very pri-
vate person. If you became his
friend, he was wonderful. But if
not, he could be very aloof and
tough.”
Lee and Lifeson would fly out to
visit Peart, or “Peke” as they called
him, in connection with some
long-ago joke. Peart would pour
them two fingers of macallan, and
then they would make fun of
and this was the most incredible
mind that I had personally known
so intimately,” Lee recalled.
Nancy Young, his wife of 47
years, suggested he find a thera-
pist to try to cope with his friend’s
illness. It wasn’t enough, and soon
he saw his mother begin to fail, as
well. He began to consider the
gravity of all this, “the potential of
losing a life’s worth of memories.”
He talked about his grief with
his friend Daniel richler, a one-
time punk rocker turned DJ and
TV host, who lost his mother
around the same time. They had
worked together on “Geddy Lee’s
Big Beautiful Book of Bass,” a
more-than-400-page chronicle of
Lee’s collection of instruments
from 2018. richler proposed a
new exercise.
“I didn’t immediately suggest
he write a memoir,” richler re-
called. “I said, ‘Let’s just send each
other some amusing anecdotes by
email of the earliest things we can
remember in life, just for fun.’”
Lee would sit on his couch,
punching out memories as they
(those silk robes!). His gradual
embrace of his Jewish identity
(years after Kiss’s Simmons, also
Jewish, told him to avoid wearing
his mezuza necklace while they
were touring the South).
richler would read his work, fix
a word or a sentence, or nudge
him to explore a moment more
deeply. Sure, that dinner was
“great fun.” But tell me more
about it.
“It was like a detective story,”
Lee says now. “It was me trying to
remember. So it became a memo-
ry game. And maybe after a few
weeks, Daniel said, ‘You’re writing
a book?’ I said, ‘I am.’”
“my Effin’ Life,” which will be
released Tuesday by HarperCol-
lins, is in effect the project that
publishers had been trying to
coax Lee into writing for years.
But Lee wasn’t yet ready to look
back. “my story is not finished.
And I didn’t even like to think of
my life as a story. And God, it’s
such a self-conscious, in a way
egotistical thing to do, to think
your life is so f---ing important
L
ate in “my Effin’ Life,” the
see it.” author reconsiders his
Nancy Young, dream of an encore.
Geddy lee’s wife, He thought he had said good-
on the new memoir bye to rush. But then, last year,
rush fanboy Dave Grohl called
with a request. He was putting on
a pair of star-studded tribute con-
certs, one in London, one in L.A.,
to pay tribute to his late foo
fighters drummer, Taylor Haw-
kins, who had died that march.
Would Lee and Lifeson perform?
They had hesitations. How
could they play without Peart?
Would fans assume that rush was
reuniting without him? And who,
literally, could handle the gig?
rush songs are hard. But they
finally enlisted a few ringers —
Tool’s Danny Carey, Omar Hakim,
Chad Smith from the red Hot
Chili Peppers and Grohl himself
on a section of “2112,” a classic
rush epic from 1976, clocking in
at 20 minutes.
It felt good to hang out with
musicians and remember how
much rush was loved, and even
better to stretch out with Lifeson
whether we just wanted to go out
and play rush as rush, we could
do that now.”
maybe they will. maybe they
won’t. But in October 2022, for the
first time in years, Lee and Lifeson
went down into Lee’s home studio
and jammed.
The idea lingers. Lifeson was
excited as offers rolled in after the
Hawkins shows. Then he thought
about sitting in a hotel room as he
waited for the next gig. He also
had surgery in July for his long-
standing stomach problems. He’s
improving but still wakes up feel-
ing nauseated.
Does Lee plan on nudging his
pal to get back onstage? Of course
not. He doesn’t even plan to bring
it up.
“He needs to feel good and feel
healthy and strong,” Lee says.
“And then maybe we have a dis-
cussion.”
on nov. 17, Geddy lee will appear at
MGM national Harbor to read from
his memoir, discuss his life and
answer questions. ticketmaster.com.

HarperCollInS

RIGHT: Geddy Lee’s

collection of basses is the
subject of a 400-page
chronicle published in 2018.
ABOVE: Work on his new
book started as an exercise
in trading anecdotes with
his friend Daniel Richler, a
onetime punk rocker turned
DJ and TV host, who lost his
mother around the same
time.

rICHard SIbbald
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Camille
Claudel LEFT: Camille

proved her Claudel's “Study of

Left Hand,” c. 1889.

BELOW:

brilliance “Wounded Niobid,”

modeled 1906, cast
1907.

XaviEr EEckhout collEction GalEriE Malaquais

CLaudEL from E1

of Women in the Arts in Washington.

The works, in terra cotta, plaster, bronze
and stone, range from portrait busts to body
fragments, full figures and multi-figure com-
positions. many are powerfully expressive of
deep emotion, charged with palpable eroti-
cism and enlivened by vectors of thrusting
energy. one or two (I’m thinking particularly
of Claudel’s final, veiled version of “The
Waltz”) feel intensely modern in their tilting,
abstract audacity.
So there’s something restorative about this
show. finally, we get to see a superb sculptor
on her own terms, apart from the legacy of
Auguste rodin, about whom the romanian
sculptor Constantin Brancusi once said:
“Nothing grows under the shadow of great
trees.”
Brancusi, mind you, was lucky. He wasn’t in
love with rodin.
In the catalogue, Bowyer and Desmas la-
ment the ways in which the “biographical
miasma,” that is, “the sensationalist and melo-
dramatic tales of doomed romance, victim-
hood, and madness” around Claudel, have
“tended to obscure — or even excise — the
sculptor’s art and agency.” The point is well-
taken. But it’s not easy to tiptoe around the
Claudel “miasma” without ignoring the truth.
The truth is that Claudel was a brilliant
sculptor who, after a long, mutually beneficial
(until it wasn’t) affair with rodin, mentally
unraveled. Showing signs of “systematized
persecution delirium,” as her medical records
described it, she began to destroy her works.
In 1913, shortly after her father died, she was
admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She re-
mained hospitalized until her death, 30 years
later.
The catalogue includes a chronology of
Claudel’s life. It’s full of incident until 1913,
after which it thins out dramatically. Some
years are omitted entirely, presumably be-
cause there is no record of anything happen-
ing. There are many years when the only entry
is “CC receives a visit from Paul.” Paul Claudel
was Camille’s brother, a career diplomat who
in 1926 became france’s ambassador to the
United States. (In that role, 15 years after his
sister’s hospitalization, he gave a speech at the
opening of Philadelphia’s rodin museum).

C
laudel’s work was first seen in the United
States 130 years ago at the World’s
Columbian Exposition in Chicago. De-
spite that, U.S. museums today own fewer
than 10 works by her. Happily, this show was
prompted by two recent acquisitions. In 2018,
the Getty purchased Claudel’s powerful
bronze “Crouching Torso of a Woman,” and in
2022 the Art Institute acquired “Young ro-
man,” a newly discovered polychrome portrait
of Paul Claudel as a 13-year-old, in the style of a
renaissance bust.
Claudel took to sculpture in her teens,
making busts of famous historical figures
(Napoleon, Bismarck) and riffing on mytho-
logical and biblical themes (Daphnis and
Chloe, David and Goliath). female sculptors
were rare but far from unknown in late-19th-
century france. But sculpture, which required
mastering difficult logistics, also depended on
public commissions and a network of support.
for women, opportunities were few and ob-
stacles many.
Claudel moved to Paris to study at an
academy in 1881. After an earlier encounter
with rodin, she began working in his studio in
1884. She was tremendously talented and very
committed. It wasn’t long before she had
evolved from being his student to someone the
writer mathias morhardt described as a “wise
and discerning collaborator” whom her teach-
er “[consulted] on everything.”
They had meanwhile fallen in love. In 1888,
Claudel moved out of her parents’ home and
into an apartment, with a small, spartan
studio, rented for her by rodin. Even while
assisting him on his own projects — “The
Gates of Hell,” “The Burghers of Calais” — she
was able to make her own work.
Claudel modeled for at least two portraits
by rodin. She also posed as allegorical figures
in more symbolic compositions, such as
“Thought,” which depicts Claudel’s pensive,
watchful head emerging from a heavy block of
marble, its immensity pressing up into her
delicate chin.
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flipped the dynamic. Her “Bust of Rodin”

became her most famous and frequently
exhibited portrait. Its impressionistic finish
scatters the light, subtly dramatizing Rodin’s
big, meaty brow, sunken eye sockets and
boxer’s nose. His beard flows into the bust’s
base, emphasizing his adamantine, almost
geological presence.
Claudel and Rodin both reveled in youth,
dance and eroticism. But they also depicted
the wretchedness of old age, the obstacles
impeding the flow of love and solace, and the
connections between bodily discomfort and
mental anguish.
Claudel worked for two years on “Sakunta-
la,” a large-scale marble of a male nude
kneeling at the feet of a seated female nude
who sags into his arms. Carving was usually
outsourced to skilled artisans, who worked
from the artist’s plaster original, but Claudel
was a perfectionist and carved this entirely
herself. Sakuntala was a figure out of the
Hindu epic the “Mahabharata.” Claudel later
revised the title to reflect a story out of Ovid’s
“Metamorphoses.” The story, in other words,
wasn’t the point: It was the tableau’s emotion-
al expressiveness.
More ambitious work followed as Claudel
tried to move away from her subordinate role
in Rodin’s studio. She won praise for several
works, including a small-scale portrait, “The
Little Lady,” which depicted a 6-year-old girl
she had met while staying at a country estate
in the Loire Valley. The girl is said to have
posed for more than 60 hours, which might
account for the portrait’s intensity. Her face,
with its staring, upturned eyes, was described
by one critic at the time as “strangely know-
ing” and “already too alive, already too open to
the mysteries of the universe.”

F
or years, being associated with Rodin,
the greatest, most innovative sculptor of
the late 19th century, helped Claudel’s
career. Apart from all that she learned in his
studio, it gave her access to a network of
supportive collectors and critics. But as their
relationship unraveled, their association be-
came increasingly burdensome. Despite
promises he made to Claudel, Rodin wouldn’t
leave his long-term companion, the former
seamstress and laundress Rose Beuret. Other
issues arose, possibly including an abortion,
and Claudel felt increasingly isolated.
At the turn of the century, shunning the
rhetoric of symbolism, she made a series of
small, enchanting domestic interiors that felt
genuinely original. Each showed a single
woman seated on a simple chair and leaning
against the mantelpiece around a fireplace.
Some were in marble, others in bronze; others
still combined marble, alabaster and bronze.
By now, Claudel was desperate for money
and trying to think of novelties that might
appeal to a market. (One version of her
fireplaces included a small red lightbulb to
provide a red glow.) Venting her frustration,
she wrote to her dealer, Eugène Blot, saying
that sculpture was “better suited for ugly
dupes and those with long beards than for a
woman relatively well endowed by nature.”
Claudel knew she had talent. She just didn’t
know whether she could win the backing she
needed.
The critic Octave Mirbeau, who said many
nice things about Claudel, once described her
as “a revolt of nature: a woman genius.” To be a
creatively brilliant woman, Mirbeau was sug-
gesting, was to be at odds with the natural way
aRt inStitute of cHicago/JoSePH WinteRBotHaM/anne SeaRLe Bent/ceLia anD DaviD HiLLiaRD of things.
Statements like this, which reveal the depth
CLOCKWISE of sexism with which female artists had to
FROM TOP: contend, have caused many to question the
“Young Roman” is a very idea of genius. The concept, they argue, is
newly discovered so tainted by biased assumptions, and so
portrait of Claudel’s heavily associated with an outmoded philoso-
brother Paul as a phy — romanticism — that it is best aban-
13-year-old, in the doned.
style of a I think there’s a better alternative. We can
Renaissance bust. hold onto the concept — it’s useful — but
“Man Stooping,” c. dispense with its unwanted associations. We
1886. can admit that some romantic ideas (especial-
“Abandonment” ly those associated with creativity) might not
(detail), cast be as outdated as they appear. And we can
around 1905. acknowledge that the concept of genius has
nothing to do with masculinity. Rather, it’s a
quality possessed by certain very unusual
human beings, as judged by other human
beings.
Rodin was that kind of unusual human
being. Was Claudel also?
It may not be the most interesting question
to ask about her. But Mirbeau seemed to think
so. Others called her a prodigy. This show
makes a powerful case for her importance. If
it’s hard to say more than that she was brilliant
and full of promise, it’s because her career was
cut short and she destroyed much of her work.
Frustrating as it is, not knowing quite how
to appraise Claudel brings her closer to us. It
shows that her story is, after all, important.
And it reminds us that, whatever else it may
be, genius is a quality that depends on oppor-
tunity. When that opportunity is thwarted, it
has no chance at all.

Camille Claudel through feb. 19 at the art

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Is it ‘selfish’ to turn down constant requests for money from unstable family?
Dear Carolyn:
This is an
uncomfortable
question, but
what do I owe my
family? I am in
Carolyn my late 20s and
Hax living on my own.
I have a decent
job and can
support myself, but I am
definitely not rich. And I come
from a family with financial
problems. They have always had
them. Parents and grandparents
and siblings.
They also have other
problems, including
relationship problems and
problems getting or holding
down jobs and addiction and,
you get it, it’s a big mess.
I wish I could help all of
them, but I don’t have enough
money or time, and they all
come to me all the time asking
for favors, usually money. And
if I turn them down, I get a
lecture about how selfish I am.
Sometimes I think I need to
leave town and change my
name to get away from them.
Most of my friends come from
stable middle-class families
that aren’t as needy as mine.
I feel like having a family
meeting and telling them once
and for all that I can’t help
them financially anymore, so
they stop asking. Do you have a
better approach?
— Anonymous
Anonymous: You owe your
family compassion, integrity
and, where warranted, your
sympathy. But you do not owe
them a dime.
You know the practical
reason: If you gave them
everything they asked for, then
you’d all be broke. No one
benefits.
But the emotional and
functional reasons for saying no
are the ones I think you’re
asking to hear.
Functionally: You are well
enough to keep your messes
and problems — which we all
have, certainly — from affecting
your ability to earn and manage
an income. Good for you, by the
way; tough to do amid
dysfunction. Also note that “once and for that” — until they finally realize
Your family members, all” is completely independent their pushback will not break
meanwhile, apparently aren’t of “so they stop asking.” Once- through limits you set for your
well enough to separate their and-for-all controls only your own protection.
pathologies from their earning choice (not to help anymore). Just from your letter, I
potential. If that’s the case, then They can still choose to keep believe they won’t break you,
your money will just be coming at you anyway. either. But to serve all of you,
temporary relief from whatever And to make it clear that I’m steer anyone who asks you for
underlying problems keep them not beating up on family help toward institutional-based
from supporting themselves. members who are obviously support, which addresses
Therefore, you’d be lighting unwell: Anyone can keep problems at scale in ways no
that money on fire, coming at you after you say no individual can. Try my resource
compromising your ability to “once and for all,” like a zombie page (wapo.st/3FJjtiO) or the
help anyone in any sustainable apocalypse, if that’s what they Substance Abuse and Mental
way, yourself included. Like I think is going to work. That’s Health Services Administration
said — not good for any of you. why your skill at an (samhsa.gov), which has a
Emotionally: You care about unequivocal but also name-your-need hotline, 800-
your family enough to think unfailingly kind “no”— where 662-HELP (4357). The point of
big-picture and weigh the you do not engage with these resources is to distribute the
consequences of giving your requests, or anything else you weight so it doesn’t drag down
money away out of guilt and don’t want to discuss with well-meaning people like you.
without a plan. Yet for having people or sit for lectures about
the maturity to do that famous — is one you want to develop. Write to carolyn hax at
bit of caregiving — i.e., for Soonest. tellme@washpost.com. get her
putting your oxygen mask on We all need it, not just you or column delivered to your inbox each
first — how does your family others pulled in tough morning at wapo.st/gethax.
thank you? By lashing out in directions by struggling loved
anger. ones. And it means holding a  Join the discussion live at noon
Short of saying, “We’re too calm line — “I’m sorry you feel fridays at washingtonpost.com/live
messed up to care about you,” nick galifianakis for the Washington Post that way” or “I’m sorry to hear -chats.
it’s hard to think of a clearer
way for them to get that exact
message across than by refusing
to respect you or your right to
say no. Mike Du Jour By Mike lester
These get at what you’re
really looking for here: their
willingness to sacrifice and
work hard toward fixing their
own problems before they’d
dream of turning to you. When
you see a family member make
that kind of sincere, sustained
effort, then it could be well
worth it to you, long-term, to
find a sustainable way to help
out.
Until then — yeah. You may
have threatened a move and
name change facetiously, but
you seem aware that you might
need to relocate out of their
reach for real. You’d hardly be
the first, since it’s not perfect
but often it’s enough.
Whether you’re ready for that
or not, first make yourself clear
to anyone who asks you: “I have
reached my limit on helping.
Please don’t ask me anymore.”
Period. End of discussion. It is
not their business whether the
limit is about your money,
patience or [grrr].

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hemphill aRtwoRks

Sculptor and painter explore

curves with some new twists
BY M ARK J ENKINS lighter ones are unnotched.
With such meticulous schemes, Rotenberg
Massive curving forms, abstract but expresses her mastery over the material.
suggestive of nature, link the styles of (Remarkably, the artist fabricates her pieces
sculptor Rachel Rotenberg and painter without the help of studio assistants.) She’s a
Steven Cushner. The concurrent surveys of machinist as much as anyone who makes
the two veteran artists’ work at the American functional metal devices. Yet her attraction to
University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center wood’s natural qualities is evident. She values
are extensive, but not career spanning. Both cedar for its appearance and, it appears, for
exhibitions focus on pieces made in the past its possible evocation of the human body. Far
few years. removed from the trees that provided their
That the artworks are recent may be more lumber, Rotenberg’s sculptures nonetheless
immediately obvious to viewers of the Cushner feel somehow alive.
works. The D.C. artist’s allover canvases, The Cushner show won’t startle anyone
heavily worked and patterned with seemingly who has followed his career, but it offers a
botanical motifs, have been shown often in few twists on his customary loops, spirals
local venues such as Hemphill Artworks. (In and fan shapes. The 34 artworks include
2014, Cushner even did a stint in a retail space several woodcut prints, and while they’re
at 1700 L St. NW, where paintings could be inevitably upstaged by the large canvases,
viewed in process.) The Toronto-born printmaking does seem to inform paintings
Rotenberg is less known to D.C.-area such as “Mirror Mirror.” These recent
audiences, although she lived in Baltimore for pictures give a new emphasis to line,
two decades before moving to Israel in 2015. separating the central motifs from their
Rotenberg works primarily in wood, backdrops more strongly than in Cushner’s
supplemented by details in metal and cast earlier work.
concrete. The surfaces are sometimes partly Where foreground and background were
painted, or covered in gold leaf. But the colors once interrelated and often intertwined,
and textures of wood, mostly cedar, are they’re now more distinct. Some of the
prominent. This endows the sculptures with a pictures overlay figures rendered with black
biological quality that’s bolstered by forms lines atop fields of soft, drippy daubs in a
that suggest eggs, tendrils and internal rainbow of hues. There’s even a painting
organs. Yet certain aspects of the pieces, punctuated by four circles of unpatterned,
including their sheer scale, suggest heavy near-white blankness. These voids — unusual
machinery. if not unprecedented — come as a mild
The tension between organic and surprise in one of the artist’s intricate
industrial is dynamic in the selection’s tallest paintings. Perhaps Cushner means to provide
sculpture, which stands in the three-story a few pathways into his profusely flowering
space outside the lower-ceilinged gallery that imagery.
holds the rest of the show. The towering piece Rachel RotenbeRg

consists of eight wooden globes stacked atop TOP: “The Wind” by painter Steven Cushner. ABOVE: “Layers on Layers” by sculptor rachel rotenberg and steven Cushner through
each other, supported by a four-pronged Rachel Rotenberg. They make up a two-artist show at the American University Museum, Dec. 10 at the american University museum, katzen
pedestal. The six darker orbs are notched, Katzen Arts Center. Cushner pulls new experiences from his established style of loops, arts center, 4400 massachusetts ave. nw.
with curved forms inside each slot; the two spirals and fan shapes. Rotenberg’s large-scale works maintain a sense of intimacy. american.edu/cas/museum. 202-885-1000.
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Fred Zafran
A camera lens is a portal, a sort of window
onto moments that can be self-evident or
enigmatic. For “Reflection Unknown,” Fred
Zafran pointed his camera at openings,
whether actual or figurative. The Multiple
Exposures Gallery show is “an allegory of
doubt and inquiry,” according to the photogra-
pher’s statement.
The most expected subjects are windows
and doors, literal portals that become meta-
phors for discovery, transition and hidden
depths. Zafran’s color pictures, many of which
are overwhelmingly black, gaze into unknown
interiors. In one photo, there’s someone on the
other side of the glass, peering outward
through a bank of curtained windows. More
characteristic is a picture of a person at an
entrance, a moment rendered in a whoosh of
motion that supplies a sci-fi feel. A simple step
through a doorway appears to be occurring in
hyperdrive.
Not all of Zafran’s subjects are literally
enterable. He also portrays shadows, lights,
mist and bodies of water, from puddles to
oceans. The liquid is reflective, like glass, but
trickier. One picture of the moon over the sea
depicts the natural satellite — also a reflector
of light — and two white patches on the
surface below. The three small illuminated
areas are openings in the darkness, but they
aren’t actually entrances. Zafran shows us
visual paradoxes: things that appear perme-
able but actually offer no way in.

Fred Zafran: Reflection Unknown through nov.

19 at Multiple exposures Gallery, torpedo Factory,
105 n. Union st., alexandria.
multipleexposuresgallery.com. 703-683-2205.

Irene Pantells
Most of the paintings in Irene Pantelis’s “Of
Water Too Are the Grasses” are strongly
vertical and semiabstract renderings of foli-
age that stretches above and below a layer of
earth. Yet, as the Studio Gallery show’s title
indicates, these elegant pictures have a liquid
quality. The local artist achieved this by
brushing paper with water and then making
the image on the wet surface with watercolor,
sumi ink and other substances. The pigments
mixed with the water, yielding imagery that is
soft and seemingly fluid.
According to her statement, Pantelis was
initially inspired by the lawns of her suburban
Maryland neighborhood, but later thought of
her childhood summers in Uruguay’s grassy
pampas. Yet, with their muted or all-gray
palettes, the pictures aren’t especially sum-
mery. They’re more autumnal, although “All
Along” depicts a nest of bulblike forms be-
neath a narrow strip of brown dirt, suggesting
the promise of rebirth when the weather
warms.
The show, which also includes a single wire
sculpture, depicts grass and its roots on a
near-epic scale. Some of the paintings are
large, and even the smaller ones amplify
simple stalks and roots into parables of eco-
logical peril and promise. In her watery
microcosms, Pantelis finds something all-en-
compassing.
irene Pantelis

Irene Pantelis: Of Water Too Are the Grasses “All Along” by Irene Pantelis is included in her exhibit “Of Water Too Are the Grasses” at Studio Gallery, which examines foliage above and
through nov. 18 at studio Gallery, 2108 r st. nW. below ground level. She achieves a liquid quality by brushing paper with water and then making the image on the wet surface with
studiogallerydc.com. 202-232-8734. watercolor, sumi ink and other substances. The pigments mixed with the water yield an imagery that is soft and seemingly fluid.

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hoped a recent doctor visit
would bring about a realization,
but evidently she said nothing to
20 years ago.” So his weight gain
does not seem to be all that
sudden (although he might have
reached a new threshold
recently).
You describe yourself as bossy
and controlling, and though I
applaud your efforts over time to
change, your entire narrative is a
search for ways to boss and
control your husband, now. Your
perspective seems to be that this
would be the perfect time to offer
lots of unsolicited advice to your
husband, but you’ve used up
your lifetime supply.
Your husband already knows
he is overweight. He might in
fact have discussed this with his
physician — but maybe he
doesn't want to discuss it with
you.
You should ask — not tell —
50th reunion. We want to honor
our classmates who have passed
with a picture and obituary, and
I have been helping to find those
documents.
One of our classmates died by
suicide a few years after
graduation, I believe as a result
of postpartum depression. I was
saddened to hear about this.
Although I did not know her
personally, she was a person I
admired throughout high school.
I located her obituary, and
found that she left behind two
young children. I searched to see
if they still lived in the
community, and I found her
daughter on Facebook.
I wondered if my classmate’s
daughter would be interested in
meeting some of her mother’s
friends at our class reunion next
members in your reunion
celebration. You seem to believe
that there might be more grief or
anger regarding a classmate who
died by suicide, but I submit that
any premature death is a deeply
felt loss, and you should shed
any supposition of shame or
embarrassment for these
survivors.
If it is at all possible, I think it
would be a great idea to invite
any local family members of
classmates who have died
(including elder surviving
parents).
Dear Amy: Many thank-yous for
your compassionate response to
“Feeling Very Manipulative,” the
Israeli American mom who was
so worried about her husband
going to Israel to fight in the war.

Try new foods him about his weight.

I think doctors are just wary of
advising people about weight
these days, but he was pretty thin
until 20 years ago and has never
your husband if there are ways
he would join you in establishing
or maintaining a healthier
lifestyle. Would he join you on a
daily long walk? (Perhaps he
year. If she is interested, it could
be a healing moment to learn
about her mother and hear how
loved she was. At the same time,
her daughter might have strong
I cried when I thought about
what this family was going
through.
— Saddened

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it didn’t result in any changes.
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S0115-2x2.75 husband was “pretty thin until
would rather plug into a juicy
podcast and go on his own.)
Otherwise, my instinct is that
the less you worry, push and
interfere, the more your husband
may face the realization that he
(not you) bears the responsibility
for his own life and health.
Dear Amy: I am working with
some of my high school
classmates on our upcoming
feelings of sadness or anger
about her mother’s death.
Should I contact her to invite
her to our reunion? I’m happy to
drop the idea if she is reluctant
in any way. I’m wondering if my
idea is compassionate — or
creepy. Your opinion, please?
—J
J: There is nothing creepy about
including surviving family
Saddened: I found this dilemma
absolutely heartbreaking.
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Radical (PG-13) 11:45-3:00-
It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 10:40- The Marvels (PG-13) XD: 11:30- The Marvels (PG-13) 11:20-
Regal Cinemas Majestic What Happens Later (R) CC: 12:50-7:40 Killers of the Flower Moon The Marvels (PG-13) 11:15-
1:00-3:20-5:40-8:00-10:20 6:00-9:15 2:20-5:10-10:50; 2:50; 9:40-10:05- Stadium 20 & IMAX 12:00-12:50-2:00-2:30-2:50-3:40- 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: (R) 2:55 11:30-11:45-12:00-12:15-12:45-
The Holdovers (R) CC: 10:30- 12:00-12:50-3:20-3:35-5:40-6:20- 4:50-5:10-5:40-7:40-8:10-8:30-
900 Ellsworth Drive The Creator (PG-13) CC: 11:00- 12:20-3:10-5:55-8:45 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 1:30 1:00-2:00-2:15-2:45-3:00-4:45-
MARYLAND 5:00-8:15 8:30-9:00-9:20 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:00- 9:40-10:30 5:00-8:15-10:30 Tiger 3: The IMAX 2D Experience Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 5:00-5:15-5:30-5:45-6:15-6:30-
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 10:15-10:45-11:15-11:30-11:45- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) A Haunting in Venice (PG-13) 4:10-10:20 13) 12:00-3:45-6:30-9:15 7:30-7:45-8:15-8:30-9:00-9:15;
AFI Silver Theatre
Cultural Center CC: 12:00-4:40-7:00-9:00 3:30 12:40-12:55-1:20-1:25-1:55-2:10- (PG) 11:15AM CC: 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 9:05- The Marvels (PG-13) 12:20 10:15
8633 Colesville Road Journey to Bethlehem (PG) CC: 2:40-3:30-3:45-4:00-4:15-4:45- What Happens Later (R) 10:45
The Exorcist: Believer (R) 4:25; Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) 9:35-11:50-2:30-5:10-8:10 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Marsh King's Daughter
10:30-1:15-4:00-6:45-9:30 10:35-1:35-7:15-10:10 5:00-5:15-5:30-6:30-6:45-7:00; Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) 3:00-7:00 The Marsh King's Daughter (R) 2:10 (R) 3:45
Saw X (R) 4:20 7:45-8:00-9:20-9:35-10:30 3:00-7:00 The Persian Version (R) CC: OC: 1:35 Cinemark Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:00-2:35-
(NR) 3:30
CC: 10:30-1:20-4:00-5:05-7:00- Priscilla (R) 2:10 The Marsh King's Daughter (R) Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 11:30AM Journey to Bethlehem (PG) Fairfax Corner and XD 6:10-9:50
8:00-10:00 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour 5:10-7:55 1:30-6:00-9:20 Radical (PG-13) 12:00-3:00- OC: 4:20 11900 Palace Way Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
(NR) 1:30 Journey to Bethlehem (PG)
Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 12:45 (PG-13) 2:45 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 10:40-2:20- 6:00-9:45 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Marvels (PG-13) 9:30-12:50- (PG) 11:05-1:40-4:10-6:45
The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: The Marvels 3D (PG-13) XD: 5:50-9:15 12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00 The Holdovers (R) CC: 12:45- CC: 10:20-1:05-3:50-6:45-9:30- 3:40-6:00-6:30-9:20 The Creator (PG-13) 9:40
Priscilla (R) OC: 2:30
11:00-1:55-4:45-7:30-10:30 4:10; 8:00; 12:30-6:10 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 4:10-7:15-10:30 10:40 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 10:45-2:25- Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
Saw X (R) CC: 10:00AM The Marvels (PG-13) 11:00- (PG) 11:50-2:30 2:10-5:00-6:40-10:20 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) CC: The Marvels (PG-13) OC: 10:50 6:05-9:45 11:20-3:50-8:20
The Holdovers (R) 12:30-3:15- Priscilla (R) CC: 10:15-1:00-3:45- 1:50-7:30 What Happens Later (R) Priscilla (R) 11:30-12:40-3:40- 12:00 Journey to Bethlehem (PG)
6:00-8:45 AMC Worldgate 9 What Happens Later (R) 9:25-
6:30-9:15 The Marsh King's Daughter (R) 4:40-7:15 6:30-10:40 Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 13025 Worldgate Drive 12:05-8:10 10:50-1:35-4:25-7:10-9:55
Killers of the Flower Moon AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 2:30 9:55-12:40 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) An All-Star Salute to Lee Green- 11:15AM Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13)
(R) 5:00 wood 2:00 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 11:00- Scarface 40th Anniversary
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:25-3:10-6:50-
3:00-7:00 The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 (R) 3:00 10:30-1:20-4:30-7:20-10:10
AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 9:00 (PG-13) CC: 12:15-4:15-8:15- 10:30 Radical (PG-13) 12:00-3:10- After Death (PG-13) 12:05 12:45-3:45-6:30-9:30 Priscilla (R) 11:10-2:10-5:10-
Farewell My Concubine (Ba The Marvels - The IMAX 2D Ex- Saw X (R) CC: 11:00-7:30-10:30 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie The Holdovers (R) 12:45-3:55-
10:15 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 6:10-9:10 (PG) CC: 11:00-1:15-4:15 7:05-10:15 8:10
After Death (PG-13) CC: 11:00- (PG) 9:35-10:10-1:05-6:45 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) perience (PG-13) 1:20-7:00-9:50 Priscilla (R) CC: 11:15-2:00-4:45- Killers of the Flower Moon (R) The Marvels 3D (PG-13)
The Marvels: An IMAX 3D Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:45-3:00-
AMC Academy 8 12:50 The Equalizer 3 (R) 11:15-5:20-
11:40-4:10-8:30 7:30-10:15
6:15-9:30 12:25-4:50-8:30 2:30-8:00
6198 Greenbelt Road The Marvels - The IMAX 2D 10:55 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Experience (PG-13) 4:10 An All-Star Salute to Lee Green- What Happens Later (R) CC: 6:30 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 9:40- It's a Wonderful Knife (R)
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 10:00- Experience (PG-13) CC: 11:00- What Happens Later (R) 9:30- 11:20-12:20-3:20-6:05-7:05-8:10- The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 12:40- wood 2:00 12:00-2:50-5:25-7:55
1:45-7:15 3:30-6:10-9:00 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 2:30 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 12:15-2:50-5:25-8:00-10:50
10:45-1:15-4:00-6:30 12:15 9:00-10:00
CC: 12:00-3:30-7:45-9:00 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Marvels (PG-13) 10:45-
The Marvels: An IMAX 3D Expe- The Nun II (R) 8:05 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 4:10- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 1:30-7:00-9:45
rience (PG-13) CC: 4:30 10:50-1:30-4:25-7:10-10:00 7:50-10:35 13) CC: 2:15-6:00-9:45 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 9:50-10:55-1:50-4:35-5:45-7:20-
CC: 10:10-1:00-4:00-6:50 Scarface 40th Anniversary CC: 10:55-1:30-4:15-7:00-9:40 9:15-10:20 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 4:15
(R) 3:00 Anatomy of a Fall (R) 1:20 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:30 After Death (PG-13) CC: 11:45AM The Marvels (PG-13) 12:30-
7:45-10:30 The Exorcist: Believer (R) 8:10 Priscilla (R) CC: 11:15-2:00-4:45- Jigarthanda DoubleX (Tamil)
CC: 11:00-1:40-4:20-7:50 Radical (PG-13) 9:55-1:15-4:20- Regal Westview & IMAX The Marvels - The IMAX 2D 7:25-10:00 10:10-5:40 3:15-6:00-8:45; 3:30
It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 4:30 7:40-11:00 Saw X (R) 10:00 5243 Buckeystown Pike Experience (PG-13) CC: 12:00- Priscilla (R) 9:35-2:00-4:50-
Keedaa Cola 11:30-1:00-4:00- Regal Manassas & IMAX
4:10-7:00 Tiger 3: The IMAX 2D Experience The Holdovers (R) 10:10-1:20- Priscilla (R) 10:05-12:50-3:35- The Marvels (PG-13) 11:10- 2:45-5:30-8:15 7:40-10:30
7:00-10:05 11380 Bulloch Drive
10:15 4:30-7:40-10:50 6:15-9:10 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC:
Priscilla (R) CC: 10:20-1:20-
The Marvels (PG-13) OC: 5:00 Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
12:30-2:00-4:40-5:00-6:10-7:30-
1:00-3:30-6:15-9:00 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- An All-Star Salute to Lee Green- The Marvels (PG-13) 11:20-
5:15-8:10 The Marvels - The IMAX 2D 7:50-8:50 13) CC: 2:30-6:10-9:45 wood 2:00 12:10-2:00-2:30-2:50-4:50-5:30-
The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: The Holdovers (R) OC: 1:45 9:50-6:40 Experience (PG-13) 11:00-4:30- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 7:15 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 6:30-7:30
The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 7:30-10:20 Last Suspect (Zheng jiu xian yi The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC:
2:30-5:15-7:45 (PG) 11:20-12:50-1:30-3:40-6:20 12:15-3:00-5:45-8:30 13) 12:30-4:15-8:00 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:00-2:40-
12:00-2:45-5:30-8:15-11:00 10:45-1:30-7:00-9:45 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 1:40 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) ren) 4:30 After Death (PG-13) 9:45AM 6:20-8:00
AMC Annapolis Mall 11 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Keedaa Cola 10:35
1020 Annapolis Mall Road AMC Magic Johnson It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 10:10- 3:00-6:55
Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 8:45 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
10:00-10:25-11:05-12:45-1:15- 12:30-2:50-5:25-7:50-10:15 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Killers of the Flower Moon (R) One Loudoun Japan (Tamil) 2:05-9:40
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 10:20- Capital Center 12 (PG) 10:55-1:25-3:50
4:05-4:45-6:15-6:50-7:35-9:00-The Marvels (PG-13) 2:25 11:00-3:30-8:00 11:30AM 20575 East Hampton Plaza The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 12:20- Radical (PG-13) 12:00-3:30-7:35
12:15-1:00-2:50-5:25-6:20-8:00- 800 Shoppers Way
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 1:00- 9:35-10:25 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 12:10- Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) AMC Potomac Mills 18 Pulp Fiction (R) 6:00 3:10-8:50; 1:55-7:35
9:00-10:35 Saw X (R) 10:20-1:25-7:25-10:20
3:00-6:00-8:40 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:00-1:00- The Marvels (PG-13) XD: Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
10:50-1:40-4:30-7:40-9:10
The Marsh King's Daughter (R) 3:35-9:00 2700 Potomac Mills Circle
4:00-7:00 11:00-3:10-6:40
CC: 12:50-5:00-11:00 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Jigarthanda DoubleX (Tamil) Regal Germantown Priscilla (R) 11:50-4:20-7:20 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 11:00- 10:30-11:05-1:20-4:10-4:45-7:00- Journey to Bethlehem (PG)
(PG) CC: 1:20-3:40-6:00-8:20 7:00-10:55 20000 Century Boulevard An All-Star Salute to Lee Green- The Holdovers (R) 6:45 9:50-10:25
What Happens Later (R) CC: 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 11:10-1:50-4:40-7:30
Scarface 40th Anniversary Priscilla (R) 11:20-5:00-7:50-The Marvels (PG-13) 11:30- wood 2:00 The Marsh King's Daughter (R) The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 10:00 Regal Ballston Quarter
10:00-2:30-6:30 10:55 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:00-5:00- Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13)
The Holdovers (R) CC: 11:20- (R) 3:00 12:00-12:40-1:30-1:40-2:50- The Marvels - The IMAX 2D Ex- CC: 11:45AM 671 North Glebe Road 12:50-3:40-6:50-8:05
Freelance (R) CC: 2:30 An All-Star Salute to Lee Green-
3:10-4:20-5:10-6:00-6:30-7:10- perience (PG-13) 12:00-5:40-8:20 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:20-2:45- 8:00; 2:00
3:30-6:15-10:20 wood 2:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:10-2:00- Priscilla (R) 1:10-4:20-7:10
Radical (PG-13) 12:00-3:00- 8:20-9:10 The Marvels: An IMAX 3D 6:20-9:50 Angelika Film Center Mosaic 3:10-4:10-4:40-6:00-7:00-7:20- The Marvels - The IMAX 2D
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- Experience (PG-13) 3:00
CC: 10:00-2:15-6:30-9:15 6:00-9:00 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 1:00-5:20-9:00 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 2911 District Ave 8:40-9:40 Experience (PG-13) 10:50-
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 13) 3:30-6:30-7:15-10:15-11:00Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 1:00- (PG) CC: 11:00-12:00-2:20-4:50 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:30-2:00- Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:20-3:00-6:30- 4:10-7:00
Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) After Death (PG-13) 10:40AM 3:50-6:40-9:30
CC: 11:00-2:00-4:50-7:30-10:10 CC: 1:10-6:45 (PG) 12:10 What Happens Later (R) CC: 7:40 3:00-4:30-5:30-7:00-8:00-9:30 10:00 The Marvels: An IMAX 3D
The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Keedaa Cola 10:55 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) The Marvels (PG-13) 3:20 The Creator (PG-13) CC: 10:15 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:45-3:00- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Experience (PG-13) 1:30
CC: 12:15-3:00-5:45-8:30 Japan (Tamil) 3:25-7:05-10:40 3:00-7:00 Xscape Theatres Radical (PG-13) 12:15-3:20- 6:15-9:25 (PG) 12:00-1:00-3:50
7:40-10:45 Japan (Telugu) 12:10-3:45-7:20 The Marvels 3D (PG-13)
Priscilla (R) CC: 10:50-1:30-4:15- Journey to Bethlehem (PG) CC: The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 4:40- Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Brandywine 14 6:15-9:10 What Happens Later (R) What Happens Later (R) 1:20 11:40-5:10
7:10-9:50 1:15-3:45-6:15-8:45 11:20-3:50-8:30 7710 Matapeake Business Drive The Holdovers (R) CC: 12:45- 10:30-3:35 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 12:40-
10:20 Journey to Bethlehem (PG)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: Last Suspect (Zheng jiu xian yi
Gremlins (1984) (PG) 1:00- 4:00-7:00-10:15 The Holdovers (R) 11:20-1:20- 3:00-7:00 3:00-5:20-7:50
13) CC: 12:00-3:40-7:20-9:00 9:00 11:40-2:20-5:00-7:50 4:00-7:00 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 4:15-7:15 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) The Marvels (PG-13) 11:20-
ren) 9:25 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
After Death (PG-13) CC: 10:00- Saw X (R) CC: 5:10-8:00 Bandra 11:45AM
CC: 1:45-6:00-9:20 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 11:35-4:00-8:30 2:00-7:30
12:35-3:25 Priscilla (R) CC: 12:30-3:15- 11:50-2:40-5:50-8:50 (PG) 10:10-1:20-3:40-6:40-9:00 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) CC: 11:00-3:15-7:30 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 1:40- Regal Springfield Town Center
The Marvels (PG-13) XD: 10:30-Jigarthanda DoubleX (Tamil) The Creator (PG-13) 10:05-1:05-
The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 11:15- 6:00-8:45 11:15-12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 4:20-7:10-9:50 6859 Springfield Mall
1:50-4:25-7:00-9:40 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 1:20-7:00-9:50 12:50-4:50-9:20 4:15-7:15-10:20 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 1:00-4:05-6:30-9:00 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13)
13) CC: 12:45-4:30-8:15 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Priscilla (R) 12:30-3:20-6:20-9:30 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:00-1:40- CC: 11:15-1:10-3:50-6:40-7:15- Anatomy of a Fall (R) 9:25 11:50-2:40-5:30-8:20 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:50-
The Marvels (PG-13) OC: 3:35
The Marvels - The IMAX 2D Ex- (PG) 3:55 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 2:00- 11:20-12:20-1:30-2:10-3:10-
4:20-7:00-9:40 10:20 Priscilla (R) 10:45-2:20-4:55-7:35 Priscilla (R) 12:40-3:40-6:40-9:30 4:10-4:40-5:30-6:00-6:30-7:10-
AMC Center Park 8 perience (PG-13) CC: 2:00-7:15 Killers of the Flower Moon 4:40-7:40 The Nun II (R) 1:25-7:45 Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 11:20- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 11:40-
4001 Powder Mill Rd. The Marvels: An IMAX 3D Expe- (R) 2:15 It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 1:10- Freelance (R) 10:25-4:35 2:30-5:10-8:00 7:40-8:20-8:40-9:10-9:40-10:10
2:45-6:10-9:30 13) 12:40-6:00
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 10:00- rience (PG-13) CC: 4:35 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 4:153:40-6:10-8:40 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: The Marvels (PG-13) 12:30 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The Marvels (PG-13) 12:30 (PG) 10:55-11:30-1:50-4:30
11:00-1:30-4:15-7:00 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: Cinépolis Gaithersburg The Marvels (PG-13) 3:30 11:05-3:15-7:35 1:20-4:10-6:50-9:40 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:30
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 12:25-3:00-5:45-8:30 CMX Village 14 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R)
629 Center Point WayAXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:30 The Exorcist: Believer (R) 10:35- Saw X (R) CC: 7:10-10:10 Regal Dulles Town Center
(PG) CC: 10:20-1:50-5:15-7:30 1600 Village Market Boulevard 3:00-7:00
It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 12:45 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:00- Regal Hyattsville Royale 1:15-4:45-7:25-10:05 Priscilla (R) CC: 12:40-3:30- 21100 Dulles Town Circle
Freelance (R) CC: 11:10-2:10- The Marvels (PG-13) OC: 6:15 Saw X (R) 10:55-1:35-4:25- 6:15-9:00 Stand By Me (1986) (R) 3:30 The Holdovers (R) 11:10-2:40-
10:40-12:00-1:00-1:40-3:00-4:40- 6505 America Blvd.
4:40-8:10 6:00-7:40-9:00 7:05-9:55 An All-Star Salute to Lee Green- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie The Marvels (PG-13) 10:45- 6:10-9:30
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) AMC Montgomery 16 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:45- (PG) 1:10 11:15-11:45-12:00-12:15-12:30- Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
7101 Democracy Boulevard Killers of the Flower Moon (R)1:00-1:30-2:00-2:45-3:00-4:15- Journey to Bethlehem (PG) wood 2:00
What Happens Later (R) 6:10 1:00-1:30-2:00-2:45-3:00-3:15- 11:00-3:40-8:10
CC: 10:00-1:00-4:00-6:45 11:00-1:30-6:15 4:45-5:30-5:45-6:30-7:00-8:15- 10:50-2:00-4:30-6:50-9:20 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 2:30
The Marvels (PG-13) 12:15-2:50- 3:45-4:15-4:45-5:30-5:45-6:00- Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13)
Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Marvels (PG-13) CC: Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 8:30-9:00 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 6:30-7:00-7:30-8:10-8:45
CC: 10:45-1:45-4:50-8:00 10:00-11:15-12:00-12:45-2:00- 5:25-8:00 11:50-12:30-2:50-3:30-6:20-9:20
2:45-4:45-5:30-6:15-7:30-8:15- 10:30-11:30-2:30-5:30-8:30 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 10:40-1:30-4:05-7:10-9:50 13) CC: 2:00-6:00-9:45
Radical (PG-13) 12:40-3:45-8:20 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 12:45-4:30-8:20 The Exorcist: Believer (R)
Priscilla (R) CC: 10:30-1:20- Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13)
(PG) 11:40-2:10-5:10 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 12:10- After Death (PG-13) CC: 4:50
4:10-7:20 9:00-10:15-11:00 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 10:00
10:15-1:15-5:00-8:00 The Nun II (R) 12:05-6:05 2:50-5:30-8:10 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: 11:30-4:00-7:45
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Priscilla (R) 11:45-3:30-6:30 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 10:20- 11:30-3:10-5:00-10:30 11:30-4:05-6:50 Priscilla (R) 12:50-3:50-6:50-
13) CC: 1:10-4:30-7:15 (PG) CC: 10:15-12:45-3:15-5:45- Journey to Bethlehem (PG) Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 9:50
8:15-9:45 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG-
11:50-4:20-7:50 12:50-3:00-5:20-7:40-10:00 It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 11:00-1:45-5:00-9:00
The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: 13) 12:45-2:45-7:15 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:30- 4:40-10:00 11:10-12:30-1:45-3:15-4:15-6:45 An All-Star Salute to Lee
Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:05-2:30- Journey to Bethlehem (PG) Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Exorcist: Believer (R) 9:10 Greenwood 2:00
12:30-3:00-5:45-8:30 After Death (PG-13) 4:20-7:30 11:30-12:50-3:30-6:10-9:00 11:30-1:10-2:10-3:50-4:50-6:30- The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 12:15-
6:00-9:30 1:30-4:35-7:10 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 2:30- The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 11:40-
AMC Columbia 14 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 12:05- The Marvels 3D (PG-13) Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 7:30-9:10-10:10 1:00-3:45-6:00-6:30-7:45-8:45- 5:15-8:00 2:30-5:10-8:00
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway 4:00-7:00 12:10-3:00-5:50-8:40 iPic Pike & Rose 9:15; 2:15; 11:10AM Priscilla (R) 12:25-3:40-7:20
8:45 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:40 The Marvels (PG-13) 8:30 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:30
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 11:00- The Creator (PG-13) CC: Landmark The Exorcist: Believer (R) 11830 Grand Park Avenue AMC Shirlington 7
After Death (PG-13) 6:20 Regal Fairfax Towne Center Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 11:30-2:45 Bethesda Row Cinema 3:05-8:55 The Marvels (PG-13) (!) 12:30- 2772 South Randolph St. 4110 West Ox Road
The Marsh King's Daughter (R) What Happens Later (R) CC: 7235 Woodmont Avenue Saw X (R) 11:40-2:40-5:40-8:40 1:00-3:30-4:15-6:30-7:30-9:45- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 11:40- 13) 1:00-4:40-8:10 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:50-1:00-
CC: 4:40 10:45-5:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 1:00-2:00-Priscilla (R) 11:50-2:40-5:35-8:30 10:45 2:10-4:50-7:30 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:00-
The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 12:50- 1:30-2:40-4:20-5:20-6:30-7:00- 11:40-12:10-12:40-3:10-3:40-
Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:10-2:40- The Holdovers (R) CC: 10:00- 3:15-5:30-7:00-7:45 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 12:30- The Equalizer 3 (R) 11:30-2:30- The Holdovers (R) CC: 12:15- 7:30-8:00-9:10-9:40
6:10-9:40 3:15-6:00-8:45 6:00-11:00 3:55-6:00 4:40-5:40-6:10-6:40-7:40-8:40-
4:30-7:45-11:00 What Happens Later (R) 4:00-7:40 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 2:30-6:10-9:30
What Happens Later (R) CC: It's a Wonderful Knife (R) 12:50- The Holdovers (R) (!) 11:15-2:45- The Marvels (PG-13) 9:10-9:35-10:30
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 1:15-6:00 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 11:15-11:45-12:00-12:15- Oppenheimer (R) 11:30-3:30
12:00-6:20 CC: 12:15-4:45-6:00-9:15 3:15-5:55-8:35
The Holdovers (R) 4:00-6:45-7:45 6:45-10:15 CC: 12:20-3:20-7:00 The Marsh King's Daughter (R)
AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:30 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 1:20-1:50-2:20-2:35-2:50-3:25- Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 12:00-10:25
Scarface 40th Anniversary Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 4:25-4:55-5:10-5:25-6:30-7:00- 12:00-4:30-7:10-9:00
(R) 3:00 CC: 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 1:30-3:00-7:15 12:00-2:00-6:15-9:15 CC: 12:00-2:40-5:20-8:00 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:20-3:00-6:30-
Regal Laurel Towne Centre 7:30-8:00-8:30 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 10:15
The Holdovers (R) CC: 11:45- Journey to Bethlehem (PG) CC: Anatomy of a Fall (R) 1:00- 14716 Baltimore Avenue Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Priscilla (R) CC: 12:40-4:40-7:20
11:45-3:15-7:00-10:00 Cinema Arts Theatre 1:50-4:50-7:50 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R)
3:15-6:45-9:45 11:00-1:45-4:15-7:00-10:45 4:00-8:15 The Marvels (PG-13) 11:15- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- Priscilla (R) 11:40-12:20-1:10-
9650 Unit 14 Main St. 3:00-7:00
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: Priscilla (R) 4:30-7:30 12:00-12:30-2:00-3:10-4:40-6:00- Priscilla (R) (!) 12:15-3:45-7:15- 13) CC: 12:20-3:20-7:10 3:20-4:10-6:20-9:20 The Holdovers (R) 11:50-3:20-
CC: 11:15-2:00-6:00-9:00 1:30-7:45 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG-
8:00-9:20 10:30 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: What Happens Later (R) 9:50-
Rustin (PG-13) (!) 11:00-5:00- 12:15-2:40 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 12:30- 6:50-10:05
Journey to Bethlehem (PG) CC: Priscilla (R) CC: 10:45-4:15- 13) 3:30-6:50 The Creator (PG-13) 12:40- 1:15-3:50-6:30 3:10-6:00-8:40
10:50-1:30-4:10-6:50-9:30 7:00-9:45 The Holdovers (R) 1:15 8:00-11:00 Radical (PG-13) 9:40-12:00-2:30- The Marvels (PG-13) 3:50 Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
4:10-7:20 AMC Tysons Corner 16 10:55-3:35-8:10
Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- Priscilla (R) 1:45 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 5:00-7:30
CC: 10:30-1:20-4:10-7:00-9:50 13) CC: 12:00-3:45-7:30-10:30
Landmark at 1:30-6:20-8:15-9:00 VIRGINIA 7850e Tysons Corner Center
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 10:35-
The Holdovers (R) 10:10-1:15- Regal Fox & IMAX
22875 Brambleton Plaza
Journey to Bethlehem (PG)
10:50-1:40-4:30-7:20-10:00
Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: It's a Wonderful Knife (R) Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 7:20
Annapolis Harbour Center 1:15-3:55-6:35-9:25 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-
10:20-7:35 4:00-6:15 3:00-7:00 2150 Clarendon Blvd. Killers of the Flower Moon (R) The Marvels (PG-13) 11:40-
2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1 The Marsh King's Daughter (R) 2:15-3:00-4:50-5:50-7:40-8:40- 13) 12:30-3:30-7:00-9:55
The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: Last Suspect (Zheng jiu xian yi Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 11:30- 11:40-7:15
ren) 10:05-1:05-4:00-7:05-10:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 12:45-1:45-
CC: 7:55 Anatomy of a Fall (R) 10:00-1:00- 10:40 Priscilla (R) 11:10-2:10-5:10-
6:50 11:30-1:00-2:20-3:50-5:20-6:40 12:00-2:40-5:20-8:00
Saw X (R) CC: 10:15 The Marvels (PG-13) OC: 3:30 3:45-4:45-6:30-7:30 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 10:50-2:20- 4:00-7:10 Tiger 3 (Hindi) 1:20-5:10-9:00 8:00
What Happens Later (R) The Exorcist: Believer (R) 11:50- The Marsh King's Daughter (R) 6:00-9:20
Priscilla (R) CC: 10:25-1:15-4:15- The Holdovers (R) OC: 1:15 2:40-5:45-8:40 CC: 4:30 Priscilla (R) 9:45-12:05-2:35-7:40 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie An All-Star Salute to Lee
7:05-9:50 Priscilla (R) OC: 1:30
4:50-7:10 Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie What Happens Later (R) 4:50 (PG) 11:20-1:50-4:20 Greenwood 2:00
The Holdovers (R) 1:00-2:00- Saw X (R) 1:40-5:00-7:30 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 12:30- (PG) CC: 9:20-11:40
An All-Star Salute to Lee Green- Priscilla (R) 11:10-12:20-1:50- The Holdovers (R) 4:15 What Happens Later (R) 12:15 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 2:40
AMC St. Charles Town Ctr 9 4:00-4:45-7:15 3:30-7:20 What Happens Later (R) CC: Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) It's a Wonderful Knife (R)
wood 2:00 11115 Mall Circle 3:20-4:50-6:10-7:45-8:50 What Happens Later (R) CC: Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 9:50-12:25 (R) 3:30 3:00-7:00 11:30-2:20-5:00-7:30-10:20
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:15-7:00 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 1:30- 11:40-7:10 The Creator (PG-13) CC: 11:20-
13) CC: 12:00-3:45-7:30 4:15-7:00-9:40 Priscilla (R) 5:05 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) The Marvels (PG-13) 4:10-
10:30-1:15-2:00-4:00-4:45-6:45- Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 7:50-10:35 11:10-3:30-7:50 7:10-10:00
The Marvels - The IMAX 2D 7:30-9:30 12:45-4:35-7:35 Regal Rockville Center CC: 12:10-2:10-6:30 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) Cinemark Centreville 12
Experience (PG-13) CC: 10:15- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Priscilla (R) 12:50-3:30-6:50 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 1:20
199 East Montgomery Avenue Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 3:00-7:00 6201 Multiplex Drive 11:00-1:30-4:15-7:00-9:30
1:00-3:45-6:30-9:15 (PG) 1:45; 11:00-4:00-6:30 CC: 2:00-4:40-7:20 The Marvels (PG-13) 10:30-1:20- Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Reston, VA -
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG-
The Marvels (PG-13) 11:25- Radical (PG-13) 10:00-1:10-4:05-
The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: What Happens Later (R) CC: 13) 1:15-7:20 12:00-12:40-1:10-2:10-2:40-3:20- Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 12:05- 7:05-10:05 4:10-7:00-9:50 LOOK Dine-in Cinema
11:30-2:15-5:00-7:45 11:05-12:10-1:50-4:40-6:50-7:30- 11940 Market Street
3:30-10:00 Rustin (PG-13) 12:40-3:05-6:453:50-5:00-5:30-6:00-6:30-7:30- 4:20-7:40 The Holdovers (R) CC: 9:30- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 9:40-10:20
It's a Wonderful Knife (R) Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 8:00-8:40-9:05 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- 12:45-4:00-7:10-10:25 (PG) 8:55-9:55-12:25 The Marvels (PG-13) 12:30-
3:40-9:35 Old Greenbelt Theatre Priscilla (R) 12:30-3:20-6:10- 2:00-3:00-4:30-5:30-7:00-8:00-
CC: 11:00-1:30-6:00 129 Centerway Tiger 3 (Hindi) 12:50-4:50-9:10 13) CC: 12:00-3:40-7:20 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Tiger 3 (Hindi) 10:00-1:40- 9:00
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 10:50- Saw X (R) CC: 10:15 What Happens Later (R) 1:00- The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: CC: 9:10-1:40-6:10-9:35 5:20-9:00 11:30
Rustin (PG-13) 3:15 The Marvels - The IMAX 2D
12:00-8:15; 2:45-5:30 The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: 3:40-6:20-9:00 1:30-4:10-6:50 Journey to Bethlehem (PG) CC: Radical (PG-13) 9:10-12:15-3:25- Experience (PG-13) 12:20-9:45 The Holdovers (R) 4:15-7:30-
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18 11:15-10:15 Anatomy of a Fall (R) 4:00-5:45
The Creator (PG-13) 4:10 AMC Hoffman Center 22 11:00-1:45-7:00-10:30 7:30-10:35 12:55
Rustin (PG-13) 12:45 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 11:00-
9811 Washingtonian Center After Death (PG-13) CC: 6:15 Scarface 40th Anniversary (R) 206 Swamp Fox Rd. Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 10:10- Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 1:40-4:30-7:20-10:10 Smithsonian -
The Marvels (PG-13) CC: Priscilla (R) CC: 10:45-1:30-4:15- Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 3:00-7:00 The Marvels (PG-13) 3:00-5:45; 4:15-10:45 9:25-7:20 Tiger 3: The IMAX 2D Experience Airbus IMAX Theater
10:00-11:30-12:45-2:15-3:30- 7:00-9:45 3899 Branch Avenue Freelance (R) 1:30-7:20 12:15-7:45; 11:15-2:15-5:00-10:30 The Exorcist: Believer (R) CC: Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 2:50-6:20 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
6:15-9:00 Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- The Marvels (PG-13) 12:00-1:30- Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 7:45 10:55-4:05-6:40-10:15 The Marvels (PG-13) 12:45- Journey to Space (NR) 10:20-
The Marsh King's Daughter (R) 13) CC: 2:30-6:15-9:15 2:35-4:00-5:00-7:30-8:05 11:50-4:30-8:50 CC: 2:45-6:00-9:00 Priscilla (R) CC: 10:45-1:45-4:35- Jigarthanda DoubleX (Tamil) 1:10-2:40-3:30-4:00-5:20-8:10- 3:00-5:05
CC: 4:15-7:15 The Marvels 3D (PG-13) CC: Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Journey to Bethlehem (PG) Journey to Bethlehem (PG) 7:25-10:10 10:15-12:40-4:35-8:30 10:25 To Fly! (1976) (NR) 4:30
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie 12:15-3:00-5:45-8:30 (PG) 12:45-3:00-5:30 11:30-2:00-4:40-7:10 4:00-6:45-9:30 An All-Star Salute to Lee Green- Japan (Tamil) 9:05-1:10-4:45- Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Aircraft Carrier: Guardian of the
(PG) CC: 10:40-1:00-3:30-6:15- The Marvels (PG-13) 11:30AM The Equalizer 3 (R) 7:50 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) wood 2:00 8:20 (PG) 12:15 Seas 12:40
9:00 Killers of the Flower Moon Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) 11:35-2:20 CC: 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 2:30 Japan (Telugu) 1:50-5:25-9:05 Jigarthanda DoubleX (Tamil) Deep Sky: The IMAX 2D Experi-
Tiger 3 (Hindi) 11:45-3:15-6:45- (R) 9:00 3:00-5:30-8:00 Priscilla (R) 1:20-4:00-6:40 The Marvels (PG-13) CC: 1:30- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (PG- The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 9:30- 1:45-5:40-9:30 ence 10:55-1:20-3:40
10:15 Five Nights At Freddy's (PG-13) The Exorcist: Believer (R) The Marvels 3D (PG-13) 1:40- 4:15-7:00-9:45 13) CC: 12:00-3:40-7:15-11:00 3:10-6:00-8:50 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:30 Blue Planet (Il pianeta azzurro)
What Happens Later (R) CC: 11:45-2:15-5:00-7:45-10:30 12:30-6:05 4:20-7:00 The Marsh King's Daughter (R) After Death (PG-13) CC: 9:00- The Marvels (PG-13) 11:30-2:15- The Marvels 3D (PG-13) (NR) 11:45AM
11:45AM After Death (PG-13) 10:45AM Saw X (R) 3:15 AXCN: Ghost in the Shell 7:30 CC: 2:45 4:50-10:55 5:05-7:55-10:45 6:50-9:40 The Dream is Alive (NR) 2:10
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“i’M toUched!” (NoV. 5)
“the show MUst Go oN” by rebecca GoLdsteiN noVemBer 12, 2023

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1 Prelude to a rimshot
4 Raring to go
9 Loops in on an email,
briefly
12 People of the Uintah
and Ouray Reservation
16 Channel that many
watch for kicks?
18 Do a deep dive, say
19 Type of steak
represented in a
steak emoji
21 “I’ll have what she’s
having”
22 Country where ceviche
originated
23 Stainless stuff
24 Person born in late
March or early April
The letters in the original phrases that were replaced by aU spell
out Golden Girl, a reference to King Midas’s daughter whom he 25 Instrument that is
accidentally turned into gold by touching her. typically about 18
feet long when fully
stretched out
26 *1988
30 Traveling players
32 Galena and bauxite,
Answers to last week’s L.A. Times Sunday puzzle. for two
33 Took to court
34 *1950
38 Cream-filled pastry
42 Gator tail?
43 Trained for roller derby
44 Having burst (open)
45 Condo board, for short
48 One of 23 in a spine
50 Sacred oath
51 *1952
53 Early bird hrs.
56 Sound at goat yoga
58 Hydroelectric power
plant component
59 Get-quick connector
60 Sunrise Movement
cause
67 Enjoyed every bite
69 *2017
70 Chemistry rules
71 Enjoying a little too
much, say
72 H.S. course where
11/5/23 one may earn college
credit
75 Make a request
76 Hello, in Rio
77 Photography choice
that fills in the blanks
of “In_tagram fi_te_”
78 Cosmopolitan
competitor
79 Lifetime buds, briefly
82 Vegetable sometimes
served with
marshmallow topping
85 *2021
88 Singer Grande, to fans
89 Performance spots
92 Warming phenomenon
93 WWF, e.g.
94 Tony Award won by the
starred answers in the
years of their clues
97 Coke Zero alternative
99 Get ahold of
100 Uno + cinco
102 Egyptology subject
105 Delivers an aside, as
this puzzle’s starred
answers literally do
113 Tater
115 Twinkly topper on a
princess
116 Cuisine with orange
blossom rolls
117 Italian for “melody”
118 “Goodness me”
119 “Nightmare ___”
(2021 Guillermo del
Toro film)
120 Mary-Kate, Ashley or
Elizabeth 11 Shortened word after 41 Faux fur fabric 66 Doc treating sinusitis 89 Parisian pal
121 Reward correlate study or jam 44 Doja Cat or Lady Gaga, 68 Mini ___ (device used 90 Put pitchers on one’s
122 Great song 12 When to see Phoenix in e.g. to clean a keyboard, card, say
123 “___ this mess” Phoenix or Chicago in 45 Chop shop? briefly) 91 Struts down the
(rhyming cross-stitch Chicago 46 A single time 72 Brosh who created the catwalk
phrase) 13 Neutral color 47 Condition that is webcomic “Hyperbole 95 After the bell
124 Line in a child’s 14 Insert, as a crossword underdiagnosed in and a Half” 96 See 77 Down
drawing of the sun puzzle on a website women 73 Shell-less mollusk 98 Scaredy-cat
125 Tablespoon, e.g. 15 Heat, as meat 49 Sources of 74 Mariposa lily 101 “In that case ...”
17 “I don’t believe you!” photographic evidence 77 With 96 Down, 2020 103 “It’s-a me, ___!”
down 19 Not very exciting 52 Microbrewery jug Olympic all-around 104 Complete ecstasy
1 Put a little ___ in 20 Fratty moniker 54 “I’ll Take You There” gymnastics champion 106 Waste, as time
your step 27 Actor Omar of “This singer Staples 79 ___ ghanoush 107 Shopper’s lure
2 Get mileage out of Is Us” 55 Reeked to high heaven 80 Lose sleep, say 108 Número that’s half of
3 Pledge drive swag 28 Malevolent Middle- 56 Chutney fruit 81 Receive with a closed 100 Across
items that display a earth monster 57 “Moonrise, Hernandez, hand? 109 Group that disbanded
three-letter logo 29 Endorse in a PDF New Mexico” 82 “Affirmative” in 1991, briefly
4 Promo parlance 30 Frog’s kid-lit companion photographer Adams 83 Singer-songwriter 110 Perlman who played
5 Walter White’s product 31 Former CNN anchor 60 Jo Ann Jenkins of AARP, DiFranco who created Ruth Handler in
6 Desperate request Bakhtiar e.g. her own record label “Barbie”
7 50-50 35 CLE baller 61 John on a jet 84 Cheese partner 111 Microscopic, maybe
8 Muscle targeted by an 36 Manga artist Junji 62 White-hot rage 86 One who is wise 112 Place for crafts at
overhead press 37 Not many 63 Come to a close beyond their years summer camp?
9 Elaborate 45 Down ’do 39 Reputation, briefly 64 “In the Heights” 87 From the Antarctic 113 Cry loudly
10 “Your guide to a better 40 Gage of “The White director Jon M. ___ Circle to the Arctic 114 Soup often garnished
future” site Lotus” 65 AI film villain Circle with lime and basil
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“WARDROBE 84 “Have our plans 120 Made a choice 19 Pay for 57 Crudely built 86 Office buzzer
MAKEOVER” BY changed?” 121 Wows everyone places? 88 Argon or xenon
Happy Birthday | nov. 12: you are sensual, uninhibited and seductive. you can attract
LYNN K. WATSON 87 Purplish blue 24 Having four 58 Ten below? 89 Really ticked attention. Lucky you. this is a great year to socialize and enjoy life. your creativity, zest
& WILL NEDIGER 89 With a firm tone DOWN sharps 60 Svelte 92 “I owe you one!” and desire for life is strong. have fun, but do not lose sight of your goals. old friends may
90 Ad infinitum 1 Basmati __ 29 Knitting stitch 62 Past 93 Intermission
ACROSS 91 Big name in 2 Mythical 31 Violet kin 64 Secondary 96 Bond player reappear.
1 Happens again convertibles matchmaker 32 Bay Area town image Daniel
7 Stares in wonder 94 Spanish kiss 3 Provide for free whose name 65 Treatment 97 Cookbook
12 Promising player 95 Build-A-Bear 4 Purple yam means “shark” centers author DiSpirito moon alert: there are no restrictions to because you’re in a positive frame of
in the minors creation 5 Rock, Paper, in Spanish 66 Guzzling sound 98 Mudbank
20 Asimov classic 96 Act like a Scissors 33 Bring up 67 Like most frolicker shopping or important decisions. the mind, relations with others are upbeat
21 Catherine of chicken? 6 OxiClean target 34 Pro wrestling wedding 99 Weed B-Gon Moon is in scorpio. and friendly. this is an excellent day for a
“Schitt’s Creek” 100 Art forms? 7 Shiny dental patriarch Hart receptions maker short trip or to study and learn.
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Lonely Planet co-founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler. Their first publication, “Across Asia on the Cheap,” spawned more than 150 million guidebooks covering 221 countries.
BY A NDREA S ACHS
Tony Wheeler has spent half a
century traversing the globe but
still carries a guidebook. Natural-
ly, it’s his own.
“Just a couple days ago in
Brazil, I went to Iguazu Falls,”
Wheeler, 76, said during a recent
video call from a hotel guest room
in New York City. “I went across
to Argentina and had the Lonely
Planet guidebook. It said to take
the walk close to the river level
because everybody heads to the
top one. You know, the guidebook
got it right.”
Wheeler and his wife, Mau-
reen, founded Lonely Planet
guidebooks 50 years ago. In 1972,
the newly married couple bought
a ratty old car in London and
drove east, across Europe, and
then farther east, to Turkey, Iran
and Afghanistan, where they sold
their vehicle. In Australia, their
final stop, one adventure ended
and another began.
Their first publication, “Across
Asia on the Cheap,” spawned
more than 150 million guide-
books covering 221 countries. It
also heralded a new generation of
travelers who were young, adven-
turous and scrappy. Like true
rebels, they ventured where few
parents had gone before.
“These were books for people
in their 20s with no money,” he
said. “If their parents had gone to
Europe, they were going to Asia.
If they were in Europe, they were
going down to Spain and across
to Morocco. Instead of escaping
the States to Mexico, they’d go
down to South America. Their
horizons were getting larger, wid-
er.”
In 2011, the Wheelers, who
split their time between London
and Melbourne, Australia, sold
their publishing company. Red
Ventures, which also owns the
Points Guy, took over in 2020.
Although they are no longer ac-
tively involved in the series and
have upgraded their travel style,
they still embody the spirit of the
“backpacker’s bible.”
5 big lessons and one ‘mistake’
from 50 years of Lonely Planet
The day after Tony returned
from South America, he shared
some of the lessons he has
learned from his 50 spins around
the Lonely Planet.
Always carry on
Mishaps happen to even the
most seasoned traveler, and you
just have to roll with it.
During his recent trip in Brazil,
the airline repeatedly canceled
his flight to New York. He spent
four hours standing in line at the
airport counter trying to sort it
out. “You can fly across the Atlan-
tic in the Concorde in that
amount of time and have a meal,
as well,” he said dryly.
Also this year, an incident in
France forced the railway to shut
down its entire line. Then a
torrential rainstorm hit. “I was
standing around on a platform
with rain pouring down for four
hours,” he said.
Wheeler gamely acknowl-
edged that a traveler’s best ma-
terial often comes from plans
that go awry.
“People like to hear the bad
stuff,” he said. “No one wants to
hear that my flight left on time,
my seat was the one I wanted, I
liked the meal and my baggage
turned up.”
Speaking of lost luggage, he
avoids it by limiting himself to
carry-on. He said an opera singer
friend would have significantly
reduced her stress levels had she
followed suit. On her flight from
Munich to his London home, the
airline lost her bags. Several days
later, a delivery man drove up in a
vehicle packed with hundreds of
pieces of luggage waiting to be
reunited with their owners.
Travel for the people,
not the politics
Of all the travel guides, Wheel-
er said Burma caused them the
most angst. At the time, people
were urged to boycott the country
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to avoid indirectly aiding the
brutal military regime. After sev-
eral research trips, the couple
decided to publish the book in
1979 but encouraged travelers to
support local businesses and not
government-owned ones.
“The locals really wanted the
tourists, and it wasn’t just for the
money,” Wheeler said. “It was for
the communication with the out-
side world.”
Wheeler is similarly conflicted
by Iran. “The government’s aw-
ful, but the people are wonder-
ful,” he said. To illustrate this
point, he described the heart-
warming interactions he repeat-
“These were books for people in their 20s with no
money. If their parents had gone to Europe, they
were going to Asia. If they were in Europe, they
were going down to Spain and across to Morocco.”
Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet
edly experienced in restaurants.
Diners would notice that he was
eating alone and spoke English
and would invite him to join
them at their table.
“How often does that happen
in a restaurant in England or
America?” he said. “In Iran, that
does happen, and I think it’s kind
of amazing.”
The eighth edition of “Lonely
Planet Iran” is scheduled for re-
lease in December 2024, an up-
date to the 2017 version.
Trust your research
and instincts
On the subject of crime,
Wheeler has been fortunate:
He has been a victim only once,
when he was mugged in Bogo-
tá, Colombia. He said travel-
ers should thoroughly re-
search a destination but also
trust their instincts.
“Things are not always as un-
safe as you fear they are,” he said.
“Once you get to a place and are
out in the streets, you will feel if it
is okay or not.”
On a family trip in Guatemala
City, the Wheelers set out at night
in search of food. The streets
were empty and unnerving. But
the next morning, they discov-
ered an entirely different city:
vibrant, lively, safe.
Wheeler has ventured to more
than 170 countries, including
many that have faced conflict,
such as Syria, Libya and Yemen.
He does not take safety lightly. He
is intrigued by Nigeria — “It’s the
center for movies in Africa and
has a lot of entrepreneurial activ-
ity” — but is cautious about
visiting Africa’s most populous
nation because of safety con-
cerns. Many foreign offices, in-
cluding the U.S. State Depart-
ment, advise travelers against
visiting Nigeria.
“You start with the idea that it’s
not going to be totally safe,” he
said, “but I’d like to see it one
day.”
Explore ‘two streets over’
from the main drag
For countless travelers, Lonely
Planet opened the door to un-
known or undiscovered places,
but some critics say the books
worked too well and have led to
overcrowding. Wheeler’s solu-
tion to overtourism is actually a
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Lonely Planet tenet. He recom-
mends always going “two streets
over” from the main drag for
sightseeing as well as shopping,
dining and lodging.
“Everyone is in St. Mark’s
Square,” he said of Venice. “There
are other parts of the city you can
go to and find churches that are
not crowded with tourists.”
Another option: Skip the pop-
ular destination for a lesser-visit-
ed city, such as Ravenna,
which he described as the oppo-
site of Venice. “It almost felt
like it was undertouristed,” he
said.
Choose a train over a plane
This year, Wheeler has traveled
by train in a dozen countries. He
said his best train experience was
on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from
Seattle through the San Francisco
Bay Area.
“It was a nice train, and there
was quite a lot of conversation at
the tables in the bar,” he said. “It
was what train travel is supposed
to be.”
When possible, he chooses
more eco-friendly modes of trav-
el. For a return trip from Lugano,
Switzerland, he took the slower
but greener route home: train
from Zurich to Paris, then Euro-
star to London. In Uruguay and
Paraguay, he relied on trains and
buses, which have vastly im-
proved since his last overland
adventures.
“My bus travel years in South
America was a long time ago,” he
said. “It felt dangerous all the
time, the buses were uncomfort-
able, and the bus stations were
not good places to be.”
This time around, the bus sta-
tion in Montevideo, Uruguay, was
modern and had a great break-
fast spot. The buses were com-
fortable and safe. The seats came
with belts that people actual-
ly wore. There was an onboard
toilet.
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Tony WheeLer
“It was definitely a real change
from 40 years ago,” he said.
‘A 50-year mistake’
The company’s name did not
stem from a romantic notion
about connecting travelers or
making the world a less forlorn
place, but instead from a 1971
documentary film called “Mad
Dogs & Englishmen.”
Over too much red wine at a
restaurant in Sydney, the Wheel-
ers discussed the film’s song
“Space Captain” and the opening
lines sung by Joe Cocker: “Once I
was traveling across the sky/ This
lovely planet caught my eye.”
Smitten with the lyrics, Tony
suggested calling the series
“Lonely Planet.” Maureen agreed,
but pointed out the misheard
word. “It’s been a 50-year mis-
take,” he said.
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The population of Molise, one of the 20 regions of Italy, is declining roughly 1 percent every year, according to national statistics. Here, an empty street in the town of Ripalimosani.
Molise, Italy: ‘A place that is so authentically itself’
BY C HICO H ARLAN
IN MOLISE, ITALY
P
oor Molise, I used to
think.
It is one of Italy’s 20
regions, but it seems to
get fewer visitors than certain
restaurants in Tuscany. To the
extent it has any reputation at all,
it is as an unremarkable back-
woods. Dismissed by travel
guidebooks. Overlooked by Ital-
ians. On the wooden Italy puzzle
I bought for my son — a piece for
every region — Molise is attached
to Abruzzo.
Molise non esiste, the saying
goes in Italian. Molise doesn’t
exist.
But I realize now, after a week-
long family road trip from our
home in Rome, that these factors
allow Molise to hide in the best
way possible. In an era when Italy
is so warped by tourism, when
even the “off-the-beaten-path”
itineraries lead you to crowded
Instagram towns, visiting Molise
feels like more than an antidote.
It feels like finding the buried
heart of why travelers fell for
Italy in the first place.
I share all this with a bit of
trepidation. We all want to hoard
our secrets, preserve what feels
special. And besides, Molise isn’t
really conducive to a glossy sales
pitch. It has no A-level bucket-list
sites. It has some 20 miles of tidy
coastline, a pittance by Italian
standards. Its rugged, vast interi-
or, with twisting roads and hills
capped by medieval towns,
doesn’t look much different from
(ahem) Abruzzo.
But look at that paragraph
again. The sales pitch is hiding
right there. Molise has lovely
beaches without the touristy trin-
ket shops; ancient towns that are
gobsmacked and delighted to see
a visitor; and beauty that would
be extraordinary almost any-
where but this country. And to
boot, it has breathtaking food
with stuck-in-the-1980s prices.
There are towns with all sorts
of surprises. Frosolone is a center
for artisanal knives. Carpinone
straddles a mountainside so
sheer you would expect a ski lift.
Agnone is the base for the world’s
second-oldest family business, a
foundry that makes bronze bells
for the Vatican, and where visi-
tors can walk through the factory
floor, dusty and bustling, full of
clay and wax casts and busts of
popes.
Visiting Molise, it must be
said, requires some commitment.
Public transit scarcely exists; a
rental car is a must. Patience, too,
is a prerequisite. In Molise,
Google Maps misfires. You’ll find
yourself guided the wrong way
down one-way roads. You’ll seek
out restaurants only to find their
listed opening hours are pure
fiction. Eventually, in search of
churches or cafes or ATMs, I put
away my phone and just talked to
people.
Even Molise’s comparatively
well-known sites seem uninter-
ested in being discovered. Near
the village of Sepino lies a field of
archaeological ruins, a former
Roman valley town, with the
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stone remains of an amphithe-
ater and a colonnaded forum, a
micro-Pompei. But the site is
virtually unmarked from the
main road. There are no tickets,
no opening hours, no ropes keep-
ing anything out of bounds —
only a gorgeous spread of one-
time grandeur, with wild
sage growing all around,
where our 4-year-old happily
played hide-and-seek in the ma-
zelike remains. Aside from three
Belgians, he had the place to
himself.
A respite from overtourism
It’s impossible to talk about
the appeal of Molise without also
talking about the state of tourism
in Italy. It is, in short, a hot mess.
So many of the country’s most
famous places are postcards for
the ills of overtourism. Crowds
consume the walkways of the
Colosseum; drown out any sense
of local life in central Venice;
flock to Sicily’s “White Lotus”
location; and choke off streets in
Florence, including one alley
where the crowd is inexplicably
queuing for a panino.
Italy was too crowded even
before the pandemic, and during
the hiatus, a raft of leaders said it
was time to create a more sus-
tainable model. Naturally, noth-
ing happened, and more people
are visiting than ever before.
Katie Parla, Rome-based cook-
book author and tour guide, said
visiting Rome is a “borderline
required” experience in a life-
time. “But when you’re walking
down the street,” she said, “it’s
hard to tell who is local and who
is not. In Molise, you’re in a place
that is so authentically itself.
Understanding Italy means go-
ing to places that haven’t lost
anything due to the ramifications
of tourism.”
Italy saw 48 million foreign
visitors in the first six months
this year, according to its central
bank, which tracks international
tourism. More than 3.6 million of
those visitors ended up in Tusca-
ny. Only 20,000 went to Molise,
making it by far the country’s
least visited region.
Until this trip, I had never
been to Molise. But it’s a stand-in
for my general Italy travel advice,
which is: Trust the place you’ve
never heard of. Up in those
forgotten towns, on almost every
hilltop in Lazio and Campania
and inland Calabria, there are
churches with 14th-century fres-
coes, town piazzas with 1 euro
cafes and men playing cards, and
almost inevitably some trattoria
serving something great.
That’s true in Molise, where
several factors, including depop-
ulation and the hollowed econo-
my, make the wonders even more
unlikely. These aren’t easy places
to live; it’s so remote and craggy.
The young, unable to find jobs,
tend to flee to other regions.
Molise’s population declines
roughly 1 percent every year,
according to national statistics.
“The almost total rurality of
the Molise people is the origin of
their defects and virtues,” the
author Francesco Jovine wrote in
his book “Viaggio nel Molise,” a
travelogue that we received from
our friend Stanislao de Marsan-
ich, president of a park system
that honors Italian authors.
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Farms and cheesemaking
It dawned on me after a few
days in Molise that the dearth of
visitors bestows a deep benefit.
We saw it in the attention, the
energy and the affection gifted to
visitors. Among the people whose
jobs entail dealing with tourists,
there was no fatigue or cynicism.
This might be possible, too, in
places with conveyor-belt tour-
ism. But it’s far likelier in Molise.
We spent our first three nights
in the region at Parco dei Buoi, an
agriturismo, or farm stay, in the
middle of olive groves and apri-
cot trees. Such places are abun-
dant in Italy, and you normally
get a humble room and a good
breakfast, maybe some mosquito
bites. What we found at Parco dei
Buoi was plenty of good food and
also a near-instant family: Fran-
cesco Travaglini, Pia Mariani,
their daughter, Giulia, soon de-
parting for college in Milan, and
their son, Gabriele.
Pia doted so joyfully on our
5-month-old that my wife, Lilian,
and I had one morning almost
entirely to ourselves. Giulia took
our son to harvest tomatoes,
which were turned by Pia into a
pasta al pomodoro so sublime
that the sugo didn’t even need
cheese. We ate together at a table
with local wine.
Maybe that was a one-off, I
thought, a special stroke of Mo-
lise luck. But then we found
ourselves at a family-run cheese
factory, Azienda Agricola Carme-
la Colavecchio, in the hills out-
side Campobasso. Carmela and
Mario had prevailed several days
earlier in a national competition
for caciocavallo, the southern
Italian cow’s milk cheese.
Cheesemakers can be big deals in
Italy, and many offer regular
tours of their operations. Mario, a
former hang-gliding instructor,
said he gets many visitors at their
farm, too, but given how it went
— so unplanned and heartfelt — I
found that hard to believe.
We saw the cheesemaking
process, of course, led by his wife,
Carmela. Then he invited us to
walk with his sheep as they
ambled to a pasture, led by volun-
teer shepherds. For a while, we
were out there in the field, unsu-
pervised, snacking on wild black-
berries. We returned to find Ma-
rio wrapping up the day, and he
invited us into his home. He
played music for us. He intro-
duced us to his friends. As the
temperature dipped, he asked
whether we wanted to meet his
cows, and he grabbed a flannel
jacket for our son that was about
12 sizes too big, wrapping it
around him as they walked.
An eating ‘Field of Dreams’
Molise’s cuisine is heavy on
meats, cheese and wild vegeta-
bles. On Google, the restaurants
that serve them might have just a
few blurry photos. But, more
often than not, they are gems.
One day we pulled off a highway
to a little trattoria where you
could smell the smoked meat
even from the parking lot. The
door hung open, just some string
beads blocking the entrance, and
inside a TV played the U.S. Open.
We sat down to simple plates
of pasta, served only with
Parmigiano-Reggiano and a jar
of chili flakes.
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It was 7 euros per plate.
One Sunday evening, we found
ourselves in a predicament. Our
kids were tired, and we couldn’t
find a place to eat. I called one
restaurant: closed. Another res-
taurant: closed. Another restau-
rant: open, but only from 8 p.m.
Our daughter would be getting
tired by then.
A little panicky, I called a
nearby agriturismo, Essentia Di-
mora Rurale, a place Francesco
had recommended, and asked
whether they by chance served
dinner. The place was 10 minutes
away by car.
“Let me ask the chef if there’s
space for tonight,” the voice on
the other line said.
I waited a moment.
“Okay. We have one more ta-
ble,” he said.
I didn’t ask any other ques-
tions.
We arrived to find a farmstead
that opened up to a vast field,
soccer goals set up on one side, a
playground and tables arranged
under string lights. Beyond, the
rolling hills unfolded in shades of
brown and green, and a vignette
of pink framed the sky. In the
distance, you could see a little
village, the evening lights turn-
ing on.
As we walked in, feeling as if
we had entered an eating “Field
of Dreams,” the agriturismo own-
er, Salvatore Zeoli, offered to
guide the evening’s diners —
there would be about 20 — deep-
er into his farmland. He talked
about the tomatoes and the
grains and led us to a field of
chickpeas. This was his way of
introducing what would turn out
to be a celestial meal, every
ingredient from Molise.
There under the lights, we ate
spicy salami, caciocavallo, egg-
plant fritters and prosciutto
where even the fat tasted good.
We ate a soup of chickpeas and
carrots that looked homemade
but tasted like something unat-
tainable. We ate a pasta of an-
cient grains with pesto and toma-
to, spiked with a lively olive oil.
We ate pampanella, a spiced,
tender pork with peppers. The
meal stretched for two hours,
then nearly three, and we ended
up breaking all the bedtime
boundaries and laughing about
not caring. Our 4-year-old, after
finishing his pasta and playing in
the field, fell asleep in the stroll-
er. Our baby fell asleep in the
carrier. By the end, it was
just eight or nine tables in the
near-darkness, and Lilian re-
marked that what made the meal
so special wasn’t any particu-
lar bite, but rather the un-
abashed simplicity. No dollops of
any precious delicacy. No eye
toward plating.
Just food that you would want
to eat.
Before we left, Salvatore gave
us two bags of pasta — a parting
gift for every guest, he said. We
carried our children into the car
and headed over potholes and
pitch-black country roads.
If Google sent me headlong
down any one-way roads I didn’t
know, there was nobody else
around.
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The Snowbird resort in Utah. “The Mountain Collective was a response to the Epic Pass,” said Todd Burnette, CEO of Mountain Collective, which encompasses two dozen resorts in seven countries.

How to pick a ski pass — without it being an uphill battle

Buying a pass for multiple mountains can save you money in the long run. We compared the Epic, Icon, Mountain Collective and Indy to help you decide.
BY A NDREA S ACHS
Imagine a ski season in which
you hop from mountain to moun-
tain but never have to care about
the increasingly steep price of a
lift ticket. Those other people
griping about how a day on the
slopes costs the same as a new
Apple Watch? You can’t relate.
What differentiates you from
other vacationers is neither stock
options nor a winning Powerball
ticket, but a wise, one-season
investment: a multi-resort pass.
“Is it economical to buy a ski
pass? Heck yes!” said Sunshine
Swetnam, an assistant professor
in Colorado State University’s ski
area management master’s pro-
gram. “I would be blown away
if the pass ever becomes a
bad thing.”
The multi-resort pass is a fair-
ly new development. In 2008,
Vail Resorts introduced the Epic
Pass, a spinoff of the singular
resort season pass. Instead of
locking visitors into one moun-
tain, Vail’s pass granted winter
sports enthusiasts unlimited and
unrestricted access to four re-
sorts in Colorado and one in
California.
That all-you-can-ski deal was
also a bargain, relatively speak-
ing. According to Sara Olson, vice
president of communications for
Vail Resorts, Epic initially cost
$579, significantly less than an
individual resort pass, which av-
eraged $1,800. In addition, the
bulk price was much kinder on
the wallet than the a la carte fee.
The same truth holds today,
when same-day tickets can cost
upward of $200 or more.
“The pass pays for itself after
four days or in one vacation,” said
Adrienne Saia Isaac, director of
marketing and communica-
tions at the National Ski Areas
Association.
Since Epic’s debut, three more
passes have appeared on the
domestic and international ski
scene: Mountain Collective,
which celebrates its 11th season
this year; Alterra Mountain Com-
pany’s Ikon Pass (2018-2019);
and Indy Pass (2019-2020). The
passes are more complementary
than competitive.
Stan Gale, a Colorado-based
ski and snow sports safety con-
sultant, buys Ikon and Epic pass-
es, which do not overlap. The
Ikon and Mountain Collective
passes share a few resorts, such
as Aspen Snowmass in Colorado,
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in
Wyoming and Montana’s Big Sky.
However, for skiers and boarders
who can’t telecommute, one pass
could suffice.
To decipher the quartet, and
their cost efficiency, we took a
deep-powder dive into the world
of ski passes.
A skier rides a gondola over a mountain in Colorado. To decide whether you need a pass, Stan Gale, a
safety consultant, says to ask yourself questions such as: “How often do you plan to ski, and where?”
The Epic Pass
Vail Resorts created the abom-
inable snowman of multi-resort
passes, with full access at 41 ski
destinations in 15 states plus
Canada, Switzerland and Aus-
tralia, whose season occurs oppo-
site the Northern Hemi-
sphere’s. The pass also offers
limited access for a set number of
days at nearly 45 partner resorts,
such as Telluride in Colorado,
Switzerland’s Verbier 4Vallées
and Rusutsu Resort in Japan.
Only Telluride requires advance
reservations.
Pass holders also receive 20
percent off such extras as food
and drinks, lodging, equipment
rentals and lessons; discounted
tickets for friends and family
members; and Epic Coverage, a
refund policy that applies when
customers face such adversities
as injury or job loss. This fall, the
company introduced the My Epic
app, which allows guests to
store their pass or lift tickets on
their phone.
Of all the Vail Resorts pass-
es, the Epic Pass is the most
bountiful — and the most expen-
sive, at $969 for adults ages
13 and older. For vacationers
with fewer snow days or tighter
budgets, Vail Resorts has sev-
eral other options, such as
the Epic Local, a trimmed-down
version of Epic Pass, for
$719 (ages 19 and older); the
Epic Day Pass, which covers
one to seven days at 22, 32 or
38 resorts in North America
and Europe (starting at $54);
and regional passes, such as
the Northeast Value Pass
($591 for adults).
MaRiDav/shuttERstock
ERic Dunn/EPic Pass
Skiers at Vail Mountain. In 2008, Vail Resorts introduced the
Epic Pass, a spinoff of the singular resort season pass.
Pricing is tiered, so the earlier Idaho and Canada, including
you commit, the more you save. such stalwarts as Steamboat in
In the spring, the Epic Pass costs Colorado, Stratton in Vermont
$909. Prices will rise this month, and Tremblant in Quebec. The
before the sale period closes in plan also includes up to seven
December. days of skiing at more than
40 partner resorts around the
Ikon Pass world (new additions this season
The Ikon Pass resembles Epic, are Alyeska Resort in Alaska
but with resorts owned by Alter- and Camelback and Blue Moun-
ra and its associates. Pass holders tain in Pennsylvania), plus a
can take advantage of unlimited First Tracks program, 25 percent
skiing and riding at 16 destina- off companion tickets and 15
tions in Colorado, California, percent off food, drinks and
West Virginia, Vermont, Utah, shopping.
The pass costs $1,309 for cus-
tomers 23 and older. For less
pricey alternatives, the Ikon Base
Pass, a scaled-back version of its
main pass, goes for $979, and the
customizable Ikon Session Pass
4-Day is $539.
The sale period closes in mid-
December.
Mountain Collective
and Indy Pass
Mountain Collective and Indy
Pass differ from Epic and Ikon on
several counts. For one, instead
of an unlimited skiing approach,
the passes offer vacationers two
days at each resort, plus a dis-
count for extra days: 25 percent
off the third day with Indy
Pass and 50 percent of all subse-
quent days with Mountain Col-
lective.
“A woman did 20 resorts [one]
year,” said Todd Burnette, CEO of
Mountain Collective, which en-
compasses two dozen resorts in
seven countries. “But to get the
most value, you just have to ski at
least four days at two resorts.”
Another difference: The re-
sorts affiliated with the passes
are not part of a big conglomer-
ate. They are the ski industry’s
version of the boutique property
or the family-run inn.
“The Mountain Collective was
a response to the Epic Pass,”
Burnette said. “They have a loose
association: They are independ-
ent resorts and not owned by a
corporate entity.”
However, autonomous does
not mean anonymous. The col-
lective’s resorts include such il-
lustrious slopes as Arapahoe Ba-
sin in Colorado, Chamonix-
Mont-Blanc in France and Lake
Louise in Alberta, Canada. Many
of the Indy Pass’s 183 resorts in
North America, Europe and Ja-
pan are small regional favorites
that often appear on high school
ski trip permission slips and
winter weekend itineraries, such
as Massanutten Resort in Vir-
ginia and Schuss Mountain at
Shanty Creek in Michigan. The
Indy Pass, which added more
than 50 new Alpine and Nordic
resorts this season, also en-
dears itself to cross-country ski-
ers by including two days of
skiing at more than 40 Nordic
centers in the United States and
Canada. Or buy a XC-only pass
for $99.
The Indy Pass, which costs
$399 with blackout dates and
$100 more for none, paused sales
in April because of high demand.
The company released more
passes to its wait-list members
starting Oct. 10 and expects to
continue doing so as they become
available. The Mountain Collec-
tive’s price tag rises as ski season
nears. Skiers can currently pur-
chase the pass for $650.
How to choose the right pass
The first question is: Do you
even need a pass? The answer is
yes if:
l You plan to spend at least a
week or several weekends skiing
or snowboarding, especially at
some of the pricier resorts.
l You want to try out several
mountains in one season or
are committed to chasing
down the powder wherever it
may fall.
l You have strict vacation time,
because some resorts sell out of
online tickets but will still wel-
come pass holders. (Note: Some
destinations, such as Aspen
Snowmass, Jackson Hole and Big
Sky, require pass holders to make
reservations.)
The answer is maybe not if
your winter calendar is so packed
that you can only slip away for a
day or two.
“It’s a good option for people,
because it makes ski trips more
affordable than going up to the
ticket window,” Mountain Collec-
tive’s Burnette said. “But you
need to visit two resorts for at
least four days to get a good
value.”
To help with the decision,
Gale suggests asking questions
such as: “What do you envision
your winter looking like?” “How
often do you plan to ski, and
where?” and “How much can you
spend on these trips?”
“You really need to tailor it to
your budget and time off,” he
said.
If all of your answers are
pass-affirming, the next step is
choosing one. Epic and Ikon are
ideal for skiers and snowboard-
ers who expect to spend a chunk
of the season strapped to their
board or planks. Between the
two, pick the pass that features
your favorite resorts or moun-
tains that you have always as-
pired to conquer. Proximity to
home is also key.
“Epic and Ikon reach a broad-
er audience,” Isaac said. “They
allow for exploration and flexibil-
ity.”
Mountain Collective boasts a
more curated sampler’s box of
resorts, which Isaac describes as
“bucket-list.” “They’re not trying
to be anyone else,” she said.
Indy Pass, meanwhile, caters
to families, novice skiers and
riders, and visitors more apt to
jump in their car than a plane to
get their shred on. “It fits a niche
for people looking for more of a
ski-area experience than a re-
sort,” she said.
Of course, the truly indecisive
— or ambitious — can double up
on passes. You can do the math
while waiting in the lift ticket
line, or in between gasps
over your December-April credit
card bills.
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Should you say ‘I do’ to travel insurance for a honeymoon? Experts weigh in.
Q: We’re
By The Way planning a
Concierge June wedding
natalie B. and
Compton honeymoon to
South Africa
and
Mozambique.
Do I need travel insurance for
my honeymoon? It seems really
expensive. Apparently less than
$500 per person is a good deal.
Does the price depend on where
I’m going?
— Erica Snow, a social media
editor for The Washington Post
A: Long story short: Get the
insurance. Or as Laura K.
Frazier, founder of Bliss
Honeymoons, summed it up:
“Unless they are independently
wealthy and willing to lose
thousands of dollars, they
should spend the money and
get trip insurance every
single time.”
The longer story: I went to
travel planners, insurance reps
and former honeymooners with
your question, and the
overwhelming majority came to
the same conclusion that this is
probably the most expensive
trip you’ve ever planned, so
travel insurance is essential.
Let’s start with how it’s
priced. Steven Benna, the
marketing manager for the
travel insurance marketplace
Squaremouth, says where you’re
going isn’t really a factor. What
matters is how long your trip is,
how much it costs, how old you
are and what you want insured.
There are few different types
of travel insurance to consider
for your trip:
l A trip cancellation or
interruption policy: These
plans cover the costs associated
with disruptions before or
during your trip, such as getting
sick or flight cancellations.
l A medical policy: This will
cover you for any illness or
injury during your trip, plus
emergency medical
transportation.
lA comprehensive policy:
These packages are a one-stop
shop to protect your
honeymoon. These bundles can
include coverage for trip
cancellations, travel delays,
medical emergencies, lost
luggage and more. Expect to
pay between 5 and 10 percent
of the trip cost for these.
Clearing the air: Flight attendants debunk common travel myths
BY N ATALIE B . C OMPTON
The internet is rife with old
wives’ tales about travel. We see
video after video professing ways
to fly better, cheaper. To demysti-
fy some of our burning questions,
we turned to those on the front
line of the industry: flight atten-
dants.
While they’re portrayed in
movies and television as chic
jet-setters or hard-partying ingé-
nues, being a flight attendant has
gotten a lot less cinematic.
They’ve had to deal with the
tumultuous years of pandemic
shutdowns and border closures,
when they were considered es-
sential workers and still had to fly
while most of us stayed safe at
home. They’ve faced insults and
assaults from angry travelers
when enforcing mask mandates.
They enroll in self-defense class-
es to protect themselves on
board, miss holidays and family
milestones so we can fly to ours,
and have been fighting for years
for better pay and benefits.
“It’s not a job. It is a lifestyle,”
said Beth Bourneuf, a former
teacher who became a flight at-
tendant in 2020. “When you go to
work, you’re gone for three
days. … You’re kind of away from
it all.”
Because the airport is their
second home, we went to them to
debunk some common travel
myths. We interviewed flight at-
tendants — some with decades of
experience and others newer to
the field. Some we interviewed
spoke on the condition that they
be identified by their first name
only to protect their employ-
ment.
Myth: Dressing up will
get you an upgrade
Reality: False
You can’t charm your way to
first class, but you should still be
nice.
“You won’t get an upgrade but
maybe a free drink,” said Miami-
based Trey Antwan, who became
a flight attendant in 2007.
Airlines have strict systems for
upgrades, and flight attendants
don’t have the authority to dole
out seating assignments. “I know
that if I were to upgrade someone
out of order and not go by that
[upgrade] list, I would get in so
much trouble,” said Vinia Di-
Geronimo, who’s five years into
her career. In fact, “there are
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l A policy through your
credit card: If you booked your
trip with a credit card, you may
already have some coverage for
things such as trip interruption,
evacuations and lost luggage.
l A “cancel for any reason”
policy: This is an expensive add-
on so you can cancel your trip
beyond those covered reasons.
If costly parts of your trip are
nonrefundable, I’d go with a
comprehensive package to
protect your investment from
the many surprises that could
unfold. I heard stories from the
travel planners about their
unlucky honeymooners. Some
were simple, such as flights
being canceled, throwing
itineraries out of whack. Then
there were burst appendixes,
emergency rehab and deaths in
times where the people who actu-
ally pay for economy plus will call
the airline and ask for a refund
because they saw people moved
up for free,” said Amber, who has
been a flight attendant for eight
years. “And we can get terminat-
ed for that.”
Myth: Greeting passengers
has a hidden purpose
Reality: True
Welcoming passengers on
board is more than just a hello. It
gives flight attendants the oppor-
tunity to identify able-bodied
passengers, a.k.a. ABPs, who may
be able to help in case of an
emergency. The flight crew is also
looking for suspicious or intoxi-
cated travelers, and sizing up
carry-ons.
“We look to see how many bags
people are carrying, and we also
have to be conscious of what kind
of bags they’re carrying,”
Bourneuf said. “Anyone with a
cooler, we need to ask what’s in
there.”
the family. Worse yet, “we had
two different couples call off
their wedding last year because
they broke up,” Frazier said.
If you don’t go for a
comprehensive package, at
minimum, you’ll want a medical
policy. However, it won’t cover
you if you get sick before your
trip. Daniel Durazo, director of
external communications at
Allianz Partners USA, says many
Americans are surprised to find
they aren’t covered by their
personal health insurance when
they go abroad. “If you get sick
or injured in Mozambique,
you’re going to have to pay
for that out of your pocket,”
he said. “And you probably
won’t be reimbursed by your
domestic health insurance
company.”
Myth: Flight attendants
are there to serve you
Reality: False
Their primary job is your safe-
ty, not collecting your trash or
lifting your bag. (They’re not
supposed to do the latter any-
more, because doing so puts
them at risk for injury.) They’re
trained for a number of onboard
crises, such as the medical emer-
gency Amber tended to a few
months ago. At the time, “it didn’t
look good,” she said, but “I
learned not long ago that it’s
because we immediately took ac-
tion that we actually helped save
his life.”
Myth: Flight attendants delay
takeoff for overtime pay
Reality: False
Their pay doesn’t work like
that. Delta Air Lines made head-
lines last year after announcing
that it would start paying flight
attendants during boarding. But
for many, the clock doesn’t start
until the plane’s door is closed
eZ ee
If you’re curious what other
travelers have done, the
honeymooners I surveyed had
mixed feedback. Most said they
bought insurance because the
trip was too expensive to risk. A
handful were very relieved they
did, such as the couple who got
the coronavirus and had to
postpone, or the spouse who
was struck in the head by a
falling rock on their trip and
needed stitches. Others made
sure to book an itinerary that
could be refunded. Some said
they skipped buying a policy
and relied on their credit card’s
travel insurance coverage.
Esther Klijn, an adviser with
Cire Travel, notes that travel
insurance isn’t a perfect safety
net and doesn’t cover
everything. For example, you’ll
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and its brakes are released. Like
the rest of us, they still have to
show up well before takeoff and
sit around through the same
weather and mechanical compli-
cations — all without pay.
“Most of my workdays are any-
where between 12 to 16 hours, but
we only get paid anywhere from
five to eight of those hours,”
DiGeronimo said.
Myth: Flight attendants
travel free
Reality: True
They do, but it’s not as glamor-
ous as it sounds. Although they
can fly free, they must do so on
standby. That could mean wait-
ing hours or days to get a seat on a
plane. Still, the perk is why many
get into the exhausting industry.
“When I’m in Switzerland eat-
ing chocolates — or when I’m
hanging out with my best friend
who lives two time zones away
just because it’s a Tuesday and I
was off — it’s worth it in those
moments,” DiGeronimo said.
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need a special policy if you’re
partaking in adventure sports
such as bungee jumping. Most
insurers won’t approve your
claim if an accident happens
while you’re under the
influence. And with general trip
cancellation policies, you can’t
skip the trip for fear of
something bad happening.
That’s when you’d need a
cancel-for-any-reason policy,
which will still only get
you a percentage of your
money back.
For some of those concerns,
you can get an additional
cancel-for-any-reason policy
that will give you more
flexibility. However, “it does
typically increase the policy’s
premium by about 50 percent,”
Benna said.
“But there are a lot of times when
I’m thinking, ‘Why am I doing
this to myself ?’”
Myth: They have secret
places to sleep
Reality: True
“There’s a whole world under-
neath the airport that people
don’t know about,” Bourneuf
said.
Some airlines have airport
staff lounges and sleeping rooms
for crew to rest between flights.
And on long-haul routes, the
crew must take breaks in “secret”
airplane compartments. “It’s not
anything luxurious, but we can
stretch out and lay down,” said
Tricia, who has been a flight
attendant for 36 years.
Myth: Don’t drink
airplane coffee
Reality: It depends
Many flight attendants steer
clear of hot water on board.
That’s true for Amber. Years ago,
she heard that the water tanks on
F5
Go into your insurance
shopping with an idea of what
you want covered, and read the
fine print. As for who to go to,
travel advisers say it depends on
the trip. But adviser Marisa
DeSalvio said Travelex is a
favorite for its customer service,
and Piper Fenton of Remarkable
Honeymoons has sworn by
Allianz for the past seven years.
If you’re getting sticker shock,
I have two words for you:
wedding registry. Whether you
add a policy as its own line item
or factor it in to your budget
from the honeyfund,
crowdsource the cost from your
loved ones.
Want to see your question
answered? Submit it online at
wapo.st/btwc.
planes may contain harmful bac-
teria and has avoided the coffee
and tea ever since. However, she
does know flight attendants and
plenty of passengers who do
drink airplane coffee.
Myth: Flight attendants
constantly party
Reality: False
Although some flight atten-
dants — particularly ones new to
the job — may go all out on a
layover, many are too tired after a
long shift do to more than eat,
sleep and get ready for their next
flight. “Sometimes we do go out
to enjoy the city, but people like
myself who’ve been doing it a
long time, . . . it’s a regular job,”
Antwan said. “I’m on my layover
right now, . . . and I’ve been in my
room.”
And no, they can’t drink on the
job. Flight attendants are subject
to regular drug and alcohol test-
ing.
Myth: They know when
air marshals are on board
Reality: It depends
Some say they always know
when they have federal air mar-
shals on their flights. Amber says
gate agents usually alert them or
they can see they’re on board via
a special crew app. “We have an
app to see all customers so we can
see all ‘specials,’” she said.
“And normally they come on
board to introduce themselves,”
she added. “They have to check in
with the pilot first, and then we
have to know where they’re seat-
ed. If there’s more than one, then
they have to know where each
other are seated as well.”
Others say they are only in-
formed sometimes, and may find
out after landing that an air
marshal was on board.
Myth: Flight attendants make
you check bags out of spite
Reality: False
Don’t take it personally; it
comes down to physics and tak-
ing off on time. Maybe your bag is
too large to fit in the overhead
bin, or maybe there is simply no
space left.
“Some bags should not have
been allowed down the jet
bridge,” Antwan said. “Some-
times customer service doesn’t
catch it and we’re the ones that
catch it.” Either way, don’t make
the crew’s day worse — and delay
takeoff — by arguing about it.
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World’s most beautiful

cattle are a di≠erent breed
BY C AT W ILLET

Around the world, cows are celebrated in many different ways. There are parades and festivals, and
people costume, paint and honor their bovine friends for their many gifts and companionship.
Illustrator Cat Willett rounded up the fanciest cattle from across the globe to showcase.
Cat Willett is an illustrator and author based in Brooklyn. You can follow her on Instagram: @catxwillett.

Lovers are leaving locks at the Grand Canyon. Rangers wish they’d stop.
BY H EIDI P ÉREZ- M ORENO
Latching a padlock onto public
fixtures has been a symbol for
everlasting love around the world
as couples seal their commit-
ments to one another and throw
the keys into open waters.
The origins of the tradition are
largely unknown, but it’s believed
to have become popular in Rome
after the 2006 Italian novel and
2007 film “I Want You,” when a
couple sealed locks onto a Roman
bridge. The tradition has made its
way to bridges, fences and gates
across the world, including the
Pont des Artes in Paris, the Ma-
kartsteg Bridge in Salzburg and
the Napa Valley Wine Train Love
Lock Bridge.
It’s even become popular at
Grand Canyon National Park,
where officials have recently
grown increasingly concerned
about tourists latching “love
locks” onto metal fences across
the park and throwing keys into
the water. In a Facebook post last
month, officials said the practice
is a form of “littering” and “graffi-
ti” and puts animals throughout
the canyon at risk. A photo
showed a ranger removing the
locks.
“Love is strong, but it is not as
strong as our bolt cutters,” the
post read.
While there are several rare
and endangered species at the
park, such as big-eared bats and
Kaibab swallowtail butterflies,
according to the Grand Canyon
Trust, the National Park Service is
most concerned about California
condors in this case. The Face-
book post noted an incident
where a condor had to be operat-
ed on after swallowing coins. An
X-ray image showed objects stuck
in the vulture’s digestive tract.
“Condors are curious animals
and much like a small child will
investigate strange things they
come across with their mouths.
Condors love shiny things,” the
post said. “They will spot a coin, a
wrapper, or a shiny piece of
metal, like a key from a padlock
that has been tossed into the
canyon and eat it.”
California condors are the larg-
est land birds in North America,
with a wingspan of more than
nine feet. The birds have been
listed as endangered since 1967.
Their population has increased
thanks to captive breeding, and,
as of 2022, there are 561 condors
in the wild and captivity, accord-
ing to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. They are still dying, how-
ever, due to lead poisoning, con-
suming trash and being electro-
cuted by power lines, the Nation-
al Park Service says.
John Griffin, senior director of
urban wildlife programs at the
Humane Society of the United
States, said sealing locks and
throwing keys in the canyon may
seem harmless, but doing so in-
advertently puts wildlife such as
condors at risk.
The message from the Park
Service is one of the latest warn-
ings to tourists who have sought
to make their mark in parks in
dangerous ways. Travelers have
been seen taking selfies with
animals, harassing or getting too
close to wildlife, licking psyche-
delic toads, cutting down trees or
touching geothermal pools.
In June, the agency issued a
plea for visitors to respect the
wildlife they encounter at these
parks in response to “actions” by
visitors that resulted in a wildlife
death.
“Those kinds of behaviors are
connected to this idea of not
really understanding and re-
specting the natural space in the
way that we should,” Griffin said.
“It’s all part of not following or
understanding these rules, and
not having the right frame of
mind or intelligence we need to
respect these spaces.”
In 2018, officials at Zion Na-
tional Park posted a similar
warning after a viral trend led to
visitors stacking rocks and post-
ing photos under the hashtags
#RockStacks and #StoneStack-
ing. Officials said in a Facebook
post that moving rocks around
can expose soil to wind, disturb
animals living under rocks or
confuse hikers while they venture
through trails.
“Leaving your mark, whether
carving your initials in a tree
trunk, scratching a name on a
rock, or stacking up stones is
simply vandalism,” officials wrote
in the post. “Visitors who build
cairns probably don’t look at
building cairns as vandalism
since rocks can be unstacked
easily, but moving rocks around
still can lead to resource dam-
age.”
Griffin puts rock-stacking and
“love locks” in the same category,
because they don’t appear to be
harmful at first glance, but they
can threaten the parks.
“We should have a reverence
for nature and understand the
rules while we’re there and not
just make a human statement of
professing our love for another,
or just putting our own mark on
the space where it absolutely
doesn’t belong,” he said. “We’re
there to appreciate these incredi-
ble, natural features and incredi-
ble array of wild animals.”
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T
he U.S. birthrate languish-
es at its lowest level in his-
tory. So when our friend
and colleague Herman Wong
suggested running the numbers
on only children, we lit up with
the cheap joy of answering a
question to which we already
knew the answer. With fewer
kids overall, Americans are sure-
ly cranking out one-hit wonders
in record numbers, right?
Not so fast!
Every two years, the Census
Bureau quietly appends a battery
of fertility-related questions to
its workhorse monthly question-
naire, the Current Population
Survey, our go-to source for ev-
erything from the unemploy-
ment rate to Americans’ moving
habits. It’s smaller than the im-
mense annual American Com-
munity Survey, but it’s one of the
few major surveys that asks how
many times American women
have given birth.
As we analyzed the latest fig-
ures, from 2022, our brains spun
in our skulls: Since the mid-
1980s, the rate at which we pro-
duce only children has remained
absolutely flat. Something like 1
in 5 American women ages 25 to
44 are one and done.
That’s bizarre, given birth-
rates! But let’s zoom out and look
at the whole universe of possible
family sizes.
First, we noted that families
with three or more kids plunged
in the 1980s, as birth control,
education and greater opportu-
nity helped women pile into the
workforce. That’s also when only
children rose to their current lev-
el. Families shifted again after
the Great Recession when,
among women 25 to 44, even
having two children lost its lus-
ter. The number of women who
had zero children soared. Only
children held steady.
To be sure, this is partly be-
cause women are starting their
families later and thus having
second children later. But even
among women in their early 40s,
the share of only children has
barely budged in more than
three decades, crawling from
17 percent in 1990 to 19 percent
in 2022.
That suggests a simple expla-
nation: If people want kids, they
want more than one. A consis-
tent minority stops at one, be it
for biological, philosophical or
logistical reasons. But otherwise,
children seem to be a multiple-
or-nothing proposition.
Our friends at Gallup con-
firmed this. A poll this summer
found that almost nobody — just
3 percent of Americans — consid-
ers one child to be the ideal fam-
ily size.
Even if you poll people who
currently have one child, only
6 percent of them consider one
to be the loveliest number. Zero
is even less popular.
About three quarters of us
think two (44 percent) or three
(29 percent) children would be
ideal. And the parents who have
that many kids are much more
likely to have the precise number
of kids they think is ideal. That
contrasts sharply with parents
with fewer kids, who almost al-
ways think more would be ideal,
and parents with four or more
kids, about half of whom think
the ideal family is probably
smaller than theirs. Whoops.
University of Texas psycholo-
gist Toni Falbo has studied only
children such as herself since the
mid-1970s, when they were legiti-
mately rare. She told us that
(largely false) stereotypes have
led parents to believe that having
just one child amounted to “mis-
treating your child by not provid-
ing them with another sibling.”
There’s evidence that only
children may be more likely to
divorce than people from large
families and may have higher
body mass indexes in adoles-
cence, Falbo told us. But she’s
found little backing for the per-
sistent belief that only children
struggle socially, especially after
kindergarten.
“It turns out only children are
not more selfish than others.
They aren’t lonelier than others,”
Falbo said. “Ironically, in many
ways, they’re less lonely than
other people because they’re ac-
customed to being alone.”
So why are people choosing
none over one? The biggest de-
terminants of childlessness seem
to be youth, marriage (or lack
thereof ) and higher education.
The shift toward zero kids came
fastest among younger women,
especially those in their 20s,
though we now see it across the
age spectrum.
But look deeper at that data,
and you’ll spot something wild.
Women in their early 20s em-
braced childlessness first, with a
sharp rise beginning around
2002. That happens to be when
the first millennials, born in
1981, entered that age group. For
women in their later 20s, the
jump in childlessness happened
in 2006, just as the first millenni-
als arrived.
As you ascend the age spec-
trum, the millennial echo fol-
EZ EE the washington post . sunday, november 12 , 2023
department of data tions, millennials had the means
to delay pregnancy thanks to af-
An only-child mystery leads to a fordable, long-acting birth-con-
trol options, said Alison Gem-
mill, a demographer at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of
revelation about childless millennials Public Health.
“Historically, one of the rea-
sons why we think the U.S. has
had such a high fertility rate
compared to other countries was
related to unintended and un-
america’s birthrate remains mired near record lows, but the number of only-child families hasn’t risen at all wanted pregnancies that result-
ed in births,” Gemmill told us.
Live births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 Average times women have given birth in their lifetime, ages 25 to 44 Now that it’s easier to avoid acci-
dental pregnancies, more women
140 35% Zero
are having kids later, or not at all.
Sociologist Sarah Hayford di-
120 30 rects Ohio State’s Institute for
Population Research and has,
with Guzzo, studied the living
100 25 Two daylights out of another key data
source, the National Center for
One Health Statistics’ National Sur-
80 20
veys of Family Growth. She
thinks millennials may still come
60 15 around on kids.
Three “A big part of the uptick in
childlessness is delay rather than
40 10 permanent childlessness,” Hay-
ford told us. “Even among wom-
en in their thirties, a lot will go
20 5 Four
on to have a child.”
Five- If women are able to follow
plus
0 0 through on their delayed family
1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 plans, much of the rise in child-
Note: We omitted 2020, due to pandemic-related disruptions. lessness could be erased, accord-
Source: National Center for Health Statistics Source: Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Fertility Supplement via IPUMS ing to a 2020 analysis of the same
data set by Gemmill and Caroline
few americans say one child is ideal, and as americans have kids later, fewer of us have time for larger families Sten Hartnett of the University of
South Carolina. But with older
What do you think is the ideal number Share of women in each age group who had a child in the past year millennials in their 40s, time for
of children for a family to have? a reversal may be running out.
When that almost mythical
Zero One Two Three Four Five+ No 12%
perfect time to have children
opinion does arrive, some women will
How many 10 2000-
2000- 2008
2008 2021
2021 find they don’t have the means.
children do Zero 2001
2001 “In the United States, we overes-
you currently timate our ability to get pregnant
One 8 later or how readily available
have?
medically assisted reproduction
Two
might be,” Guzzo said. “I mean, it
6
is available, but it’s crazy expen-
sive. Your average person can’t
Three afford it. It’s often not covered by
4
insurance.”
Four-plus Meanwhile, a 2021 poll from
2 our friends at Pew Research
0% 20 40 60 80 100 found that about 44 percent of
0
childless adults ages 18 to 49 said
Note: Numbers may not total to 100 due to rounding.
15 years 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 they were not too likely, or not at
Source: Gallup telephone poll of 2,028 U.S. adults from June 1 to 22 and July 3 to 27,
2023, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points
all likely, to have children, a
Source: Census Bureau’s American Community Survey via IPUMS
sharp increase from the 37 per-
cent who said the same thing in
Childlessness rose when millennials arrived in each age group, and it kept rising even as homeownership recovered 2018.
And a hefty 56 percent said
Share of women who have never given birth, by age Share of women whose households own their own home they just didn’t want kids. (The
remainder pointed to medical
100% 80% reasons, financial reasons and
18-19 lack of a partner. The state of the
world and climate change came
in a distant fifth and sixth out of
seven.)
20-24 When we asked about child-
80 first less couples in an earlier column,
millennials many readers pointed to the rise
70
hit the age
group
40-44 of same-sex marriage. But the
latest Census Bureau estimates,
from 2021, show that fewer than
35-39 1 in 100 U.S. households are led
60
25-29 by same-sex couples. Even if
none of those couples had kids,
an absurd assumption, it
60
wouldn’t come close to explain-
ing the rise in childlessness.
30-34 After consulting our own
40
first
30-34
household — which notably in-
millennials
cludes a brilliant dog but zero
children — we began to wonder
if it may have something to do
50 with millennials being the first
35-39 generation that isn’t likely to do
20 25-29
40-44
better than their parents, accord-
ing to Opportunity Insights. A re-
cent WSJ/NORC poll found that
first 78 percent of Americans aren’t
millennials confident their children will
have better lives than they did.
0 40
1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
We have little data to back up
this speculation, but many of our
Note: We omitted 2020, due to pandemic-related disruptions. sources wholeheartedly agreed.
Source: Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Fertility Supplement via IPUMS Source: Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement via IPUMS About 90 percent of kids born in
1944 outdid their parents; even
Some may be reluctant to bring kids into a world where children aren’t likely to be better off than their parents negligent mothers and fathers
could produce a surefire success.
Why non-parents ages 18 to 49 say it’s not too likely, or not at all Share of children earning more than their parents, by birth year For kids born in 1984, that num-
likely, that they’ll have kids, 2021 ber was just 50 percent. These
days, when the outlook may be
WHY foLKS aren’t LIKeLY to HaVe KIdS 100% even bleaker, there’s intense
pressure to pump your kids up
Just don’t want kids 56%
with every available ounce of or-
Some other reason 43 90 ganic superfood, superior school-
ing and extracurricular enrich-
of tHoSe WHo CIted Some otHer reaSon ment to give them a slim shot at
getting ahead.
80
Medical reasons 19 So the decision to avoid having
children may amount to a kind of
Financial reasons 17 performance anxiety in the face
No partner 15 70 of intense expectations and weak
governmental and social sup-
Age 10 port, Guzzo said: “If I don’t do
60 everything right, then my kid
State of the world 9
will end up living on my couch
Climate change/the
5 forever or be a serial killer. … I
environment don’t know if or when I’ll have
50 what it takes to be a ‘good’ par-
Partner doesn’t want kids 2
ent.
Other 12 “The stakes are so high. I don’t
No answer 19 40 want to screw it up.”
1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985
Source: Pew Research Center online survey of 1,617 childless U.S. adults ages 18 to 49 conducted the department of data needs
Oct. 18 to 24, 2021, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points Source: Opportunity Insights DEPARTMENT OF DATA/THE WASHINGTON POST your queries. Who’s most likely to
live with their adult siblings? Where
are hailstorms getting more
lows. When the oldest millenni- goes for that other major marker source we consulted pointed to you’re supposed to line up before dangerous? What did the stress
als hit their 40s, even 40-year- of building your own household: the broader economic climate. you have kids. caused by the Beltway sniper do to
olds become more likely to go a building. Millennials were late Hammered by the Great Reces- “We have a pretty strong set of expectant mothers in the region?
childless. to homeownership, which made sion, soaring student debt, pre- prerequisites: You absolutely Just ask at wapo.st/data-department.
Generations are squishy, man- it harder to start families. carious gig employment, sky- should finish school and have a
made distinctions. Outside the But neither offers a full expla- rocketing home prices and the decent job, and you should make If your question inspires a column,
baby boom, it’s rare to see such a nation. Both married and un- covid-19 crisis, millennials prob- a decent income, and you should we’ll send an official Department of
vivid generational turning point. married Americans have shifted ably faced more economic head- be in a good partnership, and Data button and ID card. This week,
We’d love to have a perfect expla- toward childlessness in the mil- winds in their childbearing years you should live on your own,” we’ll make the trek all the way across
nation for it. Send us your theo- lennial era. And levels of child- than any other generation. And, Guzzo told us. “That takes a the newsroom to deliver a button to
ries! lessness have actually accelerat- as sociologist Karen Benjamin while to accomplish, especially Herman Wong, The Post’s deputy
For now, we can tell you that ed among millennials as their Guzzo, director of the Carolina in this day and age. Some people general-assignment editor … or at
marriage rates have steadily de- homeownership rates have re- Population Center at the Univer- may feel like they’re never going least we would if he weren’t out on
clined, and unmarried folks are cently grown. sity of North Carolina, told us, it to be in a good place.” paternity leave with his first — and so
less likely to have kids. The same Instead, just about every put them behind on everything And, unlike previous genera- far only! — child.
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A new way to woo workers: Child care at airports, schools and poultry plants
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child-care center opens at
5:30 a.m., so parents can get to
their 6 a.m. shifts on the poultry
processing line. Between compa-
ny subsidies and state assistance,
parents pay an average of $1.60 an
hour for care. Executives say they
hope to eventually keep the center
open until 1 a.m. to accommodate
night-shift workers at the poultry
plant down the street.
“We have struggled to get
enough people to work with us
and stay with us,” said Garrett
Dolan, who works in human re-
sources for the company. “That
got us thinking: We’re in a child-
care desert, there’s nothing avail-
able. We’re going to have to build
this thing ourselves.”
The country was already short
millions of child-care spots before
the pandemic, when sudden shut-
downs forced 20,000 child-care
centers — or 1 in 10 nationwide —
to close permanently, according to
the Century foundation. A
$24 billion lifeline from the gov-
ernment kept many afloat until
September, when the last of those
federal funds ran out.
Since then, lawmakers have ral-
lied for additional money, to no
avail. President Biden recently re-
ignited that effort when he asked
Congress for $16 billion to sup-
port child care. But industry ex-
perts say that money — if and
when it is approved — will barely
help maintain the status quo. It’s
becoming clear, they say, that it
will take broader, more immedi-
ate action to make child care af-
fordable and accessible for work-
ing parents.
“Parents and children need so-
lutions now,” said Jessica Brown,
an economics professor at the
University of South Carolina.
“They don’t have time to wait
around for policymakers to put
through proposals that will make
their lives better some day. That’s
why companies are filling this gap
however they can.”
It makes business sense, too.
Employers lose an estimated
$23 billion a year because of child-
care-related complications, re-
sulting in a $122 billion hit to the
U.S. economy, according to a re-
cent study from readyNation. The
group, part of the bipartisan
Council for a Strong America,
found that the pandemic and “in-
sufficient policy action” have sig-
A new day care at Pittsburgh International Airport serves about five dozen children of employees and is open from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
nificantly worsened access to
child care around the country.
At KinderCare, one of the coun-
try’s largest day-care operators,
the number of employers looking
for information about on-site
child care has risen 54 percent in
the past year, according to Dan
figurski, president of KinderCare
for Employers. Companies are
also increasingly looking for back-
up care options for emergencies
and offering tuition subsidies to
employees, covering roughly
20 percent to 50 percent of their
day-care and aftercare costs.
“The phone continues to ring
with employers asking us to help
them solve child-care needs that,
quite frankly, they didn’t think
they needed to be a part of before
covid,” he said. “I think it’s catch-
ing many of them off-guard. Every
employer I speak with says the
labor market is still tough, finding
talented people is still tough.”
In Wisconsin, charter school
founder Kaleem Caire noticed a
clear shift after the pandemic —
suddenly teachers and adminis-
trators were quitting their jobs, at
least for a year or two, because it
was becoming so difficult to find
infant care in the area.
His executive assistant left the
workforce for a year while she
waited for a spot to open up at a
local day care. When she became
pregnant with her second child
earlier this year, Caire knew he
couldn’t lose her again. Using a
$100,000 grant from a nonprofit,
he converted a space off the school
cafeteria into a staff day care for
up to eight infants.
“We’re losing too many educa-
tors in America,” said Caire, chief
executive of one City Schools. “So
few people are coming into this
field as it is. And now we’re losing
them at the top and in between
because of issues like child care.
It’s a desperate situation.”
The center will cost $255 a week
for infant care after factoring in a
25 percent subsidy. The best part,
for Caire: All of his employees are
staying.
beTH HOllerICH/PITTSburgH INTerNATIONAl AIrPOrT
“I had five employees who were
about to have babies, asking if
they could go part time or take a
year off,” he said. “And now that’s
just not a concern anymore.”
The U.S. job market has under-
gone massive shifts in recent years
as Americans rethink their career
plans and prioritize work-life bal-
ance. many quit in-person work
early in the pandemic, leaving
fields such as education, retail and
hospitality in favor of more flexi-
ble, higher-paying office jobs. Em-
ployers have struggled to refill
their ranks: There are still 3 mil-
lion more job openings than there
are people looking for work.
micron Technology, a semicon-
ductor company based in Boise,
Idaho, is preparing to open a day
care across the street from its
headquarters. It is also building
an on-site child-care center near
an upcoming manufacturing
plant in central New York. But
first, the company is investing
$500,000 to train care providers
and early-childhood teachers in
the area. By the time the factory
opens in three years, the company
hopes to have enough teachers in
place to provide child care to
9,000 employees.
“The infrastructure is really
what’s broken — we need more
people to work in child care, and
we need a career pipeline,” said
marni mcDowell, the company’s
senior director of global well-be-
ing. “People can’t come to work if
they don’t have child care. And
you can’t have child care if there
aren’t workers. The problem just
feeds on itself.”
Despite the momentum, build-
ing an on-site day-care facility can
be costly and time-consuming. It
can be impractical, too, for com-
panies whose workforces are
spread around the country or for
employees who’d prefer care clos-
er to home instead of at their
workplace. To that end, many
more companies are providing
subsidies that can be used any-
where, depending on parents’
needs.
Tootris, a service that connects
parents with child-care providers,
has seen a sixfold increase in em-
ployers — ranging from the city of
San Diego to mazda Toyota manu-
facturing — looking for ways to
offset workers’ child-care costs
this year.
many are offering parents
$3,000 to $5,000 a year to spend
on any type of care, including
preschool, summer camps or af-
ter-school programs, according to
senior director Eric Cutler.
“The reality is, most parents
have a variety of care needs, so one
solution isn’t enough,” he said.
“No matter what your schedule is,
what your income is, child care is a
key necessity for a parent to be
able to stay active and employed.
The brutal reality for working par-
ents is: No child care, no work.”
That has been clear at Pitts-
burgh International Airport,
where executives have taken a
number of measures — including
adding public bus routes to make
it easier for people to get to work
and creating apprentice programs
to draw new employees. But one of
the biggest hurdles remained: a
lack of child care in the area,
which is about 20 miles from
downtown.
recently, the airport opened a
child-care center in a former US
Airways concourse. The facility
serves about five dozen children
and is open from 6:30 a.m. to
6:30 p.m., though executives hope
to add around-the-clock care to
accommodate night-shift work-
ers.
Both Trudi and Ben Shertzer
work at the airport — and now
their son Hunter, 11 months, goes
to work with them, too.
Ben usually drops the infant off
at the newly opened day care just
before 8 a.m., then heads to his job
as a wildlife administrator. Trudi,
an operations manager at the air-
port, sometimes stops by during
the day to say hello.
“It was quite the roller coaster
before I was about to give birth:
Day-care waitlists were so long,
we were talking to babysitters but
we just didn’t know what would
come through,” she said.
The addition of the child-care
center “was absolutely wonderful
news,” she said. It has simplified
her family’s commute and given
her peace of mind while at work.
Plus, she said, her son loves
watching the airplanes take off.

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Last year, the federal Trade
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12,000 comments about junk
fees. The regulator is now seeing
a new round of commentary on a
proposed rule that the
commission says will bring
clarity to hidden fees.
Under the proposal,
businesses would be banned
from advertising prices that hide
or leave out mandatory fees.
Ever see a bill and become
befuddled about some random
fee?
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and whether they are refundable.
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fTC know. You have a chance to
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fees NPrm, r207011” on your
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told the fTC about junk fees.
Comments have been edited for
style and clarity.
resort fees
“Stopping these deceptive
hotel resort fees is long overdue.
The internet made shopping for
travel much more efficient.
Hotels that charge these fees
have been duping consumers
and circumventing this
efficiency with this deceptive
business practice. When I
compare hotel prices online, too
often a low incomplete price is
displayed and the hotel is
included in my search results
and ranked higher than it would
be if the fees were properly
disclosed. We live in a time of
high inflation, and people budget
carefully for travel expenses. It
ruins a vacation. I’ve received
payment shock with undisclosed
resort fees of $25 to $50 per
night and undisclosed parking
fees up to $45 per night. These
hidden fees really add up. The
hotel is the winner and the
consumer is the loser.”
rental car fees
“from hotels to rental cars to
home-sharing sites, there are an
untold number of fees ‘hidden’
deep in the reservation process. I
reserved a rental car with a ‘total’
of $856. When I got to the final
booking page, the total was $600
more. ‘Total’ should mean exactly
that, all-in, no further charges.”
Vacation rental fees
“fees, which are not
advertised upfront in their
listings, added up to 40 percent
of my overall cost on one
occasion. The surprise fees
make it impossible to
comparison-shop hotels across
platforms when your real,
hidden cost could be 10, 20, 50
percent higher than the rate
you are seeing.”
Just-because-we-can fees
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to their highest level in years.
many small farmers are also strug-
gling to make a profit as they deal with
rising material costs and labor shortag-
es. “Somebody can pick coffee all day
long and make $5 for a day,” said mayra
orellana-Powell, founder of Catracha
Coffee. The company helps small-coffee
producers in Santa Elena, Honduras,
access the specialty coffee market, which
has grown in popularity in the United
States since the early 2000s and general-
ly pays farmers better than commodity
prices.
overall, the commodity price for ara-
bica coffee has jumped more than
40 percent since before the pandemic,
climbing even further last year and
dropping slightly this year.
By the time beans are roasted and sold
to cafes, they often cost $10 or more per
pound, depending on the blend, Crabbe
said. And even if commodity prices go
down, customers are unlikely to see their
bills drop.
“retailers, once they increase the
price, tend not to lower it because they
know their margins are going to be
squeezed,” said Judy Ganes, president of
J Ganes Consulting, which works with
food and agricultural industries.
orellana-Powell likes to remind peo-
ple that their morning mug is the end
result of a long and arduous process.
“People don’t treat [coffee] as a luxury
item,” said Lowell Powell, her husband
and co-founder. “And they should.”
The milk
Another likely ingredient in your
coffee is milk.
Cow’s milk is the traditional comple-
ment. The retail price of dairy milk is
$4.36 a gallon, up $1 from four years ago,
according to the U.S. Agriculture Depart-
ment.
The rising price can be traced, in part,
to increasing feed prices, making the
10 ounces or so of milk in your latte more
expensive over time.
But dairy milk is not the only type of
milk coffee drinkers might choose. In-
creasingly, customers are asking for oat,
almond or soy milk. Plant-based milk
often costs about twice as much as dairy
milk, depending on the specific type and
store, according to commodities price
data firm mintec.
Coffee shops often charge a premium
for plant-based milk to make up the
difference, though shops are increasing-
ly getting rid of the upcharge as the milk
become more popular. Caribou Coffee,
one of the largest chains in the United
States, now lets customers who join its
Perks program choose any milk for no
extra cost if they order on the app.
The barista
While coffee and milk prices are up,
their effects pale in comparison to one of
the biggest expenses for cafes — labor,
said Ganes.
restaurant and shop workers have
pushed for higher wages, part of a larger
trend that led to a summer of strikes in
America. many shops have raised wages
and increased perks to keep workers on
board and attract new workers.
Jonathan Townsend, director of
barista-training company the Institute
of Coffee, said baristas deserve more
money during what he called a “cost of
living crisis” driven largely by higher
inflation.
“It’s an arduous job to be serving
customers all day, and there should be
more money for that role as well as to
encourage a more diverse workforce,”
Townsend said.
Since 2021, Starbucks workers at hun-
dreds of stores across the country have
voted to unionize. The coffee giant said
its average hourly wage is now around
$17.50. The company announced an-
other raise to take effect Jan. 1 but said
some of the new benefits would not be
available to unionized stores.
In San francisco, Crabbe says wages
and benefits for her employees make up
nearly 40 percent of the cost of each
latte.
The business expenses
Along with paying and training work-
ers, coffee shop owners must keep the
lights on — literally. That coffee shop you
visit every morning has to pay rent, taxes
and its electric bill. And as you probably
know by now — those prices are going
up.
The first time Crabbe raised prices, it
was to cover the cost of employee health
insurance. more recently, it was because
inflation and supply chain crunches had
made nearly every element of her busi-
ness more expensive, from coffee beans
and milk to cups and lids.
Crabbe said she tries to keep up with
rising costs without alienating daily
customers.
“That’s the tightrope we’re all walking
in the coffee industry,” she said. “We
need to keep it affordable so it stays a
daily habit.”
In Dallas, Adam Lowes, co-owner of
LDU Coffee To Go, said he is “aston-
ished” to see what some shops are
charging for coffee right now. Lowes
charges a base latte price of $4 to
encourage customer loyalty, relying on
volume to generate profits.
Still, Lowes said that rising costs are
squeezing bottom lines. “Every single
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poured into your daily fuel
product that I order has gone up,” he said.
The extras
Some days, plain coffee is just not
enough. Perhaps you need a pump of
vanilla? A heavy shake of chocolate
sprinkles? Some whipped cream? Your
order may vary, but that extra dose of
flavor is not free.
flavored lattes are the most requested
item for Grant macHamer, who sets up
cafes for corporate workers across the
country. macHamer, senior manager of
ee
the coffee program at the Good Eating
Company, began working in coffee 15
years ago. Then, pour-overs and single-
origin beans were just becoming popular
with consumers. Now it’s all about the
high-end syrups, such as vanilla sugar
made from real vanilla beans.
“People want those flavored lattes,” he
said. “I think they would destroy us if we
took it off the menu.”
At Starbucks, you’ll pay at least 80
cents to add a flavor to your grande-size
latte. The seasonal favorite, Pumpkin
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Spice Latte, is heavily anticipated every
autumn. Since it was introduced 20
years ago, Americans have purchased
more than 600 million servings. Last
year, sales of products in Starbucks’s
pumpkin-spice repertoire grew 17 per-
cent.
Despite rising prices, more Americans
drink coffee daily than any other bever-
age, according to the National Coffee
Association. And that’s good news for
your local coffee shop as holiday drink
season begins.
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Two leaders’
disputes turn
project into
time bomb
Reader: I’m wondering
how to handle a work
project that is about to
crash and burn due to
interpersonal conflicts
between the project
Work leads.
Advice my supervisor, “Pat,”
KarLa L. has been leading a
MiLLer large externally funded
project, with the bulk
of the work done by a
few contractors from outside our
organization.
one of these contractors, “rob,”
has been a critical lead for the project
and a good work friend. But his
relationship with Pat has become
combative, with Pat being verbally
and emotionally abusive to him.
rob has shown me some of Pat’s
messages in confidence, and they
have each privately griped to me
about the other. rob’s contract is
about to expire, and he has made it
clear he won’t be returning. He also
holds the expertise and know-how to
keep some of the custom solutions of
the project running.
But as I hear it from him, he’s not
planning on any effective
documentation or transition plan to
keep those things operational once
he’s gone. rob has warned Pat for
weeks now about his impending
departure but hasn’t received any
feedback about it.
Pat has generally been unavailable
and incommunicado to everyone for a
while now, for various reasons.
A few of us full-time staff have
been involved around the edges of
this project, and I worry that once
rob leaves, resentment and abuse
and extra work will rain down on us.
Any thoughts on how to help defuse
this potential time bomb?
Karla: Neither of your leads is being
100 percent professional. Pat sounds
like the clear antagonist — no excuse
for abuse or abdicating leadership
responsibilities — but rob’s failure to
help set the project up to succeed
beyond his tenure amounts to passive
sabotage, if not a contract violation.
I understand he might not feel
inclined to go above and beyond to
make Pat look good, but a “good work
friend” won’t knowingly allow you to
be collateral damage.
You may have to take the lead on
helping rob help you, however. If he’s
not documenting his own work or
laying out a transition plan, step up
and start asking him the questions
Pat should be asking.
You don’t need to master every
detail, but you should have a general
chart of the major functions of the
project, the points of contact, and the
basic systems, software and platforms
involved. That way, even when rob
isn’t there to fix his custom work,
you’ll have some idea where to start
tracking down other people with the
skills to reverse-engineer it.
The more colleagues you pull in to
take part in this documentation and
transition planning, the better —
after all, they’re also in the blast zone.
Yes, taking over documentation
means more work for you in the short
term, but you’re going to end up with
extra work even if you sit back and do
nothing.
Taking ownership of this problem
now could mitigate some of the
impact when rob departs and Pat
rolls back in like an overdue
thunderstorm. And it’s easier to get
these answers from rob now, while
he’s under contract, instead of trying
to beg help from him after he’s left.
one political consideration is
whether you will be appreciated or
resented for showing initiative and
filling the leadership vacuum.
Consider looping in Pat on closeout
emails and discussions — not because
Pat especially deserves goodwill and
transparency, but so you can avoid
the appearance of conspiring to
undermine Pat’s authority.
Unlike rob, you don’t have the
luxury of never having to deal with
Pat again, so it’s in your best interest
to be a good team player throughout
this process. And if a reckoning ever
occurs, you’ll have hard evidence of
Pat’s lack of responsiveness.
Having the foresight to anticipate
problems, the initiative to address
them and the integrity to offer
everyone a share in the success can
look good on your performance
review and earn you leadership cred,
if you’re interested in that kind of
thing.
But protecting yourself and others
from preventable fallout may be
reward enough on its own.
Reader query: retirees and those
planning to retire: How much notice
did you give/do you intend to give
leading up to retirement, and why?
Employers: How much notice do you
expect retirees to give you? Let me
know at karla.miller@washpost.com.
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Two quick ways to upgrade your digital security
S HIRA O VIDE
BY
I’d rather scrub tile grout than
tend to my digital security.
But two relatively low-fuss
changes to your email account
will significantly improve your
security. If you’ve already done
these, double check. I bet you
can make a beneficial tweak. I
did.
l Add an identity verification
method to block criminals from
taking over your email if they
steal or guess your password. If
you can, pick a verification meth-
od that’s something other than a
code texted to your phone.
l Add a backup email address,
phone number or a friend’s con-
tact information in case some-
thing goes wrong, like you forget
your password or are hacked.
I’ll walk you through those
steps for three popular personal
email services. The process can be
clunky — I’m looking at you,
Gmail. Still, this should take
10 minutes or less.
Because email is the gateway
for many digital services, email
security upgrades make your fi-
nancial accounts, digital health
records and other online ac-
counts safer, too.
If you make the suggested im-
provements, “you’re as locked
down as any consumer can rea-
sonably be,” said Tarah Wheeler,
chief executive of the information
security company Red Queen Dy-
namics.
The takeaway message: Perfec-
tion is not necessary to be secure
online. An upgrade or two can
make a big difference.
If you use something other
than the three email services
here, the steps should be relative-
ly similar for others.
And the One Tiny Win section
below has more advanced email
security improvements, if that’s
right for you.
For Gmail, do this
Find the Security section at the
top (on your phone) or at the
left-hand side (on a computer
screen). Under “How you sign in
to Google,” check for “2-Step Veri-
fication.”
If 2-Step Verification is off,
click or tap on that option. In the
next screen, choose “Get started.”
You may be asked to enter a
phone number for account secu-
rity purposes. I recommend you
don’t do that. Instead, click or tap
the blue text that says, “Show
more options.” Most people
should choose the Google
prompt. Select “Next.”
In the next screen, many peo-
ple will see the model of smart-
phone you use to read your
Gmail. Follow the on-screen in-
structions if you don’t see your
device listed there.
Next, Google will ask for a
backup verification option — typ-
ically your phone number to call
or text. This isn’t ideal. Do it for
now. Keep reading below for why
this is a problem.
Would you pay $17 a month for Facebook and Instagram?
BY S HIRA O VIDE
People who use Facebook and
Instagram in about 30 European
countries will soon have a choice.
Kind of.
They can agree to see ads based
on Meta’s tracking of what they
do online and their whereabouts.
Or they can stop ads on Facebook
and Instagram if they pay about
$17 a month. (Or they can quit
those apps.)
Facebook and Instagram with-
out ads aren’t available in the
United States.
The subscription announced
last month — at a higher price
than a standard Netflix subscrip-
tion — appears to be Meta’s savvy
(or cynical) way to offer a paid
version that few people will buy
to shut up European regulators
tightening the rules of Meta’s
business.
Even so, Meta’s subscription
may be the largest-ever test of
whether people are so repulsed by
data-gobbling internet advertis-
ing that some of them will pay to
turn it off.
One wrinkle: For Europeans
who pay for a subscription, Meta
will stockpile as much data about
them as before. Meta just won’t
use that information to show ads.
Let’s consider two questions: Is
paying for Meta’s apps without
ads a good deal? And is it a real
solution to have a creepy Face-
book unless you pay?
I’ll suggest that a focus on
subscriptions is a distraction
from what you deserve. Compa-
nies should collect less data on
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Everything doesn’t need to be perfect to optimize account safety. These tweaks can be helpful.
You’ll see a confirmation
screen. Choose “Turn on.”
Once this is set up, when you
want to access your Gmail,
Google may send a pop-up mes-
sage to your phone to confirm it’s
really you. You can check a box for
“Don’t ask again” to skip the
verification on a phone or com-
puter you use regularly.
The goal is to make it very
difficult for an impostor who has
your email password to access
your Gmail because he’s unlikely
to have your phone, too. (Or if a
thief steals your phone, he’s un-
likely to also have your email
password.)
If you’re thinking, what if my
phone is lost or stolen and it’s my
verification method — see the
section below.
Or if 2-Step Verification is al-
ready on, tap on the option and
look at your “Available second
steps” for verification.
If one of those options is a
voice or text message, I suggest
you pick a different option such
as an authenticator app.
For everyone, again under
“How you sign into Google,” fill in
the fields for a recovery phone
number and a recovery email
everyone.
Why is Meta offering a paid
subscription option in
Europe?
European regulators and
courts want people to have an
explicit choice of what’s now an
implicit agreement: If people use
Meta, they essentially let the com-
pany collect as much personal
information as it can get away
with to show ads.
Meta’s subscription is a middle
ground between people agreeing
to data-dependent advertising or
quitting Meta apps entirely.
The subscription will cost the
equivalent of about $10.60 a
month starting in November. Ear-
ly next year, the price will in-
crease to about $17 a month for
people who want to use both
Facebook and Instagram without
ads in a linked account.
At the price Meta is charging,
the company may figure that not
many people will pay but the
company fulfills its obligation to
let people say no to personalized
ads.
(It’s not clear yet whether Eu-
ropean regulators and courts will
agree that Meta’s subscription
fulfills the company’s legal re-
quirements.)
In Europe, people using Face-
book and Instagram already have
the option to limit the informa-
tion Meta uses to sell ads. They
haven’t been able to turn off ads
entirely until now.
For Europeans who pay for a
subscription, Meta will still col-
lect about as much data.
tech friend
address.
Your own mobile number is
good, but it’s better if you can pick
a work email or phone number of
a trusted friend or family mem-
ber.
If you get locked out of your
email account because you forget
your password or it’s taken over
by a hacker, Google uses this
recovery information to help you
get back in.
For Apple mail, do this
Start from your Apple ID ac-
count here. Sign into your Apple
account.
Look in the “Account Security”
section. Most people will see
“Two-factor authentication” in
that section.
Click or tap that Account Secu-
rity section and make sure the
“trusted” phone number or
“trusted device” listed there are
still correct and not a phone that
you lost or gave away.
When you access your email on
a phone, computer or web brows-
er that you don’t typically use,
Apple may send a pop-up verifica-
tion code to your iPhone or Mac
to make sure it’s really you. (Ap-
ple has instructions here, too.)
That information can include
the posts you like, which websites
you visit, your physical location if
you have Meta’s apps installed on
a smartphone and estimates of
your age, income and hobbies —
including how often you travel
and whether you’re friends with
soccer fans.
Meta said that it believes in the
value of an ad-supported internet
but that the company respects
“the spirit and purpose of these
evolving European regulations,
and are committed to complying
with them.”
Meta’s subscriptions will be
available in Germany, France,
Spain, Poland, Greece, Switzer-
land, Slovakia, Norway and other
countries.
Is it worth paying for
Facebook and Instagram?
Only you can decide what Face-
book and Instagram without ads
are worth to you.
But Europeans who choose a
subscription could bring in more
money for Meta. From rough cal-
culations from Meta’s financial
disclosures, the company gener-
ates less than $8 each month on
average from each person using
Facebook in Europe.
Those figures count people in
large countries such as Russia
and Turkey who won’t have the
option of a subscription without
ads.
That means by charging about
$17 for ad-free Facebook and Ins-
tagram, Meta could be making
more money from a subscription
than the company would earn
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If you don’t see two-factor au-
thentication in the Account Secu-
rity section, click there and follow
the on-screen instructions.
Now look at the “Account Re-
covery” section. If it says “Not Set
Up,” click or tap that option.
Choose either a recovery contact
or a recovery key.
The recovery contact is a per-
son you trust who will vouch for
you digitally if you lose your
Apple account password or it’s
hacked. The recovery key is a 28
digit code that Apple will gener-
ate and that you need to save
somewhere safe. It’s a backup
plan to regain access.
For Outlook or Hotmail, do
this
Choose “Security” at the top of
the screen and then “Advanced
security options.”
Look for “Two-Step Verifica-
tion” at the top of the screen. If it
says OFF, choose “Manage.”
Follow the on-screen instruc-
tions. You’ll be asked for a way to
verify your identity. Most people
should choose the app option.
Microsoft will walk you
through downloading the compa-
ny’s app that pops up a code in
from showing ads.
Maybe you’re thinking there is
no way you would pay for Face-
book or Instagram. But about
80 million people as of last year
subscribed to versions of YouTube
with features such as turning off
ads. (That figure included people
who were getting a YouTube sub-
scription free.)
The live-streaming app Twitch
also has a subscription for $11.99
a month to remove ads. TikTok is
among the apps testing the same
thing.
Is a paid subscription the
right answer?
Our internet system and the
laws governing it are based on a
failed principle of consent and
choice.
Companies ask you in long
legal contracts to consent to how
they use your personal informa-
tion. But your only real choice is
to give up full knowledge and
control over what happens to
your data, or don’t use the service
at all.
With Meta’s subscription, the
illusion of choice remains. Some
people get a reprieve from having
their personal data harvested for
financial gain as long as they keep
paying Meta.
What would be better from
Meta?
Lower prices couldn’t hurt. If
Meta prices its subscription
knowing most people can’t or
won’t pay, it’s not a real deal.
Authorities in the United States
could try to force Meta to offer a
reasonably priced subscription
some cases to confirm you are
you.
Under the same Advanced se-
curity options, check the “Ways to
prove who you are,” including a
different email address. Those
are your backup plans if you lose
your password or are hacked.
But what if my phone is lost
or stolen and it’s my
verification method?
Using a pop-up message to
your phone (or an app on your
phone) for identity verification is
much safer than almost anything
else.
Even if it makes you nervous,
do it.
It’s definitely safer than leav-
ing yourself exposed by letting a
criminal get into your email with
just a password that he can steal
or guess.
Once he has access to your
email, he can reset the passwords
to take over your other online
accounts such as banking, shop-
ping and social media.
If you do lose access to your
phone, you’ll need to get your
existing phone number set up on
a new phone.
Yes, that means if your phone
without ads to Americans, too.
(Don’t count on it.)
The problem with companies
such as Meta and Google goes
deeper. Lots of internet services
try to collect every morsel of who
you are and what you do — even if
you pay for an app, according to
one 2020 research paper.
Meta is right that billions of
people can connect online and
access news and entertainment
because they’re paid for with ads.
But companies don’t need to
stockpile data on every restau-
rant you’ve visited or all the con-
tacts on your phone to show you a
swimsuit ad.
That’s how many apps, such as
Google and Meta, work, but it
doesn’t have to be that way.
The answer is to force compa-
nies to collect less information on
everyone, regardless of their will-
ingness to avoid ads.
One tiny win
Here is a money-saving tip you
might not know about: If you buy
a subscription to Facebook, You-
Tube, Audible or X, you will save
money buying it from the compa-
nies’ websites rather than from
their apps.
Some companies — including
the ones I just mentioned —
charge more when you sign up
and pay for a subscription in their
apps.
For example, Meta said its new
subscription for Facebook with-
out ads in Europe costs 9.99 euros
(about $10.60) if you buy it from
your Facebook account on the
web. If you buy the same sub-
G5
or phone number is verification
of your identity with Google, Ap-
ple or Microsoft, you may need
help getting back into your email.
That’s why it’s important to set up
recovery options ahead of time.
Why texts aren’t ideal for
identity verification
Crooks love stealing people’s
mobile phone numbers.
If a criminal takes over control
of your phone number, he might
be able to tell Google that you
forgot your email password,
change it and confirm his new
password via a Google text mes-
sage to a phone number that he
controls.
That could let him take over
your other online accounts, too.
Criminals can do large vol-
umes of phone number thefts. It’s
harder to steal a bunch of people’s
physical phones.
Google deserves special scold-
ing. The company should do
more to steer you away from
picking phone calls or text mes-
sages as the verification to get
into your email.
Still, even if you use your mo-
bile phone number or text mes-
sages for identity verification,
you are better protected than
nearly everyone else.
Remember that our goal is
security improvement and not
perfection, which is impossible.
One (more) tiny win:
Advanced options
You can use encryption fea-
tures from Apple for Fort Knox-
level protections for email and
other accounts. Google and
Microsoft also have advanced
protections for accounts includ-
ing Gmail or Outlook personal
email.
Those extras are not necessary
for most people. They may even
be counterproductive if you’re
not comfortable using them or
don’t have an account recovery
backup plan.
One easier and secure alterna-
tive is verifying your identity with
a free, reputable authentication
app such as Twilio’s Authy (iOS,
Android), the Microsoft Authen-
ticator app (iOS, Android) or
Google Authenticator (iOS, An-
droid).
In Gmail, after you initially set
up your account verification
methods, you can replace phone-
or text-based verification codes
with an authenticator app that
generates constantly changing
numerical codes. That’s a worth-
while upgrade.
Companies including Google,
Apple and Microsoft are also
making it easier to ditch your
password entirely and use only
your phone protected by a pass-
code, fingerprint or face scan to
prove that you’re you.
Maybe this sounds unsafe but
the current system of online pass-
words is fundamentally broken
and insecure. Killing passwords
entirely and using your phone as
a “passkey” is an improvement.
scription in Facebook’s smart-
phone apps, it costs 12.99 euros
(about $13.75).
Meta also already offers a sub-
scription that promises to help
you with problems including
hacked accounts. It’s $11.99 a
month if you buy the subscription
from your Facebook account in a
web browser, but $14.99 when
you subscribe in the app.
If you buy the YouTube Premi-
um subscription to stop ads in
videos plus get access to You-
Tube’s Spotify-like music service,
it now costs $13.99 a month in the
United States if you purchase
from YouTube.com. It’s $18.99 a
month if you buy the subscription
from YouTube’s iPhone app. (In
the Android app, the subscription
costs $13.99. Google owns You-
Tube so maybe it declined to
charge fees to itself.)
The price differences are com-
panies’ way of at least partly
offsetting the fees they owe Apple
or Google as the owners of the
dominant app stores.
Apple and Google charge a
commission of up to 30 percent of
anything digital you purchase in
an app. They don’t charge a com-
mission when you buy something
such as an Uber ride or a cook-
book that exists in the physical
world.
Higher prices for the same sub-
scription depending on which de-
vice you use to make the purchase
don’t really make sense. And the
price differences are rarely explic-
it, partly because Apple and
Google make it harder for you to
be an informed consumer.
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By Phoebe Finn and Bob Helbig
Companies shine when they retain engaged em-
ployees who are motivated, productive and willing
to recommend the company to others. Here are 13
proven ideas to reduce unwanted turnover and boost
employee engagement.
Evaluate and address employee pain
points: Want to uncover why employees want to
leave? Ask them directly. Seek feedback through
one-on-one conversations, team meetings, or employee
engagement surveys. Once you have captured that
feedback, listen and act.
Offer competitive pay and benefits: When
your workforce doesn’t have to worry about financial
stability, they’re motivated to do their job and do it right.
Great benefits keep your workforce mentally and physi-
cally healthy.
Prioritize improving employee engage-
ment: To increase employee retention, focus on im-
proving employee engagement. When employees are
engaged at work, they’re far less likely to leave. Create
a connection that makes employees feel valued and
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appreciated. In return, they will bring their best to work
every day.
Emphasize effective leadership and
managing for retention: When your workforce
feels leadership knows how to communicate and
understands what’s really going on, they are more likely
to stay. Put effort into developing strong leadership
and hiring the right managers.
Focus on building a people-first culture:
If you’re not intentionally building and nurturing a
people-first culture, you’re left with a culture that will
grow in the wild. Employees want to be somewhere
that enhances relationships, promotes connection and
inclusivity, and encourages two-way communication.
Improve employee work-life balance
and prevent burnout: Employees look for
great workplaces that respect their personal lives and
prevent employee burnout. Pay attention to workplace
flexibility and work-life balance. Done right, employees ways to encourage creativity in the workplace. pack up and leave. While change is inevitable, avoiding
will be more productive, energized and engaged. That sparks innovation, which is essential to growth big, abrupt changes is in your company’s best interests.
Offer professional development and and success. Being transparent about what’s happening sets expecta-
advancement opportunities: Employees want Hire the right employees, and onboard tions and helps employees to feel more secure.
to know they are working toward something bigger and effectively: Sometimes, the most talented and Encourage collaboration: Collaborative teams
better than where they started. They’ll look elsewhere qualified candidate is not the best fit for the job. are often more engaged and productive because they
when they sense there’s little room for growth. Hiring the right employees is the difference between can rely on each other for support and motivation. That
Recognize employees through positive a revolving door and a team that sticks around. connection fosters new ideas and decreases the risk of
feedback and awards: Who and what you Build a strong employer brand: Employees burnout or disengagement. Just imagine how productive
celebrate tells employees a lot about the type of culture want to work for a company that aligns with their an organization can be when that collaboration crosses
you have and the culture you want. Appreciation is one personal beliefs. A strong employer brand and clear team lines and goes interdepartmental.
of the simplest, least expensive ways to show employees company values serve as a strong foundation that
they are valued. holds your company together, especially during Phoebe Finn is corporate communications specialist and
Encourage creativity in the workplace: challenging times. Bob Helbig is media partnerships director at Energage, an
Employees sometimes leave because of boredom. Avoid significant and sudden changes: employee survey firm that is The Washington Post’s survey
The same old work, day in and day out, can trigger a Jarring shifts can leave employees feeling anxious and partner for Top Workplaces. The production of this section did
search for something new. To avoid that, incorporate unbalanced. Frequent changes can also cause them to not involve the news or editorial staff of The Washington Post.

A JOBS
Accounting Associate - Com-
pute, classify, & record
numerical data to keep finan-
cial records complete. Per-
form calculations & verifica-
tions to obtain primary finan-
cial data to maintain records.
Check accuracy of figures &
transactions.
Degree in
Bachelor’s
Accounting/
Finance. One year experi-
ence. 40 hrs per week.
$54,371.00 per yr. Apply to
Parminder Singh Ahuja, CPA,
PSA CPA, 7361 Calhoun Pl,
Ste 585, Rockville, MD, 20855.
Staff Accountant – Req’d BS
dgr in Acct or Mkt or Advt.
Also, req’d 1mn Exp as in-
house Acct or Finc or Audit
staff. 40hrs/wk. $62,608/yr.
CV to jobsite @ Golfzon Amer-
ica, Attn: Dong Jin Lim, 3863
Centerview Drive #300, Chan-
tilly, VA 20151
Accountant: Prepare, exam-
ine and analyze accounting
records and financial state-
ments. Analyze business
operations to project future
revenues and expenses.
Report to management
regarding finances of busi-
ness. Develop, maintain and
analyze budgeted costs. Pro-
vide auditing services. Req.
BS in Accounting or its equiv-
alent, 2 yrs. of exp. as accoun-
tant, F/T, Salary $62,608.00
p/y, Job in McLean, VA. Send
resume to Wantanee Ketsa,
President, 6828 Old Dominion
Drive, Ste C., McLean, VA
22101. Tel.: 301-256-7114.
Business Operations Analyst:
Analyzing, documenting,
managing requirements,
structure information, prepar-
ing reports, & more. Req. MS
degree in information sys-
tems. Job location: Arlington,
Va. Resume: G&I Consulting
Group. Fax: 703 997 6029.
Quantum Technologies, Inc.
has mult. F/T perm. Pos. for
Buss/Sys Analysts. Job
Loc'ns: Falls Church, VA &
various unanticipated loc’ns
in US. Reloc'n Poss. Mail
Resumes to: HR, 119 Rowell
CT, Suite B, Falls Church, VA
22043 or email
hr@quantumtechinc.com
Associate Consultant, Traf-
fic Engineer - (Herndon, VA)
WSP USA Inc.: Independently
performs engineering analy-
sis, develop traffic studies,
operational reports and traffic
engineering plans, specifica-
tions and estimates. Req's a
bac's in Transportation Plan-
ning and Engineering, Civil
Engineering, or rltd. + 6 mos.
exp. as a Traffic Engineer, Civil
Engineer, or rltd. Graduate
assistantship experience
accepted. 25% (domestic)
travel required. Email
resumes to: Attn: Julia
Savaneli - Ref #7295,
Julia.Savaneli@wsp.com.
Associate Director, Rail
Infrastructure Planning and
Logistics
Network Rail Consulting, Inc.
(Washington, DC) seeks Asso-
ciate Director, Rail Infrastruc-
ture Planning and Logistics
to provide proj mgmt for rail
infrastructure work dlvry,
planning, & logistics for
clients (incl operational &
infrastructure improvement
initiatives, & outage/ROW
access mgmt). Reqs Bache-
lor’s deg in railway engg,
logistics, sply chain mgmt,
trans. mgmt or rltd field (will
accept combo of edu & exp
as equiv to bachelor’s deg) &
five (5) yrs of exp in railway
logistics mgmt. Telecommut-
ing is permitted. This pos reqs
little (<24%) domestic trvl.
Mail CV to C. Austin, JobCode
RIPL423, 1001 Connecticut
Ave NW, Ste 925, Washington,
D.C. 20036.
A JOBS
Assurance Manager @ BDO
USA, P.C. (FKA BDO USA, LLP)
in McLean, VA. F/T. Advise
clnt on various econ & regltr
rsks by frmltng audit plns &
answrng cmplx qstns invng
GAAP & GAAS. Travl to vrious
unantcpted clnt sites & BDO
offce loctns natinlly. Mstr's
deg (or frgn eqvlnt) in Accn,
Tax, Bus Admin or rltd & 1 yr
of exp in job offrd, Sr Audit
Assoc or rltd. Altrntvly, ER
wll accpt Bchlr's deg (or frgn
equvlnt) in Accn, Tax, Bus
Admin or rltd + 5 yrs of
prgrssvly resp exp. Mst hve
exp in ea: Rslvng cmplx accnt-
ng issues; GAAS; GAAP; SEC,
PCAOB rules & rgltns; Public
accuntng; Mcrsft Offce prds,
incl Windws, Word, Excl, &
PwrPoint; rviewing engmnt
prftblt, incl billings & cllctns;
usng vrs assrnce appls &
rsrch tools. Mst hve CPA OR
suffcnt edu/exp rqurmnts (as
dtrmnd by state Board of Acc-
ntncy) to rcve CPA w/in 24
months of hre or prmtn. ER
wll accpt any sutble combo
of edu, training or exp. Mail
resume: T. Brown, HR, BDO
USA, P.C.; 615 South College
St, Suite 1200, Charlotte, NC
28202. Job title & code JC - VA
in cv ltr. EOE. Multiple pstns
avlbl.
HKP Auto Care seeks Lead
Technician in Ashburn, VA-
H.S. Dip. or For. Eq. & 24
mnths exp. req. Vehicle diag-
nosis & repair or replacement
of parts. Routine vehicle
maintenance. Discuss issues
w/ customers. Resumes to:
Attn: Arun Pabi, 43185 Broad-
lands Center Plaza, Ashburn,
VA 20148
B JOBS
Baristas (Bethesda, MD)
Prep or serve specialty coffee
or other bevs. Serve food
such as baked goods or sand-
wiches to patrons. Take cus-
tomer orders & convey them
to other employees for prep.
40 hrs/wk. Forward resume
to Janice's Espresso & Gift
Shop, 11200 Minstrel Tune Dr,
Germantown, MD 20876
C JOBS
Carpenter Foreman – North-
ern VA Area - F/T, 2yrs exp
in job offered or 2yrs exp in
a related position. Call South-
land Concrete Corp.; 703-471-
4444 or fax res.; 703-661-
8740
Carpenter Needed by W&B
Brothers Construction LLC in
Clinton MD: Construct, erect,
install, or repair structures
and fixtures made of wood,
such as concrete forms;
building frameworks, includ-
ing partitions, joists, studding,
and rafters; and wood stair-
ways, window and door
frames, and hardwood floors.
May also install cabinets, sid-
ing, drywall and batt or roll
insulation. Includes brattice
builders who build doors or
brattices (ventilation walls or
partitions) in underground
passageways.
Must have completed trade
school in carpentry, construc-
tion, or related field Full
time/hours - 40 hours
required. Mail resume to:
5805 Alan Drive, Clinton, MD
20735
Cleaner – Bethesda/MD - F/T
3 mos exp to prfrm cmbntn
of cleaning duties. Resume
to SJT Improvement Services
6701 Democracy Blvd Ste 300
Bethesda MD 20817
CNC Operator Assistant –
Chantilly, VA - F/T, No exp
req’d. Call Ms. Kim @ H.Y.
Kim Cabinet Co., Inc.; 703-
802-1517
C JOBS
Newspapers carriers
needed to deliver
The Washington Post
in the
DC, MD and VA area
Excellent part-time income
opportunity!
Transportation required
To apply, go to
deliverthepost.com
C JOBS
Ion International Training Cen-
ter, LLC seeks a Communica-
tions and Project Coordinator
to promote the organization’s
services and increase brand
awareness. Reqs: Bachelor’s
in Advertising, Public Rela-
tions, Journalism or related
(will accept foreign degree
equiv) plus 3 yrs’ exp writing
and editing news releases
for sports broadcasts. 3 yrs of
exp must incl controlling exe-
cution of content; interacting
w/ the press; managing end-
to-end internal communica-
tion plans, tactics and out-
comes; working on large
events or projects that
require cross-functional col-
laboration; meeting project
deadlines; and planning and
coordinating organizational
meetings and special events.
Mail CV Attn: HR, 19201 Com-
pass Creek Pkwy SE, Lees-
burg, VA 20175. Reference
job code IITC-CPC-5523
CONSULTANT
FTI, LLC: Senior Consultant-
McLean, VA. Responsible for
managing, processing, & ana-
lyzing information to develop
solutions for external clients.
Job req a Bachelor’s in Eco-
nomics, Data Analytics, Sta-
tistics & 2 yrs of profession-
al exp performing quantita-
tive & statistical analyses. Slry
$140,000-$155,000/yr. Send
cover letter/resume identify-
ing job code AI to
GMJobs@FTIConsulting.com.
No calls.
COOK. Plans menus, pre-
pares & cooks meals for res-
idents & employees of insti-
tution, such as, meat fish,
soups, rice, vegetables, chick-
en in variety of styles,
desserts. Specialize in
preparing fancy dishes for
special diets. Creates &
explore new cuisines. Bakes
breads & pastry. Cooks food-
stuffs in quantities, according
to menu & number of persons
to be served. Manages all
foods & domestic appliances
& supplies. Keeps records
& accounts. H.S. Diploma,
2 yrs. Exp. Req’s. Decena
Home Health Care LLC., Job
in Herndon, VA. 40 hrs/wk.,
9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please
send resume to:
mylegalspace@aol.com
Customer Service
Specialist (Ashburn)
Provide information to cus-
tomers regarding cosmetic
improvement products and
services. Maintain transac-
tion records. Email resume to
Masud Baksh MD LLC
(masudbaksh@hotmail.com)
Find a job.
C JOBS
C JOBS
Cyberbahn Federal Solu-
tions, LLC (Arlington, VA)
needs: Lead Biomedical
Engineer: Provide tech. lead-
ership in development of
medical device & consumer
products esp. focusing on sur-
gical, wound care, personal
care, hernia repair or nerve
repair/regeneration and other
rtld. medical sectors. Execute
experiments & prep. and/or
review tech. study reports &
executive summary. Must
have 2 yrs exp in experimen-
tal & study design & analysis,
technical writing, ISO 13485
(Quality system regulation),
ISO 14971 (risk management
for medical device), ISO
13485:2016 7.3, FDA 21 CFR
820 (Design Controls). Trav-
el/relocation required as jobs
to be performed at various
unanticipated locations
throughout the United States.
Mail resume to Cyberbahn
Federal Solutions, LLC, 1100
N. Glebe Road, Suite 1010,
Arlington, VA 22201.
Domestic
Nanny – Vienna, VA - F/T,
6mos exp in job offered or
6mos exp in related position,
have or be able to obtain
driver’s license. Call Trevor
Hirst @ 202-489-8685
E JOBS
Energy: Fluence Energy, LLC
seeks Senior Business Devel-
opment Associate in Arling-
ton, VA (100% Telework per-
mitted anywhere in the US.
20% travel required) to iden-
tify and acquire customers
for Fluence Digital’s software
product and manage relation-
ships with electricity market
operators. Job requires Mas-
ter’s degree in Environmental
Management, Computer Sci-
ence, Finance, or related field,
plus 2 years of experience
in any occupation involving
Energy and Energy Markets
Analysis experience. E-mail
resume to Emily Roy, Global
Mobility Manager, at
Emily.Roy@
fluenceenergy.com. Please
reference Job Code SBDA23.
Engineering: ICF Resources,
LLC: Lead Technical Consul-
tant – Distributed Resources
(multiple positions) – Reston,
VA: advise clients in dvlpmt
of strategies & plans rltd to
electric Transmission & Distri-
bution. Req’s Master’s degree
in Electrical Engg, Engg
Mngmt, or rltd Energy Engg
fld +2 ys exp with Electric
Transmission & Distribution
Strategy. P/t telecommuting
with authorization. Up to 5%
North American travel req’d.
ICF is an equal opportunity
employer that values diversity
at all levels. (EEO / AA –
Minorities / Females / Veter-
ans / Individuals with Disabili-
ties). TO APPLY: Send resume
identifying Job Code ICF144
to recruiting-tr@icf.com.
No calls.
E JOBS
Volkert, Inc has openings for
the position Project Engineer
with Master’s degree in Civil
engineering, Environmental
Engineering related and 1 yr
of exp to review design and
bid documents, evaluate con-
tractor bids, and oversee con-
struction progress and sched-
uling. Additionally, provide
technical support to con-
struction staff under the
supervision of the Project
Manager. Work under guide-
lines of OSHA/DDOT and coor-
dinate with major Construc-
tion and Utility companies.
Experience working in Quality
Control, Quantity Assess-
ment, Site visits and Office
Engineering. Work location is
Springfield,VA with occasion-
al travel to our office /project
locations throughout the
USA. Please mail resumes to
11 N Water St, Suite #18290,
Mobile, AL 36602 (OR) e-mail:
JaNean.Fairley@volkert.com
Engineering: Fluence Energy,
LLC seeks Regional Director
of Services in Arlington, VA
(100% Telework permitted
anywhere in the US, 20% of
travel required) to drive and
manage Fluence Service Busi-
ness performance across key
business metrics (Safety,
Finance, Maintenance etc.)
for North America and South
America Region. Job requires
Bachelor’s Degree in Electri-
cal Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering or related, plus
5 years of experience in any
occupation involving energy
efficient product industry. E-
mail resume to Emily Roy,
Global Total Rewards & Mobil-
ity Manager, at Emily.Roy@
fluenceenergy.com. Please
reference Job Code RDS2023.
Engineering: ICF Incorporat-
ed, LLC: Managing Consul-
tant, Energy and Sustainabili-
ty Engineering (multiple posi-
tions) – Arlington, VA: lead
execution of gov research &
dvlpmt (R&D) across ENERGY
STAR labeled products port-
folio + building techs. Req’s
Bachelor's or frgn equiv in
Electrical or Mech Engg or
closely rltd fld +3 yrs relevant
tech exp in Electrical or Mech
Engg OR Master's or frgn
equiv in Electrical or Mech
Engg or closely rltd engg fld
+1 yr relevant tech exp in
Electrical or Mech Engg.
Hybrid position; p/t telecom-
muting authorized. Up to 5%
N. American travel req’d. ICF
is an equal opportunity
employer that values diversity
at all levels. (EEO / AA –
Minorities / Females / Veter-
ans / Individuals with Disabili-
ties). TO APPLY: Send resume
identifying Job Code ICF152
to recruiting-tr@icf.com.
No calls.
ENGINEERING
Civil Engineer II [Engineer 2]
needed by AECOM Technical
Services, Inc. in German-
town, MD to complete sub-
surface investigation, geot-
echnical design, and con-
struction for various infra-
structure and civil engineer-
ing projects. EIT registration
with the ability to obtain PE
required. To apply, email
resume to AECOM_Resume@
aecom.com. Please refer to
Job #5937062.
ENGINEERING
Lookout, Inc. has openings in
Reston, VA.
Product Mgr [Req #M020]:
Perf mkt res, dev strategic
rdmap, write det specifs
w/engg to dev cld-based
security platform fxs. 100%
telecommuting permitted.
Mail resume to: Lookout, Inc.
2570 N. First St, Suite 200,
San Jose, CA 95131. Must
include Req# to be consid-
ered.
E JOBS
Executive, Brunswick Group
LLC, (Washington, DC). Advs
intrnl & extrnl clients on crit-
cal issues thru the desgn and
implmntion of globl primry
resrch, mrkt intel & mrkting
anlytcs prjects. Req’s a Bach
deg in Analytics, Mkting Intel-
lignce, or clsly reltd fld or
forgn equivl & 2 yrs exp in
job offered or related. Trvl
req. less than 10% of the
time. Salary range: $80,000-
$95,000. Apply for this job by
emailing resume to
uspeopleteam@
brunswickgroup.com
Executive Chef
Washington DC
Seeking Chef with expertise
in Levantine, Eastern Mediter-
ranean, and Turkish cuisine;
lead menu development, cre-
ate signature dishes, and daily
specials; collaborate with
manager on pricing, invento-
ry, and vendor sourcing; over-
see kitchen staff for consis-
tent, high-quality output. High
school diploma and 60
months of chef experience
required. Send resumes to
Ala1320 LLC ala@ala-dc.com.
F JOBS
Finance: West Creek Finan-
cial, Inc. (dba Koalafi) – Man-
ager, Strategy and Analytics
– Arlington, VA. Grow & diver-
sify products & services into
new lines of biz, verticals to
operate in, & models of dis-
tribution & monetization. Job
reqs Master’s deg in Econ,
Financial Econ, Data Sci, or
rel field + 3 yrs of exp in any
job title performing financial
modeling & analytics. Alter-
natively, Bach deg in Econ,
Financial Econ, Data Sci, or
rel field + 5 yrs of exp in any
job title performing financial
modeling & analytics. Up to
80% telework permitted sub-
ject to approval from mgmt.
Up to 10% dom travel
required for biz meetings. To
apply, send resume referenc-
ing job code WCF101 to
recruitingteam@koalafi.com.
No calls.
Financial Analyst: Eval capital
bgt on investmt & imp. Anlyz
cost saving & potential
impacts on financl outcomes.
MS in Econ/Fin rltd 6 mos
exp. Job in Hyattsville, MD.
Res: Metropolitan Partitions
and Specialties Company,
5018 46th Ave., Hyattsville,
MD 20781. Tel: 571-488-9730.
For details visit: https://
metropart.com/careers/
Food Preparation Worker:
Perform food preparation
duties such as cleaning meat,
fish & vegetables, slicing
meat, fish & vegetables, cook-
ing rice & preparing sauces.
F/T, $26,478/yr. Resume to
Miso Cafe, 7410B Little River
Tpk., Annandale, VA 22003
Food Preparation Worker
(Multiple openings) (Roongrat
Thai LLC DBA Khao Hom Thai
& Sushi) - Full Time Var OT.
$26,478.00 / year. Help cook
in preparing food by washing,
peeling, cutting & seeding
veg. & fruits. Clean, cut &
grind meats, poultry &
seafood. Clean work area. No
experience req’d, Jobs in Fair-
fax Station, VA. Submit
resumes to 5624 Ox Rd. #A
Fairfax Station, VA 22039.
Formulation Associate
Guidehouse
Scientist
Digital LLC,
Rockville, MD. Collaborate w.
various teams to coordinate
formulation & stability stud-
ies. Req Master’s deg or for-
eign equiv degree in Chem,
Biochem, Biomed Engg,
Chem Engg or rel fld + 2
yrs rel work exp. Telecom-
muting permitted. Up to 10%
domestic travel req. To apply,
please email resume to: gh-
jobs@guidehouse.com and
reference: MD0012.
Healthcare - General
Hospitalist Physician
(Winchester, VA). Multiple
openings. Hospitalist Medi-
cine Physicians of Virginia,
LLC dba Sound Physicians of
Virginia II: Diagnose, treat, &
provide inpatient care for hos-
pitalized adult patients.
To apply, email Maggie
McCluney at belong@
soundphysicians.com.
L JOBS
Law Clerk, Fairfax, VA Draft
& proofread briefs, legal
memoranda, statements of
issues involved in tax mat-
ters; conduct research on
laws, rules, policies re tax-
ation & analyze potential
effects on clients’ tax posi-
tions; generate legal briefs w/
analysis & argument in sup-
port of motions & appeals;
confer w/ attorneys regarding
various legal issues; partici-
pate in conferences w/ clients
to collect & analyze clients’
legal issues; propose feasible
solutions to clients’ situation
& communicate w/ clients;
maintain & update case man-
agement system & keep track
of case status. Master in Law
(LLM) or Legal Studies. Fax
resume to Law Offices of
Sammy Kim, 703-995-0770.
M JOBS
Manager, Corporate Tax –
Financial Services
(Mult Pos)
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
Washington, D.C. Hlp clnts
meet their tax obligations
while managing the impact
tax has on their bus. Req
Bach’s deg or foreign equiv
in Acct, Bus Admin, Tax or
rel + 5 yrs of prgrssve, post-
bach’s rel work exp; OR a
Master’s deg or foreign equiv
in Acct, Bus Admin, Tax or rel
+ 3 yr rel work exp. Cert Req:
Mst have CPA lic or foreign
equiv, Enrolled Agent or Mem-
ber of the Bar. 80%
telecommtng permitted. Mst
be able to commute to desig-
nated local office. Domestic
and/or int travel up to 20%
req. Please apply by sending
your resume to US_PwC_
Career_Recruitment@
pwc.com, specifying Job
Code DC3858 in the subject
line.
Manager of Real Estate
Development
Manage and oversee dev
activities with focus on new
res and comml estates,
including proj id, proj feasi-
bility, fin analysis, and suc-
cessful transition of proj from
construction to ops. Min
Reqs: Bach in Real Estate Dev
or equiv. plus 3ys of exp in
mgmt. role in comml real
estate dev managing proj,
acquiring and managing real
estate dev investmts, &
assisting dev and growth of
real estate bus. OR Masters in
Real Estate Dev or equiv. plus
3ys of exp in mgmt. role in
comml real estate dev man-
aging proj, acquiring and
managing real estate dev
investmts, & assisting dev and
growth of real estate bus.
Based in Fairfax, VA. 15-20%
of travel required. Send
resume to alhusainy@pillars-
dgllc.com with “Manager of
Real Estate Development (VA-
3917)” in subject line. DVD
Management LLC t/a Pillars
Development Group.
Carver Business Group. Mar-
keting Manager. Directing
marketing polices. BA in mar-
keting or rel. fld. & 2 yrs. exp.
Job in NO.VA . Fax res (571)
261-8007
O JOBS
ORIENTAL RUG TECHNICIAN
BloomMclean LLC has Orien-
tal Handmade Rugs Repair &
Cleaning Technician positions
in Sterling, VA. Inspects orien-
tal handmade rugs for stains
and other signs of wear for
repair or deep cleaning. To
apply, please mail resume to
14700 Flint Lee Rd, Unit E,
Chantilly VA 20151.
P JOBS
PIANO REFINISHER. 6 mos exp
reqd. Must've verifi exp, work
eves, wknds, holidays & OT
on notice. Shape, finish, &
refinish damaged, worn, or
used piano or new high-grade
piano to specified color or
finish. FT. Job loc in Beltsville,
MD. Send copy of Ad &
Resume to Rick Jones Pianos,
Attn: Rick Jones, 5209 Holland
Dr, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Pre-School Teacher - Montes-
sori curriculum. Multiple
Openings. Must Have BS
Degree (or foreign equiv.) & 2
Yrs. Exp. Minimal Travel Reqd.
Montessori Cert. at Employ-
ers exp. WFM, LLC, Rockville,
MD. Send Resume to admin@
wfchmontessori.com.
Proj Eng (Civil Eng) Asst. in
planning, org, ctrl, intgrtn, &
cmpltn of eng pjcts. Req. BS
in Cstrcn Mgmt, Cstrcn Eng,
Civil Eng, & rel + 2 yrs exp
Email res. careers@dpr.com
with ref #VA-BC21176.
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S&J Exteriors and More LLC,
a contracting and construc-
tion company in Myersville,
MD, seeks a Roofing Helper
for their Myersville location.
An applicant for the Roofing
Helper position needs no
experience. The duties
encompass ascending to the
roof for the purpose of repair-
ing areas that have been
impacted by hail damage.
Travel is required. The starting
salary is $23.56 per hour. If
interested, send a resume to
Sandvale@live.com with
Roofing 23 in the subject line.
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Shift Supervisor, Night Shift:
Washington, DC; O.T. Req’d;
to apply email resume to Har-
vest Eats DC LLC, c/o Faisel Y.
to jinyadc@proton.me
Shift Supervisor, Night Shift:
Washington, DC; O.T. Req’d;
to apply email resume to
Emilie’s LLC, c/o Faisel Y. to
emiliesllc@proton.me
DERMIK LLC. Station Manager.
HS. & 2 yrs. exp. Job in Mont-
gomery Village. Fax res (301)
972-1546.
Marketing Administrator
Computer Packages Inc., a
world leader in intellectual
property software, is seeking
a Marketing Administrator to
work at our headquarters in
Rockville, MD. Will train a high-
ly motivated individual, how-
ever some marketing admin.
experience and strong com-
puter skills are preferred.
Excellent salary and benefits
including fully paid health
insurance, tuition reimburse-
ment, visa sponsorship and
strong opportunity for growth.
Resume only to cpijobs@
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Systems Engineer
We are looking for a talented
and experienced Azure
Administrator with SQL Server
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ence, and programming back-
ground to join our team in
Rockville, MD. In this role, you
will be responsible for manag-
ing and maintaining our Azure
infrastructure, as well as our
SQL Server databases and IIS
web servers. You will also be
responsible for developing,
implementing, and maintain-
ing existing systems and
Azure-based solutions to meet
our business needs.
Responsibilities:
·Manage and maintain Azure
infrastructure, including virtual
machines, storage, & security
·Administer SQL Server data-
bases, including performance
tuning, backup and recovery,
and security
·Administer IIS web servers,
including configuration, secu-
rity, and troubleshooting
·Develop and implement
Azure-based solutions to meet
business needs
·Work with other members of
the Hosted team to trou-
bleshoot and resolve technical
issues
Qualifications:
·3+ years of experience in
Azure administration
·3+ years of experience in SQL
Server administration
·3+ years of experience in IIS
administration
·Bachelors Degree in Comput-
er Science or Information Sys-
tems a plus
·Programming experience in
Python, C#, Visual Basic or
Java a plus
·Excellent problem-solving
and analytical skills
·Ability to work independently
and as part of a team
Benefits:
·Competitive salary and ben-
efits package, including visa
sponsorship and relocation
assistance
·Opportunity to work on cut-
ting-edge Azure technologies
·Collaborative and supportive
work environment
·Opportunity for growth within
our company
Please send resume to
cpijobs@
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Business Intelligence Lead
CARFAX, Inc. seeks a Busi-
ness Intelligence Lead for our
Centreville, VA office to lead
provision of business intelli-
gence to internal & external
stakeholders. REQ: Bach in
Comp Sci, MIS or rel IT field
plus 5 years of business intel-
ligence exp. 3 yrs of exp. must
incl. executing BI projects &
leading BI development
teams. The anticipated base
salary range for this position
is $152,931.84 to $160,000.
Final base salary for this role
will be based on the indi-
vidual’s geographic location,
as well as experience level,
skill set, training, licenses &
certifications. In addition to
base compensation, this role
is eligible for an annual incen-
tive plan. This role is eligible
to receive additional S&P
Global benefits. For more
information on the benefits
we provide to our employees,
please see: https://
spgbenefits.com/
ourbenefits/CARFAX.
Resume to HR Manager: Attn:
NINA, 5860 Trinity Parkway,
Suite 600, Centreville, VA
20120, job reference
#73140391
(Business Intelligence Lead).
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Architecture
Associate Manager
(Accenture LLP; Arlington,
VA): Define, analyze, solve,
and document the business
requirements and processes
for Accenture or our clients’
program/project specifica-
tions and objectives. Must
have willingness and ability
to travel domestically approx-
imately 80% of the time to
meet client needs. Multiple
Positions Available. For com-
plete job description, list of
requirements, and to apply,
go to:
www.accenture.com/
us-en/careers
(Job# R00180871)
Equal Opportunity Employer –
Minorities/Women/
Vets/Disabled.
Computer/IT: CGI Technolo-
gies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Architect in Fairfax,
VA (& various unanticipated
locations throughout US) to
make high-lvl design choices
& dictate technical stds, inclu
s/w coding stds, tools, & plat-
forms. Job req Bach degree
in Comp Sci, IT Mgmt, Engg,
IT, Info Systs, or rel f’ld &
5 yrs in any job title involv
s/w dev exp using Python in
Agile environment. Must be
willing to relocate to various
unanticipated work locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon suc-
cessful comp of background
check, which may inclu drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 1121.
Computer/IT: Marriott Inter-
national, Inc: Senior Software
Engineer (multiple positions)
– Bethesda, MD : perform
research, analysis, design,
creation & implement of apps
to meet current & future user
reqs. Req’s Bachelor's or
equiv in Comp Sci, IT, or close-
ly rltd fld +5 yrs progressively
resp exp with custom app
dvlpmt on open-source tech.
100% telecommuting with
manager approval. Back-
ground check, which may
include pre-employment drug
test, req’d. Apply online at
careers.marriott.com (Job
Number 23180685).
Computer/IT: CGI Technolo-
gies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Quality/Test Engi-
neer in Fairfax, VA to debug
s/w products through the use
of systematic tests to devel,
apply, & maint quality stan-
dards for company products.
Job req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, IT, or a rel field & 5 yrs in
any job title involving exp with
all phases of the performance
testing life cycle. Full-time
telework permitted. All offers
of emp are contingent upon
successful comp of a back-
ground check, which may incl
drug screen depending on
work assignment.
Email resume to recruiting@
cgifederal.com & ref job code
1234.
COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGI-
NEER. Analyzes data process-
ing requirements and confers
with data processing system
& project managers to obtain
information on limitations,
capabilities of existing system
& capabilities required for
data processing projects &
projected work load. Ana-
lyzes information to deter-
mine, recommend, & plan lay-
out for type of computers and
peripheral equipment, or
modifications to existing
equipment & system, that will
provide capability for pro-
posed project or work load,
efficient operation, & effec-
tive use of allotted space. H.S.
Diploma, 2 yrs. Exp. Req’s.
MKZ Barkat LLC., Job in Wood-
bridge, VA. 40 hrs./wk., 9:00
am to 5:00 pm. Please send
resume to:
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Computer/IT: CGI Technolo-
gies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fair-
fax, VA (& various unanticipat-
ed locations throughout US)
to research, design, develop,
&/or modify enterprise-wide
systems &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, IT or a rel field & 5 yrs
in any job title involving Java
s/w development exp using
Spring including 4 yrs of
Spring Boot. Must be willing
to relocate to various unan-
ticipated work locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon suc-
cessful comp of a background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 1337.
Computer/IT: CGI Technolo-
gies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Architect in Fairfax,
Virginia to make high-level
design choices & dictates
technical standards, including
s/w coding standards, tools,
& platforms. Job req Bach
degree in Comp Science,
Engg, Info Systems, IT or rel
field & 5 yrs of exp in any job
title involving working with
SQL. Must also have achieved
Pega Certified Sr Systems
Architect (CSSA) 5.0 or higher
certification. Full-time tele-
work permitted. All offers of
emp are contingent upon suc-
cessful comp of a background
check, which may incl drug
screen depending on work
assignment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 1249.
DATA ANALYST
RiskSpan, Inc. seeks a Data
Analyst in Arlington, VA to
identify, analyze, document,
and interpret trends or pat-
terns in complex business
processes using data analysis
software and technique.
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Data Integration Specialist
CARFAX, Inc. seeks Data Inte-
gration Specialist for our Cen-
treville, VA office to design &
develop data integration solu-
tions. REQ: Bach in Comp Sci,
Comp Engg or rel IT field plus
5 years of business intelli-
gence exp. Incl. building inte-
grations for Data Lakes and
Data Warehouses. The antic-
ipated base salary range for
this position is $146,744 to
$160,000. Final base salary
for this role will be based
on the individual’s geographic
location, as well as experi-
ence level, skill set, training,
licenses & certifications. In
addition to base compensa-
tion, this role is eligible for
an annual incentive plan. This
role is eligible to receive addi-
tional S&P Global benefits. For
more information on the ben-
efits we provide to our
employees, please see:
https://spgbenefits.com/
ourbenefits/CARFAX.
Resume to HR Manager: Attn:
NINA, 5860 Trinity Parkway,
Suite 600, Centreville, VA
20120, job reference
#51667-0701
(Data Integration Specialist).
V.L.S Systems Inc has multiple
openings for the following
positions to work in Chantilly,
VA and/or various client sites
throughout U.S. Must be will-
ing to travel and/or relocate
to unanticipated client loca-
tions throughout U.S. 1) .Net
Software Developer to
develop apps using ASP.net,
C#, SQL Server. Ensure tech
feasibility of UX designs. 2)
Business Analyst to perform
analysis & elicit & document
business functional reqs, sys-
tem & process design & cre-
ate system design specs for
development or enhance-
ment or customization of
apps utilizing DevOps & CI/CD
to support architecture
changes. 3) Software Devel-
opers – design, develop,
implement, enhance and test
applications using Java, Full
Stack, AWS, Spring MVC,
HTML, CSS. Mail resume to
V.L.S Systems Inc., 4080
Lafayette Center Drive, Ste
300 Chantilly VA 20151 or
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listed.
Customer Success Account
Manager: Leverage reports,
dashboards, tabular models
& analytical insights to drive
biz success. Telecommuting
permitted greater than or
equal to 50%, but <100%/wk.
https://bit.ly/
MSJobs-Customer_Success_
Acct_Mgr
Software Engineer: Respon-
sible for developing or testing
comp software apps, systems
or services. Telecommuting
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rently has the following open-
ings in Washington, DC
(opportunities available at all
levels, e.g., Principal, Senior
and Lead levels). To access
job posting, visit website
address listed.
Pro Bono Program
Manager: Dvlp a scalable &
effective technical strategy to
support the rhythm of the
biz & organizational goals for
the company's pro bono legal
program. Req domestic travel
up to 25%; Telecommuting
permitted <50%/wk.
https://jobs-microsoft.
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opers, Business Analysts,
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positions. Various worksites.
May travel to unanticipated
client sites nationally. Mail
resume to Comprobase Inc,
Attn: HRGC, 21351 Genty Dr,
Suite 245, Sterling, VA 20166.
Lead Backend Developer;
Reston, VA: Develop and sup-
port back-end systems; con-
tinually develop technology-
forward, cutting-edge soft-
ware solutions to address the
backend and the downstream
systems, including website
and mobile app goals; create
and manage APIs that work
across devices and multiple
external partners; among
other duties. Min. BS +7 years
of experience. Travel up to
20%. Send resume to D.
Taube, Sr. Manager Global
Mobility, VW/Electrify Amer-
ica, 1950 Opportunity Way,
Suite 1500, Reston, VA 20190.
Ref. LBD-VA. No phone calls
please.
NETWORK ENGINEERS
Sterling, VA & various unantic-
ipated locations throughout
the U.S: Dsgn, Impl, & Mntn
cmplx ntwrks for a wide range
of Org. Config Routers (CISCO)
w/diff Routng Protocols (RIP
V1/V2, EIGRP, & OSPF). Mng
tech infrastruc & oprtns of
Ntwrk Oprtng Cntr (NOC), incl
ntwrk mntrng tools, mgmt
sys, & ntwrk devices such as
switches, routers, & firewalls.
Config & Optimize cloud-bsd
ntwrk soltns such as AWS,
incl advanced features such
as Virtual Ntwrks, Subnets,
Routing tbls, & secrty groups.
Dply, config, mntn, & fix most
ntwrk secrty implmtns. Skills
req’d: Wireshark, Solar Wind,
Infoblox, Linux, AWS IAM,
Palo Alto, LAN/WAN, TCP/IP
& Nagios. Bachelor’s in Sci,
Tech, or Engg (any) w/5yrs
exp in job off’d or rltd occup is
req’d. Mail resume: HR, Hype-
rion Technologies LLC, 21335
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Senior Data Analyst
Capital One Services, LLC in
Northern VA; Mult pos avail:
Perform quant & qualt analy-
sis of econ data, relating con-
stants & variables, restric-
tions, alternatives, conflicting
objectives, & their num para-
meters. To apply, visit https://
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jobs.com/Capital_One and
search "Senior Data Analyst"
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Senior Professional
Programmer Analyst
Computer Sciences Corpora-
tion hiring for Senior Profes-
sional Programmer Analyst in
Ashburn, VA (Ref. #6907300).
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& dcumnts mdrtly cmplx
prgams. Crts apprprt dcum-
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prgrm cde, & tchncl dcmnttn.
Dsgns systms & prgrms to
meet cmplx bsnss needs.
Pstn rqrs a Bchlr's dgre, or a
foreign eqvlnt, in Cmptr Scnc,
Mthmtcs, or rltd fld, & 6 yrs
of wrk exprnc in job offrd,
or rltd occptn. Will work at
unanticipated client sites
throughout the U.S. Telecom-
muting is permissible. Annual
Salary Offer: $165,173. Full-
time hires are eligible to par-
ticipate in the DXC benefit
program. DXC offers a com-
prehensive, flexible, and com-
petitive benefits program
which includes, but is not lim-
ited to, health, dental, and
vision insurance coverage;
employee wellness; life and
disability insurance; a retire-
ment savings plan, paid holi-
days, paid time off; and much
more. Email resume to
globallmobility@dxc.com
resume must include Ref.
#6907300, full name, email,
address & mailing address.
No phone calls. Must be legal-
ly authorized to work in the
U.S without sponsorship. EOE
Senior Software Engineer
ZoomInfo Technologies, LLC
d/b/a ZoomInfo seeks Senior
Software Engineer in Bethes-
da, MD. Write high-volume
server applications (full
stack). Telecommuting is per-
mitted. Apply @
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Senior System Architect
Global Solutions
mgm technology partners
is looking for a Senior Sys-
tem Architect Global Solu-
tions, to work at its Alexan-
dria, VA office as a tech archi-
tect & dsgn s/w solutions &
architecture concepts, incl
sys sizing, infrastructure &
h/w selection, & sys integra-
tion concepts. Must have
Master’s Deg, or frgn equiv,
in CS, IT, Physics, or rltd field.
Must have 10 yrs of exp w/ (1)
working as a tech lead, proj
mgr, or architect in mltpl lrg
cmplx enterprise IT/software
projs w/ the corresponding
proj mgmt tools such as MS
Proj, MS Visio, MS Office
Suite, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian
Confluence Wiki, or similar;
(2) designing, bldg & selling
s/w architecture, incl (a) sys
sizing, (b) h/w selection
processes, (c) envrmnt mgmt,
& (d) ntwrk & sys landscape
integration; & (3) data model-
ling, & integrating & mngng
backends w/ relational d/b
such as DB2, Oracle, & MS
SQL. Must also have 5 yrs
of exp w/ (1) eCommerce plt-
frms or prtl frameworks like
SAP hybris, Intershop or Lifer-
ay; (2) DevOps concepts, build
& deployment rltd tasks, incl
(a) mgmt of distributed sys &
clusters, (b) envrmnt maint,
(c) OS lvl sys, & (d) IT infra-
structure mgmt; (3) dsgn,
architecture & implem of
authentication & authoriza-
tion algorithms; & (4) query
& script langs like SQL, Perl,
Unix Shell. Must be fluent in
English & German to allow
for providing s/w architecture
PM tasking to teams in U.S. &
Germany. 10% domestic trvl &
10% intl trvl req. Use case in
s/w prgmng test is part of app
process. To apply pls forward
your resume & cover letter to
our recruiting team at
mgm-tp.us@mgm-tp.com.
Software Engineer(s)
Nodal Exchange LLC seeks
Software Engineer(s) in
Tysons Corner, VA to develop,
deploy and continuously inte-
grate scalable and fault tol-
erant micro services in J2EE
and Spring Boot frameworks.
Telecommuting permitted.
Email resume to blair@
nodalexchange.com; refer-
ence job code T3042-00134.
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Sr. Software Developer:
Precise Inc., seeks a Sr. Soft-
ware Developer to re-engi-
neer & modernize legacy
apps & migrate to cloud.
Duties include: automate sys
processes; decode & docu-
ment legacy reporting
processes; document source
to target mappings; data min-
ing, data modeling & data pro-
filing; test & implem support
& rel duties. Must have Bach-
elor’s deg or equiv in CS, S/w
Engg, IS, or rel & 5 yrs of exp
as S/wr Dvlpr or S/w Engg
or Progr Anlyst or any job
title involving s/w dvlpmnt.
Exper must include use of
DB2/Oracle/ Hadoop; COBOL/
Java/.Net; Django, Agile
frmwrk; UNIX & Win. Job in
Chantilly, VA. Travel/reloc to
unanticipated client locs
throughout US may be req’d.
Email resume ref job title to
careers@preciseus.com. EOE.
Fundrise sks Ld Sftwre Engr
in Washington D.C. to mange
team of engrs and dsgn, bld,
scle, and dvlp new subsystms
and bus operation wrkflws on
procssing pltfrm. Telecomtng
from anywhere in the U.S. is
accepted. To apply snd rsme
to sghessie@fundrise.com
with ref#rdk
Software Engineer – McLean,
VA. This position requires up
to 10% domestic travel.
Telecommuting permitted up
to 40% of the week. Design,
develop and implement soft-
ware solutions. For reqs & to
apply, visit https:// careers.
jpmorgan.com & apply to
job #: 210465989. EOE, AAE,
M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase &
Co. All rights reserved.
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Software Engineering
Architect
Xcelerator Group, LLC seeks
Software Engineering Archi-
tect in Fairfax, VA. Provide
innovative and influential
engineering
Telecommuting
leadership.
permitted.
Apply @
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# 68726
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
FrontPoint Security Solutions
LLC seeks Software Engineers
in Vienna, VA to accomplish
development tasks with min-
imal assistance, across full
stack of solutions. Telecom-
muting is permitted. Apply @
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Ref#56996
Software Test Engineers:
Perform manual/automat-
ed/system testing; Systems
Analysts: Expand or modi-
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poses; Software Develop-
ers: Design, develop & modi-
fy enterprise sftwr systems;
Database Administrators:
Modify databases & database
mgmt systems; Computer
Systems Engineers/Archi-
tects: Develop system engi-
neering; Systems Adminis-
trators: Maintain & admin
comp. networks; All positions
require travel/reloc. to vari-
ous unanticipated client sites
across USA. For complete job
details, min. req'mts &/or to
apply, mail resume to HR Mgr.,
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Data Science: Marriott Inter-
national, Inc.: Sr. Manager,
Card Analytics – Bethesda,
MD: instrumenting data col-
lection, measurement, ana-
lytics & KPI frameworks for
Marriott’s Cards business.
Req’s 4 yr Bachelor’s degree
or frgn equiv from an accred-
ited university in Math, Stats,
Data Sci or rltd quant fld +4
yrs prof, f/t exp with data
analytics OR Master’s degree
or frgn equiv from an accred-
ited university in Math, Stats,
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yrs prof, f/t exp with data
analytics. Any suitable combo
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Sr. Principal Support Manager
Verato, Inc. seeks Sr. Principal
Support Manager in McLean,
VA to recv, triage, & resp to
customer suprt tickets. Moni-
tor & analyze customer traffic
patterns. Build customer rela-
tionships & manage delivery
of customer support. Mentor
customer support team to
dev, review, propose & test
new product functionalities.
Reqs Mstr’s in Info Mgmt or
rlt’d & 2 yrs exp performing
identity resolution on cus-
tomer data using Alteryx;
monitoring and analyzing cus-
tomer traffic patterns on
Kibana, AWS CloudWatch, &
EC2 to reduce downtime
impact & API error rate. Occas
telecommuting permitted.
Mail CV to Alison Webber,
Verato, Inc., Attn: SPSM, 1751
Pinnacle Drive, Ste. 1700,
McLean, VA 22102
Sr. Software Engineer: Bach.
in App Dev, CS, or rel. + 5
yr exp. Use Java 1.8, Spring
Framework, Enterprise Java
Beans, & ECMAScript/Type-
script to develop web apps.
F/T. Leidos, Inc. Reston, VA.
May telecommute. CV to
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& Adobe Exp Manager (AEM)
solutions & microservices
functional infrastructure
dvlpd using Java, all running
on Amazon AWS. Req’mnts:
Bachelor’s or foreign equiv
in Comp Eng’g, Elect. Eng’g,
Electrical Eng’g or rel. field &
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rel. occupation: dvlpng web-
site implementations on
enterprise-level Content
Mgmt Syst (CMS) platform &
building website apps using
Adobe Exp Manager (AEM)
CMS; dsgn’g & dvlpng AEM
templates & multi-variant
components to build interac-
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AEM built websites; creating
components built using Open
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spec, services, servlets, cus-
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flows in AEM CMS to launch
localized web sites; writing
code in Continuous Integra-
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ing in Agile Team environ-
ment to dvlp softw apps in
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Adventist HealthCare Registered Nurse (RN),

Part Time Day Shift,
Registered Nurse II
(RN), Part Time Day
Therapy Aide/Patient
Access Technician, Day
Registered Nurse (RN),
Night Shift, Intensive
Registered Nurse (RN),
Per Diem Night Shift,
Registered Nurse (RN),
Night Shift, Labor and
Employer Industry: Healthcare/Location: Gaithersburg/Openings: 551— Med/Surg–Rockville Shift, Med/Surg–Rockville Shift, Outpatient Care Unit–Rockville Neonatal Care Unit– Delivery–Rockville
We are a faith-based healthcare organization, based in Montgomery County, Shady Grove Medical Center Shady Grove Medical Center Rehabilitation–Gaithersburg Shady Grove Medical Center Silver Spring Shady Grove Medical Center
Maryland. We are the largest employer in Montgomery County with over seeks to hire an experienced seeks to hire an experienced Adventist HealthCare Outpa- seeks to hire an experienced Adventist HealthCare seeks seeks to hire an experienced
Registered Nurse (RN) for Registered Nurse (RN) for our tient Rehabilitation seeks to Registered Nurse (RN) for our to hire a Registered Nurse for Registered Nurse (RN) for our
6,000 employees! Our comprehensive approach to caring for our community includes three acute- our Med/Surg Unit who will Med Surg/General Surgery hire a Therapy Aide/Patient Intensive Care Unit who will our Neonatal Care Unit who Labor and Delivery Unit who
care hospitals – Shady Grove Medical Center, White Oak Medical Center and Fort Washington Medi- embrace our mission to ex- Unit who will embrace our Access Technician for our embrace our mission to ex- will embrace our mission to will embrace our mission to
tend God's care through the mission to extend God's care Rehab Department, who will tend God's care through the extend God's care through extend God's care through
cal Center – as well as two Physical Rehabilitation hospitals, Outpatient centers, Imaging Centers, the ministry of physical, men-
ministry of physical, mental through the ministry of physi- embrace our mission to ex- ministry of physical, mental the ministry of physical, men-
Urgent Cares, Home Care Services, Employer Health Programs and Physician Networks. We are and spiritual healing.As an cal, mental and spiritual heal- tend God's care through the and spiritual healing As an tal and spiritual healing.As an tal and spiritual healing.As an
nationally recognized and honored especially for our Cardiac, OB, Cancer, Stroke, Orthopedic, Reha- RN, you will: Develop a plan ing.As an RN, you will: Devel- ministry of physical, mental RN, you will:Develop a plan RN, you will: Develop a plan RN, you will: Develop a plan
of care according to patient op a plan of care according to and spiritual healing. As a of care according to patient of care according to patient of care according to patient
bilitation and Mental Health services. Our mission is to extend God's care through the ministry of… population. Identify… patient population. Identify… Therapy Aide/Patient… population. Identify… population. Identify… population. Identify…

George Mason University Global Faculty-Led CAP-BH Project

Programs Administrator– Coordinator–Fairfax
Employer Industry: Education/Location: Fairfax/Openings: 153—George Fairfax
Mason University is a university with three campuses, each with a distinctive The George Mason Univer-
sity Global Education Office
academic focus that plays a critical role in the economy of its region. At each (GEO), is looking for an enthu-
campus, students, faculty, and staff have full access to all the university's resources, while duplica- siastic and energetic person
tion of programs and support services is minimized through the use of technology. In addition to for a full-time Global Faculty-
Led Programs Administrator
the main campus in Fairfax, the university has campuses in Arlington and Prince William Counties. for George Mason Universi-
ty's customized study abroad
programs. George Mason Uni-
versity has a strong…
The George Mason University
Department of Social Work is
seeking a part-time Project
Coordinator for its HRSA-
funded CAP-BH program,
which provides advanced
training to a select group of
MSW students. George Ma-
son University has a strong
institutional commitment to
the achievement of…
Associate Director of
Financial Aid–Fairfax
The George Mason University
Office of Student Financial
Aid invites qualified candi-
dates to apply for a full-time
Associate Director of Finan-
cial Aid position.In addition
to a first-class culture at Vir-
ginia's largest Public Univer-
sity, this position offers:While
some remote…
Director of Research
Administration–Fairfax
The George Mason University
Office of the Dean, within the
College of Engineering and
Computing, seeks a proac-
tive, organized, and self-
reliant Director of Research
Administration. George Ma-
son University has a strong
institutional commitment to
the achievement…
Research Technician–
Fairfax
The Center for Applied
Proteomics and Molecular
Medicine (CAPMM) is in the
School of Systems Biology/
College of Science at George
Mason University. CAPMM is
a world-renown laboratory
that focuses on the develop-
ment and implementation of
cutting-edge protein analysis
and advancing the field…
Academic Advisor–
Fairfax
The George Mason University,
Antonin Scalia Law School,
invites applications for the
position of Academic Advisor.
George Mason University has
an institutional commitment
to the achievement of excel-
lence and diversity among its
faculty and staff, and strongly
encourages candidates to ap-
ply who…

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Senior Program

Manager–
Employer Industry: Delivery and Transportation/Location: Washington D.C. / Are you searching for a po- cation High School Diploma Are you a dynamic and moti- Minimum Qualifications: Ed- General Hybrid Work State- D- L689–
Openings: 29—The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority operates sition where you can use
the second largest rail transit system and the fifth largest bus network in the your Program management
expertise to have influence
United States. Safe, clean and reliable, "America's Transit System" transports more than a third of company-wide? Washington
the federal government to work and millions of tourists to the landmarks in the Nation's Capital. Metropolitan Area Transit Au-
thority (WMATA) is currently
Metro has earned a worldwide reputation for security and architectural beauty. WMATA is clearly seeking an ambitious and in-
the employer of choice for over 10,000 area residents. The Authority was created in 1967 by an credibly experienced Senior
interstate compact to plan, develop, build, finance and operate a balanced regional transportation Program Manager to manage
and coordinate the overall
system in the National Capital area. Construction of the Metrorail system began in 1969. Four area… development of…
Power Desk Controller– Assistant
Minimum Qualifications: Edu- Superintendent, ATC–
or GED Experience A mini-
mum two 2 years of electrical
construction, maintenance
and/or design experience
Certification/Licensure Road-
way Worker Protection (RWP)
certified within 6 months of
hire Certified Power Desk
Controller within one (1) year
of hire…
vated individual looking for a
new opportunity? WMATA's
Signals Maintenance team is
currently seeking an ATC As-
sistant Superintendent to join
our team. In this position, you
will lead a group of supervi-
sors and technicians respon-
sible for evaluating, testing,
commissioning, and…
Division Engineer
MOWE–Washington D.C.
ucation Bachelor's degree in
Civil, Mechanical or Electrical
Engineering Experience Two
(2), years of Railroad track,
geometric design engineer-
ing, or civil highway design
experience. Certification/Li-
censure Valid Driver's License
from jurisdiction of residence
Preferred Engineer…
General Transit Bus
Financial Analyst I
Garage Mechanic
(OMBS)–Washington D.C.
ment: This opportunity is a
hybrid opportunity allowing
for flexibility between virtual
and in-person work subject to
the Authority's telework pol-
icy. Minimum Qualifications
Education Bachelor's degree
in, Business Administration/
Management, Finance, Eco-
nomics, Public Policy…
This job opening is being
used to fill current and future
vacant positions in this clas-
sification at various shifts,
locations and assigned days
off order of preference: The
selection for Maintenance
and Construction is made on
the basis of fitness and abil-
ity with preference given to:
Maintenance and…

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Adventist HealthCare
Healthcare–We are a faith-based healthcare organization,
based in Montgomery County, Maryland. We are the largest
employer in Montgomery County with over 6,000 employees!
Our comprehensive approach to caring for our community
includes three acute-care hospitals – Shady Grove Medical
Center, White Oak Medical Center and Fort Washington Medi-
cal Center – as well as two Physical Rehabilitation hospitals,
Outpatient centers, Imaging Centers, Urgent Cares, Home Care
Services, Employer Health Programs and Physician Networks…
George Mason University
Education–George Mason University is a university with three
campuses, each with a distinctive academic focus that plays a
critical role in the economy of its region. At each campus, stu-
dents, faculty, and staff have full access to all the university's
resources, while duplication of programs and support services
is minimized through the use of technology. In addition to the
main campus in Fairfax, the university has campuses in Arling-
ton and Prince William Counties.
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Delivery and Transportation–The Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority operates the second largest rail transit sys-
tem and the fifth largest bus network in the United States.
Safe, clean and reliable, "America's Transit System" transports
more than a third of the federal government to work and mil-
lions of tourists to the landmarks in the Nation's Capital. Metro
has earned a worldwide reputation for security and architec-
tural beauty. WMATA is clearly the employer of choice for over
10,000 area residents. The Authority was created in 1967 by…
Dewberry
Engineering–Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional
services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 profes-
sionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors
are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent
and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our cli-
ents. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new
graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best
and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at
the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence…
Westat
Research–Westat, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, near
Washington, D.C., is an employee-owned research corporation
serving agencies of the U.S. Government, state and local gov-
ernments, businesses, and foundations. We conduct surveys
and program evaluations, provide statistical research, and offer
related services. Our multiproject environment provides career
opportunities in health, energy, education, transportation, the
environment, human services, and the workforce. We combine
the relevant research area expertise…

Registered Nurse (RN),
Part Time Day Shift, Med/
Surg–Rockville
Shady Grove Medical Center
seeks to hire an experienced
Registered Nurse (RN) for our
Med/Surg Unit who will em-
brace our mission to extend
God's care through the min-
istry of physical, mental and
spiritual healing.As an RN,
you will: Develop a plan…
Registered Nurse II (RN),
Part Time Day Shift, Med/
Surg–Rockville
Shady Grove Medical Center
seeks to hire an experienced
Registered Nurse (RN) for our
Med Surg/General Surgery
Unit who will embrace our
mission to extend God's care
through the ministry of physi-
cal, mental and spiritual heal-
ing.As an RN, you…
Global Faculty-Led
Programs Administrator–
Fairfax
The George Mason University
Global Education Office (GEO),
is looking for an enthusiastic
and energetic person for a
full-time Global Faculty-Led
Programs Administrator for
George Mason University's
customized study abroad
programs…
CAP-BH Project
Coordinator–Fairfax
The George Mason University
Department of Social Work is
seeking a part-time Project
Coordinator for its HRSA-
funded CAP-BH program,
which provides advanced
training to a select group of
MSW students. George Ma-
son University has a strong
institutional commitment…
Senior Program Manager–
Are you searching for a po-
sition where you can use
your Program management
expertise to have influence
company-wide? Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Au-
thority (WMATA) is currently
seeking an ambitious and
incredibly experienced Senior
Program Manager to manage
and coordinate…
Power Desk Controller–
Minimum Qualifications: Edu-
cation High School Diploma
or GED Experience A mini-
mum two 2 years of electrical
construction, maintenance
and/or design experience
Certification/Licensure Road-
way Worker Protection (RWP)
certified within 6 months of
hire Certified Power Desk
Controller…
Data Analyst Intern–Fairfax
Dewberry is seeking a Data
Analyst Intern for projects in
our Fairfax, VA office. This is
an excellent internship op-
portunity for an enthusiastic
and talented individual to join
an exciting team of profes-
sionals. The position offers
a fantastic working environ-
ment and the opportunity to
apply the latest…
Subcontracts Administrator–
Fairfax
Dewberry is currently seeking
an experienced Subcontracts
Administrator to work at our
corporate headquarters lo-
cated in Fairfax, VA.Dewberry
is a leading, market-facing
professional services firm
with more than 50 locations
and 2,000 professionals na-
tionwide…
Systems Administrator–
Rockville
Westat is an employee-
owned corporation providing
research services to agencies
of the U.S. Government, as
well as businesses, founda-
tions, and state and local gov-
ernments. Westat's research,
technical, and administrative
staff of more than 2,000 is
located…
Experienced Education
Study Helpdesk Agent
(Hourly)–Rockville
Westat is currently seeking
individuals to work 40 hours
per week, Monday to Friday
(Available 8:00am - 8:00pm)
to support our field interview-
ers and respondents on a na-
tional education study. A suc-
cessful candidate must have
1 year customer…

The Emmes Company, LLC
Science–The Emmes Company, LLC established in 1977, is a
privately owned Clinical Research Organization (CRO). We are a
public health focused company that is growing and adding staff
regularly in many areas including clinical operations, data man-
agement, bio statistics, project management, and regulatory
as well as corporate positions to support our project needs. We
are committed to ensuring that our newly hired staff receive
a positive virtual on-boarding experience and the support they
need to effectively work remotely. Headquartered…
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Associations–The American Speech-Language-Hearing Asso-
ciation was founded in 1925. It is a not-for-profit scientific and
professional association for speech-language pathologists, au-
diologists, and speech and hearing scientists. ASHA is commit-
ted to the consumers of our services, the more than 42 million
Americans with communication disorders. ASHA's mission is
to ensure that all people with speech-language, and hearing
disorders receive quality services from well-educated profes-
sionals. The American Speech-Language-Hearing…
Fairfax County Government
Government and Public Services–Fairfax County, Virginia is a di-
verse and thriving urban county. As the most populous jurisdic-
tion in both Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area, the
County's population exceeds that of seven states. The median
household income of Fairfax County is one of the highest in the
nation and over half of its adult residents have four-year col-
lege degrees or more educational attainment. Fairfax County
also is home to an extensive commercial office market and is
a major employment center. Fairfax County…
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
Defense / Aerospace–The Metropolitan Washington Airports Au-
thority operates a two-airport system that provides domestic
and international air service for the mid-Atlantic region. The
organization consists of approximately 1,700 employees in a
structure that includes central administration, airports man-
agement, and police and fire departments. In addition to op-
erating Ronald Reagan Washington National and Washington
Dulles International Airports, the Airports Authority is respon-
sible for capital improvements at both airports and…
Fairfax Water
Science–Fairfax County Water Authority (Fairfax Water) is Vir-
ginia's largest water utility, serving one out of every five Vir-
ginians who obtain their water from public utilities. Nearly 1.5
million people in the Northern Virginia communities of Fairfax,
Loudoun, Prince William and Alexandria depend on Fairfax Wa-
ter for superior drinking water. That's 1.5 million friends, neigh-
bors and family members. We don't need any other reason to
demand the highest in water quality standards! Chartered in
1957 by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as a…

Sr. Director Global
Operations Strategy and
Execution in VID–Rockville
US Remote. The Emmes
Company, LLC ("Emmes") is
a global, full-service Clini-
cal Research Organization
dedicated to excellence in
supporting the advancement
of public health and biophar-
maceutical innovation. We
believe in the power of…
Biostatistician - Remote–
Rockville
The Emmes Company, LLC
("Emmes") is a global, full-
service Clinical Research
Organization dedicated to
excellence in supporting the
advancement of public health
and biopharmaceutical in-
novation. We believe in the
power of truth, so much so
that we named our…
Customer Relations
Manager–Rockville
As our customer relations
manager you will provide
assistance to Speech Lan-
guage Pathologists, Audiolo-
gists, and those they serve.
You will provide information,
resources, and tools to our
membership community so
they can focus on supporting
their workplaces and…
Digital Campaign
Manager–Rockville
Valued. Be an important part
of ASHA's daily email and e-
newsletter communications
using Salesforce Marketing
Cloud. Trusted. Work with
a supportive and energetic
team to produce mission crit-
ical email and e-newsletters
daily within Salesforce Mar-
keting Cloud…
Administrative Assistant III–
Annandale
The position is responsible
for all administrative aspects
of the station operation,
providing support to the sta-
tion commanders and other
station personnel to ensure
overall efficiency of the sta-
tion operation. Must maintain
confidentiality in personnel
matters and possess…
Administrative Assistant V–
Fairfax
Manages legal notification
process for land use hearings
scheduled before the Plan-
ning Commission and Board
of Supervisors. Ensures ad-
herence to applicable state
and local requirements in
coordination with other agen-
cies. This position works un-
der direct…
Air Conditioning Mechanic
($5,000 Sign-on Bonus)
(Multiple Positions Available)–
Washington D.C.
Compensation Grade: T19.
Salary Range: $32.20-$41.85.
Opening Date: November 6,
2023. Closing Date: Please
Note: All job announcements
close at 11:59 p.m. of the day
before the posted closing
date. As an Air…
Airport Contracting
Specialist II–Washington D.C.
Compensation Grade: S20.
Salary Range: $87,059.00-
$126,236.00. Opening Date:
November 3, 2023. Closing
Date: November 18, 2023.
Please Note: All job an-
nouncements close at 11:59
p.m. of the day before the
posted closing date. As an
Airport Contracting…
OT Network Analyst–
Lorton
Under the supervision of the
Operational Technologies (OT)
Manager, the OT Network
Analyst I ensures the stabil-
ity, reliability, and integrity of
Water Production LAN and
WAN data communications
on operational technology
networks at control & Water
distribution sites…
Executive Office
Administrative Specialist–
Fairfax
Under limited supervision of
General Manager or Deputy
General Manager (Executive
Office), performs executive-
level administrative and of-
fice management support
and oversees projects and
programs as assigned while
exercising considerable…

Alexandria City Public Schools
Education–Alexandria City Public Schools is one of the most di-
verse school systems in the country and we celebrate that di-
versity. Our students come from more than 80 different coun-
tries, speak more than 60 languages, and represent a rainbow
of ethnic and cultural groups. They are economically diverse,
but all are rich in that the residents of Alexandria are dedicated
to ensuring that each and every one of them achieves success.
The children of Alexandria have benefited significantly from the
strong support of City Council and the Alexandria…
The MIL Corporation (MIL)
Government Contractor–Established in 1980, MIL provides inno-
vative cyber, engineering, financial, and information technology
services to the federal government. Our subject matter experts
help advance customer operations through proven tools and
methodologies. Dedicated to excellence, service, and support,
MIL recognizes that sustained high-quality service delivery is a
critical contributor to our success. We are recognized by our
clients and industry professionals alike for our integrity, dili-
gence, and expertise across our core service areas: Cyber…
The Foundation Schools
Education–The Foundation Schools has provided psychoeduca-
tional programs for students since 1975. A variety of talented
staff members is needed to ensure the smooth and successful
operation of the educational and clinical programs at our three
schools located in Largo, Landover Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Our Administrative Office is located in Largo, Maryland. We of-
fer a supportive working environment, excellent resources and
a competitive salary and benefit package. The mission of The
Foundation Schools is to serve the special education needs…
AARP
Associations–AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social welfare
organization with a membership of nearly 38 million. Our aim
is to disrupt preconceived notions about aging, turn goals and
dreams into Real Possibilities, strengthen communities and
fight for the issues that matter most to people 50-plus and
their families; such as health care, employment security and
retirement planning.
Capital One
Financial Services and Banking–We Don’t Only Think Big
Things—At Capital One, We Do Big Things. You’re dedicated to
your career.You deserve professional satisfaction and personal
fulfillment. You belong at Capital One. Here, every day brings
another chance to do impactful work that matters: helping
millions of customers confidently manage their money, build-
ing stronger communities and delivering truly disruptive tech.
You’ll give your all alongside some of the brightest, most resil-
ient people in the industry—and in return, you’ll enjoy…

Middle School Science
Teacher - (Immediate Hire
2023-2024 SY)–Alexandria
The Teacher facilitates stu-
dent success in academic
and interpersonal skills
through implementing dis-
trict approved curriculum;
documenting teaching and
student progress/activities/
outcomes; addressing spe-
cific educational needs of…
School Security Officer–
Alexandria
The School Security Officer
(SSO) primary responsibility
is to provide for the safety,
security, and welfare of
students and staff while as-
signed to an Alexandria City
Public School (ACPS) cam-
pus; detect and minimize the
frequency and/or severity of
harmful incidents; and…
Cabling Technician
(Systems Administration,
Analyst)–Washington D.C.
Clearance Required: Public
Trust. Education Required:
BA/BS. US Citizenship: Re-
quired. The MIL Corporation
is seeking Cabling Technician
to support a Federal govern-
ment client at one of our
Washington, DC Metropolitan
area locations…
RPA Tester (IT Quality
Assurance, Associate)–
Chesapeake
Clearance Required: Public
Trust. Education Required:
BA/BS. US Citizenship: Re-
quired. The MIL Corporation
seeks an Robotic Process
Automation (RPA) Tester to
support a federal government
client in the Chesapeake, VA
area. The…
Middle School (Language
Arts/Social Studies)
Teacher - $3,000 Hiring
Incentive–Gaithersburg
The Foundation Schools is a
special education day school
which delivers innovative
school programs and sup-
port services for children and
adolescents with emotional
disabilities, autism spectrum
disorders and…
Dedicated Aide - Special
Education–Gaithersburg
The Foundation Schools is a
special education day school
which delivers innovative
school programs and sup-
port services for children and
adolescents with emotional
disabilities, autism spectrum
disorders and other learning
challenges. For over 40 years,
The…
Associate State Director,
Communications–Midvale
AARP is the nation's largest
nonprofit, nonpartisan or-
ganization dedicated to em-
powering people 50 and older
to choose how they live as
they age. With a nationwide
presence, AARP strengthens
communities and advocates
for what matters most to the
more than 100 million…
Program Research
Manager–Washington D.C.
AARP Foundation works to
end senior poverty by help-
ing vulnerable people over
50 build economic opportu-
nity. Our approach empha-
sizes equitable outcomes for
populations that have faced
systemic discrimination. We
serve all people 50 plus and
their families. Through…
Sr. Manager, Product
Management–McLean
Product Management at Cap-
ital One is a booming, vibrant
craft that requires reimagin-
ing the status quo, finding
value creation opportunities,
and driving innovative and
sustainable customer experi-
ence…
Part Time Branch
Ambassador - Chalmette–
Chalmette
The Reimagined Branch Ex-
perience: Welcome to a new
idea in banking. Here at Capi-
tal One, we're redefining how
people bank. You see, we
believe banking should fit our
customers' everyday lives…

Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS)
Government and Public Services–Marine Corps Community Ser-
vices (MCCS) is looking for the best and brightest to join our
Team! MCCS is a comprehensive program that supports and
enhances the quality of life for Marines, their families, and oth-
ers in the Marine Corps Community. We offer a team oriented
environment comprised of military personnel, civilian employ-
ees, contractors and volunteers who keep the organization
functioning smoothly and effectively. As a service-oriented or-
ganization, we never waver in our commitment to our Corps…
City Of Alexandria Virginia
Government and Public Services–The City of Alexandria is an
award-winning, innovative, and progressive local govern-
ment that brings together elected leaders, residents, busi-
nesses, and staff to foster a thriving community. We are an
independent, full-service city, providing the services typically
operated by both counties and cities in areas such as public
safety, transportation, human services, parks and recreation,
planning, and administration. We offer a wide range of exciting
career opportunities in a variety of fields, with the resources…
Chenega MIOS
Government Contractor–Chenega Corporation’s Military, Intel-
ligence, and Operations Support (MIOS) Strategic Business
Unit (SBU) provides innovative solutions for federal, DOD,
and commercial customers worldwide. Founded in 2005 and
headquartered in Lorton, Virginia, Chenega MIOS is a shared
services division of Chenega Corporation. As an Alaska Native
Corporation, 100% of our profits benefit our Native sharehold-
ers through preservation of culture and heritage or being rein-
vested in the business, truly making Chenega a “Corporation…
ERP
Government Contractor–ERP International, LLC is a nationally
respected and trusted health, science, and technology solu-
tions provider. We offer management, analytic, and technical
services supporting clients in the government and commercial
sectors. In addition, ERP provides medical and clinical staffing
support to DoD and federal civilian agencies in 28+ states. We
are seeking energetic and passionate professionals who are
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